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AUG. 25, 1975 12-B Waiting Mercy Ship Hit By Mortar Fire MACAO (UP1) The Hong Kong-owned mercy ship Macdili, waiting to enter the battlescarred capital of Portuguese Timor to rescue more refugees. was hit by mortar fire Sunday night and forced to enter the port, communiques from the colony said. Timor governor Lemos renewed his plea for international intervention and said, "I'm tired of seeing people dying The Norwegian freighter Slayton ToEnter Hospital HOUSTON, (UPI) "Deke" AsSlayton, America's oldest space pilot who finally made it into orbit last month, enters a cancer hospital Monday for exploratory surgery on a lesion in his left lung. Slayton, 51, said doctors told him it was a more than 50 per cent chance the lesion is cancer.

Surgery is scheduled Tuesday at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. The last active the original seven Mercury astronauts. Slayton was scrubbed from his first spaceflight opportunity in cause heart irregularity. He fought the grounding for 10 vears and was returned to flight status in March, 1972.

Slayton, a space pilot for 16 years before finally earning his astronaut wings, joined Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand on the final Apollo mission that last month flew to an orbital rendezvous with Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kuba sov. The Apollo pilots breathed poisonous rocket propellant fumes during the final minutes of their return to earth July 24. Ironically, the potentially fatal fumes did Slayton a favor although the pilots had to be hospitalized. Physicians at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu where the pilots were hospitalized closely checked the astronauts' x-rays for damage by the fumes and discovered the small lesion in the lower lobe of Slayton's left lung. Slayton said he thought he was lucky they found the lesion soon enough so that even if it is cancer it easily can be removed and he should have no future problems.

But, he's just as glad, he said, the lesion wasn't noticed before the joint flight. "I think I'm pretty damn Slayton said. "This thing could have been discovered before the flight. In which case I'm sure there would have been a lot of trauma and discussion about whether I should fly or not. I could have easily gotten jerked off the flight and that would have been bad.

I think they did me a great favor by not discovering it earlier." Space agency officials in Washington said the Soviet Academy of Sciences had agreed because of the surgery to postpone until Oct. 13 a joint tour of 11 U.S. cities by the Apollo and Soyuz crews. The U.S tour originally was to start Sept. 1.

Slayton, Stafford and Brand still plan. however, to join the Soyuz crew in Moscow Sept. 21 for a two-week tour of Russian cities. 'Super Grip' Claim False, Says U.S. WASHINGTON (UPI) Two false teeth adhesives, "PoliGrip" and "Super do not really let denture wearers eat corn on the cob.

apples and other tough foods as advertised, the Federal Trade Commission said Sunday. The agency also said "New Extra Strength Effervescent Polident" a fizzing product billed as a cleanser for false teeth, will not clean dentures more than other similar products, despite advertising claims to the contrary. The agency a false advertising complaint against Block Drug Jersey City, N.J.. manufacturer of all the products involved. The company ran television commercials and print ads indicating smiling denture wearers could chomp on fried chicken, apples, peanuts, carrots, steaks.

corn, thick sandwiches, caramels and other "problem" foods. But in reality. the FTC said, Poli-Grip and Super Poli-Grip users "cannot eat each of the aforementioned, embarrassment 'problem' or discomfort and without regard to particular denture holding problems." The dentures, it said, will not hold in place As for the fizzing Polident, the complaint alleges that Block had no reasonable basis for claiming that it would do a better cleAning job. Clues Under Study Lloyd Bakke, meanwhile, arrived in Darwin, Australia with more than 1,100 refugees after pulling out of the port untouched. A communique from the naval station radio at Dili, Portuguese Timor's capital, said the Macdili was forced to pull into port after it was slightly damaged by mortar fire.

