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WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 16. 1963 Coptrifhi. 1HJ. by Tiianila vm.

at. no. i December Circulation: Dally, Sunday, 1,011,421. Early of PTC Strike BoElbtedl; Jam RosidSo Rail I Commi Negotiators Passengers Overflow Meet, Refuse The PTC Strike Here in brief is the status of the PTC strike and the ways it affected Philadelphia and Philadelphians on Tuesday: That TWU and PTC prepared for a pro-trarted citv-wide transit strike as at To Budge Terminals i "t' for tempts of a special mediation team proved fruitless and the bargaining broke off at least until Wednesday. There were no signs pointing to quick settlement.

Story on Page I The Issues Tne crux ot the slrike issues WBS the Question ot riws neni to mane Quill Indorses Sharfsin Plan To End Deadlock By C. Y. DRVANSKY and WILLIAM Bf. COLLINS Negotiators in the transit Parking Facilities And City Streets Choked With Cars Bv GARY BROOTEN and ROBERT A. THOMAS Strike stranded Philadel- strike held a brieffruitless phians braved shoulder-to- shoulder rail commuter meeting Tuesday afternoon as the city rapidly geared Itself to life without mass crowds and bumper-to-bump er automobile traffic Tuesday and made it, for the most part With the fniiaacipiua inn- sportatlon Co.

shut down by a walkout of some 5600 members of the Transport Workers Union, to work and home again. called economy layoffs to match declines in business. Other issues to be resolved include work rules involving cross-assignment of personnel, wages and fringe benefits. Back ground Article on Page 6 The Riders Straphangers leaned hard on alter- nate forms of transport, including car pools, railroads, taxis and chartered buses. The rush-hour crush at the midtown rail terminals was tremendous.

storV on Pa9e 1 The Impact Absenteeism was negligible in the wake of the transit strike, according to a survey of the city's business and industrial firms. Some stores and theaters noted a sharp drop-off in patronage. Stay-at-homes also were reported at a minimum in the schools. Story on Page 1 The PreDorations Emergency traffic and park-ine rTpBrnTiwii regulations were put int0 effect to ease the avalanche of autos pressed into service by stranded commuters and straphangers. Days off were canceled for the city's 5000 uniformed patrolmen, assigned to the task of keeping traffic moving in critically congested center city.

Story on Page 5 Pictures and Related Sews on Pages 5 and 6 Shutdown of the 1550-mile Phil adelphia Transportation Co. net efforts toward a settlement remained deadlocked on the major work affected nearly everyone Issue of a no-layoff proviaion in the old contract which the com with business in the city, but the roads and the rails took the brunt i i pany insists must be droppea. The union is equally adament of the burden. TERMINALS CROWDED risburg. Chief JusUce John C.

BeU, administers wiltlam Scranton takes oath of office is nath while Scranton wiie witnesses ceremony. Crowds flooded terminals of Pennsylvania's 103d Governor at ceremony in Har Phntn. Rohert L. Moonev and Edward J. Freeman, Inquirer Staff Photographers, on Pages 4 and 5 the Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Jammed station platforms and caused schedule UUUy I' UHV' 'vvw wjy Scranton Takes Oath With Unity Plea; that the clause be retained.

MATTER OF WEEKS Michael J. Quill, international president of the TWU, was asked how long the strike would last. He said: "It should be settled in a matter of weeks." There were no signs of an immediate settlement. The only indication of a possible break was the endorsement given by Quill delays. Traffic choked city streets and inundated parking facilities.

Dinner was late in thousands of homes. Workers who were 250,000 Roar Tribute to Governor able to start early in the morn On Foot or by Auto, ing had no such advantage du-rinff (he homeward rush. By SAIL KOIILER to proposals advanced by Joseph It was the climax to oays oi vague apprehension about what id hannen if the Transport Most Workers Reach Inqur'rer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG. Jan. 15.

A quarter of a million Penn Sharfsin. chairman oi tne iai. Public Utility Commission. MAIN POINTS OF PLAN Workers Union struck PTC. Now, By JOSEPH H.

MILLER Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG, Jan. 15. Gov. William W. Scranton took over the State Government shortly after noon Tuesday with a ringing plea for unity of executive and legislative branches Sharfsin's plan for breaking sylvanians roared their tribute to William Warren Scranton on Tuesday as he became the 41st constitutional Governor of it had happened.

