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NEW CASTLE NEWS SEVENTY-NINTH No. 269 NEWS PI-MD 4 6651 NEW CASTLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1960 18 PAGES NEWS 4 6 51 SEVEN CENTS A COPY AGED WOMAN 1ST TRAFFIC FATALITY Re-Elect Wilson To Presidency Of Supervisors Russell Wilson, chairman of the Little Beaver Tup. Board of Supervisors, was reelected president of the Lawrence County Association of Township Officials yesterday at the 45th annual convention at the YMCA. Heintzelman New President Of Publishers Other officers include Hove, Pulaski Tup first vice! president; John Johnson, Plain Grove second vice presi-l dent: Chester Leslie, Little Heaver secretary, and Leslie and Eugene Kendall. Wilmington delegates to the state con-1 vention in Philadelphia Feb.

1-3. Alternate delegates are Lavv-l rcnce Rich, Mahoning Tu and Walter 1. Guy Taylor Tvvp.j All but Leslie are chairman of their boards. Hove and Leslie were reelected. In another move, the convention adopted a resolution thanking the county commissioners for a liquid fuel fund distribution last year.

William Ellis, state Highway Department, district township engineer, said the township added 19.62 miles of paved road during 1959. Ellis expressed hope the commissioners could make another allocation this year early in the year as possible." The convention voted to meet following the state meeting to receive the reports. Roger Stoy, director of ihe state Highway Department municipal services division, pointed out the state legislature had 01 changed the law concerning the requirement that 25 per cent of liquid fuel monies must be used for new construction. He said the state now requires the construction only if all roads have not been paved. HARRISBURG UPD The Pennsylvania Newspaper Assn.

has installed its new slate of officers headed by George 11. Heintzleman. co-publisher ol the Coatesville Record as president Heintzelman, who was elected Oct. 16 at the meet- Flecht Resigns Cabinet Post PARIS fUPD Secretary of State for Economrc Affairs Max Flecht followed Finance Minister Antoine Pinay out of the Gaullist cabinet Friday, increasing the threat of a complete withdrawal of conservatives from the government. 'I'lie resignation of Flecht followed Pinay departure from Premier Michel cabinet by a scant 48 hours.

Roth men are conservatives, members of the Independent Party. The resignations pose a growing threat of a major political crisis which could force President Charles de Gaulle to take extreme action. DEATH RECORD Saturday. 16. I960 Lovaglio.

SO. 737 L. Shoup, 63, 12 ing in Pittsburgh, replaced Richard E. co-publisher of the. New Casth News, in ceremonies at the annual Executive Committee dinner parley.

Herman E. Basehore, co-pub hsher if the Myerdale Republican, took over as vice president, succeeding A llickerson. presi- Suburban Newspapers, Inc. Richard Swank, Duncannon Record publisher. continues as seerelar treasurer his l()th year in office New members of the Executive Committee installed arc Robert 1 McCracken, general manager of the Norristown Times Herald and Lee Stoddard, publisher of the Elkland Continuing as Executive Committee members are M.

Driscoll. Connellsville Daily Courier: John E. Person Williamsport Sun-Gazette; Eduard Dav- danell. The Progress. Penn ill.

Charles M. Meredith. Bansin Daily News: William St burg. Ambler Gazette: Thomas Moran, Scranton Times; Donald Thomas. Canton Independent Sentinel: Joseph Sansone.

Lebanon Daily Thomas Donaghy. Newport News Sun: Henrv A Scattervvliite. Bradford Era: James F. O'Connor. Pittsburgh Post Gazette; William M.

Likens. Coraopolis Record; W.F. Kegel. Ellwood City Ledger; Tom T. Andrews Jr New Bethlehem Lead er-Vindicator.

