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251 BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15. 1953 Price: 3c a Copy; 15c a Week Clayton labels fhat-imC PllkllPlfv FALLSINGTON, Apr. 15 Isaac V1MU gvo 1 UlllJvll Watson presided at a meeting of Cl. Falls Fire held Monday Mlint llV KlPQ evening. Leslie Craven read the UJ H1CO minutes; and Irwin Wright gave the financial report.

Kepublican Chairman I ells Fire Chief Charles Steiner re- of Talk He Had With the ported six fires during March. Candidate for Nomination ZiZ Special to Courier to house more equipment and make DOYLESTOWN, Apr. additional room for business meet- that the Bucks County GOP tried to a candidate for the Re- Benjamin Queen and Lawrence publican nomination to withdraw Nolan were accepted as new mem- were dismissed today as a A Harry Clayton, Bucks County Republican Chaiwman. replied in detail to statements made by Philip T. Ries, Quakertown, that the OOP i tried to buy him off with $400 and! man; get him to withdraw from the race for Recorder of Deeds.

hers. Final plans were made to participate in a Memorial parade, May 31. The following committee was appointed to make arrangements for a banquet: Charles Steiner, chair- Raymond Drews, Wesley Worsman, Morris Appenzeller, and Robert Jones. Will Honor 2 Area On Monday, April 20, at 8 p. m.

at the Morrisville High School, the Human Relations Council of Bucks County will honor two firms in this area for their contribution to the problem of human relations in industry. The principal speaker of the award meeting will be Mr. Sol Git- inan, Special Deputy Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Secretary of the Commission on Industrial Relations. The Human Relations Award is one step in the general program of the Human Relations Council "I went to see Mr. Ries Worsman and Steiner were ap- arter he filed his nomination pointed co-chairmen to sponsor a eanvass for funds.

Refreshments were served to 35. nia said Mr. Clayton. saw him in his Philadelphia office and said to him: have nothing against you personally, and might be willing to support you for the Recorder of Deeds post, only the party rules call for this job to be rotated in the Auto Boys Remodeling Old Grist Mill Structure One of the greatest improvements county and this year the rules call I in the Mill street shopping area is I president; James H. Fitz- for it to go to the lower end of the i the work being done by Auto Boys i county.

You come from the upper rule was made long ago by the Republican County eommi.ttge and has worked successfully for many years. I told Mr. Ries I see any way we could break it for him, and that was the in their improvement of the old stone and masonry building at the foot of Pond street, at the entrance to the Mill street parking lot. This building for a number of years has been more or less an in the center of the shopping district, and its remodelling will be wel- reason we would to favor the! corned by not only the businessmen other entry for the Recorder of Deeds, John Collins, of Falls The incumbent is J. Hart Jamison, of Tvvland, which is in the so- in the area, but the general public.

The building is an old structure, having been used as a grist mill years ago when the grinding of grain was one of the principle the Pennsbury Jointure Elects Teaching Staff, Rejects Early Quitting By Staff Reporter FALLSINGTON, Apr. bury Joint School Board Monday night got set for an even busier year than this one, by hiring .17 new i teachers while retaining 134 on1 their present faculty. They renewed the joint contract, rehired Regional Superintendent Medill Bair and his administrative I staff; and re-elected their present officers. The meeting also featured a lively discussion on whether or to promote a better climate not children should be let out of I understanding in problems of hous- school early once a week to attend education and employment in i the midst of the present industrial and residential boom in Bucks County. County Police Favor Acquittal State Fraternal Order Will Be Asked to Aid Suspended Officer The Fraternal Order of Police, Bucks County Lodge No.

53, today went on record as morally in favor of the acquittal of Edward Ellison, suspended Bristol township patrolman. of the charge of unbecoming an The lodge president appointed the trustees to appeal for legal aid from the State Lodge and from the Will Hnnnv 9 A raa Firmt Plans for 6 Churches At Levittown Are Described by Pastors Construction of Most of The Edifices Will Begin Within Next Few Months classes in religious instruction in Fairless Hills, which was decided negatively. A Life photographer snapped pictures of the school directors, who later told Bair to wire the publisher of that magazine and suggest1 that they be consulted for information on the schools. The present school board officers were each named to another term after being nominated by Alvan C. Thompson, Falls chairman of the nominating committee.

