The Conshohocken Recorder, November 19, 1964

              SPRINGPORT. MICHIGAN
COMPLIMENTARY
]7000 Man-Hours Put in
On Comprehensive Plan
William Potterton, Edward Al-temus,
Adalr Rogers, James
Gentle and Donald Hain had their
finest hour Thursday night, last
week.
The Hve members of the White-marsh
Township planning commis-sion
presented the board of super-visors
with the first half of the
Whitemarsh comprehensive plan.
Together, they had worked more
than a thousand man-hours to com-plete
this planning report. They
attended 20 public hearings on the
plan, and many more private meet-ings.
Potterton, chairman of the com-mission,
made the formal presen-tation
to the board, thanked his
fellow planners, and the White-marsh
Citizens Council, which
aided the planners.
He announced that the plan will
be reviewed at a public meeting
from 8 to 10:30 p.m., Nov. 30 and
Dec. 7.
Then Potterton said the planning
commission had great praise for
Mrs. Barbara Lukens and Mrs.
Hermone Mitchell, two citizens
who attended almost every public
meeting and generated enthusiasm
for the planning report among
many persons in the township.
Union to Discuss Dividing of Treasury
How to divide the money in the
treasury of the Home Association
of Local 1088, International Bro-therhood
of Electrical Workers,
will be the subject of a special
meeting at 2 p.m., Sunday, at the
VFW Hall, Hector and Harry sts.,
Conshohocken.
The Home Association, which
represents the former Walker
Brothers of Conshohocken, is being
dissolved and its members have to
figure out a way of dispersing the
"small" amount that is still left
In the treasury.
Henry Firestone, president, said
that there are close to 500 per-sons
in the Association, Including
retired men.
"At the meeting we will explain
how much is in the treasury, and
we will vote on how to divide it or
what to do with it," Firestone
said.
Firestone explained that the
amount in the treasury is small,
and "we would like to get rid of
it." He said that the money was
collected from dues and had been
used for sports, sickness, and
other company activities.
Former employees of Walker
Brothers are also awaiting another
windfall of over $1 million from
their pension fund that is being
contested in the Montgomery
County Courts.
Employees are required to have
put In ten years of service to
collect from the fund. Last April
about 45 employees who had only
a number of days to fulfill the ten
year requirement took their case
to the Courts. It is presently be-fore
Judge David E. Groshens.
About 400 are eligible to collect.
Walker Brothers, which manu-factured
electrical conduits and
underfloor electrical equipment,
was shut down a year ago when it
was sold to the International Re-search
Fastener Corp., Los An-geles,
which in turn sold it to
Textron Corp., which relocated
facilities in Parkersburg, West
Virginia.
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8 Mile Industrial Highway Proposed to Serve Area
By Sydney Bodnick
Frederick T. Dannerth, princi-pal
planner of the Montgomery
county planning commission, today
revealed plans for a proposed in-dustrial
highway to serve ply-mouth,
Conshohocken and White-marsh.
The proposed highway, to be
called the North Shore Industrial
Highway, would run approximately
eight miles along the north bank
of the Schuylkil! River, connecting
the industrial areas from the Spring
M1U section of Whltemarshto Betz-wood,
near Norrlstown.
Dannerth said that approximately
one-third the length of the highway
will extend through Plymouth and
Whitemarsh. He added that it will
not touch Conshohocken, although
it will be linked to the borough
oy a feeder road.
"The area Is pretty much re-moved
from existing express-ways,"
Dannerth said. "In the
past, Ridge pk. has served the
purpose of handling heavy trucking
traffic and peak commuting traf-fic.
"However, with today's increas-ing
traffic, it Is becoming less
adequate. It is important that we
design an industrial highway to
serve the high employment areas
and relieve other roads for local
traffic."
Dannerth said that the North
Shore Highway will essentially run
parallel to Ridge pk., about a half
mile southwest of the pike.
It will enter Plymouth township
from the Lafayette st. area of
Norrlstown, cross ColweU and
Chief Says
Fires Were Set
Whitemarsh fire officials are
searching for a possible arsonist in
connection with a rash of field fires
that broke out within a half hour
of each other Saturday afternoon.
••We think these fires were de-liberately
set," Barren Hill Chief
Elmer Sague said after the Barren
Hill, Spring Mill and Lincoln fire
companies had spent more than
four hours extinguishing the
blazes.
••Paul S. Anselm, the township
fire marshal, is Investigating the
cause of the fires."
The first Are, which occured in
Militia Hill Park at 1:10 p.m., was
answered by 25 volunteers from
Barren HILL At 1.30, Spring Mill
and Lincoln were dispatched to
battle a four hour blaze in Miquon
behind a Hamilton Paper dump.
Barren Hill was sent to assist.
While the Miquon and Militia
Hill fires blazed, two more fires
broke out, on River rd., midway
from Barren Hill rd. and Harts
la. Firefighters stopped one blaze
within 100 feet of the home of
Whitemarsh police officer William
Riggs.
