The Mercury du lieu suivant : Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

A MONDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1953 POrTS TOWN MERCURY, POLISIOWN, PA. PHONE 6000 Boyertown EARL S. MENFIELD, Representative Phone 7-2503 129 North Walnut St. Firemen Battle Flames Storage Shed, Timber Pile of Boyertown's fire de- ceived their second call this time were kep: busy on a large pile of umber ablaze on they ansuered two the meeting grounds of the Church during the day. of God camp on the Englessille call came shortly after road.

just South of Bovertonn from the residence of A passing counted the Bovertown companies. who doused the flames building used for the to preven: them from -preading to and oother rems. buildings on the meeung grounds on the which There was no fire loss. near the Bovertown 13! Chiefs Jack Stauffer. of Friend cam, he: of Gabe: ship.

and Shollenberger were 10 charge. Damage to the tools and the 8 by 16 foot building was estimated at $300. The inside of the building was badly charred. It is believed that the fire may have been started by 3 kerosene stove which had been used shortly before the discovery of the fire. Member, of the family played a stream of water from a garden nose on thef ire until firemen arrived and quelched the flames and prevented serious damage.

The Friendship Hook and Ladder and the Keystone Fire companies. Boyertown, responded. with Gienwood Weller, firs: assistant chief. of Friendship and Leonard Shollenberger chief of Ke; stone companies, in charge. AT 10:30 O'CLOCK Saturday night.

the fire departments re- DEATHS FUNERALS Boyertown In Tool Blembers partments urday when out -of-tou The first 1.30 p. Jirs. Julia RD 2. A storage of was burning is located pounding ville. Services for GEORGE S.

F.RB, husband of Nora (Haring) Erb. 30 SOUTH MONROE STREET. BOYERTOWN, were held yesterday afternoon from a funeral home at 111 North Reading avenue. Boyertown. The Rey.

Dr. David F. Longacre. pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church.

Bovertown. and the Rev. Ernest A. Weber. Read-.

ing. officiated. Interment was made in Fairview cemetery, Boyertown. Bearers were two members of the Boyertown High school faculty: Chester W. Rohrbach and Gerald R.

Grabert; two members of the Boyertown High school custodian staff: Harvey K. Heacock and Grover C. Schlotterer. and two members of the Lutheran church choir: Roy H. Keyser and Ray W.

Schanely. 18-Year-Old Drowns: In Gun Club Pond LANCASTER. July 12 (P- Sam-! uel K. Blank, 18, Gordonville RD 1. was drowned this afternoon while swimming in a pond on the property of the New Holland Rod and Gun club, about 17 miles east of here.

His body was recovered in about cight feet of water a short time! after he went under. His companions told State police they had just arrived at the pond when they saw Blank in the middle holding his hands above his head and muttering something. He went under before they could go to his aid. He was pronounced dead at the scene. I WELL AGAIN Marshal Harris, 2, survivor cf an 18- Hoer fall from the window of his home.

gets a Liss from his nurse at Harlem hospital, New Fork. where he is well again and ready to go home. Boyertown Classified Deaths LEAVER -In Jedser City, N. 02 Monaar. Jul: 6, IS53, Warren band 0.

tho Cate L.7Z.: 113 W. Philadelphia Arr aze 72 Serv.ces at the conten. ence 0. the family the Schwenk Funeral Home. :24 Ph laceiph! Are, (Schaenk, Card of Thanks ER3 We wish to thank relatives, nezhbors and friends far the many acts of shown.

10: sympathy extended and for the beautiful Goral tributes at the funeral of George The FAMILY. We Can De It Carpenter repair, ramodel or build. Frold Kuser. (Engiesville). RD 1.

Phone 7-6032 Rely Male and Female Part time ales person male female, Men's Department, Favre Ine, Boyer TEN PLANES FLY TO SWATARA Pilots Association Holds Picnic After Making Mass Flight Ten airplanes of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots association took part in the group's fight to Sa'ara valley airpor: Jesterdav. The members converged on the Pottstown airport at Limerick yet. terda; morning where they took off for Su. atara. After landing there.

they went by car an amusement park owned br Harold Yergey where the: were entertained at an all day picnic. The pilots taking part in the flight were: Alvin Renninger, Flood Sisto. Herbert Smith, Miles Erbor. Merrill Stanley, Clifford Quigley. Dennis Bullens.

