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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1911 The Phantom Rider PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Tom Fox fer ms Pr Pity the iver it Rider came to the aid cf a crippled passenger cn two occasions and helped a little boy boarding. He was a good driver, too, but the Phantom wonders how he ever arrived at his destination. Illegal parkers particularly those too close to the corner made an obstacle course of the run. THE 19TH and Locust sts. intersection was a horror show for the driver.

He almost ended up in Ritten-house Square trying to negotiate his turn. Illegal parking in the 1600 block of Locust St. made for another roadblock. It took all the driver's skill to ease by the Great Bear Spring Water truck partially blocking his way. Still more illegal parking at 8th and Locust sts.

presented another driving hazard. The operator was forced to make another sweeping turn, narrowly missing a fireplug on the opposite side of the street. TO HEAR a driver tell it, this is not an unusual situation. It happens every day. Too many people are allowed to park illegally.

This slows service, makes the buses late which in turn makes the passengers angry. Result: they get mad, quit riding the buses, take their Phantom Rider thinks a lot about mass public transportation. If the big cities are going to survive, Phantom Rider feels they have 1o provide good transportation for their citizens. Sometimes they do, other times they don't. Usually it is the fault of the trans-poration company.

Usually but not all always. Sometimes the cities could cooperate a little more. YESTERDAY morning Phantom Rider boarded a Route 90 bus at 22d and Pine sts. He wanted to go to Washington Square. The man who drove Bus 585 was a fine person.

He Sports and the Man The man's name was Johnny Brechtel and he did a lot for me. He taught me a lot about life. He taught me some things my old man didn't have time to teach me because my old man had 10 kids and he was always preoccupied with putting the meat on the table. Johnny Brechtel was my high school football coach. He was my first hero, outside of my old man.

Johnny Brechtel made me want to be somebody. He was a great hero. It is very important for boys to have heroes. Heroes guide you through those tender years. They give you the rules for the road and you live by these rules because the last thing you want to do is let your hero down.

The first big hero for a lot of kids is the high school coach and if he's a good man he will plant something in the kids that marks them for life. Johnny Brechtel did this to me. I do not know what I would have become in life without this man. I had trouble my first year in high school. I was 13 and a real smacked ass.

I knew all the answers. I was so smart when I was 13 I flunked everything but gym and expression. This is true. My old man almost had a stroke, but Johnny Brechtel straightened me out. He took me to the toilet.

A Technique Unused by Modern Educators This sounds crazy, but this toilet was in the coach's office. It was made of old style tongue-and-groove pine and it was painted an antiseptic white and it was no bigger than Arms Cache Includes Police pore in March. She told police he hasn't been home in the last three years. Fassnacht reportedly has visited Denmark, Taipei, Saigon, and Singapore. Now his travels have come under the close scrutiny of the intelligence division of the Philadelphia police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Those agencies say only George Fassnacht can answer a phone booth, but it was big enough for Johnny Brechtel to straighten me out. He did this by giving me a shot to the belly or an open hand across the face. I know modern educators do not use this technique, but it worked with me and I am grateful that it did. It did not take long for me to realize that if I did not get with it in school that I would nd up as punchy as Kingfish Levinsky, so I turned around and made good grades in Latin and English. I even passed algebra.

Johnny Brechtel even tried to make a football player out of me. He said I should be a linebacker but when he so they could be returned to their proper storage areas. Ironically, clues to the intriguing career of Fassnacht, 38, of 528 Rhawn may be discovered on New York's Wall Street. FBI and police sources now say Fassnacht is employed by a stockbroker and they are attempting to find out where a certain brokerage firm has its offices. BESIDES BEING a ballistics expert, F'assnacht reportedly worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.

His wife, Janet, 35, whom he married four years ago, has told police she does not know what her husband does for a living. Mrs. Fassnacht has three children by a prior marriage. Now pregnant, she said she last saw her husband in Singa By JOE ODOWD and JIM SMITH The arsenal secreted in the cellar of George Fassnacht's Fox Chase home contained some weapons stolen from the police crime laboratory investigators have learned. Police even found useless spent shells and damaged casings, which along with the stolen guns had once been evidence in crime cases.

