Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - November 18, 1963, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy tonight with chance of a few showers low in the upper 40s Clearing Tuesday high in THE GETTYSBURG TIMES GOOD EVENING Mothers work from to Our tie Good Our Aim With Honor Jo Ourselves And Profit To Our Patrons Vol 61 No 274 Adams County's Only Daily Newspaper GETTYSBURG PA MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 18 1963 Leased Wirt Member of Tho Associated PRICE FIVE CENTS Lincoln Is World-Wide Symbol Of Freedom Declares Secretary Of State WAR JUSTIFIED IN ADDRESS HERE IN 1863 SPEAKER SAYS Gettysburg Address was described Sunday evening as author's most careful and conscious statement of his philosophy by Dr David Donald professor of history at Johns Hopkins University Prof Donald delivered the ert memorial lecture at Gettysburg College's seventh annual Civil War conference sion in Christ Chapel His theme Abraham Lincoln and American Nationalism Speaking in a setting of Civil War songs provided by the College Choir under the direction of Prof Parker B the speaker The Gettysburg Address born of the President's need to explain his purposes to the nation and of his need to settle his own unstated doubts was Lincoln's most ful and conscious statement of his political philosophy at Gettysburg he justified both to his people and to himself the war as a struggle for equality racy and nationalism CHOIR CONCERT Christ Chapel was nearly filled for the program at which Dr Robert Bloom of the history de- of Gettysburg College presided The choir's concert of Civil War songs included We Are Coming Father Tenting Goober Peas Listen to the Mocking Bird Home Sweet Darling Nellie Gray and con- cluded with the favorite Battle of the Republic The soloists were James Meyers and David Edward M Andrews was the accordionist Eugene Cotton played the bass viol and David Armor the guitar as the choir's accompaniment READS ADDRESS A Gettysburg College more George gave a reading of the Gettysburg Ad- dress before Dr Donald was pre- sented for his a Civil War conference at the col- lege Dr Donald helped initiate the conferences six years ago and returned the next year He spoke Sunday evening despite a severe cold Prof Donald noted at the out- set of his address that the historian can face no greater lenge then to try to think afresh about a familiar document like Abraham's Lincoln's burg Address The words are too Continued On Page 8 To Give Exam For Battlefield Guides The U.S Department of the Interior National Park Service will give an examination here for the selection of persons to act as licensed battlefield guides on Gettysburg National tarv 7 w 10 it was announced Any person desiring to take this examination should make application in writing to the su Gettysburg Nation al Military Park Further information on the examination and the establish ment of the eligible list may be obtained by writing the superin tendent or by calling Gettys burg Five Young Women Trained As Aides A group of five young women have completed a six-week ing course at the Warner pital and have received their certificates as nurses aides will be employed there on a full or part-time basis The certificates were ed at a brief ceremony Friday and threat specialist died early j by Mrs Pauline Mowry Sunday at his home at 114 W tor of nursing Mrs Ruth Kane St Death followed aja registered nurse was the in- long illness major surgery and a stroke Those who completed the Dr Miller formerly was training included Mrs Tina MILLER DIES SUNDAY COLLEGE GRAD Dr Milton Valentine Miller 72 Germantown a retired ear nose ATTEND FIRST LIVING ROSARY HERE More than persons at- tended and participated hi the Living Rosary services in the Gettysburg National Cemetery Sunday evening for the repose of the souls of all those of our nation who have given their lives in war and peace for the preservation of our freedom It was the first such religious service ever held in Gettys burg It was an impressive ice in which 70 Catholic Girl Scouts Cadets formed a living Rosary in front of the rostrum at the cemetery Each carried a lighted candle and several girls alternated in leading in the recitation of the Rosary by the congregation There was a number of in the group Surrounding the Girl Scouts beyond a area the audience stood Rev Fr Joseph P Kealy pastor of St Francis the service announced that be- cause of the dampness of the ground it was not necessary as is the custom to kneel Members of the Deanery carried candles