BUSINESSES
LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 13
Just added are a over a dozen articles reporting in
current business happenings in 1901 in Schuylkill
Haven as the town moves ahead in the 20th century.
The Call of April 14, 1950

OLD HOMES RAZED TO MAKE WAY FOR SELF-SERVICE MARKET
Two of the town's oldest dwellings were razed on Dock Street to make way for a large, modern self service supermarket to be occupied by Moyer's Market, now located at the
corner of Dock and Coal Streets.  The site of the new structure will be the homes that were occupied by Mrs. John Cake Sr. and Mrs. Eva Braun in the middle of the block of
Dock Street between Coal and Berger Streets.  These two old dwellings along with another building which was kept intact, were purchased by George W. Moyer three years ago
from Mrs. William Kline and daughter, Miss Elsie Kline.  Work was begun last week in tearing down the two oldest buildings and they have been leveled to the basement walls.  
The third building, to the south of the razed structures, will be remodeled and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Moyer and their family.  They will sell their home on Columbia Heights.  
The buildings were among the early homes built near the dock of the old Schuylkill Canal.  The middle building was known as McCaffrey's hotel and was a well known stopping
place for boatmen on the canal.  It is claimed that several members of the Mollie Maguires, a notorious band of lawless miners, that terrorized the coal region in the middle of
the last century, were captured in this hotel.  McCaffrey himself was noted for having a trained goose that marched with him in parades.
The Call of August 4, 1950

BROWN-e GIFT SHOP TO OPEN FRIDAY
A new store, modern in every respect, will be added to the Main Street business district with the opening of the Brown-e Gift Shop next Friday.  The gift shop will be operated
by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown, Leonard Street, with Mrs. Brown conducting the business of the store.  Mr. Brown will continue as an employee at the Haven Hardware
Incorporated store on Saint John Street.  Located in the former Dechert property at 114 East Main Street, recently purchased and remodeled by Harvey E. Dewald, the store
occupies the lower half of the ground floor.  Modern glass front with large display windows makes an attractive appearance and the store is another step in the gradual
expansion of the Schuylkill Haven business district.  Mr. and Mrs. Brown will carry a varied line of costume jewelry, glassware, china, hand made ceramics, Pennsylvania Dutch
novelties and linens.  On the opening day door prizes will be awarded.  A cordial invitation is extended by the Browns to their many friends and the public in general to visit the
store.
The Call of September 22, 1950

INCREASE IN BUSINESS PRESENTS NEW PROBLEM FOR KLAHR DRY CLEANERS
The installation of a large dry cleaning unit capable of handling six times the amount of clothing as the unit previously in use was thought by the Klahr Cleaners to be the
answer to their problem of keeping up with their requirements.  The new unit, a Vic synthetic dry cleaning machine, was installed early in July but the steady increase in
business continues to keep far head of the capabilities of the machine.  Milford Klahr, owner of the Klahr Dry Cleaners, is now faced with the need for adding another machine
but does not have the required amount of space in his present building on South Berne Street.  
Since starting in business March 5, 1947, the establishment has used a small unit capable of handling only about five pounds of clothing or five pairs of mens trousers.  The
new unit, which uses a synthetic cleaning agent rather than the petroleum base cleaner, can handle thirty pairs of trousers or about thirty pounds of clothing at one time and
take it through the complete operation of cleaning in about forty minutes.  The cleaning agent used is not inflammable and is claimed to be able to penetrate better and get the
maximum amount of soil from the clothing.  Clothes placed in the machine go through a cleaning process for eight minutes, then for five minutes the machine extracts the fluid
from the clothing.  The next step is an important part of the process of this particular machine.  In a reclaiming cycle, the moisture from the clothing that has mixed with the gas
is separated and the gas cleaned for reuse.  The elimination of moisture, which is present in clothing particularly on humid days, does away with the possibility of shrinkage
during the cleaning process.  The final step in the cleaning is the aerating or deodorizing of garments in which the odor of the cleaning fluid is completely dispelled.  After the
clothing leaves the machine, it is checked for spots that may have not been removed in the machine and then it is pressed.  Pants and coats are pressed on a modern presser
which was recently purchased. Shirts and dresses are pressed by hand.  
The plant on South Berne Street is manned by Saul and Richard Klahr, sons of the owner and Joseph Knarr.  Another son, Gerald Klahr, drives the pickup and delivery truck and
Mrs. Adele Llewellyn tends the store on Saint John Street.  Pickup and delivery service is maintained every day in town and on Tuesday and Friday in Cressona.  In addition to
the dry cleaning and pressing, the establishment also does repairing and dyeing.  
The Call of September 29, 1950

KAUFMAN'S STORE TO DISCONTINUE BUSINESS AFTER FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE
Kaufman's Store at 7 West Main Street will close its doors the end of the week after serving the public for more than forty years.  This store room will be rented to a local
concern as an office the first of the month.  The late Burt Kaufman started his business as a newspaper agency, before his marriage to the former Katie Meck in 1907, in the
building now occupied by Mrs. Hazel Stevenson on Saint John Street.  On December 15, 1908 they purchased the building at 7 West Main Street and on January 4, 1909, they
began to conduct their business in the hallway next to the store room, which was then occupied by the post office.  Charles Huy was the postmaster and was later succeeded by
Fred Reed.  At that time there were two newspaper agencies, the one operated by the Kaufmans and one operated by E. Bright Pflueger.  In 1927 both agencies sold out to
Frank Lewis.  The Kaufmans then devoted their entire time selling cigars, magazines, candy, pipes, ice cream, etc.  At one time they sold Wertly's ice cream made in Hamburg
and later they sold Aristocrat and at the present time, Hershey's.  Mr. Kaufman died on January 1, 1947 and his widow, assisted by the daughter Mary, who is now the wife of
Warner Reigle, continued to operate the business.  However, Mrs. Kaufman wishes to retire from business and devote her entire time to her home.
These four ads appeared in The Call in this time frame offering readers a choice on meals or Saturday entertainment
The Call of October 6, 1950

THRONGS JAM NEW MOYER SUPER MARKET AT GRAND OPENING THURSDAY NIGHT
Large crowds of people jammed the new Moyer Super Market on Dock Street at its grand opening last night and extended hearty congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and
Mrs. George Moyer, owners of the glistening, modern store, upon the great forward step they have taken.  The new store is a big contrast to the smaller corner market
operated by the Moyers before moving to the new location a half block away on the other side of the street.  The well lighted and perfectly arranged market is one of the most
modern to be found in this entire area. It has a gleaming interior with display cabinets and shelves lining the two sides and running down the center aisle.  The refrigerated
cabinets for the meats extends across the entire width of the store at the rear and above it on the glistening white wall is the large display sign, "Moyer's Quality Meats."
The store is brightly lighted throughout by the new slim line fluorescent fixtures on the ceiling.  The attractive front is finished in green carrara glass and features large plate
glass windows extending at a slight angle from the left side to the doorway at the right so that the doorway is recessed beneath the second story overhang and affords
protection to patrons during inclement weather.  Large baskets of flowers sent by friends and business associates were placed on the higher shelves and convenient cabinets
throughout the store. Patrons serve themselves with the most modern push carts through the wide aisles in the store.
For their grand opening, Mr. and Mrs. Moyer gave a large number of door prizes to the people who visited the store on its opening night.  The prizes included large hams,
picnic hams, dishes, glasses, glass sets and twenty four baskets of groceries.  The list of winning numbers is posted in the store and those not having claimed their door prizes
may come in today and tomorrow to receive their prizes.  
Mr. and Mrs. Moyer's new store is another step in the ladder to success that is so well known in this country.  Starting at the age of thirteen, he worked for Sam and Amy Lear
after they purchased the business of William Ball at 31 East Main Street, the site of the present Gordon D. Reed Agency office.  Harry Yost, who formerly managed the Mark
Detweiler butcher shop on Main Street, purchased and operated it and Moyer continued to work for him until 1932.  At that time he went with his father, Harry Moyer, who took
over the meat market at 344 Dock Street.  In 1940 the elder Mr. Moyer died and the son continued to operate the store for his mother.  Following her death in 1943, Moyer
purchased the business and operated it at the corner of Coal and Dock Streets until this week when he moved to the modern quarters in the properties on Dock Street which
he purchased.  Mrs. Moyer, the former Miss Ada Rhen, is now associated with her husband in the business.  
The Moyers and their children, Barbara, thirteen and Nedra, ten, moved from their home on Columbia Heights to the home adjacent to the store.  The property on Moorenoll
Street was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Howell Aregood who will move there after renovations have been made.
The Call of April 13, 1951

TRUST COMPANY OPENS PARKING LOT AND WALK UP WINDOW
The Schuylkill Haven Trust Company announces the opening of its new customer's parking lot and outdoor walk up window for the convenience of its patrons.  The extra
service window and the large parking lot are located at the rear of the building with access direct from Wilson Street.  Banking customers may now drive onto the lot with their
automobiles, walk up to the window located on the rear wall of the building and transact their business without actually entering the bank.  A roof over the window gives
protection from bad weather.  An electric communications system permits the customer to talk to the teller without raising his voice.  The speaking unit is located near the
window and enables the patron and teller to carry on a normal conversation even though the teller is standing behind a bullet proof one inch thick glass.
A specially designed system of small doors prevents direct contact between the persons outside and inside.  In order to open the outer door the inside door must be closed.  
The customer places his bank book and deposit in the compartment and the teller then must close the outside door before he can open the inside panel which enables him to
handle the deposit.  During the past year an addition was built at the rear of the bank building.  This new section contains the bookkeeping department and this new outdoor
walk up window service.  The teller inside has all the regular equipment for the transaction of business as is found in the main section of the bank.
In recent years, parking in the Main Street area during the rush banking hours presented a problem.  The large parking lot at the rear of the bank will now permit the bank
customers to drive within a few steps of where they will walk up to a teller's window.  Any banking transactions except new accounts, loan applications, or transactions
requiring long discussion may be handled at this window.  The special teller's window will be open during all regular banking hours.  During banking hours, the parking lot will
be reserved for the use of the bank's patrons.  The teller's window from which the customer can be served without entering the bank is a new banking feature that is becoming
popular with banks in the larger and newer cities in the United States.  The introduction of this type of service by the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company marks the first time it has
been put into practice in this area.
The Call of June 1, 1951

LOCAL CABS INSTALL RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
The Haven Cab Company this week began using its new radio communication system to facilitate service to its taxi customers.  The $2,000 Raytheon installation includes a
receiver and transmitter in two cabs and the main control panel with sending and receiving units at the Boussum home on West Liberty Street.  At the home, a sending antenna
has been erected, but the cabs having only a short aerial rising about fifteen inches above the car roof.
The communication system permits the dispatcher to contact the cabs within a twelve mile radius and send them on another call without having the cab come back to the office
to check to see where it is to go next.  An example of how fast the system operates was demonstrated this week when a cab user near Seven Stars called in to report that she
had left a key on the back seat of the cab.  Mrs. Luther Boussum, wife of the cab company owner, immediately contacted the cab which happened to be completing a call on
Garfield Avenue.  By the time the person who had lost the key went to her front porch to wait for the cab it was pulling up at her home and delivering the lost key.  Mr. Boussum,
in explaining the conveniences of the new system stated that the cab phones will be available for emergency use.  That is, if there is an accident or an emergency of any nature
at a place where a phone is not available and a cab happens to be in the vicinity, the cab can be hailed and the radio phone used to contact the central control who can then
place a regular phone call to the police, doctor, ambulance or firemen.
The surprising part of the system is the small amount of space required for the receiving and transmitting units in the cabs.  It is all contained in a box about the size of a small
tool kit in the trunk of the cab.  The size of the main control board is modest while the mechanism is located in small units at the rear of the desk.
The Call of June 29, 1951

GREENAWALT'S CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Salem Greenawalt are celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary as merchants in Schuylkill Haven.  To observe the occasion they are holding a special 25th
anniversary celebration at the store Friday and Saturday by offering a long list of anniversary specials and presenting a gift to each lady customer visiting the store today and
Saturday.  The store will be open from 8:00 a. m. until 9:00 p. m. on these two days.
Mr. and Mrs. Greenawalt started in business June 26, 1926 at the present location at 19 Parkway.  The building was formerly a bake shop and an insurance office for William
Roan.  In the twenty five years they have been in business, the Greenawalts have enlarged the store three times.  As the store business expanded it became necessary to take
in the space used by the insurance office and the partition was removed so that the entire front part of the dwelling could be used.  Other expansions were toward the rear of
the building.  The Greenawalts now have the enlarged store room and two apartments in the rear of the building, an apartment above, a garage at the rear of the property and
an apartment above the garage.  The store, started primarily as a grocery and notions store was later expanded to include ready to wear clothing and other dry good items for
men, women and children.  A feature of their store has been delivery service, begun when the store was first opened and continued to the present time.  Along with the
expansion of the store has been improvements such as the installation of fluorescent lighting, new wall dress cabinets and remodeled windows as well as frequent painting of
both the interior and exterior of the building.
Mr. Greenawalt is a native of McKeansburg.  Mrs. Greenawalt, the former Miss Elsie Updegrove of Muir, taught school in McKeansburg for two years after graduating from
Kutztown State Normal School and met Mr. Greenawalt.  They were married twenty eight years ago.  The Greenawalts are receiving the congratulations of their many friends and
customers in Schuylkill Haven and the surrounding territory they serve.
The Call of February 29, 1952

PAUL KELLER OPENS MODERN SERVICENTER ON CENTER AVENUE
The newly constructed Keller's Esso Servicenter, located on Center Avenue where the new Pottsville boulevard enters the borough at the northern limits, opened for business
yesterday.  The glistening white structure, trimmed in red, has a wide approach and driveways that are easily accessible for cars traveling in either direction.  Featuring the
ultimate in modern service station designing, the servicenter has a large serve yourself showroom, a large service area that will accommodate two cars for lubrication, oil
change or washing.  On the left side of the building are the rest rooms, finished in ceramic tile with the most modern of accessories.  An office is located at the rear.
The new servicenter will be operated by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Keller.  Mr. Keller has worked in service stations since 1927.  From 1939 to 1946 he operated the Keller Servicenter
in Cressona.  In 1942 he started in business as a fuel oil distributor and in 1946 gave up the service station business to devote full time to the fuel oil and oil burner business.  
Winfield Moyer of Schuylkill Haven and Joseph Hummel of Friedensburg are employed at the service station.  Fred Bittle, local high school athlete, will work part time.  Although
the new service station has opened for business, the grand opening celebration has been postponed to a later date.
The Call of May 9, 1952

BURKERT'S MODERN CONFECTIONERY STORE
This week Burkert's Confectionery opened in the newly built store room on Main Street directly opposite Dock Street.  Fred Burkert, who operates the store, moved from his
temporary quarters in the Feger and Feger store to the new location on Monday but is having his grand opening today and Saturday.  The new store gives him larger display
space for the full line of Ehly's baked goods which he handles as well as for the peanut roaster, soda fountain, booths, tobacco and candy counters and magazine racks. The
change of location comes shortly after the twenty fifth anniversary of the date Burkert started in business.  He opened for business in 1926 at 109 East Main Street where the
Keller Sweet Shop is now located and remained there for five years.  He then moved to 103 East Main Street where he conducted his business until a month ago.  The new store
was built by Realtor Gordon D. Reed at the front of the former Berger property which he recently purchased.  It has an attractive Ohio sandstone front with large plate glass
windows. The interior is brightly lighted with fluorescent lights.  Additional equipment provides an attractive, modern store.
The Call of September 5, 1952

HIRAM FISHER BUYS DAIRY FROM JOSEPH KAUFMAN
Kaufman's Dairy, operated for over thirty years by its founder, Joseph Kaufman Sr., was purchased by Hiram L. Fisher Jr., and the first deliveries by the new owner were made
on Monday.  The new owner, who has been in the milk delivery business for 22 years, 21 of which was with the Rothermel Dairy, has already started on an improvement and
expansion program.  Farmers who supply the milk for the dairy have been contacted and asked to supply the milk with a greater butter fat content.  Fisher intends to install
some new equipment for pasteurizing milk and is increasing the line of dairy products to include, in addition to milk and cream, chocolate milk, buttermilk, butter both salted and
unsalted, cottage cheese and Orange Ade.
Two trucks will deliver milk to customers in Schuylkill Haven and immediate vicinity.  The one will be manned by Fisher himself and the
other by Joseph Kaufman Jr., son of the retiring owner.  The new dairy owner is the well known member of the Schuylkill Haven school board, a post he has held for ten years.  
A son of Hiram Fisher Sr. of East Main Street, he is a graduate of the Schuylkill Haven class of 1927.  In high school he was an all around athlete, playing three years of football,
basketball and baseball.  In his senior year he was captain of the gridiron team.  After graduation he attended Schuylkill College.
At the present time he is a member of the Lions' Club, the Liberty Fire Company, the North and East Ward Social Clubs and the home associations of both the Cressona and
Schuylkill Haven American Legion Posts.  He is married to the former Miss Marion Repp of Schuylkill Haven R. D.  They live at 229 Paxson Avenue with their two sons, John and
Thomas.  The oldest son Kenneth is in the Air Force stationed in California.
The Call of September 19, 1952

FAREL Y. BECKER HAS FRANCHISE FOR STUDEBAKER
Farel Y. Becker, local television and appliance dealer, has secured the franchise for Studebaker cars and trucks and after remodeling his building at Haven and Hess Streets,
has the new cars now on display.  Becker returns to the automotive field as a new car and truck dealer after being away from it since selling the Dodge and Plymouth agency
which he conducted on Center Avenue for seven years to W. Randolph Martin.  He retained the used cars but had disposed of most of them.  He entered the television and
appliance field and now with the taking on of the Studebaker agency announces, "I am not going out of the television and appliance business.  In fact, we'll be in it bigger and
better than ever."  The appliance end will continue to be in charge of Lloyd Hubler.  The new agency will feature the two winners of the 1952 Mobil Gas Company run in which
the Studebaker Champion under the direction of the American Automobile Association won over all competition, averaging 27.8 miles per gallon.  The new Studebaker V8
Commander averaged 25.5 miles per gallon to lead in its class.  The agency will also handle a full line of trucks, known for economy and durability.  When changing the building
to more satisfactorily accommodate the new cars, Becker equipped a modern shop with the latest type equipment to service all makes of cars.
The Call of February 6, 1953

LECHNER SELLS MEAT MARKET TO DIRECT KEYSTOKER SALES
Lechner's Meat Market on Monday changed ownership when the business was sold by Charles a. Lechner to Mr. and Mrs. Gus Kriston of Greenwood Hill of Pottsville.  Mr.
Kriston worked in the store all last week to become acquainted with its operation and on Monday took over the management.  Prior to purchasing the Lechner store, Mr. Kriston
had engaged in the plumbing and roofing business in Pottsville.  He served for three years with the Army in the South Pacific during World War Two and upon being discharged
returned to the plumbing and roofing business.  Some time ago he injured himself in a fall off a roof and was ordered by his doctor to seek other kind of work.
Lechner's Meat Market was established thirty years ago by A. B. Lechner, who operated it until his death in 1945.  Charles Lechner, his son, studied electrical engineering at
Keystone Institute at Reading for a year but then returned to assist his father in the business.  He conducted an electric appliance store in th evenings in the Lautenbacher
property across the street but later discontinued this business to join his father full time in the meat and grocery business.  Upon the death of Mrs. A. B. Lechner in 1947,
Charles Lechner took over the business and has operated it until this week.  
Lechner immediately stepped into a position as sales manager for the Keystone Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of the Keystoker.  He will spend a week in the factory
learning the construction of the units and then will direct the sales program of 67 agencies throughout the state and establish new dealers to handle the Keystoker.  The
Keystoker Manufacturing Company was founded by Ted Bair and Clarence Shuey, well known electricians and appliance dealers.  In the three years they have been engaged in
manufacturing stokers their sales have continued to expand and the company is developing into a nice sized industry.
The new sales manager is married to the former Gertrude Cassel, a former commercial teacher in the local high school whose home was in Hummelstown.  They have two
children, Suzanne and Thomas, who are a junior and freshman respectively at State College.
The Call of October 23, 1953

DEVELOPMENT BEGINS
A great transformation is taking place in the Hill Farm area.  The Hill Farm, long a landmark in Schuylkill Haven, is suddenly becoming Sunnyside Terrace.  The name Sunnyside
Terrace was applied to the site shortly after the land on the north side of the highway was purchased by Walter F. Mullen for development purposes.  Although a large sign
denoted it as Sunnyside Terrace, it still was looked upon as the Hill Farm.  Even the fire which totally destroyed the barn but left the silos standing did not bring about a change
in concept.  Last week the transformation began.  The silos came down, the debris from the fire was removed and bulldozers were brought in to begin the work of transforming
the site into a real estate development.  The heavy ground moving equipment has changed the appearance of the hillside.  Streets are being laid out and utility lines will be
installed.  Realtor Mullen with the Peter Lee Development Company expects to have the street finished by the end of November and shortly thereafter begin erection of the
first ten homes in Sunnyside Terrace.  The real estate development is another forward advance being made by Schuylkill Haven, the most progressive in the county.
The Call of February 11, 1954

READING RESTAURANT REOPENS FOR BUSINESS
Believing that Schuylkill Haven with its fine churches, schools and civic organizations lacked a good restaurant to make it a completely outstanding community, a young Greek
immigrant decided to do something to remedy the situation.  He worked for seven months and saved enough money to start him on the project of converting the Reading
Restaurant from, as he described it, a "Greasy Greek" to a spotlessly clean, attractive restaurant.  The Reading Restaurant on Saturday night had its grand opening as a greatly
improved eating and dining place.
It is now under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Danny Zachariades.  Mrs. Zachariades, the former Callie Vranas, is the daughter of the former owner, Gus Vranas, who seven
months ago moved to Atlantic City.  Danny, as he asks his customers to call him, came to this country a year ago after marrying Miss Vranas, who had gone to Greece for a visit.  
At that time he spoke no English, but could talk fluently in Greek, Turkish and German.  He was born in Istanbul, Turkey but lived in Salonika, Greece.  He served six years in the
Greek Army.  Since coming to this country he rapidly learned the English language and definitely feels that he now belongs in this, his adopted country.  As evidence, he
erected a musical decoration above the archway between the counter bar and the dining area which carries the notes of "America, My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of
Liberty."  
The change of the old Reading Restaurant began three months ago.  The old booths were removed, partitions torn away and the kitchen moved to the very rear of the building.  
Now the Reading Restaurant presents an amazing new appearance on the interior.  Stainless steel equipment was installed behind the counter.  The dining room has ten new
tables with modern chairs, the walls are knotty pine wallboard with a shiny varnish finish.  Ceilings are of attractive tile block.  New linoleum is on the floor.
The kitchen walls and ceiling are finished with aluminum paneling for ease in keeping it spotlessly clean.  A large window enables patrons to see into the kitchen.  Stainless
steel is used for kitchen equipment.  In charge of the kitchen is Mrs. Nola Zerbe.  Danny's main idea in changing the Reading Restaurant which up to this time remained the
same as it was for thirty five years without any major changes being made is to give the town a good restaurant.  He will feature low cost meals for working people during the
week, special Sunday dinners and as a house specialty will feature T-bone steaks.
The Call of April 21, 1955

PRIZES AND GIFTS GALORE TO MARK OPENING OF NEW ACME SUPER MARKET WEDNESDAY
The grand opening of the new Acme Super Market off Center Avenue next Wednesday morning brings to Schuylkill Haven the largest market in the entire county.  In keeping
with the giant size of the store, the grand opening will be on a colossal plane.  Formal opening ceremonies will consist of the cutting of the ribbon at the entrance by Richard
Davis Jr.,borough manager of the borough of Schuylkill Haven in the presence of officials of Acme Stores.  The opening event will be marked with special prices throughout the
modern self service market and valuable door prizes to be awarded on the first four days the store is open.  The main prize will be a $100 bond.  Second prize is a $50 bond and
the third prize will be a $25 bond.  In addition twenty five baskets of food will be given free to patrons on the grand opening days.
FUN AND GIFTS FOR KIDDIES  Kiddies will find special entertainment on the parking lot.  A merry go round and a Kraft mechanical horse will provide free rides for youngsters.  A
candy apple maker will provide this special treat and with all this will be free balloons, buttons and lollipops.  Mother and dad will find their free samples distributed throughout
the spacious store.
SPECIAL STORE HOURS  Special store hours for the grand opening are as follows: Wednesday, 9:00 a. m. until 9:00 p. m., Thursday and Friday, 8:30 a. m. until 9:00 p. m., Saturday
from 8:00 a. m. until 9:00 p. m.  Ample parking space will be found on the grounds surrounding the store.  A paved area, marked off for maximum parking but allowing sufficiently
wide driving lanes will accommodate 118 automobiles.  The unpaved field adjoining the parking lot will accommodate again as many cars.  Access to the store is from two
directions.  From Center Avenue, cars can enter by turning between the Keller Esso Servicenter and the railroad arch.  Cars driven through the center of town can reach the
store by driving through Willow Street.  A bridge spans the creek and the paved road leads directly to the parking area adjoining the store.  The immense structure measures
200 by 65 feet.  Of the 200 feet length, 126 feet is used for the super market proper.  The remaining space is devoted to freezer and general storage space, a large area for the
numerous compressors, receiving room for green groceries, a disposal room, furnace room and rest rooms for the employees.
MAGIC CARPET DOORS  Magic carpet doors will open when the customer steps on the carpet leading into or out of the supermarket.  Inside the patron will see the most modern
store in the area containing more than three thousand different items of merchandise.  Along one wall is the largest produce operation in the county, a glistening white
refrigerated unit extending for sixty five feet.  The large dairy and bakery departments are along the other wall, both equipped with the most modern of merchandising display
equipment.  Four long center steel shelf units display the regular grocery items.  The self service meat department is located at the rear of the store.  The cellophane wrapped
meats will be displayed in the refrigerated units in front of the glass enclosed meat cutting and packing department. Although the meat department is self service, customers
wishing special service can get it by pushing a bell button conveniently located at each end of the counter.  A separate section is devoted to frozen meats and another section
to luncheon meat cuts.
LATEST CHECKING BOOTHS  Six of the latest type checking booths are equipped with electrically controlled conveyor belts.  They are designed so that the checker is two
orders ahead of the boys who are putting the orders in containers for the customers to take from the store.  For the four days of the grand opening, the new Acme Market will
employ sixty people.  Normally, the store will employ about forty persons.
MICHAEL NAYDOCK MANAGER  Michael Naydock, who had worked at the Pottsville Acme Market, will be store manager of the new Schuylkill Haven Market.  Robert Becker, who
is presently manager of the Acme Store on Main Street, will be assistant store manager.
William Eckroat is superintendent and Clarence Sharp, general superintendent of Acme stores in this district.  Richard Maguire will be head produce clerk.
LOCAL CONTRACTORS, SUPPLIES  The modern Acme Market was erected by Ken Heiser, local contractor for Paul A. Keller and Keller in turn leased the building and grounds to
the Acme Stores.  Manager Naydock estimated that the store with its modern equipment, refrigeration, etc., approaches the million dollar mark.  Construction of the building was
completed twelve days ahead of schedule.  
The new structure has a combination heating and air conditioning system.  In the winter the building will be heated by  large Losch coal burning unit installed by the Losch
Boiler Sales Company of town.  The heating-air conditioning unit and duct work was installed by the Power Engineering Company of Wilkes Barre.  Lester Rhen, local electrical
contractor, did all the electrical wiring for the new building.  Joseph W. Nagle did the amesite work for the large parking lot.  Hepler Brothers of Cressona had the lathing and
plasteringsubcontract.  Ebinger Iron Works supplied the steel girders and beams.  Scott Millwork furnished most of the building material and the roof trusses.  Hahner Brothers
of Pottsville put the roof on the structure and the Empire Paint and Glass Company of Pottsville installed all the glass and porcelain.
The Call of June 23, 1955

BIG THREE DAY GRAND OPENING FOR CLELAND'S NEW STORE
A gigantic three day grand opening will celebrate the moving of Cleland's Home Furnishings to its larger, modern store in the adjoining building.  Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week will be open house for the public to come in and inspect the new quarters and the grand display of distinctive home furnishings.  Special store hours
have been set aside for the opening celebration.  On the three big days, Cleland's will open at 10:00 a. m. and close at 9:00 p. m.  An array of more than fifty major prizes, ranging
in value to $100 each, will be awarded to persons attending the grand opening on any of the three big days.  The winners selected Wednesday night need not be present to
win.  Announcement of the prize winners will be made in Thursday newspapers.
The new, spacious display room is the completely renovated building occupied by the Acme Market before it moved to the new super market off Center Avenue.  Remodeling of
the building began as soon as the Acme moved.  Rear partitions were removed.  The salesroom now utilizes the entire 150 by 30 room.  A short stairway and doorway were
constructed at the end of the building to connect with the 100 foot long building that had been erected last year as a display room and warehouse.  The walls and ceilings were
attractively painted and with the new fluorescent fixtures shows off the home furnishings to their best advantage.  A glistening blue enamel front makes an attractive and
inviting appearance.  
The original store beneath the Central Hotel has been converted to an infants department.  The Rio Theatre building will continue to be used as a warehouse.  Part of the Singer
warehouse across Wilson Street will also be used for storage.  Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cleland started their furniture store two and a half years ago.  Their growth since that time
has been almost phenomenal.  Starting in the small store room beneath the Central Hotel and using the garage at their home for storage, they soon had to look for additional
warehouse and display space.  All available warehouse space was rented.  During the Christmas season, vacant store rooms were occupied for toys and other special seasonal
items.
Last year, Cleland's built a large one story structure to the rear of the Acme building.  Cramped for display facilities, they immediately considered taking over the Acme when
plans were first started for the new Acme Super Market.  The expanded quarters now enable Cleland's to display the major furniture lines that are to be found in leading
furniture stores throughout the nation.  Among the well known home furnishing names to be found in the Cleland store are Heywood-Wakefield bedroom and dining room
furniture, Taylor living room pieces, Spartan, Kuehne, Rockland and American dinettes, Sealy and Serta mattresses and Rembrandt lamps.  Among the new lines added is
Samsonite luggage.  Walter Cleland and Mrs. Cleland, the former Olga Matonis, are assisted in their business by Mrs. Earl Goas in sales, William Goetz in sales and delivery and
Richard Sterner and John Rhoades in delivery.  They extend a cordial invitation to the public to come in and view the new store and its display of beautiful and outstanding
home furnishings.
The following four articles appeared in The Call under the heading of "Know Your Industries", a series describing the town's manufacturers.
The Call of May 22, 1953

