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The Bristol Daily Courier from Bristol, Pennsylvania • Page 15

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MAY 20, 1964 BRISTOL COURIER and PAGE 15 Exiles Wait Word That Leader Has Landed In Cuba MIAMI exiles marked their hopes today that refugee iead- dependence day with high hopes today that refugee leader Manuel Ray has outfoxed Fidel military forces and returned to the island. Although the 39-year-old Ray had to run a gamut of what may be the biggest muster of Soviet-controlled and equipped troops smce the 19(il Ray of Pigs invasion, refugees sure he has made Clandestine anti-Castro radio came from outside Cuba filled broadcasts which apparently caiiie from outside Cuba filled the airwaves during the night. They did not identify themselves with Ray or any group. Urging Cuban youths to revolt, they claimed exile are on Cuban and asserted the full of free men ready to In the transmissions monitored here bv IIPI. a woman did the broadcasting.

The plaving of patriotic Hymn dating back 7fl years in the year of independence againsl Spain also was heard. Today was the day that R. leader of the Revolutionary (JURE) organization said he would be back on island in accordance with a car-old pledge of some sort was ovpectdr ai hcrr. His return, apparenfly with a small forc of sabotage expert like himself, promised to tni, gpr a new guerrilla and nnri('r- ground campaign to weaken control of the island, It I auserl increaM-d tension in Cuba rind nM.unfing euphoria amonu iitian roionv which ha- been ridins; a new uave of optimism since last -r-i raid on Hrien Manuel nienr, di and military broadeasts monitored confirmed that is maintaining an isUrid alrrt apparently hoping to flush otif Ray before he go Hut exile', helipved thp al-rt mmht be a precau tion against mternal di-ordet Phones Out As Blaze Hits Home By SCOOP LEWIS (ourier-Tinies Staff Writer When fire broke out last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

James C. Webster, 1344 Maple Maple Shade, neighbors had to go a half-mile to call for help. The reason was that telephone in the entire area was out. Service to 734 homes in the Maple Shade. Croydon and West Bristol areas was disrupted for nearly 24 hours following the accidental cutting of three major cable lines yesterday morning.

Fortunately, the fire caused little damage to home. it scared the he remarked. who was attending a political meeting at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School at the time, said a typewriter and some papers and tape recordings on top of a desk were damaged. His children. James 13; Susan, 14; Sandra, 11.

and Jacy. attempted to smother the flames with a big pillow before neighbors rushed in with buckets of water and a garden hose. Mr.s. Emmaline who lives across the street at 1.34.5 Maple had to go a half- mile to Route 13 to find a telephone in order. Harry Beck, chief of Croydon Fire Co.

No. 1. said beat her back to the The fire company extinguished the and had everything under con trol in a matter of moruents. Summon Webster Two volunteer firemen then went to Benjamin Franklin school to summon Webster. Other neighbors assisting in dousing the flames with water were of 1348 Maple Ave.

and Hugh of 1334 Maple Ave. Don Matthews, manager of the Bell Telephone Co. business office in Levittowp, said service was disrupted at 11:38 a.m. yesterday when the cables were cut during excavation work on Stale Road, near Route 413. By 11:55 a.m., Bell crews were on the job, Matthews said.

They worked around the clock and had restored service to 90 per cent of the subscribers by midnight. By 10 a.m. today all homes had their service restored. As Webster put it. been here Ifi years and the fir.sl time I have to really rely on the phone, out of Realtors eek Proclaimed li.S.

Sciuliiiji Force To In Laos Crisis Rucks County Commissioners proclaim the week at May 24 to May 30 as Realtors Week. Affixing their signature to the proclamation are (from left) S. Fai'- ley John Justus Bodley, chairman and Joseph 0. Canby. Looking on are area realtors (standing left to right) John J.

Connolly, Levittown; Allan W. Williams, Feasterville; Robert ('. Ruehl President, Morrisville; 'I'heodore N. Luz, Newtown; Robert H. Lippincott, Doylestown; Edward Marcella, Bristol; J.

Carroll Molloy Doylestown and Stanley M. Horn, Perkasie. Kinji; Declares Many (luircli Leaders Are Segreiiatioiiists Ijore Jf ins ATI.ANTK’ (TTY, N.J. (UPl) Martin Luther King Jr. told the Baptists Convention today that many of the leading segregationists are also church leaders.

The Negro civil rights leader said it is a fact that many perpetrators of this system are not what we consider but are church who are misinformed. many preach segregation for political and economic reasons, others sincerely believe segregation to be good for themselves, their children and their nation they sincerely feel that they are doing the will of King said. He called upon the church to make it known that Christians have a responsibility be adding thatj can be a dangerous force if it is in the wrong hands and if it is placed in a small, closed are necessary to solve the he sjiid. King led a worship service at the whi(h, like the largei' Southern Baptist is in annual session here. Last night.

