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Now in our 98th year NEW CASTLE NEWS NINETY EIGHTH YEAR No. 232 NEW CASTLE NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 13,1978 -22 Pages $1.05 PER WEEK BY CARRIER-SINGLE COPY 2fr Bitter words end Shapp, Kane Robert P. Kane HARRISBURG (UPI) Gov. Milton Shapp and former Attorney General Robert P. Kane exchanged bitter words Monday, severing a friendship and close political association that dates back to the entry into statewide politics.

Kane called a news conference to state his case on why he was dismissed by the governor last week after serving as attorney general since 1975. He began by charging that Shapp has lost interest in governing. and that executive assistant, David R. Brown, has taken over the reins of government. He portrayed Brown as a Machiavelli who pushed Kane out of the cabinet.

With his characteristically sharp tongue, Kane called the 36- year-old Brown a dangerous man to be at the summit of Pennsylvania's government. He said he lacked competence for the job and had alienated dedicated officials in the Shapp administration. think Brown is exercising the power of governor with impunity. The interest in governing is said Kane. He said Brown had participated in an and successful smear that forced Shapp to dismiss him because he was too controversial.

Kane said motive was a puzzle, however. As for the governor, Kane said Shapp was much and lacked credibility with the public, especially as a result of his futile attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. is in my said Kane, who managed reelection campaign in 1974. have pity, I have empathy, I have sympathy for Milton A half-hour after Kane was through, Shapp called a news conference of his own. Shapp appeared stunned at bitter attack, and then left little doubt that his 15-year friendship with Kane was over.

accept the flowers that trying to. throw this said Shapp. very sorry that in leaving Bob has decided to1 make this a personal matter. unfortunate, but indeed it was a swan song of a dead Shapp said Brown was not running state government, but that since he became chief of staff in 1976, Brown had made enemies such as Kane because he sometimes had to to get the orders carried out. Kane brushed aside reports that he is under investigation by four different law enforcement agencies, and said he was innocent of all allegations of wrongdoing.

He acknowledged that he was being probed for alleged wrongdoing by the state police, but indicated he believed that Brown inspired the investigation for his own personal reasons. Authorities have reportedly been looking into an alleged Justice Department cover-up of a negative report on a state official being considered for promotion, and the cigarette tax bureau which was allegedly corrupt when Kane headed the Revenue Department between 1971-74. Kane said contrary to insinuations. as Revenue secretary and attorney general he was more successful than his predecessors in fighting cigarette smugglers and official corruption. Besides naming Brown.

Kane said Revenue Secretary Milt Lopus and Rep. Joseph Rhodes, D-Allegheny, chairman of the House subcommittee on official corruption, were involved in his removal. Gov. Milton Shapp Blackout is caused by storm A power outage hit Mahoning and Pulaski townships and the western end of Union Township last night, according to Union Township police. blacked out our police radio.

We had a dead spell for about 20 said Mary Creswell, township police dispatcher. No major problems resulted, she said, because the Ellwood City dispatcher took over communications. Pennsylvania Power Co. officials said the blackout was caused by lightning and winds from storm which affected a line running from the Cedar Street substation toward Masury, Ohio. Two other substations in the Bedford and Harbor areas were also shut down, according to Lyle Bramhall, Pennsylvania Power Co.

representative. Both substations went off at 10:15 p.m. and affected about 4,100 customers. Bramhall said. Both stations were back in service by 11 p.m.

he said. United Press International reported a series of thunderstorms swept through a large part of southwestern Pennsylvania Monday night but damage was minimal. No injuries were reported. The weather bureau said it received reports several trees were knocked down and shingles were blown off roofs in Monongahela, Washington County. In Marshall Township about 10 miles north of Pittsburgh power lines were reported downed by high winds.

In Pittsburgh, pea-size hail fell in some areas. Nearly all of Western Pennsylvania was on a tornado watch from early afternoon but no twisters developed. The National Weather Service later changed the watch to a severe thunderstorm warning for all of southwestern Pennsylvania. Cold fronts today broke up the preview of summer. Scattered thunderstorms occurred ahead of the cold front through New England, the Atlantic Coast states, the South and west to New Mexico.

Thunderstorms were severe Monday at Albuquerque and Roswell, N.M.. north of Columbus. and near Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. Tornados touched down near Miami, and Mansfield, Ohio. A tornado was sighted northeast of Dallas.

