Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 2

THE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON. ILLINOIS FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1964 DEATHS Fern H. Pulliam, Former Resident Dies At Age 68 Hazel Pulliam, 68, of Flora, died at the Macon County Hospital in Decatur Thuraday. She was a former resident of Mt Vernon.

Mrs. Pulliam became ill and died suddenly vtrhOe visiting her daughter in Decatur. She was the wife of Curtis E. Pulliam, i-ettnd high school teacher and a former resident of Mt Vernon. She was the daughter of the Rev.

and Mrs. L. L. Stierwalt and was bom at Anna. She was married to Mr.

Pulliam in 1919 at Christopher. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Paul of Decatur and Charles of Farmlngton, one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Davis of Diecatur; six grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs, Ruth Eiwing of Bloomington, Mrs. Ethel Lynn of Homewood, 111., Mrs. Martha Hughes of Carbondale, and Mrs.

Maude Farmer of Christopher: four brothers, Ernest of Christopher, Gail of Chicago, and Webb and Avery of Miami. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Branson Funeral Home at Flora, conducted by the Rev. Williard Ballard, pastor of Flora First Baptist church. Burial will be in Oalcwood cemetery at Mt.

Vernon. Arthur M. Byard Dies Early Today; Funeral Sunday Arthur McKinley Byard of RFD 2, Mt. Vernon, died at 1:00 a.m. today at Good Samaritan Hospital.

He was 61 years and nine months old. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the Pulley-Gutzler Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Kenneth Key officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Memorial cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Pulley Gutzler Funeral Home where friends may call after 4:00 pjn. Saturday. Mr. Byard was bom Nov. 1, 1902, fai Jefferson county, the son of WiUiam and Lillian (Seward) Byard.

In 1931, In Salem, he was married to Abna MUllner, who survives. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Tindle of Troy, two brothers. Forrest and Virgil Byard; two sisters, Mvrtle and Margart Byard, all of Mt Vernon; and three granddilldren. MARKETS Mt.

Vernon Qrain The following prices were quoted in Mt. Vernon this afternoon: Wheat 1.27. Soybeans Corn 1.17. Mt. Vernon Hog Market Prices paid on the local livestock market were down 15c today.

The top was 16.25 for 190 to 220 lb. hogs. Sows were 13.75 for 300 weight down; sows 300 weight and over 13.50, down. Boars were 7.50 and 8.50. St.

Louis Produce ST. LOUIS (AP) Eggs and Uve poultry: Ens, consumer grades, A 31-33, A medium a6-39, A wholesale grades; standards 3426, unclassified 22-24, checks IB- Hens, heavy 12-13, light over 5 lb 7-8, under 5 lb broilers and fryers 16V4-17. Chicago Produce CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Mercantile Exchange Butter steady; wholesale buying prices unchanged; 93 score AA 92 A 58; 90 57; 89 cars 90 89 Eg3s steadier; wholesale buying prices unchanged to higher; 70 per cent or better grade A whites mixed 31 mediums 28Vi; standards 27 Vi; dirties unquoted; checks 23. Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, 111. (AP) Hogs fully 25 lower; 19O-2G0 lb barrows and gilts 16.S0-17.25; 300-690 lb sows Cattle SOO; calves 100; no market test; cows lO.SO-14.00; tMlls 15.00-17.00; vealers steady; good and choice ers 17.00-25.00.

Sheep 100; few spring lambs steady to 25 lower; choice and prime lambs 22.00-24.75; ewes 4.00-6.50. Mattie Ryder Dies At Age 89; Funeral Here Mrs. Mattie Ryder, of Cahokia, a (brmer resident of Mt Vernon, died at 4:06 a. m. today in the CentervUle Hospital at the age 89 years and four months.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kassly Funeral Home in Cahokia. The body will tlien be brought to Mt. Vemon where funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

Monday at the PuUey-Gutzler Funeral Home with the Rev. Herbert J. Wilson oHlciating. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The body will lie in stale at the Pulley-Gutzler Funeral Home where friends may call from 7 to 9 p.

m. Sunday. Mi-s. Ryder was bom in Jefferson county on March 31, 1876. She married Frank Ryder, who pi-cceded her in death in 1915.

