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Today's Chuckle Its not whether you win or lose, but how you pkce the blame. Lancaster new era Metropolitan Lancaster 1970 U. S. Census 320,079 Local Weather Chance of snow developing, becoming mixed with or changing to rain and continuing into Tuesday. Temperatures climbing into and remaining in 30s through Tuesday.

Complete Details Page 3 98th Year -Ho. 30,950 ME1MP0UHN 1DI1I0N LANCASTER, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1975 Price 15c Daily Home Delivered 90c A Week Attacker 'Probably a Man' ILairg' IFaaondl iira Press 6 Senators to Switch Demos Rally Against Snyder Welfare Plan HARRISBURG The Democratic leadership in the State Senate is expected to pull out all lobbying stops today in an effort to rip out an unwanted welfare reform amendment that was unexpectedly inserted in an administration bill just before Thanksgiving recess. If KLOSS DRIVE Layout of Murder Scene SEN. RICHARD SNYDER butcher knife, was kept. No.

2 is where the womans body was found. A hurricane lamp knocked off an end table was the only sign of a struggle. This is an artists drawing of the interior layout of the apartment where Mrs. Lindy Sue Biechler, 20, was found murdered Friday night. No.

1 is the rack where the murder weapon, an eight-inch Nw Era Photo by Ed Sochi 6-Point 'Pacific Doctrine' By JOHN M. HOOBER III New Era Staff Writer The probe for clues in the brutal knife murder Friday of Mrs. Lindy Sue Biechler continued today as police reported little progress over the weekend in their search for a motive in the mysterious slaying. Police and a deputy coroner in the case today offered these new findings in connection with their investigation: The knife, which was stuck in the victims neck when her body was discovered, had no fingerprints on it, but police found a small kitchen tea towel wrapped around the handle. A male footpnnt, described as a large size, 10 or more, was found in the kitchen amidst blood.

Police are checking to see if the print matches the shoes of an ambulance attendant or someone else who was there legitimately. Mrs. Biechlers turquoise 1968 Chevrolet Impala was found locked outside the apartment on Kloss Drive. In the back seat were a pair of red mittens, an umbrella and a yellow window scraper. AUTO LOCKED Since the car was locked, police think the woman had finished what she was doing and was not planning to leave her apartment in the near future.

We are still questioning people friends, relatives, employers, anybody who knew her. Thats about all we have to say, Manor Township police Lt. Harvey West commented this morning. And a state parole agent from Lancaster said his office is checking all known former convicts who have a history of knife-robbery crimes and a list of imprisoned felons who might have been furloughed last weekend from state institutions. Mrs.

Biechler, 20, of 104 A Kloss Drive, was stabbed 11 times in the chest, abdomen and neck with a butcher knife early Friday night. The knife apparently was taken from a knife rack on the kitchen wall. The victims body was found lying on the living room floor next to the kitchen in the first-floor, one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband, Philip, 24. Four or five large bags of groceries were found on a table near where her body was found. Police are proceeding on a theo- Ford Returns, Says Trip Mrs.

Lindy Sue Biechlers car (number 1) is still parked the way she left it Friday night the night she was murdered. Police believe she unloaded bags of groceries from the car and walked the nine paces to the door (number 2) leading to her apartment building. She then entered her first floor apartment (number 3). Police do not know how the attacker, believed to be a man, got into the apartment. State Senator Richard A.

Snyder of Lancaster, sponsor of the amendment, says it can save the state from $40 to $80 million or more annually While not threatening anyone who belongs on welfare. But Senator Louis Coppersmith, Democratic leader of the Public Health Welfare Committee who had been keeping Snyders reform measures bottled up in committee for five years or more insists that what Snyder proposes is unfair, an invasion of privacy and is another effort to make welfare a (political) whipping boy UNEXPECTED WIN Snyder unexpectedly won in his effort to amend House bill 1153 on Nov. 24, a measure designed to protect elderly people by keeping them qualified for federal medical benefits despite recent Social Security payment increases. Six Democrats joined the 20 Republicans to approve it, 26-20. All six Democrats, at least, must remain with Snyder when the amended measure comes up to a final vote, probably late this afternoon or early evening.

Democratic leadership has indicated it plans to deluge the defecting Democrats with calls and personal requests from elderly, as well as other tactics to get them back in line. EXPECTED TO WIN If the bill can get past the Senate this week, it is expected to win easy concurrence in the House and go to Gov. Milton Shapp for signature later this week. Shapp would then face a dilemma; whether he should sign the bill with the unwanted reform, or veto and jeopardize the elderly persons rights to continue receiving federal medical benefits. While Snyders provisions will save many millions, the Shapp bill add an estimated 6,000 elderly to the categorical needy lists and cost the state $1.5 million a year more.

