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111 KlGONIER AMERICAN Cgl! i LEGION FRIDAY SPECIAL 2 PAGE 12 THE LATROBE BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1976 UPI Gives Voters Dem Scorecard Thumbnail Biographies Of Convention Officers FISH DINNER Includai French Frwt, Col Slow. Roll ond Buttar a 3 to 2 PUBLICINVITED! I --tr wmn i saint Vincent summer theatre wan OPENING T0NITE AT 1:10 AN ADULT DRAMA -WHEN YOB COVIN IACI (ED ITWIP PHONE 17-t00 rmmn llSsk JACK BRANDO NICHOLSON permanent con-ventlon chairman. Mrs. Boggs, 61, the widow of former House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs, was elected to his seat when he vanished on a plane flight In Alaska in 1971 She is a native of New Orleans and a 1935 graduate of Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University. A teacher before her marriage, she was active in Democratic Party activities for years before succeeding her husband in a special election in 1973.

She is the first woman elected to the House from Louisiana. She has three children. John Glenn, D- Ohio; co-keynote speaker. Glenn, 54, is a former Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut who in 1962 became the first American to orbit Earth in a rocket. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Glenn is a 1939 graduate of Muskingum College and NOW THRU TUESDAY PREPARE FOR NEW SEASON Esther Rolle (left), who portrays Florida Evans, and Ja'net DuBois, her next door neighbor and friend, Willona, discuss their problems on the set of the hit CBS series "Good Times" which will be returning for a new season this fall.

Some controversy has surrounded the show because co-star John Amos has quit the series and CBS does not plan to replace him. However, various black groups in the country claim this will give the series a bad image in that it portrays a black family trying to get along without a father and they want a replacement named. NEW YORK (UPI) -Thumbnail biographies of the officers at the Democratic national convention: S. Strauss, Demoerat-ic National Committee chair-man; temporary convention chairman. Strauss, 59, took over the Democratic National Committee in December, 1972 after the McGovern election disaster.

He had been party treasurer in the two years previous and was responsible for largely liquidating the party's $9 million debt in curred in the 1968 campaign. He is a native of Lockhart, and a graduate of the University of Texas, receiving a law degree in 1941. He was an FBI agent briefly before entering law practice. He also has banking and broadcasting interests in Dallas, where he now lives. He is married and has three children.

Corrine C. "Undy" Boggs, THRU TUESDAY held ova PG fl SHHHHIII now RON HOWARD pops tit cfutct tad tells tit 7 Alvin Adams Dewey Famous Kansas Lawman Recalled SUMMER THEATRE GUILD prntntt ThmSeeftAHalrs ofMlldrmdWIld" by Zlndel JULY 15 thru JULY 17 Indiana University of Pennsylvania CURTAIN 8:30 P.M. TICKETS 12.50 Mch FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE ksoifiwir tmitiit- 1 1 iSWS i 'f Kit Thiwildetf ear than ever filmed- KlfHIHllIll FEATURE TIMES: 7:00 9:00 P.M. (PG8 10:00 A.M. a served in the Marines in both World War II and Korea.

After leaving the space program in 1965, he engaged in business and made an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1968. He was elected to the Senate In 1971 He is married and has two children. Barbara Jordan, co-keynote speaker. Ms. Jordan, 40, in 1972 became the first black woman elected to the House from a southern state.

Bom in Houston, she is a 1956 graduate of Texas Southern University and Boston University, where she received a law degree in 1959. She served in the Texas State Senate from 1967 until she was elected to Congress. She was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during its 1974 impeachment proceedings. She is a fiery orator who can galvanize a political gathering in an instant She is unmarried. Wendell Anderson, Min-nesota; chairman of Platform Committee.

Anderson, 43, was elected governor of Minnesota in 1970 after serving 12 years in the state legislature, which he entered while still a law student. A native of St. Paul, Anderson was a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic hockey team and still plays the game in an "old timer's" league. He received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1960 after his education was interrupted for two years in the Army.

He is married and has three children. Alan Cranston, O- chairman of Credentials Com-mittee. Cranston, 62, was elected to the Senate in 1968 and reflected in 1974, after a decade of experience in California state government and Democratic Party affairs. Born in Palo Alto, Cranston was graduated in 1936 from Stanford and worked two years as a correspondent in Europe for the old International News Service. He worked in the Office of War Information and served in the Army during World War II.

He was elected state controller in 1958 and served two four-year terms. He is married and has two children. Rep. Martha Grif-fiths, chairman of Rules Committee. Mrs.

