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THE WEATHER V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast Philadelphia and i I i Mostly fair Friday and High both days near 55. Low Friday night near 35. Light, variable winds Friday.

COMPLETE WEATHER DATA ON PAGE 26 4 A. eipm lb-ami FI At CITY EDITION r. 5 i-. i m-. i i iiit.h t-r Hit (Hi If tl im i An Indepe md remit Peop October Circulation: Daily, Sunday, 1,024,253 FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1960 Copnlfht.

160, by Trlanflt Publications. Inc. Vol. 263. No.

141 132(1 Year WFIL 560 KC WFIL-TV CH. 6 FIVE CENTS II I i II II fi it II IK II fT Mrs. Kennedy Has a Boy; Sehool Board Weighs Realty Tax Increase To Finance Pay Rise Bo th Tine' After Surgery Its A-Bomb Near, Says Red China Khrushchev Sees Peace Threat in Peiping Boast By ARTHUR GAVSHON 2d Child Is Delivered By Caesarean Section WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Friday) (UPI). President- elect John F.

Kennedy's wife gave birth early Friday to a Considers Petition to Legislature By HELEN ROTHBARDT The Board of Education is healthy and "beautiful" 6-pound, 2-ounce boy after a dramatic ambulance dash to Georgetown University Hospital. Delivery was by Caesarean section. Mrs. Kennedy and the baby were described as doing fine. The infant will be kept LONDON, Nov.

24 (AP). Allied diplomats reported on Thursday night that Red in an incubator for 24 to 48f China claims it can become a nuclear power soon and even Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is worried. -A fe 1 They said the boast was made KennedyRushes Back fo Capital From Florida by President Liu Shao-chi of Red China at the Communist summit hours, a routine measure with Caesarean births. The baby had not been expected for another three weeks. Sen.

Kennedy was notified by radio of the birth of his first son and second child 15 minutes after he took off from Palm Beach, to fly to his wife's side. Mrs. Kennedy entered the hos conference in Moscow. This claim, coupled with Pei ping public demands for a tougher policy by Reds everywhere, has alarmed Khrushchev and other Communist leaders, diplomats said. TOLD TO ENVOY i considering going to the 1961 Legislature to request an increase in the school tax rate on Philadelphia real estate, The Inquirer learned Thursday.

The board feels this move is mandatory in order to comply with a deluge of demands from teacher organizations and other personnel groups for raises mounting to millions of dollars. The next session of the General Assembly opens in Harris-burg on Jan. 3. Under Pennsylvania school laws, the board cannot increase taxes without legislative authority, LAST RISE IN 1959 The present school tax rate on real estate is $1.60 per $100 of assessed value, which includes a two-mill increase grant PALM BEACH, Nov. 25 (Friday) (AP).

President-elect John F. Kennedy flew in here early Friday and was told that his wife had gone to Georgetown This anxiety was conveyed in formally to a Western ambassa University Hospital in Washing pital almost two and a half hours after the President-elect left Washington to fly back to his Florida vacation. Mrs. Kennedy herself ordered the first word sent to him that the baby might come Thursday night or Friday morning. BORN AT 12:22 The bay was born at 12:22 A.

M. Mrs. Kennedy arrived at dor by a European Communist leader in the last few days, they reported. Informants insisted the names of both men must be kept oi-k ton to have her baby. 1 1 After some hurried checking by long-distance telephone, he took off in another plane to return to secret.

Allied sources say they be to lieve Khrushchev has been jolted Washington 37 minutes after landing here. by Liu's boast. They believe he fears a China ed to the school board in Nov- Kennedy had spent with his wife, Jacqueline, and Profile on Mrs. Kennedy on Page 4. vember, 1959, The two mills armea wiui nuclear weapons might shake off Soviet restraint then flew back to Florida to re added 20 cents to the then $1.40 and embark on ventures that the hospital at 10:55 P.

M. and was immediately taken to an school tax. Spearheading the move for a new tax rise is Mrs. Albert M. would imperil world peace.

