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Me EMelpto Jupiter Comics Puzzles Classified TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 26. 1966 27 Mayor Appoints Detective, Youth Wounded In N. Phila. Gang Shooting Abe Rosen to Succeed Mann Tate Hails Talent In Appointment of City Representative 70 Seized In Area of 21st, Norris By CHARLES H.

THOMAS Of The Inquirer Staff Abe S. Rosen, who resigned as deputy city representative in 1963, on Monday was appointed city representative and director of commerce. He succeeds Frederic R. A homicide detective and a youth who tried to push him out of the line of fire were in who quit as city repre jured in a street-corner gun- fight Monday night in North sentative last Jan. 6.

In announcing Rosen's ap Philadelphia. pointment, effective May 16, The detective. Sheldon Brown, Mayor James H. J. Tate said was driving past 21st and Norris i sts.

about 9 P. M. with his part-; ner, James McGowan, when hej saw one of a group of about four boys on the corner place what Rosen was an active and champion of the city's good "iname "as well as a persistent fighter for every worthwhile im-" provement program." 'KEEN, CREATIVE MIND' "He has a keen and creative looked like a pistol under his coat. McGowan stopped the car and mind," Mayor Tate said, "and I am more than happy to welcome him back to my official family. He should never have Frederic A.

Potts (right), president of Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, accepts award from Charles A. Tyson (left), of Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System, at dinner in the Sheraton. Courtland S. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft was principal speaker at event. Competition in Air Industry Brown got out to investigate.

As he was talking to the boys and McGowan was parking the car, three youths, apparently left." members of a rival gang, came up to the group. Two of the new Rosen had quit to become vice president of the Al Paul Lefton, advertising agency. When Mann resigned, David G. Davis was named acting direc- Jtor of the department. He will comers carried pistols.

DETECTIVE FIRES BACK When the newcomers raised Rising, Lockheed Chief Says their guns, one of the boys on return to his former post Ui the corner, Bernard Burse, 16, deputy commerce director. Mayor Tate noted that Rosen pushed Brown out of the line of fire. A bullet grazed Brown Courtlandt S. Gross, boaro! chairman of Lockheed Aircraft said here Mon-3ay there is a widely-held misconception that the aerospace industry is a subsidized, noncompetitive business with an easy-to-pluck $21 billion-a-year apple. abdomen and another passed is regarded in advertising cir--cles as an "idea man" and said was responsible for such in through Burse's right arm.

Both fell to the sidewalk, but Actually, tne business is so novations as Freedom Week, y0 EL, rioralia and the Festival of Brown drew his service re volver and fired at the trio as well as fostering competitive, he said, that an airplane builder cannot be sure of getting the contract for spare McGowan came running to the tthe Philadelphia More Beautiful if i corner but, by tnen, tne boys Jokers Harpooned Committee. were running away. parts for his own product, Rosen, whose new post paysl-M iie spoKe Deiore 840 persons Brown was taken to Temple Hospital and Burse to St. Joseph's Hospital. Both were in the Sheraton at the 16th an $26,500, is 49.

He is a graduate of- Overbrook High School and bTemple University. A veteran I I Policemen lift homicide Detective Sheldon Brown into emergency wagon after he was wounded in a gunfight with youths at 21st and Norris sts. He was shot in the abdomen but his condition as described as good. nual meeting of the Philadel served 1 Newspaperman, he had phia chapter of Americans for later transferred to Philadelphia General Hospital and were in good condition. and Record PM cf jJ ft ton the old Ledger the Competitive Enterprise Sys TN THIS age of black humor, the blackest of all humor to Abe Rosen takes the form of fossilized fables criticizing Philadelphia as a "cemetery with lights" and other kindred remarks.

Just named city representative and director of commerce. 49 year old tem, Inc. The organization 6 More Months of Mud Face 70 YOUTHS QUIZZED Moments later, patrol cars flooded into the npiehhorhond sponsors educational programs on tree enterprise for hi school students, teachers and-anH fjn Trtllflc irctra nifcoH nn clergymen. jbefore entering public relations on 1947. He and his wife, Bonnie, and two daughters live at 865 Oak-I field lane in the Bustleton The Mayor's announcement made at a morning press conference.

SPORTS ARENA LEASE i At the same conference he ac BANKER GETS AWARD for questioning. All were taken to the 17th st. and Montgomery ave. police station. McGowan said he and Brown 1 4 The organization presented Lippincott Area Residents Residents of Lippincott south of Allegheny ave.

between A and American who have complained about mud "up to the ankles" because of sewer construction can look its 1965 award for outstanding service to Frederic A. Potts, were investigating another case when they saw the boys on the chairman of the Philadelphia corner and decided to question National Bank and president of forward to more of the same for about more momns tnat was the message on knowledged that the lease fort them. Apparently Brown walked into the middle of an erupt indoor sports arena ad join- Monday from Kenneth J. Zito-mer, chief of construction of the city's Water Department. the Greater Philadelphia.

