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24 Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Monday, February 15, 1971 S. Viets Claim Main Portion Of Trail Cut; Traffic Halted SAIGON (UPD The commander of South Vietnamese in Laos said today they ad cut the main portion of the Chi Minh supply route and alted all traffic on that portion FLOODED BASEMENT Mrs. Richard Birch, Annville RD 2, ami her grandson, Wayne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Birch, Lebanon RD 4, check Doily NEWS Photo.

the depth of water ihat flooded the basement of her home during the flood crisis over the weekend. Snow Flurries Expected Tonight In County Area Snow flurries expected to replace the which caused flooding are rain and excessive damage Hi rough on I Lebanon County A weak disturbance moved from the west loduy (n Iv cloudiness a seasonable temperatures to Pennsylvania. Snow flurries are expected to begin tonight, with I temperatures in the low to mid 20's. Tuesday Is expecled to he partly sunny with highs near 40. probability nf precipitation is 30 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Tuesday.

Winds will be light and variable tonight and southwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour Tuesday. Fair Wednesday Fair skies arc expected Wednesday wilh highs mainly in the 4fl's, and lows in the 20's. Thursday's forecast for increasing cloudiness wilh a Negotiations Continue USW Strikes 3 Major Can Manufacturers WASHINGTON (UPI) Negotiations continued this morning: between the United Steehvorkers Union and the National Can Co. after the union struck three other major can companies A Union spokesman said' Stcclworkers President I. W.

Abel called the walkout against with more than 31,000 American Can Continental Can Co. arid the Crown Cork and Seal Co. when negotiations broke off shortly after a midnight deadline. Three-year contracts with all four companies expired at four plants throughout the country. Both and Industry spokesmen appeared optimistic about an early settlement wilh the National Can midnight, Sunday.

The companies have about with formula said lo be cosl-of-living very chance of rain Friday. both days will be in the 50's, with lows in the 30's and 40's. The statistics for the 21-lunir period ending at 8 a.m. today are; High 30 Low 21 Average (6 below norm) 25 Sunset tonight 5:4.1 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow High, Feb.

14, 1970 Low, Feb. 14, 1970 7:01 a.m. 20 16 Ten Persons Injured In NYC Hotel Blaze NEW YORK Thrpp floors of the Hotel Commodore were evacuated early today after a smokey fire broke out. Ten persons were injured, none seriously. Deputy Assistant.

Fire Chief Lester Snydcr said the fire began in Boom ITiM. James Schudraft, 32, of Buffalo, who was occupying HIP room, said he awoke and found his carpet and bed on fire. Damage Exceeds $15,000 In Fire At Restaurant More than $15,000 in damage resulted when grease ignited in Barn contract with U.S. Sled. No immediate impact was expected on the can supply for Ihe breweries ami beverage producers who are major customers of the can industry.

The last Steelworkers' strike against the industry was in March, 1965. It involved American and Continental and lasted 21 Major plants are located in New York City, Long Island and northern New Jersey; Chicago and Northern Indiana; Baltimore; Tampa and Orian- of the Red Third Ave. a a and important factor" in the talks. A source close to the talks said none of Ihe three struck companies formally offered a cosl-of-living formula but that National "probably will commit itself to a formal cost-of-living clause in Ihe contract. This is a prime objective of Ihe union." He said Ihe cosl-of-living formula, which he declined lo describe, closely follows Ihe settlement reached in the industry.

A vole of about. 200 union officials lo break off talks wi'h Hie three firms was unanimous, said a union spokesman. A management spokesman said the three companies felt their most recent offer "was very substantial." Neither side would discuss the issues involved. But it wns reported (he union was seeking an additional S1.HO an hour, over a three-year contract. The companies were understood to have offered a 41-rent, increase.

The talks wore being closely watched by industrialists as a possible lipnff to (he strategy the Steelworkers would use this summer in m-negotiating their do, Fin; Los Agneles; Francisco-Oakland; New leans and Cincinnati. San Or- AFL-CIO Opens Meeting With Attack On Nixon MlAMf BEACH (AP) Tim AKL-CIO opened its annual winter leadership meeting today with a broad-scale attack on President Nixon's economic nol- icios, and a shopping list of legislative demands hound to bring conflict between labor and the lhe ahmll 10 minutes. While House. the kitchen restaurant, Cumberland aflernoon. A spokesman at the Red Barn said the restaurant will be closed for a week to ten days.

He said (he fire caused smoke damage as well as damage to electrical wiring in the kitchen. The food on hand had lo be discarded, he said. Responding were the Hoo nud Ladder, Chemical, an Washington i Companie along with the Liberty squa truck, First Aid and Safet Patrol, fire police and Fir Chief Stanley Strauss and hi assistants, Richard Carman and Charles Brandt. TV Set Fire Firemen were called out a ,1:.11 a.m. Sunday to the Charle Gardner home, 318 S.

