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KAN LICAN DAILY TEMPERATURES Overnight faiinlmuxa 30 Noon recording 61 WEATHER FORECAST Scattered front again tonight. Sunny and a little warmer tomorrow. VOL. LXXI. NO.

25 DIAL 837 6000 or 8376001 KANE and BIT. JEWETT, PA MONDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1963 SEVEN CENTS A COPY 1HC October 2510 A.M. PRESIDENT CONCERNED Menace of a AMERICAN DIPLOMATS ASKED MY HUSBAND TO Glass Set Sergeant Wire Receiver's Sale Postponed Date 10 Days Ahead of Treasurer Sale hm WSiere EHundreds lied: Officials EARTH SLIDES NEAR HI The complex finale of this area's last glass industry was set today with publication of a receiver sale notice for Sergeant Wire Glass Corporation to be held at the Court House in Smethport on Oct. 25.

This postponed sale on court order pre dates the announced Treasurer's sale which had been set for Nov. 5. PRIEST HOME FROM SOVIET PRISON Imprisoned in a Soviet prison more than 20 years, Rev. Walter Ciszek, 58, a Roman Catholic priest freed by the Russians in a prisoner swap with the U.S., la greeted at Idlewild Airport in New York by two of his sisters, Mrs. Helen Gearhart (left) and Sister Evangeline.

Another American, Marvin W. Makin en, 24, Ashburnham, arrested In the Soviet Union In 1961, also was released. ROCKEFELLER HID 8HRRY DISAGREE WISDOM OF REPUBLICAN DEBATE By WALTER R. MEARS WASHINGTON L) A sharp Fate of the plant and its contents, the buildings, land and real estate which include nine dwellings, may be determined by the Receiver Sale to be conducted by Samuel A. Man no of Kane in Court Room No.

2 at 10 a.m. on the sale date. Full details of the sale are published in the notice elsewhere in this edition of the Kane Republican. The Receiver Sale was initially scheduled in September, but delayed as result of protesting action by creditors and interested parties. There are liens in excess of $100,000 against the property federal, state, county along with back wages and an undisclosed number of judgments.

Until heavy snow caved in a huge section of roof on the tank and production equipment, Mr. Manno had prospects for sale as a ''going concern." If the interest can be revived at the Receiver Sale is un known. In the original sain date proceedings, salvage operators were present along with creditors. Mr. Manno said that every effort has been made to revitalize the industry and its employment of more than 60 men and it was known that ndustrial engineers had checked the plant only a few days before the roof cave in.

The sale will involve a parcel land, approximately eight acres, on which the industrial buildings of frame and sheet metal are located, the frame office building and one two story office building. Also included is about 3.5 acres with four single family dwelling units and five two family dwelling units, all of frame structure. In the plant is approximately 300, 000 square feet of glass in standard factory sizes. Most of this glass is non wired, figured glass of various sizes and the balance of about 80,000 feet in wire glass. The plant includes raw materials for glass production, tools and equipment.

The Notice: The notice today by Mr. Manno notes the sale will have effect of a "judicial sale, and all liens and en cumbrances against the realty shall be discharged. Local property taxes for the years 1360, 1961, 1962 and '63 will bo discharged only to the extent, that funds received from the sale of the real estate are utilized to pay such local property taxes." What effect, if any, the prior Receiver Sale will have on the announced Treasurer's Sale, was not known. Mr. Manno made no comment other than to state the Receiver Sale is court ordered.

Refutes Viet Nam Victory Prediction WASHINGTON UP) South Viet Nam's former ambassador to the United States warns "there is no possibility at all of victory over the Communists" under the regime ef President Ngo Dinh Diem. Interviewed Sunday on the CBS television program, "Face the Nation," Tran Van Chuong made the comment when asked about predictions by two top U.S. defense officials that the war against Communist guerrillas can be won by the end of 1965. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen.

Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, set the 1965 date after they returned from a recent inspection trip to Viet Nam. Chuong said the Diem regime "in effect is pushing them (the South Viet Namese people) into the arms of the Communists." BACK TO RUSSIA IN SWAP Arraigned last July as Russian spies, Ivan D. Egorov, 41, and his wife, Aleksandra, 39, are driven to New York's International Airport for a flight to Russia following their release a U.S. Russian swap.

