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Communist Threat To Highlands Eased Ko re an So Hie i South PAGE 13 Wednesday, April 26, 1972 Viet Pass Key Reopen 3 Si By ARTHUR HIGBEE SAIGON (UPI) South Korean troops today reopened An Khe Pass in the Central Highlands 249 miles northeast of Saigon at the end of a 16-day battle that killed more than 700 North Vietnamese and eased, a Communist threat to cut South Vietnam in half, Korean spokesmen reported. The pass controls east-west Highway 19 which runs from the Central Highlands to the coastal regions. The North Vietnamese had scored major victories in the Kontiim region to the west and in the Qui Nhon eastal region to the late and had battled to win the entire highway. The country is only in Pennsylvania 24 Congressmen Nominated Again SCHOOL PROJECT Displaying various types of waste material collected during the observance of "Earth Week" at the New Derry Elementary School are (from left) Toni Blair, Lorraine Akuilanti, Paul Kelly and Jeff Minich. An, address entitled "Conservation and Ecology" was presented by Elwood J.

Leslie, executive assistant of the Westmoreland County Soil and Conservation District. (Bulletin) Maine Senator Buried. By 'Peace9 Candidate Sen. iMcGovern Tramples Muskie In Massachusetts Treasurer Grace Sloan Winner By United Press International The lines have drawn for the two state-wide ofiices which will be up for grabs in November and Mrs. Grace Sloan, State Treasurer, will have her chance for a third term.

With an ease born of a low- pitched campaign for the Dem ocratic nomination, the widow from Clarion, pushed aside the bid of state Sen. Thomas M. Nolan, Wilkins Township la bor leader seeking his first statewde office. Returns from 7,700 of tht state's 9,559 precincts gave Mrs. Sloan 431,450 votes and Nolan 280,864.

Need For Experience Mrs. Sloan based her campaign for reflection on the need for experience in the of fice of state treasurer. Nolan, who became well-known for leading the fight against Gover nor Shapp state income tax, contended that Mrs. Sloan is not efficient and is controlled by the governor. In November, Mrs.

Sloan will be opposed by Glenn B. Williams Harrisburg city coht troller. He is the first black to seek statewide office and had been working hard, although unopposed for the GOP nomination, to create the picture that a Republican should be in the state treasurer's office to keep close watch on the Democratic administration. A third candidate, Mary Alice Blackman, 57, saleswoman of Gibsonia, is running on the Constitutional party ticket and will oppose Mrs, Sloan and Williams in November's voting. Auditor General The only other state office up for election this November is that of auditor general.

Robert P. Casey, 40, Scranton, was unopposed for the Democratic nomination and will Seek return to the office which pays $32,000 annually. His opponent in November is Franklin M. McCork el, 51, of Leola. The Lancaster county businessman was unop posed for the Republican nomination.

New Green9 To Replace Rector Plot A 'new Rector Green will replace the community plot which was destroyed with the relocation of Linn Run Road in 1968. The new green will be located between the present Linn Run Road and old Linn Run Road. Fronting oa Route 381, the new area will contain the monument or honor roll formerly located on the green. Curbing will be installed around sides of the ap proximately 100 too toot plot and a flagstone walkway with three steps will lead to the monument. The original green contained a flagpole, a large pine trea and the monument.

Plans call for new grass and low shrubbery to be planted but do not include replacing the flagpole." Rolling Rock Farms will start oi work on the project as soon as weather permits. The. Rector Garden Club donated the first honor roll to the community following World War II. This was later replaced by the present monument, a gift -of Rolling Rock Farms. The club also" decorated the tree on the -green ech Christmas season and now decorates a large tree located in front of Rector United Methodist Church which will replace the one removed from the green.

Boosters Club Patriots Drum and 'Bugle Corps Boosters Club will hold its annual reorganization meeting at 7:30 p.m. May 18 in the Derry Fraternal" Order of Eagles Home on First Ave, By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK BOSTON (UPI)-Sen. George S. McGovern, trampling Sen.

