The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 2

FranWin and Oil City, Pi. Wednesday, February 18, 1970 THE NEVs-HERALD 2 Shrine annual ceremonial r- 5.V.- 5 Ijf 5 i sr. I ft .1 wf, I. i 1 planned here on Aug. 15 Shrine Club to be held in the er, George Freidhaber and Joseph Levi Dr.

G. C. McCandless of Franklin has been named general chairman of the ceremonial He will be assisted by Between 4,000 and 5,000 Shriners and. their wives are expected in Franklin on Saturday, Aug. 15 when the Venango County Shrine Club will host the Summer Ceremonial of Zem Zem Shrine Temple of Erie.

It will be the first time the ceremonial has been held in Franklin, a Shrine official said. The affairs have been held three times In Oil City, once in Corry and several times in i I Grove considers hosting western firemen's group mm I Members of the Rocky Grove Fire Derjartment will hold 1 special meeting Monday at 8. largest group within the state p. m. in the Fire Hall to con- composed of some 10.000 paid sider a proposal to host the up members in 387 fire depart-Western Pennsylvania Fire-'ments.

A total of 34 counties men's Association Aug. 9(are included, through 11 I The convention is preceded Frank Worst, president, has; by a camping group bringing asked a large representation 'about 100 units tr camp for a frcm the entire membership to few days prior to the conven- i. rat SAOY.rTQ.20 lie, consider this project and to be present Monday to vote on it. At the last meeting representatives of the association Donald Mclntyre. president; U.

M. Jackson, vice president, andj Edward Clawson. secretary, along with Lou Burdell, president of the State Firemen's Association presented the proposal to the Rocky Grove department to act as host. It was stated that if the convention comes here it will be the largest gathering of firemen in these parts since Oil City hosted the state con- i James Phipps and Randy Francis Voyager Inn. The Jaycees also announced they are conducting a membership applications will be available at young men between the ages ot The Franklin Jaycees have scheduled its annual dance for Saturday, Feb.

28 from 9:30 p. m. to 1:30 a. m. in the Voyager Inn.

The "Tijuana Trumpets'' will provide the music. Making plans for the dance are, seated: John J. Berg, Bob Kockler, dance chairman, and Tom Kleck. Slippery Rock pushes bill to aid professor Franklin school officials attend educational meet i. tion systems program mana ger, Fels Institute of Loca and State Government of University of Pennsylvania.

Educational Technology with Dr. R. C. Hummel as speaker. He is a research associate of the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh.

The School Board and PubLc Communications with Nick Go-bel as the speaker. He is the director of public relations for (he Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Humanizing Education with Charles Tarino and Phillip Pap-pas as spaekers. Tarino is a Maurice J. Thomas Fellow of the Tri-State Area School Study Council and Pappas is director of the Warrendale Youth Development Center.

Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties of Students and Employes with Thomas M. Kerr as speaker. He is president the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Differentiated Staffing wit'i Dr. James Mauch and Dr.

D. Richard Wynn as speakers. Both men are professors of education at the University of Pittsburgh. The study council soonsoreii institute was held at Keystone Oaks Senior High School in A1-' Standing are: of the that drive and the dance for 21 and 35. Franklin Elks Club.

Events for the ceremonial will include registration of can didates, lunch for candidates and unit members, initiation of candidates, ceremonial feast and Shrine Parade. Divan and units will arrive on Friday evening, Aug. 14. Arrangements are being made to house all persons wishing to attend. The Shrine parade will consist of Shriners only, with the exception of one female nurse and children appearing on the hospital float The following units of Zem Zem Temple will parade: Legion of Honor, Chanters, Patrol, Oriental Band, Kiltie Pipe Band; MUlion Dollar Band, Sand Heat ers, Zem Zem Motor Corps.

clown unit, cave men unit and Wheel Patrol. Units from all Shrine clubs are expected. En tries are also planned from Buf falo, N.Y., Cleveland, Ohio, Har- risburg and Pittsburgh. Members of the Zem Zem Temple come from Venango, Erie. Crawford, Mercer, Forest, McKean, Warren and parts of Elk Counties.

Officers of Zem Zem Temple include: Alvin W. Levenhagen, Town-ville, potentate; Richard H. Van- derwende, Erie, chief rabban; Donald D. Shepard, Erie, assist ant rabban; Leverne Peterson, Greenville, high priest and prophet; J. F.

Becker, Erie, oriental guide; James McKnight, Erie, treasurer; and J. Walter Fenner, Erie, recorder. Divans of all Shrine Temples in Pennsylvania are expected to attend the ceremonial. Temples from a distance expected in clude: Al Koran, Cleveland; Irem, Wilkes-Barre; Ismailia. Buffalo, N.Y.; Jaffa, Altoona; LuLu, Philadelphia; RaJah.

