The Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 1

An Indiana County Newspaper That Starves Every Member of the Family City County EDITION Think back! Weren't most of the things that upset you really not worth worrying about7 Volume 64. No. 221 Sixteen Pages Indiana, Pennsylvania, Saturday, May 2, 1964. Two Sections Seven Cent TEDDY mm Testified Against President SflOMS ixplosioini Temporarily Claim Hoffc Striking Bacjk At Witness By NEIL GILBRIDE I US Aircraft Ferry Dm SaigM WASHINGTON (AP) James R. Hoffa renortedly Quickly Is trying to strike back at a former pal and associate wno testmea against him.

-A source close to Hoffa said the Groundwork is hpine Refloated 2 Wings Merge In Laos laid fnr riftcciKln tftfctooeltir. antinn caivn T3 Houge, Teamsters, local of Edward1 G. Partin, who turned star government witness in Hoffa's conviction in V.k. .1 i By Tide By PETER ARNETT SAIGON. South Viet Nam VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) i i I vt 1 (-, A i (Tito i ei'K 7wj I 7 i'-Q 1 I Prince Souvanna Fhou- The stocky Teamster chief sat white-faced with anger when Partin showed up as a surprise witness In Chattanooga, to testify that he heard Hoffa offer up to $20,000 to bribe a juror In a previous federal case.

His testimony led to the gov ma, premier of the shaky (AP) A predawn explo- Laotian coalition govern-l ision today sank temporarily ment, announced today a merger of the country's ernment's first conviction of! the U.b. aircraft ferry Card in the Saigon River and a grenade blast tonight injured four persons in a Neutralist and right-wing factions. Hoffa in several attempts. Hoffa drew an eight-year sentence, which he Is appealing. Souvanna, neutralist leader, promenading crowd nearby.

Police attributed both Inci Since then Hoffa's troubles have snowballed. He now is on told newsmen he was now able to speak for both parties. Similar proclamations of unity have dents to Communist terrorists. High tide at noon and labor been repudiated in the past. ing pumps freed the Card from the bottom muck of the river.

trial in Chicago for conspiracy to defraud the union's pension funds. He also faces a high-level internal dispute over payment 'The group which we used to call the 'Savannakhet group' Divers who Inspected the gap right-wing has disappeared, of his huge legal fees. Souvanna said. "I am speaking ing hole below the waterline in the baby flattop, a World War II carrier credited with seven in the name of the center-neutralist and right-wing." nasi U-boat kills, said they could not Immediately determine Partin, business agent of Baton Rouge Local is charged with embezzling union funds in an indictment dating from before he. turned against Hoffa.

A high Teamsters official con Souvanna expressed hope that the pro-Communist Pathet Lao whether the blast that sent her down was external or internal. faction would follow the same path. A man either In a car or on a bicycle witnesses disagreed firmed that Partin's activities are being investigated by top Souvanna's statement followed hurled the grenade Into a a Joint British-Soviet declaration! lad ASTOR echelon union representatives, street running alongside the riverfront in the downtown area. London Friday night demanding restoration of the coalition, dies in castle "There was a meeting with Murray W. Miller in Baton The full blast hit one man in government under Souvanna.

the back. Fragments injured Rouge last week in an investigation that may be a preliminary The two countries, in a dec Ladyl Astor Pies At 84 three others. American and Vietnamese security officers laration by Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei A. Gromyko and to establishment of a trusteeship," the official said. Miller, Dallas, is an in rushed to the scene, about 200 British Foreign Secretary Rich yards from the U.S.

embassy. ard A. Butler, sharply con Ambulances carried the wounded to a hospital. demned a coup by rightist! In England ternational vice president and member of the Teamsters' ruling 15-man executive board. The high Teamsters source olticers 13 days ago which para U.S.

SHIP SINKING FROM TERRORIST EXPLOSION The U.S. S. Card lists as it settles toward the muddy bottom of the Saigon River early Saturday after a huge hole was blown in its side below the waterline by an explosion set by Viet Cong terrorists. The aircraft transport settled on the bottom of the 48-foot deep harbor with its flight deck and superstructure above water. The crew of 73 civilians were reported uninjured.

