Salisbury Times, The (Newspaper) - April 29, 1964, Salisbury, Maryland WEATHER Rain tonight tial tomorrow See page 19 TEMPERATURES At 7 49 law last night 49 rainfall 10 inches for 24 hours up to 5 p.m high 74 low 54 THE SALISBURY TIMES HOME EDITION Delmarva's Largest Dally Newspaper VOL 41 NO 127 PHONE PI SALISBURY MARYLAND WEDNESDAY APRIL 29 1964 Two 28 PAGES Section On Scranton Lodge Write-In Victors Record Million Budget Approved For Wicomico In Surplus Helps Hold Tax Rate By JIM NELSON Of The Times Staff The Wicomico County Com- missioners yesterday signed a record budget for the fiscal year while retaining last year's tax rate of per of Assessable valuation The new levy higher than the last was able to keep the same tax rate with the help of surplus and a gain in tax revenues Interest on delinquent taxes Jumped from for last year to Income taxes last year netted and for the new levy a ure was noted on the revenue eide of the ledger Other revenue increases were from race tracks as compared to which the county received last year as its share of the racing funds enue from the state from dis- tilled spirits as written in the budget was listed at this year a increase Another increase in revenues from the Wicomico ty Liquor Control Board This year's budget calls for This is up from that of a year ago FINES FROM Peoples Court show an increase for this year compared to The commissioners did not vote themselves a- salary in- crease keeping the pay scale at each for the year Ad- ministrative Director Frank L Boatman was given a in- crease bringing his annual ary to There were also small salary increases for other county employes The total cost of the general government for the approaching is Last year it was Total public safety is 591 compared to the previous year's appropriation of This reflects some salary in- creases for deputy sheriffs as promised last year The deputies now receive a total figure of an increase of Fire Marshal Fred A Grier Jr was jumped from to 500 annually Also in public safety was an figure for a Civil Defense alarm system Hospitals were allocated a tal of an increase of which reflects the com- missioners to Peninsula General Hospital to help pay for welfare patients Welfare at is up 283 This reflects partially an Increase in administrative ex- penses from to for this year's budget Schools are also ap Salary Increases for teachers as called for by Gov Tawes new income tax account for a major portion of the total figure Last year schools cost the county tax payer Ocean City's Annexation Plan Explained In Today's Times Amusements 23 Ann Landers 3 Bridge Classified Ads 23 to 26 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 26 8 Drew Pearson 11 Editorial Page 6 Local Happenings 12 Market Reports 8 Pointers 10 Shore Medic 7 Sports Pages Television 19 Weather Tide 19 ROYAL COUPLE Prince Carlos of and his bride Princess Irene of the Netherlands walk hand in hand as they leave the Basilica of St Major in Rome after their wedding today She is wearing a diamond valued at half a million dollars her wedding gift from Prince Xavier Carlos father AP Wirephoto via cable from Rome See story and another picture OH Page IT OCEAN CITY A pamphlet giving background and Ocean City's feelings toward proposed annexation and a er system for North Ocean City has been sent to North Ocean City residents this week by this resort town's city council Mayor said day The pamphlet Mayor per said gives a complete tory of tlie proposed sewage system and contained the lowing Several years ago the State Board of Health said the sewer system in both Ocean City and North Ocean City would have to be improved The SBH said it did not want two plants one for each section but one com- plant to serve both The town and the Worcester County Commissioners had then agreed to open a plant and erate it on a strict basis When the bonds for the plant were paid the facilities were to revert to Ocean City But after Mayor per said the county without the consent of Ocean City formed the North To All our We like to take this op- to express our cere appreciation for your thoughtfulness and courtesy of our efforts to serve you dunng the past difficult weeks We want to assure you that our continued aim and policy is to serve you to the best of our ability with the same high quality and hasten to em- that there will be no change in our price structure during this tiw A A Howard District Manager Injured Girl Stirs Action On Dog Problem SEAFORD A girl whose face was left scarred after she was attacked by a stray dog left City Council chambers here last night with a promise that steps would be taken to correct the town's dog problem Kimberly Ann Atkins of mington was brought into the meeting by her aunt and un- cle Mr and Mis Robert Mar shall of Woodside ford Mr and Mrs said the girl was bitten by a dog in front of the Marshall home The stitches were removed from her face yesterday after- noon but her face still bears an T -shaped scar for which plastic surgery has been The council immediately in- their attorney John E Messick to prepare a dog and to contact the American Society fcr the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals to see if some way can be found to