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Pantagraph, Bloomington, Friday, August 6, 1965, 23 Illinois Deaths Mrs. Edith Lopez PONTIAC (PNS)-Mrs. Edith Lopez, 38, W. Madison, died unexpectedly at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St.

James Hospital, where she had been admitted the same day. Livingston County Coroner Vernon Von Qualen will conduct an inquiry. Her funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Harris Funeral Home, the Rev. Gene Simon officiating.

Burial will be in Broughton Cemetery, Visitation will begin at 4 o'clock today at the funeral home. George G. Wagner PIPER CITY (PNS) George G. Wagner, 80, a retired farmer, died at 11 a.m. Thursday in Fairbury Hospital, Fairbury.

His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist Church, the Rev. W. R. Hampton officiating.

Burial will be in Brenton Cemetery. Visitation continues today at the Reilly Funeral Home. Herman Schroeder WASHBURN (PNS)-Herman Schroeder, 77, a retired carpenter, died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in Eureka Hospital, Eureka, following a long illness. His funeral will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Pacey Memorial Home, the Rev. Ernest Glock officiating. Burial will be in Baptist Cemetery. Ivon Milton Kemp KENNEY Ivon Milton Kemp. 86, was dead on arrival at John Warner Hospital, Clinton, at 11 a.m.

Thursday. He had been ill previously. His funeral will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the HeringtonCalvert Funeral Home, the Rev. Raymond Krutz officiating.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitation continues today at the funeral home. Carl Bruell MORTON Funeral services for Carl Bruell, 74, a Morton resident who died on a fishing trip Tuesday noon, were held today at the Ludwig Mortuary and was at the Morton Apostolic Christian Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Edward Purdy PEKIN (PNS) The funeral for Edward Purdy, 65, who died Wednesday, will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at Kuecks Funeral Home. The Rev. Duane Imig will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 o'clock tonight at the funeral home.

Robert L. Cantrall PEKIN (PNS)-Robert Loren Cantrall, 26, of Stamford, and formerly of Pekin, a research chemist, died unexpectedly Monday at home. His funeral was held today at the Bisch Memorial Home at Springfield. Burial was in Roselawn Cemetery, Springfield. Mr.

Cantrall graduated from Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, in 1961. He was a member of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity. Until a few months ago, he was employed in a laboratory of Products Refining Co. at Pekin. He had lived in Pekin since 1961, moving to Connecticut four months ago.

Mrs. Alice Kimler FARMER CITY (PNS)-Mrs. Alice Ruth Kimler, 70, died at 6 a.m. Friday in a Peoria hospital. She had been ill four years.

Private services are to be Sunday afternoon at the Stensel Funeral Home in Farmer City. Burial is to be in the Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington. She was born Aug. 18, 1894 in Edgar County, a daughter of Frank and Dora Danty Gobert. She married Ward Kimler Dec.

8, 1911, at Charleston. He died in 1952. She leaves one son, Jack, Farmer City; a sister, Mrs. Frank Madison, Clearwater, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A daughter, a brother and her husband peceeded her in death.

Mrs. Kimler lived in Bloomington for 50 years before coming to Farmer City in 1960. Mrs. Madeline Cripe ODELL (PNS)-Mrs. Madeline Cripe, 79, was found dead at home Thursday.

Livingston County Coroner Von Qualen, who conducted an inquiry, fixed the time of death at sometime Wednesday. Her funeral will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Elias Funeral Home, Streator. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Streator. Visitation will begin at 4 o'clock today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Sadie Mason McLEAN (PNS)--Mrs. Sadie Mason, 95, McLean's oldest resi- Hiroshima Presents Gay, Clean Face--Masks Anxiety Fear Lives With Bomb Survivors By JOHN RODERICK HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) Twenty, years after the atom bomb, Hiroshima is like a wellgroomed Japanese lady suffering from a hidden tumor. The blackened rubble left behind in a few ghastly seconds on Aug. 6.

1945, has long ago been cleared away. The Hiroshima of 1965 is a city of broad boulevards, green parks, and new buildings. Its half-million inhabitants are outwardly gay and cheerful. Live With Fear The tumor is fear, a gnawing anxiety which colors the lives of the 178,000 men and women who survived. It is the sinking feeling a healthy survivor gets when his gums begin to bleed, he begins to show fatigue or his white corpuscle count drops tell-tale signs of leukemia induced by atomic radiation.

