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2-LANCASTER, NEW ERA-SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 170 People in the Compiled from Associated Press services. 1 1 A -UL Efe. si arBDirag-WDelhiDGs) iruste the Mormon-run university in Provo, Utah. Student leaders said they have information from reliable sources that the President will be traveling West near the end of October.

They plan to present the petition today to Treasury Secretary DAVID KENNEDY who is visiting Utah. -v. v- 3, New Era Phete Lancasters delegation of 100 es and unbounded enthusiasm. At to todays victory march in Wash- left is Clay Rowland, a committee ington went well prepared with worker, who helped handle last mm-. flags, placards, cameras, red-white- ute details at Two Guys parking lot and-blue hats, folding chairs, lunch- before three busloads departed.

-J uLJt i Map locates Silver Plume, Colo, where plane carrying members of the Wichita State University football team crashed. Exonerated STAVROS NIARCHOS, millionaire Greek shipowner, was completely exonerated today of all charges in connection with the death of his wife, EUGENIA, last May 3. The Athens high court pros-eCutor, CONSTANTINE CHRISTO POULOS, said the case is considered closed. Donovan Marries British folk singer DONOVAN and 23-year-old LYNDA LAWRENCE, former girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist BRIAN JONES, have been married. The 24-year-old Donovan and Miss Lawrence were wed Friday at the registers office, in Windsor, England, shortly after detectives questioned Donovan in connection with the murder of Nicola Brazier last month.

Police stressed that Donovan was one of scores of persons questioned. Donovan said he knew nothing of the case. The girls body was found in woods some five miles from Donovans cottage near Hertford. Jones drowned in his swimming pooUast year. Liz's Son to Wed Actress ELIZABETH TAYLORS 18-year-old son, MICHAEL WILDING, is to marry an Oregon girl in London, the Daily Mail reported today.

He will wed BETH CLUTTER, 19, of Portland, the paper said. Wilding is the elder son of Miss Taylors marriage to British actor MICHAEL WILDING. The Mail said the couple would live in London. 4i Nixon Invited President NIXON has been invited to visit Brigham 'Young University later this month. Some 12,000 students, about half of the schools enrollment, have signed a petition asking the President to visit ON OTHER PLANE 23 Players Fly Home In Sorrow (Continued from Pag Om) interrupted today when the bus carrying them from Logan to Salt Lake City broke down and a substitute bus was pressed into service.

When the bus arrived at Salt Lake International Airport, the players walked with heads bowed directly from the bus to the plane. Sophomore John Yeros, 19, Aurora, rushed out of the group to throw his arms around his aunt, Agnes Kan-deris of Salt Lake City. Thank God Im on this plane, he said. The other planes occupants made a brief stop at Denvers Stapleton International Airport before continuing on to Wichita on a commercial route that took them near the crash scene. Theyre taking it as well as you caq take any tragedy, said Fred Conti, an assistant coach.

Weve got nothing to say, said one of the players as they were shuttled quickly onto the other aircraft. Four Pa. Players On Wichita Team WHITNEY M. YOUNG above, executive director of the National Urban League, was named Friday to a five-year term on the board of trustees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Young, head of the Urban league since 1961, is the second black to be elected to the board.

The first was Dr. JEROME H. HOLLAND, now U.S. ambassador to Sweden, elected last year. Eisenhower Paper.

The late President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER considered himself a Jeffersonian Republican. The disclosure came Friday in New York when historian ALLAN NEVINS turned over 5,000 private papers and historical documents to Columbia University, which Eisenhower headed before entering politics. The quotation was from a 1964 letter from Eisenhower to Nevins, included in the gift. i Craft Hits 1 Colo.

Peak; 11 Survive (Continued from Pago Ont) ficer, Doug Lewis, said the university leased the plane from Golden Eagle Aviation, which apparently leased the craft from someone else, but he didnt know who. He said Golden Eagle told us the plane didnt belong to them. Golden Eagle provided the crew. The Federal Aviation Administration in Oklahoma City said the planes ownership was changed Oct. 1 to Jack Richards Aircraft of Oklahoma City, from the Fair-child Hiller Corp.

1 The plane was a short-range airliner of a type built in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The plane impounded at Logan is a Martin 202, smaller version of the 404. One week ago, one of two planes chartered by Wichita State ran off the runway and was damaged. The second charter plane shuttled the team to Canyon, for its -game with West Texas State University. University spokesmen said it was unknown whether the same planes were used for the trips to Texas and BELOW SUMMIT The ill-fated plane, with one -engine smoking, crashed into the east side of Loveland Pass about 800 feet below the summit, just below timberline.

