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-Indiana Evening Gazette, August 10, 1968.1 People In The NewsAndrews Sister In School Post CARSON CITY, Nov. (AP) Maxine Andrews, one of the two surviving Andrews Sisters singact, said Friday she will retire from the entertainment ing world to become dean of women at Tahoe Paradise College. The death of Laverne of cancor last year left Maxine and Patty singing together in 1 nightcluhs. Tahoe Paradise College, which opened last September, will have about 300 male students and 100 cords this Maxine told newsmen: "I'm not going to be what must of you regard as the typical dean of women. I might be better with the boys." Miss Andrews also will assist in administration of drama and speech.

She said her sister Patty continue to perform. HOLLYWOOD (AP) Bea Benaderet, who underwent treatment last fall and winter for cancer, said Friday she will take extended leave from 'Petticoat Junction," the CBS television comedy series, effective immediately. The actress, who returned for work in the series last spring, said her decision was 'in the best interests of my own health." She has completed six episodes for the coming season, the show's sixth year on the air. It was not known immediately whether the series would continu without the Benaderet character or if another actress would be cast in the role. A veteran TV and radio performer, Miss Benaderet played Blanche, the next door neigh- Rep.

Holland Fatally Stricken (Continued from Page 1) unexpired term gave him his chance to return to Washington. Maj. Gen. Keith Ware, commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, awarded Bronze Star medals for valor on the scene 8 South Vietnamese battlaion commander and a South Vietnamese platoon leader.

In other actions in Saigon's suburbs, headquarters reported: U.S. Army helicopters, raked a band of 30 to 40 enemy troops about four miles northeast of Saigon. Crtwmen reported killing 10. South Vietnamese fighterbombers strafed suspected enemy buildup areas northwest Saigon and troops sweeping the' area later reported finding 35 enemy bodies and two destroyed antiaircraft positions. Enemy forces shelled South Vietnamese infantry battalion 35 miles northwest of Sai-! gon and several hours launched a ground attack that was repulsed.

Military spokesmen claimed three enemy while government losses were put at one dead and five wounded. U.S. B52s continued hammering, suspected enemy and troop storconcentrations, camps age hideouts with four mare strikes Friday and today three sides of Saigon. The elesest raid was 35 mites northwest of the capital. U.S.

infantrymen reported finding 11 enemy bodles after sweeping an area tacked by fighter-bombers four miles from Cambodia. Far north of the capital, 46 emy were reported killed and suspects captured in a cordon operation by U.S. Army, and Navy and South Vietnamese forces four miles northeast Hue. Two of those, captured were identified North Vietnamese soldiers. Farther north.

between frontier venter of Cho Link and the South China Sea. South Vietnamese troops reported killing 25 enemy Friday at the scene a government victory the day before. Escapes Through Narrow Opening RUSSELL. Kan. (AP) A prisoner al the Russell County jail managed to squeeze his 5- 11.

175-pound frame through il hole measuring 12 inches by 1114 inches In his cell after lights went out Thursday mela, Sherif Jules Dumler sand. John J. Warner. 37, who WitS the jail's sole occupant. tore off a metal shaving mirror welded to the wall.

Dumler said. B3v crawling through the hole behind the mirror he reached the plumbing compartment, then walked out of the cell block and out the front door of the courthouse. Rome was the first Axis capital 10 fall to the Allies in McGovern Enters '68 Demo Field (Continued from Page 1) I nounced their entries into a presidential race. McGovern's bid is regarded as an effort to pick up and build upon the forces and considerable delegate strength left stranded by the slaying of Robert Kennedy last June. McGovern, one of the first public figures to disagree vigorously with Johnson administration's Vietnam policies, has 26 delegates to the Democratic National Convention definitely committed to him.

