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Valley Passed Up For 5,000-Job Federal Office A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT SUNNY, HOT Highest Today 92 Monday: Cloudy, Hot 48TH YEAR — NO. 38 — 88 PAGES Mf>nib«r Andlt BnrMiii of Circalatloa* VVILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 18, 1954 rMTEP PRESS Wire Nl>w» »»r»1«» . PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Oeafh Stalks Hazards on Dupont Higtiway $VI Billion Investment Claim Nation's A-Power Is Being 'Given Away' Three deeth-dealing highw.iy hazards lie in wait lor unwary motoirsts on the Dupont High¬ way. In each case the black, four-lane thoroughfare shrink in half to become only two lanes and at night thf aitua- tinn is vicioua. Photo, upper left, shows nar¬ row highwnny overpass in I-iaf- lin. near Mayfair Club. Upper right, the highway be- f^omee two lanes at' a Yatess- ville underpass, near where -i terminal will be built to con¬ nect with the new turnpike. Lower photo, narrow bridge in Plaina township, where a young New York clergyman and Ohio woman were killed nnd three others injured last Monday when their car hit the bridge abutement. May. End Monopoly Of the Covernntent^ Cive It to Utilities WASHINGTON (IP»-The administration's plans to let >privatej indu.stry develop atomic power waa attacked in the Senate Saturday! as a "give away" of the taxpayers' 12-billion dollar investment in atomic energy. Ilie charge was hurled in bitterly-worded floor speeches b\ Sens. Herbert. H. Lehman, D-NY,'James E. Murray, D-.Mont, and Wayne C. MoTsc. Ind-Ore. , Provisions for licensing private firms to build and op'rate atomic- energy plants to produce botii, ,, fissionable materials, wn-i ele tricIother section of the Htomic bill power aro iiontaiiicd in an omni¬ bus bill rewriting the basic 1946 Atomic Energy Ac. riio law, ao it now stands, provides for a noV' ernment monopoly in atomic velopment. Would Replaee TV A Power The proposal to open the atomic when 12 senators headed by Guy Gillette, D-Iowa. introduced an amendment to give rural electric co-operatives and piibiicly-owned de-l utilities "preference and priority'" in buying any electric power generated as a by-product at gov¬ ernment-owned atomic plants. field to private enterprise camej Gillette Gets Support Lady Lion Tamer Can't Stop Horror Suicide in Her Cage NUERNBERG, Germany (IP)--A 28-year oid lady lion tamer told today how .^he tried in vain to save a young man who walked deliberately to his death in a lion's den at the too. Miss Margarethe Storch leaped into the cage of four lions aroused by the taste of the man's biood while Caesar the Lion carried him '"in his jaws—aa if he were a dol!." .lonef Hajek 21, jumped over the protective fenr<> at the Nuernberg Zoo, waded neck- high through a nioal and walked into thn midst of the linns. "He was felled by one tremendous swat of a paw," Mis« Storch said. » A crowd of about 30 persons ^Jetrified with horror watched Miss Storch go to the man's as. sistaflce. But he refu.sed her help and remained to be clawed and bitten to death. Miss Storch recalled events at ehe lion's enclosure at the loo: "First I heard the screams, especially the shrill-pitched cry of a wonaan. "I entered the den from tiie attendants' door in the rear. There, Caesar the Ldon earried this man in his jaws-^as if he were a doll. "I approached /the four lions, slamming together two metal shields to scare them oiff. But thoy would not frighten. "The young man lay get out through this door: i ¦ii on the ground among the beasts, and I shoulted 'Follow me, get out, Cives Rerfs ^,:^-!;!;^^ Last Chance For Peace Jobs of 260 Local Emplo.ves