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34 2 SECTIONS Second Class Postage Paid at Bradford, Pa. 16701 BRADFORD, SATURDAY MORNING, Published Daily Except Sunday, at 43 Main St. 15 A COPY UPDATE: "A few months ago," writes Eleanor J. Hand of Eldred. "I asked you if you could help me find out about a gift that John Hancock sent to his ladylove.

Dorothy Quincy. I told you about the book I was reading when I ran on to the item. Well, my query not only went into RTS, but it went clear down the block. It seems like someone read your item and then sent to Yankee magazine, asking the same question." Here is a reprint of the letter and the answer. First, the letter of inquiry: "July 1975 Yankee Magazine.

Pa. Dear Oracle: While reading a newspaper recently I came across a list of articles that were sent by John Hancock to his fiancee D. Qunicy. One of them was a pair of black Calem Do' Do you have any idea what a calem is?" The answer: "It is generally known that John's handwriting and penmanship were of the best, but we wonder about his spelling. In searching for the answer, we find, under very similar spelling, that it could be a small birdlike quail, a small Turkish rug, or a pair of mitts gloves with the fingers exposed," Mrs.

Hand told us: "This last I will agree to as though Frank Stack of the Bradford Landmark Society, I was able to learn the same thing." Mrs. Hand went on to say that Mrs. Stack asked a French teacher and she was told that "Calem" means gloves or mitts, and the word "Do" means a pair." Maybe like "deux," meaning the number two, RTS comments. Mrs. Hand said she had never studied French but the answer satisfied her; so, she accepted this information.

She added this amusing coincidence: "Now the funny part of the whole thing is that we in Eldred were celebrating our church's 146th anniversary last June. I was wearing just such a pair of mitts, as we explained in the above paragraphs. So, the laugh is on me. I had the right answer right in my hands all the time. "Hope your readers enjoy this little story.

I sure got a lot of fun out of the whole venture." Frankly, RTS never ceases to be amazed at the almost 100-per cent assurance that somebody in the column's readership can come forward quickly or slowly with the answer to about every reader question we print. We thank you all for your interest. 219: The good news that Route 219 has been designated as the major north-south arterial highway in Western New York is being well received all along the highway. At a meeting of the Route Task Force Thursday night, the designation of 219 as major and 16 as a minor arterial was made public as result of the findings by the New York State Department of Transportation and the consulting firm of Dalton, Dalton, Little and Newport of Cleveland. We do want to clarify one slip- o-type in Friday's story in The Era.

The story reads: "It was pointed out that the Task Force has come to an agreement," etc. Actually, the correct phrasing is: "It was pointed out that the Task Force has to come to agreement," inserting "to" between "has" and "come." With a view toward reaching accord, another meeting of the Task Force has been tentatively set for Nov. 6 in Arcade, N.Y., in Pioneer Central School. It is not surprising that Route 16 backers disagreed with the designations and said they are putting together more material. Meanwhile, Robert Westfall of East Otto, N.Y., president of the U.S.

Route 219 Association, said that the facts all along have shown 219's importance, adding that these facts had led to the technical recommendations by the state and the consulting firm. Obviously, 219 is a U.S. route and extends all the way from the Buffalo area to West Virginia, whereas 16 is wholly within New York State. With no reflection at all on 16. the overwhelming evidence points to 219 as the major arterial.

Two surveys taken by the New York State DOT and by the Niagara Frontier also showed that there is about twice as'much interstate traffic on 219 as on 16. Corroon Black Smith Aftypcy pood Siyct 1 House unit offers NY $7B loan guarantees AID AMID STRIFE Moslem gunmen carry a sick, elderly man to help him evacuate his house in rubble-strewn Beirut street Friday after the Moslems drove out Christian militiamen from the area Thursday following a fierce battle. Car in background was one of dozens destroyed by rocket fire during the battle. (AP-Era Wirephoto) Moslems hold back attack to see if truce is possible WASHINGTON (AP) A House banking subcommittee approved on Friday a bill guaranteeing up to $7 billion in loans for New York City, $2 billion more than sought by New York Gov. Hugh Carey and $3 billion more than contained in a Senate bill.

The bill also calls for creation of a board of federal officials to oversee the city's financial affairs. Approval came despite President Ford's promise to veto any bill giving aid to the financially beleaguered city. The measure would permit issuance of $2 billion in short- term, 11-month securities. The federal board would authorize the loan guarantees. Its authority would expire Sept.

