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TEMPERATURE Friday high 62, low. 37. 7:00 a.m. today Temperature at noon today 60. MT.

VERNON REGISTER-NEWS MEMBER AUDr BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE PEAL FOR ALL FAVORS FOR NONE A NON-PARTISAN NEWSPAPER WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and warmer toddy with a chance light showers by dark. The high in the low to mid 60s. Chance of showers and warmer tonight and Sunday. The low tonight in the 40s. VOLUME 7 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1968 40c per Week Single Copy 7c RED CAMP NIXON AUTOGRAPHS BOY'S CAST Six-year-old Edwin Jillson of watches Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon autograph the cast on his broken right arm.

(AP Wirephoto) OVERTIME SESSIONS ON COAL MINE PACT Jordan May Make Swap With Israel By DENNIS NEELD Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jorean (AP) Jordan, searching for a Middle East? settlement, wants Israel to define the frontiers it would regard as secure. King Hussein's government stands officially by the U.N. resolution of last Nov. 22 which would have Israel withdraw to the frontiers existing before the Jqne 1967 war. But if indirect negotiations can be opened with Israel through the United Nations, some diplomats here believe, Jordan might agree to minor readjustment of the prewar borders.

The Latroun Salient, a little finger of Jordanian territory pointing toward Tel Aviv, is mentioned as one area where the map might be redrawn. Demilitarization of the west bank of the Jordan River also likely would be acceptable to Jordan, these diplomats believe. They think Israel might be expected in return to offer Jordan the Gaza Strip, and' free access to it, giving this country an out- Jet to the Mediterranean. Egypt 's President Gamal Ab-j del Nasser and the rulers of ya and Saudi Arabia, whom Hussein recently visited on his way to London, are understood to have acquiesced to a settlement along these lines. The future of Jerusalem remains the most formidable stumbling block to any peaceful settlement.

Israel has declared 1 the Old City an integral part of the Jewish state. It was populated wholly by Arabs before June 1967. Jordan's foreign minister Abdel Muniem Rifal, hinted recently some form of international status might be acceptable if applied to both Arab and Jewish sectors of Jerusalem. This is regarded in diplomatic circles as Jordan's opening position in the bargaining. Some Middle East observers are hopeful that if agreement can be reached on all other major points the two sides might bow to international pressure and compromise on Jerusalem.

Any talk of agreement, short (Continued on Page 2. Col. 2 newspapers, the independent medium. By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) NegO' tiators have scheduled sessions hrcugh the weekend in efforts to settle a new contract for some coal Tuesday night's deadline. Prospects were slim that miners already out could be persuaded to return to work before the Tuesday midnight deadline unless agreement is reached, sources said.

The negotiating United Mine Workers and Bituminous Coal Operators Associanon were not reported near settlement, although a tentative wage agreement for a more than day increase reportedly has been reached. Most of the miners now earn a basic daily rate of with top men earning $30 a day. The talks reportedly ran into difficulty over issues such as union demands for a. seniority provision that would apply throughout a company's opera tions instead 'tf just at one mine; union attempts to ban the companies' purchase of coal irom i mines; and pro posed measures to eliminate disease-causing coal djst. The union also is siriving for a larger wage and fringe benefits package to make up for the years between 1958 and 1964 when ihere were no increases because of the' industry's poor economic condition.

"We do not think we have gotten the wage structure up to the industry's ability to pay," despite and 1966 contracts which boosted wages and fringe benefits by a total of about a day, a union spokesman said. W. A. "Tony" Beyle, president of the union, reportedly is- insisting that the companies re quire the manufacturers of coal mining machines to.equip them with devises to eliminate dust. Union indicate increasing cases of the crippling and often fatal lung disease of pneumoconiosis among miners because of the steady flow ol dust stirred up toy modern mining machinery.

The bitumirous association represents firms ihat mine more than half the nation's soft coal. Contracts between the union and the association are tra- Mt Vernon-Looking West Campaign Tough Sharon Houseworth New Bride Killed In Collision (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Police Rescue Busty Girls On Wall Street NATIONAL CTSPAPER WEEK WEEK OCT. 6-12. Iflfift NEW YORK (AP) Three more girls of heroic proportions entered Wall Street's bust boom, Friday, and all three had to be rescued by police from the crushing crowd.

