Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Location:
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

Year No. 272 and Tht Lebanon Daily Times WEATHER Central Low IB the 80s. CoHilderable frotinii fog early Thursday. Hijh la the LEBANON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1963 Mcand mittir Hw tindir till Act Mtrck 1, 52 PAGES CENTS 2 Killed, 31 Injured In Train Crash UPl-Doily NEWS Facsimile. THANK YOU, DADDY William Schmidt, 29, San Gabriel, receives a thank you kiss from his three-year-old daughter, Peggy.

Schmidt, who is blind, on Monday dived into the family swimming pool, and guided by instructions from his wife, who is a poor swimmer, was able to find and rescue his unconscious daughter from the deep end of the pool. He applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until he knew she was all right. Attempt To Settle School Bus Issue Up For House Showdown HARRISBURG The parochial school bus issue, a time bomb threatening to explode plans to windup the 1963 legislature next week, was before the House today for a showdown. Attempts to decide the issue Tuesday night broke down when the two sides failed to reach agreement on how to handle it. The Republican majority finally adjourned the futile night session of the: House after waiting impatiently for Democrats to' return from an extended private caucus on the issue.

Majority Clergymen Of 3 Faiths Back Full Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (UPD Prominent representatives of the nation's three major religious faiths joined today in backing President Kennedy's full civil rights program as a moral and practical necessity. They urged Congress to pass it immediately with a prayer that the racial struggle "will remain a social revolution and not degenerate into civil chaos." The testimony was read before the House Judiciary subcommittee by Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the Presbyterian, Church, U. S. who recently was arrested while taking part in an anti-segregation demonstration. He read a joint statement on behalf of himself; the Hev.

John F. Crnnin of the National Catholic Welfare Council, and Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Englewood, N. chairman of the Social Action Commission, Synagogue Council of America. Blake said the "religious conscience of America condemns racism as blasphemy against God.

It recognizes that the racial segregation and discrimination that flow from it are a denial of the (Continued on Page Twcntj-cl(tht) Leader Albert W. Johnson said his caucus was unable to take a position on the pro- has Gov. Scranton's of uncertainty over Democratic plans. Minority Leader Anthony J. Pe- finally advised newsmen his caucus would support a suggested compromise which vouid allow public school districts provide transportation for non- )ublic school students es- ablished public school bus routes Johnson said he would place the matter before the GOP today.

The majority floor leader conceded that the and its un- ilanned disruption of the session aeriled the scheduled July 31 date 'or final adjournment of the current legislature. The House was in session more 12 hours, and managed to 3ass only one bill. Leave Philadelphia Problem That measure would leave to Philadelphia city council the prob- of financing the city's public school system. The city school board, an appointed body, does not have taxing power. The new bill would permit city (Confirmed an Twenty-one) Boy, 2, Is Crushed To Death Under Tractor CATAWISSA, Pa.

(AP) Tony Mourer, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Mourer, of Catawissa, R. D. 2, was crushed to death Tuesday by a tractor on the farm of his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Merrill Degreen, near here. Officials said the boy was playing on tractor and fell under it when It slipped out of gear and started rolling. Amusements Are. Classified 25, 2fi, Comics 22, Editorial Financial Obituaries Palmyra 12, 1.

Sports 18.19,20 Women's Pages 15, 16 Airto STAGER'S Painting 25tN W. Cumb. Sti Dial 273-4501 SERVICE ON TV ft APPL SERVICE CENTEX Dial 271-4561 Khrush Offers Non-Nuclear African Zone Makes Proposal As Experts Work To Set Up Test Ban MOSCOW (DPI) Premier Nikita Khrushchev today offered guarantees to make the African continent a non-nuclear zone if the United States and other nuclear powers agree. Krushchev made his offer as American, British and Soviet negotiators met for what diplomats said could be the final round of talks aimed at a limited nuclear test ban treaty that would be the first major cold war settlement in eight years. His remarks came in a message to African nations which took part in the recent conference at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In his message, Khrushchev pledged further Soviet efforts to ease world tension. "We shall go on doing everything to ease international tension, to consolidate peace by implementing the principles of the peaceful coexistence of states," he said. Toward Better Climate The official Tass News Agency, in reporting the message, said Khrushchev believes East West agreement to cease nuclear testing in space, in the atmosphere and under water could effect "a radical turn" toward bettering the international climate. The initialing of the partial test ban had been expected today, but it was not definitely whether drafting committee had worked out treaty language which was completely satisfactory to the negotiators. A tripartite drafting committee met twice before, the main session opened at the Spiridonovka Palace at 4 p.m.

