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IN HARRISBURG To Report Fire Ph. 8-71S4 Other Fire Dept. Calli 8-4121 To Cd! Police Ph. 8-7185 DAILY REGISTER Published Continuously Since 1915 THE DAILY REGISTER, HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1962 NEW SERIES, VOLraiE 47, NO. 296 Rule Sangamo'j A All Die But to Ordill Contract Still Binding 3 Circuit Judges Also Give Decision On Employment Rights MARION, 111.

contract between Sangamo Electric Co. and its former employes at the Ordill plant near Marion is still binding even though the company has relocated the plant in South Carolina, judges of the First Circuit Court District of Illinois ruled today. In a memoranda of decision which will become the decree as soon as it is signed, the Live: Billy CHICAGO 20th Century is an of anxiety and in which Americans are not afraid to die but are afraid to live, evangelist Billy Graham said Thursday night. century ago chief concern was about his he said. his chief concern is physical and temporal.

Vast numbers of people actually believe that if we give man food, shelter, clothing, educational and recreational facilities then we have attained utopia. Many of our statesmen, much of our literature and most of our advertising support this utterly false The evangelist spoke before a crowd of 35,000 persons 1,000 Kennedy Sees Things tetter Regarding Laos Situation Looking Up But Still Long Way to Summit WASHINGTON (UPI) President Kennedy believes the Laos Drive fo Collect Tax on Construction Materials Sales SPRINGFIELD (UPI) The lUi- nois Revenue Department will start a drive next month to audit thej accounts of sellers of nuilding and construction materials in this state. I The move comes in the wake of a recent State Supreme Court case which allowed Illinois to impose the sales tax on such materials. The ruling will give the state an additional $20 million a year, ac- American relations to a new; dore Isaacs, in additmn to money ggid jt jg still due from sales over the past year. In his announcement President told his news Isaacs said about 50 Revenue De- conference Thursday he was partment auditors and to 70 to see whether Premier private auditors will start the pro- Khrushchev stuck to his Kerner Blasts Reliefers Spurning Job Chances judges, sitting en banc in WU- i niore than the seating capacity liamson County Circuit Court, al- i Place so said the former employes have Graham employment rights based on sen iority and classification at the vitation, 903 persons came for ward to make for new'plam 'in More than half a million I persons have attended Chicago crusade and 14,552 have August Fowler, an attorney for the company, said that in all probability the decision would be appealed to the Fourth District Appellate Court at Mount Vernon or to the Illinois Supreme Court, Ruling in the case were Judges i H.L.

Zimmerman of Marion, C. i hands as a Ross Reynolds of Vienna and C.E. badge and were down from decisions for Christ. Graham said modem man has real cause for than his forebears but is more He said American pioneers gram July 9. The program should last between 45 and 60 days, he said.

The high court ruling gave the finances a shot in the arm though by no means cured its fiscal problems, according to revenue spokesmen. Wright of Carbondale. physical while their They said there is a and i .7." subsisting" contract between the company ploy es. and the former em- up with The evangelist said the current sangamo, after aome 15 at Ordill, announced last Aug. 28 it would move its Ordill operation ternal pressure but from internal combustion.

In other years men today they fear accept applications from the Or- dill employes for work at Pickens! mankind is only on the basis of new employ-1 overwhelmed by a sense of jnent. I futility. Our mental institutions The last contract between Lodfie No. 1986, InternaUonal of Machinists and Sangamo at Or-1 dill became effective Jan. 29, 1961, and extended to Jan.

22, 1963. Sangamo took the position that the Ordill contract was terminated when it ceased manufacturing operations at Ordill and moved the plant to South Carolina. The company closed out its Or-, dill operations last Jan. 12. I WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate The union fUed for a declare-' in thn naan HOUSC-paSSed bill tO TaiSC tory judgement in the case.

