Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

The LIGHTER SIDE Finding a way to live the simple We is today's most complicated Job. ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Serving ihr Community for Mori? Than 130 FAIK FKIUAY Low 57, High 80 (Complete Weather A-2) Established January 15, 1836 Vol. CXXXI, No. 130 ALTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 44 PAGES 7c Per Copy Machine Defeated By Bad Publicity, Failure in Venice i By El) POUND Telegrapph Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE The shellacking the Madison Venice Democratic political machine suffered Tuesday was attributed to adverse publicity, voter apathy in the machine's own stronghold and a revolt of some precinct committeemen and other Democrats. The most crushing setback was the county treasurer's race, where Stephen B.

Kennedy a virtual unknown in the Tri-Cities area defeated John Maeras, brother of machine boss Stephen Maeras, mayor of Madison. While the machine's apparent loss of its vice-like grip on the Democratic vote in its 11 Venice Township precincts contributed to the Kennedy victory, political observers say there is another important reason. Many politicians believe the machine made the mistake of endorsing Russell Shaver over incumbent Wilbur Trimpe for county superintendent of schools, a move which made Trimpe's friends, including teachers and other school personnel, angry. And so they turned out to vote for him. Trimpe had the machine support four years ago, but this time his opponent was endorsed and Trimpe was marked for "purge." However, veteran political observers say, for the first time the erstwhile control of voters in Venice rose up hi open defiance against the party bosses, and voted for the nomination of certain anti-machine county offices and precinct committeeman candidates.

In the 1964 primary, 3,834 votes were cast in Venice township precincts, an increase of 620 over the vote Tuesday. In past primaries, the machine got out the vote to the tune of about 60 per cent of the registered Venice township voters, a county official said. This same official predicted several weeks ago. that Maeras would defeat Kennedy easily, confident that 90 per cent of those who normally vote in Venice Township would cast their ballots. Moreover, he said, the Alton area would help Maeras because its voters notoriously apathetic during primaries- would not come out in 1 a ge numbers.

The Alton area did its part the vote was light, although heavily in favor of but Venice township failed to live up to expectations. But this factor did not, in itself, defeat Maeras. He was beaten by several factors. Among them were Kennedy's better than expected showing in- Granite City and Venice Townships (The nominee was defeated by only some 400 votes in Granite City precincts where approximately 5,300 votes were cast, while he gathered 991 of the 3,214 cast in Venice Township). Kennedy's good showing in the Tri-Cities area, particularly the Granite City precincts, was attributed to his own initiative by veteran political observers.

"Kennedy concentrated heavily in Granite City and depended on friends to vote for him in the Alton area," a Kennedy man said. Dan McGee, a former county treasurer, who helped engineer Kennedy's campaign in Granite City, will not be forgotten by the nominee, observers say. He is expected to be rewarded with a job in the treasurer's office if Democratic margins continue and Kennedy defeats his Republican opponent in November. McGee was an announced candidate for treasurer this year, but withdrew and threw his support to Kennedy. Moreover, in the Madison Venice area, a group headed by Venice City Alderman Charles Hampton, a Negro and anti-machine man, stumped vigorously for Kennedy.

Hampton, several weeks ago, predicted to a Telegraph reporter a Kennedy win, and said it was not wishful thinking on his part. Kennedy and Maevas' names also contributed to the Kennedy victory, observers contend. Some observers say that the Kennedy name projected magnetism, while Maeras lost votes because his brother is Steve Maeras. Some voters in Venice Township, these observers voted for Kennedy or stayed away from the polls in protest of Mayor Maeras. Some observers, including nominee Kennedy, also point out that the machine was dealt a severe blow by Telegraph stories concerning the machine.

The Telegraph, in a series of stories last month, explained the machine and its power. The stories prompted three anti-machine committeeman candidates to take issue with the machine, and this led to the erasure of 113 illegal registrants from the voter rolls in several Venice Township precincts. Voters removed were both pro-machine and anti-machine registrants. There was widespread interest in the Telegraph three-part in the Tri- Cities area. Several hundred copies of the newspaper were delivered to voters in the Madison-Venice area by candidates during the series.

The Telegraph does not circulate in that area. Among those who blame or credit the Telegraph for the machine this case County Demo Chairman "Buck" Simmons. "I think the newspapers beat him (Maeras)," Simmons said. "There's no way to combat them. By golly, the Alton paper is always condemning the Madison-Venice machine.