(9' a.m. EDT) after being delayed an hour. It was reliably understood the formal negotiations now were completed, and that the negotiators were dealing with last-min- (Cnntlnur.d Two) Test Ban To Face Debate In Senate 4 Local Area Youths In Air Force Training Four local area youths are undergoing Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, after en- iisting recently through the local recruiting office. Three, who are slated for training in the mechanical field after completing basic training are: David Anthony Albright, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John A. Albright, 310 Center Allen Eugene Angley, 18, son of Eugene F. Angley, 12 E. Behney Myerstown, both 1963 graduates of Lebanon Catholic High School, and Terrance Lee Knight, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert L. Knight, 1418 Gibbel a 1963 graduate of Lebanon High School. Slated for training for an administrative career is Robert Wayne Alexander, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J.

Alexander, Hummelstown RD 2, a 1961 graduate of Hershey High School and a 1962 graduate of the Thompson Institute. All four' were enrolled by M-Sgt. James R. Boffenmyer, local Air Force recruiter. Train Rams Into Engine At Grade Crossing HARRISON, N.

j. (UP1) persons were killed and 31 others injured early today when a four- car commuter train rammed a switch engine at a track crossing. The impaei. of the collision ripped off side panels of the first, three units of the electric train, operated by the Port of New York Authority. The first car was derailed.

UPl-Doily NEWS Facsimile TRAIN WRECK Policemen look over the wrecked interior of a passenger car following a train collision at Harrison, early this morning. Two persons were killed and 31 others injured when a four-car commuter train rammed a switch engine at a track crossing. The electric Port Authority train was hound from New York to Newark, N.J., with 42 passengers and a crew of four aboard. Two Burglaries Occur Less Than One Mile Apart Two burglaries took place east of Lebanon Tuesday morning, less than one mile apart, it reported by James Mason, North Lebanon police chief. The Fifth Ward Athletic Club, located one mile north of Rt.

422 on the Weavertown Road, was burglarized of $300 in cash and merchandise, Mason stated. Entrance was gained into the club, a basement type dwelling with no first floor, by breaking a small window in the door and then, opening the latch, police investigators explained. Club employes reported to Mason that the burglary took place sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The second burglary was reported at the concession stand of the Key Drive-In movie, East Lehman Street and Weavertown Road.

A report given to Chief Mason indicated that $23.60 worth of merchandise, plus $35 in cash was stolen from the stand. Entrance was gained by prying a door open on the south side of the building. Time of the Hear 2 Proposals For Forest Management Of City-Owned Woodland Proposals to place about 4,000 acres of city owned timberland under forest management were aired at a special meeting of City Council and the Lebanon Water Authority Tuesday evening in the Municipal Building. The timberland located in the city's three watershed areas. Offering proposals for the job were the Penn Forestry Company, Bigleryille and the Mason-Dixon Forestry Company, Waynesboro.

Police said 18 of those hurt were taken to Newark in a Pennsylvania Railroad train which was flagged down at the scene of the accident. Others were rushed (o hospitals by taxicabs summoned by authorities. The dead were identified as Quinton Villanueva, 63, Irvinglon, N.J., and Mary Misiak, in her 30s, Jersey City. Villanueva died in St. Michael's Hospital in Newark less than two hours after the wreck, which occurred at 1:10 a.m., EDT.

Three other persons were treated at that hospital and released while a ourth was admitted with head in- iuries. The woman died in Beth Is- Hospital in Newark, where 2fi others were taken. Four of the 26 were admitted, two in critical condition. The others were treated and released. One person was reported In critical condition at West Hudson Hospital in Karny, The port authority train, bound rom New York City to Newark with 42 passengers and a crew of our, hi' the Pennsylvania switch engine while it was pushing seven freight cars onto a siding.

Police said the switch engine, as well as one of the freight cars FINE UNDERGOES SURGERY DANVILLE, Pa. Pennsylvania governor John Fine, Loyalville, undergoes surgery today, at Geisinger Medica' Center. Fine was admitted to the hos- WASHINGTON (AP)-An uncertain reception in the Senate awaits a nuclear test-ban treaty which U.S. sources say is all but completed in Moscow. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and disarmament agency director William C.

Foster sought to blaze a path for the treaty Tuesday by showing a draft of the proposed agreement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Afterward committee Chairman J. W. Fulbright, said it was possible the Senate would ap- irove it this session but declined go so far as to predict that would happen. Republican Leader Everett M.

