Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - June 27, 1963, Mt Vernon, Illinois TEMPERATURE Wednesday high 93, low 67. 7:00 a.m. today 72. Downtown noon today 91. Ml VERNON MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL FAVORS FOR NONE A NEWSPAPER ' WEATHER Illinois - Fair to partly cloudy and continued Chance Df a lew widely scattered or thunderstorms Low tonight 66-72. High Friday 90-96. VOLUME XLIIi - NO. 232 MOUNT JUNE 27, 1963 30c PER WEEK KENNEDY VISITS THE AULD SOD Boy from Power Line CITY SALES TAX INCREASE IS DEFEATED Illinois approved the general stale tax increase of the current legislative It is a one cent hike a package on The passed by a vote of goes to Gov. Otto Ker when two-year budget calls for no state tiw Dublin Greets Kennedy Mt. Vernon firemen use platform of snorkel fire truck to gently lower 15-year-old Bobby Lochner to the where an The youth was knocked unconscious when he touched an electric line while climbing the tree at liis aunt's home north of Ready to rush the boy to the hospital from the Fire Lt. Donald Hahn and Guy Lois Lochner climbed this big tree north of Mt. Vernon late Wednesday to pull her 15, from an electric She is pictured holding lier unconscious son while she awaits Bobby severe burns and was taken to Good His smoking was pulled off of The injured is placed on a stretcher by Loren Dodson and Merle of Myers ambulance At left Bobby's worried Robert watches the rescue From Uie left Mr. Guy Fire Donald Mr. the injured fireman Bailey and Asher who helped rescue the At right rear Bobby's and Fire Captain Dethrow look Jane Youth Burned By Electric Line 15-Year-Old Boy Has Brush With Death In Tree A 15-year-old boy had a brush with death late Wednesday when he touched a 7,200 volt electric line while climbing a tree at a home three miles north of on the Salem After the harrowing Robert Harold Lochner was reported in fair condition at Good Samaritan Hospital today with deep He suffered third degree bums on the arm and Mother To Rescue who resides in and his Mrs. De Gaulle What? He was about 25 feet above the ground in the tree when he contacted the electric line and was knocked The feeder electric line traveled the His mother climbed the tree and pulled him loose from the electric She then supported her unconscious son to keep him from falling until help Three including a Asher also cUmber the three and helped support the PARIS - A government spokesman said today France never has doubted President Kennedy's intention to defend Western Europe but wondered if this policy will be carried out by Us The direct reply to Kennedy's speech Tuesday at Frankfort came from Minister Alain obviously speaking on behalf of President de In a luncheon talk to the Parisian Press he French government has never the resolution of Kennedy until firemen arrived with Lois were visiting at Bobby home of his Mrs. consciousness in a short Put it may well ask what the - cessor of President Kennedy may say io 10 years Dees of Route 5, when the accident at page 3. GoL 3). Wirtz Testifies For Rights WASHINGTON of Labor W. said to-day the government soon will issue new standards to make sure there is no discrimination in employment on federal The government's nondiscrimination policy in the industry will be he to make sure before a contract is awarded contractors can comply - not after work on the contract The forum for announcement was a meeting of a House judiciary subcommittee he in support of President Kennedy's civil rights Of the quest for improving the lot of the American Wirtz said in his prepared There has been no more important issue before the land the only the issue of war and Wirtz followed Atty. Gen. Robert F. who passage of the - noring a personal appeal by Mayor Richard J. Daley of the Illinois Senate Revenue has killed a to let cities add a half-cent sales While a former and 34 other mayore supporting his stand sat through the the committee 9-7, Wednesday to dump the measure the second It Wiis also the second time this month that Daley put in an for the and was slapped The would have city councils to double ihe current half-cent sales levy and use 50 per cent of the revenue to cut property With the aame the committee down bills to allow cities to tax cigarettes up to Z cents a package and impose taxes as high as 50 cents a gallon on alcoholic Daley and the other formed a two-hour parade of trying lo convince the committee Illinois cities need more money to meet salary increases and demands for improved Concentrating his position on the argument that the legislature does not know Daley us to home rule legislation so we may make Chicago one of the great cities of the Before the tax package was the committee rejected an amendment by Sen. Grange to require a referendum vote in adopting a sales tax Criticizing the Daley said that the way to shun responsibility is to put a referendum on With additional income from a higher sales Daley good mayor could