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Page Eight Tyrone Daily Herald, Saturday, Tyrone Daily Herald ,1867 An evening newspaper published at Herald Building, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, 16686, by Tyrone. Herald Company. Entered as Second Class Matter at Post Office at Tyrone, Pa. 16686 under the act of March 3, 1897. Mailed dally, except Sunday.

Published by Tyrone Herald Company Single copy, 25 cents; by carrier per week, Motor Route $5 per month; by mall within Pennsylvania, $4.50 per month in advance; outside Pennsylvania, $5.00 per month in advance. London Associates 750 3rd New York, N.Y., 10017, sole foreign representative. Member of Pennsylvania Newspaper Publisher's Association. WORD OF GOD The shepherd calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. John PRAYER: Creator God, it cheers and reassures me to know that You are acquainted with all my particular needs and cir- cumstances.Thank You for calling me to Yourself.

In Christ's Name. Amen. Deer Population Is In Great Condition Eager hunters are breaking out flannel shirts, long Johns and brightly-colored clothing and cleaning weapons in preparation for the opening of Pennsylvania's popular deer season Monday. "There is no place in the state where the deer population is down so far that it is bad hunting. We have deer everywhere," Game Commission spokesman Theodore Godshall said.

Some hunters already have taken to the woods to set up their hunting camps for the two-week antlered deer season and the two-day an- tlerless season that follows. Many businesses and schools are closed the first day of hunting season to give employees and students the opportunity to "bag a buck." The Legislature also delays its return to session until Tuesday. But game officials urge caution on the part of hunters and motorists in part because of the greater number of deer that could be flushed onto roadways, More than 1 million hunters are expected to kill about 140,000 whitetail deer. Last year, hunters killed at least 138.222 deer 72,113 bucks and 66.109 does. Officials', who said the western and eastern parts of the state have the highest concentrations of deer, are hoping for more deer kills this year than last to reduce starvation among the herds during heavy snows.

"We could have some severe winter mortality this year," said Godhall, citing the need to increase the so-called harvest. Because of deer over- Drivers Told To Watch For Deer Pennsylvania motorists are advised there will probably be more deer killed by vehicles on the state's highways during the next two or three weeks than at any other time of the year. When whitetails are hunted during the buck and antlerless seasons, they usually take the shortest route from where they encounter hunters to another location where they think it is safe to hide. This path often crosses a highway. Hunters in the woods during deer seasons cause whitetails to be on the move almost constantly, and the danger of deer vehicle collisions is just as great during the daytime as at night.

To lessen danger, the Game Commission urges motorists to be extra alert and slow down. Drivers should always look for a second or third deer. Often a motorist sees and avoids the first deer on the highway, only to relax and then hit a second or third whitetail trailing the first. population in suburban Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and the difficulties in hunting them in more densely developed regions, the commission has designated special hunting areas and extended the season for those areas, he said. Hunters in those specific areas will be allowed to use only bows or shotguns to cut down the risk of possible fatalities or severe injuries to people.

But the plan has sparked controversy in the Philadelphia area, where a hunt scheduled for Monday in Ridley Creek State Park in suburban Delaware County is being debated in the state's appellate courts. The Game Commission has issued a list of warnings concerning the hunting season, including admonition's about "road hunting" or shooting at deer from moving vehicles destructive shooting of utility and private property and the dressing of deer along public roadways. "This season, the regulations and rules are almost exactly the same as the past," said Godshall, adding Pennsylvania hunters so far have had a "pretty good safety record." Hunters caught with loaded firearms in their vehicles will be arrested and prosecuted, and those caught destroying utility or private property face fines and the possible loss of hunting privileges, game officials said. Jackson Says Meeting Should Be Investigated CHICAGO (UPI) The Democratic National Committee should investigate Alderman Edward Vrdolyak's meeting last summer with campaign aides to President Reagan, Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson says. If the investigation reveals Vrdolyak secretly plotted to help Reagan's re-election campaign, the alderman should be.

disciplined by national party Chairman Charles Manatt, Jackson told a local radio station Friday. Vrdolyak has acknowledged meeting with Reagan campaign aides last June, but said he discussed federal funding issues not the upcoming presidential election. Jackson also said the party should investigate allegations that Vrdolyak agreed to an early presidential endorsement of Walter Mondale because Reagan aides feared the candidacy of Ohio Sen. John Glenn. "The chairman should come in not so much as a legal authority but as a moral authority," Jackson said.

