Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 1

TEMPERATURE Tuesday High 84, Low 65. Last Night Low 67. Todoy Noon 72. Thursdoy Sunrise 5:40 (DST); Sunset 8:13 (DSTJ. MT.

VERNON REGISTER-NEWS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL TO ALL SPECIAL FAVORS TO NONE A NON-PARTISAN NEWSPAPER WEATHER Partly cloudy and continotd worm todoy, tonight and Thursdoy. High todoy ond Thursday in the upper 80s. Low tonight in the upper VOLUME XXXIX NO. 208 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1959 30c PER WEEK BY CARRIER PLANT BLAST KILLS FIVE AT ANNUAL C. OF C.

MEETING HERE WHITE CROSSES OOINO UP HERE TAPS SOUND FOR 27 WAR VETS IN COUNTY AFTER THE CLOUDBURST CAUTION PREVAILS IN GENEVA France, West Germany Put Brakes On Eorly Start Of Secret Talks On Berlin Crisis. This Is ft portion of the crowd of more than 300 persons who attended the 39fh annual mcoliniv of the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Coinnicrcc last night at Green HilU Country Club, A report on activities of Uie. Chamber In the past year and a program of work lor the forthcoming 12 months wore outlined at the annual dinner meeting. (Alary Juno Studio Photo) TAKES C.

OF C. GAVEL SETZEKORN IS RESIGNIHG AS CITYENGINEER Wishes Successor Luck, Lists Fees Paid Him in Past Ten Yeors. MT.Y. CHAMBER 1959-60 PUNS ARE OUTLINED By JOHN M. mOHTOWER GENEVA (AP)-Wcst Germany and France wore reported today to be putting the brakes on U.S.­ British enthusiasm for a prompt opening of secret talks with tiic Soviet Union over the Berlin crisis and prospects for a summit con- fci'cnce.

Some cautious moves were apparently going on in the Big Four foreign ministers conference concerning the start of secret negotiations. Annual Session Attended by 200. Huson Accepts Gav' el as New President. Kenneth H. Setzekorn, engineer for tlie City of Mt.

Vernon for the past ten years, resigned today. His resignation is effective June 1, or such ottier time as convenient to the city. Monday night city councilmon decided to liire a full time city engineer. Setzekorn he wasjization. not interested in the position as' Move An intensive program of work including a oontinying all-out effort to attract new industry to Mt.

outlined by Boyce llusoii, new president of the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce at last night's 39th annual mooting of the organ- Boyce Huson, left, new president of the Mt, Vernon Chamber of Commerce, accepts the gavel from Joe Wiiifrcy, Chamber manager, during laat night's annual meeting of the organization at Green HIIIB Country Club. (Blary Jane Studio Photo) HOFFA DENIES ANY NATIONWIDE STRIKE THREAT But AP Reporter Who Was There Soys He Mode It. HOUSTON. Tex.

(AP) Teamsters Union President James F. Hoffa today denied he threatened a nationwide strike in reprisal for jJi 'oposed restrictive labor laws. He told the Houston Chronicle late Tuesday that accounts of his in Brownsville, were "distortions of the truth." He said there is "no threat of a nationwide Teamsters' strike whatever." The Associated Pi-oss reporter at the Brownsville meeting, Wliitey Sawyer, said however he quoted Holfa coiToctly. Sawyer said he talked to Hoffa after the Brownsville meolinp and the union president then repeated the tin-eat. Daily newspapers in the lower Rio Grande Valley, working inde pendently, carried virtually the same vvoi-ding.

Hoffa, addressing a convention of longshoremen at Brownsville was quoted by Tlie AP as saying in reference to restrictive labor laws: "Tiie only answer is that if such a law is passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. They talk about a secondary boycott. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that will sti'aighten out the employers once and for all." In the Rio Grande Valley, tlie McAllen (Texas) Monitor said Hoffa proposed tliat all contracts be written to expire on the same date. The Monitor quoted Hoffa as adding: "Then if we have to, we could call one solitary strike throughout the United States to tie up all ploye's across the nation at one Ume." Hoffa spoke e.xtemporaneousIy and no transcript of his Brownsville remarks was made. Hoffa was in Houston Tuesday to address 300 Hai-ris County labor leaders.

