The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 10

INTELLIGENCER Auto Industry Cuts Seen by Woodcock Monday, February Detroit (AP) The president of the United Auto Workers union says car sales will rebound to the record levels of 1973 before 1980, but he forecasts a glowing down in the aulo industry's growth rate, Leonard Woodcock also said that laid off workers at Chrysler Corp. and General Motors will exhaust their company- paid jobless benefits this spring, bringing "substantial suffering" to some communities. In a wide-ranging interview, Woodcock said thore arc General Motors disregarded its profit formula on new model cars in order to keep the cost within roach of most consumers. "It's quite obvious they can't meet the profit target they once had. Those days have got to bt-hind us," Woodcock said.

CM ii) expected to release its 1974 sales and earning statement today, and the results could drop the firm from its perch atop the corporate revenue rankings to the No. 2 position. Exxon would become No. 1. GM lost the profit title in 1973 while posting company record earnings of $2.4 billion on record sales of $35 billion.

The 1974 sales are expected- to have dropped off slightly, while 1974 profits will be down to about $910 million, market analysts forecast. When the other automakers report later this month, the decline in earnings is expected to be comparable, with Chrysler perhaps operating in the red. The days of making 20 cents on the dollar may be over, Woodcock said. "The 1973 sales volume (U million cars) was said to be about 1 5 million over the long- term trend line," said Woodcock. "That's borrowing sales from the future.

With the slowing of the population growth, the rate of growth will be substantially modified." Area Deaths Mrs. Cordes Dies Mrs. Margaret Cordes. 69, of Route 5. Edwardsville, died Sunday in her home.

She was born April 19, 1905, in Sioux Falls. S.D., a daughter of the late Nicholas and Marie McDonald Schuellcr. She was married to John Cordes on June 10. 1932, in Waukegan. He survives.

Other survivors include a daughter. Mrs. Peter (Dorothy) Gilles of Edwardsvillc, three grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Myra Bayer of Mount Pleasant. Mich Mrs.

Cordes lived in Edwardsville for the past six months after moving from Brookfield. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Fletcher Funeral Home, with Rev. Carl Bennett of First Presbyterian Church officiating. There will be no visitation.

Home, Livingston. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home, with Rev. L. R.

Strother officiating. Burial will be in Spangle Cemetery, near Livingston. Trepatz Meier Pallbearers for the funeral of Ida Meier, held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Weber Funeral Home Chapel, were Fred Barnhart, Criistav Bode. Olin Eick- Wilbur Mick.

Harold Take and Jack Take. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery. Deatherage Jasper Earl Deatherage, 71, of rural New Douglas, died at 5:35 p.m. Sunday in Community Memorial Hospital, Staunton. He had been ill.

He was born July 2, 1903, In Shannon County. a son of the late Henry W. and Effie Smith Deatherage. He was married to Mattie Scharf on May 1939, in Union, Mo. She survives.

Other survivors include a brother. Harvey Deatherage, of Ellington. and sisters Mrs. Boy (Golda) Daws, of St. Louis and Mrs.

James (Mabel (Carver of Salem, Mo. One brother preceded him in death. Mr. Deatherage was a retired carpenter and belonged to the Carpenters Local in St. Louis.

He was a member of the Haaley Road Baptist Church. St. Louis. Mr. Deatherage lived in Jennings, Mo.

until two years ago, he and his wife moved to rural New Douglas, Friends may call after 4 p.m. Tuesday at Lesicko Funeral a Trepatz, 88, of Belleville, formerly of Edwardsville and Staunton, died at 4:10 p.m. Sunday in the New Athens Home for the Aged in New Athens, where she had been a patient 10 months. She was born on Dec. 22, 1886, near Staunton.

Her parents were the late Carl and Selma Schweitzer Kohlenberg. She was married to Albert Trepatz in Macoupin County ia 1923. He preceded her in death. Surviving are sons Albert F. Trepatz of Florissant, and Arthur W.

Trepatz of Carlyle, a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Louise) Chandler of Belleville, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Mathilda Bien of California, and a number of nieces and nephews. A brother and a sister preceded her in death. She was a member of the Christ United Church of Christ in Belleville.

Friends may call at Weber Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Tuesday. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home with the Rev. John L.

Adams, pastor of Christ United Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be in Magaha Cemetery near Staunton. Schiermeyer Pallbearers for the funeral of Viola R. Schiermeyer, held Saturday in the Weber Funeral Home, were Donald Lenny, Stephen Rohe, Kenneth Wiedu- Lesley Wieduwilt, Vernon Marti and Joseph Marti. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery.

Correction The obituary of Caroline (Lena) Hesterberg in Saturday's Intelligencer omitted the name of Mrs. Verna Gardner of Taylorville, daughter of Mrs. Hesterberg, from the list of survivors, STERLING TURQUOISE AUTHENTIC HANDMADE NAVAJO JEWELRY available now YONAKA JEWELRY 100 E. Van da I ia 656-1943 Leaking Gas Kills 9 People In Denver City Denver City, Tex. (AP) Nine persons tried frantically to outrun death and almost made it, but leaking gas from an oil well wafted through the fog and drizzle and killed them.

