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Robert V. Cox Earns Pulitzer Prize in Journalism PUBLIC OPINION Shade Gap Story Cited 3FntttkUtt IlMUUSttOn Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 16 Pages, Only Cents 98th Year, No. 236 Tuesday, May 2, 1967 11 MIGs Hit By U. S. Jets In Heavy Raid Young Motorist Is Found Guilty By Jury Today Robert V.

Cox, 40, city editor of the Public Opinion, brought additional honors to the award-winning newspaper on Monday when he was named the winner of a coveted Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Cox, a Public Opinion staffer since 1959, received the Pulitzer award "for a distinguished example of local general or spot news reporting." The prize carries a monetary award of $l'O00. The Public Opinion staffer becomes the first Franklin County journalist to receive the Pulitzer award and one of the few in the State to be so honored. Specifically, Cox and the Public Opinion were honored for their coverage of the story of Peggy Ann Bradnick's kidnaping last May in the remote North Mountain area of Shade Gap and of her subsequent rescue by a small armada of police, FBI agents, National Guardsmen and volunteers. Cox, who led the news department on a 24-hour-a-day on-the-spot coverage of the week-long abduction story as it developed and climaxed, covered every angle of the breaking story.

Not only did his story bring national honors to the newspaper but his word pic- V- A jury in Franklin County court returned a verdict at 1:47 this afternoon adjudging Michael A. Marcinko, 19, of 525 E. Catherine guilty of a charge of involuntary manslaughter. An oral motion for a new trial was immediately filed by legal counsel for Marcinko, Attorney Edmund C. Wingerd Jr.

The court granted the defense attorney four days to file a written motion with reasons. Listed for trial this afternoon was a charge of drag racing against William L. Peterson, of R. R. 1, Fayetteville.

Scheduled to be presented to juries Wednesday are the cases of involuntary manslaughter against E. Donn Cornell, of 522 Montgomery fornication and bastardy against Ronald Wayne Miller, of R. R. 2, Fayetteville, and attempted larceny against Wilbur Ray Warne of R. R.

2. Pending a proposed settlement out of court, a charge of assault with intent to maim against Joseph Howard Marks of Hancock, has been taken off the trial list. The offer to settle out of court was presented to Judge George C. Eppinger on Monday. Details of the settlement have not been disclosed, pending Marks" success in securing finances for the settlement.

Scheduled to be heard at a date to be fixed later is a charge of driving during suspension against Tommy L. Daley, of R. R. 2, Greencastle. munist interceptors just over the Kep air base 37 miles northeast of Hanoi.

Navy pilots claimed downing two MIGs in the duel and damaging another. Navy pilots said they spotted seven MIGs on the airfield. They claimed they destroyed three of them, damaged another and heavily damaged the field and its support facilities. In the first attack on Kep April 24, there apparently were no MIGs on the ground. Air Force pilots attacked the Hoa Lac field 20 miles west of Hanoi.

They reported destroying five MIGs on the ground and another during a 15-minute aerial dogfight. Pilots said they left numerous fires and secondary explosions throughout the aircraft parking areas. "We saturated the aircraft parking ramp," said Maj. Robert X. Piper, 36, of Salt Lske City.

"The ground was obscured by smoke and dust." The previous record for MIG kills in one day was seven shot down in dogfights last Jan. 2. The Communist losses Monday raised to 17 the number of Red interceptors reported knocked out in the past week nine in the air and eight on the ground. It brought the total number of MIGs claimed by American pilots in the war to 56. North Vietnam is reported to have had from 75 to 125 MIGs, most of them MIG17s wheh are not as maneuveraHe as the later MIG21s.

However, Hanoi reportedly has been replenishing its air force from Red China and the Soviet Union. i I I i ss SAIGON (AP) U.S. fighter-bombers inflicted the heaviest aircraft destruction of the war on North Vietnam Monday, destroying 11 Communist MIG17 interceptors in the air and on the ground, the American command reported today. As the North took another pounding in the intensified air war, heavy fighting flared across South Vietnam from the central highlands to the Mekong Delta. American infantrymen suffered their heaviest losses in the delta fighting, where 16 were killed and 40 wounded.

The ground forces were supported by fighter-bombers that attacked Communist positions in the South with a record 625 sorties Monday. In a delayed report, the American command announced the loss of three U.S. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs during raids over North Vietnam Sunday, including two shot down by MIG21s and one from unknown causes. The four crewmen were listed as missing. This brought to 528 the number of American planes reported lost over North Vietnam, including 15 shot down by MIGs.

Hanoi radio claimed the North Vietnamese air force shot down three U.S. planes Monday while ground forces downed a fourth during the record day of MIG kills. But the U.S. command did not announce any losses for the day, and a spokesman refused to comment on a Peking claim that the Red Chinese air force shot down two Navy A4B Sky-hawks over the Chinese mainland Monday. Peking made a similar claim of downing two American planes over South China April 24, a claim which the U.S.

command in Saigon denied at the time. The Chinese also claimed April 29 that they brought down a piloless American reconnaissance plane. The record American MIG kills were made during raids on the MIG air bases at Kep and Hoa Lac, near Hanoi, targets which were hit last week for the first time in the war. Sweeping in from 7th Fleet carriers, Navy A4 Skyhawks tangled with four of the Com the case be tried without jury. Marcinko, who took the stand in his own defense Monday afternoon, told the jury under cross examination by District Attorney Jay L.

