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Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, July 25, 1951. NATIONAL DECATUR HERALD It Back? it i1' Mrs. Chris Patient Dies Following Stroke Mrs. Flossie Vivian Patient, 59. 55 Pet.

of U.S. On Church Rolls New York, July 24 (AP) American church membership in 1950 rose to 85,705,280 an unparalleled 55.9 per cent of the population, an annual survey showed today. The' new figure represents a membership gain of 2,950,987. The report, compiled by the Christian Herald magazine whicbv makes the only comprehensive regular survey of church member ship in the United States, disclosed these counts for the major faiths: Protestant membership increased 1,409,045 to 50,083,686. or 2.89 per cent over the previous year.

Roman Catholics gained 859.784 to bring their total to 28,470,092, up 3.1 per cent. Jewish congregations, minus any new statistics, stayed at five mil-! lion. "The major faiths," the report said, "continue in about the same proportion to each other. "Protestants are still well in the lead, with 58.5 per cent of all church members. Roman Catholics claim 33.2 per cent of the total, while Jewish congregations account for 5.8 per cent Other groups make up the remaining 2.5 per cent.

Sewer Drain Weterproetlng Materials MIDLAND PRODUCTS COMPANY PHONE 7313 ivi'ibii wwnn is sT s7 iociii a' Electric Pop-Up Toaster to Fire Kills Man As Gas, Dump Trucks Collide Kankakee. July 24 (AP) One man was killed and two others were injured today when a dump truck and a gasoline trans port truck collided near Kankakee this afternoon. Dead was John Wheeler, 72, of Momence, an employe of the Ganeer township highway commission. Another township employe, Soren Jacobsen, about 65, also of Momence, was treated at St Mary's hospital in Kankakee for burns about the arms and face. He wa not believed seriously hurt The gasoline track driver, Russell Phillips, 25, of Belleville, was only slightly hurt.

He suffered scratches and 'bruises. STATE POLICE said Phillips was going south on route 54 to Scott air force base near Belleville when he tried to pass the' dump truck, loaded with gravel from a nearby quarry. Officers said Phillips told them the trailer of the gasoline truck sideswiped the dump truck, turned the dump truck completely around, and burst into flame. The blaze, which set the dump truck afire, eould be seen in Kankakee five miles away. The gasoline truck careenei on about 500 yards and went inv a ditch.

Phillips jumped from the transport and Jacobsen was able to stagger from the burning wreckage of the dump truck, but Wheeler was trapped in his cab and burned to death. MODE WOMAN INJURED Shelbyville, July 24 Mrs. Ray Lamb of Mode is a patient in the Shelby County Memorial hospital, suffering from a fractured pelvic bone, after being pinned between a car and a truck late Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Lamb, who lives at Mode, where s' and her husband run a general store, had gone in her car to a field Where grain was being combined, to get a water jug from a truck to refill it.

She stopped her car back of the truck, and was removing the water jug when the car ran forward, pinning her between it and the back of the truck. Dick Slifer, a farmer living nearby, heard her calls for help, and assisted in removing her to the hospital. PEORIA LADY WELL PLEASED "I weighed 2.10 lbi. before taking- Renne! and felt bad all the time. After taking Rennel I have reduced to 17S lbs.

and feel 10 yeara younger now and my pep has returned." So writes Mre. A. M. Cox of (08 2nd St. It'a amazing- how quickly you can lose pounda of bulky, unsightly fat right In your own home.

Make this recipe yourself. It's no trouble and costa little. Contains nothing harmful. Aslc your druggist for 4 ounces Holmes' home (right) floated off its foundation and drifted into the house at the left The scene was one of many heartbreaking problems encountered as flooding Kansas river water Doctors' Average Income $11,058 With Big-City Physicians Lagging How Will We Get That seems to be' what George Holmes (center) is saying as he gestures during a conversation with unidentified friends in the Argentine district of Kansas City, Kan. Acheson Ouster Meeting Today Washington, July 24 (AP) Republican leaders today called a grand strategy meeting of all G.O.P.

House members Wednesday in advance of a showdown attempt to oust Secretary of State Dean Acheson from the federal payroll. The heralded G.O.P. attack seems almost certain to touch off one of the most spectacular legis lative battles of the year. Minority Leader Joseph Martin (R-Mass) told newsmen the G.O.P. policy committee, meeting behind closed doors, discussed four or five" approaches this noon but came to no decision.

