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Jewett, Monday, March 23, 1970 TEN CENTS A COPY Mail Strike ifcies ippies Jiey fiUgggRGH STRIKE ENDS Letter Carriers Continue Walkout in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia letter car riers, defying a federal court order and spurning recommendations of their national union leaders, voted Sunday to continue a strike for higher pay. tsui across me siaie mis Workers Returning to Posts, or Staying on Jobs, at Other Cities By JAMES PHILLIPS Associated Press Writer Postal workers in some key cities remained strike today, ignoring court orders and pleas of their union leaders, but in other areas they stayed on the job or returned to handle an increasing pile up of DECIDE IF SWEDISH IE IS OBSCENE mail. iff 'AlrH FIRST CLASS MAIL addressed to New York piles up in Chicago, stoppered by the postmaster there during postal strike. Mail order businesses are strangling, delivery services thriving. WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether "I Am Curious (Yellow)" is obscene.

The Swedish film has been banned in several states and is Inder challenge in others. Meanwhile, more than 2Vi mil lion Americans have seen it in states where exhibition of the film is legal. The court will hear an appeal by Grove Press, the importer and owner of American distribution rights. The appeal challenges Maryland's motion picture censorship law and seeks a ruling that officials everywhere may not prevent adults from seeing any movie in fan American theater. At the same time, the court agreed to review a rulinlg in 'Boston that banned showing of the movie.

Last April the court held possession of obscene films or printed matter at home cannot be considered a crime. Grove Press seeks to extend this ruling to public exhibition of movies. In other actions today, the court: Turned down unanimously requests for a drastic reduction in the bail of 12 Black Panthers who have been charged in New York City with plotting to bomb police stations, department stores and railroad facilities. Granted a hearing to the State of Wisconsin in its effort, keep alive a law that makes it a crime to serve ltiquor to allegedly excessive drinkers. Kinzua Road, Starting Here, To be Let for Bids April 24 A 3.2 mile section of the Kinzua Road (Route 321 north) will be let for bid on April 24, according to Information given Rep.

Victor Westerberg and Senator Richard Frame by Skate Highways Secretary Robert O. Bartlett The project, which had been stalled by lack of funds, will be ready to go as soon as the contractor is selected. The route has been surveyed and partially cleared with an important phase a mile of sewer from Kane north installed and in use. The road will be two lanes to conform to the remainder of the road north into the Kinzua Dam area and will start at the Kane Bc.rough line. The Kinzua Road is the last major segment of existing state highway in the Kinzua Dam area north of Kane to be completed.

The replacement and reconstruction started initially in the middle of the 19 mile Route 321 north 19 miles from Kane to intersection of Route 59. All but 3.2 miles have been constructed and some of that previously completed road now requires surface treatment and repairs. Bruce Speegle, district engineer, said recently that bids to reconstruct Traffic R.oute 321, the Kinzua access road, would be taken within 90 days after the General Assembly authorized the Highway Capitol Funds Budget for the ilscal year. At' that time, theKinzua CONVICTS COLLECTING GARBAGE AT RTLANTR ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) Convict volunteers under police escort have been set to collecting garbage accumulated durin's.

a week long strike by public wprks department employes. Mayor Sam Massell called the convicts out Sunday with i a promise of time off their sen tences after; firing an estimated 1,400 striking employes Who failed to meet his Friday deadline for going back to work. At a Sunday rally attended by some 300 strikers, members of their families and supporters, union leaders threatened to tighten their, picket lines today and hinted ai a boycott of merchants and public transportation. Morton Shapiro, area union leader, told the rally the union had been promised a raise at a meeting earlier this month with A'derman JoeU chi President Nixon avoided acting during the weekend, but fiaid he was prepared to take emergency actiion today to keep the mails moving if a majority of workena remained off the job. Plans were being prepared for using National Guard and regular Army units to supplement postal forces, but there was no Indication on how soon a decision might be made on whether to use them.

In New York, where the strike started last week, a regional post office spokesman said "the work stoppage is still on." Only 14 of 208 clerks and one of 18? carriers showed up for. the .6 a.m. shift at the main post office. Ch'cago carriers 1 also remained Out, but Postmaster Henry W. McGee said first class mail, at least, would go through with or 'without them.

