The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 3

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1946 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, PA Phone 2263PAGE THREE TTii srr: full ot aN Y041 bwttw MUT PARTY MUT POTATO STICKS POTATO CHIPS Vegamato COCKTAIL ia SWOLLEN RIVER (Continued from One) intendent Eugene Swinehart. Normal daily flow is two and three-quarter million galloas of water, Swinehart said. The Schuylkill backed into the sewage disposal plant ground at Moser road, but there was no damage. The water did surround the pumt. station, an Francis Cook, an employe, was nearly stranded at that spot.

Seven inches o' water was report- RIVERS DROP (Continued from Page One) All but one of the highways into Elmira were closed. The coast guard in New York said radio men, trucks and portable radios for use in boats were be- iC 20' 662 Walnut St. FRANK LEVEILLE Beech and Sts. KENNETH F. MEST Oak and Hanover Sts.

H. E. KEMP Sanatola KARPINSKI POLLOCK 509 High St. STEPHENS Sanitary Stores Queen and Montgomery Sts So. Hanover South Pottstown CARL PETRJCELLI 144 Cherrv St of carrot, Mtlvry, iwcrt Sott and A grand fot cmy CAMP'S HJUS SOY SEAMS 3 ESTRIm BEETS diced bssts OUR INTCGRITY YOUR RINGS Your ment Ring.

Exotic in design, aet with of highest quality of color, clarity, cut $100 up. Inspection invited. ed to have been in the cellar of the Riverside hotel. South Potts- that being the only report of its kind. Neither the Pottstown Water company, Bell Telephone company nor the Philadelphia Gas and Electric company reported unusual damage or fault yesterday that could have been caused by the rising river or rainfall.

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Pottatown Reupholster Now! E-Z Terms Let ue rebuild your living room suite into a new one. Brand new durable fabrics. AS LOW AS $59.50 for Sofa and Chair Phone Pottstown 770 for our representative to call with obligation write CORN MUFFIN MIX 4 SIANO PERSONAL ATTENTION BEST UPHOLSTERY 150 King Street Pottstown MAIL COUPON NOW Without obligation whatsoever part have vour representative call with samples of your fabrics and explain Four factory service. Name Street on I fell Official 15 "Shaw 4 Certificate! BUT A BOOK OF 30 POR SINftU CMTIIHCATIS AT WIN foe Tier May Uva? REAL BARGAINS For Home, Porch Lawn! $1.98 Lamp Shades $2.45 Porch Rugs $1.19 $2.98 Throw Ruga $1.89 $4.95 Pin Up Lampa $3.79 Utilo Wardrobes $3.95 Adirondack Chaira $3.98 Baby Walk Ridea $4.98 Stael Porch Chaira $6.98 Oil Stoves from $10.50 S-Pc. Seta $39.50 $60 Lounge Chaira $49.75 $82 Sofa Beda $59.90 POTTSTOWN FURNITURE FACTORY 433 HIGH STREET ing sent to handle emergency communications.

The army released amphibious flood relief at Williamsport. Red Cross chapters in Philadelphia, Reading and Bethlehem, were reported packed and ready to go if additional aid is asked In north-central Pennsylvania. Volunteers helped throughout the flooded area. Business activity was halted in Williamsport, Lock Haven and other Pennsylvania cities and towns. Water splashed into press rooms at the Lock Haven Express and Williamsport Sun.

suspending both afternoon publications. Known dead: Charles Gilmore and Richard Bowman, farmers from Mill Hall, sucked into waters trying to clear debris from a factory dam; George Raymond Barton, 6, drowned in a rain-swollen creek at Harrisburg; Richard Haller, 66, Garland, heart attack while clearing a slide; Mrs. William Womer, 30, her children, William 2, and Dianne, 3, all of Gang Mills, near Corning, N. and one unidentified girl in New York state. At least ten others were reported missing.

Binghampton, N. and Wilkes-Barre, Sunbury and Kingston appeared sale behind an extensive system of dikes. The Pennsylvania Flood Emergency committee reported that two persons were killed and six others missing near Williamsport. Their identity was not immediately established. Meanwhile, the committee said 3500 families have been affected by the flood in Williamsport alone.

In one of the three Red Cross shelters set up there, seven cases of measles have broken out. Tile tiny village of Hemlock, was isolated as rain-loosened dirt and rock cascaded onto the only highway entrance. Airports were under water at Towanda and Wiikes-Barre. A heavy fog hampered all flying and made rescue work more difficult At Towanda, 40 miles north of Williamsport, six persons were trapped in the rear portion of a home after surging waters broke up the font portion of the house. The Pennsylvania flood emergency committee arranged to move a thousand cots into the Williamsport area to assist in the evacuation Meanwhile, far to the south, along the lower Susquehanna near I.an- caster and York, rising waters were reported and the crest was not expected until today.

A cloudburst Monday following four days of almost continual heavy rains throughout the entire area caused the rising waters. Federal and State weather reporters said they unable to predict the In 1936, more than $200,000,000 in property was lost, 80 persons killed, 2800 homes destroyed and 55,000 others damaged by a flood that swept many sections of Pennsylvania, In Williamsport, damage was estimated by Paul Gilmore, an editor of the Williamsport Sun, as at least $1,500,000 compared with the $5.000,000 in the 1936 disaster. Less than one block of the downtown business district was out of water with the river running two feet deep in third street, one of the main business thoroughfares. is curb deep outside our Gilmore said. are boats operating all through the business district carrying on evacuation Marine Corps League To Take Part in the Homecoming Parade John Lachman detachment adjutant and Robert Mauger, head of the ticket committee, reported on a campaign for raising money for purchase of of colors for Mt.

Surabachi detachment. Marine Corp league, at a meeting last night in borough hall Plans were made for members to take important positions tn the Victory Homecoming parade. June 8 The next meeting will be held next Tuesday night at 7:30 on the second floor of borough hall. All Marines and discharged Marines are invited to attend. Commandant Richard L.

Rosendale conducted last meeting. Skilled Safecracker Shortage Is at an End BALTIMORE, May 28 quality handiwork is making a in safecracking. After investigating the burglary of a flower shop safe, Detective Capt. Henry J. Kriss said that of all the safe openings in the last, five years none had been so neat and skilled There even any fingerprints Ofticers Nominated By the Lions Club A film entitled World At depicting the years from 1939 to Pearl Harbor was shown to the Lions at a meeting in the Elks home last night.

Nominations were made for 194647 officers. The election will take place at the meeting next Tuesday night. Joseph H. Lynch, president, conducted the meeting. A.

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