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Pottstown Mercury headers say ud THE POTTSTOWN NEWS ijmt i Carrier 2-Vj Wwk. -il (pefatde Months Months Month Wltbla IM mllm 9J.I0 All 00 7 50 3 78 1 That Helpless Feeling When Cellars Are Bound at rotftown 2 1 MXMSBIR OF Tint ASSOCIATED PRESS Aaooutod entitled un for of All local In this well AP dlipitchu All of dlapitehM herein Also isAsrred SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1955 Saturday frmti Lower Your Guard! I the early Dimetry A. Msnuilsky, 1949 presiding officer of the I Nations Security Council, told the Lenin school of political welfare in Moscow: to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years.

win we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoise will have to be pnt to sleep. we shall begin by launching the most spectacular movement on record electrifying overtures unheard of concessions. capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice ta cooperate ia their own destruction. will leap at another chance ta be friends.

At soon as their guard Is down, we shall smash them Do the smiles, the overtures and the concessions indicate the fulfillment of this prophesy? Are wa leaping to be friends and lowering our guard for the fatal smash? We expected nothing from the summit conference as the communists are not ready to surrender any of their ambitious. Our only hope was that no concessions would be made. Communist Russia wants peace based on concessions from the West. It was her hope to give nothing and get much. By treating the communist tryants as friends, have we caused a serious decline in the morale of their victims who still hava Never-Ending Headache Te the Editor: Have you ever experienced the terrible feeling of watching the water come into your cellar, ruining everything stored there, and not being able to do anything about it? I have.

a sad experience. You feel like you have no stomach. What can we do about it? Isn't it time Pottstown did something about these continual headaches? Every time it rains, Pottstown cellars are So one man gets his sump pump working, pumps the water out of ms cellar, and then it runs into the cellar next door. What futility' Pottstown have to suffer this. Some must know what to do.

Pottstown H. L. LAUFER Firat Duty to Husband Ta the Editor: Which means the most to you, Bewildered Wife Wants Way Readers Say, Aog. 18). Your husband or your have to give up one of them.

Your husband is certainly not to blame After all, a man gets married so he will have someone to come home to, and I imagine that after working all day, you are probably too tired at nights to pay much attention to your husband. If you really love him, you will make a full time job of staying home and making him want to stay with you always. After all, men need someone to give them attention, so can you really blame him for turning to someone who will give him that attention that he needs and deserves? Remember, men's are very easily deflated by having to have their wives help support the family. Pottstown HAPPILY MARRIED WIFE How to Get Along To the Editor: One day while I was watching children at a playground, took notice of two smail boys They were about six or seven years of age One black haired, dark skinned. the other blue eyed and blond.

These lads, although of different race and background, had found a mutual interest. They were having a spirited discussion as to which one of their favorite cowboy movie stars was the best rider. At first there seemed to be some differences of opinion but finally they both tactfully agreed that according to their tactical ability, the cowbojs were about equal. But said one. was ail the fault of one of their That settled it.

They had come to an agreement and were still friends. Off they strolled hand in hand. The Golden of prosperity for all would soon be ushered in if the different races and of the world would forget their selfish interests and try to compromise in order to solve their problems as did these two small boys. I was reminded of a scripture verse which reads: ye humble yourselves and become as little children, ye can not see the Kingdom of Pottstown A. G.

Pottstown Found Wanting To the Editor: Pottstown was put ta a test Thursday night. Pottstown was found wanting Where were the auxiliary police, or the civilian defensemen to aid the helpless when the flood waters descended someone here supposed to have a master plan in case of emergency? I understood a disaster committee was to be alerted. Then why wasn't there some semblance of order in the handling of traffic? Many motorists were confused and worried about the flood They know what to do. They helped too much. I even understand some motorists v.ere allowed to run their cars headlong into the floods on West High street.

Why didn't police stop them? Or where were the Whose job is it to put up the barriers? Someone even said some fire police offered their services in a generous gesture But when they reported to Pottstown police headquarters nobody knew anything and sent them home It's about time something is done about this terrible state of affairs Pottstown LOCAL BOOSTER No Police Around To the Editor: When the underpass at Glasgow was crammed with automobiles during the flood, not a policeman was on duty. I would think police would have been stationed there But then I guess too naive Who would think of that in the police department? Pottstown G. L. A. Hollywood Hows Your Mind? By EDITH GWYNN TOE ANSWER, QUICK! HOLLYWOOD.

Aug. l. Can you name the first Baker, Jack wife, ex- planetarium erected in the United pects a baby this Winter, but States? WASHINGTON U. S. Russia Relations Embarrasses Allies The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN By RAT TUCKER WASHINGTON, Aug.