ZULICK MILL STARTED OPERATION 28 YEARS AGO IN SMALL WAY MAKING UNDERWEAR
Zulick's Mill, located at the rear of 128 Center Avenue, had its very humble beginning in a small building on Lincoln Street across from the former Harvey B. Moyer garage.  Rudy
Moyer and his son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George Zulick, started the mill 29 years ago making silk underwear.  At that time there were approximately twenty
employees and twenty five machines.  Mrs. Zulick designed and made all the patterns.  Following the death of Mr. Moyer, the Zulicks continued with the business and in
November of 1940 moved to the present location behind their home.  After the move, the manufacturing of all types of knitted outer wear was begun.  Articles such as
cardigans, creepers, blouses, pol shirts, beach wear and sweaters for ladies, girls, boys and infants are made and sent to wholesale houses in New York from where they are
distributed throughout the country.
As the production of the factory has been increasing there are now approximately 80 employees and 95 machines.  All of the machines have been replaced within the past five
years and are of the most modern types.  The two story mill is 38 by 84 while a receiving building at the rear, where the materials are brought is 40 by 40.  
Both Maida and George Zulick are still very active in the running of their business.  S. H. Hainley is the superintendent and manager and Julia Dolan is the floor lady.  Miss Doris
Reed takes care of the office work.  Mervin Yost is the machinist and Roy Schumacher the shipping clerk.  The shipping is done by the Arrow and Speedway carriers.  The goods
are shipped in the evening and are at the wholesale house by the following morning.  Approximately 2500 dozen articles are finished at the mill in one week.  During the rush
season, work is also done for the Argo Knitting Mill.  
Work is steady at the mill and very little time is lost during the year by lack of work.  The employees are given vacation with pay and participate in hospitalization and life
insurance plans.  A very important and recognizable figure at the factory is the Zulick's little dog
"Cindy" who spends much of its tie supervising the activity.  Besides the factory, Mr. and Mrs. Zulick are justly very proud of their beautiful flowers and fruit trees which are
planted on one and a half acres behind their receiving building.  There are all kinds of flowers and thirty fruit trees planted in the area and make a very colorful scene.  Roy
Schumacher takes care of the planting which was formerly done by the late Edward "Ducky" Weiser.
The Call of May 29, 1953

BASHORE KNITTING MILL BEGAN OPERATIONS 30 YEARS AGO
The history of the Bashore Knitting Mill, located on South Garfield Avenue, is the well known American success story, a humble beginning, hard work, steady growth and finally
a large industry.  Thirty years ago in 1923, Willis A. Bashore started as a manufacturer in a small building measuring only 16 by 24 feet located on Haven Street next to the
Emerich Bakery shop.  The room had two sewing and four knitting machines.  The first shipment of yarn came to the Pennsylvania station and was hauled by the young
manufacturer in a wheel barrow to his newly established industry.  Yarn is still purchased from this first supplier.
The budding manufacturing concern made ladies vests with cotton lace trim.  It was a cotton knit garment.  Production and demand increased and in two years time larger
quarters were needed.  The plant was moved to South Garfield Avenue, the site f the present building.  A cow stable was purchased from John Butz and rebuilt to provide
factory space.  This small building proved to be inadequate and in the next 22 years, eight additions were made as the business expanded.  The last addition, made in 1947, was
a large brick building measuring 88 by 37 feet three stories high.  From the small 384 square foot room where the industry had its start, it grew to the present 28,000 square foot
structure.
Form manufacturing ladies vests, Bashore Knitting Mills went to producing ladies union suits, a childrens line of bloomers, panties, waist suits and vests, a mens line of knitted
underwear and t-shirts and ladies sleeping garments and pajamas.  In 1929 the factory was manufacturing 250 different styles of products.  During World war Two, the factory
worked round the clock on three shifts for knitters and full time for the sewing department making olive drab undershirts for the Army.
The Bashore Knitting Mills has been a proving ground for machinery manufacturers.  Individual motors on sewing machines were first tried by the Singer Sewing Machine
Company at the local industry and when it was proved successful, the factory began a gradual changeover from pulleys on a main shaft to the individual motor driven
machines.  The most recent innovation was the installation of the first press conveyor.  A conveyor belt carries the goods to the steam presses where they are processed.
The enlarged factory now has sixty regular knitting machines and two Britton flat knit machines.  Employment is given to 145 persons whose employee benefits include
hospitalization insurance.  Today, Bashore Knitting Mills concentrates on only five products made exclusively for one outlet, one of the largest chains in the country with stores
in all the leading cities across the nation.  The factory makes mens mercerized athletic shirts, shorts, t-shirts and Snuggles.  The Snuggles were first manufactured in 1926 and
were among the first to appear on the market.  Production today is steady and has a favorable future outlook as attested by the "Girls Wanted" sign hanging alongside the office
door.
The Call of June 12, 1953

UNION KNITTING MILL FOUNDED IN 1892 IS OLDEST INDUSTRY STILL IN EXISTENCE
An old slaughter house located just off Union Street at the railroad tracks to the rear of the Coldren home on Saint John Street was the starting place for three of Schuylkill
Haven's industries.  The first enterprise to occupy the building continues today as Schuylkill Haven's oldest existing industry, the Union Knitting Mills.  Others to get their start
in the same building were the Meck Knitting Mill and D. D. Coldren.  In 1892 the firm of Bowen and Reed began in the manufacturing business.  Jacob D. Reed, a cobbler for
eighteen years, heard that John Bowen, who lived on the Adamsdale Road, was seeking a partner to join in starting an underwear mill.  The two men met at a church lawn
festival on Saint John Street.  Jacob Reed approached John Bowen, said he heard he was looking for a partner, and wondered whether he would consider him for a partner.  
Bowen agreed.  Reed borrowed his share of the money to start the industry.  The men converted the old slaughter house into a factory and began manufacturing ladies knitted
vests.
By 1899 they had outgrown the small building and decided to build a larger structure.  They selected the present site of the Union Knitting Mill on William Street on the west
side of the railroad tracks and erected a frame two story 40 by 60 foot factory.  In the next few years the business grew rapidly.  Within  a year it became necessary to add a 20 by
40 foot one story section on the west side.  The next year a second floor was added to this new section and a bleachery was built at the rear of the building.  In 1908 a two story
brick knitting room was added to the rear on the west end.  Expansion continued in 1915 when a one story 30 by 80 foot addition was made to the bleachery.  Seven years later
the original frame bleachery was torn down and a new brick building erected.  The final addition was made in 1936 when another brick building was constructed to join the mill
and bleachery and to extend a second floor over half of the bleachery.
Present floor space is now 22,000 square feet.  Several years ago the basement was excavated, concrete floors laid and the stone foundation walls cemented to give an
additional 5,200 square feet of storage space.  Changes in management personnel occurred down through the years but the Reed name continued.  Early in the twentieth
century, Moses Leininger of Orwigsburg, came into the business as a partner.  In 1907 Reed and Leininger purchased the interest of John Bowen and began trading as the
Union Knitting Mills.  Moses Leininger died in 1914.  The Leiningers were represented by the older son, Edgar, until 1917, when Mr. Reed bought out the Leininger interests.  He
continued the business alone until 1921 when he and his two sons, Ivan and Willis, incorporated the business.  Ivan, the older son, had begun working in the factory in 1911.  
Willis went to work for his father in 1916.  
In October, only three months after taking his sons into the business, Jacob Reed contracted double pneumonia and died at the age of 64.  The two sons took over the
management of the Union Knitting Mills and have continued to operate it up to the present time.  Ivan is president and Willis is treasurer.  Miss Ellen Canfield of Cressona is
secretary.  The third generation of the Reed family is represented in the factory, Stanley and Clair Reed, sons of Ivan Red, are employed in the business.  The two sons of Willis
Reed, Richard and David, are students in college.
The industry has continued for 61 years as an underwear manufacturing concern.  From the original ladies vests, the factory has expanded its line.  Now the mill makes ladies
vests, union suits and bloomers; mens athletic shirts, briefs and two button shoulder union suits; misses vests and panties; boys athletic shirts, shorts and ankle drawers;
infants shirts and childrens knit pajamas.  David Smarr, with offices in the Empire State Building, New York City, is sales representative for the Union Knitting Mills.  The brand
names; Reed's Play, Age, UKM Underwear and Reed's Nu-way are found in the leading stores of the nation from the east to the west coast.
The peak of production was reached during World War Two when 145 persons were employed in making khaki athletic shorts for the army and white t-shirts for the navy.  At the
present time Union Knitting Mills gives employment to 75 people, many of them long time employees.  Five have been working with the Reeds for fifty years or more.  They are
Fannie A. Schwenk, Alma M. Naus, T. Raymond Nye, E. Gertrude Hummel and Jacob C. Naus.  Although the oldest factory in town, the Union Knitting Mill has kept pace with
modern improvements throughout all its departments.  It presents a clean and pleasant place for working and producing underwear products.
The Call of July 3, 1952

REIDER SHOE FACTORY STILL THRIVING
The popular Big and Little Sister shoes, sold to college and high school students and their younger sisters by the leading stores in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and
other large cities in the east and midwest have their origin in Schuylkill Haven.  This well known trade name is registered by the Reider Shoe Company and the high grade
shoes are manufactured at the large Reider factory on West Main Street.  Stores selling Big and Little Sister shoes are Macy's, Best and Company, Lord and Taylor of New York
City, Strawbridge and Clothier of Philadelphia, Marshall Field and Carson, Pierre and Scott of Chicago and L. S. Ayres of Indianapolis.
These popular shoes had their origin back in the depression years.  Falling prices and curtailed sales caused most shoe factories to go into the production of cheaper shoes.  
The Reider Shoe Company which up to this time had been manufacturing a medium grade shoe, decided in the face of the collapsing prices to step up to a higher priced, better
grade shoe.  Concentrating on quality, they gradually built up a demand for their product in the nation's biggest stores.  They weathered the depression years and have
continued to grow and prosper up to the present time.
The Reider Shoe Company had its beginning in 1915.  Two years previous to that time, a group of nine factory workers started the Reading Shoe Company in what was formerly
the Sharadin furniture store, across from the A & P store on lower Main Street.  The venture did not succeed and the business was sold at sheriff's sale.  The four Reider
brothers, B. Frank, Russell, George and Edward, bought the small factory and began making baby hand turn shoes.  At that time all shoes were hand turn; that is they were made
inside out and then turned to put the sole on.  At the time the four brothers entered the shoe manufacturing business, their father, B. Frank Reider Sr. was superintendent of
the Walkin Shoe Company on Parkway.  The infant industry started with five employees turning out 36 pairs a day.  The business grew but in 1917, three of the four brothers
entered the armed service and participated in World War One.  The remaining brother, B. Frank Reider, took over their interests and operated the factory until they returned in
1919.  Only two of the brothers, George and Russell, returned to the shoe manufacturing business and again became members of the firm.
Business increased following World War One.  The brothers decided to get additional floor space by making their building three stories instead of two.  To do this they
borrowed jacks from the car shops and secured railroad ties from the Reading Company and raised the building so that another floor could be added in the basement.  The
Reiders worked at night after the factory closed for the day.  When the structure was raised to the desired height, contractor Paul Naffin put in brick walls and made a basement
work area.  Even with this additional floor space,the factory still required more working area within a short time.  In 1922 a new factory was started at the site of the present
building.  The factory moved into the new quarters in February 1923.  Here production was increased to four hundred pairs a day.  A change in manufacturing was introduced at
this time.  The Reider Shoe Company started to make medium grade of Goodyear Welt shoes.  The manufacturing of baby shoes was dropped and work began on making misses
and growing girls sizes.  In 1924 B. Frank Reider bought out the interests of George and Russell Reider, who started a new industry, the Haven Shoe Company in the building
now occupied by the Alberta Knitting Mill on Hess Street.  William C. Kline entered the firm and became superintendent of the factory.  He continued in this capacity until his
death in 1941.
The industry continued the manufacture of medium grade shoes until the depression year of 1932 when prices dropped so drastically that it was impossible to follow and
continue on a profitable basis.  While most shoe factories turned in desperation to cutting costs and reducing the quality of the shoe in order to meet lower prices, the Reider
Shoe Company decided to move in the other direction.  The factory was converted into a high grade manufacturing plant.  New lasts and patterns were installed.
The third generation of Reiders entered the shoe manufacturing business in 1931 when Robert Reider, son of B. Frank Reider Jr., came into the factory, starting at the bottom
to learn the business.  He eventually became foreman of the fitting room and shortly after the death of Mr. Kline, took over the management of the factory.  Two other sons of B.
Frank Jr. became a part of the firm in 1945 following their return from the armed services in World War Two.  Thomas, who was a Navy pilot, entered the factory as production
manager.  Richard, who was in Army Intelligence, returned to take charge of sales in the Midwest.  With the three sons and father together in 1945, the Reider Shoe Company
was reorganized.  Robert became president, Thomas secretary and assistant treasurer and B. Frank Reider, treasurer.  Richard, who now lives at Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of
Chicago, directs the sales for the Midwest for the Reider Shoe Company and is a salesman for the Walkin Shoe Company.  The fourth generation of Reiders is now working at
shoe manufacturing.  Allen, son of Robert Reider is working at the factory.  
Following the reorganization, the industry started on a sales program for one specific type of shoe; a flat heel, sport type shoe for the miss and growing girl.  These shoes are
the saddle oxford, loafers and school type shoes, registered under the trade name of Big and Little Sister Shoes.  The design of the shoe made for the older girl is duplicated in
the smaller sizes.  The larger stores have found these shoes to be popular in families with girls of different ages where they buy identical shoes.  Since the building was first
erected in 1923, three additions have been made.  At the present time there are 110 workers employed, some of whom have been with the firm since it was first organized in
1915.  The employees participate in a profit sharing plan with shares being distributed at the annual Christmas party.  Other benefits enjoyed are vacation and holiday pay and
Blue Cross.  Production now is between 650 and 700 pairs a day.  
The Call of November 3, 1955

CHANGE BITTLE NAME TO BAST AND DETWILER
The name of the D. M. Bittle Funeral Home on East Main Street has been changed to the Bast and Detwiler Funeral Home.  The business has been conducted for the past ten
years by Harold Bast and C. C. Detwiler, since they purchased it from D. M. Bittle at the end of 1945.  The change being brought about now is merely a change of name.  The
organization and conduct of the business will continue as it has for the past ten years.  Both Bast and Detwiler are licensed morticians.  Bast has been associated with the
business for thirty one years.  He began working for Mr. Bittle when the combined furniture store and undertaking establishment was known as Bittle Brothers.  
The funeral home has had several name changes since its founding by D. M. Wagner.  When D. M. and Oliver Bittle purchased it from Mr. Wagner, the furniture store and
undertaking business was known as Bittle Brothers.  When Clinton Confehr purchased Oliver Bittle's share, the name was changed to Bittle and Confehr.  In 1935 when D. M.
Bittle became the sole owner, the furniture store was discontinued and the large structure remodeled to make it one of the finest funeral homes in the area.  The name then
became the D. M. Bittle Funeral Home.  When the business was purchased by Bast and Detwiler, the name was retained.  Plans were made early this year to change the name
and the listing in the telephone directory this year carried the new name of Bast and Detwiler Funeral Home.
Detwiler, a native of Souderton, first became associated with the funeral home here eighteen years ago.  After graduating from Eckels College, he served his apprenticeship at
the D. M. Bittle Funeral Home.  Except for the period of four and a half years when he served in the air force during World war Two, he has been with the funeral home.  He is
married to the former Lucille Maberry.  They have three children, Eddie, Tommie and Deborah.  Bast is married to the former Helen Confehr.  Both Bast and Detwiler live in the
large funeral home building.  Bast occupies the apartment on the second floor while Detwiler occupies the third floor apartment.
The Call of November 17, 1955

CRESSONA WAR VET BUYS BUTZ JEWELRY BUSINESS
The Harry S. Butz jewelry store on Dock Street was sold this week to Samuel R. Kurtz of Cressona.  Mr. Kurtz took over the business on Tuesday.  The jewelry store and jewelry
and watch repair business was started by Mr. Butz in the fall of 1928.  He served with the armed forces in World War One and was wounded in France.  After the war he took
advantage of government training for disabled veterans and took on the job training in jewelry manufacturing with a firm in Reading.  After completing the course he worked for
the firm.  In 1928 he decided to start in business for himself.  He and Mrs. Butz, the former Mamie Wagner, have operated the business ever since.  They were assisted for
about three years by their son Bright Butz after he returned from serving in the armed forces in World War Two.  The son was called back into service and is now stationed at
Westover Air Base in Massachusetts.  Another son, Gerald W. Butz, lives in Philadelphia.
The new owner, like his predecessor, is a disabled veteran.  He lost both legs in World War Two.  He studied watchmaking and jewelry at the Bowman Technical School in
Lancaster.  He came to Cressona in November 1952 to work at his trade in his newly built home, constructed to government specifications to enable him to move about in a
wheelchair.  He soon left the wheelchair to move around on crutches and then mastered the task of walking with artificial legs without the use of any support.  He now drives
and walks with ease.  
Kurtz is married to the former Miss Minie Gauker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gauker of Cressona.  They have one son, Sammy, age eight.  The father in the short period of
time he has been in Cressona has become active in community affairs.  He is treasurer of the Cressona Lions Club, the historian of the American Legion, is a member of the
Cressona Memorial park Association and is an active member of Bethany Church, Cressona Booster Association, Boy Scout Committee and the Beckville and Friedensburg gun
clubs.  In taking over the new business, he expressed the desire to continue to give the good service and turn out the fine workmanship that had been given by Mr. Butz in his
many years in business.
The Call of March 22, 1956

FIRE GOES OUT AFTER SIXTY THREE YEARS
A fire that has been burning continuously for sixty three years was permitted to burn itself out on Saturday as Ehly's Bakery came to an the end of its sixty four year existence.  
Bakers Charles Ehly and George Foose baked the last bread, cakes and cookies on the late Friday night and early Saturday morning shift and then permitted the coal fired
furnaces to burn out.  The one fire had been burning since the time Mr. and Mrs. M. George Ehly moved their one year old business from the starting place on Parkway to the
present Dock Street address in 1893.  The fire in the second oven had been burning continuously since it was built and put in operation forty five years ago.  At the close of
business at six o'clock Saturday evening, a large banner reading "Closed" was placed in the glass doorway, a smaller sign, "retiring from business," placed in the left display
window and "For Sale" signs placed in each of the two windows.  It was a sad day for Mrs. George (Miriam) Dunlop, daughter of the founders of the business, who has lived
almost all of her sixty five years at the bakery, and for Charles Ehly, 67,her brother, who has worked there as a baker continuously since 1911.
The age of the last owners, illness of Mrs. Dunlop, who also worked for the business, retirement of William Luckenbill, veteran wagon and truck driver, plus competition from
big bakery businesses brought the closing of Schuylkill Haven's last bakery.  The business has been up for sale within the last year, but with no buyers, the bakery was closed.
Within the last decade, three other local bakeries went out of existence.  Michel's, which at one time baked as high as 3,000 loaves of bread a day and had a stable of eighteen
horses for delivery, discontinued that part of the business as sales of baked goods declined with the increased competition from large baking firms.  Emerich's Bakery on Dock
Street closed its doors shortly after the death of Mr. Emerich. The Hellenthal Bakery, conducted for a short time, was also forced to close.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Ehly started in the bakery business, specializing in making pretzels, in 1892 in a building at the rear of the present Greenawalt's store on Parkway.  Mr.
Ehly, who was born and reared in Schuylkill Haven, had previously worked as a boatman on the old Schuylkill Canal.  He learned the baker trade at the John Ehman bakery which
was then at the location of the present Sweet Shop.  He worked for three years as a baker at the almshouse before going in business for himself.
In the summer of 1893, Mr. Ehly moved his bakery to the present location at 300 Dock Street.  The original bakery is still a part of the Ehly property.  About 49 years ago the home
and store room were built in the front and four years later the new oven, warehouse and garage were built at the rear.  Up to the time of World War One, the main item
manufactured was pretzels.  In 1919 the making of pretzels was discontinued and bread, cakes, cookies and pies became the leading baked goods.  At one time the Ehly's had
three wagons and later trucks on the road delivering their products and enjoyed a thriving business at the store and at other retail outlets.  In recent years, Burkert's store with
its big display window opposite the entrance of Dock Street onto Main has been a leading outlet for the baked goods.
Many grown men and women, with the announcement of the closing of the bakery, will look back upon the days when they as school children stopped in at the bakery to
purchase cookies or cakes or perhaps some of the candy that was carried as a supplemental line.  Others will remember the delicious birthday cakes that came from Ehly's.  
Above all will be the recollection of the spotlessly clean Ehly's store.  Others, in the present age may be more elaborately appointed with special showcases, modern lighting,
etc., but none can ever surpass the little baked goods store located between the North ward school building and Christ Lutheran Church in cleanliness nor in the pleasantness
of its clerks, Mrs. Dunlop and in the last ten years Miss Dorothy Jury.  The founder of the business died twenty years ago and his widow nine years ago.
The Call of June 7, 1956

PIONEER GAS STATION GOES
The decision of the R. R. Sterner Company to discontinue gasoline and oil service the end of this week marks the end of one of Schuylkill Haven's oldest gas stations.  The sale
of gas and oil to the steadily growing number of automobiles was started on June 1, 1923, when the Sterner's moved to their present Center Avenue location from Parkway
where they had started in the tire and vulcanizing business.  At that time a twenty foot highway ran past the building and down the side to an underpass, across the plot now
occupied by the Acme store and through another underpass to the old road to Pottsville.  The newer highway was constructed in 1930.  Gas and oil service, lubrication, car
washing and automobile mechanical service were discontinued to provide additional space for the rapidly growing tire business, retreading service and appliance sales.  
As far as is known, only one older gas station exists in Schuylkill Haven.  Earl Williams who recently sold his business property to L. C. Driesbach, conducted the service station
and garage on West Main Street since 1921.  The business was started earlier by Jim Schuckers who first conducted a livery stable and then with the advent of the automobile
changed it to a mechanical business to service the horseless carriage.
The Call of June 14, 1956

YOUTH CENTER CORPORATION PLANS TO PUT INDOOR SWIMMING POOL IN OLD LIGHT PLANT
Amos M. Strause, president of the Youth Center Corporation, outlined the possible use to which the no longer used borough light plant could be put for youth activities, at a
meeting of the organization last evening at the community ambulance building.  Encouraged by the cooperation assured by the borough council at its meeting Monday night
when he appeared before the body to ask permission to convert the structure to a youth center, the members of the Youth Center Corporation decided to hire an architect to
draw up preliminary plans for the building.  President Strause felt that removal of the reinforced foundation in the generator pits, although expensive, would not be too great a
handicap to overcome.  He proposed that an indoor swimming pool be installed where the pits are now located and the remainder of the first floor be developed as quarters for
the Boy and Girl Scouts of town.
By placing beams across the building, the forty foot high interior could have a second floor.  Ideas of the Youth Center officers and directors plus suggestions of the architect
will be discussed prior to the drawing up of sketches of what can be done with the building.  Strause explained the position taken by borough council.  The council will be
willing to lease the building to the nonprofit youth group for one dollar a year.  The ownership of the structure will remain with the borough.  Before the lease is executed,
council desires the youth organization to make a study of the cost and to present its plan for the building for the satisfaction of the councilmen.  The borough will advertise for
sale the present equipment in the building.  Bids will probably be opened in August.  It
may be September before the structure will be available for conversion.  In the meantime, plans will be made so that work can begin shortly after the light plant interior is
cleared.  Attending the meeting were: Amos Strause, Mrs. Harold Coryell, Mrs. Harold Geschwindt, Mrs. Kenneth Croneberger, Sam Tracey, Fred V. Knecht and Roy Schumacher.
The Call of August 9, 1956

FIRST PLANS SUBMITTED FOR CONVERTING LIGHT PLANT INTO COMMUNITY CENTER
Preliminary plans for converting the former electric light plant into a Youth Center were submitted to the members of the Youth Center organization at a special meeting
Tuesday night at the Community Ambulance building.  The main feature of the plans is an indoor swimming pool on the first floor, utilizing present pits that had been used for
power generating machinery.  The plan as submitted by Phillip Knoblauch, architect of Pottsville, had a pool 37 by 48 feet located at the rear of the large structure.  Members of
the youth group were of the opinion that the pool should be considerably longer and should be located in the long front part of the building.  In addition to the pool, the first
floor plan has locker rooms for men and women, a machinery room for the heating plant and equipment required for the swimming pool, a large reading and social room, a game
room and a supervisor's office.  For the second floor, the plan had a meeting room, a dance floor 36 by 42 feet, another meeting room and men's and women's lockers and
toilets.  The preliminary sketch had no construction above the pool.
Members who had inspected the light plant building reported that it is considerably larger than it appears from the outside.  Across the front it measures approximately 140 feet
for a depth of about 38 feet.  The boiler area to the rear is approximately 68 feet square.  The height of the building in the front is about 30 feet, while the rear is about 50 feet
high.  The present building has two large entrances in the front on Haven Street and two rear entrances.  In order to get a better idea for the possibilities, President Amos
Strause will arrange for the group to inspect the building on Saturday at 2:00 in the afternoon.
The former light plant is not yet available for conversion into a youth center.  The borough first will have to dispose of the equipment in the structure.  Borough council has
given assurance, however, that the building may be used for a Youth Center upon a lease basis for a minimum amount if the council is satisfied that the plans submitted for the
building will be for the good of the community.  Bids for the machinery will be opened at the regular council meeting Monday night at Town Hall.  In previous proposals for the
sale of the machinery and equipment, all bids were rejected because they were considered too low.  Although efforts have been made to sell the boilers and generating
equipment for continued use, the only bids received for from scrap dealers.
In the meantime Gordon D. Reed was authorized to contact the architect to come to come to a definite understanding about the obligation of the youth group in connection with
the drawing up of plans at various stages.  Planning for the conversion of the building will be continued while the borough works toward removing the machinery from the old
light plant.  Amos M. Strause was reelected president of the Youth Center Corporation.  Other officers elected were Mrs. Ethel Coryell, vice president; Mrs. Kenneth
Croneberger, corresponding secretary and Mrs. Irvin Blankenhorn, recording secretary.  Mrs. Earl C. Unger has another year to serve as treasurer.  Attending the meeting were
Amos M. Strause, Gordon D. Reed, Walter Coker, Roy W. Schumacher, Fred V. Knecht, Ken Heiser, Earl Stoyer, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Blankenhorn, Mrs. Kenneth Croneberger, Mrs.
Robert Sausser, Mrs. Ethel M. Coryell, Mrs. Reynold Schwartz, Mrs. Earl Unger, Sam F. Tracey, Clyde Dewald, Clarence K. Shuey and Attorney James D. Williamson.
The Call of August 16, 1956

SALE OF STORE ENDS 35 YEARS IN BUSINESS FOR GEORGE GRAY
The sale of Gray's Men's and boys' store to Paul Elberti and Thomas Asenavage of Minersville brings to a close thirty five years of being in the clothing business for George H.
Gray.  The Gray name will disappear from a store front and in its place will be the Men's Store, the same business name as used by the new owners at their Minersville store.
Gray started in the clothing business at the age of 21 when he and his brother John, then 23, were put in charge of the clothing store that had been purchased by their father
and Samuel Dewald four years before.  Dr. James C. Gray and Samuel Dewald purchased the old Underwood store at a bankrupt sale in 1917.  The name was changed to Berger
and Company.  Four years later, the Gray brothers joined Dewald in the store and the name was changed to Gray's.  In 1937, John Gray sold his interest to his brother.  In that
same year the store was modernized with new fixtures and an attractive store front.  George Gray continued to conduct the store at this location until March of 1952 when he
closed out the business and moved to 103 East Main Street.  A new store, Boussum's, was opened at the old location at 10 West Main Street after extensive remodeling was
done.
Gray operated the smaller store at 103 East Main Street until August 3, when the business was purchased by Elberti and Asenavage.  During his business career, Gray has taken
an active interest in community affairs.  He served as president of the Civic Club when that club was instrumental in securing garbage collection for the borough.  He also
served as president of the Schuylkill Haven Lions Club.  In Boy Scout activities, he was vice chairman of the county and co-chairman of the camp committee for eight years.  He
has served as trustee of the Good Samaritan Hospital for seven years and for the past two years he has been local unit chairman of the Salvation Army.  For 16 years he served
as a member of the visitation committee for the county judges.  Gray has no definite plans for the immediate future.  During the winter months, he and Mrs. Gray expect to
vacation in Florida.
The Call of December 27, 1956

