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FIRST Loss Tops $750,000 In Moore Plant Fire Ex-Allen Star Wrestler Found Slain on Turnpike block structure in an area where steam pressers, the electrical switch panel and master fuse box are located. The outside electrical power line enters the plant at this point. Chief Hoch emphasized that the possibility of an electrical cause is only one consideration Osteopathic IVears Start Of Phase II Construction of the $3-million Phase II of its expansion should get under way in one-two weeks at Allentown Osteopathic Hospital, the hospital corporation members were told last night during their annual meeting in the Lehigh Valley Club. Completion of the project is expected by the end of next year, said Martin Ritter, president of the board of trustees. Phase II consists of a four-story building plus a basement on the site of the present parking lot behind the Harris Wing.

Upon its completion, the hospital will have 166 beds. "Since only nine more beds will have been added by the completion of Phase II, the em-phasisis definitely on outpatient services," Ritter said. Highlighting the Phase II project will be a combination outpatient and emergency room department on the ground floor, a radiological suite covering the entire first floor, four suites of doctor's offices on the second Photos on Page 7 flames had broken through the roof. The Klecknersville Rangers were assisted by volunteers from Bath, Bushkill Township, Nazareth and Hecktown. About 100 men battled for two bours before the blaze was considered under controL Five tankers were used to truck water from a pond about three-quarters of a mile away.

Despite this, firemen managed to stop the blaze before it spread into a recently constructed cutting room built perpendicular to the original plant. The 60 by 200-foot original section was gutted and about 75 per cent of the L-shaped structure was lost, Chief Hoch said. Investigators have established that the plant closed about 9 p.m. Wednesday and no one was in the building at the time the State police investigators said they had no clues as to where the shooting took, place or on a possible suspect. Peters was an outstanding wrestler at Allen High, where he posted a 334 record in his junior and senior years.

He graduated from Allen in 1960. At Lycoming College, he won the Middle Atlantic Conference wrestling championship in 1961 in the 167-pound class. Troopers said Peters, a salesman for Universal Resilite Products, Hempstead, N.Y., left his home between 8 and 9 p.m. Sunday and traveled west on Route 22. He entered the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the Carlisle Interchange about 1 a.m.

Monday. Peters was born in Riverhead, N.Y., a son of Mrs. Helen V. (Drevas) Peters of Allentown and the late Morgan W. Peters.

His father, a buyer at Hess's department store, died on Aug. 16. Surviving with his mother are his widow, the former Elizabeth Carni; two daughters, Debra and Theresa, and a son Michael; a brother Robert of Allentown, and two sisters, Mrs. Linda Burriello ot Allentown and Beth of Allentown. Special to The Morning Call CHAMBERSBURG Morgan Walter Peters 29, a former star wrestler at Allen High.

School and Lycoming College, was found shot to death Wednesday night along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Franklin County. State police here said Thursday that robbery was the apparent motive for the slaying. Peters's wallet was missing. Peters, who resided at 1738 Asharokiew Bayshore, N.Y., was married and the father of three children. He was en route to Latrobe to install gym equipment.

His body, with a single bullet hole in the back, was found by two motorists at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday stuffed behind a clump of bushes at a pulloff along the turnpike, a mile east of the Willow Hill exit. The victim's pickup truck camper was found abandoned along the Turnpike Tuesday by state police, 18 miles west of where the body was found. Dr. John P.

Manges, deputy Franklin County coroner, said death resulted from a single bullet wound in the back. The slug exited through the chest near the heart. Flames fed by 25-30 mile per hour winds burned through the Sportette Industries, garment manufacturing plant in Moore Township early yesterday. Owners and operators of the parent firm, Quartet Fashions of New York, estimate the loss from $750,000 to more than $1 million. However, Ben Ossman, plant owner, was quoted as saying temporary operations would be under way in a week, with full production to be resumed within a month.

The plant, on Route 946 two miles west of Moores-town, employs 125 persons. Klecknersville Rangers Chief Ernest Hoch said he had "no idea as to what caused the fire." It started in the southeast corner of the single-story cement at this point in the investigation of the fire. The blaze was discovered about 4 a.m. by Glen Coberly when he arose from bed to in vestigate noises. Coberly's home is east of the plant.

West winds kept flames from leaping to the house. First fire fighters at the scene saw "nothing but a lot of smoke." But within minutes Continued on Page 49, Column 6 fire was reported. 1 BREAKFAST CBAHER Qj Squatters Seek Help In Obtaining Utilities Lutheran Church in America reports about one of every five persons in Allentown is a Lutheran. The LCA says the city had 23 93fi hantized Lutherans the Tocks Island dam project acquired by the engineers. The areas lie both in Smithfield and Middle Smithfield townships of Monroe county.

