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GOOD EVENING A woman never admits she has lost an argument. She Just thinks she has failed to make her position clear. THE WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy tonight Lowest (he 20s. Friday cloudy and little tern perature change. 97th Year, No.

28. 10-13 SOUTH JARPIN STREET TELEPHONE 462-2777 SHENANDOAH, THURSDAY," FEBRUARY 3, 1966. 50c WEEKLY SINGLE COPY: 10c Cavalry Operation Chicago Faces Gana War in 24 -Hour Schedule For Snow Removal Brings Heavy Death Toll to Viet ers and for equipment assignment. Yesterday the crews managed to open one lane on East Oak street, between Main and White. This was closed to traffic since the major fire of Dec.

27. Chief of Police John P. Ma-her has "also been on the job day and night since the snow project began. He has also set up a work schedule for all members of the police department. "The streets that we have listed on our program will be cleared of snow," the mayor said, "providing motorists co I Jii' By MICHAEL T.

MALLOY SAIGON (UPI) -At least 707 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops have been confirmed killed in "Operation Masher" led by the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division, at American military spokesman said today. It was the second highest Communist death toll of the war. FBI Stages A 24-hour work schedule was established by Mayor Albert J. Matunis and Borough Council- men yesterday in the gigantic snow-removal project.

The project is underway today at two points in the community. Ten trucks, five overhead loaders and two bulldozers have been utilized on an around- the-clock schedule. Mayor Matunis said the project is being delayed by parked vehicles. He pleaded today with motorists to remove their cars from streets that will be plowed tonight and tomorrow. One snow-removal group will plow the following streets: South Jardin street (now in progress;) Cherry street; West street and Coal street.

The other group will clear North Market street, Emerick street, Washington street and Union street. "Please remove your vehicles from these streets," the Mayor said this morning. "At least get the snow away from the machines so that they can be moved without delay." Councilman Charles Valetske joined the Mayor in supervising the projects and in helping direct traffic. Street Foreman Joseph Zagorski has set up a schedule for all borough work IJHHfe'. is Md Ill Of Gambling Ring mm: Ilk GI Bill of Rights Gains House Okay WEATHER PROBE: CAPE KENNEDY satellite system.

Space Agency officials said Delta rocket carrying new Tiros weather the storm hunter is operating as planned, satellite races toward orbit early today to (United Press International Telephoto from open the world's first operational weather NASA) Cong "Operation Masher" was esti mated near 2,000. U.S. fighter-bombers flew through low clouds today to bomb Communist North Viet Nam for the fourth straight day since President Johnson ended the 37-day lull during the abortive U.S. "peace offensive." No details of the latest strike were immediately Hundreds of American, South Vietnamese and South Korean troops have been participating in the coastal sweep 300 miles northeast of Saigon since last Friday. Cavalrymen today reported killing 12 Viet bringing the Army toll to 514 confirmed dead.

The South Vietnamese have accounted for 118 and the ROK forces another 75. The highest previous enemy death toll was 699 in the U.S. Marines' "Operation Starlight" last August. Two Americans, the pilot of a U.S. Air Force OlE Birddoe plane and a passenger, were killed when the aircraft crashed while on a reconnaissance mission in "Operation Masher." In the same area, a U.S.

Marine F8 jet fighter crashed during the Leathernecks' "Oper ation Double Eagle." The pilot parachuted safely and was picked up by a rescue helicopter from the 7th Fleet carrier USS Valley Forge, Informed sources in Saigon reported today there may be as many as 10 North Vietnamese regiments, some 15,000 to 20,000 men, now operating in South Viet Nam. The presence of seven regiments from the North has been confirmed. Sources also said the North Vietnamese took advantage of the 37-day pause in U.S. air raids to construct as many as 10 new surface-to-air (SAM) missile sites. The Communists were said to have worked day and night during the bombing lull to rebuild roads and bridges along with a new airfield capable of handling MIG jets.

The Hanoi regime's air force numbers about 70 planes. A U.S. spokesman said lete today the name of "Operation Masher" was being changed to "White Wing." This may have indicated the beginning of a new phase of the operation but the spokesman gave no reason for the name change. Col. Harold Moore, commanding the 3rd Brigade of the Air Cavalry, was asked how long the sweep through coastal foothills and jungled mountains would continue.

