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The Bristol Daily Courier from Bristol, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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Weather Fair and warm today, tonight and tomorrow. High today 80; tonight in 50s; high fomorrow in 80s. Sunday, continued fair and quite warm; high near 90. Irtetnl iatltt Delaware Valley's Great Home Newspaper For News Of Southampton Trevose Feasterville See Page 17 VOL 52, No. 172 Member ABC BRISTOL FRIDAY EVENING, AAAY 4, 1962 28 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS DELHAAS LIKES 1 HIGH SCHOOL PLAN Ten Officers Raid Still In Bensalem Nab wo Brothers At Site While most of the area slept quietly at 12:10 a.m.

foun i branches of eriiiiient i into Linconia and raided a still operation at 2411 Paris Ave. Linconia is a small section of the Bensalem part of Trevose. William McNeill, 21. owner of the cinder block dwelling garage in which the still dis- cox-ered, and his brother Samuel. 24.

of U136 South 50th St. Philadelphia, were arrested by Sgt Lawrence Michaels of the Bensalem Township police and officers of the state police, the state liquor control hoard, the I'. S. Treasury Department and Det. Clarence Irwin, chief of Bucks County detectives.

275-Gallon Tank on information supplied by Police Qiief William Riempp of Bensalem, the (rfficers found a 275-gaHon boiler tank, almost 3.000 gallons of mash in 30 barrels, empty bottles stacked in cases along a wall of the build- jng and 600 pounds of sugar. The McNeill brothers, who were found operating the still at the (Continued on Page 3, Col. 7) Good Evening! The apparatus above is of the still. The large tank (right rear) tN)ntains the mash which w'as by si.K propane burnei's and then into a tank (left rear) where it was cooled and run off into the bath tub in the foreground. ALso stvn aIV boxes and of the pounds of sugar used to ferment the mash.

(Courier-Times Photo) (See other Page 3) Skies rarely fairer. Rarely a May when pink and white dogwood bloomed prettier and more profusely all over the place. Maybe this is why our Phillies are so insinred, licking the Braves as they did last night for their third win in a row and now playing respectable .500 ba.seball? No good, however, for those early-season high-flying Pirates, now just another ball club as they tangle with class. Kennedy Says Trade Or Fade For U.S. Explains Aide's Resifjnation Glenn and Titov spend a few hours together talking about their travels.

going to be really something a few decades hence when the gals get together at their bridge parties and ocMnpare notes on their experiences on Mars, Saturn, etc Kennedy calls on the and unions to negotiate a responsible and niHLinflaUoo- ary settlement of their dispute to head off a nationwide strike of 4.50.000 employes. Well sir. see w-hat we see. Do you suppose the time may come when can handle lliese management labor differences without the need of government throwing its w-eight ai-oLind? An.vliow, Arnold Palmer off to a dawty start in that $50.000 Lai Vegas Tournament Cham- ptiMis, with old Sam Snead only a stroke off the pace. rather like to ancient slammer win big one.

see the another Dad, why there more women skin can't talk under there's a new power mower without blades fw borrowing neighbors. Gardener: thinks what come up. Suburbanite goes down who must NEW vast with a pint economy of more than a trillion dollars was forecast by President Kennedy today as a new boost for his low' tariff program now embattled in Congress. "We stand at a great divide, deciding whether to go forward or fall back whether we are to trade or the President said a speech prepared for the opening of a new dockside terminal in this great port city of the South. He flew to New Orleans this morning from Washington primarily to fire another volley in of his trade expansion bill.

a welcome at city hall following his dockside speech, the President planned to fly to Eglin Force Base in northwest Florida for a fire power demonstration. and on to Palm Beach tonight. With tools provided by the ad ministration trade bill, the President said, this country would move toward opcm partnership amcKig all free nations, gradual levelling of trade barriers that will draw the whole non-Communist world together with the strings of economic self he added, be specifically and initially expressed in terras of a genuine Atlantic the Common Market of Europe and the Common Market of 50 United Mindful of the heavy state New Orleans has in foreign trade through its active port, the President chose this background to slap at opponents of his trade policies as those who would raise tariffs, restrict capital, cut back commitments and thus the reins of the free world Dr. Raal) Books By Employes By BEN Courier-Times Staff Writer The superintendent of Bucks County Schools yesterday said he the idea of school administrators writing books on their own time. Dr.

