Teachers Vote to Approve Salary Hire in Pottstown
Pottstown school teachers approved a four point long range salary schedule including a $400 raise for all professional employees. The meeting moved from Dec 9 to an afternoon session at the Senior High. President Marion Giles said plans were set, Minam Ludwig read the proposal, and teachers voted 4 to 1 to amend point 2 to include all professional employees under tenure. They then voted to submit the amended schedule to the school board.
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Pottstown
Pottstown Teachers’ association
Marion RB. Giles
The
Mercury
Minam Ludwig
association
County Safety Group Votes to Study Law On School Buses
Montgomery county Safety council yesterday voted to sponsor a study of the State bus law. Roy Cleaver of the Division of Consolidation and Transportation discussed the law with 20 members in Norristown and cited a state attorney general opinion. He urged public education on the law as drivers must prioritize children's safety and avoid delaying traffic for boarding or alighting.
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Montgomery county Safety council
C. “Beacraft
Sana‘toga
Roy Cleaver
Division of Consolidation and Transportation
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Norristown
Cleaver
Two-Car Collision Causes Seventy-Five Dollar Damage
A two car crash on Route 422 in Trappe yesterday afternoon caused 75 dollars in damage. At 3 30 p m Mabel Brimmer 30 of 560 Main Street Trappe stopped to turn into the Lamb hotel driveway and was rear ended by John R Troutman 50 of Potts Town RD 2 driving the other car Both cars were eastbound Jeffersonville State Trooper John F Tierney says Brimmer sustained 40 dollars damage and Troutman 25 dollars.
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Trappe
Lamb hotel
Mabel Brimmer
Main street
John R. Troutman
Pottstown RD
Weather outlook for Eastern Pennsylvania today
Increasing cloudiness with a high of 34 to 40 degrees. Rain mixed with snow tonight, turning to rain tomorrow. Not so cold Thursday night.
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Pennsylvania
Deer Hunters Rush As Weather Worsens In Pottstown Area
In the Pottstown region deer hunters pushed to the woods amid worsening prospects of better weather. Raymond Meyer of the Hippodrome theater sought a buck near Peck's pond in Sullivan County but missed after his stomach upset. Others including Robert Ritchie Pierce Ripka and Edward Coulson joined planned hunts around Pruss Hill dam as several locals reported successful first shots, with Robert Matthews Sr. and Walter Diachynsky each scoring and sharing details of their big bucks.
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Pottstown
Raymond Meyer
Hippodrome theater
Sullivan county
Peck’s pond
Meyer
Robert
Pruss
Pruss Hill dam
Edward Coulson
Daniel Kline
Arthur Jay Hatfield
Spring City
Byron
Jack Stalnecker
Pruss Hill
Robert Matthews Sr
Pottstown RD
Coventry township
Navy
Chestnut Hill
Matthews
Walter Diachynsky
Ringing Hill
Potter county
Hopewell
Public Relations Post Filled at Jacobs by Native of Pottstown
Russell Graham a native of Pottstown has been named public relations director at Jacobs Aircraft Engine company announced by Floyd J. Sisto. He will oversee news in the plant act as sales coordinator and handle Air Force contact work under Col. Gillespie and L. L. Gabel. Graham joined Jacobs in 1951 after managing at J C Penney Pottstown store. He is a 1940 Pottstown High School and 1949 Temple University graduate. Continued on page ten.
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Russel Graham
North
Charlotte street
Jacobs Aircraft Engine company
Floyd J. Sisto
O. R. Perkins
Air Force
Col. E. F. Gillespie
L. L. Gabel
Graham
Jacobs
J. C. Penney company
Pottstown
Pottstown Senior High school
Temple university
Quent on
Christmas Seal Sales Near 1951 Figures in Pottstown
Christmas seal sales in Pottstown are nearly tied with last year as Martha B. Shoemaker of the Pottstown Historical Society reports receipts at 1981.15 dollars. She urges unpaid buyers to remit and notes seals will be distributed to students across Pottstown schools and local parochial institutions. Horace Y. Seidel chaired the meeting at the Howard Johnson restaurant.
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Pottstown
Martha B. Shoemaker
the
Miss Shoemaker
St. Aloysius and
St. Peter’s
Wyndcroft school
Horace Y. Seidel
society
Area Missionary Dies of Heart Attack in Africa
Mrs Christina Masterson Kulp wife of H Stover Kulp of Potts Town RD 1 died Monday at a mission post in Nigeria West Africa after a heart attack They had served as Church of the Brethren missionaries since 1922 among the first in the region and were notified by cablegram Relatives note she had long heart illness A native of Peebles Scotland she studied mission work in Edinburg London and Scotland before Africa marriage in 1927 they returned to Nigeria that year Continued on Page Ten
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Christina (Masterson) Kulp
H. Stover Kulp
Pottstown
Nigeria
West Africa
Goa
Church of the Brethren
Africa
Postoffice rush to handle Yale mail season grows large
Pottstown readers see a Christmas mail surge as the post office plans to hire 65 temporary workers and deploy a National Guard truck to manage the parcel flood. Postmaster J Alfred Marquet reports stamp sales up sharply from last year, signaling a possible new record. A garage annex at High and Green streets will handle incoming parcel post while outgoing mail moves through the main office.
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Pottstown
National Guard
J Alfred Marquet
Marquet
Company A
Marquez
Nine Districts Asked to Build Central Senior High School
Nine Montgomery county districts and one Chester county board discussed a plan to convert Royersford Trappe and Schwenksville High Schools into junior highs and to construct a central senior high school. The proposal aims to serve nine districts with three junior highs for five to six years, then centralize and streamline transportation while preserving grade schools. Superintendent Abram Kulp urged extending the plan while noting transportation and vocational needs in an industrial county.
