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GOOD EVENING i One of those dual instruction cars-would come in handy for the motorist whose wife to tell him how tc drive. and The Lebanon Daily Times THE WEATHEJR Etstern tonight, low around day cloudiness lowed by rain at night. 81st YEAR No. 180 Single Copy Published Every Evening Except Sunday. LEBANON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL filtered ai Mcanrf clan wufUr at tin of tf baiwn, under the Act Marek 1179.

20 PAGES FIVE CENTS Reds Agree To Exchange All Ailing PWs Board Picks Architect For Buildings Directors On Record As Approving Building Of Two New Schools The Lebanon Board of School Directors -last night voted unanimously to employ William Lynch Murray and Associates, Harrisburg architects, in the construction of new elementary school facilities during the next year. Board came to its decision after deliberating for 50 minutes at a special meeting last night. Five architects presented qualifications in a three-and-a half hour session preceding'the discussion and selection. The Board went on record last October as approving the building of two new elementary schools and thus adopting a portion of Priority One of the Englehardt'recommenda- tions made after a survey last April. Uncertainty over the extent of the immediate program to be undertaken has delayed the'sub- mission of a tentative budget, it was reported previously.

No budget action was taken at last night's meeting. Other firms considered for the new building program were: the Ballinger Company, Philadelphia; the Buchart Engineering Corporation, York; L.P. Kooken and Associates, Carlisle; and the Howard Lewis Shay firm, Philadelphia, with their Lebanon associate, architect Luther Miller. After discussion in which Board members agreed on the high quality of all five firms, the Board narrowed the choice to two firm's, on a roll call Murray firm' and the Shay firm. The procedure was followed after approval of a motion by Director Lee I.

Cartey that the Board (Continued an Fate Nine) President Surrounded By Egg Roll Throng President Eisenhower (arrow) moves through a solid jam of people as he mingles with the Easter egg rolling crowd on the south lawn of the White House, April 6. The smiling President carries Barbara Anne, his four-year-old granddaughter in his arms. Directly behind the President is Barbara's mother, Mrs. John Eisenhower. David, 5, the President's grandson, is carried behind his mother by Murray Snyder, assistant White House press secretary.

Eddie C. Matthew, Civic Leader In Eddie C. Matthew, secretary of the i 11 e.k Township Road Board and chief clerk of the North American Refractories, near Newmanstown, died suddenly last night while helping clean Elias Lutheran where he attended." He was 51. Death was attributed-to a heart attack. Matthew, well known in the New- manstown.area for his active par- immediately.

But they figured it Ike And Wild-Eyed Kids Scrambled In Egg-Roll WASHINGTON, Eisenhower probably was in no mood to look at any more eggs today, what with the way he got scrambled in a wild revival of the White House egg rolling tradition. But he could hardly avoid it. In spite of rain, his lawn and private golf course was strictly sunnyside up. The ruins of thousands of eggs were everywhere. of" the: National Park Service'sent in their repair.crews ticipation.

in affairs and civic organizations, was the husband of Mrs. i (North) Matthew and resided in Newmanstown, i In addition to his activities as a prominent member of Eiias Lutheran Church, he.was also busy in the affairs of the Newmanstown Lion Club of which he was a member for many He was also affiliated with the Jackson Twp. Tract Sold For $15,000 A tract of land in Jackson Township, containing more than 50 acres along the Mt. Zion-Mt. Aetna road, changed hands recently for a $15,000 consideration, according to one of four deeds filed for record at the Courthouse.

today. The land, composed of two tracts with houses built on them, transferred from Lena C. and Eli B. Zimmerman, Ephrata, to Warren S. and Katie B.

Hackman, of Myerstown R. D. 3. Title to the house at 529 East Lehman Street was conveyed for a $6,000 consideration from Clarence and Arthur Jones, executors of the will of Annie Jones, late of Lebanon, to Martha R. and Joseph Biach, of 491 East Lehman Street.

A 21-acre tract of land in Heidelberg Township was transferred from Donald H. and Ethel M. Dor- wart, Heidelberg Township, to Paul and Jane E. Greenly, Penn Township, Lancaster County, for a $6,500 consideration. Two tracts of land containing 12 acres were conveyed from Ear" W.

and Kathryn B. Barr, Lebanon to Lester and Carl L. Kautz, 41 East Main Street, Hummelstown for a $300 consideration. MOW NO MO' DENVER, Colo. (UP) Frank Dowans found a -way to get out mowing and watering his lawn on hot summer days.