PASS SERVICE TESTS By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON UP) President Kennedy and a lot of other Ameri cans are worried about the bad showing made by so many youn men tested for military service. Last year a few over 300,000 reported for initial draft examina tions. Virtually half of them, were found unqualified for service.

Near ly a fouith flunked fairly simple mental tests. This is enough to alarm any body, and Kennedy has set up a high level task force to prepare a program for the guidance, testing, counselling, training and re habilitation of those who don't measure up. The task force is to make a pre liminary report the first of next inth and a final report by the jt of the year. Rays of Hope: Bad as the situation is, those undertaking ihe study can find rays of hope. One is in the experience of the Army with illiterates in World War referred to by Kennedy in announcing the new effort.

The Army set up special training units for men who couldn't read or write, and trained 300,000 of them. Of these, 85 per cent passed the courses and went on to serve as soldiers. A sampling of these once illiter ates showed that a fourth of them rose to the rank of corporal or better, and a considerable number won decorations. Another encouraging study is reported by the President's Council on Physical Fitness. It found that the first time some 200,000 school children were given a minimum physical fitness test, about one third of them failed.

After 12 weeks of rather simple exercises, over 80 per cent could puss. Reports from colleges and universities show some grounds for encouragement, too. Yale, which gives thorough physical tests, had a failure rate of 66 per cent among lreshmen in 1960. Two years the rate was down to 57 per cent. Similar reports have come in from such widely distributed institutions as the Universities of Iowa and Florida and East Washington State College.

American children have ranked behind European youth in fitness. But there now come reports that the children in West Germany are getting soft and flabby ni their country waxes fat and prosperous. The West German children, say these reports, are going in for rich food and driving around in Volkswagens. GOLDITER DEADLINE WASHINGTON WW Sen. Barry Goldwater has ringed Jan.

27, 1964 on his calendar as day for an expected plunge into active competition for the Republican presidential nomination. That date represents the deadline for filing of petitions to put Goldwater's name in the April 14 Illinois presidential primary. Although the Arizona senator could permit his name to go on the ballot without lifting a finger by merely failing to ask by Feb. 1 that it be withdrawn, he said in an interview that he expects to announce his intentions by Jan. 27.

The Illinois primary is advisory only and the results there technically will not be binding on the state's 58 vote delegation to the San Francisco convention. But the importance of a show of strength in the state has been impressed on Goldwater and his strategists. Illinois, which went for President Kennedy in 1960, offers the senator his best opportunity to demonstrate vote getting ability in a big state. Some of his lieutenants think Illinois could provide the vital contention votes he needs to combine th support from the South, oth areas of the Midwest and the Far West to win the nomination. New Hampshire Goldwater has said he expects his name to be entered in the March 10 New Hampshire primary, where his consent is not required.

Petitions could be filed by the end of January for this race. He is likely to be opposed by New York Gov, Nelson A. Rockefeller in a battle for the state's 14 convention votes. LEAF COLLECTION STARTING TODAY Annual leaf pickup on borough streets will start on the South Side of Kane today and continue tomorrow. The pickup was delayed this year hen the borough crew concentrated on the Wetmore Avenue paving on which a $10,000 aid program hinged on completion before a mid October deadline.

Borough Secretary Manager William Perry said it is planned to intake leaf pickups Wednesday and Thursday ln the Greeve Jiddle areas In Second and Third Wards to spend Friday and Saturday in the First Ward and wind up the job In the Fourth Ward next week. Residents have been asked to have leaf accumulations between Hie sidewalk and curb. Burning Is prohibited on paved streets. LEAVE: By JEAN SrRAIN WILSON NEW YORK UP Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu says American diplomats unofficially advised her husband to leave South Viet Nam to help end the political crisis.

