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Today's Chuckle The Texas kid asked Santa what he wanted for Local Weather Lancaster VS. Bureau Fair and cold tonight, low about 26 in city and 20 in sub urbs. Thursday, fair and warmer, high about 52 in city and 44 in suburbs. Complete Report on Page 3 Metropolitan Lancaster Population (Est.) Penna. Dept, of Commerce 254,273 83rd Year No.

25,598 42c PER WEEK 7c METROPOLITAN EDITION 42 PAGES LANCASTER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1959 nndlDain) 6 Above Zero Coldest Dec. 9 On Record nrn Sjd 12-Month School: Is It Good or Bad? Penn Manor Jointure First to Make Full-Scale Study on Plan By ROBERT FRASER Will Lancaster County ever keep its schools open 12 months a year? The Penn Manor jointure is the ft vaftiiM (for Dsnftor Joyous Crowd Is Almost Worshipful sentiment will answer the question. What is the school year and how does it work? The most talked about method is that of dividing the student body into four groups. Each group gets a three-month vacation, one group every three months of the year. In other words, one group is on vacation while the other three attend classes.

Some youngsters will vacation during the winter, some during the spring, others in the fall and one group will have what amounts to the normal summer vacation. They will still go to school 180 days a year. 25 P.C. MORE CAPACITY The big advantage is that schools can hold 25 per cent more students by staggering vacations. If the school has an enrollment of 4,000, for example, there would be only 3,000 of them in classes at any given time.

The other See SCHOOL Page 38 first local school district to make a full-scale study of the possibility. The mill town of Aliquippa in Western Pennsylvania is the only district in the state that has used the year-round school schedule for any length of time since World War I. BACK TO OLD SYSTEM It went back to the regular nine-month system after 10 years when the Depression reduced enrollments in the previously jammed Aliquippa classrooms. Penn Manor, like Aliquippa in the 1920s, has been forced to seek a new way to house pupils. The district opened, and began paying for, its $3 million high school a year ago.

The sprawling school is full today. Should the district build a new junior high school costing over $1 million or should it seek ways to house more youngsters in the existing buildings? The extensive study plus public McCollough Named to Post On TV Cleanup Lancastrian Among 6 Appointed by TV Industry on Reforms WASHINGTON A Lancaster, Pa. man was one of six broadcasting executives named today to an industry committee to bring about a thorough housecleaning in the radio and television industry. He is Clair R. McCollough, 1021 Marietta president of WGAL Inc.

and general manager of the Steinman Stations operating radio and television facilities in Lancaster, Harrisburg, York, Easton, W'illiamsport and Wilmington, Del. RECEIVED AWARD Just recently McCollough was chosen to receive the National Association of Broadcasters 1960 Distinguished Service Award. McCollough received news of his appointment while at noon luncheon. He paused briefly after hearing the Associated Press news dispatch and said: If there is anything wrong in the broadcasting industry, and at the moment it appears as though some faults may exist, then the industry itself will put forth every effort to make corrections. HOUSECLEANING JOB The industry must do its own housecleaning and do it promptly.

I am certain that the committee will have every possible cooperation to accomplish this aim. The appointments were made by Harold E. Fellows, president of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington. Fellows will head the group authorized by the associations board of directors. Fellows said the special group will deal with ethical and legal issues facing radio and television.

This special committee, he said, will cooperate wholeheartedly with investigations, by the federal communications commission and the federal trade Then he added: WELCOMES PROBE The broadcasters association welcomes the investigations now underway by the government. We know they will bring out the full story of broadcastings tremendous service to the American public which far transcends the misdeeds of a few individuals. In addition to Fellows and McCollough other members of the See McCOLLOUGH-Page 2 Makes Lancaster Most Frigid Spot In Pennsylvania Chilling cold sent the mercury down to 6 above zero early today, giving parts of the county the cold est Dec. 9 on record. The 6 above was recorded at the City Water Works, where the previous low for the date was 11, Dec, 9, 1917.

