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HILLSBORO PRESS GAZETTE Vol.14io.216 Hillsboro, Ohio 15 Cents Monday, August 5.1974 Four Die In Prison Breakout Go Annual Antique Show Attracts Throng NOW LOOK HERE Antiques aren't always easy to identify for the novice, but an old antique buff like Earl Babington, 213 East Walnut left, can really bend your ear on the subject. Earl takes time to explain some particular tidbit of information about one of the many items on display at the Historical Society's Annual Antique Sale at the Highland County Fairgrounds to a friend. The two-day event attracted antique dealers and buyers from a wide area over the weekend, with everyone getting a chance to eyeball a wide variety of items. Everything from glassware to large cupboards was on display at the event. Retarded School Guilty Plea Receives Grant -Highland County Board of 1 -Retardation in fefular session on Tuesday, July 30, in the conference room of Hills and Dales Training Center with all seven board members present along with administrator John Carson.

Board chairman Mrs. Hugh Rogers called the meeting to order and the minutes of the previous meeting were read by the recording secretary, Mrs. R.V. Swisshelm. The board approved vouchers for monthly operating expenses of $1,162.39 and for building and equipment fund expenses of $155.07.

In his report to the board ad- -ministrator Carson announced that the state reimbursement check for $28,055.00 had just been received and that this amount was an increase of $4,550.00 over the 1972-73 reimbursement. The state funding represents the state's participation in the county Mental Retardation program expenses based on a per client amount of reimbursement for students in the adult, community class, developmental- class, and home training programs. The administrator also noted that tuition payments totaling $9,540.08 had been received from Bright Local, Hillsboro, Greenfield, Lynchburg-Clay, and Coldwater (Mercer Co.) school districts. The approval of a federal Title I grant for $12,468.00 for special programs at Hills and Dales was announced. This grant will provide funds for a pre-school developmental class, part-time speech and language development services, a specialist in motor movement and physical development for the second semester, and full-time home training services January IrltrerThisisthe second year that federal Title I funds have been available for county Mental Retardation programs in Ohio such as Hills and Dales, and the application for the grant was submitted in April.

The Mental Retardation Board reviewed and adopted a set of governing rules and regulations as proposed by the Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation. Also approved was the policy statement for participation of Hills and Dales in the federal School Lunch and Special Milk Programs for needy students. Lunch charges of 40 cents for students and 55 cents for adults were set, along with a 5 cents charge for extra milk. The Hills and Dales school calendar for 1974-75 was officially adopted, with the first day of school set for Monday, Sept. 9 and the last day to be June 6, 1975.

The schedule of holidays and vacations during the school year will correspond to the Hillsboro City School District calendar. Administrator Carson reported that buses 1, 3, and 5 had passed the Ohio Highway Patrol school bus inspection, and that rather costly repairs would be necessary to qualify bus 4 for approval. Discussion of possible options to solve the problem of transportation for the first part of the school year were discussed and preliminary steps are being undertaken for advertising for bids on a new van-type school bus for delivery in 1975. After discussion of several other miscellaneous items of business the board adjourned and the next meeting was set for Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 8 P.M.

at Hills and Dales Training Center. County Schools To Get Extra Funds A substantial amount of supplemental state appropriations will be paid to the county school board and to local schools on Oct. 1, according to information released by Highland County School Superintendent George Greer. Superintendent Greer released the information in a report Thursday to the Highland County Board of Education. The funds come in the form of a supplemental appropriation made possible by the uncovering of about $80 million in surplus funds at the state level.

According to Superintendent Greer, the county board will get a payment of $1 per pupil on Oct. 1. The lump sum payment will amount to between $2,700 and $2,800, dependent on the school census. Individual local schools will receive a Am Council Calendar The instrumental group of Highland Arts Council will recess for the month of August. The group will reconvene Sept.

9 at 8 p.m., in First Baptist Church. Mr. George Unverzagt is director of the group. payment of $ro per pupil for grades 112, and $10 per pupil for kindergarten students. A payment of 25 per cent of $20 will be made for joint vocation school students.

