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WEATHER FORECAST CLOUDY AND COLDER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. LOW TONIGHT 3a. maa tomorrow 3. it it it final" EdffiSB Calumet Region's Home Newspaper Cl. XLI I Number 229 Hammond, Tuesday, March 16, 198 Price 5 centsi minno mam pro UVis -UUU ml 4L -Y The Times 1 So) 111L riAr ill uuu in 1 I 1 mu ONE WORD "HIT'TUNE 500,000 Leave Jobs; 44 Packing Firms it out! Gary Man Is Killed As Train Hits Truck Tom Svetich Succumbs In Crash Near Dyer Crossing DYER Tea Svetich, U8, of killed instantly Monday night when a truck he was driving was struck by a fast east Do.und Michigan Central freight train at the Route 30 crossing, about a mile west of Dyer.

Witnesses told Illinois state police that Svetich passed two other trucks waiting at the crossing, which is protected by flasher lights Truck Carried 200 Yards His truck, owned by the Steel Transportation I I I III III IIMMBMMIM ifc iMl "fc i 1 1 iWW" tl TTT Hf I I I liiiill li llljlll HIIIIIIIMIn Mil 1 1 I I ii I Wl'l. Ill I HI 111 Ill II Co. of Indiana carried about 200 yards down the tracks by the train. The engineer was Alfred vVhitoark. The body is in the Gerardi funeral home, 2520 Chicago Chicago Heights, where an inquest was scheduled for 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday. Svetich is survived by six brothers, Hike, Tony, John, Steve, George and Nick; and two sisters, Mrs Frances Banker and Mrs. Katie Crdles, all of Gary. His father, Michael T. Svetich, of Minnesota, livrvivcs.

He was unmarried. Buses To Have Hear Route Markers Soon All Shore Line buses will be equipped with route numbers on the rear within a month. J.C. Johnson, general manager of the Chicago I Calumet District Transit Co. explained that two separate Chicago suppliers of rear route boxes and numbered curtains have promised early delivery on the equipment.

The transit chief said the dislocation in adequate route markings was caused by the recent SI, 000, 000 equipment modernization program in which 60 new buses were pressed into service by the CCLTC. Explains Lack of Markers Some of the old buse3, Johnson asserted, were, stripped of rear numbers to equip the new ones with front route markers. With the transporta-" firm operating a record 1U0 coaches, John-1 son said all could not be equipped with front and rear numbers and the company immediately WORLD NEWS WASHINGTON Administration spokesmen predict that President Truman will "deal firmly" with the spreading coal strike, rjnd possibly invoke the Taft-Hartley law. WASHINGTON President -Truman's speech to Congress tomorrow has aroused speculation in Washington that he may call for universal mi litary training and American support of a wes Court Becomes Tougher On Drunk Car Drivers City Judge Stanley A. Tweedle of Hammond con tinued his lyhB policy of revoking drivers licenses for longer periods in drunken driving cases by recalling for one year and two years the licenses of two men convicted on the charge Steve Grcevich of 670U Osborn, Hammond, paid ai 85 fine and lost his right to drive for two years when the judge learned he previously had been convicted of drunken driving.

Suspend Jail Sentence for Grcevich, the previous conviction became known after he was found guilty on a charge listing him as a first offender. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended on plea of his attorney. 1 Irwin Chicago, who was involved in an accident, was fined S50 and lost his right to drive for cne year. A 10-day jail sentence was suspended. Tweedle warned that punishment for-drunken driving will become sterner if police continue to bring in a great number of motorists on the charge.

Last week Lake County Prosecutor John Rosz-kowski ordered his staff to press for stiffer sentences in drunken drivinj: cases. tern European military pact. WASHINGTON Senate Republicans are going ahead with plans for enactment of the GOP-sponsored four billion, 700 million dollar tax cut bill. WASHINGTON Lawyers for ex-Uajor General Bennett E. Meyers will ask the U.S.

