The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 3

Monday, July 1, 1968 THE EDWARDSVILI.E INTELLIGENCEK Peking Shuns Coming Talks Plane, Passengers Are Returned Blacksmith shops disappearing from scene Schuetfe Closes Staunton Shop Blacksmithing Nearly a Lost Art By Jim Zivic Of the Intelligencer It's getting so a lonely blacksmith can't exist anymore, ac- corclmq to John C. Scimette ol Staunton, who closed up shop toclaj alter 46 years of service. he said "I guess it's aaout tune quit." turned V4 on Sunday. The a i trade is a tost an. Schuetle said.

With acetylene and electric welding a need fire Melding. Scluiette explained that in (lie hex day 01 the blacksmith, the kind ol welding that existed was he technique of placing Metal in a Jorge and heatina it enough so it could be fused v.ith another piece of metal equally hot. It a tough work, he said "You could hear that old anvil ri'ig 10 and 12 hours a day." He from MinrLse i alter sunset i only an hour out to "I had to take a rest sometime, and my much hour was it." Schuette took only ti.o in his 46 years. People alwavs needed "uorses slioed, plows welded or something fixed. "I could hard ly yet a a But he took off Sundays.

"1'iat's whore I drew the line "1 don't regret it," he said. "It ve a a hard time. we Jiaie it no matter where we are or a we're doing." He confessed he made a satisfactory business, "but didn't get lich by it And I got plenty Oi exercise," he added. Lately he has been doing just i-glU work--fixing pot handles Stock Market Fails to Rally New York (AP) The stock market made a feeble a i to rally, but it see.ned to be getting this afternoon. Trading was below Friday's pace.

In early dealings, gams out numbered losses bj more than issues, but the advantage a cut to about half a as wore on. The Don Jones industrial av srage at noon held a thin aam 01 .30 at 898.10. Associated Press average 60 stocks at noon was off .2 at 339.5, witli industrials ofl Mils of! .3, and utilities up i' Commercial Credit paced the iis, on a i rcgistenng a nun gam, after reports a i Theatres had i a its tender lor shares of the a i i company. Prices were generally higher on the Ameucan Stock change. Trading was slouer on Fridaj.

and a few pWs and making general repairs. "The blacksmith trade is on its last legs now, but welding is doing pretty Edwardsville Man Missing In Montana Robert J. Elberson, 20, of Edwardsville is missing and presumed drowned in the Jocko River at St. Ignatius, wheie he recently became vacation replacement minister at St Ignatius Christian Church. Elheison was last seen Tues day by his wile, the former Donna Richardson of Belleville, while they were on an outing near Twin Lakes in the Mission Mountains.

His disappearance was reported to the Lake Conn ty sheriff's oiiice at 8:30 p.m. Tuesdax Ef torts, re.cm ex the. body a been unsuccessful. The area ivhere Elberson was last seen is described as very rough and the rivei extremely high and fast. The Missoula County Search and Rescue Unit, using a bloodhound, followed Elbeison's trail to the edge ol the river where a rope was found secured ta the bank.

According to a spokesman for the unit, it appeared that Elberson liad tried to snag a rope across Hie river to pull himself hand hand across the watei. His pack, including camera equipment, was found snagged on the bank three quarters of a mile dounstream from where the rope was tied. The spokesman said if Elberson had gone about 200 yards farther downstream, he could have gone across the river on a bridge. Job Corpsmen from the Kick ing Horse Camp searched along the river until the hunt was halted by darkness Elberson is the son of Mr and -Mrs. Albeit F.

Elberson, 700 Yale A and has a brother William of St Loms He had planned to spend the month of July at the Christian Camp on Lake Roiiau. good--it's about 80 per cent of the business It's a good business for a young fellow, if he can take it--the fumes a dust." Mr. Schuette came from a family of blacksmiths. His fa ther was a blacksmith ancl so was his father's uncle, August Sander, who fought and a killed in the Civil War. His two younger brothers, Arnold and Walter, did not take up the trade.

"I guess they just wanted lighter work." Born in New Minden. I I 1., Schuette came to Sta'jnton in 1922 after learning the trade from his father and working in Alhambra for a few years, ed lust before he entered." There was a vacancy left by one blacksmith at 220 S. Elm St. when Schuette came to Staunton, so he bought the shop and has been there since Some things a changed qiiite a bit. he said "1 used to get ten cents tor sharpening a 12-inch plow.

