jWPORT Sister And Brother At Same Base THE KUTZTOWN PATRIOT Serving The East Penn Valley For More Than Seventy-five Years •• ,^j*n VOL. LXXVIII KUTZTOWN, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953 NO. 37 " ^eo " $'i2tii Master Farmer LT. COL. DRY RETURNS | - Council to Name National Bank • • J07.S TO LAW; WINS HONORS Kutztown Not Approved ror Degree Conferred For his 10 months in Korea as Tax Collector to Shows a Steady commander of the 21st AAA Auto­ matic Weapons Battalion of the 25th Hospital Location Under On George Schuler Infantry Division, Lt. Col. John W. Replace W. A. Dries Growth in 55 Years Dry recently received the bronze star medal. He also has the Korean The Hill-Burton Program service ribbon with two campaign Wife, Son a/id Friends See Budget to be Discussed Deposits in 1898 Were $6273 teU-sENBERGEE< stars. He was in action with his di­ "Kutztown is not a locality approved for hospital location under ISEIDEL. Ceremony at Harrisburg; vision at the Punchbowl, Heart­ the Hill-Burton program." In February; Police As Compared With , Farm Pictures Shown break Ridge and Triangle Hill This information comes from Mrs. Dorothy T. Shelley, assistant Make 14 Arrests $5,589,418 Now areas. His unit was one of the most director of the Department of Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ vania, Harrisburg. LOAN In the presence of 150, at the Penn decorated in Korea, having won At a special meeting Saturday at To grow from deposits of $6,273 more than 320 individual and unit "The Hospital Plan for Pennsylvania for the 1953 fiscal year Harris, Harrisburg, George W. Revision, sets forth the plan for providing hospital service for the 1:30 P. M., Borough Council plans on the opening day January 3, 1898, Schuler, Fleetwood, R. 2, was among awards and decorations. residents of Pennsylvania under the Hill-Bjrton program. As you to name a successor to Worth A. to $5,589,418 December 16, 1952 is six tp be awarded the degree of He has now resumed his law prac­ will note, the state has been divided into 83 a eas for hospital service Dries, tax collector, who died re­ the achievement of The Kutztown *• Me.aterpgg. Master Farmer, and a gold medal. tice with Snyder, Balmer and with the needs of each area set forth there! i. cently. National Bank. Capital on the open­ The others were O. W. Duvall, Ful­ Kershner, Reading, having been re- ] "The Reading area, number 1-35 in the I'lan, includes that por­ The 1953 budget will be discussed ing day was $25,000 as compared ton county; Earl Groff, Lancaster; leased from active duty. He has also tion of Berks County where Kutztown is located. The needs of the at the February session, and adopt­ with $150,000 maintained since 1928. T. L. McCarrell, Washington; H. J. aranged office hours at his home on people of the Kutztown area have been given consideration in plan­ ed the following month. Surplus and profits have grown Michael, Northampton; and W. H.Colleg e Hill. ning in area 1-35 and area 1-31, the Allentown area; the assumption It was reported at the January from $77,278 January 3, 1908 to being that some from Kutztown will go to Reading for hospital care $572,866 as of December 16, 1952. Yerkes, Jr., Bucks. and some to Allentown. session that Superintendent Nor­ The presentations were made by "You will note in reading the fundamental philosophy under­ man Schadler is checking the sewer Throughout its 55-year span The Norman Reber, field editor of "The Fleetwood Bank lying the Plan, that it is believed Pennsylvania should have larger mains for seepage. Kutztown National has paid 103 Pennsylvania Farmer." Mr. Schu­ hospitals and fewer hospitals. Accordingly, for areas where the resi­ The police arrested 14 for motor dividends to its shareholders, aggre­ ?N ler was also the recipient of a wal­ dents are within 30 miles of existing hospital facilities, it has not violations last month; investigated gating $519,200 plus $1,000,562 in­ let. President Succeeded been proposed that new hospitals should be developed because of two burglaries and five accidents; terest to depositors. \THE the duplication in plant equipment and facilities which result if Official U. S. Navy Photo Technicolor pictures of the farms _| and escorted five funerals. They On January 11, 1924 a Trust De­ ?APH a large number of small hospitals are developed." partment was opened with a fund Marcia and Royce Zimmerman Jr.