The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 39

i 'i i JL MEANWHILE, g4tj System an pitHI COlUMBUSiMi J' For Career Soldiers New York Timet Service WASHINGTON" The Nixon Administration intends to ask Conprpss for a SI. 2 billinn incrpasp in the 1970 budget to establish a new salary system fnr thp nation's career military men. The plan would tie increased salaries to the civil-i a peonomy, eliminate a complicated series of non-taxable allowances and other benefits, and create a new retirement program. GOVERNMENT officials re 4 I I I hacks Evotl ance, a baptismal servant, prepares to baptize Gary Haught, 1358 Moore Akron. The baptisms were a highlight of a three-day Jehovah's Witness assembly here.

THE GOODYEAR Junior High School pool, which usually rings with the laughter of youth, was a picture of solemnity Saturday as Jehovah's Witnesses held baptismal rites. Homer Reber (left) of 5 E. State Alii- Drive Falls Short At Walsh, Malone Asks Parents' Help To Halt Vandalism Epidemic At West Legislators' Lives A Little Dimmer By LACY McCRARY Beacon Journd Columbus Buruu COLUMBUS The city's night life, which usually hums when the Legislature is in session, has suffered. Within the last week, the town's biggest nightclub, La Man-cha on E. Broad virtually closed, the most.

successful club went up in smoke and one of the best known theaters closed. La Mancha owner Marty Mellman left for Florida and said he wouldn't reopen the big room in his club. Then the popular Off Broadway was destroyed in a $25,000 fire. Loew's Theater on E. State across from the Capitol, closed to make way for a new State office building.

Fire which struck the Neil House hit Senate minority leader Charles Carney (D-Youngstown) where it hurts. Flames burned through Carney's room on the fifth floor and smoke damaged his clothing. He moved to a new room, but it wasn't as easy to get his wardrobe back in shape. Aronoff Can't Up CIipusii EVERY Tuesday night a group of legislators plays basketball at the Athletic Club. It's the same group and same place where last year a controversy was sparked because the AC refused to allow a Negro lawmaker inside.

In any event, in the last game Sen, Stanley J. Aronoff (R-Cincinnati) got an elbow In the mouth while going in for a layup and had a tooth chipped. He announced he was filing a $150,000 lawsuit agains somebody, probably Sen. Michael Malo-ney (R-Cincinnati). His case will be heard at the Maramor Restaurant, a popular watering spot for legislators.

Carleton G. Dargusch Jr. reportedly represents Aronoff. Included in the basketball group are Senate majority leader Ted Tray (R-Piqua), Rep, John A. Bechtold (R-Cincinnati), Rep.

Richard Reichel (R-Massillon), Rep. Norman Murdock (R-Cincinnati) and some lobbyists including Dargusch. Although the lawsuit is frivolous, there was nothing funny about the racial fuss last year when Murdock asked Rep. William F. Bowen (D-Cincinnati) to join him for a few baskets.

The AC doorman refused to allow Bowen inside. Now the club says it has a policy of not refusing entrance to anyone. Tlu'ij Vo More Toastimj? BIGGEST boozers in Ohio live in Cuyahoga County, according to the State Liquor Department. The average Cuyahoga family spends $157 a year in State liquor stores, the department said, while the average Summit County family 6pends $95. Franklin and Hamilton County families average $97 a year.

lie Mdnt Want A Huh SEX. Anthony O. Calabrese (D-Cleveland) is noted for his speech misques. The other day he wanted a page to round up some senators so a committee hearing could begin. He called for a "bus boy." Not in this restaurant, Senator.

Xvvd iluurtvrn In Colnmhu BRING quarters when you drive to Columbus. Downtown parking fees are going up to 25 cents an hour and the city has installed 585 new meters to catch all they can. It will also cost you 25 cents to park at the State Fairgrounds. VtmrthmiHP iiunvd Oil Kvjf THE TRIAL of Ohio Pen inmate Richard Armstrong for rioting went smoothly except for a 15-minute delay when a guard locked Armstrong in a nearby room during lunch recess and then lost the key. There was much scrambling until another was found.

An Apple ffpilo) For linn SEX. Douglas Applegate (D-Steubenville), who represents part of Tuscarawas County, is promoting U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays for governor in 1970. He's taking a lot of kidding, too, by those who say he's doing it because he has his eyes on Hays' seat.

