The Conshohocken Recorder, July 13, 1961

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' i. "-< TA 8-4600 Vol. 9208 Thursday. July 13. 1961—10c
Automation ihe Issue
State Wide Strike
Of Bell System
Seen Imminent
Wajt negotiations between Ihe
Federation ol Telephone Wurkers
ol Pennsylvania, representing non-management
employes o! the ac-counting
department of the Bell
Tahpbone Co., and management
Police Officer
Beaten, Trio
Sent to Prison
Harry Urban Jr.
Gives ( lur-. ■ .i*|»—«-—
Into Unconsciousness
Two Conahohocken men were
among three suspects apprehended
July 9 In connection with near fatal
beating of Patrolman Harold Ur-ban
Jr., on July 5 In Upper Dublin
township.
William Koyte, 28, of Graterford,
wai charged with aggravated assault
and battery, assault and battery with
Intent to kill, burglary and larceny.
Held on conspiracy charges are
Joseph Qalleo, 34, of Spring Garden
St., West Conahohocken and George
Rokita, 30. of East Elm St.. Con-ahohocken.
Officer Urban evidently surprised
the men aa they looted a building
project at Welsh and Dlllln Rds..
Upper Dublin township. Royce
alledgedly assailed the officer as
the other two men ran.
Urban was admitted in critical
condition to Ablngton Hospital
where he underwent emergency
surgery.
Police arrested Royce at hl»
home at 12:65 A. M. Sunday after
receiving a tip. The other two men
were picked up later.
The police had been on the look-out
lor a blue pick-up truck which
had been used by the attackers.
Wliltemarsh township police found
on Lafayette Ave„ near Route 309.
an electric welding unit taken from
a construction site In Upper Mer-
'Conflnaed on Page Flv)
Upper Merion
To Open Bids
On Building
A special meeting will be held by
the board of supervisors of Upper
Merion township at 8 P. M. July
19.
The board will open for bids for
the new township building, expected
cost In excess of $200,000. An air-raid
shelter Is proposed. It Is to be
safe against fall out.
The supervisors will discuss for-mation
of a library board consist-ing
of five to seven members —
the first step in having an Upper
Merlon library-
The supervisors will act on three
toning cases they Initiated which
will change the zoning at the drlve-ln
theater, nt Route 202 and Allen-dale
Rd.. the Esso Station at Route
202 and Allendale Rd., and at
branch bnnk ut Route 202 and Mis-sile
Blvd. The three tracts will be
changed to SC — Shopping Center,
to conform to the zoning of the Klr-sepp
tract
KofC Sets
representatives which have been
tHlclng place under a mutual wage
reopening agreement In the cur-itnt
three-year contract, were re-:
cessed July 6.
While the union and the com-pany
are In substantial agreement
concerning wage Improvements
which have been offered there are
unresolved differences over Job,
slotting of certain work operations.'
The contract, which -still has
two years to run lor non-wage I
Items, has been suspended since!
June 23 because of Job slotting dif-ferences.
The federation and state media-tion
and conciliation services are
In touch with both the workers and
the company.
Involved are 2.400 accounting
workers.
1 C. Olendennlng. vice president I
and chief negotiator, said In a
statement Friday. "The dispute
centers entirely on automation. At
Conahohocken. the Bell company
has Installed a giant computer
which Is capable of the electro-me-
(Conttnued on Page Five)
'Washies9 Try
For Top Prize
Again Sept. 16
Washington Fir* Co. No. 1
will try to defend its champion-ship
In the annual fireman's
parade In Atlantic City Sept.
16. The parade la sponsored by
New Jersey SUt* Firemen's As-sociation.
Last year the company was
awarded the grand prize aa best
appearing fire company in com-petition
with 132 fire companies
from New York, New Jersey,
Delaware. Pennsylvania, Mary-land
and Virginia.
Since the Waahles first pa-rade
In 19M, they won first four
times and second twice.
