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2 Thursday, Sept. 20. 1979 Philadelphia Inquirer METROPOLITAN- The Scene Left for dead, girl was breathing In Philadelphia and its suburbs and beat her again. Summers said. Instead, they decided to place the chunk of concrete over the hole to conceal the body.

Under cross-examination by Harry J. Agzigian Lekka's attorney, Summers, who has been granted immunity from prosecution, said that he did not help Miss Goeke or go to the police because he was "scared" and "did not want to screw up Linda's family." In confessions to police, the two teenagers said that earlier that day, while Buli held Miss Goeke in a head-lock, Lekka broke a two-by-four board over her head, according to Middletown Detective Robert Hart. Then, according to their confessions, they took turns hitting her with a four-foot length of pipe and threw her into the hole. Before leaving to go to the home of Lekka's sister, they removed her body and "hit her some more," said Hart, quoting from their confessions. In September 1978, Buli fathered a child born to Miss Goeke.

Witnesses have testified that she told friends shortly before her death that she was again pregnant by him. However, an autopsy showed that she was not pregnant when she died. Buli confessed to police on Nov. 16, three days after the slaying, that he and Lekka had killed Miss Goeke because she had been harassing him about the alleged pregnancy. When the hearing in Doylestown ends, Judge William Hart Rufe 3d is to decide whether Buli and Lekka should be given life sentences for first-degree murder or lesser sentences for third-degree murder.

Summers, 21, said that about 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 the two youths went to the Bristol Township apartment he shared with Miss Lekka and bragged that "we just wasted a girl." Summers said that when he told them he did not believe them, they offered to show him where they had hidden the body. Lekka and Buli took him to a wooded area behind Summit School in Middletown Township, Summers said. As they approached a hole in the ground used as a play fort by neighborhood youngsters they heard Miss Goeke breathing.

"It sounded like a gurgling sound, like somebody having trouble with their breath," he said. "Then Bob (Buli) said, 'Oh my God, she's still Summers testified. Buli and Lekka discussed in his -presence whether to drag her out 't 1 4 'tibP'S-f A- i-'J-V? Special to The Inquifer YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING what this photo is all about. It is a snapshot of a couple of guys horsing around on the beach, and it was one of several pictures on a roll of color film found by an Inquirer reporter on the Schuylkill Expressway last week. There are other photos of people sailing, bike-riding and petting a horse.

If you know whose photos they are, contact us and well be glad to return them. And for a small fee we can be persuaded not to publish the really weird pictures. Schoolst Things can only get better Upper Merion High School seems to be doing its best to prove the validity of Murphy's Law. You know, "Whatever can possibly go wrong, will." The teachers' strike is merely the latest of a plague of troubles that must have the school administration feeling like Pharaoh faced tli 1 i By CLARK DeLEON wiiu muses iisi oi uon-negouaDie demands. First came the bizarre criminal problems of Principal Jay Smith, then followed the murder of teacher Susan Reinert and the resultant speculation that she was sacrificed in some kind of satanic ritual.

The. stain against the school's reputation was made literal this week when vandals spray-painted the side of the school with the words "Satan's Philadelphia Inquirer VICKI VALERIO are (from left) Sonya, Michelle and Charlene Derry; their church is turning 170 this week hallelujah to long history By Margot Achterberg Special te Tte Inquirer A witness testified in Bucks County Court yesterday that John Lekka and Robert Buli, finding that their victim, Diane Goeke, was still breathing after they had battered her with a board and a pipe, placed a 200-pound chunk of concrete over her body. Steven Summers, identified as the former boyfriend of Lekka's sister, Linda, said he watched as Lekka, 18, and Buli, 17, maneuvered the slab over the hole that was to become a temporary grave for Miss Goeke, 17, of Levittown. Summers said that he was with them because he refused to believe their-story that they had killed the girl. Summers testified on the third day of a presentence hearing for Lekka and Buli, both of whom pleaded guilty Monday to homicide charges.

Paging through Bibles Singing LANGHORNE, From 1-B whose great-great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Bethlehem A.M. E. Church. "Man, this is our home. Always has been our home," he said.

