News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 13

I News Journal, Wednesday, May 18, 1966 PAGE 13 by DON'T TELL ME GROUN TO THAT FACE! Up And Down The Street Auto Safety Check Scheduled In an effort to promote highway safety, Ontario police and the police auxiliary will conduct an auto safety check at two locations Saturday. Cars will be checked from 10 a. m. to noon and 2 to 4 p. m.

on U. S. Route 30-N, just west of the Lexington-Springmill Rd. intersection, and on U. S.

Route 30-S at the west end of the Expressway. The officers will check licenses, brakes, lights and the general condition of cars. Drivers of cars passing the inspection will be given stickers. Others will be asked to have defects repaired. Interested In Career With Patrol? The Ohio State Highway Patrol has another training class we scheduled to start June 15 at its new ultra modern academy in Columbus but it still needs more young men to fill the class.

Sgt. R. G. Yarger, commander of the Mansfield Post, said patrolmen are available seven days a week to interview any prospective applicants and discuss the benefits involved. "It costs you nothing to check into the requirements," the sergeant stated, "and you may find it to be the very career you are Now They Know What Junk Is City officials now know what junk is.

The city has had an ordinance on the books prohibiting the accumulation of junk upon residential property within the city. But it was "too vague," explained Councilman Ocie Hill. He sponsored an ordinance, passed last night by city council, defining what junk is. The ordinance says junk shall mean "old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, paper, batteries, rubber, junked dismantled, wrecked or abandoned automobiles or other scrap materials." Hill said he's "tired of looking at junked automobiles that can't seem to be moved." He added that the ordinance is aimed at the property owner who accumulates scrap over a period of several weeks until he has a pile of it to sell. Queen To Reign At Festival About 20 Madison High School clubs and organizations are each sponsoring a candidate for a queen who will reign over the annual Summer Festival to be put on by the Madison Boosters June 7 to 12 at the Madison Junior High School grounds.

Next week three businessmen will judge character traits from an essay-type questionaire and photos to determine the six finalists in the queen contest. The finalists will then meet with the five other judges at a luncheon in the final judging on the basis of poise, personality, appearance and the questionnaires. The winner will be crowned at a dance on June 10. Chairman of the festival is Roy Twining, Mrs. John Lantz and Mrs.

Jan Miller are in charge of games; Mrs. Richard Rondy is chairman of the queen contest; and chairmen of the queen dance are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolff. Seeds Available For Contest There's still time for aspiring pumpkin and sunflower growers, younger than 17, to get seeds for plants to be entered in the Men's Garden Club competition for young gardeners.

That's the word from Joseph Damoff, 600 Walnut Drive North, who is the project chairman. He said he has enough seeds left to supply 20 or 25 more young people if they will contact him. Nude 'Batman' Goes To Club Meeting BUCYRUS (UPI) There's a man here who carried the Batman craze a little too far. He walked into a woman's club meeting wearing a Batman mask--and nothing else. Among the approximately 25 women present when the nude Batman showed up was Miss Constance Keller, Crawford County probate judge.

READY FOR PHOTO About the time the intruder, described as young with blonde hair, made his entrance one of the ladies was getting ready to snap a picture of her sorority sisters. "If you want a real picture, take one of me," Batman remarked. The under-dressed young man made a hasty exit from the sorority meeting, but apparently he's not yet ready to turn in his mask. "Tuesday someone reported seeing him in the courthouse," Bucyrus police said today. Two Men Trapped In Filling Station Burglary Two Mansfield men, trapped by police last night as they ran from the back door of Brucato's Gulf Service, 300 North Mulberry were held today pending filing of burglary charges.

The haul from the station was 20 pennies from the cash register which were recovered from one of the men. Police said a citizen reported the burglary in progress at 9:50 p. m. As one police cruiser approached the front of the station, the two men ran out the back door and were met by a second cruiser and officers. Police said two windows were broken on the east side, but entrance was not gained there because of bars across the windows.

Blood was found on the window glass and police said one of the men had cuts on both hands. Entrance was gained through another window and a cigarette machine was pried oil, but not opened. Council Puts OK On City Garage Bonds Authority to issue $630,000 in bonds to pay for the Municipal Parking Garage was granted by city council last night. It legalized the issuance of the assessment bonds in anticipation of the collection of special assessments against downtown property owners. An opinion on the bonds' salability light of court cases contesting the assessments hasn't been given to the city its counsel, Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, a Cleveland bonding firm.

