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Simpson's Leader-Times from Kittanning, Pennsylvania • Page 4

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Ford City, Sept. 9, 1958 Office: Second floor 316 Ford Street DAILY LEADER-TIMES This Page Devoted to the Interests of Ford City and Vicinity Phone RO 2-2561' Leader-Times Can Be of Service Typo Ungarbied IDecision Delayed FORD CITY--A paragraph in a story on the current hoop craze which appeared yesterday contain- ed a typographical error. The paragraph should have read as fol- lows: I Robert Hankey of the G. C.i Murphy Company Store said that! never in all his experience as a store manager has lie seen anything like the "tremendous made by the hoop. Council Hears Request For Hill Traffic Light IF A CASH LOAN OF $20 TO $600 would solve your present financial worries SEE E.

Y. HAYWOOD Manager Ford City Finance Co. Open Saturdays 9 a.m. io 12 noon Tel. RO 2-2091 412 Ninth beside Roxy Theater FORD CITY--Town council postponed action until its next meeting on a request for for the installation of a traffic signal light at the intersection of Route 66 and the Ford City Hill Road, near the Pleasant View School Building.

A delegation of five persons appeared at last night's council meeting in the Borough Building. Sam Friedland and Robert Lang of the Pleasant View Parent-Teacher Association, Abe Meyers, owner of the school buses that transport Ford City students, Charles Boarts and William Thornton of the Ford City Union School District Board were present as the delegation. Councilmen had previously promised to contribute SI.000 for the light. At that time the cost was estimated at $3,000. Since then, The possibility of placing a patrolman at the intersection was considered by a committee, Fried- Councilmen protested to Street Commissioner Victor Aubrey about the painting of a yellow line on the curbs in front of the public school buildings.

Councilmen objected to land said. It was found that maintaining a patrolman at the intersection would be more costly than! the parking prohibition without ac- installing a light. According to highway department regulations, Friedland added, the light would be in operation 24 hours each day. It could be a by It was done at the request of the blinker at night, flashing yellor or red light. The signal light would operate on a treadle system with traffic on the Ford City Hill Road and the Stringtown Road changing Ford City school board, said.

Council ruled that Aubrey Civil Defense To Train Here For Mass Care FORD CITY--The first session of a six-week training course in "Principles and Practices of Emergency Mass Care for Nurses" will get underway tomorrow night at the Ford City Eagles Home, 0'- lights: by passing ovei the treadle. I season will take place with the cost Thornton of the school board said that the state prohibits the school board from expending funds for a light. Later Connor St. Registration for the course will take place at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

The class is expected to begin at 7:30 p.m. Ross Webb, area director of Civil Defense will be present for the initial meeting. The training course will be under the direction of Miss Clair Schaffer, Ford City School Nurse. of four dollars for the season, the She studied mass care nursing at same as last year. a special course given last fall any parking regulations must be authorized by the council.

They left the school parking prohibition remain. Ash collections for the 1958-59 Councilman Czekanski asked that of the hillside by his Ridge tt uuu 01I the meeting, a letter I Ave. home be leased to him He Lang said, the estimate has been; rom tt school board was read. said that he wanted to beautify it. It suggested that the borough co- Councilmen Edward Kozak, Mi- operate with Manor Twp.

in main- chael Panchik and Olin Grieb will in increased to in excess of $6,000. Supervisors have promised that Manor Twp. will contribute $3,000 for the project, Lang said, and they will maintain the apparatus. Anything in excess of the SG.OOO installation cost will be contributed by the Pleasant View PTA. The main purpose for the light, Lang continued, is to protect children crossing the highway to and from the Pleasant View School.

Besides, he said, it will help reduce speeding and make entry from Route 66 to Ford City easier. The school intersection is located between the boundaries of Ford City Borough and Manor Twp. The Manor Twp. Supervisor's offer of i S3.000 will be for a three-year per- jiod, $1.000 each year, Fricdlaml, who spoke in a i Iioarsc voice and said that lie out of bed to make Hie )Iea for a light to council, said, "I'm sick now, but I'll get better. God liclp any child who may be struck by a car or truck and maybe not get better." See Us for the Best First Aids Be prepared for emergencies with a well- stocked first aid cabinet.

You'll find everything you need here all up to our standards of the highest quality. KLINGENSMITH'S PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORE "We're In Business for Your Health" FORD STREKT FORI) CITY THROUGH HOME woodwork smooth Colo KEMGIO Flows on freely, dries in 3 to 4 houra to a satiny surface like baked enamel. Beautiful lustre enamel for kitchens, bathrooms, all woodwork. 24 colors." taining a policewoman at the school intersection. Council tabled the letter and decided to make further study on the light matter which will be on the meeting agenda in October.

