The Conshohocken Recorder, February 16, 1961

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CONSHOHOCKEN. PA.
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4 Officials Testify
On Walker School
Heating Failure
First Bill Paid for Wages Is §5,384;
Testimony Being Transcribed by
Court Stenographer for Solicitor
Written statements were taken behind closed doors by
the Conshohocken School Board for two hours Monday night,
while two dozen citizens cooled their heels, await ing an
explanation they did not get as to where responsibility rests
for a repair bill that may total J25.000 at the new million
dollar Hervey S. Walker Elementary school.
Francis president.
THE
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X. Clancl,
called the station at 7:30, then an-nounced
the directors would BO Into
executive session for 15 minutes
The session lasted over two hours
wnile a court stenographer took
testimony In another office from
four employees, each In the other's
absence.
Testifying ss to what they
thought rauned the breakdown of
the he*tine system on Jan. 22. re-
MilUnf In shutting: down the school
for several weeks, were Edward E.
Urrmnnn, superintendent of the
school district; Joseph Hollis, prin-cipal
of the elementary school;
Norman II. Clark, chief engineer
and Frank M. SiilHif l>, custodian at
the rlementsry school.
Clancl, an attorney, told specta-
...... -- , ,, tors the four witnesses were heard
A MAJOR BOMBSHELL of the ,„ „«,,„ ^^ ^ ^^ w,nU
Montgomery county admlntstra- to assemble all fact* In the case,
lion exploded last week In the ln "'d" l0 determine where the
Court House at Norristown with! ^^Hc*'0™ '»"""' ' "-
shock waves that carted lor miles j He said if It Is determined the
around. ' School Authority la responsible the
In a decisive show o. authority/ boa.rd
1 will recommend the cost of
,. _ — , , . ' restoring the heating and plumbing
the County Commissioners shook, systcm already con8iderably be-ur
(to put it mildly) the County' yond the $10,000 mark, be amortised
Planning Commission staff. The over a 30-year period inatead of
posts of executive director and
technical director were eliminated.
A single director was n. -aed to be
responsible to the County Coiu-niis.
sloi.ers for all staff functions.
being paid out of current school
district funds. He said also there
Is a likelihood negligence may be
found against the contractor, ln
which case action would be Indi-cated
to recover damages.
that well might stsnd as an ex-ample
to the Planning Commis-sion
for efficient future planning op-erations.
The gossip at the Court
Ifuu&e Indicate* that tht pLu.tM-t*t
""minis ivi an iiaii unit IIIIIU. i ■ i i ™ —»-»- ———..-,-...
The move appeared to be a wen- R»Hed out Is the possibility the
engineered, smoothly-planned coup damages are covered by Insurance.
Leonard A. Talone, solicitor for the
district and Stanley B Cooper, so-licitor
for the AutJvority. said, how-ever,
they would look further into
rh» mattgE.
u;i the dally newspapers and read
aliout It.
The Planning Commission has
bren tl.r target of both legitimate
ana unfounded criticism for some
time. Despite the warning signs
hoisted recently, the staff chiefs
(they outnumbered the Indians)
continued to run a sloppy ship.
The Info Is that they, ln effect,
considered the County Commis-sioners
to be their employees In-stead
of the normal relationship.
As we Indicated in one of our
Rabbi Cites
Brotherhood
Praises Plymouth
Meeting Friends
Habbl Howard L. -.ablnowltz, of
the Ivy Ridge Jewish Community
earlier columns, the County Com-, Center, Ridge Pike below Hart's
mlssloners were led up with this I Lane. Barren Hill, today praised
sort of nonsense. In particular, we the Plymouth Meeting Friends,
pointed out that Commission Chair-: Butler and Oermantown Pikes, for
man EUlns Wetherlll was ready to allowing the members of the cen-go
"all the w.y" las we quaintly ter to use the Quaker facilities on-put
lti ln righting the wrongs that til the Jewish group built Its own
existed for years. Ah sol The axe
Mi decisively.
Although we don't know the
gentleman named as director, a
survey of his background Indicates
home
In a message to the members of
the Ivy Ridge Center. Rabbi Rab-lnowltz
said:
"Brotherhood can be the most
he possesses solid experience along meaningful or the most meanlng-wlth
the maturity so badly missingi less word ln the English language.
