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iTimes Leader 11 3A Friday, March 20, 1)11 No restate' released. 71 (TDM SI f. Hi i i 'V i i 1 i i i i i hi I l' ii JH i i li' u- projects because of Reagan Administration policies of cutting federal spending. The FAA would be asked to finance a portion of the project. Rosasc'o did not say how much the project would cost, The board approved the hiring of two temporary workers to replace three workers fired last January for alleged failure to report to work during a snowstorm.

The three have appealed their firing through union grievance procedures. The temporary workers. Walter O'Meara and Salvatore Morreale, both of Luzerne County, will be kept on until a decision is reached. O'Meara will work as a custodian at while Morrelae will receive as a nance worker. Airport "Business Manager Barry Centini reported a loss of $14,866 so far this year in operations at the airport but said that is $24,892 better than the same period last year.

Centini said the improvement is due to increased charges and fees at the airport and some increased tioned plans to expand runways at the local facility. The FAA, which originally approved the plan, now wants to make changes because of the environmental impact, Rosasco said. The original plan was to expand the present 6,450 feet of runway and safety area to 7,500 feet The FAA now wants that cut back to 7,250 feet Both project would the backfilling of an aroa near the end of the runway. Rosasco said the difference of 250 feet would restrict the distance an airplane could fly from Avoca non-stop. "It would mean the difference between going from here to Washington and here to Atlanta or Miami," Rosasco said, after the meeting.

Rosasco said the fuel needed to make the longer flights adds so much weight to the airplane, they need the longer runway to generate the thrust to fly. He also said the present short runway keeps certain types of commercial flights from landing at the airport during wet weather. Rosasco said airport officials believe the FAA is trying to cut back all By MICHAEL MENICHEVI Stuff Wrir AVOCA One month after it began, an Investigation into alleged misconduct at the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton International Airport continues. Release of an audit of the airport finances Is also being held up until the investigation by detectives from both the Luzerne and Lackawanna counties district attorneys' offices is completed. Luzerne County Detective Michael Dessoye, who is conducting the investigation, would not comment Thursday on how much longer the investigation might take.

The investigation centers on charges of improper sale of timber, improper use of airport gasoline and gasoline credit cards, improper awarding of contracts and the existence of a sauna for airport executives. At a meeting of the Airport Joint Board of Control, the investigation was not discussed. Airport Director Robert Rosasco told the board the Federal Aviation Administration had recently ques IFkk Rkkartf tatatura) Art Jury presents awards The Wilkes Bar re Art Jury, sponsored by city council and the city Office for Community Development, presented Urban Quality Awards to three firms which made extensive exterior Improvements to existing buildings during the past two years. The structures cited tor Improved exterior renovations are The Station restaurant-night club complex, East Market Street; Wilkes College's Klrby Hall, South River Street; and Tom Hart real estate building, S. Franklin St Own ers of the Improved structures were each presented with an aluminum which can be affixed to their buildings to Indicate the structures are award-winning renovated edifices.

Shown from left at the awards presentation at The Station are: Marvin Roth, The Station owner; Dr. Andrew Shaw, representing WUkes College; Mayor Thomas V. McLaughlin; Claire Hart Cummings, of Hart real estate; Harry Seargent, president of the art Jury; and City Councilman Al Boris. Reagan import ruling helps local wire rope manufacturer WNEP news tops ratings The U.S. market for wire rope is valued at $800 million, amounting to approximately 270,000 tons of steel wire rope specialty cable used In most segments of U.S.

industry. Other members of the committe successful in bringing about exchange in import policy on steel wire rope include Armco Steel Kansas City; Bethlehem Steel, Bethle Court decision avors unions By MARK L. HOFFMAN Mff Writer Almost one-half of the area's television viewers select WNEP-Channel 16 over the other two television stations for local news, according to A.C. Nielson Co, the television ratings service. In the latest ratings book, which measured viewers' habits Feb.

