Petoskey News-Review from Petoskey, Michigan • 1

Inside Weather Colder, flurries. High 38 Low 26 Noon 37 Some strong opinions on the editorial-opinion page. DeMaso says it's time to admit school reform means income tax hike. Charlevoix students show what Thanksgiving means. Open house at Harbor Springs.

Great sports weekend. DAILY PAID CIRCULATION 8020 no. 47 Monday, November 24, 1969 HOME OF NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE Ten Cents Petoskey, Mich. 49770 SIX YEAR OLD TELLS OF PLAYING DEAD 'Ci 'tJi W''- fUl Driver Serious After Crash Near Conway A Petoskey man, Gerald W. Coulter, 27, of was seriously injured in a one-auto mishap Saturday at 4:45 p.m.

on US-31 three-tenths of a mile east of North Conway-rd. According to state police of the Petoskey post, Coulter was operating a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, traveling west, when the vehicle ran off the shoulder of the highway, struck a utility pole, crashed into a billboard sign, then careened into a tractor that was parked on display at Sam's Tractor Sales lot. Police said Coulter was taken by ambulance to Little Traverse Hospital and admitted with a head injury. A hospital spokesman said Coulter was to be transferred to a Traverse City hospital this morning. At the time of his admittance to Little Traverse Hospital he was unconscious and has rallied but slightly, the hospital spokesmen added.

ANN ARBOR Wolverines' football coach Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler (right) and quarterback, Don Moorhead hug each other in the Michigan locker room Saturday after upsetting number one and unbeaten Ohio State 24-12 to win a share of the Big id crown and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Story on sports page. (UPI Telephoto.) APOLLO RETURNS TODAY "We've Done Everything that Was Supposed to be Done" INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) A Hammond, man was charged today with kidnapping a 6-year-old Chicago boy who "wasn't scared" although his abductor tried to drown him, the FBI announced. The FBI office here said John E.

Walrath, 30, was arrested at his home early this morning, about 12 hours after a group of hunters came upon a man trying to drown Timothy Martin in chilly Lake Michigan Sunday afternoon. The man escaped. Walrath was to be arraigned today before the U.S. commissioner in Chicago, the FBI said. They would release no further details of Walrath's arrest.

A few hours earlier, safe in his mother's arms, Timmy was a brave lad as he talked of being kidnaped. For more than 30 hours, Timmy and the stranger were together on the drive from Chicago up the Lake Michigan shore where they ended Sunday afternoon near Little Point Sable, a sparsely populated area north of Muskegon on Lake Michigan. "He told me to take off my shoes and roll up my pants because we were going in the water," the lad told police. "He picked me up and threw me in the river and tried to drown me, but I pretended I was dead already," Timmy said haltingly from his mother's arms. "And then he dragged me, but the hunting men came along and he let me go," the small boy said.

The man fled as the hunters arrived, police said. Two of the unidentified hunters "saw this man dragging a young boy out of the water," said Trooper Mike Hurd of the Hart State Police post. "They ran up to the boy and at first they thought he was dead. When they got to him, they rolled him over. The boy broke out into tears, started crying, and became hysterical.

"He started shouting that the man had tried to drown him, had tried to kill him, and that 'he is a murderer'," Hurd continued. "One of the hunters picked the boy up and the boy calmed down." As the man fled, Hurd said the hunters, who knew the area, raced to the only road out and set up their own blockade. When the suspect tried to ram through the blockade in a blue car bearing Indiana license plates, one of the hunters smashed a piece of four-by-four board through the windshield. The car raced on, Hurd said, and the hunters dove into their dune buggy and gave chase. Although they rammed the car several times, it eluded them, though not before they had taken down the license plate number.

Timmy, still wet from the several dips in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan at little Point Sable, told police the stranger picked him up Saturday while he was playing in the street with other kids In thn noiohKnrhrtnH ami Hrmro Mm tn MIoMssn a iVifsnra ''4jA v. 1,000 times. Space center science director Tony Calio said "there just isn't anything comparable" to Apollo 12's rewards in all the scientific explorations carried out to date in the space program. "I'm pretty proud of the Apollo 12 mission," Bean said during a unique televised "news conference" staged Sunday night while the Yankee Clipper was more than 100,000 miles from earth. The three pilots, wearing flight caps with gold braid, fielded 13 questions from newsmen.

"We've done everything that was supposed to be done," Bean added. "Every bit of the machinery has worked beautifully. We've had a couple of small failures but none of the equipment that we worried about has shown anything but perfect performance. I think this is a fantastic tribute to the people who designed this equipment, the people who built it and the people down at the Cape (Kennedy) who checked it out." mission was the nation's last in a decade of manned spaceflights that opened when Russia's Yuri Gagarin and America's Alan B. Shepard first ventured into the cosmos in 1961.