Edmund Muskie in his own New England, became the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination today. Pulling an actual majority of the vote in the crowded Massachusetts Democratic pri mary Tuesday, the "peace and love" prairie senator buried the remains of the Maine senator's status as top contender and put himself into the lead in the number of committed delegates for the nomination. sett, reporting from the.Binh Dinh Province, capital of Qui Nhon, 80 miles southeast of the of Kontum, said North Vietnamese forces along the coast captured Fire Base Salem miles north of Qui Nhon and cut vital north-south Highway They stood and fought and were overrun" Bassett said. quoting military sources. He said the defenders of Salem were 150 South Vietnamese infantrymen.

He said the troops blew ud one of their own 105mm howitzers after the Communists hit the other one. It was the 13th base to fall to the North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands most of them since Sunday when the drive in the area began. New Defense Line Eighty miles to the north west, South Vietnamese trooDs worked to establish a new defense line at Vo Dinh 11 miles north of Kontum, which is 260 miles northeast of Saigon. UPI Reporter Matt Franiola said South Vietnamese forces withdrew from artillery base Bravo, 12 miles north of Kontum earlier in the day. The South Vietnamese com mand announced in Saigon that Vietnamese Air Force A37 iet ughter-bombers today knocked out four Communist tanks spotted just inside the Parrot's Beak section of Cambodia.

They were part" of a group of 10 such tanks at the northern edge of the Plain of Reeds. In northern South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese turned guns Captured from the South Vietnamese around to shell the abandoned district capital of Hiep Due, 40 miles south of Da Nang. v. The U.S. command reported that a U.S.

Army OH58 Kiowa observation helicopter was shot down luesday near Dak To, 25 miles northwest of Kontum. The 'command said it had no report on whether any of the men, aboard were injured. West of Pleiku American helicopter gunships fired on a truck and one crewman was injured when the Communists returned the fire. the II As the North Vietnamese pushed southward through the Central Highlands, the Viet Cong shot down another C130. cargo plane as it approached the besieged city of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon.

The six-man crew of the plane was missing. Last Fired Outpost Vo Dinh was the last fixed South Vietnamese oupost remaining in government hands guarding Kontum. North Vietnamese forces led by tanks have bypassed numerous bor der posts in their drive southward across the Central Highlands. Franjola said the Commu nists appeared also to be starting- another front in the highlands aimed at Pleiku. the Central Highlands' largest city uiu military neaaquarters.

ine airfield at Pleiku. 25 miles south of Kontum, came under rocket fire today. Several South Vietnamese troops and three civilians were wounded. Pilots reported the advancing North Vietnamese early today crossed a river 14 miles north of Kontum despite the destruc tion ot a nearby bridge by U.S. jets.

The U.S. C130 cargo Diane was hit as it was trying to drop supplies to the defenders of An Loc. Ten other GIs have been killed and eight wer missing in ngnting tne central Hirfi- Military sources said the Viet Cong carried out another socalled human wave attark against the South Vietnamese paratroops defending An Loc early today following a rouna artillery barrage Tuesday. It was the heaviest bombardment of An Loc in the three-week siege of the city. In Cambodia, the highwav command reported that North Vietnamese troops attacked a government position- at the border customs post of Bavet early today.

Bavet. is at the east end of the 60-mile stretch east end of Highway The Cambodian command also reported heavy mortar and bazooka bombardment of a government outpost 17 miles southeast of Phnom Penh. Nine Cambodian troops were over come by an explosion of a gas shell lobbed into their position 114 miles wide at that point A spokesman for the South Korean military command said ROK troops reopened the pass late today "to military He said the battle carried out with the aid of American air support had cost the North Vietnamese at least 705 men killed but that 51 ROK Tiger Division troops died and 16 were wounded in the battle. Kontum Threatened The Communist offensive in the Central Highlands edged towards the major city of Kontum and pushed South Vietnamese defenders back nearly a mile to a position 11 miles north of Kontum despite heavy U.S. B52 and other air processing fortune and Pennsyl vania's junior House member, will be opposed in November by Democrat Douglas Walgren.

Walgren lost to Conover in the special congressional election. but won his party's nomination a reapportioned 18th Dis trict. Conover's election victory was unique. Since Pennsylvania lost two of its 27 congressional seats because of reapportion ment, Fulton's former 27th dis trict was divided among four new districts, requiring Conover and Walgren to seek their parties' nominations in re- aliped districts into which they were thrown. Lineup By Districts Here's the November lineup by districts: 1st: William A.

