The Daily Notes from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE DAILY NOTE Weather Western Pennsylvania Cloudy tonight. Low 28 to 35. Saturday partly c'oudy end co'der with a few snow flurries north portion. C-M Elementary Schools Cage League Opens Jan. 4 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION 8 Cents Per Copy; 43 Cents a Week.

CANONSBURG, PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1564 VOLUME 89, NO. 83 Record. 00 Billion Bi $1 20 Billion Under Kassab Advises Board On School Construction D. S.

Pollock Store Marks 55-Years Steady Progress Sites Are Biggest Problem, Meeting Set To Tour Area J. G. Kassab, well known construction expert, attended the Canonsburg Board of Education meeting, last night, acting in an 1 f-i IBiBShI 111! PgStTVs advisory capacity on the ap proved building plan of the district. Kassab, who resides on 326 Spruce has handled many of Pittsburgh's big contracts including Pitt's new dormitory. He offered his advice on contracting problems to the local board members, with special emphasis placed on the North Central Building Project.

The first thought that he brought out in the open discussion was that a two and one-half story building would cost more than one built on the ground level. Second was the thought of overhauling the old Canonsburg High School for use as an elementary building. The third was what effect the new highway would have on the two Southside School buildings. At the conclusion of the open discussion, a meeting was sched uled for Saturday at 10:30 a.m., to look over the terrain in the Borough and the typographical sites suitable for a school building program. In other business Secretary Walter Kostka reported a dividend from the Log Cabin Fund of $57.35, and the treasurer's report, $107,570.11.

The local bills approved for payment amounted to $4,680.79, and the Jointure payment, $66,307.98. John Dezack's application for position as substitute or janitor was referred to the Joint Board for approval. The Chamber of Commerce (Continued on Page Eight) Washington County Officials Certified, Will Take Oath Monday January 6 Whst Agencies, DapsrSmenfs Seek JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) White House officials reported with obvious satisfaction today that President Johnson's budget for fiscal 1965 will total about $100 billion an all-time high but about $20 billion under what departments and agencies had requested. Since Johnson took office last Nov.

22,. he has been preoccupied almost daily with convincing department and agency heads that they must wring 2very non-essential dollar out of their spending plans for fiscal 1965. The new budget be about $1.2 billion higher thaa the Kennedy administration budget of $93.3 for the current fiscal year. The Kennedy 1964 budget set a record. The previous high was $93.3 for fiscal 1945, the of World War II spending.

Units of the government, par-j ticu'ary the armed services, traditionally ask the White House and Bureau of the Budg-1 et for more than they expect to receive either in the President's final budge: or from Congress. $120 Sought Last fall when the first round of requests came into the Budget Bureau, departments asked for about $120 billion. Even before the assassination of President Kennedy, the White House and the Budget Bureau were involved in cutting. When Johnson took office, he quickly ordered department and agency heads to review their fiscal needs again. About $9 billion was cut out of requests from the armed services.

Johnson almost overnight got the cabinet departments to trim another $731 million. Then Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara reported he i had been able to pull his total 'budget down about $1 billion under the current fiscal year. Defense now asks about $51 bil-' lion. To an extent yet to be deter-! mined publicly, the Johnson 1 1965 budget will represent a cut under the spending total for this fiscal year which ends next (Continued on Page Eight) Hospital News Admissions I Jan.

2 Anna Blumen, Carol ine White, Sara McCready, Marion Whitfield, Lois Frank, Margaret Carnahan, Freda Manol-akis Discharges Jan. 2 Mary Buckley, Etta Nixon Births Jan. 2 A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blumen, 338 North Central Ave.

En Phila. 'Canonsburg Is Good To Us, We Plan To Stay Here'-Pollock D. S. Pollock Shoe Store, 4 W. Pike is 55-year-oM and started in business Jan.

1, 1909. The Pollock Shoe Store has been a family institution serving the footwear needs of the community. A record file of customers, their size, width, style and address of the customer, price of the shoes bought and the salesman who sold the article is kept as permanent record. The card file of 9,000 customer names has proven valuable for the salesman in servicing the shopper who is no! sure of size and width of the shoe that they wish to purchase. Each time the customer purchases a pair of shoes it is added to the record.

