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18 100 Death Notices The Daily News, Saturday, April 4, 1981 OBITUARIES Budget Action Off To House BIANCHINI-ln Hershey. Oscar of 103 W. Caracas Avenue, Hershey. Aged 57 years. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 :00 p.m.

from the Hoover Funeral Home, 30 W. Granada Avenue, Hershey with the Reverend Timothy W. Sperber officiating. Interment at the Cemetery. Relatives and friends ed.

Friends mmay call Saturday from noon until the time of services at the funeral home. (HOOVER) HOSTETTER In Lebanon on April 3. Martha M. nee Fortna, wife of Allen L. Hostetter, of 53 Mt.

Lebanon Drive, aged 73 years. Funeral on Monday morning at 10:30 a.m. from Kochenderfer's United Methodist Church, 1105 Kochenderftr Road. Interment at North Bellgrove Cemetery. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend.

Friends may call Sunday evening 7 to 9 at Christman's Funeral Home, 226 Cumberland St. Also viewing at the church prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Martha M. Hostetter Memorial Fund at her church. (CHRISTMAN'S) Joseph Mastrosati Joseph Mastrosati, 77, of 509 Linden Road, Hershey, died Thursday at the Hershey Medical Center.

He was the husband of Carolyn Savastio. A retired employee of Hershey Foods he served 50 years as an accountant and as the companys corporate tax manager after that. Since his retirement in 1969, he logged over 5,000 hours of volunteer service at the Hershey Medical Center. Mastrosati was a member of the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Hershey and the Hershey Rotary Club.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Carol Mastrosati, New York City; a sister, Sara Marani, Baltimore, and several nieces and nephews. "funerals STRAUP Entered Into Rest In Myerstown on April 2, 1911. Julia M. Straup of ECC Retirement Village, Myerstown. Aged 85 years.

Funeral on Monday morning at 10:30 A.M. from Trinity ECC, 705 3rd Palmerton, Pa. Interment at Towamenslng Cemetery, Palmerton, Friends may call Monday morning from 10 A.M. until time of services at the church. 3,4 (KERCHER) Couple To Play Music Ministry WASHINGTON (UPI) -With the White House pointing to the Senates example, House budget writers worked privately Friday toward a pac-kage close to President Reagan's total spending cuts but restoring some funds for social programs.

The House Budget Committee will begin drafting a budget resolution Monday, three days after the Senate approved $36.9 billion in spending reductions for the next fiscal year. Chairman James Jones, D-Okla. held private meetings with committee Democrats Thursday and Friday aimed at reaching a consensus on spending reductions the group could support. Jones told reporters there would be obviously a few differences in the measure produced by his less conservative panel, but I think the overall goals are the same. Vice President George Bush visited Capitol Hill to thank the Senate personally for its overwhelming approval of most administration budget cuts.

Bush said the Senates bipartisan support for the package was a clear response to the demands of the American people to get our economic house in order. Speaking to reporters in an ornate reception room, Bush was flanked by Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, Budget Chairman Pete Domenici, and Sen. Ernest Hollings, ranking Democrat on the budget panel. We hope it will be an example to members of the House of Representatives, who now have the same responsibility before them," said Bush. In the Democrat-controlled House, Jones appeared optimistic Republicans would support a budget for the first time, since it would contain a substantial portion of die administration's program.

I think theres every real possibility we can get bipartisan support, he said. Although Jones was still working on the package he will recommend Monday, he said it will include a $600 million Pentagon reduction that would come from cutting waste. The Senate made no reduction in military spending. Interviews with committee members indicated Democrats will try to restore some funds for nutrition, education, health and energy programs. One source also said die House, like the Senate, might cut funds for the $3.8 billion strategic petroleum reserve.

But Rep. Delbert Latta of Ohio, ranking Republican on the committee, has said his party members are solidly behind the Reagan package and are not inclined to support anything less. Some Democrats already have written off Republicans, saying it would be good if they would support the budget but they have proved inflexible in the past. "The bottom line is they cant support anything other than Reagan, said Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif.

Jones may even have problems with a few of his conservative Democrats. Rep. Phil Gramm, D-Texas, said he still has an open mind but cannot support a package that is substantially less than the presidents or one that substitutes defense cuts for reductions in social programs. The Republican-led Senate turned back repeated Democratic attempts to restore funds for social programs and approved the package, 88-10, with heavy Democratic support. The action this week and next is only the early phase of a process expected to end in August with massive budget cuts.

