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Twi CesHy UMW District President C. E. Bean said he hoped to persuade to end the strike, Alabama's 6,000 coal miners are employed by member companies of the Southern Coal Operators Association, which expected to accept a contract similar to the BCOA agreement. UMW Local President Thomas Crawford said he expected Alabama mines to start reopening today. BCQA members Included most steel firms which operate their own mines, several utility companies, and the giant Consolidation Coal Co.

of Pittsburgh. They employ 40,000 soft coal miners and their contract sets the pattern for thousands of others employed in deep pit operations. The strike idled railroad employes, cut off supplies to steel mills and forced power companies to rely on emergency stockpiles. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, which shut down 50 trains at the start of the walkout, estimated the die Pennsy's loss in revenue at more than $3 million. Coal miners themselves lost a $1 million a day In wages.

Several hundred railroad employes also were without pay. The chairman of Consolidation Coal Co. estimated his firm lost 150,000 to 160,000 tons of coal production daily. Mrs. Derman Dr.

Adelaide Farrand. Tyrone, Installed the officers at the evening banquet. Miss Sharon Young, Altoona, was selected as the district's "Young Career Woman" as a highlight of the evening. Miss Young, a teacher at Claysburg- Klnuoel High School, was selected from a field of five to represent the district at the state convention at Harrisburg this June. Any.

Benjamin C. Jones of Tyrone, discussed the activities of the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority. He said in 1965 there were 285 new plants constructed in Pennsylvania, 362 existing plants expanded, and 109 companies relocated in Pennsylvania. The growth resulted in the creation of 28,000 new jobs he said. One step forward, he said, in acquiring new industry in ral and western Pennsylvania.

has been the construction of new highways. Jones urged the business women to be fully aware and fully understand what is going on in the field of industry. "Whatever we do as an individual or as an organization, should be constructive," he said. District 5, with Mrs. Derman as leader, will be host to the state convention at Harrisburg.

The fall district council will meet Sept. 10 in Windber and the fall district meeting will he held "In Tyrone. I Mrs. Derman, active in civic and church and fraternal organizations In Tyrone, is secretary-manager of the Tyrone Chamber of Commerce. She has headed numerous fund drives In the community over the years.

She is the wife of Jack L. Derman and they have three grown children. District 5 is composed of BPW clubs in Somerset, Cambria. Blair. Huntingdon and Bedford counties.

Tussey Mt. WILSON HELD OVER LAST 2 -REGULAR PRICES- ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! THE MOST TOUCHING PICTURE OF THE YEAR!" Archer Winston, N.Y. fail Kin umo SIDNEY POITIER- SHELLEY WINTERS SUEUZHBETHHARTMAN "A VERY SPECIAL FILM!" and PUUMOUHT HCJIMU fffSCMTS DANA ANDREWS Philipsburg Youth Six Injured TONITE AND TUESDAY side of wooded Tussey Mountain in Huntingdon County. Iversen, his wife, Vera, 27, and daughter Nina, 6, were thrown from the single engine plane when it crashed during a rain storm while en route to Philadelphia, Mrs. Iversen and her daughter received only minor injuries and walked more than a mile to a farmhouse for help.

They were treated at C. Blair Memorial Hospital and released. Iversen died before rescuers could get him off the mountain. A resident in the area who aided Mrs. Iversen and her daughter said it was a "miracle" they lived.

Iversen, of RD 2, Gibsonia, was the son of John D. Iversen, president of Mesta Machine Co. and grandson of Lorenz Iversen, a former president of the firm. He worked as a systems analyst for Mesta in the controller's department. Kenneth Scholter, manager of the Butler Graham Airport, Butler County, whohelped Iversen roll his plane out of die hanger just before the ill-fated flight, said Iversen received his pilot's license about a month ago.

Fred L. Fouse, 48, a farmer who lives near Huntingdon, said Mrs. Iversen told him "it was foggy at the time and we mus-t have gotten lost." State police said the wreckage was scattered over a wide area where the plane came down. They said die wings were torn off and the motor was found 50 feet Traffic Takos crossing about 5 miles west of Erie. Pittsburgh: Allen Gcerman, 17, Ambridge, Beaver County, was killed Saturday night when the car in which he was riding struck a tree in nearby Edgeworth Borough.

Stroudsburg: Ted Neyhard, 19, Stroudsburg. was killed Saturday when me car in which he was a passenger struck a tree along Route 209 about four miles north of Stroudsburg. Lock Haven: Clyde R. McCloskey. 28.

Williamsport, was killed Saturday night when his car ran off Route 480, five miles east of Lock Haven. Lancaster: Melvin K. Wade, 53, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, was killed Saturday night in a two-car collision on Route 30, in nearby Mount Joy. Philadelphia: Mrs. Barbara Poppel was killed Saturday when her car struck a tree.

