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135 No. Ill On Guard for 134 Years Tuesday, August 24, 1965 Caught in Pre-Season Practice Austin High Barred from Grid League BY HAL SCHRAM Pre Prase Staff Wrtter The football season ended one week before practice was scheduled to open at Austin Catholic High School. The Friars were barred from all interscholastic football varsity, junior varsity and freshman for the J965 season by the Executive Committee of the Catholic High School League. The crackdown came Monday after league Director Ralph Owen caught about 20 Austin players and three coaches practicing football in picturesque Sarnia, 60 miles north ,7 Dec. 1 of one year and Monday of the week preceeding Labor Day of the following year." Al! of Page 50 of the handbook is devoted to specific interpretations of the rule.

There can be no mistake of what constitutes a legal or illegal practice. In making its ruling the Executive Committee pointed out that this infraction was carried out without the knowledge and authorization of the-administration of Austin High School. Rhodes, his assistants and the players involved must shoulder the the committee said. plaints. of other violations of the pre-practice rule.

But never before has there ever been any specific proof of such violations. Rhodes, 42, has been a head coach in high school and an assistant in college for the past 20 years and was assumed to know the rules. It was understood that Rhodes Monday had already mailed in his resignation to Austin High. "Regardless if this is true or not," said the Rev. Fr.

Leo Bruke, prior and disciplinarian, "Mike is through If he hasn't resigned, he's fired." The Friars, will not be suspended in other sports. A power in basketball, swimming a golf in the league, Austin has been striving for football respectability in the Central League of the First Division in the past two years. Austin reached its pinnacle in athletics in 1958 when with Dave De-Busschere starring the Friars won the state Class A basketball title after barely missing it the previous season. Down through the years Owen and other league directors throughout the state have on occasions heard com east of Detroit, in violation of league and state association rules. Ccach Mike Rhodes was fired Monday by school officials shortly after they had learned of the violation and the action of the Executive Committee.

Someone "blew the whistle" on the Friars 10 days ago and Owen followed the tip to Sarnia. "There they were," said Owen, "as big as day. They had even left the country to break the rule." Regulation 2, Section 8, of the state association handbook reads in part: "Allow no football practice between 2H Mike Rhodes A short season Seeks mmsw hi TidketJF 0 (OF mm County Probe I 57 Yanks Missing in Air Crash 'Inadequate9 BY MARK ETHRIDGE JR. Pre Pm Auaciatc Editor Governor Romney called Monday for a grand jury in Frem UPI and AP HONG KONG A U.S. Marine Corps C-130 transport vestigation of wholesale ticket fixing by the Wayne County plane with 71 persons aboard crashed into Hong Kong Bay Tuesday shortly after taking Road Patrol, and promised to make his own probe if a grand jury is not ordered.

-liMf AP Ptiote Enjoying cotton candy and a ride on the Ferris wheel is Lynda Bird Johnson, accompanied by Rep. Richard D. McCarthy during their visit Monday to the Erie County Fair in Buffalo. The President's daughter stopped at the fair while visiting friends in the area. off for South Vietnam.

Fifty- seven are unaccounted for. Two and a half hours after the crash 13 survivors had been brought to the Queen Elizabeth In a statement from his summer residence on Mackinac Island, Romney said that, "up to this point, invesigative steps appear wholly inadequate. The individual who has involved himself has expressed publicly a lack of confidence in the persons presently conducting the investigation." Hospital in Kowloon. Only one a Si Ufa i i Mr fa SUSPENDED Road Patrol Sgt. Paul Paciorek has admitted body had been recovered, but divers said they saw several others inside the badly damaged cabin.

Authorities at Hong Kong's Kia Tak Airport said most of the 65 passengers were Marines who had been on leave in Hong Kong and were returning to the big Da Nang air base. Sie. JiLA U.S. Space Twins Rendezvous with Phantom Satellite voiding thousands of tickets in the last four years. An investi gation was ordered by Wayne County Sheriff Peter L.

