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GOOD EVENING The sea of matrimony Is so called because most husbands have a tough time keeping their heads above water. THE WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Low 43-52, Sunny and a little warmer Wednesday. High 72-80. 96th Year, No.

169. 10-12 SOUTH JARDIN STREET TELEPHONE 462-2777 SHENANDOAH, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1965. 50c WEEKLY SINGLE COPY: 10c Mr Force rents CBieclc ifasts mm 1 i i 1 1. 'i, 'Oft life 1 ill 1 planned, the Air Force Satellite Control Center in Sunnyvale, will trigger a bas wwm 4:., i I -f pM 1 ing as planned. "It looks like we are almost on the button," an Air Force spokesman said.

But the two watchdog satellites must perform two Lillllll1. tii FIND CHILD'S BODY NEW YORK: A six- Executive' announced that Goldberg would succeed Adlai Stevenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Alice, who was found dead July 15, began when both children were reported missing from a bedroom of their mother's home July 14. Mrs.

Alice Crimmins, the mother, is shown with her two children in a family photo. (UPI Telephoto) NEW U.N. ENVOY WASHINGTON: President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk congratulate Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg (center) after the Chief day search for a missing Queens boy ended with the discovery of his body in a wooded area not far from his home. The search for five-year-old Edmund Crimmins who was kidnaped from his home along with his sister Goldberg Appointed Killer of Two Tots To Stevenson Post ketball sized rocket on board one of the watchdog satellites to shoot it into a near circular path ranging from 57,000 to miles above earth.

Then, on Thursday, when the first satellite is swinging around the other side of earth on its space patrol, a rocket on the second twin will kick it into the same orbit, but about 000 miles apart. PSES Offers Job Survey The Pennsylvania State Em ployment Service office in Shenandoah reported 67 persons nired during June. William J. Hendricks- man ager, said one job was in coal mining, one contract construction, ten in aoDarel and re lated products, three in rubber and plastics; one in other public utilities: six in wholesale and retail trade; one in finance, insurance and real estate, four in services. except novate household, two in food and kin dred products, six in tobacco and 32 hired out of the area.

Mr. Hendricks said 325 new applications for work were accepted during June. He said 77 counseling interviews were held with graduating students and the general public. There were 42 tests administered to assist persons in arriving at a suitable field of work and 194 persons were re ferred to varied types of em ployment. The local office also accom plished 81 contracts with area agricultural non-agricultur-.

al employers to develop job openings for the unemployed and to provide other personal assistance. The office manager noted that 836 initial claims and 3845 benefit weeks were claimed. He said the totals were 112 higher in initial claims but 273 less benefit weeks claimed over those filed last month and 109 (Continued on Page 5) Situation Serious Parents Reconciled The children's parents, appar ently finding a bond in common grief, have reconciled. Together they attended a fu neral mass for Alice Saturday and at the graveside rites Crimmins, a muscular, six-foot er, rested a comforting hand on his sobbing wife's shoulder. The mother wa placed under heavy sedation Monday after! being informed that the boy's body had been tound.

The Crimmins, in their grief, skipped a date in court Mon day. They were to have battled be fore a judge for the custody of Alice and Edmund. State Politics family Tragedy Hunt for NEW YORK (UPI)-An open window. A rusty screen laying on the ground outside. Two small empty beds.

This, Mrs. Alice Crimmins told police, was all she found six mornings ago when she walked into her children' room to awaken them. Blonde, blue-eyed Alice Crimmins, 4, and her tow-headed brother, Edmund 5, were gone. Before noon on July 14 hundreds of uniformed police and detectives began searching vacant lots, patches of woodland and basements around Mrs. Crimmins' first-floor garden New Gl Bill Facing Delay WASHINGTON (UPI) A Senate-passed "Cold War GI Bill of Rights" ran into a go-slow sign today in the House.

It appeared assured of enactment in some form but not necessarily this year. Chairman Olin E. Teague of the House Veterans, Committee said any veterans benefit bill passed now may be permanent law. He wants Congress to give it serious thought. "We may never have another declared war," the Texas lawmaker, a much-decorated World War II veteran, told a reporter.

