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TRAFFIC TOLL toaay's ACCIDENTS ...2 720 'INJURY 0 106 DEATHS 0 Involving Injury EVENING TELEGRAPH Serving the Alton Community for More Thntt 123 Established January 15, 1836 Vol. CXXiV, No. 143 ALTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1959. 32 PAGES 5d Per Copy Eisenhower Believes Inflation Will Major Election Issue MEETS HERTER President Is Hopeful Of Surplus OTlaherty Gets Lease on Island "Federal Bnrge moorings on Pinsa Island will nol affect Red O'Flahorty's oporations there," B. Capelpner, port captain for WASHINGTON (API-President Eisenhower said today the mnl-jt ne barge lino, told the Tclr-sraph this mornlilK.

He said his firm try of inflation will IIP one of IhfMpmns (0 moor barges off tho island to avoid river congeslton, but main issues of the 1WiO snil iinnlcril Insiallniioiis are planned there. tial campaign. The President also told a conference that he nol only lor a balanced budget in the against fiscal year slarfinu; PX- Tuosdiiy nighl. How Ions (ho barges will he news; mo orcd I hern was open to qites- 0 today because a strike was the liarge line prels a start on paying off the 28ti-biHion-dollar national debt. Capelener reac.hed said Federal aureenient to the island his 'locking facilities occupy, lie said a price lias been agreed upon for the sublease and O'Klaherty's activities will continue uninterrupted.

The barge line will use purl of sub-l the norlhonsl bank of the island Legislature App tf jJ JBL Referendum on Issue for Building! Liquor Tax Hike, School Aid Passed he said, lie believes the lease to O'Klaherly the portion henevor river tratlic requires Democratic. controlled Congress also expects the administration to start payiiiR off the debt during the ne.xl VI months. Me holed that' Congress has just approved legislation which he signed Tuesday providing (or a new permanent debt ceiling of 285 billiou dollars. The legislation also sets a temporary limit, of 2S15 billion. Final figures have not been released on (he government's deficit in the fiscal year which has just closed.

But it is in the neighborhood ol 13 billion dollars. Inflation Issue Eisenhower was asked whether he believes inflation will be the main issue in next year's presidential campaign, lie replied it List of Bills Legislature Approved SPRINGFIELD. 111. CAP) Ihem to tie-up and wait to gel through Ihe locks. Capeloner said planned repair work on Hie Alton locks, in JfiIJtl, will slow river traffic enough that the mooring facilities will be important: to Ihe barge line.

Mooring facilities on! island will permit barges to tied well clear of the main; channel. The barge line, moored VI to 14 barges and the low boat! Tom Sawyer on the island. The low U. S. Secretary of.

Slain Christian llcrlor greets Soviet First' Deputy Premier Krol H. as lie arrives at the Stale Department this morning for talks. Present also are Soviet Ambassador lo Ihe U.S. M. A.

Meivshikov ami att Interpreter (hidden). (AP Hearings Begin on Many Bills Petition to Annex -Killed by Legislature group of objectors was represented by Boxscore of major bills passed by-boat and may be moored for' ic ounso i at today's hearing before County Judge Michael Klnney 'some lime as a has on a uuon of property owners for annexation lo Alton of a large called agiunsl low of the nation's ac( a( jj acen t' i.o the city and lying north of recently-annexed largest barge linos by three Rotl 'p ttrki he Illinois Legislature: Half-cent sales lax increase. Liquor tax boost. Revamping Justice of Peace representing employes, system. Increased slate school aid.

