Evening Standard, The (Newspaper) - April 5, 1974, Uniontown, Pennsylvania OUR YEAR NO 93 FINAL The Paper That Goes Into The Home UNIONTOWN PENNSYLVANIA FRIDAY APRIL 5 1974 TEN CENTS City Urban Renewal Report Given By RALPH SCHULZE A report on the Uniontown Disaster Urban Renewal Project has been made by the Executive Committee of the ject Area Committee Purpose is to update the residents of Uniontown and more specifically those who live within the boundaries of the project concerning the committee and the status of the project Members of the committee are jamin Williams president John Yanow vice president Gerry Abels John Bartimioli Emery Boor Ray Glover Joseph Howard Thomas tel and Harold Williams Toni ciardo is non-member secretary The committee in cooperation with the Uniontown Redevelopment has issued the following report on the The Uniontown Disaster Urban Re- Area consists of 107.8 acres ex- of streets and rights of way There are a total of 108 occupied holds and the site occupants include 53 families and 55 individuals There are 14 owners and 94 tenants The workload includes 42 elderly of which 15 are families 27 in- seven owners and 35 tenants Twenty-seven are in the low income egory of less than There are 55 nonresidential that are scheduled for dis- placement These include business erties industrial properties railroad rights of way and structures storage sheds dilapidated and cant land Following the approval of the Dis- aster Urban Renewal Project the U S Department of Housing and Urban De- velopment HUD restricted the to acquiring only 21 priority properties These are properties which have severe flood problems have had fire damage or for some other reason warrants immediate attention To date one property has been quired through negotiation and this is at 27 S Mt Vernon Ave Three properties have been acquired through eminent main and these are located at the cor- ner of Main and Church The reason for the slight delay in property acquisition is the need for veys of 99 per cent of the priority erties It was found that the Authority could 4 District Women Were On Stranded Cruise Ship Four district women on a six-day bridge cruise to Bermuda were among passengers stranded at sea for some 36 hours aboard the Queen Elizabeth II earlier this See story on Page 13 The of the Barclay Bridge Tour were Mrs Alva Ricks and Mrs Donald D Eunice Shoemaker both of National Pike East in the tains Mrs Byron K Carol Minerd of Chalk Hill and Mrs Fred Nancy Sproul Jr of the Rd The Queen Elizabeth II was sailing toward Bermuda Wednesday when the boilers broke down leaving the luxury liner stranded some 200 miles off the Bermuda coast Mrs Shoemaker who telephoned her husband from Bermuda yesterday said the four local women are all fine She said there was some fort aboard ship during the ex- There was no air conditioning and no lights In addition a temporary generator had to be used to supply water to the passenger cabins On Thursday the passengers were transferred aboard the rescue ship Sea Venture and taken to Bermuda where they were placed in hotels According to Mrs Shoemaker the Sea Venture was already filled to its passenger capacity when they boarded and Queen Elizabeth passengers had to sleep in lounges makeshift hammocks or on the floor There was no alarm she said but there was some little The passengers aboard the Queen Elizabeth II were participating in a bridge cruise and a Travel with Professional Football Players cruise which featured numerous players and coaches Cunard Lines owner of the Queen Elizabeth II said it plans to make full refunds to the passengers The amount is expected to total over million The four women are to leave Bermuda by airplane tomorrow morning for New York and return to Fayette County tomorrow night FAIRCHANCE HONOREE Fairchance food store owner Albert Sementa receives congratulations on being named recipient of the Fairchance Ex- change Club's Book of Golden Deeds Award at dinner in Bratton's at wood From John Hiscar committee Frank Lake club vice president Albert Kapalko chairman Mr Sementa Robert Wagner committee and Steve Gavorchik club president Photo Car Runs Into Gas Station A young service station attendant was in critical condition today with injuries suffered when a car crashed into his tion while he was pumping gasoline OK Can't tell about the weather Anyway it is time to start on those cleanup details around the house Be careful if you are burning trash or brush that you take preventive steps in case of the fire spreading Buckets of water or any supply of water should be ready for use Tornadoes and hurricanes When they strike an area the result is death and destruction Thank goodness the heavy winds dissipated before they reached southwestern Pennsylvania this week IRS to make President Nixon pay From what the President said he will have to borrow to pay about in back income taxes for his first four years in the White House Internal Revenue Service gets them all eventually if you don't fill out those annual forms correctly whether it be a President of the United States or a a week clerk Work goes on remodeling the house It'll be a 100 per cent renovation be- fore it is completed and actually the work was necessary if the money was available Revenue sharing