She is survived by one son, Harl E. Ryder of Mt. Vemon: one daughter. Feme Rachels of Cahokia; and two grandchildren. Missing Girl Is Back Home A girl reported missing from ner home Mt.

Vernon yesterday was located last night in St. Louis. Martha Louise Womack, 13- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cart Womack, Ashley Road, was reported missing from her home yesterday morning.

The girl's parents received a call at about 9:30 p.m. yesterday from relatives of Mrs. Womack in St. IJOUIS that she was there. was brought back to Mt.

Vernon early this morning. Arrest Man For Firing Gun Mt. Vemon police arrested a man last night on a charge ot firing a in a local tavem. Robert Lee Boswell, 32, of this city, reportedly fired a .38 bre bullet into the ceiling of the Top-O-Town tavem, 331 south Tenth street, at about p.m. He was arrested near the tavem by city police shortly after the incident, with the pistol stuck in his belt.

lie was lodged in the city jail, chaigcd with discharging a firearm within the city and cany- uig a concealed weapon. Hospitol Notes RIemorisI Admitted: Sandra Kay Thompson; Hester Pearl Myei-s of Kell; Rosemary Hirons. Good Sanuiiitan Admitted: Laura Magdaline TiX)Ut; Rocco Anthony Greco; Wilma Fern Lowry; Claud El- Jer; Tommy Robert Bernard; Arthur Lee Puckett; James Lewis; Tiney Sanders. Discharged: Mre. Carolyn Sue Phillips and baby, Brent Ellison; Mi-E.

Linda Sue Schlottman and baby, Tracy Lee; James William J'rances; Sylvia Ann Pogue; GeriljTi Viola Turner; Joan Margai-et White; Ida Evelina SU Fuller, Chicago Grain CHICAGO (AP)-Wheat No 1 red L45; No 2 nd IMM; No 2 hard 152. Com No 2 yellow 1.23V4n. Oats No 1 extra heavy white No 1 heavy white No 2 heavy wnite So No 1 yellow 2.54^.n Soybean oil WalFstreet NEW YORK (API-Gains by steels and selective strength elsewhere in the list kept the stock market irregularly higher late this afternoon. Trading was modemte. Volume for the day was estimated at 4.3 million shares compared with 4.53 million Thursday.

Gains of fractions to a potait outnumbered losers in the same range. Steels responded to rumblings of a price increase. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem gained about a point each, other major sted- makers fractions. Chrysler traded unchanged after weathering a small early loss on news the Justice Department had moved to bar Chiysler's acquisition ol Mack Tinicks.

However, Mack reacted sharply lower, losing 5. Xerox, off 3, was running neck and neck with Mack as the day's volume leader. Bethlehem Steel preterred spurted a dozen points to a new high. Calgon also touched a new high as it scampered ahead 3 points. Westhighouse Electric, up a fraction, remained in the heavy demand.

Douglas Aircraft spurted more than 2. Phelps Dodge and Montgomery Ward were up about a point each. Prices were generally higher in moderate trading on the American Stock Exchange. Corporate bonds were mixed; governments were a little higher. Detoiled Weother Report MT.

VERNON WEATHER Thursday high 87, low 69. Rainfall 1964 to date 26.54 inches. One year ago high 91, low 65. Five years 94, low Ten years ago high 99, low 75. Saturday sunrise 4:58.

sunset 7:14 (CST). IIJJNOIS WEATHER CHICAGO tures moved into the 90s today in Illinois after a few days ot cool weather. Highs ranged from the low 80s north to around 92 in South- em Illinois. Skies were partly cloudy. A few isolated thundershowers fell.

Tonight's lows will range from 62 to near 70. Thursday's high temperature reading was 90 at Vandalia, although much of the state recorded highs only in the 70s. The low was a brisk 59 at Rockford. The five-day forecast issued by the weather bureau calls for temperatures to range 2 to 8 degrees above nonnal with slight rainfall. Nomal higha are 84 to 90.

STATE Belleville MoUne Peoria Quincy Rockford Springfield Vandalia East Dubuque Chicago Midway Chteago Grant Parte Green Bay Madison South Bend Paducah TEMFBRATURES 86 68 77 64 82 65 83 66 71 59 85 66 90 63 69 58 74 67 70 66 73 54 68 59 80 65 90 7D FIVE-DAY FMIBCAST Southern Illinois Temperatures will average 2 to 4 degrees above normals in extreme Southern Illinois and 4 to 8 degrees above normals elsewhere with only minor day -to -day changes during the five day period ending Wednesday. Normal highs are 87 to 90. Normal lows are 66 to 72. Precipitation will total less than one-tenth inch, generally with only brief and isolated thundersnower activity. THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HigliLowPr.

