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Qlmtrar fo. 4f nt (imttiw tlLy MONDAY, JUNE 23,1975 PAGE ELEVEN Execution Delay Won By RAYMOND WILKINSON NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Ugandan President Idi Amin has postponed the execution of an English lecturer after two British army officers reportedly ap- "on their knees" with an appeal from Queen Elizabeth n. Radio Uganda said Amin decided to delay today's execution of Dennis Hills following a bizarre meeting with two of his former commanders in the old King's African Rifles. The radio, in a broadcast monitored in Nairobi, said Lt. Gen.

Sir Chandos Blair and Iain Grahame, went to the president's home with an appeal from Queen Elizabeth. "The two guests entered the general's house on their knees," the radio said. The broadcast said Amin showered the two British officers with gifts, including traditional spears, bows and arrows, after Mammoth Park Concert Site MOUNT PLEASANT--A pops concert, presented by the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra will be held at 4 pjn. Sunday, June 29, at Mammoth Park, Mount Pleasant Township. Under the direction of Carl lezzi, the program will include musical selections "Fiddler on the Roof, Holiday for Strings, Overture to Thieving Magpie, Sabre Dance, English Folk Song Jim Croce in Concert and America the Beautiful." Music for the event is being provided in part by a grant from the Music Performance Trust Fund, a public service -organization created and financed by the industries under agreement with the American Federation of Musicians.

Westmoreland County Department of. Parks and Recreation announced the concert is open to the public and is free of charge. WCCC Offers RN Refresher YOUNGWOOD--Westmoreland County Community College will offer county residents an R.N. Nursing Refresher course beginning at 9 a.m. July 7 and continuing daily for five weeks.

The course is designed to provide instruction and practice for inactive registered nurses. Included in the refresher course will be up-dating in pharmacology and medical-surgical nursing, the role of the registered nurse today, trends in legislation, the nursing process, communication skills and practice in clinical laboratory sessions. Certificates will te awarded to those completing the course. Registration is limited to twenty persons on a first-come, first-served basis. Those interested in registering may contact the Continuing Education Division of WCCC.

making them kneel. The too officers commanded Amin when he was a sergeant in the King's African Rifles. Britain ruled Uganda before the central African nation achieved independence in 1962. The radio said Amin issued a temporary stay in the execution of the 61- year-old lecturer and called a meeting of Uganda's Defense Council to make a "final decision." Western diplomatic sources said it was virtually certain the council would endorse Amin's decision to spare the life of Hills, who had been convicted of treason. The lecturer had been sentenced to die by firing squad for referring to Amin in an unpublished manuscript as a "village tyrant" "Hills will not be executed Monday because of the personal letter I received from the queen and my regard for the queen," the radio quoted Amin as saying.

The broadcast said Amin would send his -own emissary to London to meet with Queen Elizabeth. "The queen will have no problems with me," he was quoted as saying. But Amin insisted that British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan or Prime Minister Harold Wilson fly to Uganda to discuss the "political aspects" of the case. Callaghan has offered to fly to Uganda but "not under duress." Amin had made six demands for Hills' life. They included the expulsion of all Ugandan refugees from Britain and the supply of spare parts for Ugandan military vehicles.

Art Museum Exhibition Set GREENSBURG Westmoreland County Museum of Art will sponsor an exhibition and sale of original graphic art by contemporary and old master artists. The show is being arranged by the Ferdinand Roten Galleries of Baltimore, Md. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, in the museum's auditorium.

Included in the exhibition will be 1,000 original etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts by such artists as Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Dali, Goya, Renoir, Kollwitz and many others including American and European as well as Japanese printmakers. A representative of the Roten Galleries' wiD be present at the exhibition to answer questions about the various displays. The public may attend. Additional Plans Formed for Program SCOTTDALE--Women's Garden Club will donate surprise gift as a door prize for a program at the Free Public Library here. The event is a program about operation of the local Post Office to be presented by Postmaster Glenn McKee.

It will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the library. The public may attend. Borough Transforms Lot for Parking This is Mount Pleasant's newest parking lot. Located on borough-owned property on the west side of Kennedy Avenue, the lot will provide free parking for 150 to 180 cars.

Mayor William Potoka said the lot was readied in response to borough resident's complaints about unmetered parking, especially on West Main and on Eagle Street. Potoka said drivers sometimes park their cars in the free spaces and continue on to out-of- borough destinations in car pools. Cards providing information on the new lot will be placed on autos in the critical areas next week by borough police. Police will also patrol the new lot regularly. Potoka said the borough will contact area bus lines to encourage them to make the Kennedy Avenue lot a regular stop.