AWAITS RULING City Auditor Thomas Hoffman said he won't make a move on selling the bonds until he hears from the Cleveland firm. Should they advise against an attempt to sell the bonds, the auditor said he'll "take a look" at the situation and decide then what to do next. The city has two parking garage notes totaling $200,000 which expired May 1 and can't be renewed. They are being carried through 1967 by making use of a "surplus" in the city's bank account. A $426,000 parking garage note expires May 1, 1967.

The ordinance passed by council provides that municipal garage be bonds can be offered for sale until May 1, 1967. City Solicitor Robert K. Rath has recommended that an attempt be made to sell the bonds. South Mulberry Viaduct Study Requested City Engineer George Cunitz's office was told last night by city council to study and make recommendations on the replacing of the old Mulberry St. viaduct.

Councilman Frank Berkey sponsored the legislation authorizing the engineer's office to undertake the study. The decades-old viaduct is rust encrusted, indicating it is weakened. Funds for a new bridge could come from the city income tax street fund or general obligation bonds. OTHER ACTION In other action, council: -Authorized the installing of an eight-inch water lane on Park Avenue West from the west end of the existing line to Home Rd. City forces will do the $7,000 job, to be paid for by the city.

Councilman William McCarrick said the line will be put in before Park Avenue is resurfaced. -Directed the city engineer's office to prepare plans and cost estimates for storm sewer lines on Spruce St. from Crouse St. to Arthur on Arthur Ave. from Spruce St.

to the first alley north of Spruce, and on the rear lots along the south side of Ohio St from Glessner Ave. to Sturges Ave. -Accepted $2,500 from the owner of the Westwood Park subdivision in lieu of the dedication of land for park purposes. The money will be deposited in City Planning Commission park fund. Annexation Of Land At Campus OK'd Annexation of the Leppo Farm of State Route 39, a part of the Mansfield-OSU campus, to the city was approved last night by city council.

The parcel contains 32 acres of land in Springfield Township, abutting the Madison Township line. The farm is located just east of the Mansfield-OSU campus buildings. It was not included in the annexation last year which took in other land surrounding the OSU site. Chatter Ralph Ludwig, son of Dr. and Mrs.

J. 0. Ludwig, 627 Hawthorne Lane, being elected vice president of Omicron Pi Delta, national business administration honorary, at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. Lud- wig is a sophomore majoring in business at the college. Grover R.

Butler, 1059 South Diamond being honored for outstanding scholastic achievement, leadership and character among advanced Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Beverly Ann Richard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Richard 146 Raleigh and a Malabar High School senior, and Linda Crownover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Leland Crownover, 1711 Beal a Madison High School senior, planning to enter Bliss College in Columbus next fall. Lynn Smith, a freshman at Williams Woods College, Fulton, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard N. Reilly, 690 Brae Burn, returning to her classes after a week at Lake of the Ozarks, where she attended a workshop along with other newly-elected class officers of the college.

Recently elected vice president of the sophomore class, she also has been chosen as social chairman of Atkinson Hall, girls' dormitory. Tomorrow's Planting Day In Mansfield Tomorrow is Landscape and Planting Day in the city-wide Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Week. This is the day to plant flowers, gardens, trees, trim lawns and shrubbery, and clean up fallen limbs and debris. City crews will be picking up trash in Ward 4 and Ward 5 Thursday. The trash should be placed near the curb for pick-up.

$26 Million At Bottom Of Sea Agena Failure Sets Back Space Program SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The remainder of America's Gemini man-in-space program may be in for what the late John Foster Dulles would have called an "agonizing reappraisal." The reasons lay with $26 million worth of scrap space machinery on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, with weeks of time lost in a delicately balanced schedule and with increased work demands piled on the shoulders of the remaining four flights by costly failures. Three major mishaps in seven months have eroded the time and workload margins in the $1.35 billion Gemini program. The latest was the plunge that took a $13 million Atlas-Agena into the sea Tuesday and delayed for at least three weeks the Gemini 9 flight of astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Alone, perhaps, this failure might not have been particularly critical. But the Gemini program lost another Atlas-Agena last Oct.

