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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, PA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1961 I PAGE TWO Blaze Causes Damage To HomeinMillville Region State Police Probe Stabbing Case Bloomsburg state police are continuing an investigation of a Philadelphia Infant Suffocates in Bed PHILADELPHIA (UPD Two-month -old Stephen Montgomery suffocated Tuesday when his head U.S. Ships Begin Sailing Freely Damage estimated at $1,500 to 12 Cubans Arrested in Anti-Castro Display NEW YORK (UPD Twelve Cubans were arrested Tuesday for staging an anti-Castro demonstration on the field at Yankee Damage Actions Filed atSunbury Separate suits have been filed in Northumberland County court Officers Elected In United Church Of Christ Session $2,500 was caused by fire to the Hunter Seized ing Death of Friend MIFFLINTOWN. Pa. (UPD-A Huntingdon County man is baikg held pending a coroner's Inquest into the hunting death of a com home of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert stabbing, believed accidental, Sunday night in which George John Kramer, Millville. There is some NEW YORK (UPD-American insurance. son, 28, a migrant worner wno flag ships, freed by federal court became wedged between the mattress and bars of his parents' bed. The victim's mother, Beverly, Stadium during a baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and by a Trevorton construction con has been living at the Abraczin-skas migrant farm in Catawissa Members of the family were away from home when the fire the New York Yankees. The demonstrators carried baa tractor, a Dornsife heating and plumbing contractor and a Sha 24, told police she had left the PHILADELPHIA (UPD The third general synod of the newly- infant alone in her second-floor formed United Church of Christ ners which read "Help us in apartment to visit neighbors on mokin business man to collect un paid bills from Shamokin, Trev Township, was wounded.

Johnson, according to his story to police, was wrestling with an unidentified companion in his bedroom when the accident occurred. He sustained a wound of the neck. fighting communism or you'll cry, Troubles Mount For CT Youth as Wife Asks Divorce Troubles continue to mount for Haven D. Whary, Tharptown, who was arrested last Thursday for operating a motor vehicle while his license was suspended and who is on parole following participation in a series of larcenies and an involuntary manslaughter charge. Trouble was heaped upon the youth when his wife of only seven months.

Mrs. Margaret Whary, 18, Tharptown, filed suit in Northumberland County court for divorce. The divorce complaint was in-ptituted bv Mrs. Whary's mother the third floor. was discovered by Loren Johnson, a neighbor.

Millville firemen fought the blaze for an hour. Firemen reported the blaze was caused by faulty wiring behind a refrigerator. The kitchen of the home was badly damaged. orton Road and Mount Carmel too. elects its officers today after adopting a constitution merging the 1,917,973 members of the Con- i "ii.

order from the grips of a strike, begin sailing in increasing numbers today. Activity "increased in the sprawling port of New York, where ships were readied for sailing. At least five American ships, mainly tankers, managed to clear New York between mid-afternoon and late Tuesday night despite holiday-induced delays. Ships also put out from several other Ameri When she returned she freed the residents. child and carried him a block and Nevin Wiest, 319 Shamokin Xiexduoiiai wii mwii uun fc Episcopa, Hospitaj wnere the Evangelical and Reformed ri panion.

William Wax, 54, of Blalrs Mills, was shot In the back of the head Tuesday while hunting groundhogs with David B. Goshorn, .57, also of Blalrs Mills. Wax was dead on arrival at Chamberabiirf Hospital. State police quoted Goshorn. 'as saying the two were huntinjLin the mountains near their hofne in the "Narrows" above Concord Street, Trevorton, filed suit to Church.

Antonio Varano collect $3,021.41 from Lewis and Mary Tentromono, 137 South The Rev. Dr. Ben M. Herbster. Funeral Held for Drowning Victim Funeral services were held this pastor of the Zion Evangelical Pearl Street, Shamokin.

Church to Hold Special Services Rev. L. M. Mechtley, widely can ports. Wiest contends that on or about United States Lines, which had September 24, 1960, he remodeled and Reformed.

Church, Norwood, Ohio, was selected by the nominating committee for the presidency of the UCC. The Rev. Dr. Cafe Owner Given 1 00 Fine by Court Allen R. Rothermel, Herndon portion of the Tentromono home, afternoon in Milton for Stephen Rock Street Man Expires in Hospital Antonio Varano, 73, of 311 South to postpone scheduled sailing of the luxury liner America from today until Thursday because it R.

