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ixon vening elegraph Page 4 Serving the Heart of Rock River Valley tor Mote Than a Century Saturday, February 23, 1963 Kenneclys Continue Relaxation Deaths and Funerals Mrs. Blanche Crouse HINSDALE Mrs. Blanche Roe PALM BEACH. Fla. Presi- Crouse.

84, a native of Ogle County, dent and Mrs. Kennedy continued died Thursday in a Hinsdale nursing their holiday weekend of relaxation home where she had resided the past here today with little cooperation nine years. from the weather. She was bom Jan 18. 1879, in White Colder temperatures moved into Rock Township, the daughter of the arca late Friday and there was Charles and Caroline Smith Russell.

a chance of shower today. Survivors include a son. Ben Roe. The President plans to return to Prairie Village, and two grand- the capital Sunday night. I children.

Kennedy Friday issued an execu- Funeral services will be held at five order calling for annual pre- a.m. Monday in the Farrell sedation of the Medal of Freedom. I Funeral Home, with the Rev. Glenn highest civil award the president Strange, Streator, officiating. Burial can give in peacetime.

will be in Lighthouse Cemetery, Now to be known as the Presiden-I southeast of Oregon. tial Medal of Freedom, it will be given for exceptionally meritorius contributions to the security or national interests of the United States. to world peace, or to cultural or other significant or private Friends may call Sunday evening at the funeral home. Jacob Raney MOUNT MORRIS Jacob E. Kennedy set July 4.

Independence ,15 McKendne Day, as the approximate date for announcing the annual winner. Flu Racing Through Texas Cities By The Associated Press Influenza has reached near epidemic proportions in several Texas cities. The outbreaks, (Mice confined largely to the Atlantic Seaboard, continue to sweep westward. Areas rn Missouri and Michigan are hard hit, Austin, the Texas capital, had 467 flu-type cases reported in the last six days. More than IOO teachers have been sidelined by the disease.

School absenteeism in Dallas skyrocketed to 20 per cent Friday, twice that of the previous day. Dallas hospitals report a heavy run of flu cases and have stopped visitors, except for the critically ill. Two medical experts said the severe outbreak of respiratory infections in the St. Louis area is predominantly Asian flu. School officials are hopeful that the three-day vacation this weekend will halt the spread of the disease and reduce the mounting teacher and pupil absenteeism.

Dr. Charles Anderson, Detroit health commissioner, estimated that 30.000 Detroiters are suffering from viruses attacking the upper respiratory system. died Thursday in his home where he was found dead. Friday. Death was apparently due to natural causes.

He was born Sept. 13. 1885, at Mount Morris, the son of Jacob and Martha Gordon Raney. He was a lifelong resident of Mount Morris where he was engaged many years in truck farming. He was a member of the Evangelical Free Church.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Bessie Olson, and a brother. Jesse, both of Mount Morris, and a brother, John. Elgin. Funeral services will be held at 2 m.

Sunday in the Finch Funeral Home, with the Rev. Howard Beltz, pastor of the Evangelical Free Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home.

CAR SLAMS TRAIN auto, driven by Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, 33, IOO S. Main Rochelle, slammed headon a slow moving; Illinois Central Railway switch train at the intersection of Hennepin Ave. and River Friday Dixon police said Mrs. Johnson had let lier husband out of the auto at a gas station on the corner of the intersection and drove the auto into the street, making; a wide right turn as she did so.

Police said her auto hit the train head oil. Mrs. Johnson was taken to KSB Hospital where today she is in good condition. Hospital officials said she is suffering from facial and knee lacerations. Mrs.

Johnson was taken to the hospital by Allen Ambulance. She was arrested by police for careless driving. (Telegraph Photo) Betancourt Meets With Labor Heads MIAMI IP Romulo Betancourt, president of politically troubled Venezuela, meets today with top American labor leaders. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and members of the federation's Executive Council arranged the session. Betancourt arrived Friday night from New York where he went from Washington after conferences with President Kennedy and State Department officials.

The meeting with the U. S. labor loaders was reportedly aimed at bolstering Betancourt's already strong among workers in Venezuela where Communist forces have been active. ABOUT TOWN U.S. Halts Red Buses At Wall Traffic Court Donald L.

