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PENNA. STATE LIBRARY GENERAL LIBRARY DIV. NEWSPAPER ROOM BOX 1601 HARRISBURG, PA. 17126 Z-1 LIVELIEST NEWSPAPER Overnight clear, low in 40s. COUNTY'S Evening Tuesday THE sunny, WEATHER high in 80s.

SHENANDOAH-ASHLAND-MAHANOY CITY 96th Year As A Daily -No. 192 RINGTOWN BOULEVARD MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1971. 9th and MARKET STREETS, ASHLAND, TELEPHONE 875-1184 SINGLE COPY: SHENANDOAH, TELEPHONE 462-2777 34 WEST MARKET STREET, MAHANOY CITY, TELEPHONE 773-1011 Nixon anti-inflation blow stirs shockwaves By United Press International President Nixon announced a new economic course for the nation Sunday night to combat inflation. It included a 90-day freeze on wages and prices, tax benefits and what amounted to devaluation of the dollar, actions that sent waves of shock, astonishment and concern around the world. For the world the most important part of Nixon's program was Statesme announcement the United would no longer convert foreign-held dollars into gold, a move that unilaterally changed the 25- year -old international monetary system.

Nixon also ordered a 10 per cent surcharge on such imports as automobiles, a move that dismayed foreign manufacturers. For the American public the highlights of his program were a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents, repeal of a 7 per cent automobile excise tax to aid the automotive industry, a $100 increase in personal tax exemptions, an investment tax credit of 10 per cent now and 5 per cent later to firms spending that much in modernization or expansion; a $4.7 billion cut in federal spending, and slashing the federal payroll 5 per cent while postponing: a $1.3 billion pay increase. Some measures Nixon can impose immediately, others require congressional approval. "We will break the back of inflation," Nixon said in a hastily -arranged radio and television address in which he abandoned his frequently-expressed distaste for controls. He called upon the "greatness NIGHT TO REMEMBER.

Appearing like a giant dandelion fuzz-ball in the sky, a fireworks explosion is captured by Herald photographer Tony Grodzki during Saturday night's display as part of the Ringtown Homecoming. (Other homecoming photos on page 11 and 13.) Ringtown had grand weekend convertibles bearing RAAO (Continued Page 11) Fireworks mishap mars homecoming Ringtown Area's Homecoming Committee members and other Parade thrilled young and old, dignitaries. as colorful floats, marching Among the dignitaries was bands and bugle corps, fire Ringtown's own Danny Littrucks and pretty girls filled the whiler, who was born at the old streets Saturday afternoon. Exchange Hotel. Mr.

Litwhiler, Several thousand people were now a baseball coach at on hand to witness an affair Michigan State University, which will be long remembered played major league baseball by Ringtown Valley residents, for 12 years, with the Phillies, area residents and out of state Cardinals, Reds and Braves. residents. The RAAO Committee was Old friends were on hand to applauded by the crowd, and greet the many people returning followed by the homecoming to the valley for the weekend, to queen, princess and their court, take part in the festivities which who were later on hand to greet proved to be the most out- and welcome old friends and standing of its kind ever held in new to the activities. the Ringtown Valley. Legion colors were displayed Ringtown Police led the by the on Harry A.

Case Post No. parade which began at 1 p.m. 289, keeping in step with the sharp keeping the parade at a Silver Beaver Drum and Bugle moderate pace. A stern Marine Corps. Snowmobiles sounded the Color Guard followed, leading Three spectators required hospital treatment Saturday night after a fireworks accident marred the Ringtown Homecoming celebration.

Union Township Police Chief Joseph Zienkiewicz said the mishap occurred during the finale fireworks display when an undetonated rocket fell into the crowd and exploded at the old ballfield adjacent to the Union Township school. Paul Malacusky, eight of Zion Grove, was listed satisfactory today in Geisinger Medical Center with multiple cuts and abrasions. His sister, Patricia, ten, was admitted to Locust Mountain of a great people" to make his program work voluntarily with a few hundred federal overseers but with the threat of injunctions and a $5,000 fine for violations. The major money markets in Europe closed immediately SO governments could assess situation. But in Tokyo the dollar took a beating and the Japanese government bought up $300 million of dollars to keep the dollar from plunging disastrously.

The British cabinet went into emergency session in London. President Georges Pompidou of France announced he was interrupting his vacation Wednesday to return to Paris for a crisis session. The Swiss government held an emergency meeting. Paul A. Volcker, U.S.