Reading; Syria, Pittsburgh; and Zembo, Harrisburg. Aides in Venango County ap pointed by the Potentate are James Hovis, Robert Bell and Howard Kelly of Franklin end Dick Grumling of Oil City. Representatives from Ve nango County appointed by the Potentate are James Hindman of Franklin, Dick Grumling of Oil City and Art Shorts of Em-lenton. The Shrine operates 19 hospitals for crippled children throughout North America and three burns centers in the Unit ed States. Erie Shrine Hospital is now in the process of being renovat ed and when completed will handle crippled children from Northwestern Pennsylvania, Northeastern Ohio, Southeast ern New York and Southern Canada.

At the completion of the hospital in Erie it will become an operative unit and all operations will be performed there. Other events of the Zem Zem Shrine of Erie this year will include a visit by the Imperial Potentate of North America on June 6 in Erie, laying the cornerstone for the Shrine Hospital on June 13 by Right Worthy Grand Master of Masons of Pennsylvania, Shrine Circus on June 15 and 16 in Sharon and Shrine Circus in Erie on June 17, 18, 19 and 20. St Patrick's council holds first meeting zx Bradford, Warren, Sharon, 'Meadville and Erie, George Needle of Oil City is president of the Venango County Shrine Club. Other officers are: Harry Hickman of Emlen-ton, first vice president; Raymond Brown of Franklin, second vice president; Howard Kelly cf Franklin, secretary-treasurer. Directors include: James Hovis, Frank A.

Pankrati Louis Witherup, Harold Heck- I vention in 1909. The Western Pennsylvania division is the tion. Burdell complimented Rocky Grove on its building and grounds set-up and stated that the facilities could be used to advantage in hosting the convention. A large parade and other activities highlight the western association convention and in reporting to the members, it was noted that considerable business comes to the area through such activities. The board of directors is con- tinuing to look into the project and Worst stated that all mem-1 A bill that would entitle foreign teachers to an extension in order to secure citizenship has passed the House, but has been bottled up in the State Senate Education Committee lor almost a year.

In support of Dr. Sharma's in tention of gaining citizenship, W. R. Thompson, local G. Murphy manager, was awarded the first place plaque in the sales manager's honor roll award for the year 1969.

He had received the third-place award the previous year. S80Q to the car and $250 to the school bus. All 30 elementary school children were trarferred to another school bus and were taken to school. All the children were from the Seneca RD 1 area, police said. In another mishap, an eight-vear-old Franklin RD 2 girl escaped injury when she ran into the side of a car at 4:45 p.m.

Tuesday four miles east of Cranberry on Rt 322. Pob'ce identified the girl as Lauri Diane Amon. They said she darted from between two parked vehicles and into thte side of a car driven by Robert City Jaycees plan dance $400 taken in theft at office City police reported that about $400 in cash was stolen from a money bag in a safe at the Franklin Area School Business Office at 417 13th St, Police today said that the theft must have occurred between 5 and 10:30 p. m. on Monday.

They reported that a patrolman discovered the rear door of the office open about 10:30 p. m. Monday. They added that when be entered he found the safe door was open. Police stated that about $400 in bills was reported missing from a money bag which was in the safe.

They said the money was from the senior class activity account. Police reported that about (30 in change was left in the bag. They added that several other money bags were not taken. Hi-low NEW YORK (UPI)-The lowest temperature reported today by the U.S. Weather Bureau, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, was 18 degrees below zero at Williston, N.D.

Tuesday's high was 87 degrees at Garden City, Kan. his brother, Loyal McCandless, of Grove City, past potentate of Zem Zem Temple. Chairmen of various committees for the summer affair will be appointed at a meeting Feb. 26 of the enango County I bers will have an opportunity to discuss the project at the meeting Monday. The annual firemen's fair will be held July 2U through 25, and it was decided to curtail plans for a rodeo this year because of lack of bleachers.

The monthly fish fry will be held this Friday. It is always the third Friday of the month and take out orders can be arranged by calling the fire hall on the afternoon of the event. A report was given on the new portable gasoline driven saw which will be used to emergency work. It was stated that it worked well on a ryout on a junk auto, masonry and timber. The department is cooperat ing with the Wolves Club in a public dinner on Sunday, March 8, the proce cancer society, proceeds to go to the the faculty, administration and students at Slippery Rock have created a flood of letters to the Governor, the president pro-tern of the State Senate, the chair man of the Senate Education Committee and others.

Tardiness of House Bill No. 208 in reaching the Senate floor has also aroused some of Slip pery Rock's leading citizens, so they are joining the faculty-student writing campaign in an effort to learn what has happened. The bill, which parsed the House on March 19, 1969 by an overwhelming majority vote of 121-14, provides for a two-year stay extension for 1 1 teachers declaring their intent to secure citizenship. It is one of a number of bills now buried in Senate committees. Burial of the bill in the Senate Education Committee (headed by Sen.

