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> Question Legality of Luzerne County's 1954 Tax Levy A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT WINDY, COLD Highcet today in 30i. Monday: Olioudy, wairoer. 48TH YEAR — NO, 21 — 72 PAGES The 'Ordinary* Americans M«nilMraadlt Bohma «f ClrciUaM«a< WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY MARCH 21, 1954 (TNnXD PRBSS WIrr New* •*rTlc« PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS f^^ER}CfK 15 N\AOE OF «•©«,£•. '^ COODPEOPLZ- BRAVe PEOPLE- HAROvv'OfiKlf^ PEOPLE- PE0P4-E UKE ,^ TrtE ..-" jdt^ MINER.. ' ^ THI$ MAN IS Wft»T»NG FORTHEELEV/ATOR.- TO 00 POmV TO H\S JOB-M'^VB£ A/WJ/if DOWN. IT N\M BE OOSTy, OR DRIPPING VAJET— ATiOME LEVELS »T IS OVEN'HOT'Oa ICy-COLtX AT BEST IT'S ROGOED. BUT HE U/OULt>N'r TRADE JObSWTH you. Big Scranton Factory Is Destroyed by Fire WITHOUT /AOVING FROM^ yoUR CHAlR,THINK.OF ALL THE THINGS VWE HAVe,^AETAL ANb WNERAL,WHICH CAME FRO(AfAIMES. ANO THINK OF THE MINER, DOWN THERE RIGHT NOW,U/OftKfNCdV lAMPL/CHriNTHE DAYT/Mfi. 5Hon.esDon,oged;|,j|.3rt|,y. 3 Alarms Sounded; ^. ^... ^' Explosions Heard ' "HI NOt Soft-Pedar Taxpayers Assoc. Says: Touched off by wall-shattering explosions, a three-hour, three-alarm fire la-st night destroyed the large, rambling As,sociated Mills plant at .'>;].')-,"»37 Orchard street, Scranton, and damaged five nearby dwellings before it was brought under control. County Budget Action May Have Evaded the Law Tile explosdona, police and fire offlciala »aid, occurred in a section^ oif the big embroidery piamt w4iere paint* and otiher JntfiammabJe I miaterialls were gltored. i One ot the exp^losione knocked out part* ot the brick and fraanei wal'ls of the South Scranton landmark. Heard 3 Blastft could nM be reached EM'ward Kililion, whose home is estimate of the loas. Rips at 'Chameleon' GOP Friends for Asking Him to Find No Wrong in Party Did the Luzerne county commissioners comply with the l&w i« adoption of the 1954 county .vbudget? In the 1954 tax levy illegal? These and other questions arc raised as the Taxpayern Associa¬ tion of Wyoming Valley—organ of the big coal companies of th« area—points out the -seemingly surreptitious manner in which th« budget was adopted this year. OKLAHOMA CITY iipj Sen.I fhe Taxpayers Association also draws a contrast with the manner to give ani ¦^?''*'P'' ^- McCarthy said last:'" which the state, city of VVilkes-| 'niffht he has been urged "almosti ^^''''f »"'J'I^p Wilkes-Barre achooliCongress ->ver a period of many dir«>ctiy in the rear of the plant, Officers of the first Scranton'*^'^''y" ^^ ^'^'' "chameleon Ke-j board handle the same part ofi months. In the commonwealth, said he was sealed in front of hialfirc uroit to arrive on the scene P'*"'r*" friends" to soft-pedalitheir duties. Governor Fine set up a budget for television set When the first ex-iordered two additional atonma '^'^''<^''"" "f the administration but' that he refused plosion occurred. He told report-: tramsmitted to provide aa many era he heard two more blasts as pumpers as possible for the many he ruishcd out to see the wadils' stream* required to control the caving. fast-sipreariing flames. Within minutes, the fire was; In addition to Killion's homo, racing tibrougih the Interior of theithe fire damaged that of a neigh- plant and a short time later was roarinig tlh rough the roof. Costly Machines Lost Valuatole precision machine* to "put party above the interests of the Ameri¬ can people." McCarthy said he had cam- paiged on behalf of the GOP more perhaiM than any other senator except the late Robert A. Taft. "Almost cteily. my good friends, I have some of my chameleon Re- pu'blloBn friend.i urging me not Army Is Confident of