Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 15

WAR AND PEACE THE SAME TO NURSE X7iu liauan Ajampaign Thinks Auto Victims as Bad as Army Casualties RIDLEY PARK Tho whrt air; THK GROUP iMG TiKKii arH w. snattered Si rfTrlfS remains of what had been a drrtv from an oiptit tu train stead, she was raised there, Canada and in Corning, N. V. SHE WAS GRADUATKn a and dying, the length of Italy pikt" wished they, hadn't. was her younger sister, Helene, also a nurse with the 33rd.

Sandstorms, gooey mud and cold were part of her personal life at Bizerte where she wni we eim 01 uie secona me imsic aiuerence war to end all wars. registered nurse fmm the Uni yersity of Pennsylvania Hospital" at the 1'50? ii iuwr worKtne Dnef st i been assistant directress of. nurses at Delaware County Hospital, on the psychiatric staff Valley Forge Army Hospital and held' other posts. She has been here since May of 1954. Miss Eilers lives at 1136 Kenwood Darby, with Dorothy A.

Penrose, former directress ot nurses at Delaware County Hospital They met there at the start of their careers and have been fast friends" Then in June of 1944. the tween war and peace for. Miss Eilers was the GI. "I got a great deal of satisfaction out of helping the soldier; Everything you did. for him was greatly appreciated.

He expected nothing and everything he got he appreciated made rids was trucked to the top of a hill. It was "the dead of night" in' a strange land. A voice barked, 'This is it!" They dragged their equipment from the trucks and looked about, saw only darkness. Not a solitary tree broke the skyline. They, opened their bed rolls, collapsed in sleep the ground.

The next morning, the screams of low flying planes awakened them, and' the sun brought forth a "gorgeous view" of lake, sea and sand. Delaware County Hospital, she took a post graduate course at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Among her 'posts was super WAR AND PEACE they can mean tlie same to a niirse. They can mean the screams and low moans of the suffering the silence of the dead the mutilated bodies the seemingly miraculous recoveries. But there is a vast difference.

For Miss. war came shortly after her arrival at wind swept Bizerte when the 1 i ojju uiaLrucior ot the you feel good made you erating room at the University group went to Rome a few days after it fell. They took over a German hospital, stayed there four months before going north to Leghorn nine miles behind the front. There, they set up a hospital in a school. With VE Day Miss Eilers, then a captain, was named chief nurse of a Pacific bound station hospital.

But while home on learve, VJ Day came and her eventual separation. wiu'umuiK. ijnai anu aimosc similar po And, because the Datipnts sitions. at hosmtaU in R.iffoi ware so young, there were, so Rochester, and Schenectady, N.Y.' iirsr.ol lour Uerman air attacks She siffnprt nn with rt.a And today in a land of peace, Miss Eilers can say ironically: "I think some of our auto accident victims are every bit as bad as what I saw during the war. Some of the casualties rained down on the port and say miraculous irbv American airfield.

Eilers had 14 years' ex General Hospital in March 1942 and "shipped over" in July, 1943. With her the war perience in seven hospitals when she went to war. Born in Home SINCE THE WAR, she lias experiences." THUS PEACEFULLY began the war duty of the 33rd General Hospital, U.S. Army, on a' hilltop overlooking Bizerte, Tunisia. It was the summer of 1943.

Among that group was Miss Ortrud R. Eilers, now 52, director of nursing service here at Taylor Hospital. Tunisia, then the scene of war, is again perched on its abyss, again the arena of violence, possibly again to be a battlefield of war. Bizerte then was a seaport, bristling for the invasion of Italy The hospital personnel stood on their hill by then a tent city and watched bursting bombs and red tracers darting through the night sky. looked like a beautiful fireworks display," she recalls, "and we stood up and watched it" BUT WHEN THE first German plane was downed, the horror of war came home.

