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WARM Partly cloudy and warm 0 night. Low temperature, upper 6fc. Thundershowers late today with more general showers and thundershowers developinz Thursday. Warm and Thursday. High, around 90 Details on Page 10.

89th Year--No. 60,327 GI Dies In Red Ambush Toll Now 386 In Viet War South Viet Na CAP) One American Wa Killed, another was woundet and a third was missing toda following a Viet Cong ambush miles northwest of Saigon. In the air war, U.S. warplane battered military installation and transport facilities in Nort Viet Nam on a round-the-doc basis. The Americans were am bushed Tuesday as they wer (raveling in a Jeep from th Special Forces camp at Ben So to Tay Ninh.

An irregular Soulh Vietnam ese strike force made comae with the Viet Cong, and a re giona! company accompania by two American advisers wa sent into the area. In the firefight that followe II Viet Cong were reporte killed. South Vietnamese losse were four killed and fou wounded. The American who was killed an enlisted man, was the 386t American combat death i South Viet Nam since Decembe 1961. This is one more than th American battle dead in th Spanish- American war.

Twenty F105 Thunderchief hit a radar site at Hon Mall Is land and a petroleum storag area at Vinh, 130 miles south Hanoi, a U.S. spokesman saic Pilots reported they damage four buildings at the radar sit and destroyed four buildings a Vinh. four U.S. Navy Skyraider and two Fl Crusaders from the carrier Midway damaged destroyed 16 buildings at th Phu Van supply depot, 150 miles south of Hanoi, the spokesma said. An undisclosed number F105s hit two North Vietnames river boats, three barracks and See GI DIES, Page 10 Delaware County "illy Excwt E.

eih Ctiwttr PJ WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1965 Wanl Ails TR All TR 4-41 State to List Six Routes For X-Way Six alignment proposals for Ihe Midcotinty Expressway (Blue Route) along the Swarth more-Nether Providence bound ary will be offered Thursday (he Pennsylvania Department Highways (PDH) said today. The proposals will be given to officials of Delaware County Swarthmore College, Nethei Providence, Swarthmore and Ridley Township al 7:30 p.m in the Radnor headquarters ol the PDH's District Six, Districi Engineer Paul L. Thomas said The proposals will be given by Secretary of Highways Henry D. Harral who will later decide on which route is to be followed Thomas earlier had said a "fi nal" route would be i Thursday. Meanwhile, the Crum Hhan Darby Trail Committee (CID) which wants lo substitute a scenic hiking trail for the Midcoun- ty F.xpressway, has called a rally for 5:30 p.m.

Thursday on the grounds of Booth School in Radnor. On Tuesday, the CID coordi nator presented a Blue Route protest scroll to an aide to Pres ident Lyndon B. Johnson. John J. Logue of Swarthmore presented the three foot by four foot scroll at a White House conference on natural beauty The scroll, which had 70 signa lures on it, outlined arguments against Ihe Blue Route for the expressway.

Logue received an invitation to attend Ihe conference after Ihe CID sent its trail proposal lo President Johnson. Logue will outline the trail proposal at Thursday's rally. Among the speakers will be John G. Clemmer Jr. of Haverford Township, who has indicated a willingness to give an 800 foot easement on his property along Darby Creek, Logue said.

Other speakers will include H. Sheridon Baketel Jr. of Bryn Mawr, CID chairman; Dr. Frederick W. Luehring of Swarthmore, CID honorary chairirmn; and Mrs.

Frederick Ballard of the Friends al Wissinickon. MORE TAXES Owners of property In Trainer and Swarthmore appear to be in for tax Increases. See Section 2. Home Deliveries 18e per Week Bill Introduced In Legislature By HAROLD D. ELLIS Daily Times Staff Writer A i i i xoosevelt was HARRISBURG-A bill to ere- found dead in her home Tuesa a Delaware Valley Regional day and police said she appar- Planmng Commission was in- ently look her own life troduced Tuesday in the Stat legislature.

