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72 LEBANON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1969 Entered iteond clou matter ft ef Ubanan. under Act of Morck 3, 72 PAGES-TEN CENTS Engaged To Hershey Student State Police Are Hunting Two Men In Coed's Death UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (UPI) State police said today they sought two unidentified men in connection with their investigation in the stabbing of a coed in a library at the Pennsylvania State University. The victim, Betsy Aardsma, 22, a graduate student from Holland, was found at about 5 p.m., EST, Friday by another female student who heard her cry for help. The student who answered the call for help told state police she saw two men, who told her Miss Aardsma needed aid and then left the scene.

She said she did not know the men and did not know if they were students. The victim, who lived in a campus dormitory, was engaged to David Wright, a student at Penn State's Milton Hershey School of Medicine, her sister said. It was reported that Betsy made the trip to Hershey every weekend to visit her boyfriend. Lt. William Kimmel, who led a team of 18 stale policemen in Betsy Aardsma the investigation of the "homicide," declined to reveal the name of the girl who found Miss Aardsma.

He also declined to comment on a motive or to tell if a weapon was 'ound. Artery Is Severed Kimmel said Miss Airdsma Harrisburg Man's Death Here Ruled Accidental The death of a Harrisburg man here on Nov. 22 was today termed accidental in a joint statement issued by Chief of Police John A. Heverling and District Attorney Alvin B. Lewis Jr.

Lewis said laboratory tests of fluid and tissue from the body Michael Jay Houseal, 22, revealed that he died of an overdose of alcohol and medications. The latter comprised nerve depressants and barbiturates the DA explained. Lewis said Houseal was an epileptic and the medication was taken for that reason. In combination with alcohol, however, it jiad fatal results, Lewis indicated. The DA said investigators were ur able to learn how Houseal got to Lebanon since he did not have a car or a driver's license and there was no indication that he had used public transportation.

This, however, Lewis said is not a matter of further police inquiry since HouseaPs death was shown to be Houseal was pronounced dead at the Good Samaritan Hospital after he was found dying at the rear of Pushnik's Waterfall Room about 3 a.m. on Nov. 22. He had bruises on his face which investigators said might have resulted from a fall due to his epileptic condition. was stabbed breast.

The once in tr.e wound wa; left one inch wide and three inches deep, and the pulmonary ar- PSU Trustees To Meet At Hershey; Elect Pres. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. of 'the Pennsylvania State University will meet Dec. 12 at Hershey to possibly new university president, it was announced today. The trustees will hear the recommendations of a selection committee named last January to seek a replacement for Eric A.

Walker, who told the board he wished to retire as president not later than June 30, 1970. Roger W. Rowland of New Castle, president of the board of trustees, said-the 32-member board would meet at the Hershey Motor Lodge at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 12.

SOMETHING SPECIAL LONDON John Harvey wanted to do something special at Sunday's services to celebrate Advent, the beginning of the church year. He put on a fals? beard, a white apron and a chef's hat and started mixing a cake as the congregation roared with laughter. At the end, the vicar popped the mixture into a false oven and instantly brought forth a perfect cake. He admitted the finished cake had been made earlier. tery was severed, he said.

Kimmel said death occurred between 5 and 10 minutes after the.stabbing. He said there was very little bleeding. Miss Aardsma was found lying on a' floor on the second level of six levels of stacks in a wing of the million volume Pattee Library. There were about 90 persons in the sprawling library "almost deserted," police said. Kimmel said state policemen thus far had questioned aboul half of those in the library at the time.

Concerning the two men seen near Miss Aardsma shortly after she was stabbed, Kimmel said police "have sufficient descriptions not the best, but sufficient." The girl who found Miss Aardsma telephoned for an am bufance from the university medical center. Miss Aardsma was pronounced dead on arriva at the medical center at 5:20 p.m. Contact Michigan Kimmel said stale police have been in contact with Mi chigan authorities "and will re main in contact with them." He declined to comment on a pos sible connection with recen slayings of college coeds in Mi chigan. Miss Aardsma was a gradu ate of the University of Michi gan. Miss Aardsma was describee by her sister, Mrs.

