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SMMTCCW' HOT See Page A 2 Imirnal and Cmirier WV Bm WrI Bl' Read the Happy Ads in Classified Lafayette West Lafayette Ind Wednesday July 19 1972 Vol No 171 64 Pages 15 Cents A Labor May Withhold Demo Endorsement 50 Years of Memories 50 Year Ago Grads Relive Days at Jeff Two Daughters Also Die Crash Kills Met Director No 2 Man Photo on Page 5 WhereToLdok In Interior Dead at 59 742 7363 742 4011 742 8102 WILLIAM PECORA Undersecretary Dies Cat Burglar Gives Pills Water to Startled Victim Circulation News Ads Business Ombudsman planned Moore said there would be no quick de cision as to successor all in he said? Mr Gentele assembled a team and we will ask them to carry on on an United Auto Workers Union met with Eagleton Tuesday and said he would work for the Democratic ticket and ex pected the union to endorse it Woodcock at one time was under consideration for the spot Eagleton has on the ticket Eagleton said he will make no further contacts with other union officials be cause he want to leave the im pression he is in union af The 2 million member Teamsters Union which has not been a' part of the AL CIO since 1957 has endorsed Pres ident Nixon The UAW with a claimed membership of 15 million also is not affiliated with the AL CIO have had a connection with the shooting The Cook County Coroner said the body is being held at Chicago pending in vestigation but that it will be returned to isher uneral Home at Williamsport Landreth had been an independent trucker 14 years Before that he had been employed at Alcoa Lafayette He was first married to Mary Lou Wood in 1955 He later married Winola Jean Shaffer who survives Two children Jeffrey and Sharon Landreth both of Attica also survive C2 D15 D7 13D15 D15 A4AIDD4 5Cl 12 WASHINGTON (AP) Although AL CIO President George Meany ac cepting calls from the Democratic vice presidential nominee some labor leaders held out hope today that the full effect of unhappiness with the presidential ticket could be averted The 35 man AL CIO executive council met to decide whether to endorse Demo cratic presidential nominee George McGovern and his running mate Sen Thomas Eagleton of Missouri One measure suggested by some labor leaders provided that the federation make no endorsement of a presidential candidate for the first time in its 17 year history instead leaving it up to each of Today's Chuckle had a most enjoyable and restful the homeowner declared to a few minutes spent fixing the lawnmower beyond Kissinger and the Hanoi officials It gave no details During previous absences from the public eye Kissinger has gone to Peking and also engaged in se cret talks on the Vietnam war The chief North Vietnamese ne gotiator Le Due Tho had said in Paris over the weekend he would be willing to meet with Kissinger again if he had something new to discuss on the war turn to Washington late in the day Until Ziegler talked to newsmen today there had been a veil of se crecy over where abouts Kissinger did not return to Washington with President Nixon from the Western White House at San Clemente Calif Tuesday The North Vietnamese delega tion to the Paris peace talks also announced the meeting between AP Delegation Seeks News Pact With China HONG KONG (AP) Wes Gallagher president of The Associated Press en tered China today to carry on negotia tions with Hsinhua the Chinese news agency for an exchange of news and photos With Gallagher were Paul Miller chairman of the AP and chairman and chief executive officer of the Gannett newspapers Henry Hartzenbusch chief of the North Asian services and Horst aas AP photographer shot to death today while he slept in the cab of his truck parked outside the Car gill Grain Terminal on far south side He was Edward Landreth 43 who po lice say was shot in the head after his assailants robbed him Police investigation showed Landreth an independent trucker arrived at the grain firm at 120th Street and the Calu met River at 1:40 am and dozed in the soft spoken and very said the burglar then walked into the living room Cohen said he called police after waiting a minute but the burglar had dis appeared by the time they arrived Lt Cataldo said police found the boat ladder and smeared glove prints on the balcony of a neighboring apartment He said the burglar escaped with more than $5000 in jewelry and cash from four apartments the 117 member unions to decide whether to endorse a ticket The AL CIO always has backed Democratic presidential candidates in the past but Meany is very unhappy with the choice of McGovern Eagleton said Tuesday he had been unable to reach Meany on the telephone though he tried for two days However he said he talked with nine other labor leaders and received encour agement or outright endorsements from Officials of the Machinists Union the In ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union the State County and Municipal Employes Union and the International Association of Meat Cutters Leonard Woodcock president of the chance to practice we could have won some of those