Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - August 18, 1966, Mt Vernon, Illinois TEMPERATURE Wednesday high 88, low 62. 7:00 a.m. today 64. Downtown noon today 89. MI VERNON WEATHER Illinois - Fair to partly cloudy and little change in temperature through Chance of few Low night 66-72. High Friday 87-93. VOLUME 274 MOUNT AUGUST 18, 1966 30c PER WEEK SLEEPING SICKNESS IN TEXAS CITY FROM OTHER MINES FREEMAN COAL GETS CONTRACT Headed School Boards Edward Well Known Farmer Dies Edward 55, the first president of the McClellan Consolidated School board and one of the organizers of the Jefferson County Rural Fire died this morning at his Mr. a farmer in McClellan was active in KISS FOR Fair General Manager Franklin H. Rust gives Mrs. Gerhard Kampwerth of Carlyle a winning Msg at the 1966 Illinois State Mrs. who has IZ 45 grandchildren and won the Over 40" content at the State Fair She admits to 39, but officially lists her age as 71. In September Illinois To Draft 1,329 Married Men Reserve Champ Brehm Has Winner At State Fair - Major livestock competition Beared the windup today at the Illinois State and many exhibitors were going home with large amounts of Few of the big prizes were left after more grand champions were selected Wednesday and blue ribbon carcasses record prices totaling Last the champion junior swine and sheep carcasses brought only For the second consecutive of State Paul Powell put out the paying for tlie steer carcass owned by Gary Dameron of The animal dressed out at 671 Powell also paid for the reserve champion a 620-pound Angus owned by Paschal Allen and Sons of Green The grand champion Wether owned by David W. Birch of was bought for 5650 by an official of the Land of Lincoln Purebred Livestock James Taylor of Princeton paid for the senior barrow of Donald Slutz and Wayne Taft of Springfield gave SiSSO for tlie junior owned by of 111. In the milking derby which ends 17-year-old Keith Funk of Gridley kept his lead with a total of 103.68 points based on age of the cow and butterfat Trailing far behind in second place was 14, of with 90.07 Scores of grand and reserve plus top winters in the junior department were An of Moody Stock Lee's was chosen open class grand female among polled Reserve honors went to a senior yearling owned by C. E. Brehm of Mount Richard Pope of showed the grand champion open and Land of Lincoln bull while the reserve winner was exhibited by Mathers Mason In the Milking Shorthorn grand champion bull was by Darrell Crist of The champion tame from Laneview champion female was an entry of 111. Selective which drafted in August only 299 men who had been married prior to Aug. 27, 1965, wiU call an estimated five times that many in In the draft will include 1,329 such husbands and in 1,500, Director John Hammack said The oldest will be taken This group makes up the fourth of persons eligible for the draft each The action means that Selective Service has the first three categories of men The categories those delinquent to the board for such things as failing to notify of address volunteers for the and 10-to 26-year-olds who are single or who married after Aug. 26, 1965. The oldest husbands are taken Still untouched are the and sixth They are 26-to-35-year-olds who were before their 26th some because they students or had occupational and those 18^/a or 19 years The October draft quota for Illinois is 2,917. The estimated 1,500 men who will be in the call will be more than half the Nurse Slayer Speck Is Guarded In Court Room CHICAGO - Richard accused of murdering student makes a court today under the most elaborate security precautions in the memory of veteran Officials of the criminal court division of Circuit Court have arranged an security for the 24-year-old handy man and itinerant Chief Bailiff said his principal concern is to keep Speck from coming into contact wth anyone other than He has requested that the of Judge Herbert C. be cleared of in advance of the defendants As was the at Speck's Aug. 1, all persons entering the are expected to be for possible Today's proceedings are the result of a continuance requested Aug. 1 by Gerald Speck's A jury behind the courtroom has been prepared so that 24, will not have to be kept in the courtroom lockup with other Speck is expected to be his maximum security cell at the County Jail an underground tunnel to tlie adjoining Court route used for his I I Officials have not questioned or discussed the evidence A I ree him in a I vance of recent Supreme Court Chester 41, of i decisions spelling out a 1, 111., was in- i m stantly killed at 4:00 p.m. Chicago police said Fairfield Man Is Killed By 00 Page 2. Columa 3X He was cutting timber near 111., and the tragedy when he was crushed beneath a falling Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at the Richardson Chapel in Wayne City with the Rev. Otto will be in Richland cemetery near 111. The body will lie in state at the Richardson Chapel where friends may call after 10:30 a.m. Mr. McCormick was born Oct. 29, 1924, at the son of William and Ida Mae He was to Mary who He is also by three Rhonda and Tammy all at his Ida Mae of near and and a Mrs. Evelyn all of MINER KILLED 111. - Glenn 48, of rural Canton died Wednesday night in a Canton hospital from injuries he earlier in the day in an accident at a mine of the United Electric Coal Co. before Speck's arrest the young man's were found in the townhouse dormitory where they were slain and that his photograph has been identified by sole survivor of the Speck has been indicted for murder in each of the eight The nurses were strangled or stabbed to death July 14 by a maxi who into their herded them into a bedroom where he bound their hands and then did them one by one their deaths in other rooms of the Miss a Philippine exchange escaped the fate of her companions by rolling under a Police theorized the killer apparently hadn't counted his intended victims and STABBED TO DEATH 111. - A