The Titusville Herald from Titusville, Pennsylvania • Page 10

Copies: 20 cents each. Two 30e each. 11 or 2 The Titusville Herald. Legion Post meet- 8 p.m. BREVITIES State inspections, and uni- body frame repair.

Don Booth's Body Shop, 827-7076. Alcoholics Anonymous Car Willie, Jamboree, Dog Race, March 27-28. Colonial Tours, 827-9171. FAX Service at The TitusvUle Herald. Messages sent anywhere in two minutes or less.

$3 for sending, $1.75 receiving. Herald office phone 827-3634. Herald FAX phone 827-2512. Freezer getting low? Try one of our meat packages! Freezer wrapped, $5 extra. Smith's Meat Market, 827-3919.

Stop Smoking. An 8-session class on smoking cessation will begin tonight at Titusville Area Hospital from 7 to 9 p.m. Learn to cut back or quit tobacco (including smokeless). To register, or for more information, call the community relations office at 827-1851, Ext. 548.

Gun Show, Saegertown American Legion Hall, Saegertown, Rt. 198 Mar. 20 and 21. Sat, 9-5; 9-4. Admission, $2.

Plenty of free parking. Food provided by American Legion Aux. Ham shoots, every 7 p.m., Cherrytree Twp. V.F.D. Marine Aux.

card party, Mar. 11, 7 p.m., American Legion rooms. $3. Public welcome. Reading Outlets, March 21-22.

Colonial Tours, 827-9171. Samson Kitchens off at Morrison Builders, 827-3811. Speedi-Print process at Drake Printing in the Herald Elldg. Same day service on all camera-ready copy. Phone 827-4641.

Tomorrow is childrens portrait day at Armstrong Studio. For information call 827-1532. Geese Spotted Bill Turner of the Bugtown Road saw three flocks of wild geese heading north toward Erie. Could it be that spring really isn't that far off? Cherrytree Meeting The Cherrytree Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary meeting, set forthis evening, has been changed to Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the fjrehall.

Auxiliary Meeting The ladies auxiliary of the Centerville Volunteer Fire Department will hold their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 at the fire- hall. All members are urged to attend. Nearly New Volunteers The Nearly New Shoppe volunteers for this week are: Wednesday, Biilie Jo Coleman and Maxine Jameson; Thursday, Suzanne vonTacky and Cyndie Rowles; Friday morning, Karen Hummel and Gail Gephart; Friday afternoon, Jackie Thompson and Martha Carlson. Extended Outlook Mostly cloudy with flurries Thursday. Lows in the 20s.

Highs from 35 to 40. Friday: Increasing cloudiness with late-day snow. Lows from 20 to 25. Highs from 30 to 35. Saturday: Snow.

Lows from 20 to 25. Highs from 25 to 30. The 6- to 10-day outlook for Sunday, March 14th, through Thursday, March 18th, calls for below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation. Good Morning! Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you lest Matthew 11:28 CROSSWORD By Eugene Sheffer ACROSS 1 Speaker's place 5 Vendetta 9 Wield an ax 12 Between jobs 13 Basilica area Lonesome Tonight" 15 Cotton pile fabric 17 Cover 18 Otherwise 19Mah- jongg set 21 Murphy Brown's baby 24 Indy entry 25 Word before wire or oak 26 Distressed 30 Inseparable 31 Singer Eydie 32 Night before 33 Worries greatly 35 "Where's the 36Glop 37 Laugh- provoking 38 Keyboard comic 40 Last writes? 42 Adjective suffix 43 Tarkington opus 48 Raided the ice box 49 Green acres 50 Gumbo base 51 Bart, to Homer 52 Tackles' teammates 53 "SwellI" DOWN mult. 2 Summer quaff the Sun" 4 Harsh 5 Waller or Domino 6 Duel tool 7 Put to work 8 Set of teeth 9 A devil of a time? 10 Pennsylvania port 11 Goes to a J.P.

