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Mattoon JOURNAL-GAZETTE Tuesday, April 12, 1161 -II- mmu I Marcos Calls Fdr End Of Jr. College Board Gives Four Districts Autonomy Indones ian-Malaysian Rift Mattoon Area Deaths Four Fined For Liquor Girl Killed By Horse At MANILA (AP) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos called today for a foreign ministers' meeting to seek a to end Asia's other war, the Indonesian-Malaysian "confrontation." Marcos proposed a meeting of CHICAGO (AP) The Illinois Junior College Board has approved autonomy of districts at Elgin, Danville, Thornton at Harvey and Chicago. The board, at a regular session Monday, also set a public hearing for May 2 in the East Aurora High School on establishment of a Class I junior college district at Aurora for Kane, Kendall, Will, De Kalb and La Salle counties. A delegation from the pro Artie Kite EFFINGHAM, 111. Funeral services for Artie Kite, 74, of rural Effingham, will be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday at the Bauer funeral home, Effingham, with burial in Keller ions LBJ Ranch JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) The 11-year-old daughter of a Secret Service agent assigned prap ruu nv map,) i If ll if H7 "Af ill I I I I jr4 I I cemetery, Lovington. Four persons were each fined $10 and costs in Circuit Court Monday after pleading guilty to charges of illegal possession of Friends may call at the fu the foreign ministers of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines "and other Asian countries if they are interested." He said it would be fruitless for. himself President Sukarno of Indonesia and Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia to hold a- summit session posed Freeport district, embracing Stephenson, Jo Davies, Ogle neral home today. Vt I It liquor by a rtilnor.

Mr. Kite aiea at 10 a.m Monday in the Cunningham Nursing Home, Mattoon. Fined were James C. 20, of Rural Route 1, Lonnie D. Anderson, 17, of to the LBJ ranch detail was killed by a horse In a pen behind the family's Johnson City home Monday.

Nancy Knetsch, daughter of Mr. and Clarence Knetsch, was dragged to death when the horse apparently became frightened. unless the foreign ministers He is- survived by four daugh-ters, Mrs. Mildren Blickem, Charleston; Ivan Stephens, 17, could fuid Dasis for Beecher City; Mrs. Thelma of Bushton; and Judy Stephens, 16, also of Bushton.

I Steele and Mrs. Ruby Pike, both Marcos said Philippine recog of Effingham, and Mrst Helen and Carroll counties, presented its case for a Class I district to the The delegation told the board that the state's northwest sector is prepared, to undertake full authority for administration and tax financing of a junior college with adequate facilities to serve the area. The matter was taken under advisement. The next steps call for present controlling boards of the Junior colleges at Elgin, Harvey and DanvillA tn Hivoof thamoaliraa k4 A similar charge against Mahnke, Decatur; a son, Chloie, Mattoon Young People These young men and women were among Mattoon's teenage group back in 1912. The picture was taken near the present site of the Marshall Avenue Christian Church in the 2500 block of Marshall.

George W. Russell, 2620 Marion, who furnished the picture to the Journal-Gazette, said it He said the girl had tied a rope around her horse's neck and to her waist. The horse dragged the girl around the pen was taken after a church meeting. Shown in the photograph are Dennie Hamilton, Bob Romans, AdricI Walker, Harold Walker, James L. Warren, Guy Rennels, Gertrude Folowell, Doshia Anderson, Edith Watts, Helen Walker and Hazel Vandeventer.

nition of Malaysia is imminent as soon as procedural matters are resolved. A decades-old Philippine claim to Sabah Decatur; and a sister, Mrs. Imogene Ehlers, St. Louis, Mo several times and then jumped Mrs. Vivian Fortney a fence, he said.

North Borneo now part of the Malaysian Federation, led to the rupture in relations. The horse was not wearing a TUSCOLA, 111. Mrs. Vivi Sharon Anderson, 18, of Charleston, was continued until April 19 in Charleston. The charges were filed April 6 after an auto driven by Anderson was involved in a collision at 16th and Richmond.

Authorities said some of those charged admitted they had beer in the car at the time of the accident, but hid it behind a nearby house after the crash. an Marie. Fortney, 67,. of Tus In the exclusive interview, saddle when caught, the sheriff said, adding he did not know "why the girl tied the rope to their junior college authority Marco's also:" cola, Douglas County superin New Voiceo nnt tendent of the Public Aid De. 1.