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Central Senior
Royersford
Collegeville-Trappe
Schwenksville
Joel B. Francis
Collegeville - Trappe
Montgomery county
Chester county
Montgomery
Upper Providence
Schwenks Ville
Lower Frederick
Perkiomen
Skippack
Collegeville
Trappe
Limerick
Francis
Area Marine 19 Returns Home On Surprise Visit
Parkerford marine Corp. Robert R. Rupert, 19, who spent a year in Korea, surprised his mother at their home in the kitchen. She embraced him with tears as their first reunion in over a year and a half. He wore the Purple Heart and United Nations ribbon, reflecting battle experience with Chinese Reds.
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AREA MARINE
CHARLES T. HEARN
Mercury
Parkerford
Korea
Corp
Robert R. Rupert
Edgar S$. Bartman
United Nations
Stewardship Banquet Speaker Calls Serving People Gospel
Dr. Clarence C. Stoughton guest speaker at Emmanuel Lutheran Church stewardship banquet tells 415 diners that serving people is serving God. He notes America’s role to heal a shattered world and cites aid to East Berlin as vital, while praising Berlin’s Christian presence. Stoughton, president of Wittenberg College, urges redoubled effort.
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Clarence C. Stoughton
Emmanuel ‘Lutheran church
Dr. Stoughton
Stewardship commission
United Lutheran Church in America
America
Germany
East Berlin
Berlin
Wittenberg college
Springfield
Ohio
Mercury
Emmanuel Lutheran church
Willenberg college
Luther A. Krouse
Emmanuel church
Stoughton
Harry W. Burdan
feft
Leroy R. Moyer
Burdan
Moyer
Chester Schoolmen To Vote On Jointure Move
Chester county board of school directors will vote on a plan for a jointure with Spring City Limerick and Royersford districts. Superintendent Clyde Saylor said he has no firm recommendation yet and may decide by Saturday. He noted Spring City could join a large nine district Montgomery County plan including Royersford and nearby towns. Montgomery superintendent Abram Kulp supported Spring City entering a jointure with county districts as part of the Royersford community. both superintendents said the state has no objection to cross county jointures.
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Royersford
Limerick
Spring City
Chester county
Abram Kulp
Montgomery county
county board of directors
Kulp
Montgomery
Rogersfford
Upper
Providence
Skit pack
Collegeville
Trappie
Lower Frederick
Perkiomen
Schwenksville
Juvenile Officers Installed at Sanatoga Grange Meeting
New juvenile officers were installed at Sanatoga Grange during a joint meeting of junior and senior members. Carl Renninger becomes master for the year, with Joyce Evans overseer, James R. Miller assistant steward, Ruth Evans chaplain, Ruth Ann Snell lecturer, Martha Donahue secretary-treasurer, Joan Rapp gatekeeper, Donna Benner flora, Alma Muller pomona, and Mrs Fayeatta Rapp matron. A wedding gift was given to Esther Renninger Garner and her husband, presented by Mrs Wilmer Renninger. Master Lewis Brant chaired as the meeting closed with an 11 p.m. snack featuring multiple buns.
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Sanatoga Grange
J. Clyde Borneman
Evelyn Rapp
Carl Renninger
Joyce Evans
James R. Miller
Ruth Evans
Ruth’ Ann Snell
Martha Donahue
JOAN RAPP
Donna Benner
flora
Alma Muller
pomona
Fayeatta Rapp
Esther Renninger Garner
Wilmer Renninger
Garnec
Lewis Brant
County Inauguration Quota to Be Set
Montgomery county's ticket allotment for the January 20 inauguration of President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower should be made available in a week or 10 days. Russell Knipe Hatfield personnel director for the county committee said he was in contact with a spokesman of the State committee in Harrisburg and the allotment will be known once the tickets arrive.
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Montgomery county
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Russell Knipe
Hatfield
State committee
Harrisburg
Knipe
Snow Thaws as Temperatures Rise in Pottstown
Snow melts slowly as temperatures rise above freezing and motorists navigate slushy borough streets. Pedestrians hug buildings to avoid splashing thawing snow while forecast calls for continued warmth and a chance of more snow tonight and rain tomorrow.
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Pottstown
Snow’s Handy Shield Douses Car Fire in Snow
Ralph Cauler of Ringing Rocks Pottstown RD 4 and station owner Harry Becker extinguished a car fire at Whitite y side Inn on Route 663 North Keim Street by throwing snow on the engine. The 1941 car suffered extensive wiring damage but the vehicle was saved.
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Pottstown
Ralph Cauler
Rocks park
Pottstown RD 4
Whititey side Inn
Route 663
North Keim ‘street
Cauler
Harry Becker
Main Drag Crowds and Winter Skies Bring Seasonal Scenes
On the main drag Mrs Max Creswell hurries home from shopping Wallit Auxer strolls up the thoroughfare Evelyn Freese chats with distant relatives Roberta Richardson keeps an eye on slick pavements Betty Will counts pennies John Hawkins receives congratulations Donald Noecker builds a snowman Ernest Kulp plays Santa Claus Doris Stein being the Life of the party Marye Ellis enjoys good sledding weather.
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MAX CRESWELL
WALLIT AUXER
EVELYN FREESE
ROBERTA RICHARDSON
BETTY WILL
JOHN HAWKINS
DONALD NOECKER
ERNEST KULP
Santa Claus
DORIS STEIN
MARYE ELLIS
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Lee Awl
YALE
NORMAN REED
Chester
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