The ship had been scheduled to sail for the United States Saturday with a cargo of old helicopters. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon)' lyzed the government. LONDON (API-Nancy. Ladyl A U.S. spokesman said in the Card explosion it was presumed that Red Viet Cong guerrillas had crept under the Saigon In announcing the merger Astor, the Virginia belle who Souvanna did not say whether it had the agreement of the said a trusteeship over Partin's local "would call for the international revoking temporarily charter of the local, making it despised liquor, but loved politics so much shes, become the! first woman to sit in Britain's' Parliament! died today.

She rightist coup leaden, who broke commercial wharf where she was moored and exploded a chares against the hull. The with the top men in the right- a ward of the international until Its affairs are straightened out." Such action would freeze out would have been 85 on May 19 wing camp, Prince Bonn Oum' and Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, in The woman whose acid wit staging the uprising. present officers, including riled countless Britons and de vessel settled to the bottom of the 48-foot deep river. All the 73 civilian crewmen escaped injury.

With disclosure that divers had been unable to ascertain The insurgent right-wing! lighted countless others during her quarter of a century in 1 ,300 March At Pittsburgh Churchgoers Protest Methodist Race Stand army officers clamped their control over the administrative! Parliament died at Grimsthorpe It is uncertain whether Hoffa can succeed in wresting Partin's local from him. He has the authority to put a local under trusteeship. But the local can whether the explosion came capital of Vientiane April 19 and Castle, the Lincolnshire home of placed Souvanna and Phoumi her daughter, Lady Ancaster, northeast of London. under house arrest. from the outside or the inside, authorities weighed the alternate possibilities of sabotage aboard ship or malfunction in appeal to the executive board, The Junta demanded revision The exact nature of her-Illness of the Cabinet giving the right was not disclosed, but a mem the engine room.

ber of her household said: ''This which recently has showed signs of restiveness. Some of its members rebelled last week against continued union payment of Hoffa's lawyers' bills Responsibility for guarding of wing a larger voice. 1 he Pathet Lao opposed the demand and answered with an attack on is not a sudden thing. It is Just old age." the Card was in question, rais PITTSBURGH (AP) About 1.300 Methodist churchgoers from throughout the country staged a dem-l rightist forces in the Plaine des ing another point in the nebulous idea of possible sabotage "The situation has been the same for many weeks," said her after the Teamsters general1 counsel warned that he believed Jarres. pnstration in downtown Pittsburgh today, saying their on the ship: son.

Viscount Astor. Switcheroo Backfires Church stand on integration is not positive enough. Festival Luncheon Sale Starts Tickets are now on sale for the kick-off luncheon for the Indiana County Christmas Tree Festival. The luncheon, to be conducted at noon on May 22, at the J. S- Mack Community Center, will mark the official beginning of the first annual Indiana County Christmas Tree Festival.

The number of tickets will be limited to the space available at the Mack Center. Russell Landls, festival coordinator, Is in charge of the ticket sale. Tickets are available at Stapleton's Restaurant In Indiana and also at the Indiana County Chamber of Commerce office. Additional locations will be announced later. They are also available from members of the Tourist Promotion Committee.

A Pittsburgh television personality Is expected to be present for the kick-off the practice was illegal. They came irom as tar away as Chicago, Detroit Cloud a Vietnamese Communist have slipped aboard in the dark? The ones controversial figure, had withdrawn from the public eye since her appearance on Birmingham, Atlanta, and Jackson, and Korean Building Falls, Kills 10 Former Saltsburg belong to a group called Methodists for church renewal. Only the Card's flight deck television interview 18 months! LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) After an all-night vigil ofi ago. and superstructure showed above water for several hours after the blast at low tide.

