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The Danville News from Danville, Pennsylvania • 12

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Page the danville news, Wednesday, march m. Hundreds cheer Carters return to the United States Area deaths Regional news briefs negotiating breakthrough was announced. Small American flags had been distributed at the airport and there were a few homemade signs. achieved its goal. ONeill said Rep.

Bob Edgar, suggested rounding up a welcome-home rally as a gesture of solace, before the news of a Shamokin. She leaves her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Krieger, at home; two grandchildren; one brother, George Edmunds, Shamokin; one sister, Mrs. Marguerite, Startzel, Elysburg. Funeral services will bd held Friday at 1:30 p.m.

at the Willard A. Rothermel Funeral Home, 120 South Market Street, Mt. Carmel. Burial will be in Mt. Carmel Cemetery.

Her pastor, Rev. Alfred Bashore will officiate. Visitation will be at the funeral home Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. The family desires donation be made to the memorial fund of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Shamokin. Four LWV members sitting on PennDOT committees DANVILLE Four Wellsboro youths were cited by Danville Police for underage drinking and possession of alcoholic beverages.

Michael J. Tokary, 17, of 58 Woodland Avenue, Wellsboro was also cited for failure to stop at a red light and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Passengers in the Tokary vehicle were: Douglas Kack, 18, RD 3, Wellsboro, Jon Locy, 17, 12 Cherry Street, Wellsboro, and Steven Earl Davis, 17, RD 2, Wellsboro, were ordered to pay fines and costs. but, grateful mao, he smiled, and the cheers broke out anew. He said his historic journey to meet first with President Anwar Sadat in Egypt, then with Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Israel, and then once more with Sadat had a happy result but would have befii worthwhile even if it had failed.

There are risks involved in' achieving any goal, he said, and no goal can be higher than the search for peace. In war, we offer our very lives almost as a matter of routine. We must be no less daring, no less steadfast, in the pursuit of peace. I believe that God has answered our prayers, he said. Carter said the proposals will be taken up for consideration at a meeting in Jerusalem within a few hours, and added: I have left instructions to wake me up if the news is good and I believe it will be.

The happy crowd at the airport had been arranged hours before when it looked as if the mission had not Eggs HARRISBURG Urging Governor Thornburgh to continue reform efforts in PennDOT, Margot Hunt, president of the League of Woman Voters of Pennsylvania, has announced that League members from more than fifteen counties in the Commonwealth have been chosen to serve on Penn- DOTS Maintenance Management Review Committees (MMRCs). The League is pleased to represent the voices of citizens on some county MMRCs to help choose the best talent to manage PennDOTs county offices. By accepting this responsibility, ttie League will be serving in accordance with our acknowledged nonpartisan approach to decision-making, Ms. Hunt said. Speaking for the 67 lodal Leagues in Pennsylvania, DANVILLE State Police here reported $50 damage to a vehicle owned by a Danville man when someone threw eggs and a hard object at the car Tuesday night at 11 p.m.

Policesaidtherewasdamagetoachromestripof a vehicle owned by Brian McCaffery, Danville, RD 3. The incident Occurred three miles north of Danville on Route 642 when a par traveling in the opposite direction threw the eggs at the windshield of the McCaffery car. The other car was described as a dark color AMC Hornet. Harvey Houseknecht Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. for Harvey A.

Houseknecht, Danville RD 4, who died Sunday at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Rev. R. Terry Litz, Danville Apostolic Church, officiated at the John J. Brady Funeral Home, Danville.

Interment followed in the Jerseytown Cemetery. Pallbearers were Raymond and Terry Thomas, John Roeder, Terry Kratzer, Fred Whitenight Jr. and George Clark. Man cited DANVILLE Acitation was issued by Danville Police to Thomas S. Roney, 18, of 1 Park Place, Danville for drinking on a public street, and underage consumption.

