The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 3

Tin; I'owno Uecord, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. July 11, 1966 No Medicare woes yet at Monroe hospital By RICK METIIOT Pocono Record Reporter STROUDSBURG As the Nationwide Medicare program saying, "Everything has been swings into its second week, the very quiet." mountain of paperwork and the business manager at the hospital, practically echoed the feelings of Superintendent Smith rush of admissions has yet to hit the General Hospital of Monroe County. The program, which went into effect July 1, covers hospitalization insurance for persons over 65 and is being administered by the Social Security 'Administration with the aid of several insurance companies. Harry M. Smith, superintendent of the General Hospital of Monroe County, said last night there has been virtually no effect on hospital admissions due to the Medicare program.

He said hospital admissions are the lowest since this time last year. "There has been no noticeable rise in admissions," the superintendent concluded. Wilson S. Maclntire, night Waive hearing on damages STROUDSBURG Two New Jersey men charged with two counts of malicious mischief waived a preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon before Stroudsburg Justice of the Peace Floyd W. Kellogg.

Donald R. Verry, 29, of Livingston, N. and Kenneth B. Martin, 23, of Union, were each continued on $500 bail waiting 'Monroe County court action. The two were involved in a July 4 spree when they allegedly hurled soda bottles through several plate glass windows in the Stroudsburg area.

He pointed out there are about 137 bed patients at the hospital according to a recent census. The hospital is equipped to handle up to 180 bed patients. Maclntire said there has been no big rush for hospital space as a result of the program. "There were no Medicare admissions all day he said. He pointed out the census revealed the lowest amount of patients in sdme time.

"It's an unusual situation," he said, "especially now that the camps are open and with the hot Since Medicare officially began at the hospital with five admissions on July 1, Maclntire estimated only an additional 10 persons have been admitted under the plan. "These people probably would've been admitted regardless of the he said. Hat parade winners named PEN ARGYL Winners were announced in a hat parade held recently at Weona Park, Pen Argyl, for children of the community recreation program. Receiving prizes were Laurie Caesare, Karen Grille, Mary Jo Mastriani, Patricia Rudolph, Karen Waters, Anita Hughes and Debbie Lee. Judges for the event were Mrs.

Paul E. May and Mrs. Sterling Bath. A parade of vehicles is scheduled for Friday morning. Obi LeRoy Treible of Scranton SCRANTON LeRoy C.

Treible, of 1139 Rock Scranton, died Saturday night at the Scranton State General Hospital. Born in Middle Smithfield Township, he lived there until four years ago when he moved to Scranton. A son of the late George and Ella Mae Coolbough Treible, he was employed by the American Asphalt Company in Shavertown as a grader operator. He was a member of the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, Loyal Order of Eagles, Herbert Evans 1 funeral held Plymouth Area Branch 546 and the Polish American Citizens Club of Dupont. Survivors include his wife, the former Delores Merkel; four sons, LeRoy, Ronald, Vinton and George, all of Stroudsburg; one stepsister, Donna Merkel, o'f Scranton; one brother, Earl Treible, of Stroudsburg; two sisters, Mrs.

Hazel Smith and Mrs. Mary DeWitt of Stroudsburg; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Donohue Funeral Home, 303 S. Main Scranton, with the Rev.

Wesley Crowther officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Mrs. Hanna's STROUDSBURG Funeral services for Herbert C.

Evans, 59, of 34 Broad Street, Norwich, Connecticut, were held a a I at 1 p.m. at the Lanterman Funeral Home, with Rev. William F. Wunder officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Vernon Heller, Nevin Erb, Robert Young, John A. Kipa, Clinton Rouck and George Leslie. Mrs. Miller's funeral held SKYTOP Funeral services for Mrs, Julia B. Miller, 76, of Skytop, were held Saturday at 2 p.m.

in the William H. Clark Funeral Home with the Rev. Peter K. Emmons, DD, officiating. Burial was in the Laurelwood Cemetery.

G. VanCampen's rites conducted STROUDSBURG Funeral services were held Saturday at II a.m. for George VanCampen, 86, of Columbia, New Jersey. Rev. William F.

Wunder officiated at the Lanterman Funeral Home. Cremation followed at the Maple Hill Crematory in Wilkes- Barre. Pallbearers were Richard Notz, Randolph Kern, Richard A. Eppley, and Frank E. Lanterman.

STROUDSBURG --Mrs. Mary Edith Hanna, 78, of 317 N. 5th Stroudsburg, died at 4 a.m. Friday in the Cherry Valley Convalescent Home. She had been ill for the past nine months.

Mrs. Hanna was born in Stroudsburg, the daughter of the late Josiah and Mary Bellis Titus. She was a life-long area resident. Survivors are her husband, George and a daughter, Madalyn G. Maloney, both at home; three grandchildren, George, of Stroudsburg, James, of New York City, and Miss Maura E.

Maloney, of Stroudsburg, also at home. Funeral services will be held today at the Daniel G. Warner Funeral Home with Rev. Harold Eaton officiating. Burial will be in the Stroudsburg Cemetery.

