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A-2 Pitaburgh Press, Jan. 5, 1978 Salem Twp. Youth Faces Slay Trial burg crime lab, testified Ralph Plank-enhorn, a state police chemist, during yesterday's session. Plankcnhorn said that a series of blood-typing and enzyme tests established that the flesh could not have come from Miss Hughes's body, but could have been cut from Lockwood's thumb. Lockwood's contention that his thumb-wound was incurred while making motorcycle repairs has been contradicted by his mother and girlfriend.

Mud on Lockwood's clothing and shoes matched the soil of the muddy turnaround on Laufer Mine Road and other soil found inside Miss Hughes auto, Plankenhorn testified. Bertani challenged Plankenhorn's findings by asking if a similar examination had been conducted with mud near Lockwood's home. Plankenhorn conceded that such samples had not been collected or tested. The defense attorney also suggested that the piece of flesh could have come from a great number of Tri-State area residents all with the same blood-type "profile" as Lockwood. Plankenhorn had previously stated that probability tables compiled by Scotland Yard indicated that one person in every 467 could have Lockwood's blood-type profile.

"Are you saying that l5th of one percent of the population in Pennsylvania has the same blood-type profile as the defendant?" Bertani asked rv ill I i i. i i WADE LOCKWOOD Didn't take the stand. nesses," said prosecuting attorney Louis Ceraso at the close of yesterday's testimony. Miss Hughes' auto became the subject of intense police scrutiny after discovery of her body a few feet from where the car was mired in a muddy turnaround on Laufer Mine Road. The piece of flesh, and blood samples from the victim and Lockwood, were compared at the state's Greens- PrH Photo bv Michael Ctiilons WAITING IN STONY SILENCE for the return of students for the new semester is William Pitt the Younger, or rather his marble bust in the Darlington Memorial Library in the Cathedra! of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pitt, incidentally, derived its name indirectly from his father, William Pitt, a British prime minister for whom Fort Pitt was named. William the Younger became prime minister at the age of 24, in 1783. Westinghouse Stock Suit To Open Here Iff I 4 A.t 1 1 fdl vr JJ r-X "4 S-? afc? 'Hilr Tl jfe 'r4-i fiSk "That's right," was the chemist's reply. "We will stipulate the whole world," Ceraso broke in. In other testimony Allegheny County pathologist Dr.

Earl R. Davis testified that Miss Hughes suffered multiple stab wounds to the face, neck, forehead and back. She died when two stabbings delivered to her upper back penetrated her lungs, he said. He said there was no evidence of sexual assault or intoxication. Lockwood did not take the stand in his defense, and Bertani declined to offer any other defense witnesses, although the suspect earlier told police he was at home when the slaying occurred.

The prosecution did not produce the murder weapon or suggest a motive for the slaying in the course of the preliminary hearing. In the end, Bertani made an unsuccessful motion to have the charges against Lockwood dropped. "The Commonwealth has not established sufficient cause in this case. The charges are those of murder, not being in a certain place at a certain time. "The prosecution has not presented a scintilla of evidence to show that the defendant was the perpetrator of the crime," Bertani said.

His motion to lower Lockwood's $250,000 bond was dimissed by the magistrate, and the youth was remanded to the Westmoreland County Detention Center to await trial. Disclosures Cost Job Colone An Air National Guard colonel, whose testimony a year ago led to the ouster of the stale's adjutant general, claims he lost his command of a fighter group at Greater Pittsburgh Airport in retaliation for his disclosures. Col. Edward J. Bollen, 55, of Sewick-ley, testified yesterday in U.S.

District Court in an attempt to secure a court order to prevent forced retirement from the Air National Guard. Attorneys for the state and federal government today argued that Bollen's scheduled release from the Guard had been legally determined by an annual review board designed to open officer positions to younger men in the military. Bollen, under cross-examination, conceded that the review board which decided against his retention last year had been composed of officers from outside of the state, supposedly to prevent a prejudicial verdict. "But that board was selected by a prejudiced Pennsylvania officer," Bollen said. The loss of command, Bollen told Judge Maurice B.

