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66 SAYRE ATHENS, WAVERLY, N. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS The Evening Times mi Forces Israel warms Alba Cyclist Killed in Crash Near Canton Ford Speaks to Cadets: Congress Should Enact Full Defense Budget olid Be Reverse said he views peace In the Middle East as "the most serious international issue of our time." Referring to his talks in Salzburg, Austria with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Ford tempted to take steps that would force us. withdraw our grv ture," Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon told the Israeli parliament in reply to opposition criticism of the reduction. Completion of the pullback a day before Egyptian President Anwar Sadat plans to sail through the canal in a reopening ceremony was announced by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Both Israeli ministers voiced hope that the move would relax tension.
Asked by newsmen if he thought Israel would make similar partial withdrawals on the other fronts with its Arab adversaries, Peres said: "We don't see any major change on any other front that would warrant such a move on our part." He said the Jordanian and Lebanese fronts were relatively the Air Force Academy commencement. As he wound up his speech, Ihe President drew a burst of applause when he reminded ''ourselves, our friends and our potential adversaries that Americans are still prepared to pay Ihe price of freedom that we will honor our commitments that we will do our duty." And he concluded: "Let us renew together our Founding Fathers' pledge to our country of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. And let us always remember that freedom is never free." The President handed diplomas to 43 of the cadets, who were in the first five per cpnl of their class, and to the lowest ranking cadet termed the "goat" Eugene Emmett Shaw Jr. of Danville, 111. In his report to the cadtts, quiet and he didn't think Syria would make any drastic change toward peace.
In Washington, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said Presidint Fold's summit meeting with Sadat may have laid a basis for a new period of Middle East diplomacy. "I'm not saying there is going to be progress. I'm saying there cculd be," Kissinger said. "We can move into a phase of more specificity" after Ford meets with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Washingtun June 11-12, said a senior U.
S. official who accompanied Ford on his European trip. Peres said the partial Israel; withdrawal was "a one-sided move" made without expectation of a reciprocal concession from Egyp'- Rabin in a television interview Tuesday renewed the Israeli claim that Egypt cent real estate transfer tax and $10 per capita tax) will remain the same. In another important piece of business, the board hired Glenn Gow of Mill Village, as the new principal of the Smithfield-Ridgcbury-Ulster High School. He takes over the position vacated by Chwles Savage who has been moved to Athens to work as an assistant administrator in the school system.
Mr. Gow will assume his duties on July 1. A graduate of Commodore High School and Edinboro State College, he is certified in physics and mathematics. Mr. Gow received his master's degree in 1974, and has (Continued on Page 5 'ilumn 5) Athens District Hikes Property Tax by 5 Mills Dean Morningstar Graduated from Military Academy WEST rOINT, N.Y.
(AP) -Congress should approve his full defense budget and enact a pro- Cram for U.S. energy independ ence to show the world that "Americans have lost neith er their nerve nor their nation al will," President Ford said today. Ford, just back from talks with European leaders, told the graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy he would fight hard to prevent any cuts in the $94 billion defense budget he has proposed for the fiscal year beginning July 1. "I believe the American people want a defense posture that is second to none," Ford told the 849 member graduating class during commencement exercises at Michie Stadium.
He said enactment of "our bedrock defense budget" and a 10-year program to make the nation independent of foreign Oil would be a "convincing demonstration to our allies and to our adversaries that Americans have lost neither their nerve nor their national will." Ford's speech to the cadets came only hours after his return at 1 a.m. today from a weeklong trip to Europe during which he conferred with 22 heads of state. The President waited until later in the day to meet with his Cabinet and congressional leaders at the White House to fill them in on his trip. "Our major alliances are strong and firm. allies, confidence in us is not misplaced," the President said.