Reelected were Clayton W. Mills, diaries. Lower Makefield, vice president and secretary and George B. Roberts. Falls treasurer.

School administrators re-elected with Bair were William W. Ingraham. assistant regional superintendent; Mrs. Cora Holsclaw, director of elementary education; Richard Currier, director on Three of, Grand Lodge (National) if neces called district" of Bucks sources of industry in the area now occupied by the 400 block on Mill street. county.

His predecessor was Howard Gilbert, of Perkasie. in the Falls Township, scene of much of the new Industrial activity near Morrisville and Bristol. is in the end" which, according to Republican tradition, on Paiif Four Levitt to Build New Type House; Lower Price The mills were built in 1701. Vessels sailed up the Delaware river to the door of the mills to load and unload their cargoes. The building is to be completely remodeled and the first floor will house a new and modern store.

Announcement of the improvement was made today by Leon Plavin. owner of Auto Boys store, Mill street. Plavin said that in addition to the LEVITTOWN. April 15 A new remodeling of the tall structure, a type lower-price house will go on new one story structure, 100 by 70 display here at the end of next week, William J. Levitt, president of Levitt yesterday.

A sample of the new product is being erected at the east end of the Exhibition Center, and should be completed, furnished and open to the public Saturday of next week, the builder said. He announced that Con tin ned on Pane Three obs announced LoWCi BucltS Red OoSS Annual Meeting April 21 Civic Group Plans For Lower Bucks Week The Levittown Civic Activities Committee will meet at the home of Jack Mulhern. 9 Swain Lane, Sunday at seven p. to discuss plans for the participation in Bucks County in June. The Levittown Garden Club will meet on Thursday in thp Fallsing- sary.

This action by the lodge came after the members had heard the plea of Ellison. feelings of the lodge were that if a charge could be brought verbally by one man with no physical or absolute evidence, also with! out witnesses to the fact, and i against two police officers perform! ing their duties under a sacred oath of office, then no individual police officer in the county will be safe in his job according to an of, ficial statement of the Lodge. At the April meeting three new By Staff Reporter LEVITTOWN, Apr. for the construction of six churches in this community were described yesterday by their respective pastors. Making the announcement were of the Rev.

Louis Kaufmann, of Hope Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod; the Rev. Charles E. Fair, of the United Lutheran Church of America; the Rev. Robert J. Thomson, Pilgrim Presbyterian Church; the Rev.

E. Bert Bonte, Reformed Church of America; the Rev. Stanley Powell, St. Paul's Episcopal Church; and the Rev, Joseph M. Collins, St.

Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church. Hope Lutheran Church, the Rev. Mr. Kaufmann said, will soon start construction of their first church unit on the site of the former Stackhouse farm, which they purchased from Levitt Sons, Inc. hope to complete the unit by the end of the he said.

also expect to buy a Levittown house for a In the first unit, he said, worship services will be conducted in an auditorium seating 250. Planned later for the six-acre site, the pastor said, are additional church buildings, including a parish elementary day school. The first unit will cost $67,000 to Continued from Two ton Library Hall at eight p. active police officers were accept- according to Thomas C. Peebles, temporary chairman.

All interested as re81 In arc Invited to attend, and bring friends and neighbors. Mrs. Arnold Pierce, chairman of the Lower Bucks Branch. American Red Cross, announced today that the talk at the annual meeting by the new homes will be available to Robert L. Harrv.

will deal with the buyers this pertinent subject of exchange of Levitt declined to name the price yesterday, but said, it prisoners of war in the Koiean should be suitable for just about any wage A man earning The club will take part in Lower Bucks County Week in June by exhibiting plants and flower arrangements at an exhibit for Levit- towners. At the Thursday meeting, organization committees will be formed. The Garden Club reports that the Fallsington Library has added a number of new books on gardening, to help meet the need for books on this subject. $62 a week will qualify to buy the house, the builder said. The new house has two bedrooms, big open attic with situation.

