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Pottstown Mercury id Tkt Pittitm Ncwi PuWltftoi evory momma except Sunday by ly Newt Publwf --------WILLIAM W. HMElTiH, wvnpnv MUtwn Dally King 0 Henover ini IAL FA Readers Say: And the Worst Yet to Come? Knot SHANDY HILL, Oaoarai SUBSCRIPTION HATKft par Waafc, S71 00 par Yaar MAIL ITHlCTLy IN Ona Throt Waaft Month Montha Veer 43C 75 13 25 110 30 SHOO Currant sinqit Capy Man lOe jacfc Copy ovar OH tntarii it Pott ica fni mottar MfMtEP OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha ontititd to tho um tor ropubilcation of an local nawt in this at wan an AP ah riihta if htrtin ora alto rasarvai MONDAY. MAY 13. 1W3 SotHudc in an needful to the imag ination an society in tchnlrnnme for the character. (Jamen Runnetl Lowell) Step by Step TEAKING tha International tion of Mschinists.

President Kennedy expressed sstnnishment that programs for fral were not accepted at onre bv everyone, hut had to ha step by step We are astonished that thp President is astmiished, because the reason is very evident. It is only a highly prosperous nation that can afford any such and no nation today is prosperous enough to pay for all the our politicians can think up to propose. One freshman senator, a few back, introduced in his first session which would have cost over billion. TVre are 100 senators. Furthermore, to distrust political promises is as American as apple pie.

For instance, Mr. Kennedy in campaign speech after speech promised a balanced budget except in time of war or depression. The political promises for such programs as already exist we now know to be overblown. The TV A was to have brought everlasting prosperity to the Tennessee Valley, but after a quarter of a century most of it is officially classed as The railway retirement fund, which was to bring security for railroad workers, is running a terrific deficit and Ing informed observers to worry about the similar social security program. Last year's free trade legislation was supposed to alleviate our balance of payments problem, but the balance hat worsened.

The farm program was to save the family farm, but farmers go out of business by the tens of thousands each year. Subsidies were supposed to maintain the health of our sea commerce, bat other nations are forging ahead of us. The list could go on and on. Only a rich nation can stand the drain of such expensive and ineffective programs. So of course we have been able to assume the load only "step by If all present benefit legislation had been put on the books when the Constitution was adopted in 1789.

the United States would have been bankrupt in 1790. US Work Battalions? ANE mark of a dictatorship, fascist or munist, is rigid control of the labor force. Just recently, Cuba, which is now perfecting the tools of dictatorship, announced that from now on all employment must be handled through the state employment service. Rep. Frank T.

Bow has called to America's attention that we are heading in the aame direction here. The United States employment service, originally set up in 1933 to try to find jobs for the unemployed, has been expanding at a great rate lately, going into new fields with a new idea. Rep. Row pointed out that by USES figures, HO percent of all placements were of people who already had work, and only 40 percent were of unemployed. Increasingly, the USES seeks to place high-salaried professional workers.

In some states, it has opened separate offices for the purpose. It has taken over as a hiring hall for at least one union, and now is going to campuses to do graduate placement. But this merely another story of thp growth of a Federal agency. A number of people connected with USES made it plain it wants to do all the job placement in the country. In the Employment Security Review it is stated that "It is intended that the employment office in each locality will become the community manpower center." And there is already a beginning on a nationwide teletype service to list job openings and available applicants, employed or unemployed.

USES has a budget of Slfifl is more than the gross revenues of all private employment agencies put together Rut it charges no fee. getting its money from a tax on employers. Private employment agcncics are feeling the pinch. They charge for a service the government gives away. arc not living in a free enterprise system but rather operating under a controlled economy," one state employment director told his critics.

If the public lets USES succeed in getting a monopoly on job openings, we may see day when those who vote right don't work. Grampaw Oakley PUNKIN CORNERS, Editor, The Mercury, May 12. Dear Sir Brother: Wal, I see by the papers where the 1961 Republican national convention will be held some eight weeks before the date scheduled by the Democrats. The two political parties are so far apart they even like the same month. The Marines' new reconnaissance drone plane is called the Bikini.

Must be a mighty small one. And say: A resident of Marseilles won the French national oyster opening championship by parting 100 shells in the remarkable time of four minutes 2ft seconds. Great! did he find any pearls? you air the same, 4 GRAMPAW NED OAKLEY Wha Escaped High Taxes? To the Editor: am writing with tears in my eyes. 1 was one of the persons who moved out of Pottstown and into the suburbs to escape rising taxes. I advise others to look well before they leap.

