Morning Herald (Newspaper) - July 21, 1961, Hagerstown, Maryland MORNING HERALD Partly Cloudy WMM MJ humid Friday ind In Mi wirm humid with noon VOL ffO 191 tl tt thi Sunday HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND FRIDAY JULY 21 1961 Morning Him SINGLE 30 f M Midnight Blockade Riddled Brandt Sees No Reason For Panic Mayor Discounts War Possibility Over Berlin Issue By LOYAL GOULD BERLIN AP Despite the increased flow of ref into West Berlin and Communist blasts at a big Protestant rally here May or Willy Brandt declared Thursday he saw no reason County To Give Dr Walter H speak ng for the lounlain Civil War Centennial ssn Inc last night told a oint meeting of the Mayor and Council and the Board of County Commissioners that the groups for panic He said he did not believe there would be war because ol Berlin But he cautioned it would be silly not to consider the possi ble consequences of the situation It would be frivolous not to keep clearly in mind the things that are also preoccupying re sponsible have nev er said the crisis we are dealing with is devoid of any risk he told a news conference that in 18 days of this month 15624 East about double the av rale had registered in West Berlin Thousands more flew out of the city without reg Questioned on what to do about the refugees who have made Berlin a thorn in the side ol the Communists Brandt said we cannot sit here in safely and say Dont come As the Socialist candidate for Chancellor of West Germany Brandt said he would not nego with Red leader Walther Ul bricht if elected He condemned the East GeK man regime for incompetence wd shabbiness and said thi was exemplified by its action against the church rally in Ber lin Communists assailed whal they called the NATO church meeting for bringing pilgrims here from East Germany The Berliner Zeitung said the rallys main purpose is lo cover up the faci that West Berlin is so to speak B permanent U2 base for nage and sabotage against the So Augl if next year He as countries boc of the Sovie Commemoration ing of approximately 60 markers and signs in and around Wash ington County which would di rect tourists to sites of histor ical significance This project would require about of the 510000 request have reached Mayor Burhans said there is We musl know who is no doubt city intends to vith us and who is not with us stage sonic kind of ly Dr of its birthday He Washington the Council should appoint Society asked committee to screen ideas and f each on the best way to carry d county in order out However Council c an series lo meet with a repre nd displays here from the John B alien of the 100th Co to see what that or f the South could offer the city ivil War campaign the way of a commemoration on Dr decision was reached at cily tic in its nights meeting which was plans for by three county com and three city as well as the may held here and in and members of the South Centennial gust 31 and Sept at last meeting d the the commemoration or one of the most were H L Mills not the most E Staurt fhe nation and J Ralph Fiery Lee letters and Myron Bloom the country Cordell s for the Spigler and Jacob Vorous dy the city while Com ly further Lem Kirk Charles Jnty and city go and George Tingle of an for the county the Shealy unfolded only a and the costs of idea of the pageant for about a for 1962 However all the executive agreed they sounded im the executive Dr Shealy envisioned work with a gigantic parade 13 presenta f the John B of the be held i will produce the Fairgrounds pageants xt by the city on alternate use for the to the Civil War produc would be skirmishes and bat e would be on 2 Cof f FLOOD AFTERMATH small stream at Charlestons outskirts that became a raging these scattered automobiles in wake torrent Wednesday night left AP Wirephoto Senate Unit OKs Foreign Aid Program WASHINGTON Sen ale Foreign Relations Committee late Thursday approved a 500000 foreign aid program along with the full authority Pres ident Kennedy asked for a five Charleston W Fa Begins Cleanup Following Worst Flash Flood In History Space Funds Given Okay WASHINGTON Thursday authorized every cen President Kennedy asked foi Americas space programs Th total includes money for a slar on the project By a 354 59 vote he house passed the authorizing 300000 for the National tics and Space Administration this year The Senate then passet the by voice vote There was no debate in the Sen ate but some in the House The worked out by a Sen conference committee Wednesday had 4074 million more than it did when the House passed it earlier This provoked some argument from represent who asked for elimination of the money for the moon project Rep Perkins Bass RN H said space money should be con on weather military and communications satellites not trips lo the moon The an authorization meas ure sets the limit that NASA can spend The actual appropriations giving the agency money will be passed by Congress later It could be cut below the tola Two Jailed For Grocery Shoplifting A W St man and the woman with whom tie lives were arrested last night by City Police and charged with larceny by shop lifting According to City Police re ports Daniel A Donnely 31 and Helen V Hayburn 41 both of 6214 W Antietam were ob served stealing foodstuffs in the Grand Union Supermarket al the intersection of W Baltimore and Hood Sts Patrolmen Jack Bennelt and Walter Carter said the head cashier