The policy committee a small, select group of top Republicans agreed to let the controversial issue be thrashed out at a conference of all G.O.P. House members Wed nesday before the opening shot is fired on the House floor. PRESIDENT TRUMAN has staunchly defended Acheson. He has said repeatedly that Acheson will remain in his cabinet The showdown is expected on an amendment by Rep. John Phillips (R-Calif) which would cut Acheson off the payroll and presumably force him to resign unless he de cided to serve without pay.

The amendment does not mention Acheson by name. However, it would deny the use of departmental funds to pay the salary of any official who, at any time during the five years before his appointment, was connected with a firm representing a' foreign government Acheson was formerly a partner in a Washington law firm that represented the Polish government. DENIES DRIVING CHARGE Taylorville, July 24 Jesse Brown pleaded innocent to a charge of drunken and reckless driving in Christian county court today and was released on bond of $1,000 pending a hearing. Brown was ar rested Saturday after his automobile struck a bicycle ridden by Robert Gillilland of Taylorville. MRS.

J. B. KUETER 2720 E. HICKORY ALICE TIERNEY 335 N. MERCER The First to Guess the Identity of HOMKR BURINY the Trade Mark of the Home Coal Co.

si i) V. i For Coo Economy, Caff 7704 Flood Expected To Fade Below Cape Girardeau Cap Girardeau, Mo, July 24 (AP) The Mississippi churned past this community of 20,000 at crest or near-crest tonight, and there was a feeling that the wont -la oyer. A reading around noon put the river at 41.8 feet. Weather bureau men said that may be the top mark. They don't plan to make another reading until Wednesday.

EARLIER they predicted a mark of 41.9. The record high here was 42.4 In 1943. No new damage was reported in the Cape Girardeau area as the river surged by in a mighty effort which is expected to sap its de structive strength. Soma 80 families living in low-lying areas already had moved from their homes and bo further evacuations have been ordered. Muddy water stood a foot deep en the first floor of the four-story International Shoe Co.

plant, which was forced to close several days ago. The Frisco railroad passenger station was flooded. Water licked at three sides of the Missouri utilities plant, which produces elec tricity for several communities in the area. OFFICIALS were confident, how ever, that sandbag barricades would prevent further flooding of the plant which continued to operate. Army engineers don't expect any serious flooding downstream from Cape Girardeau, which is more than 100 miles south of St.

Louis. At St. Louis, where riverfront damage was estimated at four million dollars, the Mississippi fell today to XX The 40.28 crest there early Sunday was the highest level since 1844. Farmers banded together across the river in the MeClure, 111., area to keep seepage waters out of rich bottomland. THEY BOUGHT and put into operation a huge pump which discharges the seepage back into the river at a rate of.

14,000 gallons a minute. About 300 acres are covered with the seepage waters but thousands of additional acres be hind the levees are believed sale. Upstream, it was stifl touch and go in Perry county. Mo, across from Chester, 111. Army and air force men continued to reinforce levees protecting 30,000 acres there.

Their struggle may be decided today or tomorrow. 63 Exhibitors Register For Farmer City Fair Farmer City, July 24 (Staff) The 1951 Farmer City fair, which opens Sunday and runs through Aug. 4. is drawing a flood of entries for the $21,000 being offered by the association this year. To date 63 exhibitors have made entries in the fair.

The exhibitor from the greatest distance so far is Mrs. R. C. Silver of Des Moines, Iowa. The.

first to enter were Mrs. Lee Sprague and her daughter, Virginia Lee, and the largest number of any one exhibitor is 88 by Mrs. Wiley Swearingen of near Wapella. A new cattle shed just completed July 1 will provide more room this year for many more entries. The big 40 by 120 foot merchant tent will be in a new location this year, nearer the grandstand.

The final preparations on the race track are now underway and new Improvements are being made at the grandstand. Among the bands appearing at the fair this year will be those from Kenncy, Atlanta, Lincoln, Clinton, Farmer City, and the American Legion clown band from Clinton. Special interest is being shown In the Dewltt county 4-H fair to be held in connection with the Farmer City fair July 30 and 31. There are 43 entries to date. All livestock is to be on the grounds ready to exhibit at 9 a.

m. July 30. 50 Entries in Logan Junior Livestock Show Lincoln, July 24 (Staff) The Logan county fair today reported 50 entries in the junior livestock show, Aug. 5-10. W.

