Elizabethville Echo from Elizabethville, Pennsylvania • 1

ClBauetfjutlle Cctjo VOLUME 55. NO. 3. ELIZABETHVILLE; MARCH 18, 1948 I1.6CHA YEAR IN ADVANCE SINGLE COPY. THREE CENTS To Award Degrees NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS Will Give Play In Rife Church 0 OCALS Seven Injured In Highway Accident Seven men were injured in an automobile collision on the Peters Mountain road three miles south of Halifax, Monday night.

State Police of the Lykens substation reported the one car was operated by Walter Weaver, of Elizabethville, and the other car was operated by Palmer Schultz, also of Elizabethville. The injured, who were taken to the Polyclinic Hospital by Club To Sponsor Easter Egg Hunt The annual Easter Egg Hunt for children of Elizabethville will be held in the borough memorial park Friday March 26, under sponsorship of the Elizabethville Civic Club. Children between the ages of one and eight, inclusive, will meet at the schoolhouse at 2 p. and from there proceed to the park. Mrs.

Alvin Baker is chairman of the committee in charge of Keffers Home Toppled Into Cave-In A small home in the mining community of Keffers, Schuylkill County was toppled into a 35-foot hole, caused by an earth cave-in Tuesday afternoon. Jack Eagan, 70, who lived alone in the property, was not at home at the time. A second and larger cave-in about a half-mile away, near the Keffers baseball field, swept away alwut 75 feet of railroad track of the Reading Company. A train of twelve empty coal cars passed over the spot just before the cave-in. This settlement was about 40 feet deep and 75 feet in diameter.

Mrs. W. H. Daniel and daughter Cherry were guests of Mrs. Daniel's mother, Mrs.

Anna Kees, West Chester, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zeigler and daughter Rebecca were guests of Mrs. Zeigler's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ira Page, at Myetstown, on Sunday. Pfc. Robert Mattis of the Army returned to duty at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, after spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mis.

Taul Mattis. Sir. and Sirs. Earl Klinger and School Baseball League Opens Apr. 9 Elizabethville High School players have started practice in preparation for the opening of the Upper Dauphin School Baseball League, April 9.

The League has a membership of eleven teams and has been divided into two divisions for the 1948 season. Schools represented in the Upper Division are Porter Township, Tower City, Williamstown, Wic-onisco, Lykens and Elizabethville. Members of the Lower Division of circuit are Berrysburg, Dalmatia, Hemdon, Millersburg and Halifax, Mr. George Smith of Wiconisco is president, and Mr. Mark Unger of Millersburg, is secretary-treasurer of the league.

The schedule of games for the Elizabethville team is as follows: April 9 At Williamstown April 13 at Lykens April 16, Wiconisco, home. April 20 Tower City, home April 3 Porter home April 27 April 30 Lykens, home May, 4 at Wiconisco May 7 at Tower City Slay 11 at Porter Township League games will be played family moved last week into their the Area FFA officers, newiy built home on East Broad Officers' reports, Paul Lauden-Street. Sir. and Mrs. Philip Fetter-1 sieger, Halifax, and Elvin Lebo, heff of Elizabethville R.

D.t will Millersburg. move into the home vacated by I Report on FFA State Conven- the Klinger family. Clair- S. Romberger and Raymond Buffington who recently enlisted in the U. S.

Marine Corps, are now in training at Parris South Carolina. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Buflington of town. WILL AWARD SCHOLARSHIP The State. Department of Public Instruction has announced that a scholarship at Pennsylvania State College for advanced study will be given this year by the N. C. Schaeffer Memorial Fund.

It was stated that teachers holding baccalaureate degrees from a college recognized by the State Council of Education, which makes the selection, may make application for the scholarship before May 1. COMMUNION SERVICE IN RIFE CHURCH The Holy Communion and service of Zion Reformed congregation, Rife, will be conducted Sunday March 21, at 10 a. by the pastor, Rev. E. E.

