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FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22,1976 THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLE, PA. PAGE THREE Three Killed More Sonar Searches Set To Find Missing Blue Squad at Junior High West Connellsville Area Junior High West blue cheer-leading squad Arleen Peperak. The girls were awarded the spirit megaphone attended the Golden Eagle Cheerleading clinic at Seton Hill for being one of the most spirited squads. They also won a blue College in Greensburg. Those (from left) in the front row are ribbon for superior performance and two white ribbons for out- Bonnie Stanek, Darleen Peperak, Mary Lowery and Jeananne standing performance.

The faculty sponsor is Miss Barbara Ciciretti. In the back row (from left) are Rochelle Leos, Cindy Shirey. (Courier Photo) Hess, Pamela Washington, captain, Rosanne Herchko and Living History Will Be Shown Here By Guard Connellsville area residents will get a close-up look at American history when they go through two Bicentennial trailer exhibits Saturday and Sunday alongside the east side of the local armory. Brought here fay the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, the trailers contain historical artifacts, documents, and other historical items. In addition there will be a series of mini movies showing activities and operations of the National Guard in its modern assignments and missions.

Along with the movies and other displays will also be life-sized mannequins of America's fighting men, dressed in the uniforms of their tunes starting with the "Minutemen" of Revolutionary War days on through to the modern soldier. These uniformed mannequins represent the War of 1812; the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, the World War I the World War II and today's mihtaryman. The two-day display will open at 10 a.m. Saturday and close at 8 p.m., reopening at 12:30 p.m. Sunday and closing at 6 p.m.

It is being shown here in conjunction with the second annual Arts and Crafts Show being held inside the National Guard Armory on West Washington Avenue, sponsored by the Greater Connellsville Historical Society. Two Autos Damaged In Separate Wrecks On Township Roads A Dunbar youth was uninjured when the car he was driving south on L.R. 26047 went out of control and plunged over a 40- foot embankment, coming to rest in a creek about 5 p.m. Thursday, according to State Police at Gaddis Crossroads station. Damage to his auto was estimated at $300.

Troopers also reported an auto operated by Joseph Gonosky Dunbar, R. D. 1, was struck by a hit and run driver along L.R. 26023, Dunbar Township, about 9:45 p.m. Thursday.

Damage to his auto was estimated at $100. There were no injuries. Wade Main Speaker At Annual NAACP Banquet Tonight James N. Wade, secretary of administration for the Commonwealth, will be the featured speaker at the annual NAACP human rights banquet, to be held at 7 p.m. today at Peasant Village in Rostraver Township.

Wade who was appointed by Governor Shapp on Jan. 6,1975, was the first black to hold this position. His position involves implementing the state's $4.7 billion budget and policies of the executive branch of state government. Wade has 400 employes in his charge. The banquet is open to the public.

The Mon-Valley chapter of the NAACP. NAACP Bicentennial mugs will also be available. Oliver To Appear In Uniontown Parade Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder Al Oliver will be the celebrity at Uniontown's 39th annual Halloween parade which is set for Wednesday. At least eight bands are scheduled to participate in the parade which each year attracts approximately 20,000 spectators. Also featured this year are larger cash prizes than previously offered.

Bellow Skeptical About Winning Nobel Award By PATRICK J. KILLEN CHICAGO (UPI) Author Saul Bellow is out there, looking for "dream space" today, so he can resume writing the novels that Thursday won him the Nobel Prize for literature. At a news conference conducted with wit and charm, the white-haired Bellows, 61, a University of Chicago English professor, acknowledged he feared the fame that goes along with being a Nobel laureate. "The child in me is delighted," he said, "The adult in me is skeptical." Relaxed in a light green turtle neck shirt and dark green suit, Bellow said he hoped the award would not change him as it did the late American author John Steinbeck. "I knew Steinbeck quite well and I remember how burdened he was by the Nobel prize.

He felt that he had to give a better account of himself than he had done. "I remember feeling rather sorry for him. I felt it lay all too heavily on him and I think it made him quite wretched. I hope it isn't going to make me wretched, but then I'm a more cynical character Talmadge Renewing Battle Against Medicare Fraud PITTSBURGH (UPI) Sen. Herman E.

