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Public Opinion from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • 4

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PUBLIC OPINION FRIDAY, SEPT. 1J, 1M New State Law- Constitutionals Nominate Two Boosters Get Assignments Assignments were given to bars is more than 15 inches ebove the plane of Uie saddle. Also prohibited by the new law are clip-on bars, a device virtually the opposite of "ape hangers," which require the operator to assume a bent riding position that can proe extremely hazardous. Also prohibited is the cutting or alteration of fenders, another fad with two-wheel extremists. State polite indicate they are strictly enforcing the law as of today, which may make this date, Friday the 13t'n, unlucky for motorcycle faddists, but lucky for those whose lives may be saved.

Firemen Called An overheated oil heater sent Franklin firemen to the residence at 22 Maple St. at 7:30 a.m. today. Firemen reported no damage. incumbent D.

Elmer' Haw-baker, Reputilican, for state senator from the Thirty-Third District, will be Bruce W. Hockersmith Democrat. In the 90th district, John R. Stoner, ReDublican, and incumbent William 0. Shuman, Democrat, will vie for an assembly seat.

Electors will vote for president, vice president, and statewide, for state treasurer, audi A' I r'-'W, Cont. from Page I) have been given since the beginning of this month by state police here at the Good Will Fire Company. They are conducted at the same time as recular driver examinations. every Wednesday and Saturday between 9:30 a.m. and p.m.

Applications for motorcycle tests are available at the local state police substation or from the Department of Revenue. Safety and noise abatement are both furthered in the new regulations on motorcycle equipment. "Regulation of permissiable noise from the motorcycles should be welcome news to many citizens," remarked Warner M. Depuy, state secretary of revenue. Baffles, those plates inside the muffler of a motorcycle, may no longer be removed.

This law, prohibiting the re moval or latertion of baffle plates, also applies to sports cars, also frequent offenders, other motor vehicles. Out are the "ape hangers," those high handle bars frowned on by the majority of motorcycle enthusiasts, but popular with some of the show-off variety. Specifically, the law forbids operation of any motorcycle on the highways where the highest point of the handle (AP Wirephoto) THEY THINK THEIR ARTIFICIAL ARMS INTO ACTION Two amputees in Boston display artificial arms which can manipulate by thinking what they want to do. New device utilizes minute natural electric signals from muscles in arm strap. From left: Parker Rand 20, Bangor, Maine; tiudy Paquin, 59, Tiverton, R.

farmer who lost arm 20 years ago. Arm was joint project of Massachusettes General Hospital, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School and Lib-erty Mutual Insurance Co. I Two Constitutional party Jnembers will be on the Frsnk-lin County ballot at the Nov. 5 clwtion, it was revealed today. The ballot, certified by the state, includes the names of Herman D.

Beatty, R. R. 4, for election as representative to Congress in the Twelfth District, and Lowell W. Heefner, cf Fayettevills, for representative in the General Assembly, from the 89th District, both on tli 2 Constitutional ticket. Beatty will oopose incumbent J.

Irving Whalley, Republican, nd H. Richard Hostetler, Democrct, for the congressional pa4t. Heefner will run against R. Harry Bittle, Republican, incumbent, and Robert V. Cox, Democrat, for the state legislative seat.

Another purely county con test, includes no member of the thard party. Running against Weather Cont. from Page 1) uncontrolled weather tampering. Members of the group conu from Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. "1 am convinced that illegal seeding is going on and the damage is intolerable," Kinter testified.

Paul Hoke, of R. R. 1, St. Thomas, chairman of the Tri-State association, also testified. said, "The economic disaster of cloud seeding is easy to -prove." Farmers, mainly those in South Central Pennsylvania, 3iave complained that cloud Reding has caused a five-year drought that ruined crops in toe area.

Kawbaker encouraged the board to take immediate steps Ito investigate the charges of illegal cloud seeding activities. Rep. William 0. Shuman, D-i Greencastle, one of the first to testify Thursday, recommended 'that some money appropriated for airport construction through- xul the state be used instead for tracking down illegal cloud feeders. Much Accomplished Waynesboro attorney Roy S.

F. Angle, a member of modification board, said that Year's Projects Topic of Lions A discussion of projects to be considered during the coming year was-featured at a closed meeting of the Greencastle Lions Club Tuesday evening at the Family Restaurant. Richard Walck, of the community betterment committee, served as moderator for the discussion period. A report was presented by Earl Bodes on the Totem Pole Playhouse project promoted jointly with the Rotary Club in August. Bodes reported a total of 460 tickets sold by the club.

