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One Nation Under God In Our 199th Year RU REPUBLICAN VOL. 162 Established I IO 1971 Rushville Newspapers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Rushville, Indiana, Wednesday, September 25, 1974 lf you have not received your newspaper by 6:00 Please all 932 Before 6:15 Calla received after 6:15 can not be delivered 16 Pages Fifteen Cents rn News In Brief Pair Face Kidnaping Charges EVANSVILLE, Ind. UPI A federal court hearing is slated here Monday for two Illinois men who earlier this week were sentenced to 30-year terms for kidnaping Ricky Sledge, 21, Flora, 111., and Richard Maceri, 26, Valir, 111., were sentenced Monday in federal court at Owensboro, to 30 years for the kidnaping last July of Phyllis Teverbaugh, 17, at Madisonville, Ky.

They know face federal charges in Indiana for a kidnaping spree which followed their escape from the Franklin County Jail at Benton, 111 They were charged with first kidnaping Mr. and Mrs John Crafton at Carbondale, 111., and forcing the couple to dirve them into Indiana. The Craftons were tied up and left near Chandler, in Warrick County. Sledge and Maceri then were accused of kidnaping Jo Ann Bruce, 32, Evansville, from an Evansville shopping center and forcing her to drive them into Kentucky where she was released and the Madisonville girl kidnaped. Blacks Charge Police Brutality EVANSVILLE, Ind.

UPI Black leaders Tuesday filed two complaints of police brutality and asked for a grand jury probe into a racial disturbance last week at Harrison High School. The allegations of brutality were filed with the Evansville Police Board. The office said the request for a grand jury probe was under consideration. A half dozen or so persons were arrested and one policeman was hurt in racial distrubances which began after a football game last Thursday night and continued Friday at school. Sendak Criticizes Prosecutors INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Attorney General Theodore L.

Sendak Tuesday criticized Tippecanoe and Laporte County prosecutors for what he said were delays in taking action against merchants who collected state sales tax and did not forward the money to the Indiana Department of Revenue. Sendak said he has received 58 cases from the Department of Revenue in 23 counties involving either failure to hand one to the state sales tax collections or failure to pay income tax. Big Fire At Indy INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) A fire on the West Side Tuesday night caused an estimated $200,000 damage to an advertising supply company in the Park Fletcher Industrial Park. Authorities said three firemen suffered injuries requiring hospitalization, but none was hurt seriously. The blaze of undetermined origin quickly spread in the Service Mailing Supply Co.

and assistant Fire Chief Steve Ritter of the Wayne Township Volunteer Department said his men were hampered in getting into the place by boxes and supplies stacked in front of windows and doorways. Qty Police Charge Three With Speeding City Police have cited three motorists on charges of speeding, and a youth already in jail on two charges has been charged with another theft. Brenda Flaschberger, 27, Carghage, was ticketed on a speeding charge at 5:45 Tuesday. She was reportedly clocked 49 in a 30 zone. Mary A Lower, 47, 405 Main, and Carol Jacobs, 26.

5. were both charged with exceeding the IO mile per hour limit on City Park Drive shortly after noon Tuesday All three are slated for ap pearance in City Court. George Fletcher. 18, 6. is also scheduled for appearance in City Court as a result of citation charging bumper violation at 12:25 Tuesday.

A burglary which occurred at DePrez Scott hardware store Saturday night and has been under investigation has been cleared up by the combined effort of Rushville city police and the department The store was entered at approximately 7 and $37 in cash and some pocket knives were taken. A juvenile held in the county jail on other charges has admitted the breaking and en tering and theft, according to a police report this morning Cincy Girl Found; Suspect Nabbed By KICK VAN SANT CINCINNATI (UPI) A sobbing 4-year-old Allison Mechem, kidnaped as she rode a tricycle near her home, was found safe Tuesday in an empty motel room and reunited with her jubilant father, Charles Mechem board chairman of Taft Broadcasting Co. The accused kidnaper, a Cincinnati man on parole for armed robberies, turned himself in several hours later and was charged with the abduction. Blonde, blue-eyed Allison was kidnaped some 24 hours earlier from in front of her suburban Mt. Lookout home Monday evening.

The amount of ransom for New Post Office At Homer The Rush County Area Plan Commission met Tuesday evening at the Rush County Courthouse A number of petitioners came before the commission, including rezoning for a new post office at Homer Francis Houston, Bob Waggoner, and Eva Robinson petitioned the commission for a rezoning of an area in Homer from residential to commercial The purpose is for the erection of a new post office for Homer The commission voted permission for this rezoning Robert and James Crim, doing business as Crim and Sons, petitioned for the rezoning of a portion of their 12-acre tract on the west edge of Manilla from agricultural to industrial They now operate an asphalt business, and it has been a non conforming use of land In addition, it was stated the Pepsi Cola Company wishes to erect a warehouse on the property. The rezoning petition was granted Township, appeared tne commission for a Calley Conviction Overturned By Judge COLUMBUS. Ga. UPI A federal judge today overturned the My Lai murder conviction of former Army Lt William L. Calley on grounds of massive pretrial publicity, denial of the right to confront witnesses, and improperly drawn charges Calley.

