Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - September 17, 1966, Zanesville, Ohio Good Just tie time a woman thinks work Is done she becomes a The Times Recorder Football Scores Zanesville 43 Walnut 6 21 0 New Lexington 6 Morgan 6 Maysville 28 West 22 Concord 42 6 Philo 40 21 115 18 PAGES OHIO 43701 SEPT 17 1966 TEN CENTS Tons Of Explosives Rained Bombers Aid Marines Trying To Trap Reds Past Was Clouded Man With Double Dies At 39 OMAHA Neb Fritz Johnson the dead ringer whose fantastic double life shoved him into the national spotlight a year ago died Friday of cancer His secret died with him To the end no one but the year-old Fritz knew the whole truth behind his double identity No one could say for sure if he recalled his life as Larry Bader an obscure Akron Ohio salesman who was declared legally dead following an apparent boating mishap on Lake Erie in 1957 No one could say how Fritz turned up in Omaha a short time later winning the ship and hearts of nearly all he met Fritz who gave the name of John Fritz Johnson when he applied for and got the job of bartender at a swank Omaha nightclub rose swiftly in the public eye He became an announcer for an Omaha radio station and then moved to the position of sports director at one of the city's three television stations His double identity was discovered when he visited a sports show in Chicago and an acquaintance from Arkon him To the end Fritz denied any knowledge of his past life And from the time of the disclosure until his death Fritz's life turned from one of contentment to one of tragedy Since he had left a wife and family in Akron Fritz had to live apart from his wife and family in Omaha His Omaha wife a beautiful model received an annulment of their marriage but the two continued to see one another FRITZ JOHNSON Fritz lost his job at the television station He returned to tending bar to help make support payments to both his families Then this past spring came the greatest blow Cancer which had caused him to lose one eye earlier was diagnosed as having spread to his liver and was in a terminal stage He died in St Joseph's Hospital No Man's Land Targets Struck SAIGON UPI and rained tons of bombs on the demilitarized zone DMZ Friday in support of U S Marines trying to trap and annihilate a North Vietnamese division just to the south The giant striking from above the clouds and the low level hit sectors of the international land which the North Vietnamese Division has been using to reorganized and re-equip for forays into South Viet Nam's northernmost Quant Tri Province House Committee Votes Funds For Program WASHINGTON UPI House Appropriations tee noting that foreign aid had paid off in the past voted Friday to spend 53.1 billion more to keep the program going another 12 Tne committee cut million from President son's original request and further attempts to reduce it appear likely when the U.S Looks For Feelers On Peace WASHINGTON UPI of State Dean Rusk said Friday the United States would welcome contacts be- tween North and South Viet Nam and possibly others looking toward a peace ment The idea had been suggested earlier by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in a speech at the National Press Club before he left Washington for New York Rusk told a news conference that the United States would welcome any such contacts that would elicit from Hanoi a willingness to talk peace But he quickly added that neither the Philippines nor anyone else seemed to have found any interest on the part of North Viet Nam for peace talks Rusk discounted Chinese Communist charges that U.S aircraft bombed Chinese es Sept 9 and fought a battle with Chinese fighter planes He said U S pilots d i d encounter some MIGs about 30 miles south of the Chinese frontier thai day however He said the Chinese charge was being looked into further fi reaches the House floor day All but million of the total -is for various forms of economic assistance The re- mainder is for military aid outside South Viet Nam for which a separate million was included in the annual defense money Ninety-five nations and five territories are included The committee traditionally skeptical of foreign aid was both critical and ry In its report to the House it said the program had paid but had achieved its goals in some cases It is hardly arguable that our past aid in defense of the free world has paid dividends by helping to thwart and frustrate the world Communist drive the report said Not only has it foiled aggression it has brought stability to a number of countries However it said the program had failed to prevent starvation in India despite expenditure of billion in 15 years And it said the Dominican Republic was worse off economically now than in 1961 before it received more than million in loans grants and food In all the report said only 14 nations had been restored to 2 Jets Collide But Pilots Escape INDIAN S P RI N G S N e v supersonic jets being put through tight flying maneuvers by the famed Air Force Thunderbird flight