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THE CALL AND THE ORWIGSBURG NEWS SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1969 TEN CENTS Seek Public Reaction On Hi-rise Apartment COMMENTS on the NEWS IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU Pow The hi-rise apartment project exploded like a bomb Friday night. What was generally believed to be merely a matter of form allowing a variance in the zoning ordinance to permit the erection of an 11-story apartment building in Sch. Haven turned out to be something else. Only one interested citizen besides those directly associated with the project attended the public hearing of the, Sch.

Haven Zoning Board of Adjustment at Borough Hall on Friday. His main interest is access to the garage at the rear of his property which adjoins the Legion plot where the hi-rise is to be erected. Board member Charles Oakley triggered the surprise opposition. He questioned the appearance of an unusually tall building, slightly more than 100 feet high, and the lack of fire fighting equipment capable of fighting a fire on the upper floors. Philip Neal proposed that another public hearing be held in two weeks, on Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m.

at Borough Hall. In the intervening period, he asked that the public express opinions on whether a variance of the zoning law should be allowed. The function of the board is to determine whether variances can be made with existing zoning ordinances. Decisions are made after public hearings are held. Advocates and opponents both have the opportunity to be heard.

The unexpected turn of events seems to indicate that the cart was put before the horse. The hi-rise apartment building for the elderly had its start two years ago. At its February 1967 meeting, Borough Council requested the Schuylkill County Housing Authority to plan a building and acquire a site. After two years of governmental red tape, alteration of plans to meet cost guidelines, the Authority moved a step farther two weeks ago when the sale of the land on Parkway was approved by the Legion members. With the site certain, the Authority sought a variance of the zoning law which limits the height of buildings in R-l and R-2 residential areas to 35 feet.

(Industrial and business zones have a limit of 50 feet.) As no opposition was expressed previously and the borough seemed eager to have this type of housing to give the elderly a better type of living at a low-income rate, approval of the variance was taken for granted. The Housing Authority is a non-profit organization created by act of legislature. Ryland Lord is director and Franklin Shollenberger, Sch. Haven, is assistant director. The planned project is an 11-story structure with 10 apartments on each floor.

It will be almost circular with 12 flat surfaces. Diameter will be approximately 90 feet. One of the 11 stories will be higher than the others and will be used for community activity. The hi-rise structure is to be built on caissons with columns supporting it. The exterior wall of brick will be merely a curtain wall, not a supporting wall.

The building will have two elevators, one that will operate on emergency power in case of an electrical failure, and a stairwell. It is to be totally electric. i Pottsville has a 12-story hi-rise, different in' design, with six units per floor and a tower on the roof. This building is located near the Court House. Minersville will have a slightly smaller structure, 10 floors with 10 units on each floor.

This project is an important undertaking. Give it serious thought and send your written comments to the Board of Adjustment at Borough Hall. Vol. LXXVIII No. 9 Police Pick Up Suspect William A.

Carson, 43, Pine Grove RD3, was arrested yesterday for the armed robbery which took place Feb. 13 at the home of Dr. Herbert C. Rubright, 11 Hill-crest Ave. Sch.

Haven state police, conducting the investigation, report Carson was arraigned before Alderman William Purcell, Pottsville and committed to Schuylkill County Prison. Bail has not been set. Three gunmen one disguised as a policeman, the other two wearing masks entered the home and at gunpoint tied up the doctor, his wife and two sons. The men entered the home shortly before 10 p.m. and spent an hour searching the home before leaving.

It was almost an hour later before the doctor's son, Herbert Jr. was able to free himself and work his way to his father who managed to untie the boy. A $2,500 diamond ring, a watch, two 12-gauge shotguns, a .22 caliber rifle with scope and $250 in cash were taken. Boy Darts Into Path of Car Theodore Staller 7, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Staller Sch. Haven RD2, is in guarded condition in the Hospital where he was admitted Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock after being hit by an automobile. The accident occurred on Route 443, west of Sch. Haven. Sch.

