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Poltstown Mercury THE POTTSTOWN NEWS Published every raorninw eirpt Sunday the Publishing Hanover and Sire. 6orto wn.tlAM Htr.STER. President BHANDY General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES complete of the author mutl eterj hut on will puhlithed not etreedinc ISO will rftlTi preference. READERS SAY: Parking Hogs and Eaters Make Mess of High Street MOHAMMED TO MOUNTAIN OR MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED? Rt Carrier per By mall ipayable etrtrti 113 per Year advance). 8 Yetr Mo Month Witmrv IX) mues MO 45 Il 13 All 3th rrs 1 Kt.tr fed PutUtot rn P'Wtufflc 2nd CltM matter MFMRF.R OF IHK iatei ras ss entitledexe Vttf to the for ri pubi cation 1 locfc ntti printed In a well 1 ftl 1AP ne dU- Ail of he relr ft.so erred W'EDNFSD ANC Ifl, 19 (riiiit oncf harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the hrnrr, the great.

Samuel John son. They 7 Around Chicken Feed H1LE nice to ho grateful for small blessings, 1 fown's now pay schedu Borough cou appeared I announced th( ncil granted hut the avr iqh app of over a er night. $3000 in worker passed salary increase like tho around. Thr borough's highway workers, for Instance, go home with wmc or less a week than Ihev cot past vr.ir. On tho other hand, the borough solicitor will glean more a year, or a raise of ino percent.

Ralph If. Thomas, the mainstay of tho water department, raised a mild objection when ho got not a single penny more on his $0100 salary as appreciation for his fine work. But Stanley Reider, highway foreman, sat amiably by without comment on his tin- raised $4920 salary, mainly because it was upped from $3800 before this budget meeting. Pottstown police groused because their request for a was countered with an actual $150 increase But the lieutenant, and the chief got only $80. And, so far as is known, made little comment.

The raise that caused some eyebrow lifting on the streets yesterday was the 100 percent increase given tho bornuch solicitor. Victor J. Roberts. He got S1000 last year. He'll get $2000 this year.

This job may be worth all (hat money. a time-consuming position. If the job were looked upon coldly from a strictly professional view, it probably would be worth more than a year. But the borough solicitor received only $800 up to 1942. and $1000 after that because the salary merely was looked upon as a retainer.

Borough solicitors have been in the habit of submitting bills for work, such as that in conjunction with bond Issues, or court work. The little guy on the highway depart Why Pottstown it Dirty To the Editor: 1 do agree 100 percert that we do have a had parking system, but it to be the condition everywhere. This condition would not be were not for the parking hogs and free load along over main streets. Everyone with a car or crate wants to he seen along the main drag, tak.n^ up space that some visitor coming through our town would really appro ciate to park a few minutes and observe our store window displays. The ace object of our decorators is to impress and show their wares to those who through our lovely main street.

It's really good advertisement and our businessmen and storekeepers are to he commended on thoir classy window' trimmers, but this means nothing to tho parking hogs, who drive from Chestnut and Walnuts streets to lit along the curbs and idle time They also are the worst Jitterbugs, not having enough civic pride to keep their empty cartons, cups and even paper bags in thoir or deposit them into the waste baskets placed for such purpose. Oh no. not We pay taxes for the sweeper to clean up our So out the windows goes the trash, right upon the sidewalks. The dirty slops try to hit the So down the side lie murder or adultery. No matter how much you sugarccat it, hingo Is still gambling Boyertown READER Criticism Unwarranted To the Editor: I am deeply grieve 1 by some of the comments I hear about tho welcoming of the Hungarian refugees to this country Some of the most acid comments seem to come from hav? forgotten that their an i came from oppressed Europe, thoi too All tl walks it blows and rolls for everybody to tramp and mash through tho mess.

