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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 20

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The Mercuryi
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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FAOE TWEHTT DIAL FA S-3000 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, FA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1990 Schenectady 6E Locol Stands Firm' On Decision to Bolt National Strike OBITUARIES John D. Corbit, SCHENECTADY. Y.

fAPW pickets from other GE plants Schenectady local of the In- John H. Callahan, conference ternational Union of Electrical chairman, said earlier that 4 AVoi-kers stood firm Sunday on its he had made an effort Sunday MtUQ llUlf decision to bolt a nationwide strike discuss the situation with officers against the General Electric of Local 301 but was rebuffed. 'despite a union effort to mend the break. Callahan said that when he at- John D. Corbit 76.

vice Woman Dies At Age 46 of Dies In Reading Attack Amos Fulmer Succumbs at 83 'Woman Driver Hits Itear of Truck A parked truck was damaged Amos Tilton Fulmer, 83, wid- when a car driven by Betty ower of Anna K. (Brownback) Viola Smith, of 45 East Third Ralston Fulmer, 199 Washington street, slammed into its rear street, Spring City, died at Po- while making a right turn, copson home, West Chester, She told William where he had been a resident Rowland that the accident oc- Louise B. Moier, 48, of Pike 15 months. curred shortly beiore 11:15 A former resident of Parker Sunday morning when Meanwhile, the e.xcculiic com- templed to arranse a meetin? president of the Berks Consum- township, Boyertown RD 1, died PiUneld, discount con.pany and the from heart attack Ford he born in East Cov she attempted to make a right consider a company ottci This That would be impossible. The of Reading, died at 3 a.

home. Fulmer was to extend the coniiact that loial has made its decision and at the Readme hospital She born Sept. 4. in expired Oct. 1.

with the exception uin aiijdp hv of a cost-of-living escalnlor clausc. resident of Reading, he was ter of ot a cost-ot-livmg escaintor clausc. mcict if lUE meml)ers would return to Thpip no husband of Claire B. (Buchert) Moser and work while neiiotiations for a new he tt; corbit. Morn.

H. Moser. She agreement continued. between the local and the lUE. a dificrence of opinion.

you miuht he added. Officers of Ucal 301 in Schcnec- Asked by a newsman whether tady split openly with the national local contemplated seceeding lUE leadership Saturday nisht from the lUK. the re and called on the 8.700 memlwrs to report for work Mon- jje said the company truce pro He was born in Honey Brook, a son of tlie late H. Frank and Mary (Jones) Corbit and was a Reading automobile dealer for more than 40 years. Mr.

Corbit was a member lived at home at the time of her death. Miss Moser was employed as a machine operator at the Penn Valley knitting mills, Boyertown, until several weeks ago ankle He was a farmer for most of his life and Is survived by four daughters by his first wife, Rebecca (Keen) Fulmer: Grace, wife of Earl Moll, Parker Ford; Laura, wife of Harry Moll, Spring City RD; Mrs. Ida Moll, with whom he lived; and Bertha, wife of Harold Drumheller, of 1244 South Hanover street. wide enough. The left tear of the parked truck, owned by Furniture company, incorporated, Birdsboro.

damaged, as was the front of her car. JVST maps Illustrate the probable precipitation and temperatures across the nation between now and the middle of November. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast for rainfall (top map) shows Eastern Pennsylvania and this area in a coastal band of rain fall. Besides being dry, if the forecasters are correct, temperatures will be near to a little normal in the next 30 days (lower lies practically on the border of these two regions.

day morning at headquarters accepted by .301 was (jiivet Presbyterian church, suffered an Tnn ini' nffiri'ik nationwide basis Chandler lodge 227, AM, injury. She was a men Top lUK officials immedMtcly any local that wants to acxept It. Keadmg Consistory, Knights Trinity Evangelical ail annotinced Bogus, Phoenixville; Helen II the Uical 301 church, Boyertown. Afee, Spring City; Edith, wife ad voted unanimously to iddUion to her mother, of John Puffko, Phoenixville Britain Accused Of Double-Dealing Credit Unions MOSCOW (AP) Britain was Will Schedule accused by Pravda Sunday of playing West Germany off against the Communi.st party Representatives of Pottstown Six stepchildren: Mildred, member any local mat warns 10 accept II. City; Margaret, wife ot John denounced the move and declared Jandreuu the strike was still on at 55 GE night that plants across the nation.

Jiftarri uiKmniiuiioiT The possibility that the big accept the company pioposal. Mo3am Schenectady plant would be pick- Members of the local will Sparing association. eted Monday by union members a.sked at union meetings Monday from outside the city was brought to endorse their decision. Dealers asso- up in television appearances Sun- The meml)ership authorized the day night by spokesmen for both officers last week to continue his wife he is survived the local and national organi- the strike as they saw fit by a daughter. Margaret, wife zations.