in the procession that started from the parking lot at the National seum and continued into the cemetery The altar on the rostrum was illuminated by candles and floodlights furnished by the Fire Department A statue of the Virgin Mary was centered in a garden of fresh flowers in front of the rostrum Rev Dr John Metz pastor of St Aloysius Church town was the at Benediction Rev Fr John Wildeman assistant pastor of the local church was the Continued On 7 dent of the staff and chief of at Memorial Hos Tan h m a n 60 Chambersburg St Mrs Loretta Ortiz and formerly j Bridge St Mrs Virginia was chief at the old Philadelphia Hospital of Con- Diseases Germantown and Lankenau Hospital He was a former professor of clinical otolaryngology at the graduate school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and professor at the medical school He also was a consultant to the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf GETTYSBURG Dr Miller received a Bachelor of Science degree from burg College m 1911 and his cal degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1916 Gettysburg awarded him an honorary in 1946 His professional associations in- cluded the American logical Society the Philadelphia Laryngological Society of which he was a past president the can College of Surgeons and tiz 154 Breckenridge St Mrs Justine Shields Gettysburg R 3 and Miss Shirley Toddes R 6 Philadelphia cians College of He was a member of the St Andrew's Society Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and formerly was Continued On Page 10 Saturday night's low Sunday's high Last low Today U 8 M m Today at p.m 61 42 72 47 731 REMEMBRANCE DAY PROGRAM HELD SATURDAY braved the chill winds at Zieg ler's Woods near the Visitor Center Saturday afternoon to witness the seventh annual Re- Day program of lied units of the Grand Army ol the Republic at the GAR ment The GAR ceased to be in 1956 with the death of the last vivor Albert Woolson who died in Duluth Minn at the age ol 109 The program was held al the monument oi Woolson placed in Gettysburg by the National of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War in tribute to the men who comprised the GAR The Rev Fr Joseph P Kealy pastor of St Francis Xavier Church delivered the opening prayer and Thomas A Chad wick Chester Vt Past Com- mander in Chief of the SUV was master of ceremonies on the program with brief comments were Joseph A Rippey Rochester N Y Com- mander in chief SUV Mrs Anita M Selby Mansfield Ohio national president Auxiliary to the SUV Mrs Molly Mercer national president Ladies of the GAR Mrs Isabelle Smith Ottumwa Iowa national dent Daughters of the Union Veterans and Mrs Jessie H Johnston Cheyenne Wyo tional president Women's Re- lief Corps GEN WHITE SPEAKS The Gettysburg High School Band under the direction of neth Hays played Civil War medleys and closed the gram with a presentation cf the Star Spangled Banner Major Thomas A White adjutant general sylvania National Guard Continued On 7 FIGURES NOT RESULTS ARE CHANGED HERE NATIONAL COMMANDER IS HEARD SUNDAY Walter D Hyle Jr national commander of the Catholic War Veterans was the speaker day night for a joint installation held at the Catholic War Veterans home in Officers of the and McSherrystown posts and the Auxiliary were installed at the session Speaking of efforts to have the War Veterans ion receive a congressional er similar to that given other veterans organizations National Commander Hyle said the granting the charter passed the Senate by a vote of 65 to 10 and is now in the House Committee He urged all members to write man Emmanuel Seller chairman of the Judiciary Committee and o their own congressman asking hat the charter be reported out of committee for by the House STATE COMMANDER THERE He aiso discussed the now being considered in Congress for constitutional change ing use of prayer in the public chools He encouraged the jers to write their congressman f their approval of the Continued On Page 10 Gift Bazaar Nets About worth of gifts made by skilled craftsmen in refugee camps in distant parts of the world were sold day at the gift bazaar ed in the Fairfield Mennonite i i- festival held by the YWCA Saturday in the Hotel burg pressroom In addition to the outright sales orders totaling to were taken for future de- livery All of the proceeds of the bazaar will go back into the ugee self-help program where the cash will be converted into materials with which the gees may produce new items for sale Most of the gift items for the bazaar came through the