The Bristol Daily Courier from Bristol, Pennsylvania • Page 1

WEATHER Fair and cooler today with df Fair and quite cool tonight with lows in the low and middle 40s. Tomorrow increasing cloudincss and continued cool with rain likely by afternoon. iatlo EDITION 'Pennsylvania's Fastest Growing Newspaper' VOL 48 No. 154 Member A. B.

C. BRISTOL, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16. 195736 PAGES Price, Five Cents Penndel Man Critically Hurt In Crash Hospital Says Victim Still Unconscious Other Driver Has Lesser Injuries From Accident A rpniulcl man is in crit- condiUoii at Lower liiicks ('ounty Hospital today as tlic result of a head- on auto crash on Route 1 near the Country Club Shoppinji Center at 6 p.m. Tho victim, Hayniond T. lU-pp, 2 of 71 West Lincoln Highway, is still unconscious as a result ot a skull fracture he suffered in the accident.

He sustained possible internal injuries. i A second man, Lawrence S. Kennedy. 42, ot 197 Trenton, suffered scalp la- and a possible concus- i.ion. He was adniitted to the hos- pital.

Hi.s conditions was listed as today. The Lnierjiency Squad look both vic- tiin'i tn the hospital. Middletown Patrolman George Praul said he has been unable to question the unconscious Repp, but said witnesses report he was driving east on 1 and swerved out of control across the highway. Repp car crashed head on wKh Kennedy's vehicle, which was coming in the opposite direction. A fix-year-old Croydon boy ran into the side of a car on Croydon, yesterday afternoon but apparently was not injured.

The boy is John Bastian, 1746 He was taken to Lower Bucks County Hospital for r.xamination. He was released when doctons found no injuries, Briitoi Township police report he darted between two parked cars and wa.s hit by an automobile driven by. Frank Ifkovitz, 32, of Prospect Ave. Ifkovitz said he tried to stop when he saw the boy. but the lad hit the left front fender and fell.

TORNADO KILIS INJURES 70 Officials Huddle At Mill Street Banquet Skies cooling off. Two days of gentle rain would be mighty welcome. We've simply got to look aRer the lawn.s, the flowers, the crops and the reservo-irs. Something else got to do. That is to vote at next Tuesday primary election day.

And if you havwi'L figurwl out tiie man for the jab, the to start figuring. been quite an election ball. Incidentally. And what some of these characters seeking office do to get their names and pictures In the paper! But the way she goes. And the chances are whatever the decide will be okay.

More nt Dave shenanigans revealed before the Senate committee. Bucks County Bankers Elect Janney Head Association Holds Annual Meeting In Cornwells New officers were elected and seated by the Buck.s County Bankers Association last night, at the Bankers annual meeting at the Fiesta, Cornwells Heights. Ho.st bank was the Bristol office of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust whose assistant vice pre.si- dent, John C. Johnson, outgoing president, was toastmaster. i'lected to succeed Mr.

Johnson as president was Watson R. Janney, executive vice president of the Solebury National Bank, Xew Hope. Raymond W. Krueger, cashier of the Merchants National Bank, Quakertoun, was elected vice president of the Association; Walter S. Bair, cashior of the Solebury National Bank, treasurer and KImer C.

Cates, executive vice president of the Doylostown Trust secretary. Ryan Speaker Guest speaker at the dinner meeting was Ben H. Ryan, past president of the lllmois Bankers and the In- deperxient Bankers of America, director of the Bank Share Owners Advisory League and co-chairman of the Bankers Committee for Tax Equality of the National Tax Equality Association. Mr, Ryan spoke on the problems and development of branch banking. The Bucks Bankers Association adopted a resolution supporting State Secretary of Banking Robert L.

Myers, in seeking to place state banking e.iaminers under the civil service laws. Attending were some 200 bank officers, directors and employes of Bucks County. Help For Trapped Motorists Homes Hit As Twister Rips Texas Rescue Workers Fear Death Toll Will Mount Higher Now officers of the Mill Street Bristol Bu.siness Center Association look over the program of their 37th annual with William .1. Veitch, (next to right), president of Bristol Borough From left, are (iene Nichols, vice president of the Association; Jack Ward, secretary-treasurer; Veitch and Leon S. Ranter, president.

and Times Photo) Cooperalii'e Spirit Keynote Passers-hy help occupants from car that rolled on its side on Route near Route 413, Middletow'n Township, 10 yesterday. 'J'he driver, J. 35, of 21 Nickelhill Lane, Levittown, said the car spun and rolled when he tried to avoid another vehicle which pulled onto the highway in front of him. SILVERTOX, Tex. (CP) A tornado tore through the Texas panhandle last nijijit, killing 18 persons, injuring 68 to 70 others and destroying or damaging or 60 homes in the town of Silverton.

