Delaware County Daily Times (Newspaper) - December 21, 1963, Chester, Pennsylvania COLD Clear and cold tonight low be- and 15 Mostly sunny and cold Sunday high upper 20s Increasing cloudiness and cold Monday Details on Page 4 Delaware County Dally E 8th Chester Pa SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1963 Want Au's TR All Departments TR DEAR SANTA Delaware County's youngsters are getting in their last bids for Christmas gifts Read Santa's mail Page 3 Eight Cents Rep Green Democratic Leader Dies Served 16 Years in Cong ress Vascular Shock Fatal at 53 PHILADELPHIA AP U.S Rep Green Jr 53 a 16-year veteran of Con gress died today He had undergone emergency surgery last week for peritonitis with gall bladder complications He had been oh the critical list ever since and had taken a turn for the worse Thursday night Green for more than 10 years chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic Committee had a political influence reaching far beyond his home district He was credited by the late dent John F Kennedy with ing down Democratic victory in Pennsylvania in the 1960 election Kennedy who had won the state by votes had piled up an essential margin of votes in adelphia Green was elected to Congress in 1944 while serving in the Army and became phia's party chairman after the election of Democratic now senator Joseph S Clark in 1951 an election which ed 68 years of Republican con- trol in this city or Billy Green as politicians knew him a tough party disciplinarian He was a father and two daughters was not above playing basketball with his boys New York last was rushed to adelphia's Graduate Hospital WILLIAM J GREEN Dies Turkeys Disappear At Vertol By DON MURDAUGH Daily Times Staff Writer Union employes at Boeing Vertol Division feel they are getting the not the Christmas For economy reasons the company put the turkeys it used to give each employe for mas on the chopping went to federal court Friday so it wouldn't have to fork them over Starting in 1954 the com- Bus Men Charged Both the driver and the er of a defective school bus were issued summonses Friday State Trooper Joseph Dean said the driver Charles Norton of Broad Street at Maple Street Morton was charged with ating an uninspected and im- properly equipped bus The owner William W For- wood Jr of the 2400 block N Market Street Twin Oaks was charged with permitting Norton to operate the bus Dean said Dean said both charges carry fines He said Norton and could have their er's licenses suspended Norton drove the bus loaded with students from Marcus Hook to Media Wednesday morning then called state lice Dean said the bus had not undergone special school bus inspection required by the state He said it had a broken gency door no fire extinguisher improper flares a broken light no brake lights a loose driver's seat holes in the floor and no rear bumper any gave each worker a key for Christmas That was two years before Local 1069 United Auto ers was certified and before Vertol was taken over by ing Last September the company announced it wasn't going to give out the turkeys this mas The union filed a grievance It is trying to take it to tration The company says if it gave turkeys to the employes it would pluck its financial feathers to the tune of So it filed suit Friday in U.S District Court in Philadelphia The suit maintains the local and the American Arbitration Association of Philadelphia lated the collective bargaining agreement by trying to force the firm to distribute the birds Vertol is asking the court to rule that the turkey matter is not subject to arbitration be- cause the association under the contract must arbitrate ances limited to working con- ditions and contract tations A company spokesman said the Vertol Division is the only one of Boeing's divisions in the country which has given out the free turkeys so it was decided to stop the practice Employment in the Vertol Di- vision has jumped considerably Through Wall Thousands More Due BERLIN AP Thousand more West Berliners through the Red wall into Eas Germany today for the joy o reunions with loved ones unde communism then the heart ache of having to part one again This was the second day th East German Communists hai allowed families in West Berli to cross the wall into the Sovie sector Up to midday West Berliners went gateways and control points i the wall to see parents gram parents wives and husband for the first time since Aug 13 1961 But it was still only a trickl of the flood which is as Christmas nears More tha West Berliners alread have permission to cross ani tens of thousands more stil were lining up for passes Most were evidently waitin to join their families the Christmas trees and tht candles on Christmas Eve anc Christmas Day So great were the number o applications that East German officials called for assistance from deep in Communist Ger many They brought postal officials to process the applications in the West and more officials to rubber-stamp them in East Berlin The permit offices set up in West Berlin were being East German officials They seemed under heavy strain to keep up with the demand A high West Berlin officia said it was obvious that the Bast Germans were trying to landle the crowds The trouble is that the Eas Germans had totally mated the task of issuing the the official added So many people were lining up in West Berlin asking for permits that police issued a public warning