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NEW CASTLE NEWS, FRIDAY, MAMS I Council TWO 4 Allied losses are costly 275 enemy killed in Viet battles approves program City council last night approved New Castle's workable program. Mayor Carl A. Cialella Jr. will submit the program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today.

Councilman Richard H. Biddle questioned why a workable program was not submitted to HUD by March the date when the old program expired. He also asked what effect it had on headquarten said the BOO allied troopers, outnumbered two-to-one battled their way out of the trap earlier in the week alter helicopters brought in reinforcements. 1W Bodies Fowd Military spokesmen said at least 1SS Communist bodies were found later on the battlefield but three Green Berets were killed and nine wounded, with 100 South Vietnamese wounded and no count on their dead. Four smaller clashes were reported in the five northern provinces comprising I.

Corps. "Two U.S. Marine pacification teams killed of the guerrillas who attacked their outposts near coastal Tam Ky, military spokesmen said. There were no U.S. casualties.

In the two other encounters, an American reconnaissance team called in artillery barrages on to North Vietnamese troops, killing 22, and other Marines reported 10 Reds slain in a skirmish near An Hoa. American BS2 bombers followed up the Saigon-area fighting with raids against Communist bivouacs around where U.S: and South Vietnamese soldiers have mounted one of the biggest offensives of the war to blunt a threat to the capital. The closest raid to Saigon was 24 miles west of the city near the Cambodian border, war communiques said. two fierce ground dashes ai least 300 miles apart. U.S.

Moines behind divj bombers and tanks crashed into a North Vietnamese base camp three miles south of the DMZ Thursday and in several hours of fighting killed 120 Communists, front reports said. The North Vietnamese defenders, with machine guns and antitank rockets implanted in bunker dugouts, killed 14 of the Leathernecks and wounded another 60. On an infiltration route 38 miles northeast of Saigon, U.S. Special Forces troopers and hundreds of their Vietnamese mercenary sidekicks inarched into a trap between two Communist base camps. Delayed reports from allied BJ- JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI) American and South Vietnamese soldiers today reported 275 Communists slain in battles below the Demilitarired Zone (DMZ) and on an approach to Saigon but not without costly allied losses.

Pushing into the 34th day of their nationwide offensive, the guerrillas shelled at least 20 towns and military outposts overnight, causing what military spokesmen called light overall losses. Among the major American bases hit were U.S. 9th Infantry Division headquarters in the Mekong Delta, a camp near Tay Ninh City northwest of Saigon, and Army headquarters for the northern provinces in Phu Bai. The major developments were US IV backs government PITTSBURGH (UPI) The United Stedworkers Union has strongly endorsed the government's Intervention in a Dallas conglomerate's takeover or Jones It Laughlin Steel Corp. I.

W. Abel, president of the 1.2-nullion member USW, said he was opposed to the buildup of huge conglomerates reaching into various industries. He said some steel Brow already have been hurt. The Justice Department announced earlier this week it would file an antitrust suit by April 15 seeking to force Ling-Temco-Vought to divest itself of interest in ti L. Abel said the USW would support laws that justly prevent the continuing expansion of conglomerates He said an acquisition of old Wheeling Steel Corp.

by Hunt Foods and Industries Inc. was harmful to Wheeling. Hunt divested its interests in Wheeling Steel in IW7 and the steel firm since has merged with Pittsburgh Steel Co. CHARGE request is denied Worker killed; 3 hurt HARRISBURG (UPI) A construction worker was killed and three others injured Thursday when struck by 100-foot falling steel beams at the site of construction of the new East Pennsboro Junior High School in nearby Enola. Carl R.

Miller, SO, PottsviOe, was pronounced dead on arrival at Harrisburg Hospital. The Injured were Dennis Miller, 20, Robesonia RR. Samuel Zimmerman, 25, of Shiremanstown and Gorge E. Lopuhovsky, 43, of Highsplre. Lopuhovsky was released after treatment and the other two were reported in satisfactory condition.

Police, conducting an investigation with the state Labor and industry Department, said it was believed three of the girders fell about 30 feet to the ground and struck the men as a crane was setting another in place on the steel skeleton of the building. projects financed by HUD. President Thomas A. Shumaker said there was a delay because the city formerly filed a program each year. Beginning this year, however, reports' will be submitted every two years.

Also, at the time of the expiration date HUD made additions that cities bad to comply with, Shumaker said. The city met those specifications this week. Shumaker also pointed out that the project 150 units of low rent housing for the elderly on W. Moody Ave. and a grant to purchase buses has been held lip because of the city's delay in submitting a program.

