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

TEMPERATURE Monday high 39, low 31. 7:00 a.m. today 31. Downtown noon today 41. Rainfall from 7:00 a.m.

Monday to 7:00 a.m. Tuesday .29. -NEWS WEATHER Generally clear skies with a gradual warming trend through Wednesday. Low tonight 28-32, high Wednesday Outlook for Thursday, partly cloudy and mild. VOLUME 128 MOUNT ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1967 30c Per Week MARINES LEAVE, HIT NEW BEACH Billy Pride Tries To Withdraw Drifter Sick DONT VOTE FOR ME," MT.

V. CANDIDATE ASKS Fishing Factory RUSSIAN SHIP SINKS; FIFTY DIE HANSTHOLM, Denmark j(AP) A Soviet fishing factory ship sank in a storm off Denmark's northern coast today, find at least 50 Russian fishermen were believed drowned. The Danish naval command Said 45 bodies many of them wearing life jackets had been hauled aboard rescue vessels and an air force helicopter. At least seven Russian crewmen were still unaccounted. Twenty-seven others were reported picked up by another Soviet vessel, but it was not known how many of these were alive.

The stricken ship, tentatively identified as the Tukan from Kaliningrad, radioed for assistance soon after 3 a.m. today. A fleet of rescue ships rushed to the area in the Skag- errak Strait to find the waters J5 miles off the Jutland coast dotted with bodies. navy command said it had no information on art unconfirmed report that fire broke out aboard the Soviet vessel. Centralia Again Tables Cable TV Franchise Vote GENTRAUA The Centralia city council again last night tabled action on awarding a cable television franchise to Able Cable Inc.

The tabling action came, after several objectors appeared, on an unusual vote of the council. Two councihnan voted "yes" an ttiree passed, abstaming from voting. It was reported' to city officials that Ed Sullivan, TV personality, would acquire 51 per cent of Able Cable, Inc. A 29 per cent interest is owned by Spencer Kennedy Lalwi'atories, an electronics firm, and 20 per cent by John Manion of Mt. Vernon, and un-named residents of Centralia.

Sullivan, whose New York firm recently purchased the Mt Vernon Cable TV system, visited in Mt. Vernon last week as the guest of John Manion who is manager of the Mt. Vernon system. On the Ed SuUivan Show Sunday night the TV personality told of an enjoyable visit to Mt. Vei-non and the hospitality of Manion as his host.

The Centralia city council's consideration of the franchise had previously been tabled for 30 days so that a list of stockholders of Able Cable could be furnished to Centx'alia officials. Billy G. Pride's name will apparently be on the ballot in the Mt. Vernon city council race in April, but he is asking residents not to vote fpr him. Pride, manager of tlie Ludwig Music House and a resident of 515 south 20th street, said he made an attempt to officially withdraw from the race yesterday.

"City officials informed me that I could not officially withdraw at this time, and that my 'name would appear on tlie April ballot," Pride said. However, he said, city officials told him he could make any pubUc statements he wished concerning his candidacy. "Even if my name has to remain on the ballot I ask my friends to vote for their choices of the other three candidates instead of for me," Pi-ide said. He said his only interest in running for the city council, in the first place, was to try to help obtain industi-y for Mt. Vernon.

"The other tliree candidates have lived in Mt. Vernon longer than I have," he said," and, because they know the "town better, may be able to help obtain industry better than I could." The other candidates for two city councilman positions are Russell Laur and Fred Dodson, present councilmen, and Kenneth Martin, Jr. Laur is a retired insurance man, Dodson is a grocer, and Martin is owner-manager of tlie Atla-Seal of Illinois business here. Normally, today would have been primary election day in Mit. Vernon.

Originally five candidates filed positions for the office but vvhen Sherman Bullock, former police magistrate, withdrew it left only four men in the race and ruled out the necessity of a primary. The priniary would have nominated four men for the final election April 18 for election of two councilmen. HALT TRIAL; TAKE SPECK TO DOCTOR Six Candidates Seek Posts On Sesser Council SESSER Six candidates have been chosen to seek three posts on the Sesser city council. The municipal election will be held April 18. Independent Party candidates are Tony Garner, Ward Herbert Cook.

Ward 2, and Willie Stubblefield, Ward 3. Citizens Welfare Party candidates are Robert Coffel, Wai'd Jim B. Fields, Ward 2, and Robert Neikes, Ward 3. Cook and Stubblefield are currently serving aldermanic terms onthe council. Frank Farris whose term also expires is not seeking election.

