The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 9

(Emtror TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15,1974 U.S. to Turkey Aid Bill Vetoed WASHINGTON (UPI) In his first major confrontation with Congress, President Ford has vetoed legislation to halt US. mOitary aid to Turkey. The House votes today whether to override that veto and the Senate awaited its turn to act Opinions differed on who would win the showdown. At stake were: --About $6 million worth of military aid in the pipeline to Turkey.

--Continued operation of several big government agencies, including the departments of Agriculture, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare, whose funds have become hostage in the dispute. --Congress' own vacation, delayed since Friday. Members can't go home to start campaigning for the November elections until the aid dispute is somehow settled. The dispute arose this way: U.S. laws require that military aid given other countries be used only for self defense.

UM Church Oct. Series Continues SCOTTDALE--October missions series, "Missions, Far and Near," for Trinity and Christ United Methodist Churches will continue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, at the Christ Church. Dr. Virgil J.

Hague of McCurdy School of Espanola, N.M., will be the guest speaker for the program. McCurdy School, an advance special supported by the churches, is located in the southwestern part of the country and was a well known Evangelical United Brethren work prior to union of the two denominations. There are 632 students involved in the school The mission provides room and board as well as classes for primary, high school and a training school for practical nurses. Children's choirs of Christ Church, under the direction of Miss Dorotha Weaver and Mrs. Ray Kiefer, will sing for the program.

Devotions will be led by Donald Snyder. Mrs. Kiefer will serve as pianist. Dr. Hague, a minister's son, received his A.B.

degree from Indiana Central College at Indianapolis and his theological degree from United Theological Seminary. He has served churches in the Illinois Conference of United Methodist Church and has traveled extensively throughout the world in the interest of Church World Service. In 1968, Indiana Central CoDege conferred the Doctor of Divinity degree upon Dr. Hague. The two churches will continue their mission series on Wednesday, Oct.

23, with the Rev. James Martin, executive minister of "Concerned of Pennsylvania" as guest speaker. Board Hires New Dental Hygienist Uberal members of degress were angered when Turkey used U.S. weapons in its invasion of Cyprus, and they persuaded both houses to suspend military aid to Turkey until Ford could certify substantial progress was being made toward removal of the Turkish forces. Ford --arguing that the cutoff would weaken NATO, of which Turkey is a member, hurt the U.S.

position in the Mediterranean, and wreck efforts to negotiate a Cyprus settlement -threatened to veto the measure. A proposed compromise was rejected by the House Friday, setting the stage for a showdown. New Member Takes Oath J. Robert Swank of 113 Jennings Scottdale, is being sworn in a school director for the Southmoreland School Board. Administering the oath of office Thomas R.

Kfliany (left), board secretary. Swank was recently appointed to Gil the unexpired term of James Mehrin Sturtz of Scottdale. He resigned from the board last week. Swank is a native of West Newton and has been active in the Southmoreland Booster organization over the years. He is an agent for Prudential Insurance Company of America.

He served as a school director in 1966 to fill an unexpired term for three months. (Courier Photo) Prosecutors Want Nixon As 'Heavy' By JANE DENISON WASHINGTON (UPI) Government prosecutors are seeking to portray former President Richard M. Nixon as guiding the Watergate cover-up from the start and later contriving a new defense after the cover-up began to unravel. They said Nixon urged his closest advisers to serve up John W. Dean like "an hors d'oeuvre'' to quell investigators' appetite for the truth.

In his opening argument Monday, Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste quoted Nixon as saying that it's "got to be the story" that hush money payments to Watergate defendants actually were for humanitarian purposes. Dean, the one-time White House counsel who refused to be made the Watergate scapegoat, takes the stand later today as the first witness against his former colleagues. His appearance as the government's star witness follows opening arguments by the defense. Prosecutors also for the first time linked the name of dose Nixon friend C.G. "Bebe" Rebozo to the cover-up plot, contending he furnished $25,000 that helped to pay for the silence of the Watergate burglars two years ago.

