The Conshohocken Recorder, June 9, 1960

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90 Yeais of Know How
S5 yearly by mail
Star Athlete Hits
Jackpot: Diploma,
Bride, New Job
Edson Kersliner Gets Degree
Monday, Spouse 011 Tuesday
And Teaching Post in Fall
Diploma Monday. Uncle Tuesday,
a r v position In September.
With graduation In the mo nlng
at Uralnua Cc'hge. and his mar-riage
'-remony ""ursHry nl'ht,
there WTS ample cause tor celebra-tion
' "le home of Edson T. Ker-shner
In Schwenksv.lle Monday
night.
But Kershner wasn't there — he
was o*~* playing baseball in the
Perklomen Valley league, hoping
the ga :e would wind up before 8:30
Street Signs
To Be Erected;
Wood St. Paved
Borough Council
Considers Improving
2 Blocks on Elm St.
Attractive signs designating the
names of streets are to be erected
soon on Fayette. Elm and Hector
tits., and later throughout the bor-ough.
Criminal Research Products Co..
Eighth Ave. and Harry St.. was the
successful bidder for making the
signs at a monthly meeting of Con-shohocken
Borough Council last
night. The cost will be approximately
•800.
The motion to proceed with the
project was Introduced by Francis
Kelly and the second was by Dom-onic
A. Ruggicro.
raring rf Wood St. between 11th
when the w--' ' reh. -.real was
scheduled to get underway at the
Jerv IM I ..cran Church In
Schv ^ville.
Playlro the game was par for the
course—Edson has always been In
sports, following In the footsteps of
his 'athcr, "Ted" Kershner, a for-mer
coach at Bridgeport High
school an-* program director at
North Ti ' Boys Club, Manayunk
Ills br" Is the forr r Miss Lois
Elaine Trumbore. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Trumbore, of
Schwenksville K. D. A graduate of
Souderton High school, she Is ft'
teacher of music and she U em-!
ployed by a life insurance firm in
Harleysvllle.
Best man at the wedding ma the
athlete's younger brot'..T, George,
an ele-'-'"ten's mate third class,
home from the Robert A. Owens,
a destroyer escort. In port at Nor-,
folk, Va. Both attended the Shaw-mont
Elementary school and Rox-borough
High scrwl before the
family removed to Schwenksville.
The bridegroom was In the tenth
WITH FLYING COLORS — Hijrh honor Rraduates at Conshohocken High school,
Rebecca Sibole, left, valedictorian and Patricia Knoeller, rijrht, salutatorian, proudly
show diplomas to Dr. George H. Huganir, dean of Temple Graduate School, who was
speaker at graduation exercises last night in the school auditorium.
Learning Is Mans Tool for Survival,
Speaker Tells Conshohocken Grads
"Keep the faith In Learning as
modern Man's most effective too)
for survival." This was the keynote
of the speaker, Dr. George H. Hug-grade
at the time Ills .othe<- Isjanlr, Dean of the Oraduate School
Mrs. Lane Carl, of Schwenksville. j of Temple University. In his ad-
Hls tm." er, w" - lives at 721 Crest- dress to the 68 graduating seniors
view Rd., Roxborough, is teacher of
i Continued on Page Fin/
St. Philip's
Trophies to
Be Awarded
of Conshohocken High School last
evening.
"Only s nutlon which respect,
trained Intelligence will be able to
survive In and through the century
ahead," he emphasized. Pointing
out that our best young minds must
be trained to the fullest extent, he
urged the graduates of I960 to move
on to more learning, more educa-tion,
and meet the tough problems
In a world "you did not make."
Dr. Huganlr recalled his days at
Conihohoeken High School. A child-u
hood resident of Jeffersonvllle. he
An annual banquet will be held , h„e ,„ ,,,„ .,„
t» the Catholic Youth Organiza- . h . ,oth „nd„ Drl0. u thc
School.
In addition to the address by Dr.
Huganir, the eighty-ninth annual
commencement was highlighted by
Award: History Award: English
Award; Chemistry Award.
Patricia Knoeller was awarded
three prizes: Commercial Award,
Secretarial; Shorthand Award; Blue
and Gold Award.
Other recipients were: William
Daywalt. Industrial award, Mecha i-
Icnl Drawing Award; Naomi Sch-rack.
Typing and Office Practice
Award. Art Award; Jeanne DeVltls,
Outstanding Leadership. Blue and
Gold Award; Patricia Frey, Com-
(Conflnur^ on Page Three)
Mrs. Gotwals
Critically 111;
Car Wrecked
Son Hastens From
Northampton, Mast*.