You saw the new set of taxes in North Coventry township. You heard of the tax rebellion in Upper Frederick. The people of Upper Pottsgrove are plagued. The grove school system is going to cost a lot more. There will be more grumbling.

The worst is yet to come. Because you drive farther going to work your insurance ra'e may go up. You will use more gasoline. Your car will need replacing sooner and then there is increased tire wear. Your phone bill will be higher and if you trade with certain downtown stores delivery must be considered.

If you donate to charity drives you will be doubly nicked for tags in town and at home. You will even pay more for it might not be excellent variety you now have, so you will have to maintain a softener. And you believe you are being driven to the suburbs to save money? Think, friend. You will appreciate economy a little more. Pottstown RD 3 WORRIER Goinq Too Far To the Editor: In my opinion, regimentation has gone too far already.

How long are we as citizens, if you to stand idlv by while our individual rights, privileges and obligations crumble awav from under our feet? The end result is tyranny, dictatorship and stifling of all those elements on which our country was founded and which have made it great. Collegeville SUBSCRIBER And Boyertown To the Editor: If Pottstown Schools are lax in vocational training, take a look at Bov- ertown schools. Pathetic! Our pupils are being taught in the Dark Ages! They get their 'ritin', and rithmetic, and little else. This "new method" math is for the birds. What advantage is advanced mathematics, if they receive no training in which to use it? With the type jobs they can get after graduation.

the good old "one, two. button my type math would he sufficient And the Boyertown grade schools are just as disgusting. Where is our required physical fitness program? No time they say. But lots of homework. What do they do in school? Since when does Mother Nature limit tripl to the lavatories only at recess or lunch? Quite a few at school have proved it just can't be.

But still it goes on. Is there any wonder children rebel against going to everyday, as they call It. Where, oh where, has my PTA gone? They are the ones to educate the public as to these school conditions. They have their monthly and annual money raising event, and somewhere the real object of PTA has been lost and bogged down, never to see the light of day. The friendly teacher, pupil relationship of yesterday, that made school a pleasure, is taboo in tne consolidation system of today.

Wake up people of Boyertown, before too late! Use your freedom of speech to voice your objections and opinions. Boyertown. THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED Soray Kills Birds? To the Editor: I am grateful that the borough of Pottstown has not been forced to use its insecticide sprayer so far this year. I think a moratorium should he called on spraying. One of the most commonly used insecticides, D.P.T., seems to be also one of the most dangerous because it is not easily destroyed.

Yet. here in Pottstown we spray with D.D.T. each season in an effort t6 control mosouitoes. Undoubtedly, some mosquitoes are killed through this means, although it is difficult to notice any decrease. What effect it has on the game birds who inhabit the marshes, the song birds who eat the weed seeds, or the hunters, nature lovers and children who roam through the lands is not known.

But this we do know, as Dr. S'anlev Cobh, retired professor of neuropathology at Harvard. states in the March issue of Audubon magazine, that D.D.T. is a poison. Although said to be harmless in small amounts, it is not easily destroyed or removed; accumulates in the leaf mold, the mud.

the soil, the plants, animals and in human beings. Under the circumstances, the public insist on a moratorium on all area spraying and much stricter control over the sale of and use of insecticides and pesticides until more of the facts are in? Pottstown BIRD LOVER The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN All Around the Town CARROLL BAKER is having censor trouble again. Her movie Doll," caused a furor, and now the Legion of Decency has given an rating to "Sahara a film she did in London last year. lawyers are trying to effect an out of court settlement with Mike Selsman rather than have their custody battle aired in the newspapers, but he seems to be adamant. If he maintains his stand, the fight will begin next week in Los Angeles Superior court.

Michael Kidd will direct a Broadway musical written by Joe Heller with music by Saul Chaplin. Novelist Erich Maria Remarque, now a US citizen, is disturbed because the current German government hasn't canceled an old Nazi decree which deprived him of his German citizenship for opposing Hitlerism. urging action on the matter, although he doesn't want his German citizenship back. Kim Novak Item: Lawrence Harvey is getting a bit fed up with her nonsense on the set of the trouble-wracked Human Bondage" in Dublin, and the producers may give him a little vacation so he can cool off. The big new feud in show business stars Bobby Darin and Morris Lansburgh, boss of the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.