Sangamo contended that the rrun circuit court does not have juris-1 Ki.nnAHv>« tn in naan tn Presideut Kenucdy rcQucst to dicuon in the case under terms $308 billion. The vote was 210-192. House Okays JFK-Asked Debt Hike De Gaulle Tours Despite Plot To Murder Him VESOUL, France (UPI) President Charles de Gaulle carried on with his tour of eastern France today despite disclosure of a Secret Army Organization (OAS) plot to assassinate him. Security forces swept ahead ol him taking extreme precautions to prevent OAS killers from getting within range. Authorized sources reported on Thursday night that 30 persons had been arrested in the departments of Jura, Doubs and Haute- Saone, all on the itinerary, in connection with the plot.

of the National Labor Relations Act and the Taft-Hartley Act. It also said that rights of present employes at Pickens, under the Labor Management Act of 1947, would be or No Senate committee action has been scheduled on the measure yet, but congressional sources said Senate approval was expect- if the suit of the Ordill union was i soon. granted. The Circuit Judges said their jurisdiction was not preempted by the NLRA and that they had concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. District Court in the case in question.

The company, in explaining its move to South Carolina, said facilities at Ordill were not adequate to permit it to remain competitive in producing the Mica and other capacitors and transformers manufactured there. The judges said some 664 ployes were working at Ordill when the plant was closed and that some 532 persons are now employes at new plant at Pickens. George A. Wilkins Of Carrier Mills Dies; Rites Sunday George A. Wilkins, 69, of West Walnut street.

Carrier died Thursday at 5:40 p. m. in Light- Kennedy told his news conference that government payments for various programs have to be stretched out when the debt hits the ceiling. He noted that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to ask for a hike of the debt limit several times.

Chairman WUbur D. Mills, D- of the House Ways and Means Committee told the House that if the administration fails to balance the budget in the fiscal year starting July 1, Congress would have to take further action. In that case, he said, the billion limit would have to be ex tended beyond the proposed March 31, 1963, expiration date, or a new one would have to be set. The ceiling is now $300 billion and the federal debt is approaching that. Under the bill the House passed, the limit would drop to $305 billion after March 31 and return to its present $300 billion June 24, 1963.

Mrs. Agnes Wllkus, Former Resident, Dies at West Frankfort Mrs. Agnes Sweet WUkiis, 74, died Wednesday at 1:30 a. m. in Union Hospital in West Frankfort Mrs.

Wilkus moved from Harrisburg to West Frankfort several years ago. She was preceded in death by her husband, John, in 1955. Surviving are four sons, Sara Sweet, Joe Sweet, and Charles Sweet, West Frankfort, and William Wilkus, Thompsonville, and two daughters, Mrs. Bernard Wi- tunski, West Frankfort, and Mrs. Cletus Horsley, Morgan, 21 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two som John Sweet and Victor Wilkus. The body is at the Union Funeral Home at 213 East Oak street, West Frankfort, be held Saturday at 9 a. m. at St. Catholic church in West Frankfort.

Burial wiU be in Tower Heights Cemetery. commitment to support the new coalition government pledged to maintain a neutral Laos. If the Russian leader does, Kennedy said, would encourage us to believe that there has been a change in atmosphere and that other problems could be subjected to reason and The President disclosed that he and Khrushchev had agreed in Vienna a year ago on neutral Cambodia and Burma as the countries to provide a pattern for the Laos settlement. Berlin, he said, is an entirely different type of problem and although the general diplomatic climate may be a bit better as a result of Laos, is nothing on a summit as Kennedy made it clear he was deeply worried about the Senate action sharply restricting his ability to dispense economic aid to Communist Poland and Yugoslavia. White House officials said Kennedy might call the S.

ambassador to Yugoslavia, George P. Kennan, to Washington next week to lobby with members of Congress in an effort to reverse the Senate action. The President disclosed that Kennan had sent a cable describing the congressional action as a gift to the Kremlin at this particular Bulletins I NEW YORK (UPI) Stocks turned mixed in heavy trading to-i day as a second hour selloff brought many issues below their opening gains. Trading began piling up during the first hour and by 11:40 a. m.

EOT the high-speed tickers were as much as 20 minutes behind floor transactions. plunge brought the Dow Jones industrial average within points of its crucial 1962 intra day climax low. The noon Dow Jones stock averages were: Industrials 560.74, off 2.26; rails 119.40, up 0.42; utilities 107.02, off 0.55; stocks 194.96, off 0.52. WASHINGTON (UPI) President Kennedy will be compelled to seek new powers from Congress if the flight engineers go on strike against three of the biggest airlines, administration officials sakl today. Any request by Kennedy for legislation to deal with the walk out apparently would call for authority to seize the airlines or some form of compulsory arbitra tion.

