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Classified Coiuics-I'iirzfes Sports Business-Financial MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 1. 1964 23 But No Spoohs Appear es -Put Haunt on Ghost-to-Ghost Witch "Have you ever seen "My daughter and son-lshe said "How nice for you," said bil. Manners Hammer-! stein said. 'Here comes one The commander, a retired More than 100 persons hadlCmdr.

Manilla Barber." asked Sybil. "Sometimes on a foggy night I see her walking along the tow on a foggy night." She smiled. "I've seen the ghost whj lives Navy is a small woman,) path of the Delaware Canal, wearing a tall, peaked hat. ShejBut, if you try hard enough, said her ghost is "very welliyou can see almost anything gathered in the Hammerstein home for a cooperative investigation of strange night noises wails and shrieks that have been bothering Upper Black Eddy residents for weeks. "I have invited several peo- my house in Trenton several times," said Mrs.

Margaret pie who live in hauntediSmithtown," she said. She displayed her card. "You must be a genuine spiritualist to be admitted to the association." she continued. "You have to take State board examinations." Jillian Orpin, a dancer with the London Royal Ballet, asked Sybil how one gets to be a witch, "It's quite a long story, my Sybil answered. "It requires years and years of study." "That's too bad," Jillian said, "Being a witch sounds like such fun." Sybil sighed.

"No, my dear. In fact, it is quite a difficult life. I'm busy all the time, and I feel that I have so much to do in this reincarnation that I can't slow down for a moment." She began to talk about her book, but someone interrupted to ask whether the flying saucer detector had ever detected a flying saucer. "Well, it buzzed a couple of times," Teichman said. "We all ran out of the house and looked up at the sky, but we didn't see anything." "It would take a big flying "It's to be called 'Broomstick Over Manhattan' and it's about a simple country witch and her adventures in the big ciiy." As the night wore on, no noises were heard.

No one seemed to be listening, any way. "You know," Mrs. Hammer stein said reflectively, "people around here may just be nerv ous and don't hear all the night noises they think they hear You should see how the neighbors react when I go riding." She is fond of donning a black peaked hat and black cape, she said, and riding her Palomino around the hilltop on which she lives. 'I ride at dusk," she said, "and you would be surprised at all the nervous people I meet." Mrs. Mae Griffith, of Rich- boro, was telling Sybil about the number of fakes in the spiritualist business.

The. only true spiritualists around here," she said, "are those that carry a card from the Pennsylvania State Spiritualists Association." 4 I I -s --Jv I i fl I I'li HhM I fl VJ- -t Lr'll V'nt i tr: 1 i I "-c-" I I in-law have seen her, too." "Yes," said Sybil, waving her long cigarct holder and adjust ing her orchid. She spotted one of the guests taking notes. "Are you a reporter? You know of course that I am in America to promote my book. 'A House in the High Street'?" She is writing another book, Dissidents Plan 2d Assault on School Council A dissident faction of the Philadelphia and School Council is drawing up plans for second assault on the Coun cil's leadership.

After 11 Hrs. in River Eleven hours after he was tossed into the cIioddv Delaware from a wrecked pleasure boat, an 11-year-old boy was rescued by a helicopter shortly after daybreak Sunday. He drifted eight miles during -the ordeal. The boy's father drowned in the same accident. Cmdr.

Manilla Barber (left) who owns a house in Smithtown, checks flying saucer invented by Jay Teichman, Upper Black Eddy. Sybil Lech, guest at weekend witch watch at home of Mrs. Manners Hammerstein, Upper Black Eddy, heads coven of witches in native England. Martin Barol, a Chestnutat 7:30 M- Saturday. All were ucks By JOHN P.

CORP. Of The Inquirer Staff Manners Hammerstein, wear ing a flowing turquois- kimono, was eating a deviled egg and talking to a witch in purple stockings. "I hope witches don't mind crowded parties," she said, "White witches don't mind," said the witch, who goes by the name of Sybil Leek. Sybil -was attending a ghost hunt at Sky Island, which is not an island but a hill in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks county. "Back in England," she ex piainea, wnere I head a coven of witches, there are white witches and black witches.

Black witches are the ones who cause all the trouble. They give all witches a bad name." "I can imagine," Manners said. J. Paul Teichman, an Upper Black Eddy resident, approached the two women, carrying a machine. "This is a flying" saucer detector," he said.

buzzes when a flying saucer flies overhead." Survey to Tap Phila. for Data OnUseofWafer The "consumer habits" of; water users in two Northeast neighborhoods will be under study for a year beginning Monday, the City Water Department announced Water Commissioner Samuel S. Baxter said the survey would be part of a nation-wide study of water-consumption habits sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration and the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. PERFECT DESIGN'S The study will help the Water Department perfect designs for waler pumps mains and other facilities to improve service in the future, he Two master meters and tape recorders will go into service on two mains serving the 625 homes in the Normandy and Benton neighborhoods. The first one will go into service II A.

