Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - September 4, 1965, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING If at first you dont succeed you have plenty of company 93rd Year No 309 and The Lebanon Daily Times THE WEATHER Central Penna Fair and mild tonight Low 6066 Sun day faJr and wanner High MSS LEBANON PA SATURDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 4 1965 second miller I the i Pi Act el 24 CENTS Negotiators Agree On NEWS Facsimile TOUCH OF unidentified United States Marine a giant size Stet son brings feelings of home with him to Viet Nam He was among replacement troops landing at Da Nang South Viet Nam this week The 1200 new Marines will relieve the original members of the Third Regiment who were the first to land in Viet Nam in March US Continues Air Strikes Government Forces Kill 53 Reds During Fight South Of Saigon By MICHAEL T MALLOY SAIGON Vietnamese forces striking and riyer filled at least 53 Communists and captured 24 in a 24hour battle that ended today it was announced here A US military spokesman said American military advisers in the action 75 miles southwest of Saigon be the South Vietnamese report of Eed casualties was conservative The operation began at am Friday and was concluded today It was the major ground action of a day during which US and South Vietnamese pi lots flew 175 combat sorties Morris M Long Athlete Teacher Dies Suddenly Morris M Long 69 of 409 Euclid Ave Loch Arbour N J died unexpectedly at noon on Friday in Monmouth Hospital Long Branch N J Born in North Annville Town ship near Hill Church he was a son of the late John A and Kate Miller Long A 1914 graduate of Annville High School he gained fame as one of the five Long brothers who became wrestling cham pions at Pennsylvania State Un While at Penn State he won the eastern iate wrestling championship He graduated in 1918 Ha was a veteran of World War I maintained membership in various Masonic orders and Continued on Two against Communist troop con centrations river shipping rest and supply areas base camps and fortified positions Over North Viet Nam two US bombers watered the northern approach to a ferry crossing on Route 1 85 miles southeast of Vinh Six US Navy A4 from the carrier Coral Sea set buildings afire in a warehouse area off Route 15 about 115 miles south of Hanoi and dam aged another warehouse center about 35 miles north of the bor der US Navy and Air Force fighter bombers blasted mili tary areas bridges and cles during 13 hunter killer missions over North Viet Nam Friday In South Viet Nam US Navy Air Force Marine and Vietnamese planes destroyed or Continued on Put Twentyfour Betsy Aims Winds Toward Carolina Coast Warn Hurricane Is Threat To Coastline South Of Cape Hatteras t MIAMI Fla Hur ricane Betsy aimed at the Carolina coast today as she up 120000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean Forecasters warned that ilie organized storm with peak winds of 125 miles an hour posed a threat to the coastline south of Cape Hatteras NC Its going to get rough up there over the weekend said forecaster Raymond Kraft We still wont know till Sun day whether it will go ashore le said but we dont want a ot of people out in small boats or swimming around in the ocean even if it doesnt Heavy seas pushed by Bet sys 400milewide sweep of gales are running 6 feet or bet ter 75 miles off the Georgia coast Kraft said Pounding surf will begin bat tering beaches Sunday he said and will get rougher as Betsy approaches Late Friday night Betsy was 500 miles south of Charleston S C and heading toward it at 12 mph Two Conditions Battle Two weather conditions were battling to see which would steer Betsy Kraft said One was Lhe westerly winds that tend to push her toward the open Atlantic The other was a air trough sucking her toward the coast There was no way of forecast Continued tm Twenty Burning Cat Ignites Barn AUSTIN Minn UPI The fur of a cat caught fire Thursday when it strayed too close to a burning gar bage pile The frightened animal dashed into a barn The fire spread The final toll The barn a nearby shed 800 bales of hay and straw a wagon 15 rabbits a lamb and the cat Fighting In Kashmir Troops Of Pakistani Drive 50 Miles Into Area By UNITED PRESS INTERN ATI ON AL Pakistani troops sliced across southwestern Kash mir today and plunged 50 miles into territory in their deepest penetration of the undeclared border war a Pakistani military spokesman in Rawal pindi reported The Pakistani spokesman also claimed Indian jets Invaded Pakistan air space for the first time Vice Marshal Nur Khan com Labor Day Horse Show Opens At Riding Club Approximately 400 horses rep resenting exhibitors from ten states and Canada are at the Quentin Riding Club this week end to participate in the clubs 11st annual Labor Day week end horse show The show is being sored by the Lebanon Optimist Club A total of 102 classes will be shown during the event The show opened this morning and performances are being held this afternoon anc tonight tomorrow afternoon anc night and Monday morning aft and night Highlighting the Monday aft and evening perform ances will be the naming of champion and reserve cham aion horses and the presenta tion of challenge trophies to the champions of various classes Officials said this morning that from all indications this years show will be the largest in the history of the riding club of the Pakistani air force called the develop a new turn in the air war but claimed scrambling Pakistani planes refrained from chasing the intruders back into India Aerial dogfights were re ported over Jhelum about 10 miles inside