Gver. 16. Milton, who was including a kitchen, for which project he provided the materials and equipment, and as yet he owned while swimming with a James E. Wagner, co-president of the United Church since its for known evangelist, will open a series of meetings tonight in the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Juniata County when he saw something stick up near a bush and thought it was a groundhog. Goshorn was being held in the Juniata County Prison here until the inquest.

could not round up enough engineers, expected a full crew on mation in 1957, was nominated group of companions. The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard A. Guver.

was the first has not been paid for the work Church, Avenue and Market for the presidency from the floor Rock Street, died yesterday in board today. It takes 20 hours to fire the boilers prior to sailing. Lee R. Kauffman, Dornsife, filed a suit against Leonard and Shamokin Hospital where he was drowning victim in Milton area admitted Saturday. He had been The Marine Engineers Benefi in ailing health for six months cial Association MEBA, one of Sylvia Chapleski, Trevorton Road, contending that in November, 1960, he installed plumbing in the Street, Mount Carmel.

Rev. Mechtley is known in this area, having previously held services in various churches in the area. Services will be held nightly with the exception of Saturday through Wednesday, July 8-12. Born in Isca-Sull-Ionio, in the the two major "hold-out" unions Hoffa Faces (Continued from Paft One) ance with the new federal law and guardian, Mrs. Carolyn Fei-fer.

1012 Tharp Street, Tharptown. Indignities are charged. The couple was married in November, I960, In Shdmokin, after the county court granted Whary a parole from the county jail, where he was serving a sentence for involuntary manslaughter, resulting from the deaths of two youths In May, 1960, in an automobile accident in Dalmatia. Province of Catanzaro, Italy, July R. was fined $100 in Northumberland County court on charges of selling malt beverages to minors.

President Judge Robert M. Fortney also ordered Rothermel to pay the costs, with further sentence suspended. A motion for a new trial, which was filed shortly after Rother-mel's conviction, was withdrawn when he appeared in court for sentencing. Rothermel was charged by State Liquor Control Board of the general synod. The nominating committee's candidates for secretary, The Rev.

Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of Washington, D. assistant general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and treasurer, Charles H. Lockyear, St.

treasurer of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, were not couple's new home, for which he 30, 1887, Mr. Varano was a son in the strike that started June 16, blamed the holiday for not being able to alert members to man ships. of the late Domonic and Rose this year, lie was swimming with Brian Yearick, 15; Arthur Oyster, 14, and John Bennage, 14, all of Milton, when the tragedy occurred. The boys entered the Susquehanna River from the Milton-West Milton bridge. They had been in the water only a short time when one of the boys said supplied the material, for an agreed price of $1,500.

In addi governing union procedures. Special musical selections will (Nestico) Varano. He was educat But the compulsory $1 hike lf tion, Kauffman, states in his suit ed in Italian schools. Mr. Varano be presented by Rev.

Mechtley on such instruments as the musical that he installed a closet and all of the Teamsters' 1.7 milJ members might conflict with a federal ban on dues increased by chrome bathroom assessories. He came to the United States in 1905 and lived in Mount Carmel before moving to Shamokin in 1917. harp, vibraharp, saxophone, musical glasses, cow bells, accordion The general synod elected as its Gerald Belskie, 16, and Joseph Kerstetter, 18, both of Shamokin, were killed when a car operated local unions without prior approv- that Guyer started to shout that Mr. Varano was last employed moderator Donald W. Webber of agents with allowing minors to and others.

A picture will be painted in five to eight minutes he was in pain and he went under at the former Alaska Colliery. He Auburn, Maine, associate justice frequent his establishment and of the Supreme Judicial Court of, with sales to minors. He was by Whary crashed into a retain ing wall in Dalmatia. also worked at other collieries in Landslide in Japan Kills Nine Persons TOKYO (UPD At least nine persons died in landslides triggered by heavy rain Tuesday in western Honshu. Police said more than 11,000 homes were flooded when the Ta-katsu River overflowed its banks.

Maine. Vice moderators elected i' by a secret ballot, some lawyers said. 'o' Others felt the procedure could be defended as a higher levy irn-posed by the international union and thus avoid the voting found not guilty of the first charge, but convicted by a jury Mrs. Whary. who was not then married to Whary, and David the surface of the water.