Oirksen of Illinois would predict only that the treaty would set off (Continued on Ttft Twenly-eifhO Rail Situation Railroads Under Presi End Threat WASHINGTON (AP) were under strong congress the threat of a nationwic before legislation can be pa Senate Republican drafted a resolution aimed ning until Congress has tirr And various legislators of both parties voiced appeals that the railroads hold off on new work rules which a carriers' spokesman said Tuesday would go into effect at one minute after midnight next Tuesday planned. The five on-train unions have stage a massive walkout the moment the new which woulc eliminate thousands of are posted. Two congressional committees placed between 1:07 a.m. and (Continued on Twenty-Five) BEES AND BOOZE CHELTENHAM, England (UPD Bartender George Pugh stood bravely at his post Tuesday when a swarm of more than 3,000 bees invaded his pub and sent all the customers running for cover. KILLED IN FALL UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.

(AP) A. Beckwith, 52, of Port Matilda R. D. 1, was injured fatally Tuesday when he fell 30 feet while working on a construction project at Pennsylvania State University. md Unions sure To Of Strike Railroads and unions pressure today to end rail strike breaking out ssed to stop it.

Everett M. Dirksen at keeping the trains run- le to act. were many doubts the measure could reach the White House for Kennedy's signature in time to beat the deadline. One hope was, however, that the railroads' announcement of their intention to go ahead with the work rules was aimed at keeping Congress hard at work on the bill and that they would postpone the action before time ran out. rin pital Tuesday, executive has The former chief complained of a worked at full throttle on Presi- Raikoad officials go before the dent Kennedy 1 recommendations for Milling the dispute.

But there Commerce Committee to- Trip's End Finds Former Resident In County Jail A former local man who made trip here from California in a ar described as "strictly a piece of junk" has been jailed in he county prison for violating erms of probation that required him to stay out of Pennsylvania. He was identified as Kenneth Miller, 25, and formerly of 119 N. Partridge by Probation Officer Peter P. Salus. Miller was granted his freedom from a prison sentence here last Sept.

21 when he promised to go to California and not come back to Pennsylvania. He was before court at the time on a charge of driving while his license was suspended. Salus said he was notified by an Artesia, resident that Miller was enroute here in a .953 model car on which he owed $93. The California resident asked Salus to pick up the car and sell it. Salus said Miller will he kept in jail here until arrangements have been made for his return to Artesia.

His father, the Rev. Roy Miller, heads a rescue mission in that city. MiHer told Salus he made the cross-country trip of approximately 3,000 miles in three days. Vliller said he came back here to get a job. Salus expressed amazement the trip was possible.

He said the car had only one good tire and no spare. Both plans were designed to cov er a period of 20 years with the aim of clearing out undergrowth and scrub timbers and reforest ng the areas with salable limber The proposals will be studied lensively by the city water depart ment before being presented to council for approval. Submit Analysis The Mason and Dixon firm sub mitted a 35-page detailed analysis of its reforesting program for the watershed areas. They estimated that initial costs for preparation of base maps analysis of growth, preparation of maps and management polic es, hiring of timber crews and miscellaneous costs would be $25, 000. The plan offered by the Penn Forestry Company proposed costs of 60 cents an acre for the 4000 acres plus initial appraisal costs of $475 to $550 and a percentage 01 gross sale price of harvestec Percentages, according to the proposal, would range from 15 per cent to 25 per cent, depending on conditions under which the timber was harvested.

The second service (o provided under the Penn Forestry proposal would (he sale of pulp wood at a cost of 40 to 70 cents per cord for the firm. For additional future work, an amount equal to the cost plus 15 per cent of costs would be re- an Twenty-tight) Willow Grove Jet Crash Claims Eighth Victim NORRISTOW.V, Pa. (UPD The fiery crash of a Navy jet fighter into a crowded day camp near the Willow Grove Naval 1 Air Station 17 days ago claimed its eighth victim today. Samuel Obedin, 52, of Philadelphia, died in Abington Hospital of injuries and burns suffered when the plane went out of control on landing approach, hit the ground off the runway and plowed into bathhouse at ttie camp rented for the day by a family and neighborhood group from Northeast Philadelphia and suburbs. Seven other persons in the bath house, including a mother, her daughter and son, were killed in stanlly when the plane hit the cinderblock structure.

a second, were a clearance marker and part of tended past onto the track on which the port authority train was traveling. Bible Reading To Continue At Susquehanna HARRISBURG (AP) Bible reading on a permissive basis wil continue in Susquehanna Township schools this year despite a U.S Supreme Court ruling banning it as a required procedure in classrooms. The township's seven-membei school board voted Monday night to permit the practice to continue in light of the absence of any di rective or law ordering schools to stop. "This county will fall just as fast as it has grown if this type of thinking persists," declared Richard D. Wampler, Susquehanna school board president.