Inside Today's News Mk 'W Anti-Semitic Vandalism Brings Arrests 1 nited Press Intern. ilitMKi! struck bark today at ant1 vandals by chan'ing sell styled American witl', treason and arresting five ming boys who ran up .1 Nazi flag on a backyard fhivpole Bui flag llv in incident in Pennsvlv ania was and suburban Chicago police aul! they had no idea who desecraiodi tomOstones in .1 Jewish renn lei Swalikas plagued in Dow agiat Mich Si Paul Minn Louis and New Britain. Conn Pol were re- Lovaglio Walks Into Path Of Tractor-Trailer An eldci voman New Castle and Law rence first traffic fatahK of 11)60 yesterday. No charges will be filed in nmiKM tion with the death, police fateil lodav. Preliminary Hearing Held For Casacchia DPI Facsimile THE SKA AMI waters rise to the window level of an abandoned bus after a dike burst in a suburb of Amsterdam.

Holland, Thursday. Xutborities announced that 10.000 persons had evacuated because of swirling waters from the North sea. Freezing Weather May Halt Virus School Officials Hopeful City school officials today looked to a weekend cold for relief from constantly soaring absentee figures among both teachers and students caused by an outbreak of virus here but And the three districts, Laure appears to be moving into the outlying districts also. In fact, all Shenango, and the Wilmington area, reported startling losses down a red, win in their enrollment figures yesterday. Swastika banner of Township Trash io Be Refused At City Dump The city's tuo hospitals are4 also beginning to feel the pressure caused by the sudden increased number ol people suffering from the flu.

Jameson Memorial and Neu Castle Hospitals reported that they are both filled near capacity and both have waiting lists. New Castle school district registered the highest absentee gains yesterday when 852 students and 36 teachers failed to appear in the Champion Steer Brings Record Price At Show Safety Director Howard L. Reynolds has ordered City Caretaker Jacob Lilas not to accept for dis- census posal at the city dump garbage. Started At 707 rubbish or refuse ef anv kind from When a dailv check on the townships. The directive came tod heels of complaints of re the immediate area of HARRISBURG 'I'PI Though classrooms.

This is a gain of 106 failing 1 achieve the record tudents and three teachers over tendance it had so eagerly sought the 44ih annual Pennsylvania Farm Show closed on one all time When a daih check on absen- high note the price paid for its ice said juveniles 01 sible bums probably sponsjfur But New York polite threw the book at three terrified New York' youths who formed Ihe Socialist Hcnnis'-ancc parfv to rid of all deport ini' them to Israel by force if necessary I ace Treason Charge A Nov York court charged John Wallace 21, the self appoint ed Hugh Barlow 20 and Richard Phelps, lb, with (reason, punishable death, after police raided home and found swastika arm bands. anti Semitic literature Adolf Hiller recordings and Nazi marcldn songs he boy told police they had planned lo up black, put on Nazi armbands anil go out lo Fresh Meadows and heal up some Jews Nanficoke Pa officials hauled and black Nazi Germany from a llagpole 111 Ceniral Park hero Hew a 1 (is mounted to SI 3ini for ihe arrest and conviction ol Ihe vandals who spread their hate into Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Pari Foresf Said someone itn aded file cemetery. probably Ihe largest peacetime burying ground, lipped ovei tombstones and chipped and painted black swastikas on at least 40 others I Casacchia entered a pie. 1 ol innocent aRain todav in the slaving of 17 ve.n old Caro 11 1 .1 Io 1 1 on i'l. Ihe plea was entered for Ca saeehia nrv Mvah I Shumaker who is handling the defense along with Howard s.

1 yon. Casacchia, 43, was brought to Mdcrman llowaid Hanna sol flee a polite eruisei He ap peared calm but toyed handkerchief vvhiW being I a ken. 'The I ti st it lie' called as Countv (oroner John Meehan, I mill (piest 1 11 1 1 1 I I let Mtorney Joseph Solomon Mee ban testified that a called to the scene at 10 20 in Dec He said examination ol the body with a te.liinonv was 1 1 There Lovaglio ii.ik st struck down shot aftei II a yesterday on L. Washington st neai Junior St. She died two hours later in New Castle Hospital According fo the diiv er of the li toi 1 1 ailer that struck her, Mr Lovaglio stepped from behind a parked eai in front of Hit I- Washington st into ihe path ol the i ig owned by Ka dem I 1 eight Line of I niontoun I he di iv ei Ldu ai .1 Polito, niontou aid he had Moppet! at be inf ei ect ion of .1 unior High St and ptilhiik east on Washington St aftei the light changed Polito.