The saddest part of the tumor Hiroshima tries to conceal is the presence in her midst of thousands of humans who bear the hideous keloid scars which wrinkle and pucker the skin grotesquely. Everyone is sorry for them but few do anything to help them. Encountered on the street, the passerby self-consciously averts his eyes or stares morbidly. The center of modern Hiroshima is the Peace Memorial Park intersected by roads 300 feet wide, studded with flowers and inhabited the year round by pigeons the symbol of peace. At the hub stands a simple cenotaph under which are listed the names of the atomic dead.

The list increases a little each year. A flame of peace, a memorial fountain and a children's monument hung with thousands of folded paper cranes complete the setting. Across the Ota River, the skeleton dome of the Industrial Exhibition Hall only building preserved from the holocaust dominates the scene. Behind it, symbol of Hiroshima's progress, rise the clean lines of the new glass and concrete Chamber of Commerce. No Anti-Americanism The people of Hiroshima come to the cenotaph each year on Aug.

6 to murmur a prayer, release clusters of pigeons and float small "spirit boats" carrying lighted tapers down the river in honor of the dead. But Hiroshima has never had a major anti-American demonstration. Why is this so? One reason is that Hiroshimans are Buddhists of a gentle, non-militant sect. Another is that Japanese are fatalistic in nature after centuries of natural and man-made calamity. But most important, perhaps, is that I thousands of Hiroshimans have emigrated to Hawaii and the West Coast.

It is hard to hate a country which your relatives inhabit and continue to love. Americans who come to Hiroshima and there have been thousands see the Peace Memorial and the museum with its photographs of the dead and the pitiful relics of the bomb. Some, the custodians report, weep. Others look and quickly walk out. Hiroshima before the bomb had about 350,000 inhabitants.

It was a city of winding, narrow streets and a general air of sleepiness. It was also a military embarkation point and a favorite retirement place for old officers. More Than Materials Rebuilding a city, particularly one which aspired to be the peace center of the world, could not be a simple matter of wood, stone steel. Imagination, faith, and love had to be mixed with the mortar. Luckily there were still men in Hiroshima with these qualities.

One was Shinzo Hamai, wartime distributor of food supplies. Another, Father Hugo Lassalle, a German Jesuit; a third Dr. Fumio Shiegeto, who added compassion to the mixture. Finally there was Tsuneji Matsuda, who helped get the economic wheels turning. Sen Sasaki, a construction engineer, did not arrive until six years after the bomb, but he tied all the other efforts into a single package, gave the dreams form and direction.

Hamai, who became vice mayor, then mayor in 1947, had a truly staggering job. The day the bomb dropped the population was 420,000. Ninety-seven per cent of the buildings were damaged or destroyed; 16 per cent of of the the roads torn up; 78 shattered. per bridges Within a radius of two kilometers 1.3 miles from the hypocenter, nothing stood; at two to four kilometers, damage was 85 per cent, at five kilometers 60 per cent. The dead were estimated at 80,000 to 200.000; wounded at more than 100,000.

The conservative figures American estimates, the ones those of Japanese historians. Thugs Seized Water Hamai's first job was to food for the survivors, an complishment aided by his perience as a wartime food distributor. The water problem from outset was critical: gangs thugs broke the mains and phoned off the water to a pitiful black market. They attacked crews which tried to halt them. a Hamal gave his water engineer, Masao Teranishi, sion to arm crews of returned veterans with clubs and knives.

Working at night, they pleted the job in a month and half. The turning point came 1949 when, yielding to Hamai's pleas, the central government designated Hiroshima a "peace memorial city," making it eligible for national assistance. Two years later, Sasaki from ap: peared in Hiroshima fresh having rebuilt Nagoya in planned and exciting way. small, gray-haired man with wisp mustache, he had served his apprenticeship helping rebuild Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake. As he had done in Nagoya, Sasaki drew 300-foot-wide boulevards on his blueprints and got gasps of incredulity.