He then left by plane for Francisco. PLANE CRASHES ON BARRACKS IN SOUTH JAPAN Three Men Injured and Injured at Ashiyo Air Base. 14 TOKYO (AP)-A big turboprop ti'ansport plane crashed into a U.S. Air Force bairacks and burst into flames in southeni Japan today, killing three persons and injuring 14. Two of the injured were burned seiiously.

Tlic four-CTigine 0130 was trying to land at Ashiya air base with one engine conked out. It was returning fi'om Iwo Jima, tlie U.S. Air Force said. An Air Force spokesman said tliere were eight men aboard the plane. One of the ci'ew members was reported killed.

The other two killed in tlie bawacks The Air Force said few men were in th ebarracks at the tune. Names of casualties were withheld pending notification of kin. The plane was assigned to the 483rd Troop CaiTier Wing at Ashiya, the air base in northern Kyushu, Japan's southei-nmost island Baby Dies In Plastic Bag MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. Jeffi-ey Koer- ncr of Menomonee Falls, suffocated in his crib Tuesday after he became entangled in a plastic dry cleaning garment bag being used as a mattress cover. He was the son of Mr, and Mrs.

John Koerncr. ST ESC.M'K TO MACAO HONG KONG (AP) Thirty- seven refugees reportedly escaped Tuesday from Communist CWna to Macao duriiig a storm. The pi-o-Nationalist newspaper "Truth Daily" said the refugees fled in small harbor craft when Communist gunboats took eheiter in a cove. a fxill time job. Setzekom's resignation, was sent to the city manager, mayor and councilmen, follows: Harlow "Qty Manager "City of Mt.

Vernon "Dear Mr. "In accordance witfi the de -i cision of tlio city Council to employ a full time City Engmeer, I am hereby teiTninating my engineering agi'ccnient with the city which has been in effect since May 16, 1949. Said termination to be in effect June 1, 1959 or such other time as may be convenient to the city. This agreement was signed by former Mayor Milton D. Forsyth, for whom I served four as engineer for tlie city.

Since that tune I have served fou i-years in the same capacity for former Mayor 0, Buford and tvvo years for Mayor Vii-gil T. Bailey. "It has always been a pleasure to work with tlie City Council of Mt. Vernon whether they be aldermen as in former years or councilmen as in later ycai-s. I can assure you tliat I have always enjoyed the complete confidence and ocoopcration of all of them insofar as it has been possdblc for them to go on tlioii- limited budget.

I am certainly notoppo.sed to the idea of a full time engineer for the (3ty of Mt. Vernon, in fact I have suggested on various occasions that it be considered from tlie standpoint of a more efficient operation for the city. "However, I am sure that during the pa.st ton years, engineering costs to the city for the improvements that have been made have not been excessive and I doubt that the scivices of a full time engineer with the help and equipment he would have needed would have been any cheaper. I I'calizc tliat the situation is changing and I ti-ust tliat tlie new arrangement wUl prove to be more satisfactory to the city. "Since there has been some confusion as to tlie fees paid to mo during the past five years, I ajn listing the total fees paid to me by the city during the entire ten years as taken from my own records: 19.il-$4,958.24.

'The total foi- those five years is 516,777.64 and tlie per yeai- is 195e-5 6,679.72. 1957-5 4,996.65. 1958-5 6,767.23. "The total for the last five is 544,114.47 and tlie avemge per year is 58,822.89. "Fees paid to date iji 1959 total 5750.

"During 1954 and 1935. 5259.926.13 was spent for new sewer construction which accounts for the higher fees for those years. "And now I want to take this opportunity to wish my successor all the success in the world and than 200 persons attended the highly annual dinner session at Green Hills Country Club. President Huson, presiding at the annual business meeting, IJOU CliBckcs said (he Chamter will aid local industry and plans to publicize Ml. Vernon resources to pros- IJcctive industries.

