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Rugged East Chicago Washington, Bishop Noll and Crown Point prep basketball squads face rugged weekend schedule. Details in Section C. ME Home Newspaper 'of the Calumet Region Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana; Calumet City-Lansing, Illinois, Friday, January 3, 1969 Vol.LXIIINo. 168 3 Sections 10c Insecure? Try Maginot Line Cold! Steadily falling temperatures with gusty winds, low tonight from 5 to 10 below. Sunny and cold Saturday, high 5 to 10 above.

(Details, page 12A) The But the army will be rid of the cost of maintaining the fortifications. "We think in the long run we'll have more success with the Maginot Line than some other offers," the Property Office spokesman said. "There haven't been any takers for the Rochefort Prison or the houses where American generals lived outside Paris." Besides the line, he said, the French government also is trying to dispose of the $200,000 Villa S. Pierre outside Paris where Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower lived in 1950 and 1951. little bit different. In fact, there are actually nice views across the Rhine from some bunkers." PRICES HAVE not been set, but the government already has sold some bunkers and pill boxes just in front of the line itself for figures ranging from $125 to $1,000. At these rates, it is not expected that France will be able to recuperate anything near the 600 million she is believed to have poured into the line's concrete and steel construction from 1930 to 1938. Government Property Office to begin a publicity campaign to get the Maginot Line sold.

Because it's going to go in small lots who would want all of it? old soldiers and foreigners will get a chance at buying their own place out of the A loyal Property Office spokesman, whose job sometimes consists of talking up the benefits of buying a slightly-used prison or railway station, insisted that life in the Maginot might have its advantages. Something nice for the summer, maybe," he said. "Cool you know, and a PARIS (AP) The French government has come up with a proposition for dampness lovers, sunshine haters and people who just feel terribly insecure a nice little apartment buried deep in the Maginot Line. The line is a 300-mile long series of mostly underground fortifications along the German border that was supposed to keep out Hitler's armies in 1940. It didn't.

Since, Maginot has become synonymous in France with folly. The order went out Thursday to the. til it? Checking aim of headlights, Ham mond service station owner. Garfield Moss conducts one of the safety checks required in Indiana vehicle inspections started this week. Indiana Fights For Veto INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The prospect of an 85 million state deficit loomed today as Atty.

Gen. John J. Dillon charted an appeal of the Indiana Appellate Court ruling on pocket-vetoed bills. The court's 5-3 decision Thursday apparently validated 32 bills passed by the 1967 legislature but pocket vetoed by Gov. Roger D.

Branigin. The court acted specifically on a bill to raise from 8 per cent to 90 per cent the share counties receive of the state Inheritance tax. Suit was brought by the Mass Transportation Authority of Marion County, which would have received tlio county's share of the 90 per cent. The court majority held that because Branigin failed to act on the inheritance tax distribution bill and did not file the bill with the secretary of state within five days after the end of the session with his objections it became law on the strength of its emergency 11 said if Branigin had noted his ohjections, as he did on several other bills he vetoed, the veto would stand and the normal procedure of the secretary of state presenting such bills to the 1969 General Assembly for reconsideration could be followed. DILLON SAID if the inheritance lax bill and the other 31 that were pocket vetoed are effective it would "unbalance the present budget to the tune of at least $100 million." He said the administration of Edgar D.

Whitcomb would be faced with a deficit of $85 million instead of a $15 million balance -in the general fund when the fiscal year ends June 30. Dillon said he was working with the liaison staff of Atty. Theodore L. Sendak in preparing an immediate ap-' peal to the Indiana Supreme Court asking an immediate decision. Fast action is sought because many of those pocket-vetoed measures are scheduled for rcintroduction in the session which begins Jan.

9. Other bills on the list include a proposed pay increase for judges, state Medicaid law, industrial development fund and provision for relief to property own-; ers displaced by eminent domain condemnations. DILLON. SAID the salary Increase for all state and county judges would have cost $5 million in the biennium. The inheritance tax bill would have cost nearly $26 million, he said.

All 'possible effort will be made to reverse this case and to inform the incoming administration of the gravity with which the present attorney general views this decision," Dillon said. "This shocking opinion has changed a Rreat body of constitutional law in Indiana which has stood for years and upon which the executive, legislative and judicial branches have heretofore relied." The court cited a provision of the Indiana Constitution that "no bill shall be presented to the governor within two (Continued on Back Page This Section) Smoky-white exhaust from oil refinery smoke stacks bung heavily In the Calumet Region today as another cold wave moved in for what may be an extended, stay. Temperatures will fall to 10 below tonight. High Court 'Revives' Med-School Northwest Indiana's hopes for a medical school may have received a type of "heart transplant" Thursday. New hope sprung from the Indiana Appelate Court's overruling Gov.

