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Cooler Saturday. VOL. LXXIII, NO. 88 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 KANE and MT. JEWETT.

PA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1965 TWELVE PAGES TEN CENTS A COPY mil CJ VLI VLI Si END SIX YEAR SERVICE TO BORO Viet War Peace Offensive ASSEMBLY DISTRICTING DISPUTE THE TOP NEWS Editorialized Kane In Review And In Forecast For a Busy '66 "Everything is Good Or Bad, In Relation To Something Else." alks Moves on to in rans 111 Mr xm If rff Tl George Davison Council President year term, will be succeeded Roy Hanson in the new year. by Mr. Davison was initially an 'e(i ar ed pointed to council from the Fourth Ward to succeed George Kane. He was regularly elected to a four year term and was not a candidate for reelection. He served four years as president of council.

AMANDA SUSOfi, 94 DF NIT. JEWETT DIES Mrs. Amanda E. Swanson, 94, a Mt. Jewett resident for many years and the sister of Mrs.

Agnes Peterson of Kane, died Thursday morning at 12:30 ojclock at Smethport. Mrs Swanson, daughter of the late Earl and Kristine Allison, was born Jan. 7, 1871 at Ljunjby, Sweden. She came to this country in 1890. She resided at Mt.

Jewett until 1959, when she went to Smethport to make her homo She was a former of the Nebo Lutheran Church. Mrs. Swanson was preceded in death by her husband, Elof Swanson, to whom she was married at Smethport in 1891 and by a daughter and two sons. She is suryjyed by daughters, Mrs. Edward Vanek of South Bend, Ind.

and Mrs. Joseph Rein ard of Hazelhurst; four grandchildren; four great grandchilren; four sisters, Mrs. Agnes Peterson of Kane, Mrs. Signe Stone of Pasadena, Miss Anna Allison and Mrs. Nancy Sanderson of Jamestown, N.Y.; a brother, Dr.

Ernest Allison of White Plains, N.Y.; and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Henry Howard Funeral Home at Mt. Jewett at the usual visiting hours, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 o'clock, beginning this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at Howard's Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. V.

Theodore Benson of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Nebo cemetery. NINE MIXERS KILLKI) REDSTONE, Colo. (JB An explosion at a coal mine near here Tuesday night killed a total of nine persons.

Kane, as we see it, will continue its transition into a "new' look" filled with exciting promise growth in many areas of our economy. We expect the slackening reversal to continue as our century old plus borough gears to tremendous impact of events which have been shaping up for many years mounting to the point of materialization in these late 60s. Never before has our industrial economy reached such peaks. There is work and jobs for everyone. Earned wages in Kane have mushroomed to the $13 million dollar mark many times that of the "good old peak days" when the population was much larger.

Kane has internal growing pains these days which we term "post recovery." Kane has pushed its past economic agonizing into obscurity almost forgottten. Savings have mushroomed to correspond with income, in fact, exceeding percentage levels nationally. The borough and school systems are in A financial shape. New schools are needed and will be built. The borough is considering a new, centralization in a municipal building.

Hospitals, all areas of community life including our important churches, are sharing the prosperity. Does Kane have areas of poverty? racial problems? labor unrest? critical juvenile delinquency? We may feel that Kane has troubled times but, as one noted industrialist is quoted, "everything is good or bad in relation to something else." Kano is so much better off than other areas in so many ways that counting our blessings can be a major task. We will see expansion of new housing to solve Kane's major problem. We have seen the start of a solution to Kane's long time parking problems with activities of bank ing institutions. Traffic is a problem yet to be solved.

Kane will see its long delayed twin sewage disposal systems materialize in 1966 and, in all probability, a new area of understanding and cooperation between borough and township governments. A "greataer Kane" is possible, with the borough and township retaining their individual identities. Kane's business section today is twice as bright as it was a few months ago (new lighting) an we can anticipate the difficult transition of many businesses accomplished in face of the competitive "out of town" lures. Our business section can emerge into one of the newest type "shopping centers" in the region as the transient population mushrooms with the Kinzua Dam. This may take another year or so as a result of the highway Only Eight Miles Within eight miles of Kane will be waters of the Allegheny Reservoir and major recreational potential to serve millions of persons dispersing from metropolitan areas into the greatest area of public recreation domain in the state one of the largest in the east our Allegheny National Forest.

