Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 27

r- rry TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1966 PRR Chief Blasts for Trying To Block Merger Saunders Expresses High Optimism For Area's Future as He Addresses Chamber of Commerce Banquet Here Stuart T. Saunders, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, last night lashed out at the Norfolk Western Railway for trying to "filibuster to death" the Pennsy's long-proposed merger with the New York Central. Nevertheless, Saunders said he is confident the merger will be consumated at "a fairly early date." At 4 CO SECOND SECTION Slum T. fcf, lm Penn .2 i v. -V Park moieU to iVrf.oii B.

try, Henry Avery and Lemi L. UvulMn. Italians Give Little Guys Biggest Raises Pitt Studies Methods Of Business Overseas When John D. Businessman starts dealing with his company's overseas subsidiaries, there's a good chance he'll put his foot in his mouth if he doesn't have information now being turned up by the University of Pittsburgh. Businessmen here and abroad have different ways of handling Slayers' Plea For Shorter Terms Fought DAs Aide Opposes Appeals of 10 Prisoners Here The office of the district attorney opposed the freeing of 10 of 12 Allegheny County convicted murderers who appealed to the State Pardons Board for commutations of their sentences.

Asst. Dist. Atty. William J. Engel told the board his office had no opposition to the freeing of Leo John Chester, sentenced to life in 11 for his part in the fatal beating of a Northside man, or Richard M.

Quakers, sentenced to 6 to 12 years In 1963 for second-degree murder in the fatal beating of his two-year-old step-son. Called Miscarriage Last year, when Chester appealed for commutation, Engel branded the convict's life sentence "a miscarriage of Justice," declaring that the district attorney's office was In favor of commutation. Chester, however, remained behind bars. Engel said his office was opposed to the freeing of Howard Bey, a former Hill District man sentenced to life in 1947 for the murder of a motorist after a traffic accident. Opposition was also registered to the freeing of Raymond Herron, sentenced to 40 to 80 years in 1947 for the murder of a nine-year-old boy in Penn Hills.

The district attorney's office likewise opposed the freeing of Chester Mauch-line, sentenced to 10 to 20 years in 1958 for the strangulation of his wife. Engel also opposed the release of Earl R. Saunders, sentenced to life for the 1954 murder of a Northside service station attendant and Louis Zemler, sentenced to life in 1930 for the murder of a Versailles Township man during a holdup. Others Opposed Other petitions opposed by the office of the district attorney included those submitted by Francis E. Deems, serving life for the 1948 fatal beating of a Ross Township grocery store operator; Paul N.

Hamilton, given 10 to 20 years for the fatal shooting of his wife in 1960; John J. O'Neil, sentenced to seven to 15 years in 1963 for the "Body in a Box" murder of an East Liberty woman, and Robert J. Puskar, serving a 10-to-20-year term for the murder of his wife in 1957. The board heard 29 petitions from former Allegheny County residents now serving prison terms. Secretary of Internal Affairs Genevieve Blatt, who did not participate in yesterday's hearings due to an illness, will give up her seat on the board next month to Secretary-elect John K.

Tabor. Yesterday's hearings also marked the last time Lt. Governor Raymond P. Shafer will participate on the board. UMW Candidate Accuses Officers Of Interference Harmarville President Says District 5 Leaders Juggled Constitution A candidate for president of District of the United Mine Workers here charged in Common Pleas Court yesterday that current office holders in the union were interpreting constitutional rules to benefit themselves.

The charges were voiced by attorney J. Mark Maurizi, who is representing Louis Antal, a candidate for president of District 5, in a lawsuit against the district and two of its officers. Antal, president of Local 4426 of the UMW in Harmarville, calims that Michael Budzanoski and John Seddon, the district's president ana respectively, are using their offices to prevent him from being elected. He also accused Seddon and Budzanoski of using union facilities to mail campaign literature, but refusing to let him do the same. Antal asked Judge Walter P.

Smart to enjoin District 5 from depriving him of his "fundamental rights under the law." District 5, however, represented' by Attorney Lloyd F. Engle branded all of Antal's assertions false, arguing that Common Pleas Court had no jurisdiction in the matter. Judge Smart took no concrete action, but noted that to grant an injunction "might be a blow to the union." He instructed both attorneys to attempt to settle the matter between themselves and ordered them to report back to him as soon as possible. a press conference he took a guess at March 1. The PRR chief spoke at the 93rd annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Pittsburgh in the Hilton Hotel.

Optimistic of Future He used the platform not only to speak glowingly of the PRIt's hopes for Pittsburgh and the surrounding coal region, but to mount an unusually bitter attack on a competing railrqad, the Meanwhile, the dinner also marked the election of new officers for 1967. Nelson B. Fry executive vice president of Allegheny Airlines, was chosen president. This year's president, Lewis L. Doughton, general manager-Pittsburgh District, Sears Roebuck was elected chairman of the board.

