Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - December 19, 1953, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Cloudy end warmer tonight and tome light rain likely by tomorrow lowest Precipitation Tract Temperature 2275 River Stage THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Not Only a Newspaper A Community Asset NWS f M on in Lock which can briny you mwi en March 1882 8 Pages LOCK DECEMBER 1953 AP Wire Service Five Cents Commies Plan Big Christmas For Yank POWs UN Makes a Final Sends Letter Through AP Twen American war prisoners planned a festive Christmas be hind barbed wire today as the Command made a last minute appeal that they weigh carefully their decision to stay with the A 12page letter addressed to each prisoner urged them to be certain their refusal to return home was not an irrevocable Copies to Copies of the letter were sent to In dian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commis sion with a note asking they be delivered to the 22 Americans in neutral A spokesman for indicated the come home let ter would have to be approved by the Mon Just two days before ex of the 90day period for trying to woo home ated war There appeared to be little chance that inter views with the balky Americans Government Reds Issue on Agenda For GOP would be arranged before the The Command also was reported planning loudspeaker broadcasts to the prisoners be fore the Wednesday Yule Preparations Both pro Communist and antiCommunist prisoners in neutral custody made prepara tions for celebrating Christmas in their barbed wire After Wednesday prisoners who have not come home will be listed as absent without A month later they automatic ally will be classed as Now is the time to seriously consider that there is nothing more humiliating than to dis cover that one has been a used for someones purposes and then later tossed aside like an old the letter Car Hits Pole 2 Men Arrested Accident Near MH Ends in County Jail A Lamar man was charged with drunken driving and an in jured Lock Haven man was ar rested for disorderly conduct after an accident yester day near Mill Charles Archie told state police he was rounding a corner on Route 64 entering Mill Hall when he lost control of his car and hit a power The car was severely dam A passenger in the car Paul Conley 20 N Washington was injured when his face the wind When state police officers arrived to take him to the hos Soult resisted At the Soult was treated for a severe laceration of the right side of his Sev eral stitches were taken to close the Soult was charged this morning with disorderly Both men were returned to Clinton County awaiting a City Accident 342 Bald Eagle told city police late last night that another car struck his auto as it was parked in of his The other he did not Less than an hour 17 Jay called city police to report that his car had struck the Hunter Damage he was French in 5th Election Try France AP Frances deadlocked P a r 1 i a ment gathered at the historic Palace of Versailles again today for a fifth try at electing a new president of There was no indication that even this ballot would be With Premier Joseph Laniel still 52 votes away from victory on the fourth count last speculation grew that a com promise candidate might be necessary to break the stale a wealthy dent textile magnate who has been Premier since June re 408 votes in last nights He was closely followed by his only avowed 61yearold Socialist Marcel Edmond with I McCarthy May Discuss Subject At Parley By JACK BELL lative recommendations bearing on searches for Communists in give President Ei and McCarthy an opportunity to dis cuss that politically charged subject they wish to do The recommendations report edly are on the final days schedule of conferences among the congressional committee chairmen and other leaders on the administration legislative program for The sessions al ready have brought from Eisen hower assurance that the pol icy makers consider the way clear for the tax cuts set for 1 to go through on Brownell was un to have his arguments marshalled for the seeking support of legislative changes to Permit court use of evi dence obtained by wire tap pingin espionage Make it possible to ex tend to witnesses immunity from prosecution based on testimony they give before such congressional groups as the Senate permanent investi gations subcommittee of which McCarthy is pro posal aimed at the frequent refusals of witnesses to answer on the ground their testimony might incriminate McCarthy has Insisted that the Communists in government issue will be paramount in next years campaign for control of Chairman V e 1 d e of the House can Activities has given signs of sharing the Wis consin senators views on the But Eisenhower has said his administration will do such a good job of rooting Communists out of federal agencies that the people will be applauding this is an accomplished fact by next Foreign policy includ ing some on which Republicans have differed also seemed likely to come up at to days concluding legislative con Dolan Indicted On Perjury Rap Kidnapers Nemisis To Go on Trial KANSAS AP One of the officers who arrested kid naper Carl Austin Hall has been indicted on a charge of perjury by a federal grand jury probing the missing Greenlease ransom The indictment was returned late yesterday against Elmer shortly after he had appeared before the grand Dolan and Louis Shoulders arrested Hall in Louis Dolan was suspended by the Louis police board 10 pending a hearing on charges growing out of the handling of the Shoulders resigned from the police force in charging the investigation into the arrest was assassinating and destroying his Buried Separately Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown who died together for the of Bobby will be buried 175 miles apart despite the womans death row wish that they be laid to rest Halls body was to be taken to for burial at 10 from the Jefferson funeral home where it has been since the pair was executed early Heady will be buried in the cemetery Both will be burled next to their Christmas Service At Salvation Army The Christmas story will be told in music and tableau at