16TVTarzan Ron 20 "Who am argue?" 1 Inverse of 21 Greatly Solution time: 24 mlns. Yesterday's answer 3-9 22 Source of veritas 23 Streisand song 24 Magazine articles? 26 Gridlock noise 27 Museum stuff 28 Factorable by 2 29 Challenge 31 Lake Ontario feeder 34 Beer container 35 Old shoe fastener 37 Half a sawbuck 38 Prejudice 39 Aware of 40 Roman poet 41 Franklin and Cartwright 44 Sea flyer 45 Scratch (out) 46 NOW goal 47 Natalie's dad 3-9 CRYPTOQUIP QRWCDOQ QRDOKCRP YRI XJ XOKKIUMM YODKRIJ: I MTICPW. Yesterday's Cryptoquip: SKILLED SEA CAPTAIN TURNED ROAD REPAIRER SO THAT HE COULD WORK WITH TAR. Today's Cryptoquip clue: equals Mission Program The First United Methodist Church is holding "Mission Ambassadors to Tonga" program this evening at 7 in Murray Parlor. Guest speaker is Mrs.

John (Pearl) Foster of Clarks Mills. Refreshments will be served by Circle III of the church. Encore Program Featured speaker at the YWC A's Encore Program this evening is Jill Jones of Horizon Life Support Products in Titusville. The program begins at 7 p.m. in the YWCA activities building.

Encore is for women who have undergone breast cancer surgery. For more information, contact the YWCA, a United Way agency. Congressman To Mail Out Questionnaire U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge (PA-21) is asking the opinion of his constituents on some of the major issues facing the 103rd Congress.

A congressional questionnaire will arrive in western Pennsylvania mailboxes by the end of this week. "Good government involves listening to people," stated Ridge in announcing the release of the questionnaire. "Knowing the opinions of the men and women of western Pennsylvania is essential if I am to make their voices heard in Washington." The questionnaire is being sent to the 243,000 households located in Ridge's Congressional district. Questions cover a broad range of issues, including the economy, health care, the environment and education. "Weekly trips home, frequent town meetings, and a heavy flow of constituent correspondence have helped me understand and keep in touch with constituents over the years," said Ridge.

"Filling out this Congressional questionnaire is another easy and significant way the' men and women of western Pennsylvania can participate in the political process." Completed questionnaires should be mailed to the Washington, D.C. office: 1714 Longworth Building, Washington, D.C., 20515. More Warrants Expected in Bombing Case NEW YORK (AP) More search warrants, and possibly more arrest warrants, could be issued this week in the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the FBI said Monday. Also Monday, a federal law enforcement source said investigators have identified a number of associates of Mohammed Salameh, 25, who is being held without bail oh charges he helped bomb the trade center on Feb. 26.

"We hope these people will be able to provide us with information on Salameh and perhaps lead us to others as well," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. James Fox, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office, said he expected more search warrants and possibly more arrest warrants to be issued, but he wouldn't elaborate. The bombing killed five people, injured more than 1,000 and closed the twin 110-story towers the World's second-largest buildings for at least a month. In other developments: agents, in a weekend raid, reportedly seized documents from the Attica state prison cell of El Sayyid Nosair, held on charges connected to the 1990 killing of radical Rabbi Meir Kahane. They were looking for correspondence between Nosair and Salameh, the Buffalo News reported.

A state Correctional Services spokesman, citing privacy laws, had no comment on a report that Salameh had often visited Nosair in prison. Nosair is a cousin of Ibraham Elga- browny, who was arrested for allegedly assaulting two FBI agents when they raided his Brooklyn apartment. Salameh listed Elga- browny's address on a rental application fora van used in the bombing. continued to inch into the 5-story-deep blast crater. Multiple Personality Claim Rejected MARTINEZ, Calif.

