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acdel THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1963 Nikolsky, Copter Pioneer, Dies Special to PRINCETON, N. Feb. pioneer in the development of Princeton Hospital. He was 60 Housing Aide Hails Citizens Bernard Loshbough, a Pittsburgh housing official, said here Saturday residents of Pittsburgh's North Side have found community feeling can prevail over the cold facts of arternesAma, planning. construction costs A proposal for an expressway base on lowest construction cost and straight roadways was set aside, he said, in favor a citizen proposal that, it cost more, met the traffic needs of the Side and spared park landoren NORTHEAST MEETING Loshbough, executive of the Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Inc.

(ACTION Housing), spoke to the Northeast Regional Transportation Conference at the Jardel Recreation Center, Cottm ave. and Pennway st. Speaking of "Citizen's in Planning," he said, "It i stimulating to discover that when citizens are asked to contribute their own planning ideas they have fresh Ideas offer." GOOD CITIZENS "ACTION-Housing," he said, "believes that alert citizens and vigorous officials, putting work the resources of the city. can conserve sound neighbor-, hoods and transform ones into living places that are orderly, attractive and well viced, with residents who have a strong sense of Loshbough added, "The difficult struggle is to break down simple apathy on the part. of the some of whom are to stand aloof from the problems of their community, at the ballot box if they bothexpressing approval or dissent er to vote." Mrs.

L. Bregy, Club Leader Mrs. Louis Bregy, widow of a Philadelphia lawyer and past president of the Charlotte Cushman Club, died Friday night in Haring Convalescent Home in Flourtown. She was 91. Mrs.

Bregy, the former Caroline Harrah, had lived the Cherokee Apartments, Chestnut Hit. Her husband died 44 years ago: Mrs. Bregy also was a member of the Acorn Club and was chairman of French War Relief in Philadelphia after the First World War. She is survived by three sons, Lawrence lawyer with Penn Mutual Life Insurance Philip a lawyer associated with McCoy, Evans and Lewis, Louis of Weston, Conn. Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at 10 A.

M. Tuesday at St. Genevieve's Church, Bethlehem Pike and Wissahickon Flourtown. Burial will be private. Clinic for Aged Seeks $700,000 Ira J.

Mills, State Commissioner of General and Special Hospitals, will speak Sunday at the campaign dinner of the Dr. James C. Giuffre Clinic for Care of aged, at 6 P. M. at the Drake Hotel.

The clinic will be named for the medical director and chief surgeon at St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center. His patients are sponsoring the drive to raise $700,000. "Manuel, Abrams, clinic the will adjoin chairSt. Luke's property at Girard a ver and 8th st.

Firm to Honor 14 The Philadelphia Electric Co. will present gold watches 14 company drivers who have gone 23 years without an accident. The nual safety awards dinner at presentation will take place on Tuesday at the company's anthe Benjamin Franklin. The Inquirer A. Nikolsky, of the helicopter, died Friday in and lived at 234 Western way.

A native of Russia, he was member of President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee and a professor in Princeton University's Department of Aeronautical Engineering. BECAME PROFESSOR Professor Nikolsky, who came to the United States in 1928, served on the Princeton faculty since 1942. He was advanced to the rank of professor in 1945. His work was centered in the helicopter laboratory in the James Forrestal Research Center. He is credited with publishling the first definitive work this country on helicopters in a book titled of HelicopDesign Theory," issued in 1949.

ARMY ADVISER Before joining the Princeton he worked with the Division of United Aircraft, and participated in that company's development of the first practical helicopter. He was also a member of the Army Scientific Advisory Board. Surviving are his wife, Marand a son, Alexander, Thomas Moran, News Executive Special to The Inquirer SCRANTON, Feb. L. Moran, general manager of the Scranton Times since October, 1951, died Saturday of a heart attack at his home, 1402 Jackson st.

He was 63. A native of Scranton, Mr. Moran had been associated with Times business office since Dec. 21, 1921. He had served as a member of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion since 1956.

HEADED AUTHORITY Mr. Moran had been chairman of the Scranton Redevelopment Authority since its founding in (1954. He also was a charter member of the Pennsylvania Industrial Redevelopment Authority. A graduate of St. Patrick's High School, Scranton, Mr.

Moran attended St. Thomas College, now the University of Scranton, and Catholic University of America and Georgetown University, both in Washington, D. C. PLAYED FOOTBALL He was a varsity football play. er at St.

Thomas. are his wife the Surviving, M. Taylor; a son, Thomas four Mrs. John Vournakes, Mrs. George Rhue, Mrs: Claude O'Boyle and Mrs.

