Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 1

CHESTER, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1961 Seven Centa Fair tonight. Mostly Wednesday with FAIR few showers cloudy Delaware County Page likely. Wednesday 4.) Low sear innight 55. near (Detalls 35. High on Daily Times FINAL 85th Year--No.

59,011 Swing Will Not Seek Radnor Re-Election Stand Comes As Opponents File Suit County Commissioner Albert Il. Swing will not seek re-election as treasurer tax collector of Radnor when his term expires this year. But, he will not quit cither of his elected offices. Swing made those two announcements at a press conference late Monday in Radnor, some four hours after court action had been started against him in Media by five Republican leaders to force his ouster from the two jobs. At the time Swing had not.

been with a copy of the quo warranto proceedings and would not comment on the action other than to say he would have an answer after he has been served and after he had conferred with his attorney, Harold D. Greenwell of Radnor. In his press statement, Swing blamed his political troubles on "three sins I committed against Sam Dickey." He named them as: 1. His circulation of a petilion among the Republican Board of Supervisors to have Clarence D. Bell replace the late August Niemeyer on last year's slate for state senator, claiming Dickey considered that post "an Upper Darby position." 2.

Circulation by Swing of a petition among the supervisors lo name County Commissioner G. Robert Watkins as temporary leader after John J. McChire broke his hip, claiming "Dickey! and his followers wanted to their sphere of influence" in the "partial vacuum" caused by McClure's illness. 3. Opposition by Swing to paying a county, employe who had pleaded to "a shake-down Swing pointed out that "this employe (James Whilsett of Darby Township) comes from political district under the supervision of Fred Duke, Dickey's field manager." In a answer session, Swing denied ambitions to become county Republican leadcr; from claimed other support in his fight supervisors and poli-! tical leaders; denied ho had promised to quit as tax collector on being clected county commissioner; called McClure "still sharp and lucid" and claimed the GOP leader was not favoring cither side, but admitted that in past years McClure would have stopped public brawl.

Swing also denied reports that he had promised to resign as 'county commissioner after being assured of re-election to his tax collector post before coming under attack from the five GOP leaders. Swing, who has been the acknowledged Republican leader of Radnor, said he did not know who would run for the lucrative treasurer-lax collector post, but expected it would be decided by! the middle of the week. Asked if his fight with the five leaders could be settled amicably, he answered: "Can you settle Sam Dickey or Fred Duke?" He added that he thought other mombers of the Board of Supervisors "will have to stand up and be counted" before the fight is ended. The suit against Swing was filed in the name of Dist. Ally.

Jacques 1l. Fox by five attorneys representing the five Republican leaders who have been calling! for Swing to give up one or the other of his elective offices. Under law, the suit must be filed through the district attorney, although it is brought by private citizens. The suit asks the Common Sce SWING; Page 4 Spring Is Just Around The Corner! And Daily Times Want Ads arc as near as your phone. Right now you can get extra cash for everything from an Easter outfit to a set of golf clubs by selling good usable furniture, appliances, clothing and sporting goods that you no longer need.

It's easy through FAST ACTION DAILY TIMES WANT ADS. and the cost is low! For a direct line to an ad taker. DIAL TR 1-5252 FREE County Calla LO 6-0577 KI 3-3599 LE 2-3566 2 Confess Car Heir Kidnap French Link 3 Women ANNECY, France -Police said today that a former paratrooper and an accomplice with police record have confessed to the kidnaping last ycar of 4. year-oid auto heir Eric Peugeot. After questioning the pair for! 48 said they admitlied last parlicipaling in the kidnaping April 12 which netted 50 million ransom, The blond youngster of auto magnato Peugeot was returned unharmed.

The two men who were led to have confessed were report- identified as Roland de Beaufort, also known 25 Raymond Roland, and Pierre Larcher, known in some quarters as "Handsome; Serge." They were picked up two days ago along with another man and three women, including a Danish beauty queen and a Eurasian strip tease artist. All had been on ski vacation at Megeve. The Eurasian -whose father was nese American and mother Japa-was identified only as Mitsouko, The three couples had been staying in a luxurious eight-room, chalet. They apparently were preparing for 3 gelaway as police closed in. One couple seized was about to, speed off in a blue Americanmade sports car.

