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MAY I. 1959 DIAL FA ASflOriArED CRN i Al PRK.1« 7f A COPY A WEEK Old Publishing Firm Will be BARN LEVELED, Amity Township Once Produced Pottstown Will Close A Typical Blade The Pottstown Blade I iot Not Owi Dpnll IB Is IM Another School Board In The Names Five PUce Water in Hamii Cowuel 4 'C Staff Photo This is a reproduction of Page one of the July 18, edition of the Pottstown The blaring headlines and opionated stories were typical of this crusading newspaper which was printed by L. R. Saylor sons. Incorporated, 111 High street, from 1890 until 1949.

The banner headline immediately below the mast, referring to the water works, was printed for years in the weekly paper. The Blade was distributed free to all homes in Pottstown each Saturday, save for occasional changes of policy when a two-cent fee was charged. The printing firm, which has limited its work to job printing since discontinuing cation of The Blade, will be sold at a public auction May 23. It has been operated by two sons and a daughter of the late L. R.

Saylor since 1919. Recreation Field Spring Declared Contaminated An undelcrmincd number of Roycrsfnrd area taken jugs of contaminaled' spring water to their homes drinking purposes, it was learned yesterday, Many other residents drank tained in an official letter received from H. ii. Frey, of the Norristown district medical office of the Division of Sanitation, State Department of Health. Historic Firm Has Operated Since 1890 The publishing which printed the cru.sading Pottstown for 59 years will be sold at public auction May 23.

The businos.s, L. R. Saylor sons, iiicorporaled. Ill High street, and the building will l)e oJferetl for sale by Richard H. Tliompson.

local realtor and auctioneer. The Saylor firm was founded in 1890 and published The Blade until 1M9. It was a weekly newspaper except for nine months during 1923 when it was published daily. The late L. R.

Saylor started the firm in the Security TYusi company building, High and Hanover strcet.s. He later was joined by three son.s and daughter. OFFICKRS OF the firm are: George H. Saylor, president and ti-eaiurer. who lives on the second floor of The Wade building, Herman J.

Saylor, vice president 511 Spruce street, and Frances R. Saylor, seci'etary. She on the third floor of tlie Blade building. brother, tiie late Ernest Saylor, carried a major portion of the editorial work until 1911. when he moved to He had contracted tulierculosis and was advised to move to an arid climate.

He died i i 1917. The current officers have held their respective titles since their father died in 1919. All three operated typeset- (Cnntiniird on Lavt First Edition of the Blade AT $20,000 Five Companies Battle Blaze in Earl Township CATTLE AND PIGS SAVED FROM FLAMES On State Orders Violation of Health Law Foreis Road Board lo Ban Dumping Of Rofuto at Silt i The Slate Health departtiient has ordered Amity A sample of the water was from the same spring, located sent away recently for an analy-' -------------------------------on the grounds of the Friendship SIS- letter, received nAflAr Fire company near South Third Walter Miller, chairman of the rWlIJlOWH UUWlOl Hwnim ber of Commerce made a public battciiological analvMs of Di. Moiton 62 announcement yesterday urging sample showed evi- Hanover is resting and re- no a in our people not to drink irom the contamination at the poitedly is in "improved condi- It bone gpring the sample was taken and aiior suffering abdominal the the water supply is Wednesday night. Photo The first edition of the Pottstown published December 13, 1890, is held by Herman J.

Saylor, vice president of L. R. Saylor sons, incorporated. 111 High street, it was a three-column newspaper consisting of four The size of each page was seven inches in width and 10'3 inches in length. Subsequent editions of The Blade varied in size.

They ranged from a standard size to tabloid size. The last edition of The Blade was published in 1919. The Saylor printing business and the building in which it is housed will be offered for tale at a public auction 23. Pottstown School Board Has Cut Budget to Bone When ihf Stonrrsville Fire rnmpanv arrived at Rerx- Hlrrsser's farm, flames were licking thrnuxh the wnnd- roof ol the harn. A rail lor help was radioed to four fire hill thr harn and shrd were envrloprd in flame when aid Firoint-n sHved another shed 10 feet from the burning build and the home.

100 feel away, was not endangered. Gov. Lawrence Will Speak at Israeli Bond Drive note: Th-x the second in a seriea on Pntts- ion school board's proposed 1959-bO more lo meri the demands on its proposed hud- been barn fire in Sloneisvilie, Karl tikwii'ship. vesit'iday wrought condition spreading thoil dlUtlJ) 01 have it (lo.scd. was discovemi at refuse Is being I M) in by i.usene Rergstiess- permitted to remain exposed upon the surface of the MH) ol and Mrs Paul K.

