The Conshohocken Recorder, May 11, 1950

              ®l)c Consljoljochcn Uttotitr
ESTABLISHED 1869. NO. 8004. tllf»W
nar cowsHOHOcrni. pjy, fttgBSPATO MAY n, inc. nvt CENTS
Air Pollution Control Ordinance Passed By Town Council
Dignitaries To Attend
Centennial Banquet
Expect Over 400
At Gala Function
Thursday Night
A United State* Senator, a
State Senator, a State Repre-sentative,
all five Montgomery
Connto* Judge* and other dig-nitaries
will be present in Con-shohocken
next Thursday for
tho brilliant Centennial Ban-quet,
highlight of official Cen-
' tennis*1 Day in Conshohocken
Centennial Week.
hi addition, the closest di-rect
descendant of the bor-
' ough's founder, Its oldest liv-ing
resident, three years older
than the borough itself, and
the Centennial Queen are
among the invited guests.
BANQUET AT t:M
The event, scheduled to start
promptly at 6 p. m , will be held In
'.he auditorium of Conshohocken
Poet 1074. Veterans ol Foreign
Wars, Hector and Hany Street*.
Listed also to address the assem-blage
of 400 representative men and
wonsan. the dignitaries wiU include
U. 8. Senator Francis J. Myers.
Philadelphia, senior Senator from
Pennsylvania; BUte Senator Lloyd
H Wood, Assemblyman Charlea H.
Bruonar, Jr.. Hon. Harold C.
Knight, President Judge of Mont-gomery
County Common Plea*
Court; Hon. J. Burnett Holland.
Prsatdsnt Judge of Montgomery
fount? Orphans' Court: Hon
George C. Corson. Hon. William P.
Dannshcgser, aad Hon. E. Arnold
PonaaV Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas.
Jamt.i Wrili Wood, gnat grand-
•nn of Jamas Wood, the sitter long
honored with taw title of "Father
of djonshohockati," is also among
the expected honor guests. Abratn
Muses* Lae, who reached his 103d
nulattoai M Fabruary. only known
l.vistg ex-slave In a wide area, la
*ehaunted to be honored aa this
c<inamniU/W oidaat living resident,
Harold Cooper Roberts, general
chairman of the Centennial Com-mittee
and also chairman of the
Unique*, will act ait toaatmajiter at
the function, outstanding social
event of G*nte*uiia) Week.
Robert C. Lundls la chairman of
Centennial Day
Burgess Edmund H. Williams
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Four Narrators
VI ill Relate Story
At Spectacle
Federal S. & L To Expand;
Wallace Will Build New Store
Rocket! Aniioiiiirefl
Remodeling Plant*
The Conshohocken Federal
Savings & Loan Association
today announced plans for ex-improvement
of its
present headquarters at Sec-ond
Avenue and Fayette
Street.
The savings and loan corporation
will soon occupy the entire tint
floor of Its grey atone building, the
change providing double the pres-ent
space to care for steadily in-creasing
business.
With the removal to a new site,
of the Wallace Jewelry Store, oc-cupying
the west half of the HTM
floor, the vacated store and Its of-fices
will be thrown into one large
headquarters, with floor apace to-talling
3300 square feet.
Although the Wallace business
wiU not remove until the Fall, work
is expected to be begun soon on the
Federal Savings Association's quar-ters.
Tentative plans for the renova-tions
will eliminate the second floor
front apartment over the present
Wallace store, at 130 Fayette
Street, replacing It with offices.
The stairwell now rising between
the Wallace store and the savings
and loan offices will be removed
entirely, permitting full frontage
for the latter.
Edwin S. Rockett. executive vice-president
and secretary of the Con-shohocken
Federal Savings At Loan
Association, In announcing the ex-tensive
renovaUon program, point-ed
out that the rapid expansion of
Its business has made the need of
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bard! epp% » th? im^Wor B" **•**»- »- '«!™d
Baptists Plan
Anniversary
Service Sunday
Moraine; Worship
Will Mark Founding
79 Years Ago
Sunday wilt mark the TBth birth-day
of the First Baptist Church of
Conshohocken. On May 14, 1B71 ""
•Echoes of Conshohocken,
Centennial Spectacle opening Mon-day
night, at the Community Ath-letic
Field.
