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THE UCM Weather Clear, cold tonight Partly cloudy Thursday with highs in low and mid 50. VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 190 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and Mt Jewett.

Pa Wednesday. April 28. 1971 TWELVE CENTS A COPY Temperatures Overnight low 31 Noon recording 4.5 HEPUB 'ED TROOPS iniiX illions in nmr.Mi 'turn nicr 3 Tornadoes Cause UMIUinL IILLU IflLUL FORM 'CARPET OF BODIES' Hundreds Arrested in Protest at Washington WASHINGTON UP) Police arrested about 200 antiwar activists today after they blr, ked the main entrance of the Selective Service System's headquarters building. The youths, protesting at the building for the second straight day, formed what they called "a carpet of bodies' in front of the ISEIIffl' Try i i By GARY MIHOCES Associated Press Writer damages in Lenirai doors. main SUSPECTED E' Of WIR5 Gi i miiit af birr rlSTfuTm wt f.htf IT I I If IfllmffRI IN REPORTING DEATHS it Bv GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Waves of U.S.

warplanes attacked enemy positions on three fronts today in support of Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong eased their attacks in South Vietnam after four days of shelling, but struck anew in strength along Cambodia's highway to the sei. R'Jand to hand fighting was re Jrted 55 miles southwest of Phnom Penh along Highway 4. Informants in Saigon said U.S. fighter bombers attacked North Vietnamese positions in the region in efforts to ease the pressure on the Cambodians.

More than 100 miles to the northeast, U.S. B52 bombers hammered North Vietnamese bases in eastern Cambodia near Highway 7 and around the giant Chup rubber plantation. Informants said there has been increased enemy activity in the region. The B52 raids were in support of both Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops operating across Highway 7 in efforts to keep enemy forces from pushng southward into the heartland of Cambodia and South Vietnam. The U.S.

Command also announced that more than 300 American helicopter missions were flown in eastern Cambodia Tuesday in support of several South Vietnamese task forces operating there. As many as 60 B52 bombers were in action in, Indochina Tuesday and today, dropping 1,800 tons of bombs on North Vietnamese bases, troop con i I I 43 I 1 Employes arriving early were told by the protesters they could enter the building but only if they walked over the demonstrators, lying face down as symbols of those killed in the Vietnam war. The arrests were orderly and began after police issued two warnings. As the arrests were being made at draft headquarters, other demonstrators were at the Internal Revenue Service handing cut leaflets without incident. Pridr to today's demonstration, Chief Jerry V.

Wilson of the District of Columbia police department, said persons attempting to block employes from entering draft headquarters would be arrested. 'Spring Campaign' The demonstrations, organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, are part of a spring campaign to persuade Congress and the Nixon administration to end the war in Vietnam. Draft Director Curtis W. Tarr met with eight demonstrators Tuesday and authorized Selective Service employes to leave the building and talk with protesters. An estimated 150 demonstrators prevented several workers from re entering the building after lunch.

They allowed employes to leave at the end of the day but kept chanting, "Don't come back" and "Join us." Tarr, despite his 6 foot 7 stature, walked out of the building without being recognized. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare, planned target of demonstrators Thursday, announced it will provide meeting rooms for the protesters, and employes will answer questions about the agency. it MOURNED BY CHINA Nationalist China is mourning the death of T. V. Soong (above), 77.

He died at a party in San Francisco. He once was one of the most powerful figures in Nationalist China and was the brother of Madame Chiang Kai shek. 4 PITTSBURGH (AP) A former member of the United ne Workers District 5 executive board has testified in federal court he knowingly submitted a false expense voucher for $1,870 and turned the cash over to a district official. Marion Pellegrini made admission Tuesday afternoon at the trial of two District 5 officials, President Michael 'Budzanoski and Secretary Treasurer John Seddon. Both are charged with conspiracy and three counts each of falsifying financial statements.

Pellegrini was one of four board members named as coconspirators but not indicted in the case. He said Budzanoski asked him to fill out the false voucher at a meeting in February 1969. Seddon and the three other board members were present at the time, he said. "President Budzanoski had just returned from Washington where he said he obtained $10. 000 to be used in President (W.

