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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1949 POTTSTOWN MERCURY. POTTSTOWN. PA. Phone 2263 PAGE THREE Committee Plans Fund Raising for Bridge Traffic Study Solicitations from industry, clubs and merchants to raise a $2000 fund 'for financing an origin and destination survey, first step toward construction of a new Schuylkill river bridge, were discussed last night at a meeting in Howard Johnson restaurant. The meeting brought together members of the finance committee of a group which is promoting plans for State construction of the bridge.

A total of $8000 will be needed to finance the survey. The borough will be $2000, the balance to come from the State and Federal governments. Tentative plans call for mail requests for contributions. If more than $2000 is collected, the remainder will be used to finance a Bridge Booster Day. when Gov.

James H. Duff, State Secretary of Highways Eay Stnocle will be invited to Pottstown. Attending last meeting were William P. Lamb chairman of the bridge committee; O. C.

Seacraft. manager of the Pottstown Automobile club; Councilman Gerald J. Daly, of the Ninth ward: Dee Wampler. Burgess William A. Griffith, Nathan P.

Hoffman and John Klink. Swamp Lutherans Fete New Members In Church Reception Swamp Lutheran church. New Hanover, staged a reception last night for the 91 received during the past three years of the Rev. Edgar M. pastorate.

A majority of 91 attended; each received a devotional book presented by the Rev. Cooper. The affair, attended by 165, was held on the church lawn. Refreshments were served later by women of the church. Church organization chiefs who greeted the new members were: William F.

Lamb church council; Roy Seasholtz, Sunday school superintendent; Mrs. Charles Renninger, Missionary society, Vhelma Richards, young society, and William F. Lamb brotherhood. The Rev. Robert M.

Lamparter, pastor of St. Lutheran church, South Pottstown, gave the address; Vivian Emery a marimba solo; George fPolins sang, accompanied by Richard Smoker, and Caroline Saylor a piano solo. Hospital Yets to Be Berle Show Guests Thirty-five veteran-patients of the Valley Forge General hospital 'Will be guests of the Leblang-Fried- jfnan-Kessler Post 363, Jewish War veterans at the Milton Berle show and dance the post will sponsor June )12 at Sunnybrook ballroom. This was announced last night at a meeting of 26 members of the post in its Security Trust building quarters. Commander Lester Rosen urged all members to report for the Memorial Day parade which will be omposed of members of local veterans groups, Robert Miller and Harold Katzen will be delegates to the state convention June 18 and 19 in Philadelphia, Rosen announced.

Storm Leaves Its Mark on Farm Buildings and Trees mmr Co-op Housing Group Considers Revisions To Attain Success in Non-Profit Venture can we do to get enough people to sign up so that we can go This question, put to the Pottstown Co-operative Housing committee last night by Builder Gordon R. Exley 2d, set the tone of a meeting in the Security Trust building. The group has set Saturday as the deadline for of families interested in buying or renting co-operatively. If by then 75 persons have not A flea can move a weight hundreds of times heavier than itself. Chamber Roundup Nets 13 New Memberships Thirteen new memberships and seven reinstatements were reported yesterday noon at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Roundup teams.

The committee, headed by Jacob R. Sotter, is seeking 50 memberships to add to the roll of 427. High team reporting yesterday was the one captained by Thomas A. McCaslin 3d. Twenty-two Chamber members attended the report luncheon in the Elks home.

The final report meeting of the roundup will be held there at noon Friday. Washington Camp, POS of to Sponsor Memorial Rites in Amityville Cemetery it Washington Camp 213, POS of Amityville, will sponsor Memorial Day services Monday, May 30, in Amityville cemetery. Participating will be high school musicians and speakers, Boy Scouts and local pastors. The Rev. Kenneth R.

Anderson, pastor of St, Lutheran church, Stowe, will deliver the principal address. The program will open at I p. m. after a march from Amityville High school to the cemetery by the school band, Boy Scouts and school pupils. Invocation will be given by the Rev.

Paul J. Dundore, pastor of St. Lutheran church. Amityville, while Darwin Levengood will recite Gettysburg Day address. Selections will be given by both the high school band and its glee club, and there will be recitations by students.

Boy Scouts of Amity troop will conduct flag ceremonies. The Rev. W. H. Solly, pastor of Falkner Swamp Reformed church, will close the program with benediction.

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STONE SON 210 HIGH ST. PHONE 691 Established 1885 Staff Photos Tornadic winds which ripped through the Upper Montgomery-Berks counties area Sunday night caused heavy damage to homes and buildings and promised residents and workers many weary hours in cleaning up the debris. The south wall and roof of this barn belonging to Clarence E. Trekhler, Palm, was pushed in by the heavy winds, but only a relatively small patch of shingles was ripped from the roof of his home. At the intersection of the Clayton road and Route 29, Stale Highway department workers clear away a huge tree which toppled across the busy highway in front of the Treichler home.