we lost We had seven boys who went on to play college think we had more fun than kids have Mrs Ribble said did the best we could but grades as important as they are She remembers trips to Dayton and Indianapolis for ball games She and Mrs Lillian Scheumann Cox now of Lynchburg Tenn remember dances Dancing Academy the Charleston the Big Apple and the short skirts which were new then have radio then it was just coming in or TV There were fewer of us and fewer things to says Joe Doran who came back to Lafayette after retir ing as a Sears executive Doran thinks kids today are as as we were Although Kern regrets changes attitudes of moral he agrees with other class members who think mod em kids learn more in school at all the sciences even the professors keep Mrs Ribble says are so much larger now Mrs Thelma McCarty Wootton director of Wells Me morial Library said she started talking to other class members about the reunion last fall A committee was formed and started meeting regularly in March She said all but seven or eight of the living class members were located and were asked to submit resumes and say whether they planned to attend Committee members were Doran Dienhart John Gault Melvin Truman William Sovem Lawrence Bow ers Mrs Wootton Mrs Marjorie Brown Courter Mrs Helen Duffy Ogborn Mrs Dorothy Gunkle Brickler Miss Mary ischer and Mrs lorence Graham Priest The new Jefferson High School occupied in 1969 was naturally an object of keen interest to the class of Kern says looks like a tremendous plant from the cutside which rivals a junior college If they can staff it with teachers of the same quality be all But the new high school lacks one facility the class of 1922 remembers with smiles the other kids thought a person add up to Kern says got dunked in the horse trough and that happened often enough for us all to re member WASHINGTON (AP) The White House announced today that Henry A Kissinger President security affairs aide was holding secret Vietnam peace talks in Paris Press Secretary Ronald Zieg ler said Kissinger who flew to Paris Tuesday was meeting with Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy North Vietnamese negotiators Ziegler said Kissinger would re Archie McDowell CSC Katherine Ribble Mrs Crowe (not a class member) and the Nautilus editor Kern (Staff Photo by Rosalind Silver) Ann Landers Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Entertainment Home and amily ourth Chess Game Ends in Draw B13 Working Mothers Not Waiting for Children to Enter School A3 Purdue Coed in Miss Black Indiana Pageant A9 Journal and Courier Telephones: By ROSALIND SILVER Old Jefferson High School is how a junior high And the class which graduated from it a half century ago the Class of 1922 has scattered to places as far apart as Pennsylvania California and New Orleans Thirty one of the original 128 class members regroup ing Sunday through Tuesday for a 50 year reunion saw plenty of changes in the town And in each other after all changed says Bill Kern of Corona Del Mar Calif who went to the US Naval Academy after Jeff graduation and who has been back here only for brief visits since Kern used to usher at the old Luna Theater whole block where it was is gone he says the old YMCA where we used to play basketball is being demolished I think Purdue is bigger now than the town was then! you come back to see old friends not places Kern added and class members gathered at a brunch at the Campus Inn Tuesday apparently agreed with him Those who left town and those who stayed joined in comparing careers now ended in retirement for many remembering the 39 class members who have died since graduation and talking about children and grandchildren as well as you Kern was editor of what he said was the first hard cover edition of the Nautilus the school yearbook and the class of 1922 was innovative in other respects had a great spirit You can see that from the fact that people from the West Coast and the 'East Coast are here says Mrs Katherine Ribble now of suburban Philadelphia Her class started the Progress Club the Jeff Booster and football and baseball as major sports had had football before but not for several years before I was a recalls Clem Crowe who went on to a career which included coaching the Baltimore Colts know enough about Crowe reminisces told me to take the ball and run and what I Joe Dienhart mayor of West Lafayette recounted stories of lost games and said we had had more Laughter' and 50 years of memories greet the appear ance of the 1922 edition of the Nautilus the Jefferson High School yearbook at the Class of reunion here this week Looking it over from left are Clem Crowe the Rev sir Rnrlnlf Rin? 70 who was general manager of the Met from 1950 until June choice 30 of this year is on vacation ana couia not be reached George Moore the Met board chair 'The company win carry on HALLANDALE la (AP) A cat burglar who startled a man while prow ling in his bedroom brought him his heart pills and a glass of water before escaping with his jewelry and cash police say Police Lt