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Tomorrow Rain. High 37-42. (Details On Paga 1 Metropolitan Edition Latest News 15 Cents Per Copy 37TH YEAR-NO. 24 LANCASTER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1960 Checks Returned, But Property Tax May Add $100,000 Despite a technicality which is forcing the newly appointed collector of personal property tax to return large numbers of checks, the drive for enforcement may increase Lancaster countys income by as much as $100,000. vl Journal Box Seen Burning Before Crash 16 Cars Derailed, 2 Go In Near Waterworks Conestoga Pike Opened; New Storm Is Forecast Thousands Resume Trips; Gettysburg To Irwin Closed 36 Hrs.

From Associated Press Traffic started rolling over a snowswept section of the Pennsylvania Turn-like Saturday after nearly 36 hours. But, even as motorists resumed their ourneys, light snow fell on he Bedford-Stanton area and a new storm was reported heading in from the southwest. Battling high winds and deep drifts, men and machines finally succeeded in clearing the superhighway or travel. This was good news for thousands of stranded motorists and truckers, many of whom lost no time resuming their journeys. A big section of the turnpike in southwestern Pennsylvania had been shutdown since a vicious snowstorm struck Thursday night GIANT CRANE begins task of removing mail freight car from right-of-way of the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad shortly after wrecking crews moved in Saturday to rush the resumption of service on the road.

Rerouted Trains Required Pilots Engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroads crack passenger trains had to have pilots to guide them through the wilderness of the Atglen Freight Brandi when Saturdays spectacular wreck at the city water works bridge closed the main line. The trains began the route at Parkesburg and joined the main Charles H. Pearce, the special tax officer, said Saturday that the tax will be paid this year through the regular assessors and collectors, so that he has had to send back any checks sent directly to him. A preliminary estimate of returns filed indicates that at least 20 per cent more will be billed on tax duplicates. After more public education and complete operation of the personal property tax collection office, it is estimated that the tax returns will rise this year between 25 and 33 1-3 per cent above the $300,000 normally collected each year.

DEADLINE EXTENDED Feb. 15 was the deadline for filing personal property tax reports with Pearces office; but. because this is the first year of concerted enforcement, an extension is being permitted. Pearce explained that this is a difficult year one of building a working foundation that will show full results beginning next year. Although Pearce is the collection officer, he will not collect the personal property tax this year.

For 1959 taxes, it remains in the hands of the tax assessors and collectors and the tax bills will appear on this springs duplicates. Some taxpayers have returned their reports and included checks to pay amounts due. Pearce was oh i gated to return the checks with a note that the taxpayers will be billed at a later date. ASKS COOPERATION Pearce said: Our objective is to make the collection of the personal prop erty tax equitable and we will continue to check up until we get proper returns. We are looking for public cooperation in reporting and paying personal property taxes; later we can invoke penalty." This year, the special tax offl eer Is mostly preparing for a bigger year in 1961.

He has the tasks 1. Educating the public about property taxes what personal properties are taxable; what are exempt. 2. Segregating the billing from the tax assessors and collectors records. 3.

Ferreting out delinquent and evasive reports. 4. Establishing a billing and collecting system. Pearce continued to empha size that persons affected by the personal property tax law are to file reports with his office; but they are not to send the pay ment along with the report. They will be billed for the tax due.

The personal property tax has been on the books since 1913, Page 3 CHECKS Other Story and Picture on Page 3 A broken journal has been blamed for a train wreck which sent 16 cars of a speeding Pennsylvania Railroad mail train crashing and splintering down a 50-foot embankment near the City Water Works at 8:27 a.m. Saturday. The locomotive and the first eight cars on the 25-car train stayed on the tracks; so did the last car. The rest were derailed, two landing in the water. Wrecking crews working through the night expected to have both main line tracks cleared by early this morning.

George Vaughn, director of re-gidnal operations for the railroad, said he discovered the broken journal on the ninth car of the 25-car train Saturday afternoon and it was undoubtedly the cause of the pile-up. Vaughn explained that a journal is the box over the end of the axle of the heavy car wheels. Sometimes, he said, these become overheated and snap under the strain. The story of the overheated journal was also borne out by a report from Richard Ilershey, 12 Overhill Drive Lane. Hershey said he was unloading some materials at Clyde Smith and Son near the Schick overpass when the train went by just before the accident.

