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GOOD EVENING AH the world really Is an agreement not to have more wart until old ones paid for. 95th Year No. 67 and The Lebanon Daily Times Ml SmogB LEBANON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1966 20th Highway Fatality Ono Youth Second Son To Die At 16 Of Crash Injuries Mr Franci C. Conahars, Ono Box 68, East Hanover Township, on Thursday lost their second son in two years as the result of one-car accidents. Joseph E.

Conahan, 16, a sophomore at Northern Lebanon High School, died Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Heading Hospital. He was injured on Sunday at 8 p.m. when his station wagon ran off a township road about one mile southwest of Ono and overturned several times. His brother, Bernard F.

Conahan, was also 16 when he was killed on Feb. 26, 1965, when his car went off old Route 22 about six miles west of Jonestown and crashed into a service station-general store. Joseph had been admitted Two Separate Car Crashes In Penna. Claim Five Lives By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Two separate accidents claimed five Jives during the early part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to push Pennsylvania's traffic death toll into double figures. A survey by United Press International showed at least 10 persons were killed on state roadways since 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Three members of a Schuylkill County family were killed Wednesday night in a two-car crash near Minersville. The dead were John Steffane, 21, Landingville, his wife, Caroline, 22, and their 11-month-old daughter, Joan. Another daughter, Diane, 3, and the driver of the second vehicle, John Horn 19, of Heckscherville, were hos pitalized. In another multiple fatality Mrs. John Wolfe, 41, of Empo rium, and her son, James, 17 were killed Thursday nighl when an auto the youth was driving and another vehicle collided on Route 255 near St.

Marys, Elk County. Other fatalities: Warren: Rose Mary Henry, 22, of Warren, was killed early today in a head-on collision on Route 69 north of here. Earl Caprom, 55, Sugargrove, who was driving the second vehicle, suffered minor injuries. Montoursvllle: Altheus Fleeger, 87, a resident of the Lycoming County Home, was struck and killed by an automobile Thursday in a lane lead(Continued on Page 1) Believe 83 Died In Bulgarian Airliner Crash VIENNA, Austria (AP) The death toll in the crash of a Bulgarian airliner in southern Czechoslovakia was believed to be 83 with a Hungarian repor today that one passenger left the craft at the last stop before It went down Thursday night. Vienna sources said a spokesman for the Hungarian Airport Transport Co.

said he did not know the name of the passenger who got off the Soviet-made II- yushin IB turboprop at Bratislava, capital of Slovakia near the border with Austria and Hun- the Reading Hospital with severe head injuries. He became the 20th person to die during 1966 in Lebanon County as the result of a traffic accident. According to Trooper Ralph Leibfreid, Jonestown state police, Joseph had been driving south on Township Road 378 when his vehicle ran off the roadway, overturned several times and came to rest in a field of corn stubble. Gfrl Slightly Hurt A passenger in Joseph's car, Linda L. Dove, 16, Fredericksburg, escaped serious injury.

She; was treated for a small cut a bump at the Good Samaritan Hospital, and discharged. Before being transferred to Reading, Joseph was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital for cuts and multiple bruises. Joseph's vehicle, a 1963 station wagon valued at' $1,000 was a total loss. Joseph was born in Philadelphia. His parents operate the Ono Diner.

He was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church, Besides his parents, he is survived by the following sisters and brothers: Elizabeth, wife of Ronald Brajkovich, Grantville RD Francis, in the U.S. Navy stationed at Norfolk; William, Palmyra RD Robert, with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS H.A. Thomas; Cecelia and Patricia, at home.

Hi. under Act of March Hi. THE WEATHER Central Penna. Variable cloudiness, mild with a few showers likely tonight. Low 40 to 46.

Saturday fair and cooler. High 50 to 56. 28 CENTS York City Critical Level Reached WamPeople With Heart Ailments To Remain Indoors sible rain promised relief, however. nora of air Pollution was about 3tfc times today. But the measurement showed a drop from the critical level reached Thursday night Any deaths attributed to the smog would not reported for a few days.

