Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - March 22, 1977, Altoona, Pennsylvania CITY EDITION The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday Mirror The Tonight Snow Low in the Wednesday Windy cold with ries High in the Complete Re for I Page 17 VOL 239 PHONE PA TUESDAY EVENING MARCH 22 1971 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS India's Gandhi Resigns New Leaders To Be Chosen On Thursday Brezhnev's Talk Fails to Deter Carter's Plans BY JOHN NEEDHAM NEW DELHI India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi but will remain as India's caretaker until the opposition alliance that her Congress party a humiliating election loss can new cabinet this week submitted her resignation and those of her cabinet to acting President but will stay on until a new government is selected by the politicians who ended her party's domination of India Even before the THE SKELETON OF MERCY HOSPITAL'S ADDITION is 45 per cent completed and the crane which is being used by Keystone Steel Erectors of Blairsville will soon te moved to erect an equal amount of steel for the adjacent section of the four story building The million project is proximately 18 per cent completed overall J C Or Son Inc is the general contractor Blair Told To Close Youth Home The Blair County commission ers have received word from the state that they will have juvenile detention home in Al toona by May Blair County Commissioner Col son E Jones said today that the commissioners were notified Ford Thompson ol of Public Welfare that Ma 1 be the last th detention home Mr Jones said he doesn't exactly what the means county is r funds from the sta for the home sounds to me like pressure Mr Jones sai Meeting Set out that there w be a meeting Perm Gable Restaurant in Ebensburg April 7 to discuss the use of the new County Detention Home as a facility counties The Blair commissioners for the past two have been ing for a suitable alternative o the detention home at Grant nue and Tenth Street because it noes not state standards There also have been some differ City Seeks Grant V town Budget Given Tentative OK A group of residents from last night agreed to ork with city officials to pre- for ion Facelift a preservation ect Altoona rs in competition with many area cities such as risburg York and Lancaster for one ol five demonstration grants of each from the state ol Community Af fairs William C told an estimated 65 residents Luther Church Second Street and Lex Avenue thai since tw ol the grants would go to Phila delphia and Pittsburgh Altoon would in company lo r the three grants People Participation One or the key points of th neighborhood preservation prc gram is the participation of th people Nina Kennedy chairman o the area Community Actio group told citizens o You can't sit bac and not get bazooka any residents ould agree to become block About IS volunteered eluding Mrs Kennedy James It is wilh roug that city officials brk today an appll ation to the stale I Community Affairs The application must be roved and sub lilted to Harrisburg by This the city only 1 ays to although assistant tanner Charles Colledge sai OK preliminary as already been completed Many Involved The city ng the program Stouffer ai L Cod both of whom attende ast night's meeting Also involved in the are Thomas Goodfellow of t lousing authority Bernice Le of Improved for Altoona city planner Jose Weakland and Gias Hanawa of the city Neighborhood announcement of Mrs resignation jubilant leaders of the Janata People's party and the Congress for Democracy had begun jockeying to fill the power vacuum ousters By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON UPI Un- deterred fay a barrage of criticism from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev President Carter Is going ahead plans to dispatch Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to Moscow later this week for arms Carter summoned the I Security Council to a mid- afternoon meeting today lo pui final touches on a proposal to get the Strategic Arms Limita lion Talks off center official Vance who leaves Friday wil discuss the proposal with Brezhnev and other Sovie ng left left by the the Vocational School last night gave ten alive approval to a for The budget is highe ian that adopted for the cur ehl fiscal year Donald L Carn hairman of the finance commi ee noted He the recom for tentative pointed out that It boards districts have viewed budget proposal the school the operating tentative approval a school calendar iii rat joi lo go of a storage area and reaffirmed a school poli prohibiting staff members fro recommending specific priva public or state institutions higher learning to students Salaries Higher Salaries and fringe benefits for em ployes was I re- sponsible for the budget in- crease but Mr Carn said that Cam that he Meeting Thursday A spokesman for the victors id the new deputies elected it e parliamentary elections las eek will meet Thursday to lect a new prime minister rid parly leaders preferably concensus but through oor fight if necessary With votes counted in 49 Janata had 262 seat nd led in