"Just as long as we can gut into a fight," he declared. "Just as long as there are Viet Cong to kill." Local Temperatures State Storm Death Toll 30 New Snow Adds Road Hazard The biggest Communist losses also came at the hands of the 1st Cavalry last November, when 1,500 were confirmed killed by body count during a week of heavy fighting in the la Drang Valley and Chu Pong Mountain region of the Central Highlands. The number of Communists killed, wounded and captured in Roundup mation and exchanged gam bling data with persons in other sections of the country. Others arrested in the nation wide crackdown were Roland A. Hesse, 61, Joy Anne Hesse, 34, and Robert Rodri guez, 60, all of New Orleans; Shirley Joyce Henson, 34, East Detroit, Billy Charles Fox, 24, of Detroit, who was arrested at Hialeah, James W.

Arrington, 43, Wash ington, D.C. and Fred Pratt, 31, Revere, Mass. Others named by the Justice Department were Rocco Manci- nelli, 52, Hialeah; Richard Mann 24 Dorchester, Mass. Leonard Vito Pizzi, 49, Irvington, N.J.; Liberato Mara-tea, 44, and Joseph Kosinski, 46, both of Philadelphia, and Warren V. Picillo, 40, of Coventry, R.I., who now is in the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn.

Four Killed In Bus Crash BROOKS VILLE, Fla. (UPI) A school bus rammed into the side of a gravel-laden semi trailer truck six miles east of here today and flipped over killing the driver and three At least 10 children were admitted to a hospital. Investigators said the bus was pulling out of a rural road onto state Highway 50 and hit the side of the truck right behind the cab of the tractor. The bus carried an estimated 45 Negro students, bound for Moton School in Brooksville. Little Hernando County Me morial Hospital here had to put its "disaster plan" into effect and call in five extra doctors as four ambulances shuttled the crying children to the emergency room.

Ten students were admitted and the others treated and released or held for observation and x-rays. One of the dead children was the son of the female bus driver. The other two were brother and sister. The dead were identified as the school bus driver, Lillian Hicks, no relation to the white truck driver, her son, Basil Hicks, Dwane Anderson, and his sister, Kim Anderson. By United Press International Fresh snow blanketed much of Pennsylvania during the night, adding a slick layer to highways opened earlier this week by snow plows.

Three more deaths in weather-related incidents were Tiros Storm Hunter High Schools By ROBERT T. LOUGH RAN CHICAGO (UPI) -Two ju nior high school students were stabbed by a schoolmate in a quarrel over a spitball. An Englewood High School student was shot and wounded in the school cafeteria by a member of a rival gang, the Valiant Jinks. A young Marshall High history teacher was Slugged and knocked down the stairs when he tried to question two youths. Police in the school arrested the youths and said they carried marijuana cigarettes.

These incidents on Tuesday and Wednesday prompted an emergency meeting today of 29 public school principals to curb an outbreak of violence in the city's schools. "We've got to get to the bottom of this violence in our schools," Englewood District Police Commissioner Harold Miles said Wednesday. Manford Byrd, principal of all Negro Englewood High where the shooting occurred, said he wanted "shakedowns" of students to see if they carried weapons. A 15-year-old was held for stabbing two pupils at Walter Reed elementary school Wednesday. He said they beat him up when he asked them why they threw a spitball at him and that he stabbed them in the abdomen in revenge for the beating.

Another 15-year-old, Carl E. Davis, a dropout and member of the Satin Saints gang, said he shot Warren Banks, 17, in the shoulder because Banks' gang, the Valiant Jinks, had threatened to kill him. As Englewood students scram bled out of Davis' wav the cafeteria attendant, Mrs. Dor othy Bates, 47, was knocked down and injured on the ear Richard Maskoff, 27, history (Continued on Page 8) Safety-First Car Designed WASHINGTON (UPI) New York state legislators today showed Congress plans for a safety-first car they said would save at least 160,000 lives in the next 10 years. lhev said the car was designed to prevent most injuries and deaths, even in the head-on collision between two cars doing 50 miles an hour.

State Sen. Edward J. Speno asked the Federal government to quickly provide $3.6 million to help the state design, make, and crash-test the proposed safety car. Speno said the project can be completed in two years. His colleague, Assemblyman Alex ander Chananau, said, it is the one program that Detroit wants to stop cold." Speno, Chananau, and state Sen.

