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GOOD EVE where they knork thrv iff. 84fh YEAR No. 72 OmtVll I li'niphi v. iih snrnvbrsiniuna; and The Lebanon Daily Times nif: in LEBANON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1955 B3 Entered at fecund matter (ho of Lebanon, under Ao( of Mireb 48 PAGES FIVE CENTS UP-Daily NEWS Facsimile. DEATH ON SD DAY Marvin.

Freeman, 24, of Cincinnati, Ohio, lived through only three hours and five minutes of Safe Driving Day today. Freeman was killed instantly early today when his car utility poles and overturned while traveling at a high rate speed. Three companions riding with him were also injured, one critically. Freeman's death raised lo 102 the number of fatalities in the Cincinnati area since the first of the year. Here firemen work to free the body of one of the occupants trapped in the auto.

Lebanon Observes Safe-Driving Day; Highway Toll Up This Year Today is Safe Driving effort curb highway accidents that has the endorsement of no less personage than President if there any community that needs to observe-it it is Lebanon County. With three people killed in highway accidents in the past week, Lebanon County has the ugly record of twenty-three killed on its streets and roads this year as compared M'ith thirteen on th'e same date last year. Speaking on the project, President Eisenhower nearby Gettysburg, "The heed andjirgen-t. Last-year an American man, woman or was killed in traffic every fifteen minutes. Someone was injured every seconds.

And this year the record is worse: More people are dying; more are injured and crippled At noon today only one accident 'had been reported in the Lebanon area. Guy O.tt, 37, of 314 Park FTershey, injury at 2:45 a.m..today when he leaped from his car as it plunged into icy Sp.ring Creek after skidding from West Mansion Road when it struck an icy patch on the roadway. accident was investigated by PfcV William R. Koscinsky or the at Hershey. Ott was in the car and no charges were; preferred.

i.state:ias i appeared' to have gotten through the first few hours of the twenty-four-hour observance with no fatalities, though there were several "near misses," th'e United Press reported. Various communities had various dodges to spark the observance though police in this area said somewhat bitterly, that they hac enough to do, with routine patrols and oher duties, to pay much at tention'to any "drives." In Western Pennsylvania 100,000 posters, slickers and balloons were being distributed to spark the drive A Pittsburgh newspaper gave or chids to" safe drivers. In Philadel phia police handed out free mea tickets to courteous drivers. Six "persons were killed in, the state on the' a me: "day last; 'year, observ an IHe pr oj ec't In the nation as a whole, it ap last year's record 51-killed on S-D Day, might riot.be improved. y- AFL CIO Open Conventions To Ratify Merger NEW YORK AFL and CIO today opened separate conventions primarily to ratify an agreement that will merge the two organizations into the largest and most powerful labor group in the 'nation's history.

The merger itself will take place formally next Monday when 1,800 representatives of the two groups meet 71st Regimental Armory for the inaugural convention of "The American Federation oj Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations." John L. Lewis' independent United Mine Workers Wednesday night requested jhe CIO to pay bacR $1,665,000 in before melting into the giant new organization. In a to CLO Secretary Treasurer James B. Carey, Secretary Treasurer John Owens dunned the CIO for repayment so its members ean "honor this valid loan before you dissolve your organization." Says UMW Lent Money A spokesman for the UMW said the mine workers lent the money after Lewis had led the then Committee for Industrial Organization out of the AFL in the mid-1030's. But Carey replied directly to Lewis that his union was "in error" in claiming the CIO was in arrears or was being dissolved.

Carey -ilso referred Id Lewis' (Continued on Thirty) Small Girl Dies As Fire Sweeps Scranfon Home- SCRANTON, Pa. (UP) A 14- months-old girl Wednesday in a fire that swept lhc home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hart. Mrs.

Hart and neighbors made several futile attempts lo save Ihe baby, Mary Hart, trapped in her crib when flames broke out in a storage room adjoining the child's bedroom. The mother and three other children were in the kitchen. Two neighbors, Patrick Langan, 52, and Walter Calvert, 28, suffered burns of the hands in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue Mary by climbing a ladder to her bedroom window. HAROLD'S 707 Cnmberlind St. i Dial 2-8481 General APPLIANCES SALES AND SERVICE Seven Potential Sites For New Armory Listed Seven potential sites for a new $200,006 State Armory building proposed for Lebanon will be recommended to the State Armory Board, it was reported last evening'during the November session of the Regional Planning Commission in the county court room.