Kane has seen evidence of the "floating population" here summers, hunting seasons, weekends. Check any food super market on Friday evening or Saturdays and a great many of the shoppers are strangers. This shopping potential will become increasingly vital to Kane business in general. Kane has achieved national prominence for its "zero pollen" and its efforts to rid the town of ragweed. This is a long run potential, not only attractive during the health season, but a consideration of many persons planning their homes on retirement.

Coupled with the vast expansion of recreation this area will form the "retreat," desirable and attractive' to those orA nllinf rrm tho STORY BP By JOHN SHEPPARIJ PHILADELPHIA (iP Reapportioning cf legislative districts was named today as the biggest news story of 1965 in Pennsylvania. It edged out the controversy over tax paid busing of parochial school pupils and the continuing story. Most member newspaper editors and radio television news directors voting in the annual Associated Press poll ranked all three stories high on their list of ten best stories, but reapportionment took the top honors on the basis of two more first place votes than the others. The state Supreme Court in October took over the job of working I out a system of representation, bas 1 on population. It acted after a on p0puli j0jnt House Senate conference corn mjttee failed to meet a Sept.

1 court imposed deadline to solve the problem. The court had ordered the legislature to realign itself on an equal population basis in keeping with the U.S. Supreme Court "one man, one vote" ruling. No. 2 spot for the state's best stories of the year was the controversy over tax paid bus transportation for parochial and private school pupils.

Close behind in No. 3 was the year long steel industry story. Passage of the bill came after one of the stormiest sessions in recent legislative history. Legality of the new law now is being challenged in the state's high court. The steeclworkers didn't strike, but they provided plenty of cliff hanging dramatics before signing a new 35 month agreement with10 major steel firms under pressure from President Johnson.

An internal rebellion in the midst of the steel crisis saw I. W. Abel defeat David J. McDonald for the presidency of the United Steel workers Union. Politics of another sort the Pennsylvania general election won the No.

4 spot. The Democratic state chairman, John S. Rice, pointed with pride to the defeat of nine incumbent Republican mayors, and predicted his party would elect a governor next year. GOP Bejrininir? On the other side of the fence, the GOP state chairman, Craig Truax, claimed the election of Ar len Specter as district attorney in Philadelphia was the beginning of Republican resurgence in that city. Truax forecast the election of a GOP governor next year.

The civil rights struggle at Gir ard College in Philadelphia was the No. 5 story. State and city attorneys have moved to bring the integration issue from the streets into the courts. A suit was filed to have seven Negro boys admitted to Girard, a private boarding school admitting only poor, white, male orphans from 6 to 18. (Continued on page B) ft Cars.

are few on the road only employes, but heavy equipment and trucks, move in an almost endless procession at left, moving materials for Istock reconstruction of Route 321 from the intersection in the foreground south to within five mileg of Kane. Tifo Meeting Harriman at Brdo Castle By SPENCER DAVIS WASHINGTON, D. C. (JP) The Viet Nam peace offensive extended to new capitals today in what one source called a test to see if North Viet Nam is ready for "a true peace settlement." Vu Van Thai, South Viet Nam's ambassador to the United Stales, also said in a Washington interview that the peace effort "is not1 just an ult'mateum for surrender. "I feel everything has been dom' to create the conditions to show we are ready in sincerely seeking a settlement." Meanwhile, presidential envoys W.

Averell Harriman and Arthur J. Goldberg were in new European capitals as part of President Johnson's peace campaign to explain the U.S. desire for negotiations to end the Viet Nam war. Ambassador at large Harriman planned to talk to Yugoslavia's President Tito today at the Brdo castle near Ljubljana. Harriman met Thursday with Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki and later with Polish Communist party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka.

Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was in Paris to confer with French President. Charles de Gaulle. Goldberg met with Pope Paul VI and Italian officials in Rome Thursday. Harriman was expected to return to the United States after his visit with Tito.