Since then, 23 Americans and 20 Russians have flown in space. Apollo 12's astronauts awakened at 5:27 a.m. after sleeping eight and one-half hours and began the final preparations for splashdown. They ate breakfast, checked their course with star sightings and found time to play some country and western music on a spacecraft tape player. The three Navy flyers brought back 80 to 90 pounds of rocks and soil from a lunar desert called the Ocean of Storms, parts of a robot surveyor spacecraft that landed there in 1967, and knowledge that will clear the way for the launch of Apollo 13 on an even more ambitious expedition in March.

They left behind the stars and Strips and a nuclear-powered observatory one project scientists said should increase man's knowledge of the moon at least a SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) Promised a "lovely day" in the South Pacific, Apollo 12's moon pilots streaked toward a triumphant homecoming today in the finale of man's first decade of space exploration. Their Yankee Clipper accelerated quickly under the ever-increasing pull of gravity on the last leg of America's second $350 million lunar landing expedition. Charles "Pete" Conrad, 39, Richard F. Gordon, 40, and Alan L. Bean, 37, set their sights on a splashdown in moderate seas at 3:58 p.m.

EST. The veteran recovery carrier Hornet stood by under partly cloudy skies 405 miles southeast of Pago Pago to retrieve them. "If you've remembered your lava-lavas (Polynesian clothing), it should be a lovely day in the South Pacific," ground communicator Donald L. Lind radioed the spacemen. "Thank you, Don, sounds real good and we'll be happy to see the land of Lava-Lavas," replied Conrad.

The 10-day, million-mile mm message to nearly 8,000 people in areas extending from Charlevoix to Sault Ste. Marie and including isolated Beaver Island where a drug problem arose recently. "As long as there are people who travel, especially during northern Michigan's resort seasons, both winter and summer, the residents of the area cannot feel they are free of the menace of drugs. When it happens on Beaver Island, one of the most solated spots in the state it can happen Fowler said. almost 250 miles.

"I don't know if he was going to bring me home. I wasn't scared, but I begged him to take me home," Timmy said. "The man said, 'I'm taking you home." The boy said the man didn't harm him, but gave him only a bag of potato chips to eat during the trip. They stopped only twice at gas stations where he was warned to keep quiet and overnight when Timmy slept in the front seat and the man in the back seat, the boy See Kidnap page 11 Send Yanks to Help South Viet Troops by Cambodia Army Orders Full Probe Of Niy Lai "Massacre" DAVID FOWLER, left, of the Medicine Chest, presents Mrs. Peter Spielas, librarian of the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, with instructors materials for teaching drug abuse.

Photo by Fran Martin.) Presents Drug Abuse Teaching Tools SAIGON (UPI) The U.S. military command disclosed today it has dispatched American troops to reinforce South Vietnamese soldiers who had been going it alone against a Communist threat along the Cambodian border. The disclosure came in an announcement that U.S. 4th Infantry Division troops had fought a 15-minute battle Sunday in the highlands region, where until now only government soldiers had been used against the guerrilla threat. Eight Americans were wounded in the brief attack against their camp 13 miles northeast of Ban Me Thuot and 175 miles northeast of Saigon.

Spokesmen said the attackers escaped without a loss. No official reason was given for moving the U.S. soldiers into the area. The South Vietnamese 23rd Division had been entrusted with the entire Allied counterthrust in a major test of its ability to go it alone. The commander of all U.S.

troops in the threatened region, Lt. Gen. Julian J. Ewell, told a news conference today he was confident of the Saigon Army's ability but added that "I think the ARVN would have problems with a certain number of large units" without U.S. support.

Communist troops moved into the border sector in force Nov. 1, forcing the abandonment of three Allied artillery bases and putting pressure on two border Green Beret camps at Bu Prang and Due Lap. Early Sunday they were thrown back in an attempt to overrun a South Vietnamese camp 1,000 yards outside Bu Prang. No fighting was reported there today. By Fran Martin CHARLEVOIX That teachers and counselors in the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District may have at their command information regarding narcotics and dangerous drug abuse, David Fowler of the Medicine Chest in Petoskey, has presented a flip chart and an instructor's guide to the library of the intermediate district where it will be available to anyone who needs it.

Mrs. Peter Spielas, librarian accepted the gift. The presentation was made during National Education Week to call attention to the need for further education and vigilance regarding drugs. The gift also calls attention to the aims of the Michigan State Pharmacists Association for 1969, "Combat Drug The gift to intermediate school district library brings to a climax Fowler's one-man effort to acquaint residents of the north country with the dangers of drugs and narcotics. During the past 18 months he has carried his charging him with premeditated murder of "not less than 70 Oriental human beings." WASHINGTON (UPI) The Army today ordered a special investigation to determine whether the alleged 1968 massacre by American GI's of South Vietnamese civilians was hushed up at the time.

