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FAIR and huttlid fought, low I Hill morrow, less warm and' humid, high 80. No rain expected. River Sunday 86-52 8.60' Monday 88-59 8.40' TH XPRESS Serving LockHaven, Clinton County and Neighboring Communities THE EXPRESS coven tht of Clinton County and adjacent areas, and-provide! tin most effective advertising medium to reach that entire section. Est. March 1, 1882 Vol.

89, No. 150 LOCK HAVEN, 'MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1969 16 Pages ten Cents 15 Iraqi Spies Die at Dawn, Linked to CIA Nine Hanged, Six Killed by Firing Squad DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Fifteen Iraqis were executed in Baghdad at dawn today as spies for the United States and Israel, Baghdad Radio reported. Two of them were Jews. Nine of the mem, including the two Jews, were civilians and were hanged in Baghdad's central prison. The a police commissioner and five soldiers executed by firing squad, tihe radio said.

All were tried, convicted and sentenced by Iraq's revolution- airy court in secret sessions during the past week. the executions brought to 51 the total of alleged spies executed in Iraq this year, including 11 Jews. The Radio did not give any details about the trial beyond saying. tihe victims were proven to have conducted espionage activities for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and for Israel.

There was no immediate word whether bodies were put on public display after executions. This done in the -first mass execution in Baghdad. last January, touching oflf widespread protests in the West and in Israel because nine Jews were among tihe giroup. But with no Jews among subsequent groups executed, there was lit- IJe stir abroad. The Jews executed today were identified as Isaak Eliahou Dallal and Haskell Rophael Yacoub The names of three otlhers executed Indicated ifiey might have been Christians: Pvt.

Audeh Hamrnoush, Mouatifak Elias Roman and Sabri Elias Marrou- ki. Iraqi newspapers safid tihe executions' proved that the leftist government is "unslhafcalbly bent on cleansing the country of traitors." Alter the executions, Baghdad Radio broadcast, an appeal to a See CIA (Continued on Page 4) Nixon to Dedicate Bird Trees Lady ORICK, Calif. (AP) Redwood Nationail Park officiails worked to spruce up tie canyon of trees where President Nixon will dedicate the "Lady Bird Johnson Grove" of giant redwoods on Wednesday. It will be a special birthday present for former PtresSdenit Lyndon B. Johnson, who created Hie preserve on Oct.

2, 1068, when he signed the Redlwood National Park bill into law. He will be 61 Wednesday. Mrs. Johnson dedicated the park Nov. 25, 1968, to climax her final conservation loir of 'FLYING GRANDMOTHER' Bunker, the flying grandmother who died at Palm Springs, earned her pilot's wings at age 65 and at 73 piloted (above) an Air Force jet faster than the speed of sound.

She was 81. (AP Wirephoto) Gas Company Plans to Plug Leak Today TAMARACK The Consolidated Gas Supply Corp. expects to halt today one of two gas leaks located in two storage wells, but a company spokesman said the search is continuing for other possible breaks. The initial leaks discovered Thursday, Aug. 14, will be stopped by inserting a plug in tihe casing near the bottom of the storage well, then pumping in mud under lorce to set the plug.

Robert. R. superintendent Tor Consolidated, said that the necessary rigging is in place and that he expected one operation to be completed today. "However," he said "we America -as Lady. the nation's First don't know how long it will take to stop the second leak.

This is a process of slow going." Mr. Coder also conceded that there is an element of danger in the plugging operation, but added: "We're doing everything to do this saifely, and we're hopeful nothing will happen." Regarding possible further in the storage wells in this Leidy Township area, Mr. Coder said, "WeYe still looking for more leaks. We know that we have these two, but we're testing otlier wells to find out for sure whether we have other leaks." J. R.

fo Retire rom Posf wif Vietnam Foe Reported Using Armored Units Vehicles, Heavy Guns Flown to Special Forces SAIGON CAP) U.S. Air Force transport planes have flown 18 armored personnel carriers and six 'antitank gums to foe Bu Dop Special Forces camp 80 miles nodlh of Saigon following intelligence reports that enemy armored columns were heard moving along the Cambodian border. Sources who reported Ms said they did not know whether anyone had actually seen enemy tanks or 'armored personnel carriers in the border area. North Vietnamese troops have used light amphibious tariiks to spearhead infantry assaults on isolated American Special Forces camps along the Cambodian and Laotian borders, but these have been much farther north of Saigon. Wiith the enemy's fell campaign going into its third week today, the enemy attacks dropped off 44 per cent last week from the opening week of like campaign, but' 'they were still 68 cent higher the year's low, U.S.

