The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 9

City councilmen are briefed on procedures followed by long-distance operators. HILL TO HILL Bell Plugs Into the Future Bethlehem Justice of the Peace Michael Huda is listed in good condition after undergoing surgery at St. Luke's Hospital. The stairwells to the former comfort stations on W. Broad Street may soon qualify as health and safety hazards, besides being eyesores.

They are filled ankle deep with general refuse, including a large section of cardboard and the pipe railing that once stood at the top of the stairway. The "rap sessions" sponsored by the Bethlehem Area Drug Committee may become mobile. Discussion during a committee meeting this week concerned taking the sessions out to housing authority projects. Three class agent meetings for the Moravian College annual fund will be held next week. Donald E.

Stinner, class of '58, will direct 100 class agents in the campaign which will end June 30. 10 THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, March 13, 1971 With Opening of City Plant Bell Telephone Co. yesterday opened new quarters that are expected to provide for the communications needs of the Allentown area for the next 10 years. The windowless building at 723 Linden St. houses all-new swtiching and long-distance equipment, including facilities that eventually Touch will enable the use of telephones in Allentown.

Richard E. Santee, traffic superintendent of Bell's Lehigh District, said a public, open house wil be held the installation of equipment is complete. Mayor Clifford S. Bartholomew yesterday used gold-colorled scissors held to snip Bell a 3-inch-wide tape by two operators. The tape is the type used to record direct-distance-dialed calls.

Santee later conducted Bar-1 tholomew, City Council members and other community officials on a tour of the new installation. Mayor Bartholomew, spoke of it as a addition to center city and a landmark that will do much to enhance the planned rehabilitation of the city business district. He complimented the Bell organization for its progressive plans to provide the city with the finest in communications equipment. "Bell has always been a progressive industry, quick to cooperate in anything they are asked. I have never seen the time when you could not get instant cooperation from the company and its personnel.

Their image in the community is City Council President Charles D. Snelling, who led the councilmanic delegation for the cutting, said, "A modern city, the same as any forwardmoving business or industry, depends on good communications. They are the lifeblood of today's world and this building represents the ultimate in this field." He noted that Bell is making a "substantial contribution" to community progress "by keeping our communications at a top level." Without this kind of business philosophy, Snelling noted, "it is easily possible to drift behind and allow the equipment to deteriorate." Snelling pointed to this happening in large metropolitan centers at present, and then added, "seeing this new building, I am certain this is not goling to happen here." Cash, Coins and Merchandise Taken in 7 City Burglaries Four Allentown homes were burglarized yesterday, raising the number of burglaries reporting ed yesterday to seven. 1 At the home of Woodrow Biery of 148 Brookdale about $303 in cash, perfume and jewelry was taken by an intruder who gained access by throwing 2 stone through a window of a rear door. The 177 E.

Tilghman St. home of Reno Petri was entered in a similar manner a brick was used to break the rear door window and $11 in cash was taken after the intruder ransacked a bedroom in the home. At the home of William Kolowitz of 520 Greenleaf $640 in cash, several Savings Bonds and travelers' checks and a bank deposit book were taken. Neighbors reported seeing a group of men leaving the premises via the rear door, police said. An unknown amount of coins was taken from the collection of Lewis Schwartz of 1519 Union police were told, after the cellar door of his home was forced open.

The coins were taken from a room on the third floor, police said. In the three other burglaries reported to police early yesterday: An adding machine, valued at $198, was removed from Liner's Cleaners, at 1904 Allen St. Entrance was gained to the building through a rear basement door. The intruders apparently carried an acetylene torch because attempts were made to burn open the cash register and a safe. Both attempts failed.

A board over a basement window was kicked in to enter Jordan Auto Service. An undetermined amount of change and merchandise was taken from a cigarette vending machine. Also stolen was a tool box con- Newspaper Plant Man Will Retire Emil M. Warmkessel Sr. is retiring after 24 years in the maintenance department of the Call.

Chronicle Newspapers. His official retirement will become effective April 1, although EMIL M. WARMKESSEL he is already on vacation leave. Warmkessel, of 1120 Hamilton formerly was a trolley operator for 14 years for the Lehigh Valley Transit Co. He served the Northampton and Bethlehem routes.

During World War II, he was employed at the Bridesburg Foundry in Fullerton. Warmkessel is married to the former Julie Sicetti of Allentown. He reports he has not made retirement plans other than keeping up with his favorite baseball team, the Phillies. Mierzejewski, of 1336 N. Nelson St.

