Delaware County Daily Times (Newspaper) - June 30, 1973, Chester, Pennsylvania 255 HOME DELIVERY is CENTS Delaware County SATURDAY JUNE 30 1973 FIFTEEN CENTS No injuries reported from twister The first tornado ever recorded in Delaware County tore a swath through about noon Friday damaging a and leveling a garage but causing no was spawned by a storm which produced a driving rain and contributed to the death of a youth in Haverford Township and left another youth critically injured in Upper Darby A total of 4.62 inches of rain was recorded in 24 hours at Ml 111 the National Weather Service facilities at Philadelphia International was the most rain in a 24-hour period since 4.26 inches fell on July 1969 and was about twice as much as was recorded on Sept 13 1971 when the flood hit Chester A total at the Media Waterworks during the same period ending at 7 today was 3.28 inches The record for 29 was 1.52 set in 1902 Rain poured for much of the day but became heaviest during the rush hour traffic about p.m Traffic were reported across the county from Upper Darby to Thornbury The worst snarl was on the Industrial Highway Route 291 in and Ridley Township Much of the problem was caused by flooding in the vicinity of the Airport Circle in sections of Route 291 also were under water Later in the evening as conditions worsened the Industrial Highway was closed in both directions Hundreds of Delaware County commuters were stranded for hours attempting to find alternate routes County roads from Sharon Hill Collingdale and Aldan were bumper-to-bumper for hours because of flooding on MacDade Boulevard Chester Pike and Springfield Roads In Haverford Township a year-old youth died after he u apparently touched an electrified rail in the track bed of the Pennsylvania and Western Railroad tracks between the Beechwood and the Ardmore junction stations and fell into a pool of water one foot deep The victim Michael Jarose 2322 Belmont Ave was walking on the tracks with his brother James 15 and three other youths about p.m Police said the five youths were walking home from Haverford Junior High School Mill Road The youngsters told police they looked back and saw Michael fall backward into a foot of water left by the rain The other youths were afraid to touch Jarose and ran for help By the time they returned the youth was dead Police said they were awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine whether the boy electrocuted or drowned The youth was pronounced dead at Haverford Hospital p.m In a similar accident in Upper Darby Benjamin Mandell 16 of 7038 Ruskin Lane was critically injured when he was walking in a flooded area and touched a light standard that apparently contained a circuit He fell into the water and was reportedly rescued by a passerby after power was shut off by Philadelphia Electric Co The accident occurred at p.m as he was walking See TORNADO Page 10 Daily Photos By PRANK Dl CIACOMO BYSTANDERS LOOK at About 30 minutes before hit about 40 Gradyville Methodist Church in Edgmont children had been inside at bible school CARS MOVE CAUTIOUSLY through flooded lers Avenue in Ridley Township after heavy section of the Industrial Highway near rains hit the area Friday afternoon i o Pd meet my maker By HAROLD D ELLIS Daily Times Staff Writer EDGMONT I thought I was going to meet my said Rev Kenneth Kleckner of the Gradyville United Methodist Church I could feel the pressure drop I didn't know what was happening but I hit the Mr Kleckner said He was one of a number of township residents who experienced Friday the first tornado recorded in Delaware County since the U.S Weather Bureau in Philadelphia began keeping records in 1870 Robert Koch assistant chief of the Edgmont Fire Co said the tornado apparently touched ground about near the home of Mr and Mrs Harold A Hermann Wilson Avenue near Sycamore Mills Road It traveled in a northerly direction across Wilson Avenue Sycamore Mills Road and Middletown Road where it damaged the Gradyville United Methodist Church It then continued northward through Ridley Creek State Park onto West Chester Pike apparently dissipated in that vicinity The path described by Koch is about three miles long I JUST thank God our children were the at the time the storm said Mr Kleckner About 40 area children had been dismissed from vacation church school at only 30 minutes before the storm shattered seven of eight windows in the room where they had been Glass and books were strewn all over the floor The glass would have cut them to Mr Kleckner said A section of the church roof was torn away and extensive damage was done to trees surrounding the church The church which was built in 1960 also suffered extensive water damage and a cracked ceiling The building is insured but no damage estimate was immediately available JOHN CIANCIA a bartender at the Locust Crest Tavern Sycamore Mills and Middletown Roads said he was alone in See MINISTER Page 10 HAROLD HORMANN of Edgmont looks at the remains garage can By LAWRENCE L KNUTSON Associated Writer WASHINGTON AP For- mer White House aide John D Ehrlichman says he has lence to trip up the sworn testimony of John Dean ill Ehrlichman said he believes Dean is trying to implicate President Nixon to save himself from criminal prosecution The only person would have been in a position to keep abreast of an investigation and to have taken steps to