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tin Indiana County Newspaper Tliat Serves Every Member of the Family Mnhfam Wmmim COVERING THE WORLD FROM THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OP WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA TEDDY The iverage man has a tougfl time being the average man his wife expects. WEATHER Snow flurries' tonight. Low In low 20s. Partly cloudy Saturday. VOLUME 68.

NO. 132. TWO SECTIONS INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1966. SIXTEEN PAGES FIVE "BENTS mi mi UMU GOB mm mm More Snow Killer Escapes Area Roads Covered By Snow, Ice Offer SO-SO Pi nogs Leader Etase Hewitt Bill Grace and Frank In Last Film Governor Will Veto Sales Tax HARRISBURG (AP) Still plugging far Republican Senate acceptance of his 50-50 proposal, Gov. Leader declared he will veto any GOP sales tax presented him out "side of such an agreement.

"I continue to feel that the 50-50 plan' is the most equit able approach we can come up with in view of the split Legislature, the governor told his weekly news conierence yesterday. In a half hour devoted almost exclusively to the state's 13-month- 9 Looting and shooting continued today lor the tilth successive demonstrators appealed in old tax deadlock, Leader described If the Senate defeat of a 3 per cent sales tax Wednesday as "the rankest type of hypocrisy." HOLLYWOOD Grace Kelly begins work today witn Frank Sinatra on "High the last movie she'll make before her scheduled wedding shortly after Easter to Prince Rainier lit of Monaco. The initial scene, shot oil location in the Bel-Air district, calls for her and Sinatra to pull up before a big mansion in a sports car. AP Wire photo) Old Man Winter's latest and heaviest onslaught against the Indiana County area re, suited in a six to seven inch blanket of new snow for the district yesterday And, although it gives the youngsters a fine opportunity to use the sleds they received at Christmas, the record high fall of snow for this season is playing havoc with road conditions. Men- and equipment at the local highway maintenance barn have been working a- round the clock at full scale since the snow began fallmg early yesterday morning.

A total of 121 men, manning se ven plow trucks, two grader plows nine cindering trucks, 29 cinder ing wagonettes and one salting truck, are battling to keep area highways open. Joe Simone. local maintenance superintendent, said driving conditions were hazardous and urged extreme caution for motorists us ing the highways. "We're at full scale operations and the men are doing a won derful job in maintaining highway Simone remarked. There are no roads reported closed even though drifting has been reported on some secondary routes.

The main effort of men and equipment is being concen trated on the main highways, said Simone. One reason for the eagerness to clean-up the mains is the forecast of more snow and snow flurries for this area tonight and tomorrow. During the night, plowing opera tions-were concentrated on the William Penn Highway (RwSe 22) grid Route 422 east of Indiana, it was on these stretches of highway that the heaviest fall of snow was recorded. The lone salting truck is oper ating in and near Indiana Bor ough and along the William Penn. Ex-Indiana Man Injured In Factory A former Indiana man is critical condition in a Pittsburgh district hospital as a result of Injuries suffered in a steel plant accident Monday.

Edward B. Bay, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Ray, North Eleventh Street, Indiana received a severely crushed leg in a mishap at the Des Moines Steel Company plant at Coraopolis.

He Is listed in critical condition in the Ohio Valley General Hospital near Coraopolis. The mishap occurred at about p.m., according to his sister, Mary Ray. His siter said details of the accident were not complete but apparently her brother was caught between a crane and some huge steel castings. He is married to the former Martha Orr of Indiana. Special! All Silverware: 1847, Community Plate and Holmes and tidwards, 40 per cent otl.

