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Sutton take Let's hear it for peaches PGA crown iflwl Local news, Page 10 Sports, Page 7 Good Teste, Page 11 Chillicothe A A Monday August 8, 1983 mice 31 A Gannett Newspaper-Our 184th Year 25' 1 1 it- Kids 'scramble' as fair begins Gunbattle thwarts would-be kidnappers "Associated Press DUBLIN Police captured five of seven would-be kidnappers in a bloody gunbattle as they neared the mansion of their intended victim, a millionaire businessman who was in England playing polo with Prince Charles at the time. The intended victim was Galen 42, president of a Canadian-based supermarket empire and vice president of the exclusive Fortnum and Mason gourmet food store in London, police said. Two of the assailants, one of whom was believed to have been wounded, escaped into the woods on the 245-acre Roundwood Park estate and remained at large today, police said. They said four of the captured men were wounded in the crossfire, in which more than 100 shots were fired. None of the policemen who had staked out the estate were hurt.

Police sources blamed the attempt on the outlawed Provisional Irish Republican Army, fighting to drive the British out of neighboring Northern Ireland. Newspapers said the family apparently (GUNBATTLE, Page 2) ft" Fair officials "unofficially" extended the fair an extra day, scheduling some activities on Sunday to fit them all into the schedule. That let fairgoers get a sneak preview by traveling out to the fairgrounds Sunday for the Ross County Open Horse Show, judging of home arts and fine arts and a square dance for 4-H alumni and friends. The other winners were Jim Ginther, second; Richard Bair, third; Brett Richards, fifth; John Roberts, sixth; Jeff Ralston, seventh; Terry Carey, eighth; and Andrew DeLong, ninth. JOHN HIXSON, Ross County 4-H agent, estimated people attended the calf scramble.

"The grandstand wasn't packed, but it was fairly full," he said. "Several people were in the bleachers to the side of the grandstand." Each prize came with a sack of grain. The calfs caught will be carried as 4-H or FFA projects and be shown in a special class at next year's fair. The calf scramble, a dance, horse show and judging of fine arts marked the first unofficial day of the Ross County Fair. The fair ends Saturday.

(FAIR, Page 2) Jon Dresbach'S strategy of chasing and wrestling a steer calf paid off He was the first to win a steer at the Calf Scramble held Sunday night at the Ross County Fair. "I just chased it down and picked it up," he said. He was one of 20 teen-agers who were after the 10 steer calves donated by various area industries and one farmer. The participants were clad in football jerseys and helmets, jeans and heavy boots. The track in front of the grandstand was wetted down and fenced for the event.

The object was to capture the calves, which, according to an official, averaged more than 300 pounds each, halter them and lead them or get led into an oval-shaped circle in the middle. All the calf's feet had to be inside the circle. "They may be little, but they're fighters," said Jarrod Davis. He grabbed his calf early, but was the last to lead a calf into the oval. Afterwards, he was covered with mud from head-to-toe.

"It was a mean steer, I guess." Half the participants were unsuccessful. "Well, I had a hold of him (the calf for about two minutes he was strong and I had all four legs in, but didn't have the halter on," said Shawn Corcoran. His brother, Brian, was the fourth to capture a calf. Photo lor the Gazette by Brad Hedges) Jarrod Davis, with jersey IS, shouts his joy Mrs. Stephen Davis, was the last to win a after successfully capturing a steer calf, calf as the scramble pitted 20 teen-age boys while an official comes over to assist him at against 10 steers.

Additional story, photos on the Calf Scramble held Sunday night at the Page 10. Ross County Fair. Davis, son of Mr. and Syria won't budge; car bomb kills 35 The blast demolished cotfee 'h market center and devastated the surroun McFarlane, who made no statement after meeting Assad, flew to Jidda, Saudi Arabia, for talks with King Fahd. Saudi Arabia is Syria's main financial backer, and McFarlane is expected to urge Fahd to bring pressure on the Syrians to help defuse the critical situation in Lebanon.

tag in a call to the Beirut office of a French news agency, has taken responsibility for a series of bomb attacks aimed chiefly at Syrian and Palestinian targets. Its political affiliation is not known. Police estimated the bomb contained 220 pounds of TNT. The car was blown into pieces so small that its make could not be ding area. Police said that most of the casualties were Lebanese civilians merchants and residents of the low-income neighborhood but that two Syrian soldiers were among the victims.

