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PAQE DAILY NEWS, Huntingdon and Mount Union, May 1977 Obituaries Elsie Black Mrs. Elsie B. Black, 79. of 929 Mlfflln Street, Huntingdon, died at about 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 30, 1977, in Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.

She had been ill tor the past week, and had entered J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital on Sunday, May 29, before being transferred to Geisinger at 10 a.m. yesterday. A native of Hares Valley, Huntingdon County, she was born Nov. 10, 1897, to William A.

and Elizabeth (Decker) Snoop. She was twice married, first in 1915 to Roy E. Smith who died on March 19, 1936, and second to Arthur M. Black on Sept. 5,1964, who survives.

Also surviving are a son, G. Hobart Smith of Huntingdon R.D. 1, and three step daughters: Mrs. Janice Laird of Huntingdon, Mrs. David (Sally) Buckley of Harrisburg and Mrs.

Eugene (Margaret) Anderson of Lewistown. There are 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The deceased was the last surviving member of her immediate family, having been preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters. Mrs. Black was a member of St.

James Lutheran Church, Huntingdon, and had been very active in the church's social ministry. She also belonged to the Standing Stone Golden Age Club; Lincoln Grange No. 914, Marklesburg; the Women's League of Juniata College; and the Auxiliary to the Lutheran Church Home at Hollidaysburg. For 27 years she and her son had owned and operated Smith's Market, at 929 Mifflin Street, Huntingdon. She afterwards was employed for six years as a nurse's aide by J.C.

Blair Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Black had been a resident of Huntingdon since Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 2, from Brown's funeral home, Huntingdon. The Rev.

Harry E. Smyser will officiate and interment will be made in Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday after 7 p.m. and on Thursday from 9 a.m. until the hour of the service.

Victim Harry A. Keptaer Harry A. Kepner, 86, formerly of 1019 Pike Street, Huntingdon, died at 11:20 p.m. Monday, May 30, 1977, in the Allegheny Lutheran Home, Hollidaysburg, where he had been residing since May 12 of this year. He had been in failing health for the past 12 months.

Born Dec. 24, 1890, at Port Royal, he was the son of Josiah and Jennie (Boyer) Kepner. He married Marian Neff Fleck on Nov. 6, 1920, at Tyrone, the ceremony being performed by the bride's uncle, the Rev. L.N.

Fleck. Mrs. Kepner died on Sept. 17, 1965. Surviving are two sons and two daughters: Robert C.

Kepner of Huntingdon R.D. Frederick F. Kepner of Wilkes Barree; Mrs. Paul (Marian) Quinn of Huntingdon and Mrs. Mary McKnight of Altoona.

There are 12 grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren. The deceased was the last surviving member of his immediate family. Mr. Kepner was a member of St. James Lutheran Church, Huntingdon.

A veteran of World War he had served as a first lieutenant with the 360th Infantry, being stationed in France from June 6, 1918, through June 7,1919. He was a life member of Standing Stone VFW Post No. 1754 and the Juniata Valley Barracks, Veterans of World War I. He was employed by the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon for many years until his retirement on May 1955. He then served two terms (12 years) on the board of Smithfield Township Supervisors.

He had resided in Huntingdon since 1933. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 2, from Brown's funeral home, Huntingdon. The Rev. Harry E.

Smyser will officiate and burial will be made in St. Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery, Sinking Valley, Blair County. Friends will be received at the funeral home Wednesday evening after 7 o'clock and on Thursday from 9 a.m. until the hour of the service. SMALL ADS You eve reading this one now.

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David B. Reams will officiate and burial will be in the Haven Reste Memorial Park, Shirleysburg, R.D. Friends will be received at the funeral home from 7 to 9 o'clock this Tuesday evening. The deceased was a paratrooper for Headquarters Company, 50th Signal Battalion, U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, N.C.

He was returning home for the Memorial Day weekend when he was killed in a traffic accident at 10:30 p.m. Friday, May 27, 1977, along Route 1 at Dorsey, 12 miles south of Baltimore. He was born March 19, 1958 at Huntingdon, the son of Jerry C. and Betty (Fleck) Minnick. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are two sisters, Peggy, at home, and Mrs.

Manuel (Jeri) Arzamendi, Fort Polk, La. Also surviving are his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna V. Myers, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Charlotte Minnick, both of Mount Union.

A 1976 graduate of Mount Union Area High School, he was active in sports and was an outstanding member of the school's 1976 district championship baseball team. Mr, Minnick was a member of the United Methodist Church of Mount Union. He entered the service in September of 1976. Bertha Sellers Mrs. Bertha T.

