The Conshohocken Recorder, May 12, 1960

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Thursday, Mar 12. 1960— 10<-
State Recreation
Unit Elects Don
Koontz President
OITicial Is Pioneer in Field;
s.KI.IHMI Budget Highest in State
For Township <>l Second Clan
by David H McCuen
DouM R. Koftflflf, Fecreittod dint-tor ill W'rtiteniursh
towiuhip for 1" yt'ars. ni elected president of Penii.sylva-uia
Keuealiun Bodtty -Ma\' 8. at State College. He i^ out
of tile first graduates id' the Recreation School at Penn
1 State.
School Board
In 'Worst'
Dual Hassle
I rraMirrr
i Mr Koontz also has been named
' to the chainnaiiship of the Na-
' tional Recreation Associatim. DI»-
' trict Advisory Commute He is a
member of the 42nd National Rec-i
reatlon Congress Program Plan-
1 iiiriK committee.
The posts are a tribute to the
J success Mr. Koontz has achlev-
| ed In developing, from scratch, the
! first full-time lownshlp recitation
program in the sUte.
j The director came to Whlte-
: msrth. fresh out ot Penn State
| with i BS In recreation when the
I township WHS without a recreation
ovotiram.
('itnsh<)hi>ckt'!l School Board Hulling up hit sleeves, he went
III Ollf of its most livelient >° w*"* organising a rudimentary
ineetillKS ill years elected a P™gram. It*- enlisted the aid of the
. ii i- *> PTA, a nl.ivirnuiid i "mini(li-c and
new treasurer bj a POBlinS ,„ ,„, ,'„,„„,„„ hr .„„,,, „,,,,„.
\ ottng procedure and conduct- 8himi„, , d„.Wrt kn»ck tor .ti-ed
what amounted to "over- ting »l«ng with peuple. the rank*
tone*" of political football on I"rew stesdlly. and now number In
(ieciilini- whether a llolldinK "" kaowmU. I>™ lir.1 Initiated
„„.,,, .hould he named in a ^^STiTStS'JSZ
motion to covt* the taxiwyer »„ lm» prop;rmB. f0, „„„„.
1960-61 duplicalr. Among the Invaluable volunteer
This happened at Monday's "reg- organizations are the Little League,
nlar" meeting oi the board: Jo- Babe Ruth League, Biddy basket-
Beet
Ami Dilly-Dully
On Itonilini; Afinit
SO GOOD!
90 Year* of Know How
SS yearly by mail
Crews to Rip Up
Fayette St., Work
On It for Months
asfpci Dsjktnriai WAS elected treaS' (
urer In a 4-2 vote utid Uie bonding
nottsa held In abeyance un-i
1 hut night when a special meet-ing
was to de- ide the Issue.
Desklewlcz a as nominated by
WiHium Maher and it was second-by
Nicholas J. Romano. When
Romano made a motion the nom-inations
be closed, the room was
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Upper Morion
BusinessEvent
On Wednesday
Representatives of area industri-al
organisations in Upper Merlon
township will be speakers at the
third annual banquet of the Upper
Merlon Chamber of Commerce at
I Wednesday at Oeorge Washlng-
,or. Motor Lodnc, King or Prussia.
John Franklin, news commentat-
M. will introduce the speakers
They Include James A. MaeQueen.
director of orgaigizatlon planuim:
fni Alan Wood Ste 1 Co.; Thomas
Ellington, superintendent of Beth-lehem
Limestone Co.; William £
Bradfleld, manager of the Phila-delphia
distributing center of
Western Flectrtc Co.: Dr. W. Ai-ded
L'lar.de Jr.. vice-president
and technical director of Pennsalt
Chemicals Corp.. Dr. Erwln H.
Tulier. general te ary of Ameri-in
Baptly-t, Pp. <rlop; Ati'liiniy
Volpl. King t Pru-ssia builder;
I)olph Zink. .'alley Forge Center! ~ ;
Inc.; Dr Floyd O. Flom. communl- Kf'MSt I'lsTS I^€*l
tv relnt'nus represent a tlvr for ^ ^
General Electric Co. missile and SIIII11114*l* S11<*S
space vehicle department.
