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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE i FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1967- 4 Pittsburgh To Get Collier Trophy. Killers Ask McDonnell Wins Top Fn rrifec! Aerospace Award Pardon Board Gets I WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP)-The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) today named James S. McDonnell, St. Louis, chairman of the McDonnell winner of the nation's top aerospace award the Robert J. Collier trophy.

The trophy traditionally is prevented by the President, In a White House ceremony. The' 2 Sentenced In Robbery Two of three men found guilty of robbing a finance company office were given terms in Western Penitentiary yesterday by Judge John P. Hester in Criminal Court. Sentencing of the third man was delayed pending a presentence investigation. Sentenced to prison for the last Feb.

9 robbery of the Keystone Thrift 402 E. Ohio Northside, were Robert Harris, 25, of 1255 Warlo who was given three to six years, and William O. Bivins, 29, of 1100 Pensylvania who got a four to eight year term. Judge Hester deferred sentencing Howard Hawkins 32, of 1226 Rush St. The men got $174 in the robbery and were arrested minutes after their getaway by Park Patrolman John Mariano on the Northside.

presentation to McDonnell has been scheduled for May 24. A 32-member committee selected McDonnell from among several close rivals, and then made the selection strips. In Vietnam, It is considered the most effective fighter aircraft ever flown in combat. McDonnell developed the one-man Mercury spacecraft, in which six successful manned orbital flights were accomplished, in addition to the two- HiV ff yh Jf Sim. tl Senate Bcals LBJ-Backctl Fund Bill RFK, Republicans Help Repeal Plan for 2 Parties (Continued from Page 1) plated for each of the parties next year, Kennedy told backers of the Long plan "you could take everything over with that." Long argued that the plan was designed to make it possible for a poor man to run for high political office and to free successful candidates from any obligation to wealthy contributors.

He said repeal advocates "want to leave the parties at the mercy of the wealthy of this country." Points to New York Long cited as an example of what he called the "grandiose scale of campaign expenditures" in recent years the $7.6 million he said was spent in New York to elect Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1965 and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in 1966. "To those of you who argue that $30 million for each presidential candidate is excessive," he said, "I say that, when compared to recent New York experience, this projected sum will be relatively modest." Pleas of 3 Lifers, One 4-10 Slayer The State Pardons Board is considering the bids of four convicted slayers for release from prison. All are opposed by the district attorney's office.

The appeals were among 24 heard here yesterday by the three-man board. The board's decisions will be announced later. The convicted slayers seeking freedom were: Frank D. Evans, 48, formerly of Dinwiddie Street, Hill District, who was sentenced to a life term for shooting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mollie Warren, of 2235 Mahon Hill District, in 1953.

Evans' wife, Lillian, also was shot in the fracas, but survived. Leo McDonald, 43, formerly of the Hill District, who was convicted in 1948 and sentenced to life for the shooting of Louis Pucci during an argument in a Hill District restaurant. McDonald's release was opposed by the victim's sons, James and Louis. James H. Baker, 57, formerly of Herron Hill, who was sentenced to 4-to-10 years in Developed Mercury man Gemini, which put 20 ii astronauts in space.

McDonnell, 67, was cited specifically for significant Established In 1912 achievements "in advancing The trophy was established in both aeronautics and astronau- 1912 by Robert J. Collier, tics, as exemplified by the publisher and pioneer aviation demonstrated performance of entriusiast. The winner for the the F-4 Phantom aircraft and first tw0 years was Glenn Gemini space vehicles. CurtisSi and the Mri annual The F-4 is so versatile that presentation went to Orville although it can fly at more than Wright, who with his brother twice the speed of sound, it can Wilbur Wright achieved the operate from aircraft carrier first powered flight by man, 10 decks or from jungle landing years earlier. The trophy is awarded each 1965 after he was convicted for year for the greatest achieve- the shotgun slaying of Joseph ment of the previous year in Fields, 39, his girlfriend's es- aeronautics of astronautics in tranged husband.

I America. -Associated Press WlreDhoto JAMES MCDONNELL Award winner. Rabbi Arthur Gilbert To Speak Tonight Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, director of the National Department of Religious Curriculum Research, Anti-D efamation League of B'nai B'rith, will be the speaker at the Sabbath Eve services at 8:15 o'clock tonight at the Temple Sinai Congregation, 5505 Forbes Squirrel Hill. His topic will be "What's Next on the Agenda of Jewish-Christian Relations?" Painting Professor To Lecture at IKC Harry Holland, assistant professor of painting at Carnegie Institute of Technology, will speak at the Irene Kaufmann Center, 5738 Forbes Squirrel Hill, Monday at 8:30 p.m. His lecture will be the sixth In a series by prominent artists.

He will show slides and discuss his own work. Paul Cnssman, 67, a for- Earlier this month, McDon -Associaied Wireoiroto mer Northside man who was nell was announced as the winner of another award the founders' medal of the National Academy of Engineering. sentenced to life after pleading guilty in the razor-killing of his wife, Minnie, in 1931. Super Cone Five-year-old Tommy McCubbin of State College, cele-brates the warm weather and his birthday with an oversize dip of ice cream bittersweet mint-bought for him by his parents at Penn State University's creamery. He turned five yesterday.

Mayor Bids to Break Chicago Truck Tieup dustrial plants in Chicago and Every one of the 33 Republicans including senator Scott of Pennsylvania, present voted for repeal. They were joined by 15 Democrats among them Sen. Clar k.Backing the administration forces against repeal were 42 democrats. The GOP opposition was directed by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, of Illinois, who told the Senate that political success is not open only to the wealthy.

Dirksen Rao on $800 "When I first ran for Congress I had to borrow $800 to do it," Dirksen said. "And I summon Harry S. Truman as my witness. Nobody ever saw Harry wallowing in dollars." In a last-ditch move to save (he plan, its supporters won adoption of an amendment which would have cut back the ceiling on the subsidy to $12.5 million for each party in 1968. i Sit also would have reduced flom $1 to 50 cents the amount each taxpayer could designate oi his 1967 income tax return for allotment to the campaign financing fund.

(Continued from Page 1) tlement early Wednesday in a dispute involving 250,000 over-the-road truck drivers which ended a two-day layoff imposed by operators after the Teamsters began selective strike against carriers. Terms of the nationwide proposal were not announced, but it was believed to place an overall cost on employers of 70.55 cents by the last year of a three-year contract. Of this, 60.55 cents an hour was reportedly in pay and fringe benefits. Pay scales now range from $3.25 to $5 an hour. Mediator Call asked both sides to meet Wednesday, but sessions were postponed twice by the employers who said they required more time to study their position.

Increasingly widespread concern over the tieup which has blocked commerce between in other cities was echoed by Thomas Coulter, chief executive officer of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Coulter asked Daley to step into the dispute which involves both a strike by 11,000 of the truckers, members of Fenner's union, and a lockout by carriers. Coulter said that layoffs Mere spreading in many plants. Three major television manufacturers Zenith, Motorola and Admiral announced earlier that 25,000 of their workers were left jobless by parts shortages. Three railroads, the North Western, the Milwaukee and the Burlington, ordered embargoes on piggyback trailer shipments to Chicago.

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