Upon their shoulders falls the lob
of pututig words Into the mouths of
the performers on the stage. They
also relate the historical back-ground
of conshohocken as the
story unfolds before the eyes of
the spectators.
Four narrators are used to handle
this task ss well as to provide voice
contrasts for the listening audience.
Eugene Debus. Vera McPhllomy.
H Roberta Lorena and Mrs. Clarence
Slater are the locad residents chosen
to fill the narrative roles In the
spectacle during each night of its
performance.
The sponsor Air the narrators Is
Miss Ethylene Fxb. who Is also
serving In the capacity of chair-man
of the spectacle committee.
church in a building located on the
rear of a lot at the corner of Fourth
Avenue and Hsrry street.
The morning worship service will
be devoted to an observance of the
anniversary as well as the 100th an*
niversary of Conshohocken. Spec
ial anthems will be sung by both
the senior choir and the young
people's chorus, and Rev. Chester T.
Winters, minister, will speak on
"The Great Days of the Christian
Church."
SPECIAL LEAFLET
A special leaflet will be given at
the service listing the Important
dates In the church history, and s
list of the original 44 members
Marking Mothers Day, a special
Church School service will be held
st »:30 a- m. The Semper Pldells
Class has charge of the program.
R«r. Marshall Lee. pastor of St
Jewelry Shop Moving
To Penn <"Jub Site
William H. Wallace, jewelry
store proprietor, is making
plans for the erection of
Street And Second Avenue, a
short distance above the pres-ent
location at 126 Fayette
Street.
The properly on which the fine
modern Jewelry More will be built
U the former Penn Club building,
now occupied as a residence.
The bank of earth, rising high
above Fayette Street, on which the
building now stands, will be re-moved
to the street level and two
stores built In Its place. The larger
corner atom will be occupied by the
Wallace store. The other will be
rented.
The addition to the old brick
Penn Cluo building will run back
to the prevent basement of the
building The main floor and the
second floor of the present build-ing,
will be converted Into modern
offlcea. Frontage of the properly, is
61 feet.
The new building and renova-
Uon of the present structure are
expected to be completed In the
Pall, permitting the Wallace busi-ness
to be fully, housed In its UKM-modern
new quarters in lime for
the Christmas
Open-Air Gatherings
Of Two Crou|Ht Uuted
For Athletic Field
The Conshohocken Centen-nial,
marking the one hun-dredth
anniversary of the in-corporation
of the borough,
will open Sunday at the Com-munity
Athletic Fiekt. 12th
Avenue and Harry Street,
with two impressive religious
I ft, expected to be the
handsome new store on the' largest religious demonstra-
North corner of Fayette I tion ever held in the borough.
First of the dual services will be
solemn benediction, to be held at I
» m . b\ the three Catholic Churches
of Conshohocken. with St Oer-trude's
Catholic Church, of West
Conshohocken. and St. Philip*
Catholic Church, of Barren Hill,
Joining as invited congregations
At 7:30 all other churches of the
borough will stage an Inter-denom-inational
service, including an ex-ienaive
musical program and an ad-dress,
by Rev. Raymon M Klstler.
D> D. L L. D. president of Beaver
College. A rabbi and seven local
Protestant clergymen will partici-pate.
CATHOLIC SERVICE
Monsignor John p. Rowan, in-structor
of Sacred Scripture at St.
Charlea Borromeo Seminary. Over-brook,
will be the guest speaker at
the Catholic service. Rev. Oeorge L
Murphy. administrator of St Mat-thew's
Church, will gnat the as-semblage.
The visiting ecclesiastic will also
offlcls'e at solemn benediction, as-sisted
by Rev. Sebastian Jerxak.
rector of St Marv'i Church, and
Rev. Victor Btrumta. rector of 8s
Coamaa and Damlan. A temporary
altar is being erected In the ctntsr
of the field for the asrviee.
Members of the local congrega-
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Centennial "Midge" Crom Will Reign Electors Face Will LeV, TaX
Opens Sunday ^* Centennial's Queen
With Services Midge is the Queen'
These four words today told briefly a story of unceas-ing
effort, of ringing doorbell after doortwll, of spreading
the happy news of the anj>ros>e+»tng Centennial on all ftvewS -
of the "never-say-die" spirit of an attractive, vivacious, live
foot-two "tirownette." who outdistanced seven other con-ttstants
for the highly coveted title of Queen of the Century
—or ('«•litfiuital (,/,. n -to rate over an entire week of Cen-tennial
events next week.
