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Do-It-Yourselfers Busy HOME OWNED HOME OPERATED P' VlNDEPENDEmt i -7 4 -i Af FRIDAY MAY 12 1961 9 SECOND PAGE ONE Disasteer Area Ik- i i Worst Flood In 20 Years Hits Illinois By THE ASSOCIATED NESS Southern Illinois river towns battled the worst floods in 20 years today in the most serous overflows across Midwestern valley lowlands in six states Fifteen' counties in Illinois all in the southern region have been listed as disaster areas But Gov Otto Kemer has appealed to the Office of Civil Defense to declare 53 counties covering most of the southern half of the state a major disaster area Although Illinois appeared the hardest hit by the spring floods water from rain-fed rivers and streams covered broad sections of Missouri Arkansas Indiana Oklahoma and Kansas The floods have driven thousands from- their homes The muddy waters covering thousands of acres of farm land have taken a heavy toll in property and crop estimates running into the millions of dollars Generally dear weather prevailed again today over most of the flood-stricken region as well as in most other parts of the Landscape Dozed By-Pass Highway The rink will be the first actual project of Coliseum Corporation which has stadium-recreational plans for the area Bulldozer operator Ralph Daniels of Pasco working for Vail Company was hard at it yesterday at the site of the ice skating rink construction near George Washington Way and the By GIL GILMORE With bright tkiei and dew weather construction Jobs and building on the planning boards over the winter turned into activity on serveral fronts in Richland yest-terday Throughout the city the growl of cats and tractors the thump of machinery marked the quickened building pace thourghout the town IN THE RICHLAND CITY hall the list of those seeking building the little fellows who are adding a fence or replacing grew from an average of five or six a day to 15-SI) a day Most construction planners as well as the do-it-yourself homebuilders planned to get started earlier this week But rain and the threat of it or surveying and driving stakes held them off for a few days When the sun came out yesterday activity was going full Mast Three major projects saw machinery pounding AT THE SITE OF Albertson's market a $214000 job a backhoe operator a laborer two carpenters plus the boss Randkl-eve were beginning the preliminary work for the combination drug and food store The area had been graded earlier and the backhoe was digging a ditch for the foundations The carpenters were starting work for construction tool sheds and offices "With so few trees in this town it seems a shame to have to tear those Randkleve said indicating a half dozen large willows ripping out by the roots They be missed especially by city councilmen who recently passed an ordinance outlawing planting any more SOUTH OF TOWN NEAR the By-Pass and George Washington Way Ralph Daniels a bulldozer operator for Vail of Pasco was kicking his big cat along forming a hollow for the proposed ice-skating rink This will be constructed by the Coliseum Corporation which bought the rink equipment from Yakima be quite a deal when they finish Daniels said looking back over the piles of soft dirt bis cat had tP pushed over piled and leveled He climbed aboard the cat again waved laughed and kicked it in gear and began moving the dirt along IN THE CENTER OF Richland the steady clank clank of the core driller which has been working back of the 703 building was a lot louder yesterday Workmen began drilling cores in front of the building with the machine dropping through the trees along Flagler Avenue The drilling marks the preliminaries for the proposed federal building costing $3 million which will be built on that site The cores will be studied by engineers for foundations planning Construction men few in number just now appeared to be glad to at it" after a winter of idleness for many And their number will grow steadily from now through summer ASIDE FROM THE job still to come are a 41-unit motel in the south end and the new Richland high school which will cost nearly $2 million NO DISCRIMINATION Negro Praises Pasco Schools Wheat Controls Extended WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman Friday ordered the old wheat control program into effect for the 1962 grain crop but expressed hope Congress will authorize a more effective program in time to make a change Acting under requirements of present law Freeman set national planning allotments of 55 million acres the minimum permitted by the legislation and proclaimed marketing quotas to limit sales of wheat grown on the allotments This action had to be taken by May 15 This program has been in effect since 1953 but it has not been effective in preventing accumulation of a record reserve and surplus of 1455000000 bushels This is more than last year's crop of 1327000000 bushels which was the second largest crop of record In a statement Freeman said his action not by any means preclude the possibility fof an improved program for wheat growers next The secretary said that in view of this he is not now announcing a date for a referendum on the quotas which require approval by at least two-thirds of the growers voting Growers have never rejected them Present law requires that a referendum be held not later than July 25 The wheat program is set up a year ahead of the harvest because winter wheat is seeded in the late summer and fall Freeman also said a decision on the price support level for the 1962 crop is being held up pending possible legislative developments This rate is $178 a bushel Communism Will Win Says Khrush MOSCOW Soviet Premier Khrushchev reassured his people once again today that communism will win a peaceful competition with capitalism are certain of the superiority of Marxism and the Soviet premier told a Communist party rally in Tbili (Tiflis) we are certain that this superiority will He added immediately that it