Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - June 14, 1972, Alton, Illinois ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH 1 Serving Greene and Calhoun Counties 126 Alton Printing 1072 June 1972 6 SECTIONS 68 PAGES Price lOc 1838 NAACP says Lenz links them to fires By ANDE YAKSTIS Telegraph Staff Writer Alton Mayor Paul linked the NAACP with violence and terror in Alton city streets Tuesday in his public declaration that black groups were allowing this trouble to the Alton NAACP charged today in a strong protest of the mayors We strongly resent and reject the mayors public statement which connects us with this Miller president of the Alton Chapter NAACP told We are shocked that the mayor would make such a statement that is damaging to members of the Alton Mayor in a Slory in the Telegraph declared that thousands of dollars in costs to taxpayers to pay for damaged police cars and overtime pay for police in the emergencies will make it impossible for the city to finance programs proposed by the NAACP and other black The mayor then declared We keep getting demands from these groups but then they prohibit us from meeting their demands by allowing this to When the mayor said that the NAACP and black groups were allowing this to hap he is connecting us with the trouble in Johnson told the Telegraph You cant allow anything to happen unless you are con with terror and destruction have erupted in the city streets during the past Police cars were the targets of sniper bullets and have caused millions of dollars in destruction to business places which have been leveled by Alton was generally quiet Tuesday Only one fire incident was reported to police who were called to 944 where two youths were said to have planted a beer bottle full of gasoline in a yard and lighted the A passer by saw the youths leave the yard but it was not known immediately if he could identify The NAACP was founded 63 years ago for the sake of law and order and the Alton chapter has consistently promoted un and equal op for all people without Johnson told the Individuals with criminal records are prohibited from becoming officers in the Johnson There are reputable white Alton businessmen who are members of the Alton clergy offer to help mediate in racial crisis The Alton Area Pastors Association met Tuesday to form a committee which will step into the racial unrest and resulting problems in it was announced The group already has made its mission known to Lenz and now will seek to contact other groups or with the con The committee announced that the immediate problem is a But the situation is com plicated by such factors as medical care and youth among other The parties in conflict need to be supported by all members of the community in effort to create and con struct solutions to city p r o b Ie m s the pastors association At present the processes seem to be too much reaction and too much affixing of blame rather than a meeting 01 The churchmen hope to become an avenue for con communication a zone within the they The necessity for such a reconciling and listening body is brought about by the fact that the human relations committee has ceased to function and that there is no other group in the com munity to fill this mediating The objective of the com is to become an ad vocate of goals of community peace and The role of the group is not to ad vocate any particular position in past or future but to serve as a reconciling agent in the the association statement Johnson Public statements saying that the NAACP is allowing this trouble to happen is damaging to our entire The state conference of the NAACP met in Alton May 21 and drafted 11points for Illinois cities with black including in a move to promote racial equality and achieve peace and Johnson The 11 points drafted in the Alton meeting are designed to help resolve prevent and not to provoke Johnson Johnson will present the 11 points to promote minority equality in Alton tonight at a meeting of the Alton City We will request a written answer from the mayor and city council on what they plan to do about our Johnson The NAACP leader told the Telegraph earlier that action may be sought to achieve equality for the Alton black community in hiring of black firemen and lo stop discrimination in the The 11 points that will be presented tonight by Johnson is headed by a request that you mayor and council acknowledge the existence of inequalities in our city and that you will resolve to act and encourage others to act in such a manner as to alleviate those inequalities which tend to prevent black from fully par in our The other requests to the mayor and aldermen ask that they assure that law and order is administered with equal justice to all commit their support toward in quality education in Alton schools the housing code be updated and additional low and moderate income housing be sought in The NAACP is also asking the city to improve welfare services and welfare laws the health department enforce city codes affecting health of citizens city council direct the administration to act in obtaining black persons in all city departments that the council request a report from the Alton area building in dustry on their practices and eliminate conditions that prevent blacks from getting into skilled Johnson will also ask the council tonight to place names of qualified black contractors See Page 5 Jets maul North with 340 sorties Eluded death Recovering in a Rapid Father Francis a 76year old Catholic tells newsmen how he eluded death by hang ing on to a chandelier for nearly six hours in the flood Friday He said here was only enough room for his nose and month above Hie which hit the eight foot mark in the AP Wirephoto Russian president to visit Hanoi on mission for peace By PYLE SAIGON AP American flew a record 340 strikes against North Viet nam on Tuesday and blasted at least nine more railroad including four on the northwest line to China and three between Hanoi and Hai the Command said It was the largest number of strikes in one day since the resumption two months ago of daily intensified bombing to paralyze North Vietnams supply and com The closest of the bridges to China was 