save 75 per cent of this tax package to reduce property In a sharp exchange with Daley was asked if ho thought Chicago should have a home rule retorted we ought to be a a separate Joseph president of the Illinois Retail Merchants and officials of two other statewide lined up against the tax which passed the House last A similar set of was defeated this month by the Senate Meek said that sales taxes would hurt border city merchants in competition with surrounding states with Also opposing the tax bills were the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce the Taxpayers Federation of MAKES STOP AT GRANDPA PAT'S HOME President Drinks Tea fn Barnyard With Flies To Port Ancestor Left 120 President Kennedy waves 14. crowd lining Arran Quay on thp the In Wednesday alter he In for ii Kennedy Is en route Park where lilie will reside with S. Kennedy wiis In Wednesday and flew In where he was by Ireland's president de lie is on a lour of Space Blonde lOK 65-FOOT TRUCKS May Go ON ROADS KTo Berlin By JOHN O. BERLIN is speculation Premier Khrushchev may bring Soviet spacewoman Valentina lo Friday in an attempt lo offset President Kennedy's triumphant visit to West Young GOP Hear By THOMAS A. REEDY Ireland President Kennedy to the homestead of his Irish forefathers today and drank tea in the barnyard with cousins and their The third widow Ann laid long tables for cakes and pies to servo some in Sunday host and some in The in lha barnyard between Ryan's house and the tin-roofed cottage the President's Patrick left when he emigrated to Boston 120 years The cottage now is a storage - SPRINGFIELD Hundreds of jubilant Irish Illinois House has passed a around ihc lane m of to trucks feet long to operate on in The limit now is 60 Ryan's The President came to the hamlet of a The House the welcome from sands at nearby New the back to the Wednesday for concurrence in a from Patrick vote was to the United Rep. lo illic the trucks to intr Ihe er have to do out today lo hoar from to avoid Kennedy told I lo whip up to drawing a roar of among the East FRANCISCO said the Soviet Young Rep. I'd bo the trucks at the Albatross the Factory The main The is a might a now over the night speech due lo factory on the other side Soviet on German Sen. Barry roads to There hits been speculation But the general is that he is too with the Rod lake on the West for a new period of acute is little that even the 26yoai-()ld to The President Mrs. of more 1,000 youthful The away Ryan and the Kennedys who publicans going into the third dayens of relatively for the of their four-day also approved bills toj was a fine effort and we Alao slated to appear were create a you the U.S. William hoard in the 13epartmont promise you we and of California in the and lo increase come oftener than woman could bring out the | and Jack Tax Cut Chances or arouse Ihc that greeted Kennedy in West Berlin Gerhard an East Gorman Communist said during a round-table discission with East Berlin newsmen visits of Khrushchev and Kennedy cannot be was coming lo support East Germany's policy of peace as well as to honor Ensi Gorman boss Walter who will be 70 Kennedy did nothing but the West German militarists who want to start war He never said a single word in West about the necessity of keeping peace in the Goetting Khrushchev is scheduled to land at on Ihc outskirts of the city's and drive in a motorcade to the East Berlin city tJio East Gorman news agency ADN Khrushchev wil be given a reception by city then go lo Ulbricht's It was not known how long Khrushchev would stay in East lor of at Ml three wore to low the load of Oregon Gov. Mark attempt to a dealing fees in Cook every 10 from to 10. i Ambassador Matthew Rejected by the House was kept reminding the it was time to go but Kennedy was having too good a time to himself away Finally the boarded his who the the state criminal code to Republicans Wednesday to out syndicated a united front and stop also to party bills to fly to discord appeared said were aimed at In by the Irish m the ranks nnd in election fraud in the President Iho concurrent mooting of the Col- called for an offered him the freedom of commission to After a day of over both The President landed m his college wound up with two land Cook County election helicopter at the Wexford park elected for the next a elected soccer field and motored past claiming to be the to take over the crowds to the Barry Hps in 196,i. i statue on Crescent The more moderate of the two i George The town declared the day a is Ward White from the bills were a holiday except for essential student at Cornell law to prevent election frauds was backed by outgoing Young Republican Leonard J. Sandra Sponco of Allegheny wiis named on the While On the other side of the a more conservative group chose Jerry a law dent at Ihe University of Kansas I they would help take away some Tlie President had left Dublin in of the stigma from Chicago that a cold gusty rain for the 