Could be free in 25 years Berkowitz parole chance rapped By H.D. QUIGG UPI Senior Editor NEW YORK (UPI) Just before the law put the Son of Sam killer and his demons away for at least 25 years, a young man in a mint green shirt embroidered with flowers took smoldering public sentiment on his shoulders and made an enraged, yelling and straining lunge at David Berkowitz. All hands spoke out all official hands, plus the young man in the green shirt during the sentencing Monday in state Supreme Court. They spoke out against the law that allows parole for the 25-year-old killer by the time he reaches 50. The legal hands spoke for a change in the parole law.

Daniel Carrique spoke io a shout while he struggled with guards, who prevented his crashing through the rail to where the killer stood: gonna get you, Berkowitz. You're gonna burn gonna A dozen plainclothes guards grabbed him as he ran, clapped their arms around his body and hands over his mouth, turned him horizontally, and bore him head-first, scarlet-faced and grimacing, out of courtroom 774B in the Borough of Brooklyn. Carrique is a friend of the family of Stacy Moskowitz. 20, who on David Berkowitz July 31, 1977. became the last murder victim in the year-long skein of killings Berkowitz said were urged upon him by demons that spoke to him in the night, questing for young blood.

Berkowitz, 25, has pleaded guilty to six murders, the Son of Sam murders along New lovers lanes, which terrorized the largest city. At sentencing the sick-looking, prison-sallow Berkowitz was sentenced by three state Supreme Court justices to the maximum of 25 years to life for each of the six murders, to time for attempted Area state troopers join in manhunt for Surrat State police officers from Lawrence County are involved in a hunt for a Pennsylvania man wanted for questioning in connection with a number of slayings in Western Pennsylvania. According to police in Beaver Falls, at least 10 or 12 officers a day are being sent from the New Castle station to Beaver Falls to aid in the search for Edward A. Surrat, 36, of Aliquippa. According to Sgt.

Albert Puto of the Beaver Fails substation, the Lawrence County troopers are joining a force of 35 to 40 officers working on the case each day. Surrat is also wanted by Ohio authorities, it was learned today. He was charged in a warrant issued Monday with the March 27 slaying of Katherine Filicky, 70, of suburban Boardman, Ohio. Capt. Glenn Bowers of the Boardman detectives said Mrs.

body was found the day after Surratt was issued a traffic citation for making an improper left turn in front of a police cruiser. Bowers said Surratt returned for a traffic hearing April 18, was questioned and then released. Surratt also is wanted in South Carolina on a murder charge. murders in which he wounded seven other young people and to time for assaults and gun possession all adding up to several hundred years. But he will be eligible for parole in 25 years.

The public attitude toward the parole law was highlighted before Justice Corso by Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold, who said he had received huge amounts of mail Brooklyn, (the rest of) New York City, the state, and the about the criminal justice system. Gold said the public understand fault lies in the New York penal that he was strongly urging the legislature to ban paroles a defendant is convicted of murder in cases of this and that the right to release (such defendants) be Berkowitz, whose Son of Sam killings and bragging sickened readers across the nation, was a model of decorum throughout, his hands manacled in front of him. He answered the three questions softly and surely. He engaged Justice William Kapelman of the Bronx in a brisk colloquy about demons. Corso told Gold he would see that the legislature got a copy of proposals.

Queens District Attorney John J. Santucci told Queens Justice Nicholas Tsoucalas that oppose parole at any time in this Tsoucalas replied: is obvious from the sentences that the intention of this court is that the defendant be incarcerated for the rest of his natural Digest Weather 1 Page Defector wants to return ............2 Around the county ....................9 9 Men's fashions'relaxed' JO Nolan Ryan on trading block? 13 County report 18 NATIONAL Wf AT Mi 8 fOBECAST io tsi 6-1 3000 30.00 3000 2V77 News Index Page Business .........................................................12 Classified Comics ............................................................17 FeMale Public Sports Theaters Lottery I Daily number ...............................................613 Today's Thoughtj So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. Tennyson Death Record June 13,1978 Mrs. Howard L. Carlisle, 58, of Tustin, Calif.

William A. Fehl, 72, of Ellwood City RD 2 NATION During Tuesday night, thunderstorm activity will be expected in the Pacific Northwest, the northern Rockies, southern area of Florida and upper Maine, while mostly fair weather will prevail elsewhere. Minimum readings include (approximate maximum temperatures in parentheses): Atlanta 56 (78), Boston 54 (67), Chicago 52 (74), Clevland 42 (66), Dallas 70 (95), Denver 57 (87), Duluth 45 (65), Houston 67 (92), Jacksonville 65 (84), Kansas City 64 (85), Little Rock 61 (84), Los Angeles 62 (72). WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Clear tonight. Low in the 40s.

