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DECATUR SUNDAY Vol. 36-No 34 64 Pages 15 Cents DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1966 Five Sections and Comics Sfafe at As -Ny: I 1 ill An. "W- Friday's earthquake Toll in Thousands w-v i 1 1 VjiPctfT" Associated Prea Wircpbot ruined this hospital in Hinis, Erzurum Prividence, Turkey. 100 New Earth Shocks Rock Eastern Turkey hw Dewey Is 'Guilty Says Jury Sycamore (AP) A Circuit Court jury Saturday found Russell Dewey, 25, guilty of murdering Susan Brady, 11, of Rockford. The jury, which deliberated 3 hours and 47 minutes, made no recommendation of penalty.

Dewey showed no emotion as the verdict was read. His grandparents, mother and for mer wife were in the courtroom at the time. Dewey's attorney, Roy Lass- well, told newsmen: "Mr. Dewey fully recognized the problems that confronted him and he's very delighted that he didn't get the death penalty." Lasswell said he plans to appeal the verdict. The defense attorney commented: "He (Dewey) stood trial on character testimony and that is all." No date for sentencing was set.

Lasswell has 30 days in which to file an appeal. State's Atty. William Nash ex pressed delight that the trial was over. Judge Charles Seidel had toldi the panel that its verdict could take one of three forms guilty of murder with the penalty of death; guilty of murder with out specific recommendation of penalty, or not guilty. (Earlier story on Page 11) Johnson Asks 'Self-Discipline' Lewiston.

Maine (AP) President Johnson Drescribid Saturday for the nation "a strong dose of self-discipline" in order to carry on in Viet Nam. brine racial neace and social justice at home, and to maintain a strong, prospering economy. The President said in a talk for a late-afternoon appearance in tne City Park at Lewiston there would be racial strife in America until there was "a do mestic good-neighbor policy on every block in every city." He said that because not all businessmen and labor leaders had used restraint and self-discipline, there was "a real dan ger to the prosperity we have enjoyed tor almost six consecutive years." He warned in ppn- eralities that unless there were restraint and voluntary self-dis- cipune now, -your government will be compelled by sheer ne cessity to take action." Northern Illinois Mostly cloudy, showers likely and a little warmer today, high 78-86. Southern Illinois Cloudy with showers and thunder-showers today, high in 80s. Complete forecast on Page 23.

Inside Today Section Page Agriculture 22 24 49 14 55-58 24 44,45 52j3 50 23 Classified Crossword Illinois Scene Markets Obituaries Radio-TV Real Estate Theaters -Weather Zones tu. 2 Die in Fall, Debris Hits 3rd; 35 Others Hurt Springfield (AP) Two men plunged tOO feet to their deaths Saturday when a prop railing tore loose from the roof of the Illinois State Fair grandstand. The railing crushed to death another man below. Falling debris injured five persons, one critically. They were taken to St.

John Hos pital. Another 30 persons suffered lesser injuries and were given emergency treatment at the fairgrounds first aid station. Sangamon County Coroner W. C. Telford said the rail was torn loose by a rope stretched from the grandstand roof to the infield of the race track.

The rope was to be used by the Green Berets, a special service force, for demonstrating Viet Nam combat techniques at the fair. The two men who fell from the roof to their death were Glen Robert Lockwood, 37, of San Bernardino, and Dale R. Mueller, 45, of Overland, Mo. Fatally injured by the falling wood and metal rail, 15 feet long and 7 feet wide, was Ralph Heger, 65, of Springfield, a fairgrounds electrician and stage i manager. Ronald W.

Drewett, 21, ofj Springfield, was listed by St. John's Hospital as in critical condition. Telford said a tow truck driver had just pulled the rope taut under the direction of a Green Beret when the section of railing gave way. It landed in the first row of the grandstand and the back row of the reviewing stand which projects in front of the grandstand. "It would have been a lot worse if the section had fallen straight down," Telford said.

The accident occurred as more than 15,000 persons wait ed for the start of the 100-mile automobile race. Gov. Otto Kerner was on the grounds and came to the scene. An eyewitness who barely escaped injury was Dominic C. Giacomini, 32, of Springfield, who fair officials quoted "All I could see was this guy with his bead split open right in front of me.

I don't know whether he fell or was hit. "I grabbed my son, Patrick, and shoved him under the seat just as some of the debris start ed falling all around us. "it was terrible, there was bkxxl all over." Weather Halts Spray Planes Dallas, Tex. (AP) Low clouds and high temper atures halted temporarily Saturday a resumption of spraying of Dallas County in efforts to stop an encephalitis epidemic. The clouds were too low at dawn for the Air Force spray planes to operate safely and by the time the clouds lifted, the temperature was above 80.