Todays reading vas the lowest since record-keep-ng started in 1914, It made this coldest spot in the state. STORM-RELATED DEATH One storm-related death was reported today, second since Monday. Arthur Edward Rosser, forty-three, of Sunnyside, was found dead in his home at 4:30 a. of a coronary occlusion. He had complained earlier of shortness of breath after cutting wood and fihoveling snow Tuesday.

Freezing added new hazards to driving. Many main highways were full of ruts and bumps caused by frozen snow and slush. Motorists had to navigate with care in numerous narrow open stretches. Early ground fog cut visibility at some spots to a quarter of a mile. All schools were open but those the Pequea Valley system, including the high school and the Paradise and Salisbury Twp.

elementary schools. Bad road conditions were blamed by Arthur W. Eshelman, supervising principal. WORKING ON ROADS State Highways Department employes were still laboring to open north-south rural roads, estimating that 25 per cent were still closed this morning. Some roads which had been opened had to be re-worked because of freezing.

A spokesman said it was hoped to have all open by nightfall. City Streets Department workers were out all night, salting icy streets. They also cleared snow and hauled it away, until 7 a. m. Absence of about 100 pupils at Penn Manor High School at Mil-lersville was blamed on highway conditions.

The pupils were from the Safe Harbor, Holtwood, Raw-linsville and Mt. Nebo areas. LOW TEMPERATURES Here were the low tempera! ures reported today: City Water Works 6 above Ephrata 15 above Downtown Lancaster ..22 above Safe Harbor 25 above Unofficial readings ranged as low as 1 above zero, at Paradise. Columbia had an unofficial 13 above. The U.

S. Weather Bureau said today's rising temperatures would help melt more snow, possibly half that remaining in outlying areas. It was 47 at 1:30 p. m. Tonight is to be fair and cold, with a low about 26 in the city and 20 in the suburbs.

Thursday is to be fair and warmer, with a high near 52 in the city and 44 in the suburbs. Todays low reading was the lowest for suburban Lancaster this year. Ephrata had 5 degrees on Jan. 6. Last Dec.

11, Ephrata had 4 degrees. Lancaster County in general was pretty well back to normal after the snow of Monday which totaled as high as 13.5 inches. AP Wirephoto stand at attention during playing of national antheip at Kabul Airport President Eisenhower and King Mohammed Zahir of Aghanistan NEW DELHI, Indian (AP) A hysterically joyous throng numbering more than a million sometimes terrifyingly out of control surged about President Eisenhower tonight as he rode for miles through this capital of India. Proclaimed in a huge banner as The Prince of Peace, the President was caught tight in an awesome crush of screaming, almost worshipful humanity. It was the greatest welcome this capital ever has given a foreign visitor, eclipsing that accorded Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union four years ago.

FOR HISTORY BOOKS Eisenhower had been welcomed tumultuously in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, but this was one for the history books. Waving and smiling on the snail-paced 11-mile trip from the airport, he seemed at times bewildered by the sheer massiveness of the The trip into the city took two hours. Hundreds of police were unable to keep back the surging crowds that stopped the motorcade a number of times. Some screamed out: American Badshah! (King) Some tossed flowers. Most just shrieked their approval for a man from the other side of the world.

White House secretary James C. Hagerty, himself somewhat overwhelmed, said he had never seen anything like it. Nor had newsmen who have followed Eisenhow-ers public appearances since his 1952 election campaign. SHOW THEY LOVED HIM Hagerty said it was evident the Indian people went out of their way to show their love for Eisenhower and obviously were making most earnest attempts to be sure that the President knew they loved him. All the way into New Delhi-lit up and glittering like a fairyland for the occasion people pushed and shouted.

