Additional Lincoln Edition News On Pages 3 4 6 7 8 9 THE GETTYSBURG TIMES With Tn Truth Our Public Good Our Aim ESTABLISHED 1902 Vol 81 No 275 Adams Only Daily Newspaper GETTYSBURG PA TUESDAY EVENING 19 1963 Leased Wire Member of Th Associated PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Gen Eisenhower Gov Scranlon Speak Here Today I Lincoln's Unfinished Work Of Which He Spoke Is Unfinished Abraham Lincoln's faith has been justified but the unfinished work of which he spoke in 1863 is still ished because of human frailty it always will Gen Dwight D Eisenhower 34th president of the United States said this afternoon at impressive exercises in the Gettysburg National tery The occasion was the 100th anniversary ance of Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address Former President hower spoke as We mark today the tennial of an immortal ad- dress We stand where Abraham Lincoln stood as a century ago he gave to the world words as moving in solemn cadence as they are timeless in their meaning Little wonder it is that as here we sense his deep dedication to freedom our own dedication takes added strength Lincoln had faith that the ancient drums of burg throbbing mutual de- fiance from the battle lines of the Blue and the Gray would one day beat in uni- son to summon a people happily united in peace to fulfill generation by a noble destiny FAITH JUSTIFIED His faith has been fied but the unfinished work of which he spoke in 1863 is still be- cause of human it always will be Where we see the ity with which time has in- vested this hallowed ground Lincoln saw the scarred earth and felt the press of personal grief Yet he lifted his eyes to the future the future that is our present He foresaw a new birth of freedom a freedom and equality for all which un- der God would restore the purpose and meaning of America defining a goal I defended here the cause of a DDE WESTERN UN TELEGRAM W P November 19 1963 Dear Mr On the 100th Anniversary of his immortal Gettysburg Address the nation pays tribute to one of history's ering figures Abraham Lincoln Of all our great national leaders Lincoln was most typically American His achievements from the humblest beginnings to the final crowning years of his life stand as a lasting tion to every citizen to respect and defend the fundamental principles on which our governmental system of personal liberty and individual opportunity was founded The nation calls on us now for the same faith and devotion so deeply felt by Lincoln as he stood here amid the havoc of Gettysburg to memorialize our way of life as a ment of the people by the people and for the people More than ever we need the example of Abraham Lincoln to guide influence and uphold us The wise compassionate challenging words of his Gettysburg Address should be etched on the minds and hearts of every American They will ever be the brightest jewels in the nation's rich heritage KIT THE WHITE WASHINGTON nr PAUL L ROY THE GETTYSBURG TIMES GETTYSBURG PENH FROK THE PAST KAN OBTAINS THE INSIGHTS AND HOPE FACE WITH CONFIDENCE THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE FUTURE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS KEENLY AWARE OF THIS WHEN A CENTURY AGO HE JOURNEYED TO GETTYSBURG TO MAKE A FEW APPROPRIATE REMARKS TODAY AS WE HONOR 1 MORTAL EULOGY TO THE DEAD ON CEMETERY RIDGE LET US REMEMBER AS WELL THOSE THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHOSE GRAVES AT HOME BENEATH THE SEA AND IN DISTANT LARDS ARE SILENT SENTRIES OF OUR HERITAGE LINCOLN AND OTHERS DID INDEED GIVE BS BIRTH OF BUT THE GOALS OF LIBERTY AHD FREEDOM THE OBLIGATIONS OF KEEPING OURS A GOVERNMENT OF AND BY THE PEOPLE ARE OR THIS SOLEMN OCCASION LET US ALL TO THE PERPETUATION OF THOSE IDEALS OF WHICH LINCOLN SPOKE SO AS AMERICANS WE CAN DO NO LESS Mr Paul L Roy Editor The Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania JOHN F r WILL i m IF A LINCOLN WERE SPEAKING HERE TODAY Were Lincoln to speak at Get again today he wouk perhaps be disappointed by the lack of progress on many especially race relations but he would say much the same thing as he did a century ago This is the American tion there is only one American cause to which we can take in- creased devotion It is the cause that challenges each of us to attain his full stature citizenship The beauty of the sentiments Lincoln ex pressed enthralls us the majesty of his words holds us spellbound but we have not paid to them their just just tribute until we our selves live them For well he knew that to live for country is a duty as demanding as is the ness to die