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-TIH? WTTSTON GAZKTTE- Marcn24, 1959 Tuesday Buy Your Homesite Now On BEAUTIFUL Local Gleanings Benny Menik, Tailor, Dies Rites Thurs. Benny Menik, 71. of 68 East Stauffer Heights Workers Filed Today (Continued From Page 1) Knox Coal already the subject of exploration by the Federal Wage and Hour Administration were made a matter of official record through a legislative probe committee hearing testimony by approximately 30 Knox workers who disclosed they worked overtime and on Saturdays without getting time and one-half as required under the contract. Mr. Lippi said that the grievances will charge that "certain employees at the River Slope HUGHESTOWN PENNA Columbus avenue, Pittston, well known tailor, died yester day afternoon at 3:40 at Pitts-ion Hospital after four weeks illness.

Born in Poland, April 1, 1887, lie came to Pittston in 1913, and 1 "'jrv i established a tavlor shop which and the Schooley workings were I required at various times to i2 irw ml Consider These Facts Then Act Pure, dry, healthy air Elevation 86 feet Large Airy Home Sites Finest View in the Area Beet TV Reception A Site Where Thero Will Be All New Homes Within 5 Minutes Drive of Central City Close to the new Super-Highways Walking Distance to Schools and Churches All New Sidewalks and Paved Streets All Services in Rear Streets need never be dug tip Sewers low enough to Drain all Base ments New Water Line, Good Pressure Low Curbs so that you can get out of your car with ease You are not buying just a Lot you are buying a large Home Site where you can lfve and play Sites suitable for any type of home you may care to build. Before You Buy or Build Elsewhere Investigate the Advantages of Building on Stauffer Heights PHQHE 0L 4-4811 or 0L 4-SS43 Ask For Roy Stauffer he operated until his illness. He was a member of Polish Alliance of America. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Koslowski; children, Alec and Mrs. Virginia Meehan, at home; Mrs.

Charles J. Adonizao, Forty Fort; Mrs. Franlk Julio, Lindenhurst, N.J.; George and Prank, both of California; six grandchildren; also a brother and sister in Poland. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 9 from the funeral hare, 251 William street, Pittston, with Blessing at 9:30 a.m. in St.

Joseph's Church, Port Griffith. Interment. Denison Cemetery, Forty Fort. Friends may call 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. work in excess of seven hours per day and five days per week and were not compensated at overtime rates for work in excess of 33 hours per week." Testimony of Knox miners before the legislative Investigating committee indicated that they feared to complain or report overtime violations because It would mean ouster from their jobs.

While not spelled out, the testimony 'even hinted that the UMWA members were afraid of being blackballed if they complained to their own union. UMWA officials said that the move against Knox-Bemardi-Ferretti should demonstrate that the union is prepared to enforce the terms of the contract on behalf of its members if complaints are registered. It was explained that names and addresses will be obtained today, together with getting signatures on grievance papers for the Conciliation Board. Later each mine worker will be called to District 1 headquarters at 165 South Franklin Wilkes-Barre, to have their due bills checked and specific over Raymond Meade A court. She was convicted of engineering the murder of her daughter-in-law, Olga former Kesident iiied At tfew fork SHE' MUST DIE Mrs.

Elizabeth Duncan seems in -a state of shock ae she hears the death sentence passed by a Ventura, from the funeral home, 522 Fallon street, Old Forge, Friday at p. m. with services at 2:30 in Christian Missionary Alliance Church. Rev. Robert Baer will officiate.

Interment in Lithuania Independent Cemetery, West Wyoming. Friends may call 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p. m. HE'S GROWN SINCE- Dwlght David Eisenhower, the President's grandson, was 4 years old in this photograph. Mae Bschtold Expired Today After Attack Mrs.

Mae Bechtold, wife of George Bechtold, 38 Prospect street, passed away very suddenly it 8:30 o'clock this morning after suffering a heart attack at her home. She had been Stanley Coolbaugh Claimed By beath Death claimed Stanley Coolbaugh unexpectedly, when he suffered a heart attack yesterday morning at the home of a niece, Mrs. Herman Tinkle-paugh, 7 Simpson street, Duryea, with whom he resided. Born in Bernice, Mr. Cool U.S.

Machines Do Job fii Japan time claims computed. The Anthracite Board of baugh resided most of his life; i irf iB in Duryea. He was a member of Christian Alliance Church, Kaymond Meade, Pitteton na. tive, of 2771 Bainbridge ave-aue, New Youi City, passed away Sunday, March 22, in Francis Hospital, New York. A son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Frank L. Meade, of Mill street, he was a machinist at the Brooklyn Navy Yaid for 40 years until his retirement live years ago. He can be weli-remembered as an outstanding football and baseball player, in his younger lays here. Surviving are his wife, the former Lillian Allan, of N.

ihree daughters, Elizabeth, Le-nore and Dorothy, all at home; brothers, Roy Meade, Gprdan VESPER SERVICE WILL be held this evening at 7:30 at St. Peter's Lutheran Churcn, Hughestown, in charge of the Rev. Robert F. Sauers, pastor. Sermon, "The Sign of Mystery." THE REV.