When the great crowd halted the motorcade by force of numbers, many tried to thrust their hands into Eisenhowers car to shake hands with him. Prime Minister Nehru at times seemed to be emotionally affected by the demonstration, TIRED AND RUFFLED The long trip from the airport after an early morning takeoff from Pakistan and a stop in Afghanistan would have been an exhausting experience even for- man of many less than Eisenhower's 69 years. At times he looked tired and a bit ruffled. But the Presidents firm step and strong voice at the airport indicated he was still able to take the grueling trip in his stride. "What did you think of that reception? a reporter called to him as he later stepped from his car, ankle deep in flowers, at the home of Indian President Rajendra Prasad.

You write it, Eisenhower shot back with a buckle, apparently at a loss for any descriptive term. In Parliament, just before Eisenhowers arrival, Nehru called -See MILLION Pago 2 Drug Co. Accuses Probers of 'Myths' Merck President Defends Price Of Medication for Arthritis Convicted Yankee Flees Cuba Prison Frank Austin Young Escapes With Another Prisoner, Not Yet Tried PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, (AP)-Military headquarters announced that American Frank Austin Young, Miami, sentenced Tuesday by a military tribunal to 30 years imprisonment escaped from military prison early this morning. Cmdr. Jose Argibay made the announcement that Young had escaped with another prisoner, Sergio Hernandez Reyes, who was to be tried Friday on counterrevolutionary charges.

Young was tried for counterrevolutionary activities with 37 others, including Peter John Lamb-ton of Nassau. DETAILS KEPT SECRET Military headquarters did not make public any details of the escape, saying only that it is asking citizens of Cuba to cooperate in arresting Young and his companion. Both had been held at the military prison at Pinar del Rio army barracks. Officials expressed belief the two are headed for the mountains. HAD DEMANDED DEATH The prosecution had demanded the death sentence for Young, 38, an Indianapolis born adventurer who servefl with the British Royal Air Force in World War II.

Young returned to Cuba last September, a few weeks after serving a five-month detention in La Cabana Fortress on charges of smuggling antigovernment Cubans out of the country. He and Lambton, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, claimed they came to- Cuba to to take photos of counterrevolu-tionaries in the hills around Pinar del Rio. See Airliner on Colombia Peak BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) The Colombian navy reported today that its patrol planes have sighted the wreckage of an airliner missing since Tuesday with 46 persons aboard. The wreckage was seen in the San Bias Mountains in Panama, the navy announced. There were WASHINGTON (AP)-The president of Merck today accused Senate investigators of resorting to myths in an effort to picture the firms prices for an arthritis-treating drug as too high.

John T. Connor, president of the Steel Rejects Mitchell Plan WASHINGTON (AP)-The steel industry today formally rejected Secretary of Labor James Mitchells proposal to submit the steel labor dispute to a third party for settlement recommendations. R. Conrad Cooper, head management negotiator, said the industry could not agree to shift its bargaining responsibility into the hands of a third party. That in essence is what the industry has been saying all along with regard to the over-all dispute.

David J. McDonald, steelworkers union president, had accepted Mitchells proposal for a fact-finding board to recommend a steel labor solution, TO SOLVE IMPASSE Mitchell made three proposals yesterday as methods to try to solve the steel impasse recommendations by a fact-finding board, recommendations by the government, or submitting unresolved issues to arbitration. The union said it would accept either of the proposals for outsider recommendations but would not go along with binding arbitration. Cooper said when the government made settlement recommendations in past labor disputes the steel industry has always emerged with agreements that had an inflationary, effect. Rahway, N.

pharmaceutical house, asked that physicians be called to tell why they prefer to prescribe the Merck antiarthritic preparation instead of some lower-priced products. HIGH PRICE CITED The dispute developed when the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee produced evidence which, it contended, showed the Syntex Co. of Mexico City was making a profit selling the arthritis-treating drug Prednisone at $13.61 per bottle of 1,000 tablets. John Blair, subcommittee staff economist, testified this compared with a price of $170 charged by Merck in sales of 1,000 tablets to druggists and $283.33 paid by patients. Connor, testifying in the third day of subcommittee hearings on drug prices, said Blairs story was full of holes.

