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Fire Damages Beauty Shop Storage Room Fire damaged a portion of the Gorki Beauty Shop, 134 S. Pittsfourg St. at 2:08 today. Breaking out in a storage room on the third floor, the flames worked their way up to the roof where it charred rafters at the rear of the building and broke out to eaves at the rear corner of the structure. The beauty shop is located at the old Veterans of Foreign Wars building.

Firemen said the blaze was confined to the third floor room and its immediate area. Several holes had to be cut out of plastered walls in three other rooms so firemen could get to the flames. Fighting the fire for approximately two hours, firemen reported most of the heavy smoke was also held in the third floor area, but some seeped into the lower portions of the building. A smoke ejector was set up for a time in the former Crawford Tea Room. Flames, however, did not break through the roof, firemen said.

Cause of the fire is still under investigation, no estimate of damage was made by firemen. Two pumpers and the aerial truck were sent to the scene. Winds Continued From Page 1 field, Fairchance and Hopwood areas being the areas hit the hardest. The utility spokesman expected all those whose power had been knocked out had their problems resolved by midnight Friday. By 7:30 p.m.

Friday approximately six transformers were still down. Winds knocked trees over power lines, causing many of the disruptions. A Bell Telephone Co. spokesman said about 100 drop lines--wires leading from main lines to homes--were knocked down. Calling in additional men, Bell hoped to have its problems ironed out by this morning.

Cattle Trapped Bullskin Township firemen freed six head of cattle trapped inside a bam that was blown over. The ban: was owned by J. C. Hixson. A mobile home at Pennsville, occupied by the James Shaner family, was pulled from its blocks, but no one was injured, according to Bullskin Township firemen.

Daniel Nicklow of Coolspring St Uniontown, lost a portion of the roof of his mobile home to the wind gusts and parts of roofs of Edgewood Manor Apartments, Uniontown were blown away. The porch and part of a roof on the Dairy Mart Store, on the Hopwood-Fairchance Road were lost to the gusts and two windows on the second floor of St. John's High School, Uniontown, were blown out. Local Incidents Winds also tore off a chimney on the Caruso home on Sixth Street and a mobile home owned by Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Miles was wrecked when a tree toppled on located on Rte. 119, near Worrell. Mrs. Miles, at home at the time, was not injured. Power in the Mt.

Joy region was also reported disrupted from about 10:35 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. Throughout the county firemen, policemen and utility repair crews were kept on the jump from one damage report to another as they struggled to prevent fires and injuries as well as make repairs and restore electrical as well as telephone services. PUC Approves Purchase Of Rocktand Gas Firm HARRISBURG (VPl) Roekland Natural Gas Franklin, Friday got Public Utility Commission approval to buy Etzel Gas Venango Countv, for $75,090. Etzel serves 175 customers in Richland and Rockland Twps.

and sells gas wholesale to North Penn Gas Port Allegheny. Qlmtrar tin- SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1975 PAGE NINE Susan Hayward, Veteran Film Star, Dies in Calif. Four New Fayette Deputy Coroners of Courthouse Four new Fayette County deputy coroners were sworn-in Friday at the Fayette County Courthouse in Uniontown. The four new deputy coroners (from left) are Douglas Clyde King, Raymond J. McGee, Vito C.

Martucci and L. John Powell. Looking on W. Ralston McGee M.D., Fayette County coroner, and Fayette County Judge Fred C. Adams.

King is responsible for Saltlick and Springfield Townships. Powell will be deputy coroner for Bullskin and Connellsville Township. Martucci is responsible for Connellsville and South Connellsville and McGee for North Union Township. King is the owner of King Funeral Home in Indian Head. Martucci and his wife, the former Jean Hillen are the owners of Martucci Funeral Home at 123 South First St.

in Connellsville, Powell and his wife, the former Laura Kay Quertinmont, are owners of L. John Powell Funeral Home at 508 South Pittsburg St. in Connellsville. McGee is a partner in the McGee-Oats Funeral Home at 71 Pennsylvania Ave. in Uniontown.

(Courier Photo) County Court Frees Scottdale Man of Charges Paul H. Mathias of Scottdale was declared innocent of all charges brought against him recently in connection with the alleged taking and selling of merchandise from Potter-McCune Company. He was found not guilty of charges of criminal conspiracy and theft by unlawful taking by Fayette County Court in a trial before Judge Richard D. Cicchetti. Two other men arrested in connection with the case are yet to be tried.

