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A' Uollslown Mcmiry THE POTTSTOWN NEWS PuhhahtcT evfry rmrmiiK firfpt HumUy Daily uhi Co, King flion? WILLIAM HIESTKR PHANDY H1L1 CVnrrnl Mitnaiier CMARUMI IRKLRVEN KdUof stmsrnimiON ratt rrirr 2St 11.1 prr iti lpnvable in Moothl Mon fi IV) miirt Ut) READERS SA of author unii will TESTING 1-MAN DOG THEORY Suggests Hospital Classes for New Mothers fH V) Pnterrd at, a 2nd mat MSMKBKR OF THF ASSOCIATED The Aaaoclattc) ta tsciualvHV 1 vim for repnbtlrat of all prtn tri an AP A rtft'ita of art Would Be a Real Service Labor Should Help, Too In fhr Editor: I think Memorial ho; To Ihr Editor: 1 wondrr about whit -holding a Baby proapective Pottstown od think when they thnt tho Doehler ed union approved a strike, if neces- rv, to get their WEDNESDAY. JUNK 1. in: pii al ha a gn od a Dav eac year. It a good eh; ft Sf the women they wit h. ta Ik abo ut their and see thr Why cant 1 Pott stow hospital do the sa I think it would be nice.

I'm a 1 lor Anoth icr fhir 12 the hos. ft -day classes or something si lilar for new mothers while the i Ev en if it's only a half hour earh da i to te ach the newf the funda me ntals tending a bahv. Belter Access to County Park To the Editor: The people who live in this end of Montgomery county (Pottstown and vicinity) deserve bettor treatment than they get in a lot of For one thing, their to county park at Green Lane is poor. There I wonder, loo, what they think about direct route to the county park di Ri A hi llr learning ix tiangenntn thing: drink deep, nr taste not Hu Pierian Pape. You Can Keep Down THERE a Inf of fancy and free-style snarling the other dav when a public utility representative fold a Pottstown group hard to set new industry in Pennsylvania because the State puts too much of a tax bite on Something like 52 percent of the tax grab is borne by State industries, he said Well, that gave the guys an elegant chance to sneer through thnr and do about it.

Too many upturned left of the mouth and lowered mothers are ignorant in sense and the frequent at Firestone over some little grievance, all up to the question: Are we a friendly town, we sty we are? Or putting it a different way: Will a new industry pick out a town lanor nn't too friendly? Now is the proper time, it seems, organized labor to put out the hand of friendship to industries that might he attracted here This doesn't mean la rights have to be forfeited. Rut it without wasting a lot of mileage. The people in the other ville and sail right into the park by traveling on Route 29 or taking Route 73 to Schwepksville and then up on Route 29 along the Perkiomen. county ought to the peo- pie in this end a break once in a while. Pottstown RD 3 TAXPAYER, TOO have to be taught by any connected with the hospital knowledge, there is nothing gesture of friendship, our town Oh, how I wis.i thinking Open Earlier To the Editor: I wonder the there would have been! I think it is important and would give the to do in their sparr time than lying in bed and reading every chance they get.

Let's hey others' on this mean that labor should make som'1 POtUtOWII recreation dtpAftmtSl di start its Summer playground program earlier than it after school lets out. for instance. The children are kept busy for about -t nine of the vcar Then, recognize the fact that if industry pro- is out. thev immediate ge: I believe so, for I know many working of spers. our town prosper, too.

And that will mean better schools, better better everything. These are the intelligent working less with so much time on their After a few weeks, they get accustomed to this and find something to do. It is in this period when a plavgroun I never get any new industries in thev chortled In the in duslria! expansion committee of the Pottstown Building Industries exchange. yourself leading the anvil chorus was a wide of the town population that had bcrn giving lip to industrial expansion for years (But lip only. Their meetings were, well, the type.