Critical centers of the atrtke-hraH crush were Reading Term Jobs And Home, Too the deadlocked negotiations included these two major points: the Commonwealth and the inal. Pennsvlvania'B Suburban 103d since its earliest colonial Bv ROBERT J. SALGADO and ROBERT B. CECIL and 30th Street Stations, ana virtually all main roads leading out days amid splendor and pag Hundreds of thousands of workers took the long way to of Philadelphia a core. eantry and humility, too.

I work Tuesday as the PTC strike shut down their accustomed Bare-headed, the GovernortTRAFFIC HAMFfcRtu Congress Expected To Support Tax Guts But Not Reforms Cnectacnlar crowds gathered mode of transportation, but few of them stayed nome stood on a reviewing stand at the Wlvv-- jto bring about a new era In Pennsylvania progress. Within a few moments after the oath was administered at 12:08 P. M. by Chief Justice John C. Bell, of the State Supreme Court, Scranton said, in an 11-jninute inaugural address, that Pennsylvania should have the wisdom to retain the beneficial aspects of its government and Homnn.trafe the COtirSge "tO at Reading Terminal, I2tn ano Let an arbitrator determine the number of employes the PTC could lay off in a year above the normal loss of workers through death, retirement and resignation.

Provide for the company to set up a fund for the retraining of employes who lose their PTC Jobs for economy reasons. The PTC had no comment on the Sharfsin proposals. Under the no-layoff clause, the steps of the Capitol and smilingly Shoppers and other center-city city and Bishop McDevitt High Market between 5 and School. Wyncote, however, elect visitors were reduced drastically in nnmhera. however.

Stores and hulffine at times into trai imei on Market st. as they ied to close for the duration of the mnvie theaters reported fewer accepted the salute oi 7uuu pa-raders, both civilian and military, and the cheers of the thousands who swelled the population of this capital city. WIFE TAKES PHOTOS strike. Some 30,000 pupils were waited to enter. Inside, people lammed shoulder to shoulder customers, but none was empty of patrons.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 (UPI). Democratic Congres affected by this. and elbow to elbow, but con Here is how the strike affected innal leaders assured President Kennedy on Tuesday of fn.inn and milling were at a Elaborate car-pooi arrange-menu were devised at some in company is prevented from firing change what should be changed." His wife.

Marv. bundled In a various segments of tne citys Leedv consideration of his tax cut program. The odds favored minimum. dustrial and business firms, and mink enat and snapping pictures The situation was similar at life: approval tnis session or. some emninvera said they were satis with a little camera the size of a Suburban Station, where work form of tax slash fied that their employes made match box stood at his side and THREE EX-GOVERNORS More than 13,000 Pennsylvania Jammed the State Farm Show building arena to witness the colorful swearing-in cere ers lucky enougn to get rn dismissals began crowding in at 3 in Euromart Mr.

Kennedy told House and Industry they both enjoyed themselves im menselv and obviously. Senate chiefs during a White every effort to get to work. Arriving on foot, by car pool or by railroad, employes trickled 3 P.M. Hnuse meeting that he would Roth rai roads reported un Three of their four children were with them, accepting the monies attended by Republican spell out details of his proposals precedented loads on their in workers as an economy measure. The PTC maintains it must have that right to operate the transit system efficiently.

The TWU has refused to bargain away that part of their members' job security. Sharfsin made his proposals to Quill and Robert H. Stier. PTC president, at a meeting Monday night. The nature of the proposals did not become known until Tuesday.

Quill said the dispute could Industrial firms in the area re- Defend Britain, into center city Tuesday morning. The chief elevator starter at the psfs huilding at 12 S. 12th in a special lax message Jan. n. formation services.

Telephone accolades of the crowds, the lor norted little or no absenteeism Speaker John curmacx mal salutes of the military and calls soared, and sharply Bol ttrihiitahle to the strike and one of the largest office said that after receiving the Tet end Highlights of Inaugural Address on Page Related News on Pages 3, 4 and 5 stered terminal police forces the ffood-natured best wishes of KniMinoi in the CUV. noiea Uie message, the House Ways the Republicans from ail 67 couo- said it had no effect on their pro Hnetinn or operations. Chicle de Gaulle sought to answer on-tne-spoi questions. absence of the usual crowds of Means Committee would proceed He who marched in clear but nuirklv with hearings on the A Navy spokesman said only workers coming in at the same (im a SCHEDULES TAKEN and Democratic State, congres 1111 BI ami legislative officials i nercent of its 9300 civilian em plans that would reduce Federal cold weather. FAVORITE VERSE chednie were taken almost nioves at the Naval Base in South tax rates by J1Q Diuion over Wifh.level Republican leaders Instead.

