Daily Mail, The (Newspaper) - February 20, 1960, Hagerstown, Maryland Weather Mr ceM Sunday feme Kww likely In chanting U rain wi VOL anon No 43 HAGERSTOWN MX 20 SINGLE COPIES s CENTS FROM I REPORTERS j NOTE BOOKS j He lent been Hut handicapped per cm by their own efforts compete in the marketplace industry Gradually these handicap ped persons have themselves to the point where they can not only do the work but supervise it at well The most recent of these Is John who has boon working for Goodwill since Despite a heart condi tion he has been able to as sume the responsibility for the hard goods production at 223 North Prospect Street head quarters But other handicapped per sons have also been in super positions for a long time Some of these are Mrs Lillian Levi supervisor of textiles who has a twisted arm Miss Amelia Curl man ager of the Martinsburg W Va store whose growth has been retarded Mrs Dorothy Beyer manager of the Han cock store who suffers from a bad ankle and Miss Margaret Montgomery manager of the Waynesboro Pa store who suffers from a bad leg In discussing the recent case of a magazine salesman who falsely represented himself to local residents as having the en of Mayor Burhans Police Chief Blair Overtoil re lated mother episode which il lustrates how unscrupulous some people can be This case involved t crew of itinerant magazine salesmen who operated in Hagerstown for a few days Among the solici tors was a youth from Scranton whose sales had not been up to what the crew manager thought they should be When the group completed its work in Hagerstown the crew leader moved on to the next community on his itinerary with all the members of his force except the ltd who was deficient in sales He was left stranded in town with no car and without funds to buy a bus ticket back home or even to buy a meal The po lice chief reported that he had to provide meals and lodging for the youth and make arrange ments with a relative in Penn sylvania to come here and re turn him to his home Twentytwo different spe cies of birds were spotted by the Frederick Bird Club on a recent hike down the canal towpath from to Brunswick Most of us who do not get far away from the home hearth are lucky to see half dozen different kinds of birds in our yards Among the species seen by the bird club were several kinds of ducks on the river a hermit thrush kingfishers white throated sparrows Hermit thrushes migrate south in the winter from their grounds north as far as Labrador and Manitoba and are not uncommon here In the dead of winter The re tiring bird Is known from ether thrushes by its red tail spotted breast and manner of alert while standing on a branch Now that the County Commis are proceeding in get ting rid of the inventory tax as it applies to industry it would seem that those interested in bringing new industries to the county would see to it that we do not have other disadvantages that frighten away new indus tries It has been authoritative ly stated that we lost one sub stantial industry to nearby Berkeley County W Va due to the inventory tax and that an other big one still undecided about a site to locale in this area was also frightened away by the inventory tax We have two adjacent states bidding for new industries What advantages do these two and West over this coun ty About the easiest and quick est means of finding out be to consult our local Public Accountant firms who can tell us what advantages Wesl Virginia and Pennsylvania offer to new industry which we don have Then let us correct our disadvantages These local have industrial clients in these two states as well as in this county Despite the considerable amount of conservation work on farms throughout Washing ton County over the years there Is still much to be done in this respect associ ated with the local Soil Con servation tell u It is estimated fewer than onequarter of the farm ers In the county are doing all that can be done to conserve and water and to gener on H Col 2 Stay Stirring Up Controversy Chessman Com ments In Pen Statement SAN FRANCISCO Feb 20 AP Governor Ed mund G Browns re for Caryl Chessman Among sales recorded by deed Ernest B Moore and wife to popular with opponents the following iJames J Harbell and wife lot capital punishment stirred Charles U Continued On Page 19 Col 1 mounting storm of cism today In Sacramento legislators pro ested that the governor proposed o dump the problem in their lap y calling a special session in with the bud et reconsider abolish A man whose hunting dogser and Lawrence W Keyton ng the death penalt in the snot by a landowner youth who actually shot In Washington DC invaded his premises dogs last Decem Jasted the State Department damages today byher 16 Heck resides in the notifying the governor of adverse Magistrate William J section of Washington reaction to be expected in ruled that the land near the John Brown America by President Eisenhower had no business causing Heck said he would ap State Police Rescue Chessman Reprieve Applauded And Denounced Real Estate Market Lively Volume Substantial Again The real estate market got back into stride this week Vol ume was up and the aggregate value