What a bunch of selfish morons' Un til such solfivi and uncivil persons do learn to consider the other fellow's feelings and rights, I guess the rest of us have to continue to wade through their filth, N'o sot of laws nor ordinances will make certain types of human hogs into pearls of grace and cleanliness. Are they to be more pitied than I reallv wonder. Tottstown UP KID Can't Legalize Ringo To the Editor: We cannot lejalira gambling any more than we can very disturbing to those of uj who have an appreciation of what liberty means under a true democracy. One wonders if these writers ever heard of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty or if they ever road in the history books how thousands of Hungarians and Czechs fled for their lives from their autocratic tho middle of the 19th century and were accepted with open arms in our country, and how some of these refugees and their sons became great Americans Some of these writers worry lest these liberty-loving Hungarians take our jobs, and yet wc now have the highest employment record in our history and we have had 16 years of unusual prosperity which the laboring men and women have enjoyed real wages higher than at any other time in the history of organized labor The Hungarian refugees would gladly stay and f.ght for their freedom if they wore the Hungarian government only, but they are faced with fighting the greatest military machine in tho world and must fight them with bare hands. If tho Hungarian refugees had stayed after the Russian army moved into Hungary they would have ended up on the execution scaffold or in Siberia.

Even great armies give up after they are hopelessly beaten Spring City AMERICAN TOO Our Hidden Taxes To the Editor: Not until the worker realizes what a terrible thing the is will ho become tax conscious. Nowadays no is not alert to how much taxes are taken out of his pay- envelope All he knows is pay. 1 bet if somebody extracted $10 from his bank account every week he would be quick to squawk Well, look what the government is doing' Why someone work out a truly realistic tax system whereby the hidden taxes would be dropped? Pottstown TAXES TIRED Asks Tax Cut To the Editor: I am very much pleased over the fact that you continue to hammer away editorially over the wasteful spending of the federal government Keep up tho good work' What would you say to a move to enlist a few million people to go on a strike until the government reduces foreign and federal spending and If federal taxes were reduced 10 percent there would be no excuse for the federal government to get into the school program and a lot of other things that should bo taken care of locally. With a 10 percent reduction from the federal government the states could increase their taxes a little, and easily take caro of all of our state needs. Linfield R.

O. S. tho Human Being To the Editor: Last month a lot of amateur weather diagnosticians were going around saying: This is had weather for colds. There's lots of two- day virus around Bov, this is too Now this January zero weather proves the amateur have to be consistent. The various aches, pains, chills, sniffles and assorted viruses he has been blaming on the unseasonably warm Winter he now can assign, without ting a frozen eyelash, to this dreadful January cold! Pottstown FIRESIDE CHAT COME AMP GET If wm s' morosi AU.

AROVSD THE TO Executives Vacation Down in Sunland ECONOMIC id Aio ASH IX (i ox Liberal Wings Defied In Senate Panels By RAY TUCKER Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have defied and repudiated the liberal wings of both major parties in organizing key committees for the current session. They disregard ment understand that this job deserves ed the known wishes of both the Eisen- a $1000-a-year raise when taking a hower and the Stevenson Truman fac- paycut in his Nor will police think overpaid at $3 raise a week compared with a $20 a week raise! The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN But the dllly came when a suggestion was made that councilmen be paid 2 per ses- sion. Why, those labor men are acting like bank directors, demanding their $20 gold pieces for every session! Hnim! Twenty-five dollars a session doesn't look like too much, unless you figure cost the horouuh a month for Its 20 coumilmen. By the year be a huge chunk of 6000 not to mention what might happen in rase of extra meetings. For last year, for instance, the men got together some six extra times.

So last bill might have been Think they're worth it? Of course, councilmen are worth being paid if they perform a sincere, efficient job. The fact is, this is an indication that Pottstown should have FILL-TIME, SALARIED councilmen! I( Pottstown pects to achieve efficiency in government, it needs the commission form of government, where four or five councilmen run the works on a full time basis, and get paid accordingly. tions. Their selections vest control of committees dealing with social, economic and industrial problems in the hands of conservatives. They took special pains to deprive the White House or dominant influence over such questions as taxes, appropria tions.

business and industry and finances generally. Only in the field of foreign affairs did they foreshadow approval of Ike's general policies. Although they violated the sacred Broadway Grapevine: IF' FAVORABLE booking arrangements can be worked out, Betty Hutton will head her own show in Now York early this Summer. been several years since Betty unleashed her dynamic talents on tho Gotham populace Connolly, suffering from a bad cold, canceled an appointment with her doctor to meet Frank Sinatra at the airport when he arrived for his Copacabana engagement. Hadda stardom in her own club.

