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Pffi ilEPDBL IGAN Daily Temperatures Overnight minimum 21 Non recording 42 WEATHER REPORT Wednesday cloudy with shower likely by afternoon or night Cloudy with rain tonight. VOL. LXVIII, NO. 158 TELEPHONE 98 99 KANE and MT. JEWETT, PJU TUESDAY, MARCH 21.

1961 SEVEN CENTS A COPY Approve Bill Abolishin Wouldi i Capita FT) runisi imenc awrence rEATTlI MWVflMt IV 557,087 "Sw 7JW.9U I I IJ11" WNvt nJZX jEwiuuww Ws 31.066 PITTSBURGH 4W 5,1 A tJS CINCINNATI (04,331 VSj 2M 1 502,550 100,692 CSCT" 108,754 1 7 WHWHB JI 6 3 BAITWORI WASHINGTON ,024 SAN FSANC5C0 763,954 37irS 2. BAllAS sr toiHS ATLANTA SAN0IEG9 7684 750.0M 487455 573.M4 214,377 ,8 3M35 22i M3, Via 1 41,605 I 5.W 37 I 7.1 VI i Open Bids April 28 STATE WILL RESURFACE 'OLD ROUTE 219 KANE TO WILCOX, THIS YEAR Long Range Plans For Curbing, Improving Fraley Street In Paper Stages. Bids will be let in April with a Summer completion date set for repairing and resurfacing: of "old Route 219" NEGRO POPULATION UP 23 PER CENT The segregation problem lends special emphasis to a Department of Commerce report that the Negro population of the U. S. rose 25.2 per cent from 1950 to 1960, from 15,042,286 to 18,871,381, or 10.5 per cent of total population.

Here are the 25 largest cities, with their total populations and Negro populations, and per cent of Negro populations. Note that Washington, the nation's capital, is more than 60 per cent Negro. (Central Press) between Kane and Wilcox. today by Harold Ackley, McKean County superintendent of highways, also will involve repairs and resurfacine of Route 6 in Kane and a possible start on a long range program for widening and improvement of Route 6 throueh And, Resistance to New Taxes Apathy. Ignorance Threat to School Bond Issue Decisions (EDITOR'S NOTE: Financing America's public school system has become an increasingly costly and complex task.

How is the man in the middle the local taxpayer bearing up? This is the first of three articles on some major factors in school financing as Congress considers federal aid. By G. K. HODENFIELD AP Education Writer There are three main threats to every school bond issue, every school tax levy placed on the ballot in this country: apathy, ignorance, and resistance to taxes. FL DVD fl.

IRONS IS GOP CANDIDATE FOR Tl Floyd A. Irons of Aiken, McKean County Defense director, Tuesday innounced iiis candidacy for the nomination for county Republican treasurer. Mr. Irons, institutional representative for the Miles Bradford Co. of Bradford, has served as CD director for 16 months.

After completing elementary and secondary education in the county schools, Mr. Irons attended Bryant Stratton College in Buffalo, N.Y., majoring in business law and ae ccunting. He received a degree ard also graduated from the Alexander Hamilton Institute of Business, i Mr. Irons was one of the founders of the Hilltop Volunteer Fire Floyd A. Irons Departmentraerving its president during its first four years.

He was also treasurer two years. He is a director and treasurer of the Aiken Water Co. and treasurer of the Gifford Evangelical United Brethren Church; Other affiliations include memberships in the Fraternal Order of Police, McKean County Shrine Club, Scottish Rite, Knites Templar, Smethport Country Club, Moose and Elks lodges and the U.S. Council of Civil Defense Directors. He is also past master of his Blue Lodge.

Mr. Irons and his wife, Blanche, are the parents of a daughter, Karen. CANDIDATES TO DRAW FOE BALLOT POSITIONS FRIDAY The McKean County Board of Eilections formally announced today that Friday, March 24 has been set as the date for candidates to draw for position on the ballot for the May 16 Primary election. The board, composed of County Commissioners R. E.

Younp quist, R. J. Weston and A. J. Harrington, have set the drawing for 10 a.m.

in the commissioners' office in the courthouse. For candidates unable to be present, drawings will be made for them. DEPARTED STAR 1 Jury May Get Peel Trial by Weekend; State to Rest Soon FORT PIERCE, Fla. UP) The Chillingworth murder trial is moving fast now. The fate of Joseph A.

Peel Jr. could be in the jury's hands by the end of this third week. The last of the state's major witnesses George (Bobby) Lincoln and James Yenzer went to the stand Monday, told their stories, and were out of the courtroom in yhort order. State Attorney Phil O'Connell was clearly surprised when defense attorney Carlton Welch made only brief stabs at cross examination. Welch had kept another prime prosecution witness, Floyd Holza pfel, on the stand most of three days while he hammered at his testimony.

