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ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Serving Mfiroffpfot, Greene antl filltoiin (l Bit Jan. IB, U86 ATP Co. 1969 Vol. CXXX1V, No. 133 ALTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19.

1969 PAGES Hrtef IOC State Troopers Ordered To Patrol Cairo Streets CAIRO, 111. (AP) Gov. nichard B. Ogilvie ordered 70 atate troopers to Cairo today to take over patrol of this racially tense city. Ogilvie announced his action in Springfield.

He said he acted on information from State Police Supt. James McGuire who informed the governor that "white citizens, deputized by the sheriff and coroner, were patrolling the streets, stopping people and causing a serious problem for regularly constituted law enforcement o'fficers." Cairo has been under aj 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew since Monday as a result of a fresh outbreak of fires and firebomb- ings and sporadic sniper fire. Firemen responding to alarms in the city's predominantly Negro section reported they were shot at while fighting fires that have caused an estimated $370,000 damage in a week.

None was hit. Cairo Fire Department officials have said most of the fires ivere deliberately set. Ogilvie said he had directed McGuire to take over control of patrolling in Cairo and to call officials together to' ask them to withdraw the special deputies. Ogilvie was asked Wednesday by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to send a representative to Cairo to investigate a white organization known as the White Htts, which Negroes say is a group of vigilantes.

The request was made by Mrs. Jewel Lafontant of Chicago. Illinois members of the commission. At the same time, the Illinois House passed Wednesday and sent to Ogilvie a bill which would repeat the 1885 state law which permits formation of vigilante-type groups. The White Hats, deeply resented by Cairo Negroes, claims State Court Offers Financial Statements By ED POUND Telegraph Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD, 111.

The Illinois Supreme Court reversed itself Wednesday and oifered to reveal to a House committee financial statements of Chief Justice Roy O. Solfisburg Jr. and Justice Ray I. Klingbiel in the growing controversy involving purported judicial improprieties. The offer, revealed today, apparently is contingent upon the two 'justices being allowed to appear before the House committee at the same time they release their statements of economic interests to the investigative panel.

The committee, after a 90-minule closed-door meeting, announced shortly after noon toiday, had rejected the court offer. "The full committee has determined that it should receive vhtse statements in advance of any oral testimony by the justices," Rep. George Lindberg R-Crystal Lake, told Justice Byron 0. House in a letter this morning. It was House who, speaking for the court, in behalf of the court, phoned Lindberg Wednesday with the proposal to reveal the statements.

At a press conference shortly after noon today, Lindberg said he did not know if Solfisburg and Klingbiel would agree to the committee's terms to make the statements available on a basis they, would appear at a later date after the committee had time to study their financial records. The committee said it was awaiting a response from the court on its new proposal. Asked by a reporter if he planned to ever make the financial statements public the committee acquire them, Lindberg said: "The committee has not specifically discussed the point of making the dis- Two Die, Four Hurt In Two Car Crashes Two persons were killed and four others injured in auto accidents in the Telegraph area in the past 24 hours. Dead is Virginia Lowe, 23, of 72 Virginia Cottage who was killed about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when the car in which she was riding was involved in a head-on collision ai St.

Ambrose St. and lite. Ill in Godfrey. Also dead is William L. Mcguire, 82 of 420 Short Jerseyville, who died when his car was struck by a freight train about 7:10 a.m.

today at the East Exchange Street crossing in Jerseyville. Hospitalized at Alton Memorial Hospital are four persons, all involved in the 2-car crash that claimed the life of Mrs. Lowe. Jacqueline Lowe, 7, is listed in serious condition with internal injuries, and Valeria 9, is listed as serious with severe lacerations and head injuries. Both are daughters of Mrs.

Lowe. Lueila Shandrow, 20, of Rte. Grafton, driver of one car, is listed as critical with severe facial and head injuries, a fractured leg, two fractures of one arm, and multiple lacerations about her body. Patricia Banks, 42, of 1131 Vernie Alton, driver of the other car, is listed as serious with head injuries, severe facial lacerations and contusions of one leg. Mrs.

Lowe was a passenger in a car driven by the Shandrow woman. State police said the Shandrow car was westbound on Rte. Ill when it went out of control, jumped the center curb and into the east bound lane and ran into tae path of the car driven by the Banks woman. None of the persons involved in the crash were wearing seat belts, police said. Maguire was pronounced dead at Jersey Community Hospital.

The engineer of the freight train, T. N. Tennil of White Hall, said Maguire's car "just stopped on the tracks." The engine of the train struck the car broadside and Maguire was thrown out of the car by the impact, according to police. Maguire's body was thrown into a ditch and the car then rolled on top of him. Maguire was the brother of a Jerseyville policeman, BUCK Maguire.

