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Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 11

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Will Study Bypass Impact Re-elect Officers OfMHA Council Reviews Budget For 1975 htm Nft Ow) passed the legislature on Nov. 21. Will Be Moved The 343 project calls for the relocation of this highway from a point around Freeport Mills, where the previous 343 project left off, and bringing it into the city around 10th Street. The letter from Manbeck also noted that first section plans are completed for the relocation of Route 72. This first section is projected from the proposed 422 bypass to the present Route.422.

Planning for the second section of new Route 72 is expected to be completed by the end of 1974. This section will extend north of present Route 422 to Route 22. Bus Line Is Ready For Crush PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) The Greyhound strike ended in time to cope with the-Thanksgiving holiday crush, which bus line officials said should boost business back to normal. "We are not anticipating any trouble with holiday traffic that's one reason why we were so eager to be getting back to work," said Louis B.

Raffel, a Greyhound spokesman. "It will take a little' while for passengers to get used, to coming back to us, but I think with, the holidays coming we'll have the business." Another Greyhound spokesman said buses were running on their normal routes, regard. less of the number of passengers booked, and that the package express departments were doing a booming business. The company, could not give a figure as to how many passengers had returned to the system, but did say the terminals were gradually increasing to near-normal. Raffel said business was below normal for a Monday before Thanksgiving, but said expected normal traffic.

to develop beginning today. Greyhound and the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Divisions agreed on a new contract Sunday, ending a 'six-day nationwide strike. When service resumed Sunday afternoon, few passengers showed up, having made other arrangements. Donald L. Rhodes, San Francisco secretary of the council, estimated that about 90 per cent of the striking employes returned to work Monday.

"Those who are not working are scattered widely around the country," Rhodes said. "Some accepted other jobs, not knowing the duration of the strike, and a few others are on vacation. But right now we're getting word -that things generally are going all right." Fallen Tree Hit By Car A car driven by Lou Davis, age unreported, 616 Renova hit a tree downed by the wind this morning on Cornwall Road-, just north of Old Evergreen Road, according to North Cornwall-West Lebanon Township police. Davis, while driving his car, was reportedly warned of the hazard by a truck flashing its high beams, which apparently blinded him. Davis's car received $800 damage in the accident, and PennDOT was notified of the fallen tree for removal from the road.

Ford Signs Transit Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ford today signed a mass transit aid bill that will pump $112.8 billion over the next six years into financially strapped subway, bus and rail commuter systems. The bill could bring fewer fare increases, better service and more expansion to city transit systems, most of which lose money. The largest portion of the bill billion -wfll be granted on a case-by-case basis for construction and improvement projects ori an 80-20 federal matching basis. But a smaller section of the bill is considered the most important by most transit systems billion to be apportioned to cities according to population and population density. It can be used at local option Officers of the Lebanon County Mental Health Association were re-elected Monday night during the association's annual board meeting.

Re-elected were: Laura R. Heinly, 215 Walnut president; Walter M. Francis, vice president; Henry Ludwig, treasurer, and Mrs. Gerald Wolfe, secretary. Newly-elected board members are Mrs.

William Price and Mrs. Frederick Wolfson. Re-elected for three year terms werer Mrs. R. Barry Boehler, Mrs.

Robert Ganis, Mrs. Roberta Gilbert, Mrs. Merton Harding, Dr. Theodore Johnson, Mrs. Ernest D.

Williams Jr. and Mrs. Karl Wolf Jr. Dr. Johnson, childhood mental health chairman, reported on the recent survey completed by the association.

It dealt with mental health services for. children Lebanon County and was conducted over a two-year period. The survey results are being readied for distribution to the agencies surveyed, after which an open meeting will be conducted in January. Recommendations will then be made. Study Underway Mrs.

Boehler reported for the'after-care said a study is being made of after-care facilities in Lebanon City with a view of increasing services for returned mental patients. Francene Gates, the association's executive director, and Dr. Francis Fields, reported on the annual meeting of the National Association of Mental Health, which they attended in Washington, D.C. The next meeting of the board was scheduled for. Jan.

27 in the Municipal Building where Monday night's session was conducted. Fund For Croce ftow Is $1,913 (Continued from Page One) containers, with BOscov's containers having collected about $388. The containers distributed in Annville by Armando Garosi and Ira Kreider, Annville residents who began their own fund drive about four weeks ago, have netted approximately $800 total. $200 From Containers Garosi said he collected $200 yesterday from the containers. The money was turned over to the Alex Croce Jr.

Fund at the bank. The figure also includes checks and money brought to Keath Chrysler-Plymouth 2596 Cumberland where area auxiliaries are canvassing by phone, and funds mailed directly.to the bank. Annville and Lebanon Jay- cettes, along with the Fraternal Order of Police Auxiliary, are calling county businesses from the showroom at Keath's, according to Mrs. Deckert, in order to remind them of the WAHT radiothon. set for Sunday.

Mrs. Deckert said additional contributions have been collected since yesterday, but no tallying has yet been done. Treat Woman After Crash A Lebanon woman was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital last night, and discharged, following a rear-end collision at Summit Street and Quentin Road, according to North Cornwall-West Lebanon Township police. Marsha Zehner, 23, 263 Kathy Court, suffered strain of the spine when her car was struck in the rear by a car driven by Elizabeth L. Orsinger, College Myerstown.