"Tony" Boyle's campaign fund," Pellegrini testified. "He (Budzanoski) told the other three board members and myself to submit vouchers indicating certain expenses, either for organizing drives or to prevent strikes. We were instructed to keep them within a $2,000 limit." Pellegrini said he turned in a voucher for $1,870 and received a check in that amount Mar. 20, 1969. He said he cashed the check the same, day and gave Seddon the money.

The following is part of Pellegrini's testimony under questioning by U.S. justice Department Attorney Tom Henderson: Q. "Where did you get the figures for the voucher?" A. "They were all made up." Q. ''Did you spend any of the money you spent in the voucher?" A.

didn't spend a cent of it." Q. "What happened to the money after you gave it to Jha Seddon?" A. "I never saw it again." Cross Examination Today Pellegrini, who served on the district board 28 years before ho was defeated in an election earlier this year, was to be cross examined today. The trial began Monday before U.S. District Judge Hubert I.

Teitelbaum. Indictments returned by a federal grand jury last August charge Budzanoski and Seddon with funneling about $8,500 of union money into Boyle successful 1969 campaign to retain the UMW presidency. The only witness to testify Tuesday morning was John J. Murphy, assistant director of the Labor Department's Division of Enforcement Analysis. He identified documents allegedly submitted to the Labor Department by District 5 centrations, antiaircraft sites, 12 DIE IN OLD APARTMENT FIRE Twelve persons, mostly elderly, died when flames soared through the old apartment building in Seattle, and 10 others were injured.

Firemen said the blaze apparently was started by a misplaced cigarette. No Bid Letting Tomorrow Kane's Segment of Route 321 Delayed There will be no hid opening on the Route 321 projeet via Kane south to Elk County tomorrow. PennDOT district offices at Clearfield today confirmed to this office that the project is ready and awaits approval of the Public Utilities Commission on the changes involved to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad siding adjacent the intersection. There is no date set for the bid opening on the project which extends from the new construction on Route 321 north at Kinzua Avenue south via Hacker Street through East Kane. Leonard Moore, deputy district engineer of the Clear field District, said, "We have completed our right of way and engineering on the project which will be finalized by the PUC action on the railroad crossing." He added, "We will now await action from central (PennDOT) offices in "ker complexes, truck parks I infiltration corridors.

The B52s also struck along By JAMES PHILLIPS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. William D. Ford says the military's explanation of the recent rise of noncombat deaths in Vietnam has not allayed suspicions the Pentagon is engaging In a "grisly numbers game" to hide true horrors of the war. In a letter to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, the Michigan Democrat asked if the vPentagon is deliberately counting some combat deaths as accidental "just to show a lower killed in action rate for political purposes." According to Ford's figures, the number of noncombat deaths per 1,000 men rose from a low of 1.95 in 1965 to 3.57 in 1968, 4.45 in 1969 and 5.5 in 1970. By comparison, the Pentagon listed 4.43 noncombat deaths per 1,000 men in 1965 3.38 in 1966; 3.78 in 1967; 3.66 in 1968; 4.04 in 1969 and 4.73 in 1970.

The difference apparently is that Ford's calculations are based on the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam during a full year; the Pentagon bases its figures on the average monthly number of soldiers. Ford reported the weekly ratio of noncombat deaths per 1, 000 men hit a peak of 6.96 during a six week period earlier this year. The increase prompted Ford to ask if "the bodies of our dead in Indochina are being used in some sort of grisly numbers game to make the casualty lists more acceptable." In his letter to Laird, Ford said: "I do not raise the questions lightly nor without detailed study of the facts involved." Asst. Defense Secretary Robert C.

Moot, in replying to Ford Tuesday, said: "The casualty lists are not now and never have been manipulated for any purpose whatsoever." Moot said figures based on average monthly troop strength "give a more realistic picture and result in a fairly constant rate for the years 1965 1970 Ford, however, contended Tuesday: "The basic fact still exists that the ratio of noncombat deaths has shown a drastic increase in the past two years, both in relation to total dea.hs and in relation to troop totals." And, in another letter to Laird, he said, "Your reply has not allayed my suspicions." He asked the secretary for a monthly breakdown on troop totals and deaths in Southeast Asia in order to make his own comparisons. Ford said he began his study after reading of an Ohio youth whose death in Vietnam was attributed by Army authorities to a sunstroke. An autopsy showed three bullet holes in the soldier's body. 10 Persons Killed; Over 100 Injured By BILL WINTER Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, Ky. (AP) Three tornadoes, following erratic routes through south central Kentucky killed 10 persons, injured more than KM) and caused damage estimated at millions of dollars late Tuesday.

