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DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH, February 4, 1971 PAGE 4 Markets Stocks NEW YORK (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Industrials 872.19 off 4.04 20 Transportation 191.26 off 0.21 15 Utilities 123.69 off 0.26 65 Stocks 287.69 off 0.93 NEW YORK (UPI) Stock market midday prices: Admiral Iowa AlldChem Johns-Mn Alld Strs Kenneoott Allis Chal Kresge 62 Alcoa Kroger Am Air 27 Lib McN Am Can Lionel Am Cyan 37 Litton 28 AmElPwr Lockhd Am Mtrs Mar Oil Am 53 Maytag Anaconda Med Dgls Arlans 11 Merck Atl Rich Minn Min Avco 17 Mobil Oil Bea Fds Monsanto 38Vs Bee Die Nat Bis Bendix Nat Ld Beth Stl 22 NoAmn Boeing Olin Corp Borden Outbd Catplr Owens-Ill Celanese Penney 61 Cessna Penn Cen Chrysler Pepsi Cola Cities Svc Pfizer Coca Cola Phil Pet Colum Gas Procter 58 Comm Ed RCA Comsat Rep Stl Cons Ed Revlon Cont Can 42 Safeway Cont Oil St. Regis Dana SanFelnd Deere 47 Schenley 31 Du Pont Sears 80 Eastman Shell Oil 51 Firestone Simmons 68 Ford Mtrs So Pac Fr ueh a uf 34 Sper 31 Gen Dyna Std Bds Gen El SO Ind Gen Fds SO NJ Gen Mtrs Stvns JP Gen Tel Stude Gen Tire Swift 36 Goodrich Texaco Goodyear Tex Inst 90 Greyhnd Un Carb Gulf Oil Un El 21 111 Cent Un Pac 111 Pwr Utd Corp Inland Stl US Gyps IBM US Stl Int Harv West Un Int Nick Wstghs El 72 Int Paper Weyerh 59 Int Woolwrth Other Stocks Other stocks quoted by H. W. Beeler and O. M.

Nysather of Loewi and Sterling, as of 1 p.m.: Anch Cou Cart HI Borg War NW Stl Cen Tel Frantz 19 NI Gas Tampax 225 Gen Cabl Ozark Stl Occ Pet 19 Marcor Boise Ca 45 Ramad Pratt 34 Cash Grain CHICAGO (AP) Wheat No 2 soft red 1.76 No 2 hard red 1.72 n. Corn No 2 yellow 1.57% n. Oats No 2 extra heavy white n. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.06 n. Soybean oil 12.12 n.

Peoria Livestock USDA Hogs 1-2; 90-235 lb butchers 20.00-20.50 86 head at 20.75 and 45 head at 21.00 late; 1-3 200-250 lbs 19.50-20.00 2-3 250270 lbs 19.00-19.50; 1-3 300-500 lb sows 16.25-17.00, few 17.25; 2-3 500-600lbs 15.75-16.25; 2-3 600-650 lbs 15.50-16.00. Cattle 80; few low to average choice lb yield grade 2 to 4 31.00-32.00; few low choice lb heifers yield grade 2 to 4 30.00. Chicago Produce CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Mercantile Exchange Eggs: wholesale buying prices unchanged; 80 per cent or better grade A whites mediums 31; standards 30; checks Interior Hog Market SPRINGFIELD, 111 (AP(USDA) Interior Illinois hog prices (state-federal): Receipts 1-2 200-225 lb butchers 19.75-20.00; 1-3 200-230 lbs 19.2519.75; 1-3 230-250 lbs 18.75-19.50; 2-3 250-270 lbs 18.25-19.00; sows 1-3 300-400 lbs 14.75-15.75, few 16.00; 2-3 400-500 lbs 14.00-15.00; 2-3 500-600 lbs 13.25-14.25. Rochelle Market HOG MARKET- Top 19.50 180-200 lbs 18.00-19.25 200-220 lbs 18.75-19.50 220-240 lbs 18.50-19.50 240-270 lbs 16.75-18 75 SOW MARKET 350-down 14.50-15.00 375-500 lbs 12.75-13.75 CATTLE MARKET Ch Steers 1000-1250 30.00-31.00 Gd Steers 1000-1200 28.50-29.50 Heifers 900-1050 28.50-29.00 Gd Heifers 900-1050 27.00-28.00 CALF MARKET Choice 34.00-41.00 Utility Standard 22.00-34.00 Lights 18.00-24.00 LAMB MARKET Ch to Prime 20.00-21.50 Gd to Choice 18.00-20.00 Ewes 5.00- 6.00 ft Chicago Mecantile Exchange Future trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange today. Quotations furnished by Dixon Country Commodities Corp.