Either request probably would face stiff opposition from Congress in this election year. EL PASO, Tex. (UPI) BilUe Sol Estes advised U. S. District Court today that he owes $38,387, 935.87.

Boy Soyed From Sand ST. LOUIS (UPI) A 13-yetr-old youth was saved from death Thursday through the efforts of some 30 persons who rushed to his aid after nearly being sucked into a 40-foot high sand pile by a conveyor belt. Authorities said the youth, Danny Smith, was playing atop the sand pile with a group of companions when he stepped into a funnel through which sand was being moved into a chute by the belt. The youth was dragged in up Funeral services will iq waist when a workman noticed him and summoned aid. Workers, policemen and firemen began digging frantically with their bare hands to free the Smith boy.

One worker estimated about 60 tons of sand were moved by the rescue workers. FA.MILY has been a big month for the Upchurch family of diplomas and degrees have been produced so far. Climax was Wednesday (June 13) at Southern Illinois University when father Eugene, right, won degree been seeking since 1934, while son Donald, left, received degree in chemistry and Eugene got a degree in accounting. Twins David and Diana Upchurch, not shown, graduated two weeks ago from Benton High School. The elder Upchurch won a teaching certificate from SI (Normal) in 1934, has finished degree requirements on a part-time basis while continuing to teach in grade schools.

Lad Only Fourteen Farm Boy Robs Bank of SENATOBIA, Miss. (UPI) A planned to catch a plane for neatly dressed and well groomed California in Memphis, he said, farm boy Thursday stole his fath- Sheriff Bill Williams said pistol and robbed the town kins made good grades in school bank of $8,245. and from a good Not Too Impressed Hugo Inhoritaneo BRUNSON, S. C. (UPI) Word that he had inherited about $35 million failed to jolt Walker P.

(Skipper) Inman a 10-year- Sariously Ifijurtd in Crash Mrs. Ward Johnson Galatia, old who is getting along just fine today told of a headon collision in on a $l-a-week allowance. i which her brother, Luther Raley, boy is accustomed to the and his wife were seriously injur- thought of having his ed, July 29. uncle and guardian, Hugh Lightsey, said today. all, he got Mrs.

Johnson learned that the collision happened at St. Charles, a similar amount at the time his Illinois, where Mns. Raley had botn father died a few years ago. And; arms and both legs broken, a bro- there all this ken jaw and shoulder besides lac latest windfall came erations of the body. Luther Raley from his late grandmother, Mrs.

Nanaline H. Duke, widow of the founder of the Tobacco Co. sustained only a few broken ribs and lacerations of the body. Both are in the hospital at St. Charles where they are recovering.

ner Hospital, following an Ulness Still Pilinq Up of several years. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmLmmmmlmmm Billie Sol and Solvents Corporation Tie-Up Probed on Coniidential Inlormation Angle years. Mr. Wilkins, retired farmer, was the son of the late James and Agnes Evans WUkins, and was born on Nov. 11, 1892 in Pone He was married to tho former Peggy Hancock on March 27, 1919.

Surviving are his wife, Peggy Wilkins, and seven children, Mrs. John (Wanda) Hart, Kelleen, James Wilkins and William D. Wilkins, Carrier Mills, Carl Wilkins, RFD 2, Harrisburg, Wendell and Mark Wilkins, Stonefort, and Ralph Wilkins, Pontiac, 13 grandchildren, and two listers Mrs. Anna Ellison, Harrisburg, and Mrs. DeUa WUsey, Texas.

He was preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters. Funeral services wUl be held Sunday at 2 p. the Social Brethren Church in Carrier MUls. The Rev. Elmer Grisham will officiate and burial will be in Little Saline Cemetery.

