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ixon vening elegraph Page IO Serving the Heart of Rock River Valley for More Than a Century Thursday, April Deaths and Funerals Mrs. Harley Rosenkrans TAW PAW Mrs, Harley (Mary'I Rosenkrans, 53, died Wednesday evening in Mendota Community Hospital after several months illness. She was born Oct. 19. 1910.

at Compton, the daughter of Harry and Florence Prentice Davison. She was a member of the Paw Paw Methodist Church and the WSCS. Her parents and a brother preceded her in death. Survivors include her husband: three (laughters. Mrs.

Fred (Lois) Ross. Mrs Richard (Rita) Luce and Janice, all of Paw Paw, and four granddaughters. Funeral services will be held at 2 m. Saturday in the Paw Paw Methodist Church, with the Rev. Max Kemling.

pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wyoming Cemetery. Friends may call at the Torman Funeral Home Friday evening. Mrs. Catherine Blake 0 Mrs.

Catherine Rlake, 83. a former Rochelle resident. died March 27 at Oakland, Calif. She was born May 13, 1880. in England, the daughter of Charles and Mary Moden Smith.

She came to Rochelle as a child and was a graduate of Rochelle High School. She has lived in California since 1906. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Kila Lux and a brother, George, both of Rochelle. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday in the Guts Funeral Home. Rochelle, with the Rev. Robert Rielenberg, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Lawnridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening.

Scott Backs Recreational Improvement Rodney Malone ROCHELLE Rodney Wayne Malone. 23. son of Mrs. Harold DeShazo. Kings, died Wednesday in a Webster City.

Iowa, hospital. He was bom Nov. 13. 1940, at Webster City, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Wayne Malone. His father preceded him in death. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his step-father: a sister, Donnda. at home; a brother. Doran.

with the Air Force in Texas, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kingsbury, Kings. Funeral services were scheduled today in the Unger Funeral Home. Burial was in Trinity Cemetery'.

Saddle Club To Meet Friday AMBOY The Green River Saddle Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hie American Legion Hall, Amboy. No lunch will be served at this meeting. WILLIAM J. SCOTT (Continued from Page I) Alaskan Gov.

William A. Egan that the full resources of the organization are being mobilized to give speedy aid to the stricken families. The nation's concern for the welfare of residents was evidenced over the weekend by the thousands of inquiries received by chapters from anxious relatives and friends. These queries may number more than those made in any other disaster in the last 20 years. At Red Cross headquarters in Washington.

D. alone, nearly 4.000 such messages were received by Saturday midnight, at the rate of 300 hourly. MARKETS Stocks The following listed on the New York Stock Exchange. This service is provided by the finn of Fahnestock Dixon National Bank Building, Dixon, 111. At I Brev.

p.m. Close Allis Chalmers ......................18 Amn Motors Amer Can ...............................421 2 42Vs Amn Tel Tel Anaconda Copper Atchison Armco Steel Beth Steel Boeing Aircraft Borden Borg Warner ........................49 Cities Serv Chrysler Columbia Gas ........................29 Comw Edison Deere Co El Paso Nat Ford Gen Flee Gen Foods Gen Motors Gillette IBM Intr llarv Insp Cop .................................43 Jones Kaiser Alum Kenn Copper Mont Ward Natl Bist Central ..........................33 Penney Radio Corp .............................36 Rep Steel Sinclair Sperry-Rand 29 20 55 88 90 5951 43 40 45 and choice 85-110 lbs 21 cull to good wooled slaughter ewes 7.009.00. Rochelle Market offered at the Rochelle Swift and Co. plant today include: HOG top 15 00 180-200 200-220 220-240 240-270 50 375-500 CATTLE Choice Steers. 900-1100 ....20 25-22 00 Choice Steers, 1100-1250 ....19 25-20 00 Good Steers.

900-1100 Good Steers. 1100-1250 50 Standard Utility All Weights 00 Choice Heifers. 800-950 25 Choice Heifers, 950-1050 Good Heifers, 800-950 ....18 25-19 25 Good Heifers, 950-1050 Standard Utility All Weights Fat Cows Canners Cutters Bulls Prime Good Choice ......................22 00-28 00 Utility Standard 16-down LAMB Choice to Prime Good to Ewes QUINCY. 111. lf! William J.

