The Danville News from Danville, Pennsylvania • 1

I VOL. II NO. 244 Our Nth Ytar DANVILLE, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1977 12 Page Today PRICf: TCtENTS Foot tenants for Mill slated By EARLE CORNELIUS DANVILLE There will be a total of at least four tenants in the Weis Market Shopping Center at the northern end of Mill street in the borough it was announced Thursday. According to Harold Fisher, executive director of the Redevelopment Authority of Montour County, three additional stores have confirmed that they will be joining Weis Markets in the mall. The additional tennants will include a state liquor store, a 12,000 square foot drug store, and a catalog store.

i Fisher said he was not at liberty to disclose the names of the other two tenants but added that the drug store will be operated by a major chain while the catalog store is of the major retail variety. Fisher explained that Weis Mid-July possible i construction date I Yohn said after the paving is completed, which will be done last, parking meters will be installed by Moth control requested for upcoming year by Claire E. Houpt DANVILLE A step towards gypsy moth control in the future was made Thursday afternoon by Commissioner Thomas Herman when he suggested that the County request a meeting with Max Coy, District Forester, Bloomsburg, and all the counties in his district. Herman said during the Commissioners regular weekly meeting that he would like all of the counties to address the gypsy moth problem now, because he feels it is going to get worse. He said he would propose that the state, the Counties and private landowners co-share the cost of a control program, be it spraying, or natural controls.

Continuing, he said he realized that cost is the major problem in combating the gypsy moth infestation, but also noted that the problem will be with us for some time Another area he would like to see discussed, and hopefully changed, are the current state guideline for areas that qualify for the state spraying program through the Department of Environmental resources. Commissioner Chairman Jesse B. Bell agreed and asked that a letter be sent to Coy requesting a meeting sometime in July. The board agreed to readvertise for bids for the Cooper Township bridge. They will accept bids up until noon, Friday, July 1.

After the bids are opened they must be approved by PennDOT before awarding of a contract by the county. It was also agreed that the County repair and restore the Liberty Township covered bridge. A letter of intent, it was decided, should be sent to the Township Supervisors. Other business covered by the Commissioners regarded the scheduling, rescheduling and canceling for regular board meetings for the next two weeks. The next regular meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 23, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, June 22, at 3:00 p.m.

This is because Bell, who is president of the Six County Firemens Association will be continued on page twelve) THE FERRY STREET parking lot project should be completed by around the first of August, according to F.O. Yohn, Danville Borough secretary. borough employes. The contractor for the project is Clair C. Hock, Bloomsburg, RD4.

(Danville News Photo) struction until the middle of July. Harold Fisher, executive director of the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Montour, noted during Thursdays regular meeting that Weis Markets informed him that construction would begin shortly but they did not list a specific starting date. DANVILLE The initial construction for the Weis Shopping Center in Danville, probably wont begin until mid-July, according to Mike Rising, Director of Construction for Weis Markets. Inc. Rising told The News today that there is still some site work to be completed and therefore he doesnt envision starting con Danville State may lie Former GMC director Welfare furloughs Markets, Inc.

told him that they would begin construction at the site shortly but did not list a specific starting date. Fisher said Weis officials informed him that they are more enthusiastic about the Danville shopping center than ever before. The shopping center is know as the Mill street project. Fisher also informed the Authority that Parcel One, the land along Continental Boulevard north of the Mill Street Project, will be subdivided to allow more development on that property. Victor and Virginia DeGeorge bought the parcel recently with the intention of placing a pancake house and fast-food restaurant on the parcel.

The Eck Group, Williamsport, is the tentative developer for the parcel. The Eck Group has been involved in prior Montour County projects, including the construction of the Markets along Northumberland Street and the office-apartment complex at the corner of Mill and Spruce Streets. In other action: Work on the second ward (continued on page twelve) expected State Hospital commented this morning that At this time, we are noi aware of how, or if, the furlough will effect he Danville State Hospital. A source informed The News today however, that up to 3,000 workers in the Department of Welfare will be furloughed including as many as 700 in regional institutions. Thompson was unavailable for comment when contacted this morning in Harrisburg.

Agnes mobile home residents of the area. Construction in the mobile home subdivision will include new streets, curbs, sidewalks, storm and sanitary sewers, water lines and landscaping to include grass planted median strips and trees. All electric, telephone and cable TV lines will be installed underground. The site of the new mobile home court is at the extreme eastern end of the project area and was chosen to be there because of its elevation. The land there meets the F.I.A.

enforced Borough ordinance requiring construction within 100 year flood plains to be at 460tfe feet above sea level. The contract also provides for the installation of a new (and larger) sanitary sewer line continued on page twelve) DANVILLE Dr. Leonard F. 3ush of Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, retired Executive Director of Geisinger Medical Center, died today in the institution to which he had devoted his life anchhelped to build into one of the leading clinics in the nation. A highly respected orthopaedic surgeon, Dr.

