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The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 13

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The Daily The Weather Poooiwa Much sunshine, fcfwijr and cool today and Sunday with hlfh hi clear and oold tonight with low mostly In VOL. 170 Telephone 320 THE DAILY RECORD, STROUDSBURG -EAST STROUDSBURG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958 SLVhN Grand Jury Indicts Five For Temple Blast Educators Mark Session Of Directors DR. PHILIP Geary, explorer and world traveler, last night set forth a series of proposals for role in international All nations are growing closer, geographically, because of air travel, he said. Education must help people of all nations to work together toward a finer and broader understanding of their mutual aims, similarities and goals. Geary was the main guest speaker at the 54th annual convention of Monroe County School Directors at the County Court House, Pike County directors P.

O. VanNess, executive sec-f EDUCATION at last night's 54th annual Monroe County School Directors Defense Spending To Rise retary of the State School Directors discussed legislative matters before the group. He said the new National Defense Education Act should be usable within the next few months. Being Prepared A state plan for use of the funds provided in this federal act is now being prepared and should be ready in November, he said. A third speaker was Dr.

L. Driver, former Department of Public Instruction official and the man who is known as "The father of in Pennsylvania schools. County Board president Robert Frailey was in charge of the meeting. Walter H. Sebring, assistant Monroe County superintendent and R.

Lloyd Jones, Pike'superintendent, welcomed school directors. Chosen to act as delegates to the annual school directors convention in Harrisburg on Oct. 3031 and Nov. 1 were Vincent Marek, Pocono Township and Theodore Regina, Middle i fl Id. Alternates are Charles Henning, Tobyhanna Township and Eva Koch, Polk Township.

Members of the nominating committee were: Clyde Dietrick, Henry McCool, and Theodore Regina. Increase May Reach 10 Percent HOT SPRINGS, Ya. (AP) Pep. Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles disclosed Friday another rise in defense spending is planned for fiscal 1900.

The military budget boost will certainly be less than 10 percent, lie said, and perhaps within five percent. A 10 per cent increase would mean a rise of about four billion dollars above this dollar Pentagon spending level. A five per cent hike would convention are shown here. They are, left to right: P. O.

Van Ness, Walter H. Sebring, Dr. amund two billion Philip Geary, Harry Drennan, Robert Frailey, Dr. Lee Driver and R. Lloyd Jones.

Boards from both Monroe and Pike attended. (Staff Photo by MacLeod) Child Hides In Leaves, Injured By Parking Car FAIL lenvps are pretty in the Pocono Mountains, hut they meant possible death yesterday to Lawrence Joseph King, 6, of 865 Scott Stroudsburg. The child, playing in a pile of leaves in the street, was pinned against the curb at. 4:30 p.m. by a car which had driven up to park.

Patrolman Gaylord Heberling of the Stroudsburg police force said the child was pressed between the front wheels of the car and the curbstone to the extent that the leaves were imprinted in the skin of his face. Bush, to, of 15 Fethemuui Stroudsburg, said that he was driving west along Scott St. and pulled over to the curb to park in front of 861 Scott St. He said the child was completely burled in the leaves. He heard a scream and when he got out of his car, he saw the child blpeding from the mouth.

The child was admitted to Monroe County General Hospital where it was reported two of his front teeth had been broken. He is also suffering from many body bruises. Patrolman Heberling said Bush still under investigation until it is known whether the child was more seriously hurt or not. Ike Pays Visit To Old Homestead ABILENE, Kan. happy President Eisenhower, back in his boyhood, ran his hand lovingly over the stairwell bannister at the old family homestead Friday and chuckled: "Brother, the times slid down It was a time for reminiscing and the President did a lot of it in touring the white frame homestead, at Fourth and Kuney streets, and the Eisenhower Museum next door.

This is Eisenhower's first overnight trip to Abilene since 1954. He relived the old days then and he did it all over again Friday. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower got a rousing welcome. They arrived in the late afternoon after a 22-mile drive from Schilling Air Force Base at Salina, Kan.

