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The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 3

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Fndiy, THE EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER Wetterau to Construct 0 i Set to Start Shopping Center About Sept. is Plans a been sclosed for the constructs of a 17 acre centei in Ldvvardsville imtrn 111 nois Commonage with frontage on Illinois 157 ac cs om entianct to S-u Illinois Un vtrsitv ESIC President Morns and Edwaidsville Mayor William Stiiube announced Thursday that tht cen ter will be built bv Wetteiau JFoiJs Int St I ouis Wctttrau is the suppliti K.A food Stores in the Mid I i said the shopping ctn tcr i contain 200000 squaie fett of flo-) space and will aboiu Sn i mill on The onlv specific retailer announced for the shopping centei was 10A said plans on the a i bjai I promise one 01 two bu'p'ises fed Wetterau executive ce piesidcnt of VVetteiau Foods Inc told tie Intelligence: that construction of the shopping ctr'u should begin in ipnnj, of 1970 with the first store-, opening foi bus ne that fall Cons "uctir will be done bi Wetto au Buildus Inc alao of St Louis Wetteiau will build as it ob tains prinisc.i to lease ttct i a said He added that a lis of i IK mt( rested in the pioject He a none of (Vs( He said th it i is a i st on 0 po sibihtv thai space to be leased include i space foi leta business es an I a new btnldin 0 foi a a i a theatei Most of the space i be le is ed to retail and i i opera tions he said Majoi Stiaube said todiv the Wetteiau shopping eentei a i the a i of i i a de velopment in Ih a i of a i As this xets under wav il will bung a i i a mcnt and he hopes it does Straube said SIU CHEERLEADERS WIN FOUR RIBBONS The cheeileading squad fiom Southem Illinois Universitv Ed waidsville, won four perform ance ribbons at the Southern Umveisities Student Govern ment Association vvoikshop at Coloiado State College a week The SIU squad took a supei loi two excellent and two out slindmg a a i the eompeti tion with 20 othei colleges and umversil.es The annual vvoikshop is held to promote the exchinge of skills and the develop ment of new cheering tech niques SIU squad included Donna Feiro and Robin league both of Giamte Cit Bernadme Neely and Linda Whites de both of East St Louis Rosalie Walk ei of Caseyville Man of Feiguson Mo and Beveily Fox of Flonssant Mo A A STUDENTS OF I GRADUATES Aiea students among the 1367 sum met giaduates of the Universitv of Illinois aie Lairy FiUmaunce 24? Adams St Bonnie Louise Mot tar 565 Kansas St Sharon Kay Seibert Route 6 Edwards Mile, Kenneth Ratzlaff 17 Shell La and Veinon Johu Eaid ley Highland No summer commencement ceremonies are held at the um versitv Diplomas will be mailed to summei graduates in mid Octobei NFO CONVENTION SET SATURDAY The annual Illinois National Farmers Organization Conven ton will be held in Spnngfield Saturday at the Holiday Inn East motel Registration will begin at 8 30 a with the convention con vemng at 10 a About 25 NFO membeis from this area will attend acooidmg to Madison County NFO publicity chairman Envm Wein Eighteen of the 25 will serve as delegates at the convention Speaking at the convention will be Walter Miller, piesident of the Ontario Farmers Union ALTON STATE PARTY The Amencan Legion 22nd Dist.ict was the host at a chick en dinner Thursday attended by $0 veteran patients at Alton State Hospital Members of legion auxiliaries throughout the district seived at the dinner held in the hospital recreation hall. Dinner was ved on the aids for veterans unal' to attend the event District 22 also sponsors a Christmas party and Christmas Gift Bar for the hospital, as well weekly parties thiujg the year. Straube and Morris right, discuss shopping center plans. Area Deaths Joseph Drda Dies Funoial services will be held at 9 iO a Mondav in St Piul Catholic i High land foi Joseph Dida 8', who died i i daj noon at Drda Electric Com pinj in Hi hland He id been under medical a i Mi i a a native of New Dou 0 las was bom AUK 1887 the son of Fiank and a i Inske Dida Both are dtctaa eel He was a i in St Geit rude Church in i a i on June 10 1914 to Maiy Ann Bovlc i a She i as do tluce sons Fiancis Drda Jo seph Dida and Lcona Didi and two daughter Mis a i (Cecelia) Zcller and Mis Dale (Leona) Rutz all of High a Mi Drda was a retired em plo.

