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Pittsburgh Press, April 22, 1978 Up Road Debris Area Vol unteers Stoop To Clean motorists have been traveling the straight-and-narrow. Many of the travelers have been downright friendly. "People would stop and say, 'Hey, you're doing a good thine Dudiak recalled. "We got a lot of patriotic talk." When it's all over, the back-cramped Fourwheelers will unwind at the Washington County Four By Four racing and camp grounds between Washington and Hickory. By GEOFF BROWN Volunteers throughout the state were bent today on helping to "Keep America Beautiful" by picking up litter along Pennsylvania highways.

A 126-mile stretch of 1-79 from Washington to Erie was the cleanup target of 300 men, women and children joining the East Coast Four Wheel Drive Association's second annual cleanup project. 1 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said an estimated 12,000 volunteers were expected to collect trash along other highways under the supervision of PcnnDot employees. Even state Transportation Secretary James B. Wilson was expected to help in the campaign. Last year, PennDot said, 190 members of the jeep-racing club picked up 200 tons of tin cans alone.

bit is really making America ugly," complained an unabashedly patriotic-Dudiak. That's why they aren't just cleaning the roadsides. "We go over the banks. Most people aim for over the guardrail," Dudiak said of the marksman-like motorists he deplores. "The exits are the dirtiest," his wife exclaimed.

Dudiak added, "It's inversely proportional to the distance from the nearest fast-food place." That means the litter tapers off as the restaurants fade into the distance. But no matter where they find it, the Fourwheelers, taking starting positions at mile-long intervals on both sides of the highways and in the grassy areas between the east and westbound lanes, vigorously attack the garbage lodes. In teams, they comb up to five miles, communicating by Citizen Band radio. And they pick up the kinds of refuse that would turn an ordinary trash can digger green with envy. Last campaign, they collected the following: the TV, phone and tax bills; a newspaper vending machine; a truck door; tank truck top; 40 feet of water hose; a bannister set still in its box, and plenty of diapers and cans.

On a smaller level: the snake that got away; three newborn mice in a box, a dead pheasant, driveshats, a watch, rubber boots, shoes, socks, a fancy bowtie, a dealer's plate, fishing li- Trash Route For Week censes, flour sacks, hub caps, dollar bills, including a $20, a wallet, and thousands of loser's ticket stubs along the exit ramp from the Meadowlands racetrack in Washington County. Also: a brassiere, panties, blouse ana skirt in a neat pile. The Fourwheelers reported that to the state police just in case it might provide a clue to some of the unsolved murders in Western Pennsylvania. This snake lost tvx: tvtT "Al mn The city's annual spring-summer cleanup campaign will move into sections of the East End, Greenfield and the North Side next week. The campaign is designed to collect household trash which cannot be handled during regular weekly collections.

Material should be placed at the curb in these neighborhoods: The 14th Ward, between Shady Avenue and Peebles Street, and between Forbes and Fifth avenues. These streets are included: Den-niston, Beechwood (house numbers 1000 to 1699), Aylesboro (numbers 6300 to 6663), Northumberland (numbers 6400 to 6673), Dazell, Ridgeville, Woodwell, Gettysburg, Linden, Hastings, Lyndhurst, Ely-sian, Willard, Reynolds, Penn (numbers 6700 to 7528), Meade. Also, Thomas, McPherson, S. Braddock, East End Avenue, Mil They also collected assorted other litter including an operable TV in 5,800 bags along 1-79 from Waynesburg, Greene County, to Meadville, Crawford County. PennDot told the Fourwheelers they did the equivalent of $200,000 of work on the 111-mile stretch.

Not entirely thrilled by the Four-wheelers' anti-litter campaign was a 1 Vi-foot garter snake what wiggled out of an empty beer can. He had just had his tail warmed by a short blast from a pipelighter through a hole in the can, said George Dudiak of Penn Hills, a member of the Four-wheelers' Triangle Club of Pittsburgh. Dudiak and family were as enthusiastic last night about hitting the road as the snake was about "hot-tailing it" for cover. The Fourhwheelers really have a grudge against litterbugs. "This litter ton, LaClair, Lancaster, Richmond, Trevanion, Kensington, Briar Cliff, Lexington, Carnegie, S.

