The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 26

HOME: PAGE 6-UNIONTOWN, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, IMS WALKING IN SORROW Mrs. Ethel Kennedy (left), wife of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, follows his casket Info cathedral last night. With her are two ol the late senator's sisters, Mrs.

Stephen Smith (center) and Mrs. Peter Lawford. (AP Wlrepjioto) Thousands In Tribute (Continued from Pace one) WAITING TO PAY RESPECTS This is part of long line ol people that stood alongside St. Patrick's Calhcdral this morning as (hey wailed to pay their respects to the Jale Sen. Kennedy.

IAP Bishop Comiare Statement Catholics Will Offer Prayers For Kennedy Bishop William G. Connare has asked all the churches of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cireensburg lo offer special LBJ Seeks Tough Law WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, speaking in the wake of a new Kennedy assassination, lias told Congress thai "55 long months after the mail- order murder of President John F. Kennedy," it is lime in ihe name of sanity for a tough gun- cotilrol law. Ho served notice Thursday that a measure passed by both Senate and House and now on his desk doesn't go far enough because if bans the mail-order sales only pisiols. He wants Ihe ban to apply to rifles and shotguns as well.

Dv. Fry Dies At 67 NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) The Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, leader of ihe ttiree-million- member Lutheran Church in America, died Thursday night of cancer in New Rochelle Hos pilal.

He was 67 years old. Dr. Fry had submitted ML resignation as president of the Church one week ago because of his failing health. prayers for the lale Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy on Sunday, fn a slatemenl, the bishop Festival Set AI Si. John's St. Johns' R. C. Church of Uniontown will hold its annual parish summer festival Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 12-14, on Hie pai'king In! al the back of the grade school, off Jefferson SI.

Games, awards, entertain ment and refreshments will be featured. The festival is sponsored by St. John's Athletic Assn. with the cooperation of olher church organizations. Proceeds will go to alhlelic and other programs of the parish schools.

said: "With all America we regrel Ihe tragic death of Robert F. Kennedy. We grieve with his courageous wife anti children, his heroic parents and Jiis entire family in this hour of sorrow. "Wilh confidence we pray for God's mercy and compassion for Ihe senator and all bound to him by love and affection. "Wilh the President we respond to his plea for a day of mourning this Sunday.

In all the churches Ihe Diocese of Greensbnrg we ask special prayers in response lo this appeal. "Especially do we pray that forces of sanity will lake hold of our nalional scene, lo end the senseless violence of (be immediate moments, that together all Americans will gel along with Ihe business of making America safe anct responsive lo the needs of all her citizens, regardless of Iheir race or (heir creed," Masontoivti Observance Mayor Anthony Hanna of Masonlown has asked all business places in Hie borough to close between ft a.m. and noon Saturday in respect to ihe late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Masonlovvji Jaycees will place flags, and the mayor asks all fliose in the borough wlio have flags to fly them at half-mast. A'-C Cancels Cooliotil Unionlovm Council 1 2 7 5 Knights of Columbus, has canceled ils steak cookout scheduled for Saturday, because of the dealh of Sen. 'Robert F. Kennedy. Tiie senalor was a Fourth Degree K.

of C. member. interrupted out oi respect for him. Legislation authorizing Secret Service protection for all. major presidential candidates was sped through Congress, and the House completed action on a crime-control bill which includes a ban on Ihe mail-order sale of handguns.

But President Johnson was asking for even tighter curbs on Ihe Iraffic in firearms. Under tlie shock of the second Kennedy assassination in less than five years, the Poor People's Campaign in Washington ils focus lo urge a vast i national educational program to hatred and violence in America. An autopsy report disclosed that Kennedy died of "a gunshot wound of the right mastoid penetrating the brain." Chief Medical Examiner Thomas T. Noguchi of Los Angeles said fragments of a bullet "reached about the center of (he brain." The presidential jetliner that brought Kennedy's body East Engineer I FrickDist. Donald K.

Cooper has been appointed preparation engineer al U.S. Sleel's Frick District, R. C. Bcerbower general superintendent, announced lo- day. Born in Leechburg, Mr.

Cooper attended schools there and later received a B.S. degree in mineral a a i i i from Pennsylvania Slate University. He became associated with the Frick District in August of 196Ga a management trainee and worked in that capacity until his recent appointment. He and his wife, Harriet, make their home at 320 West Berkeley Uniontown. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE Sealed proposals will be received anrf publicly opened and read by Supervisors ot German Township Fayelle County, al (he office Joseph P.

