Find out how to install a wall niche Page 20 24 pages 2 sections Donald Rumsfeld has a bone to pick With Iran Page 50 cents MONDAY FEBRUARY Vol 98No 163 in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about the following area people Daisy Stuchell Tori Garzarelli Amy Girolami Adam Hess Logan McKee Dace Ludwig David Duffy Lori Keith Dale Campbell and Crystal Young Super security Nothing easy in the Big Easy on Sunday INSIDE Elsewhere President Bush today un veiled his trillion budget proposal for 2003 A new book tided History of the United States tells atale of an everchanging landmark A Washington state tax pro tester has admitted to support ers he took campaign contribu tions as salary for his efforts Page 7 Honor roll Harmony High School Page 4 Pet projects For the first time Congress has dipped into a pot of highway money destined for the states to pay for local projects dear Page 5 Up and running Pittsburgh native and lican Mike Fisher is run ning for governor while De are still deciding on a candidate PageS New look The childrens TV show Sesame Street is getting an look Page 18 Deaths Obituaries on page 4 PATTERSON Jacob 78 of Cherry Tree SILVIS Bertha V Cunningham 92 of Avonmore Forecast Cloudy with scat tered snow showers tonight and an overnight low of 10 Tuesday will be partly sunny with a high of 30 Page 2 Index Eye on Lottery Today in By EDDIE AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS America saw the future of bigtime sports Sunday at the most heavily secured Super Bowl ever It was an eyeopening spectacle as much about military might out side the as the football inside and yet another jarring re minder of how much has changed arrived at the Super dome up to five hours early to guar antee they wouldnt miss the start of the NFL championship game be tween the New England Patriots and St Louis Rams Lines stacked up out side the 8foothigh fences and con crete barriers surrounding the stadi um Fans stood in queue an hour or longer to make their way into the dome waiting to be patted down by INSIDE More on the game 13 The ads not so super 12 Local power outage 2 security guards then getting in an other line to pass through metal de On die whole they were pa tient and understanding But its sad the country has come to said Ronnie Barko a tick from West Palm Beach Fla Cell phones and electronic devices were allowed but strongly aged lest they slow down the securi ty process Foam fingers coolers and other items that used to be a regular part of football games were taken away at the gates Its a sign of the Patriots fan Tricia McCarthy said Whenever you have big crowds somewhere you have to worry about terrorism Its pretty sad to Sharpshooters walked the perime ter of the and uni formed were all over New Orleans A zone was in effect over the stadium Hardly anything was easy about the Big Easy on this Super Sunday Interstate 10 was closed to truck traf fic because the major highway runs past the the stadium built in the as a monu ment to big games like this one The Secret Service coordinated the security effort hoping to ensure New Orleans would be the safest place in America on Sunday We will always be alert to the pos of a terrorist event at a high profile event like the Super Bowl like the Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said on Meet the Press Continued on page 12 Teddy Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth James Michener American author This newspaper is printed on rY A recyclable paper Please recycle X Newspaper contents copyright 2002 Indiana Printing and Publishing Indiana Pa Brown Hotel Stuffed Hot Pepper All You Can Eat Pasta READY FOR RESCUE All fans including Sharon Oman of Omaha were patted down by security guards before Super Bowl AP photo Snow surprises morning drivers By MARY ANN SLATER Gazette Staff Writer Drivers and road caught by surprise today when a heavy snowfall began shortly before 7 is coming down fast and said lames B Struzzi coordinator of community relations for the state Department of Transportations Dis 100 office in White Township Struzzi said trucks were out caring for some roads as early as 4 when a light dusting of snow fell The to stop but then came heavily just be fore 7 As soon as we get it off the road its covered Struzzi said short ly after 8 The dispatcher answering the tele phone at the Pennsylvania State Po lice station in White Township had one word to describe road condi tions early this morning You pick an area weve got crash Patrick McKelvey said He did not have time to give details The Indiana County 911 center list ed one accident shortly before on Pearce Hollow Road off Road in Rayne Township Struzzi said his road crews report ed some backups on Route 56 near Brush Valley Because of snow and ice on Route 119 heading from Marion Center to Indiana was also backed up for about miles norm of Grove Chapel Hill Marcia Conner a secretary at the Marion Center Area School District said traffic was heavy on