Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - December 3, 1970, Mt Vernon, Illinois Wednesday high 78, last low 52. 7:00 a.m. today 61. at noon 70, humidity 75. VOLUME 56 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR FAVORS FOR A FORECAST Vernon Zone - Partly cloudy chance of showers and thunderstorms and Low mid to upper 40s. Friday partly cloudy and high in 50s to low 60s. 1 MOUNT DECEMBER 3, 1970 50 Cents Per Week - Single Copy 10c TO CALLEY WITNESS Constitution Makes Us In Canada Terrorists MONTREAL - Ai three-story suspected terrorist j hideout was surrounded today by swarming police and army forces searching for British envoy James R. Oct. 5. A Quebec Provincial Police spokesman in Quebec confirmed that police knew where 49, is being residence on Des Recollets in northeast In Prime Minister | Pierre Elliott Trudeau said the height of the Montreal preparations that there may be a break soon in the kidnaping of the British Trade speaks to an audience night at the Mt. Vernon high staff Jones Up Straight Day Witwer Soys YORK - The I market bounded ahead in | trading pushing its rally into the 10th consecutive noon the Ddw Jones industrial average had spurted 9.72 points to 812.36. It advanced 8.35 points on Trading was heavy with 6.54 million shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange in the first Advances ran up a margin of than 3 to 1 over declines among issues traded on the Big Cairo Schools Closed After Bomb Threat 111, - Schools in troubled city of ordered closed today caller warned of bomb in the high police and firemen searched the high school after a.m. but found School and police officials ordered all city schools closed for the entire Motorist Killed By Train 111. - of Patoka was killed just after midnight iThen his car was struck by a about 60 of St. police said Walker was the son of Marion County Glen Vote Will Be With By MIKE aaron Sam president of the Constitutional last night told an audience in Mt. - have a destiny on Dec. 15. once in a lifetime question is whether we will make Dec. 15 a hitching post to the past or a grand and glorious stepping stone to the Witwer along with six Southern Illinois in favor of the proposed constitution to an audience of about 800 in the high school He leaned into the his deep voice with what could almost be called an evangelistic zeal as he raised his hands and implored his audience to vote for the new Speaking of the present he are not living under the present we living around it. have twisted and turned and the moral price has been are teaching people that they don't have to live under the just around He said at been downright Witwer said that the establishment of the constitutional convention by the voters in 1968 was escape from a legal At Clay City Poison Gas Peril In RR Wreck 111. operations were underway today after about 20 cars of Baltimore & Ohio freight including two of a toxic derailed Wednesday night in Clay about 100 miles east of The cars crashed into Clay City's causing heavy damage but sealed off a two-block area of the town after learning two of the damaged cars were vinyl chloride A leak on one of the tank cars was sealed but the two blocks remained closed Thursday morning as a precautionary Sheriff William Hiser said workmen would have the main railroad line open by Rail was able to bypass the scene on a he On Page 2 Col. 2) TAKE THE IN MY LAI a former rifleman who served in Lt. William platoon in pleaded the fifth amendment eight times during Tuesday's session of Galley's trial at Ft. Ga. Ihe court went into a closed session after Boyce refused to Galley is on trial for the murder of 102 Vietnamese in 1968. Rend Lake Wants An Acre R-L WEIGHS LAND ROAD TROUBLE Mental Health Center Director Employed Here Richard a clinical will become director of the Mental Health Center in Mt. Vernon on January 1. He has been employed at a salary of per Durfee presently serving on the staff of the Coles County Mental Health MOTORIST PRAIRIE DU 111. - Carrol 21, of Prairie Du was killed early today when his car struck a guard rail on the Modoc road southeast of Prairie Dii Rocher and When Temperature Drops College Gas Service Will Be Cut Off Rend Lake College custodians may well find getting out of bed in the middle of the night this winter and having to go to the college's Ina campus to turn on its auxiliary oil heating When the temperature drops below 26 gas service to the campus will be shut off under the school's interruptable gas contract with the Central Illinois Public Service Co. When the temperature gets that the gas company wall call one of the school's custodians and give him an hour's notice that heating gas service will be shut off until the temperature comes back up to 26 The board recently voted to buy auxiliary service fuel oil from tre Service Co. for 12.49 cents per College officials have estimated they will use about 45,000 gallons of fuel oil this College president Dr. James Snyder said this morning that Continued On 2 Col. 6) Three committees of the Rend Lake College board of trustees will meet tomorrow at the college's Ina All three committees will meet in the office of college president Dr. James The personnel and salary committee will discuss hiring an assistant for college business manager Paul Fitch and what Snyder as a in faculty salary The physical facilities committee will discuss the sale of several acres of land to the Corps of And the finance committee will discuss insurance for personal The meetings are open the Snyder The at its November set an asking price of an acre for the 90.26 acres of land the Corps wants