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I i i 1 10 77 i ij I14 i Ul a. A- Discuss FuJuro Of Ccunly Fcir Worn in Private 7ar WUhUSMC EVANSTON, El. LP) Pvt. Peter H. Green's own war with the Marine Corps has ended.

The professed conscientious ob E5CC'i2-Bi lilCliiCuOO CHICAGO.Cf About 350 girl DiiDil were evacuated from the Sc-nlc-ncev' Iirtcntunipf Cose NEW YORK Wl Newspaper columnist Marie Torre surrendered today to begin serving a 10-day jail sentence rather than disclose a news source. Ernast R. Ruster Dies in Indiana Richards Vocational High School'pm. in the old Charleston Chahv ftoday when smoke began pourlng.hef of Commerce accord- Accomplishments In Mattoon's road building program during the past year and future road build ing. plans for Mattoon and area were reviewed at the Rotary Club luncheon today In Hotel U.

6 Grant by Ernest Lorenz, city street commissioner. Lorenz noted that existing streets can be widened with little trouble Ernest Loreni "The widening, of 19th street was merely the first in the street widening program," he be tan. "Two blocks on west DeWitt, from 19th to 21st, will be widened In 1959." Lorenz explained that when the traffic count lnreases sufficiently the balance of west DeWitt 4 to! 33rd St. will be widened to four lanes. "In the future," Lorenz continuedeastDeWibt, from the Illinois Central bridge to the city limits, wlU be handled in the same manner, This year a section of the new Route 17, from 6th St.

to the Ler-na Road, will be pave by the state and federal government out of funds provided entirely from the "Urban-Rural program, he explained. This means that the will not have to use Its motor fuel tax funds for this road," Lor enz asserted, Pi jector has accepted a bad con duct discharge from the corps, has left Camp Elliott, Calif, arid Is returning to the home of his parents In Evanston. Green was released from six months in the brig at Camp Elli ott last Wednesday and at that time, according to his father, Harold E. Green, he was given 30 days either to accept a bad eon-' duot discharge or carry his case to a military court of appeals. The elder Green said Peter was told that if he appealed without accepting the discharge he would face another, nine or 10 months confinement and that If he should appeal and win, the Marine Corps then would order another court martial.

The younger Green has been In eouble with- the corps 7 almost corps from the time of hjs enlistment in 1956. Shortly thereafter he sought release from service as a conscien tious objector and was brought before a military court after ha issued ft series of statements to the press about his predicament. At that court martial last May, he was found guilty of bringing discredit on the corps, of being disrespectful to an officer and of wrongful. possession of an Identification card. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but the camp com mander and a Navy board of re-; view cut the sentence to slH months.

Wittenberg Jury CHARLESTON, 111. Selection- of a jury the Charles Witten berg trial was under way early this afternoon in Coles County Circuit Court. The 19-year-old Mattoon youth Is Being Selected 'Between- of MrRuster. are IP.in In cen'y of ITmoWe "aucl.e"laf" Ernest Raymond Ruster, 70, a native of Mattoon, died at his home in Indianapolis, Sunday at 3 a. m.

after a long Illness from a heart ailment. Funeral services will be held in the Royster and Eskln funeral home in Indianapolis, at 10 a. Tuesday, and the body will be brought overland to the Peers fu neral home in this city, where friends may call Tuesday evening after 6. Services will be held in the Peers home Wednesday at 2 p. m.J with the Rev.

George V. Herrickj officiating and burial will be ini Dodge Grove cemetery. Mr. Ruster was born in Mattoon Feb. 22, 1883.

He was employed by the Big Four Railroad Sept. 1, 1906 and remained with the railroad, now the New York Central until his retirement as a signal main talner, Dec. 31, 1955, completing 50 years in that department. He was transferred to Indianapolis more than 30 years ago. He married Miss Mattie Newman in Mattoon Jan.

18, 1912, and she died Nov. 10, 1921. A son, Richard, born of that union, died July 14, 1924. On June 17, 1923, in Mattoon he married Miss Florence Grone- meier of this city, who survives, Other survivors are a brother, Alfred M. Ruster, and three sisters, Miss Mamie A.

Ruster, Mrs. Bertha Nichols and Mrs. Bess Kra mer, all of Mattoon, and a number of nieces and nephews Mr. Ruster was a member of the Washington Heights Methodist Church of Indianapolis, the Ever green Masonic Lodge In that city and the Mattoon Order of Moose. For 33 years he served as financial secretary of the Broth erhood of Railway Signalmen.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Preston, brother-in-law, and sister of Mrs. Ruster, went to Indianapolis, Sun day and Mr. and Mrs.

