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BIECHANICSBURG: Forensic Meet On Saturday More Than 1000 Boys and Girls Will Vie For District Honors Mechanicsburg, April 2. More than one thousand boys and girls from schools in eleven counties will compete here Saturday for district honors of the Southern Pennsylvania Music and Forensic League. Starting at 9 a. the contests are to be completed by 5 p. Winners will take part in State competition on April 18 at Newcastle.

Vocal, instrumental solos and groups, band and orchestra speaking and debating are listed on the day's program. Lunch will be served by a class of the united Brethren Sunday School. Students participating will be winners of contests held last week in' these counties: Cumberland, Dauphin, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, Adams, Perry, Juniata, Leb anon, Lancaster, and York. Uon testants will be assigned to rooms which will be used as headquar ters. All large group events, includ ing band and orchestra contests, will be held in the auditorium, while the declamation and speak ing events will be in the First United Brethren Sunday School rooms, near the high school building.

Bulletin boards will contain information regarding place and time of the numerous divisions, and results of contests will be posted as soon as the judges decisions are reached. district meet includes Class and schools, and is in charge of Huber D. Strine, York, Southern district director. Nurses' Assn. Elects Officers were elected, commit tees named, and the reports of the visiting nurse, secretary and treasurer were given at the nine teenth annual business meeting of the Visiting Nurse Association at the health centre.

George Schweitzer was reelected president: Parker H. Kuhns was named vice president; Mrs. Clyde Huber and F. L. Brown were re elected secretary and treasurer respectively.

Mrs. D. I. Gleim was named chairman of the milk fund. Other committees appointed are: Baby clinic, Mrs.

F. B. Long, chairman; Mrs. Clyde L. Shaull, Mrs.

Charles A. Markley, Miss Josephine Spons ler, Mrs. Stewart Kauffman, Mrs. D. I.

Gleim, and Mrs. Clyde Huber. Finance, F. L. Brown and Parker H.

Kuhns; office and supplies, Mrs. J. B. Bowman, Samuel J. Zimmerman, and Wayne H.

Neiswenter; publicity, Mrs. Clyde Huber. Reports showed $2059 was spent during the year for nurses salary, office rental, automobile expenses, equipment, insurance, and similar items, leaving a balance of $1047 to begin the new fiscal year. Miss Gladys Walter, community nurse, reported a total of 2583 patients on file; 115 admitted during the year; and 9 readmitted during the year. The annual financial report of the milk fund was submitted by Miss Clara K.

Coover, treasurer. balance of $211.25 remains to start the new year, after expenditures of $199.76 were listed for 1940. The fund provides milk for underweight school children. Guest Speaker The Rev. I.

C. Shearer, Mechanicsburg, retired Evangelical clergyman, will be the guest speaker at 7.30 p. m. o'clock at an evangelistic service in the First Church of God here. Classes which will attend are those taught by Mrs.

B. R. Shope, Mrs. Dorothy Gallagher, W. R.

Forney and Miss Ida Bender. The Rev. Hugh R. Lobb will preside. Safety Record Set Mechanicsburg went through another year without a traffic fatality.

The local police department is slated to receive a certificate of award from the National Safety Council, which has placed the borough on the National Honor Roll for having had no traffic fatalities during 1940. The unusual record began in 1936, when the community was honored for having the same dis tinction. Continuinff until 1939 Mechanicsburg upheld its high nonor rating, in August. 1939 however, Mrs. Sadie Haines was injured fatally.

Last year the rec ord was resumed. Miss Duncan Graduates Miss Fay Duncan graduated re cently from the Thompson Col lege. Harrisburg. She is a mem. ber of the Harrisburg Chapter of Pi Rho Zeta, international com merce and a graduate of Mechanicsburg High School.

Missionary Meeting A meeting of the Women's Missionary Society of Trinity Lutheran Church was held at 2.30 p. m. today at the home of Mrs. R. E.

Rakestraw, 7 East Coover street. Leaders were Mrs. Rakestraw and Mrs. A. N.

Young. HARRY L. BERRY Harry L. Berry, ten months old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry E. Berry, 346 Hamilton street, died Tuesday in a city hospital. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his grandparents, Frank Berry and Mr. and Mrs. John Fuller.

Services will be held Thursday at. 2 p. m. at the Dugan funeral home, 1600 Market street, the Rev. S.

Charles Hoover, Second Reformed Church, officiating. Burial will be in East Harrisburg Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o'clock. WEDNESDAY EVENING OBITUARIES WILLIAM F. WRIGHT William F.

Wright, 83, died Tuesday in his home, 2287 North Seventh street He was an employe of the Mock and Hartman Coal and Feed Company and a former Pennsylvania Canal boatman. He is survived by two sons, Frank, Harrisburg, and Paul, Wilmington, six daughters, Mrs. Jacob Burkholder, Mrs. Roy Mager, Mrs. James Guthrie, Mrs.

