The Conshohocken Recorder, October 3, 1950

              ®l)e Consljoljodmt Recorder
ESTABLISHED 1869 NO. «076 CONSROHOCKEN. PA., TUESDAY. OCTOBER S. 19S0. rTVE CENT!
CITIZENS DEMAND ACTION TO STOP DUST NUISANCE
Herbert Tole,
Local Grocer,
Dies At Home
Mr*. Slurpi* Succumb*;
Kit**-* Held Ye*tenlay
For Thomas Carroll
The death of Herbert J.
Tola, husband of Lillian Webb
Tole, one of Conshohocketi's
best-known businessmen, oc-curred
at 10:30 last night at
hi* home. Fourth Avenue and
Harry Street, following a sec-ond
attack of a circulating ill-ness,
two months ago.
Proprietor of a grocery «tore at
hi* home address for more thin
twenty-five years, he was bom in
Coruhohocken, the Mn of the late
FUxabeth McDermodv and John
Tot* Biid spent his entire late here
II* was a graduate of St. Matthew's
High School and of a Philadelphia
line** rollege and waa associated
•i hla brothers for a number of
• n m ihe Tole Grocery Company.
f>en k cemjed operation, he
nt Into business for himself
He wu a charter member of
? Conshohocken Rotary Club.
Cunshohocken Council. Knlghu of
Columbus, and the local lodge. Loy-al
Order of Moose, and waa a mem-ber
of St. Vincent De Paul Society
and thg SchuyiklU Valley Orocers
A- -octalkm During World W.v II,
he was active In defense, serving as
a member of the Civilian Defense
Council.
Surviving In addition to his wife,
are two sons. John H, of 130 West
Ninth Avenue, and Robert W, at
home, one brother. Harry D. of
Nirristown, and one sister Ellts-beth.
wife of Francis J. Costello,
,.\ trriatown. and four grandchildren.
Funeral servicea will be held Fri-day
from his late home, with sol-emn
high mass of requiem at 10 In
St. Matthew's Catholic Church and
Interment In St. Matthew's Ceme-tery.
Mr-. William St u rait*
Mrs Mary A. Sturgsv 87, 331
w ■■■• |lii inHi Avenue, wife of the
la/e William Sturgls. and mother of
Miss Ada Sturgls, Conshohocken
i.'Mini nurse, died this morning in
a Norrlstown Hospital. Mrs. Stur-cii
had been In faUing health since
■he suffered a broken hip in a fall
at her home a few years ago.
Born In Chester, Pa., she removed
to West Conshohocken when a ■nail
d continued her raridwnct
th-re until she moved to Consho-fVTtittfl
many years ago.
Besides her daughter, Miss Ada.
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\Miitriii;u>li Lions Hear Phillies' Trainer
Zummo To Speak
To (iamera (Hub
Anthony Zummo will be the
tpaakar R- a meeting of the Con-
.Mmhocken Camera Club tonight at
t In the Park House Zummo. a
club member, will speak on ■Toning
ique "
Ati exhibition of fifty ballet
[.holographs made bv the late Max
R kygesT, New York lensmen. will be
nn display^ continuing until Oc-toiMT
1*. The Aral studio night of
fie pall season will be held October
17, the subject to be announced
later. New members are being ac-cepted
in the dub.
4nffen Stroke
William Nuce. of Ridge Pike near
Joshua Road. Whitemarsh. husband
of Mrs. Bessie Nace. first grade
teacher in the Conshohocken Public
School, was stricken with a cerebral
li uMTThaM at his home early last
nl■ -111 and removed to Bryn Mawr
Hatpital in the Oeorge Clay Fire
Company ambulance. Employed in
the heater department of the John
wood company for several years,
Mr. Nace has been in 111 health the
past two months, although he had
returned to work several days ago.
and continued at his place of em-ployment
until last Thursday.
Pour-year-old Hill* Payne, of Cermuntown Pike and (enter Avenue.
Hill, will long remember attending the Whitemarsh I.ions Club meeting at Mickey
Mouse Inn law! night. To use baseball parlance it "its a "double-header" for Hill> . v* ho
received an autographed baseball from Phillies' Trainer Frank Wiechec and a gift of a
hearing aid, to help overcome an impairment caused by an attack of measle*. The
cameraman caught the group above just after the presentation, left to right. Harry S.
