Daily Bedford Gazette (Newspaper) - December 5, 1974, Bedford, Pennsylvania BEDFORD GAZETTE THE WEATHER Partly sunny High in Partly cloudy tonight and Lows tonight to mid Highs Friday mid 30s to mid ESTABLISHED VOL 170 363 DECEMBER 1974 SINGLE COPY FIFTEEN CENTS Cfi Supermarkets Aided Stranded Rescue Operation Widespread More unsung heroes came to light as Bedford sorted out the facts of its the emergency created when the Turnpike was One large group which worked quietly throughout the crisis for travelers was the Fort Bedford CB radio They and others noted the cooperation of the food market And some firemen were closely involved with Several hundred Turnpike motorists were housed in three Bedford Churches and the Bedford when motels and hotels filled All thousands found some haven in or simply stayed in their trucks or Dozens of rooms in Bedford were rented before the Sunday night influx of Turn pike Monday morning was opening day for buck and many hunters had reserved rooms The Fort Bedford Inn was was the Bedford Hotel down the The Bedford Hotel called the Melvin Walper early Monday to ask if he could they had stranded and no rooms for People were they Walper is active with a travelers aid fund Through this and other the wheels began to The CB radio operators swung into operation very early in the Some of like club president Edith stayed on the job without sleep through it We were actually out there slopping helping said one club Others outside the club confirmed that the group been a vital communications and tran Walper offered a for instance when it became apparent that people were going to be needing food as well as a place to sleep in the early hours of Lowry was called could food be obtained from his Lowrys IGA market Lowry but said hed need tran Before he hung up the Walper there was a CB club member outside with a vehicle to haul the food Coffee and doughnuts were on the on page 14 CB Radio Club Went Nonstop During Storm Weve been going nonstop since Sunday But finally we got some sleep Tuesday said Edith Timmerman of a member of the Fort Bedford Citizens Band Radio and the club have been working day and night since Sunday when thousands of Thanksgiving Day travelers became stranded on the turnpike and other roads in the I guess weve made ove 250 calls to other states as away as Maine and But I dont have any idea how many stranded persons all of our members have There would be no way to she A lot of people always think of the truckers who use the CBs to watch out for Smokie State Police so they wont get caught But theres been a lot of good accomplished with CBs for the people who have run into trouble on the All of the truckers who were out Sunday night were transmitting messages for the stranded and we had almost of our members also Timmerman She added that she was loverly pleased with the cooperation the club received from other CB radio users in assisting the stranded Most of the calls we received from the turnpike were from travelers who asked for us to call their relatives to let them know that they were But one student asked if we could call his school to let his teachers know why he wouldnt returning on she Edith Timmerman went from Sunday night to Tuesday without sleep as she and other members of the Fort Bed ford Citizens Band Radio Club worked around the clock to help the motorists who were stranded on the turnpike as a result of the heavy The club made more than 250 calls to relatives for the Not all young people move away from Bedford County to get but schools do need more insight into vocational training to help their students get those Thats one conclusion the guidance department at Everett high school gained through a survey of Everetts class of The according to guidance counselors Frank Shaffer and Louise are ap plicable to more than just and could serve as the basis for an ongoing survey aimed at improving educational The confidential questionnaire covered the graduates and marital where he or she went after high who helped in selecting an occupation and what helped most in getting that first steady the kind of work being satisfaction with that and how much the school helped in things ranging from using spare time and getting along with other people to preparing for further The counselors said the class of 1970 was chosen because it was felt those students continuing their education would have completed a minimum of a bachelors degree or vocational training program by the spring of and those employed for four years should have some knowledge of the world of The questionnaire was constructed last On March it was mailed to 121 members of the By May 55 percent had returned the At that class members who lived in the area were contacted by while postcards were mailed to the others another 11 During the week of June two members of the 1970 class personally contacted their classmates in the which resulted in another ten questionnaires being A total of 88 class or On the personal 48 individuals said they were 39 married and one is a Of the 45 women who percent are while only 35 percent of the 35 men have Twentyfour of the married individuals have children of 