The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 14

October 17, 1969-The Express, Lock Haven, Pa. THIS THAT By JOHN D. RASMUSSEN Richird C. Docbler, of Jersey Shore, has about as much to do with highway construction in this area as anyone. Among the many projects of which Dick has been in charge for the department are the two segments of the Jersey Shore Bypass, sections of the Keystone Short way, and now the Williamsport Belt- Way that's just getting started between Linden and Williamsport.

A truly genial and generous fellow, the unassuming and pleasant Mr. Doebler has some interesting information to offer about the Beltway. The 3.5-mile stretch from cast Linden to immediately east Industrial Park in Williamsport will cost S2 million a mile. The contract price by S. J.

Groves and Son, of Minneapolis, is million. People driving into Williamsport from the west will notice these days evidence of earth being moved down on the flat area between Route and The Antler's Club. have the option to choose a private accounting firm to do their audits. That means that people running as auditors in the various boroughs around this, and other parts, of the state will be elected to have nothing to do. They won't even get paid, so far as we know.

In the remote possibility a "hitch" develops in the new plan, these elected auditors may get a whack at the borough's books. In December, some municipal governments will be selecting a private group of accountants to do the books for the ensuing year. Each year, the council will designate or rc-dcsignatc the firm of their choice. Jersey Shore News Hangings Were 'Good Entertainment' at One Time, Greevy Jells JS Historians JERSEY SHORE Hang-, ing in 1871 a convincing story ings were once considered I of a confession by another was good outdoor 1 1 and believed by many. I lift I There's a fellow in Bethlehem, who is carrying on a serious campaign to ease the burden of taxes and government expense on the individual citizen of the Commonwealth.

Thomas Price, an engineer for Western Eteclric, wants to add to refer- Judge Charles F. Greevy told i the Jersey Shore Historical; Society at its October dinner! meeting in Allegheny' House last night. i He recalled an early newspaper report that said few attended a certain hanging it was scarcely worthwhile holding it. Then. 1834.

public executions were abolished in the common-wealit-h. "Early Hangings in Lycoming County" was the subject ends to the ballot for next i of the address by the presi- Erentaally, this section will be The first would cut thejdeiv judge of Lycoming Coun- raised high enough to take the I number of legislators in i ly. He covered the topic tact- highway over two rather two railroad tracks. In the plans is the shifting of one of the railroad lines nearer the other so to allow the highway people to send the bridge over both the railroad lines in one spaa. This will mean that the highway that shoots off Route tM mast be elevated some 40 or 59 feet to "hoist" it over the tracks, then downward toward present Reach Road which is the -main thoroughfare through Industrial Park.

The Beltway first section will end a block or two west of Arch and the interchange feeding industrial park will be built immediately south of the City Dray Line building along Reach Road. Dick Doebler has some interesting comment to make about Groves, the contractor. The highway building firm has been ranking among the big 10 in the and although its home office is in Minnesota, it has an office at Camp Hill, near Harrisburg. Groves built two section of the Keystone Shortway: the stretch from Milton to Lunestoneville in Northumberland County, and the Route 15 interchange west of the Susquc- hanna between White Deer and New Columbia. About plans for the Jersey Shore Bypass eastern section.

Doebter has this to say: In the event that winter should suddenly descend on the area and take hold of the elements here, the highways people will make sure the 2.5-mile section of the bypass between the incinerator north of Jersey Shore, and Larry's Creek will be opened to traffic some how or other, even though the project isn't actually completed this year. In addition, the senate from 100 to 50, and the state house from 203 to 100. The second would put it to the taxpayer whether he wants taxes reduced 10 per cent across the board for fiscal year 1970-71, and five per cent for the four successive years through 1975. Something to think about is an allegation made by Price that waste and inefficiency bother the taxpayer and if private business were run as "poorly" as government, there would be no economy. The engineer says also that no groups within government appear to be the slightest bit concerned about beyond which "we're going to have economic collapse." Price's program for a 30 per cent tax reduction, and the emptying of more than half the seats in the General Assembly might not be "realistic," but they offer nourishing food for thought.

fully and completely, in the manner of the official who wrote, the speaker said, to the parents of a hanged man saying that he had lost his life when the platform gave way under him at a public event. John Earls, hanged in 1836, ing murder was likely that of Mr. and Mrs. John McBride, who lived in a tumbledown The most notorious Lycom-i house near Dougherty's Run. Four Sites Being Considered in JS for New JP Suites JERSEY SHORE At a target date of Wednes- four sites were being consider-j day, Oct.

22, to begin adver- cd today for the local office Using for bids. It is expected of the District Three contracts can be awarded Irate to be elected next Monday, Nov. 3. The possible office sites werei The committee headed by J. LUF Dance at Elks Saturday JERSEY SHORE coming County.

