Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight low in the 40s Cloudy Thursday 67 to IS THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Truth Our Guide The Public Good Our Aim ESTABLISHED 1902 With Honor To Ourselves And Profit To Our Patrons GOOD EVENING Man at How's that? Sorry I can't understand you To whom did you wish to VoL 66 No 74 Atom Only Daily GETTYSBURG WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 27 1968 Leased Wirt Member of Associated PRICE FIVE CENTS Planner Says Fears Of Vast Land Seizures Unfounded Adams County need not fear the federal land acquisition act of 1964 nor currently proposed lation before both the siate and federal governments regarding land but the laws do mean you have to remain on your foes concerning future John Callenbach Adams County planner told ly 50 Tuesday night for second in the series of ings on and sewer and related planning projects be- ing at Gettysburg Senior ligh School under sponsorship of A County Extension Service spoke on ing the Planning and Norton Resource ment Agent for the Extension vice for Huntingdon spoke on Planning and Water Development As One Aspect of Planning Callenbach devoted the first half of his talk to plans for tion of planning which he held Should mesh from the township and borough level to the county level the county to the state and the state to the regional and tional levels if we are to get the j best results from planning He also observed we have set tip in Pennsylvania regulations which permit any government to with any other government for of both Thus we should have the towns and ships surrounding them working closely together and similarly the county should work closely with all of the townships and boroughs and with other counties in the area as well as with the state so we can do the best job for one ICone can be a en- tity uncaring for its neighbor He noted that we have a fine township organization in the Heading For Sea Trials Then War Battleship USS New Jersey heads down the Delaware River where she will proceed out into the Atlantic for three days sea trials After returning to Philadelphia to be the ship is scheduled probably in the early fall to be stationed on the Gulf of Tonkin hurting her projectiles on North Vietnam AP Wirephoto JOINT SESSION BY 2 WOMEN'S GROUPS HERE Wayne B Mumma St florist was the guest speaker Tuesday evening at the third joint meeting of the Soroptimist Club the host club this year and the Business and Professional Women's Club at a dinner at the Elks Club York St with 47 members and guests present The toastmistress was Mrs Edith Bushman vice-president of the Soroptimist Club Mrs Sizer Burton led group singing and Mrs Howard Hartzell was the accompanist for old tion but I think we should have one more organization a county government organization com- prised of the local borough and of township governments and the corned president of the B and P Club Miss Jane Stallsmith members of both government to discuss com- j clubs The decorations were in charge of Dr Elizabeth Gregg and roon second half of and Frederic Griest of basnets talk pertained to a study he has made over the last several weeks of paper roses of various acts passed or being on every considered by the state and and member and tional legislative bodies plus guest received a rose as a Plan 14 produced by the state Or Page the dinner Miss of the B and P Club COUNCILMEN ELECT SPIGER Kennan Tells East Berlin Lions U.S In Dangerous Times F Kennan former to Russia author of the United States containment icy and presently associated with the Institute for Advance Studies at Princeton told the East Berlin Lions Tuesday night in their meeting in Lau's Restaurant that the situation facing our country is the most dangerous and it has ever faced and the policy decisions of our ment ove next several months will affect our future quite night at o'clock in Kennan who resides on a farm near East that the policy cf the United States must GRADE PUPILS GIVE PROGRAM FRIDAY NIGHT COURT HOUSE OFFICES TO BE OPEN AT NOON The Adams County Tuesday announced tnat beginning April l all offices in the courthouse will be open over the noon hour That accomplished a project attempted by their sors in office who also had sought to keep the courthouse offices open from 8 in the ing to 4 in the afternoon out interruption Both boards of commissioners had felt that merous people came to the courthouse during their lunch hours to transact business only to find offices closed While the prior board of com- missioners could not convince the other row offices that it would be possible to keep open over the noon hour the com- missioners office and the have been open now for several years at noon and after April 1 according to the commissioners all offices have promised to remain open during the noon period AUTHORIZE LOAN With anticipated bills and payrolls showing need for out- lay of approximately the commissioners checked the bank balance Tuesday and hen authorized the treasurer to sic The Wonderful World of will be presented Friday row more for the ty to help operate until tax money comes in The amount will bring the total borrowed so far this year plus the carryover from last year to The borrowing will be made from Uhe Gettysburg National Bank it being their turn according to the charge kept by the com- missioners During the day the took time to look at re- needed bv the Solomon Memorial bridges in the Area Junior High School end of the county and di- This annual musical will that De replaced tare Grades Four Five and Six needed undergo an abrupt change to pre- vent the wasting of our total of the elementary schools It will be directed by Mrs