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txr.ki tv-. jn i iuiDii MONDAY, it.ijiuaky 2n, looti SECOND SUCTION Pittsburgh Post 6aeette iiiii iium-iimii Acting Pitt Chancellor Isn 't Sitting on Hands Mipnin mil i mi mfftn iifim mr; wyyyya 'Wl 1 I'P 1 i ir V. It i A-'' Sv 0 I v' i 1 Ik I 1 j- mmmmmr 'i i fa 1 I i mm i i in i i ii i iniiiim.ifliit.iliiirin 1 Some Decisions Can't Wait, Kurtzman Says By HERBERT STEIX Pct-Ciirttt luff Wrltrr Dr. David Harold Kurtzman makes it quite clear ho dors not intend to be a do nothing chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh. "I don't want this to be a hold-down operation," he was saying in an interview.

"First of all, that isn't my inclination. Next, I think the faculty and students would quickly become impatient. And further It would be a disappointment to the board of trustees." What he does, he said, will depend on when a permanent chancellor is found. "If it's six months from now, then a lot of decisions can wait that long, but if it's a year or a year and a half from now, then we can't wait," he said. Major Decision Right now Pitt is facing a number of major decisions.

Dr. Kurtzman, named to the top post just three weeks ago, talked about them. Is the trimester on the way out? "I'm not going to pre judge that. I have appointed a committee (educaiional policies committee of the faculty Senate) and I want to hear what it says. It has been movinz mWn km Thrxo youth helped rescue four victim of a Cnrnvcie fire.

Svnti'il is Rohrrt llowrylchnk, Torn Ruxh. I'odolak. Standing (l-r) are Michael Mcdrady, Harry Oilier Kcslriclions Under I' irc i James 1 lays, Dinner James Havs, won't he a "do-nothing'9 Charticrs Flood Aid Airing Due Army Kngineers Nine Communities To Tonight The status of the Charticrs Valley flood control project will lie reviewed at a meeting at 8 p.m. today ln Carnegie High School. Thomas L.

Parker, chairman of the Charticrs Valley District Flood Control Authority, described the session as "an information meeting" for officials of the nine communities who are members of the authority. These are Bridge, ville, Carnegie, Pittsburgh, Collier Township, Heidelberg, Hohinson Township, Kossl.vn Farms, Scott Township and Upper St. Clair. How Much From Ivach? Out of tonight's discussion is expected to come the start of an answer to one of the most nettling questions of the years-long flood problem in the valley. That is, "How much is each community willing to contribute to the project?" Three members of the Pittsburgh District of the U.S.

Army Engineers will present a progress report. They are James Neill, chief of the engineering division; Paul Stolz, Chartierv Creek project engineer; and Lt. Col. Glenn Allen, deputy district engineer, second in command to District Engineer Col. James E.

Hammer. Col. Hammer had previously agreed to attend a flood control meeting tonight in Warren, Warren County. Scranton Offers Idea Gov. William W.

Scranton entered the picture over the weekend. In a letter to Col. Hammer, Gov. Scranton proposed that Appalachia funds be obtained from the federal government for the Chartier flood project. However, Col.

Hammer said that possibility had been ex plored but 1 hat the Army Engineers do not believe Appalachia funds can be obtained for the program. He said he is hopeful that promises of local co-operation will emerge from tonight's meeting. Prof lo Speak On Russia Professor George Gibian, chairman of Cornell University's department of Russian literature, will speak today at 8:30 p. m. in Sehenley Hall, University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Gibian, a Pit alumnus, from a recently returned four-month trip to Russia. He will discuss "The Art and Themes, of Post-Khrushchev Russian Literature." The talk, which is open the public, is the seventh a series titled "The Changing Nature of Communist Planned Society" and sponsored by Pitt's Committee on Russian and East European Studies. tiiui on lMon-Uropouis ahead quickly and is talking about a poll involving bothjtne In Youth Corps Hit A recent federal decree limiting the Neighborhood Youth Corps to school dropouts has aroused opposition from leaders of the five Youth Corps programs operating in the City. "None of us is very happy about it," says Mrs. Itr.

David II midst crisis. Academic Meals "We figured he was here to balance the budget and nothing else," said one administrator in a corridor interview. "And when he was named acting chancellor we thought, well, here he goes. But these few weeks have been a revelation. We find he's a man with academic ideals, ine laeulty is just delighted and I having a ball." think he's I Some evidences of faculty reaction are applause (the first in recent memory) several times during his first faculty speech.