Whiddon said he fears that future incidents could result in serious injuries. "We cannot let this go on," he said, "But any plan formulated by police and the City administration will need the strong support of the parents and I'm sure these parents will cooperate." THE ClflEF said he will also begin an investigation to determine if "outside influences" are involved in incidents that have occurred at several inner-city schools In the past few weeks. Whiddon will brief Mayor Ballard who was out of town Friday and Saturday at the Mayor's regular Monday cabinet meeting. Police-Community Realtions Bureau officials will meet Monday with school administrators in a further effort to find the reasons behind the disorders. Last Crash Fatal Peru Iff) Lucas Bonilla, a flight navigator, escaped without a scratch when his DC-6 passenger plane landed at Lima International Airport with one engine afire and then burst a tire, veering off the runway.

Later, the car in which he was riding over-tuned killing him. gard the arrangement a major step toward the long-range goal of an all volunteer armed force sometime fter the Vietnam war ends. The $1.2 billion is in addition to $1.8 billion already requested in the 1970 budget for a "automatic" percentage pay raise which servicemen are to receive beginning July 1. Sources in the Administration have estimated, however, that at least half of the extra $1.2 billion would be re- The two colleges will share all funds equally. MALOXE president Dr.

Everett Cattell said the money will enable the Quaker college to start a $1.35 million library within three months. A Federal grant will pay two-thirds of the cost. Brother Thomas Ferrell said Federal approval still is needed for loans and grants to enable Walsh, a Catholic school, to build a $1.5 million physical education facility. These were the two major projects for which the drive was conducted. dilitu wlid tlnrl iiixiloi fit u.

kr tkn iklpMit ft, Mtlr. I.t It V.lk 40.40 alt mi noT, th fulur Chtfltt It um alMl tttl covered in new revenues from expanded income tax collections. The salary, all of it subject to taxes, would cover the "automatic" pay increase, loss of housing and subsistence allowances, loss of the tax advantage and the new retirement program. NO CAREER man would lose under the plan, the Pentagon reported, and 90 pet. of them would gain more than under the old arrangement with the 9.1 pet.

"automatic" raise. By definition, career men include all officers and enlisted men with two years service who agree to serve another four years. Non-career men would not be affected by the conversion. To advance career salaries to a scale comparable with civilian workers would add about $2.5 billion to the payrolls, but the net cost would drop to $1.2 billion because of savings in various fringe accounts. Suspend Hunt HAWTHORNE, Nev.

IP A search for an airliner missing with 35 aboard has been suspended, Maj. P. P. Walton, of the rescue and recovery center at Hamilton Air Force Base, said the search would resume after the heavy snow cover melts in the White Mountains search area. fh.

t-pfdcliM mtidiI IW. Iki, mr If Ctunty, Cuyahaft 42 OUR fit ftlld.ntl SHO AT OUR MAIL, COtMiR si. pmoni sit i IARIIRTON By LARRY FROELICH Police Chief Harry Whiddon has asked the hlep of parents of West Junior High School students stop vandalism that otherwise "will lead to serious problems for the community." Youngsters set several small fires in the school Friday and, after leaving school, Aa lU FABRIC FENCE CA.NTON' Although their combined drive for $2.25 million fell short of its goal, presidents of Walsh and Malone colleges said no serious cutback in their building programs will be necessary. The drive, headed by Dr. Thomas Hoover of North Canton and Richard Gulling of i i 1 le, produced $2,029,383, it was reported at a meeting Saturday.

They Mid they expect to raise an additional $50,000 and that $10,000 in Interest earned on money already contributed will offset campaign expenses. NORMAL stoned cars and broke windows in the Five Points area at Cedar and Bell sts. "I cannot believe the parents of these kids know what is going on and are not concerned," Whiddon said. "I'm urging the parents, of every West Junior High student to be at the school Monday and see for themselves what's happening." WHIDDOX said police can find no reason for the disurb-ances. Lt.

John Cunningham, chief of the Police-Community Relations Bureau, circulated through the crowd of about 200 youngsters Friday. "From all I could observe, and from the kids I talked to," he said, "this was like a game to them until a few were arrested. Every time a rock was thrown, they would laugh and yell." SUMNER VAXICA, school system's executive director of pupil personnel, told police there have been no grievances voiced by parents or students of West Junior High, either to the school's administration or the Akron Board of Education. Whiddon, who will meet Monday with Mayor Ballard to discuss the problem, said the rock-throwing incidents "have already reached a fairly serious pitch." NO MONEY DOWN AKRON Akron Square 773-8931 uVAYAN lfeOy'. I fAVvfVvCyVX I J-VXYVXSa)v iy XVvjjt 1 UU 2AILE iOvC ALL FENCE FABRIC INSTALLED ff'' AAz VVf Strong, handsome, durable! Fence fabric Ii interwoven, AAr hot-dip galvanized or vinyl coated.

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