Barrett, Philadelphia, vs. Gus A. Pedicone, 2nd: Robert Nix, Inc. Philadelphia, vs. Frederick D.

Bryant, Philadelphia. 3rd: William J. Green. Philadelphia, vs. Alfred Marroletti, Philadelphia.

4th: Joshua Eilbere, Philadelphia, vs. William Pfen-der. Philadelphia. 5th: John H. Ware IH.

Oxford, vs. John R. Fran co West Chester. 6th: Gus Yatron, Reading, vs. Eugene W.

Hub- Ier, Birdslow. 7th: Stuart S. Bowie. Swarthmore, vs. Lawrence G.

Williams, Springfield. 8th: Edward G. Biester Furlong vsAlan Wil- uains, uoyiesiown. 9th: Earl P. Collins, Ty rone, E.G.

Shuster, Ev erett. 10th: Stanley Coveleskie. Dickson City, vs. Joseph M. Mc- Dade, Scranton.

11th: Daniel J. Flood. D. Wilkes-Barre. vs.

Donald B. Ayers, Wilkes-Barre. 12th: Joseph Murohv. Eh- ensburg, vs. John P.

Saylor Inc. Johnstown. 13th: Katherine L. Camo. TV King of Prussia, vs.

Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova. 14th: William S. Moorhparf Pittsburgh, vs. Roland 5. Catannella, Pittsburgh 15th: Fred B.

Rooney, D. Inc Bethlehem, vs. Wardell Steiger wait, New Tripoli. Shirley S. Garrett, D.

Millersville, vs. Edwin D. Esh leman, Lancaster. 17th: Donald RiDDon. D.

FW Herman Schneebelf, WiIhamsDort. 18th: Douglas Walgren, Pittsburgh, 'vs. H. John Heinz, Pittsburgh. 19th: Richard P.

Noll. T) York, vs. George Goodling, Loganville. 20th: Joseph M. Gavdos.

McKeesport, vs. Zoran Popovich, McKeesport. 21st: John H. Dent, Ligonier, vs. Thomas Young, Youngwood.

22nd: Thomas E. Morgan. Fredericktown, vs. James R. Montgomery, R.

West Alex ander. 23rd: Ernest A. Kassab, DM Famine, vs. Albert W. John son, Smethport.

24hh JoseDh Vigorito, Erie, vs. Alvin Levenhaf gen. R.j Linesville. 25th: Frank M. Clark, vs.1 Gary A.

Myers, Butler. strikes. Military sources said South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu had ordered his field commanders to launch a counteroffensive in the region and recapture Tan Canh base, a major defense position 25 miles north of Kontum, which fell earlier in the week. The sources said Thieu ordered his men to recapture Tan Canh and form a defense line north and northwest of Kontum. The base had been forward headquarters of the South Vietnamese 22nd Divi sion; its fall cost the lives qf 10 Americans in a helicopter prash, and three U.S.

military advisers were still missmg. UPI Reporter Bas Musical Program Greater Latrobe Junior High School will present "A Program of Instrumental Music" at 8 p.m. Friday in the senior high school auditorium. Four instrumental groups will perform the Cadet Band, Jnnior High Orchestra, Stage Band ad Junior High Band. Under the baton of Eugene Pecoraro, instrumental music director, the groups will play a variety of number8.

Admission to the public concert is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. Tickets are available from instrumental music staCents and will be sold at the door Friday night. Blairsville Has Light Turnout Blairsville voting was light yesterday with Democrat voters favoring Hubert Hum phrey (186) over the other Democrat candidates for president of the United George Wallace received 104 votes, Henry Jackson 8, Ed mund Muskie 67 and George McGovern 41. Imcomplete Indiana County returns give Humphrey 3,259 votes, Muskie 1,642, Wallace 1 ,4 88, Jackson 131, and McGovern 1,603. In Blairsville Borough President Richard Nixon received 298 Republican votes His county-wide total was 4,609.