FATAL ACCIDENT TUe that- HUte wti Swiwialy Itred flaw and tangled of jured to name oar wave Mrs. wagon mark apot on two and the driver It. Ambroie Street, Godfrey, of the oar, Lualltt Bluuidrow of Graf- Virginia of ton. closures public." Because of the conflict in procedure proposed by the court and the special House committee, Lindberg told reporters that his group had "no assurance yet that we will get the statements." The court, in a statement earlier this week, said it would reveal financial statements only to a special all lawyer commission it was creating to investigate the charges of impropriety against Klingbiel. The charges grew out of a Telegraph investigation and the filing of a petition with the court by Sherman H.

Skclnick of Chicago, a legal researcher, who accused both Solfisburg and Klingbiel of improprieties. The action of the court, in offering to reveal the financial statements if the justices appear before the committee simultaneously, is a reversal of their initial statement. The 7-member House committee was created last week after the Telegraph revealed that Justice Klingbiel received a gift of bank stock in 1966 at a time when the criminal case of a bank officer was on appeal before the high court. The bank officer is Theodore J. Isaacs, a former state revenue director.

The Telegraph repotted that Isaacs told the stock to a member of the Illinois Commerce Commission who in turn gave the shares to Klingbiel. It was Klingbiel who in 1967 wrote the court's opinion upholding the circuit court dismissal of conflict of interest and collusion charges against Isaacs. Moreover, in his petition last week, Skolnick, charged that Solfisburg was "secretly" an attorney for the financial involved, the Civic Center Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago. The court in an unsigned statement delivered to Lindberg Wednesday afternoon suggested politely that the House committee need not interest itself with an investigation of the two justices.

The court indicated that the special five-man commission of lawyers it appointed Tuesday would be sufficient. Although not naming the House committee, the justices said in their statement: Continued on Page Col. i. it can mobilize 320 armed men within minutes in the event of trouble in this community of some 8.000 population at the extreme southern tip of Illinois. The white organization was formed in 1967 after a racial disturbance.

Us leaders say it was formed to protect nomes of white citizens in the community. Four fires, three of which 'fire officials termed "definitely ar son," erupted in Cairo Wednes day night, causing an additional $50,000 to $75.000 damage. The most serious was the Cai ro Lumber in a predominantly Negro area. The blaze damapea a building 125 jleet long, used for storing fin- (ished lumber. Several other buildings of the lumber plant were not damaged.

The other fires were in two unoccupied apartment buildings about two bio from the lumber mill and a vacant residence about a half miie from the mill. Police armed with rifles pre-i ceeded firemen into fire areas! as a precaution against possi-j Ue snipers. i Elsewhere in the city, sporadic sniper fire was reported during the night. Two state troopers in midtown Cairo reported their car was hit by a sniper's bullet. Neither officer was injured.

HUD Cut Asked by Committee WASHINGTON (AP) A 19 per cent, $384.3 million cut in new funds for the Department of Housing and Urban Development was recommended today by the House Appropriations Committee. The $1.65 billion earmarked for HUD in an omnibus $14.9 billion appropriation bill sent to the House for consideration next week reflects deep cuts in funds for model cities and urban renewal programs. The over-all reduction of $473.1 million represented only a 3 per cent cut from the $15.3 billion requested by President Nixon. Included in the bill financing 19 agencies is $150,000 to start work on an official residence for the vice president authorized three years ago at a cost of $750,000. In one major area the com mittee voted more than Nixon sought, boosting his $7.67 billion request tor the Veterans Administration to the $7.7 billion requested earlier by former President Lyi.don Johnson.

It saiii the amended Nixon budget "does not adequately provide the needed and required resources for the full veterans programs." A minor money cut, but one likely to stir up a major fuss, was the $7.5 million trimmed from the $10.5 million requested for HUD's fair housing programs. Major allotments to HUD included: renewal programs, $100 million, a cut of $150 million. The committee said the will have available an additional. $750 million advance fund appropriated last year for use in 1370. rent public housing contributions, $473.5 million, the amount requested.

pour water into the burning Wittels Co. in downtown Alton Wednesday afternoon amid an entangled network of fire hoses. Exploding small ammunition in the sporting goods shop, sent spectators scattering for safety. Firemen fought the blaze nearly four hours before bringing; It under control. Stubborn Blaze Guts Ammo Blows By ART YHOMASON Telegraph Staff Writer A stubborn fire intensified by exploding ammunition Wednesday night gutted a downtown Alton sporting goods and pawnbroker shop.

No one was hurt. Damage to Wittels 203 Third was estimated at between $100,000 to $150,000, an official source said. However smoke and water damage was extensive in the adjacent Seidel Furniture Co. and Elegante Women's Apparel shop. The fire's cause was undetermined.

Nearly 75 firemen from at least three area communities battled the fire from shortly before 6 p.m. to after midnight, confining flames to the basement of the gun and ammunition shop, where the fire apparently niiginated. "We're just thankful it didn't get up on the floors and through the roof," Alton Fire Chief Warren Grable said today. On at least three different occasions exploding shot gun shells and bullets sent spectators scurring for cover. in the building unable to find safety, ducked while they clung desperately to fire hoses.

