Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 1

1-1-70 LIBRARY BOX 789 DECATUR, MICROFILM SCIJAUB ILLINOIS 62525 PUBLICATION OFFICE Crbondalft 710 N. Illinois Hcrrin 212 N. Uth Murphysboro 1113 Walnut Volume 77No. 135 10c Opy Succssjor 1o; Fr Pre, Dally Journal, Murpbyibora Ind'pnlsnt MONDAY, JUNE 196? Carbsndaf Hrrin i Murphy sbors Southern ITU -fV v1 Two Sections -lPget Mr) Arson 3F ffS 0 toufljQisig an no eeJI fj rK Londnia 9 I rone smouae ompu By John C. Taylor Carbondale firemen John Of Hie Southern Ulinoisan Manis received slight burns Light smoke began to rise! when a sudden gust of flame slowly out of the rubble in Old! licked at him atop Carbondale's Wm about 11:10 a.m.

today, hydraulic ladder truck. Fire-It was not considered danger- man Don Jackson, operating the mis and no fire trucks were call- ladder, quickly moved Manis ed. jaway. But the smoke was wispy re-j The only other reported injury minder of the billows of smoke! was David Max Moore, a stu-that rose above the reach of dent from Bement, who was hit firemen Sunday morning when a by a falling piece of wood while raging inferno destroyed the carrying items from the build-landmark building on Southern ing. SIU Health Service offici-Jllinois University's Carbondale als said he was in good condi- back down before permitting additional students to enter.

SIU Prrcsidcnt Delyte W. Morris followed Carbondale Chancellor Robert W. MacVicar and firemen into the smoke-filled building to make decisions about removing equipment. The first Carbondale firemen in the building, Capt. Charles MeCaughan and fireman Frank Yates, found Brewner and custodian Bud Evans trying to fight the fire with an emergency fire hose.

That hose lost pressure as soon as Carbondale firemen made their hookups. oampus. jtion Sunday night with only a Willard C. Hart of the campus bruise and slight laceration, architect's office said a decision 1 Not Insured Fire Capt. Elmer Rodgers said had been made to remove as STU officials estimated Sun-! there was plenty of water in gently as possible upper por-1 day night it would take "morel nearby water mains, but sevcr- rions of the building that still I than $5 million" to replace thela i ie IIiams wcie leiameiy small lines.

The Carbondale wa- might fall. I building and contents. State etr department increased water pressure throughout the system to help fight the fire. Rodgers decided at about 3:4." When that task is completed, owned buildings are not insured, university workers will go inside Smoke was first seen oozing thr remains to salvage air con- out of the southwest attic gable dirioners. desk or other equip-! about 7:50 a.m.

Sundav by ment. The removal of the up- Bob Brewner, SIU custodian a.m. when it was evident that J-'ls1- 1,1 'i i' Aj 1 7 -'V iiiiil 4' 1 f1- 1 iT- i 1 i'i, i 1.1 if mill Vvs i i ills MKKS ft Jj- I I por portions may take days, foreman. flames the rifle range room Hart said. Carbondale firemen, called by jhad turncd northward in the at- Srate Fire Marshal John M.

gjyj Security Police, were on the l'c toward the central tower, to Snyder was at the fire scene SCene almost immediately, cal1 for nelp from neighboring this morning. Arson is suspect-1 Brewner said. They tried to get towns. to the fire from inside the build-1 As word of the fire spread. Dr.

Leo Brown, Carbondale jng tut flames quickly swept thousands of spectators began physician, said this morning he through the attic beyond the to arrive to join the early scores will contribute $2,500 to a re-jh 0f firemen's hoses. who saw the smoke boiling into ward fund leading to the water first poured from the the sky. tlLlno Carbondale Fire Department's' Shortly after 9 a.m.. the east Hc fire, if arson is detei mined 1 thpt tovvcr of the historical building to the cause. Brown is a form- ladder truck into the southeast er SII board of trustees chair-j attic wing at 8.

lo a m. thg man. i Firemen drag a hose through; n. At the request of the univer-; the south entrance at 8:25 Fire and smoke continued to billow upward as flames licked over the roof's shingles. 5iity president, workers also were to the third floor.

