Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - March 24, 1971, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING A He to be effective must be logical 99th Year No 168 and The Lebanon Daily Times THE WEATHER Central Pa Clearing cold tonight Sunny and a little warmer Thursday Low In the teens High Thursday in the 30s LEBANON WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 24 1971 Entered 01 second clou matter et thi of Lebanon undr the Act ef March 3 1879 68 CENTS Vote Today Nixon Launches Final Effort For Support On SST WASHINGTON AP Wavering and mitted senators were the target of a White House blitz today as the Senate prepared to decide the fate of the supersonic transport plane White House press secretary Ronald L Ziegler said President Nixon would be telephoning certain senators in advance of todays crucial vote considered a tossup in the final hours Nine senators were considered uncommitted School Unit Board Approves Proposed Budget A proposed budget of for the Intermediate Unit was approved Tuesday night by the Inter mediate Unit Board The unit will take over the functions of both county school offices July 1 Currently is what is to be allocated from the state This money will be used for the general operating functions which also includes Dr Harry K Gerlachs salary of Dr Gerlach is the executive director of the unit Revenue from federal sources is set at However Dr Gerlach said there is no assurance the money will be forthcoming The money with which the unit will be operating during the first year will be coming from the state Dr Gerlach Indicated Included in the budget It from incoming transfers for the operation of the film library located at Miners villa State College That money Will come from those school districts in a area which participate in the film library service The unit wil administer the library to serve five counties which include Lancaster and Lebanon Under administration set aside while is pegged for various programs Dr Gerlach explained that some of the following planned pro grams and positions will not come into existence unless the need arises He also noted that once the need arises and the position is filled the position could be vacated when the no longer exists Positions And Costs Some of the positions ant programs along with the cost are assistant executive tor salary federal pro gram specialist salary Continued on Page 8 President spent 15 min utes at the White House Tues day afternoon talking to Con servative Republican Sen James Buckley of New York Buckley later declared his of the proposal before the Senate to ap prove million for continued development of two SST pro through June 30 Buckley however said he lad sought and received a pres pledge that no com would be built un til environmental arguments against it were met The Presidents personal role n the battle became known as the Senate began final debate n a barrage of charge and countercharge summing up the arguments of two years Ecology Threat Opponents forecast dire con sequences to the ecology ham mering hard at warnings of some scientists that com fleets of migh cause a sharp increase in skin cancer by disrupting the atmos phere Backers of the plane dismissed such arguments as unproven and said the craft is needed to bol ster national prestige the aero space industry and employ ment They have pointed to a joint Viet Forces eave Laos As Offensive Ends Enemy Tanks Heavy Fire Pursue Troops Back To Border NEWS Facsimile BOGUS STAMPS Taking a licking from county detectives and District Attorney Robert W Dug gan shown here were the counterfeiters in Pitts burgh who printed up these bogus postage stamps and trading stamps valued at The stamps and information concerning the county discovery were turned over to federal authorities bipartisan Lobby SST and a So viet supersonic plane both much further advanced than the effort as a reason why the American product should be developed The Soviet prototype already has been test flown and the plane is reported ready for production sometime this year It is expected Moscow would be willing to negotiate some of the traditional Soviet barriers in dealing with the West in turn for orders of the Sen Allen chairman of the Appropriations Committee predicted a two vote victory for the SST Although the House voted 215 to 204 to halt federal funding the SST last week committee subsequently put back in a trans portation measure for todays vote Senate staffers charged with Continued on Page 6 the vehicle LENTEN THE OUTCAST WHO CAME BACK By HARRY W INNES Murrysville Pa I always think twice before crossing a street first of the traffic and then back to the time when crossing a street in my home town of Verona vania took me into a strange and awful world I was 25 married father of two small children happy with my neighbors and my work I worked as a machinist at the railroad shops in Verona In those days the shop labor was unorganized and often subject to th e whims of a few For some reason there came what we would now call a wildcat walkout When everyone in my shop walked out I fol lowed For six weeks there meetings among W the were men Finally a time was set for going back to work But everyone was afraid to be first to enter the plant The situation degenerated into an impasse During those six weeks my finances fell Hunger for my family loomed In desperation I wrote to James OConnell president of the machinists un ion asking his advice His ans wer was in part My advice to you and til the workers is to return to work This is an illegal I read that letter at one of the meetings and was booed out ol the hall Night and day I worried aboil what to do follow the union presidents advice or follow the crowd My common sense said Go back to My con science urged Go back to Yet I couldnt face stepping out from the crowd Tha strug gle within began tearing me In two There was no one to turn to now Or was there I turned tc Continued on Page 5 Col 1 Launch New Effort To s Home Security TV Cuts Wedding Plans WASHINGTON AP A new bipartisan effort o get all troops out of