The wheel was throwing sparks and smoke trailed out for two car lengths, he said. We all remarked they werent going to get very far. GOING 50 MPH The accident occured at the 50-foot-high waterworks bridge as the train was traveling at about 50 miles an hour between Philadelphia and Harrisburg on a nonstop run loaded with mail. A four member crew was unhurt. The wreck sealed off the main line of the railroad and caused all the crack trains traveling to and from New York and Philadelphia to be rerouted at Parkesburg over the Atglen and Susquehanna Branch freight line into Quarryville and Columbia, returning to the main line at line again at Middletown, passing through Quarryville and Columbia on their way.

As the huge trains pulled up at Parkesburg they waited patiently for a pilot, just like the Queen Mary waiting to enter New York harbor. Pilots on the trains were en-ginemen and brakemen who are thoroughly familiar with every inch of track on the freight line. George Vaughn, regional operations director for the railroad, said, "We had to have pilots on those trains as a safety measure our regular main-line engineers dont know where the signals or the telephones are, or the condition of the roadbed, and we couldnt take any chances. Other sections of Pennsylvania, notably the northwest and northeast, also reeled under winters one-two punch of snow and frigid winds. NEW STORM ENROUTE On top of it all, the U.S.

Weather Bureau warned that another storm system was approaching from the Southwest and probably would reach the state by late Sunday afternoon, bringing rain or snow. The turnpike was closed to westbound traffic between Gettys. burg and Irwin, a 185-mile stretch. Eastbound lanes were closed from Irwin to Bedford. Hours after the turnpike was reopened, a turnpike commission spokesman reported traffic was heavy and moving.

Traffic was snarled on some hilly stretches, he said, but there Page 3-TURNPIKE AERIAL SHOT of the scene of Pennsylvania Railroad wreck Saturday shows mail freight cars scattered over 50-foot embankment just east of City Waterworks bridge. Two cars at bottom landed in the waters of the Conestoga Creek and broke a power line in their descent. (Sunday News Air Photo by Marshall Dussinger) Woman Tries To Halt 7 Fast Calls Bus, Has Leg Broken Set Off By Train Wreck Mrs. Elizabeth E. Yost, seventy-three, 346 E.

Liberty was admitted to General Hospital Saturday afternoon for Boy Held For Brutal Death Of Coed, 14 Former State Dept. Official Urged Stay LOS ANGELES (AP) -Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard R. Rogan said Saturday he stepped into the Caryl Chessman case because he was warned of possible Latin-American reaction if Chessman was executed.

A telephone call from an ex-federal i ci a 1 Rogan said prompted him into actions which played a part in the llth-hour reprieve of the convict-author Thursday night. Rogan would not name the man he said called him from Washington. He called him a former high-ranking State Department employe and a long-time personal friend now in private business there. He explained the possibilities of incidents during President Eisenhowers. trip, Rogan said and went over the troubles during Vice President Richard M.

Nixons visit. KICKED UP FUROR Gov. Edmund G. Browns 60-day stay of execution for the convicted rapist-kidnaper has kicked up a furor in this and many other countries. The California Legislature will be asked.

Brown said, to consider abolishing the death penalty. The call from the unidentified friend, Rogan said, led him to: 1. Telephone George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency who was suggested by Rogans caller.

2. Telephone Gov. Brown late Page 3-FORMER Pres. On TV Tonight, Trip Begins Mon. treatment of a triple fracture of the right leg.

Mrs. Yost was injured when she endeavored to get the attention of a bus driver by tapping on the rear bus window just as the bus pulled away from the N. Queen and Orange Sts. stop, the driver told police. William Dellinger, forty, 645 Lake driver of the bus, said he had stopped for the light at N.

