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i I -rr rf -rr-' nrr 'T! i 0 SECTION 'i II Scranton, Pa. 18501, Sunday, February 20, 1966 CITY COUPLES SON IN FOREFRONT Native of Old Forge Kaufman's Homo Entered 1 Collector Gets 'Thousands of Dollars' ri Raislto -to mm By J. HAROLD BRISLIN Hundreds of Scrantonian who have been ignoring wage and profit tax obligations to the city and Its school district have rushed to "make peace with the tax collector before a joint crackdown Is launched by School Board and City Council. A check Saturday with attaches of the office of Tax Collector Carl G. Imeldopf disclosed that thousands of dollars already hava been produced from 1965 BEST IN LONG TIME Area Labor Market Enjoyed a Good Year Tha Scranton Labor Market while employment had risen By DAN ORR r.

diamond and an undetermined amount of cash were taken In a daylight burglary at the home of a Scranton physician last Wednesday, police revealed Saturday. Detective Capt. Tames McDonnell said the break-in occurred between 1 and 6 p.m. when Dr. B.

V. Kaufman and his wife were away from their home at 400 Jefferson Ave. 1 The burglary apparently oc- Lb Carol Ann Drazba fatally injured ByBILLGUMMER When Americas three-man Apollo moonship makes its first suborbital flight Wednesday morning before a national television audience, it will be observed by an Old Forge couple with more than a passing interest. The reason Is that they, Mr. and Mrs.

William Lunney, 303 River have been kept well-informed on the progress leading up to the history-making event by their son, Glynn S. Lunney a veteran of the 1 Project Mercury program and flight director for the Satum-Apollo 201 mission. Lunney, chief of the Flight Dynamics Branch of Flight Control Division, Houston, is one of three key men assisting Christopher Columbus Kraft, flight director at the Manned Space Craft Center. His boss is now known to millions through television as Chris Kraft. Lunney, considered one of MSCs really bright young men, had been in charge of the Apollo simulation on the second floor of the control center while Gemini 7 operations were going on in the floor above late last year.

The 29-year-old native of Old Forge, who was graduated in 1953 from Scranton Prep, recently outlined for newsmen the major objectives of the Apollo mission, an article which he forwarded to his parents. He noted that when the unmanned Apollo Spacecraft 009 splashes down In the South Atlantic near Ascension Island after a 35-minute flight downrange from Cape Kennedy, two major data points will have. been gain toward man-rating the Saturn IB and the Apollo Command and Service Module. The Saturn IB rocket will provide the power for the Apollo (Please Turn to Page 24) wage and profit taxpayers who, in some Instances, havent paid the 1 per cent levy aince it waa established. Some of the Individuals, faced with substantial payments dating back to 1960, have explored payment in Installments weekly or otherwise.

One case reported dealt with a husband and wife, both working, with a total annual income of 316.900 but without payment of a single dollar in wage and profit taxes. Expectations are that the rush to pay delinquent wage and profit taxes and to meet current obligations will be expanded shortly when a Joint ateerlng committee of council and school board dispatch thousands of special forms to the self employed whose wage and profit taxes are not withheld. The forms will provide for each taxpayer estimating his or her 1966 income and paying the first quarterly installment based on the estimate. They also will make provision for the self-employed to report on delinquent wage and profit taxes back to 1960 and to arrange for paying auch obligations in quarterly installments along with current taxes. No accurate figure was available as to the number of self-employed which in thla instance will also hit federal and state workers not subject to wage and profit tax withholding but It was reported 3,000 or 4,000 estimate-report forms will be issued subsequent to a meeting of the joint steering committee Monday at 4 p.m.

Since doctors, lawyers and merchants, who can be considered In the upper income brackets, are mdng those scheduled to get the forms, it will occasion little surprise if some individuals will be pressed for payment of 31,000 or more in delinquent wage and profit taxes. Once the 1 1 a e-report forms are filed with the tax office it will be possible, using an IBM computer system, to Issue quarterly bills and to keep a constant and immediately available check on the wage and profit tax status of every taxpayer, i Condition of 2 Nuns Reported 'Guarded PLANNED FIRST VISIT OUTSIDE SAIGON Ill-Fated Dunmorean Hitched Copter Ride items has not been estimated Captain McDonnell reported, Detectives Robert Murphy and Walter Jones are assigned to the investigation. Earlier Saturday the alertness of policemen resulted In the arrest of two burglary suspects and a lead on a third. Taken into custody are Peter Petrillo, 19, 1028 Bunker Hill Dunmore, and Edward Lan-gan, 19, 908 N. Washington this city." Both received a preliminary arraignment Saturday before Peace Jusutlco Thomas Revels, They each were charged with two counts of burglary and waived a hearing.