Carol Wag ner of Holland, as a "very intelligent and popular girl." A graduate of the University of Michigan, she was doing graduate work in English and art at Penn State. She decided to stay at the school during the Thanksgiving holidays and go home when the Christmas recess began Dec. 13, her sister explained. She talked with her family by telephone Thanksgiving. Day and reported "everything was fine." Police said Miss Aardsma apparently went to the.

library Friday to work on a. research paper in English. The building, normally a hub of activity at night, nearly was empty because of the holiday recess. City Street Sweepers Continue In Operation The city will continue to operate the street sweepers until weather conditions halt the runs, it was announced today by Chief UPl-Daily NEWS Facsimile. MOON ROCKS Apollo 12 commander Charles (Pete) Conrad exhibits some of the "grapefruit size" moon rocks he and fellow moonwalker Alan Bean collected on their recent trip to the moon.

The picture was taken through a window at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. The Apollo 12 crew will remain in quarantine at the LRL for 11 days. Apollo 72 Scientists Test Rocks; Pilots Get Tree' Day SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) Scientist return today to their examinations of the strangely different Apollo 12 moon rocks and soils, but the men who gathered those lunar samples get the day off. of Police John A. The police chief made the announcement after- receiving calls from some North Side residents who were under the impression the- sweeper runs had been discontinued.

Heverling said the normal schedule, will be followed. Cong Village Claims No One Under Orders To Kill Civilians By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Atty. F. Lee Bailey, representing the company commander who ordered an assault on My Lai in which South Vietnamese civilians allegedly were massacred said today "no one was under orders to shoot civilians." Bailey's account of what happened at the hamlet in March 1968 was in behalf of Capt. EH nest L.

Medina, whom the famed criminal lawyer is representing. He said Medina issued no orders for a slaughter, nor were any such orders issued to Medina by his superiors. More accounts by servicemen who were present at the alleged mass killings continued to appear over the weekend, including that of a sergeant who called the affair "point-blank Medina has not been charged in the case. A murder charge has been brought at Ft. Benning, against one of his platoon leaders, Lt.

William L. Galley Jr. Bailey said Medina reported to superiors after the attack that there had been 25 to 28 ci vilian casualties and was told by a major, "That sounds about "The company commander received no orders to butcher anyone or to kill any women and he issuec none," Bailey said in an interview. Bailey, who said he is repre senting Medina, said the captain ordered the attack on the vil lage on information that it wa; full of Viet Cong, and that "they were expected to be the onlj ones in the village." "He at no time told anyone to kill women or children or shoo at any of them," the attorney said. "As far as he knows, this was not done." Bailey said Galley's platoon was on the other side of the vil lage, out of Medina's sight.

said Medina did shoot a Vietnamese who turned out to be a woman, after a helicopter radioed "that there was a Viet Cong lying on the ground and moving with a weapon." Bailey said Medina later got a helicopter report that there (Continued on Page 3) 46 Inmates Hold Sit-In Lancaster Co, Prison LANCASTER, Pa. (AP)-Fory-six inmates at Lan caster Bounty Prison continued a sit-in demonstration early today in the main cell block. Warden S. Kenneth Cliff said demonstration, which is be- ieved to have been caused by removal of a television set main cell block following a small fire, began Sunday as the prisoners were returning from the mess area. "We are refraining from using any force to make them return to their cells," Cliff said.

"There is no danger that any of them could escape." JfotttB Amusements Area Classified Shapp To Seek Demo Party Nod For Governor May Resemble Stock Exchange First Lottery In 27 Years; Will Affect 500,000 Men WASHINGTON (AP) Tonight the nation holds ts first military draft lottery in 27 years, with the fate of half a million men at -stake. There will be a big with numbers and dates being posted one by one; a hot glare of ights; standing men and women, intently jotting down every announcement and handing the notes to scurrying messengers. may look more like a hot day the stock exchange than a December night at Selective Service. Numbers, Dates The numbers and dates will 3e one telling mndreds, or thousands, of men the country their chances of being drafted in 1970. Just outside Selective Serv- ce's jammed conference room ivhere the drawing takes place will be a glass case in the lobby, containing a souvenir from the past.

It's a large glass kind of laboratory one used for the first draft lotteries World War I and again in World War II. In the lottery drawings of World War II this jar held 10,000 ittle capsules containing draft registration numbers. Sample capsules are still in the jar; green and pink plastic with metal heads, like little lipstick tubes, for 1940 and 1941; 3lue ones for 1942, made entirely of bit of metal ivas being saved by then for war production. Soon every available man was needed, too, and there was no point to a lottery any more. It was abandoned, even during the low-draft peacetime years, until President Nixon revived the it "random Wednesday by signing a law, an executive or- 366 for each" day of the year, with an extra day for Leap be mixed and drawn.

Wanted New Jar But Hershey, 76 years old and being removed from his post as der, and a proclamation of to- nex Feb. 16, felt the old jar night's drawing. Even before Nixon signed the lottery into law, Lt. Gen. Lewis B.