Route 119 from Home north to the school dis offices She said she hadnt seen any accidents on the road I just think people were taking Buses for the district were running on schedule Conner said All the highschool runs were in on time One bus on an run in Rochester Mills had to wait for an ash truck Conner said but she expected it to be at school on time Mike Travis transportation nator for Indiana Area School Dis said district buses had few problems in Indiana Borough and White Township but did encounter some trouble around The snow came in so Travis said It hit us With a lot of co operation and logistics we managed to get everyone picked Snowy highways such as Route 286 over Sam ple Run Hill near Clymer pictured here slowed some commuters this morning Gazette photo by Tom Peel Members of Mine Rescue Team Two trained recently at the Mine Safety and Health Acad emy in Beckley The protective gear makes if difficult to identify them individually buf the mem bers of the team are Mike Warfield Mike Sevacko Ody Dickie and Stager Story on page 4 Mine company photo Mascara may oppose Murtha Police Help delayed for mauling victim By RANDY WELLS Gazette Staff Writer The primary election this year may feature a battle between two neigh boring southwestern Pennsylvania congressmen Rep Frank Mascara ton may challenge Rep John Murtha for the 12th District seat Mascara contends that his Democratic colleague could and should have done more in Januarys redistricting process to preserve their districts We are still currently looking at data still analyzing before decid ing whether to run for the 12th Dis seat Mascara said this morning Mascara testified Friday before Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg in a lawsuit challenging the states re districting plan and said today its difficult for an incumbent or candi date to announce definite campaign MASCARA plans without knowing where the district boundaries will be The signed redistrict ing plan elimi Mascaras former 20th Dis and placed him in the newly created 18th District made up of pans of Washington Allegheny and Westmoreland counties The 18th is targeted for takeover by Republicans reconfigured 12th District includes more than 40 percent of the old 20th District Jack Murtha encouraged his Re publican friends to surgically re move me from the 12th Mascara said today The even divided Mascaras hometown of Charleroi between the 18th districts Under slate law members of Congress do not have to live in the district they represent They must only he residents of Pennsylvania So Mascara could run in either the 12th or 18th district Mascara also contends that some of the new districts including his 18th under reapportionment were not designed for a Democrat to win and Murtha could have used his in fluence better to get a redistricting plan that would have given Mascara a better chance of winning tion Mascara said he would prefer the courts to redraw the district bound aries and he will wait for the courts decision on the legal challenge be fore deciding which district to run in Murtha was elected to Congress in 1974 and Mascara in 1994 Neither Murtha nor his spokesman Brad Clemenson was available for comment this morning BRUSHVALLEY TOWNSHIP A Great Dane mauled a Homer City area woman Saturday evening when a man took her to a remote Icy Township campsite west Creek State Park state police report ed Lois Griffith 50 of Road was in fair condition this morning at Allegheny General I in Pitts burgh a hospital official said Grif fith was bitten on the head face arms and legs and suffered a col lapsed lung according to police Troopers in Indiana arrested the man who led Griffith to the camp James Stonebraker of Homer City and charged him with recklessly en dangering another person and crim inal trespass Stonebraker 50 re mained in the Indiana County Jail this morning with bond set at According to Trooper Kurtis Rum mel directed Griffith to drive to ihc camp and the dog at tacked Griffith when she and Stone braker arrived at Instead of calling for medical help Stonebraker whom police said was intoxicated waited for a time and called Forrest Harris of Blairsville who owns the camp and the dog Troopers learned of the mauling after Harris contacted the police By the time troopers discovered the wounded woman at the camp site and called for an ambulance an hour had elapsed since the dog at tacked her according to Rummel Paramedics treated Griffith and called for a medical helicopter to fly Griffith to the Pittsburgh trauma center Troopers turned the dog over to a veterinarian for 10 days of observa tion According to Rummels report Stonebraker knew of the camp be cause he sometimes worked for Har ris Stonebraker occasionally was permitted to go there Rummel re ported but Harris told police Satur day that Stonebraker was not sup posed to be there When contacted morning Harris said he would not comment on the incident while police contin ue their investigation Channcey Ross