The Gazette and Daily from York, Pennsylvania • Page 12

12 The Gazette and Daily, York, COUNTY Tursay Mornin February 6, 1947 Potato Queen Visits White House Boy Scout Week Activities Planned 9 A 's-f--At. -s rv I't-fSx, f-v; i'-? 'S hPFk i -t 'M If 4 v' Board Advances 21 Boy Scouts ConEwago District Board of Ueview conducts ceremonies at Hanover meeting. Hanover The monthly Boy Scout Board of Review for Cone-wago district advanced 21 Scouts from the borough and vicinity last night at an advancement session in the Metropolitan E'di-Bon office, Baltimore street. Earl F. Hartlaub, 15, a member of local Scout Troop 105, qualified for the silver palm award, highest degree in Eagle Scouting.

To qualify for the award, Hartlaub was required to pass 15 merit badges in addition to the 21 he obtained for his original advancement to the rank of Eagte. Charles Myers, 16, of 211 Carlisle street, a member of Scout Troop 104, qualified for the rank of Eagle Scout in a local board examination. Before he can obtain the rank highest in scouting however, he will be required to appear before an area board in York. Robert G. Nace, Hanover RD 2, a member of Troop 105, qualified for the second highest rank, Life Scout.

Advanced to Second Class Scout were: Philip E. Selby, Harry Mumma, Robert Huber, and Paul J. Stevens, all of Troop 103; Joseph Lawrence and Donald Mur-ren, Troop 107; Robert Nickey and Floyd G. Lohr, Troop 104, and James Zinneman and Donald Taughinbaugh, Troop 110. Scouts who qualified for merit badges were: Robert G.

Nace, Star Scout in Troop 105, metal work, wood carving, an'd reading; Donald Zepp, First Class Scout in Troop 105, life-saving and personal health; Philip Roth, Donald Seymore, and Charles Cramer, all Second Class Scouts of Troop 107, basketry; John Brenner, First Class Scout of Troop 110, home repair, and Harry Hon, Second Associated Press Photo Myers at the Senate restaurant, where Pennsylvania potatoes will be served later in the week, and in the afternoon was presented at the Irish Legation by Senator Edward Martin, Republican from Pennsylvania. The promotion campaign has been planned to persuade consumers to eat more potatoes, so that the million and one-half bushels now under government loan in Pennsylvania will be fully utilized before they deteriorate next spring. Nina Hershner, Pennsylvania's Potato Blossom Queen, from Cross Roads, gets some help from Sen. Francis J. Myers (D-Pa), at right, in delivering to Presidential Secretary Matthew J.

Connelly (left) at the White House, a bag of Pennsylvania Katahdin potatoes for President Truman. Queen Nina will make a tour of the State during February, recently declared National Potato Month, and will be guest of honor at several district conferences of the Production and Marketing Administration and special events of city trade organizations. She will appear in Erie next Thursday, and at Wilkes-Barre and Scranton on Feb. 18. Other events will follow as tentative plans are completed.

The Tuesday trip to 'Washington included John Grove and son, Kenneth, of near Felton, the world's champion potato growers, having produced 782 bushels- of potatoes per acre on their farm. They were the guests of Sen. Spring- Grove troop will begin work for Merit Badge show tonight. Church service, dinner, swim party and waste paper drive planned. Spring Grove Boy Scout Troop No.

30 will begin its National Scout week activities this evening when the boys begin setting up their display for the Merit Badge show in the White Rose arena, York. The show itself will occupy the scouts Friday evening and Saturday. On Sunday the troop, together with its leaders and committee members, will worship as a group in St. Paul's Lutheran church. Rev.

Ralph C. Robinson, himself a member of the troop committee, will preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion. On Sunday afternoon, the merit badge show display will be transferred from York to a window in the borough where all those interested may se it. The regular troop meeting will be held on Wednesday and the troop will be dinner guests of the local Lions club on Thursday evening. On Friday evening, a swim party will be held at the York YMCA and on Saturday a collection of waste paper will be made, the proceeds from which will be used for the Memorial Scout Camp near Dillsburg.

All of the activities will be under the leadership of Marlow L. Miler, scoutmaster, and Eagle Scout Robert P. Henry. Wilford E. Lau, registrar of vital statistics for the borough and North Codorus township, reported that one death and no births occurred in Spring Grove during the month of January.