The plane tried to land in fthe highway in front of us, 'said Mrs. George Grunwald of "Huntington Beach, who "was driving down the mountainside on winding U.S. 6 with her husband. By the grace of God he zoomed up so didnt hit us. He took a 45- degree turn and went over a little ledge on the side of the mountain.

There was a big ball of fire immense black smoke a the plane vanished into, the -Vtall spruce trees with a series of loud explosions, she said. r. "Strewn about the crash area were orange jerseys, gold helmets with a black op the side, shoulder pads and other team equipment. Authorities posted guards around the area to await an Investigation by an eight-man 'Hearn from the National Trans- portation Safety Board. A search for bodies was to resume today.

A few were recovered Friday. The survivors were taken to hospitals in Denver, 55 miles east of the crash scene, in ambulances and an Army helicopter from Ft. Carson. Two survivors trainer Tom Reeves, 31, and John Taylor, a member of the team from Sherman, Tex. were listed in critical condition with burns.

Reeves condition worsened during the night, a spokesman at Lutheran Hospital said. At St. Anthonys Hospital, an official said Taylor was holding his own remarkable. Another survivor was Ronald Skipper, 34, of Oklahoma City, president of Golden Eagle who was aboard as copilot. The other crew members, pilot Dan Crocker and stewardesses Judy Land and Judy Dunn, were presumed -killed.

Mom, Im alive, Glenn Kostal told his mother by telephone. Its a miracle, said the 29-year-old linebacker from Chicago. My buddies are all dead. Mike Bruce, 21, from Sherman, described the crash in a faltering voice from his Denver hospital bed. Everyone was looking at the mountains.

We kept get-, ting closer and closer, he said. We were enjoying ourselves laughing. The plane took a dip or something. Next thing, the plane ended up in the trees. In Kansas, Gov.

Robert Docking ordered the states flags lowered to half staff. He termed the crash a great tragedy for Kansas. Dr. Clark Ahlberg, president of the university, said it was a sad, tragic day in the history of Wichita State University. Finding of Body Described at Sfolfzfus Trial IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

lOOCountians Take Part in Victory Rally By JACK MOORE New Er Staff Writer will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at Othello, Act 1, Scene 1 A hundred or so Lancastrians were up bright and early today and gathered at the Two Guys parking lot, ready and eager to travel by bus to Washington, D.C. to take part in todays U.S. March for Victory in Vietnam. The local contingent left shortly after 8 a.m. in three chartered buses, expecting to become a small part of upwards of 250,000 other Americans of like bent, who follow the Rev.

Carl Mclntire, 1 Hcnown fundamentalist preacher and president of the International Council of Christian Churches, the organization which is the chief sponsor of the march-rally. WASHINGTON MONUMENT The marchers were expected to step off at noon from toe east end of the Mall, proceed along Pennsylvania Avenue and then to the Washing-. ton Monument where a rally is to be held. 1 Walter Newcomer, local chairman, said just before be boarded a bus, that there were about 100 in the local dele-g a i Wed expected more, he conceded. At first, four buses had been chartered.

Then theyd canceled the charter late Friday, a bus driver said. They called up again, however, and re-chartered three. One bus cost $144, two cost $188 each. The marchers paid $6 each for the round trip. Theyll leave Washington at 5 p.m., missing the memorial service which is scheduled to be held on the Capitol steps this evening, to honor Americans killed in the Southeast Asia war.

The local marchers came well prepared to make a day of it in ttie nations capital and to be identified as part of the Mclntire rally. Many wore red, white and blue hats, carried American flags and had victory pins prominently displayed on their coats, jackets and dresses. All were well-dressed, most of them middle aged or elderly. There was a sprinkling of young people. The gathering had a carnival atmosphere.

Many carried cameras. Man seemed to know one another. This is better than last year, one ventured, a reference to a similar march held then. Land Safely LOGAN, Utah (AP) Four Pennsylvania players on the Wichita State University football squad were aboard a plane which landed here safely Friday. y-nine persons, including 13 players are missing in the crash of jmother plane WSU chartered.

There are 11 known survivors from the crashed plane. The crash occurred in a rugged section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. No Pennsylvanians were on the plane that crashed. The four Pennsylvania players who arrived safely were. John Straka, 19, of Cannons-burg; Ed Plopa, 19, of Cecil; Warren Barkell, 19, of Scottsdale and Bob Krestel, 19, of Ellwood City.