Scott, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, says Gov. Otto Kerner has displayed a for recreational, fishing and camping facilities. In less than four years, Illinois has skidded downward sharply in providing and maintaining recreational facilities, Scott told a campaign meeting Wednesday night. Scott said most Illinois streams mud-choked and and support little in the way of game fish. spots are at a premium and of poor quality in many he added, and many state parks inadequate facilities even for a single day of Scott, in outlining his program.

said that as governor he would see that the Conservation and Public Health departments cleaned up stream pollution. He proposed that the state the strip-mined wastelands of the state with their great potential for fishing and camping under proper believe we should strive for of around our majoi population centers, similar to system of forest preserves, so a father can again walk with his soli in the woods, and fbh the streams and he added. believe this is a strong factor in the general rehabilitation our state must undergo if we are to attract and maintain industry in our borders, and bring visitors to see the wonders of our he said. KSB Hospital Admitted: Charles Jones, Allen Fane, Miss Janet Butterfield, Master Steven Compher, Mrs. Ruth Mackh, Mrs.

Rita Sorensen, Mrs. Betty Vade, Dixon: John Todd, Amboy; Mrs. Patricia Busser, Polo; Frederick Taft, Oregon. Discharged: Donald Frey, Laverne Horner, Mrs. Shelby Spear, Mrs.

Juanita Johnson, Mrs. Mable Nagle, Mrs. Helen Heckman, Mrs. Alice Schmidt, Dixon; Mrs. Helen Daniels, Mrs.

Della McCoy; Amboy; Mrs. Clarabell Knutson, Princeton; Mrs. Della Powell, Polo; Mrs. Martha Travis, Oregon. Births: Mr.

and Mrs. Elwvn Vaessen, Polo, a daughter, April Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Mackay, Oregon, a daughter. April Mr.

and Mrs. James Vaile, Dixon, a son. April Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ford, Dixon, a son April 2.

Phone Co. Employe Honored Weather HOUTE PUS DIXON TEMPERATURES Official high Wednesday, 51, low today, 38; 12:30 p.m., 56. Unofficial readings over past 24 hours at 4-hour intervals ending noon today: Noon ..........46 Midnight 45 4 p.m 51 4 a.m ...............43 8 p.m 46 8 a.m ...............48 Noon 58 Telegraph Staff Photo Honored for Half Century of Service Miss Cora Gleaner is shown above with Martin Wandrey, left, manager of the division which includes the Dixon District of the Dixon Home Telephone and James Radke, Dixon District manager. She is being honored for 50 continuous year of service as an operator for the Dixon Home Telephone Co. She received a lifetime membership certificate in the Independent Telephone Pioneer and was presented with a gold pin set with a diamond.

News in Brief Cypriot Students Demonstrate NICOSIA, Cyprus hundred Greek Cypriot secondary school students demonstrated in Nicosia today, shouting for union of Cyprus with Greece. The students carried placards demanding the return to Cyprus of Gen. George Grivas, founder and leader of the underground Eoka movement, who is now living in virtual exile in Athens. The students paraded past the Greek Embassy building, then went to the presidential palace two miles outside Nicosia. The president of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios.

is the leader of the Greek Cypriot community. Pei Doubts Kerner Farm Bill Effect Scars Ste! Swift Rubber ..........................50 Steel ...............................59 estinghouse Elec ..................36 Zenith United Fruit 22 Nor 111 Gas Tampax ...................................77 Steel Gen Cable Western Pwr Gas Frantz Mfg Cent Sec Corp Bid Asked 70 4th Hour Dow-Jones Av. Industrials 820.91 up 4.83 Rails 194.54 up I 81 Utilities 137.62 off .02 Volume (4 hours) 4.700,000 78 20 68 Prev. Close 816.08 192.73 137.64 5,510,000 Tnt prior Market SPRINGFIELD (AP) (USHA) Interior Illinois hog prices (State- Federal): Receipts 23.000; 1-3 190-230 lh butchers 13.75-14.50, mostly 14.0014.25; 1-2 190-230 lbs 14.50-14.75: few sorted Is 200-220 lbs 15.00; 1-2 230-250 lbs 13.50-14 OO; 2-3 250-270 lbs 12.7513.50; 2-3 270-300 lbs 12.50-13.00; 1-3 280-350 lh sows 14.25-14.75; 1-3 350-400 lbs 11.50-12.25; 2-3 400-600 lbs 10.0011.50. Magistrate Court The Traffic Division of Lee County Circuit Court Clerk Harold W.

office today announced the following dispositions. 1 Thomas J. Williams, Worthington, overweight. Robert Thompson, Plainfield, S34.80-S10, overweight. Joseph Bennett, St.