Abraham. 31. 121 Morgan Friday had his SIO bond forfeited when he failed to appear before Police Magistrate Lawrence E. Boos on a stop sign violation. He was arrested Thursday by Dixon police after officers observed that his auto failed to stop for a stop sign at the intersection of Morgan St.

and Galena Ave. Police said Abraham was eastbound on Morgan Street at the time of the incident. Weather SN OW DIXON TEMPERATURES Official high Friday 22, low today 3, 10:30 a m. 18. Precipitation (snowfall) since 7 a.m.

today, trace. Unofficial readings over past 24 Boos fined Abraham $5 and So hours ending IO a m. today: (Continued from Page I) targets, industrial and administrative-political centers of the United He said it can "destroy completely the countries which have made available their territories for American war Russell called it "blast and and said Soviet Premier decision to withdraw missiles and bombers from Cuba proved now have superior nuclear delivery Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana found nothing new- in the Soviet threats. But Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois said the Russians should be answered and indicated he might have more to say on that score later.

costs. LaVeme M. Johnson. 32, IOO S. BERLIN authorities today barred four busloads of Soviet military personnel from entering West Main Friday was fined Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie on the $5 and $5 eost5 in an Communist wall dividing the city.

fore Boos on an overtime Parking The Soviets were on their wav to Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. 18 22 15 IO a.nt. Midnight 4 a.in. 8 a.m.

22 8 4 14 KSB Hospital 13 Flee From East Germany DUDERSTADT, Germany East Germans, including a border patrolman, escaped across the mined and barricaded Iron Curtain border into West Germany near here today, police reported. They said 12 were members of two families from the East German border village of Boeseckendorf. A year and a half ago, 50 residents of this village joined forces to escape to the West. Tile border patrolman, engaged to one of the escaping girls, led the refugees over the frontier at a point he knew was free of mines. the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin for a wreath-laying ceremony on Red Army Day.

A U.S. spokesman said the buses were stopped at the request of British authorities, who had reached an agreement with the Soviets that military personnel going to the memorial would use the Sandkrug He was arrested by Dixon police Admitted: Miss Brenda McClellan. Friday after he failed to pay three Master Robert McConnaughay, Mrs. tickets issued to him for overtime Jean Potts, Dixon: Miss Roberta Van parking violations. Johnson also paid the tickets.

Lodges Meter, Nachusa; Mrs. Ulva Sallier, Milledgeville; Joseph Powell, Mt. Morris; Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, Rochelle. Discharged: Miss Brenda Dlxon Odd Fcllows Wl11 hold a reg- iaili Mrs.

Amelia Glover, Mrs. Jean Bridge checkpoint in the British sec- ldar niretinS Tuesday in the IOO? Jennings. Mrs. Wyonne Huene, Dix- tor. Hall.

The 8 p.m. meeting will be on; Miss Roberta Van Meter, Na- The British sector checkpoint pro- Precedod a 6:30 p.m. scramble ehusa; Russell Levan, Franklin vides the shortest and most direct jdmjler- route to the memorial near the Brandenburg Gate. After the four buses turned back. they drove to the Sandkrug Bridge checkpoint and were allowed to pass.

The buses were held up at the American checkpoint for more than an hour while Soviet and U.S. officials negotiated. Garage Fire In Kings MARKETS Chicago Livestock CHICAGO (AP) (L'SDA) Following is a summary of the hog. cattle and sheep markets for the week: Friday last week Interior ost Market WEEKLY REVIEW Receipts this week (est 86.600 Receipts last week (act.) ...102.100 Receipts last year (act.) 94.000 The run was primarily barrows and Grove; David Weber, Mrs. Margaret Westra, Mrs.

Esther Linboom. Mrs. Bernadine Blum, Polo; Joseph Maas, Oregon; Robert Gnssett, Grand Detour. NICE ON ICE Although not likely to cause much of a splash, water skiing on ice can be fun as witness Lynn breezing along while hooked on to a land at. Ruislip, England.

Amboy News AMBOY Calendar of meetings and events scheduled KINGS A garage fire Friday noon at the Richard Carr home. Kings, resulted in an estimated S3.OOO damage to the garage and an auto inside. The Rochelle Fire Department was at Amboy for the week of Feb. 24-March 2. called at 11:30 am.

when Carr and rim. sunday a friend found the garage on fire as Choir practice for the Lutheran they returned home from Rochelle. after purchasing auto parts for the Immanuel car they were working on inside the al a m- garage. Advanced Red Cross First Aid Firemen believed the fire was class will meet in the fire station at and gilts under 230 lbs gdts Ashing 200-250 lbs. Weights caused from an overheated coal stove 1 m- steady, over 230 lbs strong to 25 high- lbe, 250 lb.

