Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - December 10, 1977, Altoona, Pennsylvania CiV The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror The zero cloudy High in lie 20s Report 16 153 3 Sections ALTOONA SATURDAY 10 1977 PRICK TWENTY h COSMONAUTS Yuri Romanenko top and Georgi Grechko wave goodbye before the start of their space journey aboard Soyuz 26 spaceship They will attempt to link up with the orbiting Salyut 6 space station See on Page 3 UPI City Woman Dies of Injuries Icy Highways Cause Crashes Fanners Gear for Strike Solidarity Rallies Held Across Nation By Charles J Cannon United Press International Like soldiers on the eve or angry farmers poised tractors on lie outskirts of the nation's state capitals preparing drives on in a demonstration of solidarity Wednesday's nationwide farm strike Rallies today in support of ilic strike were planned in ai least 30 of the nation's major farm states according to a spokesman for American Agriculture And highway pa throughout tile country reported traffic lieups as tiie capital cities The Kansas Slate Patrol counted 119 form vehicles lined up at Forbes Held near Topeka Friday night The official list ended with three combines one hay haler one fertilizer and one mounted privy Governors states nc lading Oklahoma and souri planned to meet with the strikers who are demandi break-even ptice for their crops and a huge rally was scheduled in an amphitheater near the Washington Monument in the nation's capital Plan Silent Protest After the Washington the farmers planned to park 50 tractors representing all the states outside the White House in silent protest of the Carter administration's farm policies Organizers invited President Carter and Agriculture tary Bob Bergland to attend the Washington rally but was in Missouri and Carter was weekending at Camp David Stuart Eizenstat the dent's domestic policy adviser said he would meet with representatives of the strikers Both Bergland and Sen Robert Dole expressed An woman died at p.m yesterday o injuries suffered when she was struck by a slation wagon at p.m in fair condition with head and shoulder injuries Also treated at Nason Hospital was Charles L Ball IS of rig Spring and Robert IS J A A ana at Willow Avenue and of Woodbury Mr Guyer passenger in the Ball car war treated for 1 head laceration According to state police Mr Ball was driving north on Route 4th Street Fannie Seymore OS ol 127 Willow Ave died in Altoona Hospital from a fractured skull u can vidi I fractured nbs and other internal 36 when Marjorie Burt according o Charles L Burkey Blair County coroner Obituary on page 23 City police identified the driver as Francis H H nf I Police said Mrs Seymore was hit as she was crossing 4th Street near her home Route II Three persons were hurt in an accident at on Route 36 near Nason Hospital in Taylor Township Admitted to the was Marjorie E 31 of IVil 2 She was Treated was George L Getic Jr 29 of Huntingdon He was scalp laceration Also injured was his slid through a stop sign at the entrance of the into the path of the Ball car The Burkett car was estimated at damage and the Ball car was demolished Route 22 Two persons were hurt in a accident yesterday on Route 22 about one-half mile east of Springs in arine Township crashed on the meeting in Omaha Friday said the government is not using all 3D who was treater available tools to improve or a laceration of the nose and farm prices a fractured nasal bone We need a more aggressive Slate police said Richard K anil realistic export policy to of Connellsville was heller meet the competition fig east benino a car operated that we are Four vehicles icy road and shortly after two more slid the four vehicles stopped on the road support for the goal of the strike 108 percent parity for the nation's agricultural cers But Dole addressing a cers mii a means on waled at Mercy for a National Farmers Organization home for Christmas BON of shows off a Prison a reminder thai iie was once imprisoned in what was Mexico's most prison prior to its closing Willi him is of San J I licy were the only two remaining prisoners allowed to talk to the crowd at a remote part of the San Diego airport after their arrival from Mexico City on Friday night They are part of n group of Americans ex- changed for Mexican prisoners UPI Prisoner Exchange Program Between U.S Mexico Begins o By CLARENCE inmates from U.S prisons SAN DIEGO UPI City Spurred by years thai Americans arc brutally 235 niai uru T mistreated in Mexican prisons were 235 Hie two nations set in motion an r e Prisons all told released in first singe ol swap allowing hem Hie rest of Mexican unprecedented Friday bringing home Americans the first of dreds For at least 44 of them II ln lhc means freedom on parole and serving narcotics the competition facing in world The prisoners appealed to the government not forget those left behind the cheers behind trafficking sentences imposed by Mexico in an effort tn cooperate the United Slates hut group includes seven convicted murderers and wor bars w fa page 3 column 3 Continued on page had carried Mexican returnees 35 men 26 women and a baby girl born behind bars filed off a plane which nf plane hijacker fence Another 66 Americans arriving in director of the Justice Department team coordinating the transfers said wo already under way on a secom series nf exchanges As the prisoners left plane excited relatives man of whom had struggled fo years to free children ant spouses from Mexican prisons waved American Hags anc whooped with Joy shouting names Stark Praised They heaped and roses on Rep Pete Stark who led the political fight for the exchange Stark welcomed tr returnees with a Vance Sadat In Accord No Separate Agreements To He Sought By United International Secretary ol Slate Cyrus and Egypt's President Sadat pledged today to eet a comprehensive Middle settlement hill Syria with Its adni campaign seeking from wealthy oil-producing stales mi llif lull Vance strongly supported adal in an apparent bid lo gel militants to back tie leader's move for with Israel The Cairo pence meeting Dec 14 Is a step on ine way lo an overall Vance told ers in Cairo A new momentum bas been to the peace process by Sadat's initiative and In Ihc U.S will do everything in our power to