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POST-GAZETTE: July 13, 1976 3 I District News URA Urges Site For Homewood 3 4 iEi-? Ramp Will Reopen On Parhn ay West The inbound ramp of the Rosslyn Farms interchange, closed because of construction on the Parkway West 1 (1-279), will be reopened at 9 a.m. today, the Pennsylvania Department 1 of Transportation (PennDOT) has announced. The westbound lanes of the Park-w a meanwhile, from Rosslyn Farms to one mile west of the 1-79 interchange a distance of approximately 1.5 miles will be closed at 9 a.m. for the next month. Single lane, two-way traffic along the Parkway West, meanwhile, will be maintained during the massive reconstruction and safety update program.

Lions Install Chief Joseph S. Wills of White Oak was installed as governor of Lions International District 14-B at recent Lions International Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. Wills By MIKE MOYLE Post-Goiett Staff Writer Prospects for revitalizing the blighted Homewood business district have brightened, the executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority said yesterday. Stephen George asked City Council to approve sale of the former Port Author-i car barn site at Homewood and Frankstown avenues, which he said is vital to establishment of new businesses in the neighborhood. He said the PAT board of directors has approved sale of land for $244,000.

"We are beginning to get some definite interest fn Homewood for commercial development," George said. "Four different parties are seriously exploring commercial development there. nothing is definite, nothing is nailed down." He said the prospective businesses include a doctor's office, a fast-food restaurant, some small shops and a small apartment building. Two council members were skeptical both of George's optimism and of the need to buy the car barn site now. Frank Lucchino said he fears the land "could turn into another great high schools site," a reference to the East.

Liberty tract that was vacant for 10 year and became a neighborhood nuisance. "I'm opposed to us just acquiring a vacant piece of land that has created problems for the residents and the Port Authority and that will begin to cause problems for us," Lucchino said. Eugene DePasquale said, "I can't help sharing Frank's concern. At one time, after the riots in the late '60s, we had some black shop owners out there, between Kelly and Hamilton. There was that wig place, for example.

Three days after the guy opened they robbed every strand of hair in the place. That's why so many places out there are boarded up today." -Post GozelH Rioto bv PAUL SLANTIS Mobile home in which jive persons were injured by tornado is examined by Grant Schirf, left, and John Cmar in Derry near Latrohe. Tornado Leaves Ruins in Derry Twp. offer of $44,000 for his house only two days before the tornado. "I guess that's out the window now," said Bell, who is planning to move himself and family to Wimmerton in nearby Unity Township.

But S. Franklin Scialabba, a claim supervisor for Bell's insurance agent, Mutual Benefit Insurance consoled Bell yesterday with the advice that his loss on the home and contents would bp fully covered by Bell's homeowners' insurance policy. Scialabba expressed belief also that, most if not all homeowners in the area would be similarly compensated. Bell, unaware of the coming storm, was taking his wife and sons, Aaron, i and Nathan, 8 months, to a eookout. Two hours later they returned to find their home wiped out, but there was one bright note: Their boxer, Gypsy, was safe in the basement.

Genevieve Yourish of 10 Meadow Drive, off duty from her nursing job at Latrobe Area Hospital, was grazed on the head by a falling ceiling but was more concerned about her daughter, Suzanne McBroom, 23, who is expecting a baby in about seven weeks. "We huddled together here as things were crashing around us," said Mrs. Yourish as she showed a visitor into a front hallway. "The wind whipped through the house, glass was flying all over, and I want to tell you it was eerie. We finally got to the Mrs.

McBroom was unhurt. Less fortunate were Ernest Morrell, his wife and their three guests, who had been getting ready to dine in the Mor-rells' home at 52 Richmond St. When the trailer home, which neighbors said had been permanently anchored at the site for years, was uprooted, all five were scattered like so much debris. All were among seven persons admitted to Latrobe Area Hospital. Morrell a a chest fracture and his wife a possible back injury.

Their guests, all from Washington County, were Fred Ramsden, of Monongahela, arm punctures and cuts; his wife, Evelyn, 56, back injury, and her mother, Mrs. Leg-eane Boyd, 76, of New Eagle, cuts and bruises. Also admitted to the hospital were (Continued from Page 1) house he had sold two days earlier. He took his family on a eookout unaware for several hours that the house they were planning to move out of was now almost destroyed. These were some of the more than 200 people some of them injured; none of them, miraculously, killed when the devastating twister ripped through a six-mile-long, 200-foot-wide portion of Westmoreland County near Latrobe.

It left, state police and the American Red Cross said yesterday, a toll of 19 injured persons, more than 60 houses demolished or severely damaged and a total damage estimate of more than $1.5 million. It was part of the same weather system that seriously affected Jefferson and Tioga counties, causing Gov. Shapp to issue a declaration of emergency for those counties and Westmoreland yesterday. His action makes it possible to cut red tape for public aid. During the height of the storm, three persons were killed, one by a funnel cloud in Jefferson County and two by lightning in Jefferson and Venango counties.

