The Evening Review from East Liverpool, Ohio • Page 1

WEATHER Light snow flurries today; Sunday, warmer and cloudy. Montgomery Dam Friday 7 p.m. 26, today 1 a.m. 27, today 7 a.m. 28, today noon 28.

High 30, low EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW Complete News Cwerage of Wetlsville, Midland, Chester and Newell HOME EDITION VOL. 89 NO. 46 PHONE 385.4545 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1967 20 PAGES JOc 42c WmMs bf CMTMr Toll May Hit 41 In Bridge Collapse Only Piers And Twisted Girders Remain Of Silver Bridge. One Company Sold Samuel Ellis Of N. Carolina Escaped Death.

Wreckage Of Bridge Approach Lies In Shambles On Shore. During Break In Weather Oil Business Goes Planes Rip Into River As Of North Viet Third Day For 3 Local Corporations William E. Blair Jr. of East Uverpod, president end ity fltodchddcr in three Ohio cofporatkms based here, has acnounoed the sale of one company, sale of million in stock for and the development of gas and oil development of Columbiana oil and natural gas assets in the next few years. Declaring 1968 will be the biggest exploratory year since Tri-State inception in October 1962, Blair added that his companies presently pleted next reported, and the well will go to a depth of about 5,500 feet.

It is considered a test of the Clinton sand formation, which, he added, is known to be a good bearer of oil and natural gas in this state. The Management Control which will sell the new stock to further eiqplore and sources ki Columbiana County are conferring with CMiio atHh- in connection with the third. orities in an effort to establish Blair smd final legal fwms a crude oil refinery in the bekig prepared for the sale' ty. He said several meetings evaluate the oil and gas hold- of the Oil and Gas i have been held with state offi- i of Tri-State producing, will Co. to an unnamed Californio cials and they will continw next: direct a portion of its efforts group for $250,000.

He expects i year exploring the posabilities toward the develdiMnent of Co- the sale to be completed be-! of the refinery for this area, fore tiie end of 1967 and said it Blair said there is a critical has been approved by all share- need for sudi a facility, since holders. The prima- most of the oil produced in Ohio ry concern has been the mitia- must be transported kito other states for refining. He declared it would be a tremendous as- ting of multiple investments and, he explained, all the com- lumbiana County through revenue generated by tte sale. Blair explained that Management Control, after the first of the year, will sell its new issue of stock at $5,000 per Half shares will be available, assets presently consist set to the area too, he noted, at a cost of investments. company Tn-State 500 each.

While the company is was formed in May 1966. I Buttes Gas and Oil Co. of Oak- pgj-nditted to operate anywhere desmbed con -1 United States, for the AT THE same time Blair an- larger than the East, jjg nounoed his Tri-State Produc-1 Liverpool firm, have entered ing in conjunction with its into a joint operating program and presently are drilling a well in fowx Township on the Whittaker Farm. subsidiary, the Management Control which is wholely owned by Tri-State Producing, is set to what he termed, million in the directed into Ohio, since that is wihere its present properties are located. The stock sale will be announced after Jan.

1, he said, should be com (Turn to OIL, Page 2) By Inapector Steps Launched To Seal Off Mine A deputy mine in.spec- tor started work Friday afternoon on a project seeking donations of materials and equip- expense in the project, as hei hopes to obtain donations of! bricks from a district firm which offered the material pre- ment and a few hundred dol- viously on another occasion lars in public funds to allow closing of the two openings of an abandoned clay mine along the East Uverpool Wellsville Rd. in which two Warren boys were lost for 30 hours. John Kirkland of Lisbon RD when there was talk of sealing the shafts. He said he will seek donatkins of a truck to haul the In-icks and a high-lift to move the material from the highway to the job site. The two openings are about 5.

an inspector for the 0 i 1300 feet apart, both in close Division of Mines, said he; pH-oximity to the heavily travel- would approach county m-1 ed highway, missioners and city officials in i Kirkland pointed out that Bast Uverpool and Wellsville sedckig approximately $500 to cover the wages of bricklayers who would be employed to seal off the two shaft openings. KIRKLAND said the payroll cost would represent the only SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS to MINE, Page 2) Caroling Set SundayNight In Diamond The public is invitod to par- ticipaite in the commuiwty csrol skig around tiie CSiristmas tree on the Diamond Simday, beginning at 10 p.m. Music will be provided by the Salvation Army Band. Ernest Lowe will lead the skiging. Hie Rev.