De Gaulle has been critical of U.S. policy, and has urged a neutrality plan for the Indochinese peninsula (North and South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia). He has not said, however, how this neutrality should bo enforced, nor has he defined Communist China's role. Ottawa Talks In addition to the Harriman and Goldberg foraysPresident Johnson's campaign also included an Ottawa visit between presidential assistant McGeorge Bundy and Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

Pearson later talked to Johnson by telephone. All the visits were veiled in secrecy, and made public only alter the Americans had arrived at their destinations. In Texas, White House press secretary Bill D. Moyers said discussions also were going on between U.S. officials and other governments.

Moyers, however, declined to discuss them further. Some sources say the United States is seeking peace talks through intermediaries. Moyers said the President, spending the holidays at his Texas ranch, is keeping in touch with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, but added: "The extent to which he is receiving reports is something I am unable to deal with." Hanoi Blast The peace hopes received another swipe from North Viet Nam Thursday when Radio Hanoi declared: "As long as the U.S. aggressors are still unwilling to really recognize our government's stand, all their contentions about peace negotiations are hypocritical and aimed at deceiving public opinion. "The four point stand of our government and the five point statement of the South Viet Nam (Communist Viet Cong guerrilla) National Liberation Front provide a very fair and reasonable basis for a political settlement of the Viet Nam problem.

"If an end is to be put to the state of war, there is only one and most simple way, that is, the U.S. aggressive troops must withdraw from South Viet Nam and the settlement of affairs of Viet Nam must be left to the Vietnamese themselves." Similar statements were earlier this week by Communist North Viet Nam. Nonetheless, informed Washington sources expressed some guarded optimism that the current peace probes may yet bring some results. At least, it was noted, there has been no rebuff to the lull in bombing operations against North Viet Nam. ENLISTED VETS BILLET BIE UERICU KILLED SAIGON, South Viet Nam The Communists blasted a U.S.

enlisted men's barracks and aimed a New Year's offensive at a provincial capital today but took a propaganda setback with the defection of a Polish diplomat. The Polo, Anatol Slavinski, of Lodz, 25, ran into a Saigon police station this morning and asked for asylum. Other Polish diplomats ran in after him demanding his return but they left sullenly when Vietnamese police turned them down after a shouting match. Slavinski was assigned to the Polish delegation on the three nation International Control Commission. The commission is a peacekeeping agency created under the 1954 agreements on Indochina that freed the area from French rule and created North and South Viet Nam.

Its other members are India and Canada. The Viet Cong gave a new show of their fighting determination on the eighth day of the suspension of U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam and in defiance of the intensive American peace maneuvers abroad. One American was killed, another was missing and 10 Americans and one Vietnamese guard were wounded in the guerrilla raid on the military compound at Dalat, a mountain resort 145 miles northeast of Saigon. The area had been relatively free of terrorism.

Five guerrillas slipped into Les Ravines billet shortly after midnight and opened fire with small arms and automatic weapons. Before fleeing they exploded two bombs, a military spokesman said. In Hanoi, a Yale history professor said in a tek phone interview with a correspondent in Moscow that he had found no significant reaction in the North Vietnamese capital to the lull in American air raids. The professor, Staughton Lynd, and two other Americans, Thomas Hayden and Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker, have been in Hanoi since Tuesday on a private mission they say is to clarify the Communist position on peace negotiations. Criticized by Solon Sen.

Stuart Symington, on a visit to Viet Nam, strongly criticized the three Americans for the unauthorized trip to the Communist North. Symington, a Yale alumnus, declared such activities "increase the determination of' the North Vietnamese not to sit down at the conference table." Although U.S. fighter bombers spared the North from attack for another day, the big B52s of the Strategic Air Command roared in from Guam and pounded a suspected Viet Cong area in western Tay Ninh Province 75 males northwest of Saigcn near the Cambodian border. Asked to specify the target, an Air Force spokesman said: "Just about the whole area." Other U.S. Air Force and Navy planes and Vietnamese' aircraft flew 430 combat sorties in the South smashing buildings, sinking six sampans and strafing trenches and caves, the spokesman said.