This is 111 violatiofi of a health law, he who owned the liut- said. half-century old barn A wag- I I i this unsanitary on shed aUo lost to condition is abated, I.eon 1 Kuchinski, a Berks county sanitarian said, the necessary legal action will he taken lo enforce the health law. Norman Smith a membei of the Amity road board, said David L. Lawrence will last nishi that the lown-ihip Kjfyenk at an bond drive dump would be closed May IR Congregation Mercy and "We had a nice dump and Truth synagog at 8 never had a Smith said. was kept in good More 2(K) are m- PPcted to attend the affair for another 20 years Proceeds from the bonds a.sked the State official where we vould dump the tofuse economic- Rrowth.

and he said he didn't know. WHFA' fire- doesn't know fnr men arrived found Berg- to do now about a new refuse son attempting to fifjht the with a garden The township's refuse dit- U'lng water from a nearby well, posal site is located about one mile south of Weavertown. The hoard leased the Ktound the past three from I). F. Kutz of RD 2.

It is situated in a valley. Smith said that lease would expire IS and would 'not be renewed. second a drive The well twice firemen, who used booster tanks during the time it the well to refill. Mrs. said if we had suffiiient water, little could have been saved.

The flames just spread that she declared. liguie.s since mid- four calves and several out dated the past Ti budget. 5aid di- of the barn, and in irying to Kuchinski stat SMU'H lie was informetl Her son burned his hand operation in a examining while driving five Herefords. written by Kuchinski, hursday, ted that the rectors feel they ve tightened save farm machinery, dump was inspected Jan. H.

Bert Shaw, president of belts as mum as they could All machinery in the 40 by March 13 and April 20. Kach It wai explained that the tne waier supply is Wednesday night. Pottatown school board, made hurt our educational barn was The time, he wrote, the operation was water showi signs of contamina-for pur-i Ui-, Gratz, 46, was admitted to those remarks yesterday "hile machinery included a bailer, feed, Pagt Thirtrm) tion and ii considered specific tnd pottstown Iwpital and vvill the districts 1959-60 grinder, grain chopper, romiune factory for drinking purposes. This fiplanatioB wat con- CiOV, 1959-60 nature of the contamination tests to determine tlie exact budget of over $2 million. an icause of his illness.

I The hoard It hunting for in Dogwoods Present Spectacle of Beauty that the and farm wagon. Also 2000 hales maintenance budget for the new of hay were destroyed. year which begins July a wagon and a mower in the drop to $73,000, a cut of over 20 foot shed were gutted. $12,000. all the implements, except In the current fiscal 5ear, the the grain chopper were owned by will spend for maintenanc'e of grounds' -------------------------------and equipment.

What IS the $73,000 outlay earmarked for in 1959-W? Extra Cigaret Tax May Cause Drop In Local Sales I pkeep of the eight playgrounds and lawns is easily the biggest item in the main- (lonliniird on Rain Strikes Area Today, WiH Continue Somuel Neiffer, Ex-Blacksmith Dies in Hospital Pottstow n. 1 Sager. Pottstown lawyer, is the chiir man. In the PottitowB area last year proceeds from bond drive totaled $40,000. The guest speaker then was onetime Lord Mayor Briscoe of Dublin.

the guests at this cigsrets year's drive will be Burgess The extra tax on llevied Wednesday by the State John B. Hartenstine Jr. might cause a de- crease in cigaret sales in Potts a a tovn Union Pickets This is the opinion of Horace Princenthal, partner of the Midway company. 70 North cisar-l Ihf Samuel HI, band of Elsie dealers. Princenthal said has been proven (hat States which the highest (axes on cigarets are the ones in which decreases in sales are Local Drug Store fer, 1063 Schuylkill road, Kenilworth, diet! yesterday at a.

m. in Pottstown hospital. He had been a patient there for the last one and one-half 1 ,1 weeks. He suffeied a cerebral A sm hie day IhM Ihf tfniperatuic to 69 cicawl Ihf arfa of an a of Ihf iovi'rcast morning and I The hiyiiesl read- (Reedi Neiiier. ling, deijrcos, reached at moved to the (ouiinunity Fedcial p'r I both 6 and 7 fi otn ille total sevrti nis.

I An early morning irnipera- when hi was very young. After A spokesman at the To I turr at o'clock he served an apprenticeship in bacco company, High street, climbed steadily upwards, Uie blacksmith trade, he moved said he did not anticipate a de- stariiiig at 10 a. m. to Limeruk crease in for union power apparently is the cause of the picket line in front of Sun Ray Drug company, Pacenta, store manager. Pairnta said that his firm opened a department store in said Virginia, but the CfKi people in are proportionate to the lax in that did not tcin a union the With the new one cont in Ihe Is of that down- crease, the Slate tax is six fight over union juris- dit tion brought retaliation and pressure on some Sun Rav in the said Patenta.

pickets marching in of the drui; store each day which soaked other Fievenue from the new tax arry signs stating that the portions of the State HK WORKED for the late he used for payment of a PottsUiwii clerks an mem- moved into Pottstown early to- who operated bonus to veterans of the Korean Ihe (t onlinurd on ar. The special pink dogwood blossomt developed 30 years hgo by Ira W. Gruber are blooming al hk et(a(e along kill road. Pottstown Route 83. tour the estate grounds each year to see the thousanih of trees, which came into ma(uri(y about 10 years ago.

pink hat a short season, however. The blossoms last just a few weeks. Walking Mercury Staff Photo through the scenic spot yesterday were two Pottstown girls look advantage of the fine weather. Barbara Hurter, at right, daughter of Mr. and Donald Hurter, 5g3 Vir- flnia avenue, and Connie Dilliplane, daughter of Mrs.

