Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 1

Weather Mostly cloudy and scattered thunderstorms likely early tonight. Lows, 65 to 72. Sunday, thunderstorms ending and becoming partly cloudy. ixon vening elegraph Serving the Heart of Rock River Valley lor More Than a Century Quotable He that takes time to think and consider will act more wisely than he that acts hastily and on Impulse. Simmons Dial 282-1111 114th Year Number 205 DIXON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1964 10 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS RIOTING IN PHILADELPHIA Negro Bands Loot, Wreck North Side NEWSROOM NOTES Although Labor Day is a holiday a day set aside for a period of recreation or rest, motorists will he overworking themselves physically and mentally behind the wheels of their cars on our highways.

holiday driving or driving anytime of the year becomes wearisome work, watch out for the warns Carl F. Rrieg, Illinois Regional Manager of the Allstate Motor Club. Highway Hypnosis is prevalent day and night. Here are proven ways to stay alert: all trips well rested. Fatigue deteriorates your entire driving ability.

your speed, body position and sight objects frequently. Otherwise your reflexes and judgment can be dulled by the monotony of road sights and car sounds. focus sharply on any object unless necessarv. Make a habit of looking near, far and to both sides and move your head and eyes constantly. at regular ir you feel tired or not.

Get out of the car and refresh yourself. eat large meals before or during a long tnp, rather stop frequently and eat small amounts, i. long distances at night should be avoided because the danger of hypnosis is much greater. Darkness relaxes some drivers too much Also keep instrument panel lights low to reduce hypnotic glare. loose fitting clothes and keep fresh air circulating in the car.

the radio, hut avoid slow music. Sing out loud or whistle along. your right foot goes to sleep, stop at a safe place off the pavement and remove your shoe. Vibrations from the gas pedal will have a stimulating effect on the foot. follow the same car too long.

If you find yotu-self staring or if your eyes begin to glaze, pull off the pavement at a rest area ami walk around outside. to avoid sun glare. Prolonged exposure to glare is a major factor in eyestrain which in turn causes fatigue. thinking of emergency situations. Concentrate on gauging a safe stopping distance ahead or search for an escape route to one side.

t1'! Staff Photo In the left photo Thomas vull be towed away if they Peeler, (noted are not moved NFO Trucks Towed Away After From Swift Manager bv arrow), manager of the Swift and Co. Rochelle plant is shown warning members of the National Farmers Organization their tnicks the drivers refused. In the right photo a wrecker is shown as it pulls one of the pickups blocking the packing company gates out of the way of other trucks waiting to unload livestock. 18 NFO Members Arrested at Rochelle Swift Plant After Blockading Gates Seven Hours PHILADELPHIA Negro noting and looting broke out. in a wide area of north side Friday night and conttnue sporadically into this morning Roving hands of Negroes, most of them teen-agers, smashed windows, looted stores, threw bottles and stones from roof tops and attacked policemen.

Looting wag widespread and damage extensive. The crowds hooted and jeered Negro leaders who asked them to halt the disturbances. Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, in personal charge at the scene, had 700 helmcted policemen, carrying riot sticks in the area hut sporadic looting continued for hours after daybreak. said the rioting the work of hoodlums Thirty two policemen were injured, one suffering a skull fracture.

Civilian casualties totaled 95. Arrested were 102 adults and 5 juveniles, all Negroes. Most of the injured were released after treatment in hospital emergency wards. It was the first major Negro disturbance in Philadelphia this summer and, as had been the pattern elsewhere, It started over a roparativelv minor Incident. Negro policemen answered a call to remove a stalled car, occupied by Negroes, from an Intersection.

The wife of the driver. Mrs. Odessa Bradford. .14. of Philadelphia, Week's Events in Summary, Fape 4 ROCHELLE Eighteen National Farmers Organization (NFO) members protesting livestock prices were arrested Friday at the Swift and Co.

Plant, south of here, after they failed to heed warnings issued by State Police and Ogle County authorities to move their pickup trucks with a police office. The pair is accused of attempting to let the air out of tires on the pickup trucks being towed away under police orders. No violence resulted from the arrests. with four pickups which were parked two abreast in front of the gate. Despite requests from Tom Peeler.

Swift Plant manager, to leave the company's property or face arrest, the NFO members held their ground The blockade was set up after five trucks entered the Rochelle Circuit Judge Leon Zick issued an injunction restraining the NFO from which were blocking the entrance to trespassing on Swift and Co. property plant at 6:3 Oa m. ith only a few the plant. or interfering with the business at head of cattle or hogs in each ve- Sixteen of the NFO members the company. The drivers demanded were charged with criminal More than 200 NFO members and market prices and were refused, tr a and the other two sympathizers blockaded the entrance The 18 arrested were taken to the men were charged with interfering to the packing house at 7 a.m.