Cham- ber of Gross said that whereas there was a "small, select club of a ing gang conflict involving 40 to $8 Million Hospital I 50 youths. I few competitors" a decade or I He said the $1 million contract, which began in April, 1 1965, "will continue until late ,1966." so ago, there are now dozens, if not hundreds, of other competitors." He said competition is 1 ing the proposed sports stadium jin South Philadelphia for return of the title for the $10 i million plant to the city on com- -jf pletion. Jerry Wolman, builder of thejjf arena, in turn will get a 50-year4 ABE S. ROSEN Planned by St. Agnes; U.S.

Gives $1.3 Million coming now from such giant The wounded youth's mother, Mae Burse, of Felton st. near Lansdowne rve. came to St. Joseph's Hospital. She said her son told her he had nothing to do with the shooting.

"He told me that he wanted to go into the Army next year when he's 17," she said. "I hate to have him leave home, but corporations as General Motors, Rosen made a name for himself by picking transcontinental quarrels with entertainers who relied upon such gags. "Tell the positive by blasting the negative" was Rosen's credo and many are the comedians cowed by it. And much was the publicity Philadelphia gained by it. Rosen, a former reporter for the Ledger and the Record and editor of the China edition of the Army's Stars Stripes in the Second World War, has been in and out of government more than a decade.

He has served as promotion director for the Port of Philadelphia, was head public relations man for the city seven years and then joined the public relations firm of Al Paul Lefton. In his new job as director of commerce, he will replace his old boss, Fredric R. Mann. It was under Mann that he conducted his Ford and Philco. He noted that Lockheed has Zitomer said the dirt and mud in the area is caused by the fact that more than 100 homes in the four-block stretch had to be underpinned.

He explained this job involved many 35-foot test borings in front of the prop three relationships with General Electric Co. The two firms are By SAMUEL ETTIXGER and JOHN P. CORK Of The Inquirer Staff exclusive operating lease under which he would pay $15,000 an-nually to the city for rental of the four-acre city-owned site. In addition Wolman would pay the city a minimum of $60,000 in parking concessions, the Mayor said. St.

Asnes Hospital on Monday announced it has re sharing in development of two; now I think it would be better aircraft, yet they have intensejfor him to be in the Army competition in the space andjthan to stay in the neighbor- ceived a Federal grant of $1.3 million which will enable it to begin construction of a new $8 million hospital building. erties. In addition, Zitomer said the steps of all of the dwellings had to be removed so that the satellite field, and Lockheedihood crusade against image-damaging humor. Rosen was among the first group in the country to be accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. At one time he was president of the Government Public Relations Association.

He lives with his wife and two daughters at 865 Oakfield lane, Bustleton. His subordinates no doubt will learn to live with the admonition that they better watch their senses of humor. With receipt of the Federal buys something from GE daily, such as generators." I hfmt w- I Man Denied Bail workers on the Joseph Lombardi By Court Order -1 Hill-Burton grant, the hospital set 1969 as a target date contract could carry out the underpinning or place support under the homes. for the opening of tne new --z A RIGHT TO COMPLETE "Competition, indeed, is in bountiful supply," Gross said. Somewhat wistfully, the Lock SOn Killing Chargel Clyde L.

Robbins, 40, was heldjlf hospital building, which will it i I if r-w i i Long-Hair Re-Enrolled 1 HOSPITAL I be constructed behind the heed chairman said: "There are without bail Monday in Chester on a technical charge of mur-jf present building at Broad and Mifflin sts. times. when I get a little squeamish. I feel, at heart, A LLEN MILLER, a senior at He said the job involved digging deep in the street but that one block from 2d to American "has been completed and cleaned up." 50 PCT. COMPLETED He said the job is more than 50 percent completed and the TO HAVE HELIPORT i- -y, Fi 1- 111BIPrf that I loathe competition.

Mean- Unionville High School in ins no bodilv harm to mv com-l The new hospital will feature "drive-in" accident ward, petitors, I think what a happy Chester county whose coiffure so! iiitu tuc ucaiu vji 1110 Auuiiiiiiatc, William Myers, 54. Myers died five days after Ing injured in a fight with bins in the apartment they Double Slaying Tied tt 1 piace lue worm wouia De u. upset scnooi omciais mey sus- they'de quietly vanish from the shared on 5th st. near Crosby, heliport and facilities for more than 50 patients more than can be accommodated by the pres- pended him, won a court order reinstating him Monday. Judge John M.