Rogers Jewelry Store. 14UR "I will not accept an inadequate tax program and if a 3 per cent sales tax comes up here by itself, 1 will veto it," he said. The governor twice asserted he has no intention of letting anyone "saddle" the Democratic party with responsibility for a sales tax. Until last week, when he agreed 'to accept one as part of the 50-30 Se GovernorPage Col. I Eisenhower Begins His Fourth Year To New-School Building Bill Given Boost WASHINGTON taV-The House Rules Committee's deadlock over the school construction bill was re ported broken today, and the big debate on federal aid to schools Expected to hit the House floor next 'And it will be a hot one," said Rep, McConnell of Pennsylvania, senior Republican on the House Education Committee.

McConnell said "there's no ques tion" about the bill coming out of the Rules Committee next Tues day or Wednesday, though he said floor debate may not begin until the following week. Other sources said -the bill was coming out and debate would start Wednesday. Pending formal action by the Rules Committee next week, there was no indication how much time would be allowed for debate or what attempts, if any, might be made to restrict amendments. Debate is expected to center largely on an expected proposal to bar federal funds to areas which Sea New School Page CeL 71 N.Y. Strike Is Settled NEW YORK OR Settlement of the five-day strike of fuel supply drivers in New York City was announced today by Mayor Robert r.

Wagner. He made his announcement in the presence of representatives of fuel dealers and Local 553, Inter national Brotherhood of Teamsters and said both sides would recom mend acceptance. Terms were not disclosed. The dispute involved 3,000 driv ers and 300 coal and oil distribu tors who handle virtually all of the coal and 60 per cent of the fuel oil used in four of the city five boroughs. I 1 1 "AWil Rep.

Earl Hewitt I in mil. tiyunw Looting Shooting In Riot-Torn Bombay BOMBAY. India (API unabated in not-torn Bombay day. Left-wing leaders of the WASHINGTON (J-Presldent Ei- senhower starts his fourth year in office today still facing the big derision on whether to seek re-elec Predicted For Tonight By The Associated Press Light freezing rain and snow covered most of the state today complicating already hazardous driving conditions. Temperatures ranged from the low to mid 20's.

A snow storm, spawned in the Gulf area, dropped up to seven inches of snow in some sections before moving north early today. Driving conditions along the entire length of Pennsylvania Turnpike were reported hazardous. The toll road was ice covered but cindered. Temperatures ranged from 22-32. In Philadelphia, where four to sin inches of snow fell, some schools were closed.

Snow flurries are expected on and off during the aft ernoon. Fair and colder is the fore cast for tonight. The Harrisburg area reported a light freezing drizzle. Snow was expected to end this morning in an area south and east of the mountains, but should continue most of day in other areas. The Pittsburgh Weather Bureau forecast cloudy and some snow flurries with temperatures in the high 20s to low 30s.

Allentown, Blalrsville, Brookville, Erie, Wllllamsport, Wilkes-Barre, Philipsburg and Selinsgrove reported snow still falling, with temperatures in the mid 20s. The season's heaviest snowstorm in the eastern half of the nation draped a welcome blanket of white across the parched farm lands of the Southern Plains and Midwest, then moved into the Atlantic Coast today. vuvfSi Sea. Mora 7 Snow Cjflfs Area Wrecks -2 Men Hurt Snow covered highways and streets caused the majority of se ven accidents reported by police this morning which injured two persons and resulted in the arrest Of two motorists. An elderly Coral man was struck by a car as he waited for a bus aiong Route 119 in Coral yesterday afternoon and suffered possible head injuries and injuries to the right hand and wrist.

John Mancini, 71, is reported in fair condition in Indiana Hospital where he was admitted after being struck by a car operated by Jack E. Taylor, 35, of Greensburg. State Police said Taylor was dri ving a car owned by Massey Au to Rental Company, of Pitts burgh and he was arrested for a violation of the motor vehicle code. The auto ran off the highway, struck Mancini, and crashed into highway sign causing $350 da mages to the vehicle, according to Investigating officers. A Greensbure area man was al so injured In an area accident and is a patient in the local hospital.

