Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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Traffic on River Koad in the I'laiiiHVill«^ .StHliun "of Plains Tovvn.hip wa. forced to creep through 1,1 to ]g inches of water after the heavy downpour overtaxed Mwers and drains And flooded the eellara of many home, in the area. (Photo by Ghukinaa).
RIVER ROAD LOOKS IT
BETTER FOR DUCKS — dentin PUIn.Town¬ ship carriea hi* dog aeross deep puddles a« a e*r goes .plash¬ ing through curb-high water. (Photo by Chukinas)
RAILWAY BECOMES WATERWAY—
freek Branrh of l.ehigk >alley Railroad waa halted when the right-of-way was flooded In the Dennison St. are* of Swey- ervUle. Mo.t of the Mreet. tn the borough were needed by water.  (Photo by Bieley)
f      A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Cool, Cloudy
Highest Today in Ma Monday—Cool, Clearing
49th YEAR — No. 51 — 76 PAGES
Membw   AdAU Bnr«an ot ClrculatlfA
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1955
PKITKO   PRBSa Win Mew* S«r»l«.
PRICE 15 CENTS
RIVER 2 FEET BELOW FLOOD STAGE
U. 5. Will Expend Billion for New Superspeed Planes
Contracts Awarded By Air ForcejA   iBX Cltt
Because of Russia's Impressive Display of Long Range Bombers
WASIIIXHTON (IP) —The  Air Force has quietlyjEisenhower  yesterday  that placed orders in recent days for mor(^ than ."Sl.OOO.OOO.OOOihe  is  "hopeful"  of a  bal-
jEngagementi Of Princess s Expected!
I    WINDSOR.  England  (IP)!
, „    .„-  _„   vivid recollections of historical jQueen Mother Elizabethi
Iphrey reported to President happening, during her childhood, icame to Windsor yesterdav!
Humphrey 'Forecasts
i    DENVER (IP) — Treasury jSecretary Geotnge M. Hum'
Woman Marks lOlst Birthday
EPHRATA, Pa. <IP) —Mrs. Eliiabeth (Sockley Kern quietly celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary yesterday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Mabel Weinhold.
Mra. Kern makes her way around the Weinhold home with a cane and crutch, having frac¬ tured her hip 15 years ago.
Although her eyesight and hearing are failing, she is .itill mentally keen  and  can  recount
I   River Gauge Readings   |
Official readings to determine the stage of the Susque¬ hanna River in thig city, taken by John B. Mirmak, state river observer, were recorded as follow s:
Friday
Friday
Friday
.Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
.Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Sunday
4 P.M.
7 P.M. 10 P.M.
7 A.M. 10 A. M.
1 P.M.
4 P.M.
7 P.M. 10 P.M.
1 A.M.
3.2 feet
.^4 feet
Z.h feet
Z.2 feet
8.1 feet
11.4 feet
13.1 feet
1.5.1 feet
17.fi feet
20.3 feet
falling
rising
rising
ri!*inir
ri.sing
rising
rising
rising
rising
rising
Among her memories are the  ,^       ^ BatUe of Gettysburg, the public   r       ". t
mourning following Lincoln's a.s-   tr.VSting place of her daugh-
the   week-end i
Flood stage in this city Is 22 feet.
worth of planes including jet fighters able to fly al most |»"^6<^, budget in fiscal 1956i ginauon and the havoc of the jter. Princess Margaret, and;
Peter Townsend,
twice the speed of sound.      «	
Some of the orders fol-j - ^
lowed the policy of stePPJn«rt|||COIIie   I OX up production of supersonic *»   ¦ ^^
Jots because of Russia's impressivej«p M        Q JL       J
display of long-range bombers andi I Q   D©   mUSnGO other  combat  planes  last  Spring.| mm^mm'^^m
Some  were  for  high-speed  turbo¬ prop  transports,  urgently  wanted
ffl Assembly
for    fast    movement    of    ground
troops and military cargo. By  IXOYD  R.  BiiriHr.T.l.F.
