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PACE FOUP THE DAILY COURttR, CGNNbLLSVILLE. PA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1963. A I Steven Comforti, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Airs.

Michael Comforti of 421 Broadway, Scottdale. is a patient in the Children's Hospital. Pittsburgh, where he underwent surgery Monday morning. His room is No. 310.

Steven is a seventh grade student at St. John's Parochial School. Scottdale. 1963 World Almanacs at Kest- ner's Book Store Advertisement! Jan 14-15-16. E.

Emerson Arnold, 92. of Vanderbilt. R.T. 1. who recently fractured his right hip in a fall at his home, expects to undergo surgery at Mercy Hospital.

Pittsburgh, he gains sufficient strength. Shannon Lewis, Carrie! Clemens, Redding Bunting, Thomas Ermine. Mrs. Grace Pigman, Mrs. Martha Miller and daughter, Lois Xicklow and daughter, Mrs.j Connie Umble and son, Mrs.

Helen' Keibeit, s. Margaret and Man- Mayercheck have been discharged Connellsville State General Hospital. Dr and Mrs. Edward F. FitzGerald of Isabella Road and Dr.

and Mrs. Claude Nist of Scottdale were among one hundred members of the Pittsburgh Optometric Society, who attended a testimonial dinner on Sunday at the Hilton Ho" tel, Pittsburgh, honoring Dr. Ward Ewalt, national president of the American Optometric Association. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Lewis of Uledi became parents of a daughter at 8:15 a.m. Friday at Uniontown Hospital. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN A great man remains sreat: but a great leader becomes a nobody, when suckers quit followin' him. Soys Kennedy Wants Multi-Nation NATO Nuclear Force; De Gaulle Determined to Go Alone GRIM REAPER IOOF Initiates New Members At City Meeting General Worth Lodge No. 380 I.O.O.F..

met Saturday evening in the I.O.O.F. Temple. South Pittsburg St. with members from Fayette County lodges attending. The initiatory degree was conferred on a class of candidates from Connellsville, in charge of Clair Mullen, degree captain of General Worth Lodge.

Plans were made for a meeting of the Three-Link Boosters Club of Fayette County, to be held Saturday evening, in the local lodge room. The Fayette County degree team will stage the first degree. Refreshments were served by social committee members, W. C. Percy, Clair Mullen and Melvin Keller.

ST. PETERSBURG ruiccwiii POLICE OF STATE Continued From Page One cast a "yes" vote and provide the necessary two-thirds margin. Says Objections "Minor" Scott explained that the objections were minor and that they centered around Harral's plans to name Robert H. Klucjer. department engineer in the Pittsburgh district, as the agency's chief engineer or deputy secretary.

Sen. M. Harvey Taylor. R-Dauphin, Senate president pro tem- pore, has opposed Klucjer because he reportedly was a campaign manager for former Democratic Gov. George M.

Leader in York County eight years ago. Earlier reported opposition to Pennsylvania State University Prof. H. Beecher Charmbury, mines secretary designate, was reported to have faded. Sen.

Jack McGrgor, R-Allegheny, reversed his former critical position and said he was 'perfectly satisfied he (Charmbury) is sincere about carrying out the Republican platform plank for a strong strip mining law." Backed By Sportsmen McGregor said Charmbury. cri- ticised earlier for his emphasis on representing the strip mine erators, had the support of the executive secretary of the Allegheny County Federation of Sportsmens Clubs. Maurice K. Goddard, appointed Forests and Waters Secretary by Gov. David L.

Lawrence four years ago and nominated for another term by Scranton. was expected to draw a handful of negative GOP votes, including one from Sen. D. Elmer Haw baker, of Franklin County. Hawbaker was expected to be named chairman of the chamber's executive nominations committee Scranton Contends State Has Ability To Tackle Problems Continued from Page One.

inaugural speech that he is turning his full attention to the state's needs. Scranton. who brought Republicans back to power after eight years of Democratic state rule, took his oath of office on an especially built platform in the main arena of the uptown state Farm Show Building, before an overflow and enthusiastic throng estimated at about 12,000 by state police. The oath was administered by Chief Justice John C- Bell of the state Supreme Court. In his 10-minute inaugural ad- resss, Scranton urged all citizens, together with the executive and legislative branches, to unite to overcome the challenges and problems confronting the state.