Higher outlays for slate certainly will be one of the principal issues. Then he added that he had thought this in the 1958 elections, but the outcome of the congressional campaign did nol lead him to believe the people were as gYeatly concerned as he had expected. Eisenhower, in reply to a ques tion, said he had no knowledge of any confidential government report predicting a three per cent increase, in the consumers price index in i960; Today is the 43rd wedding anniversary of 'President and Mrs the sweltering heat, Eisenhower turned up for the news conference wearing a vest with his gray business suit The first question brought a bii smile to his face. It was a request that he set forth his formula for 43 years of successful' marriage To a round of laughter, Eisenhower replied that he really has no formula. His marriage, he smiled, has been a very happy ex- Only witness 1o testify this Contracts between the lines morning was Edward unions, which represent about 3,000 2662 North Rodgers one of the petitioners asking Judge Kin- sit les i-i uu ru ninUf Tho and mental hospitals.

expired lue.sday mghl. Ihe Q( Korean bonus with cigarette lax; unions offered to continue working I ne xn1jon to 3e submitted to the without contract but boats ot thej Alton City Council for final ac- increose. Slate building bond issue for mental hospitals. State building bond issue for ducational institutions. Mall-cent county sales tax.

lines were ordered into porls by Ihe Paellz, companies. The barge said in a joint announcement Ihe unions would not Creating post of court adminis- agree to a proposal for a four- men- Irator. Pay raises for judges. Stale building authority. New state institution for tally retarded.

New state penal institution. New slate museum. Compulsory Daylight Savings Time. Pay hikes for slate's attorneys. Increase ot unemployment compensation.

Extension of month extension o. the contracts. Management said the union "jefused to grant more than an indefinite extension cancellable on five-days, notice." The firms said it. was impossible to operate on such a basis considering safety of equipment and obligation to I customers." The unions involved are Ihe National Maritime Union, the Mas- unemployment ten, a the compensation, 40-hour week for downstate policemen. sales tax.

Limit on property on direct examination by Attorney R. W. Griffith Jr. of Alton, counsel for the petitioning property owners, estimated Steel Union To Strikes NEW YORK The United Marine Engineers. The NMU rep-i slCBjworkerg i 0 of resents non-bcensed members -i Sllfri of trade-ins from assessment multipliers to once every four yea rs.

perience. Then he added that a successful marriage gets happier as Hie years 'go by. Other T.ipiu» In the course of the news -conference, the President touched on these other topics: still believes there is no point in his going to a summit conference unless there is ers adequate preparation in advance by 1 what he called the legitimate diplomatic agencies of government. That was. an allusion to the Big Four foreign ministers who will resume in Geneva July 13.

picking up at that point after six recent weeks of fruitless negotiations, Republican party has many able and qualified potential candidates the presidential nomination. Eisenhower added, in response (Continued on Page 2, Col, the deck crew, engine room and galley forces. The olhei' Iwo unions are composed of boat officers. The barge operate Changes in parole board setup Creation of public transit on most of the nation's major riv- Mississippi Fed- an immediate American Commercial and tricts. Higher pensions for retired teachers.

Township government changes. Repeal of law allowing 14-15 year olds lo operate motor scoot- Salary raises for slate employes. Revising public administrator law on estates. Stale inspection of meat and poultry. 50-million dollar Chicago school! bond issue.

Emergency lief. Bi-State Bill Sent To Governor SPRINGFIELD, HI. (Special) The Bi-State Development Agency emerged daylight Tuesday when General Assembly completed work on the bill to bring it into agreement with amendments approved by the Missouri Legislature several months ago, The bill was sent to Gov. Wil- Uiiiori. The Barge Line, a major affiliate of American Commercial, also suspended opera- lions.

Inside Musts funds for poor re- I. KDITOK1AI- SOCIETY OBITUARY SPORTS RADIO TV COMIC'S CLASSIKIKI) PAKE PAGE PAO'B 22 PAGK PACK 37 PACE PAGE Sft Height of Free Bridge Protested at Hearing ST. LOUIS Low-'er Kurylo of the U.S. Bureau of ness of sissippi the proposed new Roads. Bolh pointed out river bridge at thai commercial waterways us- of Rocks brought, caustic conj-i ers supported construction of ments Tuesday at a public hear-jlhe Chain of Rocks canal to avoi(J ing of the Army Corps of En-1 natural impediments to river ginners.

i traffic in the Chain of Rocks The bridge would be feet' lower than any other Mississippi river bridge in the St. Louis area. Capt. Donald T. Wright, publisher of Waterways Journal and chairman of the bridge committee of the Mississippi Valley Association, said: "It would be unthinkable," lo wildcat strikes which erupted Tuesday night and today, idling more than 20,000 of (he industry half'million workers.

