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Lake Parkway Boosts Crowds ROCHESTER, N. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955 13 Rev. Neimoller, Foe of Hitler At Hamlin Park Lake Ontario State Parkway, Pastor Fears Wehrmacht Revival which next year will reach Dewey Avenue, helped boost attendance West Germany on Saturday re 40 per cent at Hamlin Beach State Park this year. More than vived its citizens army, and yesterday the Lutheran pastor who 300,000 persons visited the park, mostly during the summer months. defied Hitler from the pulpit shook his head doubtfully as he Letchworth Park, second of the discussed the day news, Genesee State Park Commission's "It looks like a return to the two preserves, drew 10 per cent continent's concept of the mill tary being a power within the more attendance and hit a record of visitors.

The figures for the calendar year were announced by Gordon W. Harvey, government, said Martin Niemoller during an interview in his room in the Hotel Seneca. "The Scandinavian countries and Switzerland have military chief commission engineer. Harvey announced the state organizations that are true citi- has allocated funds to continue the paving of Lake Ontario Parkway from Long Pond Road to Dewey Avenue, Greece. Paving is under contract from Payne Beach Road to Long Pond Road, but won't be completed until spring.

The 3-miIe strip bringing the zen armies, but they are the ex- ception. I'm afraid the new Ger- man 'army will be like the old war machine," he said. i War I Submariner Paste? Niemoller is acquainted I with war; he commanded a sub- marine in World War I and later spent eight years in Nazi con-I centration camps after he spoke out against Adolf Hitler. He is in Rochester with his wife on a two-dav speaking tour in the in- parkway into the city suburbs, including a bridge at Island Cottage Road that will link with the Outer Loop near Mt. Read will cost over one million dollars: Lake Ontario Parkway, com terests of uniting Christian churches in a campaign for world pleted for 12 of.

its projected 20 miles, this 'year carried seven per cent more traffic than last, according to commission peace. He pointed out that West Ger-i many's new Wehmacht has at-J tracted enlistment offers from 173.000 men. of whom only 17 With the parkway progressing to Long Pond Road by summer mrfflfffii r- ill niimmiii mil ir lumm per cent are youths with no HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dr. Martin Niemoller (left) is shown with the Rev. Hanford II.

Closson, D.D., pastor of Grace Methodist Church, and Mrs. Margaret Knickerbocker of 5223 Dewey a member of the church since 1905. Dr. Niemoller, famed German pastor, spoke yesterday morning as church celebrated its 50th anniversary. military experience, me remuu-- der being war veterans.

The pastor and his wife arrived in the United States last Wed-nesday for a month's tour of this country under auspices of the and additional facilities being added at Hamlin Beach Park, Harvey forecast another gain in attendance next year. The gain there this year is "one of the steepest" of all state parks, the engineer said. The park commission has planned a five-year expansion tl -r-i-i-'f niiii-fff-iiifiT Hi'Mi iiiiriiniiiiumi' FAMILY WITH A GOAL Paul Krieg, who fled his East Germany farm rather than let Communists steal his ideas, is surrounded by family in new Avon home. Seated from for the future. Hatred will be left: Hilke, Brigitte, Mrs.

Krieg. Dieter, 10, gives Friederike, 1, ride on rocking horse while Ingo, 5, waits turn. Krieg's aim: To build world's best farm. Fellowship of jteconcuiauon, vi. Niemoller also will deliver a se said Pastor Niemoeller in the interview, is to seek a union of overcome by charity, ries of lectures in the interests "The main demand on Christi program to meet the demand for more facilities.

Launching of the program, awaits state allocations the Christian church to effect a "heading of the Church toward of the Paine Foundation. Spoke at Greece Church ans today is to act together on the principles of their 'faith, not of funds, Harvey added. German Refugee Skeptic Dares to Dream Big He spoke yesterday morning making world With Bolshevik" as the main threat to Both Letchworth and Hamlin Parks are open to visitors in the at Greece Baptist Churcn ana this peace, he saw no chance of helped Grace Methodist Church mark its 50th anniversary. Last Paul Friedrich Krieg, an East of his disillusionment, he said, winter, although all facilities are with his avowed belief that "it failure, for as he put it "we aren't fighting on the same level closed. At Letchworth, a winter German skeptic with high ideals and promptly was read out of the merely pronounce them Skinner Plans1 To Seal Route Of ail Escape and a "life's mission" to build is a human duty to fight communism." He was refused the as the Communists." National Socialist Party.