The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon Post 757 loses first-round Chillicothe's American Legion Post 757 lost its first-round game in the state tournament this morn-" ing in Athens. Post 757 fell 6-3 to Cincinnati Ctiambers-Hautrnan at Athens High School's field. The local team next plays Tuesday morning at 9:30 in the double-elimination tournament. Cincinnati took the lead in the first inning when Dan Rohrmeier hit a two-run home run. Rohrmeier ended the game with the homer, two doubles and a single as the Cincinnati post out-hit Post 757 by 16-3.

Kelly Woods was the losing pitcher. Post 757 attempted a comeback in the bottom of the seventh-when Scott Willis and Pat Austin both doubled, then scored on an error. Thirteen teams began the quest today for the state title. Celeste says tax will survive Associated Press Syria says its Lebanese-based troops will stay put despite the urgings of U.S. special envoy Robert C.

McFarlane and a second deadly car-bombing in Syrian-controlled Lebanon within a three-day span. McFarlane, who is conferring with Saudi Arabian leaders today, met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus for six hours Sunday to discuss efforts to remove foreign forces from Lebanon. After the session, a Syrian spokesman reaffirmed his government's opposition to the Lebanese-Israeli troop withdrawal accord. He said the pact, signed May 17, "is being imposed on Lebanon" and "transforms Lebanon into an Israeli protectorate." The statement came shortly after a powerful car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Baalbek, a city in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Police said 35 people were killed and 133 wounded.

A similar explosion Friday in the northern port city of Tripoli, also controlled by Syria, killed at least 20 people. A GROUP calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility for Sunday's blast and warned such attacks would continue "until no foreigner is left on Lebanese Associated Press COLUMBUS Gov. Richard Celeste says he thinks his tax policies, including a 90 percent increase in the personal income tax, will be upheld if a repeal move gains a spot on the November ballot. Ohioans to Stop Excessive Taxation, the group trying to repeal the 90 percent state income tax increase enacted last spring and require a threefifths vote of the General Assembly to pass new taxes, ex-1 pects to file more than 400,000 signatures Wednesday morning. If validated, the proposed repeal would get on the ballot.

"So my feeling is that if enough people care strongly about the issue, fine, let it be on the ballot," Celeste said in an interview in Sunday editions of The Columbus Dispatch. Celeste said he is confident that "if people understand what it is that we have days talking to people and "basically listening to what people have to say, not only in terms of how Dick Celeste has performed as governor, but in terms of what they see happening in the state, where they see progress, where they have serious concerns." He defended the administration's dealings with the Hameroff-Milenthal advertising agency, which has $8 million in contracts with Department of Development and has hired Ken Sale, the husband of state Budget Director Cristina Sale. A representative of Budget Director Sale had voted on that contract, but Celeste defended that action, "I AM quite confident in my own mind that the OBM representative had no idea of any negotiations going on for employment," he said. achieved a majority of Ohioans will support that." He referred to the restructuring of taxes that went along with making a permanent 90 percent increase in income taxes. He mentioned such changes as "the doubling of the senior citizen tax credit, providing new relief on retirement income, on the estate tax, reducing the marriage penalty." "I would hope that we wouldn't have to change the tax structure of this state over the next three years in any substantial fashion," he said.

CELESTE RETURNED last week to his office after a week of vacation in South Carolina, a week along Lake Erie and four days at the summer conference of the National Governors Association in Maine. He plans to spend time in the next 30 to 60 Today's weather Famniiiair1 face Partly cloudy tonight with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Low 65-70. Winds southwesterly 5-15 mph, becoming northwesterly 10-15 mph. Tuesday, Eartly cloudy, cooler and less humid.

High 80-85. detailed forecast Page 3. A lighter touch Some people never listen LITTLE ROCK (AP) KATV's new medical consultant had better start listening to her own advice. After weeks of advertisements, Dr. Nancy Snyder-man missed her premiere on the "Alive at 5" newscast Tuesday night she was out sick with laryngitis.