funds helped Now some of those elected of- who consistently seem to be out of town on personal business should stay in their offices more since we re- modeled them with our taxes To the patient no operation is Women may be the world's worst sips but men make the best listeners Blue flu In the city Is over and for that we arc happy John Pochron 17 of Hices Landing R D 1 sustained a crushed chest and in- ternal injuries He was taken to West Virginia University Medical Center Police Back To Normal Operation of the Uniontown Police Dept has returned to normal That was the indication today from Police Chief Andrew Zawelensky All but one of 12 policemen who called off sick Wednesday night with the Blue Flu have returned to their duties After hearing yesterday that the men were beginning to return to work Mayor Eugene E Fike had said that he was glad the men have returned and hope the service to the city returns to mal The policemen have been feuding with Chief Zawelensky over the suspensions of five patrolmen and one officer for what the chief termed violations of general orders 8th Grade Girls Test At Legion Lafayette Unit 51 Ladies Auxiliary to the American Legion will conduct its annual Americanism test for grade girls of Uniontown and vicinity at p.m Saturday April 27 at the Legion Home The following schools are eligible to send three girls each to the jamin Franklin Lafayette North Laurel and South Laurel Junior Highs St John's R C St John the Baptist G C and St Mary's Mrs Harold Rockwell is chairman of the program and Mrs Nellie Leonard is Mrs George Rossomme is auxiliary president Jobless Dip AP ment dipped slightly from 5.2 per cent to 5.1 per cent of the work force in March The government said today It was the first decline in five months and raised hopes that the rise in joblessness that began with the Arab oil embargo may have topped out after emergency treatment at Greene County Memorial Hospital The accident happened at p.m yesterday at American tion at the intersection of Routes 88 and 188 at Dry Tavern Police said that Pochron was ing gas into the car of Timothy Minor 23 of Rices Landing when an auto en by Helen Hampton 61 of ville failed to negotiate a small bend in the road and struck the Minor car ron and the pumps A parked car owned by Dorothy Clain 63 of Millsboro also Was hit Four pumps were hit and gasoline ig- bringing firemen from Rices Landing Jefferson Clarksville and cible Firemen said only gasoline in the pumps burned the flames didn't spread to the storage tanks The service station building 16 feet away wasn't damaged but the left side of the McClain car was seared Mrs Hampton and a passenger Mary Ann Crable 83 also of Clarksville were treated at Greene County Memorial Hospital for facial injuries Damage was estimated at to the Hampton car to the Minor car to the McClain car and to the gasoline pumps State Police charged that the Hampton vehicle was traveling too fast for conditions EVIDENCE City Patrolmen Lawrence Curry left and Melvin Edenfield sort alleged marijuana and other articles confiscated yesterday from car In alley off Stewart Ave here Terrace Solomon 24 of Republic was charged with violation of the state's Dangerous Drug Device Cosmetic Act and released on bond following arraignment before District Magistrate Larry Blair A hearing was set for April 10 at p.m Photo not get adequate boundary descriptions without the surveys These surveys are very nearly complete When the results of the surveys are in the hands of the Redevelopment acquisition of the priority erties will be continued at an pace Following the acquisition of the properties the Authority will de- acquired properties and then ceed to the remaining properties in the project far seven families have been relocated from the priority properties in the project The Authority's Relocation Dept is presently working to relocate the remaining residents and businesses in the priority acquisition list In compliance with the re- of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property sition Policies Act of 1970 all residents will be relocated into comparable de- cent safe and sanitary housing quate in size to meet the needs of each family and individual being displaced It is extremely important that those residents who are to be relocated not Continued on Page 9 Col 1 Tells Of Plot Prater Testifies At Boyle Trial MEDIA Pa AP A United Mine Workers official convicted of in the assassination of Joseph Jock Yablonski says the man who enlisted him in the plot claimed Yablonski knew too much about the fairs of the union and had to be ed off William J Prater 53 one of the key prosecution witnesses at the murder trial of former UMW president W A Tony Boyle testified Thursday I was very shocked when asked to find somebody who might do it for Later Prater said he recruited Silous Huddleston 65 also from LaFollette Tenn whom he described as a most trusted friend of mine and Huddleston eventually hired the killers He Huddleston said his boys would take care of the Yablonski killing and he told about them breaking into a home and getting a pack of guns including a machine gun and Prater testified One of Huddleston's boys was his son-in-law Paul Gilly 42 Cleveland Ohio convicted and sentenced to death for his