The Conshohocken Recorder, August 3, 1961

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Our 92d Year
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AND Dedication in
Conshohocken and Vicinity
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Bus Strike
Meeting Set
For Today
2.000 Passen«rei>
Without Audi
Service 6 Dav*
The strike that has incon-venienced
2,000 passenjrers
daily for six days on the-Auch
Interborough Transit Co..
lines may be settled at a meet-ing
at 3 P. M. today in the
office of the State Mediation
Building. Broad and Spring
Garden Sts., Philadelphia.
Michael Gibbons, president and
Floyd Douse, secretary of the firm.
will represent the transit company.
John Bucclacco. of Norrisiown.i
president of Division 11, Amalga-mated
Association of Street. Elec-:
trie and Motor Coach Employees of.
America, will represent the union.
He is employed by Schuylklll Valley
Lines.
Twenty-two drivers and mechan-ics
of the Auch Interboro Transit
Co.. Butler Pike. Plymouth town-ship,
went on strike at midnight
Friday and caused a shutdown of
the bus company's five routes which
serve Chestnut Hill, Ambler. Wil-low
Grove, Conshohocken, West
Conshohocken. Norristown, Plym-outh
Meeting and Oulph Mills."
The employees are members of
Amalgamated Association of Street,
Electric and Motor Coach Employes
'Continued on Page Seven I
SPEAKER Lt. GOT. John Morgan
Davit, of 441 W. Allen's Lane. Ml.
Airy, will be principal speaker at
a banquet to be hold by Consho-hocken
Council 1603. Knights ol
Columbus, on Sept. 23 at lh« VFW
Hall. Hector and Harry Sis.. In
commemoration ol the council's
SOih anniversary. Lt. Gov. Davit,
who is president of the Stale Sen-ate
and will mark his birthday
anniversary next Wednesday, Is
to be Introduced by Francis A.
Carr, toastmaster at the banquet.
Members are urqed to obtain their
tickets as early as possible. Rob-ert
}. Carroll Is chairman ol the
commktlee arranging JetUviuM for
observance of the council's Jubi-lee,
ttarting Sept. 17 when Bishop
Francis I Fuxey, D.D.. wlU bo cele-brant
at mass. The Rev. Thomas
P. Gruven. ol St Mary's Parish.
West Grove, will speak.
No. 2 Starts
Drive for New
Apparatus
Fire Company
To Replace Pumper
Bought in 1934
Every member of Conshohocken
Fire Co. No. 2 Is urged to be at the
Ore house Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday nights next week to aid
In getting out letters on an annual
apparatus fund drive, according to
Russell Heffcntreyer, chulrmnn.
Open letters to residents of Con-shohocken
will be distributed next
week on the appointed days. Col-lection
of contributions will take
place the week of Aug. 27, Hef-fentreyer
reveals.
Gist of the letter, written by the
chairman, points out the vital need
to replace their 27-year-old pump-er,
an Integral part of their flre-
Aghttng equipment.
Residents sure reminded . . .
"When you donate to our drive, you
are having a share In buying thin
new, needed apparatus; you all help
to pay for It. We must have the
right kind of equipment to take
care of any emergency, ftre or other-
"The people of Conshohocken
have always romp through for the
volunteer firemen; we are sure they
will again this year.
"Our telephone number. In event
or fire, Is TA 8-4095.
"We have a fine auditorium which
can be rented for wedding recep-tions,
banquets, etc."
THE
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SS*t Bowling Alley
Robbed Again;
FIRST WITH THE NEWS—Fir-ing
Line reported nearly two
months ago that N. Romano was
ISsntlng town -and would -have to
resign from the School Board, that
he was moving Into Upper Merlon
township In order to effect si
reconciliation with his wife; also
that he had been dropped as presi-dent
of the Conshohocken Cham-ber
of Commerce. Last week we re-peated
that Romano soon would be
submitting his resignation to the
board, which will not meet until
September.
Firing Line also reported last
week that Frank Clancl would re-sign
from the board because he
and his bride would be moving into
their new home In Whltpaln town-ship
after Sept. 23. This same news
was "covered" yesterday In a big,
double column head on top of page
one In an out-of-town county
dally I And the guy who has fooled
himself and numerous merchants
for 30 months about the effective-ness
of his way of "filling the void"
didn't carry the story at all.
You read it first in The Consho-hocken
Recorder . . . every time!