They were ordered held In Lackawanna County Jail. Police said Petrillo and Lan-gan are accused of burglarizing the Boccadori service station, 552 Main Eynon, and a service station on the Scranton-Car-bondale Highway, Dickson City, in addition to an attempted break-in at McGowans service station. Boulevard Avenue, lower Throop, all of which occurred early Saturday morning. A third suspect was identified by police as John Tremmel, 19, 1717 Nay Aug who is wanted for burglary and receiving stolen goods. Police said the ease began about midnight with the looting of an outside vending machine at the Dickson City service station, after which Dickson City police wer given a description of the car-allegedly involved.

Subsequently, the Boccadori gas station was forcibly entered and looted of 34 from a cash register and 3160 worth of car batteries, oil, car parts, cigarettes and candy. Later Scranton Sgt. John Joyce and Patrolman James Cleary reached the end of a routina patrol at lower Throop when they noticed a group breaking into McGowans service station. As the officers approached, two of the suspects fled on foot and one drove away in a car answering the description provided to police. At about 4:15 a.m., State Trooper John Dolan, pn patrol from Dunmore Barracks, spotted the same car hi the Acme Market parking lot, off Moosic He remained there and kept the car under observation when a youth arrived, apparently to pick up the auto.

The youth, not identified, was taken into custody, but later released when police determined he apparently was an innocent party. Police said loot from the Boccadori burglary was found In the which, according to the registration, is owned by Tremmel. The two arrests followed. The Investigation, which po-i ice said may result in additional charges against the trio, is continuing under Police Chief Diomas Malone, Archbald; Police Chief Albert Vorasky, Throop; CpI. Homer Jones and Troopers Herbert Sohns and Salvatore s1 Burruano, 2 Dunmore Barracks, in conjunction with Scranton detectives.

Chief Malone had high praise for Trooper Dolan. He commended him for" his alertness and stated the trooper did a good job. from 86,500 in December, 1964, to 89,000 in December, 1965. Although the unemployment rate was cut by almost 50 pep cent from the January, 1963, figure of 13.9 per cent, according to the Industrial Score board, employment in the area increased by finly 4,000 in the same period. The report also noted that-Radio Corporation of America will build a 312 million plant in Scranton to manufacture TV receiving and picture tubes, with 1,200 persons to be employed at peak of production The -Business Survey, published by the Pennsylvania State University, stated December employment edged up to the best record since the 1957-58 recession It noted that the addition of 100 factory jobs over the month was extra strong for that time of year and that the 400 jobs added to nonfactory industries were about normal for the month.

Also noteworthy, the report said, was that nonmanufactur-ing employment in the area had made better-than-seasonal gains for most of the year after a two-year-period of low-level stability which followed a long downward trend. A spurt of Industrial power sales put the Index this, series higher than it has been at any time since 1959, the report said, which indicates increased factory activity, borne out by a longer average factory workweek. Durable goods makers, the report continued, were, especially active and the workweek for this industry sector at 43.5 hours topped the average for the state of 41.8 hours. -Two local Industrial groups accounted for most of the tha machinery manufacturers, averaging more than 46 hours," and makers of fabricated metal products, 43.5 hours. Increases in all phases of business activity iwerejnoted In December, 1965, over the previous month, except the department store sales index, down four per per cent from the previous month, but up seven per cent from a year ago.

I By BOB BURKE The Viet Nam conflict seemed to move closer to thus area over the week-end, when news was received that a 22-year-old Dun-morean became one of the first Army nurses to be killed hi that war-torn nation. Lt. Carol Ann Drazba, daughter of Mrs. Marcella Drazba, 703 Butler Dunmore, lost "herlife In a helicopter accident about 10 miles northeast of Saigon which claimed the lives of six other persona, including another Army nurse and the son of the Pulitzer prize winning White HoUse correspondent of United Press International. The young nurse from Dun-more was described Saturday as a first-rate nurse by former instructors at Scranton State General Hospital School of Nursing and a former Classmate at that institution.

Ironically, because she was uch a good nurse, she was granted permission to take a vacation and began that vacation by bitching a ride on the ill-fated helicopter. She had planned to tour the central coast of Viet Nam with a companion from the 3rd Field Hospital, Lt, Elizabeth Ann Jones, 22, Allendale, S.C. The vacation was the first the girls were given since they arrived In Viet Nam last Nov. 1. Both of these girls were such fine nurses, said Major Edith Nuttall, chief of nurses at the hospital where they -were sta--tioned, indicating that they were awarded the time off from their regular duties because of the quality of their work.