19 have one child and five have The guidance counselors broke down the class members according to the high school programs in the academic course and 33 answered the Over 55 percent of the 29 students who had been in the general course 72 percent of the 25 in the commercial 80 percent of the 15 who had voag 50 percent of the eight I A Gazette News CUS THE FUTURE industrial arts students and 100 percent of the three Twentyseven of the academic students continued their but only 13 completed a or Four nine commercial and one each of the voag and industrial arts students continued their but none of them completed fouryear according to the After leaving Everett high half of the surveyed students found fulltime em Another three became employed 18 attended college fulltime and 14 other schooling fulltime while three entered military one became selfemployed and five chose a No one reported being either looking for or not looking for after high Of the 71 41 said they had their first job upon It took 13 three or four weeks to find The others found jobs in time periods ranging from five weeks to within one On a question regarding who helped the student make a choice of education or career some of the respondents checked two The most frequent choices were 30students no help and Work experience helped 12 make a choice and a teacher accounted for ten Other choices were a six school and school No one said the principal or counselor helped in the As for getting the first steady 23 classmates said they already had or had found a job before Twentytwo said they found jobs on their own without help and 16 found work through their family or a personal The counselors found that of the 75 class members who answered a question about on page 14 About Milk Import Dependence Grange Warns Butz HARRISBURG UPI The master of Grange Wednesday warned Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz about the in creasing dependence on foreign milk products in the United In a letter to Luther Snyder noted that more milk is being used in the United States than American far mers are indicating that imports are supplying the Snyder said reports show the total use of milk in 1974 was estimated at but total milk production was 114 billion Production of 114 billion pounds of milk will be the lowest in the United States in any year since Snyder It is billion pounds short of domestic Snyder said the Penn sylvania Grange is vitally concerned with the plight of dairy farmers and the necessity of maintaining a strong and healthy dairy He told Butz that American dairy farmers need greater incentives for production one of which would be sup plied by an increase in the federal minimum farmers are paid for wholesale It is imperative that America provides the in and the en necessary to keep American dairy farmers in Snyder If we allow this trend to continue increasing foreign imports we could find our selves eventually in the same kind of trouble with milk as we are with foreign Snyders letter followed by a day a request from the state Agriculture Department that Butz allow his department to increase the federal price for Edison director of the Pennsylvania Agriculture Departments Bureau of Mar testified at the Agricultural Outlook Con ference for Northeast States in New York Osborne testified earlier this year before congressional committees in asking them to supercede Butz and increase wholesale prices to Despite pressures from virtually every segment of the dairy issued a tentative decision not to increase Farmers claimed was afraid of the public reaction to higher milk State Agriculture Secretary James McHale said reluc tance to raise milk support prices could cause nationwide milk shortages within the next few McHale said the decline in milk production cited by the Grange is a nutritional disaster for the American Milk and dairy products are the most economical sources of essential nutrients in the diets of our He said farm production costs have been but the price farmers are paid for their products does not match the operating cost Many farmers are quitting in despair while others are cutting down their herd num bers and reducing their feed McHale To Evaluate Educational Programs Everett Surveys 70 Class Top Of TV Morning Topics In The News Today AROUND HERE ELSEWHERE Topic A A Gallitzin man was arrested at the Bedford jail Tuesday evening in connection with federal charges stemming from the theft of Treasury The arrest was a cooperative effort of the Secret borough and state police and the sheriffs The man was identified as Vincent Frank A federal warrant charged him with aiding and abetting in the forgery of a Secret Service agents took Marino to Allegheny where he appeared Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning before federal magistrate Ila Jean Sen He was released on his own pending a hearing A spokesman for the Secret Service office in Pittsburgh said the investigation is He would not at this the place or time the bonds were the total amount of the or the number of others alleged to be He also would not say just why the man came to the Bedford jail he was not an inmate there at the time of Local