A company spokesman said GE of George E. Brumbach W'yo- The local official said he resume production Monday niissing; a son, Dr. John theDr. Eduard Brink- ed the national union to bring in at the Schenectady plant, which Corbit Philadelphia; three Schwenk funeral home, 124 West chairman of the has tx'en idle since Oct. 6.

Local brothers, Samuel postmaster Philadelphia avenue, Boyertown, urn lUE-GE conference hoard said he 301 joined the strike lour of Wyomissing; Charles with the Rev. James B. Hitter Brounbacks understood that there might be after the nationwide walkout was Reading; and Fred, Deerfield, -4. --------called Oct. 2.

and five grandchildren. RD; Howard Ralston, Phoenixville; W'illiam Ralston, Phoenixville; eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the W'hite she it survived by three brothers.

LeRoy, North Haven, Neil, ville; and Daniel, Richmond, Va. Funeral services will be Memorial home, Parker Ford, Auman Funeral home, Reading, nn 1 The company also planned to the Rev. Torsten E. Ex-National Master Of Grange Succumbs organ said, its closer and area Federal Credit unions SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)-Uuis resume negotiations with the ILE pa.stoV of dealing with German re-will attend a j.

82. who for 19 years federal mediators Monday officiating. Interment will be private. oh Woman, 81, Dies church, officiating. a.

i uneral services will be at 1 interment will bt in the Hill (hfiSlCr Sffllth DlCSi There were no at GE Former Dana Worker seekers as a good bargain urday evening in Reading in headed the National Grange'died New York City, directed against France which, in observance of Credit Union Sunday at his home here. Callahan. Mho represents the British judgment, rep- Day. Taber was chairman of the locals in negotiations with resents a groat threat to Host the event is the and a founder of the Farm- said a return to work by the interest in Schuylkill Valley chapter of ers and Traders Life Insurance Schenectady local liefore the The article, written by Ob- credit unions to which the local which has its headquarters strike would server, leadinc iwlitical and area unions belong. The in Syracuse.

be violation of our union con- commentator, added- "But in York, Lancaster and Harrisburg He was a former director of ag- stitution and of every principle of VlClf doing. London is forgetting that chapters will be guests. riculture for the State of Ohio and trade IrlM fll vU widll the only one who stands to gain from this tjargain is Western 6er- Chester Smith. 73. died at his home in Glen Moore RD 1.

Saturday morning after an illness of more than 10 years. He was born in Spring City, a son of the late Clarence V. and Ida (Rhodewalt) Smith, and Frank Lester Miller, 71, bus- vvas a former employe of Dana band of Laura M. (Peck) Miller, corporation. Frank Miller Dies at Home many which, with lean on, is obstinately seeking to a dominant position among West iwwers and a leading position in NATO.

which lx)ndon and Paris, one after fering to Bonn whetting ui i what is to guarantee that Western The dinner-dance will be in the Rajah temple, Reading, at 7 Speaker will be Vance Austin, executive director of the national association of credit unions. WB WM P- Sunday at Funeral services will be to- riculture for the State of Ohio and tratle unionism his home in Chester Springs RD morrow at 10 a. m. at the White at the age of 36 was elected and lUL President Anna M. (Walker) Grif-1 after an extended illness.

Memorial home. Parker Ford master of the Ohio Grange. His Carey long been 81, widow of Francis He was born in West Vincent with the Rev. Kenneth E. W'er- service as national master of Griffith, Wichita, died township, a son of the late W'il- ner, pastor of St, farm organizmion ended 1941.

Ihe local leader Saturday at 10:15 a m. at Pott.s-Ham T. and Emma L. (McAfee) Episcopal church, ()hio Its the call originally town ho.spital shortly after Miller He was a telephone line-, Corner, officiating. Interment award in for h.s contributions and.

in a television speech Sunday was admitted. man and was la.st employed by will be in the church cemetery President of the Schuylkill to the pre.stige. He also said he was con- NEW! Betsy Ross Spinet Buy Today For Includrd 10-Yoar Guarantot Rtturntd From Rtntal Factory List $700 TAKE TIME TO PAY H. RENTZ II N. Hintvtr Patttttwn FA 6-S243 Mrs.

Griffith was living with the State son and daughter in law. He is survived by, in addition; and Mrs. John F. Griffith to his wife, a son. Pottstown RD 2.

since July W'allingford, three eral Credit union and a about eight years ago. tor of the Pennsylvania Credit. planned to remain there until Germany, which London sees as Its ally today, will not once at full 1 follow Hitlor'. foot-assouation MorOCCaH OfflCialS Close Froncli Consulate steps? Cub Scouts Display Transportation Models regardless of the consequences. even if this fisht to the end results in a dissolution of the Kingman union.

county, a daughter of Jandreau said he had opiwsed Mary the strike because of the business (Hayes) Walker, union. IS secretary of the Schuyl- RABAT. Morocco (AP) The because member of thejWhite MemorUl home, Parker kill Valley chapter. consulate of Oujda. had eliminated what he called church and the Order Ford, with the Rev.