At that reading and higher the spray mists will not drop to the ground. The St. Louis type of encephalitis has resulted in 68 suspected cases in Dallas since July 31, including two confirmed deaths from the virus and one suspected death. The disease is carred by the culex mosquito and it is to kill this insect that the planes are spraying the county with an insecticide called malathion. Health authorities say it will kill only insects.

Illinois State Troopers give aid to those injured in the Tragedy at Fair Decatur Men Witness Ankara. Turkey (AP) More than 100 new earth shocks rolled across eastern Turkey Saturday in the wake ot a village wrecking earth quake whose toll rose into thousands of dead and injured. One sham new tremor broueht down 50 already damaged an cient buiWmes in Erzurum Citv. center of the disaster area, kill ing two persons. By nightfall rescue workers reported finding the bodies of nearly 1,500 victims of the catastrophic earthquake that bit Friday.

In the Varto area alone workers counted 1,042 bodies and worked feverishly clearing debris from the Dlace where the schoolhouse once stood. Muffled cries of children came from beneath it. A multination rescue operation was under way. U.S. military forces in Turkey under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization joined the Turkish army in an effort to speed money, medicines, doctors and relief suDDlies to the stricken area from many na tions.

U.S. Air Force planes flew all kinds of supplies to devastat ed areas. Britain offered a 20- man team of Civil Defense workers trained in earthquake-relief work. The Greek Red Cross dispatched medical and other supplies. Donations of money came in from Pope Paul VI and President Charles de Gaulle of France.

The Italian government ordered relief funds established. Ali Akarsu, governor of Erzurum Province, said 29 villages in the Hinis district had been wiped out and 2,077 dwellings had crumbled to dust. Prime Minister Suleiman De-mirel and four Cabinet ministers flew from Ankara to the quake area for personal inspec tion of the desolation i i Rights Protests To Resume In Chicago Chicago (AP) Civil rights leaders decided Saturday to resume open housing marches in Chicago and to extend them to suburbs, includ ing Cicero. They also determined to wage a legal fight against an injunction putting limits on their parades within the city. Dr.

Martin Luther King who is captaining the campaign, announced be will lead a march Sunday into the South Deering district on Southeast Side. The area embraces Trumbull Park, scene of racial friction five years ago. He said demonstrators also will go to the offices of real-estate boards in several suburban communities on the southern and southwestern fringes of the city. He did not name them. "We will march in Cicero next Sunday, Aug.

28," King told newsmen after a steering committee meeting. Riots broke out in Cicero a western suburb made up large ly of white homeowners in 1951 after a Negro family tried to move into an apartment National Guardsmen brought it under control. The marchers will be nonvio lent, he said, but "we shall be prepared for violence." King said his followers will comply for at least the next six days, with an order issued Friday by the Circuit Court at the request of the city. It limits the marches to one a day and the number of participants to 500. It also directs that parades be held during daylight hours.

Befriend-China Policy Urged By Humphrey Paducah, Ky. (AP) The United States must try to seek peace with Red China just as it has eased the Cold War with Soviet Russia in re cent years, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey said Saturday. We see no signs of modera tion in the present Communist Chinese government," the vice president said. "Yet we do know that there are millions of people in China with reasons for friendship with us." He said this nation must "try.

try and try to find a way to build bridges for better under standing." Speaking at the dedication of mammoth Barkley Lake and Dam in western Kentucky, Humphrey said if this nation continues its efforts, "the time may come when Communist China may recognize that a policy of moderation is in its own interest" The earth buckled and broke in a catastrophic wave Friday that tore across the provinces of Erzurum, Mus, Bingol and Bitlis in eastern Anatolia near the borders of the Soviet Union, Iran and Iraq. Farmers, rural workers, women in simple peasant homes and children in classrooms stumbled in panic and fell as buildings crumbled on top of them. Related story on Page 3 'Quake Not Turkey's Worst London (AP) The last major earthquake before Friday's disaster in Turkey was in northwestern Iran Sept. 1962. Ten thousand persons died.

The following year another quake destroyed the Yugoslav city of Skopje July 26, with a loss of 1,100 lives. The worst in the last 10 years ravaged Agadir in Morocco Feb. 29, I960, killing and injuring thousands. The worst earthquake recorded in history took 830,000 lives in Shensi, China, in January 1556. Other major earthquakes of the century, with the death toll: San Francisco, April, 1906, 452 killed Messina, Italy, December, 1908, 76,483.

