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onth aoisaii jhl. 64 158 5c a Copy 12 Page TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1956 Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro. Illinois Truman Back From Europe Doesn't Want Ike's Health To Be Issue PUBLICATION OFFICES Caibondile, 227 W. Main Herrin, 212 N. 16th Murphysboro, 9 S.

12tb TT 1 mJ era sfid hpet New York, July 3 (AP) Former President Ham' S. Truman said today the question of a part-time presidency would be a I TO ilii on ri vo a rxi 1 1 1 11 is 1 -a 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 v. 1 4 presidential campaign issue but quickly added "I don't want to see the President's health put into the campaign." "Nobody can be a part -time president and be a success," he asserted. Upon his return from a European trip, the former president told newsmen the part-time presidency issue began "before the heart attack." President Eisenhower suffered a urn ,1 lJ.UUH.HLi 1 I IP 2 heart attick while vacationing in Denver last summer and now is 8-Week Steel Strike Seen Trade Paper Doubts Early Settlement -3 convalescing at his Gettysburg farm from an intestinal operation. Asked directly if he thought the President's health would be a cam paign issue Truman said: "I hope not.

That's not a mat Contractors May Bring In Conciliator The Egyptian Assn. of Contractors may bring in a neutral conciliator in an attempt to settle a two-day-old strike of heary equipment operators. The contractors met in Carbon-dale Monday afternoon to discuss settlement attempts and further negotiation with the striking union, Hoisting and Portable Local 318, of the Operating Engineers and Heavy Construction Union. Individual contractors wue not talking today after a decision Monday to authorize onlv Edgar Stephens, Cairo, president of the Association, to make statements about ter that should 20 into the cam- paign at all." "That's a matter that concerns him (Eisenhower) and his physicians. I don't want to see the President's health put into the cam New York, July 3 (AP) Iron Age, national metalvvork-ing weekly, took a dim view today of prospects for an early settlement of the nationwide steel strike.

"There is nothing to suggest an early end to the strike," the magazine said. "The walkout could easily run to eight weeks or more." The shutdown is costing the nation 2,100,000 tons of steel ingots a week, the magazine said. Ninety per cent of the nation's steel production has been stopped by the walkout of 650,000 members of the United Steelvvorkers. Iron Age drew up this timetable of strike effects: Two weeks "Complete upset" of every major building and coi. struction program in the country Four week "Most users conserving inventories to maintain a semblance of production." Eight weeks to all ma jor steel-consuming industries, in eluding automotive, but possibly excepting canning." The magazine predicted the union eventually will sign a three-year contract calling for increases totaling 20 cents an hour.

"Settlement cf the strike will be followed bv a steel boost of $8 a ton or more with subsequent advances as each contract vear passes," the magazine said. STILL WORKING Although a Southern Dli-nois-wide strike of heavy equipment operators has tied up most major construction projects, the McDougal Haxtman Construction one of the contractors and Portable, of the Operating Engineers and Heavy Construction UnLn. This huge concrete mixer held up traffic on Main street in Carbondale for about a half-hour today as it was moved slowly to the job. on the Murphysboro-Carbondale highway, worked today. Mc-Dougal-Hartman and the S.

J. Groves Construction Co. signed separate contracts with the striking union, Local 318, Hoisting paign. It's not a good thing. It's not right." I Ie said if Eisenhower announces he the road to re jpiirfiom For Sewage Violation Layoffs Result Us Operations Cut Sharply Pittsburgh, July 3 (AP) Railroads and other freight haulers felt the growing economic impact of the nationwide steel striki today as negotiators for the United Steelvvorkers and the basic steel industry marked time awaiting talks with the government's chief labor mediator.

The Pennsylvania and Baltimore Ohio railroads posted furlough notices Monday affecting some 23,000 workers. It was indicated more unemployment would follow if the strike continues. The railroads, dependent on the steel industry for much of their business, were forced to cut operations sharply following the walkout of 650,000 steelvvorkers at midnight Saturday. Even as the layoffs were announced, Joseph F. Finnegan, director of the Federal Service, arranged to meet separately here Thursday with USW and steel industry leaders.

