The Conshohocken Recorder, April 24, 1958

              — America''s Historic Region No. 1 -
LAFAYETTE H1I.L PLYMOUTH VALLEY
MM! Mi IN Ml I I -l-HIM. Mtl.1
I Today 11V* Salute
11 hitvntarsh, Uvttor
Model\nw Than Krer
Only a week ago, Whitemarsh Township was »ith-out
blemish.
Accepted and acclaimed throughout the Common-wealth
as a model NOOBd ifaM Imihk its status was
surpassed by no other in its category and by only a hand-ful
of townships of first class rtittti.
The supervisors and the Sewer Authority a week ajro
stood on the threshold of attaining maximum stature in
a decade—thi: recognition, national in scope. for having
been first to erect and operate a combination sewage dis-posal
plant and incinerator outside city limit-.
Years of research, study, planning—all the efforts
that consume midnight oil—had jfone into every detail
mBHW "ith the MffMt -ingk* uniterlaking ev.-r M>-
templated by the BUfMrfaon, No stone had l»een left
unturned; truly Whitemarsh was the envy of the bffi-
■ irrounding munirir'Hli'i'- Ibe town.
ships of Plymouth, spnngiield. Unu Marion, Chelten
bam. Lowar f'ni\ i.ieiue: the i.orough> of ('oiishohocken.
Waal OoBcbobockaa. Bridgep-.it, ana Wunlatowal
Whitemarsh had a good name.
Vpoa this foundation the town-hip asaa building. In
financial circle.-. Whitemarsh was a sound risk. From a
construction viewpoint, a contract with YVhitemar.-h waa
highly desirable and was held at a premium in the trade.
All had gone well in shaping up plans for installation
el .i - werage system in the Middle and West district-.
and the construction of the sewage dis|w>sal plant and
incinerator at Spring Mill, an historic community in the
We-t district. Only the enabling ordinances wire yet to
be enacted, and, having Wen advertised as required by
law. and all citizens having had ample opportunity t"
speak up. adoption of the four ordinances apparently
would IHJ accomplished without incident.
It waa just a week ago Thursday, at 4 in the after-noon.
Suddenly the name of Whitemarsh was dragged into
the mud. and the ultra-modern system already recognized
by authorities as a model plan was under attack.
How could this be?
What had gone wrong? Why?
Today, officials stunned by the needless last-minute
frustration hurled like a bombshell into that routine
Thursday afternoon session dun't have all the answers.
They are uncertain as to whether the recklessness that
marked that quiet afternoon can be undone, and they
anticipate, iierhaps without justification, still further
blows. But Whitemarsh is to lie commended. None of
its supervisors or no member of its Authority, most cer-tainly
not its solicitor, has done anything dishonest in
the acquisition of the former George Sampson property.
On the site, the combination facility is to be the town-ship's
pride and joy this time next year, when its oper-ation
will be saving the taxpayeis 42 per cent, over On-cost
of a single unit, a sewage disposal plant alone, in
addition to ptovidir-ff a service aoxwfc) needed in the burn-ing
of trash.
In our book, there's every reason Whitemarsh Town-ship
can hold it* head high, unashamed, free of em-barrassment,
its name unshackled.
Our commendation goes especially to Michael J. La-putka.
secretary-treasurer, who has traveled throughout
the Commonwealth, and elsewhere, telling the story of
progress and achievement. Our hats are off also to the
board of supervisors, the board of education, the School
Authority, the Sewer Authority and Elmer L. Menges.
solicitor.
Forward, Whitemarsh!
Spring Mill
Laml Es Cln>ap But
Kvitw Timvs 1 ontiny
The Republican party has long been entrenched in
Whitemarsh township. The Organization has operated
etl'niently under one regime after another. The Demo-crat-
have never had n look-in.
Maybe the turning point is here.
It is perfectly obvious that RcpttbUcanian lias suf-fered
a serious setback in Whitemarsh township: one'
or more leading GOP standard bawew having gone on
record against profit I
Down through the years profit-making bus l>een an
aeeeptabla propoattioa in the Kepubln.an party. Hardly
II. iiblican has ever cried Out against It, U long as
profit-making was legitimate.
Three men living in the middle distii-t at tha toara>
ship—two of them doing business there quite a number
of years—have hit the jackpot in an investment for which
they put up only $3000 each and assumed responsibility
for carrying a mortgage of $90,000.
Taking on a mortgage that size is no picnic even
for big business. But luck was with Samuel WaMach, a
grocer in Barren Hill for 35 years; a volunteer fireman:
civic leader, contributor to Christian churches, and a
grandfather. Luck was with his two associates, John J.