Said the first elements of a and for elections of junior colleges boards. partment, died of an apparent Heart attack at home Monday In Chicago, the procedure force of Phillippine combat engineers will arrive in South Viet Nam by the end of her waist. The family makes its home here, near President Johnson's ranch, while Knetsch is assigned to the Texas White House. IIIIIIMIIIIIIIItllllllllllll MHS Events Postponed Harry E. Gaines, Mattoon High School athletic director, at 7 p.m.

calls for the Chicago Board of In Court Debut Funeral services will be! held May if Senate approval is re at 2 p.m. Thursday at the ceived this month as expected. Education to relinquish the city's Junior college administration and for Mayor Richard J. Daley to appoint a Class I board. bhrader funeral home, Areola, with burial in Areola cemetery.

NEW YORK (AP) A revolutionary device called the voiceprint that its inventor says may some day rival the finger The House of Representatives approved the force Monday night by a vote of 81-7. "I'm assured by Senate leaders the bill will pass by a pretty good margin," the president said. Besides autonomy of opera tion, the Gass I districts also Chamber To Stick With Statue Plan print as a method of criminal identification has" been accepted can qualify for special state financial benefits. announced this morning that the scheduled track meet between Mattoon and Charleston today has been postponed. Gaines also said that the scheduled baseball game with Stephen Decatur has been postponed today.

He said that both contests would be played at' a later date. The board also approved a as evidence in a perjury case. The inventor, Lawrence G. Kersta, 58, a physicist, appears petition for a Junior college in Decatur and ordered a referee- dum vote on it for May 21. nends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m.

and 7 to 9 p.m, Wednesday. Mrs. Fortney was born June 29, 1897, near Humboldt, a daughter of James W. and Ida Rennels. She married Dr.

H. Fortney, an Areola physician. He died in 1935. Mrs. Fortney is survived by four sons, M.

Areola; James and Joseph, both of Tuscola, and Dr. William Robert, of Morgantown, and a daughter, Virginia, State College, Pa; and 12 grandchildren. today in. Westchester County graphs. These measure the physical characteristics of a voice, each of which is unique, Kersta says.

"You might call it a fingerprint of a voice," the physicist said in an interview. "Right now voice prints are where fingerprints were 60 years ago, but they could easily become as valuable to police as fingerprints." Kersta's words were echoed by Samuel Dash, a law expert from Washington, D.C. "What we've got now is a whole new issue of law," Dash said. "Maybe we'll keep files of voiceprints and just think of their value in kidnaping or extortion cases." Kersta believes the voiceprint The proposed junior college Court to demonstrate how the voiceprint works. 2.

Predicted that the continuing negotiations between the Philippines and the United States on America bases here would be completed by the end of 1966. 3. Declared that the Philippines, which has outlawed communism, will not modify its present bah on trade with Red area includes 19 school districts Oil Tankers Unloading At African Ports LONDON (AP) One Greek tanker arrived at the South African port of Durban today and another sat at an unloading dock in the Mozambique port of Beira. It still was not known whether their oil cargoes would go to Rhodesia. The tanker Manuela.

carrying 12.000 tons of oil, entered the Durban port area after picking up a pilot and lay off the docks awaiting space to berth. The Manuela went on to Durban the British frigate Berwick ntercepted the Greek-regis-ered ship when it seemed Judge Robert Dempsey ruled in Macon County and parts of 10 surrounding counties. No One Hurt CHARLESTON, 111. The Charleston Chamber of Commerce intends to stick with its plans for a 62-foot-high statue of Abraham Lincoln in "living color" despite protests. James Seed, tourism director for the chamber, said Monday the chamber's board of directors "whole-heartedly" endorses building the statue, the tallest Actor.

Wife Plan Some Filipino legislators Monday that the new form of identification could be used by the state in the case of a suspended policeman from New Rochelle charged with perjury. It would be the first time that the device would be introduced as evidence in court although have urged a change in this eco nomic policy. Tour of Five Iron Curtain Nations Marcos, 48. a guerrilla hero of In Accidents Four minor traffic accidents were reported to Mattoon police Monday afternoon, none involving injuries. HOLLYWOOD (AP) Actor World War II, completed Jiis first 100 days in office April 9.

He pointed with pride to the fact that the Philippine peso is firm represents a milestone in criminology that could easily help police track down suspects in cases involving the use of tele-nhnnps Hp savs hp has suner- Edward H. Newlin GREENUP, III. Funeral services for Edward Ilarlen Newlin, 81, of Greenup, will be held at 2:30 pfm. Thursday at the Hiles funeral home here with Rev. Bob Phillips Officiating.