Tenth St what was described as a set fire. The firemen were Andrew J. Biemiller, the federation's legislative director. The Union, Hook and Ladde and Chemical companies U.S. Plane Hits North Vietnam Joseph C.

Early, Cleona Resident, Dies it. U.S. spokesmen in Saigon aid a U.S. Air Force F105 Wild Veasel made a "protective eaction" strike against a ommuntst missile site in Vietnam. In Vientiane, American sources reported the ccidenlal bombing of a "clan- estine army" base at Long hen in Laos, by U.S.

planes. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam old newsmen his 16,000 troops vere as far as 18 miles inside aos. Referring to Communist raffic in the Ho Chi Minh Trail, he said "I have cut their oad, their main supply road," but added that he expected urther fighting as the Communists try to regain control of he trail.

Accidental Bombing In another section of Laos J.S. warplanes accidentally Central Intelligence (CIA), killing and wounding 10 20, bombed the headquarters- of a "clandestine army" organized by the Agency persons according to American sources in Vientiane. The base had been under Communist attack and Laotian government sources said five battalions of reinforcements were being rushed in to help. UPI correspondent Robert Sullivan reported from the northern South Vietnamese city of Quang Tri that a twin-rotor U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down inside while supporting Vietnamese drive Laos today the South against the Communist supply routes.

Signal Misfired In the accidental bombing in Laos, several clusters of antipersonnel bombs were dropped on the base at Long Chen about 80 miles north of Vientiane, the capital of Laos on Sunday by Force Phantom two U.S. jets. The Air jets apparently dropped their bombs too early because of accidental misfiring of flare by aa American on ground at the basa, American sources in Vientiane said. The air strikes were being flown a few hours after North Vietnamese troops attacked the base, headquarters for the guerrilla army commanded by Meo hill tribe leader Maj. Gen Vang Pao and sponsored by the CIA.

The American sources in Vientiane said all of the killed and wounded were Meo tribes men. There had been earlier reports one of the wounded was American. In Cambodia In Cambodia, governmen troops Sunday night clashet briefly with an unknown-sized Communist force miles northwest about 10 of Plmotn Penh, killing one and woundin three. High Command spokes man Lt. Col.

Am Rong said al Communist elements in the area were "small groups" anc "an attack in force on Phnom Penh would be impossible." rivate Investment Club Charge Manipulation To Penn Central Brass (From Our Wlra Services) WASHINGTON Battered by charges of mismanagement and financial chicanery, the Penn Central has come under attack once again. A congressional committee Sunday accused two officials of the railroad, which declared bankruptcy "ast year, of manipulating the company's assets as col- for a private investment club. Backed by the presumed fiscal strength of the lation's largest railroad, each member of the Penphil Investment Club was able to parlay a $16,500 cash investment into $83,500, according to a staff repoi't of House Banking Committee, Behind the club, according to said the nnw Congress must responded, "open new employment opportunities, meet Ihe urgent crises of the cities ami local communities and begin to provide Ihe basic human rights of health, security, dignity and prosperity for all Americans," The AKL-CIO, which blames Nixon's policies for pushing the nation's unemployment, to the highest level in a decade, said it would renew its demand for a law to tise federal money to create public service jobs in slate and city governments. Nixon vetoed such a manpower bill last year. There was itn damage listed ns HIP result of a fire at the Laundromat In the old Union Fire in a building on South Ninth between Chestnut and Walnut Slreels.

The fire was in woodwork on (op of a dryer, according to the CD report. Firemen were called to the Howard Moycr home, 407 Canal St. at .1:47 a.m. Sunday. They were, on the scene about six minutes.

The Liberty, Rescue a Independent companies responded. the were two senior company figures David C. Beyan, Penn Central's chief financial officer, and Charles J. lodge, a New York investment banker and financial adviser to the railroad. Neither is still associated with Penn Central.

The club was formed in 1962, six years before the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central, railroads, and grew from 16 to, 26 members, mostly wealthy friends of Bevan and Hodge. The committee report said the club purchased stocks with a $1.8 million low interest loan from Chemical Bank New York Trust the same bank that held Penn Central's deposits. The committee staff conclud ed that it was "doubtful" that the club members, could have made the 500 per cent profit in eight years without this line of credit. The House report found fault in several areas: criticized the bank of extending credit to Bevan "without any regard for the fact that the company's investments placed David Bevan and other Penn Central officials in basic conflict-of-interest situations." their dual role as Penn Central and Penphil officials the report said, Bevan and Hodge were involved in "the manipulative use of Penn Central pension funds on whicl thousands of persons depend to sustain themselves in retire ment." of fitting Bevan's description of a "small, infor mal investment company, 1 Committee investigators sale SIXTH STREET LAKE A stranger in Lebanon Saturday would have wondered about water sports on this lake created by the floods at the end of Sixth Street near Orange. The lake appeared to Daily NEWS Pilots.

