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llllll I I I I I Ml fittsburgh SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1970 fosf-wmeette Rent Two Homes? Moving Perplexes In Teamster Strike What happens to a metropolis when people can't move in or out? That is the situation in Greater Pittsburgh because household moving firms are tied up by a Teamsters strike. "Some families are suddenly paying rent for two homes," says the officer of one moving firm. 'They can't leave their present residence and they have already rented Gun Victim's Condition Now Said Serious Manchester Man Hit By Pmllet at Garage Door Monday ISight Frank Porto, 60, of 1240 W. North who was shot Monday night at his garage door in the Manchester District of the Northside, was reported in serious condition last night in Allegheny General Hospital. Porto was placed in the recovery room following an exploratory operation yesterday morning, hospital officials reported.

Porto's shooting followed the fatal shooting Sunday of a black youngster, Ernest Keith Caldwell, 12, of 1414 Liverpool setting off racial disturbances which continued Monday night. The area was reported quiet during daylight hours yesterday. Ike Thomas, executive director of Another Side, an organization of hlack moderates, yesterday criticized biacks who went on a rampage in Manchester Sunday and again Monday night. "It's wrong for them to take out their hostilities on police and whites," Thomas said. "While the murderer was getting away, blacks had a field day attacking police.

But the police didn't retaliate with tear gas. They just tried to duck the bricks and rocks." Thomas said that it is time "to let the police do their job. It's a sad day when something hpppens in the city and the people take over. We were sad and hurt that a 12-ycar-old boy was killed but when the police are trying to catch a murderer, it doesn't help to stone them. Even black police were hindered from doing their job," said Thomas, who visited the Manchester area Sunday and again Monday.

-Post-Gazette Pholo County Model Cities Get $6.7 Million First Year Funds For 11 Communities In Turtle Creek Valley A $6,725,000 grant to the Turtle Creek Valley Model Cities Agency was approved yesterday by the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The grant will be for a first-year program of 44 projects to improve the housing, health, employment and educational opportunities in 11 valley com- munities. The announcement was made through the office of Sen. Hugh Scott in Washington, although local Model Cities officials had received no confirmation of the action. Covers 65,000 People The Turtle Creek program involves about 65,000 people in the communities of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh.

Rankin, Wilmerding, Pitcairn, Wall, North Versailles, East McKeesport, Monroeville and Turtle Creek. Agency director John Milhergcr is away on vacation this week but a spokesman indicated that the earliest actual work could begin would be "sometime in the fall." To be included in this year's fiscal appropriations, formal approval of the grant from HUD would have had to be made before June 30, according to the spokesman. The $6.7 million grant follows a grant given to the county earlier this year so that planning could begin on the Turtle Creek program which ultimately will be a seven-year plan involving as much as $150 million. 400-Page Plan Submitted Milberger had submitted a 400-page plan to HUD detailing "neighborhood problems and the identification of important objectives to be achieved in the first year," if approved. The cornerstone of the entire project will be to create a "multi-municipal" attack on common problems of the communities.

Early indications are that the development of new employment opportunities and employment centers will be stressed. Just over $6 million has been granted by HUD to the Pittsburgh Model Cities program for the improvement of business and industrial educational programs which will be concentrated Initially on the Oakland and Hill District areas. elsewhere." A salesman at Mayflower Transit Co. in Pittsburgh estimated that in normal times there is an average of 2,000 families involved in moving in or out of the city each week. Physicians Caught in Bind "Remember," said the salesman, "Pittsburgh is a seat for headquarters offices of major companies.

And there also are numerous plants where management people keep moving in and out." Dr. Herbert Sperling says physicians who are finishing their residence at local hospitals and facing military service are caught in a real bind by the strike. Dr. Sperling, a resident at West Prnn Hospital and facing miiltary call himself, says there are about 40 physicians finishing up at local hospitals who must report for military service early in July. He adds: "Most of these men have families.

