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TEMPERATURE Tuesday high 90 low 72. No Tuesday rainfall. 7:00 a.m. today 75. Downtown at neon today 96.

MI VERNON REGISTER-NEWS MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR FAVORS FOR NONE A NON-PARTISAN NEWSPAPER FORECAST Southern Illinois Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with only a slight chance of thunderstorms, the low tonight 68 to 75. High Thursday in the 90s. VOLUME NO. 254 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1969 40c per Week Single Copy 7c THEY LEAVE EARTH'S GRAVITY! -O" -o- -o- -o- -o -O- -o- WHERE THEY WHERE THEY'RE Voyage Apollo 11 Trio Rockets Toward Moon Landing This was the scene at sunset after the service gantry was moved away from the Apollo 11 moon rocket during the count down demonstration test at Cape Kennedy with the giant bird ready for ignition and liftoff. The Apollo 11 was launched this morning with astronauts Neil A.

Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (AP Wirephoto) This is AP artist Ben Valdivieso's toncepti on of how Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong will plant the American flag in the moon's soil after stepping onto the lunar surface. The flag will be made of nylon, three by five feet, and will be attached to an eight-foot long staff. The flag will appear to be flying in a breeze.

(AP Wirephoto) il College Board Considers Ina Phone Service REND LAKE EDUCATION BUDGET UP $290,000 In Centralia Mt. V. Girl, 1 2, Dies In Car Accident A 12-year-old Mt. Vernon girl was killed and two other persons injured in a car truck accident on the south edge of Centralia Tuesday night. Terri Lynn Beasley, 900 Warren was killed when a car in which she was a nassen- ger collided with a truck at Perrine Street and Walnut Hill Road in Centralia, according to police reports.

Mrs. Ethel Graley, 41, Centralia, driver of the car, was critically injured. Another passenger, Mrs. Graley's daughter Sylvia, 10, was seriously injured. The driver of the truck, John Copple, 53, Walnut Hill, suffered minor injuries.

Funeral services for Terri Lynn Beasley will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Myers Funeral Home Chapel. Friends may call at Myers after 5 p.m. Thursday. Terri was born June 10, 1957, in Paragould, the daughter of Norman and Joann (Andrews) Beasley.

She is survived by her father of Paragould, and her mother of Mt. Vernon. Other survivors include one brother, George, and three sisters, Pamela, Dina Kay and Angelina, all of Mt. Vernon. The Rend Lake College board heard the first reading of its 1969-80 budget proposal and re ceived a report on telephone service for the new liege campus at the regular monthly board meeting Tuesday night.

The proposed budget for the fiscal year July 1, 1969, to June 30, 1970, includes an increase of almost $290,000 in educational fund expenditures over the 196869 figures. The new budget calls for edu cational fund expenditures of $1,110,277.97 compared with $823,310.86 during the last fiscal year. Dr. James Snyder, presi dent of the college, said the increase reflected initiation of two new programs and expan sion of several more. Automotive and cosmetology programs will be offered next year to increase the college vocational program Vocational education is being emphasized in the state wide junior college movement.

The agriculture, music, guidance counseling and adult education programs are also being increased. Increase in teachers' salaries to make salaries competitive with other junior colleges also accounts for part of the educational fund increase, Snyder said. The entire budget proposal was reviewed at an informal board meeting July 11. Set Public Hearing Public hearings on the proposed budget, required by state (Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) May Award Construction Contract Aug.

14 Waltonville Seeks Water System Bids Bids will be opened August 14 for construction of a new water system and elevated tank at Waltonville. The village board voted last night to advertise for bids which will be opened on that date. The project will be financed by a $285,000 low interest loan approved recently by the federal Farmers Home Administration. A total of 286 persons have signed up for water from the system in the Waltonville, Dareville and Nason areas, paying $10 deposits. Village officials said it is now time for the signers to pay an additional $15.

This sum must be paid, they said, before a construction contract can be -o- -o- -o- The $15 additional can be paid to Emil Norris of the village board, or left at the grocery store in Waltonville for him. Waltonville will buy water from the City of Mt. Vernon and operate its own distribution system. The line will extend from Mt. Vernon to-Waltonville and to Dareville and the North village limits of Nason.

