LEAN ON ME Two unidentified skaters give each other some mutual support this morning at benefit skate-a-thon at Magic River Skateland. The 24-hour event will conclude this evening at 6. (Danville News Karla Bloskey) Area Deaths Beatrice Mae Sampsell Beatrice Mae Sampsell, 89, former of Milton Towers, 50 Mahoning Milton, died Sunday evening at Kramm Healthcare Center, wehre she had been a guest since 1983. Local survivors include a sister, Mrs. Marty Strausser, Danville RD.
wetll be held al 1:50 p.M!" Wednesday from the Dale E. Ranck Funeral Service, Milton. Burial will be in New Columbia. Oletha R. Kratzer Oletha R.
Kratzer, 85, of 1004 Elm Watsontown, died Saturday in Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg. Survivors include a brother, Carl Yeager, Danville RD6. Services were held today in Watsontown. Harold Sam Cooper Harold Sam Cooper, 87, of 223 East Ninth Watsontown, died Friday in Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg. A Milton native, he was the father of Warrior Run School District Superintendent Samuel E.
Cooper of Watsontown. Services were held. Monday in Milton. E. Roy Geiger E.
Roy Geiger, 88, Milton RD 2, a former Turbot Township supervisor, was fatally stricken at his home Monday at 5 p.m. A Montour County native, he was born in Limestone Township on May 22, 1898, son of the late William and Jennie Reese Geiger. Mr. Geiger was a retired farmer and had also worked at a brick yard in Watsontown. He retired in 1961.
He served as Turbot Township supervisor until the age of 72. He had attended the Follmer Lutheran Church, Milton RD2. Surviving are his wife, the former Agnes Grace Mordan, with whom he celebrated a 60th wedding niversary on April two sons, Donald W. Geiger, Watsontwon RD and Larue Milton RD a sister, Bertha M. Wagner, Washingtonville; six grandchildren and seven great-gi children.
Services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. from the William F. Brooks Funeral Home, Turbotville, with the Zimmerman, Follmer Rev. P. Philip Lutheran Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Washingtonville Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. lola E. Young. Services for Iola E.
Young were held at 2 p.m. today at Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ray Schloyer officiating. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery under the direction of the John J. Brady Funeral Home.
NEWS CLASSIFIEDS GET THE DANVILLE NEWS, Ms Senior America Pageant set Women representing various counties and senior organizations throughout the state will take part in the pageant for ladies 60 years and older. The participants will express their life style in evening gown, talent, philosophy of beauty, and an interview with the judges, The winner of the Pennsylvania pageant will receive an all-expensepaid trip to Atlantic City, where she will represent Pennsylvania in the Ms Senior America finals at Resorts International Casino March 30, 31 and April 1 and 2. Further information can be obtained by contacting Maureen Donovan, national pageant director, 33 Ashbrooke Voorhees, N.J., or Jane Stewart, director The Rutherford House, P.O. Box 4025, Harrisburg, 17111. The Pennsylvania State Ms Senior America Pageant will be held on Tuesday, Nov.
11, at the Hershey Convention Center. WACC students. get tuition subsidies Commonwealth Bank and Trust Company and the Williamsport Area Community College have announced an agreement by which Commonwealth will provide $10,000 in tuition reimbursement funds for a number of area residents who attend the college. Under the program, a minimum of 12 full-time students and one part- TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1906 Regional news briefs had spent the past year for violating a parole condition that he have no further contact with Boyer. He repeatedly bothered the woman after being released from jail previously then was imprisoned again.
Judge Jay W. Myers last sentenced Schlee in May 1985 to three consecutive four-to-12-month jail terms. Gas station fire cause found pile of burning trash apparently started the fire at Snyder's Gas Station on Saturday. According to fire reports, the trash appeared to have been burned by coowner Bob Snyder or someone helping him just before the 8:30 a.m. blaze.