ChMMfi Joe Atkinson, chairman of the day; Frank Wiechec, trainer of the pennant-winning
Phillies; John Costello. a club director; Thomas White, club president, hold-ing
Bilk; and William Irwin. III. holding the hearing aid; seated, left to right, are J.
J. Mirabile. club secretarv. and Magistrate l-ouis W. Hofman, a club director.
-Photo by William LaivU* Photo gen-tee
Club Hears Frank Wiechec, Would Provide
Presents Gift To 4-Year-OldJtm[s £om{s
Frank Wiechec, of Butler Pike. Cold Point, trainer for
the "Kightiif Phillies," winners of the National League base-ball
pennant, presented colorful first-hand experiences of his
work with the "Whiz Kids" before the Whitemarsh Lions
Club at its semi-monthly dinner meeting last night at Mickey
Mouse Inn, Marble Hall.
Sixty-three Lions and guesU lent
School Board
Hears Reports
219 Are Enrolled
In West Side School
A total of 21S pupgs are enrolled
in the six grades of the West Con-shohocken
elementary school and
116 pupils are attending Consho-hocken
High School, it was reported
last night at the October meeting
of the West Oonahohocken School
Board. Mrs. Mildred Rice, princi-pal,
reported the enrollment by
grades as follows: Pint, 21; sec-ond
30; third. 27: fourth, 20: fifth,
IB, and sixth. 24. One additional
pupil was added during the month-
Mrs. Rice reported that. Dr. Wil-liam
Sclafani. of Conshohocken,
would hold dental examinations at
the school on November 2 and 16
Pupils in grades one, three and five
will be examined Mrs Rice was
given authority, along with the oth-i
Continued on Page Five)
keen Interest to 'he nearby real
dent's stories of the idiosyncrasies
of tli- victorious Phils, the injuries
they are prone to. and the general
organisation of a major league
team.
Another guest at the meeting was
4-year-old Billy Payne son of Mr
and Mrs. William Payne or Lafay-ette
Hill.
Billy's appearance among the
adult group came as a result of an
exclusive Recorder story, appearing
a we*k a?o. telling of the air power
dive treatment Riven the boy in
an effort to aid hts hearing, only
fifty per cent of normal due to mea-sles.
To show their interest in any
handicapped children of the com-muimv
the club, at the suggestion
of William Irwtn. received permis-sion
from Billys parents to present
him with a hearing aid, entirely In
/■Continued on Paqe Three;
Rotary Governor
To Visit Here
The official visit of Dlstrirt Oov-emor
Joseph 8 Neidlg. of Quaker-town,
to the Conshohocken Rotary
Club" will take place on Monday.
October 16 Announcement of the
visit was made to members of the
local club at last night's weekly
meeting at Rldgeway Gardens,
Black Horse, by President David W
Arndt. The atendance goal for the
meeting ha* been set at 100 per
cent.
A Mm, •Desert Venture," present-
FaunLeapsOntoPicketFence
At Barren I HII Church
To Report For Duly
Joseph A. Ehltnger. Jr. 1334 But-ler
Pike, a member of the enlisted
reserves, has been recalled to ac-tive
duty and received orders to re-port
to Port Oeorge O. Meade, Md
tomorrow He is a veteran of
World War n. served three years
with the Army In New Guinea, and i ed through the courtesy
was discharged in February, 1946 , Arabian-American Oil Company,
He Is a salesman with the E. F., was the feature last nigh!
Moore Agency, Raymond O. Waltz. Montgomery
County Agent, will speak at next
weeks meeting on the subject "Ae-
1 tivitiea of the Agricultural Exten-
] slon Service In Montgomery
County."
