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I Temperatures Overnight low 52 Noon recording: 72 THE Weather Partly cloudy, not as warm tonight. Mild Sunday; highs upper 70s to mid 80s. republic VOL. LXXVIII. NO.

241 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and Mt. Jewett. Saturday, June 26. 1971 TWELVE CENTS A COPY fiMCMININ IT viiiiuituuiiii nuniuui er Withholding for New Korean War Started Twenty one Years Ago By K. P.

HONG Associated Press Writer SEOUL UP) Twenty one years ago Friday North Korea invaded South Korea and started the Korean War. Occasional clashes still interrupt the uneasy peace along the 151 mile frontier between the two nations. fate Income Tax Stopped Already Collected to Be Retained StfY Herein Detection Test for Gl Proving Very Successful WASHINGTON US) The new heroin detection test now administered to all GIs leaving Vietnam has already proven itself an effective, hard to beat means of finding hard drug users, its developers say. The test, pioneered by a civilian laboratory in the nation capital, was described by its developers as 100 times more sensitive than previous methods. It can reliably detect heroin up to five days after a user has had a "fix," they say.

The test is the key to "a revolutionary mass screening technique for the detection of narcotics in the body an a scale never before achieved," said officials of the Washington Laboratory WRL. They said the rapid highly sensitive process, in combination with the best of older methods, is already used by their technicians to screen moire than 2500 urine sampes daily. Mrs. Bette Hamman, the laboratory's chief toxieologist, said many of the samples come from patients already under treatment, or about to enter treatment, at centers dispensing methadone, a chemical designed to wean addicts away from heroin. The method involves mixing a small urine samples less than 20th of a drop with a special reagent.

When the reagent is mixed with a sample containing 'heroin, a recordable configuration of electrons is produced and in seconds, a pen describes lines on graph paper showing the amount of drug in the SOLDIERS' DIG US OUT IN S. VIET By J. T. WOLKE RSTORFE Associated Press Writer CAN THO, South Vietnam AP) The most sweeping crackdown to date against illegal drug use by GIs in South Vietnam is under way in the Mekong Delta. The 18,000 soldiers stationed there are confined to their military compounds except for official business, and soldiers, civilians, vehicles and planes are being thoroughly searched for 13rugs.

In a message to his men explaining the drive. Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman, the U.S.

commander in the Delta, said: "The drug7 problem is serious. We owe it to ourselves and to the American people, now and in future generations, to solve this problem." The drive began without prior notice on Tuesday. In the first three days, a quantity of heroin and marijuana was seized and more than 100 American servicemen were arrested for illegal possession of drugs or for being absent without leave. Vietnamese and American authorities are cooperating in the crackdown. Originally planned for three days, the drive has been extended through next Tuesday and probably will be extended again, sources said.

Officials ordered a thorough search of all persons and all vehicles entering or leaving U.S. military compounds. Every aircraft arriving at a military airfield or landing pad in the delta is subjected to immediate search, as are its crew, passengers and luggage. AFTER KILLING Df STATE INGDIUIE TAX PHILADELPHIA (AP) Bankers had a busy day with holders of checking accounts Friday before Gov. Shapp instructed the Revenue Department not to cash checks representing withheld tax money.

Major banks in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh reported an inordinately large volume of phone calls from employers who wanted payment stopped on checks which represented money they withheld from their employees salaries before the state Supreme Court ruled against the Pennsylvania personal income tax. On Thursday the Supreme Court in effect invalidated these checks by declaring the tax that spawned them the 3.5 per cent state income tax unconstitutional. The levy had been in effect for the past seven weeks. The ink had hardly dried on the Supreme Court ruling before employers got on the phone with their bankers to tell them not to forward to the state the funds withheld in the tax's brief lifetime. "We must honor the customers request," said a spokesman Philadelphia.

The spokesman for the Girard Trust Bank in said all stop payment orders were acted on promptly, a move that became unnecessary when the governor turned the checks back at the state level. Kane East Kane Road Project May Start in 30 Days Hinging on award of the contract, the E. M. Brown, Inc. firm of Clearfield will start work on the Route 321 segments through Kane and East Kane to Kane within 30 days.

