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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTEi FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1963 Regional Plannera Chech Triangle Map JiLL City, Trolley Finn Feud Flares Up at Hearing i Questions on Source of Funds Used To Buy Chicago Co. Brings Sharp Replies Khrush Asks For Parley With Brandt Visits Red Wall; W. Berlin Mayor projects, as in the Lower Hill iillllllijlf Planning Director Robert J. Cuiick, Triangle tpot to Edward Connor, Detroit Councilman center), and Streuby Drumm, West Penn Power Co. head.

County Again Seeks and Manchester, have caused thousands of riders to be lost as customers. This heated colloquy in the, afternoon followed a morning session in which Groudine. McKees Rock so licitor, attacked the company's, proposal to cut out i. mues of the No. 24 Schoenvillej Route.

The company wants, to eliminate the portion of the line between Stowe Twp. and Chartlers Avenue and Carson Street In McKees Bocks, combining It with the Route 25 West Park line. Groudine said such action would deprive McKees Rocks "Bottoms" of service and contended that the route is mak- ing money. When Ligo an? swered that Route 24 is losings money on its total length, Groudine cited figures which, he said, proves that the part to be eliminated makes money. Ligo agreed that people living along the 1.7 miles to; be abandoned will be without public transportation if the PUC a'pproves the company's request.

The hearing will be resumed at 10 a. m. today, then will recess for hearings the week of Feb. 25. TV Channel 16 Resumes Today.

Television Channel 16, WQEX, will resume operations today, according to Donald V. Traverner, general manager of the ultra high frequency (UHF) station. Traverner, who is also gen eral manager of Channel 13, WQED, said Channel 16 has been closed for technical re-, pairs since 1961. The station's programs are beamed at groups for special studies in various fields. Decision on Runway (Continued from Pago I) riders.

He pointed out that Pittsburgh Railways lacks funds for operating ex pensea but had money for purchase of the Chicago firm, "just as the City has funds to pay for a stadium but not to operate It." "The City needs a stadium here more than-it needs deodorant bombs in Chicago," Mrs. Finkelhor replied. Ligo answered that the money to buy G. Barr Co. belonged to Pittsburgh Railways and commented, have the right to use the money where we want" Says No Defense Needed Mrs.

Finkelhor said, "You've pomi in with three towels and four handkerchiefs crying about a lack of income and yet in April of 1962 you took $4,800,000 and invested it in the city of Chicago." "We don't have to defend G. Barr Ligo insisted. Railways Company Attor ney Frank jumped up to pro test. "This is an uncalled for and unreasonable request," he said of Mrs. Finkelhor's demand for a statement from the company.

"It makes no difference where the money came from." Finkelhor: "Ive listened here to the storv of how the Pittsburgh Railways Co. has reached its dav of crisis ana must be dismembered to pro tect itself. We've come down a long road and feel we have cooperated with the company. Now when mass transit is to be taken over by an Authority you want to cut up the system like a Thanksgiving turkey and leave the Authority nothing but the bones." Frank retorted that the City was trying "to inject an issue which discolors our case. That is demonstrated by the lack of co-oDeration by the City and the County in the past," he said.

Blames City Delays 'One thing that has brought us to this point today is the delays when we've asked for relief, and this has been caused by the city," Ligo added. "We've been going through the throes of redevelopment and this is ruining Pittsburgh Railways Co." During the recess, Ligo said that redevelopment has required the company to substitute buses for trolleys in some areas of the City and that huge slum clearance FRED SMITH Vew kind of developer. Fulton Gets House GOP Policy Post Democratic Group Assigns Moorhead, Dent to Committees Fott-Cztt Wuhliwton Buraa WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 Rep. James G.

Fulton, Dor-mont, was formally elected today to the House Republican Policy Committee for two years, one of three members representing the mid-Atlantic tier of states. He will cast the 14 votes to which Pennsylvania is entitled by reason of having 14 Republican congressmen, when the policy committee makes decisions. The Democratic Committee on Committees also made its selections today. Rep. 'William S.

Moorhead, Pittsburgh, was placed on the Government Operations Committee, In aadition to his old assign-, ment on the Banking Committee. The new assignment will enable him to participate In actions to cut costs of government, and to reorganize governmental units. If the Department of Urban Affairs becomes an issue again, his committee would be the first to consider it He says, the Banking Committee and the Government Operations Committee together give him, he thinks, the best possible opportunity to serve Pittsburgh in Congress. Rep. John Dent, Greens-burg, was placed on the House Administration Committee, in addition to his old assignment on the Labor Committee.

PMt-Cuett Photo County Unit Plan Praised (Continued from Page 1) director, of the Regional Planning Association, urged the establishment of a similar body for the six-county Southwestern Pennsylv a 1 a region. Other speakers included Streuby L. Drumm, president of West Penn Power and president of the Pittsburgh Regional Planning- Association. In a report on the Association's activities, Drumm noted that one step toward the regional group was taken during the past year. This was the formation of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission, representing the counties of Armstrong, Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Westmoreland.

