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The Sentinel from Carlisle, Pennsylvania • 2

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I'll S. PAGE TWO THE EVENING SENTINEL, CARLISLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1954. Deaths TWO HURT AS AUTO NEW CUMBERLAND DEFENSE SCHOOL TO BE HELD HERE .4 jfcai. instructors A two-day welfare training course will be held Jan If A. II 1 i 2S-29 at the Carlisle Barracks, Building 120.

Harry P. Breen, Carlisle Civil Defense director, said today. The school, open to all persons in Cumberland, Adanw and Perry counties, will be sponsored by the State Council of Civil Defense. Ite purpose is the training of welfare instructors for the counties and communities in the area. Classes will be held 9:30 to 4:30 o'clock and are open to the public.

CD directors of all communities are urged to have representatives attend. Mrs. Gweneth Zaifoss, State welfare coordinator, will be In charge of the program, She will be assisted by Col. Edwin Feather, State training officer, and MaJ. Edwin Delong and Dale E.

Murphy, assistant State training officers. 4 i HITS GUARD RAIL Peru, IHiinois, Motorist Is Admitted to Hospital C. Baker, 44, Peru, 111., suffered several fractured ribs yesterday when the automobile he was driving crashed through a guard rail and went over an embankment along the Pennsylvania Turnpike miles west of here. State Police said Baker apparently dozed at the wheel as he was traveling west and lost control as the ear drifted off of the road. He was admitted to Carlisle Hospital.

With Baker was Sgt. Richard Powers, a soldier stationed at Fort Dlx, N. who was treated at the hospital for abrasions of the forehead. Richard E. Miller, Gardners RD1, aged 4, suffered siaip lacerations and a possible cerebral concussion yesterday when he fell from an automobile near his home.

He was admitted to Carlisle Hospital. Jan Hershey, two-year-old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hershey, 336' North Bedford Street, suffered a cerebral concussion Thursday in a fall from a high chair at her home. She was admitted to Carlisle Hospital.

Frank DeLone, Mechanicsburg, was fined $10 yesterday by Justice of Hit; Ffik-e H. M. Ihompson, Me-chanicsburg, after the car he was! driving struck another on the Trin-dle Road just east of Mechanicsburg. The other car was operated by Eric Jensen, Mechanicsburg RD3, State Police said. Try a well-prepared ad-vertisin? campaign in THE SENTINEL and watch your business grow.

i irri tt" ri MARGARET DONOVAN tries out a new type of telephone booth in Boston which enables her to carry on a conversation and still have both hands free to make notes. The test booth, only one of its kind In public service, consists of a recessed speaker and microphone with a switch and knob for sound volume control. An attendant is necessary since thene is no dial or coin box In the booth. (International Souwdphoto) ARCANUM MEETS TUESDAY Carlisle Council 502, Royal Arcanum, will hold its January contact dinner Tuesday evening at' 6:30 o'clock in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Home. Each member is 'i Wv-.

AUTO GLASS BROKEN Earl Harry. 112 A Street, reported to police yesterday that someone broke the glass in his automobile, which was parked at the Paul Snyder service station at Pitt and streets. The vandal broke the windows in the left rear and right front doors and the left side of the windshield. A SAFETY-GRAM urged to bring a prospective member to the meeting. TOWNSHIP TAXPAYERS MEET WEDNESDAY NIGH The newly organized Monroe Township Taxpayers Association A SMAll SOUTH KOREAN boy gets a large American turkey drumstick from Cpl.

Joseph Gallipoli, of Cleveland, as 7,800 children were given holiday meals at 32nd Infantry Regiment headquarters. The youngsters also were fitted with warm winter clothing. (International) will meet Wednesday night, Jan. 6, at 7:30 o'clock in the schoolhouse- at Churchtown. Wilbur C.

Bucher, me pieeuient, urges all taxpayers Ernest Samuel Piper iper, CarlW RD1, died in Carlisle Hospital to day. He was 59 years old. He was the son of the late Ger- miah and Rebecca Morrison Piper. He was employed by the Penn sylvania Power and Light Company for 21 years as a lineman. He was a member of the White Circle and Moose lodges.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred B. Piper; five sisters, Mrs, Arthur Wingert, Mechanicsburg; Mrs. Cleason Richardson, Gettysburg RD; Mrs. Sidney Witmer, Shippensburg, and Mrs.

Robert McCleary and Mrs. Daisy Yaunt, both of Orrstown, and one brother, Paul Mt. Rainer, Md. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock in the Lutz-Hoffman Funeral Home, 219 North Hanover Street, with Rev. Charles H.

Davis officiating. Burial will be In Westminster Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening. Mrs. Anna M.

Bale Mrs. Anna May Bale, widow of Robert E. Bale, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur B. Boyer, 1641 Market Street, Harrisburg.