"He has an obligation to come to Chicago, to investigate, to make a very public statement." IGood service, coverage, price- Thai's State Fa insurance. STATE FARM INSURANCE Inquirer Says State Will Close Pennhurst State's Past Preserved In Old Train Stations JIM HOOVER Inturgoft lllW.ltthit, Tyrant a goQci rieighfygf, Farm SCRANTON, Pa. (UPI) The Erie-Lackawanna Station, where the story of the railroads that built and later abandoned Scranton was once written in baleful silence, again reverberates with noise. Workmen scurry through the marbled lobby, oblivious to the memories lurking there as they transform the massive terminal into a 150-room Hilton hotel amid a din of hammering, sawing and drilling. It is a scene being repeated with increasing frequency across Pennsylvania in a scramble' against time and neglect to preserve the state's most visible link with a rich railroading heritage its train stations.

From Scranton to Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, developers are finding a future in these monumental and in many cases, grandly elegant structures from the past. Kenneth Windsor, general manager of the Hilton at Lackawanna Station, as the Erie-Lackawanna terminal will be known, expects it to draw customers simply because of the history associated with the building. "Just the fact we've taken this old building that was practically falling down and put it back into the economy as a first-class hotel operation will attract people," said Windsor. "We think people will come from miles around just to see what we've done." Built in 1906 on a foundation of anthracite, the Erie- Lackawanna Station was the gateway to Pennsylvania for travelers from the Northeast in the era when hard coal was king and Scranton owned the throne. It was home to the beauteous "Phoebe Snow," the fabled lady who dressed in white to symbolize the cleanliness of the legendary New York-to-Buffalo passenger train that bore her name.

Those were heady days for Scranton, and the station, from the marbled-lined lobby with its terra cotta murals and its stained glass ceiling to the French Renaissance-style limestone exterior, is evidence of that prosperity. But the mines closed and, in 1960, the last passenger train stopped rolling. By the time Conrail closed its offices there In 1976, the once-bustling station had become a lifeless husk of its former glory. The building languished until 1982 when, after several false starts, its $8 million transformation into 'a Hilton hotel complete with two restaurants, two bars, a ballroom and a health club began in "It was a disaster," Windsor recalled. "On the outside of the building, we had grass and foliage growing.

Things had been stolen from the inside, and there was broken glass everywhere. And'the trash I don't Know how many truckloads of trash were hauled put." Although the renovation will not be completed until the spring of 1984, the hotel will open its doors officially with a ala celebration New year's ve. Windsor said HUton expects the Lackawanna Station to be an immediate success and predicted it will operate in the black dvtring its first year a rarity in for a new hotel. E. Stickler, president of the Strickler Insurance Agency said as a child growing up in Lebanon he was fascinated by that city's Cornwall-Lebanon Station but never dreamed of owning it.

Designed in 1885 for iron ore baron Robert Coleroan, the statejy two-stojrx brick ter- njioaJ sjryed. tjje GftrnwaU- Lebanpn Short line ft 9l I were 22 mUes of track extending to Conewago. With the decline of passenger trains, the building functioned as a bus depot during World War II and as a dress factory until 1980, when Strickler purchased it for $90,000. Strickler spent another $500,000 over the next two years to restore the station as headquarters for his insurance company but still finds it difficult to say exactly why he bought the building. "When I'm asked whether I would do it again, I say it's like some people and their war experiences they wouldn't go through them again, but they wouldn't trade them for all the tea in China," said Strickler.

"It made about "a.s much sense as the man climbing the mountain because it's there." While Strickler was toying with the idea of buying the Cornwall-Lebanon Station, Farmers Trust Co. of Lebanon was pouring $500,000 into the renovation of the old Reading Station a stone's throw away. Farmers Trust purchased the station in September i977 as a solution to its problem of a much needed drive-in facility, said David Etter, president of the Lebanon Valley News Co. and a member of the bank's board of directors. "Rather than going out of town to some other location to start from scratch, we decided to stay here," said Etter.

"We think it was good for us. and good for the community. It's living proof of our history;" Donna Williams of the state's Historical and Museum Commission's Bureau of Historic Preservation called the Lebanon terminals "excellent examples" of how railroad stations should be preserved. In addition to the ErieLackawanna project in Scranton, at least seven rail terminals scattered across Pennsylvania are in various stages of renovation, Ms. Williams said.

