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Serving The Greater Mattoon Area Since 1856 107th Year No. 117 DAILY Member Associated Says Kennedy to Seek Cuts in Income Taxes NEW YORK (P) Secretary the Treasury Douglas Dillon says the administration will propose top-to-bottom reduction in come tax rates for enactment Congress next year. He told the New York Financial Writers Association at a dinner Monday night that the proposal will be part of "a fundamental restructuring of our income system, designed to promote maximum long -term economic growth." The cuts would be coupled with revenue-raising proposals to offset the resulting loss of government revenue "in whole or in part," Dillon said. He said no decision has been made on how far to go in offsetting the lower tax rates by broadening the base of the tax structure and closing loopholes. Dillon's statement was viewed as the st forceful declaration to date the administration's tax plans for next year.

The tax plans of which he spoke would be part of the income tax reform bill the administration long has planned to hand Congress before it adjourns, with an eye towards legislative action early next year. Dillon said he welcomes grow1ng of a tax cut but not as "8 hasty, ill-considered reaction to the gyrations of the stock market." He spoke of the dramatic price drop of May 28 as one in which "all vestiges of reason were porarily pushed aside, and panic took control of the great New York Stock Exchange." Dillon said he sees no economic factors underlying the market's performance. Rather, he said, the slump reflects a realization inflation has been brought under control. During 1961, he said, investors and speculators pushed stock prices to inflated levels in the belief that inflation was just around the corner. He said the fact that this beHef has been pretty well dispelled is the basic reason behind the decline in stock prices over the past few months.

Dillon said the economy has picked up steam and is moving ahead rapidly after a mid-winter pause. In a question-and-answer period after his speech, he said there is no reason to feel the recovery won't carry through despite the recent stock market weakness. Probe Death Of Socialite TOPEKA, Kan. (P) A few minutes before 1 a.m. Sunday, a fellow psychiatric patient reports, Daphne Rhodes dropped him off at the Menninger Foundation Clinic.

In the next four or five hours, the 26-year-old New York socialite was viciously molested and strangled at her apartment across town. Investigators tried today to determine exactly what befell the young divorcee who was doing well with her problems and spend-, ing time in volunteer work for crippled children. Her father is Arthur Bunker, retired after a long career in mining, oil and banking. County Atty. Robert Brown did not identify the Menninger patient.

He quoted the man as saying Mrs. Rhodes gave him a ride from a Saturday night party. Mrs. Rhodes' nude body was found Sunday in her living room after another woman in the building became alarmed. Mrs.

Rhodes came to the Menninger Clinic in August 1960, soon after her divorce. For a year or 80 she had continued treatment as an out-patient. Girl, 14, to Face Trial Next Month BELLEVILLE, Ill. (P) The 14- year -old girl friend of a convicted killer will go on trial in Belleville next month in the slayings of Belleville man and his daughter last Aug. 30.

Donna Marie Stone, who was charged in the killing of 47-yearold George Ballard and his daughter, Carole, 11, has been in the county jail since March 30. Her boy friend, 32-year-old dishwasher John Edwin Myers, was sentenced to the electric chair in Texas March 16 for killing a hitchhiker. Closing Notice Hill's I.G.A. Grocery, 2920 Shelby, will close at 12 noon Wednesday, open Thursday at 1 p. Open Open Under new management, "Wright's Ice Cream.

We make our own ice cream. Open 6 a. m. to 12 p. Old and new customers wel- Thor Blast Helps Prove Safety Point By ROBERT MYERS HONOLULU (P) Scientists at Johnson Island proved at least one thing when they deliberately destroyed a Thor missile and its nuclear warhead high above the Pacific: A warhead can be blown apart at high altitude without causing a nuclear explosion.

