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86, No. 216 LOCK HAVEN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1967 16 Pages Ten Cents Saturn Brings Moon Closer Surveyor Lands Softly; Sends Lunar Data CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) America looked at a more accessible moon today with the nation's space prospects strengthened and brightened by Thursday's triumphant proving flight of the super-rocket, Saturn 5. Running low on time, money and public confidence, the space agency stacked moon-flight machinery atop an untested rocket and sent it up. The long shot worked like a dream, evaporating gloom haunting the space program since three astronauts burned to death in their craft at Cape Kennedy on Jan.

27. President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey sent congratulations, the President saying the flight showed America capable of sending astronauts to the moon and bringing them home safely. Space officials hastened to say the moon is several flights away, but Dr. Robert C. Seamans, associate administrator of NASA, called the success "clear indication that our team is not found wanting." Thursday night, the television scout Surveyor 6 dropped gently to a spot in the middle of the moon's visible face and began sending the space agency snapshots of Sinus Medii, the cratered plain which is the last of four potential astronaut landing sites to be checked out.

Seamans said it proved "we do have the capability in this country to be pre-eminent not only in spact, but in all technology." Dr. Wernher Von Braun, who coddled the Saturn 5 from idea to steel in seven years of work, said, "It was undoubtedly the greatest moment of my life." His "bird," the biggest thing ever to fly, climbed to 117-miles orbit with a world record satellite of 140 tons. From there, an Apollo spacecraft went out a lonely 11,386 miles and sizzled home into a rainy Pacific in a tough test of its heat shield. From dream countdown to on-the-button liftoff to splashdown only 10 miles off target, il took just eight hours and ffi minutes to prove the United States owner of a clear, wide lead in the space race. The largest satellite orbitet by the Soviet Union weighet only tons, and their well advertised automatic docking mis.

sion earlier this month is a symptom that their moon plans are based on a booster capability about half that of Saturn 5 The American rocket can loft the kind of moon craft that the Russians apparently must patch together in orbit. Despite Thursday's historic success, the American space See MOON (Continued on Page 4) PASTOR DIES The Rev. Joseph T. Leichliter, 52, minister of Liberty Baptist Church in Blanchard, died unexpectedly yesterday at the Lock Haven Hospital, following a snort illness. BlancharcTs Rev.

Leichliter Dies in Hospita $70,000 Building Project Completed Since He Came in '66 The death last evening, fol lowing surgery in the Lock Ha ven Hospital, of the Rev. Jo seph T. Leichliter, 52, pastor Liberty Baptist Church in Blan chard, comes as a shock to the community. Pastor Leichliter became il earlier this week after hi church had been host las weekend, and also on the week end of Oct. 28 to two regiona and state-wide Baptist meeting that had brought more than hundred visitors to Blanchard.

He entered the hospital Tues day, and died at 8:45 p.m. yes terday. Mr. Leichliter and his wife the former Eleanor Shriner came to Blanchard in 1966 a the congregation was launchin a church building program. He had been serving the church a Gillette in Bradford County.

He was at that time chairman of the Department of Christiar Education of his denominatior It was this group, of whicl Mrs. Leichliter is now a mem her, that came to Blanchard las weekend for a workshop session Mr. Leichliter was ordained in June, 1943, by Baptist Church the Pennsvill and Mononge hala Baptist Convention. served pastorates at Poin Marion, Elwood City and West field before going to Gillette. He had received his trainin) at the Bible Institute of Penn See DEATH (Continued on Page 4) Infantry, Marines Clash with Reds lohnson Starts Veterans Day Tour of Bases Will Spend Night Aboard Carrier That Served in Viet War WASHINOGTN (AP) President Johnson, displaying a new ighting stance in his effort to confound pollsters and woo voters, set out on a coast-to-coast our today to visit American 'ighting men on shore and at sea.

