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PAGE SIX THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1985 FRESNO MALL WORKING WELL FOR SHOPPERS By STEPHEN SANGER FRESNO, Calif. (AP) One year ago (he City of Fresno, in a spectacular reply to the lure of suburban shopping centers, ripped out 10 blocks of its main downtown business street and put in a pedestrian mall. People wondered will it work? Today, busily waiting on customers who stroll in from the flowery, tree-shaded mail storekeepers are almost unani mous in answering that, yes it i working, fabulously well. PLANTS ONIONS About the only opposition has come from one shoe store owner who declines to give his rea sons lie planted onions in one (he ilowerbeds as a form of pro People In The News LOS ANGELES A Actor George Raft has been indicted on six charges of income tax evasion, U.S. Ally.

Manuel Real says. Raft was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury Los Angeles, the attorney says. Raft is accused of paying no taxes on $85,000 income from 1958 through 1963. Raft, 69. will be arraigned next Tuesdaj before U.S.

Judge Pier son M. Hall. NEW YORK A Bobby Downtown Fulton Street was noisy, dirty, clogged with cars and parking was a long-shot gamble. Today Hie S1.6-million, 10 block mall, financed by urban renewal and local funds, is a sprightly place. It invites strollers to relax and seems to put them in a buying mood.

PLEASANT AREA Splashing fountains, small watercourses, shaded benches and small protected play areas for the kids dot the entire stretch. Beds of flowers are kept in bloom, and $150,000 worth of modern statuary adds to the atmosphere. For those who tire of walking, there are pleasant, quiet electric carts, chauffer-driven ni 10 cents a ride. EASY A I Nearby parking is cheap or free, but still not entirely adequate. Tom Hoxie, executive director of the Downtown Association, a merchants group which cooperated closely in the planning, said, "The mall is fabulous.

It has beauty and utility." Some skeptics say it came too late to reverse the trend of a dying downtown, but concede it has at least halted the decay. SOME COMPLAINTS There still are complaints about parking being insufficient. Donald Pollard, deputy city manager, says the city recognizes the need and eight large parking garages are being built or planned, plus designs for a new freeway with easy access. Polard estimates Jie has conducted tours for 85 groups from other cities interested in similar projects. He said the mall has been a big factor in a record $42 mil- Fischer, 22.

U.S. chess champion, has won his third long-distance game in the Capablanca memorial tournament. The tournament is bein played in a a a but Fischei is cabling his moves from New York because the State Depart ment refused him a visa to visi Cuba. Tuesday night he defeatec Gueorghia D. Tringov oi Bui gana in 22 moves.

TAIPIH, Formosa (AP -Maj. Gen. James W. Wilson commander of the 13th U.S. Ah Force based in the Philippines inspected Chinese Nationalist ah- bases in Formosa today.

JUDGE WEIGHS EXTENSION QN By JACK LYNCH HARRISBURG (AP) The first bipartisan talks aimed at ending the legislative reapportionment stalemate began today, the last day for redistnct- ng under a state Supreme court order. Legislative leaders declined to speculate on the prospects of meeting the state court's midnight deadline for realignment of House and Senate districts under the U. S. Supreme Courts mandate of "one-man, one-vote." There was some indication, however, that lawmakers may lave another day or two before court decides whether to ake over the reapportionment problem. Chief Justice John C.

Bell Jr, ion invested downtown in the last two years more than during the previous 40 years. Actually, the mall is the exist- ng glamorous showpiece of a redevelopment program that nclude an 18-block block" and 2,000 outlying acres. The mall merchants treasure he words of a housewife, who said, "It makes me want to come downtown'to shop." JUST ARRIVED A Large Shipment of All Kinds of BASKETS WE HAVE THEN! Just Stop in and Look Around Gettysburg Hardware Store Paints Housewares Lawn Supplies Baltimore Street Gettysburg, Pa. This aerial view, made Aug. 31, shows the Allalin Glacier, white section from left to right, which buried many workers in avaianche at the Mattmark power project.

The avalanche struck shortly before dusk Aug 30 near Saas Fee, ski resort in southern Switzerland less than five miles from the Italian border. In foreground is the dam of Lake Marrmark, part of the power proiect. (AP Wire photo via cable from Zurich) Major Huynh Trung Hjeu kneels at microphone at Lap Vo, South Viet Nam, as he swears allegiance to "the great military fraternity" in its fight against the Viet Cong. The long-haired Buddhist war lord and his battalion abandoned bandit activities last February. They refused to pledge loyalty to Saigon, however, and came over to join the Americans against the Viet Cong.

(AP Wire- photo) aid Tuesday that he would take mdcr consideration a recommendation by Justice Michael A. Musmanno that the deadline )e extended. Although expressing disappointment at a he called the esislature's fair- ire to meet the deadline im- msed nearly a year ago, Bell aid. "We all recognise the seriousness of the situation and I will in a short time recommend to the court exactly what action we should take." FIRST REAL CONTEST The negotiations, arranged on Tuesday night by Republicans and Democrats in the House, marked the first formal contact on the over-all issue involving both Houses. The two parties had reached agreement on a Senate bill last week, but House Democrats on Tuesday added their own plan, now tied up in the Senate, to Druggist Has Hard Time With Spelling HARLAN.

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Scranton threatened last Friday to veto the Democratic House bill, calling it "tne result of machine politics at its worst." REWRITE BILL Senate i a on Monday rewrote the House bill to include defeated a proposed last week by House Republicans. House Democrats Tuesday night sought to offset the Republican strategy by combining the two plans and provisions harmful to individual Republi cans. They inserted amendments- that would pit another 14 publican incumbents 7 dis- tricts in the House and added Democratic territory to the dis trict ot Senate Albert' R. Pechan. JEFFERSON COUNTY Jefferson County would be taken out of Pechan's proposed 1 district, i also includes Indiana and Armstrong counties.

The new district would give him half of Westmoreland County as well. Among those who would be thrown together in the House a be Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Lee, Sullivan, and Alvin Bush, Ly com ing. Another Democratic amendment would throw all 50 Senate i im fnr r-Whnn I Fi ont rnu and Circu- i UP tor elCCHon Iation The Gettysburg Time. instead of the proposed O'BRIEN GIVES JOHNSON KEY LIAISON AIDE WASHINGTON A A technician of the political soft sell i lill the job Benjamin Franklin once held when Lawrence O'Brien becomes postmaster general. O'Brien goes before the Senale Post Oflice ami Civil Service Committee today for tjuestion- ing on his cabinet nomination announced Sunday by President Johnson.

The political implications of the appointment are not likely to he aired at the hearing. But everyone concerned knows that the freckled, red-haired O'Brien will be settling down in a post where he is likely to become chief political trouble shooter for the President. DUAL ROLE POSSIBLE It remains to be seen whether he later might succeed John M. Bailey as chairman of the Democratic National Committee a dual role tilled by some of his predecessors. O'Brien said that his first task will be to "learn something about the job of administering the Post Office Department with its intricate problems." He added with a grin: "I shall hope to retain what I have had since I wys a child, an active interest in politics." Whether it was so intended.

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