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SECOND NEW TRAIN Amtrak's got some flashy new rolling stock for Its northwestern United States runs. Called 'Superliners the double-decker passenger trains will begin service on some runs this winter. See Page F-7. NEW BRAIN If one transplants a brain, what happens to the 'footprints of the A prominent neurosurgeon admits that such ethical considerations concern him. See Page E-16.

NEW STRAIN The typical CB radio buff of several years ago was thought of as a redneck driving an IB-wheeler. But recent surveys show that today's CBer is much more like a typical American. See Page C-21. nji nl if3 C3 I mm ft NO. 2,892 ALLENTOWN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1977 50 CENTS40 CENTS DELIVERED mil Motive for mass murder eludes N.J.

investigators ntmrMfi mmmmimmmmimm Jf 'i I 1 Smr mm He said police have no idea as to motive for the killings, and the six apparently were murdered "for absolutely no reason whatsoever." He hobbled out on the porch of the white, Victorian police station with a previous leg injury to face a crowd of 75-100 reporters and onlookers. His arrival was inadvertently preceded by the blowing of the nearby fire whistle at 10:06 a.m., putting an edge on the nerves of those pressed around the police station's front lawn. A similar crowd gathered last night when news of the killings spread. Reportedly, Benoist's father was among the onlookers, and did not realize his son was involved until summoned inside by police. Courter identified the victims as: David Galvin, 14, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J.W. Galvin, 22 Arthur Ter, Hackettstown. Stephen Werner, 20, Petersburg Road, Independence Township. Robert Visconti, 35, of 170 Alfano Road, Great Meadows.

Please See Page A-4 Column 5 By JEFF BALSAI Of the Call-Chronicle Police have no motive for a mass murder Friday in which six New Jersey residents died along an old railbed in Hackettstown and Mansfield Township, N.J. frequented by joggers, bicyclists and motorcyclists. Police accused Emile Pierre Benoist, son of former Hackettstown councilman Pierre Benoist, of the killings. Benoist shot himself when cornered by police almost four hours after the shootings began. Benoist, 20, an ex-Marine who lived in his parents' turquoise Cape Cod home at 405 Valentine Hackettstown, allegedly shot the six in a sniping spree that began at 5:36 p.m.

Friday and ended at 9:10 p.m. with his suicide. Each person was shot several times, allegedly with Benoist's Ruger semi-automatic rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. Police said such a weapon can be fired as fast as the trigger is pulled. James A.

Courter, first assistant Warren County prosecutor and resident of this town on the eastern edge of Assocdted Press Idsorphoto EMILE BENOIST Warren County called the killing spree the worst in county history Courter, of the Hackettstown firm of Courter, Robert Hare, updated newsmen who inundated this small, sedate borough of 10,000 at a 10: 10 a.m. press conference yesterday. Sniper's victim The motorcycle of one of the victims of the sniper slayings in Hackettstown Friday lies along the road just outside of town. An ambulance crew is with the victim's body in the background. Canonsburg could be facing major crisis 'y, By JOSEPH NOCEPA Capitol Hill News Service WASHINGTON In late July, the residents of Canonsburg in Washington County held a gala birthday party.

Their town was 175 years old. Barely a month later, Canonsburg has learned that as a result of an activity which went on there for nearly a third of its existence, the town could soon be facing a crisis of major proportions. The activity was the extraction of uranium and radium from ore; the Vitro Manufacturing Co. in Canonsburg was a major extractor from the early 1900s until 1965. And the problem now is radioactivity.

There is enough of it in the air and under the ground at the Canon Industrial Park the former Vitro site now used by 13 small manufacturers to cause grave concern among federal and state nuclear officials. Thomas Gerusky, for example, the head of the state's Bureau of Radiological Health (BRH), calls the radioactive levels at the park "troubling." On Friday, Gerusky sent a letter to Vaughn W. Crile, owner of the industrial park, informing him that: "Substantial quantities of radioactive material are located beneath the surface of the total property area, and represent a radiation health and safety problem." The letter continued: "If the material is excavated, a serious radiation exposure problem may result." In the letter, and in an earlier phone call to Crile, Gerusky ordered him to make sure no bersome, and some ERDA officials privately concede that there is no assurance that Grand Junction will ever be fully rid of the radioactivity. In the wake of the Grand Junction incident, ERDA set up a program to reevaluate all the sites where uranium extraction or dumping had once taken place. In most places, there was no problem.

