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The Home Paper Of Jefferson, Wayne And Hamilton Counties. MI VERNON REGISTER-NEWS 7 PER COPY VOLUME 8 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, B'RIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967 40c PER WEEK LBJ FREEZES WORKS PROJECTS Moving A Register-News Press Haiphong, China Rail Lines Bombed Propose County Unit School System in Canada Russian Scientist Defects Election Here Nov. 4 Urges "Yes" Vote On Parl( District Clifton Williams Astronaut Killed in Jet Mishap TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) An American astronaut who said lio wanted to be first on tlie moon and specialized in tlie craft tliat will make the ti'ip was killed Thursday when his T38 jet trainer plowed into a hilltop near tlio Florida-Georgia border. Marino Corps Maj.

Clifton C. Williams 35, a memljer of the nation's tliird generation of astronauts, was flying alone ft-om Cape Kennedy to Houston Manned Space Center by way of Mobile, where his father was reported ill. Williams radioed the distress niayday signal about 2 p.m., and 10 minutes later a lielicop- tlie rescue crew from Moody Air Force Base at nearby Valdosta, arrived at the scene on a plantation near Miccosu- 15 miles north of hero. "The plane disintegrated and the body disintegrated with it," said Air Force Maj. Joe Johnson said the fiei-y plane dove down so sti-aight it singed trees but plunged between pines 100 feet apart without touching them.

A Ijoard of inquiry lieaded by tlie first American spaceman, Navy Capt. Alan B. Sliepard, ivas named to investigate the crasli by James E. Webb, administration of (ho National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The closest Williams came to rocketing into space was as backup pilot for last year's Gemini 10 mission.

Since then he had specialized in working on the Lunar Module, the craft that is to carry two Apollo as- h-onauts to a landing on moon. Like the oilier a.stonauls, Wil(Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) A favorable vote November 4 to create a Greater Mt. Vernon Park and Recreation district "will allow us all to enjoy so many of tlie things we have missnd in the past." That is the opinion of Bob Waixl, co-chaii-man of a citizen's steering committee. Ill urging a "yes" vote at the election Ward said, "We owe it to our children, our grandchildren and we owe it to ourselves." At the November 4 election residents will decide whether to ci-eate a park and recreation wliicli would include the city of Mt.

Vernon and a rural area witliin the boundaries of tlie rural fire disti-ict. At tile same time five commissioners will be elected to administer the affairs of tlie proposed district. Tax IMiixinium The maximum tax that could be levied by the commissioners, to operate the district, would bo 15 cents on each $100 valuation. Ward told tiie Mt. Vernon Jay: cees Tuesday that the proposed district, in a five-mile radius of Mt.

Vernon, has assessed valuation of about million. If tlie maximum 15-cent tax is levied, he said, it would net the district about $80,00 per year. "It will cost money," Ward said in his talk to tlie Jaycees, as he made a frank appraisal of the proposed park and recreation district. "A little from eacli of us will do great things for al! of us," he declared. "No one wants liis taxes raised," Ward said.

"But, everyone of us lias raised his standard of living since World War II and, even if someone had not raised his standard of living he would find himself spending three times as much today just to maintain the standards of 20 years ago." Yet, Ward said, Mt. Vernon is spending less today, on one thing, than in 1946. "Tiic total revenue of the park department of this city in 19-16 THIS "LITTLE GIAKT" press from The Register- New.s job (lepartineiit weigli- hig 3,000 pounds, is Hftea by a Lipps Construction Co. crano (hrough a hole knocked bi the wall to be deposited in the relocated shop In the basement of the newspaper plant. The activity is a part of (he tJisk of phuit c.vpiin»«ioii to aoconiodnte a 36-piige newspaper press which is due next sprinjf.

In lower photo a bacUhoe a deep trench where a sewer is lieing laid under what will be a section of. tlie buiUliug housing the new lOOton press. Sewer Excavation Hit Foot-Thick Coal Vein At Register-News A foot-thick vein of coal was I hit at The Register-News as city I workers excavated for a sewer lino to accomodate (lie expansion of the newspaper plant. The coal vein, which lies under the entire tow-n, was found at a depth of about 20 feet. The city's backhoo equipment dug through the coal as workmen prepared to lay a deep sewer line under wliat will be the new portion of tlie plant.

The present glazed tile sewer line is being replaced by ironj pipe at places where it will be under the new pressroom. Ford Proposes Reopen American Supply Plants DETROIT The Ford Motor Co. proix)sed to the United Auto Workers union today the partial reactivation of tliree strike-dosed plants to sui5i )ly arts needed by American Motors in auto production. The plants are at Rawsonvillo and Ypsilanti, Mich, and Sandusky, O. American Motors, wiiicli buys carbuelors, starters and horn rings from Ford, reported earlier (his week it is running short of Ford parts.