The sites were sought by the Commission following receipt of word several weeks ago State and Federal authorities were willing to construct a new Armory building here. The present Armory is'situated on Chestnut Street, near 3rd. Lebanon City Engineer Frank L. Gardner, chairman of the site selection committee, said a representative of the State Armory Board will be asked to look over the sites and select the one most suitable. The action must also be approved by the Department of the Army.

The site committee, composed of Gardner, County Commissioner George T. Tucker, and Vcrnon Bishop, recommended the following tracts as potential sites; corner, 8lh Ave. and East Cumberland three acres, more or less, owned by George K. Harbold. 2.

A tract just west of Lebanon on Route 422, North Cornwall Township, three acres more or less, owned by Samuel Wengert. 3. Sou-thcast corner, 8th Ave. and Easl Cumberland three acres, more or less, owned by the county. 4.

Southeast corner, 8th and Poplar Streets, 2.54 acres, owned by Lebanon News Publishing Company. 5. Tract on Lehman jus-t west of 14th 8.11 acres owned by the county commissioners. 6. Tract on the east side of Cornwall Road, between Duke and Summit Streets, .1.63 acres, owned by Eljay Fabrics, 7.

Tract on the north side of Cumberland cast of 8th Iwo acres, owned by Forti Brothers. In other action during the session, attended by representatives of the cighl member municipalities, discussions were held on Ihe annexation o'i part of North Cornwall Township lo the City of Lebanon, and on proposals to beautify (Continued on Forty-two) Seek Lebanon, III. Pair, Possible Murder Victims LEBANON, (INS) Hundreds of searchers combed the Lebanon, area today for a carpenter and his attractive from their blood-spattered home. The hunt for Harold Emitt, 30, and his wife, was spurred by the discovery by relatives of their blood-spattered and bul- ct-riddlcd home. The couple has been missing since Sunday night.

Bullet holes were found in the windows and front- door of their home about one mile east of Lebanon which 25 miles east of St. Louis. East German Reds Now Claim Berlin BERLIN East German claimed today Berlin is theirs and said the United States, Britain and France must obey East German laws. Thv. Communist Parly newspaper Neues Deutschland rejected the American stand that Berlin is still ruled by four-power occupalion forces.

It charged that the Western powers themselves broke the four- power agreement on the city, isolated 110 miles behind" the Iron Curtain. In the deepening crisis over the status of the city, U.S. Ambassa- (Contlnned on Thirty) COSTLY THEFT A magistrate Wednesday fined William Tierney, 48, $50 for stealing 20 cents frorr. a news vendor's coin box. AUTO PAINTING 25th W.

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It was the second annual observance of S-D Day, a day set by the President's Committee for Traffic Safety to bring to citizens' attention the toll that highway accidents take. But any faint hopes of a perfect day, free of traffic deaths, vanished soon after midnight. National Safety Council, compiling and adjusting the death toll at its Chicago office from figures furnished by the United Press and other news services, showed 11 deaths by 11 a.m. EST. At that hour, Ohio led with four deaths Louisiana had two, the first in the southern states: and Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and New York had one each.

The first report came from Michigan, where L. T. Bell of Ply mouth, when his car smashed into a Wayne County culvert at 2'li a. m. EST.

Shortly before 3 a.m EST, Bruce Donald Mosher, 23 Glen Falls, N. died when his car plunged into a tree on a curve In the Chicago area, sailor, Gerald Lagro, was struck and killed by a truck at 3:25 a.m EST. Local Beth. Steel Plant Products Hew Uses Bethlehem Steel Company pro ducts bearing a "made anon" stamp are finding many di versified uses in the "nation's in dustrial picture, it yas reporter today by E. G.

Grace, Bethlehem board chairman, in a resume of company activities released to employes. An increase in the company's range of specialty steel products, many of which are turned out at the local plant, is changing the character of' (he firm's As a result, production and employment are less subject to sharp fluctuations, the report slated. Among the novel items described in the report is the "Texas Tower," off Cape Cod, which withstood a recent violent storm. It was built at Bethlehem Steel's shipyard at Juincy, Mass, with rivets provided by the Lebanon plant. The company also makes a mul- itude of specialty products for a wide range of industries that include special designs of bolts and nuts from the local plant.

Also n-oduccd here are rock anchor jolts used to prevent rock slides along highways and railroad lines, and mine roof bolts used to prevent mine roof falls. The illustrated report contained pictures of the installation of a newly designed yielda'ble arch fab- by Bethlehem to supplant supports. The new arch was recently installed at Belhle- icm's Cornwall mine, bringing the icwest piece of mining equipment nto the country's oldest producing 'ron ore mine. "Modern, progressive management has a profound interest in promoting the conditions that make 'or steady employment," Grace asserted in the company message. "Steel production and employment depend ultimately on the demands of customers.

