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A-6 Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 26, 1982 3rd-Party Hopefuls On Ballot Je2 'fr'iriMMittit ELECTION LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Consumer Judith Faulkner, 33, director of a youth counseling program in Philadelphia. Libertarian: David Walter, 38. a Warminster, Bucks County, accounting executive. Socialist: Katherine Sojourner, 38, of Harrisburg, an electrician for Bethlehem Steel, who also has been excluded from the ballot because she could not meet residency requirements.

Her place is being filled by Wilson Osteen. STATE SUPREME COURT Consumer Sharon Owens, 34, a black Philadelphia attorney. Libertarian: John Ewbank, 68, a retired Southampton, Bucks County, patent attorney. Monroeville, an attorney for Westing-house Electric Corp. Fuerle was the party's candidate for attorney general in 1980.

Socialist: Mark Zola, 38, a steelworker from West Mifflin who ran for governor in 1978. City Man Is Disbarred After $28,000 Theft 'i i in tntiT i r-t Hii tiln I'll mwr-rnr 11 iimmi By GARY ROTSTELN HARRISBURG (UPI) None has any realistic hope of winning office, but to the minor party candidates in this year's statewide election the victory is in making an impact and enlisting more support for their respective causes. Candidates of the Consumer, Libertarian and Socialist Workers parties are running for governor, lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate. Consumer and Libertarian candidates also are vying for a state Supreme Court seat.

Third-party candidates steadfastly follow their parties' platforms regardless of the office they seek. Libertarians are for slashing taxes, removing government regulations of business and abolishing laws they believe infringe on individual rights. Socialists push for the downfall of capitalism and promote an alliance of farmers and workers to run the economy. They would abolish the defense budget, create jobs through public works programs and nationalize industries. The Consumer Party agrees with Socialists on disarmament and creating more public jobs.

It would increase business taxes and seek to lower the cost of food, clothing, health care, transportation and other necessities. Here are thumbnail sketches of the third-party candidates in each race: U.S. SENATE Consumer Party: Liane Norman, 45, an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Libertarian Party: Barbara Karkutt, 43, a health care systems analyst from Easton, Northampton County. She previously ran for Congress.

Socialist Workers Party: Cathy Em-minizer, 26, an autoworker from Philadelphia, whose ballot position is filled by Kipp Miriam Dawson because she cannot meet the minimum age requirement for office. GOVERNOR Consumer Lee Frissell, 37, a Philadelphia activist who ran for governor in 1978 and U.S. Senate in 1980. Libertarian: Richard Fuerle, 41, of PrM Photo by Lynn Johnaon sits outside PAT't shops after arrival yesterday. Steven Gregor, of 103 Flora North The first of 410 "Pennlinen' Good News For PAT Riders: New Buses Start Rolling In By LAWRENCE WALSH Attorney John M.

Grubor, described by the state Disciplinary Board as having "a demonstrated lack of scruples," has been disbarred by the state Supreme Court Grubor, 37, who was suspended by the high court on Aug. 31, 1981 for stealing 28,000 from a client, pleaded guilty to the theft last February. He was sentenced on March 31 to serve an llV4-to-23 month prison term at the state Correctional Institution at Greensburg, Westmoreland County. However, Common Pleas Judge Robert E. Dauer, who imposed the sentence, allowed Grubor, of the North Side, to leave the minimum security prison from 7 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday beginning June 24 so he could work as a salesman for a bar equipment company. Grubor was then paroled about a month ago. The disbarment, like the suspension and the criminal charge which followed, was based on Grubor's refusal to turn over 128,000 which belonged to a client. Side.

The money was part or. a settlement of a worker's compensation case. Disbarment means Grubor will be unable to apply for reinstatement for five years and then only if he can convince the court that he bas changed his ways. Although Grubor offered in June to resign from the practice of law, the Disciplinary Board, which investigates complaints of wrongdoing filed against lawyers, asked the Supreme Court not to accept it. The board wanted Grubor disbarred for contempt because he refused to comply with the provisions of his suspension.

Among those provisions were that he give the board a list of his clients and other information. Although he claimed he had no clients, the board discovered 14, most of whom did not know that he bad been suspended. "We have here an attorney with a demonstrated lack of scruples, said the board in the conclusion of its 33-page report about Grubor. By JOB GRATA For the first time in more than two years, PAT has received delivery of a new bus. The shiny red-and-white, 40-foot model pulled into PAT's main garage in Manchester yesterday afternoon after a two-day trip from Lamar, where Neoplan USA built it.