Myron Ruster of Cleveland, nephew and faff Mattoon for the services here. Hold Funeral Rites For Fred Linihart- Funeral services were held Sat urday at 2 pjn. the Mitchell Jerdari funeral home for Fred Martin Linkhart, 63, a Mattoon barber of near Gays, who died Wednesday. Rev. William M.

Stanley offi ciated. Mrs. Carroll Paris sang "The Old, Rugged Cross" and "Suddenly There's a Valley," accompanied by Mrs. Cecil Barrow, Pallbearers were Donald Bor- Verless' Coffey, John Lawyer, Lawrence Montgomery, Raymond Watklns and James O. VanBlari-cum.

Burial was in Ash Grove cemetery, south of Gays. PoliceXourt News iniwiiiiiniii Today Jack Dyer, 30, Rural Route 2. paid fines of $3 for illegal parking and $5 for leaving a run ning motor vehicle unattended. 8cott Young, Gays, today paid fines of $3 for illegal parking and! $5 for leaving keys in the ignition of an automobile. Injured in Fall Glen Garren, 59, Illinois Hotel is in Memorial Hospital face cuts and a skull fracture.

Police said he apparently was injured ac cidentally in a fall at Geno's Club Saturday afternoon. Among the Sick I William B. Hamel Jr, of, the Journal-Gazette advertising staff is recuperating, at his home, 225 Circle Dr following several days' illness with bronchitis. BIRTHS To Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Martin, toanville, in a hospital there Dec. 18, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. John Ingram, Sr, Jewett, are the maternal grandparents.

To Mr. and Mrs. James Organ, 506 S. 32nd, in Memorial Hospital today, a son. To Ms.

and Mrs. William E. Miller, Areola, in Memorial Hospital Sunday, a daughter. To Mr, and Mrs. Edward E.

Ethlngton, 2304 Cbaflestoni lnj Memorial Hospital Sunday, a daughter. -To Mr. and MrsrPerullock, 1304 Southlawn, in Memorial 1 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados fl Officials here announced the gon dola of the British balloon Small World arrived today at the Crane Hotel beach on the southeast coast of this Island. There were no immediate details. Nothing had been heard from the balloon for 19 days.

The Small World, with a crew of four three men and a woman left the Canary Islands Dec. 12 for aa attempt at a wind-pro pelled crossing of the Atlantic. Barbados was the target. Its radio had been silent since Dec. 17.

An earlier report, Just before Christmas, had the balloon in Venezuela, but that report proved to be a hoax. Sweep Thief OffHisFeet LOUISVILLE, Ky, Ut-A would- be holdup man was swept of -his feet The bandit entered a liquor store and pointed a gun at manager Sal Waldman. Waldman, 67r grabbed a broom and started pushing the man out of the store. Janitor Clinton Cal-bert came from a back room and helped. Waldman and Calbert wrestled the gunman, Identified by police as Charles Ray Booth, 31, to the sidewalk," tut him with his own gun, and held him until police arrived.

Booth was charged with armed assault with Intent to rob. Mau Wife Hurt In Jasper Fire NEWTON, HI. A farm couple suffered serious burns lnj an early morning fire that destroyed their frame home near Bogota, southwest of Newton in Jasper County. Leo Dlmel, 46, and his Jhey room window to escape flames The temperature was -10. The couple was in St Anthonys Hospital in Effingham suffering bums, exposure and shock.

Cause of the fire was not known. Another Jasper County couple and their infant son were treated In Richland Memorial Hospital. Olney, for carbon monoxide inhalation. Peter Amone of Willow Hill said his wife and son were overcome by fumes from a gas heater with a closed vent. Arnone awoke in time to revive them.

Fire Threatens Missouri Town HOLLIDAY, Mo. (J) Flames destroyed the post office and a grocery store and threatened the entire business district of this Monroe County town early today on one of the coldest days of the year. Three' other buildings were damaged. The fire was discovered about 5 ajn. and was brought under con trol some three hours later by the Paris and Madison fire depart ments.

Holllday, with a population of 80, Is about one mile north of Highway 24 and about 16 miles eastofMoberly, Mo. Mrs. Mabel Witters Dies al Charleston CHARLESTON, IU.Mra. Mabel K. Witters, 58.

