Daily Times (Newspaper) - July 16, 1977, Primos, Pennsylvania 6 7 Delaware HOME DELIVERY 90 PUBLISHED IN PRIMOS UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP PA 19018 PRICE 15 CENTS capsule Hot humid Sunny and hot today and Sunday with highs in the low to mid 90s Warm and humid tonight For further details Three local men have been elected to serve as VFW National Aides-de-Camp for They John Oliver 1355 Langley St VFW Post 5546 James J Murphy 14 New Road Aston VFW Post 6613 and Roy 0 Burlew 4202 Woodland Ave Brookhaven VFW Post 7060 Photos at moll MIDDLETOWN The Society of Commercial Photographers of Delaware Valley will present its an- Photographic Print Show July at Granite Run Mall More than 100 black and white photos will be on exhibit New Town A meeting to consider setting up a Town Watch or Block Watch program will be 8 p.m Tuesday in the Upper Providence township building on f providence Road Police chief William Hampton Jr will discuss the subject and receive opinions from residents about the manner in which a watch might be established and operated if the township desires it All interested citizens are urged to attend and give their suggestions Held in staying CHESTER Irvin A Barnett 37 St was arrested Friday and charged with homicide in the death of Leo Hackett of the Columbia Hotel Hackett died of stab wounds early Friday Barnett came to the police station to surrender after he learned of Hackett's death He was ordered held un- der bail Special census The ILS Bureau of Census is completing its special census of Chester Heights Residents living in the borough as of July 5 and were pot enumerated for the census are to call borough secretary H Herbert Breneman at 2490 Guide training MARPLE Massey storic House on Lawrence Road is offering training sessions for junior guides Teenagers may register at the Massey House Summer hours are from 10 to p.m day through Saturday and from 2 to 5 p.m Sunday Daily index Amuse 26 Deaths 4 Bridge 24 Editorials 8 Church Horoscope 25 Classified Outlook 5 Comics Sports Crossword 25 Stocks TV 25 Three held in school fire Flying high This car rocketed into College Corner police said school yard and hit an Pamela Watkins 22 of in bis Poll shows residents support Blue Route By HARRY MAITLAND Daily Times SUff Writer MEDIA The majority of the residents of Delaware County are behind the Blue Route and this poll proves it over all the Robert Flannery coordinator of the Blue Route Alliance BRA said Friday Flannery released information on a special poll conducted by Singlinger Co of Wallingford Nether Providence A variety of polls have in- overwhelming support but the most recent poll really according to Flannery Flannery said the survey was conducted in a special manner to reach residents of a wide corridor along the length of the proposed Route Expressway The highway is intended to connect the Pennsylvania Turnpike with In- 95 and would connect these major interstate routes between Plymouth Meeting in Montgomery County and Ridley Township in Delaware County FLANNERY explained that the telephone survey involved 300 heads of households in the zone area that would be most directly affected by construction of the expressway The Sindlinger firm found that vandals strike firm again By LINDA DEMEGLIO Times Staff Writer UPPER DARBY The Secane vandals struck once again sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning attacking the Franklin Williams Marcus Printing Co on Bunting Lane Primes a victim of previous attacks A company spokesman said the vandals were apparently thwarted in their second attempt to break into the three-inch thick wooden double back doors to the shipping room Someone had tried the doors the week before and succeeding in bending the large steel bar which holds the doors from the inside they were not successful in breaking into the building In the most recent incident when entry was again denied the vandals took a collection of trash and set fire to it next to the door FT WAS fortunate that the bottom half of the doors were covered with metal plates to protect them from shipping and Body of man found in Glenolden pool GLENOLDEN The body of a man about was found floating in the swimming pool at 7 today at the California Apartments off South Avenue Borough police had no of the man and had the body removed to Taylor Hospital Ridley Park Police Chief Joseph Grant said two anonymous telephone calls were received at the police tion about telling them about the drowning He said there was no foul play indicated A apartment dent also not identified told police some apartment residents were partying at the pool until 4 California Apartments are about 20 years old and house several hundred pool is open to them receiving Robert Meslin of the township fire marshal's office said describing the fire which was set sometime between p.m Thursday when the plant closed and day when it reopened Employes who arrived Friday morning found a hole you could put your foot right through and a heavy smell of smoke throughout the building As far as I'm concerned they are just letting us know they're still in one employe who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation said It's just another incident out Maslin added Maslin said there were no and a report was turned over to township police de- for investigation IN AN unrelated incident Wednesday night township police arrested a Morton youth on the property of the Pavid Manufacturing Co Inc 500 Mildred Ave Primes Michael A Laird 18 of Morton was charged with loitering wling at night and disorderly conduct after police spotted him on grounds Wednesday A hearing on those charges is set for Friday before District Justice of the Peace Albert J Berardocco Key evidence for defense is destroyed SPRINGFIELD Three youths charged with setting the Springfield High School blaze last March were bound over for court Friday The ruling came despite objections from defense attorneys that a re-enactment by the state's eyewitness didn't prove he could see into the gymnasium last March 18 when fire destroyed the old wing of the school David Crocco 16 of 136 Summit Road Thomas McFeely 18 of 724 Spruce St and Edward Bresset 18 of the same address will be arraigned July 29 in Delaware County Court THE STATE'S star witness Jeffrey Ernst Friday hoisted himself to the edge of the window where he claims to have seen the three youths ignite a liquid in the center of the floor He said he was attracted to the window by noise inside the gym But the window sill had been inexplicably removed earlier in the day according to Guy Smith attorney for Crocco who had said it was absolutely physically impossible for the 51 Ernst to raise himself high enough to see what he claims to have seen Smith said the window sill added slightly more than three inches to the height between the edge of the window and a ledge along the side of the building HE ALSO claimed that the sill was angled in such a way to on it for support He also said that because the silf was gone Ernst had to hang on to a the covered by the sill James A Lynch arid Garland D Cherry attorneys for McFeely respectively objected to the re-enactment because of the changed circumstances POLICE Chief George Hill appeared surprised when told the sill had been removed He said it had been intact on Thursday All I can say is the demolition crew has been at work he said Smith also said that Ernst testified at an earlier preliminary hearing that his feet were on the ledge while his elbows rested on the window sill Ernst dug his toes into the side of the school to support himself Friday IN MAKING his decision District Justice John L Laskey Jr said there had been inconsistencies in testimony on both sides At a hearing last Friday alibis for the defendants were presented Bail was continued Jeffrey Ernst 15 star witness in the state's case against three youths charged with arson in a fire that destroyed part of Springfield High School last March demonstrates how he climbed to a window and looked inside the school's gym Defense attorneys contend that Ernst is too short to have seer inside the window as he said he did When Ernst what he did the sill was missing from the window
