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Increased Attendance Marks First Day Of County Fair The first official day of the 117th annual Sandusky county fair was a success, favored by ideal weahter. Paid attendance yesterday was 3,946, but those tickets represented only a small number of the crowds on the grounds. It was children's day and admission was free to them. Last year the paid attendance on the same day was 2,627. Number of cars parked gained from 716 to 974.

Memberships sold gained from 50 to 58. Thursday's program was capped by Stoney Roberts demolition derby, which drew a tremendous crowd. It was a wild elimination contest for stock cars knocking each other out. Tonight's program will feature Frank Sinatra, at 8 at the grandstand. The annual election of directors of the fair will be held Monday from 3 to 8 p.m.

although none of the incumbents open for election are contested. The incumbents are Frank Ensign, Townsend township; G. R. Gallagher, Green Creek township; J. Robert Martin, Riley; Mrs.

Francis Norton, Fremont, director-at-large, and Mrs. Wayne Swaisgood, Scott township. Stock car races will be featured Saturday night, Connie Smith and her country music on Sunday night and on Monday performances at 2 and 8 p.m. of the Auto Daredevils. jttttumt titacv More Of Same Sunny, continued warm with little temperature change tonight and Saturday, Low tonight in 60s.

Today's History 1782 Nearly 1,100 persons drowned when an English man-of-war sank at Portsmouth, Devoted to the Best Interests of Fremont and Northern Ohio Merged TEN CENTS 24 PAGES FREMONT, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1969 VOL. 114, NO. 119 Fremont News Founded 1887 Fremont Messenger Founded 1858 School Desegregation Policy Faces Test Another Apology Is Sought Department's civil rights division. "Politics," declared congressional liberals. Nevertheless, by this time next week, government officials and 1,107 are functioning under voluntary plans submitted to HEW for achieving total integration.

"This means," said an HEW spokesman Thursday, "that say almost twice tne numDer ot wnere 0ne-fifth of the South's Negro youngsters wm oe attend- eero youngsters were attend He says the Mississippi case "is only part of a total pattern" whereby the administration is "trying to build a political base in the South." A top-level Justice Department official, who has worked there for 13 years, insists that real desegregation progress is being made, despite appearances to the contrary. "I think desegregation is much more real this year than last," he said in an interview this week. "Instead of freedom of choice, courts are now requiring plans that get down to the nitty-gritty." "Personally and professionally," he added, "I'm not vigorously enforced. They implied that if their requests were not granted they might resign en masse. The episode marked the final blow to some government lawyers, who claim Mitchell refused to allow some suits to be filed because of political considerations.

Despite a flurry of activity in July, the department has filed less than half 15 compared to 31 the school desegregation complaints filed at this time last year under President Johnson. Clarence Mitchell, the NAACP's top lobbyist here, blames the inactivity on political considerations. schools. Only a few exceptions made some concessions, notably were authorized. in the case of 30 Mississippi In July, the Nixon administra- school districts last Monday, tion relaxed those deadlines.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Jerris Leon-Atty. Gen.

John N. Mitchell and ard, head of Justice's civil Welfare Secretary Robert H. rights division, asked a federal Finch said no absolute timeta- court to delay a plan which he bles would be followed, and fur- had supported only three weeks ther exemptions were granted earlier for complete desegre-to some school districts. gation of the districts. At the same time, they prom- This so upset civil rights divi-ised to pursue a vigorous en- sion lawyers that Leonard had forcement policy, while con- to make a rare court appear-demning "unrealistic dead- ance to argue the case himself lines" that "may give the ap- since none of his staff would pearance of great federal activi- handle the task, ty but in too many cases has The next day, division attor-actually impeded progress." neys began an unprecedented Following this policy, HEW campaign to seek assurance granted some exemptions to this from administration officials fall's deadline.