Announcement was made that a
March of Time release. "Industrial
I HeUuons—lhi* Means You." will
I be shown at tha November 6 meet-
Sehool Hoard Ready
To ixmperate In Plan
3 Groups Give
Cash For Prizes
On Hallowe'en
$150 Now r*roini»ed.
|! Other Gift;* Expected
■ I For Huge < * It t >r .it
Contributions of $150 have
already been made by three
leading organizations of the
community for the 1950 Hal-lowe'en
celebration, expected
to be on* jf the ktgm IW
staged here.
| 'At a meeting of the committee
{last night ko the Park House, dona-
1 lions of 150 each from the Consho-hocken
Chamber of Commerce, the
Conshohocken Federation of Clubs
and the Conshohocken Lions Club
were reported. AddlUonal contribu-tions
are expected
The window -decorating contest
open to school pupils of both bor-oughs,
will be staged on a larger
scale than the tli-i one held two
years ago Every merchant in the
central business section will be con-tacted
bv the Chamber of Com
merer, m an effort to line up a.
many display windows as possible
for the unique contest Anv business
house In other locations may sign
up for the window decorating event,
on request. The contest, to be held
October 25, 26. and 27, will be spon-sored
by the Conshohocken Ar
League. Materials will be supplied
the young artists.
PLAN MAMMOTH PARADE
A mammoth parade wil! be held
Hallowe'en October 31. with
espies* wagon floats and decorated
bicycle* an added feature. Follow-ing
the parade, a party for young-sters
and a street dance for teen-agers
will be held In a central lo-cation.
The Lions Club will sponsor the
comic division of the parade. Prises
will be more numerous than ever,
George T Jackson, general chair-man,
said today.
Numbers Writer
Is Found (siiilty
An Editorial
Has The Public No Rights?
Km- ><;>[-. miry ivMuVnt anil every worker in Coavl
ahohocken suffered under the nuisance of a blanketing cloud
of cement dust from the other aide of the Schuylkill. Un-;
sightly, disfiguring, and expensive, that nuisance continuedi
day and night, until the blessed day when a strike shut downj
ap rattan af the offaaawJjf piani. Pot eighty-eight days, ouri
community waa on parole from the dusty curse which plagued'
us so long. For eight v-eight happy days, Conshohocken
came out from under its gray shroud, appearing as clean!
as an industrial town reasonably can.
But we were on parole, not freed. A week ago today,
the strike ended. Operation of the cement plant resumed,
ami the unrelenting "MMIDI Mra*BM attack began once more.
Like every other prisoner who has tasted freedom, the people
itf Conshohocken titid it hard indeed to submit to the "mi-nt"
which a neighboring industry propose*, to force
ii]n»ti us for the rest of our natural lives.
I'm despite protests, despite a damning otlirial reimrt by
the State Department of Health, and despite an injunction
suit filed by the BofMfh of COatttwhoCattfi, the offender has
takta M <'tTiTtive step tQ mend its ways. It has made
, luit earlier promises to the same effect now b>
ileep under a blanket of cement dust.
What are we going to do abmit it? We are Bali that
the lawsuit already started offers no promi i
relief unless the tmrough posts bond in a huge amount, with
the risk of being called utxm to pay damages pg the ■ffaBatlfl
The end of the court case lies far in the dim future, obxureil
(like everything else hereabouts) by cement dust.
What aUiut aid from t he State J Pennsylvania has
concerned itself mightily during the past several years with
stream pollution and stream clearance. What about the much
more important matter of air pollution and air clearance?
Isn't it high time to m>i-t to Msf faml ■ioOfaaw representatives
in the State Senate and House of Representatives, and to the
Cuvt-inor, that the State now take the initiative in rescuing
us from a year-round "snowstorm" which is driving away
residents, visitors, business, and industry? Have we no
rights as citizens and taxpayers?
The conshohocken School Board
indicated Its readiness to cooperate
with the conshohocken Community
Center and allied civic groupi In
the provision of community tennis
courts here next season, at the Oc-tober
meeting of the *>oard last
nt«ht at 6 in the high school offices
A request from the Center group
for use of a smalt plot of g-ound,
IviiiR in the rear of St. Matthew's
Old cemetery between the school
athletic neld on East 13th Avenue
and the cunrminlty o ;ter Athletic
Field. 12th Avenue and Hurry
Street, for the installation of five syfcxfiTSJrc arsst|=a of the building and grounds com- Sentence of Adonis Smith was de-mittee
to procure all the necessary ferred pending motions for a new
information trial by his attorney. Raymond
Releasing of public ftchool atu-'P«*',^,n' Four"! m ln* c*r Adon|*
dents, one hour per week, for rrltg-^mlth wss dmins were "PP™*I-ious
classes In ft church of their mately M0 numbers slips and *AO0
choice, is being arranged, it was In «*n.