most of th districts ould put it well over the 27 The Congress fo had 16 and othe anata allies held about 30 Th party had only 14 another 19 for an allie arty The remainder was spl minor parties Two Favorites The Iwo men most likely a anata i r m a n Morar 81 a former depu iHme who lrs Ghandi in -1969 Ham 68 a form party member w on page 3 column 2 The President had no sponse to attack on Carter's stron of human rights and of Soviel dissidents Press Secretary Jody Powell laid speech is very long It's being studied now Mission On Track Carter arranged to unveil his legislative proposal for univer voting registration and congressional campaign ing to the Democratic ship at a breakfast meeting today Later he scheduled a farewell meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda Ac cording to Japanese officials Carter Monday personally rea firmed to Fukuda his intention of withdraw ing American ground fro m Sou tn torea alter consultation Powell said Monday that for Vance's iion to Moscow were on track and from all indications both consider his trip to be an important step toward relieving the burden of the arms race and preventing nuclear destruction of all the of the world The SALT 11 ag expires in October Carter seeks a simple extension as a first step and negotiations on the more controversial ments involving the Backfire bomber and Cruise later bul so far the Soviets have balked Gerald Ford made Continued on page 3 Column 5 Prison Reform Gets Boost From Supreme Court Ruling By CHARLOTTE MOULTON WASHINGTON UPI The Court has given joost lo prison reform In a ruling Monday it eased ie procedures for changes in Directional institutions Attorney Jack Greenberg he NAACP Defense Fund called action an enormous since t paves tlie way tor action in a number of cases dealing will capacity of the prisons ncreased Scott in a personal visit saw ie cell with one in a bunk and three barbaric conditions prison systems and correctional institutions The LDF had won an from U.S District Court Charles Scolt of Jacksonville that state's population must be reduced o on the win when loor Society inmates are aged like animals in a later Scott's order was overturns hy the 5th U.S Circuit Court o Appeals which said a three ie Circuit Court for routine Meantime any ther cases in this posture can more smoothly Congress has now repealed most of the statute hich not apply to future of this kind The Supreme Court also assured Social Security ments of about million in of a single judge Bu Monday the Supreme Cour said remedies didn't require the next year to husbands and widowers claiming retirement panel should have acted benefits on the basis ot their wives earnings As expected the court applied to husbands the reasoning in its March 2 panel if the original opinion in favor of widowers complaint did not Florida case and similar Texas wi reform schools now go back to At the government same won u ences ot opinion between the and lo county and governments done on page 3 column Mrs Kennedy then asked ho Continued otr page 3 column the Miriam Ritchey of approval by the board Blair County Community March meeting is and He pointed out City to Appeal State Sewer Plants Order Streets Director W Byrne told City Council this that he will go to tomorrow to appeal stale order requiring some 000 of improvements at the city's sewage treatment Mr said that order came from the state Department ot Labor and Industry and was part of a lone list of safety im- He said all had been taken care of a of safely railing that the wants the city to place along both sides of all sidewalks and around all and treat ment tanks al two plants The work would cost abou Mr Byrne said and in the opinion of the rail ings could be hazards themselves in certain areas wher sewer plant room to work on the equipment Also are already fenced in and some railings are in plac where the city feels they are re- safety to Budge We showed the area ma from the Labor and Industry o ice in Johnstown what we mean at the plants but he apparent refused lo Mr lold council so tomorrow I an city engineer and solicit are going to attend an appe in Harrisburg to Iry ta ct this changed Councilman William L an public properly director told thai Altoona Area will be g for bids chool on Thursday He suggested lat wanl to iin ownership of the lots used for idea by a letter I they should deed aad to us for and Mayor William C louder said A majority of coun il directed Mr look nto the usefulness the law nd relum for the bidding deadline In other action council pointed Barry Wright of to the Planning for a term of fou years He will Thomas J Finnegan Jr whose was announced yesterday Finnegan had recently as chairman of the sion -I New Ordinance Completed The Planning lon yesterday afternoon ed its preparation of zon ng ordinance and map for th ily and expects to present ew zoning to City Council ime next month for a public hearing and final action The commission had to deal vilh several areas of zoning map day many of which wete ed by a field trip to view the areas prior to the regular ing- There were two areas that hac seen the subjects