Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - July 1, 1952, Edwardsville, Illinois fT Read John Political Exclusive In The Intelligencer J July 1952 90th Year 8 Pages S Cents The Weather Mostly fair through Low tonight 68. Higl Wednesday 96. High today 96; 71. School Board Lets Contracts New Leclaire Building Slated For Use In Contracts totaling for construction of the new Leclaire elementary school were awarded by the Edwardsville community unit Board of Education Monday night to the three firms which submitted the lowest bids June 23 Hellrung Construction company of which received the eral contract at indicated that it plans to start moving ials to the Raut site on East lin road about mid-July so thai the job may be launched the lattei part of this H. V. president ot the and his son H. R. Hellrung estimated that the work can be completed easily within 12 barring any serious ages of The board intends to have the building ready for the term of 1953. George L e x o w representing Lexow Mercantile Electrical Edwardsville signed a contract of for the electrical phase ot the project John L. president of ton Plumbing Heating Corp. was unable to attend the special meeting but his contract was approved and will be signed The sum of was his bid for Ing and The board rejected the lone bid of by S. M. Wilson Granite for landscaping and site This work is not essential to erection of the and new bids for this pait of the program are expected to be sought at a later Charles representing Richards Brick was ent to discuss the type of brick with the board the He It decided to use Old Gold brick for the The board adopted a bond prepared by School D. M. which issuance ot worth of sets out the bond form and the tax A levy is provided for the first one and a half ending Jan. 1, 1954, and the final levy in 1970 calls for 500. ley said a copy of tne resolution will be with Clerk Eulalia within a few days A bond for the township school A. C. also was Voters of the community unit district approved a bond in a referendum held March 29 111 a number of school expansion and improvement The board subsequently decided to limit the initial bond issue to and in its authority to 1'oat the remaining when the ad- funds to com- plete the Fairmont City Girl Drowns Near St. Louli Marcia 19, of mont City drowned In the mec river near St. Louis Monday Two companions told deputy sheriffs that Miss Stephens was swimming in the middle of the river when she suddenly called foi help and Her Mrs. Shirley 22, and Miss Doris 18, also of Fairmont City said she was a fair The St. Louis county crew recovered the girl's lank Unveiled Tuesday Del. The Army today took the wraps off America's newest the Patton 48, for which it has placed nearly worth of orders with the Big Three auto Boasting a score of the fighting monster now is in production by Chrysler Corp at its arsenal Fisher Body of General Motors at Grand and Ford Motor Co. at a still to be- Completed plant at out- side of All three firms have mass duction orders for the 45-50 ton Class Chrysler's calls for more than Fisher Body for nearly 000 and Ford for Secretary of the Army Frank Pace and a dozen top generals looked oil Mrs. George S. Patton widow of the World War II christened the tne Patton 48. Biggest feature of the new on is the one-piece cast with an elliptical shape and low houette presenting no flat surfaces to enemy The Patton 48 mounts a velocity 90-millimeter gun with a gun tube ting ordnance crews in the field to take out the huge rifle ard insert a new one in a matter of Taft Harmony Proposal Vetoed Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge rejected all Taft harmony proposals today and planned a blitz campaign to seize control of the Republican National Convention at its opening Lodge is Gen. Dwight campaign He hopes to block tine organization of the convention by offering a resolution ing adoption of That would take place within the first minutes of the opening session July 7 with National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson If Eisenhower's backers can. muster votes to sustain Lodge's they may move to prevent election of West as The odds against Lodge are big jut the payoff would be As these plans early ar- riving politicians were jolted with word that Gabrielson had invited Joseph R. to the convention luring the of July 9. McCarthy was among numerous including Heibert asked to speak He s the most controversial in Republican denounced jy applauded by but universally regarded as a tough man in a never consult us about snapped Lodge when asked whether had okayed the McCarthy But he said the Eisenhower high com- mand not with the list of The speaking schedule an- by Gabrielson indicated that nominating speeches might begin the ot July 10, and balloting that There was at failure so far to name a I nominating and a floor biased is Sen. Cabot Lodge's de- scription Lodge plans to move at the opening sion that convention rules shall not pci mil contested delegates to vote on any matters relating to convention n. If Lodge's first ballot tion would be likely because con- tiol of the convention organization would be to the general's managers and they would expect to be able to bar contested Taft delegates and scat their A for a top level Eisenhower strategy conference apparently went out Monday Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New announced in that he would arrive here Dewey has been attending the annual conference Dewey men who Ihe governor's two