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GOOD EVENING A man can fail many but he Isn't a failure until he blames someone else. THE WEATHER Central Fajr and cool tonight with early morning fog. Low In the 50s. Friday sunny, warm and more humid. High In thp 80s.

and The Lebanon Daily Times 93rd Ywr No. 8 LEBANON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 Entered at teeend clais mattir Lebanon, undir Act March 44 CENTS Reds Renew Offensive In Final Chapter To Tragedy Mass Funeral Is Held For 10 Children Who Died As Fire Swept Farm Home MANKATO, Minn. tanned, freckled mother dressed in black stood looking at the 10 little white caskets in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery, A Salvation Army captain prayed at the graveside where nine of her children and an orphan who lived with them were to be buried. The mother sobbed. 14- year-old' daughter buried her head against her step-lather's shoulder.

After a last look, the mother walked away in tears with her husband and daughter. Fire Swept Home The children died in a fire that swept the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bowdish near Kasota, Saturday night. The unemployed father and mother were in Minneapolis getting a bed from friends for the farm home which a rock company let them use rent-free.

Joanne MeConnell, 14, the mother's daughter by a previous marriage who bicycled more than a mile to a neighbor's house for help and collapsed, was the only survivor. The funeral was held Wednesday in the Bethel Baptist Church. The 10 caskets were arranged in the front of the church in a selling of roses, mums and other flowers. Boy Scouts served as pallbearers. Camp Fire Girls linec ihe sidewalks outside.

Salvation Army Capt. Donald Brundridge helped Pastor Val Hauck with the funeral. A loud speaker carried the services to an overflow crowd in the basement. The dead were Daniel, 3, Loretla, 4, Lucrelia, 5, and Kenneth Bowdish, Linda, 9, Marvin, 10, Richard, 11, Mary, 13, and Robert MeConnell, 16, and the orphan, Roger Brown, 15, who had lived wilh the family two months. From the three hearses took the caskets to the cemetery.

Burial plots were donated and a collection paid for the funeral. The Salvation Army started collecting funds for the family. J. P. Refunds Fine, Costs To Snavely Encounters Difficulty Returning Money When Three Letters Ignored Goldwater Draws Large Crowds in Democratic South RALEIGH, N.

C. (UPI) GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwaler, pleased and encouraged by his stumping in the South, today resumes his search for dissatisfied Democrats to enlist in his Republican revival. The senator flew here late Wednesday for a number of morning campaign appearances. He was to rendezvous later with the OOP's most recent political convert Sen. J.

Strom Thurmond, S. C. Thurmond officially announced his switch to the GOP Wednesday night. Thurmond was to introduce Goldwater at a rally in Greer, S. C.

Goldwater, anticipating Thurmond's formal announcement, campaigned through Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama Wednesday declaring that South Carolinan's switch sets an example for Democrats in the South and elsewhere in the nation. Promises Return Goldwater brought his campaign plane here after a night rally in Montgomery, Ala. There he promised that a Re- (Conlinufd On Twenlr-Faur) Loses Legal Bid For Suppression Of Statement Jonestown RD Woman Killed On Route 22 Johnson Offers Anti-War Pledges On Western Tour A 65-year-old Jonestown RD 2 woman was killed early this afternoon in an automobile crash on Route 22 between Oho and the Jonestown Cloverleaf. She was identified as Mrs. May Zearfoss.

Her husband, Jacob, was admitted to the Good Samaritan Hospital with multiple cuts of the scalp, forehead and left ankle. Dr. A. H. Heisey, Lebanon County Coroner, said the woman died of a broken neck and a crushed chest.

Jonestown state police are investigating. Warming Trend To Continue Here Through Friday SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI) President Johnson presented a siring of anti-war pledges that today heightened the question of nuclear arms control as an election campaign issue. The President laid down his views Wednesday night at a civic dinner here in which he said: nation and the world "can rest assured that we have taken-every step man can devise to ensure that neither a madman nor a malfunction could trigger nuclear war." "will never let slip the engines of destruction because of a reckless and rash miscalculation about our adversaries." Raises Nuclear Issue Johnson pointed up the nuclear issue at a non-partisan dinner sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce and three Seattle area universities. The event climaxed the first day of a two-day tour through four western states and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Heading from Seattle to Port- (Condnued On Twentj-Four) A $53 fine and costs imposed on James N. Snavely, North Lebanon Township resident involved in the celebrated dog law violation charge, has been returned to his brother who paid the money, it was reported today in the Municipal Building. It was not easy to get Snavely to accept the money, howevo- it was related by Mrs. Mary Spallone, Swalara Township justice of the peace. Mrs.

