The Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune from Muscatine, Iowa • Page 1

Chicago Elevated Train The last car of an eight car elevated train fie on the ground and another dangles overhead after a derailment today at Chicago. The accident happened at 41st Street and In Boston Has New "Gang" Slaying REVERE, Mass. (AP) A volley of armor piercing rifle bullets killed Joseph (Chico) News Briefs Aid On Civil Service Program Is Asked DES MOINES (AP) Gov. Harold Hughes asked the heads of Iowa's three state institutions of. higher learning today to help in formulating a civil service plan for state government which can be passed by the legislature.

The school presidents, however, balked at extending the plan to cover their nonacademic employes. Detroit Police Face Probe by Grand Jury DETROIT (AP) The Police Department of Detroit the nation's fifth largest city today faced a grand jury probe re questioned by its chief. Police Commissioner Ray Gi rardin said he wanted the investigation to clear away "malicious rumors, insinuations and distortions of truth" about his 4,400 men. towan, 78, Injured In Boiler Blast DES MOINES (APj Hilger Stever, 78, was critically injured Tuesday when an explosion blew the door off a boiler in the Americana Nursing Center here. Stever did part time work for the nursing home where he was a resident.

Don Nash, 43, administrator of the home, said he and Stever were checking a malfunction in the boiler where the accident occurred. Radio Newsman Is Found Dead in Car CEDAR FALLS (AP) Don ald N. Zimmerman, 25, news man for radio station KCFI here, was found dead in his car Tuesday from a loss of blood from a deep gash on his leg. Police investigating the circumstances said Zimmerman apparently lost consciousness while driving and the car traveled nearly 200 feet before stopping on a lawn here. Rains Move Inland Utah, Arizona Face Flood By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A seven day rainstorm moved Inland from the West Coast today, leaving an aftermath of flooded streams, untold damage, isolated communities and hundreds of homeless.

National Guardsmen were called out to evacuate 200 families from their homes in the Porterville area of central California where the Tule River left, its banks. The evacuees, assisted by about 50 guardsmen, were taken to the PorterviUt Armory. They I Amico, 27, of Boston," early today in what police said was the 36th gangland slaying in Greater Dusiuu years. Police said the shots ard ently came from two cars passing the car Amino mc ririinn The car hit a telephone pole and sioppea aDOUt zoo yards from the scene of an earlier gangland slaying. Amico was found slumped on the Dassencrer'c side of th seat.

The driver identifies! James Kerns, 28, of Boston, was cnargea witn being an accesso iy mer me iaci.ot murder. Kems. found npar the rir er it crashed, was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital for a wound of the right cheek. Doctors said they did not know if the inirtrv: Mi.Jl the crash or whether it was a Duuet wound. Kerns was reported in good condition.

Medical Examiner TV chael Luongo said Amico was shot at least twice. About six bullet holes were tound in the trunk of the car and four or five in the front of the car. Police Said Amim and Kerne were seen together in a night club Tuesday night. An official said he cnolro person at the night club who said he heard Amim riease siraigmen it out. It uiediu my me.

African Nations Seeking Boycott Upon Rhodesia UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. CAP) African memherc of tho (United Nations sought support loaay to pressure tne Security Council into tannine a total economic boycott on Rhodesia. The African clamor rose as British Foreiim Seeretarv George Brown arrived in New rom 10 pui a "son aratt resolution before the council Thnrs. dav aslrinp coWtive mandator. sanctions against the rebellious central African colony.

The chief target would be Rhodesian exports. British sources said Rrnm was empowered, if pressed, to include a limited emharao on I export of oil from Rhodesia. came from Springville and the Doyle colony near the Success Dam. Springville, where more than 10 homes were reported washed away, was cut off by flood waters and residents were using rainwater for domestic use. The storm's eastward passage also threatened southern Utah and northern Arizona with widespread flooding.