Ehrhant. A play entitled, "As Easter will be presented by the Youth Union Fellowship in the Rife church at 7:30 o'clock that evening and a Holy Week service will be held March 25 at 7:30 p. m. At FFA Meeting The annual meeting of- the Dauphin-Schuylkill Area, Future Farmers of America, will be held ir the Lykens Valley Vocational High School auditorium, Berrys-burg, Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The Area Future Farmer Degree will be conferred on twenty members of local chapters by Area officers.

The program has been arranged as follows: Music, Bcrrysburg FFA Band. Opening ceremony, Area officers. Address of Welcome, EIRoy Baker. Conferring of Area Degrees by tion, Harold Luckenbill, Cres-eona, and Ivan Kirchner, Pine Grove. Essay, "Soil, The Life Blood of Our Elvin Lebo.

Remarks, C. J. Kell, Area Advisor. Closing ceremony, Area FFA officers. PLAN MEETING OF LEGI9N AUXILIARY COUNCILS Plans are being made for a meeting of the Tri-County and Five-County Councils of The American Legion to be held at Sunbury, April 10.

The sessions will be in charge of Mrs. Palmer Meckley, central director. A luncheon will be served at ATTENDED YOUTH CONFERENCE Elaine Daniels, Annie Shade, Arlene Weaver and Wilma Stover of Berrysburg, represented Salem I Lutheran and Reformed Church of Berrysburg, as delegates to the thirtieth annual Christian Youth Conference of Greater Harrisburg and Dauphin County, on Friday and Saturday. Sessions of the conference were held in Trinity 'Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Baughman Memorial Methodist Church, New Cumberland. Miss Daniels was elected District Field Secretary of the Conference.

LETTERS IN ESTATE Paul D. Novinger of Elizabeth-ville and George M. Weaver of Millersburg, are named executors of the estate of Mrs. Anna C. Novinger, late of Upper Paxton Township.

Paul W. Romberger of Millersburg, has applied for letters of administration to settle the estate of his grandfather, J. Wesley Boyer, late of Loyalton, Washington Township. JOHN H. OSMAN John H.

Osman, age 88 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Umholtz, in Gratz, on Tuesday. He had been a resident of that community many years, and was a member of Simeon's Reformed Church, Gratz. He was a son of Edward and Lydia (Artz) Osman, and a native of Hegins. Survivors are his daughter, Mrs.

Umholtz, of Gratz, and nine grandchildren. Services will be held from the residence of Mrs. Umholtz at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Rev. A.

Levan Zechman, pastor of the Lykens Valley Reformed Charge will officiate and interment will be in the Gratz Cemetery. Friends may call at the Urn- holtz residence Friday from 7 to 9 o'clock, 1 evening CALVIN F. MILLER Calvin F. Miller, age 67 years, I a retired funeral director, died Mr. Miller was a native of Lykens Township, Dauphin County, and was a son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. John Miller. A resident of Gratz early in life, he later became a funeral director in Valley View, and had been a resident of Bethlehem the past twenty years. needay morning. Interment was made in the Memorial Cemetery, lat Bethlehem, The Easter Recess of the borough schools will begin, with the close of classes Thursday afternoon, March 25.

Sessions will resume on Tuesday, March 30. Representatives of the Bureau of Labor and Industry conducted tests for members of the graduating class on Tuesday. The tests are provided as an aid to determine occupational aptitudes. A very interesting motion picture on Pennsylvania, was shown in the schools last Friday. Pictures entitled, "They Said It With and "Candy and will be shown Friday.

The Commercial Club of the high school will sponsor a dance in the school gymnasium Friday', April 2 at 8 p. m. The admission will be twenty-five cents. Tickets for the play, "George Washington Slept Here" may be purchased from members of the Junior Class. Tickets will also be on sale at the door.

BUYS COAL COMPANY A deed filed in the Schuylkill County Courthouse reveals sale of the Necho Alan Coal Company at Donaldson, Schuylkill County, to Clark S. Maurer, of Hegins. MAY DISPLAY NEW AUTO TAGS Display of 1948 Pennsylvania motor vehicle license plates became legal on Monday. Midnight, March 31, is the deadline, by which time all vehicles must display the new plates to be legally operated on Pennsylvania highways. SPOKE AT BANQUET Rev.