"What we pass this time may have to last indefinitely. I'm not going to be stampeded." As passed by the Senate on a 69 to 17 roll call vote late Monday, the legislation would ex tend to men in service now or at any time since the Korean conflict college training up to four years and other benefits provided for veterans of World War II and Korea. Local Temperatures Governor Hints Pension Plan Veto By AL ROSSITER JR. CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) The Air Force orbited two new atomic detectives today to bol ster the U. S.

satellite force policing space for bootleg nuclear explosions. The twin space sentinels raced into orbit with a third satellite, a tiny radiation research laboratory, on a single Atlas-Agena rocket that thundered into the sky at 4:27 a.m. EDT with a brilliant display of flame and smoke. The Air Force reported 12 minutes later that all was go- Scranton Signs Strip Mine Bill HARRISBURG (UPI) The Commonwealth will attack the problem of land scars caused by abandoned strip mines and culm piles under a $1 million program approved Monday by Gov. William W.

Scranton. The governor signed legis lation creating a self revolving fund to finance the reclamation work in connection with the Ap-palachia program. The new law grants the state Mines Department access to the scarred land The act empowers the mines secretary to acquire or con demn the land. After the recla mation work, the land may be sold to counties or municipalities or sold at public auction with the proceeds going back into the fund. Scranton also signed into law bills: Requiring that a ship's coun try of registry be printed on all tickets and advertising for the vessel.

Requiring schools and col leges to furnish protective vices for students and others engaged in hazardous work at the institutions. emerge just after the bill was cleared July 1. They maintained they had been of the be lief the way was smoothed for the measure under a bipartisan agreement embracing a whole package of salary and other fiscal bills with the gov ernor apparently concurring. Two other key features of the package, pay and expense account boosts for legislators. already have become law with the governor signatures.

How ever, Scranton reportedly has suggested the pension bill be pulled back for removal of the controversial features and has spoken out publicly against the measure at least once. One legislator said a factor Which may have swung Scran ton against the bill was a re cent veto of a pension measure by Michigan Gov. George Rom ney. Council Meets Solicitor, A contract to improve several Shenandoah streets was awarded last night by Borough Council- A solicitor was hired, a treasurer elected and steps were taken to eliminate a smoke problem in the southeast section of the borough. The street commissoner was ordered to act on blocked sewers and drains in the First Ward.

Assurance was received that the eyesore at the southeast corner of Main and Centre streets, once known as the Fer-uslo Stand, would be removed. The corner will also be improved with a new sidewalk. Solicitor Atty. Frank J. Toole was engaged to serve as Borough Solicitor.

Two of the 13 Councilmen in attendance, G. Wilbur Knott and Victor Cicioni, voted "no" on the motion to hire Atty. Toole. When Councilman Knott questioned the legality of the ac no more important task now before this country than achieve ment of "a world where all men may live in peace with the hope of justice under the rule of "Committed as we are to this principle and this purpose," the President said, "it is fitting that we should ask a member of our highest court to relinquish that office to speak for American be fore the nations of the world," Goldberg, 56, in response to Johnson's remarks, promised to pursue Stevenson's message to the World "man's ancient sup plication, 'grant us peace, Thy most precious gift. "What has been prayer throughout the ages is necessity today, the Supreme Court jus tice added.

Goldberg said he felt his new post was an assignment "to the greatest adventure in man his tory governing relations be- (Continued on Page 5) Viet Nam sea and road, is much more extensive, and they have intensified their campaign of terror against- the civilian population. "But the picture is not all black by any means," he con tinued. "The Vietnamese people continue to be willing to fight and be willing to die in their own defense. The Viet Cong, as you know, are suffering increas ingly heavy losses, and the U.S, combat forces are adding sub stantially to the military power of the government." South Viet Nam new mill tary regime asked McNamara last Friday for enough American reinforcements not only to crush the current Communist monsoon offensive but to win the war. Hint Reds days of difficult maneuvering before they are ready to join four others already looking for violations of the nuclear test ban treaty.

