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ALTOONA MIRROR, ALTOONA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957. HOKISECTION OOLUSIOX. B. Ardrey. 22, of 1414 First ttreet, caatbound on Howard avenue, flopped at the cign, to we the touthbound car Earl L.

Kennedy, 27, of 12T WiUow avenue, on First street about 7.42 o'clock last evening, city police In the "resultant accident, damage to the Kennedy car was $215 and to the Ardrey car $200. NEILLY'S lee Cream 12 FXAVOKS Twin Pops 39c Dozen Fudge Bars 39c Dozen Sold From Truck At Dave's Dream Pleasant Valley Blvd. Every Sat 1 to P. M. SEARCH IN CASE (CMtlnucd from pice 1) get." Galloway, who led the 22-hour search by 1,000 police and volun- killer "if we have to follow him clear across the country." "What can you do?" he asked after the girl was found with her liands tied behind her back and wearing only a blood-splattered blouse.

"Robbing a bank is one thing. That's a crime. But this?" Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund De Caussin.

disappeared from her home Wednesday evening. A search was started and continued all through the night MYSTERIOUS CARGO IS BEING REMOVED from 1) Thursday night The men spent the evening in typical sailor fashion, dancing and singing among the many on hand to come them after the journey. Graham Nunn, the 16-year-old Mayflower cabin boy from England, was momentarily disappointed when he saw the size of Plymouth Rock. "I was never so shocked," he said. "I saw pictures back home and it was a big bloomin' thing." BACK AT PARLEY turn 1) that the United States might try to pull off a deal with Russia, not only on disarmament but on broader issues including Germany.

Administration sources in Washington flatly denied this, but the rumors persisted and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was reported especially worried that this become an issue in the heated West German election campaign. The sources in Washington said Stassen had been told to make ab- HONORABLE MENTION QffICCrS Seated By Presbyterian Women's Guild lives near the park, discovered the body when he went to empty some trash. "I saw her there in the XT sure the Allies are told in Not since the -founding ft rfVfl what wiHl established a toe-hold on the new world in 1620 has this seaport occupied such a prominent place in world events. 50,000 tourists witnessed the arrival of the 14 DIE, 9 INJURED bushes," he said, "and ran home bark Thursday, land told my wife to call police." De Caussin and his wife, Ger. -aise, were saying the Rosary Iwhen notified their daughter's body had been found.

The father said earlier he didn't blame the man "as much as the society that produces the man." have sex-peTve'rts," he said, the day society changes its basic moral principles and reasserts a belief in God." AUXILIARY TO MEET. The auxiliary of the Bernard Albert Good; post 8865 will meet Wednesday evening. June 19, at 7.30 o'clock at the post home. (Continued from pace 1) My left leg was under someone arid my head was under" water. wrenched free -and got -out somehow." The nine injured including Curtis, none believed badly hurt, were taken to the base hospital.

The soldiers were returning to within about nine miles of the base after several days of field training when; the tragedy oc- a'dwrfce what with Zorin in future talks including details and context. TWO PRIESTS ARE RELEASED (Continued from pare 1) Two other clergymen were released earlier this year upon completion of their prison terms. JThey were Franciscan Father Fulgence Gross, of Omaha, released March 28 after six years imprison- mont, and of Baltimore, a Lutheran missionary who served five years. The release of McCarthy and Houle left six Americans known held in red captivity. They include Franciscan Father John P.

Wagner, Pittsburgh, Pa, and Maryknoll Father Joseph P. McCormick, Ossining, N. Y. 1210 Eleventh Ave. Air-Conditioned A NEW CROP of DRESSES with Summer In Mind! Our buyers have returned from the dress market with a brand new crop of summer confections.