Substaniiating Charges lAgainst McCarthy, Cohn bor, Joseph Mangan, who took a garden hose to the roof of .iis home to keep it coo4 from the m- tense heat. Fire damage also was reported|to see anything wrong about my u«e<i in fashioning embroidcrj-, a« at the homes of Walter Canavey,L^^ party" This attitude M'-Car- wwM as costly rmv matenails, also 1216 Prospect street; Stanley Kote-Jthv said, .he has rejected' sky. 220 r»n>spect street, and' James Sheridan, 222 Prospect street. The eoiitraNt is KtrikinKl,v un¬ complimentary to the county's way of doing thingK, Kince, at the very time the proposed budget is supposed to l)e "avail¬ able for intipeetion" by the pub¬ lic, it actually was kept in hiding. Not even representatives of the Taxpa.vers Association were able to see it. the current bi-ennium showmg proposed sources of revenue and recommended method of expendi¬ ture. This wa» given great pub¬ licity and out of it the General Assembly adopted the budget and the taxes for this period. In our own city I have attended meetings of the Wilkes-Barre city council where representatives of the mcrc.Tants, manufacturing, labor, newspaper editor!?. Chamber of Comm.^rce and others were in attendance ano discussed the de- were destroyed. Jacc* Fink of 530 Colfax avenue in Scranton, manager o* the plant. The situation wa.s brought to a; Ihcad last week when the Sunday: „ , , „ ,.„ , ... William glrniinds o» groups for expenditures of the Tax- mi. nr. . r, , ,• ,. Independent asked TOe Wisconsin Rej>uWican add-M^nnear. manager ed that I. the day com.-.s that payers A-ssociation. whv his or- tne Keiputoiii ,n party does what JDraft Free W.\SHXNGTON -Roy Cohn, In- tfsiigaitor for S<'n. Joseph Mc- WASHINGTON <IP» — The De-'Carthy would refrain from voting fense Department Is confident thclon any matter4 relating to him-. Army's charges against Sen. Jos-ise'lf- | eph R. McCarthy and Roy M.| Differ an tross-Examlmitlon I Cohn will be substantiated and: But Senator Qiarlos E Potter I their counter charges discredited,! (R.Mich) had a different idea' high souives said Saturday, jaboui the rules for oross-exami-; John G. Adams, Army counsel-'nation. I Carthy over whom has broken a lor who wvg a prime target of; "j don't think the Army should! •tortn because o* the Army's daim; the McCarthy-Cohn charges, has;be able to cross-examine," he said.i that he soushit pre<ferenti«il treat- been questioned closely by Defensej "n tjjpy },ave questions, they I m'lK for G David Sohlnf, a for-'Department lawyers, It was learn-ij^ould submit them to the com- mer inveMicator aind close friend.led, and ha« denied all M<.'Carthy;fnfcteg 'ITiat's as far as we should] when the latter waa dnaifted into'claims. g<, service, himsollf e»cap|ed being: Ajnong drafted three tim»a since 1»45, Adams and Army Secretary Rob-i McCarthy twice becaiuse he was proiposed for ,.rt T. Stevens promised to dig up:willing for appointmeait to VVest Point and ..g^^,,^. ^,^^- ^„ (^c other military SENATE PREOICI CRASH OF C-113 BEING SIODIED; TAX BILL VICTORYIENGINES ROUGH Knowland Expects Eisenhowers Plan Will Become Law 18 Servicemen Died In Plunge Into Field; Pennsylvanian Included . , , ganization made formal objection I condemn on the pan of my good to t^e adoption of the county's Democrat friends, thar. day ^ and the pot:sibilities of money for such purposes. The directors of the raisinc Wilkes- iBarre school district also give all this country. The is made a matter of in arwspapers and u „ . . W' budget. Shall no toniger desen'o to remain. „ . ,., in power." "^"¦'^ " '''» answer: McCaptihy said he h&f. no HI, The puiMiciiing of feeling for Pn^sident E3is<'nhower.ibudget» is one of the Would Back Ike jtax safeguards that has "Whi'le I heartily disagree with^^j^r soime of the thinigs the adndini-v' traiiooi is doing. I stili tbirek the ^'"^*'°" average is hiigh enough so thai if he wvre runmiiirg for office today, I would still be comipc'JIed to cam¬ paign for him." McCarthy said. McCarthy gpokc without a pre¬ pared text at a $10-a-plate Re¬ publican dinner at Oklahoma City attended by 1,000 pei-sons. McCarthy covered a broad field sides an opportunity to discuss with them the budget plans for an oncoming fiscal year. In fact, oroDosed *" "^ °^^ nmnicipal bodies and _lr_.