Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - October 23, 1968, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania c 7033 River Stage RESS Clinton County and Neighboring Communities THE EXPRESS covers news of Clinton County and adjacent and provides most advertising mi dium to reach that entire March 200 OCTOBER 1968 20 Pages Ten Cents Rested Astronauts Fly to Florida Briefing Sessions Their Report May Speed Trip to Moon ABOARD USS ESSEX AP Navy Walter Schir ra who flew in the Apollo 7 spacecraft for ll days and 4 million miles without a delayed in his return to Cape Kennedy today because the plane had a malfunction in The other two Apollo 7 astro were in a different plane and left for the mainland on The plane carrying Schirra and nine others had to turn back after 15 minutes Once on the Schirra got out and inspected the wing and wheel area We had a hydraulic leak in the wing he He then to another and took off almost immediate The airplane carrying the oth er two civilian Wal ter Cunningham and Air Force was due at the Cape at They were wellfed and rested about 24 hours aboard the Es A welcoming ceremony await ed them ait the And then they were to continue a long series of From their answers and data gathered by the the space agency hopes to deter mine whether the next manned space shot can safely take men in a circle around the The decision on whether the Apollo 8 flight will be another earth orbit or circumlunar is ex in For Navy Walter Schirra Air Force Donh Eisele and civilian Wai next few weeks will be a continuous round of medical debriefings and The Apollo 7 crew splashed down at EOT Tues day in the Atlantic southeast of Officials called the Apolla 7 flight a mis After the three men were brought aboard the William the ery team chief said a medical examination showed all three men essentially normal Eisele had some residual in but otherwise there was no evidence of the colds that plagued all three astronauts during the flight and caused so much worry for their The men came out of orbit with out their helmets to permit them to hold their blow and equalize the atmospheric pressure on their Like most other spacemen on the 16 previous American the Apollo 7 trio walked stiffly after the long confine But Carpentier said he See ASTRONAUTS Continued on Page 4 Europe Hails LONDON AP The Apollo 7 astronauts took Western Eu ropes headlines away from Jacqueline and Aristotle Onas sis today as newspapers cheered the new American space Arrested in Reagan and Unruh Critical Cleaver Spurred the Action AP Campus police arrested 120 per sons staged a at the University of ad building Tuesday in an effort to obtain academic credit for an experimental course on racism in Buses arriving from the Alameda County sheriffs office to transport those arrested to the Santa Rita detention center drew a crowd of about out side the Highway Patrol and sheriffs deputies moved those persons off the The crowd We are the we are the people as those stu taken from the campus police headquarters to Demonstrators in the crowd lit a bonfire and turned over a motorized cart owned by the A tear gas canister was thrown and a bank window was The on the campus started Shortly after the courses third this one by Eldridge the Black Panther leader whose participa tion in the classes drew objec tions from the Board of charged with at tempted murder during a shoot out between his militant Negro organization and Oakland po had told the class after the was proposed If you think this is worthwhile then do your Republican Ronald Rea gan and Democratic Assembly Speaker Jesse re out from Sacra mento against the Reagan said the public shouldnt have to put up with such demonstrations and said they were the inevitable result of and appease ment is the policy followed by the university administration for too long a West Frankfurter looked forward to colonies in space and The triumph Is now men will reach for the Success for Apollo Flight Clears Way to said tiie headline in Stockholms Dagens Europeans were delighted by the humor and irritability of the three American astronauts during their space It was nice to see the gran spacemen showing hu man said Londons Daily Mail Captain Walter Schirra got a bad refused to appear on TV made bad jokes and shouted down to earth We are not going to accept some crazy testing we never heard of be Let us hope that the first man on ithe moon wil still have the bawl out the It was as if they were in reacting against the domination of machine which governs the course of ev ery space said London Daiy Rites 27 and Open House at Annex Woodward School open house and cornerstone nies will be on Sunday after noon October 27 beginning at 2 The occasion will provide op for visiting the new addition that has made Woodward Elementary the most modern school in the Lock Haven Area The new which doubles the capacity of the older build was first occupied at the opening of the present school Cornerstone laying at 2 will be a ceremony presided over by Wayne Jointure superintendent of The Daniel United Methodist will have the Samuel president of the township school will make opening re Participants who will prepare the corner stone will include See CEREMONY Continued on Page 4 Nixon Texas Democrats Unite By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Richard Nixon accused Democratic opponent Hubert humphrey of loose talk and po sition switching on Vietnam to day and said Humphrey as president would create a great risk of miscalculation on the part of our was being hailed as a political mira cle worker for uniting Texas Democrats behind He heads for California late to day to try to repeat the And third party candidate George by an apple core thrown atong with eggs and tomatoes Tuesday said leaders of both major par ties have kowtowed to anar and ignored average cit Nixon said today the present Democratic administration has not been able to keep the has not kept up military strength or American prestige and now it cannot restore To dismal Nix on said in a statement in Sagi my opponent brings loosest tongue in the nation