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18, No. 5. MARYSVILLE, OHIO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1959 Of Carrier SOe Moon Mile 35 Hours MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet its hammep-an Sickle-marked rocket on the moon today. A short time later, a' top Soviet scientist said a manned flight to the moon was now "a matter of the not too distant fu- The 854 9-pound space r.ocket hit the moon at two minutes and 24 seconds after midnight (3:02:24 p.m., e.d.t.,- Sunday) In a feat that brought wild joy 1 to this nation and admiration from the world. later.

Soviet scientists reflected viet press and radio in expressing hope for international cooperation in space along with greater in the future. presu dent of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Whirl Due Tuesday Forlalkr (UPI) President Eisenhower and his key advisers today, sought! ways to counter (he new prestige that Russia's spectacular moon nit has given Spvtet Premier Nikita. Khrushchev for his historic White House talks starting Tuesday. scheduled an early morning conference with Secre- Ury of State Christian A.

Herter rocket a laboratory," He said its successful performance should followed manned flight to the moon. is an extremely difficult task," he sairfinrt It-Was a mat- future." Toplchev and other top-ranking scientists gave their views of the -result of flight during the news parley held at the Aca- Sciences ibout-the same time that the official Tass news agency carried a statement that he would give President Eisenhower a replica of a pennant placed on the moon by the Soviet rocket. "Scientists of the Soviet Union jwho deslgned-thejocket-and-scnt it to the moon presented me with a copy of the pennant which was (Continued on Page 6) RUSSIANS AIM FOR Russian operator tunes la oa the signals of Lunik at a receiving itatlon In Moscow following the launching of the Russians' second moon Moscow reports that the moon rocket Is looming through space at 25,000 miles an hour and Is expected to land on the moon shortly before Russian Premier Niklta Khrushchev landi In the United States Tuesday; ure MEDINA, 0. (UPD-Highway patrolmen today- captured three teen-aged gunmen who kidnapped from their home Sunday night and dumped them unharmed along a lonely country road near Ashland, lonely country road near Ashland They were captured one at a time after a spurt of gunfire in the Medina County woods. The patrolmen used gunfire to flush Lawrence Parkhurst.

19. rom a wooded hideout near Litch- ield. A short time later Jessie R. Elins Terre Haute, was captured without a fight." He was spotted lying in a field from a police airplane. Deputies with rifles surrounded him.

-second-suspect in the kidnaping of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Porch, said he was absent Force Base, New Mexico. Earlier, Lowell Theatt, 19, was captured when a patrol "cruiser blocked the stolen car in which the trio fled after releasing their victims-unharmed? 10 Cases Presented Jury toxlay presented 10 cases for consideration ly the grand jury. are caping from the Reformatory; three, for non-support; one for embezzlement; ouu fur forgery; one for assault; one for stealing a radio and one for breaking, entering and stealing.

Defendants and charges dre: Ethel ditcher, of Ottawa couh- ty and Wanda Lee Redden, of Montgomery county, charged with the Aug. 25 escape from the Reformatory. for Claude Weldon. of Plain City Rt. 3, charged with assault and threatening in a menacing manner; Maude Parker, of Marysville, charged with stealing a radio; Virgil G.

Wears, of Plain City L- Rt. 2, charged with non-support of two minor children; i Ned Miller, of Bellefontaine, charged with the May 23 breaking, entering and stealing at the Country Lane I. G. A. Store in Plain City; Chester C.

Walker, of Russells Point, charged with forgery; Louis Tanner, of Richwood Rt. 2, charged with non-support of four minor children; Edward Bogan, of Marion, charged with nonsupport of a minor child and Myron Katzenbach, of Milford Center Rt. 1, charged with embezzling funds of a Plain City service station. Witnesses called by the prosecutor include: Kofaert Henry, of London: Janice Wears, of Marysville lit, Prosecutor Rob- John Richard Richard Fry, both of the Ohio Penitentiary; Mrs, Ola Thompson, of Marysville Rt. Robert Gordon, of Marysville; H.

