Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - November 1, 1976, Titusville, Pennsylvania May Not Rain Partly cloudy today tonight and Tuesday High today near 40 to Low tonight to low 30s High Tuesday in 40s POP today 20 per cent FIFTEEN CENTS News and Advertising Pipeline Into the Oil Creek Valley TITUSVILLE PA MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 1 1976 2 Killed 9 Shot By Wild Gunman By RICHARD CHADY MECHANICVILLE NY AP A shiping clerk was charged with two counts of second degree murder Sunday after a police officer and a bar patron were killed and nine other persons wounded by gunfire sprayed from an apartment building here police report Police said Kenyon W Pruyn who police said was employed at a plant in nearby Latham SLY was taken into custody late Saturday he emerged from the burning apartment building Officers said he fired more than 300 rounds during the which lasted nearly two hours Pruyn allegedly fired out of the window of his third floor apart ment located near the police station on Main Street in this of about 6200 persons in central New York State The alleged gunman fired into the roadway and into a tavern across the street where most of the wounded were seated Police said nine weapons rifles and shotguns were found in the apartment wife and two daugh ters were not at home at the time About 50 police officers in state police helped to cordon off the area during the shooting spree Police returned fire sporadically unable to get a clear line of fire The alleged gunman left the building after a fire started Police believe it may have been caused by gunfire igniting a gas stove in apartment Police said that Pruyn a for mer marine had been having family problems Friday and had been drinking Officers also said he had been stopped for a speeding violation by local police earlier Saturday When Pruyn emerged from the building 21yearold parttime officer Paul Luther a bachelor lay dead at the entrance to the tavern Joyces Log Cabin James Marsh 50 who was wounded while in the bar died a short time later at an area hospital Luther a parttime officer since June had taken an exam earlier in the day in hopes of becoming a fulltime policeman Six of the nine wounded in police officer John L Connelly 35 were in satisfactory condition at area hospitals Sunday The other three were in fair condition Penna Looks Divided 70 Pet Turnout Seen Candidates Press For Votes By The Associated Press Pennsylvanians go to the polls after a long and tedious cam Tuesday to elect a new US senator and help decide whether Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter will occupy the White House Televised debates millions of printed words and mile after uncounted mile of campaigning have brought one conclusion NOBODY KNOWS WHOS GOING TO WIN Senate candidates John Heinz and William Green have spent almost million between them only a million of that in the Green camp to tell voters of their past records and future promises Yet the best estimates of where that contest rests at the moment place it squarely on the fence Its close very close said an aide to Heinz Strange but an aide to Green said the very same thing And in Pennsylvania with 27 electoral votes hanging in the balance its much the same story on the incumbent president and his Democratic challenger from Plains Ga State figures show that 57 million voters are registered for this election but even the most optimistic observers say that only 70 per cent will turn out The new postcard registration added more than a half million to the rolls with Democrats out pointing Republicans 21 The new lineup includes 31 million Democrats and 23 million for the GOP While claims abound that voter apathy will keep the turnout down to less than 50 per cent Pennsylvania historically has done better in presidential years In 1972 Richard Nixon col 27 million votes while George Me Govern received 17 million The state had million voters that year In 1968 and the years going back to 1936 the outpouring for presidential candidates seldom dipped below 4 million voters That many voting Tuesday would constitute a 70 per cent turnout CAMPAIGN DOG DAYS Democratic Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter pats Cooper a malamute belonging to Scott Barry 24 of Waukegan 111 during campaigning in Chicago Barry praised Carters positions on the en and ecology AP Wirephoto Young Straw Voters Favor Georgia Man Statewide Swine Flu Campaign Under Way HARRISBURG sylvania kicks off its statewide swine flu campaign with the opening of inoculation sites in 13 counties on Election Day state Health Secretary Dr Leonard Bachman announced Sunday The mass inoculation pro gram for persons 18 to 64 years old will be conducted in 65 counties for periods of two to five days each into ber Philadelphia and ny counties are conducting their own programs County programs beginning Tuesday include Beaver Bucks Carbon Dauphin Dela ware Lehigh Luzerne Lycom i n g Northampton Potter Schuylkill Washington and Westmoreland counties A health department spokes man said that extra supplies of bivalent com bination of and swine flu have be come available allowing the vaccinate more elderly persons Latest health department fig ures show that 461600 elderly and chronically ill persons have received the combination vac cine since the elderly campaign began 25 days ago Bachman said an outbreak of the flu has been re ported in Guam and at the Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines by federal public health officials who expect the influenza virus to reach the United States by winter 300 Flee Jamestown Rink Blaze JAMESTOWN NY AP About 300 children attending a Halloween party were led to safety when a fastmoving fire burned down a roller skating rink in nearby Celoron Sunday afternoon Six girls and three volunteer firemen were treated