A fire official said several aerosol cans exploded in the fire outside the rear of the garage. Stonington Fire Chief Jeff Arnold said be and Fire Marshall Donald Auman, state police at Selinsgrove, determined the cause Monday. Damages were not yet estimated. According to Arnold, Snyder had insurance only on the contents of the station. The fire blazed for hours, as the firemen tried to keep it from spreading to vents that ran from the side of the building to underground tanks that held 9,000 gallons of gasoline.
Party still on Thomas Shoemaker's party is still on, despite borough Council's rejection last week of Shoemaker's request to block off an alley for the party. Shoemaker, 52, of.11 Iron said he plans to have an anniversary and birthday party on private property "in the vicinity" of his home from 6 p.m. to midnight on Aug. 31.. Since Council's rejection, Shoemaker has trimmed his guest list of 125 to 150 people to about 100 people.
He also plans to have a disc jockey instead of a band. Radioactive water leaks BERWICK Two workers came in contact with radioactive water that leaked from a valve at the Susquehanna nuclear plant Monday morning. The workers were wearing protective clothing and were unharmed, according to Herbert Woodeshick, Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. special assistant to the president. The spill of less than 200 gallons of "mildly" radioactive water in the Unit 2 reactor building was collected in floor drains without incident, he said.
The water leaked as plant crews were doing tests that are part of the refueling and inspection outage. Such occurrences are considered minor and do not need to be reported to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Work during the outage is about on schedule and the completion of the outage will not be affected by the spill, Woodeshick said. Unit 2 shut down for its first refueling Aug. 9.
Woodeshick said fuel is now being removed from the Unit 2 reactor, an operation that is expected to take about one week. Driver charged with DUI COURTHOUSE The driver whose Jeep slammed into a Walnut Street home early Saturday morning, nearly missing a sleeping woman and baby, was charged Monday afternoon with drunken driving and driving with a suspended operator's license. Michael Timothy Brady, 28, 501 Laurel Drive, Danville, had a bloodalcohol level of 0.24 percent when his Jeep jumped the curb near the Pine. Street intersection and slammed into a porch at the Mary Lutz residence, 16 Walnut police charge. The crash caused an overhanging roof to collapse, and the vehicle tore up the yard, knocked down a fence and crushed plastic trash caps.
At the time, Lutz and a foster child in her care were sleeping about a foot away from where the Jeep struck the house outside, according to the woman. A preliminary hearing will be scheduled before District Justice Robert Geiger. Harassment case sent to court COURTHOUSE Harassment charges filed against Samuel H. Schlee, 36, were bound over to Montour County Court Monday following a preliminary hearing before District Justice Robert Geiger. Schlee was arrested last month on four counts of harassment by communication for allegedly calling Mary Ann Boyer, 664 Bloom Road, at various times.
Schlee, formerly of Mahoning Township and most recently of 425 Mill Danville, had just been paroled last month from. the county jail, where he Charley weakens, heads to sea ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) Hurricane Charley buffeted the East Coast from the Outer Banks to the Boardwalk, claiming six lives but causing little property damage, then veered seaward and weakened to a tropical storm. Charley, which developed quickly Sunday, into a minimal 75-mph hurricane off North Carolina, did not relieve the drought that has gripped the South for the same reason it failed to inflict much damage its strongest rains and winds stayed offshore as it rumbled up the coast. "The west side is always the weak side and it's better when the weak side is toward the land," said Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center.
The storm reached North Carolina's Outer Banks about noon Sunday and howled up the Pamlico Sound before crossing. the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia around midnight. It surged past Ocean City, Monday morning, then veered to the east of Atlantic City and well into the open Atlantic. Thousands of vacationers caught by surprise by the season's third tropical twister had left Banks early Sunday and thousands more fled from Virginia's Eastern Shore and Ocean City, that night. But the Navy kept its -huge fleet in port at the Norfolk Navy Base in Virginia.
