Southern Illinoisan (Newspaper) - April 23, 1964, Carbondale, Illinois PUBLICATION OFFICE 227 W Main 5 12th N Uth Volume a Copy Two 24 to Fret THURSDAY APRIL 231964 Elated LBJ Tells US Of End To Rail Threat President Johnson talks to newsmen in Rose Garden AP Wirephoto In com eTox Case Petitioners Attack Ban On Prayer Washington April 23 AP The House Judiciary tee was deluged today with and arguments Q innocent ing a constitutional amendment 0 a federal indictment Stratton Says Hes Innocent April 23 CAP With government consent to permit prayers in p u b 1 i c j charging him with a personal income tax evasion The onetime Republican lead er now a country squire on his gentlemans farm near Spring schools Petitions with 36000 signa tures from Ohio Kentucky and California were presented by Reps Louis C and Craig Hosmer They and several other mem bers of Congress testified in fa vor of overturning the Supreme t MHH Former Gov William G was given permission to travel anywhere within the country while his trial is pend ing Ordinarily defendants are forbidden to leave the 26 coun ties forming the northern Fed field appeared in U S District Court on an indictment made public the day after the Illinois primary election April 14 A grand jury returned the VUt UL j Courts decisions banning preceding week but it was cial school prayer and required suppressed so as not to affect in Vift Bible reading in class A total of 111 have proposed constitutional amend ments and most of them plan to testify or submit statements to the committee One Rep William C Cramer said the Supreme Court had distorted the original intent of the First Amendment by its decisions This amendment was writ ten to prevent national govern mental control over religion and the establishment of a state church he said It was not thing wrong whatsoever the primary Stratton waived reading of the indictment accusing him of failure to report in in come during his second four year term as governor 1957 1960 and evading the tax on it He declined to discuss the charges with reporters saying I have already made my statej ment and have nothing further to say He referred to a statement is sued through an attorney on April 15 in which he said I do not believe I have done any eral District of Illinois Judge Robson also granted Strattons request to absent himself from the June 23 hear ing at which counsel will repre sent him That court session will be be fore Judge Hubert Will who now is vacationing in Europe Stratton said be wished to leave the northern district to stay at his farm at Cantrall Sangamon County with his wife Shirley He said Mrs Stratton is under a physicians care for a heart condition Rail News Sparks Rally On Market New York April 23 API Kails advanced on a broad front sparking a stock market rally early this afternoon Trad ing was heavy The rails responded to news that the longstanding dispute over work rules had been set tled and that the threat of a nationwide strike this Saturday had been removed Airlines which had stood to pick up some traffic in the event of a rail tie up were down rath er sharply The rest of the list was up on balance although there were some other soft spots The tone was generally high er among steels Big Three mo tors chemicals and oils Nonferrous metals declined Cigarette stocks were mixed along with aerospace issues and electrical equipments The Associated Press average of 60 stocks at noon was up 16 at 3080 with industrials up 17 rails up 25 and utilities up 1 The Dow Jones industrial av at noon was up 279 at 82636 Texas Gulf trimmed intended to destroy religion or Dressed in adark blue suit For Southern Illinois Partly Apmc to make the state and religion and dark tie Stratton appeared cloudy Friday with chance of accusing M chi en alien or hostile lo one another fe a minutes a period or two of showers Gov George n a Reun m e Wyman in his testimony said j Judge Edwin A Robson of U S the courts rulings indicate j District Court Americans are getting so big The judge set June 23 as the for their britches they dont day on which he will determine j 1 IU need God in their public insti Constitutional Issue The matter of sticking to the constitutional questions during the hearings was brought up Wednesday by members who were disturbed by testimony in the issue of prayers in school pitted the godly against the godless Rep John V Lindsay R NY was the first to complain I hope members who seriously question the issue raised here are not going to be charged with being antiGod he said Lindsay said witnesses should relate the proposed amendments to the First Amendments pro vision that Congress shall make no law respecting an es of religion or pro the free exercise there the date of Strattons trial Low yesterday 54 7 am to night Not much change in being a Republican Lows tonight in 60s George N Higgins formally an Highs Friday in 70s today his candidacy for The E a Ferndale aut until the fall term of Hish 76 10 am and former state be held until the fall term of court starting in September Stratton was released on his own recognizance High yesterday 76 10 am day 61 President Victorious In Move To Bar Strike THANKS MR PRESIDENT Cathy May Baker 7 Park Forest presses pencil to cheek as she prepares to went before television cameras Wednesday night to announce settlement of the long highly complex dispute a little more than 48 hours before a sched uled strike threatened to tie the P i nations economy in knots of ed national railroad strike Thg agreement in effect gave mentioned receiving a letter union financial gains from Cathy asking him to or the rail day night Johnson had estimat ed a strike would have idled 7 million American workers en dangered the health conditions and virtually paralyzed the economy Johnson gave due credit to the five federal negotiators headed by Secretary of Labor W Willard Wirtz who em and exhausted from day and night efforts at untangling one of the longest and most complicated labor quarrels in the annals of col bargaining The unions won pay increases for railroad yard employes ex pense money for overnight