Griffiths, 64, retired from the House in 1974 after 20 years of service. She was born in Pierce City, and graduated from the University of Missouri and the University of Michigan law school. She served in the Michigan legislature from 1949 to 1952 and was recorder and judge of the Recorder's Court of the Detroit Election; Commission in 1953. She Is married. MltOfct TIMRTUY RnTTMKdltlll CrflDCC.Bn IMWIVC.

BICENTENNIAL FESTIVAL OF WORSHIP BILL CURRY of KDKA-TV LdE A SMALLTOWN IN TEXAS niiZm. brought national attention to Deweyrwho broke the case. He had been in police work since the 1930s. "The solution of the Clutter case was my most satisfying moment in law enforcement," he said. One year, Dewey was involved, in 16 homicide investigations and solved all but one of the crimes.

After a career of nearly 40 years, Dewey retired here last year at the age of 63. At that time he said he would like to see every state restore capital punishment for murder. "The do-gooders say capital punishment is no deterrent to crime," he says. "But you can juggle statistics any way you 1 want. I do know that when Kansas outlawed it, the number of homicides in-1 creased." tom ruoHLtM in COMING SOON "OUTLAW JOSIY.WALIS" Sunday, July 18, 1976 Derry Area High School Stadium Music by the.

JACOBS BROTHERS fSSB-l ARE BACK IN DOWNTOWN LATROBE. IT'S VALLEY DAIRY DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST DIPPING REAL ICE CREAM WITH A SCOOP IN REAL OLD FASHIONED CAKE CONES, PLIA MKT. IVIRY SUNDAYI BORN LOSERo fo IN CONES SHAKES SUNDAES WITH THE 8 CHANNEL MONITOR BUY OR ORDER TERMS AVAILABLE GARDEN CITY, Kansas (UPI) One of the illustrious law men of the Middle West was Alvin Adams Dewey. He was known as a nemesis of killers. More than a decade ago he watched an executioner's noose tighten at the necks of two notorious killers, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock.

Dewey was the man who tracked them down and put them on the hangman's scaffold. As he watched, the Kansas bureau of investigation agent felt no regret at their deaths. "All I could think about was their victims," Dewey says. "I didn't feel the least bit sorry for the murderers." The victims were Herbert Clutter and his wife, son and daughter. They were murdered in their western Kansas farmhouse on Nov.

15, 1959. The brutality of the affair became the basis of Truman Capote's bestrselling book, "In Cold Blood." The farmhouse murders Testimony Under Way At Trial DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (UPI) Testimony has begun in the first-degree murder trial of George Geschwendt with the prosecution attempting to prove that the defendant carefully planned the slayings of six persons last March. A jury of seven women and five men was seated Wednesday in the trial of Geschwendt, 24, charged with murdering five members of the John Abt family and a family friend. Following opening arguments, District Attorney Kenneth Biehn called Michael Abt, one of two surviving sons, as his first witness.

Abt continues his testimony today and is expected to describe his discovery of the victims' bodies. In his arguments, Biehn claimed the murders were well planned by Geschwendt, a neighbor of Abt has been described as quiet and reclusive. Richard Fink, Gesch-wendt's attorney, told jurors he plans to use a defense of insanity. He claimed Geschwendt was a "paranoid schizophrenic" who was not in full command of his senses at the time of the slayings. Victims of the March 12 shootings were Abt, 49; his wife, Margaret, 47; their daughters, Margie, 19, and Kathy, 12; a son, John 13, and Margie's boyfriend, Gar son Engle, 20.

Geschwendt was arrested March 23. The Jury, which Included two alternates, was sworn in on the third day of jury selection before Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Paul R. Beckett It will be sequestered through the duration of the trial expected to last about two weeks. SHAKES AND SUNDAES AT 1 IMS Yew? Cl tpl I Enjoy a tasty North Atlantic fish dinner hjm complete with 2 pieces of a i S1 fish with french fries, cole ff I uly slaw and a roll with butter. Morgan's cS li EPA To Conduct State Project PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -The Environmental Protection Agency and two electric companies will conduct a three year project to demonstate the effectiveness of physical coal cleaning as a method of meeting federal and state air pollution laws.

It was announced Wednesday that the $4 million project will be conducted near Indiana, at the Homer City Generating Complex, being constructed by the Pennsylvania Electric Co. and the New York State Electric and Gas Corp. Daniel J. Snyder HI, EPA regional administrator, said physical coal cleaning is considered a possible alternative to flue gas desulfurization systems, or Vscrubbers," which are currently the primary method of controlling sulfer oxides from coal-fired power plants. Scrubbers remove sulfer oxides from gas streams after coal combustion.

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