„t!school boards permit examination greatesti been set federal and discussion of their budgets, but In recent years there has been .. ...... little dis-i the' I Continued newspaper on Page 8, discussion Section 1) WASHENGTON (IPl—Senate Re- ANNAPOUS, Md. <U'i — Air of topicis in the speech, includingj ,publicaii leaders Saturday foi«-Force Inveatigators yesterday j a review of his stand against; We'll have our own impartial:cast jun administration \-ictory in studied whether engine trouible 1 trade witih Red Ohma and his! -hese charges were that:counsel and staiff. ji^j battle against increasing in-caused the crash o{ a C119 "Fly-"blackmail" complaint aigainst; himself said he was:come tax exemption.s e^'en if the ing Boxcar' which took the Hve* Army Coun.sel .Tohn G, Adams. the Army to cross-,Senate approves the mi'-asure. !of 18 serViceflmen, jncludiing SKwne Will Not .Step Down nim and thought the i^jj^ viewpoint waa expressedj"*^"*-' hitch-hikers." In a news conferenre before the would have t h a t; puhjidy by GOP Floor Loader' The goiant Air Force plane .'•peech. McCarthy rejected .«pn. right Tliis apparently indicated; wjijiajn F Knowliud and pri-!craahed and exploded in flames; S t u a r t Symington'.s .susrge.stion Wreck the Arm.v" ''^ P'*"* ^ ^^ »on'^ questions vately bv other R e p u b 1 i c a niFridaj' night 17 minutes afier; that he gc; compUtely out of his ling oxamine lay off the A;my "I'll that Cohn:*^ "''»"'"• the third time when the draft, g^.rvices for McCarthy if he would Army counsel ran out. Oohn registered in 194S when (x> waa 18 and wa.i cLasBiified 1-A ^ a .Ve^- York ,i.raft board. The ^^^e Army charges ^.r «*h r^rmanv and Japan ''"'^<- Ihrqealenc^ to wreck the w.. Koin« fu<il bla*l. That sa^ne Army and got S evens job w«.k Benjamin J. Rabm, Demo- Army did not •JV"' ^P*;-.*' .:„, j^^^ ment to Pvt. o David SJchine, drafted former unpaid consultant on McCarthy's permanent investi- if the treat- i Benjamin J erattc oonyreasman fro«n York's 42n:l di.strict. iwirninHted CVuhn for Wewt Poin*, Lhiis otoU-i ,, „i„..„^»-.^ ,m, ,h« df«ft board to r«.la«*ify, »*""« »"»«^>«">'«ee. him 4-B, awirtMng entrance into: The McCarthy-Army showdown the academy. i«M rapidly nearly a climax. Again and Again TT^ere were these developments: The deferment lfl«»ted from h Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD). Waroh to August. Wh<.n Cohn w^ho will act as temporary chair- f»,led to pass the physacal cxami-'man of the McCarthy subcommit- nstior, for WiSt Point. Iw u-a» re-t^-e in investigating the charges. classified 1-A. the draft s>iii con- said he will invite a "at'»"a''y-iyouths tinuing. A fcM- we.-ks later. Rabinil^nown attorney lo serve as '"de-;^^^^ renominated Cohn for Wewi Point'P'-nd*""' '^oun.-tl. •rd the draif'. board again had to 2. - McCarthy's 3 DEAD, 3 T [spokesmen They suggested t'niat:taking off from Boiling Air Popce|subiommittre durinc; its investi- la conference cominittee called to!Bas€-. Washington, on a flight to gation of hi.-; fued with the Army. :a compromise differences in theiMitehell Field, l/ong Island. j The dispute, reviewed, in the :Senate and House tax bills wouldlu^j^^ In Field si>eech. wie described us not a DAXVILLE, Pa. (IP Two wore killed and three per.