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I IMM. 1 I Nation I Under I VP God I In Our 198th Year 1 RUSHVILLE REPUBLICAN Vol. 176 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Tuesday, October 9, 1973 If you have not received your newspaper by 6:00 Please Call Before 6:15 Calls received after 6:15 can not be delivered Youth Hunted In Montana For Slaying 4 On Ranch HELMVILLE, Mont. (UPI) 19th-century bandit, was carry- Law enforcement officers set ing several weapons including a highway checkpoints along the 7mm rifle which blow a rugged Continental Divide head off at 500 yards today in their search for a Montana Highway Patrolmen, heavily armed teen-ager sus- deputies and Fish and Game pected of killing four persons at Department wardens were sta- a dude ranch. deputies said Roger Caryl, 17, who liked to be called after a fabled Snow In West Brings Warning To Travelers By United Press International Travelers warnings were in effect today for southeast Idaho and the mountains of Colorado for snow and freezing conditions.

The storm, centered in Colorado, also produced winds up to 45 miles per hour. Winds gusted to 45 m.p.h. at Daggett, early today and 35 m.p.h. winds were recorded over the Plains from west and north Texas into central Kansas. Rain and snow fell over portions of the Central Plateau, north Arizona, the Northern Rockies and the west slopes of the Central Rockies.

West Yellowstone, received five inches of new snow during a six-hour period. Light snow continued to fall in southern Montana early today and temperatures were near freezing. Temperatures sank to near record lows in many areas of Southern California Monday, and mountain areas were blasted by snow flurries and icy winds. Up to eight inches of snow fell in the southern part of the Sierra Nevadas. Rain fell today in northern California.

Thunderstorms were scattered over the eastern Dakotas, upper Mississippi Valley, and from the Texas Panhandle into central Kansas. Showers were scattered over eastern and eastern North Carolina. Temperatures early today ranged from 24 at Cut Bank, to 81 at Corpus Christi, Tex. 4 Hurt Iii Highway Mishap Four people were hurt in a one-car accident near the Laurel Road on highway 52 east Andersonville at approximately IO p.m. Monday night.

The Franklin County department says a car driven by Hubert Onstott, 65, 406 North Arthur, hit a guard rail along the highway in the fog while en route west, completely wrecking his car. Onstott and three passengers in the car were brought by a passing motorist to Rush Memorial emergency room for treatment, and one was admitted for observation. Onstott was treated for lacerations of the nose and right arm. His wife, Hazel, 63, was treated for lacerations of the left eye. Ruth Crawford, 73, 343 E.

10th was treated for leg lacerations, and Ethel Roberts, 79, 522 E. 9th, was treated for lacerations and abrasions, and admitted for observation. Ohio Fire Kills 8 Children BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (UPI) Eight children were killed early today in an explosion and fire at a mobile home in nearby Jerry City, authorities said. George. Loomis, fire chief at Jerry City, a community of 500 located about IO miles south of this northwestern Ohio city, said the victims were the children of Mr.

and Mrs. Jessie Trevina. The parents do maintenance work at Bowling Green State 'niversity and were not at home at the time, authorities aid. Fire officials at first said nine children died in the, fire. They changed the total to eight, however, after the bodies were removed to a funeral home.

tioned every two miles along a north-south road between U.S. 12 and Montana 200 in the manhunt. Sheriff David Collings said Caryl is suspected of killing the four persons Sunday, possibly because he was ordered to bury a dog he had shot to death. The youth was employed at the dude ranch where the killings took place. Collings said Caryl first shot Samuel Akins, 42, and his son, Steven, 18, with whom he shared a cabin at the Whitetail Ranch.

Then, according to the officer, he killed the manager, John Miller, 23, and the cook, Ruby Judd, 62. Witnesses who scattered when the violence erupted told investigators that Caryl told his victims: have a few hellos for and a hello for then blasted them with a shotgun. Deputies said Caryl spent the night after the shooting in an unoccupied ranchhouse near this small southwest Montana community. They said he severed telephone lines there. Planes and tracking dogs were pressed into service in the search.

