Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

LIGHTER SIDE Maybe we were pretty poor in the old days, but at least dime stores didn't have to use layaway plans. ELEGRAPH Serving the Alton Community for More Than 131 Years FAIR Low Hlghtt (Complete Wwrtfctr A-l) Established January 15, 1836 Vol. CXXXtl, No. 144 ALTON, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1967 18 PAGES 7c Per Copy Member of The Associated tfip. Economy Plan to Council The Wood River City Council will be asked tonight to approve plans to stimulate the economy of the downtown business district.

Thomas Corbett, president of the Wood River Civic Action Association, said his group has ambitious plans to attract additional business to the downtown and will, "Request the blessing of the City Council." He said no funds will be sought from the city to implement the plan. Corbett said the plans call for the erection of a number of directional signs pointing the way to the downtown business district and to Wood River, an anti-litter campaign and expansion and improvement of parking facilities for shoppers in the central business area. The association has already installed a large sign, approximately 10 feet tail and II feet wide, at Rte. 3 and Ferguson Avenue, which cost more than $800. Corbett said other signs will be posted on the outskirts of Wood River, and they will state the location of the city.

In addition, he said, signs will be placed at the end of Wood River Avenue and on the southeast corner of Ferguson and Wood River Avenues. These signs will inform shoppers where the city parking lot is located. The plan calls for 30 trash containers to be placed downtown (some are already there) to prevent litter and afford revenue for the association. Corbett explained the Joliet panel ads firm has agreed to furnish the trash cans at no expense to the association. The firm seels advertising which is posted on the cans and 25 per cent of the gross advertising revenue will be paid to the association, said Corbett.

He said other projects which toe group has in mind Include a walkway from the city parking lot to Ferguson Avenue in the downtown shopping district, new sidewalks in front of the stores, and improvements for the Ferguson Avenue railroad crossing. Corbett said not only is the crossing rough, but trains block the street for as long as 25 minutes and it is excessive. He said the association would like to purchase an old building downtown, between the city parking lot and Ferguson Avenue, remove the insides but leave the roof and supporting walls intact, and turn it into a walkway and arcade connecting the parking lot with the stores. Jeanno Yakubian, an association member, said the public has some misconceptions about the economic condition of the downtown. Yakubian said the downtown has been enjoying an upward economic trend, and that the only reason the public sees empty buildings downtown is because the owner is requesting a sky high rent, or refuses to make improvements.

The Wood River Civic Action Association had only 21 paid members last week, but a mem- (Continued On Page 2, Col. 3) Marines Suffer Heavy Losses in Fierce Battle HOODED SUSPECTS Hooded Viet Cong suspects are loaded on an army vehicle with the help of a U.S. soldier after their capture southeast of Due Pho, about 320 miles northeast of Saigon. They were transported to an interrogation center. (AP Wire- photo) Egyptians, Israel Clash Near Suez By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egyptian and Israeli troops clashed at the Suez Canal for the third day today as the United Nations prepared to vote on demands for the withdrawal of Israeli troops thousands of INSIDE Today EDITORIAL A-4 Haste makes waste and the Junior College District referendum proved it.

ALMOST A-2 Motorist almost hits Alton police car he's put in jail. TOWER A-3 Government control tower at Civic Memorial Airport had busy year. FAMILY A-S Northwest cherries are arriving on the markets with suggestions for recipes. BARRETT B-i There's a group of woodcarvers for retired people with time on their hands. and Israel said Arab refugees could return The Israeli army said Egyptian troops on the canal's west bank fired for 20 minutes at Israeli soldiers on the east bank Qantara, about 25 miles from the canal's northern entrance.

The Israelis said the Egyptians fired across the canal a second time two hours later, but the Israeli troops returned the fire and the Egyptians quit shooting. Israel, which captured nearly all of Egypt east of the canal in the June 5-10 war, reported three such machine gun and mortar attacks Sunday on its positions near El Qantara. The Israelis said they silenced the Egyptian gunners each time. Radio Cairo said Egyptian forces in position on the eastern bank turned back an Israeli attack and destroyed six tanks and nine armored cars in two days of fighting. The two sides clashed Saturday night on the east bank Egypt claimed its men had been there all along.

Israel saic about 100 Egyptians had crossed the canal and penetrated about nine miles into the Sinai Penin sula before being driven back across the waterway. Each side protested to U.N Thant that the other had broken the June 10 cease-fire. Israeli army spokesmen re ported seven Israelis wounded Saturday night and one Israel officer seriously wounded and 'several" men slightly hur Sunday. Egypt made no mention losses or casualties At the time of the cease-fire Egypt had a force in Port Fuad on the east bank across from Port Said at the canal's north ern entrance. Radio Cain claimed the Israeli were trying to move on Port Fuad.