Casualties were not immediately known The Macdili, which a week ago evacuated 272 persons to Hong Kong, was waiting to pickup additional refugees. The communiques issued to newsmen in Macao, the nearest Portuguese possession to island colony, said small arms and mortar fire shattered an attempt by Timor Governor Pires to establish a neutral zone in the port. Portugal has pulled most of its troops out of the colony except for paratroopers and sailors guarding the naval Thousands of Chinese," who compose 7,000 of Timor's population of 600,000, rushed to the would-be neutral zone after abandoning their homes and shops, the communiques said. The reports said some foreigners and Portuguese soldiers had been captured. In Darwin, Australia, the Lloyd Bakke anchored at a buoy while a doctor and quarantine officials examined the refugees.

Wayne To Have Oil Spill Routine Tests' Follows NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (UPI) Actor John Wayne, 68, was reported resting bly Sunday in Hoag spentortai Hospital where he was undergoing "routine tests' following admission last week. A hospital spokesman declined to reveal the nature of the tests or to comment on reports that Wayne was "nursing a cough" when he entered the hospital. She said she could not say when he might be released. the movies' all time box office champion with more than 200 pictures grossing an estimated $700 million to his credit, had the lower part of a removed in a cancer operation in 1964 and returned to full-time acting.

"I've got the Big licked," he said at time. Wayne smoked up to five packs of cigarettes a day before the operation but gave up smoking afterwards. The drawling hero of advenrecently finished shooting "Rooster films, JOHN WAYNE co-starring Katharine Hepburn. The picture was a sequel "True Grit" which won Wayne an Oscar in 1970. Bumper PopcornCrop Is Being Harvested ASBURY.

Mo. (UPI) Attention, popcorn lovers! The annual popcorn harvest in southwest Missouri is underway and by the time the combines have finished their noisy task, about six million pounds will be pulled from 1,700 acres. Growers say the popcorn shortage of last year won't Youth Wins Verdict Of $2 Million PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (UPI) A 20-year-old youth who was shot and paralyzed from the neck down during an argument four years ago has been awarded $2 million damand his parents an additional after a 10-day trial here. The decision came after a $65,000 out-of-court settlement was set aside and a new trial ordered.

A Civil Court jury deliberated for six hours Saturday before reaching decision to award the $2 million to Glenn Morgan and the additional $350,000 to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Morgan. The younger Morgan and his parents had sued Mr. and Mrs.

Horace Burks, Henry Harlow and Burks' mother, the owners and directors of Burks-Harlow a mobile park where the shooting occured. Morgan, 16 at the time, and Burks, the manager of the park, got into an argument over the teen driving his motorcycle on the park grounds and during the altercation the youth was shot. Burks originally was found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined $250 in Criminal Court. ASTORIA, Ore. (UPI) An oil slick described by the Coast Guard as two miles long and 30 yards wide oozed slowly toward the mouth of the Columbia River Sunday.

A spokesman for Knappton Towboat Co. called in to clean up the diesel oil spill said its crews were attempting to locate the slick. don't know what we've got yet," he said. Salvage efforts waited until daylight after the oil was reported pouring from a capsized fishing boat near the center span of the AstoriaMegler Bridge across the Columbia, seven miles upstream from the mouth of the river. The boat, the 65-foot Mr.

J. hit a submerged object and capsized late Friday night. Its two occupants, Larry Young and David Kniss, were rescued by small boats from the Coast Guard cutter Tupelo anchored nearby. The Mr. began spilling oil late Saturday night after it rolled over.

It was towed to a sandbar but efforts to control the oil spill were delayed because of darkness and the river current. The craft contained 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel but a Coast Guard spokesman said he did not know how much of that had spilled. He said there was no indication the slick would reach shore. The Knappton spokesman said when the slick is located it would be surrounded to keep it from spreading and absorbent materials would be used to soak up the oil. Huge Slide May Dam Up Utah River MANTI, Utah (UPI) State geologists said Sunday a twomile-long chunk of mountainside is sliding at the rate of a foot a day into Manti Canyon, creating a "potentially disastrous geologic hazard" and threatening the town below with flooding.