The Association has made its staff and facilities available to the planning commission. The re-election of officers of the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association was an nounced at the dinner. Streuby Drumm was re-elected president and Hugh M. Redhead vice-president. Also chosen for another term were: Arthur E.

Braun, treasurer; Charles E. Mattes, assistant treasurer; and Alfred M. Hunt, secretary. R. K.

Mellon was reelected chairman of the executive committee and Adolph W. Schmidt was named a director. cision last March In the Thomas N. Griggs case. The court held that the county was liable for property damages to Griggs' home near the airport because enough land had not been ac quired to provide a buffer zone against plane noise and vibration.

In their appeals to the FAA, the commissioners are pro posing that the Federal Gov ernment help pay for the cost of any land needed to provide such a buffer zone for the new runway. The $12 million runway was scheduled to be opened for visual landings Nov. 15. It can't be opened until later this year for instrument landings. Illinois Board Frees Hodge SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan.

17 (AP) Former State auditor Orville E. Hodge, who has been In prison since August, 1956, for embezzling $1.5 million in state funds, was granted a porole today. It will become effective Jan. 31 or as soon thereafter as parole authorities have approved Hodge's arrangements for employment and residence. The Illinois Parole and Pardon Board said the date coincided with the date of a conditional release granted by Federal authorities on Federal sentences which Hodge also is serving in connection with the embezzlement.

Hodge, 58, based his plea for parole on failing health. He is suffering from an kidney ailment and nervous depression. W. Va. University, Alumni to Meet Dr.

Paul A. Miller, president of West Virginia Uni versity, will speak at a gath- Luj lering of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alumni Association at 5 m. Feb. 2 in the University Club, 12a University Place, Oakland. This will be Miller the chapter's third annual gathering.

It will commemorate West Virginia University's 96th anniversary. At 8:15 p. the alumni will attend the West Virginia-University of Pittsburgh basketball game in the Pitt Field House. Fire Chiefs to Meet The regular monthly meeting of the Fire Chiefs Association of Allegheny County will be held at 8:30 p. m.

Monday at West View Fire Co. No. 3, Perry Highway, West View. Bachauer Tonight Day in Hotel Room Don't Complain r- Or PLOT 1 SLIP I 1 Hold yecanre. line sm tl morel waU wuqiy.

I I'M ffiffilrtSL- NIW LOCATION 214 PARK BLDG. kit, a tmmt tt. 'Declines Bid to Talk (Continued from Pace 1) thing which objectively I con- aider necessary." Brandt said he felt the talk would have been of mutual In terest to both the West Ber- liners and the Communists, However, opponents of the project contended Khrush' dbev would score a point la the Battle of Berlin and so be In a better propaganda position to push the Com munist demand that Berlin bo Internationalized as "free city." That Is a major plank In Khrushchev's Berlin program. "Alter weighing all as pects," Brandt said, "I decided to tell the other side, with great regret, that unforeseen difficulties had made It im possible for me to attend the talk, which was set for to night" DoortiU May Be Open Brandt indicated the door might still be open. He was asked by newsmen if "tomor row is another day," and re plied: "In a formal sense, have only refused for today." Khrushchev, in Berlin for a of the East German Communist Party, was at the wall 15 minutes.

His visit in effect confirmed his endorsement of the barrier which bisects Berlin and locks 17 million East Germans off from the West It was Khrushchev's first View of the wall. Grinning and looking full of confidence, he saw the spot where American and Soviet tanks stood ominously face to face In October, 1961. He waved airily in the direc tion of famed Checkpoint Charlie, the Western Allied control point in the American sector. Khrushchev had come straight from the bleak Wer Seelenbinder Sports Pal ace in East Berlin. There his Communist supporters from 70 world parties have been wrestling with the problem of a sullen Red Chinese resistance to his cold war policies, Issue Is Soft-Pedaled Khrushchev has soft-ped aled the chronic Berlin crisis at the meeting, a Congress of the East German Party, The impression is that the Kremlin's first order of busi ness is to try to restore a semblance of world Communist unity before heating up any crisis like Berlin to the danger point.

Khrushchev has called for an end to public quarreling and name-calling between the followers of Peking and Moscowbefore any meeting of leaders is held to thrash out the differences in private. But he carried the name-calling a step further in a tough speech at the Congress yesterday, and today It was more of the same. After Gomulka completed his endorsement of all Khrushchev's words the Soviet leader took an automobile to the Berlin barrier. He strode from the car toward the peppermint-striped red and white barriers, hard by the long, low buildings where Communist border police check all non-Germans passing through the wall. He stared in the direction of the Western sector, where a U.