You know, all's 'Aid and nothing done') But did you notice what little effect those sad words of the expert and the expert cold water tossing of the do-gooders had on the builders? Why. they stepped out to tho most spec- manv long for help and advice. Many o'her and cities have this Is Pottstown this backward? Let's have some fan educate the other; program would do the most good. And it would keep the, children out of their with whom they work Towns that get new industry pull to- Hollywood '0! town A NEW MOTHER hair. Besides, it is too hot gether Pottstown can, too.

if everyone later in the Summer to have the children tries, nut on the playgrounds. Pottstown R. H. Pott.stown MRS. L.

R. Your Mind? By EDITH WYNN IMF INSWEt QUICK! HOLLYWOOD, June 14 Fess i. What is the of the Parker, on the first lap of his name of the month of tour, hit Oklahoma City and In the nursery rhyme, ASHIXGTO.X Hall's Objective Seen To Defeat Sen. Morse By HAY TUCKER The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN Jottings in Pencil RUTH living in a run-down WASHINGTON. June Republican Florida trailer camp, bitterly National Chairman Leonard W.

Hall's prize objective in next tacular bid for publicizing PotMown ever sional campaign is the defeat of evolved here The industrial expansion committee chartered an airplane and will have man John Basco fly ambassadors to Schenectady, N.Y., where they'll tell the Pottstown slnry tn Electric bigwigs. Their bid? If General Electric's going to huild any mnre plants, build in Pottstown! The goodwill ambassadors will hr Allen Davidheiser Pottstown builder, and John Hartenstme, chief burgess of the community! lay all tho facts on the desk of the GE official and then await the future. Get a GE plant for Pottstown? Maybe thev will. Maybe they Whatever the outcome, you've got to ad- tor Wayne Lyman Morse of Oregon, whose desertion of the GOP enabled the Democrats to organize the Senate. In fact.

Hall ordered the collection of a special fund for this politicians like the practical New Yorker, there is mnre rejoicing over the defeat of one sinner than there is nver the return to Washington of all other Senators. Party heresy, unless rebuked, can become contagious and disruptive, as Western Progressives like Norris, Borah and Johnson demonstrated during Coolidge Hoover era. Despite his tolerance and amiabil- ing off all the comeback offers made to her. Although her life story is a hit on the motion picture screens, and (her newly revived recordings are best sellers. the one-time star insists remain in (retirement because show business her nothing but When Continental singer Fernanda 1 of the picture Broadway genius Herman Shumlin and his wife are living apart Keefe Rrasellc is trying to iron out some triangle problems A distributor with the monopoly on all S.

sales of a sporty foreign car is about to lose it. The manufacturer, unhappy with the system, will set up individual dealerships When Metronome announ ces the results of Its annual poll, two songbirds will he tied for first place Fitzgerald and Carmen Mr- ae. the city was Over twenty Heigh diddle what did thousand screaming fans greeted Fess. there to plug his movie, Yipe! bet Disney gets orful mad when he scans ads in Ixts Angeles papers this week two of which tn like crazy on the Crockett craze. I One blurbs a picture George Montgomery finished some time ago, Crockett.

Indian and ads for "The Far co-starring Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston, blazon this line: FOLKS OF FAME-Gl ESS THE NAME Janet Leigh ALL AROUND THE TOWN A Home for Himself Set for Eye Surgery ON TEN GREEN Istenes, after building about 40 for other people over the past five now is going to put up one for himself. The building contractor, who lives at 2U Chestnut street, bought from Nicholas Dlninnl, High street restaurateur, a in acre plot of land near the Blossom restaurant. The property is at the corner of Orlando and Maugers Mill roads and has a 500-foot frontage on Route Sprogel'i run cuts through the traci. Starting sometime this Summer, Istenes will build a four-bedroom stone home on the verdant acres for himself, wife Mary, and children Gordon, Ifi; Mary Ann, 11, and Joan Louise, 7. He to build a swimming pool on the property, too.

Dinlnni acquired the land for th-' same purpose in J940 but gave up the building plans when he acquired a home ai 1415 High street. And Istenes, too, had other ideas for a home site at tint time. He bought 10 acres at Mulberry street and Rohland avenue, but now subdivided it and will build four in the building husines-. for five years, most recently started a development of homes on Mover roa 1, I'pper Pottsgrove township. SUNSHINE CORNER Drop a note or card of cheer to l.Vyear-old JUDITH ANN KOCH EL, daughter nf MR.