The commission would tak and in other allied fields. LISTON DUCKS a right from Clay and moments later "counted out. Cries of 'Fake' Greet ClayKnockout Victory The commission would cove nli Delaware, Bucks Chester llC Montgomery and Philadelphi counties in Pennsylvania, an Burlington, Camden, Glouces champion Terry "It was hardly worth sacri- can doficihg a night's sleep," said a disgiisted Frenchman, one of the comment of 2 who watched the telecast in nn By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS dleweight "The American public must Dowries 2 getting fed up. Horizonta iritish heavyweights etter than that." That was the tummeni Jrilish heavyweight Henry Coop after watching the Cassius -lay-Sonny Liston world cham lonship fight at Lewiston Maine, beamed to Europe via Early Bird satellite. Clay, who won the title from iston last year, retained it by nocking out the challenger in ne minute of the first round of scheduled 15-rounder Tuesday ight.

It was the quickest end- ever for a heavyweight title ul. "This is the blackest night in toxing," said Tommy Farr, the ritish contender who lost a 15- ound decision to champion Joe ouis in 1937, "and I missed my eauty sleep to see this shock- The telecast began at 3:30 in London. "My wife Barbara can take a igger punch than Liston," said nother Londoner, former mid Rulers to Meet KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia AP) The rulers of the nine Walay states will meet in Au- ust to elect a new king of Ma- aysia- from among them the eeper of Ihe ruler's seal an ounced today. The monarch gong, ears. Hoots of disgust filled the Playhouse Theater at Fredericton, N.B., and one fan vowed: sey Joe Walcotl.

Listen had regained his feet and resumed fighting when Walcott learned from timekeeper Francis McDonough that Liston had been counted out. Walcott immedi ately declared Clay the winner "It was really a "When it gol Another Picture, Articles, Page 26. "I'll never attend one of those again." Before many of the 4,280 fans iad settled in their seals at the -ewiston arena, Clay landed what he termed "my phantomi Junch a short right the jaw. Liston went down, got up on one knee, then fell again. There was no count by the! referee, former champion Jer- There is no question in my mind that Liston was knocked out." "I didn't hear any said Listen.

"When Walcotl There were cries of "fake' and "fix" in the audience. "There was nothing suspi- Shoivers Predicted periods of showers and showers is forecast for today nrousn Friday in Delaware -ounty. Rain is expected late this afternoon or this evening after a wssible temperature climb to he mark for the first lime this year. Temperatures around 90 and more general showers are ex- Thursday. Scattered tied the Yang Pertuan Cl6d Thursda V- Scattered gong, is elected eveTM five C0ntinued warm every live weather are predicted for Friday.

The first indication of weainer for ihe upcoming Memorial Day weekend, given in the five-day Lawrence A. i i a ol forecast is for cooler weather Springfield, Delaware County's and no showers. The forecast representative. I U.S. Pulls 600 Troops Out of Santo Domingo 9-County Planning; Proposed Friends 'uuiiigiuji, v-ainuen, Liioucest- mother of two sons by Roosevelt ir and Mercer Counties in New a third in her secnd mar- Jersey, ripnp Ktinn in The same area was covere by PJ.

The bill was co-sponsored riage, had been ill recently. Her body was found hanging by a braided belt of her dress- ine UMI was co-sponsored in gown from a rod in the State Sens. Clarence D. Bell (R- locked bathroom after a maid Delaware nt Ti i had hprnmn Delaware County) of Uplan and Benjamin R. Donolow (E Philadelphia).

It was referred to the Senat State Government Committee. The commission would be com posed of: The chief highway ment officials of Pennsylvani and New Jersey. The. director of the Pennsy vania Planning Board and th commissioner of the New Jer One governor's who must be a resident of the commission's area. One from One representative from the of Chester, Philadelphia Camden and Trenton.

interstate high vays and 50 per cent federal aid in other roads. Federal legislation requires a egional planning agency to be existence by July (he same date PJ is scheduled to expire. FAVOR Lawrence A. i i a UK anuwers. forecast Ic 1 "oiive on calls for mild weather Monday "mmittee, said Delaware The highest temperature so far Counl officials are highly in this year al 87 degrees on May favor the proposed commis- Showers Tuesday brought .05 of an inch of rain lo Delaware Miss Crain and her husband of an inch of rain lo Delaware We think it is a good thine Bounty.

The same amount was Williams said nuiuaria TUP marriuoo niih 'Operation Discovery' Will Begin June 28 By BARBARA KNESIS Daily Times Staff Writer CHESTER "Operation Dis- avery," a six-week experimen- I leadership development pro- ram for minority group chil- ren, will begin here June 28 The program, initiated last ear in Philadelphia by the hiladelphia Catholic Archdio- ese will be conducted in Imaculate Heart of Mary Paro- nal School, 1408 W. 2nd St. Rev. Philip J. Dowling, exec- ive secretary of 'the archdio- cse's human relations commis- on, said some 100 younsslers re expected to partici-ale in program.