We picture a few of our many new styles, cooling the summer heat every conceivable fabric for every conceivable event. left: A shirtdress with wings! The, wonderful butterfly sleeve that begins at the waist, gently rises to envelope the back and shoulders, and ends in the sweetest two- button cuff an arm ever knew! A convertible collar unbuttons from throat to waist. In red embroidery on white cotton broadcloth. In Junior Sizes. 29.95 Main Floor right: A Korell plus-size dress will fit you perf out alteration if you're 5'5" or under.

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In Junior Sizes. 16.95 2nd Floor left: 2nd Floor We have a grand selection of summer coolers for girls and sub-teens like the dressy nylon organdy pictured. Pastels and prints in patiste, dimity and chambray. 3.98 14.98 Girls' Sizes 3 to 6x, 7 to 14. Sub-teens' Sizes 8 to 14.

EMPLOYES GIVEN CITATION MRS. THOMAS CLAAR Mrs. Claar of East Freedom yesterday won honorable mention and a $230 prize in the national finals of the Singer sew-off, in 50,000 entrants sewed publicly at B. Altman Co. department store, Xew York, from June 7 to 13.

First prize of $25,000 was. won by Mrs. William Bishop of Oxnard, Calif. Five Freight CJars Of Pennsy.lrairi Derail at Tyrone 4 Five cars of an 87-car Pennsyl- railroad freight train derailed at 6.10 o'clock last -evening in Tyrone, blocking intersections at Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets for several hours. office of H.

L. Kimble, assistant superintendent transportation of the Pittsburgh region reported there were no injuries in the mishap involving extra train -bound from Northumberland carrying 56 loaded and 31 empty cars. The trouble reportedly started at Twenty-second street with a broken journal box on the; eighth car back of the locomotive. A dragging axle scored ties for 10 blocks but the track was undamaged. At the Fourteenth street crossing the axle struck and threw a switch.

Eight cars passed over the switch without difficulty but two then left the track at that point. Three gondolas and four boxcars next in line remained on the track but at Thirteenth street a boxcar and two gondolas were derailed. Two cars which jumped the tracks at Thirteenth Street thrown into the street. Two other cars were headed for. the Miller coal yard when they came to a stop.

Although the tracks were not damaged, the road bed on the south side of the track from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets was torn up. The wreck train from Altoona was dispatched to the scene and worked late the night to, clear the derailed cars. Traffic which used the blocked streets was re-routed over other streets, it was reported. There were no tie-ups. The meeting of the Women's guild of the First Presbyterian church of Hollidaysburg Monday evening at the was featured by the installation of officers, appointment of chairmen of standing committees and the annual "birthday" party.

Installed into office were: President, Mrs. Roy M. Rumbaugh; vice president, Mrs. Fred A. Spancake; -recording secretary, Mrs.

Harry T. Lander; treasurer, Mrs. Raymond C. Rickner. and assistant Mrs.

an 1 i Stultz. Mrs. Rumbaugh appointed these committee chairmen: Program. Mrs. Robert Akers; house, Mrs.

J. William Oakes; care of collection plates, Mrs. Arthur Randolph Johnston; housekeeping, Mrs. Byron' W. Leach; parlor project, Comegys M.

Brown Mrs. Murray Henry; Paul Malone (left), representing employes of Sylvania Electric Products, is presented the National Safety council's award of honor by H. A. Ehlers, general manufacturing manager of the radio tube division. YOUTH IMPLICATED IN PETTY THEFTS (Continued from pajre 1) vision mirrors were taken from unlocked cars in Altoona on Feb.

15. On at least three occasions the car looters took radios, spotlights, tires and tubes. A syphon was used to obtain gasoline in the Altoona- Hollidaysburg area and the driver found a market for much of the loot- Attorney Bernard Jubelirer assured the court that the thefts came -as a shock to the mother of one of the youths who also had flowert, Mrs? Anthony Stark, jr. Devotions, W. Stanley Trucy; Mrs.

John O. Prosser; proxy Mrs. N. Grant Nicholas; and Mrs. Carl C.

rummage sale, Mrs. candy sale, Mrs, Joseph R. Good; pecan project, Mrs. Harry T. -Lander; tele- phonefMrk Robert, McKlUip; list- Ing of membership, Mrsj Earl E.