de- monstration pilots collided near this small desert today ejected safely An Air Force spokesman said the Thunderbirds the official flying demonstration team were practicing the arrowhead loop maneuver when the collision occurred near the runway Indian Springs is an auxiliary base to Nellis Air Force Base i the extent they could operate without further assistance It said the Latin American Alliance for Progress was built on great goals and minimum progress The committee said it was concerned about the low recovery rate of recipient nations and called for more emphasis on helping those countries which show mined efforts to help selves This year's recommendations represent a million cut in President Johnson's request for military aid and a million slash in economic aid U.S 1st Air Cavalry Division troops sweeping the Central Highlands in search of another North Vietnamese division burned down a small jungle village Friday after a sniper among the huts shot and killed an American UPI photographer Steve van Meter said the soldiers of the 5th Cav's Bravo Company sprayed cans of GI insect repellent on the bamboo and then touched off the flammable liquid with matches Only hours before the air strikes in the DMZ Friday a Leatherneck patrol ran into a company of North Vietnamese regulars two miles south of the buffer zone and fought off a force four times its size at point blank range The Marines called in ry and napalm strikes on the fringes of their own positions and counted nine enemy dead inside their defense perimeter before helicopters plucked them from the battlefield The patrol was leading a salient of about Marines hacking their way through the jungle toward another Marine force which officials said has made contact with elements of the Division In other ground action U.S officials said Friday that U.S Infantry Division units killed 145 Communists in a battle earlier this week in the Central Highlands They had the help of two air force pilots Peter 31 Hegseth 29 of Kenyon Minn and Capt Kenneth B Beaird 31 of Brazoria Tex The two pilots made repeated bombing and strafing runs and Beaird deliberately flew slowly across the Communist positions to draw fire and pinpoint targets for his wingman In the air war U.S jets struck North Viet Nam with 121 missions Thursday without losing a plane They rained heavy missile and flak sites hit seven oil depots near Hanoi and Haiphong and attacked 55 railroads and storage areas In the South U.S pilots flew 383 missions Thursday One pilot was lost in a freak accident After bailing out of his Marine A4 Skyhawk 225 miles northeast of Saigon the pilot fell to his death from the sling of a helicopter hoisting him from the jungle The Philippines joined the fight in Viet Nam in an active way Friday with the arrival of 730 officers and men to set up civic action programs Weather Delays PAPEETE Tahiti UPI Bad weather over the Mururoa atoll proving grounds will delay for several days the testing of another French nuclear device French officials said Friday The test originally was set for Wednesday The World This Morning Global MOSCOW Soviet Communist party newspaper accuses Red China of planning to export its Red Guard cultural tion beyond the confines of China thus discrediting Com- Page Germany Former Nazi SS sergeant Joseph Erber 69 is sentenced to life imprisonment as one of Hitlers little helpers who carried out executions at the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland during World War IL Page The Nation NEW YORK Metropolitan Opera gives first public in new opera house audience is made up of big names in government and in- dustry and fine arts Page WASHINGTON Opponent to Adam Clayton Powell claims he has enough support to strip him of his powers as chairman of House Education and Labor Committee Page Around Ohio CLEVELAND Among those who will be on hand to greet Vice Preside nt Hubert Humphrey when he arrives here on a campaign trip Sunday will be 100 policemen and a corps of secret service agents Two groups have threatened to picket airport and extra police have been assigned to insure demonstrations remain ful Page MT VERNON A Church of the Nazarene junior college will be located on a site near here it was announced by Dr D S Summerville super- intendent of the Eastern Ken tucky district who said the church hopes to develop a year program at the college with a total enrollment of Page OTTAWA Fire which broke out here early Friday destroys two warehouses leased to the Sylvania Electric Co with damage estimated between and by Fire Chief Urban Rutie who said cause of the blaze was not known Page COLUMBUS Twenty of Ohio's 35 college football teams open their seasons today ed by Miami and Ohio Uni- versity in clashes with Big 10 foes Page NEW YORK Michigan State opens its bid for a second straight national football championship on today's first big weekend of the collegiate season Page The Weather FORECAST Sunny and con- cool Chance of light scattered frost tonight See details or Page Inside The JR Page Sec Bridge 4 