Charleston, died about a. m. Sunday in Commun lty Hospital, sne.suiiered a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been in ill health several years and had undergone surgery early last week. Services will be Tuesday at 2 m.

in the Harper Swlckard funer al home. Burial will be In Mound cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p. m. today Mrs.

Witters was born Oct. 16, 1900, in Charleston, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lanman. She married Elmer O.

Witters in Charleston June 2. 1920. He pre ceded her In Surviving are her mother, two daughters, Mrs. Tommy Thomason and Mrs. Jack Coartney, both of Charleston; three sisters, Mrs.

Mil dred Knapp, Milwaukee, Mrs. Margaret Weemer, Inglewood, and Mrs. Mary Rademaker, Peoria; three brothers, Leo Lan man, Marlon; Roy Lanman and Jack Lanman, Charleston, and five grandchildren. Mrs. Witters was a of the.

Unity Chapel Church. Ask Route Change WASHINGTON IThtt Illinois Terminal Railroad today asked the Interstate Cormmeree. Comnus Ion for authority to change its train service route between Grand view slnd Decatur. The com pany proposes to abandon about 45 miles of its track and obtain op eratlng rights over the parallel Wabash line. The plan involves construction of connections at PioniPuyid WASHINGTON (J) About 000 of American Airline's 22,000 employes were furloughed today as efforts continued to settle a 17-day strike by pilots.

Progress was reported, in nar rowing issues between the airline and striking members of the Air Line Pilots when ft media tion session broke up early today. Another meeting was scheduled for 10:30 ajn. American bad announced in ad vance that the furlough order tak log the employes off the payroll would become effective at mid night Sunday night the strike was not settled. Employes kept on the payroll are Jn maintenance and protective class ifications. Leverett Edwards, chairman of uie national Mediation said he' would try.

to keep the negotiations going until a settlement is reached. The sessions are being' held in his office here. Amerloan is the nation's largest domestic airline from the standpoint of passenger miles flown. Jt normally carries an average of 22,000 passengers dally, serving 77 cities In the United States, Canada and, Mexico, About 1300 of the airline's pilots walked out In a demand for more pay and fewer hours of flying time on the new jet airlines the carrier plans to put Into service soon. Native of Etna Dies at Tuscola lowlal' iht Jaurntl Qtuwnt TUSCOLA, 111.

Mrs. Florence B. Wilmeth, 64, a licensed practl cal nurse of Tuscola, died Sunday at 2:45 a. m. In Jarman Hospital where she had been a patient for two weeks.

Services will be Tuesday at 1 p. m. in the Waddlngton funeral home and burial will be in the Tus cola cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 m. today.

July. 9 Ham Lewis and Elizabeth Sea man Brannan. She rriarrled Charles S. Wilmeth in Vandalia Dec. 2, He died years ago.

She had lived in ft farm home southeast of Tuscola since her marriage Mrs. Wilmeth was graduated from the Evanston School of Prac tlcal Nursing and had worked at St. Frances Hospital. Evanston; Carle Hospital, Urbana; Cole Hos pital, Champaign; and before her illness at Jarman Hospital. She leaves her mother, Mrs Brannan, Tuscola; a daughter, Mrs.

Kate W. BurriirTuscola; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Jolley. Tuscola, and Mrs. Lottie Warnes, Wlnnetka; and numerous cousins in Mattoon and area.

Rites Set Wednesday For Ef finqham Doctor EFFINGHAM. HI. The Rev. Fr. Jerome Hartmann will of ft-, elate at funeral services and burial of his brother.

Dr. Richard A. Hartmann, 35, Effingham phy- siciarirednestey-Tin--ChieagOr A Requiem High Mass was sung today at 9 a.m. in St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Effingham, for Dr.

Hartmann by Rev. Hartmann. Dr. Hartmann drowned Hew Year's Day in ft Hollywood, motel swimming pool. The Bauerf uneral home, Ef fingham, Is In charge.

Automobile Damaged By Fire Today Fire caused about $200 damage to an automobile at 11 :25 ajn. today at the home of Lew Harris, 1021 S. 17 th. Firemen said the carburetor ap parently flooded and gasoline was Ignited by the. motor.