27, said the rig moving slow ly iit'n iI st ruck Mi Lovaglio Polito notified police and a DeCarbo ambulance rushed her to the hospital before officers arrived at the scene Mrs Ian aglio died of a fractured -kull The ho pital reported bat she a Iso std lei ed multiple contusions o) the lace and of the left band body was taken to the l)e at bo Funei al I limit' Mrs Theresa Lovaglio was Ihe widow of the late Nick Lovadio who preceded her in death in 1948 and she came to the Slate1 10 year ago from Italy. She was born in Carbon, Am', 15. 1872. daughtci of the late Anthony and Biago She was a member of SI iteeism was started by the cit on the superintendent's office Wcdne- rdents in day the student absence ligure the city tood at 707. Pafie Page TV or 14Classified16 Society 5 Comics14 Cross Word 7 Sports 12 Editorial 4 Churches6 Kit wood TheatersIS Obituary 2 Mrs.

Theresa Oak St. Mrs. Clarence E. Wallace Ave. Mrs.

Eva Grace Phillips, 77. rear Mabel St. Mrs. Edwin Dietrich Hudson. 31.

Ellwood City. Fred Kimmich, 02. Beaver Falls Rl) 2. (Ellwood Page 1 Ellwood Hamilton, Pittsburgh. (Ellwood Page).

NEWS PHONES 4-6651 1 a ve ported dump that waste disposal trucks County health officer, emanating from outlying areas olas Mittica said had been dumping not only rubbish had reached neai of a dry nature but garbage itself proportions However, which is forbidden for New Cast le people. Such rolled materials are dispatched to the Garbage Treat- men Plant at 122 Sampson St. Reynolds informed Elias that all garbage contracting trucks outside the New Castle area, no matter the waste contents they carry, are to11957 He said this is mori be turned away from the Cityi virus which strikes in the dump. Air Force Would Mount IBM On Railway Cars Daily Weather Report WASHINGTON The Air Force plans to mount inter- Snow flurries, cloudy, windy and al ballistic missiles on eold today with local snow squalls 1 ad ay north portion. High 25 to 32.

Di minishing snow flurries and squalls tonight. Low in upper teens, Sunday snow flurries northeast hall with a high in the 20s. Weather statistics for 21- hour period ending at 7 a.m. today are: Maximum temperature. 55.

Minimum temperature, 21. Precipitation, .12 inches rain and snow. River stage, 9.3 feet. Statistics for the same period one year ago were: Maximum temperature, Minimum temperature, 22. Precipitation, inches snow.

River stage, 7.6 feet. cars in the North -and Northwest sections of the nation so it will be difficult for Russian rockets lo zero in on them. The service is studying rail systems in those parts of the country to determine which are suitable for tlu missiles and what new construction might be necessary. Ogden. Utah, is among sor several sites being considered as) I the center of the mobile missile net ork.

The elusivfr railroad missile units would be sort of nuclear-age big brothers of the World War I and II artillery pieces mounted on rail cars. No Time table Set It has been known for some time that the Air Force was from which considering mounting its solid fired. Minuteman ocean spanning missile on railroad cars, An announcement Friday night was the first indication of where the service planned to spot the mobile missiles. The Air Force said, mobile concept for the Minuteman envisions missiles mounted on railway cars which can be mocod at random and should be difftc 1 to locai by a potential aggre.s- Dr Nicb- 1 he out- epidemic he said, been no deaths recounts' attributed to the flu l)r Raymond Sen low, cily school doctor, said as far as he knew. is not Asian flu which ripped through the area in of a pira- jtory tract while Asian symptoms to be abdominal cramps and pain.