(AP) A 31-year-old ex-convict was found guilty Monday of kidnapping two young girls after a judge rejected claims he was innocent because of a multiple-personality disorder. Tracy Arthur Stone could be sentenced to more than 60 years in prison, prosecutors said. Superior Court Judge Richard Amason will sentence Stone Friday. Arnason found Stone guilty in the non-jury trial of 16 of 19 counts, including burglary, kidnapping and sexual assault. Charges against Stone stemmed from the kidnapping and molesting of two Contra Costa County girls, a 6-year-old taken last June and a 9-month-old abducted last March.

EASTON, Pa. (AP) A judge issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of former Cambria County President Judge Joseph F. O'Kicki. Judge Richard Grifo of Northampton County revoked O'Kicki's $10,000 bond when the convicted jurist failed to show up for a hearing in Easton. Grifo, who presided over O'Kicki's trial, ordered the Cambria County sheriff's department to arrest O'Kicki if and when he is found.

Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Claus told Grifo that O'Kicki telephoned James Yelovich, one of O'Kicki's attorneys, on Friday and said he was in a hospital. O'Kicki would not say which hospital, Claus said. Yelovich was not in court Monday. O'Kicki was convicted in December 1989 of three counts of bribery and three other public-corruption charges. He was sentenced to two to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in fines, restitution and costs.

O'Kicki was found guilty of soliciting a kickback" from' a lawyer, threatening a water-company, employee with jail for investigating a waterline tap-in near a mobile home O'Kicki owned and requiring court employees to do his personal chores. The state Supreme Court announced Feb. 26 it would not hear O'Kicki's appeal. O'Kicki earlier had appealed to state Superior Court. That appeal was heard and rejected, in August 1991.

Last week, Claus filed a petition Bar Employees Indicted for Manslaughter MURPHYSBORO, 111. (AP) A grand jury indicted six bar employees Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the asphyxiation death of a Southern Illinois University freshman. Jose Waight, 24, of South Holland, died Feb. 5 after a scuffle with bouncers at Checkers bar in Carbondale, Jackson County authorities said. Witnesses said he was out of control and that wrestling holds were applied.

His blood-alcohol level was 0.2 percent, according to the coroner's office, twice the amount considered legally intoxicated in Illinois. THE TITUSVILLE HERALD, Titusville, Tuesday, March 9, FIVE Funeral Notices funeral service for Mrs. Ethel C. Finley will be conducted at 1 pjn. today at the Jefferson Memorial Cemetery Chapel in Pittsburgh.

HARTWICK The funeral service for Mrs. Jeanne M. Hart wick will be conducted at II aon. today at the Gordon B. Garrett Funeral Home.

Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. of Mrs. Irene E. Steams may call at the Gordon B. Garrett Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today and attend the funeral service Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Titusville Wesleyan Methodist Church. Interment will be in Jerusalem Comers Cemetery. DEATH HALFAST William Morris Halfast, 70, of Sebring, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 1992, at Florida Hospital in Orlando.

Mr. Halfast was born in Centerville (Five Comers) on Jan. 22,1922, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Halfast.

Following his mother's death, he was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James (Stella) Ross of Centerville. He attended Putman Independent School at Five Corners and graduated from Titusville High School. 5 He moved to Florida in 1988 from Cony, where he retired as traffic manager for Associated Springs in Corry.

He was a member of the Sebring Golf Association, the Sebring Elks Lodge and the First United Methodist Church of Sebring. He is survived by his wife, Fran; three daughters. Sandy McCray of TEAM CHALLENGE: These Titusville High School Student Council officers have challenged other high school clubs and students to form five-person bowling teams and head for Lin-Van Lanes the afternoon of March 20 for fun, food and prizes as part of Bowl for Kids Sake. Shown are (1-r) Heather Hermes, Theresa Clark, Kelly Bair and Matt Ebert. Not shown is Tom Hancock, junior high guidance counselor and "Big Brother." Judge Issues Warrant For O'Kicki's Arrest asking Grifo to revoke the bond.

