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THE KMM Weather Light rain or drizzle tonight. Showers or snow flurries Tuesday; highs in 30s. VOL. LXXIX. NO.

88 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and Mt. Jewett, Pa. Mohdcrf, December 27. 1971 TWELVE CENTS A COPY Temperatures Overnight low 33 Noon recording 40 EEPUBUCm Airmmoda loads North Nixon in Florida For Sessions with German Leader CALIF. DEMONSTRATION.

TOO Veterans Barricaded in The Statue of liberty By SAM MAULL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (JP) Sixteen young antiwar vet erans barricaded inside the Statue of Liberty said today they would not leave until President Nixon set a date for tthe withdrawal of all American forces from Southeast Asia. Vneft Acmoimdl ihe Clock By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) President Nixon has arrived here to meet with West Ger Shop 'n Win Finale Friday Afternoon man Chancellor Willy 2: BRADFORD WINNER SELECTED FOR TOP AWARD for the fourth in a series Nixon Selected Man of Year By Magazine 1 "ill 1 Fast Work Three Lewistown Men Held on Safe Burglary Charge State Police Nab Trio 20 Minutes After Theft Call Three Lewistown, Pa. young men were nabbed in a stolen car 20 minutes after State Police were alerted at 8:20 a.m. today oii a safe burglary at the Kendall Charger Station at Lantz Corners.

According to Cpl. George Plafcan at the Kane sub ation a mile north of Lantz corners, Trooper Lloyd Brooks speeding after the suspects, caught up with them in the vicinity of Hazclhurst and arrested them without resistance. Scheduled for arraignment here today are Logan Kochen derfer, 23, George W. Sheeler, 23 and Leonard Warren Naylor, aged 21. According to State Police report the initial charges involved are on the safe burglary.

But, it was indicated, the trio were in a stolen car and other charges are pending as investigation continues. They are reported to be escapees from the Mifflin County Jail. Warren Passmore, operator of the service station, was alone at the place when the trio stopped to get gasoline. While he was kept busy by two of the men, the third entered the station where a bag containing cash was taken from an open safe. Mr.

Passmore discovered the theft immediately and reported to the State Police substation where an immediate area alert was issued and a chase was launched. Initial report indicated the suspect car did not attempt to jutrun the State Police car len it was overtaken. i NEW YORK (AP) President Nixon says his visit to Communist China "is just to open communication" while his summit talk with Soviet leaders will be "basically a substantiva meeting," Time magazine reports. Time, which names the President as "Man of the Year" in its current issue, quoted Nixon as saying that the success of the two visits "will be determined by what follows those meetings, not the communiques that come out of them." Nixon said the most important decision he made in 1971 was to go to mainland China, but stressed that its importance lay "in terms of building to the long term future. It may well benefit not the present occupant of this 'office, but somebody five, 10 or 15 years from now," he said.

On the domestic front, the President said his most difficult decision was his move to impose controls on the economy. "I don't believe in controls as an end in themselves or on a permanent basis. On the other hand, I am an activist nobody believed that until this year. Being' a activist, I felt we had to jolt the American economy on the inflation side," he said. Later, talking generally about the decision making process, Nixon said, "Great decisions, if they are to be good decisions, must be made coolly The decisions that are important must be made alone." He said the American people want to thipk that if there is a crisis, the President "will be cool and sober.

They also wan: to think that he's a human guy who likes his wife and kids and a good time." summit talks he is having with allied leaders. "The President feels this is a particularly timely point to have further discussion with Brandt, and he is looking forward to them." Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said after Nixon's arrival here Sunday night. "He feels they will be productive, as the others have been." They will meet Tuesday and Wednesday. Nixon, anticipating his trip to Peking in late February and to Moscow in late met earlier this month with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, French President Georges Pompidou and British Prime Minister Edward Heath.

He will confer next week with Japanese Prime Minister Eis aku Sato at the Western White House in San Clemente, Cahf. At a later date in Washington, he will meet with the Italian prime minister. The American and West German leaders will talk in one of two bayfront homes Nixon owns here. Secretary of State William P. Rogers flew to Florida with the President and he will meet simultaneously in a near by hotel with his Bonn counterpart, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel.

Phone Call to Coach Nixon, just before flying here, placed a telephone call to Washington Redskins Coach George Allen to commiserate on the Redskins 24 20 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the iNational Football League playoff game in the Bay City. Ziegler said Nixon watched the contest on television and told Allen afterward: "You can be proud that you had a good season. It was a fine game." Landing at nearby Homestead Air Force Base, Nixon strode to greet a few score wel comers and talked mostly about football as he chatted his way along a fence 'in front of the terminal. Nixon is expected to return to Washington in time to see his wife Pat, who did not make this trip, off on a 10 day African tour that begins New Year's Day. hMK ft 1 1 i Df DIES IN CALIF.