Bonnet; sale of name tags, Mrs. S. Royer Dibert, and music, Mrs. S. Royer Dibert.

Announcement was made that a special meeting of the committee, composed of? the officers and chairmen of committees, will be held soon at the call of th president to plan the fall and winter programs. The opening fall be-'field, Monday evening, Sept. 9, at 6 The meeting opened a devotional program conducted by Mrs. George Reynolds Howard, wife of, the pastor of tfie church. During the social hour, individual birthday cakes with candles were presented as favors.

A dessert luncheon also was served. Hostesses were: Chairman, Mrs." Raymond C. Rickner; Mrs. Earl E. Bonnet, Mrs.

Ralph Konchnik, Mrsy $. Royer Dibert, Mrs. Ernest C. "Rhodes and Mrs. Bernice Hayes RENAMED TO POST AREA REPAIRS ATTORNEY ASHTON GARDNER Ashton Gardner other boys.

Two Altoona girls, 15 and 16 Treaster of Snyder and Thomas Smith Board Solicitor Attorney Ashton Gardner of Hollidaysburg, solicitor for the Blair county school board since 1938, was to the position for an- provided a home for two of the other year at the meeting Wednesday evening in the office of Superintendent James E. Butts. S. Dean Campbell of Greenfield township presided in the absence of President Myron K. Biddle.

Other board members, present were E. G. Hamill of Hollidaysburg, J. D. Hartman of Logan township, Clay township of Antis township.

Also in attendance were superintendent Butts and as- Distant, Paul Kurtz. The board announced that the county had supervised high school entrance examinations for 1,325 pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. There were 604 for the sixth grade, 121 for the seventh arid 600 for, eighth grade pupils. The proposed building 'site for the new Tyrone area high school received county board approval and the members accepted the resignation of Kay B. Davis as a speech correctionist The board also reported amendments to the county plan for the education-of handicapped children.

A method of auditing the fund for education pf handicapped children was agreed The audi- W. M. Doran of Bellwood, Russell Delozier of Blair township and R. R. England of Catherine were elected in February at the annual meeting of the county board.

Action was taken on salary ad- ustments for employes -for the school year to begin on July 1. The joard also adopted a budget which, lowever, is subject to approval by the state department of public in- truction at Harrisburg. Con tinned from pare 1) and power service for anywhere from a few minutes to throughout the Altoona, 25 city highway department employes 'were called out after the storm struck about 7 to clean flooded storm inlets and to'remove debris from the streets. The sweeper and flusher were brought out after the short storm passed to remove "the mud from the streets. Only flooding reported In the city was Fifth.

avenue and Sixteenth street and at Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street? according to the city highway yard. "We have no major one city spokesman, said. Traffic Signals Knocked Out. City police reported that the power interruptions caused traffic signals on Sixth and Seventh avenues and at Plank road to be out of order for a Thie CAA station at Martinsburg said no reading on the maximum wind velocity was taken because most of the time was spent directing a private and an army cargo plane lost in the storm. They said the gusts "definitely exceeded" 30 knots (about 35 miles aii hour).

Reports from Buckhorn, Ashville, Coupon and Dysart, areas'in which the storm struck before descending on Altoona, were "practically the same. They said: "High winds, heavy rain, trees uprooted, light and telephone service interrupted." Reservoir Work Interrupted. At the new Mill run -reservoir, where the second shift was working to -place fill for the new dam, the downpour did no damage, but soaked the ground so heavily that the job is delayed for several days until it dries out. W. E.

Grimm, plant wire chief for Bell Telephone company, reported things were about-back to normal as of 7 o'clock this, morning after 10 cable crews: LOCAL PLANT AWARD (Continued from pace 1) award of honor was based on the achievement of 3,338,035 man hours worked in the period from Oct. 15, 1954, until Dec. 31, .1956, without a disabling injury. The-radio tube division award is in the form of a bar indicating 1956 as being an accident-free year. A similar award had previously been received for 1955's record.