The opening arguments laid out the case the government hopes to prove at the cover-up trial of five former Nixon aides. The trial started two weeks ago before U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica, but had been devoted to jury selection until opening arguments Monday. On trial are former Attorney General John N.

Mitchell, one-time key White House aides H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and John D. Ehrlicnman, and Nixon reelection campaign officials Robert C. Mardian and Kenneth W. Parkinson.

Sirica Monday denied three defense mistrial motions and two for directed verdicts of acquittal. He also excused one of the 12 jurors without explaining why and replaced her with one of the six alternates. In his three-hour, 10-minute opening statement, Ben-Veniste sketched the cover-up charges made familiar at last year's Senate Watergate bearings --a story of paper shredding, payoffs and perjury at "the very summit of government." He told of the June 23,1973, White House tape just six days after the bugging arrests in which, he said, Nixon approved using the CIA to block the FBI's investigation --and, as the cover-up began collapsing the following spring, of the plan to "draw the wagons around the White House" to protect the inner circle. By April 14, 1973, Ben-Veniste said, Nixon and his key aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, had devised a strategy to pin the blame on Dean, to "push him outside the wagons." "As the President puts it," Ben-Veniste said, evidently quoting from a still-secret Nixon tape, the investigators an hors d'oeuvre and maybe they won't come back for the main The next day, he said, the three men agreed they would have to stick with the story that the money paid the Watergate burglars was not hush money but for "humanitarian" purposes. "That's what it ought to be that's got to be the story; that's got to be the defense," Ben-Veniste quoted Nixon as saying.

According to sworn public testimony elsewhere, Nixon at the same time was expressing surprise and shock when Watergate investigators told him they had cracked the case and found that his most trusted advisers were involved. Lewis Asks Senate Member To Step Down i Directory Connellsville Admitted to Connellsville State General Hospital were Mrs. DoDie Sanner of Connellsville, R. D. 2, Mrs.

Olive Minor of Connellsville, Mrs. Jesse Rodgers of Normalvffle, R. D. 1, Mrs. Ruth Morrison of Dunbar, and Paul Hfckman of 220 Market St Discharged were Ralph Reckner, Mrs.

Ida DeMuth, Mrs. Mary Baughman and son, Mrs. Kathryn Moore, Cecil Crowe, Mrs. Gladys Bordas and Lloyd Coughenoor. Mount Pleasant Admitted to Frick Community Hospital were Mrs.

Genevieve Mensch of 221 Mount Pleasant Road, Scottdale, Lewis Gross of Southwest, Mrs. Patricia Ballew of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 1, Miss Cynthia Mastowski of Scottdale, D. 1, Merritt Leasureof SPennSt, Tammy Reed of 202 S.

Jefferson St, Connellsville, Mrs. Margaret Puskar of Mount Pleasant, R. D. 1, Mrs. Shirley Rogers of 102 Pleasant Manor, Mrs.

Anna Petiya of Alverton, Mrs. Hazel Alloway of West Newton, D. Miss Gladys Freed of East Main Street, Edward Kapetewski of 15 Low St, Mrs. Gloria SchwindUng of 126 S. First St, West Newton, Mrs.

Marie Molnar of Sutersvffle, Miss Cynthia PisdteQi of Wyano, Melanie Saylor of Jones Mflls, Vemer Markte of West Newton, R. D. 1, Mrs. Jeanne CroweD of 103 Loocks Scottdale, Henry Tarver of BlytbedaJe, John Koval of Greensburg, David Dalessio of 1303 Isabella Road, Connellsville, Jody Shaffer of Indian Head, Harold Tissue of Mount Braddock and John Gara of West Newton. Discharged were Eclar DeGrange of Charleroi, R.

D. 1, Mrs. Marilyn Younkin of Connellsvflle, R. D. 1, and Gloria Copeland of Dawson.

BIRTHS Four babies were born in Frick Community Hospital They are: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Yester of 912 North St, Scottdale, at 5:99 a.m. Monday.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schauer of Hunker, R. D. 1, at 11:16 a.m.