Curious, she and others to. see the crumpled wreckage of the plane. WAR AND 1 EACE For a nurse, war and peace can mean the same thing suffering and death. Miss Or trud R. Eilers, 52, of 1136 Kenwood Darby saw four years service as a nurse during World War II and mitt setve.a lumsia again a trouble spot and Italy.

uiic a uuw uirector ot nursing service at Taylor Hos pital, Kidley Park. 'Friday, February us 15 Bandit Gets $1,000 in Heyburn May Team Up With Statural in Darby Store, Thug Waves Gun 'Like Crazy Man lv DARBY A lone hAu Support got about SLOW) 'w mid afternoon holdup of 'a Darby drug store that conducts a check cashing business. The holduD man onWoj orurram Cloud Shinn store, located at' Rumored sis Mam at 3:50 p.m. Police Chief John J. Buley said the man "waved a gun around like a crazy Buley said the drug store wife protected, "a consider xx neynurn former state treasurer, is serious 1 ul LtwiLins UD do itica able amount of cash" when she attempted to thwart the holdup man by knocking bundles of cash ly.

with gubernatorially minded LU Ule woor. Mrs. Andrew B. And "aiyiu acassen, authoritative sources were saying today. cLaim, Wnp was acting as cashier in the check cashing booth, refused to give the holduo man th 1 tfttm mf: mim oetniie nomination.

Stassen report i money when he demanded the iiy bidriea wooing him Monday, power blocs have, been KNOCKED TO FLOOR. Mrs. Anderson hslri rmf mMQ. pjULU.u a very coia stioutder. Hot On thp hocl r.f tx.i..

tarily and then with a sweep of her arms knocked bundles of cash to the floor behinH th Sias.SPn rpnrt to oromnrP A 7 fTxr T' are (left to rihfc) Leond Cell, deputy to piomote A. Fred Manno of district governor from Philadelphia Tfiffis sidenfof ESS; Chester attorney Thomas' A. Cur ran is a pipe cinch" to The holdup man scooped up some and his cnmnm'cm sia on county Kepubltcan organization support as candidate Lewis McDougal of Marcus Hook Lions! iiu nuiei. eastern pan ot jfennsyl vania, was held last night. Lzuitumng on the booth counter.

Buley said the loss amounted to about Buley said about five persons were in the drue store whp tu. lul tpresentauve NO COMMENT Delaware Cniintv nnta tion will comment officially at this armed bandit entered. He ordered them to stand against the wall and pulled down a curtain at the display, window. Bulev said the man waved the gun "like he was hopped up1' and frightened both ciLller uurran or Hey 1 mammm 'White Elephant Fate Put Off Tivo Weeks Nuising HomeOK'd is no secret, however, that McClure and Heyburn are, and have been, on different sides of uai uxiieis ana employes. "1C puuee cniei said the mani ran out of the drup tnr racuonat fence.

When With an open house program and birth CHESTER DesnitP nnnncitinJ mi me May primary started around the raced to a car parked across the street. The parking lot is part of CHESTER Whether this city's, 13 year old headache the USO uence now have a nice from one person and a request by ooueuor rnmp Mc.Mun ewes iuneral establishment. Bulev said thP rar residential area. A recreation ter would onlv attract 'tv. wL llJC neyoum was mentioned as a possibility for either the Senate or the governorship igai 10 continue the hearing at a oiiucung at 5th and Flower sts.

will be allowed to operate as a recreation center will remain a out of the lot and was last seen! and this would encourage Juvenile later date, the Zoning Board of Butf now it appears that Mc fpeais granted a special excen heading north on Springfield rd I Buley jsaid the holdun oepnrrt Scott Paper Sales Set New Record; Up $4,695,029 Over Previous Year moot question 'for at least another uL uaqut'iicy. AFTEft SCHOOL 1I0UKS non yesterday fo use the building uecioea aismterest in Hev burns candidacy has influenced jjust as Darby police were changJ UUJ vii sc. as a nursing, home. two. weens.

The so called "white elephant," a "court football" since the one story structure was completed in 1945, popped ud in the news a ain Requesting the snecial p.vcnftnn ig snucs. He said several patrol! cars were in the area but werel unaware, of the holdup until one uoicistein, who was represented by Attorney Albert Blumberg. ex piaincd that the building would he used as a community center for dances, civic meetings and were Mrs. Sara Keener of New CHEST FTP tnni be ttr Was expected. 0L excellent progress lor foreign vnuQiecown rar Media, and Mrs.