O'Connell said the state might he able to wrap up its case today. Welch said he figured to complete his defense this week. O'Connell's case against Peel, accused plotter of the 1955 murder of Circuit Judge ind Mrs. C. E.

Chill ingworth, was built largely on the testimony of: Holzapfel," tough confessed killer of the Chillingworths who said he did it for PeeL Lincoln, big time moonshiner, who went along with Holzapfel when the killings were done and agreed that it was "a little job for Joe" Peel. Yenzer and P. Wilber, former friends of Peel and Halzapfel who turned state undercover agents to help crack the mystery of the disappearance. W(hen Peel was elected city judge of West Palm Beach, the witnesses said, he set Up a protection racket for gambling and liquor interests, then went into an illegal bolita (numbers) business of his own in partnership with Holzapfel and with Lincoln as an wssociate. But Peel learned that Judge Chillingwort'i was gathering evidence on the rackets, they testified, so he arranged the judge's This proiect.

it was explained the program on invitation of the McKean County Motor Club. Several from Kane will attend, as officers of the club and as invited guests. Habtey W. Harmon, project engineer on the Kinzua Dam, was in Bradford two weeks ago for a similar meeting. In the.

Col. W. W. Smith, heading the. Pittsburgh District Corps of Army Engineers, has appeared in Kane, and also has been in contact with the Kane C.

of C. Projects and Planning Committee on the Kane impact from the $119,000,000 Klnaua Dam. Hinging on a series of conferences with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Allegheny National Forest will be decision of the Kane group to back either a recommendation of the Allegheny National Forest as outlined in its "Impact Report" or a perimeter road adjacent the water line as favored by the Army Engineer Corps. Hf HUGH Formal investigation of alleged hazardous conditions at the unguarded Frost's Crossing in Howe Township, Forest County, will be opened at a hearing in Tionesta March 29 at 10 a.m. According to announcement today, PUC examiner John M.

McLaughlin of Erie, will conduct the hearing. An inquiry was started by the commission following an informal complaint by the county commissioners, who said the crossing, where Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks intersect State Rt 68, should be protected with automatic flashing signals. State Rep. James Kepler Davis, Tionesta, is spearheading a drive for the signals, supported by the commissioners, township supervisors and civic groups, particularly in the Marienville area. Spot checks made by the PUC show that the track curves sharply along approaches to the road and both trainmen and motorists have limited visibility in either direction.

THE MUSIC MAKER LOUISVILLE, Ky. UP) Claude Montgomery believes he's seen everything. He was driving in heavy traffic when another car passed. The motorist was steering with one hand and nonchalantly playing away on a harmonica with the other. is a shortage of 135,000 teachers.

The chamber of commerce says, "for some time it has been clear that the teacher shortage is diminishing except in particular subject matter areas in secondary education." 'Shortage is Easing' The chamber says the teacher shortage is easing because of higher teachers' salaries, end that in recent years teachers' salaries have risen more, proportionately, than the wages of all employed people. But the one man most concerned tlie homeowner on a fixed salary or pension, worried about the education of his children or grandchildren, lighting the battle of inflation, scratching to pay his taxes what does he think? To learn that this reporter went to Parma, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo. I esked people whether they had voted in the recant school bond flections, how they had voted, and This was no attempt at a scientific survey. I just asked people to talk and the things they Laid were much the same in both Ptrma and St.

Louis, although these cities are about as unlike as they could be. I Parma had voted down a $3 mit lion bond issue and a school tax levy last May, although it' approved both of them the second time around in November. The people of St. Louis, three times in a period of nine months, voted down a bndly needed $29.5 million school bond issue. Next: Parma reconsiders.

Albert Johnson is Returned to GOP Floor Leader Post HARRISBURG UP) Albert W. Johnson was back in his familiar role as House Republican floor Reader today. His colleagues restored him to that position Monday night over Rep. Lee A. Donaldson, 36, Pittsburgh attorney who sought to succeed the late Willard F.

Agnew, 36, Aspinwall. Agnew had unseated Johnson, the 54 year old Smethport attorney, as GOP leader last Dec. 7. Johnson had been the floor leader from 1953 until then, except for a two year period 1955 57 when he was assistant floor leader. The vote to restore him to the floor' leadership was 51 39, almost the exact reverse of the 53 38 vote that had propelled Agnew into the job for the brief period terminated Mr.

