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'A-2 Pittsburgh Press, Sept. 1 5, 1 979 Steel Wheeling Wins Court To Get SEC Data "WM'i 1 fit', Vv-r IKf tTz ttT zje. i nw -am- r. wn.v iia i i A'l Prt pnoio oy Lynn johnwri Sheila Palmer of 642 Palmer Drive takes her turn as she gives instructions to 15 neighborhood children, ages 6 to 12, on her front porch. FRONT PORCH CLASSROOM While teachers remain on strike in Mt.

Lebanon, mothers of some students have set up interim classes in their homes. Mrs. By JUDITH VOLLMER The Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. has won the right to take a limited look into the investigative record of the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine whether the agency carried out a politically inspired probe of the nation's eighth largest steel producer. U.S.

Judge Donald E. Ziegler yesterday ruled that Wheeling-Pittsburgh attorneys may engage in the legal Slaying Admission Heard Raymond Snow 13, admitted he pushed 9-year-old Alexis Heffler into Girty's Run creek in Millvale and held her under water with two hands until he saw a big bubble rise, according to police testimony at a coroner's hearing. The Snow youth made the confession in an interview with police, Allegheny County Detective Regis Kelly testified yesterday. The boy was held on a murder charge by Deputy Coroner Tony Pankowski after Snow's defense attorney presented do witiesses. "He (Snow) stated that he pulled her out of the creek and took her clothes off," Kelly testified.

"He stated he walked a short distance down the stream and brought back plastic matting (used in construction). He stated he covered her body with matting and numerous rocks." Asked why he drowned the girl, Kelly said, the Snow youth told police he was "mad at her." Young Snow, a neighbor of the victim -in Millvale, was expressionless during the testimony. The girl had been missing since Sept. 2. Kelly said the boy admitted drowning her that evening.

The body was found by, construction workers Sept. 7 after several intensive searches by police, fire fighters and volunteers bad failed. The coroner earlier ruled that Alexis had been sexually assaulted. Kelly said be was summarizing the Snow youth's confession, but omitting certain "details." Kelly said the boy's reported confession came during a two-hour interview with homicide detectives and the boy's parents. The parents sat in the back of the courtroom yesterday.

Teacher Strike Talks Northern Lights Visible The northern lights may be visible in Western Pennsylvania this weekend, but the curious will need luck to catch a glimpse of it. Paul Oles, program director at Buhl Planetarium, said chances of seeing the sight are increased if there is a clear evening sky and a person is outside a 20-mile radius of the city looking north between darkness and sunrise. Persons too close to the city won't be able to distinguish the northern lights from city lights, he said. And just what do the northern lights look like? "It might be a bright glow, a beam of light, an arch over the horizon, curtains of shimmery light in the sky," Oles said. "It can be very beautiful." The northern lights usually are more visible the closer a person is to the North Pole, Oles explained.

They often are seen in the northern skies of the far reaches of Canada. Pittsburgh is about the lowest point they can be seen under the right conditions. Those conditions were made possible at 3:56 a.m. yesterday when an eruption occurred on the eastern edge of the sun. Known as a major X-2 flare, it was an outburst in the sun's hot gasses that sent ionized particles striking the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere likely to produce the aurora borealis, or northern lights.

Oles said this state can last from one to three days. During this time blackouts in shortwave radios may occur because of the sun's activity. Traffic Death Charges Hold 2 From City A West End woman and a Broadhead Manor man have been held on homicide by vehicle charges stemming from separate traffic deaths last month. Sheila J. Carroll, 23, of 303 Fairview was ordered held yesterday by Deputy Coroner Anthony Pankowski at a hearing into the death of Joseph S.

Hoffman, 73, of 421 Island McKees Rocks. She was freed on her own recognizance. Miss Carroll was the driver of a car which struck and killed Hoffman on the evening of Aug. 20 as he crossed the street near his home. In another hearing, Fred Fourgussan, 32, of 475 Village Road, was held in the Aug.

