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Put Government Considers New Safety Standards WASHINGTON The government is considering a broad new set of safety requirements for motor vehicles it buys, including relocation of the gear shift lever or its redesign as a dial or buttons. The General Services Administration, in disclosing this Monday, said no decision has been made on the 67 safety standards now being studied. Last year, the agency adopted 17 safety requirements for 1967 models. Its -standards apply only to government motor vehicle purchases, but the automobile industry had announced it is including some of them in future models sold the public. Ford Motor Co.

disclosed in Detroit its dealers are asking approximately 30,000 owners- of 1966 model Ford and Mercury passenger cars to return them for inspection of a brake line. "Company personnel discovered, while unloading some vehicles from rail carriers on which the cars had been springloaded, that a few of them had a damaged brake line due to severe bouncing." the Ford announcement said. "No reports of' the failure of the brakes in any units have been received from the company said. Gene Aikman Top Speaker Gene Aikman won the award for the best speaker at the regular Mattoon Toastmaster's Club meeting held Monday at the U. S.

Grant Motor Inn. Aikman's speech was entitled "Security Kills Liberty." Other speakers and their subjects were Carol Livesay, and Alonzo Church, "Auto Safety." "Most Improved Speaker" award was won by Alonzo Church. Aikman also gave the best table Topic. Wayne Reel was the general evaluator, assisted by Phil Weller and Ron Kerans. Timekeeper.

was Howard Huggins and J. J. Rider kept score. Grammarian was Dale Curtis and "Ah" counter was Ron Kerans. Food for Thought was given by John Warner.

Auto Rams Into Store Window An auto driven by Avis A. Groniger, 68, of Rural Route 4 4, knocked down a parking meter and, rammed into a plate. glass window at the J. C. Penney store, 1522 Broadway at 10:18 a.m.

today. Police reported that two persons were injured. They were identified as Sandra Lawrence, 401 N. 19th, and Joyce Swinford, 1016 Moultrie. Details of how they were injured were unavailable.

Both received leg injuries, according to police. 75th Anniversary WASHINGTON (AP) The daughters of the American Revolution are celebrating their diamond jubilee 75th anniversary this week. Among the Sick George T. Lovins, Greenup, is a patient at St. Anthony Hospital, Effingham.

Markets April 19, 1966 Mattoon Livestock Market Prices quoted by Shanks Packing Co. Hogs: up 200-220, $22.50. Sows: Top Beef: Steady Mattoon Grain Market Because of different freight rates, grain prices, may not be the same Mattoon elevators. Prices below area are quoted by Farmers' Grain Co. of Dorans.

Corn $1.22 .73 Oats Soybeans $2.91 JOURNAL-GAZETTE Mattoon, Illinois 61938 Phone 235-5656 Issue No. 78 Sunday and holidays. Second Daily class except postage paid at Mattoon, Illinois. HOME DELIVERY RATES (Mattoon Area Towns) Yr. $20.80 Mo.

$10.40 3 Mo. 5.20 Wk. MOTOR ROUTE RATES 1 3 Yr. 1 Wk. .45 $23.40 6 Mo.

$11.70 Mo. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES (No motor route or carrier service is mainmail subscription accepted where tained). 1 yr. mos. 3-mos.

Illinois $17.00 $10.00 $6.00 All States Other $19.00 $12.00 Shelbyville Area Youth Dies in Fire SHELBYVILLE, 11. An early morning blaze Monday took the life of a seven-year old Shelbyville area youth. Dead is Leonard C. Mars son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Mars who lives two and one-half miles south 'of here. Fire authorities said the youth died of burns and smoke inhalation while his father made a futile attempt to save him. Funeral services for the youth will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Lockart and Son: funeral home here, with burial: in Mount Carmel cemetery, near Shelbyville. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.

today. Injured in the fire were the boy's father and sister, Bonnie Mars. The father was treated and released at Shelby County Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation. The girl is listed in satisfactory condition at the hospital. The fire, of undetermined origin, is thought to have started about 5:15 a.m.

while the family was asleep. Recreation Plans Told In Club Talk Peter F. Genta, principal of Bennett School and coordinator of the Mattoon recreation -program, spoke on summer recreation activities planned here at the Rotary Club luncheon Monday at the U.S. Grant Motor Inn. Activities this year will include an eight-week summer basketball program, six-weeks of tennis instruction, a free swim on Monday afternoons for six weeks; A girl's roller skating program at Silver Star Roller Rink, a baton twirling program under the direction of Mrs.

