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Stocks Post Some Gains; Trade Heavy NEW YORK (AP)-fhe stock market posted an irregular advance In active trading, with some wide moves late this afternoon. Volume for the day was estimated at 5.3 million shares compared with 4.77 million Thursday. While most key stocks showed gains and losses ranging from fractions to a point, some specially-situated issues rose 2 or more points. Affected by stock splits, Lehn Fink and American Hospital supply rose about 3 each and Procter Gamble more than a Markets At A Glance IFREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD) PAGE 4 FRIDAY, APRIL 1961 NEW YORK Stocks Higher; irregular advance. Bonds Corporales decline; moderate trading.

commission house selling. CHICAGO: light trade. mixed; light trade. liquidation. to 25 cents lower; top $18.

slaughter steer sales reported. point. In American the same Machine category, Foundry halved an early gain of about 2. Steels, motors, coppers and an assortment of electronics did well. Ford and Anaconda rose more than a point each.

McDonnell Aircraft, prime contractor for the Mercury astronaut program, was active and fractionally higher. Litton Industries advanced about 2. International Business Machines was up half a dozen points. Vendo dropped about 2. Interstate Department Stores was off about 3.

American Stock Exchange prices advanced in heavy trading. Corporate bonds slipped fractions. U.S. government bonds were mostly unchanged. tatoes arrivals 67; on track 201; total U.S.

shipments 715; supplies moderate; demand moderate; market for russets steady, for round reds slightly stronger; car- lot track sales: Idaho russets 5.50; Minnesota North Dakota Red River Valley round reds 3.00-3.25; new supplies moderate; demand moderate; market slightly stronger; carlot track sales: Florida round reds 2.15. CHICAGO (USDA) Live poultry: no prices reported due to insufficient receipts. Livestock Grain CHICAGO (AP) (USDA) Hogs 4500 butchers steady to 25 lower; mixed 1-2 and mixed 1-3 190-240 Ib butchers 17.25 17.75; around 100 head mostly 1-2 190-220 Ibs 17.85; 22 head mostly Is promising high yield of leaacut around 225 Ibs 18.00; mixed 2-3 and 3s 190-250 Ibs 17.00-17.50; mixed 2-3 and 3s 240-300 Ibs load 3s around 330 Ibs 16.60; mixed 1-3 and mixed 2-3 300-400 Ib sows 15.75-16.50; mixed 2-3 and 3s 400600 Ibs 14.50-16.00. Cattle 200; calves none; not enough slaughter steers or heifers for a price test; utility and low commercial cows 15.75-17.50; few utility and low commercial bulls 18.50-20.50." Sheep 500; hardly enough for market test; deck good to mostly choice 135 Ib fed Western wooled lambs 15.50. CHICAGO (AP) (USDA) Official estimated livestock receipts for Saturday are 100 cattle, 100 hogs and no sheep.

CHICAGO (AP) Soybean futures shifted fairly broadly today on the Board of Trade, but only moderately either way from previous closes. The old crop" contracts ranged from about 3 cents higher to about 3 lower, while the grains showed only fractional changes. Trade volume appeared to be at or near its lowest of the week. Carlot receipts today were estimated at: wheat 1 car, corn 133, oats 7, rye none, barley 6, soybeans 8. Soybeans were cents a bushel lower, May wheat lower to higher, May corn unchanged to lower, May $1.08 7 oats lower to higher, May 61V4; rye lower to higher, May CHICAGO (AP)- Music Students From Elizabeth In District Meet ELIZABETH Loren Squires, head of the music department of the Elizabeth public schools, announced today those of his students who would bet entered in the district music contest at Rochelle Saturday.

Those in the solo division are Stanley Backenkeller, trombone; Barbara Cobine, cornet; Bernice Lieb, piano; Bonnie Groezinger, baritone; Martha Heer, bassoon; Karen Robinson and Eleanora Haring, clarinet; Ronnie Haas, alto saxophone; Joel Coleman, tuba; and Alice Mae Kevern, vocal. Group participants are clarinet quartet, Eleanora Haring, Karen Robinson, Carol Wurster, Chris Chiaverina; brass quartet, Barbara Cobine, Stanley Backenkel- ler, LaVonne Mitchell and Dan Reusch; woodwind trio, Linda Thorn, Ann Schwirtz and Susan Albrecht; woodwind quintet, composed of the woodwind trio and Martha Heer and Norma Diehl; and a girls' trio consisting of Linda Thorn, Barbara Cobine and Mary Jane Baumgartner. The Daily Record Traffic Cases Eunice M. O'Malia, rural Pecatonica, forfeited a $4 bond on a charge of making an improper start. John S.