30, 1979. A lawyer said the $7-billi6n figure was determined after consultation with New York State officials, who reported that Carey's request for $5 billion was based on what he thought the Congress would approve. The city officials said the $7-biIlion figure accurately reflected the city's needs, according to the panel's lawyer. The House Banking Com-' mittee is expected to begin work on the bill Monday. House Banking Committee Chairman Henry.

S. Reuss, D- predicted the committee would approve the bill Monday, although he -said the vote would be close. Reuss said he did not think the bill would be changed drastically from the version approved by the subcommittee. A House Judiciary subcommittee is expected to work on a related measure Monday that would revise bankruptcy laws, as requested by Ford, to permit New York City to continue essential services if the city defaults. If the, bankruptcy changes are approved by the full Judiciary Committee and the loan guarantees are approved by the Banking Committee, they would be sent to the House Rules Committee, where they would be combined into one bill.

This maneuver would force President Ford to accept the loan guarantees, which he has opposed, to obtain the bankruptcy law revisions, or to veto both provisions. The bill approved by the economic stabilization subcommittee lists several provisions that would have to be met before the loan guarantees could be issued. The city would have to demonstrate that it was effectively unable to obtain credit. It would have to show that its budget would be balanced within the second fiscal year after it applied for assistance, and a state receivership system would have to be set up to take charge of the city's fiscal affairs. The board overseeing the operation would be composed of the secretary of the Treasury, who would be the chairman: the secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Health.

Education and Welfare, and the chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board and Securities and Exchange Commission. In New York City, meanwhile, James A. Lebenthal, vice president of Lebenthal sought to counter Ford's assertion that "large investors and financial institutions would be the only ones hit hard by a city default." Lebenthal said small investors could hold as much as $4.89 billion in city bonds. He described his estimate as "stronger than a guess but a little less than a hard statistic." i In the Senate, a JusticeTje--, partment official urged prompt passage of Ford's legislation designed to assure that New York City could carry on essential services during bankruptcy proceedings. Efforts continue 8M8SMB In Barbara trial Sunny 9 windy to renew labor an warmer is BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Moslem forces, clearly holding trump cards in Lebanon's civil war, said Friday they could move at any time to take three luxury hotels bristling with Christian snipers, but were holding back to see if a fire could be arranged.

Premier Rashid Karami said his contacts with the battling factions produced "a marked thaw," and there are "other steps that need to be put into effect to return the country to normalcy, as soon as possible. We hope this will be accomplished next week." He did not elaborate. Thunderstorms before dawn brought a brief respite in the fighting, but as the sun broke through the battles resumed with ferocity. Christian sharpshooters, holding out in Beirut's luxury hotels, sniped at Moslem Street- fighters below to block a leftist takeover of the high-rise battle' zone. The leftist militiamen, from Libya-backed league of Arab Prosecutor seeks Hearst trial date SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal prosecutor said Friday his office will ask the judge in the Patricia Hearst case to set a trial date immediately if he finds the jailed newspaper heiress mentally competent.

Asst. U.S. Atty. David Bancroft said this means Miss Hearst's trial on a San Francisco bank robbery charge could start before the end of the year. A hearing on her competency is scheduled Tuesday before U.S.

District Court Judge Oliver. J. Carter. Carter said in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday that initial study of court-ordered psychiatric reports had given him the impression Miss Hearst "is mentally competent to proceed in the trial." "We take the position that the judge should set the date as soon as he determines her competency," Bancroft said.

"We will ask the judge to set the trial date within the 90-day period without excluding the men- tal competency examination period." Bancroft repeated an earlier prosecution statement that the deadline would be Dec. 27 under interim provisions of the 1974 Speedy Trial Act which took effect Sept. 29. Patty's defense attorneys have said they wanted her trial to start as soon as possible. Miss Hearst, 21, was ed Feb.

4, 1974 by the Sym- bionese Liberation Army. She later allegedly became a revolutionary convert and went underground. She was arrested Sept. 18 in San Francisco along with her radical comrades Bill and Emily Harris and Wendy Yoshimura. The Harrises face trial on 11 state felony counts in Los Angeles, including kidnap, assault and robbery.

Miss Yoshimura is held in Alameda County on bomb and weapons possession charges. revolutionary groups, moved from building to building trying to find vantage points from which to fire on the snipers. Christians, from the right- wing Phalange party's man militia were the final barrier preventing Moslem forces from overrunning the hotel district that has become the key prize in Beirut's civil war. Heavy mortar exchanges also were reported between the Christian quarter of Ein Ru- manneh and the adjacent Moslem neighborhood of Chiyach on the eastern edge of the war- torn Lebanese capital. During this duel, shells also fell into a Palestinian refugee camp next to Chiyach, sending residents running for safety.

