Times (Newspaper) - March 26, 1969, Hammond, Indiana Partly cloudy tonight and low in the lower 20s. Cloudy high in the middle 30s. Page 16A. TIMES 238 THE Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region Calumet March Another Try Andy who stirred with his racing outlines new plans for the olis 500. Section D. 7 Slushy Streets Slow Calumet Region Cars Three Center youngsters enjoyed the boating on low-lying 117th The Calumet Region skidded to work today on side streets and slushy main It was the area's first heavy snowfall in following nearly a month of Numerous accidents were reported by Illinois and Indiana police Most were The Indiana State Police Post at Schererville said 40 minor accidents were reported between midnight and 8 a.m. A pileup at Central Avenue and the Borman Highway was among Only minor injuries were reported in the The Illinois Toll Road Police said about 20 crashes were reported in a hour span from midnight lo 6 a.m. today and the Indiana Toll Road and Dunes Stale Police said they handled more than a normal A commuter airplane skidded off a runway at Chicago's Meigs Field and burst into The eight occupants escaped On Chicago's West a car ded on the pavement and crashed into a injuring 10 Winds will diminish tonight and chance of further precipitation is but temperatures will drop to the lower 20s. Temperatures are expected to age 10 to 13 degrees below normal day through Normal high is 51, normal low 32. Heavy rain and snow was the picture on Back Page This Cut WASHINGTON President declaring that is a form of economic proposed lo Congress today that the problem be met by extending the income tax surcharge Show Time Suit Filed INDIANAPOLIS Indiana theater owners asked U.S. District Court Tuesday to issue an injunction against transfer oi 37 counties from the Central to the Eastern time The suit by the Allied ers of Indiana seeks to restrain the U.S. Department ot Transportation from en- forcing a January effective April 27. Richard T. president of the theater said if an injunction is time case would be reopened He said the goal of the owners is to prevent the 80 Indiana counties now con- in the Eastern zone from going on daylight time this Theater owners said in their com- plaint observance of Eastern Daylight Time would cause a loss of revenue be- cause features at drive-in theaters could not begin until as late as p.m. WOULD mean that only one in- stead of two features could be the complaint Lochry the time passed by the 1969 General Assembly that would have exempted Indiana from daylight and criticized Gov. Edgar D. comb for vetoing it. He said the veto against the wishes of the Whitcomb told a news conference Monday Hoosier counties can avoid light time this summer under a 1967 but Lochry said this proposal was love to see people go through with Whitcomb's but all sorts of attorneys have said this is an un- constitutional Lochry The 1967 act was termed by former Indiana Atty. Gen. John J. He said a state act cannot supercede eral authority on the question of for another 12 months and by making cuts in federal In a special Nixon that at least half of the budget surpluses envisioned in January by former dent Lyndon B. Johnson already have evaporated in some cases because of inflation and in others because of overly optimistic Faced with that Nixon said he will propose budget revisions for the fiscal year starting July 1 that will re- duce spending below the amount recommended in He gave no THE CHIEF in calling for a continuation of the 10 per cent federal income lax surtax beyond its scheduled June 30 I have said the surcharge is a temporary tax that must be ended as soon as our commitments in Southeast Asia and economic conditions In the Sen. Mike Mansfield of the majority said lier that Congress should insist on a ond big spending cut as its price for ex- tending the Nixon left open the possibility that he might call for scaling down or repeal of the surcharge within the year of its ex- tension should the Vietnam war end and inflationary pressures The surtax is expected to yield billion if In Nixon called for on Back Page This IKE LISTED AS CRITICAL WASHINGTON Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower re- mained in critical condition ing from such severe congestive heart failure that doctors are doubting his re- In their latest bulletin tors at Walter Keed General Hospital said that although the 78-year-old general shown no deterioration in the last 24 his condition continues to be It was the first time they had used critical to describe Eisenhower's b Congress colls new tank lion Dollar boo-boo 16A Hammond budget cuts will hurt Sec. 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Board Asks Police Help CHICAGO HEIGHTS Chicago Heights police were on standby duty Tuesday night during an angry session between the Bloom Township High School board and about 200 The almost all white audience ed down school board members with charges ranging from negligence to student As charges became more lice were called by board The special school board meeting lowed fighting incidents between black and white students March 17 that closed the high school through An altered class schedule was resumed Monday at the with 50 ty and state policemen providing Charges from at Tuesday's meeting were similar lo those leveled at the school board during another meeting last Thursday in Sauk A resident shouted that his son was beaten by a gang of black students while five Chicago Heights policemen CHICAGO HEIGHTS Mayor Maurino Richlon jumped from his seat and told the me proof the policemen were standing by and I'll take the charges in front of the civil service board Richton said the police department should have been called earlier when the fighting incident broke The board said it is dealing with 34 boys who were involved in the melee that closed the Attendance was reported at about 50 per cent of the student population day and aboul 80 per cent Questioned why the board had not placed criminal charges against several violators during the the crowd was told that these are and the individuals who were victims must file complaints with the A Sauk Village Donald on Back Page This Board Probe Of Gambling Next Week HAMMOND The board of works inquiry into charges by two city men that they were ordered by superiors lo gambling is tentatively scheduled for April 3. The public hearing will begin at 10 in the board meeting