for it So long as this truth re- mains our guiding light self-government in this tion will never die HUMAN RIGHTS True to democracy's basic principle that all are created equal and endowed by the Creator with Continued On Page 3 RIFLEMEN WIN MATCHES The rifle team of the local Howitzer battery of the vania National Guard has won the first two shoots in the current competition the Second Squadron according to reports at Monday drill held at Uie armory on W Confederate Ave The report showed the team scored 250 points above its est competitor in the squadron in the first match In the second the team was reported as tops in the squadron but the scores have not as yet been returned The third shoot has been completed but the standings have not as yet been reported The squadron winner will be entered in the regimental competition Further plans were made for inspector general's tion Thursday The inspection Continued On 3 Child's Welfare Staff Too Smal Adams County's Child Welfar Services Advisory Board the proposed regulations for chil welfare agencies scheduled to be discussed Thursday at a regiona meeting in Harrisburg Following a discussion by the board Monday night attended by the county's commissioners elect the group voted to send a letter to be read at the public meeting stating the county's proval of the new plans Dr Vernard Group reported a survey shows additional staff is needed for the Child Welfare Services which currently is caring ror 99 children Reports showed that all means have been taken in the annual program to secure volunteers to provide Christmas gifts for the children under the services care One adoptive home cation was received bringing the current number of adoptive lome requests to five nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal Thus poet Archibald MacLeish summed up Monday night the panel discussion program pre- sented at the Gettysburg College Student Union Building as part of the state's centennial ance of Lincoln's speech ing the Gettysburg National tery DR BLOOM SUBSTITUTES Dr David Donald of the history department of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity who was to have been one of the members of the panel was unable to be present because of illness and Dr Robert L Bloom head of the history ment at Gettysburg College took his place on the panel Other members of the panel were Judge P der Philadelphia and man Fred D Schwengel of Iowa Alistair Cooke United States cor- respondent for bhe Manchester England Guardian and master of ceremonies of the former television series was the moderator MacLeish said during the dis- cussion L i n c o 1 n s words here have given the people of our country for the last three or four generations a sense of what this nation is in its noblest sense WORLD KNOWS SPEECH Cooke observed that Lincoln's AIDED THE ENEMY Gettysburg Address has spread idea of freedom throughout the world The African people eel Lincoln singlehandedly freed he slaves The first stamp the Republic of Liberia issued had head on H Lincoln's words government of by and for he people have a deep meaning throughout the world and the world is going to live out this de- motion to Lincoln's words It may Continued On Page 8 ROTARY HEARS SPEAKER FROM NEW ZEALAND The international aspects of Rotary were outlined Monday evening by Charles H Taylor Christchurch New Zealand for- mer director of Rotary tional at an interclub Rotary ladies night meeting in burg Senior High School Taylor was introduced by Dis- Rotary Governor Alfred Hammond Hershey Outlining the history of Zealand he told of the ancestry of the Maoris the native people of the island Among first contacts made by Americans to New Zealand were visits by the whaling vessels LOCAL WEATHER Yesterday's high 74 Last night's oday at Today at noon 51 66 LOOK one of the first white men to visit the lands sailing there three times between 1769 and 1777 The first colonizing ship landed at what is now Wellington the capital of New Zealand in 1840 The Maori he said are chivalrous As an example he said during a battle with the whites the whites ran out of Continued On Page 2 WEATHER FORECAST Clear tonight low in the 30s Wednesday fair with increasing cloudiness High near 60 Wanted driver to deliver beer Apply It was a New Oxford cattle farmer Hartranft Stockham who electrified The burg Times news staff last summer when he placed at our disposal the letter book of his grandfather Major General John F Hartranft the ernor and commander of the Washington Arsenal Military Prison in which the Lincoln assassins awaited trial See Page 14 