"Our roots go back here. They go back a long ways." These roots predate 1809, when a group of black settlers, calling themselves "The Society of Colored Methodists," gathered to worship in Amos Bailey's log cabin, on the present church site at Pine and Flowers Avenues. Some had emigrated from Caribbean islands, others had been freed from slavery by conscience-stricken local Quakers and still others had escaped from southern slavemasters. Maps from the early 1800s identify the church vicinity as Timbuktu, apparently after the legendary African city. More blacks arrived in the 1840s and 1850s as Langhorne became a key stop on the Underground Railroad, a way station between Philadelphia and Trenton where fleeing slaves could find a hot meal, a cellar or barn to hide in and, sometimes, a place to settle.

Today, the estimated 50 black families of Langhorne, which has a population of 1,700, remain clustered around the church site. Many of the immaculate, wood-frame and stucco-fronted houses have been in the same families for three or four generations. The residents are well aware of their heritage and of the close bond that traditionally has existed between them and their white neighbors. "If we would say we've got a Utopia here, we wouldn't be telling the truth," said Jacobs, who in 1972 became the first black and first Democrat elected to the borough council. "But we've communicated with each other.

We've always been able to talk I things out whenever there was a problem." And there have been problems. As recently as the late 1940s, blacks were permitted to sit only in the segregated balcony at the old Langhorne Casino movie theater. In the early 1960s, Jacobs' son, Vernon, now deputy chief of the Langhorne-Mid-dletown Fire Company, had to fight to eliminate a provision in the department's charter that restricted membership to white males. And in 1969, a Ku Klux Klansman set fire to the Bethlehem A.M.E. Church, badly damaging the building.

Even in the last decade, as blacks moved onto some of the more exclusive streets in the borough, some white neighbors circulated petitions opposing their presence. Today, most Upper Merion schools Place" and "Devil's Workshop." Maintenance workers cleaned off the graffiti yesterday, but the school's good name will not be cleansed as easily. Technology. We would have thought webbed feet Businessmen large and small will have a chance to see whether the U.S. government has been developing any patents that could be used in private enterprise.

That will happen at a first-of-its-kind conference called "Technology and Business Opportunities" at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel today from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Eight local congressmen and a number of federal agencies are sponsoring the event, which will be a clearinghouse for patents that have been developed for the government but that can be readily adapted to civilian use. There will, of course, be some patents that will require some imagination on the part of the entrepreneurs. For instance, there are a couple of naval patents that private businessmen may have difficulty fitting into their operation.

How many businesses would need a patent for a "towable pod assembly for protectively disabling incoming And then there is the ever-in-demand patent for a "rigid-jointed limbed vehicle for walking on water with flanged feet." Gamblingi It helps to know the rules For $2 you can make the minumum bet on the blackjack tables in Atlantic City, but a better investment would be the $2 it costs for a booklet published by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. The 43-page publication outlines the rules for casino games in Atlantic City. This is important because Atlantic City rules can differ from Las Vegas rules. For instance, in blackjack all the players' cards are dealt face-up in New Jersey, but in Nevada the rules allow one card face-down. The booklet includes the state's rules for blackjack, roulette, baccarat and wheels of fortune.

It can be purchased at the commission offices at 379 West State St. in Trenton, or at Tennessee Avenue and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The booklet is available by mail for $2.50 if one writes the commission's public information department in Trenton. Songsi Pennsylvania, pothole papa The state press corps in Harrisburg held its annual gridiron show this week, and as usual hardly any public figure escaped unscathed. The press doesn't have the Shapp aAdministration to kick around any-" more, but members of the Thornburgh administration emerged from the show bearing punt marks.

Of all the skits and songs in the show, perhaps the one we all can identify with most is the one dedicated to that most bountiful of Pennsylvania's natural resources potholes. The song is sung to the tune of John Denver's "Country Philadelphia, so historic, Valley Forge and Independence Hall, Nation's birthday, seventeen seventy six May have been the last time that our roads were fixed Lousy roads Through our state That is why drivers hate Pennsylvania, land of potholes Lovely land, lousy roads. Giants, an all-black, semi-pro team that once toured the East Coast. "We was pretty hot then," recalled Charles Derry, 75, the Giants' manager and pitcher in the 1920s and 1930s. "We worked hard at our jobs all day, and then we played ball all night." During all those years, in good times and bad, the Bethlehem A.

