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THE 0 PORMAN 502 NORTH 4 ST. 61462 Vol. 54 timiNCINTS Kit COW HUNTINGDON, MOUNT UNION and SAXTON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1975 PHONE: 6434040 No. 199 State Scions Face Heavy Work By President Energy Plan Is Given MONTEREY, Calif. (UPI) President Ford today unveiled a multibillion.dollar plan aimed at making the nation's energy supply self-sufficient.

Central to the proposal is JL the creation of a new jquasipubllc agency to spur energy research and development. Ford, who spent the night at the Monterey oceanside estate of the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, Leonard K. Firestone, made the plan public in an address prepared for a labor gathering in San Francisco. The President arrived in San Francisco at 9:50 a.m.

PDT (12:50 p.m. EOT) for a round of public appearances and interviews before he heads back to Washington late tonight. Ford made two major speech appearances Sunday first in dedicating a new law school at Stanford University, where he faced a 4 polite but unenthusiastic- audience, and later at Disneyland, where he was given a rousing welcome at a banquet of the National Association of Life Underwriters. The creation of an agency to float loans to private industry for energy research has been under consideration at the White House for several weeks. The ultimate goal is to make the United States (Cont'don Page 3) 13 Die In Goal Pit Explosion BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) The Australian government sent in bulldozers today to seal a coal mine in which 13 men apparently died in an underground explosion.

Authorities in the eastern state of Queensland met with officials of the Thiess-Peabody-Mitsui Coal Co. Sunday night and decided to give up the search for the lost miners. Ronald Camm, Queens. land's minister for mines, told reporters there was no hope of finding the trapped workers alive in the Kianga coal mine, 465 miles northwest of Brisbane. Camm said rescue workers gave up the search for the men after finding lethal quantities of carbon monoxide in air samples taken from the mine.

Officials asked a dozen clergymen of all denominations to conduct a mass funeral in front of the mine before the bulldozers sealed up the entrance Friends and relatives came from the nearby mining town of Moura. (Cont'don Page 31 Huntingdon Night School Sign-Up Set Adults in the Huntingdon Area School District are reminded that registration for this fall's term of evening classes will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday at the senior high school office. There will be courses offered for adults wishing to earn a standard evening high school diploma, as well as for persons wishing to pursue special interests. The interest courses will run for 10 weeks, and the diploma instruction for 15 weeks.

Classes will meet one night per week, from 7 to 10 p.m. There will be a $10 registration fee for the interest classes. However, ihere will be no charge for the diploma courses. A listing and schedule of the courses to be offered in Friday's Daily News. For further information, call Paul Moore at 6-13-4140 or James Jackson at 643-1080.

Begin Second Sinai Withdrawal While negotiators continue to work on the final details of the Israeli-Egyptian interim peace accord in the Sinai Desert these Israeli soldiers begin the task of pulling back the advance defense lines. Rolls of coiled barbed wire are piled up as the soldiers begin their withdrawal in the Sinai. Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur told reporters that the withdrawal will take five months. Anderson On Mideast Peace Pact 4 Traffic Named On Talks Extend Accidents Death List WASHINGTON (UPI) Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson said he knew he was an "irritant" during the Watergate period but he had no reason to believe that Nixon administration leaders wouM order up '(path. Nevertheless, Anderson said Sunday he had to take seriously the Washington Post report that E.

Howard Hunt Jr. had been instructed by a top White House official to assassinate him because the writer of the story was Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward, who helped crack the Watergate intrigues. According to the Post story Sunday, Hunt told associates of the plot that it was canceled although Hunt had made preliminary preparations. Hunt, a retired CIA agent, pleaded guilty in 1973 to participation in the I Cont'don Page 7) Po tt J- dO INSIDE THE NEWS Ann Landers 14 Classified Ads ....11.12,13 Comics 10 Crossword 13 Obituaries 2 Pa. Story 11 Society 4 Club 8 Sports 4,5 Through These Doors ...9 GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) Egyptian and Israeli negotiators failed early today to finish negotiations on military protocols implementing their interim peace agreement in the Sinai.

