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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, PA. DIAL PA PAGE THIRTEEN Boyertown EARL t. BENFIELD, Representative Ph. FO 120 North Walnut PTA Panelists Urge Field Trips, Reading to Spur Pupil Progress A panel discussion on "Spurring Their Progress in School and in the highlighted the Boyertown Elementary PTA meeting in the dining room of the Boyertown Area High school. Mrs.

Carl Cleaver, moderator for the program, introduced the following panelists and their topics: William Houck, who emphasized the need (or family reading, hook clubs and libraries for the children of early school age. Kay Hitter, who explained how the "little things" count in spurring a child's Interest in historic events. Small children should he taken on field trips to visit nearby historical sites such as Valley Forge, Washington Carver's Dairy Cited at Show Carver's Dairy in Boyertown AMOS KNOUSE DIES AT 81 IN HOSPITAL Was Employed By Casket Firm has the distinction of heins the o( now elementary only dairy in Berks county to win sch()0, Boyerl(wn, award at the Pennsylvania The Kennedy Story President-Elect is Trained In Hectic Post-War Period Editor's Within, a few he gets hold of an expert on the 5. The detached man. days.

John F. Kennedy assumes subject he is studying He has a One of Kennedy's most impres- the presidency. Here, in the first quick, keen mind. sive qualities is his icy calm. If of four articles on the president- The combination of brains and he gets rattled, he doesn't elect and the shaping of his ad- hard work made him something of show it.

Confronted with a sur- ministration, a noted reporter de an expert on rackets, labor regu- prise or a problem, he simply goes the character and qualities lations, unemployment insurance, poker-face This correspondent, of the man preparing for his role depressed areas, farm problems, watching him in many situations, in history. foreign affairs and many other saw only two instances when he fields. He gives every sign of be lost his temper One was over a Bv RKLMAN MORIN ing a president who will do his piece of advertising, at- WASHINGTON -The chief home work. tacking him through his father, fact about John Fitzgerald Ken 2 The thoughtful American. Joseph P.

Kennedy. The other was nedy, 35th president of the Cnited Kennedy's speeches show a on the Saturday before Flection States, is that he vs a product of feeling for the history, tra- Day when rain and a series of the nuclear age. ditions and philosophy of the miscues fouled up his schedule in He came to maturity in the 20 American political system. He fre- New York City. Onftoth occasions, thunderous years since Pearl Har- Quently quotes from the founding he erupted with language typical bor.

His thinking today has been fathers, and illustrates a point of a PT boat sailor, which he was deeply conditioned bv them. with an anecdote from the early during World War II. These were the years of hot and of American government. 6. The realist, cold war, of brand new weapons A sense of history, generally.

Kennedy seems in no and tactics, of burgeoning popula- nms through his thinking. He is stances to be given to self tion, and of social, political and reported to have read everything sion or to looking away from uneconomic earthquakes throughout Winston Churchill ever wrote. He pleasant facts. He is a supreme residence in Bally. Mr.

Ed- are these children: Francis. worjd jn period. Ameri- Quotes from the Greeks and from realist For example, he remarked dinger, who was in ill health the Hallv; wife of Theodore cans learned the harsh fact that, liters classical literature. about a public figure, "He hates SURVIVING IS a daughter, Ag- past 12 years, was owner and Kern merer, Metuchen, N.J.; today, the price of survival is not 3 hr organizer. me But he a darn good man nets wife of Harvey R.

Reitnauer, operator of the local hardwire Eva, wife of Lester Sell, Bally; on'-v cterna! vigilance but also JU( J30 1 1(8 hmnr cuss ng a hrnthor Samuel i if toughness, discipline and ruthless helped Kennedy, over his election chances in a Western day, Feb. 9, at which time the M7 Phil He was born in Ballv son of Md efficiency. towering obstacles, to the Demo- state, he said, coolly, "I expect M. Fast Philadelphia He as born in Bally, soni of vufe of Spice, Round cratic nomination and then to vie-they're going to give us the busi- avenue; three grandchildren and the late Henry N.J., and Helen. Fred- Kennedy is tough, realistic, de- tory in the election, was largely ness out The voter, did.