The Telegraph, Simmons said, was "the major contributing factor" in the defeats of Maeras and Shaver. The newspaper, he said, leaves the impressions "that we're a bunch of crooks and thieves down there (the Madison-Venice stronghold)." Simmons asserted there was no split in the county Democratic party, and added that the organization would support Kennedy and Trimpe, along with Miss Hotz and Musso, in the November election. As for his position as county chairman, Simmons said it appears as if he will remain in the position. If there is to be a "scapegoat" for the machine's defeat, observers say, it will be Simmons, current county Democratic chairman. Simmons, these observers point out, failed to deliver the big victory the nomination of John Maeras for treasurer.

Some political observers are saying that the machine failed to get even one county candidate nominated. For, they contend, Treasurer George Musso, who easily won the Democratic nomination for sheriff, is highly popular in the county and did not need machine support to win. The only question in the race for the sheriff's nomination, it was pointed out, was how big a margin Musso would pile up. Moreover, these observers say, incumbent County Clerk Eulalia Hotz was unopposed and would have been renominated without unsought machine en- dorsement. Her complimentary vote was 23,246.

Maeras' defeat was undoubtedly a bitter pill for his brother, Mayor Maeras, who has grown accustomed to winning elections. What makes the younger Maeras' defeat even more hard to swallow for machine followers, observers point out, was the thousands of dollars spent by Mayor Maeras, "Buck" Simmons and Co. from the campaign war chest raised to nominate him. The apparent big factor in Maeras 1 defeat, observers said, was the "revolt in paradise" the failure of Venice township to vote as strong in numbers as it had in the past. Unofficial results show that Kennedy defeated Maeras by 538 votes.

11,356 to 10,818. In Venice Township's 11 precincts, the unofficial figures show 3,214 votes cast, or approximate(Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) Member of The Associated Press. Shots Punctuate Ky's Effort to Get In Control of Hue CHANCE MEETING fhis was the scene as President Johnson and his jtt-time critic, Sen. William Fulbright, got together for a private chat outside the White House Wednesday.

Fulbright has been a frequent critic of By GliOKGi; MCAKTHUIl SAIGON punctuated the government's campaign today to regain control of Hue. Buddhist demonstrators burned an American automobile in Saigon. Two U.S. servicemen were threatened, but oth escaped unharmed. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky ushed his Buddhist foes far- icr into a comer by sending 00 of his elite paratroops to re nforce government riot police Hue, 400 miles north of Sai- on, and slapping a 9 p.m.

urfew on the capital. The gov- mtnent appeared confident of rushing the antigovernment, nti-American rebellion, now in ts fourth month. The paratroopers fired on dis- ident infantrymen of the 1st Division who tried in Hue with The march- irs fled after a heavy burst of ire. One dissident was report- stage a march Buddhist banners. the administration's Viet Nam photo) policy.

(AP Wire- Clash Expected At Vital Meeting Of Park Interests A clash between proponents of an enlarged slate park and backers of an industrial harbor, both of whom want 500 acres of the same land three miles south of Hartford, is expectec tonight at the East Alton Village mittee meets. The committee, consisting of Mayors Lucien Ringering, Wood River, Charles Vanpre- ter. East Alton, Clyde Wise man, Alton, Ken Nail, Roxana, Ed Grapes, Hartford, Don Partney, Granite City, and John "Doc" Lee, Venice, was created in March by the Southwestern Council of Mayors to study the park-harbor controversy. Mayor Ringering, who is chairman of the commiMoo, looks upon its purposes as gathering information on the possibilities of park and harbor, and presenting these facts 10 the mayors council for an endorsement from that organization. Ringering has sent invi'a- tions to the Lewis and Clark Society, the primary supporter of an expanded state park, and the Til-City Regional Port Authority, the main force behind an industrial harbor, to provide two representatives each for tonight's meeting.

Both the park supporters and harbor advocates arc contesting a 500-acre tracl of land south of the Cahokia Drainage Canal along the Mississippi, and west of the levee to a point where the Chain of Rocks Canal meets the river. If the spokesmen for both groups arrive tonight, it will mark the first meeting between the two Madison County factions. The Lewis and Clark Society held an open hearing earlier this year. Hall when a mayors' com Harris Innocent, He Says Luther Harris, 42, one of several men who allegedly beat a 40-year-old man in a tavern parking lot Monday night, is scheduled to take a lie detector test at the Wood River Police Station Friday, police reported. One witness to the beating said the fight might have involved a union dispute.

