The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 10

Page 10-Friday, February 16, 1973-The Express, Lock Haven, Pa. Chamber board looks for Heart Fund new aide, Stouck resigns sets goal LOCK HAVEN The board of directors of the Lock Haven Area Chamber of Commerce is looking today for a new executive secretary. At the February meeting Thursday night at the YMCA, the board accepted the resignation of Gibson P. Stouck. effective Feb.

23. The credit and collection services of the Chamber will continue as usual while the search goes on for a new secretary. The board tentatively accepted a budget of $38,462 for 1973. pending possible revision in the future when a new secretary is obtained and a decision is made on how many to employ in the office. President Frank Davenport said an executive secretary must be prepared to help industry and business in the community, to assist the merchants with their problems, to direct the credit and collection bureau and tc perform other tasks for community betterment.

He suggested that the Chamber should have one major project each year which could be worked on. The annual Chamber of Commerce dinner was set for May. It is hoped that the new dining facilities at the Hotel Fallen will be available. Methods of alerting merchants and banks in the wake of an increasing number of bad checks were discussed. Belles Springs has full U.S.

Golf Ass'n status LOCK HAVEN The Clinton County Recreation Authority approved regular membership in the United States Golf Association at this week's meeting. The change in status from associate to regular membership makes many amateur U.S. tournaments now available to Belles Springs members, according to Fred S. Pacacha. business manager and golf professional.

Included in the tournaments now available to Belles Springs members are the U.S. Amateur, the U.S. Junior and U.S. Senior tournaments and the U.S. Ladies Amateur, Pacacha said.

Contracts for 1973 with the superintendent, Robert Steinbacher, and the golf professional. Pacacha. were approved. The salaries are the same as last year's in both cases. Final payment of $44,000 is expected soon on the $156.000 Phase II recreational developments.

The money is coming from state and federal sources. Officers were reelected for 1973. They are Cecil F. Hazlett, chairman: H.E. Fredericks, vice chairman: John Barry, secretary, and C.

David Gilmore, treasurer. Robert Weller was reappointed as chairman of the golf committee for 1973. There was considerable discussion of a proposal advanced by Earl Hummel, Renovo, to develop a recreational facility near the new' Bucktail High School at Farwell. Hummel spoke on behalf of a group of interested Renovo residents. Hummel sought the authority's aid in applying for funds to develop the project, which would include facilities for tennis, basketball.

Softball and baseball. The authority plans to present the. proposal to the Clinton County Commissioners. Bills amounting to $1.291.44 were paid. aillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllL 1 (Youngerj set Letterman on probe of state hospital State Rep.

Russell Letterman, D-Centre and Clinton, has been designated as one of the three Democratic members on a special House task force created to investigate the closing of Blossburg State Hospital in Tioga County. Purpose of the special committee is to conduct a full and complete study into the propriety and legality of the actions of the State Department of Public Welfare in closing the hospital last September I. The committee, made up of four Republicans and three Democrats, will be empowered to hold hearings, take testimony and subpoena all people, records and documents associated with the closing. The action of the Department of Public Welfare was taken at a time when there were less than 30 patients being treated at the hospital. LH draft board office to be closed 4 days LOCK HAVEN Local Draft Board 49 here will close for four days next week, from Monday, Feb.

19 through Thursday. Feb. 22. The draft board office, 228 E. Main will be closed Monday for the Presidents Day national holiday.

The office will be closed the other three days so that draft board officials can attend a conference in Harrisburg. The office will reopen next Friday, Feb. 23. 2 fined for bad checks MILL HALL Two persons were fined by District Magistrate Kermit Dietrich for passing worthless checks at Spotts' Grocery Store, Beech Creek. Charles Herman, Julian, paid a fine, court costs and restitution totaling $36.

Connie Bilby. 358 E. Church Lock Haven, paid fine, court costs and restitution amounting to $26. Sled riding at Belles Springs LOCK HAVEN Belles Spring Golf Course officials announced today there will be sled riding on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The clubhouse will be open.

This frisky little fellow is Brian Douglas Alley, who was two years old Jan. 18. Brian has a vocabulary that his mother describes as "too much." This 30 pounds of energy enjoys talking on the telephone and reading books. Proud parents are Mr. and Mrs.