and the fastest switch of position ever seen in American Humphrey has shown a constitutional Nixon to treat Vietnam war and the Paris negotiations dis for that ever since this campaign Humphrey has won a strong show of unity in Texas and now faces California where a size able number of Democrats were won to Eugene Mc peace stand and are reported withholding support for Humphrey at the Texas John Connelly and his political Ralph stood side by side with Humphrey at stops in political differ ences seemingly put We have never in 24 years had as united a party in Texas as we have Yarborough said in Fort Wallace reacted good natured ly to in even when he was struck on the shoulder by an ap ple Thats itE wash he Thats just bunch of In the candi dates car was surrounded by howling students who managed to push it into another oar Wallace said both Nixon am Humphrey called student pro test demonstrations a grea movement when started several years he it has readier the point where leaders of the major parties ignore the aver age citizen and pay no attention to his viewpoint while he works to produce the wealth that pro vides the taxes for some o these folks to go to school your In other political develop ments running mate Curtis predicted some peace move either bj Washington or Hanoi will be made to influence the American voter before the See POLITICS Continued on Page 4 i Silent on Proposals o End Bombing Harriman at Paris Urges Vietnamese to Reply to Johnson PARIS AP Ambas iador Averell Harriman met forth Vietnamese envoys in the Jaris talks today amid specula ion Hanoi might reply to Amer can proposals to halt the bomb ng of North In his opening Har iman urged the North Viet to act now for The choice is he There was no immediate indi that the North Vietnamese envoys had reached a The chief delegate made ris call to Ambassador Yuan in the context of a general discussion atthe 27th session of he talks that began last But the terms he used seem to ack a special significance at he moment when President Johnson is awaiting re sponse to his secret package plan for a bombing Harriman told newsmen as he went into the meeting that he lad no indication that anything but the usual arguments is joing to come out of the although I am always Even if Thuy gave Harriman his governments acceptance or rejection of the American pro it was doubtful that the would be announced in It seemed more likely hat it would be rushed to Wash and that any announce would come from Presi dent SAIGON AP Marine scouts sighted more than 400 Vietnamese troops mov ing through jungled foothills southwest of Da Nang and called in artillery and air strikes that out nearly half of the enemy mili tary spokesman reported The Command said that the Marine scouts sighted four columns of Noth Vietnamese about 405 soldiers on he move during the 24 hours before noon Four artillery missions and air strikes killed 178 of the enemy a spokesman The enemy wearing various uniforms and carrying various types of weapons includ ing rockets and were spotted in one of the open val eys about 35 miles southwest of Da Nang and only five miles be low the embattled Thuong Due Special Forces During the same ene my gunners slammed 18 mortar rounds into the Thuong Due dis headquarters and a hamlet a mile A government spokesman said at least four ci were killed and 13 others The bombing campaign over North Vietnam also continued despite persistent reports a halt might be Ameri can s flew through monsoon weather to pound supply lines below the 19th New Steps Finished on Wafer Side of Courthouse Visitors to the Clinton County Courthouse can now use the new cement steps on the Water Work on the steps was com Tuesday by the Fred R Hoy of Mil Cost to the county was The commissioners the payment of from the liquid fuels tax funds to Bale Eagle County bills totaling were approved for Fire Damages PSU Fraternity House STATE AP Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house of Pennsylvania State Uni versity at 227 East Nittany Ave was damaged by fire early Appreciation 250 Hail Piper Aircraft Start of Road Back but there were no in University officials said the fire was discovered shortly be tore 5 in a storeroom b two fraternity All 27 residents of the hall were eva LOOKING TOWARD A BETTER at the Appreciation Dinner for Piper Aircraft at last evening Deputy Secretary of Commerce Edward Smith at the foresaw great growth of population and eco nomic activity in Pennsylvania and said Renovo has taken the first step toward full participation in Receiving the plaudits of the speakers and the 256 who attended the dinner were Piper sitting to the left of and Piper to the left of his Piper is at back to Back of Piper is John president of the Community Trade Association and beyond at Photo by Jack Dempsey 2 Men Escape Clinton Jail Aid of Plumber Tools Police of 13 states and Canada are looking for two prisoners who escaped from the Clinton County Jail last Postmaster Vacancy Stirs Speculation Presidential Race May Affect Decision on Permanent Post Speculation has begun in some political circles as to who the lext Lock Haven postmaster may Esther Clin ton County Democratic chair said today that there can ie no action until the Post Office Department notifies Senator Jo seph Clark of a Senator Clark then would noti fy She would call a meeting of the Clinton County Democratic executive commit tee which would be asked to recommend an acting post master to serve until examina tions could be conducted and a regular postmaster The committees r e commendation would go to Senator Clark who would presumably recommend the appointment to the depart Kephart said that usually it takes two or three weeks foi the department to notify a sena tor of a With the General Election only 13 days away and the change in federal administration less than three months no one is sure whether the next Presiden will be Democratic or Republi While the choice of the acting postmaster may be the of the the choice o a permanent postmaster would probably be up to the Republi can party if Richard Nixon is elected to