Clark Boldo ser and Mrs. William Morrow, Harrisburg, and Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Dauphin; a brother, John, Newport; a sister, Mrs. George Shaffer, Marysville; thirty grandchildren, and fourteen great grandchildren. Services will be Friday at 2 p.

m. at the home, the Rev. Tru man A. Crist, St. John's Reformed Church, officiating with burial in the East Harrisburg Cemetery.

Friends may call at the home Thursday after 7 p. m. WILLIAM A. McKILLIP Carlisle, April 2. William McKillip, 68,, died yesterday at his home, 514 North West street.

He was a member of First Evangelical Church and the Men's Bible Class of the Sunday School, the Patriotic Order, Sons of America, Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Friendship Fire Company. Surviving are his widow, Sarah Brown McKillip; a daughter, Mrs. George Yeager, and a son Lawson L. McKillip; both of Carlisle; two brothers, Edwin J. and Clinton McKillip, both of Carlisle, and a sister, Mrs.

George Hoover, Mechanicsburg. Services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the home. Burial will be in Westminster Cemetery.

The Rev. F. E. Remaly will officiate. Friends may call tonight at the home.

MRS. MINNIE HUGHES Carlisle, April 2. Mrs. Minnie Kelly Hughes, 61, widow of Frank C. Hughes, died Monday night at her home, 159 South Bedford street.

Surviving are her son, Robert, at home; a brother, Harry O. Kelly, Carlisle, and three sisters, Mrs. Lena Jacobs, Mrs. Lillian Cooley and Mrs. John Mann, all of Carlisle.

Services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the home. Burial will be in the Old Graveyard. The Rev.

Harry L. Saul will officiate. Friends may call Thursday night at the home. GEORGE L. CORNMAN Carlisle, April 2.

George L. Cornman, 75, retired farmer, died yesterday at his home in Carlisle, R. D. 3, of a heart condition. Corn man was a member of ower Frankford Stone Church and served on the church council for years.

He also served as superintendent of the Sunday School. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Emma Snyder Cornman; three sons and five daughters, Mrs. Andrew Mountz, Lower Frankford township; Harry P. and Clarence Cornman, Mechanicsburg; Mrs.

Homer Kistler and Mrs. Charles Alexander, Carlisle; Mrs. Owen Gleim, Carlisle, R. D. Elmer J.

Cornman, Bethlehem, and Mrs. William Martin, New Cumberland; five brothers, John, Charles and Reuben Cornman, Carlisle; Harvey Cornman, New Kingstown, and Fred Cornman, Golden City, twenty three grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Services will be held at 1.30 p. m. Saturday at the home, with further rites at 2 o'clock in Lower Frankford Stone Church.

Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery, the Rev. R. R. Jones and the Rev. C.

S. Messner officiating. Friends may call Friday night at the home. MRS. CATHARINE MEMTXGER Mrs.

Catharine Meminger, widow of John Milton Meminger, died Tuesday night at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Albert Hill, 300 North Second street, with whom she resided. The granddaughter, one grand son, Lawrence Meminger, Harris burg; three great grandchildren, and one brother, Robert Kings borough, Carlisle, survive. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

Friday at the Port Royal Methodist Church. The Kev. K. Jfi. Fleck, pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev.

L. L. Owens, Ridge Avenue Methodist Church. Burial will be in Churchill Ceme tery at Port Royal. Friends may call 7 and 9 p.

m. at the Robert M. Spicer funeral parlors, 511 North Second street. HARRY F. MEALS Carlisle, April 2.

Harry Fran cis Meals, 48, Monroe township farmer, died yesterday at his home in Mechanicsburg, R. D. 2. Surviving is his brother, Philip Thumma Meals, Lane's Gap. Services will be held at 10.30 a.

m. Friday at the home. Burial will be in Mt. Holly Cemetery. The Rev.

Raymond Shontz will officiate. Friends may call tomorrow night at the home. CHARLES E. HOFFMAN Carlisle. April 2.

Charles Ed ward Hoffman. 64. of 231 street, died yesterday at Carlisle Hospital. He was an employe of the Bedford Shoe Company for 20 years and was a member of Ot terbein United Brethren Church, Boiling Springs, and the Friendship Fire Company. Surviving are his widow.

Nellie Shearer Hoffman; two daughters, Mrs. James Childers, Mechanics bure and Mrs. Kenneth Dewalt, Carlisle; a son, Harold Edward Hoffman, Boiling springs; xnree brothers and three sisters, John Hoffman and Mrs. Edna Shearer, both of Harrisburg; Mervin Hoff man, Philadelphia; William Hoffman, Boiling Springs; Mrs. Alice Ilgenfritz.