Bush came as an intern to Geisinger in 1934, served one year as a resident and joined the staff in 1936. He served as Assistant Chief of Staff and Director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and in 1958 took the helm of the former George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital following the retirement of its first Chief of Staff, Dr. Harold L. Foss.

Dr. Bush retired from active service at the Medical Center in 1974. Dr: Bush presided over the incorporation of the Geisinger Hospital as the Geisinger DANVILLE Cutbacks in the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare could affect 3,000 workers in the state including as many as 700 in state institutions in this region The News learned today. One of those institutions that could feel the effects of the budget crunch is Danville State Hospital. According to a spokeswoman at the Danville State Hospital D.D.

Campbell, acting superintendent was involved in dies recognition of his contribution to scouting. The scope of his humanitarian philosophy was revealed when 1963 he participated in the Orthopaedic Overseas Program in Jordan under the sponsorship of Medico-Care. In 1975 and 1976, Dr. Bush spent six weeks each summer serving as a volunteer physician at the Bach Christian Hospital in Pakistan. His activities there were the subject of a feature article in The Lutheran magazine earlier this year.

Born in Madison Lake, Minnesota, Dr. Bush grew up in Augusta, Wisconsin. He earned his medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He interned at the Geisinger Medical Center, then accepted an externship at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in St.

Louis. He returned to Geisinger to complete his residency (continued on pagetwelve) News Second Ward project to begin this Monday Gulf Oil execs ordered to testify DR. LEONARD BUSH Officials mum on homicide POINT TOWNSHIP A search of the Lithia Springs murder site where the nude body of -23-year-old Teresa Louise Kifolo was discovered Tuesday morning, produced a couple of items which authorities are now studying, according to Police Chief Oman Carl, Point Township. Carl would not elaborate on what the two and one-half hour ground search revealed or what was found by the 28 members of the Northumberland Emergency Rescue service who combed the area. Miss Kifolo was discovered Tuesday morning in a cottage owned by her former employer, Robert Cunningham, of Sun-bury, after police were contacted by a Pocono Lake man who was employed by Cun- continued on page twelve) DANVILLE Wot will begin on the second and last phase of the project improvements in Danville Second Wards Flood Disaster Urban Renewal Project on Monday, June 20.

Hie contract for the work was awarded last week to John Connolly Sons, Inc. of Luzerne, at a bid price of $792,597. The work area is from Foust Street to the Boroughs eastern boundary; to the properties of the Danville State Hospital and the water filtration facility. Plans have been drawn to complement the construction done Medical Center in 1961, and administered the Medical Center during its period of greatest growth. Deeply committed to the value of education at all levels, Dr.

Bbsh was instrumental in the establishment of the Institute for Medical Education and Research at Geisinger and encouraged an association with Bucknell University for research and graduate education. He was a member of the board of trustees of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Civic affairs also occupied the attention of Dr. Bush. In 1969 he was named president of the Susquehanna Economic Development Association.

As a former Eagle Scout, he had a lifelong interest in the Boy Scouts. In 1960, he was elected president of the Columbia-Montour Council and received the Silver Beaver Award and producers of Canada, France, Australia and South Africa. Gulf President Jerry McAfee told the subcommittee Thursday the company did nothing wrong, claiming the Canadian government compelled it to join the cartel and that the price-fixing conspiracy had little if any impact on the U.S. market. But American prices, like those around the world, soared 700 per cent in the four years after the cartels formation in 1972.

And the subcommittee released previously secret corporate documents indicating Gulf badly wanted to make it (continued on page twelve) plant, suggested that he be used as the backup operator. The Authority passed a motion to accept Cotner as an operator, barring any legal complications related to his membership on the Authority. Frank Cotner, Authority chairman, presented a copy of the Organic and Hydraulic Loading Report filed by JBuchart 'Horn, Authority engineer, with the Department of Environmental Resources. The report showed the sewer treatment plant is operating well below design capacity. A total of $603.72 in bills was Bpproved for paymept.

Attending the meeting were Frank Cotner, Lawrence Roberts, John Styer, Elmei Cotner and Frank Clark. affected a meeting Thursday in the office of Ford Thompson, Harrisburg, the Deputy Secretary, of Public Welfare in the central region. Campbell was informed, along with other superintendents in the region, that furloughs will be forthcoming in the Department of Welfare. All were instructed' to prepare seniority lists in all classifications at their respective institutions. A spokeswoman at Danville last summer from Foust Street west.

This years work will include the excavation, filling, grading and landscaping necessary for the creation of a new mobile home court to enable the pre and post Agnes Flood mobile home occupanmts in the old Paugh and Cook courts to relocate. The new mobile home subdivision will afford 47 lots averaging out to about 4,000 square feet each. These lots will be sold to the mobile home owners with top priority for purchase going to the pre- Watergate cover-up; John Dean, counsel to the President; Charles Colson, special White House counsel; Dwight Chapin, deputy communications director; Ehrlichmans deputy, Egil Krogh. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst was given a suspended sentence for lying at his Senate confirmation hearings. The conspiracy conviction of deputy Attorney General Robert Mardian was overturned on appeal.

Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans and Treasury Secretary John Connally were indicted but acquitted. Sixty-three men including 20 former top Nixon aides were, charged with activity. A total of convicted or pleaded guilty. Eight were or charges were "dropped. One, Robert Vesco, fled the country) In addition, 17 corporations pleaded guilty to making illegal! contributions to the Nixon campaign.

7 G. Gordon. Liddy, mystery man of Watergate, is the only one connected with the scandal1 (continued page twelve) criminal 54 were WASHINGTON (UPI) -Former Gulf Oil executives were ordered to testify today in a congressional investigation in which the company admitted membership in a secret international cartel to raise world uranium prices. 1 Sources said L.T. Gregg, one of those subpoenaed for the second round of House Commerce subcommittee hearings, was directly involved in the cartels operations and attended secret meetings while he was uranium sales manager for a Gulf subsidiary called Gulf Minerals Canada Ltd.

At the heart of the issue was whether Gulf violated U.S. antitrust law when it allowed that subsidiary to enter the cartel with the governments Watergate scandal began 5 years ago Sampler reading FOUR PROMINENT are slated to compete in the Schaefer 500 auto race at Pocono International Raceway next weekend. More on the Indy of the East on Page 8. i put the past behind him as he prepared to travel to Cincinnati and join the Reds. More on the trade of the year on Page 9.

ROCKEFELLER It was a night to remember for ex-vice president Nelson Rockefeller as he was honored by 2,200 guests Thursday evening. Ironically, the primarily-GOP gathering was held five years to the night of the Watergate break-in. Details on Page 7. COLLECTING Is a time-consuming business for Pennsylvanian DeVon Smith but the rewardffcan be great as you will see on Page 2. CHILD was the topic of discussion at a symposium Thursday evening.

More on this on Page 2. The weather MIDDLE SUSQUEHANNA Considerable cloudiness tonight and Saturday with a few shown? likely and possibly a thundershower. Lows tonight mid to upper 60s. Highs Saturday mid to upper 80s. Extended forecast EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EXTENDED OUTLOOK SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY Chance of rain Sunday.

Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday. Near normal temperatures. High upper 70 to mid 80s. Lows mid 50s north to mid 60s south. By Washingtoqville Authority New auditor being sought By RONALD E.

COHEN WASHINGTON (UPI) In five days, when John Newton Mitchell and Harry Robbins Haldeman are mugged and fingerprinted and get their prison numbers, Watergate will pass from the legal scholars to the history students. An era will ehd when those two giants of the Nixon presidency the former attorney general and the former Whiter House chief of staff join the federal prison population. 1 Five years ago today, five men carrying burglars tools and electronic eavesdropping devices and wearing rubber gloves broke into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate and altered American politics. Since then, more than 50 men have gone to jail. Haldeman and Mitchell are the last two.

Other close aides of Richard Nixon who have served time include: John Ehrlichman, domestic affairs adviser convicted with Haldeman and Mitchell of! conspiracy, perjury and obi traction of justice in the River for $80 and was functioning as divorces the commissioners from any responsibility for failure of the system. At the suggestion of Elmer Cotner, the Authority moved to have the manholes and two lift stations in the borough flushed by the fire company, as last year. Elmer reported that the grease buildup at the lifts was the major area in need of cleaning. The Authority will compensate the fire company. Floyd Koch HI, back up operator of the sewer treatment plant submitted a request to the Authority for a retainer fee.

But Authority members agreed there was no reason to pay Koch while he is only on standby and may only work two weeks In the year. Elmer Cotner, explaining that he was qualified to operate the well as a new $1200 pump. The pump will be used to clean the plant tanks two or three times a year. In 'a related matter, the Authority approved the expenditure of $250 for two 20 foot sections of hose for use with the sludge pump. Elmer Cotner was given the go-ahead to proceed with the purchase from a Bloomsburg firm.

Repair work on a GMC truck purchased from Dover Air Force Base was reported to be proceeding. The Authority moved to have Jim Fausey continue with the repair work, barring any major problems. The Authority passed a motion to sign a release sub-' mitted by the County Commissioners for the Radio Communications Network. The By E.G. MORRISON WASHINGTONVILLE A new auditor will be sought for the Washingtonville Municipal' Authority following action taken by the Authority Thursday evening at its regular session.

Charles Baylor, a Bloomsburg auditor had continually failed to meet with Richard Authority Solicitor to begin the audit and Authority members agreed it was not legally safe to continue a delay. The Authority moved to have Richard Brittain contact another auditor for the job. A four inch sludge for use at the sewer treatment plant was reportedly in excellent condition following repairs. Elmer Cotner, treasurer of the Authority, reported that the used pump had been acquired The level of the Susquehanna River was stationary at 3.31 feet at 6 p.m. Thursday evening.

The level was 3.24 feet and falling at7 a.m. Friday morning. Obituaries Beatrice P. Vannan Roydt Raymond E. Landau Herman L.

Getkin (See Area Deaths on page 12) i.