dispose of stray mals without killing them The council had in hand a letter from James C White su- warden for the State Game Commission stating that they cannot provide a part-time dog catcher for the city He wrote that all his wardens are on six-day call but there will be a warden in Scaford one day a week Ocean City Sanitary ion After the of the the city council antly agreed to go ahead with the project but with Ocean City saying two-thirds of the cost 80 to 90 per cent of the tion and yet having no voice in operation of any plant Certain Mayor Cropper said began saying that if North Ocean City got its sewage system Ocean City would never be able to annex the area This brought ions to a halt We feel if we don't annex we will build our own sewage plant at St despite the State Board of Health ng on seperate systems As an incorporated town we have the right to build a plant where we please Mayor Cropper said that nearly pamphlets have been sent out to North Ocean City residents The pamphlets also contain a cost estimate for which Ocean City could provide North Ocean City with the same facilities as the resort town We feel our proposal will be to the advantage of North Ocean Mayor Cropper said Two major property owners in North Ocean City James and the Fenwick Island Corporation have their approval to the annexation Mayor Cropper said the cil was now awaiting the re- sponse of a questionnaire also attached to the pamphlet which asks whether the property er favors annexation and if not why not We are not trying to sure North Ocean City residents but the State Board of is putting pressure on both Ci tan City and the North Ocean City Sanitary Mayor Cropper declared Cola Operated Dry cleaning Star 900 N Sal Considering Hawaii Trip WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson who has a ness for grasping voters hands is being urged to make a ern inspection tour in May or June that could take him ar far as Hawaii For a president who to preserve as long as the pleasant fiction that he isn't campaigning tours oi this kind offer a chance to get out and meet the people where they live Johnson has said he wants to hold down political activity until afier the party nominating conventions These trips are always billed as expeditions on which the country's head man is seeing for himself how ters are progressing at the grass roots This usually results in futile outcries from the opposition that the chief executive is politicking at the taxpayers expense But such complaints are mostly for the record and even their thors expect little public tion to them Johnson's desk is loaded with all kinds of invitations for him to dedicate dams inspect new atomic complexes cut ribbons on highways and view tion projects The President has a san invitation to visit Hawaii is abc as far as he can go the mainland under his self-imposed rule not to leave the country so long as there is Inouye D- no vice president Sens Daniel K Hawaii and Hiram Hawaii called on the President recently and asked him to cate some new battle ments being erected in the tional Cemetery of the Pacific If he goes there Sen Frank E Moss said he hopes the President will stop long enough to dedicate the Flaming Gorge Dam in President John Utah where F Kennedy turned the valve that started the flow of water Johnson who sometimes gives the appearance of being restive at White House ment is reported sympathetic to the idea of making a ern tour He has always been politically popular in the Plains and Rocky Mountain area Woman's Car Stolen Mrs Gertrude Farlow does tract Pennsylvania Gov Set A Record PHILADELPHIA William W Scranton easily swept Pennsylvania's can presidential preference mary Tuesday establishing a state record for and rolling up more than 60 per cent of the total GOP vote for president But it seemed open to inter- whether this showing would be regarded by the year-old governor as a popular clamor from his home state to become a presidential as state leaders MANY OTHERS TOO Pennsylvania Republican Gov liam W who piled up a sizeable write-in vote in Pennsylvania's GOP presidential primary election yesterday poses with a little girl carrying a Scranton for President sign Scranton received support from two of every three Pennsylvania voters who wrote in the name of a presidential favorite AP Wirephoto LBJ Sees New Tax Cut Possible Wildcat to house WASHINGTON AP Less than two months after an billion income tax reduction went on the books President Johnson has held out the of trimming taxes still not for a fev years It is still too early to make firm promises oa further Johnson said in remarks prepared for a dinner attended by many of the nation's business leaders Tuesday night But if this one is a success I have every reason to be- lieve it will building duction creating jobs raising profits and revenues to balance the budget then I see another tax cut a few years down the the ident continued But he We can move to this second round of tax reduction only if we behave ourselves this year On the heels of his warm re- ception Monday from the U.S Chamber of Commerce tion Johnson invited more than 50 corporation presidents and board chairmen and their wives to the private White House ner