A few were arrested in the summer of 1971 for tespassing. But over the past year the squatters have been relatively free of furhter legal pressure to promises except that they would "see what could be done." They indicated a decision of what success they might have could come within a month. The group said public utilities had been denied them by the Corps of Engineers because of the squatters legal status. "However, the realistic factor is that we are here and intend here until the appropriate federal court determine sthe answer to the legal questions involved," their statement said. The hundred or so squatters at Tocks Island even they do not have an accurate census have been in legal limbo for more than a year and a half, since the engineers began action to have them evicted from all areas in By GREGG FALES Tocks Island squatters requested help from the Smithfield Township supervisors last night to overcome alleged Army Corps of Engineers restrictions in receiving electricity, telephone, fuel and garbage disposal services.

The squatters Parents Committee and adozen squatters and their children made a rare appearance before a governing body to present their "residents' safey proposal." Dorothy Jewei, read from the mimeographed "epistle" which said "we are appealing to you as the governmental unit closest to the people and as fellow neighbors." The supervisors made no get them off the land. Some indicated last night they were cau tiously optimistic about recent statements on Tocks by New Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill and the Environmental Defense Fund. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm among its 108,000 inhabitants in 1970, or 21 per cent.

That placed Allentown seventh among U.S. cities with LCA members. Bethlehem with 13,252 ranked 18th.i Heaviest concentration of Lutherans is in York, where 44 per cent of the population is in the denomination. Newcomber to this area finds school names "a bit confusing," noting that Parkland's Upper Macungie Elementary School near Fo-gelsville has a Wescosville R.2 address in the phone book. South Mountain Preservation Association will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday in Emaus Owls to hear Atty. Douglas Blasey, solicitor for Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources Reservations for Farm-City Breakfast next Thursday at City Vu Diner are to be made by Monday at Allontnum.T.phioh Cham- MORGAN W. PETERS JR. Although the squatters are not legal residents of the township they said they were approaching the township to act as a liaison in their behalf. "We should at least be provided with and are willing ot pay for the services! HOI PLOWED OR ssWIIk 4 'mm needed to sustain life." Virginian Buys WGPA Facilities Grocery Firm Employes Defeat UnionizationTry Eleven employes of Lehigh Wholesale Grocery 1135 Plymouth Allentown, voted against having Local 1361, Retail Clerks International Union represent them in collective bargaining.

balloting took place yesterday in the company's employes' lounge. It was conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The eleven are members of the company's clerical force. They are the only employes in the Plymouth Street offices the NLRB found to be eligible. It is the second time the clerical workers turned down an opportunity to have a union represent them.

A year ago, there were two persons who favored a union. Truck drivers and warehousemen of Lehigh Wholesale Grocery hold membership in Local 773, Teamsters Union, now the only union at the company. By GEORGE BANCROFT 1 he jn Radio Sation WGPA has been sold to a broadcast management consultant from Cassanova, subject to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval. Arthur H. Holt, 41, said late last night he has bought the AM and FM facilities.

He said the application to the FCC is in preparation and that financial terms of the sale are being worked out. Donald Taylor, president of A few women indicated that past winters have been difficult with only wood stoves or fireplaces for heat. They said they were especially concerned for their children and asked that "children crossing" road signs be erected along River Road. That request, the supervisors said, "should be easy only a telephone call to the highway department." The squatters said they did not feel their request odd because they are squatters or that it was a giving in of their principles. "We are only interested in the basic necessities of life and are not asking for anything ela-bortae.

"We seek only to carry on the base level of existence, and from our labors and whatever public assistance that we may receive shall pay for these public services." Banko Omedelli, teh committee chairman, said a few squatters receive welfare money. There is one telephone for all of them, he said. came to the East Coast in the 1950s and worked in all phases of broadcasting in New. York City until five years ago. He has also worked in Buffalo and San Francisco, was a station manager in Chicago and is currently associated with an international broadcast management consulting firm in Virginia.

WGPA-AM is 250-watt daytime station, which stops its daily broadcasting at sundown. WGPA-FM is a 10-killowatt station with unlimited broadcast hours. Holt foresees no material changes in the operation of the station, located at 428 Brodhead A MiVllhV ber of Commerce or Lehigh County Agricultural Extension Office Registration officials correct item here, reporting that all eligible persons can register to vote until Oct. 10 Asst. Solicitor Jack I.