Hulda DUIiplane. North Keim street, toured the renown area, hut today's weather may not afford a perfect day to see dogwood blooms. REGLSTER Forty youngsters registered yesterday for First grade in two Spring Ford jointure Morning registration at MonI Clare elemenfary school, enroled 17 children and noon registration in the Oaks brought 23 others, said Steve J. supervisor, Receive Sacrament Rite THE WEATHER Cloudy with showers today. Continued vv a m.

Tomorrow The ancient and colorful rite cloudv with scattered thunder- of confirmation was conducted showers. High today 68, low yesterday in Aloysius Cath- tonight 50. olic church. Holy Confirmation Administered by Bishop Than Normal M. Temperature in Apr and will continue tomorrow, A warming tienii is seen for Sunday.

The rays of the sun afternoon re.sulted in the tops of convertibles lowered and young girls taking walk.s in Sum- iivT attire. Ice cream and ciL'taid siands 'were busy and highways were, I .1 inqucncv that hy joy lold yoiing and old Rotary club last llie of the countryside general apj)eared more prominent, and flowers on blooming basiies were much in evidence. District Attorney Tells Rotarians Adults Cause Juvenile Delinquency Adults, not teen ayrrs, are re ible for the luvfnile de movies and television shows, and that publications which carry suggestive pictures are DiJoseph said these temptations are vouth of to DiJoseph. district attorney only county, addressid the Hotarians at their regular dinner meeting in i( ountiy club. He said that children and teen agers are to err by seeing obscene aver- K' Catholics Permilied ffioH Morcury 69 Antics 50 the church after a half the he higher on Ihf or ihf Tho'f Sad Tft Edt rament Of confirmation.

excellency, temperature readings: April 8 The biship some of i and ig Catholics throughout the in the Roman Catholic church, the confirmands as he sat in toe youi i replied, the Ninth Pottstown area will be allowed it IS one of sacraments ornate wooden chair in front many tJods are soared tn ha the least ol and through it the fullness ofiof the altar. He was resplendent Ihe inshop asked another boy in month Ihf privilfgfi hi. rfd and gold front Dfspilf hfavy rain Thf llfv. lovfph K. Sikora, baptism IS conferred.

------In other words, the 2fl TEMPKKATURK KXTRKMKS (2.W children Loial temperatures yesterday 41 strengthened and early this morning were: iheir faith by receiving the t. p. 63. rilo S. 5 p.

6 V) p. means ii also belcrosier. I ti able to overcome The bishop ihe Most Rev. canon iii .............5.1 auxiliary bishop of 13 p. the Philadelphia archdiocese.

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3 p. m. P. n. so 1 m.

3 a. re. a. m. Uit rUt ifli mtm, and poinlfd gold T.ifkday.

Ihf total tor ih, a.sisianl pallor of dress known as mitre. him to be careful Cod vias one half inch below church, said official conlirma- In his left hand was a long, carerui, une rainfall was dispensation was re- igold staff with a crook, like the three inches. ceived yesterday, i. crook mentioned in AFTKR THK quiz tiie con That brouKht the oeliciency in A letter released by the it is called a firmandi took turns kneeling at precipitation for year to one delphia archdiocese stated that altar Eaciji had three-quarter inches. Pope John XXIIl exempted the filthy dollar it will bring ed a name as a middle There were degree days faithful from their obligation of name, was read aloud by in the month, biinii.ng Ihe de- abstinence from meat today.

a priest i)efore the rite was ad- days during Ihis heating Fatiier Sikora haid this action I'HK DKSTRICT attorney add- minisleied. season to is a counter movement against of proper su- Thomas, James and Joseph jhat is 129 more degree dayi the Communist May Day understanding by tCoatlauM ntiaai hettiag NAaon thin OOrmil.lOfUtratlOAl tCaatlnuM TlUrioeai) Patenta added that the 15 nonunion people in his drug store don't want to enlist in any union bet ause they earn as much do unionized Stroller Tips, Girl Suffers Cut Head A gui received 'MK in her forehead last night when the stroller in which sat tipped over Diana Whitby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Whitby, of Kl- verson HD 1, hit her head on the metal handle of the stroller. She was treated in Memorial hospital and then discharged.

ON THE MAIN DRAG spoke Ui a soft, well modulated soice gbd was flanked bv several priests garbed in black and white seatmenti. wM bxii pope MRS. arle co i on the 'phone. KARU: at boots. MRS.

I.K.STER STETI.ER a box of candy. JAY wearing a nevr sweater. MR.S. MKRRITT WftN out toys. ALFRED di'iies.

RICHARD the of king. LEVE.NGOOD -laughing at jokes. GLADYS YODNG for kit itm.