of controversy af prior commission south of Plank Road and Pleasant Valley be- tween Third and streets The common question in each area was whether to zone any land Commercial er than residential and if so how 5 of J Attend Barely a quorum of commission members committee The boards ot the various districts must now approve the budget before the gives its nal approval The school term vm open 5 according lo the calendar adopted last night The final be June 2 Makeup Days In considering the energy yea Continued on page 3 column Work of Commission Gives U S New Indochina By RICHARD H GROW AID WASHINGTON The White House commission on Vietnam ame home from Hanoi and today and Communist leaders mve promised to over of two additional Americans Woodcock Aulo Workers president chairman of the commission return remains along with those of a man killed in an airplane crash commission also brought jack a report it hopes to present o President Carter in a meeting scheduled for old reporters aboard rom Honolulu that I lane anoi Former United Leader Senate Democratic Mike Mansfield a officials confirmed the death Tucker a retired CIA official who dashed Saigon just before South nam collapse in a vain attempt to rescue friends Woodcock said Hanoi officials the commission they would commission member told re porters the diplomatic spade work done by the delegation helps give America a new beginning in Asia Cause Not Listed Woodcock said the Viet did not give the caus of death The said he died in June 1976 The remains of the service ian killed in an airplane crash fere originally to have been in 1973 along with 23 sent back that year to Hanoi officials But they Woodcock an American bomb disturbed the rave and Vietnamese custom C quired a fresh burial Woodcock telephoned Carte shortly after the mission n Honolulu and said th President welcomed us bac and told him the job wa The four men and one would not discuss their lepor with on thu time the financial victory to several dollars In a separate case related to retirement benefits for men based on their own earnings To Examine Old taw In 1972 Congress made the computation formula the same for both sexes but before that arithmetic discriminated against Some men who collecting the old system charged discrimination but the rebuffed them In other actions the Agreed to examine an t of mh ja law dating to a or religious ation if it was made within 30 ays of the testator's death on page 3 column 2 Tonry Rejected a petition by ight major tire manufacturers or review of federal ions gi and pi traction and grading automobile tires publicizing qualities of resistance for con- Dismissed an attempt hy James A Moreau to upset the Louisiana primary election victory of Rep Richard A In the Mirror today 8 Area Classified Comics........................14 Crossword 6 and com im members Patrick Labn stenographer in Blair Joseph Civil Defense Adams and Leonard Flore I Concerning commercial along Logan Boulevard on the east side back a lo the alley between Plank Road and as far south as Norway Avenue the had received re- quests from a rea residents to maintain primarily zoning However some of the sion members argued that of land along boulevard Plank Road and view halfway lo city limits heading south vacant and would never be de- for residential use In the past the discussion had tered on how far lo carry commercial zoning from the ex- isting commercial uses near Plank Road Yesterday in a vote with Mrs Bellamy and Mr Adams dissenting the commission on page 3 Column 5 Police stymied in child kidnap cases Page State has top white water rafting stream Page 13 Hollidaysburg superintendent resigns Page 15 Beaver Stadium plans are approved Page 18 Horoscopes 2 Markets o The Doctor Today With 12 JIM MOSCATEL a Boston University sophomore studies on park bench on campus with a cool friend who arrived with the advent of Spring this weekend UPI Milk Price Supports Being Hiked WASHINGTON UPI Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland today announced he will increase government milk price supports six cents a gallon on April 1 lo ward off the threat of a serious drop in future consumer supplies President Carter approved the 9 per cent increase which went beyond the 5 per cent of a major dairy group because he had made a promise to Wisconsin armers last year Bergland old a news conference A government dairy expert said the result may be a boost of about six cents a gallon in lind milk prices consumers Beginning in about two months The specialist Sidney Cohen said retail prices for cheese and nonfat milk powder also would probably rise but by less than the price support s of about 10 cents a pound butter and five cents a sound for cheese and milk Faces Another Review The Agriculture Department currently supports the price of manufacturing grade milk at per hundredweight which is currently equal to 76 cent ol the fair parity standard Bergland said Carter proved an increase lo per cent of parity or per hundredweight He said the support will be reviewed again for possible adjustments in six months Government costs In on page 3 column 1
