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Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 23

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COLD Clear and cold tonight; low, below zero. Mostly sunny and not quite so cold Tuesday; high, upper 20s. Mostly cloudy with a light snowfall Wednesday Details on Page 10. 92nd 61,136 Delaware County Dally Except Sunday 18-24 E. 8th Chester, Pa.

MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1968 Want Ads TB 4-5J5? All Departments TR 1451 CEMETERY Renovations and new rules at Immaculate Heart Cemetery have created a controversy. See Section 2. Home Deliveries COc per Wefik TBN CBHTI Bowles Lands in Cambodia Seeking OK For 'Pursuit' PHNOM PENH, Cambodia resitj ential envoy Chester Bowles arrived today to seek Prince Norodom Sihan- ouks help in keeping' North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from using Cambodia as a sanctuary. But the Cambodian chief of state in effect told a news conference the American ambassadors doomed. mission was Sihanouk told newsmen Sunday he would see Bowles, the U.S.

ambassador to India. But he suggested that the American envoy would do better to spend his time touring the famous temple ruins at Angkor. American sources in New Delhi said Bowles would concentrate on the question of Communist Vietnamese troops taking sanctuary in Cambodian border areas. He was expected to seek tacit agreement from Sihanouk to permit pursuit by U.S. forces of Communist troops who attack them in Vietnam and then retreat into Cambodia.

BOTH AT FAULT In response to questions submitted by The Associated Press, Sihanouk said Saturday that "we would not intervene militarily if a fight between Americans and infiltrated Vietnamese, therefore one as much at fault as the other, took place in the outlying and uninhabited regions of our territory." But the prince told the news conference Sunday he would not allow U.S. forces to pursue the Viet Cong into Cambodia and would condemn both sides if they clashed on his soil. The prince also said he would tell Bowles the United States should follow France's example in Algeria and "rid yourself of the Saigon parasites." He said he would suggest that the United States withdraw its troops, adding: "This would be pretty good for you on the international stage. It will give you immense prestige." ATTACKS LBJ Sihanouk then attacked President Johnson, saying he would "never lick the boots of that Johnson." "If he wants to talk, he will come to my house," he said. Sihanouk described as "utterly fantastic" press reports that Johnson had told Bowies to ask the prince for "definite information" on Hanoi's desire for peace and reports the North Vietnamese had inquired about the availability of Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Rangoon as sites for preliminary peace talks.

IN AMBUSH Judge's Son Killed in Viet Major Alonzo Robert Toal, 31- year-old son of the late Delaware County Court Judge William R. Toal, was killed Saturday night during an ambush in the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam where he had been serving as adviser to the South Vietnamese Army. Major Toal, of the Regency Apartments, Creek Drive, St. Davids, Radnor, apparently was riding in a Jeep when the ambush occurred, according to a brother, William R. Toal Jr.

Major Toal was a graduate of Haverford High School and went to Valley Forge Military Academy, where he was captain of the band. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1958 with a degree in political science. "Bob was a career Army officer," said William Toal, a county assistant district attorney. "He enjoyed Boy Scout activities very much 'and excelled at Valley Forge. He was attracted to this type of life." After serving as an officer in Ft.

Benning, Major Toal spent 13 months in Korea and three years in Berlin, Germany, where, he met his wife, the former Annette Scholer. They were married in 1964. Major Toal then returned to Ft. Benning and received special training. He then instructed the ROTC attachment at Valley Forge Military Academy for two years, particularly in the type of warfare conducted i Vietnam.

He was sent to Vietnam in August, 1967. He is survived by his wife; a son, Thomas Robert, 16 months; his mother, Mrs. Gertrude G. Toal, and two brothers, William and John H. Judge Toal died in 1965 after a 17-year career on the county bench.

Sub-Zero Readings Expected in County Delaware County and Philadelphia were the "hot spots" of Pennsylvania Sunday, officially recording the highest daytime temperatures in the state. Although the county's 31- degree high recorded at 2 a.m. Sunday was below freezing, temperatures in all other areas of the state never got above 20. The high in Bradford was only 7. The U.S.

Weather Bureau at Philadelphia International Airport predicted no relief today from the sub-freezing cold front pushing into the state from Canada. Temperatures are expected to dip below zero tonight in Delaware County and more snow is forecast for Wednesday. From one to inches of snow fell -from 4:45 p.m. Saturday to 2:40 a.m. Sunday.