Roy Barclay. 47, of Greensburg R. D. 3 suffered fractured ribs in a car-truck accident at the inter section of Routes 119 and 85 in Home yesterday, His condition is listed as satisfactory. Local State Police said he was injured when the car he was operating, owned by West Penn Power See Snow Page Col.

I Electric Strike Talks Continued PITTSBURGH -A federal me diator says there is "much work to be done" now that full-scale nego tiations have resumed in the West- inghouse Electric Corp. strike. The talks between the company and the striking AFL-CIO International Union of electrical workers got under way again Wednesday alter a two-week lull. Asked for comment on progress, if any, Murray replied, "1 cant comment on that at this The company and union also de clined comment. Working At 9 3 SALT LAKE CITY iWWaiiaro Pobbie Kuhre will be 93 tomorrow.

He plans to take the day off from his job to celebraje. Kuhre has been bookkeeper for local lumber company for the past 55 years. Round and square dance-tonight. Diana's Tavern. Homer City.

Music by the Slovene Knights. 13iii vain for an end to the violence. The rioters, mostly of the Maratha race, increasingly vented their ire on Uujarati families. Many of the uujaraus Study Local Man's Levy Faces Early Vote HARRISBURG (AP) The three per cent Hewitt retail sales tax bill, due to be voted upon by the House next week would earmark all proceeds for "public school purposes." One section of the proposal specifies that tax money col lected, as well as penalties and interests, -be applied to the state's educational costs "in so far as permitted by the state Constitution. The proposal was introduced In the House March 29, one day after Gov.

Leader delivered his budget message, by Rep. Hewitt (R-Indiana) without Republican organization support. Hewitt was sponsor of the one per cent retail sales tax enacted in 1953 Pennsylvania's first real sales tax in recent history. Tuesday the Democratic controlled Ways and Means Commit tee, with Republican members op posing the action, amended the Hewitt bill from its original two per cent rate, and sent it to the floor for a vote. Republican House Leader Smith disavowed the bill because of the Democratic increase in rate.

He said the GOP would sot vote for it. See Local Man's Page Col. Gold Hijack Job Now Set At $280,000 GENEVA, Switzerland WV-Swiss police admitted today they have lost all trace of $280,000 worth of gold bars stolen from a truck here1 yesterday in a well-planned daylight coup. Police said it appeared possible the gang which organized the coup one of the biggest robberies in Swiss criminal history had, succeeded in getting the bars into France. The shipment arrived from Paris by air yesterday.

The bars were loaded on the truck of a Geneva transport firm. The driver, M. Salamin, drove to the transport firm's headquarters near Geneva's main station to unload some of his other consignments, leaving the truck and the gold ungarded, quite I normal in Switzerland, where large-scale thefts are extremely rare. The thieves were apparently fully aware of the driven habits, because they drove the truck away without a witness noticing it leave. The truck was found two hours later on the outskirts of Geneva, leas than mile from the French I border.

awakened in the night, ill, and called his wife. He was bleeding from stomach ulcers. After recov ering from emergency surgery, in the following years he has: Again had a ruptured ulcer, slipped six discs in his spine when a stairway collapsed, had a bone graft operation to repair the spine damage, suffered severe burns on his left arm when he ignited fuel-soaked papers in an incinerator, dislocated his neck twice in auto accidents, broken a bone in his knee in fall and, in still a third auto mishap, suffered a fractured hip, two fractures of the knee, broken ribs and a splintered shin bone. Thomas, a Navy veteran, com plains only of the pinched nerve in his left loot. The doctors say it will be three I or four months at the earliest be- lore be can return to work.

were trying to flee the city. Bombay State Gov. Harekrushna Maetab told a meet tion. He addresses "Salute to Eisenhower" dinners tonight in his first appearance before a Republican party group since September. His remarks, to be piped by closed circuit television to an estimated ing of leading citizens the wave of violence is "unparalleled in the history of Bombay, India second largest city.