The walkouts had been staged dgainsl the wishes of President Eisenhower and, for the most part, orders of top union officials. Union and industry negotiators on Saturday bowed to a plea from President Eisenhower 'that the current contract, due to' expire Tuesday be extended two weeks for further negotiations. The union president, David .1. McDonald, is here heading the union's four-man team seeking to negotiate a new contract with Ihe nation's major steel producers. "The international union has taken prompt and vigorous action to honor the extension agreements with the various steel companies," he "Telegrams have been dispatched, signed by (he international officers, directing immediate withdrawal of all unauthorized picket lines and resumption of op- eralions." McDonald's action came with local union officials already al the gates of some struck plants urging union members lo resume work.

McDonald expressed confidents? that the union's strike-ending, orders "will rectify the there are parcels of Ifthd in the territory proposed for annexation to Alton. The Iracl, containing a number of subdivisions and through which the new beltline highway skirting Alton's northeast side will pass, is north of the G. M. O. railroad tracks.

Paeltz sair there were 3L'1 signatures to the annexation peli- 1 tion, representing a majority of the owners of record and more than 50 per cent of Ihe electors in the tract involved. He said 'three olhcr persons assisted in circulating Ihe petition. A map of Ihe area showing the territory proposed for annexation to Alton was admitted evidence before court recessed at 11:10 a.m. Attorney Hillary I (alien, of Alton, -representing a group of objectors 'to the annexation move, questioned closely on as to the mel.li- oblnining signatures and Sufficiency of the petition in regard lo.required number of signatures of landowners and electors. CJ SPRINGFIELD, 111.

jor bills which died at the .195 Illinois legislative session: Corporation lax increase. Fair Employment Practices. Broadening sales tax base. Ban on death penally. Outlawing Communist Party.

Revising State consilution's la irtlcle. Tax on insurance premiums. Tax. on crude oil. Tax on cigars, holels and rooir ing houses, Letter-number system for aut licenses.

One clolliir minimum houi'l reach. Another opponent of the proposed bridge was Robert B. Brooks, consulting engineer for the city of Midison. He said it would cost just $2 million more to assure adequate clearance. In urging rejection of the plan, Brooks said the bridge "would create a build a bridge that would "fence fence across the river which out river traffic from this set a precedent detriment' and make navigation a to inland navigation through dependent on canals and the Mississippi Valley.

Wright urged rejection the I Other opponenents were; Fran Ham Stratton bv Jhe Senate joint application of the Missouri VMS executive director of a House and Illinois Jiighway departments (the Greater Alton Association of for construction of the nridge. Commerce: Evorptt Winter, ex- He said the application should Iecutive vice president of the Ml.s had when agreed to amendment that heretofore kept the chambers divided. The changes were desired so that securities Issued by the agency would be more attractive lo buyers, The agency has been prevented from playing an effec- role, in the development of St. Louis and neighboring communities. In Illinois by failure of Lesiglatures ot both states to bring In Identical statutes covering powers of the agency.

F. Sohlnfly of Alton is chairman of the executive com- of the commission, lard Fouls, assistant operations manager of the American be rejected to "serve notice onjslssippi Valley Association; highway planners throughout the nation that bridges with narrow clearances Across navigable wat- erwpys will not be tolerated." Attorney John Sheperd said the economic future of St. Louis would be threatened by th- bridge Hal lei charged there were seven duplicate signalures on the petition and Asserted I hat 35 signers of the petition, since its dr- dilation began 11 months ago Paeltv; had testified, have moved from the area involved and are no longer electors -there. had estimated that there were 540 owners of-record of lots and lands in the affected area most of them husband-wife owners. Other circulators of the petition were expected lo testily, as 'well as objectors, when court re- sumerl this afternoon.