Caryl, an Eagle Scout, came to Montana in August after leaving his home in Decatur, IU. His father, James, 49, a mechanic at a farm implement manufacturing firm, told reporters at Decatur: they have to shoot him, just have to. I hope they get him before he hurts anyone else. the phone rings we hope that get word that caught Big Cooloff Eight Pages Ten Cents Israel Admits Going Is ough, Fears Long War By United Press International Israeli planes attacked the Syrian army and air force headquarters half a mile from downtown Damascus today in the first such strike against a Middle East capital in the war claimed victories in the naval battle. A communique broadcast by Cairo radio said the Egyptian thrust in the Sinai, advancing all along the 102-mile front, destroyed Israeli posi- which erupted Saturday.

But tions, sent Israeli forces in Israel admitted hard going on retreat and captured hundreds the Suez Canal and Golan of prisoners, including an Heights fronts where Egypt and Israeli armored brigade com- Syria claimed sweeping succes- mander. ISI Rig 10-Inch Gas Pipe Installed Approximately five and a half miles of a new high pressure line is being installed by the Indiana Gas Company along highway 3 north of Rushville. The 10-inch steel pipe is being layed by W. H. Joyner and Sons of New Castle.

The big pipe connects with a 4-inch line at county road 200N, running 26,480 feet north to link up with a 6-inch pipe from New Castle which comes down from Muncie. A company spokesman said work is expected to be completed within four weeks. Installation is expected to improve gas pressure in this area. (Wayne Gale Photo) Summary Of News Throughout World By United Press International WASHINGTON The White House said President Nixon had initiated an exchange of messages on the Mideast situation with Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev through diplomatic channels, and that Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger, conferred during the weekend with Huang Chen, chief of bason mission here. The general lines of U.S. policy urged return of Israeli, Egyptian and Syrian forces to positions they held before the fighting began Saturday. WASHINGTON Michael McMinoway, who is expected to testify before the Senate Watergate committee later today, said in a preliminary interview with the committee staff that he spied on Sens. George S.

McGovern, Edmund NEEDED virginia Likely Friday By United Press International Summer temperatures in the 80s were expected in Indiana again today and Wednesday. But watch out for that big step down later in the week. Abnormal warmth may fizzle out by Friday, and the weekend may feature weatherlike one would expect for mid-October. Until then, however, conditions were more like July. Highs Monday ranged up to 80 at Lafayette and Indianapolis, with Evansville and Louisville getting 79 and Terre Haute and Fort Wayne 78.

Overnight lows were in the mild lower 60s except in the far north, where Fort Wayne recorded 55 and South Bend 59. Highs today and Wednesday were expected to be in the same to 80 north to upper 70s and low 80s central to 80 to 84 lows from 56 to 65 in between. Mostly clear weather was expected until Thursday, when two days with a chance of rain or showers were due. It will turn Friday, according to the extended outlook, with highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s Friday and Saturday and lows in the low and mid 40s to mid 60s Friday and Saturday and lows in the low and mid 40s by Saturday. An overnight fog which shrouded the state on a spotty basis this morning mostly dissipated by mid-morning.

Generally fair and mild tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight near 60; high Wednesday near 80. Indiana extended outlook: Chance of rain Thursday and Friday. Turning much cooler Friday and Saturday. Highs dropping to near 60 by Friday and Saturday with lows dropping to mid- 40s.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 7 a.m. today 59 I p.m. today 75 Monday, October 8,1978 Highest 78 Lowest 57 Precipitation None (Data by U.S. Weather Station) BALTIMORE, Justice Department says it is willing to answer questions under oath from Vice President Spiro T. lawyers about news leaks.