Hazleton: Mrs. Rosemarie Brill, 25, Pardeesville, Luzerne County, was killed Saturday when her car struck a tree on Route 333 in Hazle about a mile from her home. Erie: Darlene Deiner, 4, Erie, was struck and killed by an auto Saturday in nearby Millcreek Twp. The driver was identified as Gray Brown, 27, Erie RD5. Greensburg: William H.

Dunn, 18, Greensburg, RD 6. was killed Saturday in a one-car crash on Route 819. Natrona Heights: Mabel Haley, 75, Freeport, was injured fatally Friday night when she was struck by an auto on Route 28. Donor Eugene Mauro, 25, Donor was killed Saturday when his car struck a pole on South McKean Avenue. Pittsburgh: Edward Baluth, 82, Pittsburgh, was killed Friday when a careening automobile pinned him against the porch of his home.

Bedford: Marie Barton, 11, was killed Friday when she was hit by a car near her home in Bedford. Gromyko Won't oration which paved the way for increased Soviet-Italian trade and exchange of know-how. Pakistan means "land of the pure" in Urdu. Approximately 220 bicycles were inspected in a one-day effort Saturday by members of the Tyrone Clubmen's Association in cooperation with the Borough. Photo above shows group waiting for inspection at Adams School.

The inspection, which costs 25 cents per bicycle, was done without charge as the Clubmen foot- ed the bilL Inspection of bikes will continue each Saturday morning at the Police Station, llth from 10 a.m. to noon, through Saturday, May 28. The 25 cent charge will prevail for the remainder of the inspection period. -Daily Herald Photo News From shops here face layoffs today. The cutback is reportedly due to the prolonged strike in the soft coal industry which has resulted in a sharp decrease in freight traffic.

HUNTINGDON Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Clark, Huntingdon, have returned after spending two months in Nicaragua, where De.

Clark served on the medical staff of the S. S. Hope, a People-to-People hospital ship. HOLLIDAYSBURG A session of criminal court, involving a score of cases gets underway today at the Blair County courthouse with Judge Samuel H. Jubelirer presiding All but three of the defendants have indicated intention to enter pleas and place themselves at the mercy of the court.

BELLEFONTE No change has been reported to date in the status of the strike called April 1, by members of Local 92, United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers, against the National Gypsum Company near here that has idled some 175 plant employes. Suicide Claims Wife Optimistic: 2 Ofher Victims 900 Face COLLINGSWOOD, N. J. (UPI)) despondent 50 year old housewife committed suicide Sunday and unwittingly took the lives of her teen-aged daughter and the girl's best friend. Police said Mrs.

Elsie Demon died of cabon monoxide poisoning after she sat in the car parked in her garage with the motor running. She left a suicide note for her daughter, Donna, 16. But a vent in die garage connected to a second-floor bedroom where Donna and Nancy Torigan, 15, both sophomores at Collingswood High School, were sleeping after returning from a dance. The deadly fumes seeped into that room. The bodies of all three were found after Mrs.

Demon's sister, Mrs. Norma Hatton, of Bridgeport, came for a visit Sunday morning. Relatives said Mrs. Demon had been despondent and had made previous attempts on her life. Three daughters survive.

The girls' father had died previously. Neighbors said Mrs. Demon was separated from her second husband. News Digest constitutional powers and squandering public funds. WASHINGTON Former Defense Secretary Louis A.

Johnson, who was fired from a cabinet by President Harry S. Truman shortly after the start of the Korean War, died Sunday at the age of 75. Artificial Heart Patient Improved By PAUL FREEMAN HOUSTON (UPI) Marcel L. DeRudder, a synthetic heart keeping him alive, should be opening his eyes "pretty soon" his wife said today. She said her husband, who underwent history-making surgery last Thursday, looked better.

Mrs. Edna DeRudder, 60, appearing in better spirits, said she wanted to tell her husband his geraniums and African violets at their Westville, home are being neglected. She said doctors told her that her husband should be regain- workers being retains. Matt Meyer, die Alabama- born president of the new papers, said the guild demands exceed those provided for under old contracts with the three newspapers. It was reported that guild also requested supplemental severance pay for workers, and an option giving employes the right to resign and collect severance.

Threatens Corporation The strike was said to present a serious threat to the stability of die new corporation, particularly to die Herald Tribune which did not expect to survive as an independent operation. "You could lose three newspapers in New York City if we do not come to agreement with the newspaper guild," Meyer said. Also unresolved was the dispute over supplemental severance pay bet ween the newspapers and die International Typographical Union Local 6 and other craft unions. Although the New York Publishers Association broke its traditional "all for one" stand which would have forced suspension of the four other newspapers in the group, the publishers announced, "we are unified in support of the World Journal Tribune." Meyers said his company did not ask the other papers to shut down. "It would have been a mistake to black out the city's newspapers without seeing further developments," he said.