Preston 13. Davis has already defeated the purpose of its original intent at Millersville State College. House Bill No. 208 was introduced by Sen. Marvin E.

Miller in order that Millersville might be able to retain on its faculty a re-i nowned alien professor who, in addition to his teaching duties, was also engaged in cancer re search. Because of the stagnancy of the bill in the Senate, the Millersville professor was forced to leave Pennsylvania Slippery Rock could be next to suffer the loss of a noted pro fessor. Other state college? might also be affected. Dr. Sharma, who speaks and writes seven languages, has made significant contributions to Slippery Rock College His scholarly publications, which al ready number 75, have been well received critically.

Also, this past September he was selected to deliver a paper at the international meeting of the Modern Languages Association held Pakistan, the only person from a state college in the United States so honored. In addition. Dr. Sharma has lectured extensively throughout the Commonwealth on educational and literary subjects and is ed itor of the Indian Section of Twayne's World Author Series. William Shilling, 25, of Cranberry.

Titusville police investigated a minor twcar accidert at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at the irtersection of North Franklin and Main ots. Police said cars driven by Sandra L. Watson, of Endeavor and Willie May Fluker, 35, of Polk RD 1 were involved. Police said the Watson car cut a turn too short and hit the Fluker auto.

Minor damage was reported and no one was injured, police said. Several administrators and school board members of the Franklin Area School District recently attended the Mid-Winter Institute sponsored by the Tri-State Area School Study Council. At the institute six seminar programs on contemporary events and topics pertaining to school systems were held. Seminar topics discussed were: Educational Planning Pro-gramming-Budgeting Systems with Dr. C.

Edwin Brewin as the speaker. He is the educa Erie station goes off air A failure in transmission line equipment knocked educational television station Channel 54, WQLN, off the air for an indefi nite period. The difficulty, which became evident Monday night, appears to be similar to a transmission failure of about a year ago which took the station off the air for several weeks, according to program director Paul Brown. Off the air are all the daytime school programs as well as the evening adult-time legheny County where representative of nearly 100 school districts from throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia were in attendance. Attending from the Frank-lin Schol District were Dr.

Robert G. McElhattan, Dr. David C. Hardwick and Dr. Ralph B.

Weaver and William C. Snyder, all administrators; and Joseph S. David, Ralph E. Mook, James E. Reagle, and Francis F.

Zagar, all school board members. Schweiker seeks kidney program WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, Tuesday urged the federal government to spend more on the treatment of kidney diseases which he said kills 8,000 persons "needlessly" each year. Testifying before the Senate Health subcommittee, the Pennsylvania Republican cited specifically the need for i hemodialysis equipment, which provides blood clearing treatment for kidney disease pa tients.

Schweiker said neither the states nor the federal government had programs to handle the problem. A distinguished professor at Slippery Rock Sute College may be required to leave the state because of inaction on a bill by state legislators. Dr. Mohan Lai Sharma, professor of English at Slippery Rock and a citizen of would like to become a citizen. Manager wins sales award Girl slightly injured in school bus mishap One child was slightly injured other lane and was struck by when a Cranberry Area Schoo- the bus.

bus. carrying 30 grade school Police estimated damage at fa fa wilkm pupils, and a car collided at 8:05 a.m. Tuesday on Main St. in Seneca. State police said the child, Elacia Kreutzman, 10, of Seneca RD 1, complained of an in-Jury to a tooth and was treated by the school nurse before going to class.

Police said the school bus was driven by Arthur Lurdquist, 64. of 915 Innis Oil City, and tthe car was operated by John F. Hadley, 58, of 514 Bouquin Circle, Oil City. Police said the car was headed south on Main attempted to slow down for a car stopped ahead on the road, slid into the St Patrick's Parish Council will meet March 12 to elect officers. The Rt Rev.

Msgr. James M. Powers, pastor, told the council at a meeting last week that the purpose of the group is to act and serve in an advisory capacity to the priests of the parish in all facets of church life. Msgr. Powers said that at the March meeting committees will be named for finance, cemetery, education, religious instruction, youth education, liturgy, Ecumenism and communications.

He pointed out that committee members need not be a member of the parish coun-cfl. Members of the council, front row: Mrs. Jacques Morgan, Sister Josephine, Mrs. Daniel Paskie, Sister Elaine, Mrs. Joseph Manning, Rt Rev.

Msgr. James M. Powers, Rev. Stephen MiaczynskL Middle row: Theodore Nalepa, Max Callaghan, John Egan, Stephen Facini, William Chalot, Mrs. Ed Ellis, Vincent Caccavo, James Prenatt, Ronald Niemiec.

Back row: Harry Gent John Logue, Harold McCallum, Albert Iorfido, Mrs. Edward Shettler, Guy Mammolite, Michael Prince, Rev. Rod-ney Hartle. Members of the council absent when the picture was taken were Mrs. James Gentile, Thomas Brickley, Paul Henry and George JablonskL.