Maluschak, f7 East Main Sfreel, Unlonlown, Pennsylvania i 9:00 A.M. o'clock E.D.T.) II, 19(18, lor the following: 250 tons (more or )ess) FB-2 Bi- luminous Material, F.O.B, Plant and delivered Township Roads as re quested. Proposal Specifications. Form of- Contract anti Instruction, tf. Bidders must he obtained from Joseph Mfltuschak, Secretary, 37 Main Strcci.

Uniontown, Pennsyl vanla. The materials specified herein, Bhalt meet the Standard lions of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, The successful bidder when awarded Ihe contract, shall deliver a bond wllh BiiUabJe, reasonable requirements, guaranteeing performance of the contract or (delivery to he made) wllh sufficient surety Jn the amount of 60 per cent of Ihe amount o( the contract If less Ihan or 100 per ctnt of (he a of Ihe contract it over $5000.00. All proposals must he upon the form furnished by the undersigned, The supervisors reserve Ihe right to reject any or all proposals, JOSEPH MATUSCHAK Secretary i TESTIMONIAL i P.iRr One) McMullen after 45 years, in (he field of education. Harry J. Brownficltl, who was elected to succeed Mr.

Riffle, is chairman for ihe testimonial. Slaff members on various committees include: Reservations ancf Guests, Margaret Novachek, Don Zebley and Jane Daniels; decoralions, Jane Daniels, Edward Trees, a Gismonrii, and Rose Gaskcy; presentations, Crawford anti Elmer publicity, Rose Gaskey; program, Harry J. Brbwnfield, Donald Zebley an(! Edward Tekavec. The dinner program: Invocation, Glenn W. Irvin; a a Harry field; testimonial, remarks, Arthur P.

Guseman, John Graziano, i i a Hanley, Albert Botti, Donald Zebley, Charlotte Paull, Dr. Dennis Burke and J. Vernon Crawford; presentations, Rose Gaskcy; vocal selections, Walter Raffle benediction, Mr. Irvin. Bauxite is the chief source of aluminum.

Another (Continued from a one) alone inside an empty, dark St. Patrick's Cathedral. But when Ihe cathedral opened its doors to the first of thousands expected to come to pass by Ihe coffin, friends and relatives would keep constant vigil there, four al a time in half hour shifts. There was Eunice, sister of Ihe slain senator, waiting al the airport without tears. Her husband, Sargent Shriver, U.S.

ambassador lo France, gently circling his arm around Joan's waist as they rode up the lilt together--just in case the Kennedy composure failed. Jean, a sister who rode the jet from Los Angeles, moved quickly and surely from the aircraft behind Ethel. And Jean's husband, Stephen Smilh, campaign manager for the dead senator, also was entirely calm. There was Pal, a sisler, anxious to do what she could lo help. And Ihen finally, there was Jacqueline, last lo leave the aircraft, The greal self-control of November 1963 when her husband, President John F.

Kennedy, was slain, did not fail her in June 1968. However il was reported that once Jacqueline enlered St. Patrick's Cathedral--closed lo the public (hen--with no one to see her but members of her family, she knell and wept beside the casket and had to be aided lo her feel by Edward Kennedy. Truck-Cycle Crnsli Injures Smock Man David Jansen, 27, Smock, was listed as in fair condition at the Brownsville General Hospital following a Iruck motorcycle accident on Water St. in Brownsville aboul 7:15 Ihis morning.

Jansen, driver of the motorcycle, was expected lo undergo surgery lale Ihis morning for lug Injuries. vehicle was struck by a water company truck driven by Dan Noel, Brownsville. from California also bore three women consigned lo widowhood by the stealthy marksmanship of assassins. There was Robert Kennedy's wife, Ethel, mother of his 10 children, expecting an llth. She bad been with her husband when he was shot, was beside him when he died.

She left the plane erect, seemingly composed, managing even a fleeting smile at one point. There was Mrs. John F. Kennedy, reliving the nightmare of a winter's flight nearly five years ago from Dallas to Washington beside the casket of her slain husband. Finally, there was Mrs.