Israeli military men inter preted the new outbreak as an attempt by Egyptian Presiden Gamal Abdel Nasser to rally hi shattered army against th threat of an Israeli invasion 'he Israeli newspaper Maariv uoted political informants in erusalem as saying the Egyp- ians might be trying to in- luence the U.N. General As- embly to vote for the with- Irawal of Israeli forces from lands they captured in Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Two rival resolutions are before the assembly, neither assured of gaining the two-thirds vote needed for adoption. Both call for Israeli withdrawal. By GEORGE MCARTHUR ietnamese SAIGON Marines available, halted an infiltrating force of Although about 3,000 North Vietnamese regulars Sunday in a savage battle that cost more than 200 American casualties.

Communist artillery followed up the attack today by hammering at the Marine base. A U.S. Marine spokesman at Da Nang listed Leatherneck casualties as 58 killed, 34 miss ing and 125 wounded. He said 8(5 North Vietnamese had been killed. Commanders on the scene said more Communist! may have been killed wounded in counterstrikes U.S.

planes, artillery and nava guns. A Marine sergeant at the bat tie scene told a newsman "Last night's missing Marine became today's dead ones." The battle took place in th long-threatened 1st Corps are just below the demilitarize one, The Communists kept eavy pressure today with thun erous, big gun barrages and a mbush that raked a 100-truc outh Vietnamese convoy. Intensity Mounts The war mounted in intensity the ground and in the air bove North Vietnam with these major developments: 1. The Marines stopped the lite North Vietnamese 90th legiment moving south for an ttack on the Marine outpost at Rampaging Youths Defy Police in Wisconsin Resort By JAMES R. POLK LAKE GENEVA, Wis.

(AP) Thousands of rampaging ouths hurled beer bottles and fireworks at police Sunday in a second night of violence in this southern Wisconsin resort city Windows were broken, parking meters ripped loose, am police stoned in the three-hour uprising. Lake Geneva police refused to say how many youths had been arrested, but estimates from Hundreds Killed on Highways By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The toll of lives in traffic accidents during the Independence Day weekend surged past 400 today, and the National Safety Council said it appeared the final figure will be "about in the mid-range of our prediction." The council had estimated in advance that 700 to 800 persons would be killed on the streets and highways during the four day holiday period. With a day and a half to go, a council statistician said the probability was 720 to 750. At midday the number of traffic fatalities since 6 p.m. Friday was 412.

The holiday weekend officially ends at midnight Tuesday. Six persons were killed in southern Virginia today when their car crashed into a signpost on Interstate 95. Police said a tire blowout apparently caused this accident 10 miles south of Emporia. authorities placed above 100 for the th. tW( other igure nights.

National Guardsmen wer alerted at the county seat Elkhorn and mobilized at an armory but did not enter Lak Geneva. Three times police pushed tin milling crowd of youths bad into a lakeside park in efforts downtown businesses be fore bringing the outbreak un der control early today. Police began shutting dowi bars about two hours in advanc of the normal closing time an imposed a 1 a.m. emergenc; curfew on the city. "We sure took a beating, said Lake Geneva Donal Fry.

"We're going to get i again tonight, too." Lake Geneva, 75 miles north west of Chicago, has been Fourth of July mecca for res less youths who have explode in holiday disturbances for fiv straight years. "We go through this ever year up here. And every year gets-a little worse," said Deput Sheriff James Van Beek. was quite a violent mob Sunda night." Estimates of the crow ranged from 3,000 by one polio man to 9,000 by Van Beek. Mo of the suds-guzzling youths were in their teens and early 20s.

Lake Geneva has a pbpulation of 5,000. It is a lakeside city of hotels, resorts and bars. troops are also the heavy fighting elow the demilitarized egan just after daybreak Sun- ay, many details remained inclear today. AP correspondent Steve Stib- reported from the area hat two companies of Marines, acting on intelligence information, moved into a blocking position above Con Thien, which lies about a mile below the demilitarized zone. In the first seven hours of fighting, the Marines called in blistering supporting firepower from jet warplanes, artillery guns and 'two U.S.

destroyers lobbing shells in from the coast. Artillery Support The Communists their attack with supported about 700 rounds of artillery, mortar and rocket fire and fired at least 1,000 rounds Sunday and today in the main battle and in attacks on Dong Ha and the Marine- South Vietnamese camp at Gio Linh. Some were big 140mm, probably fired from North Vietnam. A few miles above the demilitarized zone in the jungled area of the Mu Gia Pass, a rescue helicopter got in Monday to pick up an Air Force Thunderchief pilot shot down the day before. Wiseman Questions Bridge Plan Stall Con Thien.

