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Wcalhcr Thundcrshowcri tonight, ending Sunday. Low, 50, High 68. New Bell To Toll See Pago 3 HAL FIELD NEWS JQURI MANS PHONE LA 2-3311 VOL. 77, NO. 61 MANSFIELD, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1961 Alioelittd Pratt Unlttd Prm Intirnjtlcxill Swamps Nine Aboard Craft When It Skin Divers Join Search Party At If Mohicanville Lake BULLETIN Skin divers located the bodies of Frank Hudgins, 4, and Mrs.

Sam Perry, 55, shortly before noon today. They were the fourth and fifth victims of the tragedy at Mohicanville Lake. Six people were believed drowned at 7:30 a.m. SEVEN CENTS mm Young Mother Killed Car Hits Freight Train An 18-year-old Shelby mother of two met instant death today and a 21-year-old Galion man. was critically injured in two separate early-morning traffic accidents.

Mrs. Sandra Jean Carver-ick, of 140 Second Shel-by, was thrown from her car as it crashed through the crossing barriers and rammed into the side of an eastbound lvania freight train a mile and a half north of Ontario on State Route 314 at 3:53 a. m. Mrs. Garverick was thrown out of her car as it soun around from the impact.

She landed between the rails un der the moving SEE WRECKAGE It wasn't until 4:37 a. m. that the accident was discovered. Another train passed the scene and crewmen re ported seeing the smashed car near the crossing. When State Highway Patrolman E.

M. O'Brien arrived at the crossing he found Mrs. Garv-erick's mangled body about 15 feet from the car. Richland County Coroner D. C.

Lavendar pronounced her dead at the scene from a compound skull fracture. (Continued On Page 9) Twisters Kill 14 In West 71 Injured In Two Stales POTEAU, Okla. (UPI) Swift-striking tornadoes battered towns in eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas Friday night, killing at least 14 persons and injuring 71. In Oklahoma, authorities listed nine killed and 54 injured at Howe; four killed and three injured at Richiert; and three injured at Glcndale. all in Leflore County.

A report of a death at Glendale could not be confirmed. today in southeastern Ashland County, near the Wayne County line, when a 16-foot outboard motor boat containing seven adults and two children, was swamped. The tragedy occurred in the deep backwaters of the Mohicanville Lake when the motor on the boat failed causing the front of the boat to 1 sink Arriving there he said he found Gerald Swinehart, 21, clinging to the overturned boat and holding Hudgins' younger son, Randy, 2. He managed to help them and his wife, Nancy, to shore RECOVER BODIES A short time later a num ber of skin divers, members of the Ashland Depth Divers, amve JT covered the body of Perry, arrived on the scene and re his stepson and stepdaughter. Still missing are Perry's wife, another stepson, Pete Alleman, 19, and the Hudgins boy.

The families were said to have been going into Wooster on business and for shopping when the tragedy occurred. I heir cars were parnea on a Neighbors said the valley is result of the backwaters of i the lake. Residents of the I (Continued On Page 6) TP I) One person was killed and, lector; his stepson, Larry three injured when a tornado Dean Alleman, 20, a step-struck a farm house at Dover, I daughter, Suzy Alleman, 16. about 125 miles east of still missing were Perry's Poteau. Eight persons 55: another stepson, injured in an area near Alleman, and Frank dip into the water and Two dozen skin divers, members of the Ashland Depth Divers, rushed to the scene and succeeded in recovering the bodies of Sam Perrv.

55. Wooster scran col- Hudgins, 4 LeRoy Hudgins, father of ry house, shortly before the others embarked in the 16-foot boat. He said he had mndp Ihp trin in a small hnat large enough for only one per- SOn and with only one oar. T.I1.,.rT, He reached the far shore springs, Ariz. PLANE DOWN i Colts Set For Race Showers Threaten LOUISVILLE, Ky.