Ford became the first president since John F. Kennedy to speak at a Military Academy commencement. Kennedy, a Navy veteran like Ford, was here in 1962. Elsewhere, Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller spoke to the graduating class of the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger spoke at Travel Agency Owner Indicted For Theft READING, Pa. (AP) The case which left some 2,000 teachers without vacations they raid for last summer has led to the indictment cf the cv.ncr of a Reading area travel agency on theft charges. A Berks County grand jury returned a nine-count theft indictment Tuesday against William P. Oit, 35, president and owner of Schoolroom Tours Inc.
of Wemersville. He was charged with failure to make required disposition of funds received for each of nine canceled air flights, totaling more than $425,000. Schoolroom Tours had advertised various trips in the monthly magazine "Voice" of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA). Alfred Nelson, PSEA spokesman in Philadelphia, said after the alleged fraud had been uncovered that the association had not endorsed the travel agency, but simply accepted the advertisem*nts in "Voice." Complaints on cancellations were received mainly on tours to Hawaii and Greece. When the fraud was uncovered, Berks District Atomey Robert Van Hoove said tours were cancelled for 2.000 Pennsylvanians who deposited some $800,000.
Cadet Dean Edward Morning-star, son of Mrs. Jeanne Johnson of Stacey Lane Poad, Sayre RD 2, and Llewellyn J. Morningstar of 135 Hoover Sayre, was a member of the class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., which was graduated this morning. The featured speaker was President Gerald Ford.
Cadet Morningstar is a 1971 graduate of Athens Area High school where he was a first honor student all four years. He was a member of the track team and worked part time and during summer recess at the Acme Store in West Sayre. Deann was nominated for ad mission to the Academy in January of 1971 by Cong. Joseph McDade, and was advised of his acceptance on April 17 of that year by Maj. Gen.
Verne L. Bowers, Adjutant General of the Department of the Army, and reported for training on July 1, 1971. While at the Academy in his senior year he was selected as By The Associated Presj Israel completed the thinning out of its forces and firepower near the Suez Canal today but warned that the cuts could be reversed if Egypt makes any hostile move. "We hope Egypt will not be Found Guilty Of Halloween Poisoning HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) A jury decides today whether a 30-year-old Houston optician will be put to death for poisoning his eight-year-old son with Halloween candy.
The 10-man, two-woman jury deliberated only 46 minutes Tuesday before finding Ronald C. O'Bryan guilty of giving his son, Timothy, a cyanide-laced candy during a suburban trick or treat outing. The state is asking for the death penalty. It contended that O'Bryan killed the boy to collect $30,000 in iasurance, $20,000 of which he had purchased just four weeks before Halloween The defense said the state never proved O'Bryan actually bcught cyanide and poisoned the candy with it. Asst.
Dist. Atty. Mike Hinton said in his closing argument Tuesday that O'Bryan had triggered "terror and suspicion" in Houston's residential neighborhoods. O'Bryan is known to many Houston school children as "the man who ruined Halloween." Some parents' organizations have already announced plans to forbid the traditional Halloween trick or treating this year. Several witnesses testified that O'Bryan, starting in September, had shown an unusual interest in cyanide.
He asked a chemist where it could be bought and how much was needed for a fatal dose. Another witness said he tried to buy the chemical at a supply house. Mrs. Daynene O'Bryan testified that her husband talked about how the insurance money was to be spent even before the boy was buried. She said the family was deeply in debt, about to have its car repossessed.
She said her husband had no insurance on his own life at tne time ne tow out $20,000 policies on Timothy and Elizabeth, 5. Gail Cooper and Top Students at Gail Cooper and Marilee Ri der are the valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 1975 at the Tioga Central High School, it has been announced by Principal Richard Pascuzzo. Miss Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Copper of Chapel Hill Road, Candor RD 1, has attended Tioga Central since the fifth grade.