Talmadge, Thursday said he would renew in the next Congress his fight against Medicare and Medicaid fraud. "I will introduce two bills early in the next Congress," he told a statewide hospital meeting. "The first will consist of strong anti-fraud and antiabuse measures. That will be followed by a Medicare and Medicaid administrative reimbursement and reform bill." Talmadge said the proposed legislation will be the first order of business for the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on health. The Georgia Democrat said fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid programs "result in billions of dollars going down the drain." "The choice is a simple one," he said.

"Either we make Medicare and Medicaid more efficient and economical or we reduce benefits." Talmadge addressed a final-day session of the annual fall conference of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania. Poroled Murderer "Being a writer is a rather dreamy thing. And nobody likes to have the diaphanous tissues torn One has to protect one's dream space." Bellow turned aside a chance to talk about politics but did aim one barb at President Ford. Told the President had said the winning of all seven Nobel prizes this year by Americans showed the United States was a great intellectual haven, Bellow said: "Somebody must have told President Ford that because I don't think he would have discerned it for himself." Bellow said he was glad to win the prize "but I would have survived very well without it." He turned aside most questions about his novels and attempts to classify him as a particular type of writer. "I am a fish," he said, "not an ichthyolgist." Bellow said he disliked being called a Chicago writer or a Jewish writer.

"I am a modern writer," he said. Still, he added, "I've lived in Chicago a long time and I don't mind giving a boost to the old town." He did admit a friend once called him "a bureaucratic writer, you get up in the morning, you drink coffee and you write." Bellow said he did get up and write to keep his sanity. Otherwise, he said, he would be overcome by -'all the evil forces within me." The author of "Humboldt's Gift," "Herzog," "The Adventures of Augie March" and other novels, said he intended to write at least one more nonfiction book but divulged no other plans, not even hoe he would spend his $155,000 award. "I don't have any plans for the money. At this rate (considering the publicity and attention), my heirs will get the money in a day or two." Progress Reported In AG Teacher Rift Some progress came in a teacher contract dispute in the Albert Gallatin Area School District Thursday when teachers there voted to accept a state fact-finder's report issued last Tuesday.

The Albert Gallatin Area School Board must still act on the report. At a board meeting Thursday night members agreed to study the report further. They will render their decision at a special board meeting next Wednesday. A statement issued Thursday evening by the Albert Gallatin Education Association, stated teachers voted to accept the recommendations of the fact-finder in their entirety. When Balloon Hits Wire CHARLOTTE, N.C.

(UPI) Three men, two from Pennsylvania, were lulled Thursday when a hot air balloon in which they were riding descended onto a 100,000 volt power line and exploded. The victims were identified as Sydney Gibson, 45, and his son, Pat, 23, both professional balloonists from Levittown, and James Vogan, 29, of Towson, a helicopter pilot. The balloon, owned by Tidewater Helicopter Co. of the Washington, D.C. area, had been hired by the Charlotte, N.C., Jaycees for a two hour flight over the city.

Mrs. Andretta Campbell, who witnessed the accident, said she thought the balloon was going to land in a nearby park. "It started coming down real fast," she said. "It hit the top electric wire and burst. The balloon went one way and the basket with the men went the other way and it was on fire." Other witnesses said the balloon exploded before it hit the wire.

Mrs. Campbell said police prevented spectators from trying to assist the victims. "The police wouldn't help him and wouldn't let us help him," she said. "I don't know if he was still alive but at least I would have had the satifsaction of knowing that I tried to help him." Patrolman D.L. Miller, the first policeman to arrive on the scene, said the men were dead when he arrived.

"I saw three men," Miller said. "One was still on his knees. All of them were severely burned and already dead. The fire was so hot I couldn't get up to them." He said police tried to keep spectators away because they feared the high voltage line might fall or two nearbly fuel tanks might explode. Police said later one of the men might have been alive immediately after the crash but the heat was too intense for police and witnesses to have helped him before he died.

Small Nations Could Start Up New Cold War PHILADELPHIA (UPI) International cooperation is needed to prevent a confrontation between industrial and developing countries that could have the same effect on the world as the Cold War, according to United Nations Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim. Waldheim, speaking Thursday night to a dinner of the World Affairs Council, called for a "continuous process of dialogue and negotiation" between the two classes of countries. "An adversary relationship between these groups could be as divisive and disruptive as the Cold War between East and West in the decades immediately following the end of the Second World War," he said. "To work for compatible policies will require international dialogue, negotiation, agreement and cooperation on an unprecedented scale." Waldheim said an agreement was possible even though developing countries "generally are reaching for new policies and new the industrial societies are searching for new ways to cope with inflation, recession and unemployment." Waldheim described the role of the United Nations in the "continuous process of dialogue and negotiation" as "a universal umbrella, an acceptable forum for debate and the necessary central services." Waldheim said a study, completed recently for the United Nations, showed if economic growth could be accelerated by a statistically small margin in the developing countries while economic growth of industrial societies was reduced moderately, there would be a major redistribution of benefits without any loss of production. By CYRIL GUERRERA DESTREHAN, La.