110-mile was created by the last two flight to Now but the skies and the weather was Democratic leaders said thel bright clear when ho landed bills wore objectionable because to the cheers of they would be mandatory in Cook The streets of New and permissive in the sleepy port of 5,000-bulged from Ho had the with crowds of excited Irish who cheered wildly as the President WASHINGTON - Republican congressional said today the prospects of a tax cut this year are becoming Sen. Everett M. Senate minority said that in the light of pressure for civil rights he lias begun to whether the administration wants a tax cut for this calendar He added that when the administration wants something vitally it who to put on the and seems to be no pressure at the present for a tax Rep. Charles A. House minority told the same news conference that accumulating evidence the matter of a tax cut more improbable all the put it this of a tax this year becomes increasingly Yank Killed In Viet Nam War No Right To Kill Fleeing Youth man has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for slaying a youth fleeing a ransacked Theodore K. was convicted Wednesday under the Illinois Criminal Code which forbids the use of a gun to defend property unless the owner is Chain Wounded Suspect To Bed h lo Ihe quay in an open man James Harff appropriating President Of Peace n for of tourism in Minihan of the Dickson s told back to the Senate for settlement 1 late John XXIII was of a House to place as the Pope of We tourist commission under the like John Fitzgerald Board of to bo known as the the commission President of would have conie under the Con- Minihan and the other 111. lors Kennedy with gifts said Dann had to approval was voted of and to his hospital bod the Illinois At the President's a he had been to consider of violins and flutes wjce by blasts early of seven up medley of Irish I around the Kennedy tapped his foot in ob- Manon Coun y officials said vious of nearby sandoval address system the Stop some hasty repairs ing to prevent a shot and At Sinters James P. 13. Feb. 10 Republican members made clear that the GOP price tag for the Democratic get the through Congress is a strong hand in writing the 1 South Viet Nam They showed the administration U.S. Force captam was can count on GOP support only if it is willing to compromise on its sweeping BOY GETS NEW FACE BEVERLY Calif. 14, once oaie killed today when his plane crashed cm a strafing run a Communist guerrilla concentration 70 miles west of Also killed in the crash of the single engine fighter was a Vietnamese ol the American to the Hinsdale home of The defendant he fired several shots at the running then shot him in the back with the 22-caliber was looking after the house while his parents were on State's Atty. William J. Hauler argued that there is no unrestricted right to defend He called it a relic of frontier and law of the frontier is John attacked the law as one that Hofmeister could be sentenced to 1-10 years in He is free on bond until a motion for probation is heard next Girl Killed In Newton Wreck 111. 16-year-old Wheeler girl was fatally injured in a collision Wednesday on 33, near The Illinois Police said Hit By Blaze S. LOSING GOLD of the homeliest bow in his withheld pending - of He was the going to foreign nations is WASHINGTON - The nation's gold reserve problem is becoming Sen. J. said said the number of U.S. goes home vrith a face transformed 11^ modem in i South Viet Nam imcc 196L that come back to this He introduced his Eunice and Joan along with Fire heavily labor leader George Tucker's Truck gas whose family came from and restaurant at 1 The which appeared to stari from gulled the interior of the and gas Don operator of Iho After the the crowd swarmed in on the President and the police gave up to fend off the enthusiastic consists of a stop said he had some insurance of a country lane not enough to cover ihe heavy and a few the Linda Joyce slop is located on The ancestral homo was last in i visited by Kennedy in 1947 when was a passenger in a car driven by her Jesse 18. Police said the car collided with a car driven by William S. 37. of Bickers and Fox were The driver of the third Alva 71, of was not police DEPRESSED ABEAS VOTE WASHINGTON - is how the senators voted Wednesday when the Senate on a roll the million depressed areas U. S. Route The fire broke out about 10 p.m. and was brought under control by the Dahlgren fire department about 2:00 a. m. Youth Helped Killer Escape said today Alvin 16, has admitted hacksaw idades to Ronald Metzger who sawed his way of County Jail Tuesday being sentenced for he was a It bears a sign identifying it as the Kennedy Removed For the was covered with a manure pile was removed from a nearby and the farm animals were Kennedy received a ringing welcome from about a quarter of a jubilant Irishmen Dubliners waved banners John as the presidential motorcade drove to the residence of U.S. Ambassador v