Reports reaching Honolulu said Atomic Energy Commission workers at Johnston gained some consolation in the knowledge the rocket and its nuclear payload didn't get completely away from them. The Thor, carrying the warhead aloft early Monday for the first high altitude nuclear detonation of the current Pacific series, was destroyed by a safety officer when the missile's tracking system developed a malfunction. Fragments of the Thor and the nuclear device fell into 720 feet of water "well within the established testing area." The shot will be rescheduled as soon as possible, Joint Task Force 8. headquarters said Monday night. A spokesman indicated another firing date would be announced later today.

The AEC and the Defense Department said there was no possibility of a nuclear explosion resulting from the warhead's fragments. Statements by both agencies said, "it is not considered that they (the fragments) will cause hazardous levels of radioactivity in ocean water, or tute a hazard to human life." Left unanswered in the ments was the possibility that small fragments of the warhead might have remained aloft in the troposphere- to 55,000 feet or in or the stratosphere. The heaviest pieces fell into the ocean almost immediately. Scientists did not rule out the possibility of some fragments circulating miles above the earth. But they insisted there was no hazard to humans.

Gubernatorial Hopeful Dies In Car Crash WOODBURY, Ga. (P) A. Edward Smith, Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, was killed today in an truck crash. Smith's wife was injured. She suffered a possible skull fracture and was taken to St.

Francis Hospital in Columbus. The state patrol reported Smith's car crashed head on into a truck owned by the Neal Trucking Lines of Montgomery, Ala. The driver of the truck, Paul Boggs, was not seriously injured. Smith's body was taken to his home in Columbus. The patrol report said Smith's car crossed the center line and crashed with the truck shortly after midnight on Georgia Route 85.

The 60-year-old Republican candidate was dead on arrival at Meriwether Hospital in Warm Springs. Mrs. Smith's condition was listed as satisfactory. Fred Brink, 74, Dieterich, Dies DIETERICH, Ill. Fred Brink, (14, of near Dieterich, died at 5 p.

m. Monday at his home. services will be at 2 p. m. Thursday in the Johnson funeral home, Effingham.

Other arrangements are incomplete. He leaves his widow, Carrie; three daughters, Mrs. Arnold Miller and Mrs. Thurl Burton both of Effingham; and Mrs. Otto Stortzum, Louisville; and a sister, Mrs.

Clara Bennett, Detroit, Mich. Announcement For your shopping convenience we are open until Saturday until 5 p. Sunday noon until 4 p. m. HERMAN MOTORS 6-12 520 N.

15th Foster's New Furniture Remodeling sale this week, 2621 Marshall, open evenings until 8. 6-5 Open House At 319 Illinois. Wednesday. June come 5 to 8 p. m.

Harold Manuel. 6-5 JOURNAL-GAZETTE EVENING, JUNE 5, 1962 The Weather: Temperature 2 p.m. 89 Partly Cloudy Through Wednesday Press MATTOON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY Refugees From China The Eng family, first to leave Hong Kong under President Kennedy's emergency immigration program, watch Mee-Har, sign for her refugee entry permit in Hong Kong. The family arrived in Chicago today to see Eng's dying father. Watching Mee-Har are, left to right, MeeWan, 13; Leung-Hing, 10; Mrs.

Eng Se-Suey; Leung-Ging, 18, and Eng Se-Suey. Leung-Ging, under medical treatment in Hong Kong, will come to America Wednesday. State Commission Hears Gambling Stamp Cases The Illinois Liquor Control Commission Monday took under advisement cases involving three Mattoon clubs charged with possessing federal gambling stamps. Mattoon clubs named in cases heard by the commission in Springfield were Elks Lodge 495, Moose Lodge 803 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4325. A reliable source today reported that the three Mattoon clubs surrendered federal gambling stamps several weeks ago.