8 o'clock on Friday evenings. Miss Toni Holmes of 307 Kinzua Avenue, was present to win $100 in the first of the weekly awards. Others who received the $50 awards, were Mrs. Janet Jones, R. D.

1, Kane; Mrs. Pat Nystrom, Kane R. D. 1 and Darrell Swedenhjelm, Kane R. D.

1. The promotion and awards were set on the basis of prior years of experience in the Merchants' Yule events. The program is evaluated each year for basis of the following year's event to make changes if shopper opinion warrants such action. Kane probably can boast the biggest and best of the aide Santas with the Rev. Stephen Shuart impressive in his part in the Yuletide pictured here.

(Photo by Russ Johnson) This is it! Pictured is scene Friday at 4:15 p.m. when Santa selected final and top award in the Yule season promotion of the Retail Merchants Association. The big winner of a finale $250 award was Gerald R. Oliphant, 42 Leonard Avenue, Bradford. Several hundreds of persons thronged the "Santa Corner' area for the final $500 award and the winner not present, the prize was half that amount.

Santa was assisted by John merchants' organization president, pictured at right. Through the Yule season, the popular "Shop 'n Win" promotion featured weekly awards of $100 a week with a $500 grand prize. If winners were not present, they received half the totals. Prior tc the December 24 climax, awards were made at At Travis Air Force Base in California 18 enlisted men just back from Vietnam where officials said they used narcotics," seized a floor of an observation ward to protest military drug treatment policies. When the veterans took over the Statue of Liberty Sunday night, they had vowed to main tain their occupation until New Year's Eve to protest continuation of the Vietnam war.

But this morning, after receiving what they called a consensus of veterans' groups the world over, they issued a statement demanding setting of a withdrawal date. The takeover of the statue in New York Harbor and the protest in California were two of several actions taken around the nation by antiwar veterans and servicemen during the Christmas season. The statement of the statue occupiers said in part: "Last spring we threw our medals into the dirt because' we thought it would end the war. "Now, as we sit inside the Statue of Liberty, having captured the hope and imagination of a war weary nation, we can no longer tolerate the war in Southeast Asia. "Mr.

Nixon, you set the date we'll evacuate." The veterans were occupying the 100 foot square pedestal of the 305 foot high national monument. Their takeover was described initially by Vietnam Veterans Against the war as symbolic action to show support for any person who refuses to kill." Administrators for the National Park Service, which has jurisdiction over Liberty Island, talked with group during the night but there was no indication what action officials would take if the men did not leave. Some of the protesters wore military fatigues and medals, others were in civilian clothes. They mingled with the tourists who took ferryboats to the national landmark" Sunday, then hid at closing time. A night watchman discovered the group about 7 p.m.

The group evicted the watchman and used lumber taken from a renovation project inside the statue to barricade the doors. In a statement issued from the VVAW office in Manhattan shortly before midnight, the group said: "We support any action taken by our brothers in Southeast Asia to end the war and we demand that this message be transferred to our brothers in Southeast Asia." No Violence Promise Al Hubbard, national coordinator of the VVAW, said the demonstrators came from an encampment of veterans near Valley Forge, Pa. He said they would not resist with violence if authorities tried to evict them. "There will be no violent confrontation with the police," Hubbard declared. "They will use their resourcefulness to prevent the 'police from dislodging them.

They are in good spirits. "The training the Army gave them was very good and prepared them for all eventualities. Reconnaissance teams were sent out to the statue( before this action was taken. We are in constant touch with them," he said. Jerry D.

Wagers, regional director of the National Park Service, arrived on the island about 1:30 a.m. to talk with James Batman, the resident manager, and the Radio Hanoi Claims Four Jets Downed By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) An armada of 350 American fighter bombers pounded antiaircraft defenses and supply depots in North Vietnam around the clock tonight. "Every sign points to further operations," informants, indicating a third day of heavy raids Tuesday. It was the biggest air attack on North Vietnam since President Johnson's bombing halt three years ago. North Vietnam claimed that five F4 Phantoms were shot down Sunday, two of them by antiaircraft fire about 80 miles of Hanoi.

Radio Hanoi said two American airmen were killed when their plane crashed nose first into a rice field. Earlier Radio Hanoi said that other "pilots were killed or captured" but gave no num bers. The U.S. Command remained silent on Hanoi's claims and withheld details of the raids. But field reports from search and rescue units indicated there had been some American losses.

