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GOOD, EVENING What this country needs more leaders who really know what this country and The Lebanon Daily Times THE W2ATH Central mostly sanay unrf warm Thursday, Lflw tortfjjht IR Wigfa Thursday upper 99th Year No. 25 LEBANON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1970 Entered as second class matter the ef Lebanon, under Act ef March 3, 1879 68 CENTS Nixon To Announc Fate Of Kidnap Victim In Hands Of Separatists Ransom Deadline Passes; No More News Of British Diplomat OTTAWA (UPI) A 48-hour deadline set by French separatist kidnapers for the safe return of a British diplomat expired today with no word on his fate. The Canadian government called the ransom demands "unreasonable" but offered to open negotiations with the kidnapers. The kidnapers set an 8 a.m. EDT deadline today and said the hostage was healthy but they were prepared to kill New President Power Play In Bolivia Averts Civil War Threat LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI) Leftist Gen.

Juan Jose Torres, backed by the air force, students, leftwing laborers and a ragtag army of peasants, emerged today as the new strongman of Bolivia in a series of power plays that just skirted civil war. Surprise Move By U.S. Delays Peace Formula Attempt To Pressure Egypt Adds Problems For Arab-Israeli Talks Torres, who admires but does not actively Fidel Castro, support Cuba's apparently won him if necessary. The diplomat, senior trade commissioner Jaimes R. Cross equivalent of the British consul in Montreal abducted from his bed Monday (Continued on Page 28 Col.

1) Doily NiWI Photo. HELD FOR COURT Ronald E. Mosteller (left) leaves Lickdale fire hall Tuesday afternoon with State Trooper Raymond Stima after a preliminary hearing on a murder charge. At rear is State Trooper Walter McKinnon. Mosteller is being held for court action in connection with Sept.

26 slaying of Glenn C. Tobias, 28, Harrisburg, an off-duty Dauphin County policeman. Hearing On Murder Girl Testifies Tobias Was Armed When Shot An off-duty Dauphin County policeman was armed when he was shot to death in a Lebanon RD 2 trailer early on Saturday, Sept. 26, Justice of the Peace Lester L. Kline was told Tuesday afternoon.

The JP, conducting a preliminary hearing for Ronald E. Mosteller, 30, on a murder charge, was also told that the shooting victim, Glenn C. Tobias, 28, had come to the trailer home with Hosteller's estranged wife a short time before the slaying. The wife, Gloria Jean Mos- Jaycees Announce (Halloween Parade Set For October 26 The Lebanon Jaycees today announced that the Lebanon Community Halloween Parade will be held Monday night, Oct. 26.

The Jaycees have been sponsoring the parade for the last 19 According to Ron Keller, parade chairman, parade route, as in other years, will begin at Lincoln Avenue and Lehman Street and move west on Lehman to Eighth; south to Cumberland, east to Sixth, south to Chestnut and west to Ninth where it will disband. An application for entry In the parade is published on Page 21 of today's Lebanon Dailr News. Groups interested in participating are urged to fill out the coupon and submit it as soon as possible so the line-up can be determined. The Jaycees are again asking for the cooperation, of the community in curtailing the throwing of confetti and other ma- out when troops loyal to him seized the government palace today and a three-man military junta set up Tuesday in disorder. Torres' victory was assured when Gen.

Fernando Sattori, chief of the air force and a member of the Junta, threw his support to Torres and with it a handful of World War P51 Mustangs which buzzed the palace and strafed a recalcitrant military barracks. The other members of the Junta simply disappeared. They were Gen. Efron armed forces chief of staff and Ad. Alberto Abarracin, of the navy in this landlocked country which has a few gunboats on its lakes.