successful against the Democrats are helping make Eisenhower cine Eisenhower's followers happily claimed a leakage OL Tatt delegates to the His Denver headquarters announced a whistle stop approach to the con- vention city which will bring him here July 5, after nearly two days of campaigning through Nebraska and Rre m Brooklyn The wall of an abandoned trolley barn collapses after an the first in more than a dec- roared through the barn and nearby tenement buildings in N. Y. At least five persons were feared dead and many Damage was estimated at Mercury Begins Climb Once More Temperatures climbed into the high 90's in Edwardsville and the honeymoon was as far as the cooling air late Monday afternoon and Monday night was That cool which touched on the city for a wonderful hours late apparently came from the but the same air was being warmed once over by a blazing July sun At 2 p.m. the mercury read 97 with indications that it would hit about 100 before the day was farm officials said lack of rain had forced the area into the drouth Most dents were having a hard time re- calling the last time it rained the Local Weather Observer A. W. Jaggers 6.16 inches of rain had fallen Edwardsville during the month of a figure slightly above according to records kept jy The Intelligencer lor the past 26 Last June will not be a good month to since 12 98 inches of rain tell in that 30- day easily a record for the month in the past quarter Poilions of the ing southwestern Missouri and parts of Oklahoma and were undergoing their worst drouth on record as humid weather stretched from the southeastern seaboard to This including St. is the nation's sustained hot spot In the past 12 the ture has been 97 or above on 11 01 Nine of the past 12 days the mercury zoomed to 100 or on one occasion hitting 104. Today's highs were slated to lange from the middle 80's along the Wisconsin border to a 104 in the Ohio River The Weather Bureau in field said fair skies doomed the cooler air which spread over the northern two-thirds of the state keeping temperatures as low as 75 in Chicago and other northern The hot weather death toll since Saturday in rose to 17, with 11 cases of heat prostration and six But if next Tuesday is anything like July 8, 1951, residents are ad- vised to have their wading boots That was the day of the heaviest cloudburst in An estimated gallons of water foil over 576 square As much as 13 inches of rain fell in six hours over parts of Woodford and Livingston Edwardsville had nearly inches in a matter of two The State Water which has prepared a 48-page study of the reports only 17 It have occurred In Seeks Redmon Equipment 111. Kedmon citizens lifted their at the high school today with the feeling that school equipment is now safe from seizure by rival 111., high school The guard was maintained from Saturday to Monday when a Redmon vote to secede from the joint Unit School District became Redmon voted to join another community unit Unit 2. j citizens fell the equipment in the Redmon high school building belonged to Unit 3. Redmon residents heard the Kansas people were preparing to move the A watch was set Saturday a van hired by Kansas citizens arrived at the Redmon Somebody turned on the town fire Men raced to the school and threw up a line around the Tlie truck A Redmon man denied that his fellow citizens were trying to stir up trouble with Kansas just want to protect our he Union Representatives To Meet in New York NEW Reliable sources said today that CIO United Steelworkers tives will meet here this week witn officials of at least two major steel companies in a new effort to settle the steel The report was neither con- firmed nor denied by spokesmen for the which has lowered a curtain of secrecy over its Bloomington Cabs Resume Operations 111. Taxicabs were operating again heie today after tlie second taxi strike in three weeks was called off after three Drivers have been protesting city ordinances that limit speed to 35 miles an set meter and prohibit passengers in the front seat of Drivers returned to work after Mayor Cecil A. Cone suggested a The drivers will pear at Thursday night's council meeting with a cab for each man to drive or ride to see for himself if the 35-mile-an-hour is The drivers have prepared a tition asking removal ol the They will present the petition to for and then to the Record Breaking Deaths Predicted for July 4 Com- merce Secretary Charles Sawyer today predicted record-breaking slaughter on the highways this Fourth of July week with a toll of more than 400, unless motorists drive more carefully ever Sawyer said in a telegram to Gov. Val Peterson of chairman ot the Con- ference at that Fourth of July traffic surely be heavier than ever St. Louis AFL Truckers Strike ST. strike of more than AFL truck drivers today tied up tons of freight shipments and threatened the city's business and The strikers normally handle only local freight in metropolitan St. but freight lines were closed down when long distance truck drivers and loading platform workers refused to picket lines set up by local A spokesman for the Motor riers Council said much of the nation's transcontinental t ru c k freight is transferred from one truck line to another In the event of a long strike St. Louis would be by long dis- tance but freight already on loading platforms here was the walkout was Forty members ot Teamsters Local 729, employed by three East St. Louis trucking were involved in the The strike followed two last ditch meetings of Local 