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Weather Mostly fair, with some cloudiness, today, tonight and tomorrow. High today in mid 40s; low tonight, 30-35; high tomorrow in low 50s. cHltr Ui'uittonm wxvb FINAL EDITION Delaware Valley's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 9, No. 139 Member ABC LEVITTOWN, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1962 42 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS Scene Of The Crime Ridge Farm Cabins on Old Lincoln Highway in Bensalem where an abortion took the life of a divorcee last night.

The victim was dead on arrival at Nazareth Hospital. Police Hunt Divorcee Dies After Criminal Abortion At Motel In Trevose DEMOS CAUSE UPROAR 9 ASK TAX CUT A Trevose motel cabin was the scene of a criminal abortion last night which took the life of a 25-year-old divorcee. The victim, Geraldine Ellenberger of 4762 Loring Philadelphia. was dead on arrival at Nazareth Hospital, Philadelphia, after she was seized with convulsions resulting from the illegal operation. Arrested by Bensalem police was Clark Brown, 30, of 1359 Sedgely Philadelphia, who police said rented a cabin at Ridge Farms Cabins on Old Line- March on the breezy side.

Maybe we could get a solid week of sunshine to string along with it? Khrushchev willing to cooperate with the U.S. on space exploration even to the extent of putting a man on the moon, he says. But, as usual, a condition. Cooperation will depend on the conclusion of an East-West armament agreement and chances are there'll be no accord unless styled for the benefit of the Kremlin. CLARK BROWN oln Highway where the operation took place.

7 Brown told police the operation was performed by a man called whom he had met last week. Brown was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact of criminal abortion. Brown, and Mrs. Ellenberger arrived at the motel cabins sometime after 8:30 last night after the three met by pre- vious arrangement at a Route 1 hot dog and hamburger stand in Trevose. Bensalem Police Chief William F.

Riempp Jr. said the operation took place between 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. Victim Convulsive Brown told police that left immediately after the operation and that when the victim be. came convulsive, he tried to get a neighborhood doctor. Failing this he put her in his car and drove her to the hospital in Philadelphia.

Dr. James Iannaucci pronounced her dead on arrival at the hospital. The abortion was performed in Cabin 7-B which was rented to Brown by John Carroll, 51, a clerk. Brown is also divorced. The cabins are owned by H.

Alvin Ridge of 4767 Street Road, Trevose. Held In Bensalem Following his arrest, Brown was held overnight in the Bensalem Township jail. This morning he was taken to City Hall in Philadelphia by Bensalem police officer Robert Bell and Trooper James Faillace of Trevose State Police. i The investigation was being con(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) Curtin Delays Taking Stand In Dispute While Bucks County Congressman Willard S.

Curtin deferred taking a stand in the dispute within the Bucks County Republican party today, the county Republican Alliance accused organization leaders of using on Curtin. George J. Ault, policy committee chairman of the Bucks County Republican Committee, has asked Curtin, State Senator Marvin V. Keller and Assemblywoman Margarette S. Kooker to take sides.

All three are non-committal. all stayed away from the meeting of the GOP executive i committee Tuesday when the committee withdrew its support of Assemblyman Alan Wiliams and endorsed William O. Kline. End Of Era Neiv One Starts At Centennial Hearing Space cooperation fine. What we desperately need, however, is a bit of peace cooperation.

Yards purchases the Union Supply store at Fairless Hills and plans a gala reopening early in April. Congratulations and good luck. 3 Scholars Defend Bible Distribution This means, of course, that U.S. Steel is finally out of the store business and passing of Union Supply causes a wee feeling of regret. You realize that less than a decade and a half ago this merchandising arm of the big corporation represented no less than 100 stores in a half dozen states? Planning Commission says that better than 50 per cent of Bucks labor force works everywhere but in Bucks County.

This piece of information precisely new, but interesting nevertheless. Another reason for general stability of the county economy undergirded primarily by our own great number of diversified job-making industries. Already the Phillies. worrying about already showing signs of the same miseries with which they were afflicted last year. Even in the Grapefruit League they just beat anybody any more.

He met his wife at a travel bureau. She was looking for a vacation and he was the last resort. Sign in a window of an antique shop: think junk? Come in and price Drive carefully, please. A Buddhist from Japan, a Moslem from Egypt and a Hindu from India this morning defended the proposed distribution of Bibles in the Centennial Joint Schools. The three witnesses, scholars at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke for the Centennial Joint School Board.

