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The Indiana County Area Newspaper That Serves Every Member of the uncle died says he's hoping for Fellow we know whose rich a an Indiana heirmail letter, Copyright Vol. 101. Two Sections TEDDY Heart Attack Fatal (Related story and photo on first page, second section.) U. S. Rep.

John P. Saylor of Johnstown died Sunday morning in St. Luke's Hospital, Houston, Tex. of a massive coronary occlusion. The congressman was 65.

Rep. Saylor, who served as the representative from the 12th Congressional District for 24 years, was in the Houston hospital for surgery to remove an aneurysm (dilation) of the abdominal aorta. His recovery from Wednesday's operation had been reported as normal last week and the congressman had been out of bed and taking light exercise on Friday and Saturday. Reports from the hospital indicate that the night nurse found the congressman unconscious when she made her regular check in his room between midnight. and 1 a.m.

Sunday. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the renowned heart surgeon who performed last Wednesday's operation, has been reported as saying that the fatal heart attack was not a result of the operation.

Several years ago, Rep. Saylor underwent an examination at the Bethesda Naval Hospital for' symtoms of a possible heart attack, but no evidence of a heart condition was found at that time. However, the congressman was advised to lose some weight: and had done that during the past several years. A pioneer in the conservation movement, Rep. Saylor was the ranking Republican on the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee.

In a statement following the congressman's death, President Nixon praised Rep. Saylor as a "congressman of exceptional stature." before the issue of State Election REP. JOHN P. SAYLOR fatally stricken in hospital conservation, natural resources and environmental quality came to fashion, he was helping to shape wise national policies for these vital concerns," Nixon said. Gov.

Milton Shapp sent a telegram to Mrs. Saylor saying, "Congressman Saylor was a great representative of the people of his district and of the Commonwealth. I could always count on his support for any measure that would benefit the people of Saylor was author of the Wilderness Act, designed to save land from development. and an early backer of antipollution efforts. He sponsored legislation establishing the Office of Coal Research to find more uses for coal, and was a prime mover of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969.

Before his operation, Saylor had indicated he would seek reelection in 1974. An aide to Shapp said a special election may be called early next year to fill the vaLaws Cited Special Election To Fill Vacancy It will take at least 60 days, but probably more, to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives created by the death Sunday of U.S. Rep. John P. Saylor.

The state's election laws specify that when a vacancy exists the governor must issue a writ of election within ten days of the vacancy, listing the date for a special election to fill the unexpired term. The special election may be held at the next primary or general election, but it can not be held sooner than 60 days after the writ is issued. Party nominees for the vacant position must file the necessary papers within 15 days after the writ is issued. Affected by the special election will be residents of Rep. Saylor's 12th Congressional District, which covers Indiana, Armstrong, Jefferson, Cambria and Somerset counties and part of Clarion County.

Gov. Shapp's office has reportedly indicated that a special election might be held early next year, prior to May's primary. However, if no special date is set, it will be held at the time of the primary. Trick Or Treat Tonight TRICK OR TREAT! That will be the exclamation tonight in Indiana Borough from 6:30 to 9 p.m. as Indiana area youngsters (and some adults) take part in the annual official Trick or Treat night.

Indiana Borough Police ask both parents and children to remember visibility may be very poor tonight and motorists are advised to drive with extreme caution through residential areas in the borough. "Please stay. within your own neighborhood while trick or treating." Police Chief Harry H. Owens said today. Chief Owens said extra patrols will be assisted by cruising units of the Pine Tree Citizens Band Radio Club who will be in radio contact with police headquarters.

watching for vandalism. Children should cross streets only at intersections. Small Inside Today Astrograph. 28 Business Classified. Dear Abby Editorial.

Entertainment ........16 Hal Local News Obituaries ........25 ...18,19,20,21 Women's World ....................6 NATIONAL Cluck NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION Indiana, Pennsylvania, Monday, October 29, 1973. Twenty-eight Pages Fifteen Cents To Congressman John P. Saylor cant House seat. Saylor was born in 1908. He served in the Navy during World War II and practiced law after the war.

