Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

LIGHTER SIDE cats aren't the only 6rres that can lick themselves with their tongues. Serene tfte 4lltm Commitnily for More Tfean 132 Established Jan. 15, 1836 Copyright Aitbn Teligkph 'Printing .1964 Turns Down Industry Plan By ART HOMASON Telegraph staff Writer JERSEYVILLE Fearing public opinion over this year's spiraling taxes, the Jersey County Board of Supervisors Monday put the brakes on spending and turned down a proposal designed to eventually spread-the tax burden by attracting industry to the area. jected a recommendation The board in 'a unani mous decision said "no" to a proposal to share one- third of the costs of a OQO-a-year Jerseyville Industrial Fund for the next two years with the city and the Jerseyville industrial Development Corp. other words, the county rejected an offer to share in a plan which attempts to attract industry here and eventually alleviate some of the tax burden.

The board also went on record opposing any of state highways and distribution of highway monies by the Illinois General assembly. The board indicated a fear that the townships would pick up more roads to maintain, although the townships would receive more highway funds. Board chairman T. B. Ruyle'said the board rejected the industrial fund offer because it did not want to spend any more of the taxpayers money.

The board currently is un' der pressure during tax collection time because of sweeping tax increases due mainly to a $12 million in-, crease in assessed valuation and a school district bond issue and tax rate hike. The county Board of Review also has been the target of criticism for not clamping down on county-, wide reassessments to keep away from the heavy tax multiplier imposed by the If the not raised its assessments to meet the state requirements, it would have been stuck with the multiplier, thus equalizing the taxes and increasing many of the personal property taxes over the current level. The proposal to "share in the industrial fund with the multiplier, thus equalizing the taxes and increasing many of the personal property taxes over the current level. The proposal to share in the industrial fund with the and the Jerseyville Industrial Development was made to the board by Harry Smith, a Jerseyville dealer and a member of JIDC. The City of Jerseyville has adopted an ordinance for the establishment of a Municipal Industrial Commission and the creation of the industrial fund.

The county's rejection of the offer means that the JIDC through public solicitation and the city will have to share the costs of the industrial development plan. The county board also re- a to adopt a comprehensive planning program for desirable regulation of future physical development in the county. Such a program would also pave the way for the county to take advantage of federally-assisted projects like public housing. A county advisory committee on planning headed by Jerseyville insurance agent Charles White told the board of supervisors March that it should enter into a comprehensive planning program before it is too late. The advisory committee then cited the advantages of establishing a planning (Continued on Page A-2 Col.

1 ALTON, lLL.i TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1868 Member Anoeteted Prim U.S. Armor Is De As Saigon By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON tanks and (AP) armored American personnel carriers joined the new battle of Saigon today, cutting off a Viet Cong attack from the southwest in the third day of hard fighting on the city's fringes. U.S. troops had not been used inside Saigon since they helped Vietnamese regiments were withdrawing from the Dong Ha area, probably to regroup, "because we decimated three battalions of them." Col. Mikon Hull of Plant City, said his men had killed at least 980 North Vietnamese since April 30.

In the fierce action around Dong Ha, which is near the eastern end of the de- ESCAPES FLOODED MINE When miners in a two-mile coal shaft near Hominy Falls, W. were trapped by a flood, the only man to escape was Ernest Fitzwater, above. His brother is among 25 still inside; of the 10 trapped at lower end of shaft- including his brother-Fitzwater said: "There is no way they can get out alive. (AP Wirephoto) INSIDE Today EDITORIAL A-4 Looking back with Alton's school superintendent. TORP 1,000 us railroad tor- in Alton.

FAMILY A-l Civic Orchestra conductor Clarence Prlchta resigns. BARRJSTT H-l Classified ad departments watcn for ads, UARBJS OTPH candidate. Rescue By HOLGER JENSEN HOMINY FALLS, W.Va. (AP) A receding water level today encouraged crews trying to 25 men trapped in three groups inside a flooded coal mine in southeastern West Virginia. The water depth had dropped one -foot, enabling to move pumps ahead another 30 feet to a point 880 feet inside the mountain side entrance of the, Coal and Coke Co.