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ON DISPLAY ON ROUTE 611 in
the heart of Stroudsburg is a hand-some
1961 sedan to be given away
at a drawing. Such exhibits are
commonplace on the public thor-oughfares
upstate and In Philadel-phia,
but they are prohibited in
Montgomery County. People who
cant buy chances on cars in Mont-gomery
County to aid fire compan-ies,
hospitals and churches have no
kOObto spending their money with
Ixikies who usually are on the re-ceiving
end of the charity line In
more ways than one; and nobody
does anything about it.
We will never understand why
our district attorney Is so different
than the other 66 district attor-neys
in our Commonwealh.
(Continued on Page Three)
HEROES — John and Michael Cermanski, of 100
Merion Ave., West "Conshohocken, saved the lives of
three boys who were drowning Jury 26 in the Schuyl-kill.
A fourth boy perished.
(Weekly Review photo by Harold C McCuen)
Community Honors
Hero Brothers: John
- Michael Cermanski
Three boys are alive today be-cause
two brothers risked their
Uves In the turbulent water of the
Schuylklll under Plymouth Dam to
save them last Wednesday after-noon.
They are Michael Cermanski, 10
and John Cermanski, 14, of 100
Merion Ave., West Conshohocken.
While there la a movement under
way to properly recognize the boys'
courage and alertness, they have
had one reward: two days with their
family at Atlantic City, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
The visit wa.s the family's first
to the seashore.
One boy lost his life as the four
swimmers rode inflated inner tubes
over the dam. The body of Andrew
Kucharskl. 11, son of Mr. nnd Mrs.
Andrew Kucharskl. of 745 E. Ford
St.. Swedesburg, was recovered at
j 3:30 P. M. July 27 near the Philadel-phia
Swim Club, Mlquon.
Numerous civic leaders have in-dicated
a dinner should be given
for the two heroes and a scholar-ship
fund established. This news-paper
Is prepared to go all-out In
cooperating with a committee.
Saved were Joseph Hoffman, 16
and brother, John Hoffman, 11, of
470 Old Elm St., and Larry Marks.
14, of 468 Old Elm St. all of Ply-mouth
township.
Sobbing at the scene and some-what
in shock, the trio at once told
police their lives were spared only
because the two brothers had
come to htelr rescue. Their mission
accomplished, the boys icturned
home.
The boys were sad. neighbors
'Continued on Page Seven)
For 24 Hours
New Wage Offer
Submitted. Rut
Thing! Look Dark'
A strike scheduled for midnight
last night by the Federation of
Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania'
was postponed 24 hours at the re-quest
of the state and federal
mediation board.
A meeting Is to be held this after-noon.
William S. Leary. president of
the union, said the Bell Telephone
Co. submitted n new offer on,
■ "hre»w n'ddufc "we'.™ is K»'ii''UM<> U' » favorite s|...t for picking up a little o
far'apart. however. In maileis such change ill the WM limits of lh.- morning.
as extra pay for some specific peo- Three men slopped at 5:42 A. M.1
pie. It looks kind of dark to me."|Tuesdav for a package of cigarettes.
Whatever is decided today will T| ,',cd „.,,„ ^ ln (11sh allCT
have U) be submitted to tin- im in- , , . ., . _,
bershlp. The poll by mail might re- "1'Pl.vlng »rong arm tactld to fcl-qulre
a week. ni''r Raymond Ewlng. 29, of R. D. 1
A spokesman for the telephone Rlegelsvllle. who was on duty.
company Issued this statement: On March 15. three bandits, each
"The dispute over which the wearing a silk stocking over his
union Is asking 2,400 accounting '«»<'. cleaned the cash regl
ami 11.000 plant employees lo strike »**>. One had a shotgun. They are
nun is around only 12 Jobs at the ""'' al la™f; _„. , , „
Conshohocken data processing ceil- Ewing told Officers Joseph Km-
Wr enlewski and John Volpe that he
-The IIahtfea work bi UM am- 5r\S?S£ "Ej'Sai'SHI .T^S Andrew Perrara, of -'Til
puter room performing such opera S^VfiSSSS£ I»| LaM, North HUH, had
"™c£ir:tTnn'yac?\Z'n7"C «'»" "* ""« menT.ZVo,'/, .very intention of getting an
^continued on Pag, smni ,8gk0d Iot rhmx |o| , ll(l„ , „ , .u-lv .,.,,., yesterday painttas
he could insert coins in the cig- apartments under construe-arette
machine. One man walked ,' .. .. . _„ . ._jr, „
toward the machine, the other two "'", "" -Nl;11 . J"U,n""("
stood ln front ol the counter while Butler iimi Kiiljrc Pikes, in
Ewlng went to the cash register, Plymouth township.