25, and Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott were forced to earth March 16 after less than 11 hours of a planned three-day flight. The "agonizing reappraisal" that almost certainly will come from space agency bosses must center around some hard facts: -The Gemini program is running out of Agena target satellites for the space linkup, "docking" missions so vital to the later man-to-the-moon Apollo voyages. AFTER THE FIRE Cars, tires, auto and 42 early today after fire swept through parts, blocks and tile were scattered about the structure. Loss was estimated at the Maynard Service Center at Route 89 $35,000. (Photo by Dave Lace.) Loss Estimated At $35,000 In Filling By DAVE LACE Staff 1.

Correspondent ASHLAND Firemen from Ashland, Polk, Jeromesville and West Salem-Congress fought a $35,000 fire at the Maynard Shell Service Center five miles les north of here early today. The station located at the U. S. Route 42 and State Route 89 intersection. Co-owner Albert Maynard, 51, said he was working in the service garage at 12:15 a.

m. when suddenly he saw a flash and the fire started. Maynard said he believed a light bulb broke and ignited gasoline. The gas had leaked from a car Maynard was repairing. FAMILY NEARBY Maynard said his first action was to get his children Linda, 12, and twins Edward and Lawrence, 17, out of the trailer where they were sleeping immediately behind garage.

Mrs. Maynard was working in the restaurant part of the station. There were three customers in the restaurant. No one was injured. The Polk fire department, the closest, three miles away, was the first on the scene and immediately radioed the other three departments due to the explosive nature of the blaze, Chief William Wiley said.

Several small explosions were reported during the first half hour. Fire was contained in the concrete block portion of the building used for storage and service. This was built since Maynard and his son, James, 31, purchased the business in 1964. That section of the building was heavily Switzer Quits Police Force At Lexington LEXINGTON Lexington's deputy village marshal, Ralph Switzer, who has been on the village police force for the past 18 months, has resigned. Switzer turned in his resignation last night to Lexington Mayor Emery Armstrong.

He will continue in police work as a special deputy for Richland County Sheriff Thomas Weikel. Switzer said he resigned because of "long hours, crank telephone calls and the thanklessness of the job." Winning Play To Be Presented Thursday "The Tragedy and Comedy of Life," the one-act play which won a St. Peter's parish cast first prize in the Toledo Diocese contest last Sunday, will be presented to the public at 8:30 p. m. Thursday in St.

Peter's School auditorium. The play will be presented in state competition at Cincinnati at 4 p. m. Sunday. Clair Strawcutter won top honors for directing the play.

Best-acting awards went to Joan Wending and John Leach. -Once the so-called Augmented Target Docking Adapter, or ATDA, satellite is launched on the next attempt at Gemini 9 in early June, the space agency will have exhausted its reserves. There are no more standby targets available. -Any further losses of Agena satellites could slip the end of project Gemini in to 1967, with perhaps a corresponding delay in the start of early earth-orbiting voyages the Apollo program. -The work that astronauts aboard Geminis 10, 11 and 12 will handle must be increased, or the agency must run the risk of falling short of some of its goais in the project.

Galion Chief Sees Men Resigning GALION Police Chief Morris R. Bowers told city council last night that the 15- man force may soon be eight men short due to resignations over insufficient wages and working conditions. Chief Bowers read the resignation of Patrolman William R. Sickmiller, effective June 1. Sickmiller's letter said he was leaving the force because of wages and benefits, and because he found it hard to support his family on his earnings.

Bowers said his No. 2 patrolmen has indicated that he is quitting after his vacation, one of the captains has two appointments in Columbus today to see if he can better himself, another captain is also 1 looking for another job, and there is a rumor that still another patrolman is quitting. "I'm also looking for another job," the chief added. He said the department presently is four men short, and that only two of three men who took the recent civil service examination are working now. 3 VACANCIES Council also Assistant Chief Joel Martien of the Galion Fire department who said the department has three vacancies, and there are no applicants for jobs.

