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THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED IN 1846 NOW IN ITS 113TH YEAR EPUB SERVING THE CITY OP IIOME3 AND CHURCHES UOtiONGAU BLA ALLS Y'8 OLDEST NBJ73PAPBB VOLUME 114 No. 210 MONONGAHELA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1959 7 CENTS A COM; rnm (IP TIIDAI 1 LY HCAM 1 Runaway Bus Kills Two, Injures 16 On Busy llfftii1 Pittsburgh Corner leiierati la Ik At' PITTSBURGH (UPD-A run- when he was struck by the bus. away bus crashed through a homeward-bound crowd at one of Condition the citv's busiest corners at the Mrs. Ida Cook. 65, was reported Ml Or height of the rush hour Tuesday, in critical morning llotkJ j.v...rr..

i ii rt im v. m-m a a -r killing two persons, one a veteran owm-i nosp.iai Pr rpnorter. and lowimJ for head "juries. I Also among the injured was Miss injuring 16 others. iinfiifil msSm Sam Hood, 42, who worked for the Scripps Howard newspaper i mi IP ill ill Mary McCaffrey, 30, who is employed by Business Week Magazine, and who formerly worked By EUGENE S.

HARRIS Khrushchev, since 194a, and Mrs. bauy Strait, 54, head cashier at the Roosevelt Hotel, were killed in United Press International HARRISBURG (UPI)-Gov. David I. Lawrence said to- day he was "willing to compromise" with insurgent House Democrats who have balked at his proposed 3'2 per cent general sales tax. "My job is to get the legislators to agree on a tax program," Lawrence told a news conference.

"I will try A East Germans In Accord for the Wall Street Journal. She was reported in fair condition with leg injuries. The scene was one of panic and mass confusion as the lumbering i conveyance slammed mio uie ul uul ugreemeny as 'iAjJA midst of the huge, tightly-packed crowd, hurled three persons into close to the original package Monessen w. rr i Tthe crash. Hood, a native of Morehead City, N.C., died of head and internal injuries, while Mrs.

Strait was slashed across the abdomen. Hood, a legal reporter and more recently an art critic for the Press, once won television's Big Story award for aiding authorities solve a murder case. He had just left the Penn Sheraton Hotel where he had interviewed the as possible. a display window of Kaufmann a In noting Ins willingness to By WALTER LOGAN United Press International Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev prepared today to fly home from Berlin to Moscow with the draft of a separate peace treaty for East Germany in his pocket. Department store, and crashed if compromise, the governor indi headlong into the window, liseii.

cated he had little hope that the Bus driver Jay Lane said he entire tax proeram would "co through as it was presented to tried to stop the bus when a streetcar halted in front of him, but, when the brakes failed, he BERLIN HOT-ANO-COLD Symbolized by the Brandenburg gate, which separates the East and West sectors of the city, the top cold war issue today i the situation in Berlin, Communist East Berlin is in the background. The men who ultimately will decide the split city's fate probably are President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. In the wings will be West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and East German leader Walter Ulbricht. American officials ay they are confident Khrushchev's hot-and-cold tactics will not dent the solid Western resistance. He also claimed "full agreement" with the East German Communists on a secret plan for joint action to push the West out Man Hurt In 2 Car Crash A Monessen man was taken to Charleroi-Monessen Hospital last night to be treated for multiple injuries when his car spun around twice on the Highway 51 intersection near Perryopolis and, crashed into a pickup truck, ac attempted to stop by hitting the president of the American Bar Association.

It was believed that he was returning to the Press curb. of Berlin if East-West negotiations fail. An official communique announcing the result of his talks with East Germany's Red bosses Ike Says He Eoesn't Believe Soviets Unwise Enough To Start War Nasser teyses Irapi Premier Of Uitli cording to Perry Township police, v- the Legislature. "I was not so optimistic as to believe the Legislature would accept the program in toto," Lawrence said. Lawrence said he first heard of the proposal in the Democratic caucus to boost the tax to 4 per cent and exempt liquor, beer and automobile trade kis Tuesday night and has not yet talked with House Majority Leader Stephen McCann (D-Greene).

He said he hoped to meet with McCann later today. The governor said his office had been working to persuade legislators to go along with thej was expected today or Thursday. It was expected to restate the un yielding Communist stand on Ber Melvin Lees; 47, of 420 Ontario lin but not mention the secret Monessen, was traveling WASHINGTON (UPD Presi- hysterical approach to the Berlin Communist plans for joint action North at a high rate of speed about 6:30 police said, when he lost control of his automobile, dent Eisenhower said today he does not believe the Russians International Gommanism crisis. He cauea ior soDer siuay both in the United States and in Allied countries. This should be based, he said, on firm notice to Russia that the United States does spun around twice and into the halted pick-up truck of against the West.

