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VOLUME 24—NUMBER 47
H. S. Turkey Clash
At Lansdowne
Swarthmore  Takes   Pros-'
pect Park, 25-6, in.
Game Last Fri.
The annual Thanksgiving Day
clash will be played at' Lansdowne
this year — kick-off tinie 10 a.m.
This will be farewell for'l9 seniors — Co-captains Bill Kauffman
and John MacAlpine, Franlc Hab-
bersett, Don MacElwee, Lee Swan,
Howard Shearer, Bob Doherty,-
Jay' Philllppee, B. BarracloUgh,
Dick BeU, Charles Neuweiler,
Steve Snyder, Bill Hoot, Charles
• Grier,'AhdySohi^er^DdnStromr'
berg, joe Meliece, Bfll Ziegenfus
and Walter Meyer, trisjhager.Y- ,
Two V we 11-matched teams,
^wcmbn^^A^ Prospect Park,
battled it out in the first, half of
the game last Friday on Rutgers
FTeld, to give' the crowd a thrilling
exhibition of football. The Erst
score came late in the first period
after Howard Shearer intercepted
a Prospect pass and-ran to the 27.
On first down Shearer scampgfed
to the 36. Andy Schroder hit the
line for a total of 11 yards. Bob,
Doherty carried it to the 42.
Howard Shearer passed to Don
MacElwee, who headed for a TD.
John MacAlpine converted.  ,
John Van Wyk took the. kick-off
on the 10 and sped up the; slider
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Legion Auxiliary Card Parfy
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold a dessert card party at
the Woman's Club House, Mon-.
Lday, December 1 at 1 p.m.
Canned foods for Veterans and
thei^ families for Christmas will
be collected at the door. There
will also be a silver offering.
A most cprdial .welcome is extended to the community.
SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952
_ John M. Pearson
$3.50 PER YEAR
Begins Deceiitlier 1st
Mrs. Bass Heads Swarthmore Committee of
"" Volunteers
Meeting Tuesday Will
Feature Roy McCorkel
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Woman's  Club   to   Hear
Field Director Speak
on CARE
The international friendship department, Mrs. S. Milton Brytat
chairman, is in charge 'of the
meeting of the Woman's Club of
Swarthmore to be held Tuesday at
2 p.m. Roy McCorkel will speak
on "CARE Responds to the
World's Needs."
Mr. McCorkel, a resident of
Swarthmore, is field director for
CARE in this country. For two
years he was European field
director and saw much of Israel,
Yugoslavia, and Southern Europe.
He also visited Northern Europe,
France, England, and Scandinavia.
Hostesses for the day will, be:
Mrs. Mark W. Bittle, Mrs. Albert
L. Hilles, Jr., Mrs* William W.
Turner, and Mrs. Thomas H. Ingram. At the tea following the
' iheeting Mrs. J. Paul Brown and
Mrs. Leslie A. Wetlaufer will
ptfur.'Mrs.;.'H.vB. Goldsmith and
^Mts. Ford F. Robinson of the hos-
^jfcdity committee will assist
. Final Plans are being formulated for the cash sale of Christmas
seals which will begin December
1st,'according to Mrs. A. W. Bass,
Jr., chairman of the SWarthmore
Committee of the Delaware Coimty Tuberculosis and Hfealth Association. •
Posters have been placed, with
the consent of Swarthmore's ever-
patient and loyal businessmen and
doctors. Boxes for coins will be
located at strategic'spots in several stores with the hope that extra pennies and nickels and dimes
will 'find their way into them, to
help defray the increasing cost of
the work et the Association.
~ Members of the Junior Woman's'Club along with a Committee
of. Junior High School girls will
man the booth at the College The-i
at'fe, the management of which
has been generously cooperative.
There will also \# a booth in the
}B*nkJj^^.ektraJ^eis will.Jbe
aVailaWiT&ncl wKere ai^^^who
may ^ have been missed - in the
mailings may purchase what has
become -a symbol of Christmas
cheer in America.
Equally important to the Committee has been the assistance of
Mrs.. Edith Kenney, Swarthmore's
School Nurse, under whose- direction the school girls will work;
and the courtesy extended by the
ministers and rectors of the local
churches.
Rosemary Cox heads the School
Committee with Judy Jarratt,
Taylor Barnett and Anne Hutch-
inson.