Jolui R Grief»n. vice-president Travelln., registras
oi industrial development for Ca-| P-*Kd their
Cabot and Forbes Inc.. am.
tam P Ross, member of the cWk Montgomery Cntintv
FOR REDEMCATION — Three Lutheran pastors officiated Sunday morninp; at
rededication service of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Con«hohocken.
From left are the Rev. Ray H. Hart man, pastor; the Rev. Dr. Charles M. Cooper,
president, Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states; the Rev. Dr. Guy E.
Md'amey. pastor *-,.ieritus.
More Pay OK'd
For Employees
In Plymouth
1'uln i (liirl- (Mlurs
(.ft $51Mil.ii.-h:
ItcfklrV I ,r;iil« All
Increases raiijrinf? from sev-en
percent of last year's sal-ary
to a high of $700 were
approved last night for em-ployee*
of Plymouth town-ship
at an adjourned meeting
of the board of commission-ers.
The Increase* are retroactive to
Jan. 1.
Left out was Mrs. Mary Wood,
treasurer, whose 94500 Income in
ltXW ws-i inehnnged e>eh of the
five commissioners themselves also
will continue to receive the same
remuneraUon. WOO annually. This
sum Is stipulated by Uie Common-.
wealth.
Robert L. Townsend, secretary of I
he township, Is to receive I7B00.
an increase of 8500: Vllo Pusco is;
being paid $7000. an increase of:
•500 as chief of police: Park A.
Berkley, building inspector, who hit'
the Jackpot. Is listed for an in-crease
of 1500. plus additional ex-penses
of 1300 aa building inspec-tor
and 8200 in his capacity aa
fCoajtlnned or Pope Fourl
Utilities Move In First.
Then State Takes Over:
Will Not Widen Street
Nation's Foremost
Hi-Rise Builder
Joins Jack Trinsey
•* with Jeffersonville-Aurtubun
kiwaiii* liiteiMiluli
Seflnioil Tniiifelil
John Cislnelll, chairman, will
>ad r. group of mrinbers ci Con-shohocken
Kiwanls Club to an in-ter-
club session at 7 tonight at
Club
A round-table conference win be
f«fit>ir«1 i tt*r 'he KMurinn Hurl
Consiiohocken. John S. Trinsey Jr., overlooking Valley Forge. In lie
president of Rebel Hill Park Inc., cember, 17TB. Wanning Inn and the
announced ho and Prank J. Pagli- Continental Army encamped on
aro, president of Kni..kciU« kci,' RVU-i iUV, .ru-i ihr n«lt;r «f Ctilph
Construction Co.. New York City, I Mills. Rebel Hill received IU name Snntoro will be feted on the oc
have entered into a partnership to Iron the British caalon of his birthday, which oc-develop
the multi-million dollar I John B. Kelly Jr. is associated
Rebel Hill Park apartment-office! with the project Albert M. Oreen-and
hotel project. } field Jr., completed Ills contract by
Pagliaro has been president of obtaining ■ tentative commitment
one of Uie naUon's foremost con-'with Bankers Bond and Mortgage
crete construction companies for 20 Co. of America.
years. Park Towne Place and Staf- '
NIW COUNCILMAN Kumb.it
D«Sl#pbano. ol I :* E. Savanlh
A**., was cl*ct«d last niqhl to
Canshobccksn Bsrouqh Cat. cil te
RJ1 vacancy etma\*d by rwlqna
lion at Jam** McCana. A coailnic-tion
tupsrinlBtwlaal. ha otlvtidad
PIvDioulh Con>olldat*d «:hooL Nor
rlilowm Hiqh school and Unimr
slty ol Pmnsylvaala. siudylnq
archliaclui* and anouiaarlng I Isl-tar
Initilulloa. Ha Is marrlad la
lormsf Maty KcDad*. ot Consho-bockMii
thay hara two domqhtari.
