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Weather Jest For Today A A Cloudy Today, Chanco Of Rain, High In 50 How can you say baseball builds character when players are encouraged to steal bases? XAy StysyAr sr aW (OMIkhlill Metropolitan Lancaster 1970 V.S. Census 320,079 LANCASTER, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1975. Prico 1 Sc Daily Homo Dolivorod 90c A Wotlc 181st 143 CITY EDITION Slain Students Wife, ith Knife in Suburb Apartment By JOHN DRYBRED Intoll Staff Writer door unlocked and the woman lying fully clothed and face-up on the living room floor, just inside the apartment door. Besides the fatal stab wound of the neck. West said the victim had been stabbed a few more times in the upper body.

ft i 'r er from Millersville, said the woman died from a stab wound to the left side of her neck. West said she was stabbed with a butcher knife which apparently came from the kitchen of the apartment and was sticking in her neck when she was found. Manor Township police received the call to investigate at 8:42 p.m. Friday. Sgt.

James Reever, who took the call, said notification came from a man named Little (first name not known early today). Police said they believe Little was an uncle to either the victim or her husband, and that he discovered the womans body when he came to visit at the apartment Friday night. West said Little found the apartment A 20-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in the blood-stained living room of her suburban apartment Friday night. Manor Township Police identified her as Mrs. Lindy Sue Biechler, wife of Philip D.

Biechler, 104-A Kloss Drive, Spring Manor Apartments. Manor Township police Lt. Harvey West, in charge of the investigation, said the case is being treated as a homicide. Police were interviewing members of the victims family early today including her husband but West emphasized that there are no suspects at this time. Dr.

Clyde Musselman, deputy coron He said there was a lot of blood on the floor around the door and in the living room, but no signs of a violent struggle. West said he learned the victim had gone grocery shopping after leaving work at the Landis Flower and Gift Shop, 28 Cottage about 5 p.m. She carried her groceries in and put Lindy Su Biechler Found Stabbed More STUDENT'S Page 2 County Eyes Jetliners In Near-Miss lnftlligmr Journal phot 2 -Mill Boost This is the outside of the building at Spring Manor Apartments where a woman was found stabbed to death Friday night. In 76 Taxes Search Ordered Lancaster County faces in 1976 one of the tightest financial squeezes in its history. Real estate taxes, now at 14 mills, are expected to be increased at least two mills next year to help meet debt requirements, pay increases for employes and growing community needs and concerns.

CHICAGO (AP) United Airlines flight 291 from Providence, R.I., to OHare International Airport here nearly collided over Lake Michigan FYiday with a Trans World Airlines jetliner, United officials said. A passenger on the United jet, a Boeing 727, said the pilot reported the miss had been by 50 to 100 feet but said the stewardess said it was closer to 50 feet. A United spokesman said the flight carried 53 passengers and a crew of seven while TWA flight 403, also a 727 jet, en route to OHare from Hartford, carried 70 passengers and a crew of seven. The incident occurred on the Michigan side of the lake; a spokesman said. There were no injuries.

Last week two jumbo jets carrying more than 300 passengers Is Hof fa Buried In N.J. Dump 4 i Rain Here To Mar Weekend buried in a Jersey City, N.J. landfill. One of the sources, a law enforcement official, said Friday: Its Hoffas body they believe is buried at Moscatos Dump. The 1975 budget was based on estimated expenditures of $17,534,701.

The 1976 budget is expected to be based on estimated expenditures in the neighborhood of $19 million. Current tax rate on real estate is 14 mills, increased by two mills in 1975. At an estimated $450,000,000 in taxable real estate for 1976, the two-mill increase would produce $900,000. This amount, informed sources indicated, might cover most but not all of the 1976 budget estimates. More JETLINER Page 2 DETROIT (AP) Employes of a trucking company were called before a grand jury by authorities who believe the body of ex-Teamsters President James R.

Hoffa may have been shipped to New Jersey in a barrel. A foreman for Gateway Transportation Co. confirmed Friday on night that he was one of about Total Near $34,000 half a dozen persons, including the firm's Detroit terminal manager, Edwin Streicher, who appeared Thursday before the Hoffa grand jury. ASKED ABOUT CARGO GOP Outspent PROBLEM OF RAISES brick tower will be built by the Alumni Association. Demos 2Vi To 1 In Election Rain showers are expected to mar the weekend, the weatherman said.