Monday. A son to Mr. and Mrs. James Cosael of Connellsville, R. D.

1, at 12:26 pjn. Monday. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R.

Riggin of 55 Braddock St, Uniootown, at 7:50 a.m. Monday. Uniontown Discharged from Uniontown Hospital were Beatrice Berry, Gary Detrkk, Ercell Durbin, male baby Godissart, Terry Griffin, John Grim, Thomas Han, John ffibbard, Edward Jin, Anthony Lacava, Karen Ann Malone, Warren Mertz, male baby Metts, Eugene McNatt, Hazel Monaghan, Stella Mystiviec, James Patterson, Ida Pickering, RoseHa Rose, Edward Smith, Jacob Strickter, male baby Valiante, Cloyd Leichliter, Jamie Yarns, Dorothy Anderson, Elizabeth Bozek, George Fecek, Zed Francis, Josephine Haas, Jerry Rider, Mary Lambie, Sherry Law, Monica Lindsay, Earl Miller, Dr. Ward Newcomer, Ruth Paschke, Violet Nussbaumer, Mrs. Beverly Cteanich and daughter, Gloria Sickles and Loretta Patterson.

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (UPI) -Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Drew Lewis said Monday Sen. Robert Rovner, R-Philadelphia-Bucks, should step down from his Senate seat because he has been indicted by a federal grand jury. "It is with deep regret that I suggest Sen. Rovner take a temporary leave of absence from his Senate seat until his current indictment has been cleared up," Lewis said in a release from his campaign headquarters.

An eastern district grand jury last week indicted Rovner on one count of extortion and two counts of filing improper income tax returns after an investigation of several months. Rovner said earlier he would not step down. "The unfortunate timing of his indictment causes me to make this request," Lewis said, "and it is not made to prejudge the facts of a case that is untried. I have consistently criticized my opponent (for not dismissing indicted state employes) and I feel my own associates should be judged no differently." Lewis said it would be "inconsistent" for him to criticize Gov. Milton J.

Shapp's Kroger In Third Day CHARLESTON, W. Va. (UPI) A strike against 52 Kroger Co. markets in three states entered its third day today with no talks scheduled by negotiators. Pay raises were the key issue in the walkout by 2,000 members of Food Store Employes Union Local 347.

"No negotiations are scheduled, that's about all I can say at this point," said Kroger spokesman James R. Thome. The strike started at midnight Saturday when a contract deadline expired. It closed stores in most of southern West Virginia and parts of Ohio and Kentucky. Kroger officials said the stores would stay closed until the opposing parties agreed on a new contract Another strike against Kroger, by Local 590 in Pittsburgh, started Sept.

30 affecting 56 other stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A federal mediator has called both sides back to the bargaining table Thursday. Kroger officials said Local 347 had made "inflationary demands" which the company could not meet. administration "and yet have lesser standards for myself and my own pajrty." Rovner's indictments came deep in bis campaign for reelection. He faces Democrat H.

Craig Lewis for the race in the 6th Senatorial District. Lewis, the Senatorial candidate, asked the GOP gubernatorial candidate to request that Rovner step down a week ago. "I recognize the unfortunate timing of my statement," Lewis, the gubernatorial candidate, said. "But it is my opinion that all will appreciate the difficulty in making this request and consider the interest of good government" ByEDWARDD.COPE Carter Staff Writer SCOTTDALE--A dental hygienist for a newly adopted dental hygiene program in the Southmoreland School District was hired by the board of directors Monday. Miss Susan Sullivan was hired by 7 to 1 vote.

Those voting in favor of the woman were Directors Robert A. Bradley, Dwight C. Brown, Mrs. Mary Cochenour, George A. Davis, Thomas R.

KHJacy, J. Robert Swank and Frank Stoner Jr. Casting the lone negative vote was Director Bruno Kmieciak of South Everson. Director John McBride was absent from Monday's session. Director Kmieciak questioned Dr.