Gary W. Alley, of Salona. Brian is blessed with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.

Alley, of Mill Hall, and Mrs. Robert McClintick and the late Robert McClintick. of Salona. He also has great grandparents, Mrs. Charles T.

Alley, of Philipsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. George T. Shope, of Tyrone. Thank-offering day Sunday at Castanea CASTANEA The children's department of the Castanea United Methodist Church will have a thank-offering service on Sunday at 9:15 a.m.

The offering will go to their special project. Red Bird Mission in Kentucky. The primary group will participate with a newly-formed rhythm band, and the juniors will bring the meaning of "The Keys of Faith. Hope, Love and Key 73." All children from nursery through grade 6 will have a part in the service. Mrs.

Milton G. Killebrew, wife of the United Methodist minister of Flemington and a former missionary, will show slides in keeping with the mission theme. The church trio will sing. Speaker for the Farrandsville church will be Mrs. Charles From of Mill Hall.

The public is invited to attend. LOCK HAVEN A goal of $10,000 has been set for the 1973 fund drive of the Clinton County Heart Association, according to Calvin Arter, Heart Fund chairman. The goal was announced at a kickoff meeting on Sunday, Feb. at the medical hall of the Williamsport Hospital, attended by volunteers from Clinton County. The Heart Fund drive, to be conducted during February, which has been designated as Heart Month by an Act of Congress, will involve 250 volunteers in Clinton County.

They will distribute heart- saving information and collect funds for educational programs to prevent heart attacks, the nation's No. 1 killer, which will claim an estimated 675,000 lives this year. Gifts will also be used to help translate research findings into a program of better patient care. City gets U.S. grant of $15,200 for water line LOCK HAVEN The City of Lock Haven will be receiving $15,200 from the U.S.

Economic Development Administration toward the cost of a new water line from the upper Castanea reservoir toward the city. Announcement of the grant was made Thursday by Congressman Albert W. Johnson and Senators Hugh Scott and Schweiker. City Manager Frank L. Taggart said the new water line will cost a total of $30.000, with $11,630 coming from the U.S.

Office of Emergency Preparedness and the balance $3,175 to be supplied by the city. Taggart said the grant is in lieu of replacing the lower Castanea reservoir which was destroyed in the June 22-23 flood last year. The water line to be replaced also was damaged extensively in the flood. Dogwood Circle has workshop on ribbon roses LOCK HAVEN Mrs. Charis Ryan, of the Forget-Me-Not Circle of the Lock Haven Garden Club, demonstrated the art of making ribbon roses at the February meeting of the Dogwood Circle, held at the home of Mrs.

John Shuman. Mrs. Shuman read an inspirational piece, "The Art of Flower Arrangement and the Art of Awareness," from "Floral Art for America," written by Martha Ryan. During Mrs. Charis Ryan's demonstration, she showed the members the different types of ribbons that can be used, the various sizes of roses that can be made, and the way they can be used.

During an informal workshop each member constructed a few roses. The president, Gerry English, announced that all members of the Lock Haven Garden Club as well as the public are invited to a talk by Dr. Robett Nuss, of the Pennsylvania State University, on March 15 at 8 p.m. in the Woolrich Community Building. Dr.

Nuss will speak on the "Pruning of Shrubs." It was also announced that a new circle has been formed in the Lock Haven Garden Club. The members have chosen the name, Magnolia Circle. The next meeting of the Dogwood Circle will be Wednesday. March 7. at the Mrs.

Reynold There are about 72 days during the year when snow accumula-, Saturday, tion is more than one inch in cen- a tral Ontario. Loganton. home of Davenport. Funerals GATES Private services will be on Saturday at a.m. at the W.

Robert Neff Funeral Home, Howard, for Benjamin Gates, nine months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gates. Howard R.D. 2.

The baby died Thursday, Feb. 15, 1973 at 12:30 p.m. in the Centre Community Hospital, Bellefonte. Evangelist Mitchell Embry will officiate. Burial, Eagle Cemetery, Boggs Twp.

No visitation. Neff Funeral Home, Howard. REEDER Services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ramm Funeral Home, Loganton, for Charles A. Reeder 55, of Loganton R.D.

1, who was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15. 1973 at the Jersey Shore Hospital. The Rev.

