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Concerned Over Agency Delay 4 Time In Bristol Toivnship Bucks May Hire Child Welfare Head By JIM STANTON Staff Writer Two Bucks County Commissioners said yesterday that if the Child Welfare Agency soon get around to hir- nr an avvuu uiicvwi, would do the job Commissioners Joseph 0. Canby and Walter S. Farley Jr. said they were over the delay. They said they would confer with Commissioner Chair man John J.

Bodley when he returns from vacation the end of the month. Provided In Budget Farley said that the board of commissioners had expected the program to be under way by July 1 of this year. The board (lad provided for the program in its budget, he said. I Canby revealed that the board had agreed on an executive director last March but had stepped aside when the committee vetoed their choice. is no indication when the program will get Farley said.

Only County The welfare committee with its newly hired executive director would set up an agency to handle the growing number of dependent and neglected children. Such cases are now handled by the county juvenile court The creation of the agency would relieve the juvenile office of a burden which under a new state law it no longer should have. Bucks is the only county where the juvenile department still has jurisdiction in placing neglected children in foster homes and institutions. an executive director, Farley said, the county was not keeping track of a needs while in the foster home. Easy To executive director would set up bookkeeping procedures that would assure the county that foster parents were not buying clothing and other articles Farley said.

Last year the county spent about $212,000 on its child welfare program. It is estimated a separate agency would cost at least $400,000. The salary for (he executive director is placed between $10,000 and $12,000. "They are not easy to Canby said referring to the long- awaited administrator. 9Hj? iCnnttuum Delaware Valley's Greatest Home Newspaper TUESDAY, ji)VY 14, 1964 PAGE 3 Peggy, Mary Meet Mamie SAN FRANCISCO (UPl) Two women aspirants for a whirl at life in the White House meet today with Mamie Eisen hower, who is in good position to tell them about it.

Peggy Goldwater and Mary Scranton, whose husbands are battling for the Republican presidential nomination, share the spotlight with the former First Lady at a fashion show luncheon today in the ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel. There was a chance they would be joined by Pat Nixon, wife of the former vice president, depending on her arrival time in this convention city. Hostess for the luncheon was Pat Hitt, chairman of the host committee for the convention. and friend of Mrs. Both Mrs.

Scranton and Mrs. Goldwater have had heavy jschedules since they have been in Washington. Mrs. Nixon could probably tell them that be the half of it should they land on the presidential campaign trail. Mrs.

Nixon was an ardent campaigner in the last presidential race when her husband was the standard bearer for the Republican party. She knows how hard it is, especially when they start counting the votes. Burlco Radio Station Held In Default The Mount Holly-Burlington Broadcasting operators of radio station WJJZ, were held in default for failing to appear at a special hearing yesterday before a Federal Communications Commission examiner at the Old Courthouse, Mount Holly, N.J. Jay A. Kyle, assistant chief oxaminor for the FCC.

will report to the commission in Washington, which will decide the fate of the broadcasting company. The special hearing, ordered by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, was scheduled for 9 a.m. Following the failure to appear of John J. Farina, owner, general manager and principal stockholder of WJJZ, Kyle held Farina and the broadcasting group in default. Appeal Application The hearing had been called after two other New Jersey companies applied unsuccessfully for a license to broadcast and appealed the Mount Holly-Burlington application.

Former Mounmouth County Judge John C. Giordano appeared in court as a receiver for the company. He indicated he will apply for a temporary license to continue operating the radio station to protect the interest of creditors. Judge Giordano was appoin- ed by New Jersey Superior Court Judge John Wick last week at the request of the National State Bank of Elizabeth, principal creditors. Farina is indebted to the bank for $94,583,60.

At the hearing Kyle denied a motion to dismiss ap plication for a license to broadcast by Arthur Scheiner, an attorney for the Burlington Broadcasting one of the two unsuccessful applicants for the license. Kyle said he expects to place his report in the hands of the FCC prior to its scheduled recess on July 31. Last March the Court of Appeals remanded back to the FCC an order to investigate further the financial arrangements and future broadcasting operations of WJJZ. The court action came when the Burlington Broadcasting Co. sought a review of the case by the FCC.

Airport Favored But- Price Not Right For L. Bucks Site The Bucks County Commissioners still favor the original plan for the having three airports but the remaining Lower Bucks site will go a-begging until the price is right Commissioners Walter S. Farley Jr. and Joseph O. Canby sites offered the county for $10,000 an acre and upwards.