Pay raises' for legislators. Anli-Djcketing legislation, driver TODAY'S CHUCKLE The biggest trouble with success these is llial ils recipe is just about the same as that for having a nervous breakdown. 1958., Genera) 'ealiii-fs Corp.) su Gas tax and properly tax for Chicago transit Authority. Home-area sale of auto licenses. Paid-up personal property laxes required to buy auto licenses.

Tightening public aid programs. Examining school textbooks for subversive material. Creation of seditious activities investigation, Restricting billboards to inter- stale 7'oads. Allowing attorney general to prosecute in counties, Stale subsidy for nurses training. Lowering voting age lo 18.

Repealof 60-day divorce cooling off period. Reduction of passenger car license fees. Secret primary ballot, Banning sales of liquor to women under 21. Personal property tax exemptions. Shifting April primary lo June.

Reorganizing' Stale Police Merit Board. Repeal of Lobby Registration Law. Free gate at Slate Fair. Legalizing bingo for charily. Prohibiting Sunday sales.

Abolishing capital stock tax. Non-partisan election of University of Illinois Trustees. Requiring sprinkler systems in closed stairs in schools, i Police Fireman Bill Is Approved SPKlNCiKlKLU, 111 barrier downslnte ofcnlnst use ot lolle.ts lor duly as firemen was established Tuesday with Illinois Senate, adoption ot a bill spelling' out police duties. Signature by liov. Stratton is required.

Some Cook County siihurbmt t'onimnnltlns permit police to tiros it thev gel there first allow firemen lo direct truf- Ic on busy shopping days Objectors lo the practice said lollccmen and firemen were rained lor separate duties. To use them interchangeably was inefficient, they contended, and productive of hlQ'h rules. Boosters of tho no-mingling ot the two forces said it permitted higher pay and helped rather than hurl public safely enforcement, During closing hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Ihe adopted a bill lo strip Ihe Illinois Toll 'Road Commission of power to build or grain concessions to build hotel or motels along Ihe kill roads. Assessment Hill Pn.ss<>s The Senate endorsed a House measure restricting uso ol property usscssmcnl. multipliers lo once every four yews.

Supporters said it would prevent assessments froni being boosted each year through multipliers assigned to counties by the State Revenue Department. The multipliers are intended to raise local assessments to a Iheo- rpllcnl 300 per cent of full value. In reality, Ihe current average is 55 per cent. Sen? R. Peters (R-Sl, Joseph) said the bill was intended lo still taxpayers complaints during the last two years against sharply Increased assessments.

A appropriation for a new Museum in Springfield tlm Auetfimhlu uriili Mnticp Pay raises for stale's mil a two-year budget of 384 mil ion dollars for Ihe State Public Aid Commission were voted olhei House action. The lower chamber also passet hill by Sen, Robert Canl'teU (IMlocklordt making It a mlscle mranoi to Irnnsmll a false bom scare The Sciiali 1 completed passiu; ol a series ol bills' restricting Ih damages Mutt could be rccoverc from districts, counties an fores! preserve districts for nugl ficnl acts of their employes. Other Hills Oilier bills winning final pa sage include those which; Appropriate $150,000 for a stall wide plan ol drainage and floo control. Give the stale court of claiir jurisdiction over all da mag claims against Southern Illino University and Ihe Stale Tcuc crs College Board. Require publication of pcrso at property tax list where pe sons arc drliniiuont for scv( months.

Prohibit billboards and othc signs within 300 feet of ptibi highways similar in wording, co or or shape lo traffic signs. Authorize public junior college to charge tuition. Make it a misdemeanor to' luse to give up a parly line loU phone in an emergency situt tion. Prohibit Justices of the Pcac from serving as bill eolleclio agencies. End in the Con jail uy ripulh nunnllv.

hp l.npriivl mil SPRINGFIELD, ifl. (AP) lit one of Its last major ncjions, Illinois General Assembly today agreed to submit to referendum in 1900 Iwo bond Issues totaling 245 million dollars. III education buildings a 195 million welfare Instly million would btMWfil from dollar pmiHiMil and tulioiis from a at the Slate Penitentiary, Luebke Is President After West- German Vote BERLIN Lueb-, kc, 64, agriculture minister, was elected president of West Germany today. i Luehkc was the candidate of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic parly. He defeated Carlo Schmid, the Socialist candidate, and Max Becker, who was the choice of the Liberal Free Democratic party.