Lemoyne. and Mrs. Blanch Murphy, Mechanicsburg. Services will be held at 3 p. m.

at the Lutz Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown. the Rev. J.

E. Strine. Carlisle, officiating. Friends may call tomorrow night at the ru neral home. Seasick Woman Sends SOS For an Airplane By Associated Press Miami, April 2.

A. B. Chalk, operator of a charter air plane service, received an emergency ship to shore radio call from the yacht Flowade. "Need you to fly ill woman to Miami," was the summons yesterday. Chalk winged over the waters to the vicinity of Bimini, Bahama Island, returned in quick time.

Mrs. Wade H. Furrow of Miami stepped from the seaplane, called her chauffeur. "I got seasick," she explained. Round trip charter flights to Bimini cost $125.

Child Hurt by Truck Hubert B. Campbell, 5, 2301 North Third street, suffered cuts of the lip and a bruised ankle when he ran into the side of a bakery truck in Logan street near Emerald yesterday, according to police who said the driver was William E. McCahan, 2341 Logan street. The child was treated at Polyclinic Hospital. (on left) PORTHOLE ZEPHYR, JR.

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m. weekdays; from noon to 11 p. m. Saturday; and from 2 to 10 p. m.

At St. Andrew's Church Canon Herbert W. Becker, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Lancaster, will speak at special Lenten services tonight at 7.30 in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.

The Litany will be read and the choir will sing Lenten hymns There will be Holy Communion Friday at 9 a. m. and vespers at 4.30 p. m. Medical Group Meets Dr.

Joseph Hughes, Philadelphia spoke on "Etiology and Treatment of Convulsive States" at the regu lar meeting of the Dauphin County Medical Society last night at the Academy of Medicine. Dr. Francis Borzell, president of the State Medical Society, also spoke. TWO "WALKOUTS" by I. MILLER FOR EASTER Shoes with a modern new viewpoint designed to go with your new clothes.

They're light and extremely comfortable, because they're made of stretchable serge that clings gently but firmly to the See these models tomorrow, priced at 12.75! CARLISLE: New Organist For Church Lee Cronican, Harrisburg, Will Succeed Miss Crom leigh as Lutheran Director Carlisle, April 2. Lee Cronican, Harrisburg, formerly of Carlisle and New York City, well known concert artist, was named organist and choir director of First Lutheran Church succeeding Miss Clara Cromleigh, resigned. He will take up his new duties April 27. After leaving Carlisle more than 20 years ago Cronican conducted the orchestra of the Palace Theatre in Washington and later toured the country as an affiliate of the National Society of Broader Education. He was soloist and also accompanied many Metropolitan Opera stars during seven years of touring the concert stages.

He ranks among the first 12 concert pianists in the United States and for eight years starting in 1929 he was production manager of radio station WOR, Newark, serving also as announcer and pianist. Vacancy Filled Elwood Gutshall, Lower Mifflin township, was named to the board of auditors there by Judge Fred S. Reese, succeeding the late William Diven. Obtain Marriage License A marriage license was issued yesterday at the Cumberland County Courthouse to John Le fevre Scott, Carlisle R. D.

4, and Mary Jean Fisher, Mt. Holly Sprmgs. Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walls, 40 West Pomfret street, have announced the birth of a daughter Monday at Carlisle Hospital.

Sentenced to Jail John Ray, 42, New York City, was sentenced to 15 days in jail by Justice of the Peace William L. Freemen, New Cumberland, following his arrest on charge of disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Will Present Flag An American flag purchased by the Carlisle Kiwanis Club will be presented to the Rockey rural school in South Middleton town ship Monday night, April 14, by the South Mountain Post, American Legion, Mt. Holly Springs, and the Sons of Legion. One Act Play "The Charm of the Old Album," a one act play presented by members of the Mechanicsburg Home makers' Group will be one of the features of the morning program at the fifty annual spring meeting on PERFECTION for small figures Foundations Styled by fi II UIIKV ik Control and comfort are a BIG need even when only junior proportions are involved.

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Hostesses for the meeting are the home economics extension groups at Heberlig, Mt. Holly Springs, Bloserville, Centerville, Newburg, Newville and Mechanicsburg. Assisting them will be a committee of young women from the Cumberland County Senior Extension Club, Miss Emma Jane Mains, Miss Mary Kammerer, Miss Isabel Myers, Miss Frances Neidig. Cork is obtained from the cork oak trees of southern Europe and northern Africa. orange skin cream over your face, smooth MRS.

AXNIE ATKINSON Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Atkinson, 74, formerly of Steel ton, who died Sunday at the United Brethren Home, Quincy, were held today in Centenary United Brethren Church. The Rev. P. E.

Fridinger, pastor of Centenary Church, and the Rev. A. C. Wertsch, superintendent of the' home officiated. Burial was in Baldwin Cemetery.

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