Mennonite Central for More Than Persons At Opening Of Centennial Observance Of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Sunday Afternoon This was the second annual bazaar of its kind held at the Fairfield church Iraqi Forces Overthrow Ba'ath Socialists Vow To Support Arab Nations By ALEX EFTY Associated P ess Staff Writer BEIRUT Lebanon AP President Salam Aref and the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces overthrew their country's Ba'ath Socialist government day and took control Aref in one of his early indicated that he hoped to revive the agreement to merge Iraq with Syria and President Gamal Abdel United Arab Republic The president an admirer of Nasser said would ate closely with all Arab nations especially with the Arah Republic TAKES CONTROL Aref who has been Iraq's president since the ousted Premier Abdel arim Kassem's dictatorship in assumed full powers head of a new revolutionary He ordered dissolution of the National Guard a unit of Ba'ath Socialist youths loyal to exiled Deputy Premier Ali Saleh El Saadi leader of an extreme left tion of All men were ordered to surrender their weapons to the armed forces Those who refused were to be executed on the spot Baghdad Radio said the armed forces had captured tional Guard headquarters and taken a number of guardsmen prisoner SOUND The armed forces also were reported to have encountered some resistance in sections of Baghdad but appeared to have full control by A general curfew proclaimed at was eased to allow bakers and others in essential services to go to their jobs Aref said in a statement broadcast over Baghdad Radio On Page 10 LINCOLN IS EXTOLLED BY IOWA SOLON The literature of Gettysburg and the Address we orate today has in it not only for us bul for the whole human race everywhere on this planet something of a quality that touches all of us In whatever condition it touches us at the noblest side of our nature It is my belief that this is its essential secret t dare with reverence and mility to equate it with the tone the style the inner nature and the sion of the Lord's Prayer Thus spoke Congressman Fred D Schwengel of the First District in his address at he annual banquet of the Commanders and Past Residents Association of the Sons ol Union Veterans in the Hotel Gettysburg Saturday night RECEPTION DANCE The dinner was hi oration of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the burg National Cemetery A reception and dance in or of John H Stark of Long Island N Y commander of the Department of nia Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War followed at which he was presented gifts from Camp No 112 SUV Auxiliary No 27 SUV Salome M Stewart Tent No 55 DUV and the Ladies of the GAR Circle No 27 The most obvious tion made about the phrases of Lincoln scattered over this blood-drenched field a century continued Mr Schwengel is their affinity with Holy these honored dead the last full measure of tion shall not have died in vain PRAYERFUL LINES I he pleaded with all the reverence I can bring to bear upon this humbly offered comparison do not these words in their rhythm their sublime simplicity their compactness their infinite music the ness and their solace and cation have a kinship that is mystical and enduring with the most prayerful lines in biblical The full text of Cong address will be published in the special edition Continued On Page 7 lots cast by ran proximately six to one Republi can according to the completion of the official count of the County ballots Saturday after noon Only one office was in doub when the tabulation of the absen tee and military ballots began Friday but the ballots cast by the absentees both military and ci vilian made no charge from pre- announced winners The possibility was in the vote Weik ert the incumbent was leading Mrs Anna Marie Cole by 36 votes at the end of the tabulation o the locally cast ballots From the ballots Weiker received 39 votes bringing his total to while Mrs Cole re- 32 votes for a total o The two Republican auditors had been assured of their tion by the local tabulation Mrs Ruth A Frey received 167 votes from those absent from the ty to bring her total to while Mrs Eleanor M Linebaugh received 162 mailed in votes to bring her total to OTHER RESULTS Nor did the count of the ab- sentee ballots make any change in the proportionate majorities ol Atlee Rebert and Harrison Fair the two Democrats named as county commissioners In the cal balloting Rebert came out 63 votes ahead of Fair In the tee ballots Rebert received 48 