With the current measures, the House and Senate will instruct their authorizing and spending committees to cut programs under their jurisdiction by a certain amount. The committees themselves will decide where the cuts actually will come. Charles Fitzgibbons Services were held this morning from the Thompson Funeral Home for Charles D. Fitzgibbons, 424 Weidman St. He was the husband of Florence Fitzgibbons.

The services were followed by a mass of Christian burial from St. Marys Catholic Church. Monsignor Joseph P. Kealy was the celebrant. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Charles Gettle, and William, Peter, John, Edward and Michael Fitzgibbons. Mabel Givler Seltzer Services will held this afternoon from the Rothermel Funeral Horae, Palmyra, for Mabel Givler Seltzer, widow of the late Harvey L. Seltzer of 222 S. Queen Palmyra. The Rev.

W. Richard Kohler, pastor of the First United Church, Palmyra, officiated. Burial was made at the Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra, and pallbearers were Michael and Craig Seltzer, Wilbur Gibble, Ronald Fouche, Roger Carpenter and Dr. Frank Grenoble. Bethany United Methodist Church, Palmyra, will hold its annual Rally Day Service on Sunday morning, with Lee and Cindy Condran of Annville as the special guests for the day.

The combined service will begin at 9:15 a.m. and will feature the Condrans ministering in music and testimony. They will be joined for the concert by Gary Winters, whose talents include vocal music as well as trumpet. He is also a songwriter, as are Mr. and Mrs.

Condran. The Rev. A. Kenneth Heller Jr. is pastor at the church, which is located at South Railroad and East Cherry streets.

The service is open to the public. Training Ends Marine Pfc. Allan S. Lape, son of Vivian L. Lape, 44 S.

Sheridan Road, Newmanstown, recently completed recruit training at the Marine Corps Depot, San Diego. A 1973 graduate of Elco High School, he joined the Marines in November 1980. United Press International MRS. AMERICA Mrs. Louisiana, Paddy Boyd, 3S-24-3S, a fashion coordinator from Baton Rouge, is embraced by Bert Parks Friday after being crowned Mrs.

America at the Las Vegas Hilton. The beauty pageant competition will be aired in a television special later this month. Haig, Weinberger Visit Allies WORD-A-DAY By BACH CIA Linked To Silkwood Case WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Reagan administrations two chief Cabinet officers Friday headed for consultations with U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East, amid increased concern about a possible Soviet intervention in Poland. Pentagon officials cited heightened levels of Soviet military activity around Poland and said the possibility of a Soviet move against its East European satellite has reached a critical phase.

State Department spokesman William Dyess told reporters Washington does not believe an invasion (of Poland) is inevitable. But he did not repeat his earlier assessment that an invasion was not Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said they received general guidelines and instructions from President Reagan at brief meetings in Reagans room at George Washington University Medical Center before taking off Friday night. Haig headed for Egypt on the first stop of a Middle Eastern tour that will take him to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in efforts to forge a loose alliance with the aim of halting Soviet advances into the oil region. The former NATO commander may press Egypt for U.S. rights to use its base at Ras Banas on the Red Sea coast.

The Hydrant Flush Called Needed Betty Shultz, Director of the Lebanon Bureau of Water, says the flushing of the citys fire hydrants, which some city residents have voiced objection to, is an absolute necessity. The flushing, she explains, prevents the continued build up of sediment in the pipes, which could promote the growth of bacteria. Because of the recent publicized water shortage, many residents have questioned the practice. However, Shultz said that the water supply in Lebanon is good thus, the decision to flush the hydrants now. It is the first time the city has been able to flush them in one and one-half years.

Normally the hydrants are flushed once every spring and fall. You just have to do it for the protection of the system and the quality of the water, Shultz said. hybrid (hi I THE OFF5PRING OF TWO ANIMALS OR PLAMT5 OF DIFFERENT RACES, VARIETIES I SPECIES. ETC. lAkpUNG OF MIXED ORIGIN NEW YORK (UPI) -Investigators uncovered evidence suggesting nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood may have stumbled onto a plutonium smuggling plot and her mysterious death may have been the subject of a cover-up by the CIA, the FBI and Iranian agents, a new book reports.