at the store Nora L Arnsparger watched Donnely put a package of frankfurters under his belt as he and the wo man selected other items from ie shelves putting them in a Javis Murder rial Slated ere Aug 3 John J Davis H will stand lal here August 3 for the knife aying of his mother Mrs anetta M Davis last Fob ary Davis 18 was committed to mental hospital for treatment st May by Judge D K Me aughlin after stale psychiatr s said the youth was men lly ill Judge McLaughlin signed the der committing Davis to pring Grove Slate Hospital ay 22 receiving a letter om the superintendent of thai Dr Jacob Morgen Hot Weather Fails To End Temperatures remained on the tame high level lhat they have occupied all week but the daily rains were interrupted for at leas 24 hours D Paul Oswald reported a higt of 87 al the Bridgeport weathe station low was 68 At 9 p m the mercury stood a 77 three degrees higher lhan hours earlier Officially 01 of an inch of rain 5s on yesterdays weather recon as a result of the shower late Wed On Inside Pages 4 Dally 13 Abby V Draw 10 10 Pin Md 4 IMMT carl According to Mrs r when Donnely and the wo an approached the unter she asked him to pay r what he had hidden under s belt In the meantime an her employee called police After the frankfurters were Mrs Arnsparge sked to look in Miss Hay urns purse There she fount package of bologna a jar o stant coffee and a package cheese she told the officers The two were taken to Cit Headquarters and book d The merchandise ey allegedly stole was value Police said Miss Hay irn had in her pure hen she was arrested Botl ere jailed at City Police heac American Sentenced For Assault On Boy ARLINGTON Va members of George Lincoln Rock yells American Nazi Party wer Thursday lo 12 month t hard labor for assault on Jewish boy In separate cases another mem er of the party was sentenced t SO days in jail and fined fo and ballery while tw thers were acquitted of meanor charges Inthe case involving the Jewis joy Juvenile Court Judge Hug Cregger directed that Robert Ga aer ft and Richard Braun erve their sentences oh State co vict road force He Imposed tl maximum sentence on the meanor charge after ruling th he evidence was not sufficient support a felonious assault chars The boy ber testified that on July 8 h was chased by one of the Naz carrying a lead pipe threatened and forced into the partys head quarters when hs Mid he wa Dr said it was ie opinion of his staff after aving made exhaustive men 1 examinations that the youth as insane at the time of the rime and also unable to un erstand the nature and extent f the charges against him or cooperate with his defense After the slaying Feb 22 to hich the youth pleaded in by reason of Insanity t the lime of the crime Davis as sent to Clifton T Perkins where both doctors for ie State of Maryland and de cnse doctors studied his case nd made conclusions However ina letter recently here by Slates ey James F Slrine Dr Mor says that Daivs is now ble to participate in his de ense and to stand trial in court this is no indication lat Davis has recovered The trial comes more than ive months after Davis was ound in his Oak Hill Ave ome near the body of nother by members of Com munity Rescue Service who an wered a call for help Davis later told officials he mt through the call fter he had stabbed the 36 woman He also saic e flew into a fit of rage be BUSC she nagged him about the way he was doing his chool work He was a al Hagerstown High School Judge McLaughlins origina order confining him to an in was a stay of pro until Davis could be brought to trial The committ did not absolve him of th crime or his obligation to stand trial ote on Uie measure until Friday trimming only million rom Kennedys total requests for 14762500000 in spending and ending authority for this fiscal which started July 1 The Senate group accepted the feature of the program vir without change This was his request for authority to bor row billion from the Treasury over the next five years for easy eim economic development loans abroad Then in a long afternoon ses sion the committee voted dy authority for billion in imds for military arms aid fo the defense pact allies only million less than he asked fo that purpose It cut million from Kenne dys request for million a a contingency fund for use at hi discretion to meet unforeseen crises which may threaten tc erupt in brush fires Voting amid mounting Easl West tension over Berlin th committee approved the economic development loan fund plan by a vote of 107 A rough fight still lies ahead of the Senate in the House The House Foreign Affairs Com is now considering the legislation Sen J William Fulbright D Ark chairman of the Senate committee and an advocate of the Presidents program conceded to reporters that the battle is far from won 17 Dead CHARLESTON W Va odden Charleston truggled to get off its knees from a torrential down pour that washed parts of the own away The flash flood took at least 17 ives Eight of the victims were children It probably will be days before all the small narrow valleys in he area are searched and the houses checked for more or dead After a trip through the strick en areas Director C Smith of the Slate Department of Commerce estimated the prop erty loss would exceed million Gas electric and telephone companies called in scores of ex ira workers from other southern West Virginia cities to help re store