the Pakistan bor der with Kashmir and an estimated 50 miles south of Jhelum Not Confirmed The reported Pakistani ad vance was not confirmed by India which said only that a new Pakistani offensive spear headed by tanks and American made and jets had started If true the advance would place Pakistani troops astride the main roads Kashmir to India it self cutting off Indian ground forces in the area The governmentowned Indian radio said the Pakistani attack came in the Chamb sector at the southern end of the 1949 M Amusements if Area 20 Church 6 Classified 21 22 23 Comics 8 Editorial 4 Financial 2 Obituaries 2 Radio TV Guide 1112 Sports 13 14 Womens Pages 1718 Wage Policy Committee Of USW Is Expected To Ratify Agreement Sunday NEWS Facsimile BETSYS EYE Hurricane Betsy the Atlantic storm that brought Gemini 5 astronauts Conrad and Cooper home one orbit early had her picture taken 90 miles north of Grand Turk Island by high flying United States Air Force reconaissance air craft Thursday The photo released by the USAF Air Weather Service at Scott Air Force Base 111 Friday shows the eye of the hurricane and classic circular structure more than eleven miles above the earth Terms Nor Revealed PITTSBURGH AP Stoe negotiators return rom Washington today a new Contract ready for ratification md the throat of an industry apparently ended President Johnson announced heir agreement nl the White louse Friday night saying The settlement is a fair one II s designed to prevent the infla ion which would damage our Officials didnt reveal the erms pending ratification but said the package was between cents ind 4S cents an hour over three depending on whether inion or management figures vere used The United of America AFL ClO had sought a package il estimated at 4S9 cents The 101 company team the package at 55 cents Sources snid Ilie settlement would increase pensions about a month per year of service a increase over the com offer of Under tho old the maximum pen sion was about 7fiO a month per yoar of service It couldnt bo learned how much of increase in hourly wants the would receive The average wage now is at an hour Government sources would say only that the is within the White House guide lines of a 32 per cent annual increase Johnson said Ilie negotiators in reaching agreement put the national interest including lhe holiday Traffic Heavy At Start Of 3Day Holiday Viet Nam war above their own interests To Mod At Pittsburgh The unions 170mnn wage policy com mil tee meets in at 9 nm Sunday to consider the White House spurred agreement A union source snid no culty was expected Ratification by the 10 major steel firms which produce SO per cent of ho nations steel was expected to routine The President called the steel men from Pittsburgh to Wash ington on Monday to them nnd that evening an they hnd extended the shutdown deadline eight days from the original Tuesday mid night deadline Then the President kept the on Twenty Lebanon oin Observance Of Labor Day Weekend Mayors City Followed Course Of Orderly Progress Under Peter Weimer Editors Note Butcher baker candlestick maker as the old nursery rhyme goes mayors have represented just about every profession This and other articles in this weekly series will detail the history of the mayors of Lebanon and some of the citys history con with them Complete Auto Body Service By JAMES D SHELHAMER Daily News Staff Writer Throughout its almost 80year history as a city Lebanon has been blessed with an abundance of out standing mayors Some of these mayors left an indelible stamp of their ability arid at times genius on the citys government Peter Weimer who served as the citys second chief executive from 1888 to 1890 was such a mayor A genius in the field of machinery Weimer brought to the citys government the vision of future needs that won for him some 50 patents involving blast furnaces and blowing engines It is no exaggeration to say that a great deal of the orderly growth of Lebanon as a city was due to the course charted and advocated by the founder of the Weimer Machine Works here The firm was started in 1857 and for many years its lo cation was the site of the pres ent Lebanon High School Served As Burgess A machinist and a native of Reading Weimer also served as chief burgess in 1870 This was while Lebanon was still a borough Weimers pride in and tion for Lebanon was amply demonstrated many times dur ing his term as mayor But the greatest measure of devotion and personal sacrifice attended his last act as mayor his resignation on April 4 1890 Weimer tendered his nation because a legal ruling said his fouryear term had been cut in half by an act of Continued on PIM Ten By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mass highway travel marked he outset of the Labor Day weekend holiday under tho shadow of an estimate by safety exports that 500 to 100 persons could be killed in traffic acci dents during the peri od Traffic accidents claimed 54 lives up to noon today Two others died in boating and traf fie Occidents The deaths occurred in acct dents inevitable in operation o most of the nations million motor The Safety Council which made thr death oil estimate said tola highway travel mileage proba bly will tola 89 billion during the 78 hours between fi pm lo cal time Friday and midnight Monday Last years Labor Day week end cost 531 highway deaths Jn addition there were 18 deaths in accidents and 51 drown tigs unrelated lo boating HOS accident deaths peculiar to holi day activity The 19R3 holiday brought a traffic toll to 557 for a jabor Day period This con with low mark of 216 for a post World War II Labor Day