(Other storm pictures on Page One.) signed up, it was indicated, either the program will be dropped entirely, the costs will go up, because the present cost is predicated on a minimum of 75 units, or the house will have to be re-designed to keep the current price of $7800 for a home or $8600 for a three-bedroll structure. Committee members were fight: ing desperately to avoid a collapse of the program, and warned them. of the other alternatives is not IT WAS AGREED that prospective buyers and renters were held back by inability to pay a 10 percent down payment on the homes, feared unemployment and therefore hesitated to change their present status or disliked one or more features of the home planned. Exley answered these objections will attempt to work out a loan for those unable to meet the down payment, in the strictest confidence between the co-op and the and will arrange for a basement in the homes if enough families indicate that that made the difference between participating in the co-op or dropping out. But before setting May 31 as the next committee meeting, to decide what final action should take, Exley queried, how far can we go to help people if they help themselves? Too many think this is just a buyer-seller proposition, instead of a co-operative Committee members agreed on re-interviews, if necessary, and a general canvassing of those who signed questionnaires, indicating their Interest in a co-op, as last- ditch measures to keep the project alive.

Class Night Program Illness of Attorney To Be Held Tonight Forces Extension of At West Pottsgrove Sabo Assault Trial The senior class of West Pottsgrove High school will take an informal bow tonight at 8 in the Class Night production "Attic in the school torium. All 25 members will act in the play, which will include the class poem, will, farewell address and prophecy. In ceremonies before the play, Stephen Sabo, senior class president, will turn over the gown, gavel and responsibility of senior class leadership to Cora Dengler, president of the Junior class. The scene of Plft.v laid in 1959 in the attic of a senior class member, Jeanne Pickar. Lining the walls are frames, in which will be the live faces of the seniors.

In the course of the show, the pictures to Chief characters will be Sabo, Pauline Smith, Randall Boyer, Joseph Ciori, Grace Baro and Joseph Capaldi. Before the show goes on. the following awards will be presented to seniors and others: The George A. Amole post, American Legion post prize for leadership to a boy and girl of the Eighth grade; the award to a girl of the Ninth grade for companionship; Rotary award for service to a boy and girl of the senior class; Alumni association's pin for top scholarship in the senior class; Kiwanis club's award to a senior class boy for excellence in industrial arts, aiid the medal for the Valley Forge chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution for citizenship to a member of the senior class. The trial of George Sabo.

60. of 46 Warwick settlement, scheduled yesterday in Chester county court. West Chester, was continued until audi- the September term of court at the request of attorney, Joseph G. McKeone, Phoenixville. Sabo, who was indicted by a Chester county grand jury on a charge of assault by knife with attempt to kill, the past May 10, remained free under $1000 bail.

The Warwick settlement man was charged with cutting the face of John W. Buckwalter, 33, 45 Warwick settlement, during a quarrel in their yards the past March 23. At the Grand jury hearing, Sabo had charged Mrs. Margaret Buckwalter, wife, with malicious mischief, for throwing shoes through front windows of his home, but this charge was thrown out by the Grand jury. The shoe-tossing allegedly followed the face-slashing, which sent Buckwalter to Pottstown hospital.

The case was continued by John M. Kurtz Chester county district attorney, because of the illness of attorney. 800 Hear Concerts By Musical Groups Of Catholic School About 800 visitors, some attending both show's, heard performances of I the music department of St. Aloysius Catholic school Sunday and Saturday afternoon. The concerts marked the first appearance of the five-months-old school band and a ten-piece orchestra, composed of band members.

About 200 attended performance. More than 600 jammed the school auditorium Sunday, some sitting on steps outside the hall to listen. The entire two-hour musicale was recorded by wire recorder and will be transmitted later onto phonograph records to be used in music appreciation classes. Units participating, besides the band and orchestra, were: An 84-piece First grade rhythm band, led by John Brown and Mary Ann Bauer; a 75-piece Second grade rhythm band led by Theresa Quinn and Joseph Giangiacomo; a 35-voice girls' chorus and 27 piano pupils who played duets on two pianos on the stage. The band, led by Paul Sotnerday, played marches and waltzes.

All the groups played in turn, interspersed by piano duets. In the finale. Blue Nancy Loughney, dressed in a pale blue dress, played by a belle lyre (type of xylophone) in solo parts. Regional Chief to Speak At Moose Lodge Dinner Jack Stoehr, of Pittsburgh, regional director of the Loyai Order of Moose for Pennsylvania, Ohio, i Virginia, West Virginia and Indiana. I will be chief speaker at a ship dinner of the local Moose lodge June 1, it was announced at a meeting last night.

The dinner will be held for sponsors and new members received in the membership campaign, which has been in progress since Jan. 1 and will July 15. About I 265 are expected. Accompanying Stoehr will be Chester Steffen, of Selings Grove, i state Moose director, and John Strausser, president of the Eastern Pennsylvania Moose association. Nine members were initiated last night and applications for four were received.

Ladies' Night Program Scheduled by Kiwanians A program of music and entertainment will highlight the Night meeting of the Kiwanis club in the home at 6:15 tonight. The Mackiettes. a group of television artists, will appear on the program. ROSENBERRY'S GROCERY Oak and Farmington Ave. FREE DELIVERY Phone 2012 OPEN EVENINGS Also Sunday Hours The Finest FRESH HEATS and VEGETABLES MARINE DIES IN CRASH EVERETT.

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