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1811 FINE FUTURE REFLECTS A GOOD PAST" L.H Bartlett IT. lilgh tjt-. (jbijo otate Mufleur. Colurhuo, Ohio 4321C WEATHER Partly elondy and cooler (o- nighi and Tuesday. Low tonight in (he low 50's.

High Tuesday near 70. Wednesday fair and mild. 120th Year of Publication Vol. 50, No. 3.

MARYSVILLE, OHIO SEPTEMBER 8, 1969 Honoring Marysville's Scsquicentennial Yea? 4 KIDNAPED BY BRAZILIAN Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick (Inset) was kidnaped In Rio de Janeiro by two terrorist gunmen in an attempt to barter for the freedom of 15 political prisoners. The 61-year-old career diplomat presented his credentials to the Brazilian government only few weeks ago. Elbrlck's llmouslno alts In a Rio residential district after It was found with a ransom note left Inside. (Radiopiinta) Elbrick Released RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)Brazilian authorities knew all along where terrorist kidnapers were holding U.S.

Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick but made no move to rescue the envoy for fearlic would be killed, a police official said today. Shortly after Elbrick was freed unhurt from three days' captivity, intelligence agents Sunday raided the deserted mansion where they said kept the ambassador hostage. The official said Elbrick's captors had fled, leaving behind Communist propaganda, pons and ammunition. was released Sunday by guerrillas who had held him for 76 hours to obtain freedom for 15 political prisoners of the Brazilian military regime.

Slight Cut On Head The 61-year-old career slightly on the head by a blow on the forehead but otherwise in good condition, Meet The Follies Directors-Tuesday The first appearance of the 1969 High Fever Follies director will be made at "Meet The Director Night" 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Little Theater of Marysville High School. publicns-invited to attend with no admission charge. The program will include dance routines and vocal num bers by prospective cast mern bers. in taking part in this year's Follies is urged 1o attend to boost the and to sign up.

Rehearsal dates will also be announced. Those who have not yet received a patrons letter, and are Interested in having their name placed on the patrons page in the program book is asked to call Mrs. Robert West, 642- 2iti. The deadline is. Wednesday.

The Follies will be given 26 and 27 at High School Auditorium on West Sixth St. arrived in a white taxi at his official residence. Four hours earlier, a Braza- lian air force C130 transport had arrived in Mexico City with the political prisoners, who were granted asylum there. "To coin the understatement of the year, I'm glad to be back," Elbrick had no intention of harmingi me at any time." Shortly after his return, Elbrick received a telephone caHfronv President Nixon. In Washington, Secretary of State William P.

Rogers praised the Brazilian government and expressed thanks Elbrick "has passed through this dreadful experience without harm." The mansion where Elbrick was kept prisoner in a bare, foot room is about a mile and a half from his residence and two miles from the residential street from where he was kidnaped. A high police official said counting on Elbrick to provide information to trigger a major crackdown on terrorism and Subversion in Latin America's largest and most populous nation. The Elbrick affair was the (Continued on Page 2) U.S. Cuts Bomb Strikes SAIGON the. United States canceled B52 bomber- strikes "and-cut back offensive sweeps during the three-day Communist cease- fire that began today in honor of Ho Chi Minn.

"Reliable sources" disclosure but U.S. headquarters it. Officially, the United States has followed South Vietnam's decision to -ignore the Communist truce. Military spokesmen reported nearly a dozen guerrilla violations of in the 14 at 1 a.m. but called them "insignificant, -comparatively Three South Vietnamese were killed and 21 others were wounded, field reports said.

At least three Americans died and 15 were wounded in Communist cease-fire violations. The U.S. Command also has ordered all American artillerymen in the field to hold their fire unless fired upon, according to the sources. Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S.

commander, reserved the right to" resume tbe Bb2 strikes, sweeps and artillery raids should the Viet Cong -and North Vietnamese unleash'sig- nificant attacks, they said. South Vietnamese spokesmen said -troops had 50 "assorted'-- -offensives under way the Viet Cong Liberation Radio had promised would be "severely punished." headquarters listed 11 Communist incidents in the first shdlings, two- ground attacks, one sabotage incident, one propaganda foray and one kidnaping. Two Americans were killed and five wounded this morning itl an ambush southwest of Da Nang, military Spokesmen Losses among the attackers were not known. In the same" area, "one U.S. Marine died 10 suffered wounds in a 140-round Communist rocket and mortar attack that lasted until after 1 a.m., the command said.