He put in a new froiit lawn dyed green cement. Villiamson Lodge, Free and Ac- epted Masons, No. 307, and with be Tall Cedars of Lebanon Lodge. Matthew was the son of the late red and Bessie (Zerbe) Matthew. is survived by his wife; a son, Luke F.

Matthew, Van Etten, and two aunts, Mrs. Wilam i Mrs. Robert Veiss, both, of Newmanslown. orecast More Rain Penna. Wednesday It's just one low pressure system after another 1 for Pennsylvania, and that means rain and more rain on top of the .85 of-an inch of the wet stuff which fell in Lebanon up to 6:30 o'clock this morn- ng.

A "low" centered over Northern Mississippi on Monday moved rapidly northeastward during -the night, causing rain from border to border in Pennsylvania. There's weak ridge of high pressure just hehind this which will tail the rain for a while during the day on Wednesday, but another "low" is springing up in New Mexico. Although that's a long way off, the weatherman said its influence will be felt here by Wednesday night with more rain. Yesterday's highest temperature here was "55 degrees, and the lowest reading last 'night was 46. Down in the Southwest there were 90 degree temperatures yesterday, with Brownsville, Texas reporting 94.

But Wyoming was a little different for most of the state had three inches of snow. And, down in northern Florida some spots got up.to four inches of rain yesterday in a near cloudburst. would take a month to put the place back in shape. Nearly 30,000 spirited youngsters and wide-eyed guardians trampled through the White House gates Monday to make a stab at rolling peer'curiously at the big mansion, and, above all, to get a close look at their President. The look was awful close.

Mr. Eisenhower was literally mobbed when he sallied forth into the crowd with his grandchildren, Barbara Anne; 3, and David, 5. A baby carriage was knocked over. A woman fainted. Easter hats went sailing and a photographer lost both his shoes.

The President beat a hasty retreat, More. than 100 youngsters got lost and were -later found. One case who said "I'm cousin 'lost. My other cousin is lost, too. We're all lost." About a score of the visitors were treated by the Red Cross for minor bruises, cuts and bumps.

When the parry was over, 50 workers collected two or three tons of trash.v The lawn was gutted and -spattered, flowers and shrubs were trampled. But Robert of White House gardeners, took the optimistic view. The debris was lighter than at some previous affairs, he said. And, besides, the eggs would give the lawn some badly needed Sales Tax Issue Faces Test In State House Jiltery GOP Chiefs Move For Showdown On Controversial Bill I HARRISBURG, Today (UP) jittery Republican leadership today moved toward a "stand or fall" vote in the-General Assembly on a proposed two per cent state sales tax earmarked for education. A decision to bring the controversial broad base tax issue to the House floor for a test vote was taken late Monday after a long Republican in the face of determined opposition from a strong Democratic bloc and.expect- ed bolts from GOP ranks.

Rep. Wrayburn B. Hall's House Ways and Means Committee reported the bill to the House floor by a "show of hands" reportedly divided 10-7 along party lines. The House of Representatives where the Republicans, hold a shaky majority of 109 to 98, will' be the scene of the crucial test probably Wednesday or Thursday. To soften the impact of a sales tax, Republicans emphasized that its enactment would permit dropping the bulk of the so-called nuisance taxes" now on the Commonwealth's statute books.

GOP Margin Slim The House fact that their. 109-member bloc boasts a margin of only above the constitutional majority of 105 votes required for Cancer Fund Drive Opens; Goal $10,500 The 1953 Lebanon County Cancer Crusade was touched off last night with a $300 donation made at the campaign's "kick-off dinner" for volunteer workers at the Hotel cash contribution, was presented to cancer campaign chairman James'R. Whitman by Miss Anna Mae Snyder, president of the Gamma Omicron Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority. The local chapter of'the sorority raised the $300 at a talent show given here for the benefit of the cancer campaign. Dr.