After SO minutes deliberation, a
Jury of nine women and three men
in criminal court before Judge Wil-liam
P. Dannehower yesterday con-victed
ft Norrlstown man of num-bers
writing charges.
Adonis Smith. 41, of Willow
Street, was arrested on June 14 in
Dpper Merlon Township by State
Polk* of collegevllie Count v. Df
tecUve Jamea Oleaaun »nd Upper
Merlon Officer Walter Pre**. Along
with him at the time of his arres1
was Stanford Smith, 50. of Eas
Wood Street, who pleaded guilty
LocalArmyMan Co-Authors
Musical ComedyProduction
Alec Volpe, 62 Forrest Street, who recently enlisted in
the Army, is the co-author of a musical comedy now in re-hearsal
at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
ecently < omplatlag his -
Council
Asks
Hearing
Meeting Is Sought
With 'Top' Officials
Of Cement Company
t niishdhocken Town Coun-cil
today is demanding,
through its solictior, that offi-cials
of the main offices of the
Allentown - Tortland t> nt
Company at Catasaqua. pa-rent
company of Valley Forge
Cement Company, meet with
its representatives tomorrow
afternnotl at ;t in the plant at
w.i { Miishuhoeken.
This decision was made at a J Snt
session of the public safety commit-tee
and the dust committee of Town
Council, called hurriedly la
when am of the worst visitation* .if
ttrrv-whlte, grlttv oust kl the -rtf
history of the borough feu aere
during the weekend
So violent was the onslaught of
the heavy blanket of waste matter,
described on all sides as crmrnt
dust, that dozen* of rails flooded
the offices of the borough secre-tary
yesterday, and Prank Capaldi
president of Town Council, and
Harry Rowland second ward coun-cilman,
were railed from bed in the
early hours of Sunday morning oy
aroused cltutens. to see first-hand,
the dlrtv white pall blanketing tha
entire community.
"It was so thick, that the marks
of car tires showed on thr street,
as they would fan mow," one bor-ough
official described It.
President Prank Capaldi said tt
"was thick enough to shovel into
bags."
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Girl Seoul Group ElectH
Mrs. Watson Koldys. 385 East
Hector Street, was named president
ol the Olrl Scout Neighborhood As-sociation
at a meeting held last
Wednesday night ln the Park
House. Mrs. Henry Rollins presided
at the meeting. Mrs. James Sally
was named treasurer and Miss Kay
Campbell, secretary. The group,
which meets quarterly, will hold it*
next meeting at the Park House on
Janunry 17.
C;n- <>a»ll
An automobile, owned by Leo A
Grow, of 1542 Dawson Street
Avoca. Lucerne county, and drhen
by J°hn Doyle, of Scranton. parked
near Pourth Avenue and Payette
Street, was crashed into by a
allegedly driven by Joseph
droga, of Brltt-Molr Avenue. West
Conshohocken. at 1215 Sunday
morning. Officers CharleR Marwood
and Samuel Cardamone were sum-moned
to the scene. No arrests
were made.
Teacher Hesigns
To Kntcr Business
the result of too-ambitious i
Hill
J( ttshies Sj>onsor
Ilallotve-pn Dauve
C>-operating with the general
■. ■ mmlttee in charge of arrange-menu
for the town-wide Hallo-r.
e'en celebration on October 31.
the Washington Fire Company will
sponsor ■ street dance In front of
thr nre station in West Hector
Strut as one of the features of the
observance. This was decided last
ni<<ht at the October meeting of
the fire companv.
The seat of Hibbard Williams as
a member of the board of trustees
v,.i. declared vacant because of his
failure to attend meetings, ln ac-
(ordance with the company by-lai
s. John O'Connor, member of
nincll from the second
I ard. was appointed bv President
William Worth to fill the unrxptred
term. One new member was elected.
Homer S Baler of King Manor,
leap. Friday morning in Barren'r^M}'"fn^S^l,'M^°H^ t.nndp-1 o< a, s«ed,und publ*
and Pred Swatuon, of the Norrti-! school, has tendered his resigns-town
club: Earl Webber, of the uon t0 Dr. Warren H Oockhn. sup-
PhoenlxyUle club; Robert Jhomp-■] ,nWndent ot upper Merlon
son, of the Wayne club; and Philip ZT~ . tikm Livingston of the Bala-Cynwwi. Schools, for presentation at the
Narberth club. School Board meeting next Mon-jday.