They have already rented homes near military installations where they are going. Other people are waiting to occupy their homes here." "Not only that," said the head of another moving firm, "but just think of the backlog that is building up. Even after the strike is over it will be difficult catching up." 9th Day of Strike The strike, called by the Household Moving Units of Teamsters Local 249 is now in its ninth day. No negotiations are scheduled and the moving business is at a standstill in Allegheny County. One source said some 12 of the city's moving firms, members of the Western Pennsylvania Motor Carriers Association, met yesterday to form plans to resume negotiations.

The approximately lfiO drivers who operate moving vans walked off the job in demand of a new contract. Improved wages is a major issue. The men were making $3.60 an hour. The strike also is preventing some industrial firms from moving offire equipment or from occupying new quarters. Monday the organization destined to manage the city's Three Rivers Stadium ran into a hornet's nest when it had equipment moved in a self-haul truck.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh is not losing any great number of families these days, and by the same token it isn't gaining many. Moving traffic is blocked both ways. In some instances where family belongings had been packed and started on the way here without knowledge of the strike, the furniture is being stored in adjacent counties. Warehouse Closed Even the storage facilities of moving firms in Allegheny County are closed. Pickets stand watch and no one has moved anything out of storage or anything into storage.

"We're hoping for an early settlement," said a moving firm officer, "and if we're hoping just imagine what some families caught up in this squeeze are doing." Gray-haired brother and shier embrace in reunion after 42 years. Afler 42 Years Brother and Sister In Joyous Reunion By ROBERT VOELKER Post-Gazette Staff Writer Their wrinkled faces burst into smiles. He threw out his arms the warm way Italians do and said: "Now, do you believe I'm here!" The brother and sister, both gray now, melted into each others arms. In their kisses and tears, 42 years vanished. Board, Employes Assailed ML Lebanon School Decision Appealed The reunion of Mrs.

Michelina Chiodo, 77, and her brother, Antonio Chiodo, 59, took place June 11 in the hallway of her home at 108 East 10th Homestead. The last time they had seen one another was in a train station in Naples, Italy, in 1928. Hugged, Cried "Thank God you're here," Mrs. Chiodo said. She hugged her brother and cried.

Recalling the reunion and embrace Mrs. Chiodo said: "My memory went' back to when he was a boy. He was as skinny as a nail. I thought I would never see him again." When they said goodbye in the train station, Mrs. Chiodo, then 34, departed for America with her husband and three children; She married a Chiodo the same as her maiden name.

Brother Antonio, then 16, stayed behind. He endured World War II in Italy and emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1952. "I have always had It in the back of my mind I would come here some day," be said. Chiodo raised a family of three. Working for an electrical utility for $45 a week, he patiently saved up the $900 plane fare.

When a 16-week vacation came up, he decided the time had come to visit America. One of the first things he did here was visit Calvary Cemetery to see the grave of his father, Pietro, who came to America in 1912 and died in 1916. U.S. Bellisimo' What does he think of America? "Bellisimo, bellisimo," he roared, meaning most beautiful. And he's seen quite a bit of the country in a short time.

Entering this country with Mrs. Chiodo were a son, Joseph, now 52, who operates Chiodo's Tavern in Homestead; another son, Santo, now living in Mun-hall, and a daughter, now Mrs. Clara Zuccarilli of Baldwin. Two other children were born in this country Peter, now a priest in Cincinnati, and a daughter, now a nun, Sister Mary Peter, stationed at Columbia, Pa. Bridge Closes Today The County Works Department last night issued another reminder the Sixth Street Bridge across the Allegheny River will close at 9 a.

m. today for one week and traffic will be detoured over the Seventh and Ninth Street bridges. JP Fills In With Alderman Bruno Away Alderman Frank R. Bruno, who is either ill or on vacation or both, has himself a substitute. Justice of the Peace John Chandler, who has jurisdiction in the First, Second and Third wards, is sitting in for Bruno "to keep the office going." Chandler said yesterday that there is nothing unusual in his sitting in for the Second Ward alderman.