Frances Minshatl o( RirW tH oyuLLcu yeupie muling around in tne street outside the drug store. tion in thp state S. yesterday when Henry Goldstein in sales rfririno 107 'P15 'm wlljch Sctt has invest Green Ridge. events alter scnool fiours. "I can assure von th.

it lim. time, is presumably hopeful that KVCiKAl, LEADS pf 54,695,029 over the previous ments Unit saIes of household year. products manufactured by West The oolicp hipf cai rarai Also granted was a special peril to NTaiIman Construction Co. will not be allowed" on the grounds descriptions of the get away car Although it to construct twn twin hincoe for 1957 totaled u. oi nnusn uo iniTnr.t lumbia.

of which Scotr mvm "Jn ered that such a piav is a "noth urn it. ana Washington av. ui iii nit ouuaing. said L.oidstem. The owner of Babyland at SOD Edgmont av.

outlined his experience in conducting dances and ana license numDer were radioed to police in adjoining communities. The car wa? nn) jnw.i per cent, increased more than 12 UlS tO OS3" nmrv.e;r,n I uuuing me nursing home re uerrea uiviaends to 52.6S per common share, compared with $22,355, 721, or $2.78 a share in 1956. wts iwetvin einoerg, a res i.eiii. vL itminster last year iacquired the pulp and paper man sports events. He assured the ied.

Buley said his department has jseveral leads that will be checked amount to political suicide for Hey luei.t or tne dwj Diock 21 st. He; contended that nnrctno hm ni Mills Division of Howard Smith On. the mimtir per products also set a new sales ne areal The holdup man conducted the depreciate: Paper Mills near Joilette, Quebec. to ooara mat lie would supervise all activities. "I also plan (o beautify the grounds, paint the outside of the building and I'm certain that my program will help to curb juvenile jofjerauon single handed.

Buley jof 4.5 per cent, last year. Sales iiuniiiidtion iront, insiders are saying that Curran emerged victorious in an ASKS FOR CONTINUANCE said he was white and Scott owns half intcrUt ctT ti McMunisal first Htcmnf; brown mask over his face Thu race for organization support. His ul. ipeciany industrial papers the Hollmgsworth Whitney ani Detroit Divisions totaled 547,155, tne nrst of two new paper ma himself as the board's attnmowi tnmg tne man said was ucinujucncy in mis then asked that the hearing be want tne money. Mayor Proclaims Wildlife Week CHESTER Mayor Eyre today called on residents of this city to programs designed to protect natural resources and declared the week of March 16 22 as National lite Week here.

"The wise use of natural resourcessoils, waters, forests, grasslands, minerals and wildlifeis essentia to the welfare and security of the individual, community, state and nation," said the mayor. He explained that the sound management of these resources cannot be achieved without the guidance and support of an informed and interested public. "Our vast areas of parks, forest, wildlife, wildnerness and range lands must be managed so as to protect and utilize their resources in a manner best suited to present and future needs of the American people," he said. piunes in us ivonntieet, tngland. plant during the year and Scott's leponeaiy William Milliken Jr.

of Sharon Hill. MEMBERS OF BOARD iuau iaouua. Chester Times sports writer, testified that in his continued. The assistant solicitor explained that lie lives at 705 E. Pulp sales decreased to 57,797,764 from 59.809.233 in 195fi Anderson, who lives at 25 S.

3rd Colwyn, refused to give Information to a reporter. Employes protested vehemently when a news dustiial de San Cristobal, aug jopinion the proposed recreation center would help youths to keep Both Curran and Milliken are ucn a otocfc from the pro mented its paper output with a second paper machine. former county office holders and Scott's annual report, issued to both are long time members of day' said hV significant conditions both are long time members of day' 5aid hV significant conditiom photographer attempted to makel He explained that many residents of the area wrrp nnt orv. McClure" political policy makin" atIec cd cntire PaPer industrv Initial Met r.mr requested that a special exception under (commercial) zoning be granted by Zoning Board of Appeals. The board, after hearing testimony both for and against Ihe request, deeded to withhold a decision until the School Board expresses an official opinion.

School officials will make a decision their next meeting March 10. Jacob Sapov'its, School Board president who attended the two hour hearing, explained after the session that school officials are very interested in Goldstein's request, SCHOOL IN AREA "Since students would use the building and since two schools (Washington and Douglass') are in the area in question, every board official must be given a chance to study today's testimony heforc expressing an opinion," said Sapo vits. Goldstein, who lives at 241 Canterbury explained that he is purchasing the one story structure from Samuel Green and Henry Bcrgcr, Opposing the request were at last 15 persons who own dwellings on the north side of 7th st, between Edwards and Flower sts. Represented by Attorney Edward Kassab. the residents said a recreation center would become a nuisance.