"There is nothing to do because they have not asked us to do anything officially yet," she told reporters on the NBC TV and radio program "Meet the Press" Sunday. But, widening her eyes and gesticulating, she said the request was "absolutely ridiculous." Her husband, Ngo Dinh Nhu, is the brother and chief adviser of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Several times since the loquacious lady arrived last Monday night, she has said: "They want the regime to fire my husband (not identifying they) but how can it, when he does not have any office?" "We ask them to tell us what is wrong with us, but we do not hear she said. Mrs. Nhu stressed that Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S.

ambassador to South Viet Nam, had not asked the Nhus to do anything. "They (unidentified) send people to say that it is good advice from a friend, nothing official, no. We always try to follow all advice that is good for both sides but we do not know what sve should do." Asked if she had any proof of her claim that the USIS (U.S. In formation Service) wished to topple the Diem regime, Mrs. Nhu replied: "It is true that they did it, and they still do it from what I hear in my country, because your people ask around very openly, 'are you pro coup or anti They do not hide it." She said, however, that she now believes that people in the USIS have misconstrued normal orders of the U.S.

government to look for replacements for the Diem regime just in case the situation is serious. "But instead of seeking other replacements, overzeal from a few people, well, they want to topple it." To be certain that her brother in law, President Diem, was not accused of sending her to the U.S. to speak for his regime, Mrs. Nhu sid she studiously avoided saying "goodbye" before departing from Saigon four months ago. The Nhu family shares the bachelor president's palace, where she acts as his official hostess.

"Perhaps we could get along if we were a little softer on communism," she suggested. She had al ready described the U.S. government as following "the new fashion of politics which is less anti Communist." Buddhists' Char res At the crux of the political crisis in Soutn Viet rsam are cnarges made by the Buddhists of religious oppression by the government of Diem, who is a Roman Catholic. The Buddhists claim 80 per cent of the South Vietnamese population. Mrs.

Nhu said Confucianism is her country's national religion, argu i ing that taking a census of Budd hists is impossible. However, she says the leaders of the Buddhist movement puhlished a book in 1962 estimating that only one million out of 40 million were Buddhist fol lowers then. 'God is in my corner," Mrs. Nhu told New York's official grjeter, Commissioner Richard Patterson, shortly before leaving her hotel to worship at St, Agnes Roman Cath olic Church Sunday. DF KANEOIES ATAGE0F63 George W.

Tew, 63, of Aliquippa, a brother in law of Mrs. Carl Tew of RD 2, Kane, and a former Kane resident, died Sunday at a Roches ter, hospital. He had been in ill health for the past year and his condition had become serious during the last three weeks. Mr. lew, who left Kane more than 40 years ago to reside in the Pittsburgh area, was employed for many years as a railroad telephone operator by the Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Railroad.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella Miller Tew; one son, George Tew, a grandson; three sisters, Mrs. Daisy Tyler and Mrs. Nellie Jones of Farmers Valley and Mrs. T.

M. Jones of Silver Spring, and two brothers, Percy Tew of Ridgway and John Tew of Baden. Another brother, Carl Tew of Kane, died in 1953. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Bachelor Bros. Funeral Home at Monaca.

Interment will be in Allegheny Memorial Park. Mrs. Carl Tew plans t0 attend the funeral. A Sailor Hailed WASHINGTON UP) President Kennedy, perhaps 100 Italian Americans and a few Spaniards celebrated Columbus Day Saturday with an informal ceremony in the White House rose garden. Kennedy said in a chat that the discoverer of America probably was the foremost sailor in history but he supposed that Columbus' perseverence was even more outstanding than his seamanship.

"The first voyages are the hard ones," Kennedy said, "and they require the perseverence and character. And I think that is u. good lesson for all of us today as we attempt rew things." DAM, THOUGH Deny Full Evacuation Report as Search Goes On for Bodies. By WILLIAM MAIRANI BELLUNO, Italy GPX Authorities deniect today that a huge new landslide is moving rapidly down on the Vaiont Dam reservoir. Provincial authorities in Belluno and Italian Army officials on the shores of the reservoir said there was no new avalanche menace beyond earth slides that have been threatening since the catastrophic avalanche hit the reservoir Wednesday night.