But Dr. Seniow said Ibis type of virus is harder to control than the Asian variety Because it tles in the breathing a sneezing and coughing causes; to spread more readily. Yveid Crowds For thal reason, the doctor ad the public to avoid crowd- all cost- lie also said plenty 1 of rest and fluids will help a lit ale the situation Terry Shaffner. Oak Hall City health officer, Bradley lion, Cenlie County, received McGoniglc said he plans to start for his grand champion pen (Continued On 2, Column three Southdown lambs. grand champion steer Glen Foreman, 18-year-old Man heim, Lancaster County, youth collected $3.073 for his grand (hampion a iliiO-pound Angus.

as the show closed The 0 a 1 (t Johnson restaurant chain, the purchaser, paid average oricc (J $3.75 a pound The firm also bought 1950 prize a.iirnal for the then record price of $3 71 a pound. The reserve grand champion steer was owned by Richard Rishel, 12. York. He later auctioned his steer off for $1 31 a pound Barry Goldwater to Seehrist Bros York and Dal Senate fo launch laslown. Weather Hurts Attendance It was combination sleet an i rain which down potential attendance and held 11 10 the 035.000 mark for the week.

At hast three of the live da' of the show had sort of inclemency. The '900 attendance, however, topped only by Iasi year a 1.1,000 and the record 085 000 in 1952. st a- LI. FT IN 1:15 P.M. Alderman Howard B.

Hanna held Nunzio Casacchia for the March Jury on a charge of murder, lie was remanded (0 the county iaif. revealed that Mis Retort been dead for any great period (Tun time. Surviving aie her children Meehan said be ordered an William in South America. Mai Ihoritics not to touch anything n.tlv and Ho in Italy A on, Filtered as evidence were 10 rancisco, preceded her in death of the scene and a live- 1952 She also leaves even shot 152 caliber revolvei identi- grandchildi en and nine lidi by Meehan as the murdei grandchildren weapon, Ihe body i at the DeCarbo The identitication ol the gun le imerai Homi Cunningham Meehan was objected to by Shu at l.ulton St when friends 111 maker who said Meehan was not be received anytime after 7 pm qualified to make the identifica today tion. Bui Solomon restated the ion and asked whet her or not that is the gun you saw on Ihe table liiere that evening." Meehan hesitated and said Meehan then described how (lie body was taken to Jameson Memorial Hospital loi rays and to the Cleveland Crime Laboratory for examination A written ballistics report ol i( ontiuued On 2, Column 0) Services will be held Mondav with a requiem mass in St V'Pus Church at 10 30 a after tilt ing rites at the funeral home at 10 a Rev Joseph officiate Interment will follow in St Vitus Cemetei ibbri will Ihe ma' Union And Management 1 Impasses 1 Probe Sought WASHINGTON UPI Sen plans to ask Ihe a blue-ribbon in vestigation of labor management like the recent eight of snow, month dispute chopped The Ar Republii an said ilie inquiry rover' thin new leg hould sfudv labor for about a year ke rccommendat ions station to protect ron and I re It said the time-table for setting up the mobile missile units had not been set.

The Minuteman. which will be assembled Ogden, i' scheduled to be turned I over to troops for combat use in 1963. The American Car and Foundry Co. recently was awarded a contract to build a railroad car the Minuteman could Web Of Evidence Against Dr. Mickey Tightening, Find Human Blood In Car By H.

I). QLIGG I nited Press International BATON ROUGE, La. The vicious attack that crushed the skull of attractive Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan could have left her unconscious and bleeding but alive for six hours before she died from loss of blood, an investigator said today. Dr.

George H. Mickey. 49. eminent scientist- and dean of the Louisiana State University Grad uate School, has been charged with murder in the bludgeon slaying last Saturday night of Dr. McMillan.

38. his protege in the field of biological research. His attorney, Robert L. peter, uas said that Mickey was at homp with his wife and son all evening after 8 m. Saturday But a source prominent in the murder investigation put a six- hour spread on the death-throe period, based on autopsy findings No Public Announcement attack could have been anywhere from 6 o'clock to midnight." he said There has been no public announcement of the deans whereabouts between 0 and 8 p.m.

although investigators have said they have found statement that he was at "certain places other than home with some person during the evening 1 1 be without foundation That statement was offered to cover "several hours during the evening' of last Saturday, the sheriff's and district attorney's ol fices said Friday. Find Blood Spots They said ex animation of Dr. George II automobile revealed spots of fresh human blood ol the same type as that of the The body of the woman biologist ar. assistant professor the LSU New Orleans branch who also was doing research uork on the space program under a gov-, ernment grant was found about i ,0 80 am Sunday on a private lane near the Mississippi 5 12 miles south of the LSU.j campus here. On the basis of his autopsy the; coroner placed the time of death as between midnight and 1 a.m.