The State Department of Public Safety announced the toll of dead! and injured in the path of thci twi.ster, one of at least a tunnels that struck the panhandle. Official rescue workers feared the toll would mount jiighcr as state troopers and residents who' The Mill Street Bristol Business death or injury dug; Association its thiough the ruins of 25 homes: the aniversary last night, looking lor more victims. heard pleas for the continu- Ralph Husted, state relations ance and increase of the coopera- diiector tor the American Red tjye spirit among the Mdl Street Cross, said first estimates showed nierchants Held at' the glamorou. Plav storm Ihrce other persons banquet reporteo missing and feared dead, i io ao The tornado struck Silverton about 11 p.m. c.s.t.

in the souih- western section, tearing through an area about eight blocks long. Many houses fell apart, leaving only the floor and foundation. Mill St. Businessmen 37th Birthday By BOB RFINIlAIiDT jton, and a leader in many the Mill Street shopping cen- Courier and Thnos Staff Writer; fare activities, who was guest tpf brought out in Dr. Gilli speaker.

New Officers New officers of the Association officially took over their duties at last night banquet. They included Leon S. Kanier, succeeding Norman Vogel as president; Gene Nichols, vice president and Jack W'ard, secretary- trea.surer. Charles Ricimian was toastmaster, and presented a Polaroid camera to Mr. Vogel in recogni- atiracted 125 Association members and guf'sts.

Dancing followed the dinner and addres.ses. Special guests included several members of Bristol Borough Coun-Uion of his outstanding service as cil, and other borough officials, anii Dr. J. Goodner Gill, vice president. The need for cooperation to Mother Kills Three Children, Takes SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(UP)- A Lower Bucks PRR Commuters Face Increase In Fare Lower Bucks County commuters to Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad will pay $3 a month more on June 16. if a proposed fare hike is put into effect. Commuters from Cornwells Heights now pay $22 a month. TheyTl pay $25 under the pro- Piestricted individual monthly Heights from $19.80 to Bristol from S22.45 to Levittown-Tullytown Irom $23.55 to $26.25. Twenty-four trip individual Heights from $13.20 to $15; Bristol from You know, you nearly have to shiver when you think we may have (jviite a number of Becks in this country of ours.

He certainly muscled in on the pay envelopes of a lot of loyal rank-and-file union distraught mother hacked herjsaid. three children to death in a homi- Other commuters face these cidal frenzy and then plunged a raises; Bristol from $24.90 to butcher knife into her own heart, Levittown-Tullytown from posed fare hike, railroad officials $14,95 to and Levittown- Tullytown from $15.70 to $17.50. Unrestricted individual weekly said he saw of Rider College, Tren- maintain the success a bathtub and the foundation in ruins of a home. Residents Sleeping Before the tornado descended on Silverton, it touched down at Lockney, about 17 miles to the southeast, injuring a woman and two children. The tornado roared into Silverton long alter an alert had been in the panhandle, but residents went to bed at the usual hour and were trapped when their homes crashed upon them.

A. L. Chick, a member ot a geophysical team stationed in said he was watching televi- Five Plead Guilty To Drunk Driving, Pay $1,200 Fines Five paid a total of sion in a hotel lobby during a hail- $L200 in fines yesterday after storm. When the hail i Pleading guilty to drunking driv- pounding. Chick said, the electri- ing offenses in Lower Bucks Coun- authorities said today.

The bodies were discovered by her husband, George W. Conley, when he hurried home from work Wednesday. city went off, "I remarked to one of the boys, 'You know what that he said. The storm then struck. ty- One of the five was sent to jail, and all will lose their driver's licenses for one year.

John Custer, 1.55 Elmw(KKl -Cornwells Heights from $5..50 to A few minutes later pari of ihe! was sentenced to five town was a mass of rubble. ordered to pay Edgely Ave fined $250. He was arrested by Bristol Township police on April 1 after they received a call that a man was over the ing wheel of a on Haines' Road. When police arrived, they six)t-l tod car zig-zagging' along Haines Road. They followed and stopped him at Route 13 and address, and in remarks by Mr.

Kanter and Mr. Vogel. The New Jersey educator also cited the necessity for a faith in God in bringing happiness and success. up the As.sociation,” Dr. Gill said in his rousing speech.

long as you continue to work in this cooperative spirit, the greatest future lies ahead of you. But the speaker also cautioned that Ameerica, w'hile enjoying unprecedented material wealth, is in a and moral depression. not through material things alone that you and I are going to achieve he said. must have a Jack Cassidy, newly appointed advertising and public relations director for the Association, assisted by Mike Berrie, executive secretary, reviewed the many successful promotions by the Association in the past year. They included the Auto and Boat show, soon tn be repeated, the party in the highly successful 275th Anniversary celebration of Bristol, and (Continued on Page 4, Col.