Lang. The 15th Ward, between Winter-burn and Saline and between Beechwood and Hazelwood. These streets are included: Blanton, Minnesota, Glen Lytle, Loretta Road, McCaslin, Mirror, Welfer, Montiero, Fleming, Mont-clair, Windsor, Greenfield Avenue (numbers 624 to 1152), Beechwood Boulevard (numbers 3401 to 4107), Murray (numbers 3900 to 4381). The 21st and 25th wards, from odd-numbered houses on Brighton Road and from California Avenue to Island Avenue. These streets are included: Island, Success, Colfax, Marvista, Sigel, Stranmore, Winifred, Oriana, California numbers 802 to 1350), St.

Ives, St. Marks, Kirkbride, Morrison, Lamont, Brighton Place, McCullough and Marquis. William Ryan, 26, of Jenners, Somerset County. Neither driver was injured. The bus was transporting 11 children from the North Star School to the Johnstown Christian School.

In another accident, state police lodged a reckless driving charge against Dick Rhea, 30, of Somerset, operator of a school bus which struck the rear of another school bus on Route 31 near Somerset on Thursday, injuring 28 students. Rhea told troopers his brakes failed. The reckless driving charge was filed after his vehicle was inspected and the brakes found to be in working order, police said. Police said the bus driven by Jack Shockey, 28, of Somerset, had stopped to pick up passengers when it was struck by Rhea's vehicle. The injured students were treated at Somerset Community Hospital.

Badali To Stay In Council Race Matthew Badali said today he is remaining in the city council race because he expects to fully recover from a stroke he suffered on March 31. Badali, the Republican nominee for the seat vacated by Mayor Richard Caliguiri, said from his room in Mercy Hospital that bis progress is satisfactory and he hopes to return soon to his home in the Banksville area. He also is the 20th Ward Republican chairman. Earlier this week, his wife told The Press that he would be unable to continue as an active candidate, and one Republican leader had inquired into the possibility of replacing him on the May 16 ballot. School Bus Accidents Injure 34 Children City Fire Captain Acquitted Of Receiving Stolen Goods Unfortunately, it didn't.

The large items, except for the TV, mice and some unopened six-packs of beer that were still good, were given to the state to be sold as junk, Dudiak said. He assured that the only dangers involved in the trash hunt are "copperheads and wild drivers running off the road." So far, though, the snakes have kept their venom to themselves and the his "home" during the highway McManus said he helped load the sets in Sanner's car, but saw no money change hands and did not hear the conversation between Sanner and McClellan. Both McManus and McClellan were among six arrested last December in connection with an alleged burglary ring. McClellan has also pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. But McClellan did not testify at the trial which ended yesterday.

At the board trial last February, McClellan said he sold color televisions that were stolen, but never to Sanner. Sanner said he never met McManus, and attributed the accusations to the fact that his daughter, a security guard in South Hills Village, arrested McManus in 1974 for fraudulent use of a credit card. None of the sets in question, which were taken from homes in Upper St. Society Club By Vandals CRIME ROUNDUP Downtown, noticed that three pairs of lizard-leather shoes valued at nearly $500 were missing. The clerk told police that the four men walked into the store and one asked to try on a pair of shoes.

The other three suspects loitered in front of the store and when the clerk went to the rear to get more shoes two of the men had left. The remaining two quickly followed and the clerk noticed the shoes missing. A NORTH SIDE man told police yesterday that someone broke into his apartment in the 2100 block of Rhine Street and slashed all the furniture in the living room and bedroom, causing $1,500 damage. Frederick O'Niel, 22, also said a stereo and lamps were damaged and several photographs were submerged in the bathtub. 7 it A group of former investigation of the record albums Prison," Lynn Anderson's "Highway 61 Revisited." John G.