The Brown firm yesterday was listed as low bidder on the two segments of the highway construction at $1,652, 027 in which 800 working days allotted could carry the construction into the spring of 1973. Alan Brown, at Clearfield, today said, "The bids are under review at Harrisburg prior to formal contract award. If the low bid is accepted, there will be a pre construction conference and discussions with utilities to determine the starting points." The contract calls for relocation of water, gas and sewer facilities and paving for railroad crossings. Access will be maintained for East Kane and Kane Area Senior High School the official detour from Kane to Lanlz Corners via Route 6 to Route 219 and on Route 219 south to Wilcox. Traffic will be maintained at the Route 6 and construction intersection (Route 321) in Kane.

Since the Route 321 project was started (with the segment 3.8 miles north from Kane started) Route 321 officially dead ends at Route 6 as designated and is listed under legislative route numbers. The Brown firm bid is on Section 13, East Kane to, Kane and Section 5, Biddle Street (Rt. 6) to Kinzua Avenue, joining the present construction project of Putnian Green. Mr. Brown explained that the two segments are listed ior 800 working days.

But, he said, the projects may be completed by next fall. The segment south from East Kane to intersect Route 219 south of the community of Wilcox is tentatively scheduled for bid letting this fall, probably in October. A major phase of the Brown bid is the Route 321 Route 6 intersection at Biddle Street. This involves the grade of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks and also the siding into Affiliated Industries. The intersection will be widened with "islands" providing accesses and exits.

A 600,000 man South Korean force equipped with U.S. Jet fighter bombers, missiles, tanks and artillery stands guard along and below the demilitarized zone set by the 1963 armistice. U.S. soldiers protected 18 miles of the DMZ front until March, when they were pulled back prior to the reduction of U.S. forces in South Korea from 62,000 to 42,000 by July 1.

Across the buffer zone are 466,000 North Korean troops armed with Soviet military equipment, including MIG21 jet fighters, heavy artillery and missiles. South Korean officials claim that North Korea has violated the armistice agreement by building in its half of the buffer zone some 200 concrete bunkers arfd other fortifications armed with automatic weapons. But North Korea's refusal to coop eratfe has stymied the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commis sion and the joint observer teams of the two opposing sides, the agencies created to help enforce the armistice. When the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel at dawn on June 25, 1950, it had 10 combat divisions armed with 500 Soviet tanks and 2,000 artillery pieces. South Korea was defended by 100,000 ill trained men armed with rifles and light machine guns supplied by the United States.

16 Natlon, Force Seoul fell to the invaders in three days and a large part of South Korea was occupied within a month. The United States rushed to South Korea's defense and rallied a 16 nation force under the banner of the United Nations. These forces pushed all the way through North Korea, to the Chinese border, but late in November 1950, 300,000 Chinese Communist troops went into action on two fronts arid within a month had forced the U.N. forces back to the 38th parallel. The war resulted in only slight territorial changes along the 38th parallel.

South Korea gained some land in the middle and eastern portions of the frontier while losing some territory along the west coast. But the three year war wai costly in lives for both sides. About 500,000 South Koreans were killed, 380,000 of them civilians, and 430,000 were wounded. The United States suffered 142,091 casualties, including 33,629 troops killed in action, and spent about $20 billion on the war. Communist lolls were even heavier.

Nearly 300,000 North Korean soldiers and 200,000 Communist Chinese troops were killed, and almost North Koreans and 700,000 Communist Chinese were wounded, according to a U.S. Defense Department estimate. iFI GALLS ISSUED Man Critical of Nixon Policies is 17 MINERS KILLED IN WATER TUNNEL Seeking bodies, rescue workers are lowered into the shaft of a deep water tunnel in which 17 miners were killed in a gas explosion at Sylmar, Calif. The tunnel is 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Summer School to Open iESPIIE DISPUTE II 'Confidence as can' By ROBERT L.

CAMPBELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Apparently satisfied the House and Senate will reconcile differences in the draft law, the Defense Department has announced a quota of 16,000 lor July and August. "It is pruuent planning and gives draft age youths and the Selective Service notice of what's coming," one Pentagon official said Friday. Other defense officials said action was taken because both chambers have approved I Here Next Monday at 8:30 Next Monday, June 28, is the starting date for the expanded Summer School, including the Head Start program, in the Kane Area School District. Two classes, with 15 children in each class, will meet in the Head Start program at Chestnut Street Elementary Schcwl starting at 8:30 a.m. The regular Summer School classes at the senior 'high school will include classes in driver training, health, typing and band starting at 8:30 a.m.

except tor band. Loren Wright, director, has announced the following schedule for band instruction: Elementary students from 8 a.m. until 10, including students who will be in grade five ana six next fall; instructions from 10 a.m. until noon for Junior High and Senior High students and marching band instruction on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Another project, Title One, will involve over 130 grade school children meeting in the Chestnut Street Elementary School.

Transportation will be provided for those children who live too far away from the schools to work with the transportation schedule announced by Robert Boyer the same for Title One, Head Start, Title Six and other Summer School programs, as follows: Minibus leaves Sergeant at 8:05, leaves East Kane at 8:10 and leaves Lamont at Ludlow Bus EsseJ Station 7:55, Texaco Station 8:00, Ludlow School 8:05, Magnet Restaurant 8:15,, Community Hospital 8:17, Mt. City Gulf (Fraley and Oak) Mt. Jewett Bus Johnson Garage 7:50, Red Barn Hill 7:55, Kane Drive In Kane Revival Center 8:15. DeVoiinif Bus Russell City Store 8:00, James City School 8:10, JoJo Road 8:15. Killed by Police CHICAGO Uf) Secret Service officials are investigating the shooting death of James E.

Beavers, 47, of Squire, W.Va., killed in a gun battle with Chicago police. A sister said Beavers was a former mental patient who was strongly critical of President Nixon's Vietnam policies. He was shot to death late Thursday in Grant Park near one of Nixon's scheduled stops on his visit today in Chicago. However, John H. Hanly, special agent in charge of the Chicago Secret Service field office, said there is "no basis" at present for believing that Beavers came to Chicago with the intention of killing the President.

Police said Mrs. Rosemarie Jackson, 42, spotted Beavers carrying a revolver near a busy downtown intersection and reported it to a patrolman who radioed for assistance. Officers ordered Beavers to surrender as he ran into Grant Park, but he fired two shots at them, wounding one policeman in the thumb. Police returned the fire and Beavers fell dead. In a telephone interview, Beavers' sister, Mrs.

Elizabeth Chambers, 57, also of Squire, W. said her brother had a history of mental illness dating to World War II. She said he had been in several mental hospitals since the war. She said her brother left West Virginia Monday without disclosing where he was going. PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania taxpayers learned Friday that the practice of withholding state income tax irom their pay checks will lie discontinued, but that the money already collected will not probably be returned.

The state Supreme Court threw out the state's 3.5 per cent income tax as unconstitutional. Gov. Shapp, commencing what he called a "period of financial stress" for the Commonwealth and his administration, said the $135 million collected from the now defunct income tax will not be returned to the taxpayer. This had been the question in the minds of many. Instead, the revenue will be retained in the state treasury for use as credits against future taxes, Shapp said during a day of staff meetings and public statements in Philadelphia.

He also directed the revenue department to stop collecting further withholding taxes and cashing checks from employers. The state Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the Democratic administration Thursday when in a 5 2 ruling it declared unconstitutional the 3.5 per cent income tax, in effect since March. The court said the levy, which contained credits for the poor and was based on federal personal income reports, ran afoul of the state charter's requirement for uniformity in taxation. Shapp said Friday he will ask the legislature to approve a new tax that would overcome these constitutional objections. i aides and legislators' predicted this would have to be a so called "flat tax" the same percentage to be taken from everyone, rich or poor.

