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1 Page 8 May 19, 1983 K' last Sunken store spurs policies Wash Gjebre Post-Gazette Staff Writer The subsidence that damaged a market in North Belle Vernon has revived interest in mine-subsidence insurance, Mayor Joseph Tintori said this week. The Westmoreland County community has already distributed between 200 and 300 application forms issued by the state Mining and Reclamation Bureau office in McMurray, Washington County, Tin-tori said. Requests for more are coming in at a rapid clip. "We're swamped," the'mayor said Tuesday. The renewed interest in subsidence insurance was sparked by the cave-in that damaged the Red White Market, 735 Henry last Friday afternoon.

Tintori said his office had some forms on the low-cost insurance left over from a subsidence incident more than two years ago. Copies were made to speed up the application process for residents of North Belle Vernon, Rostraver and surrounding communities. Tintori said it would take awhile for state officials to process the insurance applications, in part because the mining bureau will have, to inspect properties. But he said the rates are reasonable. Senior citizens, for instance, may buy $50,000 in coverage for 110 for three years.

Others will pay 10 percent more, he said. By yesterday, 20 contractors bad shown interest biddinc for the project to shore up the damaged market, the mayor said. The contract to reinforce the building and fill the mine with fly ash may be awarded tomorrow by the mining bureau, the mayor said. Tintori said North Belle Vernon and its 2,500 residents will lose money if the market, which employs 15, isn't reopened soon. "We can't afford to lose it," he said.

The community was stricken with a serious subsidence more than two years ago when a mine shaft collapsed and damaged Graham Street, a block from the market. i. Tempero leads N. Huntingdon ticket Associated Press A couple strolls into the sunset at Bushy Run Battlefield near Greensburg. Hempfield board prexy loses cratic nomination for commissioner from the 3rd Ward and had 368 votes.

Beeler, had clear sailing in that race after incumbent William T. McCabe withdrew after entering his petition. The only Republican in the commissioner race is Terry M. Stec, who will go against Beeler in the Third Ward in November. Incumbent school board members Nick Masciantonio, Jerry Gaudi, Joseph L.

Yorio, Albert J. Sylvester and John A. Smarto were renominated on the Democratic ballot. David J. Valerio who came in sixth on the Democratic ballot, won a spot in the November general election by polling 209 votes on the Republican side.

He was the only candidate who filed on the Republican ticket. Vote tallies for city council are: Hoak, 952; Elias, 828; Don Shirer, 797; Jim Brooks, 708; Paul F. Garland, 464; Robert J. Schmidt 184. For school board, totals are: Masciantonio, Gaudi, Yorio, Sylvester, Smarto, Valerio, 890 on the Democratic ballot, 209 on the Republican.

Mn.Tempero won the Democratic nomination in North Huntingdon's 1st Ward contest, leading the ticket with 307 votes from that section's four precincts. Unsuccessful Democratic candidates were Dennis Stump and David J. Waltec. who collected 189 and 105 votes, respectively. Jsiother North Huntingdon Township races in the Democratic primary, incumbent Fred Batley won the nomination easily over Robert M.

Dippolito, 537 to 116, for the 5th Ward seat incumbent, Phil Abbott won the Democratic nomination in the race for commissioner from the 7th Ward, beating Ken Rodgers, 469 tojjl. David L. Beeler won the Demo and Benson, 1,876. In the race for the 2-year at-large post, Democrat Ralph Conde will run against Republican Bob Bau-man in November. With 1,422 votes Conde defeated John Silvis, who had 1,124 votes, on the Democratic ticket.

Diane Cia-battoni had Marvin Benson, 583; Bob Bauman, 558; Janet War-yanka, and David Couch, 360. On the Republican ticket Bob Bauman had 640 votes; Silvis, 594; Benson, 328; Ciabattoni, 321; War-yanka, 293; and Crouch, 195. can votes, against Diane S. Ciabat-toni, who garnered 2,155 Democratic votes. Neither ran in both party primaries as four other Democratic candidates did.

Incumbent John Silvis led the Republican ticket with 2,434 votes. The other three Republican candidates in November will be Marvin Benson, who received 1,034 votes, Kathy A. Louch, 876 votes, and Virginia Abraham, 831 votes. Silvis also led the Democratic ticket for the 4-year at-large post with 2,694 votes. Abraham received 2,169 Democratic votes; Louch, Hempfield Township School Board President William Baloh went down to defeat in his bid to retain his seat in both the Republican and Democratic primaries Tuesday.

At the same time voters made Thomas E. Shirley, a math teacher in the Norwin School District and president of the Norwin Teachers Union, a Republication nominee for one of five four-year seats on the board. The November election will pit Shirley, who received 973 Republi Incumbents swept elections for Jeannette city council and school board in Tuesday's election. City council members Glenn D. Hoak and A.B.