Haven state police said the boy was waiting for the school bus when he darted from the North side to the South side of the highway, running into the path of the automobile operated by Kathryn Krause. Sch. Haven RD2. The. boy was taken to the hospital in the Sch.

Haven police car. He suffered abrasions of the forehead, right side ard back of head, and left lower leg, and is under observation for a possible 1 imtrm jjism- i measuring 95 from the ground to the top. The bell, valued at $3,000, was originally on an old church at Pine Grove. Lee Reber, Sch. Haven, donated the bell to St.

Paul's. A BELL FOR ST. PAUL'S-A 54 ft. steeple in which a 100 year old bell will be installed, is being erected at St. Paul's UCC, Summer steeple will be the largest in this area, In the discussion, Housing Authority Director Lord explained that the hi-rise design is the only way to provide the large number of units at a cost the federal government would approve.

The building will have to conform to all borough construction codes. The number of units was established i by a government survey. The Legion lot is the only suitable location that could be found within the borough. Shollenberger mentioned the need to consider the humanitarian aspects of the project as it will, affect elderly persons now living in substandard, housing. The board of adjustment is authorized to grant variances in specific cases which will not be contrary to the public interest.

There-; fore, the board decided in order to obtain more public reaction to the requested variance to table action until a subsequent public meeting scheduled for Friday, March 7 in Borough Hall. Signed written comments are also requested and should be ad-, dressed to the Zoning Board of Adjustment, Borough Hall, Sch. Haven. the Service Pfc. Emmett L.

Koch son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett L. Koch' 210 High is a member of Company 589th engineers battalion stationed in Cam' Ranh Bay, Viet Nanv Koch -enlisted the army following graduation from Sch. Haven High-School in 1968.

He had basic training at Fort Dix," N.5 advanced training at Fort Leonard Wood, Md. at i the heavy equipment school. He graduated there Jan. 17 as a wheel tractor operator specialist. Koch received his present rating upon his arrival in Viet Nam.1 George F.

Lord III, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Lord 201 Centre Sch. Haven, has been promoted to staff sergeant in the US air force.

Sergeant Lord is an air operations supervisor at Torrejon AB, Spain, in a unit of the US air forces in Europe. He is a 1963 graduate of Blue Mountain Jointure High School. Sgt. Richard L. Stein, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Daniel R. Stein, 222 E. Market Orwigsburg, has received the US air force commendation medal at Yokota AB, Japan. Sergeant Stein was decorated for meritorious, service as a personnel specialist at Royal Thai AFB, Thailand.

He was cit-t ed for his outstanding professional skill and initiative. He is now at Yokota in a unit of the Pacific Air Forces. A 1965 graduate of Blue Mountain Joint High School, he attended Goldey Beacom Business College, Wilmington, before entering the service. Marine Private First Class Lin G. Zimmerman, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd M. Zimmerman, 532 E. Mifflin has reported for duty at the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, Calif. El Toro is the home of the third marine aircraft wing.

The wing constantly in training and ready to move to any trouble spot at a moment's notice, is an aviation counterpart to a marine infantry division. Thomas McGoey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. McGoey, 408 Hess returned home two weeks ago from Long Bink, Viet Nam where he has been stationed since May 1, 1968.

A 1966 graduate of Nativity BVM High School he enlisted in the army in November of 1967. Following his leave he will return to Viet Nam where he does clerical work. Continued on page 6 DOCTOR ON CALL DR. H. B.

COOPER Phone 385-1675 Public reaction to the requested variance in the zoning ordinance to permit the erection of a hi-rise apartment building on the Legion lot on Parkway is sought by the Zoning Board of Adjustment before it makes a. decision. The board held a public meeting at Borough Hall on Friday to discuss and act upon a request for a height variance for zoning ordinance No. 438 in order to permit the construction of the proposed 100-foot high building. Conspicuously absent was the public.

