Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 1

laraafitor Weather Considerable cloudiness, little temperature change. Low tonight 25-30. High Tuesday in the 30s; cloudy. Insife Today Vital Statistics .....4 Society Building Newt 12, 13 Sports 14, 15 YOUR NEWSPAPER SINCE 1809 LANCASTER, OHIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1971 ESTABLISHED 1809 No. 215 24 PA6ES 10c PER COPY Car Kills Two; One Critical.

Six Pleasantville Mary Hoover, 78. Newark, "satisfactory" at Berger Hospital, Circleville; Florence Kreager, 73, Newark, treated and released, and Gladys Montgomery, 71, Rt. 1 Val-leyview, treated and released. The deaths were the first highway fatalities recorded in 1971. Funeral arrangements were not complete.

Gertrude Berens, 60, Lancaster, is in "satisfactory" condition today at Lancaster Fairfield County Hospital with injuries she suffered Sunday morning in a one-car accident on B.I.S. two miles south of Lancaster. Sheriff's deputies said when Mrs. Berens crested a hill her auto went left of center, struck an embankment and two trees, then went back across the highway, traveling a total of 264 feet out of control. Mrs.

Berens was transported to the hospital by a deputy, who passed by shortly after the accident. A two-car crash at 3:12 p.m. Sunday, two miles southeast of Revenge on County Rd. 69, slightly injured a Columbus girl. Deputies said cars collided when one came over a hill and slid in gravel into the other car.

and crashed into the Morrow auto, which was southbound on 37. Both drivers were dead on arrival at Lancaster Fairfield County Hospital. Youngsters in the Sheridan car were heading to Lancaster to go ice skating at Rising Park. The Morrow car was coming from Newark to Lancaster, officials said. Berry said the Morrow car was knocked 42 feet after impact, and the Sheridan car traveled over 120 feet into an open field, on the southeast corner of the intersection.

Injured Injured were: Douglas Sheridan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sheridan; JoAnne Gillian, 8, "fair" condition at Lancaster Fairfield County Hospital, and David Gillian, 10, "satisfactory" at Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital, both children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.

Gillian, 260 A Newark woman and a Baltimore girl were killed Sunday and six people injured in a two-car crash five miles north of Lancaster at the intersection of Ohio 37 and County Rd. 17. Sheriff's deputies identified Diane C. Sheridan, 19, of 575 Pleasantville Rd. N.W., Baltimore, and Mary Morrow.

74, of 188 Bachmann Newark, as killed when their autos collided around 1 p.m. Sunday. Brother Critical Douglas R. Sheridan, 12, brother of the driver, is in "critical" condition at i 1-dren's Hospital, Columbus. Four were hospitalized from that accident.

Two other accidents Sunday in the county injured two, hospitalizing one. Sheriff Dan Berry said the Sheridan auto was eastbound on Pleasantville Rd. (County Rd. 17) when the driver apparently ran a stop sign at Ohio 37 Governor Takes Oath of the fire is yet to be made by Berne Township firemen. (Ned Webb Photo) farm, 6990 Buckeye Saturday.

The youths were identified late Saturday as two boys two girls who were reported missing from the Children's Home. A ruling to exact cause Teenagers Perish Gilligan Now Ohio's 62nd Wednesday Fire's Victims FOUR TEENAGERS were found burned" to death in the remains of this barn on the Frank ShulJ 4 Private funeral services have been set for Wednesday in Lancaster for four teenagers who perished in a barn fire Saturday morning near Sugar Grove. Identification of the four were listed as: Anthony Conkey, 15; Gloria Knight, 15; Debbie Snyder, 14, and Jeffery Smith, 14, all of the Fairfield County Children's Home. Sheriff's deputies and Berne Township firemen uncovered Rites For u. i I it Lftfl ill 11? jt It fj: I William A.