North Chicago man died of stab in a Waukegan hospital a half hour after he was found lying on a Waukegan Authorities identified him as William 24. Hutchinson lived at 1426 Prospect in North Edward Dare numerous civic in Jefferson Mr. a farmer in McClellan was active in numerous civic affairs in Jefferson Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Myers Chapel with the Rev. E. J. McClintock Friends may call at the Myers Chapel after 4 p.m. Burial will be at Memorial Mr. was a member of the McClellan school board from the time the consolidated district was formed until retiring last year due to ill He served several terms as including the one when the district was He was named to the original board of the fire district in 1947 and remained as a for 19 successive He gave up that post in also because 3f For 10 years his he was of the fire Mr. Dare was bom Nov. 10, 1910, in McClellan the son of Ray and Chloe He was manned March 1, 1930, at Pinckneyville to Vema Gates who Other His three Mrs. Piper of Belle Mrs. Vema Mae Hayse and Carol both of Mt. one Mrs. Davis of Mt. Vernon and six Bloodmobile Surpasses Goal In Visit Here The Bloodmobile collected 246 pints of blood in its two-day visit here that ended county Red Cross officials reported The quote for the visit was 200 Barbara executive secretary of the county Red Cross said were 38 first-time among those giving Only 25 persons who offered blood were rejected because of physical chapter wishes to express its thanks for all the help given to the people who made this the Red Cross She said the Red Cross board will meet at noon Friday at the Mack Restaurant to a United Fund Lee vice will TVA Contract For Caterpillar Tenn. Caterpillar Tractor 111,, has been awarded a contract by the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide heavy equipment for use on the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant project in The contract for a heavy-duty crawler with option for a second may total Tenn. - The Freeman Coal Mining a division of the General Dynamics has been awarded a contract to deliver 538,800 tons of coal for use in the Tennessee Valley Authority's westem The company operates mines in Jefferson and Williamson counties in Southem The contract will extend over a 20-month The Freeman firm was one of 13 awarded contracts by the federal The awards were based on bids placed since June 30 an are at prices ranging from 8 to 38 cents a ton higher than last the agency Dominick Car Accident Is Fatal To Sesser Man Groups HISS AND CHEER AT HEARING 60, of Sesser died in a hospital here yesterday of injuries suffered in a traffic accident last Killed the accident was Myrtle Hudgins of East St. a sister-in-law of services for are incomplete at the Russell Funeral Home in Survivors The Mrs. M u r k i a Loretta Herman of and his Mr. and Mrs. Anton of Take Pictures Calif. Lunar Orbiter began its moon photography Scientists said information radioed from the indicated the camera worked perfectly when the first 20 frames were They were awaiting data from Orbiter about the on-board processing of the The first Orbiter moon pictures to be transmitted to and released to television this Experts said there were unexplained changes in the of the moon but they expected no photographic Car Rolls Off Crosses 10th, Hits Pole An unoccupied car rolled off a parking lot here early last crossed one of Mt. busiest streets and struck a utility Police said the incident about 7:50 p.m. The they explained was by Ruth 1308 on the lot at the Tri-City Grocery Store lot at and The car rolled off the which is on the east side of lOth It went over the curbing and continued across The auto finally came to a stop when it rammed into a utility pole on the west side of 10th. By P. LEUBSDORF WASHINGTON - A House committee investigating Nam war groups faces a major decision involving witnesses today following the walkout of seven lawyers in another stormy The representing a dozen subpoenaed marched from Wednesday's hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in protest of the forced expulsion of another The committee must decide whether to dismiss the witnesses if they fail to get new lawyers by a noon EDT deadline If the witnesses are the committee could start questioning a number of people waiting to testify oq the need for legislation to curb antiwar More than three dozen persons have been arrested during two days of hearings - 19 of them Wednesday - most for hissing and cheering during the tumultuous sessions in the sprawling hearing seen said Rep. Richard a committee after several of the subpoenaed witnesses tried to make speeches denouncing the committee and the Viet Nam War while being directed by acting Chairman Joe R. to get new Ichord said the hearings had shown very serious need for this Bills sponsored by Pool and other committee members would slap maximum and 20-year prison sentences on Americans who block shipment of U.S. men and materials to Viet or who help the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. The central figure in Wednesday's which completely overshadowed testimony taken by the was Arthur A. a 5-foot-2, middle-aged attorney and Rutgers University law Kinoy has been the chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union which is representing two witnesses in a suit challenging the constitutional authority for the committee's That suit is before a federal the court delayed indefinitely a hearing scheduled Wednesday to give the judges more time to study legal Phillip A. 22, a recent Yale University graduate from was testifying about his undercover work in antiwar groups on assignment from William F. Buckley's conservative National when a committee counsel asked him about the activities of Walter D. Teague m. Attorney William M. Kunstler sprang to his feet and demanded that the testimony be taken THEY'LL WED AUGUST 27-Robert A. 22, son of the vice and Donna 21, beamed as they announced