United Nations officials said the talks would resume latertoday. delegates worked hours in an all night session, but failed to complete the protocol within the original two-week deadline. U.N. Emergency Force commander Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo, chairing the negotiations, said earlier he hoped to have the protocol signed today.

A completed and signed protocol would permit implementation of the interim accord negotiated signed Sept. 4. The Israeli government announced Sunday in Jerusalem it would only initial the protocol at this stage, witholding its signature until Congress approves sending American volunteers to Sinai under the terms of the accord. The latest meeting between the two negotiating teams began at 5 p.m. Sunday and continued until 5:40 a.m.

this morning. A U.N. communique announced the meeting had closed without completion of the protocol, and said that "other meetings will take Veterans Day Is Restored To Nov. 11 MONTEREY. Calif.

(UPI) Veterans Day will return to Nov. 11 on the calendar of federal holidays, effective in 1978. It was shifted in 1968 to the fourth Monday in October, when Congress decided to increase the number of three- day holiday weekends. But public protest followed, and some state legislatures decided not to change their laws to conform with the change. President Ford signed legislation Sunday restoring observation of Veterans Day totheoriginaldate.

has become apparent that the commemoration of this dayon Nov. llisamatter of historic and patriotic significance to a great number of our citizens," he said in a statement. (Cont'don PageT) Reported Four traffic accidents were investigated by Huntingdon State Police during the weekend. A spokesman said this morning that a crash last night on Route 913 in Carbon is still under investigation. In the other mishaps, five vehicles, including a truck were damaged at total of $1,425.

One of the vehicles wts demolished. Three persons suffered minor injuries in the one smashup. State Police investigated a minor traffic mishap at 12:50 Sunday afternoon on Route 22, Porter Township. 1.5 miles west of Alexandria. No person was injured in the incident.

David Warren Crain, 24, Tyrone, R.D. 2, was westbound, driving a 1974 Dodge truck, while Donald Graham, 52, of 515 Clayton Avenue, Waynesbqro, also was westbound, operating a 1968 Chevrolet. Crain war passing the Graham car when his truck (Cont'donPage7) (Cont'don Page2) Gaining Strength In Gulf Rejuvenated Eloise Threat To Louisiana MIAMI (UPI) Tropical Storm Eloise rapidly rejuvenated toward hurricane strength over the Gulf of Mexico today and forecasters warned it had become a threat from northwestern Florida to southeastern Louisiana. The season's fifth tropical storm rebuilt peak winds from 50 miles an hour to 70 mph during the early morning and the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it would almost certainly become a hurricane. "Eloise is approaching hurricane strength and threatens the northern Gulf coast," the center said in a 6 a.m.

EOT advisory. The storm was located 300 miles south of New Orleans, moving north northwest at about 14 mph. The center said Eloise was expected to turn toward the north or north-northeast during the day. The advisory warned residents of the Gulf coast from' northwestern Florida to southeastern Louisiana to be on the alert for possible hurricane warnings this morning. Eloise lost its hurricane strength last week after pushing across Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and it had peak winds of only 40-45 mph when it moved over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula last weekend.

But it began rapidly rebuilding its strength as it mqved over the warm Gulf waters late Sunday night. The New Orleans Levee JC President On Radio Show Dr. Frederick M. Binder, new president of Juniata College, will be guest on the "Let's Talk It Over" show tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. on Radio Station WHUN.

Host Jo McMeen will extend a cordial "Welcome to Huntingdon County" to the new administrator and discuss with him a variety of college and community-related topics. Board, which builds and maintains the flood protection system encircling New Orleans, moved into a second stage alert Sunday. Emergency equipment was unpacked and inspected, amphibious vehicles were readied and floodwall openings were cleared of 'debris which could obstruct the installation of steel gates. Oil company officials also charted the storm's progress and strength as it aimed toward the busy offshore oil and gas fields off the Gulf Coast. "I believe it's going to pose a problem for all of a spokesman for Shell Oil the largest operator in the Gulf offshore region.

