Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - June 24, 1955, Titusville, Pennsylvania Satisfactory Mostly sunny and mild Friday and Saturday with a few widely scattered afternoon showers High Friday 7478 FIVE CENTS NO 10 Published in the Birthplace of tlie Oil and Natural Gat Daily Paper in the Oil Region V 4 June 141865 TITUSVILLE PA FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 241955 Over 6700 Copies Sold Daily Means Associated Presi Doctor Panel Urges Salk Vaccination Continuation N Vote Could Carry Lots of Weight Surgeon General Also Favors It WASHINGTON June 23 ffl panel of polio experts voted 82 today to recommend continuing the Salk vaccination program this summer despite criticism by a few scientists that the vaccine is not safe enough A few hours later the program won another strong endorsement from Surgeon General Leonard Scheele The dramatic unusual vote was taken at the request of the house commerce subcommittee at a pub lic hearing It was not officially binding upon anyone but it could Living Costs Steady in May Pay Higher Government Says WASHINGTON June 23 government reported today living costs remained steady in May while the workers pay envelope was fatter than ever before Secretary of Labor James Mit chell announcing the new data personally said it reflects a con pattern of overall national stability in retail prices which has stopped infla tion These two high take home pay for factory workers and stable prices for the goods and services the worker and his family buys along with increasing job opportunities and declining un concrete evi dence of the strength of our econ omy They mean continued pros for workers and their fam ilies Mitchell reported that living costs remained unchanged be tween April and May The depart ments consumers price index re the living cost level stayed at 1142 per cent of the 194749 average The index has varied only one tenth of one per cent in the past six months It has changed very little in two years and Mitchell said its steadiness has rarely been equalled before Meanwhile the wage yield to the worker is going up both because of longer working hours and i May gradually increasing pay rates As long as living stay the same the added money buys additional goods and services If living costs advance as earnings increase one cancels out the other Mitchell said the average fac tory workers net spendable earn pay check after withhold ing tax by more than a dollar a week between April and May This was the steepest climb for that particular month since 1941 when the nation was tooling up for war The Labor Department said the pay increase was pri marily due to a half hours more work by the average worker in Pyromaniac Sought in Store Fires PHILADELPHIA June 23 Three center city department stores were hit by a series of swing a lot of weight with today which police said ap public to be the work of a Two days testimony by medical panel in a Eleven fires were discovered committee room came to an em remote sections of the three with these other highlights Brothers and Gimbels Hundreds of shop 1 Officials reported no live virus has been found in vaccine made under newly revised safety stand ards contrary to experience under the old standards 2 Dr Jonas Salk developer of the vaccine now in use said fre quent injections apparently will not be needed to keep up immun ity He suggested the eventual pat tern may be to give two or three shots in the first year of life another the second year and a booster at school age and this may produce relatively immunity 3 Dr Thomas M Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research said shots should not be given this summer to anyone with polio in the family or where a child is suffering a mild illness with such as fever sore throat or gastric or intestinal troubles Dr Rivers said there is a slight hazard that paralysis could be provoked by vaccination m such cases pers fled the latter two stores first of the fires was re ported in a workshop in Snellen burgs near the eighth floor em ployes cafeteria just before noon Scores of employes were forced to flee An hour later the first of five fires were reported tt Gimbels three blocks away A spokesman said all were discovered in parts of the building seldom visited by customers Later a Lit Brothers spokesman said five fires had been discovered in stock rooms and closets in the diagonally across the street from Gimbels Em ployes put out these fires the spokesman said Damage was reported slight hi all the fires Fire Commissioner Frank Mc Namee said there appears little doubt that these fires are the work of a pyromaniac McNamee asked Police Commis Thomas Gibbons to assign Racing Fans Cheer Willies Toothache INGLEWOOD Calif June 23 Lf race fans can be a heart less lot Willie Shoemaker the leading jockey at Hollywood Park had to withdraw from air mounts after one race today He had a tooth ache that was so painful he couldnt stand it any longer When it was announced that Wil lie was being taken off his horses a huge cheer went up from the crowd Whenever rides the payoff is generally pretty low In favor strains of polio virus into the vac cine as soon as possible Weaker Virus Strain Needed On this point Surgeon General Scheele said in a statement after the officials recognize the need for a substitute for the virulent virus now used in making