Lavelle Of Athens New-Democrat Chief the remains of a fourth victim around 3:15 p.m. Saturday. Finds First Raymond Shall, son of owner of the farm where the large barn was located, Frank Shull, found one youth around 10:30 Saturday morning while sifting through the ashes to see if anything was saved in the $7,500 fire. Berne firemen were at the Shull farm from about 2:45 elected to the party chairmanship at a meeting in Columbus Sunday of the 96-member Democratic State Executive Committee. He is currently party vice chairman and a long-time Gil-ligan backer.

Gilligan appeared before the committee before voting took place to endorse Lavelle for the post. The two men are apparently in accord on party goals for the next few years. "We are in agreement about getting more people involved Lavelle said. "Somewhere we've got to motivate for purposes other than just getting a state job." Fulltime Aide The new party chief says he plans to name a full-time executive assistant to handle office duties for the party in Columbus, but said lie did not know who would get the job. Gilligan spoke highly to the executive committee of Lavelle as a man who did "an enormous lot to pull all those small counties comprising the 10th District into an effective organization." He said O'Grady took 10 days before deciding to take the highway safety director's job, which pays $24,960.

The party chairmanship, including salary, expenses and a car comes to about the same. Anita Phillips southbound auto on Ohio 37. Sheriff Dan Berry and Sgt. Michael Norris are seen investigating the accident. Two were MARY MORROW, 74, Newark, driver of the abuve auto, was dead on arrival at Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital from I licans.

Secretary of State Ted W. Brown and Lt. Gov. John W. Brown.

Speaking to an audience spread across the west lawn of the statehouse 'and elsewhere via television, Gilligan said it might be fitting for all Ohioans to periodically "profess ther ty." "We truly and literally live under a system of representative government which reflects with almost frightening accuracy the temper and the will of the majority of the people," he said. Gilligan said government in America is "a mirror held up to us so we can see ourselves as a people." The governor, he said, is charged with "executing policies which are ordained by the people themselves, acting through their elected representatives in the legislative body, within the limits of the law as interpreted by the judiciary." Elaborating on the "will of the majority" theme, Gilligan said Ohioans "will decide, as free men, what kind of life we shall lead." He said he will not believe Ohioans are: Content to live in dirty and decaying cities where streets are haunted by violence and crime. Content to see thousands of their children hungry and ragged in the midst of plenty. Real Estate Tax Bills For 1970 Mailed The Fairfield County Treasurer's office reported today that first half 1970 real estate tax bills, payable in 1971, were in the mail. Deadline for payment is Feb.

20, the date established by the Ohio General Assembly. Treasurer Sam LeFever said that all 51 districts in the county had a tax increase. Last year, taxes were generally lower, when 26 districts had a rate decrease. The Teay's Valley District has the lowest rate at $33.70 per thousand dollar valuation. while Carroll Corporation has the highest at $57.10.

$50.10 In City Last May, voters in Fairfield County approved three mills for the hospital and .70 mills for mental health and retardation. At the November election, voters in Lancaster School District approved 12.40 mills for operating schools. These new taxes, approved by the voters, are included In this year's collection. It will bring the new tax rate for Lancaster Corooration to $50.10 per thousand dollars valuation. Last year the figure was $34.

Lefever that persons having any questions concerning their taxes to feel free to call his office, which is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Cloudiness In Area Forecast Skies will be heavily overcast tonight and Tuesday, but little or no precipitation is forecast, with the exception of some light snow flurries. A cold high pressure front is building in Western Canada and will bring colder air into Ohio Wednesday and Thursday.

Sunday high was 42, with the low 19 over night. Saturday's high was 31, and the low 12. It was 26 degrees and 10 a.m. today, a jump of only three degrees from 7 o'clock. COLUMBUS.

Ohio (AP) -John Joyce Gilligan became Ohio's 62nd governor today with a charge to Ohioans to set their own course and a pledge that "we await your command." The freckled 49-year-old Democrat noted that legislative and judicial officers of the state preceded him in taking the oath of office. "They have pledged, and I pledge to you today' he said in prepared remarks, "to strive to be the instruments by which you will fashion the so-city in which we and our children shall live." Gilligan's remarks followed quickly the oath of office administered to him by Chief Justice C. William O'Neill, himself a former Republican governor. Gilligan's scheduled day started at 8 a.m. with attendance at a Catholic mass at St.