Vernon Schaffer, John Fadier and Walter Greenawalt. Passengers on the Fight were: Amy Spohn. Yolanda Sisto. James Moore, Mr and Mrs. Paul Mr and Jirs.

Ceorge Jirs Doris Buliens. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Riegner and son. Joseph Toth.

Mrs. Peari Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Yergey. Ralph Peiers.

Gus Carmela. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Watson. Mrs.

Martha Schaffer and son and Jirs. John A -IN breakfast flight is planned for July 26 by the associRation. Airports within a radius of 100 miles have been invited to the breakfast at the Flier's Roost at the airport at Limerick. Following breakfast. the group will make 3 tour of the Jacobs Aircraft Engine company plant.

The tour will be conducted by Floyd Sisto, vice president. The association's regular monthly meeting will be held at the Flier's Roost at Limerick, July 30. Woman Gets Request For Burial Clothing NEW YORK, July 12 CP- They buried Mrs. Jeana Rosenstein to'day just as she wished. Her features were rouged and powdered and her navy body dress was with clothed in a matching pink.

stole. The 42-year-old widow was found. dead Friday in her expensive' apartment. an empty bottle nearby. Her lawyer had received a suicide note and called police.

The woman's husband died two years ago and she had been sin financial difficulties. In a note she asked to looki her coffin "like a sleeping doll! just waiting to be awakened by 'kiss from her Prince Charming. Some 300 persons filed the, and saw her as she wanted to. look "before you close the lid on' ELMER JACKSON (Continued From Page One) time he has suffered such an Jackson, originally from Penns-: burg, has been in the automobile' business most of his life. He is presently employed as a salesman' at Cates and Becker.

incorporated. He also is a holder of a law de- gree from George Washington university where he graduated 1922. He was once a member of the Montgomery association, but did not practice law. and after several years he quit the organiza-. tion.

CLOUD OF (Continued From Pare One) woman until a Good Will ambulance arrived to take her to the Pottstown hospital. "She was dazed," he said. "She said she was worried about her father, who was ill. and she prayed for the old man." The old man was dead on arrival at Memorial hospital. Vietminh Rebels Blast French Train at Hanoi HANOI.

Indochina, July 12 Vietminh rebels blew up a mixed freight and passenger train near Hanoi today. killing and wounding about 40 persons, including an unannounced number of French union soldiers. The train was enroute to Hanoi from the port of Haiphong. carrying troops and war materiel. WATCH Tomorrow's Mercury For Announcemeat of Door Prize Winners During Our Recent "Bang Up" FURNITURE SALE MELVIN S.

KUSER BECHTELSVILLE Open Every Night TWi London Paper Polls Public LONDON, on July Princess London Daily Mirror launcher opinion poll today 07 whether pretty Princess Margare: should be permitted :0 marry dashing. divorced war here. The commoner to whom the 22 year-old Pr.ncess :5 supposed have lost her hear: Group Cap: Peter Toansend. 38 He won 2 dorce the pas: sear from n. wife on grounds of her misconduc: Toansend.

20 :0 royal family since 1941. recent 335 appointed so Attache '9 Brusse's Ha scheduled leave for he 201. post within ho Rex: few Pearson Awaits Truce Before Convening UN OTTAWA, July 12 2-Lester Pearson. Canadian foreign secre tary and president of the United Nations General sari ionigh: he expecis to call 30 as meeung right after the signing of a Korean armisticebut cot before. Pearson sard in an interview he 83 not planing to call an immediate general meeting of the UN IC response to a request from Prime Minister Nehru of India.