First came Geri Stotts, 36, who a well-publicized appearance. Mrs. Stotts of Burbank, wore black boots and 1 a flaming fuchsia minidress that accented her 47-29-38 figure. Then came a New York striptease artist, Ronnie Bell, 22, who happened to be accompanied by her publicity agent who just by chance knew her measurements, 50-22-37. A third girl was whisked away by police before her name or measurements were told, It all started two weeks ago when Ffancine Gottfried of Brooklyn, who measures 43-2537, attracted a crowd of 6,000 onlookers for her noontime walk to work at a bank 1 A young woman who was married in Jefferson county less than a month ago was fatally injured late Friday in a collision on a blacktop road two miles east of Ewing.

Fatally injured was Mrs. Sharon Houseworth, 25, of Benton. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Donald Larry Houseworth, 27-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

E. Houseworth of Ina. Donald and Sharon were married Sunday, September 8 in the Spring Garden Community church. They had been in Mt. Vernon earlier yesterday, to visit with his mother, Mrs.

Blanche Houseworth, who was a patient in Jefferson Memorial Hospital with injuries from an accident. Involved in the two-car collision on the blacktop road were cars driven by Donald Houseworth and Betty Webb, 39, of Ewing. Mr. Houseworth and Betty Webb suffered minor injuries, according to a report by state police. Both cars were heavily damaged.

The accident victim was the former Sharon Metaski of Royalton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Williamson of Bowling Green, Ky. The body was taken to the Ina Funeral Home. The body was to be taken later today to the Gilbert Funeral Home in Christopher.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete this morning. Mr. Houseworth remained as a patient this morning at the Franklin Hospital in Benton. Orient 3 Miners No Work SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Reports that striking Illinois Local United Mine Worker units had voted to return to work could not be tested today because mines do -not work 01: weekends.

The mines will resume work Monday morning. Before then some local units may vote again on the strike question. At least one large local, the 500-man unit at Orient No. 3 mine at Waltonville, where the strike started in Illinois, voted Friday not to return to work. However, a spokesman for District 12 of the United Mine Workers of America said the action rellected grievances ii.

addition to the contract negotiations now going on in Washington, D.C. At the end of the work week Friday, about 1,600 miners were estimated on strike in Ulincis. These included the Waltonville strikers. "The trend is that practically all will be back to work by Monday," the UMW district spokesman said. At the peak of the i which started Monday, there were about 3,500 miners absent from work.

"This is not going to do anything ior anyone," said the spokesman, who declined to be identified. It injured negotiations rather than speeded them up." By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hecklers are making life a little tougher along the campaign trail. But a frequent target, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, was out of range' today, sweating out the possible endorsement of a candidate by the Americans for Democratic Action. Demonstrators harrassed Republican Richard M.

Nixon in Hartford, until Nixon's supporters shouted them down. Nixon's running mate, Gov. Spiro T. Agnew, was interrupted at Spokane, by shouts of "Humphrey! Humphrey! Humphrey!" Third-party candidate George C. Wallace was challenged by "Wallace go shouts in Buffalo, until the protestors marched out.

Eut Humphrey, who has encountered some fierce heckling on his trips, was resting in Washington and watching today's session of the ADA national board to see if it spells a return of antiwar dissidents to his camp. The hoard endorsed peace candidate Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy prior to President Johnson's withdrawal, prompting several labor leaders and cofounder Carl A. Auerbach, a University of Minnesota professor, to resign from ADA.

Humphrey's supporters considered a change by the ADA a key to rallying the antiwar Democrats to the vice president. Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfeld have said they expect McCarthy to endorse Humphrey during a New York campaign appearance Tuesday. Although Humphrey was making no campaign appearances, office released a statement endorsing direct, revenue-sharing federal grants for the states. The heclding that disrupted Wallace's campaign in Buffalo was described as no worse usual by newsinen traveling with the candidate. But when the protestors marched out of the auditorium and later moved, 200-strong, down a street, a passing car fired a volley of shots, police said.

