Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 13

Section Pages ItolO ALTON EVENING ALTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1969 Classified A killed- '-'10 or 15" Vietnamese civilians on orders from Lt. William L. Galley Jr. during the alleged massacre at My Lai in March 1968. The Army announced Monday that Galley would be given a general court -martial on charges of premeditated murder in the deaths of 109 men, women and children in the village of My Lai.

"Why did you do it?" the veteran, Paul Meadlo of Terre New Section Of 137 to Open Soon SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 24 Opening of a newly completed section of Interstate 5.7 from south of Mt. Vernon to an interchange with ill. 161 east of Centralia is scheduled for, Dec, 9. The 22-mile section is part' the longest of the interstate routes in Illinois and cost $26 million to complete, Public Works Director William F.

Cellini said. In addition to the paving, the section includes six bridges, 14 highway grade and eight railroad grade separations. Interstate 57 is the longest of the routes in Illinios. It will total 350 miles in length when completed. It runs between Chicago and Cairo by way of Kankakee, Onarga, Rantoul, Champaign-Urbana, Mattoon, Effingham, Salem, Mt.

Vernon and Marion. Opening of the Mt. Vernon section will put about 250 miles of the route into use. It also will provide motorists with 105 miles of continuous interstate pavement from north Mt. Vernon to near Cairo.

Another section of 1-57 from Champaign-Urbana Rantoul is expected to be opened to traffic late in December, Cellini said. Other portions of the route are under construction and expected to be completed in 1970 and 1971, he added. The 22-mile section around Mt. Vernon includes five interchanges: 1:64 south of Mt. Vernon; US 460 and 111.

15 west of Mt. Vernon; 1-64 north of Mt. Vernon; Federal Aid Secondary 819 north of Mt. Vernon and 111. 161 east of Centralia.

Illinois has a total allotment of 1723 miles on the nationwide network of 41,000 miles. About 1170 miles of the Illinois route is open to traffic. Burglars Loot Home On Seminary Burglars looted an Alton house of at least $100 in cash, several rifles and shotguns and an undetermined amount of jewelry, Alton police reported today. Police said the intruders broke a glass in a storm door at the home of George Eichorn, 3180 Seminary and ransacked virtually every room in the house. Police listed the missing items as two shutguns, a .22 caliber rit'ie, at least three diamond rings, silverware and two Bankmark credit cards.

Police said the intruders also looted a freezer and ransacked dressers and closets. In other police news, an off- cuty Alton police detective reported spotting a woman stealing a potted plant from the lobby of the Salvation Army, 525 Alby St. Police Detective Sgt. Donald Sandidge, who was Off-duty, said the nimble thief jumped into her car and escaped at high speed. John R.

Budde of 5205 Williams Place reported to police early today that battery had been stolen from his car as it was parked on Illinois Avenue near the Owens-Illinois Haute, was asked by interviewer Mike Wallace on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. "Why did I do it? Because I felt like I was ordered to do it. And it seemed like I at the time I felt like I was doing the right thing," Meadlo said. "Because like I said," he continued, "I lost buddies, I lost a damn good buddy, Bobby Wilson, and it was on my conscience. So after I done it I felt good, but later on that day, it was gettin' to me." Meadlo said in the Interview that he estimated "just by looking" that 370 men, women, children and babies were killed that day in My Lai.

He said the company commander, Capt. Ernest Medina, "was right there. Why didn't he put a stop to it? He knew what was going on he was right there he could of put a stop to it anytime he wanted to." Medina was Galley's immediate superior. Galley's attorney, George W. Latimer, Salt Lake City: "I'm not sure why he (Mead- lo) is talking.

And I don't know anything about his credibility or the circumstances of the interview. I think it's not good ethics for a witness to be telling things in the press before a trial." Meadlo said in the interview that the day after the My Lai incident he stepped on a land mine and subsequently lost a foot. He is now out of the Army. Following are excerpts from the CBS interview: Wallace: How many people did you round up? Meadlo: Well, there was Glass Works. Harry William Roe of In dustry, reported that a stereo tape recorder and 19 tapes with a total valua of $275 had stolen from his car as it was parked in the 400 block ot Carroll Street.

about 40-45 people that we gathered in the, uh, in likd I say, in the center of the village Q. What kind of women, children? A. Men, women, children. Q. Babies? A Babies.

And we kll hauled them up, we made them squat down, and uh, Lt. Galley came over and said, 'You Know what to do with them, don't and I said, So I ttiok it for granted that he just Wanted us to watch them. And he left, and came back about 10 j)r 15 min- KITCHEN CHECK Pat Nixon, the First Lady, stops by to make a check in the White House kitchen as chefs Henry Haller, left, and Heinz Bender prepare a meal. On Thanksgiving Day the White House will entertain 270 senior citizens at the traditional holiday fare. (AP Wirephoto) Congress Urged to Enact Rail Safety Legislation By Telegraph Medill Service WASHINGTON The so- called consumers revolt has entered slill another arena against insurance companies which become insolvent.

