The News-Messenger from Fremont, Ohio • 1

Colder Jtattwttt titer Windy, cold. Low 18-26. Friday sunshine but still cold. Today In History 1865 Gen Sherman's troops entered Goldsboro, N.C., where they joined Gen. Schofield's forces.

1952 The UN sent direct messages to the Reds in Korea offer ing to help fight epidemics in enemy-held North Korea. Devoted to the Best Interests of Fremont and Sandusky County SEVEN CENTS 28 PAGES Fremont Newi Founded 1887 Merged Fremont Messenger Founded 1S5C 193S 107, NO. 290 FREMONT, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963 VALUE OF PROGRAM TO U.S. UNDER STUDY Foreign Aid Since War II Nears $100. Billion lands pressed by the Communists Thus far more American assist' ance has gone to nations like In billion of the $19 billion In U.S.

overseas economic help went out as grants, or gifts. By 1962 the emphasis had changed to easy term loans aimed at stimulating economic development. Of the cumulative total, $66.6 billion has been in economic aid of which $42.7 billion was grants. Military assistance totaled $31 billion, all except $279 million in grants. dia, Korea, South Viet Nam and Turkey since the end of the Mar their U.S.

financial help in the early postwar years when the Marshall Plan focused on European recovery. Aids Undeveloped Today, the aid pattern is different. With Europeans now prospering and dispensing aid themselves, U.S. aid now focuses on underdeveloped countries and poorer last fall voted another $3.9 billion in new aid funds and other items like surplus food disposals abroad have been topping $2 billion a year. France, with $9.4 billion, and Britain, with $8.7 billion, still rank 1-2 as the largest total receivers of postwar American aid.

The Western allies got the bulk of which administers U.S. aid, list $97.7 billion worth of military and economic help to 111 countries and foreign groups from July 1, 1945 through mid-1962. Though detailed statistics for the current fiscal year have not yet been worked out, the over-all total is certain to push past $100 billion, That's because Congress WASHINGTON (AP)-Total U.S. foreign aid since World War II will climb above the $100 billion mark this year. How well the giant overseas assistance program promotes U.S.

security and how it could be refashioned to do a better job is the subject of a controversial report by a presidential advisory committee headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay. Aides said a final version of the Clay report was made available to President Kennedy today. The report is expected to be made public this weekend.

$97.7 Billion Used Figures furnished by the Agency for International Development, shall Plan in 1952 than to West European countries. American aid has undergone other changes too. In the 1949-52 Marshall Plan years, all but $3 LIVES, CROPS LOST Roughest Winter In 100 Years Ends By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter, 1962-63, whose walloping of the Northern Hemispher long will be remembered, yielded to spring at 3:20 a.m. today. U.S.

weathermen said the winter was among the most severe in the past 100 years. Meteorologists said the winter was the coldest or near the coldest on record for Chattanooga, Birming Bulletins WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy was reported today to be considering a visit to West Berlin on his trip to Europe next summer. Authoritative sources said the State Department had advised the White House that the President should go to the Communist encircled city after he visits Bonn, but no decision has been made. According to tentative plans, Kennedy will go to Europe Juno ham, Cleveland, Atlanta, New Orleans and Pitts OTrS: As? "1 burgh. But in Alaska, many areas had much warmer weather than usual.

The cost in lives from weather-linked accidents was high. Crop losses, particularly in the South, ran into the millions of dollars. The South also had tornadoes and some of the worst foods in its history. But this excess of moisture didn't carry over to much of the West, where some states reported the driest winter in years, and fear there might be a water Killer Fights Effort To Keep Him From Chair WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court was asked today to stay the execution tonight of a New York state pris-onv who has fought off efforts of attorneys whom he calls "do gooders" to save his life. Frederick Charles Wood, 51, shortage later.

Miany ski resorts suffered from a lack of snow. WASHINGTON (AP) Former German Foreign Minister Helnrich von Brentano is understood to have told two congressional committees that the time is ripe for the United States to grab the initiative from the Soviet Union on all issues including Berlin. PARIS (AP) Strike-plagued France today limped through a rail walkout that snarled traffic throughout the nation. Some mailmen and steel workers also struck. Most Paris suburban commuters were forced to use buses or private cars to get to work.

Strike was called for different hours on various lines, and in the confusion almost all commuters shunned the trains. WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon's two top civilian officials went before the Senate Investigations subcommittee today to describe their roles In awarding a disputed contract for a new warplane. Both Secretary of Defense Robert S. Mc-Namara and Deputy Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric declined to discuss their testimony with newsmen as they entered closed hearing room.