20 The possi- some hope that the United States might aid ble disappearnce or diminution of war- them to throw off their cruel yoke? nke attitudes between the United States Russia has temporarily embar- There is not Uie slightest reason to believe raised this current relations that communist Russia a ambition to con- with Allies and neutrals throughout the quer the world has bean in any way modified. She ia in trouble now as ahe was in the early and again in tha early She again comes to us for help. If we are so naiva as to be deceived by world. There is a state of suspended diplomatic animation between the two great atomic powers. Knowing President deep sweet double-talk and again render ourselves desire for which he revealed perhaps too emotionally and dramatically at Geneva, foreign statesmen are trading upon his professions.

Hiey find themselves in a highly favorable bargaining position as they play off Washington against Moscow. They are making offers to both sides, and demanding in return enormous concessions for themselves. Knowing, too, that a breakdown of forthcoming negotiations will mean re- vulnerable we may expect another attempt at a fatal thrust. Our survival ia at stake. We must not taka that bait again.

If the communists are aincere in their peace protestations, let them permit the reunification of Germany under the guarantees of non-aggression offered by the West! Let them disband their Prague school of subversion which has sent tans of thousands of propagandists into Asia, Africa, Europe and America! Let them discontinue their extraordinary sumption of the in more demands upon Austria in contradiction to the acute form, they seize the present mo- recent treaty and stop the pressure upon ment to insist upon greater financial that much plundered and abused country! and military aid from the United States. Let us not again be deceived. Meanwhile, they are reducing their own Let ua talk peace, hopa for peace, work military forces and expenditures. There whil. mor.

D.vid H.rum, in world C.pit. to counter th. thrum iver duJted trough th. wo towni of New Engllnd for Action COMING MOVE: Japan, for AGAIN Potts streets were flooded by instance, has pursued intensive talks on heavy rain. Cellara were flooded, some expanded trade with the Soviet, as well to a height of four or five feet.

Sewers back- as on settlement of other differences with her historic enemy. Lots of property damage, and a great deal But next month, Foreign Minister of inconvenience resulted. Mamoru Shigemitsu will visit Washington Householders were busy carrying soggy to assure us of undying friend- furmture, other stored goods out of cellars ship, snd to ask that we finance the to dry them in warm sun. Cel- major burden of rearmament. Otherwise, lars were giving up musty odors.

be damp for days. Jottings in Pencil WHEN SHOOTING on Benny Goodman ended, the subject of the biography said goodhye to all the musicians except one. He refused to shake hands with Gene Krupa Judy Garland is striving to lose about 25 pounds before she faces the TV cameras for her spectacular exciting aroynd the Kudner agency these days. snagged the giant Frigidaire account. and there are ever so many major changes in executives.

Those seen the rough (and the right word) copy of Rudy autobiography say he pulls no punches. be some scarlet faces when published with additional acid by George Frazier. APPARENTLY HAL HAYES has given np in his pursuit of Barbara Hatton. stayed away too long. decided on Arleen Whelan as his next glamor target.

The jasx world is buzzing about a fabulous new alto sax player who tootles under the srresting name of Actually a Ft. Lauderdale, schoolteacher named Julian Adderley. Mention of Judy Garland his name inspires rhapsodic sighs from jazzophiles heard bins play, and the consensus is he's new Charlie Martin and Lewis may be partnera again, but never know it by Dean's new Capitol album. Not even a passing mention of Jerry in the liner notes During Mike Todd's stay in London, resting his bones in the penthouse recently vacated by Msrlene Dietrich. CAFE SOCIETY Belle Peggy Taylor is palpitating over Tony Lancia, the Italian auto millionaire A new psychiatry club in Greenwich Village calls itself of When Manor and Mignon finished their dance at Radio City Music Hall the other night, the first 10 rows in the audience stood and yelled an unusual occurrence among Music Hall customers that conductor Raymond Paige froze with surprise and almost missed a cue.

No one actually can account for it, but the most popular theory is that the enthustiastic patrons were a group of Latin Americans Billy Taylor will be at the piano when Kaye Ballard records her album of Alan Jay Lerner tunes for Heritage. going to do a play next month just the same She'll appear with Jack I in during the Shakespearean festival I at Stratford, Conn Gab goes that Melinda Markey (Joan daughter) and actor Don I fay den are secretly married. Dan Duryea, finished with another batch of his i a stories, says film no more of same. Wants to drop them entirely and play a different sort of character in a new TV series. Barbara Hale has gone from brunette to blond for her role in Houston Phyllis Avery has gone to the beach to her estranged.

