Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 14

''SECTION DON MURDAUGFI Up Top Today It just didn't seem the same. The acts were as probably better. The Ugers roared and threatened the "lion tamer." The high wire walker sent ohills and thrills up and down spines. The balancing artists defied all laws of gravity. The trained bears and silly dogs broke all BIG TOP missing the laws of gravity (the state or quality of being grave The girls were every bit as beautiful.

The clowns were funny as ever. The color was there. The excitement was there. The spectacle was there. The fun was there.

But it just didn't seem the same. The big top was missing. And so was the sawdust. We're referring to the circus, the biggest one of the Ring-ling Brothers Bamum Bailey Circus. Indoors With two 7-year-old tads In tow, we went to see "The Greatest Show on Earth" the other week in at the Arena.

For the uninitiated, the Arena is a building. The boys didn't miss the tent or the sawdust. They had a ball. They had their fill of cotton candy, hot dogs and water-ice. And they got plenty of loot-live chameleons, small hunting knives, toy swords and daggers.

You know, the kind of things just love to see their boys bring home from the circus. But the show wasn't the same for us. We grew up in a small town. We could see the circus i normally a horse from our bedroom wind-aw. And when the not the Ringling Brothers but a smaller came to we would be up before dawn, racing, without breakfast for the circus grounds.

Thrills Change Much of the thrill of a circus came from watching them put up the tents, watching them put flesh on those bare, bony poles. We have memories. Dark, dirty roustabouts sweating at first sun, pounding in stakes with big headed dragging and unrolling smelly canvas wild animals pacing and growling in cages a waddling fat lady the colorful sideshow banners And then there was (he great group effort as the canvas was hoisted for the main tent. There were the thrills of working for a "free ticket," carrying buckets of water from nearby homes until the handles cut through our hands like knives, and listening to the tall talcs of the roustabouts. It Was Magic And then at night, proudly going to the show on a circus pass and bragging to friends or parents how we had helped bring it all about.

When it was all over and the circus was pulling stakes, there was a mystical qualify about, the circus grounds. The great thing called the circus suddenly died, its tents collapsed in the early morning darkness. Then, like a long dragon, the circus caravan left the town, leaving behind magical memories. The boys we took to the Arena the other riighhtsaw many wonderful sights. But they also missed a lot.

HOW TO GET REFUNDS The Internal Revenue Service receives thousands of returns which are incomplete because the blocks are not checked properly, delaying the issuance of hundreds of refund checks. Kenneth 0. Hook, district director, said the blocks arc intended to' facilitate processing of income tax returns. Errors are Irequenl in blocks dealing with exemptions, he added. "Remember lo check all blocks that apply to you," he said.

"By doing this, you will get all the bcnrfils to which you arc enlillcd." Deadline this year for filing rlurns is April 18, because April IS is a Sunday. Field Fires in County Keep Firemen Busy HOSPITALS INVOLVED County Disaster Drill Is Planned MEDIA There Will be a combined disaster drill involving major Delaware Count nospnais ana civil detense emergency crews on Mav 1 at 3 D.m. The announcement was made Thursday by Jack Robbins, chief or me county's program, following a meeting or hospital administrators and p.m. naspitaJs will be aieiLeu iu ue oreparea iar casua lties being brought here as the result of a nuclear attack. Medical staffs and nursine corns i win.

raKe tneir stations at participating hospitals to "treat" volunteer victims as thev are brought in. Also participating will be fire uepartments, amDuiance corps and the Red Cross to provide emergency vemcies. uoDtuns said patients wiil be transferred from one liosoital to another when it is determined that one hospital is overloaded with casualties. In charge of the hospital phase of the program wilt be Dr. Ernest Jail Term Imposed In Thefts MEDIA COURTHOUSE 21 year old man was sentenced Thursday to 3 to 6 years in tsroaameaaows Prison after jury convicted him of stealing a truck and a car in Chester Jan.

Two others who pleaded guiltv to the same charges and testi fied against the defendant will be 'sentenced next week. Judge William R. Toal imposed the jail term on John Beaumont aE the lbuu block Shaw Terrace, Chester, after a three-day trial. Beaumont nan repudiated a con fession. Those pleading guilty are Ger ald Humphries, 17, of E.

Brook-haven Road, Brookhaven, and Glen Wenger, 21, oE Bortondalei Road, Media. They were accused of taking' the auto of Otha Shaw from in! front of the owner home at 535: Kose Chester, and a truck owned by James A. Carey from uw Mcuvain sc. PMC Plans Inspection CHESTER are ex pected to crowd the Pennsylvania Military College campus Saturday ns the college has its first annual Parents Day. The day has been set aside to give parents an opportunity to see how their sons live, the college facilities and educational They will get a chance to meet the faculty and review the over- ,11 program the college.

