Daily Herald, The (Newspaper) - August 21, 2000, Tyrone, Pennsylvania Sports Week One Football See Page 4 THE DAILY HERALD 134 295 MONDAY AUGUST PER COPY Convention a success By GREG BOCK Daily Herald Staff Writer The Annual Central Dis Convention is now Thousands lined the streets Sat afternoon for the Grand as six divisions of fire marching twirling groups and 18 units of the beloved Shriners snaked their way through Gary Simp son emceed the parade from the judges stand on Pennsylvania keeping the crowd alive and thanking each group as they passed Shrine Grand Potentate Pete Webb and the Jaffa parade contingency were special treats to those in Integrating the Grand Potentate Parade into the convention the Shriners were fully Everybody has a favorite Shriner whether it be the Oriental Band with their spitting snake or the tight maneuvers of the various motorized In any when the Shriners all eyes were on The day was marked with as one of the marching members of the Shriners Drum and Bugle unit collapsed dur ing the with his wife and son in the The parade stopped and for a few minutes it was not known only that something was seriously wrong with a member of the Emer gency personnel jumped into action to save Jack who was transported to Tyrone where after extensive efforts he finally The parade resumed and what a parade it turned out to As the Grand event Crowds flocked to the Central Districts Convention Grand held Saturday afternoon in The procession was made up of six divisions of fire equip marching twirling groups and 18 units of the The Daily Bock This years convention president David Hoffman with his father David watched the parade from the judges stand as the and ultimately the wound The Hoffman men are two last units made their way past the judges the sun was disap behind the hills and the conventioneers were putting their sirens to the test as they made their way to and fro around generations of fire fighters and are now both past presidents of Central District David was president when the Continued On Page 2 Verizon settles resume WASHINGTON AP Verizon Communications and unions repre telephone workers reached a tentative agreement on a threeyear returning a majority of striking employees to their jobs Monday after a But without a pact covering one other bargaining unit of mid Atlantic picket lines could remain up in New Vir West Virginia and the District of the nations largest local phone and wireless reached agreement with the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and one of two bargaining units for the Communications Work ers of covering employees in New York and New r Negotiations with another bar gaining unit for the CWA cover ing more than workers in the six Middle Atlantic states and the District of Columbia continued into early Monday with those employees remaining on Union officials said unre solved issues between that bargain ing table and the company include forced overtime levels and the mon of customer service workers and Some managers had been filling in for the striking but the company still faces a run ning tally of about requests for Tens of thousands of orders for new phone service and Internet access also have piled up in the 12 states in the Northeast and MidAtlantic regions that are the primary serv ice Frank a vice president of CWA Local 1105 in New esti mated it would take two months for workers in his region to catch up on the backlog of orders and repairs tal lied up during the The agreement reached Sunday with the and one of the CWA once ratified by the would replace contracts that expired It would provide workers a 12 percent increase in wages over the life of the threeyear The proposed agreement gives Verizon the flexibility we need to thrive in a highly competitive national said Lawrence Babbio company vice chairman and Verizon also agreed to limit to percent the number of jobs in any local that can be moved to another area in a That became a major point of contention because the unions feared that Verizon the product of a summer merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE would shift work to areas of cheaper labor with in its newly expanded Its just what we Its said Martha a nego from the New Eng land The new contract also allows workers for the first time to get stock And customer repre working in call centers Continued On Page 2 I love a parade State Representative Larry enjoys the Centra Districts Parade along with the Tyrone This years convention culminat ed Saturday evening with The Daily Bock Port Matilda man charged in sex assault Accused of forcing himself on 16 and By CAROLUS Daily Herald City Editor Pennsylvania State Police in Philipsburg report over the they arrested a Port Matilda accused of two sexual Police have charged Russell Jack of Port with crimi nal attempt of aggravated indecent stemming