Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 7

Delaware Countv HOME DELI VERY 90 CENTS Thursday, July 21,1977 PUBLISHED IN PRIMOS. UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP. 19018 PRICE 15 CENTS capsule Cooler tonight Sweltering Delaware Countians are expected to get some relief tonight. The weather' man says a cool front is moving into the area with the likelihood of fair weather for the weekend. Deadline extended The state has extended the deadline for July license renewals for 30 days.

State Rep. Robert Bellomini (D-Erie) said Wednesday he requested the extension because technical problems are preventing the State Transportation Department from issuing the licenses on time. Homosexuals backed ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) A proposal prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals, essentially the same as one rejected in Florida in June, was approved Wednesday by the Allentown Human Relations Commission. The agency voted 5-3, with one abstention, to reject a motion not to support the proposal.

The vote came after an intense but orderly three-hour debate. The commission's decision returned the issue to City Council, which had deferred action pending a commission recommendation. The proposal, which would protect homosexuals against discrimination in housing, employment and public ac- comodations, is essentially the same one defeated June 7 in a much-publicized referendum in Dade County, Fla. Honda replies Carl Mau has announced that he has just received a letter from Sihuta, Japan, home of Honda Motor Company, and, while admittedly "reading between the lines a little," the Media Idea Man perceives the communique to indicate that Delaware County will be considered if and when Honda decides it will locate a plant in the United States. Mau said that S.

Kishyma, head of Honda's International Planning Committee indicated Honda was currently conducting an in-depth feasibility study to determine if it should indeed expand operations into this country. Kishyma's letter was penned in response to a communique written recently to Honda by Mau, inviting the company to bring a plant to Delco. Mau says he is now planning to follow up what he sees as an initial success with an all-out program to bring Honda to Delco. Bar held up CHESTER A barmaid at Redavid's Bar in the 800 block of Morton Ave. was held up by a lone gunman about 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday and robbed of an un- estimated amount of cash that represented the day's receipts. Daily Times Death toll at least 37 as flood rips Johnstown Amuse. Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials 23 Horoscope 35 35 Outlook 16-18 27-33 Sports 19-23 34-35 Stocks 24 35 Travel 26 4TV 34 6 Weather 2 Searching for what's left An employe of a jewelry store in Johnstown sifts through debris carried from the store after flood waters receded Wednesday afternoon. Pennsylvania Governor Shapp has requested the area be disaster area. Another pictures on Page 2.

declared a federal 2,000 persons JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) Flood waters from swollen mountain creeks have receded, leaving a devastated landscape and death in the valleys of Southwestern Pennsylvania around the city. Eight were battered Wednesday when torrential rains overloaded small creeks and rivers across a 70-mile stretch outside this steel town. It was the third major flood in less than 100 years in Johnstown, whose name became synonymous with disaster after an 1889 flood that killed 2,200 people. THERE WERE widespread reports of persons missing and presumed dead, but communications were erratic and rescue efforts were delayed by raging water.

State Police said at least 32 persons were known dead. Civil Defense headquarters at the state capital in Harrisburg said at least 37 persons were known dead. "It all happened so fast, top fast, and then it seemed like it would never end," said pregnant Elaine Mitchell, who narrowly See EIGHT, Page 2 Hope fades in Johnny's long fight By ANDREW J. REYNOLDS Daily Times Staff Writer Johnny Seott, the gutsy nine-year-old from Ridley Township who has battled six long years in a desperate attempt to defeat cancer, now appears destined to lose his heroic fight. The tragic news came Wednesday from the world- renown Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore to Delaware County.

It was at Johns Hopkins that Johnny was to have been given a fighting chance to kayo leukemia. A bone marrow transplant was to give the youngster a fighting chance for life. But, Johnny was not to have that chance. TOO too debilitated by years and years of chemotherapy, medical center physicians found. There could be no operation.

Johnny must be sent home. Although emotionally and psychologically ready to the renew the fight, Johnny was in no condition physically to continue. A technical knockout, but a knockout none-the-less for a brave little campaigner who continues to reject the prospect of ultimate defeat. Johnny will be coming home today. IT WILL NOT be the triumphal return he and his family so eagerly anticipated but instead the premature return they all feared.