Malloy, 923 S. Float paid a $4 fine on a stop sign violation. A $4 fine for driving the wrong way on a one-way street was paid Larceny Malcolm Pearson, night truck loader, reported that a caso of pop was stolen from a truck parked outside the 7-Up warehouse, 1321 S. Harlem at about 8:40 Thursday night. He told police he was loading another truck inside the warehouse at the time.

Library Week Elizabeth's township public Corn May Jul Sep Dec Mar Oats May Jul Sep Dec Prev. High Low Close close 1.09V4 1.08% 1.08 7 1.09% 1.13% 1.12& 1.12% 1.12% 1.15% 1.14% 1.14% 1.14% 1.17% 1.16% 1.17 1.21% 1.20% 1.21 Produce .64 .70 .61 .66 .66 .69 7 8 1.17% 1.21 .66 CHICAGO (AP) No wheat or soybean sales. Corn No 2 yellow 1.09Vi-%; No 3 yellow 1.06y<i-08y4 No 4 yellow 1.02-06y4. Oats No 1 extra heavy white Soybean oil CHICAGO (AP) Chicago cantile steady: wholesale buying prices unchanged; 93 score AA 60; 92 A 60; 90 89 57; cars 90 89 Eggs fully steady; wholesale buying prices unchanged to higher; 70 per cent or better grade A whites 33; mixed 33; mediums Barley: malting 1.20n; feed Leaders choice 1.10- library will participate in the observation of National Library Week, which starts Sunday, according to Mrs. R.

S. Dresser, president of the Elizabeth library board. A meeting of the board will be held Friday at 8 p.m. The staff is still cataloguing books to bring records up to date. Cedarville PTA Hears Arctic Impressions CEDARVILLE Edsel Langdon, Freeport High School science instructor, gave an illustrated lecture at PTA meeting here Tuesday evening on experience encountered in the Arctic during his three years there.

As a member of the International Geological Association expedition, he was stationed one thousand miles north of Port Barrow on an ice floe which moved approximately 800 miles in one year. In their cabins, Langdon said, the temperature ranged from 25 degrees on the floor to 120 near the ceiling before they installed fans to distribute the heat more evenly. He said Polar bears caused considerably damage to their equipment and two stations had to be abandoned because of them. Buildings and equipment had by Gladys G. Howery, South Wayne, Ind.

Raymond W. Klatt, Pearl City, paid a $4 fine for making an improper left turn. Zimmerman Chevrolet paid a $3 fine on a charge of leaving key in switch. Nine drivers paid $1 fines for parking violations. Accidents Gregory Center, 9-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Conter, 1202 S. High was injured Thursday afternoon when his bicycle was hit by a car on South Galena Avenue near South High Avenue. He was taken to Freeport Memorial Hospital in the city ambulance and treated for bruises and contusions to both legs. According to police, the boy turned right onto Galena, then left in front of an oncoming car driven by Sharon Hammond, 632 W.

Pleasant St. Miss Hammond turned to avoid a collision and applied her brakes. But the car hit the bike, knocking the boy to the pavement. Cars driven by Vernon E. Bryon, Freeport Route 4, and Ellen Condon, S.

Carroll collided Thursday afternoon at the intersection of S. Galena Ave. and W. Jackson St. According to the report, the Pearson said that several other items have been stolen recently from the warehouse.

Fire Firemen washed down gasoline that leaked from a car early Thursday evening in the first block of East Stephenson Street. The fire department ambulance took Dorothy Williams, 14, 707 E. Orin to St. Francis Hospital early this morning after a hemorrhage from work on her teeth. West (Continued from page one) westbound Bryon auto turned left onto Galena in front of the southbound auto.