police officials said that this was a federal case and that information would have to come from federal The spokesman did explain that Secret Service in are restricted to the Treasury but that the main area of concern is suppression of The agents present the facts of a case to the Attorney for a legal opinion on probable The Attorney then makes out a the agent swears to it before a federal magistrate and the magistrate issues the Joseph Gary Corrie of Six Mile Run pleaded guilty to a simple assault charge Judge Richard Snyder ordered Corrie to pay the costs of prosecution and placed him on 11V2 months Sentencing of Michael Bedford RD and John Chalfont of Bedford was continued until The two men had been found guilty at a hearing Tuesday Windows had been charged with furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor and Chalfont with corruption of Results of an autopsy performed on George of who died showed the cause of death to be a pulmonary a blood clot of the and other Fisher was injured in a crash on Route 30 26 he had been admitted to the hospital in satisfactory con dition with a broken collarbone and bruises of the chest and A passenger in the other Mary of Saxton RD died of injuries she sustained in the The autopsy was performed Friday evening by pathologist from and hospital West Providence Township Supervisors accepted the only bid received for the purchase of a 1974 International truck on Monday Morris Farm Equipment took the townships pickup as on the new After much the Supervisors postponed making a decision on packaging insurance coverage under one This will be placed on the agenda again at the special meeting called for Most of the present insurance policies do not expire until after the first of the A deer and a Volkswagen collided on the turnpike about 13 miles east of Bedford Tuesday The car was west bound the deer was northbound across the State police at Everett said the Carol Ann Siders of and her daughter escaped The deer also Damage to the left door and front fender was estimated at Roland Hickey of was arrested by a game warden Monday for hunting in Cumberland Valley Township without a hunting Brought before magistrate Kenneth Hickey was fined and costs on the summary State police are investigating the theft of cash and some jewelry from the home of Irene Hazel Feight at 64 4th in Everett Tuesday The house was entered through a side according to who said the person or per sons went through the whole house before leaving by the same The burglary occurred between and Police are asking that anyone in that area who may have seen any suspicious persons during that time please report the information to the Bedford state police Two persons were injured in a accident on the turnpike at The accident occurred about 20 miles west of Bedford in the eastbound lanes on Allegheny and the resulting tenmile traffic lasted It was snowing at the and a had jackknifed the crash occurred in the backlog as police were attempting to straighten out the stuck State police at Everett said a driven by David Clark of Cald was in the left lane and traveling too fast for con Attempting to his truck hit the rear of a second driven by Donald Tillman of Tillmans rig then crossed into the right striking the left side of a van driven by Ronald Shupp of and a car operated by Alan Dearborn The impact caused the car to strike the left rear of another auto driven by Daryl Johns of It also caused the van to flip on its according to Tillman was taken to Bedford hospital for treatment of a bump on his head Shupp was taken to Somerset hospital after complaining of a back Total damage was set at A that flipped on its side on the Breezewood turnpike ramp at Tuesday afternoon sustained only minor because it landed in the but four hours later it was struck by another rig that did the same Robert Turner of the second driver was injured in the State police at Everett said the first truck was exiting eastbound and was traveling too fast on the left curve it landed on its right The operator was identified as Lloyd Crockett of Damage in the crash was set at In the there was another damage to Crocketts rig and to A Cumberland man escaped injury when his slid out of control on the Route 220 bypass three miles south of Bedford Tuesday State police said James was northbound on the highway when the rig skidded across both lanes into the guardrail on the west Damage was set at Over 500 persons visited the county jail last week as part of a open house held by sheriff Wayne Manspeaker and and Jack warden and matron of the The turnout was so good that another jail tour is being planned for the The baby mentioned in Wednesdays court story was the sister of Darlene Mock of not Diane Mickey of Her name is Topic A The nations striking miners have ratified a proposed contract with soft coal producers to end a 23day walkout which threatened to worsen the nations economic a union source said The prosecution charged Wednesday that President Richard Nixon offered Haldeman and John Ehrlichman up to legal expense money if Watergate coverup revelations forced them to resign their White House Secretary Kissinger