The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 26

PAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2fl, 1858 HOME EDITION County Land Court Hearing Delayed For Study Of Bids THE EVENING STANDARD A continuance has granted by the court liere on a hearing concerning disposal of 55 acres of county-owned property just west of Uniontown. The court has postponed the hearing pending further study of bids received by the county commissioners. A discussion on the matter had been set for today, with the possibility that open bidding might be the answer for sale of offering $1,500, an acre for the tract of land. land and promising to build' a Last month Albert and Her- multi-million shopping mall on bert Ratner of Greensburg secured an option agreement from the county commissioners, North Korea Set To Free Pueblo Reports Say WASHINGTON (AP) North Korea is preparing to release the 82 surviving crewmen of the captured U.S. intelligence ship 'ueblo in the near future, per- aps by Christmas, according to I government source.

The source, who could not be identiYted, said he could not disclose any details, except to say that the North Koreans "no decisions made," alto release the prisoners follow-1 though developments were ex- ing a total of IVi hours of meetings with American officials Tuesday and Thursday at Pan- munjom, site of the Korean armistice talks. Defense Department officials termed the Thursday meeting at Panmunjom "constructive," but Director Is 'Named At Camp Conestoga E. J. Sullivan, chairman of the Westmoreland- Fayette Council Camping Committee, has announced the appointment of Ed Lewis of Jeannette as the 1959 director of Camp Conestoga. Mr.

Lewis has a long history of work in the Scouting program. has served as Wagion Lodge Chief, chairman of the Council Explorer Cabinet, and Chief of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He holds the Scouter's Training Award, the Vigil Honor, and the Thun- derbird Award. Mr. Lewis returns to the camp iitaff after a year's absence.

He had previously served the camp for six years in the capacities of assistant program director and program director. Mr. Lewis holds collegiate jcredit in camp counseling and in camp administration. He has been trained at ScMff Scout Reservation and Philmont Scout Ranch, and is also certified as an Advanced Campcrafter and as an instructor by the Ameri- ED LEWIS can Camping Assn. He graduated honors from California State College with a major in English and Spanish.

He holds a master of arts degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in English, and is a teacher in the Mount Pleasant Area School District. pected "very shortly." The State Department Thursday had declined to express any thoughts of the release reports. "I will not express an opinion one way or another, and I hope you will bear' with us," State Department press officer J. McCloskey said. He did not deny the reports.

Reports had circulated in recent day of the possible release of the officers and crewmen of ship, captured last Jan. 23 off the coast of North Korea. And from South Korea came word Thursday that a high government source said he believed the Pueblo crew would be released in two or three days. The South Korean source indicated the only thing standing in the way of the release were some procedural matters, such as when, where and how the men were to be freed. Some sources in the United States said Thursday that relatives of the Pueblo crew had been notified to stand by for an impending announcement concerning the 82 men.

However, late Thursday night, almost all relatives reached by the Associated Press said they had not been contacted by the government. 151 Aboard Airliner In Latest Hijacking MIAMI, Fla. (AP) A hijacker who said he had nitroglycerin forced an Eastern Air- -sons aboard Thurs- lifles jet with 151 persons to fly him to Cuba late Apollo (Continued from Paffe One) their fuel cells more often in flight--about once every hour instead of every seven hours as planned." The liquid oxygen, at 297 degrees below zero, and liquid hydrogen, at 423 degrees below were pumped into the three fue cells Thursday. They combine during the night to produce electricity to run the spacecraf systems and a byproduct of wa ter for astronaut drinking. The history-making mission set for Saturday morning, ii fraught with perils never befori faced, but hopes were high tha the astronauts would carry ou their mission to orbit the moor and get back safely to earth.

"The mission is justifiable and it is right, from a technica point of view," said Dr. Kurt Debus, director of the Kenned Space Center. "The moon is old target of man's dreams Now it is a tangible target. "There is a very, very goo of a successful mission to the moon means open jng a vast new frontier. It is a exciting and rewarding thing contemplate." As their date with destin drew near, the astronauts--Ai Force Col.