for minor injured at WCA Hospital here and released officials said The blaze started in a coat room said John Evans III son of the owner of Evans Skat eland Fire spread so quickly that the building seemed to explode one witness said There was little panic as he and his father led the children to safety Evans said Damage to the 75yearold building was unofficially esti mated at The state also is ready to be gin inoculations in schools for children aged 3 to 18 as soon as it receives federal guarantees on the proper dosage a health department spokesman said Since inoculations began in October the Philadelphia Health Department has immu 61273 persons Allegheny County Health Department has immunized 120518 persons A special swine flu hotline has been set up to answer ques tions and give site locations by calling toll free 8006927254 MIDDLETOWN Conn AP Jimmy Carter beat President Ford in a straw vote of more than 850000 Americans none of whom will cast ballots in Tuesdays election The voters school children between the ages of 5 and 15 are readers of My Weekly Reader and other student publications who clipped and sent in the ballots from Sept 22 to Oct 15 The kids gave Carter 518055 votes or 61 per cent compared with 332973 or 39 per cent for Ford according to the results announced Sunday by Xerox Education Publications The firm said more students cast ballots this year than in a similar poll four years ago The straw votes conducted tu elections have reflected the winner in every presidential election since 1956 except for 1968 when Robert Kennedy won the poll before his assassination Four years ago the young people accurately predicted that Richard Nixon would win every state but Massachusetts Some students this year ig nored Ford and Carter the only candidates listed and opted to write in their own choices such as Fonzie the star program Happy Days A few who the company noted may have a future in politics them selves voted for their teachers By WALTER R MEARS AP Special Correspondent With only hours to go before they rest their campaigns in the hands of a electorate President Ford and Jimmy Carter sought on Sun day to sway the big pivotal states that will make or break a President in Tuesdays elec tion Ford campaigned in the rain in upstate New York then in the Long Island suburbs asking voters for a mandate to contin ue the administration he began by appointment 27 months ago In person and on television Carter worked in Texas then in California Acknowledging that Gun Toters 4No Threat To Carter DALLAS AP Two persons who were arrested Sunday morning after carrying pistols into a hotel where Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter was to speak later were released Police said they were not considered a threat to Carter A 31yearold man volunteered that he was carrying a loaded 25 caliber pistol at a checkpoint outside the room where Carter addressed county Democrats A police spokesman said the woman was standing in the line with her husband and apparently decided to leave because she too was carrying a loaded 32 caliber weapon Officers detained her and found the pistol in her purse A Secret Service officer said the matter was turned over to Dallas police and that neither person was considered to be a threat Carter made the Dallas ad dress without incident and pro to Fort Worth 30 miles to the west to attend church and to appear at a rally in the Tarrant County Convention Center the election is now he declared that the nation needs change only he can bring Midsummers runaway leader in the public opinion polls Car ter is now rated barely ahead of Ford in two late surveys of voter opinion by margins so slender that both said elec tion could go either way Those numbers added to the tension and the urgency as Ford and Carter worked where the electoral votes are 41 in New York 26 in Texas 43 in California Ford was moving on Sunday night to Canton Ohio then on election eve to Akron and home to Michigan for appear ances near Detroit and in Grand Rapids Carter flew from Fort Worth to San Francisco and Sacra mento He is to campaign on Monday in Los Angeles then plans to meet his vice presiden tial running mate Sen Walter F Mondale at a rally in Flint Mich for a final bid to pry away Fords own state Then he goes home to Plains Ga to await the outcome It will take 270 electoral votes to elect a President on Tues day In the final two days of the campaign Carter and Ford were appearing in six states which among them have 194 electoral votes to offer Ford and Carter were not the only candidates laboring to ward Tuesdays decision The voters who a President also will elect anew Congress 14 governors and thousands of local officers Nor are Ford and Carter the only candidates for the White House there are mi nor party and independent en tries too Most important to the outcome is Eugene J McCarthy the former Demo cratic senator whose spot on the ballot in 29 states could pull away votes enough to tip the outcome from Carter to Ford in close contests Carter Doesnt Like Barring Of Black From His Church Keystone Election Bills Place Real At Glance House of Horrors Donations From Paris PARIS AP Pierre Salinger and other Democrats held an rally for Jim my Carter at the Eiffel Tower this weekend It was too late to get out the vote for the Democratic presi nominee so the 300 Americans ranging from blue students to visiting busi made it a fundraiser They paid seven dollars each to attend the booster party at a first level in the 1000foot high landmark Some Manufacturers Plan To Drill Their Own Gas Wells By DAVID TABOLT Press Writer considering drilling Updegraff is chief of DERs Oil and Gas Division in Pittsburgh He estimates more than a dozen drilling permits have been sought by industries seeking fuel sup plies during the past two years Most of them have been for plants in