Richard R. Hoffman, presi- (Contlnnr-d an Eighteen) Demands Of Allies Institute Survey Of Fire Hazards, detection In City A comprehensive survey of of a frank doubts as to whether they could keep their lines taut enough to. send, a sale tax bill over to the Senate, where it probably would have easie going. Francis Worley (R-Adams 'already has announced his oppos" tion to a sales tax. House minority leader Hiram forecast tha the Republicans would be.short 1 votes in.

the House. But House Speaker Charles Smith (R-Philadelphia) and Major ity Leader Albert W. Johnson (R McKean) replied that the job the leadership is to Gov (Continued on Page Ten) Peiping Radio Says 'Early Armistice Can Be Achieved' PANMUNJQM, Korea (UP) Communists "today, to voluntary repatriation 01 all ailing vwar prisoners, even exceeding i Nations demands, and Peiping Radio said -'an early armistice can be achieved." The, Communists agreed the voluntary return 'of even prisoners suffering minor disr abilities. They had brought up the question at the first meeting Monday and clarified it today; going be yond the Geneva Convention covering prisoner return which had been the UN in the 'long truce talks. The Peiping 'Radlri broadcast was a straight forward review of Monday's talks on exchange of sick and wounded and an early armistice if the Allies show the same good faith in.

discussing an armistice as in working, out the present exchange. Re-Elected As Head Of Democratic Club Claude W. iieitzler A Claude of: 877 Withelm Avenue, was dent of Lebanon County Demo-. non's fire hazards and fire pro- pa triatibn'to all prisoners of war, meaua arters ectipn system the first to be way wiu be clcared to resume The oriiiM year wiU see arried out since 1925 is being u-dress armistice talks leading to De itzler serving his second' term onducted by a teamof engineers a ible end of three-year-old as6 president, rom the National Board of Fire Other officers, elected last-night underwriters. The jted Nations truce team were: Charles WUdermuth, vice- The engineers said today that announced the Red agreement aft- president; Thomas secre- ie study and the published report er morning and afternoon meet- taryiP'asko'Rader, 'assistant sect nnnoincinnc hp pom-l: Communists in retary; William be its conclusions would be com- mg pletely' objective and would ulti- truce was the second day Elected to the boa'rd of mately serve as the basis, for fire( 0 renewed talks, uisurance.

rates in. the area. were Raymond Brown, Leroy Mc- The. engineers', added that the Another meeting will be 'held atlKinney and Tuesday. r- survey's being conducted at this ear John Daniel, time was entirely, unrelated, to re- hief negotiator, thVAl- cent large fires or to the city re- Hes ere reaLdy to begin JIA cent acquisition of the Consolidated within wee but he Wai or Pnimnanv frnm tnft Bfttnlfi-l i Water Company from the Bethle- did not hc Ueve rnmnsnv- Th fi addedl we quickly Daniel said the showed attitude hem Steel'Company: They added that the National Board likes to make surveys of cities more fre- (Contlnued on Elthteen) Palmyra Council Palmyra School Furthers Social Security Plans Palmyra Borough Council passed a resolution to have James L.

Atkins, Borough Solicitor, liquidate the' Police Pension Fund and annuity contracts purchased by Council, at' a meeting held last evening in Council chambers. The action was necessary so that Social Security can be secured for all Borough employes, according to both State and Federal government rulings. In the meantime employes are protected in their s'i rights. H. Jack Seltzer, Council president, presided at the meeting.

Bids were opened, and the following contracts awarded: Daniel -Krieg, Harrisburg, for colas cents a gallon; Penn Oil Company, Lebanon, oil at .0085 cents a gallon; H.J. Deck, slag- rubbish, at $9.00 per load of ten tons, more or less, and to the H.K. Smith, Company, Palmyra, stone (Continued on Face Serrn) Budget Calls For 13 Mill Tax Levy The Palmyra-North Londonderry Joint School District Board last night adopted a tentative budget calling for proposed tax of 13 mills and a per capita tax of seven dollars in each district. The borough assessed valuation has. been increased from" $4, 694, 895 to $7,065,945, thus making it possible to drop the borough tax from 22 mills to 13 mills.

The township Lax, according to the budget, remains the same on property, but the per capita tax mill will be in Sabres Bag 2 MIGs, Hit Eight Others SEOUL, Korea Sabrejets destroyed or damaged 10 Communist MIGs today while protecting U.N. dive bombers in hard- hitting attacks against enemy railways and power installations. The F-86's shot down two. MIG- 15's, probably destroyed one damaged seven for their first claims in three days- and their biggest score in two weeks. While the swirling dogfights were going on, F-84 Thundcrjets flew to within 12 miles of Manchuria to attack a key rail, line, destroying (Ciinliruni on Rerenleen) BODY FENDER REPAIRS 25th W.