Johnson by his tragic, death a week ago today. Only Two Candidates Donaldson and Johnson were the only candidates. Each openly announced his candidacy just Monday. Johnson endorsed the program introduced in the House under Ag new's leadership and told newsmen he would expand it. Johnson's defeat by Agnew 3 months ago had been attributed to a reaction against his mild mannered approach to the leadership job and against Republican State Chairman George I.

Bloom. Agnew, a vigorous, aggressive antagonist for the Democratic majority, was the very antithesis of Johnson and considered somewhat more liberal in his views. The explanation for Johnson's return to the job was less clear. He attributed it to a feeling on the part of the Republicans that in the middle of the legislative stream, it. would be better to have an experienced man take over." WALTER G.

ILSTfiOli DIES OF UK ILLNESS Walter G. Walstrom, 70, of 301 Oneida Avenue, Warren, a former Kane area resident and the brother of Mrs. John J. Davis of South Elk Avenue, died following a heart attack Monday evening at 7:45 o'clock at Warren. He had been in ill health for the past two vears and his condition had become serious during the last few days.

Mr. Walstrom, who was born Oct. 7, 1890 at Kane, formerly resided on the West Wind Road and at East Kane. He was employed at several of the local industrial plants and as a woodcutter. After moving to Warren about 10 years ago, Mr.

Walstrom worked at the Paramount Furniture Co. fac. tory until his retirement. He was a veteran of World War I and a charter member of the King David post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He belonged to the Warren Cooties unit.

He was a former member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mr. Walstrom is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Alice Proper of Warren; two sons, Carrol E. Walstrom of Warren and Walter G.

Walstrom, Jr. of Gary, one sister, Mrs. Davis; and six grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Hill Kelly Funeral Home at the usual visiting hours, 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 o'clock, beginning this evening. Funeral services will be held at Hill Kelly's Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev.

James W. Ramsey, retired Presbyterian minister, officiating. Interment will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. MOVIE CENSORSHIP CASE PITTSBURGH UP) Atty. Gen.

Anne X. Alpern asked the state Supreme Court today to uphold Pennsylvania's new movie censorship code. Miss Alpern argued that the code, enacted by the 1959 legislature is constitutional and workable. IN STAND BY THE Never Had Promised To Sign Bill Outlawing Executions. By RICHARD L.

GRAVES HARRISBURG, Pa. UP) Gov. Lawrence said to day he would sign into law any bill passed by the legis lature abolishing capital punishment. The governor replied with a terse "yes" when asked if 'he would sign such a bill. Though he previously said many times that he personally opposed execution of convicted murderers in Pennsylvania, he never had promised to sign a bill out i lawing the practice.

in tact, in recent "years, all governors have stated their personal opposition to capital punishment, but none of them ever pressed for such legislation. A joint House Senate legislative committee is presently studying legislation to abolish capital punishment The group will hold hearings in Harrisburg Wednesday and Thursday. The governor assorted that for "years" he has felt that execution "has not proved a deterrent" to crime. He added "The commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill' means just what it says." At the same time tne governor was asked if he would delay the execution of any murderers now facing the electric chair. "I'll consider it, yes," Lawrence declared.

At a recent hearing J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent a prepared statement favoring capital punishment as a deterrent to crime. Lawrence said the FBI director's position did not change his personal feelings. In other news conference developments: Education The governor emphatically denied reports circulated on Capitol Hill that he was at odds with his special Education Stuay Committee over whether it will recommend a specific tax, or taxes, to finance its program. Indications from' some members of the committee are that it will list various taxes and their poba ble revenue yields, but without any recommendation.

Other reports contend Lawrence is pressing for a definite tax recommendation. 'Deliberate Untruth' "Anybody who says that is deliberately issuing an untruth," said Lawrence. He said further educational programs would depend on federal aid. Radar "I would think so," said Lawrence, when asked if He expected the Democrat controlled House to approve controversial legislation allowing the state police to use radar to curb highway speeding. The.

Senate approved the once defeated bill Monday with Republican support. Reapportionment The governor said he would like to see Congress increase the size of the U.S. House of Representatives to allow Pennsylvania's House delegation to remain at 30 members. Bat, he added, "it doesn't have much chance" The state's congressional delegation is expected to drop from 30 to 27 members because the 1960 census showed the state's proportion of the national population is relatively smaller than 1G years ago. He said both House and Senate are working on bills to reapportion not only Congress, but also the state House and Senate.

Only one measure a congressional reapportionment bill has been intn duced in the Senate. HOLIDAY HOURS SET BY KANE MERCHANTS The main topic on the agenda at the Retail Merchant's Bureau meeting this morning at the Penn Kane Hotel was the setting of holiday closing days. Stores will be closed on Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Days. Closing for Veterans' Day will be decided at a later date. A three hour closing, from noon to 3 will be observed on Good Friday.