Theodore Leslnskl recently
waa appointed chairman of the
committee to arrange partici-pation
In the outing.
THE KIDS LOVED HIM — Frank C. Yutz, top row ritfht, killed in an automo-bile
accident at 1:35 A. M. July 8. was director of the Valley Forge playground
where a |*-t show was held July 3. In the front row from left are Susan Leigh,
six. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leigh, of 630 Kingwood Rd.. King of Prussia;
Lilian Michener, Madeline Yutz (Mrs. Frank C. Tutz) and Ereanor Follweiler. The
latter three women were judges for the pet show. In the rear row from left are
Helene Tabak, assistant director of the playground; Pete Stevens, Montgomery
County Recreation director, and Yutz. In the foreground is a St. Bernard owned by
Jay Gallagher, which won the award for "largest entry/' This exclusive photo by
Anthony of Weekly Review photographs the day before the Fourth of July is be-lieved
the last one taken of popular school teacher and his wife. photo by Anthony
BR 9-0950
Teacher Dies
In Auto Crash
On Route 202
Many Mourners
Attend Kites for
Frank i\. Yutz
Frank C. Yutz, 50. a teacher in
the Upper Merion School district
and director of the Valley Porgfl
playground, was killed In a high-,
way accident in front of the Up-,
per Merion township building at tlic
Intersection of Route 202 aud Fords'
Rd. at 1:35 A. M. July 8.
Yu'/ was returning from a part-i
t.n.i 'oh in Uinsdiile where he was-a
guard for the Globe International.
Detective Agency, when, according
to police, he pulled a little too far
Into the line of traffic on Route 202
as he was about to cross onto Fords
Rd
A second car was traveling north
on Route 202. It was driven by Paul'
Mtndler. 41. of 905 West Broad St..'
Quakertown.
Mlndler. who WM hurled from his
auto, suffered a bruised shouldrr
and a cut over his rirht eye. Ills
wife. Ruth, suffered multiple abras-ions
of the arms and chest. Their
two children who were injured were
Paul Jr., 11. bruises and cuts of the
right leg and Lou Ann. seven, brult.-
e* and laceration*! of both arms.
I'll side and a toe Injury.
The Mindlers were returning after
a vacation In North Carolina. They
were taken In the patrol car of
Officer Ronald Schmoll to Mont-gomery
hasp,a 1. where they were
treated and discharged.
Mr. Yutt. riding alone, was re-turning
to his home at 626 Kinas-
(Continued on Page Five*
J
Student Spends Forrest St.
July 4 m Red
Square, Moscow
David Rasmussen. who re-ceived
hLs high school diploma
In absentia, has written .several
local classmates from Moscow,
Russia, on his educational tour.
His most recent communica-tion
states, "the picture on this
raid is of the Moscow subway.
The stations underground are
like palaces with statins, tiled
floors and great big lights. The
trip has been most Interesting.
Today I celebrated tin- Fourth
of July In Red Square. Moscow.*
Meters Ok'd
By Council
Tuo-Ilour Parking
Is Inl.-mini to
Help Shopper*
A portion of Fayette Si. in
front of the accounting office
David isV i96i "graduate of of Bell Telephone ('<>. almost
was designated for 25-cent all
day metered parking last
night
I On recommendation <>; the ptib-
Borough Coun-cil
considered removing nutter
heads which permit all-da) ptrrk-
Ini on the south side of Fourth
\. Installing two-hour devfoM
and putting the all-day ones on
Fayette St.
The motion was defeated. 8 to 6.
On raoommendaUoti ut Henry
Firestone, council unanimously
agreed to replace two all-day de-vices
with two-hour meters aa an
accommodation for consumers ut
the Dougherty pharmacy.
