Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - March 17, 1964, Titusville, Pennsylvania Back to Winter Western Pennsylvania Partly cloudy windy and turning colder today with scattered light show changing to snow flurries lata afternoon or at night Tempera ture mostly in falling to 30s late afternoon and 20s at night Wednesday colder with flurries Temperatures on Five TEN CENTS in the Birthplace of the OH First Daily Paper in the Oil 1865 TITUSVILLE PA TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 17 1961 Costly Homes Burn In California Blazes Hundreds Flee Ahead of Fires Fanned by Wind That Causes Much Damage By RALPH LOS ANGELES hur desert wind started a of brush fires in Los An geles suburban foothills mon day and flames roaring down canyons and over ridges at in credible speed combined into two major destructive burns Sixteen homes including at least two in the class and others valued or more were reported destroyed ed others were damaged Hun dreds were evacuated The scene was two parallel foothill ranges 0 miles north of downtown Los Angeles They are the which sepa rate from the San Fer nando Valley and the San Ra fael Hills which separate Glen dale from Pasadena Warm winds off the Mojave Desert howling through can yons at SO miles per hour and steady at 70 much of the day blew down thousands of trees overnight unroofed several houses broke scores of windows and caused power failures last ing hours One man was fatally crushed by a tree Sparks from broken power were blamed for the fires which began about am Several of the blazes quickly grew together on the north slope of the scenic whose winding canyons are lined with dwellings The fire the slopes on the Glendale side and down slopes on the Burbank side wreaking havoc all the way Other fires burned together in the San Rafael Hills and raced of control on several fronts Humidity was down to an extremely dry 4 per cent Southern brushy hilis normally are lush and green virtually fireproof this time of year But a winter drought plus the drying desert winds turned the slopes bone dry and flammable as tin der A newsman in a narrow can yon said one violent wind gust had sent a wall of flames through it so fast that firemen in autos made no attempt to flee They simply squirted their vehicles with water and gotin side The entire canyon was burned in three minutes but its two houses survived so swiftly did the flames pass A great smoke pall gathered over the Los Angeles Basin In the fire area glowing embers hissed like rifle tracer bullets on the Wings of the wind leap frogging ahead of a fire front to start new blazes Near an evacuation center a gust caught a ter and flipped it into a truck Us two firemen occupants scrambled unharmed from the wreckage City Criticizes Gas Company PITTSBURGH City of Pittsburgh criticized the Equitable Gas Co Monday for seeking a rate in crease which would affect 240 300 customers in five counties City Solicitor David W Craig said at a preliminary hearing before the Public Utility Com mission that Equitable is basing its request in part on a federally approved rate boost for a whole sale supplier PASSAGE TO ONE OF 46 COUNTRIES Write your own ticket Hie Corps Washington 20525 D Rease send me D Please send an application Address City Published as a public service in coop with The Advertising Council No 1 Sweepstakes Ticket New Hampshires Gov King holds aloft sweepstakes ticket No 1 in Saiem This is the nations only legal lottery and Rockingham Park was never on the map like now The voters the 0 K in primary A A ir lines Requests Changes Real At This Wedding DURBAN South Africa AP Africans were slain and eight others were seriously hurt in a fight among guests at a tribal wedding at north of here during the week end About 100 Africans used guns knives and clubs in the fighting sparked by an argu ment between a couple of guests Barb Button To Marry Seventh Time TOKYO AP Dime store heiress Barbara Hutton is going ta marry for the seventh time So it was said today by a Prince who says hes to be the bridegroom and 2 dose associates of Miss Hutton in Mexico where the wedding is planned Prince Doan Vinh 48 and slightly greying talked to news men in a Tokyo hotel about the marriage rumor It is true he said we cant hide it any more I cant tell you exactly yet when we will be married but it will be in Mexico I plan to arrive there later this month Wants To Add New Airports To Its Schedule WASHINGTON AP Alle Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to add Easton Pa and ing and Rochester N Y to its route Monday Allegheny also requested per mission to operate nonstop be tween Washington and Buffalo N Y and between Philadel phia and Buffalo Allegheny proposed the new services on these routes Between Washington and Buf falo by way of Harrisburg and Williamsport Pa and Elmira Coming and Rochester Between Philadelphia and Buf falo by way of Williamsport El and Rochester Allegheny asked the CAB to consolidate its application for consideration with one from United Air Lines for permission to end service at Harrisburg Williamsport and ing Body Is Found In WILKESBARRE Pa John B Chimento Jr old Pittston Township man whose body was found Sunday in waters of the Susquehanna River died of drowning The office of the Lu zerne County coroner so report ed Electronic Equipment Scaring Tax Cheaters WASHINGTON AP The Internal Revenue Service thinks its new electronic auditing equipment has scared at least 819 likely many paying what they owed Uncle Sam internal Revenue Commission er Mortimer M Caplin made the estimate in testimony be fore a House appropriations subcommittee Feb 6 but made public Monday After the departments new master file of taxpayers was given wide publicity Caplin said district offices