The Conshohocken Recorder, May 28, 1963

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Memorial Day Tribute
SERVICEMEN HONORED—Tributes to our Na-tion's
fallen heroes, such as this one at Valley Forge
Memorial Gardens, will be duplicated throughout the
land on Memorial Day. Hairy Simes (1.), member of
Valtey Forge Post 7878, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
his daughter, Suzanne, 11, place American flags on the
graves of servicemen. Simes is placing flag in
front of marker for Joseph E. Stott, first sergeant,
Troop B. 15th Cavalry, a World War 1 veteran, who died
April 4. 1957. Services will be held Thursday at grave
of Stott who has been chosen as this year's serviceman,
symbolic of all fallen veterans of this country's wars.
Area to Honor Nation's War Dead
The Conshohocken area will pay
Its Memorial Day tributes Thurs-day
to those who fought and died
In service of the Nation.
In public and In private, the sol-emnity
of the occasion will be mark-ed
by citizens of a grateful country.
Annual Memorial services, con-ducted
Jointly by local veterans'
posts will highlight the observance
in the Conshohocken area.
Participating will be members of:
Joseph Wagner Post 772. Ameri-can
Legion; Conshohocken Post
1074, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
John P. DeHaven Post 129, Ameri-can
Legion, and George Smith Post
79, Orana Army of the Republic.
Services IWBducted Sunday
The observance actually begun
Sunday With Memorial services at
Conshohocken United Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. Daniel Rinaidl
conducted the services.
On Thursday, honor guards and
marching units of the veterans posts
will meet in the morning to march
out to area cemeteries.
Posts 772, 1074 and 129 will march
to St. Matthew's (Old) Cemetery at
9.15 A. M. for joint services.
From there. Post 1074 will go to
the Plymouth Meeting Friends'
Cemetery for 9.45 services. At 10.15,
the post will be at Cold Point Cem-etery.
Thirty minutes lr.tcr, services will
be at Barren HiU Cemetery. At
11.15, the ceremonies will be at St.
Benedict's Cemetery. The post will
finish up at noon at the Monument,
Second Ave., Conshohocken.
Posts 129 and 772 will conduct
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[Plymouth Issue
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Apartments
Are Weighed
Plymouth's commissioners may
announce on June 10 their decision
on whether to grant clearance for
a $2 million apartment complex.
The 200-unlt apartment plan calls
for construction of the garden-type
buildings on the south side of Ply-mouth
Rd. between Germantown
Pike and Johnson Rd., several hun-dred
yards from the Pennsylvania
Turnpike ramps.
The 12-acre tract Is situated on
the property of former Township
Commissioner Henry Hemsley and
his wife, Ruth.
The proposed apartments, two
stories high, wlU be constructed
upon a hillside overlooking a large
pond which lies on the property.
The Hemsleys want to sell the
land to Mrs. Joseph Bick who will
undertake the apartment project,
but Mrs. Bick first wants assur-ance
that her plans meet with the
approval of the township.
Mrs. Bick and the Hemsleys with
-Richard S. Lowe, Montgomery
County District Attorney, acting as
their private counsel, presented
their case to the Plymouth Twp.
Commissioners at a public hearing
Thursday night.
The Commissioners were asked
to change the zoning on the site
from "office laboratory" and "limit-ed
industrial" classification to "resi-dential
special" classification to
permit the erection of the apart-ments.
The request was denied in 1962.
It was noted during the meeting
that a "garden apartment" classi-fication
was included in the town-ship's
zoning code but was deleted
In November, 1961.
The applicants also were told
by Robert Townsend, Plymouth
Twp. secretary, that if the Com-missioners
granted the "residential
special" classification, an appeal for
a "variance" to permit the garden
apartment construction will have to
be brought before the Zoning Board
of Adjustment.
At the hearing, Mrs. Bick, a lic-ensed
investment broker, testified
that plans call for the construc-tion
of six identical buildings with
landscaping to provide for a four
and one half acre recreation space
which would Include the pond as
the main feature.
The one and two-bedroom apart-ments
would be offered at rentals
of from $120 to $165 a month, each
unit to be provided with an average
of 1.7 parking spaces per unit and
"adequate" storage facilities.
Mrs. Bick said aU services such
as trash collection, road mainten-ance
and snow removal, sewage,
electric and water facilities and
maintenance would be provided by
the apartment at no cost to the
Township.
It was indicated that the only
municipal services which would be
supplied are police and fire pro-tection.
Mrs. Bick also stated that the
apartments would be built 200 feet
back from Plymouth Rd., with two
main driveways onto that highway.
Under questioning from John
Eastwood, zoning board member
who was present in the audience,
Mrs. Bick said she would maintain
the 200 foot frontage as Class A
Residential.
Other residents of the township
voiced their opinions, some for and
some against the zoning change.
Mrs. Bick said she was under
the Impression that taxes of "well
over. $50,000" would be p«ld to the
township after construction of the
hew facilities.