John McElhoes, superintendent of schools, concerning Miss Sullivan's certification for the position. The superintendent told him she is not quite certified but he feels the district could obtain an emergency certification for her to get the program into gear. Prior to voting on Miss Sullivan's hiring, the board approved a specific dental hygiene program written up by the administration. Dr. McElhoes pointed out that Miss Sullivan is certified as a dental hygienist, but not certified for working in the schools.

He claims it is difficult to find hygienists certified to work in school districts. However, Dr. McElhoes said he is certain an emergency teaching certificate can be obtained for the East Huntingdon Township woman until she completes the amount of credits for school certification. In other action, the directors hired Mark Balfaach of Edgewood as an elementary physical education instructor in the district. Director George Davis asked why the administration recommended someone outside the district for the job.

The superintendent told him of the 12 applicants screened Balbach probably has the most outstanding credentials. Dr. McElhoes said, "When screening applicants we are looking at the total picture of how the person can best serve the district." Balbach was later appointed by the board to a position on the basketball coaching staff. John Markle resigned his position on the basketball coaching staff. Dr.

McElhoes was given permission to attend a superintendents conference at Seven Springs Resort, Champion, on Oct. 27, 28 and 29. The directors also gave their approval for five persons to attend the Pennsylvania School Boards Association convention in Philadelphia, OcL 22,23,24 and 25. Director Robert Bradley asked the board to delete several other requests for conference listed on the agenda. Director Brown made a motion to have the administration set up guidelines concerning secondary school principals and others attending conferences.

He pointed out the guidelines would be presented to the board for approval. East Huntingdon Township Fire Department requested the district to strike a clause stating no beer, wine or alcoholic beverages are allowed on a piece property planned for a new fire It was a matter of clearing up the deed. Dr. McElhoes explained the property originally was owned by East Huntingdon Township School District and then turned over to the township. The clause concerning the "spirits" had to be resolved by the Southmoreland School District since it is the succeeding district The new fire hall is being planned for a plot of land wtere the former township supervisors building stood in Alverton.

The board also heard a request by a local rock group for use of the stadium. A representative, Jeffrey Canose, said the money would be given to the family of the one its members, a former student who passed away recently. However, Dr. McElboes said to keep in line with the school districts policy the request couldn't be granted since the group does not have liability insurance coverage. Dr.

McElhoes praised to youngsters for their intentions but said he must honor the school district's policy. Under athletics, the directors approved reconditioning cross country and football equipment and athletic equipment for winter and spring sports. The board is also looking for a new girls' basketball team coach. Dr. McElhoes reported the coach appointed wanted $600 instead of the $400 set by the board.

She said she would take the coaching position for with an assistant After some discussion the directors decided to keep the salary at $400 and consider the position open. The board approved "Tarn o'Shanter" reporting to be published in a local weekly newspaper. The board also approved: --an early dismissal policy; --Neighborhood Youth Corps program in the district; --providing driver education for Geibel High School students in the district; --participation in surplus property purchasing; --Legislative Policy Council verification; --a substitute teachers list deleting the substitute principals Donegal Man Hurt In One-Car Wreck MOUNT PLEASANT David Wilson, 22, of Donegal, was treated and released at Frick Community Hospital about 5:28 p.m. Monday. A hospital spokesman said Wilson was the driver in a one-car accident that occurred on Rte.

31 at the intersection with the Mount Joy Road. Dedication Service At Baptist Church MOUNT PLEASANT A dedication service for children will be held at Jacobs Creek Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Sunday. The Rev. Wilfred Kastner, pastor, has asked that all parents who have children to be dedicated bring them to the service.

Rumbaugh Sfudenfs Launch Fifty-two second grade students from Rumbaugh Elementary School. Mount Pleasant, launched helium balloons Friday from the school grounds. Postcards were attached to each balloon as a related activity to the Ginn 360 reading program. A school spokesman said hopefully, the postcards wfll be sent back to the students by the persons who find them. The students can then determine bow far the postcards traveled.

Teachers in charge of the project are Miss Joni Rozell and Mrs. Kathleen Vise. The local Woolwotths supplied the balloons. (Counter Photo) t..