Burial will be in Debord cemetery near Yale. Friends may in the world of the 16th president. Seed said the statue is intended as a memorial to Lincoln, whose parents are buried near Kirk Douglas and his wife plan a person-to-person tour of five Iron Curtain nations at their er on the international moneta Vehicles driven by Cecil H. some police departments are known to be experimenting with it. Kersta, a former employe of Bell Telephone Laboratories, has developed an electronic method of converting the voice into weird-looking picture displays known as specto- vised the production of 50,000 Hosteller, 57, of Mill Creek, own expense, a spokesman for the actor says." by and "nothing more, in an Michael J.

Edmons, 18, voiceprints with 97 per cent ac ry market than at any time i since the nation got its inde-; pendence from the United States July 4, 1946. swer to a critical comment of The couple plans to visit the curacy of Rural Route 1, Gays; and Lois L. Carlyle, 38, of 1605 the project by Lincoln historian call at the funeral home this capitals of. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Dr. Charles H.

Coleman, pro- On relations, evening. Oklahoma, were involved in a collision at 1:18 p.m. in the 400 Marcos expressed delight that i fesor emeritus of history at leaded for Portuguese-held Ber-a. which has an oil pipeline to ebellious Rhodesia. The British diverted the Man-lela Sunday after a U.N.

Secu-ity Council resolution author-zed Britain to intercept tankers relieved carrying oil for the khite minority regime of Rho-lesian Prime Minister Ian imith. Eastern Illinois University Miss Flora Baled on April 15 the United States Dr. Coleman, who authored a Bulletin i book on Lincoln and his family CHARLESTON, 111. Funer in Coles County, has said he is al services for Miss Flora E. Hungary between April 17 and May 4.

Douglas will address student groups, visit hospitals and orphanages and take part in discussions on radio and television while in the Communist countries. The actor has made previous will turn back to the Philippines 61,750 acres of the big U.S. Clark Air Base which American defense authorities say are no longer needed. "appalled" at the project. Balch, 80, of Evanston, will be Kiorwoiignr The chamber announced last held at a.m.

Thursday at month it would put up the fiber the Harper-Swickard funeral Smith told a reporter in Salis-1 block of S. 18th. Police said the Carlyle auto struck the rear of the car driven by Edmons, knocking it forward into a boat trailer being towed by the Hostetler car. A car driven by Helen L. Worthington, 40, of 817 S.

17th, came to rest under a loading dock at Hulman Co. after the vehicle's brakes failed at 19th Charlestoa jt 2:24 p.m. Police said a lath fence un glass statue near the site of the Youths Held In Under Control WASHINGTON (AP) The United States notified France today that French forces stationed in Germany will lose access to U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiled there when those fourth Lincoln-Douglas deDate home here. Burial will be in Indian cemetery, east of Lema.

-Friends may call at the funeral home The statue is being construct- trips for the S. State Department to Europe, South America and the Near and Far East. Train Derailment pH bv a Minneapolis, Minn BREATHEDSVILLE, Md frpmJJo3.Q.R!roW.eaiesday... AP4A--riot by- about 400 pris Miss Balch was born Nov. 8, have been arrested for causing i ana is expecieu uc forces are withdrawn lied command.

oners at the Maryland Reform Humphrey Gives 1885, near Lerna, a daughter of here in June. der the dock was knocked over. ury the council action "seems bit of a joke." "It seems very surprising to le that a so-called peace-mak-)g body can make he said. The South African govern-lent, which sympathizes with tnith's aims and racial poli-es, has been allowing private umpanies to ship sufficient oil to supply Rhodesia's ssential needs. atory for Men was brought un Marjorie A.

Lagle, 18, of 2417 George T. and Nancy Allison Balch. She attended Eastern Il der control about 7:30 a.m. to His Suggestion day but reports from the scene ST. PAUL, Minn.

(AP) Shelby, was issued a ticket for failure to possess an operator's license after the car she was Warner Selected As Top Speaker indicate the situation is still Estes Faces the derailment of a New Haven Railroad commuter train and injuries to 62 persons. The youths were arrested Monday night after one boy admitted he and the others broke a lock and turned a switch that shunted the two-car self-powered train onto a siding. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who has done some foreign traveling for President driving was involved in a col linois University and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University in New York City. A retired Evanston High School mathematics teacher, she entered the Hilltop Nursing Warden Trenton L.