The citation issued by Patrolman Fisher. Test could revolutionize heart attack diagnosing $65 mil complex planned for Atlantic City Ms. Hunt emphasized that League members are concerned that Governor Thornburghs original reform plan to rid county highway offices of patronage by forming MMRCs may be compromised with the in- elusion of elected officials on the county committees. While potholes are un-permost on the minds of citizens at the moment, Ms. Hunt said, county MMRCs will be challenged to find skilled managers not only to maintain and repair the roads of the state, but to restore some measure of public confidence in this initial effort to clean up PennDOTs act.

The League will monitor the MMRCs carefully in every county, whether or not we were chosen to serve, Ms. Hunt concluded. Wt continue to support strongly efforts to reform PennDOT. Mayflower Apartments will remain standing. The complex will feature a 40,000 square foot casino, and 80,000 square feet of public space.

The casino will house 100 table Atlantic City Dunes casino is a subsidiary of Continental Connector Corp. which operates casinos in Las Vegas. YESTERDAYS DAILY LOTTERY NO. 457 PLAY ALL WEEK -WITH ONE STOP AT FINN'S News Agency CLEARANCE MONSANTO ACRYLIC PRE-CUT RUG YARN Now 35 Lois Yarn Shop 232 Mill Danville cited thrown set for Temple and 912 of his followers dead Nov. 18 in the steamy jungles of Guyana.

Among the grim reminders of the shocking demise of the church were 55-gallon drums of wheat and beans -destined for Jones jungle mission. Some buyers posed for pictures beside crates stamped: Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Pt. Kaituma, Guyana. The oak pulpit from which Jones preached in his onetime synagogue also was shown to the buyers. No one eould estimate what it would bring from a buyer: On the red-carpeted sanctuary itself there were plaques depicting blacks at the mercy of Ku Klux Klan mobs, Japanese-Americans in U.S.

camps during World War II and Jews being in Nazi prison tortured camps. In one clerical room, there was equipment and boxes of records of songs by the Peoples Temple choir. In another large room there were crutches, dental equipment, life jackets, typewriters, luggage, bowling balls, film projects and an American flag. In a back yard were trucks, buses, pickup trucks and other vehicles. Also there was a guards shack, I havent seen so many people here since that Guyana tragedy, Gloria Johnston, who lives a block away, said.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPI) A new method of measuring enzyme levels in the blood may reduce the current two-to threeday testing needed to diagnose many heart attacks to a matter of hours saving millions of dollars in unnecessary hospitalization. The new test, described Tuesday at the 28th annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiologists, was developed by Drs. Michael H. Bumam, H.J.C.

Swan and William E. Shell, cardiologists at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Cehter. Burnam, who presented their paper, said the test is 3,000 times as sensitive as any previous enzyme test for Sister M. Genevieve Sister M. Genevieve (Dirda) was laid to rest in the Sisters cemetery at Villa Sacred Heart Tuesday at noon, following the Mass of Christian Burial, which was offered in Maria Hall chapel at 11 a.m.

The celebrant of the Mass was Rev. Augustine Zan, chaplain of Maria Joseph Manor, who, like Sister Genevieve, ministered at the' Manor since its opening in 1962. Concelebrating were the Reverend Fathers John M. Zeman, O.S.B., Arthur Long, S.J., Walter A. Sempko, Aloysius Nosal, of Danville; Stanley Laruinitis, of Roaring Creek, and Francis Litz, C.SS.R., of Buffalo, N.Y., who is conducting the annual retreat for a group of Sisters.

Lectors during the Liturgy were Sister M. Jeanette, administrator, and Sister Elizabeth Ann Matonak, dietitian, of Maria Joseph Manor. Present also were Sister M. Marguerite, SS.C.M., Sister M. William, SS.C.M., William Hruby, and Cecilia Hruby, nieces and nephew of Sister Genevieve; staff personnel and a large group of residents from the Manor, and most of the Sisters from the mother-house, Academy, Villa, and Maria Hall.

