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1 Saturday, October 11, 19801 OBITUARIES Clark Gable' dies of cancer PA PEKING (AP) A legendary actor known as the "Chinese Clark Gable" once persecuted and imprisoned by the wife of the late Chairman Tse-tung died yesterday of cancer in a Peking hospital, the Xinhua news agency reported. He was 66. Zhao Dan was regarded by many as China's greatest film star. His life of brilliant successes, and imprisonment parallels the history of the arts in China just before and after 1949; when the Communists took over. Mao's successor as the Communist Party chairman, Hua Guofeng, who is not considered a patron of the arts, made an unannounced and visit Thursday to Zhao's bedside.

Even a taxi driver wept on hearing that he had been hospitalized. Zhao recently signed to play his first role in 10 years in a Chinese production, "The Unfinished Game of Chess." Just last week several of his vintage films were shown in London at the National Film Theater. Handsome and versatile, he was known for playing both noble historical roles and the parts of the lowliest paupers in pre-Communist China. "The arts should bring people beauty, truth and happiness," Zhao had said in a recent interview with a Western friend, Pat Wilson of London. "Great ups and downs, mine is a strange fate," Zhao wrote in a poem published in the April issue of Chinese Literature.

"Twice in jail, yet my hair remains black. Shanghai film studio but remained under sweet, bitter, spicy such extremes. veillance until Jiang Qing and her three colleagues who make up the "Gang of Four" were "In heaven and hell, I sought the jewel of arrested in October 1976, shortly after Mao's art." death. Zhao was an enemy of Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, herself an actress from Shanghai, who bound Years ago as a young revolutionary, Zhao and China in an artistic straight jacket during the his troup staged plays to mobilize the people 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. against the Japanese and the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek.

Jiang Qing, now in prison and facing charges of is said to have hated Zhao because he Zhao traveled to remote Xinjiang Province to treason, knew of her past in Shanghai, which has been work for the Communist revolution was but described a as undistinguished and, by some, as thrown into prison by a local warlord for almost tarnished. five years. As stage actors in 1935 they starred together in China today is giving greater artistic freedom Ibsen's "'The Doll's House," with the part of Nora to its artists and film actors but the film industry played by Jiang Qing, then known as Lan Ping, has not recovered the luster of the 1930s and Chinese for blue apple. 1940s. Old films, such as Zhao's, occasionally Zhao married his first wife in a ceremony with appear on television.

two other couples, including Jiang Qing, who Zhao himself more recently said China has a married a theater critic. The three newlywed long way to go artistically. couples went on their honeymoon together to "Some responsible people are full of fear that Hangzhou. it will all go too far," he said in an interview last During the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing with the publication China Reconstructs. the arbiter of art and denounced Zhao and his year was as bourgeois and decadent.

Most of the "However, there will be more liberty in artistic films were banned. Zhao himself was criticized, expression." beaten and finally thrown into solitary confine- As a last wish, Zhao was quoted as saying he ment for years. would like a display of his own calligraphy: "Let He was released in 1973, unable to move or all the people in the world be happy." speak. He then was banished to the countryside to He leaves his wife, actress Huang Zongying, do hard labor. He was recalled in 1976 to the and five children, three of them in the arts.

Capitol candy dealer to be buried today TRENTON Norbert Cifelli will be laid to rest today, just three weeks after he fled the House saying he was "scared to death." Cifelli, a partially blind man, and his wife Susana had operated the candy counter at the -State House just a and few the feet State away Police from the station govouter office for 40 years until a rash of robberies hit the forcing them to take an early retirement. "It's like the end of the world to me," he said on 22, the day he pulled down the door to his stand for the last time. His wife said he never adjusted to the hasty retirement and had trouble sleeping. "He loved this place," she said when she returned Thursday "to watch 40 senators bow their heads in tribute to her husband. Only 10 days before, Cifelli, 66, had stood by his wife's side smiling as both houses of the Legislature honored the couple for their years of service.

his back was turned. Then, one weekend when the State House was locked and guarded, a thief A few days later, he was rushed to the hospital broke in twice through a corner window and took after complaining of chest pains. He died at St. $250. Francis Medical Center on Wednesday.

When he asked for more protection for his For 40 years, the Trenton couple dispensed stand, the state responded by placing a screen on candy, cigarettes, newspapers and soda to the the outside window. He had hoped they would people who run the state legislators, lobbyists, have installed iron bars. aides and clerks. They outlasted eight governors So Norb and Sue decided to call it quits, fearing and numerous legislators. that next they may be attacked in the parking lot.