Stewart Kearney; a sister, Sister M. Teresa I.H.M., Superior of St. Ignatius School, Kingston, a brother, Frank; and 24 grandchildren. Fire Ruins Firm InGloucesterCity City Special to The Inquirer GLOUCESTER CITY, N. Feb.

early morning fire swept the Economy Food Service Co. at 105 Lehigh ave. here Saturday, destroying half the building and resulting in thousands of dollars in losses of frozen meats. Firemen from all four of the city's fire companies fought the blaze in three-below temperatures. Several residents of nearby apartment houses fled into the street night clothes.

60-foot section of the 120-foot oneFire Chief Walter Klaus said al story brick building destroy. ed. He said cause was determined. Alfred Swoyer, Judge 10 Years HONESDALE, Feb. 16 (AP).

Swoyer, former judge county court, -Alfred died at his home Saturday after a year's illness. He was 76. Mr. Swoyer served as judge for 10 years following his in 1931. After that he practiced law at his home here.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, a son, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Laszlo Lajhta, composer and folk music expert, in Budapest. He was 71. Abbott, Bertha Bader, William, Sr. Bauer, Andrew C.

Blakemore, John Boericke. Wm. F. Bereil, John B. Bosworth, Harry H.

Bresy, Carolina H. Burns, Catherine G. Burr. Geoffrey L. Burrows, Catherine Carr, Emma T.

Cavanaugh. J. Charton, Frances Virgil Michael F. Conan, Esther Cola, Carmine Corcoran, James J. ummiskey, T.

R. Dawson, Herbert S. Lillo, Louisa DeLong, M. N. DiPietro.

A. Dolan, Katherine A. Donaghy, Rose Donnelly, L. R. G.

Dougherty, J. J. Sr. Dougherty, J. J.

Sr. Fey, Henry Finkelstein, Mollie Finn. Mary A. Ford. Anna A.

Francois, Frank A. Gilbert, C. George L. Goerze, William F. Graham.

V. W. Green. Esther Greenwood, J. B.

Robert Jr. Hadden. Hamilton Hall, William Hanby, Cecil DeC. Hanisco, Wm. Agnes Haubrich, Henry E.

F. T. Heisserman, Holtz, Carl F. Holz, Agnes M. Hughes, Harry Ingram.

Julius Inman, James Jackson, Caleb M. Death Notices on Page Deaths Jacques, Agnes Kellar, Anna Kline, Elsie Koestel, Koenemann. SOMA. D. Laird.

Ethel M. Chas Lawrence, Anna J. Lieberman. Annie Madarans. Edith A.

Martin. Antoine Mathias, George C. Maxwell, A. A. McNabb, Edward J.

MeNulty, Harry Minetti, Felice A. Morris. Eliz. R. Moss, Ida C.

Mary J. Newcomb, E. B. M. Nightlinger, G.

A. Pakech, Stephen Panella, James Parchem Wm. B. Quay, Frank M. Rahilly, Mary J.

Richards, Elizabeth Rieser, Nan Runse, William Schaufler, George Scheifield, A. D. Schmid, C. 0. Schoen, John Seltzer, Jacob Schaeffer, Wm.

H. Shure, Hazel T. Smith. Agnes Sorgini. Antonio Speer, M.

E. R. Spiekerman. Ada L. Spires, M.

C. B. Swan, William E. Tacchi, John Taylor, Laura G. Testa (Tasker), Webster, K.

H. Wedderkop, H. D. Wenk, Edward Wilson. Frank E.

Wolf. William Yacos, Frank Yeager, Mabel Young. Harry 10. Sports Section Deaths Elsewhere James G. Kennedy, 81, past president of the New England Livestock Loss Prevention Association and the New England Grocery Manufacturers Association, in Hyannis, Mass.

Mrs. Margaret M. Worrall, 102, a cousin of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in Joliet, Ill. Albert J.

Richard, 75, former editor of Paramount News, 1 in Atlanta, Ga. James Arthur Hosack, 50, 4 faculty member at Frostburg State Teachers College, in Cumberland, Md. Hosack began teaching at Frostburg in 1955 and was an associate professor in the Education Department. He was a native of Blairsville, and vice president of the Maryland Bible Society. C.

Palmer Meredith, 63, industrial and civic leader, in Springfield. 0. Meredith was president of the steel products engineering division of Kelsey of Springfield and vice president of Kelsey-Hayes Co. of Detroit. Dr.

Alan C. Woods, professor emeritus of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, in Baltimore. He was 73. Although he retired from active work as a professor in 1955, he continued research ical work at the Wilmer Institute, of Ophthalmology at Hopkins, which he had directed earlier. In 1958, the International Council of Ophthalmology awarded Dr.