Bu-back, who then turned it over to the Prosecutor's Office. A barge captain in the crash area said the plane burned "The whole matter is most Frem UPI an AP distressing," Romney said. before it sank in Yau Tong Bay. Free Press Photo since it tends to make mockery Gov. Romney of the Wayne County taxpayers' HOUSTON Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad Monday jockeyed Gemini 5 into a trail-blazing rendezvous with a make-believe satellite a key first step in "Only a wing and an engine of the aircraft, can be seen above the water," the barge captain told authorities.

putting men on the moon. Jack and Linda Howard prepare for October baby A 'Model' Fugitive Faces They successfully completed the tricky maneuver at 2:47 efforts in the field of traffic safety and good government. "The news media have done a commendable job of exposing these malpractices on the part of certain public officials." Since some of the justice A HOXG KOXG air-sea res p.m., Detroit time, after being cleared for another full day' of i cue unit spokesman said most of the fuselage was below water and that divers forced open the door to bring out the first sur Return to Prison Barbarism flight and given an excellent chance of shattering space flight Paul Paciorek, an easygo ng with a traffic ticket. Page 3 A. Fix scandal just $ymp torn.

An Editorial. Page 4A "Foolproof safeguards imposed by sheriff. Page SA. courts seem to be involved in the matter, Romney said, "this. records by going the full eight-day route.

Four blasts from their maneu vivors. Hong Kong is a major center for rest and recuperation for in itself, should give great cause Turn to Page 6A, Column 4 vering rockets put the spacecraft on a new orbital path that enabled it to swing close American servicemen stationed in Vietnam. Military planes carrying vacationing troops to a phantom Agena rocket from South Vietnam arrive and depart almost daily from Kai Tak Airport. whose theoretical route was worked out on the ground. It was an important warmup for the Gemini 6 flight in Octo ber, when two astronauts will BY DON LENHACSEN Free Pros Staff Writer Jack Howard is a hardworking family man and acting foreman for a Warren firm.

He's a devoted husband who spends most of his spare time converting his ramshackle house into a pleasant home. He's looking forward to the birth of his first child. He's also a fugitive from a Georgia prison camp watching the collapse of the respectable world he's built in the last 21i years. Howard, 23, is fighting to keep that world. BUT THERE'S another rea son why the acting night foreman of Allan Tool Machine Co.

doesn't want to return to Georgia. He said it will mean solitary confinement for the rest of his term, or death at the hands of other prisoners. He said some prisoners are convinced he is the one who pointed out for authorities the man who fatally stabbed a fellow inmate. Records at the Georgia State Board of Corrections indicate his story is true. The records say he was placed in solitary for his own protection several months before he walked away from a CJ try to fly their spacecraft in work crew on Feb.

4, 1963. Both Howard and the prison warden had requested the solitary confinement. THE PRISON DAYS and his present life were described by Howard in the living room of his small frame home at 267SS Blackmar. His wife, Linda, sat in a chair across from him. Near the front door stood a cradle for the baby which is due in October.

Howard's real name is Jackie Lee Ford. He started "running with the wrong crowd" in Atlanta and was "in and out of trouble with the law." When he was 17, he was placed on three years close formation with a real Paciorek Names Ticket-Fixing Bar BY STAN PUTNAM, BOB COTTER AND WILLIAM SUDOMIER Free Press Staff Writers Suspended Wayne County Road Patrol Sgt. Paul Agena rocket. Sunny, Warmer Weather Due Tuesday will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high of 80 degrees after an overnight low of 54. Winds will be southerly 8-16 the Weather Bureau said.

Complete Weather on P. 7D. THIS WILL be a big boost for Project Apollo officials, who The Rev. Donald Thompson Cleric Shot In will have to be able to hitch vehicles together in space before they can send men to the moon for a landing, brief exploration and return. Paciorek named a Nankin Township bar Monday as a clear ing house for tickets on their way to be fixed.