Command sources said. But American sources said tihey anticipate another round of intensified attacks about Sept. 1. J. ROY GOODLANDER, who has had a 32-year career in the paper industry, as director of community and public relations, and industrial relations, for the New York and Pennsylvania Co.

and the Hammcrmill Paper Company, has announced his impending retirement Sept. 1. Democratic Pre-Election Picnic Draws Crowd of 700 The most successful ipre-elec- tion picnic ever that was the verdict of top-ranking Clinton County Democrats after yesterday's annual outing at the Sons of Italy cottage of the BucMail State Highway north of town. Tlie attendance exceeded 700, tihe weather was and the speeches wer brief, informal and personal. Va Flood Toll 74 Dead, 109 Lost RICHMOND, Va.

(AP) A lake of left by killer floods that knifed through Virginia was being washed into the sewers of south Richmond today. In devastated portions of Western Virginia flooded by torrential rains brought on by Hurricane Camille, fe toll rose Sunday to at least 74 dead, 109 missing and more than $132 million in property damage. National Guardsmen cordoned off a 29-block area in Richmond Sunday after a leak was discovered in a partially submered 300.000-galilon gasoline storage tank. The ifuel collected an inch deep on top of muddy river water, trapped in a basin-like depression when the river began 0 fall. Firemen pumping the gasoline into sewers leading to the Jaimes.

began carefully Infantrymen's Breaking Point on Viet Ridge, War Too Hot SONG CHANG VALLEY, Vietnam (AP) "I am sorry, sir, but my men refused to we cannot move out," Lt. Eugene Shurtz Jr. reported to his battalion commander over a crackling field telephone. Company of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's battle- worn 3rd Battalion had been or. dered at dawn Sunday to move nce more down the jungled rocky slope of Nui Lou Mountain into a deadty labyrinth of North Vietnamese bunkers and trench lines, For five days they had obeyed orders to make this push.

Each time they had been thrown back by the invisible enemy who waited through the fain of bombs and artillery shells for the Americans 0 come close, then picked them off with dead. ly crossfire. Tlie battalion commander, Lt. Col. Robert C.

Bacon, had been waiting impatiently for A Com. pany to move out, Bacon had taken over the battalion after Lt. Col. BU Howard was killed, in a helicopter crash with Asso. elated 1 Press photographer Oliv.

er Noonan and six other men. Ever since the crash Tuesday, the battalion had been trying to gel to the wreckage. Sunday morning, Bacon was personally leading three of his companies in the assault. He paled as Shurtz maUer-of-factly told him that the soldiers of A Company would not follow his orders. "Repeal that please," the colonel asked without raising his voice.

"Have you told them what it means to disobey orders under fire?" "I think they understand," the lieutenant replied, "but some of them simply had are broken. There are boys here who have only 90 (toys left in Vietnam. They want to go home in one piece. The situation is psychic here." "Are you talking about enlisted men or are the NCO's also involved 1 the colonel asked. "That's the difficulty here," Shurtz said.

"We've got a leadership problem; Most of our squad and platoon leaders have been killed or wounded." A Company at one point in tne fight was down to 60 its assigned combat strength. Quietty the colonel Shurtz: "Go talk to them again and tell them that to the best of our knowledge the bunkers are now enemy has withdrawn. The mission of A Company today is to recover their dead. They have no reason to be afraid. Please take a hand count of how many really do not want, to go." The lieutenant came back a few minutes later: "They won't go, colonel, and I did not ask for the hand count because I am afraid that they all stick together even though some might prefer to go." Then Bacon told his executive officer, Maj.

