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I ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Member of The Associated Press, 5c Per Copy, Vol. CXV1I, No. 152 ALTON, FRIDAY. JULY 11, 1952' Established January iS 1S38, EISENHOWER WINS ON FIRST BALLOT Hospital Vote At Wood River To Cost Little Mercury Creeps UfnvardJOOMark Is Not Reached Disagreement Lies in Ex- pcnse of Changed Proposal With volunteers assigned lo serve Judges and clerks, the polling places and voting equipment provided without cost and customarv expenses of an election held to only a small fraction of their usual amount, Wood River Township citizens Saturday will be voting on the largest, tax-supported public expenditure ever submitted to plan to remodel and expand the township hospital at a cost of million. The expense of this move by the hospital board to learn public sentiment thus will be in chn- trnst to the proportions of the question submitted for judgment.

Opinion is widely divided on the extent of interest of the electorate in the proposal and on Die size of the vote it will bring out. Some observers say there has been so little understanding of the question that not many voters will bother to'go to the polls; others point out that, with recent tax bills fresh in their minds, a large outpouring of homeowners will be on hand to register their opinions. The percentage of who own homes is higher in Wood River Township than in most other communities. In the original referendum six years ago, the total vole was about 4300 with over 4000 of them in favor of establishing the hospital. Among those discussing the proposal there is little disagreement with the idea of adding more beds to the hospital facilities.

The area of disagreement lies in the expense of the current plan which the board is considering. It. contemplates a complete change in the design and operation of the hospital, taking out the present two operating rooms and two delivery rooms in the maternity section and building four new operating rooms and two new delivery rooms in the new structure. Also to be extensively changed are the present sterilizing equipment, the cafeteria which, would be replaced by facilities for 200 em- ployes, X-ray and X-ray therapy equipment. Out of the 80-bed capacity of the present plant, the architects calculate that only about 50 beds svould be salvaged under the new plan, the loss of capacity to be offset by new construction.

An alternative method of expansion by adding two stories to the present building which is estimated to provide 60 more beds is not now under consideration. The architects estimate it would cost aboul of the present program. Foundations and supports of the building were made heavy enough to support this added construction when the building was designed. But the plan for expansion discarded this method taking instead a design for lateral expansion on the ground that this type of construction would make for lower operating costs. The hospital's accountants calculate that its present loss rale is $57,000 a year although it.

formerly encountered deficits of $80,000 to $90,000 a 'year. Such deficits are to be paid by a maintenance tax under the law. The hospital's maintenance tax levy ordinance already has been passed for the calendar year 3952 in the amount of $260,000. In addition 'to this will be levied the tax for bonds and interest which is calculated at to $80,000. Thus, despite the reduced rate of operating loss, the total tax for the institution for the current year is set at about the amount it has been for the last two years Injured While Swimming Kstel Hancock of West Seventh s.treet received treatment Thursday in Alton Memorial Hospital for a facture of the clavicle.

The injury was suffered while swimming. The mercury had stratospheric dens again Thursday, when a high empornture of 95 was recorded at he Alton lock. The low reading for Thursday was 60, and the rise of degrees from- morning to afternoon caught many folks unprepared. But those who had endured the 00-and-higher marks during June lidn't much. The temperature, today and Sal urday won't be quite so high, ac ording to the forecast.

Readings the 90s for both today and omorrow were predicted, with the owest Saturday morning near 70 artly cloudy tonight and Saturday also was forecast. Weather Alton ancf vicinity? Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Afternoon in the low 90s today and Saturday. Lowest Saturday morning near 70. FIVE DAY FORECAST will average degrees below normal north and near normal south.

Normal maximum 87 north to 81 south. Normal minimum 62 north to 66 south. Cooler 'north and south Sunday, warming trend Tuesday and Wednesday. Precipitation wilt total 1 to 'i inches occurring us showers norlh Saturday and showers Sunday and Tuesday. River (Zero iUS at m- Burciu 7 Stage 9.47 Ft.