Clair, overweight. Joe A. Taylor, Owings Mills, overweight. Grover W. Wheeler, Webster City, Iowa, overweight.

Daniel A. Dandurand, Omaha, forfeited $100 bond on a charge of hauling interstate without authority. Rodney B. Poppe, Marengo, improper passing. Earl C.

Dempsey, 924 First speeding. Ronald R. Frye, Amboy, mufflers. Joseph D. Dean, Mendota, speeding.

Donald L. Lane, Morrison, $10-85. speeding. Keithra Banning, Rochelle, speeding. John F.

Fritts, Rt. 3, disobeyed traffic signal. Peter J. Michaels, St. Charles, speeding.

Gearld Eisenberg, Amboy, speeding. Marvin B. Heppler, 1114 Fourth one dealer plate displayed. (Continued from Page I) Harbor, the school is standing but the village it was supposed to serve is gone. Transportation facilities are getting emergency repairs.

Henry Roloff, state commissioner of economic development and planning, said the government-owned Alaska Railroad, the only one in the state, should be open north to Fairbanks and south to Whittier in three weeks. Klirush Visits Horse Farm BUDAPEST, Hungary Premier Khrushchev took time out today from talks with Communist leaders on the Moscow-Peking dispute and visited a stud farm in northwestern Hungary. A Foreign Office spokesman said the Soviet leader traveled by train and car to the farm at Babolna. where the famous white Lipizzaner horses are bred. After lunching at Babolna, Khrushchev was to travel to the village of Kocs for an inspection of a collective farm named for the corn grown there.

He is due back in Budapest this evening. About April 1914, Miss Glessner took a job with the Dixon Home Telephone Co. Wednesday she was honored by the company abd her fellow employes for completing 50 years of continuous service. 47 of which have been spent working nights. Martin Wandrey, manager of tfie division which includes the Dixon District, who presented Miss Gleasner with a diamond set gold pin, said, is the first award I have made for 50 years of continuous service with any of our She also received a life ship in the Independent Telephone Pioneer Assn.

Forty years contittu- ous service is the minimum required for membership in the James Radke, district manager (Rathe telephone company, said has been a very loyal and conscirn- tious employe over the years. Ste has had an outstanding record few absences from he continued. In 1914, when Miss Glessraj' started work, the telephone office was on the second floor of the Countryman Building, which njjw houses the J. C. Penney Co.

stofe. The building burned in 1916 and the telephone exchange was moved into the Schuler Building at First St. Galena now occupied by ihe L. J. Welch Co.

The present office at the conter of Second St. and Peoria wjw completed in 1917 and occupied Th 1918. She has no present plans of tiring simply because she has passed the half-century mark for years of service. Major Breakthrough in Space Living Announced ii Wet, Cloudy Across Nation Chicago Cash Grain CHICAGO (AP) No wheat, oats or soybean sales. Corn No I yellow 1.24%; No 2 yellow 1.21%; No 3 yellow 1.21%.

Soybean oil 7.90n. Chicago Livestock CHICAGO (AP) (USDA) Hogs 5.000. butchers strong to mostly 25 higher; 1-2 200-220 lh butchers 15.0015.25; mixed 1-3 190-230 lbs 14 230-250 lbs 13.75-14 50. 2-3 250-270 lbs 13.50-14 OO; 1-3 350-450 lb sows 12 5013.00 450-500 lbs 12.00-12.50; 2-3 500650 lbs 11.50-12.00. Cattle 600; hardly enough for a test; a few good ib slaughter steers 20.00-21.25; utility and commercial cows 14.25-15.50.