Several fishermen located the boy's body several minutes later. They pulled the body into a boat and applied artificial respiration, but to no avail. the area. The former Mount Carmel resident was married October 1, 1917. in St.

Edward's Church to Concetta LaCroce. He was a mem each night illustrating a gospel hymn and given to the one who takes the largest number of persons to the service. The Rev. Kenneth J. Steckel is pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Mount Carmel.

seeks to collect $1,571.79. The suits by Wiest and Kauffman were filed by Attorney Isaac Tressler, Herndon. Raymond K. Sassaman, dealing as the Empire Vulcanizing Company, 608 North Anthracite Street, Shamokin, through his counsel, Attorney Charles E. Duncan, filed suit against John Rosinskie, 533 West Fifth Street, Mount Carmel, to collect $106.31, plus interest from August 23, 1955.

were the Rev. Dr. Stuart L. Anderson, Berkeley, and Mrs. Alfred E.

Bartholomew, Lancaster, Pa. The UCC was born officially Vesnefski, Shamokin, were pas sengers in the car. They were in jured. on the second. Rothermel was charged with selling malt beverages to David Vesnefskie, Haven D.

Whary. Jo ber of St. Edward's Church and the Sons of Italy Mount Carmel Whary was injured early last Lodge. seph Kerstetter, Gerald Belskie Thursday morning when a 1961 Survivors Include the ewidow, Tuesday when the constitution was adopted officially on the basis of church-wide voting which ended June 1. 6edan he was driving crashed into three sons.

Dominic, Anthony and Vincent, Shamokin; six grandchildren and several nieces and and Margaret Peifer, all minors at the time, on the night of May 7, 1960. Belskie and Kerstetter were fatally injured several hours later when a car in which the group was riding crashed into a retaining wall in Dalmatia. A total of 3547 churches of the Congregational group approved the new constitution; 342 voted Mrs. Chamberlain Resident of CT. Dies in Hospital Mrs.

Myrtle Irene Chamberlain, 75, of 411 Center Street, Tharp Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9:00 in St Britain May Test Use of Suez Canal KUWAIT (UPD Britain Edward's Church. Burial will be an embankment on Route 225, eeveral miles west of Trevorton. He was taken to Shamokin Hospital and later that day was discharged and arraigned gefore a Coal Township justice of the peace. He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while his license was suspended. Bail of $300 was provided for the youth after he had been lodged in jail, and he is now awaiting action of the court.

against it; 118 did not vote but said they would become a part of UCC; 25 churches voted to remain outside UCC while 121 churchs abstained from voting. Mrs. Gesmena Rossi in the parish cemetery. Friends may call in the family residence beginning tomorrow evening and continuing until time of services. town, died this morning at 8:15 Only one of the Evangelical neared completion of its emergency military buildup in defense of Kuwait today and sought to test in Shamokin Hospital where she had been a medical patient since groups 23 synods failed to ap prove the new constitution the Sunday.

Death, attributed to a 5ts use of the Suez Canal Magyar Synod, a group of Hun comlication, terminated an illness Atlas Woman, 1 02, Dies in Residence Mrs. Gesmena Rossi, 102-year- ganan-speaking churches in 11 Teamsters Score Miami Newspaper MIAMI BEACH (UPD Dele- British officials said the buildup in the tiny oil-rich sheikdom threatened with annexation by neighboring Iraq will be completed either today or Thursday. An estimated 20,000 British 46 E. INDEPENDENCE ST. states.

That synod said it wanted to become part of the UCC, however. The UCC, first suggested 21 of three years' duration. A native of Snyder County, Mrs. Chamberlain was born December 7, 1885 in McClure. She was a daughter of the late John and Cora lErhart) Hamilton.

Mrs. Chamberlain moved to old Atlas resident, died Monday afternoon at 5:30 in her home. Mrs. Bertha Werline Chestnut Street Woman Expires Mrs. Bertha S.