Charles Whitehill of the Pennsylvania Economy League and the Armstrong County Planning Commission asked that Ford City send a representative of their planning commission to the county meetings. Council President Ralph Stewart reported that the Ford City Planning Commission is inactive and three of the five members have dropped from the board. Council decided to revitalize the commission and will act on the matter at the next meeting. The Ford City Sewage Disposal Authority received approval to take a 60-day option on 25-feet-by-100- feet of Clarence Heilman property at Seventeenth St. and Third Ave.

for use of laying sewer water and electrical lines for the proposed sewage disposal plant. The option is for a possible purchase of the property for $1,500. Councilmen Edward Kozak and Walter Czekanski opposed the motion. They maintained that the Authority should make the purchase without requesting council for approval. The Authority should operate free of any "interference" by council.

If the Authority needs money, Kozak said, we'll lend it to them. For the motion were Ralph Stewart, Michael Panchik, Olin Grieb and Walter Brookhouser. Councilmen discussed the insur- yuicc policies of the police. Solons plan to place the cash value of the police policies into the newly formed police pension fund. Police claim that the money belongs to them.

Solicitor John B. McCue said that in his opinion the money was derived from state funds to provide a police pension fund. The money belongs in the police pension fund. McCue said. However, McCue added, he will see a further ruling on the matter investigate the matter and report at the next meeting.

VFW Women Plan Poppy Sales Here at Harrisburg. Classes will meet every Wednesday night for six weeks at the Ford City Eagles Home. Events To Look For In Vicinity FORD CITY--Ford City American Legion Post niembers will meet in monthly session at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the American Legion Building.

Also Scheduled for tomorrow and other days in the remainder of the week in Ford City and vicinity, according to reports to The Leader- Times, are the following other meetings and events: Wednesday, Sept. 10 Cider and Honey Club of Appleby Manor Memorial Presbyterian Church, 6 p. m. at home of Mr. and Mrs.

Welty Vensel, Ford City RD 2. Ford City Veterans Foreign Wars Auxiliary. 7:30 p. m. in Post Home, Pattonville.

United Lutheran' Church Men, 8 p. m. in St. John's Lutheran Church. Men.

of the Brick Church Parish will be guests. District Women to Attend Guard Auxiliary Luncheon Ford City area women attend a luncheon-meeting in Butler tomorrow of the Auxiliary of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Hats and keystones will highlight the program and decorations for the occasion. Mrs. Lee K.

Raup will give a talk, "Who is She?" Mrs. Raup, wel-known in the Butler area through her lectures and workshops, studied millinery at New York University. She is also a member of the auxiliary. Original hats will be modeled by Mrs. I.

B. Kelly. Wives of the officers of the First Battalion, with headquarters in Butler, will be hostesses for the at the Garden Gate Res- Arrangements were made by Mrs. Floyd C. Jones, chairman, with assistance of Mrs.

Sears Suttori, Mrs. John Mitch, Mrs. John Boyd, Mrs. Gerald, R. Lenavitt, lowing a major catastrophe is one of the most vital and realistic areas in the civil defense effort, Charles Sporny, secretary of the Armstrong County unit said.

Emergency care planning is basically to save and conserve life and to assist people in need fol- lowing disaster, Sporny said. They must be supplied with the immediate essentials and encouraged to self-help. In the first phase, Sporny added, immediate aid is given on a mass basis only. Essentials are provid- i eel as promptly and as adequately FORD CITY- Members of the! as emergency conditions will per- Ladies Catholic Benevolent As-n i- sociation, 8 p. m.

in Latin Ameri- Emergency care of victims fol- can Beneficial Society club rooms. Ladies Auxiliary of Ford City Veterans of Foreign Wars will offer poppies Friday and Saturday on Ford City streets. Fickes, chairman of the auxiliary poppy sale, said that an effort will be made to set a new record for poppy distribution in Ford Besides selling poppies to passers-by, the women will make a canvass of business places in town. The poppies, symbols of the battlefields and. cemeteries in Flanders during World War 1, are made by disabled and hospitalized veterans.

The money gathered during their sale is used for rehabilitation work and to provide hospitalized veterans with necessities. The making of poppies by hospitalized veterans is used for therapeutic results. The recuperating veterans are kept busy and occupied by the making of poppies. Marion Uccardo is chairman of the Ford City VFW program. Death Record by contacting state itlcs.