To Be at Bedside
Raw Sewage j
Is Hazard in \
Upper Merion
Entire Situation Called
Extremely Unsanitary;
Annexation Hearing June 28
Testimony introduced last Thursday at a hearing in
the Court House on a petition favoring annexation of 107
acres in Upper Merion township by the Borough of West
Conshohocken to the effect installation of a sewerage sys-tem
would be necessary through a portion of Upper Merion
township and would therefore create a nuisance prompted
executives of Rebel Hill Park Inc. to obtain a report from
Ambler Laboratories, Ambler.
The report, released today by< "
John S. Trlnsey Jr., president of A. M. June 28 before Judges Wil-the
corporation, discloses that 'an liam F. Dannehowrr. E. Arnold For-extrcmely
unsanitary and definiteIrest and David Groshens.
community health hazard" exists) Copies of the report and acconi-at
present in Upper Merion town-1 pBnving commmilea lions were
ship. The report bears the slgna- mailed to the Pennsylvania Depart-ure
of Frank P.. Romano. MSC. Iment of Health, supervisors of Up-
The corporation plans to erect |pcr Merlon township, commission-high
rise apartments near the ers of Lower Merion tmvmhip and
Verm 1 Gotwals. husband of the | Schuylkill Expressway at a cost es- I the west Conshohocken Borough
Mrs. Vernon S. Gotwals. 68, of
129 W. Tenth Ave., was in critical
condition sterday at Montgom-ery
hospital wherp she was taken
Tuesday after she apparently
blacked ' at the wheel of the
sedan she wrs driving, striking a
utility pole on Forrest St.. between
Tenth and Eleventh Aves.
Damage to the cer. was listed at
$500 by Patrolman William Don-ovan
of the Conshohocken police.
Donovan said Mrs. ^"otwals was
traveling north on Forrest when
the car suddenly ver.d across the
street and into the pole. An elec-tric
wire was knocked down. Mrs.
Ray SIL-ole. 100 W. Tenth Ave.. re-ported
the accident.
Mrs. Gotwals. who won thrown
against the steering wheel, was
taken by Washington Fire Com-pany's
rescue truck to the hos-pital.
Surgery was performed later
Tuesday when she was found to
have a punctured liver. Eighteen
blood transfusions had been admin-istered
by noon yesterday.
Remember When . . . ?
injured woman, said he ! Ileved hU
wife had planned to call for Mrs
J. L. Sagebeer. Ill W. Eleventh Are.
to drive her to a meeting of the
Conshohocken Library club, of
which they both were members.
A son. Vernon Gotw <s Jr., of
Northampton. Mass., arrived at his
parents home Tuesday night after|
being notified of the accident.
tlmated at $35,000,000. The hearing
was continued on June 2 until 10
and
mi authorlied by a vote of 11 to, Saturday at the school hall.
4. The contract went to P. H. Stauf-: Speakers will be Raymond Nor-fer
* Son. Willow Grove, after a [ton, football coach, St. Matthew's
heated discussion that first result-: High school, Conshohocken; Phll-ed
In a moUon to table the work In j up Keeley, track each, Biahp Mc-f.
tmr of Improving the 100 block
and poaalbly the J** Work on K.
Elm St.
John DiJlosIn, chairman of the
street committee, recommended the
work be done without delay on
Wood St. in his report. The commit-tee
agreed to ascertain cost of im-proving
E. Elm St.
Joseph Burns, president of coun-cil,
entertained motion for adjourn-ment
at 11:45 P. M.
School Days, Dear Old Winfield Culp
rG*oluden Rn ulie Dr\ays L■•ive Is Dead at 78
Again at 70th Reunion
the salutatory speech, "We Go For-
Devltt High school. Wyncote. and WMflv delivered by PaUftua Knoel-
Edmund Chapman, lay director, i icr> and the valedictory delivered by
Who remembers North Star High
School in Plymouth township?
The Plymouth Alumni League.
Fifty-seven persons spoke of the
first high school in the township
at the 70th annual reunion spon-
Rites Saturday
At Miller Home
sored by the league on Saturday ,J& nome on JoUy p^ ^^ a long
Fourth of July will be the respon-sibility
of several West Consho-hocken
organizations: the West
Crnshohocken Recreational Coun-cil,
George Clay Fire Co. and La-dies"
Auxiliary, West Conshohock-en
Lions Club, all churches and ail
other units.