Next, after he had declared some modesty about his own academic credentials, the law school faculty voluntarily elected him a law professor, and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs faculty elected him a professor of public administration. He lias actually taught, including at Pitt, and Is an expert in public finance (secretary of administration under former Gov. David L. Lawrence). He has accepted an invita-j tion of students to meet with i them this Thursday at 3 p.

m. Its a question and answer session," he said. "That way I can't evade the issues and I can find out what's on their minds." No Dinners At Home So far he hasn't evaded any invitations. "I can't say I'm too busy. Post Kurtzman to Fires Kill 2, Alert Boys Save Others HratMork Children Die in niar, 4 Floe in (larnrgie Two children were killed In a fire in Braddork during the weekend and in Carnegie, four persons fled to safety as a result alertness of four teenage youths.

Shandra Plley, 3. of 1005 Talliot Braddock, and her nine-months old brother, Eugene, died in the blaze that started shortly before midnight Saturday. Their mother, Mrs. Ruth Riley. 2'), who was visiting neighbors a few doors away, was treated for shock ot Braddock General Hospital and released.

Braddock Fire Chief Moren.i, who estimated damage at SlS.tKK), said the btae apparently started at the stove in the kitchen of the Riley house in a row of two-story brick houses. Hie boy was found dead in his crib on the second floor. Shandra was found on the first floor and was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Families Flee The fire forced Mr. and Mrs.

of 1007 Talbot son, Martin, Steve Petro, 1003 Talbot and Mr. and Mrs. Pernell Fitgerald and their two children, lfKl.Vi Talbot from their hon.es. The Carnegie fire broke out at 2:15 a. m.

yesterday in a two-story frame house at 529 Beech wood owned by Mrs. Josephine Cole, who lives on the first floor. Roltert rodoluk, 1, of 82 I'liim Thomas Rush, 17, of Lincoln Avenue; Michael McGrady, 18, and Harry Howrylchak, 18, all of Carnegie, helped lead Mrs. Cole; her sister; Mrs. Harold Fulmer, who lives on Hie second floor, and Mrs.

Fulmer's son, to safety. The boys said they were watching "Dracula," a honor film, on television at Rush's house when they heard the insistent sound of an auto horn. When they looked out they noticed the fire, about two blocks away. The boys phoned police, then drove to the fire. Heroic Deed Podolak, a student at Point Park Junior College who hopes to study for the Lutheran ministry, said: "I jumped out of the ear and hanged on the windows.

I shoved my hand through a window. Harry was on lie porch with me. We went through a side door and raced up stairs." Podolak and Howrylchak aroused Mrs. Fulmer, and led her. her son and a dog to safety.

"A window blew out on the second floor and the house filled up with black smoke," I'odolak said. "Harry began to cough and I dragged him to the steps. That's when the ceiling gave in and that's the lust thing I remember. They said later I was In shock." I'odohik was treated at St. lair Hospital for smoke inhalation and a rut arm and was released.

He was the only person hospitalized. Meanwhile, the Rush and McGrady youths got Mrs. Cole and her sister out of their downstairs living quarters. Firemen from Carnegie, East Carnegie and Arwin heights fought the hlaze for three hours before bringing it under control. Fire Capt.

Walter France of Carnegie said the house was gutted and estimated damage at $20,000. Smoke and water damage were extensive. Captain France said the fire started at the rear of the building under a porch and spread up the interior walls to the roof. ftScx LIBERTY- mourn uvenis I William Work I'Yatuml Sprakrr At Awards Mrelhi A Disaster Service Awards dinner at 6:30 p. m.

tomorrow will mark the beginning of Red Cross Month observances, traditionally held here in March. William Block, publisher of the Post -Gazette, will he the featured speaker at the awards dinner in Red Cross Headquarters, 303 Smithfield Downtown. A total of 81 disaster volunteers will lie honored at the meeting. 7 Major Events Seven major events will highlight Red Cross Month, all but one scheduled for the Downtown headquarters. Twenty-one local and national Red Cross Service awards will be presented to Volunteer First Aid instructors at a dinner March l.i.

Common Pleas Judie John G. Biosky will discuss "Some Legal Aspects of the 'Good Samaritan' Act" at that meeting. Gunnar Rosen of Helsinki, Finland, assistant secretary general of the Finnish Red Cross, will be a guest at the quarterly meeting of the Pittsburgh Red Cross chapter's board of directors March 16. Other Kvents Other events will include a dinner meeting tor Disaster rnairmen March 22, the annual Red annual Red Cross Rahv Party March a welcome dinner for new Red Cross volunteers March 31. and a Water Safely demonstration at the University of Pitts-: burgh's Trees Pool April 2, to be hold in conjunction with an AAU Novice Age Group Meet.