They landed there shortly after Eisenhower had made a campaign speech at the National Corn Picking Contest Cedar Rapids, Iowa. First Stop His first stop was at the Eisenhower homestead, where he lived from the time he was a very small boy until he entered West Point in 19H, Oldtimers who have known him for years and youngsters by the hundreds shouted greetings as the smiling President made his way through the crowd to the family home. "Hello, Charlie. Hi, Earl. Hello the President called.

With Mrs. Eisenhower at his side, the President toured the rooms, spotting the old upright piano, the magazines his father had in a rack at the time of his death in 1912, the family photographs. "How does it look to you, Mr. President pretty someone asked. "Yes, he replied.

"But what amazes you is how when you come back each time how all the rooms Eisenhower Places World Peace As Ma jor Coal In Final Years As President CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) President Eisenhower said Friday the overriding task of his last two years in office will be to work for a just and lasting peace "if the Lord spares me that Addressing a crowd police estimated at 85,000 to 100,0000 at the National Cornplcking Contest, Eisenhower said this task everything we do in A constant theme of U.S. foreign policy under his direction must be "a firm refusal to countenance Communist territorial expansion by the President added. In an apparent reference to Threat. Of Bombing In Little Rock LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Police revealed Friday night that bomb threats had been made against two downtown Jewish synagogues here.

The threats were made late Friday. Officers searched the Temple Israel and the synagogue Agudath Adym' but found nothing. However, squads of plainclothesmen and uniformed policemen were posted at both buildings. letters The threats were made in letters to the Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette. Both newspapers turned the letters over to the authorities.

According to the threats, the bombs were supposed to explode at 9:20 p.m. CST. The deadline passed with no incident. Hour-long services were held at the Temple B'nai Israel Friday night and apparently some of the congregation knew nothing of the threats. Dulles To Confer On Formosa TAIPEI, Formosa of State Dulles will fly to Formosa Tuesday for talks with President Chiang Kai-shek.

The meeting is expected to clear up questions tending to portray the two allies at odds. The Nationalists, who issued the invitation, regard trip os notice to Red China that there is no split in U.S.-Nationalist policy for defense in the Formosa area. Announcements in Taipei and CONFERENCE Officers of the Interstate Advertising Managers Assn. and representatives of icil's sessions arc closed i The Daily Record gather at the Convention prior to the annual dinner last night and Noil dn lined. pocono Manor Inn.

From left are Charles Edmondson, retail advertising manager of The CR 1 Daily Record; association president Wesley S. Dodge; Dr. Henry Gerald, a humorist-psychologist who talked after dinner; Lowel H. Cross, advertising manager of The Daily Record; Quarles nnd Asst. Defense Secretary VV.

J. McNeil spoke to the Commerce Business Advisory Council, made up of the heads of about 100 of the biggest corporations The counc and Quarles to divulge any when questioned later. wno Tanea oner Lowei n. rxea aavermmg manager ot I ne Daily Some said they George N. Scheid; and association secretary-treasurer Waldamar P.

I Wood got the impression Quarles was' suggesting the new defense budget would he in the neighborhood of 12 billion dollars by the time it is presented to Congress. Quarles told reporters the Pentagon faces continuing pressures toward increased budgets over the next several years because of inflation, the rising cost of increasingly complicated weapons systems, and the press of Sovift com pot it ion. But he said the department hopes to avoid any drastic rise which would seriously affect the over-all federal budget. The budget faces a peacetime deficit of 12 billion dollars this year and is Bomb Claims Life In Air Terminal WICIHTA, n. A crude dynamite bomb exploded in the Municipal Air Terminal Friday and killed a man who had carried it to a small armway just outside the main lobby.

It could not be determined expected to run in the red in the' whether the man, Don McCuiston, year immediately following. 36, of Tulsa, had found the Quarles summarized the outlook bomb in the terminal or had for defense costs over the brought it in himself, few years in these terms: "I can- Police Chief Eugene Pond said not see any prospect of a decline the possibility of a suicide was unless we achieve success in disarmament negotiations and in arriving at a more reliable basis for peace than our present reliance on armed the Chinese Nationalist islands Washington said Dulles will come of Quemoy and Matsu, and the here in accordance with the two controversy over whether the, Mutual Defense Treaty. United States should defend I This calls for periodic meetings of them, Eisenhower said: "We the foreign ministers. must understand that we are trying to defend today not merely territory. Once you retreat from principles you cannot turn around again and face your Follows Kennedy The President's remarks came just after a speech by Democratic Sen.