room in city Patrolmen Michael Jr. and Joey V. Thurman had been scheduled lo appear before the board March 20. The inquiry was postponed to permit edness by board officials and lawyers representing the two The new hearing date was agreed on Tuesday by City Attorney Richard who is president of the works and John attorney for lan and Leeney been most cooperative in helping arrange the Leeney said it is pleasing a man with background and caliber is in- volved in the JAMES AN assistant United States attorney before he became city at- It is anticipated that other than Solan and Thurman will be asked to appear at the Eight days ago ft was reported several Hammond on Back Page This Street removal makes way for urban renewal Turner Apartment Work Starts Soon Board Raps DOLTON The village board is con- drafting an ordinance to restrict the free flight of Several of the birds apparently not housebroken have ruffled the feathers of residents along 141st They say the homing which are owned by a roost on their roofs and make a mess of their ears and backyard Board Attorney Frank Glazer said Tuesday the present ordinance covers four-legged animals and you want an he asked the Trustee Ralph Berg said that would be too extreme because some people's pi- geons may not cause any them the same as Trustee Wesley Lane ed. don't Berg Glazer was instructed to see how er villages are coping with the of medium rent apartments in the Turner Park urban renewal area is expected lo begin by April IS. Federal financing was recently proved for Turner Park the combine of Chicago businessmen chosen by the redevelopment commission to erect an million complex of high-rise and conventional The basic construction contract has been let to a who now is looking for Indiana firms to take up Removal of old the last clearing effort before began Tuesday on the TPA site at the southwest corner of the renewal THE apartments will rent for lo per says Ben of the redevelopment de- Under the terms of the Federal ing Authority loan to incomes of must not exceed specified Two 10-story high rises and J2 two- story buildings were planned for the Completion was first scheduled for 1970, but that was while Feb. 1, 1969 was considered the likely starting Land for the urban renewal project was bought and cleared by the ment through the city's re- development Planning on the project extends lo 1962, but execution did not begin until ter federal approval was gained in 1964. Besides the private housing that TPA will the renewal project was to in- clude a public housing project by the Hammond Housing Before that could Boiler Foundry Co. had to be removed from its 7-acre tract that over- lapped the 15-acre public housing That look more a By the iime it was accomplished last year the housing authority was having doubts about whether it wants to build there at So Ihe only building lhal has been done in the area is a wide and lighted Michigan Street and Sohl a new public and a garage area for city The city's main fire just east of Hohman must be It is to be replaced with a station east of the public Legislators Imply Ross Stolen Illicit Pill Use Poses Greatest Danger By GARV GALLOWAY Times Staff Writer Hundreds of pills and capsules of as many colors and shapes are produced in the nation's pharmaceutical those pills which are di- verted to illicit usage fall into one of two classifications amphetamines and Amphetamines are They are known by such slang terms as and Barbiturates are They are commonly referred to as and The stimulants produce the the depressants the combinations of the two Fourth in a Series or taken with liquor can cause In March 1962, city fathers in mond were alarmed when an tion indicated pill violations were spread among young In 1965, it was reported an was taking hold in the Calumet Re- gion involving and That same a youth identified as admitted to stealing household goods from his own home to finance his pill He suicide on eral A DOCTOR WAS arrested four years ago for illegally dispensing pills a are more of a says an Indiana State Police hard Their availability makes them the greatest potential Pills are obtained several in- illegal careless druggists and unethical druggists don't know the first thing about safeguarding dangerous the stale policeman doctors who get loo old for regular practice become nothing but pill Younger doctors sometimes sell large quantities of pills because of greed or In East Chicago a was arrested when he tried lo get on Back Page This Bond For Magella CROWN 49, a Lake County probation was charged Tuesday in Lake Criminal Court with accepting a of 1138 Cleveland was tired earlier Tuesday by Criminal Court Judge John H. Magella was freed after posting The bribe charge was made by mer director of the Northwest Indiana Crime Jacobsen said he hid in a closet day night in the home of James T. 20, of 4317 Shelfield and watched the payoff one of Jacobsen the was supposed to fix it so he would not be in mond city court on a theft Magella was hired as a probation of- ficer Sept. Galus was scheduled lo appear Tuesday in city court on a charge that stole some tires March 6. The case was continued to April 11. Two Indiana legislators implied Tuesday that the which would have allowed the incorporation of Koss Township was House Speaker Otis K. don't want to point my finger at anyone but it certainly leads one lo think the disappearance of the was Rep. Walter Roorda author of the has called for an was shocked that the was lost or said Attorney General dore L. The House 1760, was passed by large majorities in both the House and It repealed a law which makes it impossible for a com- munity within three miles ol Gary's city limits to searching in all the safes and desks where it might have been Bowen absolutely no trace of the HE SAID AN an investigation into what happened to the measure will con- despite the fact it cannot be made into Sendak said the biil never reached the governor's desk for action before the deadline stipulated in the never reached my desk or the governor's Sendak who said he signed the when it was returned from the said it vanished at the point where it should have reached William the House From said the should have the House speaker and the ident of the attorney general's office for a final constitutional the governor for signature or said ing everybody else for this criminal He said the investigation of the lost hill is the responsibility of the House