Most residents of villages in the area who escaped the flood generated by the first avalanche were taken out last week. There were reports today that the threatened landslides started moving and that fuil evacuation had been ordered. But authorities denied these reports and said villagers had actually been authorized to return briefly to their homes this morning to pick up belongings. The man who built the Vaiont Dam said tod'iy the giant barrier could still furnish electricity after repairs. "1 see no reason for not using the clam again," said Giuseppe Torno.

"It's not badly damaged and can provide hydroelectric power again with repairs. With part of Mt. Toe in the middle, the reservoir will be much smaller, of course, but still very laige." Thousands of soldiers still dug in the mud for bodies, and the exact casualty toll was not known. President Antonio Segni, touring the area Sunday, was told by Interior Minister Mariano Rumor that at least 1,809 persons were dead in Longarone and other vilU.gcs below the dam. 3,000 Dead? He said at least 300 were presumed dead from village around the reservoir.

Rescue officials said the final figure could reach 3.0m). Torno said the fact that the dam held despite the gigantic landliile was proof of its excellence, lie said th.it if the 873 foot high concrete dam had given away, thousands more wculd have died. "From a geological point of view, no man in the world could have forecast such a tragedy," said his assistant, Alberto Zanon. Most of the nation was still not convinced. A government commission pressed an investigation to determine whether authorities knew the side of rain soaked Mt.

Toe was slipping and whether evacuation warnings would have averted the loss of life. HURRICANE FLORA "MOST MIAMI, Fla. UP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro placed Cuba's death toll at more than 1.000 Sunday and Hurricane Flora took her place in history as the most deadly storm ever spawned in the tropical Atlantic. The World Health Organization estimated that more than 5K died earlier when Haiti was blasted 'by winds with gusts of .200 miles' an hour and torrents of rain. At least 17 were killed on tho island of Tobago.

Flora thus surpassed the 63 year old record of the hurricane which rammed a 15 foot tidal wave across Galveston, on Sept. 8, 1900, drowning some 6,000 persons. Castro's first official communique, broadcast Sunday by Cuban radio, said hurricane rains, which pounded the island for five straight (lays starting Oct. 4, created floods which inundated whole towns in Oriente and Camaguey provinces. ''Crops and cattle were obliterated in that region and highways, roads and railways were destroyed," Castro repoited.

RETARDED GROUP'S MEETING IN KANE A major effort to start a "sheltered workshop" in McKean County for retarded people will feature a meeting tonight in the library of the junior high school here. The 8 p.m. meeting is sponsored by the McKean County Association for Retarded Children. A state official, Clarence E. Vin ans, area consultant for the Division of Community Mental Health Planning and Consultation, Oifice of Mental Health, Ilarrisburg, will be the speaker.

He will explain steps necessary in planning such a workshop. Refreshments, in charge of Mm. Nancy Cunningham of Kane, will be served following the meeting. Bishop is Advanced Toward Sainthood VATICAN CITY UP) The Roman Catholic Church began three days of special masses and sermons today to honor a 19th century Philadelphia, bishop following his beatification. John Nepomuucnce Neumann, a Bohemian youth who went to America as a frontier missionary and was bishop of Philadelphia from 1S52 to 1860, was advanced on the road to sainthood it ceremonies in St.

Peter's Basilica Sunday. Planeloads of pilgrims flew tr Ronv from Pennsylvania. The special services this week are being held in the Basilica of St. Marys Major. Bishop Neumann was the second America, to achieve the stite of "beatus" blessed this year.

Mother Elizabeth Ann ton, a New York nun, was elevated la March. Beatification is the final step before sainthood. However, sainthood does not automatically follow IN 1ST. PENNSYLVANIA By The Associated Press Labor peace has came to west crn Pennsylvania in a sudden rush Agreements on labor contracts Sunday set the stage today for the return to work of hundreds of workers in seven plants idled by strikes. A tentative agreement was reach ed for a contract at an eighth plant pending ratification by strik ers.