2. South Vietnamese headquarters said that about noon oday a Communist force umped a 100-truck supply convoy moving from Da Nang to Phu Bai with an escort of armored vehicles and two compa- lies of troops. Initial reports did not specify osses to the convoy. 3. The vital Marine airfield at Dong Ha was put out of use for ive hours by Communist gun- ire, and considerable damage caused to the.

Air Force radar installations there which keep watch over the demilitar- zed zone just to the north. At four Air Force men were wounded. The Red gunners fired 120 rounds at the installation. Three Jets Lost 4. The Air Force said three U.S.

jets were lost in raids ovei North Vietnam Sunday. Om pilot of a Navy Skyhawk jet wa; listed as missing in action. The pilots of two Air Force Thunder chief jets were picked up in dar ing helicopter rescues. One pilo hid overnight, and 32 aircraf participated in his rescue. 5.

Troops of the U.S. 1st Ca valry, Airmobile, Division bat tied a guerrilla force Sunday perhaps 250 men holding a con cealed underground fortress ii the foothills of coastal Borig Son In a nine-hour figh the cavalrymen killed 75 Com munist troops but had 19 deac and 33 wounded. The sharp increase in actio led to speculation that the Com munists wished to show thei muscle on the eve of America July 4th day celebrations. Red Offensive The determined stab throug the demilitarized zone by th North Vietnamese 90th Reg merit strengthened the belief U.S. commanders that anuthe Red offensive in the 1st Corp area is possible at any time possibly along with a Comrrm nist offensive in the centr highlands, where fresh Nort NO PUBLICATION The Telegraph will not publish Tuesday in observance of Independence Day.

Alton Mayor Clyde Wiseman today questioned why financing of a bridge to link sparsely populated Calhoun County with Grafton is going through the state legislature while a proposed new Clark Bridge at Alton is at a standstill. A Senate and House bill which appropriate $25,000 to make a feasibility study for construction of the bridge at Grafton across the Illinois River has passed both houses and a compan- ion Senate bill approprial- ing $1 million for construction of the bridge, if the feasibility study is approved, has already passed the house. In a statement to Ralph Smith, Speaker of the House, Wiseman said recently, "as you know Alton for over a year has been attempting to replace the present inadequate Clark Bridge facility crossing the Mississippi but we have been unable to get any state participation on this project, although the Division of Highways and engineers generally recognize the. present facility to be totally inadequate for modern traffic." Wiseman said thai his Citizen's Bridge Committee and himself feel that the state should more appropriately participate in the replacement of "a facility which has been found to be feasible though over 30 years of public usage." Duncan Worker Home Hit; Shots Miss Tot For the third time in four days, violence erupted in the six-month Duncan Foundry and Iron Workers Co. strike as shotgun pellets ripped into an Alton house nearly striking a six-year old girl at 8:36 a.m.

Sunday. A shotgun blast shattered the Sunday morning calm at the home of Joseph Wooff, Residence police reported. Wooff is a Duncan supervisor. The pellets crashed through two window panes on the southeast corner of the house into a bedroom Mosquito Plague Brings Spraying, Mayor Announces By JOHN STETSON Telegraph Staff Writer A record mosquito infestation -in Alton and mounting com plaints have forced officials to start a spraying program today Mayor Clyde Wiseman announced. The mayor said that mosquitoes in Alton are worse this year than he can remember and added that an emergency spraying program will go into operation this evening if the weather permits.

One of many complaints, Wiseman said, "plus the fact which have come into the Telegraph office about the rash of mosquitoes, apparently due to flooding at the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, was from Mrs. Carol Stark, of 3012 Edgewood in the Milton area. "The mosquitoes are so bad out here that I can't even let my five children go out in the daytime, Mrs. Stark said. She said for the past four weeks the mosqiutoes have been as bad during the daytime as after dark.

Other residents have attested that they have never seen worse year for mosquitoes. Meanwhile Mayor Wiseman said that the city has not sprayed yet for two reasons: (1) rainy season (2) cost. "We did not want to spray before July 1 while the rainy weather was prevalent and have all the insecticide wash that this is a very costly proj- ct." The Mayor said the insecticide used costs $9 per gallon or approximately $500 for a 55 gallon drum. "Of course we cut it i something but still this is expensive Wiseman said the city at one point received an estimate from firm to fog for mosquitoes through spring and summer and the cost would have been $15, 000. "We have $10,000 appropriat ed for spraying and for weec cutting," Wiseman said, "so the only time we engage in spray ing is when it reaches emergen cy proportions." Wiseman said that city fog ging crews should be able t( completely fog the city in two nights.

