The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 2

TWO TUESDAY, AUGUST 17,1976 THE MASSILLON EVENING INDEPENDENT ALMAGUNDI Born Saturday In Canton Aultman Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Bracken of 1817 Carriage Hill ave NW, a daughter. Born Sunday in Canton Aultman Hospital to Mr.

and Mrs. Allan E. Scott of 8383 Traphagen st NW, a son. Born Sunday in Canton Aultman Hospital to Mr. and Mrs.

Bobby D. Nice of 2nd st SE, a daughter. House guests of Miss Amy Shriver, 201 Westland ave SW, Perry Township, are the Misses Candice Wice and Cynthia Waller of Kings Beach, former college roomates of Miss Shriver at Kent State University. Miss Wice and Miss Waller are visiting Miss Shriver en route to New York City, where they will board a jet for Paris, France. Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Kellar of 162 24th st NW and their daughter, Mrs. Diana Cooper and son Kevin of 3701 Pigeon Run ave SW, recently returned from a trip through the south. They visited Natural Bridge, Cumberland Falls, Rock City on Lookout Mountain, The Hermitage (home of Andrew Jackson), and Opryland all in Tennessee and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. New Clarkins store gets liquor permit A permit authorizing the sale of high-powered beer and wine for carry out (C-2) has been issued to Ciarkins At Massillon, doing business as CLarkins at 1970 Lincoln Way by the Ohio Department of Liquor Control.

permit was one of 39 issued this week by the department. The Clarkins store, located in the former W. T. Grant store in the Meadows Plaza Shopping Center, will open Wednesday. Perry street to be improved Stark Caunty commissioners voted last week to improve Oakcliff st SW in Perry Township, rather than vacate it.

The commissioners heard Robert Doll of the county engineer's department explain that the street is on line with a drainage easement. The easement which was granted by commissioners in 1956, services 100 acres of adjacent land. The easement will allow the future installation of storm sewers, Doll said. Homeowners on nearby Lombardi st SW had recently asked commissioners to vacate the street. Motorcycle rider injured A motorcyclist was injured Monday when he collided with a car at the intersection of Amherst rd and Lake ave NE about 1:56 p.m., according to Massillon police.

Injured was David L. Karris, 20, of 422 5th st NE. He was treated at Massillon City Hospital and released. Police said Karris was riding the motorcycle southward on Amherst when it collided with a car turning west onto Lake from Amherst. The driver of the car was Ruth M.

Amenhauser, 29, of 10900 Singer st NW, Tuscarawas Township. THE EVENING INDEPENDENT of the Associated The American Newspaper Publishers Bureau of Advertising, the Audit Bureau' of Circulation and the Ohio Newspaper Association. The Associated is ex- iclusively erjtitled to the use of" of alt news dispatches credited to it or'ridf and also the local news herein. National RepresentatJveiTI an Shannon ACullen inc. with offices In New YorR, 1 Detroit, Atlanta, St.

Louis, Kansas City, Los Angeles and, San Francisco. rates 75 cents per week byj carrier, 15 cents daily at stands. By mail In Stark and! Wayne counties payable Inf advance $30.00 per Outside rates given upon request. Second class postage paid at Ohio Board OKs $11,335 expenditure Perry High to get new phone system The Perry Board of Education Monday night approved the installation of a new phone system for Perry High School at a cost of $11,335.30. The main switchboard will be installed in the vocational business department for operation as part of the vocational business training.

Perry's building fund will pay half of the cost, the other half to be refunded by the Ohio Department of Education. THE BOARD approved continuation of the Ohio Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund (DPPF) at a cost of $18,289.60 for another year. The program will consist of remedial reading at a cost of $10,927.26 at Pfeiffer Middle School, plus $7,362.34 for dropout prevention. The board accepted a recommendation by Paul F. Pfeiffer, superintendent, to provide additional soundproofing in the three music practice rooms at the high school at a cost of $530 with the architectural firm of Lawrence, Dykes, Goodenberger, Bower and Clancy paying the additional labor charges.