The store is wdl-stocked and Mr. Pollock specializes in famous name brand footwear, such as the Bostonians, American Gentleman, Vitality, Foot-Flair, Play-Poise, etc. Mr. Pollock, resides at 254 N. Central and has lived at this address since 1914.

He was born and reared in North Stra-bane Township and came to Canonsburg to start a business by the Washington Route. Mr. Pollock served on the Borough Council Board for 25 years; he is a member of the Rotary Club; Canonsburg United Presbyterian Church; Treasurer of the Chartiers Savings and Loan Association; on the Advisory Board of the Pittsburgh National Bank, and a member of Chartiers Lodge AM. Mr. Pollock said in an exclusive interview today, "Canonsburg has been good to us and we plan to stay here." Howard J.

Orr needs no intro-( Continued on Page Eight) Question? Why not attend the opening cage game at Canon-McMillan Senior High School tonight at 8:00 o'clock? Install, Police Chief Warns Motorists On Winter Driving With the holidays behind and winter just coming into its prime, the outlook at this time of year tends to be a little bleak for persons who don't especially enjoy winter driving. And they are many, according to Chief Michael Sapp of the Canonsburg Police Department. "Ask people what they think about winter, and most of them say they don't really mind it except for the driving," Chief Sapp said. 'So, anything we can do to make winter driving easier will make things look a lot brighter. Also it wil help our city's winter safety record.

With me, preventing personal injuries counts most, but I'm jealous of our safety record, too." Loss of visibility and traction are the main sources of trouble, he explained. 'The National Safety Council's Committee on Winter Driving has studied these problems for years, and has learned a lot about them," he said. The chief listed the following facts, revealed by years of winter research and recognized as valid by the International Association of Chiefs of Police: Safe driving demands complete visibility. If this is reduced by falling snow, slower driving speeds are necesary. Fresh windshield wiper blades, and blade arm pressure of not less than one ounce per inch of blade length, are required for best results.

Most garages are equip-(Continued on Page Eight) Skidding Accident Mars Local Scene At 1:30 p.m., yesterday, cars driven by Terry Adams, 108 Murdock and John Crisafi, 162 Smithfield were involved in an auto accident at the corner of Pike and North Central Ave. The mishap occurred when the Adams vehicle was attempting to turn right off Pike Street and stopped for a pedestrian and was then hit from the rear by the Crisafi auto. There was little damage done to either machine. James Ferguson, 77, of Canonsburg, RD 2, was admitted to Washington Hospital after his car ran off the Hill Church-Linden Road and struck a tree, two miles east of Canonsburg, at 3 p.m., State Police said. He was reported in condition.

Chartiers Township Volunteer Firemen answered a resuscita-tor call at 7:10 p.m., Thursday to the 200 block of Lyons Houston. Canonsburg Council To Reorganize On Monday D. S. Folic-ck iddsfel Funds Received For Borough Byilding Congressman Thomas E. Morgan announced yesterday that an additional $16,330 had been approved as a federal grant for the construction of the new Municipal Building bringing total federal grant to $190,350.

The announcement came after the Housing and Home Finance Agency had completely reviewed the request for additional funds and found that they were necessary for the construction of the bui'ding. The request for additional funds was made by the Borough Council, last fall, when they were forced to rebid the General Contract after the first contractor could not supply bonds acceptable to the Borough Attorney. The resubmission of bids came in substantially higher than the original bids and required both an additional appropriation on the part of the federal government and some with the new contractor, V. Scotti and Sons. After the bii's were received the Council sA "down with the General Contractor and after (Continued on Page Eight) Similarity Of Names The John Wagner who was involved in the auto accident described in yesterday's edition should not be confused with John W.

Wagner, 219 North Central Avenue. Initiate, New Lodge Three Assistant Disiricl Af'orneys iited By Fergus Harold V. Fergus, newly-elected District Attorney, named three assistants who will take office next week, was announced today. Fergus announced that his first assistant will be Arnold W. Hirsch of Donora, who once served as an assistant in the office of District Attorney Wray G.

