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-THE SCRANTON TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1D5Q. Aide for Course tflitiiiiiaaaiutiifiin I II I I Glosser's 342 ADAMS AYE. I WILL BE OPEN TIL 5:30 SATURDAY SnillllMItSllllltlMrS Treasury Plans Big Borrowing Needs Funds to Cover 'Lean Tax Period' GUARANTEED TV SERVICE sa can -m a. A. A.

KREIS nosi ii a-sa Youth Builds Own Rocket, Worries CAA CHARLOTTE. (Ah Civil and military brass are WASHINGTON The concerned lest 17 ear-old Jim-Treasury today announced plans mY Blackmon do-it-yourself to borrow S3.000.000.000 this' rocket become an unguided month to tide it over the period, missl'e lof lean tax collections from now1 Jimmy built the six foot rocket in the basement of hi the Treasury' home here reading a lot Humphrey said the books and making a lew anticipation certifi- experiments, cates of indebtedness will bear, Pered by liquid oxy-interest at the rate of 2X per1 ken nd ias fuel injection cent. system, and the Civil Aero- The books will be opened for, nautcs Administration aaya subscription only one day next Pcasf don 1 boot it off in Monday. Aug. 6 Mecklenburg County It might The tax certificates will be, it irPlne or something, dated Aug.

15 and will mature Meantime. Army ordnance next March 22 They wiil be March at par plus accrued interest, in payment of income and profits taxes due next March 15 and operations officers say retired next1 they'll try t0 find a place where Jimmy can fire the rocket, perhaps at some military base, where folks are used I until next Sprin feffT i 4 Secretary of I George M. Hur j' riT- issue of tax an Spring. State Workers To Get Hearing Committee to Study Charge of 'Inequities' Area state employes were assured today that their appeals of phases of the recently completed classification and compensation system for staffe jobs will receive sympathetic consideration. The assurance came from James C.

Charlesworth, state secretary of administration, who directed development of the plan to provide equal pay for equal work similar to the system followed by federal Civil Service. Mr, Charlesworth issued the statement after a conference yesterday in his office with Russell Johnson, Public Administration Service, and representatives of four employe groups. The conference followed protests this week against inequities and inequalities in the system from local Department of Public Assistance employes. Today was the dead line for filing individual appeals. Christopher A.

Pepe, president of the Pennsylvania State Council of Public Employes, with which many local DPA workers are af- OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. 300 BLOCK Lotus AVE. Corporations often purchase! t0 such things Delay Foreseen For Pike Stretch Opening Must Await Facilities, PTC Says Mission School Opens Monday Methodist Unit Lists Program at Keystone The program for the 12th annual Wyoming Methodist Conference School of Missions and Christian Service which opens Monday at Keystone Junior College, LaPlume, was announced today. About 150 delegates are expected Ao attend the five-day meetings.

The school, sponsored by the conference Womans Society of Christian Service, includes four courses im approved studies and three workshops, plus lectures by nationally and internationally known speakers. The accredited courses, classrooms and leaders follow: Youth in a Responsible Society A I Christian Concern, Harris Hall, I Mrs. E. E. Schermerhorn, Lanes-boro, Pauls Letters to Local Churches, Room 25, Mrs.

Edgar Singer, Forty Fort; Southeast Asia, Room 30, Mrs. Harold Mc-Kensie, Oxford, and Mission Field: USA, assembly hill, Miss Adona Sick, Binghamton. The workshops, classrooms and leaders, will be: The Outreach of the Womans Division Around the World, Room 23, Mrs. Donald Kinback, this city; World Understanding, Room 25, Mrs. Russell Shiner, Forty Fort, and Methods and Techniques for Program Presentation, assembly hall, Mrs.

Earl Browning, Wyalus-ing. Speakers Announced Speakers will include Dr. Esther Shoemaker, Philadelphia', a missionary on leave from India; Miss Thelma Stouffer, deaconess, Broadway Temple, New York City, and Mrs. C. A.