Robert fort in Vietnam when our strength John Weaver and and resources mav be needed Gilbert of the music de- Miss Ruth Eggers and iSss Kathy student teachers from Gettysburg College The former ambassador who was present with his son topher for the meeting later took part with the Lions and guests in a competition and the award HIGHLY IMPORTANT Kennan was asked what im- portance he placed upon the re- cent apparent movement toward democracy in Czechoslovakia His Tuesday evening at Its monthly meeting hired Attorney Oscar Spicer as the borough solicitor to replace the late Gerald mer James and introduced Miss Bea Dague as the March Girl of the Month The presidents of the dubs introduced each member BUSINESS MEETING Mrs Bushman introduced Mumma who is known as Mr Wayne the holds A degree in flower in flower designing has been a florist for 13 yars and has had his own shop for three years He has a shop at aad Washington Sts Mumma showed color film Mr was hired to handle by which showed all legal mauers of the council j the flower mart at San a position hos been vacant co the of Cowers bv tor several months Council ang how are took steps to replace a section j aged and sent bv coast of water line mis summer coast He Carlisle leading to the SCHOOL rangements of flowers in a new member Susan reply was that it was of the line be a six-inch icing a three-Inch line join a four-Inch line engineer William E Sees line and The vases and explained members the i nique to make to instructed by council to draw j Easter specifications for tne d plan to do the work In early mer The step was taken to vide better water pressure at the school and better fire It was reported thai the voirs were cleaned In the last month and the fire hydrants flushed The reservoirs are over- Plans were made to have holes m the borough streets patched as soon as Stones will be placed in alleys where necessary Kenneth McKee re- ported that the forms for ty aid received from the county commissioners This year's amount be Council voted to pay for the arrangement j he presented the group as a guest prize It was won by Mrs Paul Pensinger A Continued On Page showed a trend towards independence from Russian Communism which land and Yugoslavia may be prompted to follow This was the Continued On Page 2 Ask Enrollment Approved for payment were bills totaling of which interest on the county debt Continued on Page for A variety cf sets created by ard Krick and Miss Catherine Sowa will each number as the audience is taken from country to country by song The combined choirs of fauver and Eisenhower Schools of 90 voices provide the prologue music as well as numbers between curtains Opening with Grade Four the Banana Boat Loaders Song will be sung and dramatized Burkholder be fee foreman and tiie following are Michael Smith Jim Garrettson Gerald Steven Barnes Gary Don Flax Roger CARTHY GETS OCAL BACKING A local committee of for McCarthy was formed Monday evening at a meeting attended by 27 th Commissioners Adopt 68 Budget As Advertised No Increase For Library Aid Learning About Fire Prevention M M Smokey Batzer adelphia a professional trainer on fire prevention and lectured and for about 70 persons from the Adams County area j today in a program held in Eddie Plank Gym at burg College Those attending represent college Lutheran Theological j Seminary at and area public schools Annie M Warner Hospital the and local businesses Batzer recently completed an mission for the George Singleton Carter 75 a ed Nations in Southeast Gettysburg and World and demonstration seminars veteran died this G S CARTER WORLD WAR I VETERAN DIES airport and air crash fire cue He has lectured in 12 tries Batzer is being assisted by J S Sierotowicz and Matthew M Shelley also of Philadelphia GHS PLACES 3 NEAR TOP IN MATH EXAM Turning in its best record since the annual examinations were begun a decade or more ago Gettysburg High School placed three students among the top nine from participating high schools in this county Cumberland County in the high school math examination conducted by the Mathematical Association of America The highest score by any Ad- ams County student was turned in by David R Pickering with a rating of 42.75 points The ning mark in the competition was scored by Jon M Heckman Carlisle High School who had a score of 56 The other top scorers for High were Lynne S Trainer whose score was 41.25 and Dean F Bushey with a score of 39.25 SCHOOL RANKS THIRD Placing three students in the top nine gave Gettysburg High School a combined score of 123.5 and gave it rank in the competing high schools of Adams and land Counties Carlisle placed first with 160.25 and Cedar Cliff second at 124.5 Gettysburg and Carlisle were the only high schools to place as many as three students among the first nine on the Kst of individual scores Invitations had been sent to all high schools in the two ties to participate by Dr M S The meeting was hid in home of Dr A Bruce siege's math department who Haj St a member of JIB in this area for the MAA the political science department Gettysburg College pha Theta Awards are Speakers were Atty Continued On Page son Williams Vors and Lewis H Mellon a York County Lewis Zane Sanderson Both Williams and Of Watson Randy j Mellon are candidates for Little David Wetzel and Walter gates to the Democratic who are residents of the Bermudian Springs Joint School System and are to be en- rolled in kindergarten or First Grade in September should be registered before April 25 Registration may be accom- by contacting the school offices at York Springs or East Berlin who will be six years of age on or before uary 31 1989 are eligible for First Grade and children who will be