Tom Merrill, who saw death coming, gathered his wife and two sons and escaped. Eight of the dead were found outside a house, about 50 yards from the Merrill home and 200 yards from the leaking wellhead. Dressed in bed clothes, they tried to flee through the rain to safety about 5 a m. Sunday. Five were found in one car, two in a pickup truck, and the eighth had fallen under the truck.

"The house showed all the way through desperate efforts were made to leave," one witness said. "Chairs were overturned and beds rumpled The ninth victim, an oil field workers sent to investigate the leak, was found dead in his pickup truck Cas Windham, area supervisor for Atlantic Richfield, which owns the well about 3 miles from Denver City in the Texas Panhandle, said the hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxUle fumes leaked from an experimental injection well in which Atlantic Richfielrf was using gas instead of water to recover more oil. Essie Merrill, awakened by the smell, nudged her husband awake. Merrill, a Shell Oil Co. employe, knew what the smell meant.

He called next door to the Pattons who had a "house full of a Then he notified Atlantic Richfield about the leaking lethal gas. His telephone rang. Glenda Patton told him her husband had gone outside, then came back in and passed out, Merrill said. Merrill gathered up his family. "We managed to back out into the road and Essie fell over my foot, slamming the accelerator down running wide open from bar ditch to bar ditch and that's how we got to town," he said.

Mrs. Merrill was reported in satisfactory condition at a Denver City hospital. By 10 a.m Atlantic Richfield workers wearing air packs on their backs had capped the leak. Calif ornia Man Will Get to Keep His Eye Grass Valley, Calif. (AP) Herbert Gibboney placed a newspaper ad last week offering to sell one of his eyes for $35,000 so his wife could have an operation.

The offer is now canceled. Pioneer Community Hospital in Placerville and two doctors offered their services free after reading news accounts of Gibboney's plight this weekend. Gibboney, 58, said he placed the ad because "It isn't pleasant to watch your wife suffer and realize you can't do a thing about it." His 54-year-old wife, Jean, was admitted to the hospital Saturday. Administrator Gary Jones said tests were being made to determine exactly what needs to be done for her jaw, eaten away by tumors. One bone graft two years ago failed to take, but it cost the couple $20,000 and wiped out their savings from the sale of a cocktail lounge in the Los Angeles suburb of Resada.

"She's damn sick," said Dr. John Mathewson, an internist, who examined her at the hospital. "She has been sick for several weeks, and I don't know why she was not admitted to a hospital before." Mathewson and Dr. Howard Graham, a surgeon, donated their services. Gibboney said his medical Insurance was canceled after he suffered a heart attack.

Unable to work fulltime, he says his income is a $210 monthly Social i check, "He's a stiff-necked man," said Jones. "They may qualify for Medi-Cal, but he doesn't handouts, at least that kind." Mrs. Gibboney was relieved her husband will not have to go through with the offer. "I was shocked," she said of her husband's offer. The Gibboneys estimated a second operation would cost about $20,000, but Jones said he had no idea.

"It'll cost a dollar or two," he said "But our feeling is that we've got this far in medicine by people caring for people. When someone really, really needs it, and he can't pay fox- it, we should not make-them, pay for it." Ex-Aide Says FBI Investigated Agnew REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Robert A Meintrup to Tommy Edward Dezort lots 38 37 blk 2 in End Hgts in Edwardsville. Donald Mersinger to Lenore Frey land in sec 31 in Highland. New York Times News Service And Associated Press Washington The former No. 3 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified under oath in 1973 that the bureau investigated Spiro T.

Agnew shortly before the 1968 election at the request of President Lyndon Johnson. In heretofore unpublished testimony, Cartha D. DeLoach, formerly assistant to the director of the FBI, asserted that shortly before Agnew was elected vice president, Johnson asked the bureau to investigate him on a matter of "the gravest national security" and that an investigation was conducted. The testimony was taken by Sen Howard W. Baker R- and Senate Watergate committee a investigators.

Of the FBI investigation, DeLoach said "that the reason this was being done was because they felt the Republicans REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Cottonwood Station Corp to Robert Delaney lot 59 Cottonwood Station II in Edwardsville. FINAL CLEARANCE Women's Fall Winter Dress Sport SHOES Values to $27.99 Children's Fall Winter SHOES $5 Values to $17.99 MEN'S SHOES $5 J15 Vaiues HANDBAGS PRICES SLASHED AND MORE! SINCE 1906 124 N. Main and this was their (the Whits House) statement the Republicans were attempting to slow down the South Vietnamese from going to the Paris peace talks and they wanted to know whom either Nixon or Agnew had been touch with from Albuquerque when they visited the city several days prior to that." DeLoach said that the late J. Edgar Hoover had authorized an investigation and that the domestic intelligence division of the FBI had obtained the toll call receipts of persons on Agnew's staff in an effort to discover if anyone had called Mrs. Anna Chennault.

