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Clear an! cold tonight; low between 25 and 30. Fair Sunday- nigtt 50 to 55. Partly cloudy with a chance of showers Monday. Details on Page 4. 89th Year--No.

60,276 Delaware County POVERTY 'The Greater Chester Movement's arvtipoverty director hai lew ml liiai. fighting poverty full-time Job. See Page 3. All-Out Drive fs Organized For'Bootstrap' CHESTER-The second phase of "Operation Bootstrap" swung into high gear Friday with the naming of a partial list of division chairmen. The new phase, headed funeral director George White, will concentrate on per- sonal solicitations pleted by May 1 to be com.

"Operation Bootstrap" is seeking $75,000 from citizens to help get $1.5 million in federal anti- poverly funds for the Greater Chester Movement (GCM). Chairmen were named for eight divisions of business and professional people at a lunch- Contribution Coupon, Page 2. The special gifts chairmen will be furnished cards of all prospects in their categories They will be asked to secure team captains who, in turn, wit: be asked to line up five solicitors each. Division chairmen already named are: Lawyers, Francis G. Pileg Edward Kassab and Mayor Gorbey; auto dealers and auto parts, Danle ScaltoJini; beverage dislributors, John .1.

Kelly; central business, M. J. Freed and Henry Rodney. Doctors, Dr. William Irving; small business, Edward Medford, Michael Churi and Emil Baiocco; real estate, Oliver Ar- present eon meeting in the Colony Hotel.

About 30 city leaders pledged their support. The division chairmen were named (or a part of the special gifts drive. Others are to be named laler. Also lo be selected later are chairmen to head door solicitations. up door-lo.

The new phase will have a kick-off luncheon for drive workers at noon April 12 in MacMor- land Center on the Pennsylvania Military College campus. Dr. Clarence R. Moll, PMC president and chairman of the' CIMC steering committee, said the college will sponsor the; luncheon. Gene Reiley of Wynnewood, a professional fund-raiser for more than 40 years, has been called in 10 help direct the second pliase, Reiley will work out of a new campaign headquarters in B0 I S' JfMW Sunday 11-24 t.

llh Health Officer Drowns Slips During Ship Check By TOM SCHMIDT Daily Times Staff Writer MARCUS HOOK A U. Public Health Service inspector drowned Friday night after he fell into the Delaware River as he attempted to board a ship to make a quarantine check. The victim was identified as Robert Campbell, 48, of 2227 Huntindon Drive, Wilmington. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1965 Want Ads TR t-i All TR Honw Deliveries per Week TIM CINH milage; and restaurants, ard Gallagher. How- Harold A.

MacNeilly, administrative assistant to Mayor Gorbey and chairman of (he first phase of "Operation Bootstrap," will continue as chairman of "Celebrity Newsboy Day," now scheduled for May 1 as the climax of the drive. Celebrities from various fields will sell souvenir copies of Ihe Delaware County Daily Times on downtown street corners for $1 a copy with all proceeds going to "Operation Bootstrap." Surplus Is Urged for 'Bootstrap' An autopsy attributed death to "drowning by asphyxiation." A 22-year-old Claymont man was credited with making a daring but unsuccessful effort to save Campbell. BOARDING SHIP Police Chief Ernest Fleming said Campbell and another inspector, Charles Mayes of Wilmington, were boarding the SS Orana about 8 p.m. hen the accident occurred. The inspectors, assigned to the U.S.

Public Health Service Quarantine Station, Delaware Ave. and Market had completed night health checks of crews on three other ships. The Orana, a British tanker consigned to Texaco was Ihe last ship lo be inspected Friday night. The vessel was traveling upstream at the time, enroute to 4 Seized Klansmen May Face First-Degree Murder Counts King Aide Rips Into Wallace Urges His Prosecution By A MAITLAND Daily Times Staff Writer CHESTER Rev. Fred Shut- llcsworth, a lop aide of Dr.

Martin Luther King called Friday night for "demonstrations all over the land" until President Johnson "gets rid of (Alabama Gov. George Wallace and racism" in Alabama. SPEAKS TO 300 Mr. Shuttlesworth spoke be- before 300 persons at a "remembrance day" rally, sponsored by the Chester Civil Rights Council (CCRC) at St. Luke's Christian Community Church.

The rally was in observance of last spring's civil rights demonstrations in Chester. "Wallace should be deposed and Prosecuted for malfeasance tl lu (Philadelphia, police said. in office," Mr. Shuttlesworth I Police said Campbell and said Mayes were traveling from shipj "President Johnson must elim-i 10 ship on a launch owned by inate racism in Alabama even! ays i and Launch Service, if he has to occupy Alabama." anri 1 A 01 ni I i W. Mr.