Albany, clear 80 SO Albuquenpte, cloudy 98 67 .01 Atlanta, cloudy 83 72 .26 Bismarck, cloudy 76 66 Boise, clear 94 55 .01 Boston, clear Buffalo, clear NEW YORK (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Indus 840,82 up 1.43 20 Rails 217.75 off 0.10 15 Utiis 149.67 off 0.35 65 Stocks 301.80 up 0.13 Act Against Moldy Peanuts WASHINGTON Tlie government will permit only high quality peanuts to be processed and sold for food use under a program designed to protect consumers from a possibly harmful mold often found in damaged peanuts. The department announced this action Thursday after research showed the mold produced a suljstance called afla- toxin. This research was prompted by recent discovei-y that turkeys fed moldy peanut meal suffered harmful effects. The department emphasized, that "thus far there is no evidence of hazard to human health from this substance." 94 83 S8 71 50 74 67 87 63 72 52 93 64 76 64 Six Injured In Collapse Of Carnival Ride GREEN LAKE, Wis. "We heard the brakes and realized that something was wrong, but then It struck the ground and bounced," said one of six teen-agers injured ThursdsAr night in the collapse of a carnival's aerial ride.

John Nylund, 19, was one of 10 persons on the "paratroop ride" when the six-inch main shaft snapped near the top, dropping some of the riders as much as 20 feet to the ground. The carnival was playing at the first night of the four-day Green Lake County Junior Fair. Authorities said the ride had jst started when the shaft roke. The ride is a huge saucer which rotates while tipped at a 45-degree angle. Metal baskets for passengers are suspended from the outer rim of the saucer.

The Injured were taken to nearby Ripon Hospital, where a spokesman said all were in good condition. They suffered back, neck and leg injuries and cuts and Start Rochester Riot Investigation ROCHESTER, N.Y. A detailed report, analyzing the causes of last weekend's rioting in Rochester, today was In the hands of a grand Jury Investigating the racial strife. The voluminous police report was compiled by the Police Bureau's internal inspection division and is based on testimony gathered from scores of witnesses to the violence. The grand Jury reportedly is laying the groundwork for felony charges of riot and inciting a riot.

More than 200 persons are expected to be indicted. The probe entered its fifth day today and was seen continuing through next week. Four other person died and about 350 were injured in the weekend melee. Police Chief William Lomban! Thursday commended his police officers for their conduct, courage and what he described as "restrahit in the face of the most severe provocations on the part of the mob." Several hundred city and state police with National Guard troops standing by to help if needed oonUnued to patrol the Negro sections where violence flared out of control. SONS ACT to PROTECT COLDWATER (Cmtinued mm Page One) .18 Chicago, cloudy Cincinnati, cloudy Cleveland, clear Denver, cloudy Des Moines, rain Detroit, dear 75 56 Fairbanks, cloudy 61 S6 Fort Worth, clear 98 75 Helena, clear 88 50 .27 Honolulu, ckiudy 86 74 Indianapolis, cloudy 84 66 Jacksonville, clear 93 74 Juneau, Kansas City, cloudy 91 79 Los Angeles, doudy 80 63 Louisville, cloudy 86 65 Memphis, clear 88 74 Miami, clear 86 82 Milwaukee, cloudy 88 63 cloudy 70 61 .03 New Orleans, clear 88 69 .01 New York, clear 85 62 Oltla.

aty, cloudy 96 72 Omaha, dear 83 73 Philadelphia, cloudy 84 62 Phoenbf, cloudy 95 73 .07 Pittsburgh, dear 75 53 Ptlnd, clear 82 54 Ptlnd, cloudy 67 S5 Rapid aty, doudy 92 71 Richmond, cloudy 80 64 St. Louis, cloudy 87 60 Salt Lk. aty, clear 100 76 Russians To Fire Rockets Into Pacific MOSCOW The Soviet Union announced today that rockets will be launched into two areas of the central Pacific, south-southwest of the Hawaiian Islands, In a five-month space program beginning Aug. 4. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said ships and planes should stay 75 miles from the center of the impact areas from noon until midnight each day of the test period.

