Valley Independent, The (Newspaper) - June 6, 1986, Monessen, Pennsylvania Two For One Select College Page 9 The VALLEY INDEPENDENT The Daily Newspaper For Everyone in the Valley Area Weather Outlook Tonight and humid with a chance of rajn Low tonight in the Ms High Saturday near 80 News At A Glance Test your skills Beginning readers of The Valley Independent will find an exciting pew Cash Word sponsored by Valley in which clues must be found to solve a puzzle A prize of will go to the winner every other week See Page 5 for details D-Day anniversary Today marks the 42nd sary of the day the Allies invaded Europe on the beaches of during World War II The invasion marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany Narrow victory WASHINGTON dent Reagan's Middle East peace and Israel's political influence all collided in the dramatic Senate vote to permit a million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia Emergency plan WASHINGTON In the sixth day of a nationwide walkout against the union urged parents place direct numbers to fire and ambulance services next to telephones and advise children to use them instead of dialing for tor m emergencies Transplant OK'd LOS ANGELES A hospital that initially refused to perform a heart transplant on the dying infant of a unwed has reversed its deci- sion The Loma Linda University announced Thursday it is ing for a donor organ Ready to die SEATTLE David convicted of murdering a prominent Seattle family he believed was part of a communist says he is ready to die for the 1985 mas Eve slaughter A jury that rejected his insanity plea announced guilty verdicts day to all four counts of degree murder Transit efficiency lauded By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY The Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority is the most cost efficient system of its kind in the to fnr 111 At IJUdi Id IU The figures are based on the authority's low deficit per hour figures According to Lewis executive director of the sit the deficit per hour measures the amount of money brought in through the fare boxes as compared to the operating cost cost less to run this authority than anv other authority in the said Poorman even surpassed Reading which tional is the best authority That makes us feel good This is the most in thp man I were a taxpayer in one of the towns in the that would be the most important figure That means that money is staying in the federal government requires authorities to recover 34 cents out of a dollar The Mon Valley Transit Authority recovery rate is the high The Port Authority of Allegheny County is about 15 points behind the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority deficit per is the most figure for us said 1 1 1 A kind of work we're doing Although the Transit Authority has a line of credit with Mellon the authority has only drawn including which was approved by the ty board during their regular thly meeting Thursday night authority will never draw more than said Poorman authority is run like a tight Poorman explained that the line of credit is necessary due to the the government erant is there is usually an eight months to a year waiting period for their grant money due to normal paperwork Poorman likened the system to local which take out tax anticipation loans for operating expenses until they begin receiving tax revenues new financial committee has taken an active interest in the TWO FOR ONE The Bausch and Lomb Science Award for was presented to two students at Frazier High School in Perryopolis bolic of outstanding achievements in the honor was presented by Joetta Britvich chemistry teacher at to Alyssa Hawranko and David Boniella Miss a is the daughter Bj of Anthony and Elizabeth Hawranko of and who was graduated from Frazier last is the son of Albert and Florence Boniella of Belle Vernon Shuttle probe report goes to White House Collision course South ca Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu put himself and his church on a collision course with the vowing to mark the 10th anniversary of the Soweto riots with church services June 16 The government has banned all commemorative gatherings until the end of the month To probe Ariane PARIS European space organizations named an international panel to investigate why an Anane rocket spun out of control May 30 losing its million cargo and leaving the Western world without an avenue to a spokesman said Thursday WASHINGTON The report of the Rogers Com- mission is being sent to the White House climaxing a month investigation that found the Challenger explosion was triggered by rocket failure and fated by NASA management flaws The based on facts gathered from 13 days of testimony and interviews with ISO hv a printer in suburban Virginia day and held under guard to prevent premature disclosure of its contents President Reagan plans to meet the commission members Monday afternoon and the document then will be released to the ting NASA on the road to recovery from the nation's worst disaster The panel headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers was sworn in Feb 6 and four days later it got its big break in the probe a surprise disclosure that Morton Thiokol engineers had ed against launching the shuttle Jan 23 because of unusually cold weather at Cape Canaveral A commission source said Allan Morton top engineer at Cape Canaveral when the shuttle was stood up at a private meeting of the commission Feb 10 and told Rogers of the launch dissent we were under- said the source who asked to remain anonymous was the turning was very clear then that the commission had to take some fairly bold he said The situation became even clearer later in the week The commission had planned to meet Feb 13 at the Kennedy Space Center for an orientation the source said But when the not to launch became tho meeting into an intensive data review session Key NASA and Thiokol officials who were involved in the launch decision were called to testify the next day in a large conference room on the fourth floor of the Kennedy Space Center headquarters building when the total story un- the source said The commission was told that when the Morton Thiokol engineers called for a delay because of con- cerns the cold might harm the ber seals in the rocket they were challenged by NASA of- from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Ala The commission also learned that four Thiokol vice presidents ed their engineers and gave NASA launch approval Top NASA officials were not even aware of the launch dissent was pretty sobering mation Needless to it was a shock to the the source said RAMP COLLISION Two persons were injured in a head-on collision late yesterday afternoon on the ramp leading to the Monessen Bridge police identified the drivers of the vehicles and Keith of in attributing the dent to wet said Maiette was traveling west on the ramp and V was rounding a curve when he lost control of his vehicle doe to the wet and slippery highway and the cle crossed over into the eastbound lane of striking the Urko machine head-on Police said Urko down the hill in his direction ami brought his own machine to a com- plete bait before the p.m red Both men were injured in the accident and were taken by Monessen Ambulance Service to Mon Valley Hospital for police said Hospital officials reported both were treated and released Monessen police assisted Classified Family