in Social Security Records Division Will Be Transferred to Maryland Almost 300 local government poskiont were alated for transfer toi Lhe Baltimore area and Wyoming 'Valley lost a chance for 8,000 newj under fire after the Su.ate had spent four days in a dispute over another section of the hill author¬ izing the Atomic E.icrgy Com¬ mission to enter -nto long-term contracts for purchase of con¬ ventional electric power from private utilities for the operation of its plants. Senators Irom the Valley Authority area to amend this sec'.ion to head off the administn'tion'i, rontroversial contract with the Dixon-Yates private utility group to supply .600,000 kilowatts of power to thc This preference, similar to thatj already in effeot for power gen-| erated at fedorallv-owned hydro-, electric projects, would not apply to electric energy from the pro¬ posed privately-owned atomicj power plants. i Gillette was Joined in spon.«>or-| ¦ing the amendment by eight otheT; Tennessee! Democrats, two Republicans andj are tryingi Morse. '"Then he suddenly stumbled to hin feet and stood. But he fell down instantly. "One of our biggest lions—Ca4>sar—attarked. He bit the man in the neck. The man quivered, but he did not move again. "I crept wooden club the alarm button. '"Police came • squsUing on him the prey. It Is a to within six feet of the body, parrying the shields In my left hand and a large in my right. Another lion circled carefully to surround me. I backed out and pushed TVA system to TVA Lehman told the Senate that] the proposal to Ut commercial ( firms build atomic plants r.s b\ profit-mailing venture would hf a far greater plum to private r.'ili- ties in the long run that the dis¬ puted Dixon-Yates contract. He said tliis proposal "far tran- of then. They fired pistol bulleta into the air. or nrar hVm--each animal nervously ey,eing habit of the beasts." (Continued on Page 9, Seotion But the beasts remained by HaJek. the other lest he make off with 11 J .Vi'.Hcrday witli the announcement that a S2,5.000.0(10 .'-'ociali ^^•^ sysiem lo replace' Security Records Division Headquarters will be built in the Marj^-'P"^'"" ""ed by the AE.L. Oppon- •..nH .r.., ,1-nls contend this contract would .'ibet a private utility scheme tojscends the infamous giveaway local federal workers slated for traiisifer and there are an -dcstrov'" TVA as a public power|the offshore oil" in thc so-called estimated 260 are employed in the Old Age and Survivors' In.'u.- ent<.rprise : j Tidelands Law ance aecUon of the Division of Accounting Operations, with offices _ nrivxte i.avi-er' Murrav said the bill "Khould bej tlie Veterans Administration ^ T^«^ P"^'". '* pn%»te estimated 8,000 positions. , I battle spHled over into k Viet Foreign Minister V tov conferred for ninn hours again, but made ress.' A restricted seaslon of the nation conference will sit ji.m. 110 a.m., th» Palare of and .M. M(.lo- than two 'no nine- at 31 Visited Unannounced / The government inspectors bui'di "i'"^'*' tiifi'r spring visit/ unknowi. '„"^ to local officials or representatives ''¦—' the regional Social Security office. Vower I still an- (Continued on Page B, Section 1) Duryea Teen-Age Band Wins National Contest GENEVA *lPi French Premier j^^j Pierre Mendes-France served no-| , tice on tlie Communists Saturday nigiit ihat the chance.v for ne gotiating an hrr.orable ix-aee in In'tochina were now or never. , kt .u ••«¦ »_ » BuUdinf; on North Main stree* However, there apoeared r.o hope Of breakins the Geneva con-i ^^e resfion lost out on a chance fertme deadlock. l^"^"'!''' '*"' "o""' ">"!--"'""'" Rr,ti8h'Forei2n'*''*^J°'' ^''"' Security r« . A .V, ^ „Tl? iw:h the annou.ic.ment by ...... , '8,..retar>. Anthony Eden and h-.