The three clubs were among 47 liquor license holders to appear before the commission in the continuing crackdown on tavern operators who possess gambling stamps. The operators were called to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked or suspended, according to Howard S. Cartwright, chairman of the commission. He added the commission has heard more than 500 cases since it launched its hearings about four months ago. Most licensees who have ap-.

peared have had their liquor. liclenses suspended for periods of five days or more. Other cases taken under advisement at Monday's hearings before the commission included: Eagles Aerie 1425, Taylorville; American Legion Post 90, Marshall; Moose Lodge 1565, Casey; Herman Logsdon, Top Hat Tavern, Effingham; Moose Lodge 1447, Vandalia; American Legion Post 20, Newton; Eagles Aerie 3078, Lawrenceville; and Elsie's Tavern, Danville. Cartwright said approximately 150 downstate tavern operators will be called before the commission before the hearings are concluded. Union to Seek Kohler Talks MILWAUKEE UP) Spokesmen for the United Auto Workers have said they will seek a quick resumption of negotiations with the Kohler struck by the UAW more than eight years ago in a bitter contract dispute, The union officials announced their plans Monday immediately after the United States Supreme Court announced its refusal to examine an appeal by the plumbingware firm from orders issued by a U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals. Lyman C. Conger, chairman of Kohler's management committee, issued a statement at Kohler, saying, "We will comply with the order of the Appellate Court." The appeals court held that Kohler was guilty of unfair labor practices during the strike, which began April 5, 1954 and was ended formally in September, 1960. The lower court also directed the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider its position sustaining Kohler's. discharge of 77 strikers for illegal conduct during the violent early stages of the strike.

Boat Owners Deadline date boat registration, July 1, to comply with Sections 21- 22-23 Ordinance 3900 at Mattoon Lakes' Office Marina. THE RESERVOIR CONTROL 6-5 Free Dance Friendship Room, Wednesday, June 6, 8-11 p. adults only. Ken Doison; 6-5 All Phones AD 5-5656 Agreement Near in Railroad Wage Dispute; Carriers Okay Pay Boost Poliquin Rites Thursday Crash Fatal To Mattoon Residents Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Poliquin 1625 Bell, were fatally injured about 2:15 p.m. Monday in a crash on 16, approximately one-half east of Route. Route 32 junction north of Strasburg. Mrs. Poliquin, 64, was killed stantly in the crash.

Shelby ty authorities said she was thrown, out of the car and trapped under the overturned vehicle. Mr. Poliquin, also 64, died at p.m. in Shelby County Memorial Hospital, Shelbyville, of injuries sustained in the crash. The Poliquin car left the highway on a curve and traveled some distance on the shoulder the road before it overturned, cording to Shelby authorities.

An autopsy was performed Monday evening at the Kessler-Howe funeral. home, Shelbyville, in effort to determine in if Mr. Poliquin may have suffered a heart attack before the accident, Mont Howe, Shelby County coroner, said today. Howe said results of the autopsy failed to reveal evidence of a heart attack. An inquest into the death Mrs.

Poliquin will be held, but date has been set, Howe said. Funeral services for Mr. Mrs. Poliquin will be at 9 Thursday at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church with Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Daniel Daly officiating. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at -Schilling funeral home after 5 m. Wednesday.

The Rosary will recited at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday the funeral, Mr. Poliquin was born Dec. 1897, in St. Louis, a son Louis A.

and Bessie Dipper Poliquin. An employe of the New York Central Railroad for nearly 49 years, he held the position engine house foreman. He leaves a son, Louis Springfield: 8 sister, Mrs. Gertrude Waggoner, Mattoon; and four grandchildren. Mrs.

Poliquin was born Dec. 1897, at Mattoon, a daughter Roscoe and Rose Morris Hill. She was a lifelong resident of Mattoon. She and Mr. Poliquin were ried April 2, 1923, at Mattoon.

Besides her son and four grandchildren, she leaves five brothers, Dale and Glenn Hill, both Mattoon: J. Earl and Roll Hill, both of Granite City: and Harlan Hill, Decatur. Local Retailers Plan Promotions The regular monthly meeting of the Retail Division of the Association of Commerce was held this morning in the Broadway Hotel. Eugene D. Schoonover presided in the absence of Chairman Lewis Burge.

Coming retail promotions were discussed. A. door prize awarded by Factory Outlet was won by Charles Mory. Coffee and doughnuts were served courtesy of Myers Bros. Reports Theft Lloyd Weiss, 17.

