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Require Voter Approval Legislature Hands Governor 43 Ohio Bills COLUMBUS (UP!) The legislature wrapped up Friday 43 bills for Gov. James A. Modes to considered. A signed by the presiding officers of Ilia two chambers were six resolutions. The measures signed by House Speaker Charles F.

Kurfess and Senate president John Brown were the work of the assembly during its final weeks of the second session. In all, the lawmakers passed more Read Daily By 11,527 Families Net Paid Circulation ta Piled With ABC Sublect To Audit Past 3 I Uonthi 1, 85th YEAR No. 121 than 90 pieces of legislation In the seven week meeting. tlhodes signed Friday bills. One created the Ohio Higher Education Facility Commission and became a law immediately.

The other reduced the mandatory tax a school district acquiring property from another district inust levy. It will become a law June 7. Five of the six rcsolulions signed in the two houses Friday went to Secretary of State Ted W. Brown who will see that they are" put on the ballot. They are proposed changes in the constitution and require voter approval.

The other resolution honored Ohioans who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor and whose names will be inscribed on plagues at the Ohio Acre in the Medal of Honor Grove at Valley Forge. Among the measures signed by the officers of the legislature were the riot control bill and the salary increase for lawmakers, judges and county officials, The much-amended riot control ineasure was designed to give police and others the tools needed to cope with riots and disorders in the state. It was an outgrowth of two summers of racial disorders in Ohio. The act defined a riot as five or more persons engaged in violent and tumultous conduct creating a danger to life and property. Penalties and increased authority for the state Highway Palrol also were included.

The pay hike measure gave legislators a $4,750 yearly increase and a salary of $12,750 a year. The bill also provided for annual sessions of the legislature. Other acts signed by (lie House speaker and Senate president include: --Requiring boards of trustees of state-assisted colleges and universities to regulate the use of campus grounds and the' conduct ot students, employes and visitors and to maintain law and order. --Authorized the Ohio Board of Regents to establish technical colleges and provided for their management by a nine- member board of trustees named by the governor. PIQUA DAILY CALL DIAL 773-2721 PIQUA, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1968 14 PAGES -Established mandatory Inspection of bridges in Ohio, required a bridge inspection manual and provided procedures for repairs to existing structures.

--Placed "sawed off" shotguns and rifles under existing restrictions on machine guns and set penalties for illegal ownership or possession and illegal sale or transfer ot a prohibited weapon. Weather Partly cloudy, cooler tonight; Low 40. lOc SINGLE COPY Inventor-Musician Joe Thompson Dies COVINGTON Josepbus B. (Joe) Thompson, 70, of 4267 S.R. 48, widely-known maker of musical instruments and inventor, died at 10:05 a.m.

Friday in IMtmer Hospital after an illness of three weeks. He was consulting engineer for the Columbia Broadcast Sys- fem and an associate, inventor, and former director of research for Rogers Drums Company here, a subsidiary of the Henry Grossman Music Cleveland, largest distributor of musical parts in the country. Mr. Thompson held patents with nearly every major maker of musical instruments. He was inventor of the plastic Thompson Fhitophone, plastic trumpet, the Dyna.Sosic, Powertone and Swiv-o-matie drums, the Simbridgc recorder, a plastic refinement of the world's oldest musical instrument, the Thompson Joint (Mouthpiece Expander and the Thompson Mouthpiece Puller, the Humazoo and many olher plastic toys.

Born in Covinglon, Nov. 5, 1897, he was a son of George W. and Cora Broivn Thompson and a lifelong resident of the community. As a young man he played drums and saxophone with various musical groups of the area and for a period of five years previous to J929 was in partnership with G. F.

(Biddy) Bitter in the Piqua Music Shop on Water Street there. He started his career in the music repair business at a shop on his father's farm south of Covington, and in 1939, again in partnership with Etler, established a repair shop adjacent to his home on S.R. 48. They established the Thompson-Etter Music Store on High Street in Covington which dissolved in May of last year with Etter's retirement. In 1952 Mr.

