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as 1 Briefs. Crash details wrong A Port Clinton woman was treated and released Wednesday from Memorial Hospital in Sandusky after a traffic accident in Erie County. Leila Hembree, 29, 312 Garfield Drive, was treated for injuries after she lost control of her car on the icy roadway on Ohio 2 at U.S. 6, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The car struck a semi-truck, driven by Lomas Collins, 28, of Oakwood.

The truck was parked on the berm of the road at the time. Hembree told the New Herald she was traveling at about 35 when her car hit an icy patch. She took her foot off the accelerator to try: slowing down the car, she said, but it started veering toward the truck. She then lay down the front seat before the car hit the truck, shearing off the roof of the car, she said. Troopers cited Collins for improper parking and Hembree for excessive speed for road conditions.

Several facts in this story were printed incorrectly in Thursday's News Herald. Youth in "good" condition An 11-year-old boy from Catawba Island Township, Robert Byrd, was in good. condition this morning at the Medical College of Ohio after his right leg got caught in a tractor power unit Monday morning. Byrd, of 3835 NE Catawba Road, was riding on the back of his father's tractor at their residence at about 10:30 a.m. Monday when his.

right leg got caught, according to Jack Mortus, of the Catawba Island Rescue Squad. Mortus said the boy suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, which was nearly torn off. Byrd was taken to H.B. Magruder Hospital until his condition stabilized, Mortus said, and then taken by Life Flight helicopter to MCO. At MCO, his leg was casted twice and skin grafts were.

done to his foot, the hospital reported. He was expected to return home within several days. Byrd is a student at Portage Elementary School. Car hits O.H. boy OAK HARBOR A local boy was injured when a car hit him in front of the village's municipal building Thursday afternoon, reported Oak Harbor police.

Daniel Hunter, 11, 208 Ottawa was walking onto Church' Street from an alley when a car was coming, driven by David Hille, 26, 720 Rice Elmore. Hille said he saw Hunter entering the street and honked the car horn before he tried stopping. But the car brakes locked and the car skidded, hitting Hunter with the left front fender. Hunter was taken to H.B. Magruder Hospital, where he was treated and released for bruises to his left hip.

No traffic citations were issued. Stolen truck recovered William H. Mullens, 1803 Morningside Drive, was notified by Port Clinton police this morning that his 1980 pickup truck was found in Huron County with the windshield, passenger and driver side windows and headlights broken out. No estimate of damage was given. Mullens last saw the truck at midnight and was unaware the vehicle was missing, police said.

He filed a stolen vehicle report after being notified of the incident. Police said Huron County sheriff deputies found the truck about 1 a.m. on Lamreaux Road in Huron County and asked police to notify Mullens. Rescheduled for Monday OAK HARBOR Oak Harbor High School's music booster club has rescheduled its canceled January meeting for Monday at 7:30 p.m. 1 in the high school band room.

Madelyn Hetrick, president of the boosters, said the meeting is important and added she urges all booster members to attend. Perfect weather for Winterfest If at first you don't succeed, try again. Sponsors of the Erie Island Winterfest did just that and finally got the snow they have been waiting for for two years. A January thaw dampened last year's festivities and last Saturday's warm weather forced the postponement of many activities. Then Sunday's snow storm made the festivities inaccessible except for snowmobilers and a few four-wheeled vehicles.

The midway at Enchanted Lake Park, 301 W. Catawba Road, will be open tonight from 6:30 to 11:30 and another torchlight snowmobile parade will organize at the park at 6 p.m. Last weekend's parade attracted over 100 snowmobilers. Following the parade will be another giant bonfire and a pig roast. Saturday will feature the open snowmobile races as well as ice skating and several of last weekend's canceled contests.

The snow sculpture and snowman contests will start at 10 a.m.' with judging at noon. The unique sled contest will begin at 3 p.m. According to Pat may be organized Saturday if enough interest is Keys, contest chairman, a tug-o-war contest shown. Snowmobile drag races will begin at 1 p.m. between Enchanted Lake Park and Sun Valley Golf Course and run all day.

