This Was Doylestown, 1964

Five teens arrested in Doylestown melee -

Five youths were arrested and two were taken to the hospital after a series of street fights that began with scuffles and brawls among more than 300 teenagers at the Hustle Inn, South Main Street and Hart Avenue, on Wednesday night.

Doylestown Borough Police Chief Kenneth R. Tutt said the Hustle Inn, a teenage rendezvous operated by Ellis W. Smith, was closed down and the teenagers ordered out at 10:30 p.m. after two eruptions of violence in the building.

A scuffle broke out in the basement, where boys and girls were dancing. Upstairs, another eruption occured among more than 300 boys and girls who were dancing.

Tutt said, "My officers, including Sgt. George L. Silk, had to fight for their lives to calm the boys and girls. The dance floor was so crowded, shoulder-to-shoulder, that police couldn't get to the scene of the fight.

"Boys tried to grab the officers' pistols and none of the youths would help the officers to make way for them to get to the scene of the fight and settle the rowdies," the chief said.

After the teenagers left the Hustle Inn, they got into cars and drove to a diner and service station along West State Street, and began fighting again in the parking lot at 11:10 p.m. Some of the teenagers left the parking lot and began fighting in Monument Square, where between 30 and 40 boys and girls jumped out of their cars to get into the melee.

"This sort of thing is getting to be a behavior of massed teenagers and we are not going to tolerate it," Tutt said.

Chief Tutt said four youths-- two 19-year-olds from Penllyn, an 18-year-old from Trenton, N.J. and a 17-year-old from Hopewell, N.J.--were arrested for being involved in the fighting and were each charged with disorderly conduct

A 19-year-old Chalfont boy crashed his car into a parked car at East State Street and Oakland Avenue at 11:55 p.m. He was charged with transporting and consuming alcoholic beverages, Tutt said.

The chief said a 19-year-old Hartsville boy was treated at Doylestown Hospital for scrapes on his arms, and a 19-year-old Warrington boy was admitted to the hospital for observation due to bruises on his head.

Doylestown discontinues overhead Christmas lights -

Doylestown Borough is discontinuing the practice of suspending overhead Christmas lights across streets in the business district.

Raymond Simon, chairman of the street lighting program for the Doylestown Merchants Association, said the garlands of wires, bulbs and holly are getting too expensive to put up.

A spokesman for Edward M. Happ, Inc., Doylestown contractor, whose establishment on West Ashland Street was destroyed by fire, said "We are too busy rebuilding our business and equipment structure to take time out to string up the lights." Happ employees strung the wires, lights, bulbs and holly for about 15 years.

Chairman Simon said the mid-town utility poles will be decorated this Christmas to represent sugar plums. A five-foot Old English lantern, which be be illuminated, will be suspended from the poles. Sassaman Electrical Contractor, of Dublin, is putting up the decorations.

"The general effect is simpler but we think has better taste," Simon said. "We needed a good many replacements for the overhead street-type Yule decorations and they are very expensive."

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Fraternity donates food to needy at Thanksgiving -

Students of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, now being activated at of Science and Agriculture, are sharing Thanksgiving by distributing $200 in food to needy families and children's homes.

Robert Dilks, a sophomore, said about 25 college students made a door-to-door solicitation and collected canned foods. Doylestown Borough Police Department aided the fraternity students in selecting the names of needy families who could use the provisions.

"It was our first attempt at community service and we did the best we could," Dilks said. The college's chapter is in its early stages.

Alpha Phi Omega, established in 1925, is approved by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America as the college service organization for Scouts and former Scouts. There are now more than 300 chartered chapters, including 30 in Pennsylvania.

The purpose of the organization is to "assemble college men in the fellowship of the Scout oath and law, to develop leadership, to provide service to humanity and to further the freedom that is our national, educational and intellectual heritage."

Eastburn Building sold for $60,000 -

The Eastburn Building, a stately three-story structure at 30 E. Court St, which has been in the Eastburn family since 1890, has been sold for $60,000.

The building, sandwiched between the former President Judge Hiram H. Keller Building and the former Scheetz Department Store (now the Green Stamp mecca) at East Court and Pine streets, was sold by Arthur M. Eastburn, a former Bucks County district attorney, and his wife, Marie F. Eastburn.

The new owners are Doylestown Title and Abstract Co., Inc., 18 E. Court St., now known as the Doylestown National Bank and Trust Co. Annex.

The Eastburn family, one of the oldest in Doylestown and Bucks County, has had attorneys maintaining offices in Doylestown since 1877, when Hugh Eastburn was admitted to the Bucks County Bar. He died in 1915. The Eastburn properties were bought by him from Thomas Osborn Atkinson in 1883 and another parcel in 1890 at a sheriff's sale.

Facing Courthouse Park, the Eastburn Building at one time served as the sub-station for the Doylestown State Police unit.

The present law firm and attorneys that occupied the Eastburn Building have moved into new quarters in the Doylestown Federal Savings and Loan Assn. building on North Main Street. The attorneys include Arthur M. Eastburn Senior and Junior, Bucks County solicitor Samuel S. Gray, Frank N. Gallagher, William H. Eastburn 3rd, Thomas F.J. MacAniff and Charles Marshall.

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Meeting on proposed Doylestown by-passes to be held -

State highway officials have agreed to attend a public meeting in Doylestown Township where residents will air questions about the proposed Route 611 and Route 202 by-passes. The meeting will be held in the township elementary school on Turk Road at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 3.

At the Nov. 17 meeting of the township supervisors, about 100 persons attended to voice their objections to the proposed rights-of-way for the new roads around Doylestown Borough. The board of supervisors asked the state highway department's district office in Haverford to hold a public meeting in the township.

Robert L. Rowland, assistant district engineer, and other persons from the district office are planning to attend the Dec. 3 meeting. Rowland emphasized the purpose of the meeting is to answer questions about the right-of-way and other points about the proposal as it presently stands.

Minor alterations will be taken into consideration by the engineers, but major changes would be "unusual" at this stage, Rowland said.

"The plans were signed by Gov. William W. Scanton and any changes would have to come from him," Rowland said. He "rather doubted" that the governor would be making any major changes.

The recommended Route 611 by-pass would cost $7.9 million for 4.6 miles and would demolish 20 residential buildings and five businesses. The Route 202 by-pass would cost $3.8 million for 2.7 miles and would demolish five homes and three commercial establishments.

Editor's note - Construction of the combined Route 611 and Route 202 bypasses finally began in the early 1970s, and the expressway was completed in July 1976.

Cub pack inducts first members -

Induction ceremonies marked the first meeting on Monday of the newly organized Cub Pack 6, sponsored by the .

Robert Buckner, church institutional representative, installed Cubmaster Edward Humlhanz, Assistant Cubmaster Charles Sterner and den mothers Kathleen Geraci and Betty Yorty.

As the parents observed, Cubmaster Humlhanz inducted Cub Scouts John Ament, Michael Cianci, Kevin Geraci, Barton Humlhanz, Steven Kusperus, David Nichols, Jon Qunley, Charles Sterner, Tommy Thompson, George Weaver, Philip Woffindin, Michael Tussey and Jeffrey Yorty. The boys were presented Bobcat pins, manuals and patches.

The two dens presented skits under the direction of Mrs. Geraci and Mrs. Yorty. The pack is engaged in its annual fund earning by selling Christmas wrappings. Plans for next month include carolling by all the families of the Cubs.

From The Daily Intelligencer, Week of Nov. 22-28, 1964