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2--Leader-Times Iftf McCormack Looks Sure For Speaker WASHINGTON (UP!) Reelection of Speaker W. McCormack appeared assureo today as House members met to pick party leaders for the 91st Congress. But Democratic insurgents backing 46-year-old Rep. Morris K. Udall, to replace the 77-year-old Massachusetts lawmaker, figured to win what they termed important concessions on how party and house affairs will be run.

Republicans, at their own pre session party huddle, were tc rename Rep. Gerald R. Ford Michigan as their party leader without a contest. The GOP caucus was set fo: 11 a.m. ESf Republicans were asked to take a stand on whether and under what conditions to seat former Rep.

Adam Clayton Powell, whose Harlem constituents have twice reelected him to the House seat from which he was excluded on March 1, 1967. Anderson Favored Rep. John B. Anderson, R-lll, was favored over Rep. Albert Quie, for election as chairman -of the Republican conference, a post being vacated by Rep.

Melvin R. Laird, R- the newly designated secretary of defense: The new congress opens at noon as its first business the House will formally From Wind and Most of Nation Shivers Under Frigid Cold Wave By United Press International About the only havens from winter's fury today could be found in the nation's extreme Southeast and Southwest. The worst weather was in the extreme Northwest and Northeast. In between, it was very cold-at the zero mark in much of the nation and near or below freezing elsewhere. Biting Cold Continues To Nip Area By United Press International Pennsylvania, still i MS to western New York and Pennsylvania and fell from the Great i Oregon's largest city, Port- and, was connected once again vith the East early today as a 5 mile stretch of Interstate 80 'as reopened to traffic.

The oad was closed Monday at the the Pacific Coast to the No 1 in ftTPt THE DEATH SCENE-A West Hollywood police of- an exclusive area of Hollywood. The girl was report- ficial pours plaster of pads into footprints found at edly stabbed. to death. She is a daughter of screen- the scene where the body of 17-year-old Marina Eliza- writer Hans Habe and actress Eloise Hardt. Miss beth Habe had been found yesterday in a ravine in Hardt divorced Habe 10 years ago.

He now lives Switzerland. elect as speaker for the next two the candidate-presumably McCormack -picked by majority party today. Pre-session party huddles in the Senate. were set for Friday morning when leadership contests on both sides of the aisle will be settled. Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy, D- is seeking to topple Sen Russell B. Long, as majority whip. Republican: meantime will choose either Sen. Roman Hruska of Nebraska or Sen.

Hugh Scott Pennsylvania to replace Sen Thomas H. Kuchel of Jifornia as minority whip. HOLLYWOOD (UPI) A jreai Dane out for a walk with lis master Wednesday led the man to the body of the 17-year- old daughter of a distinguished screenwriter. Marina Elizabeth Habe had een the object of a wide search Dog Being Walked Leads To Body of Slain Girl since she apparently was abducted.Monday from in front of her mother's home. Sheriff's detectives said the body of the slain girl was concealed in the brush in a semi-rural area of expensive homes about seven miles from Nearly Equalling 1st 7 68 Combat Losses Reflect Fighting Pope Names Archbishop Of Hartford WASHINGTON (UPI) Pope Paul VI has appointed Bishop John F.

Wheaion as the archbishop of Hartford, it was announced today. The announcement was made by the most Rev. Luigi Raimondi, apostolic delegate.in the United States. Wheaion has been ordinary of the diocese of Erie, since March 7, 1967. He now succeeds Archbishop Henry Joseph O'Brien, whose resignation as head of the archdiocese was announced by Pope Paul on Nov.

20. O'Brien has been serv ing as apostolic administrato: until such time as a successo look office. Wheaion was born in Barber ton, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1921. He at SAIGON (UPI) American combat losses in 1968 nearly equaled the number of GIs killed and wounded in the first seven years of the Vietnam war, U.S.

headquarters said today. Official figures, not including the last three days of the year, showed 14,521 U.S. servicemen dead and 92,564 wounded in 968. The year saw heavy fight- ng in Communist offensives in- Saigon and other maor cities February and May. From Jan.