Elm Ridge, reported to police that a BB gun was stolen Sunday night from a luggage rack on a car belonging to Mrs. E. N. Devault and children, of Hendersonville, N. who are visliting here.

Nixon Makes GOP Bid By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five states held primary elections today to determine party nominees for state and national offices. Most of the attention centered on California where former Vice President Richard M. Nixon made his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. In addition to California, primaries were held in South Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Mississippi. The Connecticut state Republican Convention also was slated to nominate its gubernatorial and senatorial candidates today.

In a light tournout Monday, Republican voters in Iowa nominated Gov. Norman Erbe for a secterm and Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper for a fourth term. Neither race was close.

Iowa Democrats chose Harold E. Hughes, State Commerce Commission chairman, to oppose Erbe in November. E.B. Smith, Iowa State University professor, was unop-1 posed for the job of contesting Hickenlooper. Nixon won in his home state of California even while losing the 1960 presidential election.

He was favored win today. But State Rep. Joseph Shell, a staunch conservative, claimed Monday night he would win, and observers believe he has picked up ground with a hard-hitting campaign in recent weeks. Shell has questioned whether Nixon can carry the Republicans! to victory in November over Gov. Edmund G.

Brown, who is expected to win a -term nomination without trouble. Almost from the September day that Nixon announced his candidacy for the governorship, the militantly conservative John Birch Society has been an issue in the campaign. Nixon has said the GOP ticket has no place for candidates who seek or accept Birch Society support. Shell, an independent oilman, says he neither sought nor rejected Birch support. Two Republican California conSociety, gressmen who have statel they are Birch Society members -John Rousselot and Edgar Hiestandface primary opposition.

Benny Goodman Hits Sour Note With Soviet Officials SOCHI, Soviet Union (P) Benny Goodman, whose clarinet pleased Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. ran into restrictions in the Soviet premier's favorite holiday spot. As Goodman and his band played their second concert before an enthusiastic audience in this Black Sea resort town Monday night, Soviet officials: 1. Ordered RCA Victor officials to stop recording the' concert. 2 Told Terrence F.

Catherman, of Dearborn, cultural officer of the U. S. Embasy in Mos-! cow, to stop translating Goodmans remarks for the audience. A translator was put on the job. 3.

Cracked down on the band members' practice of distributing Benny Goodman buttons to Soviet admirers. Goodman and his band have been receiving a warm response from audiences since they opened their six-week tour in Moscow last week. The band leader asked Catherman to interpret for him because the official Soviet interpreter not translating any of his informal remarks. She limited herself to announcing the numbers being played. Bruce Curry, 72, Dies in California Speciat to the Journal -Gazette NEOGA, Ill.

Bruce Curry, 72, of San Jose, formerly of Trowbridge, died Sunday at a vetterans hospital at Oakland, Calif. His body is scheduled to arrive at the Swengel funeral home here Thursday night. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mr. Curry was born July 23, 1889, near Windsor.

He was married to Zoe Storm, who died in 1938. In 1940 he married Mrs. Flossie McClean. She survives. Mr.

Curry for a number of years was a rural mail carrier at Trowbridge. When the Trowbridge post office closed, he carried mail for the Sigel post office. He was active in Masonic Lodge work in the Mattoon area. Besides his widow, he leaves A daughter, Mrs. Mildred "Cotner.

San Jose, a stepdaughter, Mrs. Elmer Knierim, brother, Rev. Paul Curry, Danville; four grandchildren and three stepgrandchildren. Science Asks Why Cookies Crumble By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY Associated, Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON (P) Space scientists gave high priority today to solving "the mystery of the crumbling cookies." It's a culinary problem that must be licked before astronauts.

take off for the moon and Mars. Even 8 weightless spaceman has to eat. Malcom Scott- Carpenter-first Anterican to munch on solid grub beyond the tug of gravity--reported sadly after his three-orbit flight May 24: "The cookies crumbled and the candy melted." Just what it was that crumbled was still uncertain today. The Pillsbury Co. and the" Nestle which designed bite-size snacks to withstand the rigors of space mugnt, Don expressed Price 7.