MICHEL'S TO CLOSE ITS DOORS AT YEARS END
Michel's, a famous Schuylkill Haven business for almost 67 years, will accompany the old year 1956 as it bows out of the picture on December 31.  The doors of the widely known
bakery, ice cream, wholesale candy, and gift shop will mark the end of a business that started in a small way with pretzels and candies, reached its peak as a bakery and ice
cream establishment in the late twenties and early thirties, and declined gradually following World War Two.  Strong competition in the bakery and ice cream fields, plus deaths
and illness in the Michel family contributed to the demise of the once booming business.  Since the sudden and unexpected death of Dan Michel in August of 1955, his widow,
Mrs. Mary Michel, has endeavored to conduct the business.  Efforts were made within the past year to sell the establishment and will continue while the store is closed.
Michel's was established by George Michel 67 years ago as a bakery and confectionery store.  Then a young man of 24, the founder is still living and recently observed his 91st
birthday.  Mr. Michel took his brother Joseph into the business and later Charles also took part.  The founder sold his interest to his two brothers.  A third brother, Fred, was
about to enter the business when he was killed.  When Joseph retired from the business, Charles and Gus Michel, another brother took over.  Gus died six months later of the
flu in 1918 and his widow, who later remarried, Mrs. Anna Michel Brenneman, retained an interest in the business.  In 1945, following the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Michel
within a short period of each other, Dan and Ray Michel bought the property and business at public sale.  They continued to operate Michel's until March of 1956 when Dan
bought out his brother.  Six months later, Dan died suddenly.
Michel's gained county wide fame through its bakery and ice cream products.  The bakery expanded from pretzels to bread and cakes and pies and all other bakery products.  
During its peak in the late 1920s the bakery had both a day and night shift.  With growing competition from the large bakeries, the business gradually dropped off until toward
the end there was only one baker, John Kauterman.  When the bakery finally closed in 1950, he was short only six months of having worked there for fifty years.
The manufacture of ice cream began shortly after the turn of the twentieth century.  An advertising booklet printed in the early thirties proclaimed that "thoroughly good ice
cream can be made with cream alone.  Not a single drop of milk finds its way into Michel's."  The ice cream found phenomenal acceptance by the public.  People came from all
parts of the county to eat Michel's ice cream.  It was distributed on a wholesale business to all parts of the county.  Michel's had a fleet of fifteen trucks on the road and had four
men making ice cream.  They were Harold Rudolph, Karl Michel, Charles Sterner and Morgan Reber.  This part of the business also began to feel the effect of keen competition
and in 1947 Karl Michel was the only one employed in making this product.  In February of this year, Michel's stopped making ice cream and purchased Rothermel's products for
sale in the store.  
Wholesale candy distribution also was an important line.  This was continued until the death of Dan Michel.  The once diversified business at the end had dwindled down to an
ice cream fountain and coffee and light lunch business.  The last five employees of Michel's are Grace Mengel, who has worked there for 35 years, Mrs. Elsie Heebner, Mrs.
Charles Borden, Mrs. Maude Zerbe and Mrs. Mabel Keller.
The Call of January 31, 1957

NEW MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING NOW IN USE
The Schuylkill Haven Medical Arts building located at the corner of Main Street and Avenue C, will begin serving the public this weekend.  Five doctors will have offices in the
new building.  Dr. Theodore B. Tihansky, general practitioner in Schuylkill Haven for the past eleven years, will practice general medicine and surgery.  Dr. Herbert C. Rubright,
who recently moved to town from Frackville, will practice general medicine.  Dr. Emanuel M. Diamond, a prominent dentist in Pottsville, will practice dentistry.  Dr. Joseph E.
Conrad, a former general practitioner in town, who has been studying x-ray at Reading Hospital for the past three years, will be the radiologist.  Dr. Joseph Leskin, who is in
charge of pathology at Good Samaritan Hospital and resides in Shenandoah, will be the pathologist at the new building.  A modern pharmacy located on the left front side of the
building, is operated by John P. Hinkle of Ashland.  Open house will be held in the near future, when the public will be invited to inspect the new medical center.
The Call of February 14, 1957

NEW STRAMARA RESTAURANT IN BANK BUILDING
Although still giving the imposing bank appearance on the outside, the former Schuylkill Haven Trust Company building now has a completely different interior look.  On
Monday, Stramara's Restaurant opened for business in the former bank building.  The building was purchased by Frank Stramara of Haven Street and as soon as the bank
moved to its new location last fall, remodeling operations began to convert the building to restaurant purposes.  The removal of the bank vault and old bank fixtures provided
spacious dining room, while the rooms to the rear of the building were converted into a modern kitchen, gleaming with white porcelain and stainless steel.  The dining room
was decorated with wood paneling and light green painting.  Modern lighting and a new tile floor transformed the room into a pleasant, modern dining room.
The popular Stramara Sub Shop across from the high school on Haven Street has been closed.  Subs, hamburgers and steak sandwiches as well as a complete line of other
sandwiches are being prepared and sold at the new location in a special counter service area to the rear of the dining room.  For the convenience of customers, this part can
be reached either from the main entrance in the front or from the side entrance close to the large paved parking area at the rear of the building.  The new restaurant will be
open every day and evening.  Breakfast, luncheons, dinners and snacks will be served.  The dinner menu will cover the full line of popular foods.  Mr. Stramara plans a grand
opening several weeks in the future after he and his staff "get the feel of the new location."
The Call of March 7, 1957

NEW MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING WILL BE OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION ON SATURDAY
Schuylkill Haven's new Medical Arts building will be open for public inspection all day Saturday from 9:00 a. m. until 6:00 p. m.  The modern two level structure is located at the
corner of Avenue C and Main Street.  On its grounds is parking space for thirty automobiles on an amesited area.  The adjoining streets afford parking for many more
automobiles.  
Dr.  T. B. Tihansky, who is mainly responsible for conceiving the idea for a medical center and following it through to completion, explains the purpose of the building: The
Medical Arts Building of Schuylkill Haven Inc. is intended as a central medical office building with facilities to provide for the increasing needs and convenience of the people
in this immediate area.  It will endeavor to make available to the community special medical services and consultation that are not presently obtainable in this region.  The idea
of such a medical building originated about five years ago among the members then comprising the Schuylkill Haven Medical Association.  Many citizens were questioned about
such an enterprise and in every instance the idea was received with enthusiasm and encouraged.  Medical and surgical techniques have advanced greatly in the past fifteen
years.  Besides this, an increasingly health conscious public has impressed on many physicians the necessity for efficient office space and the extras that are presently
necessary to insure adequate medical care."
After two years of planning, the Medical Arts Corporation sought bids for the erection of the building.  Schneider and Davis of Pottsville was awarded the general contract.  The
modern, two level building is constructed of concrete, brick, steel and tile.  For all practical purposes it is fireproof.  For the utmost in convenience and comfort, the entire
building is completely air conditioned with a constant flow of fresh air.  The building is divided into eight zones, each controlled separately for heating with forced warm air in
the winter and for cooling in the summer time.  The medical center has six suites of professional offices, including an x-ray and clinical laboratory and a modern pharmacy.  Four
of the suites are located on the upper level.  
Drs. T. B. Tihansky and Herbert C. Rubright have general practice offices on the left side and Dr. E. M. Diamond has the dental suite in the right rear corner of the building.  The
fourth suite at the front of the building on the right is presently unoccupied.  Dr. Joe E. Conrad as radiologist has the x-ray suite on the lower level.  Dr. Joseph L. Leskin
conducts the clinical laboratory on the lower level.  The Hinkle Pharmacy, owned by John P. Hinkle, occupies the entire left side of the lower level except for the space used for
the heating and air conditioning equipment.
Each suite consists of three rooms, a consultation office and two treatment rooms.  Between the two treatment rooms is a large closet for equipment and supplies which is
accessible from either room.  Each suite has a private lavatory and toilet room and each has a private entrance to the office.  A semi private waiting room is located in the
center of the upper level.  There are four separate rooms, separated by fiberglass partitions but all opening into the main corridor.  All interior walls in the building are of the
highest grade glazed tile.  Three colors, blue gray, green and buff, provide three different color schemes throughout the building.
Dr. Conrad's suite consists of office, reception room, x-ray room, dark room and two dressing rooms.  Dr. Leskin has one large room outfitted with complete laboratory
equipment, so that a full laboratory examination service can be given.  Both Dr. Conrad and Dr. Leskin are completely trained in their specialized fields.  The brilliantly lighted
pharmacy on the left features a modern prescription counter as well as modern displays of the wide variety of medicines and products to be found in an up to date pharmacy.
The 54 by 54 foot building is faced with variegated brick in a buff blend.  Aluminum has been used freely throughout the building.  The marquees and stair railings are
aluminum.  The awning type windows, likewise, are of aluminum.  The stairs are steel with terrazza steps.  Floors throughout the building are vinyl tile set on concrete.  The
ceilings are acoustic tile.  The Medical Arts Building is built on a lot 110 by 100 feet.  Amesite parking area on three sides will accommodate thirty cars.  
The Call of April 11, 1957

MODERN $40,000 SWIMMING POOL TO OPEN AT WILLOW LAKE THIS YEAR
At long last, Schuylkill Haven and southern Schuylkill County will have that modern swimming pool that has been dreamed and talked about for years.  It will not be a community
project but a private enterprise.  Work is now underway on the construction, or reconstruction, of the Willow Lake swimming pool., that will in the words of Tom Smith, owner,
"be one of the best in the state."
The proposed new swimming pool, to cost $40,000, will have 20,000 square feet of water area and will accommodate from 1200 to 1500 bathers at one time.  A special feature of
the new pool will be a twenty five meter wide front dining tank, 82.5 feet long.  This is regulation size for racing.  This part of the pool will enable the management to stage
diving and swimming meets and special entertainment during the summer season.  This diving tank will be illuminated by 4,000 watt underwater lights.  The pool will be concrete
finished in white.
Sparkling blue water, filtered every eight hours, will be renewed in the pool by the most modern diatamacous filtering system.  The 468,000 gallons of water in the pool will be
pumped through the filtering system by 24 hour a day operating pumps.  To provide the power necessary to operate the pumps, the borough electric department ran a new
three phase line from Center Avenue and installed three new transformers.  The filtering plant is the only one of its kind in the immediate area.  Similar installations have been
made at the swimming pools at the West Shore Country Club and the Central YMCA in the Harrisburg area and the new pool in Lititz.
In addition to the modern, clean pool, Smith said the plans call for a bigger sunbathing area.  He hopes to have the project completed for a grand opening on May 30th or shortly
thereafter.  
Willow Lake was purchased in 1949 by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith of Minersville.  Smith formerly published the Minersville Free Press but several years ago discontinued the
newspaper publication to devote his time with his brother in the commercial printing business and in operating the skating, swimming and amusements at Willow Lake.  Each
year improvements have been made to the property.  Next year, Smith expects to remodel the bath houses and further beautify the grounds to make the area a still more
attractive recreation area.
The Call of October 24, 1957

ENLARGED 5c-$1 STORE SHOWS FAITH IN HAVEN
Tomorrow morning Atkin's new enlarged variety department store, 12 East Main Street, will have its grand opening.  It will also mark ten years of progress as this is the store's
tenth anniversary.  The new store is the result of careful, long term planning, to bring to this community one of the region's newest and most modern stores.  Some of the latest
designs in new fixtures, new lighting, bright colors throughout and new tile floor plus air conditioning will make your shopping pleasant and comfortable.  The new long lunch
department has more stools added and several new pieces of equipment to speed the service and to continue to maintain the high quality of food at reasonable prices.
APPRECIATION OF PATRONAGE  B. D. Atkins, president and founder of the Atkins Stores company says, "This beautiful merchandise mart is truly an appreciation of the
patronage we have enjoyed for the last ten years and our sincere faith in Schuylkill Haven's future, both as a good business town and an ideal place to live."  The Atkins group
of eight stores, with headquarters in Frackville for buying and personnel, also has outlets in Tremont, Kulpmont, Girardville, Williamstown, Tower City and Ashland.  The Atkins
stores feature national brands, "Guaranteed to give customer satisfaction both by Atkins stores company and the manufacturer."
NATIONALLY ADVERTISED LINES  Following are some of the fine nationally advertised lines that are featured; men's, boy's and girl's Wrangler overalls, Health Knit men's
underwear, Fruit of the Loom men's ladies' and children;s hose, Buster Brown hose and childrens garments, Dr. Spencer's baby garments, Stardust bras, panties and slips,
White Lie bras, Nazareth infant's wear items and Cannon sheets, towels and wash cloths.  Also a complete line of GE light bulbs.  Employees who assisted in the tremendous
moving and counter layout of the new store are, Frackville: Ruth Hornberger, Faye Pizykopski and Shirley Klimko; Girardville, Jean Leskins; Frackville office, George
Mauderlink, Harold Travis, Mable Hinkle and assistant manager Robert Webb.
HAVEN STORE EMPLOYEES  The Schuylkill Haven employees are: Samuel Morgan, manager; Emma Jane Frantz, assistant manager and assistant merchandise manager of
Frackville office; Betty Wabby, manager of luncheonette; Patsy James, cashier.  Salesgirls are Mary James, Ethel Berger, Tillie Loy, Dotty Kaplan, Patsy Wingle, Rose Dunheimer,
Shirley Wildermuth, Carole Kutz, Kay Geschwindt and John Neidlinger, stockman.
CREDIT TO PERSONNEL  Brady Atkins also remarked, "We are proud of our progress in the past ten years and give most of the credit to the high type of personnel we have
been able to maintain in our store and in bringing to the public nationally advertised lines of quality merchandise at standard prices.  We are glad to be a part of this fine
community and neighbors to our many merchant friends."
The Call of July 31, 1958

GATEWAY BOWLING LANE OPEN SATURDAY WITH FREE BOWLING, PRIZES
The gateway Bowling Lanes on the Schuylkill Haven Pottsville highway will; have a grand opening on Saturday afternoon at 2:30.  Bowlers of the area will be introduced to the
twenty lane ultramodern bowling alleys by two days of free bowling.  John Dee of the corporation behind the Gateway Lanes stated that no restrictions will be placed upon the
free bowling except when the alleys are filled and bowlers are waiting.  Then free bowling will be limited to one or two games.  
Not only free bowling but also free refreshments will be given at the grand opening.  In addition, those attending will register and will have an opportunity to win a bowling ball,
bowling shoes and bag and wrist watches.  These awards will be made Sunday night.  The grand opening was advanced two weeks.  Originally the opening date was set for
August 15.  Because another bowling alley was not ready for installation of the automatic pin spotters, the local lanes were given the opportunity to obtain the devices ahead of
the original schedule.  Men installing the hardwood alleys began working day and night to complete their work and thus made possible the advanced opening date.
The completely air conditioned building contains the best alleys and the most modern bowling equipment, including twenty AMF automatic pin spotters.  The lanes are arranged
so that ten are at each end of the long building.  In the center is the business counter and food and drink dispensers.  Also featured on the lanes are the latest under lane ball
returns.  Seats for the bowlers are modern fiberglass contour benches.  Behind the bowlers are seats for spectators.  One of the big drawbacks in bowling alleys in recent
years has been lack of parking space.  Taking this important point into account, the Gateway Lanes built along the main highway with plenty of space for parking as well as easy
accessibility.  The management invites all bowlers in the area to come to the Gateway Lanes on the two opening days, Saturday and Sunday and try the alleys free of charge.
The Call of May 1, 1958

MODERN LARGER BONNIE JEAN ADDS BEAUTY TO MAIN STREET
Schuylkill Haven's Main Street section took on a vastly improved look this morning when the completely remodeled, enlarged and modernized Bonnie Jean shop reopened for a
three day grand opening celebration.  From the glistening granite enamel trim around the large display windows and modern glass entrance, the attractive display models,
fixtures, new lighting and a greatly enlarged offering of famous brand name merchandise, to the far walls of the building, the Bonnie Jean is modern beauty with color.
The entire first floor, unbroken by partitions, has been devoted to the store.  The entrance was changed so that two display windows, one small and one large are on each side
of the recessed glass door.  Merchandise is displayed to its best advantage from racks along the wall, from aisle display counters and from shelves and glass enclosed
displays.  
The renovation program was extended to the entire property including the garage at the rear.  The two floors above the shop have been converted into three apartments.  
Work on these is almost completed with only the wall papering and paint to be done.  The extensive remodeling project is the greatest to be taken by the seventeen year old
business.  Mr. and Mrs. William J. Calsam opened the Bonnie Jean shop, named after Mrs. Calsam, in the George Michel building in the storeroom vacated by Frank S. Lewis,
who moved his business across the street to the former Gipe building.  
From the original line of Van Raalte merchandise and a small selection of hats and sweaters, the business has expanded until it now includes most clothing and accessory items
for women, girls and children.  As more store space was needed, the Calsams gradually took over the downstairs dining room, kitchen and pantry.  When the building was put
up for sale following the deaths of Mr. Michel and his sister last year, the Calsams purchased it and immediately made plans for enlarging the store and remodeling the
apartments.  The work was started two months ago with Harvey E. Dewald as the general contractor.  
In the 17 years the store has been in existence, Mrs. Calsam has had most of the management responsibility.  During the war years, Mr. Calsam returned to Philadelphia where
he acted as a manufacturer's representative.  He returned to Schuylkill Haven when increasing business in the store required additional attention.  More recently he became
interested in the TV cable system and was the prime organizer of the local group that started the system in Schuylkill Haven.  He served as manager of the system until it was
sold to the Pottsville Trans-Video.  Shortly afterwards he became manager of a new cable system being installed in Oneonta and later several of the neighboring communities in
New York State.
The regular clerks at Bonnie Jean have been Misses Betty Glaser and Nancy Heffner.  Greeting customers and well wishers at the new store, in addition to Mrs. Calsam and the
clerks, are her daughter Mrs. Robert MacMinn and Mrs. Jonah Reese.  For the grand opening one thousand orchids direct from Hawaii are being given to those who come to
the store.
The Call of July 23, 1959

FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUYS QUINTER, REED BUILDINGS
Schuylkill Haven's Main Street business section is scheduled for another drastic change in which the last vestiges of business places of a past generation, the overhead
awnings extending to the curb, will disappear.  The board of directors of the First national Bank and Trust Company on Monday completed negotiations for the purchase of the
adjoining two properties owned by Quinter's and Gordon D. Reed.  The present occupants will be given six months to vacate the premises and after that time the two large
three story brick structures will be torn down.  The newly acquired property will give the bank an additional 45 feet on West Main Street and a depth of over 100 feet extending
to the paved parking area at the rear of the bank and the properties to the river edge.
Tentative plans call for the addition of walk up and drive in windows on the west side of the bank as well as a night depository available to drive in or walk up patrons.  The area
not required for a driveway to the outside windows and depository will be converted into a large paved parking lot for bank patrons.  The First National Bank and Trust Company
presently has two parking lots, one behind the bank and the other on the west side of the railroad tracks.  The amount paid for the two properties was not released.  
BOTH BUILDINGS VERY OLD  The property immediately adjacent to the bank has been occupied by Quinter's Variety Store since 1904.  The Reed property was the former E. T.
Eiler building, where Mr. Eiler first operated a barber shop and then later conducted a music store.  Mr. Eiler was a well known musician throughout the area.  He was the leader
of the Schuylkill Haven Cornet Band for many years and played in the Third Brigade Band in Pottsville.  Upon his death, the property went to Ada Fessler.  The store room was
vacant for several years until Gordon D. Reed purchased the property.  The store room was converted into quarters for the Schuylkill Haven Free Public Library and the
apartments on th second and third floor and rear of the store room were remodeled.  Reed will assist the present tenants, including the library, to find another location.
QUINTER'S BEGAN IN 1893  The sale of the Quinter property will bring to a close the town's oldest business.  Milton W. Quinter, father of the present owners, Ivan and William
Quinter, started a tinware and hardware supplies store in 1893 in the building now occupied by Abe's Workingmen's Store.  A year later he moved to the present location and in
1904 purchased the building.  An annex was built at the rear of the original brick structure to enlarge the store and add a porch.  A short time later the porch was enclosed and
became part of the store.  William Quinter joined his father in the business and in 1910 Ivan, who had been following the baker trade, also became affiliated with the store.  
Upon the death of their father, and a short time later their mother, Ivan and William acquired sole ownership of the business.  
The three properties in a row, including the Kaufman property next to the library, all have the overhead stationary awnings, the last on Main Street.  When the two properties
purchased by the bank are torn down, Mrs. Kaufman will also remove the protective awning at her property.
The Call of July 30, 1959

FOND MEMORIES OF QUINTER'S STORE AND EILER'S
And so it finally happened.  It was bound to sooner or later, guess the present time could be considered as being "later" though a decade from now would have thrown it into
the "sooner" category.  Anyway, the memory of my childhood experiences can no longer be associated with the actual setting of those experiences.  Progress has a unique way
of obliterating the past.  Only a week ago while parked in front of Quinter's Variety Store, I remarked that so long as that row of overhead awnings remain in existence my
childhood could be definitely linked with places and things of the present.  Now these too shall pass away,but I shall have memories.
It was one summer afternoon that I started for Bowman's Dry Goods Store to purchase some small doily to embroider plus floss and hooks.  A big deal in my way of thinking but
had to tarry until a runaway horse and light wagon were intercepted.  The wagon came to rest in front of the First National Bank.  My pony, Lady Betty, never did run away though
she definitely did have an aversion to manholes in the street and skirted them every time.  It's been quite a spell since I plaited a pony's tail, nearest I've come to it is a pony tail
on my granddaughter.  
Quinter's Variety Store introduced me to many little "musts" in my early years, whether it was selecting a berry set for my mother's Christmas present or a ten cent tablet, the
decision and selection required no little time.  The latter was always selected for its cover rather than the type of paper.  But the little isin glass fish, which when held in the
palm of one's hand could wriggle in all sorts of shapes due to the warmth, were most intriguing.  As I recall they came in a variety of colors.  The floral subjects were my
favorite.  How delighted I was when they came off right and equally disappointed when only half the transfer "took."  Probably my eagerness interfered with perfection.  
Moving next door to the Eiler property, my memory is very clear when I think of the times I didn't know my assignment as well as I might have.  Mr. Eiler was my first violin
teacher, having taught me the A B C's (That's correct as I was not of school age).  After studying with him not long enough, he probably thought my efforts should be stimulated
by something other than routine scales so he reached inside his inside coat pocket, produced a sheet of paper and proceeded to write a piece of music for me.  The finished
composition was none other than "Sun of My Soul."
In your article you wrote of Miss Ada Fessler.  I shall never forget her stiffly starched little white apron which was a permanent feature of her basic equipment.  She truly was a
patient soul for when the new release of Victrola records came in every month I was right there to listen and purchase.  It can be said that any salesperson serving me, as of
now, is also a patient soul.  Bless them!  Guess I just can't help it.  Each month my quota would be a Red Seal record plus another.  Well there is a tie up between my youth and
adult years.  I'm still buying records but not from Miss Ada.  When the trolley cars ceased to run, somehow we survived.  Undoubtedly we shall do the same when the Quinter
and Eiler buildings are razed.  But this time it will be different.         Rhoda Thomas Pritchard
The Call of June 16, 1960

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN TRUST COMPANY CELEBRATES 50TH YEAR
The Schuylkill Haven Trust Company is currently observing its fiftieth anniversary.  A lot of changes in the physical makeup of the bank, its methods of operations and
conveniences to its patrons, have been experienced during this time.  The bank began functioning on June 6, 1910 in a parlor of the Hotel Grand at the intersection of Main and
Saint John Streets.  Later the Clarkson Saylor property at 6 East Main Street was purchased and this became the permanent location of the bank until October 20, 1956 when the
present bank building was opened to the public.  The original property at 6 East Main Street had been modernized and renovated a number of times but increasing business
and the trend of the times soon proved the building to be inadequate.
In June of 1955, bank officials purchased the Bryant property at the corner of Main and Saint Peter Streets and an ultramodern bank building, in every sense of the word, was
authorized to be constructed by Fleming-Raugh Incorporated of Flourtown.  Aluminum, glass and brick are the main ingredients of the construction material.  Entrance doors
which are operated automatically, a spacious lobby and a drive in window were some of the latest additions to the new building.  Last December other changes were made,
noticeably a second drive in window, an enlarged drive in area and a macadamized parking lot to the rear of the bank.  
Present officers of the bank are: Ivan W. Reed, president; Vincent J. Dalton, vice president; Arlo J. Bensinger, executive vice president and trust officer; J. R. Miller, secretary
and treasurer; Jane C. Deibert, assistant treasurer and secretary; Stuart G. Furman, assistant trust officer.  Directors include: Ivan W. Reed, Melvin W. Bamford, Vincent J.
Dalton, Roy A. Scott, G. I. Bensinger, Harry G. Fegley, Robert D. Houck, A. J. Bensinger, Joseph H. Eubanks, Raymond R. Sterner and Thomas F. Reider.
The Call of October 13, 1960

PEPSI COLA ERECTS LARGE WAREHOUSE ON CHARLES STREET
A large warehouse measuring 75 by 100 feet was constructed for the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Reading at the corner of Charles and Penn Streets.  The distributing
headquarters which has been established for this area in 1945 in the former Michel property on West Main Street now owned by Gordon D. Reed were moved recently to the
new warehouse.  With a clear ceiling height of 18 feet, the warehouse is convenient for storage of soft drinks and with large overhead garage doors on each end of the
building, the large beverage distributing trucks can drive in one end, be loaded and drive out the other end.  
The beverages are stored on pallets and motorized lifting trucks stack the pallets to great heights.  In addition to Pepsi Cola, the company also distributes a complete line of
Cloverdale soft drinks and recently has added coffee and hot chocolate dispensing machines.  Individual cups of coffee are brewed from regular coffee each time a coin is
inserted.  After Pepsi Cola moved to its new location, Realtor Gordon D. Reed remodeled the West Main Street structure, converting it into a store room as well as warehouse.  
Cliff Lockard moved his TV and appliance business from across the street to this larger place and is having his grand opening soon.
The Call of June 30, 1960

CANDY KITCHEN CLOSES AFTER 41 YEARS ON MAIN STREET
With mixed feelings of relief and regret, Parris Lazos has closed the doors of the Candy Kitchen and brought to an end almost 41 years of long hours and hard work demanded
by his candy, ice cream and luncheon business.  The business landmark, located in the heart of the Schuylkill Haven business district, is now being converted into a store for
Jim's Sport Shop.  Parris' son in law, Paul Fritz, has already removed the once majestic fountain bar, the large plate glass mirrors and the booths and is preparing the walls for
painting and the entire large room for renovations prior to occupancy by the new type of business.
Jim Brobst, proprietor of the sporting goods store which is presently located in the Marne Bubeck building a block farther up Main Street, will move to the larger quarters and
add a more complete line of sporting equipment as soon as renovations have been completed, probably in late July.  Closing the Candy Kitchen comes as a relief to Parris
Lazos.  The drive and ambition he possessed when first coming to town in 1919 have decreased with the passing of 41 years.  The work day from early morning to anywhere
between eleven and twelve at night was becoming a real strain.  In the candy making seasons, work would continue after closing until the early morning hours.  Mrs. Lazos, who
has worked with him down through the years, recently underwent a hernia operation and since that time her activities and work have been curtailed.  Now, with the closing of
the store, both Mr.a nd Mrs. Lazos look forward to spending more enjoyable and leisure hours on their farm beyond Friedensburg.
But with the ending of the store business started 41 years ago, Parris remarked, "I'll miss it.  You can't put that much of your life into something and then suddenly stop without
feeling something inside."  He will miss the personal contact he has with the three generations of Schuylkill Haven people who came in to enjoy his ice cream or to buy his
chocolates and the special Christmas and Easter candies.  Even the one Coke a night teenage crowd, nerve racking as they could be at times, will be missed by the genial
candy and ice cream maker.  
CONTINUES TO MAKE CANDY  The closing of the Candy Kitchen, however, will not mean complete retirement from business for Mr. and Mrs. Lazos.  They will retain the candy
factory located on River Street at the rear of the Candy Kitchen property.  In the two seasons of the year for which their candy became famous, they will manufacture their
chocolate covered candies and Easter specialties and will welcome the continued patronage of the many people they have served in the past.  A native of Greece, Parris came
to this country in 1910 and resided in Reading for nine years.  In this period he worked at the Berkshire Mills.  When he decided to go into business for himself, he selected the
candy making business even though he had no previous experience.
BUILT PRESENT PROPERTY  He opened his candy store at 35 East Main Street, the location of the present Stineman's Music Store in 1919.  Six years later, he purchased the
Deibert Estate property, tore it down and had the present large two story structure constructed by Paul Naffin.  In addition to the Candy Kitchen, the new structure provided for
a smaller store alongside and four apartments upstairs.  At this time he added light lunches to his established candy and ice cream business.  
Assisted through the years by his wife, the former Mary Albright of Reading, Parris continued to operate the business from 1919 until the present, except for two brief periods in
the last ten years.  From 1950 to 1956, the business was run by Howard Sampson and then from 1956 to 1957, a son, Frank Lazos, operated the Candy Kitchen.  Mr. and Mrs.
Lazos returned to active management and operation of the business in 1957.  They have two sons and two daughters.  Georgiana is married to Paul Fritz of Adamsdale.  
Henrietta is the wife of Bernard Kerstein of Pennsauken, New Jersey.  Paul, married to the former Christine Saul is living in Virginia.  Frank, married to the former Genine
Mourmet of France is living in Philadelphia.  There are fifteen grandchildren.
The Call of November 10, 1960

FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUYS KAUFMAN BUILDING, FIFTH PROPERTY FOR MODERNIZATION
The First National Bank and Trust Company has completed transactions for the purchase of the last remaining property between the bank and the Reading Railroad tracks when
it acquired the store and apartment building of Mrs. K. Alma Kaufman for $24,000.  This is the fifth property to be purchased to complete the block acquisition.  Early last year the
bank purchased the immediately adjoining Quinter Variety Store and the Gordon D. Reed property housing the Schuylkill Haven Free Public Library and apartments.  In March
the property of Steve Georgavic of Pottsville, in which the Reading Restaurant and Angelo's were located, was purchased.  Less than a month later this property was destroyed
by fire.  The smaller Palsgrove building, also damaged in the fire, was then purchased.
All the tenants of the apartments have vacated these properties except Mrs. Kaufman, her daughter, Mrs. Warren Riegle, and sister, Miss Meck.  They will move within the next
two weeks to the new one story home recently purchased from Realtor Gordon D. Reed who built it at the corner of Saint John and Market Streets.  All the store rooms have
been vacated except those occupied by the Free Public Library and the Citizen's Building and Loan Association.  The building and loan association expects to move December 1
to th new quarters being completed on Saint Peter Street at the rear of the office and apartment building recently purchased by Robert Reider from George Gray.  The library,
given notice to vacate, will hold a special meeting Wednesday to consider the purchase of the plot of ground at the corner of Saint John and Union Streets, where a new library
may be erected.
When the library moves, work will begin immediately on tearing down the five old buildings.  Although no definite plans have been made, the First National Bank will eventually
have a larger, more modern banking institution with drive up windows and a large parking area for bank patrons.  "We are looking ahead, not five years, but 25 and 50 years into
the future," said Essenial Moyer, executive vice president and trust officer, "in planning our expansion and modernization project."
The last of the five buildings to be purchased was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Burt Kaufman in 1915 from Carrie Loeb of Pottsville.  Prior
to this time, the local post office was located in this building.  The post office was moved across the street to the Hotel Grand property and the Kaufmans opened a stationery
store and news stand.  The newspaper distribution business was later purchased by Frank S. Lewis and a confectionery line was added by the Kaufmans.  The store was
discontinued upon the death of Mr. Kaufman thirteen years ago.
The Call of October 19, 1961