Immediately after completing the oath that Pennsylvania requires of all its officials, Scranton turned around and murmured several words to his wife. Mary. and three children, sitting directly behind him. Chief Justice Bell, a former governor, was the first to shake Scranton's hand. He was followed by newly inaugurated Lt.

Gov. Raymond P. Shafer, of Meadville, and outgoing Democratic Gov. David L. Lawrence.

On the platform with Scranton were four ex Republican governors--James H. Duff, Edward Martin, Arthur H. James and Dell. When Scranton finished taking the oath, a roar went up from the overflow crowd. The front of the inaugural WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi-, dent Kennedy today was reported! more determined than ever press plans for a multi-m-Hoi NATO nuclear force with or with out French participation.

Administration officials said, however, it was hoped the weisht of opinion among other NATO members eventually would per- a President Charles de Gaulle to abandon his go-ii-alon? policy and agree on some form of multilateral control. Thev acknowledged that the Campaign Debts Of $500,000 Face Republicans French leader's blunt public rejection Monday of Kennedy's offer of Polaris missiles was a serious psychological blow to Allied unity at the moment. De Gaulle said at a news con ference he could not agree to in tegrate nuclear forces he hope. 1 to build. He said Polaris missiles would be worthless anyway, he- cause he would have his own such weapons by the time he could build submarines to launch the American rockets.

Officials here also expressed concern at another blow dealt tnc alliance by De Gaulle's ref-isal to consider admitting Britain to the European Common Market unless she abandons all preferential trade ties with the Commonwealth. But on this point, too, the Kennedy administration hoped that Ume and pressure of Allied "togetherness" would soften De Gaulle's position. De Gaulle's rejection of the Polaris offer- and the idea of integrating NATO nuclear forces was considered particularly unfortunate in two respects: today. Democratic stand was in the shape of a big shield emblazoned with gold state seal on a blue background, the official colors of the Commonwealth. The split-second timetable of inaugural events moved on schedule throughout.

The new governor and his wife started the day with a courtesy call on Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence at the state Capitol before proceeding to the Farm Show Building behind state police escort. Scranton's speech was punctuated a number of times by applause. The start of Scranton's administration was heralded by unfurling of the Governor's Flag at the eft corner of the especially built stand 'in the main arena of the state Farm Show Building, and a 19-gun salute from a howitzer battery of the Pennsylvania National Guard stationed outside the building. Applause roared from the throng assembled in the arena when Scranton, in a firm voice, repeated the oath the state Constitution requires of its officials.

Among those on the piatioim when he took the oath were his wife, Mary, his constant companion during his campaign tours. and three of their children-- Susan 17; Joseph, 13. and Peter, 8 Their eldest son. William 15, was absent because of mid-year exam- leaders of both House and Senate, as well as party leaders also caucused Monday to discuss cabinet appointments, but no firm decisions were reached, according to those attending. Action In House The House met for more than an hour and unanimously adopted a series of rules changes, including modifications which would: --Allow any two members, not ncessanly those who voted on the prevailing side, to ask for reconsideration of a bill.

--Eliminate the possibility of immediate votes calling for discharge of bills from committees, by forcing a one-day postponement in all discharge resolutions introduced. Also approved was a change reducing the number of House committees from 3.1 to 28, merging eight previous committees and es- tablishing a new one on industrial devzlopment. inations at a preparatory school in Connecticut. Scranton, although a millionaire, wore his first tailor made suit, made for the occasion in his home county of Lackawanna. He generally has bought ready-to- wear clothes off a store rack.