Philip Cari, pastor of the Orchard Grove Methodist Church, will read the Christmas Story. A Boola, Foola NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) The alarm went out to Yale University campus police just after midnight trouble on the fourth floor of Wright Hall. Officer Richard Dorfman was the first to react, the Yale Daily News 0 d. He ran to Wright Hall.

Sizing up the situation, he called for more help. Lewis Cappiello I and force members Thomas Charron and Pat! rick Wynn hurried to the I scene of what they be- I lieved to be a budding I freshman said the ii news. But instead of being I pelted with bottles when I they charged into the dcff- I mlty, they drew a bar- I rage of confetti. I With that came jovial I backslapping and singing I and proclaiming a I Christmas I party fw the campus I I Relaxing, Charron and i Wvnn joined Cappiello. al- I ready well mto the Christ- I mas cake and non-alco- re holic eggnog.

Span Topples SAIGON (AP) American weather remains clear. an warplanes bombed North heavily defended heartland for the third day today, taking advantage of an unseasonable break in the POINT PLEASANT, Va.Harge trucks, were on the span weather to pound the Hanoi and (AP) More than 100 skin it collapsed into water 30 Haiphong bridges and rail cen- ers converged on this Ohio Riv- to 70 feet deep. About half the iters vital to the movement of er town today to start the grisly search for bodies as the toll from bridge collapse rose to eight dead and 33 persons missing. A flotilla of boats was also ready at the site where the bridge linking Ohio and West Virginia plummeted into the near-freezing waters. An estimated 75 cars were on the span when it collapsed.

Rescue workers said they spotted three bodies iq a pairtial vehicles fell onto the banks of supplies southward, the river. Some were crushed The air war erupted in by large steel beams. Thursday after a month- The bridge floor, superstruc-' long lull forced by bad weather, ture and missing vehicles Initial reports of raids plunged completely out of sight were sketchy but headquarters beneath the water. said they were again directed at Holzer Hospital at the rail choke points on the Ohio, four miles from Point running from Red China Pleasant, received bodies of i to the Hanoi-Haiphong area and four men and one unidentified woman. Ohio and West Virginia thence south.

Air Force, Navy and Marine au- pilots mounted 119 missions Fri- all-out effort to slow the movement of supplies southward while the chance lasts. Clear spells in the monsoon season are normally infrequent, and the rainy season should prevail for amother five months. Priority targets during the weather break have been the full Hanoi and Haiphong bridges. The U.S. Command said that raids Friday dropped the center span of main highway bridge and pilots put at least one bomb directly on the Kien An rail bridge on southern outskirts.

Also hit was the vital Canal des Rapides Bridge just above Hanoi. thorities agreed the death the highest total since late ly submerged car early today the October. raids were wuu.u lieved equally heavy. equipment to remove the vie tims from the vehicle. The three bodies were in addition to the five killed' when the two-lane U.S.

35, bridge fell off its piers and dis- chance of finding any more sur vivors amid the tangle of con- will continue crete and steel in the river. who comes out of the river will not be The U.S. Command said full scale bombing of North Vietnam sp long as the missile defense systems in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas, extra planes went along Friday to attack antiaircraft sites and duel MIG interceptors. No MIGs were reported downed Friday but one was claimed Thursday, The Communists claimed they shot down a total of sevm American planes Thursday and Friday. The U.S.

Command' has acknowledged only the Thursday of an F105 Thunder- chief which went down in raids on Hanoi. On the ground in South Vietnam several sharp clashes were reported. On the Bong Son coaatai plains 325 miles northeast of These, along with big U.S. air cavalrymen, Doumer Bridge, bombed Thurs-jwho mwe to battle in day, are probably the four most important bridges in North Vietnam. To counter formidable enemy antiaircraft and surface-to-air ters, and South Vietnamese infantrymen said Friday they killed 47 North Vietnamese regulars and that the fight was stUl going on.

in the Wide stream while loaded with bumper-to- bumper traffic. State Police said they were certain the death toll would go higher. A 35-mile stretch of the river was sealed off from all commercial traffic and U.S. Army Engineers were discussing the possibility of closing gates on an upstream dam to lower the water level in the area where the, bridge once stood. Eyewitnesses said about 75 vehicles, including numerous Ohio, prosecutor.

He was named by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes to supervise operations on the Ohio side. is no question that the final figure will be much high- Like An Arctic Snow Strands Motorists GRANTS, N.M. (AP) Stranded motorists, from truck said West Virginia Statej jj-jvers to honeymooners.