The commissioners called the price tags of $10,000 7 Sites Considered The county airport authority has seven different sites under consideration. An airport in Lower Bucks would cost about $1,123,000, according to an engineering report disclosed last week. Canby and Farley said they felt there many locations left in the lower end of the county where the price The county is building airports in Upper and Central Bucks. One, near Quakertown, costs $320,000, $113,000 of which will come from the county. The other, near Doylestown, costs $312,000 and the county will pay $122,000 towards this project.

50-Minute Wait Falls Board Delays Meeting Of Jointure Canby Greet! 43 Students A total of 43 foreign exchange students, on a three-day visit to Bucks County, were welcomed today by County Commissioner Joseph O. Canby. Canby addressed the group representing 27 countries, on the steps of the courthouse at Doylestown. The students, all teenagers, came to the courthouse in a cavalcade from nearby Central Bucks High School. In his talk Canby recalled that he visited nine different countries in Europe last summer.

Later today the students were going to tour historic Mercer Museum in Doylestown and then picnic at Washington Crossing They will leave for their homes next week, but before they do so they will be received by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington, D.C. By i 55? Northampton Township School officials are still uncertain about whether or not their kindergarteners will be going to school ths year on a former Nike base. The school board has been holding up on giving the final okay until it irons out financial arrangements and other practical matters with Army authorities. A decision one way or the other is expected to be made within the next few weeks.

Why send the children to school in a Nike site? Because there might not be any else to send them. The school boards had anticipated the construction of the Holland Elementary School to be completed by September, but it was learned recently that the school be finished until sometime next year. Therefore no school, no room. And the township is left with 10 kindergarten classes coming up and no place to put them. The approximately 250 children will utilize the barracks and administration building.

The site was deactivated two years ago. Nature has a way of playing funny tricks on man. For example, four Morrisville officials scheduled a trip to Pottstown this morning to look at a new water filter plant there in order to get a better idea of own needs. The four are Borough Council President Michael Demeeh, Councilman Joe Catania, water in i 11 chairman; Councilman Thomas Rohner, as well as Borough Manager Robert Steward. While the four waited to get into a car for the Pottstown water expedition trip, they posed for a picture standing in the rain, which was rather ironjc considering water shortage situation which prompted the trip.

By PAUL ALTAIRE Courier-Times Staff Writer The Pennsbury Joint School Board got a late start at its regular meeting at the Charles H. Boehm High School last night after the Falls Township School Board kept the jointure waiting 50 minutes while it waded through two executive sessions and a conference session of its own. Although the Falls board was not mentioned specifically by name, Wallace Edington, a member of the Yardley School Board, commented later that it was unfair for one board to keep the other boards waiting. It is the practice of the component boards to meet individually for a half hour before the jointure meeting, which is scheduled for 8 p.m. Executive Session The Falls board last night started its own meeting at 7:30 p.m., then promptly went into a half hour executive session to discuss the costs of one section of property still to be purchased on the grounds of the proposed new high school.

Later the board went into another seven-minute executive session and after reopening the meeting breifly, adjourned, only to go into a conference session while the other component boards. Lower Makefield. Yard ley and Tullytown waited. Edington suggested that a board cannot conclude its business in the half hour alloted before the jointure should continue its individual meeting after the jointure session. Not Only Delay But the Falls board meeting was not the only delay occasion ed at the jointure meeting.

As soon as the meeting got under way, Falls board mem ber Raymond B. Lipshutz pointed out that the minutes of the June 29 meeting did not contain any reference to a controversy about insurance coverage which he (Lipshutz) had read about the Lipshutz said that he was not present at the June 29 (special) meeting and wanted to know if the newspaper accounts were accurate. Lipshutz said, they are, then why is there no mention of the matter in the June 29 Meeting Ltpshutz was referring to a comment made by Eddington June 29 when he said he was in favor of approving the insurance brokerage firm of Lukens, Savage and Washburn as the brokers of record, because he was tired of having people call him on the telephone offering to split commissions with him if he helped them get the business. Richard Day, president of the Falls Township School Board, at the time, asked Eddington why he had not reported the matter (of the bribe attempt) to the district attorney. Lipshutz said last night that if that matter had come up it should be included in the Denies Accounts Eddington, however, denied last night that the newspaper accounts were accurate.

