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POTTSGROVE BUS SYSTEM IS CHANGED Brile Brothers Will Handle Work COST ESTIMATED AT $33,580 PER YEAR Pottsgrove school directors last night agreed to negotiate a contract with Brile Brothers. Farmington avenue, Upper Pottsgrove, to take over the transportation program next term. John B. Ferdinand, an administrative assistant, has handled transportation since the activation. He is also in charge of supplies and maintenance.

Henry E. Brile, a repretent- ative of the firm that will ficially assume its duties July 10, told directors that costs would run aiiout 133,580 per year with the change of some figures varying. The firm would be in ctmplete control of the transportatiOT program charged with servicing and maintaining the 12 buses, hiring the drivers and supervising the operation. Tribulations of the Ivery-Day Tax Trap Better You Stood in Because the Minute You Got Up Somebody With Some Sort of Levy Slapped a Lien on Your Life By JOHN HEISNER Staff Writer) You there, reading The Mercury this morning over your brealtfast! Go bacit to bed. already 15 bucks in the hole, and you even left the hojse.

As a matter of fact since yesterday morning at this time it has cost you ten cents just for the privilege of having hair on your Thinic this is all a joke? It Hie average family man is $15 in debt before he even gets up in the morning. LITTLE ITEMS, union dues, the electricity used to prepare the breakfast, the water In the drinking glass, gasoline for the car, and many, many others, add up to put the average man well debt the minute he awakens each day. The hair is just one of those smaH and generally ered items that add up to create this daily bill. Haircuts now cost $1.50 in Pottstown. The average man gets a haircut every two weeks or at least 15 days.

This brings the daUy total to one dime merely for having hair. The automobile, an item families now find it impossible 'to do without, is probably one I of the biggest absorbers of money. I Gasoline alone runs the age person 12 cents a day. AddI The Changing Times stuck with a $135 bill each year, another two cents for oil, and even a darker picture, saying addition to the normal personal the depreciation of the car, and the American family may well; there is a terrific amount lost be kept broke by its automobile, every day merely by owning the car. summed up the cost of a car.

It stated that (he actual cost of owning a new ear, if drivrn 10.000 miles a year, is $952 yearly. and per capita tax. And how alxnit insurance? Two A HOMEOWNER has lost 50 insurance men said they cents before he awakens, good coverage for a family because he owns his home. And this cents is only for taxes, not including repairs and improvements. If the home is asses.sed $3000, This makes the average and charged at the rate of 45 $2.60 for the car.

And mills, as is lusual in a loca- $2.60 ivery day. this area, the costs about lOperc' ntof the annual income. Figure $5001) as an average yearly income, and there Is $560 for insurance, or $1.37 every day. Union dues, reaching into the family till for as much as 50 cents a day for members, bine with water and sewage bills, electric hilb and heat bills, and the telephone bill to eat up another $2 every day. AND THKN.

of cour.se, there the food bill, the stiffest of tiiem all. A normal family with a few children will at lea.st $5 a day for food. This is that l)c avoided, at least un- (Contlnupd on Clfht) Stiiioy LtNoi.rt>in CO loblltlfw CKRAMIC AND CLAY TILE Rt. i2t Llnerlck HU HY PottstownAkMercury VOL. 28.

NO. 195 DIAL FA 3-3000 PRESS CENTRAL PRESS POTTSTOWN. WEDNESDAY IRST FEDERAL tAVlNQt Loan AttOeUTION I STMT NOW N. HANOVF.R ST. FA MORNING.

MAY 13. 1959 DIAL PA 3-3000 ASSOCIATED PRE8S CENTRAL PRES8 7c A COPY 42c A WEEK IN ADDITION directors agreed to giving the firm a ten-year lease to the buses at a tentative yearly cost of $2592. Buses had formerly been housed at Sales and the Sanatoga garage. Brile told directors that he would attempt to retain as many of the present drivers as he could and would attempt to cut operational costs by buying bulk oil. The school system would be charged tank price for gasoline plus a penny per gallon, he said.