-.O^^^^ ^^,p jj^^^^ Secretarj- of °^ WclfHre in the Eisenhower Cabi- _.__ net. tlMt the Baltimore area had: The entire insrpection was on a '^ ' jbeen awrded the Juicy employ-I"hu8h-hush" basis and William O. ment plum thai will include thelSword, president of the Greater construction of a huge office i Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund, EDTi Sunday at building. ^Inc- anti other local officials .no .„, ,id'''''rh""n; ^tifrwlti ^1'':J''ZV°""':ZZ/Z''1L'^°°-^^^^ Durvea Teen-Age Orchestra' Master, ia director of muaic at spoKesman ."^id. The ni'?ettng wil' ecs who wil ue a.'rected by the , _ j .,_ i. • . ,. . " i, „ii 'r,,,-,,o„ hi.rh „r.y,r.,-\ aii mominr^ V .- ... i . . ... . . , no-; informed thai this region was lM«,t nielit sent ui'ople all ovort/uryea "liin scnooi. Aii inem.iti.-s 1)9 united to two r-^prtscntatives transfer of or.cra. ons to the new ""' '¦""'¦¦"" cmi uns rvgiun was^iait "'«"'¦ .""^'J^/ ^.„^,„ ..„ „. »ho npr^hoatra aro Diipvea hic-'i 'rnm ,.»,h ,i„i...^nt-„ Lo'^Mo. , ,„¦ ,„ . K, „;.,.„ „„ even under con.«ldt'ration for such the United .States looking on-of the orcnestra are uuryea nig.i • rom eaeh dfle/at .n. heaaqua:.<:rs w ., be given »" ^ j^^. ^ for Duryea. Pennsylvania.,sohool students or recent grad- True Still Possible lopporainily to accept the transter J,, . ioion to huild h. ^fxi) 'aft r the youn^ mu-siclans wonluat.s. John Sahk, Duryea, is Mendes-France, British Foreign"' '"»''^ othor ,irrargem<..n , for . J'^^^^^'^'^'"" f° ^"/'^ ^" ^^: fir.st prize in the nationally-tele- business manager. Communists have the wiil. u .t'li-l^'nP'Oyir^^'^- ^'O^-; ^^"1' bo ahie to ^b e^^'""* "'<>"''« '''.^^^'''-vi.sod Ted Mack Amateur Hour' The orchestra members are: : l« iKMsibl- lo resrh an Tnd-.ch'na "•'^"»« '*>« trans.ter but oblain more means that an area that is , ^ ^ | Sax section Dick Cimakcsky,! tru^bv the J.ilv-" deadlim- heio^hor Civil Ser%-ice employment alrt>a<iy enjo.ving a boom is having; ^«^"^^^»'-p.p^ muaiclana werej Al Dunay. Eugtn- Kobai, .J ' set for'himself to achieve p. aoji'"'"' -'alations jjoverning such its empoyment and f'n'inc'al'„roelaim.>d grand vs-innete of a!Bachkowskl. Don Coolbaugh or resign hi.s o'fire. In the event »""*"''"•- ;scene fattened while an area thatip^^^^^^ held last month at Madi-iKonni- Swenton. Of failure, he said in a broaden..!iReject.-d By Tu-o Men ^^^^ ^stianceTsnXd.*' >\ •^,","'', '^f^.t" ^''"''" '"''' ''''''''"" '"''"" 'I'he hard coal region apparently , „ . .... joompete agains tiM whir* „. .v,,,! Ka, .„ fo,..-ilo'*t 1'" oppottunitv of 8 repoH ** °"'° ""** "'^'P"*' *¦"'^^ Th t ¦ 'submitted by a iwo-man fed^al, The location erf auch a head- Th, latter was a reference to „..„,„,. team one from the Gen-lquarters here would have ^--oatlyl'"* "'^|!„^, Servicoa Division and the relieved the economic distress' o'.lior from the Social Security which this region ia battling and Administration-which inspected would havo been concrete proof tije region last spring. that the federal government was hont'sily and sincerl.v concerned Red Rock Airman Dies In Motorcycle Crash HANOI. I-ndochina ilP' —Some lO.OCKi tank-lofi 'frenoh troops, un¬ der an umbr. # of fighter planes j,, por the second time in a h.nv^ hammo- J R^d rebel for^-csi^er one month, a moto back in twin drives west and ! northeast of beleaguered Hanoi, the French high command an¬ nounced yesterday. The biggest and most sustained French offen.sive since they pull¬ ed out of the southern P^d River delta two weeks ago elammed the Reds back several miles from the main hi.ijrh-vvay from Hqnoi to Iso¬ lated Son Tay, 25 miles west of tile Ton'cin