I cping to salvage some stone pil-: The fire apparently started in lar that had flanked the en- or near an attic rifle range. irzr.cP. to an auditorium in the formerly used 1 as part of thej about fln cwtructure. TC pro-am We i Jolf the blaze ta.here fire ouildins. breaking remove Ztr i hrmiRh the shingle roof to burn As the roof abo them burn- high above the reach of firemen ed, students entered the build- from Carbondale and nearby ing repeatedly to remove fita.

communities. papers, manuscripts, portable The flames towered over the! equipment and other items. SIUJns' building bevond the. Security Officers permitted 30 B' tw0 hours later- firemen range of hoses from the first students on the third floor at a had brought the blaze under con-fire trucks at the scene. i time, making sure 30 had come tro- Firemen and equipment from Security patrols beefed up Marion, Du Quoin, Hcrrin, Car-iterville, Mt.

Vernon, Elkvillc, Christopher, Hurst and De Soto i helped fight the blaze. I A Murphysboro fire truck was called to stand by in Carbon-; dal-e Fire Station No. 2. OSGS3 Is I Firemen had to haul gasoline in five-gallon cans to refill the pumper trucks until a gasoline truck arrived at 2 p.m. Chief Operator Kenneth Mc-Gowen of the Carbondale water ......5 Of The Southern lllinoisan the ceiling to the third department said 700,000 to George Willhite i floor.

000 gallons of water was used Evidence of arson was found! rf a closet near the I inghting the blaze. In three places in Old Main Sun- the i said pressure was Flames engulf tower of Southern Illinois University's Old Main (Photo by Richard Carter) Nixon decides to pare 25,000 from U.S. force rtav before the burning South- 'nen iouna a piece oi pi- maimainea at pounas ana ern Illinois University building ln a et- the supply was gaining all morn-1 had to be evacuated. Carbon-! vof was chad and thf vvalls i m- i.n4 storaSe fwells cat dale Fire Capt. Charles Mc- and 1 thf clos were fl ter 3nt4 on all Saigon okay oop withdrawal Caughan told a hearing Sun- V' davniht or was Pcncd whl er tanks.

firemen were looking for a pos-i Lack of pressure from too- In addition firemen found, sible stairwell. MeCaughan said. 'small water lines on the camp-srrawled on a third floor black-, Therc was pivood in hampered firemen while the board, an obscene message jbuckct and it had burncd to flames initially spread over the which said in part, Old U-horo if humeri Midway Island (AP) troops from his country, wilh recommend that lhe United "As a consequence of the peace talks and the level nf President X'iyon's first indications pointing to; States begin to replace U.S. recommendation bv the Presi- enemv activity. Mainisbuniing." ihalfwav up," MeCaughan said.

McGowcn said there were to pare down S- troop further withdrawals. i combat forces with Vietnamese Carbondale Chancellor Robert! "That's three places that had three 4-inch hoses connected to commitment in Vietnam by He called it "gcod news for forces. dent and the assessment of our White House sources had -aid own commander in the field, I earlier they believed a troop Inside 'have decided to order the im- withdrawal made from a pori-! mediate redenlovment from tion of streneth would nromofa MacVicar said regular security to be set," MeCaughan said. ia fire hydrant on a 3-inch line r0'000 men as a start asjme American people andj patrols would be supplemented! Firemen had no estimate of on campus. I followed Sunday night by a glared: bv "more patrols around build-! how long before they arrived! There was good pressure from stronS affirmation of; "We will do our best from ings" for the time being.

the various fires may have start-! a 10-cr 12-inch line fire hvdrant Washington Saigon solidari-j now on to alleviate the burden! i.arnonaaie fire at the corner of University ave- i iwh'- toddy's Vietnam of a division equivalent' pr0gress jn Paris. approximately 25,000 men. The tWQ paper "This troop replacement will i subscnlHd to a declaration put For more on the Old Main i thc "ext.r da's foruarn in a ment Crawshaw said this mora- McCaiiLhan said that on re-'nue Grand avenues. The harmonv declaration! It seemed evident thei in- that the scrawled message constructing the fire points, that The hvdraulic ladder of the came from Pre'sident Neiiven I American delegation at Midwav 1 was found by firemen during someone could have set a fire Carbondale truck was bent near Van Thieu in off-the-cuff hoped the move would help in the attic, come down theithe top when it hit a tree limb I remarks to newsmen following I defuse homefront criticism of the end of the conference, that stages of the fire, perhaps; end of August. announce plans for presumably was designed to "I will before anyone besides firemen stairs and set a fire there to as the truck was being moved.