It was reported legal author- that practice turning of automobiles has been prohibited at Fourteenth- St. between Third and Fourth except on Tuesdays when state police conduct driver examinations. Council decided to eliminate parking meters at three corners to make better vision for traffic entering the avenues. The. will be taken out for a three-month trial period at the southeast corner of Fourth Ave.

and Ninth St. and the southwest corner of Fourth Ave. and Tenth St. Pattonville mothers are now having the pathway from Seventh Ave. to Pattonville.

at Twelfth reconstructed. Council will study the possibility of placing lights along the pathway. A study will, be made to enact traffic ordinances for the borough which would incorporate all traffic regulations. Named to the committee for the study were Burgess Frank Lux. chairman, Michael Panchik, councilman, Chief of Police Patrick Nelson, Street Commissioner Victor Aubrey and Solicitor John B.

McCue. Burgess Lux was authorized to change the curfew time to 9 p. m. from the summer 10 p. m.

time. Councilman Czekanski protested thai, the police car was being taken out of town for repairs. The practice would be slopped, it was reported. Mrs. Henry Gross Mrs.

Henry 'Elsie) Gross of Park Tarentum, formerly of Ford City, died at 8:45 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, 1958, in her home. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary Ricket of Tarentum; two daughters, Mrs.

Curt Campbell and Mrs. William Geote, both of Tarentum; five grandchildren; three sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Edward Rihn of Tarentum, Mrs. Paul John of Tyrone, Mrs. David Booth and John Ricket, both of Ford City, Homer -Ricket of Kittanning and Clyde Ricket of Har-j risburg.

Friends arc being received in the Walters funeral home. Tarentum. Funeral services will be at i) a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Natrona Heights.

mit. In the second phase are encountered those needs extending beyond the hours of crisis. These include all aspects of restorative procedure directed toward totai restoration of the effectiveness the individual, family or group. Mellon Bank Office Hours Are Changed FORD CITY New banking hours, "geared to the needs of residents and businesses in the Ford City area," have been announced by John P. Badura, manager of Mellon Bank in Ford City.

Beginning next Monday, Mellon Bank's Ford City office will be open for business Monday through Thursday from 9 a. m. to 3 p. one hour longer than previously. Friday's banking hours will be from 9 a.

m. to 4:30 p. m. and Saturday's from fl a. m.

to noon. Hours on both these days have been extended a half hour, Mr. Badura said. Mellon Bank's Ford City Office will also be open for business on certain holidays except where one may fall on a Sunday. These holidays are Columbus Day, Election Day, Veterans' Day (Armistice Day), Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Good Friday and Flag Day.

Den 2, Kiwanis Cub Scout Pack 625, 4 p. m. at home of Mrs. Katherine Wakefield, 1219 Fifth Ave. Den 4, Kiwanis Cub Scout Pack 625, 4 p.

m. at home of Airs. Jane Thomas, McGrann. Ford City VFW Boy Scouts, 7 p. m.

at Ford City Armory. Thursday, Sept, 11 Pythian Sisters, Ford City Temple, IB. in Ford Memorial Methodist Church basement. Amy M. Rice Class of Manorville Grace Lutheran Church, 8 p.

m. in I church social rooms. St. Mary's Boy Scout Troop, 7 p. m.

at Legion Building. Ford City Eagles Lodge, 8 p. at O'Connor St. Home. Friday, Sept.

12 Mary Copley Thaw-Helping Hand! Class, of Appleby Manor Memorial Presbyterian Church, 8 p. m. in church social rooms. TNT Class of First Baptist! Church, 8 p. m.

in church ment. Sunday, Sept, 14 Zivena Society 2 p. m. in Holy! Trinity School. Polish National Alliance, 2 p.m.! at Hall.

i Polish Falcons, 2 p. m. at Hall. First Catholic Slovak Union, 2. p.

m. at Hall. Mrs. Peter Uram, Mrs. Paul Simmons and Mrs.

Raup. The three battalions of the 112th Infantry Regiment are located in Butler, Erie and Ridgway, with. regimental headquarters in Eric. The regiment is a part of the 28th Division which completed two weeks training last month at Indiantown Gap. 'C' AUXILIARY TO MEET The Auxiliary to Company National Guard, will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Ford City Armory.

Mrs. Edward Petras will be hostess. Wives of all national guardsmen are welcome to attend. NOW I (Twin Burger) Served Daily at CIEPLY'S DRIVE-IN Phone RO 2-5920 SIDORA'S REMNANT SHOP Cadogan, Pa. Phone RO 2-7983 White Cotton Plisse, 4 yds.