of tne Highland and Belle ville Bieweues and a membei of St Paul Chin ch and its Holy Name Society Also surviving aie two sis teis, Drda and Mis a i Kleekamp both of New Douglas 13 gian and one gieal giandciild He was preceded in death one bio'her and two siste-s The Rt Rev Msgi William will con luct the ser Burial will be in St Jo serH Cemete in ghland FnenJa mav call at the Spen gel Boulanger Funeral Home in Highland after 10 30 a Sun dav vviere the Rosaiy will be said at 7 that evening Staunton Man Killed in War Mi and Mis William Hajnes of Stiunton received word Thursday that then son, Mi chael Lee Haynes an Aims hehcoptei pilot, had been killed in aci'ion in Vietnam Havnes, who would have been 21 old Dec 8 the recipient of two Purple Hearts Since enlisting in the thiee years ago he had spent most of his duty time in Viet nam Hajnes attended Zion Luthei an Elementary School a Staunton High School He had visited with hi, fam ilv in Staunton while on fur lough last month Tuneial arrangements aie incomplete Deputies Check Two Break-Ins Madison County sheriff's dep uties investigated two bieak Ins Highland early today Deputies were first dispatch ed to the FreeWay Implement Company, where Carl Rutz an employe of the firm, advised them entry had been gamed through a broken plate glass window on the north side of the building Rutz told the deputies the window was broken previously and patched, and the patch was removed to gam entry An undetermined amount in coins from two vending ma chines and $50 from a cash register were reported missing An hour later the car was dispatched to the State where employe Charles Miller of Livingston told deputies that the business office had been ransacked and a lock torn off a storage compartment where tools were located Nothing was reported missing at the time of the initial vestigation. Herbert A Smith Services Set For Prof. Smith A memorial seivice will be held at 6 Sunday foi Hei belt A Smith 53 piofessoi of education at Southem Illi no Umveisity Edvvaidsville who died Saturday Katman du Nepal The Rev James Nettleton of Mt Vernon formei pastoi, will conduct the seivice in St John i Methodist Chinch Private bunal services will be at a local cemeteiy At the time of his death Pi of Smith a woikmg on an Inteinational Development pio giam foi the State De paitmcnt an assignment that would have ended Nov 1 His wife, Bettie and son Da vid were with him Death was due to natuial causes He was on the SIU Contiacl Team Agencj for international development and had taught foi nine years at SIU Carbondale befoie coming to Edwaidsville Campus five yeais ago He and his family lived on Route 5, a i Suivivmg besides his wife and son David aie his paients the Rev Robeit and Doia Fields Smith of Ouyon, Que bee Canada, two other sons Wesley Smith of De Kalb and Steven Smith Carbondale, thiee daughters Mrs Philip (Gloiia) Aylwaid and Patricia Smith both of Edwaidsville and Mrs Steven (Judy) Geilach of Elmhuist a bi othei Aithui Smith of London England and two sisteis Mis Hubert (Doia) Chicome of Montreal, Quebec and Mrs Haiold (Marj) Cot ton of Owen Sound Ontaiio, Canada There aie four grand children Prof Smith received his BA degiee at McGill University in Montreal in 1937 his master in education degree in 1941 and Phd in education 1950, both at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor He and his wife, the former Bettie Winsoi, were mamed Dec 28 1940 at the First Metho dist Church in Ann Arbor while he was studying theic He formerly taught at Coaticook, Quebec, High School the University of Illinois Lab School and Mankato (Minn a College The author of many books and articles dealing with educa tion, Prof Smith was also a canoeing enthusiast and had written many articles on that hobby He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the National and Illinois Education Associations and had been an active member of St John's Church during his residence here A spokesman for the family said that memorials may be given to the SIU Foundation Dr Herbert F. A Smith Memorial Fund. Illinois House Speaker Ralph Smith of Alton said Thuisday that preliminary investigations into finances at Southem Hh nois Umveisity could get under way the week of Sept 15 On Aug 7 Smith announced that he would ask the House Appropriations Committee to make a detailed study and analysis of expendituies of Southern