Friday I Rochelle Police Station and peared before County Magistrate Wilbur Antoine. All 18 pleaded not guilty and Antoine set their trial date at Oct. 21. All were released under $100 cash bond. If convicted they could receive either a $100 fine or ten days in jail or both.

They will be represented by C. M. Glosser, a Rochelle attorney. After the blockade was set up, Peeler appealed to members with a portable loudspeaker get out and move off private property so we can continue our operation. We like to take any legal action but this blockade is on private About 25 state troupers were called In along with Ogle County authorities and Rochelle Police.

States Atty. John Moore and Ogle County Sheriff William Spencer were at the plant most of the apt. Ray Kramer. Sterling, directed the State Police operation. Rochelle Chief of Police Frank Danrkas said the NFO members were from 40 Illinois counties.

After the members refused to move off the property, the State Police ordered the truck drivers to move their trucks or face arrest. The drivers refused and were arrested. A wrecker was called in and moved the trucks into a field. The gates were opened and the Swift custom ers waiting to enter plant were admitted Some 12 livestock trucks (See NFO Page t) Oanh Is Acting Premier In Surprise Viet Move SAIGON, South Viet Nam In a surprise move after two days of bloody rioting, a Harvard-educated i economist, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Oanh.

took temporary command of trou- bled South Viet Nam today as the I acting premier. Oanh, 45, told a crowded news Where to Find- Local, Area News 4 Society New Page 5 Editorial 6 Sports 7 Sleeping Sickness Story, Page 4 conference he had a mandate to rule for two months as head of a caretaker regime. Speaking in fluent, colloquial English, Oanh said Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh is still South Viet Nam's premier but is now and recovering at the mountain resort of Dalat.

The surprise announcement came only a few hours after government troops cracked down on armed rioters who had brought Saigon close to civil war between Buddhists and Roman Catholics. The two days of mob rule left at least nine dead and scores injurred. Oanh had served since Jan. 30 as premier deputy premier for finance, but he was never seriously regarded as a contender for the top job. There were strong signs of increasing American involvement in the Vietnamese government.

cannot see how' cooperation between our two governments could be any closer than it has Oanh said. Oanh said the nation still is ruled by the triumvirate of Khanh. Lt. Gen. Tran Thien Khiem and Maj.

Gen. Duong Van Minh. Asked if the triumvirate would be likely to overrule any of his decisions. he said: think they will want to overrule us. and 1 think we will want to he Oanh.

43, earned a doctorate at Harvard University 10 years ago. He was an economics instructor at Trinity College in Hartford, from 1955 until I960. Last year he served in Washington with the International Monetary Fund. Only hours before his appointment. Buddhists and Catholics fought in the streets with clubs, machettes, hatchets and lengths of pipe.

perhaps Viet Cong agents took advantage of the chaos and roamed the littered city, fighting, looting and burning. Then the government acted in the (See OANH Page 4) Oregon Man Dies in Iowa Alilo Accident Wire photo Grade Dies Comedienne Grarie Allen, 58, died of an apparent heart attack late Aug. 27 at Cedars of Ijehanon Hospital in Hollywood. She co-starred for 34 years on radio and television with tier husband George Burns. GRINNELL, Iowa An Oregon, III man and a former Mount Morris, III resident wore killed instantly Friday afternoon when their car crashed headon into an auto carrying three Roman Catholic nuns One of the nuns was also killed in the collision.

Killed In the accident were Vernon L. Arnold, 29. Oregon, and Calvin ('. Toms, 19, Arvada, Colo. Toms, native of Seward, lived in Mount Morris until 1959.

Also killed was Sister Mary Martina, about 68, a teacher at a parochial school at Victor, Iowa. According to Poweshiek County Sheriff Wiley Taylor collision occurred on a level section of Rt. 6, about 15 miles east of here. Taylor said the westbound car carrying the nuns crossed into the eastbound lane and struck the car driven hy Toms headon. Taylor speculated today that the car in which the nuns were riding was attempting to pass an unidentified car when the crash occurred Arnold, who lived at 409 S.

9th St. with his wife and daughter, was an employe of Kable Printing Mount Morris. According to Taylor, Arnold and Toms were returning to Oregon from Colorado and were riding in a small foreign-made car owned by Arnold. Injured in the accident were Sister Mary Geraldine Neary, 55. and I Sister Loretta Walsh, 56.

both teach- I ers at the school in Victor. Funeral arrangements for Arnold are incomplete at the Finch Funeral Home, Mount Morris. Both Ixxlies are being returned to Illinois today. Hurricane Cleo Rapidly Disintegrating Cleo Lands Plane in Canal A twin engined DC-3, securely tied down at Opalacka Airport, was airborne by the 125 niile-an-hour gusts generated by hurricane Cleo, and deposited more than a mile away in a deep canal that fringed the field. Wet, but undamaged, the will fly again, hopefully with a human at the controls.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (fI Cleo, once a mighty, death-dealing hurricane but now just a soggy', punchless tropical storm, was rapidly disintegrating today on the South Carolina coast just north of Savannah. The storm, which killed 138 on a path of destruction through the Caribbean and ravaged parts of east coast was dying by the hour. However, the Weather Bureau warned that the storm may spawn some severe thunderstorms, including a few tornadoes, in the area between the Savannah and Florence, S.C., coast today. A small tornado was reported at Charleston, S.C.