Now I get 81.25. Tt was. considereiL good money if you got 2 50 to S3 a day." Also, he said, "people don't have to work as hard. They have shorter hours and more pay for overtime. "But we live in different times." he explained, "when things are changing and are going to keep on changing.

We can't change that." Yet in other areas there has been little change. "The young people stay out late at night and carouse, just like they did then. They a cars to drive and more money to spend, though Schuette feels that society is unfair to those 65 and over. If age disqualifies some in private jobs, the same rules should be applied to those in government who are too old to be effective, he said. He also disagrees with those who fee! society as a whole js immoral.

"Things aren so bad. It's just that the popula tion is getting larger." Schuette and his wife. the former Amanda Riechman of Hoffman. 111., live at 309 E. Pearl St.

They have no children. United Nations, X. A I Communist-China has refused to accept a message from Secretary-General U. Thant inviting Peking to attend a U. X.

sponsored nuclear conference in Geneva, a U. N. spokesman disclosed today. Thant sent a telegram to Peking last week inviting the Chinese Communists to have ar. observer at the conference of nonnuclear countries in Geneva Aug.

29-Sept. 28. The U. N. spokesman said this message was received from the Peking Telegraph Office Saturday: "The People's Republic of China has no relations whatsoever with the United Nations We therefore refuse to the June 25 telegram of U.

Thant As an observer Communist China would have enjoyed the same privileges at the Geneva meeting as the other world nuclear powers--the i States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France. This would includf the right to take part in the proceedings, but not the right to vote As members the Big Four automatically received invitations. In his message to Chinese- Foreign Minister Chou En-lai the secretary general said he would be grateful if your government could inform mP at an early date of its intention with regard to participation in the conference Tne U. N. spokesman said there was no direct replv from Chou, but only the service message from the Peking THe graph Office telling of tlu refusal to accept the communication But the spokesman ad ded that Thant considers the action an official rejection of (he invitation.

BULLETIN Key West, Fh. A An American airliner hijacked to Cuba two days ago wi'h 15 passengers aboard landed todav at Key West's International Airport. plane was released for takeoff from Havana at 1:34 p.m CDT and lauded in Key West 41 m.nutes later. Area Deaths Dead at 72 l-deas Needed: A Travel Kit for Kids Corn Soybeans Wheat Shoris Markets 51.03 S2.5S $1.11 $3.45 Eggs and Poultry St Louis (AP) Eggs, consumer grades; A large 27-00, A medium 20-23. A small 13-15, large 21-23; wholesale grades, standard 2022 unclassified 19-20.

Hens, heavy n-i2; light over 5 Ibs 8: under 5'i Ibs broilers and fryers 28-28'j. Dow Jones Averages New York (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Indus 898.10 up 0.30 20 Rai 's 261.59 off 0.18 15 Utils 132.80 up 0.20 65 Stock 326.70 up 0.04 SURFING TEAM SOUGHT Durban, South Africa (AP) A six member surfing team to be chosen in trials from July 6 to 8 will represent South Africa at the world surfing championships in Puerto Rico Nov. 7 to Bj Joe Meyer Of the Intelligencer When you it be for a long or short distance. and a small children as I do. one is a a i i of different gimmicks to keep them oc cupied and make the driving chores lhat much easier.

The age of the youngster usu ally determines a kind gimmick you elect i which to interest your passengers. Another factor could be the length ol the trip and the part of the country you have chosen to visit. There are the old standbys like "dot" books, coloring books and puzzles, if your children are of pre-school age. Those who have advanced through the early grades have their own little games that prove interesting even for the oldsters. I remember being a counselor on a YJICA trip to the west coast.

The two favorite pastimes of the boys were jotting clown all the different types of filling stations they came across on the 8,000 mile venture and see ing if they could spot one license from every state in the union. I picked up the idea and with the permission of the other staff members, offered a prize for the boy or boys who came up with the most by the trip's end. Last summer when our went to Yellowstone National Park, keeping the boys occupied proved to be the most trying aspect of the venture. Once we got to our daily cles tination, the bojs were as good as anjbody could ask. They marvelled at the mam thing's we saw and a thousand and one questions at us about this and that They the typical who, a and why questions that parents a to answer each day.