Agreeing to the tion of a one-year contract with an option of renewinlg for another two years should the program prove factory, directory instructed Solicitor Jules Pearlstine to arrange for the pact and draw up the lease. Pearlstine also pointed out to Brile that the pact must in dude some type of which would allow the board to obey future decisions of the Department of Public Instruction affecting transportation. Brtle said he would attempt to work out satisfactory routes from now to the end of the school term and consult with the transportation committee before instituting them. IN OTKER aetlon the board tabled two bids for the conversion of. Lower Pottsgrove school multi-purpose room into two classrooms and adopted a salary (Continued on Last Pafe) ENFORCEMENT OF SIDEWALK LAW MAPPED Contented With Adoption Council to Construct Them Where Owners Fail Specifications for the construction of sidewalk and curbing by the borough on where owners have neglected these requirements are being completed by the borough engineering department.

Bids will be invited for the work. Robert H. McKinney borough manager, said last night that highway committee will reyiew the bids within two weeks after an inviting thorn has been publushed. It is pos.sible that a contract may be awarded at that time. Council adopted an ordinance two months ago which stipulated that all properties in Pottstown must have sidewalk and curbing.

Owners of properties which lack these facilities are being mailed notices to have concrete sidewalks and curlxs installed. Failure to do so within days of formal notification will mean that the IxNTougli will contract for the work. The borough then wil! bill the (Contlnuca on Kifht) School Administrators Back Teacher in Tiff With Pupil PENN VILLAGENew Lights May Mean Ripping Up High Street tate ripping up the aireet or ad jaccnt sidewalk. House Group Okays Limerick Game Area A proposal to turn some 159 acres in Limerick township into State game land won House cwn- mittee approval in yesterday. The State Government committee sent to the floor the bill which would authoriie the State to turn property it owns in the township to the Game commission.

The committee also approved a bill authorizing the State to accept as a gift one acre of property adjacent to the Hope lodge in Whitemarsh Montgomery county. FULL DETAILS OF DOUBLE AIR TRAGEDY SFsE PAGE 12 Heat Approaches Record Reading high temperature of 88 degrees at 3 p. m. came within two degrees of matching the all-time local heat record for that date. The 90-degree record for the date was established in 1911.

The highest May temperature was 95 degrees, set in 1925 and tied in 1741. Scattered showers today, however, are expected to lower temperatures to the high The heat wave in Pottstown area the past tvso days has been constant. The lowest temperature yesterday was 68 degrees. Ttiat was recorded at both 6 and 7 a. m.

The only relief yesterday came between 4 and 5 p. when a strong wind which was followed by brief showers shoved the temperature down a whopping 11 degrees. The rain sprinkled the borough shortly after 5 about 15 minutes after it had dampened the streets of Oley and other Berks county communities northwest of Pottstown. Staff Photo The legend of Zorro left its mark on a motherly hen with that same swashbuckling name. In fact.

Zorro, above, is such a tender hearted chicken that she helped hatch and adopt eight mallard ducks. She cares for the aquatic fowl as If they were her own chicks, but refuses to lead her charges into water. Sharing the duck-adopting chores is another chicken, named Cheyenne. All the birds are owned by Deborah Hankins, left, who displays her day- old ducks to her brother, William. The parents are Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Hankins. SchwenksvUle RD 1. Family of 8 Ducks Adopted by 2 Hens mallards the fowl will have a place to swim. A stream runs by the Hanluns' home.

Split Ticket Voting Not Permitted When Making Choices in Primaries an adage that ducks are so dumb follow the first thing they that is their mom. Hut the adage proves just one thing, that ducks are adaptable. And being adaptable makes them adoptable. Hence they sport for area gunners, set to follow anything, including hens. RENT INCREASE ANNOUNCED New Rates Become Effective on July 1 A general increase in rent for the Penn Village and Penn Village homes developments will be effected July 1.

This was announced by Harry W. Burdan, executive director of the Montgomery county Housing authority, which the developments. Directors of the authority yesterday approved the increase at a special meeting In the Penn Village administrative offices. Burdan said that the Federal Hoosiag authority previously approved the increase. Rents in the low-cost ing unit are based upon the number of persons occupy the dwellings.

These are month, with the existing in parenthesis: one $31.80, two pmons, $39.40, three persons. $43.60, four persons, $47, five persons, $50 six persons, $53 40, seven persons and over, $53.60 ($51 60). The directors decided to refinance temporary loan through the Morgan (iuaranty and Trust company. New York. Two other New York banking firms also bid for that cun tract.