He disclosed that ne received se: erai cables from the Indian prime minister in the past week. asking him to summon at once the General Assembly. which normally would not meet un'1! Sept. 15. PLANE CRASH (Continued From Page One) rier disappeared late last night The transocean office at Oakland.

reported the big airliner carried 50 passengers and 3 veteran cerw of eight. Some of the passengers were civilian workers and their wives and families from Guam, bound for Honolulu and the mainland US on vacations. The Navy's Hawanan Sea Frontier reported the plane was 325 miles east of Wake island. one of its stops, when it made the las: report at 10:28 p. m.

(4:28 a. Pottstown time. Sunday). At 4:41 a. a distress sig.

nal was heard on Wake for 14 minutes, but the Navy was unable to get a fix on it If the signal came from a Gibson type emergency transmitter it could have reached out 300 miles from an airborne plane and 75 miles from a plane on the water. A Coast Guard plane from Wake sped to the general area at 3.27 a. 37 minutes after the Civil Aeronautics administration in Honolulu reported the airliner had not made its routine report.That was the first indication that the big plane might be in trouble. Two Drown, One Missing As Rain Lashes Island KINGSTON, Jamaica. July 12 LP -Two persons were drowned, a woman doctor is missing and many were marooned by flood and rain which lashed this island the past week.

blocking roads and cutting off country towns. Reports today said Magnus Pitter, 29, a barber who the king's medal from George VI for rescuing a man and his wife in August, 1951. drowned IR the 1 flooded Rio Cobre This time he was attempting to rescue a woman trapped in the same river. Princess Down With Cold Reported Much Better SALISBURY. South Rhodesia.

12 Princess Margaret, who has been down with a cold, went to Salisbury station this morning to meet her homther. Queen Elizabeth. The Princess was reported to be much better. She had been accompanying the Queen Mother on a coronation tour of Eastern Rhodesia but acquired a heavy cold. withdrew from the trip Friday and came here to rest An announcement yesterday said she would be able to resume her engagements after today Quintana Roo is the easternmost state of Mexico.

Air Conditioned STATE BOYERTOWN DIAL 7-2237 TODAY TOMORROW Howard HUGHES ROBERT MITCHUM JEAN SIMMONS: ANGEL FACE FOOT AN ADDED SPORTS REEL "Let's Go Fishing" and NEWS ILLNESS HALTS TRIP FOR SCOUT Jamboree Bound Boy Returns From Wisconsin 5 re fe 02 has Car. a Limerick Bo: SE 10 plans ce 3 Loser: Ver'e- on of Mr and Mr. Gordon Mile-. arrived tome From LaCrosse. Macon in.

where he taken off the train on 34 area Son. are to N. 0 Jamboree Santa And Co Miller. who was quartermaster of the local contingent. was taken ill the past Tuesda: aftor leaving Paoli with the Jamboree troop on Monday.

Physician, on the deTue afternoon that the Rould be hospitalized. and train made an unscheduled stop 3' LaCrosse EDWARD Jameson. ass.tant scoutmaster of the district troop, 20: off the train with Mailer and wen: a.th him in an ambulance to 3 hospital in that city Jameson staved with him until the south's father was able to reach ris bedside on Thursday morning after flying to the western city. Jameson then took an afternoon train for Seattle. where he will rejoin the Jamboree Scouts.

12 Grange Members Hear Vesper Service Twelve members of the Sanatoga Grange traveled to Jeffersonville last night to attend a vesper service. Master Lewis Brant said the service was held in the Jefferson Presbyterian church at 7:30 o'clock. with 2 total of about 40 members of the Pomona Grange in attendance. He also pointed out that the Sanatoga Grange will have safety program Wednesday night in the grange hall beginning at 8 o'clock. Edward H.

Scheffey will be in. charze of the program. which will consist of showing several safety films. 10 Injured in One Auto In Wedding Line Crash TITUSVILLE. July 12 Eleven persons.

10 of them in one auto. were injured today in a collision' ten miles North of Titusville on Route 89. Eight of the injured are in Titus-; ville hospital, at least one in criti-! cal condition. He is Kenneth Be-: dow. 14.

of Spartansburg, RD 2. Also hospitalized were: Robert I. Bedow. 16, his mother, Ernest Bedow. 49.

