Bucks County Courier Times (Newspaper) - September 29, 1971, Levittown, Pennsylvania X 5 By RON AVERY Courier Times Staff Writer in a two part series on the controversy surrounding the program to build on iny Five years ago Bucks County embarked upon a massive program of dam building to harness the Creek with million the program is in jeopardy The dams have been attacked on the basis of costs and ecological effects It's become a political issue in the November election with Democratic candidates for county of- fice saying stop the project and study it again and the GOP saying finish the job now critics rap dams M JOHN T CARSON JR The program is called the Creek Water Resources Development Program Estimates now place the total cost at million Involved are 10 at least four two pumping stations on the Delaware River and a huge water treatment plant Leads Attack Leading the attack on the dams is Doylestown lawyer Frank N Gallagher He is also president of the group which pushed originally for the the Watershed Association The association is calling for a halt to the project while the cost-benefits and ecological aspects of the dams are restudied Gallagher has put together a detailed FRANK N GALLAGHER attack on the program and to the layman his ments seem convincing several points must be kept in mind while examining Gallagher's arguments in speaking for the watershed he is speaking actually for only a majority of the board of directors The group's 300 plus ship has not voted on the policy it must be brought out that Gallagher is a member of the executive board of the Bucks County Democratic Party His position has been adopted as a plank in the Democrats platform it must be kept in mind that Gallagher is a lawyer who knows how to present a case to the on Page Earl Wilson's Column Page 22 L Morrisville Yardley Page 32 VOL No 233 Serving lower Bucks County From Pa WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 66 PAGES PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Court allows referendum Falls status up to voters SHE'S FIRST Part Rozalie a 23 year old legal secretary from was the first girl to pass the preliminary screening to become a Penna State Trooper Rozalie applied at Troop L in Reading just three hours after it was announced that the State Police would accept women applicants for the first their inception in 1905 By BOB MARTIN Courier Times Staff Writer It will be up to voters now to decide whether or not Falls will have a first class township form of government The petition asking for a on it was approved by Judge John J Bodley in Bucks County Court Last the FaHs Township Board of Supervisors legal action against placing the tion on the ballot In the filed last Wednesday by Samuel township the sors asked the court to delay printing of the ballots unto their complaint had been heard and 627 Needed At least 627 names were ed on the petition Tiled Sept 16 by Charles J a member of the Bucks County tionment Committee This is five per cent of the State police go co-ed Applicants for the New York City police department soon will have to have at least a year in college to apply To get promoted they will need a degree In Philadelphia the police force will pay the tuition for college classes In a few years tickets may be literary gems the Pennsylvania State Police have announced they will start hiring women Sounds like another victory for Women's Lib The President signed the draft day and here's one activity that excludes women So far I haven't heard much of a scream for equality in the draft The Falls Township deny the Bucks County Courier Times story about the poor condition the Falls police are required to use Some labeled the stoiy irresponsible The Courier Times spent a week ing after contacting the officials The officials spent the week before the story appeared upgrading the equipment and getting ready press releases to refute the story We're happy about the equipment put in order after we contacted them We're pointed about the duplicity the officials in trying to explain away a situation they knew was bad the Falls road crews called here to say if we thought the police ment was poor we should come out and see theirs A conscientious accountant is one who looks at a girl measuring and says HARRISBURG Lib strikes another the state police have gone educational Commissioner Rocco P la announced Tuesday the state force is now accepting tions from qualified women for the training class which begins Jan 23 For 57 years the state police force has championed male chauvinism Administrators felt women were too delicate for the work have long since ven that they are capable of doing nearly every job that a man can Urella said at a news conference police work there are several areas in which women can perform more appropriately than He said the first recruits would work in the areas of aid community relations and vice investigations But he did not rule out the possibility of a being assigned to cruising criminal or the Turnpike He make it clear that the women would not be wearing the pants in the organization will be moderate in all aspects no miniskirts or he but he added the on Page Col 12.539 registered voters in Falls Township The petition had 632 names But the in their equity said they believed some of the signatures were not those of the persons they ported to that some of the persons who signed the petition were not registered voters in Falls and that the court had been if not de- by the tions of the petition some of the names on the petition were ruled so the count went down to 621 its wording was changed slightly for legal es Bozzo then submitted 151 more names for the petition and it was accepted by the court In reference to the supervisors Bozzo said they persist in their at- tempt to keep the voters from voting on this vital we have authorized our civil rights Joseph to go to the state supreme court if At last night's meeting of the Falls Township Board of Snipes said some of the natures had been signed by signing for and that some persons didn't know they'd signed a petition Mrs Dorothy Fairies on Page CoL Gets over the wall but Bucks prison break foiled Joseph W Havel to go over the walL federal er was transferred from Reading to Bucks County Prison in Doylestown to questioning by U.S Marshal's investigators in connection with bank robberies He had been waiting for his chance since arriving at the on on Thursday That chance came yesterday morning The convict dashed across the courtyard at and ly the wall He made the prison break