Treasu- Mah. Twp. supervisor quits post Francis McCormick of Hills Patch has resigned as a member of the Mahanoy Township Board of Supervisors and has been appointed to membership on the Mahanoy Township Authority to fill a vacancy created by the death of John' Draper of Boston Run. Chairman Supervisor Joseph Whitaker of Yatesville announced this action, taken at a special meeting Friday. He said a replacement of McCormick would be named within 30 days.

This is the second change on the supervisors board in three months. George Palmer of New Boston resigned as a supervisor after his appointment as manager of the Mahanoy Township Authority to succeed the late Connie McElhenny. On June 6 the supervisors appointed Robert Mesch of Morea to fill Palmer's place. Mesch is a Mahanoy Township High School graduate and attended the Colorado School of Mines, also served in the air force. Previously employed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and the Buckeye Pipeline Oil Company at Macungie, Mesch is employed now as district representative for the Colonial Candle Company of Hyannis, Mass.

McCormick had been a veteran member of the supervisors board and decided to vacate the office because of failing health. In November the position of Chairman Whitaker will be up for election. Whitaker is running for reelection on the Democratic ticket. His Republican opponent is Martin Earley of Foundry Row, formerly of Jacksons and Mahanoy City. Atlas talks scheduled to resume today the 72-day old Atlas strike were brightened with an announcement that a collective bargaining session was scheduled today.

The strike to date has cost almost 900 union workers more than a million dollars in lost wages. It seriously affected the economic well-being of the Tamaqua community and it has cost the company a considerable amount of money through the almost complete curtailment of production at its Reynolds plant. This information was received from company sources with a note that the shutdown resulted in a substantial decline in wage tax payments to the borough and School District. Hopes for a breakthrough in Suspicious fire at Park Place The Mahanoy City Fire Department was called to Park Place Sunday night as a suspicious fire destroyed a former mining office building along a Lehigh Valley railroad siding. Two Park Place youths driving toward Mahanoy City saw the blaze and reported it to the borough police, who notified Fire Marshal John Wertz.

ry undersecretary for monetary affairs, flew to London today to brief British and European officials on the Nixon moves that struck America's allies like a thunderbolt. West Germany sent a high level delegation to London for talks with Volcker. "The Nixon economic plan drew mixed reaction in Washington. Republican members of Congress, governors and business executives expressed approval. Labor leaders reserved judgment, but an AFL-CIO spokesman said the controls outline by Nixon did not meet its criteria for support.

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said, "I'm delighted that his patience has finally run out. I'm pleased he is facing up to the realities of the situation." Sen. George S. McGovern, called the action "madness." Sen. William Proxmire, Nixon's chief economic critic in Congress, praised the plan.

People across the nation expressed opinions ranging from "I'm glad" to "He's fighting for survival." Paul Boerminger, 28, of Philadelphia, said, "It's not going to affect us too much personally. My wife said she wanted to buy a foreign car and will now have to pay about $700 more for it." Nixon exempted such imports as coffee and sugar from the 10 per cent surcharge on imports. The 10 per cent surcharge on such items as foreign cars brought joy in Detroit and dismayed foreign manufacturers. British manufacturers were gloomy. Australian manufacturers said they were "downright angry." The wage-price-rent freeze will last at least until Nov.

12 and could be extended. It is intended to buy time while Congress responds to Nixon's call for $6.3 billion worth of cuts in income, business and auto excise taxes to stimulate employment and while Europe and Japan adjust to a "floating" dollar, devaluation in effect if not in name. Organized labor's initial reaction was hostile, too, chiefly because the wage-price freeze did not control interest rates or profits. Many businessmen cautiously welcomed Nixon's action. A.

W. Clausen, president of California' Bank of America, the world's largest, said the President had bought time with his wage-price freeze, tax cut, increased import duties and de Stock stampede NEW YORK (UPI) of the bigget buying stampedes on record hit the New York Stock Exchange today following President Nixon's bold attempt to halt the nation's inflationary price spiral and restore prosperity. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 21 points to 877.34 after almost two hours of trading, and many analysts observed that it could show an even stronger gain once stocks of the big blue chip firms open. Many did not open in early trading. Turnover to noon was a record 14,590,000 shares, compared with the previous tworecord of 12,260,000 shares traded on April 30, 1969.