Cents CHICAGO (P A final settlement in the wage dispute between the nation's railroads and 450,000 non -operating workers appeared near today after the carriers had agreed to raise hourly wages an average of 10.2 cents. A railroad spokesman said the 11 unions representing the offtrain workers had indicated their acceptance of the wage increase, which had been recommended by a presidential fact-finding board last May 3. But he said there was a lack of a definite understanding among the brotherhoods as to how the increase would be figured. Union and management leaders planned to arrange another session today in an attempt to resolve the issues holding up final settlement. Both sides announced Monday acceptance of a flat 4 cents an hour increase retroactive to last Feb.

1, and a 21 per cent raise effective last May 1 for the telegraphers, clerks, shipmen, and other non -operating personnel. Union leaders cancelled a session Monday night with the carriers pending further study of one of the issues yet to resolvedthe application of the per cent be, portion of the emergency board's report. Wages in the non-operating jobs currently average $2.42 hourly. James E. Wolfe, spokesman for the railroads, said the increase actually would amount to 10.28 cents an hour and would cost the railroad industry $105 million annually.

He said some railroads could not afford the recommended increases and indicated that they would have to discharge employes in "substantial" numbers. Eastern carriers sustained a $96 million loss in operations last year, Wolfe said. Southern and Western roads fared better. Employment in the industry has declined more than 500,000 in the last 15 years. Wolfe indicated that some railroads also might have to seek freight rate increases, Wolfe, chairman of the Western carriers conference committee, called the presidential board's recommendations "inflationary," but said Secretary of Arthur Goldberg had advised the railroads that they had "no ternative" but to accept, them because the country not tolerate a strike.

Claims Reds Operate Jim Crow Clubs WASHINGTON (P) Some U. S. Communists practice Jim Crowism while preaching against it, says a Negro woman who was once a party member. The woman, Julia Brown, identified as an FBI undercover agent, testified Monday before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that she couldn't attend Communist party meetings in her neighborhood in Cleveland "because it was Jim Crow club." Mrs. Brown, testifying at the opening of hearings on Communist activity in the Cleveland area, said she was tricked into joining the Communist party in 1947.

She thought then, she said, she was joining the Civil Rights Congress. She quit the party in 1948 but soon rejoined at the FBI's request and remained a member until she moved to Los Angeles in 1960, Mrs. Brown said. Segregation has been practiced by the party "and always has been since I have been a Communist," she said. She said she once complained about it to Benjamin Davis, national secretary of the party and a Negro.

"He did not like it. But it still didn't do any good," she said. Mrs. Brown named as Communists a long list of persons in Cleveland. One, Foster McCurdy, brother of U.

S. Atty. Merle M. of Cleveland, issued a statement in Cleveland. "Fourteen years ago I had some interest in the Communist party.

I was not a member and never have been a member of the Communist party. Whatever interest I ever had in the Communist party vanished years ago," the statement said. Ambassador Named BONN, Germany (P) Heinrich Knappstein will become West German ambassador in Washington next fall, the Foreign Ministry reported today. He. will replace Wilhelm Grewe, who is being recalled as a result of the U.

West German clash over American proposals for a Berlin settlement, ECM Hikes Duties On U.S. Goods By ALFRED CHEVAL BRUSSELS, Belgium (P) The European Common Market will increase duties as much as 100 per cent on five classes of American products July 17 in retaliation for similar U. S. tariff boosts on carpets and sheet glass. The six -nation Common Market's Council of Ministers approved the unprecedented tariff boosts Monday at the request of Belgium, which charged that the U.