Di^ta capital. Mttle a motorcyclist: ffpffo Cp/ jf;„ Pfxet was killed last night at Ruggles '*'5"« ''f* \P ' 7*^ Cornera, Lake Township, when he' ^ €ar ISorth Pole failed to negotiate the curve and MOSCOW (lPi--The Soviet Un h'ls vehicle piled up on the rail¬ road tracks. The victim is Raleigh Doyle, I 19, a U. S. airman stationed at: Red Rock Radar Station. His' home is in Roanoke, Va. According to witnesses, Doyle was traveling from Harvey's Lake on Route 415 at a fast rate set up two scientiific slations on the Arctic Soviet press reported ACF HAS GOOD YEAR DESPITE NEW TREND to thf French people "you h1 ready know tl^e.real ro«oon.ibil,, ,^^ „p,portunity of we ^hall have to fare. ,^^^^^^^,.^ by a two-man federal; . — a re-fereuce to^yrypy r.is declarstion to the French Na- „,„, " he Bernie Pernot, drums; Bill Patalon, bass. Pianist—Paul Butrymowicz. Vocalists — Veronica Kashuda Assembly last week that \' failed at (>ncva. h:s final act before n^slimiiiif would be to dc- ma-ui r'TtriHsion '¦ r T-rr-'-h >^-y'- teei iie sent to Indochina in a •tepped-Lij, wtr eiiorl. His aix final iats from all [larts of the nation. Charles Ma-stcrs. who direcl.*, the orchestra composed of Duryeajand Bernie Kasulis student* " uatts, home *peed when his motopcycle .swung into the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks instead of Route 29. Lo.si-ng control on the ties, he; ACF Indufv.i-ies, Inr., -A-hifh haa'iwae th.-own from the vehicle an.l' *^rs a. plant in Bcrwicit. in its annuali"^^ceived a fractured ikull. Rushedi They .„d report for the fiscal year ending! to Wilkcs-Barre Veterans Hos- April .30. 1954. .shows the coni-|Pita! by Chief Fxlgar Hughes and pany did well even though thei Patrolman Waldridge LenthiM, year wias one .marked bv a chansjoj the youth died at 10:05 p. m. with¬ in the buoiness atmosphere of thc | out regaining lonsciousneas. countrv. I Tile motorcycje Despite curtailment of defense] and was carted away in 4 truck. duplication ion has research ice, the today. One waa established almost *t the North Pole itself, the other farther south above Si¬ beria, about 500 miles from ofi Alaska. The stations, set up this spring, were fully supplied with laboratories, and demountable portable houses for living quar- lieated with coal and gas. were serviced by helicop¬ ters, tractors and automobiles, according to the reports. and prari-' Brass section - Andv- Wa.Hta,! orders, sale.s amounted to $246.-1 "The a^'^<J«"* ^" * . „, .»,„, was reached at h^s DuryeVLennv Vmbel, Martha-Bal-.hune 000,000 romr>Hred with $257,000.000,of another whi.h occurred at that ,:" nkhtld l' had thi^land Roany Galla^er. 1 in the pr.-vious year. 'corner a month time, Clarene CArey. Laoeyville, was critically injured and died of wae demolished!a fractured skull without regain¬ ing consciousness when his mo¬ torcycle piled up o-n the tracks. A girl riding with him at the time ago. At that wa.s injured. region The decision to build in Balti¬ more instead of tho Wilkes-Barrc ^^^^^ ^^^^ .something mu.st be done area apparently was made at a ^^jj^^,^ situation hero, time when state and lotal leaders were pleading Wyoming Vjilley's; The region could have more emplo.vmenl c:iso before federal,than adequately fulfilled any of basi s fireside chat to the Frcn h people from Ihe site of this d.>ld- lernreied'bot'h n " , ¦'•¦"\':- employment c:i^o before federaUhan adequately fuelled RedsTd - ,.f V'*^" "*'°'^*-'^«c-ial«, who reportedly promised the basic requirement*-building Z\ote U hel t T: "«'n".;!^ do «'! in thVir power to help^^paoe. high type employee, goo.. S:,.:h.\t,t";^.,n.ra:,r;.:7o!re.iove the situ ition in this aren.^social standards.