Metered parking on a two-hour
schedule Is to be created on Kor-roi
St.. between Third Ave. and
First Ave. The objective Is to break
up parkin:; all day on Forrest St.,
Continued on Page Four*
Plymouth-Whiteniarsh High
school. He sailed June 10 on a
Polish ship bound for seven
countries In Asia and Europe,
: i (i by Bxpuuneni in
International Living. David, 17,
Is the youngest on tour in a
group of 12. The tour originated
through Putney Boarding school,
Vermont.
David U Ihe son or Dr. and
Mrs. Donald K. Rasmussen. 610
Wayland Rd.. Plymouth Meeting.
Ills father Is principal of Mlquon
school and his mother Is a con-sultant
for a national Science
Research group,
David plans to visit three more
countries. Switzerland, France
and Germany, when the EIL
tour ends. He is enrolled at St.
John's College. Annapolis, Md .
and plans to return home end ol
August.
THE
Picnic Date
A
N
LIKE
Officer Slater, $15,000 Fire
Upper Merion j^^fion
Police Praised
'Splendid Work'
judge Dannehower
Says From Bench
West. Conshohocken and Uppci
Merlon township Police were com-mended
lor a "splendid piece of
police work" by Judge Dannehower.
Friday, as he heard a guilty plea
of George Charles Parrell, 36. of
Valley Forge Trailer Park, Valley
Forge Terrace. Betnrood.
Farrell. who admitted breaking
Into a shop at 1024 Ford St., West
Conshohocken, on June 25. and tak-ing
equipment valued at $700, was
sentenced to serve from nine to 23
months in the County Prison.
Officer Albert Slater of West
Conshohocken. said he stopped
(Continue!, on Page Five)
POS of A Picnic William Moore
Set for Sulurduy Home From Hospital
Members of Washington Camps William A. Moore, of 708 Fayette I
18 and 121, Patriotic Order Sons of St., who was chairman of the gen-|
America, of Conshohocken, and. era! committee in charge of arrange-tbelr
families are scheduled to | ments for the annual July 4 cele-
Construction of a 116,000 addition picnic Saturday at Clementon Lake, j bratlon sponsored by the Consho-to
the faculties of Washington Fire N;„•»••, ">• ""> annu>1 «"«"• *"*"
Co Is under wav 'wl" le,ve PromPUv " noon 'rom to. u unaer way. ^^ Aye and Hlrry ^ 0mm
The project, a one-story engine shohocken. The return tour begins
room, will house the serial ladder at 10 P. M.. according to Howard
and the new 1000 gallon per mln-jA Eddleman of the publicity com-ute
pumper which now hes tight' mittee.
3 Derby Champs
NextDoorNeighbors
On Barren Hill Rd.
quarters In the present nj« house
>lse
TU» Conshohocken Knights of
C ibtn Council No. 1603 will
»!>,- or- mi annual picnic Sunday.
Ali I ~i 13, at the Council Grounds,
N ni i and Spring Mill Aves.
All members are urged to obtain
t:?r urie'.s early for the event.
( is im:6t be accompanied at the
evo..: UJ a member, officials state.
I are available through Jo-seph
Walsh or John Ryan.
T.ils v< it's ptenk will include
r I i w the children, games, re-frc
mania and many other sur-pn-
-.
Jc.-ph Walsh, Six Point program
clu i. in., n. suites that this Is the
Beginning of Conshohocken K. of C.
Coii.cll activities for 1961-62 term
..etlvlUcs will be announced
she > He a*ks that all members
«tt aid rawtlnia In order to formu-late
plans for.the future activities.
Tn-.di Fire Burns
Parked Aiilo
V. n Fin Co. No. 1 ami
' ' C" N"' n w"'
spun .,1 10 Ml alarm at 4:ao 1 M
Juh io to axtlngussli " Wan and,
auto b I nre at «ii> *
Fayr -e St.
