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Myron L. Moore, Mt. Lebanon, Killed, Three Local Youths Injured In Crash, Peters Twp, Rte. 19
The Daily Notes
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania •
Mon, Dec 24, 1962 p1
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• Myron L. Moore Killed, Three Local Youths Injured In Crash
Accident Occurred On Route 19 In Peters Township.
A Mt. Lebanon youth was killed and three others injured early Saturday in a head-on collision on icy Route 19 in Peters Township.
Myron L. Moore, 19, of 519 Moreland Drive, Mt. Lebanon, was pronounced dead at the scene of a fractured skull and crushed chest.
I RD 2. Baker and two passengers jin ii3 car were injured. Moore, a student at Point Park Junior College, Pittsburgh, was on his way home from a date in Canonsburg when the crash occurred about 12:50 a.m. Police said Baker, who was tra veling south was attempting to pass another car on a straight, level section of Route 19 when he apparently lost control of his ve hide on the icy highway.
Baker was admitted to Canons burg General Hospital with a fractured jaw, lacerations of the face and chest injuries. Moore is a great nephew of Mrs. C. E. Carothers, McClelland Rd.
James Chicarella, 18, of 15 McCoy Way, and Barry Zoog, 20, of 17 McCoy Way, were also admitted to the hospital, Chicarella with face and head injuries and Zoog with a fracture of the right leg. All three were reported in "good" condition Sunday night. County Coroner Farrell Jackson said Baker will post bond when he is released from the hos pital and an inquest will be set later.

Longshoremen Reject JFK's Plea For Truce NEW YORK (UPI) - A strike by 75,000 dockworkers brought shipping to a near halt today at East Coast and Gulf of Mexico I ports, x Leaders of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) confident of a quick victory, turned down President Kennedy's eleventh-hour appeal for a 90-day truce he had urged "in the national interest." The dockworkers helped shippers load and unload cargoes in the feverish last hours of port activity, then walked off the piers from Maine to Texas at the appointed hour of 5 p.m. ESf .

An 80-day "cooling off" period ordered under the Taft-Harley Act expired at that time. In answer to Kennedy's warn-! ing that the strike would "choke! the economy and cut the nation's lifelines with the rest of the world," the ILA replied it would be "fruitless" to delay a walkout for three months of talks. The un ion promised to continue handling all military cargo. The main issue in the dead locked dispute was over the size of work gangs. The New York Shipping Association (NYSA) wants the gangs reduced from 20, to 17.

The ILA claims such a re- ducton would result in 5,000 longshoremen losing their jobs. Predict Short Strike Thomas W. (Teddy) .Gleason vice president of the ILA, pre.

United States
Pennsylvania
Canonsburg
The Daily Notes
1962
Dec
24
Page 1
Myron L. Moore, Mt. Lebanon, Killed, Three Local Youths Injured In Crash, Peters Twp, Rte. 19

Cecil Township Gas Station Robbed, Owner Beaten Philip Danley, 78, owner cf the Cool Valley Service Station in Cecil Township, was admitted to vanunsDurg uenerai Hospuai on0f a fractured skull and crushed! iunday.. He suffered an injury to the back of his head, where hej State Police said Moore's car was slugged , and cuts about the I collided with one operated by Da-front of the head that nolir hp.lvid I Baker, 19, of Canonsburg lieve he received when he crashed tyough a candy display case as he fell when he v3 beaten by thugs who robbed his- service station. Cecil Township Police Chief Anthony Secreet said his prelimi nary investigation revealed that about $40 was rifled from Danley's pockets and perhaps another $10 or more taken from the cash reg ister. Danley told police that a man came into the station about 11 a.m.

and said he wanted td buy some candy. Exactly what happened next is not known, but it was quick. It was summed up in Danley's terse statement, "I don't know what he Jut me with." Chief Secreet said after talking with Danley that there may have been two thugs connected with the robbery. ..' ; Two motorists who stopped at the service station found Danley lying on the floor, bleeding from the gash in his head. They summoned help.

Danley, a bachelor, lives alone above the service-station he has operated for many years on an isolated s tr e t c h of Route 519,

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