An AMC spokesman estimated only enough Ford-supplied arts were on hand to keep his going for three weeks. EDMONTON, Canada (AP)Boris Dotsenko, 41-yeai--old former chief nuclear scientist at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, said Thursday night he will not return to the Soviet Union and wishes to live in Canada. Dotsenko came to the University of Alberta a yeai- ago on 10 months' leave from his position as head of the nuclear laboratory at Kiev State University. He said in an interview that he applied to the Canadian im- migi-ation department two months ago and was granted a one-year extension of his stay in Canada, plus a promise that his application for permanent residence here will be considered at the end of the one-year period. Dotsenko said he has had visits from Soviet Embassy officials who attempted to persuade him to retiUTi to his home coun- ti'y.

He said he had rejected the officials' attempts. Dotsenko was reported temporarily employed at tlie nuclear research center at the University of Alberta. He said his reasons for staying in Canada are iMtli professional and political, with lha professional reasons the more compelling. Dotsenko declined to talki about his pei-sohal life in the So- vidtlfflcSi BUt saia to leave his homeland was made only after "much soul- searching." Jury At WoltonYille Rules For Mining Co. In Coal Dust Case A Jeff Orson county circuit jui-y ruled for the de- fondant yesterday in the Waltonville coal dust case.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond My- 'H-s had sought $125,000 from 'lie Freeman Coal Mining ciiarging damage to their health nnd property from coa! dust from the company's mine at Wal- The jury, after deliberating more than two and one-half returned a verdict for defendant and against the plaintiffs. Judge Roy 0. Gulley gave the case to the jury at 1:50 p.

m. and it reported tlie verdict at 4:30 ri.ni. Mr. and Mrs. Myers sought $25,000 actual damages and JOO puniiive damages.

Before the case went to tlie jury Judge Gulley allowed a motion to delete the punitive damage count from 'lonsideration of tlie The bitterly contested ti-ial m-ore than a week and a hall. The juiy wliic); hoard the case was composed of sever women and five men. By GEORGE IVICARXHLR Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) U.S. pilots are taking davantage of good weather, to get in the heaviest blows they can at two key points where Communist war material enters North port of Haiphong and raih-oad lines just below Red China, the U.S. Command said today.

Targets reported hit Thursday included a rail bridge 10 miles from China, a bridge leading out of Haiphong and a major fuel dump near the port. The raiders left a smoke column nearly two miles high at the dump, which had been on the Pentagon's restricted list and was hit for the first time. It was the third sti'aight day of strikes at rail links in the narrow valleys just south of China and the second of raids on bridges in Haiphong. Other targets included two more fuel dumps in the port area and tlie MIG airfield at Hoa Lac. MG 17s came up to challenge Navy planes striking Haiphong and at least one enemy plane was reported damaged in a brief dogfight.

The U.S. Command said one F105 Thunder- chief was lost and its pijot was missing. Only scattered skirmishes were reported In the ground war in South Vietnam but Viet Cong guerrillas stepped up terrorism and assaults in the northern five provinces making up the Corps area south of the demilitarized zone. The Communists appeared to be trying to weaken govenunent control in tlie tliinly held area. Tiiiity-eight civilians died when two buses hit mines near Da Nang, a South Vietnamese district headquarters was heavily attacked and a U.S.

Marine was killed and 14 wounded. But the main action was in the skies over the North, where Hanoi claimed six American planes were downed Thursday and a total of 21 since Tuesday. The U.S. Command announced the loss of four planes. With the scheduled shift in monsoon winds this month promising poor bombing weather over the North, it is evident tliat U.S.

warplanes are trying to damage North Vietnam's sup- ly routes so that they remain disiTjpted for some time. The list of Pentagon-approved targets has been gradually expanding and air commanders are being given permission for more frequent re -strikes in sensitive areas. The Amei'ican pressure is meeting intensified barrages of Soviet-built ground- to-air missiles, heavy antiaircraft fire and more frequent encounters witli the elusive North Vietnamese air force, which minimizes its risks with hit-and- run harassment sweeps at American formations. Thursday's four-minute dogfight above Haiphong began when sbt MIG 17s were spotted by a flight of slower Navy Sky- hawks that had just droped their bombs. One Skyhawk caught a MIG with its 20mm cannon during a In This County Call FBI On School Break-Ins The FBI was asked today to probe theft of government property from two rural Jefferson I county schools.

Thieves last night broke into the McClellan grade school, southwest of Mt. Vernon on the Waltonville Road, and stole more than $1,200 worth of edu- 1st! cational equipment. Ogio Ellis, county superintendent of schools, said much of the equipment taken was federal Project Uplift properly. Supt. Ellis said that Project Uplift educational equipment was also taken in a break-in September 5 at Grand Prairie grade school, in the northwest part of Jefferson county.