five years of age en or that date be eligible for kindergarten If children are already enrolled in garten it not be necessary to register them for First Grade RABBI SPEAKS AT ST JOSEPH Wagaman Edward Barnes Brian ial convention Both are pledged Continued On Page Senator Eugene J McCarthy in the April 23 Democratic ty primary in Pennsylvania Local officers of Democrats jfor McCarthy are Dr A Bruce chairman Mrs jman E Richardson treasurer land Leonard Holder Son Of Polish Official Is Charged With Fomenting Student Demonstrations electricity for the town Christmas lights and for the meter In con- with lights for this year The fire company will vide the lights Mervin Showers was instructed to have the snow fence taken down Robert Kime to check the pressure at the north end of the borough Bills were approved for payment in the amount of President George Schriver pre- sided at the meeting which was attended by a full council neer Sees and Mayor Roy ner LOCAL WEATHER Yesterday's Last night's low Today at Today at 1 65 37 53 TO By MARTIN ZUCKER Associated Press Writer WARSAW Poland AP The son of a Polish government official has been arrested and accused of organizing a recent student demonstration for er freedom a Warsaw per reports In addition two more bers of the faculty of Warsaw University one a prominent for- mer diplomat have been listed those linked to the as th government its campaign to pin the blame for student demonstrations on and Zionists The newspaper urier Polski said Tuesday that Andrzej mark son of the director of the cabinet in the Culture Ministry had organized a demonstration at Warsaw Medical School March 11 CRITICIZED FATHER The newspaper criticized the youth's father Stanislaw mark saying he continuously I fought with iis subordinates at the Culture Ministry Prof Juliusz Assistant Prof ian of Warsaw University ing at the Veterans Hospital m Philadelphia Adams County's commissioners Tuesday adopted the for without making any change from the proposal tentatively adopted March 6 The budget calls for ture of to cover the cost of operating the county curing the year plas to pay off money borrowed to keep the county going to meet the ex- penses the tax rate was raised by 2.3 mills for general purposes plus two mills to pay off the debt Among allocations remaining the same was the budgeted A son of the late Isaac support of the Adams Library for the coming year The county had given to the Charlone Carter he en- listed in the Army 24 1917 according to Adams ty in the World War and was sent to Meade Md training Company C Infantry Division He sailed for overseas duty June 15 1918 and served on the front line in the Vosges and St Bernard Sectors as an automatic rifleman He was wounded and returned to the United States He was discharged at Camp Meade Md April 21 1919 He had been a in ber 1917 Surviving is a sister Miss cilla X Carter 123 St library a year ago and had been asked to give this year for they had heard numerous com- plaints about money allocated for the library during their campaign for office and since were sub- He had been a member of the Albert J Lentz post of the can Legion here for many years and upon establishment of the post transferred to post Funeral arrangements made through the Bender Funeral Home Carlisle St are plete Open Employment Office Tonight High school students who be seeking summer jobs and who will enter the nent labor market this summer j anniversary this summer Rec Group Will Round Table Meet Thursday the Union Army will be the subject for discussion Thursday night at the meeting of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table in the GAR home E Middle St Donald the will give the talk on how the armies were dissolved following the Civil War Also scheduled will be a ing weather permitting of the painting of the warship Gettysburg owned by Ralph E Arnold Arnold last month on the history of the ship the only battleship to bear the name of the battle here but did not bring the painting to the meeting because of the bad weather He plans to show the painting Thursday night He will also speak briefly on how the painting came about and how it got into his possession Also scheduled for Thursday night's meeting is a report ef the nominating committee a report on progress of the ing of the various Civil War houses and a suggestion on sible Civil War Round Table sponsorship of a program in connection with the battle j ject to numerous letters and phone calls plus personal discussions with constituents since the budget showing the cut was tentatively adopted While letters urging the ty to provide more support for the library were more numerous than letters praising the decrease phone calls and personal inter- views praising the commissioners for starting to cut down were more numerous than those op- posed to cutting the library amount the commissioners said They added that a number of people calling them noted that the voters of Adams County some years ago when the matter was put to a vote cast their ballots against the county increasing millage to support the library Discussion by the ers concerning the library that all favored tion of the library and our 000 allocation in a very tight budget indicates that In re- sponse to claims that the allocation cut the state propriation to the library by 000 the commissioners held that the state appropriation Is based on local and expressed the belief that the Friends of the Library could raise the ference between what the county allocated in its budget and the amount the state requires for its addition appropriation HAS MONEY IN BANK Commissioners Harry Biesecker and Kenneth Guise In their dis- cussion preceding final adoption