By expanding and diversifying to keep pace with new demands, and by operating profitably so that new capital to Duild, additional facilities would 36 available, Bethlehem has made ts future more secure," Grace added. )river Found Dead In Truck This Morning Robert C. Pursel, 38, 204 Fifth Burnham, was found dead early this morning in a tractor trailer truck he had been driving cast on Rt. 22. Albert Achenbach, an employe of Paul 'Anthony Milk Strausslown, found Pursel in the cab of the truck, which had gone off the road at Lake's Motel about 1V5 miles west of Bethel.

Charles E. Shucker, deputy coroner of Berks said death was caused by a heart attack. An au- on the body will place ater today at Reading Hospital. Pursel- was driver for the Stephen Lahotiki Trucking Throop, Pa. His only known survivor is his wife, Emma Jane.

Pfc. Jacob B. Obcrhollzer of State Police barracks at lamburg, is investigating. was taken to the Schucker Funeral Home, Rehrcrsburg. Steel Co.

Head Says Excise Tax Is Unsound Board Chairman Of Jones And Laughlin Hits Leader's Plan HARRISBURG Ben Moreell, board chairman of Jones Laughlin Steel the nation's fourth largest steel producer, today told the Senate Finance Committee 'the proposed manufacturers' excise tax is economically unsound. Moreell said House-approved per cent levy would: 1. Put the state's industries "at a further competitive disadvantage with industries in neighboring 2. "Increase the distribution of the burden of taxation in this Commonwealth; 3. "Cause a pyramiding of tax costs to the consumer; and 4.

"Its exemptions would be unbalanced and unwise in the effect of their impact on various groups of taxpayers." Moreell told-the Senate committee the tax would cost "about $3,250,000" in addition to the taxes already paid. "We will be able to add no part of this additional cost of construction 'and cost manufacture to the prices of our steel (which) are governed competitive conditions. "This" condition would serve as a strong inducement for us and other businesses similarly situated to seek out-of-state sources of supply rather than to patronize home Industry," Morell said. "Just how many jobs would be jeopardy, no; time," he Millard Co. Buys Ready Mixed Concrete Plant H.

E. Millard Lime and Stone Company, Annville, has bought the ready mixed concrete phase of the Lebanon Ready Mixed Concrete Firm, Lebanon, it was learned today. The entire ready-mixed concrete operations at 10th St. and the Reading Railroad, including the building which houses mixing- and storage bins, will be dismantled and moved to Millard's Annville quarry site'early Ernest D. Williams Millard president, said today.

Roy H. Risser, owner of Lebanon Ready Mixed Concrete, said he will continue to operate the building materials phase of his business in the large brick building adjacent to which the operations are currently conducted. The amount of money paid for the concrete business was not made, known. In the judgment oC experts in the field, however, ihe cost of duplicating the local concrete plant would approximate $150,000. Williams said the transfer will include a steel roofed structure housing the concrete, mixing and storing equipment; 12 ready-mixed concrete truck units; a dump truck; and all the equipment of the concrete phase of operations.

Disman-tling is expected to begin the first week in January, he stated, and concrete production is expected to begin at Annville by early spring. The Annville firm quarries high calcite content stone used extensively in cement and steel mills and a commercial grade of stone for road work concrete. Supplies For Company Williams said his company has the main supplier of. stone and sand for Lebanon Ready Mixed Concrete, two of the three main elements in the manufacture of The other is cement. The new operat ons will provide the Annville firm with a convcn- icntly adjacent outlet for much of of the Manufacturers' As(Continued on Page Forljr-threcl fight Properties Are Totaling $48,450 Eight properties in the city and county, changed hands recently for considerations totaling $48,450, according to deeds recorded at the courthouse today.

A house and store properly on olebrook Road, South Londonderry Township, passed from Claude L. and Anna C. Miller, South Annville Township, lo George C. and Dorothy M. Blpuch, Palmyra-Route 1, for a consideration of $14,500.

A house at 21 Hoke Lebanon, passed from Charles W. and Emma R. Lenker, Lebanon, to David K. Sees 3rd and Charlotte L. of lhat address, for a consideration of $10,000.

The Sees couple in turn trans- 'erred a house at 252 West Cherry Palmyra, to Adam H. and Phyllis M. Biouch, of lhat address, for a consideration of $7,000. A building known as Webster's School House, 12th and Maple Streets, Lebanon, passed from the on Forty) Six Beds Are Added To County Home Hospital Six beds have been added at the county home hospital and space for four more will be available within a week, the county commissioners reported at Iheir weekly meeting today. The additions were made possible when the commissioners ordered the remodeling of dining room and kitchen space on the 'irst floor.