2 Gunmen Hob Sewickh'v Inn Two armed men held up a clerk of the Sewickley Motor Inn early yesterday and escaped with police reported. Police quoted the clerk as sayinjj the men, each holding a pistol, entered an unlocked (loof of the kitchen about a. scooped the money from a cash register anil drove away in a car. News Quiz Sjmhol Quiz Match word clues with their corresponding or symbols. 10 points for each correct answer.

Marlon Finkelhor, director of, the City of Pittsburgh's pro gram, which ims ruiumu about women Mrs. young men and young men Finkelhor said that the new order came by the -v nal way of a phone call, the Office of Economic informal from Opportunity in Washington The order was that henceforth only youths who have dropped out of school will be eligible for the program, in which they are given jobs paying $1.25 per hour for 32 hours of work per week. Further Restrictions The program is further restricted to youths from fami lies which have incomes of less than $3,000 for a four- member family, with a maximum family income of $3,091. Mm. Finkelhor said that of the who have Joined the City's program since last August, about 150 were high school graduates who would have been ineligible under the new federal ruling.

"It forces us to classify too rigidly," Mrs. Finkelhor said. "These kids are individuals, and you have to tailor the bothered QUAD CITIES i host contest So 1 I iacuny ana siuaents. I tnink that's a good idea." He wants advice, he said, but he reminds faculty and students that eventually the administration and trustees make the decision "and then we have to learn to live with It." Is Pitt's financial crisis causing an exodus of faculty or students? "I've got some letters from iacuny teuing me tney are turning down other offers because they want to stay here. We'll lose some people, of course.

In the last six years or so the faculty turnover has averaged about 11 per cent a year. Last year it was 8 per cent." Meeting's Over The mid-winter professional meetings are just over, he noted, and these meetings, called the "slave market" in academic circles, showed Pitt not only not losing but coming up with prospects. He mentioned the law school as an example. What about students? "We set our goal for the freshman class in September 19G6 at 1,600 and we have already accepted 1,030 and 146 of them have already paid their tuition; last year at this time it was only 101. There are indications that leave us feeling pretty good.

Does he think the tuition ought to be tumbled suddenly from $1,400 a year to $450? "I have mixed feelings about it. I think Dr. Crawford (Dr. Stanton C. Crawford, the recently deceased acting chancellor) felt it ought to be a grandual reduction.

But the pressure tor a quicK change comes not from us hut from the legislative leaders and I think they convinced Dr. Crawford they were right." Too Many Uncertainties The top legislators, Dr. Kurtzman said, reason this way: a gradual tuition reduction involves too many uncertainties with future legislatures and governors; further, a modest reduction doesn't really help Ihe low-income students who need help most; and finally, what's good for Pennsylvania State University in the center of the state, and for Temple University in Philadelphia, is none too good for Pittsburgh and right now. The scene of this Interview with Dr. Kurtzman was the Cathedral of learning's chancellor's office, an enormous room with a large fireplace at one end( unlit In contrast to former days) and these days a small, rather tough-looking fellow at the other end.

Dr. Kurtzman, 62, stands just over five feet and could be mistaken for a tough man with a buck. In fact that mistake was made by the faculty which reasoned that he was brought hero last July, hand-picked by the trustees to be vice chancellor for finance in Pill Promotes Dr. Hamilton Dr. Howard B.

Hamilton has been named chairman of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering. He succeeds Dr. John F. Calvert, who is retiring as department chairman hut will remain as professor of electrical engineering. Dr.

Hamilton was head of the Pittsburgh team which helped develop an engineering college in Valparaiso, Chile, tinder sponsorship of the Agency for International A i Interest In Scottish monster renewed If I'm too busy for them then what am I free for?" That has meant almost no dinners at home any more. "I think it's tougher on my wife (Celia) than on me, because she has to figure out, 'Now who is going to be there and did they see me wear that The Kurtzmans live in the Maxson Towers Apartments, 6315 Forbes Squirrel Hill. They have a married son ln INPW lplSfV ana 8 mar- ned daughter in Xutziown, Berks County. Hp has no daily pattern, hasn't had time to figure one out. He would like some lime free in the evenings if only to get at the briefcase full of documents lie ran-ies home nightly.

But he also Wants to see those who want to see him. Among those he Is meeting are the faculty want more independence and I think they should have and the heads of neighboring colleges all enthusiastic about the possibilities for cooperation." "I think the changes we are making at Pitt, providing we i don't go too far afield, ought to make it a lot easier for a new chancellor when we get him," he said. "These are changes the board (of trustees) wants. The more we make Pitt like other institutions, the more we are likely attract the kind of man we want, and he will be coming to an institution to his liking." Gazette a-give up something, such as a right b-refuse to deal with c-money aid from the government persons or groups joined together for a purpose legal authority over a-Prime Minister, New Zealand b-heavyweight boxing champion c-Soviet writer lost his citizenship d-President, Philippines e-a visitor to Moscow rrfi irft Ci iflifT frij tit to in Program for each one. It very difficult to trv to classi- fy people and put them into certain slots." The reasoning given hy Washington, Mrs.