He persisted against stiff opposition, particularly from those who had be dispossessed. Planned Spacious City It took six years, but by then he was laying out a modern. zoned city with a generous allotment of parks, houses which faced the street -in the old days they often turned their backs on it and every road wide enough to permit entry of fire trucks. Matsuda's contribution was to show the way to the commercial life of the city. He had headed the big Toyo Kogyo Company, which turned out airplane engines and rifles for the army.

At war's end he turned without hesitation to civilian production. He slashed his wartime staff of 11,000 to 700 and went to work turning out three-wheel vehicles, a popular prewar product. By 1947 he was making 200 month, now has passed the million mark with his midget-sized compact car, the MJAZDA. Dr. Shigeto, a square, balding man who wears his glasses on the end of his nose, was at the Hiroshima railway station when the bomb dropped.

He was en route to the Red Cross hospital. "I saw a white flash," he says with almost clinical detachment, "but I am not sure whether there was any noise. I protected my ears and eyes and dropped to the ground. Everything turned black but from six to ten minutes later the sky gradually became bright, as though it were dawn. Protected by Pillar "Buildings were crumpled like paper.

Hundreds of people at the street car stop in front of me were lying on the ground, dead or dying. A concrete pillar protected me from the direct blast. I received a small head wound, nothing serious." Fifty eight of the Red Cross hospital staff had been killed, most of the others were hurt. Working day and night in the ruined interior he lived there for three months, treating the injured. Three years later he became director of the hospital, but the idea of establishing a center to specialize in radiation disease obsessed him.

Thanks to his efforts, the new Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hospital was built in 1956 from money raised by the government sale of New Year greeting cards. He became its director, has supervised the treatment of 150,000 outpatients with a staff of six doctors and 240 nurses. Of the 349 patients who have died, 172 died of cancer of the stomach, lung or liver, 54 from leukemia. A big, gentle man, he drives himself day and night. What does the hospital need? "Ten more doctors, 20 more nurses and 50 more beds," he replied.

"I have asked, but they say no," he added wearily. On the wall behind him a photograph of the goddess of mercy looked down with a half-smile on her lips. Dreamed of Cathedral Father Lassalle's contribution was to the spiritual life of the new city. A parish priest at Moboricho, not far from the hypocenter, he was badly cut by flying glass, had time to dream while he recuperated. He envisaged a "peace cathedral," a "monument to world peace thrusting its tower 1 to heaven from the charred heart of Hiroshima," as the Jesuits later put it.

In September 1946, in a special audience with Pope Pius XII, he disclosed his dream and with the papal blessing began raising money, The response was electric, not only from Christians but from Buddhist Japan, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, Prince Mobuhito Takamatsu, brother of the emperor; Finance Minister, later prime minister, Hayato Ikeda, and Mayor Hamai formed a comm mittee raise funds in Japan. The cathedral, a soaring gray stone structure, was begun on Aug. 6, 1950, five years to the day after the bomb, and finished on Aug. 6, 1954. The United States, Belgium, Japan and Father' Lassalle's own Germany led the contributors.

Lawrence Barton LE ROY Funeral services for Lawrence D. Barton, 61, were held today at the Stensel Funeral here. was in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mr. Barton collapsed and died about 3:20 a.m.

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Frey Sons Chrysler-Imperial-Plymouth Valiant 62 Years Selling and Servicing Automobiles 302 W. Washington St. Phone 824-3003 Typhoon Jean Displays Fury Tokyo (AP)-Waves whipped up by Typhoon Jean lash pier of Shimonoseki Harbor in northern Kyushu. The storm roared northeastward across the Sea of Japan, leaving a number of dead, in jured and heavy destruction. (See story on Page 1.) Central Illinois Reunions I president; and Mrs.

Harlan Wessels of Fairbury, secretarytreasurer. WELLENREITER. SCHWIEMAN Ninety-five persons from Bloomington, Heyworth, Peoria, Pontiac, Canton, Chicago, Springfield, Ohio, and Kansas City, attended the Wellenreiter-Schwieman reunion Sunday at the Arthur Wellenreiter residence near Bloomington. Gerald Shaffer was elected president. Other new officers Virgil Malinowski, vice president, and Irene Schroeder, secretary-treasurer.