Blxler will become associated
/J earlier* To Meet
Introduction of new members of
th- faculty to members of the or-tunizaUon
will mark the first meet-ing
ot the season of the Consho-bo
ken branch. Pennsylvania flute
P-'ucatlon Association, this after-
The 60-pound animal was dis-covrred
impaled on a five-foot met-al
picket fence, encircling historic
St Peter's Lutheran Cemetery,
Church Road near Ridge Pike.
shortly after 1 a m. by Edward
Donovan, who resides on Church ('.niiiimr Mffliii"**
Road opposite the burial ground. ^°m
According to Whitemarsh Town-ship
police, the man released the
animal from its tortured position
and applied first aid, while a pass-ing
motorist reported the accident
at Whitemarsh Township police
station.
Officers C Lloyd Prankenfleld
and William Speei>. Jr. Whlte-with
Alvln Richards, a former prtn-
UMJttptl »' W*« Conahohocken High
two local Are companies serving on {School, ln the operation of a laun
the Conshohocken Centennial Com-|derette in Norrlstown.
mlttee will hold an important Blxler M-rved five years in thi
meetintc nrxt Sunday morning at, West Conshohocken school before
in the hose house of the Wash-j joining the Upper Merlon faculty
Ington Company
A meeting of the Active Assocla
tlon of the Washington FVe Com
marsh Township, destroyed the anl- panv wUI be held Sunday at 10
a m The association will decors ti
the fire station for the Christmas
mal. The county game warden re-moved
the carcass to a boy's InsU-tutlon.
where it will augment the _
menu. j A meeting of the finance com-
The animal Is one of a number mlttee of the Washington Fire
Theft Reported
have come to grief in White
marsh Township recently. On July
190-pound calf was killed in
an early morning coltaUon with an
automobile. On June 10, a 180-
pound buck deer was struck when
It darted in the path of an auto-mobile.
Early Ui May, another deer
met death when It waa struck by
a oar.
In the past few years, other deer
have lost their lives fan highway ac-ii.
.,i— »■«.- cidentv Whitemarsh police lantam m ■>*■■ »• -— n—w
n at 3:30 at the high school. New there are several herds roaming thejon the John Brothers lot, East Sec-hera
include Oeorge Hilt. Jos- thickly-wooded areas of the town-lend Avenue. An investigation dis
Company will be held at the fire
station next Monday night at 7:30
Oeorge William Taylor la chairman
of the committee.
Joseph Ryan, of 332 West Elev-enth
Avenue, reported to the police
the theft of MM In cash and tickets
from the glove compartment of his
automobile between 8 and 11:30
believe! Friday night The car was parked
e»>h Blewtu and William Hollopeter.lshJp. (closed the machine was unlocked. llowUM tika i
AccidentalReunion For Two
Local Soldiers In Korea
The Conshohocken "G. I." was operating a mine fjfitaetor
on the Naktong River Line, near embattled Seoul, capital of
South Korea.
The Job was a routine one. He
didn't expect anything unusual.
As he moved his equipment along,
he mme to a pal? of Ir.far.'.ryrr.er..
resUng alter front line action.
He glanced casually at the two
Then he looked more closely at
one of the pair.
"You could have knocked me over
with a feather." Pfc. Thomas B.
Bradley. 19, of 115 East Third Ave-nue,
wrote hi« parents, Mr and
Mrs. Thomas Bradley. In a letter
from Korea received a few days
ago.
"One of the two was ■•Monty'
gram, our former next-door neigh-bor,"
the youth told
Pfc James "Monty'" Ingram, the
Infantryman figuring in the acci-dental
reunion, is the iB-yeaj-old
son of Mr. and Mrs Elwood Ingram,
111 Forrest Street. Until five years
ago. they resided next :o the Brad-ley
home a'. 117 East Third Avenue
The letter also meant considerable
relief to the Ingram family. They
hadn't heard from Jamee in a
month, and were much concerned
Bradley mentioned that Ingram had
been to the front, accounting for
the lack of letters from him Brad-ley's
letter was dated September 17
He said the meetuig took place Sep.
tember 15.