They urged state and local officials to prepare contingency plans for sudden flooding in the central Utah community of 1.800 should the mountain suddenly tumble into the canyon and dam a stream. "If the backed-up water is then suddely released as the stream forces a path through the debris, there could be Donald T. McMillian, director of the Utah Geological Survey, said. "And it could happen in a matter of hours," added Bruce Kaliser, the state's chief geological engineer. "I don't like to be an alarmist, but if it happened at night, all hell could break loose on the town by McMillian said the earth i is apparently sliding on bedrock.

He estimated the mass was 50 to 100 feet deep. Remodeling Of Landmark Under Way happen again. and their crop this year is exceptionally good. The popcorn from the fields near Asbury, a small the border, will produce an estimated 50 million large bags of popcorn this year, figuring that white popcorn expands to 34 times its size and yellow to 38 times its size. That translates into a popcorn ball more than a city block in area and 30 stories high, But it won't be nearly enough the American appetite.

Anthony F. Grote, vice president of Quinn Popcorn says Americans eat more than 1 million pounds of popcorn a day. Quinn, a Lake View, Iowabased firm, contracts with growers for most of the area's popcorn. Grote is supervising the harvest. He said southern Missouri has an advantage over more northern.

the popcorn-growing warmer climate allows the corn to be harvested 30 or more days earlier. "This is important to us because we get it in and have it processed before the northern crops are ready, Grote said. Seeks Support COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPI) Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller will pay a visit to South Carolina's capital city Wednesday to try to convince local Republicans they should support him for vice president in 1976.

Prediction CHICAGO (UPI) The National Safety Council Sunday estimated between 460 and 560 persons will die on the nation's highways over three day Labor Day weekend. Top two stories of the main section of what is removed. The first story will be remodeled into known as the Bintz Building (formerly Stur- offices. The building was erected 107 years ago. tevant's) at Third and Main streets have been Rapid progress is being made on a multi basketball and volleyball courts and areas for other games, inYMCA building in the triangle formed by Interstate a section cluding soccer, touch football field hockey.

The photo was of what once was McIntire Park. Ground was broken Aug. 1. The 38 taken from the ramp leading to 1-70, with 1-70 in the right by 98 foot building will contain seven rooms, including shower background and the I-70 exit ramp at the left. facilities.

Around the building Community Calendar Meetings Work Progresses On YMCA Project will be a swimming pool, tennis, Pre-School On The Local Scene Senior Citizens Club Schedules Meeting Senior Citizens Club 1 will In meet 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 26, in the social room of Central Presbyterian Church. A sack lunch will be held at 11:15 a.m.

followed by a business meeting at noon. Rev. E. C. Traylor, a retired minister, will be the guest speaker.

Mrs. Louise Frame and Dewey Higginbotham will sing a duet; Beulah Mortimer will give a report on her recent trip to Hawaii, and a record will be heard of original songs James Sayre wrote for the commemoration. Bandits Rob Bus Riders DETROIT (UPI) Two armed bandits held up a bus bound for Paducah, Sunday, forcing 15 passengers to drop their money and jewelry in a plastic garbage bag. Police said the men fled the bus with more than $800 in cash and an undetermined amount of valuables. The Greyhound bus left the Detroit terminal and made a stop in suburban Lincoln Park, where the two men boarded the bus, police said.

As the bus headed south on Interstate 75, one man pulled a gun on the 37-year-old driver and ordered him to stop the bus. The second man walked down the aisle with a plastic garbage bag, ordering passengers to hand over their valuables. The men then ordered the driver to turn the bus around and head back to Detroit. The robbers got off the bus at the Southfield Road exit and fled on foot. Greyhound officials said the bus returned to Detroit.

The driver was replaced and the bus continued on to Kentucky, minus several shaken passengers. Police said no one was injured during the holdup. Greyhound officials said it was the first time in recent history one of their buses was held up. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) Investigators sifted through reams of medical records Sunday in an attempt to piece together clues to the identity of a killer who deliberately injected patients at a Veterans Administration hospital with a paralyzing drug.

