Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 1

TEMPERATURE FORECAST 7:00 a.m. today 60. the 60s. Partly cloudy and conTuesday high 93, low 58. MT.

VERNON REGISTER-NEWS fair and warm tonight, low in Southern Illinois Generally tinued warm Thursday with a at noon today 84. chance of thundershowers. The MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL -SPECIAL FAVORS FOR NONE A NON-PARTISAN NEWSPAPER high near 90. VOLUME XLIX-NO. 214 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1969 LOS ANGELES RE-ELECTS YANKS EVACUATE HAMBURGER HILL -(- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- Korea Cost $18 Billion Viet War Cost Nears $100 Billion AT Mascoutah Victims NAME TEEN MURDERS SUSPECT BELLEVILLE, Ill.

(AP) The St. Clair County sheriff's office announced today that warrants have been issued for the arrest. of a man as William Raymond Nickerson for the murder of two Mascoutah High School teen-agers. a Chief Deputy Sheriff Coboy Rodriguez said an unlawful flight warrant was being requested from federal authorities. At the same time Sheriff Jerry Dall of nearby Clinton County said warrants charging the same man with rape and robbery were issued in connection with an April 25 incident near Breeze, Ill.

Simultaneously, Harold W. Barrick, prosecuting attorney for Ralls County, said a warrant has been issued charging Nickerson with rape in a case which occurred near Crystal Blue Lake about five miles southwest of Hannibal, the night of March 31. Officers gave no background on Nickerson and said his present whereabouts are unknown. Nickerson was charged in the slaying of Michael Morrison, 18, and Debra Means, 15, both children of Air Force master sergeants at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. Authorities said the teen-agers were slain May 4.

Their bodies were found the following afternoon about six miles southwest of Mascoutah in a strip mining area. They had been last seen alive by friends at a post-high school prom party. Rodriguez described the man named in the warrant as very dangerous. "He is apt to kill if there is resistance," he said. Authorities declined to identify any witnesses, saying "We've got to protect these people." Snicker-A-Day Every time you graduate from the school of experience someone thinks up a new course.

Kids Stay Up 2nd Night On Delyte's Lawn CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) The sit-in on the lawn of Southern Illinois University's president continued into the night Tuesday as students pressed demands for an end to curfew hours for women undergraduates. Some 200 students held the vigil as the sit-in moved into its second night. The demonstrators were considering an end to the sit-in after SIU Chancellor Robert W. Macvicar announced that Wednesday and Thursday classes at the school will be devoted to discussion of any student problems at the option of the instructor and the students in each class.

However, most of the demonstrators adopted a wait-and-see attitude and brought out sleeping bags and blankets for the second night. The crowd on the front lawn and across the street from President Delyte W. Morris' home ranged from 450 Monday after- 40c per Week Single Copy 7c YORTY Started In Mt. Vernon With 58 RADIATOR COMPANY EMPLOYS 400 HERE Progress has been steady during the Mt. Vernon history of General Radiator.

This was disclosed Tuesday night during a plant tour and concluding dinner at The Flaming Pit by members of the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce Personnel Management club. Tour hosts were three department heads of General Radiator, Don Walls, Harry Morrison and Art Hansen. Founded in 1947 at Sturtevant, the plant was re- located at Marion, in 1951. one of four founders was Steve Hansen, father of Art Hansen.

Majority ownership of the firm was obtained by Malcolm Henning in 1953 and a year later he located the plant here. Henning retired as president in the fall of 1957 and is now executive vice president in charge of operations for Chromalloy American, parent company of General Radiator. Henning was succeeded as General Radiator's president by Kenneth Olson, recently elected president of the Chamber of Commerce. General Radiator started here with 58 employes and today there are 337 employes in ployment total of more than production and an over real em400, the personnel club members were told. The Mt.

Vernon plant produces engine cooling devices and heat transfer products, mostly for earth moving equipment and stationary machines. Fairfield, Centralia Mt. Vernon firms were represented on the tour and at dinner, the latter being concluded with a general discussion of industrial personnel activities. Richard Wiese's invitation that the club members meet at Power Cores June 17 was accepted. A 5:30 p.m.

tour of the plant will be followed by dinner at Crownview restaurant. For Deceased Veterans 6 White Crosses Added To Military Cemetery Here The American Legion is adding six more white crosses to the miniature military cemetery on the court house lawn here. The crosses contain the names of Jefferson county veterans who have died since last Memorial Day, and were missed in the original list of deceased veterans. Fifty five war veterans of the county have died in the past year and three of the county's young soldiers have been killed in Vietnam War combat. Here are the deceased veterans whose names will be added on the white crosses, the scene of Memorial Day services this Friday: World War I Fred Clark.