Ikt Reassures Nation In Washington President Eisenhower was expected to reassure the nation today that the West has not been divided by Khrushchev's tactics on Berlin and Germany. Eisenhower was expected to tell sticks, axes and rope swarmed DAMASCUS, Syria (UPH- northern Iraq. Frank Ruffo, 47, of Star Junc would be unwise enough to start a war over Berlin. Eisenhower said, however, that if the Russians should be foolish enough to start hostilities in the Berlin crisis, then would be thei not intend to abandon its rights n.A.R. President Gamal Abdel overall 400 million dollar revenue Near Breaking Point through the streets in an unprec edented show of hostility for Nas and responsibilities or obligations Nasser today accused Iraqi Pre raising program recommended bv in Berlin and to its Allies.

mier Abdul Karim Kassem of ser whom the Iraqi government accused of supporting Sunday's his special Tax Study Committee. But he said there was a "hard tion, Pa. Lees, who will be cited on a charge of driving too fast for conditions by Perry Township police, was reported in fair condi The President said he did not working with international Com' time to decide whether to use munism to sabotage Arab unity. Nasser delivered a biting personal attack on Iraqi Premier Kassem and said the U.A.R. will not "surrender our mission" of uniting the Arab world.

Cairo dispatches made it clear that relations between the U.A.R. core" of holdouts who for "some nuclear weapons to protect the revolt. "Leave our people alone," thou His bitter denunciation of the Western position. think very much of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's offer that token Allied forces, along with some Russian troops, remain a press conference that Khrushchev's offer to permit token Allied forces to remain in West Berlin if it becomes a free city could not be accepted. The West rejects the idea of reason cannot go along with it.

The committee had recommend sands upon thousands shouted in Kassem regime followed mam' Baghdad. "We don't want your ed a boost in the sales tax from He said flatly' that the United States could not win a ground war in Europe and there was no moth demonstrations Tuesday in Nasser. Down with Nas in West Berlin if it were made a 3 to 32 per cerd. and expansion and Iraq were near the breaking, unity' Ispr' ser! Baghdad in which thousands of tion this morning at Charleroi-Monessen Hospital. He is suffering from contusions of the right chest, a possible fractured rib and a back injury, according le the hospital.

turning West Berlin into a "free ot the coverage. point in sending any more Amen youths surged through the streets point, uamascus autnonues suspended train service to Iraq while "free city" as proposed by the Kremlin. The President brushed off Lawrence said he would con' can forces there. If war comes in shouting anti-Nasser demonstra city" and no apparent concessions by the Communist Party leader tinue to "persuade" Democrats to tions. The demonstrators, some mere boys in knee pants, carried big portraits of Kassem and posters pledging their lives in defense of newspapers showed the grave view taken bv the U.A.R.

over the Khruschev's proposal after he had changes that situation. Counter demonstrations broke declared at some length that he Europe, he said, he would not dream of trying to win it with ground forces but would have to use what he called other means. Last Resort resorted strafing of a Syrian vil the republic. They also denounced did not ever want to be in the lage by Iraqi planes. out in Damascus where students demonstrated; against the death sentence imposed from Baghdad business of reacting instantly to Ike Hurls UPI Correspondent Zaki Salama any of Khrushchev's wise-cracks The President made it clear at adopt the tax package as presented but said he will meet again with the co-chairmen of the Tax Study Committee to get their reaction to the 4 per cent proposal.

Seeks Fast Action The governor said he would continue his conciliatory policy in order to get a tax program reported from Baghdad that on Iraqi rebel leader Col. Abdel the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and called for execution of the still-living leaders of the overthrown Faisal Guy K. Corno Suffers Relapse Guy K. Corno, band instructor his news conference that he coa Wahab Shawaf, reported slain in screaming students armed with or whatever they are, as he put it. Challenge At Critics templated resort to nuclear weap ons only if it became clear Rus sia was deftrmined to push mat inrough as promptly as possible, "I'm willing to compromise." ters to the point of a conflict which could not be handled by the five American divisions now Three Nike Site oldiers Injured In Auto Accident WASHINGTON XUPI) -Presi Pohle Resigns As Union Tivp.