his summit meeting with Nixon Nixon's Vietnam policy. ani SIU custodians had entered jtrv to prevent someone from icn tinv mid-Pnrifir Midwav i rvmn fire, you'll want to see: Page 2: Jim Hatton's vivid account of the fire scene with pictures by Ed Greer. Page 3: Stories by Allan I further replacement as Island. But Sen. Eugene McCarthy.

help get the negotiations moving: "The two presidents confirm- i decisions are made." In Washington. Pentagon to a a I said he didn't "see Referring Keith on thc reaction of towns- speculation that there might be serious differences between the United States and the Saigon government over ways and i means to promote the search that this is any significant indication of any program to try and resolve or end the war." And Sen. George S. McGovern, commented: "I can't see where this represents any significant shift of American people and students to the sources said me troops; en tneir convictions mat in fire. probably will get no closer form of government under Page 10: Old Main top- jheme than Okinawa or Hawaii.

which the people of South Wt- plcs, pictures by Richard From there they could be nam will live should be decided Carter. 'cd back to Vietnam if needed, themselves. declared for Page 20: Pictures and a Some officers at the Pentacon 1 lhcir Pat they will respect any storv on Old Main's history. jwere surprised that more decision by the people of South i for peace, Thieu said with Cmpralh- f.iir emphasis: 'This is not Wht anH'Timcriav i- true. have a very close policy.

.1 think we ought to And on oae 2 vou'll find Americans weren neing pulled th buiiamg. jreaching the attic. If the class- Firemen said they were un-jroom fire had caught, it would; able to reach the attic to sec; have kept firemen from reach-j what may have caused the fircjiag the stairs leading to the1 there, but MeCaughan and Capt. attic, he said, and if the closet KImer Rodgers told of these fire had caught, it might havcj hv fires I kept firemen off the third floor, First, MeCaughan said as he "We couldn't have got headed up the stairs from the, up there if all cf them had; third floor to the attic, he d'- caught good." MeCaughan said, covered a fire under the first; Itodgers said that if Carbon-; step. This was before the at-! dale had a snorkel truck sim-; tic fire had spread to to Mt.

Vernon's. "It would; piii ts of the building, he said. bci'ii of great Second, in a classroom rear a State Deputy Fire Marshal; corridor leading to the attic 'John M. Snyder of Virden ques-! Meps. MeCaughan and Modgers jtioned witnesses about the color said firemen found a smoke and odors, but decided krt hot" with burred pap- the burning roof and floors would the basket and hurnod hav interfered with identifies-j a desk.

Again, this, tion of petroleum ei-vwis before the. fire "-ad cut. One source said there had trough free elections." night in mid 50s. High Tues day in mid to upper 70s. been proposals to withdraw, At the same time, or more men.

The Presi- "reiterated their common dent was "being prudent," he resolve to rej-ct any attempt to added. impose on the Republic of Vietnam any system or pro- unuersiancnng on mat. iwKm wwng mem an uui, Following five hours of talks, i lhe faster Lie tter' as far as 1 most of them with only one key am concerned." adviser sitting beside each chief his announcement, Nixon executive, Nixon returned tosaid: Honolulu for an overnight stay- "President Thieu informed and Thieu flew back to me that the progress of th Saigon. training program and the Thieu expressed satisfaction 1 equipping program for South with Nixon's decision Vietnam foroc had bren so withdraw 2.Vnn American surrcful that he crV hot- an account of United Mine Workers President Tony Boyle to the area. On page 13.

our legislative bureau describes the trouble Gov. Ogilvie's tax program is encountering. On pace is another in John r's school seriAs with an analytical column by George Willhite. INSIDE Classified 15-17 Comics, TV, Bridge, Crossword 19 Editorials 4 Family Living 6-7 rm 5 Sporit 11. 12 Await Progress Nixon aid decisions ef futire withdrawals would hinr on the radine of S.i'h Virtnnmr force-, procrc th ran- gram fr ar.y particular form of a coalition, ut regard to the will of th propV ef Vietnam." i T- rela'ed rture on pig? 11).