The Marathas, about half of Bombay's nearly three mil 000 persons at fund-raising dinners in 53 cities, are not expected to shed any definite light on whether lion population, are fighting Prime Minister Nehru's plan to put the city under the federal government. The rest of the state would be split in two, forming one state where the Maratlu language is predominant and the other where Guja Leslie Irvln, 31, Evansvllle, pipefitter under death sentence for killing a filling station attendant and accused of five other slayings, escaped from Gibson county jail at Princeton, Ind. Five States Alerted For "Mad Kill er EVANS VTLLE, Ind. UV-An all- out police search spread over five-state area today for Leslie Irvln, described as a "mad dog killer," who escaped from jail while under a death sentence for one of six killings in which he has been indicted. State police recevied unverified I reports lrvin had bean in Ohio and in Missouri and 'authorities In those states joined Indiana, Illinois! and Kentucky officers in the search.

The Missouri State Highway Pa trol received a report from waitress at a restaurant-motel near St. Louis last night that she had recognised a man as Irvln from a television picture she had seen of him. Early today, a bus depot em ploye at Rolls, 110 miles southwest of St. Louis, told the patrol she had seen there a man closely fitting lrvins description The most concentrated search See Five Stales Page Cal. I List Sledding Places Here The season's heaviest snow fall thus far has given local youngsters the opportunity to use four Indiana Borough streets for guarded sledding.

Howard T. Sanford, Indiana po lice chief, said this morning that harriers placed at four locations in the borough yesterday after the heavy snow fall. The guards and barriers will be in use again this evening from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. on these streets: Oak Street between Twelfth and Tenth Streets; Chestnut Street be tween Third and Fourth Streets: Washington Street between Third and Fifth Streets and Washington Street between Eleventh and Thirteenth Streets. ed.

She asked a cabbie to take her to a Catholic hospital and he drove her to St. Michael's According to detectives, mystery woman left her third floor room in the maternity wing at 10 a. m. yesterday, apparently walked downstairs to the basement clinic and out the door. The cab driver she hailed when she left was located later.

He told police the woman paid her fare at Broad and Third and walked1 off The woman had $400 with her when she disappeared, according to Sister Mary Brendan at St. Michael's. She had shown the jmoney to a roomata before leaving. I ne sister saio. tne nospiw usually allows patient to take only IS to their rooms and requires that other valuable be left in hospi tal safe.

But tha woman got special permission to keep tor rings, sister Mary added. Police also were unable to locate a Howard Miller accountant, whom the woman had listed as her husband he will run again. At least one national radio net work, ABC, will broadcast the event "live" to the public. The broadcast is scheduled about 10:20 p.m. EST.

The Republican National Com mittee forecast a turnout of 2,000 here to hear talks by Eisenhower, Cabinet members -and others. a Sen. Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the GOP Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he thinks national Republican organizations will net about 24 million dollars from the JlOO-a-plate dinners. State and local organizations would get the same amount. Sen.

Knowland of California Is listed as the speaker for a dinner at Palm Beach. Fla. Vice Presi Police Probe Mystery dent Nixon will speak in Chicago, Set Elsenhower Page Col. Paper Boosts Vet Members Mofher Bears Baby, Disappears And Some Left Over- rat! is generally spoken. Official figures, obviously casualties, put the death toll erupted Monday.

Authorities were besieged in dozens of towns by demonstrators who demanded the officials resign. At Poona all 90 city councilmen quit after a stone-throwing mob stormed the municipal corporation building. Other violence centers included Ghatkopar, Kolhapur, Nipani and' Ghodupdeo. In this city one of the most severe threats came at midnight last night, when the main police armory at Nigaum was attacked by a mob seeking arms and am- See Looting Page col. Fear Fire Racket PASCOAG, R.