A 10-day period of SMOG BLANKETS NEW YORK-Towers of lower Manhattan skycrapers poke through a mantle of smog Thursday as the heavily industrialized New York-New Jersey complex was hit with a "tern- perature inversion" which stretched from Maine to the Carolinas. The pollution index had reportedlv Harrisburg Man Seriously Hurt In Route 22 Crash A Harrisburg man was hospitalized after his car rammed the rear of a tractor-trailer on Route 22, about one-half mile east of the Dauphin County line Thursday at 3:30 a.m. The man, Edward R. Kohr, 36, was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital for severe cuts of his face, and possible fractures of both hands and a shoulder. An emergency tra- risen to 60.6 between 8 and 9 p.m.'Th'uSv.

CS The preferred level is 12. At left is the New York Life Insurance building. To the right of it is the Metropolitan Life Insurance building and Madison Square Park. The view is south from the Empire State building. Reds Flee Fish Fry To Go On As Planned gary.

He said six of those killed may have been Westerners, including a Briton, two Brazilians and a Swiss. The Hungarian report conflicted with information given Thursday night by the Czechos- (Continued on Page 5) ifr Amusements 18,19 Area 21 Classified Comics 22, 23 Editorial 8 Farm 17 Financial 2 Obituaries 2 School 10 Sports 12,13 Women's Pages 15,16 COMPLETE BOOT REPAIRS LADD MOTORS Cumb. St. PITTSBURGH (UP!) Members of Holy Family Roman Catholic Church said today they will go ahead with the fish fry they began plan ning months ago. The big event is scheduled for Dec.

2, the first Friday on which Catholics may eat meat under a recent decree by American bishops. our Teenagers Hurt in Head-On Collision Four teenagers suffered minor njuries in a bead-on collision Thursday at 4 p.m. on the Rexmont Road, about a tenth-mile east of the Cornwall Borough line. One driver, Anthony Finkle, 16, 822 Guilford was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital for a scalp cut. His passenger, Gloria J.

Donley, 18, 313 S. Lincoln complained of pain in her shoulder. The other driver, Gary Smith, 17, Lititz, had four sutures ta ken to a cut of his left arm and suffered an injury to his left ankle. His passenger, Carl E. Showers, 15, Rexmont, was treated for an injured shoulder.

South Lebanon Township lice and Finkie po- cheotomy was performed at the local hospital. Kohr was then transferred to (he Harrisburg Hospital, where his condition was listed as serious this morning. According to Trooper Lloyd Brubaker, Kohr's car hit the back end of a tractor-trailer operated by George W. Steiner, 35, New Stanton RD 1. The impact forced the car halfway under the trailer, according to Brubaker's report.

Kohr was taken to the local hospital by the Jonestown ambulance. His car, a 1960 model valued at $600, was a total loss. Damage to the truck was about $100. The First Aid and Safety Flooded Heater Causes One Of 7 Fire Alarms Fire damage of $30 to a local home was reported Thursday. ji VICL- ll was one of seven fire and a and their U.S "Green wasn down alarms answered by -Beret Special Forces advisers came out on top toriiehtl area £ir companies Thursday heavy combat with a CnmrrmniQf and early this mornlne.

U.S. Special Forces Advisers, Vietnamese Defeat Commie Force i regular et companies (AP Viet- with a Communist Zone force in trip There was no final report of casualties on either rhnnorJi imfioi rt lie i 1 1 initial advices were that allied and early this morning. A car was destroyed in one of the fires. The local fire was reported at the home of John Nye, 819 Church St. The property owned by George Nye, 317 The pollution, which began to increase Wednesday night, attributed to a massive temperature inversion hanging over the middle Atlantic coast.

The inversion occurs frequently in the 'late fall, when warm air overrides and imprisons surface air. Austin N. Heller, city com missioner of air pollution con trol, said an air pollution read ing of 60.6, five times the aver age level of 12, was registered at 8 p.m. Thursday, indicating an amount he said may have been the city's highest in histo ry. It dropped to 18.5 in the pre dawn hours, and had risen to 43.2 at the height of the com muter rush this morning when streets and parkways were jammed with vehicular traffic and incinerators were being lit Aa air temperature of about 61 was expected.

The pollution count, based on a statistical measurement of sul phur dioxide and carbon dioxide the air, indicates the amoun of harmful substances in thi atmosphere. The level consid ered dangerous is 50. Heavy pollution was reported in Philadelphia and Boston where sulphur dioxide in the ait American Held By Czechs Permitted To See Diplomat VIENNA (UPI) U.S. diplomat was allowed today for the first time to confer with Vladimir Kazan-Komarek, American artillery and air 'strikes had pounded the Communist troops in the action, in Tay Ninh Province nine miles northeast of Tay Ninh City and about 45 miles northwest of Saigon. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a similar Vietnamese force in the same region a month ago.