Md and 16 grandchil- cisive Having arrived at a deci- his own creation. He went out to sion. he acts swiftly and with au- thf brains and talent 1). and museums, she said. Albright discussed how the world can he shared by parents and children.

Facts concerning science, art and music can he explained to the children in simple demonstrations carried out in the home or on sightseeing trips, he said. A parent participation period followed the panel discussion. Prior to the business portion of the meeting, Jane Petrowicz, an Kighth grade pupil in the Boyertown Area Junior High school, the audience with Amos Knouse, 81, of 21 South Jefferson street, died on Sunday morning at 5 in Pot 1 st own hospital where he was admitted ten days ago. A native of Dougla.ss township, Montgomery county, he was a son of the late Edward and Katie Knouse. Mr.

Knouse was in the poultry and egg business until 20 years ago when he went to work in the shipping department of the Boyertown Burial Casket company. He retired three years ago. He was a member of St. Evangelical Lutheran Elizabeth (Miller) Eddinger, died Saturday morning at his eral vocal solos. Miss Petrowicz was accompanied by Mrs.

Thomas Soper, pianist. MRS. PAUL Kiause gave uc- plre company. Boyertown. votiona after which Mrs.

Katie M. (Maurer) president, conducted died 20 years ago. business session. All taxpayers in Boyertown are invited to attend a spccial meeting of the PTA on are some of the weapons stripped from in the Detroit police crackdown on urban erime. Irvin Eddinger Succumbs at 80, Owned Boyertown Hardware Store Irvin J.

Eddinger. 80, husband the Goodwill Fire company, both of Bally. Surviving with his widow directors of the Boyertown School district and county representatives will be present to explain facts concerning the an Farm Show in Harrisburg. The local dairy was one of 26 Pennsylvania dairies to win special plaques for excellence in their milk quality at the show. Milk competition at the farm show is different from competition in other commodities.

In the milk show, all samples are picked up John's Evangelical Lutheran church, Boyertown, to officiate. Interment will be in Fairview unannounced from the dairy long before the farm show opens. The directors applied to the State for a building number approximately a year ago and recently received approval. The meeting will be in the cemeiery, Boyertown. high school dining room beginning at 7:30 m.

In case of inclement weather, the meeting Ivwlllvll will be scheduled for Feb 14 The banners, presented to lfl60T each elementary school class number for the monthly six great-grandchildren. (Melcher) Eddinger. Funeral services will be Wed- he operated was founded by his erick, nesday at 2 p. from the father in 1878. During Mr.

Ld- dren. Schwenk Funeral home. 124 West dinger's illness the store was Philadelphia avenue, with the operated by his son. Francis. Rev.

Fred S. Blank, pastor of St. These are the of He was a member of the Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic church and Boyertown Classified Deathr am. interment will be in the par- 1 ish church cemetery in charge 14 of the L. W.

Ott Funeral home, others. EDDINGER On Saturday, Jan. iwn. Irvin Eddinget husband North Reading avenue, of B'llzabeth Eddinger, of Bally, age 80 years. and friends are invited to the services on Wednesday at 8 15 a at the 1 1 1 1 ns nir imp fiifiFiiiitv 03 late residence followed hy a 80 had the largest number emn High Requiem Mass at Most The milk then is subjected to of parents attending the meet- meeting of 1 ub Scout pack 223, Blessed sacrament Roman Catholic laboratory and test lo Srade two ol the Colehrookdale.

were completed the basis for scoring All Washington school and grade by tbe committee when it met friends may call at the late milk which scores 92 or better on four in the Lincoln building home of Robert allahan. sundav 1 RAVAi'tnun Pi) 9 KNOLn Pot stown, on stn.uftv the master scoreboard wins a Following the program re- ooyeriown 1 ne pacx jBn 15 196! Knouse plaque. No cash awards are of freshments were served bv the meeting is scheduled for 26 husband of the Religions of the a South fered. committee. and has theme.