Johnny's mom knew there was no guarantees even if the transplant was performed. The marrow transplant is a relatively procedure generally performed on patients given virtually no other chance for life. The survival rate is said to be about 12 per cent. Despite the odds, the operation to Mrs. Scott and her family was a ray of hope a chance Johnny might get better, a chance the youngster might live a long, healthy Now, it would seem even that small hope has been dashed.

JOHNNY'S plight first came to the attention of Delaware Countians in February when the Daily Times published accounts of the theft of the youngster's tape recorder from his bedside at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland. The report resulted in an outpouring of generosity from area residents and not one, four tape recorders for Johnny. Since that time, many countians have shared an interest in the boy's well-being. This latest news is sure to cast at least a momentary pall over the lives of Johnny's many friends. Aston man charged in rape MEDIA COURTHOUSE An Aston man, charged with the 1971 murder of Elizabeth Lande, was in Delaware County Court Wednesday for a pre-trial hearing on charges he kidnaped and raped a young woman in the county.

Robert Thomas Nauss 25, of the 300 block Marianville Road, is charged with kidnaping, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, simple and aggravated assault, conspiracy and reckless endangerment in connection with a gang rape that allegedly occurred Oct. 30,1976. He was arrested last Friday and charged with murdering Miss Lande in a garage in Folcroft on Dec. 12, 1971. Dist.

Atty. Frank Hazel said the 19-year-old woman was hanged and that her body was dumped in New Jersey. Miss Lande's disappearance has been tied to the unsolved murders of four other county women including Debra Jean Delozier, 20, of Collingdale, and Denise. Seaman, 17, of Colwyn whose bodies were both found in Tinicum Marsh. They had been shot in the head.

THE BODIES of Layne Dorothy Spicer, 16, and Mary Ann Lees, 15, both of Upper Darby were found together floating in the Schuyikill River in March, 1976. They too had been shot. Nauss was also arrested in the May 4 roundup of 49 alleged gun and drug traffickers. He faces federal drug charges. Berkowitz asked Administrative Judge Edwin E.

Lippincott Wednesday for information explaining why nearly seven months elapsed between the alleged assault in October and the filing of charges in May. The request was denied and Berkowitz was told he could learn that information during the trial which Judge Howard Reed continued to Sept, 19 before the hearing. Three other men are expected to stand trial with Nauss. They are Norman Hansel, William Turner and Robert D'Alonzo. Report on damage JOHNSTOWN, Pa.

(AP) The following is a brief rundown of police damage reports today from several communities in flood-stricken southwestern Pennsylvania: Portage Flood waters ripped through 24-block area causing estimated $1 million in damages and leaving town without water. Used car agency wiped out on Main Street and store fronts heaped with a foot of mud. One bridge broken, another washed out. Several rescue workers injured when house collapsed. Bedford Water system washed out.

Mobile homes at Mile Level Trailer Park shoved into Juniata River. Houses under water. People using furniture as rafts. Fifty-five cabins at Camp Sunshine flooded. Vacationers stranded and parked cars carried away by swift current.

Windber Six hundred evacuated. Churches and high schools made into temporary shelters. Roof collapsed on General Telephone Co. switching plant. Mayor Tom Panettit calls it "completely devastated." Scalp Level Trinity United Methodist Church demolished.

Two known dead. Seward Among hardest hit communities. Five dead, more than 20 missing. Heavy flood damage. About 50 to 60 mobile homes washed away.

New Florence People stranded in trees most of Wednesday and rescued by helicopter. Caught in same thundershowers as Johnstown, but escaped flood damage. Half dozen homes damaged bv lightning. Some power failures. Central Most damage appears confined to flooding of basements in residences.

Police say flood waters did uproot trees Some smaller bridges washed out. Tire Hill Small roads washed. Homes evacuated. Seanor Whole town evacuated because of flooding along Stony Creek. Damage reports not immediately available.

Mud and debris covering much of the town. Trees uprooted. Many houses water marked and damaged. Some demolished. Town evacuated and one confirmed death.

About 75 to 90 homes damaged. Residents evacuated without any reported casualties..