Residents along the line will' be served. Nason village officials attended last night's session and indicated they are begining preliminary plans to have the water line extended into Nason. The loan approved by FHA will be repaid over a 40- year period, from earnings of the system, through a revenue bond issue. Pick Queen Tonight At Mt. V.

Fair TONIGHT 8:00 Beauty Queen Pageant Thursday Afternoon 1:30 Pony Pull and Pony Races. Thursday Night 8:00 Grand Ole Opry. -o- -o- -o- -o- Sixteen pretty girls will compete at the Mt. Vernon State Fair tonight for the title of Miss Jefferson County of 1969. The annual popular event, on stage at 8:00 o'clock, will Fair Queen Will Be Amvet Queen The girl who wins the beauty pageant at the Mt.

Vernon State Fair tonight will wear two crowns. She will be Miss Jefferson County and Miss Mt. Vernon Amvet. The local Amvet post requested permission to welcome tonight's winner as their own queen. Fair officials agreed.

So the county fair winner will reign this year as Miss Amvet and will be official hostess for the local club at the state Convention. result in crowning of a queen who will represent Jefferson county later this year in a contest for Miss Illinois nty Fair. Local Driver Wins Jim Hill, a veteran Mt. Vernon driver, scored two first place wins in a trotting event as the two- day harness racing session opened Tuesday afternoon. Hill drove Empires Pride, owned by Ethel Hancock of Dongola, 111., to straight heat wins.

The results of Tuesday's racing follow: 2-YEAR-OLD PACE (Egyptian Colt Bow, a bay gelding owned and driven by Bill Morgan of Springfield, 111., breezed home on top in both heats in 2:15.4 and 2:18.2. Second both outings was Julie Eyre, owned by the Glen Eyre Farm of Glasgow, Ky. 2-YEAR -OLD TROT (Egyptian Colt Stakes) High Rader, a roan horse owned by Day Mangus of Kirksville, captured the first heat but was second in the final mile to Eyre Thrill, owned by the Glen Eyre Farm of Glasgow, Ky. The times were 2:21.3 and 2:20, OVERNIGHT TROT Empires Pride, owned by Ethel Hancock of Dongola, breezed home in both heats. Empress owned by Dale F.

Gash of Fairfield, finished second in both heats. OVERNIGHT PACE Caledonia Lobell, owned and driven by Gary Scurlock of Newton, (Continued On Page 2 CoL 8) $400,000 Airport Job Ozark Out July 28 To August 5 Work began today on a $400,000 improvement project at the Mt. Vernon Airport. The principal improvement will be strengthening of the 5,836 foot main runway with three inches of blacktopping in the same blacktopping treatment of all taxi- ways and ramp areas. The project, financed with emergency funds from the Federal Aviation Agency, was started last November but had to be shut down because of cold weather.

Disrupt Air Service The project will cause cancellation of Ozark Air Lines service to Mt. Vernon for the period from July 28 through August 5. The secondary runway, which is 3,152 feet long, is too short for Ozark's prop jet planes. Max Firebaugh, airport manager, said that all other air traffic will be accomodated as usual during the July 28 August 5 period. Bob Moorhouse, Ozark manager here, said customers who have prior bookings for the per- id are being notified and other arrangements made for their trips from Mt.

Vernon. Contractor for the project is Southern Illinois Asphalt Co. of Mt. Vernon formerly Jefferson Asphalt. Moorhous said the runway work is a step toward DC-9 service to Mt.

Vernon by Ozark. He said that the main runway, however will still be 800 feet short of the required length for the big jets. Shogun Blast Hits Mail Box On Rural Route Why would anyone fire a shotgun blast at a rural mailbox? U. S. postal authorities were pondering this question in the Mt.

Vernon area today as they investigated another case of mail box vandalism. Mrs. Charles Byars, Route 5, Mt. Vernon, reported to the sheriff's office this morning that someone fired a shotgun about 12:20 this morning, blasting the mailbox at her home. County authorities immediately notified postal authorities.

It was the second time this week that mail boxes have been damaged by vandals in the Mt. Vernon area. Earlier this week the damage was caused by cherry bomb iitiiiiiiiimiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Snicker-A -Day All work and no you a big taxpayer. UIIIUIIIIHHIIUimUliUUUIIUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIitllllllll Apollo 11 At A Glance CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Here are the facts and figures of the Apollo 11 mission: Astronauts: Civilian Neil A.