^ons were injured yes¬ terday in a head-on crash of two kill an amendment to raise ex emptions, if the Senate does not Has Confidence "My f&eling is that the bill that i ultimatedy passes will be very close to the pasiflon of the Presi- , dent and the one passed by the 1 House," Knowland told reporters. {The House vote aguinst the in- jcreaee exemptions. Sen Walter F. George, D-Ga. Flj-jng through rain arvd wind, the plane went down in an open field near the hamlet of Lothtan, about 15 mile* south of An- napohs. The «Je*d—all those a'board—in¬ cluded 11 Air Force Servicemen, six of whom were the crew, five from the Navy, one from the Army and one Marine fight with the Army but one withj "a few individuals" in the Pen¬ tagon. McCarthy described Secretary' of the Army Robert Stex'ens as a' "fine, Innocent, honest" man who "could not cope with thw old-time: Pentaeron politicinn" j Snvs Pentagon Afraid i He said there apparently le 5 Hurt When Car Upseis On Oupont Highway Five men. all believed to be residents of Wilkes- Barre. were injuied when their automobile upset at Uupont Highway and Laflin Road early this morn- ingr. They were taken to the V.\ Hospital in an ambu¬ lance and were being treated this moining at 1:30. •Name.-: were not immediately available. The car is believed to have up.set after striking a guard rail. It was reported the car left the highway and rolled over several times. The occupants were trapped in the wreckage for a time. chief The wreckage was Senate .spokesman for hisjover a half mile area. Burned the outcome and mangifd bodies were hurled g^.g^(^f^,j I someone in the Pentagon "deathly subcommif.eelautomobiles on Route S4 during """l ^ nir to decide . h.,^.^ >.i„ ,.„,i f^„ :*J (Jay."*. party on taxes, said will depend mostly on the eco nomic trend over the next 30 or! the crash ifrom the plane by the im'pact of driver of! ^" ^'^^^ '^'"' House Democrats tried to attach an amendment to 1 exemptions, taxiiayer and change Cohn's standing to 4-B. colleagues were trying to decide j^ heavy rain and fog. Oncf more he was rejected for; the trcklish question of whether, Donald Crtwiford, 20, ph)-si<-a4 r.»a8on.s and the boardlto let the Wisconsin Republican;„n^ „f j^p j^^s, was killed in-] __ changed his draft .•rtatus back tolvote and cross-examine witnesses,jt^ntly in the collision. Roy Loyg, increase per son 1 *J|||l.A iin the inve»tig«tion which beginsijg^ ^ passenger in Crawford's car,i"°* ^^'^ ^°'" ^^^ f That same year Rabiti nosni- (Continued on Page 8. Seetioii 1) Mrs. Alice Rklgely, a farm wife. {Continued on Page 8. Section 1) afraid of the continued expo!»ure' for which hi.s committee has been ro sponsible McCarthy also said he wa.<! con- flde'Pt subcommittee Chief Coun¬ sel Roy Cohn vviM be cleared by State Trooper Cuddy, Shot by Son, 13, Dies U HOUR TV SHOW LISTS Tuseday. ,di«M several hours later in Gel-j dependent, to J700, That effort 3. Defense St-t-retary Charles E.;singer Hospital here. j^'w rejected by a vote of 210- Wilson has forbidden officials tO; Two other youths in Crawford's '^*' use mechanical devices to record;car, Amos Liove, 19, and Witliam' George Is sponsoring an amend- tc^lephone conversations u n 1 e s slwinters, 19, Were taken to the^ment to raise exemptions to $800 there is vionsent of all parties to hospital in serious condition. ithis year and to $1,000 in 1»55. the conversation. | The driver of the oUicr auto-| OemocraU have argued thatlmerstein Telephone'Kfcordlngs? '^ "^.\ oA, ^^^"^'^ '^':'''»'''..'