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The Indiana County Newspaper That Serves Every Member of the Family TEDDY JttMatta ntttg dazrtte City County EDITION Ten Cents Ask any pedestrian: an airplane has got to be safer than an avto. Volume 71. No. 196. Two Sections Indiana, Pennsylvania, Saturday, February 20, 1971.

Twenty Pages PLA Acts In Move Tax Package Back At Full Strength; Senate May Vote i To oust Arafat ft Amendment On Soles Tax Knocked Out HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Shapp's tax package was back at full strength today after the Senate knocked out a provision reducing the sales tax from 6 to 3 per cent. Senate leaders said they would seek to bring the bill to a vote if they were uncertain of the minimum 26 votes. niiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiitmiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiii By The Associated Press The Palestine Liberation Army moved openly today to unseat Yasir Arafat as leader of the Palestinian resistance movement, touching off the biggest internal power struggle in the guerrillas' history. Brig.

Abdulrazzak Yahya, PLA commander-in-chief, made public demands that Arafat's ruling Central Committee be dissolved and that all guerrilla organizations be brought under the PLA. Yahya's demands came in notes published in Damascus and Beirut today, a few hours before the 27-man Central Committee was to begin meetings in the Syrian capital on the growing momentum towards a peaceful settlement in the Middle East. Yahya also called on the Palestine National Council, meeting Feb. 27 in Cairo, to reform radically the resistance movement and set up a commission to determine who is responsible for past errors. He said such mistakes as the 11-day civil war in Jordan last September between uer-rillas ans King Hussein's army "have led us to a veritable national disaster." The 42-year-old general charged the Central Committee repeatedly failed to unite the 11 major commando Inflation Rate Cut Lauded WASHINGTON (AP) The administration is congratulating itself about the smallest monthly inflation figure in nearly four years, but the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board says the nation may yet face an inflation emergency.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that consumer prices rose only one-tenth of 1 per cent last month, compared with five-tenths of 1 per cent the month before and 5.5 per cent for all of 1970. Because prices normally go down in January, the seasonally adjusted increase for last month is three-tenths of 1 per cent, or a yearly rate of 3.6 per cent. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, sent President Nixon a memo calling the report encouraging. "You predicted a good reading for January," he reminded Nixon.

"It occurred. Welcome to the Forecasters Club!" Treasury Secretary John B. Connally told the Senate Appropriations Committee he was heartened by the report. "I think there is ample reason to be optimistic," he said. "There's no question we have the resources to have a really vibrant economy George P.

Shultz, director of the Office of Management and the Budget, said "the trend is a favorable one." White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the report showed Nixon's economic policies are working. At the same time, however. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur F. Burns told the Senate-House economic com-, mittee that an economic emergency might lie ahead unless the White House takes stronger action, such as instituting a wage-price review TARGtT Powder canisters and shells litter the (ore-ground as South Vietnamese troops fire a 155mm field piece toward suspected enemy positions near the Laos-South Vietnam border.

(AP Wirephoto) With Red Counter-Offensive Stalled S. Viet Drive In Trouble SAIGON (AP) South Vietnam's 12-day-old drive against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos apparently was stopped cold and in deep trouble today as the North Vietnamese launched heavy counter-offensives against both sides of the frontier. L. C. ROSENSTEEL services Monday Rosensteel Funeral Scheduled Funeral arrangements for former Indiana County Commissioner Lloyd C.

Rosensteel, 88, were announced today. The Elders Ridge resident passed away Feb. 19, at the Indiana Hospital. In addition to serving two terms as a county commissioner, Mr. Rosensteel was also a school director and supervisor in Young Twp.

for a number of years. Born Aug. 23, 1882, near Shady Plain, Armstrong County, Mr. Rosensteel was a son of David A. and Rececca Coulter Rosensteel.

A well-known Indiana County farmer, Mr. Rosensteel resided at his present address for the past 64 years. He was a member of the Elders Ridge Presbyterian Church almost his entire life and served as a trustee for a number of years. More recently he was a member of the Boiling Springs. United Presbyterian Church at Spring Church.

Friends will be received at the family home after 7 p.m. today and after noon tomorrow. Services will be conducted at Elders Ridge Presbyterian Church Monday, Feb. 22, 1971, at 2 p.m. with Rev.

James Hol-liday officiating. Interment will be in the Ridge View Cemetery at Elders Ridge. Friends may also pay their respects for one hour prior to the service at the church. Mr. Rosensteel was preceded in death by his wife, Nellie Coulter Rosensteel; a daughter.