Burdan said that the directors have decided to construct DISCIPLINE POLICY IS OUTLINED 9 More Schwenksville Pupils Punished for Misconduct lights were laid underground in nuc conduits 30 years ago, accord- GIVE VIEWS The in.stallation of mercury downtown srea. The lights will vapor lights on High street as installed on Hign street from Manatawny to Adams Monday night by, borough council may nece.ssi-|^jf shopping district. Mercury vapor lights also will be installed on Hanover street Hie cables for the exhsting King street south to Ilead- lotte street, ms to Rowland loot visor of street lighting for the Philadelphia Electric company. Hoot said yesterday that he does not know if the existing cables will be able to service the new lighting system. Should the wiring prove to be inadequate, the cables would have to be dug up and the system rewired, unless overhead wiring would be used.

Hoot said that he thinks the wiring on Hanover street also is located beneath the street, sidewalk or gutter. The cost of tearing up streets or pavements is normally the responsibility of the utility company. Hoot said. ON SCHOOL CODE By JOHN SIIKPPARU Mercury Staff Schwenksville Union school last night announced its policy on classroom discipline and the role teachers will play in enforcing It, Robert W. Cope, suf)crvising The electric firm wUl study coH basis.

He said the the situaUon and attempt to same determine the locations of the oj. same portion for a existing underground wiring borough as it does for the Gov- system. ernment or anyone s- High street comprises four the new prices per concrete lanes, each 11 feet the exisUng wide. That street was con- principal, said the teachers will HE ADDED, however, that to be strict in their plans are studied and analyzed classromrt discipline, do not intend to let one, two or three pupils in- fere with the education of the said Cope. no undeserving pupils will be He said ttie admini.stration BUT IT appears the mallards (whose breed is the ancestor of all domestic ducks) are to dad will keep the ducks until the matronly spint in Zorro and Cheyenne starts to flag.

He said that would be in a few weeks, at which time the birds will be given to the Perkiomen Valley association. for motor vehicles), or IF THE WIRES are in the gutter area, it could create a serious parking problem in the structed with concrete in 1938. Council allocated $38,000 for street lighting rentals this year. $639,000 low-cost housing devel opment in Abington township. 60 Children Register For Norco Kindergarlen Sixty children enroled yesterday in North second Kindergarten class.

Harold M. Wynne, principal of Coventry schoijl, said a'facilities are adequate to han- THE MAIN DRAG Kight mallards hatched yesterday near Schwenksville, and their foster parents are two hens, named Zorro and Cheyenne. How come such masculine names for motherly hens? of the unfathomable effects of said Mrs. Ralph Hankins, Honor Pupils at Roberts School daughter, Deborah, who keeps if birds Named to Give Commencement Talks die the enrolment and added and parents in the township seem pleased with the TALKS new venture into Kindergarten contract talks to will continue to settle Uie Firestone Tire and develop the he de- Rubber company were dared. reported to be and Mrs.

Marie Kee- The negotiations in Cleveland, ley, nurse, conducted yester- Ohio, centered on pension plans enrolment and a Fir.st and grievance settling proce grade registration will be to- dures. Today the Firestone day from 9 to 11 a.m. in the I strike will its 28th day. I school. PAUL THORNLEY a trip, CHESTER STANEY a novel.

WILLIAM SARSON a friend. DANIEL MORRLSON a building. GERALD LEWIS rose bushes. MARTHA BRUBAKER a sweater. HELEN MURPHY for a coat.

JAMES FARMINGTON a car. JOSEPH CAREY packages. FRED JOHNSON golf. See Today'i Teachers Page 4. and the board support the right of, the teachers to admih- ister reasonable the board nor the administration will take any disciplinary action against Donald he continued.

stand will be KRONINGER is the history teacher who becomes mvolved in an incident with John Mohn, a Freshman, i'riday during the lunch hour. School officials maintain that the teacher hit the boy only after he took a swing at him. Joseph E. Hayes, a Senior, was charged uith inciting a riot outside the school after that episode. On Monday both boys were suspended indcliniteiy.

as well as Robert Albruz- sesie, a Junior charged with (Continued on Li Page) Outstanding Pupils at Roberts School fEditor's This is the second in a genes concerning the primary election.) Since the purpo.se of a primary election is to select the candidates for November general elections, voters split their tickets. Should you register Democratic, you must vote only for niembers of your party. This is an assist to you in tijat you are confronted with fewer names but it is no excuse for hasty voting. Hie more time you take to make your selections the more Ume you will actually save. For example, should you make an error in operaUng Montgomery new voting machines your selection will not register.