Spallone said she sen I Snavely Ihree letters asking him or his brother, Richard, lo pick up the money at her office after she was directed to return it by Judge G. Thomas Gales in July. "He ignored all three letters," Mrs. Spallone related. The justice of the peace said she had offered the return of the money bnth in cash and a cashier's check.

When Snavely failed to pick up Launch 7 Attacks In Mekong Delta South Of Saigon Joints Hurt In Big Way COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPH George Walton, in federal court on a charge of moon- shining, explained Wednesday that he suffered from arthritis and liked to lake an occasional nip for relief. Judge J. Robert Elliott replied that Wallon must have a pretty serious case of arthritis to require a 700-gallcm still. He sentenced Walton to one year in prison.

SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPI) Communist Viet Cong guerrillas who bided their Lime during a month of political turmoil in Saigon today renewed the full fury of their military offensive in the countryside. the money at Mrs. Spallone's office the cashier's check was given to her attorney, who in turn gave it to Snavely's attorney, according to Mrs. Spallone. Paid In Cash Mrs.

Spallone pointed out that the $53 was paid to her at her office in cash and that she initially sought lo return it the same way she received it. Snavely charged that Ihe fine and costs imposed in February on a dog law violation charge stemmed from alleged persecution because he is involved in a lawsuit against the Cornwall-Lebanon Suburban Joint School System over Bible reading in the schools. Snavely asked a ban on the practice. A county court decision in July dismissed dog law violation charges originally brought against Snavely two years ago. UPl-Ddily NEWS Facsimile.

HAIRY PROBLEM George Leonard, known professionally as Georgie Porgie, who claims that long hair is a part of his future as an entertainer, complained when Joseph E. Joyce, his high school principal in Atlleboro, asked him to cut off the locks. His abundant locks are just a hair longer than the Beatles'. Need Exuberant Leaders Board Of Society For Crippled Elects 5 Members Five new members were elected to the board of the Leb- American military advisers said the Vipt Cong are attack- ins in greater force than at any tinin in the past two months: They cited: Communists launched seven full-scale attacks in the lowor Mekong River Delta south of Saigon on Monday night. This surpassed their four- a-nisht average during their July offensive, which was the worst of the year.

crescendo followed a week in which Vietnamese forces lost men killed, 5-50 wounded and ISO missing for a total of 965 casualties, record for NUM. The rebels lost 290. killed, 120 captured and an unknown number of wounded. Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, ommandcr of the Vietnamese ir force and the key man in iifling the weekend "generals' oup" in Saigon, told UPI that outposts were overrun in California Clergyman Says Pastors Should Expect More Of Flocks PHILADELPHIA (UPI) A California clergyman told the staff of the United Presbyterian Bo arc of National Missions Wednesday night that minister should expect more of their congregations. No Damage Is Reported In 2 Fires Wednesday City firemen were called out to extinguish two grass fires A Jonestown RD 2 woman lost a legal bid in the county courts Wednesday afternoon to suppress a statement she made to police concerning the fatal accident in which she was Grace Swalm, 26, made the statement voluntarily, it was ruled by Judge G.

Thomas Gates after hearing testimony from six witnesses, including Mrs. Swalm and her husband, Francis. Mrs. Swalm is scheduled for trial in the county courts next week on involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving charges. The hearing was set to determine whether Mrs.

Swalm had given the slalcment voluntarily and without jeopardizing her constitutional rights. Police have charged Mrs. Swalm as the driver of a car Involved in a car pole crash on Route 72, near Jonestown state police substation, on May 2. Her sister- in-law, Mrs. Samuel E.

Lymaster, 32, Lebanon HD 2, was killed In the accident. Commonwealth witnesses tes (Continued StTtnleen) A warming trend is expected to continue in Lebanon County through Friday. high-pressure system that brought cool weather to the state moved east of New England today and winds became southerly, filtering warmer air into the mid- Atlantic states. The city of Lebanon was Wednesday, Fire Chief according to city Harold McGowan. wrapped in a thick fog blanket early today, but the sun was beginning to burn through the haze by mid-morning.

The fog was apparently a localized condition, as some sections of the county reported having none. Fair, Cool Tonight High temperatures this afternoon were predicted to range Between 72 and 82 degrees. It will be fair and cool tonight (Continued Twn) No damage was reported in either case. Two boys playing wilh matches were blamed for a brush fire on the corner lot at First and Locust Streets, at 6 p. m.

Responding to the alarm were Chemical Fire Company and the fire police. Assistant Fire Chiefs Warren Wallermeyer and Joseph Fick, along wilh Chief McGowan, were also at the scene. A dump on Eighteenth Street, Pleasant Hill was the scene of a fire at 2:30 p. it was reported by Fick. The Union Hose and Pleasant Hill Fire Companies were called to the scene.