Mrs. Elizabeth Polster of Bryn Gwelled, Southampton, is suing to stop the school board from tributing 3,000 Bibles in the schools. The pocket-sized Bibles, donated by the Gideon Society, consist of the New Testament with the Psalms and Proverbs. They were to be made available for school children to take home. The three foreign students said the Bible is an important source for the study of American culture.

The first witness was Dr. Fen(Continued on Page 3, Col. 6) Joseph O. Canby, alliance chairman, said action prove to be one of the classical political boners in the history of the Bucks County Republican Canby said Ault had demanded that Curtin, Keller and Mrs. Kooker out publicly with an endorsement of Fred Ziegler for re-election as county The alliance is attempting to remove Ziegler and make District Attorney Paul R.

Beckert the county chairman. Curtin said, in Washington, he will make no statement until corning home to Lower Makefield Township this weekend. The congressman urged Keller and Mrs. Kooker to say nothing until seeing him. Canby declared: believe that the members of the alliance have proven their loyalty to the Republican party by action in previous elections.

We are proving our loyalty to the party and its candidates today by refusing to support a political regime that on Tuesday turned its back on one of the best known and best respected legislators in our state in order to gain political Canby said the rejection of Williams was ordered by Edward B. Boyer, chairman of the county commissioners. Boyer-motivated dumping of Assemblyman W'illiams has reduced respect for the Republican executive committee to the lowest level since the Ferris scandal of 1955 when the voters showed their feelings by sup(Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) Pkfim Supplement Today Included jn Courier. Times is a special 12-page Mill St.

Association tabloid. Louis C. Hano, chairman of the board for the Yards department stores, signs papers for the purchase of the Union Supply Company, Fairless Hills. Other officials (from left) are George H. Vine, resident manager of the Danherst Corporation, which is Union Supply Sold To Yards Stores; Famed Chain Ends The Union Supply Company in Fairless Hills was sold yesterday to the Yards department store chain.

The store was sold by the U.S. frhmw s- leasing the building; Myron W. Harris, attorney for Yards; Walter W. Jackson, attorney for the Danherst Corporation, and John T. Binino, vice president of the new Yards-Fairless Hills.

(Courier-Times Photo) Steel Corporation and was the last one remaining in the one-time extensive retail chain. The new store will be known as Yards Fairless Hills. Yards signed a long-term lease with the Danherst Corporation, developer of the Fairless Hills Shopping Center, where the store is located. Officials declined to reveal the price of the sale or the terms of the lease. Drugstore To Move The sale does not include the Fairless Hills Drugstore which will move to another location.

The lease was signed by Louis C. Hano, chairman of the board of the Yards stores. The purchase brings to seven the number of stores in the chain. Hano operates the Yards stores in the Levittown Shopping Cen- Grouji Protests County Acceptance Federal Funds Want Park For Bucks Residents Only By KURT KRON Courier-Times Staff Writer Should Bucks County recreational areas be open to residents of other counties and localities? The advisory committee for the proposed Cburchville Reservoir Park says no and has written an emphatic letter to this effect to the county commissioners. The 11 member committee, which was appointed by the county park board to represent citizens in Northampton, Bensalem, Wrightstown and Upper and Lower Southampton Townships, is protesting county acceptance of federal funds for development of the park.

The county commissioners are expected to decide to accent or reject the funds next Monday. Under the terms of the federal urban renewal program, the county may receive $210,000 in federal monies which would be earmarked for the acquisition of park lands in Bucks County. The money represents 30 per cent of the cost of the parks. All that remains to be done for the county to get this money is that the commissioners sign a contract accepting the allocation agreeing to the restrictions that go along with the money. Restriction Objections The restrictions are what the Churchville committee objects to.

One paragraph in the federal contract reads: public body (in this case, Bucks County) shall not restrict the use of the land on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or place of The committee has taken offense to the requirement concerning place of residence of those who may use the parks. In a letter to the county commissioners, Lewis W. Hull, chairman of the committee, has stated: year we presented to you a petition signed by more than 1,400 citizens supporting and encouraging the park. Primary Reason primary reason for the enthusiastic public support of this park w'as the assurance that the park would be for the use of Bucks County residents only. the question and answer bulletin wihch was distributed at that time, the answer to the first question will be allowed to use stated clearly that the use of the area is to be limited to Bucks County residents and their guests.

the answer to the 17th question will the proposed park affect my it was clearly stated that the money for this park would come from Bucks County citizenst possibly by a county levy of up to two mills for park purposes. This was understood and accepted by those signing the petition." Question, Answer Bulletin The letter states that the facts listed in the question and answer bulletin were cleared with the county park board which, the letter says, issued a press release to the same effect at about the same time. A few months ago, according to Mrs. Barbara Karmel, secretary to the committee, the coun- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) ter; in Trenton and in Cherry Hill and Ewing Townships, N.J.