1, 1961 through Dec. 28, 1968, military spokesmen said, 30,543 Americans They said it is up to the Viet Cong to name the times and places of meetings similar to one Wednesday that brought the release of three U.S. soldiers hi a field 50 miles northwest of Saigon. Spec. 4 James W.

Brigham of Ocala, Spec. 4 Thomas N. Jones of Lynnville, and Pfc. Donald G. Smith of Akron, all 21, rested comfortably have died and 192,372 have been Bounded in Vietnam.

Another 1,243 are missing in action or captured. In fighting tempered by Jommunist and allied holiday standdowns last week, U.S. forces lost 113 men killed--the third lowest weekly death toll of the year. Spokesmen said 1,021 Americans were wounded. A total of 2,135 Communists died during the week, which included a three-day guerrilla standdown and a 24--hour allied truce for Christmas.

It brought today in a hospital outside Saigon. The new five-man negotiating teams, headed by Lieutenant Colonels, are ready in major U.S. military headquarters across South Vietnam to plunge into talks with the Viet Cong on further prisoner releases. West Los Aangeles. Detectives declined to say if he girl, who was found fully clothed, had been the victim of sexual attack.

Authoritative reports said she died of multiple stab wounds. The girl was the daughter of screenwriter Hans Habe and actress Eloise Hardt. Miss Hardt divorced Habe 10 years ago. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland. The dog that found the body of the petite, dark-haired girl was walking with his master, Frank G.

Turner of Sherman Oaks, Calif. Turner told detectives the dog ran to the edge of a rural road and stared into jrush on a slope. Turner said he looked into the brush and saw Marina's face. Marina left her mother's home Monday afternoon for a date with John Hornburg, 22, whose family has been friends with Marina and her mother for a dozen years. Treasurer Offers 1969 Dog Licenses Armstrong County treasure John C.

Ellenberger announcet I that 1969 dog licenses and fishing licenses are on sale a his office in the Courthouse here. The cost for male and spade I females dog licenses is 1.21 I and for female dogs Ellen berger said mail orders mus include a six-cent stamp. ythern Rockies. Southern jpjcas got rain. -Travelers warnings were up the Northwest and Northeast.

Mreme northeastern Ohio re blizzard conditions jdnesday evening as high jiids whipped the snows into tw O-foot drifts. More than half a tf of snow fell on the area, losing many roads, including In lerstate 90 along the shore of i Erie. 'Winds blowing off Lake Erie speeds of 20 to 50. miles an prompted travelers warn us in western New York and Pennsylvania depths were ai Vf' rom a biting cold introduction the new year, may ittle milder weather Friday, icrhaps temperature readings of 20 to 30 degrees. The state remains under.the of the circulation around a deep low pressure area centered just to the north of Maine.

Morning temperatures today ranged from 7 degrees at Philipsburg to 18 at Erie. Snow showers and flurries marked the morning hours in the western half of the state with winds gusting between 20 and 30 miles an hour. The flurries will continue today, mostly in the west, central and northeast sections. High temperatures were expected to raage in the teens and 2 A 's. The snow flurries and winds! will diminish tonight as higher pressure moves into the state.

western snow fl uch as Hi feet. York State police ad motorists Wednesday yjinecessary travel in centr, a( id western New York becaus blizzard-like conditions." Three-fourths of the New York Thruway's 496 miles were )osed Wednesday evening. Visi- iJlity was zero because of the Rowing snow. weight of a bizzard. Extreme cold continued to revail around much of the rest )f the nation with hard freezes lifting Georgia and Alabama and freezing weather extending into northern Florida.

The cold wave, associated with a large and frigid arctic air mass, held its grip from the Northwest to the Gulf and the Atlantic Coast. Several record cold readings were reported on New Year's Day, including Chicago's 10 below zero, 10 above at Bristol, and 21 below at Minneapolis where a 44-year-old record was shattered by five degrees. An attorney at Hales Corner, was found frozen to death in a farm field Wednesday after he had abandoned his disabled car which had skidded into a canal near wind lake. The temperature at the time of the accident was 10 below zero. Sobering None-the-less New Year's Holiday Deaths Under Guess The 1969 licenses must be on OWS run rom 5 below the dog, by state law, by Jan.