The Air Force has made no for- L'nited Press .Staff Correspondent mal announcements of the big or-| HARRISBURG — The General' der.s, but a compilation of data iA.ssembiy after dangling the ex- froni   manufacturers  showed  that plosive   issue   of   delayed   school
the total value passed the billion dollar mark Friday when Ijock- heed Aircraft Corp. disclosed a ne«' contract for F104A "Air Su¬ periority" fighters. When ques¬ tioned. Air Force officials veri¬ fied the total order figure. 1,300 Milea Per Hoar
The F104A, designed for day¬ time air battle* like those that ¦were fought eiglit mile, above the Yalu River In Korea, can fly an estimated 1,200 miles an hour, al¬ most twice as test as the F86 Sabre of Korea fame. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, has called It the "fastest, hijfhest-flying fighter in the air «n.vwhere." •¦R^ackheed's new contract for the I^Qpe. first ordered into produc- ¦^Kn ia»t year, amount, to more than tlOO.OOO.OOO. The Air Force has given no indication when it will  be ready for service.
McDonnell Aircraft Corp., mean¬ while, has received an order for more than $330,000,000 for three versions of its FlOl Voodoo fighter, •vhlch was earmarked along with   he F104 for a speedup after the Russian exhibitions. KMwrt Planes Included
Production will include FIOIA long-range escort planes, RF-101 piioto-reconnaissance fighters and f^'lOlB k>ng-range interceptors for battling bombers. The intercep¬ tor is a new development, brought about by the need for a much longer-range a^d faster air de¬ fense plane than those now in service,
A contract for about J.390,000,- 00<> dollars hae gone to Convair division of General Dynamics Corp. for e large number of FI02B deltawing triangular wing Interceptors.    "The     800-mile     an
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and that a balanced budget Johnstown flood.
would be followed by a tax
cut.
"I think our taxes are too high and I think we ought to get them down." Hum¬ phrey told reporters after he fin- iflhed  a  15-minute  session at the
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Analyst Finds Odds Favor GOP Viciory
subsidies in a welter of political confusion started a 10-day recess, yeaterday.
When the question wiil be re¬ solved wia. uncertain, but it prob¬ ably will go into a conference conunittee to be ironed out as have So many other hard-foug'ht issue, in thi. divided session.
A week of tugging and hauling along party lines reached a climax in   the   House   Friday   when   the
dominant  Democratic  ixloc  upped , ,      . , . ,   „
the school ante  by $114,000,000 to '^"' "°t*? ^"*T ? *.'"'' •'"'l': ^* bring the general  sohool  subsidy "a'.'^  **»»'  ^^  «^'"'«'  '*  ""K^t  be
DENVEH <IP>—President Eis¬ enhower sat up yesterday for | WASHINGTON (tfi-Samuel Lu- the first time since he was bell, political analyst for the striclten with a heart attack Iscripps-Howard Newspapers, said three weeks ago. Uj^e odds favor a Republican  vie-
After a conference with Secre- jtory in the 1956 presidential elec- tary   of   Treasury   George    >l |tion  regardless of who heads the
GOP   tfcket.
Humphrey and a quiet after¬ noon, the President was lifted by two medical eorpwmen from his bed and put in a big uphol¬ stered chair for IS minutes. Hi. doctors reported Bo ill effect*.
president',    bedside    in    Fitzsim- mon. Army Hospital.
Lubcli .aid the Republicans were "beginning to believe their own publicity,"—that President Eisen¬ hower wa» the onl.v Republican candidate who could win. But he said the GOP was underesti¬ mating it* own strength.
Lubell   apoke   here   before   tjie
nyi.       VI    .       —i. .National Conference  of  Editorial
The cabinet member was c*re-Uy,jjgpj
bill to a total of $566,000,000 which would cover the administration's program aa outlined in the orig¬ inal House-approved education bill Senate Republican, ignored to write their own. P^y Boost Retained
Left in the present, amended bin was the proposed $31,000,000 for another $190-$200 annual in crease in teacher salaries for the next two school terms. That move was initiated by two Democratic senators, both school administra¬ tors, and carried unanimously in the Republican-controlled Senate earlier in the week.