AND MRS. JOHN KOCHEL, of Glasgow street, Pottstown Route 20, who entered Reading hospital yesterday for an eye operation. The dark haired 1955 graduate of Potts town Junior High school would he especially pleased to hear frnm her classmates. be in the hospital for about in days. Send her mail to Reading Hospital.

Sixth and Spruce streets. West Reading, Pa. The traveling WILLIAM F. FRANKES, nf Oley RD 1, send their latest re port on their tour of the West from Vancouver, British Columbia, Can ada. GUYS IN UNIFORM Mark Creasy, an airman apprentice in Navy, with a squadron of Hurncarv Hunters" operating off the Atlantic coa't at Jacksonville.

Fla. He reported L. and educated in Fngland. jasl month after training at the Naval Scotland and South Carolina Two Technical Training at Nor- years after accepting the advice man. Okla.

a former North Coven- 1 She was born in West bury, THE SARDI SET hears Davis nf Wild Rita boarded the plane for and Robert Rreen will sever their Hayworth just dved her hair back about an acting she was tr', studen a son or Paris, her very hush- nership, which created the internationally to its natural color brown raS( the lead of Young an hush traveling com- famous revival company of "Porgv and Jane Russell turned over all and on Broadwav. panion Denny Continentals in the glamor set for being on Bob recenuv she made a hit as Slater, the society lad. report Orson temper never television show, to her pet High Roberto Rosselini, worse. They blame it on his marriage charity, A I which pro- in "Dee ore the and Ingrid Bergman as a ehap as ever to Italian movie beauty Paola Mori, motes the adoption of foreign or- directed a film or a which isn't going smoothly Sandu phans. wife, is noticeably subdued since his pro- Scott, the former New ap- fessionai breakup with Ingrid Bergman, pears to be heading for success as a which he hopes won't last forever, lngri.1 singer.

She was a hit in her Montreal is encamped at her Santa Marinella villa opener. outside Rome, studying her role for the Florence Chadwick, the Channel chal- Jean Renoir movie she'll make this lenger. will swim into plenty of loot in mit they re go-getters. They re going out itv. President Eisenhower is extremely and doing things, not just sitting in their big, lnti.Morse fat upholstered chairs and hoping something will turn up to brighten Pottstown's future.

doing more than writing letters or OPTIMISTI( PAR IV REPORT: Sen- sending out Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who This industrial expansion committee gives doubles as Chairman of the Republicans Summer, and Roberto once poked Las Summer, giving exhi promise of getting somewhere All of Potts- Scnuatorial Campaign (ommittee, re- his nose in to change the script make and instructions Four town can help 1hem by supplying the funds Parted to Hall after a tour of the North- costume suggestions, or offer any of his for the industrial expansion drive All of west that Morse can be defeated through usual Svengali services. Pottstown will benefit. money and improved organization of the state forces. According to Goldwater, Governor Paul Patterson has agreed, finally and pretty little plaything, that reluctantly, to run against Morse. new exclusive car-to-car radio system The Democrats, however, are as some police committee members want, will anxious to re-elect Morse as the Republicans are to defeat him.

National Chairman Paul Rutler planned a great rally for the at Portland. Save Your Money, Boys! IT LOOKS as if the deal to star rrooner Johnny Desmond as Russ Columbo is off. Producer Maurice Duke has been heard to admit he's changed his mind about the casting a week Some 100 localities in the nation are giving the Air Force a hard time over jet Marine Dietrich, currently in London appearing at the Cafe de flies to Paris every Sunday Alan Ladd Jr. begins his job at MCA next eek. DEMOCRATS FOR WAYNE MORSE: cost only $15,000 over a 10-ycar period So said E.