A program of cooperation and coordination, of tlie people of the community and the Cham ber, was outlined by tlie new president. Joe Winfrey, Chamber manager, pinch hit for retiringj president Ray Tibb.s in present- KAY TIBB.S COULDN'T COME (ContiDued on Pago SSvo), Ray Tibbs, retiring president of tlio VeriMn Chamber of Commerce, didn't show up at Green Hills Country Club to introduce the guest speaker at the annual Chamber of Commerce Dinner. Ray wanted (o be there, but he just couldn't. The well known Ml. Vernon businessman is scn'ins on a federal court in East St.

Louis, and federal judges won't let jurors off to attend meetings of any kind. Little white erogscg will be placed this Saturday in the miniature cemetery on the court house lawn on the Mt. Vernon public It is there I'hat tlie people of this community will gather on Memorial Day, a week Inter, to pay loving tribute to the hero dead of all wars and to the '27 war veterans of county who have died in the pastl year. Every year as Memorial Day, approaches Legionnaires gather; on the court house lawn to sot up row on row of white crosses. Each cross, tlie lone momenlo of a son or a father lost in past war.s,,is bedecked with flowers by families and friends prior to the May 30 Taps Hound Vor 27 Taps sounded for 27 Jefferson county war veterans In the past year one a veteran of the Spanish American War, 17 who fought in World War I and nine who sei-ved during World War II.

Bertram E. one of the few remaining Jeffcnson county men In the fast-thinning ranks of the Spanish American War veterans, died dxuing the year. World War veterans for whom taps sounded during the year included: E. R. Perry.

Hari-y P. Dodd.t, H. H. Huff. William A.

James W. Hunter. Joel F. WatBon. Walter R.

Wliisenhunt. James W. Lamb. Sam P. Marcum.

Etza L. Holloway. Emery A. MathewB. Ernest S.

Cook. Kate Wai-d Reed, nurse. O. W. (Tod) Linzy E.

Qark. Ralph A. Estes. Cuixan A. Puckett.

Veterans of World who have answered the roll call of death since last Memoinal Day include: George N. Anselmcnt. Dr. Leo J. Eschelbacher.

R. F. Dunavan. WaiTcn S. Pcavler.

Harry G. Bowling. Wiley N. Ford. William A.

Ferris, Jr. Lewis M. (Max) Hunt, James D. Gibson. The American Legion Is set ting the miniatuie cemetery up a week ahead of Memorial Day so that if any names of scivice- men who died in tlie past year have been missed they can be added before Memorial Day.

Anyone who knows of a name which been missed should call Henry Rockcnmeyer, phone 4894, or the American Legion, phone 4561. They should give the name, date of death, and the wai- in which the veteran served. Only the names of veterans who sei-ved in war time, between the following dates, will be placed on the white crosses in the miniature ceme- ieiy. World Warl April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918. World War IT December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945.

Korean Conflict June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. FIVE OTHERS INJURED AT BALTIMORE When these do take place they will almost certainly determinp whotlier a summit conference will be held this summer. Maurce Couve do Murville of France and Heinrich von Brentano of West Gemiany appeared less anxious to get quickly into secret talks than their two em colleagues. They were said to be taking the line with U.S. Secretary of State Christian A.

Herter and Britain's Foreign Mini.ster Selw.vn Lloyd that, since the Soviet Union created the Berlin crisis, the Soviets should take th lad in finding a solution. Cuovr dc Mui-ville and Von Brentano are not opposed to secret talks, diplomats said, but insist the Western allies mu.st enter into such discussions with the greatest care. Debate over the rival and mutually rejected Soviet and Western proposals for a German peace settlement will conthiuc possibly until the end of the week. This means a delay in tlie schedule which Herter tentatively anticipated last private talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko might get under way by today or Thursday. Von Brentano saw Herter for half an hour this morning.