BAKER WELDON (PNS) One-hundred six persons from Rossville, Warrensburg, Farmer City, Clinton, Springfield, Bloomington, Lexington, Champaign, Chicago, Weldon, California and Indiana attended the Baker family reunion Sunday at Weldon Community Park. The Rev. Howard Baker was elected president. Other new officers are Lester Baker, vice president, and Mrs. Robert Barton, secretary -treasurer.

DAVIS WAYNESVILLE (PNS) Eighty persons from Pekin, Waynesville, Decatur, Chillicothe, Bloomington, Big Rock, Anchor, Magnolia, Iowa, and Dyer, attended the Davis family reunion Sunday at Miller Park in Bloomington. Gerald Gum was elected president. Other new officers are Howard Hoffman, vice president, and Miss Nancy Rogers, secretary-treasurer. SUMMERFELD-SCHEEN LONG POINT (PNS) Thir- ty persons attended the Summerfeld-Scheen family reunion Sunday at Waterworks Park in Magnolia. SULLIVAN SULLIVAN MINONK (PNS) Twentyfour persons from Peoria, Farmington, Amboy, Flanagan, Rutland, Minonk and Jeffersonville, attended the Sullivan reunion Sunday at Minonk City Park.

Mrs. Otto Kark was elected president. Other new officers are Harry Blackmer, vice president, and Mrs. Edward Stidham, secretary-treasurer. BOCK HARTSBURG (PNS) One hundred persons attended the Bock family reunion Sunday a at Hartsburg-Emden High School.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Gosda were elected president. Other new officers are William Bock, vice president, and Miss Mabel Martin, secretary-treasurer. BURKE The 11th annual Burke reunion was held Sunday with 66 guests present.

Elected president of the group was Howard Dean Burke of Creve Coeur; Elvie Burke, Bloomington, was chosen vicepresident, and Mrs. William Burke, secretary-treasurer. Guests were from Creve Coeur, Rolling Meadows, Towanda, Bloomington, Normal, Gardner, Braceville, Hammond, and Florida. SCHIEHER CONGERVILLE (PNS)-The Schieher Reunion was held Sunday at the Congerville School, with 72 attending from Belvedere, Danville, Colfax, Bloomington, Danvers, Morton, Tremont, Congerville, and St. Louis Mo.

SCOTT EL PASO Thirty-two persons attended the 35th annual Scott reunion at the Dwain Mool home near El Paso Sunday. Those present were from Le Roy, Minier, El Paso and Kalamazoo, Mich. MOSER CONGERVILLE (PNS)-One hundred twenty five persons from Bay City and Linwood, Bloomington Normal Deaths John L. Leddy STARKEY-PONSLER Mansfield (PNS) Loren Starkey was elected president of the Starkey-Ponsler reunion at the 22nd annual affair Sunday at Mansfield Park Other officers elected included Riley Starkey, vice president; Mrs. Mrs.

Larry Yeakley, secretary. treasurer. Sixty-eight persons attended. RAMLOW Ramlow, treasurer, at the annual Ramlow reunion in Miller Park, Bloomington, Sunday. RADEMAKER EMDEN (PNS) The annual reunion of the Nanke Rademaker family was held in Sinnisippi Park, Sterling, Sunday with 42 present.

Don Hoebert, Emden, was named president. FRANTZ ATLANTA (PNS) The an- HARTSBURG (PNS) John W. Ramlow was elected president, Charles Ramlow, vicepresident; Mrs. Conrady, secretary, and Miss Bonnie nual Frantz family reunion was held Sunday at the Legion Hall in Armington. Duane Hudson of Decatur was elected president and Mrs.

Hal Swearinger, Atlanta, secretary-treasurer. About 100 persons from Council Bluff and Shannon City, Iowa; Topeka, Terre Haute, Ind and Peoria, Creve Coeur, Washington, Minonk, Lincoln, Stanford, Downs, Decatur, Clinton, Bloomington, Beason and Atlanta attended the event. GUTEL ODELL (PNS) The annual Gutel family reunion was held at the home of Mrs. Gladys Schultz in Le Roy Sunday with 56 persons present. SNOW McLEAN (PNS) The 34th annual Snow reunion was held Sunday at Miller Park with 42 persons attending.