Registration for the races es will be conducted from 9 to 11 a.m. at the race site. Race classes include stock, open and modified. There also will be races in the powder puff division and junior class. The Winterfest Dance is planned at 8 p.m.

Saturday at the Catawba Community Hall. "Long Overdue" will provide the music. Tickets are $3 per person or $5 a couple. Friday, Feb. 5, 1982, News Herald 5 Election Continued from Page 1 in a certificate of deposit with "out-of-town people" and couldn't get the money out sooner.

A spokesman for the election commission said this morning that the emission would hold a non-public hearing in the matter to determine if there was an attempt to defraud or intentional wrongdoing. That hearing could be held late this Snowmobiler- Continued from Page 1 find the other four men after running for about a quarter of a mile, they stopped. "We stopped three or four times on the way coming back," he reflected. "Once when we stopped we agreed to turn to the right and that we would be headed back in the general direction of Port Clinton." The last time they stopped, Laird said, he was totally disoriented. "I didn't know where I was," he said.

"Bill was pretty confident we were here," Laird said, tapping a spot on the map just beyond Catawba's point in an area that was bordered to the east and south by Catawba Island and Port Clinton. "Instead we were here," Laird said, pointing to the east side of Catawba, just north of the open water and between Marblehead and Kelleys Island. Catawba lay to the west of the men instead of the east as they believed. "When we stopped we saw flashing lights and Bill said 'Look there's the river It looked just like the lights on the river, but what it must of been was the lights at the Coast Guard station. "I said what about over there," Laird said, indicating he meant to his left.

"He said 'That's Those lights were probably on Kelleys." Laird said he was confused that there weren't any lights between the beacons they saw in front of them and the lights to their left. "Bill said he was commission- month, but might not be until March since the commission of Education, submitted his resignation from the board. It was accepted by the board at its regular meeting Tuesday. Armbruster has told the News Herald, it was just an "oversight" on his part that the reports weren't filed on time. He also said the bills weren't paid earlier because he had placed the committee's money pretty sure that was Sand Road that's what Bill would do I was.

I guess I'll never know." GOP wantsContinued from Page 1 strengthened for Republican held by Democrat Douglas Republican parties if he opts to Willis Gradison of Cincinnati. Applegate, would be redrawn to run for the position. In Cleveland, Democrat favor the Republicn candidacy If the maps go as planned by Dennis Eckart's district would of state Sen. William J. Ress the Ohio Senate, the district be merged with Democrat Mary under the GOP plan.

should be a strong one for Rose Oakar's district. The 3rd District would be Aronoff. The 18th District, once held by revised to include all of MontThe 1st District would be Democrat Wayne Hays and now gomery County. Columbia Gas bills go up Columbia Gas of Ohio filed its quarterly gas information on where to apply for governmental cost recovery today with the Public Utilities assistance. Commission of Ohio, amounting to an additional Booth said the increase in gas costs results charge to customers of 37 cents per thousand primarily from higher prices producers are cubic feet of gas consumed.

permitted to charge for gas under the Natural Linda K. Booth, Port Clinton area manager for Gas Policy Act enacted by Congress in 1978, the gas company, said the 8 percent increase enabling producers to meet the increased costs represents higher costs that Columbia of Ohio of finding and I producing natural gas supplies. pays its supplier for gas purchased for Columbia "Many gas sources previously were untapped customers. Under Ohio and federal regulations, because federal price ceilings were so low that these costs are recovered from customers on a drillers were unwilling to take the economic risk penny-for-penny basis, with no profit to of developing them," Booth said. Columbia.

As a result of expanded production stimulated The new gas costs will be reflected in bills sent by the NGPA, ample gas has been available to to customers early in March, Booth said. meet Columbia customers' full needs during the recent record-low temperatures, Booth said. Over a 12-month period, a customer's average Columbia experienced no supply problems monthly consumption is 13,000 cubic feet, so the meeting customers' requirements. "We were increase will average about $4.75 a month on an able to do this even though our pipeline supplier annual basis. was itself curtailed by some of its suppliers," she who have difficulty said.