$1.00 Suede Flannel, 25c yd. and 39c yd. 60" wool, $1.29 yd. Other wool, dacron, gabardine remnants sold by the Ib. Dan River Fall Plaids, 59c yd.

OPEN 9 to 9 SHUMAKER'S -Summer Cadogan Altars Vote Donation Toward Painting During a meeting of the Ladies Altar Society of St. Lawrence. Church, Cadogan, held Thursday! in the church basement, the wo-' men voted to give a sum of money toward painting the interior of the church. Mrs. Mary Schoenecker, president, had charge of the meeting, Members will receive communion Sept.

21. A tureen dinner is planned for i 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 to observe the society's eighth anniversary. I After the meeting a lunch was I served by Mrs.

Alfreda Goodyear and Mrs. Veronica Parish You get ail this: Clean and set SPARK PLUGS Clean and adjust DISTRIBUTOR POINTS Check DISTRIBUTOR, ROTOR and CAP Adjust VALVES Test COIL and CONDENSER Clean FUEL PUMP BOWL Clean AIR CLEANER Check MANIFOLD HEAT CONTROL Adjust FAN I ONLY 6 cyL 8cyL FOR OTHM MAKtt JUOHTIT MOM, AIL Hkm fXTIA, ASKS SUBSIDY PROGRAM COME IN AND ASK TO BORROW OUR NEW COLOR HARMONY GUIDE BOOK Floor Sanders And Wallpaper Removers FOREMAN'S HARDWARE 938 Fifth Are. Dial RO 2-7641 Ford Cily SCHLEMMER SON 121 North McKean St Dial LI 2-4871 Kittanning NATURALLY GOOD selling Orange Dial RO 2.2161 Ford City WASHINGTON (UPI) Richard Neuberger Sea. (D-Ore.) called Monday night for a subsidy program to improve the health, welfare and education of the nation's "real children. Ncuberger wrote in Parents' magazine that "sponsors of children's legislation are frequently too modest and timid in their demands." Indian land holdings in the United States total approximately 53 million acres.

LCBA Schedules Wednesday Meet Ford City Ladies Catholic Bene volent Association will meet at 8 o'clock Wednesday night in the La tin-American Club on Third Ave. it was announced by the president Mrs. Pat Pepper. Mrs. Pepper also announced the social committee to take charge of the meeting.

The members arc Mrs. Theresa Walbert, Mrs. Helei: I. Walbert, Mrs. Clara Wintgens Mrs.

Josephine Williams, Mrs Josephine Williams, Mrs. Katherine Wakefield, Mrs. Dorothy A. Winslow, Mrs. Frances Zanbli, Mrs.

Sylvia Wintgens and Mrs. Dorii Hankey. A very active man needs about 50 per cent more food than a very TENTH ST. active woman. Normalize HEAD and MAMFOLDBOlfl VTestCOMPftESSMN Tifhtn HOSE CONNECTHMS Check and rifil BATTERY finite BATTERY TERMINALS Chtck TIMMfi WIRES OCTANE SELECTOR TUMI Adjmt CARBURETOR HUE You see--you gee a complete motor analysis with special Chevrolet-designed equipment and tools in the hands of factory-trained Chevrolet mechanics.

Visit SHUMAKER CHEVROLET CO. DIAL RO 2-1971 FORD CITY SMALL WONDCR THE FATHE PEPIM TOE SHORT; WAS ONLY A LITTLE OVER FOUR TALL. 6UT HE CARRIE9 A SIWD OP SIX FEBT, AND WAS A RENOWNED WARRIOR IN SPITZ OP HIS LACK OF HEISHT. WHAT'S IN A NAME CVSR WOWDER HOIV THE DIMS BELL. COT ITS NAME? THE ORlSNAL DUM3 BELL CONST-TED OF A ROD FROM WHOS.S t-NPS WERE SUSPENDED BELLS WITH THE KEMmBOf WtMNDICUR eOVERMMefJT ARE BWMERS llH BOILDIHS7HE GTffEHSTM TO KEEP THE OUR COUNTRY is BUILOMS ITS INDUSTRIAL AMD HELP B1 fieJLAK PURCHASE OFU.K, WHSS K-fHftmiTf Beginning Next Monday SEPTEMBER 15 New Hours For Your Banking Convenience: Monday through Thursday 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 Noon P.S.-From now on, our bank will also be open for business on the following holidays where ne may fall on a Sunday: Columbus Day Election Day Washington's Birthday Good Friday Veterans Day (Armistice Day) Lincoln's Birthday I I Ford Street and Fourth Avenue MELLON BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Flag Day i.

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