Paciorek said he "frequently" If the Gemini 5 flies its full Hunt Racist schedule of 191 hours, it also! received batches of tickets from Bennie Ratkos, who formerly will provide other vital information for the moon program, owned what was then the Ben MARRIAGE RATE SOARS Draftees Dash to the Altar JACKSON, Miss. (AP) R. Lounge at 6921 N. Wayne Road, Nankin Township. The bar since has been sold Turn to Page 6A, Column 5 probation for "joy riding" and car stripping.

"I tried my doggondest to stay out of trouble," he said. He failed. He admits he later helped burglarize two Turn to Page 6A, Column 1 The Rev. Donald Thompson, a 59-year-old white minister seri- and the name changed. ouslv wounded in a snoigun mhiirih.

aooarently was shot Paciorek said: "I can't remember taking any because of his civil rights ac tfiHttM. Jackson police said 1 rSv JUSTICE oFTHt Monday. PEAC tickets out of the bar, but I drank in the bar and he (Ratkos) was a friend of mine. He usually came to the station (Road Patrol headquarters) and gave me Police and Federal agents loined in an investigation into the blast, which felled Mr. Thompson as he walked from the tickets." a parking lot to the rear door PACIOREK SAID wouldn't of his apanmem Duiiumg ouii- discuss the matter further be Edward R.

Chestney Tickets fixed? Always day night. cause he was being questioned POLICE SAID Mr. Thompson had written which were intended about it by the Prosecutor's Office. But, he added: rnorted he saw a car enter for justices of the peace. United Press International Some young men are in a big rush to the altar these days.

It's love, of course and Vietnam. "Many of the young men bluntly admit that they are marrying to avoid the draft," an Allegheny County (Pa.) license clerk said. "Some say they feel the cause in Vietnam is not worth fighting for." IN PHILADELPHIA, Robert W. Costigan, first assistant clerk in charge of the Marriage License Bureau, said two young women telephoned and -volunteered the information that they were moving up their wedding dates' so their boyfriends can avoid the draft. "The draft?" asked John Danyo, 22, a musician In De- the lot with a white man driv They also accused Road Patrol Inspector Dan D.

Martin of aid Free Press Want Ad Pulls 6 Drum Customers ACTION Want Ad in the Free Press drummed up more business than he could handle. Six people wanted his one set of professional drums. We're passing this information long to you in case you've already had a big bang out of your drums and want to sell them. Call 222-4800 ing and two others on the rear seat. He heard one shot, which Amusements 4B Ann Landers SO Astrology 6D Auto News SB Billy Graham 8C Bridge 6D Business News 5B Comics 5-7D Crossword Puzzle 6D Death Notices 4C Drew Pearson 7 A Earl Wilson 7A Editorials 4A Feature Page 7A Helolse 2C Movie Guide 7D Names and Faces 8D Obituaries 2A 1-5D Stock Markets 6-7B TV-Radio SB Want Ads 4-8C Women'f Pages 1-3C ing in Paciorek's ticket-fixing missed him, and took a full efforts.

Martin also has been "I'm not the fat man." Paclofek, who has admitted fixing thousands of tickets, previously had been accused of being "a fat man" in the bar who held impromptu "court by the beer pumps" and fixed tickets brought him by a suspended. charge of buckshot from the second shot in the back of the left shoulder, apparently from PACIOREK'S ADMISSION came after reporters talked to a motorist. Edward K. Chestney, between 18 and 23, "and they ask for an extra copy of the license to take to their draft boards." In many courthouses across the land the number of marriage applications has soared since President Johnson made Turn to Page 6A, Column troit. "That's why I'm getting married." Grace Kelley, a Wayne County marriage license clerk, said many young persons were rushing to get married to escape the draft.

She said three-fourths of those applying for marriage licenses are 32, of 31244 Krauter, Garden City. a distance of 23 feet. Meanwhile at Montgomery, a young Catholic priest, Father Richard Morrisroe, 26, of Chicago, remained In crlti- Turn to Page 6 Column 6 Reporters asked cnestney, a The accusations came from a group of four deputies and a resigned deputy who charged Paciorek sidetracked tickets they Turn to Page 6A, Column 2.