Council also received bids for completion of work at the new garbage garage on East Brook Rd. They are Bailey Oil heating, A Heating and Plumbing heating, Bruce Metrites Electric electric, $494; George C. Stevens, erection of steel roof, and Augustine Heating and Air Conditioning, plumbing and heating, $6,920. The latter two firms did not submit checks, cash or bonds. In other action, council: Approved the purcliase of a breatholyzer at $932.

The equipment will be used to determine if criminal suspects or traffic violators are under the influence of alcohol. Okayed the purchase of 49 coats and 32 fur hats for policemen at 10 fire hydrants at about $100 each; and $899 for reconditioning of lawn mowers. Agreed to pay an additional $80 per month to the Kwiatkowski brothers for the landfill. The city had been paying $1,100 per month. Introduced an ordinance to purchase four salt spreaders from George Davis Equipment t.

Received information from solicitor Maurice Levinton that the city's first demolitibn grant which still contains about $5,000 has been extended from Jan. 1 to June 1. Also, Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will meet with local representatives on the removal of the freight station al S. Mill and Division streets. Approved payment $12,000 to the city Recreation Board.

The payment was included among the weekly bills. Chinese shell Soviets MOSCOW (UPIJ-Red China shelled Soviet positions on their troubled border and Russian troops repelled a Chinese patrol, the Soviet Union said today. The Communist party newspaper Pravda said every mortar the Chinese lobbed onto Soviet troops sewed more "hostility and hatred" on disputed Damansky Island, where the two have fought at least four times this month. A Pravda correspondent, CoL Sergei Bonneko, reported the renewed sheflinp and said a Chinese reconnaissance patrol "penetrated on the island (but) they were stopped by our fire. At, dawn our armored carriers returned from their patrol." Borzneko did not say when the shellings occurred but quoted a Soviet commander as warning that the Chinese were planting "dragon teeth" with every salvo.

"This means they are sowing hostility and hatred," Pravda said. The Chinese are fortifying military positions across from another island in the Ussuri River, Bonneko reported. He said "the sound of earth works" could be heard across the river from Kirinsky Island, where the Chinese are "equipping a command post and setting up lines of communication. Soviet frontier troop officers sleep in their uniforms in preparation for renewed battle with the Chinese, the paper said. The Communist giants first clashed March 2, with numerous casualties.

Airliner Broader talks requested PARIS (UPII U.S. and South Vietnamese negotiators want to include in the Vietnam talks the subject of Communist troops in Laos and Cambodia, allied diplomats said today. They said that unless the Laotian and Cambodian problems are resolved, the conference will not achieve lasting peace In Southeast Asia. The first hint the two neighboring countries of Vietnam would become an issue in the current talks came Thursday when both the United States and South Vietnam accused North Vietnam of infiltrating troops into Laos and Cambodia. Price of Peace Pham Dang Lam, the chief South Vietnamese negotiator, went so far as to say that the price of a peace settlement included the withdrawal of all North Vietnamese "regular and subversive forces" from Laos and Cambodia as well as from South Vietnam.

U.S. chief negotiator Henry Cabot- Lodge did not demand withdrawal of Communist troops from the two countries at Thursday's 10th session of the talks, but complained that "40,000 North Vietnamese troops are deployed in Laos, fighting and otherwise interfering in Laos affairs." He said the North Vietnamese also arc daily violating Cambodia's territorial integrity. more. Shown from left are Ralph Vitale; Mrs. Pietrina Em, Mrs.

Calana and Amanda Euo. The Euo's live In Pieteiamdara Caierta, Italy and are taktoi a year to vtttt retattvet ta ttw FAMILY REUNION Ralph Vitale of Ml S. Mill St. and bis sister, Mrs. Madeline Calana of 112 E.

Home were surprised recently when they were visited by their sister and her husband, whom they hadn't seen in 50 years or The county commissioners have refused a $10,000 request from CHARGE Inc. the county code does not permit such allocations, according to county "solicitor Edwar M. Rea. The commissioners received a letter from Martin J. Kovach, CHARGE president, which requested financial support from the county to supplement $43,000 in funds granted by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

The anti-Poverty agency's board of directors adopted a $60,000 budget Wednesday with the OEO funds, $10,000 from the county, $5,000 from the city and $2,000 from Ellwood City Included in expected receipts. The commissioners referred the request to Rea for an opinion. Rea told The News yesterday, "There is no provision in the law for allocations to an agency such as CHARGE." He said the county code specifically spells out the organizations to which county monies can be allotted. D. John Razzano, executive director of CHARGE, said he will wait for a written opinion from Rea and then refer it to the agency's solicitor.