Tosta and John P. Gordon. They are about to reap a
whirlwind of greenbacks—about $115,000 before taxes.
What forasjght thfl men had. except a burning oeafro
to build 50 or more homes on farm land in Spring Mill.
don't know We do. boWtTOT. hftVO RH idea as in
what may have prompted them to speculate that real
estate values would soar. While there are many exam-ples,
one might suffice: the prici paid—ftfi.OOO—for only
,e-si\th of an acre located on Garmantown Pike and
First Ave.. Lafayette Hill. OR wrhal uaed to DO DAfl of the
lawn belonging to David Malkin,
Multiplying $15,000 six times, the price per acre
would he $00,000.
That was 105.'! t
Tt was lik* striking of]
Th* transfer set « record f«r Ul'iUm.i
Was anybody taken in n
And then there's the appraisal placed on two «mall
lots the township bought recently, at $500 higher than
the apprai-i-d valuation, in order to expand it- rtCCM
i ana at Ltajajtd 1'ail
Phe appraisal b» Samuel V Gla Indicated ib.
i ib* largei of tbt two kd to '«- • <•>
Unr run IderabJe dlekcrlnj) the nwnai had othei
Ideas and was himself an official III anothei jnutilclpaiitv
tin* township paid &MMH» for a lot HMI feet by 110 Caat
on-'hly one uuarter of an acre.
n«j 901 |0fl ■ ■ :50.
IVaa an;, U.-dy taken in*
tContiHuti on Pope Ttn>
— America** Historic Region \o. I
BARREN HILL PLT5IOLTH MEETING
BLACK WORM HKOAU AXE
Father of 6
Found Dead
In Auto Crash
(jintrarlor \\ m On
Way llomr After
Training Hitfhl
A 36-year-old Whitemarsh
Village father of six waa pro-iiuinced
dead at the scene
■fter the coupe he was driv-er
hit the rear of a sedan
north before 4:30
lay afternoon at the intersec-i'in
of Butler and Skippack
'ikes. Kroad Axe.
John M. SUpp. till Fatlon M.
< imblug rod healing contractor
>rcd a ajewrt attack at the\hrt
u*J Iu.i eakwitwl ol hla MS, Hr .»
hiving nonh on Butler Pike en-
■ iuia home aiter a firing lesson si
Aung* Field.
Dr. Lawrence Umbert. who pro-uninced
the Navy veteran dead,
'•.lid he found no injury. The man
I H alttlng slumped s liti.le, at ths
■heat, after the mb.h*|i
Rgt. J. Kenneth Blewut of Wliite-
Bank tnanahlp police, tatd S;ippS
SI ahowed only two minor front
(Continue on Pao* Ten)
l'ol.l.KI> IM)l\H)l ALLY -- (onfple;,. Sawai1 Authority aits in
front of board of supervisors at special meet ins Monday, and, at re-quest
of Geoffrey S. Smith Jr.. chairman of laiard, each member rises
and promises to fully consider advisability of instituting condemna-tion
proceedings in MontKomery County Court before making; settle-ment
June 1 on ground selected in 1957 as site of hu im-iator-sewage
disposal plant in Spring Mill. Left to right an Carl l>. Buchhotx
Jr.. chairman of Authority; Willard H. Zimlel. assistant treasurer;
James II. Mitchell, treasurer; Arthur Lefkoe, secretary and James
W. Andrew -, v ice chairman.
—Weekly Review staff photos by Wm. Sprinjrfield
Four more photos on p;i«e 10
$4,100,000 Sewer Plan™^
Cteared in Whitemarsh^}!Months
Sin tiimli- Monday
Al VauVy Forge
Ullllary rllea will be SaaWM at
a soleuut requiem mnaa at 9:50 to-morrow
In St. neitrudea Church.
Waat Conahohorken. for Pvl Rob-ert
M. O'Connor. 30. tw:n aon of
Joseph J. and Haael rSrhaarUeyi
O'Connor. 15 Ilrllaveii Ave Weat
Conahohocken. who died Monday at
Valley Force Army Hoapltal after a
four montha' lUneaa Interment,
Calvary cemetery, nulph Mllla. |
One of MontRomery County'a for-!
mer outatandlns acholaatlc athlete*,
he and hta twin brnther. Richard,
both received all-atata and
Columnist
On Crutches
Due to FaK
Mrs. Pranrea M/Cuen. treaaursr
of Weekly Bjaajal Publishing Ct.
