Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 5

Vandals Have Wrecked Army Radar Station and electrical boxes not by the school district htTt been rem'oved or destroyed. Wood structures within the building have been completely destroyed by. trespassers. The structure housed several soldiers. It contained kitchen facilities, bunk rooms, a bathroom and several other rooms.

The school district had several plans for its future use. One was the possibility ot using it as a spring camp for the Donegal High School football team. Those plan have been scrapped because vandals have left the building in ruins. Signs declaring the property is the private property of the school district have been destroyed or ignored. Weather Dampens Memorial Day Services In State (Cwrtinmrt From parted for Washington.

In the capital city, the traditional Memorial Day Parade, in three divisions, moved out after the rain subsided. On the reviewing stand were Rear Adm. Frederic Cole, of nearby Mech anicsburg Naval Supply Depot, and Brig. Gen. Nicholas P.

Kafkalas, commander of the National Guard's 28th Division. In another ceremony in Harris burg, a detachment from the Marine Corps League held morn ing riverfront services on the bank of the Susquehanna. The detachment cast a wreath upon the waters in memory of the war dead and presented medals to kin of Marines slain in Viet' nam. Philadelphians, several hun dred of them, gathered on Pier 11 to hear Rear Adm. Robert H.

Speck, commandant of the Fourth Naval District call for preservation of the USS Olympia as a floating monument to the Spanish-American War. The ves sel had served as flagship of Commodore George Dewey ing the 1898 war. At Valley Forge, Lt. Gen. Milton G.

Baker, superintendent of Valley Forge Military Academy, told cadets he was shocked by what he considers the "increasingly flippant" celebration of Memorial Day and like holidays. Sporadic rainfall drenched many of the participants and onlookers at parades and memorial ceremonies at Pittsburgh and other communities in Western Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh, parades were held in several sections of the city and there were many ceremonies at cemeteries. Veterans groups and civic leaders joined in the ceremonies. A Pittsburgh police boat towed a memorial wreath at the con fluence of the city's three rivers at noon while Ira Wilson of Carnegie sounded taps on a bugle Wilson's son, Capt.

Robert A Wilson, was killed in the Vietnam war May 6. Burglars Ransack Weiss Residence; Loss Considerable (Continued From PMI Ont) carry away some of the stolen Items. Coins Removed Coins listed as missing included a display mounted on cardboard and enclosed within a frame. This was taken from a second-floor bedroom and the frame and cardboard were lefl on the sofa after the coins had been removed. The display comprised about 60 coins.

Sev eral booklets containing coins were also listed as missing. Other missing items were listed as: A calendar wrist watch valued at about $250; a woman's gold watch valued at about $350; i gold charm bracelet valued a a .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol and several clips oi ammunition; an undetermined number Good Samaritan Hospital Street Fair tickets; a movie camera, a punch bowl end punch cups, and sterling silver flatware. Police said a shotgun had been removed from a closet and placed on a bed but was not taken. Ironically, among the items not removed from the Weiss home was a book "How To Defend Yourself, Your Family and Home," by George Hunter. Mrs.

Weiss said she and her laughter were at the parade ind her husband was at his office at the time of the burglary. Almost cupboard and drawer in the was sacked, she said. "Everything that was stolen," she added, "was small enough to put in a bag that would not be con- splcuous by. Itt she," Three Accidents Here Cornwall Rd. Intersection Is Scene Of Spectacular Crash That Injures Two Ooily NEWS ABANDONED RADAR STRUCTURE This building, built less than eight years ago and occupied by the Army a little over two years, looks as if the Army made its last stand before being forced out.

It is located south of the concrete tower on Governor Dick at Mt. Gretna. All windows and doors have been destroyed by vandals. The inside has been gutted by vandals, even though a cyclone fence surrounds the structure. Spotlight FFA Daily NEWS Photo.

DISGUSTED C. M. Erdman (left), secretary of the Quentin Riding Club and Clayton Aument, custodian of Governor Dick, disgustedly look at the damage caused by vandals in one of several rooms inside the radar structure during the past several years. The electrical boxes are frequently stripped. FFA Activities Week To Be Held June 26 To 28 Discussion of post-high schoo' raining programs in agriculture and career opportunities will among features at the annua future Farmers of America Activities Week, June 26 to 28 at The Pennsylvania State Jniversity.

Attended by some 1,300 FFA members and the event will include educational demonstrations and tours contests in 15 events, and the annual business meeting of the State Association. Event? dealing with training and careers in off-farm agri culture include contests in salesmanship, how to conduct an nterview, forestry, and orna mental horticulture. Leadership contests are public speaking am parliamentary procedure Contests dealing with agriculture production include the areas of crops, livestock and farm mechanics. All are set for the morning Tune 26. Personnel of The Pennsyl vania State University will be involved in educational tours demonstrations, and caree information on Thursday after noon, June 27, and June 28.