Rowing up s total of 1.019.618
Rosemary "Midge" Croaa.
Sewerage Loan on Centennial
Qtma
Identified with the Jewelry bus-iness
In Cotuhohocken for M years,
Mr. Wallace, served his appren-
Uceehip in the trade with the late
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'Wanhiea' To Meet
Following a meeting
morning of the Fire Companies'
Joint committee to further plans for
the Firemen's Day program of the
Centennial Celebration, the Wash-ington
Fire Company's hose house
will be the scene of s meeting «f
aU committees working on the
housing of the new apparatus and
the company participation to the
parade.
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KOSCMARV "MIDGE" I KO»
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Issue Tuesday
Vigorous I mill-N
For State Offieea
In Primary Flection
When the electors of Consho-hocken
go to the polls next Tues-
Sixth Avenue and Maple Street, nay to cast their primary ballots.
with
Cooke Rally Saturday
The Jay Cooke Campaign Col
mittee for Montgomery County i
issued invitations to cainpal
workers for a luncheon and recap-tion
to meet Jay Coobe, aandtdate
for Oovemor of Pen
the ballroom of the
Hotel, Norrtstowu on __
13:30 p m. Heading the Hat of dts-
Unguiaaed guest* will be Ron. Har-old
E. Staaseu. nrswdsstt of On-
Feature Colorful Costume*
In Spectacle Production
A sparkling panorama of color, ooetumes and regal aspten-dor
will initiate the gigantic historical spectacle, "Echoes of
Conshohocken," opening Monday night at 8:15, commemor-ating
the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Consho-hocken.
'■— The action in the prosogsje watt
(i «■ - ii ■ revolve around the CerttetwfsT 2-Mill Increase
In School Tax
For Whilemarsh
Complete Fire Protection
Arranged During Parade
Preparations have been completed by the Conshohocken
Fire Department to care for any emergency during the bril-liant
parade that will feature Firemen's Day. marking the
close of the borough's week-long Centennial Celebration on
Saturday of next week.
'Washies' To Hold
Drill Practice
The final drill of the Wash-ington
Fire Company in prepara-tion
for the mammoth parade fea-turing
the Firemen's Day program
climaxing the week-long celebra-tion
commemorating Conshohock -
en's one hundredth anniversary,
will be held Sunday afternoon at
1. at Sutcllffe Park. Tenth Ave-nue
and Fteedley Street.
Due to the religious services at
the Community Center Athletic
Feld at 3, formally opening the
anniversary celebration, the drill
wtu last only one hour.
As this Is the only drill In prep-aration
for the parade, all mem-bers
of the company are asked to
be present For the first time since
the Washington Company pur-chased
the new uniforms the en-tire
number will be used, repre-senting
1 IS members. Uniforms
sags be obtained at the Are house
' nny time until Thursday of next
seek.
The parade committee of the Ore
company will meet this evening
final
An increase of two mills, bring
ing the total school tax mluage to
36 with no per-capstsl tax. was vot-ed
at the monthly meeting of the
Whkemarsh Township School
Board last night at the Barren
Hill School. A balanced budget of
$305,000 waa adopted for the 1950'
SI year
The board re-elected C. Rush
Pauj-s"chu^h. wllT bTthe' speaker! £•£ Jr • treasurer for one year
The treasurer's report showed a
balance on March 31 of $38.93093.
Receipts during April were $13.-
909*8. and disbursements amount-ed
to $11.31394. The balance on
April 30. was $40,53697. Bills ap-proved
for payment amounted to
$4,436.88
The senior prom for the eighth
grade* of Whitemarsh and Ply-mouth
Schools will take place on
June 33 in the Barren Hill School
Auditorium.
A field meet will be held for pu-pils
ot the fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth grades at the Black
Horse School.
All equipment of the Washing-ton
Fire Company and Consho-hocken
Fire Company No. 3 will
be in 'he line of parade. During
the time the local companies' ap-paratus
is out ot service, the Nor-ristown
Fire Department will send
two pieces of apparatus to Con-shohocken,
one for each hose house,
with drivers They will remain here
until alter the parade. Each com-pany
will have one of its memoer.>
remain at the hose house to accom-pany
the Norrlstown driver. If
necessary.
