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Weather Fair to partly cloudy and colder tonight. Partly cloudy and continued cold Friday. ixon vening elegraph Serving the Heait of Rock Rivet Valley for More Than a Century Quotable Truth is only falsehood well disguised. Dial 284-2222 118th Year Number 287 DIXON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1968 18 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. Trying To Cool Middle East School Board Okays Donation Of Land to City NEWSROOM as E.

Dewey is certainly right when he says that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which, among other things, provides that person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against is something the dark The former governor of New York and two-time GOP presidential candidate is on perilous ground, however, when he calls for the repeal, as he did the other day. In its place, Dewey, who first gained fame as a courageous, gang-busting district attorney of New York City in the 1930s, suggests a statute that would require to answer asked by a legally constituted governmental body, court or police, or have his refusal to answer admissible as evidence against him. There have been a number of notorious cases where convicted and even confessed criminals have been freed because police or judges have violated the Supreme modern interpretation of the guarantees, particularly its decisions expanding the clause. But the problem of law and order in America is not one Of convicting criminals.

It is a problem of reconvicting them and reconvicting them that is, a problem of making our prisons places of rehabilitation instead of mere incarceration or, worse, schools of higher education in crime. It is a problem of modernizing our penal system which itself, in many respects, is not far removed from the dark ages. It is a problem of preventing youths from entering a life of crime in the first place. It is a problem of upgrading our police forces and courts to ensure that the apprehension and prosecution of lawbreakers is swift, certain and fair and that justice is meted out as impartially to the poor and despised as it is to the wealthy and respectable. It is a problem of instilling respect for our laws and our institutions and for those whose duty it is to administer them.

On the day when we require to answer asked by a legally constituted governmental authority, we will all be back hunting witches. The Fifth Amendment is indeed a relic from the dark ages. It is also our greatest constitutional barrier against a return to them. Armour Buys Grand Champ CHICAGO (AP) The grand champion Holstein bull chosen Wenesday at the International Live Stock Exposition was a 3-year-old named Prestige owned by Lakehurst Farms, of Sheboygan, Wis. and Agro Brothers, of Hamilton, Ont.

Henry Bartel and David Bachmann own Lakehurst farms and a herd of 85 registered Holsteins. It was the second successive year Prestige has won the grand championship at the International. Reserve grand champion Holstein bull honors went to cent Beauty Talent, owned by Allen Hetts Willard Dickman of the Ray Will Farms in Fort Atkinson, Wis. Top honors among purebred Charolais cattle went to Nutmeg Farms of Bridgewater, Conn. Nutmeg, owned by Edward Shurick, president of the American International lais Association, showed both the grand champion Charolais bull and the grand champion female.

The Board of Education meeting Wednesday at Madison School agreed to donate 30 feet of Madison School property to the city for the improvement of Division Street and agreed to give a 1957 Chevrolet, previously used as a training car, to the auto shop at the high school. Stanley Weber, superintendent, informed the board that he, Wilbur Stitzel, business manager, and six members of the board had attended the three- day Illinois Association of School Boards conference held in Chicago. The board delayed action on a letter from George Lamb, executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce, asking for the endorsement of the board for the East-West Tollway extension. Action was delayed to allow board members time to consider the request as the letter was received between board meetings. Weber said at the meeting the school district is now prepared to go ahead with the elementary wrestling program.

The program was approved by the board last April but the district at that time did not have the necessary personnel for the program. The board accepted the bid of William Gallagher, Sahara Coal to supply coal for South Central School during the 196869 school year at a cost of $12.75 per ton, and also approved the purchase of two movie projectors at a cost of $635 per projector. One will be placed in the high school where an additional projector is needed and the other is for Madison School where the board has an offer of $180 on a trade. In other action the board: Accepted the resignations of both Mr. and Mrs.

Wilbur Stanley. Approved the Title II library improvement project. Approved a revised special education program. Heard a report from Mrs. Ruth Garden and Mrs.