Hoses, wiring and paint were heavily damaged and the burning car was pulled out of the garage. There was slight damage to the building. FUNERALS S1LVERSTEIN. Rachel: Entered into rest Saturday. Funeral services will- be held at 1:30 Tuesday at the funeral home, Rabbi Leo Turltz officiating.

Interment in Dodsie Grove cem etery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening after 5. SCHILLINGS LANDRUS, Henry Wilson: Enter ed Into rest Sunday mornincr in Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the funeral home. Rev.

A. F. Hollo-way of Interment In may call at the funeral name after JS this evening. SCHILLINGS IN MEMORY, Of my son, William Elbert Davis, who died fifteen years aw Island. XjOUXS R.

DAVIS CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our friends and neighbors for the beautiful flowers, cards and their kind expressions ofsvmpathy. MRS. JOHN M. TRACY ivn I AMI MaM plans for the Coles County fair will be discussed at the annual fair association stock holders meeting Jan. 13 at 1:30 iwovn n.

oiituiwu, ccre- li n-ui r. Blackford, In the secmary'san 'nual report, lists the associations loss for. 1958 as $8,021.49. This, added to, our previous indebted- iDeas, puts us In the red $33,394.32, he reports. i Blackford said there "seem to be only two.

alternatives, either re-organize under a new corpor ation and raise the $33,394.32, or discontinue our county fair and sell the entire plant and pay off our debt. Our fairground, con sitting of about 32 acres, is worth more than our indebtedness." Directors, at their summer meetings, have decided to hold at least one more fair, In 1959, Black ford said. In concluding his report, Black ford announced that there will ohanges of classes in this year's fair. "In an attempt to chance the fair into a bitr ODen junior show, directors will work with 4-H clubs and Future Farm ers of America groups. Directors feel this will stimulate more pub lic interest, Field Purchases Chicago Paper CHICAGO Ufl Controlling in terest In the 83-year-old Chicago Daily News, an afternoon paper, today was sold to Field Enterprises, Inc." Field Enterprises, headed by Marshall Field also publishes the Chicago Sun-Times, a morning, evening and Sunday paper.

Announcement of the transac tion was made jointly by John 8. Knight, editor and publisher of the News since 1944, and Field. The News stock was sold at $50 a share. Knight Newspapers, members tives "and I emplVyesTield mo than 75 per cent of the 48U93 shares outstanding. Field said the same offer of $50 a share is be ing made to minority stockholders.

Field, 42, the sixth publisher in News history, said it will be eon tlnued as "a distinct and inde pendent newspaper." There are no plains for changes In person nel, and the executive staff Is be ing asked to continue In charge of the News. Files $25,000 Suit Against Hospital Trial has been set for Jan. 12 in city eottrt for a $25,000 damage suit Mattoon Memorial Hospital by a former patient. She Is Mrs. J.

H. 84, of-1404 RtehmondrWho-claims she suffered permanent injuries when she fell out of bed at the hospital Sept. 16, 1957. She charges the hospital with neglect leaving her unattended and failing to put up bed rails or other protective devices. The woman, now bedfast at home," had entered the hospital for of a virus infection and other ailments.

She has only one leg and was recuperating from a hip fracture when she entered the hospital', according to mem bers of her family. Mrs. VanDeren Is represented by Kenneth Green, Mattoon attorney, and the hospital, a corporation, is represented by Jack E. Horsley, an attorney with Craig 6c Craig. Mrs.

Brady Hostess To Trilla HB Unit TRILLA, 111. The Trilla unit of the Home Bureau met Friday at the home of Mrs. Clark Brady with the meeting called to order by the president; Mrs. Robert Strohl. Mrs.

Carl Brady led the group in singing "Auld Lang Syne." Mrs Lawrence Brady gave the, secretary's report." Mrs. Dallas Brown gave the treasurer's report. Mrs. Joe Yackle, a guest from Mattoon, presented a lesson on "Social Security." Mrs. C.D.

Strohl gave -a short feature on the use of canned soups. Mrs. Ronald Gross passed out recreation sheets and gave the background on the writer of "Auld Lang Syne," Robert Burns. Secret Pal giftswere exchanged and refEeshments. were, served.

The next meeting will be in the home of Mrs. Ed Hackley. Others present were Mrs. M. W.

Barger, Mrs. Sam, Gordon. Mrs. Harold Moritz, Mrs; Joe Boruff, Mrs. Claude Mrs.