Elias were renominated for the two open seats on council, beating out four challengers for the Democratic nomination. No Republican candidates filed for city council. Uncrossed wires won't solve problem Switching On NEW 1 1 mum 1 DALUhIN Westmoreland Crabtree barn destroyed CONSOLE! REG. $2695 NOW s1488 40 INCH CONSOLE 10 VR. WARRANTY DESIGNER WALNUT CABINET BENCH INC.

DIRECT FACTORY FINANCING PRE-0WNED pianos downtown" ass? SEARS WESTMORELAND MALL 836-4040 EXT. 389 LEVEL I SEARS CENTURY III MALL 655-1161 EXT. 247 LEVEL II Pacific Arts Video Records, the people who brought out "Michael Nesmith in rElephant are releasing Nes-mith's feature-length movie, "Timer-ider," in both Beta and VHS stereo. It's about a motorcyclist in the Southwestern desert who manages to leap back into 1877, smack in the middle of a gang of outlaws attacking a desert encampment Nesmith wrote the music and co-wrote the script. Pacific Arts says pre-orders for the cassette are running ahead even of "Ele- Rhant Parts." (On disc, "EP" was the o.

3 seller in the country last year, in the non-theatrical disc category, it was No. 1.) RCA-Columbia Pictures, meanwhile, has nine new titles up. First among them is "The Toy," with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason, which cleaned up in Christmas theatrical release. Also fresh out are "Butterflies Are Free," with Edward Albert and Goldie Hawn; "Marooned," an astronaut flick with Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Gene Hackman, James Franciscus and Richard Crenna; "Luv," with Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk and Elaine May; "Behold a Pale Horse," with Peck and Anthony Quinn; "Hothead," a French comedy dubbed in English, starring Patrick Dewaere; Milos Forman's hilarious "Firemen's Ball," in Czech with English subtitles; a cartoon collection; and a strong contender for bottom dog in anybody's kennel, "Jason and the Argonauts," a 1963 camp classic with cameo appearances by the Harpies and the seven-headed Hydra. A Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee has heard some pretty strong stuff on proposed legislation to repeal the "first sale" provision of the copyright law.

Hollywood is pushing the legislation to gain tighter control over its video cassettes of theatrical films. The Rev. Robert J. McEwen, co-founder of the Consumer Federation of America and economics professor at Boston College, told the subcommittee the bills represent the film industry's desire for "total control over what people get to see and how they get to see it." Under the measures, McEwen said, "There is no assurance that any movie cassette will be rented ever again. The studios want to turn the faucet on and off as they please." Passage of the bills "will cost consumers money, and lots of it." Send your question to Switching On, in care of this newspaper.

Because of the volume of mail, personal replies are not possible. i CCfeSmpOB I By John Teets T.B. and M.B. of Newington, have a problem that every video-cassette recorder owner who wants to hook his unit up to a cable-television system should pay attention to. "We purchased a J.C.

Penney video recorder in December and it still does not work properly," they write. "From the time we bought it until now, three different mechanics from Penney's were sent to the house at least eight times to try to connect it so it would work with our cable-TV installation. They finally suggested we contact Cox Cable which sent mechanics out three times, and said Penney's is responsible. Penney's then told us it had closed its VCR mechanics section and referred us to RCA in East Hartford. "We called them, and their man removed all the wires and the two additional switches that the other mechanics had put on, and now we find that: 1) We can't watch one program and record another, 2) We can't use the remote control.

1 "The only thing we can do is record the program we are watching. And after all these people have been connecting and reconnecting the set, now the television picture is not clear. "Can you help us at all?" I hope so. From your drawings of the Penney and RCA hookups, I think one of the schemes came close to giving you the recording features and picture you want, but I'm not surprised it didn't work better. To give other readers an idea of your problem and the problem they, too, will face if they try to hook a recorder into a cable system I'll try a description of the setup the RCA repairmen used.

They fed the antenna wire directly into the cable converter bor, the cable-out wire went directly to the video recorder, the video-out wire from the recorder went directly to the television. With a system like that, it's only natural that the only thing you can record is what's coming out of the cable box. The recorder has no other signal available to it. And in that case, the remote control on your recorder doesn't work because it doesn't affect what's coming out of the cable converter. Nor does the timer work, for the same reason: The timer controls the recorder, not the cable converter, and no matter what time your machine is set to switch on, it won't get anything but what's coming to it over the cable system.