Snyder says he doesnt object to the added costs of the elderly. MUST REGISTER Under Snyders plan, however, welfare recipients must register for work with the state Bureau of Employment Security before getting benefits. The Welfare Department regulations already requires the same thing. But Snyders plan goes on to say that welfare recipients must submit to counseling and period- See DEMOS Page 14 Was Beneficial County Set For Mix of Snow, Rain Little Accumulation Expected, Area On Storm Fringe Lancaster County braced for snow tonight, but the National Weather Service said very little can be expected. As clouds increased, the probability for a mixture of snow and rain was estimated at 60 per cent tonight and tomorrow.

ON THE FRINGE WeH be on the fringe of it, the weatherman said. Wilmington, Philadelphia and Baltimore will probably get one to two inches, but little, if any, is expected in the Lower Susquehanna. A few snow flurries were reported in Quarryville and Marietta this morning. The Weather Service said todays highs will be in the mid to upper 30s. The temperature will range between 30 and 35 tonight and rise tomorrow to highs between 35 and 40.

Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) in Lancaster County said it is ready for whatever Mother Nature has in store for this area. Lt. West said police have learned from talking to acquaintances of Mrs. Biechler that she was the type of person who kept her apartment locked. Her practice was to lock the door immediately after she came in and not admit anyone unless she knew them as friends, the lieutenant said he was told.

An employe at the Landis Flower and Gift shop, 28 Cottage Millersville where Mrs. Biechler last worked, said the young woman "was scared of a mouse. Dr. Clyde Musselman, deputy corner from Millersville who was called to the murder scene Friday night, said today it seems extremely unlikely to him that the murderer would have been a woman unless she was a very heavy female. If it was a woman, there would have been more of a Set FOOTPRINT Page 2 IT.

HARVEY WEST Heads Investigation ry her attacker either followed the woman into the apartment when she brought her last bag of groceries or knocked on the door while she was putting the food away. President Ford gets traditional flower lei and kiss as he departs Hawaii for home Sunday. To Asia WASHINGTON (AP) -President Ford turns his attention to domestic matters this week after proclaiming his Asian trip beneficial and indicating that plans are in the works for a trip to the Mideast. Ford returned to the White House early this morning after a trip that he said contained no minuses and many, many plusses. He climaxed his journey in Honolulu with a declaration of a six-point Pacific Doctrine for U.S.

foreign policy and held out the possibility of future U.S. friendship with Vietnam and Cambodia. MANDATORY TALKS Chatting with reporters just before his jet landed at nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Ford was asked if he felt it had been necessary for him to personally make the long journey to China, he replied: The discussions we had in Peking were mandatory at my level. Ford said he felt the talks in Indonesia and the Philippines also needed to be conducted at the heads-of-government level. A reporter, mindful of rumors that Ford now plans to travel to the Mideast early next year, asked about any such plans.

There are no definite plans, the President replied. But he added that he probably would go to the Mideast at some point. Ford said he found his talks in Peking, Jakarta and Manila were very substantively beneficial. PEARL HARBOR Ford flew home from Honolulu where he chose the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to reveal his "Pacific Doctrine in a speech in Honolulu. The first premise of a new Pacific doctrine is that American strength is basic to any stable balance of power in the Pacific, Ford said.

And, noting Police Hunt 3 Male Suspects Newspaper Heir Robbed, Slain In Rittenhouse Sq. Apartment Says He's Fully Recovered Stevens Queried on Open-Heart Surgery tor Frank G. Zarb has urged approval of the energy bill which would temporarily lower oil prices, but some conservatives oppose the measure and Ford's campaign director, Howard H. Callaway suggested Sunday that the President might be well advised politically to veto the measure. Callaway also suggested a veto of the tax measure where Ford is insisting that spending cuts be tacked onto tax reductions and Congress is resisting the idea.

TWO MEMORIALS On Sunday the President visited two memorials of World War going first to Corregidor in the Philippines and then crossing the international dateline for a morning stop at Pearl Harbor. Visiting the sunken hulk of the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor, where 1,200 Navy men are entombed, Ford predicted that See FORD Page 2 Japans transition from enemy to friend, the President held out the chance of U.S. friendship for Cambodia and Vietnam, saying: "Our policies toward the new regimes on the (Indochinese) peninsula will be determined by their conduct toward us. We are prepared to reciprocate goodwill particularly the return of the remains of Americans killed or missing in action, or information about them. If they exhibit restraint toward their neighbors and constructive approaches to international problems, we will look to the future rather than the past.

