The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

tk Arctic Cut SALES A SERVICE LEISURE EQUIPMENT CALL 495-7730 714, Parker Forti Mercury Feature i Pace Wednesday, January 10, 1973 Paae Nine See The All New JOHN DEERE SNOWMOBILES FOR '73 AT PRIZERS APPLIANCES, Inc. Rt. 100 SO. POTTSTOWN, 449 4200 LET'S HEAR THAT EXCUSE AGAIN? Borough parkettes started issuing tickets this week to motorist parked at unexpired meters, but who reportedly remained at the meters more than two hours. The ticketing was done in keeping with a clause in the borough ordinance and the reason, according to Lloyd R.

Meyers, acting police chief, is employes of offices and stores downtown mmrk the meters there is none available for However, a Mercury photographer checking the situation on a typical Tuesday afternoon found difficulty in substantially this reasoning. On a stretch of High Street, from Manatawny to Franklin, he found 35 open parking spaces and little justification for such drastic measures from the police department. See related editorial on page 4. (Mercury Staff Photos). United Fund 0 Awards Will Be Presented Man Finds Courage, New Lease on Life operating on KHz "I was worried too but it seemed to me if 1 needed it, 1 should do it." After five days preparatory tests at Heading, was admitted to University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, the nearest hospital with the elaborate equipment and highly-trained surgical teams needed for delicate heart surgery.

His surgeons spent seven hours and a half opening his chest, connecting his circulatory system to a heart-lung machine that would breathe and pump hs blood while his heart was stopped, and then insterting a small artifical aortic valve to replace the scarred tissue that was cutting off his blood supply. can't describe how 1 felt when I woke up the next day but 1 was a sick man like anyone else who just had major surgery," Eltz remembers. But he was home for Christmas his happiest in years His three sons and daughter and their families as well as his three new stcp- children and 13 step- grandchildren crowded into the Eltz home at 1515 Cherry Lane welcome the patient home. He's up and around now and looking forward to going back to his job in a few months. Next summer be mow ins his lawn again and visiting h.s retreat in the mountains on weekends.

anyone else in town needs this operation and has doubts alx'ut it, I'd be glad to talk to Eltz declared. looking forward to a normal life Four Couples from Pottstown Area Invited to Inauguration Festivities Cold Weather Gives Boost To Sagging Winter Economy United Fund awards and citations will be presented Tuesday at the annual meeting at Brooksid? Country Club. The awards are for work in the 1972 campaign. All contributors. member agency representatives, campaign workers and the directors of the UF were invited to attend.

John J. MeCaslin, president, in his report to the community will review the past year of the United Fund and its activities. Willard Bickel, 1972 campaign chairman, will report on the campaign which raised $301.000 for 23 member agencies. He will be awarded a plaque for his work during the campaign. Directors to the board of the UF will be elected.

Jacob Sotter is chairman of the nominating committee. William S. Hell ye will receive a special citation for his efforts as co-chairman of the drive. Mrs. Harold Binder and Mrs.

James E. Smale will be cited for exceeding division goals. Special mention will go to Douglas V. and A. Burtis Hallock.

co-chairmen of the advance gifts. Receiving citations will be the flollowing division chairmen: John J. Meade, industrial; John E. Hendersched, financial; Thomas J. Harwood, general; Robert Moses, mercantile; Edward Gibble, professional; and Robert Y.

Kurtz, public service. Other awards for in the campaign sections will be presented to: Clyde Brumbach, real estate; Sam Reiser, auto dealers; Fred W. Mearns, building supplies; Sam Koury, hauling and towing; William Stamm, dentists; James Sands, government; Eleanor Cornmesser, schools. Workers in the township division who will be recognized were Mrs. Ivan Hess, Limerick; Mrs.

Edward Hunnicutt and Mrs. Charles Bicksler, Lower Pottsgrove; Mrs. William E. Achatz, New Hanover; Mrs. Robert N.

Brown, Mrs. Teb Feroe, and Mrs. Lester Yocom, North Coventry; Mrs. Joseph Dildine, Mrs. Helen Patterson and Mrs.

Alfred Anderson. Perkiomen. Pottstown zone workers cited will be Mrs. Joseph Walters, Mrs. Larry Kirlin, Mrs.

A. Emery Lord, Mrs. Peter S. Mrs. Philip Lang, Mrs.

William Spare, Mrs. Samuel Frock and Mrs. Kenneth Ensminger. Mrs. Juanita B.

Elliott, chairman of campaign public relations; Bruce C. Weetoer, chairman of campaign audit; and Mrs. Walter F. Beltz. Seh- venksville area coordinator, will receive certificates.

Doctors told Jesse Eltz last May he had only three years to live. But this month the 59-vear-old foundry superintendent at Pottstown Machine Co. is recovering from open-heart surgery with a new lease on life and a new wife in the bargain. no said the muscular, crew-cut convalescent, grateful and ulad I found the courage to go throungh with the operation in- Four Pottstown area couples have received invitations to take part in inauguration festivities in Washington D.C. next week, on the recommendation of the Montgomery County Republican Committee.

They were Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Sanders, Wilson and Mt. Vernon streets; Mr. and Donald E.

