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-THE PITTSTON GAZETTE- Ocfotcr22, PAGE THR3 ffWHflrBrJ'1 re DAVID BLIGHT REVIEW PROGRAM VFW AUSPICES A review entitled "David Blight will be presented tonight and tomorrow night AVOCA'S VJAGE TAX DODGERS FIND OUT KEITH IS SINCERE Cancer Society Delegates At Annual Meeting nvt fleleiatei from the Lux-rnt County Unit oi the American Csncsr Society attended the twelfth annual meeting end twining school Of the Society Pennsylvania Division at the Bedford Springs Hotel, October "llioie present included H- By- rWiH.rrU.M. if Medicel Society delegate, Edward J. Pugh, member, Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Division; Mrs. Maurice H. Kirshner.

Kingston; Mr- Charles Brooke D. laa- Mrs. J. Stewart Williams. IU4 Repre.et.tive silvan-L Division; and Mrs.

Nathaniel K. Elliot, Executive Director of tat Luserne County Unit. Local Gleanings HURRY! CATCH UP! PAY-UP! YOUR 1956 Sgt. Bilko, Wife Unable To Honeymoon New York Oct. 20 It was back to work today Instead of a honeymoon for' comedian Phil Silvers and his bride Evelyn Pot.

riok. Television commitments will delay until around Christmas time a honeymoon for the fast-talk in Sgt. Bilko of "You'll Never Got Rich" and the girl who delivers the commercials on "The $64,000 Question." The two were married Sunday in a "spur-of-the-moment" ceremony in Woodbrldge, with a wedding ring borrowed from the couple who Introduced them and were their only attendants. It was the second marriage for Silvers who was previously wed to Jo Carol Denni-son, Miss America of 1941. Silvers, 44, and Miss Patrick, 2S, met more than a year ago on a blind date.

Although they had eventually planned to be married, they decided suddenly on Satudray to marry Sunday. Car Crashes Into A House; Driver Injured An sutomlbUe, out of control crashed Into the living room of a dwelling along Main street, Port Griffith, at 9 o'clock Saturday night, caused several hundred dollars damage to ths house and landed ths driver, Nell T. Hart, of 501 Legert Street, Scranton, In Pittston Hospial. Hart was transferred to a Scranton hospial for additional treatment early today. Hart, who lost control of ths vehicle on a sharp curve leading from Port Griffith's South Main street, to Pittston, was admited to the hospital suffering from dislocated hip, internal Injuries and severe lacerations of the head and right ear which required 15 sutures.

Hart was extricated from his wrecked vehicle which had pierced the sidewall of the home occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Kirby, 1417 SouthMain Street, and their three children. Mr. and Mrs.

Kirby snd family were watching television in the living room prior to the accident. Mrs. Kirby said the entire family had left the room one minute before the accident because they were not enjoying the program. The vehicle crossed the sidewalk and lawn before striking the home about 25 feet from the road. Slicing through the side-wall, the vehicle rested on a foundation after penetrating the living room and cellar for a distance of about seven feet.

The demolished vehicle still was in the home last night. It had not been removed for fear of causing the house to collapse and result In even worse damage. 1 Christmas Club Stop in be assured of FOR YOU FULL. the Kremlin leaders might have sent the delegation to check on how far the Czechs have gone in the new "liberal" movement becoming so unpopular in the satellites. COMMTNION BREAKFAST AVOCA BVM SODALITY Final' returns of tickets and all plans will be completed for the third annual Communion Breakfast of the Blessed Virgin Sodality of St.

Mary's Parish, Avoca, at a meeting in St. Mary's auditorium tonight following the novena services. Mrs. Terrence Gallagher, Dunmore, will he the principal speaker with a message of the "Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima." Entertainment will be furnished by Mrs. Frank San-teslero, NLBB TIGHTENS RULES ON BACK PAY AWARDS Washington, D.C Oct.

22 The National Labor Relations Board is tightening its rules on awarding back pay to employees illegally fired for union activities. Under the federal law anem- ployee so discharged Is due the pay he would have earned at his lost job, less whatever earnings he may realize in other Jobs. Want Male or Female Help? A GAZETTE Classified Ad will get It for you Phone OL 4-3311 CHECK IN Hungary May Pull Titoist Split Russia London Oct. 22 Hungary may be the next satellite country to pull a "Titoist" split away from Russia, experts on Iron Curtain affairs said today. They said recent signs from the country wedged between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia indicate a yearning for independence.

Hungarian University stu. dents In a weekend meeting ait the Technological University In Budapest threatened street demonstrations If their demands for further freedom are not met in two weeks. Like Poland did with Wladys-Vw Gomulka, the Hungarian Communist party recently rehabilitated Its own "Titoist," former Premier Imre Nagy. Budapest radio, in contrast to other satellites, showed acute Interest In the Poliifo upheaval and sent Its own reporter to Warsaw. A the same time, a Soviet delegation suddenly appeared In Prague, Czechoslovakia, under the personal direction of one of the Soviet Communist Party secretaries, A.

