Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 17

I I I 2 County WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1966 INSIDE SPORTS. CLASSIFIED 2M1 COMICS 82-83 1 I WUtfffimidi Protest I The outstanding sports story of'the year, pos-; sibly the decade, is broken exclusively today in this newspaper! You won't read this in the New Times. i On the evening of August 16, ,1966,. at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, on field 14, located in Area Two, 1 just off-the junction of Route 443 and Pierre Salinger Road, with the infield turf still a little soggy from'the rain, the Annual Affairs Company Intra-Unit Softball Game was held. And for the first time in the 77-year-old history of the classic, the officers won, 9-5.

The enlisted men' have protested the gam'e, claiming at least six of their best players were dr'pnk. They are charging the officers with conspiracy intent to fraud, breach of contract, cowardice in the line of duty, malicious use of alcohol and-conduct unbecoming officers. "THE OFFICERS of this unit would make very good privates," a bitter sergeant was heard to say shortly after the struggle ended. It is clear that the officers' triumph has left scars. Some observers feel that unless immediate high level action is taken, the nun-ale of the entire United States Army Reserve might be adversely affected.

The press was barred from the game, as usual, to keep the reporting as factual as possible. Disguised as the center fielder for the officers, I was able 'to get a good view of the whole affair and I think we should just give the readers the facts and let them decide for themselves. The game was scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday. The officers, having drubbed two other units in practice games, were favored.

It was rumored, however, that the enlisted men had discovered several minor league players among the group of men attached to the unit for the two-week training. This did not scare the officers. Capt. Sinclair, a lawyer, had been retained to challenge the legal status of any ringers. ABOUT 2 P.M., four hours before game time, a wind blew out of the north, driving before it purple clouds streaked with silver lightning.

Thunderclaps clapped. A violent rain poured on Indiantown Gap, overflowing the creeks, sweeping the jeeps away and causing Capt. Shiffer, acting captain of the officers, to say to himself: "Hell, we can't play in this." Gapt, Shifter.contacted Sgt. Merchant, acting captain and manager of the enlisted nine, and they surveyed the field and found it inundated. "Could we play water polo?" Sgt.

Merchant asked. Apparently (and this point is under dispute by opposing attorneys) Sgt. Merchant got the impression from Capt. Shiffer that conditions- were unacceptable for a fair test of strength. The enlisted men, particularly the sergeants, were in a generally festive mood all week, it being the last week before retirement of Sgt.

Lappen, a distinguished soldier. Very little excuse was needed for a party. Apparently Sgt. Merchant told Sgt. Davis that the game had been called off.

Apparently (and this point is under dispute) Sgt. Davis, sensing a warm evening, decided to enjoy a beverage. He went back to his room, which is khown as the Sgt. Davis Art Museum because of the many fine portraits on the walls, and got himself a drink from a brown bottle. Soon this custom was common to the enlisted ranks and it was not long before a sizeable group of enlisted men, including all the sergeants, was seen to leave for the NCO club.

Joviality was their companion that evening. MEANWHILE the rain halted. The officers took their team to the field and a rumor spread through the enlisted ranks that the game had not been called. What personnel as could be summoned ran for the field and the enlisted men, announcing the protest in advance, took the field. It was no contest.

The officers took a 6-0 lead in the first inning. Remembering the year they led 2-0 after the first inning and went on to lose, 54-3, the officers did not relax. The enlisted men were generally uncoordinated. One rookie, attempting to bunt, ran to third base and was called out by Rubin the lawyer. The rookie claimed that numbered flags should be put on the bases, as in golf.

Typical of the enlisted defense was the of the right field to shoestring a vicious line drive off Capt. bat. The outfielder dived for the ball, which went 15 feet over his head. The outfielder later refused a sobriety test. The sergeants, of course, were furious when they heard what had happened.

They filed a protest with the commander. A committee, composed of Major Kearsley, Capt. Bellini and Major Jones, has taken the matter under advisement. Countian Heads Deaf Study A Haverford Township man wood will bead a year's study to seek pave modern electronic equipment and teaching aids for educating deaf children. Richard A.

