The Conshohocken Recorder, November 10, 1960

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"OUR MAN'S THE NEXT PRESIDENT!" — Happy with out-come
of election Tuesday are Conshohocken voters in attendance at
$50 dinner at Valley Forge Country Club, Audubon, Oct. 29. when
principal speaker was Sen. John F. Kennedy. Seated, from left, are
Joseph Cardamone, former Councilman Francis P. Kelly, Joseph Burns,
president of Conshohocken Borough Council and Mrs. Bums; stand-ing,
Stanley Gleba, Mrs. Gleba, Justice-ae-the-Pcace John Campbell
and Mrs. Campbell, of West Conshohocken; Mrs. Mary Burton, Mrs.
Catherine Keefe, Mrs. Margaret Miller ami Mrs. James Mellon, wife
of Burgess "Pat" Mellon of Conshohocken, (photo by Harold C. McCuwO
Fire Company
Swim Club
Is Appointed
Operation of a swimming club on
property adjacent to Flourtown Fire
Co. In Springfield township, through
a special exception granted by the
board of adjustment, received
sanction of the court In an opinion
by Judge Honeyman.
The board of adjustment was!
Mfirmed by Judge Honeyman after |
the court heard an appeal of SI
property owners who opposed oper-;
atlnn of the club.
The special exception was grant-!
ed on approval of Flourtown Fire \
Co. and It. H. and C. J. Hembergeri
bt-lore the board of adjustment.
(Continued on Page Three)
Driver Safe,
Truck Falls
50 Feet
William \olpe, 23, of 706 Chain
St., Norristown, employed by O.
and W. H. Corson Inc., time and
cement quarries, Plymouth Meet- \
Ing, narrowly escaped death at 7{
yesterday morning when a huge
truck In which he was riding tum-bled
down a 50-foot embankment |
in the old quarries and landed on>
Its roof.
Only the fact that the vehicle
' was made of steel with a reinforced >
roof saved the young man who was
driving the truck.
It was Volpe's job to drive the,
huge conveyance up a tremendous j
pile of stone and at the top unload
another pile of similar rock. In so
doing yesterday .nornlng, the
wheels of the "big Oookey" truck
slipped, lost traction and the ve-hicle
fell to solid ground.
Whltemarsh Police Officer "Wll-1
11am T. Swan manned the White-marsh
Ambulance, aided by Nor-man
H. Woolley, first president of
the unit, and raced to the scene.
They administered oxygen and re-moved
the man to Sacred Hearty
Hospital. He /as in shock Inside,
the overturned truck. Dr. Walter)
Darby was at the scene of the
accident,
Volpe's condition Is said to bei
satisfactory at the hospital today. 1
Kennedy Is In —
Conshohocken, West
Side, Plymouth His
Sen. John F. Kennedy is the first President-elect on the Democratic ticket to
have visited West Conshohocken and to carry the 21st Ward, Philadelphia's last
Republican stronghold.
The avalanche swept into office Congressman Herman Toll for a second term
and brought stinging defeat to David O. Maxwell, Republican nominee for Congress
in the Sixth district and to John Stewart Jr. and Beatrice Z. Miller, Republican
incumbents seeking reelection to the General Assembly in Harrisburg from the loth
legislative district.
The city-wide landslide may also cost the Republicans another seat in the General
Assembly. Austin M. Lee of the 21st Ward, victor \>y a scant 24 votes over James Fran-cis
Lawler. could lose through absentee balloting and a recount.
Cornelius F. Carr, chairman of
the 21st Ward Democratic Execu-tive
Committee, said early yester-day
he requested that the County
Commissioners Impound all voting
machines In the ward lor a recount.'
Of 3i divisions comprising the
ward. 18 went Democratic,
State-wide, the vote projected'
Lt Oov. John Morgan Davis or Mt.
Airy, a former resident of Consho-hocken,
Into an enviable position.
