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Devastated Calif ornia Areas Threatened by New Floods WEATHER Mostly sunny but cold today. Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow. (Other weather data on page 2) Delaware County's Home Newspaper 80 til YearNo. 27,392 CHESTER, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1955 Seveneiitt c-1, mwt 581 TRAFFIC ALL-TIME DEATHS SET i HOLIDAY MARK Safety Group Estimate Far Beneath Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The nation's motorists raced and rammed their way to an all-time record number of traffie deaths over the long Christmas holiday weekend. Latest figures showed at least 581 persons were killed in automobile accidents from 6 p.m.

Friday to midnight Monday local time. In addition, 64 persons died in fires and 102 in miscellaneous accidents for an over-all total of 745 in the 78-hour period. The previous record traffic death toll "for any was 556 in the four-day Christ-1" mas holiday period in 1952. The over-all total this year also! was a' record tor a three-day BOOTS AWAIT BOY David, father of lo-year-old Robert Achey, missing since Christmas Day, holds gift awaiting return of youth to his Lester home. Search for boy continued today along New Jersey shore and throughout Tiriieurn.

Island. New Arctic ColdWave Christmas The previous high was 734 in 1950. The record over-all toll lor any holiday was S05 in the three-day Fourth ot July holiday period in 1950. BLACK CHRISTMAS The National Safely Council had predicted 560 Americans be Hits County A new- cold wave somewhat less Missing Boy Sought On NJ. Side of River killed in motor mishaps during the potent than last week's Arctic 1953 Christmas holiday period Said Council President Ned H.

ther and mother, Dora, at 435 Iroquois left his home Dearborn: freeze' will hand over Delaware County for the next couple of days. The present' blast of frosty air moved in from the' great west'- on the heels of. surprising! A SLIGHTLY USED CAR This twisted -arid battered sedan lies in the water ori the beach at Capitola, near Santa. Cruz; after having been rolled 300 feet by raging flood waters from the San Lorenzo River over the weekend. Water from th San Lornzo swept into the heart of Santa Cruz, taking' several lives and causing costly Wivphbtp) We may have dreamed oi a white Christmas but we have made The search for a 15-year-old boy missing from his Tinicum home since shortly after 9 a.m.

Sunday fanned out this morning to the New Jersey side ot the River "opposite'' Tinicum Island. shortly after i Christmas Impatient to get out oh it black with a record of: death the. in his ouboard boat, he1 struction7 and disaster' on the higa'M balmy 57 degrees which 'Old 'Man way. by whichno American can Jbej Winters pulled out. of hat.

for opened only, a few. of his gifts, SEARCH ORGANIZED Robert Achey's father, David, led the searching party of relatives! anyiiuns dul depressed, asnaiueu nnsimas, Bead Mimn Suites 22 His mother warned him to be gilt 2 and frightened. Despite dire predictions of the and scores of neighbors, hopeful SevenMee House Fire home in time for the family Christ- mas dinner. When he failed to ap ram, mist and fog by the Phila can only hope that the shock of this tragic' and needless delphia-weather bureau, the weather pulled-its usual surprise tactics, pear late Sunday night, wor-ted parents notified Tinicum po toll will-' have a sobering effect over the New Year's and AsFlopdLossesT op $IS0 Million lice, and- Chief Thomas Revello or throughout 195S." Not only' did 'the poor conditions to "materialize but' almost spring-like warmth came Instead. Scvoci persons were forced to ganized a searching parly.

On Dec. 1 when the. nation observed the second annual Sate SAN FRANCISCO -131 New floods, probably would' return' 1 several persons were" trapped' In flee from 15 Sherwood Walling "Brownie," the missing "boy's that they might find the boy holed 'up iri; one of numerous frequently, 'used by duck" on the New Jersey side. The boy, who' lived with' Ms fa- UL Hearing To Resume high marks- six feet up some them while trying to Six hunting dog, was in the searching The' weatherman's explanation! tor the sudden, change of. course more persons were presumed dead Driving Day," there were 69 traffic deaths in 21 hours.

In the. first 1Q months this year traffic fatalities -The intensively farmed -delta, was that the warm southern air party tins morning, juore man a dozen duck boats and skiffs belonging to neighbors dotted the; in the Eureka area and 13 more at: Santa Cruz. just kept pouring' in making mord laced -with streams; is the menaced the devastated Ynba-Cityj area. in north. central California day as rivers in two states, swollen anew by heavy, rain, raced toward: the Pacific.