Eva Wednreich on the remedial reading program. Heard reports from various members of the Madison school staff on classes and programs at the school. Cops Question Dead Ex-Husband ROCK FALLS Police said today they want to question Frank Pierce 41, about the death of his former wife, whose body was pulled from the Hennepin Canal just north of the Nine l(lile Bridge, Wednesday. Hospital officials at Community General Hospital today said that Pierce is in good condition after being admitted to the hospital Wednesday evening suffering from exposure and shock. Pierce is under surveillance but no charges have been filed yet, according to Whiteside County Sheriff Lyle Landis.

Mrs. Pearl Louise Edrington, 31, 413 Second Rock Falls, left her home about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to walk to her sis- High Winds Cause Local Tree Damage Winds up to 60 miles per hour Wednesday night toppled the huge Christmas tree located by hut at the intersection of Galena Ave. and River St. and blew down some Christmas decorations on the Galena Avenue bridge.

Police said a large tree limb was blown down at the intersection of Palmyra Ave. and Barker but traffic was not blocked. Commonwealth Edison officials said they were bothered with some isolated incidents during the night when winds pushed tree limbs against power lines. Residents north of Polo were without electrical power for some time when tree limbs fell on a power line. A Dixon resident was a little surprised early today as while he was driving to work he saw a plastic swimming pool floating about six inches off the ground as it blew along in the street in front of his auto.

Other residents were kept busy today as -they attempted to locate garbage cans and lids that blew away during the night and to collect papers scattered about their lawns. See It Inside Editorial Features 4 Society News Pages 6 ,1 Local, Area News 10,11 Sports 12 TV Guide, Comics Page 14 home across the Rock Riv er, according to her husband. State Police were notified of the drowning at 7 p.m. by Pierce, who went to a nearby farmhouse occupied by Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Helms. He was soaking wet, and according to State Police, told occupants of the home that he had jumped in the caanl to rescue a woman. Dr. Glenn Pohly, deputy coroner, said that tests taken from the body were sent away and that when the results are received an inquest date will be set by John Ardapple, Whiteside County coroner. Mrs.

Edrington was born May 28, 1937, in Waukegan, the daughter of Nure and Pearl Priece Emin. She was a member of the Faith Assembly Church of Steelton. Survivors include her husband, Robert her mother, Mrs. Pearl Pierce, Rock Falls; four Donna, Linda, Joannie and Susie Pierce, all at home; four sons, Frankie Steven, Alan and Donald Pierce, all at home; two step-daughters, Mona and Iona Edrington, both in Rockford; four step-sons, Ray, Dale, George and Sherwood Edrington, all of Rockford; three sisters, Mrs. James (Sue) Cruze, Waukegan; Mrs.

Margaret Douglas, Sterling; Patricia Emin, Chicago; three brothers, Raymond and Keely, both of Waukegan; Lee, Pate- droto, Mo. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Faith Assembly Church in Steelton with the Rev. Ron E. Kramer officiating.

Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery. Friends may call in the Allen Funeral Home, Sterling, after 2 p.m. Friday and until noon Saturday, when the body will be taken to the church. WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is trying urgently through diplomatic pressure to prevent further escalation of the Israel-Arab border clashes which have intensified the Middle East crisis in the past few days. The State Department called in the Israeli and Jordanian ambassadors a a tely late Wednesday to declare that ltions of the cease fire line by both sides in the past few days are a matter of serious concern to Enough Is Enough Waiting motorists on the Hewitt Avenue viaduct in Everett, may have been startlea to see a cow going by.

The bovine, apparently annoyed by traffic waiting to pass a construction block, jumped from its flatbed truck. YC Okays Ceasefire For Christmas and New Year Holidays SAIGON (UPI)-The Viet Cong military command today said its forces will observe three-day ceasefires during the Christmas and New Year holidays. South Vietnam already has announced a 24-hour ceasefire beginning Christmas Eve. It has said nothing yet about a separate ceasefire for New The Viet Cong announcement, broadcast by said the Communist ceasefires would last from 1 a.m. Dec.