Mostly sunny Wednesday. High near Chance of rain near zero tonight and Wednesday. WEATHER STATISTICS Statistics for the 24-hour period ending at midnight June 12 follow with the high and low temperatures recorded between midnight June 11 and midnight June 12. Last data are in parentheses. Maximum temperatures 90 (76) Minimum temperatures 60 (44) Precipitation .65 (none) Shenango River state 6.1 (4.86) MORAINE STATE PARK Temperature at 11 a.m.

today was 56 degrees; winds from the northwest at 15 miles per hour; 1.31 precipitation, rain; attendence on Monday was 5,200. tr' Inmate trio fails in escape try for Canada OMAHA, Neb. (UPI) Peter Hochstein, facing a possible death penalty for a gangland- stvle murder, says he spent 10 months in jail reading manuals on how to fly a twin-engine airplane. Hochstein. 24, led two other maximum security jail prisoners on a wild flight in a stolen plane Monday in a futile attempt to reach Canada.

The fugitives were apprehended late Monday by four U.S. Border Patrol agents and two U.S. Customs agents near the tiny town of St. Vincent, about 10 p.m. CDT following an extensive ground search.

one was injured. It was all over within a said a dispatcher in Pembina. N.D., where the plane was found earlier in the evening. Pembina and St. Vincent are towns on the Canadian border about 50 miles apart, separated by the Red River of the North.

Hochstein. C. Michael Anderson, 26, and Dan Sheppard. 22, all of Omaha, were taken to Grand Forks, N.D., where they were scheduled for a hearing today. The FBI in Omaha said they would be given an opportunity to waive extradition to Nebraska or to contest it.

Hochstein. who had limited flying experience, told authorities in Pembina he spent his 10 months in jail reading flight manuals to learn to pilot a twin-engine aircraft. He said Anderson helped him with charts and navigation during the flight. The three escaped a maximum security tion of the jail in the six-floor Douglas County Courthouse early Monday. Officials said they somehow got out of their locked cells, sawed through a barred window, climbed onto the roof and wd went down a rope, fashioned of braided bedsheets, more than 100-feet long.

They stole a car and drove to Millard Airport. where they commandeered a light airplane fueled for about five hours of flying. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide alert for the red-and-white, twin- engine Piper Commanche, but the plane avoided detection, flying the more than 500 miles due north to Pembina. FAA officials speculated it flew low to avoid radar detection. The plane landed in Pembina about 11:30 a the dispatcher said, but was not recognized as the craft until about 5:30 p.m.

Anderson and Hochstein, in custody a year, were convicted of first-degree murder in May for the 1975 killing of Omaha realtor Ronald Abboud. It was charged that Anderson and Lon Reams of Omaha, who turned state's evidence, formed a corporation to pay Hochstein $1,500 to kill Abboud. Sheppard was being held for a probation violation and on a federal misdemeanor warrant. Authorities said the fugitives had nearly a three-hour head start before the breakout was discovered. They estimated the escape occurred between 11 p.m.

Sunday, when the three were last seen in their cells, and 4 a.m. Monday. UNDERGROUND LIVING "Country Bill" White, professional stunt man from Tallahassee, left, emerges from his underground living quarters where he spent the last 134 days, 4 hours and 10 minutes. His temporary home measured 3x6 feet and was feet deep. At right he is seen resting after his ordeal.

White broke the record for living underground established by the Guinness Book of World Records. The old record was 217 days but was discounted because of a technicality. The official record that White broke was 119 days. UPI Photo Mohawk building debated By LINDA THOMPSON News Staff Writer Mohawk Area School Board kicked around the possibility of building a new elementary school last night again. The issue popped up as the board members were discussing repairing the roof at Bessemer Elementary and taking direction on major repairs needed at the three elementary buildings.

Following a 30-minute discussion, board president Clarence Boots called for a committee meeting of the board in order to reach a decision on whether to build or not to build. In October of 1976, the directors had voted 5-4 to construct a new elementary school, but the Mohawk voters reversed that decision in a referendum during the primary election of 1977. The voters choice is to repair the structures at Hillsville. Mount Jackson and Bessemer. The board has taken no action on whether to build the new school since the voters were polled, but openly discussed the issue at last meeting.

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