Richard Waite, and one of his seasoned Vietnam veterans, Sgt. Okey Blakenship of Panther, W.Va., to fly from the battalion base "LZ Center" across the valley to talk wirh the reluctant troops of A Company. They found the men bearded and exhausted in the tall black, cned elephant grass, their uniforms ripped and caked with dirt. See VIETNAM on Page 4) Food supplies, fresh water and clothing still were" being carried to demolished mountain communities in Western Virginia where residents worked to dig out from under tons of mud and tangled debris. As rescue workers continued to claw tlirough mountain ravines and canyons in.

their search for the dead, lhe Coast Guard announced it would take up the search 200 miles downstream. The Coast Guard pi armed to search the river as far west as Richmond lor bodies 'that have washed downstream from the mountains. In Richmond the river returned virtually to normal Sunday alter a record flood crest was recorded Friday. Advance warning and hastily constructed sandbag dikes helped residents keep damage to a minamum in the city, but mertihants along the waterfront reported losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The state has been declared a disaster area by President Nixon.

County Chairman Esther Kep- for presided at candidates. the talk-test introducing By installing a work bench in the summer White House Presi dent Nixon has made it possl ble to write off his vacation trip as a business expense. A fellow works eight years to get to Washington, then labors for a solid month to stay away from it. Californians can't decide whether lhe presidential sojourn recognizes the state's holiday potential or points up its status i as a national trouble spot. Most Americans think of Dick as their chief executive, but San considers him its major, tourist attraction.

those will be on the city and county ballot at the November election, as well as many of those 1 who are running for borough, school, and township office. Brief comments were made by Julia Fowler, candidate for jury commissioner; Douglas Peddle, district magistrate for the Lock Haven area; Ivain Bil bay, Harry Bay Jr. city treasurer; R. Bruce Me Gonriick, city controller; Johi F. Lipez, city council; Richart Ardner, school director; Arthur Jones, Renovo, district magis irate for the western end the county, and Mrs.

Alvera Tarantella, Renovo, tax tor. In her talk to the crowd, Mrs Kephart emphasized the currenil campaign to increase registration. The campaign is headed in the eastern part of the county by Mr. Kephart's husband, County Commissioner Carl W. Keplhart.

and in the western area by Patrick J. O'Toole and Gary Summerson. The afternoon was spent in games and amusements, organized by Mrs. Phyllis Hanobic, president of the Ladybird Women's Democratic Club of Renovo. Music was furnished by Palmer A.

Stover and the Trailblazers. The bountiful picnic dinner. in eluded roast beef, baked ham and all the accompaniments. Gun Control Plans Studied Commission Would Take Handguns WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration is reviewing tlie sharp differences between its own position on, gun control and the proposals of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The administration declared its opposition to furtilier gun control legislation last month only four days before the commission, headed by Dr.

Milton S. Eisenhower, recommended confiscation of most of the nation's 25 million handguns and gradual state registration and licensing of shotguns and rifles. "We've distributed the report to various people in our department for review," said Donald E. Santarelli, associate deputy attorney general. Since Sanlarelli and a Treasury Department spokesman presented the adrrdnis.tration position before a Senate subcommittee July 28, the Treasury Department has also supported moves to exempt rtmfire, shotgun and rifle am- J.

Roy -Goodlander, manager of industrial relation- for the local division of the Hammer- mill Paper Company, has announced plans for retirement Sept. 1. He has had more than 32 years of service for Ham- mermill and its predecessor the New York and Pennsylvania i in the paper mills. Mr. Goodlander said tjday that he has no specific plans i for the future, except to take a vacation before resuming his busmen career, probably in his special field of industrial relations.

Most of Mr. GoodJander's three decades "in the paper business has been as director of industrial relations in Lock Haven and at the New York City offices of the New York Pennsylvania before the local mills.became part of the Hammermill Company. Mr. Goodlander was responsible for community and public relations for the New York. Pennsylvania Co.

and also served as assistant corporate secretary. Mr. Goodlander has been ac- ive in paper industry and local community affairs. He served for many years as a member of both the national industrial relations and community relations committees of the American Paper Pulp Association, and he was secretary and finally president of the A.P.P.A. community relations board of the Middle Atlantia Area.