Salic vaccine called the Mahoney strain When other strains having sat immunizing properties are found these should be sub in lots then being manu j investigation of the fires and to guard against further incidents Hes Giving His Raise To Charity HARRISBURG June 23 Ike Hints Second Term But May Be Only Joking Does It in Talk At Concord N H Arithmetic Used CONCORD N H June 23 President today picked New Hampshire which gave him an early lift toward the White House in suggest teasingly that he might seek a second term The suggestion maybe seri ous maybe just in off a roar of applause and whoops of approval in a crowd of 15000 persons in State House Plaza here Eisenhower touring north ern New England had been tel ling the crowd how his chief aide Gov Sherman Adams of New to the White House staff about the state Then bringing up the subject of a second term himself the Presi dent went on to say People often ask me what my ideas are on how long I would like a residence in 1500 vania Avenue the White My own thought is They SAN FRANCISCO June 23 should ask how long it is going French Foreign Minister take Governor Adams to finish Rejects Two Points By Molotov Union Shuns Raise Offer Of Ten Cents Completely Inadequate U S Steel Told PITTSBURGH June 23 Steel Corp tonight offered the CIO United Steelworkers a wage increase averaging more than 10 cents per hour and the union im mediately rejected it Union President David McDon ald said the offer is completely inadequate In a prepared statement Mc Donald added Our members refuse to be treated as second class citizens We can see no justification whatsoever for the union to accept a settlement this year the most profitable in the industrys history which is approximately one half of the cost of the settlements al ready made in the automobile in dustry We will not accept such dis criminatory treatment Clifford Hood president of US Steel said the offer averages more than 10 cents an hour He de clared The offer is substantial It should produce a prompt settle ment of the negotiations The union said it is prepared to negotiate continually in around he clock sessions There was no immediate reply Tom big steel However the union chief said e expected to meet with Vice President John Stephens top ne for the corporation over the weekend About 150000 of the nations 600000 basic steelworkers who are USW are employed by US Steel Basic steel workers now average an hour The union is seeking a sub stantial wage increase It is free to strike at midnight next Thurs day unless an agreement is reached today rejected two major points in peace plan He ined up firmly with continuing efforts to achieve peace and in trust through the UN said in a speech to the 10th anniversary conference of the UN that his government ruled out the senselessness of a neu Germany He also said to acknowledge hat there are foreign military jases in any NATO country The French minister thus gave the UN the first major Western reaction to the proposals put be ore the conference yesterday by Russias V M Molotov Secretary of State Dulles likely John year increase in expense allowances for legisla acain recently is giving his own ex pense boost to charity Miller said he started last week with a contribution to the D Beaver Eave the US er v ho for use Dr Scheele I a added He repeated that the health service views the vaccine as safe and effective that the risk of getting polio from it is and the men plans to continue the vaccin ation program Dr Salk a panel m e ni b e r joined in the call for developing a less virulent strain of virus for use in the vaccine But he elected not to vote on the question of whether to halt the vaccination program temporarily until a sa fer vaccine can be deve or at least until after the peak polio season in late summer 4Due Process Ruled for Passports WASHINGTON June 23 State Departments Passport Queen was shorn of much of her power today in an historic U S Court of Appeals decision declar have a natural right to travel abroad This right must not be denied or without due process of law the court ruled unani Striking down the State Departments claim to exclusive control over issuance of pass ports It said the departments ac tions are subject to judicial scru tiny Unless overturned by the Su preme Court the decision is a jolt to the wide powers exercised by the director of the departments passport division For years that office was filled by Mrs Ruth B Ma Shipley She retired in April and the post went to Frances G Knight 49yearold strawberry blonde and former deputy to Scott McLeod head of the departments office of security and counsellor affairs The case which brought todays ruling involved Max Shachtman of New York chairman of the In dependent Socialist League Which is on the attorney generals list of organizations alleged to be sub The appeals court sent the case back to district court with instructions that the state depart ment must show legal reasons for denying a passport to Shachtman Storks Dwindling WASHINGTON June 23 stork population of the world is dwindling says the National Geo graphic Society It attributes the decline to weather along migration routes the eating of and mans encroachment on feeding grounds County Juvenile Grange That money will be used to send youngsters to a summer camp On Saturday he will offer er to the Veterans of Foreign Wars at