The News-Messenger from Fremont, Ohio • 1

Cool, Wet Cooler tonight with showers. Low 52-60. Fair, little change in temperature Wednesday, high 72-82. Today's History Panama Canal's Gatun locks were completed on this date in 1913. 1110111 ma Devoted to the Best Interests of Fremont and Sandusky County FREMONT, OHIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, lfi Moraed 1938 VOL.

Ill, NO. 54 Fremont Newt Founded 1887 Fremont Messenger Founded 1854 SEVEN CENTS 20 PAGES JEEP MISHAP FATAL TO TROOP MEMBER Dennis Naugle, 20, Killed At Camp Pickett, Va. the jeep upset, but Camp Pickett spokesmen said their injuries were not serious. The fatality happened in a convoy on a training maneuver. The Naugle youth was one of two Ohio National Guardsmen killed Monday at Camp Pickett.

The other was Staff Sgt. Carl T. Schewe, 27, of Waterville, who was electrocuted when a 60-foot radio antenna he was installing fell across high tension lines. A Fremont youth, member of Troop 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment training at Camp Pickett, was killed there shortly before noon Monday. Parents of Specialist Fourth Class Dennis L.

(Pepper) Naugle, 20, of 1407 Fen-wick street, learned Monday evening that he was the victim of a jeep accident at the Virginia training center. His unit left Fremont last Friday morning, part of a The Naugle youth had been a member of the Ohio National Guard for nearly three years. He left for six months of active service in June 1064 the day following his graduation from Fremont Ross high school. Worked al Food Town Employed at Food Town, he had previously been employed as head stocking clerk at the store since he was 16. The guardsman attended Memorial EUB church.

The Waterville soldier was attached to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of the 186th Artillery. He leaves his wife, Betty. Other accidents at the Virginia base caused injury of two men, one Pvt. Gerald Neff of Genoa, Ottawa county, and the other Specialist 4 John L. Lux of Republic, Seneca county.

How they were hurt was not learned, nor was the nature of their injuries. convoy that took off in the early morning hours from the Sandusky county fairgrounds. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Naugle, the parents, were visited at their home by Master Sergeant Berry W.

Pevey of Toledo, who told them of the fatal accident. Skids, Overturns Young Naugle was killed at 11:30 a.m. when the jeep he was driving skidded on gravel, overturning three times. Two other men, neither identified, were hurt when Born August 22, 1945 in Fremont, Mr. Naugle was the son of Kenneth and Ruth Thrun Naugle.

Surviving with his parents are a sister, Judy, at home; another sister. Mrs. Robert (Janet) Schneider, Carbon street, and his paternal grandfather, William Naugle, Jackson Annex. The body will arrive Wednesday afternoon at the Weller Wonderly funeral home where funeral arrangements are pending. Mr.

Naugle Jeep Mishap Victim MANY POWER OUTAGES REPORTED Storm Leaves Two Hurt, Much Damage In District 1,000 KILLED IN WEEK Viet Cong Force Ruined, Says American General School Bus Bid Plan Approved By Gov. Rhodes COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Fast action by the State Board of Education and Gov. James A. Rhodes enacted a long-standing plan for centralized school bus ly 5 p.m. hail accompanied rains and lightning.

The hail was especially heavy north of Widespread damage, scattered power loss and at least two injuries resulted from the severe thunderstorms which dumped 1.67 inches of rain on Fremont and area in the last 24 hours. The heavy rains, which cooled had scattered trouble. A few lines were down in the area and several were struck by lightning. Trouble, however, is not considered serious. In most areas the storm actually hit twice.

At approximate Clyde and in Bellevue. Again before 9 p.m. the elec trical storm was responsible for (Continued on Page 16, Col. 7.) reported one Viet Cong killed and four captured. American pilots flew 60 multiplane missions over North Viet Nam Monday concentrating on coastal targets near Vinh, Thanh Hoa and Dong Hoi and island near the Mu Gia Pass on the Laotian border.

Over South Viet Nam. U.S. pilots flew 337 combat sorties and Vietnamese pilots 272 ale Coontz, which had guided the U.S. jets. The second plane was tracked heading inland.

The U.S. Command disclosed that the American 173rd Airborne Brigade had launched a new search-and-destroy operation named Hollandia last Wednesday but so far had made little contact with the Viet Cong. The sweep was under way in coastal Phuoc Tuy Province east of Saigon. A spokesman 70 Hogs Killed, 35 Put In Pen As Truck Flips Turnpike patrolmen from the Castalia post plus some highway maintenance men played a game of hog herding early Tuesday after a tractor-trailer from LaGrange, carrying 160 hogs upset near the 94 mile post east of Fremont-Truck driver Calvin J. Miller, 24, of LaGrange, fell asleep at the wheel close to 2:10 this morning.

