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

TEMPERATURE Wednesday high 82, low 65. 7:00 a.m. today 66. Downtown noon today 82, Rainfall from 7:00 a.m. Wednesday to 7:00 a.m.

today .95. MI REGISTER-NEWS Generally fair and continued pleasant toniglit, low 57-6'l. Clear to partly cloudy and a little warmer Friday, high in mid 80s. VOLUME 225 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1967 30c PER WEEK KILL 143 REDS VIET ACTION By France MIDEAST LINKED TO VIET WAR KERNER, GOP TRY FOR TAX AGREEMENT A GIFT TO strange, 60-foot-tall creature has landed on the Civic Center Flaza In Chicago. It has staring, never-blinking eyes, that to be following the progress of the workmen assembling the sculpture, a gift from artist Fablo Picasso.

It will weigh 160 tons when fully assembled and is being put together from prefabricated pieces. (AP Wirephoto) Planning Far- Reaching Car Safety Rules NEW YORK (AP)-The fedr eral government plans to mand far-reaching auto safety features that will dwarf innovations so far required, the Wall Street Journal said today. Federal auto safety planneis are considering more than a dozen novel features that probably will be required equipment in three to six years, the newspaper said in a story from Washington. The story said these items were on the government's priority list: A built-in speed limit, probably about 80 miles per hour, presumably through inclusion of a device in the auto's power train. A replacement for the gearshift, which safety officials say can stab car occupants.

The replacements could be buttons or dials. A "unitized" seat, roughly resembling an astronaut's chair, wrapping around the occupant's shoulders and back to help keep him stationary in a ci'ash. Cat Takes Long Ride On Train WEST PLAINS, Mo. cat hopped a freight on the Pacific Coast and got more than halfway across the country before he was discovered. Workers at West Plains found him this week in a Frisco Railroad car that had been locked since the train left California.

Mi-s. J. E. Hard now is looking for a permanent home for the gi'ey and white hobo that she fed. 3 Dead, 2 Kidnaped Arrest In Senseless Killings CEDAR RAPIDS; Iowa CAP) Texas construction worker was arrested here early today and held on charges of suspicion of murder in the apparently senseless killings of three persons and kidnaping of two young girls.

Held in the city jail for authorities from, neighboring Benton County was a man identified as Joseph' Robert Carter, 42, who gave addresses both in Dallas and Beaumont, Tex. Victims of the shooting spree Wednesday night were Mrs. Charles Schwab, 42, Belle Plaine; Leland Skoog, 55, rural Elberon, and Skoog's son, Found sobbing and terrified in the trunk of a car Carter was driving were Christine Schwab, 11, daughter of the slain woman, and Christine's 11-year-old cousin, Julie Brak- slek of rural Elberon. They were unharmed. Offers 100 Free White Reindeer VAN NUYS, Calif.

(AP) Fritz'Burns wants to give away 100 white reindeer. He said his herd has be6n used in Christmas parades, but has grown too large. Ed Reinecke, investigated and said today there appeal's to be no space in a national park for so many reindeer. The congressman said Burns will give them to any zoo or park that will pay the franspor- tation costs from Los Angeles. Leffler Is International Optimist Vice President Alford Leffler, of Tempe, a former Mt.

Vernon resident, is the new vice president of Optimist International. He was elected yesterday at the orga- nizs.tion's annual convention in Portland, Oregon. Leffler is a former lieutenant governor of the southern Illinois Optimist area and he also served as president of the Mt. Vernon Optimist luncheon club. He with WUson and Wilson Architects here and in Tempe is an architect with Bradley Consfruction Company.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 0. Leffler of 1305 Jones, Mt. Vernon.

He has been a resident of Tempe for three years. His stepson, Robert Wacker, was national champion in the annual Optimist oratorical contest at Toronto in 1963. STERMBERO IS PRESIDENT PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 6ene Stermberg of Granite Alford Leffler City, was named Wednesday president-elect of Optimist International at its convention. By WILLIAM L.