Frank Borman Navy Capt. James A. Loyell Jr a'nd Air Force Maj. William A Anders--were cool and conf dent. ready as can be," on of them reported cheerfully a hundreds of crewmen preparin the Saturn 5, the world's migh lest rocket, moved at p.m Info the final countdown, an es acting process that consume the last 28 hours before launcl problems cropped and nxe overcome.

A valve gulating the flow of liquid hy drogen, which mingles with lie uld oxgen to produce electric ty and drinking water for th spaceship, malfunctioned an had to be replaced, along with Jtiaky line. by the certainty tha will beat the Russian cos monauts to a close-up rendezvous with the moon, the astro nauls were scheduled to ride t(ie garganluan Saturn 5 rocke sway from car(h at 7:51 a.m EST Saturday. ay. He apologized as he left the lane. "I'm sorry, the tall, lender hijacker said on arrival in Havana where six soldiers es- orted him off the aircraft.

"I 'ouldn't have hurt anybody." It was the fifth consecutive week that an airliner had been lijacked to Cuba. Six commer- ial planes have been hijacked Cuba during that time and 20 his year. Capt. Orris F. Firth, 56, a veteran of 30 years with the airline, he had no hesitancy about lying to Cuba when the man isted as Washington" on a nonstop flight from Philadelphia Miami handed a note to a stewardess to divert the plane.

"The threat was enough for me," Firth said after returning to Miami with his crew of seven. "I had 142 (other) people on board." Enemy (Continued from Page One) fighting, said the Communist command is trying to avoid contact and is moving troops in squad-sized units of about 10 men to get them in desired positions. The major movement was detected from the Cambodian bor der toward Saigon, they said. Intelligence reports say that four North Vietnamese divisions previously strung along the Cambodian Border north of Saigon have drawn in closer to the capital. Boylaii Rites On Monday Funeral services for Thomas V.

Boylan, 66, of 9 Vernon who died last night in the Uniontown Hospital, will be held Monday. Requiem High Mass will be held in St. Roman Catholic Church a.m. Interment will be in Oak Lawn Cemetery. The Parish Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

on Sunday. Friends will be received at the Oats Funeral Home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and until 10 a.m. on Monday. Surviving are four sisters: Mrs.

William C. (Kathryn) Kennedy, Margaret Boylan, Mary Boylan, and Mrs. Hugh G. (Therese) Lane, all of Uniontown. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Boylan; a brother, James in 1944, and a sister, Mrs. Robert (Anna) Clifford, in 1966. JURY ACQUITS (Continued from Page One) against the girls' wishes. They said they were at the motel, taking part in a "wild and claimed they never molested the dancers.

The jury got the trial for deliberation at about 11 a.m. yesterday. President Judge Eustace H. Bane charged the jury after the defense rested its case yesterday. Following a brief lunch recess the jury resumed deliberations and returned Its verdict at about 1:55 p.m.

Tears were evident on the part of relatives of the defendants following the verdicts. The two yojng dancers, who attended court sessions during most of the testimony, were not present when the verdict was returned. the site. Since then the commissioners have received several sealed bids in the tract, with one prospective buyer, offering $2,510 per acre. ThS firm, Kalco Corp.

of indicated the land would be used for commercial development. Max B. Nobel is president of tile Kalco firm'. Other bidders Included: Samuel J. Nicola of Brownsville and B.

J. DeMark Developers of Killer, offering $1,550.55 per acre, with the land to be used for construction of homes hi the $40,000 and up bracket, or for use of a race track development. Atty. William B. Parshall, representing the Fairehance Lunv ber offering $1,900 per acre with the area to be used for commercial development.