Supt. Ellis has written a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reporting that valuable government property was stolen and asking for a full investigation. "I telephoned the FBI today to personally ask for a full investigation," Ellis said. County officers said thieves pried a window open to get into the McClelJan school last They stole such valuable edu- 1 cational aids as film projectors, copy machines, typewritez-s. record players, filmstrip viewers and tape recorders.

EDUCATORS MEET Appro.ximately 150 persohis gathered last evening (or a dinner at Field Consolidated school to hear a state officini describe the of a county-wide unit school district. The speaker, standing at center in lower photo, was Sherwood Dees, first assistant to Ray Page, state school superintendent. Sitting, from left, are Rep. Harold Stedelin of Centralia and Rep. James Eatherly of Galatia.

Standing, from left, are Ogle Ellis, county superintendent of schools, Dees, and LeBen Garrison, chairman of a county survey committee which is studyhigr a possible unit school district for this county. State Official Speaks Here More State Aid For Unit Schools, Local Group Told Officiolt Bdi REND LAKE MAY HAVE ESCAPED AX Bid Opening Due Oct. 24 On $9 Million Dam As Congress, LBJ Feud Over Taxes. WASHINGTON (AP) Con- gi'ess wants a curb on liigh- priced government programs in the future as well as an immediate spending cut, Rep. Wilbur D.

Mills said today. Mills, chairman of the Houst Wayns and Means Committee, said in a statement that is tha meaning of his committee's 5 vote Tuesday to delay actioa on the tax increase measure. The committee decided to postpone action until the 15.9 MILUON REND LAKE SPENDDVa OKd Officials of the Rend Lake Conservancy district expressed belief today that the big dam and reservoir project in Jefferson and Franklin counties may have escaped the federal works projects freeze. "Many other projects are tied up with the Rend Lake work, such as the highway relocations and the water systems to serve a score of cities," said Richard Jones, head of the conservaragr district office in Benton. "It is unlikely that a program having such effects would be discontinued." Jones said that bids have been advertised to be opened October 7A on conBtruction of the maindani, expected to cost $9 million.

Congress has- already appropriated J5.9 million, for Rend Lake projects this year. Tile dam bids are to be opened at 10 a. m. in the St. Louis district office of.

the Army Corps of Engineers on the October 24 date. For Mule Day Festivities Saturday Enfield Names Queen Bunny" Baker On Bread Board CITY (AP)-Jack Lewis Sr. of Anna, 111., was among board members named to the American Bakers Coop' erative Inc. i Lloyd Host of Slielby, N.C., was elected cliainnan of the board at tlie organization's 19th annual conlorence Wednesday. MOTORIST KILLED (Continued on Page 2 col.

7), PERU, III. (AP) -Timothy Pearson, 21, of Peru was killed early today in the collision of his auto and a truck on U.S. 51 south of Peru. The ti-uck driver, Larry Schefus, 26, of Redwood Falls, was not hurt. Traffic on the highway had to be rtioiited for an hour after the crash.

The oldest fall festival in Sou; them Illinois is under way in Enfield and continues through Saturday night, The celebration moves into swing this evening at 7:30 til a beauty queen contest in which nine Enfield High Scliool girls will be competing for "Miss Mule Pay of 1967." A $30 bond goes to the ri.pt'n, a bond to the trsl runnerup and HO casb to second runnerup. Contestants Diana Linda Clevenger, Kay Duck- wortli, Janet Sue PJtienne, Joyce Hcaly, Jeiinifer Holder, Judy Phillips, Ginger Thomas and Karen Williams. cakewalk will follow the ceremonies, big day. The first Mule Day Saturday is the traditional Wg day. The first Mule Day celebrated on a tn 1922 and the festival continued Ml a one-day affaii- until a few years ago.

$1.7 Million Notes Missing NEW YORK (AP) New York City banks and financial institutions checked their securities lists for $1,7 million in missing U. S. Treasury notes that apparently i were misplaced during a Wall Stro'M bank transfer. Police did not rule out tlie jios- sibility of tlieft but were work-j ing on the assumption that the "easily negotiable" securities astray in a mixup between one bank's messenger and an-1 other bank's clerk. One of tlie notes is for SI mil- lion and the others tor i harrowing! eacli.

They are payable to the! head-on pass and tlie Navy pilot bearer and thus readily negoti-' able but one bank spokesman (Contmued on Page 2, Col. 6) that in practice it would be difficult for anyone to ca.sh' them. The disappearance reported Thursday marked the thii-d major loss of securities from a Wall Street institution within a'. Tudging of F. F.