Meanwhile, the governor, an ex industrialist who made a fortune in electronics and said during his campaign he would apply his business talents to politics, pondered what to do about an expected drain on the Commonwealth's bankroll. He said he would ask the legislature for a stop gap program to carry the state from July 1 to Julv 15. "This will give us ample time to pass a tax program and pass our budget," he said. The budget for the fiscal year 1971 72 calls for $3.3 billion in expenditures. The extinct income tax was expected to supply nearly S1.2 billion over 18 months.

Before meeting Friday with his Tax Review Commission, Shapp said he hoped that "we can resolve this crisis without slashing services vital to the well being of our citizens." However, Shapp said "it may be necessary to shut down some, or all of state government unless new revenue programs are enacted in a short period of time." This was an echo of the February March battle for the income tax, when the governor declared state employes would not receive salaries unless the legislature passed the comprehensive revenue raising measure. He got the tax, but with many compromises in his overall reform program, and without the support of ihe large Republican minority in the General Assembly. Shapp emphasized Friday that the effort to restore the vital revenue link between government, the services it renders, and the citizens who receive them and pay for them, will take bipartisan support. He called on all legislators to "lend their cooperation to this urgent task." 'Will Not Reargue' To Shapp the path to rebuilding the state's money raising machinery lay not in the courts, but in the General Assembly. He said the chances for a Supreme Court reversal of its own opinion are "slim." "Therefore I have decided not to file argument," he said, pending further study of the opinion and instead will proceed with all dispatch to seek legislative approval of a new tax plan that would overcome the constitutional objections raised by the court in their decision." The governor had indicated earlier that in addition to a flat tuxor as an alternative to, it the state could increase the current 6 per cent sales tax, eliminating exemptions on food and clothing.

But A. Edward Simon, chairman of Shapp's special tax reform group, said a flat tax would be "the only effective broad bused tax" to replace the 3.5 (Continued on page 8) The First Pennsylvania Bank, the state's largest, said through a spokesman: "Insofar as it is possible to do so we would like to demonstrate as much con fidence in the Commonwealth as we can." The First Pennsylvania, like other institutions, had not made an immediate decision on whether to stop payment on the checks. So it was possible that the Department of Revenue on Friday payday for most workers received untold sums of tax money in the form of checks that a judicial order had made worthless. But other banks, jike Pennsylvania National Bank in Philadelphia, were making efforts to honor the requests. A PNB spokesman said the volume of requests had been "heavy," but the bank was honoring the stop payment requests after receiving a telephone call and a fol lowup letter from those making the requests.

Mellon National Bank and Trust the Pittsburgh Nation al Bank and the Western Pennsylvania National Bank all te ported "quite a few requests," and said they were attempting to honor them. In another development, the Allegheny County commissioners said Friday they will stop withholding the state income tax from the paychecks of county employes, thus becoming the first governmental unit in Pennsylvania to announce it was unilaterally erasing the tax from its ledgers. Tunnel Gas Went Undetected LOS ANGELES UP A spokesman for the builder of a giant tunnel in which a natural methane gas explosoin trapped IS workmen says sophisti ated electronic sensing devices never detected potentially dangerous FOUR BODIES IN OIL CARRIER SUP Fl LORAIN, Ohio UP) Officials were hopeful that by mid morning the bodies of four workmen believed killed in a 141i hour fire that raged in the aft section of a giant ore carrier under construction here can be located after firemen are able to enter the damaged area of the ship. The four men were believed trapped several decks below the wheel room in an area called the inner bottoms when the fire broke out Thursday morning. Estimated temperatures of 2, 500 degrees were reached as the fire raged in the aft of the 858 foot Roger Blough.

Firemen have had to wait until the ship cooled and water and foam used to fight the fire have been pumped out before attempting to search for the missing men. At least 18 persons were overcome by smoke and required hospital treatment. Missing and presumed dead are: Leonard C. Moore 34, Elyria; Clyde R. Burdue, 60, Vermilion, and John D.