MAN CHOSEN FRENCH LICK. Ind. CAP) The Wabash Valley Association Monday elected H. Phil Pierce of Carmi, 111., as president, succeeding Robert Gramelspacher of Jasper. By F.

RICHARD OCCONE PEORIA, III. (AP) The Richard Speck murder trial was recessed today by Judge, Herbert C. Paschen after the defendant was examined by a physician and treated for abdominal pains. The start of the trial's seventh day was delayed two hours while Judge Paschen conferred with both counsel before announcing to newsmen that the 25-year-old dx'ifter accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last year had been taken from his cell to a doctor's office. Speck was taken in an unmarked car from his security cell of the Peoria County Courthouse to the office of Dr.

Donald L. Burham. He was returned within an hour to his cell, again escorted by five police cars and manacled to a pair of officers. Dr. Burham explained the nature of Speck's illness in the courtrocan where he was questioned by Gerald W.

Getty, who represents Speck. "I examined tlie defendant after he complained of abdominal pains. The findings were minunal. Chest X-rays have been taken, which are negative, and laboratory tests will be taken later," Dr. Burham said.

"My feeling at the present," Dr. Burham said, "is that he should make an uneventful recovery." Dr. Burham also said he anticipated Speck would be recovered by Wednesday. The, physician declined to say when Speck first complained of feeling ill, but apparently it was early today. Dr.

Burham said he first examined Speck in his basement cell, then had him taken to the physician's office. Judge Paschen told newsmen after conferring with counsel behind closed doors that Speck was ill. "The defendant, Mr. Speck, is not feeling well and he is being examined in his cell by a physician," Judge Paschen said. Judge Paschen said further details of Speck's illness would be announced after the physical examination is completed.

"It is nothing serious as far as 1 know," the judge told newsmen. Handcuffed and heavily guarded. Speck was taken 1o the nearby office of a physician. He was returned to the courthouse in about a half The eight young women were strangled, stabbed, or both, in their Chicago townhouse residence hall July 14, 1966. Speck was arrested July 17 when he was brought into the Cook Count Hospital for treatment for Natchez Offers $25,000 Reward BOMB KILLS NEGRO WHO REPLACED WHITE Luce Dead; Founder Of Time, Life PHOENIX, Ariz.

(AP) R. Luce, editorial chairman of Time died early today in a Phoenix hospital of a massive coronary attack. He was 68. Luce, who maintained a winter home here, had appeared in robust health last Tuesday night when he attended a dinner in honor of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and his wife.

A few days later Luce also spoke in Tucson on behalf of a nationwide Presbyterian Church HENRY B. LUCE self-inflicted woumd in his left arm. Later, while under treatment in the City Jail Hospital an inflammation of a sac around (Continued on page 2, column 7) CROWDS VIEW NEW at people Jammed Chicago's International Am- phiUieatre for a of the 1967 automobiles on display at the S9th annual Chicago Automobile Show. A record crowd attended despite iuib-zero temperatures. (AP Wirepboto) di'ive to raise $50 million.

Thefe no apparent indication- illness at that time, his associates said. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital Monday afternoon, but there was no immediate word on the reason for his entering the hospital. Luce, bom of missionary parents in China, founded Time, the weekly news magazine, in 1923 with Briton Hadden, and Started a new direction in journalism. Hadden died in 1929.

Under Luce, Time continued to prosper, growing in circulation and influence. The finn today publishes Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, plus a wide range of books. Luce's widow is Clar Boothe Luce, editor and writer, playwright, former ambassador to Italy, and former Connecticut congresswoman. Resigned In 1964 Luce resigned in April 1964 as editor in chief of Time. "I'm 66 years old." he said at the time.

"I'm in good health and I'm eager to keep active." Luce was bom in Tengchow, China, April 3, 1898, the son of Dr. Hemy Winters Luce and Elizabeth Middleton Luce, American Presbyterian mis- sionairies. He lived in China for 12 of his first 14 years. Luce was a Yale graduate who spent a year at Oxford before beginnuig his career as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News. He then moved to Baltimore where he went to work for the Baltimore News.

It was in Baltimore with Briton Hadden, that the idea for Time magazine was worked out. Hadden died in 1929. Luce married Lila Ross Hotz December, 1923. They had two children, Heni-y 3rd and Peter Paul. They were divorced in November, 1935.