M. Monday at Nester and Comly rds. in a brief ceremony for the Normandy area. The project will get under way in the Benton area, in two, more weeks. In the department will send interviewers, carrying identification cards, to the neighborhoods to ask residents how many persons reside in their households, the number of faucets and water-consuming devices in use and similar questions.

PLAN BETTER SERVICE Baxter said the, information should help plan better service and save Philadelphians money for water services in the future. The department will study other neighborhoods in the city after the current, study is completed in a year. Water will into the two neighborhoods via two supply mains only and these will be metered and tape recorded to check amount of water con sumption and date and hours ofi use. Owner Cautions Finder of Dog Patty, a strayed or stolen six-year-old male boxer, poses a threat to whoever has him or finds him, according to Patty's owner, James V. Forden, of 2118 Mount Vernon st.

Forden said Patty is a powerful animal who needs experienced handling, and "may turn on someone" who can't handle him properly. Forden's son, John, 12, took Patty on Saturday to Lemon Hill. There, he said, he met an unidentified boy who asked to take the dog for a walk. The Fordens haven't seen the boy or Patty since. Forden said Patty is a special favorite of his wife and their four children.

Thieves Give Police Alert Burglars took 44 tires from a South Philadelphia filling station early Sunday and alerted police by leaving the lights off. The lights were on in ry's American station, 18 tit and Christian at 4:30 A.M. when Red Car Patrolmen Dennis Lane and Joseph Kelly went by. Illumination is supposed to discourage burglars. At 6 A.

the policemen were making another sweep of the neighborhood and noticed the station was dark. Investigating, they found that burglars had broken into the storeroom to steal the tires and had also rifled a cigaret machine in the office. Station owner Edward Maury, 38, of 3845 Cambridge said the tires were worth $1000. U'S. J.ina.

l''r- 1 it--V saucer to make it buzz tonight, he continued. "My kid has been fooling around with Outside, people were cluster ed on the patio listening to the story of Cmdr. Barber's ghost-Others on the lawn were arguing about the number of witches in a coven. Some said 12, others 13. In the living room, Sybil Leek was explaining the difference betwetn white and black witches, and Teichman was discussing the possibility of inventing a "witch watcher," which would buzz whenever a witch broomed by.

In the kitchen, Manners Hammerstein was lamenting the fact that her horse was not available. "I'd like to come galloping up to the house from out of the darkness," she smiled. "I was in show business for many years, you know." Sybil said she would have to return to England on Wednesday. "I'm going by airplane." And, except for the sound of party-goers and crickets, it was a quiet night at Upper Black Eddy. CORE Assails D'Ortona on Busing Stand The Congress of Racial Equal ity on Sunday blasted City Council President.

Paul D'Ortona's statements against school busing and said he would lose the Negro vote. In a letter to D'Ortona, Stan ley C. Diamond, CORE'S educa tion chairman, called recent re marks by D'Ortona on school busing "irresponsible and irrational." On the other side, a letter to the Council president from W. Bruce Beaton, public relations chairman of the Bridesburg Civic Association, praised his attitude. POLITICAL SACRIFICE Diamond said D'Ortona "made a political decision" to sacrifice "whatever you had of the Negro vote for the support of a certain segment of the white community." "You and we," he wrote, "are certainly aware that no informed, self-respecting Negro could ever again cast a ballot for you for public office." D'Ortona charged on May 13 that the Board of Education was "squandering" $260,000 a year to bus children out of their neighborhoods to other schools to end overcrowding and de facto segregation.

SMALL SCHOOLS He demanded a return to small neighborhood schools rather than "large useless monu ments" and accused the school board of "not having the courage" to redistrict school areas. Accusing D'Ortona of "dema-gogucry," Diamond asked: "Where were you when busloads of center-city white children were transported year after year to schools in deep South Philadelphia to avoid hav-ing to go to the 'neighborhood' school? "Where was your ardent defense of the neighborhood school when children from Meade School were being bused past white schools to further Negro ones?" Wounded Girl, 1 1, On Critical List An 11-year-old West Philadel phia girl remained in critical condition Sunday in Coatesville Hospital with a bullet wound in the stomach suffered Saturday afternoon. State police said Nadine Smith, of 641 N. Moss st, was accidentally shot with a rifle by her brother, Calvin 13, in the family car while their father, William, was hunting near Greentree, Lancaster county. Woman Found Dead in Room A woman identified as Jane Shelley, 35, was found dead in her one-room apartment at 316 S.