"■Monty* looked good,"' Bradley
wrote.
All letters from Pfc. Bradley.
come via air. It requires ten days for
them to reach here
Both youths enlfasted a year ago.
Ingram left Port Lewis. Washing-ton,
for the Far East on July 10
Bradley left three weeks later. Both
attended Consiioh(K sen High
School Bradley Is attached to the
Air Pore*
A brother of Ingram. Donald,
serving with the Navy, is now on
nine years ago.
Mr. Richards served as supervis-ing
principal ol West Conshohock-en
scnools lor twenty-four years
and retired from the profession
when the high school was discon-tinued
anc the pupils were trans-ferred
to Conshohocken
< < nt. 11 sil.tt I 11 ill-
Three-dimensional color slides of
the Conshohocken Centennial last
May, taken by Erie Henrique*, of
Quiph Mills, will be shown In the
Park House. Thursday night at
open to the pubic. The pictures
will follow the first round-table sup-per
of the season of the Consho-hockr.
i Art league at 6 45. open to
members and guest*. Mrs Albert
Dubroff fat chairman. Miss Ethy-lene
Eib will preside at the monthly
business session, immediately lol-
Firemen Plan
New Addition
Barren Hill <!oui|>am
AwanlH I .iiriii'.n i
Construction of an addition cost-ing
I10.99A will get underway this
week at Barren Hill Fire Hall. Oer-mantown
Pike and Church Road.
Barren Hill. A contract was sward-ed
Saturday to a Roxborough firm
after a special meeUng of trustee*
and officers of the volunteer fire
company.
Three pieces of apparatus will be
housed in the addition, so the pres-ent
auditf rlum where they are
presently housed will be available
for additional community activities
without 'In necessity of driving
the apparatus Into the open on
each occasion.
The addition is to be of brick and
rnni rctr block to conform with the
present building, erected ln 1937. A
tie* boiler room Is to be constructed
and the kllchen ln the basement ol
the present building Is to be lm-puiw.
l.
Howagd O Wells, chairman of
the board of trustees, said the ad-dition
wli; be 35 feet In width and
51 fc.'i In length Work Is to be
completed by January 1. 1961. Rich-ard
brown, president ot the com-pany,
said.
The firemen will convene Friday
night when action Is to be takpn on
a proposed amendment admitting
16-year-old boys-into limited mem-bership
as Junior firemen under
■iupervlslon ot Fire Chief Waller
E. Oilinger
Mirrors. Shamrock
Teams Play Here
Saturday Night
training at the fort, the youthful
local profession!-. I actor has Just
bee transferred to Special Serv-
I' is expected his duties will
.iter main!) about provision of
s.sge entertainment for "ie dough-boys.
With BUI Braden, professional
■v Y k star, the local resident
las written "Spit h Shine." sched-uled
for production October 35 34
and 27, at the Fort Knox Theatre
Additional dates are under consid-eration.
. nher New Yi.rk professional. I
Ben Livingston, author of several:
shows produced on Broadway, It |
serving as production manager. I
Alec V *,<e will be dramatic direc-tor
of the ihOw and Braden the j
• agegffj director.
A de-^rlptlon of the show, sent
from Port Knox, says that, typical!
of Army shows. It "uses satire to
good advantage to belittle the Army1
way of doing things ar' respect-fully
knocking the high command
opens In a P
station and then rapidly tdvances
through the Army training mrt*i-
(Continued on Paga Five)
Firemen Called
Smoke pouring from Die cellar of
the Moneci-llo Home. 101 West Elm
Atari In a
fire alarm and both con.:
sponded When firemen reached
the .scene the) discovered that a
fire was being started ln a bucket-a-
dav stove in the basement and
their services were not required
W ...i i Park Car
In ('.onrJiohoekeii
A Lansdale motorist wilt put
tn thr expense asnl In-eonvrnlence
of driving )i ex-tra
mite* a day. rather than
park his car In Conshohocken,
due to the cement dust It wag
learned at noon today.