The Republicans and the Demo-crats
have a 26-25 tie, which can
only be broken by the Lieutenant
Governor in his capacity as Ptosl*
dent of the Senate.
In Montgomery county, Richard
S. Schwelker. Republican nominee
Schweiker
Wins Seat
In Congress
Richard 8. Schwelker, of Lans-dkle.
34-year-old Industrial execu-tive
who waged a lone battle In the
primary, won his second major vic-tory
of the year when he polled the
greatest number of votes ot any
Republican candidate In winning a
Congressional seat on Tuesday.
Fayette St.
EWork Nears
Completion
Property Owners
Ami Uorou<»li Face
Sonic New Expenses
For motorists who have for Congress, easily defeated Pro- .
lessor Warren M. Ballard, Demo- been chompllllf at the bit cop-
Schwelker. a, Phi Beta Kappa crat. ol Wyndmoor. 'ing with congestion necessary
graduate ot Penn 8tate University,I victor, in the race for the Gen- to the construction of Fay-received
139,729 votes — 400 more
than were given to Vice President
Nixon — a* he defeated Warren
M. Ballard, university professor, the
Democratic candidate. His wife, the
former Miss Claire Joan Coleman
eral Assembly were Walter 11. Mor- cUo jjt_ between Spring Mill
ley, of 353 W. Duval St. and George . , .. M-.ls.mfcinl
B. Hartley, of 209 K. Cllvenden ?\e- «*'"' . lne auisonioru
St. Hartley, in his seennu try for bridge, their woes are nearly
the position, polled 29.113 votes, at an end.
Martey, i9,462. Mrs. Miller polled The concrete roadbed Is about
Is a graduate of Springfield town-12JX02 votes and Stewart, an at- completed,
ship High school. ; torney named outstanding leglsla- Improvement of the bridge is
Elected to succeed I/>wer Merlon; tor 0f the year by bis colleagues, completed.
Congressman John A. Lafore Jr..; polled 23.10:: votes. But now comes headaces for tax-whom
he defeated In the Republican J veteran Republican officeholder payers and the borough and all
primary, Schweiker was the strong- Charles C. Smith, former president' arc as necessary as the lncon-est
Republican candidate In the of Oermantown Republican Club venlences the traveling public put
county's Second District, which and auditor general of the Com- up with alnce early in Summer,
turned In strongly for the Demo- monwealth, lost to Mrs. Grace M. 8. Gabln, a former councilman
cratic ticket and gave the county its. Sloan for state treasurer. ' who has a store at Fayette and Elm
first state representative from that! Thomas Z. Mlnehart, of Port'gts.. Informed Borough Council at
party since 1936.
Springfield gave him 6,483 \oles
whHr casting J.T60 votes for Ballard.
Whltemarsh: Schweiker, 3709;
Ballard, 1953.
Schwelker surprisingly ran higher
than Nixon In most boroughs and
Washington! a former Philadelphia K monthly meeting last night the
councilman was successful In the new grade of Fayette St. is too
rasa for auditor ueneral. defeat ln« > yl^_ xhe stde.r»li wfll si.
Robert F. Kent, who is state m0aned. and water may How over
treasurer. tj,e curbing Into his place of busl-
Congressman Toll received 104.- neMi
S43 votes and Maxwell. 71,810 bal^ Dn the other hand, council has
lots In unofficial returns. Maxwell. received a complaint th- sidewalk
running for office for the first wUl be too high in front of a bakery
time, carried the 21st Ward, where (Continued on Page Three)
he lives. The unofficial tally gave
him 11,064 and Toll, 10.647. .. , . ,
The 21st Wald gave Sen. Ken-, W/Aof- Via-!A
nedy 11320 votes and Vice President fT CDI k3»UC
LINING UP TO VOTE? — No, these sixth graders
of Spring Mill Elementary school, led by their teacher,
Louis Prinzivalli, of Bridgeport, were guests Tuesday
morning at the West District polls at Spring Mill fire
house, watching their elders vote. They examined the
$16,900 to Go in Chest
Drive for $90,500
voting- machines (when idle) and looked at the small
demonstration boards; they were allowed to ask the
committeemen and women whatever they wanted to
know. Their study in school ail last week was devoted
to Electoral College and how it works.