"Too often consumers who nave purchased insurance protection at great cost and personal financial sacrifice iscover when they need )rotection the company they jaid has become insolvent," a spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America told a Senate subcommittee. The subcommittee has been holding a series of hearings on a proposal to create a Federal Insurance Guaranty Corporation to protect the public against some insurance company insolvencies. A Senate subcommittee has that 80 or 109 property and casualty companies becoming insolvent from 1958 to .968 wrote at least $517,415,614 automobile insurance )remiums before they became insolvent, Erma Angevine, the By GORDON BROWN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Congress should enact comprehensive railroad safety legislation to protect the public against the potential death and destruction of mishaps involving toxic gases and volatile chemicals, a federal safety panel said today. The recommendation of the National Transportation Safety Board came in its report on a jlast and fire last January at Laurel, when 15 cars of a Southern Railway train derailed. The cause, the board said, was a tank car wheel which broke when the train rumbled through a crossing.

Parts of some of the tank cars were lundreds of feet. Two persons died of burns, 33 others were hospitalized, 1,350 houses were damaged-and 54 were destroyed. Total damage was estimated at $3 million. The board recommended that Transportation Department, railroads and producers of hazardous liquids develop a cooperative program aimed at technical improvements in handling this cargo. Additionally, the board called Alton Girl Wins Bausch, Lomb Award Patricia Ann Laux, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Alvin Laux of 1824 Worden Alton has PATRICIA LAUX been granted the Bausch and Lomb Science Award for her outstanding scholastic standing in science subjects at Alton Senior High School, As a winner of the award, Miss Laux is eligible to compete for the Bausch and Lomb Science Scholarship at the University of Rochester. Miss Laux intends to'study radiology at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.

She is a member qf the National Honor Society and a Candy Striper at'St. Joseph's Hospital in Alton. for improved track inspection, car wheel design, crossing designs, and communications between train crews and local fire departments. The board classified the accident "as one which clearly demonstrates the potential for public disaster and economic loss which can result from a simple derailment where hazardous materials are involved." Tires Made by 4 Firms Fail 30 of 120 Tests WASHINGTON (AP) Tires made by four major American manufacturers and said to meet government safety standards failed 30 out of 120 tests of com- iliance, the Department of Transportation says. The failures in tests by independent laboratories hired by government involved endurance, high speed performance and strength, the department announced Monday.

A tire industry spokesman, however, discounted the test results as giving "a very misleading and distorted view of the overall situation. "The favorable experience of millions of motorists over many years with good, safe tires far outweighs a few isolated laboratory tests," said Ross R. Orms- Boyle Seeks Demo Post in 53rd District Attorney Kenneth R. Boyle of Carlinville will be a Democratic candidate for state representative of the 53rd representative district. The district consists of 17 townships in Madison County and the counties of Macoupin, Bond, Clinton and Montgomery.

Boyle, a graduate of Virden by, chairman of the Tire Industry Safety Council. A spokesman for the Department of Transportation said the government has taken no action against manufacturers on the jasis of the tests and none have been recalled. Tests involved tires made by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber B. F. Goodrich, Armstrong Rubber Co.

and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Spokesmen for B. F. Goodrich and Firestone disputed the re suits, saying too few of the millions of automobile tires pro duced each year were tested to get a representative picture. The department did not release a description of how the tests were conducted.

It emphasized test failures do not automatically mean a safety viola tion, and test successes do not establish compliance. Students Will Police Schools RALEGIH, N.C (AP) Stu dent task forces will be organized in North Carolina this winter to help deal with unrest in the public schools. This was decided Monday by 15 -high school pupils from around the state who met to plan ways in which pupils can deal with school racial problems. High School, received his degree in political'science in 1959 from the University of Illinois. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in political science.

He received his law degree from the university in Boyle was edged out of the primary jn a close race with Pon Barry to J908. utes, and said, 'How come you ain't killed them And I told him that I didn't think you wanted us to kill them, that you just, wanted us to guard them. He said, 'No, I want them So he stepped back 'bout 10. 15 feet, and he started shooting 'em. And he told me to start shooting.

So I started shooting, I poured about four clips into, to the group. Q. And you killed how many at that time? A. Well, I fired them on automatic, so you just spray the area you really can't know how many you killed So I might have killed 10 or 15 of them Q. You're married? A.

Right. Q. Children? A. Two Q. How do you shoot, babies? A.

I don't know. It's just one of them things Q. Did you know Lieutenant Galley? A. Yes, he was my platoon leader. Q.

And could he have stopped it or he was under orders from Medina? A. I wouldn't know Q. And what is your feeling now in retrospect as you look back on all of that? A. Well, it's been on my conscience and it's going to stay on my conscience for the rest of my life, but like I said God punished me the very next morning." Q. By A.

By me stepping on a land mine. So I feel like I've been punished. Consumers' Revolt Spreads to Insolvent Insurance Companies The I corporation proposal met opposition by a spokesman from can Society of Management. the suran "No be enactod in this area until tates legi federal legislation should have had a change to develop and consider their own 1 a i on insolvency problems," James E. Bailey paid.