3) Bristol from $6.25 to $26.15 to This is on un-jand Levittown-Tullytown from resrricted, individual monthly i $6.55 to $7.30. rates. The rate increase is to take ef- Othcr fare brackets would jump feet June 16 on most commuter in proportion. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) Yoa believe it, perhaps, Irtit true: Three school districts in Pennsylvania still practicing segregation.

Well sir. Governor Leader has ordered the public instruction department to pul an end to the practice and for that he deserves a pretty rousing salute. You believe it, also, but those Phillies of ours lost a crazy baliganic last night. Okay, with the Cards tonight resume their winning ways. ISyWO Jam Madison S(piare Garden Graham Calls On Protestant Ministers For Did you ever notice how a narrow m4nd and an open mouth go It a beautiful coat! must have cost a Just a single you gave your That he gave the you drive, take it easy.

NEW YORK Billy Graham called in Protestant ministers today to try to turn his New York Crusade into which i w'ill sweep In the unlikely setting of Madison Square Garden, Billy last night began the biggest, toughest battle of his meteoric sway cynical New Yorkers to Christ and thus fan a across the nation. He won the first round. A near-capaciiy crowd of 18.500 persons of all walks and all ages jammed the big sports arena. I shook its rafters with hymns sat in reverent silence as he spoke. ted said 25 homes were destroyed.

15 had been damaged severely and 15 needed repair. BILLV GRAHAM Then a record first-night number of them stepped forward to make their for First singly and then like a tide rolling down from the upper reaches of the Garden, 485 persons came to stand before flower-banked pulpit. They flowed into the nearby press section and adjacent hallways. It was nothing like the 5,000 who came forward one night in the Philippines or the at London's W'embley Stadium. But Graham buoyed by what he called the anything we had anticipated on the lirst The 3B-ycar-old North Carolina (CoQtlnued on Page Col.

S) liensalein Girl Puts On Molester A 16-year-old Bensalem girl in her or- ler last night and chased a Bensalem Police said the Sirl bit the hand of a man nho grabbed her about 9:50 9.m. while she was walking along Bristol Pike. The girl told police the man sras walking toward her. me to ask the girl said, told him I know where the Icca- lion was, but he could probably find out at a nearby custard Police said the girl told them started on then and so did the man. Then, police said, the man turned and grabbed the girl.

The girl bit the hand. He took off for safer quarters, vestigation. a fine of $3(K). Gregory testified yesterday that Custer was arrested by Penn- he tried to sleep off his drunken- del police on March 30. He hit iness but that he got sick and start- three cai in an acciuent uii Bclle-jc'd home.

vue Penndel. James J. Roe, 527 Locust Charles J. Gregory, a roomer Bristol, was fined $250 on the at 225 Mulberry Bristol, was! on Page 4, Col. 3) Cranh Caller Bomb Scare Chases 2,400 ow nship Pupils About pupils were pulled, planted in the auditorium.

He out of the Benjamin P'ranklin! said it uas to 40 olf at 2 p.m Junior High and Dclhaas Huh; Stanley Dick. Frankhn princi-; Schools alternoon when pal. Imniedialely ordered a fire a crank telephone caller report- drill. The nearly 1.200 pupils were ed a bomb, planted in the junior cleared from the building in about high, would t'xplode at 2 m. jtwo minutes.

thorough search of both By thi.s time police arrived andj scoured the auditorium and schools by Bristol Township po-'By this time it was 2:15 p.m. and lice and teachers laih'd to uncov-Ino of a bomb had been er any found. Mi.ss Kathleen Lukens, secre- then decided the caller lary at the Franklin school, lo-. possibly might have been mis- cated on Mill Creek Road, Levit- taken and meant that the town, reoorted thyt a man called in Delhaas. Sgt.

Robert Hibbs a minute or two before 2 o'clock land Patrolman Harmon and said a time bomb had beenj (Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) inside Today Take A Lit ok At Liiciil Industry The Lower Bucks in- reviewed today in the CX)urier and Times has products which get as close to vou as is possible Next time taking a bath, washing your hands, or using a scouring or cleansing agent, take a look at the soap or powder. It may be one of the many produced at the Purex plant in Bristol. Reporter Bob Reinhardt summarizes the plant and its products on Page 29. INDEX Amusement Calendar Classified Crossword Death Notices Dr.

Brady 30 8 3L 32. 33 34, 35 35 3 6 Dr. Crane 6 Othman 6 Karl Wilson 6 Fdilorials fi oby Bridge Junior Reporter 35 Social. Club 11. 12, 13 Sports 14, If TV S4.