Thompson built the factory building for the Rog- Drum Company here. The building has been expanded four times during ensuing years. In April of 1966 CBS bought the drum business from Henry a and Mr. Thompson remained as chief en- mmunist Shells Gas J. B.

(JOE) THOMPSON gineer and research consultant. Surviving is his wife, the former Helen Morgan, whom he married Nov. 23, 1938; a step- brolher Lewis Riddle of Decatur, Ohio and a step-sister, Mrs. Con Ronsdale (Harriet) of West Milton. The Rev.

Eddie Henry of the Greenville Creek Church will conduct services at 2 p.m. Monday in the Roulzahn Funeral Home. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. SAIGON (UPI) -A Commu- nist shell blaw up among tear gas cannisters at Khe Sanh today and the acrid fumes wafted through bunkers where U.S.

Marines had sought refuge from the heaviest artillery attack on the base in two US. spokesman said the shell was one of 300 mortar and rocket rounds that slammed into the Marine oulpost eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (D.MZ) between North and South Vietnam. It was the heaviest shelling since Feb. 25. UPI correspondent Mat Gibson reported from Khe Sanh that the Leathernecks in bunkers, near the exploding tear Vietnam 'Grave Mistake-Young COLUMBUS Sen.

Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, said Friday President Johnson made the "gravest mistake of any American President" when he intervened in the Vietnamese civil war and turned it into an American war. "The Vietnam War is immoral and the most unpopular war in the history of America," the 78 year old veteran of both world wars said at a news conference, following his recent trip to Vietnam. "There was no previous Viet- Troy Names Service Director TROY Mayor Ivan Terrell lias named Col. Marten E.

Heber, 49, a civil engineer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, as Troy service and safety director, effective July 1. Reber will replace Floyd Pausing, who is serving as acting director since the resignation of Roger Stillwell Feb. 5. Col. Kehcr will take the $15,000 per year Troy job after having been at eight years.

Mayor Terrell will ask council for confirmation of the appointment March 18 he said. Reber, a native of Pennsylvania, received his bachelor of science degree from Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, and his masters degree in business administration at George Washington University, Washington D.C. He has approximately 50 hours towards a Ph.D. in public administration. He is married and has four sons aged eight to 22.

nam commitment by two other Presidents when Johnson became President," Young said. 'The day President Eisenhower left office there were 685 military advisors in Vietnam. The day President Kennedy was assassinated there were 20,000 military advisors there." Young, who said he considered himself a "chickenhawk or an owl" on the war issue, said ''President Johnson should replace Gen. William Westmoreland as commander in Vietnam." "Westmoreland is not using his troops effectively," Young contended. "He has some Marines, Ihe best fighting men we have, holed up in a defensive status in Khe Sahn and 'Gold Rush' Continuing LONDON (UPl)-A gold rush by nervous speculators throughout western Europe had experts predicting more trouble for the dollar and the pound sterling today.

Markets were closed for the weekend after a hectic Friday buying spree in London and elsewhere sparked by rumors the United States might agree to raise the fixed $35 per ounce price of gold. even some doing pacification work." "I would like to see a man like Deputy Commander Gen. Creighton Abrams take over." Young said. "I talked with Abrams when I was in Vietnam recently and he is a real fighting man." Young said the Cenlral Intelligence Agency was "all over the place in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam." "The President has yielded too much to the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Young stated. 21 Bodies Removed From Salt Mine BELLE ISLE, La (UPI) -A small makeshift elevator fami- prayed would lift their men to safety became a hearse today for 21 salt miners who perished in a fire 1,200 feet underground.

The rescuers, whose hopes soared--then plummeted--during 60 tense hours, were to pull up the bodies of the miners who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a fire that swept one of the world's largest mines Tuesday night. Tire huge mine, with its dull- white walls and cathedral ceilings, Friday surrendered the bodies of the victims of Louisiana's worst mine disaster. The bodies were found Friday Partly Cloudy, High In 60s The weatherman says partly cloudy skies are to prevail through the weekend with temperatures climbing into the upper 60s today. Tonight and Sunday will be a little cooler, with a low near 40 tonight and the high near 60 Sunday. Probability of showers through Sunday is set at 20 per cent.

by the sixth and seventh rescue teams to brave the intense heat and carbon monoxide 1,280 feet below the isolated coastal surface. The discovery of the bodies brought screams of anguish uncontrolled tears from the scores of relatives huddled together at the Cargill dock, 16 miles away from the company's Belle Isle mine. "We have tragic news." Cargill spokesman Evan Williams told the wives, sisters, parents, cousins and children of the miners. The death announcement ended the tension of nearly 60 hours of waiting, worrying, praying and quiet tears on the cold Cargill pier. Cots and playpens had been set up in the company warehouse.