For one thing, Connor told the subcommittee, the $13.61 figure represented only an assumed price to a mythical company. NO PROFIT Connor later told newsmen he also will protest that, so far as he can determine, the $13.61 is not the price of a finished product ready to be administered to patients and that the Syntex firms annual report for 1959 lists a loss of nearly half a million dollars on See DRUGS Page 2 City Considers New Fire Hall clair r. McCollough (Set Earlier Story, Page 10) no signs of life. The plane disappeared on a flight from the San Andres Islands to Cartagena, northern Colombia The San Andres are Colombian islands east of Nicaragua in the Caribbean. The airliner, a twin-engine C46, belongs to SAM, a private Colombian airline.

The plane made its last radio report yesterday at 11:27 a.m., 20 minutes after taking off from San Andres. There was no report of trouble. PRR Cleveland Train Derailed Explosion Rocks Berlin Near East-West Line LUFBECK, Germany (AP) -An explosion shook the border region between East and West Germany today. West German police say they believe a Communist explosives depot blew up. Officials said they heard two detonations and observed a smoke cloud about a mile inside East Germany.

The shock wave shattered windows in several houses on the West German side. Money for a new firehouse in the northwest section of the city is another item that might be included in a half-million dollar bond issue being considered by the city, Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan said today. He said the bond issue probably would run between $550,000 and $650,000. The proposed 1960 budg et contains about $10,000 to fi nance the bond issue.

Peiping Charges Ike's Tour Is Anti-China TOKYO (AP) Communist China accused the United States today of using President Eisenhowers current tour to the detriment of the Peiping regime. The charge was made by Peiping radio, official voice of Red China, in reporting on President Eisenhowers visit to Pakistan. Peiping Radio said The U. S. ruling clique has been making use of the current tour to openly carry out a anti-China scheme.

Republican Chairman George Bloom Is Wed PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Repub- IN INDUSTRY AREA lican State Chairman George I. Bloom was married here Tuesday night. Monaghan pointed new firehouse for the dustrialized northwest out that a highly-in-j section of Radar Units Will Control Engleside Traffic Lights Bloom, 61, married Mrs. Luella'the city was recommended this 'year by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Boeschen of Washington, D.C., 500,000 Applaud Ike in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Vast confettithrowing crowds cheered President Eisenhower to- day during his brief stay in this capital of Afghanis- -tan, only 200 miles from the Soviet border.

The President stopped over in! Goldfine Again Faces Probers M. in Philadelphia. The bride, assistant secretary to former U.S. Sen. Edward Martin (R-PaJ, is 55.

Bloom was Martins chief assistant during most of Martins 12 years as senator. The couple also served on Martin's staff while he was governor (1943-47). It is Blooms first He estimated that $100,000 of the bond issue could be for the fire department roughly for the new firehouse and for two new pumpers. TO PAY OFF LOANS Bulk of the issue about will be to pay off shortterm loans that have accumulated in the 1956 Improvement Ac- Kabul on a flight from Pakistan on the fourth leg of his three-continent goodwill tour. He spent almost six hours in this mountain- Three persons were injured slightly when the Pennsylvania Railroads westbound Clevelander Express crashed with a heavy piece of machinery and derailed, 20 miles south of Lewistown at 12:30 a.

m. today. The railroad said the piece of steel machinery had dropped onto the tracks a few moments before from another train. L. G.

Forry, Harrisburg, engineman of the Clevelander, the PRR said, saw the obstruction and applied his emergency brakes in an unsuccessful effort to stop short. The machinery was a cylinder seven feet long and sixteen inches in diameter. The train stopped at Lancaster at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday night and picked up one passenger for a Pullman coach. His name was listed on railroad records only as Donnelly with no home address.