Zelt. The additional two assistants listed by Fergus were Frank C. Carroll of Washington and Reed B. Day of Peters Township. This is the second group of personnel for the District Attorney's office announced by Fergus.

He previously named State Police officers Alfred Krull, Jerome McCavitt and Richard Shellogg as his detectives. It is expected that additional assistants will be named to work with Hirsch, Carroll and Day. Hirsch, 46, a Democrat, spent several years as an assistant district attorney under Zelt from 1952-56. He is a graduate of both the undergraduate school and the (Continued on Page Eight) Reported Missing WASHINGTON (UPI) The Navy has announced that Lt. (j.g.) Kim Wallace of Mononga-hela, Pa.

is missing after failing to report from shore leave Dec. 23 at Cannes, France. The Navy said "since that time every effort has been made to locate him. Results so far have been negative." Wallace is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

William L. Wallace of 904 Sheridan Monongahela. POPE'S PLANE This Is the Alitalia jetplane for Pope Paul's flight to the Holy Land and back. The two pilots are Mario Zuccanni (left) and Sergio Mosetti. The plane is painted in the Vatican colors of yellow and white, and bears the papal emblem.

The pope's air route is Rome to Amman, Jordanian capital. He travels by motorcade from Amman. Swearing in ceremonies of the successful candidates of the November election will be held Monday, Jan. 6. The County election board offered certification of elected officials with little concern over the closeness of the contest for County Treasurer.

All officials including Democrat Russell Marino who is still involved in a possible battle with Republican Barry Anderson over the Treasurer's post have been certified and are ready to take their oaths of office during ceremonies Monday morning. The GOP winners in the official returns were Judge-elect Barron P. McCune, District Attorney-elect Harold V. Fergus and Minority Commissioner John Mazza. McCune led the field of four candidates for judge with 39,330 votes.

This topped Democrat winner Charles G. Sweet by 870 votes, third-place Judge David H. Weiner by 7,079 and Republican Wray G. Zelt by 7,177. Fergus gave incumbent Democrat Michael A.

Hanna a pretty substantial drubbing as he polled 41,826 votes to 32,988 for Hanna. The margin was 8,838. Commissioner Mazza led a field of six Commissioner candidates with 36,279 votes. This was 609 votes ahead of Michael R. Flynn and 3,166 ahead of John P.

Bevec, the two majority commissioners who were elected. The contest between Marino and Anderson ended "officially" with Marino holding a margin of 126 votes. Judge Roy I. Carson signed the certification of the winners on the basis of the final count of the votes for all County offices and this gave Marino a final lead over Republican Barry Anderson of 126 votes. The remaining election problem revolves around the ballot (Continued on Page Eight) up the leukemia blood bank can do so when the mobile unit again visits the area.

In stressing the need to build up the supply it was pointed out that some victims require dozens of pints of blood in fighting the disease. It was also pointed out that leukemia was the biggest killer of children claiming 12,000 lives across the nation. Volunteer donors may give blood at the Central Blood Bank, Canonsburg General Hospital, when the unit is here or the Leukemia Blood Bank Donors League, 3250 Wainbell Pittsburgh 16, or get in touch with Mrs. Kriss by telephone, 745-2542. Borough Council will be meeting with three new members on Monday night at 8:00 p.m.

and will take the necessary steps to reorganize for the next two years. The new Council will include six old members and three newly elected members. The members who will continue in office are: Anthony Merante, Bernard Zeszu-tek, Bob McKee, Harry O'Brien and Joseph Kanotz. Matt Taylor will also continue in office having been reelected in November. The three new members of Council include John Stanko from the first ward, Archie Mclntyre from the second ward and Jerry LaSalvia from the third ward.

