Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - January 26, 1961, Mt Vernon, Illinois tEMPERATURE Wednesday high 23; low one above low 16. from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and one-half Today noon 22. Friday 7:14; MT. VERNON MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL - SPECIAL FAVORS FOR NONE A NEWSPAPER WEATHER Clearing tonight Friday sunny and continued Low tonight from 2 low to 5 High Friday 20. VOLUME XLI - NO. 49 MOUNT JANUARY 26, 1961 30c PER WEEK BY YANKS DUE HOME RIDAY PUNE LAYS OVER TODAY IN FIRST FOR KENNEDY JACK MAKES DISCLOSURE TO NEWSMEN ASK PIRATES Reports To Telev TO UND Press Conference That I Captured Fliers Started Home At 2 A. M. That President Kennedy talks to reporters In Washington Wednesday night at his first press as Chief Tiie conference was televised on a nationwide DIG PLANE IN ATLANTIC U. S. Military Transport 23 Persons Fails To Arrive In Search Be DEMOS CINCH CONTROL HERE 8 TOWNSHIPS TO ELECT SUPERVISORS U.S. transport plane disap today near the southeast tip of Canadian and U.S. planes and ships began search frigid Information here was that 28 persons were aboard but a spokesman at Air Force Base In New Jersey said there were 23 Navy crewmen and 13 the Military Air Transport Service It wason a flight from Port to via the Azores and The last word from the missing was a radio message to Traffic Control at The pilot reported he was 455 miles southeast of TOere was no mention of CHS left Lajes in the Azores Royal Canadian Air Force search headquarters said it was due at Argentia at 6:37 a.m. was an unconfirmed that a U.S. Navy pilot saw explosion at 6:14 a.m. about 39 miles southeast of Search officials said this might have been a Gander Air declared an emergency when the plane did not report by radio as Those aboard were cven little chance of survival if the plane landed In the The air temperature was near zero in Newfoundland this The Weather Office said the ocean water would hie between 32 and 35 Search planes had weather to aid their hunt but high winds and spray created the hazard ttf icing for surface The plane left the Azores with enough fuel for about 11% hours The fuel would have been usM up by 10:3d a.m. Republicans and Democrats will begin skirmishing in a few days for places on the Jefferson County Board of Although supervisors will be elected this spring in eight of the 16 townships of the county the Democrats are a cinch to main tain control ol the 21-member county board for the next two The makeup of the county board at present is 16 Democrats and five This year the terms of five Democrats and three Republicans There are U holdover Democrats and two holdover Republicans on the board with two years left ol their four-year terms Even if Republicans won all seats open this spring the Democrats would stay in 11 to 10. Here are the townships which will elect supervisors this year and the men whose terms Grand R B. R. Bald D. D. D. Spring Garden - Warren How D. D. Moores H. R 13 Holdovers Holdover members on the county whose terms do not expire for two more C. D. R. McClellan D. Elvin D. Mt. D. C. Goebel Max Dyel and Bert all D. R. D. Caucuses Feb. I Republican and Democratic caucuses will be held in all 16 townships of the county on 7 to nominate candidates for supervisor and other township The final election will be held April 4. ACTRESS LONDON - Actress Margaret Leighton was granted a divorce from actor Laurence Harvey today on the ground he committed were 1957. Tot Killed In Home Tragedy 111. - A 2-year-old 111., girl was fatal ly wounded when shot with a souvenir rifle held by her 3-year, old brother Cathy Jo Williams died in a hospital of a head Authorities said the youngsters had taken the World War II weapon from a wall where it had been hanging in the Williams She was one of 12 children of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Her father is a construction Kennedy Is Pushing Depressed Areas WASHINGTON Kennedy has urged Congress to pass the depressed areas bm TT and make good one of his first campaign of areas of sub and consistent unemployment Is now one Wednesday in letters to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson sad speaker of the House Sam Kennedy are many places where chronic underemployment Is condition Is not confined our urban metropolitan but is spread acros rural communities and represents a handicap to our national economic clearly insufficient to accomplish permanent Nor is it any longer possible for state and local governments to carry the full 1 believe there must be a cooperative effort in which the federal government joins with private and local and state governments in a maximum Kennedy endorsed