Clouser, 26, of 2041 Laurel Road, Havertown, will Chester travel in the United States and limbia Eniope to gather Information on School, tha latest methods of teaching year's dwf children to speak, read lips ton and learn academic skills. 'Tto study will be sponsored by DM Pennsylvania School for the DMf (PSD). PSDV county center at Fern- ratortas School, Upper Darby, will access to Ckwser's findings a special document for branch schools. Clouser, a graduate of West State College and Col, University Gradu recently completed a tnttroihlp at the Lexing- School for the Deaf in New York City; The PSD. study Is being ft- for nanced by a 111,000 grant from ths Educational'Facfltt'" In New York.

Code) Proposal Draws Groups' Support MRS. ELIZABETH NESSENTHALER reads congratulatory notes while son, Frank and grandson, Frank G. look on in Brookhaven home. Brookhaven Woman Marks Special Day By BETTY HIBBERT Dally Times Correspondent BROOKHAVEN Mrs. Elizabeth Nessenthaler, 203 W.

Brookhaven Road, is used to celebrating her birthday. But each one is still very special to her and her relatives. Today Mrs. Nessenthaler will observe her 102nd birthday. The festivities have been arranged by, her son, Frank Nessenthaler, 77, and grandson, Frank 15, with whom she has lived since 1953.

But Mrs. Nessenthaler almost didn't make it While "aressiiig f6f 'church' Jan. 16, she fell, broke a' leg and was rushed to Sacred Heart Hospital in Chester. It was her first time in a hospital. After returning home she was soon able to stand with a walk- and now can get around her lome unassisted.

She is anxiously awaiting the day when she can again go to church, which she hopes will be in the next few weeks. "Not being able to attend church each Sunday as she has done all her life has caused her much more than the pain from her injury," said her son. Chester's Nativity Lutheran Church, 22nd St. and Edgmont is a very important part of Mrs. Nessenthaler's life.

The church's charter a drawn up in the Nessenthaler's former home, at 2514 Edgmont 'and services were held there until the first building was completed in 1920. Mrs. Nessenthaler remembers quite a few birthdays, but her 100th celebration two years ago was something special. A big reception was given in her honor by the church, com- plete with orchid corsage three-tiered cake. And she was honored by government officials, President Lyndon B.

Johnson, who sent his congratulations. Messages were also sent by Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America, U.S. Sen. Clark (D-Pa.) and Hugh'Scott Chester Mayor James H.

Gorbeyj Brookhaven Mayor Chester McCall, State Sen. Clarence D. Bell (R-Delaware County) of Upland and Gov, William W. Scranton. To complete the celebration the Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps serenaded her.

Mrs. Nessenthaler every minute of her 101 day. "Just because am 100, I see no need to sit around and act like I am," she said then. And she intends to enjoy her 102nd birthday even more. ses Labor Leader Maritime Control Shift Oppo By TOM SCHMIDT Daily Times Staff Writer A Delaware County labor eader said today that proposed egislation in Congress that would place the U.S.

Maritime Administration into a new federal transportation department will "completely destroy American maritime industry." Page Groton of Chester, director of the Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders Marine Council (BISMC), urged the maritime administration be given inde- endent status instead. The BISMC is the marine division of the International 'Brotherhood of Boilermakers; Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, (AFL-C10). Groton also is president of the Delaware County AFL-CIO Council and a member of Boiler- tzation program several years the Maritime Administration was placed under the U.S. Commerce Department. "This means that all decisions made by the maritime administration, although it had its own administrator, were subject to veto by the commerce secretary," Groton said.

"Our experience has that the maritime industry hasi received no attention whatso-; ever under the commerce de-! partment," Groton said. Groton said that since the reorganization, "our merchant fleet is carrying less than 9 per cent of our exports and imports in American ships. "This country's merchant marine fleet, whereas at the end of World War II was the most powerful, is today ranked sixth. "In shipbuilding, the maritime "We will be placed way down at the bottom of the ladder and will just die." FOR TINICUM makers Lodge 802, which repre-i in(iustr once was number one sents hourly workers at i ow is 12th." Shipbuilding Dry Dock Groton said one proposal of Chester. Groton made his remarks after releasing a letter to Congress rbm Boilermakers International President Russell K.

Berg. Berg urged the passage of a proposed amendment which vould delete all reference to the maritime administration from the bill establishing the U.S. Transportation Department. The pending legislation in its present form is "unacceptable the. 140,000 members of our commerce department officials was that the United States build all its ships in foreign countries.