John Gaston. Ben H. Haynes. Tony L. Mydler.

World War II Roe 0. Gaddis. Fred (Ted) Sodders. Need Lifeguards For Jaycee Beach The city needs a lifesaver for the Jaycee beach, that is. City Manager Kenneth Setzekorn said two lifeguards are needed for the Jaycee Beach which is scheduled to open Memorial Day.

A minimum of a senior lifesaving certificate is needed. Applicants should apply to Setzekorn at the city hall. Setzekorn said the beach would open at 1 p.m. and will close at 8 p.m. The concession stand will be operated by John Paul Anderson.

An admission of 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults will be charged. Negro Loses MASSIVE TURNOUT OF VOTERS HAMBURGER HILL NORTH VIETNAM SOUTH ZONE DEMILITARIZED, CHINA SEA DONG HA KHE SANH HUE HO CHI MINH DONG MOUNTAIN AP BIA TRAIL DANANG LAOS SOUTH VIETNAM MILES 20 NEA In some of the bloodiest fighting for a strategic point since the months-long battle of Khe Sanh last year, Americans and South Vietnamese troops finally took by storm Dong Ap Bia Mountain. The peak, nicknamed "Hamburger Hill," which commands the southern end of the Ashau valley only a few miles from the Laotian border and the Ho Chi Minh trail has been given up by the American forces. In Legislature MOTOR FUEL TAX BOOST CUT TO CENT SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Gov.

Richard B. Ogilvie's proposed motor fuel tax boost was pared to one cent a gallon for gasoline and diesel fuels Tuesday night by the Illinois House. Today he faced -a threat by at least one Republican to vote against it unless the use of the estimated $38 million a year in extra revenue was restricted to building state highways. Originally, Ogilvie had asked for cents a gallon increase in the six cents a gallon gasoline tax. He asked for a cent increase in the diesel fuel tax.

Then he dropped the request to an even 2 cents a gallon boost on both gasoline and diesel. Tuesday night, Rep. W. ert Blair, R-Park Forest chairman of the highway study commission whose recommendations Ogilvie adopted, reduced the proposal to a one cent a gallon boost on gasoline and diesel. Blair said the state would get about $25 million of the $38 million the increase would produce.

Under a formula, local governments would share the remainder. Rep. Alan Schoeberlein, R- (Continued On Page 2 Col. 2) WASHINGTON (AP) Vietnam is fast becoming a hun- dred-billion-dollar war. Government figures show the 1970 defense budget will add $25.4 billion to officially admitted expenses dating back to 1965, raising the price of the conflict to $108.2 billion.

Hidden or indirect costs probably add hundreds of millions to the real expense of the war, although the scope oft these items is sometimes difficult to assess because of official secrecy. For example, the American government is doling out mileconomic assistance to reinforce such Vietnam border countries as Thailand and Laos which could sway the balance of power in the area. The Pentagon budget lumps admitted Vietnam war costs under a category entitled. "Estimated Special Support for Southeast Asia Operations." This covers the acknowledged U.S. expenses of maintaining dozens of ships, hundreds of planes and helicopters and 634,000 military personnel in and off Vietnam and outlying areas; certain military assistance in the way of weapons and equipment to not only Vietnam but also Thailand and Laos; and outright grants of foodstuffs and other materials to Vietnam which have totaled over $1 billion since 1965.

The Southeast Asia category does not, however, fully reflect some other war-related expenses such as construction of the Thai -owned airfield near Sattahip, Thailand, which the United States built in 1965 to handle KC135 tankers and B52 bombers flying missions into Laos and South Vietnam. This Continued On Page 2 Col. 6) 'DILLIES ON STRIKE THINK HE GOT IN THE WRONG PICKET LINE. 01909 The Ledge: Syndicate too T. M.

