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®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 rConrfttved ow Page Seven) 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 (Continued or Pmge Ten; ''■^•"-JS^'OL^BJSJ w-nonocae... un assy «, mi 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- (Continued on Page Four} 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 fConfinued on Page Four) '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. 0■ it KOSCMARV "MIDGE" I KO» UlllMII I—I |) 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 (Continued on Fogs Two) 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 (Continued on Pmge THreej 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 (Continued on Page Four) 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
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Title | The Conshohocken Recorder, May 11, 1950 |
Masthead | The Conshohocken Recorder |
Date | 1950-05-11 |
Year | 1950 |
Month | 5 |
Day | 11 |
Volume | 80 |
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®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
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