Orr, Ivy Lane, Lower Pottsgrove; Mr. and Mrs. John J. Newett, 805 S. 4th Royersford and Mr.

and Mrs. Stanley Schlichter, Route 422. Limerick. Two couples said they are not planning to go and two still are considering the trip. They are part of a 25-couple contingent from the county, heajed by Mr.

and Mrs. Daniel E. Beren. Beren is county chairman. Other couples who received invitations, directly from Washington, are from the Gleuside, Abington, and Lower Merion areas.

Events include a reception for Vice President and Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew Jan 18 in the Smithsonian Institution and a salute to the states at the John F. Kennedy Center the same evening. A salute to heritage will be presented by various ethnic groups at the Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene baton, will present the 1973 inaugural concert at John F.

Kennedy Center, Jan. 19. The inaugural ceremony Jan. 20 at the Capitol is scheduled a.m. and the inaugural parade will begin 1 p.m.

inaugural bulls will be at the Smithsonian and at Kennedy Center. Montgomery reh resentatives will travel on their own this year. Previously chartered buses or trains were arranged, according to a spokesman at the county office. Pottstown View the same spirit expect for a cold Mrs. James Ricketts, assistant manager of James Ricketts Clothing.

311 High also noticed a decline in sales because of the previously mild weather. ir.iseasonal temperatures not only hurt in the sales of winter coats but also cut into the sales of winter gloves, scarves, hats and even sweaters. long underwear, which is one of the fastest moving winter items, also was extremely slow because of the previously warm The mild weather not only has affected the clothing business but cut into the sales of snow tires and other winter related items. Marvin Pritcher, manager the Firestone Store, High Street at Firestone Drive, said sales are about the same as a year ago but far below what was expected this year. While he expects business to pick up this month with a snowfall, lie said he expect the mad rush that would have occurred in November or December if the weather had been colder then.

people purchased new snow tires in November anticipating the snow and ice but those sales began to slack off by mid-December. wait for cold weather and snow before he said. wait for the first big snowfall avid then decide if tney need snow tires or can get through the winter without He added that the demand for snow blowers, shovels and even ice scrapers has down but this too would pick up if snow would appear. Lines Severed, Ursinus Loses Phone Service Telephone service for Ursinus College and several neighboring subscribers in Collegeville was inte rupted more than four hours Tuesday. Tiie trouble occurred shortly after 11 a.m..

when workmen installing a new' toll cable that will connect Pottstown and Norristown, cut a conduit that iies the college with telephone service. The location of the break was Route 422 near the main ironwork gate of the college. put us ou- of said Howard Schultze, Ursinus director of buildings and since the main'cable was cut. We had no incoming or outgoing call? from shotrly betore noon until after 3:31) p.m., when the first trunk lines were placed back into According to William Cross, manager of Bcli Telephone Co. in Pottstown and Phoenixville, the damaged conduit carries 600 pairs of phone wires but only 200 of those pairs are or serving subscribers.

Schultze said more than 100 lines serve the campus, including the main trunk lines, pnvute telephones in most dormitory rooms, and pay telephones. Cross said si! service was restored bv laU JESSE ELTZ stead of iving a few years with a death sentence hanging over Eltz had been feeling achy and tired fer several years. spring it began to get wxirse dizzy spells and pains came often. HEART ENLARGED A cardiologist told him his heart was enlarged and i orat i because of damage from a bout with rheumatic fever in childhood. Eltz was told not to exercise, mow his dawn or shovel snow this winter.

Last fall he got the ultimatum risk open heart surgery now or wait for death within three years. Eltz. a widower, spent a long time talking it over with a family friend, a widow of four years, who not only reassured him but said she would marry him. The couple was married Oct. 13.

told me nothing bad was going to happen and she would see me through no matter said Eltz. a wonderful READING HOSPITAL The same day he told the specialists at Reading Hospital he would go through with heart surgery. Another patient refused. said he want any doctor taking his heart out and Cold arctic air which pushed into the Pottstown area over the weekend and remained was all needed to pick up the sagging winter economy, according to area merchants. The mild weather through most of December and carrying into the view year hurt the winter economy but during that spell, merchants dependent on cold weather looked ahead in hopes of another late winter to boost sales to the expected levels.

Raymond Cohen, manager of Store, 230 High said the clothing business is one which always feels the sting of a mild winter. Cohen said weather is 90 per cent of what sales will be, especially in the heavy winter the weather is not conducive, the sales will hurt because of this. Cohen said the sales volume is about even with that of a year ago when the cold whiter weather was late in arriving. pattern of weather seems to have been changing over the past five or six years with the cold weather arriving later in the season and lasting longer into the spring. He said he is sure Pottstown will get its share of cold winter weather this month and next.

then winter clothing is on sale and benefits the this is the case, it will become a buyers market and not a sellers he said. The big loss attributed to the previously mild weather was on heavy winter outerwear. all-weather coats replaced the top coats and sell throughout the he said. gloves move as a small item for Christmas each year regardless of the Cohen said he is selling more sweaters and light-weight jackets as a replacement for the heavy jackets and this helps a little in the sales volume but not enough to balance the loss. also affects the rn buying habits because at Christmas time if the weather is warm, there isn't "Everybody is moving to the suburbs, so I said to myself, 'why not be one of the.