I. HV-Volunteer firefighters in Northern Rhode Island are against a proposal to raise the pay of volunteers at forest fires from 65 cents to $1.50 an hour. They expressed fears at a meeting last night that some fire men would turn fire fighting into a "racket." Inside Today Aladdin's Lamp Boyle I Church News 7 Classifieds 15 Comics It County Views Crosswords I Hospital Notes 7 Medicine 4 Obituaries Pearson I Polnt-ei-Vlew 5 Radio TV 10 Society 12 Sports 11 Theater II Tempo Topics II Washington Letter I World Today 4 Dance tonite. Hotel Homer. Music by Fred Gerthman.

132x at lagging behind the actual more than 40 since the riots Local Men's Store Gets New Owner One of Indiana's leading men's clothing stores has changed hands and the new owner has already assumed control. Joseph M. Seilodc purchased Bence's Men's Store at 642 Phila delphia Street from the Bence family of Clymer. The new owner of the business assumed control yesterday and plans to continue selling the same lines of nationally advertised mer chandise which were sold formerly. Setlock, who lives at 1169 Water Street, Indiana, with his wife and two sons, has been associated with the McGill Motors Company for the past tnree years as a salesman.

Prior to that he was a member of the local Singer Sewing Machine store sales staff. A veteran of four years duty with the Marine Corps in World War II and in the Korean conflict he ser ved for about a year and a half in the Pacific in the war against Japan. He plans to hold a formal opening within three weeks. Lived To Be 101 ERIE, Pa. sv-Mrs.

Molly Ma- lone Doran, 102. died last She was Erie's oldest resident. Frank Wojnarowski Orch. Friday night, Jan. 20 Kenny Walker, Saturday night, Jan.

21, Sokol Club. Blairsville. Pa. Dance, Saturday Homer City Le gion. The Musicaires.

133 Siapleion's Sunday Pinners. More Than His Share Of Trouble WASHINGTON, Pa. Three veteran members of the editorial staff of the Washington Observer, a morning newspaper, have been promoted. Charles F. Bertram Jr.

was ''hamed news editor; Lester E. Ault editor of the editorial page; and William H. Jones city editor. The announcement was nude yesterday by James S. Lyon, ex ecutive vice president and general manager of the Observer Publishing Co.

Job For Million MCALESTER, Okla. tfv-Direc-tors of the National Bank of Mc-Alester feel their new colleague is natural. They named to board membership Paul T. Million jr. Special! All Silverware: 1847 Community Plate and Holmes and Edwards, 40 per cent off.

Rogers' Jewelry Store. 14UR Eagles Dance Saturday site, Jan list, oacrauu onuia uiaivue. NEWARK, N. J. Police pressed a search today for an attractive well-dressed brunette who slipped away from St.

Michael's hospital two days after giving birth to a girl. The woman entered the hospital in labor Tuesday night and identified herself as Mrs, Margaret Miller, 30, giving a street address in West Liberty, Pa. but police said the address was fictitious. She gave birth to the I pound 2 ounce girl four hours after arriving at the hospital. And yesterday she walked out a basement door in her maternity clothes, took a cab to Broad street and Third avenue and vanished.

Hospital authorities said the mother wore expensive clothing, had a two-carat diamond ring, an expensive wedding band and gold wristwatch. She told them she had two other children. When admitted, the woman said she had attended New York wedding and was awaiting at Newark airport for a plane to Pittsburgh when labor paias start- DENVER ujt-You're a truck driver by profession, married and the father of five children three girls and two boys. Fires have burned you out of your home three times in a 17- month period, and not one was covered by insurance. You ve spent 31 months or the past five years in hospitals.

You've had 13 operations the most recent, ironically, on Friday, Jan. 13. Your left foot is paralyzed: a nerve was pinched in one of three auto accidents in which you've been battered. You have no job. You walk pain fully, and with crutches.

Money is running low. What do you do? You pray," says oeorge c. Thomas. He knows. All this happened to him.

And the ordeal still is not over, Thomas' first hint of what was! ijjswito come was it 18S0. when he I.