Tfcj b:. i.\ which siaricd In 8i
trail, p.le. did extensive aV i
n ,.,: I me trash puVi
The . U.ci. Owned by Lou Landau, ol
208 E i il;"' ",c
pali, i ii tfcs Iclt sWe blistered and
the aindM broken P
back „; i was discolored
- bioueiit under con-'
trol Lj- use ol booster stream* |
PRESIDENT JUDGE DANNE-HOWER.
we understand, was es-pecially
active on two fronts In the
past few days, both with a direct
bearing on his campaign for two
additional Judges for Montgomery
County.
Since the Court load became so
burdensome, Judge Dannehower
and his staff have spent a great
dea' of time and effort In recent
years pleading with the Supreme
Court to assign visiting Judges here
to help out In civil and criminal
trial work.
It hasn't always been easy Many,
many times the answer came back
that no judges were available for
extra duty In Montgomery County.
This made It necessary for Judge
Dannehower to personally contact
some of his friends on the bench
ir. other counties and Induce them
to offer their services through the
high tribunal.
This, too, failed at times and
tntre were occasions when the
County Courts were forced to
handle the load short handed.
Now. we hea-, Judge Dannehow-i',-
has washed his hands clean ol
this responsibility and dumped H
Into the lap of his associate JUDOt
DAVID E OROSHEN8.
Next September when trials are
re.'umed after the Summer layoff
it Is presumed that Judge Oro-
'Contniiied on Pagt Severn
Iowa State
Service Sunday
Hon. Fred Schwengel will de-liver
the main address at Wash-ington
Memorial Chapel, Valley
Forge, at 3 Sunday afternoon
for an annual Iowa state service.
Alan Stotsenburg. organist,
will provide music during the
service.
The Rev. John Robblns Hart,
PhD., rector, will officiate.
A carillon concert on the Na-tional
Bell Tower will be heard
alter the service with Frank P.
Law, Valley Forge carillonneur,
al the console.
At 8:15 next Wednesday night,
Kamiel Lefeverc will be guest
carillonneur on the National
Bell Tower in a summer con-iiit
program.
A new. fonununlr.atious
will be included.
The facility, expected to be com-pleted
by November, will allow the
firemen more space on exit so the
volunteers can respond more quick-ly
when an alarm Is sounded.
Headquarters of the rescue truck
will be relocated, facing onto Hec-tor
St. Its present location faces
Forrest St.
John Korsznlak is chairman of
the building committee. Construc-tion
Is by Earl Kutz, of King Man-or.
Fred Leopold Is civil engineer.
Maybe it's the atmosphere . . |Rd., was 12 years old and a pupil
Or one champ Just naturally In--in sixth grade at St. Philip's Pa-splres
a neighbor to become a rochial school In Barren Hill when
champ ... he drove home car 27 to win the
Three Soap Box Derby chomp- conshohocken cliamploship on Juljr
Ions, James W. Burnett Jr.. win- . ,oe.
ner In 1654; John Lebold, 1958 andi „ , ,
William J. McCloskey III. this The Recorder of July 8. 1954, said:
been a patient several weeks at ■ year's top man, live next door to "Driving with arrow-straight sure-
Sacred Heart hospital. one another on Barren Hill Rd., in ncss und completely calm all the
His condition Is improving stead- Spring Mill. UIV jamcS Burnett, son of Mr. and
lly. Jjunes Burnett, ol 18H Barren Hill Mrs .,,,,. , Bumitl . . .,„„,.„ .,,,
'tiniest' had the •mightiest' as ha
hocken Chamber of Commerce, re-turned
home Tuesday after having
Overweight:
$600 and Fine
Officer Peter Vennera of the Con-shohocken
Police department, spot-ted
a truck which he suspected ot
carrying an overweight load at 7:30
A M . July 10 at Hector und Fay-ette
St.
Officer Vennera took the truck
driver, John J. Montefusco, of
Weit Wldener St., Philadelphia,
and hia vehicle to a weighing sta-tion.
The vehicle was found to weigh
6,300 pounds, 300 pounds over the
Icpal weight limit.
Montefusco appeared before Con-sliohocken
Justice of the Peace
Francis Rugglero who fined him
iCOO plus 55 coats.