Kaufman. not Councilman James Crawford the A.B.E. Broadcasting owner of the facilities, said last drafted Allentown City Council resolution on Israeli Olympic team deaths When Council President Charles D. Snelling un night he has no knowledge of the sale. veiled Mary Newhard's scketches Ave.

on land leased from Lehigh MOTORISTS BEWARE Drivers using this rural road in Lynn Township will have no excuse if their vehicles get stuck on a snowy or icy day. In fact, if the snowfall is heavy enough, the sign 'might logically have read: "This road is not here." It was not clear whether the person who put two .22 caliber bullet holes in the marker disapproved of the township's policy or the road or just needed a handy target on a dull summer day. Holt is a 1951 graduate of Texas University, where he ma-iored in broadcasting and re of Hamilton Mall, he bumbefl posters against Crawford, who recommended that next time ceived a bachelor of fine arts Snelling drops anything to be on degree. A native of Texas, he University. Holt said he has traveled all over the world as a consultant, and he finds Bethlehen an ideal location.

He is in the process of locating a house in the area. He is married and has three children. Holt has been in the Lehigh Valley are for several days. He said he has been meeting with various people, including Bethlehem Mayor Gordon Payrow and Blanca Smith from the Council of Spanish-Speaking Organiza South Siders Find Out Little A bout 4th St Extension Effects Congress Hopeful Raps State Aide tions. office see wnetner or not our meeting were able to conclude their property may not be in volved, many others in fact He said he has been getting to know the community.

He said any plans he may develop for the station must follow from communication he has with people in the area. He does not It was noted by the citizens that many are older and will not know where to move, that they do not feel relocation benefits provided by the state are fair or sufficient. A few complained about the possibility of having bridge pil a member of councils minority. Teacher in an Allentown junior high told students United Fund wasted money by having dinner for 400 persons. Untrue.

The dinner was "dutch treat" as are all U.F. functions. State Rep. Joseph R. Zeller of Emmaus presented House citation to Jury Commissioner and Mrs.

Paul S. Geiger on occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary last night 4 Slatington man has four tickets for tomorrow's Penn State-Navy football game he can't use because of death in the family. Call 767-6642 Free vision screening tests for preschool children will be conducted today and tomorrow at Whitehall Mall National Endowment for the Humanities has appointed Dr. Richard C. Richardson, president of Northampton County Community College, to Public Committee of the Humanities in Pennsylvania Ted M.

could not be told to what extent they would be affected. "These plans are very prelim anticipate lengthening the inary," Kandra explained. "I have no names or addresses of any buildings which would be ings near their backyards if of their properties' proximity to a route given preliminary recommendation by, state engineers, Berger Associates of Har-risburg. Sen. Messinger asked Kandra to attend because of his knowledge of the project.

Kandra attached a drawing to the wall and began to answer a host of questions. Most of the citizens wanted to know just where and how the 1.1-mile $5-million project would be constructed. More specifically they wanted answers to such questions as: Why there? Will it result in the con Alan Williams of Doylestown, Democratic candidate in the 8th District (Bucks and Montgomery counties) seat in Congress, filed a financial report due Sept. 10 with the clerk of the House of Representatives in Washington. In a special delivery letter to The Morning Call dated Sept.

20, Williams enclosed a photocopy of the financial report "properly filed by me on Sept. 8, 1972." "No one on my staff realized that a copy of this report was to be forwarded to the secretary of the commonwealth," he said. Williams chided Ronald Pet-tine, chief deputy to the commonwealth secretary, because he "did not see fit to call and About 40 South Allentown residents attended a session yesterday to find out more about how the proposed South 4th Street extension will affect them. What they found out is there is nothing very specific in the details of a "pre-pre-pre-plan." George Kandra, director1 of operations for the City of Allentown, gave that description to the drawings he brought with him to show the residents meeting in the office of State Sen. Henry Messinger, 3344 Hamilton South Whitehall Township.

The meeting was requested Of Sen. Messinger about two weeks ago by a group who had learned condemned. All this is is an alignment that has received pre broadcast hours of the AM station because it is technically impossible. He said he needs to know the needs and tastes of the community. The radio facilities, started in 1946, are rated as low-power stations.

liminary recommendation." their homes are allowed to remain. Some raised the issue of the involvement of city park land in the building of the highway and complained that much Kandra said present plans do nothing to outline the specific of the work they have done to Approval of the sale by the route of the extension. Such items as elevation of the road, which would have an affect on condemnation, has yet to be con FCC may take several months. Holt said the application is only beautify Trout Creek Park would become meaningless if the recommended route is followed. Although some attending the being prepared, and that he can sidered, he said.

not predict the approval time. demnation of my property? The recommended route be gins at 4th and Union and con Schedules Pleas for Peace eludes in Mountainville. It would Good Start had filed this report." "I disliked the impression that he has tried to create that we are in any way trying to do anything other than is required by law," Williams declared. Williams was among four congressional candidates from the Lehigh Valley area named Tuesday by Commonwealth Secretary C. DeLores Tucker as having failed to comply with the financial reporting provisions of the federal Election Campaign Act.