of all sales topped the mark which figure does not include the Franklin P Turner and contracted to pay for 2066 13 acres adjoining the dow Shopping Center More than a dozen homes several new changed owners One of the larger sales was a motel property on the east side of Pennsylvania Avenue which wife east side of Resh Road in Dis ower to Paul Weiss and wife property on north side of Jeffer son Street Sumner G Whittier VA ad ministrator to Roland H Grapes and wife property on Joseph F Urgo and wife to Carl O Brandt and wife 103 acres with dwelling on east side of Miller Church Road in Dis 9 Edith C Mish widow to Rob ert B Troxell and wife dwell changed owners at a price on Greenfield Road in Fair I green Acres Man Must Pay For Shooting Dogs That Invaded Premises f the Chessman execution to be shot ake place Brown wnen he announced he The suit for was calling off execu ion scheduled for 10 am Friday o let the California Legislature the issue of capital ment said he also had given ser consideration to the message rom Asst Secretary of State Roy R Rubottom Jr It said hostile demonstrations could be expected n Uruguay and Brazil if the 38 should be executed in San f entin Governmental leaders in Uru guay applauded the reprieve was brought by Roy Henderson of Burkettsville against Francis M Heck Jr the property own peal to Circuit Court damages Attorney Paul Ottinger who le the issue of capital punish M f f I said he also had given ttf i Ends In Suit For A suit the outgrowth represented the plaintiff ar gued that Keyton had no right to shoot the dogs because Hen derson had a kennel license and the dogs were accompanied by Maynard Henderson who was running the dogs He also stated that many peo ple have the erroneous impres sion that they may shoot dogs that invade tehir property under any circumstances but such is not the case He said the Mary land taw the maUer e outgrowth of a 10 hk Western Europe generally crash was docketed in the action he motive but by Morris J 899 West Washington Street for own use and the use of the was changed in 1953 which nar rowed the conditions under Mr Heck contended that the eles in 1948 of robbery and kid aping involving forcing two wo men into unnatural sex acts has death in a dramatic year legal fight with which many of capital punishment Allied American Mutual dogs in question along with Insurance Company as father and next friend of Robert M Gaver a minor The suit was filed through at lorney Richard H James Stock Mart In Reverse To Upside Zooms Again In Keeping With Business By WILLIAM FERRIS Business Newt Writer NEW YORK API The stock market found out about business Upwards Of 50 Cars Stranded For Hours On U S Rt 40 Near Frostburg Drifting Keeps County Road Workers Busy More Snow this week This mornings Weather Bu reau forecast didnt give weary state and county road workers anything to cheer about More snow is due here late tomorrow say the forecasters While the State Roads Com mission headquarters here re ported this morning that main Business continued to in Washington County great strength as it has done each week this year and the stock mar kets action indicated it was ready to acknowledge this fact of commercial life The markets form reversal pro vided the outstanding develop ment in business and finance dur ing the week Otherwise events were pretty been before much as they had Steel production picked up a bit and ran around 947 per cent of capacity department store sales rose 4 per cent above a year ago auto production increased over the previous week and topped a year ago by an estimated 320 per cent and freight carloadings were 23 per cent over a year earlier After declining steadily since early in the year the stock mar ket rebounded sharply Wednesday afternoon from a steep decline that morning The rebound con Thursday and Friday Thus far this year stockholders have obtained much greater peace of mind by counting their divi dends than by following market prices Stock sales amounted to 17290 350 shares compared with 13483 960 the previous week On the bond market sales amounted to par value compared with tl revious week While the market had its sharp are 95 per cent bare four crews of county road workers battled to keep open highways in the northern part of the county this morning Roads in the Fort Ritchie Highfield and Cascade sections drift shut in spots almost as quickly as we get them open said a spokesman for the county roads department We also have a crew standing by and they will be rushed to any sec tion which is having any snow drifting that might close other several other dogs were January spill on record corp a rabbit which he kept in a orations paid out 960 million dol pen and that he had been ad vised to shoot the dogs because they had invaded his premises lars in dividends And that said the Commerce Continued on Page 2 Col 3 names Dennis when the dogs Rt 1 Rut tore Open his pen that themselves He sent Friday relaxing Rt 1 with his lawyers Lovell and Charles Wilson Asked how he fell aboT the Jr Cordova Md andi The was being decision Chessman rel Faith and Robert the dogs da Im feeling I had expected to be dead In a penciled statement