Benedict Jr. that he had no recollection of events of the accident following the first impact of his sports car with the car driven by Thomas Smith, of 1780 Lincoln Way East, on Dec. 3 at the intersection of Lincoln Way East and Stouffer Ave. Smith, his wife, Vonnie, and her unborn full term infant were killed in the accident. Called as prosecution witnesses by the district attorney were Lee D.

Garman, of 500 Overhill Samuel Cavins, 63, of 1098 Lincoln Way East; Patricia McCurdy, 17, of R. R. Bruce L. Buhrman, 17, of 1703 Lincoln Way East; Joan Yeager, of 1464 Lincoln Way East, and borough Patrolman Clarence Senseny. The first two witnesses for the Commonwealth, Garman and Cavins, presented conflicting testimony in regards to the direction the Smith vehicle was moving at the time of the accident.

Garman, who told the jury that he was driving his vehicle east in Lincoln Way East behind the Marcinko car, stated that the Smith vehicle was in the act of turning left off Lincoln Way East onto Stouffer Ave. Speed Cited Cavins, who operates a service station at the intersection of Lincoln Way East and Stouffer told police that the Smith vehicle was moving in the opposite direction, in the act of entering Lincoln Way East from Stouffer Ave. While both witnesses indicated the Marcinko car was traveling at a high rate of speed prior to the accident, only Garman placed an estimate of the speed, that of 80 miles per hour. Garman injected a continuing note of mystery in the incidents leading up to the accident, stating that a third vehicle was traveling abreast of the Marcinko car at a high rate of speed. Garman said the car continued on from the scene after the Marcinko and Smith cars collided.

Cavins, who said he witnessed the accident side his service station, added that he did not see a uu when he witnessed the Marcinko sports car speed by his service station prior to the impact. Miss McCurdy, a passenger in the Marcinko vehicle, failed to add to the Commonwealth's case, stating on the stand that she has had a mental blackout the evening of the accident (Turn to Page 4, Col. 4 please) (AP Wtrephoto) THE SANDS OF VIETNAM A soldier leaves a trail of deep footprints as he walks down sand dune in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam. The beaches in the coastal area contrast with jungles of central Vietnamese highlands. The 3rd Brigade of the 25th Division has set up a base-camp, called "Landingzone Guadalcanal," near Due Pho on the Quang Ngai beach.

The matter was stricken from the list when Daley asked that uestioned State Police Bill istration measure cleared the Senate without debate Monday on a 49-0 vote and was shipped to the House. Republicans have slim majorities in both chambers. The bill would add 300 men to the department each year through 1970. "It was brought out last year that they can train 250 men a year," Fineman added. He em- HARRISBURG (AP) House Minority Leader Herbert Fine-man said today that House Democrats have some reservations about a Senate-passed bill to add 1,200 men to the State Police Department.

"There is some question here as to whether they can adequately train 300 men a year," the Philadelphia Democrat said. The Republican Shafer Admin phasized, however, "we are not against additional state policemen." Senate passage of the state police bill topped legislative action Monday as both houses returned after a week's recess for the Jewish holidays. The House and Senate came back to work today. Senate Majority Leader Stanley G. Stroup said plans called for the legislature then to recess until after the May 16 primary election.

The Republican controlled Senate also adopted unanimously a resolution that would set up a 10-member joint legislative committee to explore the need for a code of ethics for the General Assembly. This resolution already cleared the House, so the next step is appointment of members of the panel. If the committee finds a need for a code, its next duty would be to draft legislation setting up a code. Such legislation of course, would have to be approved by the legislature, as a whole. Fineman and House Majority Whip Robert J.

Butera are sponsors of the resolution. Butera said he would request immediate consideration of committee members. The Montgomery County Republican said he was hopeful the members would be selected by the time the legislature returns. On another front. Democrats introduced an 11-bill higher education package in each chamber.

Chief among these are proposals to create a separate state board of higher education and the passing out of the senatorial scholarship program. The Democrats last week outlined 10 of the 11 bills. The new bill added Monday would ap-priate the entire surplus from the 1967-68 fiscal year to the state's scholarship fund. Suspect Arrested in Probe Of Widespread Vandalism Diligent efforts and an assist from Lady Luck may help borough police solve at least one phase of the widespr id vandalism which has been occurring in the -sr the past months. Early this morning, police picked up a suspt in the window breaking ir i-dents at Modern Home Str-e.