45 miles from the Peking charged that raids earlier this week within 25 miles of the border threatened Chinas security and were grave provocations against the Chinese Only one mission over North Vietnam was reported a raid on supply dumps 20 miles nor of Dong But the big bombers pounded North Vietnamese troop con centrations and staging areas along South Vietnams western border with Laos and About 20 of the giant bombers dropped 500 tons of explosives in the A Shau Valley hard by the Laotian The target was North Vietnamese troops 25 to 30 miles southwest of who reportedly are targeted against the former imperial Along the Cambodian border half a dozen of the attacked troops of two North Viet CALCUTTA AP Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny arrived in Calcutta today en route to touching off speculation he was on a peace Podgorny told reporters The Vietnam problem should be solved fast and the Ameri cans should cease their bomb ing Experienced diplomats in Moscow saw visit to Hanoi as an effort to bring peace to although they conceded they had no solid information to support their He had been scheduled to spend only an hour in Calcutta while his plane was But aides said the was delayed until Thursday morning because of bad Podgorny is the first member of the Soviet high command to confer with North Vietnamese leaders since President Nixon and Soviet chief Leonid Brezhnev reviewed their opposing positions on Vietnam during Nixons visit to There was also speculation that will be kept well away from the Hanoi area during Court writ upholds antiwar vets right to be in parade Senate Revenue Committee approves lottery tacks on 6 amendments By Telegraph Capital Bureau SPRINGFIELD The Senate revenue committee on a straight party line vote approved the to create a tottery in Illinois after tacking on six minor Only one of the amend ments offered by the Senate Daniel made a sub change in the measure which was sent to the Senate floor by a margin Tuesday Any agent selling lottery tickets would have to be licensed and would be required to post a ac cording to the OBrien The original as it passed the House left the decision of bonding an agent up to the commission proposed to oversee the lottery Republicans on the revenue committee led by Hudson Sours contention that a state run lottery was a radical alteration in traditional American ethical standards voted against the while all nine committee Democrats supported For the measure to clear the Democrats must not only close their own ranks to defections but pick up two Republican votes for OBrien again contended that based on the experience of other Illinois would gross between and million per year from a state run Of that million would go for lottery to million would cover administration and million would be divided equally between schools and local government OBrien said the division to local governments would follow the income tax T h e funds would be distributed between counties and and would be disbursed on a per capita Senate minority leader Terrel said he opposed the distribution method because it excluded local units as park and fire districts from receipt of any OBrien then asked Clarke to suggest another Clarke was See Page 3 By WILLIAM Telegraph Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE Under a temporary restraining order entered in circuit court here Tuesday a newly organized Alton Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been given permission to march in third annual Flag Day parade scheduled for this The temporary sought by two Alton Vietnam veterans on behalf of them selves and others of the small group comprising the Alton was granted by Associate Circuit Judge Merlin Hiscott following a hearing Tuesday The restraining order provides that the Alton chapters unit in the parade is subject to reasonable regulation of the parade Chester an Edwardsville barber and one of the parade Defendants in the tion suit including the original parade organizer and its present Jack Gerhard Mayor William Straube and Public Safely Director Edward Carpenter are restricted from in in any way with peaceful participation by the Alton group in the Judge Hiscott told the Telegraph that organizers of the through counsel present at Tuesdays indicated they had no ob jections to the Alton units participation but were con cerned over any possible disrespect or desecration of the He said leaders of the Alton group gave assurance that there would be no at tempt at disruption of the or dissemination of any antiwar or any obnoxious banners or placards in the units mar ching The injunction suit was filed Tuesday morning by 1027 and Paul 220 strike threatens PHILADELPHIA AP With a period apparently having cooled off very the financially troubled Penn Central and its biggest union are heading for a showdown at midnight A 30day moratorium on changes planned by t h e and on retaliatory strikes threatened by the United Transportation ends at midnight and neither side has been able to say whether a strike can be A company spokesman said Tuesday that no changes will be instituted without giving ample notice to both the public and the He declined to say whether Penn Central intended to carry out a controversial proposal to eliminate some train crewmen positions when the period ends The which is in reorganization under federal bankruptcy wants lo eliminate the jobs through normal says the plan will save Ihe rail line million The first step the Pennsy has taken has been lo eliminate unilaterally the traditional a staple a c h i e v e m e n I of union negotiating regiments that have been assaulting the district town of Tuyen Binh and the provincial capital of Moc about Go miles west of The South Vietnamese com mand reported that a three day operation near Moc five miles south of Tuyen netted 164 enemy killed and 56 weapons Twenty South Vietnamese were killed and 42 were the command Fighting also continued north ot Saigon between the big South Vietnamese base at Lai Khe and the besieged provincial capital of An Helicopters landed hundreds of South Vietnamese replace ments at a landing zone just south of An and they moved into the city by Reports reaching