Dist. Atty. J. St. Clair Favrot said that the body had been lying in "a terrific pool of blood almost like a lake." management and especiall public 'n long contract Goldwaler.

a member of he Sonale Labor Committee said hi believed the hearings would welcomed by Sen John r.edy chairman of fht subcommittee on I a hoi legislation Goldwater said lie would off'-r a resolution in the Senate next week lo set ufi (he new laboi investiga tion did not claim any tin port from Democratic oi Reptibli i an leaders. Ofher Developments In related laboi development The National Right To Work criticized the majox steel companies for agreeing to an clause" Ihe new contracts The clause requires workers to pay a fee" in lieu of union dues in slates which forbid contracts that force a work ei lo join a union lo hold hr job. i Leighly chairman of the Railway I.aboi executive- A smi reorcsenlinc 23 railroad ui ions said I here could be no 'Cl- tlenient in the rail dispute unie- the lines matched Ihe wages and benefits won by steel workers Bid he ted I lie di pule would be settled without a na tionwide strike HIGH LEVEL CHILL IIONOU LU I PI Cant Donald Smith, survived Ihe subzero lemperaturc 30,000 I eel over the ocean Friday' when the cockpit canopy of his Marine Fury jet plane was knocked off Ihs only comment of the experience was let hem tell ou it get cold in Hawaii. It was mighty cold up there. Arthur Mometer If you feel a siege ol sniffles coming on, il your nose and eyes a watering like the ram, if your legs and arms are weary and they ache, and the sniffles keen a-eom- in back again.

depend on Goldwater said Republican remedies ntv friend, see inembei of the Senate Rackets doctoi and prepare to go to lied, Committee have drafted a pori you lick a eold bv standing criticizing chief counsel Robe I on your feet and find that Kennedy for his role in the com you will he away ahead. What to rnillee investigation of tin nit take, ask me friend, but see ed Auto Workers Lnion He aid a doe, prescribe some the COP report stated that "Inc to drive germ away, hr whole irea of iolence in st 11 1 spreading it around among vour ing was overlooked in Ihe much friends, cool and down publicized inquiry. to thirty-six today. Highlighting Salvation Army Dinner Atty. Geni.

To Speak Here DEAN GEORGE MICKEY UPI Facsimile The Commonwealths Attorney General Anne AJpern will be thi featured speaker at Ihe third annual dinner meeting of Sal vation Army Advisory Board on Feb. 5 in the Ca.stleton Hotel. Announcement of Miss acceptance of speaking engagement in the city was made today by Dr. Mildred Rodgers, chairman of the advisory board. The 6:30 p.m.

program which open to the public will take place in the hotel ballroom with a capacity crowd expected to hear the address of the well-known woman attorney. Miss Alpern is a native of Western Pennsylvania, a i her home at 3441 Beeehvvood Blvd. Pittsburgh. She attended the Nich oh elementary School, Scenery Hill High School, Washington County, Pa anil holds the degrees of A.B and LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Having received both the Republican and Democratic nominations in the primaries, she was elected a judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny tv in Nov. 1953 and ascended to AT I V. GI VI. ALPERN the bench Jan. 1, 1954.

She served as solicitor for the City of Pittsburgh for 11 years from 1942 to 1954 a on 20. 1959 a named by Governor David L. Lawrence as Attorney General for Pennsylvania. Miss Alpern is past president and the only woman member of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officer an organization of the legal officers of 750 cities throughout the C. S.

and Canada. She was awarded the Distinguished Public Service certificate in 1953 and was Pennsylvania's i i uished daughter for 1952 as well as receiving ako in 1953 the Junior Chamber of Commerce award for distinction in the field of law and the Newspaper GuUd Award She is married to Irwin A. Swiss, a Pittsburgh attorney, the couple having one daughter, Marsha Ellen Swiss, student at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. Rev. Henry B.

Strock Jr. is to be toastmaster for the occasion while Mrs. James D. Crawford is in charge of arrangements. The speaker is to be introduced by the city's new assistant City Solicitor Mrs.

Marjorie Young Attorney Robert White II is the song leader the dinner meeting..

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