mark made up be- which was used to heat the building Young people of the Immanuel Luer. Sows steady. Barrows and gilts: tween lo and 20 cent Wlth the while the men worked thorn Church will attend a No I and 190-no lbs 15 50-16 OO at sow Percentage at about 6 per cent me nun woikou. mom uiuun win attend a Monday 125 head reached 16.25. Barrovvs gilts closed the period A neighboring garage, belonging to rally in the Church of the Good Shep- Mixed No 1-3 190-230 lbs 15.25-1575! steady to 25 lower than the Zane AJtcnberg, was also consider-j herd, Rockford at 6:30 p.m.

mostly 15.25-15.50. 230-270 lbs 14 75- Previous Friday, with the most de- ably damaged by the flames, accord- Senior Methodist Youth Feilnwshin 15.25, No 2 and 3 260-300 lbs 14.25- cline appearing on weights under 240 to firemen 1 methodist iouth fellowship 14.85. Sows: Mixed No 1-3 320-400 lbs Lended the week slead-v 13.25-14.00 400-500 lbs 12.75-13.50, No 2o under the previous dose. 2 and 3 500-625 lbs 12 25-12 75 Thursday: No. 1-3, 190-230 lb.

od from the Kings Presbyterian barrows and gilts cleared at 14.50-: Church. Cattle Slaughter steers 50-1 OO 15.00. mostly 14.60-15.00. No. 1-2, 190- The Carr home and garage is rent- will meet in the church at 7 p.m.

lower. Least change on yearling 225 lbs. realized 15.00-15.50. No. 1-3 steers under 110 lbs.

Heifers weak to 230-250 lbs. cashed at 14.00-14.50. No. 50 lower, cows steady to 50 higher, 2-3, 250-300 lbs. brought 13.25-14.00.

bulls steady. Slaughter steers: Early Sows No. 1-2. 270-330 lbs. turned at part of the week primel 150-1400 lbs 13.25-13.75.

limited volume 13.85-14.00. 26.25-16.75. late comparable grade No. 1-3, 300-400 lbs. made 12.50-13.25.

i HiH 1100-1350 lbs 25.25-25.75. this lowest No. 2-3. 400-600 lbs. sold in a spread 7, tiading on the curb of lhe top (Mi prime since September 1961.

of 11.50-12 50. Late load prime 1406 lbs 25.00 and FEEDER PIG REPORT load high choice to mostly prime Receipts this week ......................2.200 Receipts last week 1000 lbs 25.75. Closing bulk high choice and prime 1050-1300 lbs 25.0025.50, few- 1200 lb prime 25.75, few loads 1375-1450 lbs 24.25-24.50. Bulk choice 900-1150 lbs 23.75-24.75. Comparable grade 1150-1300 lbs 23.50-24.50 and 1300-1450 lbs 23.00-23.75.

Good 9001200 lbs 22.00-23.50. Slaughter heifers: High choice and prime 900-1025 lbs 25.00-25.50, nothing over 25.00 Wednesday, bulk choice 850-1050 lbs 23.5024.75, good 22.00-23.25. Sheep Compared Friday last week Slaughter lambs and ewes mostly steady. Wooled slaughter lambs: Mostly choice 90-108 lbs 19.00, including deck fed Westerns averaging 108 lbs. few' small lots choice and prime 19.50.

Good and choice 80-100 lbs 17.50-18.75. 2,224 Receipts last year 400 Trading was active during the week, under good demand. Feeder pigs moved strong to 1.50 higher, mostly over the previous week. Following on a per head basis Choice 30-60 lbs. turned at 7.2512.00.

Choice 60-80 lbs. 12.00-14,50. Choice 80-95 lbs. cleared at 14.5017.90. Choice 95-115 lbs.

realized 17.9021 00 Pollow'ing on a per hundred Choice 115-160 lbs. brought 15.20-16.50. Choice 160-180 lbs. moved in a range of 13.30-15.40. Replacement sows and and bred sows and gilts cashed in a spread of 29.00-74 50 per head depending upon condition and breed.

CURB EXCHANGE Originally, the American Stock Exchange was known as the Curb because member brokers sidewalk. Monday Cub Scout Pack 345 will have Blue and Gold Banquet in the Central School cafeteria at 6:30 p.m. Lions Club dinner meeting in the Hall at 7 p.m. Final day for filing nominating petitions for the coming city election. Tuesday February meeting of the board of directors of the Pankhurst Memorial Library will lie held in the library.