Martin Luther King who made the night to LaGuardia Airport aboard the presidential 707 jet with the others. Less than two months ago Robert Kennedy had flown South to console her and to attend the funeral of her husband, shol down in Memphis, by an assassin still at large. The casket was in the forward part of the plane and members of the family took turns keeping vigil beside it--all except Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, last of the Kennedy brothers.

He refused to leave his post beside the body. About an hour from New York his head drooped and he slept. But he took the casket off Ihe plane at by Robert Kennedy's two eldest sons, Joseph, 15, and Robert The body was borne in a motorcade lo St. Palrick's, where a crowd estimated by police at 8,500 waited outside in the street. Some had been there since mitlaftcrnoon, and the hearse did nol arrive until 9:48 p.m.

Inside Ihe cathedral, waiting also, was Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, valiantly come to bid farewell lo (he third of the four sons slie bare. Her first-born, Joseph P. Kennedy was killed in aclion in World War II.

Poignantly absent was her husband, incapacitated by illness at the age of 79. He remained at Ihe Kennedy compound in Hyannis Porl, Mass. With the rest of (he Kennedy family Inside for prayer services, the huge bronze doors of the cathedral were swung shut. Several hundred onlookers remained on Fifth Avenue, however, magnetized by their brief, marginal encounter with the latest in a series of violent American tragedies. House Burns Al Wooddale A one-story at Wooddale was destroyed by fire today.

Bullskin Twp. Vol. firemen were called lo the home of Marvin Wedge aboul 12:15 p.m. The blaze apparently started in the basement near an oil furnace. Two firemen, Dean Angel and John Wolfe, were overcome by smoke.

Tennis Classes At Baily Park Uniontown Recreation Dept. will hold instruction classes in tennis for persons 14 years of age and up at Baily Park, starling Monday, June 10. The classes will be taught by Clarence E. (Bucky) Jenkins, a former local tennis champion and for many years a competent inslruclor. They will be held daily, Monday through Friday, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., for two weeks.

Those wishing to participate are asked to bring their own lennis racquets. Clar-ksville Memorial Annual memorial service of Ihe Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Clarksville will be held Sunday al II a.m. in Ihe Clarksville Christian Church. SCHOOL PICNIC Students from 'St. John's Grade and High Schools, Unionlown, went to Kennywqod Park today for their school picnic.

Glaucoma TestsSet; AtB'ville Glaucoma tests will be con ducted tomorrow from 3 to 8 p.m. at Bromuville General Hospital. Registration will start at 2:30, Rev. R. A.

Rupp will be the supervisor. Volunteer groups aiding with 'the screening include a Brownsville Restoration Society, Ladies Hospital A i i a and Brownsville Nurses Alumna Assn. The glaucoma tests are given without charge as a service of the Fayette County Assn. for ihe Blind in cooperation with the Fayelle County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Dept. ol Health, and the Brownsville, Connellsville and Uniontown Hospitals.

Similar screenings will be conducted at Connellsville Hospital on June 15 and at Uniontown Hospital on June 22. All persons over, 35 years of age are urged to take advantage of free screening tests for glaucoma. This applies especially to those with blood relatives who are glaucoma patients. Regular medical eye checkups every two years are recommended. Such screenings are important because glaucoma, which never indicates its presence by pain in the early stages, must be detected reasonably early to be curbed.

'THE KVBNING STANDARD Mrs. Perry Passes Away Funeral services for--. Mrs. Ruth Weed Perry, 83, formerly of Brier Hill, who died Monday in Ft. Lauderdale, will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m.

at the Corl (formerly 1 a Funeral Home in Uniontown. Rev. R. Howard McCuen Jr. will officiate.

Interment will be in LaFayelle Memorial Park. Friends will be received at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9. Mi 1 Perry, who came to Brier Hill in 1936, was a member of Hie Daughters of Hie American Revolution; Union- iown and Brownsville Garden Clubs; Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh Garden Center; Pennsylvania Horticulture Society; Begonia Society of Pittsburgh; American Bell and Brownsville Historical Society. She was a graduate of Cornell University, and was a judge of flower shows. Her husband, Leslie wlio died in 1964, was president of the Deep Vein Connellsville Coal Co.

Surviving are a son and three daughters: Donald, a Rapids, Mrs. Natalie McKee, Ft. Lauderdale; Mrs. Sylvia Huyelt, Charles Town, VV. anti Mrs.