The cause of the fire was unknown, Fick reported. Firemen were recalled lo Ihe dump at 3 a. m. today when a flare-up occurred at the same Bible Study Fund Given $48 Since Wednesday Current total of the Bible Study Fund is $2,357, Paul Kohr, Fund' treasurer, reported this morning. Four donations amounting to $48 were added since yesterday.

The fund, to be used lo help pay costs of setting up a Bible study course in the Cornwall-Lebanon Suburban Joint School System, has grown by some $647 in a few short weeks. Contributions range from less than a dollar to $100 or more. Fund chairman Lloyd Collier says that sizeable donations by various groups around the county are forthcoming. Contributions are being accepted at Ihe First National Bank in Lebanon. Sfabag in tip Cleona Barber Shop CLOSED Friday, Sept.

18 Due to Death in Family MARK WOLFE, Prop. site. Responding to the alarm this morning was the Neversink Fire Company of Pleasant Hill. Hurricane Gladys Builds Up, Plods Toward Land MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Gladys built its winds to 90 miles per hour today and plodded on a west-northwest course toward the mainland. Forecasters said, however, it may be several days before they can determine if the season's seventh tropical twister will hit land.

At last reports Gladys was localcd about 1,050 miles east of Miami and was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 miles an hour. House Dispute Erupts Over Red Blackmail Racket WASHINGTON bit ter controversy has erupted in Congress over whether to publish portions of an immigration subcommittee hearing said to involve an international refugee "shakedown" by Communist nations. Thus far, behind-the- scenes skirmish is confined to the House Judiciary Committee headed by Rep. Emanuel Cell er, Celler'considers cer lain leslimony given at a recen' immigration hearing so explo sive that he has delayed publi cation until he can confer wit!" Secretary of Slate Dean Rusk. Fighting for publication the malerial is Rep.

Michael Feighan, D-Ohio, whose immigration subcommittee wanted to include it in a hearing print. While Ihe principals decline lo comment, other sources said the disputed testimony was given by a government witness. These sources said it involves an "international scandal 1 Dr. Henry B. Kuizenga'of Sa said the church get the exuberant leaders it ineds when it is exhuberanl about what il believes and expects ils members to tackle leavy jobs.

"To judge by the gimmicks and the stunts, the strategies and Madison Avenue techniques we employ," he said, "you get the impression that we assume that none of us has ever really heard about Christ at all, that we have to be pressured and (Continued rm Page Forty-four) anon County Society for Gripped Children and Adults at a meeting ot the society held on Wednesday night at the Avon School. The new board members are: Harry Fisher, Mrs. Dorothy Ry moff, Mrs. John lannicelli, Mrs Robert H. Binner and Mrs.

Em ma Roth. Members re-elected to board are: Mrs. Priscilla Fo Rolhermel, Miss Eleanora Ehrhorn, Mr. and Mrs. L.

Bruce Henderson, Richard Bachman, Mrs. Angela Kercher, Robert Mrs. Paul Levcngood, he Mekong Delia on Monday night. He said this was the first double vie- ory in the Delta in the past six months. Rule Section Of Rights Act Is Illegal Voted For House Action WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Appropriations Committee today voted just under 51.

billion in a final catchall supplemental money hill. It carries funds to crank up President Johnson's anti poverty, food stamp and mass transit projects. The appropriation bill will come up in the House Tuesday. It brings lo about $94 billion the total funds appropriated by Clifford Hockley, Harry Parker, Joyce Schies, M. B.

Krum, Harvey Nilnnier, Leroy Blouch, Mrs. Sarah Harlman, Mrs. Paul Emery, Miss Rose Bollman, Ihe Rev. a 1 Beamesderfer, Henry Mark, R. Hart Beaver, William Peiffer, Paul Gingrich, Harry J.

Uhrich, Mrs. Sarah Minnich, Mrs. James Smith, Jack Brighlbill, Mrs. Lucy Pfaulz and Mrs. Russell S.

Plush. Mrs. Rothermel, presi- denl, conducted the meeting. Mrs. Minnich announced plans for the annual dinner meeting to be held Monday night, Ocl.

2fi, at Pushnik's. The guest speaker will be George Rynier, a member of the state society. Brace for an Ace Awards will also be giv- on at the dinner meeting. Paul Gingrich announced that the slate convention will be held in Lancaster Oct. 22, 23 and 24.

A budget committee was appointed as follows: L. Bruce Henderson, Mrs. Minnich, Paul Gingrich, Harvey Nitrauer and R. Hart Beaver. Congress this year.