Sheep 200; a few sales wooled slaughter lambs steady; a half deck choice and prime 107 lb wooled slaughter lambs 24.00; a few good Chicago Produce CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Mercantile Exchange Eggs irregular; wholesale buying prices I lower to I higher; 70 per cent or better glade A whites mixed mediums standards 29; dirties checks 26. Grain Ranfre Prev. High Low Close Close WHEAT- May Jul Sep Dec Jul Sep Dec Mar May Jul Sep Dec Mar May Jul 2.03% 2.01% 2.02% 2.04 1.58% 1.57% 1.58% 1.58% 1.60% 1.59% 1.60 1.60 1.65% 1.64% 1.65% 1.64% 1.23 1.22% 1.23 1.23 1 22 1 22 1 22 1 22 1.20% 1.19% 1.20 I 20 1.23% 1.23 1.23% 1.23% 66 .64 66 .71 .64 66 66 .71 2.60% 2.59% 2.59% 2.60% 2.58% 2.56% 2 2.57% Aug 2.54 2.52% 2.53% 2.53% Sep 2.49% 2.48 2.48% 2.49% Nov 2.47% 2.56% 2.47% 2.48 Jan 2.51 2 2.50% 2.51% Mar 2.34 2.53% 2.53% 2.34 CHARLES H. PERCY CHICAGO IP Industrialist Charles IL Percy says that he doubts if Democratic Gov. Otto opposition to President farm bill will carry much weight if Mayor Richard J.

Daley Kerner, who is seeking re-election, announced last week that he opposed the controls section of the farm bill favored by President Johnson. Mayor Daley, Democratic party power, has not yet announced his views on the bill. Republican gubernatorial candidate Percy said nine months of campaigning I have come out again and again against rigid controls of agriculture, and along with fellow Republicans, I am against the Johnson farm Percy said he will work for a more prosperous agriculture, free of governmental controls. must reject the heavy hand of the federal government (that) has reached out over the corn rows to stifle the individual initiative of our farmers. must pledge ourselves to develop new programs to improve and stablize farm income, with the immediate problem being the utilization of income-depressing Licensed to Wed Lee County Clerk John FL Stouffer today announced the issuance of the following marriage licenses: Donald E.

Vincent, Sublette, and Barbara E. Sondgerath, West Brooklyn; Alan Donald Sports, Lee Center, and Linda Sue Donoho. 714 E. Main Amboy; John W. Wohrley, 619 Squires and Joyce J.

Stanley, Lincoln W'ay; Durwood B. Murdock and Charlotte E. Day, both of Ottawa; Harry A. McNight and Karen E. Downs, both of 2600 N.

Brinton and Oscar Gary Swanstrom, Deland, and Judith J. King, Ashton. By The Associated Press Wet and cloudy weather covered broad areas in the nation today and a pocket of cold air remained in sections of New England. Snow and rain mixed with snow dampened areas in the Plateau region. Fairly heavy snow was reported in some sections, including four inches in a six-hour period in Ely, Nev.

It was a little chilly throughout the region with temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Showers splashed across areas from the Ohio Valley to the central Plains. Fairly heavy rainfall was reported in parts of Missouri but amounts were light in most sections. Clear skies prevailed along the Eastern Seaboard. Temperatures were near zero in northeastern Maine and in the teens and 20s in other sections of New England.

A wanning trend was reported from the Carolinas to Iowa and north to the Canadian border. SEATTLE lip! Thirty days of confinement in a sealed chamber for five men have led to a in research into whether American astronauts can live indefinitely in the hostile environment of space. are on the threshold of Gemini Test Slated Tuesday CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. IP The long-awaited first test flight in the two-man Gemini program, an attempt to orbit an unmanned spacecraft scheduled for Tuesday. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration announcement Wednesday said major goals of the test will be to check the orbital ability of the Titan 2 rocket, spacecraft structural integrity and compatabil- itv of the rocket-capsule combination.

If the flight and a second unmanned mission scheduled for next summer are successful, two astronauts are to ride a Gemini craft on a three-orbit ride in November or December. Technical difficulties with the Titan 2 and the spacecraft have delayed the program nearly a year. Thefts in County Are Probed Today The theft of typewriters, calcula tors and adding machines from two arca businesses today is being probed by Lee County Deputy Sheriff Ronald Linscott. Sheriff John Quest said thieves entered the Alexander Lumber Co. office at Compton and the Lee County Gra il office at Lee Center overnight, taking the office equipment.

Employes of both firms reported that entry to the buildings had been gained by forcing open doors. Quest said it appears that the two burglaries were committed by the same persons. No estimate of the value of the office equipment taken has been made. Randolph Loses Elevator Driver's Permit Actions Taken SPRINGFIELD pc of Soto Charles F. Carpentier has announced action regarding the revocation or suspension of the following licenses: The license of Charles T.

