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Obituaries Born in Berwick, Aug. 24, the son of the late 1922, he was William A. and Clara E. (Wenner) Drasher, and resided life. in the Hazleton area his entire He was a member of Faith Assembly of God Church, Fox Manor.

He was employed as a heavy equipment and operator was an operator Pagnotti for on the Enterprises Anthracite King dragline. Drasher was preceded in death, in addition to his parents, by brothers, William and James; "Barbara Smith, Sarah sisters, Turse, and Anna Mastrota. Surviving are his wife, Rose Drasher of West Hazleton; son, Robert and a daughter, Edith Maguire, both of Port St. Lucie, brothers, Charles, Hanover; Cleorge, Hazleton; Leo, Tamaqua; sisters, Cora (Fritzinger) Zimmerman, West Hazleton; Elise DeAngelo, Hollywood; four grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. from the Krapf Hughes Fuenral Home, 426 W. Broad Hazleton. The Rev. Joseph L.

Adams, pastor of Faith Asembly of God Church, will officiate. Interment will be in St. Johns Cemetery, St. Johns. Friends may call Friday from 2 Howard Drasher Howard R.

Drasher, of Box 303, Route 93, Sugarloaf Tuesday at his Township, died prolonged ilresidence, after a Iness. Friends may call Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. If You Need To CALL US! Phone List 455-3636 OR OUT OF THE AREA TOLL FREE 800-843-6680 FAX 455-4244 CIRCULATION TO START THE PAPER EXT. 263 REPORT DELIVERY ERROR EXT. 271 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MON-FRIDAY PM ASK FOR EXT.

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Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church, Hazleton; and the Greater Hazleton S.O.A.R. She was preceded in death, in addition to her parents, by her husband, Peter, in 1989; brothers, John and Michael; and a sister, Mary Serosky. Surviving are a daughter, Janet Swedo, Bradenton, sons, Peter Charles City, David, at home; and Gary, Winter Park, brothers, Peter, Freeland; Nicholas, Williamsport; two grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. from the Frank J.

Bonin Funeral Home followed by a Divine Liturgy with Office of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Mary's Church. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Drums. Friends may call on Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Parastas service will be held Friday evening. Ada Evangelista Funeral services will be held Monday for Pillonato Evangelista, 355 E. Muir Hazleton, who died Tuesday morning at St. Luke Pavilion, Hazleton. Services will be held Monday at 9 a.m.

from the Fierro Funeral Home, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Interment will be in Most Precious Blood Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. Perceding her in death were her husband, Anthony, in 1988; grandson, Vincent, 1984; brothers, William and Louis; sisters, Amelia Dayock and Catherine Harvilla.

Surviving are sons, Anthony and Lawrence, both of Hazleton, and Jerry, Sheppton; eight grandchildren and five -grandchildren. Grace Fuehrer Grace Fuehrer, formerly of Green Valley Garden, Drums, died this morning at Hazleton Nursing and Geriatric Center. She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Beltz-Petrilli Funeral Home, Hazleton. Funerals The funeral Violet Yost, a guest of the Davis Nursing Home, Mountaintop, formerly of Rock Glen, who died Saturday, at the Davis Nursing Home, was held Wednesday morning from the Mark S.

Harman Funeral Home West, Conyngham-Rock Glen Road. The Rev. Greg Lantz officiated the service. Interment was in Mountain Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers were Mark, Brian and Clayton Harman, Edward Vergari Victor Ziller and Thomas Mitchell.

The funeral of Helen E. Iffert, a former Lincoln Street resident and a guest at St. Luke Pavilion, where she died Saturday, was held Wednesday from the Krapf and Hughes Funeral Home Hazleton. The Rev. Bernard L.

Murphy, pastor of St. John Primitive Methodist Church, Hazleton, officiated. Interment was in Mountain View Cemetery, Hazleton. Pallbearers were Norman W. and Jon and Alex Hall, Gerald, Jeffrey and Chris Hnat.

