Delaware County Daily Times (Newspaper) - July 12, 1975, Chester, Pennsylvania 919 Delaware k at ambulance services County 261 HOME DELIVERY 75 CENTS MOTOR ROUTE CENTS SATURDAY JULY 12 1975 FIFTEEN CENTS r companion caught in Idaho Frank A Metzger 38 of Middletown sought for nearly a year as a suspect in the slaying of his wife Martha has been arrested by the FBI in Boise Idaho it was announced Friday Also arrested was Metzger's girl friend year-old Diane L Hamill a former Ridley Township resident Both were charged with murder the FBI said Last September Metzger's four children were found abandoned in a motel in Dunkirk which is midway between Erie and Buffalo N Y Several days later Martha Metzger's body was found in a shallow grave behind a house in Farnham 15 miles northeast of Dunkirk on Metzger and Miss Hamill were to be arraigned before a U.S magistrate in Boise pending ex- tradition to Buffalo where they will stand trial on murder charges an FBI spokesman in falo said today Miss Hamill's father David A Hamill 313 Baker St Ridley Township said his daughter had called him early today from Boise Hamill said his daughter had told him she was being held and that she had been read her legal rights but that was all he knew Metzger and Miss Hamill who have been sought on a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution were traced by the FBI from Buffalo to California and finally to Boise Martha lived at 204 E Dutton Mill Road Middletown was 29 at the time of her death She and her four children were reported missing on Aug after a neighbor found the house empty and became suspicious Police were uncertain that a crime had taken place until five weeks later when the body was found Mrs Metzger was beaten then suffocated possibly with a pillow according to the medical report Police are not certain whether she was killed in New York or in her home on the night of Aug 1974 the night before she was reported missing The body may have been transported to New York in the trunk of a car The Metzger children said their father who had been separated from his wife for nearly three years woke them that night put them in a car and drove to New York State with Miss Hamill The house in Farnham had been rented in July about a month before the murder Metzger Miss Hamill and the four children lived there for five weeks and the children attended elementary school in Farnham New York State Police said Metzger went to elaborate lengths to confuse police He rented cars under assumed names and signed leases for many houses and apartments without ever leaving deposits In September Metzger allegedly told his children there was a gas leak in the house and took them to a motel just outside Dunkirk He said he would return later but never did The children Frank Jr 11 David 10 Christopher 7 and Stuart 5 were found by the motel manager Several days later Mrs Metzger's body was found in a grave behind the Farnham house A second grave deeper and wider was also found and police speculated the second grave was meant for the children Delaware County Child Care Services has placed the four Metzger children in a foster home Pennsylvania State Police from the town Barracks were uncertain how much they would be involved in prosecuting the prosecuting the At this point New York State Police have Trooper George A Ellis said today We don't anticipate extradition to sylvania The bodies were found in New York and that's probably where the crime will be prosecuted Ellis said earlier reports that the actual killing took place in the Metzgers Middletown home were speculation at this and that the investigation was still under way State Police were in communication with New York State Police and Ellis said new ments in the case would be announced later It's Whiplash City 6 on bus 25 hurt CHICAGO AP There were only six passengers on a Chicago Transit Authority bus that collided with a truck and a taxi but about 25 people showed up at a local hospital to complain of injuries authorities say Police said they were told by an eyewitness to the Friday accident that people rushed out of nearby houses taverns and cars after the collision o get on the bus The witness asked not to be identified Five passengers were taken by bulance to Loretto Hospital for ment and almost immediately 14 more jumped on the bus claiming a transit authority spokesman said The ambulance was making shuttle trips back and forth to the hospital for a while there Even the fire battalion chief's car was used Police said the bus collided with a semitrailer truck and then careened into the taxi The Cab driver and his wife were treated for minor injuries and were released from a local hospital Two of the bus passengers were hospitalized for minor injuries Truck driver Fennie Chandler 35 of Detroit was charged with damaging city property and running a red light CIA report details White House contacts SPRINGFIELD LOGO James Kane 10 of 263 contest was open to all children in Springfield and Road.Sprmgfield.holdsthelogohedrewwhichwasjudgedthe Morton winner of a Springfield Bicentennial Commission contest The Bridge toil cutback nearer That nickel reduction of tolls on the Commodore Barry Bridge between Chester and New Jersey and two other bridges linking the two states was a step closer today Federal Highway Administrator Norbert T Tiemann on Friday refused to rescind an earlier order he issued calling for the rollback on bridges administered by the Port Following announcement Executive Director William Watkin said his agency would go into U.S District Court on Monday and ask for an order to stop the rate rollback until the question is resolved by the federal courts Besides the Barry Bridge other spans affected are the Walt Whitman and Ben Franklin Bridges According to the proposed lowered schedule the basic fare would be reduced from 60 cents to 55 cents with corresponding reductions for car pool and commuter rates Car pool books would go from to which would be 10 cents per crossing Commuter fares would decrease from 40 cents to 35 cents The has objected to the rollbacks and lowered fares citing fiscal operating costs The new rates are scheduled to begin Aug 1 WASHINGTON AP For many years the CIA has detailed personnel to offices in the inner circles of the White House according to the agency's own 1973 investigation of questionable activities The report a portion of which was made public Friday by Rep Lucien chairman of the House intelligence com- says CIA employes were assigned to the im- mediate office of the White House and to components