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IndependentReturningFor Everyone in the Mid-Monongahela Valley AreaThree of the best pitchers ever produc ed in this neck of the woods will appear in a special baseball game Monday in Charleroi. The story is on Page 6.SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1981si~\c per cop\.til weekl\ including hulic)lt;i\s b\ carrier Sf c\er\ month h\ motor r»u.'.Three prison riots are crushedCARSON CITY, Nev. (UPI) — A pistol-toting Nevada State Prison inmate, described as one of the most dangerous in the country, freea 50 hardened criminals from Death Row and top-security cells and took over a cellblock, holding three guards hostage through the night before releasing them today unharmed.Two of the guards werefreed by a rifle-finng SWATteam that ambushed the cellblock around 4 a.m.The third was finally released two hours later when uprising leader David Wayne surrendered, handing over a .25-caliber pistol to prison Superintendent Johnllansky, who negotiated forthe guards’10 hours for release.Prison Director Chuck Wolff, Jr., said the facility was secured at 6:30 a.m. and that the only guaranteegranted Wayne was that he would be able to have a visitfrom his girlfriend.Wayne, who just a few hours earlier had been acquitted on charges in another nostage-taking, asked for and was twice given doses of an anti-depressant drug, Demerol, by prison officials during the tense negotiations.Deputy Prison Warden Steve Robinson said Wayne wanted “assurances he won’t be killed.”The takeover, in which one inmate was stabbed and another beaten, was the sixth hostage incident at the prison in the past nine months and the third involving Wayne, described by a prison official as “one of the most dangerous men in the United States.”Wayne, 37, serving a 20-year term for attempted murder in a Reno, Nev., bar holdup, was being escorted from a shower around 8 p.m.Friday when he pulled a pistol, taking three guards captive.The guards were handcuffed and Wayne opened the cell doors on the section which houses Death Row inmates and other maximum security risks The inmates then started breaking windows and furniture in a 10-minutespree.During the all-night rampage, two inmates were beaten by the other convictsThey were identifed as John Sanders and Edward See, who had held a visiting gospel singing group hostage on Easter Sunday. Robinson speculated this may have been a reprisal by other inmates for the prior hostage incident.See was hospitalized with stab wounds and head injuries. Sanders was treated at the prison.Negotiations dragged on for eight hours before the12-member SWAT team from the Carson City sheriff’s office was ordered to rush the prison They broke through a barricaded door and started firing their automatic rifles while officials captured 28 of the inmates.Wayne fled to a rear cell with the guards He first released correctional officer Clarence Harig, later freeing Dean Staiccio and Michael Stafford.Another 22 inmates had notPlevel’s status uncertainShould Edward Plevel beasked to resign his seat on Monessen City Council now that he has been convicted by a jury on charges of rigging the Pennsylvania Daily Number lottery?That’s the question Monessen City Council isthan 2,200.Plevel's present term of office on council expires Dec. 31.Although Sokolski will bereviewing the matter, it may ibliA Dauphin County juryel.seeking a legal opinion on. And, there appears to be noclear-cut answer.Council, according to Mayor James Sepesky, has asked City Solicitor Carol Sokolski to prepare the legal opinion — hopefully, in time for its meeting next Tuesday.Sepesky emphasized, however, that none of Plevel’s fellow councilmen —Wednesday convicted Plevel and former WTAE-TV announcer Nick Perry of rigging the Daily Number drawing on Aoril 24, 1980, so that the number 6-6-6 would hit. The day after his conviction, Plevel was fired from his job as state district lottery manager. .be possible that no ruling can be given.Patrick Boyle, presssecretary to the state Depart-Plt;ment of Justice, said the Pennsylvania Constitution is not “clear-cut on whether an elected official convicted of a crime must resign.Teamstersboss labelsJoseph Cieply, Anthony Pefaccia and ft. Gene Malar-charges ‘lie’bi *— have sought to seek his ouster.He said, too, that he has not been informed by Plevel, as to the latter’s future plans.Plevel, 52, director of the city’s streets and sewersdepartment, was soundly:p;defeated in Tuesday’sprimary in his bid for renomination to council,finishing last in a field of four candidates seeking theCHICAGO (UPI) ~ - Interim Teamsters President Roy L. Williams says the indictment for bribery charges handed down against him and four other people are a “damn lie.*Williams, three other union officials and a reputed Chicago mobster were named in an 11-count indictment Fri-The Constitution prohibits an elected official from seeking or holding public office if he or she is convicted of com-mitting an “infamous crime,” Boyle said. The Constitution, however, fails to specify what is an “infamous” crime.In some previous instances where local government officials or state legislators have been convicted of a crime, other members of thatbeen recaptured when the last two guards were released, but prison officials expected to round them up quickly.Wayne was involved in a hostage-taking incident Feb. 14 in which he and convicted killer Patrick McKenna took' 10 guards and one nurse hostage in an unsuccessfulescape try.However, Wayne was ac-uitted of criminal charges riday by a district court jury after a trial in which he testified he was acting on the orders of McKenna, who was armed.Wayne also faces trial next month on another hostage incident in which he held a prison nurse and a guard captive for more than eight hours before releasing them unharmed.The releasing of dangerous prisoners and seizing of the three hostages by Wayne was the third prison incident in the past 24 hours. Two prison riots in Michigan were crushed early today.Guards and state police swept through maximum(See Prisons, Page 10)Inside Todaybody have pressured the con-victed official to resign,Boyle said.Democratic nomination. He received only 928 votes, while the winners received moreday, charging they tried to bribe Sen. Howard W. Can-...non, D-Nev., for favorable action on a trucking deregulation bill.Williams and the otherEven if council seeks Plevel’s resignation, Boyle said, he is not certain whether Plevel must relinquish his seat. The city solicitor would have to rule on Uie legality of a motion seeking the resignation of a council member.Church NewsClassifiedComicsDear AbbyEditorialsEntertainmentFamily NewsFeaturesHospitalsLotteryObituariesSportsTelevision212,1311164155 II 10 10 106.714Montgomery Ward stores present a supplement to The Valley Independent today.
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