(UPI) Divers planned more sonar searches for the dozens of persons missing in a ferryboat crash, but authorities said today many may be permanently entombed in their cars in the silt on the Mississippi River bottom. "The cars are at least half covered with silt already," said Capt. Bubba LeBlanc, who coordinated salvage operations at the scene of a Mississippi River collision between the ferryboat George Prince and a Norwegian tanker. "The river is the lowest it's been in 23 years," he said. "It makes the silt problem worse.

The current is unbelievably strong and it will cover anything on the bottom with silt." Twenty-two bodies were recovered from the ferry before it was refloated late Thursday, and authorities said at least another 56 persons were missing. Only 18 passengers survived the Wednesday colli- I Obituaries EDWARD O'DONNELL Edward (Ed) O'Donnell, 75, of 221 South Prospect Connellsville, died suddenly Thursday morning in Frick Community Hospital, Mount Pleasant. He was bom March 9,1901, in Scottdale, son of the late Hugh and Barbara Ellen Schmuck O'Donnell. He was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church and was employed by the Clyde Brooks Funeral Home in Indian Head and the Milton V. Munk Funeral Home, Connellsville and was the supervisor of the Thomas F.

Meagher Funeral Home in Mount Pleasant until the time of his retirement in May, 1976. He is survived by his wife, Francis Childress O'Donnell; four daughters, Mrs. Warren (Winifred) McMullen of Santa Maria, Mrs. William (Lois) Boyles Jr. of Warren, Ohio; Mrs.

Charles (Joyce) Orbin of Connellsville and Mrs. Donald (Judy) Lazier of Carlisle; 23 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a brother, Gilbert O'Donnell and a sister, Mrs. James (Ella) Eckman, both of Washington, three stepsons, Ray Hall of New Mexico, Joseph Hall of Aliquippa and Rudy Hall of Long Island, N. and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Darreld (Shirley) Casto of Coraopolis and Mrs.

John (Saundra) Nicholson of Connellsville. He was predeceased by, in addition to his parents, his first wife, Catherine Harper O'Donnell and son in 1919 and his second wife, Mrs. Iva M. Blasey O'Donnell in 1968. MRS.

JOHN E. WAGGLE SR. Mrs. Sara Ann Waggle. 83, of Vanderbilt, R.

D. 1, died at her home early this morning. She was born Aug. 10,1893, in Franklin Township, a daughter of the late George F. and Ruth A.

Brown Miller. She was a member of the Jr. O.U.A.M. Assembly 1 of Vanderbilt and the American Auxiliary of the Emory Lewis Pratt Post 586 of Vanderbilt. She is survived by her husband John E.

Waggle five sons, George P. Shoenberger of Uniontown, Franklin P. Shoenberger of Mount Holly Springs, Joseph A. Shoenberger of Neosho, Walter Shoenberger of Shippingsport and John Waggle Jr. of Buena Vista; three daughters, Mrs.

Edith C. Sumey of Mount Pleasant, Mrs. Ruth I. Livingston of Juniata and Sara Belle Waggle, at home; 40 grandchildren; 70 great-grandchildren; one brother, Joseph C. Miller of Connellsville, and one sister, Gertrude I.illey of Brownsville.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Walter Shoenberger. in May, 1928. Air Crash Debris Falls Returns to Prison Like Rain On Schoolyard On Kidnap Count LOS ANGELES (UPI) David Malone, 35, who escaped three death sentences and a life prison term for a double murder in 1960, was sent back to prison Thursday, sentenced to 15 years to life for kidnap and sexual assault. Malone was convicted in 1960 of stabbing and strangling Charles and Sylvia Duvel after robbing them of $200. He was sentenced to the gas chamber, but the verdict was overturned by the state Supreme Court on the grounds the judge improperly instructed the jury.