Sellers, 71, of 212 West Garber Street, Mount Union, died a.m. Monday, May 30, 1977 at the Hershey Medical Center. She had been in failing health since September of 1976. A native of Shamokin, she was born April 12, 1906 to Samuel and Miranda (Dillaplane) Brady. On December 23, 1923, she was married to Orel Sellers.

Surviving are her widower and three children, Orel Allentown; Luther Mount Union and Mrs. Charles (Elaine) Lukens, Carlisle. There are five grandchildren and lour great grandchildren. Also surviving are the following sisters and brothers; Mrs. Ruth Venn, Miami, Mrs.

Florence Tanney, Warminster; Mrs. Gladys Hoehn, Baltimore, Mrs. Mildred Bashore, Mrs. Jenny Lenhart and Mrs. Beatrice Startzell, all of Shamokin; William, Harrisburg and Albert, Pottsville.

The deceased was a member of the United Methodist Church of Mount Union. She had given lessons in Swiss and Spanish weaving. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, June 3, from the Heath funeral home, Mount Union. The Rev.

David B. Reams will officiate and burial will be in the Mount Union IOOF Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home from noon to 9 p.m. Thursday, and on Friday from 9 a.m. until time for services.

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Gibbons, 75, of Dolyesburg, were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, from the Agett funeral home, Dry Run, with the Rev. Bradley Brown officiating. Mrs. Gibbons died unexpectedly at 6:45 p.m.

Thursday, -May 26, 197? at her home. A native of Dolyesburg, she was born June 1901 to Sherman and Clara (Varner) Ryder. She was married to Francis M. Gibbons. Surviving are her widower and three children, Mrs.

Bernice Knepper, Blairs Mills; Mrs. Hazel Dougherty, Ickesburg and Glenwood Chambersburg, R.D. 4. One son, Eugene preceded in death on May 23, 951. There are 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Young, Philadelphia; Mrs. Cree Adams, Dry Run and Mrs. Ada Wagner, Lewistown, as well as a number of nieces and nephews. The deceased was a member of the Doylesburg United Methodist Church, and the Willing Workers Sunday School Class.

Mrs. Gibbons was buried in the Doylesburg Cemetery. Leroy (Preacher) Paul Lane Leroy (Preacher) Paul Lane, 60, of 1200 Nottingham Road, Newark, died at 8 a.m. Sunday, May 29, 1977, in the Wilmington, Medical Center. He had been in failing health for three months and 22 days before his death.

Born Aug. 8, 1916, in Rockhill Furnace, he was the son of Warren R. and Mary Ellen (Hollibaugh) Lane. He married Elizabeth Ann Allender of Orbisonia on April 17,1938, in Winchester, Va. His widow survives along with his step mother, Mrs.

Verla G. Lane of Rockhill Furnace; a son, Larry W. Lane of Folsom; a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Linda) Power of Newark, four grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Gutshall of Huntingdon.

Mr. Lane was a member of the Olivet Presbyterian Church at Prospect Park. A machinest by trade, he was employed for 23 years by the Curtis Publishing Company of Sharon Hill and for years by the Chilton Printing Company of Philadelphia. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, from the Raymond W.

Ott funeral home, Orbisonia. The Rev. R. Bruce Shannon, pastor of the Orbisonia Presbyterian Church, will officiate and interment will be made in the IOOF Memorial Cemetery at Rockhill Furnace. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday morning until the time of the service.

J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital May 30,1977 Admitted Faith Renee Zook, Petersburg R.D.I. Edward D. Baker, 1514 Mifflin Street, Huntingdon. Junior L.

Heaster, Mapleton Depot R.D.I. Sandra Helen Hamilton, Mapleton Depot R.D. Arvilla R. Arentz, 911 Main Street, Saxton. David W.

Querry, Petersburg. Esther 0. Dysard, Penn Hunt Hotel, Huntingdon. Charles R. Houck, Dudley.

Discharged Frank Calderone, Wilmington, Del. Darlene Gardner, 830 Juniata Avenue, Huntingdon. Ira Lane, Broad Top. Delia Morgan, Mount Union R.D. Walter Morrow, 410 Church Street, Huntingdon.

Paula Ramsey, Mapleton R.D.I. Trudy Sheeder, Cassville. Darry Yocum, McClure R.D.I. Connie Yohn, Shade Gap. Births A daughter was born to Robert and Beverly Schmidt of Mill Creek in the J.C.

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Incident Upsets Funeral Director CENTER BARNSTEAD. N.H. (UP!) Anyone would be upset finding out his greatgrandfather's body had been stuffed in a receiving vault and left unburied for 56 years. But Robert G. Davis of Claremont has a double reason for being upset.