Justice also that desegregation would be WASHINGTON (AP) Nixon administration school desegregation policy seen by critics as contradictory and confusing comes to the test next week. As pupils in 17 Southern and Border states return to fall classes, a controversy swells on the direction of civil rights enforcement 15 years after the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the "separate but equal" concept. "Pussyfooting" is the tag put on the Nixon policy by Clarence Mitchell Washington representative for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Retrogressive," said some dissident lawyers in the Justice PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) North Korea said today all three American helicopter crewmen who were shot down Aug. 17 are alive and offered to exchange them for a confession and apologies from Washington.

At a meeting of the Korean Armistice Commission, the chief North Korean representative said Capt. David H. Crawford of Pooler, and Spec. 4 Herman E. Hofstatter of Low-point, 111., were seriously injured.

He said WO Malcom V. Loepke, the pilot, of Richmond, was slightly injured. ing integrated white schools last year, one third will have the advantage of an integrated education during 1969-70." Around the figures game, however, swirls the controversy. The administration of former President Lyndon B. Johnson had set next month as the deadline for complete integration of once-segregated southern ing previously all-white soutn-ern schools as in any previous year.

Figures alone are impressive. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare says that of 4,476 once segregated districts, a total of 2,994 will open next week with completely unitary schools, unidentifiable by race. Of the remainder, 369 are under court orders to desegregate 'Vrf in l.Vf l- 1 NEWS IN BRIEF Gwiazda Unhappy WASHINGTON (AP) -Judge Henry J. Gwiazda, head of the National Selective Service Appeals Board, charges draft director Lewis B. Hershey is trying to take advantage of the board's transition to seize control of it.

Gwiazda, of New Britain, and Dr. Kenneth W. Clement, of Cleveland, were asked by President Nixon on July 9 to submit their resignations. The White House has accepted Clement's resignation, but there has been no announcement on the one from Gwiazda. A draft spokesman says Hershey gave a personal aide Col.

George J. Wendel command of the board's staff of four persons when Nixon asked for the resignations. Hodges Trial Continues ASHLAND (AP)-Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation ballistics expert Steve Molnar and microanalyst Claude Hazen were scheduled to testify today as the prosecution wraps up its case against Mark Hodges. Thirty-five witnesses have been called so far, 11 of them Thursday. Hodges, 28, of Beaverdam, is charged with first-degree murder in the October, 1967, slaying of Karen Kern.

Cuba Denies Allegations vfr-r Hi CAR DRIVEN BY CHARLES BAXTER CAUGHT IN A SQUEEZE DURING THE DEMOLITION DERBY AT COUNTY FAIR Crunch Was The Tupical Sound As The Nightly Grandstand Attraction Attracted A Capacity Crowd To Watch The Derby second Girl's Arabs Promise More Fire Life Claimed By Accident A cconltc (Tbri IpwI The North Korean delegate, Maj. Gen. Lee Choon-Sun, said doctors are treating them, but he gave no further information on their condition. He said North Korea would consider their return "in accordance with past practices" if the Americans admitted "criminally" sending the OH23 helicopter over North Korea. Lee.

apparently was referring to the arrangement under which North Korea released two other American helicopter crewmen in 1964, a year after they were shot down on May 17, 1963. The North Koreans returned them after the U.N. Command siped a document admitting they were spying, then repudiated the confession as soon as the men were returned. The same procedure was followed to get the Pueblo crew back last December. Once again U.S.

officials contend that the helicopter pilot lost his way and flew into North Korean air space by mistake. But there was no indication from the U.S. representative on the armistice commission, Marine Maj. Gen. Arthur H.

Adams, how soon a similar confession-apology and then repudiation might be forthcoming. After the North Korean negotiator admitted that the men were alive but injured, Adams requested their immediate return for medical treatment, but Lee rejected this. "It seems that your side is not yet prepared to receive the three crewmen," the North Korean said, "and you are in no position to discuss the matter further." The U.N. command said earlier that the helicopter was on a routine training flight from Uijongbu, just north of Seoul, and that the pilot radioed he was lost. North Korea said the chopper was downed near Kum-chon, about 15 miles north of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

nian gun position earlier Thurs- soldiers were wounded. The crowd, said to be the day after one Israeli was killed, in Damascus chief of state largest seen in Damascus since A snokesman said after the raid Atassi led a huee crowd of Ar- World War II, called for the lib- eration of "Islam's holy shrines abs chanting "War, war" dur all planes returned safely. ing a two-hour protest against the burning of Al Aksah Mosque in the Arab section of in Jerusalem." Protests against the mosque fire also took place in Karachi and Manila. Along the Suez Canal, Israeli and Egyptian forces battled with artillery for three hours Thursday. Israel said two of its By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The leader of an Arab guerrilla organization said today there would be more fire and bomb attacks against Jewish establishments in London and indicated the campaign may be carried to the United States.