"We think we can bring these union leaders to their senses." John J. Gaherin, president of the publishers association, said the other members would continue to review developments on a to day" basis. Other members include die New York Times, Daily News, Long Island Star-Journal and the Long Island Press. The New York Post resigned from the association during the 114 day strike in 1962-1963. U.S.

Craft down during raids near the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on the second day in a row. Both were downed Sunday by the heavy concentrations of anti-aircraft guns that guard the industrial area in the Hanoi-Haiphong area. Fate of the pilots was not immediately announced. Similar groundflre brought down two other FlOSs Saturday in the same area. Down Two MIGs Pilots reported no sightings of Russian-made MIGS such as those which intercepted Air Force raiders Saturday over North Viet Nam and engaged them in dog fights.

Two M1G17S were down then by sharpshootlng pilots firing missiles. The American planes escaped unscathed. While other dogfights have occasionally occurred the in- erceptions represented the first significant challenge by the Communists' tiny air force to U. S. supremacy in North Viet Nam's sides.

In other action, Viet Cong raiders pulled a sneak attack on the city of Hue today killing two persons and wounding seven in a 15-minute barrage. Three buildings crumbled under the shell fire. All the casualties were civilians. Object of the attack was the citadel airport, a small landing field inside the compound of the ancient imperial capital. The field is sometime used by military craft, but there was no damage reported to any airplanes.

TWIN WINNER PLAINVIEW, Tex. (UPI) Judges in the Lions Club queen contest were stumped. They had narrowed the 37 pretty girls down to two finalists. But they couldn't decide. In fact, they could not tell them apart.

It turned out they were Sharell and Shirley Harris, 18 The judges gave both the blonde, blue-green-eyed beauties the title in Saturday's finals. Tyroner Shriners pleting arrangements this week. Shriners are urged to get their reservations In to Club Secretary William Palmer, Richard Williams, Fred Hursh or L. R. Treese in Bellwood before Wednesday.

US Jets kept coming straight at us," Blake told newsmen Sunday. "As they come on you get a little more tense." Faced Attack Cameron and Blake wheeled to meet the attack, facing the flashes of cannon fire from the MIGS that were concentrating on Wolf and his wingman, Maj. John F. Hallgren. "I fired a missile but missed," Cameron said.

"We maneuvered and I saw we were meeting head on. I knew we didn't have much of a chance. I fired a missile I missed we started climbing. "I got onto the third one but he turned into me so I got after the second one. I dived and got my sidewinder into the second one and I rolled to my left and saw him at 9 o'clock trailing thick gray smoke.

He seemed out of control." Blake watched the MIG downed by Cameron fall and went after his own. "I fired a missile and missed. I was diving at a 60 degree angle and fired my second missile. I was zooming toward ground level and I didn't want to join those fellows who didn't pull up in time. "I nosed up to the horizon.

I saw him trailing smoke." Two U. S. planes were downed during weekend raids to the North, but both were lost to ground fire. In another clash, six MIG 17s fired their cannons at homebound F105s and the American jets, untouched, streaked home without engaging them. The third attack saw two residence, was killed Thursday.

The Abbotts continue to maintain their Philipsburg home, although they have been residing in McConnellsburg, Fulton County, where Pastor Abbott is associated with die State Department of Welfare and Mrs. Abbott is serving as a nurse. The young soldier, who had been in die service less man a year, was reportedly killed while on patrol duty in a non- combat zone when a land mine exploded. The victim was a 1962 graduate of me Phllipsburg-Osceola Area High School. Sdtsbtffl Yovth saw die boy dart behind the Walls residence between 10th and llth st.

on Blair ave. The policeman apprehended the boy and upon questioning, learned the youth had left his home at Salts burg Sunday morning. State Police at Hollidaysburg had no report of the youth being missing. Boys Who shey School at Hershey, took the vehicle at about 12:30 a.m. today at Hershey, drove to Harrisburg on Route 322, to Lewistown on Route 22, and were stopped by State Police at 7:30 a.m.

today near Water Street on Route 22. were Capet, Green, and Gerald Taylor, 19, of Charleston, W. and Michael Ross, 18, of Farmington, W. Va. Both Taylor and Ross were passengers in the Capet auto.

Treated and discharged was Marie I. Green, She suffered lacerations of left knee and abrasions of the forehead. The injuries to the other Tour were not available at the hospital. Miss Jo Ellen Waple, 22, of 416 Fifth was injured Friday at 9i46 p.m. when her auto went out of control while negotiating a curve and struck an embankment.