P. W. Baer, chaplain of the Veterans' Hospital, Coates-ville, was the principal speaker at the banquet of the Williamstown Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Tuesday evening. Rev. Baer is a ormer pastor of the Williamstown Methodist -Church.

GIRL SCOUTS GET AWARDS AT MEETING The annual Court of Awards for Millersburg Girl Scouts was held in the Johnson memorial auditorium at that place Friday evening, with members of four Troops participating. Refreshments were served, and a social followed meeting. PLAN CLINICS FOR CHILDREN The State Health Department has announced that thirty-seven diagnostic clinics for crippled children will be held in Pennsyl vania in March, April, May, and June. HALIFAX LEGION TO SPON- SOR EASTER EGG HUNT Lloyd-William Post No. 648, American Legion of Halifax, will sponsor an Easter Egg hunt on the Legion grounds, Sunday, March 28th at 11 o'clock A.

M. All children of the Halifax community are invited to participate. GRANTED CHARTER A charter has been granted by the Schuylkill County Court to the Pennsylvania Trappers Association, Klingerstown. RATE OF ASSISTANCE INCREASE SLOWER The month of February marked a slowing of the seasonal rise in Pennsylvania's public assistance rolls, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance reports. The net increase in that month totaled 5095 persons, as compared with a January increase of 6348 persons.

At the end of Feb ruary, a total of 308,992 persons were receiving Old-Age Aid to Dependent Children, General Assistance, or Blind Pen- HICHWAY ACCIDENT REPORT Accidents investigated by State Police of the Lykens sub-station: 1947 1948 Accidents investigated 11 0 Motor Vehicle, fatalities 0 0 Motor Vehicle, injuries 15 6 Pedestrian, fatalities 0 0 Pedestrian, injuries 0 0 State Police Say Any owner who permits his motor vehicle to be operated by a minor under 16 years of age, shall be jointly and severally liable for any damages caused by the negligence of such minor in operating his vehicle. Members of the Youth Union Fellowship, which includes young people of Forney's Evangelical United Brethren Church, and Zion's Lutheran and Reformed Church, will present the play entitled, "As Easter in Zion's Church, Rife, Sunday, March 21 at 7:30 p. m. The play, written by Mary Bennett Harrison, piesents an appeal to quicken personal responsibility toward God and church. It will be presented under direction of Rev.

E. E. Ehrhart, pastor of Killinger Reformed Charge, and Mr. Roy Lebo, Superintendent of Forney's Evangelical United Brethren Sunday School. The cast of characters is as follows: Rev.

Peter Young, pastor of the church, Guy Ditty. Martha Young, his wife, Ella Chubb. Raymond Young, their son, Glenn Feidt. Lucille Young, their daughter, Dorothy Ditty. John Blake, chairman of the Church Board, Homer Zeigler.

Charles Hamilton, treasurer of the church, Robert Novinger. 'Grandmother Watkins, Mary Forney. Grace Halaway, the young pianist, Ramona Lebo. Ollie Olson, the janitor, John Chubb. Candle bearers, Winifred Botts, Faye Grimm, Mary Ellen Ditty, Sarah Ellen Ditty, Doris Jury, Donald Novinger, Roy Klinger, Donald Matter, Harold Lebo.

The public is cordially invited to attend. PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BANQUET APRIL 9 The seventh annual Pennsylvania Dutch Fersommling will be held in the Dalmatia High School auditorium Friday April 9, at 6:30 P. M. Rev. C.

R. Rahn of Temple, will be the speaker. ANNOUNCE ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS Winners of the annual essay contest for members of the Senior Class of the Millersburg High School have been announced by the sponsors, R. Day Post, American Legion, of that place. The winners are: first prize, Edward Rothman; second, Miss Jean Deibler; third, Miss Peggy Bellis; fourth, Miss Blanche Boyer; and fifth, David Dundore.