Dr. George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said his group was responsible for a number of recent attacks on Jewish stores and offices in London and declared: "The fighting strategy of the PFLP is to pursue the Israeli enemy wherever he may be. We shall Miss Lana Lee Billingsley, 15, 821 Curtis street, Curtice, died Thursday afternoon in St. Charles hospital in Toledo from injuries suffered in an automobile accident Tuesday. Miss Billingsley was a passenger in a car traveling north on the Genoa-Clay Center road.

The car went off the right side of the road and smashed into a tree about one-half mile south of State route 579. The driver of the car, Carol Womack, 16, died Thursday. Two other passengers are listed in fair condition in St. Charles hospital. Born December 1, 1953, Miss Billingsley was the daughter of Wilbur E.

and Lois J. McDaniel Billingsley. For the past 10 years, she had lived in Curtis, moving there from Dillonville. Survivors include her parents; three brothers, Louis, Larry and Luck, at home; Paternal grandmother, Mrs. Laura Billingsley, Streetsburo; maternal grandfather, Virgil McDaniel, Dillonville; and maternal grandmother, Mrs.

Leon Phillips, Dillonville. She was a member of the Rainbow Girls. Friends may call at the Robinson Funeral Home in Genoa after 7 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev.

Henry A. Tegtmeier Sunday at 2 p.m. in MIAMI (AP) Havana Radio says Cuba has formally denied that two of its diplomats expelled from the United States had been using their status at the United Nations for espionage activities. The broadcast, monitored in Miami Thursday, said the denial was made in a note sent by Foreign minister Raul Roa to U.N. Secretary-General Thant.

The State Department last week ordered Lazaro Eddy Espinosa Bonet, 25, to leave the country, charging he had attempted to hire a Cuban refugee for a mission "related to the security of the office of the President." Alberto Boza Hidalgo-Gato, 28, first secretary of Cuba's mission to the United Nations, was accused of attempting to gather information concerning operations of a U.S. Military installation by recruiting refugees as spies. Motion Under Consideration CINCINNATI (AP)-A motion to throw out a confession and clothing as evidence in the murder trial of Barbara Jean Shutt, 23, accused in the death of her psychiatrist stepmother was taken under consideration by the Common Pleas Court here. Judge William Morrissey held a hearing on the motion by Miss Shutt's attorney Thursday prior to the trial set for September 22. Cloud Releases Report COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -The first full impact of newly enacted legislation increasing state assistance to schools is seen in State Auditor Roger Cloud's report today on the August distribution of school foundation funds.

The auditor noted the $38.5 million distributed was an increase of $3.1 million over July's $35.3 million. The August payment included $13.1 million for the 170 city districts, $12.2 million for the 420 local districts, and $1.5 million for the 50 exempted village districts. Morning Meeting Slated CLEVELAND (AP) -A morning meeting was scheduled by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes to consider a proposal that may bring the union local's two-week strike against the city of Cleveland to an end. The strike by the 1,300 local 100 members stems from the suspension and attempted dismissal of Clarence King, the union's chief steward. Ohio Traffic Deaths Climb strike at all Zionist establishments both inside Palestine and abroad." Asked whether the attacks would be extended to the United States, Habash replied: "We shall expand our operations everywhere in all parts of the world.