The funeral of Walter E. Schalles of 604 Kennedy Drive, McAdoo, who died Saturday at Hazleton General Hospital, was held Wednesday from the Rosenstock Funeral Home. The Revs. David T. Bailey and John Roehrig conducted the services.

Interment was in Skyview Memorial Park. Pallbearers were Gary Betz, Robert and Scott Marshall, Willard Edwards, Charles Schalles, and William Morse. MARY Of Card Thanks GORDISH We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the death of our beloved Mother, Mary Gordish. Special thanks to those who sent spiritual and floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars, pallbearers and all those who assisted us in any other way. Your kindness was very much appreciated.

Sons Daughters Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren A Tannersville man charged with the murder of a co-worker at Mount Airy Lodge will face trial in Monroe County Court later this year. District Justice Dan Whitesell, before whom William C. Dorish, 44, appeared for a hearing Tuesday, ruled that state police at Swiftwater presented enough evidence to hold Dorish, who is charged with killing Shelly Jumper, 21, of Mount Pocono on Aug. 8 and then dumping her body in a ditch along the eastbound on-ramp leading to Route 940. District Attorney James Gregor said following the hearing that the motive for the killing remains a mystery, but speculated the defendant tried to have an intimate relationship with the victim, who worked as a desk clerk at the resort.

Dorish, police said, voluntarily appeared at the Swiftwater station for questioning, and denied knowing anything about the woman's whereabouts; that after work that night he drove around the Tannersville area drinking, and when he returned home got into a fight with his wife which resulted in lacerations to his face and chest. Jim Thorpe football player dies in crash A Jim Thorpe Area High School student was killed Thursday afternoon when a pickup truck, taking him and two other football players to practice, veered off the road and struck a tree in Jim Thorpe. Matthew Hnatin, 16, of Lake Harmony, was riding in the back of the pickup driven by John A. Halenar, 16, of Jim Thorpe when the mishap occurred along a curve off Germantown Road. The victim, who would've been a junior this year, was lying in the vehicle's bed when he was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m.

by Carbon County Coroner Philip J. Jeffries. Cancer FIGHTER ACE DIES World War II fighter ace Col. Hubert Zemke, shown in 1943, who headed a famed squadron that bore his name, died Tuesday at age 80. Zemke served in Europe where he scored 17 aerial victories and 11 ground victories.

Zemke, a native of Missoula, became an Army Air Corps cadet in 1937 and retired from the Air Force in 1966. His military honors included the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Legion of Merit. (AP) held (Continued from page 1) The new work is reported in the September issue of the journal Nature Genetics by two independent teams of researchers. One study was done by Nicholas Dracopoli of the National Center for Human Genome Research, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, and colleagues at NIH and elsewhere. They found nine of 18 melanoma-prone families they screened showed defects in the p16 gene that appeared related to the disease.

In the nine families, the gene was defective in 33 out of 36 people with melanoma. The second study was done by Alexander Kamb of Myriad Genetics Inc. in Salt Lake City with scientists at the University of Utah and elsewhere. They studied 13 families who already appeared to have a predisposition to melanoma from some abnormality in the neighborhood of the p16 gene. The researchers found a defective p16 gene in two of the families.

They found no evidence of a defective p16 gene in 38 other melanoma families. Nonetheless, the Utah and NIH studies "really support each other, fundamentally," Kamb said, noting that two types of p16 gene defects appeared in both studies. Dracopoli said the combined results provide "very strong" data linking defects in the p16 gene to melanoma. He and Kamb said the difference in their results probably came from p16 gene defects that escaped detection in the research. Dracopoli also said a second, unknown susceptibility gene may play a role.

Kamb theorized that families in the Utah study may have been more likely to have p16 gene defects outside the portions of the gene the researchers inspected. Card of Thanks Susan Simasek We express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who illness death of our beloved assisted and consoled us during the mother, grandmother great grandmother, Susan Simasek. Also, to the pallbearers, those who sent spiritual floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars and all who assisted us in any other way. Family of Susan Simasek Later, he changed his story and admitted strangling the woman, saying he told her he had no money to lend her and that she attacked him. Police said Dorish who reportedly had promised to loan Jumper $5,000 told them he tried to subdue her, resulting in her death.

