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The Times Leader from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 7

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The Times Leaderi
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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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WILKtS-BARRE RECORD, FRIDAY, 'AUGUST 18; 1939 Seven Mayor Candidate 4 Found Guilty Murphy Seeks LAFF-ADAY 261 Teachers To Ignore Bell In 5" Contractor Is Fined Philadelphia. Aug. 17 LP-Paelfl-eo Ventrasco, a contractor, was fined KOO today the maximum under the law for setting off dynamite charges oa a sewer project without a permit aa assistant Are marshal, teitifled -ireignbettM had complained bliits on the protect showered their homes with rocks. Mayor's Post Uncle of Minor Victim and Pledges Campaign Along Conservative and Constructive Lines Retiring School alarms and Masters PileXJp Total "o'f 9,608 Years Blind Youth Among Those Offering Pleas Controller- Murphy waa graduated from Pcnn State College with a degree In electrical engineering. For five years he taught engineering in Y.

M. C. A. Evening School. As aa electrical contractor he has always been an employer of union labor.

After serving two years In the City Treaurr'swflls. where -he became familiar with city business he was elected Controller. Since he has been aa active figure' In the Association of Accounts and Finance, a Statewide organisation devoted to a study of municipal problems with annual sessions at State College. Controller Murphy is president of the Holy Name Society of St. Therese's church and hla civic and fraternal connections Include membership in Division 18 A.

O. the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Moose, the Franklin Club, the North End A. Wyoming Valley Motor Club, Knights of Columbus, the WUkes-Barrs Republics, the City Democratio Club, the Twelfth Ward Democratio Club, and the Fourteenth Ward Social Club. Tour Dallas Township men, on K)r a noble highbaU. jl them blind and two of them fathers, pleaded guilty' yesterday before Judge John J.

Aponick to mora cnargeau HarrUbUTj. Aug. 17 W) Two hundred and sixty-one retlririt teachers will ignore school bells next month after nearly 10,000 years la Pennsylvania classrooms. The familiar roatlne of 10 to 64 years will be broken for the school arms and masters whose average service )s nearly 37 years. Together-they piled up a record of 9,608 years.

Their comes on the U3W U110 Ernest Strohl, 28, Of R. Tt. 8, Dallas Township, was aatend- to six months to a year In Ltuern County Prison on charges he had rela noDie mm City, Controller William E. Murphy opened his campaign for Democratio nomination for mayor of Wllkes-Barre yesterday by acknowledging the expressions of support, that have come to him from voters in all parts of the city. He pledged his campaign will be conducted along the constructive, conservative Unas the public expects of office seekers.

Mr. Murphy, only candidate of the Democratio party elected to major office in the voting four years ago. the first time he ever aspired, has kept stride with public affairs since entering publio service. During his tenure as controller, it is said for him, city expenses have never exceeded budget provision. Part of his policy has been to encourage WPA municipal tions with his niece, a minor.

Sco tch mm The three others were fined $25 and coats on a morals charge prose 20th anniversary-of the School Em cuted by County Detective Henry Jones, fkrohl's niece was the victim, ployes' Retirement Board, which has built up aafund of $184,000,000 and WILLIAM X. MURPHY Test This Quick Relief For The Miseries of HAY FEVER OLD ANGUS doe not need to touch it to make Its monthly payments to the nearly teachers already on the pen BitwtUd Mtttek Wks)s sion list. Tb (4.000,000 to 13,000,000 annual interest is enough to pay all operating cost of the board. Eighty-five thousand others are projects which permitted street im Anybody Want Goldfish? Derby. ConnV Aug.

17 UP Anthony Scraps of Derby wants to get rid of thousands of goldfish but collegiate gulpers need not apply-' He wants to savs the itty bitty flshles lives, which are being threatened by drought mm a iv si wr I storing up credit toward the day provements, renovation or public building, flood control, etc, without any Increase in taxes, at the same time affording work to the BUaooa railof la a fnr Inn vw Mluu- mm tee. "Dr. Flatt'e UNIX Pr. Mriptioa" la to rMm the onowins. kaolins, ticking n.

may MM, iih, that pr I fwltaa, Eqaally oo4 tor similar rmptoBu of Rom Fm, Naul Catarrh, Hu Col da, JUtfcautte Coash. Dntrstoti room-mud tt i It oa futreatM ef aatiifaetioB or mj bask promptly. Or rt trial FRI1 treat Frail? Ptodacta, Nonralk Coaa. JBf Year. Old JJ 86 Proof when tney uit tne classroom.

Amon the '261 teachers whose retirement became effective at the close of the last school year. 18 had National DiatiDert Prod. Y. A member of a family of tax served a half-century or more. credited to Albra W.

Reader of Wil-lttmsport, with 64 years. payers and property owners In Wllkes-Barre for half a century, Longest service in the group was "It must bewrong. I weigh the same with -jny. JCpat off as I xlo with it on according-to the detective. were Richard Lengle, 22, married, Maplewood Heights, R.