5 through March 4, 49 percent of the sets in Luzerne, Lackawwanna, and Monroe counties, were tuned to the news team of Gary Essex and Cheryl Toney for the 6 o'clock news. Fully half the people watching the 11 p.m. news tune in channel 16. Neil-sen said, while the remainder are spirt between the' other two channels. Channel 16, an ABC affiliate, only had 40 percent of the market last February, and apparently made its latest gains at the expense of the other local TV stations.

Ironically, Gary Essex is the only remaining member of the news team that presented the news in February, I960. Susan Blake, co-anchor, Is now working In Sacramento, Calif; Jay Cristnpher, weatherman who worked HARRISBURG (AP) Commonwealth Court has ruled in favor of the striking Wilkes-Barre Council of Newspapers Unions Inc. in its dispute with the state over unemployment payments. The court said Thursday that money paid to union members who work for the strike paper Citizens Voice is a strike benefit and not a wage. The union had appealed to the court after a hearing examiner for the Department of Labor and Industry ruled the payments were wages and subject to unemployment taxes.

Employers are required to make payments for each employee into the state fund. Commonwealth Court said each union member who worked on the paper was paid exactly the same, regardless of the Job performed. Wages would be paid accordung to job category, the court said. from the 'garden' is doing Channel 16's Midday Live, and Joe Zone, 16's sportscaster, now works in Providence, R.I. And, Cheryl Toney, who shared the news desk with Essex for most of the past year, has Just resigned "to pursue career opportunities," according to Nick Lawler, WNEP's news director.

No announcement of a replacement is expected soon. WBRE, channel 28, was apparently hurt by the departure of Keith Martin, who now works for WGAL-TV, an NBC affiliate in Allentown. The audience attracted to Dean Phillips and Diane Ryan, successors to Martin, actually slipped to 21 percent, down from the 25 percent audience share enjoyed by their 22's news team -Alan Hemberger and Debbie Dun-leavy languished again In third place, slipping from 22 percent of the viewing audience in 1980 to 19 percent. It may seem like a mess of numbers, but WBRE nudged out WDAU for second place by only two percentage points 21 to 19 while WNEP south Philadelphia home last March 21. The wake was held at the Pennsylvania Burial Co.

the same funeral home where a viewing was held for Bruno. Among the mourners were Bruno's son, Michael; Bruno's daughter. Sue Puppo, and her husband, Ralph; Frank H. Sheeran, the Teamsters union leader In Wilmington, and Frank "Chickie" Narcucci, considered by some to be Testa's apparent successor. The wake took place under the scrutiny of federal, state and local law-enforcement officers, who huddled In cars and stood on street corners to record names and license pUte numbers.

Agents were also noted photographing some of the mour Funeral services set today for eChicken Man' Testa WASHINGTON A Wyoming Valley industry helped in the fight against cheaper South Korean steel wire rope imports imports which hurt domestic steel Bridon-American Hanover is a member of the committee of domestic steel wire rope and speciality cable manufacturers which emerged victorious Thursday when President Ronald Reagan announced that South Korean steel wire rope is among products no longer to be given preferential duty-free treatment. A U.S. wire rope manufacturers' spokesman called Reagan's action a move that will put American workers and companies back to work. Bridon-American headquarters and main plant are in Hanover Industrial Estates, Hanover Twp. Bridon-American also has a wire rope facility on Stevens Lane, Exeter.

Robert A. Cornag, chairman of the committee which spearheaded the fight for such action, said the president's decision, "will return competition to the market place for the first time since South Korean cable was given preference over the Import of the same product from other foreign manufacturers not on the GST list." Under GST (Generalized System of Preference), the United States gives special economic aid to some developing companies by allowing them dutyfree entry of their product. However, the import duty on steel wire rope from countries not given this advantage is 4 percent Now, South Korean steel and wire rope will also bear that duty. Cornag, vice-president of Mac-whyte Kenosha, said South Korea Is now responsible for 67 percent of all steel wire imports and no longer qualifies for GST treatment as it is now fully competitive with producers in the developed world. This special advantage given to South Korea permitted it to undersell steel wire rope products In the American market, and forced the closing of some U.S.

plants and the curtailment of production in others." Dave McDermott, marketing manager for Bridon American, said South Korean Imports were a drag on the domestic steel market "We have been hurt by South Korean imports," he said, declining to provide further details. "The duties on South Korean steel will make a difference," McDermott said. "South Korean steel should be slightly higher In costs, which should help domestic manufacturers in 'the U. market" subject of the United Nations is broached. "The United Nations has been the central arena for anti-Semitic speeches for years now.