The long festering political chaos in Bolivia came to a head on Sunday when Gen. Regelio Miranda, the conservative army chief of staff, began the process of ousting President Alfredo Ovando Candia. The President resigned Tuesday to avert civil war and the junta was formed. Torres, who was ousted as commander of the armed forces two months ago because In Indochina Speech Tonight Calls First For Early Cease-Fire WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon night plans to announce broad new Indochina peace A P') The surprise proposals which are understood to call first for an Ilk withdrawal from one earl cease-fire in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. UNITED NATIONS Lebanon Man, 26, Dies When Truck Upsets Today A 26-year-old Lebanon man died early this morning when the truck he was driving upset in Douglassville, 15 miles east of Vice head terials.

teller, 25, had been absent about 28 hours from the trailer where she lived with her six-year-old son, Bruce, Kline was also told. After hearing testimony from two commonwealth witnesses at the Lickdale fire hall, where the hearing was conducted, Kline ruled that the commonwealth Amusements 21 Area -o Classified 30-35 Comics 14, 15 Editorial IS Financial 2 Myerstown 12, IS Obituaries Palmyra 4, 5, 6 Sports 8, 9, 10 Women's Pages 19. 20 ROD O'NEAL'S BIRTHDAY SALE SNOW TIRE RETREADS $94 OR A Any £di9V fair Size Mounted No Trodo Needed Layowayi Accepted EAGLE BROS. ESSO Phone 273-6311 Barber Wanted Salary Pins Commission and Insurance Apply Person to Singer's Barber Shop W. Main Palmyra ad established its case against losteller on a murder charge.

Mosteller was ordered re- ommitted to the county prison await court action. He has een in jail since his arrest sev- ral hours after Tobias was fell- by a shotgun blast early on he morning of Saturday, Sept. 6. One of the two commonwealth witnesses, Sharon Foy, 15-year-old sister of Mrs. Mosteller, testified that Mosteller fired the blast at Tobias through an open back door of the trailer.

Dr. Leonard M. Tanner, Good Samaritan Hospital pathologist vitness, said Tobias died of hemorrhages as the result of the shotgun blast that struck him in he abdomen. He had been shot once, Dr. Tanner testified.

Only commonwealth testimony (Continued on Page 1) "As result of the excellent response to a similar request last year, many more bands are considering participating in this year's parade," Keller said. "Understandably, bands -are reluctant to march in parades where they risk personal injuries and damage to instruments uniforms. Continual cooperation, such as was exhibited last year by parade watchers, will aid greatly the efforts of the Jaycees to provide a bigger and better parade yearly." In case of rain, the parade be held Nov. 2. of his leftist leanings, immediately announced he was the new president.

Labor organizations called a general strike to back his claims and were joined by students and professional men. Outside the city a force of peasants began marching on La Paz armed with ancient Mauser rifles they had used years ago in a war with Paraguay. Their forces were estimated from 2,000 to 7,000. Inside the city army cadets guarding the 1 government palace fled and handed the keys over to Sgt. Juan Chuvi.

When troops loyal to Torres marched up to seize control Chuvi merely handed them the keys and there was no bloodshed. Today thousands of persons milled through the streets of La (Continned on Page 11 Col. 3) Reading. Thomas Fields, 24 Maple St. was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:40 a.m.

accident on route 422, according to state police at Reading, Fields, who moved to the Lebanon area just about a month ago from Pine Bluff, was driving a Sheridan Slag Co. truck tractor (semi- trailer) with a full load of material. According to company personnel, he was en- route from the Twenty-Second and Cumberland Streets plant to King of Prussia at the time of the accident. He had been employed by the Lebanon set of Middle East negotiations added new complications today to the search for an Arab-Israeli peace formula. Britain, France and the Soviet Union had no advance word of the American action Tuesday, taken in an attempt to pressure Egypt into pulling back the So viet missiles which the United States and Israel claim have been moved closer to the Suez Canal in violation of the Aug.

Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire. The United States withdrew from the talks which deputy U.N. representatives of the Big The President will disclose suggestions, aimed at his cracking the lengthy deadlock the Paris negotiations, on a nationwide television broadcast at 9 p.m. EDT. The proposals will be presented to the Communists at the Paris talks on Thursday.