Walt Leslie said, the mninvei nf tenants in the build- Continued on Page Column 1 nnickiv a railroad employes Fariier the 45-vear-old mil three years. Philadelphia and supply activi By GASTON COBLENTZ Special to The Inquirer And N. Y. Herald Tribune ml rank-and-file party workers could replace them in the racks. lionaire placed his hand on the in inv v.

many ui ties elsewhere were absent be MATTER OF URGENCY I lift Among the notables present were three former Republican them arnvtne as iaie as iu cause of the strike. The Sneaker said after the BRUSSELS. Jan. 15. The As the homeward rusn massive traffic jams in center city and on high Bible and swore to upnoio tne law of man as he leads Pennsylvania for four vears.

As a sign of his The Budd Co. reported it had He estimated, however, there were no more than 10 percent White House legislative break Fnreiirn Ministers of West Ger only 11 more absentees than nor fast that tax reduction was ways. Only the acnuywiu ex many, Holland and Belgium attitude, he laid his hand on his fewer people riding his elevators mal for a Tuesday. A count oi ns governors, Arthur H. James, Ed ward Martin and Jamea H.

Duff and the retiring Democratic Gov David L. Lawrence. Cr.nfnn drew a Dirallel 06' "matter of urgency" in the Ad than iiciial 5000 employes showed 53 absent- pressway traffic moved at nearly normal speed, though traffic ministration's legislative time openly rebelled Tuesday against French President Charles de Raulle'a undisguised opposition cnnt check i nf the city's public favorite passage of tne uid ies-tament, this verse from the book nfMirnh- The normal rate is z. table. schools also showed teachers and A anokesman for Budd.

which At a news conference lonx to Britain's entry into the Euro was hravier. A taxicab driver said center city rides were costing nearly ha ana of its plants at Red Lion time tax cut advocate Luther and what doth the Lord require of you, but to do justice pupils took the absence oi ric cars and buses in stride. tween the problems which faced Pennsylvania after it was founded by William Penn nearly 300 years ago and the vexing matters pean Common Market. It was their first public move HnHffM Secretary of Commerce, and Verree rds. in the far northeast, said employes worked all r.thniic sh schools in me imniied that lumping of tax re Continued on Page 5, Column Continued on Page 5, Column 1 Havcrtown Crash Kills 3 Three persons were killed early Wednesday when an auto rammed a tree at Eagle and Maooa Havertown.

One person was critically injured. Haverford township police aid two of the victims, a mas and a woman, were dead on arrival at Delaware County Hospital. The body of the third victim, a woman, was taken to the John Stretch funeral borne at Eagle and St. Denis rd. The critically Injured victim In the accident was taken to Haverford Hospital.

against the French leader since the Common Market was estab- forms with tax cut legislation last week organizing car poois. The absentees, he said, were of the 20tn century. SAME TRUMP CARDS' might delay approval of the re lixhed five vears ago. It lore- AD-Crumllsh Hearing mostly those living in outlying riiictinn hadowed severe dissension "Yes," he said, "the challenges 'I do not know whether the tax suburbs who feared they might among the six If de Gaulle sue famr different faces. Problems cut will be enacted by Congress get stranded in the city.

ceeds in blocking Britain a nis Gold Raps Bar's Probe Role thla vear." Hodges said. "It de assume different guises. But hnM the name trump toric application for member ship. pends upon how fast the retorms ore cleared hv the WavS uui i cards resourcefulness, Imagi General Electric ana rnuco both reported operations were normal with absenteeism not a problem. GE's swltchgear plant, at 69th st.

and Elmwood was fully bribe payments to obtain an nation, fortitude. And one more Meant Committee." CONCESSION OFFERED faith Hodges has previously recom At the same time, Britain's mended tax cuts now and re hief nesotiator at Brussels, The Governor described how responded to the the Bar Association in his search for them. "I will be perfectly blunt with you," Judge Gold said, "in that, Iter the last dismal perform By HARRY J. KARAFIN and JOSEPH H. TRACHTMAN Highlighted by a caustic comment from the bench on the Ear Association's architect's license.

A demand by Udel's attorney for permission to read portions or his client's grand jury mnr.v nn the rronnds thst forms staffed with its 5000 employes getting to work by their own de iTfh ranhirv nrnmise of William OUTLOOK NOT GOOD' I p.nn'a holv experiment, how it vices. General Electric other The President said Monday Edward Heath, widely rated as one of his country's coolest and Biost filftc'd representatives, tentatively offered the. six an economic concession which, from a atrioUv technical viewpoint, client may destroy himself." Six Eljr Jwjutrrr Departments and Features ance of the Bar Association in large plant normally served by "dismal performance," the ADA nurtured an 18th Century Ben I Continued on Page 4, Column 4 PTC, the Re-Entry ysltms ue- coming up with Mr. White and that he would recommend certain tax reforms to produce an additional 3.5 billion, to offset move to unseat District Attorney Tmo Crumlish. from Continued on Page 6.