the recommendations of a depressed areas task force headed by Sen. Paul H. Many of those recommendations are embodied in a pending Senate by The Douglas would provide about 5390 million in federal funds for technical help and federal grants to foster the establishment and expansion of industries KERNER MUM ABOUT FOR CENTRALIA By MARVIN L. WASHINGTON - President Kennedy announced with dramatic impact Wednesday night that Soviet Union has freed two crewmen of a U.S. reconnaissance plane the Soviets shot down over Arctic waters last July 1, Kennedy calmly made the disclosure at his first news conference as He also announced he was continuing the ban on U.S. espionage flights over Soviet Kennedy hailed release of the airmen as amounting to removal of serious obstacle to improvement of The Soviet government called it a reflection of a serious to open a new stage in relations - gravely strained since last the two powers Kennedy said in response to questions that this made no concessions to the Kremlin to wm release of the fliers - Capt Freeman B. Olmstead of Elmira and Capt. John R. McKone of Kan. The President reported the men were turned loose at 2 a.m. Standard Wednesday Makes No Commitment Proposed 111. - A bi partisan delegation from failed yesterday to obtain a pledge from Gov. Kerner on proposed mental institutions at and Sen. Dwght Centra lia led the delegation to Springfield Friedrich wanted to learn more about the governor's 3lan for construction of rath He governor was about when he would be able to give us an In Kemer told newsmen Friedrich's delegation asked for a commitment on Harrisburg or Kerner put it this said couldn't make any I hope one will not be used as a block another because of local I hope we can build all the hospitals Tlie governor said he wants the entire mental hospital program studied by his new state director of public Dr. Francis Friedrich said the governor indicated Gerty's recommendations would weigh heavily in planning the and Harrisburg Both would be schools for mentally retarded Centralia was selected as the site of an million school during the administration of Republican Gov. William G. Money for the school had been appropriated by the general assembly before the site was Dozens of sites were considered including one near Harrisburg which was backed by Democratic Rep. Paul Powell of speaker of Illinois Powell and other Southern Illinois legislators this month a million dollar appropriation for construction of a mental institution at Backers of the Centralia school fear their institution may be reduced in size If money for the Harrisburg school is appropriated construction gets under way at Friedrich last week declared he will oppose the Harrisburg institution unless he is assured construction of the Centralia school proceeds under original succeeded in blocking quick approval of the Harrisburg appropriation in the Illinois Senate last week while Powell guided the measure rapidly through the The delegation accompanying Friedrich Wednesday included Centralia bankers Ben Ober and Hugh both Democratic leaders in Marion Centralia Mayor Walter Jim a County Democrat and Fred COLDER WEATHER ON WAY ILLINOIS HAS 3-INCH BLANKET OF SNOW Refuses To Unload In South Heads For U.S. Warships On RELEASED BY RUSSIANS and were en route back to the United They arrived by plane in The three hours after Kennedy's The held captive by tiie Soviets for almost seven were in Amsterdam only briefly and then took off for Indications were they would arrive in Washington about 4 p.m. to Their joyous wives were be N. Y. Paper Kept Fliers Release Secret 19 Hours Private Initiative alone areas of high Cash And Liquor Stolen From Club JOHNSTON safe in the basement of the Johnston American Legion Club was blasted open early today and the destroyed worth of stored The safe crackers escaped 51,000 In cash from the No one heard the WASHINGTON New York Herald Tribune has received a White House commendation for not using a world scoop it had on the release by the Soviet Union of two American White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said he had told a Herald Tribune reporter Tuesday night that publishing the news would be to the national interest and inimical to the welfare of the He said tiie David agreed to hold off doing Salinger Herald prevented the violation of an agree ment the United States and tiie U.S.S.R. which might have had regrettable The Herald Tribune's example in this case is to be highly President Kennedy disclosed the news of the release at his news after the airmen were on their way Salinger sent his commendation by telegram to Herald Tribune publisher John Hay The newspaper said its bureau got wind