"I reached (he change lo the men {v)lcn ,,,. „rrlved j,e found all
and one grabbed me by my shirt ....... u.j
and said 'Give me all the money: "le equipment gone that he had
the attendant said. moved into a vacant room Tuesday
The other man said, "Let's go.' nj
The trio walked out tlie door and Ferrara told Plymouth township
_, , _u_ .,.,. .,„„„ ,„„ went to a parked car which was police he had been engaged to do
hS'"J*t ^hlrtorlc Oeneral Lafa™jet,l,e. ii™nn. Or.e?r- "escribed »» » ?'">»»« «*"»>. a 1953 ,„,„:■„« at the Norlynne Court or -55 model wl„, „ ..,„ue top aIld A ,.„„„,„ „,. ..„,, ,nr „,„„ ,,„,,.
niantown Pike and Church Rd, whlte „„,„„,.. Tne „,,„„ dlMp. , „„„ ,„„ r0IlM| lvi]|r( „,, |t|,
Barren HU1. are taking no chances p<.„re(, ln lhe dlrec,lon of Phila- the equipment had bt«D nailad abut.
on the money getting away from (l0lphia. Thieves pushed lt down.
them—they stole a 24o-pound safe -i locked the front door and come Missing were one hydraulic spray
to keep lt ln. -back into the office and called po- pump valued at *750; a two-horse
They carried th- safe down a;lice." Ewing said. power electric compressor: 100 feet
flight of steps from a second floor| All unmasked, the three were de- of electric cord: 100 leet of one-room
and lifted lt through a panel scribed as five feat five inches, five ball Inch nlr hose, 10 point brushes;
removed from a door. feet nine Inches and six feet tall. 25 drop sheets and a 14-foot step
The Inn Is located en property i Each had dark hair and wore dark ladder
adjoining the 208 year - old St. trousers. The tallest man had
Peter's Lutheran Church The Inn | pock-marked face, he added.
Is opposite the Barren Hill Plrei Nothing was taken from U
hoei-7. . .... | tec. Room m tier ad(loint!n
, Sgt Joseph Blewitt, of White- academy THree employes had lelt'
'ownshio police said, Milton' Ihese locations only a short tune
Muslin, ol Ambler, owner of the' before the lioklup, having completed
inn, told him the loot Included 'their work.
Apartment Hit
Three Men Strong Ann Attendant^
Gel *oV>: Painter Loses Equipment
In Vacant Apartment on North Lane
The Ridge Rowlinjr Academy, open around the clock.
Painter
Brushless -
Breathless
$1700 in Safe
Stolen From
Historic Inn
miscellaneous currency and change*
a number of uncashed checks and
nine special stamps for legal docu-ments
valued at S5 each.
The safe. 28 Inches high and 19
inches deep, was kept ln a second
floor ofllce at the front of the
building. Four rollers on the bot-tom
eased its movement.
Charles Hummer, 47, an employe
(Continued on Pag* Seven!
MAN ABOIT TOWN — That's William Dale, who
i- (onshohocken's "man about town." Dale lives at
22H Hector St., Conshohocken, and has the most fa-mous
local collection of antiques and collectors' items
from racetracks throughout the country. Even the
cane in Ihe picture is famous. Anyway, the horseshoe
attached to it is. The horseshoe is from the world's
greatest trotter, Adios Butler, who made a recent ap-peal
ance at Hrandywine Raceway, in Wilmington, Del.
And that's Bill's latest "collector's item."
i 11 Haioid C Mel
Conshohocken Horse Lover
'Bcckie Regularly Goes to the Races
But He Never, NEVER Bets on Horses
Kiddy < .urimal Open*;
Cak«» Sale Tomorrow
Con.sliolioeken VFW Post 1074 is
condiH-lmg a kiddy carnival tonight
tlnoiiRh Saturday at Seventh and
Payette. The I-ndles' Auxiliary of
the Poat will conduct a home bake
event tomorrow ut the carnival site.!
All donations are being sent lo
Mrs. Marie Coyne. 100 Forrest St.