G. Colburn of Beason, Merle V. Watson of Lincoln and Ed Dittus of Mount Pulaski, in charge of the society horse show, have placed on display in the window of First National bank the 12 trophies Logan county businessmen- are offer ing for the top winners in the horse show. Two of the trophies will be awarded at the western horse show the opening day of the fair four at the colt, show and eight at the stake classes the closing night of the fair. Twenty Midwest stables have entered the society horse show.

receded and people returned to their muddy, ruined homes. The area was flooded as a climax to many days of torrential rain in eastern Karisas. (AP WIREPHOTO) highest earnings with an average net income of $28,628. They were followed by pathologists with and gynecologists with $19,283. The Commerce department's office of business economics said the findings represent the most detailed and accurate information on physicians' incomes in recent years.

THE $11,058 average net income, before taxes, includes salaried as well as independent practitioners, but excludes interns, resident physicians and teachers. Physicians in private practise averaged salaried physi cians, $8,272. About four out of five received most of their income from private practise. Only one out of five was salaried. The report noted that in the 20- year period since physicians' incomes have more than doubled.

This was in line with the increased Income for all wage earners, it said. Shelbyville Man Hurt In Gravel Pit Accident Shelbyville, July 24 (Staff) Milton Smith, 76, of Shelbyville was seriously injured at 12:30 p.m. today when a truck driven by his son Lloyd backed into him at the Yakey gravel pit northeast of here. The elder Smith, who was taken to Decatur and Macon County hospital, was accidentally pinned between the and the side of the pit He was reported' to have serious internal, injuries. Lloyd Smith operates the gravel pit and his father was working with him.

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at the post office at Decatur nilnals. under the act of March S. 187. The associated Press Is entitled excln- slrely to the use for republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news dltDstcnee. HOME COAL CO.

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CHRIS PATIENT 10, 1891 a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hays. She was married to Chris Patient in Decatur April 27, 1912.

She had been a resident of De catur 43 years coming here from Moweaqua. She was a member of Sharon Methodist church. Besides her husband she leaves a daugnter, Mrs. xreva Aivin or Decatur, and three grandchildren. Three brothers and a sister preced ed her in death.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p. m. Thursday, in the J. J. Moran Sc Sons funeral home where friends may call after 1 p.

m. today. Buriai will be in Fairlawn cemetery. Annual I.O.O.F. Parley To Be Held in Lincoln Lincoln, July 24 (Staff) Seventy grand lodge I.O.O.F.

of ficers of Illinois, Indiana, Minne sota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio and Ontario, Canada, will have their annual conference Aug. 18-19 at the Odd Fellows children's home here. MOOSE LODGE REGULAR MEETINGS FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS I OF EACH MONTH mm Srtardsy. Snlmy Nlht far Meakan 111 WEST WOOD STREET LOSES 55 LBS. 1 II REI1I1EL of liquid Rennel Concentrate.

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THESE WERE among the findings reported today from a nationwide survey conducted jointly by the Commerce department and the American Medical association. Dr. Frank G. Dickinson, director of the association's medical economic research bureau, said in a statement in Chicago that the survey was "the best and broadest mail questionnaire income survey ever taken of any profession." Questionnaires were sent to 125, 000 physicians across the nation, with 55,000 replies received. The survey showed that neurological surgeons led the field for Vandalia Carrier Wins Christain Fair Contest Taylorville, July 24 (Staff) Glen Daniels of Vandalia tonight won the fifth annual newspaper throwing contest at the Christian county fair.

The "arena" included a mock front porch at which the paper carriers tossed their papers. Daniels won the Peabody and Gilpin trophies, a wristwatch and a bicycle. There were 102 contest ants. Second place winner was Tom Beatty of Taylorville. HURT IN 18-FOOT FALL Lincoln, July 24 Harold Werk-man, 34, of Lincoln, suffered 'serious back injuries in an 18-foot fall from the roqf of the Oldaker residence in Atlanta this morning.

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