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PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT THE DAILY COUtltt, CONNELLSVILLE. PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 21,1173 Personal Mention Comas Club June Outdoor "Party will be held June 22, 6:30 p.m. at the Cochran i -Dawson. June 21.

Rummage Sale-Saturday, June 23, by Bethany Class of First Christian Church, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Church basement. June 21. Mrs.

Sophie Cunningham, Mrs. Betty Gallentine, Connie Culver, Rella Heinbaugh, Vicki Hodge, John Ruggieri, Mrs. Sylvia Martin, Amos Giles, Mark Kallok, Matthew Fulton, Nell Snyder and Michael Wilkins have been discharged from Connellsville State General Hospital. William H. Keyser of Mount Pleasant, R.

D. 3, underwent surgery Wednesday at moreland Hospital, Greensburg. He is in room 322. George H. Coughenour of Morrell is convalescing at his home after being discharged from the Oakland Veterans Hospital, Pittsburgh.

Edward Helms of 1813 Baldridge South Connelisville, underwent heart surgery Wednesday at West Penn Hospital. Pittsburgh. He is in the intensive care deparimenx of the hospital. Mrs. Louis Ceconi of 312 South Ninth is undergoing observation and treatment in Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh.

She is in room No. 765. Low Would Ban Studded Tires April to Oct. HARRISBURG (UPI) The House Transportation Committee approved a bill Wednesday to ban the use of studded tires from April to October. The committee voted 10-7 against a move by Rep.

Joseph Bonetto, D-Allegheny. to outlaw studded tires in the state by 1975. "I'm going to oppose that," said Chairman Victor Westerberg, R-McKean. "1 believe if we try that we'll lose everything. But we may get the partial ban passed this year." Bonetto said he would try to add his measure when the bill comes up for a vote on the House floor.

Westerberg said six states have banned studded tires, and 26 have restricted the amount of time the tires can be used. The committee also voted 9-5 to remove a provision which would have excluded school buses from complying with the October to March period. It approved an amendment which said the studs could not be longer than l-16th of an inch. WORD-A-DAY By BACH ONLY THROUGH CWJNTLE5S DETERMINATION DID JOHNSON BECOME OUR TOP I SALESMAN! dauntless A aonT AOJ. FEARLESS Bolivion Twins Get Promised U.S.

Education LOS ANGELES (UPI) Eighteen years ago, a touring American held twin baby girls in his arms at a public health clinic in La Paz, Bolivia, and said he'd see to it they got a coDege education in the United States when they grew up. His name was Richard Nixon. Ruth and Judith Leonardini arrived here Wednesday to take him up on the offer. Nixon was vice president when he made the promise during a tour of Latin America. It was recalled by the girls' mother and a Bolivian newsman when the girls turned 18 last March 28.

Twenty-seven schools offered full scholarships when the promise was recalled, including Whittier College, Nixon's Southern California alma mater. The girls opted for Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, because it is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and they are Mormons. Their trip to the United States was sponsored by the Utah- Bolivia chapter of the Partners of the Americas. They were escorted here by Derrick Royden of Salt Lake City, chairman of the partners program, and Gary J. Neele- man, a regional executive for United Press International based in Salt Lake City.

Neeleman was honored Wednesday by the president of Bolivia for his work in the Utah- Bolivia program. The twins were scheduled to visit Disneyland today before going to Provo, where they start a crash course in English at Brigham Young Monday. PIDA Grant For Carolina Tire Approved The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority has Killed When approved a $200000 loantothe Greater Uraontown Industrial Fund, to be used by Carolina Tire Company of Pennsylvania to erect a building in the industrial park along Route 119. The company for the past several years has conducted its tire manufacturing business at a site along Route 40 west of Uniontown. Deer Hit by Truck Flies Through Auto BUTLER, Pa.

(UPI)-A deer was struck by a tractor-trailer and thrown through the windshield and out the rear window of an oncoming automobile on Pa. 38 Wednesday, killing one occupant of the car and injuring another. Mrs. Joyce Paugh, 27, Karns City, RD1, Butler County, sitting in the rear of the auto, was killed. Her brother-in-law, John Rusidoff, 36, Karns City, sitting in the front seat, was admitted to Butler Memorial Hospital in fair condition.

Rusidoff's wife, Carolyn, 31, sister of Mrs. Paugh and driver of the car, was not injured. The driver of the rig was being sought by state police. Bill Gives Judges Wider Leeway With Court Sentencing HARRISBURG (UPI) The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday reported to the floor 4 'bill amending the uniform sentencing code. It gives judges various options in sentencing Mr.