Along with the routine business, a Planning Committee of Himan Cohn, Louis Varisano and Pearson was named and Leo Scordo, Tom Trimble, Abe Colker, Hilda Carlson and Lawrence Stiteler were appointed to a Promotion Commit, tee. Mr. Scordo is chairman. tne rvane business section. Evald Benson, chairman of the Projects and Planning Committee of the Kane Chamber of Commerce, said this morning, "This is good news.

We were aware that Kane Borough Council had been asked to 'do something about old Route 219' and this project, along with Route 68 north of Kane, has been top priority on our list to do everything possible to Improve highways here. It was our advice that Mr. Ackley surveyed the Kane Wilcox route personally last year when a new bridge was constructed at Sergeant and other preliminaries completed." From the Kane C. of C. this morning, Victor Westerberg, president, termed the project first move in the right direction of adequate highways for He noted that surveys by the C.

of C. had placed the "Old Route 219" project second to the top rated Route 68 north. Third in line was curbing and improvement, of Fraley Street in the business section. A notice of advertising of bids for the McKean County portion of the "Old Route 219" project was received today from office of Park II. Martin, state Secretary of Highways.

The bids will he advertised on March 4A. and March 31 and will be opened April 28. The sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of Highways, Boom 506, North Office Building' at the State Capitol until 11 a.m., EST, on April 28. The bids will be publicly opened and scheduled and the contract awarded as soon thereafter as possible for surfacing of approximately 13,582 linear feet of the 22 foot highway with a bituminous surface. The portion of highway advertised is within McKean County and similar bids for the Elk County section will be advertised in that county.

The route is designated as Legislative Route 42046 (1R), T.R. 219 since the new cutoff was constructed between Lantz Corners and Wilcox. The approximately nine miles of highway continues to carry a heavy load of area and through traffic as well as serving as the main access route to the Twin Lakes recreational area in the Allegheny National Forest seven miles south of Kane. Also, traffic moving in from the west via Route 6 and from local points uses the route to reach the East Branch Flood Control Dam at Glen Hazel. Also, the route is important industrially, serving as connecting link for Stackpole operations in Kane, Johnsonburg and St.

Marys and for wood hauling to various area industries. Mr. Ackley, in commenting: on the Fraley Street Husiness section project, noted that he had been in contact with representatives of Kane Borough Council and had discussed the project with Council President Stanley Homan and other officials. 4 He noted that the existing curbing1 is too old to be of use and that "the Highways Department is planning the project over a two year program to include widening and recurbing." He explained that the job would be costly in Kane because of the extensive changes necessary by utilities. It is planned to widen Fraley street by six feet, which will mean moving back street lights and other Ijnes.

To engineer and complete this project, approximately two years time will be required, it was stated. Locally, many business firms have expressed desire to replace sidewalks and to make other improvements. Such work has been held up unUl the new curb lines are set. Proper drainage also will be a problem for the project. At points today, the curb has dropped below sidewalk levels.

At other points, the curb is so high that car doors cannot be opened, forcing motorists to leave their cars "in traffic' This has resulted in a high toll of car doors and narrow escapes from serious personal injuries. Route 68 north from Kane remains in question. Many agencies are" involved in an access route to the Kinzua Dam area north of Kane. Representatives of the Planning and Projects Committee will be In Bradford tomorrow evening to hear Dale Williams from the U. S.

Army Corps of Engineers district office in Pittsburgh discuss Of course there are many other reasons why school bonds and taxes are voted down. School administrators may get grabby with public money. They may for facilities that aren't really needed. They may go overboard on luxurious frills. But time after time, where the need se.ms urgent and the cause legitimate, it is apathy, ignorance, nd resistance to taxes that defeat lool bond issues at the polls, some school boards into postponing requests for needed funds, or asking for much less than they really need.

The extent to which these factors operate was shown in a newsman's survey in St. and Parma, Ohio one a city where a bond issue was defeated recently, the otjier where it passed on a second try. The problems these communities face are typical of the problems tratcrs and taxpayers almost everywhere. The Slum Problem Most large cities have, like St. Louis, school buildings erected many years ago and sadly.

antiquated. Most also have their slums, where the tax return is lowest but 'e educational needs greatest. Suburbs like Parma face simi lar problems across the young families with lots of children, but little if any industry to ease the tax burden on the homeowner. Details differ from city to city, but the basic question remains the same where are they to get money for their, schools. Let's look at the ihree factors in some specific cases.