A new black sedan was stopped in a nearby town and the other two couples were picked up. De Beaufort was identified as a 24-year-old ex-paratrooper who has been spending large sums although he had no visible means of support. He maintained an apartment in Paris and made frequent weekend trips to Copenhagen with his fiancee Lise Bodin, the Danish beauty queen who was questioned with him. Larcher, wanted by police in Paris for extortion and for assault and battery, was well known in the Montmartre and Montparnasse night life districts of Paris. They were the only members of the skiing party reported by the police to have confessed any connection with the Peugeot affair.

The Peugeot boy was from a playground just outside Paris from under the eyes of a chauffcur and nurse. A ransom note was found in a sandpile. Jack's School Stand Same WASHINGTON -President still is opposed to grantherring federal aid to parochial and private schools, Sen. Mike Mansficki of Montana said today. Mansfield, the Senate Democratic leader, reported Kennedy's position to newsmen after the President's regular weekly mectal chiefs.

ing with Democratic At a news confeence last week Kennedy and said federal aid to parochial private schools would be clearly unconstitutional. added that on the basis of a SuHe preme Court decision, the matter! is not even open for debate. U.N. Troops to Fill Void Left in Congo EDDIE- FISHER CALLS County Lab Sends Vaccine to Liz SWARTHMORE Vaccine was rushed to Elizabeth Taylor's bedside Monday from Delmont Laboratories, Harvard Avenuc. Arrangements for the emergency shipment of the drug to combat pneumonia were made Monday in personal telephone calls from London to the Eddie Fisher, the film star's huslaboratory by band, and Dr.

Carl Heinz Gold. man, sicians. one of her attending physaid A spokesman for the laboratory Fisher called twice and Dr. Goldman once. They requested two variations of the drug, plus a combination of both.

The drug was flown from Philadelphia International Airport York's Idlewild Airport, where it was placed on a jet for London. The laboratory spokesman that initially the firm did not know for whom the drug-known as Staphage Lysate, a cocal bacterio phage lysate--was staphylo-tively lintended, but assumed it was for the 29-year-old actress. Meanwhile, in London, a medi. cal spokesman said today that a new British gamma globulin may be used instead. The drug has been on the market for more than two years and is licensed for distribution by the federal government.

Its development took about 10 ycars. Christopher Roos, laboratory director and formerly senior gist for Sharpe and Dohme, playcd a major part in its development. The drug Is manufactured exclusively by Delmont Laboratories. Its production is under the supervision of Theodore Purnell, associate professor of education and science at Pennsylvania Military College. The laboratory spokesman said the vaccine is a potent infection.

against staphylococall A three-year institutional study showed the drug effeccontrolled severe cases of this infection. Liz Taylor Sinking; Doctors at Bedside LONDON (AP)-Elizabeth lor's doctors called an urgent bedside conference today amid signs that the gravely ill actress may have taken 3 a turn for the worse. "Most of her doctors are inside with her," said a close friend at the hospital. "We are not sure what's happening, but things don't look good." A spokesman for the star's personal physician Dr. Carl Heinz Goldman, said: "We can say nothing right now and we'll probably have nothing before 6 or 7 or 2 p.m.

Easto'clock ern Standard Time. Stricken by pneumonia, the 29- year-old actress had passed a fair night and a medical bulletin Carlior said she was and "breathing quietly peacefully." It added that she was definitcly improving "although the general situation remains grave." Haggard from worry and lack of sleep, singer Eddie Fisher, 31, for the third night remained near! his sive wife's bedside clinic in the heart of London. Two doctors were in the sickroom throughout the night. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Taylor, also spent the night at the clinic. The actress was seen this morning by her full medical (cam of six doctors. issued this bulletin: "After a restless night with high temperatures her condition is definitely improving this morning and she is breathing quictly CAN'T SEE A THING--That was the Butler go plight to of work many in motorists who had to Chester this morning's fog. shine. lor Terrace Jane Dwyer (left) of 336 Tay- the fog.