Dr. Ralph 1). He said the church should take a against segregation and support action, legislation direct for integration. State School SupL Picked Father Dies Trying To Save Two Others HARRIvSBURG (UPl) Dr. Joseph Adlestein, Camp Hill, will become acting superintendent of Eastern State School and Hospital, Trevose, Rucks Coun-j ty.

on June 1. it was announced formally today. The appointment of Adlestein. deputy state mental health commissioner, was announced i Tuesday by Commissioner liam P. Camp.

There will be no; change in his $22,500 annual salary. Dr. Camp told members and guests of the Bucks County Mental Health Society touring the school and hospital on Monday. from Page I) a firm doing gas pipe installation nearby also came to assist. use anything but small hand shovels and our hands to get them Bray said.

i I Witnesses passing motorists noticed the excitement. They also stopped their cars, ran to the scene and grabbed shovels to help. Police said the men were found in crouched positions about two feet apart at the bottom of the ditch. 15 Minutes Bray estimated the two men had been fully covered about 15 Strength from Page 1) out by state courts last year 1-1 Him. nuciatriii mv pointed to fill the vacancy an indeterminate time until a definite appointment can be Before becoming deputy commissioner, Adlestein headed the Public Welfare mental health office for a short period last year.

He also has headed the bureaus of mental hospital services and community mental health services and served in mental hospitals for six years including a stint as assistant superintendent at Danville State. experience also includes the directorship of the Division of Behavioral Problems in the state Health Department. The psychiatrist is a graduate of the University of Alabama and Georgetown University School of Medicine. State t.he only Pennsylvania hospital devoted exclusively to caring for mentally ill children. minutes w'hen they were both found.

Rescue squads had arrived by then and the men were quickly given oxygen. Bird was removed first, then Davis and finally Gerhart, police said, Davis and Bird were rushed in Delaware Valley and Gerhart in Union Fire ('o. ambulance to Mercer Hospital. Trenton. Dead On Arrival (ierhart was dead on arrival.

Davis died 10 minutes later efforts of doctors ot isave his life. Bird ad- to the intensive care unit. 'Bird was listed today in fair although he w'as still loot lucid, a hospital spokesman I said. Bray said both Gerhart and I Davis were Gerhart had worked as a crane operator for his firm about 12 years. Both Bird and Davis, w'ho are Negroes, were laborers.

Davis had been with the firm about four years. Sgt. Charles Ronaldo and Scherfel of Makefield police to- r'nnt inn in O' thpir in. vestigation of the tragedy. Abernathy, a King lieutenant, told the ABC' that the church is not meeting its I'e- sponsibility in civil rights.

He 'said Christians possibly I keep silent during his cnyial But the liev. Enoch Clayton iBrown. Columbia. deliver- iing the keynote sermon, i I said churches should not attempt direct and economic Brown said New conducted no crusades against slavery and other evils they that the roots of all wrongs are in the hearts of men, and their efforts were directed toward the regeneration of those He said the same format should be followed today. The Life Commission offered a re.solution calling for Southern Bapti.sts to themselves to the decisive defeat of The measure will come up for a convention vote Thursday.

A stronger proposal was introduced Tue.sday by the Resolution ('ommitee. It suggested that churches participate in and lake other steps to end segregation. WXSlllNGTOX (l The United (iuns to hope that diplomatic pressun' would halt the Conmiunist of in Laos and need for more diastic action the Western pouf'rs. Ami'ncan offiiMals said, how ever, that Washington was prt' pared to take an; measures in the final analy sis to th(' inrh'penfl ('rr-e and of the em battled kiimdom if diplomati failed. They were talkiim al this tini(' aliout possibl.v fl i r.S.

forc('s to neighboring 'I'hai- land. if that if'fjiH'sted such a hut about direct I S. militaiN inti'rvenfion in Laos. However. would not foreclose ans if conlinii'Hl attacks si the if'mainint: of the aurc'enient.

1 he was bring- I ing incr('as('d prf'ssiire on am and Russia. co-ctiairmen of cf)nr('rence which uuarantc''s Laotian ind('p('nd- eiice and irm; 1 to isstie a stiff flcmanding an ('lid to hoslilitic'- to the TI ic uiiconfiiincd rc' t)orts that a forthcoming mih- taiN excr ise the Soiitlu'ast Organization iSE.XTO) be to k. ILs I CPI)- ''ik! la S. Khrusiichev ha' been ni-'j- ing a in a Na: set' to iet arms to fl rc'oliUK'n throurhoul the Midfile in formed said was use a speech al an to ('xpand on hint', to Arab inonarcfis that the Kreni Is seokiiii' new i inolutioii'- lo depose tlH'in, land forces in 'rhailand. if that count I asked for them said however, the idea was hmhlv at this time since had not mdic.iU'd desire for fot eiun Thailand allei if one ('ommunist f'athei I ao which to within of the Mekong bnnndarx two and then its pu'h.

State fiepiirtnv-nl .1 'Closki Tiies- the Commum-t atia- ks had thi'i'atened both the Laotian government of neutralist on anna Phounia and Hv' of th(' (leneva i In 1962. when the -imilar to the in recent days. late John I- ordeti'd 0,000 annicn rnlo to it and also raise the threat nf militaix inter in L. ion liv were mned months later CASH To consolidate bills, to buy a camera, sports equipment, pay car-repair costs, hospital bills, wedding expenses, or travel. For these and many other purposes, cash in on convenient low-cost credit at PNB! TERMS includad, 12 MONTHS 24 MONTHS 36 MONTHS YOU 100,00 600.00 900.00 AMOUNT OF NOTE 320.52 6 7.60 1 112.40 REPAY MONTHLYS 2 S.