"It looks like the drug was administered intentionally," said Dr. Duane T. Freier, acting chief of staff at the Ann Arbor hospital. "We've ruled out accident, drug contamination and other possible causes." At least 51 patients suffered respiratory failures since July 1. Eight patients died.

Hospital officials said in a normal month, five to eight patients are stricken by respiratory arrests. Freier said he thinks there is enough evidence to "convince a' jury" the respiratory failures were deliberately caused. The first indication came last week when traces of a muscle paralyzing drug were found in the urine samples taken from surviving patients. The drug has been identified as Pavulon, a powerful muscle paralyzing substance that is commonly used during surgery. Three patients whose urine samples revealed the presence of uleceivere not supposed to be the drug.

Blood and urine are now being tested FBI samples laboratory in Washington and a toxocology lab in Denver as well as the University of Michigan lab. Dr. John D. Chase, the VA's chief medical officer, said lab results are beginning to prove hard scientific evidence to back up Freier's conclusion that "some or many" of the respiratory failures were murder and attempted murder. Chase said the hospital has been authorized to immediately hire at least 20 additional nurses to tighten supervision of the wards.

"Morale is high," Freier said. "To my knowledge employes are answering questions freely and keeping their eyes open." FBI agents have quizzed the hospital's 750 staff members, asking them, "What kind of person do you think would do this." Freier said there is a "work lag" since only 200 of the hospital's 310 beds are occupied because of a halt on taking nonemergency patients. FBI agents said the list of possible suspects could top 1,000, including the staff. patients and visitors. They feared the investigation could drag out for months before conclusive evidence is found.

Typhoon Kills 24 Japan City Council At 7:30 p.m. in City Hall. Muskingum Area Technical College Board of Trustees At 8 p.m. in administration building on Richards road. Perry Township Volunteer Firemen and meeting at 7 p.m.

at the fire station. Nicholas Rectory Public instruction classes in the Catholic religion at 7:30 p.m. by Fr. James Walter, co-pastor. VFW Post 1085 Regular meeting at 8 p.m.

Chapter, Alcoholics Anonymous At 8 p.m. in St. James Episcopal Church. Duncan Falls Philo Lions Club Family Night At 6:30 p.m. at Bergin Park.

Ohio State Restaurant Association At 2:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn. West Muskingum Student Registration" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Tuesday, Aug.

26. Child Development Conferences From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pioneer Community Center on Eighth street. Births Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Gailen Devoll Jr. of 148 Beulah avenue, a son, at Bethesda, Aug. 23. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Bradshaw of 3342 Fairway lane, a daughter, at Bethesda, Aug. 23. Mr. and Mrs.

Mark Hopkins of Crooksville Route 2, a daughter, at Good Samaritan, Aug. 23. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Baker of East Fultonham, a son, at Good Samaritan, Aug.

23. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Starner of 915 Moxahala avenue. a daughter, at Good Samaritan, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Goodin of New Lexington, a daughter, at Good Samaritan, Aug. 23. Mr. and Mrs.

Clayton Burroughs, of son, 516 at Forest Good Samaritan, Aug. 22. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Miller of Fairview 1, a son, at Good Samaritan, Aug.

23. Mr. and Mrs. James McPherson of 484 Harding road, a son, at Good Samaritan, Aug. 23.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shimer of 905. Garden avenue, a daughter, at Good Samaritan, Aug. 24.

Deaths GRANGER, Mrs. Lena of 3389 Fairway lane, Aug. 24. KEEFE, Douglas 0., 22, of Nashport Route 1, Aug. 23.

FORSYTHE, Mrs. Carrie, 82, of 651 McIntire avenue, Aug. 23. COCKINS, Mrs. Rose 80, formerly of Bedford, Aug.

24. QUERRY, Doby 18, of Belmont Route 1, Aug. 24. HOWELL, Jerry Lynn, 29, of Woodsfield, Aug. 23.

TOWNLEY, Noble Earl, 86, of Glouster Route 2, Aug. 24. HILES, Earl R. 57, of Crooksville Route 1, Aug. 24.