He said the students who usl have completed either venth, eighth, or grades will be selected on recom- endations of their school prin-, 'Social science will dwell on neighborhood problems. ''This is not a repetition of school This is something more creative pals. Almost half are expected to 1 I I I I I I I I 1 tAJICL-ltVl 10 me from public schools, Faer Dowling said. over and uvci 1IIU above school work," Father Dowling said. In the afternoons, the youngsters will take part in debates and field trips, Father Dowlins said.

He said they will visit area libraries, newspapers and industries. "Such a profiam will give Ihe children an opportunity to express potential that otherwise might be missed," he said. He said the program "will touch the cultural aspects of study." Rev. Richard LaHart, a counselor at R' on McDevitl High School in Wyncote, Montcomerv er Dowling said. Coumy will sewe am He said classes will be 8:30 principal.

mas More High School in Philadelphia, and M'diael Giachino a social science inslruclor at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Marpie, will teach, he sard. Father Dowling said two additional teachers and two assistants will be appointed. The Chester program will be one of five conducted in the area, Father Dcwling said. The other four will be conducted in, Philadelphia. Rev.

Francis Schmidt, of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Philadelphia, will coordinate the five programs. Father Dowling said last summer the progrr-i was conducted on an experimental basis at 1 Most Precious Blood Parish in Philadelphia. program proved as the children themselves benefited." policy Delaware proposed commis "There's no question about it slate funds, smaller governmental unit's wil contribute on a population basis the bill says. $15,000 A YEAR Williams estimated the com mission will cost Delaware Counly about $15,000 a year. The bill has a section making Us provisions applicable to Pennsylvania in the event the New Jersey Legislature fails to ratify the compact by July i The commission is to be permanent agency subject TO legislatures.

The proposed legislation says it will be the duty of the corn- es of the participants. u.i me Kiuunci' The bill also states Ihe com- W0 1 115 aggravate defacto seg LIic cum- mission shall as an ad- mi iiu- visory agency with authority for schools carrying out proposals continu ng with governing bodies Ihe stales and couniics. Guards Killed ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) ed today. EX.WIFE OF FDR JR. Is Found Hanged GROSSE P01NTE FARMS, Mich.

(AP) Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren, socialite, heiress and former wife of Fracklin D. Roosevelt was Mrs. Warren, 49, a member of wealthy du Pont chemical nd one- beauty, of her home in this Detroit suburb Tuesday. Police said Mrs. Warren ap- herself.

said Mrs. mam had become alarmed over her whereabouts Police broke through bath- Warden Jr? was PONT WARREN suicide appeared disconsolate when she was served breakfast in bed about 9 a.m. 3 a.m. mine tjiuris to I Miss Weber said Mrs Warren Friends said Mrs Warren had factions together. as 0 TM to Abo a was gone when she returned for her tray about 40 minutes later She said she then fount! the bathroom dpor locked and when Mrs.

Warren failed answer notified author- lie calls she ities. Mrs. Warren was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs Eugene 1. du Pont of the du Pont chemical manufacturing dynas- A brother, Eugene, is a board member of the family-founded E.I.

du Pont de Nemours Co of Wilmington, Del. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday from Christ Episcopal church in neighboring Grosse Pointe. Burial is to be at Wilmington. Mrs.

Warren's second hus- wtv lw ivusarjiuna Havemeyer of Huntington, Lone Island, N.Y. laijr-uenerai Jose A. Mora The other son from the first would row have charge of nego- marriage is Franklin D. Roose- tlatlons Deputy U.S. Defense velt III, 27.

Secretary Cyrus Vance, who Jeanne Crain Has 7th Child i moiuuim LOS ANGELES (AP) Ac- Presid cnl and Mrs. Roosevelt ress Jeanne Crain celebrated at(end ed a reception at the dii her 40th birthday Tuesday by om family's "Owls' Nest" giving birth to her seventh home near Wilmington. 1 -)CveilII child, an 8-pound, 11-owice boy Replaced By Peace Soldiers Fighting Halted SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) The United States today began withdrawing 600 of the 21,000 troops it has stationed in the Dominican Republic. Their place is being filled by Latin-American soldiers arriving for the new peace force of the Organization of American Stales. Within a week the Latin Americans in the Inter-American Force will total about 1,700 men.