This is about $3.7 billion less than President Johnson requested. BLANK ON BEATLES NOTTINGHAM, England (UPI) Rosamunde Fisher came back Wednesday from two years of voluntary service among Pacific Islanders and asked, "Who are the Beatles?" (Continued on Pajte Twenly-clght) PEDDLER SHOT TO DEATH NEW YORK (AP) A street peddler of "dancing" paper dolls was shot lo death on Broadway near Times Square Wednesday night, and the gunfire threw the theater and din- Amusements Area Classified 42 43 Comics 40 41 Editorial 1S Financial 2 Obituaries Sports 37,38,39 Women Pages lUnU A Hertx Car Hear For Yourself Sen. Goldwater Will Speak Friday Night On Channel IS Fer Geldwatcr Chnrln Ntil, Ci-CMirmm Mrt. Wtiii, Ct-Chttrmin. Caddies Wanted Sun, LEBANON COUNTRY CLUB Report to golf pro ner-hour crowd into turmoil.

of BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A three-judge federal panel today ruled that the public-accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional as applied to a Birmingham restaurant. The judges, who expressed their concern over the spread of congressional powers, issued a temporary restraining order against acting U.S. Alty'. Gen.

Nicholas Kalzenbach, prohibiting him from enforcing the act. The ruling, filed in U.S. District Court, was in connection with a suit brought by Ollie McClung Sr. and his son, co- owners of Ollie's Barbecue. The McClungs challenged the constilulionalily of the law and asked for ihe temporary injunction.

U.S. Dist. Judges Seybourn (Continued on Taft Twn) The board approved a recommendation by Miss Ehrhorn con FIRST AID CLASS STARTING Isaac H. Light, certified Red Cross first aid instructor. for Lebanon County Chapter, American Red Cross, announces the start of a class in standard first aid, on Monday at 7:00 p.

m. at the Palmyra fire hall. Interested persons are invited (Continued on Forty-four) to register at that time. Eats High Off Hog FOLLOWS SCRIPT LONDON (UPI) John Suit Your Fancy This Fall With A Suit Tillii Spangler Thursday-Friday Ird and Cumberland Sts. Hawkesworth, 43, one of Britain's top film writers and author of the television play "One For The Road" the story of a policeman accused of driving under the influence of was fined $140 after pleading guilty to driving under the influence.

Local Goldwater Group Receives Certification Official certification as a politi' cal organization was announced! by the local Citizens For Gold- 1 water during their weekly meeting in the organization's headquarters on North Ninth Street Wednesday night. With the official certification the committee can legally solicit funds and make expenditures in political matters. Also discussed at the meeting was the necessity of getting volunteer workers from the local area lo help before and during Ihe Nov. 3 election. George Eisley secretary and Charles Neil, co-chairman conducled the 'meeting.

Country Boy From Alabama Lands Smack Into Royalty At Greek King's Shindig Gym Clothing, Shoes and Accessories at Special Prices. Charlie Baer's Don't Forget The Penn State Alumni Club Meets Tonight 8 O'clock Lincoln Republican Club By EDDY GILMOKE ATHENS, Greece, (AP) A language misuziderstanding with a Greek taxi driver landed his country boy from Alabama mack in the midst of royalty Vednesday night at King Con- itantine's state ball. Armed wilh an invilalion rom Queen Mother Frederika, left my hotel with my Russian- born wife Tamara and lold the axi driver in bad Greek: "To he royal palace, please." Inslead of delivering us to Ihe palace, Ihe driver took us to the George Hotel, reserved this week for kings, queens and other royal guests in Athens for the wedding Friday of Greece's young king to Princess Anne- Marie of Denmark. Hnrrihle Mistake At the hotel I realized a horri ble mistake had been made and told the head porter my situa tion. "It doesn't matter," he said vith a laugh.

"Just come wilh me. As about 5,000 Greeks looked HI, he ushered us to one of the palace limousines and sent us to he parly. The driver turned on the ights and we moved slowly oward the palace, crowds of Greeks cheering every foot of way. "King Farouk" "That's King Farouk," yelled omeone. Beside a hedge at the palace, frock-coated officials bent low and kissed Tamara's hand.

Behind ex-King Umberto of Italy, we walked forward, ambassadors and ministers bowing every foot of the way. Finally it got too much. "Excuse me, but where in the hell am I supposed to go?" 1 asked a court official at we neared the head of the line. "Who are you, sir?" he asked. "Just a very plain American," I replied.

"Some taxi driver has really hugged us." "Bugged you, sir?" he asked, sweeping us on toward an open pavilion inside the palace grounds. No Turning Back There was no turning back. Behind Umberto we approached the pavilion where Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie sat wilh Queen Molher Frcderika. Frederika could nol have been nicer. She.

probably wondered how Tamara and I got sandwiched between kings and queens, but she never showed it. "Tino," she said to her son, "I want you to meet From then on we were eating very high off Ihe hog..