It was reported that the victim was a candidate for a union presidency. Pete Kladar, 109 W. Acton Wood River, was allegedly punched by i assailants who knocked him down in the parking lot and stamped on him. Wood River police said Harris was picked up Tuesday night by Bethalto police after he finished work on a road project on Rte. 140.

Harris is presently living in Bethalto, according to Wood River police. He has been released from custody on a $50 cash bond. Harris told police he is innocent of the charge. Thousands of homemade altars still remained in the streets at dusk. However, Ky's forces seemed to be in control of key points and most of the populace continued about its routine activities.

Saigon's military governor declared the 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew until further notice because, he charged, the Viet Cong were preparing to exploit; the Buddhist agilalion with, "large-scale subversion." The, curfew was imposed "lo protect the people's lives and property and maintain security." he said. Riot police and ranger battalions dispersed half a Buddhist, demonstrations in Saigon as disorders continued in the capital for the fourth con- secutive day. Obviously rait led by the government's firmness, leaders of the Buddhist Institute seemed hard-pressed for new moves against the government.

Two monks, who look command of the Buddhist Institute after its head left Saigon, vowed to evacuate the pagodas and take the movement underground. Union Restrained By Circuit Court and at least three ed killed vounded. Newsmen Flee Soldiers at the walled citadel of 1st Division headquarters opened fire with rifles and auto matic weapons when live West- rn newsmen later approached the gates. The newsmen flee with bullets whistling about them. The outbreak in Saigon came just before the curfew.

The American car was burned in the area of the Buddhist Institute. No one was in it. From a rocky hilltop 25 miles northwest of Chu Lai came the epic story of a five-hour stand in the night by 18 U.S. Marines against an encircling Viet Cong force of 250. With ammunition running short, the Americans were fighting with knives and rocks when air and ground support forces finally routed the enemy.

Ammo Gone S. Sgl. Jimmie Howard of San Diego, who commanded an observation post on the hill, said his men had only ight rounds of ammunition left and only seven "were able to pull a trigger" at the end. U.S. military headquarters said all hut two were killed or wounded, but the Marines killed 45 of the attackers.

U.S. jets continued heavy attacks on North Viet Nam, flying 66 missions during which they dodged nine Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles. Two planes were lost to conventional groundfire, bringing the number of American planes shot down over the Communist north to 265. One of the pilots was rescued by helicopter. Jeering Buddhists Ky's 500 paratroopers rolled into Hue at dawn to a chorus of jeering, drum-beating Buddhists, but they quickly hauled Buddhist altars off main and look positions at the radio station and one of the bridges across the Perfume River.

The soldiers fired a few teargas canisters and shots into the air. But with the help of 600 combat policemen sent in by Ky last week, they carried off the operation without any concerted resistance from the armed Buddhist youths and dissident troops who have kept the city of 160.000 in open rebellion for weeks. EDWARDSVILLE Alton Water Co. obtained a temporary injunction Wednesday in circuit court against mass picketing at its main plant on Me- Adams Memorial Parkway in Mton. The temporary restraining order, sought in a petition filed June 10 by the water company, was issued by Chief Circuit Judge Harold R.

Clark and un- opposed by defendants in the injunction complaint, including Pipefitters Local Union 553 of Wood River. The complaint for the injunction was based on alleged mass picketing that started last week at the plant in a jurisdictional dispute involving five members of Laborers Local 518 of Alton The laborers reportedly are employed by William Linebar Mansfield Proposes Meeting of Rusk, Chinese Minister NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Mike Mansfield proposed today a face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi to discuss a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam war. The Senate Democratic leader said in a speech prepared for Yeshiva University graduates that the war threatens to be- Courthouse Building Law Held Invalid A 1965 law allowing populous counties, to construct and remodel courthouse facilities without referendum approval, affecting Madison County, was held invalid today by the Illinois Supreme Court because it excluded too many counties. The law permitting Madison County and five other large downslate counties to issue bonus for construction of new courthouses without a public referendum was signed into law in August of by Gov.

Otto Ker- IHT. Lmler provisions of Hie law. the Madison Hoard of Supervisors, by resolution, could nave levied a tax on all taxable property, without a referendum, to pay principal and interst on bonds to construct or remodel a courthouse. Madison County then was space needs in the existing building at Kdwardsville. in the light of that is an initiative for a Crash Victim Dies A 12-year-old East Alton girl, who was injured Sunday in an automobile accident on Rte.