Blairsville Democrats cast 356 votes for Robert P. Casey for auditor general, 239 for Grace Sloan for state treasurer, 371 for Patrick J. Stapleton for state senator in the 41st District, 254 for William Shane for state representative in the 62nd District, all incumbents, and 322 votes for Joseph Murphy, a newcomer for representative iH the 12th Congressional District. Casey, Stapleton and Shane were unopposed. Republicans in borough gave U.S.

Rep. John P. Saylor 450 votes to 93 for his opponent, Martin Horowitz, in the 12th Congressional District. Franklin M. McCorkel received 474 votes for auditor general; Glenn Williams 485 for state treasurer; Frank Moore 490 for senator in the 41st Districtand Deny 280 for representative in the General Assembly, 62nd District.

Total Republican votes for the county list 6,980 for Saylor and 1,826 for Horowitz. Lounty KepuDiicans gave McCorkel 7,425 votes, Williams, Moore Derry 2,751, and Eugene Smith 2,175 votes for representative in the 66th District. Beat Measured SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly's heartbeat reached a peak of 168 beats per minute during his spacewalk Tuesday. The only other astronaut to walk in de ep space Edward White walked in orbital space, Alfred MWorden, had a peak rate of 130 beats during the Apollo IS mission.

The South-r Dakotan was expected ta--wiiu in Massachusetts, but his margin of victory exceeded all predictions. Also as expected, Pres ident Nixon walked away with the Republican primary in the Bay State. Apparent Sweep McGovern's apparent sweep of the 102-member Massachusetts delegation was credited to anti war sentiment brought to a peak by Nixon's decision to resume bombing of North Vietnam. There was even some sign of dovers on the wing ditional controversy and the current board, claiming neutrality, agreed to put the issue to the test. Non-zoned areas which votet on the measure included: Townships Bell, Cook, Derry, Donegal, East Huntingdon, Fairfield, Loyalhanna, Mt.

Pleasant, Salem, Sewickley, South Huntingdon, St. Clair, Unity and Washington. Boroughs Adamsburg Arona, Avonmore, Bolivar, Delmont, Donegal, East Van-dergrift, Hyde Park, Madison Manor, New Alexandria, New Florence, North Irwin, Oklahoma, Seward, Smithton, Sutersville, Vest Youngstown and Youngwood. There was a feeling among several county officials, however, that many voters were confused by the zoning issue, including it with codes enforcement. Space Walkers Move Quickly ABOARD USS TICONDERO- GA (UPI) This primary recovery ship for Apollo 16 arrived at the new splashdown site 1,500 miles south of Honolulu Tuesday.

The forecast for Thursday's splash was unlimited visibility with temperatures in the 80s. Seas were expected to be one to three feet, with swells to five-feet. On Ballot In Some Areas Zoning Rejected PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -Twenty-four of Pennsylvania's 25 congressmen were renominated Ih Tuesday's primaries. The ene loser was Rep. James A.

Byrne, wht was defeated by fellow Democratic Rep. William J. Green in a reapportioned Philadelphia district. In a special congressional election, only one in the nation, Republican William S. Conover II ofthe Pittsburgh suburb ef Upper Saint Clair Tewaship was elected serve the eight months remaining ef the term of the late Rep.

James G. Fulton, Republican. Conover lost a chance to run in November for a full term when he was de feated for the Republican nomination in the 22nd District by James Montgomery ef West Alexander, Washihgtort'Tounty. 24 Incumbents Thirteen incumbent Democrats and 11 incumbent Republicans won renomination. Five of the Democrats and six of the Republicans had no opposition.

In the Green-Byrne contest in Philadelphia's 3rd Congressional District, Green won by about 10,000 votes. Green's supporters considered it a major victory over Philadelphia's Democratic machine. They had charged earlier that Mayor Frank Rizzo helped gerrymander Green into the same district with Byrne after he unsuccessfully opposed the Philadelphia mayor in the 1971 Democratic primary, then supported Rizzo's Republican opponent in the general election. Other incumbents winning re-nomination included Democrats William A. Barrett of Philadel phia, Robert N.CrNix of Philadelphia, Joshua Eilberg of Philadelphia, Gus Yatron of Reading, Daniel J.