Mr. Harry, who is with Red Cross Andalusia Man Wounded In Korea, Family Advised Oath of Allegiance to new mem hers: George Shire, Bristol borough police: Matthew Bragg, Bristol borough police; Edward F. Wunsch, Lower Southamtpon township po- lice. The oath was also administered to new members accepted at a pre- vious meeting: Jasper Favoroso. Bristol borough police; William Bolton, Bristol borough police, and William Jayne.

Bristol township police. A $500 check was placed in the First Federal Savings Bank. to be used as a death benefit fund, i in the capacity of Director of Field Service for the state of Pennsylvania, Eastern area with headquar- and of glass said ters at Alexandria, will offer Levitt, who declined to give any SUgge8tions to the group assembled other details. "I think it's something been needed in this neck of the woods for a long The bargain houses will be built on lots 60 by 100 feet, in the same sections with the standard Levit- towners. integrated with them, Levitt said.

Like the $11,000 model, the Continued on Pasre Four TRKVOSE IlYTt.ms SQIAD Trevose Heights Rescue Squad reports the transportation of Mrs. Eva Shaw, from Abington Hospital to her home at Fulton avenue. Oakford; Miss Colby, of East Maple avenue, Langhorne, to Abington Hospital, and return to her home. Local Weather Observations At ftohm ffiiHH Weather Olwerviifory Hrixtoi. Pa.

For m4 Hour tending 8 A. M. Temperature Maximum in um 1 tange 39 to Hourly Tetti 8 a. rn. yesterday 42 9 42 1 0 44 1144 12 noon 45 1 p.

in. 47 2 48 3 48 4 5 49 49 6 4 7 47 4ti 9 4 5 10 1 1 44 A I i 12 midnight 1 43 1 a. in.today 42 2 42 3 4 41 40 (i 5 6 to 43 8 47 C. Relative Humidity Precipitation Minimum temperature last 49 0 April TIDES AT UIIISTOIi High water 4.0Ï a. m.

4.20 p. rn. Low water 11.12 a. 11.25 p. m.

Sun risen B.24 a. sets fi.39 p. m. Moon rises 6 04 a. 9.25 p.

m. at Newtown on April 21 for luncheon as to methods of increasing and improving Red Cross service in an area of rapid population growth. Red Cross Service by the Lower Bucks Branch Board for the past year will be reviewed and service awards will be presented. Mrs. Pierce, who is over-all chairman for the branch, is assisted by six vice-chairmen who head similar boards in their respective districts, They are: Bristol, Mrs.

James S. Douglass; Langhorne, Mrs. John Beidler; Morrisville, Mrs. William Fielding; Newtown, Mrs. Garrett Goodnoe; Southampton, Mrs.

Benjamin Franklin, and Yardley, Mrs! Durrell L. Noyes. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Bristol Blood Donors report the ANDALUSIA, Apr. has transportation of Mrs. Mildred been received of the wounding in Lynn, of Pond street, to Naz- Korea of Eugene M.

Scott, 24, first arflth Hospital; Paul S. class Army sergeant in Korea. Scott, the son of Mrs. Bertha Scott, 620 Edgewood avenue, was wounded in action Apr. 1, according to word received by his mother and Police Chief Wants New Police Headquarters Chief Kratz Suggests That Tullytown Erect Building TULLYTOWN.

Apr. 15 The proposal that Tullytown borough construct a new police headquarters was advanced Monday night at borough council meeting by Chief John W. Kratz, of the borough police force. The present headquarters of the Chief of Police is located in a basement room of the Tullytown Fire House, between Brown and Cheston avenues. The new headquarters would be a one story, square, cinder-block building.

24-feet on each side. It would be located, if built, at the rear of the present fire house, according to Chief Kratz's present recommendation. Approximate cost of the building was estimated by Chief Kratz as $9000 using cinder- blocks, which he said, would be donated by a local concern. Council took no formal action on the recommendation but Continued on Page Five Falls Young Republicans Endorse Slate of Candidates LEVITTOWN, Apr. 15 The Young Republican Club of Levittown indorsed the following candidates for offices in Falls Township and Tullytown borough at a meeting Monday evening.

Falls twp. School Director, George Roberts; supervisors, Clifford John Custer, Raymond Pope; Justice of the Peace, Frank Kinald. Tullytown borough School directors, Gerald S. Paul, Benjamin Kine; councilmen, Edward Border, Monroe Meltzer. The Young Republicans have pledged whole-hearted support to the above-mentioned candidates.