of the about 10 p.m. and within an hour had the essential Wise called Salinger about midnight for and Salinger asked him to withhold the ing flown here for a At his news broadcast nationwide on live television and Kennedy was not asked whether the United States or the Soviet Union had taken the initiative toward release of the fliers whose downed plane was an Air Force And the President did not reply directly to a question on whether the release resulted from some action he After the conference there were conflicting An official in close touch with Kennedy reported that Soviet Premier first brought up tlie matter when he called U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson to the Kremlin last At the State top officials said they understood that Thompson - acting on instructions from Kennedy - took the initiative re lease of the airmen during that same meeting with wearing a dark blue pinstriped was a completely unruffled master of the the entire 36%-minutes of his meeting with newsmen shice he took office last Cool and tiie 4year-old President volunteered announcement near the start of the By SAUL PETT SAN Puerto Rico they will never Portuguese rebels sailed the seized liner Santa Maria today toward some neutral port to discharge passengers held hostage for five Rebel Henrique Malta Galvao ignored a S. Navy plea to turn back to South America to unload the 38 you proceed any port northern South America you choose to discharge radioed Adm. Robert L. Dennison commander m chief of the U. S AUantic fleet advise port selected and time of Will attempt to arrange conference aboard Santa Maria s you The Navy said the message was sent Wednesday night and there has been no A Navy patrol plane reported at it had picked up the Santa Maria 700 miles northeast of the mouth of the Amazon River still toward the Portuguese colony of Angola in Galvao had announced Angola was his But it appeared more likely he might head for neutralist Ghana or where he could expect a welcome as a foe of Portugal's Premier Antonio do In a message earlier in the Galvao reiterated he would brook no foreign consider the ship the liberated piece of Portuguese messaged rebel leader Malta will never surrender or stop hi face of all the fleets of the While tiie United States and sent warships and planes to jom in the was to use force to stop the flight of tiie 20,960-ton Galvao had most to fear Salazar's which was deploying units to head off the Santa All naval commands in Portugal's overseas were Portugal's newest and fastest the Pedro was thrown hito the The frigate has a range ol 4,000 Tlie U. S. Navy sent the tanker to the area far out m the AUantic to refuel two destroyers on the other side of the AUantic ordered out to watch for the Santa The destroyers are the Vogelsand and the The Navy also reported that the atomic submarine has been ordered to trail the The submarine has been training in the public information emphasized that no attempt will be made to halt tiie liner a tirm disposition is made at a higher President Kennedy emphasized that U. S. officers had not been to board the Portuguese Galvao in his latest sent to the Broadcasting said relations between the passengers and occupation forces at my are When a Navy patrol plane made contact with the Santa Maria Galvao said his destination was the Portuguese colony on the coast of Former Dahlgren Women Are On Captured Ship - A sister of two women passengers aboard the captured liner Santa Maria says she believes tiie women are Mrs. Katherine is a sister of Mrs. Lucille Gray and Mrs. Pauline both of 3319 RIdgeland in a The women are former residents of Dahlgren in Hamilton In Golconda Mrs. Hamilton told conference regarding freeing is probably a sweater as if nothing on Page 2, Column 3)'happened- By THE PRESS was given a snow reprieve from nearly a week of zero cold But the change was no and there were the stinging temperatures would return by Friday A three-inch blanket of snow was dumped along the Mississippi River and spread eastward across the Accumulations were less in some but temperatures well below freezing prevented melting and tiie combination menaced highway The state highway division reported all Illinois roadways ered with snow which was ing and becoming slippery m Temperatures edged upward 8 or 10 degrees after overnight lows ranging from 9 at Rockford to 16 at Tonight the mercury was expected to skid back down to 10 below across the half of the Readings of to 10 above were on tap in I warming was expected j from the sunny skies Ice Storm And Snow In East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An ice storm pelted sections in the southeastern half of the nation today and