lay overs maintenance of present mileage payments and s e v e n paid holidays for employes district The railroads gained the right be a wildcat and he the union to cut the number of employes leader would be subject to disnow required to man as provided by our track maintenance and limited use of tram Johnson obviously elated crews for yard work under cer Washington April 23 CAP A give and take agreement has ended the threat of a na railroad strike with President Johnson a victor in the toughest domestic test of bis administration A few hours after the agree ment was reached two dissi dent union officials threatened to strike part of the New York Central Railroad But sources involved in the negotiations in Washington discounted the pos that the threat would be carried out Charles Luna president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen issued the following Trainmen issued the following statement strike is authorized on the New York Central eastern district any strike would tain conditions Union withdrawal of demands for overtime pay for road em ployes and night pay for all classes of train crewmen also represented gains for manage ment One Unresolved Issue The only unresolved issue was the railroads proposal to Park Forest presses pentu union members Texas Gulf trimmed an to cheek as she prepares to from Cathy asking him to fol jetting the proposal to corn to a fraction and Cur write a thank you note to keep the railroads running so reduce Just bine some divisional tram runs tis Publishing showed a irac President Lyndon Johnson her grandmother could attend many be affected thus lengthening the number of tional decline rh Prudent in announcing her first communion h uch the before crews must be re decline Both stocks have been boomed by the mineral ery in Ontario where they have interests Some rail stocks were up on sizable opening blocks Gains of about 2 were posted for Soo Line which has reported high er earnings and Louisville Nashville Pennzoil advanced more than 2 Prices were higher on the American Stock Exchange Corporate bonds were mixed with rails higher Few changes appeared among US govern ment bonds her first communion AP Wirephoto Chart Policy Debate j or how much money the rail roads may save wont be known for some time after the general Johnson Offers To Meet With Republican thus lengthening the number of miles before crews must be re This issue will be referred to tor some uiuc agreement is translated into a national committee of labor contract language and management and too pn Washington April 23 AP more war in The biggest issues of the long dispute elimination of some 30 1000 jobs and revision of the number of the rest of train crews were not at stake in the new negotiations They are in court Viet Nam and At the time of the threatened President Johnson said more appeasement he would like to confer person He said that if he could talk ally with Republican the major Republican as tial aspirants so they could they might be able to r 3 MICHIGAN GOP CALLS Detroit April 23 AP chart a positive course for dis foreign policy prob I cussing i lems find some common ground as a foundation for dis of Viet Nam and other wtg Johnson at a news outside Johnson said he would to Mic announced that a relationship with theRe publican presidential nominee eign would be the GOP nomination for gover a Ferndale auto senator actually became the Sun rises am sets first in the Republican field has not announced pm Want To Increase Earnings He said Henry Cabot Lodge He said he and Eisenhower ambassador to South Viet to discuss foreign policy and a potential GOP nominee matters and reach understand already gets the information lings on the way to debate them In addition to Wallace briefings will be offered to Gov The information to be offered Nelson Rockefeller of New Johnson said would include of This has been called the bul wark of the republic he said and the question before us now is Do we want to change the First Amendment It must be discussed without any sugges tion that those who seriously question any change are some how antiGod or or BOMB THREAT CLEARS INDIANA STATEHOUSE Indianapolis April 23 AP A telephoned bomb threat forced evacuation of the Indi shortly after ana Statehouse noon today Gov Matthew E Welsh was out to lunch when the threat was received at state police opera tions in the nearby state office building The unidentified caller said the bomb was set to ex at 1 pm u Aid Recipients Go Back To School By Marie Volkert Of The Southern Illinoisan Potentially employable is the phrase that qualifies wel fare recipients to enroll in gen eral and high school classes be ing offered by county school su The students in the first through 12th grade classes are physically capable of working and with more education will be able to get jobs welfare work ers say The State Dept of Public Aid provided a grant for the class es A survey of Aid to Depen dent Children recipients showed 40 per cent had not finished high school and 30 per cent had not completed grade school Less than onethird were not eligible to take the classes They had high school diplomas or are not employable for other reasons The department is training only those person who are po employable Among students is a man in his late 50s who gave up car last year after he suf a stroke The classes could prepare him for a job re quiring little physical exertion Another is the mother of nine children ranging in age from course A young father of three has been jobless for several months since he was laid off a con struction crew Before that he had gone from job to job pick ing up work where he could be ing laid off when the job was done waiting for another open ing he could fill Hopefully he will learn lo read and write well enough to take training which will put him in line for a steady job and for a higher paying job A small portion of those at tending classes are now em presidential aspirants eluding Gov George C Wallace of Alabama nationwide last year Con gress stepped in with the first compulsory arbitration law in peacetime history