The winds of Cleo itself had dropped to about 40 miles per hour from the 135 m.p.h. which hit. area from Miami vviirphoio to West Palm Beach. More than seven inches of rain swamped Savannah Friday night, sending flash floods rampaging into the lowlands. Gusts of wind reached 50 but the rain and wind appeared to be subsiding.

All areas of east Coast that Cleo battered were declared disaster areas and made eligible for long term low-cost loans. The Weather bureau estimated Florida damage at $200 million, most of it in the area from West Palm Beach to Miami which Cleo raked with winds of up to 135 miles an hour. Cleo battered millions of dollars worth of citrus from trees south of Cape Kennedy, opening the prospect of higher prices next season. Sugar cane also suffered heavy damage along the shore of Lake Okeechobee, and some fall vegetable crops were wiped out near the coast. The tourist centers were quickly putting themselves hack in shape to attract visitors.

Power was restored to more than half of metropolitan Miami. The major hotels had dried out their lobbies, hauled the sand out of their pools and started looking forward to business as usual. protested when police began to move the car In the argument, police said, she punched an officer and was arrested on assault and battery charges. Bystanders moved in on the pohre as they tried to take her to the police station They radioed for help, Bradford himself was not arrested. Rioting spread throughout the foursquare-mile slum area, and additional police moved in Perhaps two thirds of the estimated 600.000 Negroes live this section, most of them in row tenements tightly packed into every available space.

There was no estimate of how many took part in the disturbance. Mayor James II J. Tate interrupted his vacation to meet in emergency scsion with his cabinet at (itv llall. Commissioner Leary ordered every offduty policeman to report immediately to the riot area The rioting began about 10 pm. Friday.

As dawn broke today, it lit up a bizarre scene. Negroes were standing in the streets as far as the eye could see There were many women and children In size, it looked like a Christmas shopping crowd, except that everywhere stores had broken windows. Broken glass was strewn on streets and sidewalks. The business district on Columbia Avenue, between 12th and 15th streets, looked as if it had been ripped by a hurricane. Merchandize dropped by looters was everywhere.

Policemen were strung out by the hundreds during the morning on Columbia Ave. but looting bands of Negroes marched in and (See RIOTS Page 4) Goldwate Relaxing On Sundance NEW PORT BEACH. Calif Sen Barry Goldwater cruised southward today, relaxing with his wife aboard a borrowed varht. Iheie was little word of the Republican presidential nominee, spending what he says will be his last vacation before the presidential election Nov. 3.

But Goldwater, aboard the cruiser Sundance, arranged for a ship-to- shnre telephone conference today with press secretary Paul Wagi ner. Wagner talked with the senator Friday and reported he was still at Santa Cruz Island off Santa Barbara, I but that Goldwater planned to work his way south along the coast toward Santa Catalina Island. The Goldwaters, with two other couples as their guests, planned to remained aboard the yacht until Monday. The senator heads for Phoenix Tuesday and will formally open his campaign at Prescott, Sept. 3.

Hospital Open Until Jan. 1 Amboy Public Hos- pita! will keep its doors ojien until at least Jan 1, 1965 This was the derision of the board of directors at a special meeting Friday night. The directors made their decision to keep the doors of the hospital opeo until Jan. despite mounting costs of operating the facility, after hearing recommendations from an eight-member steering committee. The committee, headed by Stanley Gibson, chairman, was appointed by the board last to study the problems and to draft recommendations to avert closing the hospital Among recommendations made by the committee was one calling for the hospital to stay open a period of during which the hospital operation can be studied fully and a thorough report compiled.

The board agreed with the recommendation and voted to set Jan. 1 as the definite date for keeping the Institution open. The steering committee also presented six other recommendations: concentrated effort be made to collect all outstanding, unpaid accounts. study be made to determine the feasibility of creating a hospital district which would provide tax money to support the hospital. in which to increase the patient load be explored.

Lack of use of the facilities has cut revenue sharply hoard should contact the state nursing association tn an effort to attract nurses to this area. The institution has been hard pressed to employ enough registered nurses to serve on shift at the hospital as required by law. an educational program to inform the public of modem facilities now available at the 14-bed hospital room rates and feel charged for laboratory and X-ray services..