He has been a member of the industrial Delations committee of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce. Locally, Mr. Goodlander has been president of the Clinton County Supervisors Club and a Debra Kae Fravel, 16, Dies in One-Car Crash munition from Control Act. the 1968 Gun See RETIRES (Continued on Page 4) Sgt. Baker, 21, of Antes Fort Killed in Viet Guy Baker's Son Listed as Victim of Allied Gunfire JERSEY SHORE Sgt.

David R. Baker, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy R. Baker, Antes Fort, and husband of the former Miss Linda Shipman, Jersey Shore R.D.

2, was killed Thursday, Aug. 21, by allied gunfire in Quang Nan Province, "South Vietnam. He was the fourth Jersey Shore area service man, and 23rd from Lycpming County, to die as the result of wounds suffered in the Vietnam conflict. A member of M. Company, Third Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, he was on night patrol when death was caused by multiple wounds of the head and body resulting from allied artillery.

Sgt. Baker, who was on his second tour of duty, was born in Jersey Shore. Oct. 29. 1947.

He was graduated from the Jersey Shore Area High School with the class of 1965. Also surviving are two sisters, Misses Janet and Joyce Baker, at home; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. John Baker, Jersey Shore, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Helen Muthler, Jersey Shore R.D. 2.

Funeral services will be held here. Australian Admits Fire in Mosque By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS riisalem fire brigade was late DIES IN CAR CRASH Miss Dcbra Kac Fravel, 16, who lived with her mother, Mrs. Shirley Heck Fravel, 5 Summit Avis, was pronounced dead of a fractured skull early Sunday, following an accident at the old Pine Creek bridge on former Route 220. She was thrown from the car when it missed the bridge and went into the creek. JERUSALEM (AP) -Israeli Attorney General Meir Shamgar said today the Australian arrested after the fire in Jerusalem's Al Aksah mosque has confessed that he set the fire.

arriving on the scene of the fir and the water supply was made quate. said Rohen had no yet decided on a lawyer. If does not want to hire one, (Continued on Page 4) Shamgar was addressing thej state will appoint his defense. opening session of a special Rohen was working on an Is committee appointed to gate the blaze which 'last Thurs-! day burned out part of the! mosque and touched off new' anti-IsraeM feeling in Arab na- Czech Set Self Afire tions. Press reports had quoted po-jfo Protest Police lice sources as saying Michael Denis William Rohen.

28. a sheep shearer from Sydney, had BRNO, Czechoslovakia (AP) Jan Polasek, a 19-year-old Early Sunday Accident Fatal to Avis Girl Debra Kae Fravel, a pretty 16-year-old from Avis, who was baby-sitting in Mill Hall Saturday evening, and probably stopped at the Lock Haven YMCA dance afterwards, was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. Sunday, after a one-car crash at the old Pine Creek bridge near Jersey Shore. Daughter of Heck Fravel, of 5 Summit Avis, with whom she lived, and Elmer L. Fravel.

Mill Hall R.D. 2, Debra would have been a junior at the Jersey Shore High School. She was born in Lock Haven March 23, 1953, and had attended Bald Eagle-Nittany High School at Mill Hall before moving to Avis three years ago. Her father says she was helping baby sit at Mill Hall Saturday evening. He said he had been planning to pick her up to take her home to Avis.

But she was joined by a school friend from Jersey Shore, Deborah Kay Decker, according to Mr. Fravel, and they went to the YMCA in Lock Haven before going home. As far as could be determined by the state police of Montoursville who investigated, this is what happened: Miss Decker, 16, whose at 221 Allegheny Jersey Shore, was driving the car, traveling west on old Route 220, six-tenths of a mile west of Jersey Shore, when the automobile ran off the road onto the north berm, crossed the highway onto the south berm, and went over a 30-foot embankment into Pine Creek. The time was 4:45 a.m. There were no skid marks or tire tracks.

Nor were there any witnesses who saw what happened, as far as was known today. This area, foggy later on Sunday morning, was not fog- shrouded at the time, according to state police. Miss Fravel was pronounced dead at the Jersey Shore Hospital from brain damage caused by a skull fracture. She had been thrown from the car, and was found on the Pine Creek bank. The scene of the accident was confessed.