15th st. about 8:30 P. M. Sunday by another occupant of the building, police said. Detective James Fowler said it was an apparent suicide.

He said the woman had a plastic bag over her head and the apart-nent door had been bolted from the inside. A third occupant of the boat! also was rescued after cling ing to a pipeline. The boating tragedy on a etty near Pea Patch Island in the river some 10 miles south of Wilmington was followed by a second accident at the same jetty. 2D BOAT CRACKS UP Following this one, five Phila delphia area residents were brought to safety by a dredge. Their chaft also had cracked up on the jetty.

Tlie rescued boy is Arthur McMilin, of 436 Forrest drive, Forest Brook Glen, Del. His father, Arthur, was 40. The McMilins and Sanford Hunt, 33 who boards with the McMilins, were aboard an 18-foot outboard boat in the river about half a mile from Delaware City wearing lifejackets Without warning, the craft ran aground on the jetty be lieved by authorities to have been partially submerged by a flood tide. CLUTCHES PIPELINE Hunt clutched an underwater pipeline. The swift current of the incoming tide carried the McMillin boy and his father up stream.

Two hours later, a 34-foot cabin cruiser owned by Ralph Costello, 37," of 3155 S. Uber struck the jetty near the site of the first accident. Aboard the craft, named Who Cares, were Costello, Anthony Amen, "28, of 6553 Haverford Paul Hartnett, 47, of 34 Northwood Newtown Square; Barbara Delario, 30, cf 1026 Christian st, and Louise Gormley, 47, of 96 Chester pike, Collingdale. Costello sent distress signals on the boat's radio while the five clung to jetties. I They were unaware that Hunt was clinging to the pipeline a few hundred yards away.

At 11 P. a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge, The Goethals, which picked up the Who Cares' distress signals, ar rived at the jetty and took aboard her five passengers. Costello and Amen told the crew they had heard another 80V BlSiUkO MEUUMTE1! Inquirer Staff Map Map pinpoints site of two boating accidents on jetty in Delaware River near Pea Patch Island.

voice in the vicinity. A search turned up Hunt. Hunt informed the Coast Guard of the previous accident and three cutters were ordered to search through the night for the two McMilins. Two heli copters joined the operation at daybreak. DRIFTS 8 MILES Young McMilin was found at 7:20 A.

M. about a mile and a half north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. He had drifted eight miles north of Pea Patch Island. The boy was rescued from the water by a helicopter and taken to Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, where he "'as detained. Hospital officials said the boy was suffering from shock and exposure.

They said he was "improving satisfactory" but remained in "critical" condition. KNEW OF JETTIES A few minutes later, the tank er S.S. Elizabeth found the older McMilin's body floating in the same vicinity. He was pronounced dead of accidental drowning, Delaware State Police Sgt. John Downey said.

He said he was aware of the jetties off Pea Patch Island. He said he thought the boat was clear of the partially submerged rocks when the accident aC, -Kic FPfiowrw two bo.tim6 tTL I mitELPMIMS I. AN0 I PELtWAPE behaved, for a ghost." "It is the ghost of a woman murdered in my house Pier 4 South, foot of Chestnut ute to Jawaharlal Nehru at 8 P. M. Tuesday at the University Museum Auditorium, 34th and Spruce sts.

Drs. Norman Brown and Norman Palmer, of the University of Pennsylvania, and S. K. Roy, Indian Consul General, will eulogize the late Prime Minister. CITATIONS: Bronze plaque awards and citations have been presented by the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Philadelphia to Mary E.

Switzer, commissioner of the National Vocational Rehabilitation Administration; to drivers, tele phone and street supervisors of Yellow Cab and to William Myles, of the city Recreation Department, for service to the cerebral palsied. APPOINTED: Dr. William C. Kashatus, has been named assistant director of clinical laboratories of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. He also is instructor in pathology at the college, from which he was graduated in 1959.

AWARD: Claudia Grant, executive, director of the Wharton Centre, 1708 N. 22d has received the second annual President's Bowl Award of the Pro vident Home Industrial Mutual Life Insurance Co. in recogni tion of service to the munity. com GRADUATION: The Pennsyl vania State College of Optometry, "12th and Spencer will hold its 48th commencement exercises at 1 P. M.

Monday. Twenty-two graduates will receive degrees. RICHARD WEST Inquirer Photos by Robert Latham, Staff Photographer Mrs. Hammerstein, In turquoise kimono, stands before her "haunted" house at Sky Island, before spiritualist gathering. She says she rides Palomino at dusk, wearing black cape, and "you should see how the neighbors react." Dateline DelawareValleyU.S.A.