In the township there were two deaths and two births recorded over the same period of time. Thermometer 2 Below Travellers on rural roads reported roads were slippery and advised all who were not forced to drive to leave their cars in the garage. On the main highways, hills were almost impossible to negotiate until cindering crews of the State Highway Department sprinkled them with ashes. Buses, however, maintained a fairly good schedule. The bitter cold, while not unexpected, caused residents of the borough and vicinity to shiver after experiencing balmy weather for a sustained period.

The official reading of the thermometer at the Spring Grove Water Company was said to be two degres below zero while the mercury stood even lower in thermometers placed at exposed places. William Brenneman, son of Mr. -and Mrs. Sterling Brenneman, has been employed as a clerk in the hardware store of Jesse Zeiyler. Brenneman served for more than a year in the US Army.

Birthday Dinner A dinner was served Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Aughenbaugh, near town, on the occasion of Mr. Aughenbaugh's sixty-ninth birthday anniversary. A large birthday cake served as the centerpiece of the table.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Stine, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Aughenbaugh and children, Phyllis and Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. William Aughenbaugh and children, Dolores, Bernice and Leonard; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Aughenbaugh and children, Rosalee, Gene and Harry; Mr.

and Mrs. Fern Null and son, Vernon; Mr. ad Mrs. Paul F. Stine and daughter, Donna Kay; Miss Mary Wal-tersdorff, Mr.

and Mrs. Solomon Aughenbaugh. Harry Joseph and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Aughenbaugh.

Dial Telephone System May Be Put In Effect Throughout County By 1957 Rudy asserted, however, that more magneto phones would be installed in the county as soon as this type of phone and other materials are available. Rudy declared that the scarcity of wire, poles, switchboards, cables and other materials as well as the shortage of phones is responsible for the fact that coun-tians are having difficulty in obtaining phones. Only persons with the highest priority ratings are now getting any kind of new telephones, Rudy stated. Red Lion is where most of the common battery phones are in use. With this type of communications system, the operator answers as soon as the receiver is lifted from the telephone.

York and Hanover have dial Meanwhile, no magneto (crank handle) telephones are available at present to new users in rural districts, local utility head says. Scarcity of wire, poles, switchboards, cables and other materials as well as shortage of phones cited. By 1957 all telephones throughout the county may be changed to the dial system, George B. Rudy, general manager of York Telephone and Telegraph company, predicted. York and like all other telephone companies, expects to eventually replace all magneto l.

i -u dllU 4011U1XOU UU.LCCJ.j' puuuto K4U1 dial phones, he asserted. The present day practice throughout the country is to eliminate the two out-dated varieties. Magneto phones, the type where the user must crank a handle before the operator answers, are still in common use in most areas of York county. At present no magneto telephones aravailable to new users. Rabbit Breeders Meet At Hanover.

Marylander Honored Hanover The Rabbit and Cavy Breeders' association of Hanover last night played host to clubs from York, Westminster, and Baltimore at a special meeting in the Hotel Richard McAllister honoring L. T. Ritter, of Baltimore, an official rabbit and cavy judge, on his birthday. L. T.

Goodling, president of the Hanover chapter which includes members from McSherrystown, explained to a reporter before the meeting last -night that the title "Judge" as applied to Rittter means that he has been approved by the American Breeders' association as an offical purveyor of long-eared-lettuce-eaters who qualify for beauty contests. To honor the judge, the association imported from a York bakery a red-white-and-blue icinged layer cake in three docks contain inc nine layers. Goodling announced that Ritter will be a judge at a spring rabbit and cavy show scheduled by the local association for Saturday, May 18, at the Knights of Columbus hall, McSherrystown. Other judges will be Oscar Schultz, president of the American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders' association, of Norwalk, William Thompson, Westminster, and Kermit Dreahier, Allentown, Pa. At last night's, George II.

Spren-kle, 510 Stock street, addressed association members on "Juvenile Delinquency," and noted a school in Rabbit and Cavy breeding for youths opened by the club recently. l'-TYen Council Programs The Senior Y-Teen council of the Hanover YWCA at a meeting in association headquarters early last evening planned a "Lincoln and Lace" program for Wednesday as a double celebration of Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Day. Ann Wentz, council president, said the program theme will be "Bless His Heart." The Junior class members of Senior Y-Teen will prepare program events in detail. Council members also voted to attend the opening Lenten service Wednesday, Feb. 19, in a Y-Teen group, and to present a Class Scout of Troop liu, metal work.