Community Church Has 168 Bible School Enrollment Mt. Zion Community Church of Acme held its annual Bible school June 11 through June 22. This year's theme was entitled "Reach Out With The Rev. Leroy Kesler is pastor. Miss Lucinda Kesler is pianist.

Directors are Mrs. Maxine Snyder and Mrs. Wayne Mowry. Teachers and helpers are Mrs. Robert Hotter, Mrs.

Dennis Brown, Mrs. David Porterfield, Mrs. Milton Lankey, Mrs. Gerald Kinneer and Mrs. Dale Lankey, pre-kindergarten Miss Jessie Husak, Mrs.

William Hoffer, Mrs. Ronald Hoffer and Mrs. Glen Ulery, pre- kindergarten II; Mrs. Harold Freed, Mrs. Joseph Brown, and Mrs.

James Poorbaugh, kindergarten; Mrs. Ray Martz, Mrs. Wayne Brown, Mrs. Deimas Brown and Mrs. Austin Brighton, primary; Mrs.

Local Rotariaiis Set Installation Fete Tonight ttr t1rI-- iiAC A -will be installed today as president of Connellsville Rotary Club for the 197J-74 term, starting July 1. The event will be held at a dinner-meeting and ladies night at Jennerstown with outgoing District Governor John G. Alex as installing officer. Rotarians will meet at the Connellsville Shopping Center where they will board a chartered bus and leave for Jennerstown at 5 p.m. The dinner- meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.

After the dinner and installation, the club and guests will attend the Mountain Playhouse, featuring the production of "How The Other Half Loves." Substitute Lloyd Bowman, Mrs. Elmer Brown Mrs. Ben Brown and Mrs. Henry Brown, middler; Mrs. Leroy Magistrates Kesler, Mrs.

Alfred Crowe and Mrs. Curtis Snyder, junior; Rev. Kesler, Larry Husak and Elmer Brown youth. The dosing program will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 24.

Approximately 168 pupils attended the Bible school sessions. (Courier Photo) Chaplain Defends Use Jud 9 Blocks Eviction Of Restraining Cages possible under the 01H are probation, im- Total cost of the new construction will be approximately $500,000, with the balance to be financed by local banks. Work will start as soon as possible, with completion expected this year, according to a GUIF spokesman. Construction of the new plant is expected to increase the present staff of 40 employes, with a annual payroll, to 75 employes with a payroll increase of $175,000, within the next three years. Also announced was a $48,000 loan to the Greater Greensburg Industrial Development Corporation to be used by General Carbide Corporation to expand a plant in the Greensburg- Hempfield Industrial Park.

NEW TRIAL ORDERED AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) David Edmonson Renn was arrested on Flag Day 1970 for carrying an American flag with a peace symbol on it. A court in Dallas sentenced Renn to 10 years in prison for PITTSBURGH (UPI) The Rev. John A. Kirk, Catholic chaplain at Polk State School and Hospital, has defended the use of wooden cages to restrain mentally retarded patients.

"I had no objection to them," Kirk told the state Civil Service Commission Wednesday. "I saw the conditions under which residents were placed in them, and I felt it should be the type of restraint needed under the circumstances." Father Kirk, a 16-year veteran at Polk, said he also was "aware" of the use of "quiet rooms" and "side rooms" for solitary confinement of aggressive patients. Kirk was one of the final witnesses to appear before the commission at its hearing for Dr. James H. McClelland, who was fired last April as Twenty Continued From Page 1 rough and rocky country and I don't see how anyone could have survived." He said the plane crashed and exploded, according to eyewitness reports received so far by authorities.

The plane, apparently preparing to enter its landing approach, plowed into El Morro hilltop'between Chimo and Chatala, he said. The jet was last in contact with the Puerto Vallarta airport tower at 10:25 p.m. CST, about 10 minutes before its scheduled landing. Earlier reports fixed the crash site as Chimo hilltop but when dawn broke it was determined to be Morro hilltop nearby, he added. Fourteen passengers boarded the plane at Houston last night.

Nine more got aboard at Monterrey, Mexico, the flight's last stop before it hit the mountainside. Puerto Vallarta was the second scheduled stop of the flight, No. 229, and then it was to have gone on to Acapulco before ending its run at Mexico City. Vega said army troops and naval personnel as well as doctors, nurses and local authorities were in the rescue 'teams ferried down the coast to the landing site. He said the operation was being directed by top Puerto Vallarta officials from a yacht, the Sombrero.