Joseph Cathedral. Three fellow Democrats Atty. Gen. William J. Brown, Auditor Joseph T.

Ferguson, and Treasurer Gertrude Dona-hey were sworn into office shortly before the governor's in auguration as were two Repub- lip, v.1 Ohio 37 and struck her car. Pleasantville firemen are seen aiding other accident victims. (Ned Webb Photos) Tax Break Expansion ceipts by $1.4 billion in the first year, $3.7 billion in the second and more thereafter. The idea is to encourage modernization of equipment and expansion of production. In recent months, industries have spent frugally on new plants and machinery.

Nixon, wlw has embraced deficit spending as a means of pumping new life ito the sagging economy, has virtually completed work here on the new federal budget for the 1972 fiscal year that begins July 1. In what he terms an expansionist budget, Nixon is expected to call for federal outlays of at least $225 billion during the bookkeeping year. The President worked Sunday morning on his State of the Union message at his seaside villa, La Casa Pacificu. In the afternoon he continued his labors at his more elaborate office at the neighboring Western White House. vt.

a.m. until 7 a.m. Saturday fighting the blaze. Fire officials said they had no suspicion whatsoever that someone could have been in the barn. Fire Chief Charles Fox contacted the sheriffs department just before 11 a.m.

Saturday after returning to the razed barn. Coroner Called Sheriff Dan Berry said he called for Coroner Stephen Hodsden and Prosecutor John Martin after learning of the deaths. -A missing person! report had been filed by authorities at the Children's Home on the four youngsters. Mrs. Frank Shull bagged food for the four late Friday afternoon when they came to their home on Buckeye Rd.

and said they were hungry. Mr. and Mrs. Shull told officials they watched the four go into a wooded area behind their home after giving them food. "I had a notion to go to the barn Friday night to check and see if they might have went there," Mr.

Shull told the Eagle-Gazette," but I didn't. I wish I had now." Private services will be held Wednesday at the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home, Rev. George W. Herd officiating.

Contributions can be made to the Fairfield County Children's foundation Fund. Ewing Students Anthony, Jeffery and Gloria were students at Thomas Ewing Junior High School. Debbie was a student at Lancaster High School. Investigation into the fire is continuing. State fire officials were also called into Sugar Grove to assist on the investigation.

Burial of the four youngsters will be at Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster. Supreme Court Rejects Hoffa WASHINGTON (AP) -James R. Hoffa, once among the nation's most powerful union leaders, faces up to an additional five years in federal prison following Supreme Court rejection tdday of an appeal from his 1964 pension fraud conviction. urday was Sherry May, Circle-ville. Junior class winner was Sharon Lust, Mt.

Gilead, District 5, who fashioned a two-piece navy jacket dress with silver belt. The 20 contestants from the ten districts in Ohio and their directors were guests in Marriott Inn, Hamilton Road. The concluding Fashion Parade was held in Eastland Mall. In the 15 years since Mrs. George E.

Beery, Rt. 5 Lancaster, has served as District 2 director, she has seen several girls from this area compete in the finals. They included the late Mrs. Wilbur Barnhart (Jo-ann Hoffman), who went to Portland, Jill Eversole, Rt. 2 Baltimore, at San Francisco, Nancy May, Circleville, at Chicago and Debbie Young, Pickaway County, Dallas, Tex.

-5cif i killed and six injured in this grinding crash; the first fatal accident in the county for 1971. injuries she suffered when the auto pictured in the background apparently ran a stop sign at Plesantville Rd. and regulations, companies deduct from taxes the cost of equipment on a yearly installment basis taking into consideration the useful life of the machinery. The presidential panel' which devised the new rules said they would reduce government re- Received Over 30 Phone Calls This refrigerator ad drew over 30 telephone calls and was sold on the very first night it appeared in the Classified Section of this newspaper. 14 CUBIC ft.

refrigerator with tarqt freezing compartment. $25. Phont xx-xxxx If you have a household item for sale, just dial 654-1321 and let a fast acting, economical Want Ad start working for you. DIANE C. SHERIDAN, 19, of 575 Pleasantville was killed Sunday afternoon when her car ran a stop sign on Pleasantville Rd.