George Raab said that Bucks County has favored in attracting people of a calibre to produce and to publish He was also asked about the resignation of Dr Gloria Cammarota, who wa.s an assistant on his staff. It was revealed earlier yesterday that she had served as a co-adviser on one of the tcxllxwks which recently came under fire by Dr. Charles H. Boehm, state superintendent of public instruction. Praises Dr.

Cammarota Dr, Raab denied emphatically that her had anything to do with the textbook disclosures and in fact praised her for her initiative in authoring textlxwks. However, Dr. Raab indicated that a review was needed to find out wliether administrators were letting their wwk as authors interfere with their school work Proposal Leans To Wilson By LEWIS Courier-Tlmps Staff Writer The Delhaas Joint School Diiitrict may have only one senior school in the PrtHJOsals to make Woodrow Wilson High School the one school were openly discussed at last night's lengthy Delhaas Joint; School Board meeting. While no' action as takMi on any future plans, senUmenls expressed by; various memlxTs the Bnslol! Township and Tull.vtown Boixrugh boards indicated preference for one high school in the future. Robert P.

Marlin, district su-i perintendent, last night presented three basic, plans for the IVIhaas Joint Board to study, The plans are part of 10-year en-; rollment prepared by! Martin and Mi.ss Edna M. Penny, packer, director of pupil nel. following a census study of the school district. 2 Plans For Wilson Two of the plans propose Woodrow Wilson as being tlie district's i one senior high school One of these plans, referred to as 2-3-2-2. has drawn the mast favorable reaction fi-om memtiers.

The third (vlan would ivtain two high and Delhaas The plans, initiated last Decem -1 her by Martin, were drawn up to cope with an anticipated of enrollment in school tem between now and 1972. Total enrollment in the Delhaas district today is including those in, special classes and at the Bucks' County Technical School Peak Expected in 1969 1970 The peak ls exjxxted in the 1969-70 term with an en- roilmciu of increase ol 2 616. Withdraws Alotion One township hoard member, John F. Hess, propo.sed that the board study two plans and i 8-4' for possible adoption at the beginning of the 1963-64 schiwl term. However, he withdrew his! motion after fellow board mem- i hers agreed it best to sUaly the plans already presented by Mar-ig tm.

2-2-2 plan would include only three of the four present secondary schools whereas Mar(Continued on Page 3, Col. 8) $000 Smiles Mrs. FToreiice Fries of llMJ Green Lynn Drive, hold.s the $500 clieck she rcH-eived from the Courier Times for submitting the nearest correct solution to CXJIN- Doii i It' WORD No. Bt'aming their enthusiasm along with Mrs. Fries are her husband Rodman and her son Rodman.

(Courier-Times Photo) Levitton'll Hoiiseivife Wins WIN $500 Dr. Raab also indicated that because textbooks written by base. (Continued on Page 3. Col. 2) Army Revolts In Venezuela C.AR.AC.AS, Venezuela (UPD-: The biggest military 11 against the Betancourt regime two years broke out today in the eastern port city of Carupano.

Venezuela's second largest naval (Ml no Dh no I ju.rt it I just can't Mieve Thiise were the woixi.s Mrs Florence Fries of t06 Lynne Levittown, ut tercd, when she received a call from the yestenlay. small wxmder. Who wouldn't utter double words and dmible if they'd just won the $500 Jackptit in a run-off. Corrwt But that's jiist what Mrs Fries, a housewife, did All for having the nearest cor- rtvt to OOI.NWOHI) 61 Fries, whftse bus- band Rodman is a spray with Merc and Zan- ni. Un ittown, and wlwise Hodman, who will be 14 in August, attends Benjamm Franklin School, virtually jumped through loltqihone wires when learntxl the good news.

you she saki. coming just in time. We certainly iHHxi it right Air of Urgency Fries said slie woukl rather not disclose the reason for her neeil But air of urgeiK'y very in evidence. I've never won anything in all my said, after catching her breath, still don't believe it," She saki has doing COINWORD since it first began. Suddenly she paused.

she said, me ami told me 1 was the winner a( something iHit it turned out to be a gimmick from siMiie sales A Joke Her voice suddenly reflect- eti doubt. "This a joke, is she asked. The reporter who iieliver- the glad tidings had a suggestion. He urged her to ca.ii the and ask for him. Mrs.