In previous operations. We wish I It depends on how you use It. It
him well. He has a tough row to \ can mean the main Ingredient for
hoe to restore the respect and dig- peace and Justice among all man-nlty
which the Planning Commls- kind. It can be the source of re-sion
so greatly needs. We can't spect and dlglnlty that one human
help but feel however, that lnitltal being shows towards every other
reaction from other planning fellow human being,
agencies and municipal officials ln "It can stand for s time when
this part of the state was good. all men shall realize that they are
Aside from the outside reaction children of one God. and shall be-to
the move, the show of strength have towards each other as broth-ar.
d authority given pause to think ers
to Court House employees. Both "Brotherhood can also mean a
Republican Commissioner Warren vague Idea that we all believe but
Cornell and Democratic Daniel do not practise — that Is. except
Costello were In accord with during a special week of brother-
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Ordination of Baptist
Pastor Thursday Will
Be Second in 59 Years
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ONE MISTAKE AND THEY WANT MY SCALP
—Norman H. Clark Sr., of 415 E. Ninth Ave.. head of
maintenance department, Conshohocken School district,
delivers off-the-cuff talk to spectators Monday night
after giving testimony to school directors in secret ses-sion
on what may have happened to heating system at
Hervey S. Walker Elementary school. He told group he
stayed on job in recent emergency at the time of the
death of his wife. Mary, on Jan. 27, making arrange-ments
for the funeral while he was in the basement of
the high school. He also gave details of oil that flowed
from fuel tank down W. Sixth Ave.
3388,
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91 Years Of Know How
SO GOOD
H YEARLY BY MAIL
Police Ordinance
Enacted, West Side
Citizens Are Bitter
Petitions Favoring Chief
Called Fraudulent; Two
Appointed Patrolmen
West Conshohocken has a legally established police de-
| partment today, but the way Borough Council brought it
I about is vigorously opposed by a majority of citizens who
Insist they'll go to court "to protect our rights."
■——~z An ordinance creating the depart-
VIlAnnQrn ment was enacted at an adjourned
!• kJIICpUdl U meeting last night over the pro-
*- *■ test of an angry throng that filled
RPCIerne HPQItli the borouBh haU * owrftowlll« and
lACoIJlIIo lJ.CClll.II ! eventually left the chambers em-
C i blttered because Albert F. Mill-
■ \ i ik • • , house, president of council, stead*
KtAQf*H sr sfsGlTlAtl lastly refused to allow their coun-
UUal U 1 UOIilUlI ^ Mnton MoM lo ^ nMrd
Leonard Talone, borough aollc-
Plvmoulh lo Borrow -tor, said today he saw no reason
for objecting to the fact borough
840,000 on 1961 council was adhering to a Supreme
Court ruling In legalizing us po-
Tax Duplicate Uce department.
■ I "Borough Council may create the
According to a report submitted office of chief of police or ser-to
the Plymouth Township Com- geant at any time by sn amend-missioners
Monday night by Robert ment to the ordinance." Talone said.
L Townsend. secretary, the cashi Council by resolution named two
balance on Jan. 31 was only $17,- \ patrolmen at $4800 each for a 48-
935.43 and the normal monthly ex- < hour week: Albert L. Slater, who
pendlturcs ran around $25,000. ' was chief and Charles Mil .house,
The commls-toners authorized the president's son, who assumed
the secretary to borrow up to $40.- duty as chief last August.
000 as needed. Upon request of . For 8later. the salary represents
Commissioner Lee M Whetstone, a drop of $900 a year. It was ex-
Townsend explained the reason for plained by Moss. He said Slater has
borrowing money so early ln the been on a 40-hour schedule and has
year was caused by the later receipt been paid extra for the sixth day.
of the tax books by the tax col- ■ For Millhouse, however, his pay win
lector from the County Bureau of be up $800 for the year. Moss said.
Assessment and Revision of Taxes, The president of council Informed
ln Norrlstown. i i Moss he had advised his son to
Commissioner Thomas Kopach [quit the Job In the police depart-wlth
s sharp eye on expenditures, ment.
questioned some items on the list
of bills to be paid, which were ex-plained
to his satisfaction.