A brief outline of each of the new Councilmen has been prepared as follows: John Stanko (Democrat from the First Ward). Stanko is a life time resident of Canonsburg, has worked for Fort Pitt Bridge Works for the past 21 years. Financial Secretary of Local 3627 of the United Steel-workers of America AFL-CIO, serves on the Board of the (Continued on Page Eight) Plane Downed In Pacific, Nine Men Aboard-Reporl HONOLULU (UPI) Three strong SOS signals spurred hopes today that there might be survivors from the C124 which went down in the Pacific west of the Hawaiian Islands with nine men aboard. Air Force officials reported a confusing pattern of possible SOS signals Thursday afternoon, but three signals were clearly heard Thursday night by the pilot of a military airplane flying the same 2100-mile Wake Island-to-Hawaii route as taken by the ill-fated cargo plane. The unidentified pilot was about 1,000 miles west of Hickman Air Force Base here when he reported the signals over the frequency of the so-called "Gibson Girl" radios, which are standard equipment in survival packages on all Air Force 20-man life rafts.

Houston Borough To Collect Yule Trees Houston Borough Street Commissioner William E. Simpson announced today that Christmas trees would be picked up by the Borough truck on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 6 and 7. Last year, tie Twelfth Night observance was enjoyed at Houston with a tree-burning ceremony. The Twelfth Night observances are still popular in Europe and in many sections of this country.

In the old tradition, the Yule Log, burning since Christmas, is extinguished on this day. In this country, some communities gather their Christmas trees for a public bonfire, with everyone gathering around to sing Christmas carols. Traditionally, Twelfth Night of Christmas, or Epiphany, marks the visit of the three wise men to the Christ Child in Bethlehem. Borough Calendar Week of Jan. 5-11 Monday, Jan.

58 p.m., Organizational meeting of the Borough Council in the Council Chambers of the Borough Building. Thursday, Jan. p.m., "Introduction to Local Government" Course at the West Penn Power Building on Route 19. TENTATIVE CALENDAR Week of Jan. 12-18 Monday, Jan.

137:30 p.m., Regular January meeting of Council in the Council Chambers of the Borough Building. Wednesday, Jan. 1.17:30 p.m. Tri-County Boroughs Associa-( Continued on Page Eight) In The News Today War On Leukemia Continues Blood Donors Sought Here APOLLO, Pa. UPI Maintenance and production workers at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp.

plant here began mass picketing today after the union charged thai an employe had violated the regular picket line. HARRISBURG UPI The state Mines Department has ordered 92 bituminous strip mine operators to close their diggings until licensed in according with the new Strip Mining Act passed by the last legislature. PITTSBURGH UPI Federal Judge John L. Miller has rejected a bid by attorneys for the Otto Pritchard for an amended judgement and partial new trial in Pritchard's lung cancer suit against a leading cigarette manufacturer. NICOSIA, Cyprus UPI Brifish "peacemaker" Duncan Sandys returned home today carrying a pledge from the government of Cyprus to try to resolve differences between its Creek and Turkish communities at the conference table.

MOSCOW UPI Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has asked world leaders to reach agreement on banning the use of force in settling territorial disputes. The scarcest "medicine" in! the treatment of leukemia is being sought by a local mother who lost a young daughter by the blood disease. Mrs. Charles Kriss, 219 S.

Jefferson whose 19 year-old daughter, Carol, died of the fatal disease leukemia four years ago is seeking help for other victims of the disease. Mrs. Kriss is seeking donors for leukemia sufferers by contributions to the Pittsburgh Central Blood Bank, in the name of her daughter, Carol. Although Carol will never need any contributions again the need for others still exists. Anyone willing to help build The Esquires shown above wearing robes and fez-s arc officers and members of the Junior Canon Chapter No.

9 of if he Junior Order Knights 0f Pythias. CanonslHii Thev arc pictured left to right, first row: McEtravcy, C. Morrow. W. Rancor.

U. Murrav Second row: Ferguson, D. Koch, C. Kelso, P. Stevens (chancellor), J.

Kanotz, M. Samatakis. Third row: R. Jones, C. Thompson, R.

Rood, K. Small, J. Nccly, T. I.uqrnski. Pentbmd, D.

Morris. Not present when flic picture was snapped was L. Cumbcrledse. All of the above members had an active part in instituting, initiating and installing the members of the newlv organized Anniversary Chapter No. 33, Jr.

Order of Knights of Pythias. Philadelphia, on Dec 14. 1W3. The Junior members were accompanied on the recent trip to Philadelphia bv Charles Dunn and Jess J. Brigjjs advisories of the Canon Lodge 204, Knights of Pythias.

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