Illinois Umveisity at Edwaidsville, as a start toward pursuing the same course at all state suppw ted univeisities Smith said today that he and Richaid Walsh chanman of the appropnations committee a agreed to meet next week with committee membeis to develop guidelines as to how to pio ceed He said his cuirenl timetable called for committee members to be on the and Carbondale campuses dunng the week of the 15th Smith wasn sure which campus the team would "Sit but that he thought it would spend a day at Carbondale and then a daj- at Ld a i i The pm pose of the usits would be to meet with SIU officials to lay the giound work and to get an understand ing with the olficials as to the conduct ot the study Smith said Early in August Smith said that cuirentlv the Illinois Boaid of Higher Education checks state university expendituies but that he thought the Legisla ture itself ought to have a di lect hand in the checking Smith oiigmally said his in vestigation implied no "impro priety' at SIU but that his de cision had been triggered by recent strong public leaction to certain events on the Edwaids ville campus Smith appaiently was refei ring lo rock and folk concerts at this summei Mississippi Rivei Festival The concerts dievv thiongs of hippie tjpe youngsteis but no tiouble among the voungsters was leported SIU laces paying a $100000 deficit incuried by the con certs but insists it will be paid out of non state funds Three Named In Charge of Glue Sniffing City pelice ariested two men and a woman Thunsdaj and charged them with sniffing glue behind a residence in the 700 block of Troy Road Denms Agles, 19, 317 Linden St and William Ferguson, 22 311 Jefferson Rd are being held the Madison County Jaiil Mrs Maiy Feiguson, 20 311 Jefferson Rd was issued a notice to appeal court and re leased Police said that at the tame the arrest was made, the tftmee haa in then possession paper bags glue a tube of black iplaliic rubber and a plastic bag All thiee, police said, were i ed eyed and sluggish and ap peaired to be intoxicated They have been changed with violation of a state btatute which prohibits the use of cei tain compounds for the purpose of intoxicating the user Agles is already serving a 20 day jail sentence on a charge of mmraal destruction of piop erty in conjunction with Aug 17 air rifle shooting of school bus windows on the Ed waidsville Junior High School bus parking lot He was sentenced Aug 29 and at that time was also placed on a yeai prabataon and fmed $500 A County Jafl offic lal said Agles was serving his sentence from a to 4 daily Agles and Ferguson are each being held in lieu of $2,000 bond Dinner Slated For Yadalabene An appreciation dinner for Rep Sam Vadalabene Edwardsville, will be held at the campus of Southern Illinois Uni- versitv Sept 25 sponsored by Vadalabene supporters.

Attending the dinner will be Lt Gov Paul Simon, Auditor of Public Accounts M'chael Hewlett, State Treasurer Adah Stevenson III and others The committee members in charge of the dinner are Eulalia Hotz, Madison County clerk, I "Ted" Bennett and Don McLean, Democratic precinct committeeman of Edwardsville, and Ralph Oilman, Staunton Tickets at $10 may be purchased from Miss Hob. Driver The dmer of a semitrailer truck was injured Thursday when the truck struck another semi trailer, paiked partially on the load way on Interstate 270 neai its junction with Illinois 3 Donald McCnte, 31 Cuba, Mo was taken to St beth Hospital Granite Citj The dmei of the stopped truck James Goodwin, 43 St Lou is was not injured Goodwin told state police he had stopped the buck to fix the hood While he was out ol the truck he said he saw the McCnte vehicle ap pi caching and jumped into a dutch at the side of the load to avoid being hit Three-Day Truce Set For Mourning of Ho Saigon (AP) The Viet Cong and Noith Vietnamese foices launched then heaviest attacks in neailv a mouth eaily toda but said they will stop shooting foi thiee days next week to mourn Ho Chi Mmh US and South Vietnamese forces were expected to go along with the cease file, which the Viet Cong radio said would begin at 1 a ra Monday and last until 1 a Thursday The Noith Vietnamese president will be given a state funeral in Hanoi Wednesday Spokesmen in Saigon had no immediate comment on the ceasefire announcement, but a South Vietnamese official said "it would be a humanitanan gestuie' to join