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Temperatures Overnight low 1 Noon recording. 18 Weather Windy, cold tonight, Thursday; chance of snow flurries Thursday; high near 20. VOL. LXXVII. NO.

96 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and Mt. Jewett. Wednesday. January 7. 1970 TWO SECTIONS 12 PAGES TEN CENTS A COPY PRESIDENT if ASK SIGNS OF BIN Inch to 8 es of Snow RESIDENT EXPRESS OPINIONS Hundred Persons at Rt.

321 Hearing Here Close to 100 persons, including state and district highway representatives, last night attended and participated in a corridor and design hearing at the Central Fire Building here as the state explained its decision on the Highway 321 route through Kane and East Kane and heard several residents express opinions for and against the project. Guy S. Mammolite of Punxsu umped on Pennsylvania fe 'V'' I Jill I I (' 1 11 i I tawney, assistant state attorney general assigned to the Highways Department, opened the meeting at 7 p.m, and explained its purpose, advising those attending that such a hearing is required on projects involving state and federal funds and that records of the hearing will be reviewed at Harrisburg. After Mr. Mammolite opened the session, the State Highways Department presentation was made by Thomas Ickes, asSist district engineer design.

This presentation covered many areas of the project preliminary to construction. In the presentation it was explained that "the possibility of relocating Route 321 east of Kane in conjunction with a Route 6 by pass of 'Kane was considered. But, traffic analysis showed that the greatest percentage of traffic flow had Kane as its destination." The state report held that a relocation east of Kane is not recommended. The proposed construction, it was explained, is designed to provide a direct connection for. Route 321 through Kane Borough.

It was concluded that the flow of traffic on Route 321 will be improved and that construction of the project will also improve access to downtown Kane. The state report also explained decision on alternates it has considered in the numerous surveys since the quarter century old road was scheduled for improvement. (The state presentation will be published in full on Friday of this week). Those speaking for or against the project as it Is presently (Continued on page 2) I III 4 1 Philadelphia Area is fhe Hardest Hit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow blanketed much of Pennsylvania Tuesday night and today in the second major snowstorm of the winter. The snowfall ranged from 3 to 8 inches in southeastern Pennsylvania, with 1 inch reported in Williamsport and IVi inches over the Blue and Pocono mountains.

Scranton, which was blanketed by 25 inches of snow in two storms during Christmas week, breathed a sigh of relief when only 1 to 2 inches of snow fell today. Residents are still digging out frc the Christmas week storms, especially in the suburbs, where many sidewalks are still impassable. The Philadelphia area seemed hardest hit as the storm center, which was centered off Cape Hatteras at 7 a.m., swept up the east coast. Conditions were expected to be complicated by strong winds later today with the threat of drifting. Philadelphia International Airport shut down Tuesday night for half an hour for salting and sanding.

It shut down again early Wednesday for further sanding. Schools Closed Most schools in the greater Philadelphia area closed. Allentown and Bethlehem dug in for heavy snows, issuing snow emergencies early Tuesday evening, but only received from 1 to 3 inches of snow. Hanover reported inches of snow. There were some school closings in York County.

Eastern Montgomery County reported 6 to 8 inches of snow. Approximately 3 inches of light, fluffy snow covered a hard, crusted accumulation of 18 to 20 inches already on the ground in Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties. Driving was considered hazardous, but only one or two school districts in the three counties suspended classes because of the snow. Travelers warnings were in effect western Pennsylvania today, with an expected 2 to 4 inches of accumulation expected in the central portion today, and flurries in the northwest and southwest portions of the state. KOPECKNE INQUEST SCENES Braving the cold, several hardy souls view the bridge (left) where Mary Jo Kopechne was killed on Chappaquiddick Island, last July 18.

At the right, two Edgartown policemen in the glare of television lights stand on the steps of Dukes County Courthouse, scene of the inquest. ANTI INFLATION STAND By NEIL GILBRIDE WASHINGTON (AP) A whopping Teamsters union wage demand for the nation's truck drivers has added to President Nixon's economic head aches amid signs of a crack tough White House; policies to curb Inflation. The union's three year pay demands representing at least a 4a per cent increase and totaling $2.50 an hour for 450,000 workers most now averaging' $4 an hour were set for presentation to the trucking industry tcday. The demands also include an additional $1.25 per in fringe benefits and. extra cost of living pay if prices continue rising in the nation', worst inflationary spiral in nearly 20 years, it was learned.