1 death of Fumie Salvatore, 58, of 107 Sanford West End. According to police, Salvatore had gotten off a bus and was crossing West Carson Street at Sanford Street when he was struck by a motorcycle operated at a high rate of speed by Fourgussan. Fourgussan was released on 2,500 bond. Teachers Win Lost Strike Pay Prtu Hwrftfwrt lurtw HARRISBURG Commonwealth Court has barred the Forest Hills School District in Cambria County from docking its teachers eight days' pay for time lost during a strike in the fall of 1974. The court, in a 7-0 ruling, upheld decisions by independent arbitrators and the Cambria County Common Pleas Court, which found in favor of the teachers.

The case resulted from a 1974 strike that delayed the start of school for two weeks. WIN CASH in The Press Football Contest! Watch Press Sports Pages for stead, teacher negotiators agreed to layoffs under certain conditions. She said the board refused to accept that proposal, however, maintaining that it should have final say. The situation in West Jefferson Hills "doesn't look good right now," according to union president Jim Pelter. He said salary, fringe benefits and extra jobs are not resolved.

One board proposal the West Jefferson teachers are fighting, Pelter said, is a change in the number of years required to reach maximum pay. While a teacher with a bachelor's degree now receives maximum salary after 18 years, Pelter said the board wanted to change the time to 21 years. Contract talks between representatives of striking teachers and school board negotiators were to continue today in Bethel Park and Mt. Lebanon school districts and tomorrow in West Jefferson Hills. Nine other teacher strikes continue in Western Pennsylvania.

In Mt. Lebanon, union representative Barbara Dittmer said the union had hoped to settle this weekend, but those hopes dimmed after the board took what she called a hard-line attitude. She contended that the union had made a concession on job security in a recent session by abandoning the position that there should be no layoffs. In OK discovery process tp view the scope of the SEC's contentions that the steel firm illegally divulged stock trading information while it was maneuvering to nail down $150 million in federal loan guarantees. Wheeling-Pittsburgh is permitted to "discover" only two areas in its search.

First, it will be allowed to examine the personal notes that SEC officer Martin Aussenberg took during a phone conversation with Arthur Downey, counsel for a rival steel firm, the Crane aad its subsidiary, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp. Second, the steel company is permitted to take, depositions from Downey on or before Oct. 14. Ziegler set a hearing on the outcome of the discovery for Oct. 22.

The judge emphasized that his precedent-setting ruling is intended to illuminate the current status of the SEC's probe, and does not imply that the agency operated out of bad faith. He said discovery is necessary before he can rule on another aspect of the SEC probe. That aspect involves subpoenas of Wheeling-Pittsburgh documents that the SEC has tried to secure since August. Thus far, Wheeling-Pittsburgh has refused to comply with the subpoenas, contending that at the root of the SEC investigation is a vendetta instigated by Sen. Lowell Weicker, Downey, and representatives of rival steel com- fanies determined to keep Wheeling-ittsburgh out of the rail mill market.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh intends to use a substantial portion of its pending loans to build a rail mill at its Monessen plant, a move that has been strenuously opposed by the U.S. Steel Bethlehem Steel and the company, which has filed suit against the move in a Colorado federal court In addition, Weicker had sponsored 12 bills to thwart Wheeling-Pittsburgh's attempts to achieve the federal loan backing that was finalized Aug. 28. SEC offfcials already have conceded that Weicker and his legislative aide, Timothy Keeney, kindled their interest iir the investigation. In fact, Keeney "suggested" that investigator Aussenberg contact Downey for information potentially damaging to Wheeling-Pittsburgh, according to testimony at the hearing before Ziegler.

Aussenberg followed up on the suggestion and had several subsequent conversations with Keeney and Downey. Wheeling-Pittsburgh counsel Paul A. Manion further maintains that Weicker's own personal animosity is related to ties to his Connecticut neighbor, Thomas M. Evans, the president of parent company, the Crane Corp. Weicker and Evans live on the same street and have political-economic ties that go back a long time, Manion remarked.

Authorities said Sue Howe of Pittsburgh and Sheri Mishler of Titusville were detained at the university infirmary. Debra Day, 17, of Lawrence Park, Erie County, was listed in fair condition at Erie's St. Vincent Health Center. Locally, damage by the storm was caused by wind gusts clocked at about 25 mph as rains arrived in the Pittsburgh district. The National Weather Service said Frederic experts had predicted the storm would pass to the south of Pittsburgh.