Also being investigated is a report of the theft of $125 from Mike's Pool Room, 223 Hamilton St. A prybar was used to force open a padlock on the door. The money, detectives were told, was taken from coin boxes of two pinball machines and two pool tables. James Kratzer, of 301 01 S. Madison told police varsity jacket and a paycheck for $22.50 were stolen from his locker at Allen High School.

taining a number of tools; four wheels valued at $130, and fishrods and reels worth $200. Liquor valued at about $100 was stolen from Fairgrounds Hotel, 17th and Chew Entrance was gained through the beer garden in the fairgrounds. A hole was kicked in the ceiling in order to gain access to the barroom. Allen Rauch, of 1141 E. Marks complained that stereo equipment was stolen from his parked automobile.

A similar complaint was lodged by Joseph Crash Kills Man. Injures His Wife. 64-year-old Jamesville, N.Y., was injured fatally and his many 57-year-old wife hurt seriously at 5:35 p.m. yesterday in a one-car accident on I-80 near Mount Pocono. Daniel Fogarty was pronounced dead at the scene Dr.

E.0. Headrick of Mount Pocono. Mrs. Margaret Fogarty, driver of the car, was listed in guarded condition last night in Monroe County General Hospital, East Stroudsburg. State police at Mount Pocono said the Fogarty's were traveling east on I-80 en route for.

a weekend visit with a daughter in New Jersey. The car struck guardrails on the right side of the highway, bounced back, crossed the two Northwestern Honor Society Pupils Inducted The Northwestern Lehigh Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted new members in a ceremony in the Northwestern Lehigh High School auditorium yesterday. Seniors inducted were Dennis Blose, Debra Hughes, Jacquiline Leach, David Loch, Nancy Mantz and Cynthia Weiss. Juniors inducted were Jeffrey Bieber, Wade Bittner, James Fritzinger, Marcia Kistler, Susan Loch, Bonita Long, Jean Minnich, Beverly Shive, Michele Steigerwalt, Lynn Wanamaker and Marlene Zettlemoyer. The speaker was Dr.

Arvids Ziedonis, associate professor of languages at Muhlenberg College. Pupils had to achieve: an average above 85 per cent. They are selected on the basis of leadership, scholarship, character and service. Repair Service Creditors to Meet Creditors of Owens Electronic Repair Service Sales of 136 N. 7th Allentown, will meet at 1:30 p.m.

March 23 in Reading to organize a trusteeship for the firm, adjudged bankrupt. James J. Owens of Catasauqua, operator of the firm, filed for bankruptcy Feb. 23, according to Russell L. Hiller, bankruptcy referee.

The hearing will be in the U.S. District Court chambers in the American Bank at 6th and Washington streets, Reading. June 23 will be the last day to file objections. Last day to file proofs of claim will be Sept. 23.

FOURTH Librarians' Reference Job Praised Mrs. Judith A. Klein told staff members of local libraries in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area what a citizen expects of the library reference department yesterday. During address in the he Allentown Library, she said she "might have labeled my talk 'Reference Department to the Rescue' because I invariably find what I'm looking for in that I department." The title of the talk was "Know Your Community." The spokesman said she considers the reference section an invaluable tool applied frequently in her work as a professional volunteer. Members of the library's reference department described "nine vital areas of information" concerning local communities.

Included in that realm, according to Barbara Chew, an Allentown librarian, are cultural and educational resources, government, welfare agencies and "who's who in the community." The 10 a.m. session sponsored by the city's library was one of seven such parleys conducted annually by libraries in the tridistrict Member are located systemarie in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon and Monroe counties. File Form, Fight Smut, Says Rooney Want to cut your smut? Just give your name to the nearest U.S. Post Office. That's what Rep.

Fred B. Rooney told Allentown Rotary Club members yesterday. Rooney said any citizen can minimize the chance of receiving obscene mail by adding his name to an "unmailing" list maintained by the Postal Service. Companies that mail obscene material are forbidden under threat of a $5,000 fine to send smut mail to anyone whose name is on the federal "unmailing" list. Unfortunately, he added, the Allentown Post Office reports receiving less than 100 completed forms and the Lehigh Valley Postal Distribution Center, less than 75.

"If you are concerned about your children," Rooney stated, "I urge you to go to the post office and complete the form and we'll do away with these hawkers who distribute such material." Rooney said he knows there is great deal of interest among parents that something be done to curb the flow of obscene material, because he has received thousands of letters of appeal during his days in the Pennsylvania Senate and the U.S. Congress. In his opening remarks, Rooney told the Rotarians, "Of a all the problems facing the U.S. and the free world, it is odd you should have asked me to come here and discuss pornography. But it indicates your concern." The problems of pornography, he said, "have more demands for solution and occasion the greatest dismay when the problem is not promptly elimiI nated." Judge Henry V.