Court of Appeals today to grant the former air force officer bail, pending a hearing on his 20-month to five-year sentence. PARISA French government spokesman say3 -that the five-power treaty for a European western union provides for mutual assistance placed art order for more of the markers but.de. to all signatories against any aggression. The Slaughterhouse Workers Ignore Truman; F.leat Production Halved CHICAGO (UP) More than 100,000 CIO United Packinghouse orkers struck today against the big four meat processors Swift, Arm our, Cuda-hy and Wilson and kO independent firms. The strike slashed the nation's meat production in half.

The packinghouse workers struck in each time zone as the clock touched one minute after They laid down their cutting knives and killing sledges to support demands for irmasaed wages 130-Packing Plants Affected Picket-lines were thrown up around the stockyards and packinghouse plants in every city where CIO union had jurisdiction. About 130 plants were affected, including 73 big slaughterhouses and 60 smaller ones. Union leaders let the trike go on as planned despite an 11th hour appeal by President Truman for a postponement while a fact-finding board investigated the labor dispute. As matters now stand, the strike can continue until at least April the board lir. Truman appointed is due to report back to him.

The president took the action under the Taft-Hartley act. Under another provision of the labor Truman can obtain an injunction, after the board reports. The injunction would force the union to call the strike off for at least 80 days. See Jump In Meat Prices The U.S. Agriculture department said there was sufficient meat on hand to give housewives a normal supply at least through April 1.

However, they warned that supplies will be cut sharply and that prices will jump if the strike is permitted to continue any considerable length of time beyond April 1. And there was a strong likelihood that the strike could continue beyond April 1 even if the government obtains an injunction. The workers originally demanded a pay increase of 29 cents an hour but reduced this to 19 cents during the weeks of negotiations. Say Demand Based on Profits The companies stuck to their original offer of a nine-cent hourly increase which had been accepted by the AFL meat cutters union. The big four meat processors rejected a union offer to accept the nine-cent increase and submit the remainder of their demand to arbitration.

The packers said they did not believe wages could be arbitrated by impartial persons. Union spokesmen said the workers1 demand was justified on the basis of the companies profits in the past year. The company rejoined that the demand was not justified by the rise in the cost of living. See 100 Pet. Soft Coal Shutdown PITTSBURGH (UP The sp reading strike of the nation's soft ccral miners threatened todr to close down the entire industry.

A survey showed 208,650 of John L. Lewis' united mine workers already had stopped work in" 11 states. Union officials said the walk-out would become 100 per cent effective. All 20,000 of Alabama's miners were idle. VMM officials said all miners in Ohio and Illi.

nois would walk out today, it, 000 Out In Indiana The trikes were in support of Lewis' charges that mine operators had "dishonored" the 19U7 contract. The mine chief asked $100 a month pensions for miners aged 60 with 20 years-service. The operators refused his demands. A state-by-state check showed the following number of miners idle: West Virginia, 73, 300; Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utash, 350. Reports from Washington said the government may soon summon Lewis and the operators together for talks.

The federal mediation service has authority under the' Taft-Hartley act to call such a conference Amaizo Settlement Remote Labor-management peace stiix appeared remote today in the month-old strike of 700 American Maize Products workers, according to Jesse Ja co bson, federal conciliator. Jacobson said conferences with plant officials and with bargainers of Local 210, Oil-workers International represents the strikers, have been fruitless but that he will continue his efforts to bring about settlement of a contract dispute. The walkout was calledVupon expiration of a company-union and a breakdown in negotiations on the union demand for wage increase of 25 cents an hour, deletion of a no strike clause proposed by the management, and privileges for reopening of wage negotiations during the life of the proposed new pact. treaty will be signed in Brussels tomorrow. PARIS Sixteen Marshall Plan nations are tackling the problem of including western Germany in the European recovery program.