DINNER AT THE SHORE PTMI-d.
nt Judcj. William F. DannhowM
wo* •ntcrtained Friday at dinner in
Ocean City on the occasion ol him
71st birthday anniversary. HU
lamlly It on vacation at their
summer home al the resort On
Friday lor the president ludge lt
was "court's ln session" as usual
In Notii-lown.
i»> Baal Rttrtft1!
■ .',.ut who kor.s iu the
r.ices, I I . on ilif horsis.
Bithoii^'i be tormerlv wai ■ -book-in
akcr'7
Impt, . iblc. no?
No!
Bei i
; -out i i" \.\ Uatn Dali
y nt.
Don'i rni.'.r. you ben I
true. B . n iintl retired. I
: t Brandywlne
o tlirr d ha docs'
i* not iu bet. but became lie bkeel
L rase, J
"\n \ir," Dale raid. "I never
gamble, nnd I have very few other
etoaa, with the exception «if liking
banaa*N
Whnt about the fact you were a
"bookmaker"?
"Well, now. that's a not her story.
"You see." said the lull, likeable
Mr. Dale. "I didn't make book the
way you think I did. I worked for
the Lee Rubber and Tire Corp. ln
Conshohocken from 1911 until 1958.
me a bookmaker there."
Yi:ii mean they have "bookies"
>• the Le
sure do. but they were my
kind nl 'uuokierT. 1 had a job pack-ing
the in' products In square, flat,
box-like containers, and the title
of the Job wan 'bookmaker'. Clear
It up any?"
That it does. Mr. Dale.
By the way, how did you get in-terested
in horses?
Pur since I was a boy I've had
:ni interest In horses, especially the
trotters. I guess my dad bred the
Interest in me. because at tiie lime
I was mowing up in Conshohocken,
:ln 3 ueed to have races on Payette
St.. between 8th and 12th Aves.. at
Ir.is*. one night u week, with 2.000
spectaicrs pro eat. Dad. who work-
(Continued un Page Seven)
Wilbur Named
Vice President
Ai a meeting of the shai cholders
of Walker Brothers held July 27.
Donald E. Wilbur was elected a di-rector
of the company,
"Mr. Wilbur haa served thii com-pany
very faithfully a period of al-most
25 years and Is now elce Pres-ident
in charge of our Untierfloor
Salae, in which position he is doing
an excellent Job," A. Newton Walk-er.
2nd president of the firm said.
Minnesota Service
At 3 on Sunday
Dr. and Mrs. David Bra&haai
will be soloists and Roger E
Hardesty will be at the organ
during an annual Minnesota
itate service at 3 Sunday after-noon
at Washington Memorial
Chapel, Valley Forge.
A carillon concert on the
National Bell Tower will be of-t.-
iTd after the service by Prank .
P. Law, Valley Forge cnrlllon-
Col. Kennedy
To Stay On
Will Direct
Gvil Defense
Col. John M. Kennedy III. direc-tor
of Civil Defense in Plymouth
township for two years, announced
Tuesday he will continue serving
ln his unpaid post on a temporary
bails.
Last January' Col. Kennedy, a
retired Army officer, said he would
resign Aug. 1 because of "the total i
apathy on tin. part of the Com-!
mlssioners of Plymouth township
and the people of the township as
well as the failure in leadership by
your director."
Col. Kennedy said part of his
decision to stay a.s director of
Civil Defense lies with the increas-ing
Interest shown by residents and
the commissioners.
The colonel received a letter
several weeks ago from Bernard J.
Hoffman, chairman of the board
of commissioners, requesting he
continue as director until the board
acts on his resignation.
"We realize th. apathy which
surrounds Civil Defense and the
fact that lt Is ln large measure
a thankless task." the letter said.
Ue anqounced h- has submitted
(Continued on Page Seven/
Knights to Hear
Lt. Gov. Davis,
Dr. Wm. Costello
Warren F. OTJonnell. Pennsyl-vania
state deputy and the Rev.
Louis Dougherty, of Chambersburg,
state chaplain and Dr. William
Costello. an official of the Knights
of Columbus on state level, have
accepted invitations to attend a
banquet to be held Sept. 23 by
Conshohocken Council 1603. Knights
of Columbus, at the VFW Hall.
Hector and Harry Sts, in observ-ance
of the local organization's
50th anniversary. Robert J. Carroll,
chairman of the general commit-tee
in charge, announced today.
The celebration will start Sept.
17.
Lt. Oov. John Morgan Davis nnd
Dr. Costello will speak al the ban-quet.