Soon afterward, Luce married Clare Boothe Brokaw. The first grist for what would become the Time mill was $6 worth of Baltimore newspapers, a week's output from the newsstands in 1922. Later that same year, with the motto "curt, clear and complete," a single briefcase of written matter and a passionate conviction in their idea, Hadden and Luce were able to raise $86,000 from 50 or 60 persons. They gathered a group of young men attracted by their idea and, on March 3, 1923, the first issue of Tune appeared. The pubUc bought 12,000 copies and the pubUshing empire was bom.

Although 12,000 copies was a pretty fair beginning. Time was by no means an instantaneous success. For several years. Luce and Hadden were able to pay themselves only $30 a week. NATCHEZ, Miss.

(AP) A reward was offered by the city today for the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the death of a Negro man killed in an explosion. The victim had been given a job last week formerly held by white men. Tlie explosion Monday night ripped the cab of a truck being driven by Wharlest Jackson, 36, the father of six children, as he drove home from work. Police Chief J. T.

Robinson said he believed a bomb had been planted beneath the truck. The explosion was similar to one in August 1965, when George Metcalfe, president of the Natchez branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was critically injured by a blast from under tlie hood of his car. Ttie explosion that injured Metcalfe occurred in the parking lot of the Armstrong Tire and Rubber Co. plant, which employed Metcalfe and Jackson. Metcalfe, hospitalized for three months, said he had I 'id- den back and forth to work with Jackson until last week.

"He (Jackson) changed to another job and was going to work at a different time," said Metcalfe. "You see, he filled an opening formerly held by a white man, mixing chemicals to spray tires." Asked how other Negroes felt about Jackson's death, Metcalfe said: "They say that plant should be closed down until they straighten it out. They want to i.jdarch out there. on. it.

don't want to march on the courthouse. They want to march on the plant." MetcaUe said the NAACP would conduct a mass protest rally tonight at Beulah Baptist church. Jackson had been treasurer of the Natchez branch of the NAACP until last month. Mayor John J. Nosser said the $25,000 rewai'd, authorized by the Natchez Board of Aldermen and the Adams County Board of Supervisors, was for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Jackson's death.

The explosion that killed Jackson occurred about 10 blocks from the Armstrong plant on a rain-drenched street jn the center of the city. Jackson punched out of the plant at 8:01 p.m. Mt. V. Defendants AccidentSuit Filed Here Asks For $286,000 PREPARING PARATROOP LANDING camera mounted under an Air Force F-lOO Supersabre Jet bomber records shock waves from bombs plane unloaded in the drop zone to be used by U.S.

paratroopers of the 178rd Airborne Brigade durhig Operation Junction City In Vietnam. The Air Force pounded the Viet Cong positions 210 times during the first day of the massive assault In war zone C. (USAF Photo via AP Wirephoto by radio from Saigon) 1,500 MOVE 16 MILES UP VIErCOAST Americans Meet No Resistance In End Run; Kill 89 Reds In Junction City Sweep. By ROBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON (AP) U.S. Marmes made an end run on South Vietnam's central coast today, pulling out of one operation area and making a new landmg 16 miles farther up the coast.

The battalion landing team of 1,500 Marines met no resistance as amtracks and helicopters put it ashore on beaches 21 miles south of Quang Ngai City. Across the country near Cambodia, the U.S. force driving through (Communist War Zone reported killing 27 more of the enemy as Operation Junction City, the biggest sweep of SENATOR CLARK ASKS U.S. TO DECLARE WAR Hero Gets 21 Medals At Scott Field Today Date Changed Review Of Mt. V.

Downtown Plan Set March 8 ((jontinued on Paso Columo 5) I A damage suit seeking a total of $286,000 from two Mt. Vernon defendants has been filed Circuit Court here as the result of a fatal accident in Union county. Named defendants in the suit are Curtis Goforth, doing business as the Goforth Trucking and Earl'H. Volkert, driver of a truck involved in the accident. The suit was filed in behalf of Beulah Stewart individually, as administrator of the estate of John Stewart and as a parent and guardian of Chai'les Stewart and in behalf of Phillip Stewart and Joanna Stewart.