Cohill, was just one of the actions taken against him by superior officers over the past year for his disclosures about the use of military aircraft for personal use. Adjutant General Harry J. Mier the Air Guard's highest ranking officer in Pennsylvania, resigned last February because he allegedly approved and used military flights for personal business. Bollen also revealed that Mier had used military aircraft for Canadian fishing trips, Florida visits to his parents, and a trip to Germany to pick up antiques. According to yesterday's testimony, Bollen was improperly demoted to serve under a lower ranking officer last year and then ordered to retire by a "retention" review board composed of his fellow officers.

Bollen's attorney, John R. Cook, contended that retaliatory actions against the 27-year veteran officer came because of bis public disclosures of the improper military flights. Cohill, at least temporarily, delayed Bollen's dismissal which had been scheduled for the end of 1977. The judge was not expected to make an immediate ruling on whether the ban on Bollen's firing should remain in effect until his normal retirement date in 1982. Shady Side Academy Sets Alcohol Talk "Day of Concern: Alcohol" is the title of a program scheduled 9 a.m.

to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Shady Side Academy, Fox Chapel. The program is designed to educate students at the academy about the dangers of alcohol abuse and to encourage them to make responsible decisions about drinking. By MATTHEW KENNEDY Wade Lockwood has been ordered to lUnd trial (or the Dec. 18 stabbine death of an 18-year-old Westmoreland County woman.

There was little emotion in the hearting room yesterday as Murrysville District Magistrate Robert Scott ordered 'Lockwood, 18, of Salem Township, held for court. He is charged with the slaying of Margaret Mary Hughes, who left her boyfriend's home for i short ride to her residence in Trees Mills, Salem Town-hip, only to be found dead along the area's Laufer Mine Road. Lockwood sat quietly through yesterday's testimony, making no attempt to conceal the bandaged right thumb that led to his arrest Dec. 20. The bandage caught a state trooper's eye at Miss Hughes' funeral.

During the initial proceedings before Scott last Thursday, state police told of finding a piece of flesh in Miss Hughes' car that matched the wound on Lock-wood's thumb. At yesterday's wrapup, the prosecution sought to link the inch-long bit of flesh to Lockwood. His defense attorney, Dante Bertani, head of Westmoreland County's public defenders' office, repeatedly objected to testimony of two experts who outlined the details of Miss Hughes' death and conducted various blood-typing tests. "I submit that the piece of flesh in Miss Hughes' car is worth ten eyewit- Bell Asks Directory Call Fee Press Harhebun turtM HARRISBURG In order to force heavy users of directory assistance calls to pay for the extra service, Bell of Pennsylvania today asked the Public Utility Commission for permission to: Allow each customer three free direct dialed calls per line in the monthly billing period to directory assistance for numbers in the customer's area code. Charge 10 cents per call for each direct dialed call over the three-call allotment in the monthly billing period.

The charges will apply only for requests to directory assistance in the same area code If approved, the Directory Assistance Volume Control Plan would take effect at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 12. A Bell spokesman said 172.5 million local calls are made to directory assistance annually, with only 14 percent of the customers making 72 percent of those calls. Exemptions to the plan would include customers who are certified visually or physically handicapped, customers making calls from coin telephones, hospital patients, hotel and motel guests and calls placed through mobile phone service base stations and from interconnected lines of radio common carriers.

Handicapped persons may obtain Bell credit cards for use when they are away from their home phones. All customers now pay for directory assistance calls in their basic monthly bills whether they use the service or not. There will be no charge for directory assistance calls outside the customers area code. Office Staff Back On Job At Mesta Office workers returned to their jobs at the Mesta Machine Co. in West Homestead today as striking production workers maintained normal picketing.

More than 150 pickets appeared at company gates yesterday, blocking several hundred office employees and supervisors from entering the plant. Company officials said they have instituted subpoena and deposition proceedings to determine "who was responsible for the illegal" picketing activity yesterday. 'A court injunction issued last October limited pickets to three at each plant gate. Members of United Steel Workers Local 7174 said yesterday's picketing was a "spontaneous" action arising from "frustation" with the company in its refusal to meet the union's contract proposals. The walkout began its fourth month on Sunday, with few negotiating sessions and no progress.