At the same time? Secretary of Labor George P. hultz said high Interest rates creating' a tight'money supply a key Nixon weapen against inflation were "squeezing business too hard in the slowing economy. "If we keep the stranglehold on the money the pro pects are" for more signs of slowing in the economic indicators that we see," Shultz said at a Tuesday news conference in the first open break among top level Nixon administration economists. Shultz, saying his was a ''personal view," added Paul Mc Cracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, might be moving toward the same conclusion, but Mc Cracken declined comment. Shultz said the administration continue a hands off policy in labor disputes, but he indicated the government would have to consider action an the event of a nationwide trucking shutdown.

"I don't think it's likely," ShXiltz said, but a trucking source said the industry was in an even tougher mood than three years ago when it staged, a three day nationwide lockout in retaliation for scattered Teamsters strikes. i "We don't mind shutting down," the source said. "We couldn't afford to do anything else" if the Teamsters stick to their contract demands. Inco.ne Loss Cited The source said the trucking industry suffered a 13 per cent drop in net income in the past year. While Shultz declined to connect the Teamsters bargaining with inflation, the Nixon policy, has been to impose stringent fis al and monetary policies to slow the economy, and depend on that to pressure unions and industries to slack on.

big wage and price hikes. Organized labor, chiefly the 13.6. million member AFL CIO, has complained bitterly the Nixon policies threaten the nation with a severe, economic depression and rising unemployment, while prices continue to soar at the current rate of nearly 6 per cent a year. Shultz declined to say whether a continued tight money policy would threaten recession, but said "the monetary restrictions are too tight." He apparently came to that conclusion only recently. Two weeks ago in an interview he said Nixon's anti inflation policies were beginning to work and 1 CIGARETTE TAX By STERLING F.

GREEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon may seek increases in several federal excise taxes, including a possible steep hike in the cigarette leVy, to help keep his premise of a balanced budget. Government sources disclosed the Treasury has drafted and sent to the White House "a number of alternatives," including higher excise levies, for boosting tax revenues in fiscal 1971. Some of the proposals will appear in Nixon's budget message Jan. 27. The federal taxes on gasoline, automobiles, liquor, tobacco, and telephone service which together provide the bulk of the $16 fc'llipn of excise revenues collected each year were all mentioned for possible increase.

One high official also mentioned a possibility that "socially desirable" objectives might be sought. "The increase asked for tobacco might be higher," this source said. But the value added tax that has long intrigued Nixon in effect a sales tax impesed on the value added to a product at each stage of its manufacture apparently has been ruled out completely. Congress dislikes the device and critics of the tax contend it fosters price increases instead of dampening inflation. Nixon recently promised the budget would be balanced and hinted that tax increases might be proposed to achieve that end.

A deficit would be "irresponsible and intolerable" in these in flatioii ridden times, he told reporters in San Clemente, Calif. Actually Nixon had hoped for substantial surplus in the gov nment year starting July 1, out rising, costs and uncertain revenue prospects have sent his aides scurrying for enough 'additional revenues to cover saftly the expected record spending level of more than $200 billion. Congress shut the door on any increase in income taxes in enacting the massive tax reform bill last month. The quest for revenues therefore has focused largely on excises and "user charges" taxes on users of. highways, airways, airports, and waterways to help the government's financial support of those facilities.

The user charges seem likely to provide little help In. Nixon's iilemma; every president since 'ranklin D. Roosevelt has urged substantial increases in them but Congress seldom has obliged. However, the House approved a bill last session to increase the tax on airline passenger tickets from 5 per cent to 8 per cent, and Nixon is expected to urge the Senate to act promptly on that measure. The excise taxes on liquor, beer and wine produce about $4.5 billion a yeer.