Murray, Binghamton, N.Y.,' visual aids. The conference will open Monday with registration from noon to 2 P.M. in Moore-Hall. The first assembly will be in Harris Hall from 2 to 3 P.M, with Mrs. C.

Fred Chadwick, Binghamton, conference president and dean, presiding. 1 Breakfast will be served at 8 A M. daily through Friday, the such tax anticipation certificates with funds they are setting aside to pay taxes due in future months. AP Wlrephoto Lenora (ouise Brinkley waits for trip to cell as Detective Robert Tesmer holds gun with which the siy-foot-two amexon admitted shooting her boy friend, former boer Pet Comiskey, et his North Hollywood epartment. The olj heavyweight, three inches taller than his girl, was hospitalised with groin wound.

Jimmy, the son of Mr. nd Mrs. Burt Blackmon, commented: I didnt think about it hitting anything on the usy up. I had thought it mcht hit the way down. Will End Direction Suits for $827,000 Filed in Ship Crash NEW YORK (INS) Three dam Carbondale age suit; totaling $827,000 have may have something on Healeys Hotel The chairman of the Pennsyl- filiated, said Mr.

Charlesworth vama TurnP1ke Commission of the day expressed some doubt thatjenarrmty 0f the task of classify- an additional 40 miles of the'ing 60,000 state employes some lima superhighways Northeast Exten-JhscrePancies dSVSftote'Recais Memory of Qhapman sion can be opened as scheduled overlooked.1 Hotel American new management The death of the last surviving Civil War Veteran was Andrew interests "aiming dayUt SPt learncd of the of Gabrio ho died OPEN SATURDAY ALL DAY OPEN SUNDAYS NOON TO 5 P3L RE6.SS.il MENS WASHAKIE CASUALS SI 87 Chh member Grand Army of Hazleton, in the Republic yesterday recalled: 1946 Leander Simonson, sole' sse th collision between the memory of Joseph L. Chap-! surviving Civil War veteran in11 Andrea Doria and the Stock-late former Maor Edward holm Healey confirmed reports that The largest of the three court they were going to give up oper-actions was entered esterday in ation of the hotel the citys Grand Army ofThe Republic posts lew Supreme Court by a largest. in the city, the Colonel Monies 51yearold Brooklyn shoemaker. However, members of the Hea Giuseppe Maggio, who has suf- ley family said the hotel would fered a broken back and brain not close Instead, it will be injuries. operated by a still undetermined man; a Montrose native who was Lackawanna's Countys final Union Army veteran.

He died here Dec. 20, 1943, at the age of 100. Albert Woolson, the lone survivor of Abe Lincoln's Army, was and the Ezra Griffin. They merged 109 at his death yesterday in in the early 1900s into Griffin Minn. 'Post which at its peak had more Otltrli apparently were Mr.

Charlesworth authorized appointment of a committee to rectify this condition, Mr. Pepe reported. The committee is to consist of members of all departments of the Commonwealth in which the State Council of Public Employes has representation, Mr. Pepe said The committee is authorized to study the new classification and compensation plan and to submit recommendations for changes that will eliminate all inequities, also to suggest a procedure for the presentation and at' the end of this month. G.

Franklin McSorlev, who issued an announcement Tuesday that traffic will be able to move on the stretch between the Mahoning Valley and Wilkes-Barre interchanges, and north of the present terminus at Emerald, Lehigh County, Aug. 30 or 31, said in Harrisburg today the opening will be held up unless all safety facilities are completed. However, Mr. McSorley said Aug. 30 or Aug.

31 or possibly Sept. 1 remain target dates for the commission, which made an CahU AreR RtM Duluth, Nine Civil War veterans. In- than l.OCO members It was dis-cluding Mr. Chapman, died in banded sjhme years ago. Lackawanna County in the years! The Amy of the Potomac re- from 1938 to 1943.