His truck traveled into the median, rolled over and killed 70 hogs turning another 35 loose. Highway maintenance men were called to the scene, taking with them a large quantity of snow fence to build a corral. Patrolmen and maintenance men then spent the next, hour chasing hogs Into the temporary pen. The dead hogs were picked up by a fertilizer company from Wauseon, and the remaining were transferred to another truck called to the scene by the patrol. Driver Miller suffered back abrasions but was not SAIGON (AP) U.S.

paratroopers clashed with North Vietnamese troops in the central highlands today and the U.S. brigade commander said the enemy is "no longer a fighting force." At the same time, a brigade spokesman estimated the North Vietnamese, the 24th Regiment of from 1.400 to 2,000 men, had lost more than 1.000 in killed alone in a week of fighting. Brig Gen. Willard Pearson, commanding the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, told reporters: "I believe this battle has set the Viet Cong timetable (of offensive action) back several months." purchases Monday. The board voted 20-1 to ask Rhodes for a 60-day emergency enactment of the plan, which authorizes the state to receive bids on bus purchases for local school boards.

The measure also allows the board to set a ceiling price on buses and subsidize local purchases on the basis of Uiat price. The plan was signed by the governor and made effective before the board concluded its meeting. The move came less than a 1 BIKE SEEN IN CAR'S TRUNK: State Investigators Move Into Findlay Murder Probe Ratio 14 To 1 the temperature in Fremont from a high of 90 Monday to a low of 59 during the night, and the lightning that accompanied them were the direct causes of Injury to a Toledo Edison lineman and a Port Clinton restaurant employe. Major power outage involved the Port Clinton area and included the cutting of power to the radio station, which was off the air for a considerable period of time. County and state highway departments were busy this morning removing limbs from many roads in the area, but neither department had any serious damage to report.

Tendon Slashed James Kohler, 31, Gibsonburg Route 1, lineman for Toledo Edison suffered a laceration of a tendon in his right wrist while repairing storm damage on County Road 49 southwest of Rollersville. Lightning struck two distributor cutouts and Kohler was placing a jumper around the damaged portion when broken porcelain fell, striking him on the wrists. He was taken to a Gibsonburg physician and then to Memorial hospital where he was admitted for surgery. week after bus distributors made their second attempt to halt the plan. Last week, they challenged the Ohio Education Department's right to accept bids which will set the prices of school buses in the state.

No ruling has been made in the case. In an earlier court action brought by the bus suppliers, the plan was declared illegal. In the fighting on ridges 35. miles north of Kontum. Pearson said he expected a kill ratio of 14 to 1.

South Vietnamese troops have joined the fighting. The new fighting continued through the afternoon against a company-size force of about 100 North Vietnamese. Over the North Viet Nam coast, two U.S. Navy F4C Phantom jets from the aircraft carrier Ranger intercepted two propeller-driven planes and probably shot down one of them with a radar-guided Sparrow 4 p.m. Friday, an hour or so after he left his home to go fishing in the park.

His body was found about half a mile from the Divers and men with mine detectors searched the river area Monday seeking the slaying weapon or other clues. Nothing was found. The state agency sent in six 'nvestigators to help Findlay police in the case. W-5 ii A FINDLAY, Ohio (AP)-Police aided by a State Bureau of Criminal Investigation te a pursued leads today in the sex slaying of an 8-year-old boy. Investigators reported a family which leaves near where the body of young Tim Trask was found Saturday night had told of seeing a car with a bicycle in the trunk and of hearing what sounded like firecrackers.

The noises could have been shots. Tim's body was found in a wooded area about a mile from his home. His bicycle was concealed nearby. He had been shot twice, stabbed and sexually molested. Officers questioned more than a dozen persons Monday seeking possible leads.

One man was Model Hurt By Lion Seeking $3 Million NEW YORK (AP) Model Nell Theobald, who was mauled by a lion during a publicity stunt in New York City, has filed a $3-million damage suit. Miss Theobald, 22, charged in the New York State Supreme Court Monday that the attack Steeplejack, 58, Survives Chilly Night High In Sky EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Trapped five hours in a rain-si orm and in a barrel 250 feet up a radio tower's guy wire, a steeplejack was rescued in to bv the lion at the International Artist Gives Up missile. The encounter took place before dawn 18 miles northeast of Thanh Hoa. 90 miles south of Hanoi.