He will succeed Henry Avery, vice president of USS Chemicals, who will remain a director. Thre Honored The chamber also presented honorary life membership to financier Richard K. Mellon, who received it in absentia. Memorial honors were paid to the late Gov. David L.

Lawrence and aluminum pioneer Roy A. Hunt. Saunders said the PRR's plans to redevelop 148 acres in the Strip District as an industrial and residential Penn Park are "moving forward at a steady pace." He said the railroad owned 80 per cent of the land when it announced the project last May and since has acquired one-fourth of the remaining land. He announced that Philadelphia architect Vincent Kling has been hired to design the overall project with State planning consultant Robert Dowling. Many individual structures will be "in the hands of Pittsburgh architects and builders," he said.

Saunders also disclosed the PRR will spend more than $30 million to this area's coal industry. Some $18 million will go for a new 35-mile Waynesburg Southern Railroad to open up coal reserves of 500 million tons in Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia. Another $7V4 million will build a coal handling dock at Ashtabula, Ohio. PRR also is experimenting with 300-car trains, three miles long, "the heaviest in the world," to haul iron ore as unit carriers, he revealed. Saunders said lthe merger of the PRR and NYC into the world's largest railroad network would create "at least 3.000 additional jobs" In Pennsylvania and make Pittsburgh a regional headquarters of the Penn Central.

He said after four years of silence, the suddenly launched a "campaign of delay" on the merger about seven months ago. This, complained Saunders, after the Pcnnsy helped the own merger with the Wabash and Nickel Plate, which has made the "by all odds the most profitable railroad in the world." Noting that the U.S. Justice Department docs not question the merits of the merger, Saunders said it is a problem of "when, not whether." He hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's setting of an early date, Jan. 9, to hear arguments in the case.

He Warns Against Delay "Indefinite delay of this merger will kill it," Saunders warned. He said the two railroads cannot continue to operate "in suspense." Some 5,500 jobs open up each year by attrition, Saunders pointed out. He said morale suffers, there is a "terrible effect" on recruitment, and there are "formidable problems" of budgeting new facilities that run "into millions of dollars." Newly elected directors of the chamber are Frank M. Brettholle, senior vice president, H. J.

Heinz Barney G. Cameron, vice president and general manager, The Pittsburgh Press, C. Howard Hardesty, executive vice president. Consolidation Coal Richard K. Means, vice president, Oliver Tyrone and Stuart McMurray, vice president, Peoples Natural.

Gas Co. Take URA Post, Barr Is Urged The four members of the Urban Redevelopment Authority asked Mayor Joseph M. Barr yesterday to appoint himself to the authority as a successor to the late Gov. David L. Lawrence.

Vice Chairman George- Rooney said the same procedure was followed in 1946 when the original authority members asked Mr. Lawrence to serve with them. He accepted and was named Other members of the URA board are Henry L. Hillman, president of Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical John L. Propst, vice president of the Trust Department of Mellon Bank; and City Councilman J.

Craig Kuhn. Mayor Barr took the request under consideration. to 9 1 mmm nil 1 Jmmmm Downtown Monday thru Saturday 10 -Poit CaiMt Photo Party Hosts Told To Let Tipplers Get Home Safely Throwing a party? Be sure to limit the drinks served to guests so they can steer their automobiles home in safety. This was one of many ideas tossed on the table yesterday at the 21st Mayor's Highway Safety Conference at the Penn-Sheraton. The speaker who suggested that attentive hosts send guests home sober enough to get there alive was James R.

Barrett, New York state director of driver safety. He cited a research finding that, "Alcohol is a factor in at least 50 per cent of accidents." A combination of strict law and chemical tests resulted last year in 10,151 license suspensions and revocations for drunken driving In New York, Barrett said. Another speaker, Paul H. Blaisdell, of the Insurance Information Institute, said driver education courses in schools across the nation could save young motorists or their parents about $800,000 annually in auto insurance premiums. Drivers aged 18 to 20 pay an average $80 more per year if they lack training courses that would cost about $35 to $40, Blaisdell said.

Salvation Army Adds Hut-Drum Up-Bcat The Salvation Army will add an upbeat to its Christmas Appeal Program this year with the help of a hut shaped like a huge bass drum. The hut, seven feet in diameter, will be featured at the Army's collection corner at Smithfield Street and Oliver Avenue, Downtown. FaOette Disc Sparked Top Sizes 38 to 48 Bothinswitchable Black or White textured acetate look- of silk knit! Skirt is fully acetate lined and side slit for easy walking. main I CIamoiiT.Night finit-Mates! I Lined Skirt Waist Sizes ,240 '20 I oho Suburban iShop it their employes, different approaches to union negotiations, and even different goals in life, University of Pittsburgh psychologists are learning. A worldwide study by Pitt's Management Research Center, headed by psychologist Bernard M.