The tobacco tax provides $2.1 billion of revenue annually, the excises on au tos, trucks, and parts about $2 billion, and the tax on telephone and telegraph service about billion. The federal gasoline tax is four cents a gallon and the cigarette tax $4 per thousand. The tax on distilled liquor is $10.50 a proof gallon, and the tax on beer and malt liquors is $9 for a 31 gallon barrel. There may be little enthusiasm for increasing the excises, especially the automobile and telephone taxes. Congress had voted to "repeal" both of those in year by year stages, tout the process was halted by the soaring costs of the Vietnam war.

Auto Tax P'he auto tax, formerly 10 per got down to 7 per cent before it was frozen. The telephone levy, after a very brief period of reduction, was restored to 10 per cent. Trucks and buses are still taxed at 10 per cent. The reference by one official to "social" considerations in the tax proposals suggested that sizeable excise increase might be asked for liquor, wine and beer as well as for tobacco products. 1 OF AN INCOME TAX HARRISBURG (AP) Gov.

Shafer still thinks the Pennsylvania legislature should enact a personal income tax to bail the state out of its fiscal whirlpool. That was the underlying theme in his State ct the Commonwealth message to a joint legislative session Tuesday. But he failed to generate any more enthusiasm for it than he did when he first proposed it just one year' ago. Senate Republican leaders said the income tax was just one of several alternatives they would consider Jan. 19 when the leaderships each chamber meet.

House. Democrats ignored the income tax aspect of the message almost completely. House Majority Leader K. Leroy AUehgney sidestepped the income tax issue w'iths the contention that the tax problems could have been solved had Republicans supported a tax on utility property. Irvis followed this up with a charge that Senate Republicans were "bought off" by utility companies, although he admitted he couldn't substantiate the charge.

Shafer noted rather pointedly that while the commonwealth had reached a new crossroads as it entered the decade of, the 1970s, the lawmakers still were trying to come up with $200 million in new taxes to take Care of programs mandated last year. He said the mandates would require "substantially more than that in fiscal 1970 71." Shafer said the legislature still could enact a personal income tax "and provide tax reform in the next fiscal year with a reduction of 1 per cent in the sales tax, property tax relief for our hard pressed elderly citizens and revenue sharing with every single one of your municipalities." Talrest Way' This is the fairest way, he said, although he said he still is open to' other suggestions. The governor said. Pennsylvania had made much progress in the 1960s, especially in the fields of education, industrial development and road building. "The question now is whether we will continue this progress and accelerate it to meet needs of Pennsylvania in the 1970s," he said, or whether "we will leave the new decade to political He said that to do the job in the.

decade ahead, the governor and each legislator will have to face the need for many actions that are unpopular. Among the items he mentioned was a proposal to reduce the size of the General Assembly it self "to make It a more efficient and workable body." 1 He noted that the lawmakers still had left over from 1969 proposals to establish a new public employe labor relations act, a Department of, Transportation and reorganization of basic education administration. Shafer also called for approval of increases in auto licenses! creation of a state college board Five 'Copters Shot Down in S.Viet SAIGON (AP) U.S. and South Vietnamese forces Intercepted North Vietnamese troops in three regions ranging from the' Cambodian border to the Demilitarized Zone and killed nearly 300 of the enemy with a rain of bombs, rockets tnd shells, military" spokesmen reported today; The U.S. Command reported the North Vietnamese shot down five American helicopters, three of them in one battle.

Battlefield reports said infantrymen, tanks, armored personnel carriers mounted with heavy machine guns, jet bombers and helicopter gunships cut down the North Vietnamese trcops in eight battles as the enemy forces apparently tried to maneuver into position for new attacks on allied bases. The U.S. 'Command said one American was killed and .29 were wounded while field report's put South Vietnamese government casualties at eight killed and 32 wounded. Dinis Wanted to Have Kennedy Testify at End of Inquest By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT Associated Press Writer EDGARTOWN, Mass.

rWPK Dist, Atty. Edmund S. Dinis threatened to walk' out of court unless Judge James A. Boyle gave him. more latitude in questioning witness 1 es at', inquest into the "death of Mary Jo Kopechen, has been learned.

1 Rather than abort the long delayed" inquiry, Boyle told Dinis he could ask desired questions of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, driver of a car that': toppled off a Chappa quiddick Island bridge last trapping Miss Kopechen inside. But the 63 year old judge did have' the last word on the order in which witnesses would two sources close to flie case said. Dinis, they said, wanted to bring the inquest to a dramatic climax by summoning as the last witnesses Kennedy and the two men the senator said aided his fruitless efforts to dive for the 28 year old secretary his cousin, Joseph F.