Present were Charles Oakley, Ken Reber and Philip Neal, board members; Robert Gehrig, borough manager; Alvin Kerschner, Borough Council president; Ryland Lord and Frank Shollenberger, director and assistant director of the Schuylkill County Housing Authority; and John Schumacher, an adjoining property owner. Board Chairman Oakley pointed out that the proposed height of over 100 feet exceeded by more than three times the maximum height for a residential area and over two times the maximum height for the business and industrial areas. News of Pvt. Richard L. Schaffer, son of Mrs.

Agnes Schaffer, 48 Market Orwigsburg and Robert W. Schaffer, New Ringgold, who enlisted -in the army in September, completed basic training and advanced training at Fort Knox, Ky. He recently spent a two week 1 1 Jeave at home and is now with the armored tank division stationed at Fort Knox. Schaffer, who attended Blue Mt. schools, is the grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. K. N. Heim, 248 E. Market Orwigsburg.

SP4 Dennis J. McGlone, of 23 E. Union stationed at the communications center in Frankfurt, Germany, celebrated his 21st birthday Feb. 18. Seaman Apprentice Gary L.

Herring, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Herring, Pine Grove RD2, has been graduated from nine weeks of navy basic training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airr man Gerald L. Hinnershitz, of Mr.

and Mrs. Gerald L. Hinnershitz of 41 N. Berne Sch. Haven, and husband of the former Barbara A.

Marx of Port Carbon, returned to Norfolk, Va. aboard the aircraft carrier USS Independence. For the past nine months the carrier was operating with the sixth fleet in the Mediterranean. David J. McGovern, 133 N.

Washington Orwigsburg, was among a group of Schuylkill County men who enlisted in the US Air Force during January. SP5 Art Sterner and PFC Bill Sterner, US Army, sons of Mr. and Art Sterner, 220 Haven arrived home two weeks ago to spend a leave with their parents. Art arrived home from Viet Nam while his brother. Bill, formerly stationed in Georgia is home prior to leaving for Alaska.

Art, who had been stationed at Cam Rahn Bay where he did clerical work, is a 1966 graduate of Sch. Haven High School. He entered the service in September of 1967 and following a 30 day leave will be stationed at Ft. Devens, Mass. Bill, who attended communication specialist school at Ft.

Gordon, is a 1968 Nativity BVM High School graduate and entered the service in September of 1968. He will report to Ft. Lewis, Wash. Tuesday from where he will leave for an 18 month tour of duty in Alaska. Lindy Potts Jr.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindy L. Potts Orwigsburg RD1, left Feb. 13 for active duty in the navy.

Potts entered the navy's CACHE program in October of 1968. GPIDC Fund Drive Tops Goal; Haven Contributed $2,750 Although the Greater Pottsville Industrial Development Corp. campaign will not officially end until Thursday, March 6, the campaign has gone over the top of its minimum goal of $600,000 and tallies a $645,819 total to date. The latest financial report was made Tuesday afternoon at a meeting in the Necho Allen Hotel ballroom. In Sch.

Haven Thomas Feeser, chairman, reported $2,750 contributed; Cressona, Thomas Nickels chairman, Auburn, Harold Heffner and Norman Dennis, $15. GAME COMMISSION CHANGES DUTIES T. A. Reynolds, supervisor of the Southeast division of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, announces that Acting Game Protector F. M.

Spancake of Pine Grove will now be in charge of the commission's program in the entire area West of Route 61 including Pottsville, Cressona, Sch. Haven and St. Clair. Game Protector Paul Piechoski will be in charge of the area East of Route 61. David Meashey New Scout Executive Dr.

Clayton C. Barclay, Orwigs-burg, president of Appalachian Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America, announced that David D. Meashey has been hired as a district executive to serve the Indian Run District of the council. The area includes the southern half of Schuylkill County and has an enrollment 2,200 cubs, boy scouts and explorers with 600 volunteers. A native of Palmyra, Meashey is a graduate of Millersville State College and will receive professional training for his new position by attending the National Training Institute at Mendham, N.