Coranne Dowling, and a possible football league if funds are available, Genta said. The overall cost of the programs will be about $5,525.55, which will be submitted to the United Welfare Fund for approval. Student guest at the luncheon, was Jim Livesay. Visiting Rotarians were Howard Edinger, Charleston, and James Brown, Mattoon. Talk Given About Mattoon History Harry Sullan, 2716 Richmond, was the featured speaker at the High 12 Club luncheon today at the U.

S. Grant Motor Inn. Sullan, a native and lifelong residentof Mattoon, presented a tape recording commentary which he produced about the early history of Mattoon and Coles County. Wall Street NEW YORK (AP)-The stock market went through a sluggish and irregular decline early this afternoon. While some of the recently volatile glamor stocks were off a scattering of points, their percentage losses were moderate in view of their very large gains made earlier this year.

The Associated Press averaeg of 60 stocks at noon was off .6 at 348.0, with industrials off 1.8, rails up .5 and utilities off .1. Births To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Millard of Elgin, in St. Joseph Hospital there, Sunday, a daughter.

Mrs. Millard is the former Marylla Ryan. Mrs. George' T. Ryan, 1204 Lafayette, is the maternal grandmother.

To Mr. and Mrs. Marion Sharp, 1016 Marshall, in Memorial Hospital, today, a daughter. To Mr. and Donald R.

Whitley 2308 Champaign, in Memorial Hospital, Monday, son. To Mr. and Mrs. Garland Brown Jr. of Normal in a hospital there today, a son, Brett Scott.

Mrs. Brown is the former Sue Friel of Mattoon. Mrs. Keith Riley, 1106 Wabash, is the maternal grandmother. Mr.

and Mrs. Garland Brown, Cleveland, Ohio, are the paternal grandparents. I LIL Top FFA Member Honored Truman Cloyd, president of the ter) looks on. Cloyd, in addiMattoon High School Future tion to serving as a chapter ofFarmers of America chapter, ficer, has been active in numerMonday night was presented the ous FFA projects. He is the son Rotary Club plaque in recogni- of Mr.

and Mrs. Truman Cloyd, tion of his selection as the out- who reside northwest of Cooks standing senior member of the chapter. Wilb Walker, Rotary Club president, is shown making the presentation as Gale Bolin, FFA vice president, (cen- Mills. The plaque presentation was a highlight of the annual FFA parent-son banquet held i in the MHS cafeteria. Rockies, Plains States Lashed by Major Storm By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A major storm, with heavy snow and gusty winds, swept wide areas from the Rockies to the central and northern Plains today, nearly a month after the start of spring.

More than a foot of snow fell in mountain areas of Wyoming and Montana and amounts during the night from Wyoming into northern Colorado and the Black Hills of South Dakota ranged from two to five inches. The Weather Bureau said blizzard conditions were expected to develop in the Dakotas as the center of the storm moves northeastward from Colorado. The bureau issued warnings to stockmen and motorists. Blowing snow cut visibility in the storm belt and several major highways in Wyoming were closed. Temperatures dropped into the teens and lower as cold air spread into the region.