VARIETY OF ISSUES Back in the capital, Ford is facing decisions on a variety of issues and is expected to sign a bill to provide 'emergency assistance to help solve New Yorks fiscal crisis. Congress is still struggling with tax and energy measures which could draw another pair of presidential vetoes. Federal Energy Administra PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Police are looking for three men they believe robbed and stabbed to death John Shive- ly Knight III, newspaper editor and grandson of the founder of the Knight publishing empire. Knight, 30, was found tied up and stabbed five times Sunday mprning on a bedroom floor in his luxury apartment overlooking Rittenhouse Square. One of two house guests was also stabbed as she tried to escape from the robbers.

ROAM 4 HOURS Police Capt. Donald Patterson of homicide said the assailants are believed to have spent almost four hours in the 23rd story apartment, carefully searching and ransacking the five rooms. He would not say what may have been stolen from the apartment. Knight had an extensive modern art collection. Knight was found with his hands bound behind his back with some of his own neckties, detectives said.

Police said the death weapon was either a spear gun or a Bowie knife. Knight, a sportsman, had both in his apartment, and both were found there afterwards. Several persons were brought into police headquarters for the assailants, who chased her down a long corridor and onto an elevator when she tried to escape. Police said she staggered off the elevator at the third floor, and the assailant continued to the first floor. Police said they did not know if anyone saw the man leave the building.

Mrs. McKinnon reached the lobby by a fire escape and summoned help. She was taken to Graduate Hospital and listed in fair condition. According to police, Knight and a date, Ellen Roche, the McKinnons and a third couple, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Janensch, dined Saturday nigh at a Society Hill restaurant on four pheasants Knight had shot in South Dakota. PROJECT DIRECTOR Janensch, managing editor of the Daily News, a Knight-Ridder paper where Knight was project director, said he and his wife drove home at 12:20 a.m. Sunday, and the other four returned to Knight's apartment. He said Miss Roche told him she left sometime after one oclock. Mrs.

McKinnon told police she had gone to bed, leaving both men talking about college days over a bottle of brandy. She See NEWSPAPER Pag 2 Today's New Era JOHNS. KNIGHT III' WASHINGTON (AP)-Judge John Paul Stevens assured the Senate Judiciary Committee today at hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court that he is fully recovered from open-heart surgery last year. If I had any doubt whatever about my physical capacity, I would not be sitting here today, the 55-year-old jurist testified. FINE LAWYER, JUDGE Sen.

James O. Eastland, committee chairman, had said Stevens was a very fine, lawyer, a very fine judge and a man of high moral standards. The only thing anyone could put their -hands on you (for) would be your health, Eastland said, referring to the operation Stevens underwent in California in July 1974. Stevens testified that he underwent the operation after doctors found a blockage of an artery leading from his heart. He said his chest was opened and a vein from his thigh was used to bypass the blocked artery.

Stevens said he was released from the hospital after five days, had a normal recovery and has been assured by his doctor that JUDGE JOHN P. STEVENS Impeach Santa? Story Begins Today Good Heavens! Someone wants to impeach Santa Claus? 1 hats just what Evel Whone has in mind. To find out how Santa responds to Evels evil plot, read The Move to Impeach Santa Monday through Friday until Christmas in the New Era. The story begins on page 26. Page Bridge 29 Christmas Story 26 Comics 30-31 Crossword Puzzle 39 Editorials 22 Family 20-21 Financial 35 Health 27 Obituaries 3-7-8 Radio-TV 31 Sports 32-33-34 Theater 4-5 Want Ads questioning early today, but there were no arrests, police said.

Yale University Hospital psychiatrist Dr. John McKinnon, 29, who was Knights roommate at Harvard, and his wife, Rosemary McKinnon, 27, were asleep in the apartment when the intruders entered, police said. VICTIM CHASED Mrs. McKinnon was stabbed in her chest and hand by one of there are no restrictions on his activities. WORKS FULL-TIME The judge said he returned to work in eight to ten weeks and has been working full-time ever since.

He said he also has been au- See STEVENS Page 2 36-37-3 8-39-40-4 1-42-43 Phone Lancaster 397-5251 i 1.