(Weokly Review photo by Harold C. McCuen)
The Community Chest It going
down the home stretch in Consho-hocken.
The home stretch is always the
toughest. What happens In the clos-ing
days of the annual campaign
determines success or (allure.
Conshohocken never falls.
Still needed Is $16,900.
In the third report released yes-terday,
Miss Claudia M. Ramcy,
secretary-treasurer of the general
committee headed by Howard W
Read, shows a total of $73,622.41
contributed to date. The goal Is
$90,600.
Topping the list Is a gift of $7000
from Lee Rubber and Tire Corp.
Also acknowledged are gifts of
$1000 from O. and W. H. Corson
Inc.; $1200 from Hamilton Paper
Co.; $149550 from employees of
John Wood Co. and $1488 from em-ployees
of Hamilton Paper Co.
Here's the report:
(Continued on Page Four)
Lansdale Choir
In Oklalioma
State Service
Music for the Oklahoma State
service at 3 Sunday afternoon
In Washington Memorial Chap-el,
Valley Forge, will be provided
by the choir of Lansdalc Meth-odist
Church. The Rev. George
N, Hlppcl, minister, will assist
at the service; Louis P. Sloan
Is organ1st-director.
The Rev. John Robblns Hart,
PhD., rector of the chapel, will
officiate at the service.
A carillon concert will be pre-sented
in the bell tower after
the service by Prank P. Law,
Valley Forge carillonneur.
Bonkoski, Gray
Speak Monday
townships.
In the third legislative district
Schwelker carried Ambler, 1,356 to
1,286 for Ballard.
Ballard took Bridgeport with 1.-
:..",'J votes. Here Schwelker had 382.
In West Conshohocken, It was Bal-lard,
55"; Schwelker, 310: In 1'pper i Richard M. Nixon, 10,697.
Merlon Township, Schwelker, 3951; Maxwell received 11,051 votes;
Ballard. 3000. Toll. 10.600 In the 21st Ward: Max-
Schwelker was victorious In Bryniwell carried his home division, the
Athyn, Collegeville, East OreenvlUe:23d at AltUn Park Manor. His
and Oreen Lane. heaviest losses were In the 22d. Creates Borough
'Continued on Poo* Three) ' 'Conttnuri on Page Three)
Looks Ahead
WiU Be Guests
Of Rolary Club
Borough Hall: No
1859 Voters
Ou?sts of honor Monday night
at a dinner to be held by Con-
Bhohocken Rotary club will be Vin-cent
"Buff" Bonkoski and William
Gray.
Both have distinguished them-selves
on the gridiron for West
Chester State College, now Eastern
champions in the state college
league.
Dr. James Bonder, coach at West
Chester, and his staff, also will oe
gnutt
Buff plays quarterback and Gray
is an end on the West Chester
team. They arc '58 graduates of
Conshohocken High school where
they established outstanding ath-letic
records. '
Local sports fans will travel by
bus on Nov. 19 to view the West
Chester and Lock Haven game on
the latter'* field. Lock Haven is
West .. champion In the same
league.
From the same class at CHS Is
Mike Pettlne who has been turning
In a similar fine record for VU-lanova
University eleven.
The West Conshohocken Borough
Council last night created a de-partment
of borough planning.
Burgeess Harry F. Mosman is
£1 -| -*"* met S\ ~WT m expected to affix his signature to
^Q"\7' J^^tJ V i*~lTtf*l*C **» ordinance today.