These facilities have been moved to basement level. Commissioners Irwin S. Huber, chairman of the institutjo.i dis- rict, told fellow commissioners eorge T. Tucker and Paul E. Sanger of progress of the remodcl- 'ng and said the fir.st six beds have already been occupied by patients.

In other action, the commission- TS voted to pay county employes every two weeks instead of Iwice a month. This will become effective in the new The commissioners-said it will eliminate occasional jeriods of three weeks between of salaries to county workers. County bills approved for payment totaled $2,132.51. Deputy Clerk Thomas Eiceman was directed to order a 9 12 carpet from Vlader's Furniture Store for instal- ation in (he courthouse basement office of James P. O'Hara, court stenographer.

SAD COMMENTARY LOS ANGELES (UP) Miss Mariam Kim, .29, a former clerk View Sanitarium, pleaded guilly lo charges of dislurbing the peace in trying lo kiss H. "Hymer.the sanitarium's adminis- rative assistant. She commented sadly in court: There was a lime when 1 would lave been the 1 injured party instead of the defendant in a case like Ihis." Seek Vote Of Censure In Hot Squabble Relaliatiqn-Move-ls- the commercial stone taken out of the quarries in the 'extracting of the higher grade of calcite content stone, Williams stated. Risser said he will continue the building materials business which he termed the largest phase of his operation. He will file a change in firm name shortly.lie said.

Lebanon Ready Mixed Concrete was the first firm of its kind to begin operations Valley. Planned In 1936 The late A. P. Marks and Harvcy Steckbeck planned its founding 'in'1936 and began work on a physical plant at Nortj 8th St. and the Pennsylvania Railroad, near the Metropolitan power station.

Construction stopped for about a year after one-fourth of the structure built. Then Risser bought the firm, completed the building and started operating. In 1945, Risser built a new structure for the plant at his present location and'expanded both the concrete and building supplies business. The latter is operated from the large brick structure on what was formerly the Hunsicker Engineering Company tract. Rissor who resides at Summit and Nowland Streets, said the concrete phase of operations employ twenty men, including drivers anc equipment operators.

Number Of Deer Hunters Reported A nolicable decline in the number of deer hunters was reported in Lebanon County yasterday, the third day of the current season, by county game protector Elmer J. Turner. The State Game Commission official said he encountered very few hunters during the day while patrolling in the South Mountain area. He said he received no reports of deer killed during the d.iy. Ten illegally killed doe have been picked up to date by Turner and his deputies, it was reported today.

Turner said the number was "no worse than other years in comparison to the increased number (Continued on Tare Twenty) Induct 5 County Youths Into Armed Forces Today Five Lebanon County youths left at 7:23 a.m. today for induction into the armed forces at the New Cumberland General Depot near Harrisburg. The men were Paul R. Stewart, Lebanon, group leader; Eugene Richard Hoffman, Jonestown; Kenneth Luke Long, Annvi'lc Route Larry Franklin Zarl- man, Myerstown, and Donald Richard Krissingor, Lebanon Route 1. Robert B.

Schaeffer and Richard M. Reinoehl, members of the draft board, and its assistant secretary, Mrs. Winnie R. Lick, saw the men off. Also present were Mrs.

Hower Steiner of the motor corps and Mrs. Steven Ariamson of.the canteen service, representing the Red Cross. George L. Holstein Samuel K. Clark, Herbert J.

Benninghoff, Henry Levin ana 1 Ernest S. Steele representing the Kiwanis Club, gave the men good will bags. BONN, G-ermany W) 'Chancelor Konrad Adenauer's government stood solidly today with the Western Allies on German reunification policy, ruling out any bilateral German-Russian negotiations on the subject. foreign Minister Heinrich von 3rentano made the government's 'irst declaration in brcign policy since the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva failed to resolve the problem of German unity. He told cheering members of the Bundestag, lower House of Parliament, that the "German people are (Continued on Pace Fortr-sit) West Germany Stays With Allies in Started For Decision i To Dissolve Assembly PARIS The angry French parliament began a move today to.oust Premier Edgar Faure through a vote of censure in retaliation for his decision to dissolve the National Assembly and force new elections.