It also brought tears to the dozens of fellow salt miners who had worked so long, hoping to find the trapped men alive. The announcement was followed shortly by confirmation that an inspector for the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Washington had recommended belter fire protection and an additional shaft for the Belle Isle mine. Beauffficcfffon Program Set May 'Clean-Up, 'Fix-Up Month In Piqua Designation of Mayas "Cleanup, paint-up, fix-up" Month is the first step in a new community program for city beautification and pride in Piqua. Initial steps in the program were taken Friday the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce office, hi a meeting of representatives of service and garden clubs, business, industry and the City of Piqua.

John C. Burke, 8805 N. Crestview Court, representing the Ohio Belt Telephone Company as an utility, was named general chairman. His appointment was announced by Chamber President Robert Hennessey, who urged cooperation of all segments of the community in this chamber "LHG-Let's George" project. Richard Crnmback, member cl the Chamber public relations committee, as temporary chair- man of the proposed city beautification program, said purpose of the plan is to bring about community wide participation in the program, and develop, to a greater degree, pride in Piqua.

Chamber Manager Ed Alberty reviewed the organizational plan with various aspects ot the plan being the responsibility of service clubs and other 'groups. Date of the next meeting and activities will be an- nounced later, Chairman Burke indicated. Attending Friday's meeting were: Garden clubs- Mrs. Raymon Das and Mrs. James Danford; Industry- Charles Roesch; retailers- John Walsh; utilities- Clart; Gabriel and Chairman Burke; youth- Preston Spahr of YMCA and Mrs.

Edward Wones of the YWCA; Jaycees- Morris Kemper; ministerial association- Rev, Allen Marhelnc; service clubs- William Stone; auto gas cannisfers had lo don gas masks, but there were no serious injuries. In a special announcement today the U.S. mission said Communist guerrillas a killed 5,831 civilians since the beginning of the year and abducted another 2,783. Spokesmen said the fate of another 3,332 civilians reported missing was not known. The mission also said it had received "new reports of Communist executions ot men, women and ciiildren" during the 25-day battle for Hue, the old Vietnamese imperial capita! north of Saigon.

New mass graves have been discovered, the spokesmen said, and (lie evidence indicated at least 435 civilians were executed during the guerrilla occupation of parts of Hue last month. Casualties -throughout the base from the attack were described by the spokesmen as light. Khe Sanh, with a garrison of 6,000 U.S. Marines and. a few Army and South Vietnamese troops, is surrounded by an estimated 16,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.

The weather today appeared to be clearing, Gibson reported, and U.S. fighter-bombers were able to provide closer support for the Khe Sanh (roops with strikes in ths surrounding hills where the Communists have dug extensive bunkers, funnels and trenchworkers. "This is the critical period." said Col. David Lownds, the base commander. "It seems we are in the transition weather stage now--but the whole Marines Probe Tragedy QUANTICO, Va.

(UPI)-The Marine Corps, an official board of inquiry' today into the disappearance and probable drowning of nine men whose boat capsized in the middle of the Potomac River during a training exercise. The Upper Room monsoon season has been crazy." Lownds, of Plantation, declared his men "can withstand any Communist attack. "I'm tickled the way morale has been holding up." "The men grip a liltle," he said, "but I worry only when a Marine is not griping." Gibson said some of the casualties were caused when an Air Force transport plane PFC-1C PHILIP WENRICK Piqua Man Wounded Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wenrick, 807 N.

