The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 1

WEATHER pm, affirm rate. "THE PAPER THAT GOES INTO THE HOME FINAL EDITION VOL.74 NO.21S PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, IMS PRICE-SEVEN CENTS 25 Trapped By Blast In Utah Potash Mine House Races Deadline On Rail Strike Speaker Confident Resolution Will Pass In Time To Avert Walkout At Midnight Tonight Little Hope for Survival Of Miners BULLETIN! MOAB, Utah con- tad etiaWsked today triUi vt mloen trapped more UUB feet below the round la piwtphalc miae, WASHINGTON (AP)-Wifo the strike deadline only 12 hours away, tie House went to work today on Senate-approved resolu- tki that would force arbitration to. avert a nationwide railroad walkout. Speaker Join W. HcCor- jnack, told reporters he was confident the House would win the ram with the dock, and get rwokjbon to President Kennedy for signing into law well in advance of the 12:01 a.m: deadline.

Drought Aid For Farms Goring aid haying privl- have been made available to fannen diverted crop lasd ta Fayette, Somerset, WafUagtan and Bedford Cone- tin, where (he droogkt the two Mmmen has reduced lay and cnps. TMs was announced today in telegrams ta Tie Evening Standard from U.S. Sen. Joseph S. CUrk and Thomas E.

Morgan. The farroen mat (Man a prnal Iron tbe Coaly Agri- rattan: StaMttaattam On- mittec IB tfcelr before fraiag or hamttinf forage ike retired land. Sally Haaktu, the Fayette Cwrty ASC said tab morning that she bu Mt received any definite information aboot the matter as yet She expects to be sbte wttaia a week ta be In a position to advise Fayette fanners. "O.K." "I would think tbe railroad bill would pass, and pass with a reasonable degree of rapidity," Me- Cormack told newsmen. "I would think that it would get brough very quickly." He did not predict whether tbe House woald accept without Change a measure passed by the Senate Tuesday, or make changes which would necessitate a compromise.

But. the effort was to send a bill quickly to President Cemedy. White House officials said that if the House passes tbe legislation without change, a copy could be placed on Kennedy's desk for signing within a half hour after louse action. A spokesman for the railroads said that as soon as the bill be- OTnes law the railroads will ad immediately to caned proposed work rules changes which the un- ons have said will cause them 'to trike. Notices of the work rules Ganges have already been posted to become effective just after midnight, but the rail spokesman said the carriers are standing by cancel the notices.

A Senate Labor Committee specialist said enactment 'of the bil would mark the first time to his nowledge that Congress has ever set up'procedure for compulsory arbitration. measure would force arbi ration to. settle the two big issues a the work rules, dispute: The elimination-of 32,000 firemen's obs and how many men are needed to run a train. Under tbe Senate measure here would be 180 days for arbi tration-negotiations before a strike could ensue if the lesser issues were still unsettled. Further con gressional action might be re quested then.

House leaders hoped to pass the neasure and speed it to Presiden Kennedy for signing before the strike deadline. capHaL Largest civil rights demonstration in Washington's history as the march for jobs and freedom swings into high gear. The' capital a ready early this morning for the thousands marchers. Leaders of the march and the officials in Washington hope there-will be no disorders That's why the capital is nervous. If the violent element can be controlled the march will have proved its point.

If Isn't one ttlag. It's another, Now the nation has to worry about the rail strike threat with a walkout scheduled for midnight. Controversy job-cutting work rules still raging with Congress having the power to delay the shutdown. Last week of Aigisl. Seems strange that slimmer is almost all finished and Labor Day weekend is just a couple of days away.

What did you do all summer? Search coat lain tripped mtoer. for i Same type of holes being to reach Louis Bova that brought Henry Throne and David Fellin out of their tiny mine pocket. The story of their battle to stay in tbe darkness of the deep before a life-hole was dug to give them air, light and food will make inspirations! and interesting read Her gab, go it Alaska. Men at the marriageable ages of 18 to 29 outnumber the girls the ages of 16 to 24 by four to one. Good news for the girls also is that the number of bachelor boys on downgrade a couple years, ago, once again is steadily increasing.

the Pirates are bad, Ike Met; Those New Yorkers kicked the ban around hi the ninth to petmi the Hues to score two runs on walk and a single last night am win, 2-1. 'Ole Casey Stengel mus be double-talking up a storm. A bad msch hanfei get rid of than to gel. Some overweight Is due to toe mwh lifting with knife, fork anc Drive wMk eve. re- Viet Nam Govt In Rap At U.S.

SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) President Ngo Dinh Diem's lime charged today the U.S State Department has shown profoundly doubt in the jovemment of (South) Viet Nam jased on totally erroneous infor malion." A government note referred a Slate Department declaration Aug. 21 which deplored method jsed by Vietnamese i forces against Buddhists on Pagodas throughout the na tion were raided and thousands Buddhist monks and nuns were beaten, shot or arrested. Occasional Rain Due Here Tonight Occasional rain may reach 111 area tonight, the weatherman said Tomorrow is expected to be rather cloudy wilh showers like! and nol as warm. Today wa partly cloudy and warm. Yesterday's high and low wer 81 and 53; low.

last night 57, anc the reading at 8 o'clock thi morning 60. It was 78 at noon THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN D.C. RIGHTS MARCH MOAB, Utah (AP)-Rescuers inio deadly carbon monoxide today in the depths of a po- ash mine in which 25 men were iritombed by an explosion. Presence of the gas further dimmed already slim hopes the men would be found alive. Slate Mine Inspector Steve Hatsis said toe gas was discovered at he bottom of the shaft, one of the largest and deepest in North America.

The missing men are somewhere reyond and below that level in one of two lateral tunnels extend- ng from the base of the main shaft. Before rescuers can go farther, Hatsis said, they must establish new air supply in the main shaft, which goes straight down he distance of nearly 10 football lelds. He said this would involve installing new tubing in the bottom of the shaft and pumping in fresh air. The old tubing was destroyed )y the explosion. The mine inspector said it would about five or six hours to complete the new ventilating system and continue the search.

However, Hatsis held out hope the men might still be aJive. He said they couW have found air rackets in the two lateral tunnels which they were working. Frank Tipple, head of the potash division of Texas Gulf Sulphur operator of the mine, said rescue teams had not established contact witfi the trapped men. Asked if there was any chance the men were alive, Tippie said: "I woaida't even attempt a guess. I think there's a chance." He said they had been using dynamite.

More than 30 men were directly involved in the rescue attempt. They were going down one crew of three at a time, with crews rotating every half hour or so. Tippie said the first crews down encountered gases and intense heat, generated by the blast. He said an effort would. be made to restore the ventilation system before rescuers started the actual job of searching for the missing men.

There were hints it might take several days to find them. The explosion, of undetermined origin, ripped through the mine at 4:50 p. m. Tuesday, catching the men apparently without warning in the two lateral tunnels. The blast came a little more than an hour after the evening crew had descended to the two tunnels running downward at an angle from the main shaft.

Moab, a (awn of about 6,000, was stunned by the disaster. (Continued on Page 6, Col. 6) Civil rights marchers walk down CoutifelioB Avr. today, toward Lincoln Memorial. (aP WirtptiotM) Escape Hole Seeks Bova At 305 Feet Workers Continue Attempt To Save Miner At Hazleton HAZLETON, Pa.

(API-Workers today drove a 12-inch escape hole info a mine chamber 305 feet underground where it is believed Louis Bova, 54, may be trapped. (Rescued miner Henry Throne tells about his ordeal; an AP exclusive story; Page 6.) Utah Men Trapped At 2900-Ft. Depth MOAB, Utah m-There la a big difference between the m- dergronad tombs (hat trapped (lie Utah a Pennsylvania miners. The 25 caught beneath tbe ground here today are ntae times farther feet compared to the 9M at Hazfe- At Moab, it's almost sorjf rock (or the first ffei. At Hazftton's mine, it was soft, medhnn a hard sandstone wtth soft stole the last feet.

Shortly before noon a small speaker was lowered through the hole in an.effort to make voice contact with Bova. At the same time, David Fellin, 58, who was rescued yesterday along with Henry Throne. 28, from the mine after nearly two weeks a news conference that "I know he (Bova) is down there anc I am sure he is alive." drilling of two other shafts a'so was underway. Appearing rested at his news conference at the Hazleton State Hospital, Fellin said Bova should be alive. "There's water down there enc he can live without food," he said He said Bova is his buddy am if someone else will not go down fo fry to help, he himself will do so.

i The 12-inch drill that broke through today was driven down by the giant rig that bored, and then enlarged to 18 inches, the rescue shaft by which Fellin, and Throne were pulled (o the surface. AH three miners were trr.ppcc in the cave-in at 3 a. m. Aug. 13 but Bova was separated from the other two by a wall of debris am reportedly is hurt.