-at the Naval Air Station, of the five Master Farmers were By Samuel H. Hoch also replaced 21 lights and answered AND shown. The letter comes as a climax to more than a year of preliminary 22 complaints. The police car mile­ of $591, which still functions with a Jacksonville, Florida work on the part of Wayne Reidenauer, a Technical Sergeant with YHOM James Keim, Penn State, was the the 6th Armored Division for four years, in World War II, eager to age totalled 2,032. present total of $321,256 and one cor­ To be /stationed at the same base, Center. He secured his boot train­ speaker. do something for his hometown. He has had the assistance of Calvin The by-laws of the Pennsylvania porate trust of $130,000 acting in its Jacksonville. Florida, is the "one- ing at Bainbridge, Md. Mrs. Schuler was presented with A. P. Merkel, Now 111, Has Weidner, a junior at Hahnemann School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Municipal Utilities Association fiduciary capacity of executor, in-a-thoVsand-or-more" privilege of Wave Marcia is in a coveted spot, an orchid corsage. Other "home- Served Since 1934; Was The two have in their possession tentative blue-prints for a 25-room were read. guardian and trustee. In the two de­ hospital, and four acres of land have already been offered. "I got partments, commercial and trust, a Wave IV^rcia and Aviation Appren­ serving as an Air Controlman side" fo}ks who witnessed the cere­ Director Many Years mony as guests of Mr. Schuler were the notion," says Sergeant Reidenauer, "after Yale DeLong died grand total of more than $6,000,000 tice Royce Zimmerman Jr., Allen­ Striker, in the tower at the Air Sta­ from polio." town. formerly of town. And Wave tion. Prior to enlistment she washi s son Harold, who is Worthy Mas­ Due to the ill health of Augustus 500 at "Burning of is carried in assets. "Organizations have already shown interest in our plans," he ex­ Ten-Year Growths Marcia. 19, older by a year than her employed by the Bell Telephone ter of Fleetwood Grange; Hettie P.Merkel, the directors of First Na­ plains, "and if they want further information they may call on me. brother, was there first. Both are Company. She trained at the Great Bechtel, Mr. and Mrs. Fremont tional Bank in Fleetwood, this week But right now, as this letter indicates, the State has no plans for Greens" Sponsored The growth in capital, surplus alumni of Allentown High, and pre­ Lakes Naval Training Center, and Schaeffer, Mr. and Mrs. Howard elected Samuel H. Hoch to succeed expansion, preferring larger and fewer hospitals, because of dupli­ and profits and in deposits, as com­ viously attended the local down­ recently completed instruction at Heffner, and Mrs. Jonas Schollen- him as president cation in equipment and facilities." piled by Cashier Nevin Hensinger, town schools. the Air Controlman School, Olathe, berger. Mr. Merkel has served as presi­ By Youth Council has been as follows: Royce Junior, who completes his Kansas. "Unsolicited" dent since its organization in 1934, Date Capital Airman School preparatory train­ Their father, Royce Zimmerman, "The nice part about it all," says and prior to that time was a direc­ OFFICERS ARE RE-NAMED Jan. 3, 1908 $ 50,000 Mr. Schuler, modestly, "is that the Legion Auxiliary Jan. 3, 1918 50.000 ing this week, will begin Aviation hand compositor of the Kutztown tor for many years. He is well BY BUILDING AND LOAN Ordnance shortly, at the Jackson­ Publishing Company, is also the honor was unsolicited." known not only in banking circles Dr. Lytle Speaker; Firemen Jan. 3, 1928 150,000 day! ville Naval Air Technical Training "make-up" man for the Patriot. Score Card . throughout the county, but also as Donates $71.00 to Directors and officers were re­ Assist; Hi-Y Gathers the Jan. 3, 1938 150,000 The Judging of those worthy of an outstanding business man, hav- named at the annual meeting of Trees; Dance Follows Jan. 3, 1948 150,000 the Kutztown Building and Loan 150,000 '•»» of each the degree was based on the opera- j ing conducted a farm implement, Dec. 16, 1952 will depo«it tion of the farm; business methods plumbing and heating business in Department Causes Association. Approximately 500 attended the E.P. Stockholders John Arndt Gets a Surplus and cutive times. and ability; general farm appear- Fleetwood for more than 50 years. They include the following: Pres­ "Burning of the Greens" sponsored ance and upkeep; home life; and For the past four months he has ident J. ty. Bittner; Vice President Profits Deposits Major Gen- citizenship. and Assistant Treasurer L. Russell at the fairgrounds by the Youth $ 77,278.57 $ 281,821.21 -aptain, First Rename Officers Farm Show First been confined to his home. Exceeds Membership Goal; Souvenir Booklets His successor as a director is R. Brooks; Treasurer Arthur Bonner; Council, assisted by the Kutztown 113,132.29 756,029.66 Stockholders of the East Penn John Arndt. FFA president and Souvenir booklets contained the Joseph Merkel, the bank solicitor, Gives $174 to Aid Secretary Howard Dietrich; and So­ Volunteer Fire Company.