Sam Smith of McLean was named president and Joseph Pech of Atlanta was elected vice president. Mrs. Grace Horn of Atlanta was picked as the family's secretary-treasurer and Mrs. Hazel Ferguson of Bloomington is the new historian. Members attended from McLean, Bloomington, Atlanta, Maroa, Bellflower, Lincoln and Armington.

BUILTA ARROWSMITH The second annual Builta reunion was held at Prairie Lakes with 57 members present Sunday. Officers for the new year are Charles Builta, president; James Builta, vice president; and Mrs. Roy Smith, secretary-treasurer. LEWIS THAWVILLE (PNS) The Lewis family reunion was held Sunday in Gibson City. Approximately 25 family members attended.

Officers elected for next year are Kelley Lewis, president; Fred Buoy, vice-president, and Mrs. Jean Allen, secretarytreasurer. Those attending this year were from McLeansboro, Decatur, Rankin, Bourbonnais, Pontiac, Thawville, Gibson City and Sibley. ABTS FAIRBURY -The 38th annual Abts reunion was held Sunday at Fairbury. Seventy-two persons were in attendance from Millbrae, East Peoria, Loda, Elmhurst, Bloomington, Fairbury, Forrest and Cropsey.

Officers elected were Don Miller of Cropsey, president; Merle Metz of Forrest, vice- dent, died at 7:35 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph's Hospital Bloomington. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the McReynolds Funeral Home.

Burial will be in McLean Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 7 o'clock tonight at the funeral home. Forrest, Fairbury; Morton; Peoria; Danvers; Metamora; Carlock; Rockford; Edwards: Mackinaw: Goodfield and Congerville attended the 14th annual Moser reunion Sunday in the gymnasium of the Goodfield School. Elmer Bauman was elected president. Other new officers are Perry Honneger, vice president, and Marie Schmidt, secretary-treasurer.

KOERNER CULLOM (PNS) Seventy relatives attended the Koerner reunion in the Cullom Community Building Sunday. Guests were present from Kalamazoo, Kankakee; Blue Island: Melvin; Strawn; Fairbury; Cullom and Normal. Henry J. Schoder of Kankakee was elected to membership on the planning committee for a six-year term. MEYER-MARTIN SIBLEY (PNS) The 28th annual Meyer-Martin reunion was held Sunday at Sibley with a potluck dinner at noon.

Sixty members were present. New officers are Martin Meyer Gibson City, president; Phil Birkner, Sibley; vice president; and Mrs. Floyd Althous, Sibley, secretary-treasurer. Hospital Notes ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL Lincoln Admitted Altman, Mrs. Herbert Lincoin Bland, Mrs.

George, Lincoln Blickem, Joe, Lincoln Childers, Mrs. John, Lincoln Crouse, Mrs. Flora, Lincoin Ferguson, Mrs. Alice, Lincoln Hallman, Mrs. Edna Lincoln Jones, Mrs.

Effie, Lincoln Merry, Raymond, Lincoln Stephansen, Harold, Lincoln Sublett, Henry San Jose Board, Veronica, Chestnut Dismissed Caldwell, Michael, Lincoln Cole, Dennis, Lincoln Dabb, David, Lincoln Hill, James New Holland Jacobs, Mrs. Nellie, Beason Lawson, Lynn, Lincoln Wright, Roxie, Lincoln Purkey, Mrs. Milom, Lincoln Lowman, Robert, Lawndale Young, Nancy Chestnut GIBSON COMMUNITY Gibson City Admitted Lindauer, Mrs. Irene, Loda Willke, Mrs. Esther, Anchor Hawthorne, Mrs.

Elaine, Saybrook Blissard, Earl, Gibson City Sweet, Kate, Colfax Stange, Mrs. June, Gibson City Dismissed Ferguson, Paul, Colfax Hammer, Mrs. Margaret, Colax Runyon, Mrs. Carol, Forrest ST. JAMES Pontiac Admitted Edmunds, Mrs.