S. V. Board Discusses Taxes And Athletics By WALTER J. STOREY Taxes and the athletic program were the topics for a three-hour, sometimes acrimonious, discussion staged by the South Union School Board last night. Tax Collector Domenick Cupelli lold Ihe board lhal for a more efficient lax collection system: 1.

The collectieM riwald be ceotraNzed. 2. A cems shraM be taken o( the township lo ferret wt who ares't paying the per capfta (head) iax. Mr. Cupelli said that he should bo collecting the real estate transfer lax instead of the man thai BREAKFAST SET AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

House 112, Big Brownfield. RECORD HOP TONITE-30 SONS OF LEON SYKES WMBS D.J, for the board hired specifically that job (Edward Gursky). He charged that he is not receiving information on real estate transfers and thus is being hampered in keeping the tax books up to dale. And he addsd that this type of lax is taken up by the regular collfclors in other townships of Ihe county. "We should centralize more of the (tax) work in one place," Mr.

Cupelli said. "I have gone through the expense of opening an office with a girl on duty. For efficiency, 1 should be collecting that tax." Director John Gaddls then promised lhal Ciipclli would gel (he information on transfers hereafter. Mr. Cupelli said (hat the per capita tax rolls need revision and constant checking and that he believes a census should be taken.

(CoattaiH (, Co). K-C Festival Over Weekend Annual festival of Uniontown Council 1275, Knights of Coium bus, will be on the council home grounds, McClelJandtown starting Friday The event will continue throug Saturday evening, and Sunday an Monday afternoon and evening. Featured will be entertainment home-baked goods on sale, game and other activities. Dr. W.

Ralston is ger era! chairman. Proceeds will to Ihe council's Charity Fund. Back-To-School Danr.c At Curry-Dyson Post A Baek-lo-Schco! tiance will be held at the Curry-Dyson VF Post 3514 home, 323 E. Main St Unlontown, tomorrow from 9 p.m to 1 a.m. Sir Waller and groups will be there.

The 1-adios Auxiliary of th post is sponsoring the dance. ENTERTAINMENT TONITE Polish Ha1I--S. Mt. Vemon Ave SOUTH UNION FIRE CO. ATTENTION GEORGES TWP, TAXPAYERS! Don't forget the coming schoo board meeting Thursday, Augus 29th at 8 P.M.

DAMP DEMONSTRATOR Mrs. Kathleen Johnson of Newark, N. gets help from unidentified members of crowd assembled near Lincoln Memorial. Mrs. Johnson fell into the reflection pool near the memorial while tiding to take a picture of Ihe area.

Demolition Set At Fire House Site Crest St. Alley Won't Be Vacated Turnout Is Estimated At 100,000 Mass Call For Congress To Bar Discrimination WASHINGTON (AP) Softly chanting freedom songs, a multitude of Negroes and white sympathizers estimated at more than 100,000 moved on Abraham Lincoln's shrine today in a great civil rights march. About western Peaasyl- vanians are taking part in the civil rights demonstration in Washington a including more Uian 106 from Fayette County, They to the capital by special Jrah, chartered buses aad private can. A small army of police, national guardsmen and police reservists had little to do because --up to noon at least the massive gathering was one of the most orderly on record. The police estimated the turnout at 110,000 persons at noon.

And still more were on the way. Deputy Police Chief Howard Co- veU; reported in.earky afternoon there were 'many buses'stfll en- route through distant avenues in northwest Washington. Advance crowd estimates had ranged as high as 250,000. The march of less than a mile, from the monument to the Lincoln Memorial, actually got under way in impromptu fashion nearly half an hour before tbe 11:30 scheduled time. Some of the placards read: "Before we'll be a slave, we'll be buried in our grave." "Segregation disunites the United States." "No U.S.

dough to kelp Jim Crow." "In freedom we were born, in freedom we must iive." demonstration was a giant demand that racial discriminatiw be abolished, root and branch, throughout America. Just about everybody, Negro and was polite, and evidently intent on proving false some advance predictions that there might be an explosion of disorder. Not all the marchers were somber, by any means. Someone started the yell "Jim 1 must go" at one point, and his was taken up for a time with he enthusiasm of a football crowd, The religious tone was reflected in signs which proclaimed "God City Council last night awarded a contract to Franty Sons, Un- ionlown, to demolish'ihe former George Minor residence, 72 Con- nellsviile so that construction of ilse proposed East End fire la lion can start there next month. Council also indicaled that it will not go through with its plan to vacate an alley between some Crest St.

properties and the Lincoln View playground. Council had planned to vacate the alley in connection wilh the construction of a retaining wall at the playground. Franty, which was given the demotion contract, agreed to do the work for $115. South Union To Open Bids On New Roads Soulh Union Twp. Supervisors will open bids Sept.