She was 77 years old. She was a member of St. Paul's Methodist Church and the Patriotic Order of America, Harrisburg. In addition to Mrs. Boyer, she is survived by a brother, Oscar E.

Jones, Harrisburg; a sister, Mrs. Charles G. Knoche, Carlisle, and a granddaughter. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock In the Reese Funeral Home, 911 North second btreet, Harrisburg. Rev.

Robert Vowler will officiate. Burial will be in Springville Cemeterv, Boiling Springs. Friends may call tonight at the funeral home. William M. Kent William Mitinley Kent.

Ill East King Street, Shippensburg, a retired farmed, died yesterday afternoon at his home. He was 90 years old. He was born Dec. 211863. at Fannettsburg, the son of the late Alfred and Rebecca Markey Kent.

Surviving are hia widow. Mrs. Mary Kent; five daughters and a son, Mrs. Curtis Conrad, Jefferson, Mrs. Leroy Gibbs.

Carlisle. and Mrs. Galen Stover. Mrs. Albert Bitting, Mrs.

Arthur Burkholder and James Kent, all of Shippens- ourg; a brother, Robert Kent. Chambeneburg, seven grandchildren and four gTeat-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the M. Garfield Barbour and Son Funeral Home, Shippensburg. Rev.

Porter Seiwell will officiate. Burial will be In Spring Hill Cemeterv, Shippensburg. Friends may call Sunday night at the funeral home. John W. Hlnkle John W.

Hinkle, Bendersville, died Thursday evening at the home of a niece, Mrs. William G. Heller, Gardners RD1. He was 77 years old. Born at Pine Grove Furnace, he was the son of the late Abraham F.

and' Mary J. Knoch Hinkle. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Bendersville, and of the P.O.S. of A. Camp 370, of which he was treasurer the past 20 years.

In addition to his niece, he is survived by a sister, Mr. Charlotte Snyder, Llttlestown. Funeral services wll be held Mpnday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Dugen Funeral Home, Bendersville, with Rev. William E. Hoi-lingsworth officiating.

Burial will be In the Bendersville Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow night from 7 to 9 o'clock at the funeral home. Try a classified adv. in THE SENTINEL Two Escapes as Explosion Starts Fire in Home A blast believed caused by leak ing gas burst the walls and touched off a fire that leveled me ram t. Newcomers' new stone-faced home at 910 Allen Street in New Cumberland yesterday.

Newcomer and h' wife suffered abrasions end bruise but no serious injuries. Both said they had been made ill earlier in the day but had not suspected a gas leak. Newcomer said the explosion oc curred Just as he stepped into the bathroom of the- one-aiory home. The blast blew out the rear wall of the home, dropping the peaKea roof to the ground and blowing debris onto the carport roof the adjoining home of Robert DePeter, 906 Allen Street A rear coor ana window of the DePeter home were blown in by the blast. Almost simultaneously with.

the explosion, flames rolled through the house. The Newcomber escaped through the front door. New Cumberland firemen extinguished the blaze within a haif hour of the blast but the home was a total loss from the explosion itself, Fire Chief A. E. Hoover eaid.

Lower Allen Township firemen stood by in the Citizens Hose Company firehouse in the borough-while New Cumberland firemen fought the flames. The blast dropped the rear wall of the home, tore off the stone facing on the east end of the home, toppled the upper part of the chimney and ripped atone facing from lis lower areas. Apparently the main source of the explosion was in the rar half of the home since a central interior wall wae still standing after the fire. All the furnishings and clothing of the family were loet but firemen managed to salvage some fire-damaged documents. The Newcombers moved into the new home July 1.

of the Harris-burg Gas Company were on the scene shortly after the explosion investigating gas line for possible leaks. The explosion wa the second of the same general type in the area ia two weeks. On Dec. 17 an explosion and fire destroyed two double homes on North Twenty-first Street, Camp Hill, leaving four families of 12 people homeless. Flames Raze Barn West of Duncannon of undetermined origin last night destroyed a barn and damaged surrounding shed at the Eber-ole-Geavalescent Home four miles west of Duncannon.

Mrs. Christian S. owner of the home, estimated damage to be in excess of $4,000. The fire was noticed by an auctioneer at Brace's Auction House ft few hundred yards away, where a Thursday night auction was being held. Destroyed was the 40x60-foot barn and an old wagon shed nearby.

Also lost were about $200 worth of furniture stored in the barn and owned by Harvey Shearer, en employe; two electric brooder stoves ana one gas Brooder stove, a cement block maker, butchering tools jl ton of hay and a ton of straw, some fodder, between 50 end 60 chickens and 15 to 20 ducks, and a wagon. One of three burned goat will have to be destroyed, Mrs. Ebersole said. A tractor and some other pieees of farm machinery were saved. Use SENTINEL Classified Ada.

