Warren Times Mirror from Warren, Pennsylvania • Page 9

Official Washington, Press Corps Mourning Columnist Ed Koterba By JOHN KOENIG JK. WASHINGTON (AP) Official Washington and the Pennsylvanians expressed regrets on the death of columnist Ed Koterba in a West Coast plane crash. President Kennedy took time at his news conference Wednesday to express his own feeling of personal loss in the death of and an a i Pennsylvania Sens. Joseph S. Clark, and Hugh Scott, and Rep.

J. Irving Whalley, R-Pa. who represents the district that was a of sorts to roving reporter Koterba, all joined in a tribute to his memory. The three expressed their regrets over the untimely death of a "splendid newspaperman and a great loss to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the press corps in Washington. Koterba, 42, was killed with four others, including reporter Ned Trimble of the Kansas City Star, in a private plane crash over the Pacific Ocean near La Push, Wash.

A native of Omaha, Koterba began his newspaper career on the Waynesboro, Record- Herald. A colleague at the time was John R. Deitrick, later to join the Harrisburg, Bureau of the Associated Press and now head of a New York City Public Relations firm. Koterba and Deitrick worked together as young reporters in the and then Koterba, although married to the daughter of the publisher of the Record Herald, accepted a job as a reporter with the Washington Times-Herald and later with the Washington Post. father-in-law, the late Floyd Chalfant, publisher of the Record-Herald, was killed several yean ago in an auto accident while on a trip to the West.

While working on the Washington Post, Koterba started his syndicated column. His wife, Dorothy, aided him in handling the clerical work during the early days of the column. Koterba, always pleasant and and alert, was one of the syndicated Washington column i known personally to reporters who cover the Capitol. He was on the scene in the Senate and Buy U. S.

Savings Bonds the House, or wherever a story was breaking that might provide him with feature or column material. Although Koterba had many important contracts, he never forgot the small home-town type ones. He continued his membership in the Tri-State Press Club which meets several times a year in one of the small cities that line the borders of Southern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Attending these functions with his brother-in-law, Paul F. Chalfant, now publisher of the Waynesboro Record Herald, Koterba would greet old colleagues like Paul Roy, editor of the Gettysburg, Times; Elmer Jackson, general manager of the Annapolis Capital; Theodore Serrill, former executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association.

And W. J. (Wib) Davis and William Curry, veteran staffers on the Waynesboro Record Herald. Retiring Justice, Newspaperman Honored by Pennsylvania's, Bar BEDFORD. Pa.

M. Ferst, an exeutive of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charles Alvin Jones, retiring chief justice of the State Supreme Court, are the recipients of awards from the Pennsylvania ar Association. Both men were honored during a banquet Wednesday night at the annual summer meeting. Ferst received the 1961 Distinguished Service Award for service to the Pennsylvania Bar as well as the field of Ferst, editor of the quarterly the past 20 years, is vice president, secretary and counsel of Triangle Publications, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Justice Jones, who is retiring due to an eye ailment, was honored for his service as a lawyer and judge.

He has been on the Supreme Court bench 16 years, live as chief justice. The Pennsylvania Council of Juvenile Court Judges, meeting in conjunction with the bar meeting, came out in opposition to a State Senate bill that would give justices of the peace jurisdiction over cases in whici. 16 or over are charged violations of the Motor Vehicle Code. Such cases come under Juvenile Court jurisdiction under present law. The council president, Judge Dale F.

Shughart of Carlisle, said the bill, if passed, would materially weaken the whole juvenile court program in Pennsylvania. WATER RATE HIKE HARRISBURG The Ridgeville Water Co. of Erie, which services the Ridgeville Housing Development in Millcreek Erie County, is to raise rates of its 55 Ridgeville area customers $820 annually on Saturday. The Public Utility Commission authorized the increase Wednesday. State Holding Man Accused In Two Holdups PITTSBURGH Leo S.

Friel, accused in two holdups that netted $14,000, is in the custody of state authorities today. Federal officials released Friel, 35, to the state Wednesday when U. S. Commissioner Alexander Warren, (Pa.) Times-Mirror, June 29, McNaugher dismissed a federal charge of fleeing the state to avoid prosecution against Friel. Friel arrested June 20 in suburban Dormont.

He was scheduled to go on trial in Pittsburgh last May but disappeared. He was charged with the $10,000 holdup of the Forester Federal Savings and Loan Association here on Oct. 23, 1960, and the 4,000 holdup of a payroll messenger at Malvern, Chester County, last May 19. Wendell W. Stanton, an assistant U.

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