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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
11
A concise look at public misconceptions about profits. A 1960s style note cites a 40 percent belief profits were too high, a typical fair profit around 10 percent, and reports showing a 3 percent profit margin after tax and many corporations posting losses in recent years.
Madison Avenue agency president Adrian Brower defends the word square as a bygone ideal. He cites Mark Twain and historic figures to argue for truthfulness, loyalty, hard work, and patriotism, challenging readers to reclaim square virtues.
Thirty years ago in New Oxford, a shed demolition at Lincolnway West caused Joseph Carbaugh to suffer bruises from a falling stairway while a separate football incident left Robert Billman with an eye injury. The Rev. Paul L. Foulk began his fourth year as Trinity Lutheran pastor. Local hunters Kaiser, Miller, Deardorff and Lough brought deer. Mae Beamer announced engagement to Rufus Millhimes. Raymond Brady had minor injuries after a car strike. Daniel Emlet recuperates from blood poisoning in the hand. Columbia Gas aims to extend gas service to East Berlin New Oxford and nearby areas.
Rev. John L. Eugle reflects on Luke 2 7 about there being no room for Jesus in the inn and in life. He warns that worldly concerns crowd out Christ and urges readers to make space for a saviour during the birthday season.
Robert W. Boltz, English teacher at Bermudian Springs High School, will be the guest speaker at the Christian Endeavor service at Bermudian Bible Church. The service begins at 7:30 p m.
Bermudian Springs sustains a 38 29 defeat to South Western in a Tuesday opener to start the season. Joe Wolf Emory Golden and Ed Rodrock combine for 25 Bermudian points while Phil Sterner leads South Western with 10. The Jayvees win 62 15 in the preliminary. Next up Bermudian hosts Cumberland Valley. Marriage notices follow: Shirley Eisenhart wed Thomas Michael Thomen at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Abbottstown.
An area resident hosted a bridal shower for Catherine Greenholtz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Greenholtz, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Louthian in Kirkwood Westminster. Attendees included Mrs. Myra Rineer and numerous Louthian and Rineer relatives and friends who brought gifts.
A collage of media snippets and quips on early Christmas shopping, social jokes, and workplace musings. Items include ads urging early holiday buying, thoughts on friendship and money, a college choice quip, unemployment humor, and remarks on taxes, scouting, and aging.
A collection of practical homemaking notes covers home remedies and craft ideas. It includes making an eradicator from bleach, improving pie crusts, cleaning tile fireplaces with salt and lemon, repurposing a coffee table from a picture frame, repairing shoelaces with clear nail polish, erasing mattress stains with starch paste, revamping rubber overshoes with ammonia and shoe dressing, souring milk with lemon juice, and roasting frozen meats with adjusted times.
A collection of simple home how tos including a portable book rack from a wooden box, a roller painting tip to reduce splatter, and a temporary water pipe repair using rubber hose. Also includes light humor about a daughter's marriage and a doctor patient quip from The Saturday Evening Post with a sign off SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
A compact listing of church services across New Oxford and surrounding towns. Details include pastors, service times, Mass schedules, confessions, Holy Days, Sunday School times, and youth activities across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox congregations.
A listing of Sunday schools and worship times for numerous churches across East Berlin and surrounding communities. Churches include Paradise Lutheran, Lower Bermudian, Chestnut Grove, Wellsville EUB, Mount Royal, Harmony Grove Chapel, Bermudian Bible Church, Morning Hour Chapel, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, Union Church of Christ, St John’s Lutheran Abbottstown, Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Paradise, and Seventh Day Adventist York Springs with service hours, catechetical classes, and religious activities.
James Myers and family moved to a new East High Street home in New Oxford. C. M. Barnes closes his East Berlin shop after years. Rev. Samuel M. Clarke accepts a call to St Matthew's Exangelical Lutheran Church. Merrill S Wisler injured his left thumb in a clear naw. St Paul’s Lutheran Church notes doubled membership during Rev Paul Levi Kulk’s 13th year. Mrs. Fowk, formerly Miss Mary Rower, New Oxford. Lower Adams jointure school board elects officers Harry Co Brinton president Clyde O Garber vice president and treasurer.
Miss Theila Asper becomes bookkeeper for QO Myers Hanover merchant. Henry Francis Lawrence promoted from first sergeant to second lieutenant. Clyde Garber returns from vacation to Port Allegany to resume Forests and Waters Department work. Wheat price listed at 127 per bushel 38 to 40 cents per dozen. Two Lincoln highway taverns Abbotstown and Farmers close Greenview Hotel and Tom's Tavern due to patronage and costs. Sponseller Mulip Alwine continues as secretary to the board. New Oxford Borough School District elects officers Charley Slay hannah president Choi Shyde vice president Sponseller trends Ralph B. Rhyme fifth board member. Duane Hafler from Abbottstown at Great Lakes Naval Training Station after Navy enlistment.
A compilation of quick, home remedy style answers to common chores. Tips include labeling records with enamel stripes for identification, sharpening a kitchen grinder with scouring powder, making hard to burst soap bubbles, straightening bent plastic needles, packing delicate items for mailing with a split rubber sponge, extracting more lemon juice under hot water, removing lipstick with rubbing alcohol, loosening a stuck cake by cooling and pan inversion, shrinking thread by boiling, and cleaning suede with sandpaper and vinegar.
Historical notes recounting Wheest Miller buying a Connerville grocery and restaurant, Cloyd Miller assisting, Slaybaugh and Smith property occupations in New Oxford, $14 000 in Farmers and Merchants Bank Christmas fund to be mailed, a trolley accident injuring W Edgar Stock, York Springs factory space expansion, Rev Paul Glatfelter salary increase to 1800, attendance at Clear View school and teacher list, Moritz school box social earnings of $23, Latimore incident sawing wood causing head injury, and related local happenings.
The board of directors announced a regular four percent dividend and an extra two percent dividend payable December 31 to stockholders of record. Bank president C. A. Wills disclosed the action at the weekly meeting.
A compilation of readers seeking guidance on social dilemmas. Topics include a domineering husband, paying a babysitter, dealing with an intrusive visiting relative, jealousy in a teen romance, and warding off slow-moving suitors.
Two vehicles collided on Hanover Road half a mile south of Abbottstown at 6:45 PM Tuesday. Samuel E. Starner, 21, of New Oxford Route 1, and Dorothy Myers, 33, of Littlestown Route 1, were injured. both were hospitalized. Myers suffered a deep scalp laceration while Starner had head wounds and was discharged after treatment. State police continue investigation.
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