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HRA to sell land to Greco for high-rise The Haxleton Redevelopment Authority agreed yesterday to idl to Grew Ceo- trim. a parcel of land In the Downtown South Urban Renewal area (or the purpose or erecting a ISO-unit high-rise apartment building (or low and middle tarome (amiUea. The building would be 11 stories high, and would have space for commercial retail outlets on the lower levels. Rocco Bartetta, HRA board chairman, said the property is bound by Wyoming. Pine, Mine and Juniper Streets, and that the price of the land Is $88,800.

The decision to sell the land, known as Parcel J. was made following a motion by Bartetta, with an amendment by Mrs. Mary Ancharskt secretary-treasurer. Barietta's motion was to proceed with the application of Greco Centrum, giving Michael Greco permission to die an application with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the subsidized housing project Mrs. Ancharskl's amendment stated thai the property deed must be picked up by Greco within 90 days, which would require Greco Centrum to begin paying taxes on the property Immediately.

Voting to pass the motion and amend ment were Bartetta, Ancharskl and Jack Sugarman. Joseph Bove abstained, and Atty Robert J. Gillespie Jr. was absent Bartetta had a second modon passed, regarding another parcel of land known as Parcel located between Wyoming, Laurel, Mine and Juniper Streets. Bartetta asked that the land be advertised immediately and negotiations be entered into with prospective developers with regards to commercial construction.

The price of that parcel Is $93,152, Bartetta said. Following approval action, Michael Greco asked for the first right of refusal on the property, which means he would hare the tight to match any proposal put forth by any other developer-acceptable by the board. That request was approved. As $11,000 down payment by Greco on the above property will be credited toward his purchase of Parcel where the high-rise will be eventually constructed. Bartetta told the Standard-Speaker that HRA and the City of Hazieton are looking for early eloseouts on the properties, and are attempting to sell both plots of ground to private Individuals or firms In order to get them hack on the tax With regards to action on the parcel between Wyoming and Laurel, Bartetta said If Greco still wants the property, he will have to rebtd after It hu been advertised for sale, and compete with other Interested parties.

As It now stands, Greco has relinquished his rights to the property. In other action. Atty. Anthony Sidari Informed the board that HRA and the city have been named as defendants In a suit of trespass by Beatice Borar of Main StlnSheppton. Sidari said notification of the suit filed In the Luterat County Court, gave bo further mf ormaBoo other than what be told the board.

However, he stated that the Authority will file with the court asking the plaintiff to state the specifics of the action. Howard Sugarman, HRA's executive director, noted that the United Mine Workers of America will relocata Its current office from Its present location at Broad and Vine Streets to the downtown (CMtlaoed raft Colasaa 1) HAZLETON A JL Final KM Edition tandard Speaker Weather Cloudy VOL 111, NO. 31,431 ESTABLISHED Mayor pupil at school for magistrates 1866 HAZLETON, PA, 18201 days before Carter announced Lance's selection as budget chief. But in prepared testimony, Tarleton said Lance did not ask him to lift the restrictions. He said they were lifted "because the bank had returned to sound operating procedures and for no other reasons." Lance planned a meeting with Carter 1 20s and showers tonight.

Upper 50s. (Details on Paga 2) The Law Enforcement Academy on the campus of Wilson College In that city confirmed this morning that Turnbach is enrolled In the four-week course, which began last week. The course is administered by Pennsylvania Department of Education under the auspices of the Minor Judiciary Education Board. All new magistrates who are not lawyers by profession must take and pass the course, either before or after taking office. Tumbach's attendance at the classes In Chambersburg has spurred political rumors here that be has received the endorsement of Martin L.

Murray, president pro tempore of the state Senate, for an appointment ai Hazleton's next magistrate. Murray denied the rumors this morning, however, saying be has made no recommendations to the Governor's office for the magisterial post. Meanwhile Don Paule, director of boards and commissions for Gov. Milton J. Shapp, also said no letter of recom- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Kent State parents win new trial CINCINNATI (AP) Parents of students killed and wounded In the Kent State antiwar demonstrations won a new trial in their attempt to collect $46 million.

At the same time, the way again was cleared for a gymnasium annex near the site of the shootings. "It looks like the judicial system really works," said Sarah Scheuer, whose daughter, Sandra, was one of the four students killed in the May 4, 1970, confrontation with Ohio National Guardsmen. No Immediate comment was available from Gov. James Rhodes, state officials and National Guardsmen who are subject of the suit. Meanwhile, a campus group called the May 4th Coalition said it would ask the U.S.