help maintain ihls Vance said Our objective remains n comprehensive lenient which can be reached at Geneva Define Almi Sadat added Our real aim vill always remain a settlement Doth men made It clear at oint news conference following more than iwo hours of talks hat their governments do imt want a separate peace also laid he mil Vance had agreed Ihr Cairo meeting should be upgraded if possible o bring together foreign ministers Only di- bad been scheduled lo This depends on ments after meeting hut let us hope so Sadat said Vance at his side nodded in agreement Assad on While Vance was In Egypt Continued page 3 column 1 to arrive this Three other groups are scheduled to arrive by bus and plane week with a Continued on page j column 2 Councilmen Weigh Plans To Cut Costs Cove Pupils Help Fire Victims I Continues Road Work though s in a financial situation work still is proceeding on most sections of new Routes 220 and in Blair County according to a report re- leased yesterday by area trans- analyst Robert E Over- berger Jr Mr Overberger who works for he Southern Route 220 for construction has been divided into tions A and B Final Completed Final design is completed on Section A and it should be ready construction in the spring 1 design is almost completed ng ee and Development Commission Section B Mr ported the only major section of highway not included in planning or construction hi Blair is a stretch of Route 22 from the Sixth Avenue Road to the Huntingdon County line This section ct was in- several in the Our Schools dis- Section A nnd B ore 2.6 miles in aril will cost an mated neth a Southern Alleghenies six counties and Overberger reported one lo con- work on major way within the Southern raal of pute and it was nd placed on e the state's program in 1376 In order for lo con- program n or lo con- One section of redd from wort the to former program burg State Hospital Route revenues must be al is almost ready lor Continued on page 3 column 2 In the Mirror today SS proposal faces uphill fight Page 2 Perm Cambria schoolman rebuts charges Page 12 Lions beaten by Schenley Page 18 Williamsburg scores over 100 Page 18 Murder investigation beefed up Page 21 Amusements 13 5 News 12 Arts Sunday Services Comics 11 The Doctor Crossword Today With Editorial Women's Features 14 Gives Food and Clothing CHILDREN FROM BENSON ELEMENTARY School in clothing food and miscellaneous items for the family thai were burned out of their home Tuesday night The response has been over- school officials said Elementary Principal Ivan Shibley said they have about 24 large boxes of clothing By KAY STEPHENS Staff Writer We should get no Ivan Shibler principal of Benson School day It should he given lo the kids parents community They made it possible Mr complimenting he community of for its efforts and donations to he lies who lost their home when it burned Tuesday night Mrs Martha anJ her five Mr and Mrs Marry Boob nnd their five children Mrs daughter and son-in-law and their two children were left homeless and food and On Wednesday Mr sent letters home with all the school children from Benson and Martin elementary schools asking etching furniture items and food The family also appreciates monetary PuLi Together I've learned in this community something of this sort hippens the people all pull Mr said Veep collecting until they finish bringing il he said However lie requested the items be brought in im- mediately Mrs Connie McClure elementary secretary said after sending home Nothing requests she called some area parents and asked if they would sort it according to size They offered to help she said Mr that the volunteers took clothes home lo wash and Children at Uie Benson school most of the ins on the school bus One student Randy Rhodes said he brought in a book too Some area residents have the school No Gift Exchange Mr Snibley said the clothing gives the dren a chance to do something at Christmas time the dren do not exchange gilts that test year at the Martin Elementary School the children clothing artd other items tor the Salvation Army Mr Shibley arrt Mrs agree hat the to the sent home has been overwhelming Mrs McClure said they did not expect to gel such a big response We're she said The school has three or four pickup trucks ready to de- liver the donations to Mrs mother's home in this Besides clothing food toys a lew pots and pans and soroe cash the school has also received two a chair a bed and a mattress Continued on page 3 column 2 City council men gal view of several de- signed o offer he relief from workmen's compensation mi- series The city is facing a Increase tn the cost of its men's compensation program nnd has the C S financial consulting firm of Pittsburgh to help save il iome money in its compensation C S representative Larry Emmelt Mayor C Stouffer nnd City Councilmen Thomas Byrne Eu- gene J Duncan and Coch ra n on pns sihl e mon saving Friday But if he dispensed any good news the council men weren't willing to alk tl Mayor SlouFfer Thursday Ihal C S McKee would propose that the city set up its own workmen's program and the program il has with Insurance While he termed the savings rom such a plan as he not reveal the exact savings figure he said he vas given hy a McKee Unresolved Variables If there was any such good news iri the McKee report he and the mayor weren't pleased enough lo start alking about il They would re- ease few details on the session with Mr Em- melt on Friday because cording tn the there were loo many unresolved ables lett hanging in the dis- Councilman Duncan noted that he were aimed at ing a long-range complicated goal adding that the group wanted to meet with ives of police firefighters and employees union but declined lo say what specifics would be discussed If we can get some Mr Duncan said everyone will benefit At one person at City Hall on Friday said he wasn't very enthusiastic about rumors that the city was thinking of setting up its own workmen's compensation plan Wails 2 Hours Earl of Johnstown field office said he wanted to propose a more at- tractive workmen's tion plan to the cily Alter ing for two hours to see the mayor and council Mr son left Before leaving though Mr Robertson said he was at City Mall to propose a revised men's compensation plan could save some money