Rains in southern Utah isolated Zion National Park and threatened a dam II miles north of St George. Baker Dub on V' Falls diana Avenue on the city's south side. The train was going south after discharging most its morning rush hour passengers in the downtown loop. (AP photofax). Elevated Cars Fall One Killed CHiCAno (r Tin.

broke awav from a i plunged off an elevated railroad an iure curing a rainstorm today, killing one person and injuring 25. The rare accident occurred while an eicht. oar train oroached the Indiana station at 41st Street on the boutn Side. The rear oar foil oc; the ground and landed on its srae. ine steel car crumpled like a paper sack.

The next to last car also toppled. It crushed an empty automobile under its hard nose and came to rest head down and tail up against the elevated structure. The Chicago Transit Authority estimated the southbound Jackson Park, train carried between 50 and 60 passengers. The train was aurrying a light passenger load during the morning mcK Km', tu travel on. this CTA division runs trom the South Side north toward the downtown hncincec Aic Itrict.

5 Muslims Are Seized For Plot NEW YORK (API neteo. tives hiriinp in a MncUm mosque have seized five Black musiims, including their scimitar waving leader, in what authorities said was an attemnt to over the prayer center irom its ligyptian born director. The five were identifier! followers of Elijah Muhammad, neaa ot tne virulently antiwhite Black Muslim organization. Police said one of the Mnclimc told Dr. Muhammad Rauf, director of the center used by Moslem diDlomatio nersonnol "We are going to take over this mosque, uur mosque was burned down.

The people who reeularlv attend this will from now on be at the black man's feet." The five sforv hmidino I Riverside Drive in Manhattan is one of two Islamic mosques in the United States. Worshippers at the center inrhirfe coverall ambassadors to the United Na tions. The five were held on oharooc of attempted robbery, attempt eu extortion, coercion and unlawful entry. Utah Highway Patrol dispatch overflowing, and a state of emergency was declared in the farm area. "Three more, foof onI ek ui go," said Sgt.

Marion Graff, Utah Highway Patrol dispatch More than fVt inches of rain have been recorded in four at St. GOTffe Manv forme I ready have been inundated and property damage could run into the millions, authorities said. At least 22 persons were stranded in their homes near by Oak Creek, The Muscatine Journal E.tob.i.h.d 1840 No. 2JJ lowo Police Nab One Two Youthful Assassins Kill S. Viet Politician SAIGON, South Vict Nam (AP) Two vniithinl anm assassinated a leading South Vietnamese politician in Saigon today.

and DOllOP annmm that one of the assassins confessed he was a Viet Cong ter mrisi. Pearl Harbor Taught U.S. Lesson, Sec. Nitze Asserts PEARL HARBOR. Hawaii (AP) Secretary of the Navy Paul H.

Nitze said todav the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 25 years ago taught the United States unforgettable lessons which must now be applied in Southeast Asia. Speaking at services at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Nitze said that the sacrifice of 2,400 men who died at Pearl Harbor taught the United States it must maintain a deterrent to enemy attack "with strategic forces appropriately deployed and tactical de fensive forces ready to move wherever they are needed." He said the Pearl Harbor also taught "that we must be prepared to prevent the flaunting of international agreements Rain, Mixed With Snow Predicted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain possibly mixed with snow or freezing rain expected to continue across Iowa tonight before ending sometime Thursday. The Weather Bureau predicted more mild temperatures ranging in the 30s tonight and mostly in the 50s for Thursday. A five day forecast called for readings averaging about seasonal normal in southern Iowa and from four to eight degrees below normal in the northern section. Temperatures stretched earlv today from 21 in Sioux Citv and Spencer to 35 in Davenport and Burlington.

High marks varied Tuesday from 43 in Spencer to 60 in Burlington. Davenport Firm Files Low Bid On 1 80 Building Red Ball Engineering and Development Davenport. was low bidder at $33,168 for the erection of a building ont 1 80 in Cedar county, a mile west ot tne east No. 38 interchange, the Iowa Highway Commission announced at Ames today. Tiie message today did not specify the use of the structure, but the commission announced last month that an information center would be erected in the area.

Low bidders were announced on construction projects totaling $4,312,147 by the commission. Threats flooding after an estimated seven inches of rain since Sunday. The only bridge in the vicinity was 10 feet under water. At Munds Park, south of Flagstaff, nine inches of rain have fallen since Sunday, and Flagstaff reported almost four inches. A flood alert was issued for the upper Verde and upper Ton to basins cast of Prescott, Ariz.