AP Wirapboto K. Marchers gather near the Capitol in Washington today for a demonstration calling for a military victory in Vietnam. PRE-PARADE CROWD AT 3,000 Victory March Held Today in Washington (Continued from Pag On) TODAY, SUNDAY Craft Displays Featured At Harvest Days (Continued from Pag On) were transformed with the aid of time and fermentation into sauerkraut, and how apples and cider were cooked into the dark and spicy spread known as apple butter. OTHER EXHIBITS Other experts in their lines will be churning fresh butter, making ice cream in a hand-turned freezer, making soap from saved animal fats laced with wood-ash lye, cooking chicken corn soup, and baking the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch apple dumplings in a wood-fired oven. Elsewhere on the spacious grounds of the Farm Museum, craftsmen and craftswomen will be fabricating straw mattress, baskets, cigars, brooms, com husk mats and wooden shingles.

A gunsmith will be casting bullets from old lead. 'TURKEY SHOOT' Use of old style guns' will be demonstrated in a typical turkey shoot. The regular Farm Museum admission fee of 75 cents for adults (no charge for children under 12) will gain entrance to the grounds. Harvest Days is sponsored by the Landis Valley Associates for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in cooperation with the commissions staff. 'ALL MY BUDDIES ARE DEAF Plane Crash Survivor Calls It 'A Miracle1 Testimony regarding discovery and identification of the body in the murder trial of Leroy S.

Stoltzfus, 24, I of Leola, was presented Friday in Berks County court, Reading i State Trooper Robert A. Kaunert testified that he removed boulders that covered the remains of 18-year-old Marilyn H. Sheckler, of Mur-raysville, Oct 24 at Dreamland Park, Reading. DISPLAYS ROCKS He displayed two 10-pound rocks, one of which, he said, was imbedded in the girls skull. Kaunert said the corpse was attired in a yellow dress and had a ring on a finger of the right hand.

He said a pin was on the dress. He said the corpse had 'no shoes and none were found in the area. Grant T. Sheckler, of Ma-cungie Rl, the dead girls brother, identified the pin, ring and dress as belonging to his sister. He also said a pair of shoes found in an abandoned car in Leesport belonged to her.

IDENTIFIES CAR Charles W. Eckert, of Rob-esonia, testified that the abandoned car found in Leesport was the one driven by his son, Glenn. He also identified a laundry bag, clothing and shoes in the car as his sons. The body of Glenn Eckert, 20, was found Oct. 23 near the spot where the girl's remains were uncovered.

Robert J. Martinolich, 23, of Selden, I was convicted last June of first degree murder in Eckerts death. The trial resumed this mormng. Bundy, told of an anoymous overseas telephone call which said in substance that Mrs. Kys plane was ordered to return by the French government and that there was no engine trouble.

Bundy told newsmen this was not a charge or an accusation, just a passing on of information received in a telephone call. At a memorial service on the Capitol steps for Vietnam war dead Friday night, the worshipers stressed the religious basis of the march and rally more than the military aspects. There were hymns, scripture readings and numerous prayers for divine guidance for themselves, President Nixon, American fighting men and even for newsmen to accurately report the march. There were prayers of thanks, for U.S. soldiers and policemen.

and a poster showing President Nixons head on the body of a yellow chicken. Rep. John Rarick, was the only politician noticed on the monument grounds! The speaking schedule was dominated by fundamentalist ministers. In his speech Rarick said, The answer to the Vietnam war is ingenuity and courage. All we need is for our leaders to show some iatestinal fortitude, guts.

Police prepared for a much smaller crowd when it was learned that Mrs. Ky apparently would not attend the march and rally. REPORTS CONFLICT The on-again, off-again plans of the attractive Mrs. Ky.kept- rally sponsors and airline officials hopping Friday amidst conflicting reports of her plans to fly here to read a speech written by her husband, who originally was to attend. Mrs.

Ky was not aboard an Air France flight from Paris that landed in New York this morning, more than five hours late. She had boarded the plane earlier but got off when it returned to Paris with engine trouble. Pleading fatigue, she did not reboard and was reported at the Ky residence' in In a pre-rally news conference Mclntire confirmed that neither of the Kys would attend. However, a copy of Kys speech had been cabled here and it would be read by someone else, Mclntire said. REPRESENTATIVES Further, Mclntire said two representatives he did not name them of the South Vietnamese embassy would be on the rally platform.

A Mclntire aide, Edgar C. DENVER (AP) Mom, Im alive. Its a miracle. My buddies are all dead, said 1 Glenn Kostal, a linebacker for Wichita States football team. Kostal was among 11 players li'-'and others who survived the crash Friday of a twin-engine plane carrying part of the team, university officials and supporters to Logan, Utah, for -f a game today.

y-nine persons, in-y eluding 13 players, died high on the snow-flecked side of .1. Loveland Pass 55 I' miles west of here. HAPPENED SO FAST I dont know why we are alive right now, the 20-year-1 Chicago resident said. It all happened so fast I didnt I really think about it until we i got out. Kostal was among the few survivors capable of telephoning his parents.