Howard Adams services today STROUDSBURG Funeral services for Howard C. Adams, 42, of 105 N. Third Stroudsburg, will be held today at 2 p.m. in the William H. Clark Funeral Home with the Rev.

John P. Gaertner officiating. Burial will be in the Stroudsburg Cemetery. I I U.J.WEAWH lUftEAU FOIECtST TO 7:00 P.M. IT 7 V0 A A AH FLOW trSTHUNDU fjg.

SWMJ On Monday showers and thundershowers will occur over the Plateau, the Northern and Central Plains, the Jlid- Mississippi Valley, Gulf Region, and the South Atlantic Coast Stales. Fair to partly cloudy skies will prevail elsewhere. Cooler weather is in store for the Northern and Central Plateau, with little chanpe in temperature anticipated for the remainder of the nation. Nationally the response to the Social Security sponsored plan was pretty much the same. In a survey of 12 hospitals situated around the nation only one, in Atlanta, showed an Increase in admissions.

There, hospital officials said admissions were up 10 per cent. More to Tuff than meets the eye, Times says STROUDSBURG You can't (rust anyone anymore. From yesterday's New York i comes the crushing Information that the delightfully Innocent child's folk song, "Puff, the Magic Is in reality a song about smoking marijuana, and narcotics. is obvious, it's how you use marijuana. "Magic Dragon," is the result.

In the song, Puff "lives by the sea" or "by the 'C' 1 is the hip name for cocaine. The paper also reported "Alice In Wonderland" Is like an LSD trip, with the caterpillar smoking pot in a hookah pipe while sitting on a narcotic mushroom. Why, Lewis Carroll, you old junkie. Educators look over new laws A STROUDSBURG -Area curriculum coordinator for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction, Dr. Eugene Stine, held a meeting on new laws at East Stroudsburg State College Friday.

Thirty public school administrators from the northeastern area of Pennsylvania attended. Held in the Learning Research Center at ESSC, the purpose of the meeting was to brief the school officials on recent procedural changes in the National Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Dr. Stine, director of graduate studies at the college, discussed the various changes and the new procedural steps necessary in working with the federal education act. William Schuler, Title I coordinator of the Bethlehem 1 Schools, answered questions concerning the application and operation of the federal act in the school system.

Attending the conference from this area were John W. Sabatine, elementary supervisor of Bangor Area Schools; Trever Williams, principal of Bangor Senior High Agatha Townsend, coordinator for federal projects; Jerrold Fritz, administrative assistant to the superintendent, East Stroudsburg Area school system; Rev. E. Robert Galligan, Pocono Catholic School coordinator. Also, Earl F.

Groner, superintendent of Stroudsburg Area s.chool district; Samuel A. Lee, Pocono Mountain administrating assistant; Jeanne May, reading consultant and coordinator; Muriel M. Peterson, E.S. E.A. secretary; Pauline H.

Peterson, superintendent of East Stroudsburg Area schools; and Roger A. Dunning, Stroudsburg elementary supervisor. Citizens' Gas manager dies Sidewalk bargains The Pocono Mountain Art Group held its annual outdoor art show at Courthouse Square in Stroudsburg over the weekend. It is becoming a top attraction in the Poconos. Every year it spills farther and farther away from the Courthouse.

This year it crossed Main St. These paintings are at the southeast corner of 7th and Main Sts. (Photo by MacLeod) Two hurt in 2-car crash A STROUDSBURG Two injuries and $3,300 in damages resulted from a two-car crash early Saturday morning in Middle Smithfield Township, on Route 209, eight miles north of East Stroudsburg. According to Stroudsburg State Police, a car driven by Walter S. Rammer, 23, of Willow Grove, was struck by a car operated by Andrew R.

Gozjack 33, of Tamaqua. The Kammer vehicle was turning into a hotel parking area when it was hit head-on by the Gozjack auto. Kammer was taken to General Hospital of Monroe County and treated for leg cuts. Gozjack suffered cuts of the head. Car demolished; driver asleep BANGOR A car was molished Saturday when the driver, Frank J.

Duvo, 16, of 29 S. 7th Bangor, apparently fell asleep at the wheel, Easton State Police said. No one was injured. According to police, the car was heading, south when it went off the road on Route 115, two miles south of Wind Gap. It crossed the roadway and ran into a drainage ditch.

MINISINK HILLS J. Paul Hart, district manager of the Citizen's Gas Company, died suddenly yesterday at 7 p.m. of a heart attack, while vacationing at his summer home in Minisink Hills. He was a resident of 723 Scott Street, Stroudsburg. Hart, 53, was born in Pittston, and is a former Philadelphia resident.

In 1949 he became district manager and safety director of the Citizen's Gas Company, a division of Penn-Fuel Gas Company, with its home Informal art studio open Two charged with firearms. at Pocono Crest Casino violation after accident in POCONO PINES An informal art studio is available at the Casino, at the Pocono Crest in Pocono Pines. The facilities are open to the resort guests, area residents and visitors. William Benson, artist-in-residence at the resort, has established classes for the under-12 age group Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. until noon, and for adults at the same time on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Tho Community Art Studio includes materials in all areas of painting, and also has available clay for sculpture and woodcut tools, for a $4 children's fee and $6 rate for adults. A variety of art books and magazines, a student art exhibit, a selection of original prints and FM music are also present at the center. The studio will bo open until Cancer will be conquered; scientists now believe more has been learned about the disease in the last 25 years than in all history. Today the American Cancer Society is supporting more than 1,000 key scientists in an effort to find the answer. Contributions to the Society's 1966 Crusade will insure a growing research attack on the disease.

