Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 1

TEMPERATURE Saturday high 76, low 50. Sunday 81, low 53. a.m. today 55. Downtown noon today 80.

Ml VERNON EG I STEP EWS i WEATHER 1 PaiC.y cloudy and mild through Tuesday. Chance of show-ers Tuesday. tonight from upper 50s to around 60, highs 'Tuesday in 80s. VOLUME 269 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1967 30c PER WEEK 2ND DAY OF RAIDS NEARER CHINA Chain Reaction On Freeway 17 Killed On State Highways Over Weekend Lucille Harrison McLeansboro Woman Dies In Accident Mrs. Lucille Harrison, 64, of Route 1, McLeansboro, was in- stantJy killed at 4:30 p.m.

Saturday in a three-car crash on U. S. Route 460, about a west of McLeansboro. Three others injured in tlie accident were rushed to Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro for treatment. Hugh G.

Arnold, 22, of Rumsey, one of the drivers, remained as a patient today and was reported in fair condition. Marvin Capps, 27, of Belle Rive, a passenger in a cai- driven by his father, Marion A. Capps, 67, Belle Rive, was able to be released after treatment. Also released after emergency treatment was William Yeiser, 19, of Utica, a passenger in the Amold auto. State police said the accident occuiTed when Arnold's car crossed the center line and struck the Plarrison car.

The Arnold car then careened down the highway and struck a car driven by Miirion Capps. Funeral semces for s. Harrison will be held Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at the Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro. The Rev.

William Au.xier will officiate and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in McLeansboro. The body will lie in state at the Gholson Funeral Home, where friends may call after 3:00 p.m. today. Harrison was born August 2, 1903 in Hamilton county, the daughter of William and Effie (Groves) Harris.

She was married to Willard CHAIN REACTION WRECK KILLS Firemen work in wreckage of one of several vehicles which crashed and burned in a chal n-reaction pileup in fog on Interstate Highway 65 south of Joliet, III. At left man in white sh irt is standing in of a camper in which four members of the Runions family of Kansa City, died in flames. (AP Wirephoto) Romney's Drive Gets Under Way MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. '(AP) Gov. George Romney's final push for the 1968 RepubU- can presidential nomination appeared to be under way today following a weekend meeting with three of his major support- And the governor disclosed he W7iU embark Sept.

9 on a three-week European trip in which he said he hopes to visit the Soviet Union. The trip may be extended to include stops in the Middle East. The weekend was billod as time of rest and relaxation and itomney and his guests, New (Continued on page 2 col. 4) Steal Pop Money Vandals Hit Civic Cenfer Here Again Vandals cau.sed heavy damage again to Mf. Vernon's Community Center over the this thnc they adfled burglary to senseless property destruction.

Police said the bui-glars entered fhe building, the former post office at nth and Main, by breaking a lock on a rear door. They demolished a soda pop machine and stole the money box Which contained an undetermined number of coias. The vandalism caused heavy damage to tlie teen center in the ba-sement of the community building. The vandals, apparently using a metal bar, smashed the combination television-radio set in tlie teen center. Thoy poured paint on the floor and ripped the cover off of a billiards table.

Police said they have some leads in the case and will conduct an Intensive investigation. It was the second time in recent weeks when vandals caused heavy damage at the old city- owned post office building. In a previous case water damaged the main floor of the building. (Continued on page 2 col. 4) WHAT MAKES A LADY from this angle, metal "whatzit" by Picasso In Chicago's civic center plaza could be Picasso's idea of woman's profile, some facial aspects, hair and shoulders.

Talk with a detractor and he'll you a pile of junk. Dedication is August 16. By THE ASSOCTATED PRESS persons died on Illinois roads and highways this weekend, including four members of a Kansas City, family who were killed in a 16- car pileup on Interstate 55 near Joliet. The Saturday morning disas ler began with a minor collision and escalated when a truck loaded with flammable material exploded after colliding with another truck which had stopped because of the first collision on the fog-shrouded highway. Charles Runioqs Sr.

r.nd his son Charles di-iving an auto and a camper, were trying to bypass the collision when vehicles became engulfed in the flames. Mrs. Mary K. Runions, 25, wife of Charles her stepson, Jeffery, Marlene Runions, 18, daughter of (Tharles Jr. and Mi's.