Apparently Bobby stalked off stage the other night without doing his usual number of songs because he found the audience "inattentive." Irina Demich, who had just a brief role in Longest Day," but made quite an impression. has a three picture offer from Paris. flown there to sew up the deal. Pierre appearance at the New York Fair press building dedication was reviewed in the current Variety under The tongue in cheek author of the piece noted: "Salinger is a cinch for wider horizons on the personal appearance circuits, although he'll have to trim his weight for matinee idol pix-viden what the New Frontier keeps telling him. a good feature story at the Four West club where Elsie Downey is star of the show.

Her husband, Bob Downey, is playwright, but playwrights have to eat between Boh is a waiter at the cafe. David Merrick is interested in Steve Addiss and Bill Crofut. the folk singers at the Blue Angel, for the musical version of "The The Worry Clinic By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE DOROTHY aged 31, presents a common problem.

she began, "I have been dating a school teacher for several months. is gallant and seems devoted to me. In fact, 1 feel sure he is going to propose marriage before long. "And I like him very much. But what holds me back is the fact that I am four years older than he is.

you think we could ever be happy with that great an age difference between us? he grow tired of men when I passed the age of 40 but he is still in the late ACTUALLY, it has been urged that girls marry younger men! For the male sex is more delicate than the female, so it dies several years earlier. If Dorothy wants to avoid heing a widow for many long years, it would thus be an advantage for her to marry this younger teacher. Besides, women age as rapidly nowadays as they did in the time of George Washington. For then the wives chopped uood and farmed their garden patch and did their own laundry with backbreaking toil. INSTEAD, the modern wife has electrical gadgets to remove much of the physical strain from housework.

And our modern cosmetics, plus the attention to dieting, have made 50 year old women today look as young as 30 year olds did in past generations. am I too old to think abo it having Dorothy asks. No, indeed! In fact, many wives who now marry late in the thirties may have their first baby after the age of 40. For modern medicine has removed most of the hazards that used to pertain to late pregnancies. Mrs.

Crane and 1 have been happily married for almost 33 years and she is older than 1 am. And we didn't have our first baby till she was only a few days short of her 32d birthday. Advice for newlyweds: Send for Dr. Crane's 200 point "Rating Scales for Married in care of The Mercury, enclosing long five-cent stamped, addressed envelope and 20c. Inside Television By EVE STARR TELEVISION is either growing up or getting out of hand.

I hear John Steinbeck has agreed to lend both his best selling book, With Charley," and his name to an hour long Warner Brothers series set for season after next. Steinbeck will serve as a script consultant, which means eventually he will have to give his okay to a lot of adventures that never took place during his US tour with Charley, his French poodle. I hope this turn out to be a stumbling block. "Travels With is as ful a book as I have read in a long time. It is simply the story of a warmly perceptive and intelligent man who takes a tour of the country in a specially built road cruiser with only a dog as a companion.

It can be ruined by poor stories and inept casting. With Steinbeck as a consultant, the stories should pretty well take care of themselves. But who is going to play the role of Stcinbeck? SEVERAL MONTHS ago there was talk of Fess Parker negotiating for the rights to With Charley." With all due respect to the personable and likable Parker, he hardly is cast in the image of John Steinbeck. Out at Warners, Jack Webb dropped any hints, probably because he has no hints to drop. But one could give him a few as a somewhat younger Charles Bickford or a slimmer Ed Begley.

W'hat of Stewart Bradley, a fine character actor from New York who seems to have gotten himself into a rut by playing some 400 gangster roles? Type casting seems to be a fatal disease with some producers and casting directors, and Stewart is so fine and convincing an actor he is constantly in demand for such shows as City," Untouchables." and Bradley could easily play a somewhat younger John Steinbcck. 6 feet 1, is quite intelligent as well as ruggedly dark, curly hair and a cleft chin. Interpreting The Republican Party Split on Goldwater By An AP Observer In Washington Two Republican fellow senators frowned Sunday on Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona as a potential GOP presidential nominee. But three former party chairmen viewed his chances as bright.

Sen. John S. Cooper, said the 1904 Republican nominee should be a strong advocate of federal action to assure civil for Negroes. Goldwater's position is that most racial problems should be by the states. issue cannot be Cooper said.

party came into being on this issue. To compromise it would be Sen. Jacob K. Javits, said nomination of a conservative of the of thought which is associated with Senator Goldwater would lessen Republican chances. Both agreed that a conservative or advocate of states' rights racial disputes might pick up some votes in the South.

