The Daily News from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania • Page 2

PAGE 2 DAILY NEWS, Huntingdon, Mount Unleri and Saxfon, June 1, 1978 Obituaries Blanche N. Davis Blanche N. Davis, 62, of Robertsdale, died at approximately 10 p.m. Tuesday, May 30, 1978, at her home. Death was unexpected.

Born Nov. 3, 1915, at Robertsdale, she was a daughter of Riley and May Tressa (Wood) Donahue. She married Thomas G. Davis, on Feb. 19, 1941, in Vandergrift.

Mr. Davis died on Jan. 3,1974. Surviving are her father, of Robertsdale, and two children: Mrs. Charles (Linda Lee) May of Lancaster and Jack L.

Davis of Snowflake, Ariz. There are six grandchildren. Also surviving are these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Martin (Mary) Chilcote and Riley Donahue, both of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Blaine (Dolores) Corbin, Huntingdon; Donald Donahue, Upton; Mrs.

Kayedon (Cleo) O'Neal, Robertsdale; and James Donahue, Saxton. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Church of God, Roberlsdale. She worked as a nutrition aide for the family planning program of the Tri County Comunity Action Agency. Kuneral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Friday, June 2, from the Albert N. Masood Funeral Chapel. Saxton. The Rev. John Seippel will officiate and interment will be made in the Broad Top City IOOF Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral chapel from 7 to 9 this evening, and until the hour of the service tomorrow. Harmon Dale Everets Harmon Dale Everets, 25, of McConnellsburg R.D.I, was killed instantly in a motorcycle accident on Wednesday afternoon, May 31, 1978. The accident occurred east of McConnellsburg on Route 30. Born April 25, 1953, at Big Cove Tannery, he was the son of Ira L. and Naomi (Byers) Everets.

He married Karen Garland on June 29,1974. Surviving are his mother, wife, and two children: Harmon Dale, and Wendy Sue, both at home. Also surviving are four brothers and sisters: Lloyd Everets of Needmore, Norman Everets of Mercersburg, Mrs. Clyde (Nancy) Poole of McConnellsburg and Mrs. Charles (Mary Lee) Lan- dheart of Warfordsburg.

Mr. Everets was of the Protestant faith. He was employed as a lineman for a TV cable company. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 3, from the Howard L.

Sipes Funeral Home, Harrisonville. Dr. David R. Hoover will officiate and burial will be made in the Antioch Christian Cemetery in Belfast Township. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 9 p.m.

Friday. John C. Baker John Charles Baker, 44, of Lancaster, formerly of Mount Union, died at 4 a.m. Monday, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital May 31,1978 Admitted Mildred Domitrovich, Alexandria R.D.I.

Vanetta P. Traxler, 104 W. Shirley Mount Union. Nathan A. Wagoner, 1810 Washington Huntingdon.

Wesley R. Sprankle, Alexandira R.D.I. Margaret M. Love, 8-B Cedar Tree Cockeysville, Md. Rose A.

Fouse, James Creek. Juli F.Dick, Saxton R.D.I. Lucie V. Parker, 2301 Cassady Huntingdon. George K.

Crum, Cassville. Martha G. Kensinger, Woodbury. Carl F. Brown, 1200 Moore Huntingdon.

Debra Ann Woomer, Huntingdon R.D.I. Discharged David Baker, James Creek R.D. Edward Baker, 1514 Mifflin Huntingdon. Mahlon Beck, Petersburg R.D. Vera Black, Saxton R.D.

Dora Harsh barger, Mapleton. Helen Holder, 225 Washington Huntingdon. Penny Miner, Alexandria R.D.I. Curtis Myers, Mapleton. Clint Swanger, Mount Union.

criticized, said in fiis best judgment, Leonard's incarceration in a state correctional facility would be more harmful than beneficial. He said that the "shattering effect" of being sent to an SCI would be more harmful than good in the Leonard case. The court said he was not being "overly lenient," but was imposing a sentence that was "commensurate with the facts of the case." Births Clara L. Wolfgang Mrs. Clara L.

Wolfgang, 59, of McVeytown, R.D.2, died at 5 p.m. Sunday May 28,1978, at her residence. She had been in failing health for the last year. Born Feb. 12,1919 in Saxton, R.D., she was the daughter of the late Franklin David and Annie Williams Long.