S. duty increases threaten industries in Belgium that involve 6,000 workers and $26 million a year. The Common Market action will double, value to the about 40 duties per on Ameri- of can lene, artificial and synthetic texpolyester, polyethytiles and raise from 16 to 19 per cent the duties on American varnishes and water colors. Officials said U. S.

exports of these products to Common Market nations: France, Belgium, West Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Italy--total $27 million yearly. They said the difference in duty would total $5 million a year. Under the ruses of the General Agreement on Tariff and the Common Market duties go into effect a month after the new U.S. tariff increases become effective June 17. The new U.

S. tariff rates will boost duties on wilton and velvet or tapestry carpet imports from 21 to 40 per cent. The increased duties on cylinder, crown and sheet glass will range from 1.3 cents to 3.5 cents. Belgium is the leading source U. S.

imports of wilton and velvet carpet and sheet glass. Committee Okays Temporary Hike In Debt Ceiling WASHINGTON P--The House Ways and Means Committee fashioned a new fluctuating limit for the national debt today. It would temporarily raise the ceiling to the record figure of $308 billion that President Kennedy's administration seeks, then drop it back by stages to the present $300 billion. The committee voted 16 to 9 to introduce a bill to this effect. Final action on sending it to the House for consideration is expected Wednesday.

The present $300 billion ceiling -equal to the World War II high -contains $15 billion of temporary authorization expiring June 30. So Congress must act this month or the debt, ranging above $293 billion, will exceed the limit. Under the committee bill, the limit would be increased July 1 to $308 billion. It would drop to $305 billion April 1, 1963, and I $300 billion June 25, 1963. Official to Explain Nursing Program Special to the Journal -Gazette CHARLESTON, Ill.

Gerald W. Dunn, Coles County superintendent of schools, announced today that arrangements have been completed to bring William E. Skadden, health educator in the State Department of Mental Health, to Dunn's office to explain the state nursing scholarship program. Skadden will be in Dunn's office from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday to talk to students and parents a and explain details of the program.

News Conference WASHINGTON (P) President Kennedy will hold a news conference at 4 p. m. EDT, Thursday, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced today. Weather Weather GREATER MATTOON AREAFair to partly cloudy through Wednesday with a few scattered showers and thunderstorms. Not much temperature change tonight and Wednesday.

Low tonight in the upper 60s. High Wednesday 85-88. Yesterday's Temperatures High Low strong doubts that their snacks, Glenn did." crumbled. Glenn, after his flight Feb. 20, They acknowledged, however, hinted he could have used a ham that chocolate may have wilted, sandwich.

But he warned against because the temperature in Car- crumbly food like cake. Crumbs penter's capsule was an unexpect- float around and can distract an ed 104 or 105 degrees. astronaut who is doing 101 things, Both companies said they are including looking out the window awaiting reports from the govern- for fireflies. ment on just what happened. So the two companies, at the They stand ready to pursue rethe hilt.

behest of the authorities, put their search to made best brains to work. A Nestle representative plain this is more a patriotic la- Carpenter's dinner pail was an bor of love than any urge for opaque plastic bag. It may be profits. that some snacks were damaged "We do not expect food for as- in packing, or the bag tronauts to become a big-volume banged against the capsule wall item," he said. "There are not as journey' proceeded.

Carenough customers. (penter made one we think it important. that the bag be transparent, give spacemen something solid to so a fellow could see crumbs inchomp on, rather than imbibing side and take steps to prevent baby food out of tube, as John them from escaping. I Mattoon 83 70 Albuquerque 86 53 Chicago 81 66 Cleveland 80 64 Denver 85 46 Detroit 75 63 Fairbanks 58 39 Helena 56 34 Honolulu 84 75 Indianapolis 84 68 Kansas City 82 68 Los Angeles 68 Louisville 84 Memphis 77 Miami 85 New Orleans 85 New York 78 Phoenix 97 St. Louis 81 San Francisco 61 50 Washington 71 66 Precipitation This Yr.

This Yr. Last Yr. 13 Yr. To Date To Date Avg. .15 16.51 16.25 15.60 Mattoon Skies Sunrise ...5:16 a.m.

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