Nixon announced over the weekend that he is freezing wages and prices and will ask Congress to speed up tax cuts. He also said the United States no longer will convert foreignheld dollars to gold at $35 per ounce price fixed in the early 1930s, in effect, allowing the dollar to "float" or find its own value in relation to foreign currencies. This was expected to drive down the value of the dollar, lowering the prices of American exports but have little effect on domestic consumers. Theodore Bukowski of E. F.

Hutton Co." said "the President attacked the three things that have been hurting the market recently" -the slow economic recovery, stubborn inflation and the weakness of the dollar abroad." "The whole thing should give the stock market a psychological Bukowski added, "and now the only thing to do is sit back and enjoy Among the Big Board's most active stocks were Flying Tiger up on 128,100 shares, Teledyne higher on 104,700 shares, Jersey Standard up on 100,200 shares, Ling-TemcoVought higher on 98,100 shares, Leasco Corp. higher on 97,200 shares, Eastern Air Lines up 2 on 90,700 shares and Occidental Petroleum higher on 89,900 shares. Other sharply higher stocks included Wrigley up 6, Atlantic Richfield Natomas Superior Oil UAL Inc. Westinghouse Texas Instruments 10, National Cash Register Eastman Kodak and Walt Disney Many of the automotive stocks were late in opening because of an influx of trading orders. In his address, Nixon called for repeal of the 7 per cent excise tax on new automobiles retroactive to Sunday.

With imported cars now subjected to the 10 per cent surcharge, this should give the American auto industry a shot in the arm and save about $200 for buyers of new American cars. Prices also climbed sharply on the American Stock Exchange. Active Amex issues included Imperial Oil up a point on 130,000 shares, National General warrants fractionally higher on a volume of 61,000, and Braniff fractionally higher on 53,000 shares. Irish still battling BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI)-Gunmen today wounded a member of an army patrol near the Irish Republic border, an army spokesman said. In Londonderry three men kidnaped and severely beat a policeman before freeing him.

The incidents came as nine of the 13 opposition members of the Northern Ireland Parliament called for a civil disobedience campaign beginning today to protest internment without trial, imposed a week ago. They urged nonpayment of rents and property taxes. The spokesman said the soldier was shot at Cullaville, County Armagh, near the border. He was hospitalized with a wound in the jaw. The spokesman said it was not clear whether the shots were fired from the Irish Republic across the border.

In Londonderry, three masked men kidnaped constable Daniel Barr Sunday night while he was visiting his grandparents in the city's Roman Catholic Bogside area, witnesses said. They said the men were members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA). facto devaluation of the dollar to find long-term solutions to the nation's lingering economic problems. To the average American, Nixon's program meant that scheduled pay increases, even if previously negotiated, would have to be foregone until Nov. 12; that most prices and all rents would not climb for 90 days; that the prices of foreign goods would climb, reflecting the 10 per cent surcharge Nixon imposed on half the $45 billion worth of goods America imports each year; and-if Congress goes along--income taxes would fall and withholding shrink in 1972 and the price of domestic cars would drop 7 per cent effective retroactive to Sunday.

Nixon said his program would bring "a new prosperity without His advisers have often blamed the Vietnam War for inflation and pointed to Nixon's withdrawals from Vietnam in explaining climbing unemployment. Inflation has averaged about 6.6 per cent this year. The unemployment rate, with 5.5 million workers idle and some states suffering 10 per cent depression-level unemployment, has been hovering about 6 per cent all year. These rates are 50 per cent higher than the administration's goals. Politicians of both parties have contended they were the chef roadblock to Nixon's re-election.

An IRA organizer said the policeman would not be released until "at least two or three detainees were allowed out of their internment camps as a However, Barr later was taken to a hospital at Letterkenny across the border in the Irish Republic. Army intelligence officers today interviewed a teen-age British soldier who said IRA men kidnaped and sentenced him to death, then released him with a warning troops captured in the future would be executed. Pvt. Thomas Moore, 17, a Roman Catholic, said the IRA men seized him Friday night soon after he went Absent Without Leave (AWOL) from his regiment, the Royal Irish Rangers, a battalion not participating in the security operation. He gave himself up to police Saturday after appearing at a clandestine news conference surrounded by six men with stocking masks over their heads and pistols in their belts.

His face was bruised and caked with blood. Moore said he went AWOL because he found army life too restrictive. He said he was picked up by the IRA in Belfast's Catholic Lower Falls area and they found army papers in his civilian clothing. "I was told I had been sentenced to death," he said. "Later they told me I would be reprieved if I made a deal with them and I agreed." He said the deal included a promise he ewould appeal to other Irishmen army not to serve in Northern Ireland.

