Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 2

ALTON EVENING 29, 1965 Johnson opes to Pressure JL Interest Rates Downward By JACK BELL JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) MANY THANKS Lftl Bahadur Shiwtri, prime minister of India, gfvcs club in New Delhi. The money, donated by groups traditional greeting with his hands after he was given and individuals throughout India, is for the national a garland of rupee bills during a visit to a women's defense fund. (AP Wirephoto) Merchants Hit Traffic EDWARDSV1LLE A group of merchants here art expected to attend TUes- city council meeting to protest new control system, inaugurated last' week on a six-month trial basis. The system, which includes lane restrictions, no parking zones and turn controls, is designed to speed vehicle flow at specific "problem" areas, according to Alderman Michael Rains, chairman of the street anil alley committee.

Objections from merchants in the area stem from the removal 6f parking meters on St. Louis Street, Main Street and Hillsboro all in the heart of the downtown business area. Main Street merchhant, who recently built his own parking lot at the rear of his business but lost parking space in front of his establishment with the new "no parking zones" told the Telegraph today that he definitely plans to join the protesting group of merchants. "Do we actually have a 24 a day traffic problem downtown?" he re-, marked. "Traffic flow in downtown Edwardsville is heavy only at certain hours of the day and, even then, in my, opinion, not heavy enough to constituute a problem.

"If a real problem exists In downtown traffic control, it exists only during specific hours. Why was it necessary to remove the" meters completely? They; be hooded during the so-called problem hours." He expressed the hope that disgruntled shoppers who have failed to find parking areas near stores and banks would Join the protest group at the council meeting Tuesday night. Under the new control system, it is no longer possible to make a left turn into Purcell Street from Main Street. One merchant on Purcell today expressed his objection to the sys tern as "extremely confusing to the stranger in town. If he ap- Two Girls Report 3 Men Raped Them Police continued their investigation today into the alleged brutal assault of two young Alton women who said they were raped Saturday night bj three men who forced them tntc a car In the 1000 block of Altor street.

Ministers to Oppose Later Tavern Hours EDWARDSVILLE At least one ministerial group will be on hand to oppose any extension of county tavern closing hours when the liquor committee of the Madison County Board of Supervisors meets here Thursday morning to consider possl- preaches the business area from Jhe south, expecting to a left turn into Purcell Street, he discovers this Is no longer possible. Then he drives north on Main Street, makini his turn on College or Higl Street in order to approach Purcell from Second Street, but discovers once on Purcell that he can't park public park, ing for shoppers is on the north side of Purcell Street only, the south side of the entire block being reserved parking for courthouse personnel only." Another Purcell Street business owner, however, said he was willing to "go along" with the new system until he found would work, bad growing pains here and new systems are going to be needed. If this one work, I'm for it. However, the real need in downtown Edwardsville seems to me to be the necessity for off-street park- Ing lots." out how well it "We're having Alton Evening Telegraph Published Daily by Alton printing Company StEV Home Loot $1,200 in Burglary EDWARDSVILLE Burglars stole seven rings and three watches valued at $1,200 hi one of four weekend burglaries reported to the Madison County Sheriff's Department two in Godfrey and two In the Dunlap Lake are near Edwardsville. The rings and watches were stolen from the home of Lt.

Comdr. Richard D. Hamilton, 47 Thomas Terrace, Edwardsville. A neighbor, Robert Stille, discovered the burglary Sunday morning, finding that a patio door had been pried open while Hamilton was away for the weekend. In the same area, the home Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Wanous, 7 Jiscayne Drive, was burglarized, with items valued at $67 reported stolen while they were away for the weekend. Loot from the Wanous home, which was thoroughly ransacked, included $21 in cash; a watch, four cartons of cigarettes, and a lighter. Entry was through a forced patio door. In the Godfrey area, two house burglaries Sunday were discovered by returning homeowners.

Robert McClintock, of 913 Taylor in Northmoor Addition, and Edward OH, of 5514 Ladue in Belraont Village, discovered their homes had been entered by burglars who, hi both cases, use a tool to pry open kitchen and garage doors. McClintock, 48, an employe of American Oil reported that, when he returned at 8 p.m., he found a kitchen door pried open and three bedrooms had been ransacked. Four Kennedy half- dollars apparently were the only things taken, McClintock told deputies who arrived to investigate at 8:47 p.m. Edward Ott, an Alton jewelry store owner, returned to his home at 11 p.m., finding doors pried open. A check revealed a wristwatch valued at $71.50 was missing and that the first floor and basement were ransacked.

ble revisions in a twice-tabled proposed new county liquor ordinance. The Rev. Paul Surbey, pastor of St. John's United Church of Christ at Granite City, told the Telegraph today the Quad- City Ministerial Alliance of which he is social concerns chairman will have representation at Thursday's public hearing on the proposed new liquor ordinance for unincorporated areas of the county, and will oppose any change in the present tavern closing regulations. The Rev.