a banquet at Rochester as a donation to a fund for gifts for disabled veterans On Sunday another check will go to the American Slovak Assn work Sen Donald P McPherson Jr RAdams also refused to take the new expense allowance in crease Fire Fatal to Woman PITTSBURGH June 23 swept through a third floor apart ment today killing Miss Margaret McAvoy 40 a saleswoman in a Pittsburgh dress shop A pet dog also perished in the blaze Mrs Anna Rowley discovered the blaze in the nearby Wilkins burg apartment house Firemen confined the flames to the McAvoy apartment Cause of the fire has not been determined There was no estimate of damage luncheon at the Russians suburban retreat today Dulles is expected to give the American answer publicly in a speech to the conference tomor row The unofficial reaction of West ern delegates is that speech raising once more the old Soviet criticisms of the West did Law Geared For Clarion Industry HARRISBURG June 23 Leader today signed into law a which he said would enable a house trailer factory to locate near Clarion and employ 400 workers The new law fixed at the fee for special hauling permit for mg a UJL ui house trailers delivered meant to hint that he may the factory to its original des his series of lectures on New Hampshire because he doesnt seem to be third of the way through them yet The arithmetic of the situation is this Eisenhower has completed just about 22 years of his four year term If Adams is only about a third of the way through his lectures he needs about another five years to complete them And another five years would take Eisenhower just about through a second term The big question though was whether Eisenhower was just hav a bit of whether he Sued by Grandma for Ted Levy 4 sometimes a space man and sometimes a cowboy gives a space man sample here little realizing no doubt that he is being sued for 5150000 by his grandmother Mrs Ann Rubin She alleges he sprinted down the hall of his Los Angeles home sailed over the back of a couch and knocked her off her seat on June 26 1954 and that she spent several weeks in a hospital with two broken vertebrae Store Owners Want 3Cent Cut in Milk ERIE Pa June 23 store again Sentenced In Slaying of SoninLaw PITTSBURGH June 23 Trovato 61 who said he was de The old rate for such a permit was two cents a mile Leader said the ABC Mobile Homes Co began groundbreaking at the Clarion County site last week when assured of the cer tainty of a cooperative effort to pass the that eliminates exces sive delivery charges In a said group and an agricultural prices expert today asked the State Milk Control Commission to reduce he price of milk in Erie stores by hree cents Only quart containers are sold in Erie stores Dr Roland W Bartlett profes sor of agricultural economics at I the University of Illinois who ap as an expert witness for the city of Erie said Erie milk dealers have not modernized their methods He declared milk could be sold three cents cheaper and any loss to dealers would be made up in increased sales He advised sell ing milk in and gallon containers Thomas Monohan Jr an ac countant for a group also backed a cut in prices with the dealers absorbing the loss Ivan S Babbitt an accountant for a dealers group proposed a cut with dealers and absorbing it equally Arkansas Rally Bit Embarrassed WEST MEMPHIS Ark June 23 if Free match folders passed out jy a Little Rock delegation during a Trade in Arkansas rally proved a mite embarrassing today The matches were provided by he Little Rock Chamber of Com merce at a dutch treat banquet where Little Rock Mayor Pratt said No longer need you cross the river to Memphis Tenn for supplies We of Little Rock stand ready to welcome you into our state Too long have West Mem phis and East Arkansas supported Memphis On the match folders in small print Made in Memphis Alleged Bribe Probers Hear Hot Denials WASHINGTON June 23 City Solicitor Gerald Weber of ate investigators set off today on Erie declared State control of consumer constitutes a legalized mo which is against statement the governor the public interest Only 13 states now have milk commissions and the trail of a rumored SI 00000 bribe to government purchasing of ran into a solid wall of indignant denials The question raised as the Sen ate Investigations subcommittee not jibe with his apparent policy his home when he killed for an East of courting good will in the Westing with a shotgun labor raw mater and especially among the to 36 vears to and other conditions favored i x 1 firm in ABC Mobile Homes of an 13 milk prices are an inquiry into alleged n surf Colorado made a in states without m armed forces uni form procurement was did New can people These delegates that while words were in a slight measure more re County jail today Trovato a chicken farmer j location in ofj Rep Page Varner suburban Forest Hills was the measure which ehm strained than in the old days Oj voluntary manslaughter for f rt v fo f i i f f Yij price for peace with the Soviet Union remained the same Two Philadelphia Banks To Merge PHILADELPHIA June 23 Lfl Merger biggest of two of Pennsylvania Co for Banking and Trusts and The First National Bank of Phila approved by tors of the two institutions today It would be the bank in the city Stockholders will meet Sept 19 to vote on the proposal which calls for a exchange of stock Everybody Gets the