He cited several states which already have enacted laws to provide protection policy against insurance companies. holders insolvent 'We like to customers as think of our sophisticated buyers," he said. No one Is forced to purchase policies from insurance companies with shaky management and all prospective buyers should make careful investigations of Insurance companies before purchasing policies, he argued. Subcommittee chairman Frank Moss (D-Utah) countered that it is not the sophisticated buyers which need the assistance "but rather the average man who is likely to buy a policy because a smart salesman convinces him that his policy is a safe one." Sen. Proxmire Offers New Strategy to Curb Pollution Federation said.

When the executive director, 80 companies tial tion basii they LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON issociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Williim Proxmire says a poten- olution to the water pollu- oroblem would be a federal fee charged to industries on the lakes and streams. failed, consumers as of September, 1968, were left with automobile policy holder claims against the companies totaling more than $525 million. Another witness explained that in many states a lack of auto insurance means immediate cancellation of driving privileges.

"Some persons in Illinois holding auto policies in a bankrupt company, were doubly-damned, perhaps triply- damned," because of financial losses incurred when their companies became insolvent, a spokesman for United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America said. For example, persons holding policies in mutual insurance companies can be made subject to the debts of the company, John Yolton, administrative assistant of the organization said. Because of this factor, many Illinois policy holders in these companies have found their wages withheld and in some cases have lost their jobs, Yolton said. Since 1959 policy holders of seven mutual Illinois insurance companies have been assessed to raise money to pay claims filed against these companies when they went into liquidation. These assessments have eluded a total of 193,058 policy holders in the state.

The assessments were made, Yolton explained, under a law that provides when such companies become insolvent each policy holder might be assessed double the amount of his premium. Much of (he rancor in the cities stems from this sort of 'white collar crime'" Yolton said, and this anger makes an insurance guaranty corporation an imperative undertaking. Yolton compared the principle of the proposed insurance The Wisconsin Democrat says Jtion of this new strategy in ado the of the amount of wastes dump into the nation's polluiton war would give in- to that of the Deposit Insurance. corporation Federal Corporation (FDIC) founded in the 1930's to insure depositors of member banks against bank failures. NOW OPEN! ALTON MUSIC CENTER S28 College At Main (Upper Alton) Phone 405-6183 COMPLITI UNI OF MUSICAL INSTHUMINTS ALSO CLOCK ANP WATCH dustry a meaningful incentive to curb waste production and produce billions of dollars for the construction of vitally needed mu nicipal waste treatment plaits.

he nation's 12-year battle ags inst water pollution has been a near total failure that has cost more than $5.4 billion in federal funds. Proxmire said in a Senate speech introducing the pollution plan. Until now, Proxmire said, the antipollution effort has had two prongs: The building of treatment plants on a non-coordinated first-come-first-served basis and the issuing of cease-and-desist orders to major polluters. Under the present strategy, Proxmire told the Senate, "It is simply cheaper in many cases for an industry to pay a fine and continue polluting the water than to develop pollution control devices The only way to reverse this system is to make it economical not to pollute." Proxmire said that under his bill an industrial polluter would pay a fee based on the demand )laced on water used in dispos- ng of waste products and the oxic content of the waste. "Since the charges would be developed on a per-pound basis, there would be a direct incen- Jve for polluters to reduce waste production in order that a major part of the charge would HEADED FOE AN Lt.

Gov. Paul Simon, left, walks with State Senator Alan Dixon to a private meeting of slatemakers Honday in Chicago. Both men are seeking the Democratic nod for U.S. senator. Man in background state policeman Fred Perry.

(AP Wirephoto) be eliminated," he said. The user fee system would produce an estimated $1.5 billion in the first year of operation, Proxmire said. Proxmire said similar plans are in operation in Canada and Europe and have been notably successful in stemming pollution. 2 Youths Charged With Auto Theft EDWARDSVILLE Two Edwardsville area youths were charged with auto theft early today on complaint signed by the owner which was of the stolen recovered by car Edwardsville police within minutes after the theft was reported. Report of the car theft was made at 12:53 a.m.

by Bill over of 1103 Troy Road, who said that he had seen two souths driving his father's 1966 Juick south on Troy Road. At 12:56 a.m., the car was discovered by police parked at gas pumps at Hicks Service Station on S. Buchanan Street and Gerald Wilson, 18, of Glen Carbon and Stephen R. Winn, 8, of Rte. 7, Edwardsville, were arrested in connection with the reported theft.

Winn, who was seated in the driver's seat, when ap- Drehended by police told police hat he had a key to the car, which he had made with the permission of Bill Cover, who, he claimed had said he had permission to drive the auto at any time. Bill Cover denied ever having given permission to Winn to drive the car and disclaimed knowledge of Winn's possession of the key. The two were charged with auto theft after Henry Cover, owner of the auto, signed a complaint early today. FREE ESTIMATES on aluminum siding or roofing Plus: 2,500 Free Eagle Stamps If we do the iob Plus: 2,500 Free Eagle Stamps upon completion of the job David M. Drahl Son GENERAL CONTRACTING Phone 463-6471 FALL SPECIAL brunnt 100,000 BTU Gas Furnace With All Ducts and Controls 00 125,000 BTU Gas Furnace With All Ducts antl Controls S85 INSTALLED HEATING W.

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