The enemy camps include not only Israel but also the Zionist movement, world imperialism led by the United States and reactionary powers bound to the imperialists." Habash was interviewed in Amman, Jordan, where the guerrilla organization has its headquarters. It has claimed credit for hijacking an Israeli airliner over the Mediterranean last summer, shooting up two other El Al jets in Athens and Zurich and planting a bomb in a supermarket that killed 2 Israelis and injured 26. The editor of Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram said today the Arabs must take the initiative in getting the United States to change its mind on the Arab-Israeli question. Israeli authorities imposed a curfew today on the area south Student Patience Thin On Part Of Average CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -Even though the average American student "still has faith, pride and patience with the presently established channels," the patience is "wearing thin," says the president of the Association of Student Governments. Edward Callan said that students who don't "protest or riot or burn" to gain what they want "are tired of the action and attention paid to those who scoff at due process." Callan, speaking at a Rotary Club luncheon Thursday, said strong student governments should be used for reparation of student grievances.

the funeral home. Burial will be in Willoston cemetery. CRUSHED WRECKAGE OF CAR HIT BY TRAIN NEAR LEMDSEY Allen Brindley In Critical Condition After Accident Area Man Critically Hurt As Car Is Struck By Train Board To Review Airline Authorization WASHINGTON (AP)-A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner's decision to authorize Mohawk Airlines to provide flights between Cleveland and Hartford, and Boston will be reviewed by the CAB at the request of three other airlines. By granting the petitions of Allegheny, American and United airlines, the board prevented from going into effect an examiners ruling which would have permitted Mohawk to operate nonstop between Hartford and Cleveland and to provide service with one intermediate stop between Boston and Cleveland. ZANESVILLE Pearl Clough, 79, Zanesville, died in Good Samaritan Hospital of injuries received earlier in the day when struck by an automobile.

WAPAKONETA Roy Brown, 46, Lima, killed when the bakery truck he was driving on Interstate 75 was struck in the rear by a trailer-tractor rig. DELAWARE Garland Ray Hamblin, 19, Charleston, W. killed when his automobile went out of control and crashed off U.S. 23 just north of the Franklin County line. CLEVELAND Rose Crisnor, 62, Cleveland, killed when struck by an automobile as she crossed a Cleveland street.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic deaths in Ohio were mounting rapidly Friday in advance of the coming Labor Day weekend. Deaths Thursday: WAUSEON Gerald C. Ireland, 21, of Delta, Fulton County, killed when his automobile smashed into a Norfolk and Western trajn halted at a county road crossing southwest of Delta. XENIA Jeanette Rogers, 17, Xenia killed when thrown from an ice cream vendor's truck which overturned and crushed her on a rural Greene County Road. of Jerusalem used as a launching site by Arab saboteurs for a rocket attack on the Holy City Tuesday.

A search is continuing for the saboteurs who sent three rockets screaming into Jerusalem. The rockets landed on open ground and caused no casualties or damage in the first rocket attack on the city since the 1967 war. The Israeli army reported two Arab guerrillas were killed in a clash with Israeli troops Thursday night on the Jordan River near the Damiya Bridge. This was the same area where Israeli jets attacked a Vietnam Death List Adds More Ohioans WASHINGTON (AP) Three Ohio servicemen have died in recent Vietnam action, the Defense Department reported Thursday. They were Navy Gunner's Mate Joseph J.

Milano of Canton, Marine Pfc. Stephen E. Cunningham of Cleveland and Air Force Sgt. Benjamin T. Walangitang of the Netherlands, who listed his home of record as Dayton.

tured skull and scalp lacerations. The engine was pulling 82 cars. The crossing is marked but has no flashers. The Brindley vehicle was stopped on the tracks, according to the train engineer, Goerge Lega, 37, Massillon, and others of the train crew. The automobile was carried 105 feet by the train and then dropped into the ditch.

State highway patrol investigated. Station wagon operated by Allan W. Brindley, 25, of 119 Garfield street, Lindsey, was hit by a Norfolk and Western railroad engine on County Road 109 crossing east of Lindsey Friday at 3:45 a.m. Brindley was admitted to the intensive care unit of Memorial hospital where he remained overnight in critical condition. He was transferred Friday morning to St.

Vincent hospital, Toledo. Brindley sustained a frac-.