Finnegan described the scheduled sessions as exploratory, and said they will be for the "purpose of discussing the real differences between the union and the industry representatives. An initial employment cutback of 18,000 workers was announced by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest. The B. O. said it was furloughing 5,000 employes.

The New York Central Railroad said it expected the strike would lust Marphyskro cover)7" that should end the health issue. "I like the present occupant of die White House and I don't want to make any statement which reflects on him," Truman continued. "I appointed him chief of staff and put him in charge of NATO. I don't see how much more I could do to show I like him." Truman claimed he had no personal choice of a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. 'Til tell you when I arrive in Chicago," he said referring to the Democratic National Convention to be held there in August.

JoppaFirm Lists Issues In Walkout the strike. Stephens could not be reached for comment today. A contractor did say that "we will try to solve the strike by am-tinued negotiations and call in a in proper agencies." Union Business Agent Stanley Medley was also unavailable for comment on the strike. Meanwhile, some 200 to 250 operators of cranes, bulldozers and tractors remain idle today in 14 Southern Illinois counties. Illinois Sanitary Water Board members voted 5-0 this morning at Springfield to seek an injunc Area To Celebrate Fourth Activities Planned In Many Communities tion through the Illinois; Attorney General against Murphysboro for Fourth of July celebrations will mark the holiday in many area BEAR ATTACK Woman Sues for Injuries Suffered In Downtown St.

Louis St. Louis, July 3 (AP) Mrs. Laura Murphy, saying she was attacked by a bear in downtown St. Louis, asks $25,000 damages in a Circuit Court suit. Mrs.

Murphy charged Monday that she was "set upon, attacked, assaulted and otherwise mauled bv a Syrian brown bear" at noon last Thursday on 12th Street in front of the Post-Dispatch building. Named as defendants were Walter Klauser and Thomas Packs, doing business as the T. S. Packs Enterprises and Amusement Co. She charged her injuries were the direct result of their negligence.

Klauser is the bear's trainer. The bear, tied to scaffolding near the communities, most or which will include fireworks displays in the Only major heavy equipment work in evidence is the Carbon-dale-Murphysboro highway, being evenine. Bodies Taken From Site Of Issues in Saturday's walkout by 200 employes of Electric Energy, at Joppa include pay rates, Turner White, superintendent of the big steam plant, said today. Also involved is the union's desire for a one-year contract, instead of the two-year term offered by EEL The walkout was staged bv Local 114 of the International Union of Operating Engineers following a breakdown in negotiations. The talks ended Saturday afternoon, despite efforts by A.

M. Thompson, Marion, federal conciliator, to break the deadlock be built by McDoujral-Hatman and violation of a ivvsg abatement order. Hie Board resolution is to be nt directly to rht attorney genera's office. An injunction is expected to be sought in the Jackson Circuit Court within a few weeks. The resolution cites Murphysboro for failure to comply with an abatement order issued July 20, Murphysboro plans an all-da S.

J. Groves construction compan program in Riverside Park, spon ies who signed a separate contract sored by the Chamber of Com merce. Activities include basebail with the union. Neither is a mem ber of the Egyptian Assn. TWll Wreck Grand Canyon, July 3 (AP) games throughout the morning and afternoon, beginning at 10 a.

m. In the evening, the Murphysboro Union-con tractor negotiations broke down last Friday when no Gambling Trials Bring $600 In Fines For Four Alexander County trials on three gambling charges this morning produced Court fines totaling $600 for four defendants and dismissed charges against two others. Testimony on ownership of an outbuilding near the Colony Club on Rt. 3 near Cape Girardeau, Mo. resulted in dismissal of a charge of possession of gaming equipment against Joe Dodd, Colony Club operator A charge of operating a gambling device against J.