would be a peaceful triumph Life Photog Gets Beaten MONTEVIDEO Uruguay' AP magazine photographer Andrew St George was beaten by leftists at a pro-Cuba meeting today The assailants broke one of his cameras and forcibly took away some film but he was not seriously injured St George of Dobbs Ferry NJ said he was invited to go into a room adjoining the university hall where the meeting was being held He said about 15 people most of them students went into the room after him and demanded that he hand over his films When he refused he was pushed and' punched 'in the St George said He is lodging a protest with the Foreign Ministry and Montevideo's police chief NC- Gets Shrine ASHEVILLE NC AP-The hand-hewn log house in -which North -celebrated civil war governor Zebulon Baird Vance: was born will- be turned over to the state at ceremonies Saturday Negotiators One Portland (ap EUa Mae Quin of Tacoma had an answer for police when they stopped her as a speeder Thursday and asked your A bullet had just whistled through her car she said and she was racing to the home of her mother Police looked and sure enough there was a shattered glass and a bit of lead 'The shot came from aq old-model black sedan she said But she added she had no idea why ouhy's Henchman Paroled SPRINGFIELD 111 (AP) -Basil (the owl) Banghart notorious prohibition-era mobster mail robber and kidnaper today was granted parole from Stateville Penitentiary The' 60-year-old gangster once known as one of the nation's toughest has served nearly 30 years behind bars for the 1933 kidnaping of John (Jajfe the Barber) Factor in Chicago His 99-year sentence later was commuted to 45 years making parole possible now THE ILLINOIS PAROLE and Pardon Board said Banghart would be released from prison when there is evidence he has made arrangments for employment and a suitable borne A board spokesman said this probably -would takeabqut a week A condition of the parole for a period Of five years is that Banghart is not to participate voluntarily in any publicity activities writings or other publication and is barred from personal appearances on stage radio television or appearing in motion pictures Banghart has said he would like to live the rest of his days in Port Angeles Wash with his wife Mae 49 The parole board said it would not object to his leaving the state with the board's approval BANGHART WAS CHIEF lieutenant of the late Roger Touhy Chicago gang leader also sent to prison for the Factor kidnaping Paroled in 1959 Touhy was gunned down in front of his Chicago residence just 26 days after leaving Stateville His slayers were never caught At a recent hearing Banghart told the parole board he is now partly blind and suffering from Parkinson's Disease Owners OK Rail Merger ST PAUL Minn (AP) Shareholders of the Grept Northern Railway approved Friday the proposed merger of the company with the Northern Pacific Burlington and Spokane Portland and Seattle Railways A total of 4929931 shares or 81 per cent of the company's- 6-083722 outstanding shares were voted for the merger at the road's annual meeting here Shareholders of all the four consolidating companies now have approved the merger proposal Police Hold Illinois Man A man arrested Wednesday in Walla Walla is being held in Franklin County Jail on a charge of grand larceny Paul Bailley Neff 53 of Roanoke HI is accused of writing a noaccount check for' $79 at Piro's store on Lewis Street Pasco country It was fairly mild In most sections In the Southern Illinois flood belt extending from Madison County on the lllinois-Missouri border to Lawrence County on the Illinois Indiana line workers toiled around the clock to shore up levees A record flood crest bore down on Murphysboro a southwest Illinois city of 8600 threatening power and watfr service The big Muddy River expected to crest at 395 to 415 feet pounded a wall of 6000 sandbags protecting the power station Waters from the flooded river surrounded the municipal water plant Across the state at Carml Red Cross officials readied a large-scale plan of evacuation of many of the town's 6260 residents if the rising Little Wabash River breaks through Railroad cars and a river towboat barge were ready to remove people livestock and personal belongings if the levee cracks The river hit a record 38 feet REV ELLIS CASSON ed Rev Casson "which killed any need for an The charges against the other men were dropped by Magee Bogus Vicar Is Jailed LONDON A bogus vicar was Jailed Thursday for a year for officiating at nine marriages in the role of clergyman The prosecution claimed William Frederick Walker 33 ex-principal of a private school performed the at two suburban churches last year Walker pleaded innocent saying he felt entitled call himself clergyman to solemnize marriages and give holy communion because the bishop of London once phoned asking him far assist at the churches The bishop the Rt Rev Henry Campbell testified he couldn't recall ever telephoning Walker or knowing him Before sentence was passed the defense contended that if the couples were unaware that Walker was not a clergyman their marriages were valid Judge John' Widgery said Walker had the rites of the Church of England" He added: It is not for me to say whether the marriages were Preliminaries II Randkleve (left) superintendent for Halvor-son Construction Company of Spokane went over a few of the details with two of his carpenters yesterday in preliminary work at the Food and Drug store site at Stevens Drive and Williams Boulevard in Richland The store has taken out a $214000 permit The carpenters are Matt Matson center and Dick Smith Neutral Summit Planned BELGRADE Yugoslavia (AP) declared today that 20 countries have agreed to participate at a preliminary conference to be held in Cairo soon to prepare a summit meeting of uncommitted nations information' here the following counties have accepted in-vfcatirfn' for fhepreliminary 'meeting which will most probably be on the level of