La Vie (in 1 ly ood) was short- lived. Although the room Frank Sinatra was designed and seniority and preference systems when opened just for her. she was unceremoni- return to Las Vegas after she had estate on Palm Island, where he intended to erect a luxurious Winter playground. A local radio station almost lost its broadcasting license for playing a recording of James done by Siobhan McKenna for Caedmon Record, The disc is artistic as all get out. but not suitable for the Presley tans Renee Jeanmaire hopes to return to the I'.

S. with her own night club act. in which be the one flirtatious female among eight lads. She'll try it out in Paris this month. BELDEN KATTELMAN.

the Las Vegas hotel owner, received a shock when ho was served with divorce papers out in tho gambling town. He was under the impression that his reconciliation with his estranged wife was going he'd spent a fortune flying in to New York to woo her with attentions and expensive jewelry and expected her to in- In Retrospect 50 Years Ago January IK, 1907 BUILDING BOOM More than 50 homos and some business buildings were erected in 190fi and more than $150.000 was expended. The biggest operations were the new Roesch building on High street, the State Armory on King street and the Adolph Wilke storage building on Queen street Most of the house building was in the Ninth and Tenth wards Tho homos average $2500 each in cost. The cost of building is growing each year. Labor and materials are more costly.

BIG Lightcap. of this borough, is suing the Mitchell Van Meter company, Linfield. for $35.000 He lost his right arm as a result of a mishap at tho plant where he was employed. 25 Years Ago January IK, TROLLEYS HALT-Operation of the cars on tho Pottstown and Trappe Electric Railway company lino halted today. The line was built in 1902 and it was operated by tho Schuylkill Valley Transit company.

The line was recently sold to a New York investor for $35.000. WELL ARMED thief who broke into the home of How ard B. Hartenstine, 418 Jefferson avenue, stole two rifles, two pistols, cash and old coins. Hartenstine had used the weapons on hunting trips. GOOD members of Your Mind? THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1.

What did tho French first call 2 What President of the United States was called The Old Man 3. Where do the words, the poor come I FOLKS OF E-GUESS THE NAME 1. This French politician born in 1904 and was on the editorial staff of the paper. Peu- founder of the Nord During the Gorman occupation ho was arrested, but escaped to London. Returning to France, he was arrested again, but again escaped to London.

Returning a second time, he was again arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released in 1945. 2. She is a Cincinnati. girl who was trained in a Cincinnati drarna school.

She is said to have without uttering a sound. It is all done with records, and she just goes through the motions of singing. She began this routine on Paul show, but soon graduated on her own VACATIONERS Two Pottstown couples will ieave on a South American vacation tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest T. Handley, Maple Garden apartments general manager of Firestone Tire and Rubber company plant), will be accompunied by Mr, and Mrs. George Bullard, Grandview road, (he head of the steel erection department Bethlehem Steel). The four will fly out of Philadelphia to Miami, where take a boat for Buenos Aires, Argentina stop at several ports cn route. The trip will take four weeks A year ago, the traveling foursome visited Caracas in Venezuela.

MIDWINTER CRUISE The mid Winter cruise season Is on and one of the first Pottstonians to plan a traditional Caribbean jaunt is MRS. MARY E. BOZMAN. 403 Wal nut street. leave New York Friday aboard Norwegian- American Bergonsfjord for a seven port cruise in the sun dappled waters.

Mrs. Roiman will visit St. Thomas. Virgin Islands: Martinique. Port of Spain, Trinidad; Curacao, Netherlands West Indies Island: La Guaira and Caracas, Venezuela: Kingston.

