The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 9

FOURTH 5 SEPTEMBER 1980 THE MORNING" CALL section 3 ALLENTOWN LEHIGH COUNTY A-B-E could be hurt by commuter flights to Philadelphia By RANDY KRAFT Of The Morning Call ALLEGHENY $24 one way A-B-E to Philadelphia Philadelphia to A Depart Arrive Depart Arrive 6:50 a.m. 7:20 a.m. 9:25 a.m. 9:55 a.m. 11:45 a.m.

12:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 8:20 a.m.

10:25 a.m. 10:55 a.m. 3:45 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 5:40 p.m.

6:10 p.m., 7:25 p.m. 7:55 p.m. 4:50 p.m. 5:20 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

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kncuiivc orchis, nud tu, I Certain weekend exceptions. All times local ALTAIR $45 one way A-B-E to Philadelphia Philadelphia to A Depart Arrive Arrive Depart Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport could be the big loser in new competition between commuter airlines on the 30-minute flight to Philadelphia. Later this month, Allegheny Commuter will begin daily flights between A-B-E and Philadelphia. Altair Airlines has had such flights for at least 11 years, and plans to continue its service. Marianne Giannone, manager of reservations, sales and marketing for Altair, said it costs $45 to fly one way on Altair between A-B-E and Philadelphia.

Craig Horst, an operations vice president with Allegheny Commuter, said the cost of Allegheny Commuter will be only $24 one way. But most of the passengers using either commuter are expected to get connecting flights in Philadelphia, which reduces the cost of the ticket. Giannone said about 70 percent of Altair" passengers on that route get connecting flights. Horst said it's expected that 99 percent of Allegheny Commuter's passengers will be making connections. With two commuter airlines flying between the two cities, Airport Manager Wilfred M.

"Wiley" Post Jr. is concerned that more passengers now flying out of A-B-E on major airlines may be "siphoned off" to Philadelphia International Airport for connecting flights. "We'd hate to see passengers siphoned off and the present airlines diminish their service here." said Post. "That's something we would not like to see." Paul Doelp. a marketing vice president for Allegheny Commuter, contends the new flights will bring more passengers to A-B-E.

8:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 1 :45 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

4:05 p.m. 5:35 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 8:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

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2:30 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 6.20 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

6:50 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

3:45 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 6:50 p.m. 7:30 p.m. SUNDAYS 2:30 p.m.

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6:05 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 8:15 p.m. The Altair information desk 3lso noted that further flight schedule changes may be made on Oct. 1 and Oct.

1 5. as more jets are put into service Please See AIRPORT Page B5 Preservation effort launched for Indian ruins in Salisbury By JANE SEIGENDALL Of The Morning Call ard Mester. UGI representative: Atty. Robert Johnson, counsel for UGI: Rep. KurtZwikl; County Commissioner Kenneth Mohr: James Shultz and Debbie Laubach of the city planning and development office, and Robert Habelka.

Salisbury Township planner. "There is no legal requirement that says we have to concern ourselves with these sites in relation to our pro ject." said Johnson. "But we are willing to do so. "We have been thwarted every step of the way now for five or six years." said Mester. "We have people now who are becoming the champions of the American Indians.

Before that they were the champions of sewer and before that something else. "But what grates on my nerves is that what will be an act of public responsibility and altruism on UGI's part with these sites will be viewed as a concession to Salisbury Commissioner i Janet Keim. who has been an obstructionist to this projectfrom the beginning." Mester said. "We've never dealt with the town ship on an irresponsible basis and have even bent over backwards on previous projects like Saddlebrook. he said.

"I can't understand why there is the assumption we would not deal responsibly with these sites if our project is approved. UGI told the group it is waiting lor the results from an independent archeological report on the Salisbury sites being prepared by W. Fred Kinsey of Franklin and Marshall College. Johnson said his report is due in Oc tober. The group agreed to meet again after the report is released.

Debbie Laubach said she will delay her applications lor historical register placement so Kinsey's report can be included. "The city is very concerned about the possibility of connecting those sites with the Lehigh Parkway park area and utilizing it as an extension of the city 's entire park system." said city planning director James Shultz want to make clear the city is interested only in the archeological sites and is not interested in stopping or scuttling th'e development The preservation of ancient Indian ruins in Salisbury Township brought representatives from the UGI Corp. and officials from state and local governments together yesterday to decide how the task can be accomplished. No firm decision was reached at yesterday's meeting concerning the three archeological sites that have been found on the 141-acre tract of the proposed 351 -lot Devonshire development behind Hess's South. One of those sites, which has been termed a Paleo-Indian find, could be 12.000 years old and may provide information about one of the earliest periods of human occupation on the continent.