Roger D. Branigin's pocket veto of 32 bills sent to him from the 1967 General Assembly. One of those vetoed bills was of prime importance to the area's chances of securing the second medical school in Indiana. Senate Bill 341 called for the establishment of an 11-member medical needs study commission to seek a site for the second medical school and to hire a dean to establish a program for the physician training facility. Interpretation today of the appellate court action is that the bill long deemed dead is law.

TECHNICALLY, Branigin now must appoint the commission and the state budget authority must find the $1 million to fund the purchase of a site and the salary of a dean. Realistically, the governor need not do anything except wait for his term to end and turn the problem over to his successor, Edgar D. Whitcomb. Several Lake County legislators said today they'd wait to study the court action before, determining what actions they'd take in support of the medical school turn of events. The entire action of the appellate court will probably be appealed by Atty.

Gen. John Dillon and incoming Atty. Gen. Theodore L. Sendak, the lawmakers surmised.

The appeal strategy, however, might call for a delay in the higher court action to give the 1969 general assembly time to take corrective action on the 32 bills. THAT WOULD throw medical school proposals back to the incoming lawmakers the place all hopes rested before Thursday's startling court action. The strategy of Lake County's delegation to the legislature probably will be set next Monday when the lawmakers are scheduled to meet in Gary with the Northwest Indiana Medical Center Study Commission. That commission, headed by former State Rep. Nick Angel, has been the prime supporter of a Northwest Indiana medical school.

MAN GETS A MICKEY HAMMOND What may be the first Jnan-mouse confrontation of the year was reported Thursday by police. Peter Boer, 26, of 1428'4 N. Ridge St, Crown Point, was the victim. The assailant is being examined by Hammond health officials. Boer, an of Deco Industries, :4828 Calumet said he was putting on his safety shoes when his toe bumped what police descrided as a foreign object.

Boer wiggled a finger into the shoe and the mouse attacked. person who called the bureau's of-, fice in Gary. "There's a man in a Los Angeles hospital using the name 'Julius' who is Arthur Lewis," the informant told agents. Los Angeles agents were sent to the hospital to interview "Julius Boulden" who admited under questioning to being Lewis. TOE FBI SOUGHT Lewis through a federal warrant charging unlawful flight to avoid confinement.

The bureau said disposition of the case is in the hands of the Indiana and California authorities. Ward Lane, warden of the Indiana NfWYORK-H UNITED STATES 'J ATLANTIC OCEAN i- A giant Eastern Airlines DC8 jetliner carrying 148 persons from New York to Miami was hijacked over the Atlantic Ocean Thursday night and. forced to fly to Havana. Story, Page 2A. 2 Killings Not Linked CROWN POINT The bullets which killed a Hammond man on Dec.

18 and a Calumet City bar owner three days later weren't fired by the same weapon. That information came Thursday from the Illinois State Police crime lab at Joliet. Lake County and Calumet City police once saw a connection between the fatal shooting of Fred Sizemore, 31, whose bullet-riddled body was found Dec. 18 in a Ross Township ditch, and Jesse Jacob, 43. Jacob was found dead three days later on the floor of his Calumet City bar.

Both men were killed with shots from a 25-caliber pistol. Sizemore, of 6447 Woodward Hammond, was in Jacob's tavern the last night he was alive. Police had questioned Jacob about Sizemore's activity only hours before the bar owner was discovered dead with a single gunshot wound in the head. Jacob operated Poor Jake's tavern at 307 State Calumet City. Lt.

Don Peters of the Lake County police, said today he plans to intensively question relatives and friends of Size-more in an effort to retrace the steel-worker's wanderings during a drinking spree the night he was killed. Several persons may be asked to take lie tests, Peters said. cvfP)Al7 iv -s- Focusing On Defects Indiana's ectwn Indiana motor vehicle Inspection got off to a slow start in the Calumet region. Many mechanics postponed the safety checks because they were so busy starting cold-stalled cars Operators of inspection stations reported public interest is high and that regular customers are trying to get their cars checked well ahead of the mandatory inspection schedule starting in March; I just had to put them off, though," said Ken Madura, a service station operator. Because his regular crew and several part-timers were all working on unfreezing cars and charging batteries, Madura scheduled the inspections during the coming three weeks.