D. 3 Dallas father of two; Floyd Lengle, 19, blind, the same address, and Ralph Angle, 82, same address, father of four, who is now separated from his The fine was suspended in the case of the blind outh. Nantipoke, Plains Dogs Co Unlicensed Dog owners in' Nan'ticoke and Plains are given unj.il September 1 to get or be faced with prosecution. Fred Kehrli, dog law investigator and adjuster In district 6, for, the Bureau of Animal Industry under the State Department of Agriculture, states registration! for dog licenses at the courthouse continue to be made at a rate of more than 100 per day, but that few, if any, applications come from Nantl-coke and Plains. His research department has on file names of several hundred owners of unlicensed dogs in these towns.

Bince Mr. Kehrli was sent here, July 14, the number of licensed dogs has grown from 12,240 to 17,630. This figure, however, is several thousand below what he estimates it should be and such owners as do not voluntarily comply will be dealt with according law. STAGE JAMBOREE 2 ARE ELECTED OPENS AT IRVING A. 0.

H. OFFICERS Mrs. Anna Meehan and Mutual "Show Made Up of $10 Down Delivers $10 Down Delivers Club, Musical Stars Edward Mangan Honored The high standard of joyous en Two Lucerne County Members of tertainment set1 last week by the Mi A. O. H.

were honored yesterday at State convention at Pittsburgh, Irving theater with its fiew policy of presenting every Thursday, Friday and Saturday a unit of Mutual Edward F. Mangan of North Washington Street was elected state vice president and Mrs. Anna Meehan was elected state treasurer, Booking Office's famous Stage Jamborees is maintained. If not topped, by today's offering which is a hilarious conglomeration of Mr. Mangan -Is Luserne County resident of the men's division and rs.

Meehan is county president of the Ladies' Auxiliary; Michael J. Daly of Philadelphia Two More Irem Country Club Concerts to Come tl was elected state president. 4-County Farmers Day If Will Be Held Sunday i "5,7" ft The second annual Farmers Day, sponsored bv the agricultural soci eties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne and Susquehanna Counties, -will be held at Rocky Glen on sun- IMP day, August zo. General Chairman John P. Coyne of SDrinebrook and Cochairman fa the' best in fun and laughter that New York's night clubs and musical comedy shows Keeping to the promise set by the first Stag Jamboree, the current show is an eye-opener in what careful and select booking can do.

It is a happy show, fast as greased lightning, uproarious in its superb fun, and entertaining to the brim. A sparkling blending of novelty singing, dancing, and all around madness it is truly something to see and experience. Squalus Victim's Wife Gets Promotion Papers Portsmouth, N. Aug. 17 (A) A crisp, new commission as junior lieutenant in the U.

S. Navy, which never will be used, was received today by the wittow of Ensign Joseph H. Patterson, one of the 26 who died when the submarine Squalus sank on May 23. The document was sighed by Acting Secretary of the. Navy Charles L.

Edison, as of June 4, the date on which Patterson's Annapolis class -came up for promotion. Mrs. Patterson is the daughter of Captain Halford R. Greenlee, manager of the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Sf Stanley Harris of Harding have arranged a complete program of With the program this Sunday evening and the concluding concert of the season on Sunday evening, August the entertainment committee of the Irem Temple Country Club will close its seventh season of Sunday evening concerts' given on the pavilion for members, their families and friends.

As the next to the concluding concert of the season, the entertainment committee will present the Plymouth Glee Club of the American Legion Auxiliary under the direction of Mary Sheeder Wilson and with Margaret Rowe Gordon as accompanist at the piano. Sunday evening's concert is 'the first appearance of the chorus following its singing at the State American 1 Legion convention at Wllliamsport. Soloists on Sunday evening's program include the ever popular and well known, J. Henry Morgan, baritone, and Thomas C. Roberts, tenor.

As the concluding concert of the season the entertainment committee will present on the pavilion Sunday evening, August 27, the American Legion Band of West Pittston directed by Dr. Rufus Bierly. I 7 lh events; including awards for the tallest man, the largest ear of corn, the biggest potato, the one. coming the longest distance, races and free rides for the children and many others. Thomas Hahn of Noxen, winner of the log-sawing contest last year, will defend his title against all UiTIBVl Ikroihur' comers and much interest is mani fest as to the out-come of this event The affair will be brought to close with a splendid display of fireworks in the early evening.

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The more we see of them, the more we overlook their faults. But other people don't! So if you've the average man's knack of letting things slide, you'll appreciate this little nudge. Give your tired Summer suits a well earned vacation. It's easy with Bond's whopping array of crisp Fall styles, refreshingly modest prices, and 2 simple ways to "charge U' 'ii il 1 Our Extended Charge Account invites you to pay on each of these dates. With the Budget Service you have the 9 '45 option of paying weekly or twice a month.

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