HAVEN BOUNCE-O-RAMA PLANS GRAND OPENING SATURDAY
Schuylkill County's first Bounce-O-Rama will have its grand opening in Schuylkill Haven on Saturday when the Haven Bounce-O-Rama opens its doors to enthusiasts of this form
of gym exercise.  Located on the second floor of the Haven Motors Building at the corner of Columbia and Charles Streets, the new indoor sport center will feature eight Gaddis
rebound tumblers erected on a raised platform and enclosed with a protective railing.  The six by twelve foot tumblers have nylon web beds with springs and frame completely
covered by Styrafoam pads.  The walk between the eight units is completely padded with a layer of carpet over the pad.  The mats are so arranged in the one time basketball
court that there will be a small area suitable for juke box dancing as well as other amusements.  One section of the large hall has been converted to a snack bar.  
Charles Ketner, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ketner, will be the manager of the Haven Bounce-O-Rama.  A tumbling and bouncing enthusiast, he will give instructions to
newcomers to the sport.  He is planning to have outstanding trampoline artists give exhibitions there in the near future.  A matinee for youngsters will start off the grand
opening on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock.  A special rate of forty cents a half hour will be given to the boys and girls attending.  Gifts of balloons and candy will be
distributed to all who visit the Bounce-O-Rama.  The evening part of the grand opening will begin at six o'clock.
A transistor radio and ten free passes will be awarded as door prizes at the end of the evening.  Free Coca Cola will be served to all who come to inspect this new indoor sport
center.  The Haven Bounce-O-Rama will be open on weekdays from 4:00 p. m. with reduced rates before 6:00 p. m.  Saturday and Sunday opening time will be 1:00 p. m. and again
with reduced rates before 6:00 p. m.  There is no admission charge, only the fee for use of the nylon bouncing mats.
The Call of November 30, 1961

THE SCHUYLKILL HAVEN TRUST COMPANY OPENS BRANCH OFFICE ON WEST MAIN STREET
The Schuylkill Haven Trust Company marked another forward step with the opening of its new branch office at the convenient location at the junction of West Main, Columbia
and James Streets.  The former assembly of God building was readily adapted to the needs of the branch office.  The 40 by 60 foot auditorium was divided by installing a
partition.  The front part provides a spacious lobby with seven teller stations.  The rear of the building provides a new bookkeeping room, a consultation office, and a vault.  The
entire bookkeeping operation for the bank will be moved to the new building.  The location of the building between West Main and James Streets and fronting on Columbia
Street made it ideal for the installation of two drive in windows.  Because cars are now built lower than they were when the town's first drive in facilities were provided in the
Schuylkill Haven Trust Company's new building at Main and Saint Peter Streets, these windows are lower and have the drawer opening on the end.  
The window on the east side of the new office is for traffic turning off Columbia Street, entering from the front, while the window on the west side is for cars entering from West
Main Street at the rear.  A macadamed parking area at the rear and side of the building will accommodate 28 cars.  The basement of the structure is being converted to a large
storage area and lounge rooms for male and female employees.  The interior of the new bank was repainted in dusty rose and white and vinyl tile flooring and modern
fluorescent lighting installed.  A new heating plant was installed.  Windows in the basement were replaced with glass block and small jalousie panes in the center.  The exterior
of the building is painted white.  Newly elected president Arlo J. Bensinger, in explaining the changes made in the former church building, said, "The location of the new
building for banking purposes could not have been improved upon if we had sat down with the original builders and asked them to build it for our future use."
The Call of March 22, 1962

WAYNE HAINLEY ELECTED TRUST COMPANY SECRETARY-TREASURER
Wayne H. Hainley, 16 Wilson Street, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company by the board of directors on Monday to replace Jack Miller, who
resigned.  When he begins his new duties on April 1, Hainley will be returning to banking after a lapse of a year and a half during which time he purchased and took over the
management of Jim's Sport Shop.  Prior to taking over the sporting goods business, he was employed for two years and ten months as an examiner with the Federal Reserve
Bank in Philadelphia.  Because this type of work required considerable traveling and being away from home, he decided to enter the business field and settle down in his home
town.  A graduate of the Schuylkill Haven High School in 1953, he attended Lafayette College and was graduated in 1957 with a B. S. degree in business administration.  He now
holds a first lieutenant commission in the Army Reserve and is working for a captaincy.  He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Hainley and is married to the former Patricia
Runyon of Merion Golf Hills, Havertown, who was graduated from Penn State in 1959 with an A. B. degree in art.  They are members of the First United Church of Christ.
The Call of March 22, 1962

SELF SERVICE DRY CLEANING, LAUNDRY TO OPEN HERE
An ultra modern business, the first of its kind in this area, will come to Schuylkill Haven and be located on the site of the old Parkway Restaurant on West Main Street.  Operating
as Fabri-Care Incorporated, the business will be, in the words of the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Feeser of Schuylkill Haven RD1, "a one stop supermarket concept of
cleaning."  Combined in a modern 60 by 50 foot building will be a self service laundry and a self service dry cleaning.  The one half will contain the latest in washers and dryers.  
In addition to the coin operated machines, there will be a comfortable lounge area where users of the equipment may relax while their laundry is being washed and dried.  The
other half of the building will be devoted to new self service dry cleaning.  Here for two dollars the customer may have up to ten pounds of dry cleaning done.  The equipment
will clean all kinds of fabrics for general types of cleaning.  Facilities will be incorporated in the building for offering professional services such as spot removal and pressing.
The building will be constructed of building block and glass.  The front will be faced with white slump brick and porcelain enamel.  It will be set back farther from the street than
was the restaurant which was destroyed by fire about twelve years ago.  A large parking area for customers will be in front.
The Call of April 5, 1962

MODERNIZED BENSINGER PHARMACY WILL HAVE GRAND OPENING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Bensinger's Pharmacy, which changed almost overnight from the old, traditional style drug store to a modern, up to th elast minute pharmacy, will have its grand opening on
Friday and Saturday.  Completely remodeled, the store at 104 East Main Street bears no resemblance to its former appearance.  The glistening, modern front is shielded from
the afternoon sun by an electrically operated roll down aluminum awning, the first of its kind in the area.  The entrance is a wide aluminum and plate glass doorway.  The
attractive display shelves are against a background of light oak paneling.  The new ceiling enables the lighting to brilliantly illuminate the entire
interior. The modern prescription department is located across the rear of the pharmacy.
The original drug store dates back to the last century.  Its best known Proprietor was G. I. Bensinger, who purchased the business in 1902 and conducted it for sixty years until
his retirement last November.  The new owner is William T. Schlappich, nephew of Mrs. Bensinger, who died last October.  Mr. Schlappich took over the ownership and
management of the store on November 1 when Mr. Bensinger retired.
The new owner is a native of Pine Grove.  He was graduated from Pine Grove High School in 1920 and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1925.  He conducted
a pharmacy at 3901 North Ninth Street in Philadelphia from 1926 until 1946.  Returning to this area he was employed at Cable's Pharmacy for tow years, at Bambrick's for five and
at Bensinger's for the past eight years.
Mr. Schlappich is married to the former Lulu Heim.  They live at 201 Paxson Avenue.  Mr. Schlappich is a member of Grace E. C. Church where he is president of the official
board.  He is a member of Mozart Lodge 436, Harmony R. A. Chapter 5 and Mary Commandery Knight's Templar 36, all of Philadelphia.  In addition to Mr. Schlappich, the pharmacy
will have two other registered pharmacists, David F. Schimpf of Avenue D and John T. Fenton, brother of Dr. Ivor D. Fenton of Mahanoy City.  Assisting as a part time clerk is
Linda Shollenberger, a senior at Schuylkill Haven High School.
The Call of May 24, 1962

HINKLE'S PHARMACY TO HAVE TWO DAY GRAND OPENING
The beautiful new Hinkle's Pharmacy located at 12 West Main Street, will have its grand opening Friday and Saturday.  The pharmacy, started five years ago in the Medical Arts
Building at Avenue C and Main Street, moved to the former Boussum store room last month and is now staging a grand opening celebration.  Three door prizes will be awarded
Saturday evening.  First prize is a ladies' hair dryer, second prize an electric tooth brush and third prize a man's electric shaver.  Individual gifts will be given to all who attend
the grand opening, with the women receiving a flower.
The new quarters in addition to providing a convenient down town location, provide space for the addition of many new lines, including greeting cards, convalescent aids such
as crutches, wheel chairs and hospital beds and permits enlargement of the cosmetic section and the prescription department.  The entire store room is 15 feet wide and 100
feet deep.  The first 60 feet is used for departmentalized self service display shelves and the remaining 40 feet is devoted to the prescription department and storage.
The pharmacy is owned and operated by John Hinkle whose home is at the corner of Main Street and Avenue C.  A native of Ashland, he is a graduate of Ashland High School
and the Temple University School of Pharmacy.  After graduation, he was employed as a medical representative for Merck, Sharp and Dohme and worked in retail pharmacy.  He
is associated with all local and national pharmaceutical associations.  Assisting him in the pharmacy are Mrs. Hinkle and Mrs. Virginia Eifert.
The Call of November 1, 1962

MUSIC HAVEN OPENS NEWLY REMODELED, ENLARGED STORE
The grand opening of the newly remodeled and enlarged Music Haven this weekend, marks another step forward in the steady progress made by that television, appliance and
music business over the last fifteen years.  The previously spread out Music Haven, occupying three different locations, has been consolidated into one large, beautiful store
at 111 East Main Street, where a more complete line of TV and other electrical appliances can be displayed to their best advantage.  Four major lines, RCA Victor, Philco, Admiral
and Zenith are included in the products on display.  The grand opening in the form of an open house began on Tuesday and continues for the remainder of the week.  Free gifts
for adults and free lollipops for the youngsters are being distributed.
Originally started as a music store, Music Haven ventured into the field of television and later stereo.  In a second store, Music Haven first demonstrated to the public color
television on cable and antenna in April of 1954.  The store also pioneered a transistor television working from batteries which was first introduced in Acapulco, Mexico.  
Marne Bubeck, owner of the store, through the years has won many awards, bonuses and trips all over the world from the four companies whose products he sells.  These trips
where he met outstanding dealers from all over the world included Europe, South America, Caribbean countries, as well as the United States.  Bubeck, a graduate of Schuylkill
Haven High School, obtained his bachelor's degree in music from Penn State, a master's degree from Temple University and all accreditation for a doctorate degree from
several universities.  He has worked as a psychologist for the federal and state governments as well as business and industry.  As a musician he has played with many
professional bands and orchestras,  He has been a teacher in music, psychology and a water safety instructor.  
A staff of trained servicemen provide service after the sale at Music Haven.  Several of these men have taught television at vocational schools and trained many other
servicemen in the region.  Music Haven will display 125 to 150 television, stereo units, including color units, plus complete appliance lines, record departments, musical
instruments and accessories.  Bubeck, in commenting on the enlarged and consolidated store said, "The major hope in opening the new store is that we can better serve the
community in sales and service over the future years.
The Call of May 2, 1963

START CONSTRUCTION NEW LIQUOR STORE
Construction is underway for the new building which will be occupied by the State Liquor Store, directly across from its present location on Saint John Street.  The new thirty by
sixty foot cinder block and brick structure is being erected by Contractor Ken Heiser for the Schuylkill Haven Realty Corporation which purchased the P. T. Hoy Estate property
on Main and Saint John Streets.  
The frame buildings which had been used as garages were torn down shortly after the purchase was made.  Excavation for the new building was made last week and early this
week block was laid.  Rain stopped work on Tuesday but construction was resumed yesterday.  One half of the front of the building will be solid brick.  The other half will have
the modern entrance and windows.  When this project is completed, the small building occupied by Abe's Workingmen's Store on the ground floor and an apartment on the
second will be renovated.  Remodeling of the large corner property will be the final stage of the Realty Corporation's project.
The Call of August 22, 1963

SIDEWALK BARGAINS DRAW HUGE CROWD
Once again the sidewalks of Schuylkill Haven overflowed with people as hundreds of local residents as well as out of town people flocked to
town to take advantage of the many bargains being offered at the Sidewalk Sale held Saturday.  Participating merchants were more
enthusiastic than ever in their remarks about the success of the sale.  The general consensus of both the merchants and the buying public
was that each year the Sidewalk sale gets better.  The grab bags sold at the S. M. Kurtz Jewelry Store always contain something sure to
delight the customer.  One of the main prize winners in the grab bags this year was a customer from Maryland.  Terry Jo Scott of Elkton,
Maryland found the bag she purchased contained a birthstone ring.  Mae Sterner, 229 Haven Street, received a ladies Bulova watch in her
grab bag and the bag purchased by Richard Reber of 27 Parkway contained a man's Timex watch.
The Call of March 11, 1965

NEW DONUT SHOP OPENS SATURDAY
The Plain n' Fancy Donut Shop, at 18 West Union Street, will have its grand opening Saturday from 7:00 a. m. until 8:00 p. m.  To celebrate the event free coffee and donuts will be
served to all who attend.  The shop will be operated by Jim McKeone of Reading.  McKeone was born in Schuylkill Haven, the son of Leonard and Margaret Reber McKeone.  He
is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Reber of Main Street.  Thirty five different kinds of donuts will be sold at the new shop.  This will include cake and cruller dough type
donuts, sugar coated, cinnamon and coconut topped, plain or frosted plus numerous other variations.  The donuts will be baked fresh daily.  Starting March 15 the donuts will
also be available at a stand in the H. L. Green store in Pottsville.  McKeone is married to the former Dolores Petrie of Reading.  The couple has one son, Jim, aged four.  In the
near future the McKeones expect to move to Schuylkill Haven.  
The Call of July 30, 1964

TOWN'S TALLEST STRUCTURE GIVES WAY TO PROGRESS
An old Schuylkill haven landmark, the P. T. Hoy & Sons Company at the corner of Main and Saint John Streets, is being removed.  Once the most majestic structure in town, the
large red brick building, having fulfilled a need generations ago, has given way to progress.  The main part of the imposing structure was erected in 1894 and occupied in 1895.  
The three story brick section along Saint John Street is said to date back to pre Civil War days.  
In January of 1963 the Hoy Estate property was purchased for $27,000 by the Haven Realty Company, a group of local businessmen.  The property included the imposing
structure on the corner, the adjoining small building last occupied by Abe's Workingman's Store and the frame barn and garages on Wilson Street.  The new owners immediately
tore down the frame barn and garages and on the site erected a building block and brick building which is now occupied by the State Liquor Store.
In April of 1963, the Hoy store went out of business, and in May Abe's Workingman's Store moved to another location on Main Street.  Since that time the building was vacant
and took on a more dilapidated appearance as plate glass windows cracked and other windows were broken.  Demolition of the large brick building began on Monday when
Feeser Construction Company moved in with a crew of men.  Windows and doors were first removed and then work began on removing the roof.  Plans are to remove the
upper brick structure brick by brick until the remaining walls are below the level of the electric and telephone lines on the nearby utility poles.  At this point a bulldozer will be
used to push down the remaining walls.
Pancoast T. Hoy started in the general store business in 1884 when he purchased the Huntzinger store located below the railroad tracks in the building now occupied by
Seigfried's Bar.  Ten years later he purchased the store at the corner of Saint John and Main Streets from the Kline sisters.  This two story frame structure was torn down and
the large structure erected.  It contained three floors and a large unfinished attic.  An outstanding characteristic was the round windowed turret at the corner extending to a
pointed peak high above the other buildings on Main Street.  In 1910 the business became incorporated and became known as P. T. Hoy and Sons Company.  The character
provided for multiple stores because consideration was being given to opening a store in Orwigsburg and another in Pottsville.  The local store had seven regular clerks and
during the spring five or six girls worked part time in the flower and plant division.  P. T. Hoy was president of the newly formed corporation, Lewis Hoy was manager and Rudy
Hoy secretary.
The store at this time was primarily a dry goods store.  In those days, according to Rudy Hoy, who managed the store since 1922, the only canned goods were sardines and
salmon.  People raised their own vegetables and jarred them for winter use.  
A large volume of the business was done on a solicitation and delivery basis.  In 1917 when Rudy Hoy went into the armed service and
there were no male drivers available, the dry goods business was discontinued.  In 1922 when Lewis Hoy became associated with the automobile business, Rudy Hoy became
manager of the store and conducted until it was closed in 1963.  Competition from the chain stores kept whittling away at the former Hoy customers and with the death of the
elder Mr. Hoy in 1939, Mrs. Hoy and a sister, the business and property became involved in a complicated estate arrangement.  Expenditures for modernization became
impossible and the business retained its dated atmosphere until its closing.  
In 1912 the adjoining Saylor property on Main Street was purchased.  At that time ready made dresses were coming on the market and the Hoys were considering changing over
to a department store, using the Saylor property for the dress goods.  Instead, however, the building was rented to Barr's Restaurant.  A large lodge hall on the third floor was
used by the Grand Army of the Republic during its heyday and later by the Patriotic Sons of America.  A last remnant of its one time elegance at the time demolition began was a
tattered and torn picture of Admiral Dewey upon one wall.
The Call of June 16, 1966

HOMER ZIMMERMAN CUTTING HAIR FOR 50 YEARS - Started Back When It was "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits"
Eighteen hours a day cutting hair and giving shaves, often starting at 7:00 a. m. and not closing up until 1:00 a. m. the next morning was nothing unusual for Homer Zimmerman
who began his barbering career fifty years ago on June 19, 1916.  While still in high school Zimmerman began cutting hair during his spare time.  After graduation from high
school in May of 1916, he opened his own shop June 19 at his home at 101 Coal Street.  In November of the same year he moved his business to 334 Dock Street where he
barbered five years before moving to his present location at 342 Dock Street.
When Zimmerman first entered the tonsorial business a shave and a haircut could be had for the bargain price of a quarter, the haircut fifteen cents and the shave ten cents.  
Each man had his own shaving cup handsomely inscribed with his name and some fancy design.  These cups stood on display on the shelf in the shop.  By degrees the prices
of haircuts advanced from .15 to .25, .35, .50, .65, .75, .85 and $1 to today's prices of $1.25 and $1.50.  In reminiscing about the days gone by Zimmerman tells how it was the
custom of the men of Spring Garden (the North Ward area) to go shopping with their wives in the downtown business section of Schuylkill Haven every Saturday night.  On their
way home they would stop in at the barber shop for a haircut and a shave to look their best for church Sunday morning.
In 1928 Zimmerman remodeled his shop and made it the most up to date in the area.  He ran a two chair shop and taught several boys the trade including Robert Clem and Floyd
Gerber.  He also employed Milford Laubach and Harvey Alspach.  In 1933 many women were getting their first haircuts and were also braving their first permanent waves.  
Zimmerman pursued a hairdressing course and was one of the first in town to make available this new type of service for women.  The first waves were given with a machine
and women were forced to remain almost motionless for several hours while the extreme heat of the machine put the curl in their hair.
For fifteen years Zimmerman operated the beauty shop in addition to his barber shop.  Mrs. Olga Frantz Bruzofsky worked for him in the beauty shop.  In 1940 he discontinued
the beauty shop work and his daughter, Jeannette, now Mrs. Edward Hummel, took a beautician's course and entered into the business.  When Zimmerman opened his beauty
shop he was issued license Number 264.  During 1965 there were 60,030 licensed beauty operators and 17,090 beauty salons in Pennsylvania.
Zimmerman is married to the former Iva Maberry.  In addition to their daughter, Mrs. Edward Hummel, they have another daughter, Mary, wife of Benjamin Lewis of Wilmington,
Delaware.  Does Zimmerman have plans of retiring?  Indeed not!  "It has been a pleasure serving the public of our community," he said, "and I will continue to do so as long as I
can."
The Call of July 10, 1969

FRED BURKERT RETIRES AFTER 43 YEARS
Fred K. Burkert has retired after 43 years as owner of Burkert's store.  He reflects over these years and tells what a thrill he got from seeing young children grow up, get
married and have children of their own.  He knew them all.  Burkert was born December 29, 1897 in Schuylkill Haven.  It was 29 years later when he first opened a store in August
1926 where Music Haven is now located.  In 1931 he moved to another location, 103 East Main Street, now occupied by the Men's Shop.  Burkert remained there for twenty years
before moving to his final store, 206 east Main Street in May of 1951.  In each location he has served the town with baked goods, candy, ice cream and magazines.  Each was
named Burkert's.  
Fred and his brothers, Warren and Isaac, are veterans of the First World War belonging to Company C of the 103rd Engineers Division.  Another brother, Harry, was also a
veteran of this war.  In February 1921 Fred and his wife, Ethel, were married.  They have two children, Jane and Fred and three grandchildren.  Burkert became interested in
tending store around the age of eight or ten years when he worked in a butcher shop.  This is where he gained experience waiting on the public.  From there he started his own
business.  Brother Warren was a part time worker at all of the locations.  
Burkert is very active in the community.  He was a past commander of the American Legion and is now at present adjutant of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  He is a life member
of both organizations and also was a charter member of the Lions Club.  He is retired from his business now after 43 years of service.  No longer will customers see him
standing behind the counter listening to a Phillies baseball game.  Mr. Burkert chuckles, "I get kidded about the Phillies but I stick with them."
The Call of July 7, 1966

MESSNER AND HESS CHANGING STORE
To provide for the convenience of their customers when the anticipated borough parking lot on Wilson Street is completed, Messner and Hess is erecting a rear entrance to its
store on Main Street.  The one story cinder block building of about nine hundred square feet will be L-shaped with a large glass door entrance.  When completed the hobby
department will be located in this new addition.  Harry Naffin, manager of the store, states that the new entrance will be not only for customers of the store but may be used by
persons wishing to come from the parking lot to Main Street.  It is expected the grand opening of the new addition will be held in October.
The Call of November 30, 1972

ARROW BUYS SHOLLENBERGER TRUCKING BUSINESS
Arrow Carrier Corporation on Monday, December 4, will take over operations of the Edward H. Shollenberger & Sons Incorporated trucking business.  The 62 year old firm will
retain the local name and Nelson E. Shollenberger, youngest of the two sons of the founder will be employed as terminal manager.  His son in law, Wesley Kirby, will be platform
supervisor.  Thomas Dowd will be office manager.  Richard L. "Jack" Shollenberger, the eldest of the two sons of Edward H. Shollenberger, has been retired since June.  Under
the direction of Arrow Carrier, the trucking business will continue to provide the same service as in the past with no change in personnel.
HORSE AND WAGON  Starting in the delivery business with a horse and wagon on October 10, 1910, Edward H. Shollenberger operated from a barn on Wilson Street at the rear
of the Dr. Dechert property on East Main Street, now converted to a storeroom occupied by the Fay Ann Fabrics and apartments.  He later moved to a larger barn on Becker
Street at the rear of the John Brown property, now the site of the home for Dr. and Mrs. N. Albert Fegley on East Main Street.  The next move was to the Greenawalt property
below the railroad tracks on West Main Street.  From the humble beginning with one horse and wagon, Edward Shollenberger advanced to mechanized transport with the
purchase of a Model T Ford and then to a heavier International truck.  Today the motor transport carrier firm has 23 pieces of equipment, twenty employees and a large
structure combining offices and docking facilities which can accommodate sixteen trucks or tractor trailers with both inside and outside loading at one time.
The trucking headquarters was moved to the new building on Penn Street in 1948.  Ten years later, an addition the same size as the original structure was erected.  In 1968, the
building was again enlarged.  When the first building was erected in 1948, the maximum size trailer was 28 feet long.  With the dock fifty feet from the street, this was adequate
space.  Today trailers are 45 feet long and the once adequate space is now tight.  An average day sees 300,000 to 400,000 pounds of freight handled at the local trucking
headquarters.  Shipments coming in by the thirteen national carriers serviced by the Shollenbergers are moved out the same day.  The firm serves every state including Alaska
and Hawaii, Mexico and Canada, and handles shipments to or from all parts of the world.  Among the freight handled are the sealed containers now used by modern container
merchant ships.  Jack Shollenberger joined his father in the business in 1930 and Nelson Shollenberger joined the firm in 1934.  When Edward H. Shollenberger retired in 1941,
the two sons took over complete management of the expanding business.  The founder of the firm died in 1952.  
LONG ASSOCIATION  The Shollenbergers have had a long association with Arrow Carrier Corporation, serving as agent for the trucking firm since 1940.  The sale of the
equipment and franchise was agreed to by the Shollenbergers and officials of Arrow Carrier Corporation on May 27, 1971.  Approval was granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission on November 13, 1972.  In a further expansion move, arrow Carrier concluded an agreement this week to purchase the Montauk Freightways with terminals serving
Long Island, other parts of New York state and New Jersey.
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The Call of June 1, 1951

NEW PAINT STORE OPENS
Another new business was added to Main Street's growing business section when the Haven Decorator's Store opened in the Michel building this morning.  A grand opening, to
which the public is invited, is being staged today and Saturday, with free cans pf paint and souvenirs being given away to those who come to visit the store.  The new store is
located at 7 East Main Street in the remodeled portion of the Michel building which had formerly been used as a warehouse for candy and other supplies.  Michel's
discontinued the bakery part of the business and will use the bakery space for storage.  Alfred D. Strauch, proprietor of the new store, tastefully decorated the large display
room with Acme Fashion Tone paints, which the store features and beautiful modern wall paper.  Modern sloped desks are provided for customers to use in selecting paints
and papers, and the entire storeroom is lighted with modern fluorescent fixtures.  Along the one side of the room are displayed paints and painters supplies with the business
counter at the rear of the store.  Mr. Strauch extends a cordial welcome to the public to come in and see the new store and to receive a can pf paint and a souvenir.
The Call of June 13, 1952

GIBSON FLOOR COVERING WILL HAVE STORE ON DOCK STREET
The old Bubeck property at 316 Dock Street has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Gibson from Mr. and Mrs. Maron Ferris through Realtor Gordon D. Reed.  The entire
building is being remodeled and the first floor will accommodate Gibson's Floor Covering Shop and living quarters while the second floor will contain two three room
apartments and the rear apartment will have two bedrooms on the third floor.  These apartments will be equipped with stoves and refrigerators and all floors will be covered
with inlaid linoleum.  On the first floor the entire front of the building will be torn out and a modern front will be installed in the line of the old front porch which will lengthen the
store and living room by approximately ten feet.  When completed the storeroom will be thirteen feet wide and fifty feet long.  Steel beams have been erected in the store and
living room on the first floor in order to support and strengthen the second floor.  The walls of the store will be painted and the ceiling will be Celotex ceiling tile into which
recessed fluorescent light swill be installed.  The store room will be covered with asphalt tile.
The apartment along the store will be a completely modern active display apartment.  The living room will have a large picture window in front and the floor will be covered with
Parkay wood blocks.  To the rear of the living room will be a modern kitchen entered through a folding door between the living room and the kitchen.  Featured in the kitchen
will be plastic wall tile, inlaid linoleum with cove base and a complete unit of Lyon steel kitchen cabinets.  Adjoining the kitchen will be the bathroom which will contain a
separate shower stall of ceramic tile.  The bathroom walls will feature Armstrong M67 Monowall.
What is now a porch facing the North Ward school will be enclosed to make a hall for access to the two rear rooms which will be bedrooms.  Between these two rooms will be a
full length closet entered from each room through Amweld steel sliding doors.  The hall will be covered with cork tile flooring.  The rear bedroom for the boys will be covered
with knotty pine Quaker wall covering and rubber tile flooring.  The main bedroom will be covered with Armstrong Covertone embossed inlaid.  
All the different types of wall and floor covering, including interior paints, used in  the store and apartment will be products  handled and installed by Gibson's Floor Covering
Shop.  Mr. Gibson, better known as "Speedy," has had wide experience in the floor covering business, having been manager for the Tile and Marble Products Company of
Reading for several years.  He has also attended both Congoleum Nairn and Armstrong factory schools on resilient floor and wall coverings.  More recently he was selected by
the Armstrong selection staff as one of the thirty men who were the first to be recognized as master mechanics.  Mrs. Gibson, known as "Mrs. Speedy," has had wide
experience as an interior decorator and estimator.  She also has the distinction of being the only woman recognized as a tile mechanic in eastern Pennsylvania.
The Call of June 13, 1952

ROY YODER BUILDS MACHINE SHOP
Roy Yoder has finished the building of a machine shop which is located across the road from the State Garage.  The whole building is twenty two by sixty feet and consists of
the machine shop at one end and a boiler room and office at the other end.  An unfinished five room apartment has also been constructed over the boiler room and office end.  
It is of cement block and has a flat built up roof.  Mr. Yoder, who is shop foreman at V & E, expects to open his shop in the near future.  He will do general machine work and will
install an overhead crane.
The Call of August 15, 1952