The new governor will unveil I his first legislative proposals at a joint session of the General Assembly Jan. 21. He Jias another appearance slated before the lawmaker? Jan 28 to deal with his industrial development program a keystone of his campaign pledges. was listing closer military cooperation as a prime objective, with a common nuclear force policy at its center. --It exploded into the open French-American strategy differences which Kennedy and his top advisers had hoped to soften in confidential negotiations over a period of time.

Hospital Patients. Admitted to Connellsville State General Hospital were Helen Zubovich of 102 North First Mrs. Daisy Ga-dncr of 126 Grnpe Alley. Mrs. Lucy Roebuck of Dunbar, Pi.

D. 2, Mrs Sylvia Davis of Perryopolis, Bertha Budd of Cochran Dawson, and John Petro of Long Beach. N. Y. Taken to Hospital.

Leonard Shaw of Newell has been admitted to Charleroi-Monessen Hospital for treatment. Those discharged included Mrs. Allen J. Kline of Webster and Miss Dorma B. Hall of Fayette City.

Expect Business To Show Uptrend Under Tax Slash NEW YORK aiPTI-ThA ness community looked forward today to higher stock prices and increased business activity under the stimulus of Kennedy's tax cut proposals. Wall Street analysts generally agreed that the proposed S10 billion tax reduction would lure traders into the market. Some, however, said the President's statement on taxes had been anticipated, thus blunting any bullish tendencies. They said the market already has been rising in expectations of Kennedy's call for lower taxes. The Xational Association of Manufacturers (NAM), while endorsing the call for a tax cut, was less enthusiastic about what it described as Kenndy's over- orientation "toward a quick pickup in economic activity." The NAM said that any disagreement in tax law details "should be resolved on the side of long-term strength of the economy, growth and jobs, and not on the side of quick stimulation of economic activity." Henry Gellerman of Bache Co.

said the proposed cuts, if legislated, probably would create the two million jobs estimated by Kennedy. He said the President's message "contains much good news for the mesiment community," and 15 'a welcome start on a much needed thorough revision of the tax law." Martin Gilbert of Van Alstyne, Noel Co. disagreed with those thought thai anticipation of President's proposals might have taken the edge off increased trading prospects "1 think the President's proposals will have a definitely bullish effect on the market," he said. HARRISBURG (UPD--Pennsyl- vania's Republican party today faced an expensive return to state power with an estimated $500.000 in campaign debts still remaining to be paid off. A "Scranton victory dinner." designated to celebrate the GOP's triumph at the pells last Novem ber and raise funds to ease the heavy financial burden, -nade only a dent in the whopping deficit Monday night.

The dinner at the big Zernbo Mosque here drew about 2,500 jubilant Republicans who shelled out $100 each to dine and hear op party brass--lead by Gov. elect William W. Scranton--phi "or continued harmony. The affair, termed by dinner chairman James W. Mclntosh, of Philadelphia, as the party's largest ever in point of net proceeds, grossed about $230,000.

This still leaves at least $118,000 in red ink on the books of the GOP State Committee which sponsored the dinner plus the 5355,000 deficit incurred by the state finance committee. Admits "Long Haul" Craig Truax, the 34-year-old Levittown resident who was elected state chairman only Monday afternoon, admitted it would be a "long haul" to erase the rest of the deficit. "We will have to work all year." he said adding that no single large scale affair is planned to help put the state organization in the black. Scranton climaxed the dinner by projecting a bright future for ths GOP if its ranks continue to hold. "We have the chance and opportunity of a lifetime, he said.

"We have the chance 10 keep the party together. If we do this there is no limitation for the future of the party, for the future of my administration, and for the future of the Commonwealth." Truax. who moved to the Keystone state in 1954 and now resides in Levittown, succeeds George I. Bloom, who had held he post almost seven years. Bloom was to become Common- vealth secretary--subject to state enate approval--after Villiam W.

Scranton's inaugura- M. E. BENDIK PERRYOPOLIS Michael E. Bendik, 39, died at 2:45 p.m. Monday, here.

Survivors are his parents, Mr. land Mrs. John Bendik of Perryopolis; one brother; Joseph R. of Perryopolis, R. D.

four sisters, Mrs. Mary Varga of Peryopolis, Mrs. Sophie Grid of New York. Mrs. Anna Swientek and Mrs.

