The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 15

CITY DEPARTMENT Robert J. Moran, Shirley D. Voelker, Mary Jane Leicht Telephone Oil City 676-2729 or 676-2720 Albertson Considered For New Castle Post (Photo by Szalewicz) CITY MANAGING DIRECTOR R. J. ALBERTSON At swearing-in ceremonies Tuesday at City Hall OIL CITY Members of city council at New Castle will decide at a meeting tonight on the appointment of a city managing director under a new mayor and council optional charter for the third class community.

The appointment would affect this city, as the candidate: being considered for the posi- $11,000 Grant Given to YMCA OIL CITY A grant of 000 from the Edith C. Justus Trust Estate has been presented to the local YMCA by the First Seneca Bank and Trust administrator of the estate. Jack Myers of the Trust Department of the First Seneca Bank and Robert Jeffrey, a vicepresident of the bank, delivered the $11,000 check to Ross Crist, president of the board of directors of the Oil City YMCA and Wesley R. Travis, executive director. The House Committee of the YMCA, under the chairmanship of Charles A.

Morrison, made a study of the needs of the physical plant of the association and immediately recognized the necessity of furnishing a separate shower and drying area as well as a need for better locker room facilities for the younger boys. They met with the directors of the Physical Department and set up some priorities for needed improvements in the physical department area. As a result of these meetings the House Committee brought a report to Board of Directors outlining the necessity of replacing a gym floor which had been in use for about 50 years, improving the lighting as well as bringing the wiring up to date to carry the load since it had not been changed since the building was built in 1912-13. The committee recommended furnishing a separate shower and locker room for the cadet, elementary and advanced junior groups since their classes were large and the fact that they should not be sharing shower facilities with the adults. The directors instructed the House Committee to present plans and cost figures at the next board meeting.

This was done and now, through the generosity of the administrators of the Edith C. Justus Trust Estate and other friends of the YMCA these improvements have been completed. The new facilities were opened for the fall program and were used to capacity over the past two weeks since the schools were closed and the boys were home from college. Funeral ALFRED SPANGLER OIL CITY--Funeral services were held at 2 p. m.

Tuesday in the Venus Methodist Church for Alfred L. Spangler, 74, of Fertigs, who died Friday in Parkway General Hospital at North Miami Beach, Fla. Mr. Spangler was a retired United Natural Gas employe. The Rev.

Thomas Elder of Atlanta, former minister of the church, officiated. Interment was made in Brandon Cemetery. tery. Pallbearers were Floyd Beck, Richard Smathers, James Ehrhart, Eugene McFadden, Ora Perry and Nelson Seigworth. Attending from a distance were Donald See of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr.

and Mrs. Donald Sweetapple and Lee of Miami, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spangler, Garnet Spangler and Mrs. Ruth Spangler of Columbus, Ohio.

The Charles A. Morrison Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Oil City Hospital Admitted Rita Koziara, Pearl. Mrs. Lavern Clute, Titusville RD 5.

Thomas Gibson, Titusville RD 2. Mrs. Charles Howgard, 24 W. Front. Warren Sheffer, Van SR.

Terrence Chambers, 408 E. Fourth. Kenneth Paden, Franklin. John Stewart, Clarion RD 1. Mrs.

William Nulph, Emlenton. Robert York, Rouseville. Mrs. Mabel Shields, 223 Bissell. Mrs.

Vernon Fischer, Franklin. Mrs. Howard 1 Kerchner I1, 556 Colbert. Adam Miller, 13 Grove. Terry Neidich, 13 W.

Eighth. Discharged Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, RD Christopher Mackie, 301 Innis. Mrs. Daniel Reinsel and son.

114 Maple. Mrs. Clyde Rex and son, Franklin RD 1. Norman Korb, Seneca RD 1. Mrs.

Clair Plyler, 228 Mylan. Kenneth Fox, RD 2. Mrs. Leila Nellis, Reno. Mrs.

Jack Henderson and son, 56 Grove. Mrs. James Borchert, 1187 Grandview. Mrs. Jerry Cobler, Seneca.

Mrs. Robert Ellis, Tionesta. Mrs. Helen Ziegler, 114 W. Second.

