The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 5

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1063 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, PA. DIAL PA 3.3000 PACE FIVE Children Escape Serious Injury When Can Crash An estimated $500 damage, a on Third street, ran the stop traffic summons, a bruised sign struck the right rear shoulder, a bent fence and an door of a station wagon driven interrupted jaunt to the swim- by Mrs. Allen E. Gainer 3 ming pool was the cost of a two East Fifth street, car collision Monday afternoon Mrs. Gainer, her car laden at Third and York streets.

with five pre-teenage children The cost could have been looking forward to an afternoon much higher. There were five pre-teenage children riding in the station wagon struck on the aide and sent careening through an iron fence and onto a nearby lawn. One occupant of the station wagon, 10 year old Stanley T. Gainer, 3 East Fifth street, was taken to Pottstown hospital for examination of a. bruised shoulder.

ACCORDING to investigating Patrolman Fred H. Hummel, the accident occurred at 12:45 p.m. when William Souder, 932 High street, failed to stop for a stop sign at the intersection. sedan, traveling East TO BE PROBED (ConflnuMi From $10,600 to $7600. A spokesman for the three man county board said after the 45 minute closed meeting that the "alleged inequities will be studied, and if they exist, they will be straightened out The board, ho added, took notice of the fact that the residents were ing verbal complaints about the overall assessment rate, rather than written requests for changes in their own assessment rates.

the swim at the Sunnybrook pool, was traveling south on York. She had stopped for the York street stop sign and was proceeding across the intersection when car colhdcd with hers. The impact spun her ear sideways and out of control. It mounted the curb on the southwest corner of the intersection, knocked down twenty feet of iron fence around the corner home owned by William Landis, and stopped. Patrolman Hummel said; Sounders will receive a summons for failure to stop for the stop sign.

Investigating officers Hummel and Motor Patrolman James E. Rodgers estimated damage to Mrs. car at $300. The damage to the front end of car was placed at $150 and the fence $50. Occupants of Mrs.

auto were Allen E. Gainer Stanley T. Gainer, 10 jard Gainer, 8 John Bodulus, 8 and Mickey Bodulus, 7. Martin-Marietta Plant Sale is Expected Soon From HE DOING HERE? Striking a pose amid a lineup of aonto of the prottloat girls at Rupert playground la Irian Strouse. Irian's muscle flexing doesn't seem to bo Impressing the girls who are too prooccupied poalng for the waving Mercury Staff Photo crowd.

Surrounding from left to right are Sherry Forge, Joannlo Lynn Smith, Wanda Rood, Lorraine Sipf and Becky McCulla. Boys and Girls Win Conteste at Playgrounds ready divested ourselves of eight a company spokesman in New York City explained. for the sale of the spokesman Pottstown plant are not completed explained, just com- as of this plain about their own The 75 concrete pipe plants, 13 crushed stone plants or THE COMPLAINTS were quarries and two lime quarries heard in an executive session, and valued by the par- which the spokesman described ent corporation at $48 million, ac- as orderly and quiet. cording to the company spokes- It was the same county board man. No value was placed on the which earlier approved the re- Pottstown plant as a single entity, duction from $200 to $100 in the 75 plants, he added, assessment rate on land of year provided $53 million more than five acres.

The original recommendation of $200 an acre was made by an independent assessing firm of the company's $300 million in sales. Among the firms inspecting A local plant facilities in the hired by the township superv.s- weeks was a Ccntral ors and school board in 1962 Pennsyivania company with Seville supervisors immediately The Adding to the issue in the town- persons, ship was the fact that the ac-j In addition to requiring the sale tion was taken without of the 7o Plants under the consent knowledge of the school Martin Marietta must included Christine Clayton, Mrs. Brooks, in protesting the have the approved by the Vicki Lynn, Deborah Boyer, jtctinn phsripH that phanpp Federal Trade commission. Terry Clayton, Christine will only benefit the large land- Martin-Marietta acquired the lo- Jane Gray, owners in the township, while cal company in 1953 when it was Also Robert Everingham, Valthe small homeowners will have known as the Concrete Products ery Veard, Shetti Ecker, Joan to make up for the loss in company of America. The firm Craig, Larry Clayton and Don-j assessments.

was started in Pottstown in 1910. na Huzzard. A bathing beauty contest at Franklin playground and a beach wear fashion contest at West End highlighted schedule of events at the local centers. Winners from the Franklin playground included everything from the girl with prettiest bathing suit to the boy with the most freckles. The winners were Sherry Forge, Becky McCulla, Beverly Joseph, Mary Francis Diaz, Janet Gabriel, Sharon Steinmetz, Wanda Stouse, Donna Gerber, Wanda Reed, Jeanne Lynn Smith and Christine Decator.