storm knocked out power briefly to as many as 180,000 coastal customers in Virginia alone, but repair crews had turned most lights back on by nightfall Monday after Charley veered away from the mainland and weakened as it rushed northeastward into the chilly northern Atlantic. The storm, which claimed six lives on the mid-Atlantic coast, was expected to continue to weaken as it howled northeastward at 15 mph to 20 mph, and forecasters said, "It is now mainly of concern to marine Early today, tropical storm Charley's top winds were only 50 mph. It was about 75 miles southsoutheast of Nantucket Island, near latitude 40.2 north, longitude 69.8 west. All coastal gale time student would receive a shar the tuition support provided by Con monwealth, in both the 1986 and college years. The maximum be per student would be $808 per year.
Applicants must be enrolled in degree or certificate program at college and must residency for a period of 13 months in an area serviced by the cluding residents of Montour, thumberland, and Columbia ties. Fourteen area residents to attend the College this fall been selected as eligible to receive the tuition subsidies for the coming semester. They include: John A Carr Jr. of 31 Park Danville; William R. Green 621 Front Danville; and Lucille M.
Keener of Turbotville. Lotto 9,24,7, 8, 12, 20 Alternate 16 YESTERDAY'S DAILY LOTTERY NO. 628 PLAY ALL WEEK WITH ONE STOP AT FINN'S News Agency WACC grants total $1.5 million The Williamsport Area Community College has announced this summer alone, the college has received grants totalling $1,548,854 to support instructional programs and services. Dr. Grant Berry, dean of development, said funds awarded through the grant approvals mostly federal vocational education grants will be 'used for' curriculum development, equipment anar college projects, including those to provide support services to veterans and the handicapped.
"If our graduates are to be competitive in the employment market, it is essential that program curricula and training facilities and equipment be up to standards that meet contemporary requirements of the working world," Dr. Berry said. "The faculty and administration of the Williamsport Area Community College not only believe in this philosophy we put a great deal of effort into securing the external fun-, necessary to put the philosophy to work by keeping college curricula and campus facilities up-to-date," he added. ARE YOU NEW TO DANVILLE? We Would Like to Know! To Welcome You, We Have a FREE 2 Week Subscription! Please complete the Coupon 0001 and mail it to our offices, THE DANVILLE NEWS 14 East Mahoning St. Danville, PA 17821 MAIL are New to the Area Date Address Phone warnings were canceled, but tides were 1 to 3 feet above normal from Fire Island, N.Y., to Chatham, Mass.
The National Weather Service said Charley, which caused flooding and accidents on rainslick roads in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Monday, would miss New England today by "at least 200 miles east of Cape Cod." Charley's winds were blamed for knocking a twin engine plane into the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, killing all three people aboard. Three other people were killed in auto accidents authorities blamed on the storm in Virginia, North Carolina and Rhode Island. The highest winds of the storm a gust of 104 mph struck Virginia Sunday on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which was closed for several hours to traffic. The storm began easing away from the mainland as it approached New Jersey's 137-mile coast, which suffered $53 million in damage when it was raked last year by Hurricane Gloria. Charley passed almost unnoticed, especially by customers of Atlantic City's glittering casinos.
Cadet attends ROTC camp Cadet Kurt W. Hauk, son of Dr. Frederick and Leitha Hauk of Sun- bury RD 1, received practical work leadership at the my ROTC advanced camp, Fort Bragg, N.C. The six week camp, attended by cadets normally between their third and fourth year of college, includes instruction. in communications, management and survival training.
Successful completion of the advanced camp and graduation from college results in a commission as a second lieutenant in either the U.S. Army, Army Reserve or National Guard for the cadet. RD1 I man cited Peter Craig Lutz, 27, Danville RD 1, was cited Monday for disorderly conduct for causing annoyance and alarm by yelling and threatening Joan M. Lutz, 206 Upper Mulberry St. Hand Made What distinguishes Harden from most assure that exposed wood surfaces are furniture is the extraordinary amount of satin smooth to the touch and resistant hand work that goes into each piece.
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