Galen Goodwill. one: David Goodwill, four; Donna; Bedow. all of Spartansburg RD 2:, Treva Estes. 14. Wattsburg, and Ernest A.

Edwards: 28 Titusville RD 1. Treated at the hospital were Terry Goodwill. 3. Dennis Goodwill. three.

and Shirley Bedow. 12. Listed in serious condition are Edwards and Robert I. They were drivers of the cars. Edwards was riding alone in the last car of a wedding procession when the crash occurred at an intersection.

Search Parties Struggle To Find Trapped Skiers SANTIAGO, Chile. July 12 2- Reinforced search parties struggled today to retrieve the bodies of eight youths still missing from a party of 23 skiers trapped in the Andes by a sudden storm Tuesday. The bodies of 13 students and their two professors from Juan Bosce school have been recovered. including the leader of the holiday party Father Lino CLOSED From Juir 15 to July 13 Inclusive Hershey Ice Cream Store Fddie Wedner 222 E. Phila.

Boyertown For Complete GUARANTEED SERVICE All Makes Models Call BOYERTOWN 7.2487 PENNSBURG 7374 KUSER Inc. SOYERTOWN EAST GREENVILLE ELECTRICAL HOTPOINT WIRING APPLIANCES Residential Industrial For The Maest-First RUSS H. GRIM 111 E. PHILA. BOYERTOWN, PHONE 7-2430 Everything Electrical Wg Service Everything We Scu Performer Falls to Death Before Crowd of 2000 BLACKPOOL.

England, July 12 circus artist fell to his death during a performance cere last nigh: as Mfr) Looked on unav are. Wilhelm Kanter had been anplauded for balancing on bus head atop a 15-500: pole he'd bs his partner. He began. an the pole. shipped and struck his per before biting the ground.

head firs: Hie as dead on arrival the hOspital. FILM STARS TOUR SPAIN MADRID Spur July 12 Film Car- Merle Oberon and Gars Cooper w.th his wife and daughter br place from London for 2 sigh seeing tour. Reading Company Miners Suitor Shoots Rivals, To Receive Pay by Check POTTSVILLE. July 12 -Some Girl, Bystander, Self 5000 miners of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company sun collect their wages by check beginning the end of this month, a company spokesman anaounced poverday. The century old practice of payRE emplores in cash has given way the more modern method, Grorse A.

Ross. vice presides: in charge of operations said. Ross listed oS banks in two coun1.0. which will cash the checks without charge Some 2500 emplove- hate already started on check system. COVINGTON, July 12 A rejected suitor.

packing two pistols loaded with band-fashioned dum-dum bullets, shot the two other members of a lore triangle and an innocent bystander today, then fired a bullet through his own head. The gunman, Royal Carl Kalker, 39, was not expected to bu Others wounded were Else Hogden, 32; Arthur Ross. 42. 22 Osgood, trucker identifed as the man Miss Hogden intended to marry tomorrow, and John Buckmaz, 22, the bystander. BUSINESS INDUSTRY Hearing Is Delayed By Legal Question A hearing on the appeal of Walter H.

Houck. Borertown RD 2, whose driver's license as withdrawn for failure to maintain proof of financial was con anued by President Judge H. Rob ert Mays in Berks County court, until Fridas. Aug. Joseph E.

DeSantis, attorney, presented the insurance policy issued to Houck. The continuance was caused by a legal question. Raging Brush Fire Is Slowing Down SANTA MARIA, July 12 which raced through an estimated 50.000 acres of brush and pasture land in less than a day and a half was gradually slowing down today. The vast blaze on the cast slope of the coast range 15 miles cast of here has been checked at the points of greatest danger by 1000 firefighters. Barring unfavorable winds.

it should be controlled by Tuesday night. Fire Dispatcher A. J. Nolder said much valuable grazing land in Los Padres National forest has been charred by the flames. which broke out Friday afternoon, appar-' ently from the grounding of a power line by a tree limb.