James Cataldo said the bur glar used a four step boat ladder to his from balcony to balcony to raid four apartments Monday night on three floors of Parker Towers a high rise condominium Charles Cohen 64 said he awoke in his sixth floor apartment about 3 am saw something crouching at the foot of the bed It looked like a gorilla at first then a Cohen said the burglar pointed a gun at Cohen and his wife' and ordered them to cover their heads with the bedsheet As the burglar was rifling through drawers Cohen said "my heart started pounding and my wife told him I was going to have a heart attack He said are your My wife told him and he brought the little bottle of pills and a glass of Cohen who described the intruder as opening night opera from Sir to me new pro duction of starring missHorne Gentele was going to direct the stage action himself He was to have re turned from Europe the first week in Au gust to begin rehearsals Although he assumed full control of the Met only weeks ago when Bing stepped down sweeping changes had taken place at the opera house since Gentele was nampH apnpral manager 19 months aco He hired the first black con ductor Henry Lewis the husband of Miss Horne and conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Gentele also planned a Piccolo Met to offer small scale operatic concerts He appointed the first music director in the history Rafael Kubelik In addition he hoped to bring Ingmar Berg man to the company as a director and Dlanned to encourage informal attire at I the opera He said one of his most impor tant goals was to "Americanize me Met Kissinger in Paris or Peace Talks interim basis probably appoint a committee to take a long range look at this he added The board meeting had already been scheduled In the meantime it was be lieved that Moore planned to recommend that Schuyler Chapin assis ha annnintPri arnna manappr Chapin who has been active in cultural anairs in new iufk wi yeau charge at the opera house until the board Gentele had spent last season at me Met learning the ropes from Sir Rudolf and planning the 1973 74 season Because opera seasons are planned two years in advance first season would have been largely as planned by Sir Ru He loved New York And he was a warm dolf j1 However Gentele had changed the inenq Horoscope JD15 Markets D6 Metro Report A3 5 8 9 Money Matters Regional Report Bl 4 Sports Report Dl 3 Weather A2 Happening A4 NEW YORK (AP) Stunned by the death of Goeran Gentele the new general manager of the Metropolitan Opera the board of directors meets today to z4 zst i ci 4 lna II TP Hanahtpre man said ine company win cany un Gentele 54 andtwo his daughters with the whole season just as Mr Gentele veuina auhk killed Tuesday when a car the conductor was driving collided head on with a truck in Sardinia where the family was vaca tioning Hospital officials in Olbia said Mrs Gentele suffered shock and bruises and daugtter Jannette had a broken arm Nei ther woman was in serious condition but they had not been told about the rest of the deaths the officials added News of the Swedish death brought reactions of shock Conductor Leonard Bernstein reached in Massachusetts said impossible What can one say? He was so dear so enthusiastic so excited and exciting I was so looking forward to working with Bernstein is scheduled to conduct the opening night opera Sept 16 RAarilxm WdTTIP WPDt when she heard the news on television in makes further arrangements Los Angeles She is scheduled to sing me title role in Mayor John Lindsay called the acci dent devastating He said "Goeran Gentele was a great artist most certainly headed for further greatness Williamsport Trucker Slain A Williamsport truck driver was found cab while waiting for the company to open When several other truckers arrived to unload they found truck blocking their way They found the body slumped over the steering wheel and his wallet missing Landreth was delivering a load of wheat from Attica Grain Co' Police said they were hunting two men who boarded a Greek freighter and asked for beer around 2:30 am They were or dered ashore Police said the men may WASHINGTON (AP) Under secretary of the Interior William Pe cora died today at the George Washing ton University Hospital He was 59 Pecora the No 2 man in the depart iie Swrptnrv Roeers Mor IllCltk Hum chief assistant and acting secretary in the absence Pecora hadundergone surgery for di verticulitis an intestinal disorder on June 6 But postoperative complications developed that required additional sur gery Morton said in a statement that his de partment and the nation have i lost "a singularly talented and energetic scien tist and Morton said the leadership qualities which Dr Pecora showed in the quest for balance and har mony in resource development and con President Nixon nominated Pecora as undersecretary on April 20 1971 He was confirmed for the post by the Senate the following month' Pecora a native of Belleville NJ had previously served as director of the Geo logical Survey a post he had held since 1965: i Hi lait im 1'7 z' 's £2 jz.