In Oregon, the flood death loll rose to 12 when a mud slide roared1 at .3.25 a.m. yesterday when fire destroyed the roof of the two-story, dwelling and; burned out of control for an hour and a half. Forced to fiee and take refuge with neighbors were John Southern Pacific got- its trains last stretch before flobdwaters: pour Into the bay and on to the Pacific Ocean. So strongly have have averaged 102 per day. COMPARISON MADE The Associated Press, for purposes of comparison, 'made a sur through the Sierra again but the Western Pacific said two land Six thousand strikers at the the floods been running that the slides and a washout in the Feather' down a canyon and crushed a home in the little town of Remote river near Tinicum Island, w-herej his clothing, neatly bundled, and; his 10-faot skiff, without the outboard motor, were discovered at 2 p.m; yesterday by the crew of a Coast Guard helicopter.

It is believed that the skiff drifted out into the river and that vey of traffic, deaths during a non- U'estinghouse plant in Lester today- Golden Gate' was brown yesterday. room for moisture in the atmosphere. MERCURY DROPS The Christmas' present from thej short-lived however. By yesterday morning the temperature had descended to '27 degrees and by today the thermometer had taken additional plunge to IS. holidav- period the weekend oi awaited resumption of hearings on Ihree islands were Hooded killing Marion E.

Neal, his wife the claim Local 107. UEW, for the delta yesterday. Levees were and three of their six children. protessor oE business administration at the University 'of North Carolina and now here on a Scott Paper scholarship, his wife and their three children, Alma- 18; John, 13, and" William; 10; -Mrs. Dykstra's Stella River Canyon would keep its east-bound trains on detours until tomorrow.

It will be weeks before the Northwestern Pacific can reopen its line from the San Francisco Bay area lo Eureka. Dec." 9-12. The count showed 364 motor fatalities in the TS-hour period. In the two-day Christmas holiday sandbagged to save others unemployment compensation pay menU Most streams were receding Achey took off his clothing to again after causing some new Val Peterson, federal civil defense and high swim out in the icy water to get Expectations were that davtimp in 195-1 covering a period 54' Hooding in southern Oregon and! north and central California. But- it.

Army officials set out on a two-day hours there were 392 traffic deaths, 63 killed in "fires' and 60 trice, ot Michigan, a semi-invalid, and a friend. Miss Gladys' Cox, 6 Chapel Hill, C. FAMILY AIDS the Feather River, bearing a new tour ot northern Lahlorma temperatures today and tomorrow will stay above freezing but the overnight' low is predicted to drop ravaged iby floods. nooa crest, tnreatened to surge killed in miscellaneous types of Aiding in the search today were 46 Safe As Airliner Lands in Emergency The hearing is scheduled to begin' at ID a.m. tomorrow in Jhe State Bureau of Employment Security, 21st and Arch Philadelphia.

Richard H. appointed I as hearing master by John A. Tor-quato, of labor and industry, will conduct the hearing. Resumption of talks between management and union negotia again over evacuated Yuba City, two uncles, William Achey of Les accidents, an over-all total of. 51a.

"I intend to go out and get my lo is. lohksc omcially recorded Weather conditions at the start Other flooding was feared in the temperature in suburbs this feet wet," Peterson told Gov. Good SALT LAKE CITY, il I The Dykstras rented (he home some months ago when Prof. here to pursue, his studies at Scott Paper 'Co. Mrs.

Dyk- ter, and Ohm Achey ot Folsom; two. brothers-in-law of the father. rich delta area just. east of San season was nine degrees recorded win- Knight yesterday at a confer Ar. airliner with 16 nersons aboard of.

the long weekend made: driving hazardous in many sections of the William Simpkins of Norwood, and last Wednesday. ence canea to aiscuss seaerai am. made an emergency landing at Francisco- Bay where recordflood waters from the mighty Sacra By Thursday the new cold wave country. The death list mounted steadily, with around 150 fatalities RESIDENTS BARRED Bryce. Canyon Airport early today after a fire warning lisht flashed stra mother and Miss Cox -were spending the holidays with the family.

mento and San Joaquin Rivers are tors today at Pittsburgh will have was due to be somewhat slack James Simpkins of Essingtan, and David, lS-year-old brother of the missing boy. The -family physician was treat Because lack of wafer and in the' final 24 hours. no effect on the Lester situation as the plane flew over the moun ened- but seasonal weather is ex sanitation, 'residents- have beeii In Chicago, where j.i persons Involved in the talk is the Inter racing to the sea. There were at least 41 flood dead, 29 in California and 12 in Oregon. pected to linger on.

indefinitely. barred from- returning- to Yuba 1 i 1 XT were killed, there were more than national Union of Electrical Work tains of southern Utah. The American Airlines DC7 was1 en route from Los Angeles to New mean wane, ine weatherman as ing the boy's mother for shock this morning. auto accidents, and 92 per sured countians that no snow was! City. Dr.