in a truce The US Command always follows Saigon lead regaid to cease fire proposals US officials said enemy Kennedy Has Tests on Car Boston (AP) The auto in which Miss Maiy Jo Kopechne died on Chappa qurddick Island July 18 has been thoioughly tested by researchers retained by at torneys lepresenting Edwaid Kennedy, the Boston Globe said today The primaiy purpose of the testing, the newspaper said, was to determine whether Miss Kopeohne could have lived for any length of time alter the accident The Globe made no mention of lesults Two of the researchers were identified as Dr Richard Stone and Dr John Teitzel, both physicists employed by tne Arthur Little Co a research fum based in Cambridge The Globe said most of the tests weie performed in the driveway of the state police barracks i Edgartown on Martha's Vmeyaid Vineyard is adjacent to Chap paquiddick In addition, a scuba diver was retained to photograph the pond in which the car rested for nine hours before i discovered and the bridge from which it plunged into the pond, the Globe said The tests reportedly also were aimed at determining how fast Kennedy's car was traveling when it went off the bridge, how long it was before it filled with water and whether an airbubble might have formed at the rear seat of the overturned car PARKED CAR ROLLS A parked car owned bv AVil ham Cox, 39, 534 Hillsboio Ave rolled out of its parking space went across a sidewalk and struck another parked car owned by Marshall Wayne, 57, 422 Legion Dr The Cox vehicle was parked on the National Food Store parking lot, Buchanan and Park streets, and the Wayne car was paiked on the south side of the 300 block of Park Street. Neither driver was in his car at the time Theie weie no injunes and no tickets were issued. foices fired lockets a mortals at 74 allied bases and towns eaily today and hit nine i i i a assaults Initial reports showed 17 Americans i 172 Americans wounded, and more than 100 soldiers killed South Vietnamese headquarters said 28 of its troops and "ix civilians weie killed and 113 tioops and 13 civilians weie wounded US headquarters said the sudden upsurge in enemy attacks marked the second "high point' of the enemy's fall cam paign which began Aug 12 with a night of rocket mortal and giound assaults on 150 allied bases andtovns The number of attacks diminished soon after, declining on an average of 10 to 15 a night during the past week The Command had expected a significant stepup in enemy ac tivity this week to mark Noith Vietnamese Independence Day on Tuesday The latest attacks centered one of the same areas that was a focal point Aug 12, the sector between Saigon and the Cambodian border The heaviest fighting ranged from 34 to 65 miles northwest of Saigon Safe Conduct Offered The Viet Cong broadcast an nouncmg the ceasefire foi the funeial of President Ho offered safe conduct to American and South Vietnamese troops desir ing to enter Communist held aieas in the South to join in memorial services and said the Viet Cong would do everything possible to protect them The broadcast said any offensive sweeps by allied forces dunng the cease fire would meet with "drastic retaliation It also warned against reconnaissance flights "in any area Leaders of the Communist woild began gathering in Hanoi and in prospect was the highest- level confrontation between Soviet and Chinese Communist bigwigs since the Peking- Moscow split broke into the open The first foreign delegation to arnve in Hanoi was a four man party from Communist China headed by Premier Chou En lai And Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin left Moscow today at the head of another four man delegation Both Mao Tse-tung and Soviet party chief Leonid Brezhnev stayed home Kosygiu and Chou last met in February 196 when the Russian stopped off in Peking on his way back from Hanoi That was at a time when the new Soviet leadership that replaced former Premier Nikita Khrushchev hoped to repair relations with China The Chinese delegation flew to North Vietnam Thursday and met with Hanoi's top leaders in "an atmosphere of unity and militant friendship," Peking's New China News Agency said The subject of the talks was not disclosed, but the Chinese presumably urged the North Vietnamese to pursue Mao's line of protracted guemlla warfare rather than try to seek political settlement of the Vietnam war. Snipers Wound St.