Hanna Runions, 81, mother of Charles all perished in the fii'e. Sunday morning, a second chain-reaction accident involving 10 cai-s. occurred on the same highway, but there were no serious injui'ies. Saturday afternoon fhree Mis- Kissippians died near Kankakee. A car driven by Miss Betty Ruth Rogers, 28, of Laurel swerved into a guard raii, then struck a concrete bridge support.

The victims were Miss Rogres; her mother, Mrs. Kal- Rogers, 50; and her son, Willie. 22, both of Gun town. Also klTled Saturday were Steven Colby, 16, formerly of Normal. He died in a headon collision near in DeWitt County.

Colby, who had been living with liis parents in England, was visiting relatives in Illinois. Bryan King. IP, of Geneva and Camela Rohrs, 20, of Batavia died Saturday when his car struck a passenger ti'ain east of Geneva. Sunday, three people died in a collision at a county road intersection near Kinsman in Grundy County. Joe PrindiviJIe, of Kin.s- man and William Jones, 46.

and his wife Mary Ann, 43 both of Gardner, wore killed. In Chicago, Michael Brady, 25, and Roberta Kramer. 17, died when their car was demolished by a freight tram. St. Louis disc jockey Jerome Watson, was killed when the auto he was a passenger in Struck an abutment on Chicago's Stevenson Expressway.

Also killed Sunday was Mrs. Lucille Han-ison, 64, of McLeansboro. She died in a three- car mishap near McLeansboro. Bags Dropped From Overpass Kill Motorist Mideast Peace Mission TITO PLEADS WITH ARABS FOR REALISM SALEM, N.H. (AP) Three water-filled bags dropped fi'om a bridge over Interstate 93 shortly before midnight Sunday broke the windshield of a passing car, and the driver was killed when broken glass cut his throat.

Dead is Paul Bujeaud, 19, of Lincoln. Police said he managed to stop the car before he died. Kathleen Johnson, 20, daughter of State Motor Vehicles Director Fred Johnson of Lincoln, suffered neck cuts. Three oilier persons In the eauB W8MI Mt burV Barred From Tavern Negroes Wound 5 Wjiite Men By BILL NEIKIRK HAMMOND, La. (AP) A group of Negroes demanding, "we want beer!" shot into a crowd of whites barring their way to a tavern Sunday night, wounding five white men, state police said.

State police and sheriffs deputies raided Negro bai-s at Covington, 20 miles from here, before dawn today and arrested 12 Negro men and women. Col. Thomas D. Burbank, state director of public safety, rushed from Baton Rouge and said several of those jailed had taken part Sunday in the Bogalusa civU rights "liberation march" which stopped here for the night en route to the state capital. "But they haven't been regular marchers," said Sheriff Tom Sanders of Tangipahoa Parish.

"I'd say they were curiosity marchers." A. Z. Young, leader of the march, denied any of his followers were involved. He said, "All of our people were here." The wounded men were hospitalized in Hammond. Authorities at the hospital refused to give their condition.

Col. Ray Heard of the state Crime Laboratory gave parafin tests to the arrested Negi-oes, to determine if any had fired weapons recently. Troopers Guard Marchers Sixty-five state troopers armed with riot guns guarded the Negro marchers who camped for the night at a school. Streets of Hammond were deserted in the predawn hours, but tlie atmosphere was taut. Burbank indicated he would ti-y to escort the marchei-s out of the area before their scheduled 10 a.m.

departure. About 100 marchers slept in the ballpark of Greenville Park High School, a Negi-o school, inside a ring of cars di-awn together like covered wagons oi the Old West. Ai-c lights illuminated the area. Shortly before dawn, all but 20 left in cars for Bogalusa. Young said those who remained would continue the ti'ek.

White witnesses to the shooting said there was a racial brawl at tlie combination bar and service station, the Riverside Inn, earlier in tlie evening. They said a Negi-o who was refused service cursed and struck a white man and was beaten and kicked unconscious. Sheriff Sanders said 11 Negi-oes later returned to the bar, demanding beer. They were told they would be served outside, he said. When several whites blocked the door, said Sanders, the Negi'oes opened fire, then fled to two cars.