Alexander, 28, and George E. Adams, 44, both of Lorain. a two year extension of the draft law, which expires June 30. They expect the differences to be resolved on other aspects of the bill with the final legislation sent to President Nixon during July. The major difference is an amendment in the Senate version calling for a phased withdrawal of U.S.

troops from Vietnam over nine months if all U.S. prisoners of war are U.S. prisoners of war are re cool reception both in conference and on the House floor. But even if the bill should be detained in Congress longor than anticipated, defense officials said the July August quotas could be filled' by college students whose deferments have ended. A spokesman said the usual paper work for the new quotas was being processed but that draft director Curtis W.

Tarr said lie would not issue the call to the states until Congress completes action. Officials said the two month iota will be equally divided July and August. This falls well within Secretary of Defense Mevin R. Laird's prediction last April that draft calls for the rest of 1971 would not top 10,000 a month. The new calls represent a 20 per cent drop from the combined May June calls of 20,000.

President Nixon has said he wants a "zero draft" by mid 1973, when the pending two year draft extension would expire. Some officials, however, including outgoing Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor, have expressed doubt the all volunteer Army can be attained in two years. Girl Jailed in County Drug Case SMETHPORT A Bradford young woman, Ellen Louise Somers, 19, has be. remanded to the county jail here on a charge of violation of the Dangerous Drug, Device and Cosmetic act.

She was arraigned yesterday before District Magistrate Joseph Frampton of Bradford. THE STOCK MARKET NEW YORK UP) Stock market prices edged lower Friday in what Was the second slowest trading day of the year. Medina Will Go On Trial in July FT. McPHERSON, Ga. (AP) Capt.

Ernest Medina, no longer facing the death penalty, is scheduled to go on trial July 26 on murder charges stemming from an infantry sweep through the Vietnamese village of My Lai nearly three and a half years ago. The Army announced Friday that Medina would be court martialed on a noncapital basis. Shortly before, Col. Kenneth Howard of Atlanta, the military judge, denied defense dismissal motions and ruled that Medina must stand trial. Howard initially set the data as July 19 but changed it at the request of Maj.

William Eck hardt, the prosecutor. Ludlow Ladies Have Work Cut Out for Centennial Eckhardt announced the Aimy decision not to seek death penaty. FAMED SCIENTIST DEAD ALEXANDER, Va. UP) Dr. Addison M.

Rothrock, 58, retired associate director of plans and programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, died Thursday. As a scientist end administrator Rothrock contributed to significant advances in combustion technology. A i 'b j4' r' li I i rv 'w wM .1 Swimmer Hampered By Severe Sunburn EAST BRADY, Pa. Russell Chaffee; 44 year old high school teacher attempting to swim the length of the Allegheny River, left Lock No. 9 just south of here Friday for Kittan ning on another leg of his 214 mile trip.

Although behind schedule, Chaffee had hoped to make up mileage by swimming longer each day. But, hampered by a severe sunburn, he was forced to abandon all hope of reaching Pittsburgh by Friday. Chaffee says he will interrupt his swim to attend a meeting in Harrisburg today, but will return to the river Sunday and, hopefully, complete the swim at Pittsburgh Wednesday. Go ahead Given for Apollo 15 Mission LArE Flu. UP) The Apollo 15 launch team has been given the go ahead to proceed with preparations for blastoff to the moon July 26.

Apollo Program Director Dr. Rocco A. Petrone decided to proceed after a nine hour flight readiness review in which all aspects of the mission were assessed. The next major milestone is a week long countdown demonstration test slated July 7 14. Making the flight will be astronauts David R.

Scott, James B. Irwin and Alfred M. Worden. X. MONDAY.

JUNE 28th 12 to 6 P.M. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH pictured are members of the general committee servint! on the Ludlow Centennial celebration which is expected to attract hundreds of, visitors to Wildcat Park Jaly 3 and 4. Left to right. Agnes Ross, Lena Okruch, Dorothy Spilka, Mildred Morelli, Wilda Cochran, Millie Anderson, Maybelle Nelson, Marg Walters and Phyllis Davidson, CotA.