Red Cross teams flying in from Mexico City may try to go overland, he said. Eyewitnesses to the crash included various fishermen and a school teacher, Vega told UPI. Police said Prof. Ruben Malloran, a school teacher at Chimo, 40 miles south of Puerto Vallarta, reported seeing the aircraft crash and explode in the coastal mountain range. Police dispatched search parties to comb the area but by 4:40 a.m.

EDT had found no trace of the airplane. Police said it was believed the twin-engine jetliner carried a crew of four and 23 passengers. The control tower in Puerto Vallarta said only that the aircraft was overdue. It would not confirm the plane went monetary fines and guffi without penalty. MB attains no specific canoe they are into the crimes code Tin Hi ato reqaires an in- counsel of a sen- cration code.

During the course of the trial, the prosecution described Renn as a "hippie," "anti-Christ," and a "Communist" and his flag as a "swastika." The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday such remarks were improper and ordered a new trial. ters in Mexico City said it would issue no information until the craft was located and identified. Police said the weather in Puerto Vallarta was perfect at the time the craft was reported to have crashed. The DCS was due to continue to Acapuko and Mexico City after the Puerto Vallarta stopover. intendent of Polk.

McClelland has asked the commission to reinstate him Kirk called McQelland "a gentleman" and said his dismissal was "out of order." Kirk resigned earlier this year as chaplain of the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children because of its support of McClelland's dismissal Dr. Hugh E. Chavern, chairman of the Departments of Psychiatrics at SL Francis General Hospital and St. Clair Memorial Hospital, said the restraints were "something I would have expected." Chavern said he had seen similar restraints in other institutions for the retarded, including Western State School and Hospital. He said he toured Polk last summer and "I thought the residents received respectful care." McClelland was dismissed last April 17 following a surprise visit to the Venango County institution by Welfare Secretary Helene Wohlgemutb.

She complained of patients' being placed in cages. McClelland concluded his testimony Wednesday by saying he complied immediately with Mrs. Wohlgemuth's order to remove the cages. "I (previously) permitted the use of the cages because I could not do anything else under the circumstances," he said. "I couldn't in my circumstances devise a better alternative." The commission indicated it would rule within 30 to 60 days on McClelland's appeal for reinstatement.

Project Funds Retained For Next Year Fayette County Mental Health-Mental Retardation's Outreach to Children and their amih'es has been notified by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that their funds of $120,000 have been continued for another year. Three of 60 grants awarded for services to children throughout the country, were given to Pennsylvania. Of those three, Fayette County's was the largest. The program is funded 90 per cent by the federal government, remaining 10 per cent is from state and local sources. Funds are restricted to staffing and the project is guaranteed for eight years.

Outreach has a staff of 18 full time and 15 part time employes with diverse backgrounds representing a cross-section of the community. The project's basic philosophy is prevention; the goal is to promote good mental health and keep children healthy. The program was featured in the May issue of "Community Mental Health Center Newsletter," a nationwide publication. BACK ON HIS FEET SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) --A boy is back on hL ftei tooa, five alisr being packed in ice for hours.

Steven Nakatani was placed in blocks of ice as a treatment for a coma and convulsions after he found in a backyard fish pond last week by his mother, Mrs. Roy Nakatani. A Sacramento Medical Center spokesman said he is in satisfactory condition. JOHN BORING John Boring, 78, of McClellandtown, died Tuesday evening at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Olive Fike, with whom he made his home.

He was born July 2, 1894, in Dunbar Township, a son of the late John and Ellen Miller Boring. He had lived in McClellandtown for the past 13 years, previously living in West Leisenring. He was a retired pumper employed by the H. C. Frick Works of U.

S. Steel Corporation at Leisenring. He was a member of District 4, Local 6326, United Mine Workers of America. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Albert (Emma) Deitz of Great Falls, Mont, and Mrs.

Edward (Olive) Fike, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. C. R. (Lynda) Miller, both of McClellandtown; seven grandchildren, and eight great- grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mrs.

Barbara Maraugha Boring, in 1959. J.W.KWAK John W. Kwak, 46, of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly of Mount Pleasant, died Wednesday afternoon in the Cleveland Veteran Administration Hospital He was born July 1, 1926, in Mammoth, a son of the late John and Charlotte Wilson Kwak. He was a veteran of World War serving in the U.S. Navy.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Florence Ramsey Kwak; a stepson, Donald Malik of Cleveland; three brothers, Raymond of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 2, Frank of Mammoth, and Richard of Mount Pleasant; and six sisters, Mrs. George (Betty) Ray of Alverton, Mrs.