She married Ernest H. Wolfgang, who survives. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Merle Long, Six Mile Run; Earl Long, Roaring Springs; Mrs. Alma Wilson, Lewistown; Mrs. Howard (Esther) Pennebaker, McClure R.D.I; Clair Long, Broad Top; Mrs.

Howard (Betty) Frantz; Huntingdon, R.D.3; Mrs. Martha L. Harley, Lewistown; Mrs. Donald (Mae) Pittman; Saxton, R.D.I; David Long, Huntingdon, R.D., and Mrs. Donald (Pearl) Weaver, Saxton.

Mrs. Wolfgang was employed by The Arrow Company for some 30 years, retiring on diability in October of 1977. She was a member of the Calvary Bible Church and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of American Local No. 385. May 29, 1978, in the Osteopathic Hospital, Lancaster.

Born March 30, 1934, in Mount Union, he was a son of Steve and Mary Grace (Gloss) Baker. He is survived by his first wife, the former Lydia Shepard, and his second wife, the former Vicki Wong, as well as three daughters: Mary Jane and Deborah, both of South Carolina, and Sharon, of Connecticut. Also surviving are these brothers and sisters: Joseph G. Baker, Huntingdon; Mrs. William (Mary Jane) Carl, Mount Union; Mrs.

Dean (Genevieve) McCartney, Huntingdon; Steve K. Baker, Lewistown; Mrs. Helen Hardy, St. Petersburg, and Mrs. Richard (Edna) Harshbarger, Lancaster.

Mr. Baker was a member of the Lancaster Baptist Church. He was a staff sergeant in the U. S. Air Force, retired after 19 years of service.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Elkhart, where interment also will be made. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Park of Tyrone R.D.I are proud to announce the birth of a daughter, Kristi Marie, on Wednesday, May 24, 1978 at the Mountainview Unit of Centre Community Hospital, State College.

Proud grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunter of State College and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Park of Mapleton Depot R.D.

Maternal great grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Place of Crystal Beach, and paternal great grandparents are Mrs. Elva Pannebaker and Earl Park, both of Mapleton Depot R.D. Queena Noel Mrs.

Queena Noel, a former resident of Altoona, died Wednesday, May 31, 1978, at 2:10 p.m. in the extended care unit at Epworth Manor, Tyrone, where she had been a guest since Oct. 22,1957. She was born May 1, 1891 in Mapleton Depot, Huntingdon County, the daughter of Oliver C. and Emma J.

Diggens Chilcote. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles W. Noel, and is survived by a number of nieces and nephews. She was a member of the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church of Altoona. Graveside funeral services will be conducted at the I.O.O.F.

Cemetery, Mapleton, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, with the Rev. Joseph G. Rigby officiating. Friends will be received at the Getz and Searer Funeral Home, 115 W.

10th Tyrone, on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Berwind To Open Yards In Ohio MARION, Ohio (UPI) Berwind Railway Service Co. of Hollidaysburg, Pa received title to the former Erie Lackawanna railroad yards Tuesday with plans to open a railroad car repair and maintenance shop. The yards have been quiet for the last two years since the railroad went bankrupt. Berwind Vice President of Operations Wayne Fullmer said his firm would use the facilities on the city's west side to expand its nationwide network of railroad car repair and maintenance shop.

He said the shop would be partially operative by July. 1 with additional services phased in later in the year. The Daily News puWiiJiod Huntingdon. Pa Priced IS copy. Second clou pottage paid oi Huntingdon, Penna.

16652. i Manderino Is Listed To Testify ERIE, Pa. (UPI) State House Majority Leader James Manderino was expected to be one of the first witnesses called by the prosecution today when the federal extortion trial of Rep. Robert Bellomini, D-Erie, opened in U.S. District Court.