Richard Pottstown and credit northeast Morocco, was closed kind of abuses that justify of the Eastern Star, Wichita, unions are formed at the fol- Saturday by Moroccan authorities strike, particularly a iong one addition to her son she is will not be subdued by a survived by a step-son and three brothers. Clarence Glen Moore RD; Maurice, Lancaster; and Roy, Anselma; and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p. m. from the MONDAY DOOR DUSTfR AT BENTZ Dettrey, pastor of St.

Matthew's United Church of Christ, officiating. Interment will be in Fifty of transportation companies: Mrs. Consul General Henri Chasuaing was layed model form by Ooehler- deBourdeille and his staff were dictator," the business step-daughters. Griffith.jthe church cemetery. Cub Pack 53, Emanuel division, Neapco, Bethle-dered to quit the premises and San Juan, Mae, wife of! an church, at the Scouting Fair corporation, three vice consuls were kickcd out 301 originally volej John Tompkins, Edinburg, this pa.st weekend.

Firestone Tire and Rubber, and of tlie country, against the wife of Richard John Miller was charge of synthane and B. F. Goodrich, The action was believed in re- Syracuse Saturday, a GE Adel, Iowa, and Florence Grif the booth at the Devon Horse of Oaks. prisal for a series of border inci- official called on Carey to use his Des Momus, Iowa; two Show grounds where the fair dents at Saidia and Mo- influence to end what he said brothers and four sisters. Walter was conducted, and 3-1 C'ub roccan villages which have recent-threatening telephone calls W.

Walker. Alamo. Scouts took part in the pageant. KUyvijlUlU lUlllll jy been the scene of minor attacks nonstrikers. Luther Walker, Cunningham The Cub Scouts were dres.sed CSnhl French troops stationed in Stanley, business agent of Jennie C.

Walker, Lakin, as space men in blue and yellow IS llljllivM 111 llylll nearby Algeria. Syracuse lUE Local 320, termed Ruth Florence, and outfits and had a big weather youth had four The closing of the Oujda con- allegation an at-Gladys W'alker, all of Wichita; balloon as a feature of the ex stitches taken in a cut above bus sulate general will atfect mainly tempt to divert attention from the also three grandchildren, hibit. at Pottstown hoeipital 10.000 Algerian refugees who are F'uneral services will be Norman Yocum is cubmaster. early Saturday morning. registered at the consulate, where seeks a three-year con- Thursday in Wichita and inter Bes.

39.95 CORONADO IMPORTED 6-TRANSlSTOR POCKET PORTABLE RADIO 16 with Eireready Battery 241 HIQN BENTZ DRUe Car in Parking Lot Struck on Rear End A motorLst who stopped for an early morning snack Sunday had hus parked car damaged. fi The man, Robert Heid. Engle- BUrQidrS MflK6 wood. told police lie a i having coffee and doughnuts at J6W6iry JlOlCS diner. High and York panAMA CITY, Fla.

M)h West. 17. many of them draw French providing for a per cent nient will be in Maude ceme- told hos- sions and social security t)enetits increa.se each year. Wages tery. Cunningham.

Kan. which they are entitled as expired pact averaged Local funeral arrangements $2.30 to $2.40 an hour. are being handled by the Skean The company has ottered 3 per funeral home, 404 High street. cent TApni to out continuation of the cost-of- liMiig e.scalator clause. The youth, of 119 Second pital authorities he struck to on tlw head during a fight.

French citizens. He was released alter treat- ----------Father Hakes Cross For Executed Son Sure, Styles Change! MIAMI, Fla. held a a around a hand-fashioned cross at stret'ts, when pyyj- jewelry stores were robbed the home of Robert Fuller, ex- him his car had been nnohed during the night of approximately Marine yxecuted at dawn in Cuba, in an accident. $100.000 worth of jewelry, police The mourners grouped on the When I went to the parking ('hief I. L.

Uoss Sunday. Ross lawn were chiefly anti-Castro Culot, at the rear of the diner, the said all four robberies were ob- ban friends of the Miami Korean other car had already left. The viou.sly committed by the same War veteran. They stood at at- rear of car damaged. method was the tention beside the cross, made by Patrolman George Geiger in- went in through the grieving father, William, vestigated the accident.

Ross said F'uller, 56, former owner of a Cuban sugar plantation, stayed indoors. He dry-eyed, but his voice faltered in talking with as he looked out toward the cross. It was by Marine Corps cap and You ihimge. II Uilhfully nanked by an American Hag the holding on to a family heirloom of a camera, you're miksing raised a lot of picture takins lun. -I the cross for my son." sure old mudtl still lakes bi(.

clear pictures. But he said. Til have nothing to do only in kunlight that's bright enough to blind. And you do have with the a little trouble squinting through that dusty viewfinder, don't -----------you? And indoor pictures? You Just can't take them because your old-timer isn't geared for flash. sentimental, putting up with all these shortcomings realty is unnecessary.

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