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IZnilLILir yitv ill ir. I I 1 1 Wednesday VOL. LXXX. No. 226 LATROBE, SEPTEMBER 15.

1982 20c Hopes of i i nil 1 1 Bt.ijjij i ii u. ofe fading that, under the rejected proposal, workers with 23 or 30 years service could be scheduled to work as little as 16 hours a week while could hire new workers at the current minimum wage "The company wants to be saved but it must remember our employees need security." the attorney stated Hopes of some workers that the International Union headquarters in Washington, C. would order a revote were dashed by Janet Goldin. a public relations representative in the international office. "We take the view that this is a local issue.

Local 590 has our support we will stand by Draper's decision," she said. Yurasko emphasized that Local 590 is listening to the majority of workers and supporting the majority. He said Draper's stand that a revote cannot be scheduled because (See HOPES, Page 11) 1 Ifimn-B TV station's Bulittin Photo OKd request CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM The Pittsburgh Steelers, Kiwanis Club and Coca-Cola have joined Latrobe Police Department in a crime prevention program which utilizes trading cards of individual Steeler players. Police officers in Latrobe and other municipalities will distribute cards free to school-age children with a different player featured each week for 16 weeks. In addition to player, each card has a crime prevention trip on the back which uses football terminology.

Uniformed police officers will hand out the cards and Ihey will not be available in any other manner. The program is designed to create a positive relationship between police and children since a youngster must have direct contact with an officer at least once a week for 16 weeks to collect all cards Kiwanis and Coca-Cola have picked up the cost of printing while Kiwanis distributes them to police. Dick Stemmler (left), president of the Latrobe club, presents the first week's supply to Ptlm. John Smetanka Kunish beat Simpson, witnesses tell jurors rev By JEAN LUTHER Bulletin Staff Writer A revote by employees of the Al-toona Division of appears to be a dead issue unless the company submits "a new. more equitable conces sions proposal" to Local 590.

United Food and Commercial Workers 5 That was the word vesterdav from George Yurasko. business represen- tative of the local, during a media conference conducted by union representatives at Lord Ligonier Inn Yurasko said Local 590 President Jack Draper has repeatedly told that the union is willing to meet them "more than half-way "to pre vent closing of 40 supermarkets in the division It has been reported that Sept 25 will be the last working day for some of 700 employees in the division while other stores will dose at the end of this eek Ligonier and Blairsville stores will close this Saturday unless some stock remains, according to a spokesman at the Ligonier store "We could be open a couple of days after that," he said. During the conference. Yurasko sought to dispel reports that the union is doing nothing to save jobs for its employees. He said union officials had met with the company three times during the past week, including a seven-hour session on Saturday-He charged a "new offer" made by the company at that time was the same proposal rejected by a 305-270 vote on Aug.

18. The only change Yurasko said, was to increase the time period for concessions from six months to a year. "The re-submitted proposal, with the same bottom line, was even less desirable. did not offer to restore any concessions if the company shows economic recovery. It said "even if we get healthy you will not get more," according to the buisnes representative.

"There won't be a new vote without a new proposal. When stores close, the company leaves town. We will still be around assisting our members," he added. He said the local has scheduled a meeting on Sept. 23 to provide workers with information on unemployment benefits, health and welfare benefits and pensions.

Yurasko confirmed that Draper had been in touch with other supermarket chains to try to find owners for the closing outlets. Joseph Maurizi, an attorney representing Local 590, suggested the company's proposal was designed to force long-time employees to seek other employment. He contended trial of the "missing body The prosecution is charging Kunish, 44, the former owner of the Magic Lamp bar in Vandergrift, with killing Simpson in a fit of jealous rage. Testifying yesterday for the prosecution were Jackie Simpson's son, Tim, 21, of New Kensington; Marlin Heshkett of Vandergrift; Richard Smith. 29, of Vandergrift; Viola Mrasz, owner of another bar in Vandergrift, and James Rearigh, 32, also of Vandergrift.