Rain began falling in New Mexico and snow fell in the mountains cf Colorado, already covered with heavy snowfall. Hazardous i i ng warnings were out in that area. The gunmen, firing at close ranee from a mntnri 58 year old Tran Van Van as he roue nis car to his office. A short time later, one of the pair was seized when he fn the mofnrovHp near th. dence of U.S.

Ambassador Hen and treaties, bv milifarv for iNiize reminded his audience of 900 survivor: and (hair lies that "peace has yet to come to Asia, ana tne United States once aeain is fiahtino thr new and powerful menace looms." "The danger in Asia toWow the threat posed to the rest of Asia Dy aggression," he added. He Said that tne Eiimric bombing of Dec 7, 1941, demon audicu mat ireeaom cannot be preserved bv nnliHes of noutroi. 1 ity and isolation. today we remember those who died at Pearl Harbor and reflect on what their sacrifices, and the sacrifices of many who followed them have meant to the country," Nitze contin He said that militaristic lessons learned, the sacrmce ot so many American lives "helDed to enanoe pan of 1941 into "a major power uu me sine or peace and respect for international law, a staunch Accident on No. 22 Fatal To West Liberty Woman Mrs.

Hugh A. Sneeringer, 74, of West Liberty, died at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, about two hours after she was injured in a one car traffic accident on highway 22, 12 miles west of Muscatine. Her husband escaped with minor injuries. Mr.

Sneeringer was driving their 1950 model car toward Muscatine when the vehicle went out of control on the slippery surface of the blacktop highway and rolled into the ditch along the left side of the highway, about a mile and a half east of the junction with highway 76, according to Deputy Sheriff Bob Miller. Cloudy and a little warmer tonight with 90 per cent chanct of rain; low in upper 30. Thursday cloudy, SO per cent chanct of rain; high in 40s. High Tuesday 55; low during night 33; noon today 38. Trace of rain during night.

Rivor stag 4.9 feet. The Kernviile, eoncreto bridge was wept away when it crumbled under the prev urt of the rvshing Kern river at it wont awollen ry Cabot Lodge. The other assassin escaped. Van, a wealthy, Paris educated landowner lono nmminoni Vietnamese politics, was a lead jug memoer ot tne Constituent I constitution for South Viet Nam I friend and a fortress of democ iacy in me racilic." The ceremony in Punchbowl Crater was sponsored by the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, whose members have been touring the Hawaiian islands this week and showing their families what it was like on that Sunday in 1941. Crash on 1 80 Fatal to Driver IOWA CITY (AP) Warren McDowell, about 35, of Grinnell, died earlv tcdav in an lou ntxr hospital of burns and injuries suiierea a tiery truck crash on interstate 80 Tuesday night.

He suffered hnmq over 7 cent of his body when his truck caught fire a mile and a half east nf the Viotor intarhr. Authorities said McDowell migni nave gone to sleep at the oeiore ine truck jack iKnued and struck a spillway, then burst into flames. The fire destroyed the truck and its car Another motorist discovered the accident at 1:30 p.m. and the sheriff's office was notified. Mr.

and Mrs. Sneeringer tvero tsV on to Mercy hospital at Iowa City. ii a. oueerwger aiea or a oroken neck. Her husband was treated and released.

She became Muscatine county's 23rd traffic fatality for 1966. Funeral services for Sneeringer will be held Friday at iu a.m. in ine aniaer luneral home at West Liberty. Burial will be in Oakridge cemetery, there. The former Irene Buckley, Mrs.

Sneeringer was born in West T.ihertv on Mov 07 im She and Mr. Sneeringer were niarriea in Muscatine on June 30. 1919 Her nor ontc George and Anna LaFrance Duciuey. Surviving are her husband and three ifaimhtorc er Barkhurst, Mrs. Hobert Oldenburg and Mrs.

Fred Kruse, an ui wesi ana seven grandchildren Two hroihorc I deceased. Bridge Crumbles in Flood raJm. Some by torrential I His slaying a few blocks from Premier Ky's office overshad jowed war developments. Only lining gruuna actions were reported from the fighting fronts although U.S. bombers kept up meir raias over North Viet 'Nam.