August sixth. Interested children and adults may enroll at the studio. Hits tree and pole STROUDSBURG An East Slroudsburg man was charged with reckless driving Saturday by the Stroudsburg police after his car ran off Main Sirouilsburg, struck a tree, caromed off a utility pole, and came to a stop at the intersection of Main and Kane Streets. Stroudsburg police said the car driven by William Schuppe, 137 Ridgeway East Stroudsburg, traveled 200 feet after Schuppe apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Police estimated damage at $1,000.

STROUDSBURG Stroudsburg State Police charged Gerald Ecker, 35, of Stroudsburg RD 5, and Leone S. Poole, 24, of Anderson, S.C. with violation of the Uniform Firearms Act Friday and were committed to the Monroe County Jail in default of $3,000. Poole was arrested when he threw a gun from the window of a car he was driving, owned by Ecker. Police said the Poole car was involved in an accident on Interstate Rt.

80 when it was traveling east on the highway and struck the back of a car driven by Charles A. Dana, 51, of New Canan, Conn. Trooper Alfred Drozdowski was questioning Poole in regard to the accident when he discarded the gun' for which he had no license. The two were arraigned be- fore Stroud Township Justice of the Peace Mrs. Ruth Miller.

Police estimated accident damage at $1,000. Split Rock only leased LAKE HARMONY Split Rock Lodge on Lake Harmony, near Blakeslee, has been leased to Treadway Corp. of Rochester, N.Y., but not sold outright. John M. Adams, president of Split Rock Lodge, clarified the transaction Saturday at the lodge.

Adams and J. Frank Birdsall, president of Treadway Inns, announced Friday the corporation would operate the Inn. office in Oxford. He was a member of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, and a Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus.

Surviving are his wife, June; three daughters, Susan, Philadelphia; Anne and Ellen, at home; Mrs. Rosemary Miller, Saylorsburg; and one son, Paul, at home. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Dunkelberger, Westbrook and Klofach Funeral Home of Stroudsburg. Viewing is tentatively set for Tuesday. Funeral is tentatively set for Wednesday afternoon at the Laurelwood Stroudsburg.

Charged with striking girl STROUDSBURG Stroudsburg police charged Josephine Elaine Swartwood, 19, of 1101 W. Main Stroudsburg, with disorderly conduct after she reportedly struck a 17-year-old girl outside Coco's Restaurant on Main Street. a Metzgar, also of Stroudsburg, was examined at General -Hospital of Monroe County and released. According to Stroudsburg police, the fight stemmed from an exchange of remarks about LeRoy Swartwood, the defendant's estranged husband. A hearing will be held next week before Justice of the Peace Floyd W.

Kellogg. Hospital Notes Births A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lt. Thomas A.

Rue of Stroudsburg. Admissions Floyd Getz Sr. of East Stroudsburg; Mrs. Ida Kunkle of Stroudsburg; Mrs. a Treible of Columbia, N.J.; Mrs.

Beulah Stackhouse of Stroudsburg; Kenneth Snyder of East Stroudsburg; Clarence Andress of East Stroudsburg; Jonathan Deitch of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Wilmer Walker of Columbia, RD 1. Also, Charles Goetz of East Stroudsburg; George Oliver of Stroudsburg RD Mrs. Lila Lesoine of East Stroudsburg RD Norana Pearson of Kunkletown RD Mrs. Veronice Hahn of Lehighton RD Mrs. Regina Hommel of Milford; Mrs.

Lillian Wuest of Kunkletown RD Mrs. Hanna Smith of Snydersville. Also, Mrs. Hazel of East Stroudsburg; Frank Seer- bo of New York, N.Y.; James Aucone of Brooklyn, N.Y. Discharges Robert Lackay of a Stroudsburg; Mrs.

Evelyn Trye- jnan of Scotrun; Walter Miciolik of Minersville; Mrs. Ruth Reis- emvitz of Mountainhome; Mrs. Virginia Post of East Stroudsburg; Miss Barbara Horlins of Old Greenwich, Mrs. Iva Fink of Canadensis; Charles Shoup of Bangor; Miss Carol Smith of St. David's.

Also. George Pearson of Portland; Mrs. Anne Munch of Tannersville; Mrs. Sarah Frantz of Stroudsburg; James Metar of Wilkes Barre; Robert Price of Stroudsburg RD Mrs. Elaine Rossi of Blairstown HD Mrs.

Ernestine Dick of Hope, N. Carl Tewksbury of East Stroudsburs RD John Butchko of Stroudsburg RD Euaene Bender of Hellerlown, RD Henry A. Lackner of Plainview, L.I.; Barbara Schwab of Elkins Park. We can fill your need in any type of granite or marble you desire. Stroudsburg Granite Co.

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