Bird At Tax Hearing for JoJo By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON June 23 disgruntled taxpayer a 2yearold blue parakeet named JoJo got an interview with the nations top tax collector T Coleman Andrews JoJo wanted a refund Although the bird reportedly has a vocabulary of 60 words he wasted none of them on Andrews In what must have been the most unusual tax hearings in history JoJo resisted all efforts to get him to leaving that chore exclusively to his lawyer Robert Mayer Most of the time JoJo pecked away at Andrews teeth or ears or ran impishly from shoulder to shoulder in a manner most sur prising for a distressed taxpayer Hes playing peekaboo with me Andrews said At issue was this The Kay Jewelry of Atlanta Ga an easy credit firm had a contest to sec which parakeet could learn to say Its okay to owe Kay JoJo did the trick won for his owner and became an employe of Kay going from branch store to store to utter the muffle During the year JoJo earned frugally stashed it away in the Society is the paid both in come and social security taxes But when everything was totted up his net earnings came to less than and the question arose Was JoJo entitled to a refund Well Andrews went along with the gag and today a score of newsmen and photographers were on hand for the historic event The birds lawyer made his pitch and was doing splendidly until Andrews interrupted How much are you paying this bird About a week said Then youre not paying him the minimum wage Andrews said He suggested that all sorts of desperate things might befall the Kay people including confiscation of property Here Andrews came up with about the best pun of a bad day In which case An drews skid you may be literally giving me the bird I think he said JoJo Is utterly indifferent to the whole business the shooting of Michael Harbadin July 11 1954 Harbadin was shot as he pound ed at the door of the Trovato home demanding to see his estranged wife Mary Trovato told the jury at his trial that Harbadin had threatened to kill the whole family The jury recommended mercy and Asst Dist Atty George Ross said the sentence the be satisfactory to his office Trovato trembling and on the verge of tears told Judge Anne X Alpern I havent done anything but pray in this jail I read through the gospels and the Bible and I found anything in my con science that is wrong Im sorry But it all came up too quick I tried to do my best my very best But it all came up too quick I Big Hurry To Use Pool MARIETTA Ohio June 23 The Marietta Times reported to day that the Navy must be in a hurry to finish its officers swim ming pool at the Willow Grove Naval Air Base near Philadelphia Pa mated the old fee which would cost the firm to transport an average sized trailer from Clarion to Philadelphia The commission concluded Schlesinger pay here and said its findings 000 to an Army colonel and two civilian aides to get a 1950 con will be issued in about two months Dynamite Blast Takes Miners Life COALDALE Pa June 23 51vearold hard coal miner was tract Preposterous snorted Schles inger who refused to open his books for the investigators because they might tend to incriminate me j Its ail based on myth Col Louis H Shirley named by The times said a Navy plane was dispatched from the base to the Wood County air port across the Ohio River in West Virginia to pick up 75 gal lons of a paint at a local paint plant The paint said the Times is to be used in coating the interior of the officers swim ing pool Serves Purpose MONTREAL June 23 signs said Danger Enlevement de la Neige des Toils Danger Snow Removal From June mo did a double take and police explained those were only signs they could find to warn cars away during installation of new light system for a parking lot near City Hall by a mysterious dynamite blast as he was loading a Counsel Robert Kennedy ia connection with the More in anthracite in the chute of No 9 mine of the Coaldale Mining payoff I never took a dime off no company spokesman said a body protested David PITTSBURGH June 23 investigation indicated Shirleys onetime airline executive testified at his the dynamite may have been inj Kennedy never did say what divorce that when the coal being loaded by Charles formation led him to ask he complained about his wifes The blast apparently there was a payoff in check writing she told him caused by either friction or with more in the contract to make half a The official Ralph Cox Jr blast did not hurt two other for the Air is executive vice president of working several hundred Sen McCIellan Overseas Airlines and a away in the shaft None of the Enounced he is asking the president of the firm He is was using dynamite at the to cancel a current contract ing an absolute divorce the spokesman said j which firm is from his wife Lorraine and native of Slatington and also to deny him tody of their lived at contracts in view of his Cox testified he had to A bachelor he is survived to answer questions about ss president of the air line father Joseph financial affairs The cause of his wifes Hill and three sisters contract was awarded this MOLOTOV ALMOST BACK TO In Speech Before U N By J M American hat He meeting as a forum Associated Press News dinner and proposed a toast political charges and was con Theres a certain kinship Allied in bad taste Molotov ap tween V M Molotov then he got up on