It will be mostly cloudy here today with showers due to move in by afternoon. The high will be in the upper 50s. Precipitation is forecast to continue on into Sunday morning. Then it will be partly cloudy and somewhat cooler. The high Sunday will be in the upper 40s.

The weatherman said there is almost no chance the precipitation will be in the form of snow. This is an artists conception of the bell tower approved by trustees at Millersville State College. The 60-foot By GIL DELANEY Intell Staff Writer MSC Bell Tower Okayed One of the biggest contributors to the squeeze on the countys assets undoubtedly is the problem of salary increases. It seems a certainty that cost of living increases will be granted in view of continued inflation. A six or seven per cent increase in wages and salaries, with a few betterments in fringe benefits, could cost as much as $300,000.

Another deficit-creating situation is the constant increase in fuel and electric costs at Conestoga View, the prison and the courthouse. These services now cost about $100,000 more than when the 1975 budget was Russell Schreiber, chairman of the alumni committee sponsonng the project, told trustees Friday that the bell tower would be in keeping with the architecture of the Biemesderfer Executive Center and Ganser Library, between which the tower would be erected. The alumni need only to get building approval from the state before the tower project can be bid. If everything goes as planned, architect David Lynch will have working drawings finished bv the end of January and Ford Vows Indonesia Aid Boost The Alumni Association of Millersville State College has received the final go-ahead from MSC trustees to erect a 60-foot brick bell tower in the center of the campus. The tower, which will house the 100-year-old bell which once rang from Old Main, is the first phase of alumni 's plan to create an Alumni Court at MSC.

The total project includes landscaping the area with about 40 trees and dozens of shrubs, extending walkways and creating a covered sitting area where students can study and relax outdoors. The budgeted project cost is $50,000 We were all down there before the grand jury, said the Gateway foreman, who asked that his name not be used. They asked us what we shipped. We are a common carrier, one of the biggest in the country, and we haul all kinds of things, including barrels. Streicher said earlier that he was questioned by the grand jury about whether any of the barrels shipped by the firm were misplaced.

He. said FBI agents came to his office and took the company's dispatch records for the period beginning the end of July and ending Aug. 10. Streicher said there was no way he could remember whether any barrels were misplaced because this is a relatively common occurrence. In another development, two sources confirmed authorities believe Hoffa's body may be formed after the bitter intraparty battle in the May primary contest.

Expense reports for the GOP Campaign Committee show contributions totaling $15,916.90 and expenses totaling $15,233.24. Expenses included $8,506.76 for advertising. The general fund account of the Republican Committee of Lancaster County took in $12,626.77 in contributions and spent $12,434.52. Expenditures included $5,000 for poll expenses. The Republican Primary Committee of Lancaster County took in $5,316.30 and spent $5,697.93.

The primary account More DEMOCRATS Page 2 Lancaster City and County Republican organizations spent nearly $34,000 in the course of the Fall election campaign, about two-and-a-half times what local Democrats spent. Democratic spending totaled $13,137.89 according to reports for the Lancaster County Democratic Campaign Committee and the Lancaster County Democratic Committee. Republicans spent a total of $33,818.10 from four accounts between the primary and general elections, expense reports filed at the local courthouse and in Harrisburg reveal. Nearly half of the GOP spending was done by the GOP Campaign Committee, which was More MSC BELL Page 2 San Francisco Tragedy Congress Authorizes JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) President Ford, who told Indonesians that no area in the world is more important to us than Asia, left Saturday for the Philippines after a morning meeting with his host, President Suharto. Thousands of persons gathered along the route to the airport in sunny weather and cheered Ford as his automobile sped by.

The presidential jet took off at 11 25 a m. (11.25 p.m. EST Friday) for the three-hour flight to Manila the last stopover on the way home from China. A communique issued after a 90-minute meeting between Suharto and Ford pledged an expanded dialogue and said COURTHOUSE ANNEX In addition the county in 1976 will be paying roughly $800,000 in debt service obligations for the new courthouse annex now under construction, an increase of over $250,000 from last year. The increase represents interest and principal payments on the bond issue floated to pay for the new building.

And the county also faces requests for additional funds from agencies it supports in whole or in part. These are, among others. the Lancaster County Free Public Library, Agricultural Extension Service, Soil Conservation and Transit Authority. Additional programs facing the county include real estate reassessment, long overdue for Fire Truck Smashes Aid to NYC ni0 Croivd: 3 Dead Blasts Car Near Gap Deer Hunter Declares Open Season On Burglars eyeglasses, handbags and a smashed pair of crutches. An unidentified man was dead on arrival at San Francisco General Hospital, and hospital authorities identified the other two fatally injured persons as William Moore.