U.S. Planes Downed Along the central coast, strong Communist forces were reported to have seized two outposts guarding the valley approaches to Quang Ngai city in a drive helped by heavy rain that hampered U.S. counterblows from the air. One U.S. plane was hit by groundfire and crashed, presumably killing the pilot.

U.S. military officials saw the thrust as a possible forerunner of a campaign against Quang Ngai, 30 miles southeast of the U.S. Marine beachhead at Chu Lai. The city is the capital of the province of the same name and lies 330 miles northeast of Saigon a few miles inland from the South China Sea. Reports from the battle area indicated that the Communists, including North Vietnamese troops, had captured Minh Long, a district headquarters 15 miles south of Quang Ngai, and an outpost near Son Ha, another headquarters 15 miles west of the provincial capital.

Parties, Dances, Church Services In Kane Tonight Kane today is readying to welcome the New Year 1966 with industry and business tapering off for the long weekend holiday. Over the weekend, scores of college students will return to their classes after spending the holidays at their homes, but otherwise, no heavy motor travel as experienced for Christmas is anticipated. State Police wiiyiiave an all out patrol system in operation on highways and in the borough police will be on the move to ease hazards wherever possible For many, there will be church services this evening to welcome the new year with thanks for 1965 and prayers for 1966. On the basis of local surveeys, there are scores of parties and dances, public and private, to provide "at home" celebration points. Today's edition of The Kane Republican includes greetings and the well received chronology and necrology of 1965.

These items of the chronology have been taken from daily columns of this newspaper and are listed by Miss Helen Bowman. From this list, which would cover many pages, the items are "boiled down" to give as much coverage as possible The necrology contains deaths of 185 persons during the year, including the Mt, Jewett, Wilcox, Ludlow and local area. There were 31 residents over 90 yeHrs of age and 41 others over 80 who died during the year. Mrs. Mary Eckborg, 98, was the oldest.

Shower of Gifts A sparkling event comes with the merchants' shower of gifts for Kane's first arrival of the new year. Little Cecil Albert Miller, who is ready to mark his first birthday, was No. 1 here in 1965. In the holiday plans, usual regulations will be effective at Kane Post Office. There will be no window service and no deliveries except specials.

Mail will be dispatched as usual and distributed to post office boxes. There will be no regular edition of the Kane Republican tomorrow, Jan 1. Steel Price Increase NEW YORK UP Bethlehem Steel the nation's second largest producer, announced a $5 a ton price increase today in structural steel shapes and piling. E. B.

Bickford, vice president, said the increase, effective with shipments Saturday, was made because of growing industry acceptance for lightweight, higher strength steel. Route 321 9m struction Company is cutting (benching) around the bill beyond Red Bridge for about 2.5 miles of Route 321 relocation north toward the old Morrison area where another bridge In another project will span Chappel Forks. MAN, ELK REPEAT OATH OF DFEIGE TODAY County officers elected in November were sworn into office by Judge Glenn E. Mcncer in McKean County Court House at Smethport this morning. For one'man, it was a new experience, Clarence IT.

Larson of Smethport, who was elected to office of county treasurer. For others, it was a repeat performance as a result of re election to office. Those re elected included Mrs. Mary E. McCloskey, controller; Mrs.

Louise I. Mix, Bradford and Mrs. Anita FarrHl, Port Allegany, jury commissioners; L. W. Pendleton of Smethport, sheriff; Melvin F.

Raver, Bradford, pro thonotary and clerk of courts. Their terms of office start with the first Monday in January. In adjacent Elk County, Elk County Judge Paul B. Greiner of Ridgway will take his oath of office from Joseph Brunner, prothonotary, and then the judge will administer the oath office of Norbert Powell of Wilcox, re elected to office of district attorney and Jury Commissioners Carl Carlson, of Ridgway and Allie J. Eckert of St.