The highway department, Harold
Hartranft, chairman, and James
Murphy, superintendent, received
The throng showed greater an-noyance
last night than In a regu-lar
session on Feb. 1 and formed
a blockade when Attorney Talone
attempted to leave the building by
the front entrance. Spectators were
high praise for their work of snow . rough In their demonstration of Ta-removal
for the last two months, lone's position ln the matter and
The county also came In for a; also in expressing their attitude to-shnre
of praise but the Btat< r-i£ *vard the flvo councUmeo whe ap«
severely criticized for "a very poor proved the third and final reading
job." of the ordinance. Coundlmen Vin-
Don A. Baralt. Township Line Rd.' cent Kehoe and Oeorge D. Ban" op-and
Butler Pike, presented a pe- [ posed adoption of the ordinance and
titlon signed by 12 people living Peter Plazzo declared the motion
j on Township Line Rd. requesting I "went so fast I didn't know what
I that improved service be given I was voting for." Councilman Jo-
- Township Line Rd. between Nar- seph Pollock wae absent due to 111-
' clssa Rd. and Butler Pike which Is I ness.
(maintained by Whltpain township.I Moss said today President MW-l
The commissioners agreed to Join (Continued on Page Four)
| the petitioners ln their plea to.
1 commissioners of Whltpain town-' '
(ship. Mrs, James Norris. of 1309j
E. Main St.. Black Horse, directed
attention to an alley running off
iLucetta St. at the rear of her
property which she said had not
received proper attention. The com-missioners
promised relief.
Isaac J. Sheppard resigned from
I the Board of Health. The resig-nation
was accepted wiUi regret.
Mr. Sheppard was born in Ply-
| mouth and is one of the hardest
and most unselfish workers ln the
Park Property
Destroyed
Damage Heavy at
Little League Field
Vandals have done damage In
township Albert DeAngells. 1214 excess of MOO at the Little League
Colwoll Lane, was appointed to fill, Hold In the Mary J. Sutciiffe Park.
I the vacancy. Joseph Kelly, of 428 W. Tenth
QUESTIONED — Frank M. Sutciiffe, custodian of
Hervey S. Walker school, leaves office at Conshohocken
High school Monday night after testifying on break-down
of heating system Jan. 22-23 at the million dol-lar
building opened last year.
ORDEAL OVER — George Snear, vice president of
Conshohocken School Board, leaving secret executive
session Monday night after interrogating four top offi-cials
of school district for two hours.
[Weekly Review photos by Haloid C. McCuenl
Install Lights Now,
Commission Orders
90 Democrats
In New Club
Whitemarflli Group
Elects Johu Huber
With 90 members present, the
newly re-organised Democratic
Club of Whltemarsh Township
held a meeting Feb. 9 at the town-ship
building ln Barren Hill, with ">e u«nt standard and pay the
John Huber, president, in charge, j -nJIfhighwty department was in-
A nominating committee was ap- structed to check all drainage prob-polnted
consisting of Paul Marls- lams at the site of the camel-back
■ Idge.
A new span Is to be constructed
The James J. Biddlo Co. was
given approval for a change of zon-ing
to permit erection of an office
on Township Line and Jolly Rd-v
The state's recommendation was
accepted to restrict the speed limit
on Plymouth Rd. to 40 miles an
hour-
Decisions on the following mat-ters
were postponed until a later .
date: Dedication of Penn Rd.; Rich- away one of three bolts holding a
ard Fox for apartments on Butler! awlng door ln place at the refresh-
Pike; changes in the plumbing code; ' ment stand. The main door then
Jackson builders for apartments was opened from the Inside,
and offices to the rear of East Ply- j Officer Jesse Zadroga of tha
mouth Valley and approval of the i Conshohocken Police Department
nut HU1 during 1960 - an Increase aubdlTWon pians of Benson and ' and Ray Gravlnese. chairman of
Parking Increase
Reported at Hill
A total of 174.000 cars were park-ed
in the four parking lots in Chest-
Ave.. president of the league, dis-covered
yesterday.