Mary and Janis Gallagher of 914 Sun Chases Heavy Fog In County The witching hour that separat(ed Monday from Tuesday proved Lo be the warmest part of Monday, the Weather Bureau said today. That high temperature of 57 was followed by fog this morning. Traffic was hampered by the mist until the sun broke through in midmorning and introduced fair weather for the rest of the day. The fair weather is expected to continue through the night, the weatherman said. He predicted a little more shower activity Wednesday, but said much of the bad weather went north of Delaware County.

The Philadelphia International Airport was closed Monday night by the Elsewhere in the nation. three persons died in tornadoes Monday. The twisters damaged scores of buildings and downed utility lines over wide sections of the Midwest before breaking up over the Appalachians. Storms in the Southeast dumped nearly two inches of rain on parts of already-soggy Alabama. Nearly as much rain fell in Atlanta.

2 threw CRUMPLED a steel HOUSE girder into TAKES LIFE- winds Mayme Mansfield, the roof of this house house. (AP Wirephoto) was 70, Kokomo, who in the which collapsed the roof. The collapsing roof killed Sudanese Pull Out In Protest Airlift Ready In Tunisia re Tay-land peacefully although the general situation remains grave." A second breathing expert, Dr. Robert Beaver, was called in to aid the actress, who underwent an emergency trachcolomy Saturday. A breathing lube inserted her throat then and an electronic lung are helping keep her alive.

At one period Monday night Miss Taylor's strength ebbed, but she after being given blood transfusions for her anemic condition. When Miss Taylor low point Monday evening, reached of her Dr. Carl one Heinz, ried." Goldman, said "we are very But the blood transfusions gave her, Under added sedation, strength. she frequently lapsed into unconsciousness. But sho was able to recognize her husband.

The breathing tube kept. her from speaking but she managed to scrible a note: "How am getting along?" "Just fine." Fisher told with a comforting smile. In another note she asked, "low are the children?" He answered a reassuring smile. Cop Holdup Victim LOUISVILLE, Ky. -Lawrence Kerr, a policeman who has a of second job as assistant manager a neighborhood theater, may be a bit redfaced today.

He was held up for $521. Education Series Starts Have you a youngster in school who may someday want lo go to college? Den who have looked long and hard at America's college picture say that in 1970 there will be twice as many college students as there are now, and there may not be enough room for them. Delaware County has several colleges. In a series beginning today, the Daily Times takes a close look at the expansion plans of four of these schools and considers the views of one of the county's top educators. See Page 11.

Hope Seen In Red Bid mier MOSCOW Khrushchev (AP) Soviet PreAmerican Ambassador today Llewellyn invited Thompson to meet him in Siberia message Wednesday from to deliver a personal President Kennedy. Embassy sources Said Thompson will fly to Siberia but declined to disclose his exact destination. It is assumed he will meet the Soviet premier in Novosibirsk. That is where Khrushchev has been busy with an agricultural mecting. It is the same town that former Vice President Richard M.

Nixon toured two years ago. This is the first time an American ambassador has made such a trip to sce any Soviet leader. It is also the first time forcign envoy has met chev when outside of Moscow except they have visited him at one of his holiday homes, The fact that Khrushchev has invited Thompson to see him the midst of a busy tour comiby domestic farm problems indicates the importance which he attaches to the Kennedy message. Senator Snooper One of the first things a visttor notices in a so-called back. ward country is that the children are still obeying their par.

ents. Amusements 11 Bridge 18 Classified Ads 15-17 Comics 18, 20 Community Clock 5 Crossword Puzzle 18 Death Notices 15 Editorials 6 Family Section 8, 9 Homscone 19 Obituarics Also sec Death Notices 15 Sports 12, 13 Television 7 both 17 and both seniors in High School, search for sunOld Sol finally chased away Operations At Nu-Car To Close CHESTER close its Nu-Car Carriers Chester branch plant operations here entirely shuts after the Ford down, a company officer said today. Dexter Lishon, executive vice president in charge of the Chester "will branch, said the Ford closing mean that we will close out our operations in their entirety Meanwhile, action continued in regard to the Ford situation itin self, and Chester the Ford plant manager took a look into the future personnel needs of the plant. The Council: Delaware Valley Business meets tonight in Glenolden. One of the evening's main topics is expected to be the Ford closing, scheduled for one week! tomorrow.