Kostal and six others were admitted to Lutheran Hospital here. They included Ronald Skipper of Oklahoma City, the president of Golden Eagle Aviation, who was aboard as copilot. Sixteen persons, most of them relatives of survivors, were flown to Denver Friday night aboard a Kansas Air Na-tional Guard plane. Also aboard was Dr. Clark Ahlberg, the university Auto Crashes After Chase ARRESTS Howard Joseph Rupert, JO, of 200 N.

Queen disorderly conduct before Justice of the Peace Schweich. Thomas Scott Postlewait, 21, of 32 Conestoga AWOL, released to Philadelphia Shore Patrol. John Henry Shockley 34, of 457 E. Strawberry larceny by shop-lifting, plea of guilty, $25 fine and $11 costs before Justice of the Peace Shenk. Edward Hayes Cibula, 24, of 417 College public indecency, posted $500 ball before Justice of the Peace Hull.

Shirley Jean Sando, 23, of 25 Conestoga concealing the death of an illegitimate child, before Schweich. Nicholas Inocent Aniskevlch, 25, of 344 S. Ann corrupting the morals of minors, furnishing brewed beverages to minors, posted $1,000 bail before Justice of the Peace Harrison; Lawrence Felder, 32, 432 North driving while Intoxicated, no operator's license, posted $1,000 bail before Justice of the Peace Schweich; Henry Harry Stoy, 41, of 210 S. Prince disorderly conduct, before Schweich; Edward M. Dillon, 42, of Philadelphia, disorderly conduct, before Schweich; Paul Muckel, 45, of 751 High disorderly conduct, before Schweich; Richard P.

Domes, 24, of 759 New Holland disorderly conduct, before Schweich. MOTOR VIOLATIONS Robert J. Gills, 29, of Magnolia, N.J.. red light violation, paid $5 fine, $5 costs before Schweich. Robert C.

Marx, 31, of 1442 Fiddlewood Drive, reckless driving, before Shenk. Scott Dupree, 25, of 441 S. Christian driving too fast for conditions, before Harrison. Joseph Brown, 31, of Narvon R2, red light violation, before Shenk. Mrs.

Lewis Morris, 43, of 59 Jackson Drive, red light violation, before Hull. Daniel W. Swelgart, lVi, of 20 N. Bausman Drive, red light violation, before Hull. Clarence W.

Carbaugh, 19, of Lancaster R2, reckless driving, illegal eft turn, before Hull. Willie E. Shell, 18, of 331 Susquehanna St reckless driving, before Justice of the Peace Harrison. Chares W. Dlaco, 24, of 1037 E.

King failure to yield right of wav from a stop sign, before Justice of the Peace Alexan-der. Charged with speeding before Shenk were: David Allen Grove, 14, of 432 N. Charlotte Jonathan W. Armstrong, 17, of 124 Atkins Victor E. Nlgro 14, of Paradise; Louise Mason Hutchinson, 33, of 517 N.

School Lane; Daniel Merle Mlley Jr 22, of 1419 Edgewald Lane; Hilda Douple, 41, of 940 E. Orange Lee Sylvester Kinsey, 20, of Quarrvvllle R3; Anthony Paul Hecker 27, of 331 W. Walnut Ronald Robert Snydeo 31, of 332 New Holland Ave. C. Robert Centner, 21, of 402 E.

Ross St. Perfecto Padilla, 24, of 9 Locust St reckless driving, before Harrison; Harold L. Krodel, 19, of Middletown, reckless driving, before Justice of the Peace Hull; Willie J. Pompey, 22, of 420 E. Strawberry St reckless driving, before Schweich; Robert G.

Main, 30, of 254 Hazel St stop sign viola' tion, before Justice of the Peace Shenk; Timothy Paul Draude, 18, of 415 Poplar St reckless driving, before Hull; Clarence D. Yost, 52, of Quarryville Rl, failure to stop and Identify, reckless driving, before Schweich; Robert L. Roschel, 1712 Colonial Manor speeding, before Shenk; Gordon Bamhoff, of Camp Hill, speeding, before Shenk; Dawn L. Kerns, of 340 E. Chestnut St speeding, before Ronald Roy Rambo, of 715 E.

End speeding, before Shenk; Richard L. Shultz, 54, of 940 W. Vine St red light violation, before Hull; Anthony J. Cucuzetla, 43, of 1007 Columbia red light violation, before Schweich; James E. Lowe, of Bedford R2, changing lanes without due caution, before Schweich.