Main, received word Tuesday Iheir son, Philip, was seriously wounded during combat in Vietnam, March 4. He is suffering from a gunshot wound of the right chest and possible brain injury due to anoxia. Pfc. Wenrick enlisted in the Army in May of 1967. He received training at Fort Benning, and has been serving in Vietnam since Dec.

1 with 173rd A.B.N., bde (Sep). His address is: Pfc. Philip Wenrick RA J27 841 53, Hospital Mail Section, APO San Francisco, Calif. 96381. fflt READ TIMOTHY Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee.

--U Timothy 1:6 Tile talents of others often claim our admiration and sometimes move us to reverence for the God who endowed those persons with them. Yet we know the persons possessing these dealers- Crumback; senior citizens- C. M. Sims. City of Piqua- Asst.

Fire Chief Louis 'Mikolajewski; Police Chief Earl McClannan; Sanitation Office- Dow Law; Street Supervisor Russell Morris. a public relations i 11 ee- Wayner Keiser, Charles Roesch, 11 i a Reed, Bill McVely, Oscar Baker, Jack Murray, Don Beckert and Richard Cnmiback. gifts had to spend hours and years of dedicated preparation before offering their achievements for others to enjoy. I remember the Fijian artist Semisi as he sat in Ihe midst of his fellow sufferers. i hands deformed by leprosy rested upon his knees.

Years earlier Semisi had begun to appreciate the beauty of nature in sky, sea, tree, and bush. Encouraged by i gifted nurse, he began to paint. With one finger, the side of his hand, his elbow and a brush held with difficulty, Semisi painted i first picture. Now, some years later, his paintings hang in many a home where they hearten and inspire. Are we allowing any gift God has given us to lie idle? PRAYER: Loving Father, I am careless of Thy gifts, I would so often rather enjoy the gifts of olhcrs than toil over one Thou hast given me.

Help me, I pray Thee, (o work diligently that I may develop Thy gilt entrusted to me. For Jesus' sake. Amen. Alice Austin (New Zealand) dropping supplies missed (he runway target area and unloaded its cargo on Marines in one of the bunkers. Fugitive Found Dead In Darke Co.

ANSON1A, Ohio (UPI)-Percival Guy Taylor, 75, sought by Chicago police for the mercy killing of his wife, was found dead Friday, apparently a suicide victim. He was the father of June Taylor of the June Taylor Dancers. Darke County sheriff's deputies said Taylor had arrived at his home Thursday night. His brother, Frank, found the body in a ear near his home. A pistol was found in the car.

Mildred Taylor, 51, was found beaten to death Thursday on (he bed in the Taylor home. An autopsy showed that she had been stiuck four times on tiie head wjlh a blunt instrument and that she had died 24 hours before being discovered by police. A note signed "Guy" said, "she was in misery and asked me to put her out her misery, which I did," police said. The Taylors had been married 25 years. They had no children.

Miss June Taylor, leader of the famed dancers, that now appear at the opening of the weekly Jackie Gleason television program, was his daughter by a former marriage, Two Injured As Car Hits Parked Auto Two passengers in an automobile involved in a three-car accident at Wood and Wayne, shortly after 2:30 a.m. today, received minor injuries for which they declined treatment. They are R. L. Brownlee, 21, of 812 Virginia, who had a front tooth broken off and facial abrasions, and Audrev Lawson, 18, of 63 W.

'Main, Shlloh, Ohio, who escaped with a bloody nose. Police reported they were riding in an automobile driven by Barbara E. Bornhorst, 18, of 312 Short, which struck a parked Salvation Army station wagon, pushing it into a parked car owned by Gilbert Shoe, 123 S. Wayne. The moving car and the station wagon were heavily damaged, according to the report.

The teen-aged driver was cited for negligent operation. Rick Wenrick, 92t CaldwcH, reported to police at 2:40 a.m. today his automobile was struck by a "hit-skip" vehicle in front of his home, causing fender damages. Eula Mae McDonald. 22, of 101 Roosevelt, was cited on charges of negligent operation and driving without an operator's license, after an automobile accident at Young and Roosevelt, shortly before p.m.

Friday, police also reported today. The other car involved was driven by Charles D. Walker, 41, of 506 E. Greene. Both received fender damages..