Tyrone Daily Herald (Newspaper) - January 9, 1979, Tyrone, Pennsylvania Hill Camp lou Number 123 of Our J 12th Year Tuesday January 91979 Council In Brief Weighty Per Copy ion Appointments Police Affairs Get Attention BY JOHN HENNESSEY TYRONE Police mailers and appointments to borough boards and authorities occupied a brief session Borough Council last evening Council also authorized Tyrone Mayor John Molnar lo ex ecule any necessary documents to file for participation in the Small Cities Program Community Development Block Grant under federal of Housing and Urban Develop ment v Two public hearings to gain on how such a granl may besl be used for the borough will be held Thursday one at 2pm and the other at 7 p m in the borough building APPLIED LAST YEAR The borough last year applied for funds under the program but its application was rejected since other communities in the slate were chosen lo receive the available funds i Lasl years by the borough was generally aimed al funds for the a senior citizens center and improved curbing and paving in the area APPOINTMENTS The following appointments last evening bv Council Sheldon Sellers 1403 Blair ave lo borough Zoning Hearing Board Robert Cassidy 510 W 15th st appointed to the Tyrone Borough Sewer Authority replacing George Eschbach who resigned Dr Richard Stevef 1213 Logan ave appointed to the borough Board of Health R Michael McClam 112 W st appointed lo the borough Zoning and Planning Commission Di Norman Miller 414 W Fifth st reappointed to the Nor thern Blair County Regional Sewer Authority One vacancy remains on the borough Zoning and Planning Commission Council tabled the its meeting so a person may be found to fill the position POLICE COMMUNICATIONS In matters Council learned that the state Com mission on Crime and Delinquency ib approving on a tem basis the transfer of communications equipment from Bellwood Borough The equipment was used by the Police Depart ment in conjunction with the Tyrone Communications net work Bellwood late last year decided to drop the service of Tyrone make use of Blair Base with the In a letter addressed to Mayor Molnar slate Commis sion of Crime indicated that provision for any municipality to withdraw police commission net work before 1981 according to Agree ment v Bellwood Borough Council chose lo use the services of Blair Base since it is less expensive than subscribing the Tyrone Communications network TRANSFER EQUIPMENT Borough bought new equipment for use in connec tion with Blair Base The equipment used in with the Tyrone network will be moved from Bellwood to Tyrone where there is a need for the mobile and portable radio units it was reported The transfer of the equipment will become permanent Feb 1 if the Bellwood Police Department is not dispatched by Tyrone Borough by that date according to the slate Crime Commis sion NEW TYPE OF CRUISER Police Committee lo for bids for an intermediate police cruiser The cruiser would be specially built for police work and would be models presently used cited with a heavier cruiser was that the vehicle would possibly last at least six months longer than the lighter models in use POLICE SERGEANTS Council authorized the Tyrone Police Civil Service Commis sion io proceed with advertising for tests and interviews for the position of sergeant on the borough police force Chief of Police Kurt Braun has indicated he has aneed for two men as police sergeants budget however pro vides for one sergeant The new sergeant would replace Sgt William C Campbell who plans to resign later this year coun said DEPARTMENT STUDY Council authorized the Police Committee to send a letter to the state of asking that an evaluation of the borough police be conducted The study of the department would be funded by state tax dollars with no cost incurred on the borough ADAMS AVENUE PARKING Council approved the placing of No Parking signs on west side of Adams ave between st and the north en Irance lo Logan Ridge Village The signage will be placed in an effort to eliminate dangerous situation before something occurs Several complaints had been received by councilors concern ing the parking situation POLICE SPENDING Third Ward Councilor James Beckwith questioned certain made by Police Department He said some of the expenses amounted to and noted lhal anything above that price had to have Councils approval He said the expenditures were nol approved by Council Too many expenditures are being made without commitee approval Beckwith said Vice President Lynn Cupp that a meeting will have to be set up to revise guidelines for spending by borough departments He agreed that there were some over Chief Braun argued that there were no expenses over the previously specified limit saying that if there were some they were probably totals of several bills from single companies Braun said any expenditures made went through the borough secretary DESKS IN HALLWAY Beckwith also mentioned that a situation in the hallway of the Borough Police station was against borough and slate Department of Labor and Industry fire codes The councilor reported that desks for department per had been moved hallway of the station He said the desks being theie present a hazard and are in violation of two laws i Braun argued lhat he needs space to run police depart ment and has people who need desk space to work The chief asked that one of two cells be to provide more space PROVIDE MORE SPACE President Robert Ward suggested lhal water meter storage room inthe basement of the building where the police officers are located be moved to provide more space for the and eliminate desks in Second Ward Councilor Hurman Jones agreed with Millers With New Leaders Cambodia Says i j i Its In Control UPI new govern ment claimed today to have full the nation but their offensive to reach the western edge of the country Pol Pot government to exist said a communique signed by Heng a former Khmer who is now Penh based president The Peoples Revolutionary Council presently controls all of Cambodia His statement was broad cast by the rebel news agency SPK repeated by Hanoi media and distributed at the United Nations by Vietnamese diplomats Heng Samrin a former battalion commander heads an set up to rule Cambodia until a new constitution is written Radio Hanoi announced Monday UPI correspondent Paul Wedel meanwhile reported from the border there was no sign of either Vietnamese troops or their liberation armed forces by midafternoon to day Rebel radio continued to broadcast news that Penh had fallen to the Vietnamese blitzkrieg But the radio made no mention of the whereabouts of ousted Premier and Com munist Party leader Pol Pot his deputies leng Sary and Son Sen and President Khieu Samphan who are missing The Soviet Union today hail ed the overthrow of the Pek regime in Cam Busy Session Bellwood Council Hears About Site For Landfill FIRE The of Edwin Woodring 