"But we have made no attempts as of now to move personnel or equipment or to shut down equipment in the Gulf." Meanwhile, forecasters continued to watch tropical storm Faye, packing 45 m.p.h. top winds, inch westward across the Atlantic (Cont'don Page7) Denenberg May Announce Plans Today PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Herbert Denenberg today may announce finally whether he plans to accept renomination to the state Public Utility Commission. Denenberg has scheduled a news conference at 10:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn here. He said Friday he would discuss Gov.

Milton Shapp's surprise announcement that he would renominate Denenberg tothePUC. Denenberg had been appointed to the commission last January, but the Senate soundly defeated his nomination in April. Shapp's announcement came about a month ago when a consumers group gave the governor petitions containing 85,000 signatures and calling for Denenberg's renom- ination. But, at that time, Denenberg refused to say whether he would accept or reject a nomination. The governor has delayed making the forma', nomination until he hears what Denenberg intends to do.

WEATHER Cloudy tonight with rain developing by morning. Low SO (o 55. Occasional rain Tuesday. High in the upper 50s to low Chance of rain 40 per cent tonigbl and 70 per cent Tuesday. Minnich Medical Bill Will Receive Top Priority Is Named To Board William R.

Minnick, son of Mrs. Charlotte Minnick, of 220 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Mount Union, has been appointed by Governor Milton Shapp to the ShippensbUrg State College Board of Trustees. Minnick, who recently attended his first board meeting, is a 1946 graduate of Mount Union High School. Now a resident of the Harrisburg area, Minnick is a speech writer and coordinator of special projects in the Office of Public Information of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

Before joining the department in 1971, he was a high school teacher and football coach for 18 years. He also has been a part-time instructor at Harrisburg Area Community College. Minnick is a 1952 graduate of Shippensburg State College and has taken graduate courses at Western Maryland College, Westminster College and SSC. He has been a member of several Democratic Party committees and was elected the first Democratic supervisor in the history of Lower Paxton Township. Minnick was a member of the Carlisle Area School Board during the late 19SO's and was district leader of the Harrisburg YMCA Work Program in 1968.

Minnick's term on the board will continue until January, 1981. Missiles Study Is Assured STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) President Ford has put the United States on record as having "no present intention" to provide nuclear weapons capability or know-how to any Middle East nation. Ford also said there will be a study of the "whole range of development and. use" of Pcrshing surface-to-surface missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, if the United States eventually decides to provide Israel with the missiles.

At a question-and-answer session with students at Stanford University Law School Sunday, the President said he could not categorically say whether or not Israel has nuclear capability. Asked by a student whether he would try to determine prior to any sale whether Israel could mount nuclear wa on the missiles. Ford replied: 'They want substantial arms and, in the case of the Pershing the precise language says we will study it. "I am certain that in the process of studying we will cover the whole range of deployment and "We have no present intention of giving any Middle East nation a nuclear capability (Conl'donPageS) HARRISBURG (UPI) The Pennsylvania Legislature returned from a two-month summer recess today to face an impressive list of bills and issues that they were unable to resolve during the first 9V4 months of the 1975-76 session. Heading the list was a bill that is designed to ease the growing medical malpractice insurance problem in Pennsylvania.

Doctors in the Pennsylvania Medical Society threatened a strike or slowdown this summer in protest of high malpractice insurance rates unless the legislature passed an acceptable bill. But they agreed to hold off on such action because legislative leaders promised the measure would be given top priority following the summer icationbreak. William McLaughlin, Gov. Milton Shapp's legislative secretary, said the work had nearly completed a compromise bill he hopes will be acceptable to the doctors, lawyers and insurance companies. Also ranking high on the list of unfinished business is a bill designed to restore about half of the cuts the legislature made in the state government operating budgets for the current fiscal year and give more aid to the counties most of it to Allegheny and Philadelphia.