"We were 100 per cent opposed to this," he said. "The only reason they wanted to do that is that ships can be constructed more cheaply abroad. "You can say the same thing about every product that's made in the United'States." "We've had a running battle in Washington to prevent the the rest. of the entire labor prepared movement and.the maritime industry Itself," Berg said To make our position crystal posed." clear, we do not oppose the de- Graduatt of transportation simply the inclusion of the maritime tdministntion in It." Berg further urged that, once n-grass enact a proposed bill to Ubo- maritime administration. Groton Mid under a public GLENOLDEN Schools Supt.

Dr. James 3urk said Tuesday night trict may need two classrooms' this year beci crowded conditions at Slementary School, Tinicum. Burk said the district expects a gieater number of seventh- pupils to enroll than originally anticipated. Earlier this year, and Tinicum School International Brotherhood, plus build-abroad'policy from being adopted and we think we have it stopped," he said. "Most members of Congress are op- Groton said the wont thing that can happen is to pltce the maritime administration under the transportation department.

"This department will be a the amendment It passed, Con- huge complex and Include rait- roads, airlines, roads the create a separate, independent big mota of transportation which capture the fancy of the REGISTER Delaware County's ing registrars will be in Upper Darby and Brookhaven Shopping Center from 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday to register new voters for the Nov. 8 election. The registrars will sit in Primos Elementary School, Bunting Lane; Hills Elementary Ruskin Lane and Timberlake Road; Westbrook Park Elementary School, Ave. and Springfield Road; and Drexel Motors, Garrett Road, all in Upper Darby, and the Food Fair store In the Brookhaven Shopping Center, Edgmont Avenue.

I 1 I son, anu gov- uding nson ins. nt by presi- ch in ph S. Scott ames flavor Clar- Coun- illiam ration Bugle i joyed birth- I see act n. her down and Aston Church Plans Beatle Record Fire By FRANK GALEY Daily Times Staff Writer The Aston Baptist Church will end its summer vacation Bible School Friday with a bonfire of Beatle records-- and one former fan of the hairy quartet said she'd be glad to donate some discs to the blaze. Rev.

Paul E. Rowgo, pastor of the church of Bridgewater Road, said today he will lead about 200 children in a burning of Beatle records and sheet music at 11 a.m. Friday. Mr. Rowgo said he expects to burn "a considerable number of records." HITS STATEMENT The conflagration results, he said, from a recent statement attributed to Beatle John Lennon.

Lennon was quoted as saying: "Christianity will go. It will VaUisn aim snmiK. i nccuni HI- gue about that. I'm right, and I will be proved right. "We're (the Beatles) more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first rock 'n roll or Christianity.

Jesus was all right, but disciples were thick and ordinary." Mr. Rowgo said he thought this statement was "anti- Christ." WILL CONTRIBUTE Seventeen year old Janice Deeck, 3445 Commerce Brookhaven, said today she would consider contributing some of her Beatle records to Mr. Rowgo's flames. Janice was one of three Delaware County girls who. two years ago won "A Night With The Beatles" contest sponsored by a Philadelphia radio station.

At that time she said she was near collapse at the thought oi leholding the bushy-haired Brit- ains. Today she said she doesn't care. "I'm Catholic. I go to church every Sunday and I obey all the rules," Janice said. "I'm no holy person or anything like that, but it makes me sick to think they (the Beatles) could be like that, could say something like that." "I'm not really offended, if that's the way he (Lennon) I HVJ I let lasses rboro edis- rtable ise of m.

ipects rgjlfh- Oric- rboro oards rov- in the urs- ters eral i ool, urst ool, ber- ark hop ad; 2271 per 'air ven lont reached an agreement that will combine the districts' junior and senior high school enrollments. ticipation of school district reorganization, which proposes to merge the two districts. Under the agreement, Inter- boro and Tinicum seventh- and eighth-graders i attend schools in the former Lester and Essington Elementary Schools. The elementary schools are to be replaced by the new Tinicum Elementary School. Tinicum 9th-, 10th-, llth- and nth-graders are to attend Interboro Junior- Senior High School.

The contract provides that In- terboro will lease the two elementary school in Tinicum for $1 while Tinicum board retains control over custodial service and maintenance. The two districts so far have been stopped from merging. by a court appeal. In other business, the a awarded contracts to: Camera Shop, Marple, $4,887, audio visual supplies and office equipment. N.

