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Show Page 20—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Wednesday, October 20, 1971 Nursing HomeFire Kills HONESDALE, Pa. (UPI)—A the fire within the building.” fire broke out at bedtime in a The chief said some of the private nursing home for the residents were sitting in arm elderly and spread so swiftly chairs and others were lying in that all 15 residents were killed bed. One man was foundin the before they could make an hallway. They werein their late 70s and 80s he said. Some were effort to escape. ‘Thefire Tuesday night at the bedridden. Practical nurse Vaudine Geiger Nursing homenear here caused the asphyxiation deaths Lyon, the home’s only attenof 10 women and five men dant. was taken to Wayne patients, according to Robert County Merial Hospitai here, Jennings, Wayne County Coro- treated for snock, and held for ner, in the northeastern corner observation. She was the only person in the building to of the state. “Some of them were found in escape. A fireman wastreated bed and others on the floor and for smokeinhalation. Mrs, Joyce Geiger, owner of it looks like most of them weren't aware of what hap- the nursing home, was recuperpened,” said firemen Larry ating from an operation across Martone, brother of Fire Chief the street at the home of her Vince Martone. “There wasn’t daughter, Mrs. Ronald Gardas. any indication that theytried to Mrs. Geiger’s husband, Harvey, wasin Honesdale at the time of get out.” Chief Martone said the fire ihe fire. State police in this communibegan in a laundry room “and had a good start by the time it ty near the Pennsylvania-New York border said they “expectbroke out of that room.” “When we got there, heat ed the worst” and estimates of was especially intense in the the number of casualties laundry room section,” he said. ranged as high as 20 at one “It was evident rescue atint. Jennings said the patier + tempts would be futile and instead we simply tried to keep were preparing for bed when the fire broke out and some covered themselves with sheets and biankets in an attempt to escape the billowing smoke pouring from the building, located’ on an isolated rural road in nearby Texas Township. The bodies of four victims had been recovered by 10:30 p.m., but firemen had to use smoke ejectors to clear the gutted interior sufficiently to enter and recover the other bodies Flames destroyed the main building of the converted farmhouse, which contained a dormitory, recreation area and dining room and raced through the facility, trapping the victims inside. Mrs. Dorothy Smith Richards, a cook, she served 16 meals in the dining room before leaving the nursing home just after dusk. “It happened so fast,” said a volunteer fireman. “It was a flash fire, Most of the probiem was smoke and a lack of water. The only wayinto the building was with air packs.” * Bodies were taken to a makeshift morgue. Honesdale, Pa., are inspected by firemen and found trapped in beds or chairs, dying, according to the coroner, of smokeinhalation. A coroner where 15 elderly persons died in a fire Tuesday. Ten women and five men were licensed practical nurse was the only person to eseape the building. RUINS OF A NURSING HOME near CROWN PRINCESS MICHIKO, who celebrated her 37th birthday today, plays with her daughter, Princess Nori, in the garden of the Togu Palacein Tokyo. Theprincess has two sons and one daughter. Sovereignty HintedFor Panama Over Canal Zone; U.S. Retains Operation WASHINGTON (UPI) —Panamanian officials report that the United States virtually has agreed to give Panama sovereignty over the Panama Canal, although operation of the waterway will remain under .S. control. State Department spokesman Charles W. Bray confirmed Tuesday that negotiations on a new Panama Canaltreaty were progressing well. But Bray also pointed out that ‘“‘a number of key issues remain to be decided.” Negotiators for Panama and the United States have been oy MN Gal SKELETON meeting for four months, with @ most major issues apparently decided, Bray hinted WITH M NG 80 COUNT CARAMELS ARM ACKGROUND and Panamanian sources declared. KISS-WRAPPED IN COLORFUL -E-E-E DOOR ORANGE AND BLACK CELLOPHANE || Officer Killed Over Garbage Dump Argument BELLEFONTE,Pa. (UPI)— John Tressler, 48, lived on top of Purdue Mountain, three miles from this town of 6,000, and ran a