Mrs. Shirley Hudson was assigned to teach third grade at Lohr Elementary School and Eric Blumensen, eighth grade science at Edison Junior High School. The board met in executive session to discuss a personnel matter prior to the public session. me next regular meeting will be held Aug. 24 at 8 p.m.

65 at Union Drawn eligible for special federal jobless pay TRAGIC Schenk of Milan, Ohio, and his daughter Carol, 20, watch from the river bank as off-duty Massillon firemen search the waters of the Tuscarawas River for the body of Brenda Schenk, 22, daughter of Raymond and sister of Carol, who drowned Saturday along with her companion, Lyle Shantz, when their canoe overturned at a spillway south of Lake ave NW. The photo was taken Monday afternoon. Brenda's body was found this morning. (Independent Staff Photo) The U.S. Labor Department has certified approximately 65 employes of Republic Steel Corporation's Union Drawn Division No.

2 plant in Massillon as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance. The department determined that the workers have been or may become unemployed as a result of increased imports. THE TRADE ACT of 1974 provides that workers who believe they have been or will become unemployed due to increased imports may petition the Secretary of Labor for certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance. On April 30,1976, a petition requesting a determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance was filed with the Labor Department by the United Steelworkers of America (USW) AFL-CIO, on behalf of workers and former workers producing stainless and specialty steel, at the Republic Steel Union Drawn Division Plant No. 2 in Massillon, Ohio.

The Labor Department's subsequent investigation indicated that increased imports contributed importantly to the unemployment of a significant number of workers at the Massillon plant. The Labor Department's certification provides (hat all workers at the Union Drawn Division Plant No. 2 who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after April 21,1975, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under the Trade Act of 1974. Assistance to workers under the Trade Act may include cash trade readjustment allowances, training, testing, counseling, job placement, job search grants, and relocation allowances. THE CASH trade readjustment allowances amount to 70 per cent of a worker's average weekly wage, not to exceed the national average weekly manufacturing wage, for up to 52 weeks.

Workers may recieve up to 26 additional weeks of allowances to complete approved training. Workers aged 60 or older when separated from their last job may receive up to 26 additional weeks of allowances. No worker may receive more than 78 weeks of allowances. Workers are not eligible for trade adjustment assistance under the Trade Act if their last separation from adversely affected employment occurred before the impact date or after the termination date specified in the certification or more than one year before the date of their petition. Eligibility rulings, payments, testing, counseling, training, job search grants, and relocation allowances will be administered primarily through the state employment security agencies with funds provided by the federal government.

To be eligible, a worker must have been employed at one of the affected facilities for six months out of the year prior to layoff. Body of second canoeist found A Massillon resident sighted the body of canoe accident victim Brenda Schenk in the Tuscarawas River this morning. Recovery was made by Massillon firemen at a pillar of the ConRail trestle south of the Tremont ave viaduct, ending a search that began more than earlier. The body was taken to Massillon City Hospital, where Miss Schenk was officially pronounced dead at 9:12 a.m. Firemen said Raymond Schenk of Milan identified his daughter's body at the hospital.

MISS SCHENK'S body was to be taken to the Kubach-Smith Funeral Home in Norwalk, near Milan. The body of her canoeing companion, Lyle Shantz, 29, of 7318 Beverly ave NE, Plain Township, was also taken there. Funeral arrangements for both are pending. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon when the Tuscarawas was more rain- swollen and rapid. The canoe occupied' by Shantz and Miss Schenk overturned when it went over the spillway south of Lake ave NW and opposite James st The spillway causes a swirling motion in the current, drawing objects backwards until they are slapped hard by the descending water.

Captain Jack Darnell of the Massillon Fire Department said Miss Schenk's body was not in its recovery location late Monday. He theorized it had become buoyant overnight and rolled under the current for some distance before surfacing. Mencken revisited: He put politicians in their place By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN THERE IS a real H. L. Mencken revival in this country.

Political columnists have been quoting him even at the risk of calling attention to the barrenness of their own prose. Joseph Goulden, a Mencken buff, has gathered all the pieces that Mencken, in his last journalistic fling, wrote about the Dewey- Truman-Henry Wallace conventions and campaigns in 1948. They are published by the New Republic Book Co. as "Mencken's Last Campaign: H. L.