Joy" and hope were the keynote of the Mass, symbolized in the Paschal candle set at the foot of the casket and expressed in the hymns sung by the Sisters choir. In his homily Father dwelt on the prescribed scriptural readings and showed how appropriately they exemplify the life of all Christians, but especially of persons consecrated to God in the religious life. Final absolution after Mass and services at the graveside were likewise conducted by Father Zan. John Brady Funeral Home, Danville, assisted with arrangements. Madeline Hummel Mrs.

Madeline A. Hummel, 923 North Vine Street, Shamokin, died at Mountain View Manor, Shamokin RD at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. She was a patient there since January 23 and was hospitalized at the Geisinger Medical Center from September 12 until January. She was born in Tharp-town, September 12, 1912, daughter of the late John and Minnie Stahl Edmunds.

She was married to Orville Hummel, March 11, 1933. Mr. Hummel retired from the maintenance Department at the Geisinger Medical Center in 1973 after many years of service. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, A78-13 Blackwell. Plus $1.74 F.E.T.

and old tire. WHITEWALL ADD $4. ADD $2 to $4. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) The Dunes Hotel-Casino has hired the D.F.S.

Construction Co. of America a Florida based company, to build its $65 million complex in Atlantic City, N.J. The completion of the 532-room complex is targeted for May 30, 1980. Demolition and construction would begin immediately after necessary Atlantic City permits are acquired. The complex is being financed partially by the contractor, internal funding, regular financial Institutions and probably a consortium of banks.

D.F.Sr "Cofl-struction Co. of America would not retain ad interest in the building. The Dunes bought 63,000 square feet of Boardwalk property for $8.5 million plus 30,000 square feet for parking at the Albany Avenue intersection for $1.5 million in July of 1977. The firm acquired the President Motel and the Mayflower Apartments. The President Motel will be demolished to make room for the new Dunes Hotel-Casino.

The Auction Peoples I SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The salesman surveyed equipment at the Peoples Temple and admitted the thought of what happened to its members bothered him. I feel really creepy about buying stuff that might have-belonged to one of those dead people, George Price said. But, so long as I dont know for sure, and if the price is right, IT1 buy what1 want. The cults church, in the black Fillmore District, was to buyers Tuesday by Golden State Auctioneers, which set the sale of the churchs assets for today. The proceeds will be used to pay for the transportation of the bodies of the victims from Jonestown to Dover Air; Force Base in Delaware.

The auction was ordered in Superior Court after attorneys for the Rev. Jim Jones church filed for dissolution of the corporation because of the murder-suicide ritual that left Jones IN APPRECIATION To oil who expressed sympathy in our bereavement and so generously came to our aid our sincere appreciation We are especially grateful to the pallbearers and to those who sent cards, flowers and cars FAMILY OF THE LATE MR. IRVIN FETTERMAN By HELEN THOMAS UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) A tired but smiling President Carter returned from the Middle East early today to the cheers of hundreds of supporters who had planned an airport rally as a morale booster and easily converted it to a celebration. The president, who had achieved through personal diplomacy a near-impossible breakthrough in the long-stalled Middle East peace negotiations, waved and grinned, as he descended the planes steps with his wife Rosalynn to the strains of Hail to the Chief" from a Marine Corps band. He shook hands with Vice President Walter Mondale, accepted a bear hug from huge House Speaker Thomas P.

Tip ONeill, touched fingertips with the reaching hands of other leaders, and stepped to the microphones to thank the crowd for being out here in the middle of the night to greet us and give, us one of the best welcomes I have ever known. You are looking at a tired heart attacks and will allow doctors to diagnose heart attacks within two hours after the onset of chest pains. The test measures elevated levels of an enzyme called creatine kinase MB isoenzyme or CK-MB, which is released by heart cells that die because of a lack of oxygen during a heart tack. Less sensitive tests have been unable to distinguish between that enzyme and similar forms of creatine kinase released by damaged brain cells and skeletal muscle cells, he said. Because, the new test detects virtually all of the CK-MB in the bloodstream, whether In the active or inactive form, 'it makes monetary damages, the suit also asks that Charles Fenton, Lewisburg warden, be prohibited from holding any job that would put him in direct contact with federal prisoners, because of his alleged history of toleration of and participation in such prisoner assaults.