Jamaica, and Havana. Cuba. The cruise will end Feb. in New York. WINTER months in Florida is the pleasant prospect in store for Mr.

and Mrs. Howard W. Koplin, West and Hanover streets. leave Feb 1 by auto for a Winter vacation in the Southland. They'll visit Paul Crouse, formerly of Pottstown.

who now lives in Daytona Beach, and also friends in Clearwater, on West coast. The Kopltns have been going to Florida for the past two years, ever since he retired from Jacobs Aircraft Engine company's maintenance department Speaking of tonians in Florida, some former Half Way house area residents who moved there 14 years ago are planning to Mr Mrs Harry Yewdell who have been sunning in Bradenton, Fla. The Yewdells, who had a chicken farm on Maugem Mill road, will return to Three Springs. Huntington county. Feb.

1 because of Mrs. Yewdell's health. live with Mrs. Yewdell's sister in Three Springs Yewdell formerly served on the Upper Pottsgrove road board. PROMOTED M.

PI NM PACKER, of MK and MRS. WILLIAM II. PENNYPACKER. Pottstown RD has been promoted to specialist third class. lie is a member of tho 32nd Army band at Bushey llall, England, near London.

He plays the trombone and arranges music for the band. Stationed in England since February, his wife, the former THELMY SIX of Panevtown. and their two children. 4, and JOYCE. 1, Joined Pennypacker in England the past July.

He is a graduate of Pottstown High school. it THANKS to Mr. and Mrs. Sterling the home economics department a television show in her Laurence, Yuma. Arizona, for the hug it satisfied purposes, they refused to ease the path (or an Eisenhower Civil Rights program when they renamed Sen James O.

Eastland of Mississippi to the judiciary committee. And no more than a handful protested against placing such an opponent of civil rights in this all-important post. NEW ADVICE The Democrats snubbed National Chairman Paul M. abortive advisory committee with apparent deliberation They emphasized again that the Rayburn-Johnson regime would take no I hat would eliminate the perennial advice from such New Dealers as Harrv squawks from those public servants who are magnanimous in their pledges until they learn how much time and effort they really must put into their jobs without compensation. Yes, they got nothing but criticism! their complaint.

They certainly are deserving of compensation, they say, as if that would alleviate the pain of living in a fish bowl! Of course, $25 a month wouldn't pay for automobile expenses, and wouldn't come close to compensating for time put in at committee meetings. But such pav- ment would put councilmen into greater jeopardy. I he electorate would make such odious comparisons as not worth the $25 we pay and that indeed would he a sad commentary, Who is not worth ously fired Leon.trd Ke.ithor, wife of the jazz critic, is in Harkness Pavilion Heart and nerve condition Stewart Barthelmess. separated from Pamela Rank, is dulling the pain of it all by dating beautiful Gloria Case. HOTEL MAGNET William Lie- how.

who died suddenly, leaves an estate valued at $7,500.000 with no relatives to inherit the fortune. He was divorced from his wife more than a quarter of a century ago, and they had no children. Before his final heart attack, he was busily negotiating to buy the old VI Capone of Warwick Township High school tendered their teachers a finely prepared dinner Cooks were Mary White, Katherine Lloyd and Edith Houck. Waitresses were Doris Harris and Laverne Noble. Margaret Glossner is in charge of the department.

10 Years Ago stalled their children in Eastern schools Dick Shawn is the first of the nightclub comedians to incorporate a spoof of the Marie McDonald into his with blindfold and telephone. Love Is A Wonderful Thing item: Lew Parker and Betty Kean have exchanged presents every Friday for the past 48 weeks MGM has offered Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer a tempting flicker job for tho Fall, and considering it. They want to work as a team merely to capitalize on the publicity about their in their home. Both own real life romance, but co- health. They recall star if tho vehicle is right.

it sometimes mu- must have PAID town make its councilmen. The advantag chances of gettir: would he enham ias reached the point (as reach) where it says we ouncilmen, then let FULL T1MF. be fi VI many. OU I) The men Grampaw Oakley PI ORNERS, Editor, the Mercury, January 15. Dear Sir Brother: Wal, I see by the papers where inmates of the Iowa state penitentiary will be issued open neck, short-sleeved sports shirts for standard wear next summer, that should in a 'em the bestdressed convicts in the U.

none. It has been suggested the Antarctic ice cap eventually he atom bombed But what would we do with the resultant ice cuhes? And say: Scientists estimate that it a quadrillion snowflakes to cover an acre of ground. Shucks, there must be more than that on their sidewalks after just a brief flurry, you air the same, GRAMPAW NED OAKLEY S. Truman. Adlai E.

