The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 6

THE COURIER-NEWS Plainfield, N. Thursday, August 26, 1965 'Booze. Doe' Bash on L. I. He Can't Buy Liberty AlbawmTt IFecDple By the Associated Press By 300 Youths Brings Police raid and the six weeks of in were not.

Apparently oniy Church Honors Danny Thomas Comedian DANNY THOMAS has received one of the Catholic Church's highest decorations from James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles in recognition of his chari Huttonsville, W. Va. Uft William Hollie Griffith had $2 when he entered prison 50 years ago. Now, with a modest fortune accumulated behind bars, he can buy anything he wants, except freedom. Griffith, 73, will make his 16th appearance before the West Virginia Board of Probation and Parole Sept.

14. Prison officials think he should be released. They point to Griffith's good record and ability to support himself. He has accumulated $26,000 from operating a penitentiary tailor shop. A group of West Virginia businessmen recently asked Gov.

Hulett C. Smith to release Griffith so he can use his money and experience to establish a garment factory at Grantsville, in one of the state's more depressed areas. Smith has taken no action on the request. But he has expressed interest in the proposed plant which would provide about 30 jobs. "I don't see why Hollie couldn't make a go of the plant," said Leo Callison, deputy warden of the state's medium security prison here.

"His behavior has been outstanding during the 35 years I've known him. I can't see why he's not out now." Fifty years ago, Griffith was chased across the state by a posse after shooting a law officer in a gun battle. Griffith was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary. Six years later he escaped. During three weeks of freedom, he killed two more men.

Given two additional life sentences in 1921, Griffith spent the next 57 months in solitary confinement. Upon his release from solitary, he began working in the prison tailor shop. Twelve years later he bought the dry cleaning and pressing equipment from the man who held the penitentiary contract Griffith, now prison librarian, has two brothers and four sisters who visit him occasionally. He hasn't seen his wife or two children for 50 years. vestigation that led to it.

"We all felt that this problem couldn't touch us in Eastern Suffolk, (county)" said Ecker. "I strongly suggest that all parents take another long look at the activities of their children." Said one officer: "Most of them seemed like nice enough kids, but there were some real crummy beatnik types." The house was rented for the summer by Emmett E. Boone 3rd, a 27-year-old guitar player. He was charged with selling narcotics. A half dozen or so people lived in the house, recalled a neighbor.

Beside the house is a sprawling elm tree with an automobile tire hanging from it on a rope. "It was the damnedest thing to see the kids' swing these last couple of months with one of those bearded buys swinging in it," the neighbor said. Capt. Schmidt said narcotics activities in the area had been under investigation for months. "The party was an opportunity to catch all th known pushers and users together," he said.

You Inthed toy th convenient yf LARKEY tharg account. Saves Boy, 7, Adrift in Strong Tide "I never stopped to think her husband, William Beasley Harris, who is also a Washington lawyer. Six months ago, Gov. William W. Scranton bruised his nose walking into a glass door while in Allentown.

Yesterday the state house of representatives passed a bill requiring eye-level warnings on all transparent doors in public buildings. Violators would be fined $10 to $50 or face 10 days in jail. The bill was sent to the state Senate. After Four Failed Youth, 19, Revere, Mass. CD James Manganiello, 19, battled wind and tide in a half -hour swim to rescue Charles Jackson, 7, after a lifeguard in a leaky boat and three other swimmers failed to reach the boy adrift at sea in a toy plastic dinghy.

"I was never in trouble and I just took my time," Manganiello said after the rescue, "but when I reached Charlie he seemed more worried that he'd been a bad boy than he might have drowned." The youngster's grandmother, Mrs. Charles S. Savoia, said she took him to the beach yesterday. She said when she noticed him drifting she tried to swim after him, but became exhausted. A friend, Edward DiLorenzo, 32, took up the chase.

"I'd make 10 yards and he'd go out 15 it's awful when He put on rubber fins and reached the boy about a quarter-mile off shore. He said he calmed Charlie, turned him around and pushed him slowly back to land. about whether I could make it. There was no time and if I had, by then it would have been a moot point anyway," he said. WITH-IT' WHIZZ-KIDS HEP-PREPS EM-COLLEGIANS LARKEY has all the SWTNGIN'EST LOOKS for BACK-TO-BOOKS East Hampton, N.

Y. UP) Past the glow of the Japanese lanterns on the sloping lawn of the old farmhouse 40 po licemen waited in the shad ows, while inside 300 youths whooped it up in a goodby-to- summer bash. At 1:30 a.m. the cops crashed the party. One of them yelled, "this is a raid!" Some girl screamed and a few giggled, but the party was over.