: Inc. and eolidinut for thla paper.
li confined at home due to Injury
mummed April 13 In a fall on tha
. aUlnray at tha main office, of tin
i firm at 100 W. Hector St., Consho-i
lim-ken
I X-raya taken at Barred Heart
hospital. Norriatowiv disclosed no
tract urea However, an inflamma-tion
of the covering of Uia bone
IB her rlahl leg developed. Her
left ankle having been apralntd se-verely,
uss of crutchea became es-sential
In ths patients recovery.
lira. atcCuen U expected back st
her (leak sftsr slay 1. provided
treatment clean up the Inflammn-tton.
Her cultunn, "Frane Letter,'
tiaa s wide rsadershlp.
Mt. Joy Open
To Servicemen
tSOPnlDny
Event U April 30
Opsn house will be held for aerv-
-emen and women Wednesday
..igh! st Mount Joy, the 343-year-auburban
Philadelphia mention for old re«tdence occupied by Mr. and
football among parochial schools i Mri H4rok) c McCuen. North
Playing three yean of varsity Une .^j HMm 8t 8 rln| U111
fooltall in Bt ««">"• HlKh TJ,, occasion wlU be su annual
school under the late Charles D. u8t) PlU D vtvVMmL
iContnuat On Page T«w> rhf Invitation to ailend -open
house" la ex'.ended aBBNBSsSasf to
members of the armed forces home
on leave In the area .served by
Weekly Review newspapers: The
Herald, Ths Suburban Preaa, The
Review, Ths Conslwhncken Re-corder.
Ths Valley Forge Sentinsl
The congregation of St. Peters »nd Ths Leader-Review.
Lutheran Church will hold s din- Bponaored by thc Conahohocitrn
A1MJMM) Is Goal
Of Congregation;
Dinner on May 1
"YOl" HAVE NO INJi'NCTION " — Elmer
L MaVffaa, solicitor of hoard of sui»ervi.sors and Sewer
Authority, emphasizes lejral point in answer to state-ment
hy Alan W. Krankenfield that he and a brother.
Jot |ili. have an injunction in Montgomery County Court
ayainst 'flownznninjr of -15-acre tract in Sprinjr Mill from
AA residential to limited industry, at special mretiiijr
Monday. Thomas J. White Sr.. rigltt, former president of
iHtard. introduced motion to enact four ordinances.
CHAV.KS MIND—Samuel M. Glaaa, Inmier Kont-
(Tomer>' t'ounty sheriff ami realtor, who is newest mem-ber
of Whitemarsh township's three-man board of su-pervisors,
on Monday explains to spectators present at
meetiup; in Whitemarsh Township building just w liy
he withdrew his opposition expressed last Thursday to
township sewer plans, which threw bombshell into plan
to break ground next day. Monday, he seconded motion.
Area IJBO. s buffet will be featured
at 6 10 Hualc la to be provided for
dancing. More than 50 members of
rCssfhiued on Page Ten/
\ in -mi II to I--11.
I iiifm in- Tomorrow
All members of the Washington
speak Sunday Final Gesture Is to Be Deeision
On Condemning 20-Acre Tract $6500toGo
To Shave ^S96,000 Purchase Price
ner at 6 45 Thursday night next
I week sa s highlight of s current
Christian Expansion program.
Alan W. Frsnkenfield in chairman
nf the general committee directing
a drive for 9100.000 which will be
i utilised la construction of an ad-dition
to the historic edifice on
Church Rd. site of a scrimmage
in which soldiers were killed tn the n"re*cV. are ■eked to"get their'pa"
War of the Revolution. The conpe-i n& unlforma, tomorrow. Saturday
gallon was founded 306 years ago. | „ Bundsy at the fire station, for
Harold C. McCuen. chairman of' t)ie Lovaliy Day parade at 7 P U
the publicity committee, announced n„t Tliuraday at Norrl.M<.vn An-in
a talk at • 15 and 11 A M Sun- moo* R«ulh la uniform chairman,
day that a 11-page illustrated book-let
will be mailed every member of ■ ., « - , „ ,
the congregation on May 10. , WHlHnollorkril ifiHIfl
William A Orahsm. of M W Mill 1»„U„„«,„1„ ■»« - J__.
Rd. Fiouru-wn. is rhairmaj) of the "'-hparHalH I urmlav
advance glfU committee. ! Weekly rehearsals of the Band of
Mrs Jtmes Hennessey, chief Conahohocken a ill begin m 6 Tues-kcastaas
for the dinner May 1, will «■*" '» S3 Coamas and l>amian
I hall. Third Ave. and Maple St,
I James Denim, preaident, said. Jo*
Iseph Pagliaro la director
( nti.-mntion of Wliitemarsh township's first sewen
and incineiii'.nr plant, already acknowledged a mrxlel in
America's nAgtrn, i- IxaMtid to ffa1 underway "any
hour now" townabip Tffftfllll said today.