Ralph Davis, Mrs. Billy Morgan, ''Mrs. William Morton, Mrs. Charles Post, Ronnie and Steve Brady, Ronda and Venita Gross, Ricky, CcMleandamls'Staoruandl Janet and Barbara Brady. The "harvest moon" is the full inoon occurring nearest to the autumnal equinox, Sept.

23. Mis mm si rvi misth.i- two young children, writes a syndicated television and radio column for the New York, Herald Tribune. She" appeared before. S. DSst.

Judge Sylvester J. Ryan and was remanded to custody of a marshal at 10:05 a. m. "I have great hope that this action will lead to legislation which --I will protect a newsman's sources," she told reporters as she arrived at the courthouse. Ryan had' found Miss' Torre in contempt for refusing to- disclose the source of a story she wrote in 1957 concerning movie star Judy Garland.

Ryan has said that the columnist again may be adjudged in con tempteven after completing her; sentenceIf she persists in refus- ingi-to identify the Columbia Broadcasting System executive she quoted anonymously in reference to Miss Garland in a column that appeared In the Tribune Jan. 10, 1957, In it, Miss Torre quoted an executive of CBS In criticism of Miss Garland. The entertainer filed -a $1,393, 333 libel suit against CBS. Neither Miss Torre nor the Herald Tribune was named as a defendant. Treated for Scalp Cuts John Abbott1410 N.

10th, was treated for scalp cut Saturday. Police said several stitches were required to clce-4vounds Inflicted by his wife, Ethel, who struck him with a poker. Hospital Notes Waiting hour to 4 and to I tally. One pint of Red Cross blood used Sunday. Admitted Today.

Mrs. Juanita Ford, Effingham. Sunday, Michael Wayne" son of Mr. and Mrs. Lane Roberts, 801 Richmond.

Paul E. Taylor, 805 Lincoln. Mrs. Howard T. Livingston, Rural Route 2.

Frank E. Prahl, Gays. Mrs. Cora Eaton, 2417 Broadway Howard Max Stites, 308 DeWitt Mrs. Ralph Waldrop, Tuscola.

Robert Ingram, Lerna. Mrs. Cora M. Lashbrook, Martinsville. Z1 Steven Jay Hatful, son of Mr.

and Mrs. N. C. Hatflll, 624 Dakota. Bradley Craig Carman, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer L. Carman, 1308 N. 11th. Kent Aaron Brown, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Bob E. Brown, Toledo. Mrs. Lyle L.

Myers, Spencer Trailer Court. Mrs. C. E. Baker 2915 Commercial.

Admitted 3atnrday. Jesse G. Garren, Illinois Hotel. Brenda Gail Craig, daughter of A2C ahd Mrs. Robert Craig, '309 DeWitt.

Mrs. Flora Rathe, 709 Wabash. Mrs. Maye L. Beals, 1.521 Mar- shall.

Frank E. Bainum, Ward Wilson's Trailed Court. Henry Marion Helm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Helm, Humboldt, Mrs.

Joseph D. Daley. 1813 Champaign. Released Sunday. Mrs.

Jerry Bragg and son, Sullivan. Mrs. Honey Conet, 2011 Broadway. Mrs. Virgil L.

Eveland and son, 1413 Champaign, -v- Ronald Lee French, son of Mr. and Mrs. William French. Rebecca Ann Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James Bailey, 201 Woodlawn. Estol H. Fultz, 3327 Moultrie. Mrs. Ralph Scales and daughter, Toledo.

Mrs. WUliam G. Shirley, Humboldt. rr; Mrs. A.

Piatt and daughter, 2611 Champaign. Cherryll Dee Smith, daughter of Mr. and Charles A. Lerna, Laverne Richard Stodden, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Stodden, Ef fingham. Miss Carol E. Tolle, 2900 Western. John A. Trueblood, Rural Route Released Saturday.

John Edward Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Arthur, 2213 Marlon. Kfrs.

George R. Earnett and son, 1008 N. 13th. John Bedwell-; 508 Richmond. David E.

Carson, 1 Country Gar dens. Mrs. Lloyd Farrell, 7A Veterans Court. Mrs, Artjiur Jones. Shelbyvllle.

Carol Jean Klngery, daughter of and Mrs. Frank J. Kingeryjm Richmond. James: Raymond Lang, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Lang. 720 Edgar, A W. Lockhart, 212 N. 10th. Mrs, Wayne C.

Moffett, 521 Ok- Susan M. Schwerman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F.