The destruction was concentrated in three areas along an 80 mile east west path. Six deaths were reported in Adair County, two in Russell County and two in the Butler Warren counties section about 80 miles west of Columbia, the Adair County seat. "It was just like a vacuum cleaner sucking up everything in sight," reported Cary Eaton, a Civil Defense official from Green County. Eaton reported seeing autos "hanging in trees like Christmas ornaments." The first twister was reported near South Hill, northwest of Bowling Green, about 10 p.m., then skipped along a 10 mile path, causing damage at PJch ardsville and Reedyville and near Morgantown. Approximately one hour later, a tornado moved through Casey and Adair counties, where the damage appeared heaviest.

The third hit northern Russell County near the community of Salem, about 20 miles east of Columbia. The wide areas between the tornadoes, including Bowling Green, were drenched by heavy rains, leaving accumulations of water up to four feet deep. In describing the havoc at Salem community, Eaton snid, "It was definitely a twister. It would hit one house, then skip a house or garage, then move on to another." The U.S. Corps of Engineers sent teams into the area to assess the damage, which state police said would run into the millions of dollars.

In Frankfort, Gov. Louie B. Nunn reported two National Guard helicopters into duty for a tour of the area. The governor's office said the National Guard had been notified, but had not been placed on alert. William L.

Waker, civil defense director in Adair County, said he was at the scene where some victims were found. "One body was blown about 300 feet from a house. It was a woman," he said. "Another body, a woman, was blown about 100 feet away and there was a child blown from a house at another place." Nancy Powell, 71, told police at a hospital in Bowling Green that winds from a tornado had blown her home down a 600 yard embankment in the town of Dunbar. Illinois Hit, Too In Thompsonville, 111., ona woman was killed and 20 persons were injured by a twister.

Police said the tornado damaged at least six buildings and many homes in the town of 400. Elsewhere in Kentucky, injuries were reDorted in Butler County north of Bowling Green, and police said a tornado dt stroyed a church in Richards ville. In the Salem community, near Jamestown in Russell County, state police said Mr, and Mrs. Bulan Swanson were killed when a tornado destroyed their home. State police reported that 32 persons from the Salem area were treated at the Somerset hospital and 10 were admitted.

Officers said the twister cut a swath about six miles long in that area and varied in widtn from one to IVi miles. Bitter Mate on Vietnam in State House Tuesday By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer HAPJRISBURG UP) In a day when emotional rhetoric overshadowed concrete legislation, the House Tuesday debated the Vietnam War and asked Congress to assume welfare costs. To augment Tuesday's floor debates, two bills with the same explosive potential were introduced: one to prohibit all abortions and another to repeal the new Public Employe Bargaining Law. The Senate, meanwhile, quietly approved 47 0 a proposed U. S.

constitutional amendment to allow 18 21 year old citizens to vote in all elections. Since the House already approved the measure, Pennsylvania became the 22nd state to ratify the proposal. Sixteen additional states are needed for ratification. Both houses have adjourned until Monday. The highlight of the House session was a bitter 90 minute debate on Vietnam.

After the fury died down, the lawmakers voted 58 135 against balloting on a resolution asking Congress to withdraw all U.S. troops by Dec. 31, 1971. Technically, the vote was on a motion to suspend House rules to allow consideration of the resolution. But even without directly voting on the resolution, the merits of the legislation the war itself, and the state's right to consider the subject were debated at length.

The resolution calling for federal welfare takeover passed 116 75. "The federal takeover of all welfare funding and operations is a necessary step both to relieve the states of the increasingly burdensome costs but also to prevent the multiple abuses in the state administered systems," said chief sponsor A. J. DtMedio, Washington. Kane Has Its Problem Delay of Street Funds Borough Manager William Perry today confirmed report of a delay in receipt of Kane's sbare of liquid fuel tax funds from the state with money for the Pine Street and Clay Street projects hinging on waiting or borrowing to do the jobs.