^^^^tran^^^^^^^^^^ no •„.ii.o.f pp,..ce in Indochina."! The team spent several days ana ^^^^;_^« j^,^^ ^^^^ i„gi,^p,5 B<^<-ll Smith Arrives !hcre, chocking on such items aS|» American IJnder.sccretarv of;economic ^/•""'^'Hrher subiecfs' The new office for eonfereruo. adciitionil emptoyeos to fill the Administrauon. comment: ¦•Wow:" Each rf fhe musicians will ro ceive sclioiartihiii* plus dustriba- tion of a grand prize of $2000. Masters .suid he will get full de- lail.s tomorrow. the Balti- a central Sheriff Makes Two Midnigitt Raids At Danny's Cabins, Joltn's Motels; Robinson, Bednarczyk Are Arrested Valley Scene :'SIATE SEHiNG ON ITS HAYS Shortly before midnight, two af o,^'''"* parties, in command ^ Sheriff Robert Shcrrook, ^oPeil down on Danny's Cabin.s •^ John> Motels Boulsv&rd situated on the aection of East End on old Route 118 in pi.i_ —¦" "" ° ^*n» township. Sheriff Sherrock this morning at R Vl^ounced the arrest of Danny "™»"i«on, proprietor of Danny's Jr*"'". and John Bednarczyk, pro- 2^r of John's Motela "" of John'a Motels, on - j*** of maintaining a common nuwance. He said other charges preferred when the men ^ker "»ay be "•arraigned Atonday niorning at Ber, . panied by Assistant DLstrict A.- ' torney Robert Houri?an, Dere- live-S.rseant Herbert F^e^t "^ State Police. Deputy Sheriff John Rilev, County Detective Bdward .Holleran. State Troopers Airtbonv I Walsh, Joseph PotriU, Edward Ganis and Josonh Keifor. The raid at John's Motels was made by County Detective Joseph Miller, Chief Deputy Sheriff Lee Welker, County Detective Stanley Gabrysh. County Juvenile Parole Officer Elmer Fraley, Slate Troop¬ ers Victor Nelson. Kurt Schweiss, William James and John Dolan. before Alderman Miles Bar- Yuunff son of a Xorth Pi'ini- .tulranm tarrrn owner selling lemonade for three cents a glass nt a stand set ui> on thf sidewalk in front of his father's establishmevt. Girl in elevator at Lazanis Store telling her friend "I had a Tom Collins at lunch, loddtl" anA the friend asking "Oh, how ttiee, who's hff" ^"••t o* the proprietors fol-| •0 the queationing of occupants tfte 20 cabins INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT ,-j ——a at Danny's Cabins 51's"^ter;.* "^ '' "*''"' "' f^^^ to the minuto, the big m^l'. P^^t'es hit at the same ?««ent at the tvvo establish- whieh are situated nearly t^he highway from eacH; Section Page' Section Page; Menu, •cros, •ther. Sheriff Sherrock directed thc ^•«« H D*anys C«Wn«, »ccom- Amusement One Around the Town Two City Hall .....Four Classified Four County Four Crossword Puzzle Two Drew Pearson Two EJditoriai Two Frank Tnpp ...Two Obituary ~> m-Ob* 20-21 9 5^ 14-18 4 12 8 8 9 », George M. Adams Two Home Builders Four Politics Two Radio One Robert C. Ruark Two State Capitol One Sports Two State News One TV One Women's Section Thjree 4 8 18 8 19 » 161 17; 18-19 i-iO : HARRI.SBURG (pNS) - Penn jsylvania, in the first six months! I of th( curre-nt year, spent a' i whopping $53,502,000 for construe-j tion, roLonstruction. resurfacing;! and widening of highways of th" Keystone St"Jte. in What is be¬ lieved to bc a record for any pr"- viou.s corresponding jieriod. For exampio, last year durinej the same six-month period, ex-i nendituros totaled some S45 mi!-' lion, with the gain for 195*! amounting to approximately $9 million. In commenting uiion this ex¬ penditure. Highways Dooartment Chief E. L. Schmidt said: "This progress Is particularly noteworth.v because it indicates the department is substantially i exceeding the record-pace whi"h' brought the new all-ttme ("xnendi- ture of $'36,001,000 in 1953." Near 4 Vear Record. He said he belirvod that there is little doubt but that the four t>ast thecal years will each record the hisrhe't total ever S'lent fo'- -state highway improvement. "Through the«e expenditures, Penns.vlva-nia's 4i.000-mi!e Sta'.e Hisrhway System is receiving irn-1 nrovement« of immediate benei"'-.; :o motorists in all i>.