He is a funeral director. Davis learned of the strange history of his great- grandfather, Civil' War veteran James R.C. Davis, through newspaper reports. He rushed over for Memorial Day services attended by most of Center Barnstead population 1,100. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this," Davis said, clutching a death report which claimed his great-grandfather was buried here May 15,1921.

James R.C. Davis actually was not buried until this spring. His body lay forgotten until last August because someone put his coffin in a receiving vault normally used to store bodies during the winter, then forgot about it. Why it was put in the winter vault was a mystery. Two men with a collection of antique keys tried them out "for fun" on the old vault last summer, and were flabbergasted to find a rotted Kenton In Stable Condition READING, Pa.

(UPI) One week after surgery for removal of a blood clot caused by a fractured skull, bandleader Stan Kenton was listed today in serious but stable condition by officials at Reading Hospital and Medical Center. Kenton, 65, was in Reading May 22 to arrange a Memorial Day concert when he apparently collapsed, striking his head. He was operated on the following Tuesday and has been in intensive care ever since. Nurses at the hospital said Kenton occasionally regains consciousness and tries to talk, but has been unintelligible. Kenton was a prominent jazz band leader during the 40s and 50s and continued expounding his "Neophonics" or "New Sounds" in his band program.

Abel To (Cont'd from Page 1) in a quieter world of fishing and gardening. Born lorwith Wilbur Abel Aug. 11,1908, the white-haired squarely-built labor boss is descended from Welsh coal miners and was the son of a blacksmith. He worked side-by-side with Mexican, Italian and Slavic immigrants in the Canton, Ohio, steel mills in the 1930s. But as a member of the union's top hierarchy for a quartercentury, he saw the USW's ranks eventually swell to include women and even college graduates.

Abel, who followed Philip Murray and David J. McDonald as the union's third president and who earned $75,000 annually, was the last of the original USW organizers to sit at the pinnacle of power. During Abel's tenure, wages for USW members doubled and pension benefits improved. In his last contract, the union won a first step toward Abel's last goal: lifetime job security. "You'll find that most of our members have moved into better homes," he said.

"They're out in the suburban areas now. They are much more pleased with their lot in life." Abel, in marking his own progress as a labor thinker, often repeats the story of a White House-organized meeting in the 1940s between William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Ernest Weir, president of National Steel Corp. "Mr. Green arrived, and' when they went to introduce him to Weir and other steel executives, they refused to shake his hand or stay in the same room. They'd have nothing to do with a representative of workers.

''Today, 1 -can call Ernie Weir's successor, George Stinson, and say, 'Look George, we have a problem we QughFtotslkaboutv 1 CORRECTION Special nglond. Scotland. Sguth IrtlomJ September 3rd thru llth 1,1977 HUNTINGDON coffin with skeletal remains lying inside. A plaque lying on the floor identified the bones as those of Davis, a Center Barnstead native who served in Company 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, during the Civil War. He spent much of his life in Ayer.

but a death certificate showed he died in nearby Concord, N.H. The town spent half its yearly $300 cemetery budget to arrange for Davis' burial and to fix up the old vault a red brick structure set into the side of a small hill behind the fire station. Memorial Day services for Davis included music by the Pittsfield High School marching band, prayers, a musket salute by the Gilford Militia, a trumpeter playing "Taps," and two Girl Scouts unveiling the old-fashioned tombstone contributed by the Veterans Administration. American Support Pledged PARIS (UPI) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has pledged American support to help reduce the gap between have and have-not countries, but his promises of new U.S. aid fall short of meeting the demands of poor nations.

Vance, attending the three day Conference on International Economic Cooperation, Monday called for "a new world international economic system" based on and justice." Vance said the United States "is ready to join with other countries in a special action program of $1 billion to help meet the most acute needs of the world's poorest nations." He added that "the Carter Administration, subject to congressional approval, is prepared to devote an extra $375 million over present levels in bilateral aid to the poorest countries." Vance said the Carter administration also would help create a fund to stabilize the prices of commodities such as copper and tin. Dramatic fluctuations in commodity prices have played havoc with the economies of developing countries. The two years of preparatory talks that led up to to the conference have been called the "North-South dialogue" because the eight industrialized nations participating are from northern areas and the 19 developing nations from southern regions. The talks are being carefully watched by Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters who say their pricing policies will be influenced by the West's willingness to help the poor nations. Algerian delegates, who have taken the lead in criticizing Western relief proposals, said Vance's program was a "step in the right direction" but gave it only tentative approval.

Vance's speech failed to spell out new American policies on two of the most important issues in the North- South talks blanket relief for the developing nations' nearly $200 billion in debts and indexing commodity prices to world inflation. A U.S. official said debt questions should be dealt with "case by case," reflecting the stand taken previously by the Ford administration. He also said the idea of indexing commodity prices to inflation "would not withstand technical examination." The developing nations are seeking a moratorium on repayment of their loans or outright cancellation. Canada's Allan MacEachen, who has been co-chairmen of the preparatory talks, announced that Canada is canceling $254 million of Third World debts.