Others were- union inJSeranton in June, 1892. be Stockholm supported earlier ward. and H. E. Paine, John E.

McDonough, brought to the city thousands of charges made by passengers on The building is owned by Dr C. Scott and H. C. Stalbird, -veterans from all over the nation Andrea Dona that the first nd Mrs John P. Shohn, Hay all of this city; William T.

Simp- including some of the leading fig- lifeboats to leae the sinking ves- rnar 15 superintendent of son, Blakely; Frank Sherrer and ures of fcjie Civil War jsl were filled with Italian crew Farview State Hospital for the Robert Trallis, both of Carbon-1 GAR ifeosts also were 1 ClK, Officers of the Italian liner inspection tour of uncompleted processing of appeals in connec tion with the elimination of inequities, Mr. Pepe explained. Taking part in the conference sections yesterday. The new section would take the road from Emerald to the Wilkes-Barre interchange with the exception of an eight-mile ipennsylvania Federation of La-j i 1 along with Mr. Pepe were Joseph, A.

McDonough, president of thej daje an(j james Loftus, Jessup lished in. Wilkes-Barre, the Mid- jti Luzerne Countys last surviving valley and Carbondale. have denied these charges and Ukrainian V.IUD Dei closing day of the school. Lunches iretch in Charles C. Levey, vice presi- nnAIIFX 1 1 A TTf will be at 12:30 RM.

and uncompleted T. J. Evans Tun-dent, and Roderick MacDonald, LArcDUliLmLL lir at 5:30 P.M. The accredited nel throu8h Blue Mountain. international representative, both1 vniwwiu nkk w.

i Last sections of the 110-mile of the Building Service Employes (Continued from Pago 3) extension, whose terminus is near, International Union, and Johnpay The state has Chinchilla, are scheduled for.Calhoun of the Pennsylvania been reauested to supply $400- i a a- I Control Board. CADETS 1.87 I elaim that whatever crew members left the Doria after the col-, lision did so to man the lifeboats Ukrainian Citizens Club The Swedish-American line and 608 We1 Lackawanna Ave, will the Italian line both named in 5rdu jS ninth annual clam-the suits filed refused comment. 3 Sunda7. Aug. 12.

at Sim Lake Lincoln opened today, jbut it was expected they will mef f. one dv ahead of schedule, move either for exoneration or A "Ij. e' nclybroomj5 r-ieivmg Summer jUmLuu.n Summit Home Sold chairman, assist ed by Michael Padrusnick and A deed recorded today dis- waiter Mallik cleaning. The pool was closed Sunday night, drained and cleaned Liquor completion some time in January, BOND GOVERNOR 'SICK' SHOE STORE 000 and the city another $400,000 The state money, which has not yet been approved, will come from a $5,000,000 redevelopment fund signed earlier this year by Gov. George M.

Leader. The Mayor said the citys $400. by-crews lyom the Department of Parks, SIS ADAMS AVI. courses and workshops will be held mornings and afternoons. Ladies of the Scranton District will be hostesses for a reception and tea for students and guild members following the Wednesday evening assembly which will start at 7:30.

A Visitors Day program will be conducted Friday, opening with an assembly, at 10:30 A.M. in the gymnasium. Mrs. McKen-sie, assistant dean, will preside. Group singing will be led by Mrs.

George Akers and devotions by Mrs. Singer. Miss Ruth McKinney, Lake closed the sale of a Highland (Continued from Pago 2) new bipartisan Tax Advisory Com mission and said he hoped it got qoo share will come from a roal down to work immediately on ty be obtained on each ton of this very serious problem. jeoal stripped from the mine fire 'Areas Must Be Aided' area. Industrial Development If1 He said the citys Redevelop- FBI AGENTS END (Continued from Page 3) casual inspection of voting machines used in the primary election.