John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who declared administration policies have driven four million persons from farms. Eisenhower disclaimed any direct politics in his own speech, "I will say this the President quipped. "If on this coast-to-coast trip I can get the ratio of my side against the other to be as good from my standpoint as your corn-lfcg ratio is from yours, then I will count It a most successful The Nationalists have worried about a possible change in U.S. policy ever since Dulles and President Eisenhower criticized the size of Nationalist troop concentrations on Quemoy and Matsu, at Red China's doorstep.

Two Dulles' coming is regarded in Taipei as for two purposes: 1. To weld a solid front making clear to the Chinese Communists they are unable to crack U.S.-Nationalist solidarity. 2. To seek Nationalist agreement to some inducement that will get Red China to replace its present tentative cease-fire in the offshore islands with a more permanent agreement. In the latter connection, it is understood the U.S.

allies in Europe are pressing the United States for some quick steps to reduce tensions in Formosa Strait. Survivors Rescued In being checked. First reports were that McCuiston, an unemployed aircraft worker who had just arrived on a flight from Kansas City, had approached a clerk in the terminal and reported he had found the brown paper package containing the bomb in a telephone booth. Only moments later, as he walked into the area way with the package, the bomb Me Cuiston died instantly but some 50 persons in the terminal lobby were uninjured. Seeking Employment At Tulsa, 90 Papers At Ad Convention POCONO MANOR As the Fall Convention of Interstate Advertising Managers Assn.

was heading towards the close of its first day, Inst night it was already being called a successful convention by those present. After a husy day of business meetings, the advertising representatives and wives from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. gathered here at Pocono Manor Inn, for the annual dinner. Edward M. Hyde, moderator of Round Table discussion held yesterday afternoon, called it "one of the best He reported that more than 16 newspapers were represented among the more than 100 special advertising selected for presentation.

Shown were feature since the last association meeting In May. Welcome Lowell vertising AFC A NI New Zea land helicopter Friday rescued all seven survivors of a U. S. Air Force Globemaster widow, a hospital nurse, told of- crash in Antarotica. ficers her husband was in Wichita Two of the survivors were in- seeking employment.

She said he jured. They were identified as Airman Joel Bailey of Balton, S. in serious condition; and Capt. James T. Quattlebaum of Columbia, S.

in fair condition. The others were reported in good condition. had been jobless about a month. He was completing a round trip through the west and had purchased $25,000 flight insurance. His round-trip ticket was from Wichita to Las Vegas, through Denver and Salt Lake Donaldson Air Force Base in City, and return via Phoenix and Greenville, S.

home base of Kansas City, the Globemaster, identified the Mrs. Joan Embree, a clerk at dead crewonen as: a car rental agency, was first Sgt. Leonard M. Pitkevitch, quoted by reporters as saying flight engineer, of McCuiston came to her booth and Mass. asked for change to use a pay Airman Richard J.

De telephone. These reports said he Angelo, flight engineer, of Pitts- returned and reported finding the H. Cross, ad- manager of The Stroudsburg Daily Record, gave the welcoming address. A comic skit, "Selling As It Should Not Be was dramatized by Hyde and George N. Seheid, IAMA vice-president.

Cross and Charles H. Edmondson, retail advertising manager for the Stroudsburg Daily represented the Record. Wesley S. organization president said advertising representatives were present from t)0 newspapers in the three-state area. Scheduled for this morning are the awarding of prizes and further talks and discussions aspects of newspaper advertising.

The convention will adjourn at a luncheon at 1 p.m. field, Mass. Airman W. C. Kelly Slone of Garner, Ky.