Mrs. Robert DeLong, 13 Grove. Furman Alden 37 W. Fifth. Jeffrey Dykins, 25 W.

Fourth. Birth A daughter at 9:37 a.m. Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kerchner II, 556 Colbert.

Ragon Undergoes Surgery; Remains In Poor Condition OIL CITY-Timothy L. Ragon of 102 Manning St. remains in poor condition in the Oil City Hospital's Intensive Care Unit with injuries received in an accident early Saturday morning. Ragon fractured both his hips, his pelvis and both bones of the lower left leg when he was struck by a car driven by Clyde Gegogeine of 10 Selden Ave. He underwent surgery this morning on one hip and is scheduled for surgery on the other hip next Friday.

The accident occurred on North Seneca Street. Another accident victim, Robert J. Ellis of Tionesta, was listed in satisfactory condition in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit last evening by a hospital spokesman. Ellis was injured December 26 when the car in which he was riding collided headon with a tractor-trailer on Route 62 at President. The youth had both his spleen and his left kidney removed during extensive surgery following the mishap.

His younger brother, William, 15, and two others, James Haller, 15, of Tionesta and Dale Walker, 21, of Ford City, were killed in the mishap. The mother of the two Ellis boys, Mrs. Robert Ellis, was discharged from the hospit-1 yesterday. She had been admitted shortly after the accident Church League For Basketball Is Announced OIL CITY The local Salvation Army will once again sponsor a Church Basketball League. This will be the ninth consecutive year the Salvation Army has sponsored this league.

Last year, eight local and area churches entered the league with over 100 participants involved in active play. Scheduled play is to begin within two weeks so it is urgent that the churches of the area make their intentions known as soon as possible so a schedule can be set up. Churches wishing and who are interested in entering a team in the league are urged to call Captain Dean at the iocal Citadel by phoning 646-8634. Sled Rider Hurt At Roseville OIL CITY A 15 year old Rouseville youth injured his right knee and fractured his right upper leg in a sled riding accident Tuesday. Admitted to the Oil City Hospita! late yesterday afternoon was Robert York, son of Mr.

and Mrs. William York of 7 Church St. The youth was listed in satisfactory condition by a hospital spokesman. Circles Schedule Meetings Thursday The following circles of the (Second Presbyterian Church will this Thursday: Circle three will meet at 1 p.m. for coffee in the lounge.

Circle four will meet at 5:15 p.m. for coffee followed by a tureen dinner at 6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Circles one, two and five will meet on Jan. 11, Ceremony Unites Couple Recently Gladys Louise Carson and Richard Dean Hughes of this city were married recently in the First Methodist Church in Carnegie.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bessler of Oil City RD 2.

The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hughes Sr.

of Biery Drive, Seneca. Rev. Wilbur Larsen, pastor of the Rouseville Methodist Church, officiated at the 3 m. Dec. 16 double ring ceremony.

The bride appeared in a street length dress of apricot satin brocade with a jewel neckline and long sleeves. The dress was made by the mother of the bridegroom. Her white mini-veil was topped by a tiny cap of white feathers and she carried a white Bible covered with a spray of white carnations. Her only jewelry was a pearl necklace and earrings, a gift of the bridegroom. Miss Lee Morse of Oil City attended as maid of honor in a street length pink wool dress with a pink rose corsage.

Peter Bessler, brother of the bride, was best man. The couple will live at Oil City RD 2. The bride is a graduate of Cranberry High School. The bridegroom, a graduate of Rockland High School, is employed by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. Miss Fleckenstein Engaged to Marry Mr.

and Mrs. E. M. Fleckenstein of 5. Edgewood Drive announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Lou, to Louis John Casagrande, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Casagrande of Avon, N. J. Miss Fleckenstein, a graduate of Venango Christian High School, is a graduate of the College of Steubenville. She is employed by the Oil City School District.