Sanders said tlie Negroes had two pistols and a shotgun. Shortly after the shooting, a crowd of furious whites gathered at tlie inn. Some were armed. A sheriff's deputy said he persuaded them to go home. Officers found two abandoned autos, lielieved used by the Negi-oes, and discovered a revolver, a automatic pistol and a sawed-off shotgun inside.

State troopers an-ested a Ne- gi'o girl near the scene of the (Continued on page 2 col. 4) By BORIS OSCOVIC CAIRO (AP) Yugoslav President Tito has begun visiting Socialist Arab countries involved directly in the war with Israel in an effort to help Arab leaders find an acceptable way out of the present deadlock over Israeli possession of territory raptured in the war. No immediate results are expected, but observers believe his mission will be a success if it brings the Arabs to reconsider and take what Tito called a more realistic approach toward a peace formula with the victorious Israelis. Arab discussions so have centered on "means of removing the traces of Israeli aggression." After extensive talks with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo, Tito is expected to go to Syria and Iraq with his plea for realism. Tito's mission gained importance from the fact tliat both President Johnson and Soviet leaders have sent him messages outlining their views on a solution to problems of the June war.

Pick Jacksonville Mt. V. Loses Bid For New Milk Plant Tlie Carnation Company, after considering Mt. Vernon and 21 other sites, has decided to build a new plant at Jacksonville, 111. Carnation considered 22 mid- western communities and narrowed its final choice to Jacksonville, Mt.

Vernon, Evansville, and Terre Haute, Ind. In its to obtain the plant here tlie Chamber asked for labor information from local residents who would be available for work. The response was good. The name of the plant seeking a location was not revealed until after tlie final decision was made. In April three representatives of tlie Cai-nation Milk Company met with tlie local Chamber and were given factual industrial data.

In its final decision. Carnation officials said that from a geographic standpoint Mt. Vernon was not close enough to the dairy state of Wisconsin. The (Clamber has received tliis letter from C. G.

Todd, a vice president of Carnation: "In April a preliminaiy site location team visited you, concerning a possible future Carnation plant. Tills team was very favorably impressed with your fine town, but unfortunately various raw and final dis- ti'ibution factors, that are beyond your or our control, proved the most economical site to be in another location. "We will, however, keep the infonnation that we have compiled on your town in our fiels, and you can be assured that if in the futui-e another plant is required, your town will be considered. "Tliank you for the hospitality tliat was shown to our location team." In commenting on Carnation's decision Bob Poisall, Chamber manager, said. "Here's another time that Mt.

Vernon did all it could and finished out of tlie money. Don't worry, your Chamber is not going to quit ti-ying. In fact, before August ends, a represenra- tive of your Chamber will visit with four industrial prospects in the latter's own baliwick." DAILY cliurn up clouds of red dust as they roll along a dirt road with supplies for Dong Ha, an embattled outpost just south of the Vietnamese demilitarized zone. The convoy carries food and ammunition daily from Con Thien to the outpost which has been under almost constant North Vietnamese artillery attack since last month. (AP Wirephoto) Campers Attacked In Sleeping Bags GRIZZLY BEARS KILL 2 GIRLS IN MONTANA One Death In Pyrenees Earthquake B0RDE.4UX, France (AP) Earthquakes rocked southwestern France and northeni Spain Sunday; devastating one French village and felling scattered Tiuildings elsewhere.

One death was reported. In Arette, France, an SO-year- old woman was crushed to death when her house came tumbling down. Tlie Pyrenees Mountain village, population 1,000, was badly hit by the quick tremors, and its residents their homes to spend the night in cars or huddltd around campfires. Four persons wore injured in the Arette quakes. Walls coHapoC'd in Montory, France, and many slight injuries were reported.