PHYLLIS D. ROMANO OPENS FUNERAL HOME ON DOCK STREET
Miss Phyllis D. Romano will have the formal opening of her new funeral home in Schuylkill Haven at 122 Dock Street on Saturday and Sunday when the public is cordially invited
to visit for inspection.  The community's latest funeral home is located in the former Christ property which was purchased last November by the young lady funeral director.  
Through extensive renovating and remodeling, the home was converted to a modern funeral home on the first floor and living quarters for Miss Romano and her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Romano.  The Romanos lived at 29 Fairview Street before moving to their new location.
The lower floor of the building is divided into three main sections.  The funeral parlor or viewing room is located at the front.  Directly behind this room is a small office and
family room and at the rear is the modern preparation and slumber room.  Miss Romano is a graduate of the Schuylkill Haven high school, Class of 1943.  She was graduated
from the Echels College of Mortuary Science in 1944 and served a two year apprenticeship with funeral director Harold B. Mulligan of Philadelphia.  She passed the state board
examination and became a licensed funeral director in 1946.  Since that time she has been employed by the Mulligan funeral home.  The public may inspect the new funeral
home any time Saturday and Sunday until 9:00 p. m.
The Call of October 31, 1952

HAVEN APPLIANCE GRAND OPENING OF NEW STORE
Haven Appliance and Television Company, television pioneers in Schuylkill County, will have an official grand opening of its new store in Schuylkill Haven today and tomorrow.  
The new store is located at 20 Saint John Street, next door to the state liquor store.  For the grand opening, special gifts will be given to all who visit the store on Friday and
Saturday.  Demonstrations of television units and of the other electrical appliances on display will also be made on these two big days.
Nicholas A. Barbetta, owner of the store, began in the television sales, installation and service business in 1947 at the corner of Haven and Hess Streets.  At that time, only five
years ago, there were only two television sets in the entire area.  One was located at the Log Cabin on Blue Mountain and the other at Hill Top Inn below Orwigsburg.  Mr.
Barbetta installed one of the first sets in town in his home.  Local people were given the first public showing of television reception when a set was operated in the display
window on the night of the first Walcott-Charles heavyweight fight.  In those days, television sets with a ten inch screen sold for around $400.  Now the same price will buy one
of the deluxe 21 inch screen sets.
The first sets to appear in most of the towns of the county were installed by Haven Appliance and Television Company.  Since that time the company has installed sets in eight
nearby counties as well as in all parts of Schuylkill County.  In 1951, Barbetta opened a store in Pottsville at 334 South Centre Street.  With this background  in the infant
television industry, Haven Appliance and Television Company is recognized as one of the most complete and dependable firms in the field.  Barbetta has a crew of specially
trained experts to service television sets and radios and has three trucks for installation and service calls.
The new store features Crosley, Admiral and Capehart radio and television, as well as the complete Crosley appliance line and Bendix automatic washers and dryers.  Angelo
Barbetta is in charge of the local store.  Nick Barbetta recently purchased a home at 408 East Union Street.  He is married to the former Mary Grace of Saint Clair.  They have two
children, Kathy and Cindy.
The Call of March 13, 1953

HAVEN CAB BUYS TWO NEW CARS
The Haven Cab Company this week purchased two new Dodge Meadowbrook 1953 model cars and put them into service as cabs.  These cars were purchased from the W.
Randolph Martin agency and represent the newest and finest cabs in Schuylkill County.  It is due to the continued patronage of people of Schuylkill Haven and the surrounding
areas that it was possible to put these new cabs into service.  The comfort and ease of the cars will be noticed on the first ride.  The Haven Cab Company gives fast and
efficient service.  Two years ago at considerable expense the two way radio telephone equipment was purchased and installed in the cabs.  This equipment is the finest of its
type.  Continued support for the Haven Cab Company is invited so that the company may continue improving its service.
The Call of April 3, 1953

MOVIES ON PAY AS YOU LIKE
Something new in theatre ideas will be put into effect in Schuylkill Haven next week.  Starting Monday, no admission will be charged for the entire week of April 6-11.  A
container will be placed at the top of the steps leading to the theatre auditorium and patrons are asked to make any donation they care to give.  The managers of the Rio
Theatre, feeling the box office pinch resulting from a change in social life and the advent of television are conducting this one week experiment to see whether there still is
interest in seeing motion pictures.  If they are satisfied by the size of the audiences next week, the theatre will be continued and an effort made to induce greater attendance
than is now the case.  If there appears to be little interest in pictures even on the free will giving plan, the local theatre will be closed.  Local manager William Reber states that
the regular run of movies will be presented next week.  Included on the bill will be "Bad and Beautiful" the beginning of the week and "Ivanhoe" at the end of the week.
The Call of February 5, 1959

CLELAND'S TO HAVE GRAND OPENING NEXT WEEK
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week, Cleland's Home Furnishing will have the grand opening of their new
store at 20 East Main Street.  Free gifts will be distributed on those days with the door prizes to be awarded
Wednesday evening.  Covering an area of 7,000 square feet, the store and the business in general has grown
gigantically from the small basement quarters opened by Mr. and Mrs. Cleland seven years ago in the old Hotel Central
building.  At that time, the merchandise consisted mostly of throw rugs, some nursery furniture and some breakfast
sets.  The management of the store at that time and for a year afterward was left entirely to Mrs. Cleland as Mr. Cleland
was still affiliated with his wholesale outfits.  As the business expanded, an addition to house their merchandise was
built to the rear of the Hotel Central and then the space used by the Acme store, next door was annexed which also
proved inadequate for the rapidly expanding enterprise.
With the acquisition of this new building on the site of the old Hotel Central building, Cleland's have one of the most
modern and up to date furniture showplaces in the county.  Some of the major lines of merchandise they handle
include Pennsylvania House, Cushman, Harden living room sets, Sherman, T. R. Taylor, Stiffel lamps, Serta and CB
bedding, Carpen living rooms, Heywood and Wakefield, White and Macbane, franklin Shockey and Merceman tables.  
Before locating in Schuylkill Haven, Mr. Cleland was associated for many years with the Capitol Bedding and Mohawk
Carpet companies, working out of the Harrisburg territory.  This career was interrupted by a three and a half year stint
in the Navy where he served as a CPO on the "Indianapolis" and the USS Terror.  The present personnel at the store
includes Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cleland, Joseph Colitz, manager; Sterling Augustine, manager of the carpet department;
George Bair, Mrs. Vincent Stramara, Mrs. Lewis Nunemacher and Richard Sterner, salesmen.
The Call of August 20, 1959

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN BLEACH AND DYE ERECTS $20,000 BUILDING
Schuylkill haven Bleach and Dye Works located on Market Street, is completing a large 10,000 square foot building on Saint James Street for its expanding operation.  The new
structure is being erected on a seven acre plot in a newly marked industrial section on the proposed new zoning map for Schuylkill haven at an estimated cost of $20,000.  The
building, constructed of building block, with a steel deck roof, will contain a boiler house and napping room and the remainder of the large structure will be used as a
warehouse.  Eventually some of the finishing equipment now in the old building on Market Street will be moved to this location.  Provision is being made for future expansion.  
The building has been constructed so that it will be easy to make additions for other departments in the bleaching and dyeing industry.  The latest building to the Schuylkill
Haven Bleach and Dye works is another of the expansion moves made by the industry in recent years.  In 1953, a large six thousand square foot addition was made to the
original building, another boiler and additional machinery added.  
The Call of August 20, 1959

PAPER BOX FACTORY ERECTS TWO LARGE ADDITIONS
Two large additions were made to the Parkway paper Box Company during the past year, expanding the operations by the addition of 17,788 square feet.  The first expansion of
the building located to the rear of the South Ward school building on Parkway and extending between Market and Penn Streets, was 133 by 66 feet, a one story structure on the
west side of the original building.  This adjoining building was immediately used for an expansion of the box making operations.  Additional equipment was installed and the old
building rearranged to provide more efficient working conditions.  The second addition is a 75 by 120 foot building attached on the south side of the original building.  Two
loading docks were installed to facilitate the trucking operation.  George Triola, local manager of Parkway Paper Box, said that at present this building is used almost entirely for
storage but eventually part of it will be used for expanding box making operations.  Harry Kolbe of Adamsdale was the general contractor for both buildings.  The roof work was
done by Vincent Hughes of town and the carpentry by Scott Millwork of Cressona.
The Call of January 1, 1954

BOUGHT HARVEY MOYER GARAGE
George N. Manbeck of Schuylkill Haven and Robert Sheriff of Port Carbon, trading as Manbeck and Sheriff Wheel Alignment Service, have purchased the former Harvey B.
Moyer garage on Lincoln Street and will be open for business on January 4, 1954.  The Bear Alignment Service which has been operated by Mr. Manbeck at the F. Y. Becker
garage on Haven Street for the past five years is being moved to the new location.  Mr. Sheriff has operated an alignment machine at the L. C. Dreisbach garage for the past
seven years.  New equipment is being added to the business in order to enable more efficient service.  Wheel and frame alignment, wheel balancing, welding, axle and wheel
straightening are included in the work done.  The telephone number is 1531.
The Call of January 7, 1954

WELL KNOWN DRUGGIST GIVES SHARE OF BUSINESS TO SON
W. E. Stine, well known druggist of Schuylkill haven, at the close of the year gave his share of the business as an outright gift to his son, Robert E. Stine.
Starting in 1954, W. E. Stine and Son Pharmacy, becomes Stine's Pharmacy, R. E. Stine, proprietor.  The change of ownership came at the end of Dr. Stine's
fiftieth year as a pharmacist and the fortieth year of conducting a pharmacy in Schuylkill Haven.  The veteran druggist was graduated from the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1903 with the degree of doctor of pharmacy.  He worked in his hometown of Williamsport until 1913 when he came
to Schuylkill haven and opened a drug store on East Main Street where the present Michel's store is now located.  Several years later he purchased the
corner property, an old brick building with an overhead roof awning extending to the pavement edge.  The building was formerly occupied by a grocery
store.  The overhead awning was removed and the front which had a center doorway was changed so that the entrance was at the corner and display
windows installed across the front and along the Saint John Street side.
As the business prospered sufficiently, other changes were made on the store.  Major remodeling took place in the middle 1920s.  The old brick was
faced with a more attractive brick, new window frames were installed and the apartments on the second and third floors were completely remodeled.  
The store became one of the most attractive business places in Schuylkill Haven.  In 1939, Mr. Stine's son, Robert, was graduated from Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy with a B. S. degree.  Returning to his father's store, he was taught the professional business and became half owner in partnership
with his father.  The name was then changed to W. E. Stine and Son Pharmacy.
Gradual improvements continued to be made to the store.  During the last war, the soda fountain, which in early years had been a popular meeting place for both young and old
alike, was discontinued and the store enlarged and further beautified by the addition of modern display cabinets and a self service baby department.  Modern fluorescent
lighting followed.  Two years ago the store was further modernized with a new front, display windows, entrance and rubber tile flooring.  Today Stine's Pharmacy stands as one
of the finest most up to date and complete drug stores to be found anywhere.  The steady growth of the business from its humble beginning forty years ago can be attributed to
excellent service, hard work and long hours on the part of Mr. Stine.  Through the years he has not only served the people well professionally but has assisted many
personally.  He has helped directly several men on the road to success and has assisted many others with words of advice, encouragement and even financial aid.  His
benefactions have been without fanfare.  
Dr. Stine is a faithful member of Saint John's Evangelical and Reformed Church.  He is active in the Lion's Club and is largely responsible for the erection of the community
ambulance building and community comfort stations.  His outright donation of the land upon which the structure was built was the start of that project.  Although not in the
limelight, he can be found in the background of most of the club's community activity.  Even though he has turned his share of the business over to his son, Dr. Stine will not be
missing from the beautiful store he established.  He will continue behind the counter to give his cheery greeting to customers and to assist as a pharmacist.  The pharmacy will
continue to serve the people of Schuylkill Haven and vicinity with the finest professional service, efficiency and courtesy.
The Call of March 11, 1954

FAIRMOUNT IS CLEARED FOR DEVELOPMENT
Further development of the Fairmount residential section is underway.  In the past two weeks a large bulldozer owned by Paul Feeser has cleared the top of the hill between
Avenues D and E of all brush and leveled off ridges and filled in small valleys to give the upper part of the hill an attractive appearance.  Avenue D has been extended above
Third Street and Avenue E will be continued from Second Street over the hill and down through the Faircrest Development to Liberty Street.  The work is being done by Feeser
for Mr. and Mrs. Coryell who own th eland between Avenue D and E and for the Fairmount Realty Company, owners of the remainder of the Fairmount area.  Mr. and Mrs. Coryell
intend to build a ranch type home of California redwood board and batten with stone on the crest of the hill between Avenues D and E with the home facing Avenue E.  The
Faircrest Realty Company, established by Charles Manbeck and Paul J. Feeser, will improve the land on the south side of the Fairmount hill and lay it out for a building
development.  Several homes will be built there.
The Call of May 27, 1954

BANK BUILDING PARKING AREA
A large parking area to accommodate approximately forty cars will be built at the rear of the First National Bank and Trust Company building at the corner of Main and Saint John
Streets.  A strip of land was acquired from each of the property owners between the bank and the Palsgrove hardware store.  This, together with the area behind the bank will
provide a parking area of 75 by 125 feet.  Work is now underway to remove the trees along the river bank and in the plot to be converted to a parking lot.  Large stones will be
arranged along the river edge and a wall will be erected along the property lines.  After the area is properly graded, trap rock will be used as a temporary surface.  After the
area has solidly settled, a macadam top will be put on as a surface covering.  Property owners, who previously had no rear access to their properties and who gave of their land
to provide the parking area include Quinter's, Gordon D. Reed, Mrs. Bert Kaufman and Steve Georgiavic of Pottsville.  The project is expected to be completed by July 1.
The Call of July 1, 1954

MAJOR CHANGES ALONG MAIN STREET
The major change made on Schuylkill Haven's Main Street the past year was the purchase of the Howard J. Loos business property at the corner of Main and Saint Peter Streets
by Harvey E. Dewald, local building contractor.  The Loos hardware store was discontinued and the Loos family moved to Carlisle.  Mr. Dewald converted the large store into two
separate business places.  The side toward the corner is occupied by Harner Dry Goods, operated by Mrs. Martha Harner who purchased the Anna Fisher store upon the death
of Miss Fisher and moved to the new location.  The other half of the store portion of the property is occupied as an office by the Schuylkill Haven Trans-Video Corporation.  The
rear of the store room and the upper floors of the building were converted onto three apartments.  Mr.. and Mrs. Dewald moved from their former home at the corner of
Margaretta and Market Streets to one apartment.  The other two are occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Yulick and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Croneberger.  Mr. Croneberger left
recently for service in the Army.
The Call of September 23, 1954

BLUE AND GOLD LUNCHEONETTE OPENS NEXT TO HIGH SCHOOL
The Blue and Gold Luncheonette, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Handling, proprietors, has been opened next to the Schuylkill Haven high school.  The new store is open daily from 8:00
a. m. until 11:00 p. m. and on Sundays from 5:00 p. m. until 11:00 p. m.  Specialties are ham subs, hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, milk shakes, french fries, coffee, milk
sodas and sundaes.  Call 1970 for subs to take out.  In conjunction with the grand opening of the store a drawing was conducted last week.  Winners were Ella Rowcotsky of
Schuylkill haven and Carl Hubler of Cressona.  She was awarded a pearl necklace set and he was awarded a cuff links and tie clasp set.  Names were drawn by Jane Fegley and
Bob Hoffman.  Mrs. Handling, the former Camille Bowers of Reading, runs the store.  Her husband also formerly of Reading, is employed by the Schuylkill Haven Casket
Company.  They have three children; Jeffrey, 4, Gregory, 6, and Hamilton, 11.  The store is located at the rear of their home at 205 Paxson Avenue.  The store is attractive with its
modern equipment installed by the Pottsville Bar and Restaurant Equipment and its blue and gold front with two large plate glass windows, the work of the Empire Glass and
Paint Company of Pottsville.  Meats for the store are supplied by the Schuylkill haven Provision Company, dairy products by J. H. Brokhoff and baked goods by Capital Bakers.
The Call of October 14, 1954

PAUL MOYER OPENS SHOP
Paul Moyer, 12 Stanton Street, will open his new auto body shop located on lower Main Street below the Church of the Nazarene on Monday morning.  The building block
structure, which has been under construction for the past several months, will be completed by the end of the week.  The main shop measures 40 by 75 feet.  A separate
section provides space for office, stock and heating equipment.  Moyer has had twenty seven years experience in auto body work.  Before going in to business for himself in
the new building, he was a part owner of the Schuylkill haven Auto Body and Fender Works on Center Avenue.  His new shop will do all kinds of body and fender work as well as
lacquer, enamel and touch up work and polishing.  Working with Moyer in the new location will be Lester Moyer and Solon Bautsch.
The Call of September 30, 1954

THE CALL'S NEW BUILDING NEARS COMPLETION
Construction work on the new building for The Call, delayed two weeks while awaiting
arrival of steel for the roof, was resumed last week with the erection of the steel and the
laying of the blocks for the upper portion of the wall.  Contractor Ken Heiser anticipates
no further delays and expects to have the building completed in November.  As November
and December are the busiest months of the year in the newspaper plant, moving to the
new building will in all probability be delayed until after the holiday season. The site of the
new home of The Call is in North Manheim Township, between the Anthracite Laboratory
and the State Highway garage along the extension of East Main Street, leading to the
Pottsville-Reading highway.  The building is being erected on the east side of a plot of
ground 224 feet in front and extending 300 feet.  The east boundary line runs back at a
slight angle so that the width of the plot at the rear is 300 feet.  
The structure will be virtually fireproof.  Walls are of building block.  The all steel ceiling
deck is to be covered with an inch of insulation material and a regular built up roof.  The
main part of the building measures 40 by 92 feet, with the front 20 feet being used for
offices and the remaining 72 feet for the working shop.  A 10 by 42 wing on the west side,
separated from the main structure by a fire door, will contain a V & E heating unit, the lead
melting furnaces and other stereotyping equipment.  The main shop area will have in addition to mens and ladies rooms and closets, a dark room for photographic and
lithographic work, a stock room for printing papers and a large storage area for newsprint.  
The main business office, private office and advertising department in the front of the building will be finished in wood paneling with an acoustic ceiling.  Lighting will be
recessed fluorescent fixtures.  The partition between the shop and offices will be insulated with a soundproofing material.  The modern front is being veneered with a buff
blend brick.  The seven foot entranceway will be outlined with zourite, a ribbed metal paneling of dull aluminum finish.  The double doors will be modern, consisting mostly of
heavy glass.  Twelve inch high stainless steel letters will spell out The Call above the entrance.  
Windows throughout the building are of the aluminum awning type.  The twelve shop windows are set high so that the walls may be used in placing cabinets and printing
equipment.  A large overhead door located at the rear will enable the equipment to be taken into the plant on trucks and after all equipment is placed will give adequate
opening for the loading and unloading of paper and other supplies.  Shop lighting will be suspended fluorescent fixtures.  The shop will be heated by blowers heated by hot
water.  The offices will have baseboard radiation.  The exterior block walls will be coated with a buff waterproofing compound and the inside walls will be painted with two tones
of green, using the darker shade on the bottom and a pale green on top.  Plans for the building were drawn up by Architect Russell Long of Tamaqua.  The construction contract
was awarded to Ken Heiser.  Other contractors are as follows: V & E Heating, Losch Boiler sales and Service and Bair and Shuey Electrical.
The Call of December 2, 1954

FAREL Y. BECKER IS NAMED LINCOLN MERCURY DEALER
Announcement was made this week by the Ford Motor Company of establishing Farel Y. Becker as the Lincoln Mercury dealer in Schuylkill Haven.  The naming of the new
dealership coincides with the announcement of the new models of these two makes of cars by the Ford Motor Company.  Both 1955 model Lincoln and Mercury cars are now on
display at the newly remodeled and enlarged showroom at the Farel Y. Becker garage next to the high school building on Haven Street.  During the past several weeks the
building has been completely renovated both on the exterior and interior.  The showroom was made longer.  The shop area was repainted and equipped with additional modern
automotive repair equipment.  The used car lot on the south side was enlarged and shrubbery was planted to give the entire setting a more pleasing appearance.
The naming of Farel Y. Becker as the Lincoln Mercury dealer marks the first time that there has been an agency for these cars in Schuylkill Haven.  Because of the rapid growth
in Lincoln and Mercury car sales in recent years, the Ford Motor Company has been opening selected dealerships in selected locations.  Schuylkill Haven was selected
because it too has enjoyed steady growth and improvement in recent years.  The new dealer has been in the automotive business for eighteen years.  Most recently he had the
Studebaker agency and also sold Philco electrical appliances.  Mr. Becker in announcing his appointment to the new dealership stated, " I want to extend an invitation to the
many people interested in Mercury and Lincoln to come in and see the new models.  And I also want to thank the present Studebaker owners and assure them we will continue
to give the same efficient service to their cars and trucks."
Mr. Becker was pleased to be selected as dealer for what is advertised to be "America's Number 1 Prestige Car," the Lincoln and Ford's popular model Mercury.  The new
models, new in design, feature a new type automatic transmission and in the words of Mr. Becker, "are automobiles for people desiring the latest advancement in design and
economy."  The personnel at the Farel Y. Becker agency includes Richard Luckenbill, serviceman for the last ten years, Warren Kramer, salesman for the last nine years, Farel
Becker Jr., who is employed as a mechanic, Pat Becker, who assists his father in sales, Lloyd Hubler, who has been with the organization for three years as appliance and
automobile salesman, and John Fidelli, who has worked for three years servicing televisions and other appliances.  In the office are Miss Mildred Bubeck, who has been in
Becker's employ for eight years and Betty Fenstermacher who has been working there for four years.
The Call of January 13, 1955

THE CALL TO START MOVING TOMORROW TO NEW BUILDING
The Call will begin moving to its newly erected modern building between the Anthracite Laboratory and the State Highway garage tomorrow morning.  The heavy equipment,
including two linotypes, commercial printing presses and the large newspaper press will be taken out through the large window opening in the front of the Saint John Street
building.  Harvey B. Moyer Inc. will move the heavy machinery.  Smaller equipment, type cabinets, make up tables, paper stock, etc., will be moved by The Call employees
through the doors at the rear of the building.  At the new location, the printing equipment will be taken in through a large overhead garage door at the rear of the building.
The present newspaper press will continue to be used temporarily until such time as a larger, roll fed press is purchased.  The present press will be placed in the large
stockroom at the rear of the building and the planned location for the newspaper press will be kept open so that when the press is purchased it can be erected and the present
press kept in operation until the new press is ready for use.  In addition to the regular Call machinery and equipment, an automatic press, type cabinets and other printing shop
items will be brought from the Tower City newspaper and job printing plant operated by W. K. Knecht.The Call will be equipped to do almost every kind of printing.  Because
some of the office equipment and printing plant machinery has been delayed in shipment, The Call will not be completely set up the first week after its moving.  The additional
equipment is expected by the early part of February.  When all is in readiness, The Call will hold an "Open House" to which everyone, advertisers, printing customers,
subscribers and the public in general will be invited
The Call of February 24, 1955

DAN MICHEL BUYS STORE
Dan Michel has bought his brother's interest in Michel Brothers and on March 1, will become sole proprietor of the confectionery, ice cream and novelty business.  Dan and ray
Michel purchased the business nine years ago, following the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Michel.  The bakery was discontinued five years ago.  The Michel store is one of
the oldest on Schuylkill Haven.  It was founded sixty six years ago by George Michel as a bakery and confectionery store.  At its peak as a bakery, Michel's baked three thousand
loaves of bread daily and had fourteen head of horses for delivery.  George Michel sold the business to two of his brothers, Charles and Joseph.  Following the death of
Joseph Michel, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Michel conducted the business.  Mr. and Mrs. Michel died within a year of each other and the business was purchased by Dan and Ray
Michel, sons of another of the original Michel brothers, John, who is also deceased.  Of the five brothers, only George Michel, the founder of the business is still living.  The
fifth brother was William.  The business will be conducted under the name Michel's.
The Call of March 10, 1955

NEW TELEPHONE OFFICE WILL BE LOCATED ON UNION STREET
The new Schuylkill Haven office of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania will be located at 411 East Union Street, it was announced today by Edward R. Breisacher, local
manager of the company.  The former Heim lot with a frontage of 80 feet and a depth of over 200 feet to Wilson Street was purchased through the Gordon D. Reed Agency.  A
one story brick building will be built on the site to house the intricate equipment necessary to service to the company's customers in Schuylkill Haven.  Although no definite
date has been set for the actual change to dial operations, the work of adding dials to existing telephones has already begun, Breisacher said.  When the $300,000 changeover
is completed, all Schuylkill Haven phone numbers will be changed.  The new numbers will consist of the central office name FUlton and five figures.  To reach a Schuylkill Haven
telephone it will be necessary to dial the first two letters of the central office name, the "F" then the "U" then each of the five figures in turn he said.
The Call of March 31, 1955

REALTOR GORDON D. REED ERECTING FIRST OF GUNNISON HOMES ON SCHUYLKILL STREET
Erection of a first in a series of Gunnison prefabricated homes was begun Wednesday by Gordon D. Reed, local realtor, on a large plot of ground on Schuylkill Street, recently
purchased by him from Mr. and Mrs. William Schwartz.  In less than a day's time, half the building was erected.  Reed's crew of workers had prepared the foundation in advance.  
On Wednesday morning one of two prefab houses was unloaded at the Pennsylvania Railroad station and taken to the building site.  By late afternoon most of the exterior walls
and interior partitions had been put in place.  When the men become accustomed to assembling the homes, it is expected that the erection of the main part of the structure
complete with roof will be accomplished in a day's time.  The Reed Agency recently became distributor for the Gunnison homes, a corporation backed by United States Steel.  
Knowing the needs and demands of this area, Reed feels that the attractive, low priced homes, with easy financing will prove popular.  The Gunnison homes come in a variety
of 72 designs and range in price from $8,800 to $14,000.  Financing can be arranged over a 25 to 30 year period, so that monthly payments will be in the range of current rents.  
The first home being assembled is the Gunnison Coronado.  It has six rooms and a bath with a full concreted basement.  The homes come as a package unit except for plumbing
and heating.  These will Be assigned to local contractors and manufacturers.  The homes will have double floors, with hardwood as the finishing flooring.  A second home will be
built alongside the one now under construction.  The second home will be Gunnison's Bride's Home.  It is being presented across the nation during the month of April.
United States Steel will feature this home on its Tuesday night telecast, and full page color ads will appear in Life, Saturday Evening Post and other leading magazines.
The Reed Agency expects to have the home completed and landscaped by the third or fourth week of April and will have it open for inspection by the public.  Furnishings will
be supplied by Pomeroy's, a member of Allied Stores, which are furnishing the homes throughout the country where the store is available.  After the erection of the Bride's
Home, Reed intends to begin work immediately on four more of the homes, three on Avenue A and one on Avenue E.
Photos of the home being
built in The Call.
The Call of September 29, 1955

BUILDING AND LOAN WILL MOVE TO GULDIN PROPERTY
The Schuylkill Building and Loan Association located on the second floor of the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company building will move its office to the Guldin store room on East
Main Street.  The Schuylkill Building and Loan was established in 1883.  Officers and directors are: D. Willis Deibert, president; Robert Painter, secretary; G. I. Bensinger,
treasurer; Ivan Reed, George Dunlop, Robert C. Dinger, Russell Strouse, Roy Scott, and R. R. Sterner, directors.  Attorney James Williamson is solicitor.  The new location was
previously occupied by the Schuylkill Sales Company.  The business was recently sold by Charles Guldin to Kenneth Schappell.  The appliance store was discontinued and the
plumbing ad heating business is now conducted from the building at the rear of the property, facing on Wilson Street.
The Call of January 12, 1956

BELL STARTS LAYING CABLE
Construction work on the outside of the new telephone building needed for the dial conversion was started last Thursday.  Counties Construction Company of Philadelphia
began placing underground conduit on Wilson Street.  Underground conduit will also be placed on Green Street between Main and Union Streets and on Saint Peter Street
between Main and Wilson Streets.  There will be several other small jobs throughout the town.  In all, approximately 3000 linear feet of conduit will be placed.  Bell telephone
Company line construction crews are also working on the project, getting ready to place approximately 70,000 linear feet of cable.  In all, approximately 32 million conductor feet
of cable will be placed.  This large amount of cable is needed for the elimination of four party service.  The cables feeding into the new central office on Union Street will be all
underground.  There will be four main cables feeding this office.  The estimated cost of the construction job, including the cost of the underground conduit will be
approximately $140,000.  This will not include any equipment needed in the new office.  Construction work is scheduled to be completed in late June.
The Call of April 12, 1956

DINGER OPENS MODERN USED CAR DISPLAY
Dinger Chevrolet opens its modern used car lot this weekend along the Schuylkill Haven-Reading highway with a display of a large selection of late model cars.  The used car
display, one of the most modern and best lighted in the area, is located on a part of a large plot of ground purchased by Robert C. Dinger from the Noble estate.  The 200 by 80
foot portion devoted to used cars was filled in with crushed bricks from the old brickyard.  A sales office commanding a view of the entire lot was erected and completed last
week.  Automobiles from the crowded lot along side the garage on Saint Charles Street were moved early this week to the new location.
Used cars will continue to be displayed on Saint Charles Street.  The Dinger sales organization now boasts of personnel who have long been associated with the automotive
business.  Dinger himself has had the local Chevrolet agency for seven years and before that time worked with Harry E. Nunemacher in the same business.  Charles
Nunemacher has had 29 years experience being with Dinger seven years and the balance of the time with his brother, Harry.  Clarence Wright, of Orwigsburg, with Dinger for
the past three and a half years and before that with R. R. Sterner and the Pottsville Storage Battery, has been in the automotive business for 33 years.  Among the newer men is
James Hochgertel of Pottsville who has been with the local agency for a year.  Before that time he worked for eight years in the body repair business.  William Gehris of Dock
Street, a new member of the staff, sold automobiles for the past 24 years.  Most of his experience was in Boyertown.  
Dinger, in addition to his automobile activities, is active in community affairs.  He is a member of the Schuylkill Haven Lions Club, is treasurer of the Lions Ambulance
Association,belongs to the Masonic organization, and for years was a member of the consistory of the Saint John's Reformed Church.  The new used car display lot will be open
from 10 a. m. until 9:00 p. m. daily and on Sunday in the afternoon.
The Call of April 19, 1956