The schedule of activities: Reg istration, 9 a.m.; parents ant students Free-lime, 10 a.m.; Del aware County Parents chapter meeting, a.m.; greetings uy the president of the college, 11 Annual parents meeting, 11:50 faculty and parents lunch-m, I p.m.; consultation with faculty and parents, 2:15 p.m.: film "The PMC Story," 3:30 p.m.: Cadet Corps review, 4 p.m., anc Pershing Kitle review, p.m Zoning Board Hears Appeals The Zoning Board of Appeals on Lhursday took un der advisement two petiuons. One petition was by Louis ue- Vito. who wants a variance to operate a barber shop at 22nd and Upland Sts. The other was by Mrs. Mary; Mnwhljlf.

It reouested a spe cial exception to construct a stor age building behind a hardware i store at 601 Highland Ave. Both the slorage building and the barber shop are non-contorm- ing uses. Girl Injured In Accident RIDLEY Linda High, 9, 7 W. Sellers Ridley Park, was struck by a car Thursday, shortly after 6 p.m., at Sellers and Swarthmore Aves. She was admitted to Taylor Hospital with possible injuries of unclomcn, ear and leg.

i driver was identified as; Hnheri Thomas, 109 Delaware claymant, Del. mlimwt (Stinting Baste L. Noone of the Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Drexel Hill. Robbins said only volunteers acting as.

victims, hospital emergency staffs will participate in the hour-long test. There will be no sounding of sirens, he said. Safe Heist Sends 6 To Prison -MEDIA COURTHOUSE Six Chester men who admitted taking part in a $2,941 safe burglary at tin were sent to jail Thursday. Judge Thomas A. Curran im posed sentences on the defendants after.

Frank Francis, 28, of the 1100. block Hancock changed his plea to guilty part-way through his trial. He was the last of the six arrested bv Chester nnlirp in a 15- hour perior. after the robbery was discovered Jan. trancis was 4 to 18 montfis.

Tlie longest term was imposed on Vincent Caratello, 25, of the 500 block Parker who was arrested again Sunday inside the Pep Boys store in Chester. He was given i to -J years Edward Cribb, 23, of 9lh near Parker, and Louis Carletti, 19, of the 500 blosk, E. 15th were given 6 to 18' months. Kicnard Knienm, 21, of Swarts near Culhane. was riven 3 to 9 months.

David Catanese, 20, of the SOD block Barclay was given 18 to 36 months. AH will serve their time Braadmeadows Prison. Each was also fined 3 Changes In Scouts Staff Made Three staff changes and m-omo- tions in the Valley Forge Council of the Boy Scouts of America cjs announced today. Edward B. Brown Jr.

of Glen- olden has been promoted to field director for trie service urea in cluding the Ben Franklin, John Morion, Lenape. Penns Wood and William fenn districts. previously served as dis trict executive for the William Penn and Penns Wood Districts George M. Musser of Media has been promoted to field di rector for the service area in cluding the General Washington! looitany, femmapecka and Wis- sanicKon Districts. Musser formerly was district1 executive for the Minquas Dis-i trict.

Benjamin F. Bouchelle of Se- cane, was promoted to director of relationships for the Valleyi Forge Council. 414 Learn To Swim Four hundred and fourteen boys learned to swim at the Centl-al YMCA. at 2 S. Eyre Drive, during 1961, Charles Howard, head of hcalUi and nhy- sical education for the Slate YMCA said today.

Some 561? passed advanced swimming tests, 14 passed junior saving ana unruled the requirements to be certified in senior life savins. mo tar mis year 4s ooys nave learned to swim, 87 have passed advanced swimming tests and 10 have become certified senior savers. LEAVES SWARTHMORE FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962 receive a specially engraved. Ha-per-Mate pen and a certificate. The acquaint the spellers with national rules, the county semi finals and finals will be conducted the same way as the finals in Washington.

Each zone will have a pronoun- cer for the spelling words and he will join two others as judges. For the western zone semifin als, Robert Elt7. of Sycamore1 Mills Hoad, Media, will be the nronauncer and one of the indues. Mrs. Robert Pemberton of 6154 uresson Lane, Morton, and Mrs.

Richard Turner of 407 Palmers Lane, Wallingfford, will serve as the other two western zone judges. Mrs. Pemberton and Mrs. Turner are members of the Swarth- more Mothers' Club and Eltz is a member of the Delaware County Toastmaslcrs Club. In the eastern 7one semifinal: Robert Masbopiero of 144!) Grace: iiwartnmore, also a member of the Delaware County Toast- County College Dean Named to Preside SWARTHMORE-William C.