Snow measured 18 inches in parts of Montana and more than 4 inches covered sections of northeastern Colorado. Snow mixed with rain pelted Salt Lake City, Utah. Freezing weather was indicated in northern Utah and southern Idaho, posing a possible threat to fruit crops. Stormy weather continued to pound areas in the south central states with violent thunderstorms in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma late Monday night. Winds of 60 to 70 m.p.h.

and hail lashed Wilburton, Okla. Heavy hail also hammered Brinkley, and more than one inch of rain doused Walnut Ridge, Ark. Kennedy Attacks Dirksen Proposal WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, spoke out today in opposition to he "called a new "to interfere with, the people's right to equal representation in their state.

legislatures." Kennedy referred to a proposed constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment offered by Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. He called it the first "we have ever had which espouses inequality as a virtue, the first time in our constitutional history that we would be acting to limit rather than extend the franchise." The amendment to overcome the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote ruling would permit the people of each state to decide whether to base apportionment of one house of their state legislature on factors other than population. A vote is set for Wednesday, unless some major change in the proposed amendment is made before then. Dirksen pre dicted he would win the necessary two-thirds majority, but opponents contended they had enough votes to block approval.

The Supreme Court ruled in June 1964, in a 6-3 decision, that the seats in both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned on a basis of substantial equality of population. "We are going to win," said Dirksen, whose proposed amendment, in a somewhat different form, fell seven votes short of the required two-thirds majority when it first came to a vote last August. Sen. William Proxmire, D- a leader of the opposition, didn't argue that Dirksen's amendment would not command a majority of the 100 sen- ators. Board Has Annual Dinner Meeting Rev.

John Snider, pastor of the Sulphur Springs Church of the Nazarene in Tampa, was the featured speaker at the annual Salvation Army advisory board dinner meeting Monday night, at the U.S. Grant Motor Inn. Introduced at the meeting Negro Pastor Found Slain In Chicago CHICAGO (AP) The brutally beaten and stabbed body of a missing part-time 'pastor of a Chicago Negro church was found today in a basement stairwell of his South Side home. Police said the victim, the Rev. Wilson Curtis, 39, had been reported missing April 9 by his wife, Norma.

Police said Mrs. Curtis told them at the time that Rev. Curtis, who was also employed as a post office mail handler, had gone out to buy some cigarettes, and never returned. Police said the body was clad only in pajama bottoms with a clothes line tied loosely around its neck, hands and waist. The body bore several stab wounds and evidence of a brutal beating and the right leg below the knee was missing.

Police were questioning relatives and friends of Curtis to determine a motive for the slaying. Dr. Aikman To Speak On ACS Panel In conjunction with the 1966 Cancer Crusade, the American Cancer Society units will sponsor two educational television programs. Dr. Eugene E.

Aikman, president and professional delegate of the Coles County unit, will serve as a panel member in the first TV presentation at 12:30 p.m. Saturday on WCIA, Channel 3. Basis of the program is a film, "'The Time to Stop is Now," and deals with the subject of smoking and lung cancer. The second TV program is scheduled for 7 p.m., Friday, April 29, on WTWO, Channel 2. Volunteers are engaged in a door to door solicitation program in Mattoon and out the state this month.

Special flyers promoting the shows will be distributed by the volunteers. William McHenry is crusade chairman of the West Coles County unit. Food Truck Broken Into A frozen food truck was broken into early this morning at Horn's Poultry, 301 S. 18th. The truck was parked at the rear of the building.

The lock to the door was found to be broken off and the contents. 4 of the truck partially thawed, police said. A rear window of the building was also found open and the office had been gone through. About $1 in change and a bottle of whiskey was missing. The break in occurred shortly after midnight today.

Tachometer Stolen A tachometer was stolen from an auto while it was parked in the lot at the Etog bowling alley Monday night. Eddie Davidson 2704 Richmond told police he entered the bowling alley about 7 p.m. and when the returned around 10:15 p.m., the tachometer was missing. It was valued at $35. Welch, Chester L.

Smith, Mrs. Louise and Ger. ald VanTine, new board members. Shown at the meeting are Capf. Robert Arthur, Salvation Army corps commander here; Rev.

Snider, Jerdan, Jerdan, Mrs. Snider and Mrs. Arthur, Mattoon JOURNAL -GAZETTE Tuesday, April 19, 1966 U.S. Planes Again Raid Heart of North Viet Nam Former POW To Tell War Experiences CHARLESTON, Ill. An Eastern Illinois University faculty member who was a World War II prisoner of the Japanese will address the History Club at Eastern on Thursday.