Sgt. Nathaniel Wallis of Greenville and Cornwall, England, Sgt. Iman Fendley Prichard, Ala. bomb package in a telephone booth. Then, w'hen he walked into the areaway, the bomb exploded, shattering plate glass windows throughout the building.

Later, Mrs. Embree, who Lad of been in seclusion because of shock, told The Associated Press the man Airman W. C. Robert L. Burnette of Louisburg, N.

did not say anything about having found the bomb. Airport Discussion Continues Cttod Morning! get exactly nowhere trying to reform the world. got to start with an individual per- ferably yourself. Agreement Separates Coun Lessees In Article MONROE COUNTY Commissioners and Airport Authority officials will resume their discussion on a resolution dealing with the proposed airport construction project at Mount Pocono on Monday. The discussion hinges around the belief by the authority that a resolution by Monroe County Commissioners allocating funds over a period of years for airport construction "may not be Commissioners voted to allocate part of the money a year ago.

They have passed two separate resolutions setting aside funds on a regular-payment basis each time on a separate re- guest from the authority. At issue right now the question: "Does one group of have the right to commit funds which must be paid by their future successors in county government? The Agreement and Lease between the Mount Pocono Airport Authority, the County of Monroe, Mount Pocono, Barrett, Coolbaugh, Paradise, Pocono and Tobyhanna, separates the county from the Lessees, in a portion of one article. The agreement and lease is dated Aug. 1 of this year. Under Article II the paper aforesaid rental tion of the County of Monroe shall be its only obligation under this Agreement and The "rental referred to calls for payment of $7,500 on Nov.

30 of each year "commencing Nov. 30, 1959 to and including Nov. 30, In Section 203 of Article II the paper continues: "The Lessees, other than the County of Monroe shall continuously operate the Airport in an efficient economical manner. In Section 2.04 the wording in part is, "The Lessees other than the County of Monroe shall insure and keep insured in a responsile insurance company or companies authorized and qualified to do business under the of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania In another portion of Section 2.04 it reads, "The other than the County of Monroe shall give prompt written notice to the Authority of any loss or damage which is covered by Insurance and shall cooperate in all rca- sonible respects In still another portion of Section 2.04, the wording in part is, "The Lessees other than the County of Monroe shall also maintain public liability and property damage surance and compensation insurance in respect of the Airport in amounts which are reasonable Section 2.05 reads in part, "The Lessees other than the County of Monroe shall pay all rents, eharges and other amounts which shall become due for water, gas, electricity or other utility services consumed upon or furnished in respect of the Section 2.06 features in part that, "The Lessees other than the County of Monroe will pay or make provision for payment of all taxes and assessments, including income, profits, property or excise taxes. If any, Plane I rails In Record llop SEATTLE flyer Charles F.

Banfe attempt for a record-breaking, non-stop flight from Tokyo to Miami ended in failure at the nearly fogged-in airport at Cordova, Alaska, Friday night. Banfe put his Mooney Mark 20A down minutes before 11 p. m. (EDT) as clouds and fog cut visibility at Cordova to less than 200 feet. The small motor sounded like a threshing machine.

projected record flight ended approximately 3,270 statute miles from Tokyo. Had he made it to Miami by Saturday evening as he planned, he would have logged 7,022 miles without touching ground. 39-year-old father of four children, wra.s attempting to crack the non-stop, single-engined mileage record set by Marion (Pat) Boling last Aug. 1. larger Plane Boling flew a slightly larger plane nonstop from Manila to Pendleton, a distance of 6,979 miles.

I Banfe, who left Tokyo at 6:31 NEW YORK (AP) A rash p. Thursday, had esti- of race-hatred bomb threats maled it would him rj2 hours plagued New York Jewish or- to reach Miami. When he left ganizations again Friday. Tokyo he was carrying .113 gallons Three Jewish groups received of gas. telephone calls, and a headless Banfe checked in over Shemya, effigy' of a male figure was in the Aleutian Islands, Friday hanged in front of a synagogue morning.