Board Secretary Frank R. Pohle of Finleyville, dent Eisenhower today challenged in Donora High School, is reported to have suffered a relapse this morning in Charleroi-Monessen Hospital where he was admitted after collapsing while while attending an evening meeting earlier this week. -r Mr. Corno is 47 years old. Lawrence said.

"I'm not going to be obstinate or insistant. I want in Europe. congressional critics of his de Again, as he did last week, Eis to do it as fast as possible, 'but fense policies to have the courage released after treatment. it must be handled carefully." enhower cautioned against any Three servicemen from the Walter appeared from over the to ask for higher taxes when they He said he hoped House Demn- R. D.

2, has resigned as secretary of Union Township Board of Sevich says the men claim they Nike site at Elrama were injured, call for larger armed forces, crafl had not taken the stand on embankment and McNeely was still in the demolished auto: The three were taken to the Memorial one seriously, in an accident in Education effective March 31. He 10,000 Award In Damage Suit In his ninth consecutive weekly meeting with reporters since the the 4 per cent tax "capriciously." Carroll Township early this will continue to serve as a mem do net remember what happened. The car is owned by Walter who was driving at the time the accident occurred. "If they knock out any tax. hospital where they were treated morning.

ber of the board to which he was first of the year, the President warned strongly against reacting Monongahela Airman Promoted To Newly New Eagle residents were elected over eight years ago. Site of the mishap, according to at the dispensary. Valouch, who suffered lacerations of the face, right cheek, fore awarded $10,000 by a civil jury in they must come up with something to take its place," Lawrence said, indicating the limited 4 per cent levy would fail to pro to each new international crisis with demands for appreciably George C. Robb, now president, will take over the secretarial du Created USAF Grade Washington County Court Tues Carroll Township Police Chief Robert Sevich, is near the old entrance of the Mathies Mine on larger armed forces. He said day morning, the amount being ties.

Harry Holloway son of Mrs. head and the retina of the right eye, and abrasions of the right and left legs, was removed to a some of these demands fre hys' vide the revenue his original tax plan was expected to raise. With regard to the attitude of Route 88. WEATHER United Press International Western Pennsylvania: Increas terical. McCann said at the close of the the members about joining the proposed jointure called "Greater Adelaid Holloway of 102S Howard Street, Monongahela, has been promoted to the newly created He said Congress in the past The three men, Robert A.

House session Tuesday that he had made some very serious mis Walter, 22, Donald D. McNeely, ing cloudiness and cool today. the total awarded in two actions growing out of an automobile accident. Plaintiffs in the assumpsit action were Robert C. Gondos, a minor at the time of the accident, by his parents, Steven and Marie Gondos.

Young Gondos was struck planned to considt with Lawrence 18, and Allen C. Valouch, 24, all USAF grade of Senior Master VA hospital in Pittsburgh. Walter was treated for a small laceration of the scalp and right eye and abrasion of the left knee, while McNeely suffered a hema High 29 north, to 42 south. To takes on national defense. He thought it would be ruinous at this 'as soon as he is available." of Box 9, Elrama, (Sevich was night cloudy with occasional snow Sergeant.

SMSgt Holloway was one of 900 distinguished master Several Democrats bolted over Monongahela Area Schools," Pohle said, "Our school district will vote for the jointure." Other members of the board are Charles Koch of Finleyville, R. D. 1, who will succeed Robb unable to learn their home ad point to change his announced, the provisions to tax liquor, beer north and rain extreme south portion. Low 22 north, to 30 south. established program of military dresses) were traveling east at toma of the forehead.

They were and automobile trade-ins. Demo strength because of crises 15 a.m. in a 1936 Ford. The by a car operated by James Coughenour on Route 88 in Mo- crats hold a slim 107-102 edge in generated by Soviet Premier Ni- sergeants in the Strategic Air Command to achieve this 'new rank. It carries greater responsibilities as well as higher pay.

SMSgt Holloway is assigned to the Directorate of Operations at the House and 106 votes are Thursday cloudy, windy and cool with rain or snow changing to snow flurries. High 34 north to 42 south. 'I kfta Khrushchev. nongahela on January 24, 1953. driver lost control of the vehicle at the 45 degree turn in the road and hit two guard rails, throwing International as Charles E.

Vande-Water, treasurer, and Charles E. Vickers. needed to push throuch a bill. Coughenour "was operating a car one man, Valouch, through the Jaycee Head Republicans went on record as solidly opposed to the original windshield. Charles Brooks of Fifth Ave Cloudiness To Increase United Press International bill.