Mr*. Mayatla DaHavan ol Eait
Motrlton, and Mis. Rita ZaHarrano.
ol Quakaitown. and a son. David,
ol Eaoiovfiia.
DeStephana
Council Seat
Is Questioned
Consiiohocken will become a
"oopilruutaon town' on m about
June 1, with noise ai.u
night and day.
The state highway department
will begin work 011 Mut*»ntord
bridge and utility rompnnir- will
begin it n tor work on Payelte St.
in BUB IICX, couple weeks, it was
disclosed last night by Comttu-hockeii
Borough Council.
Joseph Burns, president ni coun-cil,
reported the state would begin
rr-Mii-laciikg the bridge roadway on
June 1. Kxcavntlng and "jackham-mer
work" would be dot*
daylight, but, when this was com-pleted
concrete wuld be poussd
In the evening. Burns said HI a
monthly meeting In the Borough
Hall.
"The lower end of town will be
in quite a mea," Buna _;..;,:.:, „i-ly
stated, "but w • will have to take
Winpuraiy steps to cope with Uie
problem "
He said the utility companies,
Philadelphia Electric, Philadelphia
(ConttnueC on Pope Four;
School Board
Holds Tax Line
At 38 Mills
j Plymouth Director*
Go Easy on Tax pin vr>:
Mr«. Wood lVaii.nl
Tlie board of education of Ply-mouth
township Joined the I
enacting hlghrr taxes at n monthly
meeting last Tiiursdnv niwh
I .
managed to keep the proposed In-crease
at two mills, wiitit'
the rate proposed
Htttner, Olenslde Club
ford House are two ot his firm's
recent Jobs In the Philadelphia nrei.
Both Pagliaro and Trinsey said
they Intend to start building the
Rebel Hill Park project immediate-ly
upon approval of West Consho-hocken's
proposed annexation of a
107acre tract In the Rebel Hill sec-tion
of Upper Merlon township.
Historic Rebel Hill located on the
Krhuylklll llxpressway
DONALD R. KOONTZ
Trorri scratch" to 55*0,000
1.
1 :.
Tic'.et* ire available from KV
ward T Peterson, executive sec
tary of the chamber, at BR 2-** .
mail at Box 326, King
Prussia.
have com
summer schedule1 Delegates to Uie Department of
and through Kenneth H Hallman. chief Pennsylvania, American Legion
ekarfc. Countv RReenaltss-1 Auxiliary, were elected Monday
pervisors of Upper Mer- Iratlon Commission. NorrWown.
township, -xt& be pristripa: Arwl "-beriule Includes
July 7. Oaks fire house,
July 8, Audubon school house. 1 held In July at the Benjamin Prank'
July 1.. Barren Hill Ore house ' lln hotel, Philadelphia.
July 18. F-ast Norriton fire Mra Daniel Hiltner. president,
and Mrs. William Miller were
named delegates. Alternates
LaSalle Higl;
Scholarship-for
William Cattle
In the recent scholarship com-pel
r ion held at LaSalle College
High school five young men were
awarded full tuition grants. **r.ong
the winners was William Cattle, of
St. Philip's school, Lafayette Hill.
The Blnosn »W«j In conipetltluii
I night by the John F. DeHaven "nit! with 1400 eighth grade students
lim tor tne siaie convention to De^om »•■; psVOeUM schools and
academies of Philadelphia and
j vicinity.
Can Build Borough Hall
At Mary H. Wood Park,
? Solicitor AdvisesCouncil
curs today. i The first hassle among Consho-
The club heard Jack Margolls on' hochen rouncllmen since the bcr- j board 1
Industrial views -t the session last
Thursday Quests were Lt. Oov.
