The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • Page 1

WEATHER Clear and mild tonight. Partly sunny and a little warmer Saturday. Lows tonight mid 50s. Highs Saturday near 80. Sunset today 7:54, sunrise Saturday 5:38, sunset Saturday 7:55.

aily ikbdld Sign over an awning store: "Come in for a shady VOL. 188 At Jasper, Indiana Friday, May 16, 1975 Twenty-Four Pages Today 14 Americans Believed Missing After Rescue By WARREN L. NELSON WASHINGTON (UPI) A full day after the last of a 160- man Marine assault force was plucked by helicopter from Koh Tang island in the Gulf of Thailand, the exact extent of casualties was not known. Fourteen GIs were believed missing. At least one Marine was confirmed dead and one airman aboard a crashed helicopter was missing and believed dead.

Pentagon sources said Thursday tentative reports indicated eight Marines and six airmen may be missing in combat action associated with the successful rescue of an American merchant freighter and its crew seized Monday by Cambodian gunboats. SOUTIIR1DGE VALEDICTORIANS John Kahle McPherron and Mick Bilderback watch. These seven helps Judy Temple put on a mortar board as Randy graduating seniors have been named valedictorians Kademacher, Amy Butke, Vicki Hemmer, Mike lor Southridge High class of 1975. Seven Southridge seniors, all Mr. and Mrs.

Reuben Butke of and played in the school musical. with 4.0 grade indexes, have been Huntingburg. Besides serving as Michael McPherron, son of Mr. named valedictorians and will lead president of Tri-Hi-Y in her senior and Mrs. Charles McPherron of their class through commence- year she has been a member of Holland, has been president of ment exercises on Sunday, choir, pep club, language club, band during his senior year.

He has several large muusinai users ui --Weather permitting, ceremonies participated in the school musical also been a member of pep band, natural gas that they face a cur- its coast, and proponents of the will be held at 6 p.m. on the South- and was a delegate to Girls State, yearbook staff and participated in tailment of their supply next action said it restored some of TVin on A Mrc I cpKaaI muoinal MnPhorrnn winter tarnichpH olnrv affpr Bill Haller, president of the Jasper Utility Service Board, said that allocation of natural Industrial Users Of Natural Gas Facing Cutback The city of Jasper has notified several large industrial users of Two destroyers with loud speakers circled the island searching for possible stragglers. Pentagon officials said parts of the Marine force were scattered among four warships that took part in the battle, while others flew to Thailand en route to home bases in the Pacific. all jumbled up at this one officer said. The Pentagon said it would account for the casualties today.

The Marine landing force and helicopters, searching for a captured merchant crew that even on the jungle island, encountered stiff small arms fire from the Cambodian defenders, the Pentagon said. The brief military adventure in the Gulf of Thailand, the first U.S. combat mission in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam cease-fire 2Ak years ago, was being hailed as a resounding political victory for the Ford administration. The operation resulted in the rescue of all 39 crewmen and the container ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodia 60 miles off ridge Athletic Field. The Rev.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kenneth L. Scherry of Salem Kahle, John Kahle has been a United Church of Christ will speak, member of school baseball, tennis Michael Bilderback is the son of and golf teams. He has been active Mr.

and Mrs. James Bilderback of in Key Club and pep club and was Huntingburg. He has acted as an alternate to Boys State. the school musical. McPherron also acted as athletic student manager for basketball, cross country and track.

tarnished glory after the loss of Cambodia and Vietnan. In addition to rescuing the men a diiutduuu uj naiuiai auumuii vw ---Randy Rademacher is the son of gas has been cut in each of the past crewmen from the rc CoralH I a 4.1_____„4 nf PVnfonco athletic student manager in six sports throughout his high school career. He was also active in band, science club, was a Boys State delegate and was a National Merit Scholar. Vicki Hemmer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Hemmer of Holland. Besides serving in the football court for two years, she has been active in band, choir, pep band and pep club. She Amy Butke is the daughter of also was a class officer two years Gulf Chairman Testifies About Corporate Bribes Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Rademacher of Holland.