Sidney L. Tumpson of'Union- town, listing no price and indicating the land would be used for construction of an enclosed shopping mall. At the hearing the court will decide one issue: whether or not to option agreement with the Ratners. As Commissioner Chairman Frank L. Malinzak put it, "the court may throw out the agreement and see fit to entertain open bidding." This move would permit the Ratners to submit a higher bid on the ground.

As it now stands the $1,500 suggested price is as high as the developers can go. If the court okays open bidding it would be the commissioners' task to consider the highest prices along with the best intended use of the acreage. Earlier an objection against the option agreement was filed by Max B. Nobel and George H. Bortz Jr.

The two men at that time called the $1,500 price offered by the Grensburg firm as "inadequate." Some groups are urging the construction of the shopping mall, among them the Laurel Highlands School Board. The directors, at a recent meeting, cited the benefit and tax revenue that would be received from such an operation. RabbiHolds Open House Rabbi and Mrs. Harry Goldwater will hold an open house at their home, 34 Wilmington on Sunday. Members of the Tree of Life Congregation, their families and friends have been invited.

The open house will mark the last day of Chanukah, the festival of lights in Jewish tradition. It will start at 3 p.m. and continue through the early evening. Rabbi Goldwater Is leader of the Tree of Life UHS CANTATA--Here's the nativity scene from the 12th annual Chrastmas cantata to be presented by Uulontowu Area Senior High School students at 3 p.m. Sunday at the school left to right, are Alexander Tolnal, Raymond Zuzak, Thomas Langham, Clifford Stewart, Pamela Nuc- cefelli, Charles Ellis, Arthur Roll, Larry Collins, John Nairn and James Celende'r.

Standing; Lucdnda Cunningham, narrator; Barbara Cllster, Joan Eager, Deborah Provlns, Diane tankard, Patricia Murphy, Mary Dorothy Fisher, Patty Herring, J. rick Dunn and Robert Metz, riarrator, Tableaux and are directed by Mrs, Genevleve McLain and music by Warren Bixler, The public Is invited. --Herald-Standatd Photo Flu Effects Spreading Across U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Deaths from influenza, pneumonia and related diseases have reached epidemic proportions in some U.S. cities during the past two weeks, the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta announced today.

The center said 703 deaths from pneumonia-influenza--213 more than normal--had been reported in 122 cities during the week that ended Dec. 14. The flu epidemic continued today to cause school closings, cancellations of public events, and slowed-down business and holiday activities. Neiv VS. Steel EOF 4ids Mon River Area Store Man Is Accused The manager of the Acme store in Connellsville has been charged with embezzlement and fraudulent conversion.

John L. Clawson, 38, of Derry, was arrested by security agents of Acme Markets, and Constable Frank Bell after a complaint had been filed against him by James F. Longwell, chief security agent for the urn According to the complainl filed before Alderman D. R. Carr of Connell.syille, Clawson was charged with falsifying bank deposit slips and othei manipulations involving $14,250 cash and $1,500 in merchandise over a period believed to havi started in June 1967.

Bond was set at $20,000. I I FREED GIS (Continued from Page One) The men had been visited last month by U.S. correspondents who were admitted to Cambodia for the country's annual nation ai celebration. The correspondents reported that the GIs were in good shape and were being treated well. The soldiers admitted at a news conference that "several weeks ago" they had written a letter to Prince Sihanouk condemning U.S.-Cambodian border incidents.

Each of the 11 signed the letter but their commander, McCullough, said: "We did not even think of it helping ourselves." Student Injured David Johns, 16, of Mount Pleasant R. 2, was in fair condition this morning In Frlek Community Hospital there with a concussion and cut forehead suffered yesterday in an accident in the wood shop at Mount Pleasant Area High School. THREE SOUGHT (Continued from Page One) get the "I pray that you have not harmed my daughter," Mackle's statement said. "I did everything you told me to." The wealthy land developer's message to the kidnapers concluded: "Please contact me again through any channel. I will do anything you asked so my daughter will be freed." Meanwhile, FBI agents sealed Deacon's house trailer and marked It with a sign that said, "Evidence.

