Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 10

Page 10 Wednesday, March 25, 1998 tElit ffnuitmn (Siuelte AMBULANCE DRIVE CONTINUES Jefferson, Indiana 4-H get grants It was announced that 4-H programs In Indiana and Jefferson counties will receive a share of 157,551 being distributed to 24 youth organizations in Pennsylvania through the Agricultural and Rural. Youth Organization Grant Program. The program, started in 1991, allows agriculture youth organizations to apply for direct grants up to $2,500 to fund educational projects, programs and seminars. "Gov. (Tom) Ridge and I are pleased to present these grants that support our agricultural youth help to ensure that Pennsylvania's strong agriculture tradition is continued for generations to come," said state Agriculture Secretary -Samuel Hayes Jr.

"The Agriculture and Rural Youth Grant Board chose the winning pro-. jects from 64 submitted applications based on how each would impact the greatest number of youth and best utilize existing or volunteer services," Hayes added. Grant recipients will include the 4-H Development Fund of Indiana, wtuch will receive $2,500 to provide a 4-H day camp titled "Catch the Bug" to teach youth about insects, and the Southwest Regional 4-H Program Development Committee of will also receive $2,500 to provide a 4-H day camp on hydro--: I saggar 'zimmmL Paramedics and emergency medical technicians work with volunteers to prepare the momng for the Citizens' Ambulance Service 1998-99 membership campaign. Brochures and applications have been mailed to all residents in Indiana County and portions of surrounding counties. Deadline is April 10.

From left, front row: Carol Bash, executive board member and volunteer; Irene Cattau, volunteer; and Dick Keith, corporate board member ond volunteer. Back row: 8ob Henry, paramedic; and Tom George, central division manager. (Gazette photo by Tom Pe!) Gallery; features works by Miller William Overdorff William "Pops" Overdorff, 60, formerly of Indiana County, died Monday, March 23, 1998, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia, S.C. He was born in Blacklick Township, Indiana County, the son of William Davis and Mabel Overdorff. He was a Presbyterian.

Mr. Overdorff was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, serving for 17 years. He was a member of the VFW and the American Legion and had been employed as a heavy equipment mechanic. Surviving are his wife, Kathy L.

Overdorff; one son, Bill Overdorff of Muliins, three daughr ters, Deborah Robinson, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Diane Gibson, Indiana, and Dawne Pelkey, Dayton, two brothers, Raymond Overdorff, Ivor, and the Rev. Glenn Overdorff, New Brighton, his foster parents, Richard and Margery Black, Marion Center; seven grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents. Friends will be received at the Richardson-Miles Funeral Home in Marion, from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday where services will be held at 11 a.m.

Thursday. Interment will be in the National cemetery in Florence. SC. Memorials may be made to the children's charity of one's choice. Anthony Chichy Anthony Earl Chichy, 26, of Johnson City, formerly of Clymer RD, died Monday, March 23, 1S98, in Johnson City.

Friends will be received on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Harry J. Bence Funeral Home in Clymer. Services will be held there at a.m. Saturday with Pastor George Dixon officiating.

Interment will be In the Brush Valley Lutheran Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the donor's choice. Man arrested after four-hour standoff BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) A man mumbling about demons in his -head fired a shotgun from his apart- -merit here Tuesday afternoon, striking a passing motorist and touching off a standoff with police that lasted -nearly four hours. Authorities finally subdued Robert Sheridan by firing more than a half-dozen canisters of tear gas and pepper gas into his apartment Before Sheridan fired at" least three more times toward lawmen out of the front and; rear of bis apartment.

No officers were hurt but police taking him into custody shortly before 5 p.m. said Sheridan expressed concerns about being shot before he reluctantly walked out of the building in his bare feet. Police who later recovered the shotgun said it was empty but cracked open as if to reload when the tear gas came crashing through his windows. "Family. Cars, Fishing Holes, and by H.K.

Miller" will be presented at Mann Elementary School, 205 S. Fifth visitors can meet the artist at a p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tiauery nours are ivionaay mrougn r-naay, 9 a.m. 10 3 p.m., uirougn May 1.

For more information, call 463-8560. Program on genealogy set for April 1 HOMER CITY Peg Ruddock, a volunteer at the Indiana County Historical and Genealogical Society, will speak on "Genealogy The Tracing of Family Roots" at the next meeting of the Homer-Center Historical Society. The group will meet Wednesday, April 1, at 7. p.m. in Homer-Center High School's large group instruction room.