from an incident that occurred Saturday afternoon in the borough of Port Authorities report at around 3 the two described only as two and arrived at a mutual friends located at 100 Cherry Port Investigators say upon the pair tered who was visibly intoxicat Reports from witnesses indicate that Rue was very He allegedly began searching for body tattoos on the one at which time he started to touch her the victim pled several times for Rue to but he would Both victims then ran to a rear bedroom in the where they attempted to hide in a but Rue followed close According to witness Rue entered the closet and resumed his this forcibly touching both victims on their private areas without con Police note that this conduct con for some lime in different parts of the Police were notified and arrested He was arraigned before District Justice Prcs tia and placed in Centre County Jail on Rue has been scheduled for a pre liminary hearing this Wednesday in Centre County J k afternoon Happy Monday vj to v 4 big Way Ta kudos to the er the 3000 held over ie weekend right here Everything went off awarding to borough poUce there no major inpi dents during the festiv Tyrone still accepts Geisinger patients In wake of Altoona people still have options By ROB CAROLUS Daily Herald City Editor Late last officials at Altoona Hospital announced that along with the Blair County Organization would be ending their four year affiliation with the Geisinger Health The PHO is a partner ship between Altoona Hospital and certain regional What that means effective September anyone who is cov ered under either the Geisinger Health Plan or Geisinger Gold will no longer be able to receive care from Altoona Rick spokesman for Altoona Hospital said in an interview with this reporter last Negotia tions of the terms and conditions under which the relationship might continue have been Those folks been receiv ing medical care from physicians at Altoona Hospital have some tough decisions to make Either change health care providers or health Some area caregivers want the public to know that options exist right here in Tyrone for those affect ed by this This reporter spoke with a representative from Tyrone Hospital about the Teresa media relations director for Tyrone Hospital explained that their facility is willing and able to help Geisinger Tyrone Hospital does we are a par provider in Geisinger and Geisinger Gold Health We have for a while Weve certainly seen additional chosen that con to use Tyrone Yanchetz noted although Continued On Page 2 Airman to be 56 years after WWII bomber crash PITTSBURGH AP Robert Kearsey left Florida for the slag piles and steel mills of the Pitts burgh suburb of McKees where many managed to find work despite the Great 56 years after he was killed in a World War II bomber crash in Kearsey is going Kearsey and nine others who per ished in the will be honored in a burial service at Arlington Nation al Cemetery in on Six of the airmen will be buried at Arlington after Mondays cere mony but and those of three others who died in the will be or have already been released to their Kearsey will be buried later in where his family now lives and where a plot has been set aside to memorialize him and his Two farmers found the crash site while searching for rare herbs on Kitten Mountain in Guangxi Province in Military officials have spent the intervening years gathering and identifying the remains of Kearsey and the which were most recently examined at the Defense Departments forensic laboratory in Another Pennsylvanian who died in the Staff Anthony was buried earlier this month in his hometown of McKean Kearsey was 27 and single when he His nieces and nephews plan to attend the Arlington service to honor They consider him a hero because he requested a dangerous overseas combat post instead of accepting stateside duty to which he was originally Robert younger broth followed him to western steel but both were in the service by Grady Kearsey was killed that summer when his Army Air Corps plane was shot down over though his body was never Robert Kearsey was transferred to a base in Langley Va after his brothers but felt guilty about finishing the war as a stateside gun nery His motivation was to get said Grady Robert a nephew named after both The Army fulfilled Robert request to return to active A bombing attack on Takao Har bor in Taiwan was his last Continued On Page 2 National weather The forecast for Bands separate high temperature zones for the e 2000 FRONTS COLD WARM STATIONARY High Low Rain Flurries Snow Ice Sunny Cloudy Cloudy Va Associated The Local Forecast Low in the lower Calm mix of sun and High in the upper Tuesday cloudiness with a chance of showers and thun Low in the upper chance of showers and thunderstorms during the Otherwise partly High in the upper In Sports Tiger Pushed To Limit In PGA 5