Informants said President Nixon ordered the raids in retaliation for the loss of six U.S. planes in the past Vk weeks and as a warning to Hanoi "not to push" the United States too far. It was the ninth large scale air operation inside North Vietnam that has been announced since May 1970. Several hours before the air raids began, Radio Hanoi warned that no American prisoners of war would be released "so long as U.S. warplanes continue to violate North Vietnam and the Nixon administration refuses to take the steps necessary to end the war." The strikes began Sunday morning from Air P'orce bases in South Vietnam and Thailand and from the carriers Constellation and Coral Sea in the Tonkin Gulf.

The raids continued around the clock. While informants in Saigon said the raiders were making an all out assault to lessen tjhe threat of North Vietnamese MIGs, surface to air missiles and antiaircraft artillery, the U.S. Command said the strikes were of "limited duration" and would end at an undisclosed time. 'Hospital Strafed' The command said only "military targets" were being hit, but Radio Hanoi claimed that the planes bombed and strafed a hospital in Thanh Hoat a provincial capital 70 miles south of Hanoi, and populated areas in two other provinces along the Laotian border. The U.S.

Command said the attacks were made "in reaction to enemy activity which imperils the diminishing U.S. forces currently in South Vietnam." An informant cited the recent increase in MIG, missile and artillery attacks on U.S. planes bombing North Vietnamese supply routes along the border between Laos and South Vietnam. "Increasing MIG and antiaircraft activity inhibits U.S. air operations over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos where most of the supplies come into South Vietnam," said this source.

"These war materials, if they reach North Vietnamese and Vict Cong forces in South Vietnam, can endanger the remaining U.S. forces." The same supply routes also tarry war materials to the (Continued on page 6) Mrs. Rose Betty Tate, 47, of Benton, Calif, succumbed at 3 a.m. Sunday at her residence following an illness of six months duration. She was born on Dec.

7, 1924 at Kane, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite West McKenna and the late Leo A. McKenna. The deceased had resided in California for the past five years. Surviving are her mother here; her husband, Clinton Tate to whom she was married at Erie on Oct.

4, 1956; three daughters, Sherylann, Mary and Betty and three sons, John, Steven and Clinton, all of Benton; two sisters, Mrs. Paul (Marguerite) Trubic of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Joseph (Joyce) Maljovec of Kane; a brother, Robert McKenna of Erie and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Cum mings Funeral Home here at at the hours of 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Fr. Joseph Jerge, pastor of St.

Callistus Catholic Church, officiating. Interment will be in St. Callistus Cemetery. Family of Gary Anderson Receives Some Precious Mail Two sets of grandparents here heard some happy news yesterday: A letter written on Dec. 7 by Navy Lt.

Gary Anderson of Kane has arrived at the home of his parents, who now live at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The letter, first word from Gary since last spring, was. among 1,001 letters from 332 American prisoners of war brought to New York last Tuesday by the Rev. Richard Fernandez, a member of the Liason With Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam Committee. The letter was delivered to Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Laverne (Chip) Anderson at their Cedar Rapids home (352 Windsor Drive N.E.) at 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Enclosed with the letter were post cards written to Gary's brothers, Brian and Lannie. The family reports that Gary's handwriting is very good and that he stated he is well and hoped that his family would have a nice Christmas.

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson joined Mrs. Peggy Naugh ton of Sheldon, Iowa for dinner yesterday. Two of the 1,001 letters were delivered to her from her husband, Lt.

Cmdr. Robert Naughton, also a prisoner of war. His plane was shot down in May. 1967 over North Vietnam. Gary's plane was shot down on May 19, 1967 over North Vietnam.

TWO CHRISTMAS BABIES ARE BORN TO KANE COUPLES It was early Christmas morning and late Christmas night when two babies, both girls, were born at Kane Community Hospital to local couples. At 1:26 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mohney of 508 Bid die Street became parents of a daughter.

The mother is the former Jacqueline Shrubb. The new arrival has been named Sherry Lynn. At 11:34 p.m., a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anderson of 406 Chase Street.

Mrs. Anderson, is the former Juanita Weaver. The baby has been named Nicole Marie. Funeral services were conducted today at 1:30 at Cum mings Funeral Home here in memory of Louis O. Joshnick, 83, of 211 Janeway Street, Kane, who died at 12:30 a.m.

Saturday at Elk County General Hospital in Ridgway. Mr. Joshnick was a former hotel operator a score of years ago. He owned and operated the Hotel Reavley in Kane for a number of years and also a hotel at Crosby. The Rev.