He indicated the secret phase of the Big Fom' talks probably would not begin for several days. A conference source said Gromyko told Lloyd Wednesday night that he wll make a new stab at getting Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia admitted to the conference. The Western foreign ministers rebuffed his eariier attempt to them. The Western and Soviet foreign ministers wore to continue their debate on their rival plans for Germany at another formal conference session today. But Western diplomats say this debate has reached a dead end of disagreement, and the obvious objectii'e of both sides in continuing the discussion is to make more propaganda.

U'hile press and public are baiTod from the conference sessions, everything that haiipens uiside the conference room is immediately reported to newsmen by press officers for the delegations. Only about a dozen men three from each of the Big Four countries will attend the secret talks shaping up. Little information about them is cxipect- ed to emerge from day to U.S. Secretary of State Oiris-i'x'ni Tuesday in New Yoj-k. tian A.

Herter, Biiti-sh Foreign i tumor was removed by sm-- Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and' sery French F'oreign Minister Mauiice God" exclaimed the 74- Couve de Mui-ville are agreed Mrs. Truman slie that both German delegations tlie i-eport. "1 did not want to go through tlie rest of my life Mn, Elmer Carter has luiril work ahead as nho survcyB the moM left by Monday night'it fluNh flood thai CHUHCII an esUmatcil daiiiuKo and tho death of one man at St. Joseph, Ilrrr, Mrs. Carter is picking her chttdrcn's clothing out of tho bathtub where they had been Boaktnif Riter having been WHshrd.

(UP) Wirephoto) NEGRO KILLS WHITE WOMAN. 2 POLICEMEN Wounds Two Others Before! He is Gunned Down. LAFAYF (APi A' STASSEN RUNS FOR MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA Easily Wins Republican Noni' ination; Beaten Year Ago for Governor. PinLADELPlfllArPa. (AP) Exploision in Moitin Co.

Hangor Where Dozen Workmen Are Clean-. Seaplane With Solvent. BALTIMORE An explosion racked the hull of a seaplane being cleaned with a commerelal' KolveiM in a Martin Co. hangar today, killing five workmen and hijuring at least five others. A Martin spokesman said dozen or so men wei-e bathing the hull of a tivo-engined seaplane wlQi a cleaning fluid using pressure lioscs when a muffleoT cxplo- rocked the interior of the hull.

The big hangar, located away fixjni the main cluster of Martin buildings, quickly filled with smoke, hut thci-e was llttJe fire after the first Dash. An inquiry was begun quickly by Dr. Melvin Davis, Maryland deputy medical examiner. Tlio company said the cause at the blast had not been detmnined. The hangar where the explosion occurred is u.sed to clean and wint the seaplanes manufactured lore before they are The hanger is separated from the rest of the plant by the airfield by Mai-tin's and an Air National Guard detachment.

Identification of the dead waa withheld pending notificaUon ol next of kin. of the injured taken to University Hospital were identic fied as John Dunn, 27, ivith second-degree bums: James HolW 36, log injuries, and Jacob stein, 42, who.se injuries de- Rcrihcd as slight. The hospital understood HoUy blown out of the hull by the impact of the blast. gun-vrazrd Negrojliol ami easily won the nomination for mayor himself in his house when oflicrr.s called on him to and killed two policemen liefore he was shot to death. One of tho policcnirn, Sgt, l-c-.

King, was killed almost roy st.inlly and his companion, Capt. Harold Abadie died a few minutes mayor Tuesday, with Republican backing that had been denied to him in his bid for governor last May. His 56,530 votes were more than as many as the combined vote of liis two opponents. They wore Riilpli C. Moirone and later.

King was shot in the fat-cMoscpli A. Schafcr, both GOP city Trumans Have Two Reasons For Rejoicing KAKSAS CTTY Mo. Harry S. Truman and the former Pi-esident have two reasons for rejoicing today. Pathologists have determined tliat liie tumor removed from Mrs.