Lewisburg, theACLU said, is currently being investigated by both the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Amnesty International. Ney said the alleged assualt at Lewisburg came when two busloads of SLIGHTLY PERSONAL By ELIZABETH NUSS Dial 275-0371 OBSERVING HIS birthday March 13 is Jim Murphy, Arlington, Virginia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Murphy, 9 Beaver Place, Danville.

A DOUBLE CELE-BRATION will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. celebrates his birthday March 13 and daughter, Kathleen observes her first birthday March 18. Helping to celebrate March 18 will be Kathleens sister, Julianna, and brother, Jeffrey. MR.

AND MRS. WILLARD Cook, Avenue Riverside, will be celebrating their wedding anniversary March 14. Mrs. Cook is the former Adalaine Flood of Riverside. Birthday Corner March 12: Terry Snyder, Danville RD March 10: Mrs.

Eva Pursel, Danville; March 17: Faye Young, Rivefpisje; Eugene Hart-man. Prisoners sue govt, for $6 million possible diagnosis of heart damage too small for correct diagnosis by other methods, Burnam said. Application of the test to all patients appearing at a hospital emergency room and complaining of chest pain also may sharply reduce the number of such persons who are released because they show no other heart attack symptoms and then sustain a fatal heart attack a short time later. The Upjohn which has obtained rights to the process, said a subsidiary is attempting to adapt the test to routine laboratory use. However, the company could make no immediate estimate of when the test will become generally available.

prisoners, en roqte to other federal institutions, stopped for the night at Lewisburg and said they were forced to walk the gauntlet, then were denied medical Treatment. In the Virginia case the young prisoner, who was being held in protective custody, was placed in the same cell with' -an aggressive violent prisoner held in disciplinary detention in the segregation unit, the ACLU said: The youth was recovering from a broken jaw' that was still wired closed and was weak from a liquid diet and painkillers, he said. ITU By DAVID ANDERSON WASHINGTON (UPI) -The government was sued today for nearly $6 million on behalf of 38 federal prisoners alleged to have been beaten with ax handles while chained, and has paid damages for mistreatment of another. Until now the Bureau of Prisons has held itself out as the paragon of virtue among prison systems, said Steven Ney, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations National Prison Project, which filed the suits. By these court actions, we have shown and will continue to show that the bureau has failed to carry out its duty to safeguard and protect prisoners from harm, Ney said.

According to todays suit for $5.9 million, the prisoners charge that while they were bound in handcuffs, waist chains and leg irons they were forced to walk a gauntlet of guards who used pickax handles to prod and beat them. And in the related action double belted time aa EARLY SPRING Save money WOW on our popular, long mileage DELUXE CHAMPION SU R-BELT Group of CHILDREN'S WOMENS AUDITION SHOES SHOES FIBERGLASS double bell Two tough fiberglass belts restrict tread motion on pavement giving long tread life. POLYESTER cord body Strong polyester cord body provides a noticeably smooth ride. SHOES WHITEWALLS SHOES INSTOCK in the federal prison system, ACLU lawyers announced they had obtained $20,000 in damages from the Bureau of Prisons in an out-of-court settlement on behalf of a 20-year-old Virginia prisoner who charged prison officials failed to protect him from being attacked and raped by an older prisoner. The Lewisburg suit, filed in U.S.

District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, claims the prisoners were systematically and brutally beaten by the warden and guards on April 14, 1978, and shows, bureau officals have 'intentionally sanctioned the use of brutality against prisoners who were handcuffed and bound with leg chains. In addition Jhe CiQXIXpj PA. STATE INSPECTION 3 BAY AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE Discounts Still Available On Winter Clothing COLLAR SCUFF 290 Mill St 275-2601 Danville, Pa, 298 Mill St. Danville 275-2610.

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