*?'lgeneral income tax relief is neediMcCarthy to Mary Martin .,^n.,- Wilson's order sacmed to reflect I Danville XU3 also was hospital-: ^ ^ a 1 Income tajc relief isi in between will be people suchj^'."f question whether the Armyjizcd- Her condition was described'^^^^^ ^^ increase purchasing;a3 Edgar Bergen. Ed Sullivan,!"itiction oK'ordings of conversations as^fair. ^ ^ ,^ , power an head off economic!Groucho Marx. Ezio Pinza. Gor about!^ rouble. President Eisenhower 74 BLIND TAKE JOBS, REMOVED FROM DPA HARRISBURG MPi The .state Welfare Department reported that T4 blind persons were ab'.e tojthe leave public assistance or blind;has ..>- „¦. — — Tiu j j pension rolls during the vear end-1 with .McCarthy. Cohn. other sub-; The accident occurred Hif June 30. 193S. at a saving of|committee staff members in the,three miles north of here. 1,^^^, fought the proposals on $40,890 to the commonwealth. Shine case. ! „~JJ^^ ^°"'^» v'""^u "L i V»«>""'1» ^hat the e<-onomic out- The 74 became qualified to ac- Defense olluials have said that|¦^^"'^rj;" *^° ^' Northumberland|,^k l3 „ot serious and that the •ept Jobs provided through the|go,nc of Coiin's conversations with '^ ^^ I Treasury cannot stand the loss of rehabilitation program i»f the!Army officials were "monitored"^ !revesue—$2,500,000,000 a year for State C^ncil for the Blind ! - that i.s, stenographers listened; cr|C|UT|CT DflCTC RftMni*" '"ce®**' of $100 in exemptions The jobs obtained by the coun-jm and took notes. ' ^I^ «„««..«." ^ .« t-I^"'' """^ ^'"' '"'•^^'' '"'•'*^*'»' ell for the rehabilitated included Howtwcr, no mechanical record-! QN OBSCURITY CHARGE' House Republican leaders have those of vending stand operator.i.ings have been found. ' pHIIJ^DLPHIA 'IPt Dr Rovif"'^''^''^ ^^^^ ^''- Ei.senhower t^lenhone salcsinen, piano tuner- Mundt told newsmen, "in a sense j^ Marshall nationally known'^o"'*' ^^^<' ^'' *''" '^ '"^ reached lanitors, sewing machine or every member of the co'^'"'"«':scientist and' television personal- tors, rug weavers, messcn^ and is on trial in "•- -'"=¦« hakers' helpers. Mundt s.iJid the inve.<»tigation of the Army diis-, state Police Cpl. Cheater V. pute now being planned. Cuddy, a Wilkce-Barre native, Ad.Tims' report of alleged prefl-died last night in St Luke's Hos- ...- «Tiin« i''"''^ broug.h,t by Cohn on behalf |pita], Bethlehem, of a gunshot ENTERTAINMENT STARS jo' former committee investigator^ ^.q^^j inflicted bv his 13-year-old ilP)-.The talent:^- ^*'^'*' ®''*""^- ^'ho wa^ drafted,,^^^ ,^^1 Sunday during a family hour-and.a-half;PL'^:P'^^ McCarthy's "blackmail jquarrell. Cpl. Cuddy, 48, was the hus- NEW YORK lineup for t»e ..v...... ¦:¦•! retort television show that will nin the: ^^^^^v referred to Okla- gamut of the six stage hits of^^^.^ Democratic Sen. Mike,^ ,, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Han-, .. 1^;^^,^.daughter of former will range from Charlie j^^ Fauntleroy" of the "left! MaV^^ Robert Pfeiflc " "" - He scoffer at Monroney's, Troopers said that Cuddy s .sorr of the' subcommittee's!I^a^'"^ •^'"'''' ^is father with a .2. Bethlehem tactics, classinig the ^oTSkcR^rPloreTce H';;derso;.;With "the bleeding hearts." Oklahoman]'¦'"'' ^'' ^'"l '•'"'¦«"'^'p<^ f«"" Christ- !nias. The mother was being held in $5,000 bail on charges of aggra¬ vated assault and battery with In¬ tent to kill as a result of the shooting. Police said she had instructed the boy to load the rifle and pro¬ tect her from his father. The couple had been arguing. Cuddy was shot by his son aPter he struck his wife se\'erail timev. State Police detectives said. The boy was turned over to th« .custody of his matemail grand- [f,ather. "in a sense, of the committee the hearings he expected Mc- : scientist and television personal-1'^^"^ ^^''^'' «•" amendment Ity. was free in $1.00 bnil nendin":|in<'o™*' *^ exemptions, arraignment on charges of ,Tohn Raitt, .Tan Clayton, Pat Mon.son, Yul Brynner, Tony Mar¬ tin and Rosemary Clooney. This promises to be quite a program. It will be seen on both the National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting Sys¬ tem netw.trks from 8 to 9:30 p.m. next Sunday. General Foods is sponsoring the affair to the tune to raise I of something like $.'