It was one of 34 shillings reported in the hours just before the stand- down. Troops of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division and the llth Armored in battles 60 miles north and 33 miles northwest of Saigon killed a total of 60 North Vietnamese while-losing-two-killed-and-20 wounded themselves, military spokesmen said. Nine waves of B52 bombers went after Viet Cong and North Vietnamese positions 93 to 102 miles northeast of Saigon Sunday night, hitting an area where heavy fighting has flared for the past 10 (lays, Announcing Sunday South Vietname would not honor the Called c-euie-d'ir Pre-sideiit Nguyen Van Thieu's (Continued on Page 2j Cancer Takes Dangerous Operation Mourn Ho TOKYO Communist world, Red China excepted paid tribute today to Ho Chi Minh who lay in state in Hanoi in a glass coffin, while mourners passed his bier by the thousands. Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin passed by the bier Sunday and was staying for the Wednesday funeral. Moscow Radio had criticized Chinese Premier Chou En-lai for leaving before the funeral. Although no high Peking official was present in Hanoi, party Chairman Mao Tse-tung -and Vice Chairman Piao sent wregths to the North Vietnamese EMbassy in the Chinese capital praising Ho as a great revolutionary hero. The Vietnam News Agency, in a dispatch from the North Vietnamese capital, said Gus Hall, secretary general of the U.S. Communist party, among the arrivals this morn- Ing from Moscow.

Hall joined Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and other officials" from the Communist bloc and non-Communist nations as well in mourning the death of the 79-year-old North Vietnamese president. Kosygin laid a' wreath at the foot of Ho's bier in Ba Dinh Hall Sunday. On. it was inscribed this pledge: Are Firmly Convinced Soviet people are firmly convincted that the Vietnamese peopler.7will obtain new victories in building socialism and in defending their homeland against imperialist "In this endeavor, the Vietnamese people can always believe in Communist party and government of the Soviet Union." Later, the Soviet news agency Tass said, Kosygin met with the top leaders of North Sino Soviet Split Widens WASHINGTON tUPl) officials say the split between cseow and Peking has reached a new level of hostility: Kuch government the other nation to revolt their Tne direct and subversive type ol appeal being Stars On The Moon iwiu CUITK-U Oil jViet and hnie.ie ijlt.lie J.

tiiuwu. Jj. aud suit, lluaty. Sl-itl-ll ail Uhn, fvUHilde t.ai,;.', "Our Mui 3 Ale Walking 0 the ui: ll.e ty l-iiduy at ''A Miiin.ii- i lit iunc in limiui- ui Uic n-luju ul tU- tLuc Kele l.i.-l iV-- i--uu. 1 liie I Vietnam to discuss the war and Moscow-Hanoi relations.

Tass! reported "an atmosphere of friendship and complete mutual understanding." Moscow Radio earlier had criticized the Communist Chinese premier, Chou En-lai, for leaving Hanoi before Ho's funeral, scheduled for.Wednes- day. The broadcast called Chou's move '-'disrespectful" of Ho. Chou's departure Friday before Kosygin arrived underscored the split between the two Communist giants, both of whom are reported jockeying for influence among the leadership council Ho left to govern North Vietnam. Broadcasts and news dispatcher from Hanoi described New Violence EruptslJTEriiT 1 BELFAST, Northern Ireland from a speeding car killed a man in a Protestant district "of Belfast today, sending a new shock wave of fear and anger through the city. Police and British army troops rushed in to try to avert new violence.

Protestant underground radio broadcasts identified the victim as Protestant Jack Todd, 23, and urged Protestant vigilantes Catholics whose Sunday night battles gave Belfast a wartime atmosphere with rioting, arson and looting. Posters throughout the city warned of an attempt by the Catholic supporters of the Republic of Ireland to take over the city- as part of a plan to return the predominantly Protestant six northern provinces to the Catholic republic to the south. Trade Rumors In the Catholic areas, men and women crouched behind barricades and traded rumors about an impending Protestant attack. During the night of terror at I least 12 bases were comman- deered and rammed into side 1 streets separating tiie Prote! slant Sliankjll Road and Catho' lie Falls Road. An army the dead man was killed in front of i a slli.p being looted.

It uas tlie ninth death (nan guniire the vKj'viKe bulled Over ill Nul thel lielaad i was KilU. long lines of North Vietnamese waiting to view Ho's body in Ba Dinh Hall. They said Ho's rubber sandals lay in a box- at his feet and that he was dressed in the plain outfit he wore on his strolls in Hanoi. Delegations from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East -Germany, Mongolia, -Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Britain, the United States, Japan, Itaily, India, Sweden and Canada were among the 20 foreign nations represented in the North Vietnamese A Vietnam News Agency report said the death of Ho had depleted supplies of flowers and of his portrait, with Hanoi residents using the flower for wreaths and the portrait to hang in their homes. Pike Found Dead BETHLEHEM Episcopal Bishop James A.

who died in the Judean wilderness seeking the truth 'about Christ, may be buried in the Holy Land he loved. (Pike's body was- discovered Sunday by Israeli border guards at the foot of a 90-foot cliff, six days after he was reported missing in the desert where Jesus spent 40 nights fasting. An autopsy today indicated Pike died of -exhaustion-- six 'days ago. 'Pike's widow, Diana, and her brother, Richard Scott Kennedy, said they were consulting Pike's 1L California and other relative? about burial plans for the controversial churchman. Mrs.