Ti-uman's brea.st was not malignant. And their second grandchild was and Abadie look a (iiargo from the l6 -gHUEe shotgun in the stomach. Dr. Henry Vooiliics, coroner for Lafayette Pari-sh icoiiiilyl, identified the Nogi'o a.s Albert Victor. Voorhios said Victor apparently barricaded liimsclf in the house after sneaking into the home of Mrs.

Paul Ducharmo and shooting the young white mother at close range. Chief of Polifc Carl Listi was struck in the nock by a blast from IB-gauge shotgun and Asst. Oiief Donlon Ritchoy was sti'uck by a few pellets. Ritchey suffered only a slight injury. committeemen.

He will face incumbent Democratic Mayor RJchai-dson Dilworth in the November election. Dilworth, seeking a second four-year Ici-m, ran unopposed in the primary. Dilworth iweived 112,647 votes. Tlic city has 928,000 registered 514,000 of tliem Demoa-ats. It was contrast to the party's reaction when the former Minnesota governor resigned last year as adviser to President Eisenhower and announced he wanted the Republican nomination for governor.

He ran as an in dependent in the GOP piimaiy Officers lobbed tear Kas thoroughly de- hand grenades mto Victors which firo niinules later. Victor was found with a bullet wound of the stomach after offi- cer.s dragged him from the flaming hou.se. Voorhios gave this version; Ho i i- meakod into Mrs, Due home, shot her at do.sc range as she sat at a dressing table and then returned to his house. He beckoned two small while youths, James llogcrs. 10, and Wilson As c.vpoctod, Pennsylvania's pn- mnry drew only about 30 per cent of the fj registered voters.

There was only one battle for a statewide 'lliat saw Supreme Coui't Judge McBridc running as an )ucliarme both Republican and Democratic tickets for a full 21-year lenn on tho high court. On the Dcmocraltc side, Lackawanna County Court Judge Michael J. Eagon u'on by a niar- Laglinais 9. into tie hoi.se side The boys know hull and wont 111,.. and said Victor began tying 230,000 votes, up.

Tlioy they broke 1110, State Sen. Joseph ropes ami led Pennsylvania's Democi'atic Mr.s Carl Loblan won his party's nomi- enter Victors house and called hco to investigate. opposition. He will face the Republican nomi ing the gavel to new president Huson. "Tibbs was unable to attend the annual dinner as he is serving on a federal juiy in East St.

Louis court. The Chamber of Commerce program of work for tho 1959-60 year will cover many fields, including agriculture, civic affairs, education, industry, public safety, retail, taxation and utili ties. Superhighivay Work An important task, it was pointed out last night, will be to continue the aggressive program in promotion of the east- west and north-south superhighways through the Mt. Ver' non areas. Art Laird, serving as master (Contixiued on Page TwoX must be excluded from the secret sessions.

The Weslem ministers want to find out whether Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev obviously anxious for talks will off the Berlin crisis in order to reach an agreement here for the cliiefs of government to meet this summer. Westcm diplomats think Khi-ush- chev will. But they have no notion yet on what kind of a stopgap settlement might be reached for Berlin that would be acceptable to lioth the Soviet Union and the West. The Soviets apparently want to know what, if any, price the West is willing to pay for easing Berlin tensions apart from agreement to joni in a summit meeting. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has said he is ready to discuss creation of a limited arms zone in central Europe, possibly a non- aggression declaration by the Big Four, an East-West Gcman com mJttec to work for more contact between the two regimes and East West disarmament meas ures.

All are individual points in the WtsteiTi package plan for German reunification and a stm-l to- Waxd European security afystera. having people me." feeling Boi'ry lor called to Victor and the' boys ran from the house and jumped into tho patrol car-. They nominee, Paul R. Reinhold. in the Novom- bor election for the post vacated HONBYMOONERS IN ITALY I Strawberry Marketing Goes On In The Rain CENTRALIA, HI.