«)0,000 to cele¬ brate its 25th anniversary. an AHoona Tr. s SiroW \n T-Shirf ^eis off Full-Scale Kidnap Score ALTOONA, Pa., (IP) -Uttle t*rry Hook. 2 1-3. went for a •tW.I at 2 a.m. yesterday, clad pnly in a T-shirt, and started a W'o-hour kidnap scare. Police found htm sound asleep *" the rain beside the main line tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail- f^ad about a half-mile from nome. Except for the effects of cold '•nd exposure, the youngsters was "< "good condition," Altoona Hos¬ pital authoriUes said. L*rrj''s father, Howard B. Hook, called police at 2:56 «,m. saying the boy apparently had been kid¬ napped. Hook said he left the house shortly after midnight to irteet his wife a vraitress at a nearby hotel. When thej' return¬ ed, their son was missing. Railroails Alert Squads of city and railroad po¬ lice began to search the neighbor¬ hood. The railroad ordered its trains to proceed with caution through the area on the ohan<;e the boy may have wandered off akme near the tracks. Tliat's where they found him. letters fo five' INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT inajling oi>ac<iie teen-aged girls. Marshall, who has bt-en in men-ipj^^^gf ^y BOCSiSES DIG FOB DEGREE.S—Two Hollenback tal hospital since his indictment! 'cjemetery workers stud^- finance at night. Section One, Pajre *• last November, slipped into U. S.| District Court late Friday wihlFlNE tX>ACH HOt'SE.S. BUT XARV A OOAIW—Landmarks ofj his attorney «uid bondsman to| carriage era found here among finest in US. Section One, Page 20 post the bail. It was Marshall's; . ...^r flrt public apearance since the'EX-MINEB IS PIANT'S IDEA .MAN- indictmemt. I production at Connecticut factory. -nie surety bond was preaented, c,i„„ r..„-i Section Page jValley Scene South Washingto}! <^trret hitfiinegionayi vinitinr) neif/hbor- in<T mtoblhhment to fjet dnilji gupf)lii of .¦^privg irntri- pre- B'-ribfd 6,v phygirinn. S 0 H t h \VUk(»-Bnrre uoung Indn rtfking to fee exoisrd from sneietu inpftinfi Mondnti nirjht iv orrffr to romplrtr ivroinp ta.r returitf for, hentelf, her xister and mother. Police Charge Young Mot/ier With Selling 4 of 7 Children PITl'-SBURGH (IPi A 32-year- week ago after she and the child old mother of seven children toldiwere discharged from Allegheny police today she gave .iway four j General Hospital. Trllrr in rentral eiti/ hank wearing an orange fis. St. Pat- rirk'it Daii. -Warrior Run native Section Three, Page speeds 12. to U. Carr. S. Commissioner Henry P. When asked his a,ddre9s,i Section Pagei Amusement .Three defense attorney Raymond A.jA'-ound the Town Two Speiser said Marshall could beiC'ty Hall ^n« reached at Pennsylvania Hospi-!C'a»s*f'ed t!**""" tal. Marshall listed his home ad-iCounty .^ "ne dress at 413 Haverford avenue, Lansdownc. It was expected that Marshall will be arraigned before U. 6. district Judge Thomas J. Clary within the next few weeks. Crossword Puirie Four Drew Pearson Two EMgar Guest Two Editorial Two Frank Tripp Two Obituary ..One 8 Creorge M. Adams Two 6 THome Builderi Four 9 17 ".liiJos Two 6 S-llRadio Three 11; 18 'olK-rt C. Ruark Two 7 12 Sports Two 1-5! « State Capitol One 19 «State News One 18 8 Thomas Stokes Two 7 7 Television Three 10 8 Women's Section Three 1-7 How Sen. Wood Was Dropped How Sen. Newell Wood was dropped by the county Repub¬ lican organdzat ion at a meeting with Governor Fine at the exec¬ utive mansion at Indiantown Gap last Sunday makes an in¬ teresting gtory. The story is told in the "Politics" column, on the 'EMi- torial Pa^e of the Sunday Inde- pendemt today. ' of her babies for $100 each so they would have a "good home". Mrs. Nancy BJack and her hus¬ band Hilton, .'