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Straight Run To Provide Anglers With Parad if vmfvtff MiAiiiS i i i STRAIGHT RUN DAM NEARING COMPLETION OF FIRST CONTRACT This panoramic view shows work progress to date at Straight Run Dam near Smlthport. This dam will form a maximum take of 70 acres and Is situated In a 200-acre tract of land under development by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission; When completed and stocked with fish, the Banks Township dam will be turned over to Indiana County Commissioner for operation. GAL, Construction Inside Indiana Inc. of Pittsburgh la the general contractor. The spillway, earth and stone breastwork, access roads parking, rest rooms and boat launching facilities have been completed.

Loot-' seven miles northwest of Glen Campbell off Route 336, the dam will offer Indiana Coun-Mans their first state-financed fish dam. At present, water Is not being Impounded. Date of formal opening of the facility has not been announced, but will probably be in (Gazette photo by Graff) He Helps Prof erf You First Page, Second Section A Neal Debut Badge Volume 71 No, 62. Saturday. September 12, 1970.

Telechon 465-5555 rr -v I. 1 1 in ai-iju 1 1 I Benefit To Every Citizen (Editor's note-. The following Is another In a series of ture articles on police chiefs of the Indiana County area. The series is designed to better inform you-of your police chief and to promote respect for the law enforcement officer.) By ERMA DOVENSPKE, Staff Representative RUBAL VALLEY Gilbert Jamwi. nolle rhipl I 1 feopfa 9 the joint Rural Valley Boro.

and Cowanshannock Town-'-ship is a man of 25 years experience in 'the field of law entorcement. Since takine ttue' roll of V. Dinger in 1952 it has been the latest techniques of his job. LEADING THE PACK LocaTPag For Local at Yonkera Raceway I pSl t' BLAINE WOOD Dick and Ben, the two sons of Mr. Wood, drive and train the horses.

Dick wus In the sulky night Laddie set the record at Northfleld Park but Ben a driven him In every other start, Ben set a mark at Brandy- wlna Rucuwav In Wilmington when Laddie flashed under the wire at 1:58.3 on July 18. This was nut only a new record at Brandywine but also we Mat, tun Laddie bad The record setting run at Nortbfield Park was woth 000 bonus as it was the 1 lime In the history oi the oval that lite two-iniaute baiier hitu ed showing i nolice frnm rhartot jW aim to abreast of GILBERT JAMES v. Shannock Chid rest, an attempted bank robbery In November of 180 whan sFt vc ir4 LA i ii hn winning form. Trotter's Career Ends 'Laddie Dead Of Poisoning Coach Makes The week's news In capsule, review OPENING of classes dlana University was delayed until. Monday because of a breakdown in computer equipment during the registration rush.

Classes were to begin on the campus yesterday The new Richman men's wear Store formally opened at the Regency Mall on Route 288 South on Thursday. The Rich-man opening leaves only one store space vacant In the new shopping complex quoting: "Eligible students who wish to continue their higher education should have no abjection to borrowing the money at very low interest rates" State Rep. Frank E. Moore (R-Indlana) who, is a co-sponsor of legislation that would replace the present State Scholarship Fund with a Drosram of direct loans to needy students on the Ngher education level Today's grid opener at Miller Stadium, pitting host Indiana against visiting Northwood of Michigan, marks Big Indian Boss Bill Neal's debut as a head coach, Neal has never a head coach although he. has' served in an assistant's role ot Pitt, Navy, Virginia U.

Bnd; George Indiana Countians will have an opportunity to see the district from the air on Oct. ID when the Indiana County Soil and. Water Conservation District sponsors its second annual air tours. The tour is scheduled during the foHage change and the price is right: $5 for about half hour In the air. THAT WAS a real' tragedy when Blaine Wood's blue-ribbon trotter, Lavender Laddie, died Sept.

1, at a veterinary hospital In Philadelphia, Lavender Laddie, who-piled In purses.ln fcss than. two years of set the track record this summer at Northfleld 4 previous record there had been held by Bret Hanover, one of the great harness racers of all Wood, horses at his Shadyslde Farm near Elderton Work began thts-weyH" 01 the reaur. facing of a 2.4 mile stretch of Route 217 between Blalrs-vllle and Aultmani The jenn. sylvania Department of Transportation had promised that the resurfacing work would begin soon after Labor Day Clymer Police Chief John McCullough has completed the eight-week State Police Mu-nlclple Police Officers course Hershey''-; Blalrsvllle's acting street commissioner, Andy Matviya, Is recovering from injuries he suffered in a trafflv accident near Pymft-tunini Pam two weeks ago One of those purloined chuckles: for anyone under 21, social' security Is having two dates for the same evening. FROM THE "facts figw-bi1 County Redevelop-ment Authority directors were informed this week that 28 per cent of the 31-acre Central Indiana Urban Renewal Project urea has been told to private enterprise.