FBI." Police said a boat used in the attempt to claim the ransom had been stolen from the University of Miami Institute of Marine Sciences, where Deacon was employed. Confessions Scheduled At St. John's Church Pre-Christmas schedule fo confessions at St. John's R. Church of Uni6ntown was an nounced today by the pastor Msgr.

Andrew J. Schneider. Confessions will be hear Saturday from 3:30 to 4:45 and to 8:30 p.m., Monday from 3 tc 4:45 and 7 to 8:30 an Tuesday from 2:30 to 4:45 and to 8:30 p.m. Bullskin Twp. Firemen Answer False Alarm Bullskin Twp.

volunteer fire men answered a false alarrr yesterday at 1:40 p.m. to house trailer on Stouffer Hill. Chief Gilbert Breakiron said was the second such incidei there in a month. Miner Killed INDIANA, Pa. (AP) Ke; neth Wadding, 52, of Indiana, foreman at the Cunningham an Coleman Coal was crush' to death Thursday when he a parently fell beneath a machi: used to haul coal cutting equi I ment.

Near North Laurel High "our Young People Robbed Four Hopwood teen-agers vcre robbed last night after eaving the North Laurel Highlands High School gymnasium. Victimized by four young men 18 or 19 years of age who ollowed them into an alley vere George Semans, 17; his sisters, Cynthia Jean, 14, and Joyce Elaine, 12, and Alan (irk Marker, "14, all of Bennington Rd: Slate Police said the incident took place shortly before 10 o'clock, following the Laurel Highlands basketball game, The North Laurel students were taking a short cut through an alley to meet a relative. They were followed by four young men who approached them, asking for cigarettes. They were then asked at knifepoint for their wallets, whereupon a scuffle took place and the two boys had their watches taken. The loot was valued at $70, One of the thieves was said to have been about 6 feet tall and weighed 169 pounds: The other three were believed to have been about 5 feet, 8 ches tall and weighed 150 pounds.

They fled on foot. PITTSBURGH (AP) U. S. eel new basic oxygen urnace shop jn Braddock will ve a healthy economic boost 3 the Monongahela River Indus- ial complex, one of the world's rgest but hurting from the ef- ects of time. The plant, announced Thursay by U.S.

Steel president E. Gott, will cost about $50 mil- on and replace the old Edgar hompson Works. Construction at site will egin immediately and the plant ould be ready in a couple of ears. It will be U.S. Steel's econd basic oxygen furnace in le Pittsburgh area and will two 220-ton furnaces cap- able of producing eight times as much steel as a comparable open hearth.

The antiquated Thompson Works had five blast furnaces and 14 open hearths. Because of their age, the steelmaking facilities in the Pittsburgh area have been slowly losing their importance nationally. For example, metropolitan Chicago passed the Pittsburgh region a few years ago in producing the most tons annually. "The program about to be undertaken is another step in U.S. Steel's continuing plan to keep Pittsburgh area facilities modern and competitive," Gott said.

Hospital Post Office Rush Christmas day, he said. The mail volume began picking up on Dec. 16 when there were 92,000 letters and 14,176 parcels handled. It took 1,500 sacks and four loaded tractor trailers to handle that huge volume of mail. Right now the post office here is handling between 450,000 and 500,000 pieces of mail a day.

There are 115 persons employed at the post office here but five of them were off this week with what was considered the "flu." The local post office does not hire any extra employes at Christmas time any more. The present employes just work an additional hours a day. That makes their work day IVn. hours long. It enables them to add to their earnings during the Yule season, and experience has proved that it keeps the mail moving at a brisker pace than would be the case if inexperienced persons were hired.