All the payments will be on a lump sum basis. The board also revealed that it has the option, under Senate Bill 460, sponsored by Max Dennis, R- WUmington, to act as its own fiscal governing board. The board in the past has operated under the fiscal control of the treasurer's and auditor's offices. The decision on whether or not to exercise this option will be made at the board's next meeting. The board accepted two resignations.

Mrs. Joan Fritz, school psychologist for Hillsboro City Schools, Lynchburg- Clay Local S.D., and Bright Local S.D., resigned her position. Also submitting a resignation was John W. Gushing, a supervisor. In other action, the board adopted a severance pay policy for employees and gave approval to Superintendent Greer to attend the County Superintendent's Fall Conference at Salt Pork State Park on Sept.

11,12, 13. Bills totaling $4,625.60 were approved for payment by the board. Ends Trial In Kidnap A trial in Highland County Common Pleas Court took a sudden and dramatic turnabout Monday morning. Jay Dennis Gordon, Rt. Staunton- Sugar Grove Washington C.H., pleaded guilty to a charge of extortion.

In exchange a charge of kidnapping was dismissed with prejudice by the court. The surprise came in a trial that had first originated in the municipal court of Washington C.H. on Feb. 26, 1974. Defendant Gordon had been changed with kidnapping John A.

Whiteside and menacing Whiteside for the purpose of extortion. Gordon's attorney, John C. Bryan, had moved for an immediate dismissal, claiming that his client had been detained too long prior to a preliminary hearing. This motion was overruled. The case was then bound over to the Fayetje County Common Pleas Court on March 1.

After Gordon was indicted on kidnapping and extortion charges by the grand jury, the defense counsel then started a series of motions which complicated the issues at hand. Bryan, the defense attorney, first got his demand for a jury trial. Bryan then had his client's case severed from the trial of co-defendants Kenneth Eugene Haley and Jack Lee Gordon. The defense then moved to have the charges dismissed once again on the grounds that the foreman of the grand jury had served illegally because of a conflict of interest. The defense claimed that the foreman was the presiding officer of the Fayette County Commissioners and thus could not serve on the grand jury without a conflict.

This motion was overruled. Another motion was made on April 16 by defense counsel. Bryan asked the court for a change of venue. Bryan claimed that his client could not possibly get a fair trial in Fayette (Please Turn To Page 2) HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) "They were shooting the hostages inside the shield contraption and they were firing at us through a slit.

All hell broke loose." Texas Ranger Capt. G.W. Burks gave that description of the bloody climax to a Texas State Prison escape attempt in which drug smuggler Fred Gomez Carrasco, his convict partner Rudolf Dominguez and two handcuffed women hostages died Saturday night. Justice of the Peace J.W. Beeler issued a preliminary ruling Sunday that Carrasco and Dominguez committed suicide after shooting their hostages, Mrs.

Elizabeth Beseda, 47, handcuffed to Carrasco, and Mrs. Julia Standley, handcuffed to Dominguez. The two women were among 12 hostages held for 41 days by Carrasco and his confederates, who pulled guns in the library of the "Walls" unit of the prison in a bid for freedom. They initially held 16 hostages, but three were let go and one escaped. "At no time was there any thought given to the granting any illegal freedom to any captor," said prison systems director W.J.

Estelle. He described Saturday as "one of the meanest days anyone ever spent' in public service." Burks and other officers inside the prison yard said the four persons died inside a crude "Trojan Horse" Carrasco had constructed of blackboards and thick lawbooks. The shield, designed to get Carrasco from the library to an armored getaway car, collapsed as officers fired at it and tried to topple it with powerful water hoses. In the midst of the violence, Lt. Willard Stewart of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) rushed out into the courtyard of the prison and cut the ropes which bound the eight other hostages, who had been forced by the convicts to surround the wooden shield.

Carrasco, Dominguez and another convict, Ignacio Cuevas, began the climactic move when they walked out of the third-floor library surrounded by hostages headed down a steep ramp toward the armored car they had demanded. Inside the makeshift shield were Mrs. Beseda, Mrs. Standley and two other hostages: the Rev. Joseph O'Brien and Mrs.

Novella Pollard, who was handcuffed to Cuevas. Cuevas was captured unharmed. Mrs. Pollard was not hurt, but F-ather O'Brien was shot once in the left side of the chest. Cuevas has been charged with capital murder.

Burks, wearing a flak jacket, said he was hit once in the chest by a bullet fired from within the shield. "It knocked me down. I saw two other officers go down the same way. Our bullet-proof vests saved our lives," he said. Walker County Sheriff Darrell White said officers fired only when gunshots came from within the shield after the hoses were turned on it.

There were more shots and then it was over, White said. Authorities said Mrs. Beseda, a prison math teacher, was shot once, the bullet exiting her body. Mrs. Standley, a librarian at the prison, was shot four times in the back.

On Strike WASHINGTON (AP) The Bell Telephone System and its unions have reached tentative agreement on a $3- billion, three-year contract, averting a nationwide telephone strike scheduled for today. But negotiators for a separate group of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-IBEW-members employed by the Western Electric Co a Bell subsidiary, rejected the tentative agreement and IBEW members struck at least 10 Western Electric plants. The tentative agreement covers the Communications Workers of America, IBEW members employed directly by Bell and a group of 35 smaller independent unions. An IBEW spokesman said 80,000 IBEW members work for Western Electric and another 65,000 Work directly for Bell. Negotiators for IBEW members at Western Electric rejected the tentative settlement while negotiators for IBEW members working for Bell accepted it.

A Western Electric spokesman said IBEW members had set up pickets at 10 of the 15 Western Electric plants employing IBEW members. He said pickets had been set up at plants in Chicago; Montgomery, 111 Lisle, Omaha, Columbus, Oklahoma City; Indianapolis; Kearney, N.J.; and Allentown, Pa. He said there were no IBEW pickets at Western Electric plants in Vancouver, Reading, Denver; San Ramon, and Little Rock Ark. Eight other Western Electric plants whose workers are represented by the Communications Workers also were unaffected, the company spokesman said Western Electric spokesmen estimated that 56,000 to 57,000 IBEW workers were on strike. The tentative agreement, which requires rank-and-file approval, would boost wages and benefits 35.8 per cent over the next three years.

In announcing the settlement at a news conference Sunday night, CWA President Glenn E. Watts said the contract would be submitted for ratification only after local contract negotiations are completed. A deadline for wrapping up local issues was set for midnight, Aug. 11, after which time any of Bell's 23 operating companies across the country could be struck individually. addition to pay increases, the union chief said the offer provides full protection aginst inflation, the "largest improvement ever made" in pensions, a company-paid dental plan and more than $100 million in local money for resolving what he called inequities in job classifications.

A major stumbling block during the more than two months of negotiations had been the issue of union security and Watts said the new contract offered substantial improvement. Specific details of the contract, including a breakdown of the proposed pay increases, were withheld pending completion of local contracts. Telephone workers currently earn a maximum of $166 50 for operators and up to $260 weekly for craftsmen. Senate Readies For Nixon Triai Abandoned Home Lost in Blaze Abandoned house was totally destroyed in a fire on Friday evening. The Hillsboro Fire Department answered a call to the Pat Smith farm in Marshall Township at 10:10 p.m.

Friday. Upon arrival the firemen discovered that fire had already engulfed the abandoned structure. The house had been hit by lightning and this was the cause of the blaze. No loss estimate was given. Capsules DON'T FORGET the Grand Ole Opry show, being sponsored by Highland County Sheriff's Department, to be held at the fairgrounds on Wednesday evening.

There will be two shows, one beginning at 7 p.m. and the next at 9:30 p.m. Advance tickets at one dollar each may be purchased from any law enforcement officer. Tickets at the gate will be $1.50 each. Face Funding Legislation WASHINGTON A Appropriation bills for defense, veterans, space and housing programs are coming before the House and Senate, both of which are trying to clear essential business before taking up impeachment matters.

House debate was scheduled today on an defense allotment. The Senate is taking up this week a billion appropriations bill to fund the veterans, space and housing programs. The need in the House to clear up essential business is more immediate than that of the Senate. impeachment floor debate is expected to begin Aug. 19.