Immediately before the completion of their task, the agents requested a citywide list of the voting machine numbers, curtain lever seal numoers and protective Ariel, a missionary to Brazil, will counter numbers on the machines speak on the missions in that prior to actual balloting on Elec- Clarks Summit, property by Buzby, 326 South State St Clark's Frederick Hankins Jr and Summit, for $10,500 The papers Timoe rinttifUrl ArU ber. superintendent of parks. Hankms of that we, re f.W by the law frm cl announced that the pool would Pace to Robert and Elaine belles Mackie. Bring Quick Result be opened one day ahead of because of to the federal vovernment continues ent Authority has a letter of the federal government continues Hudson Coal Co do so' as hlh temperatures to refuse to take cognizance of inleni irom me riuason coai to schedule requests were registered. Qmoiijtuc Closed All Day Sat.

saying the firm will dig out the 1C 1111,1 11 depressed areas states are going to have to do a bigger job fire, progressively backfill the, country. Miss Stouffer will dis-tion Day. The list was the federal government doesnt area and Pay a roaUy t0 the AI Fa TAY cuss Missions: USA. ythree representatives of the move into the field quickly I aUlhnly Republican (Continued from Pag 3) County Committee, Stonier, William J. William J.

hope the state .,11 set astde Price and Roy R. Watson, as well the'iSsltisc'al period1" lakes al1 Properties of 'nd Susquehanna Coun- ment in the 1957-59 fiscal period. Dejaware Hudson Railroaditle main line, the Mayor said. I Th fuul 0fce With the fund in its present) have been coveriIM Schuylkill, Montour, Car as the custodian and deputy custodian. The probe began on July 13 health state with increased Preliminary surveys Mrs.

Chadwick will preside at the afternoon assembly. Dr. Evelyn Nickey, this city, jurisdictional will deliver the prayer Miss Dorothy Gilbert, Pittston, a missionary to Africa, will discuss missions on that continent. Dr. Shoemaker will speak on Missions in at 2:30 em-i when Agents Reinhard and in Vea: bit ims no.

liams requested permission will begin to visit each Tthninoponh vM.re ohooir iit. onri scefufe increased contnbuj individual clans for relo- Supervisors Not Nm photograph voters check lists and, shouTd askln2 individual plans for relo- Namad be possible to P.M. The closing service of dedi-examme registration records. Nor-j the level bey0nd 0nCC 1S i-- man H. McCabe, special agent 1 ovnt-d vvnr cation will be at 3 P.M would Attorney Kane was unable to by Dec.

31. That figure fU1" tn nrn I said, that a Carbondale Housing llkes.arre and Stroudsburg the iMiu, mas vaiumiuaie nuusms nmesc di i u- anu ouuuusuu 3 retr" lAe Authority will be established to District offices However, tl 000 MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW TO ADD COMFORT, CONVENIENCE TO YOUR HOME Whether you're building or buying, be sure your home includes clean, safe, modern gas appliances. Scranton Talk has gas ranges, refrigerators, and heating units, automatically controlled every minute. You'll find such famous names as: TAPPAN-CALORIC-SERVEL-HAMILTON Democrats' Meet Will Be 'Wordy' CHICAGO (U.P.) Enough words to write 1,000 novels will be written at the Democratic National Convention before the party nominates its presidential candidate, according to a manufacturer of office duplicating equipment. The firm reported that about 75,000,000 words will be printed, typed or scribbled in convention paperwork that, piled high, would be as tall as a 10-story building.

charge of the Philadelphia re-1 gional office of the FBI, sdid the Drobe was launched under instruc- i Lir provide homes for some of the Wilkesarre office will cov On Jan. 1 of this year average LuzernT Bradford. Susquehanna ud Pfromr lTpeVJcent to Tpef Public Davtlopmtnt Likely 'and Sullivan Counties, while the cent of the total payroll, costing' Mayor Kelly said a Public Monroand PkeCountll j. 6 employers an estimated additional housing development may be nee-, $50,000,000 during 1956. jessar; to provide modern apart- As 31 le present time, tne Milk There is no doubt the ment-type homes for the families.