He said he had never said what the newspapers had quoted him as saying. Actually, Eddington did tell the board that tired of having people call me up and offer me anything I Eddington also said he had received at least four telephone calls that he know who the callers were that he feel it was necessary to inform the district attorney about it and that he know if it was one person calling four times or four different people. Those statements were all made to reporters after the jointure meeting adjourned June 29. After Adjournment The Courier-Times in its re port of the conversation with Eddington, pointed out that this occurred, adjournment of the The minutes of the June 29 meeting were finally accepted after adoption of a motion by Falls board member James Smith that they be accepted with provision that the insurance matter be included. Bristol Township officials have begun a concerted clean-up campaign, starting with the removing of abandoned and junked autos in Bristol Terrace as pictured above.

Loose and stray dogs also come under the clean-up edict. Here, Russell Brumer, township animal control ficer, pulls a not-too-willing dog off one of the Terrace streets. (Courier- Times Photos by John Ligos) Hoffa Set To Testify CHICAGO (UPI) Teamster boss James R. Hoffa was ready today to testify in his own defense against government charges that he helped conspire to defraud the union pension fund of $25 million. Hoffa told reporters he expected to testify as the final defense witness today, although his attorneys said testimony from the union kingpin might be held over until Wednesday.

Rebuttal testimony from the government will follow when the defense rests its case. Government and defense attorneys will then present their closing arguments before the marathon case goes to the jurors an event expected by the end of the week. Births I Lower Bucks Hospital July 12 Mr. and Mrs. James Hughes, 3047 Distance Philadelphia girl.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Vile, 2629 Trenton Road, Levittown, girl. Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Becker, 34 Roundabout Lane, Levittown boy. July 13 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh 1334 Maple Croydon, girl. Mr.

and Mrs. Eldon Sinclair, 66 Idlewild Roae, Levittown, girl. Mr. and Mrs. John Kellejan, 75 Gaffney Lane, Willingboro, N.J., boy.

Mr. and Mrs. Benedict Schwartz, 106 Barnsley Morrisville, girl. Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Johnson, 332 Appletree Drive, Levittown, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Krepich, 925 Poplar Langhorne, girl. Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Walls, 505 Court Bristol Terrace, boy. Dr. and Mrs. Earl Connors, 37 Queensbridge Road, Levittown, girl.

Mr. and Mrs. George nell, 1710 Pennsylvania Croydon, boy. Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin Bickings, 1925 Lincoln Croydon, girl. Mr. and Mrs. John Toscano, 9 Hearth Road, Levittown, boy. Delaware Valley Hospital July 10 Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Tidman, S49 Ave. Parkland, girl. Mr. and Mrs.

John Winters, 727 Linden Penndel, boy. July II Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, 1205 Pacific Bristol, girl. 4A Loss To Bristol And Whole Mrs.

Hutton Says Destruction Of Keene Home Will Be 6 Tragic9 Destruction of the historic mansion on N. Radcliffe Bristol, be Mrs. Anne Hawkes Hutton, author and historian of Lower Bucks County and former chairman of historical commissions, said today. It would be loss not only to Bristol but to the whole Mrs. Hutton said by telephone from her summer home in the Poconos.

Razing of the home was announced last week by Oscar M. Hansen, spokesman for trustees of the Grundy Foundation, to make way for the new Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library and for a public park surrounding it, in accordance with the terms of the will of the late Sen. Joseph R. Grundy.

Bateman And Shook Named HARRISBURG (UPI) H. Bateman, Newtown, president of the Pennsylvania Police Chiefs Association, has been named general chairman of the 51st annual convention to be held July 2629 at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. Bateman, a law enforcement officer for more than two decades, was elected president of PCPA at last convention. He had served previously as vice president and became acting president March 12, 19G3, following the death of James Hutchinson, Tyrone police chief. Named as co chairmen for this convention were Edward J.

Bell, deputy commissioner of police, Philadelphia, and Howard C. Shook, Middletown Township, Levittown. Appointed to serve as honorary chairmen were Joseph Si- mononis, Girardville, first vice president of the PCPA, and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary. The Keene home adjoins the property on which the library is to be built.

down that home is exactly the last thing in the world Sen. Grundy would have Mrs. Hutton said. know; I talked with him many times about it and about his interest in the history of the Bristol he Mrs. Hutton is the author of a biography of the late Senator published last year.