Robert Pickering will officiate. Interment, Fairview Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Buckley should be sentenced to dea th. One shrinks from the medieval concern to design modes of death particularly appropriate to the crime of the offender.

Such literature is appealing mostly to those who kicks out of reading books like "The Torture Garden." But it is not, I should think, inappropriate to suggest that a condign means of ridding the world of convicted heroin pushers is to prescribe an overdose. It happens that it is a 60 more Hanoi as winners, and we're not coming home with our tails between our legs. We return with honor," Navy Cmdr. William Shankel told the cheering crowd Thursday. Of the first 60 returnees at Travis, only Army Pvt.

Ferdinand A. Rodriguez of Brooklyn, N.Y., did not take part in the formal welcome. A military spokesman said Rodriguez, who faces charges of being -from page 4 humane way of dying, if one defines humane as relatively painless. And, of course, there is a rabbinical satisfaction in the idea that the pusher should leave this world in such circumstances as he has caused others to leave it, excepting this, that the pusher's last days, in the shelter of death house, would be infinitely more pleasant than the last days of those whom he has, by the practice of his profession, tortured to death. -from page 1 absent without leave when the Viet Cong captured him in 1968, was ill.

Five of the repatriated men i Wednesday and Thursday were greeted by their wives and children on the flight line. All five were assigned to the Travis base hospital for recuperation, Reunions for the rest were arranged at the military hospitals to which they have been assigned for treatment. Environmental -from page 1 from Talmadge, who said Nixon's farm proposals could spell doom for the small farmer. "Without some aid in the way of price supports, every small farmer in America would be plowed under," Talmadge said. Nixon called for eliminating farm 'Copter the Joint Military Commission were flying to Hanoi Saturday to observe the release, as required by the cease-fire agreement.

The South Vietnamese command charged the Communists with 151 more cease-fire violations in the 24-hour period ending at6 a.m. today. Itsaid 222 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and 31 South Vietnamese were killed and 182 South Vietnamese were wounded. The government organized an anti- Communist demonstration by an estimated 7,500 persons in Phu Cuong, a provincial capital 12 miles north of Saigon. They carried South Vietnamese flags and anti-Communist banners and shouted slogans charging the Communists with violating the cease-fire.

Bickering continued within the Joint Military Commission, which is made up of the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. The chief delegates of the United States and South Vietnam stayed away from a meeting of delegation heads today, and the Communist delegates charged them with "bad faith," trying to downgrade subsidies, paying out money only for lands that sit idle. "I believe that dairy-support systems, wheat, feed grains and cotton allotments and established decades drastically outdated. They tend to be discriminatory for many farm operators," Nixon said. -from page 1 the meeting and interfering with the commission's work.

A U.S. spokesman said the American delegate, Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward, was indisposed and sent his deputy.

There was no explanation for the absence of the South Vietnamese delegate. Lt. Gen. Du Quoc Dong. Bui Tin, the North Vietnamese spokesman, said the Communists had lodged protests against "acts of violence" by South Vietnamese military police Thursday night against five employes of the National Broadcasting Company.

An NBC spokesman said five representatives of the network "were pummelled, pushed, shoved and threatened with a weapon" when they tried to film North Vietnamese and Viet Cong waiting to escort them to a reception the Communists were giving to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Viet Cong army. The MPs also tried to smash the gear of the NBC cameramen, the spokesman said. Dollar holding steady LONDON (AP) The U.S. dollar held steady today as a measure of stability returned to currency markets after weeks of turmoil and uncertainty. The dollar was riding well above new par values set after devaluation was announced Tuesday.

There was little indication, however, that speculators were taking their profits from the billions of dollars worth of foreign currency they bought last week. Trading was described as moderate nearly everywhere. Gold remained at or close to peak levels in bullion markets although the spectacular price surge since the dollar devaluation appeared to have halted, at least temporarily. The price was unchanged at $75.625 an ounce in Zurich, $73.42 in Frankfurt, up from $73.11 Thursday, nearly a dollar up at 76.82 in Hong Kong but down 62V 2 cents at $73 in London. There was no immediate explanation of why London went against the trend.

Some British observers feared the pound, floating since last June, might be the next target for speculative attack. The pound opened weakly at $2.44725, down from Thursday's closing $2.4573, and then declined further to $2.4430. This meant the effect of the dollar devaluation had been cut in half. A week ago sterling was floating around $2.38. If it had moved in line with the 10 per cent devaluation of the dollar, the rate should have jumped close to $2.60.