Fifteen of the country's top three year old colts werej poised for a shot at racing gold and glory in the Kentucky Derby today. There was a threat of showers and scattered thunderstorms here but it didn't chase any of the hopefuls from the race. Actually, some trainers seemed to welcome it as their charges tried for the first place jackpot of $120,500 in the first leg of racing's triple crown. The chart hinted the colts would do all right in the mud. NO PROBLEM a I.

d- SEARCH PARTY LEAVES Volunteers and Ashland County Sheriff's officers aid a group of skin divers as they set out in boats to search for the bodies of drowning victims in Mohicanville Lake. The divers, members of the Ashland Depth Divers, carried aqua lungs, rope and hooks. In the center, superintending the operation, stands Ashland County Sheriff T. R. Erown.

Ashland city police and state highway patrolmen also assisted at the scene. (Photo by Dick Collier) A the miising youngster, said A twin-engined plane haii ctatJ nnt bfrnm reponea 10 nave crasnea mjtrailer ocated near the Per. Eye Top Medal Set anrt turned nrnnnri inst in'road on ine mainland. onors timo in spp ihp larpp hnat nn set. He went back to the scene covered by water to a depth nf thr nrniHont.

hnrkinP UP to eight to 10 feet as a For uinrtc u-hirh artHpd in his problem of rowing with only one oar. Shepard WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's capital joined a jubilant America today in preparing nigh honors for Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard first American to travel into space. Washington which usual-! Then a grateful nation hnu-pr hnnnrc nn it.

first matter only, leaving them free to shower honors on its first Nor was the weather ex-j 0id Navy officer. There was pected to seriously cut some talk of the na- even ouiiic luin vi iu nu i) Fighting Resumes Cease Fire Ignored VIENTIANE, Laos (UPD-Communist led Pathct Lao rebels, ignoring the cease fire in strife torn Laos, struck hard today against government guerrillas operating behind rebel lines, Defense Minister Gen. Phoumi Nosavan announced. The reported rebel attack against loyal Meo tribesmen caused speculation that the Pathet Laos may have interpreted the 72 hour old cease fire as a front line to round up guerrillas behind their lines. PEACE TALKS SET It came as officials in three countries sought to lay the foundations for peace in this Southeast Asian nation in a diplomatic drive spearheaded by cease fire negotiators in the jungle north of here.

In New Delhi, Britain and Russia formally asked India to send in the three nation control commission which is to verify a cease lire in Laos. Phoumi said the rebels attacked Padong, a stronghold of the wild Meo tribesmen, shortly after the Red Pathet Lao forces overran a government guerrilla command post a few miles away. "This is bad for the cea.se fire," said Phoumi, who is both deputy premier and defense minister of the Vien-tian government. He said that at 2 m. (EST) "the rebels were still attacking our post at Padong.

The fallen command post and the mountain top Padong strongpoint are located far inside rebelled controlled Xicng Khouang province. Rebel General Surrenders ALGIERS (UPI) Gen. Andre Zeller, one of the four rebel generals who staged last month's abortive Algiers coup d'etat, has surrendered to French authorities, reliable reports said today. Zeller was the second of the four to fall into French hands. Gen.

Maurice Challe surrendered when the revolt collapsed and is now in Paris awaiting trial. Gens. Raoul Salan and Ed-mond Jouhaud and five rebel colonels are still at large. the crowd, an almost legend ary 100,000. Churchill Downs never gives any other attendance figure and nobody disputes it seriously.

Millions planned to see the race on television (CBS) p. m. (EST). Mrs. Katherine Price's Carry Back who won the Florida Derby and Flamingo Stakes was the 5-2 favorite although his post position was next to the outside.

Crozier, the speed demon from the stable of Alabama contractor Fred Hooper, was 'second rated at 3-1 the hilly country south of Po teau after flying into a storm and forest rangers from the nearby Ouachita National ruresi suuieu a the wreckage. Hardest. MFridaynight was Howe, a town of about 350 population eight miles south1 of Poteau. Two churches were destroyed and a third damaged and about 40 houses were wrecked. The tornado struck without warning late in the afternoon after first ripping through the small farming community of Richiert.

Townspeople, unable to reach their storm cellars, dived for shelter. The twister cut a path about a quarter of a mile wide through Howe. The business section escaped the storm's fury, as did a residential area which a school is located. Rusk Heads For Oslo WASHINGTON (AP) Sec retary of State Dean Rusk flies to Europe today to tell Allied foreign ministers that the strongly aggressive oper ations of the Communist bloc in such places as Laos and Cuba make greater unity and military strength imperative. Rusk heads for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers Council in Oslo, Norway, starting Monday.