Should It be necessary to use the
local apparatus, cress have been
selected to draw it out of the line
of parade, with the least excite-ment
and interruption ,
Four of the five companies com-prising
the Norrlstown Fire De-partment
wiU take part in the par-ade.
The Norris, Hancock. Humane
and Montgomery companies will be
guests of the Coii^huhoiken Fire
Company. The Fairmount Com- j
pany will remain on duty to an-swer
calls to aU sections of the
county seat, while other compan-ies
are parading here.
Conshohocken Pure Company No
3 has invited the various Norrls-town
companies to be their guesU
after the parade. Members of the
Hampdon Fire Company of Read-
Queen and her Court of Prances
selected in the Queans Contest.
Trumpeters, Janice Rabbit. Ma
Jorie Raysor, Laura Wltllamso
Patricia Clapsaddle. Mildred Earlt
and ArtiUia AngcluU herald the ar-rival
of her Majesty's Court con-sisting
of Cadets, Prances Smith,
Mildred Metsger. Mary Ann Wll-mer.
Mary Lou Balsano, Marilyn
Risell. Judith Leonard. Geneva
Onllin, Catherine AngwUlH. Lot*
Rahm and Clara
Sailor Otrls. Teresa Catapowlcx.
Lorraine Narklewlcs, aTaUllssn
Walsh. Joan Leonard. Frances As-imptntH
LatrasM Itawstswki Dol-orss
Phipps. Mildred Corrlgan. El-sie
Vercoc, Roocmarie Smith. Mar-
Jorie Mellon, Josephine Zadroga,
Barbara Jarosx, Joyce Smith, Patsy
Kelly, Elisabeth Brady, Marion
Buri. Betty Burns. Agnes Gavin,
Charlotte Btemple, Marianne
O'Brien, Betty Orler and Dolly
Gavin.
The next to enter are the Na-tion's
Queens, rsptsssnrlng ten for-eign
powers. They are: Diane Sla-vic.
Tyrits Wise. Betty Shad*. Doris
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PHYLLIS hiniOKH
The Flag I- Decoration
With aU public buildings, stores
and numerous homes decorated for
the Centennial/'one of aba most 1m-isuuan
of the borough's public
WVf. located sn the center of
the town. a> without adornment.
But it's no fault of the official
In charge, or of the Centennial
Commit'..'
Postmaster James P Meaney ex-ains
that the Federal government
ins any desolation on its public
buildings, other than the American
Flag that files tranquilly and in-aptrtngly
over it.
Red Cross Emergency Units
To Operate Centennial Week
BwUMft ttnt aid service wi!! be provided throughout the
England, a member of the society (entire Centennial Celebration period, it was reported at the
mg^cj^irship ■t'uvia*! nTsj finH' meeting of the Conshohocken Centennial Executive Corn-feature
of family day at ply- mittee on Tuesday night in the Park House.
Friends' Family Day
Kenneth Brooks, of Birmingham
Uiey will be confronted
another important decision. They
must decide on approval of a
$300,000 loan, the proceeds to be
applied toward the cost of a sec-ondary
treatment plant at the
present sewage disposal works. In
nswitllanos to an edict of the Bute
Sanitary Water Board.
There Is a contest for Republi-can
county commlt'eeman in the
Fourth ward, in addition to the
contests for various State, county
and district offices
KPP1 BI.1CAN TICKET
Celebration
Thw adoption of aa ' A, r
Pollution Control OrdnuiiH't."
the approval of a recomnuii-
Hation by the finance commit-tee
that the Centennial CrjuV
niiitee and all athletic organ-izations
be notified that it will
be necessary for them to com-ply
with the provisions of the.
amusement tax ordinance, and
an attempt to unseat Nelson
Quigg as a council member
from the fourth ward. IUKII-lightad
the May meeting of
TMWH Couiu'il last night.
The opening of the meeting wag
delayed one hour and a half.
until 9.30. while President Frank
Capaldl telephoned various mem-bers
and requested they come to
j the meeting in order to have
polled a lead of more than a quar-ter
of a million votes over the run-ner-
up, pretty Grace Douglass.
Cofuthohocken High School student
For a time, as the voting drew to a ,
heated close yesterday and votes
poured in in landslide-fashion for ,
brunette Grace, it looked aa though '
the crown were hers. Then j
' MtdgeV last-minute ballots came
tumbling in. and it was hen. Grace's
final tally was 766.134.