67 in Godfrey, died Wednesday. Katherine Mae Kinser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kinser of 314 George died at 6 p.m. in St.

Luke's Hospital, St. Louis. The girl's family, including her father, mother, two brothers and a sister, were seriously injured in the accident and remained hospitalized today. Katherine died of a head injury suffered in the acci- dent, a relative said. The accident occurred about 4 p.m.

Sunday, near the Pancake House, when the Kinser car and another car collided head-on. The driver of the other car was Robert Griesemer, 41, of Godfrey, who also was injured. The Kinsers were returning from Carrolllon at the time. Mrs. Kinser was trapped in the wrecked car for -10 minutes before she was extricated by Godfrey firemen and state police.

Katherine, burn in St. Louis. admitted to Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children at an early age for correction of a disfigurement of both legs which had occurred at birth. It was only after three years that she began the life of a normal child, according to relatives. One relative described the girl as a the first to try anything new and the last to quit." She would have been in the seventh grade at East Alton Junior High School next fall.

KATHUKINE K1NSU1C come in the end a U.S.-Chinese conflict, just as in Korea. is needed most, at this time and danger, direct contact between the Peking government and our own government on the problem of peace in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia," Mansfield said. Such Important "This problem is of such transcendent importance," he added, "that it is a fit question for face-to-face discussion between China and the United Slates at the highest practicable level. "Our ol stale, Dean Rusk, confronted the Chinese foreign minister, Chen Yi, across the conference table at Geneva in 1961-62. It may be that a similar meeting now would be useful in this critical situation." He said such a conference could be confined to the two nations, or "it could include the nations of the Southeast Asian mainland since they all lie in the swath of the war's spreading devastation." Not Important Mansfield said he does not regard the membership nor the mechanics of the conference as important.

"History will not be gentle with those who pursue the shadow and evade the substance of peace," he said. "II will not view with sympathy those who stand ton much on ceremony or who insist (do much on face the price of coming to with ils profound problems." He said he is no! optimistic thai any conference with the Innese at this point would produce much more than a uase-l'irc. But lie said the "HrM faltering steps" must be taken (toward peace. Efforts Failed Mansfield, who lias some aspects of President Johnson's Viet N'ain policy, said I'orts In end the war "by waging more war" have failed He, conceded tuat efforts to end it; 'by Mayiny less war" have no! succeeded He rejected the idea that the fighting can ended inoie quickly mure and better placed in Viet N'am. who has a contract with the valcr company to dismantle ome old steam pumps at the 3lanl.

The water company was rep- at Wednesday's hear- ng on the injunction complaint Malcolm D. Durr, Alton attorney. Defendants were not represented. Judge Clark, in granting the uncontested temporary restraining order, left for future determination at a full hearing on the complaint the water company's request for $50,000 damages because of the allegedly illegal activities of the defendants iti picketing the Me- Adams Highway main plant. complaint had alleged I he Pipefitters "restricted and coerced" employes of the wa ler company, blocked plant en- irances and threatened violence in an effort to induce the company's employes to engage in strike.

In the temporary restrain- ng order Wednesday by Judge Clark, the defendants arc mass picketing. picketing in any manner at he plant main entrance or exit "except at the particular entrance from McAdams highway to plaintiff's 0 be specifically identified by 1 sign reading "contractor's en- ranee, "Massing or congregating or nilling about, 4 at or near en- ranees or exists to the main ilani property, or interfering vith persons attempting to en- er or leave the premises, also prohibited in the order. Trespassing upon, or damag- ng of the plant property, also prohibited in the temporary order signed Wecl- lesday. A misrepresentation "of he actual facts and situation existing" in placards or signs carried by pickets is prohibited jy the order. INSIDE Today lilUTOHIAI A-4 Leadership of the Democratic party should be shifted now, to improve its image.

HIGHWAY River Township highway attorney tells auditors what is their business. -SIKH 1 A-5 River Hospital trus- 5 tees in slew about refer- 5 emlmii expenses. B-S Girl will wear shoes for hor wedding that are 5-1!) years 1 old. i Gibson reaches 1 DO-victory plateau in beating pirates Shortage of trained nurses will yn.iw unr.M- under Medicare. BIO Business entertaining, to help a husband's career, involving mure and more young.