Final agreements were reached for three plants of Erie Forge and Steel Co. at Erie, two plnats of Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. at Titusville and Pittsburgh, the Mead ville area plant of the National Bearing Division of American Brake Shoe Co. and the McKees port plant of the Fort Pitt Steel Casting Division of Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Co. Strikers at the Bridgeville plant of Universal Cvcloos vote tonieht on whether to ratify the agree ment worked out by negotiators Members of Local 1573 of the United Steelworkers Union at the Erie Forge plants voted 575 to 369 to accept a pay cut in wake of a company threat to shut down the plants permanently if the six week strike didn't end today The contract slashed off a 17 cent an hour cost of living adjustment and reduced fringe benefits of 7 1 2 cents an hour.

Closing Threat The company, which employs 1, 200 in what is considered Erie's second largest industry, issued the threat last week, saying the com pany was suffering heavy financial losses and the loss of big customers because of the strike. No details were available on the contract won by the 300 strikers at the Universal Cyclops plant in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville section and the 650 employes at the company's plant at Titusville. Those "workers, represented by Local 178 of the USW, struck Sept. 28 against what the union said was the company's refusal to discuss insurance and vacation programs similar to those in the basic steel in dustry. The agreement by negotiators put the contract into effect automatically without union membership ratification.

Production was to resume today at the American Brake Shoe plant near Meadville following ratification of a three year contract that granted some 170 machinists Wages and benefits estimated to be worth 29 cents an hour. The strike, which was called Sept. 30 by Local 1385 of the International Association of Machin. ists, AFL CIO, also idled about 150 other workers who honored machinist picket lines. Some 400 steelworkers at the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry plant in MtKecsport won a two year contract granting seven cents an hour in wages and fringe benefits.

The plant was struck Sept. 28 by local 1409 of the USW. Meanwhile, a strike continues against the company's Engineering and Machine Division at Glassport which employs about 900 workers. Local 1306 of the USW walked out the same day the McKeesport plant was struck. Lee Radziwul.

exchange about debates and party unity has stepped up the tempo of the undeclared struggle for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Sen. Barry Goldwater and Gov." Nelson A. Rockefeller, leading prospects for the GOP nod, traded barbed comments after the New York governor called Saturday for a series of debates on how the party should deal with the issues of the day and the Arizona senator turned him down. It added up to a long distance debate about how best to unite the party for the presidential race next year.

Goldwater said that if Rockefeller had thought it through, he might have decided that intraparty debates could split the party. Rockefeller said Sunday night that Goldwater was mistaken. He said he hoped the senator would change his mind. Meanwhile the chairman of the Republican National Committe said he would not object if Rockefeller and Goldwater wanted to discuss differences within the party. "I've always been of the school that the party suffers from underexposure," Rep.

William E. Miller of New York said. But Goldwater insisted that debates should be with Democrats, not with other Republicans. Oregon Speeches Rockefeller and Goldwater addressed Western Republicans gathered at Eugene, Saturday, but they did not meet. Rockefeller flew home shortly before Goldwater arrived.

Goldwater, in a Saturday night address at Eugene, said Republicans are "a party of non conformists," but that GOP disagreements should be kept in the party arena and "not spread across the land for the opposition to see." At another Republican meeting, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower disclaimed any "kingmaker" role at next July's San Francisco convention and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon said, "There are no contingencies under which I would become a candidate" for the GOP nomination. Convoy Cleared By the Russians BERLIN A large U.S. Army convoy cleared without trouble through the Soviet checkpoint today en route back to West Germany.

The convoy 'consisted of 26 vehicles with 149 men. It cleared through the checkpoint at Babels berg, outside West Berlin, in 36 minutes. It was understood that the troops dismounted to be counted by Soviet officers before proceeding along the 110 mile superhighway connecting the Communist surrounded city with West Germany. If a convoy carries an unusually large number of troops, the commander usually lets the Soviets count individually the men as a courtesy to speed up movement. But the convoy the Russians delayed last weekend consisted of only 18 vehicles with 61 men, and the convoy commander refused to let his men dismount and be counted.

FIREMEN CALLED TO CADDEN RESIDENCE Kane fire units were called to the Thomas Cadden residence at 515 Elk Avneue at 1:10 a.m. Sunday when smoke from a smouldering fire in a chair filled the residence. It was assumed that a cigaret started the fire. The smoke was noticed by a neighbor who aroused Mr. Cadden as the alarm was turned in.