For as long as I am he told them the ers of industry and finance are going to be welcome in this car thieves The 1963 Merchants Ask Parcel Post Change The Postoffice Department is agreeing to a change in parcel post service proposed by bury merchants As of May 7 Wednesday de- livery of parcel post was to have been suspended in the downtown area of Salisbury The merchants in a letter by Herschel Manner president the Salisbury tion and signed by 16 other he downtown area requested that Wednesday de- livery be reinstated and delivery be eliminated in- stead Postmaster Emory Leonard said that the change from to Saturday will be made on a trial basis He ed out that the change will in no way affect the six-day cel post delivery service on all city mounted letter routes and rural routes Buick was reported last night from in front of City Hall The same car was stolen ex- a week ago and ed in City Mrs Widdoes of Ocean City Road told Salisbury Police she parked her car in front of City Hall about 6 p.m Less than 15 minutes later the car was pone Last week tie car was stolen from in front of the home of her brother Substitute Peoples Court Judge Frank n Farlow who had borrowed it A year-old Ocean City restaurant cook John L Thornton was found guilty in Peoples Court of stealing the car and ced to 60 days m the Wicomico County Jail State Police recovered Mrs Widdoes car the last time in Ocean City He said that to sit down and exchange views with you from time to time is vital to the health of our free enterprise economy The President has announced plans for a similar dinner early month with top labor un- ion officials The President said it was up to business and labor to pre- vent costs and prices from creeping upward Urging the business leaders to keep a tight rein on prices he said that when he dines with labor leaders I will tell them that I know they don't want to push so hard for wage increases this year that they would hurt a lot of people and start a spiral going from their side Johnson said he hopes ness and labor can emulate the railroad people who last week settled their dispute and prevented a wide rail strike Noting that the recent tax cut reduced corporation levies by one fifth Johnson said We have done this in an tration some people have called Actually went on we are national in- terest Meat Cutters Drop Claims For Lost Pay BALTIMORE AP The meat cutters idled because of the closing of 225 stores by food chains in Maryland dropped their efforts today to obtain their lost pay by claiming a lockout In a joint announcement the meat cutters and chains said they will be bound by the de- of a mutually agreeable arbitrator on whether the em- ployes should receive lost pay The meat cutters withdrew their claims of a lockout ing before a circuit court judge and the National Labor tions Board The agreement came on the heels of a decision yesterday by Judge Meyer M Cartlin that he had no jurisdiction in the labor i te The clerks in the stores had asked him for an order that six of the seven chains reopen The clerks struck one of the seven Acme on April 17 and the other six voluntarily closed All seven chains had been ing as a unit on a new contract with the clerks Pending a decision on lost pay the seven chains agreed to con- paying hospitalization and life insurance premiums for the meat cutters Besides Acme the chains are Food Fair Giant Grand Union Penn Fruit and Safeway The clerks will file a petition a lockout by six of the chains with the NLRB candidate hope Henry Cabot Lodge U S to South Viet Nam was an impressive second with more than 20 per cent None of the leading tial possibilities campaigned in the state and no names were on the ballot With of precincts counted Scranton had Lodge 64.828 Sen Barry water former Vice dent Richard M Nixon Gov George Romney of gan 178 Gov Nelson A feller of New York Sen Margaret Chase Smith 550 and Harold E Stassen 147 Scranton had said he does no want the presidential tion but would accept a sin cere and honest thing he said he feels is no likely at national conventions in this day and age The Scranton for Presiden group in the by Craig Truax state GOP chair man and Congressman hoped for an organized for such a tremen dous outpouring of tha Scranton would change hi stand and actively go after the Free Hearing Test Than Hearing ccn E FBI Agents Rescue Boy Nab Man In Kidnapping MEMPHIS AP A brave boy returned home today with his joyful parents after four days as the captive of a man the FBI called a dangerous psycho- path Dennis Burke 8 was rescued by FBI agents in New Orleans La Tuesday and Joseph cis Bryan Jr one of the 10 most wanted tives was arrested The FBI flew the boy from New Orleans to Memphis where he rejoined his parents and year-old brother in an emotional reunion at the airport Thera he gasped Mrs Richard Burke when she ted her son She swept him into her arms There's my baby Hi honey Hi baby The chipper lad clad in striped polo shirt blue jeans and tennis hces seemed more upset over being kissed in lic than by his recent ture Mrs Burke had collapsed in tears earlier after getting word that her son kidnaped from nearby Tenn last Friday was safe Police had been looking for Bryan in the area in