Jack Kerns, chief engineer of the county radio system, to which the borough now' is attached. The borough will pay the county only 1UK) a $3000 over that 10-year period, Kerns said. Now, that a costly little plaything for some of talkative policemen? And what it amounts to, because one town father said the new radio system was wanted so the cops understood that Harry S. Truman wdl could talk to each other, car to car! deliver the principal address. Talk about your lonesome Is Although the former President has that all they ye got to do? over ie declined numerous political The Worry Clinic Rv DR.

GEORGE W. CRANE MIRIAM aged 44, is the wife of a Resides the presence of Butler and other Judge. prominent members of the Democratic rane. 1 am a changed hierarchy as evidence that she glowingly informed me after been adopted bv the opposition, it address I had made in Ohio recently. In Retrospect 50 ears Ago "And I owe it to your project.

Our children were grown and married, so the Judge and I had June 15, UMBRELLA SCARES umbrella carried hv a woman near Pennsburg caused a runaway in which Jacob Wagner, well- known New Hanover farmer and son, Jacob a student at Perkiomen MIX YERNAY, in of is hospitalized with serious injuries following an auto-crash Janet Leigh has looped off to San Francisco to figure in a fashion show et- hihiting a line nf dresses now carrying her name Dick Powell. who'll direct, and Claude Binyon, who scripted, are off to Nassau to find for Happened One the ca! version of which goes before Columbia cameras pronto with June Allvson "nd Jack Lemmon starring. In the film, June and Jack will be traveling from Nassau to Miami and from there on to Houston, by bus. In the old (lark (table and Claudette Colbert went from Miami to N. Y.

if you remember Brethren church roads, Kenilworth At Miami, with the Third Marine Aircraft wings headquarters squadron Marine Sgt. Ilarry R. Miller, son and again in in Mr ami narry My an you tell her pyt. Robert T. Kirlin, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Emerson L. Kirlin 2. He was born in Turin. Italy, 26 West Fifth street, is getting in 1897, and began the practice geared to Army life at Fort Jackson, of law in 1920.

He joined the s. with the 101st Airborne division, liberal political movement in his country and was secretary of the party, and a member of the opposition committee against Fascism. He been Italy's minister of war and in 1947 was appointed ambassador to Moscow. He is now Italian ambassador to the United States. His name, please? it bonom of column) IT HAPPENED TODAY Carta signed by King John at Runnymede, England.

admitted to the Union. boundary treaty signed between the United States and Great Britain. American troops in Pacific landed on the Marianas. be- ban robot bomb (VI) attack on England in World War II. OUTDOOR GAL GAIL POLLOCK.

one of Pottstown High school's 1955 graduates, will he a camp counselor at the Philadelphia Camp Council this Summer. She took a quickie training course at the ramp near Downingtown the past weekend. She's a daughter of MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY POLLOCK the Mayer Pollock engineer-executive), of Rosedale GIVE AWAY DEP Female, black cocker spaniel, registered, a nice children's pet, about five years old.

MRS. ROBERT T. MATTHEWS. Pottstown RD 1, phone Pughtown Three months old male, tiger-striped kitten. CHARLES FUNK, 627 Walnut atreet, 5213.

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE MAUDLIN MOD-lin) ad- including a chilly suggestion that he attend the celebration of the tenth an niversary of the founding of the Unite! experiment, and de- Nations. he will go all out for Morse. cided to try it out. Once again, weird politics makes weird bedfellows. Truman could never forgive Democratic deserter.

admit that my primary aim radio system? if It's about time somebody puts the kibosh on these frills some of councilmen want. Why, as susceptible to glib talk as some of those householders who were taken in by roof repairers and siding experts! They any more than a weak sister who's high-pressured from a boiler room by flattering salesmen of strawberry festival tickets! If Pottstown has some $15,000 lying it doesn't know what to do with. In rcason it. addition horough hall spendthrifts invest it in 'h('lr 10 the Senate. H- borough streets, in new streets or repaired has l)Con a voca! an(i obstinate opponent thusiasm to pay my three honest com streets' reclamation power and con- pliments every day.

Or let the borough highway department nervation policies, charging that they huild some storm sewers so that half of the interests over bono streets washed down the publico. settled down into a comfortahle middle- werP thrown from the carriage when age existence. one dav read about YOUR HEALTH By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M. THE FIRST attack of nephritis might SHIRLEY JONES, the young star'of is in love seminary, were seriously injured.