Reports from nortbeiii Spain, particularly in the area of Santa nder and San Sebastian on the northeni coast, said people ran into the in fright while furniture shitted, lights swung on their chains and small cracks ripped down plaster. Scores of cities, from Bilbao on I he northern coast to Valencia on the Mediterranean, quakes. Family Rejoins Grandpa And Lyn At White House Bond Posted Mt. V. Auto Dealer Booked At County Jail Mt.

Vernon used car dealer was booked at the county jail here Salnrda.v or a warrant charging him with selling an automobile carrying falsified identification records Jolin W. Wood, operator of the Wood Used Car lot at 1015 Perkin.s. was relea.sed fiom the lail after posting a cash bond. Wood was arre.sted on a war- rent signed by DaPas Shel- 1on of that chargt'd Wood sold a 1964 model car knowing ihe identification of tlie auto "had been removed or falsified." It charge.s that Wood sold the vehicle "with intent to conceal or misrepresent." WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) The superintendent of Glacier National Park says lightning may have goaded two gi-izzly bears into killing two 19-year-old girls early Sunday as they slept in sleeping bags in this rugged wilderness.

Killed in the separate incidents 20 miles apart in the mountainous park on the Montana-Canada border were Julie Helgeson of Albert Lea, and Michele Koons of San Diego, Calif. Roy Ducat, 18, of Perrysburg, Ohio, was seriously injured by the bear that killed Miss Helgeson. Forest rangers pressed a search for the killer animals. Park Supt. Keith Neilson said his only theory on the attacks was that lightning strikes in the park alarmed the normalh- shy, near-sighted grizzlies into attacking.

Lightning started 14 forest fires in the park Saturday and Sunday. More tlian 400 firefighters tried to control them. The park has had no rain since June. "There seems to bo an association between the lightning and the attacks," Neilson said, "but we can't be sure. There is no scarcity of natural food and the grizzly is an unusually shy animal.

It's strange for them to attack." Neilson said he has had several reports of bears nudging people in sleeping bags this summer, but they I'an when the campers screamed. The bear that killed Mi.ss Koons sniffed at four other sleeping bags while the occu-! pants lay frozen wUh fear, then attacked Miss Koons, Neilson i said. Her ZipiKT Stuck The othor.s but the zipper on her sleeping bag' stuck. All thi-ep victims were employed foi- the summer in park hotels. Mi.ss Koons worked in the gift shop at Lake McDonald Lodge.

Miss Helgeson worked in i (he laundry ni Enst Glacier Lodge and Ducat was a busboy at East Glacier. They were on outings on their days off. The two girls were the first (Contuiued on Page 2 col. 7) Raids Near China Stupid -Fulbright WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. bombing within 10 miles of Red Qiina detonated new congressional furor the Vietnam war.

"I think it's very dangenais and extremely stupid said Chairman J. W. Fulbright, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Scn- I ate preparedness subcommittee chairman John Ste.nnis, i said Ihe broadened bombing of I North Vietnam reflects a philosophy which he supports. The new level of bombing came on the eve of Senate de! bate on Prosid 'nt Johnson's for- i eign aid program.

Debate opening today already had been expected to bring fi-esh attacks on Johnson politices in Vietnam and elsewhere in the world. Whether one variety of recent congressional bombing was too sparing- affected Johnson's dec.jion to add new targets coukl not be determined as the iVnite House fended off questions Oii tlie shift in tactics. But it was learned that Sten- I nis' subconiniittco heard secret last week from Adm. Ulysses S. G.

Sharp, Pacific commander, tliat Johnson had agreed to some extension of waiTiUines' options to stride what one subcommittee member called "lucrative ai-gets." Strikes Sunday agairst North Vietnamese rail yards 10 miles from Red China und Friday against Hanoi's Doum.er bridge came after Johnson lifted temporarily two major target restrictions. Pentagon sources say the administration will continue those restrictions or, certain kvy, vital missions. The restricted areas are a 30-mile diameter circle around Hanoi, penetrated two or times previously, and a buffer along llie North Vietnam- Red Cliina boundary. Against I'olicy Fulbright Fulbright said the bombing near Red China "is directly contrary to what was the established policy 01 the government in law and it will lead the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) WASHINGTON (AP) The Jolinson family reunited Sunday after beaches and' business had taken everyone but tlie little Lyn Nugent away from the White House.