Being held on a charge of disorderly conduct, Frank Wright, of 124 S. Second was taken into cntody shortly after 2 a.m. after he allegedly hurled a bottle from his uoving car at a window of the appliance store. Police were informed of the incident by a resident of the area, who said he saw Wright hurl a soft drink bottle ROBERT Pulitzer Prize Winner ture was the main feeder for the Associated Press. The Shade Gap incident was later voted the top State news story of 1966 by Associated Press editors.

Dozens of exclusive pictures by Cox and other Public Opinion staffers provided exclusive pictures used around the world. National magazines made Cox their background source. Last November, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association meeting in San Diego, cited Public Opinion, primarily as a result of the energy and writing of Cox, for its outstanding coverage of the Shade Gap incident and its contribution to the national wire service. Exclusive list Cox and Public Opinion, in winning the Pulitzer award, join an exclusive list of distinguished journalists. The local newspaper was the smallest publication cited by the Pulitzer judges.

Winning newspapers had circulations ranging from 71,000 upward to nearly a million. The Christian Science Monitor (circulatioi 192.399) was cited for foreign reporting; the Associated Press for photography; the Louisville Journal (399.528 circulation) and the Milwaukee Journal (366,398 circulation) for meritorious public service: the Wall Street Journal (circulation 989,443) for National Affairs; the Miami Herald (circulation 359,959) for special local reporting, the Atlanta Newspapers (circulation 71,226) for editorials, and the Denver Post (circulation 341,016) for cartoons. The Pulitzer Prizes were established at Columbia University by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911. They have been awarded since 1917 by trustees of Columbia, upon recommendation of the Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes. 'Flabbergasted' "I can't believe it: I'm Cox commented when informed by Columbia of the selection of his Shade Gap stories for receipt of the Pulitzer award.

"It is the most unexpected and most fabulous thing that has ever happened to me," Cox commented. Recalling the submission of the story by PO General Manager Harold E. Burdick in January for consideration by the award jury, Cox added that he was not aware that Monday was the day for announcement of winners. "I had completely forgotten about it," he said. "It was a great team effort," the Pulitzer Prize winnner commented in giving credit to other members of PO's news staff for development of the fast-breaking story.

Varied Career Cox knocked around quite a bit before settling on a news career when he joined the Public Opinion staff in 1959. He had worked for a radio station, a food processing plant, sold automobiles, and had been a municipal mploye. It's not the sort of background one might xpect of Pulitzer Prize winner, but a (Turn to Pl 4. Col. 1 pletst) U.

S. to Withdraw European Troops III I from his at the window the -Liberty St. A description of the suspect, the automobile he was driving and the clothing he was wear-j. gjygn to police witness. was up a short time later in his automobile at Lincoln Way East and Eight St.

Charged before Justice of the Peace Edwin D. Strite pending completion of the i-vestigation, Wright was ncld rn default of $100 bond on a charge of disorderly conduct. Wright, who will be arraigned at a later date, maintained innocence when questioned this morning. Fragments of the bottle hurled against the show window of the furniture and appliance store were shattered over a wide area of the sidewalk, after the bottle struck a metal window brace Pulverized glass stuck to the window of the store, which luckily was undamaged by the impact. The store has, on five previous occassions, suffered losses estimated at $1,000 in similar attacks of vandalism when the windows shattered and furniture on display was damaged by glass.

Earlier Monday night, shortly before 10 p.m., police were informed of another automobile windshield being shattered in the WTest End. Donald Peiffer, of 377 E. Liberty reporttJ that the windshield of his automobile was shattered while he was visiting in the 300 block of Elder St. The window is shattered with a hammer, pvx.ee said. WASHINGTON (AP) The Uniteld States, in agreement with Britain and West Germany, announced today plans to withdraw up to 35,000 of its armed forces and four squadrons of combat planes from West Germany.

Johnson administration officials estimated the transfer of soldiers and Air Force personneltogether with thousands of dependents, to bases in the United States would mean saving of around $100 million in the next year. The troops and planes are part of the U.S. commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The agreement now must go to the NATO Defense Planning Commttee. Today Read: To try to balance out other costs West Germany has agreed to invest $500 million in medium-term government securities between July 7, 1967, and June 1968.

In addition West Germany will spend an estimated $300 million in U.S. military equipment. Under- the same three-way plan, Britain would withdraw one brigade of 5,000 men and one squadron of aircraft to reduce its costs. West Germany would agree to purchase about $150 million worth of military and civilian goods in Britain. The United States will purchase an additional $19.6 million of military equipment in Britain from April 1, 1967, March 31, 1968.

The announcement made here by the State Department, simultaneously made in London and Bonn, said the U. S. troops and Air Force cuts would be achieved by redeployng two brigades of the 24th Infantry Division now in Bavaria 5 Classified 14-15 Landers County 5 Porter 8 Deaths 9 Sports 10-11 Editorials IS Women's 7 Hospital 9 Weather (AP Wirepbotol BATTERED HOME A tree leans against side of smashed home with missing roof after Sunday's tornado left hundreds of homes, like this one in the Albert Lea storm area, battered and broken. Personal belongings from the attic art scattered across tbe yard and into neighbor's yard..