The Salvation Army tomorrow at Reader for the service will be Miss Carole The Corps Band and Songsters will be fea tured in several musical num Soloists will be Mary Irene Captain Dorothea That Judy Newberry and Doris A cornet trio comprised of Jane Norman Mur doch and Captain Dorothea Thatcher will We Three Air Mail Sacks Leave This City By Truck Canceled Afternoon Service Slows Delivery Use of Allegheny Airlines to carry first class mail during the Christmas rush will not bring too much change for outbound Lock Haven letters and cards The new authorized in Washington began to Postmaster James Dennehy reported that mail does not begin to accumulate until after Alle flights have left the city He said the need for the new ser vice is in the First class mail will travel by air but only after it has been trans ported to Williamsport by truck or Dennehy said that yearround air mail must be shipped from Lock Haven by surface transport when it arrives at the post office after Lack of afternoon service from the Lock Haven airport requires the air mail to be sent to Wil where it is placed on outgoing Afternoon Schedule Dennehy said the airlines service last winter would have provided partial air transport if it were in operation this A flight left the city in the after The airlines announced winter schedule the city only a this year gives single flight in sach direction and these are in ihe Some mail will leave the city by air in the morning but it will not be a big Whether the mail leaves the city by air or is first transported to it will be for Pitts burgh and western Pennsylvania or New Long Is Staten New Jersey and The special Christmas air mail service will close at the post of fice at and for eastbound No after noon service is available for westbound The mail will be placed on board train number The mail will travel by This mail will be in specially labeled sacks for delivery to the William sport Will Participate in Christmas Concert A few of the 247 hoys and girls who will sing in the Lock Haven Senior High School Christmas Concert tomorrow afternoon stand under the tree in the School auditor Howard Graves will direct the annual program which consists of familiar and not so familiar carols as well as reli Choral groups from each high school class are to participate in the performance as well as the mixed The robed in academic en livened with silver will entertain for one hour for the benefit of the Express Photo Beech Creek Merrey Home Sold to Smith Buyer Will Develop Nursery Enterprise BEECH important real estate transfer took place when the heirs of the estate of late of sold to Robert Port Matilda the Merrey homestead residence and approximately three acres of on Maple this The mansion type residence was erected by Samuel of the firm of Day and who operated one of the largest steam saw mills in this section of the state and lum School Christmas Programs Sunday The postmaster said mail could not be kept overnight a the post office with the idea o Youthful voices raised in harmoniously singing out the joy of the will reverber ate Sunday against the walls of the Lock Haven Senior High School And at the Teachers Colleges Price the late Conception High School will present its annual Christ mas program tomorrow at t The Nativity will be enact pupils high schoo The story of the events up to the Birth of Christ will b told through the media o readings and chora Dered off virgin timber on 30 of land between Beech placing it on Weather the morning might cance service and the mail would be Snow in Jerusalem AP Snow unusual in these parts fell on Jerusalem early Veteran on Barristers Row Miss Achuff Retires After 50 Years as a Legal Secretary By COLETTE HA AC Express Staff Writer It will be 50 years next June 1 that a brunette filled with the anxieties generally ex on that first day of i new struggled with dicta tion comprised of legal On a slim woman whose brunette hair is streaked with now filled with a desire to will take her last dictation from a mem ber of the Clinton County bar This will terminate an outstand ing career as a legal Miss Myrtle secre tary to Judge who has held that post in the office of six county attorneys and two will effective the first of next Regarded on barristers row as one of the most competent secretaries in the she is looking for ward to doing some traveling during her Florida Vacation Trie judges whose energy and attitude belie her 71years will leave for Flor ida in January to enjoy the sun shine for a few Anna who is retiring from her position as assistant night the Lock Haven accompany Miss supervisor at will On that June day in Miss Achuff began her career under the guidance of the late Charles Corss whose law offices were located in the building which is now the site of the Western Union I would never be where I am today if it had not been for See MISS ACHUFF Past If Veteran Legal Secretary to Retire Miss Myrtle secretary to Judge will retire the first of the terminating almost 50 years of work as a legal The retiring secretary has worked for six county attorneys and two Lipez and the late Henry She plans to spend part of her leisure time satisfying her desire to the re tiring secretary thinks that maybe she will do parttime secretarial work when the thrill of being a lady of leisure to Express Photo Creek and Snow The logs were floated down the Beech Creek stream with splash dams at Hayes now and later changed to Saylor came into this section after exhausting timber with a mill at Hickory Run on the Le high in the late 1850s and continuing until the panic of 1873 forced liquidation in In 1885 Merry with his family moved here from Keat having acquired the resi dence and also the mill converting the extensive system of pools into a farm which is still operated as The mill machinery had been disposed of Baseball Stars Father The has been operating a nursery about two miles south of SkyTop at the intersection of the Buffalo Run Route with Route 322 into State It is his announced intention to dispose of that property and occupy as his family residence the Purdy property and develop a nursery on the adjacent Two daughters are students at the Lock Haven