Mrs. Chennault, widow of the commander of the Flying Tigers in World War II, was alleged to have been an intermediary between the South Vietnamese and the Republicans. Sources who worked on the White House staff in 1968 deis- pute the genesis of the investigation. They say it was the FBI that first suggested Republican links to the South Vietnamese. Ethiopian Jets Flatten Rebel Eritrean Villages Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AP) Ethiopian air force jets have flattened two Eritrean rebel villages in a major escalation of fighting between government troops and Moslem insurgents bent on secession, diplomatic sources reported today from capital of Eritrea province.

The destroyed villages were on the outskirts of the beleaguered provincial capital and normally had a total of 1,200 persons living in them, reliable informants reported. There was no word on the fate of the villagers, but the sources- said that many of them could have left ahead of the bombings Sunday. On the economic front, the nation's military rulers decreed nationalization of major industries in their leap toward full control over the economy. The government promised com-' pensation for national and international concerns but did not elaborate. In and near Asmara, fighting government troops subsided, according to reports from the provincial capital 1 However, between rebels and reinforced Asmara, with its 200,000 inhabitants, a i isolated U.

S. officials reported all 300 American i in Asmara were safe but still confined to their homes. There was no decision on their possible evacuation. The city is 450 miles north Addis Ababa. Markets Dow Jones Averages New York (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Industrials 703.22 off 0.47 20 Transport.

160.11 up 0.49 15 Utilities 80.48 up 0.19 Eggs and Poultry St. Louis (AP) Eggs and poultry: Eggs, consumer grades: A Large 54-65, A Medium 50-62. A Small 44-55, Large 49-60. Eggs, wholesale grades: A Large 43-49, Standard 32-34, Medium 33-35, Unclassified 2224, Pullet 23-25, Pewees 13-15. Young Soldier Shot, Stabbed East St.

Louis (AP) A young soldier, apparently home on leave from Ft. Leonard Wood, was found dead on a city street in front of a vacant rooming house early Sunday, police said. A police spokesman said James B. Fullilove, 19, had been shot twice in. the head and had a stab wound on his left side.

Two Persons Killed in Crash East St. Louis (AP) A man and a woman were killed Sunday in a car-truck crash near an East St. Louis truckstop. Dead are Doyle Witkerson, 49, of East St. Louis and Jacqueline Feld, 40, St.

Louis. Police said a car driven by Wilkerson collided with the trailer of a truck as it pulled on to Illinois 203. Miss Feld was a passenger in the car. Village Potions and Lotions to keep your sweetheart sweet flowering pot 316A 656-0014 EDWARDSVILLE Ready-to-cook broilers and fryers 38.50-40 this week's delivery. East St.

Louis Livestock Estimated receipts Tuesday: 7,000 hogs; 3,500 cattle. Hog receipts 5,000 head. Butchers mosdtly 50 lower. US 1-3 200-240 Ib butchers 39.50-40.00. Sows uneven.

US 1-3 300-400 Ib sows 34.5035.00; 400-500 Ibs 35.50-36.50; 500-600 Ibs 37 Boars under 250 Ibs 33.5034.00; over 250 lb.s 30.00-50. Cattle receipts 3,500 head. Slaughter steers and heifers fairly active, steady with last Tuesday. Cows strong to 1.00 higher. Bulls steady.

Choice 950-1150 Ib slaughter steers yield 2-4 35.00-36.00. Choice 850-1000 Ib slaughter heifers yield 2-4 33.50-34.00. Utility and commercial cans canner 12.00-14.00; 15.00-17.00. TUESDAY NlOHlf FAMJtY i NIGHT 1501 Troy Roait Chopped Steak Dinner Complete Ribeye Dinner WOW! MARCH ANACIN Tablets BOTTLE OF 300 t-m 2' TYLENOL TABLETS BOTTLE 1 QQ OF 100 VASELINE INTENSIVE CARE LOTION 5OZ. Reg.

$1.75 99c KODAK SUPER 8 MOVIE FILM 2.29 Ualentines for Valentine 14 JUST WONDERFUL HAIR SPRAY 1.3 OZ. Cans 49c HAMM'S BEER 2.69 JIM BEAM fifth 3.79 OLD SMUGGLER SCOTCH fim 4.69 Light or Dark RONRICO RUM fifth 3.89 ALPINE BEER 120l Cans 1.99 SMIRNOFF VOBKA fifth 3.89 BEEFEATER GIN fifth 5.09 PM DELUXE WHISKEY fifth 2.98 24 HOUR film developing on black while film 48 HOUR film developing on slides a movie film processed by Kodak 72 HOUR film develop, ing on roll color film processed by Kodak. CHWARTZ DRU05 Open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day for your convenience.

PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Our pharmacists are on duty to fill all your prescriptions at everyday low prices. delivery on prescriptions a sick room supplies. EWSFAFERI.