The Evening Times from Sayre, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Temperature Record Noon yesterday 1.1 Nooii totluv 13 High lust 24 hour 21 Liw lust 24 hours JO HE EVENING IMES nilxzard condition tonight, gulp force winds and morn snow, low r.rr to 10 above. Tuesday i loud windy nnri cold Willi snow easing oft to flurries. Vol. LXIII, No. 254 SAYRE ATHENS, WAVERLY, N.

MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1964 PRICE SEVEN CENTS Storm Dumps 14-Inch Snowfall on Valley And Ties Up Traffic U.S. and Panama Agree to Joint Authority with OAS To Keep Zone Border Peace Political Chiefs Believe Scranton Will Be Candidate -M-f jj -L 1 mtw. Air Force Bomber Carrying Nuclear Weapons Crashes No Explosion Danger; Fate of Five-Man Crew Undetermined CU.1BERLND, Md. (AP) A huge jet bomber of the Strategic Air Command carrying two unarmed nuclear weapons and a crew of five crashed and burned in the Appalachian Mountains today. It was not known if any of the five crewmen survived.

"There is no clanger of nuclear explosion," said Air Force officials, adding that explosive experts were en route to the scene. The eight-engine Tell to earth in a blinding snowstorm at the of Big Savage Mountain in western Maryland, about 20 miles west of Cumberland. It was en route from Wcstover Air Force Base, to its home station at Turner Air Force Base, Ga. "There Is no need of evacuation," said the Air Force announcement from Wcstover AFB. The, Air Force explained that an unarmed nuclear weapon contains nuclear material but cannot explode until a crewman takes action to activate it.

State Troopers put a security ring around the wreckage. The Air Force said three teams of experienced explosive ordnance disposal teams were dispatched from Wcstover Turner and Andrews Air Force Base, but said this was routine. The swept-wing SAC bomber was returning to its base in Georgia from a bomber-alert training mission; the 8th Air Force announcement said, and landed at Wcstover because of weather conditions. It took the troopers from Cumberland five hours to reach the rugged, isolated area at the foot of the mountain. There was 15 inches of snow on the ground and it was still snowing.

Air Traffic Control in Washington made the last radar contact with During' the rioting' In which 21 persons, including' three United States soldiers, were killed, Panamanian high school students fight with Canal Zone police. A weekend "general strike" followed formal breaking; off of diplomatic relations with the U.S. Clarence L. Eddy, Athens Merchant, Dies at Age 58 Clarence L. Eddy.

58, 40(5 Desmond Athens, owner and operator of Forbes and Eddy Market, died suddenly this morning at his home at 7:15 o'clock. Born at Laquin, he had resided in Athens for 43 years. His first employment was with Bert Rhodes and later with Terry Brothers Grocery. Mr. Eddy was employed for 14 years as a trainman for the Ixhigh Valley Railroad.

In 1951 he became a partner with C. F. Forl)es in the grocery business. In May of 1903, Mr. Eddy bought out the Forbes Interest and has been operating the business himself.

Mr. Eddy attended the Athens Baptist Church and was a member of Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, F. and A.M.; Royal Arch Chapter, No. 293; Northern Council No.

24, Royal and Select Masters; Northern Command-ery, No. 16, Knight Templars of To- Blustery Winds Cause Drifting; Schools Of Area Are Closed The Valley was right in the middle of a snowstorm that virtually paralyzed the eastern United States today. Fourteen Inches of snowfall, accompanied by blustery winds, clogged roads, made many thoroughfares practically impassable, and caused the losing of schools. Drifting caused additional difficulties. The storm started here about 10:30 last night and continued throughout the day.

It was still going on this aftcrncxm but had slowed down from its earlier Intensity. State highway and local street crews were out early in the morning with their plows, hut were had pressed to keep ahead of the storm. Most of the rural schools in (he area didn't open this morning, as school buses wcrte unable to get through. The Valley schools opened, but closed early to permit those students who travel by bus to go home. Sayre ami Athens Area schools dosed about 10 a.

m. Waverly Central Schools were in session until noon. Announcement of their reopening was delayed until further notice, as the storm showed little letup. Valley street departments urged that motorists keep their cars parked off the street to facilitate snow removal. They said their job would be made easier if persons got their cars off the streets.

