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PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY NEWS, HUNTINGDON AND MOUNT UNION, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1957. OBITUARIES Earl J. Sponiler A well known Alexandria res- Earl Jackson Sponsler, iied at 6 a. Sunday, June J3, 1957, at the J. C.

Blair Me- norial Hospital. He had been a patient at the hospital for six lays and was ill for one year. -Mr. Sponsler was born October 10, 1S99, at Bedford County, a son of Arthur and Ida (Morgat) Sponsler. He was married to Mary Bigelow.

He later married Gladys E. Ewing on November 15, 1943 at Pittsburgh. He is survived by his srife. Mr. Sponsler Ls survived by one daughter and three sons by his first marriage.

They are: Mrs. Marie Garrnan, Altoona; Chester Sponsler, Altoona; Otto Sponsler-, Petersburg, ajid Russell Sponsler, oston Mass. By his second marriage he is survived by Sarah, Betty, Shirley, Earl, Jimmie and Sha- Mrt, George F. Rupert Mrs. Gertrude Kurtz Rupert, a former resident of Huntingdon, died on Saturday, June 22, 1957, at 11 a.m.

at the Smith Nursing Home at Manns Choice. She had been in failing health for the past seven years. The deceased was born on August 22, 1882, at McCoimellstown, a daughter of Wilson and Laura (Woolheater) Kurtz, She was united in marriage on April 12, 1904, to George F. Rupert, the ceremony being performed at the home of the bride's parents in husband preceded her in death on January 25, 1945. She was a member of the Abbey Evangelical and Reformed Church She belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star and was a charter member of the Pythian Sisters ot Huntingdon.

She also belonged to the Huntingdon American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Lena Washington Richardson of 7137 Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh, a former resident of Huntingdon, died Sunday, June 23, 1957, at her late home. She was the wife of William R. Richardson and ig survived by iier husband and her daughter, Ruth Richardson.

Mr. and Mrs. Richardson moved i from Huntingdon in 1928. While at! Huntingdon, Mr. Richardson was' employed by the Pennsylvania I Railroad.

They moved to Chambersburg for 12 years and then to Pittsburgh. Interment will be made Wednesday morning in Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon. Services will be conducted in Pittsburgh Tuesday afternoon. ron Sponsler, alU living ati Mrs. Rupert spent her entire life home.

Also surviving is one Eleanor Thompson, living- at home. There are 12 'grandchildren. Other survivors include one half-sister, Mrs. Alice Rensland of Pittsburgh and the following brothers and sisters: Vernon Sponsler, Altoona; Pennings, New s. Mar Jersey; Mrs.

Ethel Mahone, Newport News, Mrs. Katherine Bashore, Baltimore, and Theodore Sponsler, Warren. One sister preceded him in death. Mr. Sponsler was of the Methodist faith.

He was a member of the Alexandria Fire Company and an associate member of the Alexandria American Legion, William- P. Spyker, Post No. 520, He was also a' member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Huntingdon; the Brotherhood of Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers. He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad starting in 1917. He had been the proprietor of the Alexandria Hotel for 12 years.

in the Huntingdon area and she was educated in the Huntingdon Public Schools. She is survived by one sister and three brothers: Mrs. Charles (Alice) Davis of Baltimore, Md. Stewart L. Kurtz, 416 Eleventh Street, Huntingdon; Frank Kurtz.

508 Eleventh Street, Huntingdon; and Arthur 0. Kurtz, 1524 Oneida Street, Huntingdon. A number nieces and nephews also survive. Four brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday morning, June 25, at 10:30 o'clock at Brown's in Huntingdon.

The Rev. Robert K. Nace will officiate and interment will be made in Riverview Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this Monday evening. Mrs.

Jennie Wakefield A former resident of Petersburg, Mrs. Jennie Wakefield of McVey- Jown, died early in the afternoon, Saturday, June 22, 1957, at the Funeral sei-vices will be held Le Hospital. Tuesday, June 25, at 2:30 p. She was born February 4, 1868, from the Grove funeral home, Alexandria. The Rev.

Robert Fleck will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Edmund Mlnnich. Interment will be made in the Everett Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home 1 after 8 p. nv.

tqday. Mrs. EHa C. Mafoney ilrs. H5Ua Catherine Maloney of Entriken died at 6:22 p.