-irts of thr;: stfite at a pace never before ap¬ proached." he declared. ' Total expenditures included botn: the Motor License Fu-nd and "hel ''^ a.f Highway and Bridge Au-j thority. 1 RHIHTH LAKE (Second in a Series of Aerial Views) .al Photo by Ar» Hotfnuka Another of Luzerne county's pretty resort areas is North Lalce, situaua in Roas town&hlp near the village ot Sweet Valley. i The lake area is well maintained and most of summer inhab¬ itants havs owned cottages her* for many years. ^ , It
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 38 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
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Month | 07 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1954 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 38 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1954-07-18 |
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Full Text |
Valley Passed Up For 5,000-Job Federal Office
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
SUNNY, HOT
Highest Today 92 Monday: Cloudy, Hot
48TH YEAR — NO. 38 — 88 PAGES
Mf>nib«r Andlt BnrMiii of Circalatloa*
VVILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 18, 1954
rMTEP PRESS
Wire Nl>w» »»r»1«»
. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
Oeafh Stalks Hazards on Dupont Higtiway
$VI Billion Investment
Claim Nation's A-Power Is Being 'Given Away'
Three deeth-dealing highw.iy hazards lie in wait lor unwary motoirsts on the Dupont High¬ way. In each case the black, four-lane thoroughfare shrink in half to become only two lanes and at night thf aitua- tinn is vicioua.
Photo, upper left, shows nar¬ row highwnny overpass in I-iaf- lin. near Mayfair Club.
Upper right, the highway be- f^omee two lanes at' a Yatess- ville underpass, near where -i terminal will be built to con¬ nect with the new turnpike.
Lower photo, narrow bridge in Plaina township, where a young New York clergyman and Ohio woman were killed nnd three others injured last Monday when their car hit the bridge abutement.
May. End Monopoly Of the Covernntent^ Cive It to Utilities
WASHINGTON (IP»-The administration's plans to let >privatej indu.stry develop atomic power waa attacked in the Senate Saturday! as a "give away" of the taxpayers' 12-billion dollar investment in atomic energy.
Ilie charge was hurled in bitterly-worded floor speeches b\ Sens. Herbert. H. Lehman, D-NY,'James E. Murray, D-.Mont, and Wayne C. MoTsc. Ind-Ore. ,
Provisions for licensing private firms to build and op'rate atomic- energy plants to produce botii, ,,
fissionable materials, wn-i ele tricIother section of the Htomic bill
power aro iiontaiiicd in an omni¬ bus bill rewriting the basic 1946 Atomic Energy Ac. riio law, ao it now stands, provides for a noV' ernment monopoly in atomic velopment.
Would Replaee TV A Power The proposal to open the atomic
when 12 senators headed by Guy Gillette, D-Iowa. introduced an amendment to give rural electric co-operatives and piibiicly-owned de-l utilities "preference and priority'" in buying any electric power generated as a by-product at gov¬ ernment-owned atomic plants.
field to private enterprise camej Gillette Gets Support
Lady Lion Tamer Can't Stop Horror Suicide in Her Cage
NUERNBERG, Germany (IP)--A 28-year oid lady lion tamer told today how .^he tried in vain to save a young man who walked deliberately to his death in a lion's den at the too.
