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773-1011 Shenandoah Tel. 462-2777 Published every evening except Sunday at Ringtown Boulevard, Shenandoah, Pa. 17976 SHENANDOAH VALLEY PUBLISHING Joseph E. Dalton, Publisher Member, American Newspaper Publishers, Pa. Newspaper Publishers' Assn.

Audit Bureau of Circulation National Adv. Matthews, Shannon Cullen, 38 Newbury Boston, Mass. The Evening Herald is delivered In Shenandoah and the neighboring towns by carrier for 90 cents a week. By mail S46.00 per annum paid in advance. Advertisements charged according to space.

The publisher reserves the right to change the position of advertisements whenever the publication demands it. The right is reserved to reject any advertisement whether paid for or not, that the publisher may deem improper. Entered as second-class matter Dec. 18, 1895, at the post office at Shenandoah, under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Good Old Days 30 Years Ago 1 945 Two Ringtown brothers met in Straubing, Germany on June 15 for the first time In 21 months.

Pfc. Stanley and Pfc. Albert Burkevage wrote to their mother, Eva, of Ringtown RD, stating that it was the happiest day since they left home, and they were able to spend five days together swapping stories about experiences which helped earn them several battle stars. Stanley is in the field artillery and in charge of his unit's post exchange, public relations and personnel management. He was apopointed to organize a male chorus for the corps to tour on concert.

Albert is in the 83rd Infantry Division and fought in four major engagements, missing one because of wounds. His outfit known as the "Thunderbolt Division," smashed across the Rhine and met the Russians 34 miles from Berlin. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1975 Plenty of gas -perhaps There is some comfort In Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb's assurance that motorists will have plenty of gasoline this summer. On the strength of that one might set out on vacation with reasonable confidence of not being stalled somewhere in the boondocks for lack of fuel.

Zarb's assurances are less than absolute, however. It is just a bit disquieting to find that he and his expert colleagues don't quite know why there has been a six per cent drop In the nation's gasoline stocks. Crude oil stocks are not down; they are up by about five per cent. The government is puzzled. We are told that an FEA team has been "querying every major oil company to determine the cause of the situation and why average oil refinery use is running at 80 to 85 per cent of capacity." So go ahead: start that long trip.

All will be revealed, and there'll be gas enough. Maybe. 40 Years Ago 1 935 "Taps" were sounded for Oswald Ford, Shenandoah's last survivor of the Civil War and last member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Andrews, 26 East Coal street.

Mr. Ford enlisted In the Company 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, and was wounded at Chancellorsville and Antietam, two of the war's bloodiest conflicts. He took great pride in stating that he personally saw President Lincoln three times, twice on the battlefield. He came to Shenandoah from St. Clair in 1874.

Setback for opium war For some years the Agency for International Development had fostered a campaign to dry up the Laotian source of opium. With U.S. influence waning, a move is afoot at government advisory levels to legalize opium cultivation and regulate its export. If the government adopts this recommendation, that will be a setback for worldwide opium control efforts. We now face the disturbing prospect that after curbing opium production for four years Laos may soon legalize cultivation and use of the drug.

Much of it presumably would be consumed in Laos itself, where the habit of opium smoking is socially acceptable. Still, a substantial increase in opium supply anywhere in the world is bound to complicate the war on the illegal drug traffic. Sixty-six-year -old Mrs. Inez Gersdorf of Marshal Itown, Iowa, believes in do-it-yourself fixup projects around the house. Here she is putting a new roof on her home before she starts repainting.

She has also restored a house next door and built a garage for it. Mrs. Gersdorf learned her "trade" from her dad, who was a carpenter. (UPI) ON THE LINE bobconsidine Weak on hills, but. A lot of people were amused at a news 50 Years Ago 1925 Tom Waters, Shenandoah's much travel-stained comedian, and his merry bunch of funmakers, arrived in town for their opening performance at, the playground on N.

Main street. The opening bill, "Mooney from the Moon," is from the pen of the gifted townsman and his tuneful melodies will be whistled about town. Prominent in the company are May Wallace, in private life Mrs. Tom Waters; Gladys Morris and Vannie McPherson, who hail from Bonnie Scotland and were with Tom and the Empire Theatre on Leicester Square in London during his stay of one year there as principal comedian. Others are Patricia Thayer, Iris Evans, Margie Armer, Kitty Burke, Doris Craig, the fascinating little Wells sisters, and associate fun makers Cint Cole and Billy Welp.