Saturday, June 2-2, at the home of ner daughter, Mrs. Hai-vey Stone, Williamsburg-, R. l. She had been ill for some time. She was born September 1, 1874 at Little Valley, Huntingdon County, She married to Raymond Maloney on April 4, at Entriken by the Rev.

p. H. Fisher. He preceded her in death a number of years ago. Mrs.

Maloney is survived by one daughter. Mrs. Harvey Stone, Wiiliamsburg, R. D. and two sons, Frank Maloney of Entriken and Earl Maloney of at Bratton Township, Mifflin County, a daughter of George and Adaline (Kauffman) Dull.

She was married to Robert Wakefield, who preceded her in death in 1934. Mrs. Wakefield was the last surviving member of her. immediate family. She Js survived by a number of nephews and nieces.

She and her husband lived for a number of years in the Petersburg area where her husband was engaged in farming. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, June 25, at 2 p.m. from the Booth funeral home in McVeytown with the Rev. Orin Williams of the Methodist Church, McVeytown, officiating. Interment will be made in the Mattawana Cemetery Friends may call this evening at the funeral home from 7 p.m until 9 p.m.

Mrs. Clemmie M. Stoltr Mrs. Clenimie M. Stoltz, 83, of Patton, died in the Bardellie Convalescent Home on Satur- Huntingdon.

There are" 17 da 22, IS57. grandchildren and 16 great- was or March 29, 1891 grandchildren. She was the last surviving- member of her immediate family. Mrs. Maloney was a member of the Methodist Church at Entriken.

She was educated in the Entriken public school Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, June 25, at 2:30 p. m. from the Methodist Church, Entriken. The Rev. -William will officiate.

Interment be made in the Entriken Cemetery under the direction of the Bechtel funeral service, Williamsburg. Friends are being received at the home of Mrs. Harvey Stone. Mrs. Lizzie M.

McFarland Mrs. Lizzie' May McFarland wife of Herbert L. McFarland of 326 East Logan Avenue, Altoona died at 8:30 o'clock Friday evening Juna 21, 1957, in Mercy Hospital, Altoona. Mrs. McFarland was born in Altoona July 2, 1885.

a daughter of Joseph and Anne (Lee) Tilson and was united in marriage with Mr. McFarland April 10, J902, by the Rev. R. A. Hucehinson.

as a of the Third EUB Church, Altoona, the Helping Hand Bible Class and of the Daughters of America. Surviving are her husband, one in Glen White, and was a daughter of Louis and Mary (Ivory) Donoughe. Surviving are her husband, Saxton Polio Clinic Tuesday Ends Program Second-round polio shots at a clinic in Saxton-Liberty High School Tuesday, June 25, will end the free-shot clinic program in Bedford County. All area children under 19 years of age are eligible to receive the free Salk vaccine at the clinic, which will be held from 10:30 a. m.

until noon in the high school auditorium. First-round shots were given in Saxton, June 6. Officials of the program said a "very small number" of parents of small children took, advantage of the opportunity to receive the Salk vaccine then. The Saxton clinic will bring to a two-month free clinic program for polio immunization conducted under the auspices of a citizens committee representing more than 20 county service, women's, veterans and PTA organizations, with tlie cooperation of the Bedford County medical society and the county school principal's association. During the first-round program more than 7000 children were given the vaccine at the clinics.

The second round of shots was given to only slightly over officials said. SALA me ing t0 toss this giant salad tt was introduced in Wash- as- ington at a special Capitol luncheon. Hosts were legislators from states which produced the 1Cft t0 rl8ht: Rep HaleBo (D-La. sen. Margaret Chase Smith AnZ MrS Llnwood Findley, Arlington, Mrs.

America nf Ca1 "-). The salad, made to serve 320, consisted of 75 pounds of Maine lobster; 20 heads California and Arizona lettuce; 156 New Jersey tomatoes- 78 California avocados; 20 bunches West Virginia watercress; 40 Arizona grapefruit; 30 bunches California celery; 20 bunches Texas green onions; 1 gallon California ripe olives; 2 quarts Michigan vinegar; quarts Louisiana salad oil; 30 envelopes garlic salad dressing mix Governor And GOP Heads Exchange Verbal Blasts 14 ARE KILLED SS" (Continued From First Page) Minneapolis. Mne Navy men escaped unhurt Sunday when their twin engined Neptune patrol bomber made an emergency landing in Lake Champlain near Allen Air Force Base, Vt. The pilot, Richard SchwaUer 28 Grosse ditched the plane on a sandbar covered with 18 feet of water when the craft developed' engine trouble. THREE-STATE (Continued From First Page) The Knife and Cannonball rivers in North.