Volunteer workers in the Bank
will include Mrs. F. JI. G. Forsythe, Mrs. C. Irwin Galbreath,
Jr.', Mrs. Charles R. Gerner, Mrs:
D. Mace Gowing, Mrs. Harold G.
Griffin, Mrs. Robert Kamp, Mrs.
William F. Lee, Mrs. Charles W.
Lukens, Mrs^ Edward'Ll; Noyes,
Mrs. Harold 6lram;-Mrs. H. Lindley Peel, MrS;'Carroll P. Streeter,
Mrs. H. S. Toole and Mrs: Robert
J. Turner.
'   Mrs. C. Newell West heads the
Junior Woman"s Club Cpihmittee.
Community Mourns
Dr. John M. Pearson
Research    Head    Served
Boro Council & Library
In 18 Years Here
A Memorial service was held
for John M. Pearson Wednesday
evening in the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Joseph
P. Bishop conducted the.service.
Dr. Pearson's sudden death on
Sunday morning, November 16, at
his home, 219 Cornell avenue,
shocked and deeply grieved this
community which he had generously served and in which he
was held in high esteem. He had
returned Thursday to his home
from Taylor Hospital where he
had been hospitalized.following a
heart attack on October 17.   -.->-.
A physicist and mathematician
of national repute, Dr. Pearson
had a .scholar's humility and an
insatiable thirst for wider knowledge. He was the Director of the
Physical Division of the Sim Oil
Company Research and Development Department. In 1948 he received the Dr. Frank Newman
Speller Award, made annually by
the National Association of Corrosion Engineers in recognition of
outstanding contributions in^cience
and engineering pertaining to the
field oi corrosion. He held 15 patents on electrical instruments for
measurement and control, and had
written various articles and papers on electrical measurement in
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H. & S. Told $800,000 School Expansion Is
Needed; Board, Community Hear Ultimatum
Previewing a Lay Building Study Committee report to
be presented to School Board the following evening, the Home
and School Association Tuesday night was told borough residents face up to a 10-mill Authority tax for elementary expansion .and a probable one percent income tax for increased
operational costs. '
Page upon page of reports resulting in recommendations
that $800,000 to $1,000,000 be spent in enlarging the Rutgers
avenue school and. modernizing the College avenue unit, were
given before Donald P. Jones, finance chairman, helped parents and other property owners to view the cash facts. The
over-all survey indicated 26 classrooms, or 11 more than exist
at present, will be needed by 1960. Seven of the new rooms
should be ready by September 1954 according to Dr. Samuel
T. Carpenter, chairman of the main study committee.
John F. Spencer, chairman of the population trends subcommittee, predicted the school district's present 494 elementary pupils would exceed 700 by 1960, while the high
school now having 300 residents
RESOLUTION
WE who have known and worked with John M. Pearson in local
government matters wish to record the high esteem in which we held
him, to certify to the conscientious and skillful manner in which he
Performed his work as a Borough Councilman, and to express our
profound shock at learning of his untimely death.
A brilliant scientist, director of research for a large corporation,
John Pearson worked enthusiastically upon all phases of municipal
government—highways, sewers, the fire company, the police, the library board, traffic control.
Convened in special session to express our admiration and respect, and the sympathy of our fellow townsmen, it is hereby resolved
and directed that a copy of this resolution, following publication, be
delivered lo the family of John M. Pearson*.
PASSED this Eighteenth day of November, AD. 1952.
BOROUGH OF SWARTHMORB
Bjr H. Lindley Peel    «
• President of Council.   •
ATTEST:
Elliott Richardson
Borough Secretary     ...   ,   .i  "i
^PROVED this Eighteenth day
^November, AJ>. 1952;
^les R. RusseU
Burgess
COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Community Thanksgiving Service will be held Wednesday evening, November 26,
•at 8 p.m. in the Methodist
on Park:avenue. The Rev. Joseph P. Bishop will deliver the
sermon. The entire community
is invited to attend.
CUB PACK 101 CONDUCTS
INITIATION TONIGHT
Cub Pack 101 will conduct its
annual initiation ceremony tonight
at 7:15 in the SwarthmoreN Presbyterian Church. Boys in the
fourth and fifth grades at the Rutgers Avenue School, who have
never been Cub Scouts before, as
well as all boys in the third grade
desiring to joint the pack, will be
put through their paces.
The ceremony will be performed
by members now in their last year
of cubbing, assisted by other pack
members. Properties used have
been ihade by the boys in their
den meetings.