The body is at the MUler Funeral Home in Carrier Mills. Pallbearers will be Lloyd Baker, Other Nolen, Hobert McSparin, Cressie McNew, John Hill and Charles Barnett. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) The preskient a company which extended BilUe Estes more than $5 million in credits today angrily denied charges he got inside information from the Agriculture Department on Ihi farm program. He saM allegatioiis to Oiis effect were reckless, preposterous and without foundattons. The boy, 14-year-old Larry Hankins, was captured seven hours later by a posse as he tried to sneak home after abandoning a stolen car.

The sheriff, who said he knowii the father, said the youth to church He was held in Tate County Jail pending filing of formal VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) The Laotian National today approved the new coalition gov eminent. 3Fgcs. Afl officcr SEid he would oraHo BfiiHAnt iniH nniipo in thi heforc 3 juvenilo judgc and grade student, told police nUnJnnA Lrtheast Miisisippi farming and cotton community he the money to go to I Police said Hankins walked into' rOff Tickets the bank during the morning and! i aj held a small automatif. pistol on Off OOle Monday teller Carolyn Crawford, demanding money. No customers were in the bank at the time.

Of OAS Bombs Hit Hospital ALGIERS (UPI) The secret army organization (OAS) wrecked operating rooms and laboratories in the Moslem section of Mustapha Hospital with four plastic bomb explosions today, throwing patients and visitons into panic. Hospital sources said the bombs caused heavy damage to two of the mam operating rooms but caused no casualties. Two more explosives were found and defused before they went a fragmentation type grenade in the maternity ward and a bomb in another laboratory. Those in the hospital who could walk fled down corridors in terror. Security forces moved in quickly to restore order.

mean all of she asked. the boy replied. Larry, dressed in a light blue SPRINGFIELD (UPD Tickets for all grandstand and coliseum presentations at the Illinois State Fair will go on sale Monday. The date fairgrounds office will be open from 8:30 a. to 5 p.

m. Candidate Fink Quits Legislative Contest SPRINGFIELD (UPI) Maurice Chicago, Republican candi date in the 31st Senatorial District today withdrew from the race. His withdrawal left Democratic incumbent, Bernard S. Neistein, as the only candidate for the office in the November general election. However, a spokesman in the secretary of office said the GOP Senatorial Comimttee could meet and select a candidate to fill the vacancy.

Fink created a stir of publicity when Chicago searched the ward and find him. Tells Aid Chief To Get Tough With This Type I Also Orders Slosh In Checks, Cut in Administrative Costs SPRINGFIELD (UPI) Gov. Otto Kerner today told the public aid chief not only to cut relief checks but to get tough with reliefers who are skirting job opportunities and to slash administrative expenses. The recommendations came in a letter to C. Virgil Martin, chairman of the lUmois Public Aid Commission, in response to a wire from Martin asking Kemer for more specifics in his relief slashback program.

Kerner outlined a six-point plan for economy to help the state stave off a cash crisis without aid of a special session of the legislature this year. am confident that a critical review of the entire public aid program will result not only in savings but in greater efficiency and better Kemer said. The governor pointed out that a report by the federal government last year showed that the average grant in the poor relief program was higher in Illinois than 4T other states. Average grants recipients of aid to dependent chUdren were higher in Illinois than in 44 other states, he said. Here are the recommendations the governor proposed: reasonable reduction In permissible areas of public assistance payments.

He mentioned aid to dependent and poor relief. Subsistence payments are low yet they are higher than in most of our 50 states. For that matter the Public Aid Commission raised the level of assistance even when they were aware of the specter of limited funds in the costs and personnel can be eliminated. I do not recommend wholesale firings. I do recommend a careful analysis of the duties performed by each He also recommended that a top business management ftrm ba hired immediately to analyze tba efficiency.

review of expenses, travel and allowances with an eye to reductions. of the state on the basis of cost of living so that relief payments can show cost request the commission executives of Commercial Sol- culture Committee, vents which lent Estes The letter said the section money for his grain storage busi- be and wiU strive ness. i for similar results in the Sen- Sources dose to the subcom- WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sources said today that House investigators plan to produce further evidence that the New York chemical firm which financed Billie Sol Estes had access to confidential government information. The House Intergovernmental Relations subcommittaa mcallad mittee said there would be more that Commercial Solvents and its Washington had inside information on the farm program. The subcommittee put in the hearing record Thursday a and letter from a former Agriculture Department economist, Martin Sorkin, to Maynard C.