A. and 4- and the oepening ofi 0" Sept. l-l tlie invcsUnent; the handicraft display in the i of Hayden, Stone, Inc. list-' House at 9 a.m. launch ed the loss of $1.5 million in se-: the program.

curities and a week ago police i arrested a former bank clerk in I the Sept. 8 theft of SI million in at 11 a.m. stock certificates from the Wall Street branch of the rne pa.acie, foatunng the Dominion Bank, fftome. scneduled at 1:30 p.ni Sliortly after ihe concuMon parade, jumps 11 be made by members of the rbondale Parachute Club. Slated at 3 p.m.

is the first At two appearances by the professional entertainers John Jiirie Armstrong, a comedy knoivn as the "Acro-Nuts" Std their daughter, Consuelo in hrr trapeze and ring routines. A special treat will be the performance of 17-year-old Leslie from Herrin, the national junior baton hviriling from Louis. All the entertainers mi return it I Minting Of Half Dollar To Continue WASHLVGTON (AP) The half dollar, unlike the bill, is apparently here to stay. TIic Treasui-y Department plans to mint halves containing 40 per cent silver through next year. Officials are confident the coins will continue to circulate.

Even if the department ultimately decides to remove all silver from half dollars, it still plans to continue making them. Despite record production of halves, the Treasury has been unable to satisfy the demand for them. It has declared the shortage of other coins at an end. The department stopped making 52 bills last year because of lack of demand. Robert A.

Wallace, assistant secretary of the Treasury, said half dollars are apparently still being hoarded although more and more of tliem are now circulating. Jefierson county would receive between $400,000 and 5500,000 more per year in state aid if it became a unit school disti'ict, local educators were told last night at a dinner meeting at Field Consolidated school. The speaker was Shrewood Dees, first assistant to Ray Page, Illinois school chief. The occasion was a dinner meeting of educators and the Jefferson county Survey Committee, which has been studying for several weeks a proposal that Jefferson county schools join to become a county unit district. It was the fiftli informational session held by tlie survey committee, which is headed by Ben Garrison.

Ogie Ellis, county superintendent of schools, was master of ceremonies at tiie meeting, which was attended by officers and members of the various education associations, school administrators, county board members and city and county P. T. A. officers. In the main talk of the evening Dees told the group that there has been a tremendous change in education in recent (Continued on Page 2, Col.

9) A pet parade follows at 10 a. m. and horse and mule judging i a.m. At Meeting Tomorrow Mark 100th Birthday Of Ewing College dent and Congress reach an understanding on "It is clear that the point of the protest has been missed," "Spending cuts in this fiscal year or in 1969, welcome as they would be, are not really the central objective." Mills spoke out a day after President at an impromptu news conference, renewed his insistence that Congress act on his dequest for a. 10 per cent surtax on individual and corporate income taxes.

He disagreed with Congress' contention that "he should first show firm plans for spending cuts. Despite the President's plea and a federal freeze on Congress' pet public works projects, Congress shows no signs of increasing taxes before spending is slashed. The administi'ation added a new ingredient in the weeks- long test of wills between the President and Congress by suspending indefinitely some S3.5 billion worth of military building and civil public works programs. The freeze, announced by tha Defense Department, came as Johnson again laid responsibility for budget cutting on the congressional doorstep and said taxes should be raised to stifle inflation. The public works freeze drew praise from Rep.

John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin, senior Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Com(Continued on Page Two Col. 5) Trench Worker Fatally Injured CENTRALIA, 111. (AP) '-Lawrence Links, 48, of Keyesport, was injured fatally Thursday while working in a pipeline trcncii at Hoffman. Autiioritios said Links struck his head on a pipe when the 1 trench caved in behind liim.

He i died in St. Mary's hospital, I By K. DeUilf Th" centennial celebration of the founding of Ewing college will be observed tomorrow when i alumni of tiie old college hold their annual meeting at the Bapiist Church at Ewing, Though the college has been cloSfc for more than forty years, a large number of alumni gather at Ewing every year to renew old acquaintances and talk about college days of long' ago. Stalling at 10 a.m, there wiU be a program including musical! numbers and addresses by W. B.

Johnson, Claude Downen, I and Dr. A. E. Prince. Al noon there will be a dinner at the Ewing Northern School.

The afternoon is i-eserved for visiting and reminiscing. Dr. Prince, the last and only surviving president of Ewing college, will give the centennial address using the subject, "Why the Beacon Light Failed." Dr. (Continued on Page 2, Col. Forecast Southern Olinois ble with a chance of bhowcrs and thiuidershoweis to- and Cool to- and Saturday.

Cool tonight hut warming 8oniewh Saturday. Lows tonight in SOs and. SOS. high Saturday near 70 trul to the mid to upper south. Mt.

V. Temp. Thursday Ugte low SS. 7:00 a. m.

today SB. Downtown noon today M. Rainfall from 7:00 a. m. iaf to 7 :00 m.

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