votes to make his total while Fair received 33 to make his total G Edward Motter the lone Republican elected received 168 votes from the mailed in lots bringing his total to E Donald Scott received 153 votes to bring his total to The other the absentee vote first and the total Judge of Super- ior Wright 173 8726 Ervin 166 8286 Hoffman 30 6589 Mahady 24 6067 associate Deardorff 173 8972 Plank 30 6372 district attorney Walmer 171 8784 Hagarman 33 6753 Weaver 172 8598 Miller 31 6827 register and re- corder Menchey 167 8298 Taugh 37 7210 brenner 164 8049 Knox 39 7489 CRIST STILL HIGH Dr C G Crist the county's coroner ran at the top of the ticket in the ballots just as he did in the a home votes He received 185 ol the ballots to 23 for Continued On Page 6 MISS SILLIK IS BRIDE OF W W FISSEL Miss Donna Lee Sillik ter of Mrs Mary R Sillik Stalb 419 Baltimore St and the late Calvin Sillik became the bride of Wayne Walter Fissel son of Mr and Mrs Walter scl R 1 Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Grace Lutheran Church The Rev Mark Heiney GRANT HANKEY DIES SUNDAY Grant E Hankey 53 burg R 3 died Sunday ing at o'clock at the Newton W Va whore he 1 lad been a patient A native of Adams County tie was a son of the late Bladen W and Lizzie A ey and was a member of the Biglerville Lutheran Church and of the Gettysburg Moose lodge A mechanic and truck driver ie had served during World War II with the Infantry Co M 20th Division entering Secretary of State Dean Rusk Six Men Sent For Induction Today Six men were sent to Harrisburg ay the county Selective Service Board this morning for induction into the armed forces Two of them were migrant laborers who are transfers from southern draft Both were volunteers The men sent for induction today Charles Harold Myers lenry Thomas Doherty Jr ley Eugene Laughman and ard Cyrus Deckert The two eers are Charlie Rossevelt er Jr transferred by a Clayton Ala and Henry James from a Winter Haven Fla board The draft board is transferring John Car Schlotzhauser to a sey City board for induction There were 43 sent to Harrisburg at the same time for final physical examinations Checking Leads On Littlestown Holdup Littlestown police were con to check out clues in con with last week's robbery of the Sylvania Loan Co there The Littlestown officers Gettysburg police Saturday after noon to check for a 1959 ligh cream colored Ford with ginia registration and a 1955 or 1956 blue Chevrolet both of which had been reported seen in the area about the time of the holdup Littlestown police also asked the Gettysburg officers to look for a stolen purple and black Harley Davison motorcycle with license DELONE HOLIDAY Gettysburg and Fairfield lents who attend Delone Catholic School McSherrystown have been excused from classes lay to enable them to attend ex- in the Gettysburg National Cemetery commemorating the anniversary of Lincoln's Address These students o to McSherrystown each day in i bus from St Francis Church SAYS LINCOLN LINKED GOSPEL WITH FREEDOM The link between the immortal Gettysburg Address and the Christian gospel was supplied by Abraham Lincoln Dr Paul G Empie ex- director of the National Lutheran Council said Sunday morning at Remembrance and Dedication Day in Christ Chapel Cottege for read the final sentence he hi the words under The unfinished task of estab lishing Dr Empie con- to which Gettysburg he summoned the living is still unfinished In a sense it must always be unfinished for freedom as characteristic of a people is a quality of spirit which cannot be DR PAUL G EMPIE landed down one generation o another but rather must be by each anew TRAGEDY CONTINUES Continued On Page 7 It is a continuing tragedy of mankind that the sacrifices of the noble so often are betrayed by he that the gains for the concerned are willing o die are so frequently abandoned jy the indifferent who survive Jewel Thieves Rehearse Keystone Kops Version In Gem Robbery Sunday MRS FISSEL performed the The altar was decorated with white fall flowers Mrs Julia Myers presided at the organ the service April 28 1941 and and played traditional wedding receiving his discharge October 15 1945 Surviving are a brother mer B Hankey Gettysburg R 6 and a nephew Glenn R tel Gettysburg R 3 Funeral services Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock from the Bender Funeral Home Carlisle St with the Rev Norman son and Rev Dr Henry W nat officiating Interment in the Gettysburg National Cemetery Friends may rail Tuesday ning from 7 to 9 o'clock at tho funeral home music Given