Other business taken up was the passing of the by-laws and the election of William Mauer, Lane, as temporary treasurer; and William C. Prentiss. 22 Leisure Lane, as temporary recording secretary. About 60 members attended, with Daniel Mabin, chairman of the Young Republicans, presiding. Management Club Hears Story of Acetate Fabric Miss Lefebvre An Account of Synthetics at Annual Night At the annual Night dinner of the Bucks County Industrial Management Club in the Edgely Community House last evening 200 members and guests heard an interesting talk on "Acetate, The Beauty by Miss Marie Lefebvre.

assistant to the director of consumer relations of the Celanese Corp. ot America. Serving as toastmaster on the occasion was William Lloyd, president of the club. Fred Herman, vice-president, gave the invocation. The Bristol High School Choir presented several selections under the direction Joan Weiss.

Miss Lefebvre related that with the variety of fabrics and fashions available and within every woman's budget today, it is no longer necessary to have a limited wardrobe and the American woman has thus become the best dressed in the world. She explained how this gracious living and the variety of Continued on Pave Four Business Men Pledge To Raise To Construct Relief Road Business interests in the Mill Street area last night pledged themselves to raise $40,000 for the construction of a relief highway into the municipal parking lot as a principal step towards solving the traffic problem. In a meeting held at the Keystone Hotel under the auspices of the Bristol-Lower Bucks Chamber of Commerce and the Mill Street Business Association, it was stated that the traffic and parking difficulties in Bristol have become a problem so acute that the future of the business center is at stake. Fifty ss and professional men representing a variety of interests in al mrts of the Borough attended the session. They heard detailed of the many recommendations which have been made i the situation, and a formal report of the joint 1 raffic and Safety Committee which called for the completion of the relief highway as the first project to be tackled.

The plan Two Divorce Actions Filed in County Court Charles Johnson, 146 North Green Langhorne, has been named the respondent in a divorce libel by his wife, Dolores Davis Johnson, 160 North 57th Phila. They were married July 6, 1948, in Millbourne, and separated March 5, 1951. Dorothy F. Bunting, 21 W'ood- land Penndel, is suing her husband, John Bunting, Trenton Huimeville, for a divorce. They were married March 29, 1947, in Hartsville, and separated Nov.

10, 1952. Silver Lake Fund Drive Continues Until April 25 Money Collected Will Be Held in Escrow Pending Water Tests Sewer Franchise Delays Levittown Country Clubber Area Work in Middletown Twp. Is Postponed, Awaiting Clarification, Says Levitt By Staff Reporter LEVITTOWN, Apr. recent action of the Middletown twp. supervisors, granting the exclusive township water and sewer franchise to their local authority has delayed plans for Levitt Sons.

to build the Country Clubber section in the Township, William J. Levitt said yesterday. were prepared to go right ahead until this thing came said Levitt, who intended to construct sewer and water lines to his 15 months old. of 333 Cedar street, to St. Hos- I pital, Phila, MEN TO SERVE REFRESHMENTS A meeting of Maple Shade-Newportville Parent-Teacher Association will be held Thursday at eight p.

m. in Maple Shade School building. Mrs. Erna McKevitt, music raising the fund, it was set forth by Charles Richman, calls for dividing business firms in the Mill Street area into four classifications, and setting up an appropriate amount for those belonging to each of the groups. Group One includes the two Banks on Radcliffe street, the Chamber of Commerce, several insurance firms, as well as concerns whose employes make substantial use of the parking lot Kaiser Metal Products, the Bell Telephone Company, and the Philadelphia Electric Company.

Group One members will be asked to contribute 0 each, signing a note in that amount which can then be paid off over a period of three years. Group two will consist of the largest stores, hicli will be asked for $540; Group hree, of the middle-size stores, and Group four, the smallest stores, $250. In each case, the contribution can be spread over three years. It was announced by Mr. Richman that pledges already in his possession totalled $5000.