The suit seeks alleged actual damages, pecuniaiy damages, compensatory and punitive damages. John Stewart, husband of Beulah, was fatally injured in the collision of his car and the truck, according to tlie suit. The mishap, according to the suit, occurred Sept. 5, 1966, on Highway 146 near a ramp leading to Interestate Highway 57. Both vehicles were eastbound.

The truck, the plaintiffs claim, was owned by the Goforth ti'ucking Co. and was being driven by Volkert. The suit accuses the defendants of negligence, claiming the truck turned into the path of the car driven by Stewart as the auto was in a passing position. The suit said the truck failed to give signals or provide a proper lookout before changing lanes. Beulah Stewart, PhiUip Stewart, Joanna Stewart and Charles Stewart all claim tiiey were injured as a result of the col- lisio" It has been necessary to change the date for an informational meeting relative to the proposed urban renewal plan of Mt.

Vernon's central busLiess district from Tuesday, March 7, to Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the city council room at cily hall. A sketch plan of tlie proposed renewal area and area statistics, including involved acreage, structures, families, condition of structures, financing, distribution of costs, time table and the city's contribution, are on display at the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce. Building owners and tenants who would be affected are invited to view the display prior to tlie March 8 meeting.

It is thought that by so doing, many questions currently in the minds of gome central business disti'ict merchants and building owners would be answered. It was pointed out at thfe chamber of commerce today that day that the display, while helpful, is but a preview with the coming meeting being necessary to obtain a complete overall pictui'e of the proposed program. City Manager CJliester I will reply to queries, as will the central business disti-ict lay committee appointed by the city council, at the March 8 meeting. The display at the Chamber can be seen from 8:30 to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. CAR HITS POLE LINCOLN, m.

(AP) Roland E. Bari-y, 37, of rural Lincoln, was killed today when his car ran out of control on Pvt. 121 and struck a telephone pole, state police said. By JERRY CURRY SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, 111. (AP) Warren L.

Foltz grew a handlebar mous; tache and won als during a year in Vietnam as an Air Force pilot. He gets, 21 of the medals in ceremonies today at this air force base, but he lefit the moustache in Vietnam. Foltz already has two South Vietnamese government medals a Gallantry and Silver Stai- and the Air Gallantry Cross with bronze He also has been recommended for a Silver Star in addition to the other U.S. awards he'll receive today from Maj. Gen.

Richard P. Klocko, commander of the Air Force Communications Service. His boxscore: tlie two South Vietnamese awards, 16 Air Medals, three Distinguished Flying Q'osses, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heai't. The Air Medals represent 389 combat missions. "Maybe those combat missions don't sound Hke too many," said Foltz, 29, a native of Mount Pleasant, Mich, "but my squadron flew the CnJ23 transport on defohation runs.

"That means our pilot brought the plane in over the trees from five to 200 feet above them to spray the chemical. We sprayed areas of known Viet Cong infestation or known supply routes. We were real good targets and most of the time those ground gunnel's didn't miss." The plane that carried the crew of which Foltz was a member sustained about 107 hits from rifle, machuie-gun and cannon fire during his tour in 1966. Foltz got his Silver Star recommendation and his Purple Heart last June when tlie windshield disintegrated fixjm ground fire. "The pilot was hit in the head and was bleeding pretty badly," said Foltz.

"The copilot and I were hit too. I got tlie bleeding (Continued on Page 2. (Column 2) Florida Kids Love That Chicago Snow FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) The snow that made Ciiicago swear turned hundreds of suntanned Fort Myers kids into happy imps when they got their hands on a carload of it, The frosty, glistening white stuff was the first many of the youngsters had ever seen when it an'ived in palm-fringed Fort Myers Monday. They mobbed the railroad refrigerator car, pelted each other and elders, and even lugged home chunks of snow dripping in 70-degree The four tons of snow was a gift to Terri Hodson, 13, from the president of the (Chicago, Burlington and Ballroad, W.J.