News director Jim Pitcock described Ms. Snyder-man's role as "talking about various ways of staying healthy and taking care of yourself "We have really been building it up to a crescendo today, and she's sick," he added. Television actress comes to city today Amusement 18 Business News 18 Classified 16-17 Comics 19 Good Taste (...11 Horoscopes ...19 Markets ....18 Social Television 19 Inside Elsewhere 3 News of 4 Obituaries 4 Opinions 6 Scioto 10 Sports 7-8 Second Second Abby .19 actually happened," she said with a devilish grin. HER SISTER-IN-LAW, Patricia Acord, of 177te W. Second said she enjoys Volz's annual visits, "We go into a grocery store and a kid will do a double-take and tug at his mother.

And the mother will look and say, 'Yeah Acord said. Volz agreed, there's no way of hiding that familiar face. "Everywhere I go, people think they know me from somewhere. Because I look so familiar to them. Cashiers will think they know me as a customer, even if I've never been in the store before.

Some of the little kids come up to me and ask if they can hug me. And some of the senior citizens will say, 'I think you're the cutest she said, Acord said Volz seems familiar to almost everyone. Volz, who can spout out a "jive turkey" or a "what it is, man" with the best of them, explained that she really is Just playing herself. She said she particularly enjoyed working for Norman Lear, the producer of "All in the Family" and its many spin-offs. "He's a Gray Panther person, He doesn't like his old people put down," said Volz, who played Edith Bunker's aunt and went head-to-head with the Immovable Archie.

"I didn't like Archie's cigars and his bad English. But he pulled In his horns at the end, and he ususally doesn't do that." I was nervous then," Volz said. "It's been terrific. The money's not bad. Although it's not terrific after the government gets ahold of it.

We bad a house full of kids here a little while ago. They recognize me wherever I go." Volz usually plays the "hip" senior citizen with a snappy line or two. Many of her lines are suggestive. When Gloria Bunker (Meathead's wife) asks her about the book, "Sex After 60." Volz, recreating the scene, gives her naughty response, "It's terrific And the book isn't too bad either." Volz, a grandmother in the real world, may be best known for a movie scene she thought was disgusting at the time. Bo DereK, Julie Andrews and Dudley Moore may have been the stars in "10," but Volz's brief scene brought the most laughs.

She may not have had any lines, but at least she made herself heard. Volz performed the shuffle step she did in "10" as the senile Mrs. Kissell serving tea. As she leaves the room in the movie, she "breaks wind." That causes the dog in the scene to scamper out of the room, because, it's explained, everytime Volz's character breaks wind, the dog gets smacked. "It was a farce.

And that's about the closest word I can think of to explain what By JAMES LEICKLY Gazette staff writer That hair wrapped lip in a ball atop her head that grandmotherly stature isn't she isn't she? Darn tootin' she is, as any prime time television buff can see. It was Hollywood's Nedra Volz causing all those turned heads and double takes in Chillicothe this last weekend. Of course, most Chillicotheans know her better as Adelaide of "Different Strokes" or Miss Tisdale from "Dukes of Hazard." Volz was in Chillicothe from Thursday through Sunday visiting with her husband Oren's family sister Patricia Acord, aunt Letzia Oyer, and cousins Ann and OvidBetz. Only two hours after playing a perky visitor at Archie Bunker's home at 704 Houser St, courtesy of television re-runs the 75-year-old Volz talked Friday about her Hollywood career, That career started 12 years ago. She recited lines in the exact dialogues from her spot appearances on several situation comedies.

"Filthy Rich," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," "Alice," "Rhoda," "One Day at a Time," and "WKRP in Cincinnati'': a Nielsen family's dream. "I REMEMBER those lines better now than I did when I actually had to say them, j. i We're listening Db you have a story idea? Something bothering you? If so, let us know. Call the city editor at 773-2111, Ext. 26 Monday through Friday between 8 a.m.

and 5 p.m. In Pike County call 947-2446 toll free. We want to serve you. Nedra Volz As many Chillicotheans found out during the weekend, anyone encountering this "lip grandma" couldn't help but pull in his horns, anil maybe ask for an autograph -and perhaps even a him. Vol.

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