H. Prentice, Swarthmore College dean for the past six years has1 been named president of Wheal-on College in Norton, Mass. Prentice succeeds A. Howard Mencely. Meneely died last year after 17 years as the Wheaton Lojtege ncad.

Richard F. Chapman, chairman or wncaton rwara or trustees, Prentice brought "an out standing background of scholar-1 ncy ship and educational leadership that will serve the college well," Prcntince was a 1937 graduate oi awannmorc. ue received a docloratc in psychology from Har vard in He served on the faculties of winiam and Mary Collece. University of Vermont, Johns nopicms university and Swarthmore before named dean in Swarthmore College would not comment. masters Club, will the pro- nouncer ana one or the juugi Mrs.

Harold P. Murphv of 113 Welcome Lane, Ridley Park and Mrs. William Lnvne or Hink- son Ridley Park, will also judge the eastern zone semifinal- Both are members of the Rid ley Park Child Study Club. lhe spelling words will be given orally by the pronouncer. Any contestant may request the pro nouncer to re-pronounce the word uemie it or use it.

in a sentence. However, once a contestant be gins to spell the word, he may 1 If ill NEW POLE Dan Zap-pacosta, president of the Ridley Township Businessmen's Association, helps install a new Hag-pole at the. township's administration buildincr. officials The association donated the pole. not change letters already pro nounced.

Judges may disqualify any contestant who ignores a request to start spelling. Those to compete at Chichester Jtimor-bcnior High School, alphabetically by schools, are: Janet Hunter. Chester Christian Lucy Bart- kow. Chichester Junior Thomas! a. uoyie.

Thomas Baughman. Douglass Junior High, Hales. Edgmont Sherry Rutherford. Garnet Valley Junior High, Concord Brown. Holy Ghost, Chester Chris tine Kyj.

Holy Saviour, Marcus Karen Lyheck. Immaculate Conception, Mar cus Hook Marie Montella. Laikin, Chester Theodore Marcia Rue Harrison. Lin Kathy Pierce. Marcus Hook Betty Sliugar.

Media Leonard Levin. Our ven Rose Janet Scum. St. Anthony's, Chester Linda i'errarelli. onien.

Joseph. Green RuW Michael Mutz. St. Michael. Nadine Pretti.

St. Rose of Lima. Denis M. Kraft. Showalier Junior limine irucneLi.

bmedlev Junior Hieh r.hptit^r. Harry Kaplan. Metser, Chester lamnni Janice Eisele. Upland (Hill Connors. Upland fMain Those to conmolr at nnrhv Township Junior High School, alphabetically by schools, are: union Heights Junior High Linda Ammlunc.

CoHinHdale Junior Hieh T.inHa Susan Thompson. uuiociTson, Newtown Square men am tsrencKman. Darby Colwyn Junior. High, Janet Dunlap. Darby Township.

Glenolden Linda Curry. Darby Township Junior Hisfi. John Burke. ucicron, Folcroft Barbara Thayer. Drexel Hill Junior Karen Jo van hs.

Essington Kennard Pank- Folcroft Junior Rich Linda Campiclia. Grim. Newtown Sou are Deb- oie ocnwarZi Harris. Co hnedale Klenh.mie trarwiacK. Holy Cross.

Clifton Barbara A. Bradlev. i.ansaowne-Aitinn Junior itiiymonci uox. Deborah Powley. TTTY rp i iiftftfi mini 1 PRIZES Gerry Oliver, Daily Times staff Encyclopedia Britannica, an Encyclopedia Brit; writer, scans prizes which will be (riven away at the conclusion of the second annual Daily Times spelling bee.

The semifinals Saturday and the finals are April 7. The prizes include a 24-volume set of the The coundown stood at Bee minus one" today for the 67 semi-finalists in the second annual Delaware County Daily Times spelling bee. The spelling champions, from the county's parochial, private) and public senools, will begin the drive for the county spelling title at 10 a.m. Saturday in two zone semifinals. The public is invited.

Thirty-three students from schools west of Crum Creek will! compete at Chichester Jumor-Se-ior High School, 925 Meetinghouse Road. Boothwyn. Thirty four students from: schools east of Crum Creek will i vie at Darby Township Junior: ilign Kcnoal, Ashland ana Bar-tram Avenues, Glenolden. Crum Creek runs on the east ern boundaries of Chester, Upper and Nether Provi-jdence and Edgmont. David R.