But House Republicans objected to increasing the school funds to the $566,000,000 mark, reiterating bhe <jOP contention that all that money was not needed to avert a financial pinch by school districts during Oetob* and Noveamber.
Minority Leader Oiarles C. Smith, (R-Philadelphia), charged in a heated speech on the floor that Gov George M. Leader "has decided there will be no money for education until after election day
possible through government sav-j^J   Artk \4uft
ings and higher tax revenue to achieve a balanced budget by tbe end of the next fiscal year.
This, If it comes true, he said, would make conditions, "more fav¬ orable for a tax cut."
Humphrey thought payments to reduce the monumental public debt must await reduction, in security exipenses. This was a reference to
Humphrey brushed off a augges-
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iasary   may   have   been   carrying
But   belief
2S-year-old
year-old  divorced  war  hero,   will
marry.
Engagement Bellefed Nesr
Court observers said they were convinced the Queen never would Hhavp     permitted     the     unprece¬ dented spectacle of Margaret and
FT. KNOX, Ky. up— Twenty two persons were injured, none seriously, yesterday in a three vehicle pileup near Muldraugh, Ky.
The Injured, most of them sol¬ diers en route here on a «>uth- eastern Greyhound Linee bus, were treated at post hospitals and at Elizabethtown, Ky, and diemiss- ed.
Leader Charges:
Fine's Adminisiraiion Diverted Highway Funds
High Mark Expected Here Today
More Rain is Due To Hit This Region; 4 R0Stis Ctosed
The Susquehann* River  at  WUkes-Barre was rising within strik¬ ing   distance   of   flood stage early today as a re- WASHINGTON (IP) _ Government health  officials suit  of  the  heavy  rains warned yesterday against any slowdown in polio vaccina- which pelted  Xortheast- tions during the late Fall and Winter months. I ^„ i>«„„o„i„„„:« <i.,^»<r
They  expre.s.sed  concerns |ern I ennsylvama dunng
that vaccinations may drop   _       . ^^        j*"® P*^^ •*" nours.
off now that the polio sea-j^ 110jpg^J Qll^     Ri.sing   at   a   rate   of
about   two   feet   every
i three hours, the river
stage reached 20.3 feet at
1   A.M.  today, only 1.7
,.,....,. feet below the flood stage
only SIX month, after they are pro-!     t^^.,.,,„„    .„ roor     * ^^^
duced. ':    DENVER (IP) — Intemaiof 22 feet
One officiaj .aid. there alreadyiRevenue Commissioner T.^ Rnt Tnhn R Mirmnt waa firmlnp that the are mgn. that uee of the va^-clneJColeman Andrews vestprdavi i. ^ 'Jumi £>. mimidiv, princes  and  the  40- is not keeping pac. with produc-L^n^^nced his re.signatfon tolfj^^^ HVerobserver, Said
U^e. Cooperation ^0*"   *"   insurance*^ firm.   It^t^e ,"^er, ^S expected to
U. S. Warns Against Any
The Queen Mother put up' •* *
sof Roya7l!odge**only a fet" Letup   III   USe   OT   VOCCJlie
miles from the secluded eountry eetate where Margaret and Town- send, snug from the speculating world, were together to test their love.
She sent her secretary to Me the (ouple on a mystery mission at dusk.