Parents of all boys becoming
Cub Scouts for the first time are
urged to be present at the induction. Other parents, friends and
all townspeople are cordially invited, i
and 183 tuition students would
reach a 600 capacity trom resident
students alone in eight years.
Mrs. ^Oliver Rodgers, chairman
of the educational needs and standards study, stated Swarthmore
was finding it necessary to keep
running if it is to maintain its rank
among good schools. She said surrounding communities have made
great strides, with new buildings
bringing up their educational standards. Meanwhile Swarthmore's
elementary schools have rooms
only 75 to 80 percent the size called for by present-day standards. ■
The fact that they are already I
theoretically six classrooms short]
is partly covered by the housing of
three overflow classes in the high
school building.
" '^CharteS Topping,' chairman of
the land and buildings Sub-committee, reported the College avenue elementary school was now
25 percent overcrowded while
Rutgers avenue was 12 percent so
and would be 40 percent by 1953
and 100 percent by 1958 unless additional classrooms were built.
Outdoor play area for elementary
use is also greatly sub-standard
although this will be corrected at
Rutgers avenue by the 12 adjoining acres now. being purchased by
the School District.
The high school, is. deemed adequate until 1958 although- some rearrangement of space and additional facilities such as a larger
library, centralization of science
laboratories, and home equipment
in, the home economics department is needed. When it reaches
600 students it will require the
three rooms now lent to the elementary school, plus two^ others.
A 700 high school, accommodating
100 tuition pupils, would require
still another three rooms. Since
building for tuition pupils is estimated to cost $1500 per pupil and
law does not permit figuring capital expenditure in tuition rates, it
was generally conceded tuition
pupils would have to be dropped
when resident pupils taxed the capacity of the present high school
set-up.
Mr. Topping stated a 600 resir
dent high school,, maintenance of
some elementary classes at College
avenue without major alteration,
and providing all major construction at Rutgers, was the lowest
cost plan. It' would cost up to
$200,000 more, he estimated, for a
700 high school and major construction to the College avenue
elementary school.
The committee recommended a
possible moving of all elementary
gradfes to Rutgers avenue, but only
after the need was definitely evident, public support obtained, and
several years experience in running a somewhat increased school
there and ah improved  College
avenue unit had been gained.
A full scale cafeteria was
thought unjustified but moving the
dividing line to relifiye the load
on the northern school, and purchasing or leasing adjoining land '
from Swarthmore College for elementary use at College avenue
were included among recommendations'. Haste was urged since it
is believed added facilities must
be ready for use in September
1954.
Mr.   Jone's   cautioned   it   was
harder to secure operating funds
and  repayment   monies   than   to
borrow the wherewithal to build.
With borrowing capacity limited
by assessed valuation, the District
can' borrow  up   to  $560,000   by
1959-60. It could borrow $800,000
through establishment of an -Authority, he said,'and also presented
figures and charts showing departmental cost increases as compared
to   income   over   the   next eight
years.
Extra taxation through an Authority could be* applied to debt
reduction alone. Aid in bringing
operational expenses in line with
income could only come from a
raise in assessments, Legislative
permission to reclassify the District third class before the regular
1960. census, or from an income
tax. ,  , • .
Swarthmore's real estate tax is
up to the 3^-mill hilt for a fourth
class district now. There is a real
estate transfer tax end this year
the School Board added a $15 per
capita levy. The borough has no
taxable amusements or industries
and a large portion occupied by
Swarthmore College and other
institution^ is tax free. A sales tax
is considered; unfeasible since it
would drive away most business
now enjoying by the town's small
shopping area.
As Mr. Jones stated, "Residents
are going to have to do something
they dislike — either provide the
funds 'to expand present schools
or relinquish the.idea of maintaining 25 to 30 pupil classes and accompanying modern educational
standards".
Dr. Carpenter, who is also chairman of the School Board's property committee, estimated the lay
committees' work represented
over 3000 man hours and constituted a wonderful example of
Democracy in Action. Whereas an
outside group of specialists was
first considered, the whole survey
was made by public-spirited citizens of the community — all experts in their various fields. '
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EARLY DEADLINE
Because of the Thanksgiving
Holiday, the deadline for next
week's Swarthmorean will be
noon, Tuesday," November 28.
The paper will be delivered aS
usual on Friday.
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