Two more trials followed, both resulting in death sentences, with both verdicts overturned on technicalities. Finally sentenced to life in prison after the death penalty was declared unconstitutional, he was paroled Oct. 9,1975. False Alarm Sent In Connellsville firemen answered a false alarm at 8:07 p.m. Thursday sent in from Box 32, Franklin and Jefferson Streets.

By ROBERTA WAX LOS ANGELES (UPI) Two planes collided over a residential neighborhood Thursday, scattering burning wreckage and pieces of the two pilots over a wide area, including an elementary school. Despite efforts by police, firemen and federal aviation inspectors, souvenir hunters stole some of the body parts along with pieces of the planes needed by investigators, police said. "They were carrying off everything from airplane parts to actual pieces of bodies," a Culver City police officer was quoted as telling the Los Angeles Times. "You couldn't believe it. They must have been out of their minds." A twin-engine Turbo Commander owned by Hughes Aircraft, in a holding pattern waiting to land at the company's private air strip, collided with a single- engine Beech Debonair on a landing approach to the Santa Monica airport.

Debris was scattered over 250 locations in an area two miles wide. Children watching a volleyball game at the Light and Life Christian elementary school were shocked to tears by human and aircraft debris raining on the schoolyard. a few of the children were upset. The (plane) parts were coming down like confetti on the roof," said Principal Raymond Moller. think the Lord was watching over us.

It was a miracle no one was hurl." Part of one plane burst into flames after narrowly missing a police station and four officers were injured. Another suffered a heart attack. A burning fuselage plunged into a guest house. The owner and neighbors put out the fire with garden hoses. The pilot of the Hughes' plane was identified as Donald Bolt, 44, and the other pilot as Erich Baldwin, 27.

"There was a little plane and a big plane and the little one snipped the big plane's wing and tore off one motor," said Skip Buchanan, 10. "There was a whole bunch of things flying out. It was scary." Police witnesses said the smaller plane "disintegrated in little bitty pieces" but Bolt appeared to retain some control of the larger craft and may have been attempting an emergency landing on the street. MRS. JOHN MONACO Mrs.

Mary Soltis Monaco, 57, of Youngstown Road, Lemont Furnace, died at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Uniontown Hospital after a brief illness. She was born at Monarch, daughter of John Soltis Sr. and the late Mary Soltis. She was a lifelong resident of the area.

She is survived by her husband, John Monaco; her father; four sons, John, Steven and Mark Monaco, all at home, and Anthony Monaco of Cambridge, Ohio; a brother, John Soltis Jr. of Leisenring six sisters, Mrs. John (Catherine) Smith and Mrs. Ellsworth (Francis) Nicholson, both of Masury, Ohio, Mrs. Andy (Ann) Gondek and Miss Maxine Soltis, both of Monarch, Mrs.

Eugene (Pauline) Martinosky of Connellsville and Mrs. Houshang (Elouise) Sendi of Alexandria, Va. She was predeceased by, in addition to her mother in 1972, a brother, Harold Soltis, in 1964. LUTHER A. BANNER Luther A.

Sanner, 78, of White, died Thursday at Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg. He was born June 8, 1898, in Somerset County, a son of the late Abraham L. and Mary E. Cook Sanner. He had been a resident of Saltlick Township all his life and was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy at Poplar Run.

He is survived by three sons, Reuben and Denver, both of Acme, R. D. 1, and Robert of Connellsville, R. D. one daughter, Mrs.

Albie (Joan) Wolfe of Beaver Falls; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and two brothers, Emory of White and Reuben of Melcroft. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Firestone Sanner, one daughter, Katie Sanner, two brothers, Matthew and William Sanner and one sister, Bertha Geary. sion. Officials feared as many as 100 may have died in the accident, but were unsure whether the number of commuters trapped in the 31 cars knocked overboard would ever be known. "It's my feeling the death toll is going to go over 100," said St.

Charles Parish Sheriff John 0. St. Amant. "There's a good possibility all of the victims will never be found." Four Coast Guard investigators were scheduled to begin hearings late today into the cause of the crash involving the 664-foot tanker Frosta and the crowded ferry. The key question to be decided was whether the ferry was overtaking the tanker at the time of the collision or whether it simply crossed into the path of the larger ship.

Several witnesses said the ferry failed to respond to warning whistles from the tanker and cut its engines in midstream moments before impact. At the scene of the accident, salvage crews worked 24 hours before hauling the grey and white George Prince to the surface with the aid of a 650-ton crane late Thursday night. "We had to keep trying to bring it up," said LeBlanc. "Prop wash from passing ships would have pulled it into the navigational stream, then you would have had a hell of a crash." An hour before the George Prince was pulled to the surface, divers temporarily halted their nearby search for the missing cars. They planned to use sophisticated sonar equipment to help in that search today.