Alma; and two sons, Carl and David. Survivors include two sons: Clarence Elders Ridge; Richard Phoenix, two daughters: Mrs. John (Charlotte) Ditz, Clarion; Mrs. Mary D. Swisher, at home; two brothers: George, Akron, Ohio; Ward, Saltsburg; a sister, Mrs.

Olive Stoner, Pittsburgh; eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Obituaries on page 18 FLETCHER, Frank 57, formerly of Blairsville GACH, John, 83, Glen Campbell STREAMS, J. Max, 75, Marion Center RD Heart Appeal Tomorrow In Indiana Area The big push for the 1971 Indiana County Heart Fund takes place tomorrow when 21 Indiana University of Pennsylvania fraternities and sororities canvass the Indiana area. Those authorized to participate in the event will be wearing fraternity and sorority jackets andor hats in addition to carrying Heart Fund materials. Indiana area chairman Leonard Abrams said the solicitation on behalf of the Heart Fund will taken place between I and 5 p.m.

HiiiiiiiiiilimiiliiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiuiiiiiHiuiiil Lt. Calley To Tell Own Side FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP) Lt. William Calley begins Monday to tell his own story of the bloody day at My Lai.

The 27-year-old Calley, short, stocky and boyish-looking, will be the 75th witness at his trial on charges that he murdered 102 inhabitants of the South Vietnamese village. Calley follows on the witness stand a psychiatrist who said that on March 16. 1968, the lieutenant "could think, but not nearly with the perception, foresight and judgment he would think with in norma) life." The stress and fear of combat, the expert said, limited Calley's mental capacity to choose. "Did you consider him as normal as most men who served in Vietnam?" the psychiatrist, Dr. Wilbur Hamman, was asked Friday.

"Yes," Hamman answered. The Arlington, psychiatrist was still undergoing crossexamination when the trial recessed for the weekend. The questioning is expected to be completed Monday morning and Calley will follow. The 60-seat courtroom has been filled in recent days in anticipation of Calley's appearance. Court baliffs said there would be no room for any additional outsiders, including newsmen.

Calley has said he looks forward to testifying. There have been 33 court days since the trial began with selection of the six-officer jury on Nov. 12. "I'd like the American public to know what happened," Calley recently told a newsman. "I'd like them for one time to listen to me because I have a few things to tell them about war.

Even though they hate me, I'd like them to listen to me for one minute." Calley will complete the defense case. Prosecutor Capt. Aubrey Daniel has said he will be ready with rebuttal testimony by three psychiatrists who examined Calley for the government during a recent month-long recess. Accused 5 Get More xRope' HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Travel restrictions have been relaxed for five of six persons under government indictment for allegedly scheming to kidnap the President's foreign policy adviser, but in a separate court action, a delay of their prosecution was denied.

A petition was filed in 3rd U. S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia asking that the prosecution of the six be delayed until circumstances surrounding the indictment could be investigated. It was met with a onesentence rejection and no accompanying opinion. In Harrisburg, U.

S. District Judge R. Dixon Herman groups into one movement against Israel. Yahya commands 7,000 troops based in southern Syria. Until recently he was a member of the Central Committee, but he quit when Arafat ciriticized his army's showing in the civil war, guerrilla sources said.

As an outgrowth of the September war, the Jordanian army is being reinforced by the United States. A Beirut newspaper said King Hussein's army was getting 500 U.S. tanks, but the State Department in Washington said that total was much too high. Criticize Mayor's Proposal PITTSBURGH (AP) A proposal by the city administration to license news reporters and photographers at a cost of $12 for five years has met heavy criticism from the news media. Under the plan, the city would issue an official press card identifying reporters and photographers.

The cards are now issued free. Post Gazette editor Frank Hawkins said the paper would not go along with the plan. "If the city can charge $12 for a press card, which it might require for access to coverage of public events, it can charge 12 cents or $1,200 or any amount. We will issue credentials to our own employes and expect city officials to honor them," said Hawkins. John Troan, editor of the Pittsburgh Press added: "The people of Pittsburgh are entitled to full and free access to information about their city government and no official has any right to levy a tax on this basic freedom." We are right at the thresh- hold," said Senate Majority Leader Thomas F.

Lamb, D-AUegheny. "The caucus has feeling we have got to pass it today or we will lose momentum." The Senate was to return at 11 a.m. A western Pennsylvania senator changed sides Friday and made possible the vote to repair a $500 million hole in the tax package's revenue yield. The senator, William E. Duffield, D-Fayette, reversed his stand several times, then voted With Democrats to restore the bill to the version that passed the House last week.