Starnes, 210 W. Main, Mount Morris, was revoked for three violations in a year. Suspended for three violations in a year were the licenses of Mary C. Chris, Hotel Dixon, Leo R. Imfeld, 320 Jefferson both of Dixon; Richard J.

Snyder, Rt. I. West Brooklyn; Larry S. Cagle, 606 14th Rochelle, and Daniel R. Hartman, Rt.

2, Polo. NORFOLK, Va. IB A flight deck elevator on the carrier Randolph broke loose and fell into the ocean Wednesday night, carrying five men and an airplane with it, the Navy reported today. Three of the men were rescued by the destroyer Holder, which was performing plane guard duty for the Randolph. The two other men were listed as missing.

The accident occurred 270 miles southeast of Cape Henry Va. Immediately after the elevator broke loose there was an explosion, followed by fire that engulfed the starboard side of the ship, a Navy spokesman said. He said the flames were put out in IO minutes. The Randolph did oat give the cause of the explosion or the extent of damage to the ship, the spokesman added. The names of the missing men, as well as those of the rescued men, were withheld temporarily.

Securities Taken NEW YORK lf! More than a quarter-million dollars worth of negotiable securities disappeared today after delivery to a pier for shipment to a Swiss bank on an ocean liner, authoriUei reported. Radio Club To Meet Saturday The band radio club will hold a meeting Saturday at 7 p.m., in the American Legion Hall. The club had previously announced meetings would be held in the Moose Club. A spokesman for the club said the newly organized group is anxious to have interested persons meet with the club. Fliers Continue CAIRO IB Mrs.

Jerrie Mock of Columbus, Ohio, attempting a global solo flight in a single-engine plane, arrived in Cairo Wednesday from Libya. Joan A. Merrian of Long Beach, on a similar venture, landed Tuesday night at Belem, Brazil. Dedication Is Postponed The dedication of the Schnell memorial at the Dixon Municipal Airport, scheduled for Sunday, has been cancelled, according to Vernon Near, president of the Dixon Pilots Assn. Card of Thanks We take this opportunity to thank our relatives and friends for the many acts of kindness shown us during our stay at K.S.B.

hospital and for prayers, cards and gifts. Thanks to Dr. Murphy; to our special nurses, Mrs. Funk, Mrs. Mann and Mrs.

Castle; the hospital staff; the diet kitchen (the food was delicious); to our good friend, Mike Coffey, and the priests from St. and St. We want to sincerely say, you. one and Howard and Florence Woody art Traditional April Rains Hit State CHICAGO IB April distributed the traditional showers in Illinois today. There were thundershowers also as temperatures rose to comfortably mild 50s and 60s.

It was cloudy over most of the state much of the day. The rain moved generally northeastward. reaching Belleville, Quincy and Springfield early rn the day. Springfield recorded .62 inch by 6 a m. and Quincy about one-third of an inch.

Nighttime temperatures were mild, mostly in the low 40s. with low marks in the lower 50s in Southern Illinois. high readings ranged from 45 at Rockford to 57 at Belleville. ing able to sustain men In space for as long as we said Dr. Eugene B.

Konecci, director biotechnology and human research for the National Aeronautics Space office of advanced research and technology after the men emerged. basic principles and ted)- niques of life-support systems have been proved workable and sound. Now we refine and advance he said. are already looking and preparing far Refinements and further advancements are needed, but the basic principles and techniques for survival outside the atmosphere were found to be sound. NASA, which contracted with tho Boeing Co.

for the test, called it major When the men emerged front their cramped quarters Wednesday first thoughts were for wives, and food, in that order. Since March 2 they had lived, slept and eaten under space conditions, except for weightlessness, in a windowless, L-shaped chamber. The air they breathed was constantly restored by a chemical. they drank and washed with was Reclaimed from body sink drawings and condensations. Food was freeze-fried and restored by adding water.

Happy Birthday. To Carl Johnson, todav. mm. JA (Arrangements AT ROCK FALLS CHAPEL WHATEVER THE SAY IT BETTER" FLOWERS DIXON ILLINOIS Mrs. Edith 1303 Ave.

A Rock Falls, 111. Services 1:30 P.M. Friday Rock Falls Chapel Mr. William Burger 632 Coloma Court Services 8:00 P.M. Friday Rock Falls Chapel Allen Funeral Homes E.

Fellows, Dixon 505 First Ave. Sterling 804 First Rock Falls.

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