Schwer man, Windsor. Richard O. Wiese, Brocton. Mrs. Nellie Young, 2708 Rich mond.

IrOtn a wau.1 All the girls marched out of the three-story building at 2535 S.l Green after a janitor noticed smoke coming from a wall near the school lunchroom and sounded an alarm. Firemen ripped out the 'wall to determine the source of the smoke. Firemen blamed faulty Insulation under a gas stove for the fire and Heat from the stove started the floor burning. The fire spread between the floor and the walls near the stove. A second school fire today caused an estimated $50,000 damages to the school and gymnasium of St.

Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church and School on the Northwest Side." The blaze erupted about 3:30 aon. i The two-storv buildirw the school and gymnasium at 5680, Oanfleld was burned out. Cause of the fire" was not Immediately determined. The Rev. Walter Puehrdanz, 35, pastor of Paul's, estimated the He said about 170 chil dren were to, resume classes today after the Christmas holiday.

Henry Landrus Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 pnvlnJhe Schilling funeral home for Henry Wilson Landrus, 71, of 721 21st, retired! street department employe who died Sunday at 6:30 a. m. in Me mortal Hospital. A. F.

Holloway will officiate and burial win be in Dodge Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today after 5 p. m. Mr. Landrus had been hospital ized for four weeks.

He had lived in Mattoon 55 years. He was bora June 11, 1887, In Cumberland County, a son of. L.I In 1907 he Addle McKib-ben. She died in 1919. He married Mrs.

Ella Updike in 1925 and she died In 1957: Mr. Landrus leaves' four chil dren of his first marriage, Mrs John Mattoon; Mrs. Kenneth Def enbaugh, Rural Route D. L. Landrus and Mrs.

Harold LundV, both of Jacksonville; a daughter of his second marriage, Mrs. Marvin Rlckett, Mattoon; one stepson, Seville Updike, Mattoon a sister, Mrs. Frank Moutray, Mat toon; half brother, Frank Charleston; seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. MARKETS January 5, 1959 Mattoon Livestock Hogs 25-75 higher. 190-210 lb.

17.25. 210-220 lb." 17.00. 220-250 lb. 16.25-17.00. 250-300 lb.

15.00- I6157Roughhogs 11.25-14.50. Mattoon Dairy Market Butterf at, Grade 2 per lb. 41c Butterfat per lb. 44r Mattoon Poultry Market Hens, lb. 8c Hens, lb.

10c Cocks, lb, 8o Eggs: large, 30; mediums, 27; base price, 20. Mattoon Grain Market Soybeans $2.08 Corn I' $104 Oats .61 Chicago Produce CHICAGO Iff) Chicago Mer cantile Exchange Butter about steady; receipts whole sale buying prices to higher; 93 score AA 57 Vis '92 A 57; 90, 57; 89 56; cars 90 57V4; 89 Wi. Eggs steady; receipts wholesale buying prices unchanged; 70 per cent or better grade Af whites 35 Vi; mixed 35 mediums 34 Vi standards 35; dirties 32; checks 31 Vi; current receipts unquoted, Indianapolis Livestock INDIANAPOLIS MP) USDA Hogs 5.500; aotive, higher; 1-3 mixed 180-240 lb. 17.50-, 18.25; several head more uniform 190-225 lb. 1-2 18.25-40; 33 head 215 lb.

18.50; 240-270 lb. 17.00-17.50; 270-300 lb. 16.50-17.00; few 300-330 16.00-1850; sows 25Q-350 lb. steady to strong at 15.00-15.75; 375-600 lb, steady to 50 higher at 13.75-15.00. Cattle calves 100.

steers a.nd heifers fairly. aotive, fully steady; Instances strong to 25 50 higher on choice steers scaling 1,050 lb. and tpwn; good and low choice yearling steers 27.50-28.00; heifers 25.00-26.50; cows activetrong to 50 higher: utility and commercial cows 18.00-20.00 canner and cutters 14.00- 18.50Tealer?r'actlyer50-l4)O high er at 31.00-38.00. Sheep 100; 1 receipts mostly wooled slaughter lambs, fairly active, steady at 18.00-20.00; slaugh ter ewes nominal. Dies Here Sunday "toorr 8T on fcWlVtwob be constructed, one crossing the Nickel Plate railroad and the oth er crossing Riley Creek near the Nickel Plate railroad.