Dr. William D. Miner, assistant dean, Student Personnel Services, will discuss his World War II experiences in Room 216, Science Building, at 7:30 p.m. Miner commanded a Filipino army training center at Calape Bohol at the outbreak of the war. After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, he conducted guerrilla activities on Cebu Dr.

William Miner until his capture on May 17, 1942. He was held until the end the war in prisoner of war camps in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and China. Of 4,200 prisoners in the various camps, Dr. Miner is one of 388 survivors. He was liberated by Russian troops in Manchuria on August 18, 1945.

Dr. Miner came to Eastern as a history teacher in 1950. Services Held For Former Area Man CHARLESTON, Ill. Funeral services for Lawrence Newby, 58, of Ridge Farm, a former Charleston resident, were held Monday in Ridge Farm. Mr.

Newby died Thursday in Veterans Administration tal, Danville. He is survived by his widow, Betty; and a daughter, Madeline, of Ridge Farm. Battery Stolen Robert S. Waltrip, told police that someone stolethe battery out of his auto sometime after 5 p.m. Sunday.

Waltrip said he discovered the theft when he tried to start his auto Monday afternoon. The battery is valued at $24. Hospital Notes Visiting Hours 11 a.m. to 8:30 p. p.m.

Admitted Today Rex Kemper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Kemper, Casey. Jess E. Rentfrow, Neoga.

Admitted Monday Al 1 Bohlen, 1524 Annis. Robert H. Douglas, Trilla. Mrs. Arlen W.

Furste, 111 Charleston. Mrs. Junior L. Ground, 1305 Piatt. Mrs.

Robert W. Krick, 1512 Shelby. Wilbur F. Paris, Gays. Mrs.

James L. Pruitt, Aurora. Mrs. Walter Taylor, 812 Lincoln. Mrs.

Rex B. Thompson, Lerna. Mrs. Ernestine Torrence, Illinois Masonic Home, Sullivan. John V.

Welsh, Rural Route 2. Released Monday Miss Mae Allison, 2105 Richmond. Harvey N. Ames, 1700 Piatt. Mrs.

William Bedwell, 321 N. 16th. Amanda Britton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Britton, Sullivan.

Mrs. Rhuey E. Clark, Illinois Masonic Home, Sullivan. Mrs. Bruce M.

Cobb, Humboldt. Fairy Fuller, 5. Richmond. Mrs. Roy 1 F.

Hoots, Humboldt. Mary Jennings, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Derald L. Jennings, 904 Rudy.

Miss Julia Senteney, Cunningham Nursing Home. Miss Juanita Taylor, 2312 Prairie. Mrs. Robert L. Thompson, Noyes Court.

I Local Obituaries Donald LeRoy Parker Funeral services for Donald LeRoy Parker will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the United Presbytertan Church in Neoga. Burial will be in Neoga Cemetery. Friends may call at the Swengel funeral home, Neoga, after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Parker, 31, of Rural Route 3, Mattoon, died at 10:35 a.m. -Monday in Memorial Hospital here. He was a dairy farmer. Mattoon Area Deaths Ralph Horn WINDSOR, Ill.

Funeral services for Ralph Horn, 70, of Windsor, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Lovins funeral home here, with burial in Ash Gove cemetery near Windsor. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Mr.

Horn died Sunday at his home. He was born in Windsor on Jan. 11, 1896, a son of Francis Marion and Dora Ann Templeton Horn. He was a member of the Windsor Christian Church and a veteran of World War I. Funeral Services Funeral services for Steven L.

Burrell were held at 2 p.m. today in the Mitchell-Jerdan funeral home with Rev. John Henderson officiating. Burial was in Campground cemetery. Mrs.

Jesse Agnew sang "In the Garden" and "The Old Rugged Cross." Mrs. Cecil Barrow was organist. Pallbearers were Charles Sutton, James Waltrip, William Brandvold, Dwight Perry, William Grimes and Ray Wurtsbaugh. Steven, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard (Mick) rell, 809 N. 13th, died Saturday in Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. He was a ninth grade student at Jefferson Junior High School. Driver Training Funds Approved Ray Page, state superintendent of public instruction, today certified claims of $4.3 million for reimbursement to high schools which participated in the Illinois High School Driver Education Training program during the 1964-65 school year.