Officers said eight buildings were hit but no one was hurt. Wallace was in his hotel room when the shooting occurred. After his supporters drowned out the hecklers in Hartford, Nixon observed: "I can see there's quite a significant difference between heckling a Nixon meeting and a Humphrey meeting. At a Nixon meeting you shout down the hecklers." In between interruptions at his outdoor speech, Agnew observed, "Despite voices of dissent from a few, this generation has produced the finest group of joung people we have ever had in this country." Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie, campaigning on the West Coast, confirmed a report that he wrote a letter to President John- tcn last January urging a bombing halt in North Vietnam. Muskie said, "I prefer that route to the public route that others are more comfortable with." Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay campaigned for Nixon and Agnew.

Rockefeller said in response Tins AERIAL VIEW OF MT. VERNON, looking west from 11th street all the way to the 1-57 interchange, was taken from a helicopter by Photographer Louis Pavledes. The construction scene at the intersection can be seen at top of photo. The complex in upper left is Doctor's Park and the Hickory Grove Manor Nursing Home. Upper right, along the Broadway (U.S.

Route 460) approach to the interchange Bs the new $1 million Illinois Power Co. building. Shown running diagonally from lower left is the Railroad. Identifiable buildings in the foreground arc the oval-shaped Bank of Illinois at 11th and Broadway the football-shaped Mt. Vernon Loan and Building Association at and Broadway, the old post office building and the city hall at 12th and Main.

At left foreground, on Casey near 12th, is the Jefferson Asphalt Co. plant. (Delo Photo Craft) Maps Hoax Defense In Kidnap Case (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) WILD ROAD TO A BAND CONCERT Secretary of Interior Stewart raft.through white water of River during a short tour 5 'of the Wisconsin one of many included in Scenic Wild Rivers preservation bill signed by President Johnson. Behind Udall is Herb Buettner, president of Wolf River Conservation Club.

The duo was "greeted at the of the four-mile' trip by a high school band. Wirephoto) WHEATON, 111. (AP) An attorney representing two persons charged with the kidnaping of a 7-year-old Oak Brook boy said Friday he hopes to produce witnesses that will prove the abduction was a hoax. "We may be able to show that there may not have been a naping," the lawyer, Marshall Schwarzbach, said. "This may have just been a great hoax or fraud." Schwarzbach made the statements in a hearing before Judge LeRoy L.

Rechenmacher of Circuit. He said he hopes to produce the witnesses at the next hearing, Oct. 11. Schwarzbach represents Robert S. Marin, 24, a machinist, and 1 his wife, Ethyl, 22.

Also accused of the Sept. 18 abduction of Hillard Marks is Daniel Pieler, 30. All three pleaded innocent to the kidnaping charge Friday. The boy's father, William E. Mark's, 36, did not attend Friday's hearing but later termed the hoax theory a desperation measure dreamed 1 up by the defense, Marks said he had taken and passed a lie detector test while the boy was still missing.

The Marks boy was taken by kidnapers after he got off a school bus near his home in the western Chicago suburb. A ransom of $125,000 was demanded, but was never paid. The boy was rescued two days after the kidnaping by FBI agents during a raid on the Marin's home in Riverdale, a southern Chicago suburb- Couple Wins Suit Against Hospital $110,000 Damages For Abortion Refusal In Mt.V.Oct. 19,30 Ken Gray Opens His Campaign In 21st District Congressman Kei.n J. Gray left the current Congressional session in Washington, D.

C. yesterday to begin a month- long swing through the 22 counties of the 21st district. The veteran West Frankfort congressman is seeking reelection this year for an eighth term. He opened his campaign at a rally last night at the Gallatin county court house in Shawneetown and speaks today at Mt. Carmel and Albion.

In Mt. V. Oct. 19 Rep. Gray will be in Mt.