a former Army platoon leader, was convicted of the murder of at least 22 South Vietnamese civilians when his unit made a sweep through the tiny Vietnamese Village of My Lai on March 16, 1968 He was sentenced to life imprisonment March 29, 1971, by a court martial board but his sentence was reduced to 20 years by a military appeals board and then to IO by Army Secretary Howard Callaway He served some 34 months under house arrest in bachelor officers, quarters at Ft Benning here during those ap peals His case went all the way then to Nixon without reversal of the conviction, hut Elliott granted him freedom Feb 27 under a personal bond to prepare an appeal in civilian courts The 31-year-old former platoon leader then began serving the remainder of his sentence at the Ft Leavenworth, Kan military prison when an appeals court reversed the lower court decision granting him freedom Phillip Russell, representing the Faith Bible Institute located in No! before preliminary plat for a residence to be located with the religious facility The commission noted that one-half acre is required for residences, a preliminary plat was granted A number of single lot sub division petitioners appeared before the commission for the purpose of obtaining the necessary plats and permits were issued for Elmer French, Ernest Copple, William Hungerford. Raymond Delay. Waldo Brown, William () Kirk patrick. Harold Norris. Dan Troyer.

Walter Blessinger. James Dalrymple, Raethel ('lair and Warren F. Carmony. The Area Plan Commission's Executive Director, Florence Linville. informed the Com mission members that with these plats granted, that per mils have been issued for thirty seven new homes in Rush County, with only one of these being iii the City of Rushville EVENTS TIII RSI) Prayer Meeting.

First Assembly of God, Church of Christ Choir Practices. First Presbyterian. Main Street Christian. St Paul United Methodist churches Youth Service, First Pent ecostal Veterans of Foreign Wars Moose Lodge Christian Education Com mittee. Trinity United Presbyterian Church Princess Theatre which the girl was held varied Monday night police said an anonymous caller had asked for $2,000.

But on Tuesday other police sources said the amount had been $40,000 The Cincin nati Enquirer said in ransom money was macle available but was never picked up The girl was rescued after maids in a nearby motel heard her crying inside a locked room and used a passkey to enter Police arrested Frank Joseph Wiechman, 26, for the kidnap mg and also held another man, who was not identified, for investigation An unidentified woman also was being sought for questioning Wiechman and i i Youth Hospitalized In Accident Joseph A. Jessup, 18, R. R. 7, lost control of his car Tuesday night approximately three miles northeast of Rushville and ended up in the hospital The car left the road and overturned in a field on the Dr. Warren Buhler farm.

Damage was estimated at $1900 to the model car. The mishap occurred at approximately (Sheriff Photo) Grand, Petit Jurors Drawn For October, November, December Venire for grand and petit juries have been drawn in the office of the Clerk of Rush Circuit Court and are presented for publication by Frances Norris, clerk Petit Jurors selected for the October. November, and December term are; Margaret L. Nelson, Arlington; Hosea D. Stoner.

Car thage; E. Yazel, Muriel P. Moore. Arlington: Jannetta Cohee, 1215 Willow Street; Leland Van Osdol, Arlington; Robert D. Riebsomer, 5.

Mary Katherine Sterrett, 1035 Tammy Lorene Leisure, 1109 N. Morgan Street; Lowell Myers. Milroy; Judith Pat terson. Milroy; Betty Waite, 104 E. 7th Byron Smith, 1221 N.

Morgan Street; Dorothy Lipscome, 402 Main Street; Norman R. Swarts, 1210 N. Harrison Street; William Hittle, 923 N. Perkins Street, Cyril N. Kirk, 222 5th Street Richard Forrest Osting, HO W.

8th Street; Vera Sweet, 123 Harrison Street; Max Branam, Martha Lloyd, R. James Durrett Self, Marilyn Sue Moor, Joe Niehoff, Wilma McMillin, 7. Beverly Kay Howell. Horine Rosfeld. R.

6: Dallas Frederick Earnest, Donna Sue Garner, Connie Bae Rice. R. Donald E. Car pen ter, 4 Gordon Young, Suzann Day Buening. Gladys Ethel Kuhn, Sandra Gordon, Bonner Wilkinson.

221 9th Street Mary Beth Shelton. 1201 Willow Street; Louia Heck man. 1218 Willow Street Charles A Peggs. 6. Lois A Joyce, 1027 N.

Main Street Marie Jeffries, 518 9th Street; Ervilla M. Olson, 222 lith Street; Judy K. Rucker, Carthage; Maxine Earnest, Thelma Meek, Milroy Thomas A Beckner, 411 5th Street; Margaret Pfleeger. Robert Ruhlman, 825 Willow Street; Donald G. Jollify, It William Lynn Ellison, 819 E.

lith Street Grand Jury members selected include; Billy J. Evans, IC Lois Young, 804 Park View Alva Elliott, Owen Parker, 412 Morgan Street Franklin Mcllwain, 726 N. Morgan Street; William Edwards, 729 N. Morgan Street; Evelyn J. Ricker, 912 George Street; Lowell Stiers, Jo Ellen Durbin, 611 Harrison Street.