Ruth Parker, Kalamazoo, Mich. Also surviving are 15 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Plane Crash At Track CHESTER, W.Va. -Three Pittsburgh area men walked away from the wreckage of a light plane that crashed in view of several Iliousand persons at Waterford Race Track A witness said (lie plane was about lo take off from ihe southern end of the track at the end of the last race Thursday night when it hit a light pole. The plane was demolished but Hie four men aboard escaped injury.

Aboard the plane were Arnold Sopko, Virgil Perla, Barry Hemphill, all of the Pittsburgh area, and William West 'of Wheeling, W.Va. FARM TOUR (Continued from Page One) lishmenls is designed to help city and suburban people become better acquainted with the important part agricultural business plays in the Fayelle County economy. The tour will assemble at Ihe Fayelle Shopping Plaza on Route 51 at 1 p.m. and will go lo the Conslanline Brothers Poultry farm near Smock, a large modern egg producing and packaging operation. Other slops on the four will be at the Ogleveo Floral south of Connellsville, producers of millions of cultured geranium cultings annually; (he Henry Cochran farm at Dawson, a modern beef breeding establishment, and the Glenn Poorbaugh dairy farm near Woodale, featuring operation of a modern milking parlor.

The chicken barbecue will be catered by Holland Herring, and it will be prepared and served at the Pleasant Valley Grange Hall, Wooddale, at aboul 5:30 p.m. Buses will return to Ihe Fayelte Piaza about 7:30. Worst Bombardment Of War Rips Saigon SAIGON (AP) Saigon took its worst enemy bombardment of the last five weeks early today. The Viet Cong slammed in 16 rockets which killed 25 Vietnamese civilians and wounded another 43, military officers reported. Gen.

William C. Westmoreland predicted the Viet Cong would continue its bombardment of the' South Vietnamese capital "to grab headlines throughout the world by portraying a facade or aura of strength." The outgoing comrnander ot U.S. farces in Vietnam returned from Washington today. South Vietnamese headquar- iers announced that the nightly barrage of 100-pound Russian fire to 27 houses today, destroying or damaging them. In terms of casualties and was Ihe worst enemy shelling of Saigon since the Viet Cong began frequent bombardment of the capital 34 days ago in an apparent attempt to terrorize the population.

The barrage poured in a.few hours before Westmoreland returned and some of the rockets landed close to his residence, to that of the top U.S. Navy commander and to the residence of the, commander of South Korea's force in Vietnam. While none of the was hurl, nine houses were set afire on Westmoreland's street, seven civilians were killed.and 15 more were wounded there. Most of the rockets hit in Ihe central part of the capital. Sporadic street fighting continued In Cholon, Saigon's Chinese section, and in the Northeastern suburb of Gia Dinh.

A'. South Vietnamese spokesman said government troops had killed 146 of the enemy and taken 23 prisoners during Ihe past three days in Cholon. Government casualties were reported light Scarcitelli Death Noted Mrs. Lucy Comfort! Scar- citelli, 76, of 90 Walnut Unionlown, died last night in the Laurel Nursing Home after a prolonged illness. Friends will be received in the DeCarlo Funeral Home after 7 p.m.

on Saturday, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, and until 8:15 a.m. on Monday when short prayers will be held. Solemn Requiem High Mass will follow St. Therese Roman Catholic Church with Rev.

Nicholas J. Thomas as celebrant. Burial will be in Sylvan Heights Cemetery. Members' of the Maria Montessori Lodge No. 1711, of which Mrs.

Scarcitelli was a member, will meet Sunday night at 8:30 for a ritualistic service. Members of the Holy Name Society of the church will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday while members of St. John's Greek Catholic Ladies Guild will meet at 8 p.m. on Sunday to recite the Ros'ary.

A native of Leisenring No. 1, Mrs. Scarcitelli is survived by her husband, Antonio, and these four children: Alhert Scarcitelli and Mrs. George (Margaret) Dursa, both of Uniontown; James, Detroit, and Samuel, St. Paul, Minn.

Also surviving are two grandchildren, and these brolhers and sisters: Samuel Comforli, Mary. Ann Comforti and Mrs. Marion (Nellie) Grzgorski, all of Mount Pleasant, and Michael Comforti and Mrs. James (May) Scardina, bolh of Scottdale. Three Gang (Continued from Page One) Vernon and Fayette City.