their engagement at a New Year's eve party in a They set the wedding date for July 9, but MiM Erickson was hospitalized With pneumonia and the ceremony was Now the date Is August 27, In when a wlU be She is and Bob is GIVES LBJ AUTHORITY SENATE OKs CALL-UP OF GUARD Bus And Truck 9 32 Injured Va. - A passenger bus and a collided headon today near this killing 9 persons and 32. Police said persons died in the crash on U.S. 29 and another was dead on at a 20 miles north of ' Among the dead Robert Lee 25, driver of the Railway Agency and Ralph J. of the Trailways bus. Sesser Council Adopts Measure On New City Hall SESSER - The city council last night adopted an ordinance specifying details for sale of in bonds for a new city indicated the city will advertise for bids on construction within 30 The ordinance was passed on first reading after the council had waived rules requiring a second reading The bonds will retire in 1984. YOUTH 111. Rock in secret or that he p th died Wednesday be car an When rejected the Kinoy leaped up to join the legal on Page 2, Column 2> ment and burned on Illinois 26 near in Ogle Police said the victim was Richard 19. THE KID'S ALL Mark Patterson of found that being a target in booth can dampen your He posed aa target and people paid a penny m at him daring WASHINGTON - The overriding objections from the White House and the has given President Johnson standby authority tq call up thousands of reservists for possible active duty in Viet Voting 66-21 Wednesday to tie the provision to the pending annual defense money the Senate heeded arguments that many youths were joining the Army Reserve and National Guard to avoid duty in the Southeast Asian can't permit the six-month reserve training to become an umbrella to avoid active declared Sen. Stuart a former secretary of the Air Wednesday's vote amounted to a hard-fought victory for Sen. Richard B. of the Senate Armed Services and Sen. Leverett its ranking President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. have rejected previous proposals for mobilizing any of the units of the armed The Senate faces another battle over the huge defense today - this time from a small band of dissenting Democrats who are seeking to slash more than million from it. Sen. George offered the proposal to cut the funds from the recommended by the Senate Appropriations McGovern described his proposed move as modest reduction that would tlie in line with the budget Joining him Joseph S. Gaylord William and Stephen M. The proposal specifically would authorize service for individual reservists of up to 24 consecutive less any time previously served on active training It could apply to thousands of reservists and National Guardsmen who volunteered to take a few training duty with the active or regular forces and then served additional years in the or the amendment would exempt reservists or guardsmen who served in World War the Korean War or on active duty for more than two The Senate rejected 62-26 a proposal from Sen. that the callup be limited to young men not in units or to entire Russell argued that only seven or eight reservists would be taken from any preventing any weakening of one Noting that President Johnson did not want the authority and on Page 2, Column 9) DALLAS IS SPRAYED BY AIRPLANES Kill 57 Stricken As Outbreak Becomes By TOM JOHNSON Tex. - U.S. Air Force planes begin systematic spraying of Dallas with insecticide Friday in a massive effort to check the spread of an encephalitis A U.S. Public Health Service official said it would be the first time have been used to fight such an City Health Director Hal J. Dewlett told a news Wednesday that the number of probable cases since July stood at 57, with two deaths possibly caused by the Dewlett quoted health officials as saying the situation has reached epidemic Three craft arrived Wednesday from the 4500th Base Air Force to prepare for the spraying of an insecticide known as The object is to kill swarms of the culex mosquito believed to be the carrier of the St. Louis type of encephalitis which has hit this city of 750,000. Extraordinarily heavy rains which swamped Dallas in April are by health officials as one cause of the The excess water created breedings grounds ' Dr. John chief ot the Research and Development Communicable Disease U.S. Public Health said Malathion is harmless to human The kills flies and on he kilpatrick said the planes would disperse the insecticide over 500 square miles of Dallas and its suburbs from an altitude of 150 He said the spray would fall to the ground in fine and would every square inch of territory where mosquitoes may The aerial spraying is to continue for six or seven Kilpatrick Dewlett said ground spraying would continue in the city through Dr. J.P. chief of infectious diseases at Parkland said the epidemic may not reach its peak until the last week in The St. Louis type of encephalitis brings on stiff headache and a medical spokesman These symptoms are similar to those of a type commonly known as The St. Louis so named because the first recorded epidemic occurred in St. Louis in the summer of 1933, causes inflammation of the The Parkland spokesman said the St. Louis type is not contagious between But he added that suspected victims are isolated as though they had a contagious disease because symptoms of the two types of encephalitis are The spokesman said the disease is more serious if the patient is He said very few victims under 40 years old Dewlett said the epidemic was similar to the outbreak which hit Houston in 1964, when 243 persons were struck by St. Louis Fatal Accident Near E. St. Louis 111. State Police say a 25-year-old East St. Louis man has been killed this morning in a accident on Highway 161 east of Route 158. Police say that Freddie apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his car and ran off the striking H bridge Cothran was dead on arrival at a hospital in He lived at 416 No. 69th