It was the hottest squabble in French politics in nearly 80 key Radical Socialist members of Faure's ame duck cabinet announced they were resigning in protest against the premier's actions. Faure refused to accept the res- gnations immediately. Informed sources -said he would confer with President Rene Coty on what to do about tne unprecedented situa- of ministers quitting a care- cabinet. Faure also prepared to call an urgent session his cabinet to study the political tangle, that was almost unparalleled in French history and that left, the average French voter completely baffled. The crisis began when Faure announced he was dissolving parliament instead of resigning when he lost a vote of confidence: Today his own parly, the.Radical Socfal- ists, prepared 'to kick him out of the party and legislators began Demanding a special session of to-oust Faure from office.

The dispute centered over his demand for early elections. Even if he. is 'Icicked. out of office and the president of National in the elections-still must be held." The crisis broke Tuesday when the iVatiohal Assembly heavily defeated Faure on a vote of confidence. Instead of resigning, Faure (Continued on Four) town's Water Is Polluted 3ut Nobody Is Complaining Va.

Today Residents of Blairton, a small quarrying settlement near Martinsburg, ire drinking polluted water; But 10 one is complaining. It seems that two railroad tank ars containing, wine were wrecked ibout a mile east of Blairton, and vhat wine those handy to the siln- did not collect in containers lowed away. The escaping spirits eventually ound their way into the main well vhich supplies Blairton with water. Vow the Blairton water has a punch it. But Biairton authorities say thnre iave been no complaints about the lolluted water.

Everyone seems villing to let nature take its course. TO TAKE TOUR OF miTY Lebanon's five new policemen ire ready to lake their first tour of duty on Dec. 16. Acting Lieutenant George T. Wagner said today hat the department had completed suifiUing the men wih uniforms except for minor items of equipment which are on order.

Here Of Weather November November -1955, was feminine in' character: it couldn't make up its mind. There were warm days, freezing cold days, a little rain and just enough snow to make a good-sized snowman. Three days had seventy-plus 74 on the 14th, 73.5 on the 13th, and 72.5 on the second. There were Ihree other days with maximums in the 60's. The low for the month was a numbing 14 degrees on November 28, smashing records of recent years.

Rain fell on six of the thirty days, totaling 1.37 inches, and snow of the 18th and 19th measured two and three-quarter inches. Below freezing temperatures vere recorded on 12 nights, and he lowest daytime reading was 31, on November 29. Wednesday's statistics high, 41; ow-, 25. It was 29 at 8 a.m. today.

Partly cloudy skies today fore- old of possible snow and rain to come on Friday, The snow was expected to start Western Pennsylvania sometime (Continued on Fortj-two) SOBER GROUP WASHINGTON (UP) Delegates to the White House coafer- ince on education apparently are vorking hard, Conference Director Pace reports. Pace said a local cab driver old him: "I've been hacking in his town for 20 years and this is he soberest group I've ever seen." Benson Announces 6-Point Program To Deal With Acute Farm Situation CHICAGO of Agriculture Benson today announced a six-point program for dealing with the acute farm situation. He said it will be presented to Congress ir. January. In a speech prepared for a meeting of the Republican National Committee, he said President Eisenhower had recently approved the plan.

II includes: 1. Stepped up surplus disposal and expansion of exports. 2. A vigorous purchase program to remove gluts. 3.

Enlarged soil conservation and incentive paymenl programing, especially in drought areas, 4. Expansion of the rural development program low-income farm families. 5. Steppcd-up research, emphasizing lower production costs, new uses for products, and expansion of markets. B.

A speedup in a 10-state Great Plains program lo make better use of wheat and grazing land. BensoTi said the program, in preparation, was not ready for discussion in detail. "It will be no nostrum, no one- shot remedy, no cure-all." he said. "It will be constructive." Answers Attacks Answering repeated attacks by Democratic leaders he said farm proposals of Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York have reached "ludicrous proportions." He said the Democrats have picked "agriculture as the major domestic battlefield for 1956" after failing in prophesying "disaster" and Hacking Eisenhower's "chtirchgoing activities." "The same people who had shackled the farmer with price controls sought to ram the Brannar, Plan down the throat of agriculture, suddenly began pop- ing up all over Ihe place with quack remedies and discarded nostrums." Benson said, "The efforts of Governors Harriman and Stevenson to outbid each other in this realm of what they think is 'agricultural planning' have already reached ludicrous proportions.

Stevenson recently flip- flopped back to rigid, 90 per cent and then threw in his version of the Brannan Plan for good measure, I watched with some interest to see if Averell Harriman could top that, "He did. even chided, Adlai for being too He said that war, rather ttian high price supports, made high incomes, and "no political parly, can or should take credit for wartlnn prices unless it also assumes responsibility for the wir tod bloodshed.".