She also said that she and other members of an organization founded to preserve the mansion were given personal assurances that it, would not be razed by Hansen and others of the trustees. she said, Hansen told me that the Foundation was going to tear down the back porches and fire escape from the Keene Home since these moves would most certainly be for the told me not to pay any attention to the rumors that the mansion would be torn she said. announcement from Mr. Hansen is thus all the more surprising to those citizens who are interested in preserving the identity of one of most historic she said. Mrs.

Hutton disagreed with statement that necessary renovations to the home would cost $85,000. Grundy Foundation apparently ignores the opinion of G. Edwin Brumbaugh, one of the most outstanding architects, who has restored many famous historic she said. Brumbaugh has been quoted as saying the cost of restoration would be only $35,000. Mrs.

Hutton said, at that figure, $85,000, I feel that the trustees are spending a lot more money on ects in which the Senator was definitely disinterested during his She also said that James Biddle, curator of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the National Park Service of the Federal Department of the Interior, are interested in preserving the Keene home. The organization dedicated to restoring it, Historic Bristoi-on- the-Delaware, has purchased some of the original furnishings, Mrs. Hutton said, and thus the home could be of a handful of historic homes in the nation with the original furniture in is a case of the trustees, who are able and worthy men of course, ignoring one of the basic interests of Sen. she said. 2 Accidents On Route 1 A Levittown motorist was injured yesterday in a collision that occurred during the rain on Route 1 at Woodbourne Road in Middletown Township.

William Rearick, 60, of 28 Highland Park Place sustained bruises and lacerations of the face and was treated at Lower Bucks County Hospital. Police said the foreign car he was driving was demolished. The other motorist was John Gido of 419 Hillcrest Morrisville. His car had an estimated $500 damage. Rearick will be charged with traveling too fast for conditions.

The accident at 3:20 p.m. was investigated by Sergeant William Dietrich of Middletown Township police. The Levittown- Fairless Hills Rescue Squad took Rearick to the hospital. 13 Minutes Earlier An accident occurred on Route 1 at Route 413 just 13 minutes earlier, at 3:07 p.m., according to police. A convertible driven by Anthony J.

Lewinsky of 3103 Brightside Bristol, and a station wagon driven by Alexander J. Franklin of 100 Canterbury Road, Fairless Hills, collided during the rainstorm. There was no prosecution. Officer Raymond Hubbert investigated. Cars Collide In Cornwells Cars operated by Ann Montgomery, 40, of 1407 Virginia Cornwells Heights and Maria A.

Bianchini, 21, of 335 Hayes Bristol, collided this morning in Cornwells Heights. According to Bensalem police officers John J. Smith and William L. Johnson, who are investigating the collision, the mishap occurred at the istersec- tion of Hulmeville and Bristol Roads at 7:50 a.m. No injuries were reported.

Damage estimates were set at $75 to Mrs. car and at $100 to the Bianchini auto. Weather 2 River Dams May Be Rebuilt TRENTON cen- ury old wing dams on the Delaware River one mile south of the Lambertville-New Hope, Bridge may be rehabilitated to aid New Jersey and Pennsylvania boaters, swimmers and fishermen. New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe today announced the awarding of a $10,000 contract for an engineering study to determine the feasibility of rehabilitating the Delaware River wing dams, which jut out from both sides of the river.

The Pennsylvania Department of Forest and Waters will share the cost of the study with New Jersey. The study, to be completed by Dec. 31, would give both states technical information and cost data on the proposed program. FAIR WEATHER AHEAD LOCAL FORECAST: Fair and warm today, high in low 80s. Fair tonight with patchy fog developing, low in mid 60s.

Tomorrow, fair and warmer, high in mid 80s. SHORE FORECAST: Showers today and tonight, high day in upper 70s. Variable winds 10 knots. Fair tomorrow, high in low 80s. Water temperature at Atlantic City: 68 (8 a.m.).

High yesterday: 82. Low yesterday: 66. Low this morning: 68. Sunset tonight: 8:28 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:42 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow: 8:28 p.m. High Low Pep Atlanta, 81 64 Boston, cy 62 60 S.C. 85 77.86 Des Moines, pc 7861 El Paso, 83 65 .06 cy 71 58 Los Angeles, cy 88 62 Miami, 8783 New Orleans, cy 83 68 .19 New York, cy 67 1.08 Raleigh, cy 69 .97 San Fran, cy 60 53 Spokane, cy 85 67 Washington, 85 69 Wichita, pc 84 64 Tomorrow's Tides At Bristol High 8:30 a.m. Low 3:25 a.m. High 9:24 p.m.

Low 3:55 p.m..