service to the thousands who were cut off in the Charles ton area Civil Defense personnel from Washington were on hand survey ing the heavy damage from las nights soaking More than five inches of rain fell in less than four hours Entire sections of outlying dis were in turmoil House were chewed into kindling wood Others were lifted off foundations nd shoved 50 feet away Some anded on he tops of neighbors Cars bounced along like A small boy crippled by polio vas left an orphan David Byers 10 lived with his mother Priscilla Byers 18 and his brother Richard 9 in Garrison Avenue When the mass of water rushe down Garrison a neighbor nto the Byers home grabbec told Mrs Byers to bring Richard and carried David ti safely The Mrs Byers am Ricky were recovered terrain of the area lends itself lo this switi brutal treatment The city about 83000 popula ion lies in a narrow valle where the Elk River meets th Kanawha On all sides are sharp ly sloping hills that form troughs It was down these troughs tha the water came It came wit such suddenness the sma streams were unable to carry of the accumulation The water eral feet high plunged dow sweeping hous es trucks its path Negotiations Progressing On Site For New Addition To This Citys Post Of f ice JFK Pushes defense Plan WASHINGTON Thursday moved ahead i two fronts with his plan to ep up defenses against the So let threat hanging over Berlin Kennedy had aides shaping up detailed program which the resident will present to the American people in a nationwide speech Tuesday ight and to Congress the follow ng day In a related be ause he regards civil defense as art of the nations preparedness transferred major civ defense undertakings from the Office of Civil and Defense Mobil to the Pentagon with a lew to increasing the US abil ly to withstand attack He called or a stepped up foi bomb and fallout shel irs On the diplomatic front Kenne ly arranged for prompt relay te major Western allies of the dc ails on what he termed his fi lal judgement reached at a Na Security Council meeting on combatting the Berlin threat Peace Corps To Train At Penn State WASHINGTON AP Sargen Shriver director of the Corps announced Thursday tha a training project ol the program Action Soon Possible Pictures on Past 28 Negotiations were in progress yesterday on federal pur chase of the Maryland Motor Com any building which forms the portion of the site for the addition to Hagerstown Post Office F C Groshen representative of he General Services Administra ion was in Hagerstown along with Post Office represent of the deal is not oo far away a local source yesterday Because of the great increase n postal business the government as decided to construct another milding almost wilh the one existing on West Frank in Street It will be immediately adjacent to the present post office building to the west Postmaster Thomas Simpson said yesterday that every effort will be made to be in business in the new structure by Christ mas of 1962 Lack of space in the existing structure becomes parti acute during the final weeks of year when par cels and other mail arrive in such enormous volume It is known that federa authorities are budgeting for the new It will front 117 feet on We Franklin Street on land no occupied by the Maryland Moto Company building and ti Garmong and Long structures It was indicated hat it will probably be at la three months the purchas of the properties has been con summated before any actual construction can start Plans for the new building will be drawn up by archi eels and after the contract has jeen let it will probably be close lo the end of the year when construction can start It will represent the first major post office improvement program for this city in three decades The building now in use was constructed in the early Before then Ha post office operated in the building at 101 Summit Avenue now occupied by the Washington County Welfare Board the Extension Service and a number of smaller agri cultural agencies Calendar Soon To Be Issued For Centennial One of the editions pub Automobile Fire Destroys Tire Brakes An overheated brake drum on an automobile traveling east on Rt 40 yesterday afternoon brought volunteer firemen on the run Western Enterprise Co was called out of town to the in years will be distributed soon The Maryland headquarters here of the National Civil War Centen nial plans to publish nomic Development will be published this year consisting of a Civil War history listing several hundred incidents will he set up at Pennsylvania written by Dr Theodore M were destroyed by the Western in Hagerstown in many of McDade Ud al about 5 pm to put out the blaze Weather Dims Astronauts flight Chance CAPE CANAVERAL Fla Thursday night gave tentative go ahead plans to rocker as Virgil I Gus Gris som into shortly after daybreak But they said a determina tion on whether to proceed with the terminal countdown must await another weather briefing scheduled for 2 am Friday CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP woes piled Thurs ay for astronaut Virgil I Gris om casting serious doubt o he will be able to rocke nto space even veek National Aeronautics an Space Administration gists predicted marginal or this area Friday offering n better than even odds lhat th sky will be clear enough to pei mit the second shoi However Redstone vent ahead wilh a countdown and reported all mis sile systems in go