Hershey, draft director since 1941, had ordered a new jar. The old one held 10,000 capsules and could easily have served again tonight, when only symbolized the past, a spokesman explains. He wanted a new one. On Nov. 21, two days after Congress approved Nixon's plan, Selective Service ordered a new, bigger laboratory jar, (Continued on Page 6) 7 Weekend Mishaps Runaway Horse Causes AccidentOn Walnut St.

A runaway horse pulling an Amish buggy was in- olved in a crash with a car on Walnut Street, near jncoln Avenue, Saturday night. City police said it was one of seven accidents in- olving motor vehicles that they investigated over the weekend. One minor injury was reported. 23 26 Milton J. Shapp HARRISBURG (AP) Millionaire political maverick Milion.

J. Shapp today became the iirst Democrat to announce his intent to seek his party's nomination for governor. Shapp, who won the nomination handily in 1966 over then State Sen. Robert P. Casey but lost the general election, made the announcement at a breakfast news conference here.

He then took off by charter plane for similar press briefings in Pittsburgh, Erie, Scranton- Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia later in the day. In announcing his candidacy, Shapp charged "Pennsylvania's government is a mess." Shapp blamed the problems on the Republican Shafer administration and said the state's, next gover- A "free" day for the pilots America's second lunar landin however, means little righ now. Charles "Pete" Conrad Richard F. Gordon and Alan Bean are all prisoners of th moon, bug quarantine they mus endure until the middle of nex week. The prison is the $15 million concrete an glass Lunar Receiving Lafaora tory at the Space Center.

Bu the astronauts' activities ar limited to things that can done within the confines: ox th germ-proof isolation barrier. A build-it-yourself FM stereo radio kit makes the hours pass faster for Conrad. Gordon alternates between' watching television and wading through a stack of magazines and letters that has piled up for weeks. Bean reads in his room, watches a little television and visits through a sealed glass wall with his wife and friends. A few hundred feet away, in a separate part of the laboratory, are the two boxes of rocks Conrad and Bean gathered during their moonwalks Nov.

19 and 20. Because of quarantine restrictions, the astronauts are unable to visit this part of the laboratory. Geologists unpacked the (Continued on Page 4) Teenagers Aid Cabbie Who Was Being Robbed PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Three teenagers came to the aid of a driver who was being robbed here Sunday by subduing the bandit and locking him in the trunk. Clayton Leroy Brooks and James Price, all 16 saw cab driver Walker Lee Copeland, 24, struggling with a passenger who tried to rob him During the struggle Copelanc reportedly was da-zed he was struck on the head with a )rick. The teenagers rushed to Cope- and's aid and helped lock the suspect in the trunk.

Copeland drove his vehicle to 19th District Police Headquar- where hp unlocked the xunk and handed over the suspect, identified as Gillis Taylor, 22, nor must have proven execu- understand Comics 24, 25 Editorial Financial Obituaries 'jthe nature of the national and state economy bring justice Jiand economic opportunity to while and black alike and bridge yang de Women's Pages 19, 20; ve opod society. Notice Webber Chevrolet Will Close On Wednesday at 11:30 A.M. Due to Funeral of Lester Napp, employee He said the time has come for a "reordering of priorities" in state government to better use tax dollars. At the side of the retired, 57 year-old Philadelphia electron ics manufacturer war, Washing ton political publicist Oscar (Continued on Page 7 Railroads To Shut Down I Strike Is Called WASHINGTON (UPI) -Most of the nation's railroads say they will shut down rail service across the country Tuesday- night if four shopcraft unions go on strike, The National Railway Labor Conference made the threat Sunday night as both in the dispute prepared to enter round-the-clock negotiations to lead off a strike. Labor Secretary George P.

Shultz, who ordered the continuous bargaining sessions, said 'if a voluntary agreement is lot reached by the deadline, other actions will have to be considered by the (Nixon) administration." The machinists, sheetmeta workers, electrical workers anc boilermakcrs-blacksmiths have threatened (o strike at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday when a government-imposed cooling off period ends. The railroads decided Sunday, "with great regret," that they would have to make an across- the-board shutdown if that happened. Holiday Death Toll At 648; Less Than Expected By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL The 102-hour Thanksgiving loliday weekend period has ended with far fewer Americans killed than the record who died last Thanksgiving on the nation's highways. This year's death toll also was far under estimates by the National Safety Council.