"I've done it before," he said. "It's perfectly legal." Chandler said that Bruno was sick and wouldn't return to his Fifth Avenue office, Downtown, for a week to ten days. A check with the county sheriff's department, where Bruno moonlights as a sheriff's deputy, revealed however that Bruno is vacationing in Atlantic City. Maybe he is sick I don't really know," said an official yesterday. "But I know he's in Atlantic City." Symphony Given Festival Grant The Pittsburgh Symphony Society will receive a $50,000 grant to play at the Temple University Music Festival this summer, U.S.

Rep. William S. Moorhead said yesterday. The grant from the National Endowment for the Arts had to be matched with $50,000 in local The symphony's first concert at the festival will be televised here by WQED at 8:30 p. m.

Friday from Ambler, Montgomery County. The symphony will play at Ambler Friday through Sunday each week until Aug. 2. East Liberty School Plan Change Readied Addison Arthurs of the Shadyside East Civic Association intends to present an alternate plan for use of the school board's East Liberty property, at a meeting of the Shadyside Association at 8 p. xn.

today in the Third Presbyterian Church, Fifth and S. Negley Avenues. Arthur's proposal would seek to preserve Shadyside as a residential area. Alderman For Other Quits Job Charles Halloran, Ninth Ward city alderman and member of the county Board of Viewers, has resigned his alderman's job, effective July 1, Judge Henry Ellenbogen announced yesterday. But the job Is still in the family.

The Common Pleas Court president judge said that Halloran had quit the job after Ellenbogen told him that he was in apparent violation of state Supreme Court rules forbidding moonlighting in government jobs by justices of the peace. Judge Ellenbogen said: "I simply told him he would have to choose one job or the other." Halloran chose to resign his commission because he closed his office in January after his sister, Eileen Halloran Ambrose, took office as new magistrate in the Ninth Ward. HASPEL has a better idea. x5 Cool, yes. of course.

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Bush, solicitor for the school board. Bush retorted that Warman had never asked formal permission to look over the school records until one day before the hearings were to start. He said: "Subpcnas were left (by Warman) all over Mt. Lebanon the day before trial and they were left in the' hands of the wives and children of the school board members." Tht Area i FaiortH Stoict for Me Sr.ep McKEESPORT, MONROEVILLE MALL tE2Sci JE35 iJ2S I Pi I Four Mt. Lebanon residents yesterday challenged a Common Pleas Court decision which struck down their drive against authority-financing of the $12 million township high school remodeling project.

Guy L. Warman, their attorney, charged in court yesterday that the court did not give him ample opportunity to prepare his cause before the week-long series of hearings which began on May 14. He assailed the Mt. Lebanon school board and its employes for allegedly refusing to turn over school administrative records which could aid him in his case. The residents and their wives had filed a suit against the school hoard in an attempt to get a court order forbidding the board from using an authority to finance the renovation.

They claimed that the means of financing through a municipal authority costs more than financing by general obligation bonds issued directly by the board. Judge J. Frank McKenna, who presided at the hearing, turned down the request for an injunction, and he joined Judge Joseph H. Ridge yesterday on the two-judge panel hearing arguments City Crime Rale Shows 11 Drop Pittsburgh's crime rate dropped 11.3 per cent in the first three months of the year while the national average for cities over 100.000 population rose 13 per cent, the FBI reported yesterday. The figures, supplied locally, reflected the first crime decrease in the city's recent history.

In seven major crime categories, 7,1.16 crimes were reported in the city in the first quarter of this year compared to 8,067 crimes reported in the first three months of 1069. The breakdown: Murder and non-negligent manslaughter, went up from 11 to 14 this year; forcible rape, down from 53 to 52; robbery, down to 639 from 837; aggravated assault, up to 371 from 317; burglary and breaking or entering, down to 2,140 from larceny $50 and over, down to 1,699 from 2.046; and auto theft, down to 2,221 from 2,428. Evidence Gone, Two Are Freed Two defendants in a Criminal Court case involving various charges that had been postponed six times were freed by court order yesterday because prosecution evidence was missing. Cleared by Judge Samuel Strauss were Andrew Turner, 56, of the 7300 block of Bennett Street, llomewood. and Mrs.