Reports on the horse show, to be sponsored with the Silver Star Saddle Club, were given by Roy F. Leckron, chairman of the program and publicity committee; Robert Goss, chairman of the grounds and parking committee, and Walck, chairman of the refreshment committee. The show will be held Saturday, Sept. 28, from 4 p.m. to midnight at the saddle club grounds, near Shady Grove.

Thirty-two members attended. Skating Area Idea Flops Plans to include an ice skating area at the King Playground wert tabled following a meeting of the board of directors of the association Wednesday evening at the Omwake Pavilion. The session was open to the public to discuss the possibility of adding the skating area to the facilities of the playground during the winter months. Only three persons appeared at the meeting, in addition to the five officers of the executive committee. Two estimates were presented on converting the tennis courts to a skating pond, but the project was tabled after it was decided there was a lack of interest shown in promoting the addition.

Biiis in the amount of $321.32 wrre paid. The next meeting will be held Oct 17 in the public assembly room of the First National Bank, at which time the annual meeting will be conducted. Church Speaker Capt. Charles L. McGaffery, serving with the juvenile division of the Bureau of Police in York, will speak at two services at the Antrim Brethren in Christ Church Sunday.

At 7 p.m. McGaffery will speak to the youth in the Christ's Crusaders hour, and at 8 p.m. will bring a message to adults. The Rev. Harvey B.

Musser is pastor. members of the Greencastle-Antrim Blue Devil Football Boosters Club for all home football games in a meeting Wednesday evening in the health room of the high school. The session was in charge of Lloyd T. McDonald, vice president. Assignments included Lloyd Rowe who will be in charge of parking; Richard Myers, who will be responsible for seeing that a physician is present at all home games, and an ambulance crew on duty; Thomas Pensinger will be in charge of arrangements for operation of the concession stand.

Films of last Saturday's football game were shown and narrated by coaches attending. The next meeting of the group will be held Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m., when films of this week's football game with Boonsboro will be shown. Town Personals Miss Rebecca Harrell, daughter of Mrs. Lois Harrell, 51 E.

Franklin has enrolled in Huntington College, Huntington, as a music student. Prior to enrollment at the school, Miss Harrell, accompanied by her mother, visited relatives in Canton, 111., and Avilla, Mrs. Harrell returned to her home Wednesday. Soldier Remains Critical Mr. and Mrs.

Benjamin Kauffman, of R. R. 1, Fayetteville, received a telegram this morning advising them that their son, Sgt. Terry L. Kauff-man, 23, wounded in action in Vietnam, remains in serious condition.

The telegram from Army Adjutant General Kenneth G. Wickham, noted that "Length of further hospitalization is undetermined avid evacuation is not contemplated at this time." Sgt. Kauffman was placed on the "very seriously ill list on Sept. 7 after being wounded on a combat mission with a hostile force in a firefight, receiving a gunshot wound of the abdomen. It was further noted in the telegram to his parents that the APO address where mail may be sent is changed to Hospital Section, APO 96381, San Francisco rotpmnJr RANGE SALE NO OVEN-CLEANING DRUDERYI BUY MOW AND SAVE GHEIbQfiiE) i' 'ITU t'J Li 'H Fall-width control panel Tight Automatic oven timing clock Timed 115-volt appliance outlet plus I easy-clean features you'll non-oer how you ever did without 1 lilil $050 Per Week No-drip cooktop pvts coGftJng surface below countertop, protects against messy spfis.

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Drip panscome out from under the hinged self-cleaning surface units, wash in sink. MODERN UOI Planners Study- 301 South Main St. tor general, judge of the su perior court, and U.a. senator. Besides the candidates of the maior parties for the two top national offices, the ballot will include the following names: George C.

Wallace and Marvin Griffin, on the American Inde pendent Party; Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle, Militant Workers, and Dick Gregory and Mark Lane, Peace and Free- dom Party. Board the public hearings accomplished much. "These people (witnesses) definitely showed that instead of being some kind of crackpots, to a great extent, they were level-headed people and most of them were very well educated. We had a factual presentation from a minister, college professors and public school teachers and they left the impres sion in everyone's mind that if weather modification isn't going on then there is some very strange phenominum happenings which should be investigated," Angk said. The federal government, whic is being accused of much of the weather modification activities in the four state area, according to Angle, keeps its cloud seeding activities classified, but "in one of their publications they had maps showing weather modification piojects and this area was pinpointed almost every year that weather modification had taken place," he added.