Bass, is aimed toward nailing down some of these differences. Europe, Latin-America Research Areas Aided by some 80 researchers in Europe and Latin America, Pitt scientists are posing problems "exercises," they call them for American and foreign businessmen to tackle. How the businessmen handle them is telling a great deal about what differences to expect when American businessmen deal with their Nordic or Latin counterparts. Early results still only preliminary from the three-month-old study sug- gest that: If an American engineer threatens to quit his job for a higher-paying position, his American employers will give him a proportionately smaller raise than would, say, an Italian firm. Americans give the biggest raises to their biggest men, but Italians do the oppositeon the theory that a big man knows he's important and feels secure, while the smaller man needs financial reassurance.

In a series of mock labor-management negotiations, the northern Europeans tended to clean up," while the Anglo-Americans In Dr. Bass' words "gave away the shop." American supervisors tend to share the decision-making with their employes more than is done in other countries. The Spanish prefer a supervisor who is persuasive instead of a decision-sharer. In preparing a list of "life goals" to be ranked in order of importance by businessmen, the Spaniards put more emphasis on religion and family than did businessmen from the United States. Many foreign businessmen put tremendous emphasis on planning before putting a project into action.

American businessmen have been accused of acting too quickly. "We'll find out how much truth there is. to that," Dr. Bass said. Americans, Europeans Found Similar Dr.

Bass stirred keen interest in the project among some two dozen businessmen and industrial psychologists at the Downtown YWCA yesterday, where he addressed a luncheon meeting of the Pittsburgh Personnel Association. He said strong similarities are being found not surprisingly between busi- show from Las Vegas. The network is the brainchild of warehousing magnate Daniel H. Overmyer, of Toledo, Ohio, who new owns or is acquiring some half-dozen UHF (ultra-high frequency) TV stations. Overmyer acquired the franchise for Channel 53 for $28,000 in February, 1965.

Terry, who is in charge of sales and marketing for Overmyer's warehousing and distribution activities, said the firm hopes to build "10 or 12" more warehouses around Pittsburgh, at about $1 million each, and has taken options on seven additional sites. The company presently operates at 450 Butler Etna, and is building four structures in Chartiers Valley Industrial Park. Nationally it owns 300 warehouses in 56 cities with 60 under construction. In our exclnsiv I N4 DR. BERNARD BASS Will classify nessmen in England and the United States, and between those in Denmark, Scandinavia and Germany.

More surprising is the similarity found by the researchers between businessmen in India and those in Latin America. 1 The project is being carried out in cooperation with the European Association for Management Training Centers, with partial sponsorship from the Ford Foundation. Fire Sweeps Drugstore Fire caused an estimated $10,000 damage yesterday at John's Pharmacy, 5603 Smithfield Boston, Elizabeth Township, near McKeesport. The blaze broke out at 8:10 a. m.

and was first noticed by Patrolman Earl Beatty, of the Elizabeth Township Police Department, who sounded the then helped firemen fight the blaze. Kenneth McCracken, chief of the Boston Volunteer Fire said an over-' heated furnace in the basement of the one-story brick building may have caused the blaze. Thick smoke poured from the building and three or four explosions were heard before volunteer firefighters from Boston, Lincoln, Versailles, Buena Vista and Liberty Borough brought the blaze under control in two hours. Chief McCracken said bars on a rear door and window kept firemen from entering but they broke in through the front door. The first floor buckled as they fought the fire.

The American Village Pizza Parlor next door suffered smoke damage. Fallout Shelter Survey Planned Federal, state and county officials will meet at 2 p. m. today to discuss a proposed U. S.

grant of more than $100,000 to survey fallout protection here. The county has 1,730 buildings designated as suitable for fallout shelters but some are located distances away from residents who might use them. The survey would involve sending questionnaires to every property owner in the county to find out how much radioactive shielding potential is available In each. It Cliannel 53 to Send From North Hills WECO-TV Hits Tower Snag, Opening Postponed Till June '1 JTT ew your I Ms I I If I i I II If you OroVr iwwww tfiit ti 16 20 JP1T IBor3( JP1 20Kf 40 JP2t 21V, or 42 JP 23 24Vj 44 JP2S 26ft 'or 4o 2T fl 1 i I Pittsburgh's new UHF television station WECO-TV (Channel 53), which had hoped to beam programs in January, probably won't ride the airwaves till June. Owned by Overmyer Communications, the station has had difficulty finding a site for a 700-foot transmission tower, according to William Saling, vice president of a related firm, D.

H. Overmyer Warehouse Co. Saling said in an interview yesterday that a transmitter site in the North Hills is "in the final stages of closing, and a tower should be under construction soon." William C. Terry, another Overmyer vice president, said the new Overmyer Network is to begin broadcasting April with a late-night variety and talk LUSCIOUS VELVET applauded again on the the social fashion-icene! Stopping the show, richly aglow with white rayon natin collar and cuffs," blazing jewel buttons. Water repellent, crush resistant rayon velvet ft Royal.

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