JTOltt0tlt Chilling Today's History In 1830, the first passenger train in the United States began service between Baltimore and Eliott's Mills, 13 miles away. Cloudy and cool tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 40-50. Devoted to the Best Interests of Fremont and Northern Ohio FREMONT, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968 VOL. 113, NO.
38 Merged 1938 TEN CENTS Fremont News Founded 1887 Fremont Messenger Founded 1856 24 PAGES FAMILIES ROUTED, TRAIN DERAILED Flood Waters Sweep Southern Ohio Areas LAOS INVASION ROUTE POUNDED Travel Disrupted, Schools Closed Marines Claim Victory In Major DMZ Fighting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy rains of the past few days sent creeks and rivers out of their banks in the southern half of Ohio Friday. The flooding hit scores of communities, led to evacuation of many families, blocked hundreds of secondary roads and was responsible for one train derailment. Civil Defense and Red Cross workers were out in most of the areas, either on duty or on alert yLII'IIHiWi- mm. SAIGON (AP) Waves of America's biggest bombers kept up one of the most concentrated saturation attacks of the war today' against North Vietnamese troops reported crossing from Laos into the center of South Vietnam. The intensified air campaign was aimed at stopping any major enemy thrust across the country.
In 10 missions Thursday and today, at least 30 Air Force B52 bombers rained nearly 1,000 tons of explosives along enemy areas near the junction of the borders of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. While the pressure mounted in the central U.S. Marines just below the demilitarized zone reported 203 North Vietnamese killed in a savage two-day battle. The Leathernecks said 23 of their men were killed and 86 wounded in the action Wednesday and Thursday two miles northeast of Con Thien. Bombing of the central highlands was stepped up after North Vietnamese troops were reported crossing over the Laotian frontier in force.
U.S. intelligence officers in the field said the Communist command might try to grab a large chunk of South Vietnam's central plateau to put more teeth into its demands at the Paris peace talks. The first North Vietnamese divisions ever identified in South Vietnam tried to cut the country in half in 1965 but American troops drove them back during a fall of bloody fighting. Flying at altitudes of more than 20,000 feet, the huge planes attacked staging areas, troop concentrations, bunkers, artillery positions and antiaircraft batteries between the Laotian border and Dak To. In the DMZ action, the Marines took on two battalions about 800 of the enemy believed to be from the 320th North Vietnamese Division.
Units from three regiments of the 3rd Marine Division got into the fray before the enemy withdrew Thursday night. The Americans threw tanks, artillery and fighter-bombers into the battle, as well as helicopter, gunships which were credited with a large percentage of the enemy killed. TTTioiiiiiiKir" 1- Tf-rnrBMiin jit nr-irT'ifrif HnJ TWO MEN SURVIVE CRASH Two men walked away from the crash of this single-engine plane Thursday in suburban Fairview Park. The pilot, Jack Marshall, 42, and David Anderson, 30, both of Port Clinton, Ohio, were not seriously injured. The engine stalled shortly after take off from Cleveland Hopkins Airport and skidded through a tennis court before hitting the wire fence.
(AP Wirephoto) to dangers of more serious flooding if the rains continue. The most serious difficulties during the morning hours were at Circleville in Pickaway County, Chillicothe in Ross County, Logan in Hocking County, sections of Scioto, Clinton and Fayette counties, as well as scattered flooding in many other areas. Just about every county in the southern half of the state had secondary roads closed by flooding streams, and many communities, even Columbus, was plagued by overflowing storm sewers unable to take the mass of water from continued rains. Dozens of communities closed their schools for the day since school buses were unable to navigate the flooding secondary SING, KNEEL IN HOUSE 18 Of Poor People Seized Then Freed APPEAR AT JUSTICE BUILDING Dr. Spock, Coffin Exhort Youtlis To Defy Draft blocking traffic.
The West Green of Ohio University, usually flooded when the Hocking River overflows, had prepared Thursday night in moving some equipment out of basem*nts. At Circleville where about 80 families were evacuated. Red Cross workers were on duty feeding and housing residents who had to leave their homes. Most of the flooding there was from Hargus and Hominy creeks and Sgt. Roderick List of the Circleville Police Department said "if it weren't for the dam, we'd be floating down the river." The Weather Bureau said flooding Hocking River in Athens and Hocking Counties was at 17.2 feet at 6 a.m.
and rising against a flood stage of 17 feet. This usually means flooding of lowland areas such as the Ohio University's West Green but not the city itself. At Enterprise in Hocking County the Hocking River at 7 a.m. had a 14.1 stage and rising against a flood stage of 12 feet. Many residents of low-lying areas along the river had to leave their homes in such periods, but most farmland is flooded.