Fries felt sheepish about doing it, but finally agreed. When the Courier Times operator answered s. (Continued on Page 3. Col. 2) At Four Hospitals J.

Doctors Revolt On Medical Care j'our driving, please. Police Seek To idenlifv Girl Police continued their efforts today to identify the decapitated body of a girl abmit five or six years old foum! floating in a milk box in the Schuylkill River POINT PLE.ASANT. J. revolt designed to stymie President medical care for the aged program spread today to four New Jeisey hospitals. The doctors vowed that if Congress passes the President's bill tymg medical care with social security, they will refuse to treat patients under the program.

The revolt started at Point Pleasant Hospital, where Dr J. Bruce Henr'ksen and 43 of his colleagues signed a resolution pledging they would not treat patients under the bill. Henriksen said he hoped the revolt would spread to every hospital in the frustrating the medicare program even if it passes Congress. Similar resolutKwis were signed by doctors in Beth Is- riwl Hospital, Community Memorial Hospital and Hospital In all, about 200 doctors were said to have joined the movement The Kennedy proposal calls for paying hospital bills of the aged through Social Security. It is one of the major issues in the current session of Congress.

Predicts Quality Drop Henriksen. 54, a native of who started practicing here a year after his graduation from the University of Nebraska Medical School in 1932. predicted that the quality of hospital care will drop if Congress passes the medicare bill. Hospital beds, he said, be filled with ok! people who think it is nice to lie in bed and have their backs rubbed and their meals brought to them. Then there be room for the really sick If doctors all over the country join in and refuse to participate in medicare.

Henriksen said, the program will not pass Congress and if it passes it will not be implemented. plan drew barbed (Cootinned on Page 3, Col. 6) TTie naval and marine garrison rebelled during the night and seized control of the city. The govemmwit rushed sea, land and air forces to put down the revolt. I The government described the, revolt as an isolated action communications with coastal cities in the east were suspended Flights to the area were cancelled.

Troop patrols were posted at radio and television stations in Caracas as a precaution The city was quiet. Schools were suspended at Cumana. capital of the eastern state of Sucre, about 60 miles west of Carupano. The naval base itself is about 350 miles east of Cara- cavS. Uonse In Deplorahle Condition Bristol Rules Couiity-Owiied Building Must Be Demolished Seen Ahead This could well be the That is if the predictions hold true to fortn Sunny skies and temperatures in the 8()s are forecast mid-May The mercury is existed to hit 80 today and a bit higher tomorrow.

Temperatures may approach 90 on Sunday, the weatherman hints The high to date is 87 degrees on April 27. high was 71 while the low was 46. Bristol Borough authorities yesterday txMidemned as a health hazard a home owned by Bucks County, ordered it demolished and ordered the 14 persons living in it to vacate the premLses within 30 days. The home is at 218 Penn Bristol, and is half of a two- home unit, according to Joseph Gallagher, borough inspector. It has only an outside toilet, no hot water, no heat and only one spigot, for cold ater, on the entire premises, Gallagher said.

Eight of the 14 living there sleep in one bedroom, he declared. More Houses i The action in condemning the build ing brought to light the fact that Bucks Coun-i ty owns a able number of dilapkiated homes which could constitute healtb or fire hazards. The county makes no effort to maintain the homes, to coUeet i rents or to the residents. County Solicitor Samuel Gray Jr. confirmed this fact today.

have receivcti quite a few Inquiries from municipalities on hou.ses like Gray said. Some of them, he said, are in Bristol Township, in aikihion to the one in Bristol Borough. Instead of maintaining the prop, erty, Gray said, the county has established a policy of passing the responsibility back to the municipality in which the property 5 situated. This IS because, he said, the majority of taxes which have accuied owxxi to either the local school district or the local municipality. Delinquencies in county taxes repre- only a fxuiion of the whole, he said.

In the case of the buUduig at (('ontiaued on Page 3, Col. 7) INDEX Amusenienu 16 Junior 2 Building. Garden, 11-13 Alov ies 16 Classi! ied 16-25 Obituaries 33 COINWORD16 Shool Menus 11 7 14. 15 Editorials 6 23 Features TV Jk-hedutr 27 Inquiring Reporter 4 TV Review 4 6. Courier-Times Classiiied Ptwae WI 3-BMW Classified DepC WT.

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