The pact, signed in Moscow two years ago, outlaws all but underground tests. Check Explosions The space craft, each equipped with unique gas-electric jets, are part of the Defense Department's Vela program designed to keep tabs on all nuclear ex plosions underground, in the atmosphere and in space. The mission of the 524-pound Vela satellites is to watch for sneak blasts in space. To do it, each of the 20 sided spacecraft had 17 eyes and sensors watching in all directions for- tell-tale signs of nuclear explosions. Scientists estimate the satel lites could detect detonations as small as 10 kilotons half the force that destroyed Hiroshima 20 years ago more than 100 million miles away in space, possibly as far as the planet Mars.

To Loop Back Today's satellites were streaking away from earth in a Jong egg-shaped orbit that will take them 65,570 miles into space before looping back to within 121 miles of earth. Tonight, if all goes as State Approves Tourist Fund The sum of $7,500 was ap proved for various" county proj ects in state grants through applications filed by the county Tourist Commission. This announcement was made today by James A. McGrew, chairman of the commission. The Frackville resident said the grants were requested for the fiscal year of July 1, 1964 to June 30, 1965.

"These grants allow increases in the budgets of the Pioneer Tunnel at Ashland, the Sharp Mountain Ski Run and the Lakewood Summer Theatre," he said. He also reported progress on the project to 'prepare and cir culate 300,000 brochures of tour ist Sites in the county. The State Department of Commerce, he pointed out, will distribute the brochures through out the nation. They will also be Circulated throughout the Commonwealth. They are to include maps and charts of the county and wi" cost approximately $6,000 Mr.

McGrew said. Donations for this project have been received from the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Potts ville Chamber of Commerce, the Tamaqua Chamber of Com merce and the Schuylkill Coun ty Motor Club. Donations for the project are being accepted by Mr. McGrew on behalf of the county Tourist Commission. Treasurer tion.

Councilman Joseph O'Har-en produced a borough code that showed the appointment could be made by motion of Borough Council. The salary of the solicitor will be $2,315.28 per year. Street Contract George R. Lynn, of Port Carbon, was awarded the contract for the street improve ment project, i tie sealed dio Was in the sum of $16,384.76. One other bid was received.

It was from Charles B. Aduki-tis and was in the sum of The street Improvement program includes the following: Rec nstruction work on North Locust street, from Coal to Washington; South Catherine street, from Centre to New York; South Catherine street, from Cherry to Columbus; North Vine street, from Centre to Mount Vernon. Resurfacing work on South West street, from Poplar to Rock; East New York street, from Union to Emerick; South McNamara Leaves (UPI Telephoto) Beatfy Cancer Victim i i 'Mi MM. ft Winl i I Clyde Beatty VENTURA, Calif. (UPI) Clyde Beatty's death has closed another chapter in the America that was, but is no more.

To a youngster in any of a thousand hamlets of this vast country in the 1930s, the name fiirAa Danttir alnna nnninwul VIJUG ucaii OtUlIC W1IJU1W stirrings of adventure and mental nirturec nf snrh fVnH places as Africa, India and the jungles of South America. Without the hypnotic lure of television, the young of that depression-scarred era lived in a world half-imagined Clyde Beatty a man in riding breeches and pith helmet with a pistol at his side and a' whip and chair in either hand facing up to a snarling lion The picture is as fresh as ever. But with the death of Beatty, 62, from cancer of the esophagus in Memorial Community Hospital, a little of the America that was died, too. Services for Beatty we re scheduled for Thursday morning, bus than ever possibly carrying more than three persons. The giant booster could also figure in the launching of two space vehicles.

Soviet authorities never announce space shots in advance as is the custom in the United States. But there have been repeated hints in the Soviet press that the Russians are thinking about an attempted rendezvous in space. Informed sources said such a spectacular can be expected before" the end of the year. They pointed i out the 1965 space launching season has three, possibly four, months to and the most advantageous time is late summer. Some western observers speculated the Russians might even try to bring off the spectacular in August possibly to upstage the United States Gemini shot scheduled for late next month.