in- associated with the office of the president such as the Council on International Economic Policy and the President's Foreign In- Advisory Board The May report also says agency personnel have been assigned to the ments of Treasury and Com- merce as well as the Agency for International Development Although the document does not make clear whether anyone in the White House was aware of the presence of these agency officials both and Senate intelligence Chairman Frank Church said it did not support the charge that the CIA had infiltrated or penetrated the White House That charge gained new momentum Friday with the claim by retired Air Force Col L Fletcher Prouty that former presidential aide Alexander P Butterfield had been a CIA contact officer Later one of the sources cited by Prouty as the basis for his claim denied the account Butterfield's alleged CIA link also was denied by the CIA which issued a statement saying that Butterfield has never been assigned to or Inside your Daily Times Amusements Bridge Church Classified Comics Community Clock Crossword Puzzle Death Notice 13 9 5 18 19 9 19 4 Editorials Financial News Horoscope Junior Editors Obituaries Outlook Section Sports Television 6 20 19 19 4 7 18 Showers A 50 per cent chance ot showers tonight and day otherwise partly cloudy with a few brief periods of sunshine Low tonight 70 High Sunday 83 Daily except Sunday E 8th St Chester Pa Want Arts TR All Departments TR Home per week worked for CIA in any capacity However the agency acknowledged during his military career and during his years as an aide to White House chief of staff Haldeman Butterfield was given clearances for access to sensitive agency information Butterfield who is most noted for revealing the existence of former President Richard M Nixon's White House tapes was reported traveling and could not be reached for comment In La Jolla Calif a secretary at a research firm said Butterfield canceled an appointment there Friday Prouty who retired from the Air Force in 1963 after serving as a liaison officer with the CIA said that he first learned of a connection in 1971 from two Air Force officers who had worked for the CIA for long periods of time Rock incident prompts neighborhood watch By REYNOLDS Daily Times Correspondent ASTON The majority of the residents of the housing development Friday night voted to institute a watch in the wake of a rock throwing incident sday The family room of the Jack Smythe home 1555 Carlin Drive was overflowing with neighbors The living room was still scattered with glass and the rocks which broke the windows lay on the floor A sign on the front lawn indicating faction with Andrew the builder which had been stolen earlier in the day had not been early evening survey showed that bicycle flags the resident's way of showing their displeasure were still planted in front of almost every home The meeting began by each of the 27 families present stating for the record they had not written a tetter to saying their houses were fine been intimidated by their to put up flap had implied in Daily If he called your wife not feeding you if you didn't put up a flag intimidation that's what happened in my said one man referred to in the article who was trying to sell his home because he had been transferred But I'm not outraged as he said I used the word concerned I've at- tended all the meetings and my neighbors have never snubbed me Smythe said he was ex- concerned about the rock throwing incident and that Judge blasts jury in Haldeman suit CHARLOTTE federal judge says a jury's failure to order damages assessed against House aide Haldeman in a million lawsuit went against weight of the evidence But the Judge has refuted to wt aside the verdict or to order a new trial a new sign would be put up in front of his home shortly Several residents said they had been intimidated by and his manager Dennis Masimo for what they had said at various meetings Smythe said he has been threatened with a law suit and that he was told at one time there was a contract out on F Clark Walton the township engineer You'd live in Disney World to not recognize what this is all Smythe said Basically we all love homes that's why we're fighting so hard to make them the way they should be After the vote to take steps to form the neighborhood watch Smythe reiterated it would not be a vigilante committee We will consult a lawyer for legal he said And Chief James McCarthy has said the police will give us guidelines on responsibilities and rights of a civilian group such as this Neighbors in High Point and Spring Hilt the other two developments in the Northwest Civic Association have offered 100 per cent cooperation I 700 hail minuteman FLYER DEFENSEMAN Ed Van Impe chats Friday night with Mrs Marjorie Forwood a Delaware County Bicentennial hostess in Rose Tree Park's amphitheater prior to a special bicentennial program there UPPER PROVIDENCE Delaware County's official minuteman was before a crowd of 700 in Rose Tree Park Friday night Philadelphia Flyers seman Ed Van Impe a Delaware County resident and proud of was presented with a replica of the Brown Bess musket by Delaware County Bicentennial Commission Executive Director J Warren Joe Bullen Jr Van Impe was dressed for the occasion wearing a powder horn slung over one shoulder of his stylish shirt Ed was a minuteman this spring in defending the Stanley Cup just as 200 years ago the minutemen defended the United States Bullen said Turning to Van wife Diane Bullen added We gave your husband a musket We have something we think is more fitting for and gave her a bouquet Van Impe who chatted with individual members of the audience and signed autographs before the ceremonies lauded the Bicentennial efforts to hold a strong program in Delaware With your help we can make it a great summer and a great Bicentennial Van Impe said Millard Robinson the com- special events director was encouraged by the atmosphere at the We're very pleased with the turnout the enthusiasm of the audience the spirit and the he said It's great to get folks to cooperate to bring something big to Delaware County for the Bicentennial The volunteer efforts of many people make it he added reeling off the names of countless volunteer workers who had devoted their free time to Bicentennial programs This is a testing ground for future planning for the programs in Robinson added Also appearing In the were the Al Raymond Band which played a variety of big band swing and jazz music and the New Dance Group of the University of Delaware which modern dance
