Bucks County Courier (Newspaper) - September 23, 1966, Bristol, Pennsylvania For Of Southampton Trevose Feasterville Page 17 lucks Member ABC Delaware Valley's Greatest Home Newspaper FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1966 Weather breezy and cool day Clear and cool night Mostly sunny row continued fair and milder 38 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS POLICE PRESS SEARCH FOR GUNMEN 2 Abducted Officials Left In Eddington By CHARLES McGURK Staff Writer Police and FBI agents in a area today pressed their search for a pair of gunmen who abducted two savings and loan officials on a street in robbed them of stole their car and left them handcuffed in a wooded area of Eddington afternoon The described by their victims as polite and made a slight mistake when they attempted to cuff the officials to a tree and were away by two maintenance men William H of font Ave and Knights vice president and secretary of East Girard ings and Loan or and Princeton Canadian Aide Asks Settlement Of War and James W assistant to the president of 837 were able to free themselves by the simple expedient of one of them walking around the located on the property of In- on State Road near Street Road Each man's wrists had been shackled together and the used a third pair of cuffs in UNITED NATIONS Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei fresh from private talks with Secretary of State Dean gives Russia's formal reaction today to the U.S peace proposals for Viet Nam Although diplomats looked to Gromyko to reply in the General Assembly to the point peace package put forward Thursday by U.S Ambassador Arthur J there were reports the Russian might instead an- THE BED CROSS IN LOWER BUCKS From left to the persons who have been principally re- sponsible for the activities and success of the Lower Bucks County chapter of the Red Cross lined up last night for special recognition during the 10th anniversary dinner at the Buck Hotel They are Mrs Edward M founder of the chapter and active when it was a branch of the Philadelphia Red Mrs Faye Medill board chairman from 1956 to 1858 who was unable to former Mayor Henry O'Brien of board chairman in Emerson R 1959 William chairman for the years of 1960 and liam P 1962 chairman who made a special trip from Arizona for the Sandy chairman in A Marlyn Moyer 64 and 65 and Edward V Franks who will be chairman for the coming year Times See other Page 26 Good for Up it went again The cost of living It's the highest with the greatest increase ever during the past month Our 1959 bills would have bought what now costs us And in Washington the House takes belated action to curb this tempering that action by a cluster of clobbering and restrictive special amendments we won't weaken whole idea Ten productive years of service to the people of Lower Bucks County were paraded across the stage last night at the 10th dinner of the Lower Bucks County American Red in the Buck Feasterville The 10 years of service were marked by special presentations to the persons who served as chairmen of the chapter's board before an audience of 250 sons who crowded into the There's something to ber when you get to be dent Always ask for more than you really want because Con- gress will take a whack at your request and knock it down United Nations Ambassador Arthur J Goldberg put it on the line yesterday for the rest of the world to The ed States is sincere in its search for peace in Viet Nam It's also sincere in asking for rights and dignity for the Vietnamese the kind of rights communism would take away from them In case you've been it's Baltimore in the ican League The Orioles clinch ed it yesterday It'll be and bury tonight in the Big Six high school football too If teen-age daughter complains that she's not being treated like an her the telephone biH How can you You pay a luxury tax when you buy your an income tax on what you put into it and a sales tax on what you take out Red Cross Cites At 10th Anniversary Dinner tel for the the chapter's most successful annual event so far Varied Services The Red those at the dinner were assured 720 persons of blood when it was needed during the past year by the Lower Bucks Chapter It provided more than hours of service from 909 volunteer drove miles for special obligations and enrolled students in Junior Red gave in first aid and water and small craft safety to and made available services to meet the needs of servicemen and their dents Montages Presented It has done work of a ilar scope during the years when each of the past men of the board were in of- and the program last on Paste Col a financial contribution by the Kremlin to offset the menacing deficit External Affairs Minister Paul Martin of Canada called today for a of the Viet Nam war and said the United Nations would stand a better chance of playing a useful role in Viet Nam if Communist China was a member of the world body Martin told the General Assembly the questions Gold berg asked North Viet Nam Thursday were He said against the ground of the renewed U.S peace proposals is the more essential that channels for contacts between the two sides be developed and to prepare the way for negotiations whenever they are Martin said the United Nations the obligation to contribute to peace in Viet and that it must the path of negotiations of all The