Security forces remained on the edge of the battle zones without intervening, as they have throughout the seven- month-old war that has killed an estimated 6,500 persons and turned this seaside capital into a checkerboard of armed camps. The Armed Struggle Command, a Palestinian police force, occupied the ravaged Qantari district to prevent further looting and allowed terrified residents to flee with as many belongings as they could stuff into their cars. The area, overlooking the hotel district, was occupied as far as the 25-story Holiday Inn by youthful Lebanese Moslem streetfighters advised, armed and backed by Palestinian guerrillas. pact at Dresser weather today Efforts will continue this weekend between representatives of 400 machinists and the Dresser Manufacturing Division in Bradford to renew a labor contract which expires at midnight Sunday. Negotiations between Dresser's and International Association of Machinists, John F.

Kennedy Lodge 1644 have been going on since Sept. 22. Up to now the negotiations have failed to produce a contract, but local union President Daniel Ness of Smethport said Friday that a meeting, probably the last before contract deadline, will be held today between union and company negotiators. Mr. Ness would offer no comment on the possibility of a strike against the company, however a strike sanction vote, taken on Oct.

13, authorized the local union to take strike action if necessary against the company; The machinists comprise approximately 80 per cent of the entire work force of the local division of Dresser Industries, Inc. The Bradford plant specializes in the manufacture of oil and gas pipe couplings and fittings. A meeting of the union's rank and file is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, at which discussion and possible action on a company offer is expected. Asked if he thought today's negotiations might produce a new company offer, Mr.

Ness said "There's no doubt that we'll have a proposal to be acted upon." Halloween quiet here, only few minor calls The Inside Story BUENOS AIRES Argentine leaders eye impeachment idea to remove President Peron in scandal. Page 2 WASHINGTON Thanksgiving turkey to gobble up bigger part of food budget than it did year ago. Page 3 WASHINGTON Prices farmers receive for raw products down one-half of one per cent in month. Page 8 STATE COLLEGE Penn State's stingy defense may get rugged test against Maryland today. Page 11 MONTREAL Karl Kuehl is named as manager of the Montreal Expos, succeeding Gene Mauch.

Page 12 NEW YORK Prime rate cuts fail to break up cautious mood of market and prices end lower. Page 15 Bridge 3 Comics 13 Crossword 15 Editorial 6 Hospitals 8 Television 7 Stocks 15 Women 5 It was a quiet Halloween in Bradford, with only a few minor calls, according to police. The complaint book listed only two incidents prior to 9 p.m. A broken window in North Bennett and tissue paper placed in a tree on Bank Street and then ignited, but the tree blaze was extinguished by nearby residents prior to arrival of officers. Later, authorities here recorded a couple of egg-tossing cases.

At 7:20 p.m., a caller reported a traffic mishap at West Washington Street and Interstate but a check revealed there was no accident, and it was classified as a false report. State Police at Allegany, N.Y., said there were no unusual occurrences, "nothing of importance." At Smethport, the. McKean County Sheriff's office stated there was little mischievous activity for three reasons: Wednesday was trick or treat night, Man found dead BRIGHTON. Pa. County police say 74-year-old Ralph Aumack was found dead outside his home here.

Thursday was the annual Halloween parade and Friday there was a high school football game in the borough. McKean County State Police at Lantz Corners announced "RO problems." The Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Department at Little Valley, N.Y., registered the "usual Halloween pranks" in that community and elsewhere in the county, two minor fires and the overturning of a vehicle in the City of Salamanca. FOP wants chief removed from post WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Members of the Fraternal Order of Police here have voted to have Police Chief Maynard Patterson removed from office because of his conviction last week in not investigating wiretap incidents in City Hall. The police brotherhood voted to ask Patterson to step down, and if he does not the police asked Mayor John Coder to force Patterson out.

Coder, however, is still on probation for his own conviction in tapping the phones. Fall or winter, its been cold for the past several days. Forecasters say it will be partly sunny, warmer and windy today with a nice maximum temperature of 55 to 62 degrees, but then becoming cloudy with a chance of showers tonight, lows in the 40's. Showers also are likely on Sunday with highs into the 60's. Chance of rain is 20 per cent today and 40 per cent tonight.