in marriage by her brother James Calvin Sillik the bride wore a floor-length gown of silk organza over rayon appliqued on the bodice of con lace with sequins and tiny seed pearls slightly neckline and long scooped sleeves The paneled front of the skirt was gathered at the sides and back and fell into a chapel train Her veil fell from a pillbox of ganza over rayon with seed Continued On 10 NEW YORK AP city still laughing about Man- gem robbery two weeks ago another masterpiece of jewel theft foonery took place Sunday Unlike the misguided lion holdup of Nov 8 in which the loot was left behind two bandits escaped with in gems Sunday But the intruders found themselves overrun with hostages Toward the end things got so crowded in the plush East Side apartment of Mr and Mrs John J Gurian that the two badmen had all they could do to tain order As a result Gurian said the thieves left behind more ry than they took LEFT Police estimated that the els left behind are worth 000 Gurian estimated his loss at The invaders one carrying a a lust a gun collected an elevator op- and a delicatessen de- enroute to the ment Mr and Mrs Gurian had just settled down to a wedding breakfast served by maid Mrs Gunan rushed I to a telephone and shouted Help Help before it was slammed down by one bandit The call brought another vator operator on the run He was ushered into the apartment at gunpoint ANOTHER SCUFFLE Sometime during the fire activity the bandits man- aged to find the gems Their foraging was cut however when Mrs Gurian again broke loose and darted into the hall the robbers in hot They met head on with a and a brief scuffle ensued before tho robbers Continued On 10 See Photographs on Page 7 If afternoon in burg whan Secretary of State Dean Rusk and gates of the three European countries represented at the dedication of the burg National Cemetery 100 rears ago appeared in the Union building of Gettysburg College to re- ject on the significance of Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad- dress Hailing the Address as one of the ments ever issued by Rusk told more than 2.100 lersons including hundreds of students that Lincoln s a world-wide symbol of Freedom and democracy ADMIRATION SPREADS He said Over the years admiration for Lincoln has spread throughout the earth the central com- of the can experiment are ably known to more people in other lands through the words of the Gettysburg Ad- dress than through those of the Declaration of Our commitments to freedom are the very source of our foreign policy They explain our attitude toward colonial questions our con- cern about the future of Eastern Europe and why we are more comfortable in dealing with democracies han with dictatorships They explain also our con- cern about our failures here at home to live up fully to our own greatest ments The complete text of tary Rusk's address will be in the centennial edition of The Gettysburg Times Tuesday FOREIGN GUESTS Appearing wife the Secretary of State weer the ambassadors from France and Italy and the minister of commercial affairs for land Hon John Chadwick who recalled that the British sador to the U S in 1863 was unable to accompany President Lincoln to Gettysburg and today I represent our ambassador who also was unable to accept the invitation to appear Rusk arrived by helicopter at the Gettysburg airport at o'clock Sunday afternoon with the French and Italian ambassadors and the minister from Great Britain and their wives They were met by members of the Centennial Commission and escorted in automobiles to the Hotel Gettysburg where they posed for pictures and reviewed the gram before going to the for the program at o'clock DR HANSON PRESIDES Rusk and the French sador were brought into town in an automobile driven by John O'Brien J VanCleve Lett the automobile carrying wick and Mrs Chadwick and Spangler brought the ambassador and his wife from the airport Dr C A Hanson president of the college presided ard the speakers following he invocation by the Rev John W Vannorsdall collie chaplain LT GOV SPEAKS Pennsylvania's Lt Gov mond P Shafer said Is tne place m the world a monument has been erected to mark the delivery of a speech Tne words of burs Address cannot oe separated from this setting A boy today burg sees the rd of war His father the edy The boy thinks now stronger the Union because the battle was fought The father thinks how much the tion might have been if tho of the Civil War Nave been Continued on Page 7 SEALS fight TB and ether RESPIRATORY DISEASES IN SPA PERI IN SPA PERI