Stetson Co. of Philadelphia, $1,492.50, two pianos. Parkchester Band Instrument Co. of New York, $1,130, 17 band instruments. Murphy Ford Co.

of Chester, $2,419, one ion school track. Singer Co. of Philadelphia, $824,70, 10 sewing machtoas, and Oft A feels, but I haven't bought one of their records for two years. "In fact, I wish I hadn't bought some of them. They just sit around.

They Baptists) can burn my records if they want." Mr. Rowgo said the burning will be conducted to show the church's position of "love for Jesus Christ and the Bible." He said the burning 'is to be iart of the closing day exercises it the vacation Bible school. "We usually give the boys anc a treat on the last day," IB said. Lennon has since clarified his remark, saying he meant the Beatles "deplored" the state of modem Christianity whereby a group like the Beatles appear be more popular than Jesus -hrist." Lity To Rule on ft 1 tf'kv'K CHESTER-- The zoning board of appeals is expected to announce Thursday its decision hi the controversial application Joseph Tercha to have rezonec for commercial use his at 4th and Trainer Sts. A number of area residents opposed Tercha's application at the board's July meeting.

Tercha's application asked for a zoning change to permit construction of an auto body repair garage on the property, but he said later that he had no firm plans for such a building. The board will also hear two new applications at 10 a.m. Thursday in council chambers. Medento 232 Chestnut has applied for a variance to permit construction of a two- story building for medical offices and two apartments on woperty on the north side 24th Street, between Chestnut Street and Providence Avenue. Willard W.

Kopf and William A. Cook, owners of a building at 12th and Chestnut have applied for a variance to permit construction of an addition at the rear of the building. The Industrial Mechanics Co. is the building's tenant. Carmichael MEDICAL I sjJvlL 1 i 1 DR i A 1 TUn Y' vtoil TMlMK MI'S oil i Aot uioO flwL HniKK i TV GtyAide Outlines if i New Law Would Protect 'Little People' By HARRY MAITLAND Daily Times Staff Writer CHESTER The city's proposed new electrical code was supported Tuesday electricians, government officials and architects who attended a public hearing in the municipal building.

Public Safety Department Counsel James McHugh said the new code will replace the one adopted in 1962. He said it will protect residents by controlling electrical work in homes. "We are trying to little people against poor electrical work," McHugh "the city has experienced a tot of fires resulted from improper and haphazard- ous electrical work. 'LIVES AT STAKE' "The new code will seek-to prevent work being done by persons who are not qualified or those who attempt to cut corners and save money wtiiai tEe lives of people are at stake," McHugh said. The proposed code includes' all the provisions of the National Board of Fire Underwriters'Na- tional Electrical Code.

The proposed city code has Jbeen under considerationJjy roj- resentatives of 'Industry in the city and master electricians for six months, McHugh said. John Costello, a representative of the Chester Redevelopment Authority, urged reducing from $1,000 to $300 the minimum amount requiring an ele- trical permit. He said this would bring more work under the control of the Electrical code and provide more protection for He said homes in the proposed Smedley Urban Renewal Area Have been rewired for between $350 and $475. OK'S CODE John McGeehah, a a electrician who does work hi Chester, also approved the proposed code. 'McGeehah, who is also Eddystone fire marshal, said borough officials are very interested in the proposed code and probably will adopt it.

State Safety Inspector Frank E. Toole and architect Jack Swerman also favored adoption of the code. Swerman said It was difficult to place a dollar figure on the amount a permit but said a job could be dangerous 1 in a house if it was installed improperly. One of the features of the proposed code is the creation of the josition of city electrical inspector. The job would be on a par with present positions such as milding and plumbing inspect- JCENSE FEES License fees under the would range from $15 for maser electrical contractors, chief lant electricians and refrigera- or and oil burner service dealers to $2 for a journeyman etoc- rician and $1 for an aporen- Ci'ty council would appoint examining board and an electrical board of appeals under terms of the proposed code.

Two master electricians tad the city electrical inspector would form the a i i board. Two master electricians and another person would comprise toe- appeal board. In case of a dispute, Councilman James E. Lamb, city pabltc safety director, would bearing. His decision subject to appeal SUPERVISION Alteration, repair citd tautalit- tton work must be "toOtr the supervision of a antler electrician, the code Upon conviction, 'j.