in 194i The Labor Day weekend death tolls of recent years ran Continued on Put Twenty No Paper Monday Because the Labor Day holiday falls on Monday Sept there will he no edition of the Daily News on that day The next edition of this newspaper will be published Tuesday Sept 7 Jf will contain its complete coverage of world national slate and local events US Curbs Monetary Gold Loss During August NHW YORK AP For the in a year Ilie United States its monetary gold oss during August The stop page of the gold outflow is time y At the end of this month the United Slates goes into a al session of the Fund The fund dis cussions are expected to be toward revamping of he system to settle nl accounts Lebanon today aro joining the nation in observing the last holiday weekend of tho summer Nearly nil business offices government agencies and Indus tries will bo shut down for Ln or Day on Monday to permit vorkers to enjoy a 3day vaca tion All row offices In the city and county government In the Mu Building will remain closed over the weekend with the exception of the Police De and the Civil Control room Federal offices many of which closed at the end of he work day Friday will also re main closed until Tuesday Tho city post office will observe a schedule Whilo most functions of the postal service will he closed mail will bo dis to post office boxes and special delivery mail will bo Bunks Closed All banking houses In the will ba closed until morning Officials of lie Center of Lebanon ion report that all its member lores will observe the weekend s a holiday Many will be among the 87 million motor ists who nrc expected to take en Put Twenty Term Begins City Co Public Schools Open Tuesday Wednesday Expect Record Enrollments Catholic Schools Enrollment Of 2774 Students 2725611 Keystone Gun Club PICNIC Sun Sept 5 Members Only AUTO GLASS S a 25II Diol 23450 Office Will Be Closed Sept 6 and Sept 7 Dr J G Kiihn Chiropractor Annville The Roman Catholic parochial schools of Lebanon and Hershey will enroll an estimated 2774 students on Tuesday and Wed according to the Rev Lawrence Overbaugh supervis ing principal of the Lebanon deanery schools Freshmen will report to Leba non Catholic High School on Tuesday at am for a half day session All students at am day for the first full day of classes Anticipated enrollment j respective The public schools of the and county are antici pating a record enrollment of 20103 students Tuesday and Wednesday they their doors for the 1965fifi term This years enrollment esti mate represents an increase of 290 over the number that at tended the countys schools in 196465 The city students will get the jump on the students of the county schools again this year by reporting for their first day of classes on Tuesday The five county school districts will be gin classes on Wednesday The new teachers of the Leb anon School District will he treat at was set at 631 stupart in dents The citys ed to R breakfast at the Tread way Jnn at 7 am on Tuesday At am all teachers of the district will report to their take pupils of the district will report at am to the same build ing and same room they occupied at the close of the last school term and will then be given their new room and building as Junior high school students will report at am to the buildings to which they were assigned at the close of the school In June Sophomores will report to the LHS auditorium at am Juniors and seniors will begin addition to tho science teaching staff at Harding Junior High School Sophomores entering LHS this In the general educa tion course will have tn earn 15 units rather than 14 units tn for graduation These students will be required lo take five credits in social studies rather than three nnd will have to take an addi tional credit In either science or math Other curriculum changes in their school day at of Spanish in I 111 I by reporting to the fifth grade as an elective classes shown on their Monday schedules 21 New Teachers Hemperly said 24 new teach The preliminary plans for the districts proposed million senior high school have been ap proved and ers and a new school nurse will being made buildings to three parochial grade schools will begin classes on Tuesday following the cele bration of Masses The opening faculty meetings 5277 Expected Norman A Hemperly super intendent of the Lebanon schools j retirements and 13 resignations preparations are r to determine the be employed by the district this j specifications to solicit the con year and that the high school bids Arrangements still needs both a metal been made to have test and a print shop instructor borings taken at the site located The new teachers were South Eighth and Orange to fill vacancies created by 10Streets and condemnation pro day will revealed that 5277 students are expected to enroll for classes Mass at St Marys Schoolon Tuesday Enrollment last be celebrated at am by the Rev Cletus H Wagman Mass will be celebrated at St Gertrudes School at am by the Rev Michael Homola and the opening mass at SS M PIM term totaled 5317 are currently under r w i i Ull Four new teaching posts were way to secure the land for created this term and have site tha been filled The high school wel comes one more social studies Students will report to the and another math teacher to Lebanon schools on the faculty Another was hired Har schools expect an enrollment of approximately ing schedule as a Spanish teacher for First graders will report atrison and Henry Houck am to their Schools and the I schools All other elementary post that was filled wai an 2359 students 1390 at the ele mentary level and 969 at the tn Ttn
