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Ohio Tornado Leaves Destruction, Deaths WILLARD, OHIO: Rescue workers search through rubble following tornado Thursday which swept across this trailer park. At least four persons were killed and IOO injured in this north central community of 5,000. (UPI Telephoto) 2 Auto Mishaps On Police Log The Rushville City Police report two accidents on the police log. Police say Kenneth L. Messer, 31, R.

R. 4, was enroute east in the 800 block of West Third Street about 10:39 a.m. Thursday when Oscar E. Holsback, 89, 818 West Third Street, enroute west on Third made a left turn in front of Messer. No one was hurt in the accident, but damages were listed at $300 to the Messer car and the Holsback ear was listed as a total loss.

Children playing in an unlocked ear was said to be the cause of another accident about 4:34 p.m. Thursday. Andrew Highlander, 930 North Arthur Street, had his vehicle parked in front of his home and Raymond Hatfield, 931 North Arthur Street had his car parked in his driveway. The Hatfield children took the car out of gear and it rolled down the driveway and across the street, striking the Highlander car in the side. No reportable damages were listed for the Hotfield car.

The Highlander car, however, had damage estimate of $100. Walter Father Expires ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) Dr. Walter L.

Cronkite, 79. a dentist and father of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, died Thursday. Township Meetings To Gather Suggestions, Say APC Engineers Many questions and suggestions arose out of the second meeting of the Rush County Area Plan Commission zoning hearing meeting in Manilla Thursday night. Chairman of the commission, Rusty Jones, conducted the meeting, together with David Rogier and George Salgi of the planners Reid, Quebe, Allison, Wilcox, Associates, Inc. Mobile homes were again one of the topics discussed and questioned by some of the 20 people in attendance from the Walker and Posey Township areas.

It was pointed out that there is a misunderstanding with the options of placement of mobile homes. It was stated that if a person owns the property where the mobile home sits, and that property is of large enough square foot area as designated by the state, a person can remove the under carriage of the mobile home, and place it on a permanent foundation. It is then considered a permanent dwelling unit. It was pointed out that a person has the option of making a mobile home either a permanent home or placing it in a mobile home park. Also, it was stated many persons have the idea that a mobile home park will be a crowded and cramped area to live in.

Not true, planners said. Because of state regulations, mobile home parks must offer adequate space and sanitation facilities which many such parks do not meet today. The same complaint of to cram the plan down our came up again, apparently from those persons who have not bothered to look into what the commission has been doing in the past two years, it was stated. David Rogier pointed out are holding these public meetings for the benefit of the people in the areas. We want your suggestions so that we can meet with what you require for your own development and growth.

We seek your ideas and suggestions as to what you like or dislike in the master plan. Then there will be a final plan drawn up from these meetings to try to fit what you the people Another suggestion by those at this meeting to APC was that if for some unforseen reason a manufacturer, such as a grain mill, would have to be rebuilt due to being destroyed by fire or wind, that the manufacturer would be allowed to rebuild on that same area which he occupied before. It was felt by many that if due to a disaster a manufacturer had to rebuild that it would work a hardship on the business to have to be required a larger area than that business occupies today. It was pointed out that many such businesses are hemmed in by other businesses and residences, and might not be able to secure more ground, and Continued on Page Two Mary Lois Cherry Suicide Victim; Rites Monday MRS. CHERRY Mrs.

Mary Lois Cherry, 47, was found doad at her home 1124 Sugar Hill Drive, Thursday evening. The Rush County office said today that death was due to suicide. The body of Mrs. Cherry, who lived alone, was found by a son. Mrs.

Cherry was born in Ann Arbor. on June 20, 1925, the daughter of Erving and Gladys M. Brown Stutz, who now live in Venice, Fla. She was a member of Main Street Christian Church and also wac a Past Worthy Matron of Martha Poe Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, and a past president of Kappa Kappa Sigma Sorority. Surviving with the parents are three sons, Mark A.

Cherry of New Castle, David N. Cherry of Granite City, 111., and D. J. Cherry of Shelbyville, and four grandchildren. The Rev.

Norval Lyon will conduct services at IO a. rn Monday at the Wyatt-Moore- Milam Mortuary, where friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday, with entombment in East Hill Shrine Mausoleum. Jack Leonard, Comedian, Dies NEW YORK (AP) Comedian Jack E. Leonard, 62, who frequently billed himself as Jackie and who raised the insult to a fine art, died Thursday.

He had been hospitalized since collapsing in late March while appearing at the Rainbow Grill in Rockefeller Center. Ft. Wayne Area Receives Storm Damage By The A iSoinated Press Indiana escaped the sting of a o-laden storms that swept across the northern Naif of the state Thursday night. Altough several funnel clouds were reported, none apparently touched ground. There were no reports of injury and only minor property damage listed.