Herbert M. Bowsher, Pennsylvania Department of Highways county maintenance superintendent, said today more than 100 highway workers had ihe roads well cleared by noon Sunday. An 8-degree morning low was recorded at 6:30 a.m. today, failing to break the 1942 record for this date by only 3 degrees. Severe winter weather contin- iiiuMi nf thp nnfinn today and sent freezing temperatures deep into the South.

Many deaths were attributed to the weather. Snow squalls pelted the eastern shores of the Great Lakes and left 2 inches more of snow at Syracuse, N.Y., where there already was 12 inches on the ground. Gale warnings were posted from Rhode Island to Maine as the remnants of a savage snowstorm moved out of New. England. The East was digging out of up to 10 inches of fresh snow which fell Sunday.

Cold wave warnings were in effect for parts of the middle and northern Atlantic coastal states where subzero readings were common. A storm gathered momentum in the Southwest 'today and the Weather Bureau issued heavy snow and hazardous driving warnings for parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, Freezing rain and sleei spread over sections of western and northern Texas and southwestern New Mexico today. Warnings of blowing and drifting snow were issued for Montana east of the Continental Divide as a new storm moved into the northern plains. The Weather Bureau said hard freezes were expected from Mississippi to southern Tpvns Viet Cong Seize Outpost Kills 3 U.S. Advisers SAIGON (AP) Cong guerrillas seized a provincial capital only 21 miles northwest of Saigon early today and held it for nearly three hours.

The attack on Kheim Cuong capital of Hau Nghia provisce was the second daring raid by Communist troops on a government center close to Saigon in three days. A said government about 700 spokesman guerrillas stormed Kheim Cuong behind a barrage of several hundred mortar rounds and they "were in the streets" Three American advisers to the militia force in the town were killed at 3 a.m. and 1- were wounded. One officer said the advisers' compound appar ently was a chief target. EVADE PURSUERS The Viet Cong pulled out a Steelworker, 54, Lives On Housewife's Heart Following Transplant STANFORD, Calif.

(AP) With the transplanted heart of a housewife sustaining him, Mike Kasperak is reported to be doing "quite well," fully conscious and responsive. Kasperak, a 54-year-old former steelworker from nearby East Palo Alto, was dying of heart disease Saturday night when Dr. Norman E. Shumway's surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine operated on him. The doctors cut out his heart and implanted the heart of Virginia a 43-year-old Santa Clara woman who died of a stroke two hours before.

By Sunday morning Kasperak 5:50 a.m. and evaded three bat-j was conscious and able to move, talions of government troops! Though he couldn't talk because converging on the village from of a tube in his throat helping their bivouac areas three to five miles away. The guerrillas left behind 19 dead comrades and five live ones who were captured, the spokesman said. Two of the captives were wounded. The spokesman said nine policemen were killed and 10 were wounded, at least four civilians were killed and 16 wounded, and the garrison of some 100 militiamen suffered moderate casualties, meaning they were hit hard.

Ten houses also were destroyed. The guerrillas succeeded in hanging a large Viet Cong flag on the wall of the military advisers' compound, but it was quickly shot away, HIT TAN Early Saturday soldiers of the 10th North Vietnamese battalion shot their way into the village of Tan Uyen 25 miles north of Saigon. In a five-hour rampage they killed eight soldiers and six civilians and wounded 35 soldiers and 11 civilians. South Vietnamese officers said 19 of the attackers were killed. Khiem Cuong, which is 10 miles east of the Cambodian border, was attacked by the 269th Viet Cong Battalion' reinforced by a battalion of local guerrillas.

Defending the town of more than 2,000 persons was a company of militia and their American advisers, about 100 national guards, cars. policemen, and some 100 local armored The guerrillas slipped behind two battalions of the South Vietnamese 25th Infantry Division camped around nearby Due Hoa him to breathe, doctors said he recognized his family. PERFORMS WELL Shumway said his patient knew he had a donated heart beating in his chest. It was one- third the size of the enlarged one that had been discarded, but it was performing well, Shumway said. Blood pressure, pulse and body temperature were in a reasonable range, Dr.

Donald C. Harrison, a cardiologist, told a news conference at Stanford Medical Center Sunday Harrison said the heart of blood i- pumped-was 5.3 liters per min- MIRE heart transplant operation. uie, "aVmost normal ior a man i of Kasperak's size" when measured about 12 hours after the operation. The patient weighs 144 pounds. Mrs.

White's weight was 120. "His cardiogram looked quite good," Dr, Harrison said. Dr. Shumway said Kasperak was expected to stay in the hospital many months for observation. ONLY BEGINNING "This kind of followup is essential to the well being of the recipient," Dr.