Mencken on the 1948 Election." And Bob Tyrrell's most, irrelevent Middle Western magazine, The Alternative, which reincarnates many of the glories of Mencken's old American Mercury, has been printing excellent reminiscent pieces on both Mencken and his somewhat neglected sidekick, George Jean Nathan. IT WASN'T that Mencken had any particular prophetic ability to recommend him as a political reporter and commentator. He thought Tom Dewey was sure to beat Truman in 1948. In 1936 he said even a Chinaman could lick Roosevelt. In 1924, after the Democrats had sweated through more than a hundred ballots in New York City, he pecked out a lead saying that "everything is uncertain in this convention but one thing: John W.

Davis will never be nominated." When Davis was nominated on the next ballot, Mencken paused meditatively. "I wonder," he asked, "if those idiots in Baltimore will know enough to strike out the negative." If the man could be so wrong, what makes him a name to conjure with as we watch other conventions come and go? The reason, I think, is that Mencken knew the republic would remain dictator-proof as long as people regarded their politicians as something less than saviors. Mencken acquiesced in the idea that, if people are to live together, they need agents to thrash out their differences. BUT AN AGENT, he knew, differs from a ruler. True sovereignty resides in the man who appoints the agent.

And as long as it remains understood that the man who does the appointing must continue to do most of the important things in life for himself, the agent- politician can be kept in his place. Mencken would have enjoyed Jimmy Carter's pre-convention campaign, if only because Jimmy proved so adept at knocking off the Mo Udalls who think we can be saved through politics. But now that Jimmy has decided to espouse the cause of Ralph Nader, who wants to protect the consumer by piling commission on commission at the most ghastly sort of expense, he has set himself up for a bit of Menckenian deflation. Jimmy needs to be told that if consumers could keep a little of the money that now goes to pay for protection, they might be able to shop around for better stuff than they now get. We don't need a super-commission to ride herd at great bureaucratic cost on the Federal Trade Commission; what we need is the FTC itself cut down to size.

HOW MUCH have we been paying, for example, to be protected against advertising that does no harm whatsoever? Tom Dillon, the president of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, tells me that the FTC has regarded it as a deception when a photographer, taking a picture of a glass of beer, uses a special material to maintain a head on the beer until he gets the picture snapped. Since we don't drink the picture anyway, just what "truth" is served by such an idiotic interpretation of what is real and what is false? The way to decide whether Two hurt in crash Two persons were injured in a two-car accident at Ohio 236 (Akron rd) and Portage st Monday at about 9 p.m., according to Lawrence Township police. Donald B. Given, 17, of 317 Oneida ave NW, Perry Township, was attempting to turn southward onto Ohio 236 from Portage st when his pickup truck collided with an eastbound car driven by Rebecca L. Barnett, 26, of 1226 Maryland ave SW, Canton.

Police charged Givens with making an improper turn. John R. Evans, 16, of 4941 Arbor st SW, Canton Township, a passenger in the truck, and Jenny Barnett, 3, of the Maryland ave address were treated at Timken Mercy Hospital in Canton and released. FREEDOM SHRINE PRESENTATION A plaque for a Freedom Shrine in the new Massillon City Hall is presented is chariman of the Freedom Shrine committee of the Massillon Exchange Club. The shrine will be displayed in a ricTOuuioiiimeui new masswon uuy nau is presented Massillon Excnange Club.

Tne snnne will displayed in a not require by Jack Kittinger, left, to Mayor Mark Ross as Safety- second Hoor corridor between the two halves of the City Hall. Highwaj Service Director Blafe J. Sparma looks on at right. Kittinaer (Independent Staff Photo) investigated. Van rolls over; driver escapes serious injury A Massillon man escaped serious injury this morning near Navarre when a 1970 Ford Van he was driving left the pavement, rolled over several times and landed on its wheels.

Andy Miller, 23, of 742 Commonwealth ave NE said he was en route from Beach City, where he stayed Monday night, to the McLain Grocery Co. at 4676 Erie ave SW, where he is employed, when his van began to "fishtail," went off the berm and back on the road about a half mile south of Navarre on U.S. 62. He said he sustained a bruised left leg. The van is a total loss.