P. health service declared, "we In addition, at least 19 more were presumed dead in California. Three sons -were arrested for drunken An eighth grade pupil at. Lester in sight. iuij.

jiuiinu uuiciais sain me sic- iiuiiut yuiLKua aiLi Lilt al4 have -to these people out ofnal indicated fire in the No. 4 en- driving. Elementary School, the missin ers (AFL-CIO) representing 41,000 members in other plants throughout the nation. National UE, will begin talks again tomorrow in Pittsburgh, ac town lest a runaway health hazard In spite of the unusual weather on Christmas, no records -were In Los Angeles there were 769 boy was an avid hunter and fisher gine but none was dscovered. PERSONAL PROPERTY RUINED The fire much of the second floor and consumed, personal property- stored in the attic belonging to Mrs.

Mabel. H. Frazer, Swarthmore av, Swarth-moe, owner the home. Damage' was considerable but no estimate was avai table. Firemen from South Media, Media, Swarth-nrore, Garden City, Rose Tree, were missing in Oregon.

Damage was estimated conservatively at 150 million dollars. accidents, 429 persons were in he He plans typhoid inoculations. broken. The record high tempera man. During the past deer hunt-! ing season, he snared his Xirst jured and 1G7 were arrested- for; The airline arranged for another plane to take the passengers on to New York.

cording to Edward Savitsky, busi ture for the date is a 66 registered buck in Sullivan County. drunk driving. The Weather Bureau predicts ness agent oE Local 107. in 1SS9. Ellsworth Bunker, national Red Cross president, predicted between 4,000 and 5,000 families would look-to his organization; for "long-time" mostly- clear skies today.

While the new cold spell moved into the Eastern seaboard states Communications improved and except at Yuba City the death tolls became more solid. There were fi aid. He said he had assigned 11a Springfield and Swarthmore com most of the northern part "of the trained disaster staff men to the panies battled the flames for an Media Man Was Bom Into Slavery Jefferson Davis Harrison, 1065 Dies flood district. dead in the Eureka 12 at hour and a half before bringing it under control. country is experiencing moderately cold weather.

In Bismarck, N.D., where residents were experiencing sub-zero weather last week, the mercury recorded a Idw of 19 yes FACES NEW CREST Kcalon Improves HOLLYWOOD Busier Keaton the frozen-faced comedian who had been critically ill. recovered sufficiently to the Christmas holidays at home. Keaton, 5D, was stricken with a gastro-intestinal ailment Dec. 6. He was in a semicoma and near dertth for several days.

Charles Gct7. South Media fire Yuba City, almost, abandoned Yuba City, .5 at Santa Cruz, 3 at Colfax and 1 each at Santa Rosa, Stockton and MANY MISSING chief, heiieves the fire started MnHin Inst its -oldest voter when home of his daughter. Mrs. Rosa J.itist Church, with burial in Rolling since its Feather River levee broke from chimney sparks from the Jefferson Davis Harrison died atl Short. 214 E.

Vernon iMedia, Green Memorial Park, West Cries terday. Saturday, faces another crest today. Joe Sanderson, civilian 20 years ago. Up to the time ot hiS'ter. i riends may call at Hie church open fireplace around which members of the family were sitting at Some cars are still under water at Yuba City and authorities fear final illness, about a week ago, he tomorrow trom to a p.m defense coordinator, said water the time of tne his home on Christmas Day.

He was 106. Borti in slavery in Lawrenceville, March 25, 1S49, and named Churchman Recovers LOS, ANGELES Wl James Fran had enjoyed visitors and television shows, especially fights. He was a Highlighting the Local News in 1955 member of the Second Baptist cis Cardinal Mdntyre today was reported "much improved" from Barkley's Grandson, Stepdaughter Wed Jefferson Davis for the president Church, at State st. and Manchester of the Confederacy, he came to the a respiratory infection from which ana in good weather wouia WASHINGTON wi Sen, Alben he.has suffered more than a week walk to services there. He tried Westinghouse Strike, Hurricanes Top Stories v.

bartueys stepuaugnter ana He was expected up in another to attend the first Sunday of each 1 week. month when' communion a served. Rated high on the list oE lop stories was the start of Saik anti- railmcnt Dec. 21 of coal cars College Jan. II while the victim, whose total load oE 1.000 tons IT.