They were just about everything one would hope professional nurses to be, Major Nuttall continued, Were all very upset about curred shortly after the maid had finished work and left for the day, Captain McDonnell reported. Entry to the home was made by forcing the aide office door, he said. A full length fur coat and a milk stole were removed from a downstairs closet. Mrs. Kaufman also reported an undetermined amount of cash and some of her diamond rings in a bedroom drawer were missing.

The total value of the missing Alice McCrone recalls classmate together but were separated when they arrived there. Mrs. Fisher told The Scran tonian Saturday that the late Lt. Drabza was like a daughter to me. She claimed the girls were doing what they wanted to helping other people.

They never complained, never, Mrs. Fisher asserted. Mrs. Fisher stated that she was in a state of dis-beltef' about Carol Anns death. One of tho late lieutenants former classmates, Alice McCrone, R.N., 22, 319 Church recalled her memories about her.

Theres a leader in every crowd, said Miss McCrone, and Carol was one of them. She was the type that, if there was something to be done, shed want to do it she always took the initiative. She was very active on all kinds of committees." Her picture was all through our high school yearbook, Miss McCrone 6tated. Miss McCrone talked about Lt. Drazba and Lt.

Fisher at the same time because, she said, they wer always together. You couldnt ay enough about either of them, Miss McCrone emphasized, They were very intelligent and excellent nurses. Everyone looked. up to them. They were on the top of the list as far as marks and personalities- 7 She described Lt.

Drazba as a hard and serious worker, and recalled a New Years Eve party shortly after, they had passed "their State Board examinations in 1964. I spent the entire -night of the party with her'(Lt. Drazba) and, although she was always a serious worker, she knew how to have a good time and how to enjoy herself. Miss Yolanda AmabiM, R.N., who had been in charge of the hospital dispensary when Carol Ann spent six weeks there as (Please Turn to Page 24) Nurses Map Memorial to Miss Drazba Death of an Army nurse In far off Viet Nam Saturday cast a pall of gloom over the nursing staff at Scranton State General Hospital where Lt. Carol Ann Drazba was a popular member of the 1964 graduating class.

1 William Boyd Jones, newly appointed administrator of the hospital, who never had the opportunity of meeting Miss Drazba, 22-year-old. daughter of Mrs. Marcella Drazba, 703 Butler Dunmore, reacted to the sorrow displayed by thq nurses by charting plans for a memorial service. Scranton State General Hospital and its nursing staff was considered a proper setting for such a ceremony since its graduate, Lieutenant Drazba, is one of the first two American nurses to lose her life in the Viet Nam conflict, both In the same disaster. The hospital administrator said he hoped to have members of the 1964 graduating class who are still on duty at the hospital handle arrangements for the memorial service.

Representatives of the military probably will be invited to participate. No date was set for the memorial. Glynn S. Lunney Apollo trip director Shapp Shuns Second Spot Reissues Challenge To Debate Casey PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Industrialist Milton Shapp, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate seeking an open primary contest, said Saturday under no circumstanbes will ho be a running mate with his party-endorsed rival, state Sen. Robert Casey, of Scranton.

I want to thank everyone who has asked me to join the ticket as candidate for Lt. Governor, but under no circumstances would I become a candidate for that office, he said. Shapp also re-issued a challenge to meet Casey in a series of televised debates starting In Scranton on the subject of which candidate better understands and more to solve the problems of the anthracite regions. So far, I have not received an answer to my challenge to Senator Casey, Shapp said. I hope he will answer soon, before people get the Idea he is afraid to debate.

Shapp said many members of the Democratic party are supporting his call for an open primary because they share my belief that the 2 1-2 million Democratic voters should have a voice in selecting our partys candidate for governor and other high offices, and not just (former Gov.) Dave Lawrence and a handful of cronies. Casey to Speak At $50 Dinner HARRISBURO (UPI)-Three Democratic mayors who unseated Republicans last November aijd state Robert P. endorsed candidate for governor, will be featured speakers Monday night at 350 plate party fund raising dinner. The mayors are Louis J. Tul-lio.

Erie; James Walsh, Scranton, and Alexander J. Jaffurs, Wilkinsburg. Democratic State Chairman John S. Rice said they will be "spokesmen for the nearly 40 Democratic mayors who are being honored at the affair. DAV to Discuss Convention Monday Plans for the annual state convention of the Disabled American Veteran will bo furthered at a meeting of William C.