Damage resulted to the right front and side of the Bryon auto and the left side of the Condon auto. Bryon was charged with failure to yield the right-of-way. (Continued from page one) 32V4; standards checks 31; dirties 30; Bankruptcy In a bankruptcy petition filed in Federal Court, George Coniglio, Loves Park lists liabilities of $5,493.28 and-assets of $2,745. Police Court Clarence E. Wichman, Red Oak, paid a $5 fine this morning on a drunk charge.

He was arrested Thursday afternoon when found sleeping in his car on the National Tea Co. lot, West Linden Street. Mrs. Dolores A. Roach, 815 S.

Ottawa was fined $5 Thursday on a disorderly conduct charge. She was arrested at a local department store, police said, after shoplifting merchandise valued at $15.83. the accused was found, and nothing more." Servatius then demanded that the two employees of the Israeli airline, El Al, be brought to court to testify about the circumstances of Eichmann's removal from Argentina to Israel. They are hudi (Jack) Shimon, chief of operations, and Zvi Tohar, who allegedly piloted the plane. The court has placed both men on notice that they may be summoned to the hearings.

With the adjournment until Monday morning, the trial now stands at this point: Disputed Right Servatius has disputed Israel's right to try Eichmann on grounds that he was kidnaped, signed a statement under duress, and that the crimes alleged were not committed on Israeli soil. He thus challenged the competence of the special Israeli court to hear the case and argues that there is appropriate German law and suitable German courts to handle the case. Hausner, in a lengthy recital of precedents in international law which he concluded today, upheld the right of Israel to try Eichmann and the competence of the three judges. Over the weekend, they will Nehls Admits Hitting Baby; Hearing Set Richard Nehls, 27, 410 S. Liberty appearing in Circuit Court this morning before Judge Marvin P.

Hurt, pleaded guilty to cruelty to a child under his legal control. Sentencing was postponed so Nehls can be given a psychiatric examination, as requested by Public Defender George H. Schirmer Jr. It is reported that Nehls may suffer from "blackouts" during which time he doesn't know what he is doing. Hearing Set After pleading guilty to the charge contained in an information filed by State's Atty.

Dexter A. Knowlton, Nehls applied for probation. At a hearing set for next Friday, the psychiatrist's report will be heard, along with a report to be made by Adult Probation Officer Norman Sleezer. Under state law the offense is punishable by a tine of up to $500 a sentence of one to five years in the penitentiary. Nehls was arrested March 20 and charged with attempting to murder and taking indecent lib- Chestnut Hills Resort To Self $1 50,000 Of Stock GALENA-Chestnut Hills ski resort between Hanover and Galena has announced plans for incorporating and selling $150,000 worth of stock and first mortgage bonds.

Kenneth Hansen and Ronald Jirik, co-owners of the resort, said the action is being taken because of the mild, near snowless weather the resort met in its first season last winter. Hansen said there will be no soliciting for stock sales in the immediate area. $7,000 Awarded For Finger Loss; New Case Heard After deliberating less than four hours, a jury of eight women and four men awarded Adeline Augustine, Lake Geneva, $7,000 for the loss of 80 per cent of her right index finger. The case was heard Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Federal Court before Judge Joseph Sam Perry. Val-U-Check Firm Is Sued For $114,099 Lawrence A.

Hoffman, a former manager of Val-U-Check which operated in Frecport area stores for several months last year, and Fredric E. Arnold also a former employe, filed suit in Wtnnebago County Circuit Court Thursday asking a total of $114,099.60 from the merchandise premium trading organization and its incorporators. The two plaintiffs also seek to regain control of the dissolved corporation's books and records which they sny were taken by other company officials undet false pretenses. Hoffman, allegedly under long- term contract to manage the firm, seeks $107.433 in unpaid salary. Arnold seeks $6,666.06, also in wages allegedly unpaid.

The firm's incorporators, Al bert C. Winter, Benjamin Kram lien, William- Brady, Robert Whitely and William Baker, or dered the firm dissolved and its trading premium operations, in Freeport and seven other cities stopped last January. The reason given at the time aycees To Hold City Broom Sale Saturday, April 29 Tho Freeport will hold citywido broom sale Saturday, 29, in connection with ional Cleanup Week the first week May. Chairman is Richard iastman. Several types of brooms, made jy Frecport Manufacturing vill be sold door-to-door.

