Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

* 205: 557-2311 Birmingham, AL ( deprecated, 557 is now Cingular Vernon )

* 315: 953 Syracuse / Utica, NY ( deprected, 953 is now a standard exchange in Vernon )

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

At the request and consensus of the students, Brian is asked to write the essay Mr. Vernon assigned earlier ( the subject of which was to be a synopsis by each student detailing " who you think you are "), which challenges Mr. Vernon and his preconceived judgments about all of them.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

The team, made up as Japanese soldiers for a photo shoot, is mistaken for genuine saboteurs by a Nazi ringleader ( Vernon Dent ).

The name Mount Vernon is a dedication to the English Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon.

When Vernon had been joined by Sir Chaloner Ogle with massive naval reinforcements and a strong body of troops, an attack was made on Cartagena in what is now Colombia ( 9 March – 24 April 1741 ).

In a challenge to the U. S. DOI's decision to take land into trust for the Oneida Indian Nation in present-day New York state, Upstate Citizens for Equality ( UCE ), New York State, Oneida County, Madison County, the town of Verona, the town of Vernon, and others argue that the IRA is unconstitutional.

The county seat is Mount Vernon.

After Vernon, what is called the ' Silver Age ' of the city ( 1750 – 1808 ) began.

Vernon, the geographical center of the county derives is named for George Washington's Virginia home, Mt.

Its county seat is Vernon and it is a prohibition or dry county.

Presley, his parents Gladys and Vernon Presley, and his grandmother, are buried there in what is called the Meditation Garden.

There is a Colonial Herb Garden and a Mount Vernon Garden, which is a re-creation of George Washington's garden.

Vernon is due to be widened by 2013 with construction starting later in 2011.

Vernon County is a county in the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

The county seat is at Mount Vernon, which is also the county's largest city.

Lawrence Washington inherited another family property from his father, a plantation on the Potomac River which he later named Mount Vernon.

Vernon Presley ( Elvis ' father ),

His father, Thomas Vernon Harris, was a Naval Officer from Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

" The author adds that Presley's father Vernon " had a swimming pool in his bedroom ", that there " was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis ' favorite records " and that the singer himself " would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television.

It is estimated Lawrence received news of his father's plans in late 1741, while at Jamaica, and presumably wrote back instructing his father to call the new home " Mount Vernon " in honor of Captain Lawrence Washington's commanding officer, Vice Admiral Edward Vernon ( then regarded as the greatest military hero of the age in Britain ).

Lawrence Washington returned from the war in late 1742, buried his father in April 1743, married into the Fairfax family and took up residence at his " Mount Vernon " in July 1743.

His six-year-old daughter, still enslaved at Mount Vernon, told a visitor that she was glad her father was free.

The original quartet version of the brothers was inspired by their father O ' Kelly Isley, Sr., a singer in a local gospel group, who had envisioned his sons being " the next Mills Brothers " having his four eldest sons, Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon, sing together in church at early ages.

Owain's father is Dominic Vernon Dodsley Williams, hereditary Lord of the Manor of Skegby.

He was the father of 1 ) Talavera Vernon Anson ( 1809 – 1895 ), an Admiral in the Royal Navy, and 2 ) Thomas Anson, a cricketer.

Through her father, Vernon H. Rhodes Jr., Rhodes is a distant relative of Cecil Rhodes and her first name " Kimberley " is after the Kimberley diamond mines.

Estranged from his birth father Vernon Grissom and with his mother's and grandfather Alvis Aiken's permission, at the age of 19 he legally changed his surname from Grissom to his mother Faye's maiden name, Aiken.

Vince Vaughn's father, Vernon Vaughn, plays the lucky gambler at the $ 100-minimum blackjack table, while Favreau's grandmother, Joan Favreau, is the lucky gambler at the $ 5-minimum blackjack table.

* William Vernon Harcourt ( scientist ) ( 1789 – 1871 ), son of the archbishop, father of the politician, and founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Janet van Dyne debuted as Henry " Hank " Pym's partner in Tales to Astonish # 44 ( written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby ), originally only serving as his partner to avenge the death of her father, scientist Vernon van Dyne.

Arthur Basil Brooke ( 1847 – 1884 ), younger son of the second Baronet, was the father of Sir Basil Vernon Brooke ( 1876 – 1945 ), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, and of Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke ( b. 1880 ), a Lieutenant-General in the British Army.

Edward Harcourt was the father of William Vernon Harcourt, the grandfather of Sir William Vernon Harcourt and the great-grandfather of the Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt ( see the Viscount Harcourt for more information on this branch of the family ).

Patrick played Johnny Cash's father, Ray Cash in the Academy Award-winning film Walk the Line and Elvis's father, Vernon Presley in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning TV miniseries Elvis.

He twice portrayed Vernon Presley, the father of Elvis Presley: First in the 1988 TV movie Elvis and Me, which was based on the eponymous biography written by Presley's ex-wife Priscilla, and then in the short-lived, weekly series Elvis, in 1990.

His mother was a public school teacher within the Vidalia City Schools System and his father was a teacher at Brewton-Parker College, a small Baptist college located in Mount Vernon, Georgia.

His father, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, worked as a salesman for a toy company.

* Vernon Presley, Elvis Presley's father