Prosecutors charged the two men yet to be tried shipped food valued at $40,000 during a six-month period to the Uniontown outlet of Potter-McCune, The men worked at the Potter-McCune warehouse in McKeesport. The prosecutors said Paul Mathias, who was the manager of Potter-McCune Cash and Carry outlet in Uniontown, sold the food through the wholesale outlet he managed- Two Vehicles Collide At Local Intersection Damages totaled approximately $225 to two autos when they collided at the Locust and Olive Streets intersection at 4:15 p.m. Friday. Connellsville city police reported a car, operated by F. Burnsworth, 53, of 201 Campbell Ave.

was headed north on Olive Street anc! an auto driven by Nancy Clelland, 33, of 223 Swan was headed east on Locust Street when they collided at the intersection. There were no in-' juries, police reported. Registration At Two Places Fayette County residents and 18 and 19- year-old students may register to vote from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 17 in Perryopolis Borough building; from 9 to 11 a.m. at Frazier High School, Perryopolis; and from 10 a.m.

to noon at Connellsville Area High School on Falcon Drive. Hospitals Directory Connellsville Admitted to Connellsville State General Hospital were Kelly Clark of South Connellsville, John Whalen Jr. of 1020 Blair Mrs. Patricia Jenjosi of Dunbar, Arthur Wilkins of 310 E. Fayette St and Mrs.

Elsie Ohler of S. Prospect St Discharged were Steve Striker, Orville Weaver, Mrs. Lilly Peck, David Rankin, Mrs. Marie Lohr, Mrs. Helen Tomasko and Angela Capo.

BIRTH A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Morrison of OhippyJe at 10:10 a.m. Friday in Connellsville State General Hospital. Mount Pleasant Admitted to Frick Community Hospital were Mrs.

landa J. Miller of Stahlstown, Mrs. Florence Stiltenpole of 20 Pearl Scottdale, Eugenia Utzurrum of Cockeysville, Wade Faust of Champion, Mrs. Ethel Baker of Connellsville, Jimmi Koontz of 409 E. Cottage ConnelJs- ville, Mrs.

Aiverda Shultz of Normalville, R. D. and Mrs. Merrietta Laws of Normalville, R. D.

1. Discharged were Mrs. Bonnie Laws and daughter of 708 S. Pittsburg St, Connellsville, Mrs. Janet Saffer and daughter of Latrobe, R.

D. 3, Kenneth Geary of Dawson, R. D. 1, Dena Sweitzer of Mount Pleasant, R. D.

2, Mrs. Ann Shume of Armbrust, Mrs. Charlotte Bryner ot Normalville, R. D. 1, Douglas Sbebeck of 661 N.

Geary Mrs. Olive Wood of 129 Yoder Mrs. Ruth Ann Buschel of Alverton, Mrs. Effie Golden of Dawson, R. D.

1, David Kieta of 106 W. Morton Connellsville, Jennifer Reese of Scottdale. R. D. 1, Mrs.

Dorothy Kirnmel of 129 Pittsburg Scottdale, Tina Blinker of 22 Newman St, Scottdale, and Evelyn Shaffer of Connellsville, R. D. 1. BIRTH A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.

larry Bowser of 621 Brown St, Everson, at 5:51 p.m. Friday in Frick Community Hospital. Uniontown Discharged from Uniontown Hospital were Dorothy Avery, Delia Benucci, Mrs. Dianne Beveleque and daughter, Jean Brownfield, Helen Cerjanec, Catherine Corrado, Mary Elias, Cynthia Evans, Wessie Gleason, Mrs. Jacqueline Glover and daughter, Gmutza, I Green, James Grimes, Mrs.

Mary Haragos and daughter, Joseph Kuritz, John Marsol, Carl May, Chrysta Neff, Eric Reckner, Georgia Reeves, Angela Scotto, Delia Seaman, Mary Shimko, Mildred Swaney, Mrs. Emma Tarpley and son, Wendell Weaver, Ruth Yoder, Baby Boy Bankhead, Margaret Marcinko, Annabelle Dufour and Mrs. Linda Bennett and son. Kidnaped Coed Accuses BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. tUPI) Susan Hayward's life was often as rocky as the film roles she played.

She knew long before her death that the end was near. The red-haired actress of the 1940s and 1950s, one of the screen's great beauties, died of a brain tumor Friday. She was 56. Like the character she portrayed in her 1968 Oscar-winning role, a woman condemned to the gas chamber who could see her death approaching day by day, Miss Hayward knew she was terminally ill for at least two years. "She knew what she had and she knew she was going to die," said her physician, Dr.