Clarence J. Fleming Clarence J. Fleming, 65, of 233 Ruth avenue, a janitor at the Hanover Street elementary school, died of a heart attack at 6:10 a. m. yesterday in the school building.

He had just begun his fourth day work since he returned from a nine-week confinement in his home as a result of illness. John C. Baughman, who was With Mr. Fleming in the basement of the school at the time of his death, summoned Dr. Edward II.

Hutton, 233 Baltimore street. A son of the late George and Elizabeth Feeser Fleming, Mr. Fleming had been in ill health since September. He is survived by his wife, Bertie Hamm Fleming, a daughter, Miss Pauline M. Fleming, at home; a son, J.

Norman Fleming, 231 Baltimore street; a granddaughter; two brothers, Samuel Fleming, 7 Meade avenue. (Continued on Page Fourteen) See Hanover IS'eus Hanover Exchange Club Observes Scout Night Hanover The recently-chartered Exchange club last night observed "Boy Scout Night," as a forerunner to "National Boy Scout which begins Saturday. At a special meeting in the Hotel Richard McAllister, club members heard Rush C. Little, chairman of the club's' Youth committee and active member in the Conewago district staff, in an address on the "Inception of Scouting in America." Four local scouts Earl Hartlaub, Eagle; Raleigh Redding, Life; William Weisensale, Life, and Eugene Martz, Second Class, all of Troop 105, attended the dinner and gave demonstrations in usages of the American flag and first aid. In the First Aid demonstration, the Scouts placed special emphasis on uses of the Boy Scout neckerchief, which, although brightly colored, is not solely ornamental.

The Scouts showed the 47 members present how they make bandages, for various injuries; how they prepare slings, tourniquets, splint paddings, and fire masks and how they use neckerchiefs to save drowning victims. The meeting opened with an invocation by Vernon II. Ferster and a recitation of the flag allegiance led by Merle Kessler. Service pins for acquiring new members were awarded to John Hollinger, Clyde Mummert and Melvin Hamm. Edward Steckler of the York club, and Gene Moore, a resident of bers within their city limits.

A county operator must be contacted for calls outside the city limits. York's first dial phone was installed in 1919, by the York and company. At present, the company has over 1,700 individual trunk lines within the city. Many of these are party lines, and have three or four subscribers on them, according to Rudy. Rudy declared the York Telephone and Telegraph company has over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of equipment on order, but that no promise of shipment has been made.

The local telephone expansion program depends on the receipt of these materials. Mrs. Andrew Crone Of Easfmont To Be Buried Friday Eastmcnt Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Quickel's Union church. Zion View, for Mrs.

Emma C. Crone, wife of Andrew R. Crone who died suddenly Monday at her horn this place. Rev. Emmanuel J.

Hoover, Lutheran pastor, will officiate, assisted by Rev. George Snyder, pastor of the Dover Evangelical United Brethren charge. Interment will be in the cemetery adjoining Quickel's church. LAUREL Look at these Items at Gohn's Store: Overalls to sizs 4S; dungarees, any siz, Lee tubes. $3.00.

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M-tf Pipes Freeze In Dalhstown Home, Fire Is Result Dallastown The cold snap meant double trouble yesterday at the home of Robert Shields, on South Charles street. During the zero hours of the night piping in bathroom froze. Members of the family used an electric light bulb, to thaw the pipes, and the rags in which they had been wrapped caught on fire. Dallastown Fire company was called at 8:20 and extinguished the blaze with chemicals. Damage a slight.

TEACHING IN JAPAN Pvt. W. D. Shaffer, 28, son of Mrs. George W.

Shaffer, 804 York street, Hanover, in a recent letter home said that he landed in Japan with the Army and was assigned as an English instructor at Keio university, between Yokohama and Tokyo. A teacher in Everett, for four years; in Sharon Hill for two years, and in Philadelphia for one year, Pvt. Shaffer has been in the Army since September, 1916. Washington's Birthday program, at the Senior Y-Teen meeting Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Home From College Miss Betty Sheffer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Sheffer, 433 Carlisle street, is spending a 10-day mid-year vacation from Ursinus college, Collegeville, Pa.

Miss Sheffer iill return to college Sunday..