No. 8 mine. Thousands of gallons of water cascaded into the Gauley mine about noon Monday when a crew cutting coal broke through to a nearby' abandoned mine which was flooded. Groups of 13, 2 and 10 miners were cut off by water at locations strung out along two miles of underground passageway which slopes irregularly downhill from the Gauley mine entrance. Food, Water Received The men closest to the entrance clustered at a high spot at a turn in the passageway about a mile from the entrance received plastic containers of sandwiches, water, coffee, tools, blankets and oxygen today.

The containers were sent from the surface on the mine conveyor belt system. It could not be used to rescue, the men because it was under water much of the Way. Personnel on the surface continued in radiotelephone contact with this group of 13 and with two other men foreman Frank Davis and Edward Rudd who were at a spot miles, inside the mine. There had been no contact with the remaining group of 10 about two miles from the mine entrance since the un dlerground workings flooded Monday. Awaited today was the arrival of three scuba divers from Philadelphia, who, it was hoped, could reach the trapped men.

Air Holes Drilled Meanwhile, emergency air (shafts were being drilled from surface locations above the two groups with which rescjuers were in radio- telephone tact. This meant drilling down 100 feet in one instance and 140 feet in the other. A rescue official said the shafts "should break through this afternoon," Emergency supplies lashed to the conveyor belt and headed for the J8 men trapped nearest the mine mouth left the surface, at 4:44 a.m. Thirteen minutes the word came by "We cue a mile from the entrance "are unharmed, high and dry and safe." He said the two men a half-mile farther inside also were safe. As for' the 10 men farthest from the entrance, President C.

E. Richardson of the Maust Coal andjjCpke; Qrap; eojnp a nyof the Gauley firm) "we just haven't heard anything from them. And we don't know how much water is down there." Twenty-three of the 25 trapped men were underground when the water poured into the mine Monday. two Davis and Rudd underground investigate after the flooding began. 2 Liquor Stores to Pay for One Cop By L.

ALLEN KLOPE Telegraph Staff Writer (RELATED STORY PAGE B-5) The Bethalto Village Board approved the licensing of two package liquor stores Monday night after the way was cleared by changing liquor ordinance although there was one dissenting' vote The action was taken up- recommendation of SPOBTS Blues, Montreal playoff acUon resume to on a Mayor ErWin Plegge, who told the board the license fees would pay for an extra policeman to be added to the present three-man police force. The mayor said each package liquor license would be $700, and sales tax from purchases would produce additional revenue, and that package stores would be regulated the same as taverns. Most of the board members favored licensing the package liquor stores "because people in Bethalto go out of town to buy their liquor anyway; so we nvght as well keep the business in town. However, board member Wesley Emde said the village' ordinances were changed last fall to eliminate one of the six tavern liquor 11-censes permitted. "Now, less than a year la- ter, we are permitting two more licenses to allow the sale Of liquor," Emde said.

His was the 6nly dissenting vote on the motion. The board did not take action on increasing the wheel tax, but is expected to do so at the June meeting. Mayor Plegge told the board there were three ways the village could raise the money: cut, the street budget, raise vehicle licenses, and allow the liquor licenses. The mayor said he was not in favor of cutting the street budget, but could see increasing the wheel tax and establishing the package liquor licenses. The mayor also said the village's wheel tax has been $3 per car per year for many years, which is one of the lowest taxes in Madison County.

He said increasing the vehicle tax to (5 "would not hurt anyone," smash the Viet Cong's lunar new year offensive in February. In the latest assaults, which began Sunday, the Americans have been outside the capital searching for enemy units which might further threaten the city. U.S. officers believed the enemy thrusts both around Saigon and in South Vietnam's northern sector were aimed at giving the North Vietnamese a ibargaining edge when preliminary peace talks with the United States open in Paris this week. Outpost Attacked In the north, officers reported one enemy force surrounded near Hue and others withdrawing from 'around Dong Ha after losing more than 1,000 men in six days of close-quarter fighting.

The battle in southwest Saigon today began when an estimated 150 Viet Cong trying to push into the city attacked a South Vietnamese outpost near the Kinh Doi Canal. Armored personnel carriers from the U.S. 9th Infantry Division moved in to cut them off. The infantrymen reported killing 35 enemy soldiers, and five Americans were wounded. The fighting subsided for a time, and the surviving Viet Cong made a break for tiie bridge across the canal and into the city.