But man tried to pull a money switch on a teller at a savings prayers, sermons and hymn1 Businessman Dies Former Saltsburg funeral di Lady Astor will be buried pri SEOUL, South Korea (AP) At least 10 persons were killed and 20 others seriously injured Barnesboro singing in two downtown and loan association and wound vately in the chapel ot the Astor! churches the group, white and up losing 31. home at Cliveden in Bucking- today as part of a four-story rector John M. McPhilimy passed away yesterday at Citi with the incoming tide at midday, the Card's keel broke free ot the muddy bottom and she Negro, layman and minister, hamshlre. Cliveden had been He handed Alice Aldridge four! building under repair work col marched to the Civic Arena 310 bills Friday in exchange for See Lady Page Col. I zen's General Hospital, New Kensington.

He was 79 years where the General Conference lapsed in a slum area here, Men Jailed For Larceny two 520s. Then he switched a 51 of the Methodist Church is hold About 200 policemen and fire! bill for a 520 and told her she old. ing its quadrennial meeting. fighters searched the debris for The Weather had made a mistake. Mr.

McPhilimy also operated They knelt and joined hands other possible victims. "No, I did not. You'll have Two men were lodged in the' on sidewalks outside the arena! Most of the victims were resi wait a minute so I can count Sunny and mild today and. a furniture store until bis retirement in 1929. He was also a Jury commis Indiana County Jail yesterdav and quietly sang hymns.

No po was partially refloated although still riding law in the water. Makeshift patching of the hole had slowed the inflow of water, U.S. authorities said, and pumps were working furiously in the flooded engine room in the hope the Card could be kept from going to the bottom again. The keel's breaking free with See Quickly Page Col. 1 dents of several adjacent my cash on hand and prove it, after pleading guilty to counts lice were about.

shacks. sne replied. sioner and served 20 years as ot larceny of copper in Indiana Sunday with some cloudiness In the afternoon. Clear and cool tonight. High today and Sunday In Us, Low tonight in The participants In the pro About one-fourth of the entire Assessor in Saltsburg.

County. test poured into the city Friday The man said he had to put money In a parking meter and disappeared, leaving his 51 be building, the rear portion, A complete obituary appears According to Sheriff Paul mid-Ms, collapsed. See Methodist Page Col. 5 In today Gazette. Jeffries, Reuben Markel, 23, of hind.

Barnesboro R.D. 1, and Ronald Miller, 29, also Barnesboro, were given a hearing before This One Back In Jail In Hurry justice of the peace Ira Martin and held for further court ac tion after pleading guilty lo the charges. From Candlestick Tours To Parachute Jump To Art Show To Christmas Tree Fesfival To Wide Variety Ot Activities, Markel and Miller ware Provide vents charged with the larceny of over 200 pounds of copper wire What Does Burglar Do On Jail Release? from the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp. at Mentcle on two occasions, April 15 and 18. Markel Is also charged with1 ette Dee Dee Mullins, a German many of the tree plantations of the activities on Saturday and Sunday.

Stamp collectors may send for special cacheted envelopes the county. In addition, for a the burglary of 233 pounds of copper wire and one automobile radiator from the Arcadia ware BLA1RSVILLE What does burglar do on the first day band, tte Queen Evergreen Coronation and Barbershop and folk ken a side window to gain en try and had broken Into a cig-aret and candy machine. Also to be mailed from Indiana, the Toe Junior Civic Womens dollar and a half, a ticket may be purchased for the "Pine Tree of freedom after serving a 30- house of John Prushnok. singing. While the Christmas Trees of Indiana County will be the star attraction during the first an-ual Indiana County Christmas Tree Festival on May 22, 23 and 24, a wide variety of activities and events will provide something of interest for month sentence for burglary? Christmas Tree Capital of World, on May 22, the first day of the first annual Christmas Club of Indiana is already at work selecting the first Queen Evergreen to reign over the Sunday Bill Smith Casuals Special" bus that will take the missing was a tool box valued at 520.