Westmoreland Indiana Manufacturers in heavily in communities surround ing Pittsburgh are haunted this fall by a specter of factories idled by natural gas shortages But reserves of gas and oil brought industry to this part of Crawford and Allegheny coun the Northeast many years ago ties The drilling has produced and with varying success some gas in every case but sometimes firms are now looking once more not enough to meet needs to the energy lying untapped beneath their plants Its become a matter of eco nomics said Charles Up of the state Department of Environmental Resources Wells cost money and theres risk involved but as the price of gas goes up more companies are But it has at the Elliott Co plant in Jeannette a West moreland County community founded by a glass maker who needed natural gas to heat his gas well Most people had forgotten about the fuel source hundreds of feet below Then came the natural gas crisis When the company was told it could expect curtailed supplies again last winter plant engineer Clyde McClelland pulled out maps of the grounds and spotted the well Drilling started in early Octo ber and for three weeks crews worked around the clock to put a shaft 3800 feet into a pocket of natural gas that should supply a third of Elliotts fuel needs for a decade This might save us some money but thats not why we did spokesman Andy it The companys plant was built said We did it so we can be sure nearly 30years ago over a capped our plant will keep going MIRAMAR Fla AP A dismembered body a haunted cemetery a guillotine over a screaming head rain thunder and lightning cobwebs and Frankenstein are surprises for the treater arriving at Schucks house Schuck who calls himself the Devils Advocate turned his parents quiet residential home into an intricate horror fantasy and he opened it to hundreds of children for free Welcome to my creative nightmare said Schuck who turned 19 on Halloween Eve The bearded Schuck his hair dusted with gray coloring wears a cape ruffled shirt and other clothes reminiscent of garb worn in horror movies He has converted the front yard into a weedy cemetery with real tombstones imported from West Virginia Hidden sprinklers provide rain strobe Churches Asked To Ring Election Day HARRISBURG AP Gov Milton Shapp figures the best way to get out the vote is to ring those chimes The governor has asked that all churches and buildings with bells ring their bells every hour on Election Day Tuesday Nov 2 to remind citizens to vote In a statement issued Sun day Shapp said Perhaps no more serious threat will contin face our nation than the apathy of our voters The heart of a democracy and indeed its strength lies in the participation of its citizens in government Shapp said Several other states are ask ing their churches to help re mind citizens to vote lights flash lightning and a tape recorder emits thunder A womans head whispers ghoulish epithets from within a crystal ball the result of a continuous tape projector under the table Mir rors and lights combine to sug gest ghosts and dismembered bodies A real human skeleton rests in a black coffin Fifteen lifelike statues of characters ranging from Frankenstein to Regan of the Exorcist are in the yard Schuck said he created the display as part of an requirement to an arts college He said the California In of the Arts founded by Walt Disney at Valencia Calif asked him for a portfolio of his work By The Associated Press Here are key facts of the Pennsylvania general election Tuesday VOTERS Total registered of 57 million including 3124502 Democrats and 2377232 Re publicans PRECINCTS 9645 polling places in the 67 counties THE BALLOT Statewide voters will help elect a presi dent and vice president Theyll also elect a new US senator state treasurer and state audi tor general On a district level voters will elect 25 congressmen 25 state senators and 203 state represen Half of the states 50 senatorial districts do not have senatorial races this year VOTING HOURS The polls will be open from 7 am to 8 pm WEATHER The US Weather Bureau forecast for Tuesday calls for generally fair dry and cool weather NEW AP PRESIDENT Keith Fuller 53 above has been appointed president and general manager of the Associated Press news co operative to replace Wes Gallagher who retired earlier this month AP Wirephoto Now Only Two Have Billion NEW YORK AP With the deaths of Howard Hughes and J Paul Getty the United States now has only two billion aires John D and Daniel K Ludwig the fi magazine Fortune re ports Fortune which comes out on Monday said both MacArthur and Ludwig were born in 1887 and both dropped out of school after the eighth grade MacArthur built up a finan cial empire in insurance begin ning with Bankers Life Casu alty in Bankers is now 44th on Fortunes list of the largest Life insurance com panies in the nation Ludwig made his fortune in shipping beginning with a tug boat fleet PLAINS Ga AP Services at the Plains Baptist Church which claims Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter as a member were canceled Sunday when a black minister who had applied for membership attempted to join the worshippers The only thing I know is that our church for many years has accepted any worshippers who came there and my own deep belief is that anyone who lives in Phoenix Missile Recovered LONDON AP A US Navy team conquered gale winds and heaving seas Sunday to retrieve a Phoenix missile that fell from an aircraft car rier six weeks ago and plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic off Scotland The rough weather prevented raising the Tomcat jet fighter that sank with the high ly classified missile off the air craft carrier John F Kennedy on Sept 14 the Navy reported It will be attempted when the sea calms Discovery of the jet 10 days ago and Sundays recovery of the Phoenix put an end to fears