Mr. Casagrande attended Asbury Park High School and Monmouth College and is a graduate of the College of Steubenville. He is enrolled at Seton Hall University School of Law. Wedding plans are indefinite. The sweet bay magnolia is an evergreen in Florida and a deciduous tree in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Section Page 15 Wednesday, January 3, 1968 THE NEWS-HERALD NEWS STAFF Two Charged With Vagrancy OIL CITY--Two out-of-statel persons were arrested at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday and charged with vagrancy when a complaint was filed stating that they were begging for money. Police identified the pair as Douglas O. Mapes, 40, of 209 Church Clinton, and Kathleen D.

Barse, 19, of B-2 Pathfinder Court, Fulton, N. Y. Authorities said that they received a call, stating that the two were at a church requesting money. Police said that the two had been "on the road" singe last September, going as far west as Kansas and up into Canada. The charges against the girl were dropped, police said, as her mother arrived at the station at 3:30 a.

m. today to take her daughter home. Mapes, police said, is being held for New York state authorities as a parole violator. Arraignment on the vagrancy charge is pending the arrival of the New York authorities, police said. Obituaries J.

A. Craig, Local Resident's Father OIL CITY John V. Craig, 90, father of a local resident, died Tuesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Margaret) Hawk of 106 Cedar Sedwick Heights, Kittanning. He was born Aug.

28, 1877. the son of James and Barbara Cloak Craig. Mr. Craig was a farmer and a retired employe of the Phillips Gas Co. He was a member of the Tidal Presbyterian Church in Clarion Co.

Surviving, in addition to his daughter, are a son, Roy H. Craig of Oil City, and three grandchildren. Friends will be received at the F. Duane Snyder Funeral Home, 200 S. McKean Kittanning, from 2 to 4 p.m, and 7 to 9 p.m.

today. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. The Rev. Donald Hamilton, pastor of the New Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, will officiate.

Interment will be in the Tidal Cemetery. ROBERT WHEELING OIL CITY-Robert R. Wheeling, 80, of 124 E. Spruce Titusville, father of a local resident and a retired life insurance man and former manager of the Titusville Atlantic and Pacific Tea Store, died at 9:30 a. m.

Sunday in the Titusville Hospital. He was born July 27, 1887, at Bradleytown, a son of Allen and Effie Shields Wheeling. Mr. Wheeling was manager of the Titusville for more than 20 years and was later employed by Western and Southern Life Insurance retiring in 1947. An active member of the First Methodist Church in Titusville, he was a member of the Methodist Men's Bible Class, a ber of the board of stewards and the parsonage committee.

His wife, the former Orpha Woods, died Sept. 12, 1963. He is survived by two sons, Clinton Wheeling of Oil City and Clair Wheeling of Altoona; a grandson, three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Eddy of Hydetown; three brothers, Joseph Wheeling of Sidney, N. Allen Wheeling of Hydetown and Clyde Wheeling of Chapmanville, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Three brothers are deceased. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today in the Arnold Funeral Home in Titusville. The Rev. Jack Spencer, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Titusville, officiated.

Interment was in the Troy Cen- ter Cemetery. RALPH L. WEAVER OIL CITY--Ralph Leo Weaver, 49, of Kanosh, Utah, a former resident of this city, died Christmas day in a fire at his home. Mr. Weaver, who was pulled from the burning structure by an unidentified person, was born in Oil City and had resided here until 17 years ago.

A son of the late Ralph and Mary Weaver, he worked in the field of prospecting. Surviving are his wife, Virginia; a son, Thomas with the U. S. Navy; five brothers, Walter of Oil City, Clarence of Warren, Ohio, Thomas of Erie, Charles of Fort Lauderdale, and Robert Weaver of Poquason, and three sisters, Mrs. Irene Lineman of Van, Mrs.

Dorothy Shultz of Cambridge Springs and Mrs. Mary Louise Gibson of Conneaut Lake. Funeral services were yesterday at the Brown Funera Home in Erie. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery, Erie. Linda Marie Karg, Ronnie Lee Foster Are Married in St.

Stephen's Church Miss Linda Marie Karg, daughter of Mrs. Joseph W. Karg of Bredinsburg Road became the bride of Ronnie Lee Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Foster of Franklin RD 3, in a ceremony Saturday morning in St.

Stephen's Church. The Rev. Andrew Karg of Sharon, a cousin of the bride, officiated at the triple ring service at 10 o'clock with music provided by Miss Jessie Morrison, organist, and Andrew P. Karg, vocalist. Red poinsettias, white candles, wreathes and Christmas trees were used in decorating the church.