Shuttlesworth said Thurs- -i proof lhal a re '8 of terror ex- 1 'Ihe tanker and, with i I i reponed Reiley told Friday's luncheon: million CMCr In selling, nothing happensjeration Bootstrap." Reiley worked on fund drives wil Mayes Campbell top of the rope ladderi I when, he fell into the river be-' 10 lts Cltizens iam W.jtween the tanker and the FAILURE the! Fleming said the ladder mayi a Campbell federal government will fail its promises and the na KLANSMAN Gary Tommy Rowe Jr. lunges at photographer after arrest. McClure's 'Sad Ending'Mars Condition March from Selma Worsens I "it was a wonderful day withiwere physically exhausted very sad ending." 'emotionally exalted," he said. throughout the country. Reiley has worked on fund drives throughout the country.

Reiley is credited wilh origi lcut; nating the payroll savings plan sa jct for the purchase of war bonds mine man act as a coordination n-wmTM, KUUU, and distribution agency for the Lld 0 who was charge i iOl tilC iSUnph during World War II. The plan was first used at Sun Shipbuilding Dry Dock Co. While, who headed Ihe Sacred! Heart Hospital fund 1 "The Commonwealth must do more than act as a coordination him to lose his grip. JUMPS INTO WATER Robert Hearn, 43 Darley Road, (lion will continually be embarrassed before the world until the government meets head on the federal government He said grabbed a and, without fastening it him, jumped into ihp "imperative river after CampbeM mnmlct r-i issue of Georoe Wallace and the da was reported in worse con rebellion against the Unitod! oda Delaware uu leader John J. McClure--on critical list at the University fl luirch sumn up Thursday Pennsylvania Hospital since Sun- A Could Get Death Penalty Arresls Follow Woman's Slaying MONTGOMERY, Ala, (AP) Albama may seek first degree murder indictments against four white men called Ku Klux Klansmen by President Johnson who -are charged with conspiracy in the ambush slaying of a Detroit civil rights worker.

If the evidence warrants, "I'm going to insist that we get a first-degree murder indictment, State Atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers said Friday night. MOTHER OF 5 Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, white and mother of five, was shot to death near Lowndesboro.

while assisting in a civil rights drive. Flowers said, "from what I've heard thus far, it looks like murder." Conviction for first-degree. murder in Alabama carries either a death sentence or life imprisonment at the discretion of the jury. The President announced the arrests in Washington, hours after Mrs. Liuzzo, who grew up in the South, slumped over in the driver's seat of her car, a bullet in the temple.

2 SHOTS FIRED A Negro, Leroy Moton, 19, was beside her in the car jwhen another auto pulled and two shots were fired. two were returning to but dghtstoS to Selma. She was en route back i i i jjjc was ell County Republican; Evor Roberts, pastor, Dr. Bartlett, a Philadelphia pick up another group J. McCliire--on i Swal thr nore Presbyterian; physician, said whenever Ne- the four men arres that the state boost i wkh 1 1 the arrest of four Ku Kl a practical demonstration oT n-'neS tem Kla for men of good will crest.

ab Ut de ras if there can be justice Dr. Joseph DiMedio, Mc-i not enough to hear of Clure's personal physician, nf fnnr GOP leader's condition hasi JIM! persons marched into Montgom- jery, after a 50-mile walk from Selma. er ere ca mmcmeM made in Alabama today res "iwviiitrm inane in Aiaharna tnd-iv TM -J also the day Mrs. Viola y. Ie aid LiUZn1 39 Detr i( sa deteriorated." i was fatally shot as she Lhe carried He said the 78-year-old politi-i relllrned lc Montgomery to take fla ABllt said, 'cal figure was in very no 3 load of marchers back to Sel-' 01 American flags.

"The Confedera groes and whites were together the four men arrested were Eugene Thomas, 42, and Witon theJVegroes "just liam Orville Eaton, 41, both of Bessemer; Gary Tommy Rowe stood like wooden Indians." But when white people were not around, they were happy, of the Amencan he saw no 34, of Birmingham; and Collie Leroy Wilkins 21 of Fairfield, Ala. The four were taken into custody by FBI agents in the Birm- ngham, area. A U.S. commis- and had become 11.MI i i mint i i i i i vUUC Jililsi drive and for many years 1 lhc a to'ous. nrealsa the active in the annual drive of the'P rovide grants directly to com-! "He could havr hrvn Kr siaeru or any-i uv sucked i one will not drive it out of However, a hospital spokes-: awa re County men, Dr.