In the darkness the Phantom pilots could not precisely identify the enemy planes. One Phantom fired the Sparrow from several miles away. An explosion was seen and one enemy plane disappeared from the radar screens of the Phantoms and the U.S. missile frig- Automobile Show caused per manent injuries. given a lie detector test.

Several children also were interviewed and some told of see She named a number of defendants, including the owner of the lion, the auto show and the Coliseum where the show was held last April. ing Tim in a park about 3:30 or SAYS HE'LL RENOUNCE William R. Christensen, 37, tells a news conference in Tokyo he will renounce his American citizenship in protest over our Viet Nam policy. His son, Eric, 5. doodles in a notebook.

Christensen, from Hartford, went with Eric to Tokyo two months ago to work for an import-export firm. His wife, a native of Paris, lives in Albany. with their two other children. Anne. 8, and Eva.

7. (AP Wirephoto by radio from Tokyo) Sandusky Coach Takes Massillon Football Post SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) Sandusky high school has produced its second head football coach for Massillon high school. Robert Seaman, head coach at Sandusky for two years and a member of the coaching staff for seven years, said today he will become Massillon's head coach as nf next Monday. He replaces Earl Bruce, a former Sandusky head grid coach who is joining the Ohio State University coaching staff after leading Massillon through a 20 game winning streak. Seaman whose Sandusky Blue Streaks lost only one game in the last two seasons will also become director of athletics and director of secondary physical education at Massillon.

"The Massillon job is the number one high school foot-ball coaching job in the country." said Seaman. He said he doubted that Massillon and Sandusky grid squads would ever play against each other. He said such a game would be physically tortuous" for the GREAT LAKES TO TEXAS SOAKED: Burgoon Girl, 18, Struck By Auto He is listed in satisfactory condition. A spokesman at Toledo Edison said this morning that between 40 and 45 individual calls came in reporting storm damage. There were six distributor transformers burned out in the area from Riley township towards Oak Harbor and in the Graytown area in Ottawa county.

There was also lightning damage between Fremont and Gibsonburg with Helena and Millersville and the J. E. Baker Co. substation without power for 45 minutes during the outages. J.

A. Larson, Fremont manager of the Ohio Power reported that the company suffered little damage. Street light circuits were out temporarily and several residential small transformers were hit by lightning affecting a small number of homes. W. Clark, commercial manager of Ohio Bell Telephone, reported that the company has Storm At Shreveport, Causes Seven Drownings day's wee hours.

Buffeting winds and rain made everything slick. "It was a lousy way to spend the night," said Sam Schreiber, of nearby Leslie, once he was on the ground again unharmed, except for a cold, windswept soaking. Schreiber, who described himself as "a steeplejack all my iife," said he'd go back up and finish the tower maintenance job he set out to do at WKAR, the educational outlet of Michigan State University. Fifty-gallon barrels, lifted by mechanical hoists and hooked to guy wires, raise steeplejacks to their jobs and usually bring them smoothly down. But Schreiber's got stuck the equivalent of 25 stories up.

Fellow steeplejack Bob Fin-ley, 30. of Eaton Rapids. climbed 600 feet up the tower and freed Schreiber's hoist ropes, which had become entangled with the guy line. Susan Marie Mutchler. 18, RFD 1, Burgoon, was admitted to Memorial hospital at 8:30 p.m.

Monday after she was hit by a car at the intersection of Front and Garrison streets. Miss Mutchler was treated for injuries to the left hip. leg and knee and is listed in satisfactory condition in the hospital. The Burgoon resident was crossing Front street when a car driven by William A. Wingard, 17.

740 Third avenue, struck her as it turned left off Garrison on to Front. Wingard was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Roosen ambulance sendee answered a call for assistance and transferred the injured girl to the hospital. Two Elderly Norwalk Sisters Die Within Minutes Of Each Other NORWALK. elderly sisters died within 10 minutes of one another early Monday at their residence.

Miss Oleva J. Stieber, 6fi, found her sister. Miss Mary, 76, dead, and called a third sister. Miss Olga. from an upstairs bedroom.

The third sister found both dead. Deaths were attributed to heart attacks. Survivors include Olga. and another sister. Mrs.

Coletta Dar-vey of Norwalk. His Citizenship Over Viet Nam TOKYO (AP) William R. Christensen. a 37-year-old artist from Hartford, announced today he will renounce his American citizenship in protest against U.S. policy in Vict Nam.