Finkelhor said, was that there wa p)v not en0URn monpv (o tak(? of sain, was that there was sun- avail-those who could benefit from the Youth Corps program. Another reason apparent although not stated by Washingtonwas that a strict limitation on enrollment would ward off criticism that broke out in other areas that jobs were being given to youths who did not need them. The new federal ruling was criticized also by Roy Hates, director of the Health and Welfare Association of Allegheny County's Youth Corps program in the City's anM-poverty neighborhoods. Ruling Criticized "It makes the program a little too restrictive," Bales said. "There are high school graduates in the same capacity as non-graduates.

They lack work skills and come from poor families." J. Wendell Ramey, executive director of the Hill House Association, said that restriction of the program dropouts irom beneticial con tact with high school graduates. "When you take one 1m- portnnt factor and say it will he the whole thing, you destroy the effectiveness of ho whole program," he said. Ramey, whose organization operates a Youth Corps program in the Hill District, said that the exchange between high school graduates and dropouts had been "beautiful." James Cunningham, neighborhood extension director of ACTION-I lousing, said that the restriction would have little effect on the ACTION-Housing Youth Corps programs in Perry Hilltop, Homewood -Rrushton and Hazelwood. Cunningham said that of about 50 youths in the! ACTION Housing programs, 1 few had diplomas.

All of the enrollees are receiving tutoring one day a week preparatory to seeking a diploma, Cunningham said. The federal ruling had no effect on the programs for high school students run by the Pittsburgh Board of Fdu-eation and the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese. Hinjjler, Kx-Head Of I HS, Is Speaker John H. Bingler, former district director of internal revenue for Western Pennsylvania, will address a combined meeting of Data Processing and Systems Managers Associations at 7:30 p. m.

tomorrow ln the Penn-Sheraton Hotel. Topic of the talk will be "Electronic Data Processing's Involvement in Processing and Checking Tax Development Council Eleet Offieers Emll Llmbach has been reelected president of the North-side Civic Development Council, Inc. which also elected C. C. Klelnsrhmldt new chairman of the board; John J.

Me.K secretary; and F. A. Uphofi, treasurer. "flu bug" some communities AFL-CIO leaders met in Miami Beach Part I National and International Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. 1.

The death rate from coronary heart disease and lung cancer among women smokers is about that of women non-smokers, the National Cancer Institute reported. a-the same as b-twice c-three times 2. The U.S. Agriculture Department said that the farmer's average share of the consumer's food dollar in 1965 was cents, two pennies more than in 1961. a-23 b-39 c-71 3.

AFL-CIO President George Meany, unhappy that President Johnson has not given stronger support to labor's wishes, saifl unions will in the next election. a-be more selective about candidates they support b-form a new Labor Party c-support only Republican candidates i. President de Gaulle said that France will continue to withdraw military units from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Thi.s is part of his plan to a-join communist alliances b-strengthen the European Common Market c-increase France's national Independence 5. Any member nation is free to leave NATO after April 4, 1969.

True or False? Part II Words in the News Take 4 points for each word that you can match with its correct meaning. ice Jam backed up Mississippi waters training season begins 6 Soviets to produce more of these Downtown Only 4-STORE CLEARANCE! NATO's symbol 1 subsidy 2 jurisdiction 3 boycott 4 waive 5 coalition Beginning today, the remainder of our Winter fashions and accessories from all of our 4 stores will be sold at unheard-of lavingi Yugoslavia to world. March 3-12 LOCH NESS 9 old euiHera $16,240 10 I Part III Name in the News Take 6 points for the names that you can match with the clues. in our source of seriou LEFTOVER CORNER Final Reductions V3, Vi and MORE Clay 2 Harold Wilson 3 Keith J. Ilolyoako 4 Valery Tarsis 5 Ferdinand Marcos trove rsy ln Union ANSWEHS PART 1-b; 2-b; 3-a; 4-c; 5-True.

PART II: 1-c; 2-e; 3-b; 4-a; 5-d. PART III: l-b; 2-e; 3-a; 4-c; 5-d. SYMBOL QUIZ: 1-D; 2-B; 3-F; 4-G; 5-1; 6-A; 7-J; 8-E; 9-C; 10-H. How Do You Hate? 181 to 200 point TOP SCORE! 161 to 180 pointi Excellent. 141 to 160 points Good.

121 to HO points Fair. 120 or Under? 7 7-H'mm! OLIVLR AT tit nlfl mil ill nri li jit lift rt r- Tti iiimii'Ii.