Column 8 Amusements Obituaries Mr. Griffin, I don't think i wouia go to them either." 1 could still make it possible for direction of the grand jury ran 20, 21 10. 12 On The Air WFIL-RADI0 56 w. Wilson White was special Bridge 34 On the Lighter Britain to join. However, in view of de Gaulle's through a hectic court aay on Tuesday and will resume Wed some of the revenue loss from $13.5 billion in tax slashes.

House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs a strong Admin- for the previous spe Business and Side 34 seminslv adamant nolicv. it SP- U. S. Retain Azores Air Bases ctal grand jury outlawed by the 12:15 P. M--Wonderful World of nesday.

i Financial Real Estate 30 2S to 31 Sports 38 to 3 A remark by Sawyer that Udel never told the District Attorney nor the State Attorney General's office that he would refuse to testify, bringing a reply from Judge Gold that "in view of what he told the grand jury, If he tald that, he committed perjury." Insistence by Udel that a county detective who interviewed him said he had a message from the boss and Identified the boss as "Johnny Byrne" peared tnat ueain was engaged primarily in a maneuver to help State Supreme Court, ano r. no.Hnu. r.riffin. was his Part of the ouster petition oy the Southeastern Pennsylvania Music 7:15 p. M.The Bowling Beat Continued on Page 3, Column I Classified Ads Television and fasten the blame on France first assistant.

40 to 47 Radio 16, 17 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP). -The United States and Portugal should negotiations collapse in 10:10 P. M. Sound of strings WFIL-TV Channel 6 (Vhnr hlirhllcrhts in a day of Jury Probe Story and Picture On Page 18 Gaitskell Takes uvva ---B Comics 34, 35 Women's News Death Notices 23.

21 the near future. slashing attack and counter-at have reached an understanding ai A. M. a LaLanne ROUTE FAILURE tack were: Chanter of the Americans for Turn for Worse Khnw permitting continued use by the iTnited States of important air The rebellion against de Gaulle nemncratle Action was directed 40 Editorials 22 Feature Page Page 23 1:38 P. M.

True Adventure hesan with a fiat statement oy at allegations of foot-dragging LONDON, Jan. 15 bases in the Azores, the Defense "Animal Kingdom" (Color) Tnhn Rvme a member of Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul The condition of Labor party by Crumlish In certain cases. The other nart called for tak "City-County Consolidation" Page 7 Department said Tuesday. Henri Spaak that his country the Pennsylvania xurnpiKe Lorn- 8:30 P. M.

Going My way. in-M P. M. Naked City leader Hugh Gaitskell, seriously An and secretary oi uie ing the reins of the grand jury The arrangement will stand Judge Gold, dismissed a motion by Crumlish to throw out the ADA'S petition. A charge by Edwin P.

Rome, Crumlish'i counsel, that the ADA'i request that the District Attorney explain his conduct of cases was "something new, novel and unique." a itatement that "one" nub considers it essential for Britain to join the Common Market and u-1 p. M. NBA All-Star Bas ill in a hospital nere, nas oe-terinrated during the last 24 nemncrafi Citv Committee. John M. Cummlngs Page 22 from him because he had not ap The emintv detective.

Thomas will not cooperate in an in nnintnH cnnClal assistant. Hen until a permanent agreement can be worked out. Roscoe Drummond rage zj William S. White Page 23 hours, a party spokesman said Tuesday night. tranxiffeant" nolicv.

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Classic Cameos The U. agreement statement on Byrne, ne sam ne pointed out that Judge Joseph E. Red Smith Your Health Page 23 "we cannot agree on a poucy nt tntransiceanca which would His condition Is "giving rise to tome anxiety" but the full effects made a transcription of the in expired Dec. 31 in the midst of Gold had suggested appoimmew of one or more assistants and IComplete Weather rage Television and Radio Listirtflis jlead the negotiations to ile official had been accused by Oskar Udel In connection with of treatment will not be apparent negotiations for a new pact. Continued on Page 18, Column that Crumlish had not gone to i on Pages is ana for 24 hours, the spokesman sua Continued on Page 3, Column 1.