D. Bearden was dismissed. A new attempt was made today agreement could be reached on to reach the wreckage of a United wage scale. Wages are the only Air Lines plane, one of two that matter under dispute. entrance to the building, had been brought there for a television ap tween negotiating committees.

Thompson entered discussions June 30. crashed into the Grand Cany The operators currently make Saturday carrying 128 persons to pearance. from $2.20 to $3 per hour and, Supervisory personnel are oper death. necessitate a "large number of layoffs." Barges Tied Up Due to lack of steel business, many river barges were tied up at according to Medley, want a two- ating the plant, which delivers elec Recovery crews, meanwhile year contract with a 15 cent an tricity to an Atomic Energy Commission gaseous diffusion plant at completed their work at the site where a TWA Super Constallation hour increase each year. Municipal Band will give' a concert in the band shell starting at 7 p.

m. and followed by a professional talent show at 8 p. m. A fireworks display will wind up the program. Kiddie rides and concession stands will operate in the park throughout the day.

In Steeleville, the annual Fourth of July celebration will start with a parade at 10 a. featuring ffre marching musical units. The day's program will include stage shows, rides and concession stands. Two baseball games are scheduled in the afternoon, and there will be a docks in steel regions. Four ships Calvert, Ky.

Nixon To Talk With Chiang Gettysburg, July 3 (AP) President Eisenhower is send lay shattered on a canyon butte. Operators have walked off jobs at the Southern Illinois University White today described the pay lhe recovery work continued of the Great Lakes ore-carrying fleet went out of service. There were scattered reports of slight cut under dangerous and difficult con issue as follows: The present average wage of Un liiompson Lake dormitory Central Illinois Public Service Co. ditions as pressure mounted ion employes is $2.40 per hour. ing Vice President Nixon to talk I power station at Grand Tower and find the cause of the disaster, pre 1.1 it The Company proposed a two-year with President Chiang Kai-shek of 1954, when the Board ordered Murphysboro to cease dumping untreated sewage into the Bid Muddy River by Dec.

31, 1955. Board Member Edwin A. Rosenstone made the nesolution, which was seconded by Glen Palmer. The resolution said, in part: "Whereas the Board issued an order uly 20, 1954, for Murphysboro to cease untreated sewage disposal before Dec. 31, 1955, and whereas both the Jackson Circuit Cour and Fouith District Appellate Court have upheld the order, Edwin Rosenstone ask a resolution that the issue be presented to the Illinois Attorney General and that he be directed to seek an injuncion against the city." The Water Board membership includes Rosenstone, the director of public works; Palmer, director of conservation; Stillman Stanard, director of agriculture; Roland Cross, director of health; and A.

L. Sargent, representing Illinois municipalatics. sumed to nave been a collision in contract calling for raising the av Nationalist China. Willard Bearden was fined $300 on a charge of operating a gambling device. Otto Moore and Victor Harris were fined $100 and costs each on charges of operating a cambling device, and Robert flight.

It was the worst accident in The White House announced erage hourly rate the first year from $2.40 to $2.51, also 30 cents per the history of commercial aviation Corps of Engineers work on Mississippi River levees. Carpenters, laborers and other workmen are still on the job at struck projects. The operator's union has not set up picket lines. this late Monday as Eisenhower, The crews flew out a total fireworks display at night. In Christopher, the holiday celebration will be held on the hisrh increasingly up and about, pre hour extra for Sunday work and increasing present night-shift addi 26 olive drab colored, rubber bags pared to spend a quiet Fourth of containing the remains of the 70 backs in the trucking and fabricating industries.