The other 73 per cent of th land Is being redeveloped tor public ujm n4 wlU 1 he doo ttved property. The per tent of ib Igod bsilDg dvelopd by private concern wlU cftstt a yeu to taxM. Tbif over ttree Ujeum til tut retwu (rom the eoiUt trea bfr Dwl i FU(iUBIN iuei bitk to Charles bank manager, tion tiiat day of the 1 1 States Gaiette, printed in Philadelphia, includes a story from an earlier edition of the old Indiana Whig concerning a proposed Twolick Canal Route through Indiana County The Cookport Fair, a popular harvest attraction and reunion event in preen gets' under way next week East Pike here is under construction as part of the Route 281 spur; that will link 119 bypass with- Indiana Borough County Agriculture Agent Ward Stover, who mixes farm extension work with Penn State football, has been named a recorder for a state wide conference pn-rural health next week at the Penn Harris Motor Inn near Harrisburg From' Sports Ed. Sam Bechtel's drawer of odditieB: a year ago today Indiana U. football star Dave.

Smith was SJidlandj Big Indians opened the season against Northwood before ap proximately' 250 fans. Tonight he will be in Pittsburgh Steel-er togs at Oakland, a 1 where 53,000 fans are to be on GOOD NEIGHBORS Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morse, of 2490 Home St. hosted an unusual Labor Day party this week.

Entertainment was the following: five couples com pletely 'painted (he exterior of the home of an elderly lady who hves near the Morse fam-By. The project began at 9 a.m. and ended at 7 p.m. The other good neighbors: Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Sledzlk, Mr. and Chester Maberry, Dr. and Mrs. James Boatman and Mr. and Mrs.

Vincent Miller, s-. OOOooaa! dateline erroneous ly carried Tuesday' date. prompted Esther Doyle, Mar-vlon Center, to pen ut a note Stating that 'T have always about the second Tuesday of neit week, but this looks like, there was one last week" Juanita Bell, Indiana, won the trall-bike given away recently by Brush Valley firemen. The Indiana County Democratic men's pic. nlc will be held Sunday, Sept.

20, at the St. Anthony picnic grounds near Clymer The Western Penhsylyanja Optimist District's awmal convention Is scheduled next week at the Holiday Inn Dear, Now Kensington with the Allegheny Valley club serving as hosts An open house la planned by Regency Mall for the Ka--- leldoscope art program that begins there Sept. H. a 1 school teachers, olty and school official! and Interested adults will be invited to Jain in on the art and craft projects which the children will work on during-their session. The open bouse' Is planned-Tuesday evening, Sept.

15 One of the first visitors at the new Indians County Courthouse yesterday was former County Commissioner Dee Miller, now of Hempfletd Twp, In Westmoreland County Janet Davis Klser, a native of Homer City, has been named the new Middlesex County 4-H agent Willie, our ex-shoe shin boy, says you have to Hoop pretty low to find work that's truly beneath, your dignity. Qmt Kvtnlftf I 04 By CARL KOLOG1E, Staff Writer ELDERTON. A trotter born and trained at the Shadyside Farm Btables in Elderton and destined to be one- of the greatest racers in the nation was stricken with forage poisoning and died at the University of Penn- 1 1 IT 1... sylvania ocnooi oi veteruituy mwHw nevm i. Lavender laddie, a four-year-old chestnut with a tremendous future ahead of him, had just been shipped to his home in Elderton after a successful run at Yorikers( Raceway in New York when he became ill.

i In 1950, he received his for-i mal police training in all phases of police work and has since continued to take specialized trdining In various fields as each course became available through programs of study sponsored by the D.P.I. In 1958 he participated in the Federal Bu reau of Investigation law enforcement training school and enrolls In the D.P.I, refresher' courses: offered every ee Thee refresher course Include Instruction bt mob control along with courses ea bomb and sabotaae. Serving -a a special deputy sheriff to Armstrong jCouotyi Sheriff Joseph Frick, he special assignment work In. the Shannock Valley area. When Mr.