On Thursday. Duffield cast the decisive vote to reduce the sales tax. The proposal passed 25-24, was made by Sen. Thomas M. Nolan, D-AUegheny.

Nolen said he would vote against the tax package at $1.5 billion. Nolan's amendment would have reduced the revenue yield to $1 billion for 18 months. Duffield did not comment on the floor about his change of heart on the sales tax cut. But some observers said Democratic party officials from his home county had induced him to make the switch. In a parlimentary move, the Senate voted 25-24 to eliminate the sales tax reduction.

Duffield said he was still uncertain how he would vote on the package including the 5 per cent income tax. Lamb, uncertain about Duffield but sure that he would lose Nolan, was seeking two Republican votes to counterbalance their potential opposition. Democrats control 26 votes, the minimum needed for a constitutional majority. One Republican, Sen. Frederick Hobbs, R-Schuylkill, continued to endorse the 5 per cent income tax.

America Accused By Russia MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda charged today that a New York court, backed by the State Department, recently tried to blackmail a Soviet correspondent into dropping charges against members of the Jewish De fense League. There was no immediate comment from the State Department. The paper also said two correspondents of the official Soviet news agency, Tass, faced charges stemming from the JDL invasion of Tass' New York office in December 1969. Pravda did not say what the charges were but indicated they were assault and battery resulting from the Tass correspondents' efforts to eject the persons who tried to force their way into the office. Pravda said charges also had been filed against the JDL members who invaded the Tass office, including Rabbi Meir Kahane, head of the militant organization.

According to the Soviet paper, the State Department advised one newsman. E. Baska-kov. to appear in a New York court to face the JDL charges. The other Tass correspondent.

N. Pakhomov. was by this time in Moscow. Pravda said. Dance tonight.

Valley Inn. Sat. tlx ROY E. SCHRECENGOST enters race for sheriff Enters Race For County Sheriff Roy E. Schrecengost, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff.

Citing the sheriff as the highest law enforcement officer in the county, Mr. Schrecengost named honesty, experience, and the willingness to work as the major qualifications for the office. Mr. Schrecengost is currently employed as a boil-ermaker at the Conemaugh Generating Station near Huff. He is a member of the International Iron Workers Union Local 17.

Before becoming a boilermaker, Mr. Schrecengost was employed as Chief Deputy Sheriff under Paul W. Jef-feries. His police experience also includes, service as the Indiana County Detective for seven years, and as an Indiana Borough Policeman for seven and one half years. While on the police force he attended three FBI courses and received a certificate from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction in basic police proce-dures and criminal investigations.

He has also held the position of constable and councilman in the Third Ward. "As your sheriff, I pledge to give the best and most honest law enforcement in the county." Mr. Schrecengost is a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Indiana, and holds membership in BPOE and the Disabled American Veterans. Mr. Schrecengost, 49, is a veteran of World War II, and served in the European Theater of Operations.

Mr. Schrecengost is married to the former Ruth Stewart, of Graceton, he is the father of one daughter. The Schrece-ngost's reside at Route 119 North, Pleasant Valley, Indiana. "I am asking the people of Indiana County to give me the opportunity to serve them as sheriff of Indiana County," he concluded. Blame Drugs PITTSBURGH (AP) The drug-related death of 26-year-old R.

B. Rouse of nearby McKeesport brings to seven the number of persons to die so far this year in Allegheny County from taking narcotics, according to Coroner Wecht. a court order two weeks ago to search confidential adoption files in Stockton and Sacramento. They revealed his brother had been adopted by the Harts. Frank followed the lead to a car oil filter company near Los Angeles of which John is controller.

"He called me at lunch time yesterday and said, 'is this John Robert i said yes, and from the sound of his voice and the way he talked I knew it was my brother." John explained. "I just about fainted." The brothers now want to find their mother, Grace, who was 27 when she abandoned them, and then little sister if they are alive. They have no clues. a Elements of a U.S. blocking force on the Vietnamese side also came under attack and a half-dozen more American helicopters flying in support of the South Vietnamese were reported shot down.

The fighting was the heaviest since the 16,000 South Vietnamese entered Laos to cut North Vietnam's principal supply network. A South Vietnamese ranger position overlooking a main artery of the trail was ovet. with heavy losses, military spokesmen said, and two ranger patrol bases nearby remained under siege for a third successive day. An American advisor on the Vietnamese side told Associated Press photographer Rick Merron: "The rangers are holding on by the skin of their teeth." Field reports said more than 50 Saigon troops had been killed Friday and Saturday, more than 200 wounded and 26 missing. South Vietnamese field commanders estimated 600 North Vietnamse troops were slain under an onslaught of artillery fire and air support by U.S.

fighterbombers and helicopter gunships. The U.S. Command reported two attacks on American positions north of Khe Sanh, on the Vietnamese side of the border, and acknowledged the loss of two more helicopters. A spokesman said five Americans were killed, 14 were wounded and three were missing. U.S.