Section 3 A vigorous storyteller versed in the family ical lore Mr Stockham briefed us on the startling terials he handed over to us in accurate and interesting fashion He noted that the Hartranft family traced its family line back to Tobias Hartranft a native of Silesia in East Prussia who came to America in 1734 In the early days the Hartranft ants were farmers and coach men By 1920 there were more than ants of the hardy pioneer Born in Montgomery ty Pennsylvania Mr ham's father was Edward V Stockham a West Point uae and a colonel in World War I For the past 35 years Mr Stockham has raised An- gus cattle on his farm on New Oxford R 1 Earlier he had attended Princeton University He is married and the father of three Charles who operates a race in Edward a school teacher at Manchester in Carroll County and Mrs Helen Shireman who has taught at Hanover and East Berlin He has two dren Joyce 5 and Ivan eral months old The abundant records kept by General Hartranft were preserved by Mr mother and then passed along to him Since Gen Hartranft kept meticulous records throughout his career the documents were unwieldy As a result Mr Stockham pre- sented seven volumes of material to the Society of Montgomery County at Norristown Pa OR November 22 1950 The documents examined by The Times staff were and They included the record kept throughout the en- On Pago Seek Funds For Xmas Lights Gettysburg's Junior Firemen will be calling on homes throughout the community night to ask donations toward the town's Christmas tions The door-to-door canvass will begin about 6 o'clock with wards of 50 members of the Junior organization taking part Officials of the Christmas Decorations Fund hope the townspeople will be generous Approximately will be needed from the door-to-door solicitation to help defray the cost of putting up and taking down the decorations and re- placing worn out and damaged sections REG BOARD ADDS ITEMS TO 64 BUDGET Gettysburg's Recreation Board began consideration of the budget t will present borough council at ts meeting Monday evening in he junior high school building Among items to be added to he regular operating budget will be for a new storage ng at Rec Park and or renovation of the tennis courts according to the discussion The board decided to ask il approval for installation this of street lamp type lights to burn all night at the recreation Bills totaling were representing among other items 31 for fertilizer and for the work performed by Battlefield Earthmoving in con- MARINE BAND PLAYS RETURN ENGAGEMENT The U.S Marine Band the most famous and in the world today played a return ment in Gettysburg in oration of the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The band played in 1863 when the martyred Civil War dent gave his then nearly for- gotten masterpiece of English prose Today it played again as this nation once again focuses its attention on this final ing place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live One of the only references to this famed military musical unit was the following from the State Senate Pays Tribute To Lincoln's Gettysburg Address By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The State Senate paused Monday to rededicate itself to the principles set forward by Abraham Lincoln 100 years ago in his Gettysburg Address The well chosen and remarks made by coln have truly become a classic for freedom where Sens Charles R ner and James S Berger stated in a resolution The resolution adopted also recommended the words the Gettysburg Address to school children and all citizens in freedom loving countries of the world COL SCHOEPPER report of the Select Committe of the Pennsylvania of Brigade Band of Philadelphia was invited to furnish the sic for the ceremonial of cration which was done tously and in a very acceptable with renovating baseball manner The Presidential party fields etc It was reported that fertilizer has been applied on Recreation Field from Breckenridge St as far south as Gettys St and next year the lower half of the area will be fertilized New pieces of equipment for the playground were discussed in- an additional bike rack Recreation Director Ray Thompson reported on completion of the football season with the Eisenhower School winning the Fifth and Sixth Grade League title The possibility of again con- ducting an open gym period during the winter months was dis- cussed The basketball season will begin for the recreation program in January was accompanied by the Marine Band from the Navy Yard at Washington and the military de- was attended by the Brass Band