James became po lice chief in Rural Valley he: was responsible only for law enforcement In Rural Valley Borough. James Dickey was hired then as his assistant and1 shortly thereafter Cowanshannock requested the services of a police department end the territory was expanded to Include both the borough ana the: At present Chief James ana Officer Dickey still handle- the largest portion of police protec-i tton for the community. They are assisted by two part-time associates and a special police man appointed to cover the Sagamore area, UU consiaers ii toriunaie ror all involved to be a part of the counly-wlde radio hook-up employed In Armstrong County- The use of the sheriff's band short-wave radio system for quick and efficient dispatching of aid throughout Armstrong County is similar to that used in Butler ana uunon counties. The heart of the program is the Emergency Operating Con trol Center located In Klttan-ning. Operators are on duty 24 hours a day ready to dispatch police aid, fire trucks, civil de.

fensa equipment, ambulances, or tow trucks throughout the county In a matter of minutes, Utisens ot tne aaanneca Valley area are urged by Felice Chief James to familiar lie themselves with th Emergency Operating Control Center number 5tS-5WJ and to us it in case of emergency. As part of this program the Rural Valley Police Department is equipped with a monitor and two radio equipped cars which are In constant contact with the Control Center. Gil reminds resident that it is sometimes possible to receive help faster by calling this emergency! uumber because th operators trol. When asked to retnlnlic about cases of special Interest re calls a bank robbery at th People's National Bank of Rural vis iatakivM sjus I tare i 4e in action the cause of death from 'forage poisoning," This would Include botulism, a form of toxin which rhlch affects the nervous system, uallv caused from a type food poisoning. 1 Mr.

wooa statea mat is not known where the horse came In contact with the poison. "This is something very rare In horses. He was sound as a dollar and tWs is the first time la my II years as a horse breeder that Ikivi ever had a kcrw al," lamented, Lavender Laddie had only been racing for two years and his lifetime earhlng were al ready at iw.ow. 'He without doubt the finest horse I have ever had," Mr. wood added.

In 10 starts, last year he won 10, finished second twice and third twice, winning oyer. (10, This year he started it times i and was out of the money only la few times. Laddie won nine, was second fly Umei and third three times. Twice ttui year he set rec ords. At Nanutujad fUk.

OUo. un iw i Udjiia area the Otil HMBMial Pact la liW.l. This ssil aaly sat I new track record but also brskt In UMdard I) ON set by thf fahlsd irM Hanover, aua at ia greatest aaraati twim kwiM al all tin It pulled gun and the would be robber fled with his gun In hand and on June 1M, when an attempt was made to blackmail a local business All three of fenders were later' apprehended and tried for their crimes. He Is married and the father of two sons, Donnie who Is serv ing in the Air Force and Wayne a department store manager Id Cleveland, Ohio. His wife, Lorraine, was 'Staff for lb Indiana Evening Gazette and secretary for the Rural Valley Credit Bureau for ten yean before enrolling In practical nursing.

She was a member of the second graduating class of practical nurses at Indiana Hospital, Lorraine who has been employed at Scenery Hill Manor near Indiana will begin a new assignment soon at the Armidal Home near Klttannlng. AsKed to reflect his opinion on the situation of our country and on law enforcement, Chief James responded with guarded optimism, The following statt- menis sum up nis opinion an the present times. "in these day of trouble, vio lence, protest and destruction It seems that many people place much of th on th polk lurce. ica same, policemen wno was regarded a good 'con ten years ago Is now cll4 and 'lux' and during this ifrn that sams pollcaman has un doubtedly received gpactgi training courses and Is simott certainly better officer today tnu ho was ten years ago," ia uw iw, Itfmijf ia.MMlf 7 '4l Blaine W. Weed, owner and trainer of the speedy trotter who had already won over this year, said horse became 111 when he returned home.

"We brought him back from New York and were shipping ihlm to Liberty Bell Raceway In Philadelphia," statea Mr. wooa. Lavender Laddie was aamitneo Aua. 30 to the veterinary hos pital at Kennett Square where he died, Dr. Loren Evans, assistant professor of surgery, diagnosed Prices Reported For Lamb Pool Heaw blues will bring 127.10 ner hundred at Monday's Lambl Pool at the Indiana Livestock from 0 a.m.

to noon. Buver will be the Mldtovn Veal and Mutton Company of New Jersey. Other prices include 1 1 blues. 121.70: reds, (20.10: year- Ulngi, (10; and old sheep W. Price for the Ugu lamu win ha fojUows: i Ftoxu 70 to 70 pound blues, lMt Id to pound redi, w.

eno pwna reas, Ul.M. Swallows traditionally depart to WMion at sua una uapu-itrano on bib Juan's Day. Oct Saturday headliner Earlier this year Mr. had been offered more than (100.000 for Laddie but he was enroute to winning mure than that this year. "Yes, we had Insurance on him but it was only for admitted the owner.

On Aua. 19. Laddie won I last race as be outdistanced the field at Yunkers Raceway A week later, Aug. 22, be ran his last race and finished sec ond. The death of Laddie, who was bred by two Wood-owned horses, Em'tha Clay and HoLo's Tweed, ufuts uauara Vilnus i I Via ttnnl ew'nw wrav atiw ue WIMWllWItsll, i in mm mt mm mMrU Mo.t HUM.

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