UfJLlf lUtly T Uly^>A O One of the first studies will ln-
#/ volve the problem of sewerage and
a sewage disposal plant. How much
A lone councilman's opposition to| adopted a resolution about a month wl|j ^ cost? Where will the money
a proposal to erect a borough hall i ago endorsing the proposition. come from to pay for it?
in the Mary H. Wood Park at a The vote: Council authorized a feasibility
cost of $90,000 found voters on his "HHALL WDgOJ™ studv at an estimated cost of $750
side better than 2 to I In each of BOROl'GH or CONSHOHOCKEN .^ , h s -^^.^ Jr Dresi.
the seven wards comprising the bor-^BK INCREASE IN TIIK SIM or ^fS'RebS %U Part' Inc., £o-
IMunning Unit
ough of Conshohocken on Tuesday.'$90,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF . . . . .- th b(U
James Desimone. of the Second; PROVIDING FUNDS FOR AND m!£?J?_pJ: '*' . ,,, ,:
Ward, only member of council who TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION ruling by
expressed objection to the project, i AM. F.GI IFMENT OF A Ml'MC f * ™ ?° ^nn?* 107 ac£. DT
won the support of 1859 voters. The! IPAL BlILDING." | •.J'S^Vr" "l.^ltJZ
other M councllmen had 842 tox-j
payers go along with them In fa-'FIRST WARD
vor of incurring a debt of $90,0001 SECOND WARD
"for tho purpose of providing funds
for and toward the construction of
a municipal building."
Also siding with the majority of
borough council was the Junior
Chamber of Commerce which
THIRD WARD
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SEVENTH WARD
TOTALS
YFS NO lne trough of West Conshohocken
123 255 ^om Upper Merlon township. His
55 225 lirm P!ans t° erect three hi-rise
1*2 201 apartments at an estimated $35,-
103 204 000,000 It the annexation is approv-
123 271. ed.
139 322 Council vent ahead with plant
197 321 [ for remodelinr the borough hall
842 1859| (Confirmed on Page Three)
School Board
Meets Monday
The board of education will hold
a monthly meeting at 7:30 Monday
niftht at Conshohocken High School.
William Mahcr, president, will oe
in charge.
ELECTION LUNCHEON — Meals range from $10
to ?100 before election, but one was served Tuesday by
tho Ladies' Auxiu'ary of Washington Fire Co. No. 1
for 85 cents in the former First National Bank build-ing,
now the company's auditorium at Fayette and Hec-tor
Sts. And Conjrressman-elect Richard S. Schweiker,
holding cup, said the luncheon was the best he'd ever
had Election Day! Being served are. trom left,
William Williams, of West I onsliohocken, elevator opci-ator
at Montgomery County Court House, Norristown;
Attorney William Ditter, of Ambler, Schweiker's cam-paign
manager in the' primary; the Congressman-elect;
Thomas H. W. Jones, of Norristown. who lost race for
sixth term in House of Representatives on Republican
ticket, and Sheriff Peter J. Reilly. Serving are, fron)
left, MN, -Mary Simon, president of the auxiliary; Mrs.
Dorothy Wcidmoyer, secretary; Mrs. Florence Yollet -
and Mrs. Mary DiNino. W—Ur Review photo by George LaMonds
American Education
Week Tours at P-W
In observance of American Edu-oatton
Week, parents visited Ply-mouth-
Whitcmarsh High school
Tuesday and yesterday at the In-vitation
of Dr. Rodger T. Dombrow,
principal.
There were guided tours, observ-ance
of classroom and cafeteria ac-tivity,
general meetings and forums.
WHIRLWIND TOL'R — President-elect John F. Kennedy is first candidate for
nation's chief executive position to include West Conshohocken in his itinerary- In
this photo he pauses momentarily to accept two dozen red roses presented by Mrs.
Anne Caton at Front and Ford Sts., enroute from Bala-Cynwyd Shopping Center
to Roosevelt field, Norristown. on Oct. 29. Several hundred persons waited in rain
for two hours to catch glimpse of Democratic nominee. Voters gave Kennedy 567,
Nixon 308 On Tuesday. (Weekly Review photo by Harold C McCuea*