apparently unnoticed he broke his ankle in the jump The escapee crawled into the underbrush along the 7th hole of the nearby Doylestown Country golf course He waited there trying to move his injured leg Suddenly he noticed four golfers coming down the fairway They spotted him What's the one called hurt my The four stood next to him dressed in prison aren't Tassing The injured man answered I'm an alcoholic and I was passing through town I was in the prison You wouldn't turn me in would He was asking that of the Doylestown police chief and three of his patrolmen The guests of the Bucks County Borough Association golf looked like average ers to escapee The officers Chief Kenneth R Tutt Patrolmen Paul R Brady Kenneth Frey and Fayette Croll continued to talk to the prisoner as a patrol car pulled up A neighbor had seen the man crawling in the underbrush and made the call to police The prisoner was taken to Doylestown Hospital where he was treated Havel is now back in Bucks in no condition to jump or play golf Quell truck fires Fairless Hills firemen were kept busy yesterday extinguishing blazes in a house and in a truck Fire broke out in the kitchen of the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Goodwin 705 Chatham at p.m when Michael Hahn 15 was cooking French fries on the stove Larry Newell Fairless Hills fire said the frying pan overheated and oil causing the blaze which caused an estimated The Levittown No 1 and Kalis Township Fire Companies also responded but were quickly sent back when Newell determined the blaze wasn't that serious While the Fairless company was still on Chatham fire broke out in a Penn Fruit Co truck at p.m in the Fairless Hills Shopping Center Newell said the driver Joseph Sweeney of 957 Bristol Pike had jacknifed the and was backing into the Penn Fruit unloading form when the front of the truck struck a high-voltage wire Short circuiting the wire set the containing more than 500 ages of afire He'll be Cherry Hill manager Pa and N J Girard to quit Middletown job argue taxes Frank D Middletown Township will become manager of Cherry Hill on Nov 1 He will formally resign his sition in Middletown on Oct 31 Girard said he made a verbal agreement yesterday with John mayor of Cherry to accept the new position Girard said he is expecting a letter from the mayor today formally ing him the job who has served five years as Middletown Township will replace Charles M as Cherry HOI ship manager Melchior served as manager of Middletown ship from 1958 to 1963 To am very grateful to town Township for allowing me the opportunity to serve as its manager for the past five Girard said today dence in me when I first took the position I feel has been fulfilled will stay on the position for another 30 days to help in the preparation of the budget for 1972 Should the board desire my assistance in any of their future I will be very happy to sist regret having to leave the many friends and acquaintances I have acquired over the years To my staff I will always be grateful for their loyalty and confidence in our attempt to provide better services in government to the people of Middletown Skelton coming home to Yardley John Skelton of Yardley is in Rome today He was given a suspended sentence yesterday after being charged with ing to free Greece's only death row inmate from prison who was arrested on Aug 31 by the Greek government on charges of conspiring to free Alexandras is ing in Rome for two days with Dr Lawrence who fied on Skelton's behalf at the trial in Athens Alfred John's said his son and Dr Durgin have stopped in Rome for a couple of days because Dr Durgin bad business there He said they will return to the states on Friday afternoon called his mother yesterday and said he was doing said the father said he was straightening up his apartment and was getting ready to fly The theology dent returned to his apartment near Athens University yesterday after spending 28 days in prison awaiting trial Skelton was the only person freed of five who were accused with plotting to free sylvania officials and a New Jersey taxpayer's group are al odds in a federal court suit filet here over the state income tas and Philadelphia's wage tax The Nonresident Taxpayers Association filed the suit in U.S District Court last April 29 Their aim is simple They do not think New Jersey residents who work in the stone state should have to pay the state income and city wage tax and want such taxing de- clared unconstitutional The was backed by the New Jersey General Assembly in the suit Israel sonal counsel to Gov Milton J Shapp and Albert Philadelphia filed a motion to dismiss the suit saying the federal court had no to enjoin a stale tax The heard the argument Tuesday and took the case under advisement Packel and also on Page CoL Committee issues statement Falls police insist equipment now OK Talk about art Winners in the Levittown Art Association's 19th annual fall membership show talk about their works on page 22 You can always tell when a man's out ing with his wife he counts his change A Falls Township patrolman insisted last night equipment problems listed in a police com- report have been fied Reading a prepared statement at the board of supervisors ing Patrolman Stephen shatt said equipment faults listed in a Bucks Counry Courier Times story no longer in existence He was a spokesman for the Falls Township Police tion committee which issued the as quoted in the Courier Times article With him were the three other members of the Sgt John Sgt William Moyer and Patrolman John Jones The story quoted from their which became the subject of meetings with Chief of Police Franklin Township ager Michael J and Supervisor Chairman Joseph Groark Battershall said their problems were solved before the story appeared in the newspaper He person or persons who related the story to the paper did so entirely on their own and without the consent or permission of the committee or the men of the Falls Township Police Regarding a portion of the ry on bald which was taken directly from the he said all worn or damaged tires are immediately replaced as as they are reported by the cer assigned to that vehicle He did not why the police association found it necessary to organize a tee to prepare a report on equipment defects Suspension Affirmed He as was mentioned in the news that a man did receive a pension for his personal gation of two alleged unsafe tires on a police vehicles The he would ly pass a state inspection They are 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