Simon J. Liebowitz made their presentation to the Senate executive reorganization sub committee, which is holding hearings on the federal role in traffic safety. Chananau said "We have proof that a car can be built that will prevent 75 per cent of injuries and fatalities at crash-impacts of 50 miles an hour, 75 per cent in side collisions, 90 per cent in rollover accidents, and 90 per cent when a car runs into the rear of another." The feasibility study was conducted by the Republic Aviation Division of the Fairch- ild Hiller Corporation with $100,000 appropriated by the New York Legislature. civilization. There were no sidewalks in Oswego, N.Y., today, but slim canyons with eight-foot-high snow towering on either Side showed, the city was slowly coming back to life after bearing its worst snow storm in memory.

Near Madonna, Army helicopter pilot Maj. H. Bee- cher Dierdorff. 34. died Wednes day when his craft crashed while attemntinp tn reacha snowed-in home where a young woman was expecting a baby It was Dierdorff 's fifth mercy mission in two days.

The baby was finally deliv ered by a stats trooper, who stalked a mile through six foot drifts to reach the house. reported, bringing the total deaths in winter's most recent onslaught to at least 30 in the Keystone State. A janitor from Pittsburgh's West End was found frozen in a snow another man suffered a fatal heart attack shov- Weather threaded its way over Miami Beach, Cuba and Panama before propelling its payload into a north-south orhit over the Pacific. In the polar orbit, the satellite's electronic eyes will be able to view weather all over the world each day photographing a given area at the same local time every day. House Supports Probe of Klan WASHINGTON (UPI) -The House: Committee on Un-American Activities today pressed on with its investiga tion of the Ku Klux Klan, encouraged by an "overwhelm ing endorsement from the full House.

The endorsement came Wed nesday in the form of contempt of Congress citations voted against seven national Klan leaders. The officials who were cited for refusing to produce subpoenaed records, could go to jail for a year and be hit with $1,000 fines. The citations were similar to warrants. They will not be presented to a grand jury by the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

If the Klansmen are indicted they will be tried in federal court here. By United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Veterans Committee today approved a permanent new GI bill of rights carrying college aid and other benefits for persons serving in the armed forces since 1955. The bill similar to benefit programs provided for World War II and Korean veterans would offer in addition to school aid, home loan guarantees and limited medical care for ailments not incurred in military service. The cost of the bill as recommended unanimously to the House by the Veterans Committee was estimated at about $335 million the first year. The five-year price tag was put at $2.1 billion.

The committee approved the bill intact as offered by Chair- Counry to Operate Medi-Care Program The Schuylkill County Office of Economic Opportunity has been notified by the Regional Director of Office of Economic Opportunity that Schuylkill County has been selected to op-i erate a program known as "MEDI-CARE." In this program the Schuylkill County Economic Cabinet will, work with Jack director of the local office of Social Security, in alerting people 65 years of age and over to register before March 31, 1966, in order to qualify for medical benefits. In a telephone conversation with Congressman Rhodes, it was learned that Schuylkill County was given priority in this program, due to the high percentage of people receiving benefits under the Social Security Program. operate by having their vehicles out of the path of the equipment." Mayor Matunis said that sev eral residents have cooperated by having snow hauled away from outside their homes at their own expense. Some busi nessmen hired trucks and work ers to clear the snow from properties. "This is of great help," the mayor said, "and is appreciated." Meanwhile all schools in the area are back on normal sched ules.

Stores, offices, banks collieries and other commercial enterprises were all in opera tion today. man Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.) after turning down a series of Republican attempts to liber-. alize its provisions. If they get the chance said Rep.

John P. Saylor (R-Pa.) Republicans will make additional efforts to amend the bill when it comes up in the House. Teague's measure itself is much higher than a $150 million "hot spot" GI bill backed by the administration. That propo sal would cover only veterans who served in Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic and in Berlin during the 1961 crisis. Other congressional news: Taxes: Treasury Secretary Henrv H.

Fowler was to discuss with a House-Senate Economic Committee a plan for giving President Johnson standby tax increase powers. liie plan calls for approving legislation to raise taxes, with a blank enactment date. Klan: The House Committee on Un American Activities forged ahead with its investiga tion of the Ku Klux Klan. The panel is currently looking into Klan activities in Mississippi, where members of the organization have been charged with fomenting a reign of terror. Safety: New i orK legislators told a Senate subcommittee investigating auto safety that a car could be produced with safety features that would save at least 60,000 lives in the next 10 years.