B Births I B Classified Ads B Comic Pages B Crossword 5 B Deaths Funerals 2 A Editorial Page 4 A Markets 8 A Police News 5 A B Women's News 7 A Astronauts Dick Gordon left and Pete Conrad shout over the roar of helicopter engines on the deck of the USS Guam just before CPI Telephoto takeoff Friday for the trip back to Cape Kennedy Hot-Shot Spacemen Back At Cape U S Drive Toward Moon Pushed CAPE KENNEDY UPI Bubbling with enthusiasm over their view of earth America's hot-shot Ge- mini 11 pilots returned Friday to Cape Kennedy where cians already were at work on the final Gemini mission in the nation's drive toward the moon Fantastic spectacular beau- and phenomenal were a few of the words pilots Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon used to describe their fa r e a k i n g three day ride through the heavens They soared to an altitude of 850.3 miles higher than man has ever flown made a spectacular linkup with an Agena target rocket and rode their spacecraft home to a no hands landing Shortly after their arrival at the Cape the White House announced that President son had nominated Gordon a lieutenant commander in the Navy to the rank of full commander in view of the successful Gemini mission Conrad already a full der was promoted to his present rank after the Gemini 5 mission last year Earlier Vice President Hubert H Humphrey paid tribute to the Gemini 11 pilots for their superior ship Said Your outstanding performance added Big Coal Venture In West Virginia NEW YORK dation Coal Co revealed here Friday that it ts developing million worth of New coal in West Virginia New of the venture re- a few minutes after Con- sol was absorbed by the Con- Oil Co in what was said to be the largest deal ever in the oil in- dustry The sale of Consol had been in the works since last March and was finalized at a price of more than million The coal company will keep its cor- name favorable knowledge vital to our lunar and other space goals The astronauts arrived back at the Cape at EDT aboard two separate helicopters that shuttled them from the recovery carrier the USS Guam About 200 persons including the launch crews that got the mission into the air were on hand to greet the spacemen Also in evidence was a big red and white banner which Welcome Back Pete and Dick The two were beaming from as they stepped from their helicopters into the bright Florida sun There's a bunch of familiar faces said Conrad looking around at the launch crews I cant say enough for the Atlas the Agena and the Titan Gordon I think he Conrad and I enjoyed the flight more than anybody else It was absolutely spectacular the launch was fantastic and the Agena was phenomenal It was a lot of fun Conrad said that from their record SoO mile high perch they got a pole to pole view of earth It was he allowed The astronauts will undergo a couple of days of self debriefing into tape recorders everything they can recall about their returning to the Houston Space Flight Center and their lies Week And A Half Left For Voters To Register Swiss Charge Pole BERN Switzerland UPI The Swiss government Friday announced the expulsion of an employe of the Polish Embassy here on charges of espionage It's later than they realize for those residents who not registered to vote to get their names added to the eligible list at the kingum C o u n i y Board of Elections Fourth and Market For those persons whose names are no on the poling books over there's less than two weeks to get it done The deadline is Wednesday Sept residents who are not registered fay that time will not be able to vote in the general election at Nov S It's that simple and final After that date registration will be closed until 10 after the election Special registration will be held at the Muskingum County Board of Elections starting Monday Hours will be from 9 to 9 including day and then on Monday through Wednesday of the following week There also will be out of office registration on four days during those or which there will be special hours at the office Fourth and Market streets That schedule is as follows with hours 10 to 2 p.m and 4 to S Wednesday Sept 21 William D William s residence 615 Pershing road Thursday Sept 22 Mrs C Kelly dence 969 Linden day Sept 23 Roy residence Putnam and Monday Sept 26 Mrs Minta D Simons residence 1264 Wheeling avenue To promote the registration the Citizens for Registration group will sponsor a door nob campaign Saturday Literature listing all the issues So be voted in by residents and also those c o u n t y w i d e and for various political and educational divisions in addition to the registration places and hour will be hung on door nobs out the School Prayer Proposal WASHINGTON ate Republican Leader M Dirksen said Friday he would act Monday ui bring before the Senate const tional amendment to support voluntary prayer in public schools Chances appeared good would win a simple majority vole to bring his proposal to the floor But they appeared if not hopeless he could get the two- thirds majority for approval
