Weather Fair weather today, tonight and tomorrow. perature this afternoon near 40 degrees. Low tonight 15-20 degrees, and high tomorrow from 35-40 degrees. IrtHtol iatlu Delaware Great Home Newspaper FINAL EDITIOX VOL. 52, No.
85 Member ABC BRISTOL, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 196220 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS FIRE RUINl BENSAIEH MILL 19 Freight Cars Derailed, One Afire I Firemen pour water on the remains of the hosiery Trooper Tells Of Inn Visits In Vice Case Good Evening! S.O. Battlns for G.G.G. Telephones morning. all ringing this News tip candidates were calling to report the fire in Bensaiem and the derailment near Richboro. Best tip of each week wins $5 but every caller getjs a chance to play reporter.
On the big stories speed is of the essence. First caller gets credit for the tip. Wonder if the county is receiving any more work from its 360 employes received an estimated total salary increase of The increases followed the recommendations of the Pennsylvania Economy League pretty closely. So now have to wait to see the economy if it all. It looks as though the oompro- mise plan is going through the special session of the legislature.
The big question is what job Rep. Kathryn G. Granahan will get for bowing out. Troubled world still revolving. Hemisphere confereace in Uruguay deadlocked, bombs being thrown in France, Congo in ferment, Washington having all kinds of debates, etc.
About all we have to be thankful for is the lack of snow. been a great year for outdoor ice skating. And nothing can make you feel more alive. Editor George messages from India giving a vivid picture of that country. Almost but not quite as good as going with the group.
strange that no matter how good business is it always seems to get worse the day you ask the boss for a raise. fie careful. A State Trooper prosecuting a bartender of the Lincoln Inn, Falls Township, for prostitution and assignation testified yesterday that he made a date with one of the alleged prostitutes last June 7 and drove her to a nearby motel, w'here fmir other policemen entered their room to arrest her. Trooper Charles Zinich said he visited the tavern eight times before the raid. On trial for vice and for serving liquor after 2 a.m.
is bartender Anthony Carcella, 50, of 11 Dorothy Drive, Trenton. Other Girls Zinich said Carcella told Margaret Anderson, 22, of Trenton to give him her telephone number and recommended the company of other girls on another occasion. The trooper said he purchased drinks after the legal closing hour on most of his visits to the Lincoln Inn. defense counsel, former assistant U. S.
Attorney Joseph J. Zapitz, moved to throw out charges of prostitution and assignation, pandering and maintaining a disorderly house, for insufficient evidence. Judge Edwin H. Satterthwaite, conducting the jury trial, reserved a decision until today. Not Served Quarter Sessions Clerk Robert William Tootell, called by Assistant District Attorney Edward G.
Biester as a Commonwealth witness, said Mrs. Anderson was to go on trial Nov. 27 for prostitution, but did not appear. A bench warrant was issued and given to the sheriff, Tootell said, but has not been served. The trooper said he went to the tavern in plain clothes and said he was a salesman for a Bethlehem store Zinich said on the night of June 7 he left the tavern with Anderson aftw she asked him I was She said her home, at 111 Sherman Trenton, was being watched by police and they would (Continued on Page 3, Coi.
7) mill which was completely destroyed this morning, 75 Firemen Cart Water To Scene By PAUL ALTAEBE Courier-Times Staff Writer Angry flames shooting as high as SO feet and fanned by 20-mile-an-hour winds swept swiftly through a Bensalem hosiery mill, completely destroying it within two hours this morning. employes Looking west fram the Bristol Road overpass, an observer gets a birds eye view of some of the damage. Welsh To Run Track Torn Up JSorthampton Demo Post By DAN STUDEBAKEK Courier-Times Staff Writer Luckily, only five were in the building at 7 a.m. w'hen fire broke out at the Tannenbaum Hosiery Mill on Knights Road, near Street Road. The five escaped without injury, after flames, which are be(See other fire picture.
Page 5) lieved to have broken out in the bonding room of the plant, spread rapidly throughout the building. 73 Battle Blaze Seventy-five volunteers from seven fire companies, under the direction of the Eddington Fire Company, battled the blaze and brought it under control shortly after 9 Deputy Fire Marshal Earle S. Tomlinson, at the scene, said the cause of the blaze w'as not yet determined. Tomlinson said an investigation would gfet under way immediately. The entire cinder-block building was completely destroyed, including thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and equipment.
Heavy Smoke Thick black smoke billowed 10 stories into the air and could be seen for five miles in the area. One of the greatest problems confronting firefighters was the fact that there w'as no readily available source of watfer supply (Continued on Page 3, Col. 5) a candidate for Bucks County Democratic chairman at the reorganization meeting of county Democrats in June. John T. Welsh announced in An eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train derailed in spectacular fashion ioday as it passed under the Bristol Koad overpass, Northampton Township.