1504 Logan aye sustained heavy damage from fire yesterday afternoon Heavy secondfloor wall be seen fin this are temporarily staying with neighbors after being left homeless by the fire Loss At Couple Left Homeless In First Blaze Of 79 Alexandria Fire Leaves Two Killed ALEXANDRIA A 64 yearold her 23 yearold son died in a fire in mansion home Killmar nock Hall in this borough Monday morning The home of Dr John C Horn and family was destroyed Victims svere Mrs Solveig E Wald Horn and her youngest Dr Horn managed to escape the inferno Lavish Home Damage was put al near by Alexandria Fire Chief Arthur Patterson Jr The mansion was considered yesterday afternoon left homeless a former Tyrone Borough councilman and his wife as local firemen bat tied the blaze for an hour and 45 minutes in freezing temperatures There were no injuries The home of Mr and Mrs Edwin H Woodring 1504 Logan ave was heavily damaged in the blaze which was caused by an electric shortcut according to Borough Fire Chief James Beckwith The boroughs three fire companies responded to the IOl Dm alarm within minutes to find the blaze spread through each floor of the structure NOT AT HOME The house was unoccupied at the time of the blaze Woodring and his wife reportedly were at the AAR P meeting being held in the First Presbyterian Church Logan ave and 13th st only two block away from their home blaze was caused by an electrical cord which shorted out along the baseboard of a rear inside wall of the dwelling The baseboard caught fire sending flames through the partitions of the home Flames spread up the wall into the ceiling and into the attic Flames also spread across the second floor and into the ceiling of the first floor Beckwith said causing fire on all three floors of the dwelling Heavy smoke from under the eaves of the house and when firemen arrived at the scene flames were practica Bellwood Borough partners in a new site for landfill in the Warriors Mark area at last evenings council meeting Gilliland wanted to let the Bellwood Borough know that after the controversy of only one land fill in the area they have been working with the Department of Environmental Resources forthe nine months to a year preparing the landfill site to suit the legality in order already land for The They are working for the dumping of solid wastes They said that they to give tlie sole landfill r operator Defta Disposal some competition The site contains 367 acres of acres being farm land and the remaining 237 acres includes cut over woods Gilliland said he owns a farm of about 800 acres in that area He said after the wastes are properly covered and the materials have rotted there are plans to farm the land again Cost Estimate Upon asking the men the costs their reply was that it would be under per cubic yard Council informed the men that they did not haul their own garbage and they would not be signing any kind of con tract to bind the trash haulers from the Bellwood Anlis area They thanked the men for the Kenneth Hostter a sman of the the borough the concern of the Swistock Associates Coal Corp making for a mine drainage permit lo treated wasle water into s Bells Gap Run a tributary to the Little Juniata River from a surface mining operation on 670 acres in Cambria County The permission if granted will endanger the drinking water of the com munity and also the fish in that Solicitor At torney Aan Kner informed Hostler that there two requests for hearings that have been proposed Krier said that a representative from Swistock had come to council and the borough coun cil had taken action for re quest of hearing at that time about three months Hostler asked council if it knew that another coal mining company has been drilling on ground next to the borough property above the reservoir He said he had heard that the operation on the other side of Route 865 Hostler said if they are per milled this will mean that Shaw Run and also Run will be disrupted if not with clarity and purity of the water and the possibility of shulting off the water flow feeds the But Not 100 Percent County Gets In Utility Tax Rebate Weather Very cold with scattered snow flurries tonight Clearing Wednesday Low tonight from 5 below zero to 10 above High Wednesday 8 to 18 Extended forecast Thurs day through Saturday Quite cold with chance of snow Thursday Flurries in the mountains Friday Partly cloudy Saturday Lows from near zero to 10 above Highs mid teens to mid 20s Political subdivisions within Blair County during the past year received a total of from the stale in tax rebates records of the Department of Revenue indicated but the total was only 88 per cent of what should have been received Full payment was not made during year Gov Shapp explained because of a budget deficiency at the lime The remaining 12 per cenl balance will be paid he said upon the approval of a supplementary appropriation by the General Assembly The 1978 Legislature failed to clear the Ap propriation in its closing hours which means the balance of 1978 payment will have to be made in 1979 by the new 1979 Legislature i The rebates authorized by the Public Utility Reality Tax Act are a state revenue shar ing program under which the state collects taxes from public utilities based on their real land holdings and then distributes the money under a for mula to the various local communities and school districts throughout the state which by law are prohibited from levying property taxes themselves against real estate owned by public firms Blair County In Blair Counly the rebated to local communities and school districts of the county during the year was computed on the basis of collections within the county of with distribution as following the first figure representing the 88 percent already paid and the second figure in parenthesis the 12 percent balance still County Government SCENE OF TRAGEDY This home at j failed to escape the inferno early yester Alexandria was gutted by fire and two of Its News From Around Here ALTOONA The Altoona Area School Board Mon day voted to reject the resignation of Robert Milchell of Altoona as a member of the operating committee of Area Vocational Technical School However Paul Foreman solicitor had advis ed the board not reject the resignation The next step is unclear today HOLLIDAYSBURG The Blair Co Salary Board has been asked by District Atty Thomas G Peoples to give nonunion county employes pay increases equal to the pay of union employes HOLLIDAYSBURG A hearing on reinstating eight city firemen laid off in Altoona has been rescheduled for Feb 20 at pm in Blair County courthouse A concerned citizens claims the layoffs leave the city with insufficient fire HOLLIDAYSBURG Fire damage at the county seat last year was estimated at The loss figure is higher than in 1977 ALTOONA Det Sgt Peter Dionis was Monday lo a fifth consecutive term as president of the citys Pension Fund Association