Police said the party was "hell-bent for booze, sex and abandon." Police hauled 21 of the youngsters to jail following the raid yesterday. They booked 11 on narcotics charges and 10 for disorderly conduct. Earlier, police raided a mo tel at nearby Riverhead and charged five persons with supplying narcotics to the party. This fashionable resort area near the end of Long Island was shaken again. Two years ago youths wrecked a home at the coming out party of debutante Fernanda Wana-maker Wetherill.

Some at the party yesterday were high on dope and liquor, police said, but most it's trim 1 you see someone at your fingertips and you can't reach him. Oh, my God, I felt, this is awful, I have to leave him." Pulled farther and farther away from shore, the boy shouted, "Save me, please, Eddie don't leave." In meantime, lifeguard Andrew Bisignani jumped into a Metropolitan District Commission lifeboat, but discovered vandals had broken eight seams in the bottom and it began leaking fast. DiLorenzo swam back to the boat climbed in and bailed with a plastic pail. "But still we were half in the water, it leaked so badly," he said. Manganiello's brother, Edward, 32, described by DiLorenzo as a "tremendous swimmer," pitched in, but suffered a leg cramp and had to turn back.

Now it was up to James, a second year pre-medical stu dent at Boston University. WISE OWL SPECIAL W.7 9 FAMIi-y On Turf Builder When bought with Scotts Seed I a small number were even aware of the presence of the narcotics, which included the hallucinatory drug LSD. Police took the youngest of the merrymakers many of them high school students to the station house for their parents to be called. The parents and young sters were given tongue-lash ings at 5 a.m. by East Hamp ton Supervisor Edward V.

Ec-ker and Capt. Donald F. Schmidt, who directed the Auto Tlief Increase Predicted in U. S. San Francisco 151 "Almost a million automobiles worth $872 million will be stolen in 1970" if the present auto theft trend continues, the president of the National Automobile Theft Bureau says.

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Don't wait too late Get your feeding and seeding done early to take full advantage of favorable fall growing conditions. table activities. Thomas, founder of St Jude Children's Research Hos pital in Memphis, was presented the Knight Commander with Star in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem decoration. His wife, Rosemary, was named to receive the Lady Commander with Star deco ration. At Fort Sill, Lt.

Col. ERNEST CHILDERS, a Creek Indian who won the Medal of Honor and a battlefield commission in Italy 22 years ago, retires from the Army tomorrow. In August, 1943, a month after he was commissioned a second lieutenant, Chil-ders knocked out two German machine gun emplacements. Then he captured a mortar observer. "It was a good thing he was willing to give up," Childers said.

"I had not planned to take any chances with him because I couldn't stand up. When I pulled the trigger it snapped on an empty chamber. "I figured that if I didn't tell him my rifle was empty he'd never know." Chess breached the Cuba blockade last night as U. S. champion BOBBY FISCHER began the first game in an international tournament played by cable between here and Havana.

Fischer's moves in his first match with West Germany's Heinz Lehrmann were relayed by teletype and cable to the $2,000 fourth annual Capa-blanca Memorial Tournament in the Havana Libre hotel. The arrangement was worked! out after the State Department refused to grant Fischer a visa for travel to Cuba. Fischer, who at 22 is the youngest of chess' international grand masters, will face a total of 22 opponents before the tournament ends Sept. 20. In Melbourne, Australia, YorksMreman TERENCE BRENNAN, who pleaded Monday for somebody to adopt his children out of their poverty, says he no longer wants them adopted.

Brennan was all smiles Tuesday as lie prepared to move into a state housing commission three-bedroom house at suburban Doveton. The house was granted in SO minutes flat in an interview Brennan had with Victoria State Housing Minister Lindsay Thompson. The interview was the climax of more than 50 telephoned offers of assistance following Brennan's adoption pleas. More than half the people wanting to help the Brennans aimed at keeping the family together. Brennan said in his initial plea that since his wife, Joyce, died in an auto accident three weeks earlier, he could not properly care for the children Sonia, 12, Chris, 11, and Maureen, 18 months.

PATRICIA ROBERTS ILUk HIS, the first American Negro woman to attain the rank of ambassador, departs today from New York for her post in Luxembourg. She is due to arrive in the Grand Duchy Sept. 3. A distinguished lawyer and teacher of law at Howard University, Mrs. Harris has been active in Democratic Party politics.

She will be accompanied by Education Bill Passage Seen. Washington (P) Another of President Johnson's big education bills comes up for action in the House today, a million program of aid for the nation's colleges. The bill would launch a variety of new programs, including two new forms of student aid grants to needy students and federally guaranteed loans. Although facing almost solid opposition from Republicans, who charge it was rushed through the Education and Labor Committee without discussion, the bill is ex pected to win House approval. It follows up the construction bill for college academic facilities passed in 1963, authorizing million more for that program doubling the present authorization.

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