He said his attention was at-tracted
to the club house and presa
room when he saw the door ajar
while he was walking down tha
avenue. The door aparently had
been open a number of days, snow
having blown ln recently.
Kntranca was reined by cutting
of 2.700 ever the two previous years.
The Public Utility Commission l soon, but the commission Is will- This was announced at an annual
today ordered Installation of a traf-1 lug for construction to be delayed. stockholders' meeting Monday of
lie light at Oermantown Pike and (pending completion of plans for • the Chestnut Hill Parking Co., at
Chemical Rd.. scene of numerous'new highway linking the Schuyl- [M.H Oermantown Ave.
fatal accidenta. I kill Expressway and the Delaware Lloyd P. Wells waa again elected i the building inspector to attend a
The state will pay 80 percent, of ^ten^,,., ^ Uw Pennsylvania i a director, as his term had expired.' building inspectors' school wss
the cost, the township will install Turnplke tl [he Norrlstown inter-' Morton L. Smith was appointed a: passed on a split vote. Commlssion-
™ change in Plymouth Meeting. I director to represent the Chestnut era Kopach and Whetstone dlssent-
Inatallation of ths light is to be Hill Community Assn. and Russell tag.
Miller.
The zoning applications of George
Neff and Frank A least were sent
back for further details a.id in-formation.
The approval of a request of
undertaken as soon as possible.
cavage, Mrs. R. Henry Ooahorn I brld8e
A service of ordination will be
held for Paul Livingstone Jackson
at 8 P. M next Thursday In the
First Baptist Church in Consho-hocken.
The service officially will set
apart Mr. Jackson for the Gospel
ministry. The First Baptist church
has not had the opportunity to or-dain
a pastor ln 59 years. The Rev.
Abner James Davles was ordained I
by the church on April 10. 1902.
Several friends and members of!
Mr. Jackson's family will participate
in tha service. The Rev. Marshall1
Lee. pastor of 8t Paul's Baptist!
church, Conshohocken. will offer the
Invocation. The Rev. K Marvin
Jackson, the candidate's brother j
and pastor of two Baptist churches
ln Maine, will read the scripture.
The Rev. Adrian Mumford. pastor
of the Plymouth Valley Baptist
church, will deliver the Charge to
the Church.
The Rev. Dr. O A. Oabelman,
director of placement at Eastern
Baptist Theological Seminary, will
give the charge to tht candidate.
The Rev Dr Albert O. Williams.
professor of Homlletics and director
of Field Work at Eastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, will offer the
ordaining prayer. The Rev. Ruth
E. Jackson, mother of the candidate
will preach. She Is the pastor of
The Buckfleld Community Baptist
church In Maine.
Mr. Jackson's school days were
divided among several towns ln
the state of Maine. In 1952 he was
graduated by Skowhegan High
school. In the Fall that year he
entered Gordon College, then lo-cated
In boston. In 1956 he was
awarded a Bachelor of Arta De-gree
in History He enrolled ln
Eastern Baptist Theological Sem-inary
and was graduated with a
Bachelor of Divinity Degree In 1960.
During his last two years at East-ern
he completed tils class require-ments
for an M. A. at the Univer-sity
of Pennsylvania. After his grad-uation
from seminary Mr. Jackson
was called by the First Baptist
Church ln Conshohocken. He as-sumed
duty Aug. 21. 1900.
and Mrs. Paul Donahue, to bring -
In a slaic of oflVr-s fcr the club,:
at the next meeeting. March 1, at j
the township rldg.
A motion from the floor, to ac-|
claim John Huber president for the,
ensuing derm of office was made
by Mrs. Charles A. Manos. It was
unanimously accepted.
Plans for an Intensive drive to
inform all Democrats of White-marsh
Township of the newly re-organised
club and to recruit their
Ideas were discussed.
Mrs. Ann Preston, ..rea »5
(Whltemarsh - Springfield! was
present and informed the com-mittee
people of a meeting to elect.
a recording secretaiy, for the
Democratic County Committee to
replace Mrs. Hope -Bogert, who has
resigned.
A slate of candidates for the
primary election was chosen tent-,
atrvcly. with nominations from the.
floor at the next meeting.