Owner of the shop and building, Abbott S. Wittels of Fould Alton, collapsed about 7 p.m. as he watched smoke billow from the building. He was admitted to Alton Memorial Hospital for treatment for shock. Wittels, who closed the shop about 45 minutes before the fire was reported, was in satisfactory condition today, hospital authorities said.

Overpowering smoke obscured firemen as they inched their waj into the building, dragging a network of fire hoses No firemen were injured, although at least a score of oxygen tanks were ex- hausted to refill oxygen masks worn by firefighters. Empty tanks were shuttled by truck to Clifton Terrace Harbor on the great River road where they were filled. Firemen attacked the fire from I he front, rear and top of the building. "The guys around the back are taking a beating," a weary fireman, his eyes bloodshot from smoke, told a reporter as he gulped down an ice-cold soft drink and sandwich. Firemen in the rear of the building were in an alleyway, shut off on the north and south.

Another iireman declared, "Ive been here three hours and I haven't seen any flames." icferring to the struggle to get to the basement Firemen fought intense heat and smoke some three hours before chopping their way into the basement from inside the building. The basement is not accessible from the outside. About an hour later, after flooding the basement with more than five feet of water, the blaze was brought under control. Four to five feet of water also stood in the basement Continued on Page 2, Col. 2.

Paraguay Puts Hand Out; Rocky Arrives ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) President Alfredo Stroess- pier's military regime has prepared a whooping foreign aid lequest tor Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller to take back to President Nixon. Rockefeller arrives this afternoon for a 23-liour visit to this land-locked Latin American nation of two million persons. He is scheduled to meet Friday with Stroessner.

Stroessner, who took power in 1954, presides over Latin America's oldest dictatorship. He has prepared a memorandum for Rockefeller asking for $115 million in long-term loans to build roads, modernize the national railroad system, construct a ground station for satellite communications and improve public health facilities. He also wants special allowances for sugar tung oil exports to the United States. Paraguay, among Latin WARM FRIDAY Low 65; High 90 (Complete weather Page B-10) America's poorest nations, receives H35 million in foreign aid a year, mostly from the United States. Its economy is in bad shape because its imports exceed exports.

Last year the deficit was a record $13.9 million. Rockefeller's visit here promises to be one of the moat tranquil on his current tour. Violence has broken out in many of the 11 countries be has visited on a fact-finding mission (or Nixon. Conditions Tense At Madison High conditions surrounded Madison High School today as it reopened under the watchful eye of both state and city police, after a near riot Wednesday white and black students. Madison Chief of Police Emmet Pazia said there has been some "bad blood" between the races and it could explode again today.

Seven youths were arrested yesterday after a series of 5 to 6 fights around the school grounds. All but one was released on "notice to appear" bonds. Nine youths were treated for cuts and bruises received during the melees, but were released after treatment. Conflicting stories made it unclear as to just what touched off the and sent tiie school's 759 stii' dents plowing into streets during the noon cess. Chief Pazia said the fight started when a Mack fir! and a white girt began fighting in the "Nu-HT restaurant across from the high school.

Mrs. Anita Sprankle, owner and operator of the restaurant, denied Chief Pazia story. She Mid the fight Continued aa fage Cat f. INSIDE EDITORIAL A 4 Public apathy on archeological sites shows need tor strong links to past. FREEZE A-l Federal official promises action in highway freeze.

BATES A-S Industries seek preferential electric rate. UAN1UEWICZ A4 Mrs. Edith Green is under attack by liberals for proposal on college violence. A-7 Debate on Safeguard ami- baUittic missile takes an irresponsible turn. HEADSTART A-14 Child must learn language before he can read.

FAMILY A-ll Homemaking tips given at bride's workshop; to be repeated tonight. SPORTS 7 I Reggie Jackson hits two more homers, nears record for June. HARRIS B-4 Americans are increasingly conscience-stricken over plight of the pool-. Belgium Copper Company To Build Hartford A Belgium-based copper manufacturing firm will construct a new plant near Hartford, it was announced today. The plant, which will be built on a 402 acre site east of Rte.

3 and south of the Cahokla drainage channel served by Illinois Terminal Railroad, will at normal production employ about 120 workers. Production capacity is planed at about 30,000 tons, of refined copper per year. Karl Bocks truck, president of Chemico Metals said that the new plant also will produce other metallic and chemical products to be marketed primarily in the United States. Chemico Metals Corp, is an Illinois corporation organized by La Metallo-Chimi- que S.A. of Brussels, Belgium.

Bockstruck said the company plans to construct manufacturing and office buildings with a total of 141,000 square of manufacturing space. Also to be built are rail facilities, roadways and plant utilities. Construction expected to begin late thii summer with limited preliminary production operattoaa to start in the second Quarter of WO. canttnipttft IB peeled to be uoaplaMd by the end of IWi ing paayf' offtai witt la at IMA K. Ritadway, Altai.