Approximately 100 men battled
the Miquon fire for more than
four hours.
Chief Sague said that a bull-dozer
dispatched from the Miquon
Development Co., a nearby sani-tary
landfill operation, saved "a
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Mourning Period
For Police Chief
A M-day period of mourning
was proclaimed by Conshohock-en
borough council at the No-vember
public meeting in mem-ory
of police chief Charles J.
Marwood, who died of a heart
attack Oet. 29.
Chief Marwood, who had
served on the "borough police
force 2* yean, had been chief
since 1959.
The appointment of a new
Police chief will not be consid-ered
until the end of the
mournlnjr. Srt. Raymond Alex-ander
has been named acting
chief of the 10-man police force
until an appointment is made.
Whitemarsh Calls in Bonds
ToSave$60,000 on Newlssue
Instead of floating a separate
series of bonds, the Whitemarsh
Board of Supervisors has recalled
the township's outstanding bonds
and ordered a new issue to Include
the $1,015,000 for incinerator re-construction.
The bonds will be paid in 30
years.
Jack Kendree, chairman of the
supervisors said the township will
save about $60,000 by issuing the
bonds for 30 instead of 40 years.
Supervisor William McLaughlin
This Saints9 March Ended
was the only board member to
oppose the term of the loan, and
the bond issue was passed over his
dissenting vote.
He explained that letting the
bonds for 40 years would allow a
lower carrying charge.
McLaughlin said he thought the
township would be served better
by using the savings each year for
planning, rather than obtaining fed-eral
or state allotments.
The cost per year over 40 years
would be about $115,000, and over
30 years, $98,000.
McLaughlin said the $17,000
would offset any planning costs.
He said people are "fooling them-selves"
when they think the federal
and state aid doesn't cost anything.
He said the taxpayers still bear
the cost.
About $3 million of the bond
issue will cover the old debts, and
$1,015,000 will be used for the
incinerator reconstruction.
Engineers have told the town-ship
the incinerator, when recon-structed,
may last 100 years or
more.
Sewer rentals will not be re-vised
because of the new bond
issue, Kendree said, and there
will be no tax increase caused by
the added carrying costs. He said,
however, taxes may go up for other
reasons.
U THOUGH his i.' "ii is losing to St. Matthew's, Vince McGinnis (23) a
member of the Cardinal O'Hara team, displays one of the finest tackles
(our photographer says) ever witnessed, bringing down Stanley Czer-manski
(40) St. Matthew's recovered the loose ball however,
mans ^ ;. (Photo by Anthony)
Turkey Drawings
Set at Plym. Sq.
Talk Turkey - that's the theme
at Plymouth Square Shopping Cen-ter,
Ridge and Butler pks. To
mark Thanksgiving, and the coming
of the holiday season, Plymouth
Square merchants are giving away
16 big holiday birds. Shoppers
are asked to clip the free coupons
in The Recorder, page seven today,
and deposit them In each Individu-ally
named store.
But hurry I Drawings will be held
this Saturday afternoon In each
store. Winners will be notified by
the merchants.
North lanes, and cross Butler pk.
just north of Cedar Heights in
Whitemarsh.
The road will run to within 400
to 800 feet of Joshua rd. in Spring
Mill where it will be joined by a
feeder road from Lafayette HiU.
The feeder road will run paraHel
to Joshua rd. and end at German-town
pk. Another feeder road wiU
connect Conshohocken to the high-way.
"Parts of Plymouth township,
such as the area aroundA Ian Wood
Steel, are not well served by traf-fic
routes.
"Conshohocken is pretty well
situated, but the traffic-is so great
that there is a need for some other
way to get onto the superhighways
from the industrial areas."
Dannerth said that much the
same problems exist in the Spring
Mill area, where Lee Tire and the
former Walker Bros, plants are
located.
"One of the problems in the
; print' Mill area is that their high-way
access is atrociously poor,"
Dannerth said. "If that area is
ever to breathe life again it will
have to be given better access.
Good highway access is needed
all along the river from Con-shohocken
to Plymouth."
Dannerth explained that there
may be certain difficulties in build-ing
the road through Plymouth
and Norrlstown because these
areas are built up and well In-dustrialized.
But he added that go-ing
through Whitemarsh will be no
problem because of the huge areas
of open land.
"This industrial highway will
have a lot of importance in plans
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Magistrate Arrested
For Drunk-Driving
West Conshohocken magistrate
John Campbell, 48, was held on
$500 ball for the grand jury on
charges of drunken driving after
his arrest Monday night by Consho-hocken
police.
Campbell, who lives in the 200
block Moorehead av., was arrested
by officer Armand Boccella, near
Sixth av., and Fayette st. Boccella
said that he took Campbell to a
nearby physician who pronounced
him unfit to drive a motor vehicle.
Campbell was arraigned before
magistrate Francis J. Ruggiero.
Early Deadline
Due to the Thanksgiving hol-iday,
this newspaper will appear
on the street Tuesday, next
week. Deadline for news ajv
advertising is noon Saturday