to All that land is within the Rend Lake take At that the board also approved asking for for a perpetual easement on 5;51 acres of land near the college's sewage treatment Tuesday Meeting in Chicago Officials of the the Illinois Building Authority and Scott will meet in Chicago Tuesday to discuss the condition of the college's south access road Ina said this morning that architects for the has asked Benton consulting engineer Bud Givenrod to look into whether the prime contractor for the the Robert Lipps Co. of Mt. built the road according to If the road was built to is then In My Lai Massacre Court Martial BOYCE HAD INVOKED 5th EIGHT TIMES FT. Ga. - A member of Lt. William Galley's My Lai who invoked his rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify at Galley's court-martial was granted immunity today from any The order was signed by Maj. Gen. Orwin C. commanding officer at where Galley is being tried on a charge of murder in the deaths of 102 Vietnamese It was read by the prosecutor at the The judge then ordered the Allen C. 22, recalled to the ness stand to see if he were willing to answer questions under A similar sequence appeared in the offing against Paul who is regarded as a star prosecution witness since he has publicly admitted killing 35 to 40 Prosecutor Aubrey Daniel III said now a on the post with his and may invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he takes the witness standi On Boyce invoked the Fifth eight even to testify to being in Galley's After a closed with public he resumed the stand this morning and few of the questions he had rejected He admitted he was in in Galley's that he knows Galley him on March 16 the My Lai slayings Judge Reid W. Kennedy said he had studied hte evidence and decided that claim of was well-taken on more substantive There i was no i Gregory Thomas a student from followed Boyce to the He was a machine gunner in Galley's Olsen to crossing a at the east side of the village where 70 of the slayings are said to have occurred and seeing S. Sgt. David Mitchell and two others going to the raised his rifle to the firing position and I heard Olsen He had been a witness at the trial at Ft. where Mitchell was On Pase 2 Col. 4) On Page 2 Col. St FAREWELL GESTURE - As observation ' smoke grenades pass overhead in a top officers of the United States 25th Infantry Division take part id farewell ceremonies at their base at Chu northwest of The division is being reassigned to ihe U.S. under a phase of the planned withdrawal from South Man Attorney 138 85 Viets Missing 2 Strange Hunt 2 Big Twists In U.S. Planes Tate Case In Vietnam LOS ANGELES - Sharon Tate murder trial developed two more strange mysterious disappearance of a defense attorney and the sudden reappearance of a missing member of Charles NAVY BARGE IDENTIFIED AS ONE that DUMPED Barge barely visible below tug and is at Mayport Naval Station A spokesman for the state of Florida said this was one of two barges that dumped gallons of waste oil off the North Florida coast An oil slick covering 160 square 2'3 miles Wednesday and threatening SHOPPING DAYS m CHRISTMAS Norris City Man Electrocuted In Freak Accident A 22-year-old Norris City man j was electrocuted early this morning when he stepped on a i downed power line while ning from his car after a collision with another car on Route j 1, in Norris Richard Walters had been ving a car which sideswiped another car while attempting to The two cars ran off the road and over several power Walters ran from his car and was electrocuted when he stepped on one of the downed The driver of the other Fredrick suffered serious injuries when his car dropped over a nearby and dropped 60 feet to the ground below after the crash A passenger in the Walters car was The accident occurred ^t 12:12 a.m. i ATTORNEY RONALD HUGHES Manson's hippie style lo surrender on charges in a separate The bearded Ronald 's the object of a sheriff's helicopter and ground search in wilderness 130 miles north of Los A Larry said he believed Hughes was marooned there on a weekend outing by mudslides caused by torrential The fugitive family bearded Bruce 27, made a dramatic surrender Wednesday amidst a crowd of newsmen and giggling girl followers of He had been sought for nine months on murder charges On Page 2, Col. 1) SAIGON - U.S. planes and helicopters the mountains of central South Vietnam for the wreckage of two American transport planes missing since the weekend with a total ' of 38 Americans and 85 Vietnamese Heavy clouds and low ceilings continued to hamper the One of the planes disappeared last Friday with six Americans and 73 Vietnamese The U.S. Command announced Sunday that it was Today the command announced a second Sunday with five American 27 American passengers and 12 A spokesman said it was on a scheduled passenger The command refused lo say where it took off and where it was going because the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese use that information to attack survivors and those for Clo ud cover over the rugged mountainous area has been heavy all and officials said no trace of either plane has been Nor has anything been picked up from the emergency radios airmen carry to give their position if they Officials said it was believed that reduced visibility from the overcast was a factor in both plane was equipped with although both had navigational aids in poor 32 U.S. Deaths j Also in the The allied commands weekly casualty summaries showed that the total of American battlefield deaths dropped to 32 last 33 less than the week before and about what they had On Page 2 Col. 5)