Winfield H. Culp. contractor and; Heading the list of activities will
builder in Plymouth township more; be i ; .rade at 1:30 P.M., with Al-than
50 years, died yesterday at, tred Rlsell, division chairman, eu-
Oounell.
The letters:
June 7, looo
From Ambler Laboratories to
Rebel Hill Park. Inc.
Route 202 & 23
Kim; of Prussia. Pa.
Gentlemen:
Following Is the report on the
bacteriological analysis of 10 sam-ples
of drainage water taken from
the gutter on the Upper Merion
side of Matsonford Road. In the)
i Rebel Hill area of Gulph Mills, Up-
A full day of entertainment on. per Merion Township. Samples
West Side
Units Plan
Busy Fourth
(Continued on Page Seven)
in the Hlghfield 8chool on JoUy
Rd.. Saturday afternoon and eve-ning.
Wetherill
Denies He's
ForTaxRise
CYO. Northern division
Highlight will be the presenta-tion
of trophies to the freshman
and sophomore backetball teams
who won the Northern District
Rebecca Sibole, entitled "A World in
Turmoil."
The presentation of awards was
by Ernest O. Punchard, principal
Rebecca Sibole was the recipient
Post Office
Site Approved
location Is in
Plymouth Meeting
Congressman John A. Lafore Jr.
•aid on Snturdny he h.,d been ad-vised
bv Postmaster Oenernl Arthur
E. Summerfleld that a new Post I The petition lor a change of
Office has been authorized lor I venue for the murder trial of Elmo
Plvmouth Meeting. I*' Smith. 40-year-old Bridgeport
The announcement, the Post-, handyman, will be unopposed by
master General advised, coincides i District Attorney Harold W. Spen-wtth
the optioning by Post Office icer
The new District Attorney, who
Class "0" championship, and 0f seven awards: Scholarship Award,
placed third In the Middle-Atlantic | $100; College Preparatory Award;
CYO Championship playoff at History Award; English Award;
Baltimore, Md. Mathematics AwarrJ; Chemistry
Additional trophies will be given Award; TrI-HI-Y Award,
local champs by the Conshohocken Walter Squire received four
Knights of Columbus. lawards; Science and Mathematics
Four Judges Will Hear
Plea for Venue Change
In Girl's Murder Case
Department Regional Officials of
a site meeting Department require-ments
as to cost, area and location.
"This new and modern postal
facilltv." Congressman Lafore said. j dent Judge Dannehower shortly
"will be constructed under thc Post jbelore noon, two reasons for
Ofllce Department's Commercial i hli. decision not to oppose the pc-
Leaslng program, which utilises the til Ion filed by Court-appointed de-bringing
the defendant to trlal
piomptly.
"Intertwined with the first rea-son,
the District Attorney's office
wishes to eliminate any technical ^[pi"
objection by the defendant which j drlvlrg aToidsmobiie eouS'rast
would clothe hlm^wlth arguments ,on GemmnU)wn Plke. „,„.,„«, wltn
Hlllman convertible driven by
Graduate Hurt
In Crash
Was Riding With
Flourtown Youth
Miss Louisa Rawle Smyth, 17-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ch-vles P. Smyth. 4033 PilKrim
Rd., Plymouth Meeting Village,
and a member of the graduating
class of Plymouth-Whltemarsh
High school, was injured slightly
■t 1 A.M. Sunday in a two-car
collision at Oermantown Pike and
Fairway Rd., Lafayette Hill.
Miss Smyth, who wpr treated at
Chestnut Hill hospital for head-ache
and bruises and discharged,
was able to attend baccalureate
services Sunday afternoon at the
school.
An estimated $1150 In property
damage resulted from the accident
In which Charles Donahue, 19.
Ritchie St., Manayunk.
resources and investment funds of
private enterprise to obtain needed
postal building."
The post office will contain about
«
"inherited" the top case on the list to state that he had been denied
to be tried, listed yesterday, In his I due process of law under the Fed-i^^ ,„ of && Farmar
formal answer, submitted to Presl- oral and State Constitutions by
not receiving a fair trial because
of alleged sensationalism and pub-licity."
President Judge William P. Dan-nehower,
who was handed the pe-tition,
scheduled a hearing for 2
P.M. tomorrow. This will be heard
by all four judges.
II the Judges find there is merit
in the allegatloni that publicity
fense counsel, Gilbert P. High and
Joseph Phelps.