They asked the federal government for $3.6 million to help build the vehicle. Labor: The Senate continued its expanded hours of filibuster over legislation to nullify state right to work" laws. Democra tic Leader. Mike Mansfield, told UPI that he alone would make the decision of when to attempt a two-thirds vote to shut off the debate. ing out, the scourge of teenage drinking.

Cohn also noted there was an increase in the number of arrests of youths for buying, pos sessing or consuming alcoholic beverages. However, he said the scope of the problem can better be measured "in terms of extreme sorrow to the famHtes of these youngsters and inVerms of ruined lives artcTthe ibrupt ter mination of promising careers." "Hardly a day goes by that we don't see newspaper head lines telling of some teenager or group of teenagers being ar rested, fined or even being sent to prison as the result of some action which can be directly traced to the drinking of alco holic beverages by these teenagers," Cohn said. He added that the board would rely on news media to "apprise the people of the Com monwealth of the seriousness of this problem." PHILADELPHIA (UPI) FBI agents pressed their roundup today of more than a score of men alleged involved in a nationwide gambling ring head quartered here. Joseph D'Amato, 50, was held in $1,500 bail and Joseph B. Nanartowicz, 24, in $2,500 bail for a further hearing Feb.

23 as the alleged operators of the headquarters. A third oper ator, whose identity was not known still was sought. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo ver said the charges of interstate gambling violations in volved persons from Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Florida, Michigan and Delaware. Four other suspects arrested in the Philadelphia area also were held in bail for the Feb 23 hearing by U.S.

Commission er Edward W. Furia. Held in $2,500 bail were Clifford Golds borough, 54; Louis E. Travelini 46, of Wilmington, and D'Amato's brother, Charles 54 of nearby Woodlyn, Pa. Another D'Amato brother, Rosso, 44, of Havertown, was held in $1,500 bail.

Donald A. McCarrigel, 36, of Atlantic City, N.J., and James J. Grady, 59, of Philadelphia were arrested by FBI agents in New Jersey. Both will be arraigned today, Grady at Tren ton and McCarrigel at Atlantic City. FBI agents said the head quarters here was a "floating wire room which shifted loca tions around South Philadelphia frequently without changing its telephone numbers.

The agents said the wire room, in opera tion since last May, used elab orate electronic equipment to receive direct dial telephone calls from all sections of the nation without records being made of them. The FDI said it also distributed gambling infor- Deny Reports Khrushchev. Ill MOSCOW (UPI) Informed sources today denied rumors that former Premier Nikita Khrushchev had entered a hospital. The sources said Khrushchev, 71, was. still at home in hisi country villa outside Moscow and was in normal health for a man of his age.

The rumors had said that Krushchev was hospitalized with a gallstone inflammation the same illness that forced him into a hospital for three weeks last summer, He left the hospital Sept. 17 after what was described as successful treatment. At that time an operation was considered, but rejected by' his doctors as unnecessary. Mo westerners have seen Khrushchev since then, and it was believed he would stay home not venturing into Moscow. But Russians who saw him said he hadlost 26.4 pounds while in the Hospital, and that he no longer haJLhis unhealthy corpulence.

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Some Schools Closed Another one and a half inches of snow hit the Philadel phia area during the night and many suburban schools re mained closed. Harrisburg reported another inch of snow. All city schools were to open for the first time this week, but many in sub urban areas remained closed. Both the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads were operat ing on emergency schedules and the Reading had to cancel some trains because of snow damage to equipment. Roads Unplowed Delaware, Chester and Mont gomery County residents complained that half their secondary roads have not been plowed and two state senators planned to tour the area by helicopter today.

Despite forecasts for continued snow flurries and the Punxsutawney oundhog's vew ot his own shadow Wednesday, the U.S. Weather Bureau in Pittsburgh issued the following statement: "On thej basis of average of normal daily temperatures we are now past the so-called dead of winter regardless of any statements made by local groundhogs. "Since the middle of January the average daily maximum has risen from 35 to 36 de grees. "The current lull in weather activity will continue." Highs for the state today were to. range from 27 to 33 de port," he said.

"It may be days or weeks before we iind the others." On Gobbler's Knob, the fabled Punxsutawney, groundhog poked his head above ground, saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter weather. Residents of the eastern United States continued shiver- ng and shoveling themselves out of the worst winter years. Today, it looked like they'll make it. The snow in many areas was still as high as an elephant's eye, but one by one roads were being cleared, schools were being opened again, and families stranded by towering drifts were being brought out to 7 a.m. 21 8 a.m.

