Postoffice Slot Cases Brim With Christmas Mail In Pottstown
Holly wreaths emerge from mothballs as the Potts town postoffice unpacks spare pigeon holes for the Christmas season. Ten to twelve temporary slot cases bulge with holiday mail to replace decorations, serving 55 regular clerks and holiday helpers. Mail to be delivered in Potts town is sorted by street in a second tier of pigeonholes. Continued on Page Twenty two.
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Pottstown
postoffice
Pennsylvania
Firemen Respond to Grill Grease Blaze at Drug Store
A Good Will Fire company pumper rushed from the station at 6:35 p.m. yesterday and returned ten minutes later after extinguishing a small blaze on the grill at Canning's Drug Store, 501 High Street. Fire Chief Robert Roth and William Tosto directed the response. the crew parked again at 6:45 p.m.
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Good Will Fire company
Canning’s Drug store
High street
Robert Roth
William Tosto
Weather Outlook for Eastern Pennsylvania Today
Eastern Pennsylvania weather today is mostly sunny and mild with highs in the 50s. Tomorrow trends toward partly cloudy skies and a slight cooling, not quite as warm conditions expected.
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Pennsylvania
Mercury Antics at Temperatures 50 to 32 and back
A fragment notes a mixed 50 mercury reading and 32 antics tied to a temperature sequence with terse, unclear context. The snippet mentions the word Temperat urate and numbers 50 and 32, suggesting a brief weather or device reading. No identifiable people or organizations are present.
Husky Diecaster Never Tires of Role As Santa Claus for Narco Children
Washington Franklin Auxer a third shift casting operator at Doehler Jarvis plays Santa for North Coventry Township children in Schenkel district. The 36 year old husky diecaster fills a velvet suit with white whiskers that resemble a Biblical prophet. He uses a family station wagon for excursions and has refined his Santa image by buying a new velvet suit in Philadelphia.
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Washington Franklin, Auxer
Pottstown RD
Red Corner
Schenkel
Chester county
Husky
Santa Claus
Narco Children
Pottstown
Washington
Franklin Auxer
Doehler-Jarvis corporation
INOL
Auxer
dante
husky diecaster
Coventry
Barbara
Nancy
Santa
Claus
Philadelphia
loggins
Brilliant comet-like object swishes in skies over Reading area
Pottstown area residents reported a brilliant comet like object moving through the southern sky toward Reading yesterday after 5 P.M. with three observers giving matching times and directions. Mrs. Ira Stoughton and her mother-in-law watched through opera glasses as the object flashed over Chester County and appeared to zigzag before vanishing. Raymond Donnelly in Royersford RD 1 also saw the phenomenon from Buckwalter.
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Reading
Pottstown
Ira Stoughton
RD 4
Gold Watches Awarded to Five Pottstown Bank Staff
Gold watches were presented to five officers and employees of the National Bank of Pottstown for long service at a dinner in their honor last night. About 25 fellow workers and bank officials attended in the Brookside Country Club’s William E. Mills room. Leonard Leaf, retiring as bank president in January 1948, received another watch during a morning board meeting marking 50 years with the bank.
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National Bank of Pottstown
Fred C. Herblich
Harry C. Gingrich
Ralph Geisler
William E. Mills
Brookside country club
Leonard Leaf
Leaf
Borough Collisions Dent and Scratch Fenders and Bumpers
A Philadelphia truck driven by Eugene Clarke collided with a Stowe coupe on High and Hanover streets causing minor damage to the left front fender and bumper of George R. Boyer. The truck sustained no damage.
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Eugene Clarke
Philadelphia
High street
Hanover street
George R. Boyer
Race street
Stowe
Paralyzed Boy Faces Christmas in Hospital Far From Home
A Pottsgrove area boy named Jimmy Rath born completely paralyzed from the waist down has spent the season in Memorial hospital after a fractured thigh from an incident at home on December 3. His father, employed by Doehler Jarvis, says the injury came as the child could not feel his lower limbs. Jimmy has endured recent treatment for severe pressure sores from long bed rest and a possible fall from a low bed, with a likely fracture from brittle bones due to disuse. He remains hopeful and cheerful despite lengthy hospital confinement.
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Pottstown
Doehler-Jarvis corporation
Children’s hospital
Philadelphia
Mercury
Jimmy Rath
Pottstown area
Memorial hospital
Santa Claus
James R. Rath
Gilbertsville RD
Santa
Maplewood Drive is Christmas Row in Maplewood
Maplewood Drive earns the nickname Christmas Row for its annual exterior light display. Since 1946 the Gorman home at 1000 Spruce Street has grown the decor with floodlights and multicolored bulbs inviting visitors. Mrs. Gorman notes grandson Dennis from Philadelphia looks forward to the decorations each year. The Struckmann home at 261 Maplewood Drive greets visitors as you enter the drive.