SNOW BLANKET COVERS AREA: Generally business wasn't hurt AP Wlrephoto WIND DEMOLISHES WAREHOUSE A Portland, resident looks over what's left of the J. E. Kerley Son paint store warehouse after high winds hit the area causing widespread damage. as much as it sometimes is during a hard winter, a survey by The Associated Press showed. Retail sales were up two per No One Told Weatherman Spring Officially Here centage points from a year ago.

Industrial production held steady, with steel and auto output climb ing. House Votes Year-Round School Use College Branches May Be Permitted Trustees, Tax Right COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) In a totally unexpected move, the Ohio Senate today defeated a bill permitting creation of seven-member boards of trustees for branches of state universities. A companion bill which would have given such trustee boards the authority to levy taxes for branch operations was hastily withdrawn from the floor. The trustee bill, the first to be defeated by the Senate this session, lost on a vote of 14 yes to 12 no. The constitution provides that a bill must receive a majority of the votes of all members elected to the Senate-which, this year, is 17.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Branch districts of state universities soon may have both trustees and the authority to levy taxes to operate the districts. The Ohio Senate, before recessing today for the weekend, plans to vote on two bills to accomplish both those purposes. Passage would send them to the House. Under present laws, branches of state universities such as those in Portsmouth, Newark. Zanesvillc and Lima are governed solely by trustees of the parent universities.

The branches have no authority under law to tax their areas for branch university operations. A major education measure cleared the House hurdle Wednesday. It would permit local school boards to make 12-month use of their buildings by means of either a trimester or quarter system under which pupils would be required either to attend school for two trimesters or three quarters a year. The House vote which USSR Launches Another Cosmos MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union launched an unmanned satellite today. The satellite was named Cosmos 13, the Soviet news agency Tass announced.

The Soviets began launching the Cosmos series a year ago and said they were measuring radiation and other phenomena. Cosmos 12 was launched December 22. Tass said Cosmos 13 had been placed in orbit with an, initial time to circle the earth of 89.77 minutes. The equipment installed on board the satellite is functioning smoothly, Tass said. (Continued on Page 8, Col.

3.) Kennedy Plans 6 P.M. Report WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy reports to the nation tonight on the Costa Rica conference which produced a seven-na At Kingston Springs, in a pocket on the Harpeth River near Nash ville, the mercury plummeted to 30 degrees below zero on Jan. 24, Nashville recorded an all-time is unusual. Crests usually progress downstream by stages and, along the main stem, ordinarily require 10 to 15 days to pass out of the river at Cairo, 111. A freak snowstorm hit Springfield over night, with some accumulation on Stredts and highways endangering traffic.

low of 15.4 degrees below zero. tion agreement to speed economic development of the hemisphere Ohio Bill Hits Glue Inhaling COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Ohio, which has a Blue Law, may be in for a glue law. The Ohio House received a bill today making it illegal to sniff model airplane glue or nail polish for 'kicks'. The measure by Reps. Sam Landes, R-Madison, and Douglas Applegate, D-Jefferson, provides a maximum $25 fine for first offenders and $50 for subsequent violations.

The measure would prohibit a person from deliberating inhaling excessive fumes from solvents releasing toxic vapors which cause intoxication, sutpi-fication, excitement or dulling of the brain or nervous system. and curb Cuba-based subversion. Deeper in the South, New Orleans had its coldest winter since 1905. Fifteen days of freezing or below left a seasonal mean temperature of 51.7 degrees. The 1905 mean was 51.1.

The record is 50.9 Shortly before Kennedy left the Costa Rican capital of San Jose late Wednesday, he announced he condemned slayer of five persons, Is scheduled to die in Sing Sing Prison's electric chair at 10 o'clock tonight. "I really want to ride the lightning," Wood has said. I do not welcome any intrusion into this stinking case of mine." Norman Dorsen, a New York, University associate professor of law, filed with the Supreme Court clerk a petition asking that Harlan grant a stay to permit a hear ing on Wood's sanity. Dorsen, who was a law clerk to Harlan about five years ago, said he contended in the petition that Wood "may well be insane now." Dorsen said there is enough evidence of insanity in Wood's history to show that he now deserves a hearing at which he would be represented by counsel. From death row, Wood has declared he wants no interference with his execution.

"I have had three stays of execution thus far, one automatic (beyond my control) and two effected by well-intentioned lawyers as "I wan't no more." Wood, who even mocked the judge, who sentenced him to die, was sent to the death house for slaying two elderly pensioners during a wine drinking spree in Queens in 1969. He was then out on parole after serving 17 yearj for beating a man to death in Elmira, N.Y., in 1942. Later Wood confessed to having killed a 16-year-old girl in 1926 and an Elmira woman in 1933. set in 1886. In Florida, a mid-December would open a 6 p.m.