Wheeler, president of Commercial Solvents. The letter said Sorkin had a section of the 1961 farm bill opposed by the company was discussed in an executive sessioa oC the House Agri- Thc section would have permit- ed farm cooperatives to borrow money from the government to go into the grain storage business. Subcommittee Counsel James Naughton asked Wheeler if his firm was anxious to have this section killed because it feared it might produce competition for grain storage business. Commercial Solvents got sU the revenue for storsge of the government grain in elevators, Wheeler denied this was a consideration in his interest la the bilL sport siiirt and his long blond through Friday, General neatly parted, stuffed the in a pVwcase taken (rom Franklin Rust said. home.

Then he moved on to a the next window At OCnOtB He took more money from the second window, turned and walked out of the bank while two other bank employes looked on. Outside, the youth found a car with the keys inside. He jumped in and sped away. The boy offered no residancc when officens found him in woods near his home. Officers confiscated the loot and the pistol, which Hankms said he had laken from the glove compartment of his car.

Admits Robbery Officers said Hankin.s, to contradict pre- readily admitted the robbery, told 1 vious testimony that the Ameri- them he had planned to go home can Guild of Variety Artists never L. McClellan, to brand change his and go to Mem- help iU thou sand of card-carry- western officials of the union phis, 30 mileis north of here, jing stripped and sometimes even works in collusion with racketeers. Another witness called the investigation of the AGVA was Joey Aiuppa, the reputed vice Sin Ain't So Unionized in Chicago; That's Report of telly Dancer WA.SHINGTON (UPI) A as a prostitute, lerma turned belly dancer saidj Union officials said big name today there as much union- stars such as Dorothy L.amour had izcd sin in Chicago as senators are asked for a chance to dkcuss the being led to believe. activities. Miss Lamour The girl was expected to ap- has been a member for decades, an pear before the Senate rackets official said.

Testimony Thursday prompted the subcommittee chairman, John to direct the county offices to remove from the public aid rolls all the employables who refuse to accept job opportunities or who fail to report for job interviews without justifiable request that the IPAC review the amounts granted to recipient! and compare these figures with the expendable funds of many Illinois families. is possible that we might find that these people pay taxes and raise families on less money than the amounts received by some recipients of public Martin has said he wUl call an IPAC meeting next week to consider the suggestions. Kerner announced the big cutback in public aid Monday in an effort to solve the fiscal problems. Most immediate one is a pending deficit of $100 million in IPAC funds for the biennium ending June 30, 1963. The Weather Soutihem liUnois: Generally fair with slowly rising temperatures tonight and Saturday.

I.ow tonight 58-64. High Saturday 80s. LOCAL TEMPERATURE (At Register Building) Thursday Friday Sgt. Louis Cantone, commander of the Chicago police vice intelligence unit, said union chiefs in the area cooper- lord odf Cicero, 111., Al ated with a rbing group of young 3 p. m.

84 3 a. m. 64 6 p. m. 82 6 a.

m. 60 9 p. m. 769 a. m.

80 12 mid. 68 12 noon gl old home base. The girl, who refused to give her name prior to taking the stand, said she is currently dividing her time in Ciiicago between belly- dancing and flamenco dancing, after being trained In Germany as a ballerina. She said she thought the union all right under the and said knows of I no card-carrying member who dou- hoodlums who carved up old territory. The union, he said, gave no protection what ever to dues paying girk who work in mqpky, racketeer-dominated clubs in Chicago, Calumet City and Cicero.

He said he interviewed more than 75 girls for the McClellan inquiry and found nearly all in terror for themselves, their families and their children. Mrs. Walter Jackson Of Rosiclare Dies Janie Jackson, 56, wife ol Walter Jackson, of Rosiclare, Thursday at 10:30 a. m. in the Hardin County General Hospital at Rosiclare.

The body has been taken to the family residence to lie in state by the Hosick Funeral Home of Rosiclare. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. MINES Sahara everything idle. 1 WiU Scarlett idle..

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