A member of the Club, he has also been a class officer, participated in band, pep band, pep club, and been on track, basketball and cross country teams. (Continued on Page 24) Post Office Mural Featured In Film several years, and that another cut is expected this year. Haller said the state gas regulatory agency has ordered Jasper to make the cut, and that if it were not done, the large gas users might have their service completely terminated. A government table puts larger industries first on the list for curtailment of gas service. Smaller industries are next, followed by residential consumers.

Haller said the cutback is ex- president of Bolivia, which involved special leasing of airplanes and the purchase of a helicopter. testimony came before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee which is probing corporate bribes by American companies to foreign Indiana Post Office being Dorsey said the Pittsburgh- government officials. It was the produced for the Indiana Historical By LEONARD CURRY UPI Business Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) Gulf Oil Corp. Chairman Bob R. Dorsey told Congress today that beginning in 1966 his firm made $5 million in political contributions to South Korean and Bolivian government officials.

Interphase II Productions, a Merrillville film company will be be 2Q cent on location in the post office Fv Jasper on Tuesday, May 20, from 8 to 10 a.m. to film the mural Farming Scenes in Late In addition, the film crew will interview patrons about the mural. The mural, painted in 1939 by Jessie Hull Mayer, will be featured in a film, for Main Street: The said Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger Thursday, the was a reaffirmation of freedom of the In Honolulu, Adm. Noel Gayler, who directed the military operations, said Thursday the Khmer Rouge had previously fired on a Swedish ship and a South Korean vessel and halted four other ships in international waters.

were not only providing (Continued on Page 24) Thailand Ambassador To U.S. Being Recalled based company gave $4 million in 1966 and 1970 to the Democratic Republican party of South Korea and made three contributions to a former Heavy Damage Results From Car-Truck Wreck Damage estimated at $3,300, but no serious injuries, resulted from a car-truck accident at about 8:30 this morning at the intersection of Sixth and Newton Streets in Jasper. Jasper city police report that Robert S. Schnaus, 64, of 1414 Maute Jasper, was driving his 1974 Pontiac east on Sixth Street when he failed to stop at the stoplight and ran into the side of a southbound 1968 Ford two-ton truck owned by Jasper Lumber Company and driven by Kelley C. Schnarr, 35, of R.

4, Jasper. Damage to Schnaus car was estimated at $2,500, while the truck sustained damages estimated at $800. first detailed public disclosure of Gulf payments to foreign officials and politicans. Dorsey said the Korean government was beginning a system of national elections in the late and needed large sums of money to finance election campaigns. leaders of the governing (Continued on Page 24) Society.

The film will detail the murals in some 35 Indiana cities and towns which were done as part of the By FREDERICK H. MARKS BANGKOK (UPI) Charging that the America he loved had violated sovereignty, Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj today announced he was recalling the Thai ambassador to Washington and federal art projects designed to ordering a complete review of provide work for unemployed artists in the and for Main is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission. all treaties and agreements between the two countries. United States has violated our rit told newsmen after a cabinet meeting that discussed HOOD kslf wmm enters 11 I 03 i.i. darkest 1 49 a.a.

total ecllpM MKw Nil! ia IttH it jpppiipjp 3:03 wL All Eastern Tlw 3:30 A the use of U.S. Marines from a base in Thailand to retrieve the American merchant vessel Mayaguez and its crew from the Cambodians. just ignore such action by a friendly Kukrit said. order to insure that such action does not occur again, we will inform the United States that we will review all treaties and agreements in order to bring commitments up to Kukrit ruled out any formal severance of relations with the United States and said he was personally saddened over the disregard by the United States of Thai sovereignty. love he said.

Kukrit called the cabinet meeting after the United States ignored diplomatic protest over the presence of the Marines and sent them into Cambodia to retrieve the Mayaguez. The prime minister said the government was preparing a memorandum over the incident, to be presented to the United States by the Thai ambassador ECLIPSE NEXT WEEK At midnight Saturday, be viewed with the naked eye or through binoculars ixi May 24, the moon will undergo a total eclipse as or telescopes. At midnight (EDT), the moon will Schnaus, who suffered a bloody depicted in this sketch from Abrams Planetarium at begin to enter the shadow cast by the earth, then in Washington, th5J nose, was charged with dis- Michigan State University. Unlike a solar eclipse, completely cover it by 1.03 a.m. further consultations regarding an automatic signal.

there is no danger in observing a lunar eclipse. It can (UnitedPress International) further consultations..