Saigon said virtually all North Vietnamese forces had been rooted out of An Loc but fighting continued on the Hanoi Radio claimed two Air Force jets were shot down over North Vietnam The Command said it had no aircraft losses to report over the Loser by one vote finds he really lost by two By HELEN LISTON Telegraph Correspondent CARLINVILLE George C a v c n y veteran Hilyard Township won his bet Tuesday that he couldnt he defeated by one vote in two elections in a This time he was beaten by two according to a recount made under court who had first been declared the winner in Ihe county board race this past April and later he lost by one filed suit several weeks ago in Macoupin County Circuit Court contesting the election and demanding that the votes be Tuesday the votes were recounted in the Circuit court of Judge Paul Verticchio and although Caveny picked up two his Republican Mark Miller of Bunker picked up three votes for a final total of 649 votes to Judge therefore declared Miller the winner and eligible to keep his seat on the new county a said he tried seven years ago to get elected for the post and was defeated by one The margin this time shows hes losing Kissinger slates third China trip WASHINGTON AP President Nixons top national security Henry will go to the Peo ples Republic of China for a visit June 1923 for concrete consultations with Chinese leaders as a followup of Nixons summit the White House announced Inside Editorial A4 New flag significance Hiring another administrator Pollution A2 Senate committee attacks pollution Mota steals game from Family A10 Anthonys honors Amusements D8 Personal Finances B2 Interest rates likely to Weather A9 Cooler Thursday low high Television C4 D2 Obituaries D3 D3 Classified D3 Mind Your Money A5 How to donate your DDT virtually banned by environment boss By STAN BENJAMIN WASHINGTON AP Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus ordered today an almost complete ban on use of the pesticide DDT in the United Ruckelshaus made the ban effective to allow a transition to substitute Under his the use of DDT will be permitted in this country only For public health purposes and in three minor uses to protect crops whore no effective alternatives are on green onions and sweet potatoes in All crop uses of on pea and be Ruckelshaus decision was based on a 17month study by EPA on the effects of the widely used The heated debate over Its safety has raged for spreading from he laboratory to the courtroom and pitting environment groups against farmers and public health Environment groups have condemned DDT as damaging to wildlife and a potential cancer threat to They assert safer methods are available to control Survey challenges charge state lottery would hurt poor By McFADIN Telegraph Staff Writer Last of a series When the lottery got by the Senate Revenue committee in Springfield Tuesday with the solid backing of it caused the recycling of old complaints against the including lie shedding of tears for the poor who will represent the largest number of There are a lot of valid objections to a state operated lottery but the one about the poor being victimized doesnt hold water according to a survey made for New Jersey Lottery Commission by The survey considered New Jersey residents in four categories 1 The who had an animal income of under 2 those with a yearly income of from to 3 those between and 4 and those over The Mathematic report showed that Ihe socalled poor represented only I per cent of the total playing the The next classification to and 51 per cent the next to represented 34 per cent and those above represented 0 per As it stands the has a fight ahead when it reaches the full and there are reports that Richard Ogilvie has not been seen with any grins when the lottery is The passed the House handily earlier this who authorized the and steered it through the House has made a deep study of the lottery as operated by seven Using the experience of these Giorgi drew up a proposal that would return 45 per cent of the gross total to prizes in an Illinois 45 per cent to the five per cent for commissions to per cent to for handling tickets and per cent for The states percentage then would be with half to go to the Common School Fund and half to local govern He anticipates a yearly gross of million with million of that going for education and local government a veteran of the House who served 12 years on the Rockford City faced conservative opposition when he offered the but used a coalition of Republican votes in passing the measure in the The measure was given a big boost in early May when David chairman of the House Appropriations announced he would back the One of those voting against Giorgis June 1 was Alton Representative Robert Walters who told the Telegraph I was really against That was To objections that gambling in any form is a mural Giorgi quotes comparative crime figures from the 1970 with New Jersey and which have having less serious crime rates than Were no better morally thin states with he His Giorgi will definitely stave off a tax though he doubted any existing taxes would be In his study of Giorgi used the study prepared lor the New Jersey Luttery Commission by The report was read lo tiie Illinois House Executive Committee April In that per capita yearly revenue from lotteries in New York was listed at and in New Hampshire at The funds are used for education in New New Jersey and New for aid to cities in for general funds in Connecticut and for tax relief for the elderly in Cahill said of his states lottery the New Jersey Lottery is the most successful program ever undertaken by this Mathematica said the reasons for that success were public acceptance and increased tax revenue without tax In a 1965 New Jersey voters approved Ihe lottery by an 85 per cent Giorgi said the lottery in a public Were not trying to deter what most people have in their Ive got a feeling we have a builtin inheritance for games of There are a lot of people whc would like to play a lottery and not get If the Senate passes Ihe and Richard signs Illinois will be the seventh state to enter the lottery Similar bills are now pending in Michigan and Sue Page 1