The dollar opened in Frankfurt at 2.95 marks, slightly down from Thursday's closing of 2.9540. but well above the new parity or 2.9003. Soon after trading began, the rate moved up to 2.9595. The dollar improved slightly against the floating Japanese yen also, closing at 294.10 compared to Thursday's 294. Turnover was relatively minor compared to the crisis days.

deaths funerals Robert McCaslin Dunnstown flood-aide LOCK HAVEN Robert W. McCaslin, 62, of 129 Woodward Burkett's Trailer Court, of a heart ailment at 11:20 la.m. Thursday in the Jersey 'Shore Hospital. He had been a patient there since January 4. Mr.

McCaslin was a carpenter by trade, a member of the National Guard in Lock Haven from 1927-1939: 'a veteran of World War II service in the U. S. Marines, and an active member of the Dunnstown Fire Co. During last June's flood emergency, he had manned telephones at the Dunnstown fire station day and night for three days, then had worked with the Bureau of Employment Security in Lock Haven to set up the flood information center that continued for weeks after the high water. Robert McCaslin was born in Beliefonte May 1910.

a son of John and Mary Henry McCaslin. He had worked in Lock Haven for the Kistler Leather for the New York and Penna. then in 1942 went to White Deer Ordinance as a carpenter, before joining the Marines. Subsequently, he worked at his trade for the Nestlerode Construction Herman Krupa, of Avis, and for 12 years, until retiring last June, for Sidney Sanders, of Woolrich. He attended Woolrich Community Church and was a member in Lock Haven American Legion Post 131, the 4 ot 8 firing squad, the Marine Corps League, and the Bald Eagle Ridge Runners, in OEOdistributes paper rapping administration plan to end it Funeral Home, WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration has devised a detailed plan that calls for dismantling the Office of Economic Opportunity before Congress can come to its rescue.

The elaborate strategy, listing arguments the administration should use to support its case, the people in Congress it should work with and the obstacles it can expect to face, urges "completing the disagreeable business as soon as possible." "The more delay, the more opportunity for congressional opposition to gather and develop a legislative counter-strategy," says the paper, which was prepared by the OEO's technical staff. A copy has been made available to The Associated Press. Entitled "Congressional Strategy on OEO," the paper advises against a clash over constitutional powers with Congress, which last year extended the OEO and its many programs through fiscal 1974. President Nixon's budget for fiscal 1974 calls for ending federal support for Community main OEO-sponsored antipoverty scattering its remaining programs among other agencies. "A constitutional confrontation may be where the administration is most vulnerable the staff paper says.

"The opposition can claim that there is clear law and intent that there be an OEO and a Community Action Program." Instead, the paper advises, the administration should try to get support for cutting off OEO funds in the House and Senate Appropriations committees, "whose interests most closely align with the President's, and. which have few members with strong feelings for OEO." At the same time, the paper says, the administration should try to delay congressional action on the over-all budget for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, forcing them to be financed by special resolutions in which OEO could be isolated. The paper lists the senators and representatives who can be considered friendly to the administration plan and suggests that Sens. Bill Brock. or Roman L.

Hruska. lead the effort in the Senate. The paper warns that vocal, threatening and be expected from Sens. Alan Cranston, Jacob K. Javits.

R- N.Y., Gaylord Nelson, Walter F. Mondale, and Robert Taft R-Ohio. "However," it adds, "the depth of expressed concerns can be questioned because primary interests lie elsewhere now." The administration can also expect protest demonstrations by Community Action workers and their supporters, the paper says, and should begin now to develop adverse reactions to them. To deal with the expected criticism from such groups and Congress, the paper says, the administration should portray Community Action that has failed to help the poor in the eight years of its existence. "The argument would stress, instead, a picture of agitation, destructive unrest, diversion of federal funds to support partisan political activity, administrative waste, criminal misuse of funds and a program structure which exacerbated rather than resolved racial problems." the paper says.