Thev Warren Kemmerling and vice versa Pat O'Brien pulled the jective; effusively sentimental; the horse dashed along the road at mfty of the week. Said he, drunk enough to be emotionally vour brakneck speed havi' on authority that if silly. Origin: From Maudlin, from be so mild that you wont even notice a. Bishop Sheen goes into tele- old Maudelene, Made- The kidney damage might not be dis WEDDING Helen Stanford, daugli- vision, they're going to use stained leine, Magdalen, who is often de- covered until years later. Since nephri- ter of William R.

Stanford. 559 King glass Jan Sterling is picted with eyes swollen and red usually follows another infection generated into a typical hypochondriac. example. I had always held a 0 0 fear of cancer, so I would imagine all sorts of ailments. FURY: The Repub- specialists many times, but they always excessive anger at Morse pronounced me in sound health.

was somewhat selfish, too, for I had de- steeet, was married to Samuel B. en route to EnglandI and Edmond with weeping. Sasher, Pottstown. by the Rev. William Bnen joins her there momen- H.

Ford, pastor of First M. E. church, tarily to co-star in for S. IIAPPY RIRTHDAY Attendants were Carrie Bliem and Kath- Peter Rathvon in London. Swele- 0.

birthday celebrant are I had consulted enne Eppehimer. Nuptial music was gan actor. Mr Ralph Richardson RtnnM com furnished hy Pearl Miller. is the th.rd topper in the cast. and collduclor; Seereta; 25 Years Ago Columbia will release the picture such a sterptococcus infection of your throat, tonsils or the of the primary ailment may overshadow those of the The beginning of acute nephritis may be sudden or insidious.

The course mav in this country marce Sinclair Weeks; John Herd 0 slow or fast. I mally, one I started out with great drain with every heavy rain' Or let them eliminate those back-breaking crossings on North Charlotte street, or spend the $15,000 for cater pillar-eradieation spray! Let spend the money for something that will benefit everybody and not only a couplc of lonesome Georges who want to talk together! Grampaw Oakley Tied up in this contest, as well as in the attempt to defeat Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington, will he such basic issues at the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Dixon-Yates contract. Canyon, development of the Niagara River, and the whole Eisenhower-McKay theory of private power development versus govern ment ownership anti operation. Thus, results in the Morsc-Mag- nuson tests may well determine which bridge performs for just one night June I at tho 0pCnjng 0f (' Hilton's fancy PRAISES YOL III I he youth oT new hotel in Istanbul Turkey today is cleaner, more intelligent and sorry we couldn't make this more resourceful that the youth of a along with many To obtain one of Dr. psycho- generation ago was declared by Dr.

frnm au 0VPr wjn logical bulletins, send a long, 3-cent J- Hamilton Smith, pastor of Trnjity nn hand for the stamped, self-addressed, envelope to Dr Reformed church, in the baccalaureate festivities. George W. Crane, in care of The sermon to the Class of 1930 of the Potts Dorothy Dan- Kilpafrick executivei and first 'vmptoms you will notice will Ed Steivart of baseball fame. be a puffiness of your eyelids upon arising in the morning. Within a few days your feet and may begin to swell.

MOW'D YOl MAKE OUT? if the onset has been insidious, you 1. The goddess Juno. might not be aware that you have acute 2 dish ran awav with nephritis until your ankles begin swe'l- the 'mtojq i uopjAv town Senior High school. He claimed there is too much unwarranted criticism I ditor. The Mercury, Dear Sir 'n' Brother: Wal, I see by The Mercury where a couple of Pottstown industry seekers will fly up to Schenectady to talk about a new plant.

Wal, that's the rising genera tion, for you! Down in Royersford some kids were found pouring gasoline on pigeons and then setting them afire. That town should be proud of them. When will they start shooting holes into their fathers? say: Some Potts town kids set fire to the old went well till about the third week. Then, at the dinner table evening, I happened to recall that I had paid only two compliments that day. I want to break policy will prevail on Capitol Hill, for good record.