Stevenson or Eleanor Roosevelt. In naming Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to foreign affairs over Sen. Estes Kefauver, who ardently sought this honor, they showed how they felt about the(r 1956 vice presidential candidate.

They took this way of revealing their resentment against tho New Deal-Fair Deal campaign waged by Stevenson and his running mate from Tennessee. The honoring of Sen. Frank J. I.ausche, a rebellious conservative, also offended the liberals. They named the man who supported the late Senator Taft, a Roosevelt- Truman hairshirt, to such important committees as b.wtkinc; and currency and interstate and foreign commerce.

This is an unusual honor for a first- termer, and enables him to oppose advanced proposals on financial, agricultural and industrial matters. Republicans gave Ike no assistance in his plan to the GOP They lodged anti-Administration men in key spots and hazed his most enthusiastic supporters, as well as Senators for whom he had made special efforts tho past November. They placed Sen. William of Indiana on the important finance committee, and named Sen. Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia to the committee which McCarthy used to smear the Administratinn-government operations.

Both men have been listed as non co-operative by White House spokesmen, Ike himself mentioning Jenner as helonging to this group, is a McCarthyite and an isolationist Three Eisenhower liberals, including two who had served under him, were sent to the foot of the class. FLOWERS living for MR. AND MRS LEROY OLIVER, 421 Hale street. BECAUSE today they are celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary. The Worry Clinic By DR.

GEORGE CRANE DONNA aged 7, is a very bright farm girl. Crane, Donna seems rather callous regarding her teacher informed me. could have caused such an attitude a bright girl like Donna is low in her score. That means she has never been taught to apply the Golden Rule to animals, as well as human beings. BUT THE underlying cause of her trouble is the fact she was a great pal of her daddy on the farm.

She followed him wherever he went And because farmers often must kill chickens and other animals for table use, Donna had witnessed her father twist the heads off young roosters. To obtain one of Dr. psychological bulletins, send a long. 3-cent stamped, self addressed, envelope to Dr. George W.

Crane, in care of The Mercury. Enclose 20 cents to cover costs of typing and mailing. Dr. Crane will forward the bulletin. She had also seen him stick a knife into a pig's heart and had then watched the porker bleed prior to the butchering.

And such instantaneous forms )f death are not cruel But toddlers and even children in early grammar school, may fail to appreciate the full economic motives of the farmer. THEY REACT at face value to the striking of a calf with a sledge hammer. And soon they become emotionally calloused to the situation. Thereafter such children may thoughtlessly kick a kitten or abuse a puppy. They arc not purposely cruel.

They are simply imitating their earlier experience where they witnessed farm butchering. Inside TV By EVE STARR IT HAS BEEN SAID, with more truth than humor, that the people who make the most money in Hollywood are the lawyers and the psychoanalysts. Law yers deal in contracts. And one of the quickest ways to make a bundle in Hollywood is to sign a contract with somebody and then sue. I am happy to report, however, a case not in point.

Jack Webb had a firm contract with both NBC and his sponsor to make 39 films. By the time he had completed 23 of them, NBC and the sponsor decided the show wasn't pulling a high enough rating and wanted out. Webb was perfectly within his rights to have held them both to the contract, and no one would have criticized him for it. But Jack Webb isn't like that. His feeling was that there was no point in continuing to sell something tho buyer didn't like So will ieave the air in March.

WALTER WINCH ELL, far from giving up the TV battle, is more eager than ever to get into it with a winning combination. His latest foray has been directed at Desilu, where he and Desi Arnaz spent several hours talking over a possible film series the other day. The format would deal with semidocu- mentary accounts of famous crimes, with Winchell to servo as the narrator. Januarv 16, 1947 ANNIVERSARY and Mrs. David J.