The orchestra is under direction of John Burns, for many years at the old Howard in Boston. At the piano is Harry Collins of Proctor's 58th Street Theatre, New York City. A number of boys operating as a gang in the neighborhood of the Armor meat plant in Shenandoah attacked several boy scouts who were distributing fly swatters furnished by the State Health Bureau, and stole the swatters which they are now offering for sale. Prosecution will be entered against anyone apprehended selling these swatters. Handwriting disturbingly like this is already on the wall in Canada.

There, thanks to a new excise tax and a boost in domestic crude oil prices, gas will soon average 81 cents a gallon. Should anything like that be seen in our country, Richard Mills may start getting letters, to wit: How do I go about getting a neat little battery-powered car like the one in the picture? picture of Richard Mills of Everett, dogtrotting beside his little electrically powered car to help it over a hill. Some who found this quite funny may have second thoughts if Sen. Henry M. Jackson's prediction of dollar-a-gallon gasoline comes to pass.

The unemployment test "From here, bombers can strike the Asian mainland," states the normally non-truculent N.Y. Times, missile-bearing ships and submarines will have an even larger forward base than at present. "Moreover, ground troops can be placed in the Marianas for a more flexible response anywhere in the region." But we're worried about the' health of Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai, partners in the great detente. The President in urging Congress to pass stiff new laws aimed at violent crime said the nation had failed badly to curb murder, rape and mugging. He also said something should be done about the manufacture of cheap pistols of the Saturday Night Special variety.

That much said, that fine posture established, he concluded "I am unalterably opposed to Federal registration of guns or gun owners." Champagne corks must have popped at the headquarters of Washington's most powerful lobby, the National Rifle and shell of informed argument whistle past, ordinary folk may find it useful to keep one thought in mind. This is that until the present high rate of unemployment has markedly declined, indicating that a lot of jobless people have found work again, it will still be hard times for a great many Americans. That is more important than whether or not the recession has technically "bottomed out." Alan Greenspan's declaration that the "recession for all practical purposes is over" has predictably aroused dissent from other economists. As has happened before with regard to the prolonged economic doldrums in which we find ourselves, there is not an expert consensus. About the only conclusion to be drawn is the non-conclusion that the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers may be right, and then again he may not be.

While the shot Instruments aboard the unmanned OSO-1, as it is called, will have an incredible pointing accuracy of one arc second, or of a degree, an accuracy similar to a rifle marksman keeping a 10-foot target in his sights over the 400-miles distance from Boston to Washington, D.C. But all is not lost. We are still a viable, wonderful country. For instance. The Food and Drug Administration is coming up with new regulations which will insist that all brands of aspirin (and other pills) taste equally awful, no matter how the trade names of the product differ.

In the midst of a threatened doctor's' rebellion that could bring the nation to its knees, two of them are dueling in another field: jogging. Dr. J. B. Schmidt of Charleston, was quoted here recently to the effect that the jogging craze is killing off American men and causing American women's breast to wilt.

But now comes Dr. George Sheehan of Red Bank, N.J., to refute that diagnosis. Dr Khwhnn hn rim the entire 26 miles 385 yards of the past 12 Boston Marathons and is 56, writes, "Over the years I have average 30 miles a week on the roads and have found in running nothing less than a new life." And, oh yes, the New York State Court of Appeals unanimously held the "Rockefeller Law" which makes mandatory a life sentence for any person convicted of selling a narcotic. Now that the days are getting shorter it is high time we took inventory of where we stand, contradiction wise. We've never been on better terms with the Russians.

Dr. Armand Hammer has a $20 billion fertilizer barter deal going with them. Raymond Loewy has signed a contract with them to slick up their cars and hotels. They are about to send us a new We're about to send them both President Ford and Henry Kissinger. They've shipped us the Bolshoi Opera, and will send over some treasures of the Hermitage and Pushkin museums never before viewed outside the U.S.S.R.