thority. available, and then put together Kennedy at work. Funeral services will be is highly disciplined. With onp of mosl polent political When he is not W'ednesday at 8 15 am, at his immensP single-mindedness, he fo- organizations in history. He lis- though the line between on-and- residence, followed by a solemn cuses total attention on the prob- carefully to advice from all off hours is often hard to distin- high requiem mass at the most lem at hand In effect, he ex- sides- the final decisions were guish-he is an easy-moving man, Blessed Sacrament church at 9 aminPS il under a microscope.

hls own. He can be exited to fully rpIaxod- He the Ami he is as efficient as a pis- In the same pattern as pression of controlled tension, the ton, driving, tireless, an organized president. coiled spring, no matter what he man himself with the ability to 4 touch. is doing. a generator of Kennedy has great personal He likes to swim, fish, golf and power charm He does things gracefully, play tennis.

He is the first pres- These are his primary qualities tactfully persua- ident. in all probability, who ever sive specialized in touch football. He Kennedy is 41, a member of that Moreover, he understands the has tremendous energy, and a generation of Americans who delicately balanced relationships dry, dead-pan sense of humor, fought in World War II Very few between the chief executive and of them had any part in shaping (onCress Some of the proposed Some observers already are lik- the policies of the United States he will be sending to ening Kennedy to Woodrow Wil- or determining its situation at hill will be controversial in son, others to Franklin D. Roose- home and abroad in the two dec- Hls personal qualities, velt. Still others find a similarity World ades since the war.

Plus political know-how, will between Kennedy and Theodore American HoyertownUSRge 28i yeanTfiReia" division of the Senior Woman's But Kennedy did have a part valuable assets in helping get Roosevelt. Riirt friends are the club of Royortoun. will moot in it. He comcs to the presidency projzram info Isw. Irnmodiflte- But thoir periods in office were YMCA Official Will Address Senior Women THE OLD HOME TOWN STANLEY The Cubs planning to par- 4 this afternoon at 130 o'clock at after 14 years in the House and af palm Beach- he different from the one he ticipate in several events dunng town, on Wednesday 2 i the home of Mrs.

0 1 Senate. From the freshman eon- slJhing with congressional leaders, confronts Robison Francis, Boyertown RD pern, executive secretary of the onstrated these principal charac- 1 Centra! East District of the ter.st.es: TO'C OfTl KW HI St FOiCCS AttOCK 24 0nwthphMHiW A of Pennsylvania. 1 The many-sided man. town, on Tuesday at 2 pm inter- His will be Km Kennedy soaks up information TtH ment In Fairview Cemetery Buyer- phasis in YMCA Work town. Friends may call on Monday evening 7 to 9 8 chwenki terment In Fairview Cemetery Boy trU month ebruary.

On ertown may rail on 14, they will be in charge of the evening. 7 to 9 tSchwenk flag ceremony at the local PTA fbancis in Potwtown on man ii i day Jan 14 1961 Richard meeting and will also present Francis son of Lesher and Mary cured the Cub Scout charter to the PTA members who sponsor the park. On Feb. 23, the Cubs and their families will attend a Blue and banquet which will be a covered dish supper. The Cubs recently made a field trip to Little Olev where We wish to thank relatives nelgh- ihey Visited a mice plant.

friends for the many Mrs. Bichard Breslin Bover- kindness for iympathT tended and for the beautiful floral own RD 2, will he hostess for at the funeral of Miirif the next committee meeting on DeTurk. Tiie family Feb 9 I WISH to thank everyone for beautlfu. cards and flowers received while I was in the Reading Hospital. Mrs EDWIN GRESH Abrams, 12 Fairview street.

gressman of the slim voung He will have liaison agents to History, and his personal experi- Mrs. Richard Waslev, chair- man from Boston developed into Congress, but in all probability ence, have tooled him to be the of this division, has one of the most highly respected hp wil1 hls own salesman, nuclear age president, speaker, Melvin El- senators. Along the way. he dem- as Card of Thanks DeTURK. Klpern, born in t'niontown, attended Washington and Jefferson college and Du quesne university, lie did graduate work at the Federated Theological schools of the I niversity of Chicago, during which period he held a pastorate in Lockport.