Shumway said. "We've reached first base perhaps, but the work is only beginning." He stressed, "There is no way at this time to term the episode a success." But his and Harrison's elation were evident. "The critical period lasts as long as the patient lives," Dr. Chichester Youth Killed inAcccident OVERTIME PAY DELAYED PDH Worker Hits System By KATHY BEGLEY Daily Times Staff Writer A 33-year-old Chester man employed as a truck driver for the Pennsylvania Department of Highways (PDH) Bortondale district garage in Middletown lias charged that his family has no food or fuel due to a six-week delay in overtime pay checks. And State Sen.

Clarence D. Bell (R-9th District) of Upland has called PHD's failure to pay highway maintenance workers for overtime snow clearance a matter of "callous Indifference." "I also feel this is a direct threat to the safety of anyone who drives a car In Delaware County or in the state, 1 said. delivering the overtime checks reportedly is due to the new Bell Although Bell said Saturday he thought few maintenance workers would appear for overtime duty in the event of a weekend snowstorm, PDH County Maintenance t. Herbert M. Bowsher said today all but six employes worked 19 hours overtime following Saturday night's snowstorm.

The crews worked despite the fact that they have received no overtime paiy computed at straight wages rather than time-and-a-half since their first November snow removal assignment. Bowsher Saturday called the delay "barbaric," but noted that PDH's Harrlsburg offices are responsible for making out and Bortondale. Bowsher said the difficulty system iniated last summer by PDH. Bowsher said most of the naintenance employes are concerned about the overtime checks, but said some consider the delayed overtime "like money in the bank." But Norman R. Hignutt, 1524 Shaw Chester, regards situation differently.

Hignutt, who makes $2.63 per hour or $157 net (take-home) )ay every two weeks, said he, lis wife and five children depend on the overtime money pay extra winter expenses. He said he has little money eft after he pays $70 per month not including utilities, and buys food for his children, ranging in age from six months to 12 years. What he called political "kickbacks," also takes quite a chunk from his salary, Hignutt said. nighway department owes him at least 200 hours overtime pay or about $500. Higrmtt said he is able to make ends meet during the summer without the snow overtime because he has fewer fuel, electric and school expenses.

He said he has been receiving his regular paycheck every two weeks, although his wife said even these often arrive from Harrisburg two and three days late. "And I bet any money they (PDH amount of officials in Harrisburg) don't hav to wait for their money," Hignutt said. Bell and Bowsher attributed the overtime pay delay to a faulty payroll computer installed last year at PDH offices in Harrisburg. "1 know exactly what the trouble' is. We have a new secretary of highways (Robert G.

Bartlett) who is full of new An 18-year-old Upper Chi- with his parents and three Chester youth was He was a graduate fatally Saturday when his cariof St. James High School, skidded off an icy Delaware I Chester. road and hit an embankment. i He is survived by his parents, John R. Clements and his Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Clements, brother Robert were traveling and three brothers, Robert, to a cousin's wedding in Laurel, i Russell Jr. and Michael. when his car skidded off Services will be at 9 a.m. U.S.

Route 13, two miles south Wednesday at the Ward Funeral of Smyrna, state police said. 1459 Market Lower John, who was thrown out followed by a 10 I the car, suffered head high requiem mass at the land died at 7:40 p.m. at KenUHoly Saviour Church, Lower General Hospital in Chichester. See REDS SEIZE, Page 10 Shumway said, explaining that -Robert was uninjured, police' BurialI will beMri the fmnia the body could reject a foreign, i talked with Dr. ajd Lemc ery Upper organ months or even years aft-labout 30 minutes later, I said wili be Tuesday eri enereatie y.

Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, night at the funeral home. to suppress the rejection media-! another is easing our grief. She nism. 'was the type who would want to, Chronic viral myocarditis, an do this," he said, infection that the steelworker NO REFLEXES contracted perhaps 10 years; Doctors said they made every ago, had been arrested, the doc-j effort to keep Mrs Wnite alive tors explained. But his heart; but her heart ancl brcath VIRGINIA WHITE Girl Dies in Fire discovered the overtime mu scle continued to turn into H-jj ng backlog exists throughout the hrnus ti sl and enlar state.