Pool 418.59 Kail .87 FU Tailwster 401.9:. Bloodmobile In City 2 Days Of Next Week The Bloodmohile will visit Alton next Tuesday and Wednesday, reviving blood donors at the Onixed lub, 1610 East Broadway, between p. m. and 7 p. rn.

each day. Leon 0. Meyer, blood program chair- nan announced today. The two-day visit is sponsored iy the social welfare committee if the Onixed Club and the Allon- aper Workers Union, together vith the service clubs of Alton. The promotion committee composed of Joe Pelpcrt of the Owens- Ilinois Glass Hubert Walls if the Alton Paper Workers Union md Homer Adams for Ihe service is working to recruit 175 donors each day, Meyer said.

Every effort is being made for he convenience of the donor, Mey- said. Service groups, under Ihe eadership of Mrs. Emma Wilkin- on, will have Gray Ladies, staff aides, Nurses Aide's, Volunteer Vurses, and Canteen workers on duly. The Junior Pved Cross under the direction of Mrs. Lloyd Yonker vill provide batty sitting during the lonor period.

Arrangements have been made vith the local Lincoln-Mercury lealer, in cooperation with the na- ional program sponsored by Ed iullivan, to provide transportation, 'hrough the courtesy of the irowns baseball club, two free passes to any local Brown game vill be given to each donor. Blood is urgently needed in Meyer pointed out, now that he fighting has begun again. Don- 3rs can volunteer by calling the Cross office (3-7704) "for an ipointment. Tax Payments Reach All-Time Record Amount Osborne Reports Increase Of $47,000 Over Collrriions Air Force, CAP Suspend Search MOLINK, 111. Force and Civil Air Patrol officials Thursday an air search for the mall plane of a missing Danville couple.

Capl. Scroll Johnson, commander of an Air Force rescue team sent here from Denver, made the announcement after a two-day search failed to locate the miss- ng plane of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Humble. Two CAP pilots earlier Thursday spotting broken trees in a woods north of Mount Carroll but a -ground search party found hat the trees had not been damaged by an aircraft.

The tumbles have been- miss- ng since June 12 on a flight to Danville from Albert Lea, Minn. An Air Force plane and 12 CAP planes searched the Mount Carroll area after aa anonymous writer reported finding the bodies of a man and-a woman in a wrecked plane near there. The letter, sent to the Brennan Air Service, Rock Island, was signed W. L. of Henry County." The largest tax collection made bv the local collector in the city's history is shown on the Alton 'nwnship books which were return lodny by Cilv Treasurer Osborne to County Tr-asurcr Harper Edwardsv'ille.

The net round figure total on which the city will receive a twn percent collecting fee. Oshorne announced, is $1.330.000. This is an increase of $47.000 over the nel collection of $1,292,000 last year, which was previous high record. Treasurer Oshorne said lodnv lhat. in addition to Ihe general laxes collected here on real and personal properly, Jhcjjnd received $900 in lieu of taxes on veterans' housing from Madison County Housing Authority.

This amount will be distributed among the taxing units of the township in Ihe same proportion as they share in Ihe general taxes collected. With this $900 item included, his total collection amounts to $1,339,096, Osborne said. City flels Fie The city receives a two percent fee on the taxes collected through its city treasurer, who, because Alton is a city-township, is by statute the ex-officio town collector. Gross fee to be received by Ihe city will be about fee earned last: year was $25,687. and that for this year will thus be aboul $1(X( greater.

Of his loin! general lax col lec- tion, said Osborne, $995,817 was received from re 1 eslate taxes, and $344,209 from ''personal properly taxes. The total charged on Ihe Alton books Ibis year was $1,6:19,275, and of this $1,250,455 was in really taxes and $388.819 on personal taxes. The amount left to be collected Is, in round figures $300,000, but this amount is subject, to a moderate adjustment by reason of certain items being deleted, under affidavits, when errors were disclosed. The total of such deletions is said to be a little more than $2000. Little Outstanding Of Ihe personal taxes charged only about $44,000 remains outstanding.

