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The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 24

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The Pocono Recordi
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Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
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TWELVE TilE DAILY KECOKP. EAST STilOuDSljrBG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1055 Industrial Club To Hear Planning Talk Jj MF.MRKRS of the Industrial Management Club of Monroe County will meet tonight at the Penn-Sti md Hotel to hear an address entitled, Does Plan- rung Mean to the Stroud.sburgs.” Speaker will be J. Cal Callahan, planning consultant, Morris- Knowle' Engineering Co.

Dorn and raised in Cincinnati, Callahan attended Xavier University there, and then went on to the University of Michigan where he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1937, He else did voik at the school. He was affiliated with the traffic survej hurt au, Detroit Police Department, and then was engineer-j in-charge of the Detroit Michigan State Highway Planning; Survey. 1936. With Army Engineers From 1937-41, lie served a-- a private traffic consultant in Cin-! innate and then became an officer with the Engineer Intelligence Division. Office of the Chief Engineer, Corps of Engineers in both the European and Pacific theaters of i operations, serving through 1946.

1 He is now chief of the planning division of Moiris-Knowles and lives at Easton. lie is a registered professional! civil engineer, and member of the American Society of Civil! Engineers, American Institute of; Plann i s. American Sock ty of Planning Officials, National Society of Professional Engineers, and is listed in Who in the East. He is also the author of numerous! articles on city and regional planning, Boxs Attend (Guidance Conference BANGOR Thirty-live ninth and 12th grade boys yesterday attended a vocational guidance conference on automobile mechanics in the library at the Bangor Area High School. It was the first of 15 such conferences to be held during the school year under the auspices of the Bangor Kiwanis and Exchange clubs, in cooperation with the vocational guidance department.

The boys saw the picture, In The IP-tail Automobile Business." They also heard James Underwood, a mechanic for the Jacob S. Dietrich Chevrolet Bang discuss the work of an auto mechanic and repairman. Future Conferences Arnold Wynne, high school guidance counsellor, served as chairman of the conference. for future conferences follow: Oct. 17, public utilities; Nov.

7. teaching; Nov. 21, trades and crafts; Dee. 5, nursing; Dec. 19, engineering and science; Jan.

9, sales and services; Jan. 23. beauty culture; and Feb. 13, farming. Al-o, Feb.

27 Civil Service, state and Federal; March 12, office practices and procedures; March 26, armed forces; Apr. 9, textile machine operations and mechanics; Apr, 23, home economies; May 14, slate industry; and May 21, personnel problems and procedure. PI Hear Arguments In Scranton Case II Oct. 3 The Public Utility Commission fixed Oct. 18 for final argument in Harrisburg on its rule against the Scranton Transit Co.

to show why it sh 1 not be penalized for failure to furnish service. The PUC called on the firm, strikebound since last April 5. to why its operating permit should not be revoked or penalized otherwise for not running its buses. The last of four hearings was held Sept. 27 when testimony of witnesses for the company and the company and the A Fichus driver's union was completed.

In requesting the argument. Harry H. Frank. Harrisburg, attorney for Scranton Transit, said he wished to discuss PUC jurisdiction over labor management relations, and the financial ability of the company to provide all necessary service when the strike ends. promotions in rank for members of Sixth Truck U.

S. Marine Corps Reserve, were announced last night at American Legion Home. Capt. Joseph Murray is shown (right) congratulating David C. Harris, Robert E.

Miller and Donald T. Strong upon being promoted to privates first class. Sgt. James Shafer is at left in photo. Letters of appreciation for their efforts in the flood were presented by the commandant in Washington, D.

C. Other reserves receiving promotions but not in picture were Harold N. Jacobsen from corporal to sergeant; Arlington E. Lambert, Paul M. Lewis and James A.

Booth, from private to pfc. (Staff Photo by MacLeod) Counsel Criticizes Testimony HARRISBURG, Oct. 3 l.f> The Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. today described as a example of shadow testimony presented to the PUC intending to show industrial power mbs are higher than other utilities. Jack Busby, Allentown, ral counsel made the comment before George Stuart, PUC hoar- during a recess at the opening of examiner, officials of each of another three da vs of Hu- fourth in a series-on the util-, the used and put their put connection into the record.

H. J. Latta, PUC lawyer, said he thought that a fifth series of hearings would possibly conclude the case. The hearings began in April and were continued in June and July. IN OUR 78th YEAR industrial rate case.

Some 23 study appeared commercial power users are seek- names and business ing to have the PUC reduce industrial rates as excessive. The utility cut its heavy-use bills by $273,523 a year last Feb. 28 but the complainants contend the rates remain generally excessive. Busby criticized as absolutely comparison testimony offered by John W. Guilday, a member of a Pittsburgh consulting engineer firm, on behalf of six Lancaster County firms.