Damage was confined to the chair, Kinzua Darn Area Blocked Off: Chamber The Kane Chamber of Commerce and McKean County Department of Highways today hastened to correct a roadside sign directing motorists to the Kinzua Dam via the Kinzua Road, lit. 321 north. The Kinzua Dam is not accessible via Rt. 321 and Rt. 59 from Kane as result of construction of the "Dev il's Elbow" bridge.

Rt. 59 has been closed to all traffic at Delvil's Elbow for two weeks. From Kane, motorists can reach Kinzua via Rt. 321 and then head for Jake's Rocks, where the Kinzua Dam construction can be seen from a bird's eye view at several overlook points created by the U.S. Forest Service.

Also, there is a view of the construction from the Coal Knob tower in the same immediate area. Traffic can proceed over the Brown's Run Forest Service road to Warren. Warnings have been issued on the approach up the steep grade from Kinzua where at one point on the Jake's Rocks access road, which is well marked, there is a 6.6 clearance. Construction engineers report this is ample for automobiles but not larger vehicles. ANF Supervisor William Wentz has urged caution at this point.

Bridge Construction The uphill approach to Jake's Rocks today is the scene of major activity on the huge Kinzua Lake bridge by Casey Construction Company. Steel now is being placed by the American Bridge Company for the structure that will rest on piers extended to 145 feet in height, Atop the piers, the steel truss bridge will add another 20 feet to the height. On the basis of elevations, there will be 90 feet of water under the bridge at some future time. The Casey Construction Company has every phase of its 4 millions plus project on target except the east abutment where fill was delayed. This phase will be on the schedule shortly.

On the Devil's Elbow, where the highest pier is 110 feet, the Casey Construction Company will begin pouring concrete this week. The Casey firm is handling the bridge project for O'Block Construction, which has the contract for the final link of the relocated Rt. 59 via Devil's Elbow to the Casey bridge. American Bridge will place steel on thut section and may have the two bridge jobs underway simultaneously. Those who wish to visit actual dam construction, access is via Rt.

6 between Warren and Clarendon to Route 59 to dead end on Rt. 59 above the dam. An excellent view point is the U.S. Army Corps overlook on Route 59 just upstream from the Hunkin Conkey Construction. Highway signing has been corrected, but possibility of misinterpretation of information always is possible.

PKHIWIHWr 1 11 tlHI'HWW WW I Mil WUIDHM iL iW H. VIM 4' I I 1 i County Federation Of Women's Clubs To Meet in Kane The McKean County Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its annual fall meeting at the Kane First Methodist Church on Wednesday, Oct. 16, with the Philomathea'n Club, Mrs. Wade Crate, president, as the hostess group. Registration will begin at 9:30 o'clock, followed by the morning session at 10 o'clock.

Mrs. John L. Weeter, Northwest District vice president, will speak on the subject, "What Do You Hold In Your Hand?" Mrs. John M. Spatz, program chairman of the Pennsylvania Federation, will be the speaker at the afternoon session.

Her topic will be "Program the Challenge of It." Mrs. Eben H. Watts, pianist, will play several selections at the morning session. Mrs. Joseph Baltista, soloist, will sing at the afternoon session, with Mrs.

Edward Capp as her accompanist. Mrs. Joseph Grandinetti, president of the McKean County Federation, will preside at the meeting. Luncheon will be served at 12:43 o'clock. FREEMAN DEFENDS THE WHEAT SALE WASHINGTON tD Secretary of Agriculture Orville L.

Freeman expects a Soviet delegation to arrive within a week to 10 days to discuss terms for buying American wheat. Defending the proposed sale, Freeman said that if 150 200 million bushels are sold to Russia, U.S. taxpayers will save about $200 million in wheat storage costs alone. Freeman was interviewed Sunday on ABC's "Issues and Answers" radio and television program. MEDITERRANEAN VACATION Touring the ruins on the is land of Crete, Greece, Mrs.

Jacqueline Kennedy, on a two week private vacation in the Mediterranean, is followed by ner lister. Princess.