The 1998 membership dues of $5 are now payable. New members are Diamond ville Cemetery group to meet DIAMONDVILLE The annual meeting of the Diamondville Cemetery Association will be held. Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. in the Diamondville Methodist Church. Submissions sought for HandSpun The Indiana Arts Council is accepting submissions from writers, artists and photographers for consideration for publication in the fifth edition of HandSpun magazine.

Submissions will be accepted from adult residents of Indiana County and students in grade nine and higher. Writers' submissions will be accepted in the areas of poetry, essays, short stories and Each author may submit up four entries. Artists and photographers may submit up to three entries. Submissions will be accented until April 24. -Margaret Overman Margaret Adaline Overman.

Clymer, died Monday, March 23, 1998, at SI. Andrew's Village in Indiana. The daughter of John H. and Minnie Glassford Overman, she was born Jan. 7, 1906, in Wilmore, Cambria County.

$ls. Overman lived most of her life ih'lndiana County where she worked as a teacher for 46 years. She taught in' the Cherryhill Township school garry in her career and then taught at'the Purchase Line School District before her retirement in 1969. -'She was a charter member of the Harmony United Presbyterian Church in Penn Run, a lifetime member of the PSEA and the NEA and a member of the Indiana County Retired Teachers Association. Surviving are two sisters, Dorothy Parry, Commodore, and Mrs.

James (Virginia) Bryant, Pittsburgh; one brother-in-law, Dale C. Fyock, Penn Run; three nephews and six nieces; 22 grandnephews and grandnieces; and five great-grandnephews and great-grandniec-es. I She was preceded in death by her-, parents; two brothers, Wade and J. Budd Overman; and two sisters, Violet Overman and Nellie Overman Fyock. Friends will be received today from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

at Robinson-Lytle's, Indiana, where services will be held at a.m. Thursday. The Rev. Lea L. Austin will officiate and Jnterment will be in the Harmony Eleanor Querry X-Eleanor Louise Decker Querry.

70, ttf.Indiana, died Tuesday, March 24, 1998, at the Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Bom in Green Township, Indiana County, on Aug. 7, 1927, she was the of Blair and Edna Knupp Decker. -VMrs. Querry was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grand- jaiother.

She was a homeinaker who enjoyed gardening and crafts. Surviving are her husband, J. Max 'Querry whom she married on July r22, 1949; oue daughterJanet Henry aid her husband Dennis. Indiana; Ctwo sons, Ivan and his wife Katy, and Melvin and his wife Blairsville; five grandchil-. dren, Stacie, Shawn, Keith, Melissa VJustin; four great-grandchil-dren.

Kayla, Brittany, Andrew and rHaley; two brothers, Carl Decker wife Sara, Commodore, and -Kenneth Decker and wife Bea Anne, College; one sister-in-law Mae 'Decker, Centre' Hall, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Ronald an infant brother, Milfard. -JV Friends will be received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Funeral Home in Indiana CWhere services will be held at 11 Friday. The Rev.

Elizabeth fRogers will officiate and interment wiU be in the Greenwood Cemetery in Indiana. Memorial contributions may be 't made to the American Heart Association, 400 Luray Johnstown, 15904-2338. jitYDIC, 11 a.m., Rairigh Funeral Home, Hillsdale -p'VERDORFF, William, II a.m., Richardson Funeral Home, Mari-Z' on, S.C. OVERMAN, Margaret 11 a.m., Robinson-Lytle's. Indiana 1 Motes INDIANA Births, March 24, 1998 Venus Woody, 290 Lincoln boy; David and Jodi Mu-' 'mau, Commodore RD 1, boy.

Admissions, March 24. 1998 William Fetterroan, Clymer; Clara Lee, Smicksburg; Phyllis McQuown, Hillsdale; Jodi Mumau, Commodore; Pearl Pyer, Homer City RD Diana Smith, Clymer; George Sokol, Clymer RD 1. Discharges, March 24, 1998 Catherin Fahnestock, 1890 Indiana; Margaret rFrantz. Black Lick; Mildred Griffith, 1058 Church Indiana: Vir-jn'nia Krebs, Shelocta; Viola Kubala, :1 Clairvaux Commons, Indiana; Iva Indiana RD Hazel Low-. man.

Victoria Gardens, Indiana: Virginia McCullough, Shelocta RD Russell Rizzo, 1890 Saltsburg Indiana; Baby girl Wallace, 'Marion Center RD2; Leslie Wallace, Marion Center RD 2. PUNXSUTAWNEY. Admissions Mrs. Deborah Fetterman, Discharges Mrs. Lea Ann Simmons and baby "boy, Big Run; Dorothy Bush, Punx- sutawney; Alice Caylor, Punxsutaw- rrey; David Welder.