Chess man said 1 have no doubt it was the most difficult decision he has ever made I must add I also believe t was a courageous one for it the fate of one em condemned man It puts Counter Suit In Faith Clear Spring Rt 1 as question was in a pen on the the Gaver charges that while en route west on US Rt 40 a mile or shed The dogs when they were shot by Keyton were try wesi un uo in tv a west of on March 30 to in the barn or shed Keyton said the dogs thought the rabbit was in the barn be cause it had been there before Magistrate Dwyer said that since the owner had a kennel license and since the dogs while 1959 his car was in a collision with that of StClairs and then by Lovells and finally by Faiths car hitting Lovells machine which again hit the Gaver car he question of capital punishment Gaver alleges StClair failed before the people for de bate and resolution If I have some small part in bring on Case 2 Col 3 to keep to the right and he charges the other drivers with failing to have their cars under proper control A counter suit an assault that took place last June 30 was docketed in court here yesterday Dorothy V and Justin L John son Dargan are the plaintiffs and they asked for injuries sus by Mrs Johnson running were accompanied The defendants are Beatrice L a who arrived at the scene of the shooting almost within a minute Keyton had no Continued on Page 2 Col 1 Byron Last through attorney Martin V B etter filed suit against Mrs Johnson for for injuries she suffered in the same assault slate where the assault took place Asks For Injuries In Car Crash attorneys Irvin Einbinder 0 a bowling alley near But Martin V suit for Kershner Hagerstown Rt She Did It Again Mrs Arthur R Sweeney of Blackstone Mass has done it again on Feb nth just as she has like clockwork on this date for the past 4 years Mrs Sweeney the wife of factory worker birth in Prov Lying Hos pital to hor fourth child this one her first son an pounder Her maternal score Feb 17 1959 Lucille Feb 17 1958 Leann and Feb 17 1857 Doris and James Ingram Fairplay Ri 1 and the suit was filed through the firm of Lane Bushong and roads At ibis hour county maintained roads in other parts of the county we all open Ralph Thayer resident en gineer of the State Roads Com mission here reported that he had sent eight operators and helpers from this county to Oak land Garrett County where the situation due to the heavy snow and drifting is quite serious With Route 40 closed beyond Frostburg and the main high way into Oakland also closed by drifts the contingent of helpers from this county is taking a route by way of McCool Luke Westernport Bloomington to reach Oakland Charles D Lyon dent of Potomac Edison said this morning so far as we know electric service has been Continued on Page 2 Col 1 3000 Stranded Motorists Jam Little Bedford Penna SOMERSET Pa AP What would you do if you were stranded in a mountain by a vicious snow storm Youd do as thousands have done in Western moun tains You would seek shelter and just then you would sweat it out wait ing for highway crews to clear the roads The storm hit Thursday night Strong winds whin the snow into drifts By early yesterday morning so many buses trucks and cars were stalled on the Penn sylvania Turnpike that nothing could even the snow removal equipment Police closed a stretch of the toll road from Irwin Pa to Carlisle Pa Drivers who tried to get out of the area on other roads found their paths blocked by snow Mo quickly filled the motels along the toll road Others not as lucky jammed into the turnpike restaurants They were stranded there Some are asleep at the counters said Doris Gunger 28 a waitress at the Somerset Turn ike Restaurant Others are hud died on the floor And some are standing around talking Theyre all pretty patient An estimated 3000 persons jam med into the small community o Bedford and a stat emergency was declared Hundreds were giv en beds and food at churches ers slept on the floor at a turn pike restaurant And the restau rants along the pike were running low on food A family headed from California to Virginia ran out of money They were taken in as guests by a hote in Confluence Sixtyfive person filled 40 rooms at a Somerset ho tel Many were truck drivers whc doubled up The state moved equipment int the stricken area from other parts of the state Storm That Battered County Sweeping Off New England ALBANY NY AP taken to a hospital for treat week Mrs Ingram driven snow choked off a vast section of western New York to iday as winter storms battered the Northeast for the second time this week Sixteen deaths were reported in five states Sections of Pennsylvania and Neither of the bills of particulars northern New England also bore the brunt of the storm that began Lewis F Blair thi city through Thursday Although the snowfall let up winds that reached 50 miles an hour churned the snow into drifts up to 10 feet night The blow felled power and tele phone lines and crippled small vessels off the New England coast Heavy wet snow collapsed the Bostetter today trapping Mrs Robert 000 against 18 under a fallen beai Ham beam She ment of leg injuries In Auburn about 25 new auto mobiles were