Both projects are "ear marked" as required for the $10,268.25 funds. The stale requires definite projects, within limitations of the liquid fuels tax allocation, be provided for eligibility. The state has advised the borough that the funds due in early April "will be delayed until after July 1." The date is indefinite. 1 WASHINGTON (AP) Most of the nation's major railroads appealed Tuesday to the Supreme Court to bar selective strikes against individual carriers by the United Transportation Union. Attorneys for the 169 railroads said selective strikes, approved by the federal appeals court here, could tilt the balance of power against an already financially distressed industry.

The court is expected to act on the appeal before adjourning in mid June. If the Justices do not act, the union would be free to strike individual carriers for the apparent purpose of forcing them and other railroads to agree to union demands. Meanwhile, there has been no bargaining in the dispute. The United Transportation Un.on represents 180,000 trainmen, firemen, conductors and switchmen. The union is seeking a general wage increase and improvement in fringe benefits.

The railroads are trying to change a number of work rules that the carriers consider obsolete. the demilitarized zone rind north of the A Shau valley in northwestern South Vietnam, ir. the Sepone area of Laos, and just to the southwest of Fire Base 6 near the triborder juncture of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The purpose of the bombing was to cut supply routes along frontier regions in continuing efforts to slow the flow of North Vietnamese ammunition, supplies and troops into South Vietnam and Cambodia. The U.S.

Command said an Army UH1 helicopter was shot down in South Vietnam Tuesday about 60 miles south of Da I Tang. Two American crewmen "cre wounded. It raised to 7, 743 the number of U.S. aircraft reported lost in Indochina. Saiffou Explosion In Saigon, four Americun soldiers and four Vietnamese were wounded Tuesday night when a grenade exploded in a downtown bar, U.S.

officials said. The grenade apparently waj thrown by a South Vietnamese paratrooper who was fighting with some South Vietnamese marines. The Vietnamese police claimed one marine was killed. The South Vietnamese government reported 100 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in a series of small clashes scattered across the length of the country, from the Minn forest deep in the Mekong Delta to the provinces just below the demilitarized zone. The South Vietnamese reported three of their men killed.

The fighting in Cambodia centered in the area of the Pich Nil pass, 55 miles southwest of Phnom Penh where Highway 4 enters the enemy controllid Elephant Mountains. Iland to lland Fighting i'he Cambodian military spokesman, Lt. Col. Am Rong, said large numbers of North Vietnamese troops attacked a Cambodian force irt the jungle jnore than a mile off the highway, and hand to hand fighting continued after dawn. The colonel said a Cambodian position on the highway also was attacked for about four hours before dawn.

Initial reports said about 20 Cambodian soldiers had been wounded, but the toll was expected to rise as later reports were received. There was no indication of enemy losses. Highway 4, the main road between Phnom Penh and Cani Ibodia's only deepwater port, Kompong Som, was reopened briefly in January by South Vietnamese and Cambodian ground troops and U.S. planes. The South Vietnamese pulled out, and the tyorth Vietnamese returned.

Harrisburg before scheduling tentative bid opening on the project. It may be possible this spring and we hope it will be soon! The Clearfield District of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has two bid openings scheduled Friday small projects in the Potter County area. Queried on whether opposition and protests on the right of way for the local project had delayed the bid letting, the Clearfield office said only the railroad siding was involved. The new construction also crosses the B. lines several hundreds of feet south of the existing crossing siding.

The intersection with U.S. Route 6 near the railroad siding here provides for "islands" to divert incoming traffic east and west with North South traffic moving through. It is reported a small section of the Affiliated Industries property where the industrial siding crosses will involve taking some of the property and relocating the "cyclone" fence. Across Hacker Street to the east, the Irwin property, first to be taken for the project, has been razed. Extensive repairs have been necessary this spring to keep Route 321 south of Kane to its intersection with Continued on page 6) Driver License Bill is Approved by House HARRISBURG UP) A bill providing for mandatory revocation of driver's licenses of habitual offenders has moved to the Senate, following House passage Tuesday.