Scheirer was chairman of today's meeting. Service Agency Plans Sessions For Delegates The Lehigh Valley Community Council will hold its spring delegates meeting at noon March 29 in First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem. Theme of the session will be "Strengthening Family Life." Dr. William A. Bost, superintendent of the Bethlehem Area School District, will address the gathering on "The Role of the Schools in Family Life." now at the office council, Reservations may, be made 520 E.

Broad Bethlehem. All reservations must be prepaid. The buffet will cost $1.50. Hay Fever Country? We Could Do Worse Aaaaachu! Gesundheit. Thank you.

That is a frequent exchange during August and September for the estimated 500,000 Pennsylvanians who have hay fever. And in some areas of the state it is more common than others, according to a report recently released by the Pennsylvania of Environmental Resources. North-Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania comparatively speaking are havens for hay fever sufferers, the report says, while western and southern areas of the state should definitely be avoided. Three cities in The Morning Call circulation area Allentown, Easton and East Stroudsburg were among the 41 cities studied during 1970. All three registered above the 10 index, which indicates a need for a ragweed control program, according to the department.

Bucks Pair Dies In Florida Crash Special to The Morning Call LAKE WALES, Fla. A retired Quakertown poultry farmer and his wife were killed in a two-car accident near here Friday. The victims were Clarence E. Leight 74, and the former Mary Shaffer, 60, of 1055 S. West End Boulevard, Quakertown.

The two were passengers in a car driven by Stanley Davis of Avon Park, Leight's cousin. Davis and his wife Mary were injured in the accident. Further details were unavailable yesterday. Both were natives of Quakertown. Mrs.

Leight was a Lucy (Botting) Shaffer, late her daughter of the late Lewis, and husband was a son of the Robert E.L. and Jenny Elizabeth (Robinson) Leight. They were members of the Educators Will Trace Green Circle A demonstration of the I Quakertown United Methodist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Gertrude, wife of Harry Mahn of Penns Grove, N.J., Dorothea, wife of Paul Smith of Quakertown; three sons, Clarence Jr. and Dr.

Robert, both of Quakertown, and C. Richard of Perkasie; 14 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. In addition to her children, Mrs. Leight is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lewis Constable of Laceyville, Wyoming County, and eight brothers, Clarence of Springfield, Delaware County, Walter of Colmar, Ernest of Lansdale, and Lester, Casper, Carl, Ralph and Albert, all of Quakertown.

Arrangemetns are being made by the Meier Home for Funerals, 87 N. Main Sellersville. Green Circle program sponsored by the Allentown Human Relations Commission will be presented to state and local school officials Tuesday. They will observe the program as presented to pupils the Roosevelt Elementary School. A luncheon will be held at Walp's Restaurant where speakers will describe the intent and effectiveness of the program.

Ten specialists from the State Department of Education's division of intergroup relations and civil rights will join Allentown administrators in seeing the demonstrations. Speaking at the luncheon will be Rabbi Stephen A. Schafer, chairman of the Human Relations Commission; Russell B. Barbour, its executive director, and Larry Groth, national president of the Green Circle program. L.

V. High School Newspapers Have Banner Day in Contests Lehigh Valley high school newspapers once again scored heavily when the honors in the 47th annual Columbia Scholastic Press Association competition were announced yesterday at the convention of the student editors and their advisers in New York. Included among the awards to area schools were three medalist ratings, highest in the competition; three first-place awards and two second places. Medalist honors went the Allen High School Canary, in the class for schools with an enrollment of over to Allentown Central Catholic High School's Seneschal, competing in the class for schools with 1,000 to 1,500 pupils, and to the Catasauqua High School Brown and White in the 301 to 500-pupil class. The three newspapers were in the letterpress division.

The adviser of the Catasauqua paper is Arlene Laubach, and the editor is David Engler. Adviser to the Canary is Mrs. Frances Bixler, and the editors of the paper are William Gottlieb and Andy Miller. The Central Catholic newspaper adviser is Sister Mary Mark, and the editors are Ann Solt and Donna Sosnowski. The Whitehall High School Owl took a first-place award in the letterpress division.