He said, supervisory" personnel would sort and handle the' first class mail, if necessary. At Philadelphia, nearly half of the 450 postal clerks normally at Work on the early shift went work at the main post office and some carriers also One official said "There are a lot of clerks and mail handlers' back on the job." v. Boston reported 98 per cent of' (its clerks on duty, but many of the larger offices in Connecticut were Detroit also! was hard hit, with a mail, embargo in eight southeastern Michigan, counties! Picket lines cut forces at the main distributing point for Los' Angeles, and at the World Way postal station at Los Angeles International Airport. '70 rereent Working James H. Rademacher, preji ddnt of lhe AFL C10 Yiatmiidf Association ok Letter Carriers, estimated that 70 per cent of the' nation's; mailmen were back at work In 6,400 of the 6,500 cities.

But many key cities across the nation still would be without mail service, he said. Appearing on the NBC TV Today show, Rademacher said he hoped bargaining could begin Both government, and key Congress mem bers have said they would not act under pressure of a strike. Rademacher renewed his'de mand for agreement within five days of the start of bargaining, however, and said: rif I have to call a. nationals strike, "I'm going to ask (AFL CIO Prcsi dent) George Meany and all the unions in this country to pull out their men in support." Post QffiCft BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon today ordered the use of troops to the strikebound mail in New York City. Nixon said New York City is where the problem has become the most acute.

In ordering the use of military men to handle the mail In New York, Nixon said that is where the strike began, where the service has been halted th longest. "We cannot and we will not negotiate while thousands of workers are participating in an illegal work stoppage Nixon said. "I urge you to return to your jobs," he said. continue their walkout beyond Nixon's Monday deadline. Many locals Sunday agreed to return to work for only five days, depending on the progress of the negotiations.

Postmaster General Winton M. Blount stated a special courier service would be established today for ultrahigh priority government mail between Washington and the major struck cities of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia and Denver. Cities where local unions voted to ignore Nixon's Monday deadline included Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, N.J., Akron, Ohio, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. New York turned thumbs down Saturday On ending the Chicago mail carriers voted early today remain on strike, although members at four, sta tions voted to return to work Tuesday.

Twenty three suburban Chicago stations voted to return vrorV and three to stay off the job. In Boston, 98 per cent of the carriers were reported back on the job Monday. San Francisco, clerks, drivers and letter carriers joined the strike as supervisors and assistants sorted mail. Baltimore letter carriers decided to re main on the job. Airmail for U.S.

troops in Vietnam was estimated to be running about 50 per cent below normal because of the strikes. Federal court injunctions against the workers were most cass A federal attorney in Nw York said he would seek fines against seven local union leaders of $1,000 day, doubling with each day it continued, plus fines of up to $20,000 against the locaLunion. th AFT M. Two More U.S. Planes are Shot Down in Laos By JAY SHARBUTT Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Enemy gunners shot down two more U.S.

Air Force planes over Laos and four Army helicopters over South Vietnam, the U.S. Command announced today. Three men were killed, two are missing and two were wounded. The two planes, an F4 Phantom jet and an Al Skyraider, were shot down Thursday and Saturday over the northern part of the Laotian panhandle while operating against North Viet namese forces alon" the Ho Chi Minh Trail to South Vietnam. One of the Phantom's two crewmen was rescued, but the other and the pilot of the Sky raider are missing.

A total of 10 American planes have been reported lost over Laos jn the two weeks since the U.S. Command began announcing American losses over Laos. Most of them were attacking North Vietnamese forces on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but some were operating in support of Laotian gov ernment forces. Sunday was the second day this, month in which, four American helicopters were reported shot down in South Vietnam, the other being March 6. Three crewmen were killed and two wounded in the crashes Sunday.

A total of 3,481 American helicopters have been reported lost in the Vietnam war. Terrorist Attack Near Saigon Sunday night a terrorist grenade exploded at a Buddhist pray for peace meeting, killing 14 women and children and wounding 20 other people, according to government spokesmen. The grenade exploded in the midst of a crowd of nearly 400 persons praying in a courtyard at Hoc Mon, a'district town seven miles northwest of Saigon. South Vietnamese military spokesmen said the terrorist who threw the grenade was believed to have been a woman who escaped in the confusion. The casualties at Hoc Mon were the worst in a recent wave, of terrorist bombings, primarily centered in Saigon.

There have btwn half a dozen such incidents in the city Jn the past eignt days. Hoc Mon officials told Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc the grenade exploded in front of a Buddhist pagoda facing the courtyard where Buddhists had gathered to pray for peace. The most seriously wounded were evacuated by U.S. Army helicopters to Saigon. The rest of the survivors were treated at the town's medical center.