Quinn. Terri read that freight trains were hauling snow south to free the storm-clogged Illinois city fi'om its white burden, and asked for some, saying she'd never seen any. Ten-i was sun-ounded by scrambling, snow-clutching children moments after she opened the car door as 2,000 youngsters and adults applauded. "It's cold when it does down your back," she observed later. When the snow4)amng, snowman building and scrounging was over, there wasn't anything but puddles to mark the site of Fort Myers' first snow fmlic Six-Mile Threat Long-Range Rockets Used By Viet Cong (AP) Defensive patrols guarding allied bases In Vietnam may have to be increased greatly to counter thfe big Soviet rockets the Communists used for the first time Monday in attacking the American airbase at Da Nang, a U.S.

mihtary source said today. The rockets used in the predawn attack were fired from positions six miles to the south of the base. Some U.S. -Marine posts extend that far from the base, but there are no conventional trench lines sealing off the area at that distance. The 51 rockets which landed on the base and the adjoining village of Ap Do killed 12 Marines and 35 Vietnamese civilians, wounded 32 Americans and 70 Vietnamese, slightly damaged 11 planes and hit several military buildings, including barracks, the post exchange and officers club.

Until now, plans for defense of major bases have been geared mostly to stopping 81mm mortars with a range of about 2.6 miles" and guarding against suicide squads carrymg satchel charges which attempt to breach the bases' perimeters. There have been instances when 120mm mortars, with a range of just over three miles, were used. U.S. miUtary sources said the 140mm rockets have a longer range and pack more explosives than any weapon used by the Communists to date in periodic shellings of permanent allied They are also much lighter and easier to fire than mortars, making them handier to sneak into position for an attack. Wliile mortars weigh several hundred pounds, tlie rocket tubes can be carried with ease by a single man.

Setting up mortar positions is time consuming, making the possibility of detection higher. The rockets, mounted on wooden frames, ai'e touched off in gi'oups by an electi-ical charge. The 81mm mortar, most common of the Viet Cong's attack weapons, has an explosive warhead weighing nine pounds. The rocket warhead carries 26 pounds of explosive. Drawbacks to the rockets are their long fire tails and lack of accuracy compared to mortars.

The fiery tails of the rockets Monday allowed aircraft and gunship helicopters to spot and rake the communist positions south of Da Nang. WASHINGTON Joseph S. Clark (D-Penn.) pressed today for Senate acceptance of his proposal to require the United States to declare war on North Vietnam before U.S. bombing attacks against the north can continue. (Tlark attacked U.S.

policy in Vietnam in a three- hour Senate speech Monday Johnson told newsmen he doesn't think new' types of American attacks oh the north have dimmed peace hopes. SON IN COLLEGE CARBONDALE, 111., in the classified ads of the DaUy Egyptian at Southern Illinois University: "Sweet little old la- day wishes to correspond vnth Southern Illinois student Prefer male resident in small group housing, six footer with brown eyes answering to tials-JDB. His mother." the war, neared the end of first week. This raised the enemy toll to 89 dead. Five Americans were reported slightly wounded Monday when a bomb from a U.S.

jet fell too close to an advancing unit. A unit of the 1st Infantry Division taking part in Junction Gty uncovered a lai-ge Viet Cong base camp containing 22 structures and 142 underground fortifications. The jungle campaign was supported by another heavy the sixth so far-by B52 bombers, which struck early today at an enemy base camp 17 miles west of Tay Ninh Qty. Little ground activity was reported elsewhere. Poor weather conditions persisted over North Vietnam Monday, limiting American pilots to 69 strike missions.

Among the strikes, carrier planes attacked a group of cargo barges 16 miles southeast of Haiphong. Pilots reported heavily damaging one barge in this group and nine more elsewhere along the North Vietnamese coast. Air Force pilots attacked a transshipment point on the Ben Hai River in the middle of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam. The new Marine landing along the central coast was a continuation of Operation Deckhouse 6, which eg ban Feb. 16 and which has claimed 204 enemy dead so far.

The Marine landing team was withdrawn to an amphibious ship and put ashoce 14 hours later in tracked landing velilcles and heUcopters. VC Uses Soviet Rockets A U.S. military soui'ce said the Communists' introduction of Soviet 140mm rockets, used in the shellmg early Monday of the Da Nang airbase, could spell big trouble for allied installations because they have a longer range, carry more explosive punch and are lighter and easier to fire than anything the enemy has used previously in shelling allied bases. The source said defensive pat-, rols guarding the bases may have to be increased considerably as a i-esult. A U.S.

spokesman said the Communists fired the rockets at the Da Nang base from two locations six miles south of tho base. He said the two locations contained 134 launching posi-, tfons spaced about two fcelf apart. 12 Americans Killed In the shelling, 12 American servicemen and 35 Vletnami civilians were killed and Americans and 70 Vietnamei were wounded, A.