The candy stand is one of over 50 concessions They had talked a lot about retiring, but had operated by blind persons under the supervision always put it off. But the robberies left them with of the New Jersey Commission for the Blind. no choice, Norb and Sue were too frightened to The Cifellis never took a vacation. Every day return to the place where laws are made to prothe State House was open, so was the stand, tect people. except for once, when Mrs.

Cifelli's mother Police believe that all the crimes were comdied. mitted by the same person, but they have no susThough he could barely see, Norb, as he was pects. called by his customers, quickly learned to iden- In the halls of the State House news of Norb's tify people by their voices. death left people shocked and angry, knowing But when the robberies came four in two that the candy man had died a broken man. weeks his face grew strained.

One day some- "The thugs might as well have shot him," one one snatched the money out of his cash box when worker said. Katharine Hirst, 85. biology professor HADDONFIELD Katharine R. Hirst, 85, a borough resident and a retired professor of at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, died yesterday in the Cooper Medical Center, Camden. Miss Hirst was on the faculty of Cedar Crest for more than 30 years and started the nursing and medical technology program there.

She retired in 1962. She received her bachelor of science and of arts degrees from Columbia University and did further graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. Sciences in 1956, was listed in Who's Who in SciShe was elected a fellow in the American Asso- ence and had her work published in The Literary ciation for the Advancement of Science, and her Digest and in The Nation's Health. biography is listed in the Biographical Directory Surviving are two sisters, Alice M. Hirst of of American Men of Science.

Haddonfield and AnnasteenW. Geiges of Cherry Miss Hirst was a member of the Society of Hill. American Bacteriologists, the American Public Services will be held here Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Health Association, the Pennsylvania Academy Grace Episcopal Church, 16 Kings Highway of Science, the American Association of Univer-. East, where Miss Hirst was a long-time memsity Women and the American Association of ber.

University Professors. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery, CamShe was elected to the New York Academy of den. GENERAL NEWS Workers exposed to mild radiation LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK Two maintenance employees have been temporarily reassigned to jobs outside the Salem I nuclear reactor here after they were accidentally exposed yesterday to small amounts of radiation. A third man Michael Clary, a health physics technician for a Pittsburgh also was exposed to radiation when the three entered the idle reactor's containment building to inspect a sump pump about 12:30 a.m. Plant maintenance supervisor Ray Piccolo, maintenance man Mel McCracken and Clary were exposed to radiation emitted from neutron flux detectors, according to officials for Public Service Electric and which owns the plant.

The detectors are inserted in and out of the reactor's core to give plant operators informa- Murphy said Piccolo had previously been tion on how efficiently the nuclear fuel is exposed to 0.2 rems, but did not know when that burning. exposure had taken place. "There doesn't appear to be any reason to fault He said assigning the two plant employees to anyone for what happened," Eugene Murphy, a temporary jobs outside the reactor area was a spokesman said last night. "They (the precautionary measure. Murphy said he did not three men) just may have stayed down there a lit- know what those jobs would be.

tle longer than they should have." The three men were climbing down a ladder Piccolo, 32, of Bridgeton, was exposed to 1.6 below the reactor chamber when their geiger rems, while McCracken, 42, also of Bridgeton, counters started registering increased radioacreceived 1.0 rems. tivity, plant officials said. Clary, 37, of Rising Sun, and an employee Their levels of exposure were recorded on of RAD Protection Services of Pittsburg, was radiation tags worn by plant employees. exposed to 0.4 rems, officials said. An NRC health physics inspector was sent to A rem is the standard unit of measurement of interview the men yesterday and is investigating absorbed radiation in living tissue.

the accidental exposure. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits "The exposure did not exceed the limits we exposure to no more than three rems over a sin- have," NRC spokesman Edward Greenman said gle, thre period and five rems during one last night, "so the men don't appear in any danyear. ger." Decision on referendum vote delayed By MARGARET A. SCOTT rently assigned to the Appellate Division and with a mayor-council form similar to CamOf the Courier -Post filed a notice of appeal late yesterday after- den's. noon.