Angle said the board, through ground observers, radar, high speed planes, soil samples and state police investigations is going to so cover the area "so that we will finally be able to show what is being done." Lot survey for J. Richard Shatzer on Route 458, St. Thomas, held for more detailed information. Approved were two plans from St. Thomas which did not come under any local planning regu lations.

They were one lot of Frank S. Wingert on Route 420, to be conveyed to Ronald L. and Doris J. Snyder, and a four-lot subdivision for Rowe and Laura Sites. Passed favorably and forwarded without comment to local authorities were the following 12 plans: Six lots owned by White Rock, along Fairway Drive west of Penn National Estates.

Plan of land sold by Amos H. Hege and wife to Nibble wtith Gibbles, Inc. on Route 11, adjacent to Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, Antrim Township. Replotting of property of Charles A. and Peggy A.

Peter son, adding 50 feet to a present 100-foot lot along Route 28009, Greene Twp. Lot of Thadeus and Beulah Shoemaker along Route 514, Guilford Twp. Lot to be conveyed by Roy A. Shaffer to Marvin and Pauline Knouse, along Route 467, Guilford Twp. Four lot subdivision owned by Orville and Alice Niswander along Route 28006.

St. Thomas. Survey of lot of John Yohe, at intersection of Routes 997 and 401. Guilford Twp. Survey of lot for Samuel and Rhoda Mi'ler.

along Route 28039, Hamilton Twp. Resubdivision of ten lots owned by J. Harvey Gearhart, near or on Route 668, Washington Twp. 122 Voters Enroll A total of 122 voters were registered by Franklin County's special registration team in Fayetteville, as the deadline for registration, Monday, neared. Registered Thursday, were 46 Republicans, 67 Democrats, and 9 non-partisans.

Registration continues today until 9:30 p.m. at the courthouse, and until 9 p.m. on the square in Waynesboro. The courthouse will be open for registration from 8:30 to noon Saturday, and 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m.

Monday. J. ZEIGLER HESS J. Zeigler Hess, 70, of R. R.

3. Quarryville, died Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. at the Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital following a two-mcath illness. He was born in Lancaster County, a son of the late Con rad and Ada Sue Keen Hess. He was the husband of Clara E.

Brechbill Hess, a native of Franklin County, and has a number of relatives in the coun ty area. He was a retired farmer, in later years was a representa tive of the Southwestern Petro leum Co. He had served in the ministry for 20 years, was a member of the Refton Brethren in Christ Church, and a trustee of the Messiah Home, Harris- burg, for 35 years. In addition to his widow, he is survived by two sons and two daughters, Robert K. Hess and Henry both of R.

Quarryville; Miss Suie Naomi and Miss Verna Mae Hess, both at home; four grandchildren; two brothers and eight sisters: Miss Anna Hess, Harrisburg; Mrs. Alice Miller, Harrisburg; Abram, Lancas ter; Mrs. Ada Haagen, Lao- caster; a brother, Avery, Washington Boro; Mrs. Martha Byers, Millersville; Mrs. Em ma Wingert, Marion; Mrs.

Ruth Hoffman, Mrs. Beu lah Hostetter, Washington Boro, and Mrs Ida Byers, Chambers-burg. The funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Pequea Brethren in Christ Church, R. R.

2, Conestoga, Lancaster County, conducted by the Rev. W. Dale Allison and the Rev. Cyrus Lutz. Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church.

Friends may call at the Reynolds funeral home, Quarryville, from 7 to 9 this evening at the church one hour before the service on Saturday. Former Iky Residents Hold Reunion Slides of farming customs of Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Russia were shown by Samuel Musser of R. R. 3, Shippensburg, to the 78 attending the 18th annual reunion of former Letterkenny residents on Saturday at the Scotland Community Hall. Musser had visited those countries recently under the People to People program.

Prizes were awarded to Norman Slichter, Cleona, who came the longest distance; Barbara Eshelman, the youngest girl present; Wayne Clippinger, 204 Edward youngest "boy;" Mrs. Emma Myers Cormany, 88, of 357 McKinley oldest GEORGE F. ZEIGLER GREENCASTLE George Fredrick Zeigler, 58, of R. R. 3, died Thursday evening at Waynesboro Hospital.