The    secretary    sped    with    a json ia waning, only to be followed polic<> escort through the gates of iby  a   big   rush   for  vaccjne   next,   ^ -^
Allanbay Park and up the fir-|Spring when a new aeason starts.; ^J^ B^l/i^fftlfA lined gravel drive to the 40-room| If that happens, they said. «>ipe^'^ •m%e W wff i#W house where Margaret  spent  tiie of the  precious vaccine now  be- -^
day    with    the   handsome   group cnnting available may be wasted. Dfggt^^aa   Uf^^a^ cptain.  , Tlie Salk ehou cjut be rtored for WUI CeUlf   IfldlW
There was no indication of what message the Queen Mother's em-
This concern prompted Health,I^^^^^ acpepted ;'regretfully"jgrest at between 21 and
Bducation, and Welfare .Secretary|Dy President Eisenhower.       \dZ feet at nOOn today. Marion B. Folwm to urge parents.'    Andrews .aid in a statement re-l     There was widespread ap-
Wa.shington   he   waeiprehen.sion a.s thunderstorms
ne J 1 1-  • .        •     ,,
doctors, local heaith officials and'leased    in _
druggists  to cooperate  in  getting I leaving  the   tax   post   becaiiee   he
aencea speciacie or  wiargarw. ana «•-»»•"--   -.«  vv..^j.^.=..^   ...   sc..va->«'..^>ii,«   m.-   inx.   fwsi   oecaiiee   ne  j        ¦        j«   • ..       *    iu
Townsend     weekending    togetheri^'igible   children    vaccinated    "Mjfelt he had completed the job  hei"     .   "Pf"    ^".   ^^^^    Of    the
unless an engagement was In the '¦*P'<|,'y *» mipplies become avaH-jundertook of reorganizing the In- works able." Itemal   Revenue  Servire   when   he
It was generally speculated that!     Folsom made hie piea for prompt ^ took   over as  commissioner  more Prime    Minijrter    Anthony    Eden^»<=<='"*t''""' '" announcing broad-jthan two yeara ago. might    break    the   new.    in    thei% a«e priorities on vaccine .up-,    ..^t   the   time   of   my   appoint-
plles. States now can set their own _,-_,   j .....j n, . -t-i^'-'i
„i...i,i~.   .„   -un^„-   .._   .-   ,K """"'• ^ stated that as soon as I
priorities   for   children   up   to_15,h^  '^^^^   ^j,   ^^^.^
region last night. More rain was forecast for today in the form of scattered storms.
ITie heavy ratns caused wide¬ spread damage to highwTiy* and bridges   when  small  streams and
years old  and also make vaccine'  „j .i.:,:..   . .       .i. ..I
;v«ilRhle Mr r.,««,»nt ,^wmen "od abiiuy to re«tore the prestige.
available for pregnant women.
my   power j creeks poured over their embank¬ ments,      recalling     the     danvag*
However.  Folsom   recommended f '*"",.^"'l'"»'  Revenue  Service.Uused  when   rains  of  Hurric«io .. .,..  „-. JJ _     »^-_:I   would   return   to   nrivate   buei- r.i j u-j   .u. ¦—
House of Commons when Parlia¬ ment reconvenes Oct. 25.
The Prime Minieter then would launch swift legislative procedure, aipproved In advance by all polit¬ ical   parties,  to   permit  the  mar-
"«''¦ .       ^   T.    ™      J        „!to theprevious'five throug'ii nine'    However, Secretary of Treasury 	
Margaret   and   Townsend   were,        ^ priority group George  M.   Humphrey   flew  here,      Joseph   J.   Lukasik.   LuMrM
staying  at  the  country estate  ofj^ L n.—,.«-»«L lyesterday    from    Wa-shingtcm    to! County superintendent of high-
confer with the President. WTienI wa>».    reported    »lx    highway*
that the state, add no more than I five addditional  years at  present
return   to   private   buei-|t)i^^  drenched  the same  region
ness." the otatement said
ion Aug. 18 and 19.
at  the  country estate  ot^^^^ P""''^^ "^^"l. the   Princess'   cousin.   Mrs    John j*^"""*'" For n.000,000
Wilte. It wa<5 there that the hand-.    The   government   now   bas   re-;,^    ^^^  ^y^^^  Humphrev   if hei w"" affected by the rain.