M. E. Church has remained at the heart of Langhorne's black community. From today to Saturday, the church is commemorating its anniversary by holding an open house. The celebration will end Sunday with a special worship service.

"I think the black community is going to be here for a good long time," Mr. Caesar said, smiling. "The roots run deep here, and I think those roots are just going to keep on growing." are struck the lowest scores will probably be laid off first, he said. O'Hara said the current system permits the school board to retain outstanding teachers and to lay off mediocre ones. "The issue is who runs the school district the teachers or the taxpayers," he said.

Adams said the issue of district control has nothing to do with teacher evaluation. The teachers want the numerical evaluation system eliminated because.they say, it is too subjective and sometimes is used to harass instructors. They want a satisfactoryunsatisfactory evaluation system, with unsatisfactory teachers laid off first and subsequent furloughs made on the basis of seniority. About 85 percent of Pennsylvania districts have the satisfactoryunsatisfactory system, Adams said, and it works better because it does not inspire dissension or encourage abuse. down the stairs.

They took his wallet containing $30 and fled. Police apprehended two men about 20 minutes later at 12th and Commerce Streets, but they were released after questioning by detectives. Mistrial motion is refused in Cianciulli vote-fraud case U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle yesterday refused to declare a mistrial in the vote-fraud case of State Rep.

Matthew Cianciulli and five others persons, rejecting arguments by defense attorneys of possible jury tampering. The judge sequestered the jury Tuesday in the fifth day of trial after a female juror reported that she had been offered a ride home by a man later identified as a brother of one of the defendants. The government rested its case yesterday after FBI handwriting expert Robert Hallett testified that Cianciulli had filled out voter registration mail forms for some of the defendants and others. The defense will continue with its case today. Chester man shot, wounded in center city high-rise A young Chester man was shot and wounded seriously yesterday morning in a 30th-floor apartment of the black families in Langhorne still live on those few blocks where blacks long have resided.

There have been the good times, too. Older blacks remember the Saturday night bashes at the old dance 'hall on Richardson Avenue, where the young folks would swing to the sweet sounds of jazz music. And they recall the Memorial Day celebrations, always a big event in Langhorne, when all-black bands and majorette teams from Philadelphia and Trenton would march through the borough. Memorial Day also is remembered for the family picnics (complete with barbecued ribs and chicken, collard greens, pigs feet and homemade ice cream) and for a baseball double-header featuring the Langhorne yesterday sent a telegram to Scott assuring him they would be available for negotiations. The association, which represents the teachers, went on strike after negotiators failed to resolve the issue of how teachers are to be evaluated and who will be laid off first in light of the declining enrollment.

The issue had been a stumbling block from the time talks began in January until the strike announcement Tuesday. "About 10 issues remained on the table, and the mediator said he could resolve all except one," O'Hara said, adding that the school board would not change its opinion that the teacher evaluation-furlough issue is a management concern that is inappropriate for bargaining. The school board favors retaining the present evaluation sytem, which rates teachers numerically, based on observation of their classroom skills. Teachers with the least seniority and sored by the Philadelphia Committee to Benefit the Eugene Wayman Jones Cultural Center, 5148 Walnut and its scholarship fund. S.

Phila. man shot to death two men seen fleeing area A South Philadelphia man was shot to death last night at 22d and Catherine Streets, police reported. The body of Steven Wright, 26, of 731 Mercy was found with bullet wounds in the chest and right thigh, detectives said. He was pronounced dead at Graduate Hospital at 7:19 p.m. Investigators said two men were seen fleeing from the area.

One was riding a bicycle, witnesses reported. W. Phila. man, 78, mugged in Reading Terminal An elderly West Philadelphia man was mugged yesterday afternoon by six men on the stairs of the concourse in Reading Terminal, police reported. Phillip Rapone, 78, of the 500 block of North 67th Street, suffered a broken hip in the attack and was report-' ed in stable condition in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Police said Rapone was in the terminal on the 1100 block of Market Street at about 12:35 p. m. when the men grabbed him and dragged him City and Suburban News in Brief STRIKE, From 1-B that although they hoped for a quick end to the strike, they did not expect one. don't want to be out here; none of us are enthusiastic," said one teacher, who stood beneath a picket sign that bobbed and shuddered in a stiff breeze as though it were about to take flight. "But it's (the strike) nine months in the making, and we'll be out here until it's resolved." A similar prediction came from Francis O'Hara, chief negotiator for the school board, who said he expected the strike to continue "weeks, rather than days." He said that no new negotiations had been scheduled but that he expected to hear from state mediators within the next few days about the possibility of new talks.