I'm surprised in one waj that toy companies have not come with the travel kit for kids It seems odd that something like it hasn't been developed. I might that I have not seen one, if it has been eloped, and I'm basing my opinion 011 that. With many of the major- chains and companies now refusing to either make or sell en toy firearms, a travel kit which features things for young sters to do seems a logical replacement. A bon voyage gift from one of our friends brought the idea of a travel kit to mind. The old shoe box was filled i different types of penny a nickle treats.

It had a small game that nobody has solved yet and was appropriately wrapped up in an old map. The card that went with it said to the effect, "Have fun and good luck. If an idea of a travel kit for kids has not crossed the drawing board, it probably will be fore too much more water under the bridge. William Yaegcr. 78, Route 3, Edwardsville, died Saturday at 10:30 p.m.

in St. Joseph's "Hospital, Highland, where he had been a patient for one week. Born Dec. 11, 1889, in Germany, Mr. Yaeger was the son of the late George and Marj (Fikl) Yaeger.

He was a resident of the Edwardsville area for the past 27 years. Mr. Yaeger is survived by his second wife, the former Martha L. Kulm. whom he married on Dec.

24, 1963. Several nieces and nephews, all in Germany, also survive. Mr. Yaeger was preceded in death in 1962 by his first wife. Mrs Mary L.

(Vester) Yaeger, whom he married in 1927 in Indianapolis, Incl. They moved to Marne in 1941, where Mr. Yaeger operated a meat market. and later, a locker plant. One sister and three brothers also preceded him in death.

Mr. Yaeger was a member ot the United Church of Christ, Marine, and of the Loyal Order of Moose, Edwardsville. He was a past master of the Marine Lodge AF and AM, 355. Mr. Yaeger also held memberships in the Royal Arch chapter of Highland: the St Clair Council No.

61 E.S.M. of East St. Louis: Cominandry 81 of the Scottish Rite bodies' of East St Lotus, and the Ainad Temple A.A M.M.S. of East St. Louis.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the United Church of Christ. Marine, Rev. R. H.

Hosto officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Hills Cemeterv, Edwardsville. Friends may call at the Halleman Funeral Home Marine, after 4 p.m. today. A graveside service will be conducted by Marine 355 AF and AM Charles Rheude Charles Rheude, 88.

ol Riverton a retired carpenter, died Sunday at 9:15 a m. in Memorial Hospital, Springfield Mr. Rheude, who was born in Sonderheim, Germany, on July 7. 1879, was the father of Mrs Russell Mullikiu, of Edwards- vifle, and George Rheude of Biverton, both of whom survive. He is also survived by his wife the former Effie Jones, whom he married on Sept.

ll, 1901 ia Springfield. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Rheude home Riverton. Burial will Oak Hill Cemetery, River- The Staab Funeral Home Kiverton, is in charge of funeral arrangements. Havana (AP) A substitute pilot for the American airliner hijacked in Florida Saturday and flown to C-iba armed in Havana today and the Swiss Embassy said the Plane and its 14 passengers will Gun Show Interesting An exhibit of guns ranging from types used in the Revolutionary War to modern magnums, coins and other paraphernalia drew crowds all day Saturday and Sunday to the VFW hall on Marine Road.

A. W. Stephensmeier of St. Louis, director of the gun and coin show, said he never advertises his shows, which started several years ago. is always a crowd." The people who come to display their collections, he continued, are those with antique guns who want to buy, sell or trade.

Also, he said, a number of Illinois dealers exhibit their newest models in slock. "Funny thing, some of these people," he said referring to the gun collectors, "are doctors and lawyers. There are two chiefs of police here." But it's an expensue hobby. Stephensmeier was selling Colt cap-and-bal! hand guns from the Civil War for $200 and $300 apiece. These guns are not exceptional, he said.