Klevetitli-liour oppoaltlcEfl OaTpreaaad lute TH^I Thursday
by Samuel M. til«-s. newest of the townships three sm«er-ruKN
to a prioe of $4800an sscre aeH on the purrhasp c(f land
for M mmnation diapoaal plani and incinerator, suddenly
halted all pLmi to '»reak ground {'«■ the MWU lines on
Friday.
At a special meeting Mondsy of
his mrpriitlng objtctlon. in 'he fsei t,,_;| •*! \|„. •!
of oeruun dsteul and kaned fsUog \|»nl ai i-H«j .»
in appruvtiig loai '* h.uirr, laasi J f|
WHUHO "-• . pseeagasa
uoc, today daslgnstaaj A^r. n
had ■fSQtOXbnstsI] M ».<«" ; Uirodgh May I SI UrtiUl jssalab
Olassa original uppoaltion »as" "^C* tn Conshohocken Procla
Oh, Dear! The Odor!'
Noses in Whitemarsh
Need Clothes Pins
Whitemarsh township residents Thursday's aeaaion of WhUrmar\t>
don't like overtloainis cesspools invnthlp board of ■upcrvtsors.
Neither do they like aroma from Thla quarry, once mined bj '< '
the dumping plate of the consent* w. H. Carson Inc.. Is 001 betag
When biitli gggfcfjtlooi ire correi u-il pressed Into use by about six cess-
Aa u rr&uli iin- ui*i.iup bosvrd pouaefcssnlni fxttni ahu ban Iksaa
bssMrssa u.r dc.i sad purrseung wsrtiowteaj traapuui: toi pwsil] u~«i BSM tut*t u ila* ail
Lire kagfj base ass JV M nun vflUtasBmrati losraahta)! ggtgejrasssl irttg
A i.umbrt ..i luaupuliiii >■•>■ The auai uf IBiu l»ss ussfi colieci-
, keen received b* I hmna* J. Whiir 11,. OBSfT] dump hux been in use ed In honie-to-lioin*- aulklUtlon
lowIUIIIp kupenlhor. about nntv since April 2. When a new Call-burke being made this
for Red dross
Mail Solicitation
Now Main llo|M*
Al' hough tout return* (o date
M - leaa than one-'.hird of
I :«x»-plus goal — in the an-
Rge] Cross Fund drive In Con-
■■•• ken area, Ralph V Falcon-rhalrman.
la rnnfldent "gfg will
■ t ihe t/»p. aa tmdiMonnl".
t*e Rubber and Tlfl
•» haae* his hope nn msii
■ r,r, Beven-h'indred letters
mailed to Industrie*, business
1.' ■ and organizations.
uie returns have been ■ ••mine
In ' -in- we are awaiting rvntrl-bullun*
from some of the largest
uf (lie Industrlen and nwny urgan-mttktmf
de Mid "UP (eel dial will
based on his assertion the pnre of mation was presented M-s Myrtle unpleasant "don, rnming from an ruling by an ouiaide township pro- by public and parochial high achool
MOM an acre set on (he ib-m-re Couth of Con>hob,^-±^.. Vuming aU guar>* hole aet tome dKlanre lubtted UM of the dump then neing girls Thev are expected to roller'
iract ai Cedar drove Lane and Nurse A-ivmihn, »ho r*a*eaC~.' In f*wn Butler rtkr near Hour- •••■ fot 'he purpose isn *200 A repor' •iv+Una
Bprlnt M<ll rhwi-n in area for Mental HesiUi A so^kStioi: lawn Sd . gggaj -l rhmmiih While ilan* "Ibrr t"»n-hip* lu.e sl»« is athsdUaSd lor next 'iiiurada;
aConfiaucd OR Poos T«S) of Southfulsm riaaashuii i -ssanb High aaaool, be teM at laat, KaawaaaWO' "a Page Ten, > nifJit st the Park HOJIS.
Small Ad Gets
Big Results
.ii!y pavs to adver-tiae
in The Herald as well aa
the five other n«
the Weekly Re vie* -
11am Herman, 7424 Tho'inm -Si ,
Wadaworth. enthusUatically de-clared
yeaterday.
Herman, who does general
earpentrv and eieitrical work,
haa been running s classified
•d i™ more than s vesr, and
tha response haa been far more
than he anUcipsted
"I've been kept busy and cer-tainly
want to say that The
Herald haa done It* ahare to
get me a lot of wuik '
You. loo. ran get Die ainne
rt-iulls aa lu
Out 0CU) to att - :
six Weesly lU-Uf* iirWenSpSrS
bv calling
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