Luci and Patrick J. Nugent flew in from Nassau in the Bahama Islands, where they had retui'ned for a week-long vacation to then" oceanside villa honeymoon spot of a yeai" ago. "The suntanned couple left their 7-week-old son in the hands of his nurse and grandparent babysitters while they were away. A White House spokesman know how it was going to be to part with her baby for the first time but that she came home thinking it was good for everybody. The Nugents arc expected to leave in a few days for their Austin, home and a stop at Waukegan, 111,, to visit his parents.

Mrs. Johnson, who had been at the LBJ ranch in Texas for a few days to make decisions on an addition to the house there, flew back to Washington late Saturday night. And Lynda the other Johnson daughter, re.joinod tlie family after a weekend at Rehoboth Ike Is Leaving Hospital Today WASHINGTON er, 76', is scheduled to check out of Walter Reed Army Hospital later today following a 10-day hospitalization lor a gastrointestinal aihnent. His doctors have indicated the live-star general made steady improvement from the time he entered the hospital a week ago last Saturday. Plans are, the hospital announced, for Eisenhower to fly back to his Gettysburg, farm iiome following a brief news conference on the hospital ttepA.

RAILWAY 10 MILES FROM BORDER HIT American Bombers Knock Out Rail And Highway Bridges As LBJ Lifts Target Sights. By GEORGE ESPER SAIGOfi warplanci struck for the second straight day today at Noith Vietnamese targets just 10 miles from Red China's bordoi, along the major railroad from China to Hanoi. The attack': Sunday and today were closer to the Chinese border than any previous air raids in the Vietnam war. Navy A6 Inti-uders and A4 Skyhawks from the carrier Constellation in the Tonkin Gulf raked the Lang Son raih-oad bypass bridge 63 miles north of Haiphong. Pilots reported dropping the southern span of the 360-foot, four-span structure.

A U.S. military spokesman said the bridge is half a mUe east of the Lang Son raih-oad and highway bridge which was knocked out in raids near tlie Chinese border Sunday. The Navy said the bridge was one of two bypass bridges being built by the North Vietnamese at Lang Son to link with the major rail line. Other Navy pilots from tlie Constellation hammered a rail siding south of Lang Son and pilots said they cut the tracks in several places. The pilots reported they encountered only light antiaircraft fire.

No planes were reported lost in the latest raids, but the U.S. Command announced that in Saturday's 151 attacks on the North, an P105 Thunderchief and an RFC reconnaissance plane were shot down by ground fire. All three crewmen were listed as missing. Tills brought to 641 the total of announced U.S. warplane losses over North Vietnam.

As the air war came closer ta Communist China in what appeared to be a lifting of soma target restrictions by Presidenl Johnson, sharp ground fighting flared in South Vietnam's north- era 1st Clorps area. Paratroopers In Action Elements of tlie 1st Brigade of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, starting Operation Benton, ran into a withering barrage of small arms, automatic weapons, mortar and artillery fire fi-om 100 to 150 Communist troops in a battle that raged from Sunday night until nearly dawn today. The paratrooiiei-s said they counted 35 enemy dead on tlie battlefield southwest of coastal Tam Ky, about 340 miles northeast of Saigon. Two paratroopers were killed and 19 wounded.

The U.S. troops also reported capturing 18 enemy weapons. Another unit of the brigade suffered 12 wounded Sunday night in a 60mm. mortar ban-age fired by guerrillas. About 40 miles to tlie nortli, Vietnamese rangers sweepuig the ridges where they had battled an estimated 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars for two days west of Tam Ky said today they had killed 156 enemy soldiers and captured 45 weapons.

They reported tliey had suffered moderate casualties in the initial engagement Saturday. Two reinforcing battalions reported light casualties. Vietnamese militia defending the Huong Dien subsector post on the coast 10 miles north of Hue reported kilUng 52 guerrillas in a six-hour battle Sunday, (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) BOY IN Boyce, 15, to shown trapped about 14 feet down In a weU near Lenore, W. as workers tolled to try to free him and keep loose rock from tumbling on liiin.

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