John S. Lynn, on behalf of the Traffic Committee, presented the details of the plan which the two civic associations hope to see carried out. A new entrance to the parking lot would start from Old Route 13, cut across the borough dump, pass west of the sewer pumps and close to the old lock house, and thence to the parking lot. Fill for the new road would be obtained from borough owned property. The paving would be IS feet wide.

length is to be Si4 feet. Present plans call for two- way traffic, although objections to this have been raised by traffic experts on the basis that this would produce a new and seriously em- The drive will last until April 25, Continued on Page Two and the money collected will be ---------held in escrow until the results of Bad Weather Delays a test of the water of Silver Lake! Projects at Levittown Frank Davenport, Assumes Postmastership FALLSINGTON, Apr. 15 Frank Davenport, Main street, who has been appointed postmaster for Fallsington, will assume his new duties today. Mr. Davenport, who has been active as an insurance salesman, succeeds Thomas Backea, who resigned.

Mrs. Backes has been her husbands assistant. TO HEAR DR. HOTEL PENNDEL. Apr.

15 Penndel Parent-Teacher will hold a meeting April 16th at 8.30 p. in Penndel school. Dr. Morton Botel, reading consultant for Bucks Co. schools, will be the speaker.

Election will take place. Mothers of kindergarten children will provide home-made cakes. his wife, Patricia Ann. 413 N. 41st Phila.

Scott is a native of Cornwells Heights, where he was born Mar. 11. 1929. The family then moved to Philadelphia and Eugene attended Lawndale primary school, the Woodrow Wilson Junior high Con I inut-d from Page Two TO NOMINATE OFFICERS Nomination of officers will take supervisor of Britsol Twp. elemen- place at the regular meeting of the tary schools, will have charge of Bristol Association tonight! the program.

Men of the P. T. A. at 8 in the high school cafe- will serve refreshments, teria. John Burriss, of the high school faculty, will show colored slides.

Anyone desiring to donate prizes for a card party, April 25, is asked to take them to the meeting. PIT INVESTIGATION ORDERED HARRISBURG, April An investigation was ordered by the Public Utility Commission today into Pennsylvania operation of the Trenton-Philadelphia Coach of Trenton. N. J. The probe was prompted bv com- nlaints nlwmt Inadeouate service when the transit line asked PUC approval of higher fares on the Pliiladelphia-Fallsington-Morrisville route.

The PUC said public hearings will be scheduled. Proposed rates would be five cents between Penndel and Fallsington and 15 cents between other points for one-way tickets and proportionate hikes on round-trip fares. The firm said the increase would produce $7,800 annually to meet higher operating costs. MOTHERS TO MEET A meeting cf the Asso ciation of Bristol twp. will be held this evening at the home of Mrs.

Harold Richmond, Schumacher drive, Bristol Terrace I. TO START NEW INDUSTRY A new company, the Arga Instrument Company, formed by Arnold Raines, Oreland, Armand Adams, Richboro; Herbert Galman, of Philadelphia, have leased a factory of Holland road and Reading RR, Bucks County, where they are engaged in the manufacture of precision electronic equipment for research and development work. RESCUE SQUAD TO MEET The regular meeting of the Bucks County Rescue Squad will be held at eight p. Thursday, April 16, at Squad Headquarters, Croydon. BRIEFS-- Levittown New Train Schedule Effective April 27 fastest-growing city in the Pa." was scheduled today to get its railroad service April 26.

Allen J. Greenough, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, said the new station and train service will be inaugurated on that date coincident with the roads tuneiaoie iui uuyuftui tmviufe lliuu. Trains will make the first stops at Levittown station on April 26th. The ticket office will be open for business on April 27th for the first time, on a part time schedule. The train schedule will be as follows: EASTERN STANDARD TIME Train No.

3857 WESTWARD Leave 5.55 m. 6.03 a. m. 6.08a. in.

6 18 a. m. 6.23 a.m. North 6.33a. m.

Penna. Sta. 30th 6 42a.m. Arrive Suburban EASTWARD Train No. 3854 6.45a.

m. Leave Suburban Sta 4.20 P- m. Penna. Sta. 30th 4.23 P- m.

North Phila 4.32 P. m. 4.42 P- m. 4.47 P- m. 4.57 m.