The winning essay will be entered in the county contest at Hummelstown in April, GEESE FLYING NORTH Flocks of wild geese on their anual northward migratory flights have been observed by residents of this area. A large flock of the birds flew over this community Monday morning. FEWER TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN FEBRUARY The State Bureau of Highway Safety has reported that 99 persons were killed in motor vehicle traffic accidents in Pennsylvania during the month of February, compared with 135 fatalities in the same month of 1947. Fifty-five of the fatalities occurred in urban areas, and forty-four deaths occurred in rural areas of the State. Two highway fatalities were reported for Dauphin County during the month.

EUB BROTHERHOOD MET AT LEBANON The fifth annual Congress of the East Pennsylvania Conference Brotherhood of the Evangelical United Brethren Church was held in St. Paul's Evangelical United Brethren Church, Lebanon on Saturday. Rev. P. R.

Wert is pastor of the host Mr. Francis B. Ramer, president of the Conference Brotherhood, presided at the sessions. Speakers included Rev. James Royer of Reading; Dr.

R. Montgomery, general director ot Adult Work of the denomination; and Dr. Clyde A. Lynch, presi dent 'of Lebanon Valley College, Annville. Officers elected by' the brotherhood are as President, Charles Cornelius, vice-president, Arthur R.

Kline, Reading; secretary, Stephen a. Jury, Millersburg; treasurer, Francis B. Ramer, Wilkes-Barre chairman of Christian Service, Clinton Roth, Reading; chairman of Christian Fellowship, Russell Scheirer, Palmerton; chairman of Christian Training, Dr. E. W.

Gingrich, Reading. the Millersburg and Halifax am-1 bulances, are: William Etzweiler, Halifax R. D. 2, bruises and possible fractures of ribs, cuts of the right hand and jaw, and contusions of the body; Norman Warfel, Halifax R. -D.

1, possible rib fractures, lacerations of the head, bruises of the chest, left leg and left arm; A. A. Bowers, Elizabethville, fractured right arm, abrasions of the hand; Palmer Schultz, contusions and abrasions; Russell' Kitzmiller, Elizabethville, laceration of forehead and contusions; and Walter Parmer, Halifax R. D. 1, contusions and abrasions.

All of the men have since returned to their homes. Weaver, who suffered a laceration of his head, laceration of his left knee, and chest injuries, was treated by a local physician. Schultz and the other injured men were on their way to work at the Harrisburg Steel Company plant when the accident occurred. NAMED TO MILLERSBURG SCHOOL FACULTY George W. Smith of Shamo-kin, was recently elected teacher of mathematics in the Millersburg High School.

He will succeed Miss Geraldine Slertz who resigned in ordei to complete work for her master's degree at Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and has been a teacher in the McAlisterville, Juniata County, schools. He assumed his duties at Millersburg on Monday. BASEBALL ASSOCIATION WILL MEET MONDAY A meeting of the Elizabethville Baseball Association will be held in the fire house here Monday evening March 22 at 8:30 P.

M. for the purpose of completing organization for the 1948 season. PRESENT PLAY MARCH 18-19 The Community Theater Players will present the comedy, "George Washington Slept in the Elizabethville High School auditorium Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 o'clock. Admission prices are 65c for adults and 35c for children. The cast includes Kermit Wit-mer, Mrs.

D. R. Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Miller, Mrs.

Horace Schwartz, Mrs. E. T. Romberger, D. B.

Hudson, Donald Smeltz, Robert Hoke, Charles Hoffner Mr. and Mrs. John Rees, Mrs. Lee Dockey, William Flory, Ralph Lehman and Evelyn Shadle. ENTERTAINED AT KLINGER HOME The.

regular meeting of the Bethel Bible Class of Salem's Reformed Sunday School was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Klinger, Tuesday evening, when Klinger, Miss Rosa Klinger and Mrs. John MeGeary were the hostesses. A social hour followed the meeting.

Present were: Mr. and Mrs. John C. Deibler, Mrs. S.