Tim Simpson testified he saw Kunish beat his mother in two in- On at least two occasions Jacqueline (Jackie) Simpson was knocked unconscious by Gary Kunish while they were lovers over a three-year period. A jury of six women and six men hearing the case in the courtroom of Judge Gilfert Mihalich heard witnesses testify that Kunish beat Simpson several times. Kunish charged with the killing of Simpson, 40. on the night of Feb. 27 and then disposing of her body.

Police have been unsuccessful in locating Simpson or producing her body. The case has been dubbed the stances in their New Kensington home after Kunish moved in with them in June, 1981. Simpson said that once he was awakened by his sisters who told him that Kunish and Mrs. Simpson were fighting in the downstairs bedroom. "I went into the room and saw Mr.

Kunish on top of my He had his hands on both sides of her head and was beating her head up and down on the floor," Simpson told Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert Johnston. grabbed Mr. Kunish and dragged him off my fought for a while before my brother broke it up." Another assault, Tim Simpson said occurred in the bathroom of their New Kensington house at 810 Camp Ave. "I was sitting outside on the street," Tim recounted, "when I heard my mother hollering for me from the bathroom window. "I went upstairs and Mr.

Kunish holding my he had his (See KUNISH, Page 11) State school strikes hit 18 By JEAN LUTHER Bulletin Staff Writer WJNL-TV of Johnstown wae granted permission last night to con struct facilities in Ligonier Township to house its television tfansmitting equipment. Ligonier Township Board of Supervisors approved a request from George Plenderleith, station manager, who said location of the television tower on Laurel Mountain was designed to make Channel 19 competitive with Channel 6. He estimated construction costs of the tower and a 60 by 26 foot block building at "somewhere between $175,000 and $200,000." Plenderleith told the board his company has leased a one-acre site on Pea vine Hill, 1.36 miles south of Route 30, from Rolling Rock Farms. The land ajoins Pennsylvania Game Commission property where two other towers are located. Westmoreland County Office of Emergency Management will be offered use of the leased site if it wishes to erect a tower for 911 transmission, the station representative said.

He added WJNL-TV will have the first television transmitter to located in Westmoreland County although another station in the county holds a similar license. Channel 19 expects to expand its schedule with completion of its new transmitter, according to Plenderleith. Work on the project is expected to start this month and to be finished by early spring. The board asked how much traffic the new facility would generate on an access road leading to the site. Plenderleith said after construction is completed the transmitter will re- vllaliK PMta quire only weekly inspections.

A plus will be addition of the improvements to township tax rolls, he noted. The new location of the transmitter, which has received Federal Aviation Association clearance and Federal Communications Corporation approval, will expand the viewing range of Channel 19 to Westmoreland, Indiana, Huntington and Fayette counties, Plenderleith (See TV, Page 11) PLO boss, pontiff in talks By CHARLES RIDLEY ROME (UPI) Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, before meeting Pope John Paul II today, called on the world's parliaments to investigate Israeli "war crimes" during the invasion of Lebanon. Arafat, dressed in his military uniform and headdress, Issued the call in a speech to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in the Rome parliament building. As Arafat entered the building, his phalanx of security men tried to take their pistols in with them but were stopped by Italian police in a 15-minute argument. At one point, witnesses said, a tussle broke out and the uniform of one Italian policeman was torn.

The speech to parliamentary delegates from all over the world was the first major engagement by the Palestinian leader during his two-day visit to Rome. He drove directly to the conference after flying in from Tunis. "I call on parliamentarians to form an international committee to investigate the war crimes perpetrated by Israel, which used the most modern weapons, including those that are prohibited," Arafat said in reference to the Lebanon invasion. "The Israelis wanted to liquidate our people," he said. "Seventy thousand were killed, wounded or missing" Arafat got a long standing ovation after his 20-minute speech.