(home of Heinhold Commodities, Prev. High Low Close Close Live Beef attle Feb 33.25 32.80 33.25 33.25 Apr 32,40 31.92 32.35 32.35 Jun 32.10 31.67 32.07 31.95 Aug 31.20 30.95 31.17 31.15 Live Hogs Feb 20.40 20.05 20.37 19.97 Apr 18 85 18.50 1867 18.55 Jun 20.57 20.25 20.50 20.37 Jul 21.80 21.12 21.45 21.30 Pork Bellies Feb 26.75 26.17 26.65 26.20 Mar 26.55 26.15 26.42 26.12 May 27.00 26.55 26.92 26.62 Jul 27.47 27.62 27.40 27.05 Soybean Meal 78.95 77.55 77.80 78.30 May 79.25 78.60 78.90 79.25 Soybean Oil Mar 12.11 1189 11.97 12.17 May 12.11 11.87 11.93 12.17 Jul 12.18 11.90 11.95 12.15 Grain Range Wheat Mar 170 May Jul Sep orn Mar 154 May Jul 157 Dec Soybeans Mar 307 May Jul 313 Aug 309 Nov Deaths and Funerals Charles F. Kent Granville Schalter 166 160 153 156 154 308 312 About Town KSB Hospital Admitted: Mrs. Sandra Royster, Mrs. Donna Hoi by, Miss Darby Fane, Master Kerry Devine, Sterling Wilson, Dixon; Donald Clothier, Mrs.

Evelyn Powell, Polo; Donald Papini, Arnold Maxwell, Oregon; George Sisler, Ohio. Discharged: Mrs. Joan Wag ner, Mrs. Erleen Friend, Mrs. Mary Blackburn, Master James Potts, Robert Balayti, Mrs.

Lydia Coakley, Elias Burnett, Mrs. Minnie Willard, Wilbur Weed, Dixon; Mrs. Doris Frey, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Miller, Rock Falls; Miss Donna Carriker, Mrs. Ruth Hoi by, Mrs.

Charlotte Bunker, Polo. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brainerd, Dixon, a son; Mr. and Mrs.

Keith Tinsman, Oakwood, a son, both on Feb. 3. Licenses To Wed The office of John E. Stouffer, county clerk, has issued a marriage license to John F. Butterfield, 215 W.

Fifth and Blenda J. Millhouse, Polo. Local Forecast Heavy snow warning. Freezing drizzle changing to snow and becoming heavy tonight, accumulating to 4 inches or more by morning. Low tonight low 2()s.

Friday light snow or occasional flurries and colder, steady or slowly falling temperatures. Weather DIXON TEMPERATURES High Wednesday, 25; low' today, 22; 32. Precipitation, .07 inch (one inch of snow and freezing drizzle). Sunset today, sunrise Friday, 7:06. Dixon man is cited in Rochelle ROCHELLE Rochelle Police investigated an accident at 11:53 a.m.

Wednesday at the intersection of S. Main St. and Standard Oil Rd. Officers said that a car driven by Joseph LeBlanc Dixon, and a truck driven by Vernon I). Range, Rochelle, collided.

LeBlanc was proceeding east on Standard Oil Road and was unable to stop at the intersection, his auto slidding into the Range truck which was making a left turn from Main Street, officers indicated LeBlanc was cited for disobeying a stop sign. No damage estimates were available. There were no injuries. Free on bond OREGON Kenneth L. Kliebe, 32, 13 W.

First Mt. Morris, posted $60 cash bond and was freed Wednesday night after an incident in Mt. Morris. The Ogle County department indicated that Mt. Morris police arrested the man for discharging firearms within the city limits and for having no gun registration.

The incident occurred about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. Concerned youths lend a hand Interest sparked by a talk of a Peace Corps volunteer at an Amboy High School assembly eai ly in 1970 resulted in the high school students becoming involved in a yearlong to raise funds for a new school in Latin America. The goal was reached and a 1,000 check was given to the Peace Corps School Partnership Program Wednesdav. Pictured, left to right: Mark Smith, Student Council president; Jan Smith, secretary; Rolando Mendoza and Paul Mack, Peace Corps volunteers.