Margaret Pollock of Perryopolis, R. D. 1- He was a member of the Slovak Catholic Circle, Assembly No. 25 of Perryopolis and was a veteran of the Navy Air Force in World War II. was a member of the VFW, Perry Township Gold Star Post No.

702 of Perryopolis. The body is at the Kallok funeral home at Perryopolis where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 a.m. Thursday with requiem high mass at 9 a.m. in St. John's R.

C. Church wish the Rev John A. Stofcik as celebrant. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The Altar Society of St.

John's R. C- Church will pray the rosary at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. ion today. MRS.

GLADYS McNATT Mrs. Gladys McNatt, 61, of 82 Milton Uniontown, formerly of Mount Braddock, died unexpect edly at 9 a.m. Monday, She was born April 18, 1901, a daughter of the late Lewis and Nellie Skiles Foley. She was a member of the Christian Temple of Wilson Uniontown. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.

Thelma Myers and Mrs. Dane (Rita 1 Tabor of Uniontown. and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Alva McNatt, an area insurance man, in 1957. The body is at the home, where a prayer service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, followed by additional services at 2 p.m. at Christian Temple, with the Rev. Robert Williams and the Rev. T. R.

Maddox officiating. Burial will be in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Morgantown Woman Held in Allegheny On Check Charges PITTSBURGH (UPI) Gloria V. Stanovich. a native of Morgantown.

W. was held in Allegheny County Jail here today on S5.00G bond on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution from Virginia where she is wanted for passing bad checks. Miss Stanovich, 30, was arrested at a bus terminal here Sunday. She is wanted Dallas, o.i theft charges. Daughter Born.

A daughter was born 16 Mr. and Mrs. James Second South Conneilsville, at a.m. today at Connellsville State General Hospital. JGI ve I Truax' name was placed in nomination by Mrs.

Virginia Knauer, a Philadelphia city councihvoman, during a meeting of the committee at the Holiday West Motel in nearby Mechanics-burg. There were no other nominations and Truax was named to serve out the 18 months of Bloom's current unex- pired two-year term. Truax moved into the chairmanship at an annual salary of 519,980 a year from the present post as committee executive director. He had served the committee and the House Republican leadership since 1956. Bloom and Truax addressed the committee and stressed the need for party harmony.

Truax, in one of his first actions, named Richard Wetzel. 50, of Lewistown, as personnel director of the committee with the job of screening applications for patronage posts in state government. Military Junta In Togo Behind Slain Head's Kin LOME, Togo (UPD--The military junta winch assassinated To- gplese President Sylvanius Olympic and seized power was reported today seeking to form a government under former Prime Minister Nicolas Grunitsky. Grunitsky, brother-in-law of the slam president, returned from exile Monday in neighboring Dahomey and was met at the airport by a crowd of cheering supporters. He went immediately into consultation with members of the junta.

Antoine Meatchi, leader of the political opposition to Olympic and another possible candidate to head the new regime, also was reported in Togo. Radio Lome said Sunday that Meatchi had been named president, but Monday the radio announced the junta's efforts to form a government under Gru- nitsky. Grunitsky was prime minister from 1956 to 1953 while Togo was under French administration as a United Nations trust territory. Olympic defeated him in the 1958 elections and Grunitsky later into exile. MICHAEL BABYAK Michael Babyak, 71.

of Perryopolis, R. D. 1, died at 1 a.m. today in University Center Hospital in Morgantown, W. Va.

Surviving are three sons and five daughters, Michael Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Mrs. Margaret Zirnfus of Cleveland. Joseph in Ohio, Thomas of Ruffs- dale, Mrs. Irene Cuppitt of Mc- Uellandtown.

and Mrs. Anna Vesley and Pauline Herrington of Detroit, Mich. There are also 25 grandchildren, three a grandchildren, and two brothers, Steve of Shickshinny and Joseph of Cleveland, Ohio. The body will be in the Blair in Perryopolis after 7 p.m. today where the funeral service will be held at 2 llllUOUd.) Ill CildlgC 11 OO1111 colomini.

