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THE LATROBE BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY A. 1982 PAGES (Continued From i) as forecast for todav. was forecast for today Commuters save to com puters (Continued From Page of the hike In rates and announced it would not pay the Increase. The authority Intends to raise the rental fees for Latrobe Borough from $30 to $85 per hydrant per year. Latrobe has a total of 148 hydrants, amounting to approximately $3,000 in increased rental fees.

In the waste water division, the board instructed Consulting Engineer Monroe to meet with officials of Dill Construction Co. and prepare a report tor the next meeting to clear up any problems Dill may have with payment of bills related to the construction ofthe sewage treaty BUYING GOLD AND ffe-SILVER RINGS MO STERLtaG SILVER AND G0L0 COINS AND DOLLARS OtftCI MINI IUHI-0 NIDOU MAW KARL'S ANTIQUES SHIUVItVl UHOU PHONE 5375471 WE NEED PLATINUM Industrial Wue Contacts kwlerj OPEN ANTIQUES and COLLECTABLES BOUGHT and SOLD Monday thru SATURDAY 9AM TO 5PM OU OVtlHtMIJ ion somumrTOtiMoirtm CORRECTION In Monday, January 4th Edition of The Latrobe Bulletin for Thorofare Markets ad. TH0R0FARE DELUXE BEEF U.S.D.A. CHOICE ENGLISH CUT raent plant. At one point Dill had threatened to sue the authority for withholding payment Board member Tito made the motion, saying that the board should And out as soon as possible, not when a suit is filed against it.

if there are any problems. The authority's next regular meeting wU be held at 1 p.m. Feb Latrobe Area Community Chest. GOAL $200,000 RAISED TO DATE $190,146 ROAST Sizes and Talis. WEEK: GEORGE JAPALUCCI REDUCED (P)(P) C3 CHUCK SHOULD HAVE BEEN we are slowly starting a public program where Individuals will call us and we will try to match them up," he said.

West Virginia does not sponsor any carpooling programs because of lack of interest among employers, many of whom already sponsor their own programs, said Byron Carpenter, planning director for the Regional Governmental Council serving Clay, Putnam, Kanawha and Boone counties. Decision on merger is awaited By ROBERT SANGEORGE- WASHINGTON (UPI) With less than a day left before U.S. Steel Corp. takes control of Marathon Oil, Mobil Oil Corp. waited anxiously to find out if Chief Justice Warren Burger would temporarily block the acquisition.

Mobil, the nation's No. 2 oil firm and second-largest' industrial corporation, made a lastditch appeal to Burger Tuesday in an effort to stop Tivalbldder U.S. Steel from launching a $6.3 billion takeover of Marathon. Unless stopped by the chief justice; U.S. Steel the nation's largest steelmaker can begin acquiring Marathon stock at 12:01 a.m.

Thursday. The firm has cleared all legal hurdles and its offer has attracted nearly 90 percent of Marathon's shares. Mobil wanted Burger to halt the acquisition while it petitions 'the Supreme Court for a fullscale review of the titanic corporate struggle. The firm sought to reverse rulings that thwarted its $5.5 billion bid for Marathon, the nation's 16th largest oil firm and 39th-ranked industrial corporation. Mobil attorneys rushed an emergency application to Burger on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the 6th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in-Cincinnati refused a similar request. Last week, Burger turned aside an emergency request from Mobil on procedural grounds. Marathon executives have vigorously opposed Mobil's bid and supported U.S. Steel, which has pledged to keep Marathon's Findlay, Ohio, headquarters essentially intact. Both U.S.

Steel and Marathon also rushed papers to the high court Tuesday afternoon, urging Burger to turn" aside Mobil's effort. Mobil told Burger it could demonstrate "that Amerada Hess is an aggresslve-independent- marketer, which has no need for or interest in Marathon's oil field production." Mobil's attempted takeover of Marathon was linked to its desire for a more Secure source of domestic crude oil. ALL INT $til Lb. We apologize for any Inconvenience ihls may have caused our customers. Schools also were closed because of saov and ice in Portland and Seattle out West, as well as in central South Dakota, northern Michigan, central Nevada and western New York.

Utah had up to 10 inches of snow. Air Force helicopter crews fought to reach four missing cross-country skiers in an Oregon wilderness area, while another rescue team punched its way through deep snowdrifts to bring out 55 people trapped at Elk Lake Lodge in the central Oregon Cascades. Three people died in the crash of a plane in a blizzard near Yosemlte National Park. The lethal winter storms drove at least one person into a rage of frustration. A Bellevue.

