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A-4 Pittsburgh Press, Jqn. 10, 1977 6 In Family Killed As Train Rams Car tiV I I I I an -vw-jr. i John Schaffer John L. Schaffer, retired wire and rope splicer, died yesterday at Subur- ban General Hospital. Mr.

Schaffer, 86, of 626 North Bryant Bellevue, was retired from Frick-Lindsay Co. The World War I veteran was a member of American Legion Post. 681. He also was a member of St. Luke's Memorial Lutheran Church on the North Side, McKinley Lodge 318 Allegheny Commandry 35, Golden Age Club, and American Association of Retired People.

Surviving are his widow, Amelia Ann; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth A. Clark of the North Side; a son, George of North Hills; a sister, Anna of the North Side; two grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 tomorrow at the Orion C.

Pinker-ton Funeral Home, 1014 California Avalon. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Union Dale Cemetery, North Side. 111 1 v.

fl 7 The train's engineer, George L. Hop-pert of Willowick, Ohio, was not injured. State police said the accident was under Investigation. Preschool Testing Set Speech, hearing and vision tests for pre-school youngsters will be given in the East Liberty, Stanton Heights and Oakland neighborhoods later this month. The free testing, provided by the city school board under a federal grant, is designed to enable parents to have handicaps treated before a youngster enters school.

Tests will be given between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at these locations: Eastmin-ster United Presbyterian Church Day Care, 250 N. Highland Mall, East Liberty, Jan. 17 and 18; Sunnyside Elementary School, Stanton Heights, Jan.

Carnegie Library Children's Room, Oakland, Jan. 24 (speech and hearing only). Rodef Shalom Nursery School, 4905 Fifth Oakland, Jan. 24 (vision only); Larimer Elementary School Day Care Center, East Liberty, Jan. 25; St.

James AME Church Day Qare Center, East Liberty, Jan. 26. Frick Elementary School Day Care, Jan. 27 and 28 (speech and hearing only); Gladstone School Day Care Center, Hazelwood, Jan 27 and 28 (vision only). Bleacher Fall Kills 1 BANGKOK (UPI) One person was killed and 80 were injured in the collapse of race course bleachers at, a provincial stadium, police said today.

Pratt Stilt Wirt ERIE Six members of a North Springfield family on their way to church were killed when their auto was struck by a 12-car ConRail freight train, splitting it into four pieces. Killed yesterday when the car was hit at a rural grade crossing on Route 215 near the Ohio border were Luella M. Dunn, 47, the driver, her husband, Richard, 43; their children, Greg, 19, Constance, 17, and Michael, 15, and Darlene Depinet, 16, a stepchild. A lone surviving son, Dale, 16, had attended Sunday School at a church in East Springfield and was awaiting the family's arrival when the accident occurred. "All were pronounced dead at the scene except Mrs.

Dunn who was dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital here. Police said the train, which consisted of two locomotives and 10 freight cars, was traveling at more than 45 miles an hour. They said the family was killed when their car failed to accelerate fast enough to take them from the path of the train. The crossing was protected by flashing warning lights which apparently were working, officers said.

'The roads were in basically good shape despite the snow on the ground," police said. Deaths Elsewhere Herbert van Huellen, 66, president of the Association of German Metal Industry Employers and former mayor of Krefeld, West Germany, in Krefeld. Charles Frend, 67, British producer whose films included "The Cruel Sea" and "Scott of the Antarctic," in London. M. K.

Jerome, 83, an Academy Award songwriting nominee in 1943 for "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" and "Some Sunday Morning," in Santa Monica. A "Ks i Harry H. Fisher Retired building contractor Harry H. Fisher died yesterday in Worthington, Ohio. Mr.

Fisher, 94, a former Pittsburgh resident, was a member of East Hills Chapter of 268 RAM, Duquesne Commandry 72, East Liberty 725 Knights Templar, and Syria Shrine and Temple. Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Rodman, with whom he had lived; six grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at H.

Sampson 537 N. Neville Oakland, where services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be at the Temple of Memories Mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery, Lawrenceville. NATURALLY it takes a naturalist like Judy the Nature Museum at Schenley Park, to demon- course at the museum, where they learned to shred strate the recycling of Christmas trees.

Observing the branches of their Christmas trees into mulch, and yesterday were, from left, Richard Lucas, 6, of Car- make bird feeders from the trunks. The course was rick and Robert Thomas, 8, of Wilkinsburg. The boys sponsored by the City Parks and Recreation Depart-were among a group who attended the recycling ment. Homestead's E.J. Koval Dies Obituaries Mm, 7 Edward J.

Koval, a Homestead Borough councilman, died yesterday in Mercy Hospital. Mr Koval, 62, of 1410 Hays Homestead, also was commander of VFW Post 373. He was a retired employe of the Steel Valley School District, and was a veteran of World War II. He was a member of St. Anne's Church, Homestead.

Mr Koval is survived by his widow, Jean; a son, William Lawrence of Munhall; daughters Nancy Lawrence, Carol Barbara and Jeannie Koval; sisters Pau-lin Magnes of West Mifflin and Therese Dodson of Daytona, and one grandson. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Ivan R. Braszo Funeral Home, 315 Tenth Homestead.