Luebke won on the second ballot, with 526 voles in the member Electoral College. This was- six more votes than needed. Me had 517 voles, or three shy of the required majority on first ballot. Schmid had on Ihe first ballot and Becker 101 On the second ballot Schmid Talks between steel companies the and 12 largest the union were being resumed today after a weekend recess. Two negotiating sessions were scheduled daily, in place of the single meetings! held in previous sveeks.

The discussions have been vir- lually stalemated. The industry maintains that any new contract should not Involve an increase in total employment costs. Union demands Include a substantial boost iu wages averaging $3.10 an hour in April. Among those hardest hit in the rash of today was the Jones Laughlin. Sleel Corp.

plant at Aliqtiippa, which portatlon Co. The argument centered on employs about 11000 persons, Pickets kept some 13,000 union members from reporting for work bridge which would'carry interstate Rt, across the river to rieai Mitchell a' 1 a'point about the ion the- 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift besides the fact that it would (one feet north of the Chain of Some pickets carried placards; saying: "No Both uni9ir and company officials termed the strike a wildcat be a menace to navigation. Those Rocks bridge.

The favoring the bridge, in testimony, 3'lb-looi long span proposed would have I At Cleveland, another wildcat included Rex. M. Whilten, chief'a center channel span with the spread at the engineer of the Missouri elevation of 21 feet abovejSteel Corp, and curtailed Highway Repartinienti aij4 Walt-ltfoe high water mark, of 1844. Ition. i June Was Hotter, Dryer Than Normal for Month The average mean temperature in June was really mean 76 degrees.

Usually, the average mean for June is a couple of degrees cooler. June rain was more than two inches under normal. Precipitation last month totaled 1,8 inches. Normal 3.82 inohes. to dale this year, rainfall In the.

Alton area is 6.32 below the normal that could be expected according to 90-year Bureau averages, The high temperature last month was 9(i on June 29. It was also the highest reading lo date as the year nil the half-gone murk. June's lowest temperature was f)3 on the 14th. The heaviest precipitation last month was 1.5'V inches that fell starling at noon on June 22 and gauge was at recorded in Alton darn the on rain the following day. June hnd a good score of clear To ilalc this year, 13.93 inches of rain has fallen.

Normal for the half-year would be 20.25. The highest stage this year of the Mississippi measured at the gauge In the lower river on the downstream side of Alton dam was the feet on June 4. The river's low point since Jan. 1 occurred on Jan. 9 and 16, whe nlhe stage svas leet below the arbitrary zero mark on the gauge.

Last June, compared to the June just past, was welter with rain above normal. By similar comparison, so was June of 1957 which, for tha matter, was a record wot inon.th. The highest temperature of June, 1958, was 92 degrees; June 19D7, had a 93; June, 19515, a 49; June, 19. a 92. In June of 1954.

however, the lernp- erature that month exceeded this that June year, top, On June the mercury 27 of boiled days, 23 out of 30. That makes up to 102, and during (he July the score for the half-year 108 clear clays and 72 cloudy days out of the total 180 that have ed tinea Jan. 1. lhat followed, the hottest day on local record occurred on July 14 when the reading was a sizzling 113 degrees. A slowing pace in bill-passing orolold the end was coming to he mnrulhon session.

It. set what ild timers called an all-lime onl breaking extension of art Assembly mooting beyond midnight lunc 30. Calendars were trimmed of the more important measures! A 30 per cent hike in liquor tux- os'ond a boost in the school aid lomulation figure to $252 a 'pupil were among thcso. Sol Aside Funds On the bond issue, the lawmakers agreed to SP! aside 120 million dollars tor capital improvements in Ihe existing six slate institutions. They also 50 million or Ihe proposed University of Illinois campus at Chicago-and 25 million for the establishment of a I Illinois University at Alton-Etlwardsville.