III. Teacher to Outline 'Corrective Reading' I. A DIFS AIX11IARV The Lad.es auxiliary of the Keystone Fire company, Bech Strated. Lost. Found telsville, will have a combined lost Puppy Engiuh serer white nipetinp and rnvprod dish tnrial 10 asks old Reuard meeung ann covereo n.sn social Blldy 5 Read- tomorrow evening at 8 clock in mi Ave Boyertown FO 7-24R6 the firehall.

EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? cau ht om with by BLAKE MIS SHOES ON THE AMP roOPONOUR R(J6 ToPAY! Qk Sf wiLu vou see gsts a goov TALKING Stayman Winasap APPLES (Wholesale A Rrtalll EDWIN W. KEIM 3. FO Help DISHWASHER Hours 4 to 8 10 Applv In person CLIFFS RESTAURANT Reading Ave Boyertown El pern executive of Northeast branch of YMCA 32 Baltimore, for five years and then spent two years in Mavaguez. Puerto Rico, where he started a new YMCA He spent four years with the Armed at Temple university and cur like a sponge. He reads incessantly.

And if he can't get what he VIENTIANE. 'AP) wants from something on paper, Communist forces have seized the So far neither threat appears initiative again in the Laotian immediate. civil war. The rout of royal troops Rut the mere fact that rebel from the la staging area units are advancing on two im- looked Sunday like a major set- portant fronts sends shivers of ap- back to government plans for a prehension through Luang Pra- Reading in our counteroffensive. bang, battle scarred Vientiane Public Schools" will he discussed Laotian fliers carried on, how- and the militarily important gov- of Paksane and guard the nar- ilians dug fresh Prabang and Travelers from reading in the local Junior High Tha Thom and Paksane reported school.

She is a graduate of Kutz- 1 Sull'sana- 2i-year-old fjefense forces who were massing town Sta'e college with a hache of the squadron, said for a projected lor of science degree, a "ne truck was destrojed in northward against rebel-held masters decree fro. New York the Ta but, hat X.eng Khou ang province, are now university, has taken many cour.s prevented determining effects ol gnd con(used fire the combat units Th(, wcurity the Situation .17 LEAVE your children at mv home expert attention days or evenings area FO Try and Stop Me --------By BENNETT CERF--------- BRAND NEW STYLES AND COLORS IN 9x12 RUGS Our Lirgt Selection Satisfaction in Prica and Siyla AS LOW AS NEW MERCHANDISE CLUB STARTS SATURDAY, JAN. 21 M. S. KUSER FURNITURE Ufi S.

Heading Ave Boyertown Open Fri. till 3 P.M. oil heat For apptmt 5-3191 bet 1 and 8 p. m. call Services department of the within 0i-ht of tr00pS MCA at F'ort Deven Mass doctorate for Savannakhet in the south and the Brooklvn Naw Ralph DeTurk Ls chairman of fanned a fear the government was tr 'y a threat to lentiane 'ard Tie is a member of the the program.

virtnrv nnrth Preparing to evacuate the city, He 1 north moRi officials said the fear east of this administrative capi- Ami tha roaral capital ti nounced that all members are to OH KOI MEETING return ticket money following the Congregational church, married Henry Carver, chairman of the Rotary Ramble to Herahey. an Unfurnished Apartments floor 4 rooms Af hath 3f1 of two was groundless. Personals We Repair All Makes and Models. Authorized Dealer For RCA Philco The regular monthlv meeting business fission of the meeting the Sunday school teachers -------and officers of the Reformed Church of the Good Shepherd. Cnited Church of Edwin (iresh, 21 South town, will be this evening at Chestnut street, returned home 7 10 in the Mothers Saturday afternoon from the classroom.

Reading haspital where she had a patient for the paat week. Aiang Prabang remains menaced by pro- -Communist Pathet I.ao forces moving on it from the KUSER BROS. INC. lit FO 12417 VK)RTHRIGHT, at least, is one Colonel J. Carreras, who specializes in making horror films.

The Colonel told a reporter from the London Standard, "I am a millionaire, and not a dollar aire. Strictly sterling. My pictures make money of them. Horror pays off. The public wants horror, sex, brutality, violence.