Miss Margarethe Storch leaped into the cage of four lions aroused by the taste of the man's biood while Caesar the Lion carried him '"in his jaws—aa if he were a dol!."
.lonef Hajek 21, jumped over the protective fenr<> at the Nuernberg Zoo, waded neck- high through a nioal and walked into thn midst of the linns.
"He was felled by one tremendous swat of a paw," Mis« Storch said.
» A crowd of about 30 persons ^Jetrified with horror watched Miss Storch go to the man's as.
sistaflce. But he refu.sed her help and remained to be clawed and bitten to death. Miss Storch recalled events at ehe lion's enclosure at the loo: "First I heard the screams, especially the shrill-pitched cry of a wonaan. "I entered the den from tiie attendants' door in the rear. There, Caesar the Ldon earried this
man in his jaws-^as if he were a doll.
"I approached /the four lions, slamming together two metal shields to scare them oiff. But thoy would not frighten.
"The young man lay get out through this door:
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on the ground among the beasts, and I shoulted 'Follow me, get out,
Cives Rerfs ^,:^-!;!;^^ Last Chance For Peace
Jobs of 260 Local Emplo.ves in Social Security Records Division Will Be Transferred to Maryland
Almost 300 local government poskiont were alated for transfer toi Lhe Baltimore area and Wyoming 'Valley lost a chance for 8,000 newj
under fire after the Su.ate had spent four days in a dispute over another section of the hill author¬ izing the Atomic E.icrgy Com¬ mission to enter -nto long-term contracts for purchase of con¬ ventional electric power from private utilities for the operation of its plants.
Senators Irom the Valley Authority area
to amend this sec'.ion to head off the administn'tion'i, rontroversial contract with the Dixon-Yates private utility group to supply .600,000 kilowatts of power to thc
This preference, similar to thatj already in effeot for power gen-| erated at fedorallv-owned hydro-, electric projects, would not apply to electric energy from the pro¬ posed privately-owned atomicj power plants. i
Gillette was Joined in spon.«>or-| ¦ing the amendment by eight otheT; Tennessee! Democrats, two Republicans andj are tryingi Morse.
'"Then he suddenly stumbled to hin feet and stood. But he fell down instantly.
"One of our biggest lions—Ca4>sar—attarked. He bit the man in the neck. The man
quivered, but he did not move again.
"I
crept
wooden club
the alarm button.
'"Police came
• squsUing on him
the prey. It Is a
to within six feet of the body, parrying the shields In my left hand and a large in my right. Another lion circled carefully to surround me. I backed out and pushed
TVA system to
TVA
Lehman told the Senate that] the proposal to Ut commercial ( firms build atomic plants r.s b\ profit-mailing venture would hf a far greater plum to private r.'ili- ties in the long run that the dis¬ puted Dixon-Yates contract.
He said tliis proposal "far tran-
of
then. They fired pistol bulleta into the air. or nrar hVm--each animal nervously ey,eing habit of the beasts."
(Continued on Page 9, Seotion
But the beasts remained by HaJek. the other lest he make off with
11
J .Vi'.Hcrday witli the announcement that a S2,5.000.0(10 .'-'ociali ^^•^ sysiem lo replace'
Security Records Division Headquarters will be built in the Marj^-'P"^'"" ""ed by the AE.L. Oppon- •..nH .r.., ,1-nls contend this contract would
.'ibet a private utility scheme tojscends the infamous giveaway local federal workers slated for traiisifer and there are an -dcstrov'" TVA as a public power|the offshore oil" in thc so-called estimated 260 are employed in the Old Age and Survivors' In.'u.- ent<.rprise : j Tidelands Law
ance aecUon of the Division of Accounting Operations, with offices _ nrivxte i.avi-er' Murrav said the bill "Khould bej
tlie Veterans Administration ^ T^«^ P"^'". '* pn%»te
estimated 8,000 positions. , I battle spHled over into
k
Viet Foreign Minister V tov conferred for ninn hours again, but made ress.'