(AP)-Strawberries by the million move from Centralla by h-ain and truck this week, blessed by near periect growing weather. "The weather was made to order," one shipper reported today. pelted the 50-mile growing ai-ea last week, followed by enough sun to bruig the crop to full maturity. Centralia's strawberry belt from Ashley to the state's biggest strawben-y producer. About 200,000 a-alcs of 1(5 quarts each will be shipped in the next week, matching last year'e Market prices range from 54.7S to $5.00 a crate depending on size and considered good lliis year.

Quarts sell in city groceries for about 39 cents each. The harvest started in the rain Monday with 2,500 crates leaving the dock of Cenh-alia's biggest shipper. Tho fuTii handled 4,000 crates Tuesday, about 6,000 cratea Wednesday and expects to load al least 10,000 crates Friday the peak haivest day. Picking the berries is the back- bending job of more than 6,000 migrant workers. They come mostly from Arkansas every year, starling with earlier maturing crops and working north into Michigan with the season.

In the Centralia area, growers provide barns, tents and cabins. PORTOFINO, Italy eymooning Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher arrived in this Italian Riviei-a resort Tuesday aboaixl their i-ented yacht. Film Kim Novak, visiting Italy jumpon inio by Gov. David Lawrence last No-j witli her father and mother, also said they looked up in time nrrived see Victor open fire on the arrived. Mt.

V. Woman's Club Gives $100 For Scholarship The Mt. Vernon Club yestei-day donated $100 for a scholarship to Mt. Vernon high school gi'aduatea attending Community College. The fund is to be used to pay fees and book rentals and would covei- casts for two students, Dean Howard Rawlinson said.

Illinois Oil Production Up TULSA, OWa. (AP) Daily average production of crude oil and condensat and condensate dipped 3,140 barrels to 7,200,765 barrels during the week ended May 16, the Oil and Gas Journal's said Tuesday. Illinois was 2,600 bmeiM to 216,800. men. Listi, Ritrliey and other officers went to the scene as Abadie and King both lay in front of Victor's house.

Listi was struck in the face by a shotgun charge when Vicrtor steadfastly iWu to surrender and a few pellets caught Ritchey. High School Hazing Death YAKTMA, Wa (AP)-The initiation ceremony for a Yakima High School club, being carried out in the water of a small pond east of town, tui'ncd into tragedy Tuesday when one of the 16 uiitiates died. Henry Sherwood, a 16-year-old sophomore, and IS other youths dressed in garments made from burlap sacks were being paddled by members of tlie club, a letterman's organization, in the water when Sherwood sank beneath the surface. His absence went unnoticed for several niinuics. When his companions realized he was missing, they searched aJid found his body.

lAttemptA revive the boy Idled. FROM 6 TO 9 P. M. Door-To-Door March On Cerebral Palsy Thursday A door-to-door march on Cerebral Palsy will be conducted in Mt. Vei-non tomorrow night.

Volunteer workers will begin tlioir canvass of the community at 6:00 p. m. Thursday, May 21, and continue until 9:00 p. m. The slogan for the three-hour 53 Minute actually a theme to dramatize the fact that Cerebral Palsy strikes somewhere in the United States every 53 min utes.

"In the time it takes a lot of us to eat dinner cerebral palsy will strike somewhere in America," it was pointed out by Lester F. Davis, chaimian, and Bob Ruddick, co-chairman of the fund campaign. Cerebral palsy cripples cruel ly. Tragically, it strikes babies, for the most part. It results from a tiny injury to the brain before, during, or soon aftei birth.

But it can.strike anyone. At any time. One of Its most baffling as. pects is that rugged health li) the parents doesn't count at all Cerebral palsy can strike In the healthiest family. Nothing known to man proaches its power to cripiklf' infants in so many arms, legs, vertebrae, neck cles, speech, their breathing, apparatus, their balance.

theS hands. "Cerebral paley'g burden ti such an overwhelming one it must be shared," said men Davis and Ruddled is why your support Minute March row niaht.".