BYAN AP Special Correspondent UNITED. NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) France declar-ed today that as long as the war in Vietnam continues there is "no chance for peace in the Middle East." French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, in his nation's policy statement in the General Assembly debate on the Arab-Israeli war, said that. ending war In Vietnam would "require a courageous "require a courageous and fruitful decision on the part of a great state" meaning the United States. Should the Viebiamese war end, he said, "then new horizons would open up." Neither Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin nor Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko was' present to hear the French statement. They were at the Soviet mission, preparing to he hosts at a luncheon to U.N Secretary-General Thant, and perhaps waiting for a break on the possibility of a Kosygin meetmg with President Johnson. The French foreign minister's statement was mild in tone. He avoided the direct condemnation of Israel that had highlighted a statement Wednesday by President C3iarles de Gaulle.

And he appealed for a negotiated settlement of the Middle East crisis, which he repeatedly called grave and' dangerous to world peace. "Our policy- is the preservation of the unity of Jerusalem, the elevation of its cultural and religious life and free access to its holy places," he said. Jordan Barred Jews Jordan seized the Old City in the 1948-49 Palestine war and barred Jews from their holy places in it. The Vatican weekly L'Osser- vatore della Domenica suggested that the United Nations become custodian of Moslem, Christian and Jewish holy places in Jerusalem. Cairo, cheering crowds greeted Soviet President Nikolai V.

Podgomy as he arrived Wednesday for a meeting with President Gamal Abdel Nasser which was seen as a further demonsfration of Moscow's support for the Arab cause. Podgomy was preceded by Marshal Matvei V. Zakharov, chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces. Restoration of Egypt's arsenal shattered by Israeli forces during the lightning war was believed high on the agenda of Soviet-Egyptian talks. Informed sources in Moscow said the Soviet government has promised to replace without great cost the store of Soviet amis lost to Israel in the war.

There have been reports from Washington and Cairo that Soviet arms are already arriving in the Egyptian capital, but they could be part of a consignment in the process of delivery when the war broke out. U. S. May Help Jordan Officials in Washington said the United States is considering steps to help Jordan, which apparently was the biggest loser in the war. The officials said economic 'assistance to King Hussein must come soon to bolster Jordan's ruler, who is conr sidered the best friend the United States has in the Arab world.

The United States is in no hurry to rearm Hussein, the sources said, but they added that this, too, must be done eventually to prevent the Soviet Union from becoming the exclusive arms source for the Arab world. Lift Travel Curbs The State Department lifted its June 5 resfriction on American travel to Israel and the Arab countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But resfrictions remained on travel to nine other Arab states Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. U.S. citizens are required to obtain special passport endorsement from the State Depai-t- ment for visits to those nations.

In Jerusalem, IsraeU Defense Minister Moshe Dayan rejected Big 2 Summit Meeting Still A Possibility By LEWIS GULICK UNTED NA'nONS (AP) President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin may decide today whether to hold a summit meeting. Kosygin's stay in the United States was drawing to a close, and Wednesday night then- foreign mmisters left the final decision to their two chiefs. This became known after a three-hour dinner meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.

Gromyko at Rusk's suite in the Waldorf Towers. Rusk and Gromyko dealt with summit possibilities in a discussion which also ranged over the U.N. General Assembly special session on the Middle East and other unspecified items of U.S.­ Soviet interest. Gromyko told newsmen afterward that Kosygin would be returning to Moscow soon but probably not before Friday. Since Johnson had a heavy schedule in Washington today, it appeared unUkely that even a brief Big Two parley could take place until Friday or later.

Some expected Kosygin would stay in New York until the end of the week. One possible indication of a Johnson-Kosygin mieeting came Wednesday the White House announced that Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag of Denmark would see the, President'ln today' instead of Friday, as previously scheduled. Whether the government chiefs of the two superpowers would meet at all remained very much art open question. The White House insisted Wednesday that no arrangements had been made. The issue has become tied to questions of policy and prestige, with Kosygin against journeying from New York to Washington to call on Johnson and vice versa.

Since the U.S. government considers the U.N. session a Kremlin maneuver to curry favor with the Arabs, Johnson was reported opposed to lending his prestige to the assembly session or making what appeared to be a pilgrimage to Kosygin. Kosygin presumably did not want to risk Arab wrath by appearing to make a pilgrimage to Johnson or seeming too friendly with him. The Arabs charge the United States with aiding Israel in the war.

SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Gov. Otto Kemer and RepubU- can legislative leaders were to try again today to reach an agreement on a state tax pro gram. They couldn't Wednesday, but both sides hmted they would give a little. Sen.

Everett R. Peters, R-St. Joseph, said a sales tax m- crease and a "lot of other proposals" were presented at the meeting. Peters is the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman. Other legislators said the proposed sales tax hike, plus added taxes on utilities, cigarettes and liquor, were offered as the most practical plan.

