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2 Tho PiHtburgh Pran, Waa'nata'ay. St? 8, 1 965 People Happy Boy Proud Of Biggest Pt By CLEXX SEASE Don't pick on Frank Gehr-mann. That 10-year-old boy from North Arlington, N. has a big protector. Frank Is shown at the Palisades Amusement Park, Palisades, N.

with that protector his 3-year old Great Dane. "Ginger." Frank is giving his pet a happy hug after she was judged the largest dog in the grand finals of the sixth annual Kids' Dog Show at the park. More that 400 dogs of all breeds, and from all sections of the country, competed. A- 1 ttvv Friendfy fiuj. rr i Mrs.

Dorry Ellis Cnppo-letta, known to her students at Oakland (Calif.) Technical High School as "Mrs. has been selected by the Newspaper Fund in Princeton, N. as high school journalism teacher of the year. Mrs. Connoletta.

who has taught journalism and Eng- Carnegie schools. The string quartets, two woodwind ensembles and brass quintet will play about 300 pairs of concerts for some 180.000 children in City, County, private and parochial schools during th 1965-66 school year. proper way to hold a viola from Aaron Chaifetz. The children's appreciation of the musicians and their, music is evidenced ot right. Gateway to Music began its ninth year in Pittsburgh area schools today as quartets also performed at the Vann, McKelvey and East CETTINC ACQUAINTED WITH COOD MUSIC eorly in life, first graders at Westwood School learned all about violms and violas and cellos today, then heard a concert performed by a string quartet from Gateway to Music, Inc.

David Wockley, at left, learns the lish and acted as adviser to Technical High's school newspaper for four years, received $1000 for her selection. i If-s. i mm Mayor Reports Anti-Poverty Gain Booby Traps In Poverty War Pointed Out For Leaders Here A $2 Million Paper Given To Paper Firm Papercraft Corp. Gets Loan Check For Giant Plant In O'Hara Twp. I it i While Hurricane Betsy's pfrwwwijLf Nl 100,000 Could Get Help Here By Spring i Joseph M.

Katz, who makes his living from paper, got a number of persons reached by the Pittsburgh scrap worth two million dollars today, anti-poverty program could It was a check from the Pennsylvania Industrial Develop- double in the next six months, mPnt Authority (PIDA) to Mr. Katz Papercraft Corp. to Mayor Joseph M. Barr said todav. I winds batter the rTT'V ferocious help finance a large plant at the RIDC Workhouse Farm in O'Hara which may not be large enough.

State Commerce Secretary John K. Tabor presented the loan, the second largest in PIDA's history, to Mr. Katz The Mayor said 50,000 have been reached. This will rise to at least 75,000 and as many as 100,000 by next spring, he said. 400 at Seminar About 400 antl-poverty workers heard Mr.

Barr speak at a training seminar sponsored by ACTION-Housing in Ihe Miss Blum 10,000 Fish Killed In Acid Flushout Drainage Blamed In Slippery Rock Frrs Slntr ir re MEADVILLE, Sept. 8 About 10,000 minnows and some 1500 fish of various shoreline of her home state, Miss Florida Carol Blum holds a UPI weather map of the storm for photographers at Atlantic City. Miss Blum is a contestant at the Miss America Pageant in the resort city. The new Miss America will be selected Saturday night. Meanwhile, Rhonda Og-lesby, Miss Arkansas, goes in the Governor's office at the Sta.te Office Building here.

Early Move Slated The new Papercraft building will house about 15 acres of production space under one roof largest single industrial plant, with the possible exception of steel mills, in Bell Telephone Building. He rattled off statistics about past and future projects in eight City neighborhoods considered deprived. The programs, so far, have Involved 15,000 chil I wading in the Atlantic for the first time and finds it a little too chilly for her liking. Miss Oglesby also is seeking the Miss America crown. Purpose Urged In Picketing, Plans By KAITH BRKM Planning just to plan and picketing just to picket are two hoohy tiaps Uiat haulers in the war on poverty have to avoid, according to Mitchell Sviridoff.