The cost la SMALL, but results are BIG. KNOW And OBEY The "Vehicle Code' And Through '54 You'll-Be SAFE On ANY Road. Bar! W. Cronlriio, Rep. KEYSTONE AUTOMOBILE CMJ! and CASUALTY COMPANY 217 W.

Pomfret St. Carlisle. Pa. Phone 161 Phone before 9:06 A. or after 6 P.

Newville Road Carlisle, Pa. Dry Cleaning and Pressing FREE CALL AND DELIVERY SERVICE Phone 2159 E. NICKEL, Prop. IAFETY-GRAMS Appear Saturdays BEAD Ihem HEjKD Them! ntfUtmmiMMiA TttatiA'mi 'I'll lnwm aWwafatjdjF FOR COMPLETE ll FOR COMPLETE 4 In Two Communities Civil Defense directors have been approved by Gov. John F.

Fine for two Cumberland County communities, Dale iS. Murphy, county coordinator said today. Sterrett Miller, newly-elected burgess, has been named director at Newville, replacing' Dr. Carl Richter, who resigned. At Wormleysburg, Raymond Thrush succeeds William Ross as director.

Ross resigned Jan. WARREN RITES TOMORROW Funeral services for John Frederick Warren, East Pomfret Street, will be held tomorrow afternoon at i 3 from the Lutz-Hoffman Funeral Home. MORRISON'S USED AUTOMOBILE AND WRECKING YARD Harrisburg Pike CARS BOUGHT AND SOLD Phone 2676-R MOTOROLA AUTO RADIO SALES SERVICE CRESSLER RADIO I4t Arch St. Phone MM BEETEM LUMBER 400-500 E. North St.

Phone 3 LUMBER MILLWORK OF ALL KINDS BUICK SALES and SERVICE SEVEN STAR GARAGE Entrance Phone 224 Carlisle Pike at Army Poet COAL WOOD, LIME, SAND, CEMENT GOODYEAR BROS. OFFICE AND YARDS South Bedford Ext-ended Phone 220 CLOTHING Men's and Ladles' Clothing MADE-TO-MEASURE ROY S. DEVENNEY '47 N. Cdlefle St Phone 704-R For A Square Deal DIAMONDS (Every Stone Registered and Guaranteed) See LINE LINE WATCHMAKERS JEWELERS 21 Dickinson Avenue Carlisle, Pa. DESOTO and PLYMOUTH ARNOLD MOTORS Spring Road and Street' Phone 1S22 Authorized Direct Dealer I MORRISON'S 1 51 Autos Collide on East-Penn Street Occupants of a station wagon and an automobile escaped injury last evening in a head-on collision on East Penn Street.

Police reported the car was operated by Betty Lou Wagner, 152 East Locust Street, who was traveling west on the one-way east-bound street, and the station wagon was driven bv MSgt. Paul E. McLaughlin, 230 McKnight Street. Police estimated the damage to the car at $250. The station wagon escaped damage.

a annnn HEATING and Fuel Oil Service Phone 1403 W. H. GARLAND, INC. York-Heat Sales A Service FUEL OIL COAL R-600 W. Louther St.

WILLIAM PEIPER Hudson Cars and Reo Trucks Sales and Service Lubricating General Repairing 288 East High Street Phone S59 Carlisle, Pa. INSURANCE We specialize in planned insurance programs for business, professional and individual risks. MALCOLM M. SIMONS SON 110 W. Hlflh 8t Phons 1S42 Carlisle, Pa.

IC VOU WANT A ir GOOD CAR Come Where They Are YINGER'S AUTO SALES E. High and Spring Garden 8t. Phone 6S-J MEMORIALS Better Lettering Better Foundations Highest Grads Materials Every Monument Guaranteed HEFFLEFINGER'S MEMORIALS L. W. Heffleflnger A 8on Phone 163 Newville, Pa.

JAMES E. CASEY MASON CONTRACTOR Brick A Concrete Block Work Tile Setting Stone Work Fireplaces A Gliee Brick 75 E. North St. Phone 80-R ME GUILD Crippled Ship Tries To Make CaLjf. Port SAN FRANCISCO (U.E) The crew of the freighter SS Perma-nente Silverbow worked desperately to bring their ship to port today as she slowly filled with water through a "gaping hole" in her side.

The Silverbow. 7.629 ton cement carrier, collided with the SS Colorado 10 miles southwest of Ft. Bragg, Calif. The Silverbow radioed she had a "gaping hole" in her side and that two holds were one-third flooded and another has three feet of water in it. The message said, however, that the ship had a good chance to make San Francisco.

