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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 8

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The Mercuryi
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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PAGE EIGHT Phone 2263 POTTSTOWN MERCURY. POTTSTOUN, PA. C(C Given Okay DOUGLASS BOARD For (rop Storage ATOMIC PROBE WASHINGTON, June 2 Con- today ptwed a compromise bill to provide critically needed storage facilities the bumper crop. The compromise, which broke a long deadlock, was approved by both Senate and House and sent on to President Truman for his signature. The legislation gives the Commodity Credit corporation power to storage facilities on especially which the CCC makes loans to maintain crop price nupportJi.

Orain must be in storage Vo qualify for government loan. The action came aii a storage crisis wais reported developing In the soiithw'est. Earlier, the Agriculture department had asked the Maritime commission for some laid-up liberty ships to use as emergency storage bins. Coincidentally, Secretary Brannan announced the Agriculture department had started work on control measures designed to cut the 1950 wheat crop as much as 25 percent under this year's to be of near-record proportions. HISS TRIAL (Continued From Page One) what Hiss allegedly passed on to him.

bore on munitions but I cannot be more he told federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman and a jury of 10 men and two women. Chambers said he photo- fraphed fave him and gave the pictures to J. Peters, whom he called the prewar head of the Soviet underground in the I'nited Hivss, brilliant former State department ofTlcial, on trial on a Charge of perjury. The government claims he lied when he told a grand jury here the past December that he never turned State department secrets over to Chambers, He also charged with lying when he he had not seen Chambers since Jan.

1, 1937. Hiss, 44, a diplomat of stature the Roosevelt administration, faces a possible prison sentence fine if convicted. He has denied charges repeatedly and termed Chambers a liar. (Continu'd From Onf) ma.ster." (Brother is the customary term used in referring to any fellow member.) He asked Buckmaster, whom he termed a to "extend to the council. heard Buckmaster quietly and gave him a brief round of applause at his close.

Buckmaster declared. don't dare let the union fall into the hands of unscrupulous The three-day council session Is a semi-annual meeting. States rep- i resented are: Oklahoma, Kansas. Nebraska, Mi.ssouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, By a vote of 7-5. with one member I ab.staining, the executive i board ousted Buckmaster at Philadelphia on May 24, The board sus- I tained charges of Robert Garber, president of the local i of the union, who had accused Buck, master of malfeasance in office.

BUCKMASTER. REGARDED as a leader of the union's right wing faction, said at that lime he was "unfairly He said he would seek re-election at the union's international convention in Toronto this Pall. Buckmaster became president of I t-he union 1945 and hia tenttre- had been marked by an absence of i major strikes in the rubber industry. Delegates to the Toronto convention will be elected by the local unions but union members here said they believed Bucki master hoped to win enough 1 friends at the Des Moines meet- 1 ing to swing the national conj ventlon balance of ower In favor. i Support of tile midwestern area, which has about 23,000 URW mem- i bers, was regarded as vital if Buckmaster is to win return to office.

i (Continued From Page One) charges vehemently. The charges were repeated by Mrs. Mary Schott and Harry Rhoads. I imtm -4 iD i Seated atop a crate at the International Refugee organization camp in Grugliasco, Italy, a five- considers the strange new world into which he is about to be sent. He is one of five, similarly aged, beinjf taken to New Zealand in the first mass I.R.O.

resettlement movement to that distant country. A LESS TURBULENT faculty quarrel was left untouched. Mrs. Esther Stauffer, principal at Colebrookdale, had told the complaint session of friction between her and Mrs. Trethewey.

Warren board president, said, still angry at each But other board members were opposed to beginning a general exchange of teachers between buildings. The board also received formal notification from the State Tax board that the assessed value. $652.600, was only 26.47 percent of the market value of township real estate, $2,465.395. a lower percentage than the county-wide one. Directors decided to ask the opinion of George B.

Balmer, board solicitor, on the entire of assessments. Two sets of encyclopedias purchased by the board for apiece. One will be put in school. The board voted to begin closure proceedings against Harry B. Weir.

Philadelphia, who, the board said, is $300 in arrears xes on tWo farms; (Continued From PiRe One) to the FBI until seven weeks later. three boxes were dug up before the which originally held more than an ounce of U-235 discovered. The AEC has reported that seven-eighths of the lost uranium has been found in a laborious combing over of waste material, but has never explained how it got out of the bottle into the waste. McMAHON SAID men wearing gas masks, armed with geiger counters and decontamination vices, opened the buried boxes under the supervision of FBI agents. "The facts seem to indicate that what happened was the contents of the bottle containing the enriched U-235 was dumped by mistake into a can of unenriched McMahon am hopeful that the one-eighth of an ounce finally will be accounted for when the final checks and analyses are FIRESTONE were $107 each fore- liBUiOVA If picked up.

horned toads may puff themselves out, or deflate them.selves. CONtRACT APPROVED LOS ANGELES, June 2 Flashing the Barrymore smile, and displaying fair facsimile of the Barrymore profile, John Barrymore Jr, got court approval today of his first movie contract. After Delaware Park Dine at the MANSION HOUSE HOTEL WKST CHESTER, PA. Dinnar to 8:30 p. m.f after that try our platter or a la carte 1000-Pound Circus Tiger Loses Fight Witli Lion NEW BEDFORD, June 2 lion is still king.

When the Biller Brothers circus moved on to its next stop today it left behind the remains of a 1000- pound tiger. The tiger was killed last night in savage battle with a lion. Leatherette and Plastic SEAT COVERINGS Remnant $1.49 to $4.50 Valufii THE MUSICAL BAR 8T0WE SPECIAL 4, PORK, SAUER KRAUT and MASHED POTATOES 1.00 Starting 12 Noon All You Can Eat 75 Yard Pebble Imitation Leathers. Variety of Colors. THE Linoleum Store 429 HIGH ST.