MASONIC LODGE BUYS THEATRE
The Rio Theatre building on Saint Peter Street has been purchased by the Page Home Association, an affiliate of Page Lodge F & A M of town.  The structure was purchased
from Sork and Block, former operators of the theatre through the Gordon D. Reed Agency.  Although definite plans have not been completed for remodeling the building, the
organization will develop the entire structure.  The first floor will be made into a large meeting room and the third floor will be used by the Masonic order for lodge rooms.  No
present plans have been made for the second floor.  The theatre canopy and the old cornice on the front of the building will be removed as one of the first improvements.  
Officers of the newly organized home association are: John H. Betz, president; Harry R. Harner, vice president; John F. Marshall, secretary, Stuart Furman, treasurer; Attorney
John S. Lewis, solicitor and Gordon D. Reed, agent.
The Call of May 10, 1956

DRIESBACH AGENCY TO MOVE TO WEST MAIN STREET
The L. C.. Driesbach agency, for many years located on Dock Street near the Center Avenue intersection, will move to a new location on Monday, the Earl Williams garage on
West Main Street.  The Dock Street garage building has been purchased by the Bashore Knitting Mills.  It will be used as a warehouse.  Driesbach is the local Hudson dealer.  
The West Main Street property will be used for new car display and servicing.  The used car lot will continue at its present Center Avenue location,.  The Tydol service station,
recently purchased, is also operated by Driesbach.
The Call of August 16, 1956

K & K METAL PRODUCTS WILL MAKE ALUMINUM AWNINGS
Schuylkill haven has a new infant industry.  The K & K Metal Products Company has been set up in the E. S. Ketner garage building on Charles Street for the manufacture of roll
up aluminum awnings, aluminum storm doors and windows and other allied aluminum products.  The new industry has been started by E. S. "Tom" Ketner and son Leonard D.
Ketner.  For the past five months the father and son partnership has been making aluminum awnings and now has decided to go into the manufacture of the products on a
larger, independent scale.  Following the trip to a factory branch of stock supplier where he received instructions on the manufacture and installation of awnings, E. S. Ketner
equipped a shop with special equipment required in the making of the aluminum products.  The stock as purchased by the Ketners is aluminum that has been porcelainized in
various colors.  In the near future customers will be able to inspect the plant and make a selection of colors and see how the awnings are made.  K & K Metal Products will be
equipped to manufacture store front as well as house awnings and will be able to make repairs.
The Call of October 4, 1956

MAIN STREET CHANGES
The beautiful new Schuylkill Haven Trust building at the corner of Main and Saint Peter Streets brings about a major change in the appearance of Schuylkill Haven's business
district.  Replacing the former old Bryant estate properties, it adds a modern touch to what was formerly an antiquated section.  The beauty will be displayed both day and night.  
At night time a series of spotlights in front will illuminate the entire building.  The old bank building has been purchased by Frank Stramara.  At the present time the old vault is
being removed.  When this work is completed Stramara will convert the building into a lunch room and dining hall.  
Main Street and the adjoining streets in the business section are gradually undergoing a facelifting and change.  The former Loos building was purchased by contractor Harvey
Dewald and converted into to attractive stores.  The frame buildings at the rear were remodeled and converted into modern apartments.  Attorney John S. Lewis is presently
having his office and home remodeled.  George Gray recently completed the painting and repair of the apartment and professional office building at the other corner of Main
and Saint Peter Streets.  Another change was the Cleland furniture store which moved to the store room vacated by the Acme store when it moved to its modern supermarket
on Center Avenue.  The Messner and Hess store is building an addition to the rear of the five and dime.  Gordon D. Reed, who has torn down the old Owls building on Wilson
Street will build an extension onto the Atkins store.  
The Reading Restaurant is presently installing a modern front.  Below the railroad, Robert Dohner is making improvements to his property.  On Saint John Street, the former Call
building has been converted into two store rooms.  One is now occupied by Anthony G. Yorlick, who operates a frozen food plant.  The other is being readied for occupancy by
Sam Kurtz, jeweler.  On Saint Peter Street, the Schuylkill Hose Company is remodeling its present building and making an addition in the rear.  The old Rio Theatre purchased by
Page Lodge, F & A M, is undergoing a complete remodeling.
The Call of October 18, 1956

CANDY KITCHEN WILL REOPEN THURSDAY
Frank Lazos, son of the founder, will take over the management of the Candy Kitchen and will have a grand opening next Thursday.  In recent years the Candy Kitchen has been
operated by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sampson.  Several weeks ago it was closed and Frank Lazos made preparations to assume the management.  The store was opened originally
at the corner of Saint Peter and Main Streets in 1919 by Parris Lazos.  It was moved to the present location in 1925 where Parris began making his own candy and ice cream.  He
continued in business 31 years when he sold the business to Howard Sampson in 1950.  Franklin Lazos will make his own ice cream of the same formula his father used before
the war when it was possible to make your own mix.  He will also handle his father's homemade chocolate candy.  On the opening day, next Thursday, the new proprietor will
give away as prizes a Hoover sweeper, a certificate for a gallon of ice cream and a two pound box of candy.  For the kiddies he will have bubble gum and balloons.
The Call of February 14, 1957

WALKIN SHOES SELECTED FOR PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA
Schuylkill Haven entered the realm of international affairs when one of its leading industries was called upon to come to the assistance of little Prince Mashhur, son of King
Saud of Saudi Arabia.  The three and a half year old favored son of the King of Saudi Arabia returned to his native land wearing a pair of special shoes made by the Walkin Shoe
Company.  In his possession were eight pairs from the Walkin company.  Four were specially fitted to braces for immediate wear and four other pairs were taken to Saudi Arabia
for future wearing.  The young prince is a victim of a cerebral palsy like condition.
Upon the arrival of the king and his son, President Eisenhower had United States Army doctors check on the youngster to see if anything could be done to help him.  They found
that he had a form of cerebral palsy which involved one side paralysis without involuntary or uncontrolled movements.  He has had this condition since birth.  Shortening of the
heel cord on the one foot, most likely from disuses, causes the prince to walk on his toes and ball of the afflicted foot by pulling up the heel.  Doctors at Walter Reed Army
hospital immediately prescribed leg bracing and special shoes.  The braces were made in the hospital's prosthesis department.  They include a long one for nighttime wear and
a shorter one for daytime use.  
They are made attachable to special shoes for which Prince Mashhur was outfitted by Toler's shoe store in Washington.  Toler's had only five pairs of thee Walkin made shoes in
stock.  Mrs. Toler called Clayton Toler of the Walkin Shoe Company and ordered seven more pairs.  Of these, four were selected for immediate use and four more were chosen
for future use.  Four pairs were in children's size 9E and four others were in size 9 1/2E.  Two pairs of each size were high top brown shoes and the others were high top all
white shoes.  The brown shoes are shark tip oxfords.  Both styles are made over straight lasts.  The selection of the Walkin shoes helps to prove the claim that "the finest
corrective juvenile shoes in America are made in Schuylkill Haven."  Throughout the shoe industry, Walkin has the reputation of making the finest.
The Call of February 14, 1957

EARL STOYER CELEBRATING 35TH YEAR
Earl Stoyer, Cadillacs nd Oldsmobile dealer in Schuylkill Haven and Pottsville, will celebrate the 35th anniversary of his business on Saturday.  In observance of the occasion he
will be host to 84 employees and their wives at a dinner at the Hotel Hershey early Saturday evening.  Afterwards, the group will go to the Hershey Sorts Arena where they will
witness the Ice Capades.  Each of the guests will receive a wallet with the individual's name printed in gold along with the wording "Earl Stoyer 35th Year, 1922-1957."
It was February 17, 1922 when Earl Stoyer at the age of twenty started in the automobile business in a small building located on the site of the present modern salesroom and
garage on Columbia Street.  The automobile agency experienced a steady and rapid growth through the thirty five years and for many years has been recognized as one of the
largest and finest dealerships in the state.  A total number of 21,233 new and used cars have been sold by Earl Stoyer in these 35 successful years.  If these cars were put in
one line they would extend for a distance of eighty and one half miles.  
The Schuylkill Haven garage at Columbia and Berne Streets is now fully equipped to give every service to all cars.  Factory trained employees, many of whom have been with
Mr. Stoyer for 25 to 35 years, are employed at the modern garage.  As the business expanded, the building was increased in size.  The latest addition has been the creation of a
new two acre macadamed used car display lot adjacent to the garage.  It is illuminated with modern lighting and has a new salesman's office building.  Here new cars as well as
used cars are displayed.  In 1950 Earl Stoyer purchased the property at the corner of 7th and West Market Streets in Pottsville and converted it into a modern display room in
the front and a service garage in the rear.  Mirrors from floor to ceiling in the showroom display the new sleek lines of Cadillac and Oldsmobile.
The community has shared in the success that has come to Schuylkill Haven's leading automobile dealer.  His boundless enthusiasm has not been limited to his own business.  
He has been an active participant in numerous community projects and has assisted in activities that have benefited the community.  The modern garage and the adjoining
neatly kept pond provide a beauty spot within the community.  In the winter time the pond has become a skater's paradise.  This year it attracted as high as 800 skaters in a
single day.
Photographs taken
during the 35th
anniversary celebration
of Earl Stoyer's car
dealership.
The Call of March 28, 1957

REBECCA WALBORN WILL OPEN TOLE HOUSE NEXT WEEKEND
Miss Rebecca Walborn of Orwigsburg will have the grand opening of her new Tole House in Schuylkill Haven next weekend.  Located in the Michel building in the storeroom
vacated by Haven Decorators, the new Tole House will feature a full line of costume jewelry, Westmoreland milk glass, six of the most popular patterns of Stangl dinnerware and
a large variety of gift items.  For the grand opening, toy hen on nests in Westmoreland milk glass will be given to the first 100 customers.  Prizes will be awarded to winners who
will register at anytime before or during the opening celebration.  The original Tole House established by Miss Walborn on Center Square in Orwigsburg has been closed with
the opening of the Schuylkill Haven store.  The first store began five years ago when Miss Walborn added a few decorations and accessory items to her interior decorating
business.  Gradually the accessory items expanded and three years ago crowded out the interior decorating business which was discontinued.  Last February a second store
was opened at 531 Penn Street in reading, also known as the Tole House.
The Call of April 4, 1957

MAURER BROTHERS OPEN NEW STORE IN MICHEL BUILDING
Another new store makes its debut in Schuylkill haven as Maurer Bothers of Minersville today begins a weekend grand opening celebration.  The new wallpaper, paint and
hardware store occupies the large storeroom in the Michel building at 5 East Main Street in the side formerly used by Michel's bakery, confectionery and gift store.  The other
side of the building is also occupied by a new store, the Tole House, operated by Miss Rebecca Walborn of Orwigsburg, who is also having her grand opening celebration this
weekend.  This part of the Michel building was formerly occupied by Haven Decorators.  
The Schuylkill Haven location is the second store to be operated by Maurer Brothers.  The brothers, George and Paul, also conduct a store in Minersville at Fourth and Sunbury
Streets.  Paul Maurer is known in this area through his association with the Schuylkill County Chorus conducted by Lew Edwards.  He has also appeared at the local Methodist
church.  He is a past president of the Minersville Rotary Club.  The new store will serve as distributor for Pittsburgh, Allentown, Yarnell and Valspar paints and will carry a
complete line of linoleums and Armstrong products.  The business will sell and lay all types of floors and do the various type of tile work.  The new store will also handle gas
appliances and bottled gas.  For the opening, Maurer Brothers will award prizes totalling $1,000 in value.  Prizes include a gas range, fiber rug, ten gallons of outside house
paint, four gallons of inside decorating paint, a 9 x 12 vinyl rug and additional prizes awarded every three hours Friday and Saturday.
The Call of April 4, 1957

NOW IT'S FEHR'S ESSO SERVICENTER
Keller's Esso Servicenter, the largest and most attractive in the area, changed ownership on Monday when Charles G. Fehr took over operation of the business.  Fehr, who has
worked at the station since August 1953, purchased the business from Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Keller, who erected the modern servicenter in 1952 and operated it since that time.  
The new owner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Fehr of Friedensburg.  He worked at Bethlehem Steel in Lebanon before returning to this area to work at the servicenter.  
The servicenter will continue to be operated with the same employees and the new owner will strive to give the same efficiency and courteous service rendered under the
original proprietors.  The only change to be made will be in the business hours.  The station will open one hour earlier and do business from 6:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m.  Mr. and
Mrs. Keller will devote full time to their fuel oil business.  They started in business in 1939 at the original Keller's Esso Servicenter in Cressona.  This service station was
operated until 1945.  The fuel oil business was started in 1941.  The present servicenter was erected in 1952.  The large plot of ground behind the servicenter was purchased
and in 1955 the supermarket building and parking lot were constructed and leased to the Acme stores.  Headquarters for the oil business will be the Keller home but the
servicenter also will be used for transacting business.
The Call of January 23, 1958

GODSHALL STORE WILL CLOSE AFTER 22 YEARS        
The Godshall store on Center Avenue is closing out its stock at reduced prices and will go out of business.  The neighborhood grocery store for the people of the North Ward
was established twenty two years ago when the modern stone front was added to the Godshall home at the pavement level.  The store has been conducted by Mrs. May I.
Godshall, assisted by her daughter Marguerite for the past twelve years.  Mis Godshall returned to employment at the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company last Thursday.  She had
worked for the Trust Company at its old location for ten years before leaving to assist her mother in conducting the store.  Last year at Easter time Mrs. Godshall was
hospitalized with gall stones.  With the closing of the store, she will devote her time to household duties.
The Call of March 7, 1941

WAGE INCREASE DENIED, WORKERS BARRICADE ROAD TO BREAKER
Twenty two striking miners at the Pine Ridge Mining Company breaker, located at the end of Parkway, erected a barricade on roads leading to the breaker and are stopping all
trucks from entering the premises.  This action was taken after a demand for an increase in wages had been refused by the company, the men laid off and an attempt made to
operate the breaker with new men.  The affair was peaceful until Thursday afternoon, when an altercation occurred between Charles Andershonis, one of the foremen, and the
striking employees.  It is claimed that the foreman sought to tear down American flags erected at the barricade and was set upon by the men.  
The trouble began last week, when the miners, who reportedly had been working from ten to fifteen hours for wages ranging from $3.50 to $4.00 per day, asked for fifty cents an
hour for an eight hour day and with time and a half for overtime work.  They notified the company that they would strike if the demands were not met by March 1.  The company
attempted to operate the breaker with outside help on that date, and the old employees set up the barricade on Tuesday to prevent coal from being taken to or from the
breaker.
The owner, Steve Kotch of Frackville, also operates two other breakers, at Oak Ridge near Lorberry and at Millersville, near Fountain Springs.  Attempts at conciliation have met
with no success, the strikers claiming that the operator will not meet with them.  Clarence Ney, the spokesman for the employees, announced this morning that the men will now
demand the union wages and hours of the United Mine Workers.  A detective of the Pine Ridge Mining Company talked with the men this morning and it is thought a conference
soon will be arranged between the two factions, and an agreement reached.
The Call of December 5, 1941

ZULICK MILL IS OPERATING IN NEW QUARTERS
Zulick's Underwear Mill, formerly Moyer and Zulick, began operation this week in their new quarters at the rear of 128 Centre Avenue.  The factory which had been located in the
small building across from Moyer's garage on Lincoln Avenue was moved to the newly constructed frame building Thanksgiving Day and the thirty girls employed by Mr. George
Zulick lost only one day through the change in location.  The new factory offers ideal working conditions.  It is a two story building with plenty of natural light coming through the
numerous windows on all sides.  The girls work at the thirty machines on the second floor.  Contractors are still working on the first floor which is expected to be finished this
week.  This floor will be used as a retail sales room where the products of the mill will be sold direct to the consumers.  The merchandise now manufactured includes ladies'
rayon underwear, panties, slips, gowns and pajamas and ladies' and boys camerline jackets.  Sales are made by Mr. Zulick direct to the retail dealer and to individuals coming to
the sales room.  The partnership of Moyer and Zulick was dissolved June 27 upon the death of R. F. Moyer, after the two men had operated for sixteen years.  Now with
increased sales and greater production necessary, a larger factory became necessary and Mr. Zulick constructed the building at the rear of the Zulick apartments.  The new
building can accommodate almost double the number of machines now in operation.  With the demand for his products steadily increasing, Mr. Zulick states that new machines
and operators will be added very shortly.
The Call of December 5, 1941

EMPLOYEES OF W. Y. MILLER SHOE COMPANY PLEDGE $5000 TO FINANCE REOPENING
The citizens of Schuylkill Haven in their public spirited endeavor to save the W. Y. Miller Shoe Company have already pledged $7300 of the $35,000 necessary to put the factory
again in operation and return the 138 employees to their jobs.  The action of the community in trying to save one of its biggest industries has stirred the interest of millions of
people in the eastern part of the United States.  Large city newspapers have sent men in to cover the meetings of the Citizen's Committee and have given the story prominent
display in their news columns.  Their millions of readers are now waiting to see if this town of 6500 people will be able to raise the large amount necessary to reorganize the
closed factory.  If the amount is raised, the factory will become a community operation.  The plan is to issue preferred stock which carries with it a voice in the management and
operation of the shoe company.  The preferred stock will be paid off from the profits.
A pledge of $5,000 by the employees at a meeting in town hall last evening gave added impetus to the solicitation.  More than one hundred employees, friends and interested
persons attended the meeting.  Solicitation will begin in earnest tomorrow, following an important meeting of the solicitors tonight at &:30 in town hall.  All solicitors already
working and any other persons interested are asked to be present.  These solicitors will canvass the town in an effort to raise the additional $27,000 by the deadline, Thursday,
December 11.  On Thursday the hearing of the W. Y. Miller Shoe Company will be held in Philadelphia before Judge Guy T. Bard.  At the first hearing on Monday, ex-judge Roy P.
Hicks, attorney for the closed factory, explained the attitude of the townspeople and their plan to raise the amount necessary to resume operations under a reorganization plan
and he received an extension of time for the hearing until December 11.  At that time the entire $35,000 will have to be pledged.
According to authentic financial reports on the status of the company, it had been operating at a profit for the last six months, but a large indebtedness created an overhead
which depleted the profit.  Three creditors presented their claims and forced the Millers into involuntary bankruptcy.  Under Chapter 10 of the Chandler Act, a business is
permitted to continue operation under a reorganization plan.  In the event this plan can not be put into operation, the company will have to go through the bankruptcy
proceedings.  If the citizens are successful in raising the $35,000, the factory will begin work immediately to fill orders on hand totalling $125,000.  When reorganized, the factory
will do the greater part of their dealings directly with the retail dealers, retaining only a few of their most reliable jobbers.  Prior to closing two weeks ago, the factory was
producing a thousand pairs of shoes a day.  The maximum daily output is estimated at twelve hundred pairs.
The first meeting of the Citizen's Committee was called by Bert Maberry, Gordon D. Reed and George Gray for Wednesday evening, November 26.  At this time about twenty
businessmen of the community were present.  Because a true account of the financial condition was not available beyond the bare statement of liabilities over assets and the
fact that $35,000 was needed, the group had nothing to go on but rumors.  It was decided that before any plans were made, a conference should be held with the Miller brothers
and their attorneys.  At this meeting the company was satisfied that the shoe company could again operate on a paying basis if the amount of $35,000 was raised.  A second
meeting was called for Tuesday evening and in addition to the businessmen, a number of employees were present.  Officers elected at this time were: Bert Maberry, President;
Gordon reed, secretary; and George Gray, treasurer.  When Harry Runkle, one of the foremen, and Lewis Schweigert, one of the oldest employees, expressed the belief that the
workers would gladly do their part in raising the necessary 435,000, it was decided to call a meeting of the employees for Thursday night.  This was done and the workers turned
out almost one hundred percent to voice their endorsement of the plan by pledging more than $5,000.  The W. Y. Miller Shoe Company was founded in September of 1905 by W.
Y. Miller, Preston Miller and Herman Miller as a partnership.  The founders began the manufacture of children's shoes in a building on the southwest corner of Liberty and Saint
Peter Streets.  As the business expanded, more floor space was added.  In October of 1913, the brick building on Liberty Street was erected.  After several years it was found
necessary to have more working space and another addition was built in 1918.  The next addition was a two story brick wing added in the summer of 1921.  In 1932, the brothers
decided to incorporate the business and it became known as the W. Y. Miller Shoe Company, Incorporated.  In addition to the three brothers, the two sons of Preston Miller,
Bob and Wilmer also have an interest.
The Call of December 12, 1941

MILLER'S SHOE COMPANY GRANTED 20 DAY EXTENSION
Through the untiring efforts of the local committee endeavoring to retain the W. Y. Miller Shoe Company here, District Judge Guy Bard has extended the time of final action until
December 30, which gives the local people two more weeks in their effort to raise the necessary $35,000 to save the industry for Schuylkill Haven.  The committee has worked
feverishly and has been ably assisted by eight of the employees of the closed factory.  The response has been fair and while there is a yeoman's job to be done, the outlook is
not too gloomy.  To date, $15,700 has been subscribed.  Subscriptions have been received from former residents of Schuylkill Haven who have indicated by act as well as word
that they are anxious to do their part in this effort to aid their former neighbors and friends.  One in particular is puzzling the committee who boasted of the fact that they knew
everyone who ever lived here.  The subscription is for $100 and was sent by a person who is an absolute stranger to every one of the committee.  The sender expressed a
desire to help in this most worthy cause and the committee is of the opinion that the publicity given the matter in the metropolitan newspapers is the reason for this
subscription by a nonresident.  It is not too late, as a matter of fact the time is now at hand for you to do your part, if you have not already done so.  The thermometers in front of
the Gordon reed office are continually rising in spite of the drop in the actual temperature.  They must rise to the $35,000 mark.  It can be done.  It will be done.  Welcome the
solicitor when he comes to you and give all you possibly can.
The Call of December 5, 1941

LET'S BREAK THE THERMOMETER !
Two large thermometers placed on the light standard in front of the Gordon D. Reed office will record the increasing amount of the money pledged to the W. Y. Miller Shoe
Company fund.  The thermometers, made by Fred Reichert, are white with a blue background and a red "mercury" tube.  The degrees are marked in $5,000 units with smaller
division between each marker.  At the top of the thermometer tube is the goal of $35,000.  The reading on the top asks the local citizenry to help keep 138 persons working and
to keep the industry in operation.  Anyone desiring to pledge toward the fund may do so at the Reed office or Gray's clothing store.
The Call of December 19, 1941

NEW INTEREST SHOWN IN DRIVE TO SAVE FACTORY
The war events of last week slowed down the action of the town in its attempt to raise the $35,000 for the Miller Shoe factory, but now that the surprise is past, interest is again
turned to the local problem and solicitors are working feverishly to raise the amount.  At the present time over $16,000 has been pledged.  Particularly noticeable in the past
week has been the support given to the drive by former residents of Schuylkill Haven, who have come to learn of the plight of one of the main industries of their home town.  
Being away from the community, they look at Schuylkill Haven as a unit, not as individuals, and see what the continued operation of the Miller Shoe Company will mean to
everyone in town.  Their support is given to build up Schuylkill Haven rather than to see it slip backwards.  Many are the stories heard from local businessmen abut salesmen
from distant cities who have read of the gallant fight being waged here and the inquiries about the progress being made in the drive for $35,000.  This week, a request was
received by Gordon D. Reed from the Life magazine for aid in securing information and pictures for a feature story to be printed in that magazine.  In speaking of the
communication, Reed remarked, "This publicity is all well and good but what we need is more aid in the way of financial pledges."
Only eleven days remain to raise the $35,000.  The extension granted the Miller Shoe Company will expire December 30 and at that time the decision will be made whether or not
138 employees, most of them men, will be returned to their jobs or be forced to look elsewhere for work.  The Citizen's Committee, Bert Maberry chairman, appeals to the
people to extend their utmost aid to this cause which effects the lives of everyone in Schuylkill Haven.
The Call of January 2, 1942

TWO RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR MILLER FACTORY
District Judge Guy Bard handed down on Tuesday, December 30, an order to adjudicate bankruptcy in the matter of the Miller Shoe Company and appointed Harold Hubler,
Auburn and Ralph M. Bashore of Tremont as receivers.  This action followed the petition of a month ago by the operators of the Miller shoe factory to reorganize after an
involuntary bankruptcy action had been handed down against them.  The effort to raise the necessary $35,000 by popular subscription locally fell short by $12,000 but it must be
said in behalf of those who so energetically worked for the cause that their efforts were nonetheless appreciated not only by those parties interested directly in the factory but
also by the citizens of the community who watched with keen interest the progress made in the drive. The monies which have been placed on deposit in the drive will be
returned to the subscribers within a few days.  A meeting for the creditors for the examination of the bankrupt firm will be called in a short time by Attorney Maynard Stapleton,
Referee in Bankruptcy, to whom the action of the court has been referred.
The interest shown in the drive pointed out very pointedly the fact that many former residents of the borough still have a keen interest in the progress of Schuylkill Haven.  Not
a few pledges for aid were received by former residents and this was indeed appreciated as was every single subscription received from residents here.  A ray of light is shone
in the fact there is a possibility of the factory being purchased by a group of interested men who will reopen it as a shoe factor or some other industry to absorb the greater part
of the labor represented.  Work has already begun to bring this about and, of course, the future of the building and its occupancy will depend upon the purchaser at the final
bankruptcy sale.
The Call of January 16, 1942

OLD TIME FIREPLACES FOUND WHILE REMODELING HOTEL
In the process of remodeling the old Columbia Hotel which is now going on, the workmen have discovered several interesting old relics of bygone days which are causing a
great deal of interest by those who have sen them.  Mr. E. C. Graver, former owner of the hotel and a member of the family which has operated the landmark for more than fifty
years, is assisting in the remodeling, and it was he who discovered two unique fireplaces, one in each of the two front bedrooms.  Built into the chimney, the fireplaces are
simply a grate of iron embedded into the brick chimney.  The grate looks much like a small cradle about ten inches long.  It was in these grates that the people of about a
century ago placed a wood fire to heat the individual room.
Mr. Graver as a boy remembers how, on market day, the Berks County farmers from the Strausstown, Rehrersburg district came over the Blue Mountain early in the morning,
stopping at the Columbia Hotel about five in the morning for breakfast, to feed the horses and to get warm before going about their day's marketing.  In the evening the same
group would stop for supper before the long trek over the mountain to home.  Many of the residents of Schuylkill Haven will remember the time when this hotel, which is more
than one hundred years old, was the stopping off place for travelers.
The hotel is being completely remodeled for the accommodation of tourists and guests.  The large dining room has been completely done over with attractive etchings
adorning the walls.  The bar room has been panelled with beautiful wood and the entire place, including the rooms which will be let out to tourists, has been done over.  The
hotel will be under the management of Mr. J. S. Long.  Visitors are invited to inspect the old fireplaces which have attracted many.  Not a few antique dealers have offered
attractive sums for the purchase of the fireplaces but Mr. Graver and Mr. Long have decided that they will remain in their original place embedded securely into the building
structure.
The Call of January 23, 1942

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN WELCOMES NEW RESTAURANT
Local Labor and Materials Used in Erection of "Parkway" - Native Oak Used To Build New Modern Restaurant
Schuylkill Haven can be justly proud to welcome its newest business establishment, the Parkway Restaurant.  Meeting a very definite need, this modern restaurant will be
patronized by many of the townspeople as well as transients who will find the same Strause and Beck quality prevailing as is to be found in all the other of their fast growing
chain of restaurants and service stations.  
An inspection of the new Parkway Restaurant will reveal that Strause and Beck have spared no expense in procuring the very best of everything in the building of this modrn
establishment.  It is equipped with the very latest of everything from the front door to the large spacious banquet hall to the rear of the building.  The forward part will be the
restaurant proper, equipped with comfortable booths and tables to accommodate a large clientele. The entire building is finished with native oak specially prepared at the mills
of Mr. Strause and the structural wood was also prepared and secured from these mills.  Excavation was begun last August by H. Loy, who soon had the foundation in
readiness.  Harvey Dewald and son were secured as general contractors and soon the structure took form.  Designed after the most modern buildings, the Parkway Restaurant
presents a most formidable appearance in its splendid location at the head of Parkway.  The electrical work has been expertly completed by Bair and Shuey.  The front and all
the glass work is the handiwork of the Empire Paint and Glass Company of Pottsville.  Painting of the interior and exterior was handled by Clarence Dewald of Schuylkill Haven.  
The heating plant, one of the very latest as well as the plumbing, has been completed by the Losch Boiler Sales Company of Schuylkill Haven.  R. T. Reed placed on the building
a substantial roof which will last for many years to come.  The flooring was expertly done by the Enterprise Furniture Factory of Reading.  Many of the fixtures for the restaurant
were furnished by the Pottsville Showcase Company.
The banquet hall will be the scene of many civic and service club meetings and it will be available to organizations who wish the best of everything served in an environment of
refinement and cleanliness.  No liquor will be sold in keeping with an established policy of Strause and Beck.  In the front restaurant which will be always open to the public,
the famous Strause and Beck Bar B Que will be featured as well as popular platters at reasonable prices.  The Parkway Restaurant will be managed by Fred Kramer, who has
wide experience in this field of endeavor.  Coming to Schuylkill Haven with a background as steward on the famed United States liners as well as on the United Fruit Lines, he
has a full knowledge of the needs of the patrons who will visit the Parkway.  His experience as a steward on large liners will be an invaluable help to individuals as well as large
groups who may plan banquets at the Parkway.  Schuylkill Haven is proud again to say welcome to Strause and Beck, and although the men are no strangers to us, in fact we
feel that they are a part of the community life of our borough, we are happy to officially welcome them to our business family.
The Call of April 17, 1942