Lee SiegeL So did most of Hollywood, for some time. Miss Hayward, who often played women who were tough on the outside to shield an inner fragility, won the Academy Award for best actress of 1958 for her portrayal of Barbara Graham, a Obituaries STANI.EVA nilTV By LINDA THRANE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) In a sworn affadavit read in court Friday, a college coed said she was kidnaped and held for three weeks in an apparent experiment to brainwash her into falling in love. Two suspects charged wish kidnaping in connection with the incident appeared before a federal magistrate here while Susan Wells Cochran, 20, a junior art major from Little Fails, N.J., was reunited with her family in West Lafayette, Ind. Assistant U.S.

Attorney Thor Anderson said the coed, found Thursday in Marshall, by the FBI, was subjected to "some embarrassment" that included disrobing- However, he said there was no evidence she was raped. Bail was set at $50 000 for Thomas Lippert, 25, an assistant professor of business administration at Southwest State College in Marshall, and $10,000 for Harold Ross Tenneson, 21, a Southwest State student. Magistrate J. Earl Cudd set a preliminary hearing for next Friday. The two men, taken into custody Thursday night, are accused of offering to give Miss Cochran a ride to visit her boyfriend in Boston and instead taking her to Minnesota, where she was held captive in New Ulm and Marshall from Feb.

19 until last Thursday. Anderson termed the incident an apparent "experiment in love" in which the men planned to use electrical shocks and "all kinds of mechanical to brainwash Miss Cochran into falling in love with Lippert. "That didn't get very far," he said. Miss Cochran said the men pulled onto a side road 30 miles out of Lafayette, pulled out weapons and told her they wanted to use her for brainwashing experiments that would take several weeks. She told the FBI she was then forced to drink whisky until she passed out.

Miss Cochran said she was first taken to a home in New Ulm that Lippert said belonged to his parents. At one point while there she was forced to undress and then was wrapped in a cloth, strapped to a board and placed in what Anderson described as a "big black box" for about an hour. The young woman told the FBI she was "not under physical restraint but afraid to run away because Lippert had threatened to harm her family and boyfriend." Floods Drive Many People School Calendar From Homes Change Is Noted A change in Southmoreland School District's calendar, for the remainder of the year, has been announced by Dr. John E. McElhoes, district superintendent.

Dr. McElhoes said there will be no school Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 28. This will necessitate extending tbe school year two days into the second week of June, with the tentative last day of school set for June 10. There will be school on Monday, March 31, he said. The extension, McElhoes said, was necessitated by the lack of a provision for make up time due to inclement weather and emergency time loss.

The change in calendar was made at the request of the Southmoreland Education Association. New Time Slated For Counseling Timothy A. Landrin of the Mental Health-Mental Retardation Clinic, will be available at the Fayette County Association for Retarded Citizens' Chapter office at a new time. Landrin will be at the Chapter office, 66 tebanon Uniontown, between 1 and 4:30 p.m. Mondays.

He was previously available between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, Thursdays, It is hoped that this change of time will accommodate more persons and generate more interest in this service- Services offered include counseling. referrals, information regarding children's and adults' services available to the mentally retarded citizens of Fayette County. Persons may stop in at the chapter office or telephone. On other days of the week Landrin may be contacted at the MH-MR Clinic.

Revival Services At Fairview Church MOUNT PLEASANT-Revival services will be held at Fairview Church of God of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 5 (near Kecksburg) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, through Sunday, March 23. Special music will be provided.

Host pastor is the Rev. Thomas Slass. By United Press International Flooding rivers drove thousands of persons from lowland homes from Arkansas to South Carolina Friday, and a siring of tornadoes injured at least 17 persons in North Carolina. However, many flood victims began returning to their homes Friday night and today- Torrential rains --more ihan 10 inches in Alabama and nine inches in South Carolina --sent fioodwaters coursing through southern lowlands and Appalachian mountain valleys Friday. In parts of eastern Kentucky the flooding was the worst in history, and at least 330 homes were evacuated near Barbourvflle and Bowling Green.

About 50 highways were under water, many bridges were washed oat and schools closed. "We have water up to the roofs in the lower areas," Knox County rescue squad officer Bill Burke said. "You have to see it to believe it." Tornadoes struck in Kinston and Washington, N.C., Friday, smashing mobile homes and damaging dozens of other homes, businesses and tobacco barns. Ai least 17 persons were injured by the twisters. National Guardsmen were thrown into the battle against floods in West Virginia and hundreds of families fled from wind- whipped water off Lake Erie in southeastern Michigan.