They are the votes of the South Dakota delegation which agreed to back McGovern last month during a boomlet for his active candidacy, Kennedy, a close friend and Senate ally of McGovern's, had won the votes in tht state primary. McGovern said then he was flattered by the move, but reallized it was just a way of keeping the delegation together. Ha said he still intended to seek election to the Senate and would campaign only for that office, Two weeks ago he escalated his national position slightly by saying he would let his name be used as a rallying point for uncommitted delegates. He said he agreed to this during a conversation with former Kennedy aide Theodore Sorensen. McGovern added that Sorensen, who had appeared somewhat lukewarm to the earlier effort to make the senator an active candidate, had asked him to place his name in nomination as a focal point for Kennedy delegates.

At the time he was killed, Kennedy had committed to him more than 300 delegates to the convention, opening Aug. 26 at Chicago. Much of that force has remained uncommitted with only a few reported shifting to either Sen. J. McCarthy or Vice Presidtnt Hubert H.

Humphrey. They include 151 of the 174- member California delegation, won by Kennedy in a primary the night of his slaying. Another hefty group committed to Kennedy principles is holding out in New York state with additional pockets of strength reported throughout the country. The most recent Associated Press poll of Democratic convention delegates showed 727 pledged to Vice President Humphrey; committed to Mc- Carthy, and uncommitted or pledged to favorite sons. Total needed for nomination is 1,312.

McGovern has headed "Committee for a Democratici Convention," which recently has been working on a Vietnamlc peace proposal for the Democratic platform. The committee includes several Kennedy supporters and has worked along with some McCarthy backers. As recently as Friday, howevone of the committee's leadling members denied that the committee was an attempt stop any candidate. "This is by no stretch of the imagination a pro-McCarthy or a stop-Humphrey move," said Claiborne Pell, At the same time, however, Joseph L. Rauh a Washington lawyer supporting McCarthy, said he hoped work on the peace plank would bring Kennedy supporters into the McCarthy camp.

McGovern faces a tough lection campaign in his own state this November and stayed neutral in the South Dakota primary election. McGovern won his first Senate term in 1962 by a scant 50.1| per cent of the vote in a traditionally Republican state. Until 1953 he taught at Dakota Wesleyan University. He left thei classroom year to become head of the state party. He unseated a Republican in 1956 to win a House seat and was re-elected two years later.

In 1960, however, he failed in bid to unseat Sen, Karl Mundt and served two years as food for peace director in the Kennedy administration before returning to state politics. Little Rock Quiet After Violence LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Little Rock was quiet at midtoday as National Guardsmen and state and local police held tight reigns on this capital city of 130.000. Isolated acts of violence reported until about 3:30 a.m. today but nothing since, said Little Rock Police Chief R.

E. Brians. One deputy sheriff was shot at about 12:30 a.m. while patroling a Negro section of the city. Pulaski County Sheriff Frank Mackey said that Deputy Bryan Carmichael was fired upon apparently with a shotgun as he drove over a railroad crossing in a Negro area, Mackey said a pellet struck Carmichael in the neck, but did not break the skin.

OBITUARIES in the 'Burns and Allen Show." MEDFORD. Mass. (AP) Robert F. Delaney. a foreign policy specinlist with the gov-: ernment, is the new director off Edward R.

Murrow Center 'of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University. The center, established in (1965, deals with the study of communications in international affairs. Dolancy. a graduate of Holy College, has served with the State Department and the United States Information Agen-1 cy. The appointment was announced Friday.

WALLACE, Idaho (AP) Rescue workers were to find a miner trapped deep underground for 12 hours in the silver-copper mine, williabout two miles from here. Another trapped miner had been rescued corlier. Fred S. Stepro, 53, was trapped just above the level at midday Friday in what was' termed 'a rock burst," known to miners as a violent release rock underground. Dean Cody, 33, also was trapped by the rock fall, but was reached by rescuers three hours later and rushed to a hospital here.