and struck a Coup Try In Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) A group of rebellious right-wing army officers seized control of the armed forces headquarters in La Paz during the night, and President Juan Jose Torres vowed to liquidate the revolt. Grab General A rebel spokesman for Jorge Sanchez, claimed the rebels arrested several top officers at the headquarters, including the army commander in chief, Gen. Luis Reque Teran. A government military source termed the situation "dangerous but under control." He said government forces were mobilized and could advance "at any time" on the military headquarters, which is only about 2'4 miles from the presidential palace. Three air force planes flew over the city after midnight and fired their machine guns into the air.

A local radio station said the planes dropped a bomb near the military headquarters, but there was, no confirmation of this. The leftist military government charged that the rebels were trying to set up a "dictatorship of the right." It warned that "the people will fight for their revolution." Col. Sanchez, the rebel spokesman, said the rebel movement known as The Nationalist Troops of the Armed Forces had decided to overthrow the government because it was on the verge of handing the nation over to another imperialism." Sheriff Killer's Trial Opens MCARTHUR, Ohio (AP)-The trial of the man charged with the shooting death last August of Vinton County Sheriff Harold Steele opens here today. Oliver Mills, 60, was arrested and charged with Steele's murder five days after the shooting occurred when he turned himself in following one of the most intensive manhaunts in the state's history. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-The Ohio Democratic Party has elected Athens attorney William Ambrose Lavelle as state party chairman.

He replaces Eugene P. O'Grady, appointed last week by incoming Gov. John J. Gil-ligan to head the of Highway. Safety.

Lavelle was unanimously Spot News Capsules Laird Report SAIGON (AP) Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said today that the Communist command's armed threat "has Increased in Laos, remains the same in Cambodia and is lower than ever before in Vietnam." Plans Talks UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) U.N. envoy Gunnar V. Jarring planned talks today with representatives of Egypt and Jordan to sound them out on the proposals he brought back from Israel.

May Stay Mum FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP) An ex-GI who demanded and got immunity for testimony was summoned today as a lead-off witness in the resumption of Lt. William Calley's May Lai murder trial. But Paul Meadlo's lawyer said Meadlo might still refuse to testify.

Volunteer Plans WASHINGTON (AP) Though uncertain that President Nixon's goal of an all-volunteer Army can be achieved, the Pentagon has spelled out plans for a major start this year. Specifics include a $2 billion GI pay and incentive raise, less KP duty, more privacy in the barracks, educational opportunities and enlistment at higher rank for men with special skills. Deployment WASHINGTON (AP) Navy plans to deploy the first multiple warhead Poseidon missiles (his month have been set back by problems on the production line perhaps until spring. U.S. Business May Get To Speed Up Economic Carroll Lass Wins Ohio Wool Contest SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) President Nixon may take a personal, hand an expected announcement today that tax burdens on business will be eased a move aimed at speeding economic expansion. Late Briefing The only news briefing of the day at the Western White House was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. EST, an unusually late hour coinciding with the closing bell of stock exchanges in New York. Treasury officials in Washington spent much of Sunday com-ppeting drafts of new regulations to grant businesses faster tax writeoffs on amounts they 'spend on new plant and equipment. The upshot would be tax savings in the billions.

The plan is to permit businesses to deduct more for depreciation of equipment in the earlier years of its use. Under present depreciation Anita Phillips, 17, Rt. 1 Carroll, won the State Make It Yourself With Wool Contest in the senior class Saturday at Columbus. She will represent Ohio in the National MIYWW finals at Las Vegas later this month. The daughter of Dr.

Edward P. Phillips and Mrs. Phillips, 3461 Amanda-Northern Anita is a senior at Bloom-Carroll High School. The pink-rose, embroidered formal which she made as a 4-H club project and modeled at the state competition, received senior first place in the District II Wool Contest held at Lancaster Dec. 31, and was judged best in the Junior Fair Division at the Ohio State Fair last summer.

Chosen alternate senior Sat.