sioicne group captain wooed the Queen's eister two years ago be¬ fore he was "exiled" to Brussels: The house is in a park covered with den.se woods. Police offic¬ ers roamed the grounds with dogs and   walkie-talkie   radios   to   en-
leased enough of the Salk vaccine ^.^ » successor in mmd for An-   «»»e bridge was wished away, to   give   two   mjecuons   each   tojj ,^ ,ecrotor\- reolied I
about  12,000.000 children.   By  the °7„ u        . repi.eo. ,^^^   j^.^^^   Cteserver  Mirmak
end of this year, It expects to clear! .No, I havent anything to »ay Lhecked the river last night at 10 enough vaccine for another 4,000,-|"Pi* "<^ it measured 1T:6 feet. Thi. repea*
000 shots. I    Andrews,  in  an  interview with | .ented an increaee of 14.1 feet ki •
So far more Uian 7,000.000 chil-|the managing editor of the Rich-124-hour period.
HARRISBIURG   (U^-George   M.i programs,  aU  of  which  failed  of _ ^^^""'LJ^'r^^?^ ^v.^'^V^^^A^'^   PMsage.    but   that;,u7e the "privacv'the Princes.'«,j<iren have received shots. jmond,   Va..   Newa   Leader   ,n   the;    Between Friday night at 10 .^
Swiv    D^n^rLf^wlrjf  Hii^rn  ^P'™"  . ^^Partment    had!dramatically   pleaded   for   Friday     A  spokesman  for  Folsom'.  de-^ne«-»papers  offices  there,  earlier   ^^^ „,„(/     tiO. ft. rt»v
Highway    Department    with    di-made   no   provision   for   partici-_:^u. '   ^ ' ipartment said there 1. "no reaaon had   confirmed    report*   that   ^yeZ^^^\^\.,eJ:,r.t.\l*»t.
andjpating in federal aid monies. i„*   „ .... ,^ „ . ito  delay"  vaccinations.    Chlldrenwa. leaving the Internal Revenuej_. , _.   leet lo o.i ie«».        i
verting   construction    funds
nighf.
deferring payments to contractor8j8a.>-8 Fnnd. Diverted j Has Breakfast In Bed jinoculated  this   Fall   and   Winterisc7vice   He said in Richmond he'Ri**"* »» ''>»'««»^
to   cover   a   $40,000,000    biil   fori    He   said   Fine's   administrationi    .M,argarct  had breakfa« In bed|,(rjn have protection when the po-iwou!d become board chairman of:    The  situation   at  Towantfa
had    diverted    $6,000,000   in   con-,yesterday after a champagne din-,,;„ ggason starts in the ^ring. be an     Insurance     firm.     American.serious la*t night  There were re-
when I predict there wai bea new I ^^jgjj ^ljg,j.g .j,,j^g „g f^,„^g      ^ ^   _
blitzkrieg to put over an  mcomei    -^^ ^ major defense of his ownistruction   funds   to   maintenance iner party Friday night. Her little'1'^/^
tax In some form or other Smith, arguing that the Demo
cratic amendments were intended (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1)
Cop Signals Driver to Cut Speed, Brakes Go On, Car Skids, Kills Man
S(3«VBJNKSV1LLE, Pa. (UT— William Kohl YellU, 71, of Ana- ^faeim. Calif., wa. killed yester- '•ly when an automobile skidded , ffl the rain and crashed head- ^, on into hi. car. 'f Police Chief Theodore Berry •aid he waa on patrol on Main St., and had cautioned the other ^nver, Joseph S. Pettrka, 30. of Pottstown. R. D., Pa. to .low down. Berry .aid Peterka was going "too fast for conditions" «nd shouted to Wm. Peterka ai^
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plied his brakes skidded acroa. the street and struck Yellis' car according   to   Berry.
Yellis, a retired farmer who was a native of Graterford near here, had been living in C&Utoi- nia. He was visiting hi. alster and her husband, Mr. and !Mrs, Clarence E. Ketterer of Willow Grove
Berry said Yellis had just taken his sister €u»d two of her grandchildren to the Ketterer bungalow at Graterford and waa enroute to visit frienda.