Two Die, Seven Hurt In Head-On Collision Mashpee, Mass. July 11 UP -Two inen died and seven other persons were injured yesterday in a headon automobile crash in this Cape, Cod town. One of the dead and! three of the injured were Air! Force men. Killed were Harold E. Lund, 18,: of Elizabeth.

N. a member of; the 47th Fighter Intercepter squadron at Niagara Falls, N. Earl Gasion Franklin, 38. For a number of hours after the accident. State police listed Frank-.

lin as Freeman. Four in Lund's car were in-: jured. They included Eugene Nar-: rish, 23, Ambridge, left eyebrow. cut. Brewery Workers Give Officers Confidence Vote PITTSBURGH.

July 12 17- Members of three Pittsburgh locals the CIO United Brewery work-' Hers gave a vote of confidence today to local officers who have been charged with trying to lead 2100 members out of the CIO' and intc the AFL Teamsters union. The meeting was called after the CIO Brewery workers international obtained a court injunction prohibiting local officers from exercising official duties About 1200 members attended the mass meeting. The members are from Local 22 brewers, Local. 57 drivers and Local 122 bottlers. They instructed Attorney George Schafer to fight the injunction when a court hearing is held Wednesday.

Leukemia Sufferer Dies In Eight Story Plunge NEW YORK. July 12 2-A 15- rear Queens boy who was suffering from leukemia plunged his death today from an eighth floor hospital window. The boy, Mark Samuels, was to have been discharged Wednesday from the James Ewing hospital. He had been there six weeks. Police reported the boy bad been depressed recently and had told his father he didn't expect to "be all right." Leukemia is 2 type of cancer which affects the blood.

Freshen Up WITH S.W.P. HOUSE PAINT COVER USE OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN 36 MONTHS TO PAT SCHMOYER'S -Millwork Hardware Paint Layertewn 1-2124 ick ventrilla 2411 Don't Be a Tinkerer; Daniel J. Keene Will Fix Your TV, Radio When something goes wrong with that television or set, 30u need the services someone experienced. who has the how and aiso the proper equipment to make the needed repairs. Television sets are complicated today.

and so are radios for that matter You don't want to "tinker" with an expensive TV set that may have cost you hundreds of dollars when all that is needed is a telephone call to an expert technician who can probably locate the trouble in no time at all. TV sets especially cost SO much today that you can't afford to take a chance for the sake of trying to save a few dollars. Phone 5288 and Daniel J. Keene. 172 Reynolds avenue, who services all makes of TV and radio sets.

v. lil soive your problem for you. Mr. Keene has the experience and modern equipment to do the job right. Dodge Kitchen Duties Dine at Rosenberry's: housewives like to get away, from kitchen duties now and especially during hot weather such as we have been experiencing in Pottstown and vicinity.

Well, the answer is when you, are downtown shopping be surc and drop in Rosenberry's Luncheonette and Soda Fountain, Farm-' ington avenue at Oak Semi-cafeteria style lunches are served daily. and if vou want to eat something delicious and cool off try their Jane Logan ice cream. You'll find many a refreshing, luscious fountain treat awaiting you at Rosenberry's. There's always 2 diversified selection. Food, ice cream and soda fountain service is at its best.

And if you want to take some delicious foods home so Hubby and' the rest of the family may enjoy Rosenberry's food. try those home made pies, hoo Flys. Apies, cakes potato salad. macaroni homemade baked beans, etc. Open seven days a week from 7 a.

m. to 10 p. Rosenberry's' gives you service plus quality at all times. Free delivery service' is given. too, if you 'phone 5880.

BUSSES for WEST CHESTER Leave Reading Station 10:00 A.M. 3:40 P.M. Weekdays 10:00 A.M., 2:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. Sat.

Only 10:00 A.M. 5:00 P.M. Sunday The Short Line Television SERVICE Motorola- Emerson Sales Service STRAUB'S Radio Service 406 Main St. Royersford Ph. 1245 Mansion House Hotel Food Is The Bet WEST 4 HE 11 01 1 1 AIRCONDITIONED For Your Comfort Both the Cocktail Lounge and the Main Dining Room.