G. Walters, of Plain City Rt. Jack S. Barker, of Plain City; John Minshall, of Plain City; Myrtle Weldon, of Plain City Rt. Ruby Hendrickson, of Richwood; Ddrothy Clark, of Marysville.

Frances Tanner, of Richwood; Harold Roades of Marysville; Richard Greenawald, of Marysville; Ezra Stocksdale, of Marys- :y.ille:_Lewia.. Fletcher. of-Marys-ville and Miriam Jackson, of Marys ville. -f The wimpering gunman said he was only trying to "get home to see my mother before I get court- martialed." The third suspect was believed hiding in the rriile square wooded area near Litchfield, A force of 200 sheriff's deputies, highway pa- irolmen, police and civilian volunteers formed a human fence A low flying Highway Patrol who surrendered under fire to three advancing patrolmen. He was hiding in the field when the posse members first spotted his red shirt.

Parkhurst ran, but surrendered to Patrolmen Pete Mayer, M. D. Campbell and B. C. Bennett after they fired one shot over his head.

Parkhurst said his fugitive companion was Jesse Elkins of Terre Haute, also an AWOL airman from the New Mexico base. The man captured earlier, Parkhurst said, was known to him only as rd'i-and had joined them at Springfield, Mo. Parkhurst's arrest brought the release of two sailors who were arrested while the Akron Interchange of the Ohio said the two "fit the description' of the fugitive kidnapers. Ion, commanding the 20 Highway Patrol cars that were on the scene, speculated that Elkins may have forced his way into an isolated farmhouse in the area and was holding-someone-hostagei Dlllon to map last-minute strategy, for dealing with the frequently boastful Soviet Jeaderl Official Washington worked feverishly to complete arrangements for greeting Khrushchev and his family when they'arrive In a huge Russian prop-jet transport at nearby Andrews Air at 11:30 a.m. e.d.t.

Tuesday, Russia obviously intended Lunik II to be a propaganda'coup, timing It to plant a Soviet coat the mowTjust prior to' Khrushchev's arrival for a 13-day U.S. visit. Eisenhower goes into Khrushchev talks with the knowledge: that U.S. scientists consider the successful moon shot proof can cities with deadly accuracy. The President will go to the airport to welcome Khrushchev.

Af t- eiLa. 21-gun salute and brief re- igarks-by-the-twoHeadera, they 'motor through- downtown Washington to Blair House, the President's Khrushchev will stay. Talks between Eisenhower and Khrushchev will begin almost im- Terry Kelsch of the "Ice Festival" troupe which will entertain Union county falrgoers Tuesday and Wednesday nights switched from blades to ball bearings for a novel warm-up Saturday night at the RhyUim Roller Rude In MarysvlUe. eaths The victims were sleeping when the doorbell rang in their home late Sunday night. Mrs.

Porch, sleepy-eyed, answered the door. She into the barrels of two revolvers. The three young men pushed her back Their leader snapped: "Behave yourselves-and-you won't get hurt. We've got to gijt out of town in a hurry. All we want is some food." the two youths with guns kept them pointed at Porch, a salesman for wjiojesale grocery firm, as his wife served them sandwiches, pie and milk.

lAfter a leisurely 45 minute rneal, the gunmen herded the cbuple into the family's 1959 Ford. They drove away, headed for Ash- and. As the car neared Ashland, the driver pulled to the side of the road and the trio held a whispered conference. the couple (Continued on Page 6) Lobbyist Indicted Scott Spent $16,000 on Five COLUMBUS mining lobbyist Robert E. Scott, of Cambridge, was indicted by the Franklin County Grand Jury today for failing to report lobbying expenses as required by law.

One indictment was based on Scott's 1957 lobbying expense report and the other on his 1959 expense report -which was: filed-with the Secretary of State today. Each indictment charged Scott with failure.to report lobbying expenses as required by law. The grand jury reported Scott spent more than 16 thousand dollars, during the last three sessions of the Legislature on five lawmakers. They were: Sen. Anthony 0.

