The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 20

PAGE TWENTY Phone 2263 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOXX'N, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950 Truck Snaps Pole, Plows into Garden At Stowe When Operator Falls Asleep A iHTue truck travelPd a flfh of ft m5lf' through a Karden, across the joad, ovff a ditch and through a iicild rHrly y( after It chpfM'd oh utility pole Oi. West iii'ar road, fitowe The driver. CUarence Nelli- fiHti, 23, Norn.4.own, escaped with a bruise the head iind riehf knee. told CallesTeville St.rie police, who investigatrd, that he hui fallen a.iJeep, Klpctric and telrplione srrvicp to nearby homes vas disrupted for hours, unlil utility repaired the dainape.

Nelligan said he wa.s riming from Miiere he had unloaded After shearing off the pole standing 100 yards west of Grosstown road, the truck and flatbed 5enii-trailer ran through a garden parallel with the highway, owned by Walter 213 North Charlotte street. Tlien It swerved across the highway, jumped a 2 -foot ditch, missing a stop sign b-. inches as it did so, and finally plowed 100 feet or more through a heavily-weeded field. There was slight damage to the body of the trailer. injuries did not require -mrdirat treatment.

Time of the accident was fixed at 2:55 o'clock, when the electric clock jitopped in the home of Joseph Covely, who operates restaurant near the scene. I A ZIEGLERVILLE man car ran off the road twice after colliding with another Zieglerville car on Sfllford Station road, three miles north (if Wednesday night. i Theodore Heffentrager was going Unuth. As his sedan started down a hill, it rollided with the northbound sedan of John H. Diskicz, 32.

Heffentrnger's tar went out of control. swerving off, on. off and on the roiid before he was able to halt it. Heffentragers car was damaged extensively: was damaged slightly. Both drivers were alone and uninjured.

Collegeville State police investigated. DRIVERS disagreed about the place of the white line in an accident on High street, near Penn street, yesterday morning at 7:40 o'clock. Fortunate Tufani. 519 West Race street, Stowe, said he was driving west a light truck in the lane nearer the white hne when a car began passing him on the left, which led to the collision. Virginia Swartley, Birdsboro RD 2.

said she was starting to pass the truck, when it began a sudden left turn. She said she vppred aeross the white line In an unsuccessful attempt 1 0 I avoid the accident, Both right fenders of the car and the left front fender of the truck were damaged. Patrolmen Charles D. Stetler and Paul Smith investigated. THE DRiVEIiS OF three cars escaped injury last night when one car crashed against another and pushed it into the third at High and Keim streets, Morris W.

Scheffer. Norristown, told police he was driving on High street when a car going on Keim street, driven by N. Williams, 710 Mintzer street, went through a red light. Scheffer said he crashed into the right side of WUUlams' car, pushing it into a car driven by Mrs. Jennie Bechtel.

1232 Maple street, which was traveling north 011 Keim street. Both Williams and Mrs. Bechtel maintained Scheffer the one who ran through tlii' red light. Patrolman Paul Bridegam and Motor Patrolmaii Stanley Borowy, who uivesiigated at 7:50 reported tlie entire front of Scheffer's car was pushed in. The right i side and left front of rar I and the left front of Mrs.

Bechtel's car also were damaged. Trustees Defer Action On Nurses' Pay Raise MT. PLEASANT, Sept. 21 I Trustees delayed action on wage I raise demands of 34 Prick Memorial hospital nurses who held to their code of ethics and withdrew mass resignations. The nurses resigned over a wage dispute involving demands for a S40 a month pay boost over their present $140 a month But representatives of the Pennsylvania Nurses association appealed to them to remember their ethics as They stayed on the job.

Seventli-Grade Girl Stumps Senator Taft SOMERSET. Ohio. Sept. 21 U. S.

Senator Robert A. Taft (R- Ohio) extended an invitation to his audience in Somerset high school i to ask him questions this morning. There was a long pause. Finally, Seventh-Grader Eu la Jean Moore rose to her feet she Inquired, "How much does the President make a year in The senator was stumped. Finally he replied: forgotten.

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