600 of the Teamsters the St. Louis Team and Truck Owners and Motor Carriers The two-year contracts of the union with the two associations ended at Drive Planned Here For Swimming Pool By United Gordon Champion asked state police of Michigan for help today in retrieving she said was scattered along a stretch of highway between Imlay City and Mich. She said she closed a car door on her purse and the money trickled out while she and her husband were driving the 15- mile The Rev. James Shera 89, retired chaplain of the House of died Monday night at his apartment in the Methodist building in D. C. Dr. Montgomery re- tired as House chaplain in 1950, after serving in that post for 29 Forty persons will die and will be injured in Illinois traffic accidents during the three-day Fourth of July the Traffic Safety Council pre- The Illinois company has filed formal application for ity to buy the municipal electric distribution system of White it was announced G. C. an Illinois paper took over as head of the Daily News Terry purchased the paper irom Hugh R. Brown and a group of Nebraska business men who have owned the paper since July 1, 1950. Terry owns weekly newspapers at Polo and 111, and was president of the Illinois State Press Association in 1939. Crash Damages Auto Pulling From Curb The front bumper and left light an auto by Mrs. Winifred 820 Highland were torn off in an dent Monday evening in the 200 block of North Main Police said a northbound car op- by Aaron 22, East struck Mrs. Nicholson's chine as she pulled away irom the Curtis was fined and costs by Justice of the Peace F. P Betzold for not having a driver's Hot Weather This You Ain't Heard Yet The Weather Bureau looked politely down its nose today at the who think Illinois had hot weather during 1952. For those who think that was the Bureau points to June 1933 and 1934 And for the really hard to to June and 1936. It seemed hot this said the because Illinois had been blessed with only moderately high temperatures for the past live The 100-plus week end temperatures were the first since Aug. 5 and 6, 1947, There were seven days from June 23 to 29 with temperatures above 95 in most of the stale and only three days in the month with But the hottest June on record was in 1934 when the average day and was 81.4 Four days were over 100. In 1933, there were 18 days over 95. Now for 1936. It was two days over 100 and six over 95 in But for 17 days in July the mercury spiraled above 100 degrees and set records in nearly every city in the With the 1936 heat wave came the great Only one-third of the normal rainfall fell in from June through The temperature reached 102 or more in most Illinois every day from July 4 to 14. Corn leaves turned Barren pastures cut milk supplies to 40 per cent and prices rose two cents a State police used a standard form to report highway heat Sidewalks were called Ducks collapsed from the heat in farmyard Dead fish glutted the tepid backwaters of the Illinois The river was down to 7.4 feet at in 25 Boats were stuck on bars from Grafton to Army engineers at St. Louis re- ported they couldn't keep a foot channel in the Theater owners couldn't get the patrons out of air-cooled theaters at night and had to let them sleep slept outdoors in the cities and St. Louis had a fad of all-night neighborhood The State Health department sent special booklets to mothers on the care of babies during hot The Agriculture ment said creeks and wells were drying up but it was no longer worried about livestock thirsting because a case of human survival More tha at- to the heat wave across the In 1936 before it finally Nebraska Barn Hog Sales Halted Neb A dis- order similar to hooF and mouth disease halted hog sales at 110 licensed sales barns and markets Association to Be Formed by Local Organizations to Raise for Run on a Non-Profit Basis With a public swimming pool as the representatives of 26 local organizations voted Monday to proceed with the project on a community-wide basis by forming a permanent association and seeking a state The group met at Home Nursery upon the invitation of Ernest newly elected dent of the Edwardsville Rotary who was named chairman at last night's said although a number of other civic groups were unable to have a representative in ance because conflicting a single person I ed was opposed to the idea a swimming pool for and all thought it would be a Election of an executive which in turn will choose is scheduled for 7.30 next Monday evening at Home Tosovsky emphasized that every drawing for Edwardsville be sides eliminating the expense am inconvenience of traveling to communities having such facilities He also emphasized the of swimming and al to the recent drowning o 12-year-old Rita Ann Bast in thi drainage canal north o Tosovsky said the contemplated pool should be open to the general subject to a nominal ad mission charge and sanitary regu but not on a The group agreed that no distinction as to race or color be Every present was asked comment or suggestions local club and organization desiring regarding the proposed All in Nebraska The Nebraska Agriculture De- to take part should name two for this It will be these representatives who will elect the The idea of a to provide Edwardsville with a swimming pool received its Initial endorsement last Tosovsky when directors the Kiwanis and Lions clubs held a joint agreed work together and to try to get other civic tions to he said in outlining the purpose of last night's general He told the audience