He reported at the time youth center. No bombs wrere that his engine had been running found, however, following rough but had resumed function- threats. ing normally. Liter in the day, over Cold Bay, Alaska, Banfe reported the engine again was acting up and that he might have to terminate his flight at Anchorage. Again the trouble cleared and Banfe headed out over the windswept desolate Gulf of Alaska.

Shortly before he reached Middleton Island he radioed the Civil Aeronautics administration station at Homer, Alaska, that his engine not permit him to continue. When he landed at Cordova, mechanics said the plane would have to be worked on before he could fly on. Threats In New York or other municipal or governmental charges lawfully levied or assessed by the Federal, State or municipal government upon the Authority or upon the airport A portion of Section 2.07 reads, lessees other than the County of Monroe agree that they will pay or make provision for the payment of all applicable expense or administration of the authority Beginning with Section 2.08 of Article II and running through Article III, the County separated from the Lessees as it is in virtually all of Article II. Lafayette To Install President EASTON K. Roald Bergethon will be installed Saturday as Lafayette 12th president.

Honorary degrees will be conferred on four men during the Installation ceremonies Charge Grows From Atlanta Bombing ATLANTA men were charged Friday with the bombing of Jewish Temple under a law that could bring death sentences. The five, four of whom rounded up by police and a large force of FBI agents, were indicted by a grand jury just five days after the Sunday dvnamiting of the Temple. They were charged with destroying a house of worship. Named in the Indictment went Wallace H. Allen, 32; George Bright, 35, Kenneth Chester Griffin, 32, Robert A.

Bowling, 25, and Richard Bowling The latter two are brothers. Richard Bowling has not IxN'n arretted. Luther King Corley, 26, who had been held on a vagrancy charge during the investigation, was freed at an afternoon hearing. The four in custody denied the against them during an interview at the Fulton County jail. This was the first time newsmen had been permitted to speak with them since their arrest earlier this week.

Attorneys for the suspects attempted to gain release of all of the five in custody at the hearing. The lawyers charged the quick indictment smacked of an method. Hearing Date Judge Virlyn B. Moore of Fulton Superior Court set a hearing for Oct. 22 to decide whether the suspects should be granted bail.

The Fulton County prosecutor, Paul Webb, announced he would oppose release of the men on bond. James Venable, one of the defense attorneys, told the court that Police Chief Herbert Jenkins deliberately sworn a in saying the men were being held for bombing a building. Vennble said they were held utv dor of suspicion ot vagrancy, He told the jurist should the pdiee chief nnd bring charges agaiast the prosecutor. Before the grand jury acted, police announced they had learned the identity of a man who has been financing anti-Semitic activity in the South. The man was referred to as a "fat in a letter police said they found in the home of Allen, one of the five under indictment.

Police did not disclose his name. In Arlington, George Lincoln Rockwell, a 10-year-old printer, told newsmen he wrote a letter last July to Allen. Rockwell said the letter mentioned a "big but declared the reference was to a picketing demonstration and not to a bombing. Rewards offered for information leading to conviction of the dynamiters passed the $25,000 mark Friday. Portland Bridge To Re Opened PORTLAND The new pedestrian bridge across the Delaware River between here and Columbia will be formally opened Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Officials from the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, municipal officials and prominent citizens of both communities will participate in the opening ceremonies. These announcements were made by William R. Johnson, executive director of the commission. Johnson said among the invited guests and U.S. Rep.

Francis E. Walter, and Charles New'baker, of Portland, retired commission guard who was stationed on the old covered w'ood- en bridge for many years. Destroyed By Flood The bridge, eight-feet wide and 770 feet long, was built after the Aug. 18-19, 1955 flood destroyed the old wooden covered bridge which had been used both by people and ears for 84 years. The cost of the bridge, built by Lenry of New York City, was $325,000.

Records on the old bridge show', according to Edwin W. Denzler commission chief enginer, that it was opened to traffic in 1869. It was in continuous use until the toll bridge just south of the structure waa opened in December, 1953. For the last two years of its life It was used only by pedestrians. Heading the span deL egation at the formal ceremonies will be John P.

Fullam, Bristol, Gus P. Verona, Pen Argyl, chairman and secretary- treasurer respectively of the commission..

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