Southeast Asia by the enc f the year is in the works here and will be announcer his week it has been learned The lobby will feature inde but similar drives in he House and Senate with spe ial emphasis on attracting who have supported and ration war policies Helping coordinate the effort s Common Cause a Washing citizens lobby headed y John Gardner former secre ary of health education and welfare The campaign called Coali ion to Help End the iWar is one of several recent efforts on Hill aimed at getting he United States out of Viet nam The drive actually started ast week with a letter to sena ors from Sen Charles McC Wathias and Sen Dan el K Inouye They asked support for a statement the termination of all American military action in or ver Indochina and the with of all American mill ary forces from Indochina this DETROIT UPI One o Detroits more luxurious Eas Side apartment dwellings re cently installed a camera in its lobby as a se curity measure with a to each tenants TV set But it seems one youn woman resident viewed he fiance entering the buildin with another woman tw champagne glasses and and immediate broke their engagement The drive SAIGON AP South Vietnamese gainst the Ho Chi Minn rail in southern Laos end id today with North Viet tanks pursuing the Saigon troops right to their Border aircraft knock id out six tanks spokesmen laid More units which had the 45day operation were pulled out of the border jase of Khe Sanh which is being closed out during the next three weeks Lt Col Do Viet a spokesman or the South Vietnamese Com mand in Saigon said the last ire base in Laos had been abandoned and the remaining troops had marchec through the hills to the border Allied spokesmen said gunships and fighter bombers knocked out the six pursuing enemy tanks along a stretch of Highway west of the Lao Bao border out jost The Command said hree of the tanks were 15 ton ners Goals Accomplished The South Vietnamese Com mands chief spokesman Lt Jol Tran Van An said the South Vietnamese forces had accomplished 80 to 90 per cen of their objectives Field reports however sal the operation had fallen fa short of expectations and that 1 ivas closed out sooner tha Continued on Page 2 Col 4 Alioto State Officials Indicted By Grand Jury SEATTLE Wash UPI Mayor Joseph L Alioto of San Francisco and three former Washington State officials were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand ury on charges of bribery mail fraud and conspiracy n an alleged arrangement Alioto who was flying back to San Francisco from a meeting at the White House when the indictment was said it was a 14carat that he would To Place Drums For Refuse Disposal plead innocent and expected to be Attorney Stan Pitkin said the defendants will be arraigned on the indictment either Thurs day or Friday The grand jury also indicted ohn J OConnell former attorney general eorge K Faler ormer assistant and John G former prosecutor n Pierce County Wash The charges grew out of sharing with OConnell and Faler more than of million in legal fees he in an antitrust suit Salvation Army Fund Campaign Exceeds Its Goal Trout fishermen are going I be reminded not to be when they see large drum painted green and white throughout fishing areas it wa announced Tuesday night durin a meeting of the Izaak Walto League at Esthers Diner Fredericksburg The 55gallon drums will b initialed and will be use for refuse The project is the supervision of Russell Dernier and George Weidle Plans were made to clean up and paint the outdoor tract along the Swatara Creek near Members under the supervision of Jim Pence and Charlie Peters will be repairing jack dams the League con on Trout Run near Green Point The dams were built to improve the fishing Two new members were approved They are Jay of Campbelltown and Arthur Weinhold Lebanon David Sheffy president presided John F Kirby chairman of the Salvation Army annual campaign reported today that once again the drive has gone over the top throughout Lebanon County Kirby reports the total to date is and the quota was set at Kirby pointed out that the campaign report for the city is Incomplete as well as the report from Myerstown Following Is the county breakdown with quotas and amounts raised raised raised quota raised Lebanon quota raised Myerstown quota raised i c h 1 a n d quota raised Palm quota raised quota raised Kirby stated On behalf o the Salvation Army and those brought for cities and districts The incident occurred Alioto was elected mayor in 1967 He is a Democrat The government said the were not connected with charges by Look Magazine hat Alioto had connections with organized crime Alioto has a million libel suit pending against Look Both Alioto 55 and OConnell 52 have insisted the arrange ment was perfectly legal Both voluntarily appeared before the said they the federal assisted by its services I to thank the citizens of Lebanon County for the confidence an financial assistance given to the Salvation He also expressed appreciation to the many campaign workers Kirby added that those who have not yet contributed to the campaign may do so by sending donations to Box 253 Juries Deliberate Verdicts In Two Suits Explains His Job No legislation or formal reso are involved so far Sources close to the effort said he goal is to get a simple nu merical Senate majority to sign he statement and 218 representatives to sign similar statement in the House It was understood the House etter is running into trouble Continued on Page Z Col 4 Blake Refutes Charges In Public Forum Letter Stanley J Blake administrator of the Lebanon bounty Mental Retardation program to day said a Daily News Public Forum letter was rate and its author uninformed The letter signed Concerned Citizen appeared in Monday nights edition of this newspaper Interruption Earns Foreman Punch On Nose LEICESTER England UPI worker Paul Louis 33 objected to being interrupt ed by his foreman so he punched him In the nose a court heard Tuesday At the time Louis was kissing a girlfriend He pleaded guilty to assault charges and was fined Group of Cocktail TILLIE SPANGLER