Nodd Right Re. tael Jackie Lee Johnson Ex-Mt. V. Boy Killed In Vietnam Jackie Lee Johnson, 20, a former Mt. Vernon boy, has been killed in combat in Vietnam.

The young Marine was the son of Roy and Mary (Sweat) Johnson, former Mt. Vernon residents who live at Elkhart, Ind. Jackie Lee was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Henn, 208 south Fourth street.

When the family lived here the young Marine attended Franklin grade school. The Johnsons moved to Elkhart 12 years ago. Mr. Johnson was employed at the Master Baking Co. here several years Details of Marine Pvt.

Johnson's death were not immediately learned here, except that he was struck by enemy fire during combat last Sunday. His parents were notified of his death at 1:30 this morning. The body will be brought to the Pulley Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon some time in the next ten days to two weeks. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Burial will be in Sursa cemetery. Besides his parents, Jackie Lee is survived by a brother, Buddy, of Elkhart, and a sister, Linda, of Leonidas, Mich. He was born October 14, 1948 in Mt. Vernon. 400 (AP Wirephoto) SIT-IN AT SIU-Students sit on the lawn of Southern Illinois University President Delyte1 W.

Morris in Carbondale in protest of the administration's policy of women's hours. The students stayed on the lawn until 3 a.m. voicing demands on hours and other policies. noon, just after the sit-in began, dled to around 400 persons and dent senate participated in the to an estimated 2,500 at mid- the count ranged from 50 to 30 peaceful sit-in. University secur- evening.

persons during the day Tuesday. ity police were not brought into Shortly after midnight it dwin- Several members of the stu- service. Bloody Battle Scene END SEARCH OF PEAK, GO INTO VALLEY SAIGON (AP) American paratroopers moved out from the crest of Dong Ap Bia, the mountain they seized a week ago, and pushed their search operations today along the nearby A Shau Valley. "They have completed their search of the mountain and now are continuing their reconnaissance in force mission," said an officer of the 101st airborneDivision, which seized the mountain. He added that the troops began moving off the top of Dong Ap Bia shortly after daylight.

Hours later, however, a spokesman for the U.S. Command in Saigon said some American forces, described only as "a considerable group," still were on top of the mountain. There was no immediate explanation of the discrepancy in the two accounts. The fighting for Dong Ap Bia cost 50 Americans killed and 300 wounded and 600 North Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed. The action has become a matter of political controversy in the United States.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and others did not think the battle and the American casualties were justified. There are at times conflicts in accounts from the field and from headquarters in Saigon during actions, sometimes because of communications difficulties or other reasons. Spokesmen emphasized that the over-all operation is continuing in and around the A Shau Valley, a longtime North Vietnamese stronghold and a stag.

ing area for attacks on Hue and the big U.S. military base at Da Nang. On the basis of the reports that the paratroopers were moving off the hill after 10 days of bloody fighting, a U.S. spokesman in Saigon said: "There's no tactical reason to stay there." "We feel we've gotten everything out of this mountain that we're going to get," another officer said. TAP RENEWS TOUR New York Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller faces newsmen at New York City after addressing American Management Association. He begins a second of three fact-finding trips to Latin America on behalf of President Nixon. His second trip will include stops at Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Trinidad and Tobago. Court Kills Motorcycle Helmet Law SPRINGFIELD, Ill.

(AP)-A 1967 law requiring motorcyclists to wear protective helmets was declared unconstitutional today by the Illinois Supreme Court. The court found the law to go beyond the police power of the Legislature as defined in the Illinois and U.S. Although protection of motorcycle operators and passengers is a "laudable prupose," the opinoin: added, regulation of what is essentially a mater of personal safety cannot be justified. The law also requires wind screens on motorcycles and the wearing of goggles. In the decision, the high court reversed the Madison County Circuit Court conviction of Donald Fries for not wearing a helmet.

Fries contended the law was "unduly restrictive upon the individual freedom for a motorcyclist to choose to wear or not to wear a helmet." Bills to repeal the law, sponsored by Sen. Robert Mitchler, R-Oswego, are pending in the I legislature. At Mt. V. Airport; Name 1969-70 Board Plan 5-Acre Tracts At Industrial Park The 100- acre industrial park at Mt.