"I am sorry to admit." the painter and sculptor told a news conference, ''that the majority of the American people feel righteous and just in supporting a cruel, brutal and cowardly massacre of the small country of Viet Nam." He read an open letter to the Japanese people and government requesting that he be allowed to stay and work in Japan and a cable to President Johnson calling for a halt to the bombing of Viet Nam. Christensen has been in Tokyo with his 5-year-old son Eric for two months, working for a Japanese export-import firm with its French and English correspondence. His wife, a native oi Paris, lives with their two other children, Anne, 8, and Eva, 7, in Albany, Calif. The U.S. Embassy said Christensen, to renounce his citizenship, would have to appear before a consular office, state his wishes in writing and have his passport invalidated.

He then would become a stateless person. Normally he would then face deportation. Deportation procedures are almost always instituted in such cases in Japan. Christensen said if Japan wouldn't have him he would take his son to "some neutral country and make my home and my living." Northeast, hovered off the New Jersey coast gradually losing strength. Three Drownings Listed In Ohio By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three young Ohio boys ages 16, 13 and 11 drowned on a hot Monday in widespread parts of the state one in a motel swimming pool, one in a lake and the third while wading in a river.

James Yurco, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Yurco of Rt. 2 Cambridge, died in a hospital an hour after being pulled from the swimming pool at a motel on U.

S. 40 near Cambridge. Robert Knorr, 11, of Mansfield, drowned in a lake near Mans-ield where he was swimming with his brother. Danny Dwayne Davis, 16. Defiance, was wading in the Auglaize River at a bridge midway between Paulding and Defiance when he stepped into a 10-foot-deep hole and disappeared.

The victim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davis, could not swim. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Drenching rains fell from the Great Lakes to Texas Monday, causing seven deaths. Seven boys, including two sets of brothers, drowned near Shreveport, in a sudden downpour and windstorm.

Five died when their 12-foot fishing boat overturned on Caddo Lake. Two others drowned in a drainage ditch. Nearly 3 inches of rain fell within an hour at George West. about 75 miles northwest of Corpus Christi. More rain flooded U.S.

385. 18 miles south of Odessa in west central Texas. Parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley also received more than an inch of rain. Funnel clouds were sighted in some areas but caused no reported damage. Record-breaking heat in San Francisco expanded the cable car slots on California Street Monday and service was shut down for an hour.

The temperature hit 91, breaking a 92-year-old record. Hurricane Alma, no longer coridered a threat to the Police Force May Lose Two To Fire Department The names of two members of the Fremont Police Force have been certified as having passed the firemen's examination, administered Monday evening by the Fremont Civil Service Commission. Ronald L. Stine and George E. Metter, both members of the local police force and the only two men to take the examination Monday, have been certified.

The fire department has two vacancies to fill. Test for the police department is to be given next Monday. The force presently has three vacancies, but the recent developments could increase the number by two. Youths Of 18 Given Draft Board Warning; Report, Or Face Call Eighteen year old youths who fail to register with the Selective Service office at the post office building are subject to prosecution and immediate induction, according to the clerk, Mrs. Margaret Bauman.

Registration i required within a five day period after the eighteenth birthday, said Mrs. Bauman. Registration is based on the honor system and those who delay signing up without a good cause may be subject to inmediaU Induction. Demeter For Wilson DETROIT Don Demeter was traded late this morning by the Detroit Tigers to the Boston Red Sox. Demeter and a minor league player to be named later went to Boston as the price for Earl Wilson, right-handed pitcher.

It was the second trade in 24 hours, the final day before the trading deadline, for Boston. They were involved in a three-for-three trade with the Kansas City Athletics prior to the Demeter and one for Wilson swap. Ohio Woman Killed SALEM, 111. (AP)-An Upper Sandusky, Ohio, woman, Mrs. Helen Jones, was killed Monday when a car in which she was riding with her son Daniel, 25, collided with two other vehicles eight miles south of this southern Illinois community.

Mrs. Jones was a sister of Father Marcus Vogel of Leipsic, a former pastor at St. Jo- Marchers Move Again GRENADA, Miss. (AP) -Men and women of the Mississippi civil rights march, after being cautioned to avoid scandalous behavior, stepped out today for another nine miles of walking and more voter registration efforts. The marchers, numbering about 130.

mostly Negroes, had bedded down Monday night on a grassy, campsite. They slept in revivalist style tents, sleeping bags, or rolled ufi in blankets. iseph's Catbejic church here..