Lewis Mr. Roberls and two other Del- In "The Confederate flag United Community Chester Vicinity, luncheon: Fund f' i i lllal have programs the prop'eller fOtrt lhp i a (0 2O 'Said ivi no lUULft rtllU US LUJ1-I LUI1U11 i arfrirri- I An i sustenance comes has ol changed at all and i both of 120 Orchard Lane, Branche added. i An unidentified crew' member! Wallace and the climate of rac-l sli critical." t--t uiivt- uuc 01 ex- men, ur. Lewis Hemingiistence for its roots and its con-i miln sa 'd McClure's "condition. Bartletl and his son, Gustas, "We can do the job we have "We have a program All we lon le launct i in front of us need is he coat collar ar 11 we a i tncr; i started." a 6 could be "Operation Bootstrap" is at-j pbel bod y- be no other effort Mayor James H.

Gorbey also expressed confidence that "we can put it over the top." He urged division chairmen! lo fill MacMorland Center dr -e Hearn's held him until around tempting to raise $75,000 to qualify for federal matching funds under the antipoverty program. Branche is aleo a member of victim ism he has established alii Ihrougli the slate. 'PART OK PATTERN' was hospitalized (March 16 after lie fractured his 'right hip in a fall in his home St. ami Providence Ave. DOA caches of I mite planted in Birmingham! He has been in critical condi- llast Sunday are part of a pat-i tion since he developed lung con- Haverford Township, were among Delaware Countians reported in Montgomery at the end of the historic march.

Roberts said what i on AnHM2 er on April Steering Committee pa a pa- eve Campbell was pronoimcedi ter and onl God knows howigestion March 13. ead on arri man The i Chesler on arrival at Sacred Hearl ncan Explosion Rips American LSI j'Kaspital, Chester. Hearn was treated at the hos- lying on top of the capitol. It sorer set bond at $50,000 each, was Thomas, Eaton and Rowe were almost seemed like we were in a foreign country," he said. He said he finally noticed an American flag on a low staff over in a courtyard behind some trees, "but not until 1 had been there three hours." him was "the greatest contrast between the joyful marching of the demonstrators and the rigid hostility cf the white onlook- many more people will be kill- The Republican leader has ers." cd for freedom in the South." been failing since I960 when he Mr.

Shuttlesworth said the fed- fractured his left hip in a fall.lt.Jf"' when f' er fr.lli7p/1 frrvwe chnuM HP Iwnn jceimg or ODSCe pital for exposure. jeralized troops should a He has teen hospitalized sev- Fteming said the Orana wasj madE tne highway safe for per-; cra limes for therapy for a jin the middle of the river whenl sons returning home from the back condition related to the accident happened. 'rally in Montgomery. 'previous injury. v.v, in me nvu accident happened.

'rally in Montgomery. He said Campbell had becn We should rise up all over! working at the Marcus Hook jtion about four or five years. The Coax 11 dliarH nvc ycijia. The Guard also is invcs- jligating the accident. the country and insist that LBJ! goes all the way," lie said.

Soulh Viet Nam Da Nang, complementing the massive explosion SAIGON, (AP) A believed set off by Viet Cong frogmen Friday blew gaping holes in the hull of an American LST docked al a commercial pier at Da Nang. Ihe blast by an estimated 500 pounds of high explosives injured one Japanese crewman slightly, caused extensive inieri- or damage, and ripped a half The Marine warplanes would dozen holes two lo six feet in assigned to furnishing tacti- dumictcr in lhe hull. cal SU ppo 0 lhe comba jnfan An official in Saigon said the try force. The source said the CT cfclivv t. 1 I prcsen and two squadrons of Marine helicopters.

The Marine Expeditionary Brigade two battalions of combat troops landed in Da Nang early this month with the mission of guarding the jet field, closest to the Parallel. LST landing ship tank did not sink. The blast aircraft would consist of one squadron of jets and one squa- was touched off dron of pr peller-drivcn fighter- dcspite an overnight city curfew and rigid security precautions throughout (he area site of the strategic Da Nang air base, now guarded by 4,000 U.S. Marines and catteries of Hawk antiaircraft missiles. Two squadrons of Marine warplanes are expected to be brought to Viet Nam to support the Leatherneck ground forces already here.

An informed source said the aircraft would be stationed at bombers. Along wilh the Hawks and helicopters on llie base, they would be incorporated into a Marine air wing. Marine aircraft would give the bases a strongly reinforced military punch. At present the base is used by U.S. Air Force FIDO and F105 jets, Vietnamese air force propeller-driven Sky- raiders and a host of incidental supporting aircraft on various missions.

INSIDE YOUR DAILY TIMES Jenkin Lloyd Jones lis- lens to the "beat generation." Page 6. YMCA basketball tournament attracts college stars. Page 15. Complele stock market report. Pages 16, 17.