H. 'OhrendorH Werline, 85, who lived with a three months after she was seized troops and Arab volunteers were I gates to the teamsters convention reDorted readv for action alons I Tuesday adopted a resolution pro- STORE-WIDE SUMMER with a stroke. years ago, consists of 6418 churches in 50 states. Actual union of the two churcfv groups was held up by a suit filed in 1949 by the Cadman Memorial Church of Tharptown at an early age and: the sandy, 120-mile Kuwait Iraqi testing the "unfairness" of a had been a resident of that com- frontier. newspaper editorial which com- pared union President James Hoffa to a dictator.

munity most of her life. She was married to Martin Luther Cham Hoffa called the, opinion of the Mrs. -Rossi had been in good health and was active around her home until she was stricken ill. Born in Italy September 27, 1858, Mrs. Rossi came to the United States in 1929 after her husband, Cosmo, died in Italy.

She made her home with her late son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and berlain, who preceded her in death in January, 1959. The late Brooklyn, N.Y. The suit was decided on June 15 when a federal judge refused to review lower court rulings that the merger could go through as planned. The third synod meeting will Mrs.

Chamberlain was a member Miami Herald pure rot and garbage." The newspaper said the union daughter, Mrs. Stanley Simcizen, 1029 East Chestnut Street, died early last evening in Shamokin Hospital where she was admitted yesterday morning. She had been In ailing health during the past three years. Death was caused by a complication. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home said Tuesday in London that Britain wanted only enough troops in Kuwait to handle the "threat" from Iraq and nothing more.

The Foreign Office said it had informed United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser that it planned to send an aircraft carrier three destroyers and oil supply ships from their Mediterranean base at Malta convention and Hoffa's candidacy consider a budget and location of i for a five-year term were remi Mrs. Frank Rossi. permanent headquarters tomorrow niscent of controlled elections in Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. and adjourns on Friday. Hitler's Germany, Spain and So viet bloc nations.

Anthony DeFrancesco, 22 grandchildren, 36 great-grand Mrs. Werline was born in Ly-kens April 26, 1876, a daughter of the late John Henry and Jennie children and two great-great 'The 48-year-old Hoffa called a news conference to criticize the grandchildren. through the canal to Kuwait, on newspaper for its opinion and the of Second United Brethern Church of Tharptown. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Glendine Shipman, Tharptown, and Mrs.

Cornelia Raup, Trevorton Road; one son Elwood Shamokin, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:00 in Wirt Funeral Home, Cliftmont. Burial will be in Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington. The Rev. Donald VanKirk, pastor of Second Evangelical United Brethern Church, will officiate.

Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening. the Persian Gulf. Funeral services will be held Gunman Kills Woman, Wounds Companion MOAB, Utah (UPD-A gunman tricked three Connecticut vacationers into stopping their car in the Utah Badlands Tuesday night, 2,000 delegates then adopted the Be Early at Door Opening Time for the Greatest Reductions and Savings Ever on Locketts Quality and Fashion Merchandise Friday morning at 10:00 in St. resolution formally censuring the Herald for printing the editorial. Peter Church, Mount Carmel.

Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the then fatally shot a woman, wound SELECTED Noontime Stocks family residence from this eve ed a man and kidnaped a 14-year- ning until time of the service. old girl. 4 More Cubans Fly Into Exile in U.S. KEY WEST, Fla.

(UPD-Four more Cubans flew into exile in the United States Tuesday, landing in South Florida aboard three stolen croD duster olanes. By United Press International Roadblocks were thrown up Rebecca Ohrendorf. She was educated in Lykens schools and was a member of Trinity Episcopal Churoh and the Women's Auxiliary of the church. Mrs. Werline was a resident of Shamokin for 22 years.

She was married in 1895 in Sunbury to Charles Henry Werline, who died in 1937. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Nihen, Lans-ford; Mrs. Margaret O'Neil, Bristol, and Mrs. Stanley Simcizen.

Shamokin five sons, William and Bernon, Bristol; Charles, Lake-wood, N. Leon. Brooklyn, N. and Clarence. Shamokin; one step-son, Joseph Werline.