when the roof of a big autr agency gave way under the weight of snow Snowplow crews were unable ti cope with the drifts along section of the New York Thruway am the Pennsylvania Turnpike The Thruway closed a Syracuse west t Williamsville A stretch of the Pennsylvania rom near Pittsburgh east to Car became impassable Thousands of travelers of the superhighways took refuge in res Their cars stranded on and of the roadbeds hampered the plows Nearly all highways in a six county western New York area Continued On Page 2 Col 3 Almanack Does Quite Well In forecasting Both Of Storms The suit grows out of an auto accident on January 4 1959 on which the plaintiff alleges he sul ered a punctured lung among other injuries The plaintiff charges he had been invited by the defendant to ide to Mt Lena and t t due to icr negligence while en route of tough weather we can car crashed into a tree The Hagerstown Almanack and the Weather Bureau are about in agreement on the var Readers Index I expect for the remainder of February and the first half of Page 4 Bridge Leston 2 Crossword Daily Prayer 1 Church Pages Editorial 14 Ann Landers 11 on Dogs Building 1119 Radio U Society 1011 Sports Weekend 4 March And the Almanack is doing much better this week with its forecasts made a year ago than the Weather Bureau has been doing in its day to day weather predictions For in Uic Almanack called the exact turn on the first big we had last weekend And again it hit last nights and rain right on the along with the high winds weve been having So with such an excellent re cord for its forecasts the Al manack will undoubtedly be watched for it calls for much in this once snow Dad weather for the next 30 days So does the Weather Bu reau in its forecast cal for heavy precipitation be low normal temperatures This is what the Almanack says about the weather unti midMarch Feb 21 22 23 fair 24 and 25 unsettled 26 27 28 and 29 cold rain or snow The first days of March the Alman ack says will be fair and mild then on the 3rd and 4th it will be unsettled 5 6 7 and 8 rain stormy 9 and 10 ed 11 and 12 fair and frosty Heavy Snow Drifts To Blame Bitter Cold BY ASSOCIATED PRESS A rescue team today reached 40 to 50 care stranded for almost 12 hours in heavy snow drifts and weather on JS Route 40 near Frost burg in Western Maryland A State Police rescue team and State Roads Commission crews using a huge rotary plow reached the motorists after all of the cars had run out of gasoline The passengers were taken to a motel near Frostburg All ap to be in good condition despite the intense cold and high winds The Salvation Army brought blankets and food to the motel The State Police rescue team was led by Lt WE OHara com mander of the LaVale barracks Capt Carl DUlinger of Troop B and Sgt Robert Basore of the rederick barracks The cars became stuck about five miles west of Frostburg near the County line at 9 oclock last night Two troopers managed to reach the cars despite heavy drifts and spent the night with the motorists until the rescue team arrived State Police estimated 80 per sons including at least one baby were marooned in about 40 cars Lt Richard Sarver 25 of Mor W Va s soldier sta Joned at Ft Meade was driving nome with his wife and old baby Richard Jr when they became stalled Sarver said the cars became snowbound when they tried to pass a stalled snow plow on a hill His car was second in line The soldier said there was no food problem because of a few restaurants along the highway He Continued on Page 2 Col 1 Holland Buys Land As Site For New Plant The Holland Woven Label Mill yesterday purchased land to the south of Williamsport for con struction of a new plant The label mill which burned down last October should be re built and in operation at a new location by spring company of predicted this morning They issued the following statement Holland Woven Label Inc has just taken title to new prop erty in Williamsport and has signed a contract with C Wil iam Hetzer Inc for the erec ion of a new modern The company is expecting plant to stall new equipment and hopes to be in operation again in the The company is very of all of the help extend ed by the town of Williamsport joth in respect to temporary lousing after its plant was eom destroyed by fire last October and in respect to the lelp which is being given in getting started again The building is being finan ed partially by mortgage loans rom the Washington County National Bank and Nicodemus National Bank and by the gen contractor Holland is es hopeful that the bal ince can be financed through from the public corpora ion which is scheduled to be at this time If addition al funds are forthcoming it will the company to invest in more machinery and thus give more employment than it would be able to otherwise and 14 15 and 16 cold snow and stormy The Weather Bureaus map showing the estimate turc and precipitation for the period will be found elsewhere P 0 To Observe Holiday Monday Monday Washingtons Birth day will be a holiday at the Post Office There will be no carrier service of any kind and no window service but lock boxes will be to rent ers The Northern Avenue iti tlon will be doted the