The realty amount outstanding is about $254.000. However, much of Ihe still uncollected real estate is comprised of second installments which do not become due until next Sept. 1. The large really collection is accounted for by the fact that many Alton residents, businesses, and industries paid Ihe second installments of their rer' c'-tale taxes in advance of the due date, this giving the city benefit of, the two percent eollec ion fee. From the fee earned on collections Ihe city treasurer pays the costs of collection, am 1 Ihe balance goes into Ihe general fund of city for help to meet currjnt running costs.

Collection costs ordinarily amounts to from $8000 to S8500. Conscientious Objectors Offered Civilian Work WASHINGTON Conscientious objectors eligible for the draft now are being processed for 24-month stints in civilian work as a substitute for military duly. Maj. Gen. Lewis B.

Hershoy. selective service director, said Thursday the Army had issued specific instructions to ils examining stations regarding conscientious objectors. Volunteers go first and then non-volunteers in the order I hey are subject to draft. on Children, Two Are Injured Two children incurred head injuries Thursday when they were accidentally struck by a falling tub. Only one.

Barbara Phelps. 11, ol Boynton drive, required hospital care. Barbara was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital where sev- sutures were taken to close a sculp laceration. The mishap occurred while bara was visiting on Stale si rev and with a plnymnle while on porch.

The tub. hanging on a wall apparently jarred loose mid in ing struck the two children. Also receiving treatment nt hospital were a four-year-old seyville hoy. David Garrison, who lost the lip of his right index finger, in a lawn mower accident, and a Collage Hills hoy, Lindell Phillis' 8. i Lindell was admitted In the hospital shortly after midnight fm I treatment of severe lacerations In! Ihe bottoms of his feet, sufferccd while walking barefoot.

Karen Sue Daniels. 0. of ai'iS'l Sidney street was treated for a dug bite wound of Ihe left thigh, and Vicky Casey fi, of Milton rond and Gregory King, '2, of 1103 Washington aveune, for lacterations sustained in falls. Expect Report On Off Street Parking Plans DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Republican Presidential Nominee.

Womtui Rescued After Into Unused Cistern The report of Associated Consultants on Ihe Alton off-street parking survey, embodying ils findings and recommendations, is almost ready for submission to the city, it was announced today by Mayor I.inkogle. Through a member of the traffic engineering firm, the mayor said, he learned Thursday that Associated Consultnnls hope to have the report ready for presentation by lime of Ihe next council meeting, July 23.jujjd.nhH.Mhfi firm will have a representative here to explain the report and discuss findings with council members. The off-street parking survey was ordered by the city council at cost of $5500 as the foundation for a possible" off-street parking program urged' for the city by the GAAC. The report presumably provides factual information to support provision of off-street parking lols to be financed through a self-linuid- aling bond issue predicated on earnings of the lols. Object of the creation of off street parking lols would be 1o relieve parking and traffic congestion in the retail business district of the city.

The survey covered all the major retailing districts of the city, and il is understood the report will have findings and recommendations with regard to each. II was further staled by representatives of the surveying firm. before the studies were undertakon last spring, that: it was hoped to have Ihe report include some recommendations for alleviating traffic, congestion these suggestions to be perhaps independent of what would be suggested for curing the ills stemming directly from inadequate parking facilities. The plan for the survey as covered by the city contract was to include a del'crmiimlion of existing conditions, estimates of present and future requirements, a study of Ihe relation of a parking plan to the street system, and financing estimates on an off-street parking program. 2 Democratic Aspirants i GOP Platform Minnesota Switches 19 Crucial Delegates To Launch Landslide CONVENTION HALL, Dwight D.

Eisenhower today won the Republican presidential nomination. In a dramatic climax, to a ding-dong fight with Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, Eisenhower crashed through to the GOP on the first ballot. On the roll call, Eisenhower first received 595 votes to 502 for Taft. But before the vote could be announced, Minnesota threw to the general 19 votes it had first given to Hnrold E.

Stasscn. That put Ike across with 614 votes. It took 604 to nominate. Texas and slates which had split their votes then began jumping. It was a landslide in the end.