Woods the Jules Gonin Medal, the highest honor in his field. He was the first American to win the award. Eric Keown, 58, drama critic for the British magazine Punch, in Worplesdown, England. John Francis Knott, a dean of political cartoonists whose "Old Man Texas" became a symbol of his adopted state, in Dallas. He was 84.

The Austrian-born cartoonist worked for the Dallas News for 46 years until his retirement in 1957, drawing some 15,000 cartoons that won him national and international recognition and a Pulitzer Prize citation. George E. Pingree, 86, a retired president of the International Standard Electric the manufacturing subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph in Portland, Me. Harold Keith Griffith, 57, of Washington, executive director of the National Bituminous Concrete Association, in Chicago. Officials said Mr.

Griffith organized the association in 1956 and had been its executive director since then. Chairman Named Lafayette Drive George H. McKean, Philadelphia auto dealer, has been named chairman of Lafayette College's annual giving program with a minimum goal of $250,000. McKean said alumni, business and industry, and friends will be asked to contribute for the improvement of faculty salaries, library books and departmental equipment. A committee directing the drive in this area will meet Tuesday at the Racquet Marriage License Applications Seymour Sobrower, 21, 8031 Woolston and Morton Miller, 22, 1761 N.

Peach st. ave Josefina Rosado, 19, 402 W. Diamond Catherine Washington, 22, 2902 W. and Francisco Rivera, 23, 402 W. mond and Rudolph A Reynolds, 23, 3122 mond st.

W. Berks st. Barbara Wiggins, 26, 131 Daly and Raymond Weston. 21, Glenarm, Md. IN.

J. Martha Haines, 18. 6815 Walker and Frederick Shindle, 23, Gloucester, Karen Callahan, 20, 1922 Murray and Thomas Jones, 30, 1915 Grant ave. Amanda Pinerio, 27, 273. W.

Diamond Claire Link, 18. Oreland, and Roger and Juan Gonzalez, 34, 273 W. DiaKaller, 20. 603 E. Hartwell la.

mond st. Margaret McNasby, 21, 2734 S. Fairhill Margaret Marion, 21, Waynesburg, and Richard Volz, 22, 3160 Amber st. and James Laurent, 21, 2150 Fairland st. Judith A.

Hurst. 23, 4421 Cottman Gertrude Smith, 20. 6126 Hazel and Francis McGovern, 23, 1426 Knorr st. and Frederick Sweeney, 25, 10816 Kevin Irene Rimdzius, 22. 5005 and ave.

Joseph Schwab, 24, 7235 Kindred st. Jenny Almlof, 26. 5954 N. 3d and Mercedes Gonzalez, 23. 4508 N.

Gratz William Hnatuk, 30. 511 E. Mt. Pleasant Edwardo Martinez, 21, 1928 Rob- ave. erts ave.

Della Miller, 17, 620 S. 12th and Barbara Kasper, 18, 629 Jamestown George Benjamin, 21, 620 S. 12th and Joseph Gallo, 22. Norristown. Stella Kobylakiewiez, 20, 3064 LivingRuth R.

Dailey, 22, 160 W. Dauphin ston and James McGovern, 20, 3063 and Gene Ryerson, 28. Audubon Park, Livingston st. N. J.

Adele Farleen, 33, 337 S. 21st and Elaine Goldman, 21, 4938 N. 7th and William Hantin, 33, 1802 Pine st. Edwin Snyder, 22, 7270 Lynford st. Patricia Duff, 22, Wallingford, and Marie Lemma, 19, 1128 Snyder and Gerald Roberts, 22, 5 W.

Tulpehocken st. Daniel LaMarchesino, 22, 713 S. Frances Turner, 39. 2454 N. 20th and Schell st.

Michael Garms, 42. Chester. Gloria Dupree, 27, 3605 Spring Garden Judith Green, 21, 931 Friendship and and Juan Llanos, 31, Willow Grove. Herbert Wallack, 23, Newark, N. J.

Coriella Booker, 25, 1645 N. 56th Eileen Pretlow, 20. 3316 N. 21st and and Preston Wicker, 32, 5030 Kingsessing Claude Lacks, 23, 1651 W. Toronto st.

ave. Carol Nathan, 23. New York City, and KiSoon Park. 27. 3300 Henry and Steven Breiger, 23.

Elmhurst, N. Y. Lyoon Kwak, 32, New York City. Jeanne Finkel, 36, 4521 Baltimore Claire Zuckerman. 24, 2509 Bleigh and Bernard Hoffman, 41, 342 Ritner st.

and Albert Shamberg, 31, 6619 Eastwood Elaine Jackson, 16, 1133 Cumberland st. and Leroy Bethea, 19, 1128 W. HunDoris Jensen. 20. 2406 Coral and tinadon st.