of Tuesday indicated that one of the things that most influenced them against ing the amount for fee library was the fact as Biesecker put It The library has in the bank according to the audit while the county is almost in debt In addition the is housed in fine new modern ters and the county offices are housed in a cramped old building tnat needs a great deal of repair repair that we can't give be- cause we can't afford It It seems to me mis budget and budgets until the county gets out of debt are going to have to be a case of Continued on Page 4 named with a number of who had been accused ly of having encouraged ist oppositionist thinking among students Six professors and assistants were purged from the university staff Monday Twelve persons have been purged by the government since tie student demonstrations be- gan March 8 Ten of them are believed to be Jews FIVE LOSE JOBS Five of those purged lost their government posts after their sons and daughters were of being leaders of the student demonstrations In another development the and Basic Concepts ot fe and and Schoolgirl Hit By Auto Leg Broken A Gettysburg R 5 girl was listed this ing In satisfactory condition at the Hanover General Hospital following her after being struck by a car on 115 in at o'clock Tuesday while on her way home State police listed the victim as Miss Debra K Strasbaugh daughter or Mr and Mrs ert J Strasbaugh She was struck by a car operated by Edward 37 2 Liberty St A hospital spokesman this morning said that Miss Strasbaugh suffered a fractured right leg head In- were reminded today that the State Employment office in the Gettysburg Shopping Center on West St will be open this Meet At ning from 6 to 9 p.m i ers will be on hand to register A meeting of the those students wishing either Recreation Association will be temporary or permanent em- j held Thursday evening at 7 j o'clock at the Fire Job prospects for the summer Company hall appear to be favorable Anyone Interested In helping to Employment Office with Little League baseball is agers and they desire to know urged to attend how many job openings All boys wishing to play need to be developed to provide the league must register by employment for all those contacting Joe ane not later ing to work than Saturday bruises and U.S Pours Heavy Power Against Reds To Seize Control Of Tiny Hamlet By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer WORKSHOP FOR HANDICAPPED IS EXPLAINED Three members of the staff of Occupational Services Inc Chambersburg met with the Adams County unit of the sylvania Association for ed Children at the Dav Care Center on E St fuesday evening to explain the sheltered workshop program as it ates at Chambersburg Lawrence the lag director outlined the of the OSI unit and the types and number of clients served He said the burg unit attempts to Muc said the Viet for all types of iwere well in capped clients wifa the SAIGON AP American hamlet and greeted the infantrymen supported by tanks artillery and planes tled the Viet Cong for con- Ing Infantrymen heaw iy retarded forming the largest single group He said the fire and a barrage workshop serves SS rocket-propelled grenades clients from Adairs and form Practice rf girl darted across of Road from the south area bi Cooper is spiritual leader of L d k i in WaS struck M center of tne by the accident occurred state trol of a tiny hamlet northwest With the battle still raging Counties said when the Saigon in the fourth straightileast eight enemy dead wr r-i Harold Brown in the Temple Beth Israel in York previously served a tion in Camden X J and ported Meanwhile U.S headquarters Men of the U.S Infantry i said In another fight in the westbound j Division called in artillery car j napalm air strikes only 50 to u Bang sector units killed 17 there on the types of being done in and Mrs Dorothy Chocha the program coordinator explained the shop showed slides contract work director c: the Council of form Synagogues of Philadelphia I which was traveling west at the yards ahead of them as they j making a helicopter her duties and the progress She was removed to ths in the Fire newspaper ie Warszawy published Tuesday a declaration by student Continued On 3 the Jewish Chautauqua ty an vides organization information which concerning Judaism in the interest of ter interfaith understanding The rabbi's lecture which is open to the public will begin at 7 p.m in DePaul auditorium STOCKS NEW YORK CLIMB AP Stock Short Ions sleeves to Lincoln Square market prices continued ing early this afternoon in trading As the rally entered its second day ad- i vances outnumbered declines by about 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange into the hamlet of Ap Tuesday four miles northeast of Long Muc about 30 miles west of Saigon near the district town of Trang Bang U.S and South the town HEAVY ENEMY FIRE As the the ground the Viet Cong forces have reported killing 3966 j were waiting for them From trenches and bunkers the my up with machine guns and rocket-propelled By radic fighting was reported con- Headquarters did not disclose U.S casualties but said Continued On Page 3 enemy in the Bang area since Sunday Allied casualties were as light WELL EXTENDED Al Chang an Press photographer who was wounded slightly by shrapnel as U.S tanks and armored nel carriers moved up on Ap records that are Kept on each trainee She said many clients by the state reau of Rehabilitation upon their entrance to the workshop Clients also are sponsored by the Veterans Administration and by the Pennsylvania of the Blind Richard Emerson director of the Action cy here reported on progress with plans for an Adams ty sheltered workshop by this summer