In Alabama today, the Black Warrior River was more than four feet below the 58-foot flood crest at Tuscaloosa. However, Civil Defense officials said flooding kept at least 10 families from returning home. "The sun's shining and it looks beautiful." said Richard M. Pierce, deputy Civil Defense director at Tuscaloosa. "But we still have 10 to 12 families evacuated from their homes in the Moody Swamp area south of the city.

It'll probably be two more days before they can go back." Dog License On Sale SCOTTDAIJC Westmoreland County Treasurer Andrew Kritsky announced Friday dog licenses will be on sale at the borough building here from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday. STANLEY A. GUZY Stanley A.

Guzy, 60, of 230 Quarry Mount Pleasant, died Friday morning in Frick Community Hospital, Mount Pleasant. He was born Feb. 10, 1915, in Mount Pleasant, a son of the late Joseph and Antonia Rafacz Guzy. He was a veteran of World War and was employed by Westinghouse, East Pittsburgh. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Florence Valentovish Guzy; one son, David of San Francisco, one daughter, Donna, at home; five brothers, John and Michael, both of Mount Pleasant, Andrew of New Stanton, Jacob and Walter, both of Uniontown; four sisters, Mrs. Nellie Sroka of Uniontown, Mrs. Anna Opelar and Mrs. Alice Krincius, both of Chicago, and Mrs. Violet Scuri of Greensburg.

He was predeceased by one brother, Joseph, in 1965, and one sister, Mrs. John Burkes, in 1961. MRS. RAYMOND R. STUCK Mrs.

Martha C. Stuck, 61, of Perryopolis, died at 7:25 a.m. Friday in Frick Community Hospital, Mount Pieasant. She was bom Sept. 23, 1913, in Rostraver Township, a daughter of the late Walter and Meryl Branthoover Jobes.

She was a member of Perryopolis United Methodist Church. Perryopolis Flower Club and Perryopolis Historical Society. She is survived by her husband, Raymond R. Stuck; two daughters, Carol Ann Stuck of Pittsburgh and Mrs. J.

Robert (Burnetta) Patterson of Belle Vernon, R. D. three sisters and one brother all of Belle Vernon, R. D. Mrs.

Andrew fMary) White, Mrs. Blaire (Ethel Mae) Beaumont, Mrs. William (Louella) Presky, and James Jobes. CHARLES E. RANDALL Charles E.

Randall, 83, of Johnson Avenue, died Friday afternoon at the Golden Age Nursing Home, Brownsville. He was born July 23,1891, in Connellsville, a son of the late William and Amelia Hosteller Randall. He was a retired 0 Railroad engineer, and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Gloria Smith and one grandson, Randall C.

Smith, whom he reared, both of Connellsville: one brother, Harry of Melcroft; and two sisters, Mrs. Edith Laugherty of Connellsville and Mrs. Grace Napwosky of Windber. He was predeceased by his wife, Violet Schachte Randall. MRS.

ALBERT DELL Mrs. Lucy Jane DeD, 50, of New Stanton, R. D. 1, died Friday in Frick Community Hospital, Mount Pleasant She was horn Oct. 13, 1924, in Middle Churches, a daughter of the late Rev.

Harry and Eva Patton Clawson. She was a member of the St. Mark's Lutheran Church, New Stanton, and she taught Sunday school and was a member of the Lutheran Church Women (I.C.W.) of that church. Surviving are her husband, Albert A. Dell; four sons, Albert H.

Dell of Slippery Rock College, David Robert W. and John P. Dell all at home: and two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Hipkiss of Connellsville and Mrs. Dorothy Clawson of Pittsburgh.

MRS. ESTHER BAKER Mrs. Esther Trout Baker, 70, of 1920 St. Clair Greensburg, died Friday evening in Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg. She was born March 4, 1905, in Mount Pleasant Township, a daughter of the late Edward G.

and Anna Fisher Trout She was a member of the First Church of God, Greensburg. Surviving are one brother. George E. Trout of Mount Pleasant, R. D.

4, and a number of nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, William Waldo Baker, in 1971. murderess sentenced to the gas chamber, in "I Want to Live." She appeared in more than 50 movies and won Oscar nominations for performances in "Smashup," "My Foolish Heart," "Tap a Song in My Heart," and her role as an alcoholic- singer in "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Born Edyth Marrer.er on June 18 in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a model in New York until her photo was noticed in a magazine by producer David 0. Selznick, who brought her to Hollywood for a screen test. She didn't get the role, but stayed on and first appeared in "Girls on Probation," in 1938, beginning her long string of portrayals of women on ihc rocky side of life.