He said he also carried a warning for Lt. Gen. Harry Tuzo, commander of British forces in Northern Ireland, that all soldiers captured by the IRA in the future would be executed. Street paving in Shenandoah Parking will be prohibited on certain Shenandoah streets scheduled for resurfacing Tuesday; Oak from Gilbert to Chestnut; Coal from West to Chestnut; Washington from Chestnut to Gilbert; 400 block of West Coal and 300 block of West New York. Vehicles blocking progress will be towed away, police warned.

THE LITTLE MINER. Young Michael Jones captured the fancy of everyone viewing Shenandoah's baby parade Sunday, carrying the familiar miner's water can and lunch pail, and wearing a hard-boiled cap. The get-up won him second prize. (Other photos on page 13.) Six seek jobs as Twp. police Six applications for work as hauled away with the owners patrolmen in West Mahanoy charged the cost.

The superTownship were noted by Board visors agreed to cooperate with of Supervisors member James Girard Estate in this project. McGuire. All three members of Girard also donated $100 to the the township force resigned last supervisors to help finance week. razing of dilapidated buildings. Paving and patch work on Ordinances to regulate the township roads was reported burning of trash and paper and moving on schedule.

an 11 p.m. curfew for all under 18 The supervisors agreed to join years of age will be drawn up for Shenandoah in an endeavor to adoption. secure a new Locust Mountain It was agreed to continue Hospital. "If this means a efforts to secure government special trip to Harrisburg, the financial help for police township will be represented," protection in the township. McGuire said.

A large delegation of property, Girard Estate announced it owners attended the August will give car owners 15 days to meeting in the William Penn fire remove the junk vehicles from house. The supervisors are Girard property. If this is not Vincent Yost, chairman; Albert done the Estate will have them Examitas and James McGuire. Frackville youth, 16, drowns Hospital with body abrasions and cuts. Mrs.

Mary Walker of 402 East Pine street, Mahanoy City, was treated at Locust Mountain for facial abrasions and an ear injury. Dr. Gilbert Reed of Ringtown administered emergency treatment at the scene before the injured were taken to the hospital in the Ringtown Ambulance. The crowd was unaware that the defective rocket had fallen until it exploded on the ground. Witnesses said the blast took place at the Malacusky boy's feet and inflicted a gash between knee and ankle.

What was planned as a week end of fun at Lake Wallenpaupack climaxed i in tragedy with the drowning of 16-year-old Michael Martin of Frackville Saturday afternoon. The victim, son of Michael and Joan (Blackwell) Martin 50 North Second street, and several other young people were weekend guests at with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, C. Cresswell of Cresswell Gardens, Fountain Springs.

The group originally planned to return home today, however the tragedy brought the weekend to an end. Mrs. Cresswell told the Herald the teenagers, including their son Harvey Jr. and daughter Cheryl, had gone to the dock to swim about 3:30 p.m. Several in the group had been in a canoe, others were riding a motor boat.

The Martin boy was not a good swimmer, and usually wore a life preserver. He was last seen on the dock. One of the boys said Michael had taken the preserver off for a short time to see how he could swim without it, but stayed close to shore. The youth was missed by his friends after a time and they began searching the water. When they couldn't locate him, Cheryl Cresswell, Marion Houser and Andrea Eick, walked to the Cresswell cottage about 15 minutes away, hopeful he may have gone there.

Mrs. Cresswell drove the teenagers back to the dock and a short time later was joined by Mr. Cresswell and his nephew Graham Hahn. The Hahn boy began diving in a search and spotted the youth's yellow cutoffs. He brought him to shore and several men used mouth to mouth resuscitation in an attempt to revive him.

An ambulance was summoned from the Taston Fire Co. at Paupack and the boy was rushed to the Honesdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Martin boy and George Ansbach of Frackville were friends of the younger Cresswell. Michael excelled in football and wrestling and had been water skiing on occasions, but wore a life preserver. He was born in Hampton, Va.

on June 1, 1955, and was a sophomore at North Schuylkill School District. He was a member of Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church. In addition to his parents, he leaves three sisters Joy Dianne, Joyce Dale and Juanita Denise, at home; his maternal grandmother Mrs. Catherine Meck, Palo Alto; paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Martin Sr. Frackville and great great-grandmother Mrs. Debra Alton, Frackville. Funeral Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. from Nice Funeral Home, Frackville.

Viewing from Tuesday evening until service time. Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, Frackville. Michael Martin.