A restricted seaslon of the nation conference will sit ji.m. 110 a.m., th» Palare of
and
.M. M(.lo- than two 'no
nine-
at 31
Visited Unannounced /
The government inspectors
bui'di "i'"^'*' tiifi'r spring visit/ unknowi.
'„"^ to local officials or representatives
''¦—' the regional Social Security
office.
Vower I still an- (Continued
on Page B, Section 1)
Duryea Teen-Age Band Wins National Contest
GENEVA *lPi French Premier j^^j Pierre Mendes-France served no-| , tice on tlie Communists Saturday nigiit ihat the chance.v for ne gotiating an hrr.orable ix-aee in
In'tochina were now or never. , kt .u ••«¦ »_ »
BuUdinf; on North Main stree* However, there apoeared r.o hope Of breakins the Geneva con-i ^^e resfion lost out on a chance fertme deadlock. l^"^"'!''' '*"' "o""' ">"!--"'""'"
Rr,ti8h'Forei2n'*''*^J°'' ^''"' Security r« . A .V, ^ „Tl? iw:h the annou.ic.ment by ...... ,
'8,..retar>. Anthony Eden and h-.-.O^^^^ ^^,p jj^^^^ Secretarj- of °^
WclfHre in the Eisenhower Cabi- _.__ net. tlMt the Baltimore area had: The entire insrpection was on a '^ ' jbeen awrded the Juicy employ-I"hu8h-hush" basis and William O.
ment plum thai will include thelSword, president of the Greater
construction of a huge office i Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund, EDTi Sunday at building. ^Inc- anti other local officials
.no .„, ,id'''''rh""n; ^tifrwlti ^1'':J''ZV°""':ZZ/Z''1L'^°°-^^^^ Durvea Teen-Age Orchestra' Master, ia director of muaic at
spoKesman ."^id. The ni'?ettng wil' ecs who wil ue a.'rected by the , _ j .,_ i. • . ,. . " i, „ii 'r,,,-,,o„ hi.rh „r.y,r.,-\ aii mominr^
V .- ... i . . ... . . , no-; informed thai this region was lM«,t nielit sent ui'ople all ovort/uryea "liin scnooi. Aii inem.iti.-s
1)9 united to two r-^prtscntatives transfer of or.cra. ons to the new ""' '¦""'¦¦"" cmi uns rvgiun was^iait "'«"'¦ .""^'J^/ ^.„^,„ ..„ „. »ho npr^hoatra aro Diipvea hic-'i 'rnm ,.»,h ,i„i...^nt-„ Lo'^Mo. , ,„¦ ,„ . K, „;.,.„ „„ even under con.«ldt'ration for such the United .States looking on-of the orcnestra are uuryea nig.i
• rom eaeh dfle/at .n. heaaqua:.<:rs w ., be given »" ^ j^^. ^ for Duryea. Pennsylvania.,sohool students or recent grad-
True Still Possible lopporainily to accept the transter J,, . ioion to huild h. ^fxi) 'aft r the youn^ mu-siclans wonluat.s. John Sahk, Duryea, is
Mendes-France, British Foreign"' '"»''^ othor ,irrargem<..n , for . J'^^^^^'^'^'"" f° ^"/'^ ^" ^^: fir.st prize in the nationally-tele- business manager. Communists have the wiil. u .t'li-l^'nP'Oyir^^'^- ^'O^-; ^^"1' bo ahie to ^b e^^'""* "'<>"''« '''.^^^'''-vi.sod Ted Mack Amateur Hour' The orchestra members are: : l« iKMsibl- lo resrh an Tnd-.ch'na "•'^"»« '*>« trans.ter but oblain more means that an area that is , ^ ^ | Sax section Dick Cimakcsky,!
tru^bv the J.ilv-" deadlim- heio^hor Civil Ser%-ice employment alrt>a |
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Month | 07 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1954 |
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