Vernon Airport will soon be sub- divided into five acre tracts and offered for lease to industries. The board of the Jefferson County Industrial Development Corporation the non profit group that administers the property has authorized an initial plan of subdivision, with the final plan to be submitted to the board. The corporation reorganized for the coming year at a recent meeting and elected Charles W. Waite, chairman of the son county board, as chairman for 1969-70. Other officers elected by the directors were Mt.

Vernon Mayor Rolland Lewis, executive vice president; David Bayer of Bank of Illinois and chairman of the Mt. Vernon Airport Authority, second vice. president; and Chester B. Lewis, a vice president of First National Bank and Trust secretary treasurer. Name Board Members Under the by- laws of the non profit corporation, the industrial park is administered by a nine- member board of directors.

The mayor of Mt. Vernon county board chairman and the Airport Authority chairman are automatically members of the LOS ANGELES (AP) Mayor Sam Yorty, an underdog after running second in the primary, bounced back today and captured his third terf in a runoff election with Thomas Bradley, a Negro councilman. Voters of the nation's third largest city turned out in massive numbers in the climax of a bitterly fought campaign. Supporters of Bradley said they had lodged a complaint with the state attorney general's office over a "candidates card" widely distributed in areas where the city's 15 to 20 per cent Negro population lives. They claimed the card said Bradley votes should be made on hole No.

3 of the punch cardcomputer ballot. If voters did so, they would have voted for Yorty. Bradley, 51, a former police lieutenant who hoped to become the third Negro mayor of a major U.S. city, refused to concede. He won 42 per cent of the vote to Yorty's 26 per cent in the April primary, but was forced into a runoff when he failed to gain a majority.

Pollsters right up to election day had him maintaining a margin. Semi-official returns from all but six of 2,890 precincts in Tuesday's runoff gave Yorty 447,000, or 53 per cent, to Bradley's 392,379, or: 47 per cent. Bradley's edge in the primary came as 66 per cent of the 1,127,000 registered voters to the polls. This time the figure. was about 80 per cent, much of it from predominately white areas.

Jubilant over his comeback, Yorty told cheering supporters they had brought him "back from what appeared to be certain defeat." He promisd to make Los Angeles "a greater city in the coming four years." "I was just a symbol of what we are trying to do," hie added. At almost the same Bradley was 'it telling his support- still appears we'll have to wait some time before we learn how this thing turns Then he made a quiet appeal, asking his supporters to remain calm after a campaign in which he was accused by Yorty. of surrounding himself with black militants. "Keep the faith in what we've been trying to do," Bradley said. No Negro ever has been elected mayor of a city of this size.

The largest cities now with elected Negro mayors are Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Ind. Yorty had banked on a conservative trend and this carried over in contests for school board and junior college trustees, where candidates regarded as conservatives generally won. -0- -0- -0- board, and each appoints two other members. Board Chairman Waite has appointed Harold Roffmann, a consulting engineer, and Joe Martin, an insurance man and former Mt. Vernon mayor, to the board for 1969-70.

Mayor Lewis appointed Chester Lewis, former Mt. Vernon city manager, and Kenneth. Olson of General Radiator Co. Airport Chairman Bayer appointed Frank Hall, of Precision Engineering and will soon make his second appointment. Five- Acre Tracts In.

its decision to subdivide the industrial park land into five-acre tracts the directors emphasized that the tracts could be further subdivided, or increased in size, to suit the needs of a new' industry. After the subdivision plan is developed a complete brochure of the layout will be made and widely circulated. The board is empowered to grant leases on the industrial park property up to 65 years. Leasing costs have not yet been set by the directors. At its organization session the board appointed the law firm of Kirk.

and Musick and the engineering firm of Roffmann and Setzekorn as corporation consultants, to serve without pay. Sun Is Bright, Hot In Illinois By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The sun was bright and hot in Illinois today and the mercury threatened to break existing records in the Chicago area. The Weather Bureau said the Chicago area high reading would be 94 today, erasing a record 91 set for the date in 1941. Early readings backed the forecasters' predictions Temperatures were in the 1 mid 60s throughout the state and steadily climbing under clear skies in most areas. Accompanying the temperature rise in northern Illinois was a gain in humidity.

Southern Illinois highs were also in the 90s and the entire state was threatened with scattered thundershowers today and tonight. Tonight's lows will be in the 60s and continued hot weather lis expected Thursday..