Catasauqua Man Heads American Concrete Group Walter J. McCoy, director of research for Lehigh Portland Cement has been elected president of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). He was elected yesterday at an ACI awards luncheon in Denver. A native of Deerwood, McCoy, who lives at 534. 4th Street, Catasauqua, received his B.A.

degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin in 1936 and his M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1938. His entire business career has been spent with the Lehigh Portland Cement which he joined in 1938 as a laboratory assistant. He was a research chemist from 1940-45 and was manager of the research laboratory from 1945 to 1948 when he assumed his present position as director of research. McCoy has been a member of the ACI since 1946 and served two terms on the board of directors in addition to numerous committee assignments.

In 1951 he received the Wason Medal from the institute "for the most noteworthy original research paper of the year." Last year received the Henry L. Kennedy Award for his outstanding service and leadership on ACI administrative and technical committees, especially his decade as member and chairman of the technical activities committee. Allentown Man Held for Court On Drug Count Kenneth Riddick, of 512 Hickory Allentown, was held for court on charges of trafficking in and possession of narcotics following a hearing yesterday before Justice of the Peace Wilbur K. Gilbert. Riddick was arrested during a crackdown on narcotics in Allentown last month.

He is at liberty under bail of $30,000. Panel on Art To Be Aired Two Kutztown State College students will appear on a Channel 39 "College Speak-In" at 10:30 p.m. Monday. Phyllis A. Moser, 2148 Reading West Wyomissing, an undergraduate art education student, and Gerald Rowan, a graduate assistant in art education from Fleetwood, will discuss "The Politics of Art." Also taking part in the discussion will be Vincent R.

a Artz, executive director of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, and Richard Redd, chairman of the fine arts department at Lehigh University. Dr. Muriel Berman, producer of the series for WLVT-TV, will moderate the program. Bethlehem's two high school newspapers, Liberty Life and Freedom Forum, were awarded first-place ratings in the competition for offset newspapers in schools with 1,500 to 2,500 pupils. The Mountaineer of the Stroud Junior-Senior High School of Stroudsburg, and the Blue and White Standard of the Nazareth High honors School, offset took newspapers place schools with 1,000 to 1,500 pupils.

Many area schools were represented at the convention that closes today. A number of area advisers workshops and panel discussions during the threeday sessions. Art Museum Fund Drive At Arthur Honegger's oratorio, "Kind David," will be performed by Lehigh University Glee Club and the Connecticut College Chorus at 8:15 p.m. March 20 in Grace Hall. Man Cleared On Charges Of Paternity A 61-year-old Allentown man was acquitted of paternity charge in Lehigh County Court yesterday, but found guilty of fornication.

Standing trial before President Judge Kenneth H. Koch was Walter Weber of 360 Hanover Ave. The complaint was brought against Weber by a 30-year-old Allentown area woman. On the fornication conviction, Weber was fined $100 and directed to pay prosecution costs. In the paternity count, the defendant was accused of having fathered a female child out of wedlock who is now a year old.

Weber, represented in court by Atty. Wallace C. Worth denied charges. The commonwealth's case against Weber was presented by Atty. Lawrence J.

Brenner. Although Weber admitted having been a close acquaintance of the complainant, he denied any improper Judge Koch imposed sentences on two other defendants this week. Irving Scott Terry of Kutztown har arrested for possession of narcotics was fined $250, plus costs. He was also placed on probation for a year. Joseph Brickhouse of Allentown was brought before the court on a bench warrant after he failed to appear in court on a 1968 charge of driving without a license.

Judge Koch fined Brickhouse $100 and assessed him costs. Admiral Will Speak At Reserve Dinner Rear Adm. Kenneth L. Veth, commandant of the 4th Naval District, will speak. Friday at a chartering dinner for the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Naval Reserve Association.

Ceremonies in the Hotel Bethlehem will include the installation of Naval Reserve Capt. Willard M. Shelly of Phillipsburg as the first president of the local chapter. The association serves Naval reservists by acting as an adviser to the Department of the Navy in their behalf. Borough Officials To Hear Consultant Victor L.

Miller will speak at the dinner meeting of the MidEastern Counties Association of Boroughs at 7 p.m. March 25 in the Slatington Moose Home. Miller, a consultant for the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs, will speak on "Factors Influencing Fire Insurance Rates." The Allentown Expansion Fund has received $550,000 to date, said Mrs. Max Hess, general chairman of the campaign. The estimated construction cost of a new wing is $1 million.

The money raised so far has come mainly from the museum board of directors and "special friends" of the museum throughout the Lehigh Valley. The chairman pointed out that the remainder of the needed funds are expected from business, industry, and community support. new wing will add galleries and enlarge the recently opened Junior Museum. The Museum has spent about $100,000 acquiring land for the new facility and renovating the existing structure. eastbound lanes and jumped railing at the medial strip.