MAY TURN TO PACT sume a combination of vacation and work. GRAVE-FACED FATHER Grave-faced upon hearing of operating suite. 4 Mrs. Jacqueline B. Kennedy, wife of the President-elect, who gave birth to a boy early Friday in the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington.

Greenfield, who suggested at a In London's view, Khrushchev Vol?" 4 closed session of the board Tues his wife. Kennedy hurried into may figure only an East-West pact halting the arms race could day that fellow members begin Mrs. Gladys Uhl, Jacqueline Kennedy's press secretary, said she had seen the new baby and "he looks beautiful." UPI Telephoto antiaircraft missiles are dis- U. Nike the Palm Beach Airport administration building, put through a avert so explosive a situation a discussion on more taxes. The number of mills to be re The British have argued that Million Watch Parade call to the hospital, and prompt the said the baby was wig Khrushchev wants disarmament.

played at Darmstadt, West Germany, where a perma nent installation has been placed in service. Tempo rary emplacements had been in use since 1958. ly decided to fly back. gling a little bit," and it seemed quested of the Legislature was not discussed. It is presumed the Legislature would be asked Prime Minister Harold Macmil- Aides said he was told his wife was being operated on for a to have a "little dark hair." lan has said the Soviet leader The Kennedys had said in ad to crant the board anotber two As Santa Arrives to despite his public flamboyance caesanan birth and that he mill rise to provide a minimum can be reasonable in private.

talked to the floor nurse at the Thursday night Western diplo vance they planned to name the child John F. Kennedy, if it was a boy. 2D CAESAREAN hospital. Instead of flying back in his mats in this capital were saying Christmas Shoppers To Jam City Stores own twin-engined plane, Kennedy Open Holiday Season By SAUL KOHLER A Caesarean delivery had been planned for the child. This was ivnrusncnev may be racing against time.

A patched-up truce in his Ideological row with the Chinese would give him time to seek accords on disarmament shifted to a four-engined plane which had carried newsmen, Secret Service agents and some the same method of delivering a baby by surgery used for the The delighted howling of more than a million children of his staff and took off. The plane was in the air at 12:52 A. and other world issues with the birth of the Kennedy's first child, and adults who wished they were children shattered center city Thursday as Santa Claus came to Philadelphia and M. (EST). In 'Big Friday' Spree This is "Big Friday," traditionally the start of the heavy Christmas shopping rush in Philadelphia.

Police and city Caroline, who will be 3 years old Sunday. jthe Delaware Valley, BIRTH NEWS SPREADS About 200 persons had turned It had been announced just Crisp, sunny weather attract 4 Hours in Hole administration of incoming President John F. Kennedy. 4 REACTORS OPERATING A failure to achieve these goals would enable Peiping to build and test its nuclear weapons as ed record crowds for the 41st an Thursday morning that Mrs. Kennedy would have the child in officials pronounced themselves ready Thursday night for the out at the airport here to see Kennedy.

They gave him a cheer when he came down the stairs nual Thanksgiving Day parade, influx into center city of thei shopping da of all and since Trapped Boy which has become as much a Georgetown Hospital, a mile and a half from her three-story brick of $7,500,000. Two mills would bring the school tax rate to $1.80 on each $100 of assessed value. CITY RATE HIKED The ichool tax is in addition to the city real estate tax of $2.08 per $100. The city rate for 1961 was hiked on Wednesday to $2.20. When the school board goes before the Legislature it is likely to receive a cool reception unless It has the complete support of William J.

Green, Democrat-: ic city leader, who exerts a powerful influence on the Assembly. Another obstacle likely to be encountered by the board will be the attitude of the Pittsburgh School Board. If that board also aeeks an increase, the Philadelphia board's difficulties with the Legislature will be lightened. Otherwise, it will face upstate opposition. HIGHEST SCHOOL BUDGET There is also a possibility that to avoid granting the tax increase to the Thiladelphia School many tnousanas expeciea 10 the schools are closed, thousands of youngsters will come to the a preliminary to brandishing them.

jam the department stores, Pictures on Page 3 from his plane. But he didn't have his usual greeting, and quickly shouldered his way Is Rescued Western authorities have been home. Previously it had been reported she would go to New York for the delivery. The dramatic events surrounding the birth began shortly after part of the holiday celebration estimating Red China probably through the throng into the administration building. would be able to test its first nu as turkey and trimmings.