Booth urged customers "If we had had these record-breaking cold paying their bills to contact the nearest few we could not have Columbia office to try to work out arrangements temperatures a years ago, burden of payments, or to obtain met all of our customers' needs. Curtailment of for easing the industrial and commercial users would have been necessary." announced Quarterly today billing reflect adjustments increases such or as the decreases one in the price Columbia pays for gas, and Frances Genoa; three grand- generates no additional income for the company, and there wouldn't be many lights on there." Satisfied they were on the right track the two started in, Laird said. "I was in the lead," he said. "I hit the water first and was going between 40 and 50. 1 hit the water about 50-foot from the north edge of the ice.

"Bill saw me hit the water and when he went by he was moving," Laird said, estimating Oliver's speed at 70 to 80 miles an hour. "I think he made it almost to the other side (of the open water). "He probably got on the ice before I did," Laird theorized. "When I hit the water I got up on the seat and then jumped off. I don't know how long I was swimming.

It was so dark. All I could see was water. I saw the water before I hit it." Laird swam back to the north side of the break, not he said, how far across the open water stretched. "I think Bill made it almost to the other side," he said. "When I got out I called out and he calls back I said 'swim, Bill, Laird said he heard Oliver call his name just the one time and it sounded far away.

"I stood there for what seemed like 15 minutes," Laird said. "I hollered, then I listened. I couldn't hear anything," he said, his eyes red from fighting tears. "I've been sitting here thinking about this for a long time," Laird said, his eyes staring ahead of him. "'He went back in that water after me.

If he figured he could save me, sons; her mother, Mrs. Ida Barnes of Deshler; three sisters, Mrs. Harold (Hulda) Oberlitner of Kenton, Mrs. May Stout of Oregon, Mrs. George (Ruth) Arnold of Sun City, two brothers, Walter Barnes of Defiance and Robert Barnes of McClure.

Friends may call at the Maison-Dardenne Funeral Home, Maumee, after 7 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday in Zoar Lutheran Church, Perrysburg. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park, Perrysburg.

The family suggests memorials be made to Zoar Lutheran Church. -Grain COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Area Wht Crn Oat Sybn NE Ohio 3.39 2.44 2.27 6.21 NW Ohio 3.36 2.40 2.15 6.17 Ohio 3.44 2.52 2.37 6.17 Centri 3,46 2.56 2.18 6.26 SW Ohio 3.43 2.52 2.08 6.23 Trend presently has about 150 cases to consider. If the election commission determines there is reason to believe there was intentional wrongdoing, the matter will be referred back to the county prosecutor for any further action. The local board of elections made no comment Thursday on the matter other than Petersen's report of referring the matter to the election commission. that's the kind of guy he is.

"I don't think he realized how far across it was. You don't last too long in cold water," he said. "I'm positive that's what he did. There's no other reason for him to take his clothes off. Bill knows you never take off your suit wet or not." After his attempts at calling to Oliver got no response, Laird marked the spot with his helmet and set out for the lights of Kelleys Island, a two-mile trip he made without his right boot that was lost in the water.

He reached the island in about two hours and contacted the Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter arrived on the scene about 4:30 a.m. and spotted Laird's helmet and the tracks of two snowmobiles going into the water. Later they retrieved the helmet, boot and glove. The snowmobile suit remains frozen to the ice at the water's edge, about 75 yards from where the men entered the water.

The two snowmobiles together totaled almost $10,000. "Those two sleds don't mean Laird said of them being 30 feet below the ice's surface, "they don't mean nothing. "I don't want anyone to hold this against snowmobilers." Laird said. "It was our own fault." He hesitated and then added, "Bill should have gotten out of it too. He should of been okay.

"I know," Laird said, trying to keep his voice even. "I know that he figured I needed help, that he figured it was only a short distance back there where Booth said. This gas cost recovery procedure is separate from individual rates the company negotiates with many communities in the state to cover operational costs. H.B. Magruder Visiting hours: to 8 p.m.; Obstetrics: 2:30 to 4 and 7 to 8 Phone: 732-2193 FEB.

4. ADMITTED: Mrs. Arthur Brockmueller, 126 Houghton Oak Harbor, medical; Krishna Myers, 140 N. Erie Beach Road, Marblehead, surgical; Mrs. Joseph Bond, 8175 N.