I give it to them." a very clear moral in this: so long as there is a public demand for it in films, books, newspapers, or somebody will always be on hand to provide it! 9 Claaalfted ad by Joa Wareham: garbage man. $60 a week and all you want to eat" For some reaaon, Wareham. this advertlaament him of an old hit- parmda aong: on tha lalt of Debna That Found SAVE NOW Clearance Sale! SAVE Now You Oe Not Want To Mitt HARING'S CRAZY DEAL Ourinf This Salt So Como In ond Browso Around It Could Bo You To Bo Lucky! LADIES' FLATS, HEELS and BEDROOM SLIPPERS nr 99 Children Shoes MEN DRESS AND WORK SHOES RUBBER FOOTWEAR nr TOT'S RUBBERS lie NOT All SIZtS IN Al ITVLFI Al FINAL K. PHILA. BOYERTOWN FO 7 3111 OPEN TUESDAY FRIDAY TILL 9 P.M.

KA SAVINGS SAH SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK ONLY CHINA Vi PRICE AND LESS aluet to 12T.fift Close Out On Certain Patterns 4 to Servire I'late TIE SETS up (lift 1 Jexi elru Store" 49 E. Phila. Hovertown NEW STORE HOURS beginning TODAY Open daily 9:30 5:30 except Friday 9 30 8:30 BOYKRTIMV, Body Is Removed From Mausoleum; Man Is Arrested YORK, 1 AP A York man has ariep-ted in connection with the of a caaket from a mausoleum in the cemetery in 1959 The casket con- Downpour Cuts Railroad Lines STATE 2 MORE DAYS 2 FI.ATIM oo SI 2 SMASH hits: THE TRUTH ABOUT A VERY EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE SCHOOL MICKEY ROONEY JERRY MOORE DAN OORYEA PLATINUM HIGH SCHOOL MIMIEUX ANO ON SAME PROGRAM! Mamie Van Doren MICKEY SHAUGHNESSY Tuesday Weld anrt RHK.n il KID M1MNUL VANCOUVER. C. man was killed, all major rail- 0 ways were cut.

and scores of families were evacuated from flooded homes as a torrential downpour hit the southwest corner of British Columbia Sunday. The deluge also closed several highways. The storm caused the death o' .1 McMillan of Kamloops, a Canadian National Railways tamed the corpse of an 18 year bridgemaster. He was buried un- 0 gir' ri der a mud and rock slide as he nain .1 I homas, 23. wa.s uas inspecting a washout on the confined lo Noik county piison 1 ino about four miles south Saturday pending a further hear 0f Boston Bar in the Fraser River mg on charges of malicious re- Canyon, moval of a dead body from a tomb and malicious destruction The Canadian Pacific and the or mutilation of cemetery pro Trans-Canada Highway were cut perty.

He given a preliminary by slides and washouts in the hearing More Alderman H. Ci. Fraser Canyon about 90 miles ickes. northeast of Vancouver. The Pacific Great Eastern Kail- D1STR1CT ATTORNEY Frank way, which runs from North Boyle said Thomas and an ac- coiner to Fort St.

John in north- complice, against whom no east British Columbia, also was have f.ied yet, broke closed by several slides about ion through the mausoleum wall at miles northeast of here the Jacobus cemetery March 19, 1959. He said the two men carried the casket home 30 feet, broke it tore the coipesfftr Dpmnval clothing and removed a pin from 1 JllVff RCIIIUvdl the dead body. The removal of snow Boyie said the girl was drown- ing last month's storm cost the five days before when her car bmnship of Hereford $325, ac- spun off a highway into a branch cording to a report by road of Codoruff creek near Jacobus, foreman Charles C. Fritch at The prosecutor said an a supervisors meeting Friday gation of other complaints involv- night. mg Thomas led to his arrest on Receipts for the previous the mausoleum destruction month were $205 and expendi- charge tures were $2000.

In a separate case. Thomas was Treasurer Raymond Albiu charged before Fickes with as- ported. Harry Crossley is pres- nault and battery, aggravated as ident. sault and battery and assault with intent to kill in connection Know news? Phone with the November, 1959. assault Mercury, FA may of a 17 year old Elmwood girl earn extra money.

Township Pays $325.