Eloise VanSickle, R. Larry I) Cole, Carthage and Eva L. Jones, 604 High School Rushville. U. F.

Salutes Harrold Pell One of the most loyal United Fund supporters ever, according to UK officials, has come through again Harrold and Pell joined the United Fund drive in Rush County this year with a whopping six per cent increase $150 from the firm and $410 from the 22 employees Maurice Browning headed the solicitation at the local auto firm, which was completed iii less than 24 UK campaign officials were quick to commend the firm for its loyalty, willingness to increase and the ease and quick efficiency with which the solicitations were handled The majority of gifts from the firm were handled through payroll deduction showing the continuing cooperation between the Fund and the many business firms who make it easy for their employees to Those participating are Robert Babbs, James Rates, Kenneth Bates, Danny Bennett. David Bowles, Maurice Browning. Albert Christian. Erma Dishinger, Katherine Fib son, William Gates, Charles Hornsby. Jerry Krise, Carl Nigh, Lawrence Randell, James O.

Smiley. Donald Smith Buford Taylor, Buford Taylor, Sr, Randy Vanover, Tony Wise, David Wood, and Wayne Logan the unidentified man called authorities from a chili restau rant here Tuesday night and turned themselves in Despite an all night session of negotiations and ransom maneuvers following the kidnaping, authorities credited the curiosty of housekeepers at the motel for the girls freedom Dorothy Pinson said crying had been heard in Room 118 Tuesday morning, but the door was locked and a not sign hung on the knob When crying again was heard near the 4:30 p.m. quitting time, Miss Pinson and another maid got a pass key and investigated was a little girl, all alone, sitting on the bed with her shoes off. crying and watching said Miss Pinson was nobody else around She was almost hysterical from Police were called and the parents rushed to the motel where they were reunited with their daughter The little girl was quickly driven home where her father carried her into the house in his arms Youth Hurt In Mishap On County Highway The Rush County Department reports two auto mishaps and one speeding arrest. A youth was admitted to Rush Memorial Hospital near mid night last night after his car left a county road and overturned in a field The Department, was called at approximately 11:15 m.

two miles east and one mile north of Rushville when a car driven by Joseph A Jessup, 18, 7, when he lost control en route north on county road 200E and went out of control, veered to the right, then left the road on the left side, rolled over through the fence and came to rest on its top in a field Jessup was taken to Rush Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted with a possible broken clavicle, lacerations and abrasions A 2-vehicle accident was investigated at 3:30 pm Tuesday two miles east of Rushville on highway 44 (Continued on page two) Retired Teachers Group To Meet Monday Night The Rush County Retired Association will hold its September meeting Monday night at 7:00 o'clock at the new Elementary School All retired teachers in Rush County are invited The program for the evening will be a tour of the new building under the guidance of Principal Kevin Kile. After light refresh ments there will be a short business meeting On the agenda for discussion will be the legislative Com mittee report; the Indiana State Rush County et Meeting Held The Rush County Association met Monday evening at the Rushville Fire Dept President Verlin Custer presided at the meeting After accepting the minutes and financial reports, a question was raised on the progress of an attempt to acquire an electronic alerting system It was reported that the means by which the system was to have been financially supported had fallen through It was suggested that other avenues be explored to support the purchase of this worth while system. Many activities are now in the planning stages for Eire Prevention Week Programs will be presented to the following schools during that week October 8, I lk), New Salem; October 9, 9 a Mays, 1:30, Arlington, 2:30 Manilla. October IO, 1:30, Milroy. Each rural department for those schools will have a truck at the school for the program With the cooperation of Root Insurance and Williamson and Waite Insurance, there will also )e another program for all local third graders The association will begin a 52 hour first aid course each Tuesday starting November 5th This course ill be instructed by members of the Red Gross Further information will be released at a later date The announcement of a Waterball Contest at Carthage was made The contest will be held on Sunday, September 29, in the afternoon The public is invited The next meeting will held on the last Thursday in October Fair booth report, enrollment of new members; plans for future meetings, and announcement of committees.

Sen. Scheaffer Grand Marshal At Carthage SEN SCHAEFFER The Rush County Chamber of Commerce announced today that Rush State Senator, Robert Sheaffer, will be Grand Marshall for the Carthage Fall Festival Parade this Saturday at Carthage The parade will be a highlight of the festival, and will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday The fall festival begins with a Queen in the Community Wednesday at 8 p.m., and includes a smorgasbord Thursday, Lions Fish Fry Friday evening at 5 p.m., and a talent show at 8 rn The last day, Saturday, begins with a twirling contest at noon, parade at 12:30, hand contest after the 2 p.rn parade, square dance in the streets at 8 p.m., and teen dance at 9 The 2 parade ill he a big affair, attracting hands from Triton Central, Marion, Shenandoah, Liberty, Cowan, Wabash, and Knightstown In i (Ii Comics 2 Editorial 6 Sports 7 Society IO Classified 15 Deaths 2 May.