The zip code has wrought a miracle in the movement of mail, the postmaster says. Mail Is no longer sent to Weds David Eisenhower Sunday Julie Nixon To Follow Traditions NEW YORK (AP) Julie Nixon, described by her er's press aide as "very much a sentimentalist," will wear "something old, something new, something borrowed and some' thing blue" when she marries David Eisenhower Sunday. Press secretary Gerry Van der Heuvel continued to keep secret all details of Julie's wedding gown, but did confirm Thursday that the traditional good-luck rhyme for brides will be followed. Julie's mother will wear a "fashionably" short aqua dress of corded lace over silk crepe, embroidered with aquamarines at the hem, sleeves and neckline, Mrs. Van der Heuvel said.

The dress, designed by Priscilla of Boston, has a fitted bodicfi and waist and a slightly flared skirt. Julie's going away costume is a white woo! dress with a jacket and side closing. The jacket has a wide self belt with large gold buttons. Mrs. John Elsenhower, David's mother, will wear a beige silk satin dress with a princess silhouette designed by Malcolm Starr.

The dress has a high neckline and long sleeves cuffed in ranch mink. Among other tidbits Mrs. Van der Heuvel disclosed Thursday the fact that the wedding guests will ride from the ceremony at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue to the reception 30 blocks away in five chartered buses, decorated b.y friends of David and Julie. Joseph Tarantino, the pastry chef of the Plaza Hotel where the reception will be held, said he was baking a six-tier, five- foot cake described as a rich poundcake with lemon filling. Instead of the traditional bride and groom figures atop the cake, there will be a vase of flowers--placsd there at Julie's request, Toronllno Bald.

Julie, meanwhile, was busy with last minute details, including writing thank-you notes for the gifts piling up in the dining room of the Nixon's Fifth Avenue apartment. One gift the young couple is "especially pleased" with, said Mrs. Van der Heuvel, is a brass plaque from David's grandparents, former President and Mrs, Dwlght D. Elsenhower. The plaque bears the motto, "Bless this and oh the back Mrs.

Eisenhower wrote, "This hung in the White House during the eight years your grandfather was president." Mrs. Elsenhower probably will not be able to attend the wedding, Mrs. Van der Heuvel said, "She's quite III. She has the flu." Mrs, Van der Heuvel said Mrs, Elsenhower would watch the ceremony via a special closed circuit' television broadcast being shown the former president In hie room at Waller Reed Army Hospita where he is recuperating from several heart attacks. Among those who will atten the wedding Is Johnnie Mu sante, who used to delive vegetables to the Nixons whe they lived in Los Angeles eigh years ago.

"Julie used to go ou to meet him," said Mrs. Va der Heuvel. Others who have been Invite or Out Include Xalsu Ogawa of Hawa whom the Nixons met during vacation, Monserrat C'astclls, exchange student from Spa who is staying with the John senhowcrs, and Hans Fuzesi, Hungarian refugee who wa working on a private boat the Nixons took a cruise on while he was vice president. Mrs. Van der Heuvel nnld Fuzesi, who had lost a leg escaping from Hungary, was so concerned about the Nlxons' safely "lie stayed up all night to guard them," from Page One) "Ohio" or "Florida" California" and sorted there.

Mail destined Ohio, (or example, Is "broken down" nto cities such as Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, and the like, before leaving Uniontown. This speeds up mail delivery because It reduces the number of times that.the mail has to be handled. All mail received here from 78 post offices associated with the Uniontown Post Office is worked (broken down) here and distributed to every iec- tional center and large city in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North, Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Michigan, and California. (The Uniontown Post Office has been trying to convince people that they can both save money and move their mall faster by sending it by ordinary mail to the states mentioned above. But many persons still persist In using air mail stamps, Mr.

Hcffren said.) Mail for (he rest of the country is dispatched by plane to mail expediting centers In each state. so many former residents of this area now reside in Florida, California and Michigan, the post office here operates special cases for those states. A big boost to service this year has been the downtown station (In the old post office building at the corner of Pittsburgh and Peter Sis.) It began operating last March 16. Because of the downtown station and the new policy of selling stamps at all windows, there hasn't been a waiting line of more than five or six persons at any time at either the station or the main nont office, Mr. Heffren said, UNIONTOWN Admissions: Samuel S.