U.S. destroyers shelled Seized Vo Van En, 20, above, confessed he was one of two Viet Cong gunmen who slew a leading South Vietnamese politician in Saigon today, police announced. (AP Photofax). War's Cost Higher Than Estimates AUSTIN. TeX.

(AP dent Johnson estimates Viet Nam war costs between now and next June 30 will exceed earlier budget projections by billion to $10 billion. He plans to ask Congress next month for a supplemental appropriation to bridge the gap, he told a news mnferenoo in his federal building office suite. The President remainorf about the possibility of a 1967 iax increase, Dut said facts needed to make a decision are falling into place. Although Johnson had predicted earlier that war outlays WOUld ton the hlinVet fianroc Kit anywhere from billion to $15 oiiiion, tne figures he cited at the news conference were perhaps a bit lower than many observers had expected. Since the chief executive had lone been citinc the forthoomin Viet Nam money request as a major item to De pinned down before a tax rieriaion he troc asked if the new estimate as well as a recent federal forecast that business spending on plant expansion wouia slow down would help him make such a decision.

'The answer vec ToW replied. "It gives me help. If VOU are trvintr to find onf if decision has been marie, it ha I not been." resident in tho Kemvilk at have been evacu. (AP Photofax). I Vietnamese coast.

u.b. officials reported the dis covery of two 62 pound satchel charges in an ammunition dump at Saieon's Tan on :5 port, which was attacked by yi wng suicide force last weekend. The explosive charges were disarmed mii(i. experts. Shortly after the assassination of Tran Van Van, police seized a VOV.h of ahont OO ir.

En and after questioning him all i day announced be had confessed he was a Viet Cong ordered to mi van. There was cniUn i ever, that the slaying might uv an direct on the running feud between politicians native to South Viet Nam and the refugees from Mnrlk tr. i xr wiui ici nam wno dominate the government. Ky n.ubi oi me generals on the ruling junta are from the north. Tran Van Van was a leading member of tho land ran for the Constituent As cniuiy on a piattorm that open ly appealed to southern sectionalism.

On the war front TI flew 70 strike missions over iiuiuj viei mm Tuesday, hit tins at lines nf and storage areas in the Hanoi, Haiphong and Dien Bien Phu areas and in the southern pan utuiuie. Ah Foroe niW. knocking out a bridge 78 miles i northeast of Dien Bien Phu, and INavy fliers claimed hits on 10 I nines nonnwest of coastal Dong Hoi. The U.S. command announced that one of two Ameircan jets lost over North Viet Vo, vf I day was the victim of a Com munist MIG17, and the pilot was I missing.

It was the first Ameri wiii was creanea to the Communist jets since July. Since VS. air attacks on the north began 22 months otto tk. ft rc uimea States has reported the loss of pioiiw iu mivis. piJOtS have reported downing 26 of the Red jets and probably two more.

U.S. heariflliartore significant ground action, and Vietnamese headquarters re ported 21 Viet Cong killed in ovmcicu engagements. 3 Medals Are Given Iowa Pilot SAIGON (AP) Seven Air Force Skvraider nilots who to gether flew 480 missions over North Viet Nm awarded one Silver Star, six wisunguisnea flying Crosses and 49 Air Medals, the Air Force announced today. Thev won most of tho nui. flying protective cover for heli CODlers in rescues of American pilots.

All of the mers recently completed their tours of dutv here and are hm. ing reassigned. ine Silver Star, third highest award for valor, was won by Cant. Jimmie Oano Memphis, for his part in a rescue. Early in his tour here, Crane was rescued from enemy lerruory.

The other award eluded. Capt. Dick (Rosie) Roseerans of Iowa, a Distinguished Flying iubs, a rurpie neart and one Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. Zephyr Trains To Keep Running SAN FRANCISCO rAPTh. western Pacific Railroad's California Zephyr will run at least until Feb.

14 in aornw with request from the Inter swie commerce commission, a railroad spokesman uirf Tiim. day night. it means the famous train will run a month longer than the) railroad bed planned..