minimized by the Navy that Soviet ships might snatch the million plane and 000 missile The missile had a nonnuclear warhead but capture of a Phoe nix and would have pro vided valuable technical data to a potential adversary The important thing is we got it and nobody else has it a Navy spokesman said He re ported the missile was intact with only light damage but it was too early to tell if it could be made useable The Tom cat is one of the major weapons in defending ships against missies and planes A small nuclear submarine with a television camera and five crewmen located the 13 footlong 15inchdiameter mis sile Saturday morning after a search of the muddy bottom that one officer likened to try ing to find a needle in a hay stack the size of Londons 341 acre Hyde Park our community who wants to be a member of our church regard less of race ought to be ad mitted Carter told reporters after hearing of the cancellation while campaigning in Texas on Sunday I know that the pastor agrees with me I hope this will be the outcome of the problem in Plains I dont know what happened The Rev Bruce Edwards who said the black ministers attempt to join the church was politically inspired said the decision was made at a Tuesday night meeting of the churchs Board of Deacons which voted to affirm a 1965 resolution which bars blacks and civil rights agitators from the church Still Try To Save Palm Trees That resolution was passed over the protest of Carter and his family said the Rev Mr Edwards The Rev Mr Edwards met the Rev Clennon King minister of the nondenominational Divine Mission Church of Albany at the church steps and informed him of the cancellation as onlookers of th churchs membership and tourists stood outside the tree shaded white clapboard church The Rev Mr King had applied for membership in the church earlier in the week The Plains churchs member ship had not been Informed of the cancellation until they arrived for Sunday School King who has run unsuccess fully for state and local offices as well as president on the party ticket in 1960 asked if there would be services next Sunday and when told there would be scid he would return DAVIE Fla AP tural officials say they havent given up trying to save the few remaining coconut palms from the rapidly spreading lethal yellowing disease but they are testing a new tree as a replace ment for the stately symbols of Florida Ninety percent of the big coconut palms in the Miami area have been killed or are dying from the disease believed caused by bacteria carried by insects Were working on it strong er than ever said Dr Henry M Donselman ornamental hor and a member of a scientific team at the Univer sity of Agricultural Research Center But unless we come up with a miracle cure in the next year or two the rest of them are go ing to be wiped out he said So scientists are turning much of their attention to the a new and graceful palm tree that may replace the coconut palms Donselman said the is a cross between the female Malayan dwarf palm and the male Panama tail palm It was developed in Jamaica and they cant spare very many of them Donselman said But we got some seeds and we have about 150 of them growing here Two Held In Murder Of Four BUFFALO AP Two brothers indicted in a quad ruple murder case were in the Erie County Holding Center awaiting a Monday morning ar after being captured by Niagara Falls Police Edward McKnight 32 and Dennis McKnight 30 both of Buffalo were apprehended Sat night by detectives act ing on a tip police said Each was charged with four counts of murder One of the victims in the mass slaying Marie Vigorito 27 of suburban Amherst was a key witness in a drug case ac cording to Asst Dist Atty Jo seph Mordino Miss Vigorito was found hacked to death Aug 22 in an inner city apartment which also contained three other corpses The other victims were George Washington 24 and Hackett 35 both residents of the apartment and Ralph But ler 18 of Philadelphia Pa A plea of innocent to four counts of murder was entered on behalf of a third man in in the case Sylvester West 28 of no known address US House Not Likely To Show Great Change WASHINGTON AP The House that voters will elect next Tuesday by all indications will show about the same party division as its predecessor overwhelmingly Democratic But it will not be a carbon copy At least onethird of the representatives sworn in next January probably witi have not more than two years previous service The outgoing House was split exactly two to one 290 Democratic seats 145 Republican Election prospect estimates by Democratic and Republican analysts agree at least privately with those by outside estimators within a notably narrow range Almost without exception they point to a net shift of few more than a dozen seats at the most Republicans are favored to make a small gain if only because the election of 1974 swept in an ab normally large Democratic freshman class some from normally Republican districts Newly elected in 1974 and in subsequent special elections to fill vacancies were 79 Democrats and 19 Republicans There will be an absolute minimum of 53 new members in the incoming House That many seats are open because of death retirement and primary defeat Almost certainly there will be more new faces It is hardly possible that every incumbent seeking will succeed So depending on how the presidential election comes out Jimmy Carter will be seeking the cooperation of or President Ford will be confronting a heavily Democratic House with a proportion of junior members unmatched in recent years It could be a yeasty House The 1974 Democratic freshmen working with some restless older members made a major dent in the hallowed seniority system toppling three committee chairmen and forcing changes in the Houses ways of doing business with the role of the party caucus strengthened