The vote was 181 11. Revocation would be for five, four or three years depending on severity of the offenses. Habitual offenders would be persons convicted of three or more serious offenses within a five year period; or at least eight less serious offenses in a five year period. Combat Deaths Exceed 45,000 SAIGON UP) The total of Americans killed in Indochina passed the 45,000 mark last week while the toll of wounded near ed 300,000. informed sources reported Monday.

The weekly casualty summary will be announced as usual on Thursday. But last Thursday's report listed 44,974 Americans killed since Jan. 1, 1961, and 297,771 wounded, and the sources Said more than 26 were killed last week. There was no indication of the number of wounded. The weekly total of American Combat dead has been averaging 48 this year, compared with 181 in 1969 when there were 543,400 American troops in Vietnam.

Now Jthere are less than 285, Racial Conference Set for Aliquippa HARRISBURG HP) Representatives of seven state agencies will participate next month in hearings to help solve racial problems in "Aliquippa, Gov. Shapp has announced. Shapp said the state personnel wculd meet in the Beaver County community May 24, 25 and 26, representing the departments of justice; community affairs; education; commerce; welfare; labor and industry and the State Police. Similar meetings will be held in other communities that need help in furthering race relations, Shapp said. Aliquippa experienced racial unrest last summer.

The task force will determine what each department can do to help' the community, the governor said. Veteran Hospitals Admissions Cut PITTSBURGH (AP) Admissions to Veterans Administration hospitals here will be cut back effective July 1, creating a waiting list of patients "for the first time since I've been here," director Herbert Moore said Tuesday. "For fiscal 1972," Moore said, "we will have 77 fewer patients a day than this year." The average daily census this year is 619 patients. Start. ng July 1, it will be 542 patients.

Moore said the reduction was ordered by the VA in Washington which gives local hospitals their budget and sets limits on the "average daily census." He attributed the cutback to rising hospital costs. His budget, he said, had been increased 10 per cent, but hospital costs in western Pennsylvania have increased about 15 per cent. The reduced patient load will affect intermediate service at both the Oakland and the Aspin wall VA hospital's. Patronage Firings in State are Criticized HARRISBURG (JP) Republican House members from Delaware and York counties havo criticized Gov. Shapp for firing patronage employes, and plan introduction of legislation to prevent future dismissals.

Reps. Donald M. McCurdy, Delaware and John Hope Anderson, York, blasted the gover nor Tuesday in floor speeches. One of their bills would grant hearings to patronage workers who are fired, allowing them to protest the action. Civil service employes already have this right.

A second measure would place all employes of the Department of Transportation under civil service. Hoffa Returns After Testifying in N.Y. LEWISBURG, Pa. UP) Teamster Union President James R. Hoffa, 58, returned to the federal prison Tuesday night after spending nearly three hours before a federal grand jury in New York City.

"I have no comment at all," Hoffa told newsmen as he left the jury room. According to published reports, Hoffa was asked about reputed mobster Meyer Lansky and any connections Lansky may have had to multimillion dollar loans from the union pension fund. Harlem Crime Spree Blamed on Addicts NEW YORK Crimes cost residents and property owners in central Harlem more than 52 billion in 1970, most of it due to thefts by heroin addicts, says the Small Business Chamber of Commerce. A report issued by the chamber said the $2 billion figure included costs against persons and property, gambling, narcotics and loansharking, with thefts to support narcotics habits amounting to $1.8 billion. vw mt nlMn1 HOW THEY VOTED: HARRISBURG UP) Assemblymen William Renwick, E11 County, and Victor Westerberg, McKean, voted with the maj ority Tuesday as the State House rejected, 58 135, a proposal to consider a resolution asking Congress to withdraw all UJ3.

troops from Vietnam by next Dec. 31. INDIANA U. CUTBACK INDIANA, Pa. UP) Citing "statewide budgetary difficulties," Indiana University of Pennsylvania said Tuesday it has had to cut the size its incoming freshman class.

IUP Officials said that from 7,200 applications it has chosen 1,650 new students, down from the 1,704 admitted last lull. THE MILITANTS STAY ON Given permission to stay following Washington's most peaceful antiwar demonstration, about 3,000 "militant" protesters are camping in West Potomac Park. They plan to engage in 10 days of civil disobediance aimed at stopping U.S. prosecution of the war in Vietnam..