A brochure to advertise the brooms erties with his two-month-old daughter, Carolyn. At the time, the baby was not expected to live, but her condition has improved. No Sex Offense Knowlton explained that "subsequent investigation, including a lie detector examination administered by the Illinois State Criminal Investigation Bureau" indicated that Nehls was not a sex offender. The child was originally injured when Nehls beat the baby. She then became ill, and rectal injuries were inflicted by Nehls when he became angry and forced a thermometer into the child.

When the rectal injuries were discovered by a physician, it was believed that the child had been sexually molested. Knowlton said the statute to which Nehls pleaded guilty provided the most severe penalty possible under the circumstances. Dr. George Guenzler Honored By College CHICAGO (AP)-(USDA) Po- MHACI CRACKED WITH PITTSBURGH SAFETY GLASS It's Safety Lane Check-Up Time! IF IT'S GLASS C. MELLNICK Mirrors and Glass of All Kinds FREE ESTIMATES Dial AD 2-7963 CITY GLASS CO.

1721 South Oak Avenue Open 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. Daily of Western nations while aid itself should be administered by the prospective Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and by the Development Assistance Group. They would welcome Britain's joining the six-nation European Economic Community provided such a step would not interfere with the community's ultimate political ion. "Continuing attention" will be paid to the problem of the balance of payments.

In recent years the United States has been spending more abroad than it has been taking in. The two leaders also were reported to have agreed that there seems to be no immediate danger that the Soviet Union will renew formulate the short rule on their own competence to hear the case. Huge (Continued from page one) to be moved several times because of the cracking of the ice floe on which they were located. These cracks widened up to ten feet across in a comparatively short time. Langdon said that several thousand dollars woth of equipment was lost because it could not be moved in time.

Brownies sang three special music numbers under the direction of their leaders. Refreshments were served following the program. School Board At Chadwick Elects Officers newly consti luted board of education met Wednesday evening for an organ- Court Kay Kerlin today was granted a divorce from Covil Kerlin in Circuit Court by Judge Marvin F. Burt. Cruelty was charged.

The couple was married in Freeport Dec. 1, I960. They had no children, but Mrs. Kerlin is expecting a child. The 60-day waiting period was waived.

Attorneys W. L. Jeffrey and Bert Snow appeared for the plaintiff and defendant, respectively. Petitions Filed In a divorce petition filed in was in superb health and showed no ill effects whatsoever from his history-making flight. As soon as the anthem was over, Yuri's wife, Valentina, rushed into his arms and kissed him warmly.

He then kissed his -mother, Of Chiropody A Century Club 'Certificate of badge and a its 1958 threat on West Berlin and Germany. Mt. Carroll Nursing Home, Inc. 24 HOUR Nursing Service Private Rooms Available Route 1, Mt. Carroll Phone: Mt.

Carroll 5793 Dinner-Of-The-Month Club Tickets Available For A Limited Time. Picfc Yours Up Now! izational meeting and election of officers. Leroy Foltz was named president and Mrs. Helen Whitney was chosen secretary. A combined grade and high school athletic banquet will be held Tuesday May 2.

Named editor of the 1962 high (school yearbook is Charlotte JHouzenga. Nine members of FHA attended the Farm and Home Festival at the University of Illinois. The trip was sponsored by the Vo-Ag department at the high school. Traveling to Rochelle on Saturday svill be 22 musicians participating in solo and ensemble district music contests. Junior class members are practicing for their play, "Let Me Out of Here," which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights, April 28 and 29.

Circuit Court, Beulah Stepanchuk charges Vasil Stepanchuk with cruelty and drunkenness. A request that the 60-day waiting period be waived was granted. The couple was married Oct. 3, 1959. Attorney Philip Keister represents Mrs.

Stepanchuk. Asking separate maintenance from Cecil Rosenberger, Violet Rosenberger charges desertion. The couple was married March 15, 1953, in Eleroy and has one child. The 60-day waiting period was waived. Attorney Jeffrey filed the suit.

Partition Suit The partition suit of Birdie D. Mortenson vs. Clarence A. Mortenson has been filed in Circuit Court by attorney James K. Cavanaugh.