"Tests of new varieties of carrier rockets for space objects will be conducted by the Soviet Union in accordance with its program of further space studies," the Tass announcement said. Specially equipped Soviet navy vessels will be stationed In the target areas to gather data on the rocket launchings, Tass said. MT. V. ASKS HELP ON COMMUNITY CENTER (Continued tram Page One) BERRY'S WORLD San Diego, doudy San clear Seattle, cloudy Tampa, clear Washington, cloudy Winnipeg, cloudy 76 66 62 54 66 51 .02 92 76 89 65 76 67 MQftORCYCUSt KILLED MONMOUTH, III.

(AP) Or- viUe E. Smock 21, of Monmouth, was killed on U.S. 31 Thursday in a motorcycle op- set. Smock, a passenger, was thrown from the bike driven fay Roger E. Miller, 22, of Monmouth, who was injured.

BIG FURNITIJBE VEAR ailCAGO (AP)-The National Association ol Furniture Manufacturers said today the industry's fine six-month showing raises a poBsibllity that 1961 may be a $3,450,000,000 year Iqp the industi-y. The year's orders at the end of June were up 15 per cpnt from 1963 and well above the Mimeot teoord to date. T-Trace) Seeks Divorce, Custody Of Child One divorce suit was filed in circuit court yesterday. Lillie Hill (Ued a divorce acUon against Isaac Hill, charging cruelty. The couple married April 16, 1916, and separated March 18, 1964.

The plaintiff requested custody of the one minor child bom to the couple and asked the court to award her a reasonable sum for the child's support and the costs of bringing suit. DOD CATCHER WINS DOO SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (J) Just to help out, Fred Albrecht bought the last ticket In the Elks Club charity fund raffle. And he won the prize a pedigreed, 6-week-old Brittany spaniel. Albrecht knows a lot about dogs.

He's a dog catcher. ALBION WILL BE HOST TO LORD MAYOR (Coatinued from Page One) planned in Albion, West Salem and Bone Gap. The dish is a thin stew made of beef, poultry, fish, vegetables and milk. The county was named after Ninian Edwards who was appointed the first territorial gov- emor when the Illinois Territory was created in 1809, and who later was one of Illinois' first three state governors. The county covered acres.

Crawfotx), Lawrence, Wayne and Wabash counties were cai-ved from it later. The Albion area retains the sould of the transplanted English atmosphere that Included 650 British immigrants by 1819. The county lair, first held in 1S25, is Aug. It wiU include a special historical pageant Washington late Tlwnday he made it dear he was on vacation. A group ot newsmen, who had flown across the continent in a commerdal plane ahead ot CMdwater, was at the Santa Rosa Airport waiting fbr the GOP presidential nominee when he arrived in a private, two-engine plane.

Goldwater told them, "There'll be no press conferences." And with that, the senator was off for what will doubtles be his last vacation of any consequence until after the November election. On Saturday he is expected to go to Newport Beach, where he will join his wife for three days. The Bohemian Grove is an outgrowth of an old newspa- peEmen organizatlini, the hemian Club of San Francisco. The camp is so exclusive that reportedly one must pass through three guarded gates to enter, and then, curiously it is said to be surprisingly primitive, with small semicampsites dotting the forest. LBJ BARS BOBBY AS RUNNING MATE (Contnued from Page One) approved by all the people at an election.

He said that he doubted that a bond issue would serve the purpose of providing funds for annual maintenance over a period of years. Discussion was held on the possibility of creation of a park district in the area to provide maintenance funds. OH-8treet Parking There was some discussion last night on the oossiblUty of using the post office building as a connmunity center and the land around it as an off-street metered parking lot. Lewis said that the area would be suffident for 28 parking meter spaces, if the grass area is used as a oart of parking lot. He said that the city could take in from $2,000 to S2.800 per year with the off-street parking lot and that the money could be used by the city to help pay principal and interest payments on the property.