Apathy: Last May, 6.7 per con4, of the registered voters in St. Louis, Mo went to the polls and voted "no" on two school. bond issues totaling $29.5 million. The "no" turnout was one registered vcter out of 15, but it was chough to defeat the bond issues because 82.2 per cent of the registered voters didn't bother to vote 'that day. Ignorance: a housewife in 'St.

Louis was outraged. "It's criminal the way they have raised our property taxes," she said. "You just wouldn't believe how r.iuch they're soaking us." But she couldn't say whether her property taxes were closer to $130 or $1,000. Resistance to taxes: A man living on a pension in Parma, Ohio, said, "I know we need new schools. Put I ron't afford to pay higher taxes.

I'm being taxed to death. If my income went up, I'd be willing to have my taxes raised for the schools. But I can't pay any more out. of what I'm getting now." Is Aid Necessary? It is against this background that the question of federal aid to education is now bein' fought out again in Congress. Is aid necessary? Each side is marshalling facts and figures.

Proponents cite statistics compiled by the U.S. Office of Educa tit As cf last fall, public school enrollment was at a record high ot 36.3 milion pupils there was a shortage of 142,100 classrooms there were about 685,000 pupils on curtailed or half day sessions altogether there were 1,868,000 pupils in excess of normal classroom capacity. Others quote the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The classroom short rge is largely a paper emergency. States and communities for the most part have been and are building an adequate number of class looms to accommodate the nation's school age population." The National Education Associ ation (NEA), representing 700,000 professional educators, says there A SON FOR A Note to Pastors All pastors of Kane area churches are asked to have information on their special Palm Sunday programs in the Kane Republican office by noon Thursday, March 23, if they wish their programs to be prominently men.

tioned. The Kane Republican plans to publish a front page story on Palm Sunday programs in its March 25 issue and to carry a story on March ,27 30 Holy Week services in its March issue. The Good Friday will be printed in our March 30 issue. Information for the March 27 and March 30 stories should be brought to this office this Friday or Saturday. Information on the Easter Sunday services should be brought to the Kane Republican office by noon Thursday, March 30, if pastors wish their Easter' Sunday services to be prominently mentioned.

Clark Gable's RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CLARION STATE HARRISBURG UP) The capital expenditure recommendations for Pennsylvania state (teacher) colleges for 1961 63, all to be financed by the General State Authority, in elude: Clarion Water storage tank and softener, boiler plant addition, land acquisition, dining hall and kitchen, president's residence planning of science classroom building and planetarium, $1,830,103. WASN'T EVEN IN POTTSVILLE: POULSON POTTS VI LLE, Pa. UP) Robert Poulson testified today that police in Philadelphia told him what to say in a confession, that he agreed to go along with but that the statement is altogether untrue. Poulson, 25, on trial as the first of five defendants accused of robbing the John B. Rich home here in 1959, took the stand Monday, denying any part in the burglary.

He said he wasn't even in Pottsville at the tme. Widow to his wite said, as too much ot a handicap for a little kid to hear." The baby was born at 7:48 a.m. by Caesareari section with Mrs. Gable, under, spinal anesthesia, watching the delivery in the reflection of a surgery light fixture. Mrs.

Gable was given a sedative and returned to her fourth floor corner, room two floors above the room where Gable died. She awoke twice; during the afternoon when a nurse brought her the child, the first of Gable's five marriages. One of the friends said: "She's so. delighted with the little darling. He's so precious, so unbelievably beautiful for a new baby.

He has black, curly hair, twinkling eyes and a peaches and cream skin. He's just a lamb chop, as bright as a dollar." Name Husky Baby Today ifeb HOLLYWOOD UP) Clark Gable's widow, surrounded by congratulatory telegrams and flowers, decides today. on a name for the actor's 8 pound son born Monday. Both were described as thriving at Hollywood Presbyterian. Hospital, where.

Gable, 59, died last Nov. 16 of a heart attack. Kay Spreckels Gable has narrowed her choice of a name to two, her sister, Mrs. Gordon Nesser of suburban Canoga Park, said Monday night. "She told me earlier that if it was a boy she would name him either John or Charles, with Clark as the middle name.

She will decide definitely Mrs. Nesser said. Fan club presidents called to urge that the baby be named Clark Gable Jr. Gable had ruled that out, Kay Gable, widow of movie king Clark Gable, gives a slight wave as she arrives at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles to prepare for the birth of Gable's child. The baby boy was delivered by Caesarian section yesterday.

Gable's death Nov. 16 left his widow and her two children, Bunker, II, and Joan, 10 (by sugar heir Adolph Spreckels), to prepare for the child alone at Gable's rambling suburban Encino estate..