Claus said O'Kicki had been missing from his home in suburban Johnstown for two weeks. O'Kicki, 62, has been treated for cancer recently. O'Kicki said he fell in January, breaking his wrist in two places. a lawyer in Hollidaysburg, said O'Kicki ate at his house March 1. Cohen said he believed O'Kicki was headed for State College.

Claus notedO-Kjckis wife, Sylvia, studying in Slovenia, the former nia and Patrida Richardson of Comr Yugoslavian republic on a federally- four so James Hurlbut of BrS funded hulbnght scholarship. Ga Hullbut of Cindn On Friday, Arthur Cohen, a nati, William Hurlbut of Dallas and Edward of California; a brother, James of Avon Park; a sister, Janet Follet of Cony; 16 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Singer and Bandleader Billy Eckstine, 78, Dies State Looks To Release Mental Patients HARRISBURG (AP) About 10 percent of longtime mental patients at state-run hospitals could be released, into community programs in the coming years, according to a report published Monday. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 counties have responded to a state request that they come up with a plan to empty 10 percent of their long-term psychiatric beds for poor and uninsured adults in Pennsylvania. All 13 of the state's mental hospitals would remain open, but savings from the reduced caseload would go toward paying for the 464 patients after they are released from nine targeted institutions.

For some patients, the hospitals have been the only home they have known for decades. For example, at least 10 patients at Norristown State Hospital were already institutionalized when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. One woman, now 84, entered the hospital when Herbert Hoover was president in 1930. But officials insist the current plan to deinstitutionaUze patients will not mean they are left to wander the streets or end up in nursing homes and jails as in the past. By CLAUDIA COATES Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) Billy Eckstine, whohelped launch a generation of jazz careers and sang in a rich baritone on such '40s and '50s hits as Moon," 'Tools Rush In" and 1 Apologize," died Monday at age 78.

Eckstine died at Montefiore Hospital of cardiac arrest. Mercury Records spokeswoman Dawn Bridges said. In recent years, Eckstine lived in Las Vegas, but returned to Pittsburgh, his hometown, for treatment after suffering a stroke last summer. Singer Nancy Wilson said Eckstine, known as "Mr. was a warm man who overcame racial stereotypes to succeed.

"He was a man of great character of courage," she said. "He came' along at a time when it was difficult to survive. His blackness kept him from being as big as he could have been." He was one of America's most popular vocalists in the late 1940s and early '50s, and the first black singer to become a national sex symbol. Hip young men copied his style of dress, shirts with rolled collars and jackets draped off the body. His hits from 1945 to 1951 also included "A Cottage for Sale," "Prisoner of Love," "I Surrender, Dear 'Everything I Have Is Yours," "My Foolish Heart," "Caravan," and Ijody and Soul." His last big hit was "Passing Strangers," a duet with barah Vaughan.

Before his vocal career, he led the Billy Eckstine Band, which featured Miles Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Fats Navat ro, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey and Lucky Thompson. He also played guitar, trumpet, valve trombone and valve saxophone. The band bridged the swing and bebop eras, said Ed Berger, assistant director of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. William Clarence Eckstine was bom July 8, 1914, in Pittsburgh. He grew up in Washington, D.C, and attended Howard University.

He worked in small clubs, moving west to Chicago. He was hired as vocalist with Earl "Fatha" Hines' Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939, and recorded as vocalist on two blues hits, "Jelly, Jelly" and "Stormy Monday." Eckstine's band was active only from 1944 to 1947 because of economic difficulties but had pivotal influence on bebop. He then took up singing the romantic ballads that won him wider stardom. He performed until he suffered a stroke last year. He is survived by two ex-wives, June and Carolle; seven children, Kenny, Ronnie, Billy Ed, Guy, Charlotte Carolle and Gina; and by four grandchildren and one great-, grandchild.

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