C. Shutt, Miss Ella Shutt, Mrs. Ga len Swab, Mrs. William Travitz, Mrs. Forrest Klinger, Mrs.

John MeGeary, Miss Rosa Klinger, Mrs. Sally Koppenhaver, Mrs. Lottie Hoover, Mrs. William Lauder-mileh, Mrs. John Bohner, Mrs.

Trevor Collier, Mrs. Harvey Bat- dorf, Miss Edith Wenrich, Mrs. John Heckert and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Klinger.

NO SEVERE CROP DAMAGE BY COLD WEATHER The State Department of Ag. riculture stated this week that February's cold weather did not materially damage Pennsylvania farm crops. A Federal-State survey, however, showed that cherry and peach buds suffered some damage, it was stated. Average temperature for the month wi 26, or two degrees below but temperatures for the first II days of February averaged 10 degrees below normal. WILL SPEAK AT ROTARY MEETING Lt.

L. M. Whitecotton of the JJureau of Identification, Pennsylvania State Police, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Elizabethville Rotary Club Monday evening. Mr. John Rees will be in charge of program.

MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Marriage license applications filed at the Dauphin County Courthouse include: William A. Davey, Williams-town, and Virginia L. Bretz, of Marysville. Paul L. Keiter and Iola A.

Etzweiler, both of Halifax R. D. 1 Robert R. Matter and Norma Jj. Miller, both of Lykens.

Mark V. Challenger and Pauline M. Adams, both of Williams-town. CONFIRMATION SERVICE IN LOCAL CHURCH Confirmation services will be held in Salem Lutheran Church, town, Palm Sunday evening at 7 o'clock when fifteen young people will become communicant members of the church. They are: Larry Bingaman, Barbara Buffington, LaVerne Erdman, Leon Dockey Conrad Fortney, Anzonetta Hoffner, James Hoke, Helen Lebo, Paul Lebo, Karl Mattis, John Peifer, Constance Reed, Dorothy Schwalm, Marian Snyder, and Shirley Snyder.

During Holy Week services be held1 every night except Monday, at 7:30 p. m. The preparatory service will be held in connection with the Good Friday evening service. Early Easter services will be held at 6:30 o'clock on Easter Sunday, followed by the Easter Rally Sunday School session at 9:30 o'clock. A baptismal service will be held at 3:00 p.

and the Easter Holy Communion will be administered at the service at 7:00 p. m. PLAN SWIMMING POOL AT SCOUT CAMP Plans have been made for construction of a swimming pool at the Millersburg Boy Scout Camp in Armstrong Valley. It was stated that a pool, meeting specifications of the Department of Forests and Waters, could be formed by constructing a dam in a small stream on the Scout property. WILL HOLD MEETING FOR TOMATO GROWERS A meeting for tomato growers will b3 held at the Hotel Washington, Elizabethville.

Friday, March 19 at 7 p. m. Speakers for the meeting will include County Agent A. S. Frommeyer and J.

H. Boyd, vegetable specialfst of the Pennsylvania State College. Motion pictures on vegetable growing and other phases of farming will be shown by representatives of the Hanover Canning Company. Farmers and their families are invited to attend. FATHER-SON BANQUET TUESDAY EVENING The annual Father-Son banquet of the Lyken3 Valley Chapter, Future Farmers of America, will be held in the Berrysburg High School auditorium Tuesday evening, March 23.

Eugene Markel, president of the Lykens Valley Chapter, will act as toastmaster. Speakers will include Dr. I. D. App, Superintendent of Dauphin County Schools; Mr.

L. J. Fink, Assistant County School Super-tendent, and Mr. C. J.

Kell, FFA Advisor. Student speakers participating in the program will be Elvirf Lebo, Eugene Markel, and Marlin G. Henninger Jr. Officers of the Lykens Valley Chapter are: Eugene Markel, president; Arlin Leitzel, vice-president; Daniel Warner, secretary; Frederick Miller, treasurer; Robert Wolfe, reporter; Robert Engle, sentinel; Walter Miller, conductor; EIRoy Baker, advisor, HARRY B. ZIMMERMAN Harry B.

