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Tyrone Legion Rained Out. Blazier, Sharer Update. See Stories Page 4. THE DAILY HERALD Vol. 128 Number 291 Thursday, July 28, 1994 Per Copy News Notes Right Off The Top Well, we finally got what we nice long day of rain.

Look for it to continue for a good time period with a better than average chance of rain through the weekend. I have a very pertinent question to ask. Why are there not phone books attached to pay phones anymore? Several years back, all public phones had phone books with them. More than likely, there are one or two reasons for the phone book being taken away, either the phone company can't afford them, which I find slightly hard to believe, or perhaps the books were being vandalized or stolen and they were discontinued for that reason. Either way, if you are looking for a store and don't know what street it is located on, stopping by a pay phone will not help.

Good luck to the Citizen's Fire Company as their annual festival kicks off tonight. It has been a big week for the local fire company and I wish them great success on the building project and their carnival. Enjoy your wet Thursday. AARP Meeting Tyrone Chapter A.A.R.P. will meet on Monday, Aug.

1, 1994 at Reservoir Park, Table 1. A covered dish lunch will be enjoyed by members and guests at 12 noon. Please, bring your own table service and food to share. Fire Police Tyrone Fire Police are asking that groups seeking their assistance contact the fire police a month before the date of the activity. A form must also be filled out.

Trip Planned A bus trip to Lake Raystown, including a boat ride and dinner, is planned by the Bellwood Chapter of the AARP for Sept. 14 at $25 per person. For reservations call 742-8865. Weather cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. High 70 to 75.

cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Low near 60. cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. High near 75. Extended cloudy.

Low 55 to 65. High in the mid 70s to lower 80s. chance of showers. Low in the 60s. High 80 to 85.

Lottery Here are the winning numbers selected Wednesday in the Pennsylvania State Lottery: Daily Number: 1-3-4, (one, three, four). Big 4: 8-5-3-9, (eight, five, three, nine). Snyder Township May Get Emissions Testing Facility 2 Setting Up Volunteers from the Annual Carnival which event will include a Mills, Matt DeArmitt hind the fire hall. Citizen's By NICOLE FEDELI Daily Herald Staff Writer With all new booths and all new games, the annual festival of the Citizens Fire Company will have an all new look. They are celebrating their 27th Annual Festival beginning this evening and will be celebrating until Saturday.

Festivities will start at 7:00 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday. Froggy 98 Radio Station will hold a live remote from the festival from p.m. and D.J. Citizens Fire Company spent all week setting up for their 27th will kick-off tonight and continue through the weekend.

The Grand Parade on Saturday at 5 p.m. Above (left to right) Mike and Greg Brinkman set up one of the festival's game booths be(Photo by M.L. Swayne). Festival Begins Tonight Chris will be spin- iental Band, Nittany Dreamers ning the tunes from 7-10 p.m. Free Baton Group, Galls School of fire truck children rides will I also be given Dance, Pink Panthers, Starlight to of all will ages.

Twirlers, Judyettes Twirlers, SpeA street dance be held on cial Olympic Athlete Year, Friday evening from 8-11 p.m. John Ott; Major Gene Johnson, the with music by Smokey Run. Jr. King and Queen and RepresenThe Grand Parade will begin at tative Larry Sather. 5:00 p.m.

on Saturday. Some of After the parade, the Mainlinthe major features include: ers Drum and Bugle Corp. will Philipsburg-Osceola Band, West perform in front of the fire station. Branch Band, the Mainliners A street dance is scheduled from Drum Bugle Jaffe 9-12 p.m. with music by Night and Bugle Jaffe Or- Life.

Many Rwandan Refugees Face Daily Life Or Death Struggle GOMA, Zaire (AP) In an effort to reduce congestion and the spread of deadly cholera, relief officials opened four new camps today for the 1.2 million suffering Rwandan refugees jammed in and around this border town. The new camps bring to eight the number of sites staked out on the rocky, volcanic plain north of Goma for the refugees, who have been dying at a rate of more than 1,800 a day from diseases spread by lack of sanitation and clean water. Because latrines cannot easily be dug in the hard soil, almost every square foot of the older camps is covered with the slime of human excrement and vomit from victims of the cholera epidemic sweeping through the wretched masses. Ray Wilkinson, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said officials also had won approval from the local government for the Zairian military to truck refugees out of Goma and into the nearby camps.

He estimated 1 between 50,000 and 100,000 Rwandans were in the town itself, which formerly had a population of 80,000. Diseases are beginning to spread through the local population, he said. The estimated 1.2 million ethnic Hutu refugees fled to eastern Zaire from neighboring Rwanda this month as rebels led by the minority Tutsis routed the News From Around Here Lend Me An Ear UNIVERSITY PARK The Nittany Lion sculpture located outside the recreation building is next to receive a replacement ear for the one that broke off in May. Vincent Palumbo, a protege of the man who originally sculpted the lion shrine in 1942, will undertake the repair effort. The university will cover the $3,000 to $5,000 restoration cost.