Coast Guard patrol boats stood by the stricken ship In case It sinks. Taylor Attends G.O.P. Talk on Candidates HARRISBURG. K) Republican State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor attended a "governorship" huddle yesterday with Gov.

John S. Fine, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett and a number of other GOP leaders. The New Year's Day conference, in the Hershey Hotel, was the latest in a long series for Owlett, Fine, Montgomery County Republi can Fred C. Peters, State Sen.

G. Graybill Diehm of Lancaster County and John J. McClure of Delaware County on the all-important choice for the party's gubernatorial nomination this year. But it was the first of the conferences attended by Taylor, considered closely allied with U. S.

Sen. James H. Duff and at odds with Fine. QUAKE IN TENNESSEE. KXOXVILLE, Tenn.

(U.E) A mild earthquake ahook the ground over 120 miles of the Cumberland mountains northeast of here but was not felt at nearby Oak Ridge atomic installations. Est; 190J of the township to attend. NO. 239 A KEYSTOXK Automobile Cluh Membership Includes. Complete Kmerrency Koad Service Free S5.000 Accident Policy.

Free $5,000 Bail Bond. Low cost ante and Fire Insnrance and ether IMPORTANT advantage. Get The KEYSTOXE Facta Today! RAYTHEON SALES and SERVICE We Service All Makes. Radios Small Appliances BLACK'S RADIO TV 28 W. Louther St.

Phone 4434 RADIATORS Cleaned and Repaired Texaco Lubrlcattai Waahln Friendly Service "GUY" STOUFFER High and Wilson Phvne 138 ft SAD IF DRESS SHOP "Service In Fashion" HANOVER AND NORTH ST. Carlisle, Pa. PHONE 1464-R Misses Women's Junior DRESSES COATS and SUITS SPORTSWEAR International Harvester Trucks Tractors Parts aod Service BUTLER STEEL BUILDINGS Erection and Service MYERS-NEW IDEA Farm Eqpt HARPER R. LEMING Karper and Gates Carlisle, Pa. GEORGE E.

WEI5H Typewriters Adding Machines Sold Rented Repaired 103 N. Hanover St. Phone 1904 ZENITH Long Distance Televleion 8ales Service Installation See' CRESSLER RADIO MS Arc St. hon 14M TELEVISION SERVICE -SPEEDY. ECONOMICAL, tALL Iif4 CARLISLE RADIO A TELEVISION CO.

147 N. Hanover St 1 Tim ken OU Heat Vacuum Cleaner BILLET'S ELECTRIC SHOP Ail Kinds of Electrical Work and Supplies 115 8. Hanover St. Phone 1080-j GARAGE General Auto Repair Wilbur C. Handshew 129 N.

East St. Official Inspection Station GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING Official State InapeetlM BUD GOUSE Hanover Locust Sta. Phone 933-R rOi ic'rr rr rxri ir rre-eV' 16 THE PHRASE WHEN WE INSTALL THIS GAS THESE CAYS i iHi mli 1 1 ll CARLISLE HARDWARE 132 N. Hanover St. HOME OK DUPONT Paint and Paint Product High Quality Hardware Norge Home Appliances 6 LOi Ai ka Photo Greetings 141 N.

Hanover Street I 1 PHILCO RADIOS, TELEVISION AIR CONDITIONERS FACTORY AUTHORIZ. ED SALES SERVICE CALL 1244 CARLISLE RADIO TELEVISION CO. 147 N. Hanover St. Hale Peters Estate Plumbing and Automatic Heating: 55 W.

Church Carlisle, Pa. Bath Tubs and Shower Cabinets, Lavatories and Closet Combinations, Bath Room Accessories, Coal, Oil and Gas Fired Steam and Hot Water Boilers! Warm Air Furnaces. Air Condition-ers (any size) for a room or a house. Pa RADIO SERVICE FASTEST MOST DEPENDABLE radio service, all maxee In this area. CALL 1244 CARLISLE RADIO A TELEVISION CO.

147 N. Hanover St. Aspaalt and Asbestos Shingling Aluminum, Asbestos, Insulated Sidings KEYSTONE America's Finest Aluminum STORM-SCREEN VI PI TEX ROOFING Approved Bonded Roofers 5 E. Louther St Carlisle, Pa. 1 BE THRIFTY IN 1954 Make this a year of thrift and increasing financial security.

Open a 2 interest bearing savings account at the Farmers Trust Company and plan to make regular deposits throughout 1954. A Farmers Trust Savings Account provides a convenient method of accumulating a reserve fund for your future needs. Remember there's still time join our 1954 Christmas Club Be thrifty in 1954. Carlisle's Number One Bank With The Drive-in Depository TRUST COMPANY FARMERS Member 7. D.

I. C. Carlisle, Fenna. THE DRIVE-IN BANK FOR BUSY PEOPLE.

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