The system the Penney's people used was much closer to what is required but still not quite there. They set up a series of splitters. One switch split the antenna signal into two parts one going into the recorder, and one going into the cable converter. Then they set up a switcher box among the converter, the recorder and the television set, so the cable converter could feed into the recorder or into the television. Imagine the connection "tree" like this: If you wanted to watch something on cable and record something off the air, you'd switch on the connection between the cable converter and the TV, while tuning the recorder If you wanted to play that recording back, you'd switch the recorder into the television, disconnecting the cable feed into the TV.

So far, so good. But according to the drawing T.B. and M.B sent, the antenna connections into their video recorder went directly into the wrong ports what should have gone into the "in" plug went into the "out" plug, and vice versa. No wonder the picture wasn't good. And because there wasn't a third split of the antenna wire to the television as well as to the VCR and the cable converter they still didn't have all the connections they needed for full service.

You should note you still can't record off one cable channel while watching another with even the most sophisticated, switcher system. You need another converter box to give you the signal for that. And as for the remote-control and the timer they just won't work on anything but the recorder, and they certainly won't flick the right switches to change the splitter connections via remote control. You'll just have to plan ahead for whatever recording you're doing and set the switches accordingly. I think T.B.

and M.B. should raise a noisy ruckus with both Penney's and Cox Cable. They're paying for service, and they're not getting satisfaction. No cable-VCR connection will do quite what they want it to, but at least the repairmen shouldn't have left them with a bad picture. The industry is starting to believe its own figures about what a banner year this is turning out to be for home video.

One example: Though RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw admits his company experienced an earnings drop in its electronics divisions in the first quarter including video discs "losing money at a pretty fast clip, about $90 million before taxes last year" other parts of the corporation are forecasting video-recorder sales will continue to spurt. According to the president of one RCA division, "Earlier forecasts that suggest 2.7 million or fewer VCR unit sales this year have already been revised upward in view of extremely strong sales to dealers so far this year." He now forecasts industrywide sales of at least 3 million VCRs in 1983, which would represent an increase of more than 50 percent from last year's record-breaking sales. Bradshaw, meanwhile, isn't giving up on the discs. "We doubled sales of players in 1982 and during the first quarter of 1983, sales were up 100 percent" from the same quarter a year ago, he said at the company's recent annual meeting. He later predicted the company's disc operations, which include players and discs, could show a profit in 1985 "if everything goes well.

One of the things the electronics division is pegging its hopes on is a new line of cameras, recorders and equipment-control devices. On the new release beat, a few hits and a few misses. THE ATTRACTIVE, ECONOMICAL WAY TO SECURE INSULATE YOUR HOME police in Greensburg estimated fire damage to a Crabtree barn at $58,000. The fire of undetermined origin destroyed the barn of Joseph C. Patrick at 3:35 a.m.

Monday. Seton awards scholarships JJftton Hill College, Greensburg, has awarded scholarships of $750 each to Nancy Rashlich of EQbsburg, Cambria County, and Stacey Curran, University Heights, Ohio, who were the winners of the college's Hensler-Irvin Art Scholarship competition. The scholarship is offered annually to incoming freshmen who plan to major in art Latrobe chamber to meet 3he annual spring membership luncheon of the Latrobe Area Chamber of Commerce Inc. will be held, in Placid Hall at St. Vincent College, Latrobe, on May 27.

Guest speaker will be Don Riggs, executive producer of public affairs at WPXI -TV. Pitt student wins fellowship tfames Johnson, a recent graduate of the 'University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus, has- been awarded a full-tuition fellowship at Pitt's Graduate School of Business. Johnson was one of five outstanding students to be selected for the R. Young Fellowship. He was a University Scholar in 1982 and 1983 and has been on the Dean's List for five consecutive terms at Pitt.

He is 1978 graduate of Putnam High School, Putnam, Conn. Symphony seeks subscriptions The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra has launched its 15th season subscription campaign. Si concerts are scheduled for the 1983-84 season, which opens at the Palace LTheatre, Greensburg, Oct. 1. So far 55 volunteers have been signed up to begin the subscription campaign, called The Fabulous 15th A Season to Celebrate." TSe concerts "are programmed to include at least one very familiar selection," according to Kypros Markou, the symphony's music director.

The initial concert on Oct. 1 will feature Franck Avril, oboist. Other concerts include Karen Lee Sloneker, principal trumpet during Orchestra Night on Nov. Handel's Messiah with the Westmoreland Choral Society and the Seton Hilwand St. Vincent Concert Choir will be featured on Dec.

10. Violinist Tod Phillips will be thcsoloist on Feb. 25; pianist Martino Tirimo will be featured on March 24; and a pops concert will round out the season on April 28. Season ticket information is available by contacting the symphony at 837-1850. Vera Goedicke ancLPatty Bomberger are in charge of the subscription campaign.

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