Gargan, and a friend, attorney Paul Markham. But Judge Boyle, it was learned, ordered otherwise. He said he would not keep a United States senator waiting and ordered that Kennedy be'brought forward as the lead off witness in the inquiry that! opened Monday. At the outset, Boyle had announced that he would permit; only testimony directly related to, whether Kennedy or anyone else acted criminally concerning Miss Kopechne's death. When Kennedy took the stand in the nearly empty courtroom in the old Dukes County Courthouse, Dinis began to question him.

Judge Boyle, citing his earlier announcement, cut the' district at'torney off several times. Dinis ptotested and Boyle asked Kennedy to step outside. In the subsequent conference between the judge and the district attorney, Dinis said he would walk out of the case unless Boyle let him ask his questions. Boyle reluctantly acquiesced. When Kennedy returned to the stand, however, Dinis relaxed his questioning and tended to stay within the judge's original limits.

As far as the order of witnesses was concerned, even Gargan and Markham were not saved for the end. They testified Tuesday. They were followed by perhaps three of the five young women who, with Miss Kopechne attended fhe steak barbecue on Chappaquiddick which preceded the auto accident. When all five have finished 'their testimony today, the inquest will hear Edgartown people involved in the case 'police and townsmen who recovered the body ahd car, the undertaker who prepared Miss Kopechen's body for burial and the manager of an inn where Kennedy had a room, v' After a report circulated Tuesday that Dinis had again decided to walk out of the' case, he. told newsmen: "I am still in the I am not leaving.

I'm right here. I'll be here at 9:30 in the morning." Daley Appearance At Trial Marked By Legal Infighfs By RICHARD CICCONE, Associated Press Writer 4 CHICAGO (AP) Mayor 'Richard J. Daley has, testified he urged city officials to with antiwar groups the Democratic National Convention in 1968. But the' long awaited appear ance of the mayor Tuesday at the trial of seven men accused i of riot conspiracy during the convention was upstaged by a fracas between spectators and marshals at the back of the courtroom and continual legal infighting between Judge Julius J. Hoffman and defense lawyers.

The defendants summoned the mayor in an attempt to show that Daley was responsible. for the violent street disorders during the week of the convention. But in the two hours that Daley was questioned by defense attorney William M. Kunstler, Judge Hoffman sustained 75 objections by Thomas A. Foran, the U.S.

district attorney. Kunstler twice asked that Daley be declared a hostile witness so he. could be questioned in cross examinaticn style, but Judge Hoffman denied, each mo tion. He said the mayor was "very friendly and acted in a gentlemanly manner." Regarding his instructions concerning antiwar groups, Daley testified he issued orders to all city department heads Etj cooperate In every way' with groups wishing permits to march tor to sleep in Lincoln Park. Sleeping permits later were denied by the Chicago Park; District on grounds that the parks are required by city ordinance to close at 11 p.m., daily.

No parade permitswere issued, but a permit was given for an afternoon rally in Grant Park during' convention week. Eastern Seaboard Is Hit by Snow And Strong Yind By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A maior winter storm slapped Cigarette Tax Hike Okayed in Harrisburg HARRISBURG (AP) A hike in Pennsylvania's cigarette taxes to 18 cents a pack, highest in the nation, awaits Gov. Sha i fer's signature after clearing the legislature Tuesday. Shafer 'is expected to sign the measure next week. It would effect immediately.

Its approval on a 44 1 Senate expressed no such concern about, the money" supply. AGNEW IN MALAYSIA KUALAL LUMPUR, Malaysia W) Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew arrived in this Malaysian capital tonight." vote came in the opening day of the 1970 legislature1. While the of amendments to the House adjourned until Jan. 26, Clean Streams Act and a new the Senate planned to meet today to clear up legislation from the 'i 1969 calendar.