Dine or Wine In Comfort "Your Host Since 1831" For Attractive Rings, Longacre's Offers Nothing adds quite 50 much :0 3 person's appearance--men or 1: -as jewelry. properly displaved. 13 good taste and of correct sets off Milady's new evening gown and adds pleasure to her evening for she is conscious of the admiring glances of those the party. Her life 15 enhanced, for the pleasure that it gives 15 indeed worth the investment. .1 man with an attractive ring or a fine wrist watch likewise draws attention and he feels well dressed, not counting the practical value of a good timepiece.

For that gift, for that birthday or any other special there is nothing quite so fine or. appropriate as jewelry. A GOOD WATCH. a diamond' ring, a -well, anything vou give in the way of jewelry carries a lasting impression because from time immemorial jewelry has been the gift of the ages. Today the impression is just as lasting if not more 50.

Charles Longacre, jeweler at 17 North Hanover street, has an excellent showing of fine JEWELRY OF QUALITY Diamonds of Distinction CHARLES LONGACRE 17 N. HANOVER ST. Fine Watches, the Best in Jewelry jewelry, nationally -advertised watches and diamonds a quality. Jake Longacre's your jewelry buying headquarters. Dine Sunday at American Legion's Country Home Want to do something different this Sunday? And enjoy a nice ride in the country? Then, get the old bus out, pile the family in, and drive to the American Legion's country home, a mile from West Chester, for one of those delicious Sunday' dinners, served from 4 to 1 p.

m. Dinners are from $1.75 up, children's meals from 85 cents. Steaks, chops, fried chicken and roasts are featured. You'll see a sign on Route 100, near West Chester, directing you to the American Legion's country home. FRANK'S UPHOLSTERY Furniture Custom Made Antiques Restored Free Eestimates 119 High St.

Phoenixville Phones: Phoenirrille 9418 or Pottstown 1733. SANATOGA TRAILER SALES Trailer Park David Scherer, Prop. Bottle Gas POTTSTOWN RD 4 Phones: Pottstown 9281 and 2527-k-1 "RED'S" PARKING GARAGE Strays Lay, or month. Simonizsam. Polishing.

Jaha Peader, Poop Atlantic White Flash Gas 18 1. Charitia St. REFINISHING CENTER Auto Refinishing Wreck Work-Auto GLass Lewis Rd. at Chestnut St. Royersford Ph.

RAYMOND J. KOZAK Beer -BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTORS Sodas West High Street Phone 2557 DANIEL J. KEENE. Service Service on All Makes 112 Reynolds Ave. Phone 5288 LIMERICK GARAGE Limerick, Pa.

Wheels Aligned, Frames Straightened, Wheels Balanced LONNIE WISEMAN. Prop. Cushman Motor Vehicles- -Schwinn Bicycles SHEELER'S EAST GAY STREET GARAGE West Chester, Penna. Phone 1045 McConnell Gottshall Frigidaire Sales Service Kimberton Pothouse Roads Phone 8180 KEN'S UPHOLSTERY EXPERT Upholstering and Furniture Furniture Shampooing Refinishing Rug SERVICE Broad Church Sts. Spring City Phone Royersford 521 ROSENBERRY'S GROCERY Oak Street and Farmington Avenue OPEN GROCERIES MEATS PROVISIONS 7 DAYS A WEEK Fresh Daily; Pies Shooflys Apie Cakes WE DELIVER PHONE 2012 W.

S. ANTRIM SON Anything in Building Glass, Papering and Painting 62 HIGH ST. (Next to Merchants Hotel) Phone $22 Dealer In Thorn Aluminum and Steel Window Sash AL VITABILE and His Orchestra From Norristown Eves. EDDIE HENDON At the Organ Exion Lodge, on Lincoln Highway: at Dancing Nightly Exton, MERRITT'S LUMBER MILLWORK KITCHENS PAINTS Repair Financing Arranged POTTSTOWN Phone OF age 5583956 Image $583956 CHIVE.