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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1961
Page
1
The county sues Ridley Township claiming a $6 710 debt for April and May 1900 trash disposal under a 1958 agreement. It expects $3 331 for 1 025 tons in April and $3 379 for 1 039 tons in May at a Chester incinerator landfill, contending waste was dumped before incineration began.
The U S Department of Agriculture designated Delaware and Chester counties as eligible areas for Farmers Home Administration emergency loans to mushroom growers hit by cold weather and disease X losses. Senator Clark urged growers to contact him for help, with applications to be handled through the local FmHA office in Norristown.
Marilyn Monroe, 44, had a two hour emergency gall bladder surgery at Polyclinic Hospital after a Wednesday gall stone attack. Seven doctors attended including her California based physician. no complications reported and she rests well. Joe DiMaggio waited in her private room as she recovers, marking her fourth hospital confinement in five months.
Two ice cream vendors were fined 50 dollars and costs each for playing music without city permits. Jeffrey Brown of Springfield and William Shourds of Swedesboro appeared before Alderman Thomas Conley after their arrests on Thursday evening. Police said complaints prompted city crack down on unpermitted music by vendors.
Armored reinforcements moved toward Kuwait's northern frontier with Iraq and British built armored cars with Kuwaiti crews entered Kuwait City. Officials say Iraqi forces have strengthened along the border after Kassemari claim. Kuwait remains quiet as authorities prepare a mass demonstration to resist Iraqi challenge.
Washington officials estimate the bill could make about 3 million moderate income families eligible to buy homes. The measure would extend mortgage terms up to 40 years and lower monthly payments from 82.05 to 74.85 on a 15 000 dollar house, with down payments of 450 dollars. Nonprofit groups and cooperatives could build subsidized housing under the program.
Dolly Williams a 35 year old shoe clerk in Los Angeles found a woman's purse in a downtown office building Thursday. Inside the purse the distraught owner claimed there was 24000 dollars cash and she was grateful for the return, leaving a 50 cent reward.
National Commander William R. Burke warns that war could come by year end if Khrushchev bluffing on Berlin fails and Castro and communism remain a threat. About 7,000 delegates attend the American Legion California department's 43rd annual convention in Long Beach.
Classified deadline details advance for Daily Times ads. Copy for Monday July 3 must be in the office by 5 PM today. Copy for Tuesday July 4 must be in by Saturday at 12 noon. For further information or to place your Daily Times Want Ad.
The United States may deploy more forces in Europe to bolster NATO defenses as Kennedy aides study steps over the Berlin crisis. Rusk says to avoid miscalculation, McNamara and others review military and nonnuclear options, while French troop shifts cheer administration plans.
A quirky header notes the Senator Snooper Adict as something that will do a lot for you but requires effort from you. It lists Times Telephones numbers forWant Ads and Other Calls with specific TR phone codes.
Gayle Nelson a 19 year old Chester girl was chosen Miss Pennsylvania for the Miss Universe contest in Philadelphia Hotel Sheraton. She will represent Pennsylvania in the Miss Universe pageant in Miami on July 12. Nelson competed with area beauties and answered questions about American versus Latin men, favoring American men for democratic ways. She is a 1961 Chester High School graduate and previously toured with the Manhattan Rockettes. Dalores Rehrer Miss Reading and Val Foerst Miss Philadelphia were runners up.
In New York AP reports speeded momentum in the national maritime strike talks. President Kennedy's fact finding board labeled negotiations with shipping firms and the NMU as very good progress and expected to share hopeful news at a conference. A major dispute with the AMI remains, while tentative wage and benefit gains and studies of foreign flag ships were noted.
Judge William R. Toak to open full hearing on continuing a preliminary injunction banning mass picketing at the Sinclair Refining Co. plant in Trainer. The unions National Maritime Union and Local 12-234 OCIA AFL CIO have expired contracts and say they will not work without them. A picket boat tried to stop a tanker unload earlier.
Two Edgmont, Pennsylvania girls age 9 and 10 vanished for about six hours after leaving a home near Providence Road. State troopers and volunteers searched Gradyville area before Mary Robinson and Nancy Conyers were found at a friend’s house.
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