Kurtz of arena. "But not meaning to be pious," he said, "fundamentally, Chester. Detective Timothy GiUj Li IlSOlVeQ VydScb told Magistrate Phil Puzzan-I construction company has been told that when each block is finished "to clean up." But this doesn't satisfy residents in the area. Mrs. Frank Martin, of 3120 N.

I know the right to compete County Court, issued ajen) rjnj McGee president aVnteglfFT.r function ordering; Trus. i chera that Robbins had admit-! ted punching Myers in the stomach. SAYPFfT AVE- fiii i -1 i 'rn i i.i,itn,i.( Similarity of the weekend double murder in Norris-town to two other unsolved cases in the area became increas ingly apparent Monday as additional details unfolded. auutu. vuuiut srnnni to re-enroll iviiiier itees, said the hospital had been Hancock around the corner satisfy the tastes, the needs, the! The judge set a hearing on the recommended for the Federal from the site, told of a "sea of whims of thp hnvfrs th rnn- Pr io rior Soolc' Although the coroner's report; 99 nr 95-rnlihpr slues, hut said! 11 i.

injunction for 1.30 P. M. Thurs- money by the Hospital Survey Norristown: sumeia, is icdnj wudt rnan.es I 'as not complete, in eiuier eveui ue uuuuicu me ine wneeis go arounu. Pnlipo rhipf Ttnhprt Raxter. K-9 Recruits nttaviA Pprrinnnp 7fi andigun would have made sufficient Inquirer Staff Map Map locates St.

Agnes Hospital, which is launching $8 million project. day jCommittee of Philadelphia. Miller, 17, a National Merit, CALLED 'NECESSARY' Scholarship finalist, protested; A building fund drive now un-against his suspension April 5 'der way has raised $800,000 and saying he wore his hair long lis seeking another $700,000. In an effort to increase the Jprp slain1 nnisp tn hp noticed hv neishbors. -A 1- xr A w-, mud with trucks, cranes and other heavy equipment parked all the time on Lippincott a section of the street caved in in front of her home." "West of 2d on Lippincott, where the road already has been topped off and is she said, "they have not install- ed the stone steps promised S.

Phila. Boy, 9, Hit by Car, Dies A preliminary investigation, he added, indicated neighbors nrengin oi us unit, tne multipie wounds from small-Police Department has asked; caliber bullets that it be contacted by anyone ROBBERY MOTIVE due to the stylistic requirements 'This will be added to the Federal heard nothing when the Perri- Harris Lambert, 9, son of his membership in a rock and grant to begin construction and wno nappens to nave an extra victims in the other two un- Woman Vanishes In $50,200 Fraud solved murder cases also died; cones were slain in their first- Uerman shepherd. of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Lam- roll group.

ithe additional $7.2 million need- bert, 1432 S. 22d died at Nevertheless, school officials will be financed, McGee said. I floor apartment at 1527 Arch property owners." Sister Ann Elizabeth, administrator of the hospital, said that Embezzlement of $50,200 was charged against a woman book ainst a woman Children's Hospital at 9:30 P. M. Monday, less than two hours after he was struck by a car at 23d and Gerritt sts.

apparently sometime between 6 and 11 P. M. Saturday. Two of the other victims were ruled him off the academic track until "such time as he obtained a haircut to conform to the school's dress code." The youth weve got teams multiple wounds from small-explained Sgt. Jack Auerbach, i caliber bullets.

Another we eventually want 100. ity was the absence of any rob-We'd like to be able to rely bery motive, upon donations from the pub- Baxter said he didn't know yet lie" if the Perricones were killed by book-i i the State Insurance! efS Publicity the construction project has re keeper in ceived the backing of Arch Joseph Licata, 77, a retired gro J. Krol, who sfid. "a if line "nnnoccnrir cartia Tno it to the cer, and his wife, Katherine, 72, Police identified the driver asjis the son of Mr. and Mrs.

James Hawkins, 24, of E. S. Miller of Glen Hall st near Belfield ave. Newlin township. audit Monday was "necessary, serve people of South Philadelphia." who were shot to death Oct.

21, Record iToitjuri Judgment 1961, in their home at 203 E. IFornance Norristown, about Speed Trap Is No Secret T7 ATCH it on River rd. Tuesday morning. There's a speed trap ahead. Blinded Man Awarded The woman, Mildred Mc-Kellar, 41, of Thompson st.

near 51st, has vanished, county detectives reported. She was suspended from her job last March 26 when discrep Dateline Delaware ValleyU.S. A two blocks from the Perricone home. FOUND BY SON 6 ROB ABLY the best, friend-i Arch st, and who can tell itTeti, 1320 S. Broad st.