Fitzburger said he had no idea of the griev lision. John Warner, who gave a talk untitled "So Life Said." was Authorities said the Lagle au judged the best speaker at the Johnson in recent months, has noticed maps of Texas hanging in some U.S. embassies. Toastmasters Club meeting ances of the men, who began rioting in the dining hall about 5:30 a.m., before a number of them barricaded themselves in to and a vehicle driven Dy Frank Crackel, 71, of 2916 De-Witt, collided at 19th and Cham Another Day Of Quizzing Wall Street Monday at the U.S. Grant Motor Humphrey, a Minnesotan, recently wrote Gov.

Karl paign The accident occurred Monday during the first morning run over the Needham to Boston line. The tram derailed as it hit the siding and overturned. a cell block. Home here about a month ago. She died Monday afternoon at the nursing" home.

She leaves a sister, Mrs. Maurice i HamptonrCharleston. inn. the most improved sDeaker was J. J.

Rider. His Autos dnveirby Pameiia J. 'TlAar Karl- Maw malra 9 EL PASCL.TeiUAPX.--Billie Pepperdine, 23, of ,1008 Shelby, and Harold Campbell, 18, of talk--was- -entitled Two prisoners and several guards were taken to Washington County Memorial Hospital in nearby Hagerstown, but none NEW YORK (AP) Elec-onics, aerospace issues and eciaities were strong in an regularly lower stock market i rl this afternoon. Sol Estes faces cross-examina 600 Charleston were involved tion today over statements that in a collision at 12th and Cham friendly suggestion. Why doesn't the state of Minnesota send to our embassies a map of Minnesota and any books or pamphlets you have of the injuries were believed to paign at 4:30 p.m.

Rites Thursday For Ex-Mattoon Resident Funeral services for Miss Some wide gains were made Hospital Notes Visiting Hour 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. loan companies, plus scores of individuals, had plotted with him to deal in worthless mort According to police, tne ve the favored issues but blue hicle driven by Campbell strucK ips again lagged, depressing gages involving millions. the rear of the Pepperdine auto. Fannie Kolb, 79, of Lafayette, formerly of Mattoon, will Estes, onetime whiz kid of e.

averages. The Dow Jones industrial av-age at noon was off 3.89 at B.53. Fellowship Granted Conflict." Also presenting a talk was Obed Henderson. The best table topic was by Don Zetnick. General evaluator was Burl Bauer, assisted by Gene Aik-man and Howard Huggins.

James Mundy was timekeeper, Ron Kerans served as score-keeper and Dale Curtis was "ah" counter and grammarian. Food for thought was given by Mundy. Phil Weller served as toastmaster. Tony R. Orndorff was a guest.

farm finance, spieled off one name after another Monday of firms and people he accused of Theft Reported A lawn mower, wheel and snow tire were stolen from the B. Lance Jones residence, 1308 Champaign, according to police. Jones reported the theft be serious. Fitzburger ordered that feeding be resumed after about half of the 400 returned to their cells. He conferred with prisoners before making his statement about grievances.

Approximately 40 Maryland state troopers, several sheriff's deputies and the prison staff stopped the rioting. The institution houses about 1,500 To Eastern Student agreeing secretly to such CHARLESTON, 111. The Admitted Today Robert Koker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Koker, 3313 Shelby.

Jeff Sovelove, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Sovelove, 1008 S. 23rd.

Admitted Monday Mrs. Bruce M. Cobb, Humboldt. Mrs Carl Cooper, Greenup. Roy R.

Finefrock, Waynes- Among the Sick first fellowship granted by the Department of Speech Correction, Eastern Illinois University, has gone to Mrs. Mary E. Altman of Effingham, Dr; Almost before court recessed for the evening, spokesmen for a number of finance corporations disputed Estes' recital. held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St.

Boniface ROman Catholic Church in Lafayette, with burial in the church cemetery. Miss Kolb, a sister of Mrs. Harvey Sparks, 2213 Champaign, died at 1 p.m. Monday in the Burnett Nursing Home, Lafayette. She was born in Ste.

Marie on March 9, 1887, a daughter of Lawrence and Mary Raef Kolb. Miss Kolb is also survived by another sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, Lafayette, and several nieces and nephews. I. Frank Davis, ,712 S.

15th, returned from Mercy Hos-al, Urbana, where he under-nt eye surgery. He is a pant at Douglas Nursing Cen- Wayne L. Thurman, department Trial Ordered For College Gets Loan WASHINGTON (AP) The Housing Department announced Monday approval of a $95,000 loan to Aurora (111.) College for a dormitory addition. Dies of Injuries burg, Ohio. Mrs.

Joseph Fryman, 1709 head, announced today. Moultrie. Fairy Fuller, 5 Richmond. Mrs. Altman who will be graduated in May with a B.