The fuse is burning on the rocket that will lift three astronauts to a union in earth orbit with two cosmonauts. So? So we, the most trustful nation on earth, have developed a new long-range low-flying hydrogen-tipped multiheaded missile built to clobber Russian cities before it can be detected by radar or blasted by an anti-missile. And the CIA and Howard Hughes -ft "o-- with another attempt to lift a sunken Russian sub and riffle through its code books and construction secrets. The President said emphatically as we retreated from Vietnam "This action closes a chapter in the American experience." So we're in the process of giving commonwealth status to the Marianas and make them into the nation's forward bastion in the Pacific. Solzhenitsvn's warnina 60 Years Ago 1915 An explosion of gas at the Potts Colliery, Locust Dale, killed William Singmeister, 39, a single man, of Lavelle.

His body was blown one hundred feet and he suffered fractures of the arms and jaw, and his head was gashed. Admitted to the Fountain Springs Hospital with burns were Edward "eissmycf 49, en id Ciiaries Siarterbach, 41, ot Lavelle. Taken to his home with cuts and bruises was Michael Heiser of Ashland, who was struck by a door blown from its fastenings. Six weeks ago the same men were slightly injured in an explosion in the same gangway. Foreman John Davis was suspended at that time but was reinstated when it was found he was not to blame.

ir-r-r-r-r-w i i a jLrrixti riAiM noaubiauiMi. the free world has We're going to launch a new satellite into a 345-mile-high orbit packed with telescopes designed to study the sun's surface, corona, and cataclysmic eruptions. Built by Howard Hughes's aircraft company in California the 2,257 pound spacecraft will examine the sun from the comfortable cool distance of 93,000,000 miles. The sun can bubble up to 3,000,000 degrees farenheit. Capitol Opinion 75 Years Ago 1900 Isaac Conway of 312 South West street, Shenandoah, had a painful experience with a vicious mule at the Turkey Run Colliery.

Conway is a loader boss. He had pulled a car from the bottom of the slope and went to fetch a mule which was standing a short distance away. As he took the bridle the mule jerked, breaking the hold, and jumped on Conway, knocking him down and causing a clean break of the left leg. The mule then ran toward the bottom of the slope but suddenly turned and made a second attempt to jump on Conway's prostrate form. The animal leaped too far, however, and ran back into the old gangway where it was caught.

Conway was taken to his home and the fractured limb was set by Dr. Fetzer. About three years ago he had several ribs broken in the same part of the mine by a kick from a mule. Mrs. Mihilina Kerwaitis was arraigned before Justice Shoemaker on complaint of August Smith.

The parties reside on West Juneberry alley and are next door neighbors. Their children had a fight and Mrs. Kerwaitis is charged with having kicked Smith's 3V2-yearold daughter until she became unconscious. It is also alleged that when the child's mother interferred, Mrs. Kerwaitis punched her and followed up the attack with the use of a broom.

$300 bail. are already ancient history: Greece in 1947, West Berlin in 1948, and South Korea in 1950. "The Third World War attacks the West at its most vulnerable point: the side of human nature willing to make any concession for the sake of material well-being. "The situation as I have described it is clear to any average man in the East, from Poznan to Canton. But Westerners will need a great deal of strength, of resolution, to see and accept the evidence of the implacable tide of violence and bloodshed that has methodically, steadily, triumphantly, radiated out from a single center for nearly sixty years, and to locate the countries already lined up for the next holocaust.

"Of course, no one has the right to demand that the West undertake the defense of Malaysia, of Indonesia, of Formosa, of the Philippines. But those young men who refused to bear the anguish of the faraway war in Vietnam will not have time to consider that they will fall not their Jons but they in the defense of America. 1 "It is too late to worry about how to avoid the Third World War. But we must have the courage and clearheadedness to stop the Fourth. To stop it, not grovel on our knees." The "our" in Solzhenitsyn's final sentence is momentous.

This great Russian exile, this very Russian writer, includes with himself in that "our" all who of whatever nationality despise the Communist slaveocracy that has been spreading over the earth. On May 31, Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published a solemn warning accompanied by a striking historical analysis in the French newspaper Le Monde. So far as I can tell, it went untranslated and unnoticed here for almost a month a strange fact, considering that Solzhenitsyn is an international presence. Then National Review published most of his piece, and the Wall Street Journal printed a few excerpts from this version. Finally, the N.Y.