N- INSPECTION and reception, honoring public offi A cials and civic leaders, will be held June 11, from 4 to 7 P. aboard the U.S.S. Olympia, Admiral Bar Unit to Hail 50-Year Men The Philadelphia Bar Association will honor 22 lawyers who have practiced here 50 years at its second quarterly meeting Tuesday in the Belle-vue Stratford ballroom. Other guests of honor will be two new judges of U. S.

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, John Morgan Davis and A. Leon Higginboth-am, Jr. Lawyers who will be admitted to the 50-Year Club are James L. Adams, Joseph A. Allen, Frank R.

Ambler, Charles J. Biddle, M. Burkhardt, Clarence N. Callender, Alexan der Conn, and Thomas Evans. Also, Lewis J.

Finestone, Wil liam Ginsburg, Bronte Green wood, Romain C. Hassrick, Raymond V. John, Louis Levin- son, Frank H. Mancill, William N. Ottinger, Theodore S.

Paul, Bertram P. Rambo, a James Sautter. Others are Charles C. Sav Hill attorney who leads the in surgents, said his group will hold a general meeting in September to "keep up the pressure" on the Council administration. 'LACK OF INFORMATION' Barol's faction contends: The 200,000 parents of public school students are not informed of Council activities.

There is "complete lack of communication" among the Council members. The Council is "not independent of the administration of the schools." The Council "hasn't gotten involved in controversial, issues." The Council is the school's parent-teacher organization and consists of 230 member organizations throughout the city. NAMES BARRED An insurgent slate tried unsuccessfully, to file for the Home and School elections last month. When the Council barred their names from the ballot, the insurgents mounted a write-in campaign but were badly beat en. According to Earol, those who voted for the rebel slate and civic groups who have shown an interest in their fight will be mailed invitations to attend the meeting in September.

"We've worked too hard to stop now," Barol said. "We feel the Home and School Council can develop into something. TOWN MEETINGS Barol would like to see the Council hold "town meetings" in various section- of the city, with school i members present. And he like them held at "to encourage greater husband participation." The Council holds no night meetings now, he says The "controversial issues" cited by Baroi include school fi nancing, taxation and integra tion. -s i i I LslOSe LdneS For the first time since the cold snows of January, traffic moved normally in all four lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway on Sunday.

But the break for motor- ists is short-lived two lanes of the expressway will be closed starting Monday for resurfacing of the Pencoyd Bridge. The westbound lanes of the expressway will be resurfaced first. Westbound traffic, after passing City Line, will use the inner lane of the eastbound side. Traffic headed into the city will be; restricted to the right lane. Long delays are expected until the project is completed early in July.

Dewey's historic flagship, at st. Casper J. Knight, chairman of the new board of directors of the Cruiser Olympia Association, said the date was selected to coincide with Flag Day ceremonies. Knight said the reception will help inspire confidence in the new association and "restore the public image of this historic shrine." There will be a ceremony honoring the Flag, and music and refreshments. ANNIVERSARIES: Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph of 2050 S. Norwood celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Monday. They have two sons, four daughters, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Matteson, 5339 Hor-rocks also celebrate their Golden Anniversary on Monday. They have eight children, 23 grandchildren and three great-i grandchildren. i MENTAL: The first meeting of the regional planning committee of the Comprehensive Mental Health and Mental Retardation Plan, a Federal and State supported project, will be held at noon Monday at the University of Pennsylvania Faculty Club, 200 S. 36th st.

MEETING: The Philadelphia chapter of TWA Clipped Wings, composed of former hostesses of Trans World Airlines, will meet Monday at Kugler's Restaurant, 1339 Chestnut st. Mrs. L. A. Quinliyan, of Bryn Mawr, is president of the chapter.

TRIBUTE: The Indian Students' Association of Philadel phia will sponsor a public trib a age, Yale Louis Schekter.CYnparrwaw Arrr and William A. Schnader, a for-jCXpreSSWay VY OrlC fx -YN 1 AT -v mer Mate Attorney General and former presidents the Penn- sylvania Bar Association Otto Hoffepbecker, of 5337 N. 15th an employe of the bar association, will be made an honorary member of the Year Club. 50- A Correction In last Tuesday's Inquirer it was reported incorrectly that Stephen Fedec, owner of a phar macy at 838 N. 24th was getting penicillin for a man who later displayed a pistol and rob bed him.

The man displayed the gun on entering the store and demanded a type of penicillin which Fedec did not have in stock. Failing to get the drug, the gunman bound Fedec and took $245. Inquirer Photo by Michael Viola, Staff Photographer Maestro Chris Macatsoris has the attention of his ensemble as the Department of Recreation opens the summer opera season at Art Museum. Diva here is Sue Leidcr, who sings Nedda in Pagliacci.".