Flood of Wilkes-Barre, William S. Moor-head of Pittsburgh, Fred B. Rooney of Bethlehem, Joseph M. Gaydos of McKeesport, John Dent of Ligoniejr, Thomas E. Morgan of Freder icktown, Joseph P.

Vigorito of Erie and Frank M. Clark of Bessemer and Republicans Lawrence G. Williams of Springfield, Edward G. Biester Jr. of Furlong, Joseph M.

Mc-Dade of Scranton, John P. Saylor of Johnstown, Lawrence Coughlin of Villanova, Edwin D. Eshleman of Lancaster, Her man T. Schneebel i of Williams port H. John Heinz of -Pitts burgh, George A.

Goodling of Loganville and Albert W. John son of Smethport. Heinz, heir to the Heinz food Deceased Chef Granted Wish EUGENE, Ore. (UPI)-A retired chef and his dog were buried togehter Tuesday. It was the master's wish.

Horace Lee Edwards, 71, had lived alone with his dog for years, since it was a pup, He expressed the wish that when he died the dog be buried with him. Members of Edwards' family put the mutt to death Monday after Edwards' death following a long illness. It was placed at jts master's 'feet i his coffin. By County Voters in the Republican primary, wrier won 34 delegates. With 72 per cent of the state's precincts reporting, McGovern had 210,419 votes.

52 per cent of the total. Muskie was second with 89,250. or 22 per cent, with 32,583, or 8 per cent; Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama with 31,451, or 8 per cent, and Rep.

Shirley Chisholm, with 15,784, or 4 per cent. Eight other Democrats trailed, includ ing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who pulled himself off the ballot but got 1,760 write-in votes anyway. Nixon got 66.617 votes, 82 per tent of the total.

Rep. Taul N. McCloskey, whose antiwar candidacy foundered in New Hampshire and Florida, got a surprising 10,937, or 14 per cent, and Rep. John M. Ashbrook, R-Ohio, was last with 3,434, or 4 per cent.

Combined with the simul taneous Pennsylvania primary victory of Humphrey, the Massachusetts results com pleted the job of shattering the Dre-Drimarv Muskie image of overwhelming Democratic sup port to contest Nixon for reelection this fall. Muskie stressed his Pennsyl vania campaign wnne Mc Govern worked hardest in Massachusetts, but the Bay State was regarded as firm Muskie turf only two months ago. Then McGovern gave him a scare in New Hampshire and whipped him in Wisconsin. The Massachusetts result, plus Mus- kie's poor showing in Pennsyl vania, seemed to Kill tne Muskie-dreanv-oL an walk to nomination. Nixon's victory was assured from the start, but McCloskey, who was knocked out in the earlier primaries and endorsed McGovern in a single appearance here, made a surprising showing that looked like bomb ing backlash too.

McGovern's strength showed in working class Boston neigh borhoods and college towns and, in his victory statement, McGovern said, "This is a victory for peace and love, not fear and division; for truth and candor rather than deception; and manipulation. Wallace, looking for antibusi-i ng and antiwelfare votes in bluej collar neighborhoods, ran third, ahead of Humphrey; who gave little time to Massachusetts. He! just beat Mrs, Chisholm, the only woman and the only black in therace. Voters in Westmoreland County's predominently rural townships and smaller boroughs apparently have rejected a referendum to bring county zoning regulations to areas which do not already have them. With 105 precincts reporting this morning, the vote count stood at 7,692 against the measure and 2,166 in favor of it.

The referendum appeared on ballots in the 36 coounty munici palities. The referendum is only ad visory in nature ana is not binding on future zoning decisions of the boards of commissioners; Early Results However, Mrs. Dorothy Shope, chairman of the board, said that based on the early results she would have to op- Ipose zoning when the matter comes to a vote by the board. Commissioner James' Kelley reportedly is in favor of it while Commissioner Robert Shirey, who has not yet indicated how he will vote, could swing a decision either way. Shope said, however, that any negative action by the commissioners does not prohibi each municipality involved from later instituting its own zoning.

The issue, which for years has stirred controversy in non-zoned areas, was passed over by the previous board despite the fact it had the' authority to enact ithe program. Public hearings sparked ad.