Punxsutavmey. ff LATROBE Ti Admissions Beth Conrad, Deny; Raymond W. Kramer, Saltsburg; Darcy Stan- J. Discharges Ruthiee Kiser, Blairsville; Winifred Mase. Blairsville RD Jennifer L.

Clavrson and son. Saltsburg. -To receive a complete set of guidelines, stop in the office of the Indiana Arts council on tne lower level or lne Atrium, rnuauetpnta Indiana, or call 465-ARTS. Kiwanis Club hears Scouts HOMER CITY Judy Palaski, cadet troop leader, and Linda Greczek, pomes ana alternative ana specialized agriculture. In Jefferson County, the Cooperative Extension Association in Brook-ville will receive $2,500 to provide iessonsontheimportanceofagricul- ture in people's daily Uvea, and the 4-H Youth Program Advisory Committee, also in Brookville, will receive $2,377 for the purchase and construction of-equipment for traditional and therapeutic horse programs.

Police identify suspect from discarded film MUNDYS CORNER, Pa. (AP) Three teen thieves who broke into a church did themselves in with a photograph of one of the suspects that was dumped over an embank-. ment. Police recently found a camera and other items, including an endorsed $30,000 check, that had been" stolen from the: Cambria County Christian School and the Pike Grace Brethren Church sometime between 1 Jan. 23 and Jan.

25. film from the camera developed and identified a teen sitting in the back seat of a car, That led to charges Tuesday against two 16-year-old boys and Joel Aaron Goshey, 19, of Ebens-. burg, Cambria County. Police recovered stolen" items including a video camera, hut were unable to get back $80 in cash, said Trooper Edward Miller of the state police. The younger boys were released to their parents.

Goshey was jailed and is awaiting a hearing on April 9. Contract OK'd Continued from Page 9 Champion, March tfi: Valerie Hetrick, Indiana Area High School, first place in the job interview category; Brand! Watt, Indiana Area High School, and Amanda Starry, Marion Center Area High School, both second place in the business and financial service marketing category; and Shaylena Pinion, Blairsville Senior High School, and Neysa Forsythe, United High School, both finalists in the careers in marketing category. Kristi Fulmer HILLSDALE Kristi Fulmer has been named to the dean's list at West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buck-hannon, W.Va., for the 1997 fall semester. The. daughter of Kenneth and Connie Fulmer of Hillsdale, she is a senior majoring in business.

Jeffrey Savasta Jeffrey Savasta, Indiana RD 1, has been named to the highest honors dean's list at California University of Pennsylvania for the fall 1997 semester. Melissa Dillon NICKTOWN Melissa Ann Dillon of Nicktown has been named to the dean's list at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, for the fall 1997 semester. Davs? Friends: Paintings and Drawings Horace Mann Gallery in Horace Indiana. reception naay, Marcn iv, irom I in the news Wilford Smyers SALTSBURG Wilford Smyers, a resident of Saltsburg and a student at Pennsylvania Stale University, recently received a $500 scholarship from the Bayer Corporation. Smyers has demonstrated commitment, dedication and scholastic ability in the turfgrass curriculum offered at Penn State.

The Bayer Corporation, a garden and professional care company, annually awards 12 scholarships nationally. Katherine Roberts HOME Katherine J. Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Harry Roberts of Home, has been named to the dean's list for the fall 1997 semester at Messiah College, Grantham.

A 1995 graduate of Marion Center Joint High School, Roberts is a junior biology, pre-medicine major. Bad Arthritis leader and cookie chairwoman. spoke to the Homer City Kiwanis Club at their recent meeting. The Girl Scouts are celebrating 86 years of service this week. The leaders also spoke on the successful cookie sale proceeds of which will be used to sponsor trips such as a ski trip, circus, science center or a trip to Harrisburg.

Four injured in collapse of row house PHILADELPHIA (AP) Just as workmen were getting reading to begin repairing a three-story row house in North Philadelphia, it crashing down. Two women and two children were injured in the collapse Tuesday. Shakeema Babbs, 17 months, and her sister Saleema, just 2 weeks old, were in serious condition this morn-. ing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with bead injuries. Their mother, Sharnell Babbs, 19, and her mother, Rosa Mae Babbs, 50, were both in stable condition at Allegheny University Hospitals- Hahnemann.