Costs Outlined comparison proves abso lutely nothing because it does not; take in the cost to the utility in producing the Busby contended. He listed wages and materials. distance from raw material sources, etc. as among the important costs to the utility. must be considered for a valid he said.

(the Guilday comparison) is a sim-j pie comparison of customer The Allentown utility serves some 574,000 consumers in 28 east-j ern Pennsylvania counties but res-! idential rates are not involved in the case. Before Guilday took the stand 1 By Air LONDON, Oct. 3 British Royal Navy is taking to the air Nov. 1 to change crews on the cruiser Newcastle at. Singapore.

Fifteen chartered airliners are to fly 750 officers and men from Britain to the 9.000-ton warship and ferry back the old crew. The Admiralty explained this would save the nine weeks normally needed for the voyage home and rule out the necessity of sending another cruiser to replace the Newcastle during recommissioning. A total of 400 million dollar-was spent en new U. S. religious structures in the United States in 3950, Current Dividend 2 Plans To Save Deposit in Units of $200 on which dividends are currently per year.

$1.00 per month for 142 months and receive $200.00 at current rate of maturity. $5.00 per month for 142 months returns $1,000.00 at current rate of maturity. Investigate Today! COMMONWEALTH Building Loan Assn. PHONE 1838 16 S. 7th St.

Stroudsburg IN OUR 78th YEAR Farm Prices Up, Reversing Trend WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 The Agriculture Department reported today that prices of faim products increased 1 per cent between mid-August and mid-September. This increase halted a four- month decline in prices that has brought sharp criticism of administration farm programs from some Democrats. DO YOU KNOW A NEWCOMER Who lias just moved to Stroudsburg or East Stroudsburg? Phone to WELCOME WAGON HOSTESS Stroudsburg 909-J Calls are made upon: New mothers Girls 16th Birthdays Engaged Girls Newcomers NO COST OH OBLIGATION 'HI 1 What every woman should Treasury Balance Oct. 3 ifi Tht rash position of the Treasury Sept.

28: Balance $5.271.982.452.37. Deposits $14,881,356.406.95. Withdrawals 518,065.697,702.92. Total debt Gold assets $21,683,296,594.45. Includes $478.986,834 55 debt not subject to statutory limit.

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So, please your husband and yourself. See your automatic electric range retailer today. PENNSYLVANIA POWER LIGHT COMPANY Lo Mate lax Discussions HARRISBURG, Oct. 3 B. Logan, budget secretary under five Republican governors, today joined Gov.

Leader's tax compromise conferences with Republican and Democratic legislative leaders. His role was a principal adviser to Republican participants in the sessions. Logan was replaced by Andrew Bradley as budget secretary when Leader took office last January. But he and all other conferees declined comment on whether they were achieving any progress toward a solution of the fiscal dilemma. The participants spent all day in the first of two consecutive meetings before the Legislature returns to Harrisburg Wednesday after a recess.

I)ent Pessimistic Asked by a newsman if he expected the tax compromise to he achieved this week, Sen. John II. Dent, Senate Democratic floor leader, replied; you session was the seventh in two months since the governor asked top leaders from both sides to iron out their tax differences. Senate Republicans defeated plan for a classified income tax. Since then, Republicans offered School Bus Truck Collide; Boy Killed 10 Others Huurt MAINESBURG, Oct.

3 A truck crashed into a school bus in a dense fog today, killing a boy and injuring 10 other school children, two seriously. The victim w-as Verne D. Jackson, 8, son of Dee Jackson, 47, Mansfield, R.D. 3, driver of the bus. The boy was sitting directly behind his father, owner of the school bus.

The collision occurred on a rural road about four miles west of this Tioga County town near the Pennsylvania-New York border. The impact tore loose the first three rows of seats of the school bus, throwing the children to the bus floor or against adjoining seats. Most of them suffered lacerations and bruises. Injured The two most seriously Injured are Rose Aumick, Mainesburg, two fractured legs, and Barbara a 2 per cent sales tax as their answer to the problem of balancing a $1,800,000,000 budget. Their proposal was coupled with a demand that the budget be cut by 131 million dollars and that revenue estimates be jumped by 70 millions.

Ann Wallenberg, also Mainesburg. fractured skull. Richard Grones, 16, Mainesburg R.D. 1, driver of the truck, was injured in the collision. State Policeman Jack E.

Williams said that Grones told him he was adjusting the windshield wiper of his truck in a dense fog to improve visibility and did not see the approaching school bus. Williams said that Jackson tried to avoid the crash by swerving off the road but that the truck hit the bus just behind the seat where young Jackson was riding behind his father. more lute with EAGLE-PICI 1ER Aluminum Storm Windows JOSEPH G. DeRENZIS 21 N. 6th St.

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