Members of the Bethlehem Township Fire and Rescue, were called to the scene at 7:35 a.m., but their services were not required. The Ohio Patrol beer is drinkable is to drink it; all the advertiser can do is to lead you to his product for the test. People don't need the elaborate protections that the politicos propose in order to find out what they like. Mencken had it in for the politicos. He could make up his own mind about the collar of foam on his pilsner.

He could be absolutely trusted at a political convention, for, as he said, "I am completely neutral. I'm against them all." Brewster names judges Names of the judges for the parade, and the beard and costume contests to be held during Brewster's Bicentennial celebration were announced today by the Bicentennial Celebration Commission. Richard Webb of Canton will judge the antique cars and fire trucks which will appear in Saturday's parade. Linda Stokey of New Philadelphia will judge the marching units, and Mr. and Mrs.

Wynn Arnold of Massillon will judge the floats. THE PARADE will begin at 1 p.m. and march south on Wabash ave from Chestnut ave to Bimiler Park, site of the festival. Judging the beard contest will be Miss Cindy Lutz and Miss Maria Pelosi, both of Brewster and both licensed beauticians. Also judging beards will be Mrs.

Evelyn Compan of Brewster, an instructor at the Massillon School of Beauty. Mrs. Lester Snyder, Mrs. Roy Hoff and Mrs. Frances Hoffman, aU of Brewster, will judge the costume contest.

The beard contest will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. and will be followed by the costume contest at 11 a.m. Both events will be held at Bimiler Park. Trophies and ribbons will be awarded. Want ads the little fellows with the BIG palling power.

Off-duty Massillon firemen had continued their dogged search for Miss Schenk's body all day Monday. Divers from the North Lawrence Volunteer Fire Department assisted Monday evening, searching holes on the river bottom just south of the concrete spillway. FIREMEN continued to scour the spillway area Monday because they believed the swirling water there could hold down a body and because of the deepwater holes where the underwater concrete ends. Between 2 and 5 p.m. Monday, the firemen crisscrossing the river were David Orner, who used a bent-prong fork to search, and Don Weisgarber, who probed with his sneaker-clad feet as he walked.

Weisgarber also made several dives to the river bottom as fireman John Mossor stood in chest-deep water. Mossor held a rope tied to Weisgarber's waist. The rope was also tied to Mossor's waist, and held by men on shore. Quietly watching the search was a group of perhaps 50 persons, among them Miss Schenk's father, and a sister, Carol, 20. Raymond Schenk said Brenda was the "middle child" among seven children ranging in age from 6 to 29.

He said Brenda could not swim. Fire Chief Michael Bednar cancelled an earlier request for an Army National Guard helicopter to tow a vertical drag line through the deep areas near the spillway because firemen were unable to search the area. CHIEF BEDNAR said Fire Capt. Jack Darnell and some off-duty men used an outboard motor boat to search the riverbank Monday afternoon as far south as Warmington st SW and back. The motor developed mechanical trouble as did another outboard used earlier at the spillway.

"All of this is borrowed equipment we are using," the chief said. Fireman Randy Ross secured a liferope on the river's east bank as the men in the water searched. Other off-duty men working Monday were firemen Mike Wentzel and Robert Murphy. The volunteers who searched Sunday, Bednar said, were firemen Larry Steffee, Larry Specs, Harold Sirgo, Mike Jorden; Gary Slinger and Larry Hammer. Firemen said during the search Sunday one of the two boats turned over and a walkie-talkie and the chief's wristwatch were lost.

THE FIREFIGHTERS attempted to lighten their task Monday by making dire predictions about what might happen if the chief's walkie-talkie were also lost. Before fireman Charles Ginther arrived and got an outboard motor running again, Chief Bednar briefly joined Schenk and his daughter Carol to comfort them in their ordeal of waiting. Then, at about 5 p.m., the boat was again launched with Orner operating the motor. Bednar got in the front with the bent fork and resumed the search, which ended dusk..