Mr. Sviridoff, of New Haven and president of Hie National Assn. for Community Development, camp here today to help ACTION Housing, get iis anti-poverty orientation program under way. All Day Seminar He was the keynote speaker at an all-day seminar in the Bell Telephone Building Auditorium. His warning, he added, doesn't mean that plans are not needed and that direct protests and even conflicts aren't good weapons.

But, neither Is an end in Itself; each must he used to heat down poverty, and this Is the responsihility of local leadership, lie said. But, he added, time is too short and knowledge too imperfect "to allow us the luxury of drafting perfect blueprints in advance." He said the poverty fighters must have short and long-range goals, and priorities. Learn To Change But, we must also he prepared to take some calculated risks, and to modify and even scrap programs, he said. As for civil strife and conflict, he said, such action is not inevitahle for successful community action. A popular view that such action Is always necessary.

species have been killed by a flushout of acid mine drainage in Slippery Rock Creek. Walter X. Heine, regional sanitary engineer here for the State Health Department, said the kill resulted when recent heavy rains caused the acid flush-out along the watershed. dren and young people, he said. Including llfiO In pre-schooling; and 1500 -In the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

He said 300 men and women have been helped find jobs and 2000 have been referred to job retraining Republican Gov. Warren Knowles of Wisconsin has turned a cold shoulder on re Allegheny County. Mr. Kat. Papercraft president and board chairman, said his firm will he ready to move Into its new quarters in the fall of 196fl or winter of 1967 and "fill it to the gills" almost imme.

diately. Thus, he added, tentative plans already are being made to build a two-story addition housing another 340,000 square feet of production space within two years after that. The new facility will consolidate Papercraft's three East Liberty plants and all of The rainfall averaged more than three jnches, he said, with the principal kills noted a few miles below the confluence of Wolf Creek. courses. Jobs For Dropouts The Health and Welfare Assn.

has placed 21fi high newed attacks by Democrats on a proposal to remodel his executive mansion for nearly $250,000. or 'WAR' STRATEGISTS Mitchell Sviridoff, standing right, confers with Pittsburgh leaders on plans of ACTION-Housing, to join war on poverty. Mr. Sviridoff heads the National Assn. for Community Development.

Others on program today ot Bell Telephone Co. are, left to right, Dr. Sidney P. Marland head of City public schools; David Hill, director of the Mayor's Committee on Human Resources, and Mayor Joseph M. Barr.

"Unless sources of these flushouts can be corrected of i school dropouts in full-time I jobs in social agencies, he said. i I The Mayor said the Board stream flows regulated, such fish kills will continue as a chronic problem," Mr. Heine said. its warehouses under one Gov. Knowles 1 es declined comment on a letter sent him yesterday in Madison by Democratic Lt.

Gov. Patrick Lucey, asking that the project be held up until the Legislature can hold a day, and it is the time to turn attention to the question: After protest, what?" Hp said the time has come, too, for leaders of the urban Equitable Gas Rates poor to learn thp use of such tactics, "but to use them wisely and to keep them from being perverted by the new ideologists of the left into a dangerous and futile dogma." Trolley Hearings Snagged By Firm Railways Refuses To Produce Report "I hope that Federal and State funds will be forthcoming for a large-scale land reclamation project on the watershed," he added. The estimate of the fish killed was by Fish Warden Richard Abplanalp. Mine Acid Stays In Susquehanna I'm SatP IT ire WILLIAMSPORT, Sept. 8 U.

S. chess champion Bobby Fischer has moved into a three-way tie for first place with Borlslav Ivkov of Yugo of Education hopes to find part-time jobs for 1000 young people during the 1 965-66 school year and (he Catholic schools for 800. He said the anti-poverty agencies themselves generate plenty of jobs. Within three months, he said, the number of poverty fighters will reach 1000, more than half of them neighborhood people. Ban To Attend Birth Of Urban Cabinet Post -w.

roof. Mr. Katz said his firm Is growing so fast that, original plans to move its Jeannette production plant to the Workhouse Farm may be canceled. The new plant will employ 500 persons now working In Papercraft's East Liberty production lines and create another 100 to 300 jobs, Mr. Katz said.