Don Taylor stays in their erstwhile Beverly Hills nest. file the papers any minute. 2. What is the capital of the Republic of Costa Rica? FOLKS OF FAME GUESS THE NAME Joan Bennett If Rock Roll is dead having a mighty expensive funeral. The 10 all rock roll talent has 50 cities lined up and more than $200,000 worth of booking guaranteed before it even hits the road.

When will Pottstown decide that more storm sewers and many more catch basins, to carry off tha surface water, are more economical in tha long run thaa thia perennial inconvenience of cellar- flooding? You hear borough officials argue with their stock excuse: catch basins could have carried off that not true, especially if there were enough catch basins. But catch basins he may get economic and military assistance elsewhere! Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stands firm for alliance with the West. But a powerful faction of his own Christian Democratic Party advocates closer ties with Russia in order to attain reunification. It is also suggested that additional American aid would tend to block any reapprochement with the Kremlin. The Worry Clinic my North- By DR.

GEORGE W. CRANE LORNA aged 19. was one of former psychology students at western University. Crane, I have always been puzzled by triple denisl of she spoke thoughtfully. quite make sense to me.

How could anybody who was so devoted to Jesus as Peter seemed to be, then be so callous? earlier that same night Peter was so brave he seized a sword and uaaia BRITAIN AND FRANCE RELAX spaced blocks and blocks apart handle our Allies Britain single-handed tried to ward off the sol- the floods from miles of borough streets. France are relaxing. They count diers who came to arrest Jesus. This lack of catch basins is a crying on a agreement, in shame. Even central-city streets event of on renewed U.

S. are flooded because of lack of running off temPts t0 build up NATO facilities. Every time it rains citizens complain; borough hall is flooded with calls from persons with flooded cellars. Fire companies pull out the water. Sump pumps are operating hour after hour elsewhere.

done. Isn this the time when the borough should formulate a plan to build more catch basins and extend the surface water sewer system? Certainly it will be costly. But isn't the harassed homeowner willing to pay a few dollars to end this flooding every time it rains? He certainly is entitled to consideration. Yes, it is time for borough council to consider this seriously! Grampaw Oakley why did he act so cowardly and deny Christ those three London has shifted emphasis on mil- FIRST, HABITS are very specific. A itary expenditures from immediate pro- courageous soldier with a bayonet in his curement of military hardware, planes hands may not hesitate to attack an en- and warships to long-range research in the atomic and electronic laboratories.

Paris has moved three divisions from European establishment to North Africa. She is turning over defense of Indo-China to us. She has eut service from 18 to 1C months, a far too short training period in modern weapons and tactics. Suspicious of our dealings with ganin and Khrushchev, our Asiatic Allies would like to provoke war with the Chinese Communists, dragging us into a shooting affair and negating any chance of settling the Korean, Formosa and Indo-China disputes. Secretary Dulles has had to talk and act like a Simon Legree to keep them on leash.

LOOSENED Tito has virtually scrapped his military alliance with Greece and Turkey, which Washington helped to build along the Soviet southern border. The Yugo- obviates the need for Russia. con- PUNKIN CORNERS, Kditor, Mercury. August 19. Dear Sir Brother: Wal, I see by The Mercury that the raina may eause higher food prices, especially la dictator says that of the green grocery line.

a alas a nuAil I a The fanner make use of the extra water, it aeems, unless he wants ta It to strengthen his milk! The potato growers, by the way, aay they face a Mg potato surplus. They want la know how ta reduce It The overweight public also ta know. And aay: We probably could aay these leftover patatees tha oat al tha farmers! yea air tha same, GRAMPAW NED OAKLET FLOWERS LIVING roa TU MR. for and take S. GEORGE B.

ELLIS, 421 Jefferson avenue. BECAUSE today they are celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary. tire machine-gun nest of the enemy. For he is then in the familiar situation to which he has been long trained. But let that same soldier approach a physician who holds a hypodermic needle to give him a typhoid shot, and he may actually faint from fear.

Or ask him to stand up and talk to his home town Rotary club, and he may be scared speechless. why Peter, with a sword, could be bold and face great odds. But when he found himself alone in a vast hostile crowd, he succumbed to mob psychology. Some 2,000.000 of you readers have been in lecture halls where 1 have addressed you in person, and you may readily remember the experiment which I have employed regarding the upraised hand. About 98 percent of the audience always stsmpedes, just like Peter, ss you 2,000,000 besr me witness.