Sayre Water Company officials ask-ed that persons keep their snow away from fire hydrants. There were wholesale postponements and cancellations or meetings that had been scheduled for tonight and Tuesday. The storm, described by the Weath-er Bureau as the season's worst, dumped a heavy blanket of snow over most of the East. The. fall totaled more than a foot in many Pennsylvania areas and almost a foot fell in the Elmira area In New York, with lesser amounts elsewhere in the state.

In Harrishurg, the stale capitol was ordered closed at 2 p.m. today, aftcrl 14 inches of snow had fallen by noon. The order applied only to the one day. But the State Farm Show opened on schedule this morning despite the storm, which sharnlv cut altcndnnrn Rev. John M.

Scherch Resigns as Pastor of Sayre Lutheran Church Trial of Scott On Manslaughter Charge Delayed But Governor Holds To Statement He's Not Planning to Run HARRISBURG (AP) Republican political leaders at the state and national level continued this past weekend1 to toss Gov. Scran-ton's name into the GOP presidential picture despite the chief executive's persistent disclaimers. In rapid-fire order: GOP National Chairman William G. Miller said Sunday that he has information indicating Scranton will enter the race for the party's presidential nomination. State Chairman Craig Truax said he "was not surprised" at Miller's statement and added he, and many others believe Scranton "will be involved in it before the year is over." Scranton's attorney general and trusted confidant, Walter E.

Ales-sandroni, touted his boss as a "real prospect. brightest darkhorse we've ever seen as a presidential candidate." The" state GOP executive committee adopted a formal resolution Saturday urging Scranton to become an active candidate for the nomination. Through it all. Scranton held in his oft repeated public position that he Is not a candidate and. in fart aid not want to become one.

The governor's only announced Intention is to lead the state delegation into the national convention in July as a "favorite son" In-order to present a unified front. His only concession to the presidential boom thus far Is an acknowledged willingness to accept a "sincere and honest" draft, which he, personally, considers a remote possibility in this day of modern politics. But his public reluctance has done little to quiet the boom that has been building ever more steadily since the assassination of President Kennedy. Miller, appearing on the CBS ra- dio and television program "Face the Nation," said that people close to Scranton have assured him they expect the governor to announce his candidacy. He did not identify the neonle close to Scranton.

It was only Saturday that Miller said he has found' a "great deal of general sunnort" of late for Scranton. Alessandroni. who was interviewed by a Philadelphia television station called Scranton an ideal candidate and told of the reception the governor received last week when he (Continued on Page 8. Column 4) Tension Seen Easing Despite New Outburst Of Shooting Sunday PANAMA (AP)' Amid some signs of diminishing tension between the United States and Panama, U. S.

personnel returned today to the embassy building in downtown Pan ama. Diplomatic sources reported that the United States and Panama agreed to set up a joint authority with the Organization of American States in an effort to keep peace along the restive Canal Zone border But agreement on machinery for the peace-keeping operation remain ed to be worked out in a final meet ing of the OAS mission with U. S. and Panama representatives before the mission returns to Washington. U.

S. personnel quit the embassy building and burned secret papers Friday, fearing that the building might become a target for anti-U. S. demonstrations. Panama has broken relations with the United States and demanded guarantees for revision of the 61- year-old Panama Canal treaty in the wake of U.

clashes on the Canal Zone border. The five-man delegation from the OAS arranged for a final meeting today to settle technical details for the peace authority proposed by Argentina. Informants said the United States and Panama would each have one military man and civilian on the authority, with a neutral OAS representative as chairman; Alfredo Vazquez 'carricosa, Colombian ambas- (Continued on Page 8, Column 8) Four Children Die in Fire at California, Pa. CALIFORNIA, Pa. (AP) A fire swept through a pair of double homes in the tiny mining town of Crescent Heights on Sunday night, killing four children.

Their parents had left the house shortly before the fire struck. Farrell Jackson, Washington Coun ty coroner, said the bodies were not Immediately recovered but he said that the children of Mr. and Mrs. George Burke were presumed dead. Jackson identified the children as iioren, 4, George 3, Teny, 1, and Lori, four months.