Israeli delegates boycotted the session, American delegates attended, but did not stand up and Join in the applause. "The Israelis had the complete, unlimited support of the Americans military, diplomatically and politically," Arafat said. He said the PLO has accepted the Arab plan for a Middle East settlement adopted by the Arab summit conference at Fez, Morocco last week. "It is the only reference point for a just solution to our conflict," he said. After the speech, Arafat drove in a heavily guarded motorcade to the presidential Quirlnale palace where he met privately with President San-dro Pertinl.

In the afternoon he was to have a similar private meeting with Pope John Paul II. Earlier, on arrival In Rome, Arafat said the assassination Tuesday of Lebanese presidentelect Beshir Gemayel is a "bad thing" for (See PLO, Page 11) I Oil ft ill kJ JLd 7 fij Wv By United Press International Teachers in the Wilkinsburg School District of Allegheny County set up picket lines today, boosting the number of school districts on strike in Pennsylvania to 18. The strikes involve more than 3,400 educators and affect more than 61,000 students. Teachers in several other districts are threatening to strike unless they receive new contracts. teachers in Westmoreland County's New Kensington-Arnold School District said they would walk out Friday without a contract and the Intermediate Unit 1 in Fayette, Washington and Greene counties faces a strike Thursday.

Teachers in Allegheny County's Shaler Area School District have voted to strike Sept. 30 unless a new contract agreement is reached. Another strike threat at Philadelphia Community College as 100 members of the bargaining unit, covering parttime teachers and visiting lecturers, voted to call a strike if contract talks show no progress. Teachers in Allegheny County's Duquesne School District postponed a scheduled walkout Tuesday when the state Labor Relations Board apointed a fact finder to intervene in the negotiations. No strikes can be called during fact-finding.

Recommendations from the fact finder are expected within 40 days Strikes were under way in the Greater Johnstown School District, Index- Bridge 21 Classified 22 Comics 21 DearAbby 9 Editorial 4 Obitbaries 24 Sports 14 TV Listing 18 Cambria County; West Greene School District, Greene County, and at Girard College, a private boarding school for about 400 elementary and secondary school aged boys in Philadelphia. Other Pennsylvania teachers' strikes were in these school districts: Highlands. Allegheny County; Burgettstow Washington County; Meyersdale and Rockwood in Somerset County; Southeast Greene and Jefferson-Morgan in Greene County; United, Indiana County; Mount Carmel, Northumberland County; Everett, Bedford County; Central Bucks. Bucks County: Greater Nanticoke. Luzerne County, Penn Cambria, Cambria County; Kiski Area, Westmoreland and Armstrong counties; and Methacton, Montgomery County.

Detroit teachers say they would rather be teaching reading and writing, but the arithmetic of "bills to pay" forced them to strike for the third straight day. idling 8,000 non-teaching workers. Teachers vowed to walk out today in an 18th Pennsylvania school district. More than 315,000 youngsters were out of classes in teacher strikes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Some 8.000 non-teaching employees in the Detroit school system were idled temporarily Tuesday in the face of what school officials and union leaders fear will be a lengthy strike in the district.

Around the state, teacher walkouts were also reported in Wyoming, Troy, Traverse City, Lake City and Novi, affecting 12,600 teachers and 230,360 students. "When I believe there is a basis for resuming the meetings, I'll do so," state fact-finder David Tanzman said (See STATE, Page 11) HONOR DECEASED FIREMEN A monument, located in front of the Deny Municipal Building fire station, was dedicated Sunday by the Derry Volunteer Fire Department in honor of its deceased members. Looking over the monument, dedicated at the fire department's annual memorial service held in conjunction with the observance of its 90th anniversary, are (from left) Assistant Fire Chief Richard Z. Rupert, Fire Chief Fred Squib and Jack Dell, general chairman of the event. A stone for the monument was donated by contractor Bruno Ferrari of Latrobe, owner of Latrobe Construction Co.

Derry clergymen participated in the memorial service, which also was attended by a delegation from the Latrobe Volunteer Fire Department..