B52s struck inside South Vietnam for the first time in nearly two weeks. The eight-jet bombers attacked a North Vietnamese buildup threatening American forces just to the south of the demilitarized zone. In another attack in the northern sector of South Vietnam, the old imperial capital, Hue, was shelled for the first time in more than six months. South Vietnamese headquarters said three Soviet-made 100-pound rockets fell into the city and destroyed two houses killed two civilians and wounded seven. Associated Press correspondent William Barton reported from the border region that less than 1,000 South Vietnamese rangers at the patrol bases two miles apart were under siege by a regiment and a half of North Vietnamese troops, estimated to number as many as 3,000 men.

board. Hepatitis Threat Reduced UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) Officials at Pennsylvania State University say there have been no new cases of infectious hepatitis since a student dining hall worker came down with the disease last weekend. The student, who held a job in the dining hall where about 1,700 persons eat daily, became ill and was admitted to the campus health center where it was found that he had hepatitis. Campus authorities said his job in the dining hall did not involve the handling of food and because of that only his close friends and roomates have been given preventive treatment.

The unidentified student was permitted to return to his home in Aliquippa, Beaver County. carnival families. Frank left the carnival after a year and a half and grew up with foster parents in Richmond, Sacramento, Oakland "and San Bernardino, I think." John was shuttled between various families in the Los Angeles area. "My grammar school teacher. Elna Slocum, struggled to find me a family.

She took me to the North Hollywood Methodist Church and through them I found Arthur and Myrtle Hart when I was 9," John said. The Harts, who had four boys of their own, adopted John when he was 14 after failing to find his natural mother. Frank, now an employe of a Stockton lumber company, got Brothers Reunited After 28 Years allowed all defendants oui me Rev. Philip Berrigan extra travel privileges. Berrigan, named as the mastermind of the plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to blow up heating tunnels in federal buildings in Washington, is serving a sentence in the federal correctional facility at Danbury, for destroying military draft records.

Herman said the other five defendants could travel anywhere in the United States. Previously they had been restricted to the judicial districts near their homes. Herman also reduced the bail of Eqbal Ahmad, 40, a Pakistani graduate student in Chicago, from $60,000 to and that of Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 31, Upper Montclair, N. from $50,000 to $25,000. He permitted both to pay 10 per cent of the reduced bail in cash.

Ahmad, who attends the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago, was denied permission to make a speaking trip to Toronto next week. Weather Showers windy and warm but turning cooler tonight. High in the mid 50s to about SO. Chance of a few showers tonight, windy and colder. Low tonight in the lower 30s.

Sunday variable cloudiness and colder. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Probability of precipitation 30 per cent tonight and 20 per cent tomorrow. Croation Club Sun. Lord Hiram.

196x Dance, Purcell's Tavern, Sat. nite. Mountaineers. 196 Inside Today ,.17 LOS ANGELES (AP) -The Johnson brothers were reunited Friday, 28 years after they were abandoned to carnival workers. Now, they would like to find their sister and mother.

The brothers were last together in 1943. George Dewey Johnson, who later became John Robert Hart, was 5 years old. His brother, Frank Delano Johnson, was two years older and their sister, Mar-lene, was 3. "Our mother abandoned us in Stockton southeast of San Francisco to a carnival, out of desperation." Frank recalled. "Our father had died of tuberculosis two years earlier.

Our mother couldn't feed us we were living in abject po verty." The brothers say their sister was given away first. To whom they don't know. Next came John. "1 was shoved into a car. I remember I was so upset.

I knew I was being given away and I was screaming and biting on an orange," John recalls. "We were outside a Chinese restaurant when I saw John go." Frank said. "1 told my mother she's never going to leave me. But several days later she took me to a carnival and put me on a carousel. "It went around twice and the third time I looked for mother and she was gone.

1 never saw her again." Both boys were taken in by Classified 16, 17 Comics 1' Dear Abby Editorial Entertainment 12 Local News 11 Obituaries 18 Society 8 Sports 1. 1 Town Teem Talk Eagles Dance Sat. nite. Jet Tones. lx Dance tonite.

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