Even if Lawrence gives Ta fast Former Mouongahclaii Named Industrial Relations Director Of Glass Firm At Ford City approval to the 4 per cent amend The weather outlook for Penn nue, New Eagle, also driving toward Monongahela, saw the man in the highway as he came along a few minutes later. He stopped his car as did Victor Mayak of ment to his bill, Democrats still will have a long row to hoe. Top sylrania today calls for increas covered by a policy of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, defendant in the cases. The first trial resulted in verdicts totalling $12,500 which the insurance company refused to pay for technical reasons relative to policy coverage. The second action before Judge David H.

Wein-er was to force payment of the verdict which was reduced to be within tlie maximum coverage of $10,000 of the policy. Tours Area The president of Junior Chamber International, Maurice Sexton of Palmerston North, New Zealand, is at present in Pennsylvania on an official visit to confer with Pennsylvani aPresldent Morgan J. Doughton of Allentown and other state Jaycee officials, and to interest young men in the Junior Chamber movement. H. Clark Underwood, for aoor oliicials said they were ing cloudiness in western counties while skies will be mostly sunny Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.

During World War II he served in the Middle East and European Theater of Operations. He has been awarded the Air Medal with two clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Force Commendation Medal. Sergeant Holloway resides Vtk 3120 Grover, Omaha, Nebraska with wife Dorothy and children, Harry and Joe. ''V4 mer Monongahelan, recently was against a 4 per cent sales levy. elsewhere.

named Director of industrial Re Democrats sidetracked the bill Roberts Plan, Finleyville. The two had no way of summoning an ambulance and put the man in lations for Pittsburgh Plate Glass The state was under the influence of a high and a low pres in the House Tuesday by postpon Company at Ford City. ing any action on it until next one car to transport him to Mo sure system. The high, centered week. McCann said the delay He will be in charge of train over the eastern Great Lakes nongahela Memorial Hospital.

ing, labor relations, employment region, was expected to produce Sexton was met at Greater i- Continued on Page Five (Column six) the sunny skies over the central and eastern areas with highs Pittsburgh Airport yesterday morning by John F. Campbell of Challawny to Scrk Unci re I ion Brady Announces His Candidacy For Mayor ranging from 27 in the northwest Monongahela, International Direc Express Highway' Designated central sections to near 40 else tor, where a welcoming reception where. was staged on the president's ar As Alternate Route 71 By PDH rival from Chicago. Campbell is accompanying the Jaycee presi The four-lane divided highway and safety at the company's Works Four and Works Six there. Underwood joined Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company as Personnel Assistant at Ford City in 1950, was appointed Labor Relations Assistant two years later and since January 1957 has been serving as Plant Director of Labor Relations.

He is a graduate of Monongahela High School Class of 1945 and of Salem College, West can primaries. Chattaway, former Fivt Robins Sttn In Vin Street Yard between New Stanton and Route company dent on his speaking tour of the state, the officials guests today qf commander of Company local 519 near Washington, known throughout the Monongahela Val-i Two Monongahclans today announced candidacies for nomination for municipal office in the May primaries. They are City Councilman Charles M. Brady, who will seek The custom of Mrs. Clyde National Guard unit, states he will run on the record of the conduct of the municipal office dur O.Brien of feeding birds has its ley as the "Express Highway," is the reason for the announee.

ment made Tuesday in Karria- burg. The M-mile road will eventually be named Federal Interstate Routs 70-S when additional links of the 41,000 mile system of superhighways ars completed, Highways Secretary Park Martin said. has been designated Alternate definite rewards. This morning, Canonsburg Jaycees. The New Zealander was elected president of Junior Chamber International at the organizations 13th World Congress in Minneapolis, in November 1938, by representatives of each of ing his two terms and the full not one but five robins made a Route 71 by the State Highways, Department.

I the Democratic nomination for! time attention given it naj I H. CLARK UNDIRWOD, JR. mayor, and City Treasurer Elimination of confusion caused "We have attempted to give the good meal off the suet and breadcrumbs she had put out for them at the back of her house at 222 Vine Street. Ho lives at 212 Park Avenue, by different route designations on aged six years and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles L. Chattaway, who will Hck MnominatloB ia the Bepubll- Continued on rage Nine (Column Six) JCI'i member nations. Ford City, with hit ion Clark, I H. Clark Underwood, Sr. acptratt portiona of the roadway.