launched an energetic of fensive to promote President Fords Vladivostok strategic arms and ap won the sympathy of the Senate Foreign Relations In a major Democrats voted to expand their charter writing midterm convention into a showcase for party programs designed to heal the nations ailing The House voted 212 to 176 to accept a compromise which could effectively ban the busing of school children to achieve racial The involving for the first time powers Congress gave itself earlier this voted Wednesday to require that President Ford spend million of the million he sought to cut from his The House Education and Labor Committee Wednesday unanimously approved an emergency billion public service jobs to combat rising Diplomatic sources said the Kremlin has urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to form a Palestine National Authority govern soon and in Moscow was prepared to offer it economic and military Americans were confronted with prospects of even more higher heating bills and a return to restricted gasoline supplies or long gas Reports that striking coal miners had ratified a new wage contract brought optimism that full coal production could resume next The four automakers reported the new car sales slump which has already resulted in layoffs for more than workers by Christmas worsened in November with deliveries off 35 per cent from last The Senate Rules Com said that Nelson Rockefeller used poor judgement in getting in volved in a book about a political but con cluded it had found nothing to disqualify him to be vice Wilbur Mills got public support from his wife and a satisfactory report at the hospital amid growing erosion of his congressional power over Mills friendship with a striptease The White House said the is still importing more oil than it should and appealed to Canada to continue its present level of shipments in case other foreign sources should dry NEW YORK Jones closing averages 30 Indus up 20 Trans up up 65 Stocks up District Deaths Obituaries on Page Ora Belle of South of Claysburg Walter of New Paris Arrangements by the Jack Geisel Funeral are Full obituary in Fridays Adviser Says Inflation Slowing WASHINGTON UPI There was a very significant increase in unemployment last but inflation showed some signs of slowing President Fords top economic adviser said While citing no current Chairman Alan Greenspan of the Council of Economic Advisers said the unemployment rate probably would continue rising before peaking at around 7 per cent by the middle of next Ford himself said in an interview published earlier this week that he would begin taking action to reheat the economy if the unemployment rate reached per cent figure which he said would be indicative of a very serious added Greenspan gave the assess ment of the November em ployment to be of reported by the Labor Department on at a joint news conference with Treasury Secretary William who said a tax cut was under tentative study by lower echelons of the ad ministration as a weapon against Both men predicted that economic conditions generally will continue to deteriorate into the early part of next but that inflation should ease and production show an upturn by the midd le of the Were going to work terribly hard to turn this said but Im not optimistic that this can be done Regarding Greenspan There is no question that between mid October and midNovember there has been a very significant This had been essentially a foregone in light of heavy layoffs in the auto industry and enterprises affected by the coal miners The government reported last month that about million persons per cent of potential American wage earners out of respected by fellow economists as a said it was very difficult to project the job situation but expressed belief that unemployment would reach a peak of something over 7 per cent by Other economists have predicted a top of about 8 per As for he We do look for a general easing of inflation into the 67 per cent annual rate area by the This would be a substantial improvement over the current rate of over 10 per Greenspan said for one thing there are very early signs that the slump in the housing industry is beginning to Simon said the ad ministration is still com mitted to Fords formula of voluntary solutions to the economic FPC Approves Natural Gas Price Increase WASHINGTON UPI The Federal Power Com mission approved an increase in natural gas prices Wed while the ad ministration asked Congress to drop all price controls to head off dangerous In an effort to boost future the FPC set the uniform price of gas at 50 cents per thousand cubic feet increase of 8 cents projected the prices paid by residential consumers would rise 8 to more than 16 per cent within three Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and FPC chairman John said meanwhile that all new natural gas should be coupled with a tax on excess profits as in surance against price gou testifying in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on legislation to continue price baid the natural yas shortage has dramatically deepened and will cause widespread unemployment this winter unless prices are decontrolled