On Sept. 22, Worrick invalidated the original CAMDEN A court decision on whether or Bischoff granted an emergency stay on petition on two grounds that it was 845 short of not to put the question of changing Cherry Hill's Lowengrub's ruling until Tuesday, when a three- the 7,792 signatures required and that the wordform of government to a referendum vote has judge Appellate Division panel will convene in ing of the petition question was defective been postponed until Tuesday. Trenton to uphold or overturn the lower court's because it described the mayor as Superior Judge A. Lowengrub decision. The petitioners, as allowed by statute, then Court Paul yesterday rejected an attempt by leaders of the The emergency stay prevents County Clerk submitted petition an referendum drive to reverse the invalidation of Michael S.

Keating from a supplemental containing printing Cherry Hill's additional 2,418 names in an effort to qualify for their petition by Township Clerk Eva Worrick. ballots until the Appellate Division panel decides the ballot. But the petitioners' attorney, John A. Yaco- the case. In her second review on Oct.

7, Worrick invalvelle, immediately appealed ruling. The petitioning group, United for a Better Gov- idated almost 1,000 of the the He rushed from Lowengrub's courtroom in ernment in Cherry Hill, supplemental names. began in July to collect She also went back to the original petition and to the Westmont office of Superior signatures for a petition urging the replacement deducted an additional 1,132 signatures leavCamden Court Judge who is cur- of the current council-manager government ing the group 413 signatures short. William Bischoff Pitman teachers remain firm in face of jail threat Schools have been open on halfday sessions for the district's 2,000, kindergarten-12 grade students since Tuesday, but attendance has been reported to be less than 15 percent of normal. DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES EVANS Leo A.

On October 10, 1980. Age 81 years. Of Pennsauken, NJ. Beloved husband of Mary Jane (nee Cottrell) and dear brother of James Evans of Lansdale, PA, Marguerite Maguire of Green Lane, PA, Kathryn. Tobin of Roxborough and Alma Supinski of Willow Grove.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend Christian Burial Monday St. Church, Pennsauken. Interment New Cathedral Cemetery, PA. There will be no viewing. (INGLESBY SONS, PENNSAUKEN).

FLETCHER Of Tabernacle, N. J. October 9, 1980. Mrs. Elsie Fletcher (nee Spout).

Wife of Joseph W. Fletcher. Survived by granddaughter Elsie McClain, Tabernacle four children, Robert Fletcher, Mt. Laurel, Grace Geiser, Vincentown, Mervin Fletcher, Punta Gorda, Harold Fletcher, Mt. Laurel.

Funeral services Tuesday 2 p.m. from the BELTON SON FUNERAL HOME, 334 Chester Moorestown. Friends may call Tuesday 1 to 2p.m. prior to service. Interment Bethel Memorial Park, Pennsauken.

HIRST On October 10,.1980 Katharine R. Age 85 years. Of Haddonfield. Survived by two sisters Alice M. Hirst Annasteen W.

Geiges. Service for relatives and friends Tuesday 11 a.m. in Grace Episcopal Church, 19 Kings Highway Haddonfield. Interment Harleigh Cemetery. Memorial expressions may be made to the Grace Episcopal Chruch Haddonfield.

Arrangements by STRETCH-EVANS FUNERAL HOME 8 W. Kings Highway Haddonfield. KEHLER On October 9, 1980. Walter of Glendora. Age 77 years.

Father of Walter of Reading, brother of Emily Snuffin, Alice Mabel Adelsberger and Oliver Kehler: Relatives and friendsof the family are invited to attend the funeral services Tuesday 10AM at THE GARDNER FUNERAL HOME, Black Horse Pike and Haverford Road, Runnemede. Interment Forest Hills Cemtery, Philadelphia, Pa. Friends may call Monday evening after 7 at the funeral home KLINE On October 9, 1980. Walter husband of Dorothy (nee Duncan) of Collingswood, N.J. Also survived by a daughter Dorothy, Lafferty, two brother Rudolph and Ralph Kline, two sisters Mary Romer and Ethel Williams, two granddaughters, one great grandson.

Relatives: and friends are invited to attend the funeral service Monday 11 a.m. at the ROBERT J. BLAKE FUNERAL HOME, 226 Collings Collingswood. Where friends may call Sunday evening. LIPSCOMB Margaret T.

(nee Mignogna) of National Park, N.J. on Oct. 8, 1980 Age 56 years. Wife of John B. mother of Joseph, Maria Margaret Eberwein, also survived by three brothers, one sister two grandMonday 9 a.m.

from the MCGUINESS FUNERAL HOME 34 Hunter Street Woodbury, N.J. Mass of the Ressurection 10 a.m. St. Matthews R.C. Church, National Park.