Evening meetings on June 2i and June 27 will feature' tin State FFA Band, FFA Chorus and entertainment by local chapters. At the June 26 evenin; program Sever J. Toretti, Peni State's assistant director of athletics, will address the group on the topic, "Are You a Leader?" Greeting sthe assemblage the night of June 26 will be Jerome K. Pasto, associate director of resident education in the College of Agriculture at Penn State; James C. Fink and T.

Dean Witmer of the Agricultural Education Division of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg; and David R. McClay, head of the Department of Agricultural Education at Penn State. A final assembly will be held at 10 a.m. June 28 in Schwab Auditorium to present awards. Juvenile Drinking law Violations Reported Three violations of the state juvenile drinking law have been reported by Chief Fred Hummel and Patrolman Harold Slouch of the North Lebanon Township police.

According to police, arrests in connection with the violation took place early Thursday morning during an all-night movie showing at the Key Drive-In Theatre. The following were arrested by Chief Hummel and Patrol Two persons were listed as injured in a spectacular one-car crash in the vicinity of Rex Avenue and Cornwall Road about 8:15 p.m. Thursday. A New York woman was inured in another accident here Thursday. Treated at Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room for minor head injuries following he Rex Avenue-Cornwall Road area accident were: Gene D.

Deiter, 33, Lebanon RD 5, the driver, and Helen Kreiser, 30, 1046 Willow his Deiter suffered a cut of the Dally News, Lebanon, Friday, May 31, 1SS8 Page 5 Streets afternoon. Dennis A. Nace, SI, Main Street, Cainphelltowm, and William Lelsey, 77, 231 E. Penn Cleona, were listed as the drivers. Damage to the Nace car was estimated at $300 and to the Leisey vehicle at $150.

forehead that required five stitches. The Kreiser woman suffered a scalp laceration requiring three stitches. Patrolman George E. Gruher Jr. said Deiter was driving south on Cornwall Road when at the intersection of Rex Avenue the car left the highway and traveled about 129 feet along the berm of the road.

It then struck a Bell Telephone pole, pulling the pole out of the ground about one foot and shearing it off at the base. The police report said the car then continued on, across the lawn of Dr. John Albert, Cornwall Road, for a distance of 78 feet, struck and bent over a city street sign and came to a halt 10 eet away in the center of Sum mit Street. The report said Deiter will be iarged with reckless driving. Damage to the car, a 1959 model, was estimated at $275.

Treated at Good Samaritan following a two-car rash at Sixth and Walnut treets about 12:45 p.m. Thura Joan M. Rudy Tulpehocken Grad Given 5 Awards At Commencement BETHEL, May 31 Joan Rudy, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D.

Rudy, Bethel received five awards at the graduation exercises held in the auditorium of the Tulpehocken High School, Bernville RD 2, on Tuesday evening. Miss Rudy, first honor studen speaker for the commencemen exercises, spoke on the theme Tn Ourselves Our Future and was among a class of 9' seniors to receive diplomas which were presented by John 0. Moyer Myerstown RD 1 president of the board of ed ucation. Other honor students were Betty Edward E. Daily NEWS Photo.

SENSELESS DESTRUCTION Ceiling and floor tiles have been ripped up by vandals at the radar installation atop Governor Dick. The building has been rendered nothing but a dilapidated shell as the result of senseless acts of destruction. Local Holsieins Get New Lactation Credits A report of milk production levels attained by dairy cows in area herds has been received from Holstein-Friesian Association of America. The actual food production output, under official testing rules, by these local Registered Holsteins is: Peartome Midnight Perfect, a six-year-old owned by Harvey T. Bomgardner, Annville RD 1, produced 18,250 Ibs.

of milk and 635 Ibs. of butterfat in 305 days. Patch Farm Pilot Ruby, an eight-year-old, produced 22,810 Ibs. of milk and 862 Ibs. of butterfat in 339 days.

Ferndale Prilly Colleen, a six-year-old, had 17,870 Ibs. of milk and 801 Ibs. of butterfat in 320 days. Both are owned by Ferndale Farms, Lebanon RD 1. These new production figures may be compared to the estimated annual output of 8,513 Ibs.

of milk and 315 Ibs. of butterfat by the average U.S. dairy cow, notes the national 1 in Association. Pennsylvania State University supervised the sampling, weighing and testing operations in cooperation with the Holstein organization's herd and breed improvement programs. Gets 45-Day Jail Term RIDLEY PARK, Pa.