Miss Waple was treated at Tyrone Hospital. No injuries were listed by the hospital. She was driving a 1961 sedan west on Legislative Rte. 31069, in War- iors Mark four miles south of Tyrone. The road Is in the Eden Hill area.

ARTHRITIS If you are suffering from pain, soreness, stiffness or swelling caused by ARTHRITIS, NEURITIS or RHEUMATISM, I think I can help. OPEN DAILY 10-5 P.M. I. A. RIDGWAY, Herb Salts 45 South Mt.

Vernon Ave. Uniontown, Pennsylvania 15401 ing consciousness soon. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey said Sunday that DeRudder showed signs of recovering from the brain damage he suffered in a five-hour operation.

DeBakey said another problem had cropped decrease of kidney function." The 65-year-old Illinois coal miner had been unconscious since the operation Thursday morning in which a device was implanted in his chest to take over most of the function of the left chamber of the human heart. Doctors treating him for brain damage said the patient "shows sign of recovery with return of some of the reflexes DeBakey said he had "improved in several respects." DeBakey said DeRudder's cardiovascular condition was stable, meaning there were no new problems with the heart, circulatory system of composition of the blood. Doctors hoped that DeRud- der's heart was mending its wounds with the pump taking over from 60 to 75 per cent of the work of the left ventricle, which in turn does 90 per cent of the work of the heart. DeBakey said the 'left ventricular bypass," the technical term for the device, "continues to function quite well." He said DeRudder's pulse rate, blood pressure and respiration were stable. DeRudder, who was unemployed because of a leaky mitral valve that left blood back up from the left ventricle, went into the operation room knowing that he was the prime candidate for the artificial heart and realizing that he would be doomed without it.

About 2737 B.C., the Chinese emperor Shen Nung wrote a book on pharmacy. LATE CLASSIFIEDS MIG 21s engage four Phantoms FOR SALE and an RB66 reconnaissance Bottle gas stove. Reasonable. Call 684-2914 after 4:30 p.m. bomber, but everybody missed and broke off the engagement.

Rains Slash The new worry was whether the Sabine River would surge into the south part of Longvlew. It was one of 10 rivers and streams in south and east Texas the weather bureau warned were either at flood stage or expected to overflow. The upper Nueces and upper Frio rivers and their tributaries were already causing flash- flooding in south Texas. Many low water crossings were closed. West Texas areas that do not get 10 Inches of rain during an entire year were getting 3 and 4 inches in one weekend.

The earth's atmosphere is a blanket composed of gases and some water vapor. Principal gases are nitrogen, oxygen and argon. The Sablnal, Blanco and Hondo rivers also were expected to crest today, the weather bureau said. Maple sofa bed, 2 chairs. Reasonable.

Ph. 684-2395. 25t3 Now is the time to use Greenfield Lawn Food. Use with or without broadleaf weed killer. It is the time for crab grass preventatlve.

For all your lawn and garden needs, seeds and fertilizers, see FINK BROTHERS HARDWARE. Ph. 684-0580 A25tf Trim up with ease. Use Hedge, lopping (long handled) or grass shears, also turf edgers, trimmers from FINK BROTHERS HARDWARE. Ph.

684-0580. A25tf HELP WANTED Man for lawn and garden work. Phone 684-0789. Kitchen help. Call Robbie's Diner 692-4330 between 7 a.m.

and 5 p.m. 25t6 ARE YOU BUYING? BUILDING? REPAIRING? Mortgage Loans Made With Least Possible Trouble And Expense. Liberal Terms Central Building Loan Association, No. 2 Penna. Avenue Cleartield Furs 9 famous Beauty Treatment keeps Furs Lustrous, Supple.

For a beautiful "well-cared-for" look and longer wear, it's important that Furs "little furs" too be Clearized EVERY year. (Also, best for Imitation Furs.) GUARANTEED COLD FUR STORAGE REPAIRS RESTYLE REASONABLE PRICES in your Furs A Fur-Trim Cloth Ceets Or Phone for Froo Pick up Available In Tyrone, Only At- CARMAN'S 1014 PENNA. AVE. Attention Elk Members Saturday, April 30 Has Been Proclaimed ELKS NATIONAL YOUTH DAY By Governor Wm. W.

Scranton We Hereby Invite All Sons And Daughters Of Elks Who Are Students In Grades 8 To 12 To Go To Gettysburg On That Date For The Following Program Program In Gettysburg High School See The Electric Map Guided Tours Of Historic Battlefield Record Hop Sights Of The Town Transportation by bus and chaperon will be furnished. Must have written permission from parents. All 8th to 12th Grade Students who wish to make the trip notify B.P.O.E. No. 212 by calling Elks dub at 684-1470 on Tuesday April 26, 1966 between 1 p.m.

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