Delaware County Daily Times (Newspaper) - November 23, 1973, Chester, Indiana Delaware County FRIDAY 1971 n of Aston Salvation Army red Merry Christmas Fund Given Given to Full happy? Maybe some people aren't There you are probably still full of turkey and a sense of well being And full too of anticipation for the Christmas season It's a sure thing it's coming and a surer thing that some Delaware County residents need help to have a brighter holiday You can provide that help For the third year the Daily Times is asking you to help others by donating money to our Merry Christmas Fund The money will be turned over to the Salvation Army Citadel 151 W 15th St Chester and food toys and cash gifts will be distributed just before Christmas to needy families The fund last year raised and we hope to surpass that in 1973 A check or money order may be sent to the Merry Christmas Fund Delaware County Daily Times E 8th St Chester Contributions may also be made in person at the Chester office and the Media office 117 N Olive St The money may be given anonymously in your own name as a memorial to a loved one of greeting cards or on of an organization or group The fund began Thanksgiving Day with and we have more today Contributors Johnny Long 51 Toni Judi and Inside your Daily Times Shoppers out early for giffs Bridge 22 Classified Ads Comics Crossword Death Notices Editorials If Horoscope 22 Junior Editors 22 Outlook Seel inn 12 IU Television 22 Now that the have been faithfully roasted and eaten Delaware County chants are prepared to welcome Santa Most major Chopping ters throughout the and in downtown Chester were expecting to do today officially day of the Christmas shopping season Unseasonably weather was an added tive for shoppers to turn out Inventories were high and sales personnel were ready to serve Fred Longo assistant manager of S Klein's field said customers were waiting to get in when the doors opened at 9 a statement that could be repeated at shopping centers throughout the area Reports from the Mall Claymont which opened later in the day indicated that shoppers also were lined up there waiting for the stores to open Marvin Freed an active member of Chester Business and Professional Association said I think we've had a good break in the weather and while business hasn't been loo bad I think this weekend should bring a lot of shoppers to downtown Chester Joseph Corey merchandise manager at Grant City was looking for- ward to an exceptional weekend We were open on the he said and business then was far beyond our expectations Of course we advertised discounts on toys in Daily Times hut we never expected things to Ix as good as they were FIFTEEN CENTS missing two days Rover k Special to the Daily H Rock Royer a man who successfully com- a love for Christianity has been killed in a private plane crash in Alabama He was flying alone from Pensacola Fla to his new home in Tampa Fla when his plane vanished Tuesday authorities said A hunter discovered the wreckage and body about 2 p.m Thursday in a heavily wooded area about mile off Route 84 about 10 miles east of Evergreen AJa Evergreen is about 23 miles north of the Florida line A County sheriff's Saudi Arabia defiant By United Press International Saudi Arabia apparently has decided to defy Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger's warning that the United States would taking unspecified counter- measures unless the Arab states ended their oil boycott Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Zaki said Thursday he would reduce oil production up to 80 per cent if the United States Europe and Japan lake any cou n Kuwait also issued a ment Thursday indicating the boycott of oil shipments to nations will con- In other energy ments Thursday Italy raised gasoline prices to a record a gallon banned Sunday driving and took other measures Canada assured the United States it has no intention of stopping shipments of oil and in Washington several con- sumer and environmental groups urged the government to accelerate antitrust action against major oil com- panies discourage the sing of nuclear power plants and promote more underground rather than face mining Y a m a n i spoke i n Copenhagen in apparent response to Kissinger's statement Wednesday that if pressures continue unreasonably and indefinitely then the United States would have to consider what it would have to lake The Saudi Arabian oil minister speaking on a Danish television interview warned Europe and Japan against joining Americans in any counter m e a s u r e s because your economy would collapse in a short time He said if the United States tried to use military force to occupy oil producing arras Saudi Arabia blow up its oil fields The Foreign Ministry of Kuwait asked Thursday for clarification of Kissinger's statement Kuwait radio reported office spokesman said authorities had not conducted a search for the missing air- plane and the unidentified hunter just walked up on it The crash site is almost in the opposite direction from the way he would have flown to Tampa and authorities were trying to determine how Royer apparently became lost One source said Mr Royor did not have a license to operate the plane but ho had permission of the unidentified owner to operate at the white yellow and blue Piper Cub A spokesman at the U.S Flight Service in Mobile Ala said today it was not known why Mr Royer was 75 miles in the wrong direction He in plane crash said there had never been any contact with the plane He said it was not required to file a flight plan for such a short flight and Mr Royer had not filed one If he had the official said the search for the plane would have as soon as he failed to reach his destination Mr Royer and his family had lived in Md until this past June when they moved to Tampa Fla where he was associated with the Temple Christian He was flying home to join his family