Louis Cops St Louis (AP) Two police officeis leceived gunshot wounds and a thud an eye injuiy when smpeis opened fire on a police cat answeimg a call at the John Cochran Apartment Housing project Noith St Louis today Patiolman Wilkie Glaesenei and James Lavuence both leceived leg wounds when the filing stalled They were answeimg a call for shots fired in the aiea at 5 a Police said the officers sum moned help and shots weie exchanged with the smpeis, who were thought to be in a 12 storv building of the housing pio ject Office! Ray Pestka said he received an injury to an eye when a shot hit a buck wall near him The thiee officeis weie 'aken to city hospital It was the thud stiaight day police were fired at in the inner city Eaily Wednesday, a patiolrnan was wounded in the knee when he and his partner investigated shots the aiea Three peisons ariested Thursday morning, foul rifle shots were filed thiough the roof of a ciuising police car in the same area as today mci dent The two policemen the car weie not wounded Rural Phone Hearing Slated In Greenville As pait of its investigation into ruial telephone seivice the Illinois Commeice Commission will bold a public hearing at the Bond Countv Courthouse ra Gieenville at 10 a Sept 18 Rep Sam Vadalabene D- EdwaidsMlle who initiated et- foits for an examination into ruial sen ice said that reside its of Madison Clinton Bond Montgomery, and the southem hall of Maeoupm Counties aie urgtd lo attend Vadalabene explained the situation This is one of a sei- les of fact finding healings being held throughout the state Meetings have aheadv taken place Gluey Harnsbuig, Belvideie and elsewhere Fiom testimony at these hearings two things are cleai First the mfeiioi sen ice and pool maintenance suffeied bv rural stibscnbeis aie statewide pioblems Particulais a i according to region and telephone com pany but certain complairts aieshaied Ove partv lines old equipment that breaks down dunng the slightest weathei distuibance an mationally planned coverage which make toll calls the only kind some people can make were objections icpeatedlv heard Second imal telephone us- eis a not been lemiss in ing to icmedv the conditions Thev icpoit outages thev keep logs of interiupted service, vvnle 10 the Commeice Commission It is the telephone companies that seive rural Illmoisans ho a failed in then lespon- sibilities he said This is wheie my resolution, which was appioved by House to se up a Spe-ial House Committee to examine rural telephone sen ice will help The ICC healings are limit ed to fact finding The action of the House Committee will not be 'The plight of rural subsetib- eis the operations of the phone companies and the i ate making policies of the commeice commission all be subject to close sciutmy 'SAMPLER' INCLUDES MENOTTI New Yoik (AP) The City Centei is offenng subscription senes for next season which is a "samplei Ballet opeia diama and modem dance will be included. Each of the four different subscriptions will include the most recent opera bj Gian Cailo Menotti Help' Help' the Globo- links on the same bill as Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors Also on the subscriptions will be the City Center Joffiey Ballet, New Yoik City i Grand Kabuki and Alwm Nikolais and Paul Taylor dance companies James M. Brown Lawrence Taliani Brown, Taliana Get New Posts at SIU James Brown, executive dean of academic affains at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, lhas been named special assistant to SIU President Delyte Morns for one year term Brown wll succeed Stephens who is on sabbatical leave Another recent appointment is thait of Lawrence Taliana, currently professor of psychology on the Edwardsville cam pus, wto has been named as sistant to Chancellor John Rendleman for academic affairs Both appointments ere sub ject to approval the Board of Trustees Brown joined the SIU faculty in 1965 and was appointed as sistant to the vice president fo-r academic affairs in July, 1966 He was named assistant to the chancellor of the Edwardsville campus last July and executive dean for academic affaire August He received a bachelor of arts degree from Rice University, a master of science degiee from, the California Institute of Technology and master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees fiom the State University of Iowa Brown and his family live itt Colhnsville Taliana, a native of Mount Vernon, received his bachelor and master of science degrees from SIU at Carbondale He holds a Ph D. degree fiom Purdue University and joined the SIU acuity 1957 He and his family live at 1312 RaadleSt.

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