2 'ii
defeated 35 coiitcsUinls for th<
i of Soap Box Derby Champion of
this community Monday."
1 James was 4 feet 8 lnchea and
'weighed 76 pounds when he won
| the race.
A 3 feet 7 inch 155 pound James
'Burnett is now 19 und he is em-ployed
aa a sheet metal layout
worker by Victory MeUils In Ply-mouth
Meeting.
Burnett i* married to the former
Barbura Laady of O—ihtlWahfi a
sister of Robert I-anrty, runner-op
to William McCloskey In the 1961
cla.ss A competition. The Burnetts
(Contiauerf on Page Five)
LIFT FOR A LITTLE GUY — Thomas Brodowski, four, of Crawford Hill, tired
of peering through fence at Soap Box Derby on Independence Day and Samuel W.
DeMedio. recently elected a director of Conshohocken Chamber of Commerce, spon-sor
of annual July 4 celebration, enables the little guy to see over the top. With
youngster are his aunt. Mrs. Eleanor Gutkowski, who is employed in the DeMedio
real estate and insurance office and the realtor 'A nephew, Gary DeMedio. of Cedar
Grove Rd.
Sleeps in Sun,
Goes to Hospital
Matthew Dougherty Jr., Is a pn-tfenl
ut Sacred Heart Hospital suf-fering
third degree burns of most
o; his body, sustained when he fell
asleep on the beach after bathiiv.
in the ocean. The sun polsonin •
victim Li the son of Mr. and Mrs
Matthew Dougherty. 116 W BtC<
tor St.. Conshohocken. His father,
a former officer of the Consho-hocken
Police force, is a Deputy
Sheriff of Montgomery County
The young man is Improving slow
Merchant* Invited
To Attend Meeting
The Conshohocken Planning Com-mission
and representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet at
7:30 Wednesday night at the Mary
H. Wood Park B
Members of the rctull area also
an to attend the session, George
■ hainuin ol the plan-ning
commission, sntd,
Nowicki Heads
16th District
Will Take Oath
At VFW Convention
! Francis E. Nowicki. of Colonial
j Village, Upper Merlon township has
j been elected 16th district command-i
er. of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
of the United States. Nowicki, who
I was the I960 "Outstanding United
BtatM Air Force Reserve Airmun".
I will be Installed Saturday at the
42d annual Department of Penn-nia
VFW convention at the
ll.l on hotel. Pittsburgh.
Cotnmnnder Nowicki will heud the
23 VFW po-ts in Montgomery
County which comprise over 5.-
000 members. He has served as com-in.
iiidcr ot the Coates-Wafer Post
840, Bridgeport and for five J
he has been the Judge Advocate of
the post. He was commander ol the
MoiitQonu'iy County Council and
(Continued on Page Five)
CONGRATULATIONS - Wayne Sibole. of 110 W. 10th Ave..
Conshohocketr, left, winner of class B competition in 1961 Soap Box
Derby, shake* hands with William J. McCloskey III, after McCloskey
won champlonsolp on July 4. Seated in the car are William's
rents, Mr. and Mrs. William .J. McCloskey Jr., of Spring .Mill.
(Weekly Haviow ... H O. M
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Warning
On Purchases
By Will Davis
Complaints received by the Con-
: AIM k . Chamber of Commerce
tnj bad burliness practices
_• being Investigated thoroughly.
. .Hlam Davis, president, said to-
• was In the Chamber of Com-
. "tllce for two hours yesier-
•j. and received two inquiries
DIM store." he said.
Davis advised that shoppers be-purchases,
es-aiy
when they sign notes
■ Jullng payments on the easy
' credit plan.
1 "A resident brought a note to us
tag for certain payments
:ud. "It didn't
specify when the #kf«*eiits
to atari or when Key would end "
"U.-mally." Davja aald. "shoppers
' to us for advice when It's too
!!■ od iy of -
looking into other had u:
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