From The Jack Valley Weather Former welfare mom becomes medical doctor PHILADELPHIA Alison who had two children by age 16 and was divorced by age was left the head of a household with no skills and only an eighth grade education But on a former welfare mother who now has five graduated from medical school a Pittsburgh was among 170 newly minted doctors graduated from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine Her John said he never could have forseen she would become a but her Audrey kept urging her to do better I'm faced with an I try to overcome said who planned to take a year's residency in psychiatry before deciding whether to enter a family practice or become a psychiatrist Living at home for Walker worked her way through a high school equivalency an associate degree at a Pittsburgh community college and a four-year degree from Cartow College in Pittsburgh Along the she had a third and the two commuted to college together every day Monica wait to the day care Mom studied Scraping money together from welfare and student and leaving Monica behind Mi the care of her parents moved to Philadelphia to study at Hahnemann Her background was described as by sions committee member Or Samuel who oM she was admitted of the kind of the kind of and the kind of motivation she snowed Wafter said she did it all because wanted my kids to traffic on the ramp was tied up for an undetermined period of time VOey rnt Unto when I ten them they can do it's by doing and showing not by said Poorman going to be more involved in the finances of the authority That's good to have in an authority with a small staff time for the Poorman said two state proposals could bring additional money to the authority Officials of the transit authority will be holding a series of meetings with representatives from the Governor's office during June to discuss changes in Act 101 under Transit Page Court tells Beharry to pay salary raises A Mercer County judge Thursday ordered Washington County Con- troller Patricia A Beharry to pay county management salary in- creases The opinion and order by President Judge Albert Acker ends a two-year dispute between Beharry and the Washington County Commissioners over whether the county salary board had authority to grant retroactive raises Acker was specially assigned by the State Supreme Court to hear legal matters involving the con- troller and the commissioners The amount of money in question is about integrity and credibility of the county commissioners has been by an out- the said in a joint statement Beharry could be reached this morning for comment The raises for management employees were approved in March 1984 after a new contract was ed with the county's union employees The management raises were made retroactive to Jan but Beharry refused to follow the action of the salary board The salary board had initially met on Dec to discuss wages and job positions for county employees for 1964 The board then met on Jan for its required reorganizational meeting The Jan 3 meeting was adjourned until a formal reorganization could be accomplished at an unspecified future date On March the salary board met again and voted to in- crease wages for all non- union effective Jan 1 Beharry had expressed her belief that the salary board had a duty to meet and raise salaries at its annual meeting on Jan and that it was im- proper to permit the Jan 3 meeting to he recessed to an unspecified later date ruled that the March 8 session was a continuation of the Jan 3 and that present at the Jan 3 meeting dictated that the meeting be recessed to a later date Acker's ruling proves that our actions were taken according to law and the county code and that the controller's actions were beyond her power and without the com- missioners statement said is another example of the controller's frivolous law suits not only hurting the entire for her individual but it con- the hurl the county the statement con- refusal to pay just a selected section of employees over two years ago has incurred a substantial court cost on the county taxpayer to prove that correct measures were Judge Acker ruled that the employees must be paid by July 3 Washington Twp targeting cable tv fee boost By BOB GARDNER Washington Twp Supervisors took a hard look at delinquent refuse col- lection accounts last night and were put on notice by Centre Video that the cost of basic cable television vice to municipal subscribers would increase beginning July 1 Clarence who provides refuse collection service to the township at an annual cost of to residential has served notice to the supervisors that he in- tends to stop service to some 90 residents who are in payment ar- rears some going back to 1985 The threatened action caused supervisors last night to issue a ning to the delinquent residents that if the collection service is and the refuse is allowed to pile the situation will become a police matter and the guilty parties will be subject to a fine and other penalities under an existing township code citing increased operational officials at Centre Video served notice to the super- visors that it intends to increase the cost of basic cable television service to township subscribers beginning July 1986 The monthly cost for residential subscribers would be raised from to and for commercial subscribers from to In ad- the charge for additional outlets for all subscribers would be raised to for each added outlet The supervisors were also notified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources that the correction of a mine drainage blem in the Gillespie area would begin in the fall of 1985 The in other proved a property tax refund of to Dixon of 1101 Fayette Ave who was wrongly which listed 29 responses to emergencies in the township in May and an average response time of 3 and minutes Approved the May report of Washington Township Police Chief Robert Matthews which listed his department's response to 95 re- quests for assistance during the month the May report of Jhe township's building inspector and code enforcement officer which listed the granting of seven con- struction or improvement permits on a total worth of the board secretary to advertise for bids on the purchase of 850 more or of ing course The bids will be open at the next regular monthly meeting on July 3 Agreed to assume the ty of paying the cost of water bills for township Boy Scouts by taking the funds out of the township's recreation account The averages about 14 a month Approved the attendance of township solicitor Joseph Rygiel at a seminar in the Pocono Mountains June sponsored by the sylvania Association of Township Supervisors The seminar will discuss tortious liability limitations of municipalities Teresa beaming over being ed MHS cheerleader The Video Kid and shining ner preparing for final ty over a period of six years The removal of the garage led to a reduction in the assessed valuation of the Dixon property by Fayette County The from U.S Rep Austin J Murphy that he ex- the House of Representatives to act favorably on House 1400 extending revenue sharing workers bidding another fond farewell best U Terrt f baseballer drawing for Us Amy for becoming MHS majorette and boaters hoping to get their at The Rock sometime within the next few weeks a report from the Washington City Community Ambulance Service feet Eastgate employee thankful to many for party and gifts far baby