But they said this would not mean victory. Cooper and Javits usually are identified with the liberal wing of the Republican party and their opinions were on radio-television programs taped for weekend use. But three of five present or former Republican national chairmen, interviewed on another television show, indicated they feel the chances of a Goldwater-type Republican winning the nomination were stronger this year than in the past. great many people feel that maybe this is the time for a showdown" picking a said Sen. Thruston B.

Morton, R-Ky. it might be that someone might say, well this is the time to try this." Arthur Summerfield said he feels Republicans of this country and citizens generally want to have the opportunity to make a clear choice between the wild irresponsible spenders and the conservative, sound progressive He said he would be pleased and everything I can to help elect him" if Goldwater is nominated. However, Summerfield added that any GOP nominee would have his full support. Sen. Hugh Scott, asked about Goldwater's chances, said he is perfectly tremendous personality a dynamic conservative.

I certainly wouldn't preclude the possibility that Sen. Goldwater might be the candidate." But Leonard Hall said he considers New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as leading candidate." Hall emphatically denied reports that he is managing precampaign buildup. Rep.

William E. Miller. the incumbent GOP chairman, discussed the political impact of Rockefeller's recent divorce and remarriage and concluded within 8 or 9 or 10 months it may v.ell have been forgotten." Javits, on his radio-television program. strongly supported Rockefeller. In Retrospect 50 Years Ago May 13, 1913 CHOSEN CLERK-The Rev.

C. H. Kehm. pastor of Zion's United Church of Christ, was chosen state clerk of the Goshcnhoppon classis. The announcement wan made during the 40th annual meeting in Zionsville.

ORATORICAL CONTEST-Seven local boys entered the annual oratorical contest sponsored by the Alumni of the high school. Judges will be Profeasor A. C. Rothermel, principal of State Normal school. Kutztown; Edna Wolf, Spring City High school and Mrs.

Elizabeth Gudebrod. Speaking will be Henry Ward Beecher, George Lehr, Daniel Keene, John Calhoun, Charles Dorange, Fred Kelley and Leon Endy. OOO FINGER INJURED Keeley Harple, South Pottatown, a car inspector for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway company, fractured his finger while working in the yards at McClintic- Marshall company. He was treated by Dr. T.

Edmund Wills. 25 Years Ago May 13, 193ft FRATERNITY C. Kimball Hicks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K.

Hicks. Spring City, a sophomore at Pennsylvania State College, was elected a representative from his chapter of the Alpha Gamma Rhi Fraternity to the national convention in Montana. FASHION SHOW-Members of the Junior choir at Bethel AME church presented a fashion show in the church. Models included: Evelyn Carter, Jane Carter, Gladys Hudson, Vivian Mobley, Medora Selby, Virginia Brown, Elsie M. Corum, Dorothy Blake, Emily Corum, Gwendolia Brown and Phyllis Johnson.

MARBLE CHAMP A seven year old second grader, Thomas Ewanick, plowed through a field of 120 opponents to win the marble championship of St. Aloysius parochial school. 10 Years Ago May 13, 1953 OFFICERS Y. Seidel, Pottstown tax assessor was re-elected president of Family Welfare society. Other officers elected were Robert A.

Feroc vice president; Lorene Perkins, secretary, and Robert Y. Kurtz, treasurer. AWARDED William H. Yohn, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William R. Yohn, 234 Oak street, was awarded a scholarship to Princeton university. Besides being the class valedictorian, the 17 year old Yohn has been class president for three years. WITH ARMY-Pvt. William J.

Conway, son of Mr. and Robert F. Conway, 202 River road. South Pottstown, is taking basic training with the 43d Field Artillery at Ft. Jackson, S.C.

The 20 year old soldier was employed as a tire builder at the Firestone Tire and Rubber company. Pottstown Sketches FOZ SALE c. I hi rm.i IMS Tkt Mhn ALL AROUND TUB TOWN Useless Wedding Gifts Where Going it Remember those 17 the 35 antimacassars the June bride got? They all wound up in the attic. How about giving this year's June bride some practical gifts? Some young women who went through the experience of getting a lot of things they couldn't use said they'd rather have: (a) To her from his mother, a calendar with all the family birthdays and anniversaries filled in. (b) To her from her mother: A month all her own in the kitchen BEFORE the wedding, (c) To him from her father: A complete physical and dental checkup for HER.