Funnel clouds were reported at Fort Wayne and near New Haven, Winchester, New Castle and Greenfield. A witness in Fort Wayne said whole family of over the area and there appeared to be four tornadoes. Most of them apparently dipped from clouds without touching ground and then moved eastward toward the Ohio line, the witness said. An Indiana ii Michigan Electric Co. power tower was reported toppled across the Norfolk ii Western railroad tracks miles east of New Haven.

The tracks were blocked temporarily. Clifford A. Wirick of rural New Haven said a twister ripped his barn into and blew the roofs from his house and garage. neighbor, Bernard in from the field when he saw a twister coming across a small lake. It drew water up to 40 feet into the he said.

neighbor, Bernard Monnier, said he was sitting in his living room when he heard the tornado approaching. sounded like a jet plane going real Monnier said. Elmer Coonrod reported a barn destroyed on his farm a half mile from farm. West Germany Treaty BONN, Germany (AP) The Bundestag today approved Chancellor Willy treaty to normalize relations with Communist East Germany and a companion application for West Germany to join the United Nations. The vote was 268 217 on the treaty, and 365-121 on the U.

N. applioation, a parliamentary official announced. The action on the treaty virtually assures the ratification. 4 Killed, Many Injured By Tornadoes In Ohio By JAMES STEVENSON Associated Press Writer WILLARD, Ohio Squads of Ohio National guardsmen and police officers moved into storm-battered parts of Willard at dawn to resume the search for bodies in wreckage left by a tornado Thursday night. The tornado w.as one of dozens that raked Ohio and neighboring states, killing at least four persons and injuring about IOO others.

Officers connected with the Willard search admitted privately they expect the total to rise. deputies said m.any persons in the north-central Ohio community were unaccounted for hours after the tornado flattened three trailer parks. A National Guard officer with the search operation said about 300 trailers were believed destroyed. The swath cut by the tornado was sealed off to all but rescue workers Thursday night, after Milroy Church, Cemetery Named In Hasty Will The will of the late Emily D. Hasty has been entered for probate in Rush Circuit Court, with Treon Young appointed executor as designated in the will.

The will designates that after all expenses have been paid, $1,000 is to be paid to the Milroy Cemetery Association; $500 to the Trustees of Milroy Methodist Church, to be used for major building improvements as may be required for the use of the church; and $500 to the Board of Trustees of the Milroy Methodist Church for of World BULLETIN JOPLIN, Mo. storm system that spawned tornadoes, hail and high winds swept across southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas today, killing three persons and injuring IM) others in the Ozark gateway city of Joplin, authorities said. Gov. John Gilligan dispatched 200 Ohio National Guardsmen to Willard, plus Republic, Kenton and Savannah. Those killed at Willard were identified as Mrs.

Dexter Grundis'h, about 70; William Hillis, 2, and Ethel Strauss, about 70. Richard A. Falk, administrator of the Willard Area Hospital, reported receiving persons with storm injuries. Twenty-two persons were admitted there, and two were sent to a Mansfield hospital in critical condition. officers said two youths were arrested here on charges related to looting.

Dozens of deadly funnels were sighted over National Weather Service reported 27 within one hour along 75 miles from Akron south to Cambridge. Others were sighted, and some hit ground, in Indiana and Kentucky. Three persons were killed in Willard and a woman die near Republic, Ohio when a tornado swept her car off a road. Fourteen persons injured in a tornado at Bellville were taken to a Mansfield hospital for treatment. Three were admitted.

Several persons were injured at Kenton. One man was injured near Newark and there were other scattered reports of injuries ucross northern Ohio. Falk said doctors and nurses were summoned from several surrounding communities to help treat injured. Law officers from a number of communities came to Willard to assist in rescue operations. Sheriff John Borgia said one deputy pulled an injured woman- an from wreckage and she later died at a hospital.

Deputy Sheriff Dick Fredritz said witnesses reported the twister performing a deadly up and down in the before it struck two trailer parks' the southeast edge of town. It cut a one mile path of de struction, damaging several businesses in addition to the trailer parks, before disappearing into heavy rain clouds. guy told me kids were flying through the ritz said. thinks there are still kids in the fields. There are too many of them unaccounted afraid going to find more said deputy Sheriff H.H.

Tappel. John Agee, 29, a truck driver from Roanoke, was in the Triangle Motel when the storm hit. the roof started to go he said, the bed, then the mattress on the bed started to rise. was glass flying all over the place. The first thing I did was nothing.

I just sat there for ten Agee was treated at a hospital for minor cuts and bruises. a look at that trailer a state patrolman said of one heavily damaged area. highest thing standing more than three feet off the Ed Felver, 30, was working a printing company when the tornado hit. He described it as a huge whole place filled up with he said. was trying to find something to hang Felver later went to a trailer park and helped put injured persons into ambulances.

know why more people he said. just a The tornadoes struck in the afternoon. The first reports of funnels were at Fort Wayne, near the Ohio border. There was scattered minor damage in Indiana before the storm crossed into Ohio. Snaking funnels touched down at Defiance, Malinta and Deshler, Ohio, causing some damage.