She has been a member of the National Honor Society for the past two years and was one of the top-ranking students in the state and nation in the National Education Development Test. She was also one of the New Y'ork State Regent Scholarship winners. During her high school years. Gail has worked as a teacher's aide, has been a majorette and was president of the band dur ing h)er sophom*ore year, sne was selected by the teaching staff to represent Tioga Central for the Society of Distinguished American High School Students and Who's Who Among American High School Students. Gail has been accepted at Northern Arizona University where she will be working toward a degree in police science starting in September.
Miss Rider, of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Rider of Tioga Center, was rearwi in the Tioga Center area and has attended Tioga Central since kindergar ten. She has also been an Honor Society student for the past two years and is vice president cf the organization this year. She was also selected as a representative for Who's Who Among American High School Students, Hitstanding Teenager and The Society of Distinguished American High Shot Students.
She has participated in girls spoils and has been a member of the its An Alba man was killed In stantly in a two-vehicle crash on Route 14 Just south of the Canton Borough line Tuesday afternoon, Bradford County State Polire reported. I-arry Tillotnon, 20, was pro nounced dead at the scene Dr. J. D. McCallum, in front whose residence the accident oc cured.
According to Bradford County Coroner Gordon Farr, death was caused by a broken neck and head injuries. The body was taken to the Rob- ert Packer Hospital where autopsy was scheduled to be per- formed today. According to the state polic report, Tillotson was traveling south on a 350cc Suzuki motor cycle at about 4:40 p.m. when a northbound car dnven by t. ward Carter, 49, of Granville Summit RD 1.
attempted cross the southbound lane traffic into the driveway of Dr. McCallum, passing in front Tillotson as he did so. TUloLson reportedly tried of to stoD and the motorcycle skid ded about 35 feet before crashing into the right front fender of the Carter vehicle. Damage to the motorcycle was estimated at approximately $750 and to the car at $200. Farr and the Canton Borough Police are continuing the inves tigation.
Ford Says Jobs Bill Veto Must Be Sustained WASHINGTON (AP) -Presi dent Ford believes his whole program to fight inflation and recession depends on the House sustaining his veto of a multi billion-dollar jobs bill, House Mi nority Leader John Rhodes said todav. Rhodes told the House Repub lican Conference that the Presi dent, en route to West Point telephoned him from Air Force One this morning to convey his feelings on the jobs bill. Rhodes said Ford feels that today's scheduled vote on the job veto is a "most important vote" and that his veto must be sustained. The minority leader made his announcement during the first open House Republican Conference since 1927. Pre viously such conferences have been closed to the media and Lite Dublic.
House Democrats cautiously Dredicted thev had the votes to override Ford veto of the bill. The legislation is designed to create 500,000 jobs to help fight the recession. Senate Democrats also were reported optimistic, but were waiting for the House vote later trvlav before making final counts. It takes a two-thirds ma jority in both chambers to override a veto. Roth chambers passed the le- eislation by considerably more than two-thirds margins.
Some Republican votes would be needed to provide the override marmn. since tne Lemocrai5 have a bare two-thirds major ity in the House and less in the Senate. The $5.3 billion measure seeks to provide jobs through direct public service employment pro-crams and indirectly through ac celeration of public works pro jects across the nation. It includes authorization of hillinn for nublic service jobs, $485 million for summer youth jobs, $440 million for construction and repair of federal buildings around the country, $385 million for small business loans and $325 million for speedup of flood control, reclamation and rivers and harbors projects. 18th Century Meal for 18 Cents NEW YORK (AP) An 18th century meal at 18th century prices was historic Fraunces Tavern's Bicentennial bargain gift to New Yorkers.
More than 1.000 patrons queued up outside the 250-year-old tavern Tuesday to feast on jellied soup, baked country ham with yams, hominy pits, spinach, corn bread and Indian pudding. The tab was a nostalgic 18 cents. The tavern is where George Washington bid farewell to his officer. i Kallinger Defense Emphasizes 'Mental Problems' Athens school district residents will face a five mill property tax increase as the result of the 1975-76 schools budget formally adopted by the board of education last night. The present property tax is 82 mills, and this will be increased to 87 mills, or $5 more per $1,000 assessed property valuation.