the Earl Lentz Clinton County Republican chairman We have no responsibility and no speculation at this Postmaster Lester Poorman died October 4 having served as postmaster for four firs acting and then regular from Serving in his place is Harry assistant postmaster who had been work ng at the the two cut chains and hasps on three risen doors before escaping nto the prison exercise yard at lie rear of the Two strands of barbed wire top the wall were cut y the who then used a able taken from a jail polisher nd scrubber to scale the Lee Port of 1562 and rancis Clement f Trout Run were in ail awaiting appeals on their of larceny ind receiving stolen Johnson was arrested by city police for the burglaries of the Harder Sporting Goods 26 Main Samuel Walker hardware First and Bellefonte and the Automotive Supply 206 Bel last January Laubach had been convicted of the burglaries of the Renninger Coin Mill and the Avis Ameri can Legion Using tools stolen from a A search of the cell from which Johnson and Laubach es caped revealed two notes left b the The notes were addressed to Sheriff John F and Michael William Sheriff Boyle issued the follow ing statement A letter sed to me by the two prisoner reads as follows Dear I just wanted you to know this is not my way of saying thanks for a square because you have nothing to do with I think you should check and make sure that all tools carried hi by plumbers are taken back I did not want it to be like Ive waited a long time for a little justice but have not got a but a shotgun job from the This of course applies to the next word is not Sorry Jack for Best John See ESCAPE Continued on Pago 4 Arrested at LH in Marijuana Probe Three boys and a girl were arrested Tuesday by Lock Ha ven police on a charge of use of the first arrests in a week in the continuing invest of alleged use of mari juana and other dangerous drugs by young The total of arrests in Lock Haven and State College now stands at in the invest which began October Officers said ithe boys ages are 15 and and that the girl is 17 years They were certified over to Clinton County juvenile Their names were withheld by police in compliance with juven ile court Rumors of illegal use of marijuana and other danger ous drugs are being investigated in Jersey and a meeting was scheduled lor 10 a today between the ministerium and school officials to discuss the See story on page Kennedy Kids Back NEW YORK AP Caroline and John Kennedy re turned resume their schooling after attending the wedding in Greece of their Jacque line to Aristotle Onas RENOVO A throng of more than overflowing the YMCA gymnasium last ex pressed the gratitude of the Renovo community for the ac of the plastics factory of the Piper Aircraft The Piper firm recently purchased the Community Trade Associa tion factory building in South and now has an em ployment of nearly 100 manufacturing plastic and fi components for Piper The evening was spent in re strained rejoicing over the happy sequence of events which put Piper in the Renovo factory which had been occupied by a variety of manufacturing many of them for disappointingly brief Due praise was lavished on the man who put the spotlight on Renovo for his James employed at the Haven Piper Knowing that the Piper firm was looking for sites for to carry out plans for an ultimate employ ment of between and Hedgeland began an energetic campaign to get some of that expansion for Last in brief closing struck ic keynote of the when he said It took 20 years for Renovo o get Lets take it back n the next five He ex the hope that another ig dinner could be held five years from now to toast maxi mum growth of the Others who joined in hailing a tremendous evening were spokesmen for the the State Department of Com and the Piper corpora introduced by John president of the Com munity Trade The audience included the Clinton County officials of the Pennsylvania Power Light and the West Penn Power Renovo and South Renovo borough Piper employes and others from west ern Clinton Lock Ha and other communities of the area including Prominent in the audience were most of the original di rectors of the among whom the idea of a shell fac tory building and many of the men who put their money on the line to make the building with pledges of and to provide the initial Without as Moriar ty said as he called their names some who have died and others who could not get to the would have had no building to offer the Piper Piper who includ ed William Piper chair man of the board William Piper and Findley plant man declared that we are as See PIPER Continued on Page 4 ESCAPE FROM JAIL Lee Port of 1562 Pennsylvania and Francis Clement of Troot Run escaped from the Clinton County Jail last They were awaiting the results of appeals on their convictions of larceny and re stolen South Avis Youth Badly Burned in Power Pole Climb SOUTH AVIS A dollar dare almost cost the life of a South Avis boy who accepted the chal lenge by climbing a 40foot high Pennsylvania Power and Light pole and came in con tact with a 66000 volt His also accepting the dare escaped with minor Clarence son of and Chester Jersey Shore was listed in guarded condition today in Jersey Shore Hospital where he was taken by ambulance follow ing the accident at Tues day which dimmed the lights in homes over a wide According to his the Lannan the youngest of her five suffered second and third degree burns of his body from the waist Lannen is an Express news paper boy in the South Avis area and is the nephew of Clar ence Lannen Mill Hall who works in the stereotype department at The A tentative report from said Lannan was burned on the face and and received a severe burn of the left second degree burns of the left ankle and was bleeding from the It was believed Glen son of William Willits also of the Jersey Shore 1 area of South was climb ing the pole behind the Lannan boy on a dare by some other boys and he suffered burns ol the face when his falling friend set his coat A family spokesman said a hunter saw the Lannan boy fall and ran to the scene to offer See ACCIDENT Continued on Page 4