Instead, its main thrust was to the west of the city, making effects here minimal. But Conneautville in Crawford County, a borough of 12,500, suffered serious flooding when heavy rains started pelting the town about 9 p.m. Thursday. Police said Conneaut Creek rose at a rate of 4 inches an hour all night until it spilled out of its banks early yesterday. Rampaging streams weakened bridge piers and left a half-block section of Center Street, one of Conneautville's main thoroughfares, indermined.

"The pavement is being supported by a 6-inch gas line under the street," a borough official said. Volunteer firemen were still manning pumps today to drain flooded basements of homes along Conneaut Creek and one; of its tributaries, Thatcher Run. Opinions Vary On Use Of Tax-Exempt Funds Frederic Brings Floods To 3 North Counties Continue Bethel Park seniors and juniors Monday will be able to begin voluntary classes to prepare for college entrance examiniations next month. In Washington County, classes are scheduled to resume Monday in Fort Cherry, where the school board last night approved a contract ratified earlier by teachers. The contract provides a $3,900 salary boost over three years $1,300 a year and does not have a cost-of-living clause; according to board negotiator' Robert Crothers.

In Karns City, Butler County, where teachers had been working without a contract, the union ratified a pact by a 2-1 margin. According to a union spokesman, the contract provides improved salary and working conditions. The board is scheduled to vote Monday. Teachers in Erie County's Fairview Township struck yesterday. Four other teacher walkouts Trinity in Washington County, Union and Harbor Creek in Erie County and Midwestern Intermediate Unit in Mercer County were threatened for Monday if no settlements are reached this weekend.

Strikes also continue in New Castle in Lawrence County; Greater Latrobe in Westmoreland County; West Greene and Jefferson-Morgan in Greene County; Commodore Perry in Mercer County; and California Area, Chartiers-Houston and Canon-McMillan in Washington County. Frederic Leaves Rivers Swollen United Prist International While, the remnants of Hurricane Frederic passed into Canada today, leaving swollen rivers from Kentucky to New England, a new tropical depression threatened to spread more heavy rains over Florida. The National Weather Service issued flood watches and warnings for scores of rivers and streams throughout the Ohio Valley, saturated with up to 8 inches of rain as Frederic's weakening system marched northward yesterday. Two persons were injured as a thunderstorm related to Frederic toppled a covered bridge into the Connecticut River at Haverhill, N.H. Many streams in western New York State were at flood stage, as was the Scioto River south of Columbus, Ohio.

A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico moved to a point 400 miles southwest of Key West, early today and forecasters said it could strengthen, bringing heavy rains to the peninsula. The passage of a cold front through northern Florida triggered heavy thunderstorms that dumped more than 2 inches at Fort Myers. SAVE MONEY! Clip food coupons from The Press and stretch your grocery dollar! By SAM SPATTER Press Real Estate Editor A state Senate Committee on Urban Affairs has learned that Pittsburghers like the concept of issuing tax-exempt bonds to help reduce mortgage interest rates. But the committee, headed by Sen. James A.

Romanelli, D-South Side, also learned yesterday during the hearing in the Gold Room of the County Courthouse that the speakers were not in full agreement on how best to use these funds. Some, like Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri, preferred the funds go towards purchase of new or existing houses in targeted areas, such as the North Side. Others, like W. C.

Smith of Franklintowne Realty and Vincent Amore of Amore Companies, both home builders, prefer there be no restrictions placed on what areas the money could be used. Romanelli said he would use the ad-' vice of all speakers with opinions given at three other public hearings to amend the bills Sen. Bills 50, 705, 706 and 707 before presenting them to the full Senate for action. Remnants of Hurricane Frederic produced only a half-inch rainfall in the Pittsburgh district, but triggered serious flash flooding in three Northwestern Pennsylvania counties. Frederic, which had dissipated into a low pressure storm as it moved north out of the Gulf states, passed west of Pittsburgh, sparing the city during its advance to the Great Lakes.