"I have lived at 1716 W. 7th st. for 12 years." said Mrs. Dorothy Martin. "As far as I am concerned 1 HASN'T BEEN USED Goldstein's request begi third important chapter i picture inside the drug stoic! 'The police will have to rivp vnn of the hearing and asked for timet ICCeSsfullv in DfvornKij me uf board of supervis tuiiiiJeuLion was iniensi iiuuunaiion, anaerson said.

lo una out whether they were opposed to the request. structure's life. And so far, the Canadian affiliate, British Colum effect that fh i feet that thi exuander! Tvr "We took necessarv stns re building has not been used. It was originally to be used quired by law and advertised the a inat there is ana mat mere is uemaixi lor paper prod estment of more than 515,000.000 usuucu, a possibility that Ciuran and MiUi ucts a recreation center tor wartime; "cdiing. explained John Lacush chairman, and Robert Hibbert workers, the nrst important cnap tcr was written in 1914 when the years supplied a substantial portion (if thp futile nuuudiizea each oth w)wer prottt margins resulted ers chances, leaving the prize op from increasing costs which cou'd to any of the other threP main noL be immti3w ff.f not be immediately offset full! board member.

Mrs. Minshalls husband, James, in late Jamas A. Devlin, the city's building inspector at the time, de Istruction of the new mill. uy operaimg economics or price told the board the nursing home is large enough to accommodate about 26 Walkine ence D. Belt of Upland and Edwin E.

Llnninrvitf OrJ nt clared the structure still under construction a fire traD. He avances. Scott realigned and strengthened advances realigned and strengthened I ordered the builder's arrest. This will be located on the second floor denr rrovl1 SgotWH and operations Famous Last Word? wmie nea patients will be on the touched off a court fight. In the iend the court ruled that the U.S.

inira itoor. But (he sccaned political sophi nTtiafed'a SJpffi kthods of Government was execmpt from provisions of the city's building! code. But this action came, when i Curran announcement to problems and Quits City Jobs, All 9 of Them me war emieci nnrt there use for the building. Registrars Sit In Three Areas Teams of traveling registrars will be stationed in Collingdale borough hall, Newtown Square firehouse and Trainer School today from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

to register voters for the May 20 Primary Election. Monday they wili move to Nether Providence. ter Township and Sharon Hill. In Nether Providence they will be at two locations: Garden City administration building and Nether Providence High School. In Chester township they will sit in the Feltonville Firehouse and in Sharon Hill also in the firehouse.

Registrations also are being taken at the county courthouse in Media from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 9 a.ni. to noon on Green and Bcrgcr bought the that the minority 'party is havin C(Pany intensified re its usual trouble finding a canT programs DETROIT IB Douglas Waddell. "white elephant" for $17,200 at a public auction in 1954.

Another legal battle followed when the is OUt of a lob lodnv nino and expects to "go down r5t entry into a to the wre" before puttbg a manl 'b'. unrelated to pulp and of them, to be exact. i "wut uun oi a urein Alter a tiff with the mnvor nf properly was rezoned from residential to (commercial) in 1956. pne toam suitable for household! Mioui Dan uarocn City, he re 'Taxpayers, many of thorn protest gnea as city superintendent. uuatritlt applications.

Outboard Stolen ScottJ spent s42.132.473 in 1957 for additions and improvements to 1 ireasurer. nurehasintrt ing Goldstein's request, opposed the rezoning and hack to the Show Set for PTA CHESTER A radio variety show will be presented Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. by the Parent Teachers Assn. of William Penn Elementary School, loth si. and Highland av.

Heading the program at the school will be Jite Mcrmtlov ooara ot appeals secretary, Planning Commission member, Board secretary treasurer and wooir n. An outooard mot l.a,,t "'s, umtxriands and for valued at SiOfi t5t invptmontc mmJ courts went the city ir.ggest headache. Judge William R. Toal upheld representative of the County San 1 the rezoning and last November nation Aumonty. a garage at 230 W.

22hd st yes 538,595,988 in 1956. Officials said terday. Police identified the own it is anticipated expenditures for' as Mrs. Marion Jane Pawl Plant, investments and timber re 1 jing. Mrs; Pawling told police, en sources will be substantially lower' the rczonmR also was tmhcld by Waddell says he has no dnfinito nd Johnny Wilcox.

Refreshments the Delaware County Common will be served following the shov. mans tor tne tuture but "at least I have a lot of experience." 'Let them play in the recreation room. Ther'a noth ier, mem piay the recreat: wirxiow. reported 1957 was a year ing in there they can hurt.".