Councilman Itarr
And Wife (rive
Thieves a Break
Two natives of Puerto Rico
were caught stealing the right
front wheel from an automobile
belonging tq Mrs. Qeorge Barr.
of 212 Moorehead Ave., West
Conshohocken, at 2:30 A. M.
Sunday.
Barr. a councilman, nnd his
wife declined to press charges
after listening to a "sad story "
The defendants, who Jacked up
the car. said the offense WU
their first, according to Offlcei
Albert MUlhouse.
Officer Millhousc received a
call that a car was belne
stripped. The men were ap-proaching
the Expressway when
he nabbed them.
Officer Millhouse apprehend-ed
three other men under sus-picious
circumstances at 2 A. M.
last Friday in tho vicinity oi
construction work underway at
St. Gertrude's. He arrested
James Coaxman, 26 and his
brother, Dolflf. 20 and Clifford
Alexander, 36. all of Philadel-phia,
on charges of disorderly
conduct. They were arraigned
before Justice - of - the - Peace
Daniel McTamney
Directors \sk
Cafeteria Aid
< uii-holuH km Se*'k»
It for Grade School
State aid Is being sought b> the
Conshohocken School Board for the
cafeteria at the Hervey S. Walker
Elementary school.
Th- directors at special meet-ing
July 17. agreed to look lmo
whether the school is in a position
tn meet requlremente necessary to
qualify for state aid. They expect
to have the information to be con-
I sldered at a second special meet ng
;u be held Aug. 14.
George Sneer, vice president ci
tin board, wa.s in charge oi the
( session ln the absence ol F:
IClancl. who WMS with the Mar.nes
| in Beaufort, S C. Present ab>o were
Joseph J. DeeU eauret of
l the board; N. Romano and Dr Rue-sell
Fab.
: At the next special meeting, bids
are to be opened lor the punhaM
of a dishwasher machine and type-writers.
The board will convene
Sip'. 11 when Romano's resignation
Is to be read. He has gone to Lafay-ette
Park. Upper Merion township.
Banker Speaks
To Plymouth Lions
E. A. Van Roden. trust officer
of tlie First Pennsylvania Banking
and Trust Co. was speaker last
night before Plymouth township
Lions Club on the topics of "Estate
Planning — Family Wills — Trust
Estates" and other phases to enable
small and large businesses to look
ahead.
This banking house will open
a new branch next month adjarent
to i'l vnnm I h Square Shopping
Center. Ridge a.id Butler Pikes.
Feted on th eoccaslon of his
birthday ennj rae Lion
Prosper War Guerrc-Clialey.
Herbert KravltB, president, con-ducted
the session.
Mrs. Nolde Dies at Home;
Author, Correspondent
Was School Teacher I
Mrs. Ellen-Jarden Nolde, corre-came iron-. Switzerland. She and
spondent for this newspaper at the her husband, the Rev. O. Frederick
United Nations, suffered a stroke 1 Nolde, representative of tlie World
and died last Thursday at home, | Council of Churches in peace ne-gotiations,
returned from Switzer-land
late in June.
Author of a book entitled "Tlie
United States ln the United Na-tions,"
written on the basis of her
extensive experience on the activi-ties
of the United Nations, was pub-lished
early in 1061 by the North
Central Association of Colleges end
Second Schools.
While her book currently is be-ing
ueed widely. Mrs. Noldc's duel
objective appeared to be to find the
approach that would attract air.
and Mrs. Average Citizen to de-]
veliip an Interest in Ihe UN as they
would ln local, city nnd state gov-ernment.
To thai end she invited
muny groups to visit the UN in New
York and personally escorted visi-tors
on a tour of the building. Site'
arranged meetings with outstanding
UN leaders and frequently she was
hostess at luncheon in the delegates'
dining room.
Mrs. Nolde at one time taught in
the Miquon and Germantowni
1 Friends Schools. In recent years a
correspondent on international af-
' fairs, she was a member of the
7602 East Lane. Wyidim.oi spring-. United Nations CorresiKindenta* As-field
township. soclation. She covered international
Mrs. Nokle's la>t news letter. (Continued on Page Ihifi
Student Enrollment
Date Set by School
Parents who are planning to en-
, roll their children u Plymouth-
IWhltemaisli High srhoo! for the
I school year 1961-62 and who have
not a.s yet registered thei
urged to do so the week «>. a«g\
121. 8:30 AM. - 3:30 P.M.. school
1 officials urge.
MRS. ELLEN-IABDEN NOLDE
. . . dies In ber sleep
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