Zimmerman, age 80 years, died at his home, Halifax R. Friday night. He was a member of the Fisherville Lutheran Church. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Verna Long, Fisherville, and MU'S Ella Zimmerman, at home; three sons, Samuel and Charles, of Fisherville, and William, at home, and twelve grandchildren.

Services were held from the residence at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, with further services in the Fisherville Lutheran Church, Rev. H. E. Fogelman, Enders, officiated, and interment was made in the Fisherville CUB SCOUTS TO MEET MARCH 31 The regular meeting of the Elizabethville Scout Cub Pack will be held Wednesday evening, March 31. REPUBLICAN CLUB TO MEET FRIDAY The regular meeting of the Elizabethville- Washington Town ship Council of Republican Women will be held at the home of Mrs.

Galen F. Buffington, North Market Street, Friday March at 8 p. m. A social will ollow the meeting. WILL SHOW PICTURES IN HOFFMAN'S CHURCH Motion pictures on religious subjects will be shown in Hoffman's Reformed Church, Sunday, March 21, at 7 p.

m. iiues or tne pictures are: "Janus' "The Un faithful Servant" and "Hymn of The BIRTH RECORD Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Spicher of Elizabethville, announce the birth of a daughter at the Poly clinic Hospital, Harrisburg, March 7, 1948.

Mrs. Spicher is the for-mer Miss Betty Kissinger. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B.

Lenker Millersburg R. announce the birth of a daughter at the Bar. risburg Hospital, March 13, 1948. Mrs. Lenker was formerly Miss Arlene N.

Deibler. SPOKE IN MILLERSBURG CHURCH Rev. Henk Kuylman, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, Holland, was the speaker for the Sunday School service in Trinity Reformed Church, Millersburg, Sunday morning. Rev. Kuylman is a graduate of the University of Utrecht, and is a student at the Yale Divinity Graduate School.

RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. Gertrude Paul who recently underwent a surgical operation at the Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, returned to her home, Halifax R. D. 1 on Friday. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE The annual Easter sunrise service of the Luther League of St.

John's Lutheran Church, Berrysburg, will be held Easter Sunday at 5:30 a. m. The' service will be held outdoors, weather permitting, and will be in charge of Miss Geraldine Sultzbaugh, president of the Luther League. The program being arranged, will include musical numbers, and Mr. John Deibler of Berrysburg, will be the speaker.

A cordial invitation is extended COLLEGE PLANS COMMENCEMENT WEEK ACTIVITIES Dr. Clyde A. Lynch, president of Lebanon Valley College, has announced the names uf speakers for the commencement week activities May 30 and 31. Heading the list of speakers is General Albert C. Wedemeyer, who will address the graduating class and friends on Monday, May 31, at the 79th annual commencement exercise.

The Rev. Dr. Reuben II. Mueller of Dayton, Ohio, will deliver the Baccalaureate address Sunday morning, May 30. He is at present serving as Executive Secretary of Christian Education and Associate Secretary of Evangelism of the recently merged Evangelical United Brethren Church.

REPORT ON AID TO FAMILIES Services of the Associated Aid Societies are being received by 502 persons in 116 families in Dauphin and Perry Counties, according to a report issued this week. The report disclosed that 83 families with 345 members, in County, and 33 families with 157 members, In Perry County, are receiving aid. at 4:00 P. M. BOND SALES IN STATE TOTAL $42,994,966 Sales of series and United States Savings Bonds in Pennsylvania totaled $41,994,966 during the month of February, it has been announced.

Sales in Dauphin County totalled $892,316. NAMED TO EDUCATION ASSN. COMMITTEE Mr. Elmer A. Reiser, Supervising Principal of the Porter Township Schools, was recently chosen to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on Tax Education and School Finance of the National Education Association.