Ken Adams, chief negotiator for the Upper Merion Area Education Association, said that union officials Collegeville Inn files suit over chemical spill in July The Collegeville Inn filed a suit for damages yesterday in Montgomery County Court against the nearby Superior Tube cited as the source of a July 17 chemical spill that has polluted area wells. The inn estimated its costs and loss of business at $57,000 since trichloro-ethylene (TCE) was found in its well. The spill of about 1,900 gallons of TCE from Superior Tube's storage tanks has been blamed for pollution of wells serving about 200 residents in the Collegeville area. A class-action suit, seeking $7 billion in damages, was filed with the court two weeks ago on behalf of the citizens of Collegeville. 22d Ebony Fashion Fair to benefit cultural center The 22d annual Ebony Fashion Fair will be held at the Academy of Music at 8 p.m.

Oct. 5 and at 2:30 m. Oct. 6. The traveling fashion show, produced by Ebony magazine, features more than 200 garments from the collections of American and European designers, modeled by 10 women and two men.

The Philadelphia show is spon Ridley man is acquitted in the murder of his son A Ridley Township man was acquitted of the murder of his son late yesterday by a jury of eight men and four women in Delaware County Court. Joseph Kerr 59, of Hofman Road, had been charged with shooting his son Gary, 28, of Philadelphia, during a quarrel in the elder Kerr's home on April 23. The prosecution had sought a verdict of third-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter. Kerr did not take the stand during the three-day trial. His attorney argued that Kerr had acted in self-defense.

He said that the son had punched his father in the mouth, breaking his false teeth, and had cut him superficially with a knife. Woman found badly beaten, perhaps raped in Coatesville Coatesville police are investigating the beating and possible rape of a young woman who said she was attacked early Tuesday in Ash Park in the central part of the city. The name of the victim, who remained under intensive care in Coatesville Hospital yesterday, was withheld. She suffered head injuries as well as injuries to her spleen, kidneys and breasts, police said. nies get sufficient yield from other wells to handle current demand.

Youth is fatally injured in fall from SEPTA bus A youth who had tried to hang onto the side of a SEPTA bus was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he fell under its rear wheels, police said. William Mellon, 17, of the 2800 block of Agate Street in Kensington, died at 9:20 p.m. at Episcopal Hospital. Police said that, as the Route 3 bus stopped on Kensington Avenue near Cambria Street about 2:45 p.m., Mellon tried to climb aboard. When the bus pulled away, Mellon fell, police said.

High-speed line extensions may be postponed six years Plans for a major expansion of the PATCO high-speed line may have to be postponed six years, officials of the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) said yesterday. New Jersey and federal authorities have notified the agency that no funding will be available for its ambitious $1.2 billion expansion plan for the line until sometime after 1985, according to Irving K. Kessler, chairman of the DRPA's Projects Committee. Academy House, in the 1400 block of Locust Street, police reported. Ronald Head, 19, of the 1000 block of West Ninth Street, was reported in guarded condition last night at Graduate Hospital with a bullet wound in the right side.

Police said Larry McCall, 18, tenant of the apartment in the condominium adjoining the Academy of Music, was charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons offenses. The shooting occurred about 10:50 a.m. in the bedroom of McCall's apartment, detectives said. McCall told them the shooting was an accident. Three wells shut in Montco as toxic chemical is detected Trichloroethylene (TCE), a deg-reasing agent found to cause cancer in animals, has been detected in wells operated by the Audubon Water Co.

in Montgomery County and the Valley Forge Corporate Center, the State Department of Environmental Resources announced yesterday. Walter Stanley, a water-quality specialist in the department's Norris-town office, said the three wells were taken out of service "as soon as sample results confirmed the presence" of TCE. The wells will remain out of service until the problem is resolved, he said, adding that the water compa.