The budget as adopted is for $5,461,992, up $543,845 over last year. Costs of supplies In general, coupled with rising costs of most facets of school operation are cited as a big factor in the hike. But probably the most notable is $137,000 which has to be paid in a lump sum as the district's share in the Bradford County Vocational- Technical School which is expected to be constructed in the near future in the North Towanda area. However, once the school is in operation, the district is expect ed to be reimbursed for 75 per cent of this figure. The board tentatively adopted the new budget at its May meet ing, and it has been on review in the office of the secretary since that time.
But no actual property tax figure had been ct until last night. ne otner taxes to SUpport the budget (one per cent wage tax, 400 mill occupation tax, one per Marilee Rider Tioga Central Girl's Athletic Assicoiation during her high school years. Marilee has been a member of the All-County Chorus for the past three years. In September she will be attending Wells College where she plans to major in math. Tioga Central graduation will take place at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, June 22, in the high school gymasium.
agreed as part of the diswigag-mrnt agreement 18 months ago to allow cargo bound for Israel through the waterway. He said if Egypt does not honor this pledge, Israel position in future pvace negotiations would be tougher, but "the Israeli reaction would in any case not l)e military." After Israel announced it wai thinning out its front-line forces as a good-will gesture Sadat indicated cargoes for Israel would be allowed through the canal' if Israel made further concessions. The withdrawal left only 3.500 Israeli troops and 15 tanks in the six-mile-wide, limited forces 7onj adjoining the United Nations buffer zone between Israeli and Egyptian forces on the east side of the canal. All Israeli artillery and missiles were pulled back behind the Pass, at least 18 miles from the canal, and 3,500 troops and 15 tanks were withdrawn from the front lilies. Teres said Israel was taking a risk, but it was a political move that he hoped would be "a real contribution for an additional relaxation in this troubled area." Meanwhile, the prospects for Arab unity on Israel's northern front improved with a conciliatory Syrian move in the bitter Syrian-Iraqi dispute over the waters of the Euphrates River.
Syria said it would let Iraq get more water by increasing the flow through the new Tak-ba Dam as a "gesture of good will." The announcement did not say how much the flow would be increased or when the action would be taken. But Iraqi igation Minister Makram Tala-bani welcomed the move and urged that it be done quickly because the fields of 3 million Iraqi peasants are suffering from drought. The Iraqi minister said ha was ready "now and in the future to accept mediation from experts to get a just solution." Syria said mediation by Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, had cleared the air enough to make an agreement possible. nical testimony presented by the defense that must be resolved," said Dauphin County Court Judge John C. Dowling.
"It's a legal argument," said Dist. Atty. Leroy Zimmerman. The lawyers were trying to decide "whether or not the 'esti-niony of the experts is submitted to the jury under the Mc-Naughton Rule," Zimmerman said. The McNaughton Rule is the determination in Pennsylvania of whether a defendant is guilty when he cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.
Defense witnesses have indicated Kallinger may have had mental problems but they could not give a precise evaluation. Malcolm Berkowitz, Kallinger's lawyer, opened the defense case Tuesday, saying Kallinger was fither incapable of judging right from wrong, or was under the influence of chemicals used in his Philadelphia shoe repair shop, if he did in fact commit the Dec. 3 robbery near here. The court heard testimony from Kallinger's wife, Elizabeth, a toxicologist who said the shoe shop chemicals could causa brain damage, and a psychiatrist who said Kallinger might be insane. Mrs.
Kallinger said her husband's behavior changed last year, when he began telling her he heard voices and saw colors, people and animals she couldn't see. She also said he suffered finm headaches, acted drunk without drinking, frequently complained about dizziness and once was found 100 miles from home in Hazleton, with am-nvsia. When Berkowitz asked her about Kallinger's reaction to the mysterious death last year of their son. Joseph Kallinger Mrs. Kallinger appeared near tears.