But it lashed Erie, Crawford and Warren counties, where mop-op operations were under way today after some areas reported up to 7 inches of rainfall between late Thursday night and yesterday afternoon. French Creek overflowed at Mead-ville in Crawford County, and basements of dozens of homes along Conneaut Creek in Conneautville were flooded. The National Weather Service, was predicting that rampaging French Creek would crest a foot and a half above flood stage this morning. In Erie, an 800-square-foot section of the Erie Metro Transit Authority roof collapsed late yesterday afternoon after the city received 3 inches of rain. No one was injured in the collapse, but two of the 60 EMTA buses in the terminal were damaged by falling debris.

Three students at Edinboro State College were riding an inflatable raft on a swollen stream that runs through the campus when the swift current capsized the raft and swept them into an underground sewer. The trio bounced 150 feet through the underground drain before emerging into a stream. The measures would limit income of a family using the funds to twice the median income of families in that area. Andrew R. Evans, president of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Pittsburgh, said the Western Pennsylvania League of Savings Association supports the concept for "regenerating targeted neighborhoods in our cities." Evans said interest rates are not the major problem in buying a house, although they have complicated the situation.

The biggest problem is lack of sufficient down payment on the part of the buyers, be said. Also voicing opposition to the program was Marilyn Skolnick, Urban Crisis Director for the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. She said the league agrees with the concept of using these funds for targeted areas, adding it believes "low income people should not have to compete with those who can receive mortgage loans in the traditional way. "Instead of subsidizing the building of new structures, why not first rehabilitate those that exist and can be made usable?" Supporting the present legislation as it is written, which would provide the mortgage funds without geographical limits, were Allegheny County Commissioner Robert N. Peirce Jr.

and Alan D. Kurtz, president, Greater Pittsburgh Board of Realtors. Peirce, whose sentiments were echoed by a spokesman for the Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority, protested that limiting the funds to just targeted areas discriminates against the middle-income worker and young couples. Kurtz, restating the position of the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, called for tax-exempt mortgage bonds to be used on an emergency basis for home buyers during times of economic downturn, and on a permanent basis for low-income families and low-priced housing. He said while house sales in the Pittsburgh area are on a par with a "good" 1978 sales year, the listings are greater.

Kurtz claims the present 11 percent interest rate has forced from 15 to 20 percent of prospective home buyers out of the market. Wife, 28, Charged In Fayette Slaying UNIONTOWN (UPI) A Fayette County woman has been charged with criminal homicide in the fatal shooting of her husband. State police charged Carol Lynn Mu-drey, 28, after she allegedly shot her husband, Ronald, 37, at their home in the village of Leckrone last evening during a domestic argument. The Pittsburgh Press (USPS 434-300) A Scnpps Howard Newspaper General offices at 34 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1b230 Daily.

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Shapp' agreed to turn over personal income tax records to a House 'Select Committee on State Contract Practices. I-1 (' i 10 YEARS AGO (1969) Attorney Alva C. Long went to a track in Washington, bent on losing $300 and suing the state for illegal gambling but, instead, his long shot came in, winning him $1,845 Frankie's Band Box, 519 Grant had nightly organ and piano music by Harry Walton. 25 YEARS AGO (1954) An irate Glassport woman admitted cutting the legs off her husband's trousers but said they were "odd pairs," not part of complete suits Pitt's evening division offered more than, a dozen new courses from weather forecasting to playwriting. 50 YEARS AGO (1929) A student council was in the works at the comparatively new Taylor Allderdice High School, giving each class a voice in affairs The ParisiaivPenn Theater Building, offered a "soft lustrous, long-lasting permanent wave, complete for Bcyilax and Trtburw Syndicate, Inc.

READY TO ROLL in the American Diabetes Association's skate-a-thon at area ice rinks and roller rinks Sept. 29 are Pirate sjiortstop Tim Foli, the event's honorary chairman, and his family. Lending support are his wife, Ginette, left, and daughter, Sonia, 11, as Tim holds son, Timmy, months. Contributions for diabetes research, collected by the skaters, will be determined by the distances they skate. More information on participating rinks may be obtained by dialing 687-FOLI for a recorded message.

Dpbetes is the rion's third largest killer. "Thank you, thank you very much. Next, my rendition of 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers'.