condition If a hope still remains lal Thursday night the count will 1 at pm with th aim of a B am filing A fina decision on the launching will be made at 2 am Loading of liquid oxygen inl fuel tanks which normal starts near the beginning of th final countdown will delayed until three hours befor scheduled launch time This would allow for a scrub as late as 3 am without the n of thre day postponement Once th lox flow into the tank it takes about 48 hours to empt dry and clean them before th rocket is again ready o go If the shot is washed out b fore fueling it could be ed again on Saturday Meanwhile the first tropic storm of the season packin winds up to 65 miles an hou was churning up in the Caribbea about 1500 miles southeast of th missile test center While no immediate effect w foreseen in the launch or Ian ing areas the space sai the Anna ma snarl things by early next wee if Grissom is not sent off on h flight by then Tractor Snags Wires Brings Down Pole A tractor trailer driver fro Baltimore cut his rig a little to sharply last night in Uie rea of a grocery store on Frankl St and brought down a barrag of telephone and electrical win as well as a tel pole According to City Police No man R Duvall 54 of Baltimor vas turning his truck from We ers Alley into the new Acm marking lot As he turned tl op of the trailer caught tl wires and ripped the pole dow There was no blackout or lo of service however said An unknown amount Allegheny airlines has asked the damage was done to the pole an Airline Wants To Fly Direct To New York State Trooper J D Abboll said the fire was in the left rear brake drum of an aulo calendars according to the operated by Maryland Department of of Alexandria Va Mrs Ken Civil Aeronautics Board for per mission lo provide direct service between Harrisburg and Hagers town that would mean through ser vice from here to New York City The airline wan Is to make the new service September 1 It would permit passengers lo go lo and from New York change of plane said she heard a noise in The agency says that another the wheel stopped the car and discovered the left rear wheel ablaze Firemen said the tire and Yuri In Warsaw WARSAW Poland astronaut Yuri Gagarin here Thursday to help celebrate Poland national day wires No charges were place The accident happened at abo pm VS Scientists Probe Russian Nuclear Tests Wounded French Unleash Land Sea And Air Assaults By ANDREW BOROWIEC TUNIS nd air and sea blows the rench smashed holes in he Tunisian blockade of Naval Base Thurs ay in bloody fighting that aged on into the night Tunisian sources said their dead ad mounted to 150 in two days fighting and makeshift hospi 1s set out under the open sky ere overflowing with ie French have mentioned only ne dead so far but the toll is far higher The conflict over Tunisian aims to he base the French after granting Tunisia in moved into the inter arena The UN Secur y Council was called into emer ency session Thursday to hear complaint charging ranee with premeditated agres on In Paris Premier Michel De announced readiness to ne for a ceasefire then ent into conference with ent Charles de Gaulle France as refused to negotiate on with rawal from Bizerte under Tu isias threats of force In the red glare of artillery fire ranee sent in more paratroop rs This was warning that France to stand firm against attempt to drive the French from the base French planes at Tunisian barricades around he naval base The Tunisian government the French were airlift ng Foreign Legionnaires as well s paratroopers from Algeria to Travelers from spoke In error of French planes firing into Tunisian mud huts some said French military de living off the base fired it Tunisian soldiers and civilians The Tunisian radio said the Bi erte battle had turned into street fighting and the are countless Alarming messages flashed rom all embassies in the swel ering Tunisian capital 40 miles southeast of the Bizerte battle Mysterious Bundle Yields Papers Keys A cache of clothes and personal was being held at ity Police headquarters for fur ther investigation last night after a resident S Mont Valla Ave saw a young man throw he bundle in a vacant lot near lis home Officers said Rufus W Knice ly of 1 S Mont Valla told them he was sitting on his porch when he observed a man in his twenties about 6 feet tall and weighing about 200 Ibs toss he bag onto a vacant lot next to a motel on W Washington St Becoming curious and discovered a variety of personal belongings in the aag City Police took an inven tory and came up with par tial score Two bali point pens a tooth brush playing cards cuff links a tie pin two lie bars a razor and blades Two keys one to a downtown hotel room a card with the name and telephone number of a Hagerstown woman written on it a bullet various important papers addressed to a man by the name of Robert Sanders In Clear Spring and on Hagerstown Rt 6 Five mens bells five laundered mens shirls and four laundered pairs of mens pants Knicely said the youth hitch Juked a ride west on Hi 49 after throwing the bundle away about 8 pm Pennant Parade WASHINGTON AP Eleven US scientists have been meeting in secret for some time trying to find out whether Soviet Union is testing nuclear weapons on the sly What they find out will be w ayed to President Kennedy t American League 15 t Clevtland 12 Boston 11 Only National League Pittsburgh 4 Lot 16 Cincinnati 1 Sn 4 I f