Cumb. Sir 5TAttfcK 9 Blames GOP Farm Problems On Demos Vandals Tamper With City Owned Gas Shovel Robert L. Heverling, city highway commissioner, sdid today that (Continued on Most Food Items Would Be Tax-Free LJ HARRISBURG will have a tough time figuring out what items on which they will have to pay extra if the proposed two per cent sajes tax 3ecomes law. The measure, scheduled for a decisive House test Thursday, exempts a flock of food. But it draws a fine line on what can be considered food or groceries in some cases.

Under the bill drawn by Rep. Earl E. Hewitt (R-Indiana), bakery products, milk, groceries and meat are exempt. But in spelling out a definition of "milk" the proposed law would outlaw the tax on regular or canned milk but permit it on flavored milk. The tax would cover ice cream, milkshakes and chocolate flavored milk.

The term "groceries" would include items used as food or in the preparation of food. Lard and vege- (Continued on Page Seventeen) IVII 1.1 a gasoline shovel, owned by 16 cnme of wluch Grammer was city, had been tampered with over convicted. Moser declared he had Grammer Must Die For 'Almost Perfect' Crime BALTIMORE, York businessman G. Edward Grammer was sentenced to death by hanging today in the so-called "almost perfect" murder of his wife for the love of a pretty United Nations career girl. In telling the 35-year-old former Army counter-intelli gence agent he must die for his "horrible crime," Judge Herman M.

Moser denounced Grammer as a "dangerous type of criminal who must be removed" from society. Maryland law dictated either execution or life imprisonment for Hunt Man Who Brought Dying Girl To Hospifal SCRANTON, Pa. (UP) An unidentified, man who told two nurses "Wait until I get some help" abandoned a 22-year-old girl vith a fatal bullet in the receiving ward of Mercy Hospital Monday night. Margaret Grunik, an attractive brunette textile worker in nearby 'essup, never regained consciousness, and police said they had no definite leads to the man who her to the hospital. She died hours later of a wound of he left temple.

State police sent out an alarm questioning of a man identified only as Carl Luisi, 'about .35, of Boston, but District Attorney Carlon O'Maliey announced today that he verified that Luisi was in Boston Monday night. The alarm was cancelled. "Luisi is coming in voluntarily to talk with us," said O'Maliey. He said that Luisi, a painter, told police that he was last in this area on Saturday when he left the girl's home after a visit. O'Maliey said that Luisi met Miss Grunik on a trip here as 9 painter.

The Lackawanna County- District Attorney declined to reveal the description of the wanted man given by the hospital nuns and School Bus Home EAST PALESTINE, nurses. "There nite," he said. today to three major.points. They) were: 1. Voluntary repatriation of all sick and'wounded prisoners, including those less seriously disabled.

Six -persons, including Under the Geneva Convention, the dren, fatally -when latter could have been sent to newja coal stove -in old ea bus which had converted into a home, authorities re- ported today. Witnesses said blast occurred when Beon Hinkle, 35, poured kerosene on' a smouldering coal fire in his bus-home Monday night. by the searing blast were Hinkle's three children, Robert, 4, Bradford, 3, and Joyce Ann, 18 months, and Albert Jack, 2, a neighbor who was visiting the Pill Before A-Raid May Prevent Death is nothing defi- The man dragged the girl halfway through the doorway at the rear of the hospital, then vanished after indicating he would return. An autopsy disclosed that she was shot by a .38 caliber bullet which entered the loft temple and lodged in the head. Police said Miss Grunik left home at noon Monday and told CHICAGO, Today (INS) A panel of the nation's top scientists said that a single pill of mysterious medicine probably can-save your life from deadly atomic radiation if an'A-bomb drops.

The disclosure was made by" the eight-man panel in a repc-t to the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology meeting in Chicago. The whopping, two-ounce a compound called Cysteine. You must take it an hour or hour and a half before the. bomb drops, so you'll need advance warning of impending attack. It will protect you, the scientists (Continued en Eighteen) Gov.

Fine Signs Act To Revise Commercial Code HARRISBURG John S. Fine has affixed his signature to the first new law to be enacted by the Pennsylvania Legislature uring the-1953 session. The new act provides for sweep- ng revisions Pennsylvania's Commercial code. Proponents of he 'measure say it has been in for 12 years at a cost $400,000 and is identical with which will be presented to many state legislatures for ap- jroval this year. The Joint State Government Commission, i recommending the weekend at Second and Weidman Streets, where it is be- ing used on a storm sewer project.