Telephoning The Ke< ••■ der
from his work at Morton, Pa,
Anthony Romano. 314 West
Fourth Avenue, a welder at
Plasekl Helicopter Corporation,
told this story;
"Last week. I arrangrd to
alternate In driving from Con-shohocken
to Morton. 19'i
miles each way, with a fellow-worker
ft urn Lansdale. He
drove last week This week It
waa mv turn, and the arrange-ment
ajai that he drive his
car from Lansdale to Consho-hocken.
park here, and risible
up with me on the remainder
of the ride
-When he pulled up this
mornlnit, he said, 'What's that
stuff all over vour car?' I told
him cement dust. He said. 'I
donl leave mv car In this
town!"
"So I had to break the ar-rangement.
I've lived In this town M
vears. but if !hb cement dust
■ i>i>ed. I'm going to move
out of this town. I am sick and
tired of It •'
Several Irate cMlxem did Just
that bringing the contain-1 M
borough hall, as actual evidence
defllant of renewal or the long en-dured
nuisance.
that grew Into apnroxi-
■ ■
path of Capaldi and Rowland as
they toured the borough after the
heavy dust fall of the early Sun-day
momlng hours.
(Continued on Page Firei
New Local Glass Industry
Now Operating At Capacity
For the first time In the history
of high school football hi Consho-hocken.
a game is being scheduled
for Saturday night at the Center
Stadium Principals in this engage-ment,
an annual contest for several
years, are St Matthew's Mirrors
and St Patricks Shamrocks of
Norrlstown
The gmne was originally sched-uled
for Sunday afternoon but Is
being .i:lv:mted on consent of both
teams to avoid any possible conflict
with the World Series games which
open 'nmorrow in Shlbe Park, Phil-ftdelphia
The annual game between Con-
• Oolden Bears and the
Bristol Warriors will be played ft*
scheduled at the Stadium on Fri-day
night Both games will start at
County Doctor* To Mr< I
Old linen
<|t
On October 21
The Quality Glass Company, Inc. i ■' nn imbi-tiy in
Conshohocken that promises to bt a lueceaa and will tain it*
place amonK the leading industri.s of the l>oroujrh.
■ ■ -■ ■ —- I Organised a few months ago by
a group of former experienced em-ploye*
of the Klmble Olass Com-
BW j paaf wiii.h closed Its riant here
and moved to yineland. N J. the
Quality olass Company leased a
part of the Vandrgrift Building at
Elm and Harry Streets, Installed
the necessary equipment und began
the manufacture of several preci-sion
glass products. Including hy-drometers,
thermometers, and oliaW
scientific articles.
The officers of the firm are Jamei
of Darby, president, the
onlv aaanbaT "f tiir flriu ■ho **
not a resident of Conshohocken;
Mr- Helen Beaver, vice-president;
John Crawford, treasurer, and Cart
Johnson, secretary. Other membtis
are Thomas Jooat, Charles White
and Edward Miller.
The firm hcquired addition*!
floor space last week -nd now has
mataljr 3.000 square
The nfth annual Old Timers
banquet will be held at
mouth Countrv Club on Saturday
evening. October 21, at I
event is open to aU football players
in the Schuvlkll! Valley between
PottAtown and 0c«*thoflOCk*fl who
played m the I
[> ;imi ineluded In
ar» pottaiown A C. Royersford,
Norrlstown High Club, N
J A C. Nornstown Wheelman,
BUUken Club, Swedelund, Reliance,
West Conshohocken and Consho-bSQnaV
Harrv Eiijm, chaarnun of the
committee on arrangements, report*
that acceptances are already being
received It Is hoped that the event
will be oo« of the best Attended of
held
Judge William P Dannehower. of
the Montgomery County Common
The Montgomery County Medl-| Pleas Court, will be the principal
cal society will hold it* regular: speaker. Stanley Hyde, of Phlla-monthlv
meeting at the Soctetv; delphla. will onte again serve as
Building. Norrlstown on Wedm Patterson an* The plant b now operiumg
■ neon The feature al thli Dal'-, comedian*, will provide trie eft|
meeting will be a panel ti: .tinmen'., assisted by Tom .hand to guarantee .'perauou for
common ophthalmological problems, i Addy. [the next several weeks,
feet. Tlie firm Is gradually expani
ins and Is adding addiUonai ma-chinery
as the business demand*
The number of employes waa in-creased
last week and will be fur-ther
Increased this week