began re porting corrected and delin quent returns coming in in in creasing numbers The reports for the period Jan 1 1933 he said showed both corrected and delinquent returns reflect ing taxes of million 819 taxpayers All said their fil ings were motivated by the new automatic data processing in Incidentally some of that tax delinquency went back to 1918 In addition Caplin testified 510 more taxpayers are report ed to have filed delinquent and amended returns for the same reason But the amount of tax es involved has not yet been tabulated He said progress is being made especially in finding per sons with tax liabilities who were filing no returns at all In the first half of this year he said We have se cured 112000 more delinquent returns than in the first half of 1963 and 68000 more than in the first half of 1962 Addition al assessments are up million Tobacco Industry Fights Rules Says FCC Has No Authority To Make Them By FRANK CAREY WASHINGTON AP The tobacco industry challenged the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to require health hazard warnings on cigarette packages and in advertising A spokesman for the industry said Monday only Congress had such authority But Chairman Paul Rand Dix on of the FTC immediately countered that if we didnt think we had statutory au we would not have pro posed such rules Sen Maurine B Neuberger DOie accused the tobacco in dustry of taking a cynical and position on the issue She said she believes the FTC already has statutory pow er to issue the rules but that it may need additional power to enforce those rules promptly and efficiently The statements were made in the opening session of public hearings on the proposals to 1 Require that every cig arette pack and advertisement carry a warning that cigarette smoking is a hazard to health 2 Prohibit any which states or implies that cig arette smoking promotes good health or physical wellbeing 3 Ban any claims that a cer tain brand contains less tar or nicotine unless this is borne out by an test Dixon announced at the open ing of the hearings that the commission had extended to April 15 the time for fifing opinions on proposals Origi nally the wa March 2 H Thomas Austern a mem ber of the legal firm that rep resents the Tobacco a major spokesman for the to bacco the institutes views Monday Austern said that from the standpoint of law this FTC commission does not have the statutory authority to issue the rules it has proposed And he added that what is proposed is ambiguous impractical in terms of compliance Austern asserted also that the proposed rules are un supported by facts presum ably meaning facts as to the need for such rules Subsidiary To Be Split From Firm PITTSBURGH AP Rock well Manufacturing Co informed its stockholders Monday that the Automatic Voting Machine Corp Jamestown NY a wholly owned subsidiary will become a separately owned and operated firm Rockwell which makes power tools meters and regulators said stock in Automatic Voting I will be distributed to Rockwell about April 30 on the basis of one share of AVM common stock for each 10 shares of Rockwell common stock The reason for the separation Rockwell said is that the voting machine business has not proved readily adaptable to Rockwells marketing system for other products Lloyd A Dixon Srr AVM president will become chairman of the board The new president will be Lloyd A Dixon Jr an AVM vice president and tor Belle Pleads Not Guilty PITTSBURGH AP A sub dued nattily attired Earl Belle answered with a firm not guil ty Monday to 28 federal counts of fraud which arose from op of his onetime financial empire The Pittsburgh na tive recently returned from Brazil where he spent five years as a fugitive was arraigned in US District Court on three in Judge Edward Dumbauld set no trial date and Belles bond was continued Belles at torney Louis C Glasso said trial probably would come up in June Dressed in a gray suit and black tie Belle as a federal attorney read off charges of mail fraud wire fraud and conspiracy Rail Unions Deny Plans For Strike Feels Crisis Can Be Avoided By NEIL GILBRIDE WASHINGTON rail road spokesman said Monday union moves had raised the threat of an nationwide after union denials he said later he thinks a crisis can be avoided 3 E Wolfe chief negotiator for about lines said at a morn ing news conference The rail road operating unions have again brought the country to the verge of a national railroad strike He went on to say he had unimpeachable advice that five operating unions had firm plans to bypass the national negotiations by striking Wed against the Southern Pa and the Louisville and Nashville This Wolfe con tended could trigger a national walkout But after union denials of strike plans Wolfe issued a statement Monday night saying In view of the apparent re versal of their union strike plans the railroads now are op that a crisis can be avoided Wolfe noted that railroad rep are meeting Tues day of Labor W Willard to discuss pro that may dispose of re maining issues between the carriers and the unions He con cluded The railroads will not seek injunctive restraint in the courts unless there is the threat of a strike Of Pennies Collected THE DRAKE CALHOUN Ga AP A truck load of pennies 3391361 to be exact was escorted by the state patrol from Calhoun to Atlantas Federal Reserve Bank Monday culminating a drive for a school music hall Leaders of the SeventhDay Adventists hailed the drive which went almost a million and a half pennies over its goal The donations will be used for a 535000 music building at the groups Georgia Cumberland Academy at Calhoun Nearly 4000 persons turned out for the penny counting Sun day at the academy site One man who had to park about a mile away carried al most 300 pounds