F. Bechtel. 305 Chestnut street, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary vjth a reception are in good their courting days when there were no automobiles, no movies, no telephones, radios or television In the Winter time sleigh rides were popular and straw rides pleased in the Summer time. Once in a while one could afford to hire a livery team for a spin. own name.

What is tho bottom et column) IT HAPPENED TODAY 1599 Edmund Spenser, English poet. died. recognized tho independence of the colonies. 1919 The Eighteenth (Prohibition) amend ment to the Constitution ratified. USSR sent into exile the late Leon Trotskv.

of tho Yuma Daily Sun sent this way. It was fascinating! Mrs. Laurenee is tho former Alma Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.

F. Evans, 79 Edgewood street. She move! to Arizona in June, 1955. The Laurences have a daughter Darlene. Laurence worked at in Pottstown.

Are you tho jealous type? No longer need you suffer tho pangs of that dreadful emotion. Medical scientists are out now with a pill that cures you every time a fit of jealously seizes vou. Startling statistic: In half of all Ameri- i juii u3n there's at least one mem- annoyance. Verb a dental plate in his mouth. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE oy (a NOV.

noun; an disturb or irritate, especially by repeated acts; to tease; vex; to molest, as to annoy an army by impeding its march. Verb be troublesome. Origin: Anglo-French French from in hatred. YOUR HEALTH By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN.

M. WHILE most of us think of carbon monoxide as something to fear only when running an auto engine in a closed garage, it is just as dangerous when produced in the home. In Illinois alone, between 40 and 50 persons lose thoir lives each year as a carbon monoxide poisoning PASTOR WELCOMED-A recep- and Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, former Many of these deaths occur right in the tion as tendered the Rev. Harper star, should be celebrating own homes. Schneck, newly installed pastor birthdays today.

CAFE MAN DIES Bennie lanuzzi, 60. proprietor of tho Hanover cafe. 11 South Hanover street, died after a long illness. He was born in Italy. HXPPY BIRTHDAY Robert Service, American poet and author, now living in France Alexander Knox, actor; Ethel Merman, singer and comedienne, of the Good Shepherd Reformed church, Boycrtown.

Newton V. Johnson had charge of the program Addresses were made by the Rev. David F. Longaere, pastor of St. Lutheran church, say on Man Boycrtown, and the Rev.

Schneck. i 'ruuuu ,3 HOW YOU MAKE OUT? 1. Love apples. 2. John Quincy Adams.

3. From Alexander Pope's Jack Webb Pottstown Sketches STARK DUST; With the first casualty of the now year, it now appears as though wdl be the second. One sponsor has already pulled out, and the second is wavering. Unless CBS can come up with at least one new sponsor before next month, the show will fold as of Feb. 19.

cooking improving all dog has started begging at the Carbon monoxide is a very poisonous gas. It is formed whenever wood. coal, oil or any other fuel is burned. If these is not sufficient oxygen available, or if the burning process is incomplete for any other reason, carbon mzonoxide is certain to develop. Although you smell, taste or see the gas itself, there are a few mg signs that indicate a dagner of carbon monoxide.

If flue gases are escaping into your home because of defective heating and venting equipment, you might notice an acrid odor. Your eyes and nostrils might smart. Watch your heating equipment. If are flakes of soot on tho floor anywhere near tho equipment or flue damper, it might be an indication that gases are not being expelled as thev should. There are many things you can do to help prevent development of carbon monoxide in your home.

For one thing, burn any kind of fuel and I mean anv an area that is airtight. Remember, carbon monoxide will develop if there Is insufficient oxygon. Open a window slightly if you have to, but see that your heating appliance has enough air. If venting is advised for your particular fuel burner, make sure it Is vented properly to the outside. And repeat, an unvented fuel- burnine space heater in a bedroom.

If the flame on your kitchen range is not burning evenly, scrub tho burners with soap and water, using a stiff brush. Make sure all equipment which burns fuel of any type is checked and adjusted each year..