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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
2
The Thursday paper published in Gettysburg Pennsylvania by the Reader Press features editor Henry J. Smith. It covers local news, commentary, and notices from S Pennsylvania Corporation and community events.
30 years ago Miss Mary Reese Brush Rin suffered a broken right leg when kicked by a horse Eugene D Rich wine 55 Gardners broke his left thigh in a fall Marriages Charles F Groft and Evelyn M Rider Irishtown Tues Lovie Shanefelt New Oxford and Russell Houck Hanover May 5 Migin Sanders Hanover and Mary Staub McSherrystown Tues W P Lloyd Decker Gettysburg native of Hunterstown and Ruth E Shue Gettysburg Bun Lena M Wagner Table Rock and Orlo M Schultz Gettysburg Thurs Continued on Page 6
Governor George M. Leader appoints John W. Murren as Civil Defense director of Mt. Pleasant Township. Murren also serves as Civil Defense fire chief in the same township.
Abbottstown residents report weekend travels to Hampton Virginia to visit son and daughter in law Sgt Curtis Hildebrand Jr that couple welcomed a baby daughter at Langley AFB Hospital. Local highway probe requested by Assemblyman Worley after residents complaints. Community groups meet with projects and social events at Abbottstown School Lutheran church and Altland House. Mrs Lottie Forsythe dies in Yardley survived by husband and sister.
A tentative budget for the East Berlin Borough School District for 1958-59 is in open inspection at the secretary’s home. If no objections are made, adoption will occur at the next regular meeting on July 7, 1958, per secretary ETHEL RESSER.
Fire company adds three new members Leo Leonard H Carroll Sneeringer and Ray Hagerman. Hospital discharges include Augustus Shorb Philip Topper Miss Annie Smith Mrs Reuben Bair and infant daughter. Birth announced for a Hanover area son. Banns published for couples Horwedel Trimmer and Smith Staub. Baptisms at Annunciation Church include Catherine Bair Tina Livelsberger and Sharon Warner.
A variety of properties are offered including a 4-room brick bungalow near East Berlin with immediate possession priced at 7 500 a 40 acre farm with 8 room brick dwelling and multiple outbuildings features a macadam road and is miles from Hanover a splendid 5 room brick dwelling on a double lot with bus service schools and churches nearby a 2 room frame bungalow two miles from Hampton priced at 2 500 four building lots on Conewago Creek near Mummert s Grove two miles from East Berlin a seven room frame house for rent with sewer and electric and a building lot near Paradise Two close to Lincoln View Motel contact W King amp J East Berlin Emory Weaver Littlestown Harry D Ridinger Gettysburg for details
Miss Sandra Elizabeth Inskip and Lloyd Melvin Boyer wed at 3 pm in Hampton Emanuel Church of Christ. The ceremony featured a double ring with candles and lilies, followed by a Niagara Falls trip and return to East Berlin. The bride works at Montgomery Ward in York. the groom is a farmer.
At a midnight Bermudian Springs Joint School District session in York Springs, two teachers were elected as June 1 graduates from Shippensburg State Teachers College and will each earn 3600 dollars. Larry Warner of Mt. Holly Springs will teach social studies and Robert Reeder of McConnellsburg will teach science and math. both assigned to East Berlin. Five one-room schools Blackberry Harbolds State Road Mechanicsville and Whitcomb's View close, prompting reassignments of several teachers in Latimore and Huntington Townships.
The board approved the 1968-69 budget of $330,357 and $19,317 in bills. Contracts were awarded to Roberts and Meek for art supplies at 486 dollars, Dister's for shades at 1,218 dollars, and the Dorset Company for the cyclorama curtain. Hot lunches for East Berlin pupils will be prepared in York Springs and transported. State approvals linger on the elementary site and high school site with tax resolutions pending.
The Chapel hosts forty hours starting Sunday with musical numbers from The Desert Song Show Boat Brigadoon South Pacific Damn Yankees and My Fair Lady. Premiered in York the production drew strong praise from music critics and is sponsored by the Refuge Circle of ULCW St. John’s Lutheran Church inviting public attendance.
A collage of local ads lists used refrigerators from Myers Hardware, fresh strawberries, a Sandoe’s Fruit Market sale, and a Glenn I. Myers listing. It also promotes a 6-room apartment, plow repairs, sheets Bros hardware, and various used trucks and cars from King GMC and Hanover Motor Co. The page includes job offers, animal listings, and a sales opportunity for a W. B. Foote district manager with sales training.
Lincolnview Restaurant seeks a male cook for short order work from 3 to 11 pm and every other Sunday. Apply at 1% miles east of Abbottstown.
Willis A Miller 73 of Gardners R3 retired farmer died Friday night after a lingering illness. Surviving sisters Hat tie Fanny Lulu Miller all of Gardners R3. Funeral held Tuesday. Idaville Elementary School closed with a picnic. teachers Mrs Hartman and Mrs Coble. Stanton R Kennedy son of Russell and Mrs Kennedy York Springs R1 earned associate degree in engineering and electrical technology from Penn State University after two years at the Penn State Center York. Leroy Bream son of Sylvester D Bream Gardners graduated from Gettysburg College. Virginia Grimm daughter of Margaret Rutter Dillsburg to teach business education York Springs High School 1968-69 term. Elizabethtown College graduate. New births at Warner Hospital and Carlisle Hospital reported. Paul Kingst 58 Gardners R2 treated at Carlisle Hospital for finger injury at Eaton-Dikeman Co Mt Holly Springs. Patricia Hunning Thomas and John Kline Ludwig births in Gardners R1 and Gardners R2. Janet Beitman Gardners R1 completed junior year Bucknell University Lewisburg. serving as camp counselor at Camp Michaux for Presbyterian Church. Upper Bermudian Luther an Church and Mt Zion Goodyear youth summer Bible school began at Mt Zion. Janet Barrick 20 R2 met at Y Springs Scout Cabin. group worked on First and Second Clothing project. Dorsey Alfred Deardorff 60 formerly of Gettysburg died in Harrisburg. survived by Floyd W York Springs R1, eight grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and two brothers.
Furnishings of all kinds offered with 9.45 weekly payments for three rooms. Read details of living room and bedroom sets including Kroehler sofa, tables, chairs, dresser, chest, bed, mattress, box spring, and decor. Kitchen outfit features dinette, Frigidaire refrigerator, gas range, and dinnerware set. Contact Rear 330 Lincolnway West New Oxford.
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