Armstrong, 38; Air Force Col. Edwin E. Aldrin 39; Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins, 38.

Purpose: After attaining lunar orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin fly a landing craft to man's first landing on the moon on Sunday. They are to walk on moon for hours Monday, setting up scientific experiments, fathering soil samples and determining ability to work in one-sixth gravity field. Total length of time on moon: -o- -o 22 hours, after which they rendezvous with Collins orbiting in command ship. Flight duration: Eight days, 3 hours, 19 minutes. Rocket: Three-stage Saturn 5, which, with Apollo spacecraft, stands 363 feet tall.

It is the world's most powerful booster, wiht first stage thrust of 7.7 million pounds. Cost of mission: Saturn 5, $185 million; Apollo 11 command ship, $55 million; lunar module, $41 million; launch operations, including recovery forces, $74 million. Total $355 million. Total cost of Apollo program to date: $22 billion. Apollo Television NEW YORK (AP) Here are the major networks' schedules for coverage of the Apollo 11 moon mission (all times EDT): 6 a.m.

to approximately 1:30 p.m.; ABC, 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and noon to 1 p.m.; CBS, 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. 7:30 to 7:50 p.m.; ABC, 7:30 to 8 p.m.; CBS, 7:30 to 8 p.m.

Thursday's broadcasts will include the first color transmissions from Apollo 11. -o- -o- -o- White House Services WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon plans special religious services at the White House Sunday, with Astronaut Col. Frank Borman participating in the worship as Apollo 11 prepares for the moon landing. Members of Congress, diplomats and government officials have been invited to the 11 a.m. EDT services in the East Room, where a Quaker minister will deliver the sermon and two Baptist members of Congress will participate.

The three astronauts of Apollo 11 will be preparing for the Sunday afternoon descent of the landing module to the lunar surface. The White House announced that Borman will read the biblical passages from Genesis, chapter 1, verses 1 to 10, that he and two fellow astronauts read from their space capsule for worldwide broadcast while they orbited the moon on Christmas eve. -o- -o- -o- Nixon, Borman Watch WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon and astronaut Frank Borman watched on television today the Apollo 11 launch Nixon predicted would "lift the spirits of the American people and the whole world." Nixon and Borman went into a small office beside the oval presidential office to witness the vent on a color TV set brought Quarantine Moonmen ABOARD USS HORNET (AP) risk of the Apollo 11 astronauts returning to earth with "moon bugs" is negligible, say the two men who will be quarantined with them for three weeks. The quarantine is to make sure the astronauts did not pick up moon organisms that could threaten earth's inhabitants. "The risk of bringing something back is very small," said Dr.

William Carpentier, 33, of Lake Cowichan, B.C., the physician who will conduct tests on the astronauts. "If I calculated it a sufficiently high risk I wouldn't be here," said John Hirasaki, 28, of Vidor, project engineer who helped design the quarantine facility and will operate its systems during the three-week period. CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) for a dream, America's Apollo 11 astronauts hurtled across the vastness of space today on a voyage of the ages, an attempt to land two men on the moon. Civilian commander Neil A.

Armstrong, 38, Air Force Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Air Force Lt. Col.

Michael Collins broke away fro mthe embrace of earth 's gravity at 12:16 p.m. (EDT) today as a jarring rocket blast shot them out of earth orbit and sent them winging toward the moon Vk hours after launch from Cape Kennedy. The spacecraft had reached 193 miles in altitude at the end of the five-minute, 47-second burn. The power to boost the astronauts outward came from the third stage of the Saturn 5 rocket which had lifted them with a roar heard round the world. For Vh hours, the astronauts had orbited the globe checking the spaceship's millions of parts before committing themselves to the quarter-million-mile journey to the moon.

They reported Apollo 11 was perfect and the Mission Control Center in Houston flashed the go-ahead to take the critical step that started them toward the moon, the alluring first goal of man 's boldest step into space. The firing of the third stage increased their speed from about 17,400 to 24,200 miles per hour, enough to break the grip of earth 's gravity. It sent them on the lunar trail blazed twice by man in the last seven the Apollo 8 and 10 astronauts who came tantalizingly close as they orbited earth's only natural satellite. "That Saturn gave us a magnificent Armstrong. "It certainly looks like you're on your way," Mission Control replied.