J. Deer Lake Burglary Sch. Haven state police are investigating a burglary which occurred early Tuesday morning at the Deer Lake Chevron service station owned by Charles Jacoby, Sch. Haven. The burglars smashed a bay window to gain entrance sometime between 1 and 5 a.m.

Coins were removed from the cash register, cigarette machine and pin-ball machine. The loss is estimated at $122. Lt. Rodney Bubeck Completes Duty At Testing Center Lt. Charles R.

Bubeck recently completed a two year tour of duty at the naval air testing center, Patuxent River, Md. as test pilot with the service test division. At the present time he is assigned to attach squadron 128, NAS, Whidbey Island, Wash, learning about the A6 Intruder. Bubeck expects to be at this base five to eight months learning to fly the plane, becoming acquainted with the weapons system and learning the fundamentals in using the plane as a bomber. When he completes this assignment he will be assigned as a pilot to the attached squadron 145 presently deployed upon USS Enterprise CVAN 65.

Bubeck's wife, the former Mary Agnes Candee, and children, Cheryl Ann, Charles Jr. and Craig Alan are residing at Oak Harbor, Wash. Bubeck is the son of Mrs. May Bubeck, Dock St. and the late Charles Bubeck.

Mrs. Bubeck is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Candee, Paxson Ave. Nurse Assisted In Transplants Margo Bowler, registered nurse employed at Memorial Hospital for Cancer, New York City, was one of five nurses who assisted surgeons who transplanted six or-gans from one person in an operation performed at the hospital last week.

Miss Bowler, daughter of Mrs. Willard Miller, 38 Railroad St. and the late William Bowler, recently joined with five other nurses on the liver transplant team. The organs transplanted from a 57 year old man with an inoperative brain tumor, were the heart, liver, both kidneys and both eyes. A 1960 Sch.

Haven High School and a 1963 Pottsville Hospital School of Nursing graduate, Miss Bowler was employed on the nursing staff at Abington Hospital prior to going to New York three years ago. The Get-Tough Line Hoorays sounded again this week as Dr. Eric A. Walker, president of The Pennsylvania State University, joined the growing ranks of college and university administrators who are taking a strong stand against student demonstrators. Student uprising has gone beyond the destructive stage to the ridiculous.

Minority groups at Penn State are now demanding that entrance requirements be lowered so that more of the minority be admitted as students. Favoritism, whether for the majority or the minority, is unfair. The present method of admission is fair. The hopeful student on his application does not list his race, color or creed. His admission is based upon his qualifications, high school grades and results of his college board exams.

Lowering standards will weaken the university. Not only will the admittance standards be relaxed, but the classroom performance requirements will have to be lowered. Otherwise the below-standard student will not be able to make the grades. Instead of lowering standards in order to admit more of the minority groups, special schools should be set up to improve the would-be student so that he can qualify and be on equal terms with the other students. Elections This Year Focus On Boro, Township Offices On the Local Level Wednesday was I-day at Sch.

Haven High School. Haircuts and lower skirts. The school administration gave the students Monday and Tuesday to comply with the standards of dress as outlined in the student handbook. Wednesday was inspection day. Hair that covered the ears and eyes, was unparted and hanging down straight in front and over the collar in back, and had sideburns below eye level, was out.

So was the student who had his hair that way. Requirement for girls was hemlines no more than two inches above the knee. The inspection yesterday resulted in four girls being sent home for longer dresses or skirts and seven boys told to get the hair trimmed to standards. Reaction was immediate. Rumor of a student strike today spread.

It did not come off this morning but may take place this afternoon when an assembly program on wrestling is scheduled to be held. piIllllllllllinilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH Local Battles Ahead In Schuylkill Haven offices to be filled include mayor, tax collector, three school directors and six councilmen. Mayor Mike Bast has stated that he will not run in this year's election. 5 It is reported that D. Willis Deibert, tax collector for -s many years, will not seek re-election.