The Liberty Mutual Insurance company's award was also a bar to be attached to a plaque previ- The present award was for the third man-hours, without lost time accidents, in the period from Oct 15, 1951 to Oct 25 1956. Richard P. Snyder, safety engineer of the Altoona plant, stated at the conclusion of the program that these awards "are based on safety records during certain periods of time. Actually there has not been a disabling injury from Oct 15, 1954, up to the present, and now over 4,000.000 man-hours have been Surpassed. Of Bolt Shop Is throughout the night.

Twelve repairmen were on duty today. A few scattered reports of damage still can be expected, he said. Overall there were 17 cases of cable trouble "and numerous-lines and station difficulties in- the Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Cresson, Tyrone and Bellwood areas" involving 475 but not simultaneously. Most of the damage was caused by falling trees and snagging branches. Bell Stations Report Damage, A breakdown of the lines and stations troubles according to reports received from the -time of the who left their respective homes on May 5 to join three boys on an excursion to Kittanning, were plac ed on probation to Mrs.

Ida Elliot of the juvenile office for one year Two of their male companions on the'ir carnival attendance at Kit tanning are awaiting criminal cour action on a charge of i to the delinquency of minors. The third youth is a juvenile. Court was informed that the i girls, charged as runaways, lef home with Harry Yerty, Gerald Price and the juvenile. The boys returned to Altoona on the morning after the carnival, leaving the girls in Kittanning. One of the mothers contacted state police anc the girls were, picked up to land in the Blair county detention home They were released their parents on May 27.

but one of them was back in detention on June 8 after threatening further defiance of her parents by getting married. One of the girls left home-in November and hitchhiked through 15 states before being picked up in Alabama and returned to her Altoona home. It was the parents of the two girls heard yesterday who made information Yerty and Price. against FLAG APPEARS IN BIG WAY I (Continued from page 1) cover the front of the new sky! scraper Tishman building here from its second to tenth story would remind New Yorkers that the "broad stripes and bright stars" are still the emblem of "the land of the free and the home of the brave." The giant banner first was displayed in 1943 on a New York department store as part of a war bonds sales appeal. The flag, carried by eight men when folded and rigged by a 25- man crew, later covered eight stories of the front of Macy's department store on VE day in 1945.

FIVE-DAY FORECAST. Western Pennsylvania: Temperature will average six to eight degrees above normal. Quite warm over the week-end with no important temperature Monday through Wednesday. Precipitation will average about one-half inch occurring as scattered afternoon and evening thundcrahowers Over the week-end and probably Monday through Wednesday. (Continued from 1) or its home ownership and hat with many retired people liv- ng in the city, they found it diffi- ult to stand increased taxes.

The greatest resentment to Harrisburg, Senator Mallery said, was its continuing role of telling home government how to conduct ts business. He said decisions on how much to' pay employes should made at local, not at state level. DIVER IS INJURED. John Dolheimer. 15, of 7015 Logan iarkway suffered a laceration of he scalp when he struck another wimmer while diving at the Lakemont park pool yesterday after- oon.

Three skin clips were used closing the wound when he was 4 ed in Mercy hospital dispen- ary. storm until 7 a. m. jfollows: Altoona, 20 lines and 22 stations; lines and 60 stations; Cresson, 2. lines and 3 stations; Tyrone, 3 lines and 9 stations; Bellwood, 1 line and 1 station.

Four major power interruptions reported by the two -utility firms serving county rural residents were repaired by this morning. Home Electric company, Tyrone, had to send two crews'out to repair lines in Tyrone township, Sinking valley, which had been broken by falling A falling tree also cut a Valley Rural Electric Cooperative line in Allegheny township, interrupting service for several hours. Bullet Causes Short Circuit The longest break In service resulted in upper Sinking valley when rain short-circuited a line around a bullet-pierced insulator. Manager John Denton said it took crews several hours to find the break because it is necessary to climb pole to locate burned-out circuit Mr. Denton said it is not the first time insulators have been used for target practice in that area.