In a book published this month, author Richard Rashke wrote that a private investigator was told by a source that the FBI had a secret report saying Mrs. Silkwood was run off the road the night she was killed in a 1974 auto wreck. Mrs. Silkwood, 28, a divorced mother of three, was on her way to meet a New York Times reporter to discuss safety violations at the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp.s plutonium processing plant in Crescent, when her car hit a concrete highway wingwall and she was killed. The FBI and local authorities officially ruled her death in November 1974 an accident.

But in The Killing of Karen Silkwood, Rashke contends investigators for Mrs. Silkwood's family and a congressional subcommittee that held inconclusive hearings on the case repeatedly were rebuffed when seeking FBI documents on the affair. Rashke, an investigative reporter for National Catholic Weekly, offers no conclusions about her death, but his details of the murky trail of intrigue followed by the investigators raises many questions and deepens the mystery surrounding her death. Rashke wrote that Mrs. Silkwood, a lab technician who was active in plant union activities, had been collecting data that she said showed the plant was plagued by safety violations and also was manufacturing defective nuclear fuel rods.

administration has asked Congress for $106 million next year for an Army and Air Force buildup of the rundown facility. In both Egypt and Israel, Haig is likely to discuss the creation of a largely American peace-keeping force to step into the eastern third of Sinai once the Israelis pull out in April 1982 under terms of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty. The Saudis are likely to push for the purchase of sophisticated advance warning radar aircraft, which Israel opposes. Haig may renew efforts to convince Jordan to join the stalled Camp David peace talks. Afterward, he will travel to Madrid, London, Paris, Bonn and Rome, and the arduous trip is expected to be the first real test of whether his credibility and effectiveness have been survived his internal feuds with White House staff members.

State Department officials said the principal aim of Haig's tour is to show the Reagan administration is alert to the dangers posed to the Middle East by the Soviet Union particularly since its invasion of Afghanistan. Weinberger will come into more direct contact with the situation in Poland during his three-nation week-long trip to Europe. The centerpiece will be a two-day ministerial meeting of the NATO Nuclear Planning Group opening Tuesday in Bonn. His first stop is England to visit British and American units, and after the Bonn meeting he is scheduled to go to Rome for a session with allied and U.S. 6th Fleet naval commanders.

Weinberger and Haig will cross paths in some of the same cities in Europe but will not meet. Pentagon officials said that while the Polish crisis is not the principal reason for Weinbergers trip, "it certainly will be a hot item for discussion at the NATO session, which is devoted to strategy involving nuclear weapons in Europe. The Pentagon chief is expected to press the allies to keep the commitment they made in December 1979 to permit deployment on European soil of advanced nuclear-tipped Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles as replacements for older weapons. Holland has balked at the modernization plans. Pentagon officials said the level of concern about the Polish crisis is as high as it was in early December when the Soviet Union had been poised to strike into Poland.

Weinbergers concern is that we are in the most dangerous time in months, one official said. The Polish situation, he said, clearly adds significance to the secretarys scheduled meeting with the NATO allies. In Loving Memory ot LeRoy Kirst Who Passed Away 2 Years Ago April 4, 1979 God knows how much we miss you Never shall your memory fade. Loving thoughts shall ever wander To the spot where you are laid. We often sit and think of you Of the things you used to say and do.

Sadly Missed By Wife, Children and Grandchildren 4,400 Troops Due In Loving Memory of Ovr Fether LeRoy Kirst Who Paaaed Awey 2 Year 3 Ago April 4, 1979 You are not forgotten Father dear. Nor shall you ever be. As long aa life and memory laat. We ahall remember thee. tdly Mfeaed by Children LeRoy.

Richard, Lorraine, Gertrude, Donefd. and Their Famine a Crisis In Poland Boosts Gold Price NEW YORK (UPI) Rising U.S. interest rates and a worsening situation in Poland pushed the dollar higher against most major currencies Friday. Gold rose slightly amid these two competing influences, with traders selling the precious metal on fears of firmer interest rates and buying bullion as a hedge against an escalation of the Polish crisis. Gold climbed to $523.50 an ounce in Zurich from $520.50 Thursday.

In London, it gained $4 to $523.50. In New York gold rose to $522.50 from $518. The Comex settled it at $521.50, up from $517.50. Silver edged up 12 cents to $12.22 and settled at $12.18, up from $12.12. Gold was not up all that much because the competing influences cancelled each other out, said Marc Berkowitz, chief trader for James L.