!7, were held on va¬ grancy charges while authorities questioned an unidentified lawyer who allegedly handled the trans¬ actions. Denies 'Sale' "I didn't sell my kids,' Mrs. Black said in police court this morning. "'I had $100 given to me and just wanted to see tlAit they had a good home." Mrs. Bla<k, mother of three other children, was arrested Fri day night after police received an anonj-mous telephone call from a The Blacks said the lawyer and a v/oman identified as his secre¬ tary went to the hospital soon after the infant was born "to look it over." The husband and wife said the lawyer gave them $100, of which they used $20 to pay on the hoe- pital bill. Woman Watting Police said Mrs. Black took Oie baby home and then turned the child over to the secretary who was waiting at the couple's d«n«y North Side apartment when they arrived. One of the four babies, she told woman who said she had read ofj police, waa returned eight months ;the babies sold in Canada for'later by the couple who received iadoption and thought police wnuldiit and the child later w«a turned be "interested" in Mrs. Black's! over to Juvenile Court Mrs. Black cage i said a fifth child also was turned Quii% Work lover for adoption and her twa Poli.-e said Mrs. Black said sheiother children are being c»red Isold her latest baby, a girl, ajfor by relaUvee. 1^ 1 I -i^^'iiiiui^&^ci.ii.' lb :ii^amii£it.jMiimu»iiaijmjsi:^ut!Sb.iii
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 21 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1954-03-21 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
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Month | 03 |
Day | 21 |
Year | 1954 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 21 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1954-03-21 |
Date Digital | 2011-12-28 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by Backstage Library Works. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 34524 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
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Question Legality of Luzerne County's 1954 Tax Levy
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
WINDY, COLD
Highcet today in 30i. Monday: Olioudy, wairoer.
48TH YEAR — NO, 21 — 72 PAGES
The 'Ordinary* Americans
M«nilMraadlt Bohma «f ClrciUaM«a<
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY MARCH 21, 1954
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PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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THI$ MAN IS Wft»T»NG FORTHEELEV/ATOR.- TO 00 POmV TO H\S JOB-M'^VB£ A/WJ/if DOWN.
IT N\M BE OOSTy, OR DRIPPING VAJET— ATiOME LEVELS »T IS OVEN'HOT'Oa ICy-COLtX AT BEST IT'S ROGOED. BUT HE U/OULt>N'r TRADE JObSWTH you.
Big Scranton Factory Is Destroyed by Fire
WITHOUT /AOVING FROM^ yoUR CHAlR,THINK.OF ALL THE THINGS VWE HAVe,^AETAL ANb
WNERAL,WHICH CAME FRO(AfAIMES. ANO THINK OF THE MINER, DOWN THERE RIGHT NOW,U/OftKfNCdV lAMPL/CHriNTHE DAYT/Mfi.
5Hon.esDon,oged;|,j|.3rt|,y. 3 Alarms Sounded; ^. ^... ^' Explosions Heard ' "HI NOt
Soft-Pedar
Taxpayers Assoc. Says:
Touched off by wall-shattering explosions, a three-hour, three-alarm fire la-st night destroyed the large, rambling As,sociated Mills plant at .'>;].')-,"»37 Orchard street, Scranton, and damaged five nearby dwellings before it was brought under control.