Wash-motorist smashed all the windows of his car with a tire iron and emptied lk clips of bullets into all four tires with a pistol when the auto got stuck in 6 inches of snow. Winds gusting to 70 mph pummeled western New York, whipping snow on highways, snapping power lines and causing dangerous driving conditions. In California, the rainstorm that lashed the upper coastline weakened late Tuesday and drifted south. Southern- California and Arizona were expecting some rain, but not in the amounts dropped on northern California. In Pacifica, overlooking the ocean south of San Francisco, Bill and Barbara Valez and their children Michele, 14, Billy, 9, and Melisa, 4 -were caught by a thunderous wave of mud unleashed by the rains.

The house above the Valez' collapsed, engulfing the Valez' home in debris and trapping the children in their beds. The parents and two dogs escaped, but rescuers working through the night found bodies of two of the children and offered little hope tor the third. "Everybody thought it was thunder," said neighbor Leslie Bauer. "But then it just kept Bitter- cold assailed the upper Midwest, and wind-chill factors in Montana reacnea vs-neiow zero, ine mercury plunged to a record 37-below zero at Glasgow, and 30 below zero at Malta, also axecord. It was at Great Falls'.

Slides Continued From Page 1) soared to more than $100 million and federal officials said practically none of the homeowners were carrying the special insurance that would repay -them for their loss. Sol Abrams. of Ross, in the Marin County hottub country north of San Francisco, said his $150,000 house was crushed by waist-high waters Monoavnigm "I don't think it's worth a dollar now," he said. "I've never seen anything like it in 25 years here." In Kent Woodlands, an affluent J- neignoornoou ouwers saiu was uic hardest hit in Marin County, Alice Thomas made her way over tangles of trees and' debris carrying groceries for her father, who suffered a heart attack during the mudslide. "Half my driveway is gone, so there is no way to get him out," she said.

"My daughter and I got him to bed and gothim medicine." In Ross, seven- uprooted trees crushed the three-bedroom home of-Ben Ballard, 60, owner of a marine sales company. The trees, some with trunks 3 feet thick, came through back doors and windows, demolishing every room. "It sounded like a roll of thunder and then a clap of lightning when a tree snapped," said Jim Mickle, who lives just above "There was a great roar like the crash of a tidal wave. I ran out to see what I could see and it looked like the whole forest was moving. It was just a lot of motion.

It was very frightening. A whole big chunk of the mountain just came off and slid down the hill." In San Anselmo, another Marin County community, Helen Georgedes' first-floor apartment was wiped out. vitost everything," she said. She said when the water level started rising," she put all the things she wanted to save on her bed and took her cat upstairs to the neighbor's apartment. When 6he returned, her belongings were under water.

Her car was destroyed. Ms. Georgedes decided the only thing she could do was wade to her mother's home, a ground-floor apartment a fe blocks away. She, too, had lost everything. than ks By DONNA M.

DAVIS United Press International In what sounds like a computer dating service for commuters, local and regional planning agencies are using data banks to match riders and drivers in government-funded ride sharing programs. The carpool and vanpool services, offered in major urban areas in almost every state, grew out of the 1974 Mideast oil embargo. Their goal is to cut down on gasoline consumption, traffic ingestion, air pollution and wear' and tear on highways by taking cars off the roads. And sponsors say the programs, which' are often free, save commuters money up to $600 to $1,200 a year in carrelated expenses and 10 to 20 percent on annual Insurance payments. Federal, state and local transportation monies fund the ride sharing programs, which rely mainly on local employers to advertise the service and sign up potential riders.

Sponsors also appeal to individuals through freeway sips advertising a special phone number, with the last four digits spelling "pool." "Assigning riders to a on the same principle as a dating service," said Dottie. director- of the Mid-Ohio; Metropoolfor the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission based Columbus. we laxe (an individuals! employment data, where they livi the hours they work, then we identify those people in their same neighborhood through the computer. 'We generate 10 matches per' person and send the printout to the in dividual's home." It is then up to the applicant to con tact the people on'the list; she said. Besides the Mid-Ohio Metropool, Ohio has carpools in Cleveland, Akron, Marietta and thi Cincinnati tri-state area.

Kentucky and Penn-' sylvania also have several programs that operate on a similar computer system. Project Share, run by! the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional of Governments, serves 9,000 people and 50 employers in Butler, Clermont, and Hamilton in southwestern Ohio; Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties in northern Kentucky, and Ohio and Dearborn counties In eastern Indiana. Project Ride Share was the first in Ohio to offer a vanpool program, said Director Greg Westerbeck. Under the program, OKI leases vans, to interested employers or individuals. Riders pay a monthljLjarehat covers all costs of the vehicle and the driver usually rides free, he said.

