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Briefs Welfare hearing Public hearings to determine which social services will be -made available in Ottawa County are scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the community room of Ida Rupp Public Library, Esther W. Sutton, Ottawa County Welfare director, announced today.

The hearings on the county's plan for Social Services (Title XX) are being conducted by the county welfare advisory board. Board chairman Timothy Adkins will preside. Testimony given at the hearings will help determine which services and how many dollars will be needed for those services during fiscal 1981 (July 1, 1980 June 31, 1981). "'Citizens' input is necessary to determine which services should be emphasized," Ms. Sutton said.

"Your attendance will assist the advisory board in recommending that the services most needed be made available to the citizens of Ottawa County." Motorcycle flips Two persons reportedly suffered minor injuries but did not receive hospital treatment following a motorcycle accident at 5:59 p.m. yesterday on Toussaint East Road. The report filed by Ottawa County sheriff deputies investigating the mishap said: motorcycle operated by Terry L. Vollmer, 26, Lacarne, was westbound on Toussaint East Road. The motorcycle went off the right edge of the road and when Vollmer tried to bring it back on the road, it flipped over twice, deputies report.

Both Vollmer and his passenger, Teresa Millie, 18, of 10521 W. State Route 163, Oak Harbor, reportedly were injured. Hospitalized Jeffrey Sittason, Port Clinton High School principal, suffered a heart attack yesterday and is in the coronary care unit at Magruder Hospital, where he is undergoing further tests. Superintendent Dwight Henn said this morning school officials expected Sittason would be unable to return to his duties for several months. Henn added he planned to recommend that the school board name assistant principal Lynn Huffman as acting principal until Sittason can return to his duties.

Sittason, 36, took over the duties of high school principal a year ago when then principal Fred Reeder was named administrative assistant. He previously had been with the school system at Indian Hills, near Cincinnati. Fire survivors detail escape CINCINNATI (AP) Two Cincinnati men who survived a fire in a Holiday Inn motel at Cambridge recalled Thursday how they saved their lives by breaking through large, doubleplated glass windows and plunging out. Jerry Welch, 24, and Randy Delk, 32, remained hospitalized following the fire early Tuesday in which nine died and 79 were injured. Welch, a field service representative for SperryVickers and Delk, a salesman for the company, had hoped to come home Monday but were delayed by business.

The men did not see each other during the fire because they were in rooms on opposite sides of a smoke-filled hall. I was up and happened to be in the bathroom. I heard a bell," Delk said "Fortunately, from his hospital bed in Zanesville. "It was more like a school bell, not very loud. His first thought was "to go across the hall to get Delk broke the plate glass window in his room on the Jerry," Delk said, but the smoke was too thick.

first try. "I heard other people had problems breaking the window but I Welch, still a patient at Cambridge's Guernsey Memorial Hospital, said he was asleep when the alarm was sounded. "Then I heard the windows breaking next door." "I tried to get out in the hall, but there was too much smoke. The smoke had a real rancid smell. It wasn't like regular smoke," Welch said.

"I tried to hit a chair against the window, oh, eight or 10 times. It wasn't working. By this time, I was getting lightheaded. I decided to try one more time and broke the window." Welch said he remembers tumbling through the window to a sidewalk below where he injured his hand and knee. "I was so far gone at that time.

My nose and lungs hurt." Dazed and confused, Welch said, he "dragged a mattress around" using it as a cushion to catch other people leaping from the second story. Looking for Delk, he "finally managed to get over to the other side of the building" where he found Delk stretched out on the hood of a car, his leg broken. Rhodes supports loan to Chrysler COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Gov. James A. Rhodes says the federal government ought to, in effect, loan the Chrysler Corp.

$1 billion over the next two years to keep the automobile manufacturer operating. The loan, which Chrysler officials want in the form of additional accelerated tax credits, would protect the jobs of 11,000 auto workers in Ohio, the governor said. "But the loan will not solve the long-range problem," Rhodes said. "Chrysler's problem and the problems of other American auto companies have resulted from the Friday, Aug. 3, 1979, News Herald 5.

Compromise attempted on gas rationing plan DREN 2K GREAT SCOT UNFAIR Committed Unfair Laber Practices Against EMPLOYEES RETAIL STORE EMPLOYEES WON Lacal 854 AR -CIO 48 PICKETERS The Retail Store union, left to right, Mark Perales, Employees Local 954 has charged Toledo; Joe Riojas, Port Clinton; Great Scot with unfair labor prac- Robert Carrasquillo, Oregon, picket tices. A hearing on the charges will line coordinator; Joanne Pierce, be held in September by the Na- Oregon. Story appears on Page 1. tional Labor Relations Board. (Photo by Claudine Kriss) Shown here are picketers for the WASHINGTON (AP) House and Senate negotiators are trying to fashion a compromise standby gasoline plan, but President Carter will have to wait until after Labor Day to get it.

The president and Democratic congressional leaders had hoped to have the bill on the president's desk by Thursday night before the start of the congressional August recess. But that was not to be. "We had to weigh symbolism against practicality." said Sen. Bennett Johnston, one of the Senate conferees of the bill. He said he hoped a final version acceptable to the House, the Senate and Carter could be enacted "by early September." Both Senate leaders and Investigator unravels Amelia Earhart tale HONOLULU (AP) A woman believed to be aviator Amelia Earhart buried a silver container after she crash-landed on a Pacific atoll 42 years ago, says an investigator who recently interviewed natives on the Marshall Islands.

