Fleetwood Man Wanted by Police Found
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Patriot Want Ads Cost Little Subscribe Now to The Patriot A nd Help You to Sell, Buy It Carries All the News Or Rent Everything 1&ht Of the East Penn Valley * •* .. StRVWC KU r*i<WN, FLEETWOOD, TOPTOH AX2 SSSRtS^^ ***4S VOL. LXXXII KUTZTOWN, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957 Telephone 7343 NO. 43 WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY FRIDAY; FOUR EAST PENN Fleetwood Man Wanted By Police State Readying Papers To Transfer BANKS WILL BE CLOSED The four banking houses in the East Penn Valley will be closed j Friday in observance of Wash Found Dead Of Bullet Wound; Had College Tract For PNG Armory Use ington's Birthday. Two of them will also be closed Saturday. Papers are now going through i Last year an architect in the De j uf the contract when the construc Kutztown National Bank and the mills of various departments at partment of Military Affairs had tion program had to be halted. the Farmers Bank will be open Harrisburg which will ultimately re drawn a preliminary sketch of an for the usual Saturday banking Terrorized Woman With Gun Since the Federal government sult in the transfer of a site for a armory which would be suitable hours, 8:30 to 11 a.m. Both the pays up to 75 per cent of the cost National Bank of Topton and new Kutztown Armory, it was for the Kutztown unit of the Na I of Armory construction simple learned from the Capitol this week. tional Guard At that time, too. First National, Fleetwood, will State Police yesterday morning escapade when at gunpoint he The bullet entered the head just stopped at Moselem Springs. A wit (arithmetic would show that any De closed Saturday, but will re forced Mrs. Kathryn Troop, 28, also above the right ear. ness to the flight told police he The transfer has been held up Federal funds approximating a found the body of 36-year-old Ed 'armory to be built in Kutztown main open tonight, the former un of Fleetwood to drive him around Following the incident Monday, saw a man cross the highway and due to a misunderstanding between quarter-million dollars had been ward S. Burns of Fleetwood in a would be rather small unless the til seven and the latter, until six. State Police sent a teletype mes head toward Fleetwood It was this departments as to the proper pro earmarked for the construction of the county. Guard would realign its units to in muddy field near the old Center sage to officials of Maryland and information which led Krause to cedures to be taken. On the one the armory. Mrs. Troop drove into the drive crease the enrollment and use of School house in Richmond Town Washington, DC, with the thought search thc area where thc body was hand it was felt that the Depart way of the Moselem Springs Hotel No final plans or specifications the local facility. that Burns might have fled to rela found. It is located southeast of the ment of Public Instruction, under ship. and Jumped from the car and ran have been started. Battery A. 213th Anti-Aircraft Ar PTA to Co-Sponsor tives at those places intersection of R 222 and Fleetwood whose direction the State Teachers The body was found by Corporal into the hotel for assistance When According to a Washington re tillery Gun Battalion, the formal help came to her car Burns had In her report to authorities, Mrs Road. colleges operate, could just trans port published in the February name of the Kutztown unit is com Elwood Krause of the West Read fer title to land it held while on' Prenatal Series fled. He was never seen alive again Troop, said that she had just left Burns resided in Fleetwood with issue of "The National Guardsman" posed of 106 men with a few officers ing Barracks just before 11 a.m. Corporal Krause said that evi her home economics class in Read his mother next door to the Troop another hand it was felt that a the status of the Kutztown Armory not included. It Is at full strength special legislative act was neces March 21-May 2nd The trooper had searched the auto dently Burns took his own life with ing As she entered her car she de home. He served with the Marine may be in doubt. with a waiting list but regulations the .22 calibre pistol he still held tected the odor of alcohol and im Corps during World War II but did sary. do not permit enlisting beyond graveyard near the intersection of The report stated that a require in his right hand. The gun had Just mediately discovered Burns in the not sec overseas duty. The dead stated strength. R 222 and