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34 To Check By AL ROSSITER Jr. CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) The United States used preci sion rocketry to shoot its 11th Tiros storm hunter satellite into a hard-to-reach orbit today to inaugurate the world's first full time space-borne weather watching system. The pioneering weather eye is the first in a strong of operational space platforms designed to routinely scan the globe's weather. Their cloud pictures will improve forecast ing on a daily basis at a cost of about $30 million a year. The satellite, fruit of six years ot development, was whirling at 17,000 miles anhour around the earth in a polar orbit ranging from 433 to 523 miles high.

"Everything's working as it should," said a space agency spokesman as ground stations slowly aimed the spacecraft's eyes toward the earth. "It looks like a good bird." Dr. Robert White, head of the new Environmental Sciences Service Administration (ESSA), predicted before launch that in about 10 years advanced breeds of such satellites will help meteorologists accurately forecast weather two or more weeks in advance. The glittering new satellite, named ESSA I after its parent agency, is expected to start photographing earth's clouds Friday and then flash 400 pictures back to ground stations daily. But before going to work, the 305-pound satellite had to be slowly, twisted into position to give its twin television cameras a horizon to horizon view of earth every six seconds.

tissA snapea like -an sized hatbox, were launched at 2:42 a.m., EST on a sleek Delta rocket that Colliery Working Time WORKING FRIDAY Gilberton Breaker, Gilberton Pockets Open, Mammoth, New St. Nicholas Central Breaker OakhilL St. Nicholas Fine Coal Plant (one shift), Pine Forest Stripping, Buck Run, New St. Nicholas Retail Pockets Oakhill, Capparell Breaker and Stripping. IDLE FRIDAY Midvalley, Maple Hill Cleaner Plant Skydiver Sets Mark For Space Balloon Teenage Drinking Target of State War Storm Oddities Across Nation Piantanida looked out the door and watched the gondola's unopened parachute in a knot falling beside him.

The gondola spun over, turning its opened door to the earth below. Piantanida braced himself against the wall to keep from falling out. "I figured I had it," he said later. Then, after, five miles of screaming descent, the gondola's chute opened. Piantanida was slammed with a force four times as strong as gravity.

Three more shock waves followed, and then lie swung dizzily to earth. He landed at Elmore, about 40 miles from his planned destination here. The doctor said he appeared all right and Piantanida was already talking about trying once more to capture the world's free-fall record of 83,523.41 feet from Russia's Eugene Andreev in two or three months. ESTHERVILLE, Iowa (UPI) A daring Brick Town, N.J. skydiver rode a balloon to a harrowing height of 23 miles above the frozen Midwest farm country Wednesday, but had to abandon his hopes of jumping overboard in quest of a new world's free-fall record.

Nick Piantanida, 33-year-old father of three, rode the balloon to a height of 123,500 feet, nearly two miles above the world's manned space balloon altitude record. That was no trouble at all, he said. But when he tried to disconnect his oxygen line from oxygen tanks in the gondola and attach it to the tanks he carried strapped on his back, he found the fitting was frozen solid with ice. He then gave up on his try at a record 22-mile free-fall and asked controllers on the ground to disconnect the gondola from the balloon by radio signal. The gondola began to fall.

HARRISBURG (UPI) The state Liquor Control Board today prepared for "an unrelenting war" on "the scourge of teenage drinking. Chairman A.D. Cohn said Wednesday the board, prompted by a sharp rise in fatal traffic accidents attributed to drunken driving by persons under 21, would take these steps to- combat drinking by youths: Request district attorneys in every county to "severely" prosecute offenders "not only the minors involved but also the irresponsible and unscrupulous adults who provide alcoholic beverages to minors." Urge Gov. William W. Scranton to "use all of the power of his administration to help us in this fight." Enlist support from civic, business, church and labor leaders and state and local police to "share the responsibility if at least minimizing, if not wip In Rockbridge County, a man led his family from their burning home, dashed back in to save his parakeet, and five-string banjo, and then stood by while the house burned to the ground.

Two fire trucks were stuck in a snowdrift a few. hundred yards away. In Cincinnati, Ohio, the temperature reached freezing and the good burghers cheered. It was the first time 2 weeks the temperature had gotten that high. In the nation's capital, the manager of a car rental agency announced that more than 200 of his cars were missing.

"Some of them we know are buried around National Air.