Several options were discussed, including one that would involve a cooperative venture between the county. Allentown and Salisbury to purchase the site for park development. Present at the meeting were Rich Photography by RANDY COX Electric cat's cradle Much like the tangled maze of a children's, game, the electrical wires across the skyline of Allentown reach out to touch the urban scape. A young girl, oblivious to the abstractions around her, pushes a baby stroller in the 200 block of N. Church Street in the early evening.

Nolan P. Benner, Trexler Foundation chief 32 years, dies at 87 Boy Scouts, an artist and a cartoonist recently nailed by the Call-Chronicle's Bud amblyn. Yet he was also a low-key individual which was also a hallmark of the operation of the Trexler Foundation itself. He came to work for Gen. Trexler on Nov.

16. 1916. the day after Benner was mustered out of the Pennsylvania National Guard. In a Call-Chronicle interview with Albert Hofam-mann on the 50th anniversary of that event, Benner said his long tenure with the Trexler fortune was a "great experience and a liberal education." "When Gen. Trexler needed a clerk at Mt.

Gretna and learned I had some knowledge of purchasing and shorthand, he had me transferred from a hospital unit to his headquarters. "I was a private first class when I appeared with a typewriter before the general. In two weeks' time. I was a quartermaster sergeant senior grade. Promotions came fast in those days.

"The general loved titles, you know, and he couldn't wait until I got one." The title Benner got was captain. Ordnance Department. Pennsylvania National Guard and he took pride in having "Capt." in front of his name ever after. Benner also said in that interview that the general "couldn't wait until I got out of service so I could be his secretary. "The first day on the job in Allentown I had to go to the courthouse and search titles of farms for him.

It was something I really knew nothing about, but I suppose I must have done it satisfactorily. "The general was an impatient man in some ways when he wanted something, he wanted it immediately but I never got a cross word from him and I was certainly far from infallible." Benner said Gen. Trexler "bought farms as often as someone else buys a pair of shoes even more often. At one time, he had about 250 farms with at least 10.000 acres under cultivation." Benner said the most surprising incident in his association with the general was the day he called Benner in and said. "Cap.

I named vou an executor and trustee in mv will." The Trexler estate has grown to more than $23 million over the years. A condition of the will is that a percentage of the earnings be added to the principal each year. That has become a hedge against inflation. Since 1933. the foundation has distributed generous grants to Allentown for its park system and to many educational, charitable and religious institutions that were either wholly confined to Lehigh County or area organizations with a large segment of its service to Lehigh County people.

In the 50th anniversary interview. Benner also said. "We had a lot of good breaks, and Capt. Nolan P. Benner, 87.

the power of the Trexler Foundation as its executive director for more than 32 years, died last night at his home at 25 S. 15th St. Allentown. Benner was the personal secretary of Gen. Harry Clay Trexler from 1916 until the general's death in 1933.

And he was a trustee on a board of five of the foundation since its creation with $10 million by the general's will. The board elected Benner as executive director of the Trexler estate in October 1947 'with the same authority and powers, duties and responsibilities as normally enure to the office of president in a corporation." He held that post until this spring when illness forced him to retire. The minutes of that meeting noted. "Throughout the unprecedented span of this illustrious career, he has labored unceasingly to assure perpetuation of the philanthropic ideals which the general espoused in his lifetime. "Nolan P.

Benner has been an unfailing source of support and encouragement to countless beneficiaries of the estate, to his many fellow employees and to that great cross-section of the community from its laborers to its leaders who have come to seek his counsel." Benner was also a bank director, an ardent horseman, a founder of Brookside Country Club, a longtime supporter of the working for a good cause I guess you're entitled to them. Of course, looking back. I can think of some things we might have done differently." A Morning Call editorial at the time praised the captain: "No one knew Gen. Trexler better or was more familiar with his ideas and his method of operation than Benner. No one was more familiar with his cherished hopes for the growth of this community and the welfare of its people.

As executive director. Benner did all the interviewing with any new groups that wanted help from the foundation. All requests for aid came through him. He was an employee of the estate right from the start, but the administrative duties were shared with others until that executive director designation by the board in 1947. Trexler wings at both Allentown and Sacred Heart hospitals are just two of the many memorials to Trexler philanthropy.

The leadership of virtually every charitable and educational institution in Lehigh County would begin its fund-raising efforts for any major project by trooping to the Trexler estate offices to see Capt. Benner. And upon Benner's advice, the Trexler Foundation responded time after time, year after year sometimes with a once-and-done grant, sometimes with a five or six-figure allocation spread over several years. Please See BENNER Page B4 III! NOLAN P. BENNER.