But Shamir's' state- Plumber who set himself on fire menl was the first official con- Wlth lme0 on lhe firmation. The committee is headed by an Israel supreme court justice and includes two Israeli univer- 0 ry of the Czechoslovakia i from his burns, a invasion of recovering source who knows the youth said today. sity professors, the Arab mayor! He told a reporter Polasek of Nazareth and an, Arab the idea of burning himsel Irict judge from Nazareth 1 to death for some time and de- on the Lycoming County side of the creek where the former Route 220 comes down a hill, and approaches the bridge. There is a dip on this stretch of road where former railroad tracks have been removed. The new Jersey Shore by-pass road leads to the west of (his location, across a new Pine Creek bridge.

Miss Decker was driving on a junior license, which does not allow for the operation of a car from midnight to 5 a.m. See FATALITY (Continued on 4) Inside The Express Births 4 Calendar of Events 4 Classified Ads 12-13 Comics 11 Crossword Puzzle 11 Dally Investor 5 Deaths and Funerals 4 Editorial Page 6 Family Lawyer 3 Hospital Reports 4 How's Your IQ? 6 It Seems Like Yesterday 6 Junior Editor 9 Local Sides 4 Menu for Today 16 Security for You 7 Sports 14 Star Gazer 16 Stock Market 2 Younger Set Shamgar said that despite thej cidcd to do it Thursday as a pro- arrest of the suspect, the com-l 1 1 against harsh police meth- mittee could still busy in dealing with Prague dcm- looklng into what happened jonstrators. immediately after tie fire broke! Polasek's was out. to be good and he should be able This apparently was a refer- to leave the Brno plastic sur- ence to Arab claims that the Je-igery clinic in one or two months. Finances and Desegregation Are Problems for Two of the major problems of under which most of the Negro their enrollment, but not in.

pro- trie Lock Haven State in the system are en- portion to the statewide Negro and the other colleges of the; rolled at the formerly all-black population. Pennsylvania State College sys- college at Cheyney. At the Lock Haven College, for lem, during lhe term which will' The Director of the federal instance, the Negro student en- begin the second week in Sep- Department of Health, Educa-irollmenl is considerably larger tember, will be finances and thc tion and Welfare, Leon E. Pan-i man the Negro population of the enrollment of additional black'etta. has written to the and immediate vicinity, and students.

'Department ot Education asking'has been increasing year by The financial problem has for a "satisfactory final plan" i year, over the past five or more loomed large and gloomy ever for desegregation within DO days years, according to Dr. Richard since the Legislature voted for under the Civil Rights Act of T. Parsons, president. Similar a budget which does not provide! 1961 are seen in the population for expanded spending at the The major basis tor lederal'of most of the other colleges, same time as the colleges are dissatisfaction appears to be the During the past summer, the required to maintain an expand-fact that the Cheyney College, I admissions slaff of the Lock Ha ing student body. near Philadelphia, continues to An "austerity" budget has be nearly all black while the been imposed on the colleges, West Chester State College, only which handicaps their prepra-, six or seven miles away, is near- lions for the coming school; ly all white.

The figures for year, when they are admitting Cheyney affect the total enroll- more students than they hadiment picture and make all the last year. At Lock Haven, colleges appear to be increase will be -nearly 300, nearly completely white. The raising the estimated enrollment! Cheyney-West Chester situation to at least 2,300. i affects the entire system. Meanwhile, the issue of Negro 1 The other State Colleges, most students has been given immecli-, of which are located some dis- acy by a ruling from the federal! lance from large centers of pop- Office of Civil Rights that thejulaiion where there are numer.

commonwealth must move fas- ous Negroes who are potential ter to end the current practice i students, have black students in ven College has traveled extensively over the state to cities where there are large Negro communities, seeking to enroll additional black students. In spite of this all-out effort, said Dr. Parsons today, the Negro enrollment in the fall will not be large in proportion to the total increase in the student body. Many Negro students are reluctant to come to a college in a community where there is so little Negro population to start with, and many others are noi £. COLLEGE (Continued on Page 4).