Washington news conference with a statement on his Monday through Wednes freeze sent temperatures down to day talks with the chief executives 25,000 Lose Homes As Fire Hits Saigon SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP)-Fire swept through a Saigon slum area, destroying 3,400 thatched roof shanties and leaving 25,000 persons homeless before it was finally brought under control early today. Hundreds of the slum dwellers plunged into the Saigon River to escape the blaze. More than 100 were injured, police said. 10 degrees in the northern por-tion. As a result, the state's citrus crop was cut from an estimated 161.7 million to 110.7 million boxes.

Citrus experts said it will cost growers more than $300 million to replace trees and rehabilitate groves during the next three to five years. Nevertheless, the state enjoyed a boom tourist year, with north erners flocking there in hopes of finding a bit of sunshine. Ice on the Great Lakes was re First day of spring in the Fremont area was garbed in white instead of green. A film of snow covered ground and pavements Thursday morning. Snow made driving conditions hazardous.

Low temperature today was 27 degrees at 5 a.m. and the mercury remained at that point at 9 a.m. High Wednesday at the filtration plant was 35 at 2 p.m. Temperatures were below the freezing point all over Ohio this morning. Weather Bureau at Columbus forecast continuing strong northwest winds for the remainder of today, continued cloudiness and snow flurries.

With partial clearing tonight, temperatures will drop into the 20s. Friday will be mostly sunny with temperatures in the 40s in the afternoon. Traffic Snarled Up to three inches of snow fell in parts of northern Ohio overnight and produced a rash of traffic accidents. The U. S.

Weathter Bureau at Cleveland Hopkins Airport reported three inches of new snow fell in Novelty in Geauga county, although only a trace was reported at the airport. A half inch of snow was reported in Lake county and two inches in most of Geauga county, where 10 crews were salting and cindering roads. The Ohio Turnpike was snow-covered from the Lorain-Elyria Interchange to the Toledo Interchange, and the speed limit in that section was reduced to 40 miles per hour. Akron, Youngstown, Dayton, Marietta, Columbus and Delaware registered about an inch of snowfall. Spring waded into Ohio river country to find the 981-mile stream inching almost imperceptibly toward a crest along virtually its entire length.

Cresting along so long a front Adlai In Paris PARIS (AP)-Adlai E. Stevenson, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, arrived in Paris today at the start of a European tour. ported the thickest in 50 years. Lake Superior, never known to have frozen completely over, came close this year.

Knight Prepares Bill To Cut Percentage Bond Issues Require With a proposed county home bond issue in mind, Representative Howard Knight of Scott township expects to file possibly today a bill in the House of Representatives at Columbus to cut the vote percentage necessary to pass such questions 'from 55 per cent to 50 per cent. Knight told The News-Messenger Wednesday evening that he expected to submit the bill Thursday. "How far it will get, I have no way of knowing," Knight said. The asseriiblyman said a county home issue as the law stands would require 55 per cent. Knight's proposal would have a major effect over the entire state on such public issues, Ink Splatters School; Pupils Sent Into Cold PORT CLINTON, O.

An ink-throwing episode at Port Clinton high school Wednesday sent student body outside during the lunch hour for disciplinary purposes. At least one parent has indicated he will appear before the Board of Education to complain about students being locked out of the school. The parent, whose name was not reported, said his daughter had just gotten over the flu and returned home Wednesday night with a relapse. Boyd Martin, principal, said the action was taken after someone threw an ink bottle in the auditorium before school opened. At the time, about GOO students were in the auditorium' waiting for classes to begin.

The ink splattered walls in the room and also spilled onto at least two coats. Martin ordered the students out of the school during the lunch periodabout 25 minutes to impress the students with their responsibility in taking care of the school, he said. Martin also was outside with the student body during the noon period. The thrower of the ink later in the day confessed to the act and his parents were notified. Martin said disciplinary action against the boy will be taken.

The school, meanwhile, was opened before school and during the lunch hour Thursday. of Panama and the five Central American republics. The President was certain to express satisfaction with the outcome of the San Jose meetings, which brought him personal acclaim and agreement on a detailed statement of policy to guide the United States in its dealings with Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. Hoping to attract a large television-radio audience for the news conference, Kennedy postponed for two hours the 4 p.m. starting time of the session originally announced more than a week ago.