The President's plane lifted off the runway at Andrews Air Force Base, at 8:26 a.m. EST. Embarking on his first major jarnstorming trip of 1967, Johnson was scheduled before nightfall today to watch Army ranger and paratroop training in Georgia, greet Vietnam combat pilots in California and observe operations aboard the nuclear- powered carrier Enterprise somewhere in the Pacific. The two-day journey will take the commander-in-chief to bases of all the armed services- including the Coast four states and on the high seas. Johnson's fast-paced travels were keyed to the observance Saturday of Veterans Day.

The President got scant rest before taking off. Without advance White House announcement, he flew Thursday night to New York City to speak before some 1,000 patrons of a dinner sponsored by an arm of the Jewish Labor Committee. AFL- CIO President George Meany was the honored guest. Johnson, long noted for his nonbelligerent "come let us reason together" phrases, tried cut a new, fighting the obvious delight of an audience that interrupted with such cries as Hearing Dec. 5 on Bellefonte Ave.

Project, 20 Buildings to Be Bought SAIGON (AP) U.S. Marines and Army infantrymen clashed with dug-in North Vietnamese troops in separate fierce battles within five miles of each other Thursday south of Da Nang. The two battles, one a marathon of 26 hours along the coast al lowlands in the northernmost 1st Corps area, left 14 Americans dead and 106 wounded, U.S. headquarters reported. Thirty-five North Vietnamese were reported slain, many of them by massive bombardment from U.S.

artillery, tactical fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships armed with rockets. The U.S. Command also disclosed in its weekly summary of aircraft losses that three more American warplanes have been downed in combat over North Vietnam but were not announced at the time, bringing to 735 the total of U.S. combat planes officially reported lost in the air war against North Vietnam. U.S.

pilots flew a total of 153 missions against the North Thursday. In the Mekong Delta, the Viet Cong sank a U.S. Navy river patrol boat with recbilless rifle fire 97 miles south of Saigon. In the coastal lowlands fighting, U.S. Marines pushing through a cluster, of heavily fortified North Vietnamese villages in a valley 27 miles south of Da Nang clashed fiercely for 26 hours with tough Communist forces entrenched in a hamlet.

It was the second heavy battle for the Marines this week in Operation Essex. The Marines took the hamlet Thursday night. Five miles to the south, troops of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division backed by armored personnel carriers lost 10 dead and 46 wounded under a heavy attack from Communist mortars, recoilless rifles, machine guns and small "Give 'em hell." It's been apparent for several weeks that Johnson has been deeply concerned about public opinion polls depicting nun as the underdog in the 1968 election if he decides to seek another term. His tougher language seems a direct new bid to generate voter backing for his poll cies. See JOHNSON (Continued on Page 15) Israel Refuses Debate in UN Ebon to Speak Monday Morning UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

(AP) Egypt had a clear fiel against Israel in the U.N. Security Council Thursday night as the Israelis refused 'to debate because a Soviet maneuver bad placed them far down on the speaker's list. The United States rallied to Israel's cause but became embroiled with the Soviet Union, first in a procedural clash and then in debate on the Middle East deadlock. A U.S. effort to let Israel speak directly after Egypt was defeated in a narrow vote that may have been an indication of future balloting on resolutions before the 15-nation council.

Incensed at being relegated to seventh place, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban issued a statement to newsmen that he 'declined the offer to address the Security Council at midnight in conditions prejudicial to Israel's position." He will speak when the debate resumes Monday morning. The council is considering two rival resolutions. One by India, Mali and Nigeria calls for Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories and an end to Arab belligerence against Israeli. States, calls for "withdrawal of armed forces from occupied territories," without naming Israel. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmound Riad opened the long session which lasted until 1:14 a.m.—with a lengthy blast against Israel.

He accused the Jewish nation of waging a "piecemeal war" and called on the council for enforcement if Israeli troops don't soil. BELLEFONTE AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT would start a tthe point shown in this picture according to an official notification which will be advertised to the community, starting tomorrow, by the Redevelopment Authority of Clinton County. The area to be included in the project lies within the area bounded by Flack's Alley, East Church North Liberty Mary's Alley, Corning Bellefonte and.West Main from Mill St. to the Monument. The buildings shown here would be acquired by the federal government but neighboring structures immediately to the west are not included in the acquisition program as it stands now.