Parents, Fearing Spanking livery on them has been delayed. iJohnson Says Some Numbers Removed declared that some of the rear route; numbers were removed because some occupants of rear seats on buses inadvertently changed the numbers while in other cases mischievous youths charged the route numbers. Public tampering with the route numbers caused inconvenience to operators and confusion to dispatchers to the extent that the transit firm was virtually forced to almost a-bandon rear route markings on buses, Johnson said. Seek PSC Approval For New Underpass Near Cedar Lake CRQN POINT Construction of a new 30,000 underpass 1,000 feet v.est of the lonon Route's For Son, Tried On March 29 Hunt 'Fence-Busting' Driver Calumet City police are continuing their search for a "dare-devil" motorist who narrowly escaped death on the "Gay White Way" in Calumet City. Police said that an unknown driver of a new automobile knocked dovn hO feet of fence at 630 State after shearing a telephone pole.

Police were unable to locate the driver of the automobile following. the accident. present Cedar Lake-Crown Point road underpass to enable the railroad to relocate its present rails is now contingent on approval of the state public service commission. County commissioners Monday approved construction of the underpass, with 65 per cent of the cost to be financed by the county. The re GRIFFITH Trial of Mr.

and Mrs. Daniel A. Jer. sen, 335 the Franklin school anti-spanking controversy, has been set for March 29 before Juvenile Judge Charles A. Gannon.

The Jensens are charged with contributing to delinquency by keeping their son, Albert, age out of school since November as a protest a-gainst teachers spanking pupils. Jensen explained: "My son has never been spanked but he was overwrought through fear of a paddling at the whim of some teacher." The parents said Principal John Matthews refused to promise not to spank Albert, a model pupil. He said if he promised not to spank hin he would have to extend immunity to all students. The Jensens are being defended by the Civil Rights Congress of Illinois, which will provide attorneys when the delinquency hearing is prosecuted before Judge Gannon by Deputy Prosecutor James Pace. location project also entails a roadway change 1 A.

s.vt '111 1 B. 1 WMIMitl IfC '1t to give access to the Cedar Lake-Crown Point road while the span is being installed. Commissioners Okay New Road Commissioners also approved elimination of the Joan Lane and Division St. crossings and construction of a 30-foot divided access road that will replace Joan Lane and Division St. affording access to Grove Lane.

The separated highway link will cost the county also financing per cent of the cost. L. F. Racine of Lafayette, who is doing the engineering work on the relocation project for that new grades have already been constructed leading up to the Cedar Lake-Crown Point road and that the start of construction of the new underpass and new separated roadway will begin with public service approval of the' county commissioner action. Eugene Griswold, 78, Dies Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Whiting Okays Milk Law Whiting today became the fourth Lake county city to adopt an ordinance requiring city in- spection of all milk. The city council passed a Grade A milk ordinance, modeled after that recently put in force in Hammond, Egst Chicago, and its regular meeting Monday night. Cost of enforcing the new milk law, set at $1,030, has been appropriated by the council. Councilmen figured the annual cost at 10 cents Wednesday in the Huber funeral home, Hammond, for Eugene Griswold, of 636 165th, pioneer Hammond resident and business died in his home Monday afternoon. firiswold was associated in the hardware business with his son, Charles, in the family store at 57b State.

He is survived by his son and-a grandson. Last rites will be conducted by Rev. Walter Wilson with burial in Klmwood I Mull per person in the city. Region Flooded With Bad Checks Chicago and Gary were flooded last not with water with bouncing checks of Bracken SBeard of Beard isn't doing anymore flooding though. Hes in Gary city jail while police of the three cities are locating business places where he passed S10 checks.

At least nine Hammond merchants cashed Beard's checks, Det.Sgts. Walter Wittig and Michael Xeeney said. The number of victims in and East Chicajzo have not been determined. RONALD VAN VACTOR OF LAPORTE is judged winner of the American Legion oratorical contest held at George Rogers Clark school in Robertsdale Monday. Shown after the contest, in which several schools from northern Indiana participated, are (left to right) Donald Zimmerman of Logansport; Van Vactor; Donald Levy of Gary Emerson High school and Harold Craig, oratorical chairman.

Griswold fell victim to the last of three strokes which he suffered in the last year. He had been ill since last Friday. He had been active in his business intermittently up to the time of his death..