Burial will be in Mount Washington Cemetery. Military Spending Bill High By CHARLES W. CORDDRY United Prtss International WASHINGTON (UPI) President. Kennedy's record new military budget will boost production of conventional a and planes but cut manpower and reduce funds for new ships construction. Continued expansion of the Minuteman and Polaris missile forces is provided in the defense blueprint for the year starting next July 1.

Kennedy will send it to Congress at noon, Thursday. It was learned today that the budget calls for appropriation ol $52,181,000,000 the armed forces. That is a hike of $2,328,000,000 over the sums Congress appropriated for the current year. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara spelled out his appropriation needs in a letter to Budget Bureau Director Kermit Gordon.

The letter, which a nol been made public, was dated Jan. 4. Actual expenditures in the new fiscal year, as distinct from appropriations, will amount to about S51 billion. As has been disclosed previously, spending will rise between S2 billion and S3 billion over' this year's estimated military outlay of S48.3 billion. Income Tax Plan Expected to Pass Kennedy GEORGE DACKO George A.

Dacko, 26, of Fairhope, died in Arkansas Pass. Texas. He leaves his widow, Katherine; one daughter, his mother, one brother and his grandmother. British Embassy in Congo Raided By Rioting Mobs LEOPOLDVILLE fUPP A mob of screaming Congolese broke into the British Embassy here today and ransacked offices, smashed windows and threw files into the street outside. British Embassy First Secretary John Ure received superficial facial injuries when glass from a broken window struck his face.

The mob. infuriated over British opposition to U.N. action in Katanga, also ripped a huge picture of Queen Elizabeth II to shreds. One jeep-load of Congolese police arrived 50 minutes after the riot began. The police did little to disperse it.

An hour later Nigerian U.N. police arrived with U.N. Congolese civilian chief Robert Gardiner. By then, however, the demonstration had died down. Most of the more than 800 demonstrators were students from Leopoldville's Louvanium University.

Daughter Born. Greater Tri-Town Meeting Postponed The reorganization meeting of Greater Tri-Town Industries. Inc scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 57. has been postponed until further i notice.

Two Men, Woman Rob Mellon Branch Bank 7 PITTSBURGH (UPI) Police had few clues today in the S10.21R robbery at the South Side branch of Mellon National Bank by three armed, tear gas-throwing bandits. The heiieved to be two men and a women, confronted 10 employes and 5 customers Monday afternoon at the Mellon branch. While one of the bandits, described eyewitnesses as a woman dressed as a man, the contents from five tellers' cages, the other thugs, each armed with a pistol and a tear gas gun. stood guard. Both of the armed bandits fired as pcl'ets as the robbers fled the bank.

City detectives said several persons were questioned hut none A daughter was born at The meeting will be rescheduled' were hold. Detectives said they a.m. Thursday in Uniontown Hos- at the earlisst possible date, ac-jhad only the description of the pital to Mr. and Mrs. Richard, cording to President J.

Harold thugs as help in solving the Crossland of Uniontown. I Arnold. 1 crime. By JOSEPH D. HUTNYAN United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy plans to submit to Congress on Thursday his fiscal 1964 budget which may be one of the most controversial in the nation's history.

The President already has said it would include the first part of a $10 billion three-year tax reduction program. He will get into an equally sensitive area when he explains in us budget message how much it will ultimately cost the nation and bow he plans to pay the bill. Opponents of the tax cut have argued that it would throw the budget so far out of balance that it would do more harm than good. The President has countered that any deficit resulting from the lower taxes would be wiped out in the long run by accelerating the economy's growth. Richard Hornbeck Chosen Property, Supplies Secretary HAKRISBURG (UPI)-Richard M.

Hornbeck, a 62-year-old Pittsburgh business executive, Monday- was named to serve as secretary of property and supplies in the cabinet of illiam W. Scranton. Hornbeck was Scranton's second choice for the S20.000 a year post, which includes in its duties the supervision of state purchasing and management of all state buildings. The governor-elect earlier selected Thomas K. Garihan, of Allentown, but the nomination was declined.