The council had predicted up to 80 persons could be killed in traffic accidents this Thanks giving, which began 6 p.m local time Wednesday and ended at midnight Sunday. A United Press Internationa count at 7 a.m. EST showed a least 648 persons killed on the highways during the long holiday period. FORGETS THE CREAM HELENA, Mont. (UPI)-The Montana Milk Control Boari agreed to furnish coffee las week for all participants ant newsmen at hearings here, bu forgot one cream.

The only thing available first day of the hearings was powder substitute. SERVICE ON TV APPL. Bob Hoch SERVICE Dial 273-4561 TONITE Sing Out Lebanon Rehearsal 7 P.M. At Municipal Building JS Troops In Viet Below 480,1 In 2 Years SAIGON (AP) American military strength in Vietnam las dropped below 480,000 men or the first time in two years, continuing a five-month trenc downward that began with the first, troop, withdrawals last summer, the U.S. Command nouriced today.

There was increased specula tion-that President Nixon before the end of the year will an hounce more withdrawals be yond. the reduction ordered so far this year. The U.S. Command said tha as of Thursday there were 479,500 American troops in the country, a drop, of 4,900 men during the previous week anc 4,500 under the maximum of 484,000 Nixon set for Dec. 15.

American troop strength in Vietnam was 485,600 two years ago and rose to a high of 543,400 last April. Attacks At Low Level Meanwhile, enemy attacks across South Vietnam were re' ported at a low level, but allied spokesmen said this was part of the cyclic pattern that has prevailed in the past year, Viet Cong sappers moving be lind a mortar barrage blasted their way into the compound a U.S. Army combat support unit eight miles north of the big American supply base at Cam Ranh hay. Security forces and helicoptei gunships attacked the Viet Cong commandos, and they withdrew within an hour. Headquarters said three Americans were (Continued on Page 8 The accident involving the norse and buggy and a car operated by Mrs.

Grace G. Farmer, 26, 1311 King occurred about 8 p.m. The horse, attached to the buggy, reportedly ran away the Good Samaritan Hospital parking lot on Walnut near Fourth. It had been driven there by John Lapp, about 19, Myerstown RD 2. Mrs, Farmer said she was driving east on Walnut Street when she and members of her family noted the horse running wildly beside their As they neared Lincoln Avenue she halted to permit her husband, Allan E.

Farmer, 27, to get out of the car and attempt to halt the horse. As he opened the door the buggy sides-wiped it and'tore it off. Mrs. Farmer said the col- lison upset the buggy and the horse dragged it on its side for two blocks. Farmer, who had raced after the horse, brought it to a halt.

The help of three other men was required to right the buggy. Damage to the buggy was reported as slight. There was a report that horse was the same animal that was involved in a crash with a car on Route 422, near Myerstown Tuesday night. This was denied this morning by David Stoltzfus, 24, Myerstown RD 1, who was the driver of the horse and buggy in last week's crash. Stoltzfus and Ruth Lapp, 23, Myerstown RD 2, were injured in that accident.

John Lapp was visiting his sister and Stoltzfus in the hospital here when Saturday night's inciden; occurred. Damage to the Farmer car ia Saturday night's crash was estimated at S150 by Patrolman Thomas Fertig. One person was injured in a two-car crash at Tenth and Left(Continued on Page 1) Could Open Door Common Ma rket Meets; May Admit England THE HAGUE (UPI) European Common Market leaders assembled in The Hague today for a two-day summit conference called to pump new life into their six-nation community in the 1970s and perhaps open the door to Britain's entry. As they gathered, numerous pressure groups issued statements or made declarations Walter Hallstein, first president of the Common Market Commission and now president of the European movement, issued a statement calling for the opening of early talks with Britain. The European Federal party in its statement predicted complete failure of efforts ti build a another group calling itself the Keep Britain out organization set a firm date for starting negotiations with Britain was the main topic for discussion at the meeting.

In addition, Ireland, Denmark and Norway are also seeking admission. British entry into the group has been twice vetoed by former French President Charles de Gsulle. De Gaulle's successor, Georges Pompidou, is making his united 0 'Europe! "And first appearance at an interna tional parley and French sources reported he has pointed out that a recent public Bought proposals to break the nnininn nnii chnwod ftnlv 22 ncr seven-year deadlock over Bn- opinion poll showed only 22 per cent of Britons want to join the market. The question of whether to tish membership. In addition to France, the (Continued on Psse 2 Col.

8) DOWNTOWN LEBANON STORES OPEN EVERY NIGHT TILL 3:00 P.M.-SHOP DOWNTOWN.