Planning apartment in a pleasant resi-denital neighborhood in Queens. They were hopeful of finding the children or, at least, some solid clues about their apparent abduction. Mrs. Crimmins, 26, a pert redhead, was joined in an anxious vigil and hours of police questioning by her hus band, aircraft mechanic Ed mund Crimmins, 29, from whom she had been estranged for more than a year. Find Boy's Body Monday, a father and son strolling in a wooded, area about a mile from Mrs.

Crimmins' apartment noticed some thing in a hillside thicket. Un der a soggy blanket, they found the lifeless form of a boy. The worst fears of parents and po lice were confirmed. The decomposed remains were identified tentatively as young Edmund. His sister also was dead.

Alice Crimmins had been found late on the day she dis appeared. She lay dead in some underbrush on a vacant lot about a half-mile from her home. Her pajama bottoms were wrapped about her neck and mouth. Authorities listed the cause of death as asphyxiation. Police were certain Edmund Jr.

also, had been slain. An autopsy today was expected to reveal the cause of death. The search for the Crimmins children Was over. Now it was a search for their killer or killers. Diocese Buys Pottsville Home A property transfer in today's court news lists the sale of the Suender residence, 1515 Mahan-tongo street, Pottsville.

to the Diocese of Allentown. Rev. Charles T. Moss, diocesan financial secretary, informed the Evening Herald this morning that the building will be used as a convent for the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Four members of the order will join the faculty of Nativity High School in September.

along with his brother, Calvin Virgil estimated damages at $250,000. The general alarm brought out more than 100 firemen from the four companies here and in Lansford, Coaldale and New Philadelphia. They managed to save 17 United Parcel Service trucks which were parked in the garage section of the huge building. The fire raged for five hours before it was brought under control. One fireman was struck by a hose and another steptrd neither was WASHINGTON (UPI) Supreme Court Justice Arthur J.

Goldberg will succeed the late Adlai E. Stevenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, President Johnson announced today. Goldberg, former labor secretary in the Kennedy administration and one-time general counsel for the United Steelwork-ers Union, stood beside Johnson on the steps of the White House rose garden today when the Chief Executive made the surprise announcement. Flanking the President and Goldberg were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Undersecretary of State George Ball and presidential assistant Mac-George Bundy.

Goldberg was the late President John F. Kennedy's first appointment to the Supreme Court. Johnson said he had called upon Goldberg to leave his lifetime post on the nation's highest tribunal because there was McNamara visited it today in the final phase of his tour, but there were no incidents during the secretary's stay there. Inflict Light Casualties The Communists hit at Bien Hoa, near Saigon, inflicting light casualties on U.S. 1st Infantry defenders of the base in a predawn attack.

McNamara flew to the base by helicopter later in the day for a briefing. He said he would be reporting to President Johnson on his recommendations, and that un til then "I can tell you only that our recommendations will be di rected toward fulfilling the commitment of our nation to support the people of Viet Nam in their fiht to win their indepen dence." McNamara was asked for more U.S. troops possibly, as many as 100,000 reinforcements for the 75,000 here now by both Vietnamese and U.S. military officials. "Overall, the situation con tinues to be serious," he said of the guerrilla war.

Red Forces Increase "As a matter of fact, in many aspects there has been deterior ation since I was hee last, 15 months ago," he added. "The size of the Viet Cong force has increased, their rate of opera tions and the intensity of their attacks has been expanded, their disruption of the lines of communicactions, both rail and Colliery Working Time WORKING WEDNESDAY Midvalley, Gilberton Breaker and Pockets, New St. Nicholas Central Breaker Oak-hill, St. Nicholas Fine Coal Plant 3 shifts, Pine Forest Stripping I shift, Maple Hill Cleaner Plant, New St. Nicholas Retail Pockets Oakhill, Capparell Breaker and Stripping.