Mike Bruce, a 21-year-old tackle from Sherman, was among the four survivors taken to St. Anthonys Hospital here. I was lucky, he said from his bed. I was lucky, very lucky. His condition was listed as good, although both feet and a leg were burned.

We took off from Denver and the stewardess brought us lunch, Mike said. Everyone was looking at the mountains. We kept getting closer and closer. We we re enjoying ourselves laughing. The plane took a dip or something.

Next thing, the plane ended up in the trees. John Hoheisel and I were lying on our sides in the plane. We all scrambled out four or five of us and I was the least injured. They were burned pretty bad, the brown-haired lineman said. BANKS TO LEFT Kostal said the plane, which had refueled in Denver, banked to the left as it approached the pass and the Continental Divide.

He said he and others were under a pile of rubble. We just dug our way out. I think I was trying to climb up and out, he said. He struck his head when the plane crashed, Kostal said, and he did not remember the impact. I Clinton, Vem i a father of Randy Kiesau, said: Weve had no official word at all.

I called the hospital in Denver and his name is not among the survivors. I talked to the funeral director and he had been to the scene of the crash and theres still a number of bodies in the plane. Were afraid hes perished there in the plane. Were grieved something terrible City Man Charged After Auto Accident A city man was prosecuted for driving without a license (second offense) and driving while intoxicated following an auto ae cident in the city Friday afternoon. Officer Frederick C.

Waga-man Jr. charged Lawrence Felder, 32, of 432 North before Justice of the Peace Peter Schweich. Felder posted $500 bail on each of the charges for a future hearing. Police brought charges after Felders car was involved in an accident near 35 N. Prince St.

sat 1:09 p.m. Friday. Details of the accident were not immediately available. CARRY CHAIRS Though most proclaimed they were going to be marchers, many carried folding chairs presumably for use at the rally. Almost all carried lunches.

An army travels on its stomach, Napoleon once observed. Why were they going? Most said they felt it was their duty. One woman from Bainbridge, among the early arrivals, said that she was going because its in the Bible. She also expressed the thought that she believes the United States is on the wane, again quoting the Bible. Another man emphatically declared that he was going because we should win a military victory over there if we dont, the Communists will take over the world.

Then you favor a successful prosecution of the war? Yessir we should use everything we have, short of The Bomb. Was he a war veteran himself? What branch of the service had he been in? Oh, I wasnt, he protested, I was a CO a conscientious objector during the war. But this wars different. We should win it. Just before departure the group posed in front of the A car pursued for four miles by a state police cruiser crashed into a utility pole off Route 30 near Gap early this morning, injuring its driver.

Clifford Martin, 20, of 221 Howard Ave. was admitted to General Hospital shortly after the 3:30 a.m. crash. He is listed in fair condition with chest injuries. CHASED AUTO State Trooper William Can-field said he unsuccessfully attempted to stop the Martin car after a traffic violation and then chased it on Route 30 eastward from Paradise to a point about one half mile west of Gap.

The chase, which Trooper Canfield said did not take place at high speeds, ended when Martin apparently lost control and rammed into a pole on the right side of the road. Police plan to charge the driver with several traffic violations. Damage in the- accident was estimated at $1,400. Manheim Twp. Class Of 1945 Slates Reunion Tbe Manheim Twp.

High School Class of 1945 will hold its 25th reunion on Saturday, Oct. 10. 1 1 The class plans to attend the football game between Manheim Twp. and Columbia at 2 p.m. at Neffsville.

An informal dinner will be held at the Lancaster County Riding Club, 2615 Columbia at 7 p.m. The committee in charge of the reunion includes Mrs. Russell Dewitt, Mrs. Paul Glick, Mrs. Richard Kilts, Mrs.

Fred Wagner, A1 Duffey and John Luttenberger. Pal City Is Closing Its Dept, of Streets WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -This Washington County city is closing its 24-employe Department of Streets, citing high operating costs. The plan is to hire a private contractor do the job. Bids will be advertised.

City officials said the street departmtnt budget 'tuns about a year. buses for a group picture. It was a sizable group; the pho-' tographer had to back away repeatedly to get everyone in the picture. And then he had to run back to the group to get into the picture himself; 'he was using a timer. He didnt run fast enough the first time to get into the picture; he made it the second time.

Toast Burns Burned toast in a toaster resulted in a call to city fire department at 9:38 a.m. today. Firemen from companies 1, 2, and truck responded to the third floor apartment of Dorothy Roark, 204 W. King St. 4.

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