Stated meeting of the Arbutus Chapter of will be held in the Masonic Temple at 8 p.m. Ash Wednesday Lent Begins First day for candidates to file nominating papers for the School District 272 school board election. February scramble supper and business meeting in the First Congregational Church at 6:30 p.m. Boy Scouts of Troop 62 will meet in the scout rooms at 7 p.m. Ash Wednesday Lenten service, in the Immanuel Lutheran Church at 7:30 p.m.

The newly formed Amboy Evening Unit of the Lee County Homemakers Extension Unit will meet in the Lee County Farm Bureau building. A corn clinic, for all farmers who grow corn, will be held in the Lee County Farm Bureau building at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Executive board meeting of the Blackhawk Fire Fighters Association will be held in the Lincoln Manor. Dixon. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m.

followed by a business session. Circle One of the Immanuel Lutheran Church will meet in the home of Mrs. Ken Smith at 8 p.m. Mrs. Robert Hannemann will present the lesson for the evening.

Friday Special service in observance of the World Day of Prayer will be sponsored by the Baptist, Congregational and Methodist Churches in the First Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Amboy High School basketball team will play an Illowa Conference game at Morrison. Saturday Confirmation classes of the Immanuel Lutheran Church will meet in the parsonage, the junior class at 9 a.m. and the senior group at 10:30 a m. Communicants class will meet in the First Congregational Church at IO a m.

Church membership preparatory class will meet in the first Methodist with Holy Communion, will be held Church al ll) a.m. (Continued from Page I) taking this consumer attitude lying down? The answer is no. At the meeting Thursday, several Swift officials stated that the pork industry needs a better, higher quality product. And what is being done to produce this better pork product, you again say. Better Product Plenty.

Meat packers, particularly, are concerned with the problem, because it affects them as well as the I pork producer. The meat packer is preaching, "Grow a better And farmers, for the most pail, are headed in this direction. But it has been a slow process. The change in producing a so-called animal (one which produces a high percentage of lean-meat cuts) has been difficult for the farmer to because he is slow to change, partly because the breeding stock was not available, partly because of neglect. These are pretty strong statements you say.

True, but it is true the farmer is notoriously slow to change. It usually costs money to change should the change turn to be a passing fad in consumer tastes. It is also true that several years ago only three to five per cent of the breeding stock was available. This has grown to about 30-35 per cent today. It is also true that farmers have been guilty of neglect.

Hayes pinpointed this Thursday when he asked famers at how many had often held their hogs from market when they were the right market weight, simply because there was an extra IOO bushels of com in the crib and it was simpler to throw it to the pigs rather than use it some other way. The question received a surprising show of hands. He also asked fanners how many had selected good breeding gilts for the next year. only to ship them to market when caught low on cash and then used an inferior quality (compared to the gilts he shipped) of gilts for breeding purposes. This question also received a somewhat flushed murmur of assent from the farmers present.

So you say, has not the farmer seen his error and is he not now headed in the right direction. Buys More Beef, Poultry This is true. But it is also true that! while the pork producer is changing his breeding stock to meet the in-1 creased demand for a leaner type animal. Mr. Average Consumer goes on buying more and more beef and poultry.

This means lower prices for pork, thus lower prices for pork producers. It was the opinion of Hayes at the meeting that a five year period would see a drop by one-third of the pork producers in the country. Why? Because of increased competition. The pork producer in the coming years will have to produce a quality product and yet be extremely efficient in his production because of the lower returns he will gamer from his animals. This will weed, "the men from the But all is not dismal in the pork industry.

Poultry producers for years said that they could not produce broilers for less than 29 cents a pound live weight. Hayes pointed this out at the meeting Thursday. He also said that poultry producers are making money now and are receiving only 15 cents per pound live weight. This writer is inclined to believe that the pork industry will follow in the poultry footsteps in finding more efficient production methods and improved technology to produce a quality product and still make money. the American farmer been adapting and doing this for years? Besides, the packing plants are not going to sit on the sidelines.

The meeting Thursday was just one of many, I am sure, to point out to the farmer that the consumer tastebud affects the pocketbook of the packer as well as the farmer. Exerting Pressure And what is the packer doing? exerting pressure on the farmer. for example, has been buying hogs at the Rochelle plant on a "Live basis ever since they opened. This is a method of paying a premium for hogs which will deliver a higher percentage of the four lean loins, picnics and Boston butts. Experienced graders judge hogs on the hoof which will yield the highest percentage of these animal.