In another bombing Sunday night, an American soldier and a Vietnamese civilian were wounded by a terrorist grenade tossed into a beverage shop near a U.S. enlisted men's quarters just outside Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. The bombirfjjs and grenad ings, which until Sunday had been largely ineffectual, came about two weeks after official U.S. sources predicted stepped up terror attacks in the Saigon area. However, they said the attacks, part of a Viet Cong effortl to create "an illusion of strength," would primarily be directed against U.S.

and government buildings in the capital city. 89 Reds Killed On the battlefield, fighting picked up with 89 of the enemy reported killed in battles in the Mekong Delta's Minh forest, south of Da Nang and north of Saigon along the jungled Cambodian border. Thirty of the enemy dead were killed in a clash Sunday night about a miie from Cambo Overall American casualties tin ground fighting, across South Vietnam were put at one killed and' four wounded. Government losses were described as light. Two enemy mortar attacks overnight killed five persons and wounded 24.

burfrth, postmen voted to resume making their appointed rounds at least for another five days. Postal clerks began reporting for work today in Philadelphia. The Post Office said nearly half the 450. clerks that normally work the early shift in the main branch were on the job. About 100 others stood outside, apparently undecided what to do.

"It looks very encouraging," one official said. "There are a lot of clerks and mail handlers back on the job. We're going to start moving the mail, as soon as we get the trucks rolling." The Post Office said supervisory personnel collected more than 100 sacks of mail in Philadelphia on Sunday. Pickrtlns: Stopped The clerks had voted Friday not to cross letter carriers' picket lines, but the picketing stopped after an injunction was issued in U.S. District Court on Saturday night.

Strikers were back at work In West Chester, Phoenixyille, Malvern, Downingtown, Upper Darby, Paoli and Norristown. However, even with employes returning, there wasn't much mail for them to handle because mail embargoes were in effect. In Philadelphia, Doylestown, Paoli and Norristown there were full embargoes and in Pittsburgh there was a partial embargo. Air mail and first 'class mail is being handled for partially embargoed areas. Mailmen in Ha i rsz, Wilkes Barre, Lancaster, Allen town, Bethlehem and Easton, also voted to stay on the job for the five day cooVmg off period called by leaders of National Association of Letter Carriers.

About 1,500 of the. 2,300 members ot Local 157 met hTPhlla delphia's Town Hall Sunday afternoon, and voted overwhelmingly to stay off the job. Postal clerks met later and voted not to strike but to continue to observe the letter carriers' picket lines. Before the Philadelphia vote Joseph Kelly, Local 15? president, read a return to work injunction signed Saturday by U.S. District Judge John B.

Hannum. After the vote," Kelly said, "I'm with you in this 100 per cent. I want you to know that." Vincent Logan, acting postmaster in Philadelphia expressed "extreme disappointment," and warned that a continued strike would mean severe economic hardship to Philadelphia and surroundin areas. Logan also asked the letter carriers to remove pickets from the main post office and its 41 branches, so clerks who want to work wouldn't have to breach a picket line. Logan said about 260 clerks worked Sunday, attacking huge stacks of mail.

Normally 473 clerks work on a Sunday. Embargo Lifted Earlier Sunday Postmaster General Winton Blount in Washington said he was lifting the embargo of mail to Pittsburgh. At the time of the 'announcement, letter carriers were still on stkike. But members of local 34 voted 855 413 to return to the post office and Its 39 branches for today deliveries. Pittsburgh has about 1,800 carriers.

"We have proved to President Nixon that we will walk out if the negotiations in Washington aren't said Jim O'Shea Local 84 president. "I say let's wait five days. If there's no progress by then we'll strike with the national Union and Nixon can put all the damn troops he wants in the street and the mail won't get delivered." man of the city finance commit so called because the numerical "Rt 321'' was lifted 'for tee. Stokes says he told the union representatives he favored the raise, but that the money was not available, The city' says the raises would cost $2.5 million. RADAfl BASE ATTACKED 1 THE KILE DELTA TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli warplanos flew deep into" Egypt today and pounded a radar base in the Nile Delta about 100 miles north of Cairo, the military 'command announced.