SPORTS B-5 Cubs continue winning, now share first with Cards. Copter Sinks in Holiday Shores Lake where the Wooff's daughter, Marion, slept. "They (the pellets) covered the foot of the bed," Wooff told the Telegraph. The girl, however, was uninjured, he said. Mrs.

Wooff told Alton police that she saw a dark auto speeding away from the house. The incident follows a Friday night shotgun blast at the home of another Duncan supervisor, Lester Lofts, 2709 Delmar, Godfrey. Thursday night, the back glass and wlndshiel dot Henry Knoche, Rte. 1, Dorsey, was shattered by shotgun pellets. Like Wooff and Lofts, Knoche is a Duncan employe.

In all three incidents, the subjects involved heard or saw a car speeding away from the scene. Some six previous shootings have marred the strike since its beginning in January. The violence, however, had subsided until the latest series of episodes. Alton Mayor Clyde Wiseman had announced that the city wpuld try to close the foundry and eliminate picketing by court action if public safety were threatened. Alton's now antiquated Clark Bridge was constructed in 1928.

Wiseman told the Telegraph that he has nothing against the people of Calhoun County and Grafton having a bridge, "in fact I think it's a good idea," he said, but he feels that Alton's need is far greater at this time. "When you stop to think that Calhoun County in the 1960 census had a listed population of 5,933, which is less than half of the cars which cross our Clark Bridge each day, you can realize how great the need is at Alton for a new bridge," he said. Meanwhile, the mayor received some encouragement for a new bridge today when Virden E. Staff, Chief Highway Engineer for Illinois told him that $16,000 of Alton-motor fuel tax funds can be used for a first stage, engineering study. "I plan to call the engineering firm of Howard, Needles, Tammen Bergendorf, whom the city has hired, so that they can start an engineering study right away," Wiseman told the Telegraph.

He said the engineering would have to be done in several stages and this first phase "will tell us if we want to continue with the project." The proposed Calhoun County bridge was planned to pave the way for a mul- ti-milliondollar resort area according to recommendations by the Illinois Senate Appropriations Committee whose 15 members endorsed the subsequent bills at Springfield following their introduction by Sen. William Lyons (D-Gillespie). Lyons said that "with the new Grafton marina and the scenic McAdams Memorial Highway hundreds of thousands of people will come to the area and can't get out." The senator was referring to thousands of tourists who (Continued On Page 2, Col. 7) St. Louis Police Sgt.

Ed Moore will be looking for a new method of reporting traffic conditions to baseball fans this week, as the KMOX helicopter he reports from is now under 25 feel of water in the lake at Holiday Shores east of Alton. While on a photographic assignment for publicity pictures at Holiday Shores the $32,000 helicopter mo- mentarily lost power, hit the lake, and sank, taking some $2,500 worth photographic equipment with it. Suffering minor injuries was the pilot, Maxie Holmes, 32, of St. Ann, who was hit in the head by a rotor blade when he jumped into the water. Holmes had already instructed the photographer, Darrell G.

McDonald, 118 2nd Edwardsville, to leave the craft. Both men were picked up within seconds by boaters on the lake. McDonald, a commercial photographer and a part- time cameraman for the Edwardsville Intelligencier, told the Telegraph the following story: "We were shooting tures while hovering about 10 feet off the water, when suddenly the 'copter lost power, but Holmes goi it back into the air," McDonald said. "No more than had we got back to about 10 feet the 'copter lost power again and dipped into the water. "With a foot of water in the cab, Holmes still tried to get the helicopter out, but the en 0 just wouldn't develop power to get us up." banked the heli- copter while still in the water to the right and told me to jump out the left side, which 1 did, and then he cut all the switches and exited the right side.

That's when he got hit in the head by one of the rotor blades," McDonald explained. "We weren't in the water but a few seconds when boaters rescued us and rushed us to Alton Memorial Hospital where I was examined and released, and Holmes was treated for a slight concussion and then released," McDonald said. Viewing the incident from another position was David Hall of Rte. 2, Godfrey, who, along with his wife and two children, was at edge of the lake. Watching the aircraft as (Continued On Page 2, Col.

1) IT'S OUT THERE Swimmers stuud noucha- lautly on the beach while a buoy Lu the middle tlie Holiday Shores Lake marks the $32,000 helicopter sank Sunday alter lotting.