Three school directors are to be elected with the terms 1 of Robert Breon, Ronald Gill and Charles Deibler expiring this year. Deibler, member of the board for 30 years and treasurer 26 years, is not seeking re-election. In the North Ward the terms of councilmen Leroy Ed- ing and Sterling Merkey will expire; in the East Ward, 1 1 Clair Reed and Matt Peel; South Ward, Sylvester Eiler and in the West Ward, Russell Llewellyn. 1 lllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllM years) judge of elections, in each district, 10, four years; school directors (three in Sch. Haven area), 10, six years.

Second class township offices supervisor, 10, six years; assessor, 10, four years; auditor (where one is not appointed by court) 10, six years; tax collector, 10, four years; judge of elections in each district, 10, four years; inspector of elections in each district) 5, four years; school directors (three in Blue Mt. School District) 10, six years. Except for school directors, a filing fee of from $1 to $35 is required depending upon the office. In order to vote in the primary election, the voter must be registered in a Last date to register is March 31. Previous registration is permanent, if a person votes at least once every two years and has not changed his name or address in the last two years.

Field registration will be held in Sch. Haven Feb. 28 at borough hall for residents of Sch. Haven, Landingville, North and South Manheim Twp. (new); March 3, at the Orwigsburg Ambulance Building for residents of Orwigsburg and West Brunswick Twp.

and March 6 at Good Will Fire Co. for Cressona residents. The League of Women Voters has supplied the following information on filing for candidacy in the primary elections as a voter service for the public. Election of candidates to run in the municipal election in Novem-: ber for local and county offices will be held May 20. To become a party candidate in November's election the following rules must be followed: Apply for petitions after Feb.

18 at county board of elections, Pottsville. Secure necessary number of signatures and file with board of elections before March 11. The circulator of a petition must be a registered and enrolled member of the political party as well as of the political district referred to in the petition; typewrite or print name of candidate on face of the petition exactly as it is to appear on official ballot; if a married woman is a proposed candidate, her first name should be used on the petition; avoid use of nicknames in name of a candidate as no nicknames will be printed on ballot; be sure proper office title of party offices is set forth in petition; make certain each signer of a petition is a registered and enrolled member of the party referred to in the petition and a resident of the governmen- Watch Great Britain A revolutionary change in local government is on the way in Great Britain. It could lead to a major alteration in national government. Early in March, a royal commission is expected to recommend abolishing 1,000 small local authorities and replacing them with 70 new and large local governments.

The new organizations will maiiage education, town planning, welfare, sewerage and rubbish disposal. The trend to eliminate smaller local governing bodies and encourage combinations or jointures is growing in this country. Sewerage and rubbish disposal have already drawn some together. Recreation has joined boroughs and townships. Police and fire protection will bring about other mergers.

Eventually, the individual small unit governments will disappear. Even the interrelation of school and local government may eventuall, bring about the combining of these two as considered in Great Britain. tal unit which the candidate is to represent; each signer may sign petitions for as many candidates for each office as he is permitted to vote for and no more; each signer himself, inserts information concerning residence, etc. Offices to be filled at the municipal election 1969 include the following with the required number of signers for the designated term: judge of Court of Common Pleas (if present incumbent judge files declaration of retention with state, this office will not be on primary ballot, would then appear on November ballot as "yes" or "no" question, 200 signers, 10 year term; district attorney, 100, 4 years; sheriff, 100, 4 years; jury commissioners (for each party) 100. 4 years.

Borough offices mayor, 10, four years; auditor (where not appointed) 10, 6 years; tax collector, 10, 4 years; councilmen (six in Sch. Haven, four in Orwigsburg, two. in Cressona) 10, four years; justice of peace (two in Cressona and one in Orwigsburg) 10, six.