The trial was postponed due to a new Supreme Court ruling that the death sentence cannot be imposed by a jury from which persons with conscientious or religious scruples against capital punishment were automatically excluded. Judge John I. Munson, who was presiding at the trial, 'postponed the trial and reset it for Monday lo enable Ihe local jurists to study the Supreme Court ruling. Authorities said yesterday that three suitcases containing Ihe guns and stolen Hems were uncovered Tuesday at Ihe home of Cownden's father-' in-law, Samuel J. Parker, 58, of Turkey City, Clarion County- Scplchell, 33, was found shot to death, his body stuffed in the trunk of his car in the lot of a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge on Route 51 near Pittsburgh last Jan.

25: Krucar was found shot to death in West Virginia affer the Scolchell slaying. Cownden had been missing almost ajnonlh when his body was found in French Creek near Meadville on Sunday, shot twice and with his hands tied behind his back. Police said Parker lold them Cownden lefl Ihe suitcases in January and said 'he would pick them up alter he remodeled a farm house he had bought. They said some of the goods found in the suitcases were taken in armed robberies in the Alloona area last winler by three and four-man gangs. Police Chief William Stephens of Alloona theorized that a member of the gang might be the murderer.

In the suitcases, police said, were 20 guns, several partly filled coin collection books, twp paper medallions, a pocket walch and some oriental carvings. Police said some of the cache was taken from the Altoona home of Dr. John Strausman.last November. Strausman and his wife were lied up by three gunmen who look 67 antique guns and a coin collection. The docfor said (he loss was valued at between $25,000 and $50,000.

Authorities said there have been similar robberies elsewhere in western Pennsylvania, including the Pittsburgh area, and' Lock Haven. Hospital News UNIONTOWN Admissions: Ramona L. Raymond, Uniontown; Joyce F. Kowalczyk, Uniontown R. Bonnie Lee Muccioli, Star Junction; Juliana Adamsky, Masontown; Caroline Jones, Uniontown; William T.

McGee, Uniontown; Sharon L. Patterson, Cardale. Patricia L. Hasley, Chalk Hill; Santi J. Zabrosky, William R.

Saiitrik Hopwood R. Shirley Ann Glad, Masontown; Charles J. Lasko, Nemacolin; Susan Neverdale, Uniontown; Gina L. Canislra, Uniontown; James A. Frost, New Salem; Catherine Yauger, Chestnut Ridge.

Isabella L. Smith, Clarksvllle; 'Helen M. Miller, Masontown; John P. Dorsey, Hibbs; Janie I. Freeman, Unionlown; Randall Stitchick, Clarksville; Angela Stitchick, Clarksville; Betty B.

Varto, Uniontown R. D. Dorothy J. Cronin, Uniontown. Discharges: Warren Bircher, Mary Bryner, Sharon Bucklew, Earl E.

Cable, Charles T. Cole, Mrs. Patricia Dawson and daughter, Mrs. Maria Fischli and son, Bonnie Lou Groves, Shirley Hough, Patricia Jane Kelly, Lorelta Jane King, Mary Kay Lylle. Anna T.

Matkovlch, Alice U) Means, Ida Mae Minerd, Homer F. Moore, Mrs. Janet Myers and daughter, Audrey Rohm, Martha -L. Sharp, David Martha May Walton, Mary Lynn Weaver, Joseph Lee Zeeross, Frances Livingstone. BROWNSVILLE Admissions: Frank Battaglini, LaBelle; Joseph Boka, Brownsville; Robert Carl, Vestaburg; Demeter Sichko; W.

Brownsville; Jonas Huey, Denbo. Discharges: Mary Yogada, Kathleen Williams, Michael Francek, Joseph Abraham, Margaret Durham. CONNELLSVILLE Admissions: Mrs. a Sliallenberger, S. Connellsville; Charles Beal, Dunbar; Betsy Brower, Connellsville; Mrs.

Mary Ward, Scottdale; William Bixler, Connellsville; Mrs. Hat- Geibel (Couttnued Irpm Page One) rival at Greensburg's Westmoreland Hospital. Miss Sabatine died 45 minutes after her admittance to the hos- pilal. Mclntosh was in fair this morning in the hospital's intensive care unit. State Police at Greensburg said the Mclnlosh car was traveling north and the Sabatine car south on the two-lane highway.