He confessed he had poisoned his wife by putting arsenic in her hot chocolate. When she complained of stomach pains he gave her medication of mint tea with more arsenic in it. His body was said to have been dug up by doctors for dissection in a nearby stable. William Dunlap, of Jays- bung, killed his wife while drunk and was hanged in 1839. William Miller killed a peddler in the woods with an axe and was convicted when the peddler's watch was found in his possession.

He was hanged in 1838. Peter Bota. a Norwegian, was hanged in 1866. He said his wife had fallen downstai on the axe which killed her and public opinion seemed to I be on his side. I John Fields came from don to work in the mines here.

I He killed his The I George Matthews, wilih an axe Elks ballroom, Seminary and and was hanged in 1869. N. Main Jersey Shore, will be the scene tomorrow night of a dance whose proceeds are to go to the Jersey Shore Area United Fund. The dance starts at 10 p.m. and will continue to an undisclosed hour.

Music will be played by The Satellites, and a luncheon will be served by the Elks. The BPOE is donating its building and services for the fund-raising event. Tickets at $5 per couple were being sold today at Dershem's Pharmacy, Shore Stationery, Mamolen Insurance, and Harrison's Food Market, Donald E. Woodhouse, area Judge Greevy stressed the short period of time, four months, that passed between the conviction and execution of Lloyd Brilton for the death of Jacob Bay. After the hang- Two Dances Sat.

at Local YMCA All but the Mottcr build- site are on the ground the Mamolen building, Main and Allegheny formerly the Triangle Shoe Store; the ground floor of the Masonic Temple, Market and Allegheny the second floor of the R.R. Motter or Herald Building, Broad and Allegheny and the former Ecks Cleaners store at Tomb and Allegheny Sis. ing floor. Charles Szybist, of William- gport, in charge of the committee seeking to acquire office space for the five magistrates to be named in the county, said a noon meeting at the Home Dairy on Pine St. in Williamsport on Tuesday, Oct.

21, has been planned. He said he did not know if a decision would be made by that time. He conceded not much time remained to choose the five offices. has prepared specifica- for file cabinets, coat Frederick Gehr, of Hughesville, tions racks, standard electric typewriters, adding machines, and smaller office equipment. Four Twps.

Oppose Consolidation of Voting Precincts WILLIAMSPORT- Petitions from four townships in Lycoming County objecting to plans to consolidate voting precincts have been delivered to the Lycoming County Commissioners. The petitions had at least 250 signers from McNett, Pine, Brown and Cogan House townships, it was reported. They list the main reason for keeping present voting places the extra distances vot- The new justice of the peace rs would have to trave of for this district will likely be either Russell S. Bubb, of Antes Fort, nominated in May by the Democrats, or Dean E. Dawes, of Trout Run, selected by the Republicans in the primary.

The other districts are in the east end of Williamsport, the west end of Williamsport, Twp. and adjoining townships, and the. Montgomery, Montoursville Hughesville, and Muncy area. The Third District, headquartered here in Jersey Shore, will serve 22 townships and two boroughs in northern, JERSEY dances (western and southwestern Ly- will be held Saturday evening inj the Jersey Shore YMCA. Records will be used for both dance sessions, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

the county. furnishings for elementary students, and committee making recommen- coming County, the district comprising more than half the total territory of Meanwhile, the if they were joined. Commissioner Paul K. Bloom said the plan is to make one precinct in each township which now has two. He said the number of voters in each precinct made consolidation reasonable and profitaole.

Bloom said a savings of almost $1,200 would result from having one voting place in enough of the Main St. Inter- chairman, reported, change, the one that will handle both Route 220 and Route 44 I. traffic through the Jersey Shore JUQCI6 area will be made as usable as possible. Naturally, the PDH and the contractor both are hoping for a completion of the segment by late November, when the "official" opening is slated around Thanksgiving, according to present plans. 8:30 and Under a new provision of the law, borough governments will Warrant Issued by Domestic Court people.

to 10:30 p.m., for junior dations for the five district senior high school young magistrate offices that go into Candidate to Visit Wmspt. on Saturday WILLIAMSPORT Louis L. Manderino of Monessen. Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, will keynote the annual dinner of i the Lycoming County Democratic Committee at 7 p.m. to-1 morrow in the Lycoming Hotel, i Louis L.

Hare, county Demo- icratic chairman, said the din-' WILLIAMSPORT will swing the party's fall; bench warrants, including one campaign into high gear. i for a Salladasburg man. have Manderino will be introduced been issued for men who failed by Rep. Robert C. Wise, who to appear during domestic re-! has been mentioned as a pos- lations court.

sible candidate for lieutenant Scheduled to appear for, governor next year. arrearage in support payments, Hare will introduce various Floyd E. Gallagher, of Salla- local candidates and Democrai- dasburg is sought for 'being in I ic chairmen from nearby contempt of court. counties. 2 Students Take Lives in Car Protesting War in Vietnam BLACKWOOD, N.J.