Police Capt. J.D. Baisden. veyed the 20-inch snow Sets Price Increase PITTSBURGH The Aluminum Co. of America, following Kaiser lead, has raised the carload shipment (Turn to BRIDGE, Page 10) Eyewitnesses Tell Of Trageily that Nine persons were hospital- them at Grants and ized at Gallipolis and Point the of one of Pleasant.

their number: Searchers with acetylene jgoks like an arctic waste- torches worked through the out said Irving Rapaport of Albuquerque, N.M. Rapaport, mining It, Believe Man At Scene Declares GALLIPOLIS, Ohio (AP) It was a slow night for selling Christmas trees. H. L. Whobrey had a good the corner of highways 7 and 35 catching aH the bridge traffic from Point Pleasant, W.Va.—but it was cold, and most of the steady stream of commuters passed him by.

He made his first sale, and was just loading a tree in the trunk of a car when he heard the noise. The tragedy of a bridge collapsing brought these three men ficial, was among an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 per.sons stranded Friday at Grants after a storm halted traffic on U.S. 66 and Interstate 40. Gov. David F.

Cargo declared an emergency and National Guardsmen rushed in supplies. sons from the overflow Friday night in emergency quarters at a community center. got pretty hairy out said Ken Meyer of Baxter Springs, a trucker hauling explosives from Grand Island, who was forced to stop at the adjacent commimi- ty of Milan. saw a lot of foolhardy people trying to bu.st through drifts and driving too fast with (tire) he said. some of tho.se white cars got stuck in the middle road, blend in with the snow and that made it Ijonnie Wood of Forth Worth, The storm held much of the heading for Los Angeles Southwest in its grip.

Forty-six 1 inches of snow were reported at wiith his brother, said his car bogged down nine miles from Milan. were in that car for hours and finally we got so ooid that we just started Wood said. might have my car out of the snow bank Mit a' snow plow which passed knocked more snow on my ow and that just buried iit too Mr. and Mrs. Jose Gonzales were en route to San Diego, from Chicago.

a way to a hon- said after 23 hours in a ti affic jam 10 milee west of Grants. a real djs- together. They were among the Flagstaff in northern Arizona, where traffic on U.S. 66 also had (Turn to EYEWITNESS, pg. 10) sounded like one of those ordinary fender benders on the he said.

have them all the Dick Kuhn was filling a car with gasoline at the cwTier service station when he heard what like a Two Bridges Here Termed Sound' The 70-year-old Chester Bridge and the 63-year-old Newell Bridge today were termed structurally sound and stopped for the most part. Twenty-eight indies of snow were reported at Winslow. Rapaport was in Grants to try and get to his nearby mine. been able to get out to the mines for two he said. We tried to bulldoze our way through, but the drifts Gas Flame Ignites Dress, Burning Girl, 4, Severely A 4-year-old East Liverpool girl was in condition today at City Hospital with severe burns suffered Friday about noon when her was piled back up the minute we ignited by the flame of an went i gas space heater in the bath- Highways in the area opened room at her home.

on a at your own likely to undergo the same fate late Friday and traffic be- as the Point Pleasant span Fri- moving slowly out of The Chester Bridge not only is given annual inspec- he said. thought by the Ohio Highway De- some nut was shooting ducks under the bridge. Lee Long was taking a coffee break at the Gallipolis Fire De- (Turn to SPANS, Page 10) Grants. Authorities estimated abmit 1,000 persons remained in the She is Linda Sue (Cindy) Duke, daughter of Mrs. Linda Duke of 1039 Oak who suffered first, second and third degree biirns of the forehead, face, neck, chest, abdomen, up- price of hydrated aliunina $6 a partment when the alarm came ton.

In. area overnight. Motels, trailer per arms and thighs, parks, hotels, churches, city Mrs. Wilma Duke, 23, of 416 buildings, schools and private Vine a relative of the In need of a loan? homes were occupied by the mother, suffered See the money store, Diversi- transients. I of the right hand in extinguish- fied Savings and Loan of Ches The American Red Cross said ing the flames and tearing off ter.

Dial 1 it was housing at least 50 per-1 tihe clothing, police re- ported. She was babysitting for Cindy and five other children while the mother was at work (Turn to GIRL, Page 10) iim Vietnam Map A large 4color map of Vietnam is included iq Review on page 13, depicting the north and south areas, DMZ, key battle sites and the location (tf major unHs and head quarts of U.S. forces. It is jNrovided to ijive readers a handy re- erence source about the nation and its coitnict..