A physically large man, he gained some attention when he was sworn in as a congressman in 1949 because his toe was in a cast. the result of kicking a football two blocks without a shoe. Saylor was elected in a special election in 1949 after Democratic Congressman Robert Coffey was killed in a plane crash. His first opponent was Coffey's mother, Mrs. Robert Coffey.

At the time, the election was seen as the first test of Truman's Deal" policies. Saylor attacked Truman, while Mrs. Coffey supported the Fair Deal proposals. Saylor won by 8.000 votes in what GOP National Chairman Guy Gabrielson called a "stinging rebuke to the Truman Saylor's death leaves the Pennsylvania delegation with 13 Democrats and 11 Republicans. He is survived by his widow, Grace, a daughter.

Susan, and a son, J. Phillip. Congressman Saylor's body was to be flown to Pittsburgh early today and then transported by hearse to Johnstown. The Picking-Treece-Bennett Mortuary of Johnstown is handling the funeral arrangements. The funeral service is expected to be either Wednesday or Thursday, with interment planned for the family plot at Grandview Cemetery.

An official announcement of Rep. Saylor's death was to be made from the floor of the House of Representatives at noon today. At that time, the house was to select one of its members as its representative at the funeral service. Federal Lab In Offer TUNNELTON A spokesman for Federal Laboratories Inc. said the strikebound firm has made an 85-center-perhour package offer to striking members of Teamsters Local 926.

A meeting has been set for Thursday by the federal mediator at which time labor and management will view the company's latest offer. The strike by some 250 production workers started Aug. 15. Several votes on company offers have been rejected by union leaders and local mem- Chief Hunting Dry Hideout Chief Tommy Hawk, cowering beneath his trusty umbrella, boldly made the following forecast for Gazetteland weather during the next 24 hours. The Chief says it will be cool with rain tonight.

Lows will be in the low to mid 40s. For Tuesday, expect a cloudy and cool day with a chance of showers. children should be accompanied by an adult or the parents. sponsored by the Indiana Ki- Highs Tuesday will be in the cent level. wanis Club.

upper 40s to low 50s. In conjunction with Halloween, the official parade will be held Tuesday night starting at 7 p.m. at Fifth and Philadelphia St. The parade will move west on Philadelphia to N. Eighth St.

where judging will take place behind the new courthouse. The parade is FARMERS BANK CHANGES HAND ing official sale of Farmers Bank left to right, David Tressler, vice dall senior vice president and Howarth, formerly vice president of Cox Testifies Before Senate Judiciary WASHINGTON (AP) Fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who says he wanted more than just the presidential tapes. was to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee today as lead-off witness at hearings into his ouster. The hearings open during a week in which President Nixon's acting attorney general is to name a new special prosecutor to replace Cox. Most senators.

however. had their own idea about how to select a man to investigate the administration. Central to this latest potential collision between Nixon Committee leading to President Nixon. Other senators promised questions about Cox's investigation into the Nixon administration's handling of the ITT case and the dairy industry's contributions to the Nixon reelection campaign. The new prosecutor envisioned by Nixon is to be named this week by Acting Atty.

Gen. Robert Bork, Time magazine said Sunday that Nixon had rejected one. potential Bork nominee. apparently on political grounds. Time did not name the person rejected.

Bork indicated Saturday he was considering some method and Congress is whether a new prosecutor will get access to sensitive White House materials. which could be evidence in one or another of the cases broadly lumped under the title of Watergate. Cox said Sunday the nine presidential tape recordings he sought "were clearly only a first step in seeking a great deal of important evidence from the White Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

a member of the Judiciary Committee, said he would seek to determine whether Cox believes he was fired because the trail in the Watergate investigation was of sending the name of his nominee to Congress for its approval. A majority of the Senate. however. already has endorsed a bill that would have a new prosecutor picked by U.S. District Court Judge John.