City council last night said it will wait to see what action the county takes. EUwood city officials were not available for comment on the matter. Biafran conclave started LAGOS, Nigeria (UPI)-Bri-tish Prime Minister Harold Wilson today started the first full day of talks with the Nigerian government officials as part of his all-out effort to end the Biafran war and ease the suffering of its millions of civilian victims. Wilson, who flew here from London Thursday, began the day with a scheduled three-hour formal meeting with Maj. Gen.

Yakubu Gowon, the federal Nigerian chief of state. After the meeting with Gowon, the British prime minister was to fly to Enugu, former capital of secessionist Biafra which is now in federal hands, to take a first hand look at relief work being carried out by government forces. Informed British sources said Wilson and Gowon were to review prospects of a peace settlement and what assistance Britain could give. Also on the agenda were the shipment of i feed and medical supplies to war areas. Kennedy, Dirksen duel; old pro has last word By WILLIAM B.

MEAD his first witness, Clifford' L. Alexander, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Worthless checks passed An unidentified man 25 to 30 years old passed three worthless checks totalling $1,515 at Peoples Bank of Western Pennsylvania in Westgale Plaza yesterday. Of that amount, the man kept $410 and deposited the rest in an account belonging to another person. State police said the checks were drawn on three North Carolina Banks. Youth services set The New Castle Area Christian Youth Council is again sponsoring early morning church services for those students at area high schools If any high school is not listed or there is doubt about time and place contact the Rev.

Ed Hartman of the Clen-Moore UP Church. New Castle High School will be meeting at the Highland UP Church from 7:55 to 8:15 a.m. Washington will meet at the Clen-Moore Church at their usual time. For information on Ben Franklin School services, contact the Rev. Jack Parsons and for Neshannock students contact the Rev.

Ross Byers. Services will be held on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next veek. Rights Act passed. But he said Alexander was misusing it. Alexander, a Negro, kept calm and told Dirksen Negroes and other minority groups were harassed much worse than businessmen.

"It's important that the law be enforced," he said. Kennedy did not intemipt when Dirksen threatened to have Alexander fired. But when Dirksen kept it up, Kennedy finally stepped In. "Mr. Alexander, 1 just want to say I hope no one has been threatened in here this morning for trying to do their job," Kennedy said.

"I just wonder how many blacks, Mexican-Americans and Indians can take the time to come to Washington and tell about their discrimination, their harassment." To which Dirksen replied: "I listened with interest to your sermon I wouldn't hurt a with Smiles This confrontation ended with smiles on both sides, but Dirksen got in the last word by warning Alexander, "There are 100 members of the Senate and they have been doing some thinking WASHINGTON (UPI) -It was the classic confrontation between the old pro and tlie rising young star, the voice of experience and the seeming voice of innocence, the king and the prince. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Senate Democratic Whip Edward M. Kennedy met in duel. It was all done with the impeccable courtliness senators show each other.

But a duel it was. And when it was all over, Dirksen, elected to Congress when Teddy Kennedy was 8 months old, had captured what Kennedy had elaborately planned for himself. Committee Chairman Kennedy is chairman of a rather unobtrusive subcommittee on Senate administrative practices and procedures. In his statement he said he planned to use the subcommittee as his vehicle for keeping "a constant vigil" on the Nixon administration's civil rights practices. On the first day of two days of hearing, Dirksen showed up.

It was an unlikely place for him to be. After the opening statement and formalities Kennedy called Commission (EEOC) and a holdover from the Johnson administration; Then Dirksen took over. Exercises Right With Kennedy looking on, Dirksen exercised his right to talk for as long as he wanted. Kennedy fidgeted, whispered tD an aide, and occasionally interrupted Dirksen. It was no use.

Dirksen criticized Alexander for "carnival hearings out in Los Angeles" when the EEOC investigated movie industry discrimination. With three witnesses still to go, Kennedy looked at the dock and gently interrupted Dirksen. "I hope we'll have an opportunity to hear the other witnesses sometime in the course of the day," Kennedy said. "We're in no hurry, Mr. Chairman," Dirksen repbed.