But a second company of 9th Division armored personnel carriers got to the bridge first and pushed the Viet Cong into a factory building. South Vietnamese rangers took up blocking positions east of the factory, and the American armored force moved in on the trapped Viet Cong. Western Fringe Threat U.S. helicopter gtmships and South Vietnamese dive bombers also attacked the Viet Cong invaders and other guerrillas holding out in a shantytown on Saigon's western edge. A senior U.S.

officer said the main enemy threat was along the city's western fringes, where the Viet Cong has an estimated two battalions near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, but "we have the situation definitely in hand." Military sources said that compared to the lunar new year offensive, when many of the 3,000 to 5,000 enemy soldiers who fought inside Saigon slipped into the city beforehand, the new action is a largely conventional attack from the outside. The battle which raged Monday in the old French military cemetery on the northwestern edge of Saigon, near the airport, was flickering out with 45 enemy soldiers reported killed. In downtown Saigon, residents generally went about their business today although the airport and some, parts of the city were shelled again. Damage was reported negligible but two men were wounded at a power station. '3 Battalions Decimated' Fighting also continued on the northern front below the demilitarized zone, but the commander of the 3rd Marine Regiment said two battered North militarized zone, Hull said the North Vietnamese had been trying to cut the Cua Viet River supply line and possibly to seize the Marine headquarters at Dong Ha.

Hull would not disclose Marine losses but admitted: "One of our units did take heavy casualties, but that was the unit that stopped three counterattacks in two days." Dong Ha is about 11 miles be- low the demilitarized zone. Warship Hit Off the North Vietnamese coast hear Dong Ho Monday, an 87mm shell from a shore battery put a 4-lnch hole in an above-deck bulkhead of the U.S. destroyer Theodore E. Chandler and one sailor was wounded by shrapnel, the Navy said. The U.S.

Command made another progress report on the campaign to break up North Vietnamese concentrations and facilities in the A Valley southwest of Hue, reporting 472 enemy troops and 90 Americans killed and 608 Americans wounded since the big sweep began April 21. The commander of the operation, Lt. Gen. William Rosson, reported no large-scale battUw in the past week. Indictment Dismissed ne An indictment charging theft in connection with a break-in' at Alton Home Improvement Co.

against Mrs. Marjorie Christeson and Jack Canady was dismissed Monday by Associate Circuit Judge Austin Lewis on mo- tion of State's Attorney Leon Scroggins. Scroggins said he asked that the case "be nolle pressed, based on the fact that they had already been convicted in Brown County for a similar offense." The' case against the pair was pending in Madison" County at the time of their convictions in Brown County, Scroggins said. "I don't want to leave the; impression, however, that the convictions in Brown 'We Won't Sell Out Saigon': Harriman NEW YORK (AP) W. Averell Harriman, who leaves for Paris this week to negotiate with the North Vietnamese, said Monday night the United States cannot run out on the South Vietnamese.

i "The United States now has a commitment on which it must make good," President Johnson's 77-year-old special envoy told the second annual Franklin Through Proposed YMCA, State Says By DALE ARMSTRONG Telegraph Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE The city's zoning board of. appeals Monday night rezoned a site for the YMCA, ignoring a warning from the Illinois Division of Highways that it plans a four-lane highway that would run right through the new building. upgraded from low to high The Highway Department spokesman said it plans to rebuild Illinois 157 from the SIU campus entrance to the city, creating a four-lane highway which would run through the middle of the building. He warned that the state could condemn the new building. Preliminary plans for the new highway were presented to the zoning board by Robert E.

district engineers for the Illinois Highway Department, during a hearing last night on the proposed rezoning. Kronst said he hopes right- of-way negotiations can begin by the spring of next year, pointing out that the project has recently been priority. The YMCA site is located on Illinois 157 across from the Edwardsville Junior High School, and Kronst explained that there will not be room to "wiggle" a four- lane highway between the new $300,000 building and the school. Proponents of the new YMCA objected that the highway is only in the preliminary planning stage, and that plans for the YMCA site have existed for more than a year. While alternative sites exist, they said none were within the price range the YMCA could afford.

(Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) Roosevelt Birthday Memo- al Award Dinner. ''In its sim- lest form it is to permit' the eople of South Vietnam to de cide their own future without utgide interference." The Americans arid North Vietnamese appeared to be approaching-agreement to hold heir preliminary peace talks in Jie Majestic- Htotel IniPariSj nee a luxury hostel whjch Iso been occupied by Hitler's Gestapo, and UNESCO, the U.N. Iducation, Scientific and GUI- ural Organization. Demonstrations Feared Some officials were that French university students who have been demonstrating and rioting for the past week over educational onditions would take to the treets on behalf of the Vietnamese Communists if the nego- iatiohs are held inside Paris.

'No one can foresee clearly he road ahead," Harriman told he dinner audience in New York." It is quite obvious, however, that patience will be required of the people of the Unit ed States as well as the negotiators." Police Protection Sought Earlier Monday the former governor of New York and frequent presidential troubleshooter conferred with President Johnson at the White House. Both the U.S. charge d'affaires, in Paris, Woodruff Wallner, and North Vietnamese envoy Mai Van Bo inspected the musty old Majestic Monday, and U.S. approval of the site was reported soon after. Bo was reported waiting for Hanoi's approval.

Defiant Man Fumes in Jail i And Threatens to Sue City Said rescue official Tiro Sal- are real happ; yrdjawrgftre. Tneytaiow; (Odd down to them, get tnem ml AD of Ie coal uy said to is men waiting L. Compagno, remained defiant at Alton Ctty tpdsy. vowing to of Alton for every fey work he Magistrate Harold 0. GwiSra Wdered Cpmpagno Jailed Monday morning ef- ter thj iw refused to enter a plea cfcargej of failing to display a city wheel tax failure to abate a public nuisance.

Compagno refused to post bond, which would be a total of J5D, refused to suit an attorney, and ed to give poftce adequate Information for booking. Police said that the time Compagno was Jailed he had sufficient funds to post bond, The only call make, po- Ucj BSjd, was to bis plate of employment to inform them that be was in jail. Police said Compagno had been ordered to remove trash and junk autos from Ms property and bad been given ample time to comply. Police said Compagno had purchased a city wheel tax sticker but refuses to dls- play it as required by city ordinance. Comnajgno has been in jail alace 10 a.

m. Monday- County prejudiced the cases against them in Madison County," he said. In the Brown County case, Mrs. Christeson was granted five years' probation and Canady was sentenced to 1-5 years in prison on their conviction after they were found guilty by a Circuit Court jury for the Nov. 27, 1966 burglary and theft at a Versailles, Illinois, hardware store.

Mrs. Christeson and Canady are at liberty on $10,000 bond pending appeals of the Brown County conviction. Robert Stanton, a person convicted in the Brown County burglary and. theft case, was sentenced April 25' to a term of 3-8 years in prison on theft and 3-10 years on Both sentences on will run concurrently. murder in Madison was at liberty on $20,000 bond in Brown County to appeal his conviction and sentence there.

The theft indictment in Madison County against Mrs. Christeson and Canady, which was dismissed Monday by Lewis, to- volves stolen merchandise from a break-in of the Alton Home Improvement Co. July 31, 1967. A television set allegedly taken in the Alton Home Improvement Co. burglary was discovered by Alton po- lice and Madison County sheriff's deputies in a raid on Mrs, Christeson's Fairmount Addition Home last August.

Mrs. Christeson, Canady, and Stanton were each indicted last October for burglary and theft at Landretb Lumber Bunker Hill in Macoupin County after merchandise from the Bunker Hill business place was also found in the police raid on the Fairmount home. The Macoupin County cases against the trio are still pending decision of the court on motions to quash the indictments. 1,700 Baby Chicks Die In Blaze EDWARDSVILLE -AbOJit 1,700 week-old baby chicks died today in a pre-dawn fire that destroyed a hatch. ery building of the Krlege Hatchery, 149 E.

Dunn St. The fire leveled the old frame building about 3:50 a.m. A neighbor dlscov' ered the flames and called the fire department. Kriege also has a new, modern, hatchery on Swofld avenue in tbe south end of EdwardsvUJfl, According to Fire CWtf Kdward Coolbajjgh, thj itt also damajed the studio a local artist, Max which ROOFTOP DEATH IN SAIGON SuutU ioldier lifts tbe body of ft Viet Cong terrorist atop a roof ill ((IP uurtUeawtaru of Saigon yesterday. Ifard figlitiug continued day on tlie fringes of tlie capital 99 euewy of or third day, (AJP Of his.