$1,000 boost to Peace Corps Dixon child injured AMBOY A year long project culminated Wednesday afternoon when students at the high school presented a check to a representative of the Peace Corps. Mark Smith, president of the Student Council, presented the money to Paul Mack, Peace Corps volunteer, who served in Brazil and Rolando Mendoza who traveled in Panama, Honduras and Colombia. The money will be used to help build a new school in Latin America. The members of the Student Council decide to a carry out some sort of Peace Corp project last year and all the students and the various school organ izations pitched in to help. There were bake sales, dances, entertainments and other activities with all the funds being pooled to attain the goal.

The presentation ceremony was held at the general assembly at the school auditorium Wednesday a ft ernoon. Retail-Service Bureau to meet Tuesday afternoon Al Vandenberg, chairman, Retail-Service Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, an nounces a meeting will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m., in the chamber office. Vandenberg recently named chairmen and members of bureau committees. These include: CHRISTMAS David Ames, chairman; Everett Brooks and Fritz Herzog, members; DOLLAR AND DOG DAYS Ted Mazorati, chairman, Charles Strong, Harvey Ware and Doug Brantley, members; SPRING AND FALL PROMOTIONS Everett Kraft and John Kichler, co-chairmen. Joe Unger and Howard Powell, members.

HOLIDAY AND VACATION HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Delores Ortgiesen. Caro line Hazelwood, today; Ellen Kastner and David Dunseth, Feb 5. PROMOTIONS Del Long, chairman, Sam Owens, Jack Schuler and Ed Gerdes, mem hers. AUTO DEALERS SHOW AND CONTEST Dean Harrison IM LEMENT DEALERS CONTEST Neil Stewart. GOLF OR SPORTS EVENT Hank Henry, chairman, Sam Owens and Ray Fulls, NEW CITY DIRECTORY Donald Lovett, chairman, Paul Bey, Harold Rhodes and Harrv Wade, members.

BUSINESS ALERT SYSTEM Armand Friend, chairman, Bert Schaefer, Fritz Herzog and Harvey Ware, members. NEW PROMOTIONS Ted Mazorati, chairman, Mike Killorne, Charles Strong, Rev. Dr. Robert Schumm and Doug Brantley, members. Other officers of the bureau are Everett Brooks, vice chairman; Darrel Nelson, and Joe Rock, directors.

Darby Fane, 7, 1023 S. Peoria is listed in good condition in KSB Hospital today following a traffic mishap Wednesday afternoon in which the child sustained a broken thigh bone. Dixon Police said that the Fane youngster and several other children were standing at the S. Galena St. intersection, when the child darted in front of a car driven bv Daniel Shiaras, 46, Fit.

4, whose vehicle was southbound on Galena Avenue. Witnesses to the mishap verified that the youngster had run from the curb in front of the vehicle. which was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting the child. The child was taken to KSB Hospital by Dixon firemen. No citations were issued.

An accident at 8 a.m. today involved cars driven by Edna H. Rhodes, 61, lit. 1, and Raymond G. Burian, 44, 111 Shady Lane Dr.

Officers said that both cars were northbound on Fourth Avenue when Burian started a right turn onto Ferris Street. Burian slowed because of another vehicle turning from Ferris onto Fourth and the trailing Rhodes vehicle was unable to stop and hit the Burian vehicle in the rear. An accident was reported W'ednesday at Dixon State School where cars driven by Patricia A. Cathelyn, 22,1215 W. Second and Ruth E.

Sweet, 47, Polo, collided. Officers said that the Cathelyn vehicle was proceeding from a parking lot onto N. First St. in a left turn attempt, and collided with the Sweet auto which was southbound. No citations were issued.

DSS team wins title Dixon State School residents basketball team Sunday beat Rockford, 50-42, to become champion of the Northwestern Illinois Athletic Association for trainable mentally handicapped youth. The game was played at the coliseum in Oregon. In the consolation game earlier Sunday, St. Charles beat Dixon-Truman 46-26. Ice causes accidents Illinois State Police reported a number of minor accidents today.

mostly due to the weather. An accident at today a mile east of Rochelle on U.S. Alt. 30 involved autos driven by Earl Gruter, 60, Rochelle, and Dennis Shaw, 20, Calumet City. Troopers reported that Shaw attempted to pass car, his car slipped on the ice and the two vehicles sideswiped.