more snow fell across broad areas to the Wet weather was reported in nearly half the country as winter's longest and most severe cold wave showed only slight temperatures stung Northern states marking more than a week of frigid A belt of freezing rain and sleet slicked highways and streets across broad areas from south em and eastern Texas through northern parts of the Gulf Tennessee and the All roads in the northern half of Georgia were closed by state police because of the hazardous driving Schools in much of the storm those in were Traffic also was halted on many roads in northern Glaze extended across North Carolina from Wilmington and New Bern on the lower coast to the sleet or snow was falling over most of the state and schools in many areas were In the government ordered its employes released four hours early because of a warning of 4 inches or more of snow starting around In an inaugural eve snowstorm last week the government released employes only an hour early cUid a massive traffic jam Tlie ice which broke out in Texas earlier this were blamed for at least eight including seven in Texas and one in North of the ice snow and snow flurries fell in the central and Upper Mississippi the Upper Great Lakes the central and northern the eastern Great Lakes and the northern Light snow and freezing drizzle was reported in eastern Washington and not much relief was expected immediately from the cold in the eastern two-thirds of the The Weather Bureau forecast colder weather in the Upper Mississippi Valley and parts of the and west central areas hit by temperatures of more than 30 degrees below this But the cold air this morning again dipped deep hito the with the 30s and lower reported m the Rio Grande along the Gulf Coast to western Florida and Georgia and along the Warmest was in with 70 reported in Miami and Key Air Force Captains Freeman B. of N. and John R. McKone of have been released by the Soviet President Kennedy said at his news conference Wednesday They have been held since their reconnaissance plane was shot down last Jaly I over the Barents Snow Delays Return Of Ex - Russian Their Families To Be At Deepest Snow Of Winter Here Traffic moved slowly in Mt. Vernon today through the biggest snow of the Snowfall measured three and one-half inches at 7:00 o'clock this morning and It was stUl snowing The snow ended at 8:00 a.m. and snow started melting under a bright sun by The sun was helped along by rock salt spread by city employes in a special project which began in the midst of the snowstorm at 2:00 o'clock this workers also used a road grader to scrape accumulated snow from traffic lanes along major Police reported that all streets in town appear to be passable but that some are slippery in The temperature dipped to 16 degrees last Another cold wave is tonight with temperatures YANKS WALKED INTO EMBASSY UNNOTICED MTV HEARING ON AIRLINE IS SET FOR FEB. 15 Southern Illinois Hearings Consolidated Ozark is A hearing on Mt. Vernon's for daily commercial airline service to Chicago has been for February 15, it was announced today by City Manager Chester Three Southern Illinois hearings on the proposal had been scheduled but local officials were notified today that the hearings will be consolidated in Mt. Vernon February 15. Leslie G. hearing ex aminer for the Civil Aeronautics will preside at the local hearing which has been tentatively set at the Appellate Court Donahue said that all testimony which is possible in sup port of the community's request for airline should be in writing and not There will be some oral City Manager Lewis Mt. Vernon is making an all out effort for daily airline service on a route from St. Louis to Marion to Mt Vernon to Springfield to The city manager said consolidation of the hearings will make it easier for Mt. Marion and Herrin to their testimony in requests for certificate of convenience and Ozark Air Lines is joining forces with Mt. Vemon in its attempt to get commercial air Ozark has petitioned the to Intervene in the case to assist the board in its studies of the Mt. Vernon petition for Officials of the airline have assured local leaders that they stand ready to give daily service on a to if the will certify this community for the Mt. Vemon yesterday forwarded exhibits to the Civil Aeronautics Board in containing details of why the community needs air MOSCOW - Two men baggy Russian suits en tered the U. S. Embassy Wednesday am I glad to see an said He was Capt Freeman B. Olmstead of N. one of the fliers aboard the shot down by Soviet fighters last May 1. He was accompanied by Capt. John McKone of crew The two men passed unnoticed under the noses of the Western press and diplomatic corps in