Frank (Verna) Chappell of Mammoth, Mrs. Glenn (Dorothy) Greenawalt, and Mrs. Robert (Jean) Landy, of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 2, Mrs.

Earl (Audrey) Greenawalt of Normalville, and Mrs. Robert (Frances) Hoza, of Laughlintown. MRS. HALLIE FIRESTONE Mrs. Hallie Barger Firestone, 70, of Normalville, R.

D. 1, died at 9:30 pjn. Tuesday at the T. M. Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, Darby, after an extended illness.

She was born Sept. 27,1902, at New Freeport, a daughter of the late John W. and Nell G. Higgins Barger. She had lived at Normalville, R.

D. 1, for the past year, previously living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Surviving are a son, Lynn Firestone of Akron, Ohio; three grandchildren, and two brothers, John Barger, with whom she made her home, and David P. of Jemez Springs, N. M.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Nell Firestone, and four brothers, James Everett Michael S. and Wayman N. Barger. C.H. DENNIS Clayton Howard Dennis, 72, of 265 E.

Crawford died at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday at his home. HER "CHILDREN?" NASHVILLE, Tern. (UPI) JtUJ day charged Joan Bringe of Of Dam Site Squatters Antioch claimed a pet dog and cat as uVptndeBt chfldren on her income tax returns. The indictment she claimed "Tracy a dog, on tax returns for the years 1961 and 1M9, and both "Tracy and "Julia a cat, on her 1970 form.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (UPI) The government lost another bid Wednesday to oust about 150 "squaters" from land proposed for the Tocks Island Dam project when a federal judge took the case under advisement. At a hearing here, the government argued the squatters were entitled to a judgment of possession of the property, located in Monroe and Wayne Counties, as a matter of simple law. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Farmer presented an affidavit from Bernard Upschuple, project manager for the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. The affidavit said the government had deeds proving ownership of the This Offer He Shouldn't Have Refused YORK (UPI) The former bodyguard for reputed crime leader Joseph Colombo testified Wednesday that Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo was gunned down last year because he refused a $100,000 peace offer. Joseph Luparelli, who is now cooperating with the government, testifying at the perjury trial of another Colombo family member, Vincent Aloi, in a Manhattan court, the peace offer was made in an effort to prevent a war between the two crime families just after Gallo was released from prison in 1971. Luparelli testified that Gallo's refusal "automatically started the Gallo-Colombo war." The offer and the refusal both came before Colombo was shot down at an Italian-American Unity Day celebration he sponsored in Columbus Circle June 28, 1971, Luparelli said. Colombo survived but suffered severe brain damage.

After the shooting, Luparelli said, Yacovelli became determined to assassinate Gallo and issued an "open contract" for his killing. The government says the plot to kill Gallo was put together at Yacovelli's apartment in Nyack, N.Y. Aloi is accused of lying to a grand jury when he said he never went there. Fiddlers Present VeterQfIS' An informal instrumental program was presented more than 1,200 veterans and their wives in two ballrooms of Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel recently by the Old Time Fiddlers Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Presenting the number of old time melodies that included such numbers as "ComhV Round the Mountain," "Turkey in the Straw," "Golden the musicians their program with Along." Taking part were Ralph E.

Martin, prrsMent; Pinkie Scbomaker, treasurer; James D. Byrnes, past secretary jand committeeman; Michael Hollefich, com-, mitteeman; and John Scnumaker, member who also accompanied the others on the banjo or guitar. property, but chief U.S. District Judge Michael H. Sheridan delayed a ruling until a later date.

Farmer contended the defendants were occupying the strip of land on the Pennsylvania bank of the Delaware River right, title or permission" from the United States. The defendants said the government's motion for a summary judgment in the case was premature. They paraded before the judge and held up prepared statements, but said nothing. Later they asked the court that the motion be dismissed because it was filed out of order before the defendants could answer to a government suit filed last November. The defendants later asked Sheridan to explain a summary judgment, but he refused, saying he would listen to all then 1 arguments.

The government suit said the defendants were illegally occupying the land and interfering with the dam project by their continued occupancy. However, only the issue of illegal occupancy was brought up at the hearing. Since the defendants moved into the area in 1971, the situation between them and the gov- erment has been tense. Charges have been traded, but no confrontations have ever developed. The defendants said they "want to work" the land.