Sharnell Babbs suffered a collapsed lung, broken rihs and a broken collarbone. Rosa Mae Babbs had a broken leg. The house collapsed about 9 a.m., said Fire Department Battalion Chief George Del Rossi. The house had been struck by a car several weeks ago, he said. Work crews had been ready to repair the damage.

when the building fell. Licenses and Inspections Commissioner Fran Egan visited the site and said an investigation was continuing. Neighbor Brinton Davis said he saw the house collapse, then pulled the two girls and one of the women from the rubble. An unidentified neighbor pulled the other woman from the debris, Del Rossi said. A dog also was rescued from the basement of the house, the fire department said.

An elderly woman was killed in December 1996 when the row home she shared with her family collapsed as they slept. A car had also crashed into that home, but city investigators said the main causes were substandard renovations made without permits. struction Co. of Cecil, Washington County, the low bidder, withdrew its bid. The authority will review the specifications for the new hangar before advertising for new bids.

On April 6, Kukurin Contracting Co. of Export will begin constructing an apron, taxi-way and access road to the airport's terminal building. Urban said that SI. 3 million project is scheduled for completion in May. In other action, the authority approved an additional $24,000 for LPA Group, Inc.

of Philadelphia to revise the master plan for the airport. That increases the cost of preparing the master plan by the consulting engineering firm to $75,000. The authority will apply for grants from the state Bureau of Aviation and the Federal Aviation Administration to pay the additional planning costs. JohnComo been at a tavern along Greenville Road and became upset when Zof-chak would not talk to him. Kelly is alleged to have damaged the car as lie walked home from the tavern.

Charges were filed against Kelly at the office of District Justice Michael Steffee, Homer City. In another criminal incident reported by area police: Two microphones were stolen from Gorell Recital Hall in Sutton Hall between Thursday and Monday, reported Indiana University of Pennsylvania Police. The loss was set at $2,800. Last year, the trip was to Washington D.C- for the 85th anniversary of Airport gets partial payment on fire loss girl scouting. Casper Tartalone, president, called the meeting to order.

Liz Kinter gave the invocation. The. next meeting will be held April 6, at Hotel The Indiana County Airport Authority accepted a partial settlement of $32,800 Monday from its insurance company to cover losses in a fire last August that destroyed the office at the county airport. The authority has recommended that the county commissioners accept the settlement from Titan Indemnity Compa-. ny of Pittsburgh for damage to the structure, equipment and the cost of restoring records lost in the fire.

George Urban, deputy director in the county Office of Planning and Development, said that Titan is continuing to review claims on private property lost by tenants of the building. After reviewing seven bids ranging from (90,860 to $174,000 for the construction of a maintenance hangar, the authority decided to advertise for new bids for the project. Urban said that Ray Maggi Con Homer, at p.m. Students Ediri Orife Ediri A. Orife, Indiana, a student at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, has been named to the university's dean's list for the fall 1997 semester.

Penn State students named to dean's list The following area Penn State New Kensington campus students have been named to the dean's list for the fall 1997 semester: APOLLO Chad A. Virostek, John A. Barron, Steve D. Ferrero, Julie B.Purvis. AVONMORE Todd A.

Criss-man. BLAIRSVILLE Michael A. Almes. DAYTON Wendy M. Jamison.

SALIN A Heather A. Corridoni. SALTSBURG Brandon K. Emanuel, Adam G. Grguric, Matthew J.

Maguire. SHELOCTA Randy L. Snyder. SPRING CHURCH Lauren L. Richards.

Kristin Nelson Kristin Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Nelson of Lexington, Ohio, formerly of Indiana, has been named to the dean's list for the fall 1997 semester at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. A 1997 graduate of Sayre School, Nelson is a freshman at Denison.

Two criminal incidents investigated by police HOMER CITY A Homer City man is accused of damaging a woman's car after he became upset with her. David Edwin Kelly, 23, of 47 Oakland Homer City, was arrested around 1:40 a.m. today on charges of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. He is accused of damaging a car belonging to Thomasen Denise Zof-chak, 32. of 79 Mullen Homer City.

State police said a passer-by saw Kelly puliing off a windshield wiper and kicking the driver's side door window four limes. According to police, Kelly had Good News: Arthritis Strength with Capsaicin is Here We've (earned quick-acting menthol with long-lasting Capsaicin in the flajy dual-action, liquid-fast formula for fighting arthritis pain. Plus you get an easy, hands-hee massage applicator. Look for it in the gold box -and get economical, long-lasting relief..