He continued questioning Alexander and told him businessmen had visited his office Ui complain of harassment by the EEOC. Dirksen said he "took my skin in my hands" to break a filibuster and set the 19fi4 Civil report divided WASHINGTON (UPI) The report President Nixon receives today on the Supersonic Transport (SST) contains to support my decision he may make an Ihc future of Ihe controversial project. As now planned, the SST would carry 300 passengers at speeds of up to miles an hour. The report is the product of a 10-memher subcabinet committee seL up by Nixon to review the SST. "Some of the members of the review committee were in favor of going ahead, some were not.

and some wanted to proceed in a more leisurely fashion," said James M. Beggs, undersecretary ol transportation. Beggs said today the review committee held its final meeting Tuesday. Each member submitted a letter to Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe giving his decision on the SST.

Sealab project I continues SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI)- Kj The Navy will go ahead with its Sealab DI project to test man's ability to live and work in the mean depths despite the death of aquanaut Berry Cannon. Rear Adm. P. D.

Waters oceanographer of the Navy, announced ''The decision has been made that, regardless of $: this rather serious setback, we are going ahead with the project." ji The undersea research pro- gram was suspended indefinite- 3 ly after Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning Feb. 17 as he swam to the Seatab habitat 610 f. feet below the surface of the Pacific off Southern California. A Navy spokesman said no target date for resumption of the project has been set. The project manager, Capt.

William Nicholson, said earlier it would not be before fall, ifjj Officials were awaiting the findings and recomrRcnndatlons of a Navy board of officers that investigated Cannon's death. I Motorist is charged ji William J. Buiney, 57, of 1107 Summit St. has been charged Sja with reckless driving after he was involved in a two-cnr crash at 5:12 p.m. yesterday at Long and Cleaiview avenues, 5 Police said William Ango, IS, 6 of 428 E.

Reynolds St. was driving east on Long Ave. and Leader says President does not understand the poor Abernathy reluctant to criticize Nixon City pays off loan Payment of $100,533 to Citizens National Bank was approved by city council last night. The money $100,000 was borrowed earlier this year to meet expenses before tax money was received. It was borrowed at three per cent interest.

Training program started HARRISBURG (UPI) Pennsylvania has undertaken a massive 24-week employment training program for 700 low income parsons in hopes of breaking the "poverty cycle." Gov. Raymond P. Shafer announced the project Thursday explaining it would attempt "to provide work experience for these citizens and st the same time provide them with an income that is equal to the work accomplished." The $950,000 program started Monday is sponsored by the Public Welfare Department the Bureau of Employment Security, the Department of Public Instruction and county boards of assistance. It involves Neighborhood Youth Corps projects and the Public Welfare Department's new careers program. "The major point is that we are trying to break' the poverty cycle in which many of these public assistance families are caught by providing young people with lobs that have a future," Shafersaid.

Training In Anna at lA who are affluent makes the poverty situation harder for him to understand, Abernathy said. At a meeting at the Pittsburgh Press Club, Abernathy was asked to comment on the Nixon administration in terms of its progress in areas of racial difficulty, peace and poverty. Abernathy said he should not comment yet because the administration is too new to judge it fairly. Abernathy will announce the second part of his Poor People's Campaign next Friday in Memphis, Term. The goals will will be attainable with support of Congress, according to AbtT- By JOSEPH BARSOTTI News Staff Writer PITTSBURGH Although he was reluctant to criticize President Nixon before area newsmen last night, the Rev.

Ralph Abernathy said afterward that Nixon does not understand the plight of the poor people. Abernathy, who heads (he-Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Poor People's Csmpaign, said Nixon fails to understand because he himself Is an affluent person. The fact that Ninn surround himself with Cabinet members and other government officials nathy. After last night's speech Abernathy made reference to the Memphis trip last April when the Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King was gunned down.

He said it was the only time in all of King's travels that security officers had checked his plane for the possibility of a bomb. Abernathy painted a gloomy picture of the United States in his speech. He said there Is little transition between the promises of freedom offered in the Constitution and reality. When questioned afterward on recent progress in this transition between promise and reality Abernathy admitted that some significant things had happened. Every neV freedom gained Jjy black people is important, he said.

Apparently Abernathy was not well last He complained of an ulcer bothering him. Over a bowl of soup he explained some of his heavy responsibilities. He said that he has little lime to spend with his family. He lives in Atlanta, and is a minister a church there. Abernathy not paid to be the president of SCLC.

He said his personal Income comes from his church. mental hospitals, institutions for the retarded restoration centers and general hospitals. The state nmvirfM 4n nr ni u.v. federal government making up the rest. when Buiney attempted to pass..