County Budget Action May Have Evaded the Law
Tile explosdona, police and fire offlciala »aid, occurred in a section^ oif the big embroidery piamt w4iere paint* and otiher JntfiammabJe I miaterialls were gltored. i
One ot the exp^losione knocked out part* ot the brick and fraanei wal'ls of the South Scranton landmark. Heard 3 Blastft could nM be reached
EM'ward Kililion, whose home is estimate of the loas.
Rips at 'Chameleon' GOP Friends for Asking Him to Find No Wrong in Party
Did the Luzerne county commissioners comply with the l&w i« adoption of the 1954 county .vbudget? In the 1954 tax levy illegal?
These and other questions arc raised as the Taxpayern Associa¬ tion of Wyoming Valley—organ of the big coal companies of th« area—points out the -seemingly surreptitious manner in which th« budget was adopted this year.
OKLAHOMA CITY iipj Sen.I fhe Taxpayers Association also draws a contrast with the manner to give ani ¦^?''*'P'' ^- McCarthy said last:'" which the state, city of VVilkes-|
'niffht he has been urged "almosti ^^''''f »"'J'I^p Wilkes-Barre achooliCongress ->ver a period of many dir«>ctiy in the rear of the plant, Officers of the first Scranton'*^'^''y" ^^ ^'^'' "chameleon Ke-j board handle the same part ofi months. In the commonwealth, said he was sealed in front of hialfirc uroit to arrive on the scene P'*"'r*" friends" to soft-pedalitheir duties. Governor Fine set up a budget for
television set When the first ex-iordered two additional atonma '^'^''<^''"" "f the administration but'
that he refused
plosion occurred. He told report-: tramsmitted to provide aa many era he heard two more blasts as pumpers as possible for the many he ruishcd out to see the wadils' stream* required to control the caving. fast-sipreariing flames.
Within minutes, the fire was; In addition to Killion's homo, racing tibrougih the Interior of theithe fire damaged that of a neigh-
plant and a short time later was roarinig tlh rough the roof.
Costly Machines Lost
Valuatole precision machine*
to "put party above the interests of the Ameri¬ can people."
McCarthy said he had cam- paiged on behalf of the GOP more perhaiM than any other senator except the late Robert A. Taft.
"Almost cteily. my good friends, I have some of my chameleon Re- pu'blloBn friend.i urging me not
Army Is Confident of Substaniiating Charges lAgainst McCarthy, Cohn
bor, Joseph Mangan, who took a
garden hose to the roof of .iis
home to keep it coo4 from the m-
tense heat. Fire damage also was reported|to see anything wrong about my u«espect street, and'
James Sheridan, 222 Prospect
street.
The eoiitraNt is KtrikinKl,v un¬ complimentary to the county's way of doing thingK, Kince, at the very time the proposed budget is supposed to l)e "avail¬ able for intipeetion" by the pub¬ lic, it actually was kept in hiding.
Not even representatives of the Taxpa.vers Association were able to see it.
the current bi-ennium showmg proposed sources of revenue and recommended method of expendi¬ ture. This wa» given great pub¬ licity and out of it the General Assembly adopted the budget and the taxes for this period.
In our own city I have attended meetings of the Wilkes-Barre city council where representatives of the mcrc.Tants, manufacturing, labor, newspaper editor!?. Chamber of Comm.^rce and others were in attendance ano discussed the de-
were destroyed.
Jacc* Fink of 530 Colfax avenue in Scranton, manager o* the plant.
The situation wa.s brought to a;
Ihcad last week when the Sunday: „ , , „ ,.„ , ...
William glrniinds o» groups for expenditures
of the Tax-
mi. nr. . r, , ,• ,. Independent asked
TOe Wisconsin Rej>uWican add-M^nnear. manager
ed that I. the day com.-.s that payers A-ssociation. whv his or-
tne Keiputoiii ,n party does what
JDraft Free
W.\SHXNGTON -Roy Cohn, In- tfsiigaitor for S<'n. Joseph Mc-
WASHINGTON |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19540321_001.tif |
Month | 03 |
Day | 21 |
Year | 1954 |
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