Wages, he said, are 90 per cent of the reason why the department cannot get men to work, he declared. Councilman Donald Yunker said money might be available from the city income tax by reorganizing funds, but Councilman Charles Ott, chairman of the finance committee, said this money already is allocated. The city's financial status was discussed by councilmen during a caucus that followed the council meeting. The only solution is a tax levy, Councilman Ott said today. In an interview after the meeting, Chief Bowers si said "I love my job, but the first good thing that comes along, I'm going to take." Bowers is in his 27th year on the Galion police force.

He said there would be too many headaches to go through the process of reconstructing his department with the key men gone. "Capt. Kenneth Swain has made it plain that he will take one of two jobs he is applying for in Columbus," the chief pointed out. The other captain who is looking for a job is Norwood Smith, and the patrolman who expects to resign after his vacation is Arthur Gerth, Bowers said. Station Blaze damaged although not leveled.

Maynard estimated $3,000 worth of auto supplies lost and the remainder of the loss on the building and a new grease rack. The restaurant had water and smoke damage but was not burned. The fire was kept from the gas pumps. A 1958 car in the garage was destroyed. Maynard said he had insurance on the building and contents.

Florist Shop Broken Into Burglars broke into Tuttle Florist, 514 Maple last night but stole nothing. A window in the back door was broken to gain entrance. The florist shop was broken into twice over the weekend and $20 in change taken. Eubanks Went Back To Girl After Shooting, Jury Told In an oral confession to police which later was written down, Lester E. Eubanks, 22, admitted that after shooting Mary Ellen Deener and fleeing he retraced his steps and struck her head with a paving brick several times.

Testimony in detail about the contents of Eubanks' "confession" or statement which he later signed, was given yesterday by Mansfield Police Capt. John P. Butler. As the first degree murder trial wound up its seventh day in common court, Prosecutor Rex Larson had called witnesses. Eubanks is on trial, for his life in connection with the killing the 14-year-old junior high school student last Nov.

14. Her body was found at the rear of a vacant house off North Mulberry St. At the close of Capt. Butler's testimony relating Eubanks' statement about the crime, defense counsel Attys. Lydon H.

Beam and Arthur W. Negin filed a motion to have the written statement excluded from the case. TESTIMONY STANDS Judge James J. Mayer studied the motion during the noon hour and when the trial resumed at 1:30 p. he allowed Capt.

Butler's testimony to stand, handing down a three-page memorandum supporting his ruling. Relating the story Eubanks gave police, Capt. Butler said Eubanks spotted the Deener girl when she was in the North Mulberry St. automatic laundry. "He said he walked on and when he heard someone running behind him he stepped off the sidewalk.

When the girl was within arm's reach, she stopped and asked what he was doing there. Eubanks said, 'I don't like people walking behind and then saw her raise a soda pop bottle she was carrying." Capt. Butler said. "She started to scream and he pulled her back into the rear of the vacant house yard. They were struggling, he pulled his gun out and shot twice, got scared and ran to his apartment which was two doors away," Capt.

Butler said. "There he emptied the live gun bullets and spent shells in a brown paper sack and got to thinking the girl wasn't dead. He retraced his steps, hid the gun and sack of bullets, picked up a paving brick and hit her in the head with it several times," Capt. Butler said. The police officer testified Eubanks had told them he then returned to his apartment, changed clothes and went over to a woman's apartment.

"The woman, another man and Eubanks then went back downtown in a taxi, got some sandwiches and later Eubanks and the woman returned to her Capt. Butler said. WENT TO CHURCH Capt. Butler said Eubanks awoke the next morning, went to his apartment, washed dirt out of his trousers and then went to Sunday School and church. He had lunch with a pastor and when he returned to his apartment in the afternoon was taken into custody by police.

Ward Pace, 241 Greenlawn testified he sold a revolver on Oct. 23 to a man who signed the federal gun registry paper as Lester E. Eubanks. Pace worked at a Diamond St. hardware store.

Mansfield Detective Joseph Ashcraft narrated the same story about Eubanks' oral confession. He told the jury that after finishing his story Eubanks asked to talk to Prosecutor Larson. "He asked you (Larson) what would happen to him. You told him it looked like first degree murder and he could possibly get the electric chair," Ashcraft testified. Ashcraft that when asked the question, why did he kill the girl, Eubanks answered, "It wasn't my intention.

I didn't have any intention toward her at The last witness called by yesterday was police Lt. Raymond Karsmizki. Lt. Karsmizki was today's first witness. A.