Supreme Court today for a third time to halt construction of the $6 million annex. The coalition hopes to preserve the site as a historic landmark. The 6th U.S. District Court of Appeals here sent the damage suit back to the U.S. District Court In Cleveland because a juror had been "threatened and assaulted" during the 15-week trial.

The district court never questioned the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) lawyer says Mrs. Haggart's own gun and stealing $415 and her car. They are to be tried separately as adults. Agrella's trial Is set for Nov. 7, Rubin disclosed in earlier court briefs (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) the Carter administration.

Moore took part in a telephone conversation with Lance, Carter and others on Dec. 1 in which problems at one of Lance's banks were discussed. In announcing his intention to call Moore as a witness, Percy said he had no (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) mess said Liddy, crediting that to strict religious education and the adage: When in Rome do as the Romans do. He said he and his wife had not watched last week's television mini-series "Washington Behind Closed Doors," based on the book, "The Company, by John Ehrlichman, a Watergate figure still in prison. But he has found time to read newspapers, hard to come by In prison.

Asked if he saw any parallels between the Bert Lance affair and Watergate, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) 8 DEAD, HUNDREDS STRANDED IN FLOOD Cars float toward Kansas and hundreds stranded or homeless. Some creeks in the Missouri city rose City's Country Club Plaza, one of the nation's oldest shopping centers, as as high as 23 feet last night. More, than 150 private boats are being used for raging flood waters cover streets. At least eight persons are known dead rescue work. (AP Laserphoto) Carter coverup seen in Lance post TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1977 a at the White House today.

Press Secretary Jody Powell said it was a normal weekly get-together and he didn't know whether increasing demands for Lance's resignation would be discussed. Moore, now chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, was special counsel on ethics and conflicts of interest for the transition group that helped set up lose a cavalcade of reporters on the streets of New York. "Yes, indeed, I am very very happy these days," said a smiling, relaxed Liddy. Asked where he's headed, Liddy repeated the cryptic phrase he gave reporters after his release from federal prison in Danbury, Wednesday.

"East of the sun and west of the moon." But now, he explained, east of the sun was the fancy hotel suite where he gave his first interviews last week, while west of the moon is an unidentified remote spot where he and his wife could be alone for their first real honeymoon in 20 years of marriage. Tanned and wearing a cord suit with striped tie, Liddy sipped brandy and posed with his wife for photographers, talking about the last several days. "I was a bit surprised at how quickly one reaccommodates to a situation. I adapted to prison very rapidly and I adapted back to freedom very rapidly," Honest buyer saves day BIRMINGHAM, Ala (AP) A member of a Sunday school class at Cahaba Heights Baptist Church donated a pair of her husband's shoes to be told at a benevolent garage sale Saturday. When her husband came home and found out about it, he told her he had been hiding some rings and other Jewelry In one of the shoes.

When the buyer tried to put on the shoes Sunday, one of them wouldn't fit and he found out why. He returned the shoes to the pastor Monday, saying be felt whoever had donated the shoes had made a mistake. x-1 1 1 i- tji- By BOB SADTZA Mayor James A. Turnbach, who reportedly has strong political backing for an appointment as Hazieton City district magistrate, currently Is attending a magistrates' training school in Chambersburg. Princess escapes assassin ANTIBES, France- (AP) Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevl's twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlevl, escaped unhurt early today from an assassination attempt on the French Riviera, but her lady in waiting was killed and a male companion was wounded in the arm, police reported.

The two masked gunmen who stopped the 57-year-old Iranian princess' Rolls Royce on a seaside road about 4 a.m. and opened fire escaped. The stolen car they used was found abandoned In Antibes. The gunmen made no attempt to rob the occupants of the luxurious limousine, and it was believed the motive (or the assassination attempt was political. Small groups of Iranians in France and other countries are dedicated to the overthrow of the shah's authoritarian rule.

Last November an Iranian diplomat In Paris was wounded in an assassination attempt. Princess Ashraf has been Iran's representative to a number of United Nations agencies and has been an active worker for women's rights In her own country and elsewhere in the Third World. Her husband, Medhi Bousheri, runs an Iranian specialty emporium in Paris, and she is a frequent visit to their Riviera villa at Juan les Pins. They love 1929 car, keep it in house FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (AP)-Lots of people have cars valued at $10,00, but most don't keep them in their housei.