The Civil War Monument, at right, would be moved, as part of the redevelopment, to a new plaza, to be established at the western end of the redeveloped area, at the intersection of Bellefonte and E. Church St. (Express Photo) NEW SITE FOR MONUMENT would be provided by the demolition of the triangular "flatiron" building shown here, at the intersection of Bellefonte and East Church in the proposal for the Bellefonte Ave. redevelopment project, which will be the subject of a public hearing Dec. 5 at City, Hall.

According to the tentative plans for the project, the buildings shown here the Moore building, facing Bellefonte Ave. and those at 23-25, 29, 31-33 and 35 E. Church St. would be acquired for probable removal as part of the redevelopment plan, along with several others facing Bellefonte and a few on the other side of E. Church St.

Veterans Day Observance Plans Are Greater Than Usual in Area IS Woman atally Hurt Accident Judith Herritt, 22, Dies Following Crash East of JS JERSEY SHORE A younf Jersey Shore area woman early this morning from injuries she received in a two-car acci dent on Route 220, three hours earlier, near the spot a Wil- iamsport woman was killed on Oct. 21. Three other persons were inured in the $4,300 crash. Mrs. Judith Ann Herritt, 22, Jersey Shore R.D.

1, wife of Dale E. Efemtt, died in Williamsport Hospital shortly after 1 a.m. today from internal injuries sus- when the car she was driving was struck broadside as entered the eastbound lane of iloute 220, four miles east of Jersey Shore Thursday at 9:50 Her husband is in the service in Germany. Injured were two passengers in the Herritt car, Miss Barbara Lamey, of Calvert Jersey Shore, treated at Jersey Shore Shore Hospital and discharged, and Raymond Houser, of 2230 Central Williamsport, a patient in Divine Providence Hospital with minor injuries. He was listed in good condition today.

The driver of the other car, Jack S. Bader, of Columbus, 0., was in serious condition in the Maps and Plans Open to View Next Monday More than 20 buildings, on 19 locations in the area proposed for an urban redevelopment project in the Bellefonte Avenue-E. Church St. area, are slated for acquisition by the federal government as one of the first steps in the rehabilitation of the neighborhood. Eleven other structures in eight additional lots in the area will not be acquired, according to present plans, although their owners, it is anticipated, will carry out a program of improvements to contribute to the upgrading of the entire area.

Public notice of a hearing, as provided for under Title 1 of the federal Housing Act and the Pennsylyvania Urban Redevelopment Act, will be given in the legal advertising columns of The Express tomorrow and on two successive Saturdays. The hearing will be held Dec. 5, at 9 a.m. in City Hall, sponsored jointly by the Clinton County Commissioners and the City Council of Lock Haven. At that hearing, any person or agency will have an opportunity to ask questions, enter objections, or make comments on the project as it has been outlined in tentative form.

The commissioners and councilmen will receive written communications relatives to the project and give them consideration in the future planning of the proposal. The buildings now slated for acquisition in the project arc at 2-4-6 West Main above Flack's Alley; 24 and 22, 24, and 26 Bellefonte the angle made by Bellefonte See HEARING (Continued on Page 4) We see by the fashion magazines that the well dressed woman is up to her hips in boots. Dress designers refuse to bring skirts down to the shoe top, and so shoemakers are escalating their product to the hemline. Because nobody has ever been able to figure how to improve the female form, everybody keeps changing the way it is packaged. With anti-war demonstrations in many parts of United States, central Pennsylvania veterans organizations are at the forefront of a greater than usual observance of Veterans Day this year.