Shore Marblehead, surgical; Jay H. Suhrbier, 524 Madison Port Clinton, surgical; Harry 0. Wilson, 200 Arman Road, Lakeside, medical; Mrs. Daniel Kurtz, 412 W. Third Port Clinton, medical; David K.

Gates, 517 Church Oak Harbor, surgical; Brian Fabian, 425 Locust Oak Harbor, surgical; Richard J. Farmer, 422 W. Fifth Port Clinton, medical. DISCHARGED: Mrs. Paul Anderson, Kimberly Depner, Mrs.

Duane Dress, Melvin Fuller, Robert Lenke, Mrs. Jon Rasmussen and baby boy, Warren Tettau, Lucille Thompson. EMERGENCIES: Randy Hatmaker, Port Clinton, contusion left foot; Daniel Hunter, Oak Harbor, contusion left hip; Rhonda Perry, Port Clinton, lacerations right hand; Erwin Carnicom, Oak Harbor, sprained left knee; James Hofaker, Port Clinton, hematoma left finger; Dewey Schlunz, Port Clinton, contusion arm and thorax. Tapes made for memoirs BOSTON (AP) President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary says her boss secretly taped White House conversations as a memoir-writing help.

Another former aide, however, speculates the bugging may have been triggered because staff members tried to deny their role in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. "He had a very good sense of history," Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's personal secretary, said Thursday night in an interview on the ABC News program "Nightline." "All we did during the time we worked with him was to record everything we possibly could so he could have them for his memoirs after he left the White House," she said. On Thursday, the morning after the extent of Kennedy's White House tapes was revealed, the John F. Kennedy Library, where the recordings are housed, released a 29-page index of names of scores of people whose talks with the 35th president were secretly recorded. The release of the index outraged some of those who were recorded in telephone conversations or personal chats with Kennedy.

Others said they didn't care. Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, theorized the system was begun after the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961 because Kennedy "was quite outraged at this effort of people disassociating themselves from something that they had been centrally involved in." "And I think that may have been a motivation for the starting of that he could have an accurate record when he sat down and wrote his view," Salinger said. The former press secretary, now a correspondent for ABC News, said he was unaware of the tapes until the Kennedy family announced their existence in 1973. Sen. Russell B.

Long, one of those whose conversations with the late president were recorded secretly, said: "I consider it highly improper for anyone to record the conversation of a friend without informing the friend that a recording is being made." Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk disagreed, saying: "I don't understand what all the shooting is about." "I didn't mind if the whole world heard what I had to say," said former Mississippi Gov. Ross R. Barnett, recalling many telephone conversations with Kennedy during the forced integration of the University of Mississippi. Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert S. McNamara, agreed with Rusk.

"It doesn't bother me one way or another," McNamara told The New York Times. "I never said a thing to him I wasn't willing to stand by." But Frederick G. Dutton, an assistant secretary of state under Kennedy, said he was "bothered." The Times quoted Dutton as saying, "I don't think presidents have more rights to invade privacy than anyone else." Former President Gerald Ford, who did not bug his office or phones, deplored the Kennedy tapes. "I think it's unfortunate," Ford said. "I don't think it should have been done.

I hope in the future that such recordings will not be undertaken by any Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in a statement issued Thursday, said "after transcripts of the recordings are prepared and released, Americans will continue to be proud of the presidency of John Mrs. Frances M. Shortridge, 65, 100 block of Quail Drive, Perrysburg, died Thursday at St.

Luke's Hospital, Maumee. Her husband, Dr. Wilson P. Shortridge, died Dec. 12, 1971.

Mrs. Shortridge was a registered nurse. She graduated from the Toledo Hospital School of Nursing where she worked as a nurse prior to her marriage. She moved to Columbus and worked at Mount Carmel Hospital and then to Oak Harbor where Dr. Shortridge was a general practitioner until 1954.

The couple then moved back to Columbus and then to Perrysburg in 1958. Mrs. Shortridge was a member of Zoar Lutheran Church, Perrysburg and Toledo Hospital Alumni Association. Survivors include a daughter Mrs. Stephanie D.

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