The operator across the street was in the same boat, Madura said. Another inspector, Garfield Moss, operator of Dode's Conoco on Indianapolis Boulevard, said he only did three inspections because there was so much other work. A number of the approved inspection stations reported they still had not received their windshield stickers or other materials necessary to complete the inspection procedure. A spokesman at Abrahamson's Motor Sales said they were told the stickers should arrive in the mail today. Meanwhile, the Automobile Dealers' Association of Indiana called for loosening the inspection standards and basing the fee on the time required instead of a flat rate.

F. BORMAN HIGHWAY? MUNSTEK State Sen! Eugene Bainbridge Munster) wants the Tri-State Highway renamed in honor of Astronaut Frank Borman. A native of Gary, Borman was commander of the three-man Apollo 8 spaceship which orbited the moon last month. Bainbridge has asked Gov. Roger D.

Branigin to designate the Tri-State as the "Borman Expressway." ARTHUR JAMES LEWIS killer captured Imp Goes slow that Nil rT "-v 33 Wintry Look Sub-Zero Temps Due Long underwear and earmuff temperatures returned to the Calumet Region today and the five-day outlook suggests hems on those miniskirts be dropped a few inches. The steadily falling mercury is expected to fall to between 5 and 10 below zero by midnight as the sub-zero weather moves into the region for an extended stay. The five-day forecast shows temperatures through next Wednesday are expected to average nearly 15 degrees below normal. Normal highs range from 33 in the north to 43 in the south; normal lows, from 18 in the north to 27 in the south. Precipitation is expected to total only about one-quarter of an inch in light snow and snow flurries, mainly during the first part of the week.

But snow, freezing rain and sleet plagued other portions of the country today. Travelers warnings were issued for the central plains where snow or blow-ing snow reduced visibility. A mixture of freezing rain and sleet spread across Missouri to Kentucky and Tennessee making travel hazardous in portions of those states. Robbery State Prison in Michigan City, said the necessary papers have been forwarded to California to return Lewis. "But they may decide to keep him," Lane said Friday.

"He has charges against him out there. 1 don't know when we'll get him back." Lewis and another inmate Alexander Nagy, 33 fled the prison seven weeks ago concealed beneath a load of rubbish in a trash truck. Nagy, serving 10 to 25 years for armed robbery, was captured in Tijuana, (Continued on Back Page This Section) near icianon 1 .14. rCl STRIA StAEl Military activity is Increasing along the Israel-Lebanon border as tensions mount. Russia, says she'll maintain strong naval forces In the Mediterranean to back Arabs.

See Page 12A. Oil Strike Threatened The nation's oil refinery workers have been ordered to strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday unless last-minute talks bring a contract settlement. Agreement in time to avoid a walkout by 60,000 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union appeared unlikely Friday. It looks very dim," said Tyler Swanson, a staff representative of the OCAW.

A. F. Grospiron, international president of the union, fixed the strike deadline late Thursday from his Denver headquarters. The walkout will affect operations at six Calumet Region firms which employ about 4.000 OCAW members. The firms supply fuel oil and gasoline in nine Midwest states.

The contract between the union and the nation's oil refineries expired at 12:01 a.m., New Year's Day. Talks continued as long as Grospiron remained silent. Only he has the authority to order a strike. A spokesman said Grospiron elected to delay any positive action as the deadline ncared because of what appeared to be hints of probable progress in the 11. 1 MiiI.ii.: Jrl 1 Lewis Caught in L.A.

Jf'ut do you do uhen it 60-behw? 12 A Gary teachers will take a strike vote Section Church 6-7B Sxrts 1-4C Classified 6-9C Theater 5C Comics 10-1 1C TV 4A Editorials 10A Voice of People 11A Illinois 2B Weather 12A Obituaries 3B Women's 4-5B Phone 932-3100 Office Hours: 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. Convicted killer Arthur James Lewis, who escaped from the Indiana State Prison Nov. 18, was captured in a gun battle liuring a robbery in a Hollywood parking lot. Los Angeles police said they shot a .38 caliber revolver from Lewis' hand.

The Gary fugitive was apprehended Wednesday when he fell 50 feet from a building ledge. Lewis suffered a fractured pelvis. He is in satisfactory condition in a Los Angeles hospital. Lewis gave the name Julius Boulden when arrested. The FBI learned "Boulden" probably was Lewis from an uniden- 1 i.

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