IDLE WEDNESDAY Mr.T"nc'Ji, Buck Run, Mt. Carmcl Ramp. 7 a.m. 58 a.m. 60 9 a.m.

63 10 a.m. 67 11 a.m. 68 Noon 70 1 p.m. 71 2 p.m. 73 By MARTIN J.

SIKORA HARRISBURG (UPI) The General Assembly returns to day to deal with a variety of issues including legislative pensions and appropriations. The fate of the liberal legis lative pension plan was up in the air despite an important meeting Monday between six ranking Republican legislators and three administration offi cials; Gov. William W. Scran ton who reportedly has threat ened to veto the proposal be cause of several volatile features, was not present but was to receive the data on the session from his aides. Retirement Bill Most of the session dealt with an explanation or me dui, which is on Scranton's desk for The heart of the measure lifts retirement benefits from $50 to $75 a month for every two years of service.

But the governor has been repelled by proposals to abolish a ceil ing on annual pensions and to allow an ex-lawmaker to collect a pension at age 50 after just one term of service. Atty. Gen. Walter E. Alessan droni, budget secretary Martin H.

Brackbill and A. James Reichley, the governor's legis lative secretary, represented Scranton. GOP legislators in volved were Sens. James S. Berger, Potter; Robert P.

Flaming, Allegheny- William Z. Scott, Carbon, and George N. Wade, Cumberland, and Reps. Adam P. Bower Northumberland and H.

Jack Seltzer, Lebanon. One senator summed up the meeting by saying: "We don't know what is going to happen. We may call it back and amend it or he may just, veto it. We just don know at this stage." But another legislator said he believed the three aides may have learned a good deal of new information through the meeting. Much Surprise But, practically all the legislative conferees said thev were surprised when initial hints of Scranton's opposition started to Space Spectacular By MICHAEL T.

MALLOY SAIGON (UPI) Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara ended a five-day tour of Viet Nam today with a warning that "in many aspects there has been deterioration" in the 'Unbacked war against the Communists. McNamara headed back to Washington with a series of recommendations for further: American military involvement in the Viet Nam war, although he declined to say whether he would ask for more U.S. troops here. Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a key U.S.

base hours before Na White street, from Oak to Centre. In addition to this proposed work, the street commissioner and his crew Were instructed to make other improvements in the borough street system, where needed and where The street program was un der consideration by Council during the past two meetings. A special committee made a survey of the entire system and submitted recommendations. It was on the basis of these recommendations a the thoroughfares were chosen for the contractor. All were named in the specifications that were advertised for bids.

Albert Macknis was appointed to Serve as treasurer, succeeding the late Harry Street Commissioner Joseph Zagorsky was ordered to contact heads of the Sorin scrap iron firm to eliminate the dense (Continued on Page 5) med $250,000 Damage Fire and Explosion At Tamaqua Plant MOSCOW (UPI) Another Russian space spectacular loomed in the not-too-distant future today. There was some speculation it might come off as early as next month. In quick succession on Friday, the Russians orbited five satellites with a Single rocket arid then blasted space history's heaviest working payload 12.2 tons into orbit with a "new powerful booster rocket." The weekend space activities were capped with the launching of another probe into a solar orbit about the same time America's Mariner was achiev ing a picture taking triumph as it sped past Mars. Western experts said the five-in-one space shot and the sun satellite did not appear to be directly related to the Soviet manned space program. However, they noted the use of the 12.2-ton rocket indicated the Russians might have the capacity to orbit a larger space An explosion and general alarm fire wrecked the four-j story Shellhamer's ice plant on Rt.

309 near Tamaqua early today and caused $250,000 damage. Two firemen were slightly injured and several others were treated for smoke inhalation. The blast awakened Warren Fritz, plant engineer, who tried to fight flames with a one-inch hose. When they got out of control, he drove to Tamaqua because he was unable to reach a telephone in the burning building and awakened Virgiljon a nail, but Shellhamer, who owns the plant seriously hurt..

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