But she said many, many more perhaps 50 to 100 face uncertain futures, particularly in small-and medium-size communities. "These stations are a tangible link with our past, visible reflections' of our heritage," she said. "The architecture and craftsmanship represent an exuberance we don't find today, and we feel It's Important to hang on to them." In Harrisburg, the old Pennsylvania Railroad Station, which still functions as a train and bus passenger terminal, is in the midst.of a $14 million renovation 'that will include the addition of a restaurant and commercial offices. Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority spokesman William Faust said 'the project is designed to restore the 98- yearold station to the prominence it once commanded in the city's downtown area. "Our main goal is getting the building fully occupied," said Faust.

"It has meant too much to this community to, allow it to deteriorate. We want to put it back into an aesthetically satisfying and functionally viable condition." Plans also are underway to convert the Reading Terminal in Philadelphia into a retailcommercial complex. An adjacent train shed, the largest structure of its kind in the country, will become a convention center. Steve park, senior vice president of the Reading said changes in the tax laws to provide incentives tQ developers who undertake the restoration of old buildings make such projects possible. reason for doing it Is quite simply it said Park.

"Bankers and developers aren't as concerned with the historical aspect as they are with the simple economics." Station Square, located across the Monongahela River from downtown Pittsburgh, is evidence that the renovation of old railroad buildings is feasible. The $70 million project, a complex of restaurants, retail shops and offices spread among the Pittsburgh Lake Erie Station and four other buildings, is still only one- third complete but already a resounding success. "We took the risk and set the pace." said Arthur Ziegler the president of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation and the man who conceived Station Square. "Our restaurants are the best in their chains in the nation, and our office space is leased up faster than any new building in Pittsburgh. We've really set the example here of adaptive use of land and buildings that were essentially considered unusable." Philly Man Faces Electric Chair For Killing During Holdup DOYLESTOWN, Pa.

(UPI) A Philadelphia man faces death in the electric chair for killing a pharmacist during the holdup of a Middletown Township pharmacy. Clifford Smith, 24, was convicted Friday of murdering pharmacist Richard Sharp, 40, during a June 17 robbery at the Park- Woodbourne Apothecary at the Park Plaza Shopping Center. According to testimony, Smith shot Sharp once in the head as the druggest lay on the floor offering no resistance. "This is no accidental mish'ap," First Deputy District Attorney Alan Rubenstein told the jury in his closing argument. "This was a common, willful, conscious decision to take a life.

Richard Sharp lifted his head and he (Smith) put a bullet in it." A Bucks County jury deliberated three hours before finding Smith guilty of first- degree murder, robbery and conspiracy and deliberated 20 minutes more before delivering the death penalty. Three other people were Implicated in the murder. Among them, Roland Alston, 24, of Philadelphia, is awaiting trial on the same charges and is being held without bail at the state correctional Institute atGraterford. Bernadette Yancey, 31, also of Philadelphia, recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and robbery and is awaiting a I0-to-20-year sentence, while Yvette Barrows, 22, of Philadelphia, surrendered following the murder and led police to the other suspects, Rubenstein said. Ms.

Yancey has not been charged, Rubenstein said. Rubenstein said both women were in the getaway car and testified against Smith. They also are expected to testify against Alston, he said. In 1832, the first'streetcar railway in America started public service in New.York City from City Hall to Hth Street. The car was pulled by a horse and the fare was 12 and onehalf cents.

In 1940, the German Nazis forced half a million Jews in Warsaw to live in a ghetto by Glenn Supporters Claims Little From Headquarters TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) Florida supporters of the presidential campaign of Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, say they are getting little direction from campaign headquarters. Joe Chapman, a Panama City lawyer and one of four state chairmen working for Glenn, conceded, however, that the campaign has not been' as well organized as it "There have been some changes at the national level and we're now working on a budget, establishing an office and hiring staff people," he said. "We should have been doing all of those things earlier, but we didn't.

Now we are correcting that." Randi Freedman, Glenn's Florida coordinator, said the campaign has been in a lull for several weeks but blamed it on'a shakeup of the national campaign staff. She said there had been disagreements at the national level about whether to emphasize grassroots organization or the media in the campaign, with the strategy being clearly to play down organization. She said that may change. Seth Gordon, a lobbyist for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and a Glenn supporter, said the problem was a lack of communication from campaign officials, noting he sent a memo to 400 Dade County volunteers last week "telling them to hurry up and wait." Gordon said he didn't have anything for them to do. "It's the death of a campaign when you have volunteers and don't have something for them to do," said a Glenn worker in central Florida.