ambassadors or special envoys: India Indonesia Algeria Morocco Ghana Guinea Mali Congo (Stanleyville) Somalia Sudan Iraq-Afghanistan Ceylon Cambodia Burma Brazil Mexico Cuba UAR and Yugoslavia A dispatch from New Delhi however said India' is skeptical about the advisaMlity of a neutral nations summit conference The dispatch said thinking at the top of the Indian government is authoritatively reported to be that any such conference must have a clearly defined constructive purpose rather than possibly turning into a forum for criticizing other nations that India would support more readily an economic conference of Afro-Asian nations Channel 25 Receives OK The Federal Communications Commission has granted approval to the Columbia Empire Broadcasting Corporation in Yakima to operate television channel 25 in the Tri-Cities it was announced today by Warren' Brown Chief Engineer for KNDO-V in Yakima Brown said KNDO which has operated a channel in Yakima for nearly two years expects to get issuance of the construction permit from the FCC by Wednesday Once the permit is obtained crews will start erecting the tower and antenna on Jump-Off Joe Butte just south of Kennewick Brown said they hope to have a signal on the air within two weeks The channel will carry the ABC network which will originate from the home KNDO channel in Yakima The Tri-City channel wiH be 251 Channel 25 will be a sattelile of KNDO and will carry local programming Brown said Call letters for the new channel will probably be KNDU Basin Farmers Meet Saturday South Columbia Basin District formers will meet in the Eltopia School Annex at 7:30 pm Saturday to plan for the visit of foe Basin Study Commission May 18-' Orlando Vines Block 15 announced today i- The meeting is to coordinate efforts and knowledge of 'the farmers-for presentation in written form to tjie commission he said Total absence of discrimination against Negroes in Pasco schools was hailed today by a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People The Rev Ellis Casson regional field secretary yesterday toured Whittier School McLough-lin Junior High and the high school He said his prime concern was the high ratio of dropouts in the minority groups HE IS TO SUGGEST A plan to the local chapter which calls for Negro ministers to work through parents to stress the necessity of a high school education hard enough for-colored people to get a job with 'a graduation he said Casson was full of praise for the high school which he describ-ed as and for Principal Em Morgan who the NAACP group on a conducted tour Rev- Casson will be featured speaker tonight at a banquet at 7:30 pm in the Labor Hall Pasco One of the reasons listed earlier for Rev tour was to hold bearings on complaints filed against Pasco Chapter President Magee and counter charges by Magee against Jack-son James Pruitt and Alpbon-so Tate WHEN THE NAACP received the complaints charging Magee with poor administration and poor public relations it called for an election "Magee was reelected with an overwhelming explain- Benton Plan Meet Set The Benton Regional Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 pm tonight at the Prosser City Hall Chief item of business will concern the employment of a staff to work with planner Sydney Doyle To be hired are an associate planner draftsman and office secretary The meeting will mark the first full scale discussion with the new planner and Conciliatory Service was called in to help reach an agreement The proposed contract is for two years ISncludes a wage Increase of about tw5 per cent the tint year and about three per cent the second year Seals said Two stumbling blocks which hampered negotiations earlier Dave Unions OK Pact With Teamsters WASHINGTON AP Two AFL-CIO maritime unions agreed today to rater a permanent mutual assistance pact with the Teamsters Union The agreement was readied at a meeting of presidents Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union William Bradley of the International Longshoremen's Association both affiliated with the AFL-CIO and James Hoffa of the Teamsters The Teamsters were ousted from the AFL-CIO more than three years ago on grounds of alleged corrupt domination Since then the AFL-CIO has forbidden its affiliates to enter into mutual aid pacts with the Teamsters such as was agreed upon by the maritime unions today Kahlotus Road Work To Resume Work will resume Monday on the unfinished section of the Kahlotus Highway Franklin County Engineer Harold Blanton explained today traffic restrictions will remain the same during construction as at present light traffic permitted but trucks barred Completion of the section on which work was halted by muddy mnditluM this winter is expected by the end of the month t'-x Reach Agreement Ballots Mailed Telephone Workers I committee has recommended acceptance Seals added The tentative agreement reached yesterday ends several weeks of negotiations in Spokane Negdtiations started early in March and contract expiration dates were extended twice when gotiatot said they will be count--! no agreement was reached A Ballots have been mailed to members of Local 77 of the In- temational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for ratification of a tentative contract 'agreed on Thursday evening in' Spokane by the local and General Telephone Company Paul Seals Richland IBEW ne He paid both sides reached what -he termed a on supervisors working and com pany perogativesi The charge of unfair labor practices filed against General Telephone by Local 77 is still pending but it may be sometime before a decision Is reached Seals added Pounding Down A core driller thumped steady beat in front of the 703 building or Atomic Energy Administration headquarters in preliminary work before construction of the $3 million federal building in Richland The men have been drilling cores around the site for test samples of the earth ed Thursday The negotiating 5 f-V member of the Federal Mediation 11 i.