protect the three or four people in- Inside your Daily Times There is a monster at Springfield Country Club Page 14 Amusements Bridge Classified Ads Comics Community Clock 15 Crossword Puzzle Death Notices 4 7 14 4 9 Soviet airliner down in Jordan AMMAN Jordan AP A Soviet airliner with 77 persons aboard including King ex-wife plunged into a row of houses near Amman Airport today and burst into flames the Jordanian Trans- port Ministry announced Jordanian officials were unable to say immediately how many persons were killed or in- jured but rescue workers re- ported six or seven were killed mostly occupants of the houses crushed under the airliner Princess Dina King divorced first wife was not among those reported dead or injured Court orders city to open car records to newspaper Partly cloudy tonight low 65 Mostly sunny Sunday high 88 Details on Page 10 Daily Sunday E 8th St Pa 19016 Wont Adf TR All TR 60651 i ptr Irish poet James Stephens said Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more MEDIA COURTHOUSE Chester city officials were ordered Friday to permit the Daily Times to examine all public records on the registration and use o f automobiles owned and leased by the city Delaware County Judge C Norwood Wherry handed down the order following a hearing on a suit filed Wednesday by the Daily Times to force the city to make the records available for examination For nearly a month the newspaper had been attempting to get a list of the registration and license numbers of all city automobiles Hie names of persons and departments to which the vehicles are assigned and records of places traveled and purpose of the trips The requests for such public information were turned down 29 by City Councilman Leo S Holmes director of parks public property and recreation and by the city solicitor's office Attorney Edward J Zetusky who represented the city during the court hearing that began in the morning and resumed in the afternoon urged Judge Wherry to dismiss the complaint on grounds it was not specific enough and was deficient in other areas Zetusky called allegations in the complaint and charged the Daily Times had brought the suit to examine data that shouldn't be available lor public scrutiny under provisions of the state's so-called right to know law Zetusky insisted the city has no intention of destroying any records and said there was no urgency to justify the newspaper's petition for a preliminary injunction to stop the city from interfering with examination of the records Cherry contended the records did fall under the provisions of the state's right to know act and was upheld by Judge Wherry Cherry also contended the records should be made available as soon as possible another point upheld by the judee After ordering the city to alia the po examine all the records the newspaper requested to examine the judge said any that might arise over which records may be examined would have to be aired in court eluding himself who were in- in the inception of this thing was Ehrlichman said The former presidential sel uniquely pivot point of the cover said in the strongest to dale against Dean statements came Friday as Denn con- cluded five days of exhaustive testimony before the Sanate Watergate investigating com- and stood firm on his charge that President Nixon knew the of the up as early as last Sept 15 When the committee resumes it hearings July 10 the First witness will be former Atty Gen John Mitchell Dean said Ehrlichman and former White House chief of staff shared that knowledge with tha dent Ehrlichman said in a CBS television interview he first be- came aware a cover-up was in progress last March after he had begun an investigation at the request of the President I have the feeling that ing failed to receive immunity from prosecution by offering testimony about Haldeman and me he switched to this current effort to strike at the the same Ehrlichman told the Christian Science Monitor Dean will be tripped up by the logs I kept of all See DEAN Page 2 Bombing agreement reached WASHINGTON AP Con- gress and President Nixon have reached a compromise ment to halt all military action in Indochina by Aug 15 Opponents of bombing in In- agreed to the Aug 15 fund cutoff after assurances the President would sign it The compromise was incorporated in a billion supplemental appropriation sent to the White House Friday night The substitutes for a ilar measure vetoed Wednesday by the President because it would have terminated ing immediately for bombing in Cambodia or Laos The House fell 35 votes short of the two- thirds needed to override the veto The Senate by a vote also inserted the Aug 15 war fund cutoff in a resolution to continue funding all ment departments programs and payrolls beyond the end of the fiscal year at midnight tonight The continuing resolution was sent to a ence with final action expected today With an impasse on money bills threatening a financial crisis in the government after Saturday midnight President Nixon relayed to Republican congressional leaders Friday his willingness to accept the Aug 15 deadline The House then dropped its demand for an immediate halt in the bombing of Cambodia and substituting the Aug 15 cutoff in the supplemental ey The vote on final sage was The Senate concurred by a vote clearing the for the President's desk But Senate sentiment on the See BOMBING Page 10
