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TPh A 1 zu The Weather Sunny, warm Thursday, high 84-86. Fair, mild tonight; low 64-66. (More Page 58) Vol. 93, No. 338 DA FINAL Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, August 12, 1970 72 rages 10 Cents trione Makes Last Tri lome Til i Ji, NEWS Mi ri MVr-'vVrt.

vC' man murdered by Uruguayan kidnapers. Slowly, with Richmond police, the Ohio Highway patrol and Indiana State police leading the way, an eightor funeral entourage left Cox Municipal airport at 8: 10 a.m. for the 40-mile trip to Richmond. Two brothers, Ray and Dominic, and three married sisters were at the airport when the VC-135 jet touched down. Mrs.

Lucille Kraus, the mother of Mitrione's widow, put her arms around her daughter, as Mrs. Mitrione left the plane. MITRIONE'S ELDERLY mother, critically ill in a Richmond nursing home, does not know of her son's death. The 50-y a -o 1 Mitrione was kidnaped July 31byter-. rorists in Montevideo, and executed after the Uruguayan government refused to meet ransom demands for the release from prisons of 150 political figures.

By BRUCE ELLISON Daily News Staff Writer. VANDALIA Five uniformed officers from the Richmond, police department saluted the flag-draped coffin bearing the body of Dan Mi-trione as it was taken from an Air Force jet this morning. An Air Force color guard and Navy honor guard stood at attention as honorary pallbearers placed the body of the former Richmond police chief in a waiting hearse. The State department said Secretary of State William Rogers and his wife, with AID administrator John A. Hannah, former president of Michigan state university, will attend the funeral on Thursday.

They will arrive at the Richmond airport about 9:30 a.m. RICHMOND MAYOR Bryon Klute spoke briefly with Mi-trione's widow, Henrietta, and their nine children who accompanied the body of the His body was found Monday in an abandoned car. He had been shot twice in the head. THE SAD TRIP to Richmond began Tuesday when six American Marines carried the unpainted pine box encasing the coffin through two columns of police cadets to the transport plane while -the Uruguayan police band played Chopin's funeral inarch. President Pacheco A whose decision to ignore the demands of the kidnapers led to Mitrione's death, did not attend the brief airport ceremony.

Ambassador Charles W. Adair Jr. and Uruguayan Foreign Minister Jorge Peir-ano Facio spoke briefly at Carrasco airport. THE URUGUAYAN government said it would name a street in Montevideo after the public safety advisor. It will be marked with the words: "To Dan Mitrione In eternal memory of one who gave his life serving democracy in his country and beyond its frontiers." Mayor Klute, who has ordered flags flown at half-staff, said the body will lie in state until 10 p.m.

Wednesday in Richmond's new downtown municipal building. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday in Richmond's Holy Family Catholic church with the Rev. Larry Crawford officiating. Dan Mitrione9s Casket Is Transferred to a Hearse Daily Nw phot by Pul Hrt at Cox Municipal Airport ROY ATONES FOR 'CRIME BRICKLAYERS HARD HIT BY SLUMP am Ashamed of What I Did' On Cities' Menu By DAN WILLIAMSON, Daily News Staff Writer Dayton and Vandalia city fathers were burying the hatchet today during a love feast at the posh King Cole restaurant in downtown Dayton.

The two "cities have been BRICKLAYERS, hard hit by economic slump, to seek extension of benefits. Page 57. Democrats set roll-call votes in attempt to override two Nixon vetoes. Page 5. BENGALS' quarterback Greg turns.

Page 24. Wayward Cook re- STATE TREASURER John D. Herbert says $5.4 million in loans are legal and insured by FHA, Page 33. Wa warring ior months over water and annexation of Cox Municipal airport, among other things. Among the proposals made is that there be a dismissal or abandonment of litigation presently under over annexation of the airport to Vandalia, and that Vandalia agree not to annex airport property other than that which lies east of North Dixie Dr.

without consent of Dayton officials. ALSO proposed is that both cities dismiss or dissolve any litigation presently under way over water and sewer service between Vandalia and the airport. Dayton would pay sewer, tap-in fees to Vandalia according to the established rates, under the proposal and Dayton would permit, without opposition, the annexation to Vandalia of any Dayton land which now lies or will lie on the east side of North Dixie Dr. Permission will be granted to Vandalia to annex a proposed industrial area on the west side of North Dixie Dr. See VANDALIA, Page 7.

past 30 days. Instead he's Amusements 21,22 been spending nearly every Business News 18-20 minute composing a Classified 58-69 word essay of atonement on Crossword Puzzle 71 order from Kettering Juvenile Daily Magazine 53, 54 court. i Dear Abby 28 Deaths, Funerals 58 THE "CRIME" he refers to Dr. Peter Steincrohn 51 occurred while he and another Editorials 34, 35 boy were inside an empty Horoscope 70 Kettering church. Hiram later Jean Kappell 37 told Kettering police that Obituary Notices 58 while he went to the rest Sports 24-31 roont, the other boy vandal-Television 72 ized the church by "throwing Vital Statistics ...32 things around rat poison, Women's Pages 37-41 coffee, paper plates, soap, sil- verware, napkins and other stuff." Hiram said he saw.

rr ji what was going on and left the Today Chuckle church and later learned th6 Success is having your name ton, someK 'u- t. a briefcase belong-in everything but the tele- jng t(J minister phone directory. t. 1 1 Hiram didn't mention the Daily News Photo by Wolly Nelson PAYNE AND SON HIRAM JR. LOOK AT 5,000 WORD ESSAY The Lad Wrote It After Church Vandalism Incident By DAVID SCOTT Daily News Staff Writer Hiram F.