The Weather Bureau at Central Fire Station lists a total of 2.91 inches of precipitation for October, against a five-year average of 2.82 inches, and bringing the 10- month total to 38.74 inches. Incidentally, there were 10 days classified as clear last month. Kane's United Way fund drive is successful KANE (EC) Figures released Friday afternoon indicate that the community's United Way fund drive has been eminently successful. Fund drive chairman John M. Cleland.

said Friday that, with contributions still coming in, the drive had netted $43,500 $1,000 over the goal. A donation of $5,500 from the Stackpole-Hall foundation pushed the total over the goal The success of the drive means that each of the 10 participating area United Way-related agencies will receive 100 per cent of its budget for the coming year. Man is found dead after 40-foot fall MONOGAHELA, Pa. (AP) A 49-year-old Washington County man was found dead Friday after he apparently tumbled down a 40-foot embankment near his home in Monongahela. County Coroner Farrell Jackson said the victim, Louis Paul Chilzer, died of a fractured skull.

Defense stresses competency issue LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. Defense attorney Vincent Doyle told the jury in the Anthony Barbara trial Friday that is up to the prosecution to disprove the defense contention that Barbara was unable to understand his actions or appreciate that they were wrong at the time of the Dec. 30, 1974 sniping incident that left three dead and 11 wounded. The statement came in a one- hour session devoted to the opening statements of both the defense and the prosecution, delivered to the nine-woman, three-man panel selected this week from a pool of 140 persons, thought to be the largest in Cattaraugus County history. Doyle delivered a ten-minute statement following a 45-minute address by District Attorney Richard Dawson.

"The kind of acts that were committed that day are not going to be contested," Doyle said. Repeating the already- established defense stance, he told the jury that the question to be dealt with in the trial "is the mental condition of this particular defendant." "It's probably already struck you," Doyle said, "that these acts that were committed, to say the least, were bizarre without rhyme or reason senseless." He termed it "essential we go beyond the acts themselves." He referred to the legal definition of insanity and its mention of a mental disease or defect, and said "doctors will describe it," and will discuss how a person affected reacts. Doyle said that Barbaro's mental problems did "not make him unable to do things" such as drive a car or handle a rifle. He added that the problem would not make him a "lunatic" or a "babbling idiot," but "is a deep-rooted one" that "will require a long period of treatment." "Once that (insanity) defense is raised," Doyle said, the prosecution, under our laws, have the burden of disproving that beyond a reasonable doubt." Dawson mentioned the lego! question of Barbaro's condition only fleetingly, although he did emphasize that Barbara had sighted his the day before the shootings, had gone to the high school well- equipped, had methodically performed actions such as tossing two Molotov cocktails in the third-floor hallway of the Olean High and that he had known who and where he was in the Olean General Hospital and had answered necessary questions afterward. The District Attorney stated that he would rely on "the presumption of sanity" until the question is raised in evidence by Barbaro's attorneys.

"At that point, he said, "we will put in evidence to rebut that." Dawson recounted with great thoroughness the actions of Barbara before, during and after the incident. He described the high school and the streets surrounding it, the entrances, the situation of the student council room from which the shots were fired, and the positions of many of the victims when they were hit by bullets from the 30.06 used in the shootings, tying each incident in with the subsequent indictrnei Is. He stated some of tb, prosecution's intents, saying "we will show that the defendant planned this well in advance," and saying that immediately after the incident "he (Barbara) was alert, gave appropriate answers, knew where he was, et cetera." After the statements. Judge G. Richmond Page admonished the jurors to refrain from talking about the case with anyone, and to report to the court any incidents involving persons questioning them about the matter.

The first prosecution witnesses will be called when the trial resumes at 10.30 a.m. Franco slips nearer death MADRID, Spain (AP) Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon began governing Spain Friday as Gen. Francisco Franco developed peritonitis and slipped closer to death. At the same time, police sources reported the arrest of Luis Yanes. a top leader of the Socialist Workers' party and three other party heads, but there was no indication of a general crackdown.

Police also prohibited a news conference for foreign newsmen called by Prof. Enrique Tierno Ualvan, head of the moderate Popular Socialist party. No arrests were made. Opposition parties are unauthorized in The only legal political group is The Movement, supported by the government. The nation was quiet and watchful as the 37-year-old prince.

Franco's designated heir for the past six years, performed his first official duty by presiding at a four-hour cabinet session. The stock market responded with one of its best gains of the year. 1.54 points. Juan Carlos was named officially, although temporarily, as new Spanish head of state Thursday because of Franco's lingering but terminal illness. The 82-year-old general suffered a new complication Friday, his doctors that I hasten his death.

Franco's physicians said the dictatorial ruler had developed signs of peritonitis inflammation of the abdominal membrane. Khe Moikef Off 3.38 836.04.