Kennedy, who left Washington last Friday for a weekend in Palm Beach, Fla beTore going to San Jose on Monday, returned to the capital late Wednesday night. Before leaving San Jose, Kennedy told a cheering crowd of university students that Cuba is an example of communism's failure to provide for its people. Contrasting the progress of Costa Rica with that of the Communist-controlled Caribbean island, Kennedy said Cuba now produces 25 per cent less food than it did five years ago. The crowd at the University of Costa Rica, estimated at 10,000 cheered lustily as Kennedy wound up his speech with: "Viva Costa Rica. Muchas gracias." TWO PETITIONS PREPARED: jj i 1 Ifk -'i P- s's More Benefits May Be Voted To Lawmakers WASHINGTON (AP) House members would get some extra benefits under proposals approved by the House Administration Committee.

Among other things the bills, approved Wednesday and scheduled for consideration next week, would: Allow members an additional $10,506 a year for office help and raise the salary ceiling for employes from $15,349 to Finance two extra trips home each year, at actual cost, in addition to the 20 cents a mile members now get for one round trip per session. Furnish members three instead of two rent-free offices in their home bailiwicks if the space can be found in government buildings. Members would continue to get the $1,200 a year they now receive to rent such office space. Garbage Question Prevails As Council Meets Tonight 93 Haat jKtg Carta Upper Cumberland Flood Cost Fixed Near $25 Million NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Recent flood damage along the far Upper Cumberland River and its tributaries in Kentucky is estimated as high as $25 million, says Col.

James B. Newman of the U.S. Corps of Engineers. The district engineer's statement Wednesday followed a survey trip into the area around Cumberland and Harlan, Ky. Bank Calls Issued COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The superintendent of banks, Clarence C.

Luft, issued a call today for the condition of all state banks as of March 18. His call followed one issued in Washington for the con has asked Solicitor Calvin W. Bristley, to check the city ordinances covering the situation. As for the municipal garbage and trash operation, council is on record as favoring a city-leased and operated landfill site. May Use Front, Haynes Stahl, who proposes use of a landfill area near Front and Haynes streets by Simma Hauling Service, wrote: "I find no requirement in these ordinances providing for the asking of permission of the City of Fremont in the handling of private property.

"I find that General Code 1261.30 provides the district Board of Health shall have all the powers, duties, procedure and penalties for violation of any sanitary regulations of the board of health. "I believe the city-county board of health is considered as a division of our city government, and (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7.) Garbage collection and disposal may again be a principal topic of discussion before city council when it meets Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Latest developments are petitions circulated this week and expected to be presented to council tonight. One petition signed mostly by residents in the area of a proposed private landfill site protests that location.

Another petition reported by Pat Connors, a private hauler, also protests use of the same site and urges the city to provide an Incinerator open to public use. Just what authority council has in the matter of the private landfill is questioned in a letter by Henry G. Stahl to council and the city administration. Council has claimed no authority and has as yet seen none of the petitions. The administration, however, School Field Trip Fatal To Student CLEVELAND (AP)-One Canton high school student was killed and three others injured in a two-car crash on U.S.

422 (Chagrin Boulevard) in suburban Warrens-ville Township Wednesday. They were on a field trip to a Cleveland factory. Joseph D. Mroczkowski, 17, died in Suburban Community Hospital after the accident. John Kosita, 16, was admitted to the hospital and was reported in satisfactory condition at the hos-pital Wednesday night.

Two others were treated and released. They are Evan Bowling, 17, and Gary Bagueros, 16. Mrs. Jeanne Bauter of Shaker Heights, driver of the second car, was not injured. Injury Grows Serious PORT CLINTON.

Stev FIRST DAY OF SPRING "That bringeth forth fruit in his season." Psalm 1:3 Come out today and I'll show you The tender grass-shoots pushing through Point out a robin and his mate A boy with dog out digging bait A college couple hand-in-hand A warm sun that thaws out the land The lilac buds about to bloom The balmy air's touch of perfume The pussy-willow's platinum All tell us God's new Spring has come. JUL1EN C. HYER ens, 61, Port Clinton, was transferred from Magruder hospital to Flower hospital at Toledo late Wednesday as pressure built up inside the man skull, hospital authorities said. Steven was AP Wlrephoto WHO NEEDS SECURITY? Nine-month-old Freeman Napier Jelks III tests the taste of his just-issued Social Security card at his Savannah, Ga. home.

The youngster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Jclks got the card because of income from some in his name. He's believed to be one of the youngest in the country with a social security number. injured Tuesday night when he pulled his car into the path of another during a dene fog.

He has dition of all national banks. a tkull fracture..