The area, on the recommendation of Councilmen Ernest Dolan and Sam Pezzillo, has already been graded and will be rolled. It is expected to be ready for use sometime next week. U.S. Recession Over, Employment Will Rise WASHINGTON (UPI) The President's top economic adviser reports the recession "for all practical purposes" is over and predicts unemployment figures will begin dropping gradually after the summer. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Sunday unemployment should fall to about 8.5 per cent by January and 7.5 per cent by the end of 1976.

This still would be unacceptably high, he said, but recovery must proceed slowly to avoid more inflation "The recession for all practical purposes is over," Greenspan said in a broadcast interview (CBS-TV: Face the Nation). "I don't think we have yet started into the next phase, which I would consider an upswing, but clearly that is the area into which we are basically moving." Greenspan said the economy was "slightly ahead of what I otherwise would have expected it to be at this point," He said he thought possible oil pnce increases would have only a marginal affect on the recovery at this stage. He said June unemployment figures would show a decline from the 9.2 per cent level of May, primarily for complex statistical reasons. "Qualitatively, the level is still going to be considered exceptionally high, and it's unlikely it will be going down pronouncedly until well after the summer," he said. Greenspan said the odds were "close to 50-50" the May unemployment rate might represent the peak.

He said "the most dangerous potential force to upend this recovery" would be "letting our financial forces get out of control." He warned against large federal budget deficits and "overexpansion of the money supply" that could result in temporary improvement of the unemployment picture at the cost of renewed inflation and another recession in 1977. 'Nobel Prize winner Fnednch A. von Probers Investigating Proof of CIA Murders WASHINGTON (UPI) Every day, someone is charging the CIA with, or defending it from some, real or alleged misdeed. In the past two days, a newspaper has reported the Rockefeller Commission deleted information about Soviet eavesdropping on Americans, Sen. William Proxmire, denounced proposals to abolish the CIA and CIA director William Colby admitted he goofed by not telling the White House about an internal investigation and thsn destroying the files on Tod'ay, McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was to testify before the Senate committee investigating the CIA.

Past and current revelations about CIA "dirty tricks" in conducting a secret war, attempting to subvert foreign governments and spying on American citizens at home still have not answered whether the agency engaged in the dirtiest trick of them all --murder. But Senate CIA committee chairman Frank Church, D-Idaho, seems to have no doubt of the outcome. "The CIA was involved in murder plots, murder attempts, assassinations, if you would," he said. "I know the facts." These claims have spilled out atop evidence the CIA was involved in a secret war in Laos between 1966 and 1972, a coup in South Vietnam in 1963 and an effort to subvert the internal politics of Chile in 1973. Knowledgeable sources say the most serious evidence of CIA assassination plots involves a variety of attempts to eliminate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.

Sen. George McGovern, reported on his return from a recent visit to Havana that Castro claims to have proof of more than 100 attempts on his life, some involving the CIA. Castro promised to forward the proof, and McGovern has said he would pass it along to the committee. The committee has summoned John Roselli, a reputed underworld figure, to testify next week about an alleged attempt in 1961 to poison Castro, his brother Raul and their cohort Che Guevara with a slow-acting compound. The plot was said to have been formulated during the latter half of 1960 in the Eisenhower administration.

Punctuating the Senate investigation was Thursday's slaying of Chicago syndicate chief Sam Giancana after published reports linked him and Roselli to an anti-Castro plot Those reports indicated the Senate committee was interested in interviewing Giancana. Colby, who previously admitted to a House subcommittee while the U.S. government was denying any involvment --that the CIA spent $11 million to influence Chilean politics, made another concession this weekend. He told the Washington Post Sunday the agency undertook its own, sketchy, investigation of past misdeeds in 1973 and did not tell the White House or Justice Department of the findings. In addition, he said, he ordered the files destroyed.

"Even before 1973 people had been burning up collections of files that we really had no business owning. This is the natural process of any bureaucracy," he said. "This one does embarrass me a bit." Hayek, in a separate television interview (NBC: Meet The Press), agreed. "The slower the recovery is the better the chances that it will last." He said the only way to cure inflation is Two Arrested In Shrub Theft MOUNT PLEASANT-Two local men were arrested for the theft of shrubs from Kepler's Garden Center on Rte. 119, New Stanton.

State Police at Troop A Headquarters, Greensburg, said John Sleva, 24, of 77 Standpipe Alley, and Mark Pinskey, 21, of Mount arraigned before District Magistrate Ernest Johnson of Youngwood. They were released on their own recognizance. State Police also reported the capture of Marvin Henry Anderson, 23, Aliquippa, Saturday. Anderson failed to return from a work release detail at the State Regional Correctional Facility No. Five, Greensburg June 8.

He was returned to the facility in lieu of $10,000 bond. State Police arrested Lawrence 0. Brown, 22, of Scottdale, Friday, on a charge of aggravated assault Brown is accused of beating his son, Lawrence E. Brown, aged 17 months, according to police. Brown was arraigned before District Magistrate Michael G.