"We have no complaints -o- -o- -o- Bomb Anniversary SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Historians studying 20th Century civilization on Planet Earth will have two reasons to herald July 16. Wednesday, July 16, 1969: Three superbly conditioned men thunder into space atop a giant rocket. Their be the first humans to land on the moon. Monday, July 16, 1945: A group of scientists and engineers in the New Mexico desert, lying face down in the sand or gathered in shielded bunkers in the last uncertain seconds of another countdown, detonated the world's first atomic bomb. They hasten the end of World War II and pushed mankind into the era of the atom.

-O- -0- -D- about any of the three stages on that ride," Armstrong reported. The Apollo 11 crew planned to coast for three days, firing themselves into orbit 69 miles above the moon early Saturday afternoon to set the stage for the landing attempt. During their first hours in space, the astronauts were very businesslike as they checked spaceship systems. There was very little conversation from the orbiting craft. The Cape Kennedy launch was right on schedule.

Barring problems, these three Columbuses of the Space Age are to sail outward across a quarter-million-mile ocean of space for three days and fire themselves into orbit just 69 miles above the moon on Saturday. They are to follow the trail blazed twice in the last seven months, by the pioneers of Apollo 8 and 10. Sunday afternoon, Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin are to detach a lunar module and fly it down to a landing at the Sea of Tranquillity. Early the next day they are to fullfull a centuries-old dream by walking on and exploring the lunar landscape. Civil defense officials estimated more than a million persons, the largest crowd ever to witness a Cape Kennedy launching, cheered as the great rocket lifted away from earth.

Thousands had camped overnight on beaches and other vantage points. Roads were jammed early in the morning. Among those who watched the start of the moon mission from Cape Kennedy were former President Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Armstrong's wife, Janet, and their two sons, Eric, 12, and Mark, 6.

Also watching the start of the moon mission were Armstrong's (Continued On Page 2 Col. 4) LIKE MAN, I WAS SMANSHIED in for the occasion. Nixon has no TV set in his working quarters. Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 mission last Christmas, has been given a temporary desk at the White House where he is serving as Nixon's briefing officer on the Apollo 11 flight. Russian Fleet Drills In Gulf Five Soviet war vessels were about 250 miles from Key West, in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, the Pentagon reported.

A spokesman said the squadron, including a cruiser, a frigate, a destroyer, and two submarines, were "maneuvering around. There was no indication where the Soviet squadron might head before its announced visit to Cuba starting July 20. Three replenishment ships, two oilers and a submarine tender, were about 75 miles west of Key West, where they have been for more than two days. Kills Parents ELMHURST, A 31-year-old bachelor shot and killed his parents late Tuesday night and then turned over his gun to a visitor who witnessed the shootings. Kenneth Button, related, police said, that he shot his parents, Charles Button, 70, and his wife Vienna, 65, while they played cards in their Elmhurst borne.

Seize Drugs At Carbondale; Six Arrested CARBONDALE, 111. (AP) Police Chief Jack Hazel said today six persons were charged with illegal possession of about 40 pounds of drugs confiscated by police. The six persons included one identified as a Southern Illinois University student, Ramona Jackson, 19, of Cahokia. The other persons seized in the basement of a private student rooming house were identified by police as Steven Gerhardt, 21, Chicago; Bonnie Brown, 19, of Cahokia; and Steven Seldomridge, 21, Charles DeMeyer, 18, and Patrick Carpenter, 21, all of Danville. Hazel said the drugs, including 30 pounds of marijuana, made up the largest amount confiscated at one time in Carbondale.

Hazel said three of the persons arrested were curing marijuana at the time. The poice had accompanied firemen on a call to the rooming house. Another three of the persons were reported sleeping at the time of the police arrival. Oshel Resigns As Harrisburg Mayor HARRISBURG, 111. (AP) Mayor Val Oshel Tuesday resigned effective July 31 to give full time to his job as executive assistant to the Illinois director of public works and buildings, William Cellini.

Finance Commissioner Kenneth Ozment was named acting mayor. The vacant post of police left unfilled..