Interment New St. Marys Cemetery Bellmawt. Viewing Sunday evening. PETRACCI On October 10, 1980, William. Beloved husband of Lena.

Of Cherry Hill, N.J. Due notice of the funeral JOSEPH A. FALCO FUNERAL' HOMES, 6600 Browning Pennsauken and 1016 Haddonfield Cherry Hill, N.J. REEVE On October 8, '1980, Esterbrook. Of Haddonfield, N.

J. Formerly of Westmont, N.J. Husband of the late Marie H. Reeve (nee Hernandez). Father of Mrs.

Marguerite R. Bendere of Mariton, Mrs. Eleanor. R. Hoover of Cape May, Edward E.

Reeve of San Diego, Louis H. Reeve of Haddonfield and Samuel A. Reeve of Poway, also twelve grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Relatives, friends, members of Grace Baptist Church and Westmont Fire Co. No.

1 are invited to attend the funeral services Saturday 11 a.m, at the Grace Baptist Church, Westmont. Interment Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery. Friends may call at the JACKSON FUNERAL HOME, Haddon and Stoy Avenues, Westmont Friday evening from 7109 p.m. If desired, contributions may be made to the Grace Baptist Church, Reeve Westmont, N.J. 08108.

A. Watson, building contractor HADDONFIELD Alfred G. Watson, 79, of Haddonfield, the founder and owner of Watson Home Builders of Haddon Heights, died yesterday at the Stratford Nursing Home, Stratford. Mr. Watson owned the contracting company for 50 years before retiring nine years ago.

Surviving are a daughter, Beatrice of Haddonfield; a son, Henry of Haddonfield, and two grandchildren. Private services will be held here Tuesday. Burial will be in Lakeview Memorial Park, Cinnaminson. Arrangements are being made under the direction of the HollMurphy Funeral Home, Haddonfield. 'Buckwheat' dies in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (AP).

Billy Thomas, who played "Buckwheat" in the "Our Gang" comedy series from 1934 to 1944, died yesterday of an apparent heart attack at the age of 49, said a police officer. Thomas was at home and apparently died in his sleep, said officers in the detectives headquarters. But no further information on his death was immediately available. Thomas joined the troop of "Our Gang" actors at the age of 3 and played in 89 talking films. He often wore a straw hat when he joined "Spanky" and "Alfalfa" in planning all kinds of mischief.

SHEPHERD On October 9, 1980. Ruth B. Beloved wife of Hyland W. Shepherd of Brooklawn. Age 78.

Also survived son Hyland W. Jr. of Merritt Island, also two grandchildren and four great-grandhildren. Three sisters Pearl Knowles of Ada Cressman of S. Hampton, Pa.

and Clara Brown of Riverton. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Monday at 10:30 am at the BRADLEY FUNERAL HOME, 3203 Federal Camden. Interment Hillside Cemetery, Roslyn, Pa. Friends may call Sunday evening. SMITH SR.

On October 8, 1980. Ralph R. Age 59 years. Of Gloucester City, N.J. Father of Ralph R.

Jr. and Thomas A. both of Franklinville and Miss Nancy Ashland and Miss Stephanie Ann Smith, Gloucester. Brother of Charles Ashland and Jessie Smith, Pennsauken and Mrs. Marguerite Davis, Haddon Heights.

Also surviving are seven grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the viewing on Sunday evening after 7 pm at the MARTIN FUNERAL HOME, 523 Cumberland Gloucester City, STAMP On October 9, 1980. Winifred (nee Pickering). Wife of the late Charles H. of Runnemede.

Age 68. Mother of Winifred Foster of Browns Mills, Elizabeth Cox, Newfield, Ellen Broomall, Somerdale, Mary Agnes Grover, Franklinville, James H. and George of Runnemede and Charles of Vineland. Sister of Agnes Deighan, Mt. Ephraim, Elizabeth Ferry, Alco and Albert Pickering of Westville Grove.

Twenty seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral Monday at THE GARDNER FUNERAL HOME Black Horse and Haverford Road, Runnemde. of Christian Burial Pikes St. Maria Goretti RC Church, Runnemede. Interment New Saint Mary's Cemetery Bellmawr.

Friends may call Sunday evening after 7 at the funeral home By JANET THOMPSON Gannett News Service By BILL ROSWELL For the Courier-Post Continued from Page 18 UMSTEAD On October 8, 1980. Clifford R. Age 86 years. Of Mt. Laurel, N.J., formerly of Pennsauken, N.J.