9 Iheir second Accelerated Public Works project, construction of several township roads. The bid opening will begin al 7:30 p.m. in Hatfield School. The board will open bids for ite first APW project, construction of a township shed, tomorrow night at at HatfieM. President Edgar R.

Frantz said the board may go to Philadelphia on Friday to discuss its two APVV projects wilh federal officials. FRANCIS MARKET Open Fridays 'til 9:00 P.M. ENTERTAINMENT TONITE 7:30 North Union Fire Dent. Hall ENTERTAINMENT TONITE 7:30 AMERICAN LEGION HOME Gallatin Uniontowa Council indicaled that the alley will not be vacated after discussing the matter with five Cresl St. residents.

One of Ihe rcsidenls, Stephen T. Priselac, 16 Cresl was opposed to vacaling the alley because if and when he builds a garage at his residence he will need the alley lo get in and out. The others were nol only against the alley being vacated but fc-lt thai it should be improved. One complained about dust during dry weather. Soif Washes Down Consulting Engineer Russell B.

Mechling said it would be possible too prevent soil from washing down the sleep slope onlo the playground by grading and sod- 31 Dems, 6 Of GOP Kegisler In N.U. Thirty-one Democrats and six Republicans were signed up field registralion yesterday North Union It went this way: Fairground School, 21 Dems, three Republicans, am! seven changes of address; Lemonl School, one Republican; high school, 10 Dems, two Republicans, and one change ol address. Today, the registrars will be in North Union aiin; at Lemon Wood Acres; Ml. Independence School, and fire hall al Bule. ding.

The mayor fejt that per- laps it might be a wise move on he part of the cily to buy sod instead of planting grass seed. Solicitor Milton D. Msrgolis recommended that the city contact federal officials in Philadelphia and obtain their permission to revise the Accelerated Public V'orks' project. This should be done so as not to jeopardize the program, he pointed out. The Crest St.

residents com plained about youngsters at the Lincoln View playground smoking, drinking, swearing and committing acts of vandalism. "Ruby Laskey (playground su pervisor) does a good job--the trouble starts after she leaves," council was lold. Councilman Harold Taylor, director of Ihe Dept. of Parks and Public Buildings, said plans have been made-to creel lights in the playground area arid lhal this should help reduce vandalism. An ordinance was inlroducet whereby the cily will incur an in debtedness of $1.565.

which wil be used to help construct the proposed new tennis court a Raily Park. The money will be borrowed from Fayette' Nationa Bank Trust Co. ENTEItTAINMECT TONITE 7:45 V.F.W. Entertainment Thursday, Aug. 29 and every Thursday at 7:30 P.M.

SONS OF ITALY-FAIRCHANCE BUFFET DINNER ALL YOU CAN EAT $1.25 Chicken end 20 good items WEDNESDAY ONLY RATION'S HOPWOOD, PA. can this of justice, God" of power, America deny freedom in lour!" Shortly after noon a group of tollywood stars including Marlon 3rando, Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. arrived on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. They were welcomed by the Rev. Martin Luther King.

Jackie Robinson, who was the first Negro to play big league baseball, told the crowd: "I know all of us are going to go away feeling We cannot turn back." Negro songstress Una Home, wearing the yellow legionnaire cap of the marchers, shouted: "Freedom!" into the microphone (Continued on Ftgr t. Col. 1) SKATER CHEERED Smith, the Chicago skater who passed through Uniontown last Saturday on his way to Washington, was given an ovation at Ihe civil rights demonstration in the capital today. Today's Paper About People Yn Know 3 Classified lg-17 Comlci 1J.W Crossword Pnzte If Deaths Dr. Crate Edferiali Hospital News Ltcal Kreata Notebook (by the MaH) Rtdw It Tetevhtai it Society Star Gaier WMtaf Wei.