Other damage was reported at Columbus, Ashville, Somerset, Thornville, Newark Continued on Page Two Cong Apologize For Forcing Down Copters SAIGON (AP) Two helicopters forced down by antiaircraft fire in Communist-held territory near An Loc while carrying peace keeping delegates returned safely to Saigon today with an apology from the Budget Makers Can Use Local Option Tax To Thaw Frozen Property Tax to a recent item by Associated Press, local governments are not going to rush to levy the local option tax which has been authorized by the 1973 General Assembly. In casual conversation with officials here, there is either ignorance of the law, or resistance to its application. Nobody seems to want to get involved it is said. Phil Gutman, State Senate President Pro Tem, has been quoted as saying local governments will like very soon about the property tax freeze, yet will be unwilling to apply the local option tax, which is designed to relieve property tax. County Councils have until June I to accept or reject the new local option tax.

Failure to act now will not rule out later application, however, and time schedules for this are set forth in the law. (Inasmuch as many people have not had the opportunity to study the new option tax law, we are publishing the following comprehensive analysis, which has been prepared by Indiana Retail Council.) Weather Tornadoes Usher Summer Weather Willard is a small town in North Central Ohio where a tornado struck Thursday afternoon, killing at least four and injuring scores. Dozens of twisters were reported in Ohio Thursday, and one in Joplin, Missouri today killing three. (UPI Telephoto) Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight with slight chance of showers; low in mid-40s. Clearing and mild Saturday afternoon; high in upper 60s.

Sunset today 7:46 p.m. Sunrise Sat. 5:31 a.m. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 7 a.m. today 56 I p.m.

today 65 Thursday, May IO, 1973 Highest 73 Lowest 51 Precipitation Trace (Data by U.S. Weather Station) The Local Option Income Tax section of the Tax Program is permissive in nature and allows counties to adopt either a Vfe, or I per cent individual adjusted gross income local option tax. All of county councils' are mandated by the law to consider before June 1973 an ordinance to impose the tax. The council has four choices: (a) to -adopt no tax; (b) to impose per cent; (c) to impose per cent; (d) to impose I Der cent. Adoption of the tax requires a majority of all members of the county council.

TIME TABLE The county council may decide not to impose the tax this year. Such a decision not prohibit the tax from being institued at a later date. Any county council failing to act shall be deemed to have unanimously rejected the resolution to -adopt the tax. If a county council rejects adoption of the county adjusted gross income tax before June I of this year, it will not go into effect in 1973. The council may reconsider before July I of this year and impose the tax which will not take effect until January 1974.

lf a county council rejects adoption of the county adjusted gross income tax in 1973, or if a county council desires to increase the tax after 1973, the council may adopt or increase the tax by resolution prior to July I of any year. The tax or tax increase shall then be in effect as of January I of the next succeeding year. But regardless of when the decision is made as to when to impose the tax, once imposed it must remain in effect for four years. After that time period has lapsed a majority of the county council may vote to rescind the tax. The vote must take place not later than August I of each year prior to the calendar year for which such rescission shall be effective.

Non Residents The tax will apply to residents of an adopting county and also to non-residents who work in an -adopting county if their county of residence fails to adopt the tax. If a home county imposes no tax, the county of his employment may impose a tax on his income only the rate of a of I per cent, regardless of the rate imposed upon those living in the county. If his home county imposes a tax, he owes that rate in his annual tax A credit is also applied against local option tax liability to residents in an adopting county for local city or county income taxes paid in another state. Cities and counties are allowed to enter into reciprociy agreements with cities and counties of other states which would be comparable to the state reciprocity agreements which Indiana has entered into with neighboring states. Begins July I If a county council imposes one of the three tax rates permissible under this tax program, employers will begin withholding the amount of the imposed tax July I.

The state acting as collection agent for counties adopting the tax will then return funds collected to the county the next year in two Continued on Page Nine Viet Cong, a military spokesman reported. Lt. Col. Le Trung Hlen, chief spokesman for the Saigon command, said IO Viet Cong and South Vietnamese representatives of the two-party Joint Military Commission and eight South Vietnamese crewmen were unhurt. The two helicopters were returning to Saigon from a liaison mission to the Communist-controlled district capital of Loc Ninh when the first copter drew antiaircraft fire, he reported.

Truck Mishap On County Road The department was called to investigate a two vehicle mishap at approximately 7:40 a.m. today northeast of Rushville in Jackson Township. The report states a truck driven west on county road 200N by Cecil Hartman, 61, R.R. 3, was hit at the intersection with county road 75W by a truck driven north by Russell L. Jenkins, 42, 818 West 10th Street.

After impact, the Jenkins truck went through a fence on property of Joe Schroeder. Jenkins sustained a small bruise under the right eye, and his truck damaged an estimated $400. The Hartman truck was damaged $200, and $25 was estimated to the Schroeder fence. EVENTS In Rushville Friday Story Hour, Library, 3:30 Princess Theatre Nation In Our 197th Year REPUBLICAN Vol. No.

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