Beloved husband of the late Helen E. (nee Ryan). Survived by one son Russell O. Jones of Santa Anna, California, two daughters Mrs. Helen E.

Huff, Apple Valley, California, Mrs. Doris E. Weaver, Mt. Laurel, N.J., one sister Hattie Kalb, Voorhees, N.J., five grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend the funeral service 11AM Monday at THE STEPHENSON-BROWN FUNERAL HOME, 33 West Maple Avenue, Merchantville. Friends may call Sunday eve after 7PM.

Interment Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill, N.J. WATSON On October 10, 1980. Alfred G. Watson of 1016 Warwick Road, Haddonfield, N.J. Age 79 years.

Survived by a daughter Beatrice A. Watson of Haddonfield, a son Henry A. Watson of Haddonfield and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be private at the convenience of the family from THE HOLL-MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, West End Avenue at Kings Highway, Haddonfield. Interment Lakeview Memorial Park WEYANT Raymond W.

of 734 S. Delsea New Sharon, N.J. on October 9, 1980. Husband of. the late Mary R.

nee Snyder, Age 77 years. Survived by two sisters Anna McLaughlin of Blackwood and Muriel Zapille of Phila. One brother John of Phila. and a sister-in-law Sylvia Snyder with whom he lived. Relatives and Friends are invited to attend the Funeral on Monday October 13, 9am at DAVIS FUNERAL HOME, 171 Delaware Woodbury, N.J.

Mass of Christian Burial at 10am St. John Vianney Chruch, Blackwood Terrace, N. J. Interment New St. Mary's Cemetery, Bellmawr.

Viewing Sunday evening 7 to 9pm WINDISH On October 9, 1980, Elizabeth (Marty). Wife of the late George E. of Haddon formerly of Audubon. Age 71 years. Survived by one son Albert Ocean City, two sisters Mrs.

Ida Weber, Westmont, Mrs. Marion Sedergran, one brother Stephen Marty, Barrington, two grandchildren. She was retired from N. J. Bell Telephone, member of N.J.

Bell Telephone Pioneers. Relatives friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Monday at 2pm at the HENRY FUNERAL HOME, 152 W. Atlantic Audubon. Interment Locustwood Memorial Park. Friends may call between 1-2pm Monday afternoon, Memorial contributions in her memory may be made to Camden County Heart Association or First United Methodist Church of Ocean City, N.J.

IN MEMORIAM MARLOW In loving memory of my brother Frank, who passed away Oct. 11, 1978. God took you home, that you may rest. Our hearts all ached, but He knew best. He saw you suffering, He knew your pain, He wanted you at peace again.

We must go on, we know that's true; but we'll never lose our love for you. Never to be forgotten, your sister Dolores BOYD In sad and loving memory of our dear fer and aunt, Hilda, who passed away October 11, 1979. Loving and kind in all her ways, upright and just to the end of her days, sincere and true in her heart, and mind, beautiful memories she left behind. Sadly missed by sister, Marge and family, MARCHETTI In sad and loving memory of our dear mother, Helen, who passed away Oct. 11, 1979.

If we could have one lifetime wish, one dream that could come true. We would pray to God with all our hearts for yesterday and you. We think of you in silence and often repeat your name. But all that is left to answer is a picture in a frame. A million times we've needed you, million times we've cried.

If love could've saved you, you never would've died. Sadly missed and loved by husband, children and grandchildren. POTTS In sad and loving memory of our husband and Dad, Anthony, who passed away Oct. 11, 1976. Loving and kind in all his ways, upright and just to the end of his days, sincere and true in heart and mind, beautiful memories he left behind.

Sadly missed and deeply loved by wife Dolores and children. The schools were staffed yesterday by 17 substitutes, who are being paid $70 per day by the school board. Six high school teachers, one middle school teacher, and two middie school aides also crossed the picket lines yesterday to report to work. The PEA members, who have been working without a contract since June 30, began negotiating with the school board in September 1979. The union is seeking a 10 percent salary increase, a dental plan, a change in personal-day policy, and the guarantee of at least minimum hourly wages for the support staff, some of whom currently earn $2.50 an hour.

The school board reportedly has offered the PEA wage increases of between 8 to 8.5 percent. In Memoriam Verses Available upon request. Call: 663-7100 p.m. A.