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By Dianna Marder Calkins Newspapers. Edward F. Heffernan, the Feasterville lay religious leader who has been serving a prioon term in Bucks County storing explosives at his ar vine Rosai academy, is to be released to stay, but will be forbidden to reopen the school and at least April bet a parole board official said ‘Thursday. All conditions of parole request ed by Bucks County District Attorney Michael J. Kane were granted, said parole board secre tary Herman Tartler. Heffernan will be banned for the remaining ‘16 months of his sentence from: * Reopening his ultra-conserva tive, non-affiliated Venerable fang Pathastas Memanta’ aa and academy in Fenster * Being associated with the op eration of any church, school, religious or charitable organiza tion in Pennsylvania or any other * Soliciting financial contribut ons. * Contacting ‘‘past associates” Tartler declined to releave those names, Heffernan also will be required to pay more than $13,060 in Testitution to Lower Southampton Township, as ordered by Bucks ap President Judge Isaac 3. Gary Tartler declined to release other information on Heffernan’s parole plan, such as where he would live and work. Since. Match, Heffernan, who lives on Mechanteoville Road in Rareptan Terrmnohtn her han oe the prison » work-release program. At that time, his attorney Thomas B. Rutter, told the court his client would be working for a former friend in the building trade, Joseph Herdwig, who has offices at 8400 Bustieton Ave. in Northeast Philadelphia. Kane, who was unavailable for comment late Thursday, told the parole board in October he would vigorously oppose parole unless conditions were set. “Hetternan's school preached a radical, right-wing doctrine of impending social unrest which would pit ‘true believers’ news not those in our society who do not adhere to the strict doctrinal faith exposed by his academy,” Kane teld the parole board in an Oct. 20 letter. “Students were instructed in the 19 af tHapnane png tha pom aluction of demoliion devices,” Kane said. Heffernan, 80, was sentenced in March to six to 24 months in Bucks County Prison for risking a catastrophe by storing explosives at the ahline. ‘The explosives — 1,000 pounds of Satar arean volatile dyna mite and 3. certon of rusted pipe bombs — appeared to be part of an effort to ‘indoctrinate and repare (his students) for some of violence — offensive or defensive,” Garb said when he sentenced Heffernan. According to Heffernan, the explosives were left from his ca reer as a builder and he had sim ply forgotten about them. Lower Southampton Township officials, who were unavailable for comment late Thursday, have expressed concern about Hottarran's fibira Intentione As a faghly whacked futur meeting last month, township officials, under pressure from angry residents, voted to ask the district attorney to Initiate a grand jury Investigation of Heffernan, Kane has not responded to the township's request. In November, Heffernan applied for a permit to reopen his shrine but in the face of ensuing publicity, he withdrew that request. A red “For Sale banner hangs across the former shrine, which was closed for building code vio lations in June 1983, after the dy namite was found. But Heffernan’s son, Daniel, and other former shrine members have been seen there often. “You can't keep an owner from going in and out of his own prop erty cold Daniel Lawler town, ala SCiMator, To Go watch the place to make sure no commer cial activity is being conducted.” Heffernan’s fund-raising activi tes have also been of concern to residents and state officials. That before Heffernan was sen tenced in March, the Pennsylva nnia Attorney General's office filed evil against the Marian Foundation, the non-profit fund raising arm of Heffernan’s reli gious organization, on grounds that Insufficient financial records were being kept. Its founder, the Rev. Marton Palandrano, a former priest at the Ommerick Academy who broke ties with Heffernan several years ago, attempted in March to bere hl the foundation, officials and. But Heffernan’s supporters blocked Palandrano's efforts, and recards show who Maret toLnas- Won ta all] In existence as a non profit charitable organization. Driver critically injured Buckingham Township police and ambulance crew membera work at an accident scene on Mechanstsville Road where a 17-year-old girl was injured Wednasdey. Louca Waither of Plumstead Township remained in critical con dition Thursday as a result of her injuries. See story below, [Staff hole By Granquiso)
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Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 21, 1984
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