that rough estimates indicated that both a swimming and pool could be built for approximately exclusive of a Tosovsky ed no tentative site has yet been 1jwt belief that it would not be difficult to acquire one that is estimate of the including was based on a concrete pool 105 45 ranging in depth Irom 3'< to and a wading pool 20 by 45 feet which also be of con- the although some of them pointed out that would have to report back to their respective organizations before stating to what extent and in what form their groups will be tc Some persons suggested that consideration be given to an en closed pool which could be ated the year remarked that he had hesitated to go into that mailer because of the He praised a gestion by James W. execu live secretary of the Edwardsville YMCA that the pool be designed to pei mil such an enclosure at future decision fiat civic climbs torm a permanent organize ahead with the project and ask for a was upon motion by Mayor William C. Sti seconded by B. T. at the Meeting banned all shipments of hogs within the state except to two markets Dr. C. A. Jerome ot the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry in said the disease is ably vesicular Aj spokesman said the disease is j along than we the The disease has curred in California but never has been seen in the Experts said the disease cannot be transmitted to but is among hogs The possibility that it was the hoof and mouth disease was ruled out when sheep and cattle exposed to H were not All markets were ordered to dis- infect all facilities immediately to further spread of He cellared that a supervised swimming pool would be good prevent Shipments of hogs for im- mediate be mitted to the Omaha and bluff but federal ors said they will all ments The disease was first discovered after a shipment of hogs had gone through the Omaha ket ai rived in California with the There was no indication how long the ban will remain in but some observers speculated it would be at least two Prices slumped 25 to at the big Omaha market Monday after news of the ban was Receipts were about State's Attorney Lewis Names Chief Assistant State's Attorney Austin Lewis announced Tuesday that he has pointed Kenneth F. of Allan as his chief effective He succeeds the late Wilbur A. Trares of Edwardsville whose death occurred June 22. Kelly has been a practicing at- torney in Alton for about 10 years and previously served two terms as state's attorney of Shelby He and another Robert were recently named by Lewis under authority of the ison County Board of Supervisors to serve as special assistants in handling right-of-way litigation on the Humbert road improvement project north of Alton and the Reds Show Way Out of Deadlock The United Nations told the Com- at the resumption of ar- talks today there is a way out of the prisoner exchange deadlock A Red propagandist at the same time suggested secret sessions to woik out a Maj. Gen. William K. chief Allied spent 20 minutes ot today's 29-minute first in four a carefully exposition ing out both sides actually aie close to Harrison noted the armistice document has 63 has been reached on 62, except for minor he city vetera is and women's Dr. I. L. retiring dent o the Lions c that his group pledged toward the He said pio from a three-ring which the club is sponsoring Juh 28 at park will be applied foi this re off to a good I'll per add to Boyer was elected vice-chairman and Mrs. James W. Ike Gets Ready For Chicago Trip Dwight D. Eisenhower made to boa c' his special train to Chi fast local that will pick import ml passengers and makr whistle stops along the headquarters an that the Burlington nere .it would leau 9 in. Thursday and The one paragraph awaiting reach its destination at nooi lion Is No. 51, covering prisoner seems clear that if the oner of war issue is an armistice result without de- he said he have in our custody prisoners of war whom we cannot return to you without repudiating our basic He was referring to the U. N. stand on voluntary allowing prisoners to return to the side only if they are willing to The part of the U. N. final offer of April 28, he that prisoners who do not wish to return to nism be He suggested that new lists to be handed over when an armistice is agreed upon exclude their the Reds in effect would get back all of North Korean Gen. Nam II did not reply directly to Harrison's He simply repeated that the Communists want the return of all prisoners now All but have told the U. they would forcibly resist It was the first meeting since the Allies called a three-day recess last week to allow the Reds to think over their Both sides agreed to meet again The train will make several stops .is it chugs its way across Nebraska and giving the general a chance to bid for more at the Republican National which begins next Mon day in Important wail ing to loin the general's entourage included a ot convention senators ana supporting Eisenhower for the GOP presidential Among the distinguished gers expected to be Val Peterson of Nebraska and liam of and some of the No braska delegates indicated they would climb aboard the train at the state makes a short speech and public appearance there Thursday The general's headquarters said Beardsley had sent word he would get on the train soon after it en- ters Iowa and ride all the way to Eisenhower will make stop appearances at McCook and Thursday and at Mrs. Friday The general will appear Friday night a National Broadcasting Co. television show the at in operation witu