Warren Hollertz of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Ridgway officiated, followed by burial at the Highland Cemetery, at Highland. The deceased had been ill for the past six months and seriously so within the past month. He was born on June 20, 1888 in Austria, son of the late Joseph and Mary Joshnick. He resided in Kane for the past 50 years with prior residence at Galeton. Mr.

Joshnick was a retired railroader and' was a charter member of the Port Allegany Moose Club. Surviving are his wife, the former Bina Finley to whom he was married at Galeton in July of 1949; two sons, Lawrence of Kane and Harold of Geneva, N. two daughters, Mrs. Alden Chapman of Sackett and Mrs. A.

A. Sorenson of Ridgway and five stepchildren. Kane Area Has a Real Rarity, a Green Christmas And it came to pass that Kane had a Green Christmas, one of the rarities on the Hilltop. But, the spirit of the White Christmas prevailed with beauty outdoors and indoors. Traditional family gatherings and Yule events were general and Christmas services well attended as always.

The famed Kane "weather works" brought, a drizzle instead of snow and temperatures rising to 48 degree in place of the usual cold. A glance back through records of a score of years shows three Christmas days without a fresh fall of snow. There were Christmas days such as in 1954 when there was much of the month's 47.98 inches of snow on the ground and a zero minimum recording. Twenty years ago there was a one day break in the big December storms which in 17 days of the month put down 49.94 inches of snow. As for comparable periods in the past, in 1965 there was no snow on Christmas Day and just five inches of snow recorded for the entire month of December.

For many years Kane's weather took a radical change for advent of the New Year with rain and ice customary and expected. NOT MUCH HOPE I No serious injuries were list id in motor mishaps through county over the long Christ nas weekend. Two girls were taken to Jradford Hospital for treat nent of injuries received Sun lay at 10:45 p.m. when a car which they were passengers lipped over on Route 46. near Jort Allegany.

Troopers said the car was op fated by George McKimm, 16, Emporium. Linda Reese, 17, Sinncmahoning and Laverna flcKimm, 15, of Emporium ere passengers. Both were hrown from the vehicle when it vcrturned. Three vehicles were involved i a collision on Route 646 near rifford Friday night. Three ersons were treated at Brad rd Hospital.

Involved were a uck operated by Kenneth O' tell, 33, of Gilford; Miss Carol tartzell, 35, of Rixford and heldon Osborne, 25, of Gif ird. A truck operated by Mr. O' ell went out of control and ruck the Hartzcll car which, i turn, hit the Osborne 'car. he cars were totaled and the uck extensively damaged. Gen.

O'Donnell Dead 'WASHINGTON (AP) Em mctt "Rosy" O'Donnell, the general who led the first major bombing raid over Japan during World War II, died Sunday at his suburban Washington home. He was 65. A family spokesman said the retired general suffered a cardiac arrest. On Nov. 24, 1944.

O'Donnell piloted the B29 Superfortress "Dauntless Dottie" that dropped the first bomb of the first land based raid on Tokyo. The flight of 111 planes from O'Donnell's 73rd Bomb Wing took off from Saipan, 1,600 miles from their target. lllllllllliR 1 Mmmmgmm Kane Girl Hospitalized After Auto Smashup Ridgway based state police checked one holiday weekend accident at Kersey Saturday. Cars operated by Jacob Mosier, 60, Kane R.D. 1, and Louis B.

Luchini, of Kersey, were involved in an intersection collision. Vehicle damages were listed at $1,600. Miss Mary Ann Mosier, 19, daughter of Mr. Mosier, was taken to Kaul Memorial Hospital in St. Marys and released after overnight treatment of face lacerations.

Close to 600 Killed In Traffic Accidents By Associated Press The traffic death toll on the nation's highways rose to 592 as the four day Christmas holiday weekend ended officially at midnight local time. The figure was within the range predicted by the National Safety Council, which had estimated 520 to 620 traffic deaths within the 78 hour period' beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday. California led the nation in number of traffic deaths with 55. WEATHER FORECAST By Associated Press The forecast for northwestern Pennsylvania from the U.S.

Weather Bureau: Mild with fog and occasional light rain and drizzle likely tonight. Lows tonight in the 30s. Tuesday turning a little cooler with showers or snow flurries likely. Highs in the 30s. Winds south 5 to 15 mph Probability of precipitation 60 per cent tonight and Tuesday, Comedian Bob Hope, fight, talks with Nguyen Van Thanh, center, first secretary of the North Vietnamese embassy in Vientiane, Laost Hope is attempting to get a visa to North Vietnam to negotiate for the release of prisoners.

Hope feels that his chances of getting the visa are slim. (AP Wirephoto).