"It's a every Colt collector has." Besides guns, there were also exhibits of coins, glassware, kni- be leaving shortly. The embassy, which handles American interests in Cuba, said the substitute pilot was from Southeast Airlines but declined to identify him further. A spokesman said the original pilot, Cuban-born George Prellezo, will not be aboard fhe Southeast plane. Prellezo, who is now a naturalized American citizen, is being held prisoner by the Cuban government on charges that he left a Cuban plane in Miami in 1960 when decided not to return to Cuba The twin-engine DCS was flown here at gunpoint en route trom Marathon, to Key West. The hijacker was iden hfied by the Cubans a American but there has been no further word on him since the plane landed.

Officials kept newsmen away from the passengers smce their arrival. They have been staying a the Havana Libre, formerly the Hilton, but they are believed to have departed for the airport early this morning. The Swiss Embassy said thai as soon as fueling and a i costs and formalities are com pieted the plane will be readv to return to Florida. Pilot's Wife Fails In plea to Co to Cuba Miami, Fla. (AP) The i ol an American air liner pilot held prisoner in a Havana jail pleaded in vain to day to fly to Cuba for a visit with her husband.

A substitute pilot went to Cuba early today to return the hijacked airliner, leaving be hind Mrs. George whose husband was forced gunpoint by a hijacker to land his plane in Havana Saturday Prellezo a arrested bj the Cuban govern' ment for trial on charges of defecting to the United States eight years ago. The new pilot. Allen Cribb-. was taken to Varadero, aboard an empty, chartered airliner that flies daily to Cuba if the plane was diverted to Cuba for the purpose of kid napmg him.

Mrs. Prellezo was dry-eye but bitter over what considered a lack of act on bv the S. State Department on belielf of her husband. As for her request lo go to Cuoa, a spokesman for a i line said today, "She didn't get the permit so she i go." Livingston Gas Station Robbed Nearly $400 in cash was taken in a strong armed robbery at the Bovvlesmeyer Service Station. Livingston, early Saturday mom ing sheriff's deputies reported, Richard Ulrich, station attendant, said the robbery took place between 5:45 and a m.

rich was found tied up in a rest room at the service station. Two Negro men, described by Ulrich as being between 23 and 35 years old, forced to turn over the money and a a over tre money and drove a a in a black, late-model Bmc'k convertible. Shcritf's reports said Ulrich was taken to the Staunfon Community Memorial Hospital with lacerations to the head. SlU-Edwardsville Lands Financial Grant Illinois state grants totaling S40.381.50 for the 1968-69 school year been approved by the Illinois Scholarship Commission for 224 students at the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University. The grants are intended for students with moderate academic potential from low income families.

FAMINE AID Gaberones, Botswana A A Botswana government re- jewelry The next antique gun and com show at the VFW hall will be July 27. A high immigration official in i a i said it had not been determined if it was coincidence that Prellezo was tne pilot of the hijacked airliner or gram for famine relief has been granted. Emergency rations to feed 10,000 families for 10 months are expected to start arriving here soon. Book Review Mersey Relates Detroit Riots By Eliot Fremont-Smith (c) 1968 New York THE ALGIERS MOTEL INCIDENT. By John Hcrsey.

Hardvocr: 397 pages; Knopt; S5.95. Paperback: 334 pages: a a Si.25. Last Julj 25, at the height ol the Detroit riot, three Negro youths were shot dead at close range in the annex of a seedy establishment known as the Algiers Motel, about a mile aud a half from the riot center. Tne killings occurred after city policemen, state troopers and National Guardsmen had converged on the motel in response to an erroneous telephone report of sniping Seven other Negro youths and white prostitutes eventually allowed to leave the building. The girls had been stripped by the police and al' had been beaten.

The Negro survivors reported being lined up against a wall in the hall and forced to play a sadistic "death game" during which sevsral of them were ordered to pick up a knife from the floor so they could be shot "in self-defense." Two policemen subsequently confessed. One of the confessions was disallowed in court on a technicality law-enforcement agencies like assail: the policeman had not been verbally assured of his rights before confessing The other policeman, who claims self-defense, is awaiting trial for murder. These two. olus a third policeman, and a Negro private guard are also under federal indictment for couspir ing to deprive, the 10 Negroes ol the Algiers "incident" of their civil rights. Hersey had originaly intended to write a book on the order of "Hiroshima" and "The Wall" about the whole Detroit Riot, but "the incident at the Algiers Motel kept insisting upon attention, and eventually I determined to focus on it." The result is an account a documentary told a verbatim in the words of in terviewed policemen, witnesses, families and friends of the victims and others involved in the incident, and official records and transcripts that makes plausible aud deeply shocking sense.