Payne made a mistake by taking part in a crime on the eleventh day of July 1970 by going into a church with a person I thought to be a friend I am ashamed of what I did." These are pretty grim words from a 12-year-old boy who likes swimming and baseball and riding his bike as much as any other boy his age. But 12-year-old Hiram hasn't been doing much swimming or bike riding for the a Kettering ponce car waning in his driveway. V- -Taken to, the juvenile deten- tion ll0me' he was .4 then lectured. The court's- referee assigned the essay which is due for review Fri- dav' HIRAM BEGAN the project immediately and the result-a laboriously composed, 12-page typed account of the whole eXperience is a remarkable accomolishment accomPsnmeni- "After I did what I did I felt like the whole family dis- owned me," it reads. "They were right to feel this way because I let them down.

I wasnt raised t0 do I've got to prove myself to everybody that I can be trusted again." Ch. 16 Sold To Group From West By TOM HOPKINS Daily News Television Editor Kittyhawk Television Corp. is selling WKTR-TV (Channel 16) to a group of "veteran broadcasters located in the West," Kittyhawk President William G. Rhodes said today. Rhodes said an offer to buy the Kettering UHF station "has been accepted by the Kittyhawk Television board of directors." He 1 i to name the purchasing firm or the sales price pending the filing of a statement of intent to purchase and other papers with the Federal Communications commission.

Since the station went on the air in March 1967, it has operated at a loss of more than $1.5 million. Biggest single stockholder is John A Kemper Dayton stock broker and former chairman of the board of Kittyhawk, who owns 32 per cent of the stock. There are 165 stockholders in all, with the board of directors holding 1 62 per cent, Rhodes said. Channel 16's troubles began shortly after the ABC-TV network awarded its primary affiliation contract for this market to WKTR-TV effective last Jan. 1.

AN ABC-TV executive was convicted of commercial bribery after it was revealed that he solicited money from Kemper to assure the affiliation pact for Channel 16. Kemper resigned as a director and board chairman along with Phil Little, a and assistant secretary, and Joseph McMahon, also a director and New York consultant. ABC-TV first announced revocation of its pact with WKTR-TV, then awarded the new contract to WKEF-TV, Channel 22, effective Aug. 31. The FCC also has been investigating the matter.

On July 7, Channel 16 was sued by Montgomery county for alleged nonpayment of $9,000 in taxes and penalties. The staff also has been trimmed, from 34 to 26. spend more time now with his son to make up for "not paying enough attention to him before. Hiram's essay concludes, "I found it very hard to write a five-thousand-word essay. It took awhile to think about a beginning but after awhile I was able to get many thoughts on paper I will be a boy who will listen to his parents and a boy who will keep out of any kind of trouble.

I will not be the cause of worries and heartaches for my Mom and Dad like I have caused them in the past." with youngsters during his law enforcement career and that some cases turned into "situations where 'dad got me Well, I don't play any favorites." 'Sunday the essay was completed and Hiram took it to his father. "When I read it, I just couldn't believe that a 12-year-old could set down things that way," said Payne. "I re-read it and then told him how proud I was. I trust him now and think he's learned a very valuable lesson." PAYNE SAID he plans to AU 'of the boy's privileges pertaining to his spare time were revoked by his He was even forced to resign his position as scribe of his Boy Scout troop. HIS FATHER said, "I talked this thing over with the court referee and decided this essay project might be the best way to teach my son a lesson that will stay with him.

Kids will forget a whipping but when they have to set down on paper an explanation of their actions, it lasts." Payne said he has worked Til Be incident to his father, Hiram CP) II rr 1 F. Payne, a retired federal 111 HI IS Kill WPH officer now with a private 1 11 1 JLF1.11 TTCCllY police agency, but the minis- ter apparently knew the other TT 1 C. boy and Hiram's name eventu- Kep. fNetzley bays from a swimming trip to find Dr. Vogel Appointed Health Chief The joint city-county health board today approved the appointment of Dr.

Robert A. Vogel to be first commissioner of the combined district. Vogel, 51, presently acting commissioner, is former county health commissioner, i THE BOARD approved the recommendation of its selection committee to hire Vogel by a 7-1 vote, with one member absent. The dissenting vote was cast by Pauline Williams, widow of former city health director Dr. H.

H. Williams. Mrs. Williams cast her vote "with regrets," she said. "I just don't feel he had the background for it." Vogel was hired for two years at a starting salary of $32,000.