An Emergency aid station was set up in the National Guard, Armory at Athens and officials said about 150 persons would be housed there. Most schools in Athens and surrounding Athens County were closed. At least three roads blocked by water in Athens County also were blocked by landslides from hills adjacent to roadways. The city of Chillicothe was virtually isolated by flood water. The only highway out of the town was U.S.
23 to the south. Several families were evacuated from the Adena Lake area at the west edge of Chillicothe. The town received more than three inches of rain Thursday and since May 8 has received some rain every dav except May 16. The Ohio Highway Patrol reported some families in Fayette County and in the small Clinton County town of Sabina also had to be evacuated, as were some families in Chillicothe and at Rutland in Meigs County west of Pomeroy where Leeding Creek overflowed its banks. At Rutland some of the families Crashing Plane Misses Youths, Two Men Safe CLEVELAND (AP)-Two men walked away from the crash of a light plane that narrowly missed a group of boys playing baseball and burst into flames after sliding through a tennis court in suburban Fairview Park Thursday.
Jack Marshall, 42, the pilot, said the engine on the single-engine Piper Cherokee stalled shortly after takeoff from Cleveland Hopkins Airport, less then two miles from the crash scene. Marshall, of Birmingham, Ala. and his passenger, David Anderson, 30, of Port Clinton, Ohio, suffered minor injuries. The pilot said he purposely skimmed trees in Morton Park to slow the plane before it hit the ground. The aircraft hit a tree at the edge of the baseball field, veered down and hit a short fence, rupturing the gas tank.
Fairview Park Fire Chief J. Orrie Baumgartner said the net and fence of the tennis court saved "a real disaster." A 26-building apartment complex is less than 75 feet from where the plane was stopped by the wire fence. Anderson, a chemist for Uni-royal. was returning home from a business trip to Boston and chartered the plane, owned Sky Tours Airlines of Port Clinton, at Hopkins Airport. WASHINGTON (AP) The Poor People's Campaign has sustained its first group arrests after a Capitol Hill demonstration that the movement's leader called unplanned and unfortunate.
The 12 adults and 6 juveniles arrested Thursday for singing and kneeling outside a House office building banned as unlawful assembly on Capitol Hill-were released without bond in the custody of a campaign official. The Rev. Ralph David Aber-nathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and leader of the Poor People's Campaign, said no SCLC official was with the 'City' Sea Of Mud WASHINGTON (AP)-Heavy rains turned Resurrection City, U.S.A., into a sea of mud today and forced at least a temporary evacuation of most of the residents of the Poor People's Campaign shantytown. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Resurrection City manager, said plans are being made to shift about 2,000 of the 2,400 residents to churches in metropolitan Washington.
BOSTON (AP) Television films of Dr. Benjamin Spock standing on the steps of the Justice Department building in Washington, exhorting young men to continue resisting the draft, have been shown to a federal jury trying the pediatrician and four others on antidraft charges. "Remember, the greatest weapon the government has is division and we must not attack each other, we must stick together," Spock was heard to say in the film of an antidraft rally last Oct. 20. ILS.
Consulate At Quebec Hit By Explosion QUEBEC (AP) An explosion rocked the U.S. consulate building early today, shattering several windows and cracking the three-inch-thick front door of the two-story structure. Police said no one was hurt. The consulate has been the scene of several peaceful student demonstrations protesting U.S. participation in the Vietnam war.
The blast, believed caused by dynamite placed on the concrete front steps, ripped open the front doors. group but that this will be required in the future. "We are not quite ready to up the movement to mass arrests," one of Abernathy's lieutenants, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, told newsmen. Jackson, "city manager" of the poor people's shantytown near the Lincoln Memorial, hustled to Capitol Hill after receiving word that arrests were being made.
Police had already sent two vans full of demonstrators off for booking five more empties were waiting before Jackson persuaded them to stop by promising all the remaining demonstrators would leave. The group had originally numbered about 200. He said he also told the police, "If you arrest these, you'll have 3,000 more to deal with today and it would be a sound decision to call it off." The incident pointed up the touchy leadership problems of the campaign. Though conceived by the SCLC, it embraces many groups which have brought to Washington leaders not in the SCLC hierarchy. The marchers who went to the Longworth Office Building Thursday, for instance, were headed by George A.
Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Association. While the word from SCLC officials was that the time to shift the campaign to a pattern of civil disobedience had not arrived, Wiley's battle cry to the cheering demonstrators after the confrontation with police was: "This is only the roads. The train derailment came when a 77-car Baltimore Ohio freight train, bound from Newark to Cincinnati, hit a washed out culvert two miles north of Bloomingburg in Fayette County, about seven miles north of Washington Court House. Seventeen of the cars derailed, some piled three high, but no one was injured. The first 21 of the cars in the train, including the 17 derailed, were damaged, according to the conductor, J.
T. Trimble of Newark. L. E. Schwartz of Newark was the engineer.
Most of the cars were empty. All Washington Court House and Fayette County schools also were closed by flooded secondary roads, and storm sewer flooding. All schools in Ross County outside Chillicothe also were closed. A few landslides blocked some roads in Ross County, where five families had to be evacuated from the Vigo section, just outside Chillicothe, and several families from Austin, 10 miles north of the city. It was Paint Creek and several other streams which flow into the Scioto in Ross County that was causing most of the trouble in Chillicothe.
There Civil Defense officials called on high school seniors to help sandbag the Adena levee on the creek in the western part of the city. Ohio 104, 139 and 180 in the area were closed as well as U.S. 35 to the east. At least 60 families were evacuated at Logan in Hocking County and in the area of the Also seen and heard in the films projected Thursday was another defendant, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin 43. On trial with the 65-year-old baby doctor and Coffin are Mitchell Goodman, 44, a New York writer and teacher; Marcus Raskin, 33, a Washington research director; and Michael Ferber, 23, a graduate student at Harvard.
All are charged with conspiring to counsel, aid and abet young Americans to evade and avoid the draft. The government contends that during the rally, Coffin, Spock, Goodman, Raskin and others attempted to hand over a briefcase containing 185 draft cards and 172 classification cards to John McDonough, an assistant deputy U.S. attorney general, at a meeting inside the building in a deliberate violation of Selective Service laws. The incident is one of several upon which the government based its indictments against the defendants, who face five-year prison terms and $10,000 fines if convicted. Spock's remarks during the meeting, McDonough said, were confined to a condemnation of the Vietnam war and the claim that President Johnson was trying "to save face" by continuing the war.
McDonough did not accept the cards, but the government says the visitors left the briefcase on a table as they walked out. Violence Spreads In Paris PARIS (AP). Premier Georges Pompidou summoned labor and business leaders to meet with him Saturday to seek a solution to the crushing strike wave paralyzing most of France's economic life. More and greater turmoil threatened, meanwhile, as workers, students and farmers called a new round of demonstrations today a few hours before President Charles de Gaulle's address to the nation. DeGaulle was expected to give his analysis of the situation and propose broad outlines for a settlement.
The government then would try to reach an agreement with business and labor within these guidelines. The Communist-led General Confederation of Workers, France's biggest union, immediately accepted Pompidou's invitation to meet but expressed that "24 hours are being lost." The French Confederation of Democratic Workers also accepted, but warned that the strikes would not stop. Students rioted in Paris Thursday for the second night in succession, and authorities feared the violence would increase. Interior Minister Christian Fouchet warned that "armed extremists" hoped to use the demonstrations today to set off violence which would not be controlled. The National Students Union scheduled demonstrations at four points in northeastern Paris.
The Communist-dominated General Confederation of Workers announced two marches across the southern half of the city. In the provinces, organizations of farmers called demonstrations being evacuated were affected by a creek covering Ohio 124 by several feet. Collegians Facing Pre-Draft Exams Orders for the June preinduc-tion physical examination call were mailed today by the Local Selective Service Board, The call includes many students who will be graduating in June. The June call is for 52 men. Induction calls for 18 men were mailed Monday.
The inductees and men reporting for pre-induction physicals will leave in three groups on June 4, one leaving at 6, 6:30 and 8 a.m. Burglar Chased, But Gets Away With $150 Cash A burglar entered the law offices of Alfred J. Cooper Thursday night and got away with $150. A tenant, Daniel T. Elliott, 714V2 Court street, who resides above the law office, returned home from a fishing trip about 9:30 p.m.
and heard a noise coming from the office part of the building. Elliott, noticing no lights were on and a side window was open, northeast section of the city, af Child Swallows Teddy Bear's Eye OAK HARBOR Quinton McGinnis, two-and-a-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGinnis, rural Oak Harbor, was admitted to Ma-gruder hospital, Port Clinton, Thursday after he swallowed the eye of his teddy bear. Mailbox Blowing "fIr" Creek.