(APj Two ihigh school classmates, a boy and girl, were found dead in a fume-fillied automobile Thursday, leaving behind a string of notes saying -they had died in the name of peace. Authorities said they committed suicide. Both had attended a Vietnam Moratorium at Glassboro State College Wednesday. The victims, Craig Badiali, 17, and Joan Fox, 17, both seniors at Highland Regional High School, were found 'in the Badi- ag family car. Camden County Medical m- llumas R.

Daley had been dead about 16 hours when their bodies MM discovered about 9:30 a.m. cleaner hose bad through a hole in I Daley said 24 notes were beside their bodies. The notes, written to their i parents, school officials, class- mates and friends, expressed unhappiness over the conditions of the world, were anti-war said they hoped people would learn from them, said Daley. They asked that all who heard of their death work for peace, the medical investigator said. The moratorium observance which they attended at Glassboro was "the site of 1967 summit meeting between or- mer President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexi Kosygin.

Miss Fox was a 'high school cheerleader and Badiali was president of the Artisan Club. tine school drama organization. Badiali's brother, Bernard 21, said, "My brother died of his convictions. They were anti-war." CAROL ECK, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Pheras Eck, of Williamsport R.D. 3, is a freshman candidate for Homecoming Queen. Voting for the eight girls, two in each of the classes at Jersey Shore Area Senior High School will start on Monday. The winner will be crowned next Friday evening in a pre-game ceremony. each township.

He said the distances involved for the drive to vote twice a year are much less than most of the people drive each week to church. Although Bloom was surprised at the petitions, he said plans would go ahead to petition the courto to consolidate wherever necessary. JS Revenue Hits $42,479 JERSEY SHORE Revenue for September reached an unusually high $42,479, about two thirds of it current receipts from the reai estate tax which totaled $27,984. According to the monthly report of John F. Frederick, bor- ough secretary, $6,263 was from the one half per cent share of 1 jihe one per cent wage tax, and; ($5,000 a loan from the Union, National Bank of Jersey Shore made in July.

Parking meter collections brought in $1,082, street assessments $825, building, soliciting and street excavating permts $668, fines, forfeits, and costs I $298, departmental $125, and licenses for coin vices $100. Another $133 was derived from the one per cent realty transfer tax, levied for the first time in 1969. Collected in Arthritis Funds JESEY SHORE According to Keith Spalding, general chairman of the 1969 Arthritis Foundation campaign, the Jersey Shore district, whose chairman is Mrs. Jacob Ziegenfuss, collected $404 in the house-to- house collections and $12 in not- at-home envelopes. Spalding, the president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, said the grand total for Lycoming County is $6,012.

Meets Saturday JERSEY SHORE The Jersey Shore High School class of 1960 will meet at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Jersey Shore Elks club basement to make plans for a reunion this summer. All class members are invited to attend the session. Nelson E. Wade, a British hired hand on the next farm, killed them for the money they were said to have hidden away and found a great deal of it Gold pieces got to the bawdy house in Williamsporl were the cause of his convic-j lion.

Judge Greevy said the house later became the property of the Greevy family, and he spent many hours as a boy looking for the rest of the g'old. Befor Wade was hanged in 1873 an iron collar and chain to hold him had to be forged by Frank Trump, who later brought his foundry to Jersey Shore. The only double hanging in the county resulted from a death in Jersey Shore. George W. Smith and Mrs.

Andrew Miller were convicted of killing her husband, whose body was found hanging in the barn, and they were hanged in 1881. Her screams beforehand were terrible to hear, her keepers said. William Hummel, of Black Hole, used an axe to kill his wife, then did away with their two children and baby. After taking rags to Montgomery the next morning he put the bodies in his wagon, drove to a field and buried them. Back home he ifound the baby's body still in the wagon and concealed it in the barnyard.

The precise year of this awful occurrence is lost in history. The last hanging in Lycoming County was that of John Enble, who ended an unhappy love affair with Grace Skidpole by killing her. He was hanged on Feb. 3, 1914. An act of June 13, 1913, abolished hanging had not yet gone into effect.

"There is a growing climate against capital punishment," Judge Greevy said, citing arguments from a recent article in Time. He quoted with apparent approval a statement by the late Clarence Darrow, who said the poor too readily find the waiy to the gallows, and pleaded that the money now spent on punishment be used toward abolishing poverty. THEOREM PAINTING by Mrs. Jane Spangler, of Jersey Shore, for the Fort Antes chapter, DAR, of which she is a member, will be used to raise money for the upkeep of Pine Creek Cemetery. The 12 by 16 painting on ivory velvet with an antique silver frame contributed by Miss Laura Martin, of Jersey Shore, will be awarded at a drawing during the Nov.