Moschetti of Greensburg. Brown was taken to the Washington County Jail, police said. Police reported the infant was taken to Frick Community Hospital Friday. A hospital spokesman said the infant was admitted and was released today. Mt.

Pleasant Man Not Hurt MOUNT PLEASANT--A local man escaped injury in a two-car accident at New Stanton at 3:10 p.m. Saturday. James Allen Wagener, 19, of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 2, and Norman C.

Unas, 37, of Irwin, R. D. 6, were not hurt when their autos collided at the intersection of Rte. 119 and Leg. Rte.

64110, according to State Police at Troop A Headquarters, Greensburg. Police estimated damage to each car at $1,000. State Police also reported a hit-and-run incident in South Huntingdon Township involving two Smithton men at 10:20 p.m. Saturday. An auto operated by Lloyd L.

Stout, struck a vehicle driven by Andrew Tylka, State Police said. The mishap took place on Leg. Rte. 54170 wbont one-half mile north of Smithton. Stoat was charged in the incident police said.

Police estimated damage at $200 to Stout's car and $700 to Tyfta's. No Injuries In Two Car Mishap Sunday MOUNT PLEASANT--Borough police reported autos driven by Patrick Emmanuel Hribal, 20, of 317 S. Diamond and Joetta G. Hunter, 22, of Mount Pleasant, D. 4, collided at the intersection of Smithfield and North Church Streets at 9:32 p.m.

Sunday. Police said no injuries occurred and damage to the vehicles was minor. to "stop printing money" and added: to achieve a relative stable position you may have to go through a period of unemployment which may well last more than a year." Von Hayek said he was unsure how high unemployment would have to go to achieve this. "I would have to know much more about specific conditions," he said. "But it would not exclude a temporary rise to 13 (or) 14 per cent or something of this sort." Asked if the American economy could stand such an unemployment increase, he said, "For a few months, certainly." Tax Change Target By DON PHILLIPS WASHINGTON (UPI) Toe Hotjse Ways and Means Committee has decided to tackle several complicated areas in a tax reform proposal that would make the first major permanent changes since 1969.

Hearings begin on the House bill today. Committee chairman Al Ullman, is aiming for a first draft by September and House action the following month, leaving two months for Senate action. It may be an impossible timetable. The committee decided last week to venture into the sensitive and highly complicated area of tax breaks to stimulate new capital investment for business. The agenda also includes taxation of capital gains and losses.

One of the mam issues will be whether the lower income tax withholding rates now enjoyed by most Americans will continue into 1976. Unless extended, the recession-fighting tax cuts passed earlier this year will expire. The major hearings will be July 8 and 9 when Treasury Secretary William Simon outlines the administration's proposals. The first round of hearings today and Tuesday will present tax experts, whose testimony will be designed mainly to educate new committee members on the complicated questions they face. In addition to the withholding and capital investment questions, the rest of the committee's agenda includes: --A tougher minimum tax on the wealthy.

--Studies of tax shelters, including real estate, farm and intangible drilling expenses. Various individual tax breaks including deductions for child care, alimony, business use of the home, vacation home rental, conventions and conferences outside the United States, retirement income credit, state and local gasoline taxes and medical expenses. --Numerous provisions for taxing the foreign income of Americans. Administrative changes such as regulation of income tax preparers. Pet Contest Judging SCOTTDALE Judging for a pet contest here, sponsored by the Free Public Library will be held at 8 p.m.

Monday, June 30. A spokesman for the library said many entries have been received to date. The cut-off date for entries is June 28. Hospitals Directory Connellsvills Admitted to Connellsvdle State General Hospital were April Stockton of Dunbar, Charles Carey of West Brownsville, Mrs. Shirley Cornell of 113 Fury Stephanie Koshiar of Ruffsdale, R.

D. 1, Mrs. Jean Bentz of 500 Grant Scottdale, Theresa Sellong of 328 Gallatui Uniontown, Clarence Wallace of 200 S. 12th Mrs. Annabelle Soltis of 501 S.

Arch, Mrs. Amelia Lessick of 163 Van Drive, Mrs. Kathryn Machinia of Leisenring, Samuel Fornwalt of 1411 Cambria Ave. and Armor Reeds of 1226 Chestnut St. Discharged were Mrs.

Dorothy Crawford, Mrs. Lola Hardy and son, Mrs. Theresa Curry, Mrs. Judith Mascioli and daughter, Warren Boone, Jesse Shipley, Warren Witt, Edward Cope, Mrs. Clara Smith, Michael Helinsky, Mrs.

Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Karen Riser and daughter, Mrs. Jennie Schroyer, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Miller. Births Babies born at Connellsville State General Hospital were: A daughter to Mr.

and Mrs. David Harshman of 407 Jefferson St. at 12:55 p.m. Sunday. A son to Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Cochrane Jr. of 177 S. Mount Vemon Uniontown, at 4:46 a.m. today.

Mount Pleasant Admitted to Frick Community Hospital were Mrs. Mary Trout of 662 S. Geary St, Paul Grace of Railroad Street, Everson, Mrs. Marie Catalano of Mount Pleasant, R. D.

2, Mrs. Mary B. Gabelt of 611 Eleanor Scottdale, Miss Winifred Thompson of 1307 Sun St, Connellsville, James E. Kessler of Connellsville, Dale Tnnms of Vanderbilt, Mrs. JoAnne Widener of 1511 Butter-more Connellsvflle, Mrs.

Virginia Grimm of Scottdale, R. D. 1, Mrs. Lena Silvasy of Smithton, Mrs. Ann Pierce of 209 Grove Belle Vernon, Mrs.

Edna Ackerman of Latrobe, R. D. 1, Correne Baker of 163 Liberty Sheila Kostelnik of Dunbar, D. 1, Mrs. Dorothy Kalinay of Greensburg, D.

5, Fredrick Rafferty of 16 S. Third St, Youngwood, Bryce Lejeune of Mount Pleasant, D. 1, Mrs. Rose Baird of Dawson, Robert M. Brack of Dunbar, Mrs.

Ruth E. Floyd of 224 E. Peach Connellsville, Mrs. Margaret Gratzinger of Mt. Pleasant, R.D.

3, Mrs. Patricia F. Allard of Ruffsdale, David Bailey of Acme, R. D. 1, Mrs.

Grace Sue Artice of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 4, Lewis Gross of Southwest and Mrs. Annabel Yachup of Smithton. Discharged were Mrs.

Judith Wiltrout and son of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 2, Mrs. Carol Loucks and son of 10 Second Scottdale, Michelle Levendosky of Calumet, Steven LaRosa of Melcroft, James Tucholski of Greensburg, R. D.

2, Mrs. Mildred Grace of Everson, Steve Litterini of Smithton, Mrs. Barbara Woods of 1214 Rockridge Road, Connellsville, Mrs. Violet Carter of Wyano, Anthony Karpowich of 410 Everson Scottdale, Mrs. Nancy Sever of West Newton, R.

D. 1, Robert Clark of 25 Pearl Scottdale, Charles Jansen of Connellsville, R. D. 2, Mrs. Diann Zuzak of Penn Avenue, Everson, Mrs.

Dorothy Anderson of Scottdale, Linda Schlarp of 309 Church Pittsburgh, Dennis Gribbin of 44 Observatory Manor, Mrs. Karen Sue Moore of 1819 Cowling Road, Scottdale, Mrs. Carrie Collins of Vanderbilt, Mrs. Clara Brougher and daughter of Connellsville, R. D.

1, Mrs. Bernadette Brownfield and daughter of 220 Starboard Villa, Greensburg, Mrs. Eleanor Uswa and son of Dunbar, R. D. 1, Mrs.

Agnes Wawrzyniak of Tarr, George Baggage of Greensburg, D. 2, Joseph Paglio Jr. of 140 E. Smithfield Jesse Bungard Jr. of 214 S.

Diamond Mrs. Deborah Dunston of 4 Woodvale Dunbar, Joseph Breda of 383 Utah West Mifflin, Mrs. Helen Beradino of Ruffsdale, R. D. 3, Thaddeus Michalczyk of Donegal, Paul Barren of Mount Pleasant, D.

4, Mrs. Bertha Mae Carnes of 1208 Rockridge Road Connellsville, Oscar Krieger of Wyano and Mrs. LaVerne Klaka of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 1.

Births Babies born at Frick Community Hospital over the weekend were: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Meason of 201 E. Main St at 1:05 a.m.

Saturday. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence OToole of 212 College Ave. at 9:02 p.m.

Saturday. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tinkey Jr. of Jones Mills at 8:17 a.m.

Sunday. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swank of 408 Brown St, Everson, at 2:18 p.m. Sunday.

Uniontown Discharged from Uniontown Hospital were Mary Jane Com, Albert Daugherty, Randy DeBerry, Jessie Dunham, Mary Farrier, Lori Amutza, Joyce Harbaugh, Baby Girl Harbaugh, Mary Havercheck, Rose Hixson, Eva Johnson, Julia Mardula, Mrs. Darlene Marva and son, Anna Miller, Hazel Norman, Charles Ramage, Annie Robson, Mary Rostich, Albert Ryan, Judy Savage, Ruby Weaver, Paul Williams, John McMullen and Elizabeth Cooley..

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