The bill also includes enough money to increase legislators' expense accounts and mileage allowances and to allow House members to hire secretaries for their home offices. The bill's fate is uncertain. Some lawmakers oppose it because of the expense account increase and many (Cont'don Page7) 25th Amendment No Change In Process Warranted WASHINGTON (UPI) The extraordinary events leading to Gerald Ford's accession to the presidency and his choice of a new vice president provided the first test of how well the new 25th Amendment to the Constitution works. A Senate constitutional rights subcommittee, in a report issued Sunday, concluded il "operated exceedingly well" and said ''no modification is warranted." The amendment, "which has been applied twice in its short existence, successfully met its first, and perhaps most difficult tests." the panel said. Part of the amendment, ratified in 1967.

says the president may nominate a successor subject to congressional approval if the vice president's office becomes vacant. Previously, the vice presidency would have remained vacant and the speaker of the House would have become next in line of succession. When Vice President Sptro Agnew resigned in 197.3, Rich- 1 (Cont'don Page7) At Juniata Wednesday Orchestra To Open Series The 1975-76 Juniata College Artist Series will open Wednesday evening, Sept. 24, with the Hartford Chamber Orchestra, which is on its first tour outside the New York-New England area. Performance time is 8:15 in Oiler Auditorium on the Juniata campus.

Founded in 1971 by conductor-director Daniel Parker, the Hartford Chamber Orchestra has alr'ady captured the enthusiasm of loyal audiences in its own region, many of whom had never attended a concert before. This season it will perform more than 50 concerts in New England alone and initiate its first college campus tour. The imagination and innovative programming of its 28-year-old conductor, Parker, plus its concept of communicating with as wide an audience as possible, has made the Hartford Chamber Orchestra one of the fastest growing chamber ensembles in the country. The orchestra is the first ensemble of its kind to use a narrator to introduce each making it possible to say more about the works performed and creating greater intimacy with the audience. Eugene Solon will serve as Wednesday evening's narrator Parker, the group's conductor, offers a rare mastery of his medium.

He has studied at Salzburg's famed Mozarteum, was graduated from Hartt College of Music, and has been a guest conductor ut festivals and (Cont'don Page3i Classes Begin Week Of Oct. 6 Vo-Tech Night School Registration Scheduled The Huntingdon County Vo-tech School's fall term of adult" evening classes will begin the week of October 6, according to Raymond Orlowski, County Vocational Guidance Counselor. Orlowski, director of the adult program, reports that six courses will be offered during the fall term, including auto mechanics, Basic Electricity basic machine -liop, waiter-waitress training, small engine repair and welding. Classes will be held at five different locations throughout the county. Registration is scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m.

this Wednesday and Thursday, September 23 and 24, at the Mill Creek Vo-tech Center, located at the intersection of Routes 22 and 655. Orlowski noted that registration for adult classes offered by the Huntingdon Area High School will also be held Wednesday night. Adults interested in taking evening courses from the high school and the vo-tech school can therefore register at both places in one night. The vo-tech evening classes will be held one night per week, three hours per night, for 10 weeks. There is a S5.00 registration fee, plus a 55.00 charge (except for auto to help defray the cost of materials.

Students will receive a certificate of achievement, as well as a refund on their registration fee, if they attend seven of the 10 weekly classes. The instruction is open to any resident of one of the four county school districts who is over the age of 16 and currently out of school Non-residents may also enroll, but will not be eligible for the registration fee refund. The basic objectives of the adult evening courses are to enable persons to more technical knowledge and practical skill in their field of employment, to prepare persons for entry into a trade, to teach related theory information considered essential to the trade and to keep students abreast of the rapidly changing technological progress of industry. None of the subjects are offered on a hobby basis. The following is a brief description of each course, and includes listings of times, locations and instructions.

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