A railroad spokesman said 19 of the 39 freight cars Wels'hrformercounty Demo- 1 derailed and 1,000 feet of track was torn up. No one cratic and former chair-j was injured in the crash, which occurred at 0:49 a.m. man of the county cominissiunei's, said he expressed his views in a letter to John C. Mulligan, Bristol Township, county Demiocratic chairman. supporters and myself are willing to endeavor to work with him in seeking to provide a slate of qualified candidates for Congress, State Senate, General Assembly and state committee Welsh declared, he rescinds all of his improper arbitrary dismissals of county executive committee members and recognizes those he improperly Welsh also demanded that (Continued on Page 3, Col.
8) One of the cars, filled with meat according to firemen of the Rich- Fire Company, caught fire and was still burning at 10:40 a.m. Fire Chief Bill Wendig said the burning car, which was flipped on its side under the overpass, had apparently been ignited after the derailment by two heating elements inside it. Scattered Like Dominoes The cars were jammed tightly together under the overpass and scattered like tumbled dominoes along one-quarter mile of road- wiiy east and west of the track. The engine was still upright about three-quarters mile east of the overpass. Harold L.
Wiand, spokesman for the railroad, said the train apparently derailed about halfway down its 39-car length. He said an investigation is under way into the cause of the accident. At the scene, firemen reported tliat detectives had picked up the train engineer and crewmen shortly after the crash. Who they were and where they were taken was not immediately known From Modern Hotels To Mud Huts India: Land Of Beauty And Desolation By GEORGE G. GRAY Editor, Courier-Times AGRA, INDIA Jan, 15 (Delayed) If this has the earmarks of a travelogue, consider it a report from something of an unsophisticated Alice in India Wonderland.
It is a country of superlative beauty and at the same time a country of ugly desolation. It is a country whose culture goes more than 3,000 years beyond the birth of Christ and whose religions with all of their mysticism sustain the spirit and soul and conduct of man and at the same time a country in which it would seem that man, as represented by hundreds of millions of people, has been forsaken by his gods. It is a country where in a distance of a few miles you witness modern hotels, colleges and factory buildings and ox-cart transportation, 000-year-old villages, herds of water buffalo, wild jaguars and monkeys, camel caravans and the inevitable mobs of people mostly the in the same style of garb popular in the day when Genghis Khan swept in from the north to be tricked into retreat before he had time to devastate Old Delhi. Wiand said the train was travel- from Harrisburg to Jersey N.J. Rerout Through Phila.
Many of the cars appeared to be refrigeration cars. The railroad is a through route at the point it derailed, said, and until the twisted rails can be replaced, freight will be rerouted (Continued on Page 3. Col. 3) Man Charged With Cruelty To Animals By PAUL ALTAIRE Courier-Times Staff Writer A Bristol TowTiship painting contractor last night was charged with cruelty to animals by the Bucks County SPCA after his horse was discovered dying from mainutntion. The horse was later Appearing before Justice of the Peace Stephen P.
Niecoski on the charges was William E. Hayes of 5421 William Penn Drive. Hayes posted $300 bail pending a hearing Monday. The charges against Hayes were brought by the Bucks County SPCA, Lahaska. through John Hellyer, county animal control officer.
Dogs Koani The events led to citation were complaints that Hayes, who owns several acres of property in the Willow Penn. Carver and Lee St. area, had an undeterminable number of dogs roaming, many of them diseased. An investigating party of Bristol Township police, SPCA representatives and animal control officers was unable to count the number but saw at least a dozen. Hellyer this morning picked up (Continued on Page 3.
Col. 3) Border Orders: Shoot While in Hyderabad I took time out to spend a day at a Indian village of 800 people housed in a completely disorganized array of mud huts guarding narrow, crooked, dirty streets sufficiently wide for man and but off limits to taxi and bullock-drawn carts. It is quite a town one of some 52,000 or so of the same in this strange land. Its name is Guganpuharj, if this makes any difference, and, oddly enough, it is fairly prosperous by village (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) BERLIN German guards have orders to shoot or abduct or West Berliner provoking I them, two Communist border po- lice escapees said today.
The two former guards, 20 and 19 years old, fled Jan. 3 from the Soviet Zone to West Berlin They addressed a West Berlin news conference this morning. They spoke as the East Ger- iman government prepared citi- zens for formal military conscrip- Ition expected to be discussed by their Communist-controlled puppet parliament Wednesday. I Inside Today Comics Danzig Dear Features Inquiring Reporter Jacoby Junior Reporter Movies Obituaries Sports 0 SttR-ks TV Schedule News i 4 14. 0 18, 19 6 7 9 9 ...18 2 I 10, 17 I 18 8.