"Our witnesses told us that Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, buried a silver container, just prior to being captured by the Japanese," said Vincent Loomis, an Orlando, businessman who has been investigating her disappearance. "I haven't the slightest idea what it may have contained," said Loomis, but he still is convinced Miss Earhart was not on a spy mission when she disappeared July 2, 1937, on a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island, one of the last legs of an around-theworld flight. Loomis, who returned from the Marshalls this week, hopes natives who claim to have seen the crash can lead him to the buried container on another trip early next month. He also hopes to recover Miss Earhart's plane, which he believes is still located on- another Marshall atoll. Loomis was on duty with the Air Force in 1952 when he discovered an airplane covered by jungle growth on a tiny atoll.

He discounted the discovery until 15 years later when he read a book about Miss Earhart's disappearance. For the past 10 years, Loomis and his wife have researched the story of the disappearance, and they have made several trips recently to the Marshall Islands. "The pieces to the puzzle are falling in place," he said. "We are getting very close to solving the Earhart mystery." On an earlier trip, Loomis interviewed Biliman Amran, a businessman on Majuro, who was a medical corpsman with the Japanese navy in July 1937. Amran told of going aboard a cargo boat to treat an injured Caucasian man.

He also saw a Caucasian woman, and Loomis said Amran's description of her "fits Amelia from head to toe." Tot gets $3.7 million damages HOUSTON (AP) A 2-year-old girl will receive at least $3.7 million in settlement of a suit filed after she lost both arms when she came into contact with a highvoltage transformer March 15. Treelane Apartments of Pasadena and Amco Management operator of the Houston complex where her parents lived, signed an agreement Thursday in District Court. Barbara Lynn Steinsholt of Pasadena, who will be 3 years old Sunday, received an electrical shock in the accident, and doctors were forced to amputate both arms at the shoulder. Benjamin and Patricia Steinsholt, her parents, are seeking $12.6 million more in damages. Other defendants are General Electric manufacturer of the transformer; General Electric Supply which sold the transformer; and Houston Lighting and Power, which supplied the electricity.

The apartment complex its management were directed to pay up to a maximum of $3.7 million whatever is necessary to bring Barbara's total award Obituaries HOUSTON Glenn Seevers funeral home. The James E. Taggart CANTON Glenn Seevers, 78, of 733 Miles Canton, died Wednesday in Aultman Hospital, Canton, after a two year illness. He was born in East Palestine, Ohio, March 28, 1901, the son of Dexter and Daisy Dobenrite Seevers. Mr.

Seevers was a retired employee of Ohio Power Co. in Canton and a member of the United Methodist Church of Canton. Survivors include his wife, Mary L. Grover Seevers, Canton; sister-in1 a Mrs. Polly Danklefsen, Port Clinton; cousin, Willard Grover, Port Clinton.

Friends may call at the Neidecker-LeVeck Veck Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the to $5 million after other defendants' monetary judgments, if any, are determined. The apartment management said a latch mechanism on a box around the transformer was defective. The accident occurred while the girl was playing.

Her father said afterward: "A bunch of kids ran in and told me Barbie fell. I ran outside and saw her lying beside the transformer, unconscious." Steinsholt said one of his daughter's playmates had climbed to the top of the transformer. News Herald Local record MAGRUDER HOSPITAL ADMITTED: Jeffrey Sittason, 516 E. Perry medical; Vern H. Hakes, 3954 N.

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EMERGENCIES: Regina Monak, Marblehead, fractured toe; Dolores Petersen, Port Clinton, hand laceration; Vern Hakes, Port Clinton, fractured ankle; Kolman Matusiczky, Lakeside, puncture wound to palm; Gary Robertson, Port Clinton, finger laceration; Thomas Johnson, Akron, forearm laceration; Allen Floro, Genoa, sprained wrist; Denise Hewitt, Port Clinton, sprained foot; Faith Reimann, North Ridgeville, fractured -Picked Fresh Daily HOMEGROWN SWEET CORN EAST HARBOR 3 MI. INDIANA MELONS ICE COLD WATERMELONS PEACHES APPLES SWEET CHERRIES GRAPES PLUMS NECTARINES MELONS BANANAS CITRUS POTATOES A WIDE VARIETY OF FRESH GARDEN VEGETABLES. Route 269 Market Features: ISLAND WINES CARRYOUT BEER AMISH CHEESES PICNIC SUPPLIES Large Heads of Cabbage 3 for $1.00 TOMATOES $1.00 a Basket TAKE A Peach BEACH BERGMAN ORCHARDS PEACHES 5000 FARM MARKETS 5 Mi. E. of Port Clinton on Old Rt.

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Senate Demoratic Leader Robert C. Byrd called the House-passed bill "ludicrous." And presidential spokesman Jody Powell said the bill was unacceptable to Carter as written. He expressed hope the objectionable parts which he described as "illadvised, unenforceable amendments" could be smoothed out in the conference committee. Among the House-added provisions the White House would like to see scrapped are: -A Republican-backed amendment weakening the president's 78-degree thermostat program. -Restrictions that prohibit rationing from being imposed unless there is a 20 percent or larger fuel shortage for a 30-day period.

A mendments establishing a national 1 percent set-aside of diesel fuel for farmers and homeheating oil for coldweather areas of the country. None of these provisions is contained in the Senatepassed legislation. The bill sent to the Senate by the House "has been riddled with loopholes," said Sen. Henry M. Jackson.

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Instead of crediting this year's losses against future profits, Chrysler wants the money now and next year in the form of checks from the U.S. Treasury, repaying them in 1981 and 1982..