The Lehigh Valley and Reading railroads in Pennsylvania, big haulers of steel and steel products, prepared to furlough several thousand workers. A spokesman for the Reading said the line expects to lay off employes if the strike continues until July 17. Meanwhile, smdl groups of pickets parroled the gates of steel plants. All was quiet. tional rates by one cent per hour.

school football field with July with Mrs. Eisenhower at their games persons aboard the TWA plane Lavell was fined $100 and costs on a charge of possession of a gambling device. All the cases were heard in the court of Alexander County Judge The company offer also called country place. He came to the farm when it crashed. for an additional 4z per cent in Saturday to continue recuperation All the remains are being taken NO PAPER WEDNESDAY There will be no publication of The Southern Illinoisan Wednesday, July 4th.

crease in basic wages tne aund from his June 9 intestinal opera to Flagstaff for possible identifier vear, as well as an additional 30 tion. tion. and entertainment beginning at 7 p. m. A fireworks program will start at 8 p.

m. The Herrin Kiwanis Club's annual July 4th Fish Derby for children under age 13 will begin Wednesday at 3 p. m. Participants must bring their own fishing equip- cents an hour for Syunday work Mrs. Dorothy Spomer this morn ing.

Charges against Dodd were fil Eisenhower's only scheduled business today was a meeting of and a second one-cent boost in night-shift increments. cd following a state police raid on an hour or so with Sherman "This would increase the aver the Colony Club property June 2 1 A dice table, a roulette wheel, and Adams and other White House aides who arranged to fly in from jment. The celebration, held at age hourly rate to $2.62 Yi per hour during the second year," White Washington. four slot machines were seized in a small outbuilding south of the MICHAEL ARLEN LEAVES ESTATE OF ONLY $5,000 New York, July 3 (AP) Michael Arlen, millionaire au said. Eisenhower rode around the Mediator Thompson proposed farm in a station wagon Monday main Colony Club building.

Alexander Countv authorities la that the company make the first- with his doctors. thor in the 1920s, left an jstate of year rate average $2.52, the second White House Press Secretary ter stated the outbuilding was not year z.o-t, under tne two-year only $5,000. His will filed in Surrogate's James C. Hagerry said Nixon will a part of the Colony Club, but contract. wias owned bv Beatrice Winters ly to Formosa after his visits to Court Monday bequeathed the White said EEI was willing to of Christopher.

Manila for the Philippines' inde- It." TT1 1 money to his widow. Me died accept 1 hompson proposal, but pendence celebration ednesdav An attorney representing Dodd Clarence Klassen, chief engineer for the Board, said action from the attorney general's office may require several weeks of preparation. Klassen said die attorney general will file an action in the Jackson Circuit Court requiring Murphysboro to answer the charge of jailing to comply with the Water Board ruling. The Murphysboro City Council has taken preliminary steps toward a seuBge treatment plant. The Council has hired John Blankin-ship as consulting engineer and has approved a preliminary planning survey.

the union committee rejected buth J- ne 23 at the age of 60. and his subsequent flying visit to filed a motion in court this morn plans. city park, will include pony rides and other entertainment. Area drive-in theatres plan fireworks displays as in other years. MAN ADMITS SLAYING OF DANVILLE WOMAN Danville, July 3 (AP) Police said Joe Robertson, 40, today related he be3t to death Mrs.

Garnet Miller during a quarrel in her bedroom. Mrs. Miller's nude body was found Monday lying face down in a pool of blood beside her bed. The 65-year-old woman was manager of a Danville hotel where Robertson lived the last two months. Arlen made a million dollars on Saigon, capital of the new repub lie of Viet Nam.

"The federal mediator when ad ing to dismiss tne cnargc grounds of errors which named I his 1924 novel, "The Green Hat." vised that the union was going on strike at midnight declared the mat Dodd as owner or lesee of die building or possessor of the equip ter was still in his hands and med ment. Ike Back On Putting Green Takes Practice Shots, Signs 9 Bills iation must continue, White said. State Police said a charge of 'He set a time for the next meet- possession of gambling equipment ing as 1U a. m. Sunday.