Cajabrese (D- Cleveland), Sen. Lowell Fess Rep. James (R- Yellow Springs), J. McGettrick ID- Cleveland), former Sen. Raymond E.

Hildebrand (R-Toledo). New Grand Jury The grand jury recommended that a special grand jury be set up to continue the The" jury which returned today's indictments goes out of existence today. "We believe such money was. pa id for reason of friendship alone," the jury said in a two- page statement. But it said it does not now have before it any direct evidence that such monies were corruptly paid to, or on be- half of, members of the General Assembly to influence them in respect to their official duties or to influence their action, vote or opinion hi any matter pending before them." The jury said its study of lobbyists' expense statements indicated therejiad been the lobbying processes during recent sessions of the General Assembly by some lobbyists and some members of the General Assembly." The jury said the expense statements lobbyists are required to file in some cases were so generalized "that the results anaount to a farce" iu some casoe.

mediately at a White House meeting Tuesday afternoon. Herter flew back from a Massachusetts vacation Sunday and ences with his aides. He later had dinner with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, now considered the government's number one authority on dealing with Khrushchev. It was another bloody weekenc on Ohio roads.

At least 23 persons met death in traffic accidents between p.m. Friday and midnight Saturday. (A plane crash near Crest two more lives and a fall from a second story window in Cleveland killed an elderly man to bring the Full-Scale Steel Sessions Are Underway NEW YORK steel strike resumed today but there were no indications of an early-settlement. Top-level four-man teams of labor and management met with federal mediators in the Roosevelt Hotel and 12 subcommittees bargained elsewhere in the hotel on local work problems and non- economic issues. Just before the top-level meeting began, David McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America was asked if he planned -to-attend- the-bi-ennial of the A'FL-CIO opening Thursday in San Francisco.

Announcement Later Today said that an announcement on this matter would be made later in the day. It was learned, however, that Howard D. Hague, international vice president of the USW, and secretary treasurer, will leave few York Tuesday for the West Coast to head the Steelworkers' delegation to the convention. According to this source, McDonald will remain here for the negotia- ions. The current steel strike is expected to be one of the major matters mention.

It is understood plans are underway to raise a large sum of money, to-support-the strike. The union also opens contract alks today with the American Co. and the Continental Can the nation's largest can manufacturers. The union represents employes of the two firms. tragic total to 26.

A carload of teenagers plowed into a standing train at Rossford, a Toledo suburb, killing four youngsters and critically injuring three. 'It was the weekend's worst accident. Saturday Chillicothe: Jethro Herman Bernard, 38, Chillicothe, killed in a two-car head-on crash on Williamsport Road in Ross County. Sylvania; Sam Barner, 14, Cornelius Brown, 18, and Greer, 18, all of Rossford, killed freight train Rossford. Fleming, 17, and (Mrs.

Leah Siders, 50, both of Wadsworth, killed in a three- of Wadsworth. Attica: Gene Enders, -17, Attica, killed when his car hit a Pennsylvania train just south of Atti- ja. Walter Shobe, 73, fell from a second-story window to a driveway and was fatally in- AlUCIU 111 VfUUIltVi i tujMl A Fremont: Elijah a y. 33, Saturday in a two car ck 1: Fremont, killed when his car crashed on the U.S. 20 bypass in Sandusky County.

Zanesville: Don Ballard, 26, go, fatally injured when his car collided with another in a heavy og-whi le-passing 'Mansfield: Toy iB a 11 30, Mansfield, 1 killed when he lost eontrol-of-his-car-ara "Richland County intersection and it crashed. Canton: Rocco Serena, 60, Canton, his daughter in law, Mrs Nancy Serena, 32, and his grandson, Ricky. Serena, 8, killed when two drag racers slammed their cars broadside into Serene's car. Lancaster: Joseph Boch, 7, struck and killed by a car when he went to the rural mailbox near his home, two and a half miles north Lancaster: Irvan Carter, 57, Lancaster, killed when he failed to see a barricade, clipped it with his car and was thrown from the vehicle. Sunday Tuggle, 19, Blanchester, died in Clinton Memorial Hospital of injuries received Saturday in a two-car collision at an intersection on Ohio 28 in southeastern Warren County.

Naomi Jones, 65, Lima, killed in a two-car head-on collision on U.S. 33 four miles northwest of Bellcfontaine. Urbane: Jeff 'Dick, 8, Bellefon- talnivdieiKiirMcrcy-Hospital of injuries received Saturday when the delivery truck driven by his father, Freman Dick, crashed on U.S. 36 near Urbana. Cleveland: John R.

Green, 22, Cleveland, killed when his speeding auto hit two cars and crushed into a pole at Lakewood while be- iiij; pursuitd by jwlice. faHxhibihr AreReadjf Day before fairtime had an for 33 busy members of the fair board. Helping set up departments Tor nearly 700 junior fair exhibits, the junior board had an all-day work were back on the job bright and early today. Organized in April, the junior board is composed of 4-H and FTA members who work under he direction of an advisory mitte. The group had three meetings phn for-tha jus- fair.

Their responsibilities this week will include assisting exhibitors with displays, planning and see- ng that everything is in order for udging, acting as masters of ceremonies for judging, recording jrades, distributing ribbons and rophies. Board officers are David Green, Vivienne Nicol and Gene Hitchcock, vice-presidents; lanice Nicol, Mary assistant secretaries. as announced today by Carl Ruff, extension agent 441 are: Ninety-eight dairy cattle, 16 beef cattle, 41 steers, 47 swine, lorses, 13 pens of poultry and pens Nineteen garden exhibits, orn and small grain, 45 soybeans, 4TiayrthreFhoney7 three flower gardening, 23 woodworking, electrical, 16 rope, 19 forestry and onservation, 32 lawn care, thjee. In addition, fourteen nutrition moths and 12 clothing, boths were eirig set up, today by county liibsT" jured. Dayton: Bufford Tuggle, 19, Blanchester, died of injuries re- trash at a rural intersection in southeastern Warren Napoleon: Carl Bosdeck, 23, on a county road and was dlled-when it smashed into -a tree: Gallon: Charles W.

Tnlbot, 42, Galion, and Milo V. Shauber, 22, lying Galion Crestline Airport, killed when their two-seater Luscombe piano crashed and burned one mile east of Crestline in Richland County. Toledo: James Miller, 13, Lnke- wood, killed when the Luna Pier Rescue Squad truck on which he was a passenger crashed into two cars. Junior fair board members by epartments: Nutrition laller, hairman; Joan Wells, Judy Pol- and aMrjean Seely. Clothing booths Susan Goron, chairman, Anna Britton, Bunsold and Melinda lairman, Virginia Coe, Peggy all, Becky Kaufman and Jerry Ypder.

Alice Vollrath, chairman, Eve Riser, Joan Rohr and Joyce Nicol. Dairy John Bishop, James Baughman, vo-ag teacher. Hitchcock, Steve Scheiderer and Bert Presar, ag-teacher. Denune. Wayne Temple and Joe Henderson, vo.

ag teacher. i Creviston, BUI Mitchell and Gene Blumenscheia vo-ag. teacher. Poultry and Parker and Robert Knedler, teacher. Farm and garden Richard Brust and Charles Halt Shop work, forestry, Mitchell and WeU Miller, vo-ag teacher." Green.

Sad I a Krebehenne. 1882 Ticket 1832. 1882. Agrlculaircti This really Is an old-timer un 1882 ticket to the 36th aunuul Union County Fair. It was brought to the Journal-Tribuiie office by Mrs.

Murray Newhuuse, of Marysville Ri. 3, who said It wus originally purchased by her futher-iu-luw, Mr. Adam New house. The ticket admitted man, wife and minors oi the family to the fair, which was held Oct. 3, 4, and (i, and also the privilege of taking a inside the fjroumh, and ai lidos..

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