connection with the of a South Carolina boy Dennis dis- appearance intensified the hunt Bryan of Audubon Park was arraigned before a federal commissioner in New Orleans He was charged with kidnaping John D Robison 10 of Mount Pleasant last Feb 27 The boy's unclothed body was found near Hallandale Fla March 31 I don't understand what this kidnaping muttered in an almost inaudible voice I didn't kidnap nobody Bond was set at on the kidnap charge with another on a charge of unlawful flight from South Carolina to avoid prosecution nomination They they thought they got the outpouring The previous write-in record was for the late John F Kennedy for president in 1960 Rain fell in much of the state Tuesday which possibly helc down the voting Scranton had asked that none of the GOP candidates in the state saying he wanted to an unpledged delegation to the convention as a favorite son a candidate AH observed this but some Goldwater supporters ran against organization backed candidates for 54 delegate spots and in at least one instance were successful Ten at large delegates chosen earlier by the state committee are unpledged Delegate results were clogged by a lengthy state office ballol and the write-in tabulations and were extremely late in being de- termined Schweiker hailed the Scranton write-in as demonstrating to the nation the fantastic getting ability of Scranton Schweiker noted that the John F Kennedy in 1960 estab a write-in record for the See PENNA Page 8 Johnson's Top Kennedy BOSTON AP etts Republicans gave their son Henry Cabot a resounding ment for the GOP nomination or president in Tuesday's mary Lodge topped Sen Barry Goldwater of Arizona in the write-in vote in the preference column by a margin of better han 7 to 1 in incomplete re- Airns President Johnson topped the on the Democratic ballot In Saigon South Viet Nam where he is U.S ambassador Lodge said It means much to me that my fellow citizens of Massachusetts have shown this confidence in me He declined urther comment Ten delegates at large who avor Lodge were elected but results in the district delegate races were determined slowly Many communities stopped in late evening and re- today In New Bedford counting is not scheduled to re- sume Thursday Clerks complained about the long ballots for both There were more than names on the party ot in contests ranging from tional convention delegates to own and ward committees One delegate favorable to Roger A Moore of Boston was elected without op- position Like most of the gate candidates Moore ran officially uncommitted gates are not committed to vote for the winner of the ence poll One of the top on the Republican slate was Lodge's George Lodge also won a surprising write-in vote on the ic President Johnson topped Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy by a margin in Democratic Lodge finished third The unofficial Republican presidential of of precincts water Lodge for- mer Vice President Richard M Nixon New York Gov Nelson A Rockefeller 1.407 Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine 282 The unofficial tally of me Democratic preferential poll Johnson Kennedy 8.848 Lodge The tally of scattered in votes from both ballots gave Gov William W Pa 564 and Gov George lace 128 Lodge a descendant of old Massachusetts families was elected three times to the U.S Senate headed the U.S tion to the United Nations ing the Eisenhower tion and now is ambassador to South Viet ment given him by the late President John F Kennedy Kennedy went to the Senate in 1952 by defeating Lodge Lodge's victory See MASS Page 8 Appalachia Aid Is Started WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson s graro to economy of the Appalachian region starts through Congress today and Democratic leaders promised to heed his call for urgent action Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he will press for early hearings so the legislation will be in shape when the Senate completes action on the civil rights His opposite number lican Everett M Dirksen de- clared however that he wants to take a good hard look at the program before reaching a final conclusion Johnson in letters to the ate and House made public Tuesday defined the lachia region as straddling a state area of more than square miles withmore than 15 million Americans in dence The nation's general economic progress Johnson said has passed Appalachia by because of difficult and sometimes im- possible access inadequate con- trol of water causing both floods and scarcity and a mineral base of coal timber and culture sorely in need of tive attention His programs to help chian citizens so they can help themselves are basic he said and 1 A developmental highway system of miles with the states sharing in the cost 2 An acceleration of water construction 3 A pasture improvement program 4 An assistance program for timber management 5 Expanded programs for promoting new uses of coal im- proved mining practices and land restoration 6 Stepped-up human resources programs 7 Establishment of a state regional commission for comprehensive planning in the attack on the economic dis- tress in the region It's Prom Tux Rental Time At Lee Johnson's See ad pg Botany 590 Salts k Slacks ft ft