Marys. Judge Greiner was elected to a ten year term as judge of the Elk Cameron county area in November after serving two years in appointive capacity when he was named to fill a vacancy on the bench created by death of Judge Joseph Trambley of Johnsonburg. GHIM HOLIDAY FORECAST CHICAGO UP) The National Safety Council has estimated between 360 and 440 persons could be killed in traffic accidents during the three day New Year's weekend. 30 YEARS AGO: A BUSY. RUGGED 1936 IN KANE Big stories of 1936 included: The St.

Patrick's Day ice storm and flood. Development of Kane as a winter resort ski trains. Kane PNG units in action in flood areas. First Congregational Church destroyed by fire. Sale of James City.

Twin Lakes construction. Construction of the high school annex. Kane hosts New York Conference of the Lutheran Church. And, Kane remained in the GOP columns by a scant 119 votes in an election in which 2,823 votes were cast. MS i Oblock will build a three span concrete bridge 50 feet high with concrete piers rising today as a massive array of heavy equipment is concentrated on the project.

A 50 foot fill will carry Route 321 through the cleared area as a bridge approach from Kane. Oblock Con Harry D. Sehreiber Mayor Two men who have given Kane Borough distinguished service through the past six years, will end their tenures with reorganization session of Kane Borough Council Jan. 3. Mayor Sehreiber, named by council to succeed Edward T.

MeDer mott and then elected to a four SLIGHT IN GENERAL ALARM FIRE AT AFFILIATED PLAIT Damage was reported slight and production was on a normal basis at Affiliated Industries here this morning after a fire scare at 10:40 last night when smoke filtered through one unit from a smouldering area between walls of a 1965 addition to the plant converted from a former kiln area. Belief was expressed that sparks from welding a new fire sprinkler connection in the late afternoon caused the alarm which called out all units of the Kane Fire Department. Elmer Lloyd, plant superintendent who was called to the plant by Arthur Peterson, watchman, said there was "some little water damage, but otherwise damage was slight." Plant maintenance foreman Clarence Eckert, who was called from his home, le firemen to the area where the welding had been underway in the late afternoon. Fire Chief H. D.

Gardner said apparently sparks unnoticed had dropped into a partition, creating the smouldering condition and smoke. Several lines were readied by firemen along with regular company fire hose. After the area was soaked down, a half hundred firemen remained at the scene until a thorough check was made to assure no possible further need. The Affiliated Industries, KAIDC Project 1 in Kane and scene of the famed community work bee, has experienced steady growth since it began production of store fixtures and from time to time has been on extra shift production basis. R.

J. Hetznecker, KAIDC president, telephoned Henry Schan, president of the company, in New York last night to advise him of the situation. Mr. Hetznecker praised the fast, efficient work of the Kane Fire Department in moving into the area with complete control in a matter of minutes after an alarm was sounded. Two Die in Wreck JAMESTOWN, N.Y.

Two West field youths were killed in a one car accident on Rt. 17 in the town of Ellery one and a half miles north of Greenhurst shortly after 10 o'clock last night. The driver of the car, Laurence C. Olson, 20, Westfield, was dead on arrival at Jamestown General Hospital. His 18 year old companion Daniel L.

Clute. Westfield was pronounced dead at WCA Hospital. CHILD STUDY CLUB PROJECT HOPE IS NEAR COAL TODAY Trojeet HOPE of the Kane Child Study Club, which was given a heartwarming public financial support in the, past few weeks, moved over the $3,000 mark today. Approximately $3,200 plus costs of transportation and installation are needed to provide the exercise unit for a Kane young; man, Gary Fay, who has been helpless since a motor accident in October, 1964 caused severe brain damage. New Perspective Red Bridge Project on SCCKing p.v space age.

population mushrooming metropolian areas. pew places the size of Kane and adjacent Wetmore Township have the balance of industry the dis perscment to maintain an ideal industrial community, and retain its beauty. Kane has its eyesore spots, but not areas. Some continue through neglect and procrastination but will be the object of increasing effort in 1966. Lutheran Home The new Lutheran Home at Kane Continued on page 2 If you were driving from Kane to Red Bridge, nine miles north on the Kinzua Road, Route 321, the Oblock project would come into perspective at this point as viewed from the old black top, a few feet north of the Kiasutha Forest Service road intersection..