Communications mass communications of 13 years disputed to their wives. White Oak residents which they said were Aviation Director million improvement State Superior Symphony members Sunday The Hotel entrance from Oliver light lunches and Press Slate Wire SOMERSET Two school bus accidents one involving two student carriers in Somerset County slightly injured 34 grade school children and resulted in a reckless driving charge against a bus driver. A school minibus collided with an auto on U.S. 30 near Jennerstown, Somerset County, yesterday, and six children were treated at Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, Cambria County, for minor injuries and released. The minibus, operated by Helen Fall, 59, of Stoystown, Somerset County, was crossing U.S.

30 when it was struck broadside by a car operated by Loss Blamed On Coal Strike The nationwide coal strike was blamed by Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for a first-quarter net loss. For the first three months of 1978 the company said it lost $18.1 million, or $5.04 a share, on net sales of $261.8 million. That compared with a net loss for the first three months of 1977 of $18.4 million, or $5.29 a share, on sales of $210.9 million. During the first quarter the company shipped 695,103 tons of steel, up from 608,605 tons in the 1977 period.

In the three-month period the company produced 890,169 tons of raw steel, up from 768,468 tons in the year-earlier quarter. Dennis J. Carney, chairman and president, held out hope for the April-to-June period. "Prospects are encouraging," he said, with strong market demand and a "healthy" backlog pointing toward increased shipments. cleanup project.

Clair and Mt. Lebanon, have ever been recovered. A Herron Hill woman convicted in 1972 of second-degree murder but granted a new trial by the state Supreme Court has been acquitted. Clara M. Hilbert, 34, of the 3300 block of Milwaukee Street, was found innocent yesterday of criminal charges in the stabbing death of Lawrence Burr, 21, of Bon Air, Dec.

20, 1971. Miss Hilbert told police that she stabbed Burr, who was found slumped in his car in the Hill District, in self-defense. She claimed he attacked her after picking her up for her services as a prostitute. A jury convicted Miss Hilbert of second-degree murder in 1972, and Common pleas Judge Albert Fiok sentenced her to up to 12 years in prison, which was later reduced to 4 to 8 years in jail. But last January the state Supreme Court ruled that Fiok erred in instructing the jury that the burden was on the defense to prove she acted in self-defense.

The burden was on the commonwealth to prove that she was not acting in self-defense, the high court ruled. The weapon was never found. Miss Hilbert told police she threw the knife, which she carried for self-protection, into the weeds. Also, a screwdriver found near the car and photos of Burr's car that suggested a window may have been jimmied were held to be inadmissable at trial by Senior Common Pleas Judge-Loran L. Lewis under new law.

No wallet was found on Burr. A Homewood man was convicted yesterday of involuntary manslaughter by a jury in the stabbing death of an East Hills man in a barroom argument. Willie L. Coins, 28, of 625 Brushton was returned to the County Jail without bail to await sentencing by Common Pleas Judge Thomas Harper. Goins was accused of stabbing Robert J.

Crutchfield, 28, of Robinson Boulevard following a tavern argument over debts last Nov. 5. The weapon was a pen knife. Involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of Vk to 5 years in jail. City fire Capt.

Norman Sanner has been acquitted by a jury of charges that he bought two stolen color television sets in the parking lot of a Banksville Road tavern. The jury found Sanner, 47, of 2274 Bernard Carrick, innocent yesterday of receiving stolen goods and conspiracy in less than an hour of deliberations. He was cleared of misconduct charges last February by a fire department trial board. Sanner's sole accuser was Charles P. McManus, a former heroin addict who has pleaded guilty in connection with about 50 burglaries in the South Hills since 1973.