of pennies to he counting site said Leroy J Leiske president of the Geor gia Cumberland Conference of SeventhDay Adventists The pennies dumped rm a 10 wooden weighed more than 11 tons The task of counting lasted into the night The drive started with 2000 boys and girls seeking 1000 pen nies each Before it was over some 3000 youngsters partici pated The donations came from Georgia and East Tennessee The Adventists plan to open the Cumberland Academy in September 1965 as a tional high school The project wil cost 5710000 and handle 320 students Top Courl Opens PITTSBURGH AP The Pennsylvania Supreme Courts spring session for the western district opened Monday The jur ists spent the day in consulta tion Battle Against Poverty Starts DeGaulle In Mexico Opens Drive For Trade With La By MORRIS W ROSENBERG MEXICO CITY ing in Spanish from the balcony of the National Palace French President Charles de Gaulle touched off a tumultuous ovation Monday with a proposal that France and Mexico join hands to step forward into a changing world The bareheaded De Gaulle launching in Mexico his drive to advance French prestige in Latin America was accorded the honor of being the first for eign chief of state ever to speak from the presidential balcony overlooking Constitution Plaza Thousands cheered him as he drove under clouds of confetti from the airport into the city and a crowd estimated at 300 000 gathered outside the palace to hear him speak President Adolfo Lopez Ma teos introduced the towering De Gaulle as the hero of the free dom and grandeur of the French people De Gaulle declared that the world is in transformation Pledge To By GARDNER L BRIDGE WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Johnson declared Monday the full power of the United States is ready to assist any American country whose free dom is threatened from another continent Renewing this dedi cation to the Alliance for Prog ress in Latin America Johnson said We must protect the alli ance against the efforts of com to tear down what we are building The recent proof of Cuban aggression in Venezuela is only the latest evidence of those in tentions the President said He spoke at a special session of the Organization of American States on the third anniversary of President John F Kennedys call for the Alliance for Progress program The Latin American diplo mats remained silent during Johnsons declaration of aid against outside aggression but they gave prolonged applause at the end of his speech Several Latin American am were asked for com ment on the Presidents speech All declined Meeting of Minds Denied by Johnson and nothing is more important than cooperation among coun tries like ours De Gaulle wore a military un and saluted die crowd of ten on his drive from the air port Crowds of Mexicans many of then given the day off from work showered him with confetti and filled the air with cheers He rode in a car beside Lopez Mateos Bienvenido De Gaulle said big signs along the way Former DJ Faces Tax Charge NEW YORK AP Alan Freed former top rock V roll disc jockey was indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on a charge of evading more than in income taxes The government charged that much of the income on which it claims Freed owes tax money for the years of 1957 1958 and 1959 came from numerous rec ord companies in return for publicizing their de vice known as payola US Atty Robert M Morgen thau said the former disc jockey evaded paying the correct amount of taxes by Fraudulently deducting as ness expenses sums paid to his first wife for support of their children Freed was a resident of Stam i ford Conn but now is believed to live in Palm Springs Calif Freed pleaded guilty in 1962 to two counts of commercial bribery and received a suspend ed sixmonth sentence and a fine of charged on 25 He had counts been His Statement About Panama Startles Latins By ARY WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Johnson delivered an im opinion Monday that there has not been any genu ine meeting of the minds be tween the United States and Panama Some diplo mats privately expressed shock and astonishment at the state ment which Johnson lated in a speech to the Organ of American States Johnsons statement threw cold water on hopes that arose Sunday night when the OAS an that the United States and Panama have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations as soon as possible to seek the prompt elimination of the causes of conflict over the Panama Canal Ambassador Juan Plate of Paraguay said I dont want to make any comment on John sons remarks Plate heads the OAS commission mediating the dispute Government sources said that the at this point is the Panamanian interpretation of the proposed agreement to start talks an interpretation these sources said makes a point that the United States would be com mitted in advance to certain conditions Baby Found Abandoned PITTSBURGH new sorn boy was found abandoned Monday night in n cardboard in the backyard of a horns n Carrick section Albert Theobald and his son found the infant in the box be hind some baskets in their yard after hearing cries The baby believed to be about four hours old had no clothing but was wrapped in a sheet and covered with a bedspread Policemen took the baby to South Side Hospital where he was reported in apparently good condition Nurses are calling him Patrick John Its Avenue Du Kennedy PARIS AP The Quai De Passy on the right bank of the Seine now is the Avenue du President Kennedy Never had the disappear ance of a foreign chief of state so deeply moved each French man each Parisian said Jean Auburtin president of the Mu Council as he unveiled the new blue and white name plate Monday Relocation Of Negroes Proposed WASHINGTON AP Sen Richard B