An equal number of Americans are expected to leave the divided country. Fighting in Santo Domingo between troops of the military- civtlian junta and rebel forces has come to a halt. But US officials admitted that a political solution was not in sight due to ihe junta's iasistence that the rebels surrender and that it become the country's only government. returning to Washington' today SO rClCS TM TM HUKUSIVC DU futile efforts' to bring the rival lurwara 10 trie an tne two sides have marnage June 12 of Christopher agreed on is that any new eov- du Pont Roosevelt, 24, one of ernment should be strongly anti- her sons by her first marriage. Communist and should not be a He is to be wed to Rosamund right-wing dictatorship.

U.S. officials said OAS Secretary-General Jose' A. Mora inln Elhel du Pom of the teafed by Antonio Guzman 1930s, sportswoman known for a culture minister in the gov- ner horsemanship and an expert TMment of exiled President iwimmer, was a beauty of the Eastern social set. Artist Don Flower of the era -nciiueiii Juan Bosch. The rebels have welcomed the idea, but the junta has rebuffed it M1 kilc ci rt, -called Ethel the "most beautiful RAPPED and most eligible of the wealthy The junta president Gen An- bachelor 1 of lll en i II1C WCd bachelor girls' of America." I 1 I omo Imbert Barrera, assailed an o-pouna, n-ouiice boy mlcl years, titnel, then a St.

John's Hospital in Santa mother gave up most of her Monica. sports and devoted much i ber the same year. Scranton Unable To Stop Merger Daily Times Staff Writer HARRISBURG Gov. Wiliam W. Scranlon will not stop (ay.

auilUUl it was learned Tucs- uie turn- Stanley E. Branche, chairman mission to 'muiate and devel- of Ihe Chester Committee for op surveys and plans of a re- Freedom Now (CFFN) asked gional nature and assist through ln governor two weeks ago lo coordination the planning bod ssue an exer.ntivo es of the cariirinHntc an executive order ning the merger on the grounds egalion in Chester's public The iwo districts, along with Upland School District would be icrged under the Delaware County School Board's reorgani- ation plan submitted in compli- nce with Act 299, the state's chool reorganizalion law. The Pennsylvania Board of Idtication has under considera- on an appeal against the conn- ot act because he is "power- ess" to do so. He said the Pennsylvania Justice Department advised the governor he could not issue such an executive order because the state hoard of education is an arm of the legislature and not a part of the executive branch of state government. The spokesman said there is nothing in Act 299 giving the governor oower to veto a county school reorganization plan.

Meanwhile, it was learned the slate board of education will not hand down Us ruling on Delaware County appeals before mid- Aufiust. Several Delaware County school districts are appealing Ihe county schools plan whicn would reduce from 43 lo 14 (he number of public school districts by July 1966. Severino Stefanon, state board secretary, said the board "definitely will not act" on county appeals at iis next session, June 9 and 10. He said the board will not meet in July and may not rule on Delaware County's appeal in August, About all the two sides have TI. aaaaatru I he wedding of Elhel and i coalition formula Tuesday young Roosevelt, the president's as a "frank intervention in the son who is now undersecretary affairs" of the Domin- of commerce, took place June Ican Republic because it ori- 1937.

ginated abroad. Some 1,300 guests, including slea! Imbert proposed crea- rpsirixni tion of a provisional legislative council to serve, apparently in -TM an advis capacity, under the Wilmington. present junta. The council In later years, Ethel, then a members would be appointed by professional, industrial, agricul- -r MCI iports and devoted much time and labor organizations. to the arts.

Tn armed forces would publicly pledge allegiance to civil authority. Imbert made no mention of elections or the proposed life span of the council and the jun- 3. Bundy and Vance visited the rebel sector in downtown Santo Domingo Tuesday for a four- iour talk with the rebel chief. Col. Francisco Caamano Deno.

INSIDE YOUR DAILY TIMES She has three children. Why call her "Miss?" Page 6. Spii roasling a popular with outdoor chefs Page 7. Concord CSC has a new clubhouse. Links Lowdown Page 29.

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