Bowers, Daily imes pelline bee director, today ask ed entrants to report to their re spective sues uy aito a.m. lor uist ructions. The twin spelldowns will contin ue until there are 15 semifinalists remaining in each zone. ine top will move into me county finals April 7 in Indian Lane Junior High School on Old Middletown Road, Middle town. The eventual county champion ill walk off with an armload of prizes and awards and will go to the N'aLional Spelling Bee Washington, D.C., June 4 to 9.

Every county participant will imiltiple-lanffiiaee dictionary, a Zenith nortable trans istor radio, Paper-Mate and Mark IV pen and pencil sets and engraved plaques. Spellers Ready for Contest Lincoln, Sharon Hill Edward Peace. Loomis. BroomalE William Adler. Robert Plotkin.

Marplc-Newtown Junior High. Newtown Barbara Notre Dame de Lourdes, SwarUnnore Thomas J. Brad ley. Our Lady of Fatima, Glenolden Rizzo. Our Lady of Peace, Milmont William Sheridan.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Springfield Brien p. McMahon. Russell, Broomall Joanne Green. St. Anastasia, Newtown Square-Miriam B.

Wenger. St. Bernadette, Drexet Hill-Grace Ann McHugh. St. Francis of Assist.

Springfield rvennein jjeLUca. St. Madeline, Ridley Park-Barbara King. Sidney Smedley, Linda bpnngiicfd junior High Ave. watt, Springfield Junior High (Woodland Suzanne Anderson.

Terry Molloy. Swarthmore Rtitledge Junior buiuiqiust. Worrall, Broomall Janet Ur- HE'S FINED Blaze Rages 5 Hours in One Area 40 Homes Are Endangered Field fires plagued Delaware County's volunteer firemen Thurs-day, One fire, driven through heavy brush, by a persistent wind, burned for five hours through an open area in Radnor. A Radnor fireman, Charles Gibson, 29, suffered burns of the right arm and hand. He was treated at Bryn M.awr Hospital.

Gibson was among 100 firemen from Radnor, Berwyn, Bryn Mawr and West Conshohocken who answered the alarm, i The flames threatened 40 homes, many of them large es tates. The home of former Gov. George H. Earle was among those endangered. Other homes in the area included those of R.

Livingston Sullivan, retired president of the Market Street National Bank in Philadelphia, and Henry Clifford, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Firemen filled pumpers from a pond on the Clifford estate. The fire was out at 5:30 p.m Another Field firp hnmoH through an open area of Middle-town and threatened several homes near Elwyn. The section is west ot Middletown Road and north of the West Chester Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. ru-emen trom Middletown.

and Lima put out the fire. Other field fires kept firemen busy in Mamie. Nether Prmn. dence, Lower Chichester and Chester. City firemen battled two field fires during the day.

Sisters Hit By Auto Sheridan, 9 and her sister, Suelten, 7, were struck by a station wagon at Morton Avenue at MacDade Blvd. Thursday on their way home from school, Patricia was admitted to Taylor Hospital with possible internal injuries. The hospital reported her condition as satisfactory. Snellen was treated fro bruises of lhe face and hnth tnuc discharged from the hospital. me anver was identified as Richard B.

King, 801 Olive St Media. Witnesses said the sisters were crossing Morton Avenue Thp tion wagon, traveling south on mumiu, mrnea iett onto MacDade. Workmen for a construction company were making repairs in Morion Avenue near the point where the accident occurred. The accident happened at 3:20 p.m. Used Car Dealer's Complaint Backfires I i.a i MORE ThaN 1 A SPRAIN ANKLE To £LoW MOM till TRAINER Harry Zellat went to testify aeainst a fnrmor ploye at a hearing.

When he got through, he had to stick around for another hearing This is llOW it cording to Police Chief John lanncry. owner of Country Club Motors at 4th and sic swore out a warrant against Fd-ward Hubbeltstein of Philadcl-phial. Zellat said Hubbellstein took a car and some deposit money with him Friday after he was fired from his salesman's job. Justice of the Peace Isadore Bete issued a warrant and Flan- j.cij nuorjciistein at his home Tuesday night. Given a hearinc hdfnm charges of larceny and fraudu- or mnas, Hubbellstein posted $500 rwinH fnr ther hearing 2 p.m.

Monday. Hubbellstein said he didn't know he was fired. He said he used the car as part of his job. Zellat was there to testify against Hubbellstein. As Zellat turned to leave, handed him a warrant charging him with voilation ot Borough Ordinance 279.

The ordinance of used car lots to secure a license by Jan. 10 each year. Zellat was fined $100 plus proles! WaS Paying under iellat got some more bad news. The car Hubbellstein was tfOl A tirlfPt fn- ing in Philadelphia and the wvn" er-Zellat-will have to.