Also, Sylvia Steinmetz, Kevin Strange, Randy Strange, Debora Strouse, Eileen Katzen, Brian Strouse, Sheilla Lessig, Denise Dipette, and Barbara Pollick. Winners of the beach wear contest at West End playground GETTINO NOWHERE FASTI Round and round they go, when they'll nobody knowa. Thoso children at the Brookaldo play- Photo ground know that getting nowhere faat can bo quite a lark. All It takes ia a little bit of leg work and a few dizzy youngsters. School Pupils to Have Full Stomachs Without Empty Pocket Worries (Continued From teria manager, placed sugar in the basket which conspired to drive meal prices up 5 cents.

The three cafeteria heads, in anticipating the retention of the 35 cent ceiling, pointed out its difficult to predict the Fall cost price situation since they know what food prices will be in Fall or how much government surplus they will receive. Mrs. Robinson explained the schools get federal food from two and can get all the food we need in she explained. includes flour, butter, shortening, rice, cheese, dried beans and peanut butter. we have to take what the government sends Category 64, meats, fruits and vegetables, is the big one.

Here the government buys in the domestic market where there are large surpluses. If turkeys are plentiful, the government buys them up and passes them along to school cafeteries. This past term turkeys and chickens were big. can even get tired of turkey, believe it or Mrs. Weikel laughed.

you prepare them in every conceivable way to make them appealing to the MRS. WEIKEL underlined the importance of category 64 in the cafeteria cost picture. more protein items (meat, vegetables, poultry) you receive, the better off you she pointed out. are by far the most expensive items. But happy for any surplus we get, it all helps.

not getting the surplus foods now we were eight to ten years (ml Struck by Car, Suffers Broken Arm ago as far as protein foods are concerned. This past year we received more than we have for several years. We got a large supply of turkeys and chickens and some ground Mrs. Robinson contended schools receive more surplus foods each year and feels this helps to offset increased operating costs. She added the distribution system is being constantly improved.

The government, she said, sponsors area workshops which help cafeteria managers better utilize the surpluses. Mrs. Robinson also pointed out the larger school cafeteria with its larger staff is better able to utilize the surpluses. Their staffs have time to convert the plentiful flour, rice, shortening and butter into puddings and pastries. Smaller cafeterias frequently purchase pudding mixes and pastry, kicking up costs.

or inc. It never touches a drop. You put water in a Volkswagen if you wanted to. Or anti-freeze. The VW engine is cooled by air.

It have a radiator. Or any of usual radiator problems. No hose to leak or clog or run up Costly repair bills. Nothing to overheat or boil over in hot weather. (You never see a VW cooling off by the side of the road.) Nothing to freeze in cold weather.

The money you save on anti-freeze is a dandy little dividend. You get more dividends when it to gas and oil. The VW averages 32 miles to the gallon of gas. Sometimes even more. Sometimes a little less.

Depending on how you drive. You can almost forget about oil. The VW rarely needs it between changes. Tires go a long way, too. Common wear is 40,000 miles.

Maybe that's why so many people are going Volkswagen. not a car that spends your money like water. County Line Sales Service 422 Wost Pottstown AUTHOfttZES The perfect vacation companion: The Mercury. Call FA 3-3000 and it will go with you. ENTIRE STOCK OF SUMMER FURNITURE Drastically Reduced Far Quick I A A LONGINES MONARCH IL AKAI i IC I nsri Linda Alt, 9, St.

home, Philadelphia, was struck by a car near Deep Creek and Snyder roads, Upper Frederick Vv township, Tuesday. She was visiting in the area. She suffered a left knee injury and a broken left arm and was treated on the scene by a physician. The driver of the car was Jean C. Galluppi, Perkiomenville.

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