Fred Morris, 2451 Martha st. Marie J. Menow, 22, 2234 La Rue and Gail Berger, 22, Havertown, and Barry Charles Calabro, 26, 4500 Tolbut st. Burtoff, 22. 1632 E.

Wynsam st. Naomi Easterling, 38. Carden, N. Juana Fantauzzi, 17, 913 N. 6th and Blake Dantzler, 40.

Camden. N. J. and Jose Espada, 20. 1234 N.

5th st. Norma J. Hayes, 23, 3016 Oxford Andrea Needle, 7507 Thouron and Leroy Acklin, 24, 3016 W. Oxford st. hardware merchant, died Satur.

day at his home, 16 Greenwood Wyncote. He was was a past master of the Glenside Artisans Assembly, Surviving are his wife, the former Mary E. Best; a son, Daniel a daughter, May C. and three grandchildren. DANIEL HUFF, retired WILLIAM HALL, who formerly lived in Frankford, died Thursday at his home, 257 8th Absecon, N.

J. He was 73. Mr. Hall, who retired 10 years ago at U. S.

Rubber Tacony, was a Ma-11 son. Surviving are his wife, the former Annie Jack; son, George, and a sister, Mrs. Jean Lindsay. LAWRENCE A. BANKS died Tuesday at his home, 4025 Locust st.

He was 63. He was employed at Dewey's luncheonette, 48th and Spruce sts. Surviving are his wife, the former Harty Mae Joseph; a son, Lawrence and a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Cobb. MRS.

DAVID GINSBURG, the) former Fanny Katz, died on Friday at Powelton Nursing Home, where she had resided for several years. Mrs. Ginsburg, who was 93, formerly lived at 5935 Kemble ave. Surving are three daughters, Mrs. Martha Fendrich, Mrs.

Shirley Rosen and Mrs. Reba Schlakman; three sons, Samuel, Morris and Alexander; a brother, Charles, grandchildren and. 18 greatgrandchildren. ADOLPH D. SCHEINFIELD, retired president of the Spartan Chrome Furniture 30th and Dickinson died Saturday at his home, Sutton Terrace Apartments, Cynwyd.

He was 75. Mr. Scheinfield was a Mason and a member of Congregation Beth David. Surviving are his wife, the Elizabeth Horowitz; a son, Robert; a daughter, Mrs. Mae Schmuckler, and six grandchildren.

Obituary MISS MAY C. GILBERT, a retired Philadelphia teacher, died Thursday. She was 81. Miss Gilbert lived at 459 W. Bringhurst st.

A graduate of the Philadelphia Normal School and the University of Pennsylvania, she retired 12 years 49 years of teaching. Miss Gilbert was a member of the Arch Street Methodist Church, the New Century Guild and the Philadelphia Retired Teachers Association. JAMES J. CORCORAN, vice president of Local 187, Teamsters Union, died on Saturday in St. Mary's Hospital, Mr.

Corcoran was 50 and lived at 118 W. Montgomery ave. He had been a union officer for 25 years. Surviving are his wife, the mer Anna Snider; a son, James a daughter, Mrs. Regina Bennett; two sisters and brother.

JACOB SELTZER, a retired wholesale confectioner, died Friday in the Regal Hotel, Miami. He was 79. Mr. Seltzer formerly lived at 2035 Spruce st. and after his retirement was employed for a time by the Union News Co.

Surviving are two sons, Dr. Samuel and Herman; a daughter, Mrs. Anne Walowitz; four grandchildren and two great-grand-tion. children. PAULINE J.

FERRY, a freelance fashion artist, Wednesday at her home, 315 S. 45th st. She was 48. She contribluted to newspapers and did work for Rowell's of Grmantown, John Wanamaker, Strawbridge Clothier and others. Surviving are two uncles.

NOSES RESHAPED' FACE LIFTING, SHIN FLAMING. Outstanding cars, lips, loose shin, wrinkles, eye lids, large or smell breasts, acne pits, moles, rected by plastic surgery. Hair for baldness. Conagitation and information free. DR.

C. K. DAVIS, 55 1. 65th STREET Perk Are. M.

C. 31 .88 4-0488 JOHN E. DERBYSHIRE, former furniture, dealer Northeast Philadelphia, died Thursday night at his home, 2053 E. Chelten ave. He was 78.

Mr. Derbyshire was a partner of the former Derbyshire Brothers store at 2418-22 N. Front st. He was a member of the Robert H. Foerderer Republican AssociaSurviving is his wife, the former Helen Wolf.

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