McManus, 26, now a ward of the Washington County Jail awaiting sentencing, testified that be and Thomas McClellan, Sanner's former son-in-law, sold the defendant the stolen sets in May of 1976 for $150 apiece. New Italy In Hays Hit VANDALS BROKE into the New Italy Society of Hays at 267 Baldwin Road and smashed a jukebox, pinball machine, cigarette and other machines plus tables, glasses and other equipment, causing an estimated 10,000 in damages. Frank Milorino, steward of the club, told police yesterday he had rented out the club for a private party Thursday. Milorino left the club at midnight Thursday and told the renters to lock up, according to reports. When Milorino went back to the club yesterday morning he discovered the damage.

Thermostats and lamps were ripped off the walls. Chairs, tables and a pool table were overturned. Glasses were smashed and a television and freezer were damaged. Reports said there were no signs of forced entry. AFTER A visit from four young men in their late teens, a clerk at the Stepp'n Shoes store, 938 Penn East St.

Debate Quickens By AL DONALSON Citizens Resisting Useless and Senseless Highways, a North Hills activists group whose avowed intent is to stop construction of the East Street Valley Expressway, went for a big ticket: They flew an attorney with experience in highway condemnation proceedings here from Honolulu to make a legal pitch against the roadway. However, Jack Schweigert, formerly of Erie, never got in the ballpark before Common Pleas Court Judge Michael J. O'Malley. Schweigert, who came here with a reputation of being a roadkiller in Hawaii, tried to put witnesses on the stand to make three arguments during a preliminary hearing yesterday before O'Malley on stopping the highway. Schweigert wanted witnesses to argue that: Since St.

Boniface Church could possibly become an official U.S. historic site, nearby homes should not be condemned to insure that St. Boniface can continue to be a viable parish church. PennDot did not act in good faith in providing just and adequate compensation for those whose homes have already been acquired for the project. Since PennDot is in such horrible financial straits, it should not be the state agency empowered with offering residents compensation for their homes.

Specifically, Schweigert wanted the court to review and rescind the 1971 condemnation proceedings which uprooted two East Street families Mr, and Mrs. James Hamilton of 612 Harp-en St. and Mrs. Virginia Hamilton of 3327 East St. PennDot Counsel Larry Wider objected, demanding that in each instance, Schweigert presented overwhelming evidentiary offers justifying why witnesses should be permitted to testify to those points.

Also, argued Wider, the state has a six-month deadline after condemnation for such arguments to be filed. "Counsel is trying to say that we cannot take the property we already own," said Wider. O'Malley sustained all of Wider's objections. Commissioners Approve Work On 6 Bridges Two county bridges will be rehabilitated and painted and four others spruced up in a $4.1 million spending program approved by the county commissioners. The Conn Construction Co.

will be the contractor for major structural repairs, resurfacing, removal of trolley rails, replacement of sidewalks and painting of the Tenth Street Bridge at a cost of $1,770,000. Construction on the bridge over the Monongahela River will begin Monday, but vehicular traffic will not be restricted to one lane until May 1. The job is expected to be completed next spring. The firm also will receive $830,000 for work on the Greensburg Pike-Turtle Creek Bridge, connecting Air Brake Avenue in Turtle Creek and Kline Avenue in North Versailles Township. The deck and sidewalks of the bridge will be replaced.

Vehicular traffic will be restricted until the contractor begins the deck replacement, then the bridge will be closed to all traffic for about three months. Painting of the Homestead High Level, Glenwood, Mansfield-Dravosburg and 16th Street bridges will be done at a cost of $1,533,000 by Odyssey Contracting and El Greco, Keystone, Almega and Manganas Painting companies. The Pittsburgh Press A Scripps-Howard Newspaper General Offices at 34 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230. Daily, 1 20 a week: Sunday, SO cents a week.

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Herrmann Jr. A NEW SLANT on traffic control greeted motorists at the south portal of the Liberty Tubes today. A hit-run driver rammed into the booth from where city police control traffV: lights at the intersection. Leo Cabnyelski, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation tunnel maintenance employee, inspected the damage. 4 Copyist IV7B.

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