Times printed it. I concede that I know a good many American intellectuals who are impatient with Solzhenitsyn. He is very, very Russian, a sort of Boris Godunov. Though he speaks frequently to the West, thecore of his thought is addressed specifically to the Russians and their future, and there he sees little chance for democracy though he is strongly anti-totalitarian end stresses the need for a spiritual revival in Russia through Orthodox Christianity. Nevertheless, like much of his other writings, his latest statement reverberates in the mind.

It is not at all easily dismissed. Solzhenitsyn thinks World War III has been fought by the West and lost. I will quote as much of his own prose as space permits. Solzhenitsyn begins by noting that, after the Second World War, everyone in the West feared the outbreak of a Third. "How many concessions, how many sacrifices have been made in order to avoid it! But there are not many who realize, and who have the courage to admit, that the Third World War has already taken place and that irremediably lost it.

"We haven't understood that the Third World War came about differently from its predecessors. It began not with a thundering declaration of war, not with attacks by thousands of airplanes, but invisibly, stealthily boring into the flabby body of the world It 'used a variety of pseudonymns 'democratic' transformations that the people approved. 100 per cent, cold war, peaceful coexistence, normalization, Realpolitik, detente, trade (which serves only to strengthen the aggressor). "When we study the course of these last thirty years we see it as a long sinuous descent. China.

North Korea, Cuba, North Vietnam, today South Vietnam, today Cambodia. Laos is being lost; Thailand, South Korea, and Israel are in danger; Portugal is throwing herself irretrievably into the abyss; Fin aland and Austria are resigned to their fate, powerless to defend themselves and unable, on the evidence, to expect help from outside. "The victorious nations have transformed themselves into the vanquished, having totally ceded more countries and peoples than have ever been ceded in any surrender in any war in human history. And that is why it is not speaking metaphorically to say: the Third World War has taken place and has ended in defeat. And as it ends, one might vainly rack one's brain to remember a case when, in the course of these thirty years, the West managed to stand its ground.

One can say that yes, it did, on three occasions that was there any evidence of the governor lobbying to prevent passage of a budget he opposed. In contrast, Nolan and Cianfrani played the legislature like a harp. They are masters at this game. By including the aid for the two big cities, they got through a budget that many legislators disliked. It took them three short days to outflank, out man and out vote the governor of Pennsylvania.

What Shapp promised in his speech the other night was long months of conflict with the legislature, which is controlled by his own party. But he is up against professionals in this fight. The television lights, the clever speeches won't help him. This is a battle that is fought in the halls of the Capitol, in the caucus rooms and in the ornate chambers of the House and Senate. That 'turf today belongs to Tom Nolan and Buddy package.

He was going to teach the Senate a lesson. What Shapp offered was not a solution, but a stalemate on the budget. He wants the legislature to restore $27 million cut from the budgets of the state departments. But if he "blue lines" the money for Allegheny County and Philadelphia Nolan and Cianfrani will certainly try to block any attempts to restore the state government cuts. One would think that because Shapp is the governor he would use the power and influence that comes with that office to get what he wants from the Senate.

But the governor is running for President. He dumped a budget proposal on the legislature's lap last March that promised a $400 million deficit by Oct. 1, 1976. Then, be left town. At no time during the budget debate, was Shapp's presence evident.

At no time did he speak up in public to protest the Senate budget. At no time HARRISBURG (UPI) For better or for worse, the two most powerful men in state government today are Sens. Henry J. Cianfrani and Thomas Nolan. "Buddy" Cianfrani is a Philadelphia Democrat and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Nolan, a Pittsburgh Democrat, is leader of the 30 Democrats in that chamber. They teamed up this week to produce a $4.5 billion state budget that freezes most government spending to provide $34 million in additional aid to the state's two biggest cities That document is on Gov. Milton J. Shapp's desk today because of the power and personal influence of Buddy Cianfrani and Tom Nolan. Shapp didn't want the budget.

The leaders of the House Democrats opposed it. The governor went on television the other night and played tough about the Nolan-Cianf rani budget. He said he was going to cut out the $34 million aid Fannie Bucwinkie was before Justice Shoemaker, charged with assaulting Mrs. Charles Stankunis with a beer glass and inflicting a gash three inches long on her forehead. Both parties reside at Gilberton and the case was settled by the accused paying the doctor's bill and costs..