The brunt of the property damage appeared to be taken, in the Clover Hill development, in Derry-Township near Route 9 8 2 about a mile north of Latrobe. There yesterday, hundreds of rescue workers state police, utility crews, volunteer firemen, unsummoned National Guard members, Red Cross, Salvation Army and unofficial persons drawn to the area by citizens' band radios-began cleanup operations. Many of them didn't have to be asked to help out or to be told what to do. They helped remove personal belongings and debris from shattered homes took hammers and shovels in hand consoled their neighbors with coffee, sandwiches, warm words. Capt.

Homer Redd of the state police at Greensburg, heading a 50-member command post that included a helicopter, reported there had been no looting throughout long uncertain night Sunday. "These people have been wonderful," said Redd as he surveyed the neighbors going about their grim business. Redd also confirmed what many residents suspected about the twister that it had come as a complete surprise. The National Weather Service had issued a 4 p.m. tornado warning that men i TiiMniTr tioned Allegheny and Beaver counties but not Westmoreland.

Lou Giordano, a meteorologist for the weather service in Pittsburgh, yesterday said no tornado warning was issued for Westmoreland County until 9 p.m. more than four hours after the twister hit the county. Other warnings were issued for Allegheny and Beaver from 4:15 to 5:30 and 6:15 to 7:15 p.m., he said. Westmorefend County did get a severe thunderstorm warning as early as 3:50 p.m., Giordano said, and this was in effect until 5:30. That was the only warning the county got before 9 o'clock Sunday night.

He explained that normally warnings are issued for one hour only. Another weather service meteorologist said a warning means there is a possibility a twister could come to the ground. "You just can't go issue warnings every time you think there might be one," this official said. "Then people just won't listen to them anyway. Twenty-four were sighted in Ohio Sunday but none came to the ground." Warning or no, the effect on Derry Township residents and on people who felt the effects four and five miles away was one of fear and hopelessness.

"All I can remember is that it was black, as midnight," said Mrs. Marcella Hantz of 23 Brinker Clover Hill, as she and her husband, Francis, and friends emptied the remains of their devastated house yesterday. They were not severely hurt, but Mrs. Hantz displayed cuts on her right arm and side, suffered as she stood in the kitchen near two picture windows that were shattered by the twister. 1 "I heard this horrible whistle and then I don't remember what happened next," Mrs.

Hantz said. Nearby, at 105 Penn Dale McCreery, a mill hand at Vanadium Steel, examined the shell of his house that had been uprooted and pushed back 30 feet from the street. "I didn't want to leave but my wife is scared of storms and thank God we did get out," said McCreery. Meadow Drive, which state police said had more than 25 of the damaged houses, seemed like it had been the target of a highly selective bombing raid. Some houses were untouched' by twister, some slightly damaged, some completely ruined.

A stunned Charles Bell of 112 Meadow Drive told of having accepted an ever promised lifetime aid for young Cardamone so there was no corroborative evidence that promise was made. The university contends that in April, 1973, an agreement was reached between the family and Pitt for the college to pay for medical expenses until an insurance settlement could be reached. Leland P. Deck, former insurance manager at Pitt, testified the agreement stipulated that Pitt was not committed to any future obligations and was signed by Cardamnoe and Pitt officials as a memorandum of understanding. Deck testified that at one point before signing the memorandum, Common Pleas Judge Joseph H.

Ridge sat in on a negotiation session as a friend of the family. He said since the accident the university has paid all medical expenses but has refused to purchase a van for Cardamone or to pay for trips to hospitals in the East. Pitt has already paid eight months' hospitalization and daily nursing care but last January officials' decided to cut off payment of futher medical bills until an insurance settlement for Cardamone is made. The hearing continues today with Judge Finkelhor expected to rule on several objections filed by Pitt against arguments put forth by the ffimily. was elected to the post in District 14-B, which in-eludes 64 Lions clubs in Allegheny County and more than 2,300 members, at the 1-vania Lions State Convention last May 23.

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to 3 P.M. iff! J. i i i i i nci i in i Mary Beck, 64, of 11 Meadow Drive, who suffered congestive heart failure, and Catherine Kurill, 75, of 120 Meadow Drive, who received a head injury and cuts. The Pittsburgh-Allegheny County chapter of the American Red Cross set up a disaster service center in Coopers-town School, about a mile from the Clover Hill development. A tally by a survey team headed by Malcolm Woodall, the Red Cross' director of disaster services, reported late yesterday that 63 houses in Westmoreland County were damaged in storm.

Woodall said 37 houses and 12 mobile homes were destroyed and the remainder sustained lesser damage. He also said the Red Cross would offer food, clothing and shelter for those unable to find help. The governor's proclamation of an extreme emergency asked federal' authorities to declare a disaster area. He also requested help in the form of special disaster loans. Specter to Defend State Officials HARRISBURG (AP) Arlen Specter, a prominent Republican who has called the Shapp administration corrupt, has been hired to defend administration officials in a federal grand jury investigation.

Specter was hired yesterday by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) at the rate of $125 an hour. The agency is under investigation for awarding a mortgage loan to a reported Shapp campaign contributor, Norman Leven-thal of Boston. Agency officials have denied any wrongdoing, saying the application of Leventhal was handled like any other agency project. Specter is a former Philadelphia district attorney and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination earlier this year.

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