Phone 133 LUMBER FREE ESTIMATES FREE DELIVERY mERRITTS ij)th When treating friends after golf or at the choice of the wise the thoughtful is PRIOR Beer. Because hospitality reigns wherever this Liquid Luxury is served. IN AMBRtCA TO fiiPLACE EUROPEAN BEERS AOAM your dealer hag Prior Beer on draft, in 7 12 az. regular and 12 oz no-deposit, bottle and 12 oz. cans S.

PAUL SEEDERS, 264 King Street TELEPHONE: 221 JUST FOLKS A Tf-ry bad situation! as bad a situation working with inferior paint and waUpaper. Well, Folks, you will never purchase Inferior paints or wallpaper from the MODERN PAINT AND SUPPLY for quality If a with them. Quality comes before profit. You ran buy with confidence at the MODERN PAINT AND SI PPLY COMPANY, for you know they sell only guaranteed merchaad 1 efe notch condition with nationally known paints and wallpaper from the MODERN PtlNI SUPPLY (0. 137 High St.

tSSl AMERICA'S 6REATEST WATCH VALUE 15 BUY ON easy terms CHARLES LONGACRE Jeweler Officiti Rtadint Railraiid Witeh Inipetitr N. HANOVER ST. bidMdM (Continued From Page One) 3 p. m. shift but then removed I for the following shifts yesterday.

of 3-11 shift worked a few hours, he said, and then When the 11-7 group came on they sat down too, the source added. Besides knocking ou tijue production, the sit-down affected white sidewall tire building. The white part of those Is made in the tube room, he said. OfTicers of Local 336, United Rubberworkers, the Firestone local, could not be reached for comment. It was understood that the sit-down was unauthorized by the local.

ilia iiiietiV It is hopeless, alas, to seek health in the classiiied columns. It is a treasure far too precious to be bartered. If you have health, cling to it above all other posses- lions; if it has escaped you, seek now to regain it. Turn at once to a physiciao in whom you have confidence; then give him your fullest cooperation. And we hope, of course, that yt'U will bring your prescriptions to this Professional Pharmacy for conscientious compounding.

CANNING'S DRUG STORE HIGH and WASHINGTON STS. Electric Food Mixers MIXMASTER, HAMILTON BEACH, DOREMYER, K.M. Up Down, Weekly KUSER BROS. Radio Television Electrical SALES and SERVICE 112 E. Phila.

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1949 When Freshness Counts on Corner How do you like tho meat department in your Do you like the quality of our meats We buy cinly lop grades, you know. Do you like the way we trim meat? Al! our meat men are and trained to re- more fat before weighing. Do you like the serY ice you is it prompt, courteous and efficient as it should be? You can help us make your store a better place to shop by telling us anything about your meal department that you don't like or that you think can be improved. Please write: Rtlotions Food Stores, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. Quick Frozen Foods BIRDSIYI Cauliflowtr 33e BiRDSlYI 2 49c SNOW ClOf Broccoli Cuts 28c SNOW CHOP CHOfMO 01 IIAF Spinach 2Sc SNOW CROf I ci 2 53c SUNSWEtr pkg Prunes 20c Mixed 37c U.

S. No. 1 Size Washed California or Sentii Carotfna NEW POTATOES 5 30 NEW POTATOES 10 us 1 JQ Carolino FRESH PINEAPPLES BING CHERRIES ICEBERG LETTUCE CALIFORNIA LAICI 19c 39c CILLOPHANE WRAPWO Smoked PICNICS 4 TO I POUNDS LB 43 NONI PRICID HISHER BONELESS CROSSCUT BEEF BONELESS VEAL ROAST FRESHLY GROUND BEEF M3o Freshly Killed OR FRYERS 2V4 to POUNDS lb NONI PRiCID HIGHER BROADCAST Sliced Bacon SKINLESS Frankfurte FRESH RLLIT OF Flounder LARGE SEA Scallops ib 47c 49c FRUIT COCKTAIL BARTLETT PEARS ASPARAGUS ASPARAGUS CANNED TOMATOES LEMON JUICE SWEET PEAS SULTANA IITTIR'S 1949 NiW PACK All GRiEN CUT SPEARS OIIRHIID NIW PACK ALL GREEN CUT TREESWEfT IIBBY'S ROSE-DAll Cake-of4he'Month Jane Parker's New Taste Treat Peanut Creme Jelly LAYER CAKE large layert with jally and froited with Peanut Creme Icing, LEMON-LIME LAYER CAKE lemon cocoanut ICING 59 each ANGEL FOOD BAR WHEATIES ANN PAGE BEANS LANG'S PICKLES WOODBURY SOAP Ingredient 4 DOG FOOD PARO, IDEAL REO HEART OR Corned Beef HASH 16-01 can 31 Sunnyfield Fancy Creamery BUTTER lb 67' Mb Solidi 65' FRESH EGGS FRESH EGGS MEL-O-BIT BEST PURE LARD DEXO fUNNYMOOK WHITI LEGHORN WIIDMERE kROWN WHITI In dated certoM deien in doted corioA WHITE OR COLORED AMERICAN CHIESI PURI HYDROGINATIO vigetable shortening l-lb tan 75c 71c 85c 16c 29c 81c l-lb 1-lb 367 HIGH ST. POTTSTOWN 363 Main ROYERSFORD This Marker Does Not Handle Fresh or Meats.

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Years Available:
1933-1978