Dakota also left their banks and swept over thousands of acres of farmland. EJswhere, hot, humid weather clung to the East, but relief was promised in the form of a cool air mass that pushed as far south as northern Texas and east to the mid-Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes. The advance of the cooler air produced scattered, severe thun- 2 heaviest at Nashville, which was hit by more and two so a Sd tha a inch Louis and Ronald; also six grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Warren, Paul, Ralph and Mrs. Olive HUNTINGDON AREA MAN'S CAR STOLEN Amboy, N. Charles of Eb- ensfourg-; Eug'ene of Robertsdale and Mrs.

Madeline Tag-- liavia of Long Island, N. Y. Solemn requiem mass will be said in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Patton, on Wednesday at 9 a. and interment will be made in the church cemetery.

Friends are being received at the Raymond D. Buck funeral home in Patton. Joseph Ellsworth McCracken Joseph Ellsworth McCracken of Huntingdon, R. D. 2, died at 6 p.

Sunday, June 23, 1957, at the home of his brother, Clarence McCracken, Huntingdon. R. D. 2, near Donation. He had been 11! for two years and had been a patient at the Altoona Veterans Hospital until he was discharged June 14 1957.

He was born on September 1898, in Oneida Township, a soni Harrisburg, June 24. Go George M. Leader and Republican legislative leaders have exchanged verbal salvos over the record of the 1957 General Assembly to clearly define the top -issues in the statewide election campaigns next year. In week-end statements, the governor said the session that ended last week was a "special interest, do-iipthing worst vania history," while srs said they would make their economy record the prime issue of the campaign. The governor directed his main fire at amendments to the sales tax law which exempted some segments of business and industry from the levy, and also charged that "Republican bosses cold-bloodedly turned their backs upon the needs of people and kowtowed to the whim of the big lobbyists." "Republican leaders insisted on themselves." GOP Strikes Back On the Republican side.

House Majority Leader Albert W. Johnson said the GOP would make its economy and no-new-tax records in the Assembly the party's "bible" for the election campaigns. Johnson said that the governor "by obstinacy has left him- Crosby Claims Popular Music "So Much Trash" FOUR KILLED (Continued From First Page) 300 feet east of the Mule ulvert. Sho The Hess brothers were crushed to death when Byrd's loadet tractor-trailer, possibly ovit ti control after brake failure pushed their car into a ravine and overturned on it. Both vehicles were travelling east on Route 22.

Authorities crews were and wreckin not aware therj was a car under the big tractoi'- trailer until the wreckage was lifted from the mountain ravine. It was then that the crushed automobile and its three dea.l occupants were foundl Thu eai was rolled into a bundle of steel, hardly recognizable as an automobile. Blair County Depots' Coroner William Crawford the worst seen. "I never saw smas-hed that badly." The coroner said the brothers died instantly skull fractures. sfcid it was he had ever a car three due Bing Crosby struck a -harsh note Sunday night in commenting on popular music played on radio and television.

He labelled it just "so much trash." Crosby told the Senate that broadcast music is not having a good effect on the morals, ideals and tastes of the American pub- The Hess brothers left Joluis- town at 12:30 a. m. Sunday for a fishing trip to Clover Creek, near Williamsburg, Blair County. There were no known eye- witnnsies. but one driver said the big track passed her on the mountain grade at a high rate of speed.

The truck driver was blinking his headlights as though to warn other drivers that there was a runaway. Tha truck, loaded with mcrgariae. ripptd out some 150 feet of siuard fence before plunging over the 20-foot embankment. Byrd. the driver was pinned in jthe wr-jckajse of his cab, death being du a to traumatic shock Harrisburg: Sister Mary Saint, George, mother superior of St.i Joseph's Convent, Buffalo, N.Y.'j and Sister Mary Saint Clare, of St.

Joseph's, were killed Saturday, when their auto crossed Routes 11 and 15 north of New detained in Westmoreland at Greensburg. New Stanton: Robert L. Houck, .0, Hunker, Westmoreland County, killed Saturday when his au- Jinobile left a road near hare md into a ravine. Greenville: Howard B. Grundy, 3, a teacher at Mercer Joint unior High School, was killed Saturday when a car in which he as a passenger crashed into a abutment near here.