He also announced his firm will expand its present product line early next year, hut he didn't say what the new products would be. His firm now is the largest producer of gift wrapping in the world and only recently went into the greeting card business. slavia and Vaslly Kmyslov of lie said, grows out of a fairly popular hellef that all public policy In all cities is had and that all mayors must he picketed at once. Rut, he said, it isn't always Up 77 Cents Kquitahle Gas resi- And what's more impot tant, dential heating customers will after picket-line gains are pay an average addition of 77 A slowly moving slug of acid mine water continued down the West Rranch of the Susnuehanna River near here The drawn-out condemna- mane it Time in comm-m mon)h un(W a ialp (j on proceedings against the Russia in Havana's Capablan-ca Memorial Tournament. Mr.

Fischer moved from second place to the front rank by defeating Gtlherto Garcia of Cuba yesterday. Garcia conceded the game on his 53rd move. Mr. Fischer will play Ivkov today in what observers describe as one of the most important matches of the tourney. The 22-year-old American's moves will be cabled from a chess club in New cs into programs aim i crease effective today.

Pittsburgh Railways Co. hy Miss Ogfesby i Port Authority were Kcinontial nnn.hontmry pn. Mayor Joseph M. Barr will today, leaving more dead fish be in Washington tomorrow jjn jS wake, at the personal invitation of Xn pstimflfp u. maHo n.

He used the labor movement snagged again today when of the as his example of tomeis will have 15 cents President Johnson to attend how militant and direct pro-1 thrjr monlhlv bills I for the railways at an Authority re- he size of the kill, since the the signing of the bill neat- Plant In Belgium Besides the O'Hara Twp. as a result of the increase re- that quest car inspection re-1 injr the new Department of cently approved by the Public ports be introduced. a goal. "When the legal framework for recognition of th Attornev William O'Neill water was moving so slowly. Thp State Health Department said yesterday heavy rains washed acid mine wastes out of abandoned bituminous mines.

Ctilitv Commission iPl'C) Housing and Urban Development. The bill, according to the Mayor, was long overdue. He said, "For more lhan a cen me company also an objected when William H. Kckert, counsel for the authority, asked the railway's expert witness during cross iorK to the tournament in Cuba because the U. S.

State Department would not' give Mr. Fischer permission to visit the Communist-controlled island. nounced that a surcharge tury, the farmers of the conn- will he added to customers' hills over the next seven Robert I-each of IF'et'r Inn, W. Yn. nnd Tommle Lewis of Bolhbny Harbor, met for the, r.

time, uhrn their ran xrraped fenders near thp Went Virginia We.slryan University mm pus, Burkhnn-non, W. where, both are freshmen. Several hours later they met aainas dormitory roommates. plant, for which ground will be broken Sept. 23, Papercraft only last week completed a new production plant in Belgium to serve the European Common Market countries.

The PIDA loan to Papercraft, for a 40 per cent second mortgage on the O'Hara plant, carries a 2 per cent a year interest rate and is repayable over 20 years. examination to produce whn eonstitute less than months to recover revenues reports workers' right to organize, and the employers' obligation to bargain became firmly established, the labor mnxemenl turned its attention to converting Its abstract legal iclories into meaningful and substantive gains through labor agreements," Sviridoff said. not realized since Oct. 28, Electric Course To Start Sept. 14 lone-fourth of the population I have been represented at the cabinet level by the Depart-1 ment of Agriculture, "Now, the other three- lOfit, when a portion of the total increase was granted.

Alan 15, has set a record for the time spent I traveling all 240 miles of the Residential heating cus- fourths of Americans those whn llvo In tlie inhan areas I Registrants for Die "Fun- The total plant will cost will he given the same cabinet i namental.i of Electricity and bonaon sunway system. Checking in at ail 273 stations, he covered the route In 16 hours 56'a minutes 90 minutes better than the old mark. level representai ion." tomers will pay an av erage $1.20 a month for the seven-' month billing period starting Oct. 1 while non heating customers pav 25 cents a month for the same period. F.quitable serves 250.000 cus- The witness was Mauley F.

Simpson, a consulting engineer from Philadelphia. The reports were made after Inspection of the 388 trolleys turned over to the Port Authority by the firm. A board of Viewers hearing the proceedings was composed of Chairman Thomas Trimble and Thomas Conrad. Attorney O'Neill said he would allow his witness to produce the records when the hearing reached (he evaluation stage. He said labor dul not fore-sake its action weapons, hut it did not look upon conflict itself as a noble cam.