They said it doesn't belong to the Army, but to "God." The dam project, will also include a portion of New Jersey, will be built above the Delaware Water Gap. It will back the river up some 37 miles and swell its acreage from 4,000 to 12,000. A national recreation area will be formed on both sides of the river, which is expected to attract some four million persons annually. City Rules Block Efforts to Earn Money for School SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Teen-ager Pam Sylke thought it would be an easy way to earn some money for school: Sell old- fashioned lemonade from the back of a truck. Then the 16-year-old, who recently moved here from West Allis, called City Hall to ask about a permit.

A mobile catering operation, she was told, requires a $7,500 city permit. "We don't have $7,500," Pam and two teen-aged friends who planned to join her venture said in a letter to Supervisor John L. Molinari. "All we want to do is work, and $7,500 to sell lemonade seems ridiculous." Molinari suggested an alternative--a $48 peddler's license. But before she can get it, Pam has to pay $6 for police fingerprinting, must canvass merchants along her planned route to see if they object, have police investigate the route, and submit to a public hearing.

all this staff," complained Pam Wednesday. "But I feel I hare to go through it for other 1 She admitted she had considered just ignoring the city regulations. "I didn't mink they'd cone out and arrest a 16-year-old girl for setting up a lemonade stand but you never kaow." Charles E. Pillar, district magistrate in North Union Township, who has been filling in for the vacant magisterial post in Dunbar, will be on vacation July 1-7. President Judge James A.

Reilly of Fayette County Court has named Harold Parker, district magistrate in South Union and Menallen Townships, to carry out the North Union magisterial duties. Judge Reilly also named Carmine V. Molinaro, district magistrate in Connellsville, to fulfill the magisterial duties in Dunbar, Vanderbilt and Dunbar Township during Magistrate Pillar's absence. Complaints which normally would be filed before Pillar are to be placed before Magistrates Parker and Molinaro for consideration and adjudication. Bus Chartered For Area Crusade MOUNT PLEASANT A bus has been chartered to take individuals from Mount Pleasant area to the Norwin spiritual renewal crusade at 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday. The bus will leave from First Baptist Church. The crusade begins at 3 p.m. Sunday at Norwin High School Stadium. Ron Susek is the guest speaker and Mrs.

Diane Susek the soloist. Evening service starts at 7:30 pjn. Meat Worth (2.8 Billion Sydney The Australian meat industry is expected to gross about $2.8 billion in 1973. About half of this will come from exports. Funeral Notices BORlNG-Fnends of John Boring of McClellandtown.

who died Tuesday Jans 19, Z2T3. may call Irotr. 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Friday at the Samuel C. Brooks Funeral Home, ill E.

Green St, where the funeral wUl be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, with the Rev. Eugene laquinto officiating. Interment In Mount Nebo Cemetery. DENNIS-- Funeral arrangements for Clayton Howard Dennis of 285 E.

Crawford who died Wednesday, June 20, 1873, are being made by the Burhans Funeral Home, Dunbar, and are Incomplete. FERTIG-T'riends of Fred C. Fertig of Acme, who died Tuesday. June 19. 1973, may caU at the Luther J.

Grimm Funeral Home, Mount Pleasant, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m today. Funeral services will be held there at 1:30 p.m. Friday with the Rev. Fern T. Earner officiating.

Interment will be in Jefferson Memorial Park. FIKEStONE-Friends of Mrs. Hallie Barger Firestone of Normalville, R. D. 1, who died Tuesday, June 19, 1973, may call after 7 p.m.

today at the Clyde B. Brooks Funeral Home, Indian Head, where the funeral will be held at p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Dr. G.

Marlon Smith officiating. Interment in Normalville Cemetery. KWAK-FTlends of JohnW. Kwak of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly of Mount Pleatant, who died Wednesday, June 20. 1173, may call from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday at the Eugene G. Saloom Funeral Home, Mount Pleasant when the funeral will be held at 2 p.m, Saturday. Interment In Fairvlew Cemetery near Mount Pleasant -FrteiHto of Mrs. Minnie In Frick Community Hospital, nt Pleasant, Tueeday, June be ncefredtt the Robert B. Ferguson Funeral Home, Scottdale, from 2 to 4 and 7 to today where the funeral will be conducted at I p.jm.

Friday with the Kev. Z. AMIUHK Qtii- ciattnc. Interment will be in Scottdale Cemetery. SCmOLL-Frtendi of Henry 2STiiLi? il int dtod Wedneeday, June 1STB to Latnfte Ana ItapMU, my cmfl at the Eugene O.

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