Norman Beebe. Div, 19. and Ervln seven '
member of the current 15-mnn group ]
resigned rnd someone hud to
named to fill his vMUst
Counrtlman James McCann. aim I
will soon remove from the borough, tlm M'<«! bud-:e'
resigned his Fifth War'' seat. His| adoption OH June 9
term would exprle Dec. 31, 1961, The new rate will be 38 mills.
under the new ward set of sewn.I Antie.p.itcd wnrnBoWMlt is tho
which calls for one cotneiinmn (o rearwi more money will be n ' i
each ward. Humbert DeStephsno.i i0 operate tlie system, according to
construct'*- superintendent, who Mrs. Edna M. Smith, secretary-of
Whlteinarsh lownsiilp and
ough's five wards were divided Into neighboring Springfield luwn -V
ped last night wbOD a ;
had been saddled by a one-null in-
. . tod bj tuo baaid of w
mlssioners In si tnofitfl Now lltev
face an additional two 1 ill]
comes up for
Legion Lit it
Names Delegates
Attorney els T. ic-nnis. bor-|of the codicil (addition to a will),
ougTT Ttaffemff Tor CdlumoiiOcIBn;]-00* *e*t- -the borough -haeV a good
told Borough Council last night the
lives st 134 f\ Seventh Ave„ was
elected to fill the vacancy by a
vote of 11 to 3.
Edward O'Brien, of 438 E Ninth
Ave., former councilman, was sup-the
board
The Joint board's tentative budget
rail- f I Imatlra expenditures set
at S355.000 This is an In I
about S3:t.000 over "Xpendlturea of
chance the provisions would per
, mil constriicli-m of the borough hall
way was almost surely paved to on ti,e piot.
have a new borough hall erected Permission was granted for John | O'Brien was
on a plot li Maiy H. Wood Park.jCoyne, IxirouKh eimnieer, 10 draw
Fifth Ave. and Harry St. up a plot-plan to present to court
Dennis said a codicil to the orl- if and whrn the petition is present-glnal
will was the document that ed. However, even though thr? co-bequealierl
Uie borough the grounds dicil permits the use of the plot for
mini IW-|H butuu ' ii'dl, the ell,'
clllties and to be used for other pur- be asked in a referendum In Novrm-poses
foi EbJ bfi fjL , k bend issue z; go-
Too at timer added he previously debtedness to finance such a pro-had
misgivings about the provisions] Ject.
[xirted. tiy n.mini- I igcirm. A*:.- saam&^-ia in.issflrfl
thony Baranowskl and James Desi-1 The board itemized safety repHlrg
mene [to Black '. >i • and Plymouth Con-
A question arose as to whetn*r nUdotod 1 hools as anotlter reason
ill a member of the tor tne increase.
Fifth Waid. uliivh lie rapfOscntOd After tne state required elir.,ln«
in his previous term in office, or ition of Hro hossurdl at tiir • 0
If DeStepliano was to be named acbOoU, too board budgeted 8gf all
as the representative of the Sev- estimated construction
enth Ward
:;. :-:;; ;... Burton,
Cosuilo, Digidro, DUioala, Plrc-
Stsnc KP!!'.' Mt'TT" "'^nn Qnnw
Zadroga. President Burns. OT n
—Baranowskl, Dealmone, huggirrn.
Sm'tli said the estimated cos; was
I
suited in the board's Including the
bnlnnce fn '!i!« y»ar*s budvoi
Mrs. Smith said tlie board will
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OF HATS?
That's about the only thing
you can't get when you adver-ti-
e in the Classified Ad col-unu.
But you can get something
more important and that's re-sults.
Classified Ads always get re-sults
and more than 100 ad-vertisers
every week can prove
It
So If you lave something to
sell, want to buy. have an
apartment to rait or have lost
your pet *JT the Classified Ads.
It's easy and nominal.
Twelve words coat only $2.
Just telephone
TA 8-4600
BR 9-0950
We Also Print
Banquet Programs
School Papers
Church Bulletins
Wedding Invitations
both In
Candle-:
house. Judge Lauds
July 19, Upper Merion
Belmont school and in
brook school.
Jury 27. Pli-pouth
binldlnj:.
Aug. 16. UKW M«U»v bolh in j^JJ _
Bflmout Khool »nd Robert, school, i T,,„rrt8V „ Ijin,'nor„,.
