Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 4

THE RtGlSTER-NEWS MT. V6RN0N, IlllNOIS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960 'I! Embezzler Beats Cops To Safe Deposif CHICAGO A man accused of embezzlement beat inves- ligators to the draw and emptied his safe box beion they couJd detemine if it contained S8S.700 in missing funds. He is Joseph Klaskin. 42, who told police he embezzled 198.700 from Navajo Freight Lines where he worked as a $llCM-week personnel manager. He has accounted for only $30,000 of the stolen funds.

Investigators hurried to Gateway National Bank Tuesday, hop- inp to recover some the missing money. But bank officials said WasWn, his wife and attorney had been tliere, opened the box and loft. Klaskin, charged with embezzlement, is free on $75,000 bail. Other Gunman Drew First, So, No Indictment TOGOLAND INDEPENDENCE FROM FRANCE APRIL 27 SOMALIA INDEPENDENCE FROM ITALY JULY CONGO INDEPENDENCE FROM BELGIUM JUNE 30 NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE FKOM BRITAIN OCT. I LAWRENCEVTLLE.

111. fAP) A Lawrencfe County grand jury has refuppd to indict Lawrence Peters, 66, of Sumnei-, for the pistol slaying Saturday night of Charles Perry of Bridgeport. Police said Peters orally admitted shooting Perry to death with a .38 iTvolvcr outside a Bridgeport tavern. Peters said Perry w.i-s threaten ing him with a rifle at the time. Peters still faces a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.

Tiie Rrand jury the no true bill in the slaying Tuesday. TIME OUT TELL CITY. Iiid. was delayed in a high school basketball game when cheer leader Oris KJeeman collided with referee Roland Baker. Miss Kleeman was knocked out.

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South 10th Street. Dial CHestnut 2-0955 Residence CHestnut 2-2341 Mt. Vernon, Illinois TIMETABLE FOR INDEPENDENCE GAMBIA (If.) PORT. GUINEA SIERRA lEONE (Br.) BLSOMfLI. tAMb AFRICA fncfependent Notions Independence Scheduled Members French Community Colonies ond Protectorotes BASUTOUND (Br.) Newunap MALI FEDERATION FROM FRANCE 1960? DAHOMEY FROM FRANCE I960? MALAGASY REP.

(MADAGASCAR) FROM FRANCE 1960? Portrait of continent, above, shows how people arc rushing headlong toward independence. White areas indicate nations which will acquire sovereign governments during 1960. Almost certain to join litem within short years, perhaps months: other members of the French Community and British Commonwealth luitions. Tanganyika gets Belf -government thla year, Independence soon. Kenya, Ithodesias and Bcchuanaland could follow.

The Boy Scout Handbook, first published in 1910, sold 17,600,000 copies in its first 50 yeai-s. Lifeguards at Atlantic City, rescue an average of 1,200 swimmers each summer. Ex-Con Wrecks The Tax Office GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF YOUR VALUABLE CLOTHES WITH KERLEY'S CLEANERS VAULT STORAGE Here's How It We carefully and thoroughly clean your clothes, repair all rips and sew on loose buttons, then store them in a fire proof and moth proof vault. Next fall, few days before you need your clothing, call us, we'll take your clothes from the vault, carefully press each item and return them to you fresh as new. All it costs is the cleaning price plus a small charge for insuronce.

Pay now or next fall. YOU SAVE VALUABLE CLOSET SPACE YOU KNOW YOUR CLOTHING IS SAFE CALL CH 2-0825 TODAY. THE NEW KERLEY CLEANERS BILL FATHEREi-LOWELL LEOO Pick-up ond Delivtry 909 South 10th Mt. Vernon PEiaN, ni. (AP) -Police cruote an e.x-coiivict as saying he threw five typewriters and adding machines out the window of the Tazewell County treasurer 's office Monday.

Police said Melvin Hill, 35, of Pekin, said he got ajigi'y when he couldn't brefik into tlie office safe. Hill was held without charge for further questioning. Tlie culprit was first thought to be a disgruntled ta.xpayer, because tJie typewriters were used Paddled Pupil's Parents Retreat, Teachers Return Wadsworth's Atomic Roie Is Under Fire WASHINGTON (AP)-Tlie Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee decides today whether to ask Ambassador James J. Wads- to lo explain hi.s role in Uie tax statements also were de-i Geneva nuclear test ban talks. slroycd.

County Treasurer Ed McClar- cnce estimated damage at 55,000. Another County Levies Soles Tax Sen. Gore m-Tenn) aschvtauninniboitate edakti a.skGd that such an invitation be extended, declaring that Wadsworth had in a statement with tlic Soviet delegation at Ge neva which "misled tlie American people." The committee agreed to meet briefly in closed session to vote on the Wadsworth invitation before resuming its public hearings on scientific problems involved bi BLOOMINGTON, HI. (AP) A one-half cent county sales tax, now collected in incorporated areas McLean County, will be collected lest oan. iin unincorporated areas beginning Gore said at the fn-st jjijav 1 heanngs Tuesday that the The "county Board Tuesday en-mcnt Wadsworth joined i acted the wliich will be col- 'ast month tlic mipression lee ted in addition to the 3 per cent'tJie Union had fully accept- statT tax.

The new tax is tlic U.S. Februai-y test ban day's state- proposal. This was not the case, the Tennesseean contended. The senator also told newsmen after tJie hearings that 'the ad- The Free Will Baptists, a ministration's own scientists have to yield as much as annually for the county's general fund. body of Arminian Baptists, was organized in 1787 by Benjamin Randall in New Hampshire.

given a devastating indictment of rto.sdcclii-ch ncdhGhy aleo hew the administration proposal." need will buy' USE YOUR CREDIT AND OUR Cill CHestnut 2-4300 JEFFERSON LOAN COMPANY 4th Fleer Rogers Building About Our Insured Plan HAHIRA, Ga. (AP) Teachers and pupils went back to classes at Hahii-a High School today, a paddling controversy settled, and calm restored in this south Georgia farming center. The return of the 600 pupils, the principal and 32 teachers was in striking contrast to Tuesday's furor over the paddling last week of Earl Cornelius, 14. The entire faculty resigned more than 150 pupils staged demonstration in front of the building chanting, "We want our teachers back" and parents talked about organizing a motorcade to the Lowndes County seat, Val dosta. The school was closed and the five-man county board of education hurried over from Valdosta 12 miles away, to hold an emergency meetmg.

The board and the teachers solved the problem with the help of school bus driver Ehner Cornelius and his wife, parents of the youth who was paddled. County School Supt. Qyde Meacham and Principal A. Martin said in a joint statement that the situation had been resolved satisfactorily. The board assured Martin and the teachers of support in main-l taining school discipline.

The prin cipal and teachers wthdrew i-esignations. "We regret the situation as far as it did," Meacham said The settlement was reached ait- er Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius agreed to wthdraw warrants alleging! the principal and Mrs. Dwight Maples, a teacher, paddled Earl too severely a week ago.

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