6 30 COMPARE OUR You'll find at PNB Banking's nicest people THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL BANK Member FOIC DFIAWARE MONTGOMERY but. by an oversight, the ruling did not apply to presidential primaries. A federal court is to rule on the matter May 25. However, state Gen. Thomas Finan has issued an opinion that the popular vote would apply to this election.

The leader of Southern forces -------------------------in the Senate, Richard B. Rus-j sell of Georgia, said he inter-1 preted the results as evidence of increasing sentiment against the civil rights bill. is finally getting through to the people of this country just what the politicians are threatening to do with their form of government in their bid for minority bloc said. kills SAIGON, South Viet Nam American was killed and a second wounded by Communist gunfire yesterday while on a patrol against Viet Cong guerrillas. Be Lonely from Page I) the beach in Normandy on D-Day and came through unscathed.

When he was discharged after the war he was a staff sergeant. In 1948 he married the former May Foraker of Bristol Borough. Gerhart w'ill be buried in New'town hut arraneementK through the Molden Funeral Service of Bristol are not yet completed, Surviving are his wife, and two sons; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gerhart Sr.

of Columbus, N.J.; five brothe-rs, Le.ster of Levittown, Charles of Yardley, Lee of Linden. Glenn of Morrisville. Jay nf and two sisters, Mrs. Norman Roberts of Newtown, and Mrs. McCay of Levittown.

Doll, 17-year-old ieenage for re- liiKiiiished her crown day, so she can marry Central Michigan junior iieorge Widfe on May Doll was siicceedcd by l(i, of Falls Va. Miss Doll is a of Navarre, Ohio. girl must single to wear the crown. (CPI 'I'ele- pho(o) Ax Suspect Tries Suicide HONOLULU (UPI)-A prime suspect in the ax-slaymg of a freighter captain was hospitalized following a suicide attempt. Authorities from countries still W'hich of them solution to the STARTING TOMORROW at9AJH.

Doolittle Allens GREATEST Furniture Clearance several were not sure' should seek I bei murder aboard: Ring Thev Want A New Name MILWAUKEE, Wis, (UPD- Milwaukee garbage collectors have asked the common council to refer to them henceforth as public works combustible field men. Secret Service Agent Charged With Attempt To Sell Gang File the freighter Pomona. The victim of the slasing wasi Natvig, 51, a Nor-1 I wegian. He was hacked to I Heath with fire av in his i-ab- i in last F'riday, while the vessel was en route from Los to Formosa with a cargo ofi scrap iron. The man described as a prime suspect, chief steward' Baardsen.

42. also a- i Norwegian. was rushed to Hospital yesterday fronL I his isolation cell aboard thej Brazilian freighter. Authorities said he slashed his wrist with a piece of broken slate. Baardsen had been drinking with the skipper shortly before the slaying, and customs officials found a blood-splattered shirt in the chief cabin.

EVERY EVERY GROUP fc 1 .1 4TTTT-r4 Two ork On IT Ilfitf 111 This is it! The greatest furniture clearabee in our historyl semi-annual store and warehouse clearance. line nationally- known manufacturers. Odd pieces, complete suites, bedding all will be sacrificed during this sale! Limited quantities! SHOP fOR Bffsr SElffCTION OPEN MON0AY FRIPAY .9:00 to 9:00 PML Saturdays to 5:30 U.S. Se-land one of the gang members. cret Service agent was to be arraigned today on charges he attempted to sell for $50,000 a secret government file on the operations of a counterfeiting ring which he helped to smash.

Abraham Bolden, 33, a Secret I Service man for four years, was arrested yesterdy and I'e- leased on his own recognizance 41. Hanrahan said along with a man and wife ted their part in team that allegedly acted as in- termediarie.s Bolden U.S. PMward V. Hanrahan said Bolden was relieved of all duties. He was charged with soliciting payment to influence him in performance of duties, a charge that could bring him up to 15 years imprisonment if convicted.

denied the allegations. arrested were Frank W. Jones, 43, and his wife, Jean, they admit- the scheme and could face up to 10 years in prison each if convieted of conspiracy to defraud the government and obstructing jus- 1 UNITKD NATIONS. N. African states lo- said the reported working on.

came to light when Joseph resolution aimed at averting Spangoli, 31, Chicago, one a blowup in the United Na- of eight men arrested as coun-j lions over the troubled situation terfeiters after the ring was smashed, to police. The secret file dealt with the operations of the ring which allegedly printed $250,000 in bogus Series savings bonds and in worthless Bank if travelers checks, Han- fahan said. in Southeast The measure being prepared by Morocco ind Ivory Mas expected to fall short of Soviet demands for tion of the United States and' South Nam in connection with a Cambodian charge of aggression..

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