And this feuding, wrangling 25th Republican national convention pulled itself together into a vociferous show of unity behind the five-star general with a roaring demonstration around and around this big hall hard by the stockyards, Rep. B. Carroll Reece, Southern campaign manager for said: "Of course I'm going to support the nominee but I feel Eisenhower's managers should apologize to Senator Taft for their conspiracy to stigmatize him." The convention floor was in an uproar at that point state after state rushed to toss its votes on the Eisenhower bandwagon. Eisenhower himself was not in the hall. As custom dictates, he had waited at his hotel while the convention's rank and file decided who should lead their effort this year to 'break 20 years of Democratic national rule.

With him waijing for the returns Where to Vote Wood River Hospital Project Pollin Places Are Listed WOOD R1VKR Polling places for the election Saturday when township citizens will be asked vote yes or no on an estimated $3.000,000 expansion program at Wood River Township Hospital will be the same 17 township precincts used for general elections. The polls will be open from 6 a m. to 5 p. m. The rounding up of volunteer workers was being completed Thursday by Francis Manning, legal adviser for the hospital board, and Mrs.

A. W. McBride. secretary. Manning said that workers have been enlisted for all I'u 1 polls, although there may not be six persons at each poll as it wax hoped.

The returns from each polling place are to be given to Mrs. McBride at her home. 265 South Ninth street, following the election. The polling places by precirvt tare: 1, Ro.xana Community Build- ing, Third and Central; 2, Hartford Village hall 307 -North Delmar; 3 Wood River City hall, 34 Soulh Wood River avenue: 4. Wood River American Legion.

229 Kasl Ferguson avenue; 5, Tucker's Shell Service siaiion, Sixth street and Lorcna. 6, Wood River water plant. Fourteenth street; 7, Wood River Roundhouse; 8. Kast Alton public labrary. 212 St.

Ixuiis avenue; 9. Kast Alton village hall. 117 West Main street; 10 Milton tire house. 1101 Milton road; 11. Maple Terrace service station.

290H Broadway. Alton; Fichtcl's Market. 1101 Dorothy. Altrn: Graul Seago garage 3410 College, Alton. 14.

Rosewood Heights fire house; 15. Cottage Hills fire department; 16. Bethalto village hall: and 17, the 7.. housing fumiiiniiily Center. Third and llallei, EaM Alton.

Smoke Superstition Js Given a Tloost Firemen's superstition gained new strength, Thursdny. when Ihree alarms were turned in. That number equaled Ihe calls for Hie nrevious nine days nf July. Chief Lewis, reporting a fire Thursday morning, poinled out it was only the fourth of the month but he was reluctant lo discuss UK- record at length. When you talk about a few fires, the alarms suddenly to increase, he warned.

And that's exactly what happened. One day's activity sent Ihe lolal of fires in July to six. Fortunately, none of the fires caused nny damage. The firsl call WHS to Sugar alley where a caught fire. At 3 p.m.

Company No. 4 re- lo a cull to Washington and Moore si reel where i brush fire extinguished. At 5:30 p.m.. a call was answered at Dooley service station Ninth and Belle streets where a city truck had brushed against a gasoline pump and ited a "short" in the vxiriiu: ignited fumes Companies 1 the 'addet ii'in-k rcsixiiuli'ij. No ic Three hours nfler she hnd fallen into an unused cistern her home.

101 Blair avenue, nfler a plank covering gnve way, Mrs. Tillie Guerller Mnker wns rescued by two young men employed by the city street department. Kffcc.ting the nwc.ue, according to the police, were Walter ,1. Bens- iiinii of 2P.3 Central venue, nnd Gordon Rubenstein of 502 '-j Kasl Fifth street. Hensman n'nd Hubenslein chancel lo puss with a city truck, il was sntd, shortly nfler the perilous situation of; Mrs.