Thp Question He said the civil rights six million dollars. The first mortgage on the structure was borrowed through New York hanking Institutions. Papercraft put up the rest of the money at the outset. In presenting the PIDA check today, Mr. Tabor hailed the Papercraft project as "another dramatic example of hlootromcs course at the South High Evening School, Carson Street, South Side, should have their applications in by Friday.

The 21-week course, which is co-sponsored hy the trie League and the burgh Board of Education, begins next Monday. is ai about the in seven Western Penn-' in the nation to-: sylvania counties. mov emcnt same point Democrats Pick SenateCandidate Unrrishurji Fnirrfiit HARRISRURO. Sept. 8 The Democratic State Executive Committee nominated S.

Harry Calfand. of Philadcl- THE FAMILY CIRCUS Interested persons should what is happening all over the Attorney Fxkert appealed to contact the Electric League of state through co-operative ef Western Pennsylvania, 719 foils of industry, local citizens Chairman Trimble, whn ruled 1 11 ia as mp imocratic candi-that the reports must be for ihe Sit" State Sena-jduced. When Attorney O'Neill rtit ii-t seat to be filled became insistent in his refusal, at special election Nov. 2. Mr.

Trimble suspended the! Ml- Galfand, 41, is an at- Liberty Pittsburgh. Due to a typographical er-rorin Sunday's Press, the beginning date was listed and the State Government to regain for Pennsylvania its economic strength and health." He added that 15 other loans totaling $3,700,000 have been authorized by PIDA for projects in Allegheny County. Hiram Milton, RIDC vice president, also was on hand for today's presentation Bloomfield Man Held In Burglary I "II torney and labor consultant to Mayor H. J. Tate of Philadelphia.

He also serves as counsel to the State House Committee on Higher Education. The senatorial vacancy was caused by the death of Sen. Mai tin J. Silvert, of Philadelphia. A FI LL page of ached- a liioomiiein man was ar hearing, saying it would be 'resumed when the attorneys had reached some agreement.

JWV Auxiliary Meets Tomorrow i Pittsburgh Ladies Auxiliary, i Post 49, Jewish War Veterans, will meet tomorrow at 12:30 p. m. in the Legion Home, 5S57 Forbes Ave with Mrs. Sara Rosenthal, president, appointing committee chairmen for the year's program. raigned in East Liberty Police Court today on a charge ofiYoung GOP Showing burglary alter being caught In the act by private detectives, I UperatlOn Abolition police reported.

Dormont Young Republl- Detectives nabbed Jonn Bo- cans will sponsor a showing i ules of major college and pro football teams will be In The Tress on Sl'NDAV. of the film "Operation Aboli mart, 28, of 5383 Warble early today, after he apparent- Tan riTTsai rum touched off a burglar alarm Mom's joinj to school, too. All but four grades of the elementary and secondary schools In Standish, had a member of the Ellery Ward family when classes started today. The nine students and their baby brother get a last-minute check from their mother, Mrs. Nellie Ward, a British war bride and licensed auctioneer who will enter the University of Maine for a course in real estate brokerage.

family Includes, front, from left, Mahlon, Rosalind, Amaryllis, 10, and Cassandra. 11; back, from left, Marcefl Iifi-oy, 16; Llewellyn, 13; Cynthia, 14; Clarissa, 12; Morrto, 3, and Mrs. Ward. i A coffee hour will precede the business session Mrs. Jennie Cummins, past State bi.il 4-i r'tin wftn Mtidaf a mil- in the WeiTico Club, 7325 ii In first ti in-nnrt imr wiwr thfr nn rurrifr iMIvfrf.

nll nnf rianKSIOWn AVP, Hon" tomorrow at 8:15 p. m. In the Dormont Borough Building. The film was taken at riots several years ago In San Francisco protesting bearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 1 president, will represent Post lis rVtri Polh-p said the suspect was v.i Auxiliary at tne jw found hv detectives with fjp.

pnU( hfyrtM Mmnrt clan tmt i partment convention Sunday hu ram i an-fTl from a vending All those for Billy3 Why can't WE go to school, too'" ai iMflmesna LrfiKe, i..

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