But it supports several reporters w'ho say they are not willing to do the same. Lawyers for the department and the reporters filed separate responses Monday to subpoenas attempting to force them to make sworn depositions about what the vice president contends is a of news leaks against him. 3 Perish When Car Hits Truck On Toll Road By United Press International Three persons were killed, including two children, Monday night when a car rammed into the rear of a large truck on the Indiana Toll Road at Gary, raising the 1973 traffic fatality toll to 1,260 compared with 1,176 a year ago. The car was traveling along the superhighway at Mile Post ll around dusk when it struck the truck, killing Mrs. Jean Ann Vinke, 41, Chicago, and her daughter, Betty Jean, 9, and fatally injuring Mrs.

6-year-old niece, Lynn Jozsa Vinke, Oak Forest, 111. Mrs. Vinke and her daughter were dead on arrival at Gary Methodist Hospital, where the other girl died shortly afterward. Injured were Mary Lou Vinke, 12, critically, and David Vinke, 16, in fair condition. Both were children of Mrs.

Vinke. David E. Paul, 17, Lafayette, died in Home Hospital there Monday of injuries suffered Sept. 30 when his motorcycle was struck by a Norfolk Western Railroad freight train northeast of Lafayette in Tippecanoe County. Accidents Monday killed Terrell L.

Wagner, 39, Mount Vernon, in a two-car wreck east of his hometown on Indiana 62 and Janice Young, 9, Chicago, in a car-truck accident along Interstate 65 north of Rensselaer. THE DRIVE IS OM S. Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1972 presidential campaign. Committee Republicans were to call Democratic this week, but sources said they may not, due to lack of substantial testimony.

Some service station owners, angered that the government will not let them raise gasoline prices as much as they say is reasonable, have begun charging for maps and other services es. Israel also hit Syrian oil refineries and power plants, two Egyptian air fields and a Lebanese radar station, military communiques reported. The strike was the first against Lebanon, which has not entered the war. Beirut reported heavy damage and Damascus reported civilian casualties there and in Horns, IOO miles north of Damascus. Israeli military officials who began issuing optimistic statements on Monday began backtracking today and said struggle facing us will not be an easy Observers in Beirut said the war was likely to be a protracted one, not a swift walkover as in the 1967 rix-day war.

is clear that Israel has been waging and is waging some of the fiercest battles in a correspondent of National Radio reported from the Suez front where the Israeli commander said the Egyptians were fighting fiercely to hang on. Most reports of the fighting came from official spokesmen in Tel Aviv and in the various Arab capitals. So far Western newsmen have not been allowed to visit the actual battlefields A later military communique reported a fierce battle between Egyptian and Israeli vessels in the Mediterranean. It said the Egyptians sank nine Israeli haunches and shot down five helicopters accompanying them, with three Egyptian vessels hit. Israel reported its naval vessels sank three Egyptian missile boats in the Mediterranean off the Nile Delta and escaped after the attack.

Israel also reported damaging Egyptian gunboats in the Gulf of Suez. An Israeli military command announcement said that while ground fighting swirled on two fronts Israeli pilots reported from their noon strikes against the Syrian military headquarters. The command said the raid also hit oil refineries and power stations near homes in northern Syria. Witnesses in Damascus said the Israeli strike destroyed at least IO buildings but the Syrian command said Syrian planes drove off the six attacking Phantom jets and shot down four of them. Syria also reported three more Israeli planes downed in other strikes.

So far Syria has claimed more than IOO Israeli planes destroyed. Israel said the strikes at the were ordered after Syrian gunners targeted Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights with long-range rockets, each capable of traveling 44 miles with warheads. Israel said the Lebanese radar station on a mountain peak was being used by the Syrian air force. The Lebanese Ministry of Defense reported heavy damage and said nine Lebanese soldiers were wounded. Some Gas Stations Now Charge For Road Maps, Washing indshields such as washing the windshield.

appreciate the first-hand reporting, maps if they pay for Egyptian military corn- said Paul Allen, a Gulf dealer niuniflues said Egyptian forces in Los Angeles. if we driving from the Gulf of Suez By United Press International Some service station owners, angered that the government will not let them raise gasoline prices as much as they say is reasonable, now are charging lor maps and other services such as washing the windshield. appreciate the maps if they pay for said Paul Allen, a Gulf dealer in Los Angeles. if we were allowed to make money on our products, we could keep were allowed to money advanced nine miles into the the free Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula today and fought a sea battle with Israeli warships off the northern coast. Both sides on our products, we could keep the free Goal $50,116 To Date $19,144.59 Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Rogers Rogers Upholstery, $10; William and Dolleta Callahan, $60; Mr. and Mrs. Neal Kuhn, Mr. and Mrs.