Queen and as he started to pull away, someone said, A lady wants to get the bus. He looked back and saw that the woman was caught between the curb and the bus. At police direction, Dellinger backed the bus and freed the injured woman, who was conveyed to the hospital in the police ambulance. Dellinger said she stepped from the curb and between a trash can and the bus and was rapping on the window when she lost her balance. Milder Today, And Less Windy Increasing cloudiness, less windy and milder weather is forecast for the local area today.

The high temperature is expected to range between 37 and 42 degrees, slightly higher than Saturdays high of 37 degrees. Tonight is to be cloudy and not as cold, with rain or snow beginning Monday morning. The Turnpike conditions late Saturday night varied considerably from the Northeast Interchange to the Ohio line. In the northeast, the roadway was dry with icy spots. Temperatures ranged from 24 to 38 degrees.

At the Ohio line, the roadway was dry and skies were cloudy. In between, there was light snow, ice, plowing and cindering by Turnpike crews. The low temperature was 17 at the Stanton Interchange. Who sets the precautionary wheels in motion after an accident like Saturdays train wreck? Saturday morning it was Lt. Frank Greenawalt, of the city police, who received an anony mous call at 8:46 a.

m. that a wreck had occurred at the water works. First he notified the Street Department to place barricades at Riverside Ave. and Grofftown Rd Next he called Frank Hammond, city postmaster, since mail cars were split open. PARKING LOT CLOSED Then the officer called the Radio Corporation of America office and told them to close the parking-lot exit.

Since electric wires were down, Page 3-LOCAL Page 9-WRECK Doctor Beneath Trains Fallout Dr. I. Siegel, 1071 New Holland had some anxious moments Saturday morning during the train wreck. He was driving under the bridge when the accident occurred and when objects began falling around his car, he increased his speed to get out of the danger zone. He parked a safe distance away and then returned to the scene of the accident.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) The battered body of a junior high school coed was found Saturday in a bottomlands dump and police said her 17-year-old date admitted killing her. The body of red-haired Carol Arlene Feathers, 14, was found face down, her skull fractured. Her coat, a wallet and a bloodstained stick were found -'beside her. One hour after the girls mother identified the body.

Memphis police arrested Jerry Lynn Blankenship and said he admitted that he bludgeoned the girl when she resisted his advances. Blanknship was held in jail at Marion. Ark. No charges have been filed. Inspector W.

W. Wilkinson, chief of the Memphis homicide department, said Blankenship drove the girl to the deserted site near the Memphis -Arkansas Bridge at about 4 a.m. They got into a fight, Wilkinson said, and continued to fight outside the car. Blankenship picked up a stick and began beating her. He got back into the car, leaving her lying on the dump.

He saw her coat and purse in the car and threw them out. He drove to a friend's home and left his bloody and dirty clothing and then drove home." The body was discovered Saturday morning. U.S. Women Win 2 Medals Double Fatality Survivor Better WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower sets out next week on a personal mission aimed at demonstrating that the United States wants to be a good partner and a good neighbor to Latin America. Sunday night, on the eve of his departure, Eisenhower will discuss his plans for the trip in a 15-minute speech to be carried nationally on radio and television.

The President worked Saturday on the speech, which White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said will also contain some references to the nations defenses. The speech, starting at 6:15 p.m. will be carried live by the ABC and CBS television networks and by ABC and Mutual Radio There will be a film showing on NBC-TV at 6:30 p.m. and delayed radio broadcasts on CBS at 8:15 p.m.

and on NBC at 8:35 p.m. Monday morning the President will set out on a tour that will take him to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the four southernmost nations of the hemisphere. His return to Washington is scheduled for March 6, following a rest in Puerto Rico. The tour is the second of three he has planned in an effort to improve world understanding. In December, he visited 11 nations of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

A June tour of the Soviet Union and the far east is in the works. A generally warm reception seems assured for the President in Latin America. But officials here are not overlooking the possibility of isolated demonstrations by Yankee-haters. Some demonstrations reportedly had been planned in protest of the scheduled execution of kidnaper sex pervert Caryl Chessman. A Friday reprieve for Chessman may have taken the steam from such plans.