In 1939 she appeared opposite Gan Cooper in "Beau Geste." which gave her career its real start. In 1944 she married actor Jess Barker, by whom she had twin sons, and divorced him in 1953. In 1955, at the height of her career, she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was saved by police who kicked in the door of her home in response to a telephone call from the actress' mother The attempt was blamed on tensions between her and Barker. A year later she made headlines following a brawl with starlet Jil Jarmyn in the bedroom of actor Donald Barry.

Police found Miss Hayward wearing Barry's pajamas. In 1957 she turned away from the movies, marrying Southern attorney and businessman Eaton Chalkley, former FBI agent. They lived on a farm in Carrollton. moving later to Washington, D.C., and Ft Lauderdale, where Chalkley died in 1966. In 1969, illness forced her out of the starring roler in "Mame" in Las Vegas.

She had appeared in "Where Love Has Gone" and other films in occasional acting jobs during her marriage, and in 1971 played opposite William Holden in "The Revengers." Later that year she made a pilot for "Sullivan and Pride," a projected television series featuring a woman lawyer. The tumor was discovered during the Christmas holidays in 1973, her doctor said. She had been in and out of hospitals in Georgia and Southpm California ever since. IOOF Meeting Set General Worth Lodge No. 386 IOOF will meet at 7:30 p.m.

today in the lodge building. Initiatory degree work will be presented on candidates. All members are urged to attend. Funeral Notice BARER-- Friends of Mrs Esther Trout Baker of Greensburg who died Friday. March :4.

1975. will be ed from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 after 7 p.m. Saturday in the James P. Gaut Funeral Home. Pleasant Unity, where services will be held at 1:30 Monday with the Rev.

Robert H. Morrison officiating fnterment will follow in Fairview Cemetery, near Kecksburg. DELI Friends of Mrs. Lucy Jane Dell of New Stanton, D. 1.

who died Friday. March 14. 1875. will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to and 7 to 9 Sunday in the Richard McCauley Funeral Home.

Youngwood. where services will be held at 11 a Monday in St Mark's Lutheran Church with the Rev Paul! E. Spring officiating Interment will be in Westmoreland County Memorial Pirk. GUZY-- Friends of Stanley A. Guzy of Mount Pleasant who died Friday.

March M. 1375. will be received after 2 today in the Meagher Funeral Home. Mount Pleaar.i. where a prayer service will be held at 9 -30 a Monday followed by a mass of Christian bunal at 10 a.m.

in the Transfiguration Church with the Rev. Stanislaus Jasioneh officiating Interment will be in the church cemetery Friends of Mrs. Kathryr. Hunt of ConnellsvUle who died Wednesday. March 12.

1975 will be received in the Paul Kink Funeral Home. Connellsville. and until 9 a Monday when a blessing service will be held followed by a funeral mass at a.m in the Immaculate Conception Church with interment in St Joseph's A be nr SuV.day -tv fur.ern! nome MARTIN-- Friends of Mrs Irma Mart.n of Pcrrjopolis. who died Thursday, March IZ. 1975.

wii! be received from 12 noon unfcl 2 TI ttw hour service ir. the Funeral Home. Perryopoiis. the Rev Alney Diche-sor and LV Rev Samuel N' Harper officiating interment in Mourt Oe-nclery Friends of Charles E. Randall of Connellsville who died Friday.

Marcn M. 1975, will be received after7 today in tne Paai G. Funera 1 Home. ConnellsvUle. unal 1 p.m.

Mondav. the Sour of service, with the Rev. B. Frank Ciampa officiating Interment will be in Green Rifige Memorial Park In lieu of flowers. Ute family "request? contributions be sen! li the Otterbeiri rmted Methodist Church STEVOSON-Knenas of Mrs Emma Stevenson of Avo T-eechburg.

Pa who died Friday. March it. 1975 may call at the Dean Cline Funeral Home. 260 Market St. Leechburp.

from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 m. today Services be thf 1 Sunday with her pastor, the Rev Hough officiatine. Interment will be in IN Scoitdale Cemetery. STVCK-- Friends of Mrs Raymond (Martha Stuck of Perrvopolis who died Friday. March 14.

1973. Mount Pieasant. maj cali at the Blair-Low Un-r Funeral Homo Perryopolis. from" to9p m. today.

2 4 and 7 toSp.m Sunday where the funeral service wl'l bo held at i a Monday with aio Rev Charlos Fowler officiating Burial i be in Olive Branch Cemetpr. Bollo Verr.cn. 3.

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