Teachers Col and a Dick was graduated from the same col ege after an outstanding ath etic A star baseball player in he is now with Pittsburgh Pirates as short Sec BEECH CREEK Page 2 Elementary Aid Pupils in the elementary school are to offer read and songs as their contri bution to the which is open to the At curtain call is 4 p for the Christmas Concert by the various choral groups of the Howard Graves will direct the 247 voices in carol and religious anthem selections The public is invited to the performance which will last one A piano duet is to be offered by Nancy Gillam and Linda Solo parts in the sacred music are to be carried by Helen Ann Ruth Ann Mary Louise Louis Deanna Robert Ann Harvey and Sandra Janet Mary Louise Eleanor Fran cis Gallagher and Nancy Gillam will play the piano accompani Judith Haag is chairman for the Tea on Tuesday Parents and friends are In to a tea Tuesday at in the gymnasium of the Senior High by members of the Girls who are giving the Barbara Dilling is in charge of this Shoppers Vote For Saturday Final Results Show 1037565 Division Shoppers living both Inside and outside Haven prefer Saturday evening shopping in the local accord ing to a final tabulation of the mail vote sponsored by the Re tail Merchants Today was the deadline for the final results of which were an at as follows Favoring Saturday Fri day Thursday Monday Tuesday Wednesday and both Friday and Killed Crossing 220 Christopher Gundlach Struck Near Myers Garage Last Night JERSEY down by a westbound a 77year old Pine Creek Township man died last night in the Jersey Shore The accident occurred on Route two miles east of at It was the fourth pedestrian and seventh traffic death of 1953 in Clinton Christopher Jer sey Shore was crossing the highway from the house of his to the Fred Myers arage when he was Rushed to the Jersey Shore Hos pital in the Jersey Shore Gundlach died at State police said the driver of the car was Leo of Jersey Seagraves told police he was traveling toward Avis when he saw Gundlach in the middle of the westbound He tried to avoid him by applying his but it was too Broken Leg The impact of the crash threw Gundlach into the eastbound lane of He suffered a concussion and a broken right Investigation of the accident y Lock Haven state police and Earl deputy coroner f Lycoming is continu The coroners report is ex later Joseph of the tate said that the acci dent was the second fatality at hat location this Earlier a motorcyclist had been killed in a collision with a car turning off the highway at that Former Schoolteacher Christopher Gundlach was born in Pine in He taught school In Pine Creek and then moved to Pitts burgh where he continued teach In he gained a position aa a bookkeeper with the vania Railroad in In after 30 years of retired to the family in Pine Creek Town Since he has main the raising chick Aniline Plant Staff Enjoys Annual Party The 22nd annual Christmas party for the staff of the Ameri an Aniline Products was last night at the Fallon Ho Feature of the evening was a one act play dramatizing a clay n the life of the personnel man ager at the Edna Faye Goodhart provided he musical background to the action of the She also Ogden AFB Crash Kills Injures More of seven persons rescued yester day from the fiery wreckage of an Air Force may be re leased from Hill Air Force Base hospital The big plane crashed at Og den Municipal Airport late yes killing the co pilot and injuring the remain ing two crew members critical Following the tabulation of ihe returns in the mail turkey drawing was held at the Chamber of Commerce of with the following announ as turkey winners Sheldon Mackeyville Clara 525 Church Lock John Salona Derward George A total of ballots were ent in on the based on he distribution of a question naire to all residents on the mail of Clinton County and adjoining A preponderance of votes in avor of Saturday shopping was ast by the returns from Lock Haven 352 to 212 for Friday Haven 89 to and lie communities of Beech Cross Forks and Hammersley Jersey Gundlach la survived by his Pearl and two Philip at Port and Christopher of Other survivors are a Miss Agnes and a Howard Both are residents of Jersey Shore McElhattan and Pine Mill North West Howard and Renovo was the community which turned in the biggest vote in favor of Friday night shop 69 for Friday to 58 for The vote from Monu ment and was and Mingoville voted in favor of Fri with one ballot Westport and Mackeyville were Post Office Open Postmaster James Dennehy reminded harried and hurried Christmas parcel and card send ers the post office will be open until 5 He said the post office services are kept open this afternoon to help the public speed its Christmas Christmas Fire ALLENTOWN AP A fire in the lobby of the Pennsylvania Power and Light building destroyed an 18foot Christmas a number of electrical ap displayed beneath scorched the lobby ceiling and damaged some nearby for but by narrow Christmas Lighting Contest Offers Nine Cash Awards The annual Christmas lighting contest is announced by The Lock Haven companied carol Bar bara Anderson and Jo Ann Mot er gave a singing and dancing The evenings follow ng a buffet was an by Lloyd The staff gave of the a tereo slide projector and This was presented by Myrl during a brief address to the read a message from George company I Express and the Pennsylvania Power Light The first out door decorations have appeared in various parts of the city in recent indicating that there will be extensive participa tion in the annual The usual cash prizes will be awarded to the displays which are judged outstanding when the prizes are between Christmas and New Years The judging will be done by members of the Business and Professional judges to makt their The contest prizes this year will total three prizes of each for the most outstanding three prizes of and three of Arrangements for the contest have been made by Ray as chairman of the Homes within the city limits and in the adjacent communities contiguous to city will be eli gible for the Later announcements will be made on when the illuminations j must be alight to permit LOCK HAVEN STORES OPEN 9 to 9 Thursday