The 7 p.m. meeting at the Stuart Murray American Legion will Boone and Glen be open to the public. J. Dewey Coates, community See FORD Page 4 (AP) LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo Reinforcement for the United Nations garrison began arriving in Leopoldville today after humiliating Sudanese defeat U.N. were soldiers forced a in out of the vital port of Matadi by the Congolese army.

Arrival of the troops coincided with Sudan's announcement that it is withdrawing its 400 men from the U.N. force in the Congo. Sudanese President Ibrahim Abboud accused the U.N. Command of carelessly deploying the Sudanese contingent at Matadi and failing to provide proper reinforcements for the outnumbered garrison. The United Nations is trying to negotiate its way back into the port city down the Congo River, and the reinforcements bolstered its negotiating position.

Emergency arraugements were made to airlift 600 soldiers from Tunisia to the Congo A U.N. spokesman Wednesday. said the vanguard of 3,000 soldiers India is sending probably will. arrive within a week, A U. S.

Navy task force ing 500 Marines raced toward waters off Matadi but a State Department spiked any suggestion that a land. spokesman ing was in prospect. The United States has its operations in the restricted. transporting and supplying Congo U. N.

to forces and is firmly committed against any. direct military intervention by any of the big powers. State Department press officer Lincoln White said diverting the four-ship task force from a goodwill mission to Cape Town "has no unilateral significance." He not at, emphasized it was "our idea" and U. N. request.

A cease-fire hung over the key ed for the U. port negotiations, proceed. N. forces. The Congolese defiantly.

demanded that they. be consulted on the nationality of the U. N. troops sent there. A U.

N. spokesman warned that "if the United Nations fail to get back by peaceful means, it is empowered to use force as a last resort if necessary." Five men of a Danish supply unit were the only U. N. personnel remaining in Matadi follow. ing the surrender and evacuation of the 135-man Sudanese garrison and a nine-member Canadian communications unit Sunday.

The withdrawal after more than 24 hours of battle in which two Sudanese were killed and 13 wounded. Twelve Sudanese were missing. Abboud, in pulling out his contingent, charged "United Nations decisions were vague, weak and helped to spread dislorder." MAY RELAX CUTOFF DATE Hospital Eyes Change In Obstetrical Care CHESTER Some slight changes may be in the making for the obstetrical portion of Chesniter Hospital's indigent care plan. tor of Roger! the A. Wardlow, administrahospital, said some livery women already registered for de-1.

may be permitted to have their babies in Chester Hospital after Apirl I. have Women already due to been deliver in March! assured of room in the hospital. Wardiow said Chester Hos-! pital's social services director is 1 who For had registered before visiting all expectant mothers indigent care and who expect delivery after April 1. Those women have been instructed to make arrangements to have their babies delivered elsewhere. Wardiow said the purpose of the visits by the hospital official is to make certain each woman some place to go for delivery of her child.

"If not," he said, "we may be forced, in some instances, to sce that they get delivered." He emphasized that this serve lice is available only to those cn who were registered with (hospital as indigent expectant mothers before March 1. He said the hospital is refunding the money of each woman who had paid for care under the indigent program and who was scheduled for delivery after April The total fee for that service amounts to $100. in Another hospital administrator the county, R. H. Diament of would Taylor Hospital, said his hospital he "glad" to care for the women for that $100 fee.

whose Gilbert Dale of 900 W. 3rd after wife is due for delivery April 1, protested that the hospital has refunded the money they paid in advance on the $100 plan and advised the Dales that obstetrical care will now cost $150. Meanwhile, Wardlow has sent letters to various industries in the area outlining emergency sion lie plans for industrial employes. admissaid accident victims sent. (o the hospital by Industries would use the main entrance driveway from Penn Street rather than the emergency, room driveway.

He Industries to teicphone in advance in order to have a patient admitted. 15..