24 to 1 a.m. Dec. 27, and from 1 a.m. Dec. 30 to 1 a.m.

Jan. 2. The broadcast said all American attacks during the Viet Cong-declared ceasefires would Hayakawa Refuses To Back Down SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)Pressure mounted today on acting President S. I. Hayakawa to back down from his policy of keeping embattled San Francisco State College open with police force.

The fiery little semanticist gave no indication he would budge from his goals of holding classes regularly while seeking improvements in minority study programs. He called the 300 hardcore demonstrators Classes at the 18,000 student college began for the fourth day with no student strikers in sight. However, militant leaders vowed new disruptions. A group of Negro civic leaders promised to join the demonstrations to show their support for the strike started Nov. 6 by the Black Students Union.

The civic leaders were unsuccessful in demanding that Hayakawa close the campus and remove police. be considered as violations of the holiday ceasefires. There was no immediate reply from the allied military command to the Viet Cong broadcast coming three days after President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam announced a single 24-hour holiday truce beginning at 6 p.m. Dec. 24.

The U.S. military ters had said already American troops would observe ceasefire. Some observers saw the Viet Cong announcement as attempt to upstage the alliec. command which was the first to order the holiday truce this year. In the past, the Commu nists have scored propaganda victories by being the first to call for holiday ceasefires.

Talk to Jordan, Israel Diplomats Cancer Cell Injection May Kill Cancer Plan To Equalize Representation On County Board CHICAGO plan to switch to a weighted vote system to meet the one-man, one- vote problem at the county level won favor Wednesday at a meeting of county officials. Under that plan, members of county now have equal cast votes at meetings in proportion to the number of persons they represent. That plan, if enacted, presumably would leave districts within a county undisturbed. The executive committee of the Illinois Association of Supervisors and County Commissioners approved a motion to favor the weighted vote plan. But the committee also approved a later motion the weighted vote plan is unacceptable to the Illinois County Problems as- Nixon To Send Man To Paris NEW YORK (AP) W.

Averell Harriman said today, after conferring with President-elect Richard M. Nixon, that he is confident Nixon will send a personal observer to the Paris talks and will replace the two principal American negotiators soon after taking office. Nixon, who had tentatively decided against sending an observer to the peace talks before inauguration day, was said to be shifting his attitude at the urging of Harriman who said that he and deputy negotiator Cyrus R. Vance felt such a move would be very excellent way to insure Talking to newsmen after meeting with Nixon for more than an hour, Harriman made it clear he and Vance will turn over their tasks to team on or about Jan. 20, sociation will present an alterative plan.

The alternative plan, presented by Knox County, suggests a system which would reapportion a county so that each member of a county board would represent substantially the same number of people. The reapportionment would be handled by county boards. The other plan came from Lake County. Spokesmen said the Lake County Board of Supervisors was ready to shift to a weighted vote plan at a meeting Dec. 10.

The next step would be a suit to test the plan in the courts. The suggestions are scheduled to go before a meeting of members of the Illinois Association of Supervisors and County Commissioners Thursday afternoon. If approved then, the recommendations would be passed on to the Illinois County Problems Commission and the Legislature. Earlier in the current decade the United States Supreme Court decided that congressional and legislative districts must be approximately equal in population the one-man, one-vote formula. Later, in a case coming up from Midland, the high court extended the principle to county units of government.

Paul Perrecone of Rockford, association president, told the executive committee: we follow the mandates, we may wind up with the Supreme Court doing it for What should be done, he said, is to act to get plans the From the floor came proposals to start action but keeping in mind the possibility that there may be no final legislaion until after the 1970 census or the Illinois Constitutional Convention. James M. Walsh of Springfield, executive secretary of the association, said: want to keep local government and make it LIMA, Peru (AP) A young Peruvian physician says he may have cured his can cer by giving her cancer-fighting antibodies which he created by injecting himself with her cancerous cells. Dr. Alfonzo Zavaleta Cruzado, 34, said in an interview that the experiment was performed less than a month ago and five years are required before it will be known if his sister, Mrs.