Damage was estimated at $50 to the Gruter vehicle and $100 to the Shaw vehicle. Shaw was cited for driving too fast for conditions. Damages totalling $600 were reported to the car of a Dixon man, Rex Schmall, 25. Troopers said that Schmall was east- bound on U.S. 30 a mile east of the Lee Center Road at 6:30 a.m.

today, when his car went off the road and through a fence. Damage to the fence, belonging to Arzie Page, rural Amboy, was estimated at $30. Schmall was cited for driving too fast for conditions. A Sterling youth, Lyle Stern, 18, was treated and released at Community General Hospital, Sterling, following an accident at 6:25 a.m. today on U.S.

30 a mile and one-half west of 111. 2. Troopers said that Stern passed a number of other vehicles when his car skidded, went off the road, and hit a tree. Damages to the auto were estimated at $2,400. Stern was cited for driving too fast for conditions.

Charles F. Kent, 80. 302 E. 11th Rock Falls, died unexpectedly Wednesday in KSB Hospital. Visitation will be at Grennan and Son Funeral Home, Sterling.

from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be held Saturday with a prayer service at 9 a.m. in the funeral home and at 9:30 a.m.

in St. Catjiolic Church, Rock Falls. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Kent was a member of St. Catholic Church and the Holy Name Society who will recite the rosary at 8p.m.

Friday. Born Sept. 1, 1890, in Harmon, Kent was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Kent.

He farmed in the Harmon area until 1961 when he retired and moved to Rock Falls. Surviving are his wife, Theresa; five daughters and one son, Mrs. Marie Em mert, Rock Falls; Mrs. Walter (Rita) Brockman, Round Grove; Mrs. Robert A.

(Stella) Miller, Dixon; Mrs. Frank (Cecelia) Whitmore, Harmon; Mrs. Teresa Walters, Rock Falls, and Joseph Kent, Dixon. He is also survived by one brother and one sister, Clarence Kent, Harmon, and Mrs. Floyd (Mary) Sanders, Sterling; 33 grandchildren and 34 grandchildren.

A son and a brother preceded him in death. Mrs. Dorothy Killey Mrs. Dorothy Killey, 64, S. Wood died at Rochelle Community Hospital Wednesday evening.

She had been a resident of the Americana Nursing Home for the past year and a half. She was born Sept. 21, 1906, in Monroe Center, the daughter of Lewis and Martha Eckert Pepper. She was married to Paul Killey in Iowa, and he preceded her in death in June, 1959. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Richard (Marjorie) Pelka, Rochelle; three sisters, Mrs. Frank (Edith) Poliska, Holcomb; Mrs. Gerald (Vera) Vandenburg, Freeport; Mrs. Floyd (Evelyn) Dummer, Rochelle, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

at the Unger Funeral Home, with the Rev. Theodore Weiss, pastor of the St. Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Monroe Center Cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening from in the funeral home.

Granville W. Schaller, 67, of Sarasota. and formerly of Dixon, died Wednesday in Sarasota Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient for 15 days. Schaller w'as employed by the Northern Illinois Gas from 1919 until retirement in 1963 and lived in Dixon from 1933 to 1969. He was a line construction forman for the utility when he retired.

He was born May 5, 1903, in Lyndon, the son of George and Jennie Jackson Schaller. He was married to Ella Raine McDonald on May 15, 1937, in Prophetstown. Schaller was preceded in death by two brothers. He is survived by his widow, a son, William, Fenton; a brother, George, Rock Island; four sisters, Mrs. Carrie Rogers, of California; Mrs.

Jennie Isenberg, Pekin; Mrs. Lillie Sutton, Kewanee, and Mrs. Mamie Walker, Sterling; and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m., in the Gardner Funeral Home, Prophetstown, with the Rev. James Harker, officiating.

Burial will be in Lyndon Cemetery. Friends may call in the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Leo J. Ripp 2 nabbed In thefts OREGON Ogle County Sheriff Jerry Brooks said today that two men have been arrested by Ogle County Police on charges of burglarizing two rural homes. Nabbed in DeKalb County were Kenneth W.

Payne, 23, of Beloit, and Edward L. Payne, 22, of Rockford. The pair is accused in Jan. 28 burglaries of the Fae Smith residence and one belonging to Ronald Barrow, both Rural Route, Monroe Center. The two are being charged with other burglaries in De Kalb and Winnebago Counties.

They are being held in the DeKalb County jail. Bonds on the Ogle County charges have been set at $10,000 each. ROCHELLE- Leo J. Ripp, 68, 920 N. Tenth died at 11:30 p.m.