S. in Education degree, will attend graduate school at Eastern. The fellowship pays $2,000, plus tuition and fees. low Was Sold? WASHINGTON (AP)-Jeorge Meszaros, 60, scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, died Monday of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car near the Breezewood turnoff on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Meszaros and his wife were returning to their home in Washington aftef visiting a daughter near Cleveland.

Jke this! Mrs. Wendell In Memory Of our mother, AUie Morgan, who passed away one year ago today. Mr." and Mrs. C. H.

Morgan Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wheeler Markets He finished direct testimony just before the end of the first day of a hearing on his motion for a new trial, leaving cross-examination by government counsel for today.

Taking the stand for only the second time in three criminal trials, the West Texas promoter broke four years of silence on transactions in mortgages on mythical fertilizer tanks, in an effort Jo win release from Ihe Leavenworth, federal prison. He has served about 15 months of a 15-year term for mail fraud and conspiracy. ore, 3009 had some fur-ure to sell, and decided to U. S. Nazi Leader NEW YORK (AP) American Nazi party leader George Lincoln Rockwell has been ordered to stand trial May 46 on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Rockwell, who appeared in court Monday with a Jewish attorney, Martin Berger, is accused of a threat to cremate a Jewish war veterans leader in a speech June 23, 1960. Criminal Court Judge Neal P. Bottiglieri denied a motion to dismiss the charge and set the trial date. Louis Gaston, Chicago. Mrs.

Frank E. Hayward, 1113 S. 17th. Timothy Livingood, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Livingood, Findlay. Evin 0Defl, 2808 Cedar. Mrs. John A. Schrock, Arthur.

Released Monday Kevin Bradford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bradford, South Bend, Ind. Ferd Homann, 809 Wabash. (He was transferred to Douglas Nursing Center) Mrs.

Nancy A.Kiimaman, 701 ce a Journal-Gazette Classi-1 Ad. Typical was the speed li which she sold the furnl-e through this ad: Suit Filed WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department has filed suit in Montgomery, Alato force desegregation of five eating establishments in Prattville, Ala. The action charged that Negroes were not served on the same basis as whites. Card of We, the famofMrs. Cleo Maycroft, wish to express our heartfelt thanks to those who assisted us in our time of need.

JOURNAL-GAZETTE Mattoon, Illinois 6l93 Phona 235-5656 latua No. 71 Daily txctpt Sunday ana holidays. Second ClstPDtafl4PlJt Mattoon, Illinois. HOME DELIVERY RATES (Mattoon li Araa Towns) 1 Yr. S20.W 6 Mv- S10.40 1 Mo." 5.JO 1 WK.

.40 April 12, 1966 Mattoon Livestock Market Prices quoted by Shanks Packing Co. Hogs: Down 200-220, $22.50 Sows: Top19.50; Beef: Steady Mattoon Grain Market Because of different freight rates, grain prices may not be the same at all Mattoon area elevators. Prices below are quoted by Fanners' Grata Co. of Dorans. Corn $150 Oats 75 Soybeans $2.86 Mrs.

Kermit 1604 SALE plec Duncan Phyfa nlng room $tt, Includat labia pad. i axcallant condition. Alio knaa-la dsk with Plata Bi top and odanfi datk.Xan ba aaan at J0 Ina or call 0000. Irs. Moore sold the furniture first evening the ad ap-tred, and cancelled the raining insertions.

It PAYS to rertise in Classified, toy it I gee! Call 235-565 and ask the Classified Department 1 i Births PTA Meets Tonight Members of the Central Junior High School band will perform at the school's Parent-Teacher Association at 7:30 p.m. today-. Officers for the coming year will be elected. Our Sincere Thanks To our friends and neighbors who helped with the farm work and' to Shanks Packing' Co. for your kindness.

It was all deeply appreciated. The Russell Hopper Family John F. McCormidk, 121 Tachometer Stolen Jack Johnson, 716 S. 24th, told police Monday a tachometer was stolen from his car while the vehicle was parked in front of his home Friday. MOTOR ROUTE RATES 1 Yr.

UJ.40 6 Mo. 111.70 1 Mo. 5 IS 1 Wk. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES (No mall subscription accapttd wnara motor routa or carrlar servlca Is main-tainadL 1 yr. mos.

3 mo. Illinois $17.00 S6.0T Ail Omar Stataa llf.OO 112.00 $7.00 Charleston. Mrs, Steven G. Robbins and To Mr. and Mrs.

Phillip King, Sullivan, in Memorial Hospital today, a son. daughter, Tjilla..

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