There has been some criticism Page 8-IKE SUNDAY NEWS Today WHO WILL WIN the championship of South America a Castro type of dictatorship or the Uncle Sam image of democracy? William R. Frye, United Nations correspondent, looks over this touch-and-go situation in his World In Focus column, which appears this week and every week on the editorial page of the Sunday News. Frye points up the under-the-surface importance of President Eisenhowers visit this coming week to our southern hemisphere neighbors. Wm. R.

Fry An 1866 boolc of etiquette in Hershey Museum has some useful tips for todays teenagers, accord-. ing to Kitte Turmells nationally syndicated Teen Etiquette appearing today on page 26. Queen, Baby Doing Fine LONDON (AP) Queen Elizabeth and her crinkly, blue-eyed baby prince weighed in at pounds, 3 ounces received a stream of callers Saturday. Prince Philip took off to watch a football game. Buckingham Palace was getting back toward normal.

Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princes Margaret turned up for a half hour visit. They drove away looking delighted. The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, clerical head of the Church of England, was among dignitaries paying homage to the Queen and her second son. 'A LOVELY BABY' Its a lovely baby, said gynecologist John H.

Peel, who presided at the delivery Friday of the first child born to a reigning British monarch in 103 years. The baby is doing fine and so is the Queen. Informed sources said the" 33-year-old Queen is recovering rapidly from a troublesome confinement and may be well enough to get out of bed Sunday. Roaring on was the official celebration. A formation of 36 Hunter fighters, flying through a drizzling rain, dipped over the palace roof in salute.

Gun batteries boomed at Hyde Park, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle. Robert D. Shaffer, twenty-two, Narvon Rl, sole survivor of a one-car crash in which his two companions were killed early Saturday morning, was reported as slightly improved late Saturday night at Ephrata Community Hospital. The companions, Donald L. Artz, twenty one, Bowmans-ville, and Mrs.

Charles R. Fritz, twenty-four, Denver RI, wrere killed instantly about 2:30 a.m. when the 1959 convertible owned by Artzs father, Leon, ran out of control on Rt. 222, a mile south of the Lancaster Reading Turnpike interchange. Shaffer, who has a deep laceration on the top of the skull and multiple bruises and lacerations, was improved, according to Dr.

Ira Wagner, Ephrata physician U.S. girls turned in two medal performances in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley Saturday, but neither brought a gold medal. Penny Pitou of Norwich, Vt. took second place in the womens downhill event, which was won by Germanys Heidi Beible. Miss Pitou lost-precious time in a near-fall on an icy curve that did put favored Betsy Snite of the U.S.

team out of the event. Miss Snite had to be helped from the course after a bad spill. Things were rosier in the closely watched figure skating competition. Carol Heiss of one Park, N.Y. began defense of her title by taking the lead after several compulsory figure events.

She still faces three days of competition. Thomas Sets New High Jump Mark Lanky John Thomas, sensational Boston U. high-jumper, led an all-out assault on world's indoor track and field records at the AAU indoor championships in Madison Square Garden Saturday night. He topped his own high jump mark, that was a world's as well as indoor mark, by clearing 2 at the Garden. SEVEN DOORS STOLEN William H.

Hager III, 959 Skyline reported to State Police Saturday night that thieves took seven doors, valued at $100, from a building being torn down at 430 Columbia Ave. Hager, who owns the building, said the theft occurred sometime Friday nighL Ad-tomic Results Norman King, Atglen, discovered but not yet coherent State police for himself the Ad.tomic power hnl niT HAT nAAn nKIn (a mmaaIiam had not been able of Want-Ads when he ran this ad that brought 20 calls in 2 days: EDITORIAL 10 Local, National News; Pearson; Drummond FEATURES 30 Dr. Peale. Dogs, Antiques, Easy To Build. Indoor Garden.

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yet to question him about the accident. The car, northbound, ran off the right side of the highway, smashed off two gas pumps at the Alan A. Bruckart service station, rolled over, and crashed against the building. No one was at the sta- Pag 3-ACCIDENTS If you have something to sell, follow Mr. Kings example and call EXpress 7-5251 and ask for an Ad-Taker, your smiling Ad-Visor.

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