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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1961
Page
2
Harrisburg AP reports Rep. W Stuart Helm proposes a plan to reorganize counties into single school districts under the county superintendent. The plan would centralize administration, create one county school board, and levy taxes countywide to coordinate services and reduce duplication.
A Senate bill by Sen. Henry J. Propert seeks a fifth judge for Montgomery County Common Pleas Court but falls short of the two extra judges demanded by President Judge William Dannehower. Dannehower pressed Gov. Lawrence for help. Propert proposes raising arbitration board controversy from 2000 to 3000 dollars to reduce court load and allow an elected 10 year term judge to take office in January 1964.
Los Angeles AP Bryan May 11 was awarded 600000 for polio crash blamed on Cutter Laboratories vaccine with Salk type serum in April 1955. His mother Norma May received 75000 for suffering and medical costs in the same suit.
Sheriff J R Sil ley defends treatment of Freedom Riders jailed for desegregation protests in Jackson Mississippi. Articles report 163 riders found guilty of breach of peace and judge James Spencer fining and jailing riders. a New York youth disputes an interview about alleged abuse.
Mrs John F Kennedy plans a state dinner at Mount Vernon on the Potomac, the first time the historic home of George Washington hosts such an event. She visited Mount Vernon to arrange details for the dinner for Pakistan's ruler Ayub Khan, as described by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger after her European trip.
Nine German born orphans aged from four months to nine years are in the care of relatives near Levistown after their father was killed in an auto accident in Philadelphia and their mother died in childbirth. Relatives weigh who will take permanent custody as the siblings await placement. The story also notes a separate line about the Mount Vernon estate restored as a public shrine by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.
Ida Fowler, proprietor of the Royal Hotel in Rubyvale Queensland, writes the State Licensing Commission to surrender the liquor license. She cites two pensioners' deaths and a heart attack in a key customer as factors in unprofitability.
Adolf Eichmann, on trial in Jerusalem, uses five hand drawn charts to argue he acted under Gestapo orders and bore no individual responsibility for the extermination of Jews. Defense contends charts show he was always within the green deportation area and that responsibility lay with higher authorities.
Dublin selects Robert Briscoe as mayor for the second time in five years after a council vote of 22 to 21. Briscoe, 67, an Orthodox Jew and Irish nationalist, becomes Dublin’s first Jewish mayor amid cheers in a Catholic city and cites tolerance in Ireland.
Washington AP reports economists expect the consumer price index for May to show living costs holding steady near the record levels of the past six months. The estimate suggests inflationary pressures remain unchanged as data release approaches.
Former President Herbert Hoover told Philadelphia students to guard freedom with responsibility and creativity. Mayor Dilworth planned to present Hoover with the Freedom Award as part of Freedom Week ending on July 4, the Declaration’s anniversary, with flags flown over Independence Hall.
Harrisburg AP reports Pennsylvania faces a legislative clash over abolishing the death penalty. Senate committee chair Hugh J. ate Menamin doubts approval while House sponsors seek a final vote this week. Debate and a possible statewide referendum loom amid expected committee maneuvers.
At the 33rd annual governors conference in Honolulu, leaders debated Kennedy’s education aid program and federal school funds. Ribicoff challenged states rights critics, though he could not attend. Quigley read his remarks. Leaders voiced concern over Khrushchev and pledged support for Berlin while noting the broad push for federal aid across highways welfare farm development and education.
The Kennedy plan to boost Social Security pension pay to retirement at 62, raise minimum checks, and expand widow's benefits clears the Senate 9 to 0. It moves to a House Senate conference committee with about 4.42 million people gaining new or increased payments totaling 750 million dollars in the first year.
Doctors report a new technique using thin rib strips from the patient to stimulate bone growth in nonhealing fractures. Capt James R. Dineen and Lt Gresham describe rib grafts placing the strip along or inside the break to encourage regeneration, then absorbed by the body.
An unknown bettor claimed a 39 412 payoff on a 2 bet at Suffolk Downs after a five minute wait. The win stemmed from Jeddah Chant, a 36 winner in the seventh race, with a foul claim lodged against that horse.
John Hooker Jr remains the sole contact between Fidel Castro’s Cuban prisoner emissaries and the disbanded Tractors for Prisoners Committee. He expected a decision on the negotiations by afternoon as he returned to Key West to meet the prisoners, who held a news conference denying blame for the failed April 17 invasion.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declared in a message to East German leaders that the Soviet Union will do everything possible to secure a German peace treaty by year end. The warning arrived amid ongoing tensions over Germany.
Demonstrations by angry farmers erupted across central France on Monday as they demanded a new deal for the national economy. Roadblocks and slow tractor parades stalled highway traffic from Grenoble in the Alps to La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast.
AP reports the annual summer gathering of the Pennsylvania Bar Association opened with over 600 lawyers attending. The event runs through Thursday and Chief Justice Charles Alvin Jones of the State Supreme Court will be honored Wednesday night. In Copenhagen, a sow owned by farmer Aksel Egedee farrowed 34 piglets, a potential world record, with 15 born Sunday and 19 born the following day.
In Los Angeles AP report Si Wills, ex husband of Joan Davis, petitions to remove his daughter Beverly Wills Colbert as administrator of the late comedian's $1 million estate. He argues the daughter lacks required business experience and cites a pending will contest. The court sets July 31 for the contest as Colbert had earlier become administrator after Davis died May 23 without a will.
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