Amusements 15 10-12 13A-15A 7 12A ig 16 17 It's Spring 1 -Finally there was obscene gestures, the marchers would wave gaily and smile and invite the onlookers to join the parade." Mr. Roberts said a spirit of the festivity was evident. Mr. Shuttlesworth, one of fouri for Mr. King in Ala-; jbama, arrived Friday afternoon' jfroni Montgomery.

He is expected to return Mon-i iday 10 Montgomery after visit- nd Childre 1 Sprin wealller is exited (Cincinnati, Ohio. weekend in Delaware, BUS BOYCOTT i County, a week after it offi-j He is credited with originating arTivcd Ithe Montgomery bus boycott 'several years ago. He was a member of the 20-man delega- jtion who attempted to present, voters' protest pclilion lo Wal-j "You could see it in Dr. Luther) King who was just a few feet away from me. "The demonstrators who marched the entire 50 miles a number of legislators and office workers came out on the steps and sat down.

Many of them didn't even bolher to stand for the Star Spangled Banner," Mr. Roberts said. About the marchers themselves, Mr. Roberts said they were an "extraordinary disciplined lot." "I didn't see a single intoxicated person. This business of sex and drinking during the march is so stupid and silly that it hardly deserves a comment," he said.

He said his first moment See COUNTMNS, Page The Weather Bureau said i i would be mostly sunny today with a high lemperature around Weinberg's Stores SoldtoN.Y.Firm votcr(s 'PTM tcst 01 0 lofw( fi Tonight's outlook is for clear! Weinberg's clothing stores in conclusion of thcjskios and cold wcalhcr wilh aChcstcr and Havcrford Town- Churches Classified Ads Comics Community Clock Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Editorials Financial News Horoscope Junior Editors Obituaries 4 Also Death Notices 18 Sporls 15 Television 7A-10A TOP, Page 4. lmv in llle 20s. $10,000 Stickup NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) Police are seeking two holdup men who escaped wilh more than $10,000 from a Halfield Twp. branch of the Union National Bank Trust Co.

Police the two men, in their 20s, It will be fair Sunday. Temperatures are expected to hit 55 degrees. Monday's outlojk is partly cloudy with a chance of showers. bank's parking tol. Aggression TORONTO (AP) Canadian "'v- Forei Sn Secretary Paul Martin arrived al the rnnk in a car says the Communist guerrilla stolen Montgomeryvilte, and made their escape Friday by stealing another car, from the movement in South Viet Nam "may not be aggression in the classical sense of the term but it is aggression all same," ship have been sold to Goldring Inc.

of New York, it was confirmed today. Sol Weinberg, 3 Harvey Road, Nether Providence, said today final settlement on the transaction is scheduled Monday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Weinberg's first store was established in 1920 at 17 W. 3rd 'Chester.

was moved to 627 Edgmont Ave. six years la- The Haverford Township store was buill in 1958 in Manoa Shopping Center. plans lo "carry on operation of the two stores wilh not a single change." "The name of the stores and the policies will remain the same," he said. "They will be run enlirely by the present organizations." Weinberg said he plans to retire. Weinberg said Goidring Inc.

released several hours laler when their attorney posted bond. REMAINS IN JAIL Wilkins remained in jail. He was convicted in federal court last November on a charge of possessing an unregistered shotgun, given a one-year suspended sentence and placed on probation for two years. An FBI agent said it is a federal violation to possess a shotgun with the barrel cut down to 18 inches or less. R.

Macey Taylor, an assistant U.S. district attorney, said the four were charged with violating a 90-year-old federal statute for conspiring to deprive another person of his constitutional 10 years in prison, a $5,000 fine or both. There were these other developments on the racial scene: 1. Seven policemen treated at a hospital in Waterbury, after a street fight broke out in a Negro neighborhood when officers tried to make an arrest. Police said they were called "segregationists" and other names by a crowd of from 150 to 200.

Bottles and bricks were Ihrown at the officers. PROMISED HELP 2. Counties seeking exemp- Soviet Death MOSCOW (AP) Ekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, widow of Soviet author Maxim Gorky died Friday, the Communist party paper Pravda said. She was 87, tions from the proposed voting rights act of 1965 were promised full Justice Department cooperation. Ally.

Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach told delegates of tha National Associalion of Counties, meeting in Washington, "we want to make the burden on the counties as imall can." The four men the FBI belonged to the Klan had little to say when brought before U.S. Commissioner Louise 0. Charlton except "Yes m'am," and "yes, your honor." Rowe, who has red hair, lunged times at photogra-- SM 4 MEN, 4..

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