Avezzano, Italy, January, 1915, 29,978. Kansu, China, December, 1920, 180,000. Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, September, 1923, 143,000. Kansu, China, December, 1932, 70,000. Quetta, India, May, 1935, 60,000.

Chilian, Chile, January, 1939, 30,000. rent scale is less than $4 hourly for approximately 100,000 skilled workers employed in Big Three plants. The airlines settlement was estimated worth 6 per cent to 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM). Weekend indicators of rejection came from General Motors Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp.

Chairman Henry Ford II of Ford said earlier that reopening at this time would be "inadvisable" and that "there is a contract and I think they ought to live with it." By Coleman T. Moblcy Of Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers i Decatur Three Decatur men taking: advantage of a courtesy pass to sit at the rail of Victory, Lane at the State Fair to hear the roar of the racing motors. found themselves surrounded by bewildering death Saturday in Springfield. The tragedy occurred as' workers were tightening a rope. auacnea to uie lop oi me zm-foot-high grandstand.

The rope-was used by the Green Berets, I a United States Army contingent that has been performing daily at the fair. The rope was being tightened when a 14-by-17- L.i.:....,.! Asiiiatd Pr Wtnpkow state fair tragedy. Deaths We turned and there, just one foot from my son, lay a man with his head split open," said E. A. Van Awken of 60 South Side Country Club Rd.

Van Awken, his son, Ed, 18, and a friend, Steve Blake, 19, of 2008 N. Graceland had just left the passageway between Victory Lane and the ipressbox at the fair grandstand and were standing by the Victory Lane rail when the tragedy occurred. Hearing the thud, Ed turned slightly and saw the man lying one foot from him. Looking up and to the left toward the press box, he saw a man in the passageway 15 feet away just as a huge platform came down on him. "Everything happened so fast, we just stood there stunned for a moment.

The crowd went completely silent, the peo ple began to cry, 'Oh, my God, tiki said. "We jumped over the rail in to Victory Lane just to get out of the danger area and looked back to the right of where we were and saw another man who had apparently fallen," Ed said. Another Decatur man. Rich rard Lamere of 3823 N. Burch- ard stood with his 15-year- oid daughter, Debby, 20 feet behind the spot where the men and debris fell.

"At first I thought the debris had hit these guys, but they had laiien irom the roof. "One man hit one of the guard rails at the bottom of the seats, bounced off to the platform. The other fell direct ly into the pit," Lamere said. Firearms Charge Minutemen Leader Arrested foot section of the grandstand roof suddenly gave way and plunged into the crowd. An estimated total of 15,000 persons were in the stands when the accident occurred.

The dead were identified as Ralph Heger, 63, of Springfield; Dale L. Mueller, 45, of Overland, and Glenn Lockwood, 37, of San Bernadino, Calif. Fair officials said Mueller and Lockwood apparently were atop the roof and fell to their deaths. Heger a stage hand, was on the ground when he was struck by the falling debris. "We were just standing by the rail when I heard the thud Mrs.

Cyndra Melville, the secretary, also was arraigned before Cisel. Her bond was set at $5,000. Later U.S. Attorney Russell Millin recalled the grand jury and Mrs. Melville was indicted for attacking a federal officer, a felony.

Both Depugh and Mrs. Melville were released on bond. Four other men were named as defendants in the conspiracy charge. A sixth man is named as a co-conspirator, but not as a defendant. They are charged with transferring and making firearms without paying the required tax and with receiving and possessing firearms that have not been registered.

Raises Sought Auto Labor Trouble Looms Kansas City (AP) Robert Bolivar Depugh, passionate advocate of underground guerrilla training to re sist a Communist invasion, was indicted Saturday for conspiring with others to violate the U.S. Firearms Act. The 43-year-old leader of the Minutemen was arrested by U.S. marshals who stopped his car on an Interstate highway witnin the city limits. His sec retary, a 21-year-old buxom blonde, also was arrested and charged with attacking a federal officer who was handcuff ing Depugh.

Depugh was arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Lee Cisel. Bond on the three count in dictment was set at $7,500. Detroit (AP) There are growing indications the Big Three automakers flat ly will reject Monday a request from the United Auto Workers Union for contract reopening to give skilled tradesmen at least a 50-cent hourly raise now. These developed even as an airlines strike settlement added union pressure by smashing anew White House wage price guidelines of 3.2 per cent the amount presidential advis-rers figure the nation's productivity gains yearly.

What the UAW is asking would top 10 per cent, based on a union claim the average cur Jf A.