"The guy has a personal following and there are lots of people who would like to help, but there is zero coordination." In 1869, women from 21 states met in Cleveland to draw up plans for organization of the American Women Suffrage Association. PHILADELPHIA The state will file plan Monday in federal court that would shut down the Pennhurst Center for the mentally retarded in 1986, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in its Saturday editions. The Inquirer said the plan calls for all of the center's 624 current residents to be moved, almost all of them back Into their home, communities, by June 1986, and for the center to be closed shortly thereafter. The plan marks the first time that the state has publicly acknowledged art Man Scooping Up $1.2 Million May Do Movie PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman who scooped up $1.2 million that fell from an armored car to briefly become a wealthy man, is hoping the silver screen will line his pockets with gold that slays. Coyle.

30, of Philadelphia, has known little luck since Feb. 26. 1981, the day. he became a local legend by grabbing the money bags that fell from the Purolator car and fleeing. He was arrested at a New York airport a few days later with $105,000 in $100 bills tucked in his boots and a ticket to Mexico in his pocket.

Although found innocent of theft charges by reason of insanity in March 1982, Coyle apparently has had little cause for happiness since. However, Coyle's attorney. Harold Kane, said Friday that all could change because Coyle has signed a contract with Film Writers Inc. of New York to put his story on the screen. Kane said the company has agreed to send Coyle an undisclosed advance on his contract, believed to be in the neighborhood of $100,000.

In addition, the contract calls for Coyle to receive 5 percent of the film's profits. "If he gets a hit, he'll make a lot of money," Kane said. "Can you imagine what 5 percent of'Rocky' is?" Coyle won't appear in the movie, but would "like to have that tall fellow in 'The Deer Hunter' (Robert DeNiro) play said. Last April. Coyle filed suit against Purolator charging it was the company's fault that he was "shocked into a state of insanity placed into a manic phase where he could not think clearly or make a decision as to right or wrong." Coyle lost the suit in federal court.

He currently is awaiting trial on charges of possession of amphetamines (speed) stemming from an arrest last August. In October 19821, he also was arrested on drug charges, pleaded no contest and was placed on a year's probation. Kane said Coyle has beening doing "absolutely nothing" in recent months and is "very available" to meet with screenwriters. Almost $200,000 of the money that fell from the armored car never was recovered. iritentlon to close the 75-year- old Montgomery County institution that once housed 4,100 mentally retarded people, the Inquirer sa "We're rfot playing games, and we're not filing something 1 Intend to appeal," the Inquirer quoted Welfare Secretary Walter Cohen as saying Friday, Pennhursl has" received national attention in recent years because of landmark U.S.< Supreme Court rulings regarding the rights of the mentally retarded and because of stories of abuse at the institution.

The state has been embroiled in court battles on behalf of Pennhurst for the past nine years, stemming from a classaction suit filed against the commonwealth In 1974 on behalf of the 1,400 people then living there. A final decision on the case is pending before the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Raymond Broderick ruled in 1977 that Pennhurst residents had a right to receive "minimally adequate habitation," or training, in the "least restrictive setting." The ruling followed testimony that residents of the center had been physically abused, subjected to excessive physical and chemical restraints and denied proper training. In March 1978.

Broderick ordered Pennhurst phased out and its residents moved to- smaller home-like facilities. However, the state contested the decision, which was later amended by an appeals court. The court ruled Pennhurst did not necessarily have to close. The plan reported by the Inquirer is in response to an order Broderick issued in August, calling for the state to file plans to place all Pennhurst residents in community living arrangements. Cohen told the Inquirer the plan would "provide the best possible quality care and assistance to the clients, and do it in a budgetary scheme that will not cost money." The transition would be paid for by federal money from Pennhurst's budget, provided that federal officials approve and state legislators support the necessary waivers to allow the money to be spent in the community, Cohen told the Under the plan, only about 44 residents who have severe medical or behavioral problems or who are opposed to group homes, would be placed in another state'center or nursing home, the Inquirer said.

Today is Saturday, November 26th, the 330th day of 1983 with 35 to follow. The moon is moving toward its last-quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius.

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