Mnker had been by some who culled assistance. Bensmnn held Rubenstein by the feel, police learned, lowering him inlo the cistern until he could reach Mrs. Maker's arms she could be pulled to safety. She had been in wnler up to her neck, according lo the police information, and supported herself in Ihe long ordeal by clinging to projecting rod or limber. Mrs.

Maker declined to be taken to a hospital, police said, insisling she was, unhurt, and lillle the worse for her trying experience, Bolh police ami firemen were called by Alderman J. W. Morrison, bill by the time they could reach the home their services were unneeded. Alderman Morrison of 1.108 Alliy street, who resides a short tance From the home of Mrs. Maker, said that her plight wns discovered by some boys who heard her oulery for help and investigated.

The boys, he said, hnd gone to the ereekhed near Blair and Alby lo dig fishing worms. Police were unable lo gel the boys' names. Seeking aid, the boys ran to the street and slopped a coach. The driver had one of the boys run to call official aid, while several men left the bus to try and help. At about the same time the si reel department men were attracted.

Mrs. Maker was said lo have bren alone at time of the mishap, which occurred after her brother, Waller Guerller and his left the family home to go lo his grocery store at 451 F.nsl Broadway. The house near which the cistern i-- located is Ihe Guerller homestead, one of Die old-time stone masonry residences of middle Alton, long the home of the late Alderman Peter Gnerller. Heck INVw Sccrcl.iry Of Aviation Writers LOS A.NGKLKS Niels Beck, dean ol Ihe Parks College of Aeronautical Technology. Kasl Si.

LOUIK, Thursday was elected executive secretary of the Aviation Writers Association. The association, which ended its annual meeting Thursday, also! elected Mrf. Krlyne Conel. Chica-1 go. vice president.

Ralph Plat), i Cleveland, was elected dent. I'XX! Approves Radio Station tor IVori WASHINGTON The eral Communication- f'ommiss Thursday appioved Ihe assi 1 menl ol the license of radio I lion WWXL Peoiia. 111., to II Hilltop tor $17 050. The aKo announced It had received a television application i from the inni'lijiL'o Television Ro-kldid, ill for I'lit' CliHimcl I.7J. j- By Twn Democratic aspirants In the presidency have begun their nl- liicks on.

I he Republican pint- form. Averell Harriman, Ihe mutual security administrator, culled It "one of Ihe most unconvincing documents of all limes." Sen. Ksles Kefauver of Tennessee said it gnve "waslcbnskel IroHlmcnl" to labor's nnd made the American vvorkei "Ihe forgotten man." Harriman, campaigning In Michigan, lold newsmen Thursday he got a laugh out of Ihe GOP plat form assertion Russia is waiting for Ihe United Stales lo go broke. "Wluil Slnlin wnnls." he said, "arc Republican reactionaries in power." Hiirrimnn has dale with labor leaders in Del roil lodny. Kefmiver flew lo P.nslon Thursday ID mccl delegates lo the Deino- Nulioiifil Convention which opens in Chicago July -'I.

Then he flew back lo Illinois. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia said on television program Thursdny night in Washington Hint he expects to win the Dcitio- 11 i prcsidcnliiil nomination somewhere bclwcen the filth mid eighth bnllols. Kl I lot I Roosevelt, son of Ihe liile President Frnnklin D.

Roosevell, predicted lhat the Democrats will nominate Mnrriman or Gov, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Roosevelt, vacationing in Colorado, said, however. Ihnt he svould be "one of the millions of Dem- for Gen. Dwight D. Kisenhowcr in November if Ihe general got the Republican nomination.

Ike Nomination Made Unanimous CONVENTION The licpiilillcnn convculIciii today inndo UN noin- limtlim of Owluhl It. I'll- Rcnhmvcr for tlm Presidency imiinliiuHiK on million nt IIIIMI lor rivnl candidates lloli- i-rt A. Tuft nnii Karl Wnrrnn. Allied Planes Hit Pyongyang Industrial Area SEOUL. Korea A'-At, least fi50 wnrplanes from five Allied nations, rubbed the Norlh Korean capital Inhd smashed two other North Ko- renn industrial cenlers today in one of the most devastating raids of Ihe Korean War.