The Sunday meeting was not will be filed against Clifford Jacobs of McClure, identified as the lessee of the building. Gettysburg, July 3 (AP) President Eisenhower chalked up another "first" today. He got ield. No further meetings are svhe- luled, according to reports. Partly Cloudy For Southern STEVENS, TOUHY AIDE, out on ins putting green and took alout 20 practice shots the first golf he had since his opera the property damage.

Also on the business side, the President arranged to see the Air Force chief of staff, Cen. Nathan Twining, Thursday or Friday and get a personal report on Twining's recent look at some aspects of the Sov iet air force. Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, shapes up as an uneventful day for the President, in his fourth day cf EJi Illinois: Partly Abandoned Infant Found Baby Heard Crying From Box In Alley -'-v tion. AGAIN SEEKS FREEDOM Chicago, Nov. 3 (AP) Peter Stevens, 56, imprisoned with Roger (The Terrible) Touhy 1 with chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Little change in tempe raturc. or a prohibition era kidnaping, has made a new bid for freedom. Stevens, alias Gus Schaefer, this physical activity came during a morning in which he also put in some licks at White House paper work. He conferred far an hour with his staff and sin-ed nine bills received from Con-ress. One bill provides for paving the Vatican $964,199 for accidental! a rvhfinn Mnnrtav hpfnrp Low tonight near TO.

High Wed idge John P. Barnes in U.S. Dis convalescence here from his June 9 intestinal operation. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerry said the President spent about a half-hour on the putting green, trying shots up trict Court.

He asked for a writ nesday in the middle 90s, Low iVednesday night in the upper 70s. habeas corpus to gain his release rom the Illinois State Prison at Jo- Eldridge estimated weight of the child at eight pounds. He said it was covered with some papers and cardboard. Sutc petrolman Harry Wills said trash behind the store is removed daily. He said local, county and stare officials are attempting to determine the identirv of the mother.

They have contacted doctors in the wdnrry to derer-mine whether or not the mother attempted to secure medical aid, he said. Eldridge said the alley is which the child was found is located in the 200 block on Market St. iet. A live hour-old baby boy was found abandoned face down in a cardboard box in a Christopher alley at 7 a. m.

today. A telephone operator. Mar Lou Williams, told police she heard a cry from debris in the allev as she passed. Police Chief Harlan Eld-ridge srid the child sv as discovered upon investigation and taken to Miners Hospital at Christopher. Doctors said the child is "doing all They estimated it was born about 6 a.

m. It was chilled from exposure and under oxygen. bombing damaoe inflicted bv U. S. airmen on church property at the summer retreat of Pope Piu--XII, Cardcndolfo, in World Stevens, Touliv and thiee oth ers were sentenced to year; 934 on charts of kidnaping to about 30 feet.

Fisenhower didn't Iiave to bend over and pick up hte golf balls. He rarely does. His valet, John Moaney, customarily retrieves them for him. Asked if Eisenhower suffered any discomfort from his golfing chn (Jik the EarbeT) Factor. Low yesterday 68; 7 a.

m. today 76; 6 p. m. yesterday S5. High yesrerdry 95; noon today 77.

Sun rises 4:34 a. sets 7:35 p. rn. Crab Orchard Lake I inch below spillway today. Little Grassy Lake II ifKh Mow spillway today.

Stevens charged that the kidnap of Various sir, near Modoc by a crew of archxlogists. The skeleton is the oldest human remains so far found at the Modoc dig-ging, and is about half the age of the oldest skeleton ever found in the country, Anderson said JIGSAW PUZ2LE' Allan Anderson, physical an thropologist from Minneapolis, takes extreme 'jare as he fits together the fragile pieces of a skull. The skull was found last week uith .1 com plete skeleton, ill in fragments "War II, The bill savs the bombs wse dropped inadvertently on the papal domain in the course of attacks on legitimate military targets. The money is in compensation for ing hoax staged by Factor to pre- ent his extradition to England where he was wanted on swine exercise, riszerty jatd: He dm the low several live 2 well not seem to." ing charge..