All "Mythic Themes' "This episode." he writes, ''contained all the i themes of racial strife in the United States: The arms ot the law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; subtle poison of racist thinking by 'decent' men who deny that they are racists; the societal limbo into which, ever since slavery, so many young black men have been driven iii our country; ambiguous justice in the courts; and the devastation in both black and white a lives that follows in the wake of violence as surely as utiaous and indiscriminate flood after torrents." 01 the many portraits in the book, the two most stunning are of one ol the i boys and one of the policeman. Hersey is causing his book to be publishsd simultaneously hardcover and in paperback without profit i Page 3 Senator Tower Supports Nixon Washington AP) Sen. John G. Tower, favorite son of the 5fi deiegation to the National Convention in i a i threw his support a to Ric'iard M. Tower estimated thai no Kvs a 4i) ol the Texas a favor Nixon and sa-d he expected a on i a i the former vice president would get -U or 45 vo'es from the Texans.

At a news conference in his office. Tower tinusM that on the basis of Nixon's reported support other states this wou'd be to put over on the first ballot. Tower said he had disclosed his plans to Nixon at a meeting in New Yi-ik I Tuesday He disclaimed any ambition to be ce prevdun and he had no d'seussicn of this with Nixon. "We talkod primarily about Tower said. In reply to a question, Tower sa'd a he would suppor Nelson A.

Rockefeller if the New York giAemor should be nominated. a ncminatioa highlj unlikely. Commission Fees Probed Washington A An official si the New Vor 1 Slock Exchange conceded today it costs a customer more in commissions and fees to bn a higher price stock although nc- more work is invohed for the broker dealer Robert M. Bishop, vice president ot the exchange, contended, however, that the customer was getting more sertice for his money. He was the first witness to testify at hearings by the Securities aud Exchange Commission in its investigation ot the cost of but ing und selling stocks.

Eugene H. Rotberg, an SEC attorney, asked Bishop wVvy it would cost about two and a half times as much fees to buy 10( shares of $80 stock comparer! with 100 shares of a $10 stock. In response Bishop said that in setting up its minimum rate schedule tne exchange had tried to set a balance. The minimum rate schedule is under ime-ni gallon at the hearing. Union Files Grievances Communications Workers of America Local 5051 has filed two grievances protesting the June 7 dismissal of Charles Parkhurst, a technician at the Highland office of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co, a union spokesman said today.

James Johns, union steward, said one grievance had been filed on the local level and one at the district level in Springfield. They charge that Parkhurst was dismissed without just cause. Arbitration is scheduled in New York. Johns said it could be as long as two mouths before a decision is reached on the matter. Two meetings have been held by union aud company representatives for fact-finding purposes.

A local meeting was held June 10, and a district meeting on June 25. Seven men are employed by ATT's Highland office, as well as one employe of Western Electric who works at the Highland office regularly. ATT declined comment until a statement is prepared in Chicago Arthur Ashe of Richmond defeated Clark Graebner ol New York 6-4, 6-3 for the West of England tennis singles title Dirksen-Percy Huddle Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, right, shews his pleasure Saturday at the Republican state convention a private conversation he shared with another GOF lead- er, Sen.

Charles Percy. (AP WirepJioto) Dirksen Would Fight Attempt At Filibuster Washington (AP) Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois said today he w.li vote to cut off any filibuster against Senate con- firn.ation of President Jolm- son's Supreme Court nominations. He also told newsmen lie did not think a filibuster would succeed. "I believe there arc the votes for cloture," a i referring to the two thirds majority required to put the Senate's debate cut-off rule into effect.

Johnson lia a Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren aud Homer Thorn- berrv, a U. S. Circuit Court judge, to replace Fortas as an associate justice of the Su prerne Court. Nineteen of the 3G GOP senators have signed a petition pledging to vote against Johnson's nominations. They contend he should leave the" filling of Supreme Court vacancies to the next president to be elected in November.

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