CAMP, Mrs. Cora 70, of 425 Schaum avenue, Aug. 24. HUFFMAN, Joseph 69, Canton, Aug. 24.

GRISSETT, Robert L. 81, of Osborne road, Aug. 24. Union Grange Election of officers will be held at a meeting of Union Grange at 8 p.m. Monday Aug.

25, in Sandy Lane School in Duncan Falls with master, Marion Dilly conducting the business session. The program will be on "Summer Activities." Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Mautz comprise the refreshment committee. A pre-school orientation meeting for kindergarten pupils will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 25, at the Springfield School. Twin City Club Twin City Senior Citizens Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27 in the Duncan Falls United Methodist Church.

Mrs. Hollis Greene and Mrs. Ralph Shaver will lead a program on "Vacation Memories" and reports will be given by John Wheeler and Mrs. Edna Barton on the highlights of Senior Citizens Activities, the at AARP. the August Mrs.

William Downing will conduct a "Bicentennial Road of America Quiz. Firemen Meet National Trail Volunteer Fire Department will hold a session at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27 at the firehouse at Gratiot. Jolly Dollies Blue Rock Jolly Dollies will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 27, at the home of Sharon Frame Army Reserve Four members of the 342nd Military Police Company Color Guard here recently marched in the Canadian Warriors Day parade at Toronto, Canada. They are: First Sgt. Warren 0. White, SFC John T.

Cecil, Sgt. Kim L. Cecil and Sp-5 Lynn M. Mobys. They were among 300,000 Canadians as a part of the Canadian National Exhibition.

It was begun in 1879 and is the world's largest annual exhibition with an estimated 3,000,000. The local delegation was dressed in authentic Revolutionary uniforms, wigs and Colonial Tri-Cornered hats. TOKYO (UPI) Rescued after a landslide crushed his dwelling, Masao Kitahara watched Japanese army soldiers Sunday dig out the bodies of his wife, their two children, and three other persons. They were the last victims of Typhoon Rita. The storm swept out into the north Pacific Sunday after smashing across southwest Japan and then turning back for a "double punch" at the northern part of the country.

Police said 24 persons are known dead, 13 are still missing, and 36 seriously injured. Kitahara and his family were among 24 persons living in a dormitory for employes of the Ishikari Hotel at Kawakami Town on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido 600 miles north of Tokyo. Kitahara, 32, a driver for the hotel, and seven other persons were trapped in the building when Rita's eight inch rainfall triggered a landslide on a nearby mountain. He lost his wife Mitsuko, his daughter Kaori, 8, and his son Masayoshi, 6. Woman Severely Beaten A Maysville avenue woman was severely beaten shortly before noon Sunday by a man wielding a baseball bat in a parking lot at the rear of her home, police reported.

Ms. Anistene G. Croston, 27, of 1525 Maysville avenue was reported under close observation last night in the intensive care unit of Good Samaritan Medical Center. Police said Ms. Croston was sitting on a porch with several other persons when she was attacked.

A domestic distrubance. incident, apparently police said. Police last night were seeking a Canton man and a male companion in connection with the beating. 'Void' Proven Mine Festival Is Planned At Shawnee SHAWNEE Shawnee Mine Festival will be held Aug. 30 through Sept.

1. The Bicentennial committee with Mike and Sue Ashbaugh as chairpersons and Skip Ricketts as co-chairman, are assisted with restoring the festival which began in Shawnee a few years ago when William Morgan was mayor. The festival was held each year until 1974. It will be a scheduled event for the Bicentennial program in 1975- 76. Featured during the threeday festival this year will be a queen contest, parade, Shawnee Bicentennial flag presentation, dedication to the late Walter Harrop grandstand entertainment, contests for youth, talent show, street dancing and various game and food booths.

It appears Judy McGonigle of Wilmington, may be suffering strated here by her cousin Kenny McGonigle whose face reflects. from a void between her, tars where a brain should be as demon- proves it! The tyro cooled off in a Wilmington park.