i Mm i i 5 DIES AT AGE OF 72 all surface mining act. He told the jcint session it was remiss for failing to act on his proposal to give the state power to tap wires of private citizens as part of the commonwealth's war against crime. Shafer said he soon would out line his priorities for the 1970s and that they would include a major program to combat drug abuse, penal reform, a community development corporation to provide better housing and a financial disclosure law for legislators and state officials. portions of the Eastern seaboard with heavy snow and wind today' while an arctic cold snap broke out of the midconti nent and descended on the Deep South. Heavy snow warnings remained in effect at 8 a.m.

only for eastern New England. Snow or travelers warnings had been in effect through the night for 12 states from the western Caroli nas to New York and southern New England, but were canceled after dawn. Gale warnings flew along much of the coast from North Carolina to Maine. The storm whitened some northern areas of Louisiana and Mississippi Tuesday before sweeping northeast ward through the Appalachians. Six of snow fell on mountain areas of North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

Four inches blanketed some Maryland and New Jersey communities befora dawn. Bitter cold air. plunging southward behind the storm brought cold wave warnings from the lower Mississippi Valley to northwestern, Florida. Temperatures fell into, the middle 20s across Georgia well before daybreak. Warning for Florida The Weather Bureau said the cold was expected to bring freezing temperatures to much of Florida by Thursday Subzero readings again were widespread over most of the northern Rockies, the northern Plains and almost the entire Midwest.

The cold moderated slightly in the central Rockies. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 22 below zero at Havre, to 69 at Key West, Fla. CONFIRM BUYER'S FAIR TO SUSPEND STORE HERE Buyer's Fair, a popular newcomer business to Kane Which had its opening Oct. 24, 1968 in the Grandihetti Building, will leave town by the end of the month. This was confirmed in notices to employes and with movement, from Kane' of inventory starting today.

Galen Mortimer, manager, will go to Corry. Buyer's Fair had reportedly taken a two year lease on the building and was in business here about 15 months four of which were during the business area blockade due to Route 6 construction last year. IOG LIC ENSES TO BE AVAILABLE IN KANE AND AT MT. JEWETT Clarence H. Larson.

Mrs. Helen GundermanT 72, who had resided with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Total of 9 Easton Street, for, the past 10 years, died at Kane Community Hospital, yesterday where 'she been a patient since November. i.i, Mrs. Gunderman was born on Oct.

20, 1897 at Rosholt, She was a member of the Altar, Rosary Society otiSCCattis tus Church here and, the Lady of Assumption Parish in Beloit, i Wis. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Rita Total of Kane, and, a son, Robert Gunderman of Rockford, 111. v. The body will be taken to the Hansen Funeral Home at Beloit, Wis.

Mo Kean County Treasurer, an Parked Autos Struck Borough police reported no injuries in a three ear accident at 3:15 p.m. here yesterday on Wetmore Avenue near the Oak Street, intersection causing an estimated $575 damage. A car operated by Leonard Fiscus, 329 Sedgwick Street, was traveling south when it Was reported he was crowded off the read and his car struck two parked cars. The first owned by Edward Anderson, 'hit; a 1959 sedan owned by Donald Swanson. a The Fiscus car had damage of $200, the Anderson car $250 and the Swanson car $125.

lounced today that representatives from his office will include Kane and Mt Jewett in points where special do license issuance will take place. Tomorrow, Jan. 8, the licen ses will be available in Mt. Jewett at the Borough Build big from 6 p.m. to ft p.m.

The Kane date is Jan. whon licenses will be issued at Archer's News and Sporting Goods Store from 10 a.m. to noon and front 2 p.m. to 4 pan. PROMINENT RESIDENT OF MOUNT JEWETT EXPIRES H.

Girald Butler, 72, Main Street, M.f. Jewett, former well known insurance agency operator there, died this morning at Kane Community Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital yesterday. 7 Funeral arrangements, Incomplete, are in charge of Howard's Funeral Home, Mt. Jewott.

HURRICANE RELIEF SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. MV President Nixon granted $25 million more to Mississippi and another $7 million to Louisiana for faster relief incident to Hurricane Camillc Tuesday. INQUEST WlHCtkla Edgartown, lUm five girls who attended the party from which Sen, Edward Kennedy drove Mary Jo Kopechne to what turned out to be a tragic death, leave Dukes County Courthouse, JroralefU Estaar Nerwberg, Maryellea Lyons, Susan Tan.