Given in marriage by her uncle and godfather, Edward Karg, the bride appeared in a full length sheath gown fashioned of silk organza with a long sleeved lace bodice. Lace appliques accented the gown and the detachable chapel length train. A crown encrusted with seed pearls and crystals secured her bouffant triple tiered veil of illusion and she carried a cascade bouquet of white roses and carnations with ivy and white bows. She also carried the same lace handkerchief which had been carried by her grandmother. Miss Beatrice Siegel of Shippenville attended the bride as maid of honor wearing full length gown of blue taffeta enhanced with a matching sheer organza cage featuring a bateau neckline, elbow length sleeves and a satin band at the hemline.

Her feathered headpiece held a short veil and she carried a nosegay of blue-tipped carnations edged with blue lace and tied with matching streamers. Accompanying Mr. Foster as best man was John Henry Hook of Franklin. Ushers were James Hibbard of Oil City, cousin of the bride and Kenneth McQuiston of Franklin. For her daughter's wedding, Mrs.

Karg chose a three-piece blue suit with which she wore black and white accessories and, a corsage of blue-tipped carna- tions. Mrs. Foster, mother of the bridegroom, was attired in a two-piece navy blue suit with winter white accessories. Her corsage was of pink carnations. Approximately 125 guests attended the reception held at the Holiday Inn where appointments included wreathes and white I candles with evergreens and A (Petulla Son) MRS.

RONNIE LEE FOSTER tion is Robert J. Albertson, of 209 Lincoln who has been serving as city managing director here since Sept. 1, 1961. Albertson was not available for comment this morning due to meetings at City Hall, but it is understood that the appointment would become effective Feb. 1, thus giving the city official 30 days to close out his work here and also brief his assistant, J.

A. Bittner on current and upcoming projects. Bittner was appointed Albertson's assistant last July. From previous with New Castle by Albertson and a telephone conversation with the mayor of New Castle by a representative of this paper, the appointment of the local man was expected to be approved. New Castle is about three times the size of this city.

it was stated. It will be the first time that the city government will be handled under a business administration. Since his appointment here in 1961, Albertson has been responsible for a number of changes in the administration program at City Hall, including the new billing system for city utility bills. He also has had a large amount of responsibility in the redevelopment projects here, taking the place of the mayor at many important meetings and seeing that the city's share was carried out properly and in turn, seeing that the city would receive its full share of the projects. Just last month, in presenting the 1968 budget for its adoption, Albertson had outlined it as a "performance budget" rather than a "line budget." Mayor Ray Anderson, in discussing the budget, said that the new format gives the city officials and the public a more accurate reflection of the eration of the departments and activities with the departments.

He also added that it will give the city officials a better idea how much it costs to run an activity and thus make better judgements on where money is better spent. Albertson received a master's degree in governmental administration from the Fels Institute, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia where he majored in 1 local and state government. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in public service from Penn State in 1952. His first position was in hattan, where he served as assistant to the city manager. After about a year there, he was drafted into the Army where he served for two years.

After receiving his honorable discharge from the Army, Albertson was hired as the administrative director by Coatesville, a city of about (000. This' was the position he left to come to Oil City in September of 1961. A native of Pittsburgh, Albertson graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1948. He and his wife, the former Beverly Dickinson are the parents of two boys, Bradley and Keith.

Oilers Club Sets Special Session OIL CITY--The Oilers Club will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p. m. today at the YMCA. The purpose of this meeting is to make arrangements tor an all-sports banquet this Spring for all sports at Oil City High School. "We must make some decisions and we need the help of our members," said James Myers, president.

Mr. Myers is asking all par. ents, coaches, officers and members, that are sportsminded, to attend this meeting to make it a success. and her corsage was of roses holly. Miss Joyce Lee of Erie was in charge of the guest book.

Following a wedding trip to Washington, D. and points south, the couple will reside at Franklin Star Route. For traveling the bride wore an emerald green knit dress trimmed with lace. Her accessories were black JANUARY SAVINGS and carnations. The new Mrs.

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