B. Aristov. Western diplomats speculated THE BANK hum Vomero Is Laid At Rest Here The funeral of Lulgl Vomero, of Philadelphia, formerly of Pittston, was held this morning at 9 o'clock from a funeral home at 234 South Main street. Rev. Julio Serra, O.

S. pastor of St. Rocco's R. C. Church, was celebrant of a solemn mass at 9:30 o'clock in that church; Rev.

Louis Morse, deacon; Rev. Silvio Chinl, sub-deacon. Interment was In St. Cecilia's R. C.

Church, Exeter Borough. Pallbearers were: Anthony Bruno, Rocco Pacifico, Jack Frost, August Rotondaro, Neil Ciotola and Ross Mastruzzo. Thomas Wozniak Of Dupont Expires Thomas Wozniak, 280 Main street, life-long resident of Dupont, died this morning at Pittston Hospital where he was admitted October 18th. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Victoria with whom he resided; sisters, Mrs.

Walter Ku-bik, Mrs, Louis Komeski, and Mrs. Josephine Ostsezaeski, all ot Dupont. Funeral will be held Thursday morning at 9 from the funeral home, 200 Wyoming avenue, Dupont, with mass at 9:30 in Holy Mother of Sorrows Church and burial in the parish cemetery. Hospital Births A son to Mr. and Mrs; Donald Knott, Pine street, Duryea.

The mother is the former June Collier. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Plisea, 316 Montgomery avenue, West Pittston. The mother is the former Cecelia Zerba.

Presbyterian Mission Groups Meet Tomorrow The annual Joint Meeting of the missionary societies of the First Presbyterian Church, Broad street, will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Jessie Robertson; president, will preside. Miss Helen Thompson will be the speaker. The overseas offer ing will be received. Stock Market NOON QUOTATION! A.

T. T. 16Vi Chrysler Ford Gen. Motors 47 Int. Harv SH Nat.

Distill 28 N. Y. Central 41 Penn R. 28 Pepsicola 19 Sinclair 69 West Elee 83 GREATER PITTSTON FUNERAL DIRECTORS WILLIAM SNOWDON FUNERAL HOME tl Broad Street "Phot OL 4-0221" rrtTtte Display JOHN B. BURNS FUNERAL HOME 18 Kennedy Street PitUton Dial OL 4-7441 AIR.CONDITIONED" STANLEY M.

LEONARD MORTICIAN MOST BEAUTIFUL THE FINE5T. OL 4-0331 SIDNEY B. MARTIN FUNERAL HOME Dial OL 4-6431 MS Wyemlm CHARLES F. BURNS and SON FUNERAL HOME Air Conditioned For Soar Comfort 4 Keaneay Stesst rtttete Dial OL 44141 WARREN E. STRUBECK Poaeral Home D1J OL 4tt HOWELL FUNERAL HOME out ol i-nu DIAL OL 4-eMI Alr-Ce-tltton in Pittston High School Audi-terlumTundsr the auspices of Tort Pitteton Post, 688, VTW.

Mr. Blight will be master of cere-monies, program arrangements In charge of Val Proceeds will go Into the Post's fund to carry on ita various project, rrancia Tigue, Post commander, and Carmen Manganl-ello, Home Association president, are cooperating. The public is invited. Greatest Increase Traffic Accidents Here In Luzerne Luzerne County leads the rest of the counties In the State with the greatest Increase in number of traffic and pedestrian traffic fatalities for the first eight months of 1956. During this period the county reported 32 traffic fatalities, an increase of 20.

Pedestrian fatalities In the county during this period Jumped from two, in 1985, to eight in 1956. Of the 33 counties in the State showing an increase In their death tolls, Luzerne was first with 20, followed by Philadelphia County with 19, Loftus-Gallagher Nuptial Details Miss Ann Loftus, daughter of John Loftus, of 825 Minooka avenue Mooslc, and of the late Ann (Cummlngs) Loftus, and Joseph Gallagher, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher, of 2501 Pittston avenue Scranton, were united in marriage on Saturday morning In St. Mary's R.

C. Church, Avoca, by Rev. A. P. Conniff.

Miss Sally Judge, Coral Gables, was maid of honor; Mrs. John L. Norton, Scranton was brldemald. Joseph King, was best man, John Bosha, John Joyce and Edward Loftus were ushers. Breakfast for the bridal party and reception was held at the Fox Hill Country Club, West Pittston.