Bell said the PDH computer "apparently is all fouled up, and brous tissue and enlarge. SUFFERED 2 YEARS and she had no re- i flexes. She had died. The surgical team, previously Trying to Save Dog He had been suffering chronic ale eci iransplamed her heart HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP living room about 5:20 a.m. frankly, it is my personal! heart failure for the past two, Kas erak tnc fo rln human An 11-year-old girl was burned when the two women decietl to uvaii iniiuic trnnKnInn! Thou irnnc.

i 1R mnn apn opinion that if PDH can't pay its man on the snow removal machine, it shouldn't pay highways secretary either." Bell sympathized withj Hignutt's plight, saying a wife and five kids and $83' a week, you're living from hand to mouth. There is nothing he had consented if a over to set aside." Bell called the situation community problem," noting that few men would be willing to work for nothing in the event of a heavy county snowstorm. Bowsher said about 12 0 affected maintenance employes services season's stroke on Friday, the day after; her 22nd wedding and lapsed into a coma. bee for rendered du ing the ideas and installed a BeH said. $750,000 "He also changed a lot of established procedures like "Every election they want (paying the maintenance workers money and if you don't pay it you're done," he said.

Mrs. Hignutt said her husband recently made a $50 Christmas contribution to the county GOP and now owes $25 for a banquet ticket. 'And believe me, you have to contribute or your services are no longer needed," she said. Hignutt, a PDH employe for by the hour and put them on salary. On paper, it looks good, but it just doesn't work." In early 1967, PDH changed over to an annual salary, rather than per-hour wage, for highway road crews.

Bell said he recently contacted State Sen. Marvin V. Keller (R- 10th District) of anH was forred to auit lieart transplant. They trans- to death Sunday morning after unplug the Christmas tree, A severe planted one of her kidnevs to an electrical spark ignited a Hopkins said he heard a loud hosnital another atient in lne hospital. tree and the resulting pep and the next thing he knew spread rapidly through the tree svas in fame.

two-story twin home. Kelly escorted three oi' the Firemen said the victim, children from the house through Kelly, 7)5 Ashurst see HAVFRFORD Paea 10 iwas led safely from the home We "AVtKiUKU, a I8 her father but ran back i inside to get her pet dog. Teresa was trapped inside YOI I and her body was removed J. said the was in severe heart failure' at ie time of the transplant, to: suitable donor could be found. 'a! Mrs.

White, a camper and water skier, had no history of serious illness before she suffered a Blaiberg Improves first Nov. 30 snowfall, "but there's been quite a few snow alerts since then." He indicated most of the PDH crews have taken the overtime delay good-naturedly except ior Hignutt. i Bowsher said regular payroll checks are due today and are scheduled for i i i Tuesday. He said an overtime payroll also should arrive soon, but indicated it probably would cover only the oldest two-week period. She was kept alive by cial respiration and drugs the family doctor and a specialist told her husband, Bill, there was no hope.

Bill (Charles White and CAPE TOWN, South Africa rrfinp 0 0 ft wVc a "SS collapsed into the JJ to art gen tent and will be allowed to said the girl's badly; burned body was found bathtub. his wife had talked about heart transplantations a week before. "How marvelous," she said, "to be able to give someone else a chance to live." ASKED DOCTORS White asked the doctors if there was some way his dying wife could help somebody else. Dr. Shumway said her heart save Kasperak.

sit up in bed today with his feetj Teresa was one of five on a chair." -children of Lelioy and Catherine The 58-year-old retired dentist Kellv neared what doctors consider to Kelly, 37, and a son, Patrick, were treated at Delaware! Memorial be the beginning of the critical i postoperative 1 'days after surgery. However, Upper Darby, for first-degree. the bulletin said there were noi burns i signs yet that Blaiberg's body! Mrs. Dennis Hopkins, 17, the was trying to reject the heart of i wife of Mrs. Kelly's brother.

Cliye Haupt, 24, who died of a was admitted to the hospital brain hemorrhage, Haupt's heart was grafted for injuries suffered when she jumped to safety from a porch I into Blaiberg last Tuesday by I roof. She was transferred to Hignutt said Saturday he' White, an electrical companyiDr, Christiaan Barnard, who Philadelphia Naval Hospital. might be (ired (or complaining about the delay. "But I can't live on promises. Bucks County, chairman ot the I I'll have to go out and administrator, talked it over with daughter Judy, 18, son Rickey, 12, and his wife's moth- also performed the landmark heart transplant operation last month on Louis Washkansky.

Police said Hopkins, 18, and his wife had been visiting the Kellys. three years, indicated theiSenate highway committee, job," he said. iindier. iWashkansky died of The Hopkins couple and Mrs. 1 i "They all said yes, and when 18 days after the operation.

iKelly were having coffee in the DAILY TIMES Is Hanoi's talk offer aimed at U.S. Page 6. Once upon time, kids went to parties with parents. Page 7. Cheyney is down but not out.

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