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MarpleWomenPicketRestaurantIs TargetMARPLE—Four housewives, one carrying a sign reading “Burgers Bring Beatniks, Bums and Bottles,” picketed a newly constructed restaurant at 2180 Sproul Road Monday, continuing a fight which began several months ago.The women said they lived on Boxwood Road, directly behind the new Burger-King restaurant, and protested the construction of such a place of business near their homes.One woman displayed a placard reading “Is This Another Gino’s Like in Ridley Township?”This was a reference to an incident at the Gino’s Drive-In in Milmont Park Friday in which four teen-agers were stabbed.Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park said today all four youths had been taken off the critical list.The boys all of Ridley Township, are now listed in serious | condition.I They are Walter Gordun, 17, j of 623 Maddock St.; Fred Rowl-es, 17, of 617 Folsom Ave.; Michael Laird, 17, of 418 Gorsuch St., and James Shore, 16, of 621 Maddock St.Mrs. Morton Tarason, 2101 Boxwood Drive, said the seven or eight residents in the rear of the restaurant had been promised a fence in back of the! restaurant and other shopping center stores being constructed nearby.“We still don’t have this fence, but even if we did we a.t';wouldn’t be happy,” said Mrs. p-(Tarason.“Look at my home, you can see it from here,” said Mrs. Burton Klees, of 2117 Boxwood Drive. “The lights from those cars will shine right into our home and we won’t have any privacy. We won’t even be able to have barbecues in our backyard.”“We came into the suburbs to get away from this kind of restaurant,” she said.Earl F. Crawford, owner of the Burger - King franchise, which is expected to open sometime today, said:I feel like an innocent victim in this whole thing.” j Crawford said his restaurant1 is not a drive-in business and the seating arrangement insidect,jis slanted to a family trade.“There is no doubt we'll be tested,” he said, “but we just won’t let people sit in the cars or hang around here after they (have finished eating,”
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Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Mar 15, 1966
Page 17
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