This method is forcing the farmer to grow animals which will yield more lean because it affects his pocketbook. And officials mentioned Thursday another method of buying which will undoubtedly become known in years to grade and yield method of purchasing. This method pays farmers for producing meat-type animals because the animal is weighed after it is slaughtered and while it is "on the An experienced grader then places the animal in a percentage category (that is, the carcass will yield a certain DESCRIBE MIG Jackson, left, and Benjamin Washington describe in Miami, how MIG jets from Cuba flew' over their disabled fishing boat in the Florida Straits firing rockets. None of the rockets hit their craft. (AP Wirephoto) Lee GOP Letter Read Into Congressional Record A letter written by Miss Mary Jane Larson, 215 E.

Third Republican State Committeewoman for the 18th Congressional District and Lee County GOP Chairwoman, was read into the Congressional Record Feb. 14 and will be used in a newsletter sent out by the Republican National Committee. Miss Larson said she sent copies of the letter to Illinois representatives to the United States Congress, Robert Michel of the 18th distinct and John B. Anderson of the 16th district, and to William Miller, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Rep.

Anderson, according to Miss Larson, has informed her he had the letter read into the Congressional Record. Anderson said he told the House Speaker. John McCormack. he wished to recommend the letter of the entire membership of the House to. "caution against the amount to more than $4.8 million, kind of false thinking that can be The premiums paid for 20 years generated by fictitious beneficience less an average maintenance cost of of $30 per policy per year, plus the Miss Larson said reply told interest received on premium fier the letter impressed him and posits invested and less death claims would be used in material released paul would yield the company the 94 or 95 years of age, according to actual statistics produced by Miss Larson.

Sixty-two years will have elapsed between the time the individuals took out the policies and the date the last of the 3.000 died. The county chairwoman claims that during this time the company would have realized a net gain in assets of $92 million from carrying this $15 million of insurance. She maintains acturial statistians say the interest income alone would $92 million. Miss Larson says if this had been a non-profit operation, such as a government bureau, this amount would have been distributed as dividends. Thus, she argues, when the government pays dividends on GI insurance, it is not giving anybody anything but rather returning a dividend which is required by law.

And she points out. this dividend is earned from the money the ex-GI policyholder has paid in as premiums. to the press and sent to Republicans throughout the United States. In the letter. Miss Larson observes she has heard many people giving the Kennedy administration credit for the extra dividend paid to holders of National Service Life Insurance policies (G I.

insurance). She recalls that the dividends arrived on the day of the message to Congress. The GOF chairwoman points out that dividend paid on these policies was not a gratituity but rather was an obligation the government owed the ex-servicemen who hold the policies. The U.S. Government is not an insurance company she asserts, and although it docs provide some insurance services, the government may not derive any profit from rendering such services.

Thus, she argues, the government. in returning the extra dividend, was only returning earnings from the premium deposits which were above the maintenance cost of the insurance in force, and that this return is demanded by law. Miss Larson objects to the apparent credit the present Democratic administration is given for the receipt of these payments. She calls it misleading, because so many people think the government did something special for them, when iii reality, she charges, the government did only what was required of it. By illustration, she poses a hypothetical example: "If 3,000 persons at age 37 each took out a $5,000 20-pay life insurance policy, this would put $15 million dollars of insurance in Then Miss Larson asks us to assume the company writes no other insurance.

and 1 received while a patient at Hines Dixon Man To Appear Before Boos Francis J. Sheridan, 32, 903 Galena will appear before Police Magistiate Lawrence E. Boos at 4 p.m. today on a charge of disorderly conduct arid challenging a person to fight. Sheridan was arrested by Dixon police on a warrant signed by his wife.

Rita Sheridan. Sgt. Robert McCoy arrested Sheridan for the Lee County office on the disorderly conduct charge and as he did so. Sheridan offered to take McCoy outside and whip him. w'ife said he had used offensive language in front of the children and broke glasses and furniture in her home.

Card of Thanks I wish to thank all my friends and Now what happens is that these Hospital. 3.000 individuals pay the premium deposits lo keep their policies in -------force until they mature in 20 years I Charles E. Lloyd and the company invests these de -1 posits and they earn interest. These 3,000 policy holders will die at different times with the last death occuring when that policyholder is Allen FUNERAL HOME percentage of the lean cuts) by inspecting the carcass while on the rail. This date will then be punched on IBM cards and fed into electronic computers to determine prices which the farmer will receive.

In this revolutionary method which Swift officials hint may be only 30 days away at the Rochelle plant, the farmer cannot help but switch his production to growing meat-type animals because each hog is rated individually and is priced accordingly. So although the pork industry has taken a lapping the past IO years, it is bound to improve. Really, the farmer has no choice! I I i i I i I JDivon Phone 283-83811 Serving All Faiths 202 E. Fellows I.