Moscow because of their Details of the secret departure Moscow were disclosed today at a news conference by U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn He was careful to avoid saying anything about how their release was arranged that was not covered in President Kennedy's news The Soviet press was equally the Communist party ran a brief story on page 3. It simply reported a formal announcement of the Thompson said the two men appeared in good 01m-stead's back had been injured when the plane was shot down but he seemed The pilots seemed fated to have a difficult time even in They were delivered at the embassy door just before 10 a. m. Wednesday in order to let them board a Dutch commercial airliner at 12:40 p. m. It was discovered the plane had two flat The plane returned to the hangar and the two pilots were brought back to the They Anally took off about a. m. today alter spare tires were flown in from Opens At The Stadium the movie which won n Academy opens at The Stadium Theatre in Mt. Vernon Charlton Heston in the title role of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer spectacular which was adjudged the best movie of the The show at The Stadium will begin at 7:30 at 8:00 Friday and Saturday and at 7:30 Sunday through on Saturday and Sunday will be at 1:30 p. m. ONLY TWO TRAINS LEFT NOW C. & E. I. Trying To Stop Passenger Service Here The C. & Railroad is to discontinue trains which serve Mt. Vemon on that a petition filed with tiie Commerce Commission asks for of trains and 10. Passenger train number 10, northbound for arrives in Mt. Vemon daily at 4:38 a.m. Train 9, southbound from arrives at the Mt. at 11:47 p.m. The daily northbound service is from West Vienna to Chicago and the southbound service Is from Chicago to Southern Illinois towns served Include Mt Benton and West It was not known locally whether the has scheduled hearings on the If the railroad's petition is granted it would leave Mt Vernon with only two passenger per both over the WASHINGTON American fliers released from vlet custody are expected to Washington Friday them on their arrival at Force The whose freedom from seven months of Soviet detention was announced so dramatically by Kennedy at a televised news conference Wednesday had originally been expected to get to Washington this But the White House announced today that the two Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. spend the night at Goose they arrived this of flying on to a predicted snow Pierre White press said McKone and Olmstead landed at Goose Bay at 8:35 a.m. EST. Present prospects are that they will land at nearby Air Force Base some time noon Wives of the two men arrived at Andrews shortly after noon from Their Air Force in a bUnding they couldn't have been happier about their Stepping from the Mrs. said she fdt Mrs. McKone beamed ui are very about waiting for Mrs. McKone referring to the delay in but added she eagerly anticipated a reunion They wiU remain at the air base tonight Salinger said an Air Force accompanied the wives on their flight in an Air Force he expects to have a baby in another or so. Salinger said that Kennedy plans to greet McKone and Olmstead at the where they may make a brief statement but will not hold any McKone and Olmstead are the only known survivors of the U.S. reconnaissance plane which the Russians shot down over Barents Sea last July 1. There were six U.S. In tiie The Russians returned the body of one man to this The fate of the other is never gave up said both Mrs. and Mrs. McKone Wednesday night One was the other fighting I'm so said Mrs. Olmstead to Mrs. McKone still completely said Mrs. McKone with a Tlie two women had gotten the word that husbands were just five before President Kennedy announced it during his televised news The President telephoned Mrs. McKone after the conference and she said he told her how py he was that the fliers had been Parents Loani Via TV There was the same Wnd of overwhelming joy in where parents got the a bombshell out of the as watched Kennedy on simply broke down la said the is the most birthday fliat I have ever He is 64 But there was bitterness and on page 2, column 1)' Estel Watson Home North Of Town Burns Fire this destroyed the home of and Mrs. Estel on the Salem about five miles north of Mt Neighbors said the house aiM contents were a complete ' Mr. and who at home when the tire broke escaped without The Watson home was located on the old section of state route 37 which was when tbe overhead highway was the ' Rural firemen were aUll the flames this and vsm able to the nextdoor home of Max Waters from Cause of the blaze was not mediately City firemen unable to tbA the fire was beyond V