(AP)The skipper of a yacht which took medical supplies to Vietnam has been sentenced to 45 days in jail for "negligent operation of a motorboat," according to a Quaker Action Group. The group said Thursday Rob ert W. Eaton had his sentence affirmed Wednesday by Justice of the Peace Robert M. Shaf fer.of Ridley Park. Shafer, however, would make no comment nor confirm the report Thursday.

The group said Eaton was arrested on the charge April 16 while on a motor-sailboat he was taking to demonstrate against the commissioning of the battleship USS New Jersey in Philadelphia. They said he was first sentenced by Essington Justice of the Peace John Messerick, who was killed recently in an automobile accident. man rich, Blouch: 19, 1808 Robert G. Wen- Center Lebanon; Larry M. Shuey, 19, 48 Chestnut Annville; and Joshua V.

Snook 20, 1972 W. Cumberland Lebanon. Chief Hummel said that he intends to see that future vio lators of this law are prose cuted to the fullest extent. Dr. Arias Declared Winner In Panama PANAMA (AP) Dr.

Arnulfo Arias was declared winner of Panama's presidency for the third time Thursday and voiced confidence that this time he may hold onto the post for a while. Rival candidate David Samu dio rejected the result of the ballot count, but Arias was bol stered this time by support oi army, the National Panama's Guard. Arias, 67, polled 41,545 more votes than Samudio, the govern ment candidate, the Nationa Election Board said in a repori on the May 12 election. Samudio challenged the hon esty of the count and claimec that the National Guard had committed "an act of force" in supporting the opposition. Another electoral tribunal controlled by the government said the election board's count was void and Samudio should be declared the winner.

But without National Guard backing this had no effect, L. Mohn and Stump, both oi Bernville, and Janice E. Frantz Myerstown RD 1. Of the 14 awards presented to the honor students, Miss Rudy received these five as follows: The Thomas Jefferson Scholar ship Award, a cash award pre sented by David J. Batdorf to the girl with the highes 1 scholastic average in the grad uating class; the Penn-Bernville Alumni Association Award, a cash award presented to the senior with the highest scho lastic average in the graduating class and who will be attending college in 1968-1969; the Read er's Disgest Award, presented to the valedictorian of the graduating class in recognition of past accomplishments and in anticipation of unusual achieve ments to come; the Tulpehocken Education Association Award presented to the student in the academic, curriculum who ha; maintained high 1 a i i standards, who has contributec to the extra curricular program maintained high social stand ards and has been accepted fo college in fall.

Her activities in the Tulpe hocken High School included the following: Co-editor of Dardanian Staff for 1968 (yearbook); Future Teachers of America, a member for 3 years; president of the Future Teachers of America, senior year; Stock Club, hostess, junior high chorus, senior high chorus, band and pep band. Miss Rudy will be attendin Millersville State College in th fall and will be majoring in ele mentary education. She was als among 20 outstanding hig school girls of Berks County re cently feted by the America Association of University Worn en, Reading branch, when the paid tribute to the highest scho lastic honor achievements high school girls at the Readin Motor Inn. KNEW WHAT TO DO COVINGTON, Tenn. (AP) Beth Mason knew just what do when Guy Gibson tumble into a water-filled near their home septic tan She just reached out her hanc and pulled Guy to safety.

Beth is 3. Guy is 2. "I don't know how Bet thought to said Mrs. grab Guy's hand, Gibson, the boy mother. "Thank God the weren't walking hand in hand they both would have drowned.

day was Consuelo McGowan, 40 Chappaqua. N.Y. Suffers Cut Mrs. McGowan suffered a cut on the left side of the face and a superficial cut and abrasions of the right shoulder. The injured woman was the driver of one of the two cars involved in the crash.

Warren R. Kreiser, 29, 419 E. Pine was listed as the other driver on the report of Patrolman Terry M. Gingrich. According to the police report the McGowan car mounted the pavement at the northeast corner of the intersection and knocked down a traffic light and standard.

Damage to the McGowan car was estimated at $500; to the Kreiser car at $140, and to the city-owned traffic light and standard at $220. Mrs. McGowan Is the daughter of Col. H. W.

Lins, 322 Chestnut this city. Also on file today at police headquarters was a report of a two-car crash at Church and OLD GLORY BERLIN. N.H. (AP) Donat Letarte, renovating his kitchen on the holiday Thursday, tore down an old wall and found a neatly rolled American flag with 45 stars. The stars indicated the flag was more than 60 years old.

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