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Maplewood drive
Spruce street
Earl F. Gorman
GORMANS
Gorman
Dennis
Philadelphia
Ernst H. Struckmann
Sunshine Makes Day Perfect for Everyone
Balmy sunny day in Pottstown drew retirees outdoors and encouraged golf walks and driving. Temperature rose to 50 during a two hour span from 2 to 4 pm, with a 32 degree low at 7 pm and a jump from 38 to 43 between 10 and 11 am. Tomorrow expected to be partly cloudy and cooler.
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Pottstown
Christmas party scenes and local photos in Mercury
Inside today's Mercury you’ll see multiple local Christmas features. The Pottstown Moose contribute party coverage on page 20, the Pottstown Quoit club on page 35, a decorated home on page 12, a Christmas rush photo in the post office on page 22, a veteran National Bank of Pottstown employee on page 19, and an eight-column strip of area soldiers on page 2.
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Pottstown
Moose
Council To Consider $100000 Streets Program
The finance committee voted to forward a $100000 revolving fund streets program to council for January. J Wayne Knayse chair of the committee argues streets should be built only for those who want them, while Borough Manager Gulden notes some residents may demand new streets.
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council
council for
J. Wayne Knayse
Seventh ward
Horace B. Gulden
Knause
STRANGE
Westward
Gustav H. Schade Jr
Ninth ward
Paul Marshall
Tenth ward
Exonerations to Be Checked for Accuracy in Borough
The Westward police committee chairmen argued for careful review of a 1952 tax exoneration list amid concerns of dead residents and erroneous entries. Ward officials urged cross checking with former assessors and updated rolls to ensure accuracy before presenting to council.
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J. Wayne Knause
Seventh ward
PAUL MARSHALL
Tenth ward
Earl R. Strange
West ward
Don I. Sears
Earl
Strange
Inauguration Trip Offer For 20 Pottstown Students
Twenty Pottstown school children and five chaperones may attend President-elect Eisenhower's January 20 inauguration in Washington, D. C., with all expenses paid by the borough Republican club. Students pay only for meals. selections target civics-minded youths from St. Aloysius, St. Peter's, and local civic groups, with school boards to approve four senior and four junior pupils.
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Pottstown
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican club
William H. Reifsnyder
borough council
Washington, D. C
Bert Shaw
Deer harvest ends three day hunting season in Pa
In the final day of a three day season in the Pottstown area, two hunting teams from Saratoga and a father son pair reported three does shot near Juliana Center County and Wayne County. Robert Shellenger and wife noted a 110 pound doe plus decades of hunts. Paul Saltzer and his son Paul Jr. saw a 60 pound doe. the son made the kill after the father missed. The elder Saltzer, Koehler Jarvis inspector, later added a 140 pound doe. Four men returned from Ogdenberg Tioga County with one deer.
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doe
Wayne county
Paul Saltzer Jr
Paul Sr
Doebler-Jarvis corporation
Pottstown
Robert Shellenberger
Saratoga
Juliana
Center county
Koehler-Jarvis corporation
Rotarians Seek Funds to Replace Stolen Coats
Pottstown's Rotary club may collect donations from members to replace six coats lost by boys attending the YMCA State Older Boys conference held December 12 to 14. President Walter F. Heise announced the plan at an upcoming board meeting in December.
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Pottstown
Rotary club
YMCA
Walter F. Heise
Main Drag Personal News Recap
ON THE MAIN DRAG lists Phyllis Ruble recuperating from an operation Hunce Wilhelm taking a long trip Dottie Motro socializing Lawrence Griesemer hoping to hear from a friend Louise Keene receiving an early Christmas present Maurice Tunnicliffe starting early to work Marjorie Saylor knitting a pair of argyles Gary Peterman stuck in traffic Jean Noel awaiting Dale Moyer’s Christmas vacation plans.
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HUNCE WILHELM
DOTTIE MOTRO
LAWRENCE GRIESEMER
LOUISE KEENE
MAURICE TUNNICLIFFE
MARJORIE SAYLOR
GARY PETERMAN
JEAN NOEL
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Joseph Silknitter
Helen G. Himes
Rebekah Hemelright
FRED C. SELBY
BERTHA E. Keeley
Graterford
Beech
Evans street
Theodore S. Gallo
King street
CHARLES T. HEARN
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Finance Committee
PAUL SALTZER
Halfway House
Paul Jr
Ogdenberg
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