He is due in Oslo tonight. EXPRESSES HOPE President Kennedy told a news conference Friday that he hones NATO "will be strengthened by the meeting in Oslo and mat we win make a more determined effort." Rusk is expected to tell the Allies that as pressures from the Communist bloc increase in critical areas of cold war conflict the United States may face the need for drastic measures to meet the Red Threat and that it wants the support and understanding of its friends lor sucn actions Daily Chuckle If you must cry over spilled milk, condense It. Today's Index 16 Pages, 2 Sections Bridge 15 Editorials Churches 2 Classified 12-14 Comics 13, 15 Deaths 11 Dear Abby 15 Dr. Crane 13 Hospitals Kilgallen Movies Sports 10, 11 TV, Radio 8 Weather 11 7 EXAMINES WRECKAGE State Highway Patrolman E. M.

O'Brien examines tha twisted remains of the sports car in which Gary Harriger, 21, of Galion, was critically injured early today on U.S. Route 30-S, just west of the Richland-Crawford County line. West Hails U. S. Feat; 'Just Up, Down' -Mr.

ly takes celebrities in stride bustled in preparing a welcome Mnndav for the 37-vear- tion's highest honor- the Medal of Honor. Everywhere in the capital there was pride and joy in Shepard's flight in the spacecraft Freedom 7. He was rocketed 115 miles into space and splashed into the Atlantic 302 miles below Cape Canaveral, Fla. The success eased the frustration of a long series of space disappointments. Shepard will remain secluded with doctors on Grand Bahama Island until Monday, he flies to Washington.

1 1 1 the kind of I achievement we understand in our part of the world, That's the way we would like to have done it." Shepard's already famous quote during his 16-minute journey at 5,100 miles an hour "What a ride!" -formed the same huge headline in the Mail, the Express and the Mirror. No Gambler, He Walks This Time BRIVE, France (UPI) -Once burned, Edouard Le Lostec, 46, took no chances and walked 240 miles from his home town of Pouilly to protest a $40 fine in court here Friday. Le Lostec was fined for rid ing a train without a ticket. spaceman. Everyone from President wn rying to get into the act, all across the nation.

New York wanted Shepard for a ticker tape parade and his home state of New Hampshire planned a statewide celebration. But Washington gets the first opportunity, and it doesn't plan to miss its chance. Shepard is scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington at 10:30 a. m. Monday.

There he will be met by his parents, (Continued On Page 6) Prime Minister Harold Mc- Millan of Britain and Pre- mier Amintore Fanfani of Italy cabled their congratu lations to President Kennedy. VERY GLAD' Queen Elizabeth II was flying across Italy, on her way to Venice after a Vatican audience with Pope John XXIII, when she heard the news. "I am very glad," an official quoted the British monarch. The spokesman said the queen intended to send Shepard a message. The reaction in Communist captials was admiration for Shepard, mild praise for the feat itself and reminders that the U.

S. astronaut's flight could not compare historically or technically with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's (Continued On Page 6) LONDON (AP) Alan B.lery postponement was mcr-i Chancellor Konrad 'Aden-SheDard's ride into space Icilessly exposed. tauer of West Germany, vy 0 eave a lift todav to lagging f. i U. S.

prestige in the world and the wide open display of the adventure brought cheers. Western Europe praised both Shepard's courage and the courage of the United States in not wrapping its first manned space shot in secrecy. Even the Communist world admired the astronaut's fearlessness. British newspapers reflected the West's relief that the United States had achieved success after a long and anxious wait. A T.ondon Daily Sketch editorial voiced a feeling widespread in Britain: 'CUP IS THEIRS' "Technically, they were runners-up.

Morally, the cup is theirs. Every setback, ev- REMOVE BODY State Highway Patrolman E. M. O'Brien and Ontario Policeman Richard Sigler assist ambulance drivers in removing the body of Mrs. Sandra Jean Garverick, 18.

of Shelby, from between the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at State Route 314, one and a half miles north of Ontario. (Photos by John Domcr.).