GILROY, Nov. 24 (AP). A 2-YEAR-OLD boy, trapped in a construction hole for clear devices by the end of 1961. News about the birth spread CROWDS LINE STREETS Spn. Kennprlv left at.

8:25 P.M. specialty shops and the streets' of the area. Spurred by the record 132-page edition of The Inquirer published on Thanksgiving Day, in which stores displayed their best for Yuletide giving, a record crowd of shoppers is expected to move Word from Moscow and other quickly and people- passed the midcity area with their parents so they can see Santa Claus in the department stores," Inspector Halferty said. "The situation will be complicated by the arrival of thousands of visitors who are coming for Saturday's Army-Navy game, especially in the vicinities of the Bellevue-Strat-ford and Benjamin Franklin Two hours before the line of to return to nis Florida vacation word along. march moved away from the Art, after spending Thanksgiving Day nearly four hours, was brought to the surface alive and unharmed Thursday.

The hospital news took the play Communist capitals this week was that the Chinese chief of state advised his colleagues at least four atomic reactors are operating in his country. These with his wife and daughter. Shortly after the plane was airborne, away from a disclosure that Kennedy expects to name a key Ad Museum, the streets along the route were filling up. As the fes- Todd Duncan was reached by KennpHv askpH that word Mrs. ministration official director of digging crews at the bottom of an eight-foot construction hole about tivities started at 10:15 A.

it be sent that her husband should could be used either for peaceful the Bureau of the Budget within into Philadelphia for the biggest business day of the year. STAFF INCREASED became apparent that the crowd SAME PARKING RULES call her as soon as possible. HOSPITAL NOTIFIED or weapons purposes, Liu sup posedly said. would top a million 14 inches wide at a motel property north of here. Rescuers brought him to safety Inspector Joseph Halferty, God sure loves children," said Those hotels, located in the heart of the shopping area, are Then shortly before 11 P.M., The Red informant suggested that in this situation at least he commanding officer of the Traf Chief Inspector Albert J.

Trim by digging a three-foot hole near a week. The announcement came from Pierre Salinger, who will be the next President's press secretary, at a press conference called, ostensibly, to tell newsmen what the President-elect and his family ate for Thanksgiving dinner. fic Division, said his force was headquarters for the services mer. "He made the weather for Georgetown Hospital was notified that Mrs. Kennedy would be hoped the allies would understand the trapped boy and then tunnel ing across another two feet.

them. There's no doubt about it; Halferty said he expects the brought in by ambulance. this is a record crowd well over peak traffic movement between Board, the Legislature may attempt, as it tried in 1959, to provide more revenue by a change In formula for State subsidies. This would necessitate fixing a lower estimate of real estate valuations in Philadelphia so that the amount of State aid could rise. Although the school budget of Todd fell into the hole at 2:40 P.

M. while playing with his With her at the hospital was 10:30 A. M. and 6:30 P. M.

prepared. His normal midcity force of 80 officers will be in-j creased to 228, he said, including 115 foot patrolmen, 83 highway patrolmen and 30 seniors of the Police Academy. Dr. Walsh, who is attached to a million people." AND SANTA, OF COURSE Moscow's position, the diplomats said. If these accounts are correct, then problems of extreme urgency would face the Kennedy administration and other allied "There will be no additional brother, Glenn, 4.

the staff of the hospital and is The older boy ran to the family restrictions on parking other than those already provided for," DECLINES ANY CLUE Salinger firmly declined any clue on who the next budget director will be. one of Washington's leading obstetricians. Mrs. Kennedy's mother and There were 18 bands, 75 floats, dozens of marching units and scores of clowns. There were 'Big Friday' is the biggest home, near the motel, and sum moned his father who called po lice.

he added, "but the parking regulations will be enforced $111,039,639 for 1961 is the highest rigidly." He did say, however, that would not reveal the names stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, of McLean, were with her at the hospital. Earlier they had visited both The inspector said 17 motor Torch Drive Paper Says Nixon of any of his Cabinet members cycles and 10 "meter maids" television personalities and mammoth balloons.