Police Chief Roy Kelch 150 Puppies Burn PHILADELPHIA (AP) -About 150 puppies some worth up to $500 each were killed Thursday night in a fire at a midtown pet shop. Mr. Behling called inside. He received no at Logan said people were being evacuated at Rock Bridge and that an evacuation headquarters was set up in Logan's West Elementary School. Logan police and auxiliaries in the county's Civil Defense unit were using two amphibious "ducks" to help in the evacuation work, and the Logan unit of the National Guard was on duty.
In Athens County at least 10 state roads were closed and in Athens six streets were flooded, answer and went to the front lieilling ACCeptS where he saw a man leap over the porch rail and run west on Lollege LoacllUlg Court street. He chased the bur- glar across Wood but fell down. Job In Kentucky He later found a shoe that had Hurt At School Maiva, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Bliss, Ewing street, is reported in fairly good condition at Memorial hospital where she was admitted Thursday at 7 p.m.
with a concussion. She fell Wednesday from the monkey bars at Hayes elementary school. if i I 1 i i ir- 1 I I 'r i ft 'fJ i jonn tsenung, wno recently been left behind by the intruder. A window on the east side leading to a restroom had apparently been left unlocked. The burglar used a camper trailer parked below the window to gain entry.
Costly To Two Fremont Youths Mailboxes were blown up at four rural homes in the Gib-sonburg and Woodville areas Thursday, according to complaints received by Sheriff Dan Haas' department. Following descriptions given of an automobile seen leaving one of the mail boxes, deputies located the vehicle on Route 20 west of Fremont. Two Fremont youths admitted they had committed the vandalism. They were Bennie Ruggiero, 19, Colonial Acres, and Daniel V. Boucher, 20, Western avenue.
Before County Judge John Chambers today the two defendants pleaded guilty. Each was fined $30 on each of four counts. The judge suspended 10 day jail sentences provided each makes restitution for the damage. Mailboxes were damaged at the homes of William Allwardt, C. F.
Rhonehouse, Richard Rudolph and Wilfred Lehman. Mi mm I sm Mmsm resigned as head football coach at Ross high school after one year, has been named offensive line coach at Morehead State College in Kentucky. Behling revealed this morning that he has accepted the assistant coaching and faculty position at Morehead. In his new capacity he will be an assistant professor of health and physical education, as well as a member of the football staff. Morehead State was the Ohio Valley Conference champion in 1966.
Behling will be the latest addition to a new coaching staff. Jake Hallum, Kentucky higr school coach of the year in 1967, took over the head football job in January. Hallum was coach of Kentucky high school state champions three times. "I think this is a wonderful opportunity for my family," stated Behling in announcing his move. He will report June 10 to Morehead State.
He had been named pool manager at Woodville for the summer. xm I V.v 'At Weather Watchers Name Hurricanes MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-The first hurricane of the year, yet un-spawned, was christened Abby on Thursday. She isn't expected until after June 1 when the hurricane season officially begins, but the weather watchers at Miami's hurricane center decided they would be ready with her name and names for her 22 sisters. Brenda and Candy will follow Abby.
Then will come Dolly, Edna, Frances, Gladys and Hannah, which is as far as the names went last year as Heidi ended the hurricane season off the coast of Ireland. i. So Says Dong SINGAPORE (AP) Premier Pham Van Dong of North Vietnam declared tonight "the United States must stop all bombing without conditions" in the North and withdraw from South Vietnam before peace can be fox to the Jack and the Gottron family WAITING PATIENTLY The dog belonging to newspaper carrier Mike Page waits patiently for his master to come pick up the papers at a drop spot in Dallas. Texas. Mike was killed Saturday in the crash of a private plane in Dallas, but the dog continued to meet the Dallas Times Harold route man and wait for Mike to deliver his papers.
(AP Wirephoto) Bilgers on Williams Drive. The Bassetts were developed to hunt fox, but Beau seems loftily unaware of this and will hear none of it. News-Messenger Photo BUDDIES "We're supposed to be enemies." Charlie the Fox seems to be saying to Beauregarde the Bassett Hound. Beau will hear none of it because he romps with Charlie every day. Beau belongs to the David I.