from Fort Continued On Page 8 KNOX PROPERTY SOLD The former property of the late John H Knox Cumberland Twp was sold at public safe Saturday afternoon to Dr James H Allison W Broadway for The property improved with a brick dwelling contains 17 acres The sale was conducted by the Gettysburg Bank as Mr Knox's ex- Personal property also was aold TELLS LIONS ABOUT VISIT BY LINCOLN Meeting 100 years to the hour after Lincoln's arrival in burg the evening of November 18 1863 members of the burg Lions Club Monday ning heard J Melchoir Sheads high school history teacher re- count highlights of Lincoln's hour visit here At the same session the Lions their second high school of the month Recipient this month's certificate for achievement was Miss Kay Newman daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul G Newman 212 W Middle St an honor student at Gettysburg Hish School and a leader in ties She introduced to the club by Miss Susan Wentz high school librarian MONUMENT NOT DEDICATED The Lions announced gifts from their Charity Fund of to the county Tuberculosis Society and to the Muscular Dystrophy fund In his talk Mr Sheads re- that the Lincoln Speech Memorial monument in the tional Cemetery never was It was erected in 1912 after being authorized earlier in a rider on the introduced in Congress by Congressman Dan Sickles a Union general who lost his leg m the battle here The Sickles created the national park here but sections of its for a soldiers home here an an army post at Gettysburg Continued On 1 Speaker Says Lincoln Was Unwanted At Program Here James I Robertson Jr tive director of the U S Civil War Centennial Commission ad- dressing the anniversary luncheon meeting of the Lincoln Fellowship today at noon at the Hotel Gettysburg said in The invitation for Lincoln to make at Gettysburg a few remarks was an after- thought and it was also tinged with strong misgivings Lincoln's reputation as a humorist and er of bawdy stories alarmed the battlefield commissioners One official from Lincoln's own state of Illinois expressed serious doubts of the President's ability to speak upon such a grave and solemn occasion Continuing Dr Robertson In a sense this was under- standable By 1863 Lincoln public speaker was still an un- known entity His 1860 Tarewell at Springfield had passed largely unnoticed As for the inaugural address of the lowing year many people believed that William H Seward had plied most of the thoughts and in reality he had Hence little argument greeted Wendell Phillips tion of Lincoln as a first-rate second-rate and when Con- gressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania learned that Lincoln was to take part in the burg ceremonies he Let the dead bury the dead Lincoln exhibited no concern over these criticism and derisions In that third year of the war more confronted him than the mere antipathy of his men Two writers were assuredly correct when they concluded of Lincoln's remarks at Certainly few great literary have been composed un- der conditions so adverse Dr Robertson's address The Unwanted Speaker is reprinted in full in the centennial edition of The Times today A tract of five acres of land ad- joining the National Cemetery was presented to the National Park Service PARADE MOVES SAME ROUTE TAKEN IN 63 Major General Henry K Fluck commanding officer of the Division served as grand marshal today's parade which began in the northern end of town and marched south to the National Cemetery along the exact route used by the procession at the cation of the cemetery a century ago Heading the parade with eral were four staff officers he colors of the Division National Guard and he U.S Marine Band Next came the headquarters unit and colors of a composite battalion the famed U.S 3rd Infantry Bounded by the nation when it its Constitution the 3rd has fought in all the wars including the of Gettysburg Three com- anies of the 3rd made up the com- battalion for today's parade EISENHOWER IN MOTORCADE Next was a motorcade of 15 containing Dwight Eisenhower 34th President of ie United Governor am Scranton and other dis- guests and program The Division Band followed ie motor cade and following the and was the headquarters unit ment of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard Five companies of the Guard comprised the ment of about 800 men The Guardsmen marched with their weapons at sling arms Concluding the the Valley Forge Military Academy Band and Drum and Bugle Corps plus headquarters unit and colors Continued On 8 CHRISTMAS SEALS and other RESPIRATORY DISEASE JEWS PA PER I JEWS PA PER I