"He (the son) ran away one time and never came back again Do you really have to talk about him?" she asked. Dr. FreJnc Rieders of Phila- c'tlphia. an expert on toxic poi sons, stifitd that inhalation of solvents Kallinger uvd to cement, dean or dye shoes could affect his bchar.cr. added: "The United States is in a unique position to help promote a peaceful solution and I assure you we will make that effort." Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinucr on Tuesday voiced a similar assessment of Ford's meeting with Sadat. "I'm not saying there is going to be progress. I'm saving there could be. "We can move into a phase of more specificity" after Ford meets next week with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Washington, a senior American official said Tuesday night as Ford flew home. CADET DEAN MORNINGSTAR one of the escorts to President Ford at the annual Army-Navy football game which was held in Philadelphia in November of last year.
elation, and has spent 27 years with the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. The evening's festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with a co*cktail hour, highlighted by exhibits from area businesses and industries, including Athens Building Loan and Savings Association; Ingersoll-Rand Company; International Stock Foods Northern Central Bank and Trust Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre Rotary Club; and Stroehmann Brothers Dancing to the music of Doll and the Country Travellers will round out the evening's entertainment. Tickets for the affair are available by contacting the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce office, 106 W. Lockhart Sayre, or by calling 883-2871.
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MMWMMWiiiiiliilllilllllfclllllitillillMllMliJIIII Shoemaker To Address Annua! Chamber of Commerce Banquet HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Testimony in the robbery trial of Joseph Kallinger moved toward completion today with the defense attempting to gain a verdict based on Kallinger's al leged mental problems. Kallinger, 38, is now in the seventh day of his trial on char ges that he and his 12-year-old son robbed four suburban Har-risburg women of $20,000 at a residential home last December. He also is charged with other alleged father-son crimes in New Jersey and Maryland, including one murder. The start of today's proceedings was delayed to enable lawyers to argue about whether certain defense testimony would be allowed.
"We're going to take an ex tended recess because of tech- Mvron Shoemaker, founder and executive director of the Endless Mountains Association, will present the keynote address at the annual dinner-dance of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce to be held Saturday at the Paddock Room in Waver ly. One of the nation's leading conservationists, Mr. Shoemak er was the first recipient of the Keystone Conservation Award presented by the Soil Conserva tion Society of America. He has also been honored by. the United States Soil Conservation Service and is listed among Whose Who in Conservation in the Library of Congress.
Author of Fresh Water Fishing, a college reference text, and My Fish Friends, a children's book used in schools throughout the United States, Mr. Shoemak er is also the director of the Susquehanna River Basin Asso- cause it could be the forerunner of as much as $1 billion in sales to other countries. Vanden Boeynants came to Washington in an effort to gain improvements in the deal offered by the United States to four NATO countries, including Belgium. The four are shopping for up to 350 new planes to replace the aging U. FlOls.
The Belgian decision could be crucial because the other three countries in the consortium the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark have made their choice of the F16 contingent on Belgium going along with them. The Belgian cabinet arranged a special session later today to conxder the question amid conflicting indications of the is U.S. and France Haggle Over Planes to Belgium WASHINGTON CAP) To en-courage Belgium to select the U. S. F16 fighter plane over the French Mirage Fl, the United States may buy Belgian weapons if it chooses the American plane.
Pentagon officials said the French' have threatened to withhold orders for Belgian rifles if Belgium rejects the Mirage. To offset this, Belgian Defense Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants reportedly was told Monday during meetings with Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and other Pentagon officials that the United States might purchase some P-lgian weapons. The NATO order is highly prized, not only because it would be worth about $2 bJlion, but be Whittling Away Time Dr. F.
Harlan Booher. center, who retired because his malpractice insurance rates were raised 200 per cent, turns his attention to whittling with friends at the Moort County Farmer's Cooperative at Lynchburg, Tenn. He was never involved in a malpractice suit. (AP Wirephoto).