He continued to work on the family night he appeared in the pulpit at Lake Avenue Baptist Church, where Mrs. Niemoller also ad After his release, he added, the farm had been taken over by the state and his parents evicted without compensation. His father, Krieg said, never hus forgiven the best dairy farm in- the world, entrance is being maintained in Route 19-A between Castile and Portageville. farm until inducted into the right to speak in public, he said but offered about $1,000 if he Christianity vs. Communism "Christianity and Communism yesterday dared America to demonstrate that integrity is, not a lost virtue.

Wehrmacht After a year's service promised to stay on the family he was wounded in the left leg Sheriff Albert W. Skinner plans him. "My father still feels that. Sportsman Thief farm after it was aollcctivized. aren't counterparts such as this," he explained, touching together and hip, and discharged after a Twenty-four hours after arrival to seal off the "escape route" by which two prisoners fled ihf.

His refusal resulted in his ar long hospital stay, if I had kept quiet, we would have stayed on the farm and of the family of seven, Krieg was bubbling over with his convincing rest "for inciting the public, for bounty Jail Sept. 16. I His dedication to scientific Loots Two Cars Someone with sporting blood in the fingertips of his two hands. "Rather, Christianity is on a higher plane and will pounce down on plans and ideals in the living Stronger iron bars which will everything would have been all right," he said. Although grieved resist bending and sawing will undermining the morale of the young and for 'anti-democratic' attitudes." He' was sentenced to 9V4 years in Dreisbergen Prison room of their larm home at zjb E.

Main Avon. His staccato dairy farming had earned him a reputation as a breeder by the time the Communists took over. He showed trophies and docu dressed a rally of young people. The latter spoke earlier in the day 'at Central Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Master. This noon Dr.

Niemoller will address the Pastors Union meeting in Colgate Rochester Divinity School and later win appear before students at the divinity school. This visit to Rochester, their third, ends today, with the Nicmollers flying on to St. Louis! for an appearance tomorrow. Purpose of his current tour, "IT. replace present ones under a skv- his system and larceny in his heart ransacked two cars early yesterday and walked off with enough equipment for a weekend discourse, in German, revealed E.r:r U1C A new ventilating system for having caused unhappiness to his parents, he said, he has no regrets.

but was released in just over a ments identifying him as the will be installed. County Purchasing Agent C. A. Bennett will a mon to whom scientific dairy farming is a way of life, work a year after promising with men "Communism is a man-made ideology centered on collective egotism. On the other hand, owner of prize-winning cattle.

Through farm organization activi of sports or hunting. Richard E. Wilkinson, 3 Curran pleasure, and honesty a religion, open bids on the work at 11 a.m Nov. 21 in the Court House. tal reservation to cooperate in the future, Prison conditions, he said, were Kriee.

who abandoned his par ties, he said, he gained the confi told police his car, parked at Christianity offers something bet ents and the farm they raised dence of "thousands" of young HOUSE TRAILER SESSION Rochester Chapter, Empir ter, more effective, more hopeful to nrosDeritv rather than become subhuman: Up to 12 prisoners sters and adults to whom he 250 South was stripped of an archery set made of aluminum, including three dozen alu On Sept. 16 two prisoners used a stolen key -to open their cells, then climbed to the cellblock ceiling. They bent a bar under a part of "the Communist illu lectured on farming. in a cell meant for one; political House Trailer Owners sion." came to the Rochester area His freedom to speak, however, inmates ranging from the teens will vote on nronnsed hv.Uw minum arrows and a quiVer made i i r.r r. n.

under the sponsorship of Harper the skylight, broke the glass and climbed to the roof. The escapees enaea in asau wuen me com-. mio me bus, ana "an average oi changes tomorrow evening in munist government found fault; three to four suicides a day." Gates Town Hall. Sibley. He confidently expects By BILL BEENEY to begin building his model dairy, farm, "my life's within two years or else.

If I am disappointed," he de of buffalo hide, which he valued at $130. He also reported missing a camera and badminton rackets, but did not estimate their worth. Anthony Falzone, 121 Hand said his parked car was relieved of a hunting knife, a box of .22 caliber shells and a camera. He valued the lot at $40. 1 Boy, 7, Struck By Car were recaptured a lew hours later.