The car ahead of the Mc- lntosh vehicle stopped to make a left turn and Mclntosh, unable to stop, swerved inlo Ihe southbound lane and struck the Sabatine ear head on. Property damage was estimated at $1,700. The accident occurred at 4:20 p.m. in Hempfield Twp. Miss Sabatine was a nurse at Pittsburgh's St.

Joseph's Hospital; She and Miss Reno were neighbors. Miss Reno resided with her parents, Frank and Minnie Jean Buhler Reno, at 650 Thomas Lane, Greensburg. Besides her parents, she is survived by a brother, Joseph, at home; two sisters, Becky, at home, and Mrs. William (Patricia) Acor, of Pittsburgh, and her two grandmothers, Mrs. Olive Buhler and Mrs.

Maria Reno, both of Greensburg. Miss Sabaline is survived by her parents, John and Flora Uliano Sabatine; a sister, Mary Louise, at home, and her grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Uliano, of Luxor. Friends of Ihe two girls will be received in Ihe Bacha Funeral Home, Greensburg, after 7 p.m. today, and from 3 to and 7 to 10 p.m.

on Saturday and Sunday. Requiem High Mass will be Monday at noon in Our Lady of Grace Church, Greensburg, with burial in Greensburg Catholic Cemetery. Rev. Francis L. Ginocchi will officiate.

tie Banks, Connellsville; Nancy Williams, Connellsville. Gerald Winters, Connellsville; Mrs. Dorothy Bu'rley, Connellsville; Mark Mihaly, Connellsville; Mrs. Julia H'amilla, Vanderbilt; Ethel Baumann, Scolldale; Traci Schroyer, Connellsville; Dale Emerick, S. Connellsville.

Discharges: Polly Nicholson, Mrs. Vera Jerrell, Mrs. Christine Marilungo, Daniel Marilungo, Mrs. Ella Slull, Anthony Kostelnik, Mrs. Rosalie Mprgan, Mrs.

Buelah i a Charles Hampshire. Mrs. Ann Ruby, Elmer Miller, Mrs. Joan Riehter and daughter, Mrs. Darlene Cicconi and daughter, Mrs.

Emma Bryner and son, Mrs. Judith Zebley, Mrs, Freeda Mowry, Joseph Zuback. Geo. Gray (Continued tram Page one) and now has a daily circulation of 28,000. Mr.

Gray was a reporter, court reporter, city editor and edilor of The Evening Standard, before accepting the editorship of Ihe Bucks County papers in September 1954. He succeeded the lale O'Neil Kennedy as editor of The Evening Standard in 1943. Mr. Gray has been aclive in numerous Bucks stale and national Industrial, educational, charitable and journalistic organizations. He was instrumental in the founding of the Bucks County Industrial Organization.

He was chairman of the annual Hospital Ball in Lower Bucks County, He is a past president and board member of the Sigma Delia Chi, Greater Philadelphia Chapter. He Is a trustee of the Delaware Valley College, Doyles- lown, a member of the Bucks County, Council ot the Boy Scouts, a former member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, a past president of the Pennsylvania UP1 editors, a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors. His writings and editorials have won numerous awards. The. Bucks County Cornier Times just this year won the highly-prized a award in the Pennsylvania Press competition, tlie tops in ils circulation category.

Mr. Gray and his wife reside in Lower Makefield Bucks County. One son, Richard, is the music and drama critic of the Atlanta, papers. A daughter, Mrs. Jane Gray Grabowski, resides with her husband and children in Riverside, N.

J. Tlie Bucks County Courier Times, the Doylestown In- telligencer and Ihe Burlington County Times are published by S. W. Catkins, president of Uniontown Newspapers, Inc. S.

W. Calkins vice president and general manager of the Bristol Printing announced that Sandy Oppenheimer, managing editor, would succeed Mr. Gray. In addition to newspapers in Unionfown and Bucks Counly, Mr. Gray had been with newspapers in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Louisville.

Mr. Gray is 61. Somerset County Youth Drowned A minister's son, Allen Clark, lo, of Boswell, was drowned in Somerset Counly yesterday after he apparently suffered cramps in his legs. He died at Sloughlon Lakes near Jennersfown. Authorities said lhat Clark was just learning to swim.

They said a companion, Barry Griffin, in a group of about 20, tried lo rescue him but the victim fought him off and went under. Clark was the son of Tlev George A. Clark, pastor of Sf. Andrew's Lutheran-Church at Boswell..