He had suffered a heart attack at his home Sunday evening. Born in Antrim Township, near Greencastle, on Sept. 22, 1909, he was a son of Mrs. Ruth Gossard Zeigler, Greencastle, and the late Robert L. Zeigler.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church, State Line; a life member of the Rescue Hose a member of the Mt. Pisgah Lodge No. 443 the Harrisburg Consis tory, and the Zembo Shrine, of Harrisburg. He was a retired milk hauler and was last employed by the Antrim Township supervisors. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his widow, Mrs.

Thelma M. Eshleman Zeigler; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Stottiemyer, Williamsport, and Mrs. Harry Beyard, Ha-gerstown; a son, Clyde H. (Robert) Zeigler, Hagerstown; a brother, Jacob Zeigler, Greencastle, and three grandsons.

Tne funeral service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Zimmerman funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Walter H. Gable. Burial will be made in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. Masonic graveside servies will be conducted by Mt. Pisgah Lodge. MRS. RUSSELL S.

NEGLEY SHIPPENSBURG-Mrs. Ethel Florence Negley, 68. of 10 Hollar Ave died unexpectedly at 6:30 this morning at her home. Death was attributed to a heart attack. The widow of Russell Sheridan Negley, who died July 6, 1966, she was born at Newville Dec.

21, 1899, a daughter of the late Mervrci E. and Sallie A. Boyles Ployer. She was a member of the South Fairview Church of God, southeast of Shippensburg. Surviving are four sons and two daughters, Kenneth Eugene, Camp Hill; Mervin Edward, Chambersburg; Thomas Ell-wood, Shippensburg; Merle at home; Mrs.

Richard Hewitt, Enfield, and Mrs. Edgar W. Nehf, R. 3, Shippensburg. Twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive.

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the South Fairview Church of God conducted by the Rev. Lloyd Beir and the Rev. Eleanore Verico. Burial will be in Newville Cemetery.

Friends will be received at the Van Scyoc funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday. Diehl's TV and Radio Service Wayne Dlehl Star Route, Orrstown Phone 532-8585 Service od Magnavoa or any make TV Phone or Radi Let Bob Scott Give You A Free Estimate On Changing Your Home Over To Electric Heating Coat, from Page 1) Jtive director of fee Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, for further historical information before recommending possible use of the existing buildings. The new 160-bed facility on which bids were received this week is slated to go under construction in the fall. More than half the submitted subdivision plans passed commission approval without adverse comment, leading Reif to rote that the quality of plans submitted has been upgraded.

Not approved, because of a lack of specific information in the drawing, was a subdivision plan submitted by Harold Rife for 51 additional mobile home sates at "Rolling Acres," St. Thomas. The subdivision would adjoin the existing park on Township Route 465. Plans Reviewed Other plans reviewed with derogatory comment were: Two lots of Charles T. Golden on Black Gap Greene Township; does not comply with township regulations.

Two lots in Letterkenny Township along Route 28007, to be coveyed by Harry M. Zeek and Charles H. and Porine M. Parson to Roy and Beverly Sherman. One plot was held for further information, the other reviewed without comment.

Two lot subdivisions owned by David and Ruth Martin, along Route 496, Guilford Township, one to be conveyed to Rose Marie Goshom, one to be added to property of Robert end Ariene Pearl. Road right of way does not meet requirements of township regulations. Plan of 14 lots owned by Isaac Martin along a forest road near Route 995, Hamilton Township, with comment that township supervisors should satisfy themselves as to construction of ro3d in this development. Survey of land of Eva P. Eife at intersection of Routes 521 and 526, Greene Township.

In the event of future subdivision no parcel to be sold unless there is access to public roads. Lots of Reuben and Edith Daughtery on Routes 488 and JE02D, Guilford Township, with a similar comment that if lot I sold it should be given a public acceM. Call Bob today at Potomac Edison in Chambersburg. He'll gladly give you all the facts on changing to electric heat. 6 Potomac Edison Part of the Allegheny Power System R.

E. SCOTT Chambersburg woman, and M. Iran Rotz, 86, R. R. 2, oldest man.

W. W. Britton, Lemoyne, formerly of Chambersburg, e-sented the awards and spoke briefly. Paul Rife, R. R.

2, presided. Serving on the program committee were Paul Grove, Marion; Albert Miller, R. R. 3, and Robert Besore, Scotland. The 19th reunion will be held the first Saturday following Labor Day 1969, also at the Scotland Community Hall.

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