A spokesman said Cody alive but his condition was not; known. An official of the mining firm said 'an adequate number men" were on the rescue mission. The spokesman said rescue was 3 matter of digging debris from the large underground rockfall surrounding a small room where Stpro was believed working. Wrong Way Bus Finally Stopped IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) Two Greyhound buses rolled into the Idaho Falls depot Friday, one headed from Butte, to Salt Lake City, the other going in the opposite rection, from Salt Lake City Butte. After stretching his legs with the passengers, the Salt Lakebound driver boarded the bus headed for Butte and turned toward Utah.

The passengers settled down to their magazines and didn't notice the switch. When the Butte-bound driver found his bus. and passengers missing he guessed what had happened. When a state patrolman caught up with the bus, it was in the next town miles down the road. Family Day Proclaimed For Indiana Sunday, Aug.

11, is proclaimFamily Reunion Day by Indiana's Mayor C. Wilmer Johnston. The proclamation was made at the request of the Indiana Kiwanis Club in with a national proclamation of the event by the U. S. Congress.

Sponsored by Kiwanis International and the Freedoms, Foundation, Family Reunion Day is designed to call attention to the importance of the family to the American Way Life and to encourage to meet as family on that date. The proclamation asks families to plan get togethers on Sunday help dramatize the family and its role as the basis of our country's strength and morality." It is suggested that a picnic, an outing or a family meal at home would provide an oppor-lic tunity for family statistics to be! gathered and histories brought up to date, Weather Satellite Due Launch CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) The space agency plans to launch its fourth Applications Technology Satellite tonight to new techniques for weather forecasting, communications space electronics. The multipurpose ATS4 satellite is to ride an Atlas-Centaur rocket into space between 6:33 and 7:41 p.m. EDT.

The 864-pound payload will be aimed toward a stationary orbit 22,300 miles above equator west of Quito, Ecuador, its Image Orthicon camera will be able to view one-third of the world in its hunt for hurricanes and other weather disturbances. It is the first space camera designed to rake cloud pictures in both daylight and darkness. The ATS4 communications gear will be used in tests be. tween ground stations, ships and airplanes. EDNA EVELYN RAY LONG, widow of Elmer S.

Long, died Friday, Aug. 9, 1968, at the home of her son and daughterin-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Long of Indiana R. D.

I. Born Nov. 15, 1872, In Rayne John she was a daughter Shields nf M. and Margaret Ray. Mrs.

Long had been a resident of Indiana County her entire life had lived at her present address for the past 28 (years. She was a member of the Curry Run Presbyterian Church. Surviving are: a son, John L. Long of Indiana R. D.

two daughters: Mrs. Willis (Evelyn) Houck of Girard R. D. 1: Mrs. W.

C. (Carolyn) Jr. of Jeannette; eight grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; a brother, Arthur C. Ray, Shelocta R. D.

and a sister, Mrs. Vermont (Verdie) Long of Indiana. She was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters: John S. Ray, Mrs. Carl (Virginia) Dinger and Miss Anna Ray.

Friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Robinson-Lytle's, Indiana, where services will be conducted Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Interment in the Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, PIEDMONT CRASH WICH 37 ABOARD--Rescuers probe the wreckage of a Piedmont Airlines plane which crashed today at Charleston's mountaintop airport with 37 nboard. Early reports were that only five survived the crash.

The plane Nixon Visits Johnson (Continued from Page 1) gentlemen's agreement. Although Nixon said he would! do nothing, to undercut the "peace talks he added this would not remove the Vietnam war as a major campaign issue. "I told him that would be our position but that we would have to be kept abreast of developments," Nixon said Friday. "I want to play it right down the middle," Nixon quoted Johnson as saying on that subject. "I take the President at his word." Nixon said.

The Republican nominee (leaving with convention delegates still troubled over his decision to put Agnew in the vice presidential spot some on the ticket. real disagreement in the Republican party," Nixon said. "But not nearly as much as there is in the Democratic party." But Republicans from a dozen states were complaining openly about the Agnew nomination, which stirred a brief, futile revolt at the closing session of the it GOP convention. "The people Maryland don't even know him, let Ohio," said Rep. William Minshall of Ohio.

"You might well have picked his name out of a phone book." Nixon, in a holiday mood on the eve of his campaign departure, had a ready answer: "He is going to go up in and is going to be a great asset to the ticket. All I have to do to see that he gets exposed" to the nation. "A man overnight can become known through the tube," Nixon said about the use of teleme a tranquilizer to slow me vision to reach voters. "They're going a to have to give down," Agnew said. "I am confident that I can do what has to be done in this campaign and, in the administration to follow." Agnew was pleased to bel counted in the mecting with Johnson.

"Mr. Nixon has made it very clear that he wants me to be fully prepared to assume the presidency should that contingency arise," the Maryland governor said. "I am glad to know I am going to be in on the big decisions from the beginning." Nixon, entertaining newsmen at a luncheon at Key Biscayne, played the piano, tried acouple of golf shots nd stood on a putting green to talk about the race ahead. "The nation is ready for al great confrontation." Nixon said, about Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the likely Democratnominee.

"We both understand the American system," he "Each man must hit as hard as the can--on the differences and Jon the issues. "We must win the election In A way that will not jeopardize our ability to unite the country," he said. Nixon said neither he nor new would be a regional campaigner. Both would hunt votes in all sections of the nation, he said. Ile also disclosed plans of -bridge-building" relations journeys to, closer with party officials in states "where has great support for other, candicates." After leaving Johnson's ranch.

Nixon and Agnew will go to San Diego to plan campaign strategy. Pilot Escapes WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An F105 jet fighter taking off from McConnell Air Force Base crashed Friday and burned. The pilot, Capt. James A.

Martin of Wichita, parachured to safety. It was the second crash of an F105 from McConnell this week. A pilot ejected safely west of Hutchinson in the earlier accident. burst into flames after it crashed. It was en route from Louis ville, to points in Virginia.

See stury on page one. (AP Wirephoto) Police Raid Starts ProtestAuthorities Battle Uruguayan Youths O. GARCES MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) Authorities battled about 3,000 students Friday in running street lights touched off by a police raid on the University of Uruguay. The students were angered by the police raid in search of clues to the kidnaping of a close adviser to President Jorge co Areco. Latin American by tradition, are off limits to police and troops.

Street fighting erupted throughout the city and unconfirmed reports said at least one student and one soldier were killed. Government spokesmen denied any deaths had occurred. The outbreak began when mobs of students marched to protest rally at university compound. Along the way, some demonstrators hurled rocks at cars, buses and shops. Others burned a city bus and stoned firemen.

Opening up with high-pressure water hoses and tear gas and firing shots in the air, government forces drove the students back. But new fighting flared throughout the city and in two suburbs when the students scattered in smaller groups. Mounted police who charged Louisiana Demos Add 3 Negroes BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The Louisiana delegation to Democratic National Convention has added three more Negroes in a move to keep political peace. Negro leaders had threatened ochallenge the delegation the ground that the first alloted Negroes would accurately reflect their 20 cent of the state's party registration.

They asked for votes; of the 36 total. Sources said the shuffle would give them The change was first reported by the convention's Credentials Committee which said Louisiaalna had increased the number Negroes on its delegation to -nine delegates and four alterinates. The two additional votes came available when Reps. win W. Edwards and Edwin Willis decided they would not tend the convention due to prior commitments.

Some delegates will have than one vote. The delegation change apparently was ordered by Gov. John J. McKeithen, who said when returned Friday from a European tour that Negro representation would be increased 'meet any reasonable protesta-. tion." McKeithen, who has presidential aspirations, will a favorite-son candidate at convention.

Walk Off Job ERIE, Pa. (AP) Some 200 construction workers walked off the job at the site of a new Litton Industries' ship yard. The workers, members of various craft unions, left their jobs Friday over a wage dispute. A unior spokesman said the workers are getting up to a dollar less at the ship yard than on other comparable construcLion jobs. Company officials were not immediately available for comment.

Litton Industries says it hopes to build at the ship yard some of the largest cargo vessels on Great Lakes. Airliner, Carrying 37, In Crash one group of students with drawn sabers were forced to run for cover when a comandeered bus careened toward them at full speed. Some horses slipped and fell, spilling their riders. Several hundred students bar-! ricaded themselves inside the Vasquez Acevedo Institute, a Pache-preparatory school. They smashed all windows in the building in order to hurl rocks at police.

Pacheco Areco defended the decision to enter the university in search of evidence about the disappearance of his friend and adviser, Dr. Ulises Pereira Reverbel, who was kidnaped by four members of a pro-Chinese Communist organization Wednesday. The president also asked the Senate to dismiss the university's administrative council for 'derelection of duty." The government said it had reliable information that hidden' on the campus was evidence relating to 'illegal activities and the kidnaping of a public figure." It argued that the raid did not violate the university's autonomy, but the school's rector, Oscar Maggiolo, told reporters that the university's autonomy had been violated. Not Enough Signatures BOSTON (AP) The state Ballot Law Commission has ruled that Arthur P. Lewis, a Boston Democrat, didn't have enough valid signatures on his! nomination papers to place his name on the state primary ballot as a candidate for the legislature.

The commission said Friday that a Lewis filed 152 names, two more than the required minimum. But the commission found Lewis' own name nine times on the a papers and ruled eight out of order. That left him with 144 valid signatures. Plunges To Death From Mast NEW YORK (AP) A drifter known only as 'Red" jumped to his death Friday from the top of the 65-foot mast of the historic old lightship Scotland moored at the foot of Fulton Street. He was first seen on the mast about 8 a.m.

and he stayed there for eight hours despite the pleas of police, a priest and the city comptroller before taking his fatal plunge, Red said repeatedly that he wanted to see Mayor John V. Lindsay but the mayor had not yet returned from the Republi-land can National Convention in Miami Beach. Albert A. Swanson, manager of the ship, said Red spent Thursday night sleeping on pier pilings. He came aboard in the morning and climbed the mast where he reamined through 90- degree heat and a 15-minute downpour.

At one point police put a botde of wine in the crow's nest: and Red started down but then changed his mind. City Comptroller Mario A. Procaccino' tried to talk Red into coming, down but to no avail. A half hour later Red missing to safety nets police had set at the foot of the mast. and hitting a railing.

The Scotland was moved to its pier last Monday after being donated by the Coast Guard to the' South Street Seaport Museum. The ship was retired in 1965 alter years of service near Sandy Hook, N.J. (Continued from Page 1) mont plane crashed. He said neither he nor his pilot could see it because of the fog cover "but all of a sudden there was just a whomph." They looked out their plane's windows, he said, and saw flam. ting wreckage hurtling in all directions.

The plane was coming in over the airport's guide system-a long series of lights to help pilots as they approach the runways--but it crashed short of the plateau. A temporary morgue was set up at the National Guard headquarters at the airport but reports on the number of dead taken there were sketchy. The plane had landed at Cincinnati, Ohio before making its scheduled stop at Charleston. It was then due at several points in Virginia Roanoke, Richmond, Newport News and Norfolk. Prisoner Keeps Police From Office GREEN FOREST, Ark.

(AP) Police were held at bay from their own headquarters building for hours Friday by a prisoner who apparently managed to smuggle a small pistol past officers when they jailed him. Several cannisters of tear gas were lobbed into the building, forcing the man to throw out his weapon and surrender. Sheriff Orville Bishop identified the man as James Mallett, 25. The incident began about 4:30 p.m. when Mallett, named in a warrant charging destruction of public property, appeared Municipal Judge Hugh Leyseth, whose court is in a room of the police building.

The judge said Mallett was intoxicated and ordered him put in one of the cells which are separated from the courtroom by a partition and a wooden door. Minutes later, a shot was fired and a bullet ripped through the door, ricocheted off tho concrete block wall of the courtroom, bounced against side of a youth in the courtroom, then fell harmlessly on the floor. The courtroom and the police building were quickly abandoned by all but Mallett, who fired twice more, police said, in the next few hours as he held officers at bay. Police said Mallett would stick the warningly at a jail window each time authorities tried to approach the building. Tear gas cannisters were ordered from Harrison, but a doctor because advised against using them they were old.