Harris-burg, and 27 grandchildren and Alco Products 17r dn around the area in an effort to catch the slayer. Allied Chemical This Week's Emercenev Phvsician Dr. W. J. Harrii Dial 648-7472 Dead on arrival at Moab, 19 Amerihan Airlines Ameriran Can Lauren Bacall Bride Of Jason Robards, Jr.

miles from the shooting scene was Jeanette Sullivan, 41, Rock-ville, Conn. Taken to I. W. Allen American Electric American Motors American Tobacco HOLLYWOOD (UPD The One of the men made the trio rshamokln Medlcil Socltty each waek assigns on doctor for amara Hospital with .22 caliber bullet wounds in the head and hands American Tel Tel third country proved the charm jfr0m Cuba in an empty spray for actress Lauren Bacall and tank underneath the plane's wing, actor Jason Robards, Jr. Holes were punched in the con- ncy duty on Wednesday and 8un day Residents should call the physi 59 up 24V4 up Vt 417s dn 68' i dn 17 8614 1185 up 'i 58 up IVi 591 42s up 49 dn 26 up 216 up l's 83 up Vi American Viscose clan assigned to emergency duty was Charles Boothroyd, 65, also of Rockviile.

only they are unable to reach Bendix Following futile attempts at tainer to allow him to breathe. Every Summer and Spring Dress in Stock thflr family doctor matrimony in Vienna, Austria Beth Steel Boeing Air Columbia Gas Dupont Ford Motor up and Las Vegas, Robards and Miss Bacall, the widow of Humphrey Bogart, were married Tuesday in Ensenada, Mexico. The newlyweds returned Tuesday night to Hollywood, where Robards was to report today for continued work on his latest movie, "Tender Is the Night." 39 great-grandchildren. 'Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:00 in Trinity Episcopal Church. The Rev.

Charles Flook, reotor of Trinity Episcopal Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington. Friends may call at the Farrow Funeral Home, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, tomorrow evening, from 7:00 to 9:00. The Specialized Job oj Savingt and Loan Atsoctatitmi The other two planes carried just the pilot. The fugitives from the regime of Premier Fidel Castro brought to 18 the number of Cubans who have come to the United States seeking asylum since Monday.

Fourteen of 20 who landed in Miami Monday aboard a commandeered Cuban Airlines plane were granted asylum by immigration authorities. Officials took the new arrivals into custody but would not release their names. 44 dn Is 479' up l'i 54'4 up 66' up 1 50V up km 1 Every Size, Including Vi Sizes, Every Type and Color We Advise Early Shopping 27Va up 28 297s 13 V. um up General Electric General Motors Inter Bus Mach Inter Tel ic Tel Jones Laughlin Lorillard Montgomery Ward National Distillers Penn Power Light Penn RR Reynolds Tob Sinclair Oil Sperry Rand Standard Oil Tenn Gas Trans United Air Lines United States Steel Westing Elec Woolworth Zenith 2 Young Women, Adult Attending Sessions Man Critically Burned By Flaming Gasoline HARRISBURG (UPD-A Perry County man remained in critical condition today from burns received when engulfed in flames Two young women and one adult are attending Senior Hish Local Kiwanis Head Attending Convention Paul Swank, 40 North Third FellowshiD Week at Lycoming i from an United power mower. College, Williamsport.

Charles E. Roddy, 51, of Rose 41! up 28'. up 44 up 23 dn V. 46 up Vk 81 up Vt 43' dn 75Vi dn 1 1731. up uien, near uuncannon, was un All Summer Jewelry and Handbags y2 PRICE with gasoline I Street, superintendent of Shamo- The young girls are Miss Gail McClain, daushter of Mr.

and ing the mower BRAS y2 PRICE kin School District, is attending i.iia. iviLrcii mtviaui. luio iini njs ci0thing afire Tuesday A tne lorty-sixin annual convention Walnut Street, and Miss his amily wrestled of Kiwanis International at the IVanodil, daughter of Mr. and njm to the ground and wrapped Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Phone Us Ontario, Canada Mrs Daniel ianodil, 343 Southihim in a blanket, but Roddy suf-Market Street. They are accom- fered burns over 60 per cent of WHILE THEY LAST SPECIALS paniea dv Mrs.

w. rrea isomer, his body Ul J6f eL VyllCdUlUl on cel. The convention will close Saturday. "Science in the Nuclear Age" is the theme. Principal speakers on the program, in addition to Kiwanis International President J.

0. Tally, Fayetteville, N. are John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada: Brooks Hays, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of State; Charles B. Shuman, president of The American Farm Bureau Federation, Gunman Taunts Victim LOS ANGELES (UPD r- Two gunmen celebrated the Fourth of July Tuesday by robbing a liquor store of almost $800 and tying the hands of proprietor Harry Greely, Funeral Notice Blouses-Shirts 12 PRICE 53, with an electric light cord As they fled, one of them yelled, and Lieutenant General Roscoe back: COLLINGS-Mrs.

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