it was useless to go to permit offices any more today At that time an mated persons waited in ines Communist guards barely took ime to check the passes held n the impatient hands of those who crossed They waived the visitors on through after a quick glance Clearance for cars took only minutes Fire Kills 2 Children PHILADELPHIA were killed and another vas critically injured early day in a fire which swept the lome of Mr and Mrs Edward Devers at 5845 Crittenden St Dead on arrival at own Hospital were Devers son Jr 4 and a daughter Erin Marie 3 Another er Elizabeth Ann 21 months vas admitted in critical ion Devers 32 was also injured ut his condition was not determined It was not to be very serious s i Reached Proposa INSIDE YOUR What's wrong with our Page 6 Bridal portraits Page 8 What happens when the basket Page 16 Amusements Bridge Churches Classified Ads Comics Community Clock 19 Crossword Puzzle 2A Death Notices 19 Editorials 6 Family Section 8 Financial News 14 15 Horoscope Junior Editors 2A Obituaries 4 Also Death Notices 19 Sports Television Hopes Dim For White Christmas Chances were dim today for a fresh coating of snow to give Delaware County a white Christ mas The only snow on the ground will be the remains of this week's light snowfall hardened by temperatures Unseasonably low should continue their seige the first days of winter which officially begin at Sunday Temperatures dropped to degrees Friday night and should be about the same tonight Friday's high was 23 degrees High temperatures today and should be in the upper 20s according to the Weather Bureau at International port The area is one of the er spots in the state Flurries are adding another ayer to inches of snow n western northwestern and Pennsylvania Bradford reported 18 inches if snow on the ground this morn ng Pittsburg had four inches Only Harrisburg with 13 de- rees this Erie vith 14 had warmer morning than the 12 de- rees here at 6 Westerly winds from miles an hour are adding an ex- ra bite to the cold The season's longest spell of old snowy weather is blamed or at least 30 deaths in the ation The mass of arctic air is ered in the eastern Dakotas Forks had 26 de- rees below zero this morning Bemidji Minn had the coldest in the 36 jelow zero PLANE men were injured Friday night when this light plane 1 AA i crashed about a half mile short of a runway at Friendship International Airport in Baltimore Md AP Wirephoto 64 Years in Jail Prisoner Freed FRANCISCO AP Richard Honeck 84 had his first real look at life outside prison walls today after 64 years spent in Illinois penitentiaries The sprightly old man took a tour of San Francisco which he said I'm told is one of the most beautiful cities in the world Just think I'll be spending the of my days here Prison authorities believe Soneck has just finished ng the longest sentence of any man alive in the United States He was released Friday first nto the custody of an ed Press reporter and then over to a niece Clara Orth 62 of nearby San Leandro Calif He walked out the gates of Wenard Penitentiary an old prison near Chester 11 on the Mississippi River hortly after noon A few hours ater he was greeted at San International iort by his beaming niece They embraced kissed and he said This will be the Christmas I've ever had nd I'm sure it will be for Uncle Richard too He grinned and nodded nent His first hours out of prison vere spent in a bewildering ies of news conferences auto- mobile trips and finally a ride rom St Louis to San Francisco n a jet airliner in recent the years making See TURKEYS Page 4 THE TORCH IS PASSED Times Offers Book On Assassination The dramatic and tragic story of the assassination of President Kennedy and the three days that followed will be made available to readers in book form by the Daily Times The book was ten and compiled by the Press It is entitled Passed The Torch is A team of AP's top Saul Pett Hugh gan Sid Moody and Tom shaw worked on a night schedule for seven days to put the story of the century in book form The book includes nearly 100 pictures including color traits of President and Mrs Kennedy by Karsh of Ottawa Daily Times readers will be able to secure the book for An order coupon is published today on Page 7 Orders should be sent to the Delaware County Daily Times 18 E 8th St Chester The book will become able in January Nearly 700 Associated Press member newspapers are buting the book The book will not be available in stores The old man was amazed at the progress that ha passed him by while he sat be hind prison bars During the car trip from ter to St Louis Honeck said Why we must be going miles an hour The driver Warden Ross Ran dolph answered Actually Richard we're going 65 Later on the jet Honeck re marked I traveled faster i that car today than I ever ha in my life and now we're goin almost 10 times that six miles up in the air too Honeck went to prison fo murdering a former schoo teacher four years before th first airplane was flown Befor Friday the only planes he ha ever seen were those that flei above Illinois prisons Honeck showed no concer when the big jet roared dow the runway Look how fast we're going he said I sure like this During the trip he politely de food and coffee by stewardesses but accepted piece of lemon candy Those girls surely are and nice young he saic I've never been treated thi nice in my life Honeck had become the n forgotten prisoner H lad been eligible