Surbey said he hoped that other ministerial groups over the county, including the Alton-Wood River and Collins- vllle areas, would have delegations on hand to oppose any relaxing of tavern closing hours when the county board's liquor license committee conducts a scheduled public hearing at 10 a.m. Thursday at the courthouse to consider any revisions in the proposed new county liquor ordinance sought by Sheriff Barney Fraundorf to tighten up regulations of taverns in unincorporated areas. The Rev. Siirbey, member of a group of ministers which successfully opposed extension of county tavern closing hours about four years ago, said to day report; have been received that a newly-organized group of tavern operators in unincorpor ated areas again Is heading a move to extend the present closing hours. The girls told police the men drove to a location near Lock- laven them.

Golf The course and accosters, raped police were told, then drove back to an apartment In Alton, where one of the men lives, and raped one of the girls. The 18 and 19 they escaped from the apartment qnd ran to a nearby house for help. A man, after hearing the girl's story, alerted police. Police Chief John M. Heafner said the girls will be interviewed by the Madison County state's attorney's office.

Chief Heafner said the department has three suspects in mind. The 19-year-old girl told police she had met the three men on Friday and Saturday evenings at an Alton tavern. She said that, Saturday night, the men asked her and her friend to get Into car, but they refused. The men, she said, then forced them into the car. President Johnson hopes to bring pressure to bear against what he believes are unjustified profits being rung up by the nation's lenders from overly high interest rates.

If he has found no way to curb the money changers in his temple of economic stability, the President is ready to give them a hard time about the mounting Interest rates they are charging the government when it is forced, as it is continually, to borrow more and more money. His first move in the direction of easier money could come in the naming of a new member to replace C. Canby Balderston, expected to retire about Jan. 1 from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. However, William McChesney Martin, the Federal Reserve Board chairman whom critics have blamed for high interest rates, still has more than four years, to go on his present 14- year term.

A proposal by the late President John F. Kennedy to make the chairman's term coincide with a presidential term went nowhere in Congress, and the Johnson administration has no plans to revive it. The board is maintaining a 4 per cent rediscount rate at this point which tends to boost interest charged by banks and other lending Institutions. The White House has figured out that the cost of short-term borrowing by the Treasury has 2.378 per cent interest; this month, the rate has been 4.097 per cent. Long-term Treasury bonds cost the government about 12 per cent more than in bo- cause of an increase in the average interest rate from 3.90 per cent to 4.36 pet cent.

Secretary of tht Henry Fowler, In i speidi at New Orleans Sunday night, said any further increase in interest rates as a brake against possible Inflation gfowing out of the long economic boom would be "premature and unwise." This Is one of several reasons given by White House officials to explain why the new budget Johnson will-send to Congress Jan. 17 will g6 the $ldO-bil- lion mark possibly to $105 billion or more. United Fund Within $6,000 of Goal The Alton Wood River area United Fund is approximately $6,000 short of the 1965 campaign goal with one day remaining until the final-report meeting, executive director S. John Crawley reported. Approximately $464,709.42 has been pledged, which is 98.7 per cent of the 1965 goal, Crawley said.

Volunteer workers and families who worked in the fund drive will attend a Victory Celebration Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand special projects committee chairman Herbert Hellrung said. The celebration includes 'a motion picture and other activities. Workers with any unrepbrted pledges are urged to bring them to the meeting, Crawley said. Divisions under the 100 per cent mark are small industry, institutions, Mercantile A and Community.

Volunteer workers are ing communities before the drive ends for individual gifts from persons not otherwise solicited In the annual campaign. gone up 72 per cent since 1961. In that year the Treasury was renting money for an average of SUNNY AND COLD The girls, were driven police were told, out the McAdams Memorial Parkway to a location near the Lockhaven Golf Course. The 19-year-old said one of men forced her to three times. Another man, she said, forced her twice.

Two of the men forced the 18-year-old into relations, police were told. The 19-year-old told police that one of the men threatened to beat her if she did not The men drove from, the location to an apartment in Alton where the 18-year-old was again raped, the girls told police. Police said the girls apparently escaped the men by running front the apartment. They ran to a nearby house where they sought help, police said. Authorities said the victim knew the men only by their first names.

Bridge (Continued From Page 1) fired a foreman for alleged insubordination. The supervisor was transferred to another city three days later by the Ruckman firm. One St. Louis County con struction worker employed on the bridge project, who had been laid off about weeks before, was murdered Nov. 12 when a bomb wired to his car exploded.

He was Michael John Buckley, an associate of police characters, Police, however, have found no link with Buckley's death to any labor trouble on the Chain of Rocks Bridge project. Snow flurries are forecast Monday night from the Lakes area and the Ohio Valley into New England with rain expected over the south Atlantic coast states, the central and northern Pa- cific coast and the northern Rockies. It will be warmer in the Plains states colder from the Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians and south Atlantic coast. (AP Wirephoto Map) Weather Forecast ALTON and vicinity Generally fair and cold tonight. Low 14 to 20.

Sunny and continued cold Tuesday with the high around 40. Outlook for Wednesday mostly sunny and a little warmer. Extended Forecast Southern Illinois Temperatures Tuesday through Saturday will average near normal. Warming Tuesday and Wednesday, then turning by the weekend. Normal highs range from the upper 40s north to low 50s south.

Normal lows range from the upper 20s north to the low 30s extreme south. Little if any precipitation is expected. Data At The Dam 8 a.m. at Alton Dam Temperature 22; tailwater 6.8 yesterday's high 44, low 29. COU Editor.

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