14 DAR meeting. It presently is on display in the Satisfaction Shop, Allegheny St. Second and third prizes are oval gold-framed dried flower pictures on black velvet made by another Fort Antes DAR member, Mrs. Georgianna Hartzel. Donations for tickets may be made at the Satisfaction Shop or given to any DAR member.

Ex-Residents of Lebanon, Egypt to Speak at BPW A delegation from the Montgomery Historical Society and many other out-of-town visitors were present to hear the superb address following a dinner of baked chicken breasts. Robert Feerrar, president of the Jersey Shore Historical Society, conducted the meeting. Mrs. Alta Feerrar introduced the speaker, who is outstanding in the religious and fraternal as well as the legal world. JERSEY SHORE The World Affairs Committee of Jersey Shore B.P.W.

Club will be in charge of the October 21 meeting at Epworth United Methodist Church, at 6:30 p.m. Miss Mary Phillippi has invited former residents of India, Egypt and Lebanon to speak on their country and customs. Mrs. Katherine Carpenter will show slides of other lands, and Mrs. Esther Wetrnore, District 6 director, will pay an official visit.

IOOF Installs Panel of Officers Monday at Roaring Branch JERSEY SHORE The IOOF district deputy grand master of the First District of Lycoming County installed officers of the Roaring Branch, Griffin Lodge 655, IOOF, on Monday night. The installation was done by Don Urquhart, DDGM, and his staff Clyde Mincer, DDG marshall; Oscar V. Marshall, DDG chaplain; Herbert J. Moltz, DDG warden; Claude P. Bullock, DDG past grand; A Clair Dingier, DDG secretary; William I.

Bowers, DSG treasurer; Victor Gross, DDG inside guardian and Ralph E. Kelchner, DDG outside guardian. Degree master Bullock today requested all members of the Jersey Shore Lodge 101 to be on hand Monday night, Oct. 20, at 7:30 o'clock to help put the initiatory and first degrees on a class of candidates, from Brady Lodge No. 116, Muncy.

The World Affairs committee consists of Margaret Greene, Beatrice Farr, Mary Phillippi, Pat Sullivan, Mildred Barto and Katherine Carpenter. Mrs. Lorena Smith and Mrs. Oly Waugh will attend the Women in Government luncheon in Harrisburg, October 17 and 18, when the treasurer of the United States, Dorothy Elston will be the speaker. National Business Women's Week will be observed October 19-25.

New members of Jersey Shore B.P.W. Club are Mrs. Rhoda Powers, Mrs. Elizabeth White, Mrs. Margaret Harvey, Mrs.

Esther Staver Markle. and Mrs. Emily Bulletin Board 17 Cecile Circle of Lutheran Church wil 7:45 P.M. in educational Oct. Grace meet unit.

Oct. 19 Billy Graham film, "Shadow of the will be shown at J.S. Wesleyan Church? p.m. Sunday, and Gene Altier, area leader for Truth for Youth, will speak. Oct.

20 J.S. Woman's Club meets 8 p.m. at home of Mrs John Bone. Millinery display by Mrs. Leo G.

Phillips, Williamsport. Oct. 21 Jersey Shore B.P.W. Club will hold World Affairs meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church.

Nov. Club executive board meeting 7:30 p.m. at home of Mrs. Estelle Barton. Nov.

18 Civic Participation program at 6:30 p.m. B.P.W. Club meeting in Trinity United Methodist Church. The next executive board meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m.

at the home of Estella Barton. The Civic Participation program is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in Trinity United Methodist Church, Allegheny and Glover Jersey Shore. Public Invited to Space Lectures at Detwiler Building WILLIAMSPORT The public is invited to attend a series of illustrated lectures on space and astronomy at Lycoming College, with students acting as moderators.

The shows are held in the Detwiler Planetarium in the academic center. The 40 minute shows entitled "The Man On The Moon," will be given each Sunday, including Sunday, Oct. 19, at 2 and 3 p.m. Andrew Ketner, a senior at Lycoming, will serve as moderator this Sunday, and again on Sunday, Oct. 26.

Samuel Grove, a sophomore at the college, will alternate as lecturer. For All Your Insurance Needs CALL BOB MENCER Phone 398-2211 JERSEY SHORE SHEET METAL Furnace Installations Gleaning Servicing ALL TYPES OF FURNACES PHONE 398-0611 224 S. Broad St. JERSEY SHORE SUE CARRELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Carrell, of Shaw Avis, is a freshman candidate for Homecoming Queen at Jersey Shore High School. The winner among the eight girls will be crowned next Friday night prior to the start of the Troy-Jersey Shore football game. Last year's winner, Miss Nancy Stackhouse, will do the crowning.

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