Nixon told newsmen Tuesday he planned "the most comprehensive statement ever made on this subject" and declared that his proposals should not be brushed off as a "propaganda gimmick." Officials were unusually tightlipped concerning details of Nixon's plan. They indicated, however, that in addition to the 3 Ui Four have been holding cease-fire Proposal, March 31 in an attempt to set up mi ht announce that the guidelines for Arab-Israeli coml at role Vietnam peace negotiations. At the meet-K lU be Jended by the JL arly pa ing Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador nex summer This goal hristopher H. Phillips said it although never publicly stated Enemy Forces Attack Allied Supply Columns PHNOM PENH Vietnamese and Viet forces launched mortar barrages and ground assaults today against supply columns supporting the largest Cambodian operation of the war near the embattled town of Tang Kauk.

The Communists concentrat- military dispositions within miles of the Suez Canal. as of was useless to talk about su 1S the nes until Egypt "rectified" its Nlxon 3 Previously announced ileged violations of the agree- tr reductions. ment to make no changes in he President's proposals are expected to call for early consideration of the Egypt has denied the charges, rel easef of prisoners of war, a contending that all the Soviet tf the Viet Cong antiaircraft missiles in question Bought up in the revised peace were in the standstill zone be- lai submitted at Pans on ed their attacks on the village of Prakham, 48 miles north of Phnom Penh, Cambodian military spokesmen said. Prakhara is four miles behind the forward positions of the 15- battalion Cambodian task force that captured Tang Kauk Sept. 5- Viet Cong troops began with a heavy mortar assault against Cambodian defensive positions near Highway 6 in Prakham and followed up with a ground assault, the spokesmen said.

fore the cease-fire took effect. ept 17 the Vie $1 Special Dividend Declared By LVN Bank The board of directors of the Lebanon Valley National Bank had good news Tuesday for company since Sept. 15. State police said Fields was traveling around "a curve in Douglassville which bears to th left, and according to skid marks, he ran off the road on the right. When he tried to get back on the roadway the rig upset, falling over on a parked car, which skidded along with the truck, before coming to rest at a concrete abutment.

Fields was pinned in.the vehicle. The tody was taken to Reading Hospital in the Birdsboro ambulance. According to hospital authorities, an autopsy was to be performed here today. According to company personnel, Fields was married and the father of several children. Further information was not available at press time.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mah- Con insiste tna discussion of moud Riad, dn a television interview broadcast Tuesday but filmed before the U.S. with- work on a political io th Unite ates had drawal from the talks, said no plefdg hav a11 ST tro would -be withdrawn. ut of Vietnam by next June 30 However, he did express willingness to accept President Nixon's proposed 90-day extension of the cease-fire, which expires Nov. 5. U.S.

sources stressed that despite the suspension of the deputies' negotiations, the chief U.N. delegates of the Big Four were still scheduled to meet again Monday in their continuing quest for guidelines for Arab-Israeli negotiations. But in the absence of any Egyptian retreat, it seemed that the U.S. reasons for suspending the deputies' talks would apply equally to the meetings of their chiefs. The British made no secret of (Continued on Page 28 Col.

5) Nixon long ago propose gradual withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces over a one-year period if the Viet Cong and Hanoi agreed that all North Vietnamese troops also would leave during that period. Some diplomats speculated that Nixon would, in effect, turn the latest Viet Cong plan around to make withdrawals and discussion of a political solution contingent upon a cease-fire and prior discussion of the release of prisoners of war. Nixon'tf curiously defensive remark to newsmen that he would not be indulging in a (Continued on Page 3 Col. 5) The target of the Communist assault was a concentration of Cambodian trucks, buses and; light armored vehicles parked bumper to "bumper along Highway 8.

Viet Cong units also attacked the villages of Svay Meas, 49 miles north of Phnom Penh and Tang Kaufc itself, 51 miles north of the capital. "We survived our most difficult time Tuesday," a Cambodian military spokesman said. "The situation -is not serious today." The Cambodian Command spokesman was referring to an assault Tuesday in which Viet Cong troops attacked the outskirts of Tang Kauk. The Communists tried to overrun defensive positions occupied by the Cambodian 3rd Parachute Battalion and the paratroops repulsed three frontal assaults in a six hour battle. (Continued on Page 1) Instead Of Men Propose Instruments For Next Space Probe WASHINGTON (UPI) Two prominent scientists have lent their prestige to an attempt to convince Congress that America should send instruments not astronauts in its next great leap into space.

Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts in space, and Dr. Thomas Gold of Cornell, chairman of the Space Science Panel of the President's Committee, Science argued Advisory Tuesday Witness Claims Stoltzfus that instruments can do anything a man can do in space with less risk and at a saving of billions of dollars. They supported a proposal by Sens. Walter F.

Mondale, D- William Proxmire, D- and Clifford P. Case, N.J., to cut $100 million holders of 130,738 shares of the 1 Tf 1IIICJJ VldMII) JIUII1.IIOJearmarked for preliminary bank's stock outstanding. With KldnflD GrOUD' WOrk SP3Ce shllUle station At a board meeting the di-j rectors declared a $1 special dividend per share, payable Dec. 10 to stockholders of record Dec. 1.

The regular dividend for the year is $1.60, which means the dividend per share for 1970 will total G. R. Kreider chairman of the board, Spitler, bank Dressing Can Ba Fun VISIT T1LLIE SPANGLER Third and Cumberland Streets Wed. 9:30 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Thurs. 9:30 A.M. to P.M. and Elvin president, H. announced the special dividend action.

They said it came after the officers and directors reviewed the bank's earnings for the year. The earnings, they pointed out, reflect profitable and increased business operations for the year. REWARD Lost In LickdaU-Frtdcrickiburg area, wai teen in Inwood area. Mala Walktr Coon Hound, Whitt, Black Spots, Brown Head, and about 65 Ibi. Phone 272-1395 ar 273-6972 Bob REPAIRS ON SERVICE CENTER ALL MAKES Dial 273-4561 NT.

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to 5 P.M. Sunday PEACHES, APPLES, Bartlett Pears READING, Pa. A pro- ecution witness in the murder ial of Leroy S. 24, as testified he and a group of ersons including Stoltzfus ab- ucted a young couple from a overs' lane on the night of Aug. 3, 1969, near Reading shortly efore the couple was killed.

Stoltzfus has been charged vith the murder of 18-year-old Marilyn H. Sheckler of Mur- aysville, whose skeletal remains were found Oct. 24, 1969, a nearby park. Harlan E. Bailey, 33, of Wilon Manors, testified Tuesday the group originally planned kidnap a woman from a street but decided a city street was too open for an abduction.

Bailey said the group then drove to the lane and abducted Miss Sheckler and her companion 20-year-old Glenn W. Eckert Robesonia, Pa. Bailey said one of the groui was Robert J. Martinolich, of Selden, N. who has been convicted of the first degre murder of Eckert.

from the appropriation for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The same proposal was efeated by four votes July 6 ut the issue will arise because 'resident Nixon later vetoed he bill carrying the NASA unds. Gold said NASA plans more manned flights when the Apollo cries ends chiefly because it cars a bored public will quit aying for unmanned space jxploration. But he contended the public ivould see the folly of a space huttle, which he said would ultimately cost as much as $100 )illion and obsolete by would still be time the United States is ready to use it to explore Mars. "I'm very much afraid," he said, "that when the space shuttle flics it will be the focal point of the anti-science, anti- space, anti-intellectual, anti education elements for being so wasteful." Even scientists, he said, would have to join "these anti(Continued on Page 2 Col.

8) A WINNER! Mrs. John H. Mon- derewicz of 1014 Weavertown Road received a check for $233 from the Lebanon Daily News Tuesday when she correctly identified the "who is he" mystery person as Judge Edwin Robson. Presenting the check is Leon F. Tarsa, comptroller.

The current quiz photo contest began Nov. 7, 1969, and was the second longest to run in the contest's history. The longest-running (total $244) was that of Andrzej Wajda, Polish film Doily NEWS Photo. director identified by Mrs. John Onofrey of Lebanon in Sept.

1969. Mrs. Monderewicz gives credit for the correct identification to her husband, a machinist at Textile Machines in Reading. "I don't know how he knew it," she said, "but he does a lot of reading." Winning came as such an unexpected surprise to the Mondere- wicz family, which includes son Ar- Ian, that she said they had no immediate plans for the money. No doubt they will find some use for it..