Approved for schools in Coles County was $27,088. Other county reimbursements include Clark, Cumberland, Douglas, 774.67; Edgar, Effingham, Moultrie, 456 and Shelby, $15,104. Services Held For Roy M. Wilson, 76 SULLIVAN, Ill. Funeral services for Roy M.

Wilson, 76, of Lake City, held Monday at the 'McMullin funeral home in Lovington with Rev. Roy Witt officiating. Burial was in the Keller Mr. Wilson was a member of the Liberty Church at Brownstown. He was born at Brownstown on Dec.

9, 1889, a son of William T. and Caroline Wilson. Mr. Wilson is survived by a son, Kenneth, Lake City; a daughter, Miss Mildred Wilson, Springfield; five brothers, Webb, Lamoille; Charles, Vandalia; Alva, Granite City; James, of Arizona, and Elmer, Elmwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Darnell, Findlay, and Mrs.

Maude Steinhouser, Brownstown. Vargas Optimistic WASHINGTON (AP) Jesus Vargas, Filipino secretary-general of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, says he is optimistic that allied nations can halt the thrust of communism in Vargas, who is on his first visit to the United States, said "the efforts being made by the United States ought to be fully particularly by Asians and generally by the free world." South Viet Nam jet fighter-bombers raided North Viet Nam's heartland for the second consecutive day, pounding a major plant just outside Haiphong Monday a U. S. spokesman reported. Following close on' the attack Sunday on missile sites near Hanoi, two Navy planes in a low level, radar -controlled attack dropped about 15 tons of bombs on the Uong Bi power plant 14 miles northeast of North Viet Nam's chief port.

The pilots reported showers of explosions and said the lights of Haiphong went out at once. The plant provides 15 per cent of North. including a third of the power Haiphong uses and one-fourth of the needs of the capital 60 miles to the west. Navy planes raided the Uong Bi plant twice in December before the start of a 37-day bombing pause. After the second raid Dec.

22, it was reportedly almost totally destroyed, but the spokesman said today it apparently had been rebuilt. Neither Hanoi nor Haiphong has been hit by U. S. air attack, but American planes brought the war close to the capital Sunday with attacks on missile sites 15 and 17 miles south and southwest of Hanoi. Pilots reported both sites were engulfed in flames.

The raid Monday night was carried out by twin-jet A6 Intruders, a subsonic plane designed to deliver big payloads on low attacks. They came from the carrier Kitty Hawk and reported only light, ineffective antiaircraft fire, although both Haiphong and Hanoi are said to be ringed with Sovietbuilt antiaircraft missile sites. Pierce Will Be in State FFA Contest Ronnie Pierce, a senior at Mattoon High School and an active participant in the Future Farmers of America program, will represent District IV at the state level in the FFA sponsored extemporaneous public speaking contest to be held Saturday, April 30, in Springfield. Pierce won the right to advance to the state contest by taking second place at a dis- De one Ronnie Pierce trict contest held in Arthur. He had won the section competition earlier.

He and the other District IV winner will compete with other district winners the state level. They repre ent the winners five sea comprising the district. A plaque was presented to the youth at the annual FFA banquet held Monday night in the cafeteria at MHS. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Dale Pierce, Humboldt. Graveside Rites Held For Owen Stanberry JANESVILLE, Ill. Graveside services were held Saturday at Janesville cemetery for Owen Stanberry, 91, of Mexico, formerly of the Janesville area. Mr. Stanberry died Wednesday at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Lon Walters in Mexico, Mo. He was born July 2, 1874, near Janesville, a son of Rev. and Mrs. Elishu Stanberry.

He was married to Carrie Barger. She preceded him in death. were two new officers of the board. They are Clark-Brogan, vice chairman, and Miss Biggs, secretary. Other board officers are George S.

Jerdan, chairman, and Mrs. Lucile Bowman, treasurer. Also introduced. were Leander OUR SINCERE THANKS For the cards and flowers on our 50th Wedding Anniversary. Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Price,.