Lt. Gen. William R. Peers was appointed to head the inquiry. Peters, chief of reserves on the army general staff, was ordered to "explore the nature and the scope of the original Army investigation of the so-called My Lai incident northeast of Quang Ngai city in Vietnam on March Smoke Chases Customers at East ordan EAST JORDAN Smoke from a faulty electric motor routed customers from Bill and Vera's Duck Inn in downtown East Jordan Sunday night.

Fire Chief Bernie Hammond said it took about 40 minutes to disconnect the cooler motor and ventilate the building. The fire was reported at 7:20 p.m. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Army today ordered a "life or death" court martial for Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

on charges of murdering 109 South Vietnamese civilians "of various ages and sexes." One of the specifications against the 26-year-old Calley, leader of an American platoon at the time of the alleged massacre, charged he shot a two-year-old child. There were five other specifications, one of them Report ishap On Snowmobile State police of the Petoskey post reported that Mrs. Theresa Cilke, 38, of R-l Boyne Falls, was injured in a snowmobile mishap Sunday at 1:30 p.m. According to police, Mrs. Cilke was traveling south of about 10 to 15 miles per hour, when the snowmobile went into a creek sending her over the handlebars.

She struck her forehead, police said. Mrs. Cilke was treated at Lockwood MacDonald Hospital, police reported. Ex-Charlevoix Dad, Son are Found Dead 16, 1968." The original investigation was conducted by the U.S. 11th Infantry Brigade.

The conclusion then was that there was no reason for further examination of the details and no cause for disciplinary action. The new investigation was announced jointly by Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff.

Both emphasized that their action did not necessarily mean that they felt the original investigation and review were inadequate, but said this would be determined. The Army said last weekend that Lt. William L. Calley, leader of a U.S. platoon at the time of the incident and who is now at Fort Benning, has been accused of "the premeditated murder of approximately 100 Vietnamese civilians." The Army said Peers' investigation would be independent of another inquiry in progress since last April under the direction of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division.

Peers was in Vietnam at the time of the My Lai incident, but See Massacre page 11 Emmet Humane Officer Post Still Unfilled The Emmet County Humane Society is now accepting applications for the full time position of humane officer. Marrell Abbey, who has held the position for the past 19 years, is planning to retire in the near future. Anyone interested in the position is urged to call Arden Bawkey, Emmet County Abstract and Title Company, 347-2580, before December 1. CHARLEVOIX William Durance, 74 former resident and his son, John William, 37, were found dead in their home at Sanford, Michigan, Midland county Sunday morning by another son, Edward, who is prosecuting attorney for Midland county. An autopsy is being conducted today to determine the cause of death.

Graveside services will be conducted Wednesday at 11 am. at Brookside Cemetery, in Charlevoix with Rev. Lawrence Tenhopen officiating. Arrangements will be handled by Ware-Smith Funeral Home, in Midland. William Durance was bom in Charlevoix August 8, 1895 and spent his early life here.

He graduated from Charlevoix High School and enlisted in the Signal Corps during World War serving in England. After his discharge he returned to Michigan and graduated as a teacher from Ypsilanti State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University.) He taught in the Detroit Public School System. Mr. Durance was married to Mildred Dean at Detroit in 1925. He then graduated from the Detroit College of Law and was a practicing attorney in Detroit for 35 years.

When Mrs. Durance died in September, 1964, he moved to the Sanford area in Midland county. Mr. Durance was a member of Christ Methodist Church, in Detroit and a charter member of the Lapeer Parent's Association. He is survived by one son, Edward, of Midland; a brother, Albin.of Charlevoix; two sisters, Francis Durance, of Charlevoix and Mrs.

Genevieve Baumgartner, of Romeo and four grandchildren. See Ex-Charlevoix 11 i Donkey untied Down in Harbor Springs Pasture A pet donkey is dead today. Perhaps it was mistaken for a deer by a hunter in the Harbor Springs area. Perhaps. Daisy, two-year-old burro, was the favorite of many, especially the children, State police of the Petoskey post said.

Daisy was cut down by a high powered rifle as she was at pasture in a five-acre enclosure near Middle and Lightf oot-rds. in West Traverse Township. Owner of the donkey was Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jezisek, school teachers, in the Harbor Springs system.

The shot that killed Daisy was fired sometime near 7 a.m. or before on Sunday, police said. In the pasture with the donkey at the time were a horse and pony who escaped unharmed. State police are continuing the investigation. i BU PRANG, S.

Vietnam "Mike Force" mercenaries move through the barbed wire encircling the perimeter of the beleagured Special Forces camp and on to the open hillsides during counter-patrol. An estimated 5,000 to 7,000 N. Vietnamese troops are maintaining pressure on the siege of the camp now In Its third week. (UPI Staff Photo by Shunsuke Akatsuka.) 1.