No details were disclosed about the; strength or extent the strike at the radar station near the town of Baltim. A military spokesman in Tel Aviiv said only that all Israeli planes returned safely from the raid. Baltim is on the Mediterranean Sea. It was last raided by Israeli jets Feb. 2 soon after Defense Minister Moseh Dayan defined the policy of air strikes into the Egyptian heartland as a way of weakening Egyptian morale and demonstrating Israel's supremacy over the skies of the Middle East.

The raid on the Baltim radar station today was the Jl6th Israeli air strike deep into Egypt since the beginning of the year. construction, was one of 45 in the state to be delayed. At the present time, Clearfield District highway engineers are conferring with the on financial responsibility for a sewer on Hacker Street which the state has! approved for Route 321 through. Kane instead of using Route 6 through the business section, and from, the Easton Street intersection at Route 6 north via EastOn Chase Kinzua Avenue to the borough line and old Route .321. The borough and state approved ran exchange Id make possible the Hacker Street' use "and state plans were being developed for Route 321 from Wilcox north through Kane to Kinzua Avenue.

Property owners object to the route and the taking of a property at the northeast intersection of Hacker at Route 6, Biddle Street." Since that time the State Highways Department has indicated the borough is responsible for dropping an exists ing sewer to an unknown depth to conform with the new construction. However borough has indicated it will have no part of such an, expense which, had not been previously agreed in the exchange plans. Route 321 from Wilcox north via Kane to a point 3.2 miles north has been projected in. three or more "segments" with numerous surveys through recent years for reconstruction of the road which carries'a heavy load of in destination traffic as well as Twin Lakes and recrea tiarval area travel between Route 219 and Route 6. LANIER CHOSEN FIRST II THE PRO DRAFT NEW YORK (AP) The Detroit Pistons opened the National Basketball Association draft today by selecting Bob Lanier, St.

Bonaventure's All American pivotman, as the No. 1 choice. After the Pistons, who finished last in the Eastern Division and won a coin flip for the top pick, selected the 6 foot ll Lanier, San Diego's Western Division tailenders. chose Michigan's Rudy Tomjanovich In a surprise move. Atlanta, the Western Division champ, who picked third after acquiring 'San Francisco's first round choice in an earlier trade, then chose Pete Maravich of Louisiana State, college basketball's Player of the Year.

The pick obviously was designed to try to keep the 6 foot 5 LSU All American in the South and away from the rival American Basketball Association. spokesman said no employes were on strike In postal regions. He listed them as Atlanta; Dallas, Tex.f Memphis, Tenn. St. Mo.

Seattle; Wash. Washington," D.C.; and Wichita, Kan. Some delivery embargoes were lifted in the East and Mid west after workers returned to their posts. Leaders of seven postal unions reaffirmed Sunday their request that postal workers end their walkout so discussions the Issues could begin. They made the statement after meeting for more than an hour with Labor Secretary George Rademacher also warned union "locals that "public wrath shall replace support" if they Court Rules Hearing Heeded To End Welfare Payments WASHINGTON OP The Supreme Court" ruled 5" 3 today that people on welfare have a right to a formal, evidentiary hearing before officials may decide to reduce or end their assistance.

The decision by Justice William J. Brennan emphasized that public assistance "is not mere charity." Its. dispensation, then, he said, must be governed by constitutional procedures. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger dissented along with Justice Hugo L.

Black and Potter Stewart. Justice Black, in dissent, said the ruling means states are helpless to stop payments to people on relief who are not entitled to the benefits. demand for wage scale ranging front $8,500 to $11,700. Postmen now make a minimum of $6,176 a year with a top of $8,442 after 21 ytfarS "bf service. bill, to provide a 5.4 per cent" wage hike, effective last Oeto ber, remains bottled up in Congress.

Another proposed pay bill for all federal workers contains another 5.7 per cent increase for Use of the military presents several problems beyond the resentment such a move would cause among the strikers and even, nonstrikers. Although there are a few hundred trained postal workers in the various service branches, there are not nearly enough to man all the fected This would mean a crash, on the job training program for most, of the, said officials. And many expressed doubts about how. efficient any operation would.be.undepi suh circumstances; Hospital Bills are Signed by Shafer 8 HARRISBURG UP Gov. Shafer announced Sunday he has signed a $1.1 million appropriation to cover state mental health aid administered through the Welfare Department.