And to climax the whole thing, there was Santa Claus. The parade moved down Benjamin Franklin Parkway and around the circle called Logan York Raids Net 69 Slot Machines Special fo The Inquirer YORK, Nov. 24. Sixty -nine will patrol the area bounded by in the history of the Philadelphia schools, salary increases earmarked for teachers and other employe groups were not considered sufficient, as was indicated at a public on the budget. The school board was asked by teacher croups to consider rais Will Practice Law 4th 20th Race st.

Continued on Page 4, Column 4 until after he returns from another week of vacation at Palm Beach, Dec. 4 or 5. He also said the Cabinet names would be Add your EXTRA Gift to the Spruce st. to ticket illegally LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 (AP).

1588 parked cars. In some areas, such cars will be towed. Square. It continued down the TORCH DRIVE'S I slot machines, apparently being Vice President Richard M. Continued on Page 4, Column 4 City Hall, ing minimum salaries from $4200 prepared for shipment overseas I "SHOWER OF DOLLARS" I ro mnpo nrnhans to $5000 and to grant a maximum have been seized in raids on two salary of $9200 for teachers with Of Special Interest Today I garages here and a third in near 3u GTlfr 3ttrutrrr Departments and Features I I I v.

and crippled children were guests of honor. BROAD ST. RETRACED 1 EXPECT MORE TRUCKS Another reason for the congestion, he said, will be the presence of trucks unloading Christmas merchandise to the stores. As the Yule holiday approaches, that problem becomes less im by York township, Sgt. Robert law firm after his term expires' in January, the Los Angeles Times said Thursday.

The newspaper did not identify the firm. The Times' Washington bureau said it had learned authoritative Continued on Page 5, Column 4 Mail it to: United Fund Box 30 Philadelphia 5, Pa. Story on Page 3 Winding its way around the Smith of the State Police an nounced Thursday. Smith said city and State Po Hall, the parade moved south on How to adapt eany Churchill Gains, Plans for Party Broad st. to Spruce, where it Amusements 20, 22, 23 Bridge 27 Business and Financial 42 4 VA A.niiinH uvnirtlinrfci portant, he pointed out.

But on 'A made a U-turn, then went north lice in the Wednesday raids also ly that Nixon made the tentative decision while on vacation after the election. i- rnnfpmnnrarv Iivintr hnw found enough parts to equip an Continued on Page Column 5 on Broad to Market. Down Market it rolled to Gimbels, which LONDON. Nov. 24 other 200 machines.

He said arrange furniture fori I to Classified Ads Obituaries 11, 12 On the Lighter Side 13 Sports 30 to 36 Television and Radio 18, 19, 21 Women's News 21 Page 25 charges probably would be lodged 36 to 41 sponsored the parade in conjunction with the city. It is the oldest 3 Soldiers Die as Truck Hits Car Friday, but declined to identify maximum charm and com-1 fort, and how to make use 1 of colors in the home are I Comics 26, 27 Death Notices parade for children, and was the persons involved. started by Ellis Gimbel, founder 7. A number of the machines had 35 described in articles and! I of the department store chain. been converted to handle English Editorials 24 121 Killed in Holiday Crashes Winston Churchill continued his steady recuperation Thursday and told his wife he would be on his feet for his 86th birthday next Wednesday.

Churchill injured his back in a fall 10 days "He's determined to attend his birthday party," said an informant. Lady Churchill has already ordered a birthday cake. At the store, Mayor Richardson 4' Feature Page coins, Smith said. Some had already been boxed and prepared Dilworth, H. J.

Grinsf elder, exec Pages 13, I utive head of the store, and Cathy for shipment. I Accidental deaths, Including Home Decorating Guide Pages 13, 14 "Forgotten Fortunes" Page 15 traffic and fires, totaled 167 Nash, 9, of 912 Kenwood Drexel Hill, gave Santa Claus the Continued on Page 3, Column 5 The count: traffic, 121 fires, 18, "Farewell to Fear" Realty Review miscellaneous, 28. On the Air Find Body of Man Missing 6 Months Special to The Inquirer WILKES-BARRE, Nov. Traffic deaths over the Thanks- by Joseph W. Godish, 43, of giving holiday rose 121 early Fri- Bridgeton, N.