It is the first of 410 new buses that PAT will be receiving from Neoplan over the next 18 months. The buses will replace many of the raggedy buses of 1960s vintage that maintenance forces have been hard-pressed to keep in service. The number of buses in the garage for repairs reached a point last winter that there weren't enough in operation to fill the scheduled runs. As a result, PAT has leased dozens from Called "Pennliners," the Neoplan buses, designed and built in Germany for years until Neoplan opened its first American assembly plant in Colorado, have sophisticated controls and equipment monitors for operators. They have power steering; diesel fumes are exhausted from a stack at the rear of the bus instead of at street level.

PAT said the Neoplan bus must be inspected and equipped with an electronic farebox, and drivers must be trained, before it will be put in revenue service. It expects to receive shipment of two dozen or more buses before the end of the year, but the delivery schedule will be stepped up next year. transit agencies in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Wash ington, DC, and Knoxville, Tenn. They'll be returned as the new ones arrive. The average age of PAT's 932-bus fleet is more than 10 years.

Some of them are 18 years old and have traveled more than a million miles on the district's hilly, traffic-congested, pothole-infested streets. The Neoplan buses are part of a $157.8 million contract that PennDot coordinated to buy 1,000 Buses tor 16 state transit agencies. The "pool purcnase constitutes an experiment by the fed eral government inasmuch as public transit agencies have never before been permitted to jointly Did on buses on such a large scale. "It's a beautiful bus I think that PAT is going to be more than satisfied," PennDot Secretary Tom Larson said yesterday during a visit to nttsDurgn. The deal was almost botched earlier this year, when the Allegheny County Commissioners protested that the buses would be built with foreign sieei ana couian De delivered in time.

PennDot later disproved the charge, however. Also, Neoplan is building an American bus assembly plant in Montgomery County some thing that Gov. Dick Thornburgh has been touting in televised political ads as part of his camapign lor re-eiecuon. PAT is paying $147,960 for each 35-foot-long Neoplan bus and $150,060 for each 40-foot-long model. when delivery is completed, it means about half the PAT fleet will be less than five years old.

The last order of buses arrived in spring 1980. They were 126 RTS-II models built by General Motors but better known by riders for air (ME (9j(SM UCMMgJn I 1 Iff I Jl SJjlfe fit "i 'WB. I I conditioners that don work and smoke-colored glass windows that don't open. The new Neoplan buses have a pronounced square look. Most of the seats are cushioned.

They're air conditioned. If the system doesn't work, drivers will be able to open the top quarter portion of the side windows and two roof hatches. They have more headroom than any bus in the PAT fleet. They're equipped with kneeling devices and computer-programmed electronic digital destination signs. CMU President To Receive State Of Israel Peace Medal Dr.

Richard M. Cyert, president of Carnegie-Mellon University, has been named 1982 Man of the Year by the Pittsburgh Israel Bond Committee and will receive the State of Israel Peace Medal at a dinner-dance Dec. 6 at the Hilton Hotel, Downtown. CMU recently completed a drive to raise $1 million for an Israel NoteScholarship Program. Cyert is internationally recognized for his work in economics, behavior science and management.

Ill 3 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP PUBLIC AUCTION Ordered by the attorney for GLOBE INTERNATIONAL HANDMADE PERSIAN AND ORIENTAL RUGS SE4 SEA BREEZE FACIAL SCRUB or CLEANSER 2 5 Ol. tviflrmr AS PER INSTRUCTIONS ALL BIDS ILL OPEN AT 25c ON THE DOLLAR. OiSCOU 5 $1.79 Schedule effective October 31, 1982. Certain weekend exceptions m.iv apply. All limes are local.

BaltimoreWashington International Airport Washington National Airport Rl'CS FROM 8 LEADING COUNTRIES. Sitn nngc from 2x3lo 18iir. AUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE THURSDAY, OCT. 28 AT 8 P.M. HYATT PITTSBURGH CHATHAM CENTER, 112 WASHINGTON PLACE PITTSBURGH FLY THE USA ON 1 SEA BREEZE FACIAL SCRUB or CLEANSER 4 or I i Previtw I ko prior to lorliot Ik.

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