He then placed the body in the truck of her car, drove to Routes 314 and 940, and rolled it down an embankment where it was later found. Mrs. Dorish is also charged in the case, and is scheduled for a hearing on Sept. 21. Police allege that the 46-yearold woman hindered their apprehension of her husband and with tampering with evidence by allegedly vacuuming her husband's car and laundering his security guard uniform to destroy evidence.

She is also accused of intentionally scratching her husband's face and chest to hide similar marks inflicted by the victim during her struggle with Dorish. Police have not implicated Mrs. Dorish in the murder, and she is free on her own recognizance. Katherine A. Hinkle, retired principal Katherine A.

(Miller) Hinkle, a retired teacher and school principal, died Wednesday evening at the Fritzingertown Senior Living Community, Drums, where she had been living for the past three years. For many years, Mrs. Hinkle taught school in the Hazleton Area School District and before retiring, she was the principal at the former Poplar Street Elementary School. Born in Hazleton, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Anna (Wolfskiel) Miller. She was a member of the Grace United Church of Christ, Hazleton, where she taught Sunday School, and was a member of the Good Cheer Bible Class.

She was also a member of the Eastern Star and an honorary nationai member of the P.T.A. Preceding her in death, in addition to her parents, were her husband, Raymond, 1991; and a sister, Florence Schnauffer. Surviving are several cousins. The funeral will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. from the Rosenstock Funeral Home, 229 W.

Broad Hazleton. The Rev. M. Jane Hess, interim pastor of Grace UCC, will officiate. Interment will be held in Union Cemetery, Weatherly.

Friends may call at the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorials would be appreciated to either the Fritzingertown Senior Living Community, the Hazleton Area Public Library or Grace United Church of Christ, Hazleton. Beatrice Ferry Beatrice F. Ferry, 82, of 2100 W. Norwegian Pottsville, died Tuesday evening at Pottsville Hospital, Pottsville.

Born in Hazleton, Dec. 10, 1910, she was the daughter of the late John and Ella Mae (McNeal) Balliet. She was a graduate of Hazleton High School. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottsville; the church's Circle 5 Club, and the church's Craft Class. She also held membership with the Elks in Pottsville.

Surviving are her husband of 57 years, Francis a daughter, Sarah Ann Hamilton, Midland, Texas; a sister, Kathryn Wolfkeil, Arizona; two grandsons, three great-granddaughters, nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be in Schuylkill Memorial Park, Schuylkill Haven. The Pugh Funeral Home, Pottsville, has charge of arrangements. Death notice MACUS At his residence, Monday, August 29, 1994, Joseph F.

Macus. Funeral Friday at 9:30 A.M. from the Weber Funeral Home, 1619 Hamilton Allentown, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 A.M. in Cathedral of St. Catherine of Sienna.

Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Lower Macungie Township. Calling hours are Thursday from 7 to 09 P.M. Correction Joseph Mullee and not Joseph Miller, served as a pallbearer for the funeral of Mary P. Brislin, 919 W. 20th Hazleton, who died Saturday afternoon at her residence.

Card of Thanks JOHN T. URISHIN, SR. We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the recent death of our beloved father, John T. Urishin, Sr. Special thanks to Dr.

James and the Paramedics and ER staff for their excellent care and treatment of our father at Hazleton General Hospital. Also, thank you to the staff of Lehigh Valley Medical Center, Allentown, and to all our family and friends for their kindness and support during our time of sorrow. The Family Of JOHN T. URISHIN, SR. IRA (Continued from page 1) Hnatin, Halenar and JeTaime "Lee" Rau, 16, of Penn Forest Township, who was a front-seat passenger, were driving to the practice which was scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.