Land in Section 22, Township 27 is involved. Hawaii produces 70 per cent the world's supply of pineapple. of Anna, and his father, Alexei. The father broke into tears. Madhouse Then the scene became almost a madhouse.

Top government and party leaders and hundreds of others pressed up, thrust bouquets at Gagarin and tried to shake his hand. Yuri and his wife clung to-one another. Finally, Mrs. Gagarin released her husband. He smiled the first time.

To Khrushchev, the hero said: "I am ready to fulfill any new orders." Will these mean a flight to the moon? Gagarin has already said he is ready to do it. HOW NAMED The name Trinity was given to the first successful atomic bomb explosion of July 16, 1945, on the New Mexico desert, from the name of an unpopulated railroad switching point near the spot. Appreciation" were presented to Dr. George E. Guenzler at the Zone 5 meeting in Chicago late in March.

Dr. Guenzler received the awards for pledging $100 a year to his alma mater, the Illinois College of Chiropody and' Foot Surgery, during the years that he will be practicing his profession of The awards were made by Dr. Lola Riesgraf, secretary of the Alumni Education Foundation, and Dr. Stewart E. Reed, president of the alumni group.

Dr. Curtis Fisher Heads Dental Group New officers of the Northwest District Dental Society are headed by Dr. Curtis Fisher of Polo as president. Other 1961 officers are Dr. Richard Fleeman, vice president and component society editor; Dr.

Leland Reed, secretary-treasurer; and Dr. N. J. Schiltz of Elizabeth, program chairman. Dr.

William Hermsmeier was named to the board of governors. Miss Augustine sued Ralph Smith and Lee Smith, rural Durand, as the result of an accident involving a hay baler which occurred June 28, 1958, on a farm operated by the brothers. New Case A jury, selected Thursday afternoon, today heard opening statements and part of the evidence in the case of Alice R. Blose Carrington, Rockford, vs. Prudential Insurance Co.

The case involves life insurance purchased by the late Warren D. Blose, who was killed in an automobile accident July 25, 1958. Blose was at that time married to the plaintiff. Blose applied for a new policy prior to the accident, but it was not delivered by the Rockford office until after the accident. The suit claims the company should pay the benefits which would have been due under the new policy, while the defense claims the new policy did not supercede the old policy until delivered.

A difference in benefits of about $13,000 is involved. Jolly Circle Sewing Club Meets Thursday At Brookville Home BROOKVILLE Jolly Circle Sewing Club will hold a regular meeting Thursday, April 20, at the home of Mrs. Frank Bowers. was the termination by two ma jor firms of contracts to dis tribute Val-U-Check premiums. Business Briefs Mr.

and Mrs. Faye L. Knoclle formerly of Freeport, are attenc ing the Automotive Electrical socialion meeting at Boca Raton Fla. Knodle is general manage of the Magneto and Engine Ac cessories Division of Fairbanks Morse Co. Beloit Division.

planned. FRIDAY NIG11T Try Ottr 209 West Stephenson Street Try Our Home Made SOUPS at the RESTAURANT THE CENTER OF BUSINESS, CIVIC AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES SPAGHETTI and MEAT BALL DINNER Every MONDAY NIGHT All You Can Eat Also Serving Regular Menu RED CEDAR LOUNGE 1 On the Edge ol Freeport Highway 20 West Miss Darlene Schafer has received her discharge from the U.S. Woman's Air Force Band. She is now vacatining with her parents, Mr. Shafer.

Miss and Mrs. Ralph Shafer had been stationed at Norton Air Force Base in California. She plans to enter UCLA on June 19th. Mrs. Lewis Newendyke is spending the weekend with her daughter and family, the Edgar Wolvoord's, at Bloomington.

The family moved there last week from Lincoln, Neb. Election Judge Checks Are At Clerk's Office Mrs. Lueva McHugh, city clerk, said today that election judges may pick up their checks anytime during office hours at the clerk's office. NOW A FREE TRIAL OFFER on the versatile HOOVER POLISHER A 8 LI 8 Even Shampoos Ruga I 29. 9 5 HENRY LAMEYER'S Vacuum Appliance Center 103 West Main AD 2-6814 COLOR FILM PROCESSING off Quality Black While Finishing HARTMAN'S CAMERA SHOP 117 S.

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