AND YOUR big state conventions of physicisns, dentists and other superiorly educated Americans, have also stampeded just as readily when I have caught them off guard. So what we need most desperately in American education is to prepare our teen-agers for those SPECIFIC future situations in which they will later find themselves. Then they will not be caught off guard. Yesterday, I told you about Joan's courage in refusing to be intimidated by the current stampede to inebriate Americans. But I had previously warned Joan of axactly what would happen after she had boarded that plane.

In Retrospect 50 Years Ago August 20, 1905 HORSE Zissa. of Upper Pottsgrove township, was fined $10 and costs by Justice of the Peace Merit M. Missimer on a charge of cruelly beating a horse with a fence rail after the animal could not pull a heavily loaded wagon out of a ditch. The main witness against Zissa was Captain Bayard Neide. The arrest was made by SPCA agent Fred White.

NESTLEY RESIGNS Charles N. Nestey, Royersford, has resigned the post of fish warden in this area. During his time in office he prosecuted many fishermen for fish law violations. He will now reassume his office of constable of the third ward in Royersford. 25 Years Ago August 20, 1939 YOUNG Kirland, 15, proved a heroine when she dashed through the flamming interior of the barn of her grandfather.

Horace Kohl, Limerick led out her pet horse. Two calves were destroyed when the barn and its contents were destroyed despite efforts of firemen. Loss was 10 000 GOLD STAR Laura Yerger, 34 South Frankiln street, Boyertown, has returned from a Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage to the grave of her son, Charles B. Yerger, who died in action and whose body is interred in the beautiful Suresness cemetery near Paris, France. She states the rows and rows of white crosses and stars in the great cemetery are an inspiring spectacle.

10 Years Ago August 29, 1948 MAMMOTH DOGS Two mammoth St. Bernard dogs, and were rounded up on Beech street near Grant by Motor Patrolman Earl Rhoads. They were placed in a cell at borough hall and were later claimed by their owner, George Pearson, of Mervine street. HERO LEAVES ARMY-S Sgt. Alton W.

Knapperberger, of Spring Mount, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery has been honorably discharged from the Army. He also holds the Italian War Cross for valor. BING CROSBY, who needs another million like you need a hole in the bead, is likely to make even more money than that from a bunch of oil wells he and Alan Ladd recently invested in together Hard luck dept. Elizabeth Taylor was no sooner relieved of the leg infection that hospitalised her couple of weeks ago, than she got sciatica in the same limb! She working, but it isn't easy! Howard Keel, off on a four-month concert tour, has permission to do a Broadway musical show late this Fall, if he wishes. He was a in few years ago and also headlined you remember One of the wealthiest dogs in Beverly Hills is Chinook, the German Shepherd Walt Disney just signed.

Walt will pay the pooch a thousand a week for ten an option to sign the canine for three years. Chinook even has own With Shelley Winters hitting the road, director Nick Ray missing her the most. THE COMPETITION for Tv Power that Eva Gabor is giving Mary Roblee is more than intense Mary is blue Victoria the newcomer landed the second femme lead with Ty and Kim Novak in Eddy Duchin is twenty, has blond hair and green eyes. Her right name is Jeanette Elphick and Columbia studio has signed her for three years Hot Gibson, the former cowboy star has been touring the US A. selling chinchillas for breeding chinchilla skins.

More than $700,000 worth! 1. You may not recognize the photo, but you used to see her frequently on the screen and loved her. She was born in Angeles, and made her film debut at four years in Babes in Arms She won an academy award as the best child actress in 1944. What is her 2. He is an actor and the son of an Italian countess.

He took his dramatic studies under the Gl bill of rights which helped him win fame as a Broadway and television actor. be misled because he played the brutal, sadistic role of Sergeant Fatso Judson in Here to Ha really is a mild, likeable six-footer. His latest picture is Who is he? ftt bottom of column) IT HAPPENED TODAY born, Chilean patriot and revolutionist. Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, born. On Sunday.

Aug. 21: Lincoln-Douglas debates began. 1943 Russia replaced Maxim Litcinov as ambassador to the United States with Andrei Gromyko. S. Navy ordered construction of he first atomic submarine.

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE MONOSYLLABLE (MON-0- SlL-a-bul) noun: a word of one syllable. Origin: Monosyllabus, of one syllable, from HAPPY BIRTHDAY Van Johnson, star of cinema; George Zuverink of baseball fame; 2 nd John Rauch, professional football player, are on list of birthday celebrants. On Sunday, Aug. 21, tre send birthday greetings to Frank Leahy of football fame; Murray Dickson and Gerald Staley, baseball players, and Hector Blake, hockey player, YOU MAKE OUT? 1. The Adler Planetarium, Chicago.