One of two bills he signed $150,000 for construction of an outpatient clinic at i Northeast Mental Health Clinic in Philadelphia. The second measure appropriated a total of $991,000 for Hor 1 (izon House, Philadelphia; Car jbon County Sheltered Work shop, Jim Thorpe; Mental Hygiene Clinic of Beaver County, Chester; Jefferson Medical College, Meadville. Also Oil City Hospital, Oil jCity; Altoona Hospital, Altoona; Geislnger Hospital, Danville; Rebecca Gratz Home, Philadelphia; Lebanon County Work shop, Lebanon and Erie County Exceptional Children Center, Erie. 1 Storm Spoils Holy Land Palm Sunday JERUSALEM One of the world's greatest Christian ceremonies the procession of pilgrims celebrating Palm Sunday in Jerusalem was totally washed out Sunday by gale force winds and hailstorms over this Holy City. It was the worst weather in living memory in Jerusalem.

Rain poured torrentially from scowling skies. Hailstones smashed into the ancient streets. Msgr. Alberto Gorl, Roman Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, telephoned organizers of the procession to say: "The weather is' too iad for the profession. We must cancel.

One. of our worries is that nuns could be blown over the cliffs by this terrible wind." Two Sisters Die in Fire at Dagus Mines ST. MARYS Two widowed sisters died Saturday afternoon when fire raged through their home In Dagus Mines, about ten miles southeast of here. Dead are Mrs. Virginia Gorak.

53, and Mrs. Elvira Kucsara, 54, who resided with their mother and a brother. The blaze was discovered about 12:20 p.m. by an unidentified neighbor. State Police fire marshall Donald Heilcenrater of Punxsutaw ney was called to Investigate.

The cause was still unknown Sunday night, The house was a total loss, with damage estimated at $11, 000. CHORALIERS IN ERIE TO TAPE PROGRAM Members of The Chorallers, Kane Area Senior High School vocal group directed by Loren Wright, are in Erie today to tape a half hour program at Television Station WICU. The Choraliers left here at mid morning on the all day trip. Their program will be seen, next Saturday, from 5:30 to 6 p.m., over that station, Channel 12. Mt.

Jewett Break in A Telephone and valuable tools were stolen from a sub office of the Northern Hardwood Rounds at Mt. Jewett over the weekend. The sub office is located on the premises of the industry, some distance from the main office. Entry had' been forced and the place burglarized. There was no immediate estimate of the Police Chief Erik Hanson of Mt Jewett is investigating with state police from Kane.

CAR. SNOW PLOW i COLLIDE IN KANE i The borough snow plow unit operated by Bert Knapp and an automobile driven by Mrs. Helen I Micheau, of Wetmore Avenue, collided at the Easlon Hacker intersection shortly after won today. 'Police said Mrs. Micheau re ceived a bruised hip and her car received about $50O damages.

1 Police Chief Jones said the Micheau car was proceeding north on Hacker Street when the borough plow unit made a right turn from Easton onto Hacker Street. The bumper, fender and door on the Micheau car were dam CZECH OFFICIAL DEPARTS PRAGUE fAPi Czecnosio Vak President Ludvlk Svoboda left today on. what will be his longest journey since taking officeto Siberia and Japan, C'imax of the trip wdll be Svo? boda's state visit to Japan, 'n eludintj a meeting" April 1 with Emperor Hirohito in the Tokyo' imperial palace and an appear? ance April 3 at "Czechoslovak Day" at the Osaka world NOTE TO PASTORS: Pastors of Kane area churches wishing to have special mention of their Easter Sunday services in the annual Kane Republican roundup of those special services, in Saturday's issue, are asked to have the information in our office by 2 p.m. Thursday. Your cooperation will be KUSHEQUA AREA THEFT Kane based state police are Investigating a camp robbery near Kushequa in which fishing tackle and hunting equipment valued at $187 were taken.

The camp; located in the Kinzua Bridge area, is owned by Jay Laderer of Meadville. He reported the burglary Saturday, according to troopers. rOKLAR IS HOSPITAIJZEI) Robert Poklar, partner in the Jacobus Poklar Garage, has been admitted to Kane Community Hospital for treatment of a back problem which worsened over the weekend. His condition is listed as fairly good today. to THE QUAINT OLD TOWN of Ellicott City, pop.

1,500, is in for an onslaught of news me dia, police and militants. On hill back there la courthouse, new site of trial of H. Rap Brown. aged. i No damage was reported the plow unit..