(d) To him from his father: An explanation about mortgages, insurance and wills. These, they say, will be more valuable than some gifts; To make this interesting, what are the opinions of recent mar- and oldsters, too? We'd like you to tell us. Write All Around the Town. the haiards of mishandling gasoline Intended fer power lawn mowers. Gas never should be ed into a gas tank while the mower la hot from use.

A drop of gas splattered on the hot engine can flare vp, Ignite the entire can. Likewise care should be taken In the storing and moving of cans containing the gasoline See that decision by the Pennsylvania Sopreme court? It ruled all buses start with a jerk, therefore the bns company can't be held liable for accident caused when a passenger fell when bns started with a jerk. 0 0 0 if MEDIATOR J. Alfred Marquft, the Pottstown postmaster, hss new, glamoroua assignment. Msrquet wss designated by the US Postoffice department to act as Ilsson man in labor negotstion preparations.

The Pottstown man, who had a long record of union affiliation when he was employed st Bethlehem Steel, is preparing other postmasters for when tslks begin with carriers, clerks snd other personnel. Msrquet has been in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Newsrk, and is prepsring for stsy at Harrisburg. Msrquet is working with a staff of eight The era of the push-button sink is here, says a business msgazine. Buttons control both water tempersture snd pressure. And since there are no fsucets.

the problem of leaky ones is eliminated. If the buttons also elimini- nate the do-it-yourself plumber many housewives will rejoice. 0 COMMENDABLE District Attorney Richard letter to schoolmen asking them to discourage prom parties with potent potables, has been used to good effect similiarly In other cities. One police chief is using the idea of letters- to warn them when their children are found in unsavory situations. John P.

Ferguson, superintendent of Delaware State police is doing good work. He sends a "letter of the note to parents of youths found hitchhiking, playing truant, accompanying a reckless driver, parked on a lonely road, or just play- int in the street. One letter, for example. Informed a mother that her daughter had been found with two men, 21 and 23. when their car was stopped for a traffic offense.

One aim of the letters is to re-establish police contact with parents which is apt to get lost in these hectic days. They are the equivalent of a visit from the policeman on the beat in the older, slower days of yore. The police are reminding parents that responsibility for children rests primarily ip the family. COLLEGE BOUND Bill O'Donnell, star Pottstown golfer, is going to Duke university, where probably try out for the golf team there. a son of Mr.

and Mrs. William A. 635 King street. a senior at The Hill schorl. Another Hill senior, Bruce A.

Hunnicutt, is going to Duke. a son of the Firestone executive, Edward H. and Mrs. Hunnicutt, Crestwood drive. Other Pottstown area Hill school seniors have chosen these colleges: Donald W.

Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ellis Jones, 440 Highland road, Southern Methodist university; Keith E. Jones, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Martin C. Jones, Pottstown RD 1, Brown university; Daniel B. Platte, son of Dr. and Mrs.

Edward H. Platte 785 Main street, Collegeville, Lehigh university; James R. Schmidt son of Dr. and Mrs. James R.

Schmidt. 417 Highland road, Tufts college: Robert S. Seto, son of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert P.

Seto. 1236 High street, University of Pennsylvania: Jack Ziegler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ziegler, Gilbertsville, Cornell university; Christopher A.

Brown III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Brown The Hill, West Chester State Teachers college; David C. Castor, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. Robert Castor. 1017 Sycamore drive, Gettysburg college; Hayden O. Evans son of Mr.

and Mrs. Hayden O. Evans, 1007 Sycamore drive. University of Pennsylvania, and Robert N. Hartenstine, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert P. Hartenstine, 150 Walnut street. Lehigh. GIVE AWAY A dozen kittens.

Mrs. Verne Rergeron. 877 Temple road, FA 6-4815 Three kittens. 8 weeks old, Helen Yost, 727 Walnut street, FA 3-3790. What Know? By NAN JONES THE ANSWER.

QUICK! 1. What is galvanometry? 2. What is the other name for the Greek island Mytilene? IT HAPPENED TODAY On this date in 1914 prizefighter Joe Louis was born. WATCH OCR I. ASCI ACE GAUCHERIE (go-she-REE) noun; clumsiness; tactlessness; an awkward or tactless movement.

Origin: left (hand). HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Daphne du Maurier, novelist: Joe Louis, former champion boxer, and John Roseboro and Robert Smith. for no additional coat we throw in a tow HOWD YOU MAKE 1. The process of determining the strength of electric currents. 2.

Lesbos. Flowers for the Living for MRS. ANNIE SILKN1TTER, 421 Beech street. BECAUSE tomorrow she is celebrating her 90th birthday..