Republican House Speaker Ralph T. Smith of Alton suggested at the conference that exemptions be made in Kemer's sales broadening plan which has been rejected in its existing form. Kemer has proposed the service tax be extended to virtually all services, including doctors, lawyers, barbers and others. Smith recommended that professional services and other occupations wWch would find it difficult to pass a tax on to customers be taken out 9f Kemer's broadening program. Kemer's budget proposal counted on $685 million from the original tax plan.

Smith said even with exemptions, the proposed tax on service occupations would produce million for the two-year budget. In West Mt. Vernon Gas Station And Gafe Planned At 1-57 Interchange SkeUy Oil Company plans to build a new service station and restaurant complex on a seven- and-a-half acre site near Mt. Vernon's 1-57 interchange on west Broadway. The company obtained a city building prmit for the station- cafe at the city hall yesterday.

The station will be located west of the interchange and on south side of U. S. Route 460. Estimated cost of the structures, on the building permit, is $45,000. The company paid a $68.50 fee for the permit.

Dahlgren Sgt. Robert Payne Hurfln Vietnam Mrs. Edith Payne of Dahlgren has received word from her husband, Sgt. Robert L. Payne, that he has been wounded in Vietnam.

Sgt. Payne is deaf In one ear as the result of a mine explosion. He is a patient in a hospital in Japan. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Roscoe Payne of Dahlgren. Sgt. Payne is an assistant squad leader in Company A of the 18th Engineer Brigade's 39th Battalion. He entered the Army April, 1966 and has been overseas since last December. His address is: Sgt.

Robert L. Payne, RA 55511441, U. S. Army Hospital Camp Zama, APO San Francisco, 96343, No Decision Yet Public Square Shopping Mall At Marion, MARION, lU. The city council has approved a study of the possibility of making the downtown area and pubhc square a shopping center.

Plans suggested by the Greater Egyptian Regional Planning Commission would close the pub ic square ad immediate streets in the area and make the square pedesfrian mall. No definite decisions have been made. Another meeting on the plan has been set for July il. (NEA Telephotos) PROUD PAPA passing out the cigars, Pat Nugent, and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson celebrated the birth of a presidential grandson in Austin, June 81, when Luci delivered an 8-pound, 10-ounce boy.

Showdown Expected On Dodd Today By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Thomas J. Dodd says he's confident his colleagues will reject a resolution censuring him despite overwhelming defeat of a bid to wipe out one set of charges against the Connecticut Democrat. The Senate, in its first vote after seven days of debate, rejected 92 to 2 Wednesday a proposal for dropping charges of financial misconduct in connec- tiofi testimonial funds, and substituting an admonishment not to do anything wrong in the future. Dodd, excused from voting at his own request, said the lopsided vote didn't discourage him.

The white-haired, two-term senator told newsmen later he has "complete confidence" in the final outcome because "I have been guilty of no conscious wrongdoing." Expected today are tlie showdown votes on the two counts in tlie censure resolution recommended by the Senate etiiics committee following a 14-month probe of Dodd's financial affairs. One count chai'ges Dodd with converting $116,083 raised at poUtical testimonials and similar events to his own use. The second accuses the senator of double-billing the Senate and private groups for travel expenses. Each is to be voted on separately. Only Sen.

Russell B. Long author of the proposed substitute resolution and Dodd's fellow Connecticut Democrat, Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, voted for it in the late-Wednesday balloting. LUCI GIVES PATRICK LYNDON FIRST BOTTLE Halfway Point $1,500,070 Paid In Taxes; Office Open Saturday Jefferson county Treasurer Leslie Elliott said' today collections on 1966 realty and personal I property taxes have reached the $1,500,070 mark.

He estimated that approximately 50 per cent -of the taxes due have been paiij. Elliott said his'blffice wiU be open from 8 to hoOri Saturday to accomodate taxpayers. He noted that taxes paid after the June 30 deadline require penalty of one per cent per month. The $1,500,070 in payments have been made during the past 30 days Elliott said. KANSAS FLOOD RECEDES RICHLAND, Kan.