Pettine explained that the law requires the candidates to file reports at five specified intervals before the November general election and a final report Jan. 31. He said the reports are to be filed, with the commonwealth secretary as well as the clerk of the U.S. House. In his letter, Williams said the procedure is "entirely He added: "We had checked with the office of the secretary of the commonwealth and were advised that the only report that -was to be filed was the report due 30 days after the primary and that another report is to be filed within 30 days after the Nov.

7, 1972, election. As late as Sept. 20, 1972, my secretary called the office of the secretary of the commonwealth and received the same information from that office." include a major span over the Little Lehigh Creek and railroad ties and two smaller spans over Auburn Street and over railroad Jane Fonda to Visit L.V. Thursday tracks near S. 5th Street.

Autumn will arrive officially at 5:33 p.m. today with seat- Kandra said he has no idea her fit for the season. how many homes would be con It'll be cloudy and windy, with a temperature in the 60s. Tonight, the temperature will dip fair skies and a high reading in the low 70s. Yesterday's high temperature was 61 degrees at 3:30 p.m.

The low of 53 came at 7:30 a.m. It was 58 at midnight. There was .01 of an inch of rain. Temperatures Here are Thursday's high and low temperatures and precipitation: demned, but indicated probably at least 50 but less than 100, according to preliminary plans if the recommended route is in to near 50. fact followed.

conference will be at 11:30 a.m. at Cedar Crest College. She will be the guest of the college's Politics and Youth Committed to Peace clubs, and will attend a luncheon sponsored by them. Miss Near will appear at Moravian College's student lounge to sing and talk to students in Kandra's wall plan showed another alignment examined by the engineers. Beginning at 4th mgn low prec, Allentown 61 S3 .01 Actress Jane Fonda, the controversial critic of the Vietnam War, will bring her pro-peace program to the Lehigh Valley next Thursday.

She expects to make her plea before high school and college fn Bethlehem steel-workers and a television audience. Her Lehigh Valley stopover will include talks at Lehigh University and Muhlenberg College, where she will show slides of her recent tour of North Vietnam. The Academy Award-winning actress will be accompanied by folksinger Holly Near, who has performed for GIs in Vietnam. Their program will "force people in the Lehigh Valley to remember that the war is still going on and it is still as intense as ever," a spokesman for the Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern said last night. The stopover here is part of a 17-state tour called "Indochina Peace Campaign." Miss Fonda will not campaign for any presidential candidate during the tour.

A private press conference, primarily for women in communications, will kick off her program in the Lehigh Valley. The Jane Fonda Meets the College Press," will be telecast at 10 p.m. Oct. 3. Following the taping, Miss Fonda will go to Bethlehem Steel, where she will meet steel-workers and invite them to listen to her public illustrated lecture at Lehigh University at 4:45 p.m.

The talk will be in Packer Auditorium. At 8 p.m., Miss Fonda and Miss Near will appear together in Muhlenberg College's Egner Memorial Chapel for the final public lecture of the day. There will be no admission charge for either program. Tomorrow's forecast calls for TheSkiesToday Sunset today .7:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .6:50 a.m.

The moon rises 6:27 p.m. today and is at its Full phase tonight; This is the Harvest loon. Autumn begins today at 6:33 p.m. and Union, it would run further east roughly along Basin Street terested in folksinging. joining up eventually, at 5th.

.07 .05 Albany 66 41 Atlanta 80 60 Boston 63 SO Chicago 60 Cleveland 77 54 Detroit 72 SO Key West 88 78 Los Angeles 96 66 Miami Beach 84 76 New York 62 53 Philadelphia 64 SB Phoenix 101 63 Pittsburgh 74 S4 Washington 64 60 More precise plans will not be drawn up, Kandra indicated earlier this week, until the project is on the State's Six-Year Plan and i budgeted by the State Legislature. The highway would Miss Fonda will hold a press conference for college reporters and Call-Chronicle TNT representatives at 1:30 p.m. at a Channel 39 taping for the series, "College Speak-In." The program, to be titled "Speak Out as the sun enters the Sign of Libra. (The stars of Virgo are actually in the sun's background today). be of four lanes.

THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, Pa Friday, Sept. 22, 1972 5.