Last Sextuplet Dies in Rome ROME tfi -The last of the sextuplets born last week to Mrs. Loredana Luzzitelli Petrone has died. Rome university's obstetrics clinic said a girl who was the last survivor of the three bys and three girls born to Mrs. Petrone died Tuesday from a cardio-circulatory collapse. later check revealed the granary commonly treated seed with a mercury compound.

Reaction to the tragedy reached all the way to Washington and in February, the Department Agriculture banned a specific mercury compound, the one apparently used by the granary for treatment of seed. The Chicago manufacturer of the compound took the government to court and in April See EVEN, Page 7 a Consultant, Rhodes Reveals By JOHN BRYANT Daily News Staff Writer COLUMBUS As rumors of a special session of the legislature weaved through the 15-member joint legislative committee investigating campus disorders, Rep. Robert E. Net-zley (R-Laura) and the present campus disorder bill "is going to do the' job." He told the committee that Gov. James A.

Rhodes should call a special session of the legislature to deal with the problem before college classes resume in the fall. Netzley, who admitted he has been accused of "witch-hunting" in the past, said, "I would not send any of my children to a state university." He said that campus disrup- By O. F. KNIPPENBURG, Daily News Staff Writer LAKE OF THE 0ZARKS, Gov. James A.

Rhodes said here today he is going Into the consulting business when he is turned out of the state house in January. The governor mentioned that he would involve himself as a private citizen in two projects that he has stressed heavily during his two four-year terms as governor of Ohio vocational education and industrial development within the state. There have been insistent reports at the 62nd annual national governors conference here that Rhodes will go into a consulting partnership with his director of development, Fred Neuenschwander. HOWEVER, neither Rhodes nor Neuenschwander would confirm or deny the rumors. "I haven't thought about it," Rhodes said regarding a partner or partners.

His comment came after he said he planned to go into the consulting business. RHODES, who will be ending 30-plus years in elective public office when he leaves the governor's office Jan. 10, 1970, has already indicated he will remain in Columbus where he got his political start. The governor refused to rule out another attempt at elective office, though. Rumors and speculation in Columbus have been to the effect that the governor might be available for another run at the office of mayor a position he held prior to becoming state auditor in 1954.

Campus bill sponsor to ants- students' to earrv license vav st to.) ry pay so curity fee. Page tions are not spontaneous but are well-planned in advance by a group of militants "who need a large crowd to escape into." A minority of professors on campuses, he asserted, are responsible for 75 to 80 per cent of the problems, because "they keep stiring things up. "It's this smallhardcore you have to deal with," he. said. NETZLEY said Ohio should be a sanctuary for those who want to teach and those who want an education.

were reported to "aave been killed or have suffered serious nervous system damage from eating fish contaminated by mercury. Sweden warned years ago that use of a mercury compound as a seed fungicide decreased wild bird popula-t'-ms. It also warned that mercury dumping made inland fish unsafe for human consumption. LAST YEAR, Alberta Mercury Poison Hazard May Linger 50 Years New Mexico and a graduate student's report on Lake Erie to move them into action. Last in Alamo-gordo, N.

Ernest Lee Huckleby butchered a hog and put the meat in a freezer. Two months later, three of the family's seven children became deathly sick. AFTER WEEKS of tests, doctors found that the children had been poisioned by mercury in the hog they had eaten. Huckleby had fed the animal seed treated with a mercuric compound to prevent plant disease. Doctors are at a loss to explain why Mr.

and Mrs. Huckleby and their four other children were not stricken. A baby born to Mrs. Huckleby was normal. Two of the three stricken Huckleby children Dorothy Jean, 20, and Amos Charles, 14 are being treated at a rehabilitation center.

Dorothy Jean's condition has improved markedly, Amos Charles' only slightly. The boy is blind. Recovery of the third child 9-year-old Ernestine Huckleby is in doubt. William Holder, publisher of the Ala-mogordo News, said the girl is blind, in a coma and unable to control her bodily functions. INVESTIGATION revealed that Huckleby obtained about 3,000 pounds of millet seed from a granary in Texico, N.M.

The granary gave away the seed as floor sweepings. A closed its Hungarian partridge and rjngneck pheasant hunting season after the Canadian Wildlife service warned the birds were contaminated with mercury. Conservation men in North Dakota and Montana suggested that hunters eat only one pheasant because traces of mercury were showing up in the birds. Still, scientists in this country were slow to react to the danger. It took a tragedy in Walter J.

Hickel has branded mercury pollution "an intolerable threat to the health and safety of Americans." THE FUROR has come about in the past year even though scientists have long been aware of the dangers of mercury poisoning In the 19th century, mercury poisoning in England gave rise to the expression, "Mad as a hatter." Between 1953 and 1960, near Minamata, Japan, 111 persons By DON TIMMONS Daily News State Editor Scientists and federal authorities say mercury poisoning has become a i health hazard in North America and may remain with us 50 years more, even wjth effective and immediate controls. Lake Erie has been fouled with mercury and traces of the poisn have been found in several lakes in the near-Dayton area. Secretary of the Interior.