Wednesday in St. Hospital, Rockford, following a heart attack. He was born Oct. 12, 1902, in Middleton, the son of Casper and Nellie Lynch Ripp, and married Anne Hillsonhoff June 23.1928, in Madison, Wis. Ripp was former mayor of Rochelle, and was first appointed to office as finance commissioner in 1947 to fill the term of James Trees.

In October 1950 he was appointed mayor upon the death of then-mavor John Sweeney. He was then reelected for two more terms, serving as mayor 1951-59. Ripp was a 35- year employe of the Kroger coming to Rochelle from Oregon in 1940, retiring in 1966. Ripp was a member of St. Catholic Church, and was elected to serve on the church building committee.

A member of the Rochelle Chamber of Commerce, he was serving as assistant to the Flagg Township assessor at the time of his death. He was also active in the Ogle County Realtors association; was a member of the Moose Lodge, Knights of Columbus, and the Heart Association. He is survived by his widow, Anne; a daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Janet) Smith, Rockford; a son, Richard, Richmond, two brothers, Celestine, Madison, and Victor, Arlington Heights; two sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Hoernke and Mrs.

Margaret Meisckonia, both of Madison, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Catholic Church with the Rev. Fran cms Kennedy, pastor of the church, officiating.

Burial will be in St. Cemetery, and visitation is planned for after 4 p.m. Friday in Dee Home for Funerals. A wake is also scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home, and a memorial fund has been established for the Heart Association and St.

Catholic Church building fund. Moonwalks to be televised in color Concept of moon task Apollo 11 astronauts are shown in this conception working on the moon near their lunar module, center. Mission commander Alan Shepard is seen in foreground moving away from the lunar module with a modular equipment transporter while LEM pilot Edgar Mitchell prepares a communications antenna in background. Astronauts are scheduled to land in the Fra Ma tiro section of moon. AP VYirephoto) SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Two televised moonwalks will be beamed live and in color across a quarter-million miles of space Friday and Saturday.

The three major NBC, CBS, relay the telecast into homes throughout the nation. The drama will be viewed around the world via communications satellite. The shows feature Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Edgar D.

Mitchell, a spider-like lunar landing machine named Ant ares and the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon. The TV specials, the first beginning at 8:45 a.m. EST Friday. will take viewers on a journey across the rugged surface as the astronauts set out in search of scientific secrets. For identification purposes.

Shepard's spacesuit will be adorned with red bands. And Mitchell promises a running commentary. plan to be very talka Mitchell said in a preflight interview. will try to describe the lunar geographical scene as we progress from one point to The flight plan calls for Shepard and Mitchell, the fifth and sixth Americans to walk the moon, to begin the first lunar excursion at 3:53 a.m. EST Friday.

Viewers back home will watch Shepard and Mitchell set up a nuclear-powered science station, deploy several experiments and detonate 21 firecracker-size explosions on the lunar surface. Mitchell also will arm a mortar to launch grenades on a signal from earth months after the astronauts leave the moon. Moving about the dusty surface in their bulky protective suits, the astronauts will follow the tradition of Apollo 11 and 12 explorers and plant the American flag. On their second outing, starting at 5:38 a.m. Saturday, Shepard and Mitchell guide their earthly audience on a geological trip through the craggy, cratered moon valley.

They roam a total of 8,400 feet, but never more than half a mile from the lunar module. The spacemen will visit a number of craters, making their way up a 400-foot high slope to the rim of one impact area which scientists believe may yield special treasures. hope that here we will find rocks that date back to the birth of the moon, perhaps 4.5 billion Shepard said. hope they will tell scientists much about the origin of the moon, and perhaps our earth and The astronauts will lug along with them moon buggy of sorts, kind of a cross betweer golf cart and a rickshaw, whi will carry tQols, cameras, ro bags and scientific instrumen To guard against a came mishap such as befell the Apo 12 crew, Shepard and have a color camera with a sp cial lens cover to prevent dai age from the powerf glare. As an added precautii against a TV blackout, the a moon luggage includ a black and white camera emergency use.

Development test set at Rochelle ROC The cour ing department of Rocf Township High School wil administering the National ucational Development Test Saturday morning, Feb. 2 8:30 in the school cafeteria The NEDT will show how the students can apply skills acquired since entei school. The results will nize strengths and pinp weaknesses in basic skill an such as mathematics, read English and vocabulary. men and sophomores are el ble to take the test and can i ister in the Counseling Cen The fee for the test is $1.25.

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