Both cars were eastbound on Summit Street. The Orsinger car was towed from the scene with an estimated $400 damage, according to police, while the Zehner car received $500 damage. either for operating subsidies on a 50-50 matching basis or 8020 for capital improvement projects. Operating subsidies are considered the greatest need of big city transit systems, which say that without subsidies they will have to raise fares or cut service. tnm hji frt) avaiabte will be 9215,776, including $153,476 in a state grant and a balance of $62,300.

Also included in the overall budget is the Parking Authority lot fund of $37,700 an obligation of $520,376 for the Seventh and Willow Streets parking tot. Mayor Swanger sari he hoped savings could be made on the amount spent for street lighting. He said $178,000 was budgeted for street lighting this year, based on Met-Ed's requests for additional increases. If the increase is turned down, this could save the city money, he said. The mayor also said he hoped that part of the salaries of Ronald Blackrnan, city development coordinator, Rose Marie Swanger, city clerk and even his own salary could be paid out of the new Community Block Grant program funds.

Open Bids In other business, council opened bids on chemical products, highway building materials for 1975, sodium chloraid, water works materials, bituminous liquid materials and petroleum products. Council also went on record as strongly opposed to a proposal from the Susquehama Real Estate Development a company planning an industrial park at Uckdale, to discharge effluent into the Swatara Creek abovethe city's water intake. Also heard was a petition from the Redevelopment Authority seeking to close Green, Fifth and Seventh Streets in the railroad project area. Council also rejected a bid received for the sale of the parking lot at Fifth and Cumberland Streets from the Moose Lodge as being too low. The bid was only a little over $13,000.

Council wants a minimum bid of $15,000. Another resolution'enacted authorized the advertising for bids on the sale of a city-owned residence at 417 Bollman St. Council also authorized a resolution requesting a 10 per cent "draw-down" from Community Block Grant Development funds for initial planning and preparation of the application. This is allowed under federal law. Name Changed The city officials also passed on final reading ordinances changing the name of Washington Street in the Second Ward to Green Lane; closing and vacating a section of Putrifee Street tfe Ward; Mttinf up metercd 15-miouta partinc MMt in the city; tranrferriof funds from revenue sharing to a new account called "maintenance and operating costs." Passed on first reading was an ordinance transferring 12,157 to the parks-in-cities fund to pay off a note.

This closes out the parks-in-cities program, which was a state grant that has ended. Farmers To Protest WASHINGTON (UPI) Pennsylvania farmers will join farmers from at least five other states, including West Virginia today in protesting federal action denying a nationwide increase in milk prices. The farmers were to meet with representatives of the Department of Agriculture at the department headquarters here. The Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative in Philadelphia organized the trip and was joined by the Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers of Baltimore. The two groups have a combined membership of more than 4,000 in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

iJCllv (If VI Sea Search Terminated CHICAGO The national median sales price of an existing single-family home in September was 132,440, up 11.5 per cent from the same month a year ago, it was revealed in data gathered by the National Association of Realtors Department of Economics and Research. bin addition, unit sales of existing single-family homes continued at a slow pace, up only one per cent from the previous September when sales skidded 12.2 per cent from the September 1972 level. Price advances fluctuated greatly on a regional basis, the department reported. In the Northeast, the year-to-year price rise was 7.8 per cent to Western region, 12.9 per cent to Southern, 11.0 per cent to and North Central, 11.8 per cent to $27,980. Fewer Available By price class, September sales indicate a continuing shrinkage of the number of homes available in lower price categories.

For example, this September 44.4 per cent of homes sold were at prices ranging from under $10,000 to $29,999. Last September, 52.8 per cent of sales were in those price ranges. Percentages follow, with VICTORIA, B.C. (UPI) The search for possible survivors from a Bellingham, fishing boat that presumably sack after radioing a distress call was terminated Monday. The Air-Sea Rescue Center said the search effort, which began after the call was received last Friday, had failed to turn up a sign of the five crew members from the 75-foot Yaquina.

An overturned 10-man liferaft of the type carried by the Yaquina was discovered Sunday about 25 miles north of the vessel's last reported position. Searchers also found "September, 1973, figures in parentheses: $9,999 or under, 2.3 per cent (2.5 per cent); $10,000 to $14,999, 5.1 per cent (6.2 per cent); $15,000 to $19,999, 9.9 per cent (13.1 per cent); $20,000 to $24,999, 12.7 per cent (15.2 per cent); $25,000 to $29,999,14.4 per cent (15.8 per cent); $30,000 to $39,999, 22.8 per cent (22.2 per cent); $40,000 to $49,999, 15.5 per cent (11.5 per cent); and $50,000 and over, 17.3 per cent (13.5 per cent). Data, submitted to the Der partment of Economics and Research by more than 100 carefully selected boards of realtors throughout the nation, reflect actual sales prices, not offering prices. some debris, bundle of fohJBf floiti. "We have searched the to the limit of our capability, up to and including shore searches on foot, without me- cess other than fndtof tlej liferaft and debris," a man said.

"Having covered the area completely a number of times without success or sign of the individuals, we are terminating the search and leaving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to conduct a missing persons investigation." The liferaft and debris were found off Aristazabal Island on the east side of Queen Charlotte Sound, about 100 miles north of Vancouver Island. Rare Book SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) A volume of St. Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologia," printed in Valencia in 1477, is among the collection at La Casa del Libro (The Book House) in Old San Juan. Only five copies of this book are known to exist.

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