The appointment of Hornbeck left Scranton with only one unfilled cabinet post--that of state police commissioner--and the selection was expected to come momentarily. The governor-elect WES reported huddling with top aides late Monday in an effort to choose one of a handfiri of names presented to him late last week by a three-man committee which screened scores of applicants. By VINCENT J. BURKE United Prtsi International WASHINGTON (UPI) Democratic congressional leaders today promised President Kennedy speedy consideration of his income tax reduction program. Kennedy discussed the tax islative situation with House and Senate leaders of his own party at their regular Tuesday breakfast meeting at the White House.

Speaker John W. McCormack said that after the President presents his special tax message Jan. 24, The House Ways and Means Committee probably would proceed quickly with hearings on Kennedy's detailed proposals for a net $10 billion reduction in federal tax rates, phased over a three-year period. McCormack told newsmen that tax reduction was a "matter of urgency" in the administration's legislative timetable. Other congressional insiders were willing to give odds that the administration will succeed in pushing the President's tax cut program for individual and corporations through this year's session.

ized labor and organized business will demand that Congress cut taxes. Viiws Similar The AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last month came surprisingly similar agreement on the amount that taxes should be cut and how the relief should be distributed among individuals and corporations. Making use of this unusual labor-business harmony, Kennedy drafted a tax-cutting formula that is compatible with the proposals of both organizations. Kennedy'! program by 1965 would reduce taxes for a majority of individuals by more than 20 per cent, and would cut levies on big corporations by nearly 10 per cent.

For example, a single person earning $5,000, who now pays $818 in federal income taxes, would pay $642 when Kennedy's program became fully effective. A married couple with two children with an income of $5,000, now paying $420 in taxes, would pay $296. These examples apply to taxpayers using the standard deduction. His Chief Goal In his- State of the Union ad- However, they felt that there dress to Congress Monday, Kenne- might be some major alterations I dy affirmed that tax relief to spur in the three-year plan outlined is general terms Monday by Kennedy. Some predicted that the job would not be completed before October.

economic growth and cut unemployment is his No. 1 legislative goal this year. He gave no more than passing mention to the rest of his abbre- In the meantime. Kennedy williviated 1963 legislative program. be subjected to a continuing bar-(Backers already have abandoned rage of criticism from conserve- hoped for federal aid for construc- tives for daring to propose thai tax revenues be cut when Treasury spending already is running tiqn of public schools.

The 88th Congress probably will not decide until its second session--next year billions of dollars a year in excess --whether to enact some version of tax collections. I of Kennedy's program of medical But many spokesmen for organ- care for the aged. CONSTABLE'S CAR STOLEN SCOTTDALE a Frank R. Bell of Bullskin Township wants to get the person who put him on his feet. Bell's automobile was stolen from in front of the Everson borough building at about 11 p.m.

Friday. The 1955 four-door sedan has not been located despite an extensive police search. In the parked car at the time were a .38 calibre pistol, a pair of handcuffs and a quantity ol legal papers. The gas tank was filled. Smithton Brothers Nabbed in Theft Of City Supermarket Two Smithton juvenile boys were turned over to Westmoreland County Probation Officer Anthony Mascetta by city police after one was caught taking cigarettes from a local supermarket.

The two boys, one 14 and the other 17, are brothers, according to Chief of Police Paul Sandusky. At the same time, city police were holding two runaway boys from Parsons, W. Va. who were apprehended at 1:15 p.m. Monday while hitchhiking at North Pittsburg St.

and Route H9. Parents of the boys were notified by city police at 3:15 p.m. Monday but lad not arrived here for them by 11 a.m. today. They were on their way to Cleveland, Ohio, the chief said ivhen police arrested them.

The boys are aged 14 and 16, Sandusky said. Parents of Daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Chales Demeter of Uniontown became parents of a daughter at 7:28 a.m.