They were headed to the home of a fourth player, Michael Monteleone, to take him to practice with them when the accident occurred around 4:10 p.m. Halenar and Rau, both bleeding, were transported to Gnaden Huetten Hospital in Lehighton where they were treated for injuries and released. Adam Sieminski, Jim Thorpe's head football coach, said he and members of the team were "devastated" by news of the tragedy. All that was known when practice began was that there had been an accident a short distance from the field. However, shortly after practice began, Sieminski was informed by the school's athletic director that Hnatin had died and then huddled team members together and informed them.

Then the coaches, members of the team and members of the school's band who were practicing nearby knelt down and recited The Lord's Prayer. Hnatin had lived with his mother and stepfather, Susan and Martin Coughlin. His mother is an elementary teacher in the Jim Thorpe School District. Sieminski called Hnatin "a very nice, well-mannered boy a good athlete" and said he was "coming along real well in football." It was Hnatin's first season out for football and he had been practicing with the team since sessions began almost three weeks ago. The team's opening game is in Minersville on Friday night.

Kmart (Continued from page 1) centers" to be introduced na- tionwide. "It's kind of like a pilot, a test," said Mattioli, who lives in Sugarloaf. "We're going to see how it works in the next few months, and then make a decision." The outlet store will employ 20 to 25 people. Mattioli said it will sell clearance merchandise, including discontinued and out- -season items, at "very good" reduced prices. "It's all first-quality merchandise," he said.

At the Laurel Mall mall, Kmart becomes one of three anchor stores, taking the space previously occupied by Ames. An expansion and renovation project is under way at Boscov's, and J.C. Penney will open its doors by Oct. 12, when the mall will hold a grand reopening celebration. The new store, Kmart's 120th in Pennsylvania, includes a pharmacy, enclosed garden shop, portrait studio and Little Caesars restaurant.

It will offer more than 67,700 different retail items including family fashions, hardware, sporting goods, and health and beauty care goods. "This is retailing of the 21st century," James Boyle, executive vice president of the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce, said as he looked into the retail area. "The downtown store served an important purpose, it was a "Midnight tonight was the first step towards lasting peace," said John Hume, the moderate Catholic leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party. British Prime Minister John Major said the IRA's Wednesday pledge to stop attacks on Protestants and British troops in Northern Ireland was "very but called for an "unambiguous statement that violence is over." However, Sir Patrick Mayhew, the British Cabinet official responsible for Northern Ireland, today said Britain would settle for less. He said the IRA could, for example, simply say that Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds was correct in his assessment that the cease-fire is complete and "that there can be no going back." IRA units carried out three reported gun attacks in the two hours before the cease-fire deadline, but no one was hurt, police said.

Leaders of Protestant groups known as "unionists" for their desire to keep Northern Ireland part of Great Britain immediately called the cease-fire inadequate, saying the IRA needed to make it permanent and hand over its weapons before its political wing, Sinn Fein, could join talks. "Unionist parties will not be sitting down with Sinn Fein before Christmas. That is just complete nonsense," said Chris McGimpsey, a key strategist for the Ulster Unionists, the largest pro-British party. "We can get caught up in the euphoria if we want, and in six months' time we'll be brought down to earth with a bump. The reality is that the communities have been torn asunder principally by the IRA," said Gregory Campbell, a leading member of the extremist Democratic Unionist Party.

good store. This obviously is going to be much bigger and much better." As part of the opening ceremony, Kmart presented a check for $3,000 to the Helping Hands Society for Disabled Children and Adults (formerly Easter Seals). It was accepted by John Seamon, executive director, and Chad Wallace, 1994 poster child. Mattioli explained that the money would be raised through a raffle for a $1,000 shopping spree. The Rev.

John Manno, pastor of St. John Bosco Church in Conyngham, blessed the store by writing the initials of the three wise men above the door and praying that "all those who enter these doors find a spirit of hospitality." Mussich said the store will be open until 10 o'clock this evening and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Labor Day. The store's grand opening will be held Sunday.

Regular hours, beginning Tuesday, will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Conduct charge David Sipple, 30, of North Vine Street, was cited for disorderly conduct Tuesday morning following a disturbance at 10 W. Chestnut Hazleton. He will have 10 days to answer the charge before District Justice Leonard Harvey in city hall..