He said he plans-to ask state police to investigate. Penelec Reports Trouble, Penelec reported damage and troubles generally throughout the city and area. Practically all the lines were back in service by 3 or 4 o'clock this morning although all the damage was not repaired. The electric company lost two 11KV lines between Collinsville and Twentieth street, a cable from Collinsville to Park Hills and burned up a breaker at Park Hills sub-station. A tree over an S2 line out of Eldorado sub-station knocked out an line and affected service in parts of Eldorado, Pleasant valley, Lakemont and Plank road.

Other lines out were an A and line between Tyrone ar.d Warriors Ridge and an FH line between Collinsville and Williamsburg which put some of Williamsburg and Canoe Creek out of service. Transformers, reported out pretty generally, were mostly cleared up this morning. However, crews still are working on the damage. Members of company 4 of the city fire department were called by telephone at 9.06 o'clock last evening to remove a TV antenna blown down into the' alley alongside 1300 Eighth street in the storm. ANSWER STILL ALARM.

Firemen of company were called by telephone to Kenner Coal company office, 1900 Pine avenue, at 8.25 o'clock this morning when a motor used on a ing machine caught afire. The services of the firemen were not required. Harry P. Farabaugh, 89, retired foreman of the works bolt shop, died at 8.45 o'clock this morning in Mercy hospital where he had been a patient since last Friday. He resided with a daughter-in-law, Mrs.

Fannie at 1307 Sixteenth street He was born in Altoona July 4, 1868, a son of Isadore and Elizabeth (Flick) Farabaugh. His wife preceded him in death several years ago. Mr. Farabaugh was a member of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy soceity, Knights of Columbus, Altoona Moose and the Frohsinn Singing society. -He had served railroad company for a period of 53 years.

Surviving, in addition to the daughter-in-law, are one sister and one brother, Mrs. Mae Powell of the city, and Louis of Bethlehem. Mr. Farabaugh will V. L.

Stevens funeral home after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. NEW WATER MAIN PAID OFF IN FIRE (Continued from pajre 1) and found to be giving excellent pressure, something which the eastern end, of Juniata never had before under a system of dead ends. The test was made this morning when Chief Ake had the men check the area under the program of making certain each- fireman knows the location of all the fireplugs. Some plugs, he said, are sometimes hidden by weeds and not easily found when an emergency arises. It was also announced that refilling- of -the rebuilt concrete Prospect reservoir began yesterday morning for the first time since it was completed last fall.

It now has more than two feet of water in it Since last spring, the area it serves has been utilizing the water from the tank only. The concrete basin itself could not be filled earlier, it was explained, because a stainless steel screen for the supply line did not arrive, and various control valves for the pipes were delayed in delivery. Even though the. Prospect, area was dependent upon the gallon tank, it was said, there were no reports of lowered pressure momentary. interruptions of service Monday morning during the of heavy draw for the Eleventh avenue fire.

OFFICIAL CLERGY TO ARRIVE SUNDAY (Continued from pipe 1) man declared. WFBG-radio' will broadcast the entire Monday service. Additional telegrams 1 expressing condolences have been received from the 'of the National Catholic Welfare in Washington, D. the Commissariat of Holy Cross Fathers; Mrs. Francis Maher, supreme regent of the Catholic Daughters of America; the Pennsylvania Railroad company, the Pennsylvania department of welfare, the Altoona Trust company and the Central.

Trust company. MAY ACCIDENTS IN COUNTY ARE FEWER made during the month, the causes being the same of those held-responsible for accidents, in 180; instances. In addition 53 were made for failure to have current inspec- lations and 11 for improper passing. Published dally. Second-clan mall author- Altoona, rlvilegea authored Pa.

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