P. m. Arrive 5.12 m. additional MU train daily except Saturday and Sunday and September 7th effective Monday, June 29th. Three Injured in Early Morning Crash persons were injured shortly after seven this morning, when the automobiles driven by Edward Esposito, 24, of 212 Oxford Valley road, Fairless Hills, and Louis Guard, 23, of Coatlnsrd on Pace Two homes in the township which would Bristol Blood Donors last night connect with the plants operated began their annual Silver Lake by Lower Bucks County Joint Mu- Life Guard Protection and Malnten- nicipal Authority.

ance Fund Drive. would like to know just ex- Jjarrassing traffic bottleneck on Old Route 13. The plan also includes paving a new area in the parking lot ling 0034 square yards, between Wood and Cedar streets, und a smaller section south of Cedar would be surfaced with oil-treated cinders. Also part of the plan is to open Water street from Mill to the parking lot, at a point where the street is under lease from the Borough to a stone-cutjting firm. What the traffic committee plans, Mr.

Lynn said, was to take this program to Borough Council as soon as the money for it has been raised from private sources, and Continued on Pmge Two are known. the water test report prove conclusively that the lake is not contaminated we shall, as in the past, provide life guard protection. first aid and ambulance service, free to all who use the LEVITTOWN, April 15 Everybody talks about the weather, including William J. Levitt, who yesterday remarked, "this is the freakiest weather I've ever seen." The builder of Levittown made the comment in reply to a question said a spokesman for the donors. about progress landscaping the the report prove unsaUs- large development.

re way be- factory all funds collected in Levitt admitted, attributing W.nLbe. to heayy uml frequent April showers. don't think had two successive days without the benefit of the public. The request to the State Department of Forests and Waters for assistance of the department in determining the extent of alleged pollution of Silver Lake has been referred by that department to the Board of Fish Commissioners, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, since they now own the lake. Plans of the donors this year include enlarging the beach area with sand in order to accommodate the large numbers of persons who use the lake in the summer.

Seven Seized in Kaid Are Held for Court NEWTOWN, Apr. 15 The six men and one woman taken into custody in Bristol last Thursday afternoon, when State Police, County authorities and Borough Police raided an alleged numbers outfit in Bristol, were given a further hearing last evening in the office of Justice of the Peace Andrew Dillman. The two principals, Charles Cial-. el la and James F. Collozzi, both of; Bristol, were released in $500 bail for court.

They were charged with setting-up and maintaining a gambling establishment. The following defendants were released in $300 bail for court, charged with traffic in lottery tickets; Catherine Crosby, Trenton August Montervino, and his son, Thomas, Jefferson Filipoo Sansone, Dorrance and Robert Quarles. Pond Bristol; Charles Mondelli. Phila. The above were taken into eus- Coatinned on Pave Two rain.

Ed ito rial IT SEEMS TO US It seems to us that a good many of our diplomats, Senators and other national spokesmen are talking themselves into a dangerous hole in the matter of the Russian peace offensive. It is all very well to be skeptical about the sincerity of the offers, or to mistrust the intensions of the Russians but do any of our national leaders have the moral right to take a position which rules out the possibility of peace, or even that discourages or delays it, if it so happens that Russian policy calls for a serious attempt to call off the war? Perhaps it is a question of intellectual and political honesty. We can respect, even though wt disagree with, the concept which repeats a modern version of ancient chant est Carthago must be destroyed and concludes that, war with Russia being inevitable and desirable, the sooner we get it over with the better. Happily, there are only a handful of Americans who take this extreme view. Moreover, their position is not the official position of our country, nor is it apt to be the official view of any great number of our leaders, public temper such matters being what it is.

Officially we are at peace with Russia. Aside from some minor differences, we have no official quarrel with her. She receives our ambassadors, and we hers. We have full diplomatic relationship. Officially we accept her as an equi V'e sit with her on the United Nations and, for that matter, on a uumber of lesser publicized international organizations.

The simplest sentiments of courtesy and common decency, or for that matter, of common sense, would, it seems, dictate that in our public and official discussion of the Russian nation and preserve st dsjncsr.or of 2nd Yet on the contrary, insults of great variety are almost daily hurled at Russia. She is called all manner of harsh names, Continued on Page Two --------1-.