Scranton Regional Office will dairy farmer is in trouble. The Others mav elect to build private function in conjunction wjth the nations largest dairy processors homes with the FHA supplying have been able to increase their.90 per cent of the money, to be Ru.lHg Th dSrirt profits to unprecedented heights repaid on a 30-year basis. Iff.rl in hd wiliT while the consumer has received Also discussed at yesterdays ,8 emploves little or no benefit in the form session was a City Planning Com- reai0nal office Pwiil have a of a low retail price on milk. mission plan to survey the entire sJaff aboUt ve employes. He made that comment on a city an effort to determine) telegram he received from the! adequacy of homes, neighborhood1 in reorganization, the newly organized Association of facilities, schools and the need 5e10n subf' Independent Dairymen in which for a plumbing and building flces, throughout nd mr' 0(1, their behalf to provide them a control.

WilkesiBarre and covered nine reasonable return. City Council has approved countle's Wlth one suboffice in as the local share of the $16,500 survey. The remainder will be paid by the federal gov-l s. uisdoscd that the $2 wuiicu iqH vu nug-i $650,000 DEAL oFREE INSTALLATION oFREE 24-HOUR LIFETIME SERVICE FREE ADJUSTMENTS FULLY GUARANTEED (Continued from Pago 3) side of New York City. It is on the air more than 19 hours daily.

In entering the Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New York television market, The Bui- letin will continue its rivalry with UPS in favor of the citys Honored 01 Pinners The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tri- 000 bond issue proposal, passed Two veteran railroad men -AM) noy'T FORGET ernment. This work will start as ee lejUJLec when the law was enacted, has from foon authorization is received been revoked for collectors of this city who retired recently. the sales and use tax, and that were feted at dinners last The suryey ihe second busineses which have failed to Red H. Reum, 920 project undert aken 4Eisr wfl! not now be who retired Tuesday as Planning commission since it was compeped to pay the registration Erie Railroad freight agent hereformed last Spring.

The first was fee after 46 years service with the preparing initial data on the mine He p0jnted out, however, that carrier, was guest of honor at a fire and certifying the project the registration fee for the hotel to the redevelopment authority. I occupancy tax has not been re-'Rebirth of CarbondaU' We are making progress, Jay Rock, this city, was super-Mayor Kelly commented. These visr of the former Wilkes Barre things are certainly going to district setup and his formal ap- YOUR FREE TOP VALUE STAMPS by a 425-vote margin but later voided by the Election Board on the ground that electors not registered as Democrats or Republicans were barred from voting. Speculation arose that the investigators attention also was directed to reports in Democratic circles of similar alleged ring-ups in favor of Luzerne County Orphans Court Judge Benjamin R. Jones, who barely nosed out Allegheny County Common Pleas Court ThHpp Henrv rVRrien fnrWanni llroad wle the rebirth of Carbondle.

pomtment as assistant to Director court Judge Henry A. UBnen for recently from his job in the car-lj ii.eve our Cltv has bncht- Kane under the reorganization is the Republican nomination for mers Stores Department, was est future of any cif in Penn- expected shortly. Court C0 IZECm G0CT3 angle Publications Inquirer subsidiary, own Station WNBF, Binghamton, a major competitor of Station WGBI. Altogether, five stations seek viewers in this hotly contested market, and fears that efforts would be made to block the deal with WCAU are', reported to have prompted the July 12 statement by the Scranton Broadcasters Inc. president.

On the air and in published reports, Mrs. Megargee denied the rumors vigorously. The negotiations now consummated were in progress more than nine months. Now, operation under the new setup needs only approval of th Fed-eral Communications Commission, expected within th next 30 days. The FCC last Fall received an Application from Station WGBI to boost its telecasting potential to 2,000,000 watts from 250,000 by becoming mother station to associates in Williamsport ind Sunbury.