The fact that voting machines guard against selections THE WEATHER thunderstorms early, this morning and this afternoon. Party and prevent Clearer and warmer tomorrow, spoiled ballots also serves to High today, 78. low tonight 64. ease your mind and thus allow you greater concentration on the ballot. NORMALLY the operation In a polling place will go something like this.

When you enter a machine-watcher will an- High Mercury 88 Antics 68 TEMPERATURE EXTREMES Local temperatures yesterday nounce your registration and and early this morning were; set the machine for your party, 4 71 4 eliminating the split ticket. When you press the red handle closing the curtain, you arc ready to make your selections. Remember in certain portions of the baUot there may bo 5 m. .70 7 a. ................70 78 5 8 p.

7 m. 8 0pm 10 .75 10 m. 78 11 12 8) 12 in 1 p. m. ,...84 1 P.

a 3 p. 3 m. 70 99 or more persons running for (CoBUatMtf Itflit) THE HANKINS, of Schwenksville RD 1, rescued eight mallard eggs found three weeks ago in a nearby woods. Mal-j lards nest there each year, but the Hankins never touched thei m'sts until recently they found a duck killed by a fox. A ful of eiigs lay nearby and they were carefully taken to Deborah's hen house.

Deborah owns seven hens, and two. Zorro and Cheyenne did the hatching job loves her chickens and is enthralled hy TV characters, so gender count in matching masculine names to setting declared Mrs. Hankins. The ducklings follow the hens everywhere and seem to get a special kick from jump ing on the backs of the hens and sliding off. The hens, said Mrs Hankins, appear a little startled but they are quitt patient Zorro and Cheyenne even allow the ducklings to peck tid bits from their beaks.

one thing seems certain. Our chickens aren't going to lead the ducks to said Mrs Hankins. She explained that the hens just lack a hankering to bathe. But if the fimily keepi the Six honor pupils of the grad- present the Pro- uating class at Owen J. Roberts gram He will enter Muhlen- High school were named yester- berg college where he will be- day to participate in the com- gin his studies for the Christian mencement program.

Each will ministry. present an essay describing Esther May Marquette, particular phase of the total daughter of Mr. and Mrs. educational program of the James F. Marquette, 518 West school as a part of the exercises Cedarville road.

North Coven- to be held in the school audi- try Township, a member of the torium on the evening of June 2 commercial department who at 8 (served as a library assistant David MacFeat Frees son and receptionist will speak of Mr, and Mrs. David about the Pro- Frees, Spring City RD 1. the of the school, president of the clafs, captainj Doris Anne Myers, daughter of the school patrol, and Mr. and Mrs, Henry J. My- ber of the Student council will ers.

Spring City, RD 1, who pre.sent the program of ranked fifth in the Stale on the trial He will enter test on the Constitution of the Ursinus college after graduation United States sponsored by the where he will major in business D.A.R. and who is a member administration. of the yearbook staff will de- Leann Ruth Grebe, daughter scribe the Proof Mr, and Mrs. Karl A. Grebe, She plans to work in PottsUiwn RD 1, editor-in-chief the field of medical technology of the book and after graduation member of the Student councill Darlene Fjiye Scheidt, daugh- will describe the ter of Mr, and Mrs.

Nelson H. Progr of the She is Scheidt, 344 River road, South enroled at Lebanon Valley col- Pottstoun, typing editor on (he lege whecf she will continue her yearbook staff and secrHary of studies in elementary graduating class will pre- Matthew Morgan John 3d, son sent the Proof Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. of the school Faye will John of 510 Bryton Bloomsburg State Teach- Pottstown Landing, treasurer of ers college after graduatinn to the Student council, and secre- prepare to teach in the field of DAVID M.

FREES JR. DARLENE F. 8CHE1DT DORIS ANN MYERS tary of the school patrol will buiiness education. ESTHER M. B1.UIQUETTS MATTHEW M.

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