"The Commonwealth wishes to
prosecute the defendant at the
3,011 square feet of floor space, plusj earliest possible date and feels that
s leading platform. The site, located i a protracted argument on legal
on thc southwest side of German-! technicalities of the Instant nature j surrounding the arrest of Smith in
'Continued on Page Three* > wih lead to numerous delays in | 'Continued on Page Three)
Lane, Flourtown.
Smith. In whose car the the grad-uate
was riding, said he was travel-ing
south on Fairway and was
turning onto the pike when the ac-cident
occured. The Smyth «irl
was thrown against the wind-shield.
Whitemarsh police listed dam-ages
to the Donahue car at $450.
the Smith vehicle at $700.
50 YEARS SERVING GOD — The Rev. Stanley R. West, D.D., left, is truest
preacher and celebrant at Holy Communion at St. Jude and the Nativity Church June
6, marking 50th anniversary of his ordination. With retired rector are Judjre E. Ar-nold
Forrest, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, and the Rev. Richard O.
Partington, left, pastor of St. Jude's. Judge Forrest is a former resident of Con-shohocken.
Dr. West officiates at services June 26 at Calvary Episcopal Church,
Conshohocken.
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They always produce results.
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We also print banquet pro-grams,
school papers, church
toileUns, wedding Invitations.
rolling the line of march.
Divisions will include: decorated
bicycles, tricycles and floats, all
competing for prises; Boy Scout,! , ,
Cub Scout units; George Clay fire Up,.R°ber,1 ,P" .J0"""?' °{, Nar:
apparatus as weU as other area! \*nh- lI,al >e teamed "? *"W»
ar( unifc. j his Democratic associate Commls-
After the parade, West Consho-; s»nw Dan\ci T- CofltelI° to advo-hocken
Lions wUl conduct com- «"**■ ?x »"jrease was denied em-lilness.
He was 78.
Husband of Gertrude Carter
Culp. he was born at Cold Point In
George K. Brecht, who Is M, gavei lsei, ton' oS William and fcutfUa; Girl Scjut. Explorer Socut
a brief history of the school locat-; Daniels Culp.
ed In the building utilized in re- j Long active in Masonic and
cent years by the Union Evangeli- j fraternal organizations, Mr. Culp
cM Church on Gcrmantown Pike was a member of Charity Lodge
opposite Walton Rd. I 190 and Royal Arch Chapter 190
"Our boyhood days were the| FA*AM
horse and baggy days—or we walk- 32; Tall v.
ed," the speaker said. First prlncl- ristown Forrest 31; Patriotic Order dents of West Conshohocken wlllj?* oara ol bounty wmunis-psl
of the school, he gave up teach- Sons of America, Camp 53 and' be qualified to participate.
ing to pracUce law, in 1895 and he's j Knights of the Golden Eagles, Grand finale will be traditional
still practicing In Norrlstown. | Castle 103. Cold Point. j flu works display, set off after
Lack of transportation, Attorney 'Continued on Page Seven) Idnrk.
I; Hu'tchln«on Commanded! petitlve sports at MacKerule Park.!"J,
1""J™',>- **% J* l;'k"ls y"'*}"l
til Cedars of Lebanon. Nor- Children up to 16 yenr* and res,- S/S^ * P™»*««
Brecht continued, made it advis-able
to live or board in the neigh-borhood.
"So the first problem then
was to find a family who would
merclal Award; Chester Montowskl,
General Award; Mary Ann Prlm-avera,
Alice I. Buckle Memorial
Award; Patricia Bulatewic™ Citizen-ship
Award; Norma Slavic. Most
OustandinK Service; Christine Gi-orgio,
Home Economics Award; Jos-eph
Wodarskl, Clerical Practice
Award; Virginia DeMedlo. Lang-tConfinucd
on Page Three)
Jailed 30 Days
On Adultery Charge
Donald Whitenawk, 23. of W.
First Ave., Crnshohocken, was Jail-ed
for 30 days and fined $50 by
Judge Dannehower Monday after
he pleaded guilty to an adultery
charge.
He was taken Into custody by
Conshohocken police on complaint
of the father of a 16-year-old girl.
He c'-'med that Whltehawk reg-istered
with his daughter at a hotel
In Bristol on May 4.
A preliminary injunction against
"mass picketing or close order
picketing", or another other Inter-ference
with operations at the
Philip Carey Co. Plymouth Meeting
plant, by striking members of United
Cement. Lime and Gypsum Work-ers,
Local 218, AJJ..-C1.0.. was
signed by Judge Groshens yester-day.