It is worse now than during the days of Hitler when he ranted for hours over International radio stations about how evil the Jews were. Then, you could turn him off. Now, the UN takes action to support such racist ranting," Nonetheless, Rabbi Tanenbaum's interests are not concentrated. His primary concern is not anti-Semitism among fundamentalists in the United States, or bigots in France or England, but the status of Cambodia's disenfranchised vis-a-vis the current presidential adminstration's commitment to human rights. 1 "I'm not as worried about President Reagan's attitude toward human rights as many others are," he stated.

"1 talked with Jean Klrkpatritk, Re hem, Broderick and Bascom Steel, St Louis, the Macwhyte Kenosha, Paulsen Wire Rope, New York; Rochester Culpepper, Universal Wire Products North Haven, and Wire Rope Corp. of America, St. Joseph, Mo. U.S. Steel while not a member of the committee, supported the committees' petition to President Reagan.

The ruling means that the Citizens Voice unlike any other business and regardless of its revenues does not have to pay into the state unemployment fund, which has been so heavily in debt to the federal government in the past that special assessments have been made to businesses in the state. The union council is made up of four unions that went on strike Oct. 6, 1978, against the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. The four are the Newspaper Guild of Wilkes-Barre, Local 120; Wilkes-Barre Typographical union. Local 187, Wilkes-Barre and Assistants Union, Local 137; and the Wilkes-Barre Stereo-typers and Electrotypers Union, Local 139.

Two of the four unions have been decertified as bargaining agents and no longer represent Times Leader employees. Decertification efforts against the other unions are pending. surance companies, banks and brokerage houses move to diversify and compete for business. Prudential, the nation's largest Insurance company, said Its cash offer is $32 a share for all of Bache's 10.97 million shares, with additional payments for warrants to buy Bacbe stock boosting the tab to approximately $385 million. As a mutual insurance company.

Prudential is owned by its policyholders. Bache stock did not trade Thursday. RABBI MARC TANENBAUM i I Prudential Insurance offers to buy Bache Inc. coasted safely ahead of the pack. Those numbers mean a lot to the stations, not only in terms of the prestige of being the most watched local news station, but in terms of advertising dollars as well.

Up to half the stations' gross revenues come from the money paid by advertisers who air commercials during the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, according to TV Guide. WNEP is strongest at 11 p.m., garnering a full 50 percent of those watching television. Again, Channel's 16 gain from the 44 percent share enjoyed last February came at the expense of the other two stations. Both WBRE and WDAU dropped In audience share.

Channel 28 slipped to 20 percent from 21 percent and Channel 22 eased from 21 percent to 19 percent almost a dead heat for last (or second) place. Both WBRE Vice-president Tom Bigler and Tom Powell, news director at WDAU, declined comment on the ratings because they said they have not yet received their copies of the Neilsen report. Not surprisingly, WNEP's news director, was jubilant ners from a third-floor window across the street from the funeral home, using a tripod-mounted camera fitted with a telephoto lens. Many of the mourners showed up in cashmere and furs, some praising Testa for charitable activities In the predominantly Italian neighborhood. "Mr.

Testa did a lot of good," said Albert DeCrenza, 33. "He brought food to poor people. People who had no heat, he heated their homes." Testa's body, clad in a gray pin-. striped suit, white shirt and black silk tie, rested in a bronze casket, a rosary wrapped in bis hands. Behind the casket was a spray of white orchids with blue ribbons spelling the word.