Ban for rfKMrntlon biulms. In : M„„„r,„, Dny „„.,„, ,.,„ te „,,„
ll.c Omrt Houi» are: 6 JO-4 Monday Mav 3g „ 8S. Co«nn, and rwmlan
through Friday: 8:30-noon Sutur- ciiurrli. Tilth Ave. and Maple St. Judge E. Arnold Porreat lauded
these nlghta: Aug. 11 and 21': Hostesses were Mrs. David Allan the exploits ot Polish puirlou m
Mrs ncorge Clark and Mrs. nerberl
"«»"''I^Erfvemon Wynne will ...end PatriOt.S Ut
meeting of the Mouttromcry-
Bl-County Council next T.K. Program
p-pt 13 nn' IS. until 0 PM «nd Mrs. Russell Zlcglcr.
Stone Death' Witness
Tells Victim's Reactions
"We all had thr feetin? -it
could SG
Mr*. Irving I. Osllck. 4041 S. War-ner
Rd. Lafayette Hill, an eye-
U) the May 4 stone-dealh
of a fellow commuter train pas-senger,
told a Herald reporter
niter the accident.
Mrs. Orllck was seated 'u-ee rows
■OOOd Rod across the aisle from the
victim. Mrs. Bridget Lydon. who
bled to dealt- 10 minutes kfter fly-ing
glass from a train window,
presumedly smashed by a hurled
..tone, opened a quarter-inch wide
■vound In her neck, piercing an
artery.
The Latavette Hill woman had
.onrded Ihe Ill-fated Chestnut Hill
'.oca! with Mrs- Lydon at 3:42 P. M | ihcidcn
Reading Terminal.
ing for " seat by the window." 'In
u.-;.. L gold, "but Deoihj titled tot
one on the aisle.'*
"As w* were nearlng the Wash-in-:
n Lane station I heard *ie
tinkle of broken glass. At first 1
thought someone had dropped rnrne-thlng,
but then I saw the broken
window n.»-jss the aisle.
"Then some of us begun looking
for nn object — whatever It was
that had ple/red the window —
but we couldn't find anything. It
was weird.
"I recall looking at the womsntP. Meaney. and L
he American Revolution and Po-lish-
American organizations work-ing
to further American Ideals at
a formal dedication of the Tadeusx
Kosciuazko Association's new build-ing
at Hector and Walnut Sts. on
Sunday
Judge Forrest particularly paid
tribute to the great Polish patriot
for whom the club wes named and
related how he came to America
to aid the Colonial cause for *-ec-dom.
The U. S. Military Academy at
West Point, N. Y, wi.s designed by
General Koscluszko on appointment
by George Washington.
A dedication banquet will be held
Saturday In the spacious building.
Richard S. Schwetker, Republican
nominee for Congress, and Leon
Kolanklewicz, councllman-nt-large
of Philadelphia, will be speakers.
Guests will include Burj'ess
James J. Mellon, Postmaster James
ObtrholTzer,
"2 walked through the train look-j (Continued on Page.Four)
Sitting "xt to tt« wine- W and! of Lsnadale, pre*tri»»nt of Mont-thinklng
how fortunate she was not gotnery County Federation of Clubs,
to be ' tt She was sltUng perfect-, Stanley J. "Bonkoski will be toast-ly
still, seemingly unnuThv' tn- tlie master
j A ribbon cutting ceremony and
here was a commotion as j flag-raising featured last
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GREAT MOMENT — Officials and fruest< of Tad-eOM
ff-fftftwfllB] Association. Hector and Wainut Sto-at
ribbon cutting during formal dedication of chi'
buJJdfag Sunday. L to r., Frank Wlosc/.yrut. prsaridenl:
Judge E. Arnold Korrtst, ,ru<:f*t mfituUti ItUltsf Bon-koski.
projmim chairman; the Rev. Francis Luay^xak.
usittaot (utstor of St MaryV Thurcli; Frank Jablon-
-ki. tr.-aMiitr and oldasl charttT member, ftiven honor
of cutting ribbon, and Mi'i-nard Pieklo, building chairman.