SERVICES IN CHURCHES OF PILLOW CHARGE Holy Week service in churches of the Pillow Reformed Charge, Rev. R. T. Schellhase, pastor, will be held as follows: Pillow, "March 23, 7:30 P. March 24, Stone Valley, March 25, Dalmatia; and Slarch 20, Malta.

All services will be held at 7:30 p. m. The choir of the Stone Valley Church will present a cantata, Palm Sunday, March 21, at 7:30 M. CONSERVATION CONFERENCE MARCH 24 AND 25 In an effort to set up standards for a policy on the conservation of land and water resources, in cluding reduction of soil erosion a series of meetings will be held in Harrisburg March 24 and 25 by the board of directors of the nation-wide organization known as Jj rienas ot tne iana. Governor James H.

Duff will speak on conservation at a public mass meeting that will bring the two-day conference to a close on Thursday night, March 25, in the Forum of the Education Building at Harrisburg. Also appearing on the same platform will be Louis Bromfield, author, lecturer and farmer, a vice-president of the Friends of the Land. State Secretary of Agriculture Miles" Horst is chairman of the local committee arranging the Harrisburg meetings. Sessions include a forum on conservation Wednesday afternoon, a dinner meeting that evening and an all-day policy conference on Thursday. M.

L. Wilson, undersecretary, United States Department of Agriculture and Dr. Jonathan For-man, Columbus, Ohio, a Friends of the Land vice president, will speak at the dinner meeting on Wednesday. Others listed for the conserva tion forum and policy conference include E. J.

Condon, Chicago; Mrs. Louis John Francke, New York, and Mr. Bromfield, each a vice president of Friends of the Land; Warren Whittier, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Seth Gordon, State Game Com mission; Kobert titrable, Branay- wine Valley Association; E. H. Taylor, associate editor of Country Gentleman; W.

G. Hoyt, U. S. of the Interior; Kent Leavitt, president, National Association of Soil Conservation Districts, and Henry Clepper, ex-Director, Association of American Foresters, Washington, D. C.

Gratz Auction every Friday S-7t night. JOHN I. KOCHER John I. Kocher, age 68 years, died at his home in Millersburg on Tuesday. Mr.

Kocher was a son of the fete Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kocher cf Fisherville. He was a member of Hebron Evangelical Umited Brethren Church, Millersburg. Survivors are his widow, Mrs.

Annie Shoop Kocher; one son, Roy, of Halifax; and three daughters, Mrs. Boyd Michael and Mrs. Thomas Arnold, both of Millersburg, and Mrs. Harry Nissley of Palmyra. Other survivors are two sis ters, Mrs.

Harvey Gottshall, Pen- trook, and Mrs. Clarence Stone- load, Halifax R. D. nine grand children and one great-grandchild. Services will be held in Hebron Evtangelieal United Brethren Church, Millersburg, at 2 o'clock at the home of his son, Dr.

Lester Friday afternoon. The pastor, Miller, in Bethlehem on Satur-Rev. S. T. Dundore will officiate, day.

rind interment will Enders Cemetery. be in the EARL J. TROUTMAN Earl J. Troutman, age 51 'years, died at his home in Upper Paxton Township Wednesday morning. Survivois are his wife, Mrs.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Roxanna Troutman; one daugh- Ella Geist Miller, one daughter, ter, Maxine, at home; two broth- Mildred, and two sons, Clair Mil-era, S. E. Troutman, of Mexico, I ler and Dr. Lester Miller, all of anil Ralph, of Richmond, Cal-1 Bethlehem.

Other survivors are ifnrnia; and three sisters, Mrs. 1 five grandchildren, and three Harry Hohe of New Brighton; brothers, H. E. Miller, of Valley Mrs. Ralph Sehlitzer, of Harris- i View; Charles Miller, Dalmatia, and Mrs.

Edgar B. Smith and John Miller, of Gratz. Auburn, New York. Funeral services were held Services will be held from the i fiom the home of his son, Dr. Sterner Funeral Home, Millers-! Lester Miller, in Bethlehem, Wed- 2 o'clock Saturday after- 'neon.

Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg..