Times-Reporter, The (Newspaper) - December 18, 1968, Dover, Ohio m 0 mm m You Don t Hear You Dont See but Soon Youve By DAN MILES You dont hear you dont see you know Its here Before you got to those who got theres only one word to de scribe the feeling If youve guessed Its the flu bug ft Hong Kong or any other Its undesirable youre the bug Is striking almost everywhere and everybody around the Ita especially hitting the schools where new absentee records are being Hardest hit of the larger schools In County has been Dover where ab has increased On there were 135 students out In both senior and junior high Only 3 were excused for sickness other than Last week In the aver age absentee list was com pared to only 45 for the first 3 of school this One principal is absent with the In New the bug has been relatively At tendance Officer Harold Bartho low said only about 10 per cent of the enrollment about 225 were placed on the casu laty He there was no great decline In last weeks at Farther south in Claymont school average ab has doubled from 40 to 80 in the high school Elementary and Junior high at tendance was reported good with absenteeism running school were crossing their fingers when they reported there is nothing out of the ordinary in A spot check at a New Phila delphia doctors office revealed that the flu bug Is bringing a flood of patients to the office ev ery Besides feeling lousy all you might specifically have See Page 2 Ohio Forecast Rain tonight and a low in the Upper Warmer with rain See full weather de tails on Page 38 i tames REPORTER Foremost in Tuscarawas County and Area DAY BRIGHTENER Your daughter is growing up when she starts dressing slower and dialing Dover New December 1968 DOVER 3435545 NEW PHILADELPHIA Stiffens Hopes To Curb Inflationary Trend By TOM STEWART Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP The Federal Reserve Board has moved to establish stiffer credit In an effort to offset the current Inflationary trend plaguing the nations With economic barometers re porting the economy still run ning too fast the board an Tuesday the interest rate charged by Federal Re serve district banks on loans to their member banks is going up from 5 per cent to 5 per The move is calculated to dis courage the present high level of borrowing by making it more The board said it wants to foster financial conditions con to the reduction of infla with a view toward encouraging a more sus rate of economic ex pansion and attaining reason able equilibrium in the coun trys balance of Since directors of the Federal Reserve banks in Kansas City and San Francisco didnt join their counterparts in the other districts in asking a rate they will continue using the 5 per cent Ob servers expected uniformity throughout the system in a mat Dover Tax Creates Set Tonight Dover council will meet in special session tonight at to hear the second reading of an ordinance calling for a one per cent city income It has not been announced whether rules will be suspended for a needed third reading to enact the tax measure If the third and final read ing would be held presumably at another special meeting later this If the tax ordinance is an emergency clause is included to make the tax ef In addi the same clause would bar any challenges to the tax at the polls for a period of one Without the emergency the tax could be delayed for 30 days and would permit a referendum if residents The tax proposal originally presented to council 4 by the finance will fi nance a growth program over the next 10 the price for which has been set at more than 5 Slated Today Clarence John Rear Raymond Upshaw and James and Thomas Hidey will appeal before Common Pleas Judge Raymond Rice this af for Bevan of 221 2nd New and of RD Mineral City were found guilty of rape by a of 615 Grant was found guilty by Rice of assault and battery stemming from the 6 shooting of Cassandra of 602 Grant James of RD and his of RD both New Philadelphia also were found guilty by Rice of as sault with a dangerous James fired a pistol at his In the back seat of a cai find Thomas took Boys ond Girls Wetch for On Saturday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic jams and from three to four inches of show greeted Ohioans in the cen tral and southeastern sections Wednesday with driv ing conditions hazardous and prospects for continued bad weather conditions snow moved into the southwestern portion of the state before midnight and pushed in to the other areas by Ac cumulations of up to four inches were reported with another one to two inches expected before higher temperatures snow into Mine Fund Total Is Nearing New total of the mine disaster fund being sponsored by The hit the mark with a count of todays The money is being collected in behalf of survivors of 78 men entombed at The Weather Bureau said it expected there would be a mix ture of freezing rain and sleet in some places before the snow changes to The change is expected over the central and southeast Ohio later Wednesday or early and over the north east and east central portions this afternoon or The bureau said accumula tions in the northern half of Ohio will range from one to three Most cities in central and southwestern Ohio experienced early morning traffic In Columbus authorities said the snow city crews by sur prise and cleanup work did not begin until about The State Highway Depart ment said primary and second ary roads were snow covered in the east cen tral and southeast and partly snow covered in the wet in the extreme south dry in the north east and extreme The Ohio Turnpike was reported dry in the early The Weather Bureau said to nights low temperatures will be See Page 2 liw i r BERRYS WORLD ter of The boards action Tuesday reverses a decision made last August when it ordered the in terest discount rate lowered from 5 per cent to 5 per The board said then the re duction was needed because the 5 per cent figure was a cri sis rate that would have bad psychological effects on the economy if let stand too Tuesdays announcement didnt indicate how long the re turn to the 5 per cent rate might Many bankers and economists praised the interest rate although they said it was ex Saul vice presi dentand chief economist of the National Association Mutual Savings analyzed the rate cut this way If the discount rate is short and my own view is that it will then mortgage rates will rise choke off further economic expansion and dampen inflationary Other reported See Page 2 Hospital Caution Is Urged Tm lust doing 9 shopping Union Hospital officials today requested residents to exercise careful judgment in visiting hospital in view of the current cases of flu and Medical staff members have advised that persons with coughs or flu symptoms should not visit While there is no evidence of a serious epi many Ohio hospitals have instituted regulations on visitors and staff to avoid complications of the patients existing medical prob Roy chief of pe added the precautions are especially important in the Staff members have been au to request visitors with coughs or questionable condi tions to leave the Ad ministrator Harold Alden said Barbershop Theft 740 Dover police today were in theft of from Barbershop at 231 Tuscarawas Owner Sam Koledin notified police at today that someone had entered the shop and had pried the cash drawer open which contained the mon He told police that theft oc curred sometime after closing There was no sign of forcible police Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Barman and James Lovell from left enjoyed a moment of relaxation outside the mission simulator Tuesday prior to a practice flight for their scheduled Saturday blastoff for The trip hopes to circle the moon and return safely to earth during a 6day UPI INDEX Around The World Court Records Hospital News Hot Line Obituaries 2 Places Sports 20 21 TV Theaters Traffic Court When Where Womens Pages 17 18 AREA NEWS Dennison 3 6 Uhrichsville 6 West Lafayette 6 6 Port Washington Stone Creek Leesville Walnut Creek Millersburg Cadiz Tuscarawas 30 Dundee Sugarcreek Strasburg 6 17 TV Telescope Will Attempt To Moon Orbiting NEW YORK AP If Apollo 8 orbits the moon Christmas television viewers may be able to witness this his toric event with an eye view through a The spacecraft will look like a white dot traveling across the darkened por tion of the first quarter To show the Apollo ship in circum lunar NBC will hook into the tele scope at Denver Museum of Natural His Its completed 5 months is the first equipped with a telescope We might get lucky and catch them around the edge of the said Jim in charge of coverage of the If we can pick up a 30foot spacecraft miles in space itll be pretty he The planned sightings will be at and In at least 6 live trans missions from the spacecraft itself will give viewers a closeup of the moon and It will be the heaviest coverage tele vision has ever given to a space AH 3 networks will be on the air 24 hours a day from liftoff Saturday until the end of the mission See Page 2 Ohio Vote Aide Reports Gasser Election Valid By JACK The board of elections acted properly in its certi fication of Edward Gasser of 1267 Crestview New as a successful candidate to the county engineers James election counsel lor secretary of state said Marsh based his comments upon the same section of Ohio law which Joseph Cappel of 208 Prospect used in claiming Gasser is an illegal candidate in a letter to Prosecutor George The law reads No person shall be a candidate for nomination or election at a party primary if he voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the preceding 4 calendar Cappel said Gasser hold the office as a Republican because his voting record shows he voted as a Democrat in 1964 and 1966 Disqualification for a candidate as party primary does not apply to being appointed as a nominee of a party in the event of withdrawal by a Marsh gee Page 2 SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS Union Vote Today On New Pact Voting was under way this morning by members of Local 1285 of International of Machinists and Aerospace on a new contract with Warner Swasey The former contract expired at The 700 workers were voting in Eagles Hall in New Phila County Home Resident Hit By Dies Wallace a dent of the Tuscarawas County Home since was killed last night at after being struck by a car on near the New Philadelphia municipal of death was not imme known but it was report ed that the elderly man suffered head It was Tusca rawas Countys 19th traffic fa of State patrolmen said Stark was walking north on 259 when a car driven by of 130 3rd New hit the who was not told patrolmen be did not Officials at the County today said that Stark walked away from the bu It also was reported that Sti had no relatives ia the Born in hj I