Canadian diplomat said it appeared possible that the International Control sion which was set up by the 1954 Geneva conference to supervise the peace in the former vide a means of facilitating contacts between the two India and Poland are the ICC members Rusk and Gromyko met for three hours Thursday night in suite dined and talked over some questions of mutua interest and we agreed to continue the Gromyko said when he emerged He declined further comment The dinner also was attended by U S Ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy D Goldberg and State Department Soviet affairs expert Llewelyn Thompson The talks are to resume at the on Page Col Between Burlington Twp Harral Gives Support To Toll Bridge By CHARLES McGURK Staff Writer The long delayed bridge be- tween and lington re- a shot in the arm today from v a n i a Highways Secretary Henry D Harral an acknowledged op- ponent of toll has agreed to support construction of the high level ing on a toll basis and has so notified the Army Engineers While the secretary has vately admitted on several casions the need for toll major bridge tures such as the lingfon he had never en his public blessing to it as a toll facility To Reserve Funds The though not quite was made in a letter sent to James chairman of the Delaware er Joint Toll Bridge sion which plans to build the million span the difficulty of achieving bi state letter with the need of sylvania to reserve its road user funds for other highway projects as important as the Burlington Bristol Bridge and not adaptable to toll this department gives its port to the erection of the On Page 26 Col Found 40 Yards From Percy Beach Army Bayonet May Be Murder Weapon CHICAGO -An Army bayonet found within throwing distance of the home where Valerie Percy was beaten and stabbed to death may be the murder weapon The which according to could have caused the wounds that killed the daughter of Republican senatorial date Charles Percy was ered from Lake Michigan by Coast Guard divers far as I am concerned at this is still a possibility a murder said Kenilworth Police Chief Robert M the head of the murder investigation The knife was found about 40 yards from the private beach the distance a man can throw such an object Microscopic examinations of the weapon were conducted but a crime lab spokesman said the examination showed no blood fingerprints or other On Page 26 Col an attempt to link the men around a small tree abut 75 feet from State Road The oversight was that the victims were not joined on the other side of the tree Wiegand told police that one of the men realized the error but the sound of a pickup truck containing the two maintenance men caused the gunmen to flee Swartz and Wiegand then walked to State Road and a passing using a heavy screw driver and broke the links of the cuffs and took the two to a telephone at Hill Crest Dairy State and Street from which they called Bensalem Township police Police gave the following As part of their daily on Page Col AUTUMN ARRIVES And Todd eye on fall's debut as peers from son of Mr behind man-sized pumpkin grown by and Mrs Charles L 2512 his Charles Jr Wood casts an anxious Photo by Bob Sun Arrives With Autumn Autumn arrived at today and with it Bucks tians saw patches of sunlight the first time in three days After facing torrential fog and generally cloudy area residents the The change in weather was accompanied by brisk winds and cool however day's high was expected near he mark The 1 p.m reading was 66 de- Fair skies are predicted for and Sunday with mild around which should make the weekend fans happy The Trenton weather bureau recorded 43 of an inch of rain on the heels of the coastal storm which dumped 3.79 inches of rain on Lower Bucks Thus September has 7.93 inches of well above the normal of 3.50 es and the most for any month since when rainfall amounted to 9.97 inches The most rainfall in September was 10.49 inches in 1934 Total this year is still nearly five inches below the normal of 32.41 inches for the first nine months Wednesday's 3.37 inches of rain set a new ing the 2.67 inches of Sept 1938 during the hurricane which left 600 dead in its wake through Tig Island and southern New England The Bucks County United Fund goal has been set at It represents an increase of or four and one-half per cent increase over the 1966 amount raised and compares with the average national of United Funds which experiences about a three and one-half to four per cent an- growth Kickoff Time Nears United Fund Sets Goal Of The chairman of the tions and admissions James presented a minimal target goal of 000 to the board of which approximated the basic budget requirements submitted to his committee by the 31 member agencies of UF In view of the fact that Bucks County's giving experience is on Page Col At has reached the pinnacle It's now worth and must be awarded to some lucky winner or winners next week So get your entries to the building by Monday midnight In case of a tifi the money will be divided And if there is no perfect then the person or persons with the nearest correct solution will be declared the winner See Page 22 INDEX Building 14 -IS Classified Comics 37 22 Editorials H Editorial Features 7 Jacoby 18 Junior Reporter 36 Obituaries School Stocks 8 TV Review 18 TV Schedule 37 Women's News Day Classified Wt Night WI I