2. San Jose. ALL AROUND fiHN'OWN Letter it Going Far Afield the'Pottstown fraternalist and civic club pianist, said: call the next hurricane Then we ail can The dam broke again! Every time a little high water, freshet or flood in Pottstown, every time the Schuylkill rises, a dam has broken somewhere! Sometimes in Schuylkill Haven. Other times in Reeding. Yesterday it wai Hamburg! Anxious callers started inquiring about the at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.

Of course, the rumors were false. So it was a happy job to relieve the anxious callers. You make for tha hills today, friend! LONG DISTANCE example of super salesmanship reached Us climax the other day whea a UR Army afflcer walked Into SAM REISER'S High street office and tald tha Pottstown auto magaate: coma for that car your soa sold me la WARRANT OFFICER JAMES 1. MATTHEWS, whose pree- eat station la Ft. Campbell, Ky.t walked aat garaga with a new car! Seems ha was Pfc.

SAM KEISER superior afflcer la Germ aay, aad the local aoldler boy sold him oa Chevrolet. Whea Matthews returned ta the Ualted States, he'd buy a new car from dad, he promised. Matthews visited friends in West Chester, drove to Pottstown, picked np the new car and drove off to Kentucky! if SOME Some kids out North Hanover street way got the most kicks out of Thursday cloudburst. When the floods coursed the street, the kids donned their bathing suits, right in the middle of the street at Lumber yard! Rain deter Csrlyle Snlvely from making his either, Snively is swimming instructor at Brookside Country club. As the rain pelted the pool, Snively unconcernedly continued to give lessons to some children.

Cracked Teh Feroe: when got the lessons paid for, you gotta take As one ripple said to the other on the Schuylkill yesterday, don't remember your name, but wave is FLYINGEST MAN Nomination for the flyingest man hereabouts: ED GRUBER, the Spring City Knitting company executive. He flies out ta Arliona and back to Potts- towa more oftea than in again.out* again Finnegan makes the rounds in a revolving door. Gruber alrplaned to Phoenix Wednesday, was back in Pottstowa yesterdsy. He flies about 5009 miles a month HOWARD W. BARTHOLOMEW, the Doehler executive, was driving hia powered aatemobUe aa tha Pennsylvania taraplke from Harrisburg to Pottstowa the other day.

He was hitting around 90. Then 19 miles out he sheepishly looked around at hia guests and whispered: guess I better get It out of secoad He actaally waa driving In that range! MOURNS Janies J. Moore, the Pottstown realtor, is mourning the passing of his favorite brother-in-law and airplane flying partner. He was Miles N. Erbor, Wescoesville, who died the past week.

Mr. Erbor was married to Mrs. Moore's sister, Edna (Dlefender- fer). Moore and Mr. Erbor were pals from World War I days, when Moore was one of the United first fighter- pilots.

snd Mr. Erbor was a mechanic in the aircorps. The Moores and Erbors paled around for several decades, just as recently as last Winter having a particularly glorious time in an airplane flight to Florida Want to make someone happy? Send a greeting, get-well card or a word of cheer to Mrs. Elnora Green, at the Memorial hospital. blind, but her nurses will help her enjoy your messages.

i uiua.o auiuKiOfl all atartad out laaoceatly enough whaa ha just brought homa a few rabber bands, paper clips and blotters from tha YOUR HEALTH By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M. D. TAKE a bottle of iodine along with you, in your vacation first-aid kit, when you go out to It might come in handy, even though you cut or scratch yourself. For iodine can also be used to disinfect drinking water.

Safe drinking w'ater often is a problem on Summer vacations, especially for those of you who take off to the woods or mountains. It is best not take any chances, when it is such a simple matter to make the water perfectly safe. Generally, the iodine you buy at your neighborhood drug store will be 7 percent tincture of iodine, unless it is marked otherwise on the label. One drop of this solution in a quart of water, or four drops to a gallon, will make most stream and lake water safe for drinking. Let the iodine and water mixture stand for 10 to 20 minutes, depending upon the clarity, before drinking it.

A weaker solution of 2 percent tincture of iodine is also available. If this is what you have use four to six drops per quart of water. This is going to affect the taste, but I think you will agree that it is better to drink odd-tasting water than water that is filled with bacteria. If you expect to have difficulty finding safe water on your trip, it might be a good idea to purchase some calcium hyochlorita tablets from your druggist before starting out. These tablets are made of the same material used to safeguard drinking water in Chicago and other cities.

Just drop one or two tablets (the label on the container will tell you how many), into a gallon of water and let it stand for 10 minutes or so. A tablet containing tetraglycina hydro- periodida is used by the military aervices to disinfect water in tha field. Ona tablet ia usad per canteen of water. For highly colored water, two tablets are used..