He was in a sleeper coach that remained on the rails. 13 CARS DERAILED Thirteen cars of the 17 car train were derailed in a mountain pass. Ten passenger cars, the baggage, mail and dining cars all left the rails. Taken to the Huntingdon, Pa. hospital were: Joanne Mulligan, twenty-four, Bethesda, Md.

and John Morgan, forty-eight, New Castle, Pa. Taken to the Lewis-town hospital was Demsey L. Sutton, twenty-one, Cleveland. Four sleeping cars all remained on the rails. Passengers were jolted by the crash but only three asked medical attention.

count. Actually, the city will be 0Us kingdom before taking off for refinancing those obligations over India. Today's New Era Radar-controlled traffic lights will be part of the revamped intersection at Engleside, it was learned today. The overhead radar units are considered more accurate and effective than pressure plates set in the highway to trigger light changes, said Robert M. Chryst, 'city traffic engineer.

FIRST IN COUNTY The radar units, believed to be the first in Lancaster county, will be purchased by Lancaster Twp. as part of its share of revamping the intersection, which is located in the township, in conjunction with the north-south plan. Agreement on the cost split was reached this morning at a meeting in the office of Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan. Others present included Chryst, township supervisor Frank H.

Feagley and Her-shey Lenhard, city electrician. Monaghan said afterwards that 'there is nothing unresolved as far as' the township and city is concerned. Exhct cost figures harw not been worked out Before leaving he told the Afghans, whose government has been trying to stay neutral between East and West blocs, that true friendship ar.d mutual responsibility have become essential among nations. a longer period of time. The improvement account represents money the city has borrowed for capital improvements, such as demolition of the old firehouse and construction of two new ones.

Chryst said one radar-detection unit will be located on Fairview Ave. and another on the New Danville Pike. The units installed look somewhat like street lights since they hang over the street from poles and mast arms. Vehicles passing under the unit break the radar beam, bounce a signal back into the unit, and trip the traffic light. The township will purchase three traffic signals in addition to the two radar units, the mast arms, and also will install some curbing needed for the traffic islands.

The city will buy the poles, erect the units, put up signs, paint lanes, etc. RAILROAD SIGNALS Still undetermined is whether a relay unit controlling the traffic lights will be erected on the railroad tracks for use of train crews. Officials will check to determine what is required by the Public Utilities Commission. A partial north-south traffic I committee persisted in plan ww.nt into effect on Mrovtv.lthm. vj WASHINGTON (AP) investigators today granted industrialist Bernard request to testify them in private.

They would be questioned on alleged mismanagement of his companies. Goldfine came back committee as a result of wTangle over his refusal to answer 18 questions borrowings from the Port Development a holding company controlled but did not Goldfine was convicted of Congress for answer the questions. He a suspended sentence in jail and $1,000 fine and to answer the questions House Legislative Oversight House Boston Gold-fines before said he extensively of one before the a long last year about alleged Boston real estate which he own outright. of contempt refusing to was given of a year ordered if the Presidents limousine as it passed along a Soviet-built highway to the capital, and almost slowed the motorcade to a walk. Children waving small American flags shrieked repeated cries of Welcome in faltering English.

Welcome to President United States said a banner across the road. Bearded, turbaned old men by the thousands stood along the route. CROWD DELAYS ARRIVAL Although Kabuls population is only about 200,000, the Afghan press bureau chief. Dr. S.

K. Rishtiya, estimated the turnout at about 500,000. Many thousands came from scores of neighboring villages. The huge crowd delayed the Presidents arrival at King See AFGHANISTAN Page 1 r) i Page 8 12 34-35 18 38 30 3 35 35-37 4 38-39-40-41 14-15 Bridge Christmas Story Comics Editorials Financial Food Obituaries Radio-TV Sports Theaters Want Ads Women Another item the city might include in the bond issue is NEAR-FREEZING WEATHER 000 for a new city garage. That money could be spent for either King Mohammed Zahir, who under mounting Soviet influence is building a new garage or buying 35 a result of Soviet aid, greeted and remodeling the building now being rented for that purpose by the city.

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