for parol since 1949 but because he ha no known living relatives th Illinois Parole Board had give ittle consideration to his re lease Then Mrs Orth read an As Press story about uncle's long imprisonment She flew to Menard visited him and assured the Parole Board tha she would care for him shouk they free him into her custody The board consulted Califor nia parole authorities and ex- the release Ordinarily it takes six weeks to arrange something like a parole officer said but the board tried hard to get this one through by Christmas LEARNING ABOUT OUTSIDE Pooled Richard Honeck 84 left visits let plane s cockpit at St Louis after spending 64 years in prison where he had been since before airplanes were invented AP Wirephoto 2 Shot Dead NICOSIA Cyprus Turkish Cypriots were shot dead and seven other persons injured early this morning when lence erupted on narrow streets dividing the Greek Turkish sectors of Nicosia It was the first outbreak of serious violence between the two groups since Britain granted in- dependence to the island tion in 1960 Before ence the two groups often clashed in bloody battles 4 Injured In Crash BALTIMORE AP Three Philadelphia area men and a North Carolina man were in- jured in the crash of a light plane short of a runway at Friendship Airport Friday night The plane reportedly flying from South Pines to adelphia was said to have been landing at Baltimore to let out Robert Adelson 38 of phia Adelson was listed in tory condition at a Baltimore hospital Jerome Samet 45 the pilot of Mt Airy and vey Hortman 47 of phia were in fair condition Richard J Wunder 33 of Hatboro Pa was but -in shock Appeal Slated MINNEAPOLIS neys for T Eugene Thompson serving a life term for murder will seek his freedom on bond from Stillwater Prison while they appeal his conviction to the Minnesota Supreme Court House Now Set for New Vote Foreign Aid Action Pushed WASHINGTON new compromise on credit tions for proposed sales to Com- munist nations was reached day by conferees anxious to push through a billion foreign aid and ad- journ Congress The conferees took only 10 minutes to make minor changes in the rider which snagged ad- plans at dawn after an all-night session Rep Otto Passman floor manager for the said he would carry this back to the house for a ond test shortly after noon Involved is use of the ment's Export-Import Bank to finance proposed sales of plus U.S wheat to The House voted for an trary ban on government credit for any Communist deals after the Senate twice rejected such proposals The new compromise would permit President Johnson to prove such sales if he found this in the national interest and reported each deal to Congress within 30 days This differed only slightly from a similar proposal ed early today in the House The new plan puts a time limit on the presidential reports It also would send them to the House and Senate rather the appropriations and Foreign Relations committees as the earlier compromise had vided Passman refused to predict whether the House would cept this new version but it was known that Democratic leaders in both House and Senate had been calling on absent members to return Passman told newsmen that he would support the new com- promise even though he ed the idea of voting billion to defeat communism and then permitting use of government funds to aid Communism Sen John 0 Pastore D-R I spokesman for the Senate con- emerged smiling and confident In rejecting the earlier com- promise the House voted to send it back to the committee with instructions to reinstate the outright ban it had voted originally GIRL BOARDS TANKER High Heels Ship's Ladder No Match By ISABEL BRANNON Daily Times Staff Writer CHESTER They weren eally expecting a girl The Sun Ship people invited a Friday to examine heir newest tanker built or the Atlantic Refining Co I was an obvious choice I lad never seen a tanker before I was late of course A vart young man took me out to he ship to find the tour I was immediately us because I was the only on in the shipyard without a elmet You don't realty need e said although they are nice something falls on your head The tanker is named the merican Heritage because I as told a predecessor of At- antic sent the first full cargo of il overseas in 1861 The Atlantic decorators went a lot of trouble to furnish ie tanker in 19th Century style I was immediately confronted y what appeared an authentic elic from the last angway Its steps were spaced for a erson with a stride the size of aul Bunyan's I leaned very hard on the my stalwart young arm of friend The Atlantic and Sun Ship ple were having a very cal discussion when I found them on the bridge I concentrated on trying to re- member names We walked aft along a little suspended bridge which I learned is called a catwalk We looked down from a little balcony into the engine room The Heritage is as large as any ship ever built on the Delaware River and it was 51 feet down to the turbines I didn't look down long We climbed down the 51 feet on a little steel ladder My high heels were not part of the uni- form of the day Arriving at the bottom I was there were no great pistons pumping and down We have just turbines now 1 was From then on the men were careful to say everything in women's language I was interested In taking a short voyage But the captain me passengers especially not ed on tankers The ship will leave Monday on its maiden voyage without me