Wallace Wissing, SIO; Miss Betty Wissing, Mr. and Arthur Lortz, Mr. and Mrs. Varl Gahimer, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Norris, $10; Mr. and Mrs. George Gwinnup, $5. Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Wissing, SA; Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Perkins, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Earnest, $10; Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Stevens, Mr. and Mrs.

Floyd Ellison, $15; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Miller, $15; Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller, $25; Mr.

and Mrs. Wilbur Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Anderson, in. Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Johnson, $15; Mr. and Mrs. Reed Mull, Mr. and Mrs.

Denzil Mull, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Houston, Mrs. Ross Brown, $10; Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Mohr, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hill, Loyal Workers Class, Homer Federated Church, $10; Dr. and Mrs. Earl Brown, $15; Branson Service Station, $5.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Schutt, Carmony Hardware, Webster Texaco Service, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Lower, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Houston, Mrs. Maurice Mrs. Lena Miller, Mr.

and Mrs. Francis Houston, $15; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edwards, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Brown, $15. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Dearinger, Mrs. Eva Robinson, $40; Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Elder, $10; Mrs. Zula Miller, $10; Mr. and Mrs. Olin Edwards, Mr.

and Mrs. Gary Krammes, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ashby, $5. Mrs.

Marion Krammes, Mr. and Mrs. James Glaub, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wintin, Mr.

and Mrs. Connie Moore, Miss Mary Parrish, $10; Rev. and Mrs. W. B.

Jenkins, $5: Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gulley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright, 10 WASHINGTON (UPI) One of three youths charged with shooting Sen.

John S. Stennis, during a robbery attempt Jan 30, pleaded guilty Monday. Tyrone Marshall, 19, entered his plea after learning one of his alleged accomplices planned to testify against him. The youths could be sentenced to maximum life prison terms under a 1970 law making it a federal crime to assault a member of Congress, plus ll years on various counts of assault, robbery and weapons violations. members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Persian Gulf the second stage of a campaign aimed at a 66 per cent increase in prices paid by Western oil companies.

A spokesman said the opening talks were and did not touch the Middle East war. SAIGON South Vietnamese Air Force spotter pilots sighted two Friday within 60 miles of Saigon and two truce team helicopters were shot at but not hit, the high command announced today. Diplomatic sources, meanwhile, reported no progress in efforts to trace three employes of a U.S. contracting company an apparently were kidnaped Saturday in the Delta. The other two are South Vietnamese.

MEXICO remarks prepared for a panel at the 14th annual conference of United Press International editors and publishers, former White House communications director, Herbert Klein said that Watergate violated American tradition and law but that over-obsession with the scandal be a greater danger to the nation than the evils we seek to Mrs. Silvia Pinto Torres, 36, a member of the Chilean congress and a journalist, was scheduled to open session with an address. Runs Off Road In Fog Today The Rush County Department reports a slight accident, an emergency run with a boy and a bike, and three speeding citations. The department investigated an accident on a county road near the site of the old Freeman School in Richland Township at approximately 6:30 a.m. today.

The report states James D. Deiwert, 24, R. R. 8, Greensburg, was en route north on CR650E and due to fog, failed to get stopped in time at the T-road and crossed the road, striking a fence. Damages were listed at $50 to the Deiwert car, $50 to the property of Loren Cull, and $40 to a highway post.

A deputy came upon a boy lying in the roadway on CR450S IV 2 miles east of New Salem at approximately 6 p.m. Monday. Michael Hammonds, 15, R. R. 2, had fallen from a bicycle and appeared to be badly hurt.