Services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in St. Anne's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Jefferson Memorial Park. Perry Elmer Plues MANOR Perry Elmer Plues, a retired pipe fitter for Westinghouse Air Brake, died yeseterday in Jean-nette Memorial Hospital near this Westmoreland County community.

Mr. Plues, 68, of Blaine Avenue, here, was a World War II army veteran. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Consistory of Pittsburgh, a life member of Shidle Lodge 601, Tall Cedars of Lebanon 77, American Legion of Manor and VFW Post 8518 of Rillton. He also was a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of Herminie, and of AARP. He belonged to the Brush Creek United Church of Christ.

Mr. Plues is survived by bis widow, Mary Jane Brown Plues; a daughter, Mrs. Linda Sasso of here; two brothers, Edward of Elyria, Ohio and Earl of McKeesport; and five sisters, Mrs. Betty Hartman of West Newton, Mrs. Ethel Scheeley of St.

Petersburg, Mrs. Ann Ager of Cleveland, Mrs. June Johnston of North Huntingdon, and Mrs. Minnie Mignogna of Pitcairn. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

tomorrow in the E. J. Rodg-ers Funeral Home, Race Street, here. Masonic services will be held in the funeral home at 8 p.m. today and memorial services will be held at 11 a.m.

Wednesday. Burial will be in Brush Creek Cemetery. Norman Berbach Norman Berbach, founder and operator of the former Charters Printing Company, died Friday in Cambridge Springs, Pa. Mr. Berbach, 80, of 31 St.

John McKees Rocks, started his company in 1917, and retired in 1971. The company is no longer in operation. He was a member of the BPOE Elks, and was an air raid warden captain in World War II. He also served in World War I. He is survived by his widow, Laura May; daughters Geraldine Fisher, Sister Mercedes CDP, and Mary Ann Crespy; sisters Henrietta and Alma Berbach; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Friends will be received until 9 p.m. today in the McDermott Funeral Home, 1225 Chartiers McKees Rocks. Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Mary's Church, McKees Rocks, of which he was a member Burial will be in St.

Mary's Cemetery. Gambling Kingpin Bazzano Due In Court Convicted Mon Valley numbers boss John Bazzano was to appear in federal court this afternoon, but attor Byron Peters Byron C. Peters, a pressman for The Pittsburgh Press, suffered a heart attack while at work and died early yesterday in Mercy Hospital. 1 Mr. Peters, 61, of 7207 Tilden East Liberty, worked with the Pittsburgh Courier in 1937 and came to The Press in 1962.

He was a member of Pittsburgh Newspaper Pressmen's Union No. 9 and a member of the Frogs Social Club. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Evelyn Peters; a daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Allen; his mother, Mrs.

Marguerite Peters, and a grandson. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p. m. today and tomorrow in Morris Fountain Funeral Home, 1528 Centre Hill District. Mass will be offered at 11 a.m.

Wednesday in Corpus Christi Church, 1550 Lincoln East End. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Hazelwood. Bernard F. Longer Bernard F. Langer, a mechanical engineer who made major contributions to the development of modern nuclear reactor technology, died yesterday in West Penn Hospital.

Mr. Langer, 71, of Linden Lane, Point Breeze, was a graduate of Stanford University, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1926. He joined the applied mechanic's group at Westinghouse Mechanic's Laboratory in Pittsburgh in 1928. During his first years at Westinghouse he made contributions to stress and vibration analysis. He became manager of design in the company's transportation division in 1946, and in 1949 was one of a group who initiated Westinghouse's nuclear power program at Bettis Laboratory.

He held the position of consulting engineer at Bettis from 1950 until 1966. Mr. Langer was responsible for many of the techniques which today form the basis of nuclear safety standards throughout the world. His later career was devoted to nuclear safety standards programs, and although he retired in 1970, he continued to chair the Committee of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which sets international safety standards for reactors. He is survived by his widow, Liviette; a son, James S.

Langer; a daughter, Mrs. Aaron Kress of New Kensington and five grandchildren. Services will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in the Josi-ah and Carrie Cohen Chapel of Rodef Shalom Temple, 4905 Fifth Oakland. Burial will be private.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Burton L. Hirsch Chapel. Viola Rankin Viola Wintersteen Ranking a former area teacher, died Saturday in Salem (Ohio) Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Rankin, 84, of 151(f Vance Coraopolis, was preceded in death by her husband, Dr.

Ned W. Rankin. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, and was past president of the Coraopolis Club and the New Era Club. She also was a member of the Uxoriti Club and the Faculty Wives' Club. She resided in the Coraopolis area since 1917.

Mrs. Rankin is survived by three daughters, Mrs. George C. Harper, Mrs. James Gore, and Mrs.

Donald B. Gore; a son, Ned W. Rankin, Jr. two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services will be at 7:30 tonight in Mt.

Calvary United Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member. Friends will be received one-half hour before and after services in the ladies' parlor of the church. Burial will be in Coraopolis Cemetery. 1 f. aw.

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