Committees are In the formula:- i
Ing stage, Including by-laws, fl- <
nance, publicity, etc. and will bej
confirmed at the next meeting. |
Reassessment
Issue Is Urged
At Closed Session'
Conshohocken Borough Coun-cil
and the School Board will
meet In a closed session next
week to discuss the borough's
financial position.
CouncUmen are said to be ln
favor of setting an annual sal-ary
to be paid the tax collec-tor.
Nicholas Romano, chairman
of the property committee ior
the School District, urged at a
meeting of the board Monday
night that the directors be pre-pared
to discuss with council
an upward revision of assessed
valuation of real estate and
buildings. Reassessment would
mean additional tax revenue for
the borough and the school dis-trict.
Borough Council will meet to-night
ss a committee of the
whole, meaning the public's
barred.
Medlnger was appointed to repre- The Are loss ln Plymouth town-sent
the Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy ship was set at 9300 In the fire
Businessmen's Assn. [ marshal's report. Scout Executive
Speaks to Kiwanis
Robert Maynes, executive of,
Colonial District, Boy Scouts of,
America, will be spesker st meet-ing
of Kiwanis Club of Valley Force
tonight at Peacock Gardens, in ob-servance
o* Boy ^.0U\wef*; Trinity Episcopal Church. Route Webb. Mrs. Raymond Lee and Mrs.
Hugh McDonald is program n au,pn Mms wUl a8k ^ Bls.l wmtam Anderwn> merabe„
Trinity to Petition
For Parish Status
the grounds committee. Inspected
the Intensive vandalism yesterday.
Umpire's checkers were missing,
one was smashed, damage waa
found at the third base dugout, bat
racks were smashed and pales torn
from the fence at centerfleld.
"All the work at the field was
done on a voluntary basis," Kelly
said, adding, "That's why wa feel
badly about the vandalism. This
year we are spending $400 more
to improve tha field; all labor and
most of the money are donated wa
don't know why anybody wants to
destroy park property.''
SOLD
chairman. hop and 8tandlng Committee of p Last week he Introduced Peter ,„„ DloceM (or Parlsh sUtu8 Parmer Scott. Mrs. Oeorge C.
Qodfrey ot Smith, Kline and A rcsolutlon t0 ,„bmlt a petition. Vhlttam and Daniel Webb formed
French pharmaceutical firm who lQ Ulf committee was passed unan- the nominating committee. Ad-eiplalned
why we 10 often spend lraousiy j,n, 29 bv a "majority ofldltional nominations werj made at
more at the drugstore than at the lhe regi,tered contributors of adult the meeting.
supermarket. age wn0 have Deen contributors for The resolution states: "Resolred:
James and Ann Meneses were onc yt„ nal prlor ^ lhe making We, as registered contributors of
feted Feb. 6 on their wedding an- 0( ,uc[, application" during the Trinity Church. Qulph Mills, do
ntversary. | Sunday worship service. The ma- hereby petition the Bishop and
Joseph Robins, newest member, jorlty Is a requirement of the .Standing Committee of the Dio-wlll
be formally Introduced tonight, canon Law of the Diocese of ease of Pennsylvania for reeom-
-—' j Pennsylvania. mendatlon. through the Committee
l'il,,.l I'.,,- Iw'wi"i ri'li A Rector's Warden, Accounting on Incorporation, the Diocese
' III «l Il» IHBtailll warden and a Vestry for the pro- Convention of 1961, to become a
Dr. Edward M. Pllachlone. 708 pased pariah were elected. They parish."
Avondale Rd.. Erdenhelm. a U. S are Richard s. MacDougall. John If the Bishop and standing corn-
Department of Agriculture chem- w Myers, and John E. Boyd. mittee of the Diocese approves it,
i 1st, has received the Philadelphia Also elected were Richard M the petition will be submitted to
! Federal Business Association's Cer- Bradley, C Owen Duncan. Thorn- the Convention of the Diocese In
i Uflcate of Recognition for his re- n c. Olrnwnght. John IV Bolter, May. The Convention will meet at
search on new tanning Otdrio C Phllipp. Parmer Scott. Holy Trinity Church In Rltten-
Ifor leather. i WilLwn W. Porter Jr. Daniel c house Sq., Phlla '.slphla.
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