Joseph Shutza, a neighbor, suffered burns of the hands and face while trying to rescue the children. However, he was not hospitalized. tTwo other families besides the Burkes and Shutzas were left homeless, firemen said, but there were no other injuries. Coroner Jackson said the fire erupted in the Burke home. The exact cause was not known.

Burke, 25, said his wife, Maxine, 24," had gone to her sister-in-law's house two blocks away to borrow an aspirin. He said he then went to visit a neighbor several houses away, leaving the children alone at a table on first floor of the two-story dwell ing. Mrs. Myzel Lewis, 39, who occupies the second half of the house, said she did not hear any explosion or noise. She said that by chance she looked into the Burke half and saw flames.

Mrs. Lewis immediately routed her two sons, ages 19 and 12, she said. Firemen from. California, Brownsville and Ritchcyville had trouble reaching the houses because of heavy snow on the steep hill leading to the community. By the time they reached the scene, they said, the houses were roaring inferno." Woman Dies in Fire at Elmira, Another Missing At least one woman died in a fire that raged through a three-story business and residence building at 356 Franklin St.

in Elmira's South-side last night. The body of Mrs. Priscilla Nichols, about 85, was found at about 12:40 this morning. Another woman, identified as Mrs. Anna Nagel( was reported by author ities as trapped in the inferno.

She was still missing this afternoon. Three companies of firemen battled the blaze for over two hours before controlling it sufficiently to enter the structure about 11:30. Two other residents of the building escaped. At least one floor of the frame structure had fallen in and the rest of the building was severely damaged. Joseph A.

Winnick of 707 Hillcrest Road, the owner, could give no estimate of damage. Mrs. Kenneth Harvey and her daughter, Sharon, who occupied a front apartment on the second floor, reported they were watching television when Sharon smelled smoke and checked, then found the building was burning. They said they notified the fire department before fleeing. Firemen received the first of about eight telephone reports of the fire at 9:26.

The building houses Winnick's Easy Wash automatic laundry at front of the first story. wanda; Irem Temple, Shrine and Sayre Elks Lodge No. 1148. He Is a past member of the Sayre-Athens Lion Club. Surviving are his wife, Bernleei daughter, Marcella, at home; a son, Clarence W.

Eddy, at home; four sisters, Mrs. Jean McKeel of Sayre, Mrs. John Rumpff of Mrs. Myron Randall of Athens RD 2 and (Continued on Page 8, Column 5) Chemical Plant Blasts Kill Five ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) A series of explosions heard 50 miles away shattered a building of a chemical company plant Sunday night.

At least five persons were killed by the blasts and a subsequent fire that roared out of control for five hours, endangering more than 100 homes. Eleven other persons were hospitalized and three were In critical condition. Authorities feared more victims might be found in the ruins of the Thompson Chemical Co. building. Blackened and weary firefighters had a snow storm to contend with as they began the search.

A total of 40 to 50 persons, including many nearby residents, were injured. Many suffered concussions and cuts. when the collision occurred. Croke is reported to have sustained a compound fracture of the left leg and lacerations. O'Connor and DeSisti represented Mrs.

Croke and her son. Representing Mr. Kilmer was Attorney M. L. Epstein of Sayre and Bennett and Davis of Towanda were attorneys for Pruyne.

Trial of Robert Stanley Scott of Waverly on charges of second degree manslaughter stemming from the death of his infant son last Aug. 24, has been postponed until Jan. 27. Announcement of the postponement of the trial, which was to have opened Wednesday in Tioga County court, was made today by Judge Francis Clohessy. The change in the date was made at the request of Scott's defense attorney, because of illness.

Castro Flies to Moscow, Likely Seekina New Aid MOSCOW (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro arrived today on a surprise visit to Premier Khrushchev with more Soviet economic aid for Cuba presumably his aim. The Cuban leader may have trouble getting an increase in help. Khrushchev is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy wheat from Canada, Australia and the United States, and he has embarked on a massive expansion of the Soviet chemical industry. Khrushchev gave Castro the same red carpet welcome as last April, when Castro visited the Soviet Union for five weeks. The Soviet premier was at the airport along with other officials.

Castro said his visit would be con siderably shorter than his stay last year because he had to return to Cuba for the sugar harvest now under way. His visit took Western diplomatic colony and the State Department in Washington by surprise. So were the Cuban people who, hours after his departure, had not been informed. A communique said Khrushchev had invited Castro "to exchange opinions on questions of interest to both sides and also to rest." (ConfinupH 0n Pace 8. Column 5) Kev.