65, and Angelina Moreno, 77, addresses unknown. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A hook-and-ladder fire truck hurtled into pedestrians at a crowded downtown intersection Friday, killing three persons and critically injuring three others, police said. The victims looked like puppets" as they flew threw the air. a witness said. The intersection of 6th and Market streets was puddled with blood and strewn with shoes, More TAX Page 2 More FORD Page 2 WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate gave final congressional passage early Saturday to a loan bill aimed at preventing New York City's financial default.

The vote was 57 to 30. The three-year measure, proposed by President Ford on Nov. 26, was approved hours after the Senate blocked by 70 to 27 a filibuster threatened by Sen. James B. Allen, leader of the forces opposing the bill.

The House had approved the loan-authorization bill 213 to 203 on Tuesday. At mid-evening Friday, Allen agreed to set aside the aid bill temporarily so that the Senate could take final action on a public works appropriation bill. That measure was approved, 81 to 5. 11 HOURS OF DEBATE A Pai kesbiirg R2 deer hunter declared open season on four burglars he surprised trying to break into his mother's home along the Limeville Road near Gap early Friday afternoon. State police said when John K.

Mullen, 31, saw the suspects weren't going to halt and started to drive away from the scene in their station wagon, he opened fire with his high-powered hunting rifle. He managed to blow out the left front tire of the getaway station wagon and also blast holes into the front and rear of the vehicle. Tornado Rakes Tulsa, Okla. Drove Over Mila On Rat about 100 yards to the rear of his mother's home, when he saw two of the four occupants of the station wagon get out. They ran onto the front porch of his mother's home.

She was at work at the time. Planned To Go Hunting Mullen said he heard them trying to kick down the front door, so he started to run to his mother's home. was carrying a deer rifle with him, since he had planned to go hunting before he was interrupted. When they ignored his shouts to stop, Trooper Canfield said Mullen told him he raised his rifle. One of them jumped back into the car.

The other one ran into the woods. Thats when he opened fire, the trooper related. He was able to knock out the left front tire. He also thought he hit the front and rear of their car. He was trying to blow out the engine and hit the gas tank.

Apparently, he didnt, Canfield said. We followed the tracks left by the blown lire for about a mile and a half down the road. They must have pulled off and changed the tire in a hurry. They must have been scared stiff," the trooper added. The injured were Marty Sanderson, 34, of Oakland, Ronald Lambert, 45, of San Francisco and Jimmy Fitzpatrick, 23, a college student from Union.

the hospital said They suffered head and internal injuries, a spokesman said. Police initially had reported seven injured, but later revised the figure to four. The accident victims were standing on a bus and trolley car boarding island near a number of large stores packed with Christmas shoppers. When I heard the fire engine sirens coming down Market, I looked down and the ladder engine looked like it started bouncing around as it got close to an Liza Minnelli, unlike her famous mother, Judy Garland, has found her rainbow in a good marriage, booming career and growing maturity. An interview.

Page 12. Millersville State College President William Duncan sees reprieve for faculty members placed on a retrenchment list to be fired. Page 7. Philadelphia 76ers beat New York Knicks, 99-97, but lose Billy Cunningham with a knee injury. Page 14.

By The Aitociated Preti A tornado struck without warning Friday a 12-block residential area in Tulsa, injuring about 30 persons, demolishing 50 homes and damaging another 150 houses, authorities said. Authorities in Tulsa said the twister, with a half-mile wide slash, hit at the height of the evening rush hour, when many residents were away from their homes. But, Trooper Wayne Canfield said, the would-be burglars were so frightened they drove for over a mile with the tire flip-flopping on the roadway before they stopped to change it. They must have been scared stiff, the trooper said. The nearly disastrous entry attempt started about 2: 10 p.m.

when the four suspects, riding in a 1967-69 brown Ford station wagon, pulled up in front of the home of Mrs. Dorothy Mullen. Her frame house is about two miles east of Gap. Her son told Trooper Canfield he had just walked out onto the front porch of his trailer, The agreement with Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia followed nearly 11 hours of debate, parliamentary maneuvering and a succession of defeated amendments posed by Allen and other opponents of the More 3 KUED Page 2 More CONGRESS Page 2.