The ody of tlie machine was ripped the frame in the crash and mrtled into a ravine. Easton: Frank Tachovaka, 26, Jamden, N.J., drowned Saturday when an auto in which he was went off Route 611 south of here and dropped into the Delaware Canal. Philadelphia: Paul F. Markee, Langliorne, Bucks County, was killed Saturday when his auio crashed into a on Roosevelt Boulevard here. McKeesporl: Cecil McLeon, S3.

McKeesport, died Saturday after his car collided with a slag truck on the East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard. York: Leroy Emrich, 32. Manchester RD 1, York County, was found dead In his burning automobile Saturday after it struck a utility pole on the Susquehanna Trail. Special trains for cys'Jists Sunday excursions with fitted vans for bicycles and cafeteria cars are rim on British railways, with a choice of 40 trips and trains for the return journeys. lic.

VI 7 ald me squarely on 1141 ilCtb IClL V.IU»»JL, VIJ self no alternative but to launch doorstep of Broadcast Music, a 'give-em-hell' camnaipn tn Inc a song-publishing or- obstructing for sake," he said. "Clearly, they weren't interested in good government or what was good for the 11 million people of Pennsylvania; they were interested only in what they considered good for give-em-hell' campaign to discredit the honest achievements of Republicans in the Legislature." accept his challenge," Johnson said. "We will stump this state from end to end and we will present the issue fairly In one hand we will have Leader's book of broken promises, and in the other will have the record of a Republican-led House and Senate." Johnson said the General Assembly Appropriations Bill, which CTU Jill TEPT I ES I 1LOJ1 dollars from a ion budget 'squelched increased taxes" and provided for "continued progress in state government." Sen. M. Harvey Taylor, Senate president pro tempore, said that for the first time in many years Assembly balanced the bud- taxes de- get Without imposing "and without piling up a (Continued From First Page) off.

for future legislatures to pay town Road, Huntingdon, R. an instructor in Hie U. S. Navy fire school, Philadelphia Naval Base, was without car for 24. hours last week when his Oldsmobile was stolen in Philadelphia.

Nokes teaches in Philadelphia during the week.and then commutes to the Huntingdon area on the week-end. The oar was stoleji Wednesday evening, June 19, arid the following- morning Chief Nokes headed for Huntingdon. Thursday evening a call from Philadelphia police informed him that the car had been recovered. There were no details on finding the car or its present condition. ony of giant trap-door spider dwellings.

It was dotted with thick concrete dome structures which: humans are intended to enter and! leave via pop-up steel, doors. A thunderous roar shook the Nevada proving grounds 75 miles northeast of here and 45 miles from this unofficial observers' site as the explosion was detonated. It was. set off from a platform suspended beneath a 67-foot diameter balloon held captive at feet above Frenchman's Flat. Its power was estimated as equivalent to 30,000 tons of TNT, 10,000 more tons than the force of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs.

Subscribe for The Daily News. Five cents per 2Opy. LIVING COSTS ARE (Continued From Firs' Page) ing costs- began around April, 1956. The biggest increases since then MARKLESBURG BOY SCOUT IS INJURED Allen Richard Morningstar son of Mrs Dewey Morningstar of Hesston, R. was injured in an accident Saturday afternoon while on a weekend camping trip with Boy Scout Troop 27 of Marklesburg.

The youngster was hurt shortly after noon on Saturday. He was swinging oh a wild grape vine and slipped and fell about oO feet. He received contusions of the back and right shoulder. He was taken to the J. C.

Blair Memorial! Buffalo, Perry County, and crashed into an oncoming car 1 driven by Donald E. Markelwitz i 23, of Harrisburg. Markelwitz, The wife and a woman and two singer asserted that the! 331 1 were in ured and broadcasting sta-- win: ief depriving the public ofi, rce 3a Sunday networks tions are "first rate" music by favoring BMI tunes on the airways over songs written by composers of the rival American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Crosby, who has warbled every type of song from ragtime to rock roll, levelled the charges in a letter to Sen. Warren G.

Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. In New York, Robert J. Burton, vice president of BMI. said the Crosby letter was "part of a continuing effort to prejudge a jury trial" in a law suit brought by ASCAP members against BMI. Crosby told Magnuson that he himself had not been "pressured into singing anything." But he said "subtly and by inference my cooperation has certainly been solicited." "It just gails me exceedingly to see so much trash on our air- Janes and TV screens while the work of the talented, dedicated songwriters is crowded out of the' picture," Der Bingle said." i "The state of this stuff." he! added, "is surely not accidental! attributable to a radical change; in public taste, nor due to a sudden unanimous failure of talent' among established songwriters.

i "I think it is the result of pressure exerted by BMI," Crosbv stated. Irwin: Police Chief Robert icrce, 35, died Sunday a few. hours after he was struck by anj automobile driven bv a close friend. He was lighting warnine! Ifintat-iir. lanterns at a construction site! when he was hit by a car by Otto Swenson, 58, a druggist and brother of the Irwin fire Swenson was returning home aft- 1 er going to his drug store to pre-' pare an emergency prescription Irwin: John L.

Kellman, 35 Wilmerding, was killed Sunday when his station wagon sped 1 out of control across Route 30 andi crashed into a Pittsburgh bound! Greyhound bus. Eighteen busi passengers were injured, none passengers Our large display of monuments and markers enables vo-j to see what you buy. No agrents commission to pav Lowest prices for 'he vefv best in quality of granite and workmanship. BEAVER'S MONUMENTS 515 fcliiflin Huntingdon Quality and Satisfaction Since 1855 Man Drowns In Lake Meadville, June 24. HURRY! HURRY! Very Short Time Only! LUC1EN LELONG Saves You A Cool $2.00 on SOLID COLOGNE Two For The Price of One Four Fragrances BALALAIKA, 1NDISCRET, SIROCCO, TAiLSPiN and Summer Soap Special Seven Enchanting FVagr-ances 3 CAKES FOR $1.00 briefly Regularly 3 for BLACK'S JEWELRY 423 Penn Street Phone 1282 Green Trading Attractive Gift Wrapping Without Charge Hospital where he was admitted' mond Thomas, 30.

Atlantic. 3:30 p. m. Saturday. The attending physician reported thig morning that he was in "satisfactory" condition.

The Scouts of Troop 27. a gro-jp. were ss snce eno-. wi been in autos and auto re- camping trip along 'O 17 JJC a daughter and two sons. Mrs.

Davidl of Jose and Lucy M. (Ram- Bennett of Altoona, Calvin A. of sey) McCracken. Toledo, Ohio, and Dean E. of Mr McCracken is survived byi Johnstown; two brothers, Emory the following brothers and sisters- i of Mount Union and George of Mrs Mildred Bush, Valley, and three grand-1 0131 61106 Mcdracken, Hunting-j children.

R. D. Mrs. Charles (Lot-! Funeral services were held this! 1 6 Hun n. Smithfield and Charles Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at McCracken, Swissvale.

Also sauv the Third EUB Church. Altoona are a number of nieces and charge of the Rev. Robert B'i ne new s- Baker. Interment was made inF A ve 'eran. Mr.

McCracken en- Rose Cemetery, Altoona. listed in the service on August 18, Deafh Of Infant 1942 and wss given a medical discharge on December 14, 1942. Funeral services will be held' on Wednesday, June 26, at 2 A committal service was held from the Green funeral home' at the Rn-erview Cemetery Fri-iHuntingdon. Dr Ferdinand day afternoon, 3:30 p. JunejDerk, pastor of the Fifteenth for James J.

MyersjSlreet Methodist Church, will of- infant son of Warren Interment will be made in rei Donation Friends "at the funeral home after ruesda unti! time for the at 7:30 a. Fridav, I services. June 21, 1957. at the J. C.

Blair one sister. Barbara and two brothers. Warren K. and Timothy M. Also surviving the paternal grandparents.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Myers of Har- risbin-g and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Thomaa B.

Miller, Huntingdon. The interment was made by Brown's in Huntingdon. for The Daily June 24. G- Legnard, first assistant citv, go-Kcitor, was sworn in today as a Judge of Allegheny Ooamtv 1 Court. i He was named by Gov.

George! M. leader to succeed Judge: Fra.noia J. O'Connor, who diedi June 8. i Dally Now Wfint Ada. pairs, despite discounts on new; cars; public transportation fares; household fuels with the Suez Canal oil crisis a factor; meats, poultry and fish; cereals and bakery products; dairy products; medical care costs; household operations costs, with laundry and dry cleaning and other service charges important; shoes; personal care, particularly haircuts; and reading and recreation.

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