Fresh then were ordered from Fayetteville, and when they lobbed were them into delivered the police building again arrested Mallett, who was kept in jail. Killed In War WASHINGTON (AP) The names of 26 men killed in action including "two Pennsylvanians, on the latest Defense list of casualties in the Vietnam War, They are: Army Sgt. Robert W. Matthews, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur R. Matthews, 7242 Radbourne Upper Darby. Marine Cpl. Allen P. Houck, son of Mrs.

Joy A. Goodman, Mcunt View Trailer Park Lot 69, Wernesville. Promoted CLIMAX Lewis A. Nulph, son of Curtis A. Nulph of Climax, has been promoted to master sergeant in the U.S.

Air J. WILFRED STEWART, 50, husband of Beatrice Miller Stowart, of Creekside R. D. 1, died Friday, Aug. 9, 1968, in the strong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning.

A son of John and Araminta Murray Stewart, he was born June 27, 1909, in Burrell Twp. Mr. Stewart lived during his youth in Indiana and had been a resident of Washington Twp. most of his life where he operated a coal mining business for a number of years. He attended the Harmony Grove Lutheran Church at Five Points, In addition to his wife he is survived by: a son, Ronald Paul of Creekside R.

D. a daughJack (Eileen) Driver, Broadway, five grandchildren; two brothers: Paul Stewart, Ligonier; Hetrick Stewart, Johnstown; two sisters: S. Ethel Knott of Fort Lauderdale, and Elizabeth Stewart of Blairsville. Friends may call on Saturday after 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

at Robinson Lytle's in Indiana where Pastor Roy S. Shultz will conduct services on Monday at 1:30 p.m. Interment in the Garden of Devotions, Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. MISS VIOLA G. SICKENBERGER, 52, of Greensburg R.

D. 4, died Friday, Aug. 9, 1968, in Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg. She was a daughter of Dean theland Katherine K. Sickenberger, Surviving are a brother, Raymend J.

Sickenberger, South Greensburg; two sisters: Miss Thelma Sickenberger, Greensburg R.D. Mrs. Grover Miller, Greensburg. Friends are being received at the Felton Funeral Home, New Alexandria, where services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. with Rev.

John C. McAdoo, officiattoting. Interment will be made in New Alexandria Cemetery. MRS. MARY LUCINDA ROSE FLEMING, 75, of 265 N.

Spring Blairsville, died at her home on Thursday, Aug. 8, 1968. Friends a are being received at the family home at 265 N. Spring St. from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

today and until 1 p.m. on Sunday when body will be removed to the First PresbyterChurch, Blairsville, where services will be held at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. George Krupp, officiating. Interment will be in the Ebenezer Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Blairsville Public Library Memorial Fund or the First Presbyterian Church of Blairsville. Shoemaker Funeral Home, Blairsville, is in charge of ar. LOYAL MURDICK FINDLEY, 71, of Clymer, died Friday, Aug. 1968, al 5:50 a.m. in the Indiana Hospital.

Born Aug. 13, 1896, at Vintondale, he was a son of Edward and Sara Murdick Findley. His early life was spent (in Vintondale, and the remainder of his life in Nanty Glo with the exception of the past eight years at Clymer. He was a World War I veteran. Mr.

Findley was a member of the Nanty Glo Local 1386 UMWA and Clymer Post 22 of the American Legion. Surviving are a. sister, Mrs. Aubrey (Verna) Morton of Clymer, and a number of nieces and nephews. His wife, Isabel Dunlap Findley, preceded him in death.

Friends are being received day from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m, at Robinson Lytle's, Indiana, where services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. with Rev. Richard L. Cassel, officiating. Interment will be in the Brush Valley Lutheran Cemetery.

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