Third place went to smiling, dark-eyed
Phyllis Delmoro, 439 New Eon
Street, who ran up 602.386 votes
The Cemenntsi Queen will be of-fkiallv
crowned at the Community The offices to be filled aad the , quorum.
Athletic Field Monday night at Republican candidates are' United! The "Air Pollution Control Or-
8.30. as s special feature of theistates Senator*-James H. Duff .dimmer" passed second and thlnt
opening performance of "Echoes and John C. Kunkel. Governor readings and was adopted with
of Conshohocken." big Centennial1 j»y Cooke, John 8 Fine and , ■
spectacle with a cast of 500. being Charles Scott Williams,
ifeld nightly from Monday to 8a- ueuienant-Govemor - Stsale
Clark, Oeorge N Wads and Lloyd
. Wood.
Secretary of Internal Affairs-
Edwin M. Clark. William S. Uv-engood,
Jr., and Joseph M. Stack
Judge of Supreme Court—John
BeU, Jr. William Troutman.
Judge of the Superior Court—
Blatr P. Oanther, Nochem S. Win-net
t
United States Representative—
Samuel K. McDonnell. Ji
Bute Senator—Henry
Elk'na Wethertll.
State Representative r First Dis-trict—
Joseph P. Golden. John
Lalore; Second District—Thorn.
H. W. Jones: Third District—WU-A.
Bolton, Emerson C. Cus-
Paul Hannuan, Raymond
KraU. Charles A. Lord, Daniel
Neely Howard F. Boorse.
Member of Bute Comn
Nancy P. Highley, Mildred si,
Koethe. Frederick C. Peters
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
OaudhhtW on the Democratic
ballot follow:
United States Senator—Fraucw
J. Myers.
Governor- CNirore
Richardson Dilworth, Henry Ar-thur
Morris.
Lieutenant-Governor — John
Deris. Michael A. Musmanno
Secretary of Internal Aflalss—
Ruth.
turds. Inclusive.
A buffet supper at 6 Monday
night, at the Conshohocken As-sociauon.
arranged by the Con-
.■.Imhocken Business and Profes-sional
vvomsns Club will fete the
queen. A bevy of gifts wiU be pre-sented
her next week, and the all-expense
weekend trip to New York
City, replete with a variety of
events, will cone her way the last
weekend of the month.
The final count of the vast num-ber
of votes oast hi she queen con-test
was tallied but night at Use
Park House be aba CesUiswiial
Queen's Oosaaalttaw updsr the di-rection
of Samuel W. Dsaiedfto.
Votes were psoasswd
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Hotpkal Note*
John Drapinkowski. 337 Sum-mit
Avenue, Cedar Heights, sur-al;
Mrs. Rose Vernacchio, 307
st Hector Street, aurateal; Mrs
na Zalik. 114 Bast Hun Btraet
■rtiral; Miss Constance Colas. 563
Old Elm street, medical wrre ad-mit.,,
kg fjaarad Bean ii.ispitai
Koi'h LaCost- 31& Bast 11th
Avenue, medical, and Charlea
Adams. 338 Moorhead Avenue,
tVtaf fjgsxsjhabsunean, astsSsal were
Montgomery Hospital.
Richardson. R. N . 340
eat 11th Avenue, wwaa-. aaddmmiitttte«d
i Saturday to Bryn Mawr Hoapi
1, for medical treatment.
Jk*|B> aj ffgssasaag c.mii
(Continued on P"togpa*i aS(nggap
Judge Knight Appointed
CountyDefense Coordinator
President Judge Harold G. Knight of the Montgomery
County Courts today accepted the appointment of County
Defense Coordinator in the State-wide Civil Defense pro*
gTHm nnw lieing reorganised.
Judge Knight notified Oovemor
Baptist Church
Organist, Clerk
Resign Positions
Ths resignation of the director of
music st the church for 33 years
and the resignation of the church
clerk, retiring after thirty consecu-tive
years la the post, marked the
70th annual congregational meet-ing
of the First Baptist Church last
night In the Sunday school rooms.