part in the plot Huddleston has pleaded guilty Prater former field representative of UMW District 19 was scheduled to return to the witness stand today to con- his direct examination by Special Prosecutor Richard A Sprague The Boyle is accused of ordering slaying and authorizing in union funds to pay the hired assassins Yablonski his wife and daughter were slain Dec 31 1969 as they slept in their rural Clarksville home in southwestern Pennsylvania Three weeks before the murders Yablonski lost a bitter battle to unseat Boyle as president of the member union That election was set aside by a federal judge in 1972 and Boyle was finally ousted by the membership in new balloting near the end of the year He now is serving a three-year federal term for illegal use of union funds The robust Prater testified he was contacted about helping in arranging assassination by Albert Pass 52 then treasurer of District 19 embracing tucky and Tennessee and international board member from District 20 of Alabama When was asked Sprague In early July Prater said shortly after Yablonski a UMW vice president announced he was opposing Boyle for control of the Prater related the murder proposition was made in Middlesboro Ky where Pass lived Albert and I took a drive and he told me he had something very tant to ask me to Prater told the jury of nine men and three women He told me something had to be done about Joe Yablonski And I asked What's this that has to be And he said he has to be knocked off that Yablonski is only a heartbeat away from the presidency of the international union and had to be knocked off Pass like Prater was convicted of murder last year Before Prater took the stand late Thursday afternoon the prosecution had put on nine witnesses four sylvania state policemen and five FBI agents to nail down evidence that tied the three hired Cleveland Ohio killers to the murder scene Robert Frazier an FBI firearms ex- pert testified a carbine rifle recovered from the Monongahela River was used to kill Yablonski And Charles B Groenthal a federal fingerprint expert testified that beer cans and beer bottles found on hilly areas overlooking the Yablonski home contained prints left by Gilly Claude E Vealey and Aubran Buddy Martin Gilly and Vealey both testified earlier they were involved in the Yablonski killings Martin brought into court and identified by Gilly was convicted and is under a death sentence which he is appealing Huddleston and Pass were brought into the courtroom Thursday and by Prater as men with whom he discussed the Yablonski killing Prater also identified six retired Tennessee miners whom he had used in a kickback scheme he claimed Pass and District 19 President William Turnblazer originated to divert union funds to pay the assassins Turnblazer 52 a Middlesboro lawyer has pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating civil rights and is expected to be key witness against Boyle Sprague asked Prater to explain how the murder cash was obtained There was a meeting Sept in the District 19 office in Middlesboro about the phony research tion Prater said I never heard of it prior to that It was attended by Turnblazer Pass and four other District 19 field representatives Those four UMW officials also were paraded in the courtroom and Prater identified them as helping move cash back to Pass through the research com- Q What happened Sprague asked A Pass said he was going to set up a committee a top secret committee He said each of us should think hard of fellows who they could trust to keep a secret Each man would be given checks Q Were you told by Mr Pass what to tell these A Albert Pass told me to tell them the money kicked back would be used to defeat a judge candidate Bell in Kentucky And they were to say that the checks represented money for work they did for organizing activities since 1968 This was called a research and in- formation committee Q In fact was there any such com- A No sir Q Did you select a group of your A Yes I did Seven sir Q Were you instructed on what you were to say about the A Pass told me that under no was I ever to admit the money was returned to me The checks were for work performed in the past year Q In fact was work A None whatever Jury Deliberates Fate Of Chapin WASHINGTON AP The federal district court jury charged with deciding whether Dwight L Chapin lied under oath resumed its deliberations today The jurors returned to the jury room at EOT immediately after breakfast After deliberating for nearly four hours Thursday the jurors reported to Weather Cold weather is returning Forecast calls for mostly cloudy and cold tonight and Saturday with a chance of snow flur- ries It's to be fair on Sunday Weather Observer Earl Bierer said 25 of an inch of rain fell here during the night High yesterday was 77 and the low Ult night and temperature this 44 the court that they were not close to a verdict Chapin 33 former appointments secretary to President Nixon is accused of three counts of giving false testimony under oath to a federal grand jury in- dirty tricks in the 1972 presidential campaign The penalty on each count is a of five years in prison and a fine of Today's Index Hospital News 13 Class 17 thru 21 Sports Deaths 21 Star Gaier 23 Dr Karl Wilson 6 Television 22 I