A Senate trial of President Nixon would depend on whether the House voted to impeach. The Senate Rules Committee, however, already is working on the possibility of overhauling its impeachment rules. It was scheduled to hear from nine senators today. In the Senate, supporters of a consumer protection bill planned to make another attempt this week to end a filibuster against the measure and bring it to a vote. Two previous attempts to shut off debate failed, by 10 votes the first time and seven votes the second.

The veterans-space-housing bill before the Senate is $139 million under President Nixon's budget. However, economy advocates are expected to make efforts to cut it more. There has been much talk pf a reduction in federal spending" this session and Congress has passed a major budget reform bill designed to give it better control over spending. But the actual results on the appropriations bills themselves have been meager so far. WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Rules Committee is hearing specific proposals for overhauling its impeachment trial rules against what some see as an uncertain backdrop of Senate support for President Nixon.

The committee is going into closed session to hear from nine senators today in the first of two such sessions to take, testimony before drafting recommendations to be used if the House impeaches Nixon. Meanwhile, there were estimates within the Senate that there are neither 67 sure Senate votes for conviction, nor 34 needed for acquittal Experienced head-counters believe that if Nixon escapes conviction it will be on a vote where his foes mustered a clear majority but fell short of the required two-thirds. On the House side, where debate on impeachment may begin Aug. 19, Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona canceled a morning news conference at which he had planned to reveal how he would vote. An aide said Rhodes had become ill, and the conference was put off until later in the week.

Also, Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. of the House Judiciary Committee has sent each House member a schedule that lists the times when they will be able to hear each of the 19 presidential tape recordings in the committee's possession. The Senate Rules Committee already has decided it wants to stick mainly with the rules written for the nation's only presidential impeachment trial, that of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. However, battles are likely in the panel and before the full Senate on the role of Chief Justice Warren Burger, who will preside, and on whether to se.

standards for introduction of evidence or conviction. Sea Walter F. Mondale, in prepared testimony, urged the committee to set rules to insure the Senate can subpoena the tapes and documents of 64 White House conversations being supplied special prosecutor Leon Jaworski under last month's 8-0 Supreme Court ruling. Other scheduled witnesses today included Sens. Sam J.

Ervin Jr D- N.C., Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, Lee Metcalf, Daniel K. Inouye, D- Hawaii, Robert Stafford, R-Vt William Hathaway, D-Maine, Jesse Helms, and William L. Scott R-Va. In his testimony, Mondale urged that all proceedings in any impeachment Eye On Sky Clear and cool tonight.

Lows in the low to mid 50s Sunny Tuesday. Highs in the low to mid 80s. Ohio Extended Outlook (Wednesday through Friday) Fair Wednesday and again Friday. A chance of showers Thursday. Highs in the 80s.

Lows from the mid 50s to mid 60s. trial take place in public, and on radio and television, including the final debate between senators that would be in closed session under current rules. In discussing the need to subpoena the White House tapes, which were denied the House Judiciary Committee, Mondale said "we need those tapes in order to be fair to the President and in order to be fair to the American people as we consider whether to remove a President from office Nixon Won't Speak On TV CAMP DAVID, Md (AP)-President Nixon has rejected, at least for now, suggestions that he take his case against impeachment to the people with a major nationally televised address, aides report. Speculation that Nixon was preparing such an address was spurred Sunday when he summoned his top two speechwnters and his impeachment lawyer to his mountaintop retreat. But after a five-hour discussion with speechwriters Patrick Buchanan and Ray Price, lawyer James D.

St. Clair and White House aides Alexander Haig Jr. and Ronald L. Ziegler, a presidential spokesman said "there will not be a speech this week." Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.

and House GOP Leader John Rhodes of Arizona had suggested that Nixon make a major public address on the issue now dominating most of the President's working hours Disclosure that Nixon had called the speechwriters to his secluded compound also fed rumors he was considering resigning but Warren issued a steadfast denial Meanwhile, The Washington Post quoted White House sources as saying Nixon is being urged by key advisers to adopt a new impeachment defense posture What's Inside? "Cincinnati Splits With San Diego" Page 6. What's On TV Page 9. "Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Aber Observe 45th Anniversary" -Page 5.

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