There was no damage to the equipment, Heverling said, beyond a bent door to the cab of the machine, which has been straightened, and a run-down battery, has been recharged. Heverling said that some.one had entered the cab after bending the door and had apparently tried to start the motor. He added DENVER, Today (INS) Agriculture Secretary Benson charged today that the Republican administration inherited its farm prob lems from "those who planned the inflation." Benson told the National Farm Ranch Congress: "It is a quirk of that the machine might have been fate that our predecessors had the joy ride, the bill for which is now presented to us. We will pick up bill, but fr now on hope we'll do more careful driving." In a speech prepared for delivery at 1 p.m. (EST), he charged that "the kind of price supports we inherited fire putting farm products an damaged the intruder or 'in truders had run the shovel, into the sewer line excavation.

Heverling made a verbal report to police. Police attributed -the tampering to juveniles and said that the weekend also brought reports of damaged building and vehicle windows broken by stones or air 'no difficulty" choosing between the two penalties. The judge said he wanted the sentence to serve as "the strongest possible deterrent to others" so that "even the most foolhardy" will not allow "passion to enslave the soul." Crammer was accused of fatally beating his wife and sending an automobile carrying her body down a sharply-inclined street. Moscr called this a "dastardly plan" and a "cunning ncheme" which endangered the lives of others. Grammar, the judge declared, had "forfeited" his right to live in society with his "wanton and callous disregard for the life" and property" of others.

Grammer was found guilty of October. His May, died Aug. 20 in what seemed at irst to be a traffic but which the stale charged was an attempt by her husband to disguise the murder. The stale contended that Grammer committed the crime so he would be free to marry Miss Mathilda MIzibrncky, an attractive Canadian girl who has left her UN job since her appearance as a key witness In the trial. Crammer's attorney has been seeking a new trial for the defendant, charging he was the victim of unfair publicity and that his alleged confession was improperly introduced as evidence.

The supreme bench of Baltimore turned down the request only a few sveeks ago. Grammer can, and probably will ier parents she planned to attend hurch services at suburban Olyphant Monday night. She was employed at a garment 'irm in Jessup which was idle for the Easter Monday holiday. murder in the first degree last appeal Moser's sentence. ft adoption of the code, said that it elt it would "place Pennsylvania the front rank of the states in dealing with commercial law." Fine Signs Resolution On Founding Of Hershey HARRISBURG, Today (IKS) Gov.

John S. Fine today-signed-a joint House-Senate resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Hershey, Pa. The resolution extends lations to the Hershey enterprises founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1903, the Hershey schools and the residents of Hershey. Mr.

B. Pollack Will Be At The POLLACK'S FUR SHOP Tonight, P. M. to 9 FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF HIS CUSTOMERS. Hinkles; Hinkle and Mrs.

Patricia Jack, (Continued on Seven) Schuylkill Couple Hurt In County Crash A Schuyikill Haven Route Z' man and his wife were admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital shortly before noon today from injuries received In a two-car accident at Myerstown, according to hospital reports. Most seriously injured appeared to he Mrs. Amy Reber, 63, who has a possible fracture of the shoulder and spine, the hospital said. Also brought to the hospital was Reber's husband, Grover N. Reber, 65, who had laceration of the hands; The accident was investigated by Officer Russell H.

the Myerstown wh6 said that the accident occured when the car driven north on Route 501- by Reber collided with the car driven west on Route 422 by. John F. Heilmann, of 414 Swarthmore Haverton, Pa. Heilmann was not injured, Officer Border said. He added that no charges were preferred pending completion of his investigation.

The injured couple were taken to the hospital in the Myerstown Good Will Fire Company ambulance. Study Animals Used In Latest A-Test LAS VEGAS, Today (INS) Scientists pored over instrument readings and other data today as they evaluated the results of the latest big blast at the Atomic Energy Commission's proving ground, 75 miles north of Las Vegas. Under particular study were mice and monkeys which were sent through the radioactive cloud a) passengers In drone planes moments after the fourth atomic weapon of the current test scries was exploded at.7:30 a.m. PST a.m. EST) yesterday, Two jet planes with the animals aboard, were'guided through the (ConfUitd Hall 'Acceptable' As Chairman: Taft WASHINGTON, Today Senate majority 'leader Taft said today the selection of former Rep.

Leonard W. Hall of New York as GOP national chairman be "entirely acceptable" to him. The Ohio Republican has refused to voice his preference for any successor 'to Wesley Roberts as Republican chairman and even today he emphasized that he has no Taft issued the following statement: "I have no choice among the candidate? for chairman of. the Republican National Committee, and I look forward to working bar-.