Professor Walter DePrefontsine.
the music director, sill be succeed-ed
by Calvin Bourgeault. 433 West
Tenth Avenue, a member of
church and a music student
Temple University. Miss Elisabeth
Moore, who served for three dec-ades
as clerk, will be succeeded by
Samuel M. Brett, of Cherry Lane.
Miquon. The resignations of both
these long-Ume key members of
the church's official family were
received with regret.
Two three-year trustees were
re-elected. They are G Preston
Cutter and John Raysor. Again
named to the board of deacons for
three-year terms were four cur-rent
members: John Armstrong, of
Royersford George Webber. Sr., O
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Anniversary
mouth Friends' Meeting House.
Sunday. Richmond Miller, secretarv « • %• •■ gi t>i
of the Yearly MeeUng will also be Air Mall KOSC MsOvV
present. An open forum and First
Day School will be held at 11:15.
Additional guests will be "New
Americans.'* Friendship group of
the American Friends Service Com-mittee.
Box lunches will be aug-mented
by beverages, served by the
committee. The program is open to
the public.
7:30 to make arrange,
ments for the parade, housing of j Ing. Spring Mill and Georgi
the aerial truck and entertainment I of West Conshohocken. together
First Communion
A class of 103 boys and girls will
receive first holy communion at the
eight o'clock mass on Sunday
morning In St. Matthews Catholic
Cnurch.
Bicvrle Stolen
Anthony Plaxxa of 410 West
Tenth Avenue reported to the po-lice
that a bicycle was stolen yes-f
fhe guest firemen ol the Wa«h-iwith their wives and friends have terday Irom the front porch of hisisatily. have to be grown in the ex-lMaff.
HT* I (Confirmed on Page Sight) (home. Ihibltors1 gardens. | /Continued on Pmge Eight)
Kntries Sought
postmaster James p. Meaney
announced today that employes of
the Conshohocken Post Office have
been invited to participate In the
Postal Employes' National Air
Mall Rose Show to be held In
Portland. Oregon. June g anu 9. a*
one of the many features of the
Portland Rose Festival and Rose
Show, held annually in Portland.
"Citv of Roses".
Roses will be entered In the show
from the gardens of Francis T
Dennis. Esq. of 402 West 10th
Avenue. Last year's local entries,
which won two honorable mention
awards in the "one best rose
of the show class" were siso from
the garden of Mr. Dennis
The postal entries do not. necev
The meet ing marked the twenty-third
time 'hat the execuUve com-mittee
and other key personnel of
the Centennial have convened to
make plans for the btggeat event In
borough history—the celebration of
the one hundredth anniversary of
Its ^corporation.
All last-minute details were com-pleted,
wkh reports of division
chairmen Indicating that every-thing
u In readiness for a gala,
triumphant smooth-running and
history-making Centennial
Benjamin ftight^r. chairman of
Bed Cross First AM In this oom-totd
the committee that
a Red Cross first aid tent, equip-
■0, with tso cots and complete
first aid service, will function un-der
the direction of trained attend-ans,
"for the duration" at the Com-munity
Athletic Field, wtth amaller
stations at other strategic points
AU the attendants are local resi-dents,
trained under the personal
direction of Mr Righter or his
James H. Duff and Judge Vmrrn:
A. Carroll, chairman of the State
Committee for Civil Defense, of his
acceptance.
He waa asked by letter by Gover-nor
Duff If he would serve m that
capacity as the program for Civil
Defense la being stepped up be-cause
of the rapid deterioration
recently of the foreign situation has
resulted in need for precaution, if
not alarm."
Governor Duff explained that
the set-up In every county provide*
for the President Judge to serve as
County Defense Coordinator and
head of the County Defense Coun-cil
and It* Steering Committee. A
Deputy County Defense Coordin-ator
is to be selected as the execu-tive
head. The County Defense Cc-
(Contlnved on Page Four)
only a distent ing vote by
Shults, who styled the document
"silly and unworkable In a borough
the slae of Conshohocken ■' Those,
supporting ths ordinance were
Messrs. Hilsnis who arrived at tha
meeting at 10.36. Brunl. Erb. Qab-in,
Orohoakl. Head, O'Connor and
President Capaldl.
The ordinance governing apart-ment
houses, hotels, boarding
houses and lodging rooms passed
second and third readings, with
Mr. Skulls registering the Ion*
negative rote. Following a discus-sion,
after the second reading. Mr.