Third and Cumberland Streets Wed o 5 Thursday and Friday to I The letter in part said the police are almost exclusively handling the job of committing mental patients to the Werners ville State Hospital This portion of the letter also said many of these patients are suicidal Another portion of the letter said that when a call is made to the administrator the caller is referred to the Family and Childrens Service which serves as the base service unit for the program The base service unit then refers the caller back to the administrator the letter added Blake branded as totally in accurate and untrue the allega tion that police are involved in committing mental patients to the hospital He explained that this would be First Blake pointer out his job Is that administrator and the law further designates procedures to he followed In the operation of the program If you are referred to the base service unit Ihls Is the he added Blake further explained that his office handles administrative details with one exception This is in the case of patients needing emergency emergency commitment A n he 15 Washington public utilities the grand jury and cooperated with panel in every respect Blasts Charges Alioto informed of Indictment his landed in San Francisco told newsmen and 100 cheering supporters that the grand jury Investigation was a Star Chamber The only thing missing was Madame LaFarge and her said the mayor If I can be indicted for sharing fees in a legal case then every Continued on Page 7 No Comment Brings Response WINGATES UPI The England Rev Norman Two county civil court were this afternoon deliberating verdicts in fatal crash lawsuits Testimony in both trials was completed Tuesday afternoon A jury in the court of Judge L 3 Meyer heard testimony the claim of the es of John J Reynolds 49 and his son Mark age 10 They were alally Injured when a car by Reynolds crashed into bridge abutment on Route 22 near the Ameri can j This lawsuit Is affair Wholesale Palmyra and Lawrence K Zulick Jonestown are de fendants In the action brought on behalf of the elder Rey They are also de fendants In the second action involving the claim of the Reynolds hoy In this action his father was named an additional defendant by the firm and The crash in which the two fatalities resulted occurred about on Nov 27 1968 According Kelly said he tried everything to wake up his parishioner but nothing worked The monthly news sheet h produced on subjects brought no response But the latest one has I says Dear nnc is s i m p 1 y s i g n e d your sincerely with nothing in between No one seems to b affected or mention what the clergyman explained So I thought I would write nothing for a Mayor Joseph L Protests Greet lap Detailing Railroad Service WASHINGTON AP A torm of protests and the threat f a congressional inquiry have greeted the map detailing the new and limited rail passenger service I think the railroads had too much to say about the snid Rep 0 chairman of the louse Commence Committee Staggers said his committee would look into the situation ut lie didnt set a date Criticism began rolling in al nost Immediately after the Na i o n a I Railroad Passenger Corp its Inal route selections Monday The network starting May 1 will provide 1H4 passenger drains to connect 114 cities with or more population The plan to halve the rail passenger service was la shortsighted and ruinous by top officials of the AFLCIO Transport Workers Union who called Tuesday for nation of the railroads The proposed network is a cynical betrayal of pledges of Improving rail service for the riding public and represents a serious curtailment of railroad Continued on Page 1 In Amusements Area 21 8 Comics 24 25 fl 2 2 Palmyra 6 7 Sports 10 11 Womens 19 20 Education Survey in the testimony said is one in which an imme psychiatric evaluation is necessary because the patient is a danger to himself or In the event of an emergency Blake or h i s assistant Michael Magazine or one of throe designated dele gates process the paperwork involved in the procedure The three persons delegated t o handle emergency receive for Continued on Page 1 presented a truck owned by he Manbeck firm and operated by Zulick was halted in Ihc left lane of the portion of Route 22 preparatory to making a left turn to cross the westbound lanes to enter on the American Legion properly along the north side of the highway Zulick said he had his turn signals operating Richard Day Archibald Ohio who wa driving a truck loaded with turkeys said Continued on 2 Col 5 Flexibility Is Key Word In Area Public Schools By KENT A FOX Reporter This fs the second of n series of ar ticles on a study of the educational offerings facilities staffing organization and characteristics of the six Lebanon County public school districts The sillily was recently sub milled by Ihe subcommittee of the Lebanon County Com munity Councils education In what respect is the elementary curriculum in the six public school districts in Lebanon County most commendable According to a survey taken of district superin other school administrators and teachers the key word is flexibility The survey revealed that the elementary curriculum aims to serve individual needs of the child On the other side of the coin the report revealed that the need for improvement in the curriculum is fourfold coordination of programs bo tween elementary and second ary schools basic program guide for all curricular areas better physical facilities and more resource materials avail able In that supporting flexibility the contention is indeed an integral part of Ihc elementary curriculum the indicated that provisions are made for special students There are special classes and trainable for the mentally retarded There is the use of services of guidance counselors caseworkers psychologists and psychiatrists for the emotionally disturbed Tin physically handicapped arc provided for by county operated special classes and there Is Individualized Instruction and special group Ing In classrooms for the academically retarded Pupils Continued on Page 22 Col 1 I