"It's a form of mass transit without a large public subsidy," said Westerbeck, who believes vanpoollng Will be the mass transportation the future. In Kentucky, the Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Metro-Louisvllle Ride Sharing Program for commuters in Jefferson, Bullock and Oldham counties in Kentucky and Clark and Floyd counties in Indiana. Upset gunman kills couple GALLATIN, Mo. (UPI) A gunman shot and killed a woman and an electrician working In her northwest Missouri farmhouse Tuesday, injured her two children, then turned the gun on himself, sheriff's officers said, The gunman, 'identified as Hal Page, 31, of Smlthton, apparently was upset over money he thought was owed him by Thomas and Mary Bergman. Mrs: Bergman, 41, and an electrician working at (he house 'identified as Ed Ramsbottom, 36, were shot and killed by the gunman.

Two of the Bergman children were wounded, one critically, a sheriff's deputy said. Thomas Bergman, said to be in the gold mining business, was in Costa Rica, the sheriff's office said. Page allegedly left the farmhouse after slayings in a car and came upon a highway patrolman and a deputy, at which point he shot himself. Firm planning big expansion BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (UPI) -The Tubular Products Group of Bab-cock Wilcox Co.

announced Tuesday a $14.6 million expansion of facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas, a move that will create as many as 175 new jobs. COMPLETE STOCK WINTER JACKETS Jim HilL assistant manager of the program, estimated that 100,000 of the area's 408,000 commuters use carpools, and he says 19,000 to 20,000 have their names in the program's 'computer. The program, which started in 1974, is funded by $150,000 in federal, state and local funds. Hill said. In Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and the Delaware Valley are among the areas that have vanpool programs.

Pat Wood, an assistant press secretary for the state department of transportation in Pittsburgh, said 133 vanpools serve 1,822 riders within the region at an average monthly cost of $34.24 per rider. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission sponsors van-pools that serve Philadelphia and the suburban counties of Montgomery, Bucks. Chester and Delaware. The program began in 1973 and most of the applicants have come from large companies, but officials plan to expand service, said Richard Barton, liaison for the Ride Sharing unit, "We are beginning to look at neighborhood-based programs and Jews to get ao0pTion rrom ale 6t autos PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) Adolf Hitler's bulletproof Mercedes-Benz parade car and the Mercedes roadster once owned by his wife, Eva Braun, are expected to bring $1.2 million at this weekend's Barrett-: Jackson Classic Car Auction.

Auction partner Tom Barrett disclosed Monday he will donate from the sale of both cars to a major Jewish charity. He refused, however, to reveal the 'name of the charity until the cars are sold. "We've had a great bit of interest on both cars from around the world," Barrett said, "and while I don't endorse Hitler; I do think worthwhile things can come from even history's worst possible moments." The auction at Phoenix Municipal Stadium is the world's largest classic car sale in history, with 800 cars on the block ranging from Rudolph Valentino's Isotta-Fraschlni roadster to cars once owned by the shah of Iran, Barrett recently spent $100,000 to restore Miss Braun's 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540-K roadster, which comes complete with gold-plated Swastika hubcaps. Thornburgh challenged HARRISBITRG (UPI) A spokesman for Gov. Dick Thornburgh has responded to a request by a Democratic lawmaker that the administration document its claim that it created 32,000 new manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania last year.

Spokesman William Green Tuesday said Thornburgh used a state Commerce Department report as the basis of his remark in published interviews that his administration had created the jobs. Allen Kukovlch, DWestmoreland, challenged Thornburgh to verify the 32,000 figure, saying the December issue of Pennsylvania Business Survey ed there were 23,000 less manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania in October 1981 than in October 1980. Green said Thornburgh was using figures contained in a 1980 Commerce Department report entitled "Major Industrial Development Projects Announced in Pennsylvania." Green said the report showed the announced 1980 projects resulted in 32,540 "new-job commitments" to be phased in over the next three years. Suit to block funds delayed PHILADELPHIA (UPI) A promise by Philadelphia officials not to transfer any city funds to the school district before Jan. 13, has won the city an eight-day delay in a court suit.

Two officers of the NonResident Taxpayers Association agreed Tuesday to the delay of a court hearing on their suit to block the transfer of $3 million in city funds to pay for school busing. The delay until Jan. 13 was requested by Deputy City Solicitor Marc Aronchlck and approved by Common Pleas Judge Stanley M. Greenberg. Including Extra CLUB WINNER 14th sVtJfWSW SERVICE CALLS LATROBE SURROUND ING AREAS ARE NOW i i i Plus Parts No Other Charge I LATROBE, DERRY.

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