Shults termed the ordinance am-biguous
aad for thst reason voted
" Those voting in favor
i: Messrs. Brunl. Erb, Oabtn.
fConfinued on Page Ten)
School Tax
Up 3 Mills
1'lyinoutli Prop; ii\
Kale Set At 22 Mill*
The MH-M budget, tentatively
adopted at Its May merting Turs-rtsv
night, by Ihr Plymouth Town-ship
School Board PTOVkaai U<r a
three-mill Increase in tin
school property rate, and a con-tinuation
of the 16 per capita
school tax.
SjBa BJSSJ awdpgl Vawat Sal lug
a total expenditure of $161,218. Is
baaed on a tax rate of 33 mills.
Last year she budget was 317.000
less.
State-mandatory Increases of ap-proximately
3300 to the teachers;
contemplated raises In tuiUon rates
to area high schools, and extensive
repair and replacement of facili-ties
of both Blaci Horse and Ply-mouth
Consolidated Schools caus-ing
a higher expenditure In the
next term, coupled with a decrease
in the appropriation from the
State, are given as :he chief res-ins
fur the tax Increase.
The budget will be advertised
for 30 days before Its finSl adop-tion
in June.
Allan W. Jones, Butler Pike, was
re-elected school district treasurer.
Announcement waa also made by
Tax Collector Mary Wood's bond of
340.000 for collection ol the next
duplicate.
The secretary was Instructed to
advertise for bids for a new heat-ing
unit at the Black Horse School;
for the painting of the exterior of
thst building: and for the paint-ing
of the Interior of both schools.
Bills approved for payment
amounted to 12937.30 All members
were present, with Lewis G. Mc-
Quirrm presiding.
WhistlesAndBells To Sound
Centennial Official Opening
The civic celebration of Conshohocken's hundredth birth-day
anniversary will actually get under way Monday morn-ing
at 10, Harold Cooper Roberts, general chairman, an-nounced
today.
The official opening wiU take '
place at the borough hail. wit>
Burgess Edmund K. Williams rep-resenting
the community and Mr.
Roberts, representing the Centen-nial
personnel, pronouncing the
civic observance "on it way."
selected to represent the early
residents of the borough and honor
it* founder, will be Janus Welb
Wood. 136 West 11th Avenue, great
grandson and closest living decend-ant
of James Wood, founder of the
borough and of the iron and steel
industry, that have done much to
make it known far and near In the
ndustrial world.
Chosen to honor the boroughs
oldest generation, aa the senior res-ident
of the borough, is Abratn Lee.
one-time slave, 103 years old hut
February
At the same moment that the of-ficial
civic Centennial launching
j takes place, a chorus of Industrial
l whistles, fire whistles and sirens.
church belts, and chimes, motor
! horns and any other available
"sound effects" will swell to a
mighty crescendo, rarely heard In
: borough annals. Ralph Palconlero
chairman of the special events di-vision
aays.
Only previous celebration, ap-
FhfUsHphia Electric Company'* hiroarhtng Monday's planned com-
Mt-haiBUII IHvtshm. will complete [munity-wlde serensde, is believed to
13 resrs «f aervicr with the com- i be Uiat of the first Armistice Day.
pany sn Satnrdav Jlr. »*anaon I alien the unofficial news of the
rrtidm Bj ISM Sheridan Lane.
Onletuiial
I .liiinn Saturday
The Centennial Edition cf Ths
Recorder will be Issued on Satur-day.
Stories, features, picture and
articles pertaining to Conshohock-en's
growth and progress during
the psst 100 years win be contained
in the Issue
The complete program of events
for the Centennial Celebration be-ginning
Sunday will be included In
the contents of the special edition.
Stump Display
At Post Office
NurrUtuwn.
As a special feature of the Cen-tennial,
the Federal Ooveniment
has sent to the local Post office Its
dwplay of presidential postage
stamps. It Is now on view in the
Post Office lobby.
The stamps are those commem-orating
every deceased president
since 1847 to and Including Frank-lin
Delano Roosevelt. Appropriately
framed, the valuable display will
Sham on view throughout Cm-nnlal
Week. An air snail display
also expected.
Postmuiter James P Meaney
World War I Armistice resulted in procured the display through a re-
(Continued on EtgUf 1 auasi to Lbs Posaaaaetar Ganarai