(The city has purehased the property for $45,000 from the federal government.) Fern Watson, the only member of the citizens committee present, said that she had no objection to using part of the property for metered parking fcort in mifirf (At perftef ninnfffg.moft^ CVM hn 34 pv cMl itwH cofltin, enrf brnlm Ais tatCA afim Democratic nattonal convention which opens Aug. 24 in Atlantic City, N.J. In his spray-gun action Thursday only sfac hours after telling a quickie news conference he had not decided on a running miite, Johnson included on his non-candidate list all cabinet members and those in government who have access to the House for such gatherings. One of those personally notified, who wasn't given a chance for the nomination in any event, was Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Another who was accorded a personal "no, thanks" was Sccrctary of Agriculture Orville L.

Freeman. Commenting on his action, Johnson said he had decided it would be inadvisable to pick as a nuinmg mate any member of the cabinet or those who have cabinet status. Aides said Johnson felt that all of these men were working so hard in essential jobs that their endeavors would suffer if they were called upon to take on tlie burden of campaign roadwork. An Assodated Press poll of conventkm delegates was released, by coincidence, at the time of Johnson's announcement. It showed that Humphrey was a 3-to-2 choice for vice president.

He got 341 first choice votes. The attorney general, in second place, got 230. CHILD MULBERRY GROVE, Hi. (AP) Ted Bandy, 11, of Bond County town died Thure- day when a truck overturned on a rural road. He was riding on tlie rear of the truck bed.

POVERTY HILL BANKRUPT ROCHESTER. N.Y. (AP) Poverty Hill, a sW center in southwestern New York, has become impoverished. The Buffalo corporation tliat opened tlie center last fall filed r-a I pelilion in federal zaton court here mtig debts of zatioa of woriic. and asseU a sa2.7SO but that "It would be a crbne' to pave over the pretty grass to provide more parking spaces.

She said that she feels it will be no pr()blem for citizens and groups to raise the money necessary for renovation of the building but that yearly maintenance by voluntary contributions would be difficult. Meetings Planned The coundl last night authorized City Manager Lewis to meet with the citizens committee and to formulate definite plans for the renovation, operation and maintenance of the building as a community center. Mayor John Manion praised the work of the dtlzens committee to date and said that it Is important that the committee continue to function to assist the city in completing plans for financing operation of the civic center. The city manager told tlie council that the contract for purchase, approved by the council, has been sent to the General Services Administration, the federal agency which is selling the old post office to the city. When receipts of the contrad is acknowledged by the federal agency the city can take over control of the property, he said.

Ask Vacate Street The council last night discussed a request to vacate Grand Avenue, from Vaught street north, to give the General Radiator plant room for needed expansion to the east. Malcolm Henning, plant president, said that there is a definite need for expansion of the local company, which is a part of the large Chromalloy Corporation. Mr. Henning described to the council the steady growth of General Radiator since the plant was located here ten years ago and plans for future growth. The matter will be brought up for action at a hiture regular meeting of the council.

Radiator Plant Growtng General Radiator has gram steadily since it located on south 12th street ten years ago, in a former knitting mill plant. Original floor space, 40,000 feet, has been increased to 50,000 feet by expansion of the present building. In ten years the oayrdl here has totaled $7,824,000, with steady incfcases from $304,000 the first year to $1,439,000 this year. General Radiator has invested $871,000 in Mt. Vernon in building and equipment and plans another $250,000 expansion.

Henning predicted to the council that, with the expansion, there will be an increase in production, personnel and payroll. He said the company is pleased with Mt. Vemon and the cooperation of the people of this community. CIRCUIT COURT Fines assessed in circuit court include: Mont G. Murry, $10 for following too close; William A.

Robinson, Chicago, $25 for reckless driving. Charge North Viet Troops Attack South By MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) South Viet Nam charged today that Red Chinese advisors directed regulars from Conunu- nist North Viet Nam ki the terrorist attack on the Mekong River delta hamlet of Cai Be July 20. The charge was made to the International Control Commission made up of India, Canada and Poland, responsible for overseeing the 1954 Geneva agreement on Viet Nam. Raiders killed 16 women and 24 children and wounded 40 other women and diildren in the attack on Cai Be, 50 miles jtvuthwest of Saigon.