Mr. and ancies in fund records first came Another victim, Anthony $401,000 for Accident Now some folks might be ini JL ships ever developed are'better than Dr. Millard E. Glad- Mrs Francis P. Keenan, of 5523 i.

ri n- 1 if. to light and an audit ordered. Scoma, 59, operator of a Notice of dismissal from hericlined to hide the fact (or al job was sent to her home Mon- least keep it behind a bill inose maue uunng me careiree.icner, wuu came uu lenipie as rciiuiujc si. aim oil. aim mis.

school days, and they now are, director of its high school in' Stanley Cry or of Newtown being renewed throughout thel930 and has served as its presi-j Square. Delaware Valley at scores of; dent since 1959. vulcanizing plant, was gunned A record judgment of $401,878 was awarded in U. S. down Dec.

21, 1964, in his home District Court on Monday to a South Jersey chemical worker at 641 Germantown pike, Plym-blinded in an industrial accident five years ago. outh Valley. He formerly lived day by Paul Silverstein, special board), but in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, thejli reunions. I LIONS: Everybody's bringing BADTSIITC. UTIllInm deputy insurance commissioner in charge of the liquidation division.

County detectives who went to i at 1432 Arch only a few the! Honrs from thf Pprripnnps. Albums will be dusted off for Lk' face up to such matters. old eyeglasses to the Delaware innc rinhc that ic The prime defendant in In this line of thought. Po IUUULJ AjIWJIO I bunk sociation is calling it the major Qf tha rnwH The Perricones were found at School that of 1934 which' lice Chief Robert W. Waterson event of the spring and it willw In strafford on Tues.

Judge J. William Kraft made the award to Granville Edwards, 44, of 1047 Lafayette st, Cape May. Edwards, lost the sight of both eyes on Sept. 8, 1961, while working at the Baker and Adam- 6:10 P. Sunday, by a son, Jacob, of 107 Lafayette East Norriton township The father the Thompson st address with the warrant reported nobody has seen her at her home or in the area since her suspension.

meets Tuesday at the Angus Restaurant, 7700 City Line and for the first class of Little a. i uoj. j. us suit was Chemical Leamon Tank Lines, of Wilmington, the operator of the tank truck Edwards was unloading. Chemical Leaman in turn named Allied Chemical and the oir.u"us TT en to an organization which them and gives them to was a retired employe of a former tubing mill at Bridgeport.

Flower High School that of! 1941 which meets May 21 at son works of the Allied Chemical assigned one of his men to alert the public properly. The aler went something like this: "Yes, I said speed trap. We set them up on River rd. (that's Route 32) every year. And this P.

M. Tuesday at the school A former policeman who knew in Marcus Hook. the Sheraton Medical Society Hails Volunteers F. Goodrich of Akron. Edwards' attorney.

Marshall the Perricones for 15 years said AUTHOR: The three days of auditorium at 15th and Wallace sts. manufacturer of the hose Reservations for Central's are being taken by Paul J. Batt, 223 Callowhill st, and for Little Monday: "They were a close-knit fam violence in August, 1964, became the subject of a book: "Case ANNIVERSARIES: Mr. and as third-party defendants. Judge Kraft absolved Ed ily, and kept to themselves.

The Elizabeth Price Marti one will be between Mount Eyre League Number 1, has won the rd. and Yardley from 6 to 8 Study of a Riot: The Philadel-1 Mrs. William Lapacz, 524 E. Flower's before May 7 by A. Bernstein, told Judge Kraft when the trial opened on March 28 that his client was helping to unload a chemical tank truck when a hose full of caustic potash exploded in his face.

Bernstein said that in addi- wards, Allied Chemical and the Mrs. Mary Tracey Grelis, 8000 Hancock st, Lansdale, celebrat sons never gave the police any trouble and the father and Mrs Sonm ds Pennsylvania Medial Society's B. F. Goodrich of negli A.M. Tuesday.

"Sorry to hit you so late on ed their 69th wedding anni Douglas Wyndmoor. study at 8:30 P. M. Tuesday 1 i 1. Haita(aW mother were well thought of in versary Tuesday Mr.

and gence. 1 4-1 kn 4- cnmohAH 1 innarl Legal observers believe Judge; the neighborhood. The father Mrs. Walter TEMPLE: The subject will be Vtion to being blinded Edwards IKraft's verdict is a record for a was a man of even temper who Greb, Gilpin the YM-YWHA branch of the ftiemners ui uc, litl i Grove, celebrate Jewish Ys and Centers, 401 S. more than 2000 hours of volun- up.

I know you fellows like to Celebrating 50th Broad st. time to patients at Phila- know about our speed traps and Mrs. Jesse By RICHARD WEST delphia General Hospital. 'further in advance than this. "The Temple University Story," Willow at 12:15 P.

M. Tuesday at the their 55th Central Branch YMCA, 1421' will be Mr was burred on the mouth and i non-jury case involving loss of liked to joke around in a good-throat, (sight inatured way.".

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