The Tay Ninh action was the losses were Cherry St. Fire Chief Warren Waltermy most spectacular ground er said the blaze resulted from a flooded space heater. Waltermyer was in his car about a block a way'from -the Nye home when the alarm was sounded. The Liberty and Rescue Companies also e- sponded along with Assistant Fire Chief Joe Fick and the First Aid and Safety Patrol and Independent ambulance units. Hand extinguishers were used norma v.

a fit UIIDQ COtl- a tact in a day which saw U.S. to put out tne blaze. Cavalry Division troops reached six times the level Thursday, Weather bu reaus in both cities predicted there was a chance of relief today or Saturday. At the smog's height in New York, Heller said he was "very very close" to calling an air pollution alert which, if put into effect, could have closed some industries and kept cars from the streets. New York residents had been asked not to burn leaves and the (Continued on Page American VrllJ an Cavalry Division tro 'hasel The Uni Hose and Rescue SoslovSln Cld i theViet UP river valleys of Companies, Annville, werej Wftll rfJL.

kia on char cs central coast in Binh Dinh out Thursday when a Wel Harrisburg. Woman Hospitalized After 1-Car Accident A local woman was hospitalized for observation after her car, upset at 2:40 a.m. today on the ter thls was Avon bridge Czechoslovak law i Province while Division in-i (Continued here that Vice Consul highlands and Thursday when Page Martin A. Wenick of the U.S Embassy in Prague visited the graves. U.S.

Air and Navy by heavy Drawstrings On Jacket 1D me eigntn day in a row MIFFLINBURG, Pa. ,1 iThursday, but chalked up a to-i A "-year-old boy was strangled i the U.S. ice tal 101 missions Thursday police said, when related, and the "the visit by consul was allowed immediately after this was day in a row planes dr awstrings on his hooded jack- I Pf 1 J.L. Mrs. Joanne Sanger, 23, Fifth and Cumberland Streets, was treated for an abrasion of the knee.

She was listed in satisfactory condition. William Kimmel, North Lebanon Township assistant police chief, said Mrs. Sanger was going east on Route 422 when she apparently fell asleep at wheel. Her car hit the curbing and followed it for about then swerved to the skidded across the 0 Jp The left rear of the vehicle hit a guardpost, causing the car to upset. The with the interrogation dures." Secret police took Kazan from U.S.

Marine Corps i possible under wcre active in South Viet Nam i et be came entangled in connection flying a record 257 sorties'i power train of a tractor, proce- a a i ns iet Cong mainly in support of ground op Police said Kenneth H. Knechel, of Millmont was working on a Soviet 100 feet, left and highway. agency an unscheduled stop Czech capital while t-apnai while on a' Details wpr? nonstop flight from Moscow to: Vietnam esc strike erations in the vicinity of the! his fath er's farm about eight between the lmiles west of this Union County community when the accident Vint Nams. a Details were sparse on Paris. Kazan, (he travel agency operator of I in Tay Ninh province.

But a imidafternoon the force was force action! atj Winter WooHies LONDON Mini- skirted Mary Hurt figures it will be a long, cold winter unless her long Johns catch up with her. Mary emigrated to Canada by air last July. Her winter woollies followed by ship. By August, Mary decided to come home but the woollies still haven't caught up. The shipping company said someone got confused and the woollies have crossed the Atlantic three times and are still traveling.

i Underground Fires Force 18 Families To Flee SCRANTON, Pa. (UPI) National Guardsmen patrolled the South Scranton section today in jeeps ready to assist anyone affected by deadly fumes from underground mine fires. Fires have been burning ia the abandoned mines under the city for years but the carbon monoxide fumes have intensified recently, seeping into homes and forcing at least 18 families to leave. Mayor James J. Walsh asked for the National Guard help and the soldiers were put on round the clock duty Thursday.