MILLER FACTORY MAY BE SOLD
At a meeting held before Referee in Bankruptcy Maynard Stapleton at the county courthouse, the trustees of the Miller Shoe Factory presented a petition for private sale of the
factory.  The petition, however, was opposed by the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company, the First National Bank of Schuylkill Haven and the Miners National Bank of Pottsville,
mortgagees.  After a lengthy hearing in which many legal aspects were presented, the decision of the referee was to dismiss the petition.  As a result of this decision the shoe
factory may be placed on the auction block in public sale.  All money which had been subscribed in the public spirited effort by citizens of Schuylkill Haven has been returned to
the subscribers.
The Call of December 10, 1943

QUICK FREEZE PLANT PLANNED FOR TOWN
Schuylkill Haven will have a "Quick Freeze" locker plant in the near future if plans now being furthered materialize.  Harry Schumacher, one of Schuylkill Haven's oldest
merchants, has plans for a 255 locker plant to be installed in his present store on Columbia Street.  The "Quick Freeze" lockers is a fast growing industry.  There are at present
4721 plants in the United States and 400 in Canada.  The lockers are especially popular in the middle west.  Before priority rights are given, the government demands that sixty
percent of the lockers must be rented to separate and distinct families and the amount of rent placed in escrow in a local bank.  The rent begins when the plant starts
operation.  Announcements of lockers for rent will appear in later issues of this paper.
The Call of June 8, 1945

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN TRUST COMPANY OBSERVES 35TH ANNIVERSARY
The Schuylkill Haven Trust Company observed its 35th anniversary as a banking institution on Wednesday.  On May 19, 1910, a charter was obtained for an institution to be
known as the Schuylkill Haven Trust Company and which open for business June 6, 1910.  The first Board of Directors was composed of twenty three members.  The property at
6 East Main Street was purchased and remodeled and while renovations were being made, business was transacted in a room at the Grand Hotel building.  On February 23,
1911, the institution moved into the quarters it has occupied ever since.  The business prospered from the start and by 1937 the banking quarters were too small.  At this time
renovations were again made and resulted in greater convenience to customers and a more attractive atmosphere in which to transact business.  The deposits on June 6, 1910
were $76,307.  The growth of the institution since that time can be seen in the increase in deposits to $3,257,484 on June 2, 1945.  For a limited time the Schuylkill Haven Trust
Company will have on display genuine and counterfeit United States currency and which can be seen by the public during the regular banking hours.  In honor of the
anniversary which was made possible by cooperation and teamwork of the officers, directors and employees, they were entertained at dinner on Wednesday evening by Walter
F. Meck, president.
Those present were: Walter F. Meck, Harry A. Reber, Casper Roeder, Guy H. Diefenderfer, Ivan W. Reed, Vincent J. Dalton, Melvin W. Bamford, Roy A. Scott Jr., G. I. Bensinger,
Harry G. Fegley, directors; C. H. Williams, Harry L. Burkert, Robert L. Painter, Ralph M. Kauffman, Willis M. Kauterman, Marguerite, M. Godshall, Mildred F. Koch, Rose E. Jones,
Sarah L. Bensinger, Ada M. Heim, J. H. Berger, employees; and E. W. McSparren, vice president and treasurer of the Federal Land Bank, Baltimore; Samuel T. Deibert and J. L.
Stauffer.
These five ads were extracted from the Call newspaper in December of 1945.  The three above hold special meaning to me.  Reppert's Store was the corner grocery
store in my neighborhood and I had shoes repaired at Ed Orwigs.  I shoveled snow at both businesses in the 1970s for a few years.  My father would wake me when he
went to work and I would shovel before going to school and collect my pay on the way home.  They were both nice gentlemen.  Geary's Shoe Store in the center was
owned by my late wife's family and like many Schuylkill Haven residents, I had shoes from there.  Next is an ad from Greenawalt's on Parkway and an ad for real estate
from Gordon D. Reed.  Click on the Reed ad to see the bargain prices for homes.
The Call of October 12, 1945

DISCUSSION WAGED ON COAL OPERATION
The problem of coal reclaiming operations erecting barriers in the Schuylkill River was again thrashed out in council when the local governing body met on Monday night at
Town Hall.  Councilman Joseph McGlinchey, who claims that his property as well as that of his neighbors is being damaged, brought the matter to the attention of council.  The
provisions of the permit granted to the McKinley Hoover operation by the state were read.  The operators were given permission to erect a twelve inch plank barrier in time of
low water to dam up the water so that they could float their coal dredge.  It was claimed that the plank barrier had been washed away and another barrier, made of large stones,
is now in place and is above the prescribed height.  Solicitor Hicks explained that the matter was one for individual property owner complaint to Harrisburg instead of a
community action.  It was decided, however, that the solicitor write to the proper authorities at Harrisburg notifying them that the provisions of the permit were not being
carried out.
The Call of April 5, 1946

STORE WILL OPEN HERE SATURDAY
A new modern hardware and sporting goods store will be added to the list of Schuylkill Haven businesses when the Haven Hardware Company opens on Saturday in the former
Felix building on Saint John Street.  The building was purchased several months ago by Amos Strause and Harvey Dewald and work was begun immediately to convert it to the
use of the new enterprise.  Shelves and fixtures were installed and a large variety of hardware items, many of them unobtainable during the war years and up to the present
time were secured and will be offered for sale.  Modern Fluorescent lighting was installed and the entire interior and frame parts of the exterior were painted.  The store is now
modern in all respects.
Owners of the new enterprise are Amos Strause and Harvey Dewald and Herman Dewald.  With twenty six years of hardware experience, Herman Dewald will be manager of the
store.  He was associated previously with the George Bright and Company of Pottsville and W. C. Hack and Sons of Shamokin.  Earl Reed, who will be the assistant manager, was
formerly with the William K. Loos establishment of town and at one time had charge of the hardware division of the Sears and Roebuck store in Pottsville.  
For the opening the new store will give away four door prizes at a drawing Saturday night.  Each person visiting the store on the opening day will be registered and will have his
name in the drawing without needing to be present to win.  The prizes will be a pressure cooker, electric heating pad, cookie jar and a flashlight.  The store is now stocked with
a complete line of hardware items, paints, fencing, poultry equipment, fertilizer, electric fences and floor coverings.  Other items have been ordered and will be placed on sale
as soon as they arrive.  The store will be dealers for Jamesway barn equipment, Pratt and Lambert paints, Wilson sporting goods, Pennsylvania overhead doors, Chambers gas
ranges, Barrett roofing and shingles and Royal vacuum cleaners.
The Call of April 5, 1946

LOOS STORE ERECTING LARGE WAREHOUSE
The William K. Loos Establishment of town, dealers in feed, grain and other farm needs and machinery, has begun construction of a large warehouse between the Reading
Railroad siding and Coldren's Mill on East Columbia Street.  The building, constructed of building blocks, will be thirty feet wide and 130 feet in length.  A thirty foot section will
be used as a display room for farm machinery.  Howard J. Loos, who took over the business in September 1942, shortly after the death of his father, William K. Loos, announces
that the building will enable them to store their feed and grain close to the railroad without the extra handling and trucking that had been necessary in the past.  The savings in
the handling cost will enable the Loos Establishment to provide farmers with quality merchandise at a lower price.  The present warehouse on Long Run will be used mainly for
the repair and setting up of new machinery.  Mr. Loos recently returned from the armed services after serving eighteen months, most of which was in action in the final stages
of the war in Europe.  Since his return, he has remodeled and modernized the Loos store on Main Street and made plans for the warehouse that is now being constructed.  
Within the next few weeks he expects to begin a weekly delivery route system throughout this area to give better service to the farming trade.  Starting this week, the first in a
series of cartoon advertisements for the William K. Loos Establishment appears in The Call.
The Call of August 30, 1946

'GOOD OLD DAYS' RECALLED BY STORY OF THEATRE OPENING
Many a housewife and head of the family (in some cases one and the same person) after a visit to the store for purchases at inflation prices has said, "Oh, for the good old days
when you really got something for your money."  Well, a story was brought to The Call office that deals with the good old days.  It's an account of the old Euclid Theatre which
opened the Saturday before Christmas in 1912.  The writeup appeared in the July issue of "The Exhibitor," a copy of which was given to the editor by Charles B. Poorman Jr. of
Haven Street, who as a dealer in photographic supplies, receives the trade magazine.  The story read in part:
"Recently there came to these editorial offices of the original account book of D. M. Wagner and William L. Woodin, who on Saturday before Christmas in 1912, opened the
Euclid Theatre in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.  The first week's receipts were as follows: Monday, December 23, $21.85; Tuesday, December 24, $18.20; Wednesday,
December 25, $18.60 at the matinée and $32.45 in th evening; Thursday, December 26, $21.10; Friday, December 27, $9.50 and Saturday, December 28, $5.35 at the matinée and
$39.30 in the evening for a grand total of $166.35 for the first full week.  The preopening expenses amounted to a total of $577.58.  Wagner charged the theatre $25  a month for
rent and Woodin drew $25 a week as manager.  
Among the expenses listed were: The Call, advertising, $4.84; Mills and Klein, distributing folders for opening week, fifty cents; two boxes of soap powder, ten cents; one tin
pail, ten cents; two pairs pliers, twenty cents; two screw drivers, fifteen cents; bottle of ink, pen and book for ticket seller account, fifteen cents; moving piano to theatre, $2.00
and music rolls from Erles, $18.54.  The opening show consisted of the days super colossal "Custer's Last Fight," and a couple of one reelers, "Why Jones Reformed" and
"Plucky Girl".  On that precedent shattering night, 6,280 nickels were pushed under the Euclid Theatre wicket, a record which stood for only twenty four days.  The film rental on
this show totaled $12.50.
In those days the projectionist cranked the machine with his right hand and with his left, adjusted the carbons, cranked the Victrola and changed the records which were used
to attract customers by means of the horn sticking out on the street.  Another job of the projectionist in those days was to lean out the booth door at the close of each show
(they ran only fifteen minutes) and call to the audience, "Don't crowd down the aisles, next show in a few minutes." n It was also not unusual to call out the booth door to the
audience and explain that the film had broken or some other trouble had occurred in the booth and ask the audience to be patient when he fixed it."
The Call of November 8, 1946

ELMER UNGER BUYS BUSINESS PROPERTY
The modern grocery store of Harry K. Schumacher located at 128 Columbia Street and apartments adjoining were sold the past week to Elmer F. Unger of Parkway.  On the first
floor the store room is occupied by Wolf's Grocery and the adjoining property has three modern apartments.  Mr. Unger intends to install the latest grocery store equipment and
lighting fixtures and in the rear of the store he intends to install freezing lockers for the storing of meats and vegetables.  The Wolf Grocery store which now occupies the store
room will move to the Dietrich property several doors away where business will be continued.  The sale was made by realtor Gordon D. Reed.
The Call of November 8, 1946

IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO SAINT JOHN STREET BUSINESS PLACES
A bright green neon sign at the Haven Hardware Company store on Saint John Street gives the street a brighter business appearance.  The sign, advertising Bendix radios with
the name of the store beneath was erected yesterday.  While the war was in progress with the Felix building vacant, Saint John Street lost much of its business appearance.  
Within the last several months, much has been done to make it a business section.  The Felix store was purchased by the Haven Hardware Company and extensive
improvements made before it was open for business.  The manager, Herman Dewald, and store staff are working nights getting the store ready for the Christmas season.  The
Call building which was purchased by Gordon D. Reed, is being painted and improved.  The store and offices of The Call were renovated and enlarged.  Additional display racks
have been added.  The every day greeting card line has been enlarged and now includes several of the high quality lines.  The Christmas cards and stationery displayed this
year will be the largest and most beautiful ever displayed by the Call.  Business places along Saint John Street now include: The Call, Gabe's, Schwartz's, the state liquor store
and Haven Hardware.
The Call of November 15, 1946

GIRLS HANDLE 11,000 CALLS DAILY, AN INCREASE OF 2,000 OVER TWO YEARS AGO
In this age of rush, rush, rush when everything must be done at breakneck speed, we too often take for granted or give too little consideration of one of the leading
conveniences in our present day business and social world, the telephone.  Probably the fastest working girl in Schuylkill Haven, and the one who takes the most abuse from
inconsiderate customers for not being a super girl and making two hands do the work of eight, is the telephone operator.  At the local exchange in the Schuylkill Haven Trust
building, operators at five switchboards are now handling an average of 11,000 calls a day, an increase of 2,000 over two years ago.  The local exchange realizes that the
service at times is not as speedy as it should be but the fault lies not with the girl operating the plugs but with the lack of adequate equipment to handle the large number of
calls.  
Most of these 11,000 calls are made from nine in the morning until eight at night with two periods, nine to ten in the morning and four to seven in the afternoon, being the peak
loads.  If 10,000 calls are handled in the eleven busy hours, that means that each of five girls takes 2,000 calls.  She makes 182 connections an hour or three every minute.  At
that rate she is taking a new number every twenty seconds.  At the peak periods she is making even faster time.  Recently 140 new lines were added to the local telephone
network but no new equipment has been added to the exchange and it will be the end of 1947 until additional switchboards can be installed.  
Responding with a pleasant, "Number, please," when you lift the receiver to make a call is one of fifteen operators employed by the Bell Telephone Company at its local
exchange.  Miss Olivan Kemble is operator in charge with Miss Betty Lohman as evening operator in charge and Elizabeth Rhoads as senior operator.  The efficient girls
wearing the speaking tube and making connections with the plugs are: Anna Jane Bast, Ida Mae Batdorf, Fern Coover, Ruth Edling, Geraldine Kantner, Jean Kremer, Charlotte
Miller, Raydelle Naus, Betty Sieck, Margaret Wensel, Rhoda Wingle and Lois Roeder.  Each girl works two shifts of three and one half and four hours with several hours off
between two shifts.  While at the board each girl works two hours and then she has a fifteen minute rest period.  The exchange room has a section specially arranged for the
rest period with an easy chair, reading lamp and a large assortment of magazines and other reading material on a table along side of the chair.  The fifteen girls work in shifts of
five at a time from 7:00 a. m. until 11:00 p. m.  From 11:00 p. m. through the early hours of the morning, only one girl is on duty.
When asked what their chief complaint is against the telephone users, the girls quickly responded that they burn up when calls come in so fast they don't know which way to
turn and then someone flashes and impatiently says, "Okay sister, if you're finished reading your story, I'd like to have my number," or "Sorry to wake you up."
Figure it out yourself that the operator takes a new number every twenty seconds.  That means she says, "Number, please," waits until you look up the number you just forgot
and then makes your connection.  By that time another call is waiting for her.  To one who has watched the girls working, it seems like a continual "Number, please," "Just a
moment, please," "I'll give you information," "Thank you."  The girls, handicapped by a lack of equipment, are doing a splendid job in giving rapid service.  Miss Kemble stated
that local telephones will be changed to dial phones in 1952 when Pottsville and nearby towns will all convert to the dial system.  To make the change over a dial phone will be
placed in the home of every telephone subscriber along side the regular phone.  The new exchange equipment will be set up and at a specified time, the user of the telephone
will change to the dial phone and the exchange will switch over to the new equipment.  The old phones will then be removed and the operators will lay aside their head phones.
The Call of May 9, 1947

SHOE STORE 60 YEARS OLD - Henry J. Dohner Opened Shop Here;Occupied Present Building 54 Years
In 1881 Henry J. Dohner arrived in Schuylkill Haven from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Dohner was a cobbler by
trade and had his own business in Lebanon before his arrival here.  Upon arriving he worked for Bill Gensemer
in the rear of where the Haven Hardware is now located.  This cobbler's shop was in the rear of a saddle shop
operated by Sam Beal.  H. J. Dohner decided to go into business for himself and in 1887 purchased the shoe
shop owned and operated by Harry Sausser, located on what is now Railroad Street.  At this time no street
existed.  The shop had two large show windows with a door in the middle.  Suspended from the outside of the
shop was a large boot, the symbol of the cobbler.  This boot is still in the possession of the Dohner family.
The lease to the shop located at the entrance of Railroad Street was closed in 1892 by the Reading Company in
order to build a new freight house next door to his old shop in April of 1893.  This is the present location of the
business and has been for the past fifty four years.  An advertising circular printed by The Call around that time
listed the prices on their shoes as follows:  Hand Made Shoes, Men's S. Kip Creedmore, $1.00 per pair, Men's
Calf Tip or plain Bals or Congress, $1.25, Men's Cordovan tip or plain Bals or Congress, $1.90, Ladies' Dongala
Button Shoe, $1.00, Ladies' Dongala Patent tip or plain button shoe, $2.00. These shoes were made by the
Dohner family.  The original circular advertising these prices is in the possession of Bob Dohner, the present
manager of the shop.  Up until 1893, all shoes sold in the Dohner establishment were made by hand by the
Dohner family.  During this year they started to stock manufactured shoes but they still retained their custom
made department.
During the year 1912, the business was passed on to Henry J. Dohner's two sons, John and Harry, who operated
the shop handling both commercially manufactured shoes and their own hand made variety.  This continued until
1916 when mass production of shoes was perfected to the extent that custom made shoes could not compete in
price with the ones so produced.  The Dohner's discontinued their custom made department during this year
and from that time on have stocked only those supplied to them by manufacturers.  In January of 1946 the
business was passed on to the third generation and is now managed by Robert Dohner.
Before World War Two, the Dohner store carried an inventory large enough to supply every person in Schuylkill
Haven with three pairs of shoes.  Due to the wartime conditions and reconversion, the large variety and
selection is necessarily limited.  The Ball Band Rubber Footwear Company of Mishawaka, Indiana has been in
this business for fifty years.  H. J. Dohner Sons is the seventh oldest national account with this organization
having been a dealer for these products for the past forty six years.  The repair department is capably handled
by Andrew Miazza, better known just as Andy.  Shortly before the last war, the Dohner shoe repair shop was
completely equipped with new machinery, making the shop at that the time the most modernly equipped shop in
this area.  The display and fitting room of the store was remodeled in July of 1946 and presents a cheerful
atmosphere with its chrome trimmed red leather seats and a general manager always ready to show you another
pair of shoes.  
The manager, Robert Dohner was born in 1917 and attended the Schuylkill Haven high school and graduated
with the class of 1935.  After graduating from school he started working at the shop, both in the store and in the
repair department.  This gave him a thorough knowledge of the business and fitted him to become an efficient
manager.  He is a veteran of World war two, having served two years and nine months with the U. S. Army.  He
served in the 8th Armored Division, a part of the 9th U. S. Army in the ETO.  After being discharged from the
service he took over as manager of the H. J. Dohner Sons.  Robert Dohner is a member of the consistory of the
Saint John's Evangelical and Reformed Church, a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
the International Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of the Moose, the Schuylkill Hose Company and the local
Lion's Club.  This April marked the sixtieth year of continuous business, fifty four of them being conducted in the
present building and the remaining six having been next door.  This is one of the oldest businesses in town and
is to be congratulated on sixty years of successful business.
The Call of October 31, 1947

DEWALD BROTHERS PROPRIETORS OF PARKWAY RESTAURANT
The Dewald brothers, Clyde L. and Verlin B. "Pete", proprietors of the Parkway Restaurant, are two of Schuylkill Haven's youngest businessmen.  On Saturday they will begin
their third year at the Parkway.  They purchased the modern restaurant and banquet hall from Strause and Beck on November 1, 1945 and for two years have been battling
successfully with food shortages, lack of help and skyrocketing food prices.  Clyde, the younger of the two brothers, is usually found cigar in mouth, talking to salesmen, making
arrangements for banquets, directing the waitresses, or joining with customers in solving the problems of the world.  His favorite spot is behind the cash register.  Verlin, who
had been giving only part of his time to the restaurant business until a few months ago, is now devoting full time to the efficient operation of the kitchen.
The two brothers are sons of Mrs. Kate Dewald, who provides the Pennsylvania Dutch cooking for their restaurant.  Their father Lewis is deceased.  They were born on a farm in
South Manheim Township, Verlin on July 16, 1904 and Clyde on December 16, 1920.  The family moved to Orwigsburg in 1921 and in 1930 came to Schuylkill Haven to take over
the Grand Hotel, which, before it burned to the ground, was located where the post office now stands.  Verlin married Miss Ada Staller of Brommerstown and returned to the
family farm in South Manheim Township.  They had one son, Russell Edward, who is thirteen years old.  Mrs. Dewald died and several years later Pete married Miss Edna Staller
of North Manheim Township.  They are living temporarily at 30 Center Avenue until they can occupy the Ethel Maid apartments which are being made in the building formerly
occupied by the burial dress manufacturers.  After attending public schools, Pete worked as a painter and paperhanger for seventeen years and then entered the employ of the
Economy Supply Corporation at Pottsville as a paint salesman.  He continued to work with this company for five years before deciding to devote his full time to the restaurant
business.
Clyde Dewald graduated from Schuylkill Haven high school and took vocational training under the N. Y. A.  In 1940 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and after a year and a half of
training in the United States, was sent overseas to the European theater of war.  He was engineer and crew chief of the "Dutchess", a B-17 that made numerous raids over
enemy territory and always managed to come back.  On its final bombing mission, it was badly shot up and after safely crossing the English Channel, crashed when it tried to
land in England.  The crash put Clyde in the hospital with a shattered jaw and serious injuries about the head and body.  When he received his discharge in July of 1945, he held
the rank of master sergeant.  His wife is the former Miss Mary Beck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beck of Hillside.  They have one son, Lewis Harry, aged fourteen months and
live at 400 Dock Street.
Top right is a
picture of third
generation
owner, Robert
Dohner in 1947.  
Bottom right
is a shoe
cleaning
kit from the
establishment
from my
personal
collection.
The Call of December 5, 1947

PARRIS LAZOS, SUCCESSFUL CANDY MANUFACTURER
A regular Horatio Alger story - the rise from poor immigrant to successful businessman - is the account of the life of Parris Lazos, proprietor of the Candy Kitchen at 15 East Main
Street.  Born in Metylene, Greece, an island in the Aegean Sea, Parris was one of five children of Alvin and Helene Lazos.  His father was a stone mason.  At that time the Lazos
homeland was under the domination of the Turks, and as at the present time, the people were experiencing trying times.  Conditions did not seem to improve as the years
passed.  A cousin of the family who had come to America and was living in reading, wrote to the eighteen year old Parris about this country.  Vividly recalled in one of the letters
is the statement that America was the land of plenty and of great opportunity, but the dollars could not be picked up on the streets.  
Alone at the age of eighteen, Parris made the trip to the United states in 1910.  He came immediately to reading to the home of his cousin, who secured work for him in the
Berkshire Knitting Mills.  He continued to work in the Berkshire Mills until 1919.  While living in reading, he journeyed on weekends to Phoenixville where he visited friends
who were engaged in the candy making business.  He assisted them and became interested in the art of candy making.  In 1919, he married Miss Mary Albright of Reading and
several months later decided to come to Schuylkill Haven and make a start for himself in the candy business.  The location of his candy and ice cream store was at 39 east main
Street in the building now occupied by the J. M. Gipe Hardware store.  With candy recipes supplied by his friends in Phoenixville and the little experience he gained while
working with them on weekends, Parris began making his own candy.  Many a batch of candy was spoiled before he acquired the skill of producing good candy.  Schuylkill
Haven liked the candy and ice cream manufactured by the young businessman who had come as a youth from Greece.  Parris prospered and on August 15, 1925, he moved into
the present location at 15 East Main Street, a newly built three story building.  The modern store has a large soda fountain bar, large candy display cases and booths for
customers in the rear of the store room.  Directly behind the store room is the candy kitchen where the candy is manufactured.  At the present time the Lazos family is busy
making candy for Christmas.  During the war years, production was curtailed by a shortage of sugar.  This year sugar is available but there is an acute shortage of chocolate.  
The Candy Kitchen, however, will carry a full line of chocolates, chocolate covered nuts, candy canes, baskets and pretzels and other Christmas candy novelties.
Mr. and Mrs. Lazos have four children, two boys and two girls.  Georgianna, age twenty seven, is living at home with her parents and assists in the store.  She is a registered
nurse, having graduated from Saint Luke's Medical Center in Philadelphia.  Paul, twenty six, shortly after graduating from high school, enlisted in the navy in 1940 and served
until 1946.  He was a first class petty officer and was an aviation mechanic instructor at Jacksonville, Florida and spent one year active duty in the Pacific.  He now lives in
Philadelphia.  Franklin, twenty four, a graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy, enlisted in the service and served with the 7th Infantry in France and Germany.  While in
France, he married Miss Janine Mermet, who came to this country and is living with him in an apartment above the Lazos Candy Kitchen.  They have one child.  Franklin is
employed by the Grand Union Tea Company.  Henrietta, twenty three, after graduating from the local high school, entered training at Women's Homeopathic Hospital in
Philadelphia.  She will graduate next June.
In 1921, Mr. Lazos became a naturalized citizen of the United States and in the years since then has eagerly assisted his adopted country in every possible way.  He has been a
member of the local Rotary Club for twenty years and held membership in the old Chamber of Commerce and has again joined the organization when it was revived several
weeks ago.  During the past war, the people of Greece again felt privation.  Mr. Lazos sent and continues to send boxes of clothing and food to the members of his family still
living in Metylene.  His mother and one of his sisters died during the war.  His father died in 1927.  Still living are a brother and sister Metylene and a sister, Mrs. Theano Yatron
of Reading.  
When a drive was made during the war for clothing for Greek relief, Mr. Lazos was one of the leaders in gathering clothing for his needy fellow men.  Mr. Lazos is a member of
the Greek Orthodox church.  His wife and children however are members of Christ Lutheran church.  Since leaving his native land thirty seven years ago, Mr. Lazos has not
returned, but his most ardent desire is to go back to Metylene for a visit to see his sister and brother and his old friends and neighbors of long ago.  Mr. and Mrs. Lazos will go
when world conditions become more settled,
The Call of December 12, 1947

LEWIS DRIESBACH CAR DEALERSHIP
Lewis C. Driesbach likes to stand along side the pride of his newly remodeled display room on Dock Street, the ultra modern 1948 Hudson.  Although he has explained its
outstanding features to an estimated thousand motorists since the unveiling last Sunday morning, he is just as enthusiastic in explaining the new car as he was the day he first
saw it.  The car sets in the center of the soft colored well lighted display room which has been remodeled during the past few weeks.  Fluorescent lighting, arranged in a large
square in the middle of the ceiling effectively displays the new automobile without casting any shadows.  
Mr. Driesbach considers the new model, plus the new showroom the high point in his long automotive career.  Although only thirty eight years old, Mr. Driesbach has been
associated with the automobile business for twenty five years, starting with the Roy Hawkins garage on Wilson Street in 1922.  His experience covers most of the automotive
field.  The Hawkins garage first handled Chevrolet and Dodge, then Buick and Dodge and later Nash cars while Mr. Driesbach was in their employ.  In 1928 he went to work at
Freed's Firestone store in Pottsville and a year later joined the staff of the Hertz Drive Yourself Company as shop foreman.  He worked there until 1931 and then attended the
Raybestos brake school in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Finishing the course, he became the brake specialist at the Zweibel Superservice in Pottsville.  The next year he returned
to Schuylkill Haven to work for John Ebling, who had the Durant sales and service.  He also served as service manager for the Henry Hummel garage, handling Pontiacs at that
time.  In 1935, joining with Jack Douglas, Mr. Driesbach opened a garage on Haven Street and secured the agency for Hudson and Terraplane.  After one year the partnership
was dissolved and the business became solely a Driesbach enterprise.
The move to the present location on Dock Street was made in 1940 when the Hudson garage was moved to the former Ebling building.  The building was purchased by Mr.
Driesbach two years ago. In the present location, the garage besides featuring Hudson sales and service, also offers complete service and general repairs on all makes of
cars.  Having installed heavy duty frame straightening equipment, the Driesbach garage specializes in frame and wheel alignment on passenger cars, trucks and buses.  
Mr. Driesbach is the only son of Mrs. Clymer Driesbach.  His father died a year ago and a brother, Harold, was killed in a sleigh riding accident in 1936.  Mrs. Lewis C. Driesbach
is the former Vera M. Berger, daughter of Milton M. Berger.  They have three daughters; Doris, nineteen and who assists in the office, Shirley, sixteen and Beverly, eleven.  
They live at 79 South Berne Street.  Mr. Driesbach is a member of the church council and treasurer of saint Paul's Lutheran Church on Summer Hill.  He serves as a member of
the board of directors of the Lion's Club and is a member of the Lion's community ambulance service.  He is associated with a number of automotive associations including the
Pennsylvania Automotive Association, the National Automobile Dealers association and the Hudson TriCounty Service Club.  On the social side, he is associated with the
Pottsville Moose, the Pottsville Eagles and the Reading Orioles.
A sampling of ads from "The Call"
newspaper in 1947.
The Call of January 30, 1948

ATKINS COMPANY STORE NEARS COMPLETION

A preview of Schuylkill Haven's newest store was
given on Thursday when the canvas was removed
from the exterior of the former Kaufman building to
reveal the gleaming modern red and white front of
the Atkins Stores Company five and ten cent store.  
Mr. B. D. Atkins who comes from North Carolina where
he at one time managed thirty seven McCrory stores
is directing the work on the new store.  The new
business is located on the site of an old landmark
known in the past as Kaufman's Cafe with a reputation
throughout this section for good food.  The property
was sold to Parris Lazos who rented it for ten years to
the American Stores Company.  It was purchased in
1944 by Gordon D. Reed who razed the old structure
and constructed a steel and concrete block building.  
The structure is 26 by 130 feet with an apartment on
the second story in the front.  Mr. Atkins expects to
open his store on March 1st.
The Call of February 27, 1948