to be almost DacK ary Russias hammer where everybody has Jawaharlal nothing but peace picked a number of cold Molotov confronted by a and went through his issues on which to side tain of facts can look rote Russia In particular he it to see whatever he wishes gist of it was that the Allies with Bulganin on three which see on the other the cold war and intended particularly touchy for the Nehru confronted by a turn it into a hot war He reStates They are Russias pane of glass can look the various formulas by ban on nuclear weapons the it without seeing anything on Russia has said the world render of Formosa to the other side which he does not have peace formulas and a seat in the U N to recognizes would the Peiping regime While Molotov was making peace consolidating the Associated Press re speech at the anniversary on the fruits of her in Moscow put it it wasnt ing of the United Nations in leaving the road open new for the two men Francisco Nehru and it was the first time they were drawing up a new didnt use his normal said it together communique in or call names who has been accepting Both pronouncements were delegates were quick to amounts of economic aic ed sweetness and light his effort as damaging the United States and work revived and re emphasized Russian peace offensive for more got in return for major issues of the cold a Russian program docility on other matters Indeed observers were pursued at Geneva of aid from Russia what surprised at Molotov the of country which even counted to his speech he had been aid from Russia can tell good will He had accepted a addition he used that works or doesnt work Gov Leader Repeats He Will Veto Sales Tax But Discards Target Date For Enactment Of Income jLevy HARRISBURG June 23 Leader said flatly today he would eto any general sales tax plan I will veto a sales tax as we know it the governor told his weekly news conference Leader emphasized he was attempting no alay of words This time I dont want to he misunderstood under any circum stances he said With that statement the governor pointed up his continuing fight for enactment of his 411 million dollar classified income tax The unequivocal declaration also ruled out speculation that the gov ernor if bogged down on his in come tax plan might permit a sales tax law Without actually sign ing such a Pennsylvania law permits such a move The present one per cent sales tax expires Aug 31 Trie governor however tossed into the discard his original July 1 target date for enactment of the income levy which has met with opposition by Democrats in both the House and Senate The governor didnt fix a new date adding that its a long hard struggle to pass any tax program To Cut State Car Insurance The governor disclosed that the Commonwealth has taken steps to reduce the cost of insuring state owned automobiles and buildings and bonding of state employes Commission to be paid to insur ance brokers he said would amount to about a year compared to under previous administrations He said Clayton Mau York insurance broker would handle the bulk of this insurance with commissions also going to other persons No state employe or legislator will be allowed to take an insur ance commission he told report ers The governor in an answer to another question strongly indicat ed he would sign into law legisla tion to increase the weight limit of commonly used trucks from 45000 pounds to 60000 pounds I think the is in the kind of shape that I would like to sign but I dont want to say definitely he said explaining the measure is be ing checked by the Justice Depart ment for possible legal flaws Leader said Joseph J Lawler secretary of highways would main tain a continuing check for possible highway by heavier truck weights Increased truck license fees a bigger refund of gasoline ax money to municipalities would make up for any truck created road damage Leader added Leader expressed pleasure that he Legislature passed his plan to appoint a 12man government re organization commission to make a study of government reforms He said he would gladly accept for making aE the appointments and that there would be Republican representation on the commission Still Boss Man BUENOS AIRES Argentina une 23 Juan D Announcement that all 16 min had presented their resig J nations was authorized by the gov a his temporary offices at his residence He arranged a broadcast to the and marines was put down by the army a week ago Among visitors at the presidents office were Army Minister Maj Gen Franklin Lucero Defense Minister Gen Humberto Sosa Mo lina Air Minister Juan Ignacio San Martin Foreign Minister Jer Remorino and Interior Min ister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi Developments of the past two days have demonstrated that Pe ron remains Argentinas boss de spite the revolt and rumors it had weakened his grip Pell a or Vanoni May Try in Italy ROME June 23 W Former Premier Giuseppe Pella and Bud get Minister Ezio Vanoni appeared top favorites as the long search started today for a new Italian Premier President Giovanni was calling in Italys senior statesmen and party leaders one by one in conferences on a successor to Mario Scelba The tough little Sicilian foe of communism resigned yesterday after almost IS months M Pre mier His own Christian Democrat party refused to continue support ing his fourparty Center cotillion