The section of Route 17 from the Nickel Plate to Lincoln t. in Charleston will alao be paved In 1959," he said. Lorenz noted that the state highway office la Paris hopes to have the entire road finished In 1961. The new TJ. S.

Route 4, paral-j leling U. S. Route 45, from Chicago to the south, will begin this year with land acquisition. In 1960 the three winter-changes, crossing U. S.

45 five miles south of Mattoon, crossing Route 17 east of American Brass and crossing Route 16, will be constructed. "According to Tom Kennedy of the Paris High ty office," Lorenz 6tated, "It Isj estimated Route 4 will not be completed for another five to 10 years." Lorenz listed the following roads to be constructed this the Lake Road from the Zion Church; south. jrfLak? Jara-ellse, one and a half miles south to the road leading out of Etna; repair nd blacktopping of N. 33rd from nVesTenTt6I5eWiU, and possibly north to the beginning of the new pavement1 on 33rd; repair and i resurfacing of the section from Prairie south one half block to the New York Central railroad, and replacement of sidewalks this section; and construction of 6th Oklahoma to Marion, including a new bridge at 6th and the Klckapoo Drainage ditch. "The projects on N.

33rd Prairie and 6th St. will be constructed from motor fuel tax funds," Lorenz revealed. He said the 33rd St. project is a cooperative effort with county officials. "The unpaved section of S.

14th and S. 9th from Marshall to Rudy, are under consideration-by the city council, and this project might be started this year or possibly in I960," he said. -Lorenz displayed maps showing Mattoon's traffic count. He explained that the greatest conceii- tration of traffic is the Charleston Avenue bridge. Within a regular 24-hour 17,000 vehicles cross this bridge, he said.

This figure, and others he listed were taken from a 1956 report by the State Highway Division of Research and Planning. special guest was Mayor Morgan Phipps. Other guests, introduced Orville P. Schooh, were James A. Warren; Clayton' Guyette, N( York, N.Y.; Robert Swope, and A.

Nlccum, Effingham; and Rod at Mattoon High School. W. H. Maim read an article, "Making a Living, or Making a Life." from the Rotary magazine. A report, on a local projeot, where Rotarians try to reform, was presented by Walter M.

Miller. First Baptist church in America was founded at Providence, R.I., in 1683. arrested Aug. 18 after being car-ried unconscious from his horns following a tear gas siege by po lice. Earlier today Judge John F.

Spivey denied a motion to suppress evidence which was filed by Wittenberg's attorneys. i Wittenberg, a former mental- patient, is accused of stealing a 195T auto from an agency jn Mat-' toon. He has been in. Coles County jail since Oct. 28.

Prior to that hs underwent psychiatric tests in the Cook County jail hospital, Chicago. Funeral Kites Today For Louis Davifo Funeral services were held to day at 1:30 p. m. In the Davis fu- neral home, Nokomls, for Louis Davito, 72, Nokomls, who died Sat urday morning at his home. He was the father of Mrs.

Lena Davidson and Mrs. Margaret Duncan, both of Mattoon. Burial was in Nokomls cemetery, Mr. Davito also leaves two sons. Louis and Dominic, both of Joliet; brother, Joe, Nokomls; nd a sister, Mrs.

Madllene Parola, Taylor Springs. City Court Records Forty-seven divorces were ed in city court last year. A total of 91 cases were filed, Including 70 divorce, two annulment and three separate-maintenance suits. There were 16 -civil suits filed. FUNERAL RUSTER, Ernest Funeral party arrlvin? overland rrom Indianapolis Tuesday at 5 o'clock.

Visitation after 6 tun. In funeral home. Services Wednesday at 2 pjn. in funeral home. Dr.

Georire V. Herrick officiating. Interment in Dodjrf Grove cemetery. PEERS 2 I. may snabr you to near with N0TH- Hesrlna Aid, ideal for conductive and many moderate Phono AD 6-5779 W.MOIscn Local Representative Mattoon, Illinois Beltbne Hearing' Service 327 North Clckory Champaign, IUlnois vr Hos-fMr.

pital Sunday, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. 608 DeWibt, In Memorial Hospital Sunday, a son.

To Mr. and Mans. Lowell Sparks, 500 Charleston, In Memorial Hos- oital 6aturdayra -eon. To Mr- and Mrs. William H.

Williams, Greenup, Memorial Hospital Saturday, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Richard 2611 Champaign, in Memorial Hospital Saturday, a daughter. Starne and I..