Malia Chapter, DAV, Monday at 8:30 p.m. in the post rooms, 209 Lackawanna Ave. John Coval commander, will preside. The state convention will be held June 15-18 in this city. 7 jt -X' Area ended 1965 in betteF economic condition that it has en joyed for several years, accord ing to the Pennsylvania Industrial Scoreboard and the Pennsylvania Business Survey.

The Industrial Scoreboard, published by the State Department of Commerce, reported unemployment had dropped in the labor market area from 8.5 per cent in December, 1964, to 7.6 per cent in December, 1965, Milton F. Major enrollment chairman Drive Set Republicans to Hold Rally March 2 A concerted countywide registration drive will be charted by the Lackawanna County Republican organization at a rally Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 in the Jermyn Motor Inn on p.m.- Plans for the rally were announced by Milton F. Major who again serves as GOP registration chairman. A speaker, still to be designated, from the GOP state organization will address the rally, Major said. He also reported registration chairmen for each of the four legislative districts will be named within a week.

Voicing determination to exceed the 1965 registration record, in which Lackawanna County for the first time in many year was among the leaders in registratibngains for the GOP, Major declared; We expect to involve the greatest number of registration workers possible this year to insure our continued progress. Plans are being formulated to transport persons needing transportation to and from registration centers. He said a transportation committee chairman also will be appointed shortly. Major emphasized that the GOP, In order to continue to grow, must continue to register every non-registered voter and to change great numbers of eligible voters to the Republican side. It was indicated the registration workers will utilize the record of Gov.

William Scrantons state administration as a potent sales argument in seeking new GOP voters and changes of party' affiliation. Undaunted by the prospect for the Democratic nominee for governor, Atty. Robert P. Casey, coming from Lackawanna County, Major asserted: Lackawanna County, stands ready to be changed to a Republican majority. With a little extra effort on the part of all Republicans it can be done.

Catherine Englishs Funeral Rites Monday Funeral services will be held Monday for Mrs. Catherine G. English, former resident of Quincy Avenue this city, who died Thursday in Washington, D.C. She was the widow of Patrick J. English.

Surviving are a daughter, Mad. eline Washington; three sons, Dr. Joseph Washington; Dr. Thomas J. Villanova, and Gerald Framingham, a sister, Mrs.

William ONeill, Miami; 15 grandchildren three great-grandchildren. A funeral mass will be celebrated in Washington and Interment will be in Cathedral Cemetery, this city. and New LBJ Press Aide Here in 1962 Temperature Dipping Here Another cold blast of Icy Canadan air, moving Into Northeastern Pennsyl vania threatens a low mark set baick 5n 1936 when the temperature dropped to two below. A spokesman at the Scran-ton-Wilkes-Barreairportsaid the low in the city should be around the zero mark during the early morning hours while the outlying areas should show a low of 10 below zero. The temperature outside The Scrantonian newsroom at 10: 30 p.m.

was 2 degrees above zero. The high today is expected to range between eight and 15. The mercury started Its drop around 1 p.m. when the bulb read 24 degrees. A light snowfall Saturday afternoon and evening glazed area roads, making driving hazardous in spots.

City and highways crews were called out to-cinder dangerous spots Saturdays readings were: High, 25; low, average, 16, and normal, 29. Hourly readings at the" Scran ton-Wilkes-Barcj airport showed the temperature streaking for the zero mark. 6 p.m 13 7 p.m. 12 8 p.m, 10 9 p.m. 8 10 p.m.

6 11 p.m. 1 Temperature readings at 10:30 p.m. showed the region was held in the icy grip. Mt. Pocono, 5 above; Wyoming, 3 above; Stroudsburg, 10 above; Tunkhannock, 4 above; Mount Pocono, 5 above; New Milford, 1 above; Milford, 10 above and Honesdale, 8 above.

A light snowfall Saturday afternoon and evening glazed area roads, making driving hazardous in spots. City and highway crews were called out to dangerous spots. 4 A ST i 4 Robert H. Fleming, recently im umu nmn named deputy White House press secretary by President Lyndon B. Johnson, is no stranger to the Scranton area.

