Derrick (Newspaper) - August 5, 1977, Oil City, Pennsylvania Employment Picture Brightens In Tri-County The employment picture has should remain stable during the brightened a Jn Ihc no county Robert C. manager of the Bureau of Employment Security office in Oil says the Oil district gradually moved out of the recession And John W. manager or the bureau in says lhat county's labor market significant The Oil City office serves a labor market which covers Forest and the eastern half of Craw Cord The number of Jobholders In that area Increased by 700 during the second The latest job Is 300 belter lhan a year said an Important Im- petus was supplied by an ex- pansion In the agricultural and self-employed Despite the advance In the number of people at there also are 200 more persons unemployed because of a growth In the labor Rice said Ibis Is normal for Ihls period of Ihe The year-to-year change En Ihe labor force Is up 200 with 100 fewer persons Rice said current manufacturing figures are depressed because of a work Non-manufacturing concerns 200 Jobs over the past 60 largely due lo seasonal During the week of June 24, there we re claims filed for unemployment This figures compares with months ago ami a year More lhan a third of the are women whp have been Plant vacation shutdowns will temporarily Increase the claims Rice Rice said seasonal lines are now at and most factories arc expected lo maintain current Job In Clarion em- ployment shifted from to during the second and Potts said seasonal factors were responsible Unemployment increased by 100. resulting In a jobless rate of 6 per cent. This Is still tower than the stale and national rates ol 6.5 and 7.5 per cent. Clarion ranked number 35 in May among H Pennsylvania areas sampled for ployment area with the highest jobless ratio is ranked Polls said was the key over the past Potts also said that Job openings arc at a Summer jobs have been be and factories normally do little hiring during hot A number of work op- arc listed at the bureau offices in Oil Cily and Among them In Clarion are openings for an auto body a an industrial a dragline operator and a bulldozer Job listings in Oil City include those for a day counter floor mechanical engineering technician and a production THE DERRICK Founded 182 OU M Opts Telephone FRIDAY AUGUST 5, 1917 Area Man Killed In Auto Accident ISi JL M NEW BETHLEHEM x his car ran off Ihc highway Helen Barrett Thomas Keener Clarion County man was west The auto was graduated Randall Keener early yesterday when his rock flipped over onto Valley High School and Donald struck a rock wall along and slid Lo Ihe easl berm Bethlehem and 2fl and in the U.S. surviving are James P. 2-1, ol was employed Mrs. Washington New was pronounced dead at the scene by from the The car was demolished Brothers of He was affiliated with the Church of God at of New IID 2 and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel of his Police said Mrs. Annie The cause of death was was so extensive addition to his and 14 nieces ns a broken massive were unable lo survived by three ternal Injuries make of the Roberl Himes was made The accident occurred at Mrs. F. Malcer am near Redbank Valley Patty J Wireman of in New Paul Keener was and Mrs. family will Stale police said Keener 25, 195'i, in Divins of from 2 lo 4 and 7 to 9 driving north on Route 2B a son of Paul C. RD 3, and by 4th Restaurant Chain Looks At Oil City Site CARROLL Derrick Writer Still another chise restaurant has expressed an In a site alung Seneca Street in downtown Oil The Drake Parking across Seneca Street from the Sears Roebuck and Co. is under consideration as a sile tor a national hamburger That is Ihe fourth restaurant firm to look at plans for an outlet on Seneca A Pizza Hut is planned lor a spol In Ihe city's Standard Streel renewal The Pizza Hut plans Lo share its sile with another but there has been no announcement ycl on which franchise Ihe restaurant will Another fast-food restaurant has been planned lor the sile of the old Oil Cily a specializing in roast beef is the mosl likely hut Ihe Erie businessman who owns sile hasn't yet announced a final George one ol Ihe owners of Ihc properly where Ihc Drake Parking Lol is confirmed unofficial reports lhat Wendy's has shown an interest in the lie said is a possibility Ihc restaurant will locate bul pointed out that plans are still in definite has been decided the plans for Pizza Hut call for construction Lo begin sometime the middle ot The firm building that Atlantic Development of had hoped Lo break ground late this Thomas an official of Ihe said yesterday it now appears construction will begin September 15. A second restaurant has been selected lo share the Pizza Iful Dodd bul the Chambersburg firm declined to any announcement until the contracts a re The old YMCA silc was purchased by Erie businessman Nicholas Scolt when VM moved last year its new facilities on The silc has been cleared for several months but there has been no word yet when of a proposed restaurant will Neither has been any final decision on what type of restaurant will occupy the sile across from Ihe new downtown parking The latest word was that n restaurant is slill planned for silc and thai an is Ihc most likely franchise to be built FRANKLIN HIGH-RISE Progress on Franklin's second high-rise apartment Cor senior citizens though limited by some reported delays in the arrival of Three of the building's six doors are nearly The 87-unit, million apartment is due to be completed about the end of this yearby Developers of New York Construction is being guided by McAnallen Brothers Construction of a partner in the with a number of area firms holding subcontracts for some of the Located next lo the existing five-story high-rise on Chestnut the building will offer apartments to the elderly and The project was jointly undertaken by Franklin Housing and Redevelopment Clarion County Court 15 Defendants Plead Guilty Guilty pleas were entered by 15 defendants yesterday in Clarion County Arraignment Courl Three of Ihe defendants were sentenced by Judge Robert B. They Charles C. Darr of burg RD 2, charged with a license violation and with driving with expired license He also was charged with contempt of Darr was sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail on the contempt Me was dered to pay a plus and received a suspended jail sentence of three II months on Ihc license He was fined on Ihe expired plates charge Dale Titus of charged with failing lo appear in courl and as an accomplice to Ihe unauthorized use of a He pleaded guilty to Lhc court charge through plea the other charge was Tilus was fined and and was ordered to serve 5l- to II months in He will be placed on a work release program and will be given credit for the lime he has already spent in Zen of charged with making a false was fined plus and was given a suspended jail sentence of 11 He also was placed on probation for 11 The other defendants pleading guilly V. ol drunk Richard Clark Abbott of New drunk driving and failure to drive to Ihc right Wilmer J. Schreckengost of New Bethlehem RD 1, drunk driving and a traffic signal Robert Rote of Shippenville IID 2. drunk driving and a traffic signal violation Arthur W. Myers of New drunk driving and a license James M. Dodson II of Pine unauthorized a vehicle bul was reduced through plea Gregory S. Erickson ot possession of a Allen Guy of possession of a disorderly conduct and un- derage Ricky D. Dilly of Cily RD 1, disorderly Gary J. disorderly conduct nnd on page 10) Checks Arrive At Polk Polk Center and employes received their paychecks bul police did The is unable lo pay many of Us workers because of a lack of a 1D77-78 budget employes and slale policemen are bolh paid from Ihe motor license Police officials do know why Ihe slale troopers failed to receive checks bul the workers were AL Polk 64 layoffs go Inlo effect today The furloughs were discussed last at a meeting of the American Federation of County and Municipal Employes i James AFSCME business sahl the union has no plans strike at this time since Polk Center workers arc still receiving lie said the meeting was called lo discuss the slale budget crisis and Ihc layoffs al Polk The stale also plans lo eliminate 60 vacant positions at the institution for Ihc menially bringing Ihc on page 10) Commission Okays Sections Of Charter FRANKLIN The county's Government Commission moved ahead in its preparation of a home rule charier last by approving articles would govern the operation of five different county White adopting the final on a dealing with Ihc county the study panel also approved articles on Ihe country register and and the panel down a provision lhat would require all proposed counly ordinances be published in local newspapers prior to adoption by the counly com- Publication of proposed ordinances currently Panel member Margarel Hamilton urged study panelists lo write Ihc charier so would include Lhc provision for publication of But only bhe and Raymond Kean to adopt Lhc while panelists Lucille Marry Calvin Gilmore and Chairman Alvin against When Ihc motion Hamilton asked thai the issue be tabled a laler meeting when all nine panel 5 could vote Com- mission members Michael John and Edward Turner were from and Fowler said they felt Ihe mailer could be al a meeting in the Publication of all proposed ordinances could become loo and the public may nol read the ordinances according lo panelists who against the measure In completing their action on the office of Ihe counly com- panelists okayed an article governing the adoption of ordinances The article would require public bearings before the commissioners could ordinances dealing with compensation of elected of- lanJ use controls and II also would require public hearings before the commissioners could establish or abolish an or public Public announcement of such hearings would have la be made in newspapers al least 10 days before I he dale of Ihc according lo Ihc ar- The article also indicates thai counly commissioners could nol adopt an ordinance at the same meeting in which il was first The article dealing with Ihc on page 10) Even You Are Hypnotized By CHUCK MANNERS Derrick Writer Whether you realize It or these words arc hypnotizing you as you read People arc constantly in a hypnotic state induced by themselves or someone according lo a Clarion Slate College professor who spoke Andor a group of students and campus have all been whether you believe il or not The soft-spoken professor teaches and judo Ife is also researching ancient arl and Ihe use of in education and criminal rehabilitation fled his native Hungary following lhal revolution against Soviets in October 1956. He had taken part in Ihc revolution as a He came to America and al Stale where he an undergraduate and masters degree He is now working on a doctorate al Case Western told his audience yesterday thai are Lwo kinds of Is which we do every Then there is done by someone else on he you are being hypnotized every day by the your husband or wife lell you whal to do and you do He said even the disagree as to whal hypnosis is. it's getting it's with us every he stated anything lhal triggers an automatic response is He included television the printed and n hill Lhal comes in Ihc mail In his list of examples to achieve is a deeper state of hypnosis through greater he moving into the demonstration part of his got two from the scaled them In overstuffed and asked them lo relax as much as He asked them lo pick a spol on Ihn ceiling and con- centrate on while he slowly lo encouraging to relax with his voice He told his subjects by the end of ten counts would be very drowsy and would closo their eyes in a deep They did Visual distractions must he reduced to attain a deep ex- plaining that the senses arc heightened under hypnosis There are atso changes in body and pulse As a deep hypnotic si ale is the body metabolism slows down snid If a person could relax himself thai thoroughly for a few minutes he could up resistance lo a host of physiological and psychological especially this society has advanced on Page 10) Inside Today Contract talks are progressing well at the Clarion Manor Intermediate 2 The 22nd annual Kennerdell Music and Art Festival is scheduled 8 Opera and concert highlight activities at 9 Weather Warm and humid through Scattered today and Lows tonight in the mid to upper 60s or 19 Highs today and tomorrow in the 80s. Deaths Roger Marlz of Sigel RD 1 Mrs. Caroline Slater of Mrs. Lottie of Fla. Deaths on Page 20