A jury of six men and six. women was empaneled Wednesday and heard opening statements by federal prosecutor Al Lindsey, who retraced Bellomini's alleged extortion attempts that gave rise to a two-count indictment. Bellomini, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, is charged with attempting to extort $30,000 in connection with a state Liquor Control Board contract. He was charged Feb. 6 with attempting to extort $5,000 from Codan Corp.

and Hardinger Transfer which were seeking a five-year, $3 million contract from the state Liquor Control Board for storage and handling of liquor in northwestern Pennsylvania. Under the contract terms, the companies were to provide storage, handling and delivery services of liquor shipments in the northwestern part of the state. The contract was never granted. A superceding indictment handed down May charged that prior to the Alleged extortion attempt detailed in the Feb. 6 indictment, BeJlomjni tried to extort $25,000 from Eugene Galvin, Ralph Galvin and David Yaple, all of Erie, "by wrongful use of fear and under color of official right." Both indictments charged Bellomini with violation of The federal Hobbs Anti- Racketeering Act, which makes it a federal crime to interfere with interstate commerce by means of extortion.

Bellomini faces a maximum sentence of $10,000 in fines and 20 years in prison if convicted. In the May 16 Democratic primary, Bellomini lost his bid for renominstion to an eighth term. Italo S. Cappabianca, whose campaign theme was Clean Out the House," was the victor. Dr.

and Mrs. Christopher M. Snyder of Harrisburg announce the birth of a son, Nathaniel Barrett on May 21, 1978. Mrs. Snyder is the former Noreen Hood.

Grandparents of the new arrival are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hood of Huntingdon R.D. 1 and Mr. and Mrs.

Bernard Snyder of Huntingdon. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Cantwell of 389 Eyergreen Road, King of Prussia, are happy to announce the arrival of a son, Matthew Scott, on May 22, 1978 in the Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia. Mrs.

Cantwell is the former Susan Sheaffer, a daughter of Mrs. Leon Sheaffer (Sara Jean Kell of Petersburg) of Lancaster and the late Mr. Shaeffer. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

John Cantwell of Wayne. Great grandparents are the late Mr. and Mrs. H. H.

Kell of Petersburg and the late Mr. and Mrs. John Sheaffer of Lancaster. 3 Defendants (Cont'd from Page 1) was totally out of character for the defendant who was described as a quiet, law abiding individual. Attorney Wilt asked for leniency for his client and he called on two persons who made similar pleas to the court: Mrs.

Martha Grove, Shirleysburg, Leonard's neighbor and Sunday School teacher, and the Rev. Thomas A. Maurer, Allenport, the defendant's pastor. Judge Terrizzi spoke at length and noted the slaying was the product of irrational thinking. "The reaction was The court stressed that incarceration and additional penalty were necessary in the case.

"Any lesser sentence would tend to depreciate the seriousness of the offense committed," the court said. Judge Terrizzi, noting that the sentence might be After Leonard was advised of his rights to appeal the sentence, he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff. Leonard worked as a bulldozer operator for Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation at Mapleton Depot and the court noted that a work release program may be worked out "eventually" by the probation department. Attorney Edson S. Crafts, III, assistant district attorney, represented the commonwealth at the sentencing session on Wednesday.

Donna Pauline Detwiler 19 Normalville, Fayette was in court for sentencing on two charges. She pleaded guilty March 23 to the theft of 207 cartons of cigarettes and 40 cartons of assorted tobacco products and food items on Dec. 23 27 from a semi trailer parked at the Reeves Parvin facility in Smithfield Twp. Loot was valued at over $1,000. It was a misdemeanor I offense.

She also pleaded guilty to the theft of a 1965 Ford sedan, the property of Patrick J. Young, Defiance, at the Elco parking lot in Smithfield on Dec. 20. The car was found burned in Blair County, stripped of some parts and equipment. It was a felony III.

On the first charge, Mrs. Detwiler was sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $1 and to serve from one to three years in a state correctional facility. On the second charge, car theft, she was sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $1 and serve from one to four years in a state correctional facility. The sentence is to run concurrently with the one previously imposed and the defendant is to receive credit for the time already spent in prison, since Feb. 23.

The defendant; a former resident of Cassville and Hopewell, was represented by Attorney Charles B. Swigart. Judge Terrizzi gave a stern warning to the young defendant that to continue in her present path would only lead "to life in prison." He also noted that drugs and alcohol were involved in the two thefts and he expressed the belief that the prison sentence and treatment will permit Mrs. Detwiler to mature, develop work skills and lick the drug and alcohol problem. The court defended the sentence.imposed, noting that it is the proper one.