Teachers to Hear Editor, Author Norman Cousins, author, editor of the Saturday Review and honorary president of the United clared, "I am going back. I am here solely on the word of Mr, Sibley that I can continue my work. I have, after 20 years work Ah, These New-Fangled Gadgets! rSESPITE.what you may. have heard, the day of the rugged individualist is not entirely in the past. There are hardy souls who refuse to be included in the regimented lists of citizenry, as witness a Main Street scene of the other noontime.

A middle-aged lady, perhaps 50, as intelligent-looking and spry as any of us, and sober as a deacon, stood at the northwest corner of Main and Front streets. But she stood there only momentarily. and experimentations, an entire ly new concept of farm buildings World Federalists, will address the Rochester Teachers Assn. at and livestock breeding. Perhaps McFarlin's Closed Today fill MoHogramiiiiiig iv i III of His Favorite Al JiVlX Gift Shirts! and here his voice carried less doubt than the word implies 8 p.m.

Thursday at Benjamin Franklin High School. Cousins is expected to discuss his recent trip to the Far East, which took him to Saigon, Singapore, and Hone Kone. where "perhaps I can build the best farm in the country perhaps even the best in the world." Darting into Street A seven-year-old boy darted into the path of a car in Brooks Avenue at Chandler Street about 5:15 yesterday, police said, and was slightly injured when knocked to the pavement. Gerald Tosti, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Dominick A. Tosti of 30 Pioneer was treated at In the light of his sincerity observed points of contact with and history, his words lost all the Communist world. Later, he suspicion of empty boastfulness His pride was in his work, not in himself. Perhaps the key to his per Strong Memorial Hospital for body bruises. Police reported sonality lies in the question he used time and again in connection the car was driven by Anthony She looked up at the signal lights, noted without concern that the red light restricted her.

from crossing Main Street She assayed the flow of traffic carefully, took a firm grip on the package under her arm, and stepped out determinedly into the oncoming stream. She was forced to' delay her progress two or three times as automobiles zipped past her, some of them slowing as they neared her. The lady glared with his political experiences attended the historic Asian-African conference at Bandung. Cousins is author of "Who Speaks for Man?" and "Modern Man Is Obsolete." He is also vice president of PEN, world organization of writers and editors, and a member, of the Library Development Committee of Columbia University. Sandlot Gridder "1st Alles Heuchelei?" "Does fraud rule all?" He hopes that fraud, which he saw reign in Nazi Battisu, 27, of 85 Scrantom St.

Overheated. Furnace Blamed for $500 Fire An overheated ifumace was blamed by Battalion Chief E. J. Webber for a fire which caused Germany, Red Germany and even (he said) West Germany, is not an estimated $500 damage to the Breaks Left Leg A sandlot football game on the the rule in America but he want to be shown He wants to prove for himself he said, that deceit is not the only roai to success. Under two forms of totalitari home of Jerry Fink at 366 Gregory St.

yesterday. -Fink said he came home behind Aquinas Institute ended about 5:15 p.m. yesterday with one of the players, Benja- shortly before 4 p.m. and found anism built on fraud, Krieg has demonstrated his devotion to integrity. He admitte dthat he man Rotolo, 19, of 178 Warner suffering a broken left leg.

Admitted to St. Mary's Hospital. the cellar in flames. Firemen fought the blaze about an hour. The one and a half story frame dwelling is owned by Charles W.

Scherer of 24 Whalin St was an enthusiastic follower of Hitler until 1934. That year, how his condition was listed as "fair" last night. ever, he began making no secret By the Numbers, Everybody Thruway Link Uproois Route Sign V--, Excel1 Super 1 I 1 nc" I i A major change in road desig-1 The route reshuffle has beeun. nations affecting motorists will accordinff to Philin C. Walter.

take place Wednesday morning, state' traffic engineer, and will be completed after the new Thru- when the state unveils its latest superhighway, the southeast way link opens. It was approved With the defeat this month of a bond issue without special earmarking of the funds, it is held politicians may be in no mood to hike taxes. However, owing to the end of the 10 per cent "forgiveness" on state taxes this year, the Harri- by the State Departmpnt of Pub Thruway connection. The five-mile, toll-free divided lie Works in Albany. Bernard highway will open without Jan- Perry, acting state district engi fare about 9 a.m.

as a continua neer, announced the opening of tion of Route 96 at the end of the connection Eventually the link will extend them dead and continued on her way against the light. She reached the other side safely through no fault of her own. A gentleman passerby who had watched the proceedings with some alarm buttonholed the lady when she reached the curb and said: "M'am, you were taking your life in your hands, walking across the street against the lights like that. Didn't you notice them?" "Lights?" asked the lady. "Yes, the traffic signal lights," replied the man.