Louise, Dwight Luetze, John, Pontiac Emery, Mrs. Bretta, Pontiac Welch, Mary, Pontiac Dismissed Ferguson, Francis, Pontiac Leach, Leslie, Pontiac Gamblin, William, Manville Kizee, Miss Nancy Jo, Pontiac Miller, Mrs. Dean and baby Pontiac FAIRBURY Admitted Jonson, Inez, Fairbury Crews, Charlie, Pontiac Lynch, Rose, Danville Murray, Jack, Fairbury Nash, Della, Forrest Wells, Joan, Fairbury Boma, John, Piper City Effington, David, Piper City Dismissed Sterrenberg, Dorothy, Cullom Schnieder, Mary, Strawn Lester, Myrtle, Fairbury Haab, Lois, Forrest Brandt, William, Sibley Rapp, Andrew, Fairbury McGauhy, Lois, Fairbury Kaisner, Patricia, Fairbury $150 Taken From Home The theft of $150, a pair of shoes and a paint brush was reported to city police Thursday night by Lionel Eldred of 1105 Clinton Blvd. He said the money was taken sometime during the day from a drawer in the dining room. Bulgaria adopted Christianity in 865 A.D.

John Leo Leddy, 72, of 1506 S. Madison, died at 7:45 p.m. Thursday at Mennonite Hospital. He had been ill several months. His funeral will be at 1:30 p.m.

Monday at the Beck Memorial Home. The Rev. R. J. Zehr will officiate.

Burial will be in the Kappa Cemetery at Kappa. Friends may call at the memorial home after noon Sunday. Mr. Leddy was born Oct. 1892, at Secor, a son of Michael and Stella Grant Leddy.

married Anna DeFord in Peoria. His wife and a sister, Mrs. Christine Murray of Gridley, survive. Mr. Leddy, a retired selfemployed painter, was a ber of the Louis E.

Davis American Legion Post. Edwin S. Lewis Edwin S. Lewis, 87, of 1103 E. Washington died at 3:38 p.m.

Thursday at Brokaw Hospital. He entered the hospital July 30. His funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Metzler Memorial Home, with the Rev. Robert Ashman officiating.

Burial will be in White Oak Cemetery. Friends may call at the memorial home. He was born in Downs, March 29, 1878, a son of Frank and Sarah Armstrong Lewis. married Lavinia Bell Oct. 22, 1908, in Bloomington.

Surviving are his wife; daughter, Mrs. Harvey Miner, Kankakee; a sister, Mrs. Maggie Coley, Evansville, four grandchildren. Two sons preceded him in death. He was a member of Centennial Christian Church.

He was employed until his retirement as a driver for Johnson Transfer Company and Bunn-Capitol Grocery Co. The family has suggested that any tangible expressions of sympathy may be made in the form of contributions to the Centennial Christian Church Building Fund. Reunion Dates Gerth-Sunday, Aug. 8, at Gibson City's South Park. Basket dinner at noon.

Messer Sunday, Aug. 15, noon at Lexington City Park. Shambrook-Parkin The Shambrook Parkin, Sunday, Aug. 15, at Gibson City's North Park at 12:30 p.m. Kusch-Anderson The KuschAnderson reunion, Saturday, Aug.

14, at 12 noon at the Hopedale Park. Drury-Sunday, Aug. 8, 12:30 p.m. Gridley Park, Gridley. Hall Aug.

8, Weedman Park, Farmer City. Razar-Sunday, Aug. 8, 12:30 p.m., Miller Park, Bloomington. Schroeder Aug. 8, noon, Forest Park, Bloomington.

Amsbury- -Sunday, Aug. 15, at noon, Ash Park, Normal. Meyers-Sunday, Aug. 15 at the Le Roy Junior High School cafeteria. 12:30 p.m.

Murphy Sunday, Aug. 8, noon. Hilperts Timber near Stanford. Le Roy High School Class! of 1955 Sunday, Aug. 12:30 p.m.

Howard Virgin Timber Park. KITCHEN SINK TAKEN BY THIEVES Ray Bratcher of 1501 W. Locust told city police Thursday night that someone had stolen his sink. The sink was one of the three compartment stainless steel types and he said it's value was about $100. The sink was in front of his house.

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