"Daddy." More than 200 other sprays, some fashioned out of while carnations, filled the room. (this generation," he stated. "But I thinx the recent outbreak of anti-Semitism here is primarily due to the country's rising rate of crime and violence in general. "By that, I mean that when there are Incidents of sacrilege in Jewish cemeteries, swastikas on tombs, that sort of thing, I don't think it's a concerted effort by the Ku Klux Klan or the American Nail Party. I think it's kids vandalizing a sacred place and trying to do the worse thing they they can do there.

"I don't think we ought to alarm the citizens when there is no proof that It Is an orchestrated effort against Judaism. I'd guess that vandals try to spoU Catholic or Prostes-tant cemetenei the same way. It's just that the swastika triggers such an immediate response among Jews." Rabbi Tanenbaum's patience for childish bigotry grows thin when the By ELLIOTT MINOR PlULADELPinA Funeral services were scheduled today for reputed organized crime boss Philip "Chicken Man" Testa, who was killed by a bomb blast last Sunday at his south Philadelphia home. Following the 10 am. funeral mass, Testa was to be buried beside his wife, Alfia, at the Holy Cross Cemetery in suburban Yeadon, She died last November from cancer.

Meantime, more than 3,500 mourners attended a wake Thursday night for the 56-yearold Testa, who reportedly inherited the Philadelphia-South Jersey mob when Angelo Bruno was killed by a shotgun blast outside his Human rights crusader to sound his message tonight NEW YORK (AP) The Prudential Insurance Co. of America has offered to pay $383 million for Bache Group parent company of one of the nation's largest brokerage firms. Thursday's announcement of an agreement for the deal came as Bache battled the threat of a takeover bid by the wealthy Belzberg brothers of British Columbia, who own almost 23 percent of Bache stock. Insurance industry analysts say the takeover move follows a trend in the nation's financial centers, as in agan's appointed representative to the UN, about the Cambodian children out on rafts looking for a country to dock and her response was immediate. She wanted to help them.

"I am troubled, of course, by many of the statements by (Ernest) Lefever (Reagan's selection to head the U.S. Human Rights Commission) but it is inconceivable to me that this government can act as if human rights is not an issue," he said. Rabbi Tanenbaum, guest speaker for Temple Israel's "Scholar-in-reiid-enre" program, will also appear at Saturday morning services; an Informal gathering for teens from 46 Saturday; at the Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Salsburg home, 68 W.

Ross St; an evening soiree at Dr. Mrs. David Greenwald's, 8 p.m.. In Wilkes-Barre, and Sunday morning for a breakfast with other Jewish By STEPHEN FORD O) TM TM, lulu tage. following tnree aecaae as scholar, consultant to a U.S.

president, rfn expert witness before Senate foreign committees, and a delegate to VatKin II. Tanenbaum's philosophy twrends polemics. Like the reality of hunger when it snarls at the dogma of gun toting Marxists, or fawists. Tanenbaum's message bites Into the nerves and cannot let go. Ha speaks not of arm or balanced budgets but, in fact, humanity's desire to survive.

A globe-trotting humanist whose forums often bike place throughout the world, Rabbi Tanenbaum has witnessed the very best that mankind can offer, and has rubbed elbows with its least plejint shadows. In a telephone interview this week. Rabbi Tanenbaum was asked whether anti-Semitism has re-emerged in the Western world: "There I no question that there are new episode of anti Semitlsm in The name and tide may not evoke any immediate response, nor does his modest attitude in conversation, but Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum easily quail-fii as one of this nation's foremost authorities on human rights. For the past 30 years. Rabbi nenbaiim has championed the plight of humans In need, whether the oppressor be abject poverty, hunger or drsprrtKm.

At 15 tonight, residents of Wyoming Valley can share Rabbi Tanen-baum's experierres in the world today, and the one tomorrow, when he addrews a Joint audience of Jews and Christians at Temple Israel, 239 S. River Street, Wilkes Darr. There are no politics or ideologies shrouded wtlhin Tanenbaum's mev.