The couple left on a motor tour to the Southern States. They will reside at 825 Willow Scranton. Showers, Rain In Today's Forecast By UNITED PRESS Showers and rain summed up the weather picture in Pennsylvania today. The rain, moving northward from the sou, spread over the state during the day and was expected to continue through the night. Eastern portions will have rain on Tuesday while western counties were to receive showers.

The Weather Bureau said the high temperatures today ranged mostly in the 60s. The lows to-night were expected to range from the upper 40s in the mountains to the 50s elsewhere. Temperatures Tuesday will be mostly in the 80s throughout the state. The outlook for Wednesday was brighter, mostly fair and cooler. Daughter Is Born To Debbie, Eddie Hillvwood Oct.

22 Actress Debbie Reynolds was "doing Just fine" in St. Joseph's Hospital in nearby Burbenk today from glv- dng birth to a six pound, 12 ounce daughter two weeks early. Miss Reynolds' husband, singer Eddie Fisher, and her physician, Dr. Charles Levy, rushed the actress to the hospital from the desert resort of Palm Springs Sunday after she complained of peins. ELIZABETH CHESTER, AVOCA NATIVE, DIES Miss Elizabeth Chester, of Longport, N.

formerly of Avoca, died Friday at her home after a long illness. She was born in Avoca and was a daughter of the late George and Isabel (Graham) Chester. While in Avoca she had been employed at Snyder grocery and was a member of Langcliffe Presbyterian Church. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mary Bradbury and Isabel Chester, both of Atlantic City; two brothers George Ches- i ter, Mooslc, and Adam, of John-! son City, N.

Y. Funeral services will be held tonight in Atlantic City and the body will' be brought to Avoca tomorrow at noon for Interment in Langcliffe Cemetery. Rev. James H. Glasgow will officiate, at graveside services.

CNTTBD NATIONS DAT HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM Student of Pittston High School will present a program Wednesday at assembly In ob-servaace of United Nations Day. High School orchestra will play nd there will be special singing. Miss Assunta Giordano will preside as chairman. Participants are members of the Senior High School Classes, Avoca Borough is really "cracking down" on its wage tax detllnquents On Saturday night fourteen wage earners, who failed to heed the warnings of Lester Keith, School District treasurer, were arraigned before Alderman Frank C. Castellino, of the Tenth Ward, Pittston City, and each was required to pay $9.80.

(Castellino is also chief deputy to Recorder of Deeds Samuel Argento at Luzerne court house.) The 14 who, according to Keith, ignored pleas to arrange for payment of the wage tax from last Jan. 1, agreed to make payments. About $100 was collected at the Squire's office, Keith said. The 15th person a woman-failed to appear end she will be brought before Squire Castellino, Mr. KeSth said.

Keith's 'get tough' program followed letters to 55 Avoca ns In arrears in the payment of the wage tax that they visit the wage tax office and make arrangements to start paying delinquent accounts. Most of the 55 ignored the letters, Mr. Keith said. Prosecution followed. Sixty-five additional letters were dispatched last week "requesting" visits to the tax office regarding arrangements to pay delinquent accounts, the district treasurer reported.

Any of the 65, who fall to show good faith by tomorrow, will be served with summons to appear before Alderman Castellino. They face costs and fines ranging up to a $100 maximum, Mr. Keith added. Mr. Keith, an official of the Moffatt Coal Taylor, and a former Avoca burgess and school director, reports that delinquents dating back to last Jan.

1, number in excess of 300. "Everybody that should pay will pay. The only way they can stop me is to fire me," Keith added. Keith revealed that two of the 14 arraigned Saturday night did not have the costs and were headed for the Luzerne County Jail before he Intervened. The two agreed to pay up by Friday.

The school district treasurer, who is not a member of the board at present, said he has hired a certified public accountant to audit books of businessmen whose wage tax reports are viewed with skepticism. Knights Templar Meet Here The City of Pittston shall have the distinction this weekend of being host to the 11th Division of Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania, Knights Templar, when the local unit of the order Wyo ming Valley Commandery, no 57 will entertain about 175 Sir Knights and their women folk at Masonic Temple, Water street. The division, of which Sir Knight Peter G. George of Wllkes-Barre is commander, embraces four commanderies. Northern, 16, Towanda; Dieu le Veut, 45, Wilkes-Barre; Wyoming Valley.

57, Pittston; Temple, 60, of Tunkhannock. Knights Templar, second largest group of York Rite Bodies, is the Christian branch of Masonry. The conclave will open with a dinner at 6:30 in social rooms of Masonic Hall. Sir Knight Ellis K. Weed, eminent commander Wyoming Valley Commandery, heads the dinner committee.

Women's Auxiliary will serve the dinner. Following the dinner, Sir Knight George vMl preside at a divisional conclave. Sir Knight Dallas F. Bullock, Philadelphia, right Eminent Grand Commander end his staff will be officially received. Representatives of other York Rite Bodies who will be received: Sir Knight John R.