Pike told newsmen earlier she hoped Pike would be buried in the Holy Land. "He loved the Israeli people and the Holy Land so deeply," she said. "I feel there is no more appropriate place for him to die if he had to die." Found Near Fortress 'After Dike's body was found near "theTortress" of King Herod the Great, Mrs. Pike recalled her 56-year-old husband's last words to I die here, I am at peace. I have no regrets." "Pike's body was found 2.6 miles from where Mrs.

Pike had left him last week in a state of collapse after their automobile stuck on a rock pile. She had sought help alone. Apparently, he had been trying to scale the cliff. Mrs. Pike, tne Clergyman's third wife, and her brother said they would have no word on their own plans until a decision (Continued on Page 2) SENATOR DIRKSEN Hi-Lo NEW YORK highest temperature reported Sunday by the U.S.

Weather Bureau, excluding Hawaii and Palm -Springs, and Buckeye, Ariz. Today's low was 38 degrees at Cutbank and Butte, Mont, 1 WEATHER High Low Friday 81 68 Saturday 88 67 Sunday 75 64 Monday 72 62 By STEVEN. CERSTEL WASHINGTON (UPI) -Everett McKinley Dirksen, an old- time orator whose timeless political skills made him the hub of Republican power In, Congress, is dead at 73. The man-who for 10 years was the voice, vehicle and vital force of the Grand Old Party in the U.S. Senate died Sunday after three heart stoppages, six days after an operation for lung cancer.

In a congressional career that covered 35 years, first as a representative from the corn- belt region of his native Pekin, 111., and later as a senator, Dirksen was one of the most colorful and controversial politicians of his era. The tributes were immediate and deep, President Nixon said "He will be remembered as a giant in the history of Congress and as one who on the great issues always placed the nation first." Universally Loved Richard B. Russell, dean of "Few senators have been more universally loved by the Ameri- can people when he spoke the nation listened, and his eloquence on the issues of our day was a source of national strength." The Senate planned to meet briefly today and then adjourn in tribute to one" of its best(Continued on Page 2i judge Dismisses Initiative Petition A petition filed in Union County Common Picas Court asking that Paris Towaship Trustees be forced to place a initiative petition before voters in the November election has been dismissed by Judge Donald Gibbs, Champaign County, acting for Judge Gwynn Sanders. In an effort to block the construction of a proposed livestock marketine St. Rt.

4 and 3ti south of Marysville, Robert Marysville Rt. 5, had filed an action for writ of mandamus and costs against Kathleen Finley, clerk, the IJoard of Trustees ot Paris Township. The trustees had refused to file the Initiative petition v.tih Union County Board of Elections. The initiative petition circulated bv and others, if approved bv voters, would have recoiled from commercial to residential tiif area ot the Marysville 'corporation to Union Town-hip along Milford Center Kd. The area iiifUuled a borlimi of the uhei'e Ouluiubila dlA'el'S A.b.soC'iatiun to build the faeility uhleli uuuld ilf) to i-U million into the area jcar.

1,11 The Marysville Chapter of ica for the second consecutive year is proud of the honor bestowed on two of Its members, Roger Phelps and David Baird, who will receive the American Farmer Degree at the National in Kansas City, Mo. The Americn Farmer De- FFA- member only 480 Future Farmers will receive this coveted degree for 19C9. Of this number, Ohio will have 14. Roger Phelps, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ivan Phelps, Marysville Rt. 4 started his farming program with two sows and five acres of corn. Because of the very limited opportunity for the expansion of his fanning pro gram at home, he started to work in April, under the Ag-Business program. He started at Scotts in the research of "TawiFd'jvelopment under supervision of Eugene Mayer. Roger still working at Scotts as a full-time laboratory technician.

He was active in the FFA where he held offices of president and He was alvo a member of the parliamentary prcccdurc team for fuur years and served on many committees and judging teams. was awarded the State FFA Degree in liliiJl and WJS also the winner of the Ag- Award. Roger's application was to National FFA office and on Oct. 15, 1SG8 at the national ci mvntion, hi- was presented a check for and a plaque the national winner of the Agri-Business As a Ire-hman. David Baird, Mr.

and Mrs. John Baird ol Marysville Rt. 1, believed in farming. He started his fanning VtHll live interest in 2'J sows and liiO coin- Beside.s expanding his and siiei-p eliter- lie added feeder lambs and ci ops to his farming program and lie is IMW fanning in -hares with ins fattier on I along wiih a -luJ hi-! and 1-0 nil -J David Baird, wiiuivr Itu- American Farinvr Degree, checks his corn for corn borer damage and for total yield. He is a member of tin; Marysville FFA Chapter.

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