John M. scherch Has re signed as pastor of St. John's Evan gclical Lutheran Church of Sayre to accept a call to Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity of Nether Township, near Chester, Pa. Rev. Scherch's resignation will be effective Feb.

17. He has been pastor of the Sayre church since June, 1959. Rev. Scherch announced his resignation to his church council last week and to the local congregation by letter and at the morning service yesterday, after being extended the call to the Chester area church last Sunday. The Chester church is one of 1,200 baptized members, including 900 confirmed members.

His new pastorate will be both an urban and suburban ministry. During his pastorate here for nearly five years, the Lutheran Church purchased the Haydcn Estate Sayre for the site of a new church building, and the adjoining former Clifford Harper home on Hayden St. for a parsonage. The latter has been occupied by the pastor and his family since September, 1962. Pastor Scherch also has seen the reorganization of the church school from the Sunday School Association concept to the Parish Board with grading teaching, and is now ready to embark on the new integrated program of the Lutheran Church of America.

Other youth activities have been expanded, also, including the Boy Scout and the acolyte programs; and the program of the Lutheran Church Women has been enlarged. A native of Baltimore, Rev. (Continued on Page 8, Column 3) According to Waverly State Police, Murray was south on the River Road near the Pennsylvania state line about 3:45 yesterday morning when his car went off the road, struck several guard rails, spun back onto the road, left it again and rolled over a 25 foot embankment. The accident happened near the farm residence of Russell Tubbs. Fitzgerald was pinned in the wreckage of his car and the Waverly Emergency Squad, was called to assist in removing him.

The victim was rushed to the hospital in the Luckner ambulance. Mr. Tubbs heard the car crash and notified the police. Troopers W. L.

Pettit and R. H. Matthews investigated. J. Howard Graybill, 19, of Thomp-sontown.

is a patient at the Robert Packer Hospital with lacerations of the right eyebrow, possible fractured jaw, left knee injuries and chest injuries. His condition is listed as fair. Bradford County State Police report that Graybill was headed north on Route 220-309 last night 10 o'clock when it is thought that he fell asleep at the wheel of his car at Greene's Landing, towards Milan. The machine left the highway. (Continued on Pas 8 8, Column 6) 10 Persons Injured in Area Weekend Accidents the plane about 1:40 a.m.

The craft had left Wcstover shortly before 1 a.m. and had been due at Turner at 3:15 a.m. Capt. Paul Clcvenger of the Civil Air Patrol, said a crewman on the plane radioed Washington and told of extreme turbulence at 29,000 feet. At 31,000 feet, he said there was a garbled radio transmission "stating something about bailing out." A farmer, Jesse Green, 48, who lives near the mountain, walked a mile through the woods to see the wreckage.

lie said there were no signs of life, and he saw no bodies. Death Toll High mutiny in India, Pakistan NEW DELHI, India (AP) The theft of a sacred Moslem relic in Kashmir has mushroomed into the worst outbreak of Hindu-Moslem violence since hundreds of thousands were killed in the 1947 massacres that followed partitioning of the Indian subcontinent. Hindus are killing Moslems in Calcutta, India's largest city, and Moslems are killing Hindus in villages of East Pakistan, just east of Calcutta. Both Indian and Pakistani governments are reluctant to disclose the full horror of what is happening, partly for fear that the violence will spread. The official death toll in the Calcutta area was 75 Sunday.

Unconfirmed reports circulating in respon sible quarters in Calcutta indicate the number is far higher. The highest figure responsibly re ported from East Pakistan is 29 deaths. But Hindu refugees reaching Calcutta have indicated the number is greater. Hatred between Hindus and Mos lems has long existed In what used tContinued on Page 8, ''oltimn (1) She said she feels the area "is the first battlefield" on the President's war on poverty. At Wilkes College, where she dedicated a million-dollar science research center, Mrs.