Sinclair precious metals brokers. On the one hand there were firmer interest rates and on the other hand there were news reports that the Soviet build-up was becoming more and more ominous, with the Soviets preparing for invasion. Although the potential for volatility was there, Berkowitz said the market was stagnant, with gold trading in a very narrow range. The federal funds rate banks charge each other for overnight loans Friday was at 15 to 15 V4 percent. Treasury bill and bond yields also were higher and eurodollar rates were up a full half a percentage point to 15 percent.

Two major banks raised their broker loan rates Citibank from 15 Vi to 16 percent and Marine Midland from 15 Yi to 16 Vt. The March wholesale price index increase of 1.3 percent came in at the higher end of expectations, Berkowitz said, "and bond prices fell on that news as people anticipated the need for a further tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve. The dollar hit its highest levels in a week in Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris and Milan. In London, the pound closed at its lowest rate against the dollar since March 9. The U.S.

currency also rose in New York trading. A combination of much tighter fed funds in the United States and increased tension over the Polish situation gave the dollar a boost Friday, said a dealer for Barclays Bank International. But its best levels were not held following higher U.S. wholesale prices. But a New York dealer said, "Im a bit surprised so much emphasis has been put on the Polish situation.

The situation is fully in control, there is no danger of it escalating any further, and I am sure it will begin to wind down GARVIE 1 desire to thank neighbors and friends for the kindness and sympathy shown me during my recent bereavement in the illness and death of Frank T. Garvie. I also wish to extend my thanks for the beautiful floral tributes and sympathy cards. A special thank you to the employees of Cedar Haven for their kindness to my husband. BREAITHWAITE We desire to thank neighbors anc friends for the kindness and sympathj shown us during our recent bereave ment in the death of Charles Breaith waite.

We also wish to extend oui thanks for the beautiful floral tribute! and sympathy cards. The Family At Gap lion, 109th Infantry, Milton; 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry, Norristown; the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 109th Infantry, Scranton; 131st Transportation Company, Williamstown; the 1028th Transportation Company from Harrisburg; and stu-dents from the Military Academy headquartered at Fort Indiantown. Army Reservists are members of the 79th Army Reserve Command, Willow Grove; 324th Medical Unit from Chester; Company 365th Engineers, New Cumberland and the 378th Supply and Services Battalion, based at the Gap. ROTC cadets are from Gettysburg College. In preparation for the weekend activities, the Garrison issued equipment and buildings to advance parties, on Friday.

Personnel from Range Control, Engineering, MP, Health Clinic, and Administrative sections will be available throughout the training period to assist the troops. To Train According to the US Army Garrison, 4,400 troops are due for weekend training operations at Fort Indiantown Gap, Saturday and Sunday. The troops represent the largest contingent so far this year of National Guardsman, Army Reservists, and ROTC cadets for weekend exercises. With the exception of Army Reservists from the 265th Supply Company located in Cumberland, Maryland, all units are from Pennsylvania. They are scheduled for range, mortar, and weapons firing; field and classroom exercises; and flight operations.

Training areas have been declared off-limits to unauthorized persons during the. weekend. Tne National Guard troops are from the 728th Maintenance Battalion, headquartered in Lockhave; Company 28th Aviation Battalion and the 337th Maintenance Battalion, both from Reading; the 3rd Batta- Bette I Bardie Exiled Soviet Service Speaker HERSHEY Georgi Vions, secretary-in-exile and international representative of the Council of Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches in the Soviet Union, will be speaking at the Evangelical Free Church of Hershey, Hilltop Road, Sunday at the 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. worship services. He and four other Soviet prisoners of conscience came to the U.S.

in return for two spies being sent back to the Soviet Union. The stocky preacher and poet, who spent seven of the past 15 years in Siberia, is the first leader of the Reform Baptists" to reach the West. Since Vions was exiled to the United States, he was appointed by the brethren in the Soviet Union to be their representative abroad. The services are open to the public. Beamesderfer We desire to thank neighbors and friends for the4rindness and sympathy shown us during our recent bereavement in the death of William R.

Beamesderfer, Sr. We also wish to extend our thanks for the beautiful floral tributes and sympathy cards. The Family This Sunday, The Following Downtown Pharmacy Open Will Be Donough Pharmacy 6th and Cumberland Streets Open 10 A.M. To Noon 6 P.M. To 8 P.M.

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