Lynch, Uniontown; Barbara: L. Leonard, Mark ley sburg; Mary Margaret Lynch, Uniontown; Anna L. Lincoln, Point Marion; 'Mary Maxine Falls, Point Marion; Tony Smithberger, Uniontown. Luigi Laurlte, New Salem; Rev. Demetrius Yackanich, Brownsville; Sharon Klippi, Leisenring; Helen M.

Minor, Uniontown; Leota Uniontown; Patricia Lee Morg a McClellandtown Ferdinand Spoljarick, New Salem. Serafino Casini, Masontown; Richard DiCenzo, Uniontown; Patricia Ann Nicklow, Uniontown; Kathryn J. Fike, Uniontown; Edward Landefield, Connellsville; Bosworth L. Farson, Uniontown. GrandvillJ.

Bunt, Point' Marlon; Edwin C. Barber, Oliphant Furnace; John Bumbak Uniontown; Robert L. Stange, Uniontown; Frances E. Alicastro, Uniontown; Charles 0. Ross, Friendsyille, Md.

Joseph Uniontown; Barbara A. Phillips, Uniontown; Lura M. Mulcahy, Uniontown; Anna G. Fisher, Falrbank. Discharges: Barbara Barnes, Joseph Borytsky, a Browning, Rose Marie Cain, Mrs.

Donna Clark and daughter, Mrs. Deborah Coburn. and son, Louis DelPinto, Eugene Fazeri- baker, Mrs. Hazel Fike and son. Mrs.

Katherine Fuller and daughter, DelnhineGuthrie, Ray Guthrle, Nyrtle Herring, Joseph Marl, Charles Miller, Verda Prinkey, Leslie Roby, Edson Swaney, Dorothy Grlglack, Joseph Jezewski. BROWNSVILLE Admissions: Mrs. a Adam, Brownsville; Mamie Shea, Uniontown; Dennis Maraugha, W. Leisenring; Vincent Pa scarell, Brownsville. John Gaggina, a a I George Poska, Brownsville; Hobart Parker, Brownsville; Rose Burns, Brownsville; Mrs, Jean Kolarich, California; Jof eph Stokes, W.

Brownsville. Discharges: Mrs. Mary Hunnel, Delco Evanoff, Mrs. Lyna Kllmo, Mrs. Elizabeth Seese, Mrs.

Theresa Masneri, Paula Ann Mammarella, i Shepley Richard Townley. CONNELLSVILLE Admissions; Howard Vance, Connellaville; Carol Klmmel, Connellsville; Harry Fletcher, S. Connellsvllle; Mike Uhall, Pcr- ryopolis; John Kelley, Frank Sidehammer, Mount Pleasant, George Tomko, Ruffsdale; Mrs. Arlene Wettgen, Con- nellsvllle; Russoll. Williams, Connellsvllle; Kimbcrly Kelley, Vanderbllt; William Hegner, Dunhar.

Discharges: Mrs. Donna Clark and daughter, Mrs, Helen Leonard and daughter, Mrs. Mary Kcffer, Mrs. Eleanor Clem, Mrs. Edith Little.

Mrs. Trma Smith, Mrs. Rhoda Trenberth, Mrs. Janet Wolfe. HOIIHO Trailer Damaged In Fire Al Masonfrwn Masontown volunteer firemen were called to the Kctio trailer court on Route 21 at 7:30 this morning when fire caused considerable damage to a house trailer.

Thieves Damage Cm- Thlovea broke the windshield and atole winter-tread Urea early this morning from a car owned by Humane Agent Robert Malik, while was parked In front of hlR home at 88 Byrer I Uniontown,.