They were ordered to guard vacant homes against vandalism and to provide assistance wherever needed. City officials announced that the Health Department would remain open on a 24-hour basis. Huge rotary drills went Into operation Wednesday digging light-inch holes to drain off the gas. The drills were brought in Allowing a conference attend(Continued on Page 9 Col. 6) fear May Die One Car Is Total loss After Prescott Collision One car was declared i total oss following a two-car crash Thursday at 11:30 a.m.

at the ntersection of King Street and Prescott Road in Prescott. South Lebanon Township po- ice identified the drivers as Mrs. Arlene Diem, 47. Lebanon RD 1, and Mrs. Lila W.

Eisley 2, 304 E. Chestnut Cleona. Police said Mrs. Diem was south on Prescott Road and Mrs. Eisley was traveling ast on King St.

Mrs. Eisley omplained of pain in her left after the accident. Damage to Mrs. Diem's car was about $150. Mrs.

Eisley's ar, valued at $295, was a total oss, police said. travel the official Russian U.S. officials i area was hi deep travel jungle. U.S. infantrymen are in the same region, declined to.

and were Police said the cars hit head- me! on, but not dead center. said Smith's car was in center of the road. Both cars, Finkle's valued PACE 5150 and Smith's valued at $600, were damaged beyond repair, police said. The injured were taken to fhe valued on future developments in said. He estimated to the the at hospital by the Tri-Community ambulance of Rexmont, ir i 11 tord Mofor Properties In Egypt Are Seized CAIRO (AP) Egyptian ail the u.s.

officials, meanwhile, un-; tangled the confusion surround- ing the Thanksgiving Day am-1 bush of an American civilian-! military convoy on Highway 11 Thanksgiving Holiday Joy Marked By Sorrow As Road Deaths Continue To Mount south of Dalat. Final casualty figures nounced today were one U.S. By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Thanksgiving 1066 unique- tured the Maywood Park sils in Race Track was the 1 clearance jly American time for charity, an-jfamily gatherings, parades and TC or God today Trot. LEAVES TRAIL EVANSTON, 111. (UPI) surglar who was being pursued ay police Thursday escaped by lightening his load.

Officers retraced his steps and found the thief's shoes, tan raincoat, wrist watches and an attache case. INJURED IN FALL Miss Dorothy M. Whitman, 46, 861 S. Sixth was treated for an injury to lier right ankle Thursday at the Good Samaritan Hospital after she fell from a chair at her home. SERVICE OJTW APPL.

Bob Hoch of custom debts totaling SI.7 million, a government announcement said today At Dearborn, headquarters of Ford Motor Co. Ford officials, including President Arjay Miller and Allen Merrell, vice president, civic and government affairs, went into a hastily called meeting to discuss the seizure. A Ford spokesman said the Alexandria plant had been closed since last: February. one U.S. Canadian civilian civilian four Koreans killed, one (Continued on Page 28 Col.

3) CHICAGO (UPI) -The fea- fhorities have the Ford Ced today were one ired race Thursday night a tj Motor Co -'s property and mary maD and six was marked by sorrow by all IP iiiavivnnri D-n-i. ioosils in i wounded, one U.S. Civilian too many families. The holiday joy was eclipsed in hundreds of homes when loved ones were killed on the road. The holiday traffic toll mounted steadily, running at about 10 deaths an hour.

At the rate set during the first 24 hours of the 102-hour period, nearly a thousand persons would die In traffic accidents across the country before midnight Sunday. By 10 a.m. EST, the United Press International had counted AUTO STAGER'S GLASS A W. Cumb. Sti Dial 273-4501 Fast Low-Cost CAR LOANS New or Used Cars The First National Bank of Lebanon 2.11 traffic fatalities.

There werel United 19 fire deaths. Two persons counted mishaps. There were 22 traffic deaths California, 16 in New York, 12 each in Michigan and Texas and 10 each in Ohio and Pennsylvania. No Prediction The National Safety Council in a comparable late November period 738 ordinarily would die nation's highways and byways. The council made no prediction for the Thanksgiving holiday, labeling it a family-type holiday which there is no great increase in traffic.

persons on the International traffic deaths 619 ing weekend last year. The worst tragedies in the early hours of the holiday weekend took five lives. Five members of one family perished a fire at their rural Athens i rt. in Ohio, their home. Five teenagers on way home from a were near Thanksgiving eve dance killed in a collision Tacoma, Wash.

Town Gives Thanks In BeJmond, Iowa, Thanksgiving this year had special meaning. The town of 2,600 was nearly destroyed early this year; by a tornado many town- I.