They centered their fire on the homes of military personnel The government said about 40 troops also were killed or wounded. "Red Chinese military advisors took part in the Communist attack," a government communique said. "Their shouted commands to the aggressor forces could be heard above the din of battle. It is almost certain that some of the enemy bodies left behind in a mass grave were those of Red Chinese. U.S.

kiteliigence officials have said repeatedly that they have seen no evidence to show regular North Vieteamese units are operating in South Viet Nam. Premier Nguyen Khanh's regime during the past few weeks has called repeatedly for extending the war to North Viet Nam and if necessary, Red China. Top Vietnamese officials are known to fed that this would be the only satisfactory way of ending the war here. Communist ambushers struck again today. They killed 8 soldiers and wounded 14 of a government road-clearing detail in the rice country 30 miles northwest of Saigon.

Thieves Get $10 In Burglary At Local Stockyard A break-in last night at the Emge Stock Yards on route 37 south of Mt. Vernon was reported to the sheriff's office this morning. The door to the office was pried open and doors on a soft drink machine, a cigarette machine and a candy machine were pried off. According to the sheriff's report, about $10 was taken from the soft drink machine. The amounts taken from the other machines were undertermbied.

Several dollars damage was done to eadi the machines broken into. Quail Release Sunday At Dix Sportsman Club The annual quail release will be held at the Due Sportsman's club this Sunday, from 8 a. m. until noon. Each member is asked to bring his own container.

The quail pens are located two and one half miles west of Due. Approximately 1,600 game birds will be released. MARRIAGE LICENSES Alfred W. Pflasterer, 24, Walnut Hill, and Jeanette Kay Douthlt. 19, Dix.

Dean R. Rubitschung, 22, Pine River. and Roberta L. Barr, 22, 1121 south 18th street. John Jones, 23, 613 south 22nd street, and Mildred A.

Baker, 26, Mt. Vernon. ST. CHARLES CHURCH ANNUAL PICNIC lllineit SATURDAY, AUG. Itt lEEF and CHICKEN SUPPER Served Fomily StyU Itginning At 4 :00 P.M.

Quiirs Gomes Rt rtshmtntt Former Brain Truster Landis Is Found Dead HARRISON, N. Y. James M. Landis, 64, adviser to three Democratic presidents, was found dead in the swimming pool at his home day night One of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's original "brain trusters" in 1933, Landia' Hnal government post was as adviser on government rMuIaton agendes to President John F.

Kennedy. He was dean of Harvard Law School from 1937 to 1946. In his early Washington days he was known as hard driving, a chain smoker and a good card player. He also had tramped over every Civil War battlefield. A neighborhood boy found the body and tried artificial respiration.

Landis was wearing swimming trunks. He had a history of heart trouble. An autopsy was ordered to determine the cause of death. Landis' career was marred 11 months ago by his conviction on a misdemeanor charge of filing late federal income tax returns. He had paid the taxes, and said the late filing was just He was sentenced to 30 days in prison, but served It mostly in a hospital because of heart and nerve ailments.

Because of the conviction he was suspended from the New York Bar for a year. Landis wrote the Securities Act of 1933 and became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission two years later. He returned to Harvard In 1937. In 1946, President Truman named him chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. GOP Summit In Hershey, Pa.

WASHINGTON (AP) Republican presidential nomtaiee Barry Goldwater, pressbig his drive for party unity, today invited Republican governors and gubernatorial nontinees to a GOP summit meeting in Hershey, Aug. 12. In a telegram to the governors and State -house contenders, Goldwater said former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon have agreed to attend the meeting.

Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, who was Goldwater's chief rival for the nomination, will serve as tMst. Goldwater is vacationing in California. His campaign headquarters released a telegram sent today to the 16 governors, 12 gubernatorial nominees and two candidates unopposed for GOP nomtauitiont in their aUte primaries.

Bob Said His VP Chances By MBn E. MOHBAT WASHINGTON (AP) Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy ed a major understatement Thursday with a single word.

A Bnudlian visitor asked him e( his prospects for the Dento- eratic vkt presidential nomina- ttonm "Slight," Kennc4y said with a smile. The iignificance escaped those in the room. They were accustomed to throwaway an- cwera to the ouestion that had been asked of Kennedy countless times since his brother. President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated eight montha ago.

Fifty-five minutes later, his messafe came through, wesi; dent Johnson Mddenly dropped Kennedy and others from his list of viot prMidential ties. Kennedy reportedly had cehwd the newa in pertoa at the White houae houra earlier. When it became pubUe, Kennedy's ture became more He hag been iMIng high, aloag with Hubert Humphrey, In the vtoe-pcesidential preference polls. Audiences here and abroad shrieked his name and clamored for his attention. Those ckMe to Kennedy he felt the RepiMiciais' nominatkm of Sen.