The result was a ruling permitting ation of the firemen on diesel freight and yard trains and call ing for review of the crew makeup issue on a local basis Court Ruling Awaited The unions have gone before the Supreme Court with an ap vate mediators Johnson said the settlement averted a strike that would have slashed national produc tion 13 per greater than any recession since World War would have sent prices spiraling I am glad to tell you that all of this is now avoided Our robust economy can continue its healthy and encouraging for ward movement Johnson said Although the issue could conceivably result in an other strike threat after the arbitration ruling ex pires union sources indicated this was unlikely The five unions involved in ican me te one he had with against that ruling Th e the frequently bitter dispute are ne o have agreed not to the Brotherhood of ae t g President Dwight D Eisenhow er when Johnson was Senate Democratic leader York Sen Barry Goldwater Harold Stassen Former Vice President Richard M Nixon Gov William Scranton of Penn sylvania and Sen Margaret Chase Smith All are potential Republican nominees On other points Johnson de clared He saw a very few civil rights demonstrators Wednesday at the opening of the New York Worlds Fair whom he consider ed rude I pity them he said They served no good purpose The President will tour areas of heavy unemployment and poverty in Indiana Kentucky West Virginia and Pennsylvania Friday Additional defense savings of background material and moti vating reasons for the adminis foreign policy steps On still other topics Johnson said is optimistic about the prospects for world peace be cause generally speaking the world is anxious to pursue the same objective that I am cutback in production of nuclear explosive materials was reached on our own initia tive and companion moves by the Soviet Union and Britain marked a policy of restraint by mutual example ployed but seek an education million a year to qualify for higher paying J were an jobs or to be prepared for a time when their limited skills Johnson said the installations affected by the economies and AREA REPORT two to 22 the grandmother four children three of whom she cares for during the day Wel fare officials say she is poten employable perhaps as by setting up a licensed day care center Another woman has several will not be in great demand specific amounts to be taken i 1 iji ha HV sole support for the family Some of the 131 students cur rently enrolled will never jet their GED certificates Some may never progress much be yond the educational level they are at now Some will not ex hibit progress to warrant their iii q u e n t The time is not lost on such would be announced later by Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara Johnson raised the prospect of spending more money to pur sue the antiCommunist war in South Viet Nam And he said mut w children and is the cases Mary Jane Tindall Jack son County casework since the desertion of the er She will be available At least it lets us know daytime employment when these people are capable completes the high school I of and what we can expect of them in the future he hoped well see some other on President Johnsons flags in there as a result of discussions at the recent confer ence Treaty Organization Johnson discussing the nomination to oppose of conferring with his Republican opponents on He said secretary of Defense foreign policy matters said Robert S McNamara and some of them seem to want director John A McCone of the start cutting off viewing train crew size until the high court has ruled In herding union and man agement negotiators successful ly through 13 days of cy White House talks Johnson stamped his brand indelibly on US labor history and achieved what two former presidents Congress the courts and five years of bargaining had failed lo accomplish This agreement prevents we hope for all crip pling and disastrous strike in the railroad industry Johnson said Negotiators for the five unions whose members run the rains and spokesmen for near ly 200 railroads expressed gen eral satisfaction at the outcome The agreement ended the Firemen and the Union of North America the Brotherhood of Railroad AFL two independent uni ons the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers and the Or der of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Snow Cold In Northwest By the Associated Press Winter weather came back to the nations Northwest today depositing as much as seven inches of snow in Nevada An intensifying storm the weather bureau said will threat of a scheduled strike at spread cold rain and snow from one minute after midnight Great Basin through the Candidates Rusk Offers Facts To GOP Washington April 23 AP Central Intelligence Secretary or state Dean representatives of those has formally offered provide the brief can presidential full account of the existing in situation based on US intelligence it was learned today Rusk said he made the offer tions He set no date but said the intelligence briefings will be of the Southeast Asia offered candidates at intervals during the campaign for the northern and central Rockies to western parts of the Great Plains Warnings of falling tempera tures and locally heavy snow fall were issued for many sec tions Austin in centra Nevada measured seven inches of new snow since last midnight Poca lello Idaho three inches and Reno one Early morning tern Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and presumably to er GOP contenders who are not in Washington Indications were that Goldwa ter would turn down the invita tion Mrs Smith accepted it Goldwater has said he does not consider the briefings wise He said too much security in formation already has been in into the campaign letter went to Sen were as low as 19 at Barry Goldwater of Arizona Nev and 21 at h Baker Ore NEGRO GANG SLAYS ST LOU IS STUDENT St 23 AP James Reedy stu dent at St Louis University was stabbed to death just be fore midnight when he and s classmate were accosted by t gang of about 15 Negroes po lice reported