Johnson told a crowd of several hundred: "The problems that you face and face so aggressively and so well are not problems of party. They are problems that affect all of us and I know that we will all rise above partisanship to conquer them." (Continued on Pace 8, Column S) Sayre Youth Receives Settlement of $28,500 and prevented the arrival of sane exhibits. All schools in Elmira and llin rnst of Chemung County and neighboring Mcubcn County were dosed. More than six inches, whinned bv gusts of 60 miles an hour, swirled into New York City in the north- continued on Page 8, Column 7) Mother and Eight Children Perish In Jersey Fire PORT NORRIS, N.J. (AP) Flames destroyed a two-room frame house, killing Mrs.

Virginia Johnson and her eight children Sunday. The bodies of Mrs. Johnson, 26, and four children were found near a door. The door opened inward and was blocked by a bed. The dead children were David, 11; Roxanne, 10; Alice Jean, Daniel, Margaret, Virginia, Tracy Lee, 2 and Nicky, 10 months.

Their father, David D. Johnson, was on an oystcf boat in the Atlantic Ocean at the time. State trooper Robert Warner said the fire was started by a wood burner. There was no insulation under the burner, which was about six inches off the floor, and heat set the floor on fire, Warner said. of important decisions In coming days: The tobacco companies have been invited to meet with the Television Code Review Board in Miami Beach Jan.

22-23. Subject: The federal report and what it means to cigarette advertising on television. The American Cancer Society's board of directors meets this month to assess educational campaigns against cigarette smoking, called by the federal report the major cause Johnson's War on Poverty Could Start in Says Lady Bird Witness Tells Senators That Baker Demanded Fee for Getting Contract Public Reaction of Federal Report On Cigarette Smoking Is Watched Three persons were admitted to area hospitals and seven others were treated and released following sev eral automobile accidents over the weekend and this morning. Murray N. Fitzgerald, 22, of 136 Pitney South Waverly, is a patient at the Tioga General Hospital with a fractured left leg and thigh, concussion, deep lacerations of the right leg, and abrasions and lacerations of the face.

His condition is fair today. cratic majority. Hill swore Baker arranged for him to get a contract in March 1962 for placing Capitol's vending machines in the nearby Falls Church, plant of Melpar, an electronics firm with defense contracts. After the contract was signed. Hill said, he went to Baker's Senate office to thank him.

Hill said that "after the niceties," Baker told him that "he wanted part of the profits. He wanted (Continued on Page 8, Column 2) Settlement of $28,500 has been awarded Clarence Croke of 122 Hoover Sayre, as the result of pre-trial conferences held before Judge James W. Cullen last week in Croke's damage suit against Harold Kilmer of Towanda RD 2, with Dale Pruyne, an additional defendant. The suit was in the name of Mrs. Marilda Croke, young Croke's mother, as he is a minor.

The suit was scheduled for trial today but was settled Saturday. It was the outgrowth of a motorcycle-car accident on Aug. 28, 1961, in West Athens, in which Croke was badly injured. The settlement is believed to have been one of the largest made to a single complainant in Bradford County Court. Croke was a passenger on a motorcycle operated by Dale Pruyne of 112 Perkins Sayre.

Both were 17. Kilmer, former Bradford County treasurer, was the driver of the car. The bulk of the damages reportedly will come from him. The cycle was proceeding south and Kilmer was driving north and turning into the Valley Stockyards WILKES-BARRE, (AP) -The place to start President Johnson's war on poverty could well be Pennsylvania, according to Mrs. Lyndon B.

Johnson. The President's wife came to Pennsylvania's economically ailing anthracite area Saturday because, she said, she and the President "want to know better the people behind these statistics." Thousands turned out to greet her. She said she had much to report to the President, "my WASHINGTON (AP) A local businessman told Senate inves -tigators today that former Senate aide Robert G. Baker steered him to a vending machine contract in a defense plant and then demanded payment of $1,000 a month. The testimony was given by Ralph L.

Hill, former president of Capitol Vending as the Senate Rules Committe held its second hearing on Baker's outside business interests. Baker resigned under fire Oct. 7 secretary to the Senate's Demo WASHINGTON (AP) The American smoker still lingering over the grim facts of a federal report branding cigarettes a health hazard is center stage to a big audience this week. Legislators, investors, tobacco growers, cigarette manufacturers, legal and health authorities want to know first and foremost: Will he quit or not? Will he cut down? What will happen to cigarette sales? Just how loud will the public reaction to the federal report be? On those questions hinge a number (Continued on Page 8, Column 7).