Investigation and apprehension were made by Deputy Former Blairsville Police will perform followed by an same 30 mile tour and also pro Chief John F. Larkin found out A closer check revealed Tree Festival. Costing twenty- vide a Jeep tour among the Christmas Tree Festival. Appli hour Seneca Indian performance at 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. A horse Sheriff Roy McCracken and Bureau of Criminal Identification 35 missing from the machines.

cations for queen contestants trees at two plantations, a soft early Friday morning when he received a telephone call from five cents each or three for fifty cents, the envelopes will contain Chief Columbo Previte. must be mailed by May 9 and drink and a girt ot a tree. Larkin then informed State Police at Greensburg of the the White Oak Borough Police show will be presented following the presentation by the Indians. There will be a small The bus tour, lasting three the queen must be an Indiana the fifty star American Flag Beginning with a kick off Chief. burglary telling them not only Melo- Eagles hours, will start from the 1, S.

stamp. Orders before May 15. County girl. Coronation activites dance tonight. luncheon at noon on Friday, The McKeesport area police daires.

22U will be staged in tront oi the charge for the Indian show. Everything else Is free. should be sent to r. Helman, 733 Locust Indiana. May 22, and concluding Sunday man phoned Larkin to ask grandstand on Saturday, May 23 Mack Community Center in Indiana.

Departure will be at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m., or sooner if the waiting bus fills up. Names of personalities to ap Dance Clymer Slovak Club, at a p.m. whether he, Larkin, has lost his auto registration card. Larkin that his Westmoreland County service station had been broken into, but also who did it and where they could be found. The culprits.

William Earl Zie-fer, 23, of McKees Rocks, and In addition to the special grandstand entertain evening. May 24, district residents will find lots to do In Indiana County. pear during the Festival will be Friday night's entertainment May 3, 8 p.m. DST. Melo-daires.

22 at Mack Park will Include folk announced later. Most of toe activity will cen ment, a country style tatr will said, "No. It's in the glove compartment of my car ac my serv Of primary interest will be The Festival is the outgrowth ter at the J. S. Mack Commun singers from 8 to 8:30 p.m.

fol be going on at Mack Park dur the Candlestick tours which en Robert Wayne Hurst, 28, of of a sub committee of the or ity Center Just south of Indiana Dance tonight. ing the three days. lowed by a square dance con Legion. ice station on Route 22, just west of Blairsville." 221x Greensburg, are currently in iginal Over all Economic De iTones. test as well as public square Included in tee displays and Oil KOUIB able the millions of Christmas Trees In the county to be seen The White Oak chief then in booths will be guns, coins, gar dancing.

tne Westmoreland county Jail However, there will be parade of antique cars from Mack formed Larkin that be had the in aeiauit oi Dona. den novelties, polished rock Croation Club dance Sunday. velopment Committee that was formed as a part of the survey plaiining for Indiana County. baturday will find antique Ziefer had completed a 30- cars roaming the business area! Park through the Indiana busi Crystal Knights. 8:30 til 221x t'a time when they are at their peak oi beauty.

The new growth appears in lighter green at the end of every branch, looking jewelry, band made rugs, apple head and Barbie Dolls, books by The committee is related to the ness district on Saturday, May ot toe community and a lormaJ card in his possession; had taken it from two men apprehended by his department, and asked Larkin if be would check month penitentiary sentence for burglary at 9 a.m. Thursday, was met by Hurst who bad al Elks and guests Dinners 23, with about 25 cars remain Udiana County Chamber oi local authors, historical dit plays, food and refreshment ing in th downtown ares until Commerce. parade of car at 3 p.m. Late in the afternoon parachute jump and rescue exercise will Sat. to Sun.

4 to 8, Mon. his service station. so served tune, and to two re 5 to 8. Sat. tf stands or su types, in i 5 p.m.

when they will return to very mucn canaie bene tbi "Candlestick Tour." The 3d miles of tour route will be well marked enabling in- Inquiries may be addressed to the Tourist Council, Indiana Upon investigating the build sumed their previous night-time take place at Mack Park. At 8 Mack park. show and other types of enter-! tainment including kiddie rides Chamber of Commerce, Dry! Dance tonight, Medora's Grill. ing at 2:30 a.m. yesterday, Lar- p.m.

a jug band will pertorm dunes alter spending the gay together. More than 129 antique cars art sxpacted to carticitiata in, Sat. till iMMMd rwsQJU) to drive past tin found that burjlari bad, bra. am) pomei. euiWujg, Indiana, fa.

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