BEAUTIFUL NEW ATKINS STORE IN GRAND OPENING
The opening of the beautiful new Atkins store at 12 East Main Street today gives the Main
Street business section a new look.  The glistening white and red front, the brilliantly lighted
and gaily decorated display windows, all modern to the smallest detail and the modern lunch
counter, display counter and shelves and fluorescent lighting on the interior make this store
perhaps the most beautiful store in the county.  The Atkins store, with its modern, beautiful
appearance, is a welcome addition to the stores of town and is a big advance in the progress
Schuylkill Haven is making in becoming more and more a shopping center for the southern
part of Schuylkill County.
B. D. Atkins, president of the Atkins Stores Company, joined with Gordon D. Reed, owner of
the building, in planning the new structure.  No expense was spared by Mr. Reed in erecting
the building and in finishing it with the most modern materials and equipment.  The new
structure was erected on the site of the old Kaufman building, later purchased by Parris
Lazos and then by Gordon D. Reed.  The old frame building was razed and the basement dug
out before the concreting for the foundation was laid.  The 26 by 130 foot store room, topped
by an apartment, 20 by 60, is constructed of building block and steel.  Construction work was
begun last July by Gordon D. Reed's crew of men, supplemented by various contractors for
specialized work.
The gleaming red and white exterior was designed and installed by the Empire Glass
Company of Pottsville.  The modern entrance, recessed between the two brightly lighted
display windows, consists of two large glass doors with panels on each side.  The glass doors
and panels alone cost $1,200.  Something new in snow removal systems was installed by Mr.
Reed in the laying of the concrete pavement.  Lines of pipe were laid in the concrete and
connected to the Losch boiler in the basement.  The building is vapor heated with two large
blower units.  A special attachment on the boiler converts the vapor to steam before it is sent
through the pipes beneath the pavement.  The paving innovation received its first test with
the heavy snowfall on Saturday night.  The pavement in front of the Atkins store was clear of
snow.  
Mahogany store fixtures with the light colored ceiling and walls of the store room and two
long rows of fluorescent fixtures running the length of the building give the store a beautiful
interior appearance.  The neatly arranged display counters, the beautiful soda fountain and
lunch bar place the Atkins store on a par with the leading five and ten stores in the county.  
Hotpoint appliances, installed by M. Luther Fidler, are used throughout the store and in the
modern apartment.  Fluorescent lighting has been used throughout the entire store.  
Elevated offices were built at the back of the store above rest rooms for the personnel.  
The new store is the second to be opened by the recently formed Atkins Store Company, a
corporation with an authorized capital stock of $100,000.  J. H. Gearhart, secretary and
treasurer of the organization, who formerly managed the company's other store in Frackville,
is manager of the new local store.  When the apartment above the main store room is
completed, Mr. and Mrs. Gearhart will move to Schuylkill Haven.  Featuring children's, men's
and women's apparel, the new store also is stocked with an abundance of regular five cent to
one dollar staple items.  Mr. Atkins and Mr. Gearhart extend a cordial invitation to everyone
to come in and look around the new store.  Souvenirs, as long as they last, will be given to
each customer.
The Call of May 14, 1948

GRAND OPENING OF FAREL Y. BECKER GARAGE
Jack Breslin, district manager for Dodge Corporation, congratulated Farel Y. Becker upon the grand opening of his newly remodeled garage on Centre Avenue.  Lester Knarr,
assistant to Mr. Becker, was also on hand.  The well lighted display room showing a custom Dodge model in a setting of flowers made an attractive appearance on opening night
on Wednesday.  The entire garage was opened for inspection by the public and in spite of the rain, a large crowd of people was on hand from four thirty in the afternoon until
closing time.  They saw the new custom sedan, a Dodge station wagon, Plymouth and half a dozen Dodge trucks.  As of July 1, Farel Y. Becker garage will have by direct
appointment sales and service for Dodge, Plymouth and Dodge job rated trucks and will be receiving units on the same scale as other dealers in the area.  His territory will
include Schuylkill Haven, Cressona, Friedensburg, Summit Station, Orwigsburg, McKeansburg, New Ringgold, Deer Lake, Auburn and Port Clinton to the Berks County line.  
Others on the staff include: Amos Phillips, foreman of the fully equipped shop; Miss Mildred Bubeck, secretary; Warren Kramer, car salesman; Nick Barbetta, in charge of front
wheel alignment and a full force of mechanics.  For the convenience of patrons, a large parking space is located behind the Sinclair service station.
The Call of July 2, 1948

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN ENJOYING GREATEST HOME BUILDING BOOM IN NEARLY 200 YEARS
With more than twenty homes in the course of construction and twelve or fifteen more planned to be started shortly, Schuylkill Haven now is engrossed in perhaps the greatest
building activity since its founding almost two hundred years ago.  Home building in Schuylkill Haven will exceed $250,000 according to an estimate based upon a survey
conducted by the building committee of the Chamber of Commerce, Gordon D. Reed, chairman.  This figure is for new home construction only.  In addition there is much activity
in remodeling, repairing, renovating and expanding of homes, business places and industries.  The total figure for all types of building activity will run close to the half million
dollar mark.
Most of the home building activity is centered in the community's largest residential area, the Fairmount section.  On Avenue C above Second Street toward the Bamford home
but on the opposite side of the street, three houses are being built.  The one story home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Bonadio has been completed except for landscaping and few
small details and Mr. and Mrs. Bonadio are now living in their new home.  The large dwelling for Mrs. Bertha Frantz is under roof and has the brick veneering completed and the
contractor is working on the interior.  Directly below this home is one started for J. Harry Naus, which will also be a brick veneer dwelling.
On Avenue E, five homes are underway.  Daniel Krause and Luther Troutman are building at the southern corners on Avenue E and Second Street.  Krause is building a story
and a half brick veneer home and Troutman plans to put up a one story brick veneer building.  Farther down Avenue E, three homes are in the course of construction.  The
Michael Colitz English type home is nearly completed, while the home of Joseph Eubanks, a Dutch Colonial style, and the home of Joseph Hubitsky, a two and a half story brick
veneer dwelling, are still in their early stages of construction.  On Haven Street, contractor Fred C. Reichert has nearly finished the first of three homes that will be built on the
east side of the "Shavey" Hill.  Mr. Reichert also owns the land to the rear of these lots, fronting on the extension of Grant Street and he expects to build houses on this site in
the near future.  Joseph Fitzpatrick of Cressona is having a two story frame home built on the south side of Paxson Avenue between Haven Street and Rotary Field.  The
building is completed except for the finishing touches to the interior.  
In the west end of town two homes are going up on Orchard Avenue in the Hill Farm Addition.  These homes, both story and a half, are being built for Francis Cimino and Ira
Krammes.  On Columbia Street, on the west side of the bridge, a modernistic home is being erected by Earl Geary, who is doing the work himself, assisted by his father.  On
Liberty Street, a brick veneer home is being built for Mr. and Mrs. William Hess along side the recently constructed home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Manbeck.  Located on
Moorenoll street in the Columbia Heights section, the modern one story home of Leo Kuchinsky was completed within the past year.  Mr. Kuchinsky is still working on the
landscaping.  Excavation has been made on Stanton Street for the adjoining homes of Henry Hummel and his son, Edward.  The two homes will be brick veneer, story and a half,
and will be alike except the plans will be reversed.  Individual initiative is strikingly evident in the Willow Lake section where four homes are being built entirely or in large
measure by the future occupants of the homes.  On Garfield Avenue, Arlin Wildermuth is building a story and a half dwelling with building block which will be covered with
cement.  Beyond Willow Lake towards Orwigsburg, William Linder, assisted by his father, is building a story and a half frame home.  On the hill above Willow Lake, John Weiss,
aided by his sons, is constructing his own frame home covered with brick insulated siding.  Across the street from the Weiss home is the dwelling of Matt Praden, who is doing
all the work on his small frame home.  This too is covered with red brick insulated siding.
The Call of July 2, 1948

HILL FARM ADDITION TO BE BEAUTIFUL RESIDENTIAL SITE
The Hill Farm Addition to Schuylkill Haven is developing into one of the community's more desirable building locations.  Located on
the hillside overlooking Schuylkill Haven, the Hill Farm Addition is a residential section with the advantage of a good view and a
quiet, restful atmosphere. The Hill Farm section extends in both Schuylkill Haven and Cressona.  It will have three streets running
parallel with Schuylkill Street and another street which has not been named.  Saylor Street which runs between the new Hill Farm
Dairy bar and the Schwartz home, will continue at a right angle to Schuylkill Street across the Hill Farm Addition to Haven Manor.  
Eleven lots have been sold in this large development.  The first, sold to Ed Kunkle in 1946, is ob Orchard Avenue.  More recently
the following persons have purchased lots: Francis Cimino, Ira Krammes, Donald Snyder of Pottsville, Lester Knarr, Phaon Kramer
of Pottsville and Verlin Dewald all located in the Schuylkill Haven part of the addition and to Fred Yoder, George Moyer, John Tarris
and Andrew Bazar in the Cressona section. Mr. Kunkle built a home on his ground.  Mr. Cimino and Mr. Krammes are building their
homes now and Mr. Snyder of Pottsville has his plot staked off and plans to build this fall.  Lots are being offered for sale to the
public.  Persons interested should contact William H. Schwartz at the Hill Farm.
The Call of July 16, 1948

COMPLETELY REMODELED A & P OFFICIALLY OPENED THURSDAY
The official opening of the completely remodeled A & P Supermarket at its location on West Main Street was held Thursday morning at ten o'clock when borough leaders joined
with A & P officials in a ribbon cutting ceremony.  The ribbon on the door leading to the glistening, enlarged and remodeled interior was cut by Chief Burgess Harner.  Paul J.
Feeser, president, represented the Chamber of Commerce and congratulated Manager Nelson A. Faust and the company officials upon their beautifully renovated market.  The
opening of this remodeled supermarket marked another milestone in the steady progress that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has made through the years.  
The food center is a complete change to the ultramodern in every one of the many departments to be found in the store.  The company has spent an estimated $40,000 in the
vast improvements to its store at 133 West Main Street and Milton Folk, who recently purchased the building has made improvements to the physical structure itself.  The
parking area at the rear has been greatly enlarged and the front parking area has been covered with amesite.  The store has a selling area of 65 by 120 feet and storage space
of 65 by 50 feet and features eight enlarged departments including groceries, produce, frosted foods, dairy and coffee, fish, meats and poultry, Italian products, Kosher
products and candy.  All new aisle display racks have been installed to run the length of the store from the meats and dairy departments at the rear to the checking out aisles in
the front.
New white tile checking out counters and registers, with another one being added, were installed to speed up the checking operation.  The produce displays were greatly
enlarged and new dairy and coffee fixtures added to the store.  A new ceiling, painted white, with modern fluorescent fixtures makes the market brightly lighted.  A new tile floor
was laid on the top of the old concrete floor. Manager Nelson A. Faust summed up the improvements by saying, "The comfort of the shopper has been uppermost in the minds
of the A & P food store organization.  This completely remodeled supermarket gives them the best that could be obtained."  All help at the supermarket as at all A & P
establishments is on a five day week with insurance, vacation with pay, sick leave, promotions on merit and other advantages are offered to every employee of this concern.
Harrisburg Evening News of February 13, 1941

PIONEER KNITTING MILL OPERATOR WILL RETIRE
After more than fifty years in the manufacturing business, D. D. Coldren, proprietor of the Coldren Knitting Mill of Schuylkill Haven, who claims the distinction of having
introduced knitted dresses in this country, announced his retirement yesterday.  At one time he owned a hosiery mill in Harrisburg and shortly after he began the manufacture
of knitted women's wear in 1922, the firm had offices in every principal city in the United States and Alaska and a sales force of more than 3,000.
The Call of July 2, 1948

COOPERATIVE GROUP ACQUIRED LAND OF THE FORMER MAURER ORCHARDS
The largest and most recent real estate development in Schuylkill Haven is Haven Manor, located west of North Berne
Street on the land formerly known as the Maurer orchards.  Haven Manor Incorporated, the idea for which originated with
a small group of men from the Alcoa plant at Cressona, included 25 men from Schuylkill Haven, Pottsville, Cressona and
the smaller towns in this area as stockholders at the time of its incorporation.  Each of the stockholders holds four
shares of no par stock and title to one of the large lots in the development.  After the lots have been deeded to the
shareholders and other details of the starting of the Haven Manor development have been completed, lots will be
available to the public.  No definite plans have been made for the disposal of the remaining lots.
The idea for the cooperative venture arose at the Junior Women's Club dance last winter.  Someone among a small group
of men from the Alcoa plant remarked about the desire of the newcomers to the community to own their own homes and
he thought some kind of a cooperative effort could be made to obtain lots and building material so that the cost would be
lowered for those included in the organization.  A series of meetings was held in the following weeks.  The organization,
although it started with a group from the Alcoa plant, is not an association of the employees of that plant.  Several local
citizens are also associated with the venture and in due time the general public will be able to purchase the land of the
Maurer orchards which had been purchased previously by E. J. Lawson, personnel director at the Cressona Alcoa Works.
Haven Manor Incorporated was chartered on February 18 with the stated purpose "to buy, sell, convey, acquire, hold,
develop, lease, and subdivide real estate, to buy, construct and sell houses and other buildings, to buy and sell lumber,
bricks, stone, hardware and all other kinds of building material and to do all things necessary or incidental to the proper
exercise of the aforesaid purposes"  One stipulation was agreed upon by the 25 men who are the shareholders, that they
build within a period of three years.  The only restrictions are those placed on building.  The Manor will be strictly a
residential section and all plans for new homes must be approved by the board of directors.  The real estate
development is cooperative all the way through.  The members got together and surveyed the plot and then made a
contour map to aid in laying out the streets.  As will be noted on the drawing of the Haven Manor plot, one of the streets
has an unusual layout.  This was done to follow the natural contour and to add to the beauty of the large building site.  
After the plan of the development had been decided upon, trees were cut and the streets laid out.  Harvey Moyer was
hired to grade the streets with his bulldozer.  Curbing will be installed and when all this work has been completed, the
borough will be asked to take over the streets.
The board of directors is now negotiating to have the borough water and electric lines extended to the Haven Manor
grounds.  The cooperation of the borough in this respect is being sought so that building operation may begin.  Three of
the shareholders are ready to build as soon as the borough cooperation is obtained.  They are Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Messersmith, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo P. Runkle and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Blasiol.  In order that no one shareholder has the
advantage in picking out lots, the selection was made by drawing.  All names were placed in a container and the names
drawn.  The first one drawn had first choice, etc.  In the placing and grading of streets, only a small number of trees in the
orchard had to be removed. The other fruit trees were left remaining on the lots and shareholders this year will engage
in a cooperative venture on the peaches.
PLOT PLAN FOR THE
HAVEN MANOR
DEVELOPMENT
The Call of January 3, 1941

NEW SERVICE STATION NEARS COMPLETION
The new modern service station being erected on Dock Street by Franklin A. Felty, distributor for Tydol gasoline in this region, is rapidly nearing completion and is expected to
be open in two weeks if weather permits.  Constructed of building block, the new service station is built in accordance with the latest designs and specifications of the
Tidewater Company and is similar to the attractive stations found in larger cities.  Lewis Dress of Schuylkill Haven will be in charge of the service center upon its completion.  A
former service station operator in Schuylkill Haven, he is at present working at the Connor's Station owned by Mr. Felty.
The Call of January 17, 1941

J. M. GIPE TO OPEN HARDWARE STORE
On Saturday morning the doors of a new business place will be opened in Schuylkill Haven.  Mr. J. M. Gipe, who conducted a five and ten cent store until two years ago, will
open a hardware and house furnishings store at 139 East Main Street.  The new store is located in the J. M. Sausser building which has been vacant for some time.  Mr. Gipe,
who has been in business for thirty years, occupied this same building from 1911 until 1918.  He then purchased and moved to the building on the opposite side of the street.  
This structure was recently sold to Newsdealer Frank S. Lewis.  A complete line of high quality hardware and house furnishings will be carried by the new business.  The aim of
Mr. Gipe is well summed up in the motto he has selected, "Values and Service."  Among the well known brands and products to be sold will be the famous Carmote house paint,
which has been sold in this community for the past fifteen years by J. M. Sausser and Sons.
The Call of February 7, 1941

NIGHT COMFORT INC. STARTS CUTTING ROOM IN SCOTT BUILDING
Another factory was added to the industries of Schuylkill Haven this week, with the establishment of a branch of Night Comfort Incorporated, a pajama manufacturing concern,
on the second floor of the Scott paper box factory.  At present the building is equipped only for cutting, but within the next two weeks equipment will be installed for sewing,
and work will be available for twenty five to thirty women.  In the cutting department, eight men will be employed.  Mr. Lux of Pine Grove, who has been associated with Night
Comfort for the past fourteen years, will have charge as designer and cutter.  In order to meet the needs of the new industry, Mr. Roy Scott has gone to considerable expense
in remodeling the second floor of the paper box factory.
Orders have been received by the operators from the Eclipse Needle Company for the manufacture of the popular Fruit of the Loom pajamas, and other large orders from the
distributors of men's sleeping apparel have necessitated the expanding of the present factories operated by Night Comfort.  Other factories are now located in Cressona and
Pine Grove and another branch is being established in Tower City.  The central office is located on Race Street in Philadelphia.  This new industry has been brought to Schuylkill
Haven through the efforts of civic minded businessmen of town who, hearing of the expansion program anticipated by Night Comfort, induced the operators to consider
Schuylkill Haven and aided them in securing a suitable location for a branch factory.
The Call of February 7, 1941

STRAUSE AND BECK OPEN NEW STATION
A new service station, fully equipped with modern facilities, has been opened by the Atlantic Refining Company at 45 West Main Street in Schuylkill Haven.  Strause and Beck
Incorporated, operators of the Black Diamond, Molino, and Twin Grove Park, will have charge of the new station and William Campbell, formerly employed at Twin Grove Park,
will be the manager.  Assisting Mr. Campbell will be Richard Brown and Jay Spotts, both of Schuylkill Haven.  Besides the sale of gas and oil, the station will specialize in
complete lubrication made famous by the Atlantic Refining Company in a road test conducted recently.  The beautiful station is equipped with three pumps and will be open
between 6:00 a. m. and 10:00 p. m.  Strause and Beck anticipate building a restaurant on the east side of the service station within a few months.
The Call of February 21, 1941

MOYER'S HAS UNIQUE WINDOW DISPLAY
A very unique and colorful window display for Washington's birthday has been arranged in the windows of Moyer's Meat Market on Dock Street.  In the center is an unusual
American flag made of oranges wrapped in red, white and blue paper.  The red and white wrapped oranges alternate in rows to form the stripes, and the oranges wrapped in
blue make the field of blue in which are forty eight stars made of white paper.  Directly in front of the flag is a bust of George Washington and on either side are large pictures
of Washington and the Statue of Liberty.  In the foreground are relics of the Revolutionary period: guns, candle lantern, lard burning candle holder, pocketbook, knife wool
comber and the stone head of an Indian tomahawk and two rifles of the old days.    The wool brush, a crude instrument made of steel spikes is dated 1797.  The display in the
window was arranged by Leo Carr, an employee at the Moyer Market.  Most of the old relics are the property of William Bautsch, of Schuylkill Haven, who had them handed down
to him from his great grandfather.
The Call of January 18, 1946

TOWN TO HAVE NEW REPAIR GARAGE
In answer to the great demand for automobile repairs that has been created since the ending of the war, the ending of gasoline rationing and the return of so many of our boys,
a new automobile repair garage will be opened for the convenience of the people of Schuylkill Haven by one of the region's best known automobile men, Joe Webber.  The
location of the new garage will be at 211 West Main Street and every type of service will be taken care of by thoroughly experienced automobile mechanics under the personal
supervision of Charles "Shuey" Schumacher.  A feature of the opening of the Joe Webber garage will be the display for the first time in Schuylkill Haven and this territory of a
new 1946 Pontiac from the Walter Trautman Pontiac agency of Pottsville.  The new proprietor of the garage, Joe Webber, has been associated with the automobile business for
the better part of a quarter century and knows the game from A to Z.  For twenty two years straight he was connected with a Schuylkill Haven agency and made quite a
reputation for himself.
The Call of October 11, 1946

HARNER TAXI NOW OPERATED BY SHOLLENBERGERS
Harner's Taxi Service, operated by John Harner since 1939, was purchased and is now being run by Richard L. (Jack) and Nelson Shollenberger.  Taxi service in Schuylkill Haven
goes back to 1922 when William Schumacher, using a Ford touring car, began operating a public conveyance.  Six years later he purchased an Oldsmobile touring car.  In 1932
the business was sold to Stanley Crossley, who ran the taxi until 1939 when it was purchased by John Harner.  During the last seven years he increased the number of taxis
available for service to three.  The Shollenberger brothers, who are also associated with their father in the trucking business, will continue the efficient service rendered by
the former owner at no increase on rates.  Service is available the entire twenty four hours of the day.  The name of the business has been changed to Sholly's Taxi Service.
The Call of October 11, 1946

OLD MAIN STREET BUILDING RAZED
The former Lazos building on East Main Street between Crossley's Barbecue and Messners five and ten cent store, which was purchased by Gordon Reed in 1940, is being
razed to the ground and a new structure will be erected there.  This building was over one hundred years old and was one of the oldest on Main Street.  It was of heavy
mortised oak and pegs and pins were used instead of nails.  The weather boards were one inch thick and twelve inches wide and overlapped each other.  The wood laths were
all hand split.  It was owned formerly by Alice Kaufman and then by Douglas Kaufman and in 1920 Parris Lazos purchased it and in 1940 Gordon Reed.  The new building will be of
steel and concrete blocks with a brick veneer in the front and will consist of five apartments , two offices and a storeroom.
The Call of June 6, 1947

NEW INSURANCE OFFICE OPENED
The opening of the new insurance office at 204 East Main Street marks real progress in the insurance career of Walter F. Mullen of town.  Ten years ago, Mr. Mullen located in
Schuylkill Haven as district representative for one of the country's foremost soap manufacturers.  In 1943, seeing the opportunities in this community in the insurance field, he
resigned his position and entered the insurance business.  Since then he has steadily built up a clientele.  Starting as a life insurance underwriter, he added other lines of
insurance when it became evident that an additional general insurance agency in Schuylkill Haven could be utilized.  For the past year, he has operated a general insurance
agency from his residence, handling every type of insurance available.  He has been appointed by the Veterans Administration as an appraiser for veteran's realty and business
loans in this territory.  Recently Mr. Mullen purchased the home formerly owned by Dr. R. W. Lenker at which address his new offices are located and where he and his wife, the
former Miss May H. Dalton, of town, will reside after improvements to the property have been completed.  In his new and prominent location, convenience can now be
considered a factor in addition to his two main selling points, "Service and Safety."
The Call of November 7, 1947

E & L BAR AND RESTAURANT TO OPEN TUESDAY NIGHT
The opening of the E & L bar and restaurant is scheduled for Tuesday, November 11 at 6:00 p. m.  Because of the difficulties encountered in securing an electric organ, the
entertainment will be provided by Paul Hess at the piano and Hammond Solo-Vox.  The interior of the bar is very attractive and modern in every respect, with both front and
back bar finished in natural pine.  The beautiful grill room is complete with Kelly green and beige Dupont fibrolite booths and wall settees.  The indirect lighting with four
different color combinations to choose from is very effective and can be changed at will.  A very attractive and serviceable rubber tile floor completes the modern bar and grill
room.  The enlarged kitchen, with chef Jack Schultz in charge, is complete with the most modern cooking and refrigerating equipment and is prepared to serve seafood, steaks,
spaghetti, platters and sandwiches from 11:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m. daily and from 7:00 p. m. until midnight.  Jack Schultz is direct from New York and Miami, being a transient,
seasonal chef and is reported to be the best in the county.
The Call of November 7, 1947

HAVEN MOTORS INC. CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK
Haven Motors Inc., local DeSoto Plymouth dealer, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week.  It hardly seems that ten years have passed since the doors were opened for
business on November 7, 1937.  On that day, there were only four employees.  Today this dealership gives full time employment to twelve men and will have available
employment for approximately twenty employees when normal conditions return for the automobile dealer.  The first few months, Haven Motors held an associate dealer
franchise for DeSoto Plymouth cars but early in 1938, they were appointed a direct dealer distributor for DeSoto and Plymouth automobiles and Chrysler parts and accessories
for half of Schuylkill County, including metropolitan Pottsville.  Today, with the exception of the city of Pottsville, their franchise territory remains the same.  Because of the
scarcity of cars, however, they have not appointed any associate dealers in their territory and have been working their entire region from the Schuylkill Haven garage.  
The facilities of this modern establishment have also increased.  Today, all the modern shop equipment and special tools will be found available for full customer service and
satisfaction.  In recent years, space has been added to the main building to house a paint and body shop and extra warehouse space.  The showroom can comfortably display
five cars and the service department can handle up to fifteen cars at one time.
To its personnel, Haven Motors is equally indebted, along with the support of its customer-friends for its success and growth.  The office and business administration is taken
care of by Karl G. Dreibelbis, who has been with the firm since 1941.  The sales department is headed by Joseph E. Webber, who has been with the firm since last April.  The
parts department and stock room are managed by Joseph M. Zimmerman, with the firm since its beginning, and he is assisted by Charles Schaffner.  The service department is
headed by John D. Ketner, who helped organize this business and has been with the firm continuously since the start.  His service department is capably manned by Harry
"Naily" Nagle, in the shop since it opened, Charles Schumacher, Charles A. Reed, Carl M. Reed, Earl F. Schaffner, Al Freeman and Joe Kremer.  The Reed boys and Earl
Schaffner were called into the service from their employ here and have again returned to work at this dealership.  Joe Kremer is also a veteran of World War Two.
Haven Motors is proud of its accomplishments and growth but is not unmindful of the fact that its past success as well as its future lies entirely with its customers and friends,
to whom they offer their greatest appreciation.
The Call of May 14, 1948

DRIVE IN THEATRE OPENS SATURDAY
A new type of entertainment will be available to the people of this vicinity when the Renninger DriveIn Theatre, the first to be located in Schuylkill County, has its grand opening
on Saturday night.  During the past few weeks work has been going on at the rear of the Renninger highway market on the Schuylkill Haven Orwigsburg pike to erect the screen
and install modern sound and projection equipment.  Rufus Renninger announces that the construction has been completed and the theatre will have its grand opening on
Saturday.  He invites everyone to come and enjoy a fine show in the comfort of your own car.  A refreshment stand at the rear of the projection booth will be open for your
convenience.  Two shows will be given on each of three nights every week, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.  The feature attraction and added attractions will change each
night.  Shows start at 8:45 and 10:45.  The drive in theatre has been laid out so that there will be a good view of the large screen for everyone.  Admission to the outdoor theatre
is thirty five cents per person, including tax.  Children under twelve years are admitted free.
The Call of November 12, 1948

R. R. STERNER STORE IS MODERNIZED
The R. R. Sterner Company will have the formal reopening of its newly remodeled and modernized Goodyear store at 355 Center Avenue on Saturday, with an open house for its
many customers and friends and the public in general.  In the past few weeks, the store was beautified by the installation of modern fixtures and it is now ready for inspection.  
To celebrate the occasion, the store will have gifts for everyone.  The modernizing project is another of the many forward steps made by the business since its founding in
1920.  Mr. Sterner began a vulcanizing business at the rear of the store now occupied by Greenawalt's on Parkway in 1920.  In June of 1923 he moved to the Center Avenue
location and in addition to vulcanizing did lubrication and car washing and added a line of tires and auto accessories.  Later a well lighted, modern addition was built to the two
story building and the business expanded to include a service station and general garage repairs.  In 1941 a line of small appliances was added.  The war cut down on this part
of the business but in 1945 it was revived and expanded by the addition of major appliances including ranges, refrigerators, deep freeze units and water heaters.
The Call of February 4, 1949

NEW CHEF AND ASSISTANT IMPROVE FOOD AND SERVICE AT PARKWAY
Service clubs, regular dining patrons and groups holding banquets at the Parkway Restaurant, have noticed a recent improvement in the food being served at the large dining
hall.  Credit for the delicious meals goes to the two new cooks now in charge of the kitchen.  Chief cook is Dellno C. Lewis, whose speech easily identifies him as a native of
Virginia.  He has been a chef since entering the army in 1940 and taking all the cooking courses the army had to offer.  He claims his kitchen while in the service was not
responsible for a single casualty, a claim which should bear much weight with former GIs.  After leaving the army he was employed through Civil Service in the capacity of chef.  
Before coming to the Parkway to work for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fehr, he was chef at the Necho Allen Hotel in Pottsville.
Mr. Lewis, his wife and two children are living at Summit Station RD.  Mrs. Lewis was the former Annie Warner of that place.  The second cook is Gordon D. Rex, who is now
living on East Union Street.  He has worked as cook in restaurants in Reading and New York City.  In addition to cooking, he is adept at playing the piano and organ and has
been in that capacity for radio broadcasts.  He has been employed at the Parkway for the past four months, while the first cook has been there a month and a half.  Chef Lewis
brings with him from Virginia the dinner for which the south is famous, Southern fried chicken.  The two new cooks desire to cater particularly to banquets, club meetings,
receptions, special dinners and Sunday dinners for the family groups.  They offer besides the southern fried chicken specialty, veal cutlets, chops and steaks as well as the
regular roast dinners.  Along with the serving of delicious food, the new cooks insist upon prompt and courteous service by the waitresses.
The Call of February 11, 1949

HAVEN MOTORS NOW USING NEW ADDITION TO GARAGE
Haven Motors Incorporated, local DeSoto and Plymouth dealer, has added to its large building on Columbia Street, a modern lubritorium and car washing department.  Built on
the west side of the building, the new one story addition measures thirty feet across the front and goes back the depth a distance of forty feet.  The structure is divided into two
distinct departments.  On the side adjoining the garage and display room is the car washing department.  A large window section separates the car washing from the lubricating
section.  The hydraulic lift is at floor level with the back post in a stationary position and the front lift on a sliding track to fit any size car or truck.  All equipment needed for the
complete lubrication of an automobile is kept in gleaming white cabinets.  The pressure hoses for the grease guns are suspended from the ceiling on the right hand side of the
building.  All equipment in both departments is the most beautiful and best obtainable.  The place is well lighted by windows or glass paneled doors on three of its four sides.  
Haven Motors extends a cordial invitation to the motoring public to come in and inspect the new section of their building.  The men employed at the garage receive factory
training once every month to keep them informed about anything new that may arise in the way of automotive repair and upkeep.