Asher, Most Excellent Grand Scribe of the Grand Holy Royal Arch Chapter of Pennsylvania: Sir Knight Hadyn P. Evans, District Deputy Grand High District 7, RAM, Sir Knight Elmer J. Eggert, Puissant District Deputy. Roval anri fle1rt Mflitpr nf Ppnnsvl. i vania.

An entertaining pro tram, in. eluding numbers by Irem Chant ers, will be presented at the close of the conclave. Grand Commander Bullock will give a brief! talk. Dinner reservations may be made with Sir Knight Ellis I Weed, Eminent Commander of Wyoming VaUey Commandery, Pittston, or Sir Knight Harvey A. Sherman, Eminent Commandery of Dieu le Veut Commandery, wilkes-Barre.

EASTER!" STANDARD TIME will replace Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.i m. next Sunday. Clocks should be turned back one hour next Saturday night to place the timepieces in stride with Standard Time. The "fast time" has been in effect since April 29th. AVOCA SCHOOL BOARD will meet tonight at 6 o'clock in the High School in special session.

An effort will be made to borrow funds to pay teachers part of the back salaries due them. MEN PARISHIONERS OF ST. John the Baptist Slovak Church will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the church auditorium. Rev. John J.

Bednarcik, pastor, will preside. CONGRESSMAN DANIEL J. Flood will be guest speaker at the weekly meeting of Pittston Kiwanis Club this evening at 6 o'clock at Fox Hill Country Club. He will be Introduced by Edward J. Spohrer, program chairman.

CLASS OF 1946, HUGHES-town High School, will meet Thursday night at Banos' Cafe, Hughestown, to make plans for a reunion. PITTSTON HOSPITAL NURS-es Alumnae i will hold a card party tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in St. John the Evangelist School. Refreshments will be served and special prizes will be awarded. COURT SANTA MARIA, NO.

730, Catholic Daughters of America, will conduct a social this evening In St. John's Music Room. Mrs. Catherine Hall Is head of the committee in charge, assisted by Mrs. Hannah' Durling.

DOMINICK VENNARINI, OF 67 Norman street, Pittston township, is a medical patient at Pittston Hospital. JANE NASH MISSION CIR-cle of the First Baptist Church will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Doris Van-derburg, of Montgomery avenue, West Pittston. MR. AND MRS.

ROBERT Yaple, 1108 Main street. Port Griffith, announce the birth of a son Friday, October 19th at Nes-bitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston The mother is the former Norma Smith of Hughestown. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR seven-year-old Wayne Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Williams, 6 Brandenburg Lane, will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his maternal grandmother, Mrs.

Catherine Hoover, 477 Shoemaker avenue, West Wyoming. Rev. Charles Gilbert, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pittston Cemetery. Personal Mention Pvt.

Edward J. Gurchak, son of Mrs. Sofia Gurchak, of 7 Mil ler street, Port Blanchard, recently was graduated from the Army's Southeastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Ga. He attended Jenkins High School and entered the Army last May and completed basic training at Fort Dix, N. J.

He completed the school's ten-week power equipment maintenance course. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Vanyo and children, of Trenton, N. visited Mr.

Vanyo's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vanyo, of 35 Division street, over the weekend. Benjamin Laukaitis and son, Michael, of Camden, N. visited Mr.

and Mrs. Stanley Laukaitis, parents of the former, over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. James P.

Laveile and sons, James and Paul, accompanied by Mrs. Joseph. P. Laveile of Upper Pittston, have returned to their home in Washington, D. C.

after visiting at the home of Mrs. T. W. Pyne, of 14 Pins street. Mrs.

Joseph Fitzpatrick, of Broad street, has been admitted to the Pittson Hospial as a medical patient USE SINGING COMMERCIALS Morristown, N. J. Oct. 22 Democrats here are campaigning with a calypso beat. Just a few spins of the telephone dial and the caller hears to the tune of "Chiquita Banana" a campaign commercial singing the praises of Mayor J.

Manahan, who Is seeking re-election to a second term. It Isn't how many changes ox costume you have that matters-it's what you choose for your wardrobe that will tell your personal fashion story. Good taste can make up for a limited budget and the air which you wear is every bit as important as your costume. Buy, Burn, 'Boost, Anthracil. Uk 111 -'11 ih'v I When there is a baby in the house, WfrjF llTT1 yoli appreciate the value of telephones W' There are the call you make.

To stores, repairmen, -yj 'V doctor, proud papa calls that save you time, get 'JM I lis thin es done, renssnrp von. 7tm 'i'V IV tefersr" LJ There are the calls you receive. From friends, grand- k- jj 'V pv parents, business firms keeping you in touch, bring- jjM 1 ing you news of people you know. 1 There's the peace of mind. You know that 24 hours a 4f day, 365 days a year, the world is as close as the telephone.

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