DIXON'S FOOD RITE SAXTON (814)635-9993 Monuments rf tht BEAVER'S 513- 15 MiHIin Huntingdon -643-OM3 Graves Of Veterans Are Decorated Decorating the graves of veterans in Huntingdon's Riverview Cemetery is a giant task. Each year the Huntingdon veterans organizations step forward and supervise the placing of flags on the graves for Memorial Day. The Huntingdon County Commissioners purchased 180 dozen flags for that purpose. Some of those who helped honor veterans by placing flags on graves in the cemetery are pictured. The work detail Included members of the American Legion, VFW, Legion Auxiliary, VFW Auxiliary and Oneida District, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Explorers.

Mrs. Carter, Jamaican Leader In Discussions KINGSTON, Jamaica (UPI) Officials traveling with Rosalvnn Carter on her two week Latin American mission say Washington has formally proposed that the United States and Cuba install diplomats in each other's capitals. Mrs. Carter, acting as her husband's good will emissary in her diplomatic debut, met for three hours Monday with Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley on topics ranging from U.S. relations with Cuba to Jamaica's rural development.

The officials traveling with her, who declined to be named or quoted, said Monday the U.S. proposal calls for Cuban diplomats to operate from the Czechpslovakian embassy in Washington and for the Americans to be stationed in the Swiss embassy in Havana. Currently, U.S. affairs in Havana and Cuban affairs in Washington are handled by 32 Seniors To Graduate At Scotland Commencement Week activities at Scotland school for Veterans Children will begin on Wednesday, June 1, with the Rev. Paul B.

Baker of the King Street United Brethren Church in Chambersburg as the baccalaureate speaker. The band concert traditionally honoring the seniors will be on Friday night, June 3, at 7:45 p.m. and will serve as a time to recognize seniors David Wyche, winner of the John Phillip Sousa Bandsman Award, and James Snively, winner of the Louis Armstrong Contemporary Jazz Award. On Saturday, June 4, the annual dress parade will begin at 10 a.m. and will be followed immediately by the graduation ceremonies.

The Rev. Otto Kroeger, pastor of the First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg, will address the 32 graduates. Scotland School, located five miles from Chambersburg in Franklin County, is a state- supported school under the Department of Education, with a current enrollment of over 400 boys and girls. Established in 1895, this residential school provides a service to the children of Pennsylvania's war veterans who because of many reasons can no longer maintain a home for their children. BONN FURNITURE RiEDSVlUE Open 9 to 9 lASTTIMfSTQNITil STREISAND KRISTQFFERSON "A STAR IS BORN" "ROCKY" Swiss and Czechoslovak diplomats in the two embassies.

They said the United States made the so-called "interest section" proposal in writing to Havana on May 10 and that the two nations arc discussing the proposal this week at an undisclosed location in New York. Although such an arrangement would fall short of full diplomatic relations, it would be a major step toward normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States. As Mrs. Carter arrived in Kingston, she was greeted by hundreds of school children who lined her motorcade route and waved flags as she passed. She stepped out of her car and greeted the crowd personally at one point.

She was to visit a sugar cane cooperative and perhaps do some cane cutting herself then meet again with Manley before leaving for Costa Rica today. Traveling with her was Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman, the chief negotiator involved in talks with the Cubans on fisheries and maritime boundaries. The officials said the Cubans, who rejected the American proposal to station diplomats in each other's country when it was first made early this spring, suggested during Todman's visit to Cuba that the "interest section" proposal be put in writing. Rain Is Heading For State Rain is headed for the Commonwealth. A high pressure system off the Middle Atlantic Coast will move slowly east allowing a cold front in the Midwest to move into Pennsylvania Wednesday.

Much needed shower activity will develop in the west this afternoon and gradually work its way into the eastern part of the state Wednesday. Showers or thunderstorms developing late today in the west and continuing tonight through Wednesday. Lows tonight will be in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Highs Wednesday mid 60s to mid 70s. Partly cloudy east tonight with a chance of few showers toward morning.

Lows mid 50s to low 60s. Considerable cloudiness with thundershowers Wednesday. Highs in the 70s. Todman said Mrs. Carter's talks with Manley were "very, very useful" because Manley's left-leaning government has maintained close ties with Cuba.

American officials said Manley was receptive to Mrs. Carter's comments concerning new U.S. foreign policy initiatives and objectives. They said the hostility that marked U.S.Jamaican relations during the Nixon-Ford years had been replaced by a desire for cooperation and consultation. Guidelines For SUA Are Announced John M.

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