HAROLD W. Story, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will be guest preacher this evening at the Prayer Service at; 7:30 in Second Presbyterian Church. Golden Star Bible Class will assist. FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. Patrick will hold a meetlng'to-mdrrow night at 8.

at the Knights of Columbus Home, South Main street. Final ticket returns of the recent banquet are requested at this time. PITT9TON TOWNSHIP High School Class of 1044, will meet tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Gramercy Restaurant, South Main street. FORTY HOURS DEVOTION is being held in St. Joseph's Church, Port Griffith, with the Rev.

Joseph Ostrowskl, Plains, in charge. THE BUREAU OF EMPLOY-ment Security Office, 49 South Main street, will be closed Friday, March 27, in observance of Good Friday. No Unemployment Compensation or Employment Service Activities will be conducted on this day. COMMITTEE ARRANGING the Annual Dance Frolic of the Pittston Hospital Nurses Alumnae will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at the Nurses home. FUNERAL OF MRS.

Joseph O'Hara, of 710 Hawthorne street, Avoca, will be held Wednesday morning at 9 from the funeral home, 728 Main street, Avoca, with a requiem mass at 9:30 a. m. in St. Mary's Church, Avoca. Interment, parish cemetery.

Viewing 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p. m. FUNERAL OF CHARLES Hantz, former resident of Dur-yea and Ransom, of Tucson, Arizona, will be held Thursday morning at 9 a. m. from the home in Ransom.

Requiem mass will be celebrated Wednesday at 9 a. m. in Holy Rosary Church. Duryea. Interment, Holy Rosary Cemetery, Duryea.

Friends may call tomorrow night. FUNERAL OF LEROY L. Griffin, 349 Monument avenue, Wyoming, will be held from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fulkerson, 355 Monument Thursday at 2 p. m.

with Rev. Guy Lienthal and Rev. Charles Gilbert officiating. In-termen, Memorial Shrine Cemetery, Carverton. THE FUNERAL OF JOSEPH Dehner, Bristol, formerly of Pittston, will be held tomorrow from a funeral home in Bristol with a mass in St.

Anthony's Church. Interment, St. Mary's Cemetery, Hughestown, at 2 p. m. RABBI GABRIEL MAZA, delivered the sermon at the Brotherhood Sunday Service, held recently In the First Methodist Church, when the congregation of Temple Agudath Achim and First Methodist worshipped jointly.

Offering received was sent to the Northeastern Pennsylvania Heart Association. HOLY WEEK UNION SER-vices for local Protestant Churches will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Bethel Methodist Church, Avoca. Rev. John Stephens, St. John's P.

M. Church, will speak. Rev. James Burleigh is host pastor. Duryea.

Additional survivors are a rmmi care. The deceased was bom in son, Donald, Irvington, N. a sister, Mrs. Susan Hall, Old Forge; two brothers, John, Towanda, and Louis, Carbon dale; two grandchildren, and several nieces and The funeral will be held .1 I ne oioer you gei me naroer ir is to make ends meet fingers and toes ee late Sylvester and Alice Jumper Brown. She had been a resident of Pittston the last 12 years, having resided in Harding for forty years prior to moving to this city.

Mrs. Bechtold was a member of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hughestown. Besides her husband, the following children survive: John Conciliation consists of six members plus Michael Kosik, former president of District 1, as secretary. Three of the members represent the anthracite industry and the other three the UMWA.

Officers Elected Commandery No. 57 At a stated Conclave of Wyoming Valley Commandery, No. 57, Knights Templar, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year beginning on May 1st: Eminent Commander, Jay S. Sykes; Generalissimo, Henry F. Stahl; Captain General, Lewis G.

Bedford; Treasurer, Charles F. Siglin; Recorder, B. Harrison Anthony; Trustees, George H. L. Brodbeck, Walter Garman, and Howard Sanders.

Meade, and Vincent all of Pittston, and Joseph Meale 1 CLASSES ON CHEDIT BROKEN LENSES DUPLICATED cf New York City; also a sister, Mrs. Leo Lavin, Pittston. The funeral will take place Wednesday in New York City. Offlee rREED'S I N. Mala St Mttrton OL 4-4SM HELP WEAK EYEr Brown, Wyalusing; Charles Brown Moosic; Arthur Brown, Chester; Mrs Catherine Man-j lley, West Pittston; Minnie, New-1 Girl technician operates U.S.

testing equipment which controls quality of. textiles produced by Kanebo plant In Osaka, Japan. Equipment manufactured by Atlas Electrical Devices Inc. of Chicago is part of $250,000,000 in machinery ranging from giant -electric power generators to small electronic devices Japan purchased in United States in last two years. This will buy an estimated $150,000,000 worth tl machines from U.S.

manufacturers. Sales of all Japan including cameras, tuna and textiles, have aver-f only one half of what Japan buys in U.S. annually. ark, N. Henry Brown, Flem-I ington, N.

and two step- children, Mrs. Alfred When you collect charms for a bracelet, make sure that they are in proportion to the size of the bracelet. A delicate bracelet calls for tiny charms. A larger one can take the medium size. Dallas, and Raymond Bechtold, Harding.