15. Anyone applying for a dog kennel license must apply in person at the Treasurer's Office. By United Press International The New Year's holiday iraffic death toil headed today oward the low 'minimum i i J.V. Transplant Champ Has Re-birthday CAPE TOWN (UPI)-A heart- shaped cake carrying a single blue candle and the ascription "To Phil from Chris" was the zero in some of the northern mountains snd into the teens in some areas along the southern border. A low pressure area msving from the lower Mississippi Valley into the southeastern states could bring light snow to the western part of the state Friday.

Milder temperatures with highs in the 20's and 30's are expected. jjdyance estimate made by the Rational Safety Council It seemed unlikely a new would be set for a have killed 95, the council said. The breakdown: Traffic 167 Fires 35 Planes 13 Miscellaneous 21 Total 236 30- Hornburg and Narina went to a musical show with two other couples and returned to the lome of Hornburg's parents, from where Marina left for her own home alone about 3:15 a.m. centerpiece of Dr. Philip Blaiberg's first "re-birthday" today.

The cake symbolized the heart beating inside Blaiberg's chest. The cake and the heart were given to him by Dr. Christiaan Barnard a year ago today. The traditional a friends" toast at today's party might well be Blaiberg's tribute to Ciive Haupt, the 24-year-old colored textile mill worker tended St. Mary's Seminary a to more than 180,000 the Cleveland prior to his ordination on May 26, 1945.

He later studied at Ottawa "University and the Pontifical Biblical University attached to the John Carroll University at Cleveland. Wheaion Refinery Tank Blast Kills 2 OIL CITY, Pa. (UPI)--Two men were killed today when a oil- storage tank exploded and caught fire on the property of the Quaker State Fifteen ninutes later her mother was awakened by the sound of a car with a loud muffler. Miss Hardt told detectives she saw her daughter's car narked in the driveway with a ack sedan beside it. A man standing beside Marina's red sports car, she told detectives, shouted "let's go!" The black sedan backec out into the street, she said, anc he ran to it and climbed inside Oil and Refining Co.

on the Marina, a freshman at the outskirts of the city. number of Reds slain in 1968. Truce Ends South Vietnamese losses for the week were 279 men killed I and 901 wounded. Their figures for the war are not available. University of Hawaii, was home holds degrees theology, scripture and theology and the arts, and has served in various positions both parochial and educational including the post of rector of St.

The Communists meantime ended their three-day New Year's truce today and shelled two U.S. bases, slamming 10 rockets into a Marine helicopter base at Da Nang and 65 mortar i The victims, employes a holiday visit. State, were not identi-j" fied immediately. i State police said it was believed the explosion may have been caused by a fire which the two men made under or near the tank to loosen the flow of oil in subfrcezing tern-' Ijiour holiday. The record for a one-day wliday was 193 traffic deaths, get New Year's in 1963.

The safety council had predicted 200 to 260 persons would be killed on the nation's roads this new year between 6 p.m. local tune Tuesday and midnight Wednesday. A United Press Internationa' count at 10 a.m. EST showed'ai least 167 persons killed in traffic accidents since the holiday period started. A normal, non-holiday period similar 30-hour duration woul Teachers Hold Off At Scranton SCRANTON, Pa.

(UPI) Scranton public school teachers) reported for classes today un-j der an agreement with tWi school board that they would hold off their threatened pay demand strike until after an' i i i i i other negotiating meeting to- Templeton was fatally wounded California by far led the raffic death toll with 22. Ohio ollowed with 11, and Pennsyl- ariia and Missouri each had 10. Among the worst holiday accidents, five members of a family were killed Wednesday night when their crashed in a vineyard outside Lodi. At Baldwin Park, four persons were killed in a three- car crash that injured six. Three children burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at N.D.

Six persons were killed when an Air Force T-39 jet trainer crashed at Hampton, Va. Murder Charged in Death Of Former Templeton Man A former resident i tinuing their investigation. Death Toll 1968 Week 3d Lowest whose heart replaced Blaiberg's own diseased organ. A year ago Blaiberg, 59, was an emaciated and little known dentist dying of heart disease. Today, chubby and cheerful, he celebrates what he calls his "re- birthday" with a swim at the nearby resort suburb of Sea- point.