Bany Gddivater of Ari' tona dimfailshed the chances Johnson would call on Um. The attorney general has no Uluskmi about his lack e( popularity In the Deep South, where Goldwater hopes to fashion support for his sutes rights posltkm. But friends who hmed Kenne- ibp woidd be tapped professed tinte and again that the 38-year- old attorney general could give Johnson the most help in the My prnxdated Northeast. rhat Johnson nouM concur jna their fondest hope until Thursday. And their gkjom was evident.

Heroine Dies At Switchboard In Hotel Fire OTTAWA (AP) Addle Mc- Cormidc, 64, a widow, her life Thursday when she stayed at her telephone switchboard to warn guests of a fire that swept through the fashkmable 30O- rqom Beacon Arms Hotel. Her son, Donald, was one o( the firemen who fought blaze that took two other lives and taijured at least 17. Many of the 130 opeple in the 12 -Btoty building escaped down fire-trudc ladders or crossed a catwalk high above the pavement into an office building next door. Most of the injured suffered burns, cuts, smoke poisoning or shock. Cause of the fire had not been determined early today.

Mrs. McCormIck had been a Bell Telephone Co. supervisor for more than years before she came to the hotel in 1938. Phil Horwitz, hotel president, said he called to her to leave the building, and made his way out the front door, thinking the operator was behind him. Her body was found beside the switchboard.

All of thee Jades were plugged in, indicating she was still trybM to make calk when overcome ny smoke. Smuggle Heroin In From Mexico WASHINGTON UPt U.S. Narcotics Conunislon- er George H. Gaffney has warned Senate narcotics investigators that "Mexican poppy growing, if unchecked, could become a tremendous problem" to the United States and Canada. Testifying Thursday before the Senate Permanent Investigations Conunittee, Gaffney said that despite "magnificent efforts" by Mexican authorities, about one-fifth of the heroin sneaked into the United Sattes comes from that country.

Life Rough in Chicago On Hill Billies Bgr MARK HABltn CHICAGO (AP) For thousands of Southern Appalachian white persons a Journey northward represents the hope of an end to poverty and deprtvathm. But for many of the migrants Uvkig in Oikiafo, the city hu meant only continued despair. Uneducated, unskilled and unaccustomed to city ways, the migrants find the transitwn from badcwood toi mtin setting almost Impossible. Part of President Johnson's antlpoverty bill is afaned at correcting the economic conditkms tint drive the migrants northward. But the diskicated migrants also have become a welfare problem in Chicago, where they nave settled in a long, one-fnile wide area on the North Side known as Uptesva "One of die biggest problems for the migrant Is emtoiUtkia," said Dewey W.

Wood, director of the Chicafo office of CouncU of the Southern Mountains. "The migruits pay 13? to didlars a week rent for unbelievable apartments. Often lour families (of sbc or seven persons each) share the same bathroom," added to ttw higher cost of in the North, often extra wages the migrants may eara Wood says many of them would be better off at home In the "security of their cathe- draled mountains." But, be asks, "what more Inecnthre to migrate would any of us need if our cash Income tor an cntirs 12 months was 16007" Tom between the better Jobs of the North and the for the hlUs ol West Vbiinla, Kentudiy and Tennesee, the migrants often padc up and go south agahi, only to return the next wedc "Bade home," Wood saM, "(hey can squat on their haunches for hours on the porch of the County court houM, but as soon as a number of them congregate on a corner here, they're picked up for loitering." Three Fires In Area Yesterday Hiree fires occurred day in the Mt. Vernon area. A fire at the Stewart Grain Elevator on Benton Road at about 4:30 p.

m. was cxUn- gufshea Minor damage resulted. Another fire was reported to the rural fire department at 1:15 p.m. yesterday. A grass fire on the Tom Puckett place on route 2 resulted in no damage but burned an acre of grass.

TTie fire started from buiTiing rubbish. The third fire was reported to the Mt. Vernon fire department at about 9 p.m. yesterday. The fire was a minor blaze in a barrel at 2225 street and was quickly cxtin' guished.

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