The authors of the paper apparently recognize that there might not be justification for such an argument. There is one possible soft spot in the administration's case. It is the fact that in 1969 when Nixon first disclosed his intention to transfer most OEO programs to other agencies, he praised the original purpose of OEO in studying and combatting the problems of the poor, and promised to preserve it. No suggestion is offered for dealing with that problem. Charles A.

Reeder LOGANTON Charles A. Reeder 55, of Loganton R.D. 1, became ill at his home about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and was pronounced dead of a heart attack at 11 a.m. in the Jersey Shore Hospital.

Mr. Reeder has been in his usual health except for a slight indisposition earlier in the week. He was born at Sunbury, Sept. 28. 1917.

son of the late Charles and Sara Snyder Reeder. He came to Sugar Valley from Jersey Shore in 1933, and had operated a small farm here, while also employed 30 years for Bethlehem Steel in Williamsport until retiring in January, 1972. He was an army veteran of World War I. Mr. Reeder is survived by his wife, the former Roberta Lucas: two sons.

Charles A. of Loganton R.D. 1: and Gerald of Jersey Shore; a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Knarr, Rauchtown: 10 grandchildren: a brother, Robert, of Williamsport R.D. 1: and three sisters, Mrs.

Martha Lanfrey, Montgomery Pike: Mrs. Ruth Harrison, Williamsport: and Mrs. Mary Irvin. Avis. Benjamin E.

Gates HOWARD Benjamin Eugene Gates, nine-month-old son of Barry and Mary Elizabeth McCartney Gates, of Howard R.D. 2. died Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Willowbank unit of Centre Community Hospital at 'Bellefonte. He had been ill most of his life since birth, May 14.

1972. at Bellefonte. Surviving are his parents, a brother and sister, Brian and Heather, at home: -four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Philmore McCartney.

Howard R.D. and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gates, Milesburg: and two great grandparents, Mrs. Mary Gates, Pleasant Gap: and Lee Sinclair, of Lamar.

addition to the Dunnstown firemen. He is survived by his wife, the; former Geraldine Baker, he married in 1936: seven! daughters and a son, Mrs. Reed, Butzner, Falmouth. Patty Carey, Syracuse, N.Y.: Mrs. Fred McKenzie, Montoursville: Mrs.

Terryj Dallen, and Mrs. Linda Lock Haven: Robert McCaslin. of Woolrich: andj Misses Susan and Mary at home. There are 16- grandchildren. Brothers and sisters are Calvin McCaslin, Mill Hall R.D.

1: Mrs! Richard Eggler, Lock Haven! R.D. 1: Mrs. Howard Rippey; Lock Haven; Mrs. Russell Gunsallus. Blanchard: Mrs; Ruth Myers, and Mrs.

Ansoh Shady, Lock Haven; Mrs. Dorothy Nestlerode, Castanea; and Mrs. Cecil Hull, Mill Hall. Funerals McCASLIN Military services will be held on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Kelt Funeral Home for Robert W.

McCaslin, 62, of 129 Woodward Dunnstown. who died at 11:20 a.m. Thursday. Feb. 15, 1973 at the Jersey Shore Hospital.

The Rev. Robert H. Karalfa will officiate. Interment, Woolrich Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home after 2 p.m.

Saturday. Firemen's memorial rites Saturday at 7 p.m. Kelt Funeral Home, Lock Haven. GEARHART Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Yost Funeral Home for Harry Gearhart, 60, of McCormick Trailer Park.

Walnut Lock Haven. He was pronounced dead at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14. 1973 at the Lock Haven Hospital emergency The Rev.

Henry F. Powell will officiate. Interment, Rest Haven Memorial Park. Friend? will be received at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Friday.

Memorial gifts may be made to Fairview Community Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Lock Haven. Yost Funeral Home. Lock Haven. BAY Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in St.

Paul's Episcopal Church for Harry Bay 54. who died at 3:20 a.m Wednesday. Feb. 14. 1973 at his home, 123 S.

Summit Lock Haven. The Rev. Joseph Pedrick. of Lock Haven, and thel Rev. Lewis M.

Mowdy. of Williamsport, will officiate. Interment, Rest Haven Memrial Park. Friends will be received at; the Yost Funeral Home after 12 noon Friday. Memorial gifts may be made to the fund for pews at St.

Paul's Episcopal, Church. Yost Funeral Home. Lock Haven. Members of the Dunnstown Fire Company will meet at the hall at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

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