J. day as fair weather in most of The crash occured at the infertile Nation attracted still more section of Route 49 and the motorists to the already-crowded jGouldtown-Fairton rd. three highways. miles east of Bridgeton. Godish Leonard F.

Staton, 45, of 1122jwas admitted to the Bridgeton Keystone Chester, was killed Hospital with cuts and internal Saturday Coverage in Depth For Army-Navy The count beean at 6 P. M. S. Phila. Theater John M.

Cummings Page 11 Page 39 Page 24 Page 24 Page 31 Page 26 Pace 23 YVFIL-AM 560 On Your Dial 6:30 A. M. Radio Farm Digest Wednesday and will continue through tker 102-hour period end I Robbed of $1000 Roscoe Drummond Red Smith Your Health Complete Weather 24. The body of Harold Mayer, 69, Wilkes-Barre businessman It's a big day for Army ing at midnight Sunday. The National Safety Council Burglars entered the President in a head-on crash on Ridge ra.

injuries 12? i Milt Bliss 30 T. M. raul Norton Show :00 P. M.J. J.

Moran Show WFIL-TV Channel 6 and owner of the former Wilkes ana wavy mm jut i mm- Theater, 23d st. and Snyder A pedestrian tentatively iden Barre Barons of the Eastern does not make a preholiday esti delvhiaas the service 'i rivals meet in their annual mate for the Thanksgiving week tified as Edward Kenneth Cooper, of Lancaster, was fatally Baseball League, was found Thursday by three hunters in a A. M.F a For early Thursday morning and took $1000 from a safe in the second floor office. They also football classic. The In- end on the grounds that it is not the type of holiday which brings injured Thursday night on a road in Duryea, Luzerne county.

wooded section of nearby Laurel Run. He had been missing over CfUlTer wiu yvu, mur out the enormous numbers of WomenDeborah Adams 2:00 P. M. Day In Court 6:00 P. M.

Popeye Theater-Sally Starr (color) broke open the vending machines1! mum coverage, including six months. A youth was killed and two n(nriste whn take to the hish in Trainer borough Thursday, Three servicemen hitchhiking home for the holidays were killed when the car in which they had accepted a ride was struck in the rear by a truck on the Lehigh Valley Thruway nine miles west of Allentown. Mrs. Olive Hoffman, 65, of Woodbine, Cape May county, N. was killed when a car driven by her husband, Edward, LOST AND rOCKD LOST, Sunday, ilkmt Forfa.

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block 4 brown. Vic 134 InngshO't) Other Lost Found Page 3ft his companions were injured(Ways on other major holidays, when their stalled auto was But an Associated Press sur Detective Leroy Banghart, of Luzerne county, said the body was found about a half-mile from on the first floor. jf stones by Herb Good, Detective Leon Pitz, of the John Dell, and Vravk Dol-" South Detective Division, said son sequence 11:15 P. M. "Sea of Grass," starring Spencer Tracy strucK oy a Pennsylvania Kau- vey for a period comparable to the Thanksgiving holiday stated Gilbert Addeo, manager of the nn(i a 4un vane 0f other and Kaihcrine Hepburn on the Summit Nursing Home, road passenger train at a cross i i nnno VTirfK A pictures portraying ac- tion, drama and color.

World's Best Movies. Complete Radio and Television Listings on Pages 18 and 19, that 4o3 persons were killed in traffic accidents, 69 in fires and cv(ered the 7'4? Entry was gained through a reari where Mayer had been undergoing treatment for a nervous disorder when he disappeared last May 13. ing in Mill Creek near Huntingdon, Pa. The car's driver, Donald Lee Rosensteel, 18, of Kistler, Mifflin county, was killed. Continued on Page 10, Column 3, door.

71, collided with an auto driven.

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