Notice of the Court order was
served on officials of the union and
strikers nt the plant by Chief
Deputy Sheriff Morion Bailey and
Deputy F'-criff John McCrudden.
. Judge Groshens, in granting the
preliminary Injunction against the
! sloners.
At the same time. Commissioner
Wetherill invited Johnson, who al-so
is a justice of the peace, to the
Court House in Norristown. where
he and Commissioner Warren M.
Cornell Jr., his Republican col-league
on the board, could give
th< Main Line legislator a full ex-planation
of their views on taxes
.•nd other subjects.
Wether ill's denial of Johnson s
charges were contained In a state*
ntent he Issued this morning in
ply to a letter that Johnson sent
him and made public yesterday,
n addition to the statement,
, Wither! 11 also wrote a personal let-union,
which has been on Write u, ,„ jo,,,^,,.
Prld"l'l With regard to the accusation he
' teamed up" with Costello. Com
Mass Picketing Banned
By Injunction at Carey
Plymouth Meeting Plant]*
for a hear'ng In the equity action.]
The c-der also enjohis and re-; mtosioner Wthcnll stressed this
g employes from in- „,„..„,„„ *,._. w- _..., .,_ „
terferlng with the Ingress or egress'
strlcts striking employe morning that he and the Demo-of
otflcers. agents, employes. r^.™'£^™^ ««»«£ «-
resentatlves or others desiring to| '^0""»<"" ° ■ ™ge rnree;
enter the Carey premises: from at-tempting
to prevent persons from f\Ch TKT
freely entering thc premises, and: 2j>J IVUI'SPS
from loitering In the vicinity of the «*^w
entrances.
TTie complaint, flicJ by Gtlberl!
P. High, states a contract between
Philip Carey and Local 218 ex-fContinued
from Page Three)
•THATS OUR STORY" — Frank Fprd, famed radio showman and one of the
producers at Valley Forjrc Music Fair, his wife, Dorothy, and daughter. Deirdre
Ford, 14, read story in The Valley Forge Sentinel about opening of the season before
premier of "Meet Me in St. Louis," near King of Prussia, Friday night. Ford and
partners, Lee Guber and Shelly Gross, open their fifth music tent near Baltimore,
Md., on June 21. Deirdre is a freshman at Girls' High, Broad and Olney, Philadelphia.
(WMkly Review photo by Harold C McCuetu
ToBe Capped
A class of T2 will receive their
caps In special exercises at 8 tomor-row
njghl in McShea Hull, Mont-gomery
Hi^pit.il.
Mis.s j.iiKi T. Morgan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Morgan,
128 W. llih Ave., Conshohocken,
president of the class of 1962. will
be among the studer' turses receiv-ing
their caps. She will be a speaker.
Miss Yvonne R. DcCicco, Ridge
Pike, Plymouth township, faculty
advisor l«> in*1 class of 1962, will pre-sent
the class for capping.
Miss Ruth K. Hr-v, director of
the School of Nursing: r'argaret
B >r ley, eucational director,
WCAU-tv; and M' Mary ". Bean,
vii-e-p:-I'sident rf the 'it or-ganl/
ittinti. also will
Miss Moser: Mrs. Violet B. Ku&.
Itant director, and \:iss De-
Clcco will present the caps to the
student nurses.
Anotl: r member of the i-lass from
the area Is Miss Norma Jane Row-den.
272 B St.-
Ot hers are Barabura Jean Beck,
638'.' Astor St.. Norristown; Nanry
Louise Chittick, Rahns; Patricia
Jean Christie, Toughkcnamon, Pa.;
Thehna Jane Cramer. Doylestown;
Darlene Marie Hanna. Coatesvllle;
Judith Ann Hollowell, Helleriown;
Judith Ann Keaeler, Lanadmle; Marl
Lettica Rossi, Malvern; Sandra
Louise Schlosser. Hatfleld; Beverly
Anne Schwartz. Telford; Ru'i Helen
Slavck, Pottstown.
Nancy ^"cseda Smith, College*
vine; Marianne Grac? Stagllano,
1230 W. Lafayette St. Norristown;
Nancy Florence Swope. Berwyn;
JoAnne Elizabeth Tempest, Ufl
Hanna Ave.. Colcston; l<ols Carol
Thorpe. Jeffersonvllle; Kllzabeth
Louise Tuftllaro. Phoer'xville; Mar)
Jane Winters. Scrantmv ,» -et Lee
Woodland. 205 W. Spruce St.. Not*
rittown; Carol Ann Zilinski, Obe-lisk,