Mrs. Detwiler was turned over to the sheriff to be taken to Muncy State Correctional Institution for the start of her sentence. Nineteen year old Timothy Titus Shoup, 216 Fleetwood Coatesville, Chester faced sentencing on a simple assault charge. He was arrested following an incident in Lincoln Dec. 6, 1977 in which the defendant and a juvenile companion assaulted Harvey Frank Fouse, a deputy game protector.

Attorney Robert B. Stewart, III, Shoup's counsel, said the pre sentence investigation report on his client was "fair and concise." He, asked leniency for his client, noting that the incident was "an error in judgment." Judge Terrizzi counseled the young defendant that one can never solve anything by the use of force. Shoup was placed on probation for one year, under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, on the following conditions: Pay the costs within 60 days, pay the sum of $200 for the use of the county, pay the additional sum of $103 as reimbursement for medical expenses incurred by Fouse. The payments are to be made in amounts of not less than $25 per month, with the first payment being due on or before Aug. 10 and monthly thereafter.

Shoup also is to refrain from any violations of the penal laws and he is to comply with additional conditions to be imposed by the state board. Shoup was warned that any violation would result in probation being terminated, followed by incarceration. The young defendant's mother, fiancee, grandmother and other members of his family were in the courtroom for the sentencing. Shoup is employed by the sanitation department of Chester County. Thomas Guisler, chief probation officer, represented his department at the session.

SCS Unit Is Honored For Johnstownjob Thirty eight employees of the Soil Conservation Service of USDA in Pennsylvania were recognized for their efforts in restoring streams damaged by the Johnstown area flood of July 1977. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland presented the USDA Unit Superior Service Award to James Gettinger of Somerset. Gettinger, who serves as area conservationist for SCS in southwestern Pennsylvania, headed the restoration effort at the SCS flood operations center. Other SCS employees who shared in the unit award are Richard H. Howell, soil conservation technician and Dale E.

Burns, district conservationist, who are both located in the Huntingdon field office of the SCS. Secretary Bergland said that the award was presented for exceptional team effort in restoring streams after the Johnstown flood of 1977, thus aiding in restoration of real service, saving hundreds of jobs and providing for more rapid recovery of individuals, businesses and communities. The award noted that, as of Aug. 5, 1977, the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration asked the SCS to undertake stream restoration work in the eight county area consisting of Bedford, Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana, Jefferson, Somerset, Westmoreland and Blair counties. Because Of Fiscal Problems PennDOT Will Lay Off 1,000 HARRISBURG (UPI5 State Transportation Secretary James B.

Wilson said Wednesday about 1,000 employees involved in road construction activities will be laid off June 30 because of PennDOT's fiscal problems. Wilson said Wednesday that PennDOT no longer can afford to postpone the layoffs first scheduled for Sept. 1,1977, but delayed at the request of the House Republican and Democratic leadership. "I regret this action because many hard-working, dedicated and highly tech nically trained people will be involved, but there is no alternative," Wilson said. The layoffs affect employees at PennDOT headquarters in Harrisburg and in the department's district offices.

More than 20 percent of the district and central office engineering-related employees will be laid off, but employees from throughout the department will be affected because of union bumping procedures for longer-term employees. Wilson decided to lay off employees involved in 'highway design because construction has been at a virtual standstill since last June 30. At that time. Wilson and Budget Secretary Charles Mclntosh canceled all future bond-nnanced highway construction because the Legislature refused to give PennDOT more money by raising the gasoline tax. The Shapp administration wants to raise the gasoline tax from 9 cents up to cents per gallon.

The administration also wants to provide for automatic gasoline tax increases in the future by basing the tax rate on the federal cost of construction index. As tne index rises, so' would the gasoline tax. But the proposal has received strong opposition in the Legislature. And both Pete Flaherty, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and Richard Thornburgh, the Republican nominee, have said they will oppose a gasoline tax hike until major reforms are made in the way PennDOT operates Wilson agreed to delay the layoffs last year at the request of the Democratic and Republican leadership in the House. But he said Wednesday that delaying the layoffs cost an additional $4 million and that PennDOT could not afford to put them off any longer.

SALT Talks Progress Superpowers In Agreement PublicHearing On Humanities In State Friday The Public Committee for the Humanities in Pennsylvania, a citizens' group which awarded $429,000 in federal funds last year, will conduct a public hearing in Harrisburg on Friday, June 2 to review possible changes in its grant making priorities. The meeting will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Harristown People Place, 16 North 2nd Market Square, Harrisburg. Abbott A. Leban, chairman, will conduct the session which will feature testimony on past and present program policies.