S. flag fluttered in the brilliant sunshine only 10 yards across the border. Holiday Atmosphere In true Khrushchevian style, he gave the event a holiday atmosphere. He marched up to a Western tourist bus pulled up at the control point, bearing Italian and English tourists. East German police there, apparently because of the Khrushchev visit and the restive tourists had been banging on the windows.

The nervous driver finally opened the door, and about 25 tourists tumbled out. Khrushchev was there, (beaming shaking hands and chatting amiably in Russian, whic' none ol the tourists under stood. "He gave us all a big friend ly smile and shook hands. said one young Italian tourist "Of course, I couldn't un der stand him, unfortunately." On the West side, First Lieutenant Rudd H. Johnson, a military police officer from Highland Park, I1L, watched impassively from the dividing line.

Johnson wore a steel helmet and combat equipment. Some Germans on the West side shook their fists at the Soviet leader, but there were no incidents. Plans Bared For Oakland Company Head Sees Something New In 'This Civilization9 (Continued from Page 1) the corporation's aim to. create In Oakland: "The most striking educational, scientific and cultural complex In the nation." "The most effective research area and facility any where available." "An extraordinary place' in which to live and to bring up children." Bringing New People Bulldozers will not sweep everything away, he said. "We are not planning to move Oakland's present people out: we are Inter ested In moving new people In we feel that by doing this, by doing It deliberately and skillfully, we can plant the seeds of a new economlo era In Western Pennsylvania," he said.

"Even a casual look at the area will convince anyone that not a great deal of Oakland can be or should be destroyed," he said. "Much of the architecture, while out of date and not as as it might be, is far too good to do away with. It should be picked up cleaned up and made compatible with the overall design of the area." New Kind of Developer Oakland Corporation can do the job best Smith asserted, because it is a new kind of developer: committed to a profit "but not necessarily a quick committed to the total creation of a community; concerned as much with the unprofitable ventures as the profitable ones; committed to structures "which will, last indefinitely and with interests "far beyond the construction of buildings." Smith came here as a vice president of Prudential Insurance Co. and leader of its $150 million industrial development in Boston, part of that area's industrial resurg ence. That area, he said, "after nearly a generation of bad times, now has an eco nomic growth rate almost comparable to Realtors Vote Tuesday The Greater Pittsburgh Board of Realtors will meet at noon Tuesday in the Penn-Sheraton Hotel to vote on proposed by-law amendments.

EXTRA" A10UT OWNIN9 AN AS IT IS THRILLING mMiM (Continued from Page 1) that failure to open the run way 'constitutes a serious threat to safety." "While we do not believe there Is any merit to these charges," the letter stated, "nevertheless, the issues between the county and your agency are being forcibly brought to the public's attention as a safety issue by this recent publicity. "Since the issues we wish to resolve with your agency and with the Department of Justice are of pressing importance, both locally and nationally, and since public interest' in this matter grows daily, we again urgently request that a conference be scheduled by you at the earliest possible time." Better Able to Judge Informed of the commission ers' statement Edward J. Burke, Pittsburgh area safety chairman of the Air Line Pilots commented: "I believe the airline pilots are better able to judge the relative safety of the two run ways than the county commissioners. "The fact that the Civil Aeronautics Board allows us to participate, and in fact twice has changed its reports to reflect our findings, certainly indicates national acceptance of our qualifications." Burke said that one of the association's major themes is accident prevention. "We certainly regard our campaign to get this runway opened for visual landings as accident prevention," he de clared.

Burke disclosed that Lyle A. Spencer, chairman of Trans World Airlines Air Safety Committee, had joined the campaign to get the-runway opened. Spencer wired Commission er Chairman William D. McClelland that TWA pilots "re quest the earliest possible opening of the new runway at Greater Pittsburgh Airport." 'The greater length of this runway will greatly enhance the level of safety during the present winter operations," Spencer told McClelland. Needed All Year The additional runway length, Spencer added, is needed all year "to make use of the complete capabilities of jet aircraft." The pilots argue that the present east-west runway is shorter and has an asphalt topping which is slippery when wet.

Jet planes also are constantly blasting holes in the asphalt, they said. The commissioners' fear of possible damage claims over the new runway stems from the U. S. Supreme Court de Pianist Gina Is at Mosque She Practices Every But Other Guests GINA BACHAUEK Practice, practice, practice. gSsaWKBSWisisssssa if a the one and p.

A piano is being played In room at the Webster Hall Hotel, but there are no complaints from guests. The music is being made by Greek-born pianist Gina Bachauer. "I still work six to seven hours a day on the piano," she said yesterday, "and that's why I have a piano in my hotel room here." Tonight she will abandon hotel room keyboard for at Syria Mosque and an 8:40 concert with William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her performance, including Mozart's G-Major Concerto Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, will be repeated in Syria Mosque Sunday at 3.10 m. The pianist has a home In London and maintains another in her native Athens where she made her concert debut in 1935.

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