Then he will sunbath' and dine with friends at a local hotel. Sunday he goes to a humble cottage in the colored suburb of Salt River for a memorial service to Haupt. Blaiberg is the longest surviv- jing of the 104 heart transplant i patients since Barnard carried lout history's first such opera- jtion on Louis Washkansky Dec. 3, 1967. Blaiberg's night.

The teachers seek a $1,60" across the board salary crease in addition to $900 granf ed them for last term but ur 1 paid because of a taxpayer? suit. Both the Scranton Federatio of Teachers, represenitng a jority of the 800 teachers, the Scranton branch of tl' Pennsylvania State EducatW" Association, representing tl ie remainder, accepted an agre in an early Sunday shooting, Dec. 29; in Bunker Hill, W. Bowser, a Mrs. John son of Mr.

and L. Bowser of Templeton, resided in Temple- and a murder charge was ton until moving to Martinsburg three years ago. He was married to the former Carroll Ann Crawford, and the couple had one daughter. filed against his alleged assailant! The victim, Ray Franklin Bowser, 29, of Martinsburg RD 2, W. was found slumped over in a car with bullet wounds in the head.

A Martinsburg newspaper reported that Leroy Enoch Mor- Air temperatures and river ment to delay a strike until The Weather rison of Bunker Hill, had been taken into custody by State stages recorded at the government weather observation sta- hours after the negotiations. murder. The teachers had voted to stay away from classes starlit the day after New Year's Da 1 But. they later accepted t' 1( Police and was charged with tion, Allegheny River Lock No. 17 here for the period 8 a.m.

Morrison was arraigned before Tuesday through 8 a.m. Thurs- new heart has peraturcs. SAIGON Forces llost 113 men killed last week in Mary's Seminary, the announcement said. He was made auxiliary bishop of Cleveland July 6, 1961 and he served in that capacity until his transfer in December 1966 to the post of auxiliary bishop of Erie, Pa. He was installed as head of the diocese on March 7, 1967 on the retirement of the late Archbishop John Mark Gannon.

rounds into on artillary outpost! SeilOpole Getting jbattle tempered by Christmas the central highlands. Losses' i a Attention truces military spokesmen said light at both stations, spokesmen said. agreement offered by the 0 served him well, both during the initial post-operative recovery and later during a mid-year attack of hepatitis nobody expected him to survive. "On Jan. 2 I'll have lived for board at a meeting New Yea Eve.

The school board agreed the S900 salary boost last teiTM following a six-day strike. But, payment was held up cause of a taxpayers' suit whi 1 held that a 1947 state law Anthony W. Senopole of 1407: weekly death toll of 1968. today. It was the third lowest a vear on borrowed time," he crtirf onfMifTn U.S.

patrols had little luck 4th Ford City, an active! Fighting in the week that finding Communist troops tojscholastic and collegiate football fight but turned up another (and basketball referee for over included a three-day Communist truce and a 24-hour allied to c1 a local magistrate. He waived day: a preliminary hearing and was remanded to ths Berkeley County Jail without bond, to await action of the February grand! jury. 8 a.m. Tuesday 34 10 a.m 38 1 p.m 37 3 p.m 3S 4 p.m 35 8 a.m. Thursday 13 River stages: upper pool, 15.7 rs guerrilla arms cache west of Saigon, bringing to 10 tons the 30 years, is hospitalized cost 1,021 American pneumonia.

wounded, the weakly Archbishop Designate Wheal- more evidence the on will be the 10th spiritual head of the Hartford See since its establishment In 1843. amount of Red supplies found He is listed in satisfactory casualty report said, there in the past five days. in Armstrong County! South Vietnamese hcadquar- In the Mekong Delta, South! Memorial Hospital. crs Eau os 279 men killed Vietnamese troops uncovered Wrt Sf nrmo sa jfj her bus- a wounded during the Communist losses, ac- says. "I am optimistic enough to believe I'll live another year." Haupt's widow Dorothy has been given free trips to a South African seaside resort and to Latin America and received some financial help from red collection for three ye; following a strike of public ployes.