have natural setting hut after the temperature dropped Saturday night the waters subsided and the area lost ita summer resort look, Penphil's backers wanted to build the club into an aggressive, substantial conglomerate and holding company of its own. Thus, the committee said, the railroad's demise may have been due to more than just bad judgment by management in recent investment decisions The report said there were a number of "questionable" in vestments by Penn Central and Penphil in the same companies business deals for the railroad but ones that "make, a great deal more sense when viewed interest in of the light of Penphil and the its In another development was disclosed that Secretar; of Commerce Maurice Stans had an interest of more ban $300,000 in a Penn Centra subsidiary at the time his de partmcnt was involved in gov ernment efforts to keep the fail ing railroad afloat. The Cabinet officer is listed in a congressional report and in about 38,000 shares in Grea company records as ownin; Southwest Stan, did not mention specifically in a financial statement to Congres when he was confirmed as Pres ident Nixon's secretary of Com merce in January 1069. In that financial statement Stan's also pledged to put all his holdings into a so-callec blind trust and direct the trus Ice to make no accountings reports whatsoever to him. How ever, in answer to written ques tions from The Associate Press, Stans disclosed aware ness of a trust transactio which he said occurred in Sep lember I960.

Rail Halt Dims As Clerks, Carriers Agreemen WASHINGTON (AP) Th hreat of a nationwide rail shu own March 1 has dimmed con iderably with announcement he Labor Department of a agreement between carrier and the larger of two holdou unions. The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks signed an agreement with representatives of the railroads Sunday after an all-night meeting presided over Assistant Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery Jr. Two other unions, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Workers and the Hotel and Res- aurant Employes Union, had agreements Feb.

4. The wo represent about 63,000 workers, compared with 180,000 members of the clerks'-union. Details of the weekend agree ment were withheld ponding a ratification by locals. "The demonstrated ability to reach agreement in the case of these three unions gives every reason to expect that an agree ment should be achieved with the fourth union," said Secretary of Labor James D. Hodg son.

Yet to reach an accord is the United Transportation Union representing about 90,000 railroad workers. The UTU, however, unlike the clerks, has not indicated it would definitely strike after the March 1 deadline. Congress imposed a strike ban last Dec. 10 to stop a shorl walkout. That ban ends Marc! 1.

The congressional action re quired President Nixon to sub mit plans for a settlement no later than 15 days before the ban ended, and Nixon compliec Saturday, sending a package to Capitol Hill containing his pro posals. The contents of the package remain secret until Congress re turns Wednesday from a Wash ington's Birthday holiday Should negotiations fail with the Joseph C. Early Joseph C. Early, well known Cleona resident, died this morning in the Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 80.

He operated the Cleona Pretzel Bakery for 40 years and wai later a salesman for the L. Meyer oil firm. He was born in Lebanon County, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Early.

For 47 years he served as Sunday School superintendent and as a Sunday School teacher for 50 years in the Immanucl United Methodist Church In Cleona. He also served on the board of trus. tees. He was a past president of Cleona School Authority and burgess of Cleona from 1929-49. He helped to found the Cleona Fire Co.

and served as past president of the Lebanon Rotary He was also a member of he Mt. Lebanon Lodge 226 Cited By Jaycees In 1965 he received the first leona Jaycee Award as outstanding citizen that year. Ha vas a member of the Hariris- burg Consistory. Surviving is his wife, Jtate Donmoyer Early; a son, Dr. Robert Early of Lebanon; a daughter, Grace, wife of James P.

Wnlf of Columbus, ten grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and a brother, D. Miller Early of Easton. A daughter, Mrs. Josephine Loser, died in 1969. UTU, Congress whatever Nixon must act on recommended since all means for presidenlia action have been exhausted.

Wages and work been major issues. rules have Local Man Is Burned When Gasoline Ignites A Lebanon' man was burned when, gasoline ignited while he was working on a stock car with an acetylene torch in a garage at 2121 W. Maple St. Sunday aflernoon. John Condran, 26, who resideis at the 2121 W.

Maple St. home his brother-in-law, Clare Snavely, was admitted to th.9 Good Samaritan Hospital with first and second degree the neck, face, both hands ajnd left leg. He was listed in saiii- factory condition this morning; West Lebanon Fire Chief Lanny Hoffman said 15 men from the Speedwell Fire Co. and the Ebenezer Fire responded to the call. He said that a spark from the torch had apparently ignited gasoline in a drum near the spot where Cori- dran was working.

The drum of gasoline was used for cleaning parls, he said. The resulting fira caused $150 damage to the car. Firemen were on the from 4:30 to 4:59. The First Aid and Safely Patrol ambulance transported Condran to the hospital. CHECK FOR DAMAGE Yale Zimmerman and his son leave their home near Swalara Creek in the Annville RD 2 area after checking flood damage Dally NEWS Phota.

to the home. Rowboals were the only means of access to many homes in the area Sunday. .4 .4.