The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 25

Monday, Auguit 10, 1970 Pottstown TRADITION STEPS ASIDE A Cambodian farmer and his wife move their cart out of the way of an advancing South Vietnamese armored personnel carrier plowing through their rice paddy during an ation near Krek in northeastern Cambodia. The oxcart is filled with rice seedlings which the farmer was transplanting to larger fields. (AP Wirephoto) Funeral Services I Reputed Set Wednesday For Watkins Cosa Nostra Figure Mysterious Fugitive (AP) LONG BRANCH, N. J. (AP) -Reputed Cosa Nostra strong- CHESTER, Pa.

WediTfesday funeral services Frank (3occiaro, who feid have been set for U.S. Rep. G. Robert Watkins, 68, who died of a heart attack here Friday. SerTices for the three-term sale, according to law enforce-1 ping, some of as- ment sources.

Isociates once discussed the pos- far from the 60-acre Watkins krm where the family raised willinj, actually owned sibility of his using a limiting elude the Delaware County electrical CTn Board of Judges, the County County as a hideout. Supervisors and several mem- once held bers of Congress. The Rev. John Nichols, ad minisjtrator of Fair Acres, a area, a title Genovese. Cocchiaro, according to transcripts of FBI wiretapping is a 1206 Lawrence County as a hideout.

violent man who enjoys stealing Wanamassa, Ocean Town-i Cocchiaro has been indicted and hitting people; ship. for criminal contempt of the in-: At the July 8. 1969 hearing of It reportedly has been empty vestigating commission for his the state commission, he told a since Cocchiaro to return to the July 29, photographer, you keep tak- county home for the aged, will property has been main-i969 hearing from a coffee mg those pictures, knock be in charge of the service. tained and the lawn mowed reg- break after having been ordered your brains Watkins represented the 9th ularly. to do so.

He was under subpoe- Di.strict of Pennsylvania, cover- na at the time, ing Chester and parts of Dela- FLED HEARING I ware County. He suffered a It was on July 29, 1969, that! "BIG FRANK" heart attack Friday while at-Cocchiaro fled a hearing of Cocchiaro, alias Prank Condi tending a gathering of investigation Commission, or is said by lawi can women at the Penn Oaks He been seen since, at enforcement officials to be Country Club near West by law enforcement au -1 capo lieutenant in the Cosa Chester. 'thorities. i Nostra family of Simone COUNTY SHERIFF Andrew Phelan, executive DeCavalcante of Before his election to Con- sector of the SIC, said Princeton Township, gress in 1964, Watkins was a once in awhile we hear in! He, along with DeCavalcante! Delaware County Sheriff, Com- Bahamas, in New York or in and 13 others, were subpoenaed! missioner and a state senator. checked out all to appear July 8 at the first; He was also president and (jpg gnd rumors and still ha-hearings of the then newlyj board chairman of the Blue created State Investigation: Transfer Co.

of Chester, a truck-; There is an points bulle-1 Commission, which was investi- ing firm he founded 34 years out for Cocchiaro in each of, gating organized crime and offi- ago- the 50 states and territories, cial corruption in Long Branch. And there is also a The witnesses were told that day when to return for question- A native of Hampton, Watkins canie to With his father when anywhere in the country, ing by the commission, was still a boy. He held a routine check of his If Cocchiaro had stayed! variety of jobs in Delaware pgj would show around, he might be in ttie same Southeastern fugitive from New fix as some other reputed mob- fore founding his trucking grant- Flags in the were lowered to halt staff in his: SiS. Rn honor Saturday. In Congress tarf hfm in 40 was a member of the House teistate and Foreign Commerce oitferent states from tips but Committee and the Merchant Marine and Fisheries He i 5 survived by his wife; Baun declined to say where Hilda and two sons, Robert and the tips have come from and Dwain, both of Chester.

specifically whether they have CHICKEN PIPING HOT! READY-TO-GO! HedHea COUNTRY CHICKEN CHICKEN DINNERS ALSO, SHRIMP, FISH AND A COMPLETE SELECTION OF SANDWICHES DINING ROOM SERVICE OPEN DAILY 11:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. (INCLUDING SUNDAYS) ed immunity from prosecution in return for their testimony. Alii four refused In the beginning to I talk and were jailed for civil i contempt by the commission. Only one has been released.

i He is Robert Oc-' chipinti of Long Branch, a cous-; in of who spent several days in Mercer County jail before testifying. It is not known whether his testimony was responsive or evasive although responsive testimony would have been required under the law for him to have been released. Three other reputed mobsters! are still behind bars for refusing' to answer commission ques-j PRACTICAL NURSE-Linda Leuthold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Leuthold, 562 Chestnut graduated as a practical nurse from Reading Muhlenberg Technical School Friday evening.

A 1967 graduate of Pottstown High School, Miss Leuthold received training at St. Hospital, Reading. and will work at St. Hospital, Lancaster. Pontiff Urges Kidnapers to Release Victims CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy i tions.

They are Gerardo Using words such asj Catena of South Orange, re- and puted boss of the mob family of Pope Paul VI berated the late Vito Genovese; Joseph guerrillas Sunday Zicarelli of Cliffside Park, a reputed capo foreigners, in the Paul Sciacca family; and Speaking to a crowd the. Anthony Russo of Long Branch, a reputed capo undPr Catena worried the kidnaping Sena and Zi-arelli have a diplomats Catena and nave a American by! wing to themselves the Uruguayan guerrillas. I Reformatory near pontiff said the kidnapers! Trenton. Russo is now the threatened the lives of I state prison where he was sent persons who are innocent! from Yardville after exhausting disputes and; are really threatened if prison-j IRONY ers are not released by thej RUSSEIXVlLLE.Ky. inf Vile blackmail is civilly m-1 hutnrt LlniwiM Wackmail hasi pntucky multiplying in different! eariy two yille bankers helped a I mg young ministerial student to kidnapings of jer-l realize his dream of becoming Baptist minister.

for their own honor and for that I In Jesse James, the sonjof that noble country. We beg; of the Rev. Robert James, un- thi5 of them as others have done leashed his gang on Russellville through the radio in these mo- and robbed the very bank which ments, in these hours, among had aided his father. The bank, them, for example the auxiliary the old Southern Bank of Ken- bishop of Montevideo. We beg tucky, still stands.

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