The board, which opens its own meetings with prayer, said it felt it was acting on behalf of the parents of its students in making Seltzer Says Licensing Would Protect Cats The protective arm of the law voutd embrace cats if proposed cat licensing law is passed by the stale legislature, it was explained oday by Representative H. Jack Seltzer. 'Cats not considered personal property and there is no law prohibiting the shooting of same," Seltzer said. The representative from Palmyra further pointed out that a ecent State Superior Court decision ruled in essence that cats have no legal protection. Licensing Not Mandatory SclUer also pointed out that cat licensing hill does not make it mandatory that cats licensed.

"In other words, it Is up to the owner to decide jf he wants to license his cat or not," told the Daily News today. The cat licensing bill is sponsored by Seltzer and three other members of Housa of Representatives. Seltzer further explained thai he and the other of bill "are not for the wholesale annihilation of cats." He added. "Rather we attempting to 1 1 protection against anyone attempting to poison, kill or injure them, a protection they do not have today." The Palmyra representative urged that constituents with definite ideas on the subject contact him. Injured Cleona Boy Regains Consciousness David L.

Boger, 13, 107 S. Harris Cleona, who was seriously injured last Wednesday night, has regained consciousness, it was reported today by his physicians at the Reading Hospital'. The hospital also said that the boy is showing signs of improvement. The boy suffered severe head injuries and a skull when he possible fractured rode his bicycle into the path of an automobile at Garfield Street and Penn Avenue, the decision. Last month the U.S.

Supreme Court upheld a U.S. District CourtjCleona. He was enroute to a ruling in Philadelphia striking of his Boy Scout Troop down a Pennsylvania law requir-j when the accident occurred. The ing that public schools open each! ca was driven by Mrs. Catherine day with Bible reading.

The Supreme Court also outlawed recitation of the Lord's Prayer as required classroom exercise. E. Wolfersherger, 39, 501 Hockersville Road, Hershey. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

I Roger 1. Boger. Racial Front Smoke Bomb, Water Hoses Turned On Negroes, Whites Massed In Tennessee Town 1JNITKD PRKSS INTKRNATfONAI. Police fired a smoke bomb and firemen sprayed high-pressure water hoses Tuesday to break up crowds of Negroes and whites during a racial demonstration at Somerville, Tenn. Authorities took action after a group of white teen-agers blocked the path of so-called "freedom marchers," grabbed some of the Negroes' banners and threw into a garbage can.

The about which dispersed before the powerful hoses could drench them. It was the third day of demonstrations for the west Tennessee city, located in rolling cotton country about miles northwest of Memphis. At Baton Rouge, nix policemen scuffled with about 50 smoke bomb exploded 10 feet from the crowds Negroes who forced their way from throughout the nation urged into a public swimming pool and President Kennedy Tuesday to a police captain received minor i meet with them during a march injuries. Five Negroes were ar- resled. New York police arrested 139 mnn, women and children during anti discrimination demonstrations at two construction sites Tuesday.

Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. promised increased integration pressure in the nation's largest city. A desegregation agreement supervised by Ally. Gen. Robert F.

Kennedy was signed by white and Negro leaders from Cambridge, Tuesday to climax 19 months of racial strife in the Chesapeake Bay fishing community. Other developments included: New York A "summit" meeting o( top Negro leaders to Washington on Aug. 23 in support of civil rights legislation. Charle-ston S. C.

Around 60 businessmen accepted a six-point program of downtown desegregation Tuesday. Negro leaders indicated they would decide at a meeting tonight whether to continue racial demonstrations. Birmingham, council unanimously repealed all segregation ordinances which city attorney J. M. Breckenridge said had been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S.

Supreme Court. Oxford, Army said Tuesday that the last of around 30,000 troops sent here last fall to force the admission of Negro student James H. Meredith into Bob Hoch "id hernia, according to friends, for Milling the dispute. But there (C r.g, cinderblock structure. licetnen scuffled with about 50 meeting o( top Negro leaders TODAY ONLY! 9:30 A.M.

'TIL 9:00 P.M. SAM LEVITZ HONOR ROLL PREVIEW OF HIS AUGUST FURNITURE SALE! BRING IN YOUR COUPONS!.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the Lebanon Daily News
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About Lebanon Daily News Archive

Pages Available:
391,576
Years Available:
1872-1977