J. Sirica. Proponents of this plan. including Cox and a principal Senate sponsor. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh.

acknowledge there could be arguments over its constitutionality. But they contend the plan would be upheld in what would be another court struggle over Watergate, Their Bill Proposed- Israelis Say- HARRISBURG (AP) A proposal to tighten the legislative code of ethics. requiring lawmakers to make annual disclosures of their income sources, faces a barrage of amendments this week on the House floor. Some of the amendments would make the bill more strict, extending it to all elected state officials, some policymaking appointees and business partners of the officials covered. Others would weaken the measure by requiring less extensive income disclosures.

Either way, the amendment votes may determine the bill's ultimate fate. House leaders predict passage in the lower chamber, but they're uncertain whether the measure will die in the Senate or eventually make its way into law. Rep. William Yohn, chairman of the House Ethics Committee and prime sponsor of the bill. is walking a tightrope: he opposes weakening amendments in principle and fears that substantial strengthening of the bill would increase its difficulties in the Senate.

In other legislative action, a House-Senate conference committee continues work on funding for Penn State. Pitt and Temple universities, still awaiting their state subsidies for the fiscal year that began July 1. Senate Democrats voted the three state-related universities a 6 per cent boost over last year's appropriation, while House Republicans voted a 5 per cent increase. The Senate conferees have offered to compromise at 5.5 per cent, but House Appropriations Chairman H. Jack Seltzer, R-Lebanon, says he isn't budging from the 5 per cent level.

Pictured this morning during Trust Indiana, to Pittsburgh president and zone manager of PNB; head of the Retail Division of PNB, Farmers and now a vice president tee TRACTOR MISHAPS CLAIM TWO LIVES The photo above shows one of two fatal tractor accidents Saturday, within one hour and 20 minutes of the other in which two county men were crushed when their tractors overturned. Meade Fisher, 65, of 101 Water Indiana, was killed beneath the tractor shown above near Deckers Point. The other victim, 81-year-old Jerry C. McIntire of Blairsville RD 2 died in a similiar mishap near Jacksonville. (Gazette photo by Wakefield) Farm Tractor Mishaps Kill Two Indiana Countians Tragedy involving farm tractors struck within minutes Saturday leaving two farm workers dead in separate mishaps.

State police say Jerry C. McIntire, 81, of Blairsville RD 2, and Meade Fisher, 65, of 101 Water Indiana, both died of crush injuries Saturday when the tractors they were operating overturned. Mr. McIntire was pronounced dead on arrival at Indiana Hospital at 5:10 p.m. Saturday.

He was pinned beneath the tractor he was operating at 4 p.m. along Legislative Route 32171, one mile south of Jacksonville. Sources say the elderly man was attempting to drag a dead cow from his barn and into a field when the tractor slid over a 12- foot embankment pinning the operator beneath the equipment. Death was attributed to a crushed chest. Mr.

Fisher, employed on the Daniel Meeman farm one mile north of Deckers Point along Legislative Route 32090, was attempting to turn his tractor around to back it into the barn when the tractor went over a ramp wall, pinning the driver beneath the overturned vehicle. This incident occurred at 5:20 p.m. Mr. Fisher was pronounced dead of a crushed chest at Indiana Hospital around 7 p.m. by Deputy Indiana County Coroner Charles Sutton.

Mr. McIntire, well-known Blacklick Twp. farmer, has been associated with Menzie Dairy Co. for over 30 years. He is survived by a sister, Miss E.

Perry McIntire of Blairsville RD 2. Mr. Fisher, a 1971 retiree from Indiana Sportswear is survived by his wife, Hazel daughter, Mrs. Richard (Barbara) Stevens, of Indiana, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Woodrow (Claire) Simmers of Plymouth, Mich.

Complete obituaries for both farm mishap victims appear in today's Gazette. Purchase Of Farmer Bank Finalized, Effective Today Pittsburgh National Bank Begins Indiana Operations Pittsburgh National Bank today expanded its operations into Indiana County with the purchase of the $36.2 million Farmers National Bank Trust Company of Indiana, Pa. The a acquisition of the Indiana bank, which has one branch at 76 Ben Franklin Road, raises the number of Pittsburgh National branches to 89 and expands its operations from 5 to 6 counties. Brief ceremonies marking the official opening this morning involved Thomas S. Barbor, retiring president of Farmers Bank Trust Company, presenting the keys to Farmers Bank to E.