"You mean those red and green things?" asked the lady. "I thought they were just for automobiles." JJi. TRIVIATA: It's-never-too-late Bill Hirschman, sales manager of Brighton Place Dairy, says the company received a check for $10.04 the other day. Accompanying it was a letter and a bill, dated Dec. 18, 1928.

Said the letter-writer: "I find this bill among my papers. I was in a small candy business at the time this business was due, and was going through financial trouble, so it did not get paid. After all this time here is a check for $10.04." Young lady wondered, on Election Day, how her father fared at the polls. "Did you vote Democrat, or Chronicle?" she asked. When the Very Rev.

Msgr. Joseph E. Vogt was appointed pastor of Holy Redeemer Church the other day, he hurried to the telephone and called his mother, Mrs. Clara Vogt, 137 Lincoln still a resident of the parish. "Mother," he said, "is your pew rent paid?" "Yes," replied Mrs.

Vogt. "And I know why you ask." Man sends along a clipping telling about a new anthology of Scottish humor which includes the story of two Scotsmen on a visit to London who noticed the cornerstone in a large building bearing in Roman capitals the date MCMIV. "There you are again," said one of them, "a brither Scot with his name on the biggest building In London. You canna' keep a guid man doon!" But I always thought the Mcs were Irish, the Macs Scotch. Asbury First Methodist Church's Church School activities have been photographed by Life Magazine for inclusion in the magazine's issue on Religion to be published around Christmas time The University of Rochester, an analysis shows, ranks third among colleges and universities of the country in the percentage of its engineering graduates listed in the latest edition of Who's Who in Engineering.

Dartmoulh is first, University of Nebraska second. Kansas, Missouri, Cal Tech, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania follow the UR. On basis of total number of engineers listed in Who's Who, MIT heads the list, but it dropped to 18th place in comparison of number in Who's Who to total output. man administration is expected to pile up a heavy revenue surplus. Federal aid also is expected to go up next year.

But state from the Thraway near Victor Orders Filled to the city, at South Avenue and Howell Street. But because of X7 f. 1 Just circle the monogram or appropriations ultimately will de the recent defeat of the highway finance program by voters, it's its four-lane section at Bush-nells Basin Road to Fairport Road. On Wednesday, Monroe Avenue (now Route 96-31) will become Route 31 only, from Pitts-ford into the city. East Avenue from its beginning to Fairport Road will become Route 31-F, losing its previous designation.

For 15 years, both East and Monroe Avenues have been Route 96-31 to PitUford. East doubtful just how soon construction will proceed into the city. Early this year, the depart cide how much federal aid is to be, since federal aid must be matched dollar for dollar by the state. The current section, started in May, 1954, was delayed by rains which forced workmen to re '3 4 1 monograms you want and" mail 1 ad with your order. Give i L- collar size, sleeve length, price.

1 ni a ment forecast an accelerated pace under which sections out side the city would be construct cover many washed out areas with sod. The state hoped to have it open by Election Day as! Avenue south of Fairport Road this week will become Route -64, running through Pittsford and ed with sections in the city, although not directly connected. Design plans for these sections advertising for the proposed 750-million dollar bond issue. south past Mendon. are still progressing, but pro The new superhighway will visions to hire another 100 engi It was constructed under a 1wh cuti fjvMa uiin become Route 96 from Bushnells nil l-j neers and workmen to expedite the work have been discarded.

so.us.iji contract Dy me Lane Construction Meriden, Basin Road to Fairport Road. When the road eventually is ex which built several Thruway sec Future of the area's highway tended into the city, the exten tions. The contract calls for com program now rests with the budg et to be proposed by Gov. Harri- sion will become Route 96. Until then there will be no Route 96 man and with the reception of ((1 of Rochester pletion by Dec.

1. The Thruway connection looks like its parent model, with beam bridges, concrete paving divided by a grass mall and few access points. It will be a 50-mile per hour road, in contrast with the 60 mph it by the State Legislature. The State Automobile Assn. has proposed another highway bond pro in the city.

The former section of Route 96 from Bushnells Basin Road northwest through Pittsford will become Route 252 (Jefferson Road) and will hook up with the gram out with a constitutional guarantee the money will be used present Route 252 in Pittsford, only for roads. 1 limit on the Thruway. -125 EAST. MAIN STREET PHONE BAker'2720, Uk.

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