(AP) sidents reported conditions near normal today after heavy rains which caused flooding to a depth of four to five feet eai'ly Wednesday. Pinekneyville Board Member Is Jewish Dr. Baker Wants No "Egypt" In Rend Lake College Nome (Continued oa Page Twp 5) PINCKNEYVILLE Dr. Allen Baker, Pinekneyville optom- efrist, is Jewish and he is chairman of the Greater Egypt regional Planning Commls- son. To those who josh him about this anomaly, he has a delightful rejoinder: "We believe in unity and cooperation.

That's the key to our operation. I believe we may be more enlightened than those at some higher echelons of policymaking." Baker calls his own household a "cafeteria of persuasions. His wife, daughter and son all bekmg to different denominations tiiBB bin i) However, Dr. Baker is a member of the Rend Lake Junior College board and he has made it clear to those persons who propose names other than Rend Lake for the new JC that it must not be termed "Egypt." He is not even very fond of a move to call Rend Lake College Pyramid College, even though a popular saying after the five-day war is "Go to Israel to see the Pyramids." He agrees, though, that the name "Little Egypt" (College) might meet specifications of the era in that "Egypt VB getting ksmaller and Cairo Battered By High Winds CMRO, 111. (AP) High winds battered sections of South- em Illinois and southeastern Missouri Wednesday night.

Police reported some damage, but no injuries. Pulaski County authorities said a small church at America was toppled by strong winds. Cairo police said trees were thrown against cars and houses and wires were blowi: down. High winds raked the Hemn area where a funnel cloud was sighted about 6:30 p.m. at the Hearrin ball pai'k.

A fence was blown down but there were no injuries. Harrisburg received 1.72 inches of rain during thunderstorms. Lightning struck a power line, causing a power shortage in the business disfrict foj- more than an hour. Vote July 15 On Fire District ForKell Area An election will be held July 15 on a proposal to create a Kell community fire protection disfrict. Judge James E.

McMackin Jr. has ruled after a hearing at which there were no objections, that a petition seeking estab- lisliment of the district is in order. There will be two polling places at the fire house for the village of Kell and at tlie Robert Williams service station, at Highway 37 and the Kell Road, for rural area residents. To pass the issue requires a majority in both the village and rural areas. The polls will open at 6:00 a.m.

and close at 6:00 p.m. The proposed district would adjoin the Salem and luka fire protection disfricts, with Highway 161 as its northern boundary. Portions of Raccoon, Haines and Romine townships in Marion county, and some sections of land in northern Jeferson county, would be included in the disfrict Weston Smasher Approved WASHINGTON (AP) The confroversial $375 million atom smasher for Weston, cleared the House Rules Committee without opposition today and was sent to the House lor debate next week. By FRANCES LEWINE AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Luci Johnson Nugent gave her baby his first bottle of sugar and water, and doctors reported everything was going well with the President's daughter and his first grandchild.

Pafrick Lyndon Nugent was reported making perfect progress in the maternity wing of Seton Hospital, where he was born Wednesday morning. "Everybody's happy," said father Patrick J. Nugent as he gave an interview Wednesday night, after the birth of his The baby was-wheeled in his bassinet into Luci's hospital room for a first feedhig of water and glucose, Nugent said. Tlie 23-year-old Nugent smilingly confessed he found fatherhood an enjoyable experience. He reported his 19-year-old wife "gay and cheerful." She had received a telegram from her father, the President, in which Nugent said Lyndon B.

Johnson sent word that "his prayers were with her." There was a continuing flow of flowers for the President's daughter at the hospital, where she and her baby were occupying the fourth-floor maternity- wing hospital rooms under Secret Service guard. One of the floral displays, moved into Luci's room, came from New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a White House spokesman here said. Nugent handed out cigars and candy as he announced with tears in his eyes and in a cracking voice early Wednesday that his wife had given birth to an 8- pound, 10-ounce baby boy, 21 inches long.

"It's an elephant, isn't it?" Nugent commented to reporters with a big grin. Toward the end of the day, Nugent confided he chose the name for his first offspring. It was a combination of his own name and that of his paternal grandfather with a middle name of Lyndon after his father-in- law, the President. He also confided he had expected his ffrst child to be a don't know why." The President and First Lady expressed their happiness and Mrs. Johnson said she was relieved as well that the bii'th went without a hitch.

Luci was in labor at the hospital for six hours and her delivery team of five doctors said it was a perfectly normal labor and delivery. Family and friends were noti- (Contlnued on Page 2 Col. 3) 95 Dead And 164 Missing In Fire BRUSSELS (AP) The otli- cial toll of llie lire wliich destroyed the department store a month ago today stands at 95 dead, 164 missing and 62 injured, investigators say. Only 31 bodies were idertified. Nine of the injured are still in hospitals.