garbagelandfill. Neighbors complained the garbage dump emitted noxious odors and unattractive smoke, but when asked to clean it up, Tressler swore ‘‘the people of Bellefonte were out to get him and he was going to start hitting back,”officials said. Tuesday morning, a sheriff served Tressler with an injunction to close down his. landfill, and police said, Tuesday afternoon Tresslerhit back. Tressler was charged early today with the .surder of Bellefonte Patrolman Ronald D. Seymore, 29, the father of five children and the wounding of auxiliary policeman Clarence Seaward, 45. Police said the two men were shot while directing afternoon tush hour traffic in front of the off in a brown auto with two other men. State police armed with shotguns found Tressler alone five and one-half hours later in a hunting cabin in some mountain woods abcut 40 miles from here. He was charged on a general count of murder before a district magistrate. Two of Tressler’s sons and his son-in-law, Ralph Walter Mayor Ellis 0, Keller said \ Compare ct $1.69 yh q | Compare at 57: 79% BAG | 5 eS unsanitary, and only Monday, \ The voice is supposedly that of Col. Frank Barker, commander of the task force that pushed through the South Vietnamese hamlet on March recording and contended superior as ‘ I DELUXE OB: 7 MASQUERADE aPY WIGS MIRACLE FIBERS : > ———— , © LARGE YOUTH OR TEEN-AGER SIZE @ FULL FACIAL DEPTH © SIX CHARACTERS—ONE TO SUIT YOUR MOOD Compare at 33: (a) , . —/ 59 EACH it 64: $1.19 EACH KIT COMBINATION OF MAKE-UP — FALSE PLAY TEETH AND NOSE PUTTY. *& NON-TOXIC 3x HARMLESS *& WASHES OFF WITH SOAP AND WATER 11th brigade commander at the time, was misled by subordinates as to what really took place during the operation. 16, 1968—leaving at least a Judge Peter S. Wondolowski hundred civilians dead. granted a prosecution motion His written report on the Tuesday that it be allowed to operation can’t be found, if monitor the tape, and this was indeed there was one. So done; but he withheld a Henderson’s defense attorneys decision of its admissability as say they are depending heavily evidence until the defense on a taped recording in which a offers it, The prosecution has comvoice identified as Barker's assessed the assault. pleted its presentation which That assessment, according began Aug. 23. Presuming to civilian defense counsel denial of defense motions for Henry Rothblatt, was that the dismissal of the charges, to be thing wasa success,leaving 128 presented Nov. 4 and 5, Viet Cong dead. Many of 62 testimony for the defense will witnesses presented by the begin Nov, 8. prosecution told of seeing scores of unarmed civilians A man who weighs 150 killed, but no Communist pounds on the earth would retaliatory action. weigh about two tons on the In this trial now in its ninth sun, & i would help prove Henderson, Barker's 2) Compare at In Defense of Henderson Lai ‘a ? Voice of Dead Man May Provide Key Evidence My Big assortment for boys and girls. Sizes Small - Medi- Treat-size POUCH packs. —ASTRONAUT OR GYP: Rey Halloween GOOD AND PLENTY he said the people of Bellefonte were out to get him and he was going to get his army and start hitting back,” Keller said. Centre County Courthouse in Sheriff Richard Waite of this central Pennsylvania com- Centre County, who served munity. Tressle> with the injunction Seaward was treated at Tuesday morning, said he Centre County Hospital and warned Bellefonte police aftewthen transferred to Hershey ards that Tressler had vowed Medical Center. “to clean up Bellefonte with Police said the assailant sped gunsthis afternoon.” Henderson against coverup charges. BAG COSTUMES 40 COUNT CHILDREN'S MLO the violence was apparently triggered by a magistrate’s order Monday that the landfill be closed. “His landfill has been very FT, MEADE, Md. (UPI)— week, the government has The voice of a man dead for sought to prove that Henderson, nearly three and a half years 51, shirked his duty to may provide key evidence ir investigate reports of atrocities. the defense of Col. Oran K The defense produced the 57: 79 9 ECONOMY. Costumes Perryman, were arrested in an auto by a party of state troopers in Lock Haven, Pa., 40 miles northeast of Bellefonte. Compare at Compare at or sR UTT NG Sanwa OPEN WEEKDAYS 9AM to9 PM mR WP ¢ CORNET 31 Prey Pera pT WESTERN CORNET 41 SOUTH STATE, OREM Legit 00 my & BESTEOHtgs ss: SUNDAYS 11 AM to7 PM pk SHEE |