Vernon October 19 and Octobcc 30 and will address rallies at the court house. Other rallies for the congressman in his area, include: October 9 Wayne county court house, Fairlicld. October 18 Wcshi ton county court house, Nashville. November 2 Franklin county court house, Benton. He will wind up a hard-hitting campaign with appearances on November 4, the day before the election.

Gray said, "Congress has been in continuous session since January 8, 1968, ar.d I have not had the opportunity to vist with the 'man on the street' as much as I would have liked during the year although I have (continued on Page 11 Col. 3) NEW YORK (AP) A Brooklyn couple won $110,000 in damages Friday from a hospital that refused to perform an abort- tion on the wife, who later gave birth to a physically and mentally handicapped child. The plaintiffs were Robert Stewart, 29; his wife, Barbara, 26, and their daughter Roslyn, who was born Jan. 4, 1965, totally deaf, partially blind, mentally retarded and spastic, and with a defective heart. The defendant in Brooklyn Supreme Court was Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, where Mrs.

Stewart had sought unsuccessfully to obtain an abortion on the ground that she had contracted German measles which could injure the unborn child. In theri 500,000 suit the couple charged the hospital with malpractice and negligence on two to perform the abortion, and failure to advise Mrs. Stewart, of the danger of continuing her pregnancy or to inform her where an abortion could be obtained'. Mrs. Stewart testified she had entered the hospital in her 14th week of pregnancy.

She said she showed the hospital a letter from her private physician stating that she had contracted German measles five weeks after she became pregnant. She said that although five doctors had recommended an abortion, the doctors in the hospital told her an abortion was not needed because there would be nothing wrong with the child. William Klein, executive director of the hospital, said the (Continued on Page 2. Col. 8) ONE YANK KILLED; 159 CONG DEAD By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) More than 1.000 U.S.

infantrymen and scores of warplanes attacked a Viet Cong base camp in the marshlands southwest of Saigon and killed at least 159 enemy soldiers while suffering one American dead, a military spokesman said today. A company of infantrymen from the 9th Division apparently caught the enemy troops by surprise in the sparsely populated marshes and canals 58 miles Minh Returns To S. Vietnam SAIGON (AP) Gen. Duong Van Minh, who led the 1363 coup that overturned South Vietnamese strongman President Ngo Dinh Diem, returned home today after nearly four years in exile, invited by a government that hopes to capitalize on his popularity but also fears that poularily. The general, called Big Minh because of his size, returned from Bangkok after President Nguyen Van invited him to become one of his advisers.

In this role, the government believes Minh would strengthen the government by bringing to it the support of his fellow natives of southern South Vietnam and lcllow Buddhists. southwest of the capital Friday. Another 1,000 U.S. troops were rushed to the area by helicopters and threw a cordon around the camp. Three American helicopters were hit by enemy ground fire managed to land on their own power.

Field reports said some Viet Cong troops still entrenched in bunkers along the Kinh Tong. Doc Loc canal began coming out this afternoon, apparently (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Kerner Faints In Hotel Lobby SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Former Gov. Otto Kerner said today in St.

John's Hospital where he is being treated for head injuries, "I just fainted away the next thing I knew I was in a stretcher." "My left eye is puffed. I think they took some stitches in my head," The Associated Press was told by Kerner of the results of the fainting spell, which occurred in a Springfield hotel Friday night. Kerner, now a federal judge in Chicago, said, "It was indigestion that caused it. It has happened once or twice before my lifetime. I don't know what happened.

I had had one cocktail. I began to feel faint. I started to walk out of the dining room to my room. I fainted away and hit the terrazzo floor. The next thing I knew I was in a stretcher." Kerner said he was scheduled for x-rays today and did not know when he would be released.

"I just hope I get out today," he added, noting that substitutions could be made in a program in which he was scheduled to take part. His wife was in Springfield with him. Kerner's physician, Dr. Thomas Masters, said Kerner fainted from overexhaustion. The doctor refused to elaborate further.

The former governor is now a federal judge in Chicago. DILLIES; FOR SALE FOR SALE 'DON'T SELL YOURSELF I.