The U. S. Air Force said in m'id- arienioon Ihe continuing raid "was well on the way lo being Hie big- Lje.st nir strike of Ihe war," United Nations pilots reported I hey destroyed or damaged Hie Communists' army coinmunicii- lions headquarters, Ihree munitions factories nnd numerous other factories, find supply and Iroop centers In Pyongyang, the capital. American, British, Australian, African and Soulh Korean planes from land and carrier bases also smashed Hwmigju nnd Sari- won in Western Korea, 125 and 35 miles south of Pyongyang. They nre importnnl cenlers on the rail line between Pyongyang nnd the bat lief ronl.

Dcjnaml Red Dean's Trial for Treason suggestion Hint Ihe Church of England's be tried for Irenson came lodny as more angry British lawmakers demnnded his ouster for accusing Hie Americans of waging germ warfare in China. CISTERN FROM WH'ICH WOMAN M.akr.f -AS--; 'h '-'o "-he i II i CTj vll lil fill fli lO WAS RESCUED in. at RU.r fl 1 til A vero MRS, Kisenhower Mamie 0 the general nnd Ihree grnnd- hildren, David 4, Barbara Ann 3, nd Susan, six months. They arc of his son, Maj. John Ei- enhower.

The balloting capped a week maneuver in which Eisenhower's trnlegists won the opening skirm- shcs and exploited them to take he grand prize. The turning point had ils begin- iing.s in Ihe pre-convenlion pre- Iminaries of last week. The long, ugly arguments over delegate contests in the words "steal," "Ihiet," and even stronger were commonplace had their etfeet on many delegates, if not on the GOP national committee. This was evidence at the opening day ot Ihe convention last Monday. Taft came Bonfidenl nnd riding hlgPfir Through months of long, hard campaigning mile after mile up and down and across Ihe country he was far out In front of Eisenhower in pledged delegates.

But on Ihe opening day the Eisenhower forces with support from Ihe backers of candidates Karl Warren and Harold Stassen whipped the Taft men 658 to MS In a lest vole on a rule regarding veiling by contested Taft-delegates Iroiu the South. II was licking from which Taft never recovered. Oul of that breach in his strategic lines trickled not only clele- galos from Louisiana, Texas and icotgia lie had counted on; it cost him, too, many voles among uncommitted delegates who concluded from this initial muscle feeling lhat Ike would come home the winner. For Eisenhower, the GOP's lap 10 ils leadership is another biy moment of a packed decade in 1 life of a one-lime Kansas farm boy, now reached 61. Little more than 10 years ago.

when, as the march of World War 11 was sweeping toward the United Stales, "Ike" was an Army lieutenant-colonel, unknown nationally. The swil'l years since have seen him direct the allied drive that defeated Germany and Italy, head Columbia University, and finally command Ihe armies being built in partnership with Eruopean allies lo defend against the threat of Communist aggression. lie gave up that command and returned home only June for fast-moving campaign that finally overlook Taft. For Tall, the defeat is a bitter end lo his third real try for the nomination. Now tili, he has snid he would not try so with this decision here bis dream of following his father, President William Howard Tafl, to the While House is destroyed.

"Hob" Taft was already a power in the Senate when Eisenhower was just one of many younger officers in the Army. Tail's name went as a favorite son before the GOP convention. He sought the nomination in and was licked lo the roaring calls of "We Want Wilkie." In he stepped aside so another Ohioan. John W. Bricker, could have his chance.

Bricker was beaten by Gov. Thomas E. Uewey of New York but took sec- iond place on the ticket. The GOP went down to defeat. Tall made another effort for the Hiiiiiation four years ago.

Dcwey whipped him. And il was Dewej. silling in the raiegy councils of Eisenhower ickcivs. who bad much to do with final victory. For Ihe Tuft forces, Dewey was lu- villain of this whole drama.

Their feeling toward him welled up in repealed boos when hit name was mentioned in this hall. It was demonstrated in hand- I'outiuued on Col. 1..