Russell DGa pro posed Monday adding to the civ il rights a federally financed voluntary relocation program aimed at giving all states an equal proportion of Negroes Russell leader of the South ern forces waging allout battle against civil rights legislation noted that he offered a similar relocation plan in 1949 but that it was rejected It has been sug gested several times since The Georgian propelled the budding civil rights filibuster into its second week with the Senate still debating whether to take up the measure A vote on that preliminary question is ex this week Russell in putting forth his relocation program told the Senate that the tion of Negroes now ranges from a high of J2 per cent in Mississippi to of 1 per cent in Vermont and North Da kota And it is clear he said that racial problems are most severe in areas of greatest Ne gro concentration His plan Russell said would tend to give each state a ratio of 105 per rent Negro popula tion the present national aver age He said this should help make a beginning toward the permanent resolution of the deep racial conflicts in the United States Code of Behavio From Children for Parents By JOAN ANDERSON Toledo Blade Staff Writer TOLEDO Ohio the field of instructing parents on how to bring up children there is advice from experts in the themselves Being compiled here is a Code if Behavior for par ents The code grows out of sug gestions from four each from Beverly and Marshall schools here The ex perts were asked to draw up some guide lines for parents to follow in handling their off spring The group produced hundreds of suggestions but many had un common grounds Sub most often mentioned were bedtime methods of punish 1 ment fair treatment of all chil in a family and of course the modern childr favorite toy Among the donts for parents were Dont pay attention to only one child Dont baby them Dont let them tell you what to do Dont let the child fee lonely Dont spoil them Dont blame everything on the older children Dont always make them take a younger brother or sister along everywhere they go Dont punish all the children foi something only one has j Dont make one child clean up another On the positive side the chil suggested Spank them when needed Try to understand them Help them vith their home but dont do it for them Teach children to treat other children with respect Listen to the childrens side of things Be more fair about letting them watch television Trest children in the family according to age and send them to bed according to age Find out what happened be fore blaming a child Let the children earn an al lowance Practice what you preach Some of the children voiced specific complaints about par ents And one child put his sug gested rule for parental behav ior simply and clearly Dont be such a grouch Proposal Offered By Johnson Wants 100000 In Job Corps To Be Reclaimed By W B RAGSDALE JR WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson called Monday for enlistment of 100000 draft re and school dropouts in a job corps to be reclaimed for a productive role in American society This was a key proposal as Johnson sent his message on poverty to Con gress The legislation was intro in both House and Senate where Democratic leaders al ready have made plans to push for quick passage Democrats hailed the propos als as an essential program for continued prosperity in Ameri ca There was no immediate comment from Republicans House Speaker John W Mc Cormack DMass said the would be referred to the House Committee on Labor and Educa tion headed by Rep Adam Clayton Powell DNY Johnson said his job corps would be recruited from those whose background health and education make them least fit for useful work The legislation has a million price tag but Johnson stressed all of the money has been provided in his budget for the next fiscal year As an example the mil lion set aside for the youth em ployment has been included in the poverty program Other provisions in the pover ty program called for creation of the Office of Economic Op headed by Sargent Shriver creation of a domestic Corps a program of grants for community and rural battles against poverty and low interest loans to stimulate new jobs and help subsistence farmers Johnson said high priority should be given to helping young Americans who lack skills who have not completed their education or who cannot complete it because they are too poor Latest figures show unemploy ment among those in the 16 to 21 age bracket who are not in school running at about 15 per cent almost three times the lev el for the nation as a whole The years of high school and college age Johnson said are the most critical stage of a young persons life If they are not helped then many will be condemned to a life of poverty which they in turn pass on to their chil dren TWU Local Gets Picketed ALTOONA Pa AP Labor council men picketed the na local office of the Transport Workers Union Monday in what the pickets said was a protest against the removal of a griev ance official Between 20 to 25 pickets from the Blair County Central Labor Council some carrying signs paraded outside the office of Local 2017 for about three hours There was no trouble They said they were protest ing the removal of Chester Pike from his post as a grievance of for Local 2017 The locals executive board voted to re move Pike Friday No reason was given Pike is vice president of local and president of the labor council While the picketing was going on a meeting was held among representatives of the pickets union and the state AFL CIO What took at the meeting was not Publisher Dies BOYERTOWN Pa AP funeral services for Charles F Wentzel 62 publisher of the weekly Boyertown Times will be held Thursday He died Sat in Readings St Josephs Hospital