The veteran newsman, who was quoted as saying, Theres no better job than being a good reporter, visited this city for a Nov. 17, 1962, appearance and talk at the University of Scranton Alumni Institute program. At that time Fleming, who has spent over 30 years in reporting for newspapers, magazines and radio-television, was chief of ABC News Washington Bureau, a position to which he was named in 1960. In Washington, his principal assignments were on Capitol Hill but he ranged from Cape Kennedy to Honolulu, from Little Rock to Germany, and he always emphasized, In his work and that of the bureau staff, that good reporting is the basi es-r VFW, DAV, to Pay Tribute to Quinlan Members of Scranton Electric City Post 1601, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and William C. Malia Chapter No.

1, Disabled American Veterans, will conduct memorial services for the late Thomas Quinlan tonight at 8 oclock at the Walsh Funeral Home, 715 Linden St. Members will meet at the Electric City Post, 209 Lacka wanna at 7:30 p.m. and proceed to the funeral homo. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Mrs, Ida Brandwene, 55, 821 Adams was admitted to Moses Taylor Hospital Saturday at noon. Scranton Diocese nuns, injured- in a Friday, night, were reported In guarded condition in Scranton Hospital Saturday.

They are: Sister M. St. Elizabeth, 46, and Sister M. Hosti, 56," both members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at St. Pauls Convent, who suffered multiple They were hurt when the car in which they were riding col-tided with another auto on Penn Avenue and Green Ridge Street while they were returning from a recital at Marywood College.

1948 to becomo political reporter. After the national convention assignments, he toured with President Truman and GOP presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey. After leaving newspaper work in September, 1949, for a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Fleming returned to the Milwaukee Journal, concentrating on state politics and the activities of the lato Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.

In 1953 he moved to Newsweek magazine as chief of Us Chicago bureau, directing coverage in 10 North Central States. When Newsweek and ABC joined forces for political broadcasts in 1956, he was one of the participants, and when ABC had an opening in its Washington Bureau, he joined the network news staff. i Fleming had covered the 1952 national political conventions and presidential campaigns. He also covered the Democratic convention of 1956, but missed the KePublican convention to cover -Adlai Stevensons campaign. The new press aide to President Johnson is married and hat two ions.

He resides with his family in Washington. The crash occurred shortly after the helicopter left Saigon Tan Son Nhut Airport for Qui Nhon, along the central coast. Approximately 10 minutes after takeoff, the helicopter hit an electric power line, crashed and burned. Military authorities said the eraft might have been hit by guerrilla ground fir and convened a special board to investigate the incident. The doomed chopper was piloted by Capt.

Albert M. Smith, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merri-man Smith, Washington, D.C. The elder Smith is UPIs nationally famous reporter.

Also killed were Charles M. Honour Nor-cross, commander of Capt. Smiths outfit, the 145th Aviation Battalion; Capt. Thomas W. Stasko, Aurora, an Army doctor; and two crewmen aboard the helicopter, SP-4 Christopher Lantz, East Ohio, and SP-4 Gary R.

Artman, Oklahoma City, Okla. Memorial services were scheduled to be held today for the victims. Lt. Drazba, a 1961 graduate of Dunmore High School and 1964 alumna of State Hospitals I nursing school, enlisted in. the Armys Student Nurse Program and was stationed at Ft.

Sam Houston, Texas, and Ft. Hua-chuca, before she volunteered for Viet Nam duty. She was accompanied all through her school days and Army career by another Dunmorean, Lt. Marianna Fisher, 22 daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew Fisher, 1223 Clay Dunmore. The two Iriendj even went to Viet Nam 1 i i sential of news operations. His appearance at the Alumni Institute was due in large measure through the influence of Edward (Ned) Gerrrity, senior vice president of International Telephone Telegraph and a former Scranton Times newspaperman, who acted on the request of Frank J. OHara, alumni relations director for the of S. Gerrity is the son of Edward Gerrity, managing editor of The Times.

In his new position as deputy White House press secretary, Fleming will be, the right-hand man to Bill D. Moyers, now familiar to Americans in his role as White House press secretary. A native of Madison, Fleming began his journalism career early. He had three years of newspaper experience by the time he earned his bachelor of arts degree in the Univeristy of Wisconsin journalism school. He was a reporter, first In sports and then in general assignment, for the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times until 1943, when he entered the Army.

After the war, he joined the Milwaukee Journal staff and a year later, was made New York correspondent for that paper, He returned to Milwaukee in AT BOTTOM OF WORLD Commander Daniel Balish, USN, (center) demonstrates the use of the C-47 to the Goodwin Brothers, Bob (left) and Barry (right), all of Scranton. The three are eerving with the Navys Antarctic Air Squadron, VX-6, on the worlds oddest continent. Goodwins are from 501 Wintermantl Balish from 20 1 Elmhurst Blvd. 11 t. A.