V. Randall, senior vice president and head of Pittsburgh National's Retail Banking Division. Mr. Randall said, "Because Farmers Bank has a history dating back almost 100 years to 1876, we decided to keep the present name. Instead of the Indiana Office of Pittsburgh National, it will be known as the Farmers Bank Office.

The Ben Franklin Office will be known as the Ben Franklin Office of Pittsburgh National Bank. "Both offices," Mr. Randall said, "will continue to function with the same staffs they had before the acquisition, with Jacque M. Howarth continuing as officer-in-charge our the Farmers Bank Offices. Each office will offer a full range of banking expertise, including commercial, international and trust services.

These operations will be supported by highly-trained experts on our Pittsburgh staff." Later in the day. Merle E. Gilliand, chairman of Pittsburgh National, met with local newsmen to discuss the acquisition and future plans of the Bank. Mr. Gilliand pointed out that "Our acquisition will not inter- Hearing object is to avoid having a prosecutor again subject to firing by Nixon.

Cox was fired by Nixon Oct. 20 after refusing to go along with El compromise plan that would have furnished an account of the nine White House tapes to the Watergate grand jury and to the Senate Watergate Committee. As part of the compromise. Cox would have had to agree to forego any other court challenges to get Nixon records A political storm cascaded upon Nixon after the Cox firing and he finally agreed to obey a court order and give' up the tapes. Legislative Ethics In For Fight ceremonies markNational Bank are, Edward V.

Ranand Jacque M. and manager of photo by Bechtel) Egyptian Copters Downed By The Associated Press Israel reported that its air and ground forces shot down three Egyptian helicopters over the southwest coast of the Sinai peninsula early today. Israel said the air battle did not interrupt the delivery of emergency supplies of food. water and medicine to Egyptian troops stranded on the Sinai side of the Suez Canal. Egyptian trucks with U.N.

drivers were delivering the supplies for the Egyptian 3rd Army to the west bank of the canal. an Israeli spokesman said, and they were being loaded there on Egyptian barges and boats that were carrying them to the troops trapped on the east bank. The spokesman said the supplies were being ferried from a part of the town of Suez, at the southern end of the canal, that is still controlled by the Egyptians. Deaths Obituaries on page 25 CURRY, Hugh, Winter Haven, Fla. FISHER, J.

Meade, 66, Indiana HUTCHINSON, Mrs. Mildred, 76, Rossiter RD1 MARX, Mrs. Kathryn, 91, Hillsdale McHENRY, Olive 93, Indiana RD 2 McINTIRE, Jerry 82, Blairsville RD 2 SANDY, Greda cernemines LATE DEATH MOORE, Miss Minnie Jean, 59, Batavia, N.Y. fere with the normal services offered, nor impinge in anyway with previous customer relationships. However, it will provide additional banking services not previously available, such as Check Credit, which is basically a revolving loan where the customer has additional cash available for use with each payment." "Further, we feel lines of credit for business ventures will be available in amounts not able to be handled by a single Indiana bank before, and we will augment existing trust and mortgage services with additional expertise." Mr.

Gilliand said he felt the acquisition should prove beneficial to both Pittsburgh National and to the community of Indiana, Pa. Pittsburgh National's charter, originally held by the Second National Bank of Pittsburgh, is dated February 13, 1864, although other predecessor financial institutions in its complex "family tree" were organized as early as 1857. Pittsburgh National Bank was formed in 1959 with and the Fidelity merger of Peoples First National Bank Trust Company Trust Company, two institutions that figured prominently in the historic development of Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania area. Pittsburgh National Bank today, a The wholly-owned subsidiary is one- of the Pittsburgh National Corporation. Corporation bank holding company formed in May 1969.

Other subsidiaries are The Kissell Company, one of the country's largest mortgage bankers; Pittsburgh National Discount Corporation, a financing organization; and Pittsburgh National Mortgage Corporation, specializing in financing of commercial real estate..