An ambulance was called, and Michael was taken to Rush Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released. The boy had evidently knocked the breath out of himself when he leu. Three persons were cited for speeding through New Salem Monday morning. Those ticketed to appear in J. P.

Court are; Rita S. Murray, 23, R. R. 2, speeding 42 in a 35 mph zone; Becky J. Sams, 23, R.

R. Laurel, speeding 51 in a 35 mph zone; and Harvey E. Hartford, 19, R. R. Laurel, speeding 49 in a 35 mph zone.

Drunk Arrest The Rushville Police Department arrested Doyle Miller, 61, 529 West Water Street for public intoxication about 9:45 p.m. Monday when police say he was found staggering in the 200 block of North Jackson Street. Miller appeared in City Court today and was fined $29. He was also sentenced to 50 days in the county jail for failure to pay past fines. In another development, Richard Meser, president of the Greater Indianapolis Gasoline Dealers, said an assistant to Charles Owens, head of the Cost of Living (CLC) Energy Division, asked him Friday to set up a seven-man panel of dealers to advise the council.

The assistant, Robert Gossin, asked Meser to call back today with the list, Meser said. we advise the CLC, likely to murder us the next time. The first time they set prices they had not talked to one Meser said. The CLC Sept. 20 let gas stations raise prices by between one and 2Va cents per gallon.

Dealers said that was not enough. In the San Francisco area and in Utah some dealers have divided pumping areas into zones and zones. In the former, the motorist gets his windshield washed and oil checked, but pays a penny or two per gallon more than the one in the area. Many dealers on the West Coast either have stopped carrying maps or are charging a dime and even a quarter for them. the years, been a million-dollar said' Bill Fleeup, a Chevron owner in Los Angeles.

people look at them once, crumple them up like Kleenex and throw them Robert Jacobs, an official of the Illinois and Indiana Gasline Dealers Association, said ers in his area were not charging for the traditionally free services but, been suggestions we charge everyone driveway fees or tax aganst that sort of thinking. devious. stick to the government is being Ethel Edens Expires Here; Rites Thursday Mrs. Ethel P. Edens, 82, 705 North Sexton, died at 8:30 p.m.

Monday at the Jackson Nursing Home after several months of failing health. A life long resident of Rushville and Rush County, Mrs. Edens was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church and Martha Poe Chapter No. 143, Order of Eastern Star.

She was born in Circleville on October 22, 1890, the daughter of Henry and Nettie Gould Schmall, and was married November 8, 1911, to Oscar Edens, who died January 8, 1963. Surviving are a brother, William Herschell Schmall, and a sister Mrs. Ida Casey, both of Rushville, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by twin infant daughters. The Rev.

Summer Walters will conduct services at 3 p.m. Thursday at Moster and Sons Mortuary, where friends may call after 4 p.m. Wednesday, with entombment in East Hill Shrine Mausoleum. Eastern Star rites will be held at the mortuary at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

EVENTS In Rushville Stale Trooper Found Dead VALPARAISO, Ind. (UPI) Authorities today sought the cause of death of Brian Vickers, 34, an off-duty state police trooper found dead Monday in a field on the northeast edge. Vickers, who joined the force in 1962, was attached to the Dunes Park Post at Chesterton. His body was found fully dressed by a construction crew. Porter County Coroner Leonard Wetmore said there was no evidence of foul play, although that possibility was not ruled out.

Tuesday Breakfast Optimist Club, Durbin Hotel Art Discussion, 10:15 a.m. Library Rotary Club. Durbin Hotel Kiwanis Club, Durbin Hotel Eagles Lodge Phoenix Lodge 62 FOP, club room Elks Lodge Princess Theatre Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study, Faith United Methodist, First Church of God churches Praise and Prayer Service, Rushville Church of the Nazarene Women of the Moose Rush County Jaycees Pre-School Story Time, Library, 1:30 p.m. Princess Theatre.

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