Although the court action layed payment, Gov. Raymd no No further details were releas- ed by the Martinsburg State! Police, who said they were feet) lYl'ooi); I lower pool, 17.3 feet, falling (fall of 2.3 feet). Precipitation: 0.05 (melted snow). River ice conditions: scatter- The new flow (one inch thick). nist arms buildup threatening Saigon 375 rccoilless rifle Brickner Takes Usual River Dip PITTSBURGH Brickner greeted the New Year with a customary dip in the Monongahela River.

The thermometer registered sheils, 170 cases of handgre- Inades and 350 boxes of bullets, i U.S. B52 bombers in three I raids 25 to 35 miles north of the capital rained their 500-and 750- pound bombs into guerrilla stores and base camps. Two Hong Kong flu and was admitted 7 F. Shafer signed a law Dec. 20 allowing the ast She also will of the royalties sympathizers.

receive part from Blaiberg's autobiography "Looking AtVMy yesterday to the hospital when 2,135 dead. the flu pneumonia. lending Oct. 2fi when 109 U.S. 'servicemen perished.

The 100 Senopole owns an insurance GIs who jn more waves of Stratoforts bombed the Red threat in the Fast Stop four degrees above zero Wednesday when the 56-year- old steelworker plunged into the frigid waters. It was the 19th New Year's Day plunge for Brickner, who claims to be the world's cold delta. Discussions Planned In Saigon, American sources How car? said the U.S. command ha? formed more negotiating teams wiier champion. and will accept further battlefield discussions with the Viet Cong on the release of captive GIs.

not in any danger at any time. and real estate agency in Kit- i Qc( marke(J I lowest weekly death toll 01 1968 Today's report, not including the last three days ot 1963. showed nearly 14,600 American FRANCISCO (UPI)-- servicemen perished in Vietnam fast can you stop your; a ycari by far thc cost ii os iyear of the war. The fighting isst week raised U.S. losses since Jan.

1, 1961. to 30,543 killed. 192,327 wounded and 1,243 missing in action or Thc 113 Americans dead a 10 Die in Mishaps In Holiday Period By United Press International developed i She said he was the lowest figure since the week to be paid teachers here in Pittsburgh where rs staged a strike for higher ay 19 Pueblo View Grid Classic SAN DIEGO, Calif. Thanks to an anonymous 19 crewmen of the USS got free tickets to the sold; Rose Bowl football classic Year's Day. The intensive round of A motorist traveling at 65 irUes an hour will travel 71 feet before he hits the brake pedal and another 252 feet before he At least 10 persons died in traffic accidents in Pennsylvania during the 30-hour New Year's holiday period, a UPI count showed.

One of the victims New Year's Day was Matthew J. Verbonitz, 22, Williamsburg, a soldier on leave from dc briefing interviews, which cancelled during the resumed today at Balboa Hospital. The Navy said special events or news confe TCn ces were planned. While the lucky traveled to Pasadena to sed ine bowl game, about half of ie Trailer Home Lost by Fire SPRING CHURCH ear began on a tragic note or the Ronald Townsend family if Star Route here when their louse trailer and all its contents were completely destroyed by ire yesterday. Elderton fire chief estimated damages at $8,000 in the fire which was caused by a faulty urnace.

The alarm was turned in at 11:50 a.m. None of the family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend am their two small children, were home when the fire started. The loss was partially covem by insurance, Rupert said, anc 12 firemen from Elderton Fire Co.

answered the call. copies to a complete stop. captured. Fort Okla. He was killed remaining fi2 surviving in a two-car collision near members were given liy crty home.

He was a veteran of the Vietnam fighting, in which he was wounded. The rest spent a quiet day families or friends on hospital grounds. with the Long Long Trail LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Th Pacific Crest trail is a 230C mile long foot and horsebac trail stretching from the Washington Canadian south along the backbone of thc Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountains to the California- Mexican border. UGH AND LOW: NEW YORK (UPI) The owest temperature reported by the U.S. Weather Jureau, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, was 16 degrees below at Havre, Mont.

Wednesday's high was 82 at Long Beach, Calif. Forecast: Western Pennsylvania--Variable cloudiness north and increasing cloudiness south and very cold tonight. Lows 10 above to 5 below zero except colder some valley areas. Friday increasing cloudiness with occasional snow developing by afternoon north portion, cloudy with occasional snow and not as cold south portion. Highs 20s to low 30s.

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