Also surviving are 23 grandchildren and eleven great No Problems. grandchildren, and the follow-j ing brothers and sisters: Dupont; Frank, Binghamton, N. Mrs. Frank Totten, Binghamton; Mrs. Ray Huntzinger, this city; Mrs.

Bessie York, Harding, and Mrs. Emma Knecht, this city. The funeral will be held on Thursday at 1:45 o'clock from the funrral home, 13 Mill with Rev. Robert F. Sauers of- luromark U.S.

U.S.S.R. I ronoATioN I (IVS6-williom) 1657 16J.7 205-210 UsO FORCE (1956 milliom) 71.9 69.0 100 AREA "') 449.00 3,628.0 7.J7J.0 I GROSS NATIONAL MODUCT (1955 4 billion.) 125J 391.7 135.0 i ANNUAL EXPORTS (1956 billions) 202 1U 0.783' ANNUAL IMPORTS- billions) 22.4 IZ5 0.813' STIEL RODUCTION-f i (1956 millions of mstric ton) 57.0 104.0 49.0 COAL PRODUCTION-(1956 millions of mstric tons) 249.0 480.0 304.0 ENERGY fRODUCTION- 326.1 1,308,1 510.0 (1955 millions of mstric tons) WHEN YOU USE THE COMPLETE BANKING SERVICES OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK a of Pittston ficiating. Interment will be in West Pittston Cemetery. Friends may call after seven this evening. Excluding trads with utJii Gas, slsctricity, stc, In Umu of hard coal tqnfvatmt.

THREE-CORNERED BALANCE The industrial power and potential of three great economic bastions are reflected in Newschart. Depicted are the European economic community (Euromarkets the US. and the Soviet Union. Mrs. Kiselevach Lambert Street Is Death Victim Mrs.

Kiselevach, of 109 Lambert' street, Pittston, died unexpectedly this morning at 2:10 at home, following several days illness. Born in Russia, she came to America 55 years ago and settled in Pittston. She was a member of Holy Resurrection Church, Wilkts-Barre. Surviving are two sons, John and Joseph, Pittston; three daughters, Mrs. Michael Clifford, Avoca; Mrs.

John Joivell and Mrs. Granville Mugford, both of Pittston; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at a time to be announced from Mrs. Rose Brodbeck Hughestown Expires Mrs. Rose Brodbeck, 27 Center street, Hughestown, died last night at 9:30 in Lackawanna County Convalescent Home, where she had been a guest four years.

Born in Hughestown, June 11, 1878, she was the daughter TELEPHONE i II Hill mlllL 1 ill r-f of the late Gottlieb and Susan Sanpche Sutter. Her husband, Henry, died in 1934. Mrs. Brodbeck was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, the funeral home, 134 Church street, Pittston, Friends may call this evening from 7 to 10 p.

m. and thereafter 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p. m. Surviving are these chil Deminick Sardo Dies, New Jersey "That's not our truck it's HIS I He started saving regularly at The First National Bank wften he was SIX WEEKS OLD!" dren, Mrs. Clarence Hensley, Mrs.

Ethel Herbert and Henry, all of Hughestown; Mrs. Leroy Kelloway, Duryea; Mrs. James Reilly, Baltimore; Gilbert, at Falls; 20 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Susan Stahl, Hughestown. The funeral will be held from the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Hensley, 169 Rock street, Hughestown, Thursday at 3 p. m. with Rev. Robert Sauers, pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, officiating.

Interment, Hughestown Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 tonight. Dominick Sardo, 72, 3381 Spruce avenue, Gloucester, N.j former resident died on1 March 17th at his home after, an illness. His funeral was held last Friday with Interment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Bellmawr, N.

J. I Since 1857 Over A Century of Service Mr. Sardo was born In Italy, and while a resident here, he was a member of the local Sons of Italy and the Amore Fraterno Society. I Besides his wife, Mary Ma-i Personal Mention deline, he Is survived by two daughters, Nicoletto D'-! Alesio, Philadelphia, and Mary, at home; four sons, Sal-1 vatore, Pittston; John and" FIRST NATIONAL BANK- PITTSTON, PENNA. Member Federal Reserve System a Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Ross, both of Camden; MTYBODY GOT A DIME? persons in a booth at one time.

Members of the crack St. Stuffing teams in other coun-Mary's -phone booth stuffing tries are disputing claims; one team spill out of a booth at reason: nobody can move to Morgan, Calif, to set an un- answer the phone, official world's record of 20 I Bernard Terlesky, 1026 Exe-; ter avenue, Exeter, is a sui'gical I patient at Pittston Hospital. Gloucester; also three grand children end two sisters in! Italy. 1.

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