Elmer Duellman is an exception. His prize is a shiny-as-new 1929 touring car a Model A Ford Phaeton. "I bought it and my wife said, 'Boy, that's nice enough to put in the and that's what we did," said Duellman, 37, who has assembled a collection of antique cars and who operates his own auto salvage yard. A movable wall section allowi the auto to be driven in and out of the family room. he has filed his own suit claiming Miami's controversial homosexual rights law was unconstitutional.

Zamora and Darrell Agrella, 14, are accused of breaking into the Miami Beach home of Elinor Haggart, 83, on June 4 and shooting her to death with Liddy finds new happ WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate committee Is being asked to find out if there was a coverup of Bert Lance's financial problems before President Carter named the former Georgia banker to head the Office of Management and Budget. Sen. Charles Percy, raising the question of a coverup Monday, said he wants to call the President's former ethics adviser, John L. Moore, to testify at the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings into Lance's financial affairs. After hearing testimony from Robert Bloom, who was acting comptroller of the currency at the time Lance was nominated for the budget post, Percy said: "There are all the elements, it would appear from the testimony, of a coverup." The Senate panel, holding hearings on Lance's financial affairs, scheduled testimony today from Donald L.

Tarleton, the Atlanta regional administrator for the comptroller of the currency. Tarleton removed restrictions placed by federal examiners on the Calhoun (Ga.) First National Bank, which Lance headed as chairman of the board, two WASHINGTON (AP) G. Gordon Liddy, the silent Watergate conspirator, says he is adapting to freedom as quickly as he adapted to prison. He's spending his time running races with his son, getting to know his wife again and being "very, very happy." Dining with his wife, Frances, at a Washington restaurant Monday on his sixth day as a free man, Liddy, who plotted the Watergate break-in that deposed a president, talked about the joys of racing his 13-year-old son, being with his wife once again and trying to Rescued balloonists TV prompted slaying, flights quit ocean Index MIAMI (AP) A defense attorney hopes to use a defense of "television intoxication" to prove that a 15-year-old boy charged with shooting an elderly woman to death was addicted to television crime shows. Principals to the case say attorney Ellis Rubin could break new legal ground with such a defense In the Sept.

26 trial of Ronald Zamora. "Without the influence of television there would not have been any crime," Rubin argued at a pretrial conference Monday. He claims Zamora's constant exposure to TV crime shows such as "Kojak" and "Police Woman" and a television film depicting the Charles Manson mass murders was responsible for "diseasing his mind and Impairing his behavorial controls." Rubin has often taken cases that attract publicity. He helped Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt win parole, and I closest to success was Edward Yost of Sioux Falls, S.D., who ditched 530 miles short of Portugal last October after drifting from Maine.

Abruzzo and Anderson left the Massachusetts coast at dusk Friday hoping to make France in three days. They were on schedule until Monday when a circling air mass trapped their five-story-high balloon, the Double Eagle, over the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. soon began losing altitude," Abruzzo said. "The balloon Iced up badly. At the same time, we were caught by the winds and began to drift north instead of south.

The weather was pure hell. "Both our. emergency radio (Continued on Page 2, Column S) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Two American balloonists who were rescued in good shape after their attempt to float across the Atlantic failed say they won't try again. A U.S. Air Force helicopter rescued Ben L.

Abruzzo, 47, and Maxie Anderson, ,44, from their floating gondola off the northwest coast of Iceland Monday night after Ice and whirlpool winds forced them down 800 miles short of their goal. "We won't give it another try," said the wet and weary adventurers from Albuquerque, N.M., after the helicopter brought them to the Keflavlk Air Base 20 miles southwest of Reykjavik. It was the 15th unsuccessful trans-Atlantic attempt by balloonists since the middle of the 19th Century. Five of them died trying. The one who came Page Freeland 22 Funerals 2 Dear Abby 16 Hospital Reports 4 Beaver Meadows 24 McAdoo 22 Births 4 Don Oakley 12 John Chamberlain 12 Race Results 21 Classified 25-26-27 Ray Saul 20 Comics, Crossword 18 Sports 20-21 Deaths 2 Stocks, Markets 24 Mason Denison 12 Theatres j.

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