Initial suspicions of arson have not been officially confirmed, and no one' HAS been charged with any responsibility (or the fire. The investigation is tODtinuiiig, Report On Study Next Tuesday Eye October Election On Park District Here An election on a proposal to establish a park and recreation district in the Mt. Vernon area will be held about October 1. A final report on a University of Uhnois' evaluation of Mt. Vernon's recreation and park resources will be given at meeting next Tuosrtay, June 27, at 7:30 p.m.

in the community room of Security Bank. Presenting the fmal report will be Alan Caskey, recreation field consultant of the university's Department of Recreation and Municipal Park Ad- minisfration. tion disfrict steering committee will hear the re )rt and expects to be guided by its findings in future for creation of the park districU In addition to the report the University of Illinois has developed a slide film program displaying local facilities and will include a sampling of recreational areas in other sections of the state where park and recreational facilities are operated under the park district type management. The pubhc in invited to attend the Tuesday night meeting and The park aiid recrea-1 hear the university's report, YANKS LOSE SIX MEN IN 2 BATTLES A i Combat Deaths For Week Total 143, Reds' Jets Bomb Targets In North. By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) U.

S. forces reported kiUing 143 CJommunisf froops in two battles in the cen- fral lowlands Wednesday while waves of U. S. jets ranged over a wide area to pound North Vietnam's rail network and its biggest fron and steel works. American casualties in tlie lowlands battles 300 miles nortli of Saigon were six dead, 22 wounded and missing, the U.

S. Command said. It said there was light, scattered contact in 21 other U. S. and allied ground operations.

With good weather prevailing, U. S. Air Force and Navy pilots flew 133 missions against the Communist North. They hammered 11 railroad yards and rail lines from the zone to mort than 50 miles above Hanoi. The attacks on the rail network were a continuation of a two-month-old campaign against Hanoi's rail routes.

U.S. planes raided the Thai Nguyen steel works north of Hanoi for the eighth time, and a U. S. spokesman said an Air Force RFlOl reconnaissance plane was shot down, the 587th U. S.

comhat plane reported lost qver North Vietnam. The pilot was rescued. Hanoi Radio claimed tiiree U.S. planes were shot down Wednesday, including two pilot- less reconnaissance craft. The U.

S. Command announced that 143 Americans were killed in combat last week, the lowest for any week smce early February. American casualties for the week totaled 1,112 seven less than the week before and included 953 wounded and 16 missing. The U. S.

Command reported a big jump in Communist dead, from 1,153 the week before to 1,852. The South Vietnamese emment reported 213 of its troops killed last week, 556 wounded and 14 missing, compared with 215 killed, 496 wounded and 38 missing the week before. U. S. ttibot)S from the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, reported they suffered no casualties in one of the ground battles Wednesday eight miles soutlieast of coastal Quang Ngai aty.

The U. S. Command said 70 Communist troops were killed in the fight, but only one weapon was captured. The Army said helicopter gunships ffring machine guns and rockets accoimted for 51 of the dead. South of Quang Ngai, in neighboring Binh Dinh Province, a company from the 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division ran into an estimated battalion of Communist troops, perhaps 300 to 400 men.

In well fortified positions. Two other companies were rushed in while jet bombers and artillery pounded the Communist positions. The U. S. infan- frymen reported 73 Commimist froops killed in the day-long battle, while American casualties were six dead, 22 wounded and four missing.

In the air war, U. S. Ak Force F105 Tliunderchiefs and F4 Phantoms concenttated on key railroad yards northwest and northeast of Hanoi through which military supplies are tunneled from Red China to Hanoi, then sent through the southern panhandle and across or around the demilitarized zone into South Vietaam. Intrepid Arrives From Sues The aircraft carrier Infrepid, one of the last ships to pass through the Suez Canal before the Middle East war closed il, returned to tlie Vietnam war. Its planes attacked a rail yard 28 miles southwest of Hoa.

NUOtEAR TEST WASHINGTON (AP) -Tills Atomic Energy Commission conducted another nuclear test today, looking toward the time atomic explosives can be used lor major excavation projects. The blast, with a force of up to 20,000 tons of TNT, was set off underground St the.