Sunday in Uniontown Hospital. TSHOMBE ENDS SECESSION FROM CONGO UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The central Congolese government has agreed to grant Ka- President Moise Tshombe he amnes'ty he has demanded or ending his secession, the Jnited Nations announced today. The disclosure was made soon after Tshombe sent a note to the United Nations asking for truce ks and demanding amnesty for himself and his followers. Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula and President Joseph Kasavubu of the central Congo government sent messages to Secretary General Thant today pledging to respect the amnesty promised last November. Tshombe was reported today to have surrendered his last stronghold of Kolwezi and announced the end of his secession from the Congo, but a U.N.

spokesman said Thant was taking a cautious view of the Katanga leader's statements in the light of his past record of broken Dromises. Mercury to Fail To Five Below In Western Penn By United Press International Cloudy weather will continue in the western portion of Pennsylvania tonight with fair and cold prevailing elsewhere. Temperatures in western areas will range from five below zero to five above. Elsewhere the temperatures will be from the mid teens in southeastern portions to five to 10'above in the northeast. Cold weather will continue i' VAWJ ,,.1.14 -iiiuouj j.an and afternoon temperatures in the 20's except 15 to 20 in soma northern mountain areas.

A new mass of arctic air drove temperatures far below zero in the Midwest today. Western Michigan, already battered by high winds and isolated snow squalls, braced for a predicted four inches of new snow which forecasters said could make the situation "real criti- TWO GET $108,000 AT TROPICAL PARK AT POINT OF GUNS MIAMI (UPI) Two men. whose work clothes blended them with cleanup crews, stepped forward suddenly with drawn revolvers Monday and took $108,000 at Tropical Park racetrack. While stunned workers gaped, the men rushed a cashier and guard, snatched two cotton bags containing the loot, then pushed their victims into a closet behind a cigar stand, locked it and escaped through a parking lot. Police said the men got about SSO.OOO in unmarked bills from the day's handle of S969.894.

around $25.000 in checks and $3,500 in cashed-in tote tickets. The track said the loss was insured. Detective David Helman called the robbery "professional, well planned and well executed." The police pickup order was for two unidentified "white Americans" dressed in olive workmen's clothes, one of them wearing a cap and the other with a tool belt strapped around his waist, like a track maintenance man. Helman said the men struck about 6:15 p.m., EST, which would have been 59 minutes after the ninth and last race went off and sometime after the last of started in the basement of the the day's 9,976 patrons had strag-1 building and spread so fast the gled from tht track. victims were trapped.

The mercury fell to 27 below at International Falls, and 38 below at Lone Rock, early today. An unofficial reading in Bayfield County, showed the mercury at 40 below zero. Clear skies over St. Paul, helped drop the temperature to 26 below. Milwaukee, reported 15 below today and Chicago's western suburbs recorded 14 below.

The extended sub-freezing cold covered the Mississippi River with two to three inches of ice from bank to bank downstream from the Alton, III, dam. Authorities said the river had not frozen like this since the dam was built 25 years ago. Upstream from the dam the ice was about eight inches thick. Thick clouds covered the citrus- nch lower Rio Grande Valley again Monday night, protecting its multi-million dollar crops from a destructive freeze for the second consecutive night. The Rocky Mountain area enjoyed its second straight day of respite from the bitter cold Monday.

Temperatures edged past the freezing mark in eastern Colorado for the first time since tho arctic storm hit. Honolulu residents did the huia Monday in chilly 56 degree weather which equalled the all-time January low. Southern Florida continued to beckon frost-bitten tourists from the Midwest and Plains states with balmy 80-degree weather. Squalls dumped heavy snow Monday at scattered spots the lee side of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Buffalo.

N.Y.. reported six inches of new snow in 12 hours. Erie, had five inches. Isolated across the Lakes area. snow flurries rest of the Great Four Persons Burn To Death in House Fire in New Jersey ASBURY PARK, N.J.

(UPI) Four persons burned to death and two others were injured Monday night when fire raced through a rundown rooming house at this ocean resort. Police said the fire apparently.