New Drug Appears JOHNSTOWN A dangerous illegal drug derived from a toad species living in California and South America has made its first appearance in Johnstown. The drug, called Bufoteine, already was found in the possession of a person arrested in a May 31 drug raid. Bufoteine is made from the secretions of the Bufo Alvarius and is a hallucinogenic similar, yet stronger than LSD. Deadline Strikes Again BEDFORD Time is running out again on a deadline for Bedford County to purchase the Bedford Springs Resort property from the Integra Financial Corporation. The deadline is set for Friday at the close of the day.

Reportedly, no negotiations have started. An extension of the agreement is expecied. Pay Raise Studied ALTOONA Altoona City Council has asked the P'ennsylvania Economy League to help find an inexpensive solution to controversial city raises. A study would compare city employee wages here with those in other cities and private industry. Some members of council were upset, saying they were not informed of the pay raises.

Dwarfed By The Tree Hutu government army. (Continued on Page 2) By NICOLE FEDELI Daily Herald Staff Writer With the threat of losing $900 million dollars in federal highway funding, Pennsylvania has began attempting to come into compliance with established mandates from the Clean Air Act of 1990. One of the mandates required is the creation of a vehicle emissions testing center for cleaner air. PennDOT selected sites that were conveniently located for motorists and met driving distance requirements, and one of those sites may be located in Grazierville. McFarland Road in Grazierville is one of the sites selected by PennDOT to house the testing program.

"These driving distance requirements are part of contractual obligations with Envirotest Systems because 85 percent of registered vehicles must be within 10 miles of the facility, said Martha Nevanen, spokeswoman for Envirotest. This site was approved by the Snyder Township Supervisors; however, since the township does not have zoning regulations, the township could not fight PennDOT's decision to locate the facility. Construction of the testing center is set to begin in September and is to be completed by the first week in January 1995. The center (Continued on Page Life Claimed As Vehicle Strikes Pole A Blair County woman lost her life following a single vehicle accident early this morning on Mill Road, 1991 Allegheny Township. A Geo Metro driven by Sally A.

Chamberlain, 32, of Duncansville, was westbound on Mill Road, when for an unknown reason, the vehicle left the roadway, traveled onto the south berm into a ditch and then flipped over. The vehicle then rolled onto its side before striking a telephone pole. Chamberlain was pinned in the vehicle until rescue workers from the Allegheny Township Volunteer Fire Company arrived on the scene. She was taken to Mercy Hospital and was pronounced dead at 5:29 a.m. Cause of death was listed as multiple blunt force trauma.

Hollidaysburg State Police are continuing their investigation into the accident. Defection Speaks Volumes About N. Korean Situation WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials and private analysts are dubious of a defector's assertion that North Korea already has five nuclear bombs. They say the fact of the defection itself may prove more important than the nuclear numbers.

The defector said at a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday that he is 35-year-old Kang Myong Do, son-in-law of North Korea's prime minister. Seoul officials said they believe him. A defection to the South from a family of such political prominence is rare, and U.S. analysts said it could indicate wider dissa- Rick Cloud is dwarfed by the size of the century old honey locust tree he carefully is working in, cutting away outstretched branches, before it is taken down. The tree, growing in front of the home of Jack and Teresa Futrick on Cameron Avenue, will be utilized shortly for the family's new kitchen floor.

The Futrick's were concerned that the tree, which had hollow areas, would come down in a bad storm. (Photo By Virgie Werner). Serving Tyrone, Bellwood, Antis Snyder Warriors Mark tisfaction with a communist regime that has driven the country's economy into the ground. a major blow to the regime," if Kang in fact is the sonin-law of the prime minister, Kang Song San, who ranks third in the North's political hierarchy, said Bruce Cumings, a Northwestern University specialist on North Korea. The prime minister failed to appear at a major military ceremony in Pyongyang on Wednesday, a day after the South announced his son-in-law's defection.

Cumings said the older Kang is a longtime associate of Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader" of North Korea who died this month and left his son, Kim Jong II, to carry on as supreme leader. Clinton administration officials (Continued on Page 2) Old Tree To Become New Kitchen Floor In Futrick's Home By VIRGIE WERNER Daily Herald Staff Writer Concerned that their century old Honey Locust tree growing in front of their home was about to come down if a bad storm hit, Jack and Teresa Futrick prepared to make use of its lumber before the saw began to buzz. "For some time now, particularly after a storm, we would find that a number of limbs had fallen off the tree," Mr. Futrick said today. That fact, as well as hollow and dead areas found in the tree, led to the Futrick's decision to have it removed before it came down and hurt someone or damaged their home.

Also, part of the tree had spread to encompass the stone pillars and retaining wall in front of the house. With the decision made to have the tree removed, the family's next step was to plan on utilizing its wood. This idea led to a new wooden floor to be installed in the Futrick's kitchen sometime in the future. Saturday morning, folks watched from a distance as Warren Walk, Herk Little and Rick Cloud began their strategy to take the sprawling tree down. Limbs were cut into sections, some as long as 20 feet, to later be taken to the saw mill where it will be cut into boards for a new kitchen floor.

While the honey locust tree is now gone, the Futrick's are happy to have three huge sycamore trees still adding beauty and shade to their horne and yard, as well as providing a bit of shade from summer's hot sun. sun. Twp..