The expansion, which Station WGBI said would make it the worlds most powerful broadcasting facility, was protested by Station WBRE-TV, Wilkes-Barre, on grounds (hat it would be placed at a serious competitive The application was with- was wmi- Supreme justice. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Hourigan has been assigned by, F's jiAtl2rney Julius toi Woman Injured Slightly handle the vote matter as far as 1 a preliminary study of the FBI Collision at LaPlume reports are concerned. I One woman was injured slight- Under the procedure of thejy in a two-car collision yester-federal prosecutors office, FBI day afternoon at 2:30 at the in-reports are studied either by Mr.jtersection of Routes 6 and 11 Levy or one of his assistants and and a secondary road in LaPlume the latter then determines Township.

3 YEARS TO PAY Your Monthly Payment Can Bt Added To Your Gas Bill Make Payments To Either the Gas Company or To Scranton Talk, Wherever Most Convenient. sylvania. I Attorney Kane disclosed that The West Side mine fire has each county in the 13-county been a major problem in Carbon- Scrahton region will be broken dale for 10 years. Gas origin- districts which will be mating in the underground blaze covered by assigned personnel has caused the death of two aged dur.ui ie checkup on nonresidents and has made more than reSiCred merchants and others. 100 additional persons ill.

dentjjfor raising more than State and federal attempts to oOO an industrial fund raising extinguish the blaze through camrign which concluded earlier drilling and flushing have been this tVeek unsuccesful. More than $615,000 oders at the meeting included has been spent on these ill-fated State Rep. Marion L. Munley, projects. ArcUald; Carmine B.

Tomaine, Those attending yesterdays chainan of the redevelopment meeting paid high praise to Con- authority; Dr. Maurice Marmel-gressman Joseph L. Carrigg for.steinfc chairman of the city plan-his efforts on behalf of the rede- ninglcommission; the Rev. Clarke velopment project. He is one of R.

rumbore, rector of Trinity whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant grand jury action. The U.S. Attorney then submits his decision to the Department of Justice at Washington for final approval. Mrs. Shirley LaRoss, Somerville, was shaken up and was treated for shock at the office of Dr.

N. A. Patrick, Factory-ville. Trooper Paul S. Capparell of Blakely State Police Barracks Isaid Mrs.

LaRoss was riding in ioaiu mis. was uuiug iu I I Wahl Gets Hospital Postja car driven by R. R. LaRoss, also Wilfred O. Reese, 2635 Somerville.

The other driver phant has resigned listed as Harold Newton drawn Feb. 9, but Mrs. tive Aug. 15, as superintendent Squier, 1702 Delaware this i bnnetMshgoaT pator firV Megargee Holromh executive maintenance at Scranton Police said neither driver has worked eltens.vely with' me clim of the HA. the plans stanchest supporters.

'Episcopal Church; the Rev. Paul Mr. Kelly told the group, Con- J. MtKenzie. pastor of Our Lady gressman Carrigg is one of the of M6unt Carmel Church, the Rev Megargee Holcomb, vice time! Frank' president, said at that Hospital and Wahl Scran-! was hurt, that the withdrawal as due to aton Transit Co.

bus driver has I desire to expedite approval for a been named as his successor, it' Answer False Alarm was announced today. The post pays approximately $3,900 new transmitter and antenna, end that the application wduld Firemen responded to a alarm from North Irving Ave. 315-319 LACKAWANNA AVE. be refiled at a later date. false and Pine St.

last night at 843. before and has always done every-! Representatives of Greater Car thing possible to help us here in bondjile Chamber of Commerce. Carbondale. I Carbondale School Board. Carbon- Mr.

Camgg praised Carbondale Industrial Defer its confidence in the future I velor ment Corp. and Civic clubs and complimented the city's resi- also attended. a.

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