But last winter, when investigators first took radon samples at Canonsburg, what they found alarmed them. The levels, taken over a two week period, were at least as high as Grand Junction. Officials caution that it takes at least a year to get "true" radon readings because it is a gas, it can vary greatly according to season, temperature and a host of other factors. But the intial reading was enough to put the federal agency on notice. A team of ERDA inspectors came to Canonsburg in April and began taking core samples.

Again they found alarming readings. There was, said one ERDA source, "a whole lot of radioactivity out there." As a result of the core samples, Gerusky stepped in last week with the department's preliminary measures. But while one ERDA spokesman said there is "probably" no health hazard to the 150 or so people who work at the site, neither Gerusky nor most other federal officials familiar with Canonsburg are willing to say that. They say that no questions about health hazards can be answered with any certainty until January when all the radon tests are in. All of which leaves the town of Canonsburg in limbo.

Crile is downplaying the situation, saying he hasn't seen the letter from Gerusky yet, but he doesn't think there's much of a problem. signs there, and hire guards to prevent any access to the field. That particular section of the park, which had been Vitro's major burial plot for uranium and radium waste, show radioactive levels in the air that exceed state standards. Yet Gerusky admits that these are no more than preliminary measures he is simply buying time and he says that long-range solutions will have to be developed. "Frankly, I don't know what we're going to do," said Gerusky.

What is particularly disturbing to Gerusky and federal officials is the fact that the Canonsburg situation closely parallels the radioactive problems confronted a few years ago by the community of Grand Junction, Colo. Grand Junction is another place where a great deal of uranium extraction took place. When the extraction operation stopped, a developer bought the land, knocked down the industrial buildings, and converted the area into a suburban community. Grand Junction residents did not live happily ever after. About four years ago, Energy Research and Development Administration officials discovered that a gaseous radioactive substance called radon a by-product of radium and uranium had seeped through the ground and could be found in the homes and the air of Grand Junction.

Further investigation led to the discovery that in building the homes, the developer had in many cases unearthed large portions of uranium waste. ERDA, and Congress, decided the levels were too high to be ignored. ERDA set up a decontamination program and Congress passed a special appropriations measure to pay for it. But such a process is expensive and cum Phntnoranhv hv Mi Ralcai digging of any kind went on at the park. He also told Crile to fence off another part of the park which is currently a baseball field post no trespassing 18 currenuy a DaseDa" lieia Special Officer Ray Ragusky guards murder scene Today's index victim mi actja lie: gave: gills Sect.

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His syndicated column, which will teach you how not to need doctors and tell you stories from the laboratory and clinic that are applicable to most people's daily lives, begins today on Page E-19 as a regular feature of Todays chuckle Anybody who's relaxed these days is probably quite nervous about it. Cianfrani denied there was any conflict of interest involved in his relationship with Ms. Foreman, the newspaper said. Ms. Foreman worked for the Inquirer between September 1973 and January 1977.

She was the paper's political reporter from August 1974 to November 1975. Ms. Foreman told the Inquirer in a statement issued in Washington, "I don't believe I have done anything wrong. I may have done something injudicious. Certainly I do not believe I ever wrote anything for the Inquirer which violated my own professional integrity." She declined to comment further.

Earlier this week, a federal prosecutor said in court Cianfrani was being investigated on charges he cheated Pennsylvania taxpayers out of thousands of dollars by placing a girl friend with whom he had been living in New Jersey on the state payroll in a no-work job. That woman, who has not been identified officially, reportedly is in paychecks were received in Philadelphia and hand carried to New Jersey. Cianfrani and his wife were legally separated in the 1950s. Cianfrani, a Democrat with strong support from the South Philadelphia neighborhoods Mayor Frank Rizzo hails from, is considered one of the most powerful men in the Senate. Inquirer Executive Editor Gene Roberts said that during the 1975 Democratic mayoral campaign in which Rizzo was re-elected there had been complaints about Ms.

Foreman's reporting, but her stories were checked and found to be fair and accurate. The Bulletin quoted unnamed Inquirer staffers in today's editions who said complaints about the alleged conflict of interest, both from reporters and outsiders, had been ignored by the paper's editors. The Inquirer said Ms. Foreman became acquainted with Cianfrani during late 1974 and early 1975 while working her political beat. New York Times' Washington bureau, has been interviewed by federal investigators as a potential witness in a tax evasion case the U.S.

attorney's office is considering bringing against Cianfrani, according to the Inquirer and the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin. Cianfrani, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, is beine investigated for placing anoth er girl friend on the state payroll. adv. P.Y.O. Alberta Peaches 1 to 5 p.m.

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