Fassnacht, former head of the lab's ballistics section, had access to the guns and had tested many of them himself, police say. THE GUNS HAD BEEN confiscated prior to 18, police sources said. Fassnacht left the department "for higher pay" in 17. Embarrassed police officials have ordered the guns retested Pa.l8-Year-OldVote Waits Shapp Signature John Brechtel HARRISBURG (UPI)-Penn-sylvanians in the 18 to 21-year age group today awaited a few cars to wcrk and add to the mounting traffic crisis. A tougher stance must be taken against illegal parking.

Everyone will benefit and it should make for a major improvement in our transportation service. Lab loot the questions surrounding the mysterious arsenal guns, explosives, and large quantities of ammunition found in his Fox Chase home. The arsenal was discovered last Sunday when an exterminator noticed boxes of TNT in the basement of Mrs. Marie Tobin, 5414 Large who told police she had stored the boxes there at the request of Fassnacht. strokes of the pen of Gov.

Milton J. Shapp to assure them of voting rights in all Pennsylvania elections, Federal, state or local. The State Senate gave unanimous approval yesterday to legislation previously adopted in the House to a proposed statute to legalize the vote for all Pennsylvanians past the age of 18. All that is needed now is Shapp's signature. Although the vote in its favor was unanimous, some senators expressed a doubt about a possible conflict in the law with the state Constitution, which limits voting to those 21 years of age cr older.

Also approved was a proposed amendment to the state Constitution to reduce the size of the Senate from 50 to 40 senators and of the House from 203 to 121 assemblymen. A similar proposal passed the Senate two years ago but died in the House. Water-Rate Hike OKd HARRISBURG (UPI)-The Public Utility Commission yesterday authorized the VFIP Water Valley-Forge, to make a $3800 annual increase in rates of its 22 industrial customers in Valley Forge Industrial Park, effective July 1. Published deiiy at N. Broad Philadelphia, Pa.

19101. Second, Class eostae paid at Philadelphia; -Pa. Mail Subscription Rates 30 a year $2.75 monthly, payable in advance. scrimmaged me against the varsity, he shook his head. "Fox," he would say, "you would have to put it in a book for anybody to believe." I never made it big in football like some of the other kids Johnny Brechtel turned out fellows like Steve Van Buren, to give you an idea but I learned a lot about life just trying my best.

I learned to adjust to life, to shortcomings, to disappointments. It has helped me make it as a newspaperman. These memories rushed back when I read that they are going to discontinue varsity sports in the public schools in this city. Right away I identified with the zillions of kids who have to be hooked on sports the way I was when I was a kid. I figure these kids have their heroes the same as I had mine and to take these heroes away from the kids is educational heresy.

Less than 1 1 000th of an Incredible Budget Kids need heroes, today's kids more than ever. Already the gang leaders and junk pushers are heros to many troubled kids. This is because there is so little left to look up to in this country anymore. But now the bureaucrats say that varsity sports, the rallying ground for schools and cities, even nations, must go because varsity sports cost $350,000 a year-less than l1000th of that incredible $365 million school budget. At $350,000, varsity sports has to be the best bargain in the whole school system.

Sports is the real community relations vehicle. Everybody knows the rules of sports. The bureaucrats can't change rules on a whim. Schoolboy sports might be the very last honest institution left, but now it is going to be axed. It boggles the mind.

Any educational system that does not strive to produce the whole man a man sound of mind and body is sick. But this country has been turning out some sick people. You take Lee Harvey Oswald. A few days after the Kennedy assassination, I read where Oswald attended Warren Easton High in New Orleans as a freshman. This was my school.

Johnny Brechtel coached at Warren Easton. I was stunned. I telephoned a friend in New Orleans to confirm the story. "Oswald went to Easton, but after Johnny Brechtel had died," the friend said. "If Oswald had ceme under Johnny Brechtel's influence he never would have shot Kennedy.

He would have known, is why kids need heroes the kind find coach-iVig ln hih -'school! ThW' Is whyf sports must always be part df education'. a r. tt-t i i vj If 4 INVENTORY OF BURGLARY LOOT-Sec-rclary Karol Leader, Detective Charles Thude, Assistant DA Taras Woehok and Lieut. Israel Span (I. to itemize everything from arf wArk to xerox machine Ve-r covered in wake of arrest of eight persons on charges of possession of $250,000 in stolen poods.

About 100 recent burglary victims have been invited to City Hall to reclaim tb'tir properties, stored on 'seventh floor. 1 1 Photo by Joseph.