Fleetwood Road A set Announcement of the actual ment of the Bureau of the Budget been purchased a week ago in rear seal He was holding the gun man was married and the father transfer which will result with the halted all construction of armories Whether there might be an ex Hears Dr. G. W. Mathias; of footprints leading from the Reading. and ordered her to drive the car of a daughter. His wife and daugh signing of the papers now being which accommodated less than 200 ception made in the Kutztown proj Dr. Rohrbach, Speaker Junked automobiles led to the body \ certificate uf death by suicide into t le country. The ride lasted ter live in Kensington. Md. drawn up is expected within a week men. The requirement also set a ect in view of a planned building Burns was wanted on charges of was issued by Deputy Coroner about an hour and took the pair Besides his mother, he is sur ceiling on the amount of money At Mar. 11 Dinner or two. project at the Allentown headquar wilfully pointing a firearm, threat Myers Balthaser of Virginville. inlo the rural areas surrounding vived hy two brothers and iwo sis which could be spent to $800 per ters of the National Guard could Kli ctwood. E The Department of Military Af- The PTA of the KSTC Labora ening to kill and breach of the Death was due to a bullet wound ters, One of the brothers identified man or authorized strength or not be ascertained. Tairs will be the new titleholders peace following a Monday night and fracture of the right temple. Burnt disappeared after the car the body yesterday $1300 per man actually in the unit. tory school and the Pennsylvania then of about six acres of land lo Local guard officials are hoping Department of Health will cO-spon-1 " cated in the northwest area of tbe In several instances plans and that the directive will be changed sor a free Prenatal Series at the KUTZTOWN MAY HAVE campus of Kutztown State Teach specifications had progressed so far by the time specific plans are com college from Mar. 21 through May __ as to be ready tor the final award pleted. Clubwomen Enjoy ers College. 2. The instructor will be Mrs. Fran- A DRAO STRIP FOR New Support Indicated ces Pas Yotis. Reading, assisted by HOT ROD ENTHUSIASTS "Magic in Color" Mrs. Mildred Leidy, Boyertown. 37 Congregations Classes will be held from 2:00 to A Drag Strip is a possibility For Berks State Park Wayne Reidenauer 4:00 p.m in room five, at the rear for Kutztown Hot-Rods, reports By Mrs. Seigneus To Share Pre-Lent entrance to the Schaeffer audito Wayne Reidenauer. "Under su Along Saucony Creek Kutztown Jaycees TOYM rium at the college. Mrs. William pervision, of course!" Worship March 3 Thomson and Mrs. Allan K. Grim "Dopey" Duncan, Allentown, of Donate to Charities; represent the PTA on the planning i WKAP fame, and a director of "We are not now considering a ' Thc Department of Forests and To Pete Hrovvnies and committee. The series has the back the National Hot Rodding Asso t park site between Kutztown and Waters is trying to locate a site For Community Scouts March 14 ing of the local doctors, one of ciation, will address a meeting I Virginville; but I cannot predict withm 25 miles of the populous Dr. Fry, ULCA President, whom recommends that "Grand concerning the project, Friday, | what sites will be considered with- ! areas of Berks, Lehigh, Northamp- "Now I know how the fellows on from Wisconsin. Virginia, Mary "Magic in Color," gifts to chari mothers be included," and so they at 8 p.m., at the Town Hall. in the next few years." \ ton. Carbon and Schuylkill coun- 'This is Your Life' feel," said land, Ohio and Washington DC. We Speaker; Mass Choir ties, plans for future events, and will! "A farmer," Mr. Reidenauer re tk s for Wayne Reidenauer, when congratu write them all by hand." He also Will Assist "If you wish to propose this area ' • recreational park. Swim- the welcoming of three new mem ports, "is ready to donate a mile min lated the morning after, on having reported that the Hanover Jaycees, At the Mar. 11 supper meeting at as a State Park site, please submit K. boating, fishing, camping, bers claimed the attention of the of land, and there are offers of been acclaimed "Outstanding who recently earned $700 selling From every indication the Pre- 6:30 p.m. in the college cafeteria, more detailed information to this Panicking and other outdoor sports Kutztown Woman's Club at its Val trucks and bulldozers. More than Young Man of the Year" by the brooms, borrow children from a Lenten Service to be held in the the speaker will be Dr.