Patricia Davis, 21, formerly of Ben- nett Street and later living on Crab Hollow Road, Penn Hills. Turner and Mrs. Davis were arrested Aug. 10, 1967, at Turner's Rennett Street home. Detectives charged they possessed heroin and other narcotics, and were operating a numbers book.

Mrs. Davis also was accused of larceny and receiving stolen goods. Plainclolhesman Leon Rhodes, one of the raiding officers, said evidence he turned over to the district attorney's office could not be found. Included were a search warrant and numbers slips, he said. -1r --rf Renewal Stalls Courthouse Staff Fancy remodeling including the luxury of airconditioning will cause suspension of all public activities on the third floor of the Courthouse, beginning today.

Trials and hearings will be held in courtrooms on the Courthouse fifth floor and in the City-County Bldg, according to plans announced yesterday. Criminal Court jurors will report to the old County Court assignment room on the fifth floor. Witnesses will report to Judge J. Warren Watson's courtroom and sent to various courtrooms on the fifth floor and in the City-County Bldg. The extensive remodeling includes the lowering of ceilings in third floor court-rooms to facilitate airconditioning.

Judge's chambers and secretaries' offices will be included in the job. And there'll be a new public address system for the better hearing of one and all concerned with justice. When the work is finished. Criminal Court will have eight large, modernized rooms. New Supermarket Opening Scheduled A new Giant Eagle supermarket fit 417 N.

Highland East Liberty, replacing the one destroyed by fire there Feb. 4, 1969, is scheduled to open June 29. The market will have 48 per cent more shopping space and 87 per cent more parking area than the previous one. Available "Closer Look, Box 1492, Washington, D.C. 20013," mentioning whatever it is that worries you about the child in question, his age, and what school he may now be attending.

THE DISTURBING fact is that although it's now easier to locale help there just isn't enough. Only about two and a half million handicapped children now receive some sort of teaching tailored to their special needs. Two out of every three handicapped youngsters get no special education at all. By any measure of decency, handicapped children reserve better attention than they are receiving. Considering the unappreciative, destructive behavior of some "normal" students firebombing their opportunity for higher learning, the question arises as to whether society wouldn't better be served if some funds now appropriated for colleges were rechanneled to special education for the handicapped? WANT TO HELP? Investigate a career as a special education teacher.

There are 90,000 now 400.000 are needed. For free information, write "Special Education Careers," Box 1492, Washington, D.C. 20013. rfj-ijrt i CAREER CORNER Aid to Handicapped Is By JOYCE LAIN Carer Analyst Dear Joyce: According to bis doctors, my young son will go completely blind-probably within the next two years. Words are inadequate to express my heartbreak, but I am trying to prepare all I can before this time comes to pass.

I thought maybe you might do some research on where I can find help. Z. ASHINGTON, D.C. Special education is needed by a surprisingly high proportion of. American youngsters; the latest U.S.

government estimates put the number at seven million roughly one in 10 of our school-age population! The figure also includes two million preschool-age children. THESE HANDI- That Job Would You Like to See Explored in "The Career CAPS include the visually and speech impaired; the deaf and hard of hearing; the crippled; the emotionally disturbed; the mentally retarded; and those with "specific learning disabilities." Specific learning disabilities may be subtle and hard to identify. For example, a child may have difficulties with language, reading or memory or show unusual clumsiness in personal areas such as dressing, eating and so forth. Or, a bright child who is unable to master math because of visual perception failure all are symptoms which may be excused or overlooked by parents and busy teachers. Without special education, odds increase that handicapped children will be headed for a lifetime in a hospital or on welfare.

Or for crime, and prison. A welfare. Or for crime, and prison. Where can anybody parent, relative, or other interested person who suspects that a child may need help for some handicap receive precise information promptly on where to start looking for it, as close to home as possible? FOR THE FIRST TIME, a free referral service called "Closer Look" has been set up to fill this need. The Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH) of the U.S.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has put all public and private institutions serving handicapped persons on computer tape, and BEH will send a few names and addresses of the nearest educational facilities to those requesting them. Write to -1 MS.