Highway  Department  operation
i Fidelity  and  (Casualty  Co.
and  then,  late  in  December.  1954.1 godchild and the daughter of her     Th^ possibility of vaccine waat-;    y^       r«.i»n«tion target of recent GOP claims that; diverted $3,000,000 in maintenance I hosU.      seven-year-old      Marylinjage if inoculations drop off is dueJQ^   ,.   "^  » "^ "construction   has   ground    to   a monej'—much of it from the »now!WilLs. told reporters the Princeesito the fact that vaccine "expires" halt."  CJovernor  Leader  issued   a "staitus report" by Hig'bwi.ys Sec
j ports of flooding In the area m»4
is
effectivejone  bridge  w«s  washed  aw«y (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1)
approval or notification.
'^'hen we took over Jan. 16 the d<q;>arbment hiad outstanding obll-
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retary    Joseph    J.    Lawler,    who credited the Democrats with "lift¬ ing   the   department   from    the trough of political detoauchery." $100,000,000 Contract.
Lawler reported that by Dec. Sl, 19(56, hia departmerrt wtU have awarded contracts for project, approximating    $100,000,000    andi
have a mmilar goal  for  1956—alllAmusoiaent   	
paid  out of  motor license funds.! Around the 1V)wn.
Lawler said that thc department,; Better English 	
under    Fine's    administration    in City  HaU News 19M. placed contracts totaling onlyi Classified
removal fund—to the constructionjseemed "very happy." jsjx months after it is shipped fromi
fund, both without Budget Bureau!    While the Princes* breakfasted, I the manufacturer's plant. The vac-
Townsend played the role of gen-i^ine is recommended for use with- tleman Jockey, and went out forjjn the six month period. After a canter on a horse named tliat. there la no assurance of its "Jtdiet." effectiveness.
INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT
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Section Page
People Overseas Think U. 5. Glad To Throw Money Avuay, Envoy Says
$84,300,000, including $12,213,000 ofl Oounty  News State   Highway   and   Bridge   Au-1 Cro«aw%rd  PumIs thority  funds, Lawler wiid hi. department has
Drew   Pe^raon
J Editorial
been geared for  any of the  sac
cession   of   (ederail-«id   hishwayjEVaiik Tripp
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11! How Can 1? ? ? .,.._ Four
7 Look and Learn One
5 Obituaxy   _._ ._._ One
10 Politics   "~. — Three
1-,S Radio      -_„. Five
11 Robert C. Ruarlc Thre*
I ouile Capitot — Two
giStaite   News Two
Valley Scenes
Threo Five 21 Womea's Sectteo Fou^
Sports «TV   ._.
-J PUimbtr't vnfe  eallinff earn-
^i netUnr whrn .fc* muldn'l rtaek
gi hfr hushanA aiter boiler tprung
0-7 i * '"'*¦
^' Fi%^r-y*ar-old    Mloiving    traf-
« fie     ott     water-filled    Platn*
» Totcnahip street a» ke merriiv
1-51 sailed  a eigar  box  boat  along i
«-7j the etirb and ignored plea* of I
l-» driven to "get off the $tr«eL"
LEWISBURG, Pa. (IPv—People overseas think the United States has M> much money it is glad to "throw it away" Dr. Horace Hildreth, U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan. Miid yeMerday in a •peech at Buckneil Umversity.
Hildreth cited the comment of the head of a Paicistinlan school to the effect that "everyone know, the U.S. has so much money it is glad to get rid of it."
Tb* ambassador, on home leave from hM diplomatic post.
Mud   America   should   hsip  *^\ undeveloped areas of ths wori^j but   warned  the  foreign  pseptel must    be    reminded   that   "Va work hard to achieve what wm have." '
Dr. Hiidreth. a former pru¬ dent of Bucknell. took part In ceremonies dedicating "Jame. S> SwarU Hall." a new dorrmtoty.
A plaque dedleatinf it» knild- ing was unveiled kr l^- <'«>•*(>*> W. Henderson, trustee chalrmm. from Philadelphia, and Dr. Merle M. Odgers. presideni «( the university. ^
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