He also runs in Wilmington, Dela. and P. Weist in York, Pa. Once 102 Stores In its heyday, the Union Supply chain consisted of 102 stores, all dealing in general merchandise and owned by the H. C.

Frick Coal Coke Company of Pittsburgh. U. S. Steel acquired the chain when it assumed ownership of the Frick Company during World War II. The chain at that time occupied five states Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama and Kentucky.

Its history goes back about 75 years. Selling Last 10 Yrs. The U. S. Steel Corporation has been selling the stores during the past 10 years.

Union Supply in Fairless Hills will close out by the end of this week. The Yards store will reopen April 3 when it will conduct a sale until Easter. Most of the Union Supply ployes will probably be retained, Hano said. Present at pegotia- (Continued on Page 3. Col.

8) Gasoline War Is Ending Levittowner To Be Named Postmaster JOHN P. McLAUGHLIN John P. McLaughlin, one of the first residents of Levittown, will probably be the sec. ond postmaster. This was disclosed today w'hen the office of U.S.

Senator Joseph S. Clark D-Pa. revealed that McLaughlin has been recommended for the post by John C. Mulligan, Bucks County Democratic chairman. Mulligan said that McLaughlin's name w'as put forth after several meetings he conducted with Bristol Township, Middletown and (Continued on Page 3, Col.

1) CHARLES (SCOOP) LEWIS Courier-Times Staff Writer Adoption of Bristol $1,567,692 budget was delayed last night when the Democratic half of the 10-man board of commissioners proposed a reorganization plan designed to reduce the budget by $76,215. The plan, put forth by Joseph Bellerby, secopd ward commissioner, and supported by his four fellow Democrats, caught the five Republican commissioners by surprise at the outset of last monthly board meeting held in Benjamin Franklin Junior High School, Levittown. Police Reorganization Revisions in the plan, which they claim will eliminate 1V2 miles of a projected two-mill tax increase for 1962, include a drastic reorganization of the township police department; combining the park and shade tree department with the way department under public works, and cuts in the salaries of the commissioners and Township Manager Vincent H. Hartley. Reorganization of the township police department by the Democratic commissioners calls for the reduction in rank of two of the three lieutenants to sergeants, returning one of the five present sergeants to grade, and dropping of four patrolmen.

Much Top These moves, which would make up most of the proposed $26,875 savings to be realized in the police department, were made, Beilerby said, because feel too much top echelon in the department at the present Action by the board on the 1962 budget was postponed until Monday night after the incensed Republican commissioners demanded time to study the proposals. Board President Harry W. Fawkes, a Republican, called the reorganization plan political He was joined in his irate sentiments by fellow Republican Commissioner Samuel U. Delp who declared, is one of the grossest injustices been pushed on me since been on the He told the board, think we should have been presented with this proposal sooner than Bellerby said that the plan, which he drew up, had not been (Continued on Page 3, Col. 7) The Interest Comes Naturally TUBA CITY, Ariz.

Tuba City Club, whose members all are Navajo Indians, Wednesday reported considerable interest in its new to use the bow and arrow. The holiday in Lower Bucks is ending. The price war on gasoline! which saw the price on brands come as low as 23.9 is S. heading for an armistice. The holiday ended abruptly when two major gasoline companies raised the price of their third grade gasoline four or five cents in some cases.

Other operators, in turn, upped their prices. The raise came, according to one retailer, because station operators could not realize a profit. 1 some 0 I 1 I I I On The Inside BIG MARCH 800 will participate in Easter Seal Parades Sunday. Page 2. COIN WORD No.

56 can be found today on Page 16. LOVEY-DOVEY Not Abigail Van Buren tells a bewildered girl, Page 7. SPORTS A look at the Phillies. Page 19. INDEX Amusements 15 Classified 22-27 COINWORD 16 Dear Abby 7 Editorials 6 Features 7 Investor 15 Jacoby 30 Junior Reporter 28 Movies 4 Obituaries 25 Sports 19 21 ...........25 TV Review ..................2 TV Schedule 29 News 12-13.