Lock Haven will have a parade tomorrow. Here and elsewhere everyone is being asked to display the American Flag at his home or place of business, not (inly tomorrow but on Sunday as well. Automobile drivers are being asked to drive with their lights on over the weekend. The Piper Leathers Lucas Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Howard is having an The other draft, by the United open house and formal dedication of its new home tomorrow evening. The first Veterans Day parade in Lock Haven in some years will move tomorrow at 10 a.

m. from N. Henderson under Marshall William T. Hamilton's direction, for short memorial rites at the Civil War Monument at Main St. and Bellefonte Ave.

and a speaking program at Riverside Park memorial iiwaauico withdraw from occupied Arab shrine across from the Court- i houM on E. Water St. Speakers will be Lewis Cunningham, of Blossburg, American Legion district commander, and Dean Sheasley, of Altoona, Veterans of Foreign Wars district commander. The Rev. Kenneth L.

Mathis, minister of First Church of Christ, will give the invocation and benediction. The parade will move west on E. Main west on Bellefonte east on E. Church and north on N. Jay St.

to the shrine. The Rainbow Girls, Mr. Hamilton said, will not march as a unit as some of their members are joining other parade groups. Mayor Douglas H. Peddie asked that everyone "drive with their automobile headlights on and support this Veterans Day weekend." The mayor joined Commander Sheasley in urging observance of the holiday.

Mayor Peddie said, "Veterans Day is a day when a grateful nation should pay appropriate homage to the veterans of all wars, to those who have contributed so much to the prestige of our nation We should all give thanks to our veterans who have served and who are now serving for our na-1 ion's cause." Commander Sheasley, formerly of Lock Haven, said, "Let us show the draft-card burners, those who demonstrate against our country, those who deface our nation's flag and the Communists that we are for our boys in Vietnam and do pledge our full support of them. I strongly urge all citizens and the general public to drive with their headlights on and display the American Flag on Veterans Day Saturday and also on Sunday. Show our boys that we do care and are for them all the way." At Howard, the VFW post today invited everyone in Howard and the surrounding area to an open house and dedication of the new post home tomorrow evening from 7 to 9. Adjutant George Kane said that the Howard VFW had to build a new home because oi the construction of Sayers Dam which necessitated removal of the old home along Route 220 west of the borough. By THE ASSCIATED PRESS The nation will pause Satur day to observe Veterans Day commemorating the courage and patriotism of those who lave served in the United States armed forces.

While citizens participate in solemn decked ceremony and flag- President intensive care unit of Williamsport Hospital with injuries to the orehead, both hands and left See FATALITY on Page 4) Johnson will complete bis two- day inspection tour of defense iacilities timed to coincide with observance. Several peace demonstrations are also scheduled including an afternoon rally in New York's Union Square sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace in Vietnam. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze will speak at the traditional ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. The observance stems from 1919 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 as Armistice Day to remind Americans of the tragedies of war.

In 1954 Congress established Veterans Day to honor all American veterans. The Veterans of Foreign Wars has announced it will boycott See OBSERVANCE (Continued oa Page 4) Holiday Shoppers Get Million Plus The style leader who use4 to insist on shoes which were too small for her now demands boots that are too large for her. What to do about a wife who spends all your money on far- out styles: Give her a boot. More than a million dollars will be poured into the pockets and purses of Christmas shoppers from the banks in this area before next Wednesday. Ten savings institutions have started to distribute checks to their Christmas Club members.

Some have already distributed the "loot." Most of the payments will go out tomorrow. Some next week. The Clinton County banks, the First National Bank of Howard and the Lock Haven Savings and Loan Association, eight institutions in all, will distribute $963,085 which, added to the funds from the two Jersey Shore Banks, will put the total well over the $1 million mark. The Jersey Shore banks refuse to divulge the amounts of their Christmas Club payments. Here is the list of the totals, Lock Haven Savings and Loan Association, First National Bank of Lock Haven, Lock Haven Trust State Bank of Avis, Citizens Bank of Renovo, First National Bank of Howard, Beech Creek National Bank, $21,972, and Loganton National Bank, $15,800.

The total for Christmas of last year for the reporting banks was $869,669. The total for this year shows an increase of nearly 11 per cent over 1966. Every reporting bank but one said they had an increase for last year. One more that doubled its figure..