I put on my coat and regarded trial runs on strolled out upon the street after dinner, ni vt-iv roDwiDC srpat unresolved national prob just looking for somebody to whom 1 PI NKIN CORNERS, iem could pay a sincere bit of praise. Senator Goldwater. incidentally, I stopped at our neighhor- also told Chairman Hall that Senator ing drugs' and overheard the Herbert H. Lehman of New York, who girl give a fine sales talk about a new sides with Morse and Magnuson on this cosmetic product, so I paid her my thirl question (the St. Lawrence and Niagara compliment for the day.

Risers), can be with money and a Dewey-like organization Mostly, however, with money. June 14. FLOWERS LIVING HIM THF for MR. and MRS. that had been condemned as a hazard.

Ain't ROBERT KEMP JR their no more thrills for kids, like burning Schwenksville RD 1. a mate at a stake, or stealing candy from BECAUSE today they a kid wiih the hip disease? are cclehrating thetr you air the same, 9th wedding GRAMPAW NED OAKLEY sary. Yercurv. Enclose a dime to cover costs of typing and mailing. Dr.

Crane will for- boys and girls of today, ward the bulletin. CAMPFIRE GIRLS MINSTRELS- Campfire Girls of Pottstown staged a minstrel show for Landing PTA in the North Coventry High school auditorium. Taking part were Emma Bechtel, Marie Hoffman, Ruin Lafferty, Gertrude Yorgey, Marguerite Wells, Florence Swinehart, Leona Boyer, Edith Sonn. Florence Wisegarver, Mabel Kirlin. Pearl Mensch and Vera Kithtz.

10 Yea rs Ago June 15 1945 WCTII LAWN Pottstown WCTU wound up its series of meetings today with a lawn fete at the home of AND I KEPT on till the end of the Laura and Gertrude Ecker. 1050 Queen 30-days. You sent me the signed Mem- street. Devotions were conducted hv bership Certificate, which I have framed Mrs. Dennis Loughlin.

A report was and hanging on my bedroom wall. made by the treasurer. Bella experiment been the best On the program were Mary Eschbach, insurance for happiness I have ever Minnie McAfee. Jean Riegner. Elsie seen.

and Sylvia Pike and Ruth Callahan. I had withdrawn from several organizations and Clubs. If QUARTER CENTURY I run short of people to compii- two employes of the Pottstown plant of ment on that one day. 1 would not have the Doehler-Jarvis corporation organ- realized iw aloof I had become from ized a Quarter-Century club. Officers life.

are as follows: Wilmer E. Knight, presi- a result, I have started back dent; Charles W. Moyer, vice president; into greater activity in my church and Chauncey Selinger, secretary and trens am now teaching a teen-age group of urer; directors: John Kovel, Harold girls. Linton and Gilbert Stauffer. Daddy, it isn't something outgrown.

I Just GOT ing. probably after a walk. Swollen ankles, of course, do not necessarily mean that you have nephritis. Your urine might be bloody, or the color nf wine or smoke. At the beginning.

the volume of your urine will he greatly diminished. Perhaps it will amount to only a few ounces in a 24 hour period. In children, the most common symptoms are vomiting, high temperatures, abdominal pains and occasionally he.nl aches and convulsions. Common sense might help you head off an attack of nephritis. If you have a sore throat, painful neck glands, sinus infections or attacks of tonsillitis, have them treated by your physician imrne diately.

With penicillin or sulfa drugs, he probably will be able to kill the strep tococcus germs, which in many cas-s lead to nephritis. Be very careful while you are recovering from a cold, sore throat or other infection. Take especially goo'l care of yourself for several weeks. become overly tired or chilled. And get wet feet.

However, if you do become chilled, get into dry clothes at once and warm yourself in a well- heated room. Make sure there are no drafts. I think find that a good hot drink will help, too. Then get inln bed. If you want, you can use a heating pad or a hot water bottle for additional warmth.

These measures will hetp warl off pneumonia. And pneumonia might he followed by nephritis..

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