Both bills were sent to Goy. Slralton. recommended tlie Iquor (ax hike but asked the school aid figure be, set at $250 pupil, an increase representing 100 million dollars in additional oullfay over the next two years. The $25'2 figure represents ft 6u( con-' Terence committee, of both the House and Senate throughout the night. The action clears the way (Continued on Page 2, Col.

The Eli'ClornI fi19 HIP collected 38(5 voles, while Becker dropped to 911. ceremonial, Luebko, a jininly man, has been minister of agriculture six years, but IIP Is little known outside farming circles. lie served in (ho Kaiser's armies in World War I and then became a member of the Calholic Center party. When llitlcr rose lo power in 1933 the members of the Catholic Center parly came under suspicion and Luebke was jailed lor 20 months, During World War II ho worked for a Berlin construction company. Luebkc was one of Ihe first members of Ihe postwar Christian Democratic parly.

He is married but has no children. He was a late choice of his par- ly for the presidency. The election was held here 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain despite Communist protests that it was an affront to East Germany The Soviet Union and Communist East Germany culled the hold ing of the presidential election it West Berlin a hostile act. Nellhe appeared ready to carry their protest beyond words. The East Germans claim all Berlin and challenge the right of Ihe West German government lo hold a political gathering even In the Western sector, The West.

Germans hold thai Berlin is this proper capital of a unified Germany. President Theodor lleuss was elected in West Berlin for his second five-year term in 1051 He is ineligible lo sock a third lorm. This year is Ihe first limp a fighi over I ho presidency figurehead post. College is made members of the lower house of up of the Bundestag, Parliament, and an equal number chosen by the 10 slate parliaments. For a candidate lo win on HIP first or second ballot IIP.

must get the supporl of onn more than half the 520 voles. If the election goes lo a third ballot, candidate with the most voles wins. Municipal Band Concert Thursday, Rlverview, Park, PM. Sunday, Rook Spring 1'urk, Madeleine Davey, vocal Boyd guest director George Loveless, manager March "Cyrus the Great" King Selection "Kismet" An-. Beeler Polka "Barbara Polka" Kvarik (2) "Too Fat Polkn" AIT.

Bennett Favorite "Abaresciue" Alusser 1 "Lady of Spain" KvW Overture "Aclilllos" Clalr Vocal "Over the Rainbow" AIT. Yoder Madeleine, soloist RJaiuh- "Stars and Stripes Forever" Rhapsody "E'spaija' Rhapsody" Arr, BeeJier Concert Heights" "River Jordan" March I "Hostrausers" "Champers Seek 100 Missing In Colombia Flood BOGOTA, search was Colombia (AP) under way today A for 100 persons still missing after a flash flood wrecked a village in central Colombia. Eighty bodies had boon recovered. Torrential rains in the Andes Mountains set off landslides, creating new dan in the stricken Tollma province around Ibague, Ihe provincial capital 80 miles southwest of Bogota. DATA AT THR DAM m.

temperature Yesierdtiy's today 72V high River stage below Precipitation clum at a.iu, 4,0. Pool 33.3. 24 hours lo a.m. Trace, 3i Per Cent Sales Tax Goes Into Effect Today Distributed by Die Greater applying to each bracket anfl ton Association of Commerce to area retailers today was a schedule of collection for the new 3 1 4 per cent sales tax. The half-cent, boost, effective today, the state sales tax to 3 cenls on the dollar.

Most Illinois residents will pay a per cent sales lax because of half-cent city sales taxes The schedule as compiled by Ihe GAAC on Informaliqn received from the Illinois Department of Revenue: TRANSACTION ADD .12 .00 ,37 .38. 1.23 1.54 1-55- 1.85 Alter that, in every addition ot to selluig p'ice, shall be 7 brackets, with with the ranges of such being 29 centers' cents, 28 cents, 29 28 For $1.86 2.15 2.72 3.00 S.29 3.53 Charles Thomas tional (Tuesday'at -02 of .03 The their own .05, pass down jto', lormatipn.