The car careened down a 100-foot embankment. Mr. and Mrs. Fogarty were thrown from their convertible. Police said the engine of the car torn from the front.

The car was demolished. Drug Case Defendant Bound Over A Green Lane R. 1 man, accused of trafficking in and possession of dangerous drugs, was bound over for Lehigh County Court action yesterday. Chester B. Allen free on $5,000 bail.

He pleaded guilty to charges a ing before Justice of the Peace Charles Deutsch. Police said Allen and a companion, Donald Reidnauer, 20, of 109 E. Broad Quakertown, were arrested about 10 days ago by Coopersburg and state police at Quakertown, on warrants asserting the two were passing LSD, methedrine (speed) and amphetamines in Coopersburg. Reidnauer's hearing, also scheduled for yesterday, before Deutsch, was continued because a public defender had just been appointed and had not had time to familiarize himself with the case. WALTER J.

McCOY Cyclist Hurt In Whitehall Collision A 25-year-old motorcyclist was injured yesterday when his cycle collided with a car on MacArthur Road, just north of the city line in Whitehall Township. Richard Fitzgerald of Walnutport R. 1 was treated in Allentown Hospital for pain in both knees and the left side, a cut of and dizziness. "Township police northbound said on Fitz- his cycle when a southbound car, operated by Irving, Pryor of Roslyn Estates, made a left turn to enter a station. Both drivers applied their brakes, but skidded on the wet roadway and the cycle struck the car.

In an earlier accident on MacArthur Road, a near headon collision occurred between a vehicle traveling north in the southbound lane and a second car transporting an injured child to the hospital. Rebecca Louise Wolbach, 16- month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Wolbach of Cherryville, had received a cut lip in an accident in her home.

She was being taken to the hospital by her father when the accident occurred. Township police said a passing motorist transported the girl from the accident scene the hospital. According to police, the Wolbach vehicle was southbound on MacArthur Road near Kiddy City when a car operated by Charles F. Schistel of Norristown pulled out of the store's lot and made a left turn into the southbound traffic lane. No i injuries occurred due to the mishap.

Coplay Unit to Hold Youth Team Signup Final registration for boys' baseball and girls' softball teams in Coplay will be held from 1 te 4 p.m. today in Coplay Borough Hall. Boys from 6 to 14 years old are eligible to sign up for the summer baseball leagues, and girls 9-14 can sign up for the softball league. Coplay Sports, is trying to form traveling girls' softball teams. Girls from 12 to 14 years old may sign up for the junior league and girls 15-17 for the senior league.

Old- Venice Art Exhibit Discussed More than 100 persons heard Dr. Claus Virch, former curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, present a slide lecture on "The Circle of Venice Canaletto" exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum last night. He told the group that, by their painting, "Canaletto and the painters of Venice made scenes in Venice known the world He said that the city remains much the same today as when it was painted by such painters as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giovanni Antonio Da Canal (Canaletto) during the 18th century. "The city is a lovable subject to me. There are those who love the city and there are those who hate it.

For D.H. Lawrence, Venice was 'an abhorrent, green, slippery he said. Dr. Virch extolled the architectural beauties of the city, and lamented the fact there are only "about 400 gondoliers in Venice now, compared to the more than 10,000 when the city was in full swing" during the late 1700s. lecture was sponsored by the John and Fannie Saeger Art Trust Fund.

Open House Slated To Aid Cub Scouts Of the three, Allentown was highest with 36. Easton registered 24 and East Stroudsburg 18. Their 1970 pollen index, however, did show a decrease from the 1966-1969 average pollen index. Only four cities in the state registered below a 10 index. The lowest was Kane, McKean County, with a one index.

Highest in the state was Chambersburg, Franklin County, with a 79 index. Since ragweed pollen, which the chief cause of hay fever, is so universal in scope in the state, control measures must originate at the local level, the department said. Two successful methods of controlling ragweed were cited: the use of selective herbicides, or the physical cutting of the plant just prior to the beginning of the ragweed season. An open house to aid in the organization of a scout cub pack for the Cementon area will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in St.

Paul's Union Church, Cementon. Boys in the 3rd grade or 8 years of age and their parents are invited to see films of scouting activities and hear talks about the program by Cubmaster David Shafnisky and by Lester Sutter, institutional representative to the pack. Davi Searces. 1AM Blues today chaste.