Nurse Unit To Pick Officers On Sunday The Tender Loving Care Nurses Registry, a nonprofit corporation which serves hospitals, nursing homes and private homes, plan to confirm the following officers Sunday: Rasheeda K. Deen, director; Margaret Herbert, president; Veronica Skun-drich, vice president; Elizabeth Williams, secretary, and Edna Saylor. treasurer. SAVE MONEY! Now more than ever it pays to clip food coupons from The Press! Help The Kids! There's still time to start the new year with a good deed. Make a donation to Children's Hospital to make 1978 a good year for a needy child.

Please send all you can afford to Press Old Newsboys-KDKA Fund, Box 715, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230. Make checks payable to Children's Hospital Fund. Press Photo by Ross A. Catania Richard Jenkins tells police of finding "bomb." Porno Warehouse Bomb Device A Dud Testimony in a stockholders' suit against Westinghouse Electric Corp.

was to begin here today in U.S. District Court at an anticipated month-long trial. Four stockholders brought the suit in 1975, claiming that Westinghouse's million sale of its major appliance division to White Consolidated Industries had caused them substantial stock losses. One of the stockholders, George Gel-man, of Bakersfield, claimed he took a $100,000 loss on Westinghouse State Tax Form Goof Omits SS Numbers Presi Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG A Chicago-based printing firm has fouled up by omitting Social Security numbers from five million state income tax return forms already mailed out. State Revenue Secretary Milton Lopus said today the R.

R. Donnelley and Sons Co. has admitted making the goof by not including the numbers on the mailing labels attached to the tax forms. The company has agreed to bear the expense of rectifying the error, and ways to clear up the matter will be discussed during a meeting here tomorrow between Lopus and company officials. Lopus said the omission isn't expected to affect adversely the processing of tax returns from taxpayers, but he called on citizens to help the state by writing in their Social Security numbers on the labels.

Mortgage Rate Same Press Harrisburp Bureau HARRISBURG The maximum interest rate on residential mortgages up to $50,000 will remain unchanged at 9.75 percent in February, Banking Secretary William E. Whitesell said today. The Pittsburgh Press A Scripps-Howard Newspaper General offices af 34 Boulevard of the Allies. Piftsburgh. Pa.

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Extra postage cost beyond second rone. Daily and Sunday second-class postage paid at Pittsburgh, Pa. Mai) subscription telephone; (4121 263-13 1 1. stock because the corporation failed to inform the public of the impending sale of the division. According to the suit, Gelman and other stockholders sold Westinghouse stock in late 1974 at depressed prices caused by the continuing multimillion-dollar losses being run up by the losing major appliance division.

The share price, the suit noted, went from about $9 to as much as $20 after Westinghouse announced its intention to sell off its non-profitable appliance unit. Gelman's attorney, Howard A. Specter, claimed Westinghouse was liable for his client's losses because of its failure to make a timely disclosure of the impending sale to White Consolidated. The case is being tried before Judge Hubert I. Teitelbaum and a jury, which was selected Tuesday.

3 Senators Get Panel Posts Press Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG Three state senators, two of them from Allegheny County, today were appointed by President Pro Tempore Martin L. Murray as new chairmen of three standing committees. Sen. Michael A. O'Pake, D-Reading, was named chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, succeeding former Sen.

Louis Hill, D-Philadelphia who resigned after being elected as a judge of the Municipal Court in Philadelphia. Sen. Thomas Nolan, D-Wilkins Township, succeeds O'Pake as chairman of the Committee on Aging and Youth. Replacing Nolan as chairman of the Committee on Urban Affairs and Housing was Sen. James R.

Romanelli, D-South Side. Viets Say Yacht Released WASHINGTON (UPI) The Vietnamese government has released an American yacht and its crew of three seized in October, the State Department announced today. The department said the yacht Bril-lig and the three Americans a woman and two men, one of Philadelphia were released at 6:30 p.m. EST Tuesday night and the message was received from Hanoi officials through the U.S. embassy in Paris today.

The Brillig has not yet been sighted, the department said in a statement. It said the Pentagon will direct a search for the yacht. By JOHN PLACE A deadly looking device was found today in the North Side warehouse of the Majestic News a major outlet here for pornographic material. The bomb squad of Special Operations Services said it "was put together very well and looked like the real thing." But the device failed to explode when tested at the squad's Washington Boulevard base. The "bomb" was discovered about 7:30 a.m.

by Richard Jenkins, assistant manager at the 922 W. North warehouse, who immediately called police. "It had a Dixie cup as a holder, and there was a wire going into what looked like a camera relay of some sort," said Jenkins. "I wasn't about to touch the thing." Police Inspector Ralph Pampena ordered squad cars to block off West Y3 Zi- North Avenue until the device could be removed. The warehouse was previously in the news Feb.

