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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
12
United States economy may rise five percent to a new 1964 record with prices stable, according to Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. Personal income could reach $2,600 per person with GNP possibly surpassing $620 billion if tax cuts pass.
A cold spell dominates Delaware County through Wednesday and into the weekend with an Arctic breeze from between the Atlantic and a southern Iowa high. Temperatures will hover around 30 today, fall to the teens tonight, and rise only to the low 30s by Tuesday.
The reader is guided through a multi section daily paper listing pages for engagements, industry news, Provines press coverage, amusements, bridge, classifieds, comics, obituaries, editorials, family news, financials, horoscope, junior editors, sports and television. Death notices appear on pages 17 and 18.
Mrs. J Howard Pew wife of Sun Oil Co board chair died at 79 80th birthday observed last week in Ardmore home Knollbrook on Mill Creek Road She led Philadelphia cultural and charitable efforts for years serving as president of the Philadelphia Home for Infants and on multiple boards including Jefferson Medical College Orchestra Association and Freedoms Foundation She survived by husband son George T and three daughters services set for Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church Ardmore with private burial
Authorities probe the Jersey Shore Steel Co. plant blaze near Lock Haven Pa as a statewide budget forecast projects a general fund near 1.2 billion for the next fiscal year starting July 1 with no new taxes amid mandated spending increases.
The Daily Times reports a special legislative session may convene in January to pass enabling laws for Project 70 a 70 million bond program to buy land for open space and recreation. Governor Scranton aides say 40 to 50 potential sites statewide are under study with six to eight in southeastern Pennsylvania.
A hard cover history on President Kennedy’s assassination titled The Torch is Passed will be available to Daily Times readers in January for $2 at 18 E. 8th St. Chester. The Associated Press team authored the volume with about 100 pictures, including a Karsh color portrait of the Kennedys.
A brief LA weather note reports chilly conditions along the coast with cool temperatures and a light breeze. The update notes a dry day with no rain expected and temperatures near seasonal norms.
Elwyn 11 year old Robbie Burgess watched a total lunar eclipse at 5 28 AM through a 160 power telescope from Middletown Road with his parents. In San Diego 84 degrees, crowds observed a rare sky event as the moon darkened between 4 25 and 7 50 AM. Swarthmore Sproul Observatory researchers noted the event with limited attention, and the morning marked Americans’ second total lunar eclipse in six months following last July’s solar eclipse.
Burlington Free Press offers to pay all funeral expenses for anyone who registers that they will drink and drive on New Year’s Eve and is killed doing so. Five registered in 1961, two last year, but none have collected yet.
Chester Committee For Freedom Now joins Philadelphia civil rights groups in vowing to physically halt the New Year’s Day Mummers Parade if blackface units appear. CORE leader Louis Smith and CFEFN’s Stanley Branche say they will use bodies or other actions to stop the parade. Officials at WCAU-TV will omit pics of blackface units from coverage, while recreation commissioner Robert Crawford and parade director Elias Myers discourage such entries and may disqualify or prize restrictions.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders accepted Sir Duncan Sandys plan for a neutral zone in Nicosia and British patrol oversight with daily meetings under British chairmanship. Archbishop Makarios and Fazil Kutchuk signed the accord as violence subsided after last week’s fighting. Kutchuk urged partition as a solution, while Makarios defended the current constitutional arrangement granting Turkish affairs its own chamber. The island, with 445,000 Greek Cypriots to 105,000 Turkish Cypriots, remains tense though the Greek sector shows normalcy.
King Paul ordered elections for a new Parliament on February 16 to resolve Greece's political crisis. Paraskevopoulos to head caretaker cabinet. coalition talks failed after Nov. 3 vote left Center Union 138, National Radical Union 132, United Democratic Left 30.
At about 11:15 a.m. Rebecca Watson’s home at 1501 Concord Ave. Chester suffered a basement oil heater fire. Watson’s brother William woke sleeping Pansy Reid, 44, as smoke filled the house. Fire units from Felton Franklin and Moyamensing Juniors fought the blaze, which was mainly confined to the living room.
A coroner's inquest is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Lancaster General Hospital into the deaths of Denis Ward and Wesley Sharpless two Delaware County teens killed when their car crashed on Lincoln Highway in Paradise near Lancaster. Driver Bruce Bradford of Lansdowne was bailed on 500 dollars on charges of leaving the scene.
At the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Jacksonville a smoke filled ballroom caused 19 deaths and 21 injuries as guests fled to safety. Navy helicopters rescued trapped patrons while Miss America 1964 Donna Axum and chaperone were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Officials said the fire originated in the ballroom ceiling and fire marshals found no negligence.
The Wyeth painting The Cloisters sold for 45000 dollars to an anonymous buyer at a Sunday night auction in the Waldorf Astoria during a charity dinner. The piece, painted in 1949 at Chadds Ford, features a lone porcelain parrot on a bench beside a sunlit timbered wall.
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