The intent will be to assess the future direction new program guidelines mieht take. The Public Committee is authorized to receive federal funds to make grants in support of projects conducted by non profit groups. Committee grants are awarded on the basis of open statewide competition to a wide variety of groups and organizations seeking to initiate public programs that apply the insights of the humanities to issues and concerns of contemporary life. The humanities include fields of academic study such as history, philosophy, language, literature, and the law. NEW YORK (UPI) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko say they are closer than ever to agreement on a new strategic arms treaty despite the harsh words traded by the superpowers in recent days.

The two diplomats met Wednesday for the fourth time in less than a week and Gromyko said later through an interpreter that "two or three issues" remained unsettled in reaching a new agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, known as SALT. Vance said, "We examined the two principal remaining issues" in drawing up a treaty setting new limits on strategic missiles and bombers to run through 1985. Neither Vance nor Gromyko named the issues, but it has been reported the two sides are at odds on the deployment of the Soviet bomber known as the Backfire and the question of new missile systems. Gromyko was scheduled to return to Moscow today, but said, "Both sides expressed a determination to bring the discussions to a conclusion and that is of exceptional importance to me. We still have some more meetings to schedule." No date was set for future meetings.

The Soviet minister, who was unusually expansive in his remarks to Western reporters, said neither the United States nor the Soviet Union held inflexible positions on the remaining issues. PENNSYLVANIA LOTTERY Wednesday, May 31, 1978 BIG 50 Red -424 -White -10 Blue 1 BONUS-614184 BAKER'S DOZEN 012659 33801 438 "I wouldn't say we are rigid but the agreements have not been finalized!" Gromyko said. The talks Wednesday originally were scheduled for two hours at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, but stretched to more than five as Vance and Gromyko sought to defuse the recent tensions between their countries that have surfaced at the U.N. special session on disarmament and at NATO talks in Washington.

Gromyko last week criticized U.S. development of the neutron bomb and President Carter has attacked the Soviet and Cuban presence in Africa and the Soviet buildup of conventional forces in Europe. "We touched on several other matters," Gromyko said, "and if I try to deny we touched on Africa you probably wouldn't believe me, so why try to deny it." As for the current state of relations between the two superpowers, Gromyko said in English: "I would like to see them better." Vance said that in light of the recent statements by both sides, there is "no question" that "relations between the two countries are in a state of tension." However, he said "We talked frankly and the general atmosphere was businesslike and useful." He confirmed the Soviet buildup in Europe was discussed, and added: "We came to no agreement, but we have a clear understanding of each other's positions." Changes To Halter Creek Are Opposed Rep. Clarence Dietz, Legislative District, has testified to the Depl. of vironmenlal Resources opposing a change in the classification of Halter Crook in Blair and Bedford Counties from a warm to a cold water fishery.

A sportsman and former president of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Assemblyman Dietz protests the effect of the reclassification on Appleton Papers and cites the few numbers of troul the stream could support, should the reclassification take place. Appleton Papers and its predecessors have used the stream for the discharge of clarified pulp and paper effluent for over 100 years. By changing the classification o't Halter Creek from a warm to a cold water fishery, an automatic burden is placed on Appleton to cool the effluent discharge "from 87 to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, requiring the installation of an extremely expensive cooling system," Dietz testified. "Appleton Papers has already spent millions of dollars on environmental improvements related to air and water.

To force this company now to spend another $5 million for the installation of a cooling system with an estimated $2.5 million annual operating cost, in both imprudent and ridiculous." he stated. "In 1977, Appleton Papers employed 515 full time men and women from the area with a payroll amounting to $7,768,044. In addition to the regular payroll, the company usually hires 50 students under the summer employment program. Dietz pointed out he was not arguing against Appieton's cleaning up the effluent discharge in a stream already classified as a- warm water fishery. "But, to arbitrarily change the classification of a stream on any company that is in full compliance with existing stream regulations, requiring millions of additional dollars to comply with other regulations, simply does not make any sense whatsoever; particularly, when 515 jobs are threatened," Dietz concluded.

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