At one point Thursday, authorities felt they had located most of the 31 cars. Yellow and blue buoys were put in place to mark the spot for divers, but an underwater search revealed only a pile of junk metal. "Right now we're back to base one," said Lt. Wallace Frilouz at state police rescue headquarters. "We haven't found anything." Kidnap Suspects Separated From Other Jail Inmates FRESNO, Calif.

(UPI) The three suspects in the kidnaping of 26 Chowchilla children and their bus driver will be segregated from other inmates in the Fresno County Jail next week during a pretrial hearing. Sheriff Harold McKinney said Thursday he decided Fred Woods, 24, James Schoenfeld, 24, and his brother, Richard, 22, will be held on the jail's fourth floor away from the other inmates because of the nature of the charges against them. He said inmates accused of crimes involving children were usually segregated. The three will be at the jail during a change of venue hearing beginning Wednesday. The hearing is expected to last two to three days.

The three suspects have been held in Oakland to be near their attorneys since their capture. Funeral Notice Fil.DEK-Knend.s of Mrs. Ethel D'Hdpperl MrCusker Elder, of Scottriale Manor. 20 Pearl SI Scottrtale. formerly of Smlthton and Youncwuod.

who died Wednesday Oct. 20. 1976, ht- leceKcd from 10 a 'o 9 ni UKlav and from 10 a until 2 Saturday in? hour of service at the Robert Ferguson Funeral Home Scottdale, i Nicholas Yancheck officiating Interment In Green Ridge Memorial Park of Michael Legaiza of Banning died Wednesday. Oct 20.1976. will be received from noon to i and from 7 lo p.m today at the 1.

Barthels Funeral Home, Second S'reel, i Funeral services wlli he held on Saturday morning at 'he funeral home Inlermen' In the Olive Branch Cemetery Ko.slr uei unship MONACO--Friends of Mrs. Mary Soltis Monaco of Younpstown Road, Lemont Furnace, who died Thursday. Ocl 21,1976, will be received at the Victor A DeCarlo Funeral Home, 136 North Gallatin Uniontown. from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 Saturday, from 2 to 5 and 7 lo 9 p.m. Sunday and until 8 45 a Monday at which time a short prayer service will be held followed by a mass of Christian burial at 9.30 a.m al St.

Theresa's Church, Uniontown. i the Rev Nicholas Thomas as celebrant Interment will follow In Sylvan Heights Cemetery O'DONNELL --Friends of O'Donnel! of 221 South Prospect Connellsville. who died Thursday. Oct 21. 1B76, will be received a' the home of the deceased al 221 Scjuth Propped St Conneilsvllle.

after 7 p.m. today Office for the dead will be held al 8 m. Sunday, and a funeral mass will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church at 11 a Monday i the Rev Howard Rudlslll officiating. Burial will be in Normalville Cemetery SANNER-Frlends of Luther A Banner of White who died Thursday, Oct 21, 1976, will be received after 7 today at the Clyde Brooks Funeral Home. Inc Rte 711, Melcroft.

where funeral services will be conducted at 2 m. Sunday with the Rev. Wilbert Brown officiating Interment in Kutsey Cemetery at White SKFCHKCK-Mrs Mary Sefcheck iSzewczyk), 90. of Conneilsvllle, R. D.

(Owensdalel, died Wednesday. October JO. 1876. Friends will be received In the Frank Kapr Funeral Home. 417 Pittsburgh Si Scoi'ldale.

from 11 a. lo 9 ioda A prayer service will be held there Saturday at 9-30 a followed by mass of Christian burial at 10 in St. Joseph's R. C. Church, i Ihe Rev, Aloysius Borkowskt and Rev.

Frank Lesnlowskl concclebrants Burial will be In the church cemetery Parish rosary wUl be recited today in Ihe funeral home, at 8 p.m. WViOLE-Frlenda of Mrs Sara Ann Waggle of Vanderblll. 1, who died Friday, Oct. 22, 1976. will he received after 7 p.m.

today at the Ralph E. Galley Funeral Home, Dawaon, funeral services will be conducted nt 2'30 Sunday with the Rev Samuel N. Harper officiating. Interment in Ihe Flntwoods Cemetery..