Strozier, slept. On the Inside LINCOLN THE "GREATEST" The Westinghouse strike ha.s been selected by Chester Times editors as 1355's top story in Delaware County. grancson were nonsymoomng today after their marriage yesterday in St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. The Kentucky Democrat gave away the bride, the former Miss Jane Hadley, who wed Army Cpl.

soft coal was spilled in 12th si polio vaccination of first and second rxtwarct L. Hogardus, il, Sprins- To the aged Median, Abraham Lincoln, who freed him from slav grade school children. Distribution of the vaccine began April 25. Coming late this year, on Dec. The strike started Oct.

15 at ery by proclamation in 1SS3, when field, son of Dr. James F. former State Secretary 'ot Forests and Waters, confessed setting 33 fires causing 5500,000 dam-nge. and threw 6,000 men out- of west oE Edgmont av. on (he Baltimore Ohio Railroad tracks.

Full resumption ot rail service was held up 27 hours. Other top stories were: Opening the first section Thomas Truitt. The bride is the work. It is still continuing, with no rb (1 daughter of Mrs. Barkl'ey by a pre 14, was the banning of segregation in the Chester Housing Auth- he was 11, was our greatest presi-' dent.

He never learned to read or signs that either side is relenting. vious marriage. Cpl. Truitt is the The 10th selection was the story The number of families involved, write until his wife, who died inlson ot Mr. and Mrs.

Max Truitt the 515,000,000 Chester Expressway, lot "Baby Doe." who was.abandon- the economic impact on the com IDiS at the age OS, taueht him Mrs. Truitt is Barkley's daughter. the fulfillment of a 30-year dream. munity and the widespread distress eel in the Pennsylvania Railroad station. Chester, Sept.

15 five hours The Baltimore Ohio Railroad After their honeymoon, the new-! lyweds will fly lo Germany, where were factors in the choice to sign his name. In 1919 he signed his name to a voter's certificate and cast his first Republican Best Local Pictures, Page 17 AP's Top lories -s Page 3 tracks will be depressed as part of after its birth. Later it was-learned that program. iit was born unassisted to "Mrs. The second top story oE the year Truitt is stationed.

He expects to Amusements 5 Baby Has Been Named 11 Hal-Boyle It Bridge 4 Business Mirror 7 Classified Ads 23-23 Comics IS, 19 County Towns 12, 13 Crossword Puizlo 13 Deaths 22 Editorials Horoscope 13 In Service 9 Junior Editors 13 Patterns 3, 7, 11 Radio-Television 18 Sports 20, 21 Women's Section 10,11 TIMES TELEPHONES: Want Ads Hester 4-5252 Other callsC Hester 3-6161 also because of its widespread He voted in the November election be discharged nest summer Jean Connors. Ridley Park, nature and distress and damage-was really a combination story of SINCLAIR FIRE The Sinclair Refining Co. fire in Trainer in which 20 employes were hospitalized. Two died several days this year. In addition to Mrs.

Short, Mr. Harrison is survived by another Train Wreck Kills 3 storms and floods, highlighted by ority's housing projects. A total of 1,390 units were involved in Mc- hurricanes. Hurricane Connie hit SANTIAGO, Chile Hi A military daughter, Mrs. Eva Simmons, and later, Larry Rouse, -19, 3 133 Na-j the county Aug.

12, bringing floods train hauling gypsum in central Caffery village, William Homes, which had been limited to a son, James, all oE the home ad- Chile iumned the trsck last nieht The backwash of Hurricane Diane white families, and Lamokin Vil dress. He has a grandson and two near Puente Alto, killing its sol- Today's Chuckle "I wasn't drunk. Your Honor. was just drinking." -t-. "Oh, that's different.

case I'm not going to send you to, jail (or a month, but only for dnj'1." hit Aug. 19 with more floods. Many laso and -the Ruth L. Bennett amilies had to tx: evacuated from tnan tsroosnaven, ana James McGinn, 44, of Woodlyn Manor. Robert B.

Bechtel, 22, who was charged with shooting and killing a student at Swartlimore, 'heir homes and three industries -mmes- great-grannennaren. engineer and foreman and a Services wilt be conducted Thurs-: civilian passenger. R-Tmrts gave day at 1 p.m. in the Second Bap-1 no indication the cause. JEFFERSON HARRISON Former Slave had to close for cleanup.

Also late this year was the dc-.