Elis Wenzell, has been cured of cancer of the uterus. But the cancer appears to have disappeared, he added. Zavaleta said his experiment differs in some respects from similar experiments which are being performed in the United States and elsewhere, with encouraging results. He said he took specimens of his cancer cells and injected them in his own leg. His system formed antibodies to destroy the foreign cells, the doctor explained, and the antibodies were then transferred to his sister.

Zavaleta said the experiment is similar to the natural tendency to form antibodies to resist bacteria or reject planed organs. Dr. Oscar Miro Quesada, an associate of Zavaleta and director of the National Institutes of Health, told The Associated Press: is too early to know the results of Dr. technique. But this is a Miro Quesada, who also is president of the Peruvian Society for Immuno-Pathology, added that he has felt a cure for cancer would come from a crossfire between chemistry and He said he and Zavaleta been conducting chemical trials with hopeless people with one foot in the tomb and the other on a banana and have kept them alive for one to 1 Vi years before their cancer cells became resistant to the chemicals.

The Zavaleta experiment differs from similar cancer experiments in the United States in which pairs of unrelated cancer patients have exchanged cells. Johnson administration officials privately expressed most concern over use of planes Tuesday against targets in northwest Jordan where Jordan and Iraqi forces are stationed. At the same time a State Department spokesman prodded the Soviet government to use its influence with the Arab states which it is the major arms try to move the situation toward a peaceful settlement. Press officer Robert J. Mc- Closkcy responded to inquiries about an editorial in the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda saying that Moscow was interested in a political solution to the crisis.

have noted the Pravda article which touches on a number of McCloskey said. we are looking for, however, is concrete evidence that the Soviets are exerting their influence toward peace in the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East is in Officials added that Soviet arms shipments into the area are continuing but they have not had evidence of comparable Soviet exertions in the interest of peace. The United States itself is supplying arms to both Israel and Jordan, which has traditionally maintained relatively close ties with the Western powers. McCloskey said that Israel Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin and Jordanian Ambassador Abdul Hamid Sharaf were summoned separately to the State Department Wednesday afternoon and told of deep U.S.

concern over events in the Mideast. U.S. officials indicated the two ambassadors each blamed the other side for starting the latest round of strikes across the cease-fire line. Dan Walker Could Face Court Charge CHICAGO (UPI) Daniel Walker, chief author of the federal report which charges during the Democratic National Convention, could face a contempt of court citation for releasing the report. William J.

Campbell, chief judge of the U.S. District Court here, hinted at that possibility Wednesday when he held a news conference to denounce the Walker Report as the report of one He said the and behind releasing the report last weekend while the grand jury was only half-way through its own investigation also be the subject of their Asked if Walker could be held in contempt, Campbell said, will take action in that field only if it is requested by the grand Club Burns Near Kankakee; $100,000 Loss KANKAKEE, 111. (AP) Elks County Club, five miles west of Kankakee, was destroyed by a fire today. Preliminary estimates set damages at 000. No injuries were reported.

Fate Is Undecided PARIS (AP) The Bank of France reported improvement in gold and currency reserves today and a worker protest against Charles de austerity measure came off without incident. At the same time, gold prices eased back slightly in Paris and other European trading points. Workers at Renault, the chief automobile manufacturing complex, staged four- hour protest strikes against President de Gaulle's moves to bolster the franc through internal belt-tightening. But police kept their distance and there were no reports of trouble. The company reported the strikes were only partially effective.

In Paris, the price of a one- kilogram, or 2.2 pound, gold ingot was at the rate of $43.50 an ounce, down from $43.91 an ounce Wednesday, which was the highest since July 5. SHOPPING DAYS 'III. CHUilMAS.