16, 1977 when FBI agents raided the two-story yellow brick building and seized large quantities of hardcore pornographic films, books and magazines. They were surprised to find eight off-duty city police officers working there as Majestic security guards. The officers were cleared by a police trial board of "conduct unbecoming an officer" and reprimanded for not filing required forms before taking the job. Majestic had hired them after a convicted murderer and former employee-had "threatened to blow up the place." Nothing else came of the raid since Majestic was properly licensed. But the warehouse owner said last month he was considering not renewing the Majestic lease.

Frank DeCaria, president of the Federation of Pittsburgh Diocesan Teachers, said the new policy is bound to create problems. "They are putting the rights of the teachers in the hands of the individual pastors. If the parishes can increase the salaries, they can decrease them too," DeCaria said. He added he will try to approach the diocese and and have the policy changed so the diocese will set the salary schedules it agreed to in the grade school elections of in April 1976. During those elections, the teachers voted down unionizing, 591 to 477.

DeCaria said he still has hopes of unionizing the grade school lay teachers. "And this new policy will make it much more difficult to unionize since we would have to go to each parish," DeCaria explained. The parishes' grade schools, unlike the Catholic high schools, receive little diocesan financial support. This year they received $300,000 from the Annual Bishop's Appeal for poorer grade schools and students. Coin Show Slated The West Penn Coin Club will hold its 16th annual show from 10 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Red Room of the Holiday House, Monroeville. Admission is free.

Diocese Elementary Teacher Pay Scale Out The Family Circus It Happened Jan. 5 UHVXUVXVAWBy JOHN PLACEWMMW FIVE YEARS AGO U.S. Attorney Richard L. Thornburgh resigned as head of the Allegheny Regional Planning Council of Governor Shapp's Justice Commission on grounds it was "politically packed" Smile A Day saw a bakery sign, "Because of inflation, our pumpernickel bread is now pumperdime." 10 YEARS AGO Mayor Joseph M. Barr bitterly denounced the State Milk Control Commission for "protecting dealers" in price matters while ignoring consumers The Constitutional Convention ruled out any state aid to parochial schools.

25 YEARS AGO By CAREN MARCUS The Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese announced today it will stop setting salary schedules for grade school lay teachers and allow the individual parishes to negotiate salaries. The move probably will be interpreted by many lay teachers as a 'decentralization of authority aimed at blocking unionization of the elementary lay faculty in the diocese's 156 grade schools. Only high school lay teachers are represented by the Federation of Pittsburgh Diocesan Teachers. The diocese said today it made the ew policy because each parish has varying financial and other resources which often make it difficult for them to be locked into a system-wide salary scale. "Naturally people will think we had other reasons in mind, but the basic philosophy behind the policy was to provide teachers with the kind of salary and fringe benefits that tha parishes can afford," said the Rev.

Hugh J. Lang, the diocese's assistant school superintendent. Lang said it was possible but unlikely that the parishes would decrease their lay teachers' salaries and benefits. The present salary schedule provides ranges from $6,000 for a beginning teacher to a maximum of $9,000 wii.i $300 increments for every year of experience. it The Keystone Milk Producers Association asked Gov.

John S. Fine to "keep the farmers in mind" in any new appointments to the Milk Control Commission Notre Dame President Theodore M. Hessburgh called for unrestricted TV of football games and said any other course would be "un-American and illegal." 50 YEARS AGO S.V. Thompson Union Bank Building, offered a 15-acre poultry farm, with 7-room house, barn, spring water, "goodSoil, not hilly, in oil and gas belt, mile to trolley" for $4,250, immediate possession On the comics page, Inquisitive Izzy asked, "If a fat man lies down, how much will the bed spread?" Cooftfx tf 7. Th RtgHtw and Tribuns Svtukot hv "Dolly's kissin' Kittycat on the mouth! Will that hurt Kittycat?".