for Thanksgiving from Pensacola Fla and was alone in the small plane He was to have arrived there Tuesday and had been missing two days There is an investigation pending according to a family spokesman He is survived by his wife the former Ruth Hobbs three children Jennifer 13 Amy and Timothy 7 his mother Mrs Royer of Ridley Township two sisters Mrs Lillian Duckenfield of Wilmington and Mrs Carolyn Clark of Ridley Township and two brothers James Royer of New Orleans and Robert Harmon of E sburg There will be memorial vices in Tampa and in burg It has not been decided if there will be a memorial service in Delaware County Because of the investigation Sec LKK Page 8 AI Jacqueline Onassis widow of President John F Kennedy and her wo children walk down the steps of the St Bridget Church in Thursday after attending service on the 10th anniversary of his assassination The children are Caroline who will be 1C next Tuesday and John Jr who will be 13 Sunday Mrs Onassis has a country home in Peapack He'll pay electric Widow aided by Lewis 1 T CHESTER A widow won't have a cold ter thanks to businessman John L Lewis Lewis who livos Chester and operates an automobile agency on Chester Pike in read the plight of Mrs Walson 108 Concord St in Thursday's Daily Times Mrs Walson had her gas and electricity turned off by the Philadelphia Electric Co PECO in March when she was unable to make payments on a Mrs Walson whose husband died in lives on monthly Social Security benefits and monthly public assistance Her only source of heat has a small kerosene stove in the living room and she depends on kerosene lamps for light Samuel PECO Delaware Division manager said the company would return the service if they received immediately and the remainder of payments were kept current I'm going to take the I find money Lewis down as soon as someone to take Betty Flynn secretary said today At this time of the year I think it's just awful that someone can loft without heat I can't it could happen here Corpening was unavailable for comment this morning on when the service would lie restored Increasing cloudiness low 50 able cloudiness with chance of some rain high on Page E Ith St Chultt 4 All TR Headed Chester Water Authority Victor Appleyard dies Victor A Appleyard who guided he Chester Waler Authority CWA through a period of Meady growth mid expansion during his nearly 12 years as executive manager and chief engineer was stricken tt home Wednesday and died early Thursday In Riddle Hospital Mid- diet own Mr was IX and resided since Mil a I I Paxon Hollow Road Upper Providence A widely on all of water its supply and quality Mr Appleyard has credited with mapping long range plans to assure Chester and 10 surrounding communities with adequate water supplies through and will securing a lie in from the River to Reservoir as a ce of water in times of drought Mr Appleyard assumed the top post at CWA Welsh Sis Chester in after 7 years as chief of water for ihc Philadelphia Water ment Born in Mass Mr Appleyard was raised in nearby where In was graduated from High School in 1 After attending prep school ill Phillips Andover Academy fur a year Mr entered Tufls University Mass from which he received a bachelor of science degree in engineering in Employed for five years as a test and service engineer for General Electric Co at Watertown Mass Mr entered water supply and control field in as a water engineer for the American Waler Works and Electric Service Co in New York City a holding company for waterworks plants throughout iho country in Mr was named assistant manager of Sec H i LKK ROCK ROYKR Nixon ponders request From Our Wire Services WASHINGTON President Nixon is spending the Thanksgiving weekend at Camp David Md so far giving no clue how he will answer a request for immediate surrender of his Watergate tapes U.S District Court Judge John J Sirica Wednesday asked the President give him all tapes for by the court The judge acted after the White House announced that an segment of one tape contained only an audible tone and no conversation Sirica gave Nixon until Monday to respond saying that if he won't give up the tapes voluntarily the judge will order Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to formally request their immediate turnover The White House so far has said only that request was under Announcement that the minute tape section contained only a hum came while presidential lawyers were negotiating with Judge Sirica for a gradual turnover of seven subpoenaed tapes The new development prompted Sirica to say that while he didn't mistrust the White House he would feel better if the courts had the tapes right away The minute segment was part of a conversation Nixon held with H R Haldeman his staff chief at the time on June 20 1972 three days after the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate apartments The White House said the hum was not discovered until last week because of ambiguity as to whether the tape involved was included in the subpoena a nationwide poll indicates that more Americans President Nixon should remain in office Ihan resign but the gap between two opinions continues to narrow Pollster Harris ed Thursday that the call for Nixon's resignation in view of Watergate affair rose to per cent in a sampling of adults taken between Nov 12 and Nov 15 The 43 per cent favoring resignation contrasted with 36 per cent in October 31 per cent in September 28 per cent in August and 14 per cent last May Harris said T li e N o v e m b e r survey showed 47 per cent opposed resignation compared with 50 per cent in October 56 per cent in September 63 per rent in August and 75 per cent in May Ten per cent In the latest sampling were Asked their feelings ning resignation should it be proven that Nixon was aware of Watergate cover-up efforts in the White House Harris said 59 per cent his departure and XI per did not
