This Was Hatboro-Horsham, 1949

From the Public Spirit, Week of Dec. 23-29, 1949

Real estate broker sees bright future for Hatboro -

Warren M. Cornell, who has sold real estate in the Hatboro area for forty years, reports real estate markets are still very active and sees a bright future for this community.

Mr. Cornell recently sold thirty-two acres of the Wunderle Estate farm, north of Cemetery avenue between South York road and the Reading Railroad, to Albert E. Greenbaum of Philadelphia.

The purchaser will commence after the first of the year developing the tract with 119 single homes to sell in the $9,000 bracket. They will be situated on sixty-foot frontage lots with improvements including storm and sanitary sewers, improved streets and curbs. The plan of the development, tentatively named "Hatboro Gardens," calls for serpentine streets, one of which will be a continuation of Lehman avenue off of York road.

The Warren M. Cornell office in recent months sold two acres of industrial ground, north of Cemetery avenue and west of Warminster road, to Harvey Crockett of Oreland, owner of Crockett Machine Co., who has already erected a small industrial building thereon. Plans are under way for the erection of several more industrial buildings in this section.

Construction of the American Stores building on South York road is well under way. The balance of the commercial ground on South York road has been sold for new store buildings, and many York road commercial properties have been transferred.

As the result of these many transactions, Hatboro is fast becoming a small city, with a diversified industrial section and an active business area, combined with many new reasonably priced homes, with the all-important community spirit still prevalent.

Red Cross sponsors Christmas party at Naval Air Station -

The Red Cross and Santa Claus met again for their annual Christmas party on Friday in the big Recreation Hall at the.

Two hundred and fifty children between the ages of one and twelve, sons and daughters of the Navy officers and enlisted personnel, greeted the great fellow when he knocked on the door.

The Old York Road branch of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross sponsored the party. Appropriate movies were shown before Santa pulled a gift out of his bulging pack for each child in attendance.

Santa enlisted the help of Mrs. Ralph Garreth's Red Cross members. Each gift box was artfully decorated by girls from the Junior Clubs at Cheltenham High School and Abington Junior High, and Girl Scout Troop No. 743 of Overbrook Hills.

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Rotary Club hears speaker on Nuremberg trials -

[Editor's note - The International Military Tribunal, held in Nuremberg, Germany, began the first trial of Nazi war criminals in November 1945. The 22 defendants included some of the highest-ranking surviving Nazi leaders, among them Herman Goering, second only to Adolf Hitler; and Rudolf Hess, former deputy fuhrer. The sentences handed down in September 1946 included death for Goering (although he committed suicide before execution) and life imprisonment for Hess.]

At its Wednesday luncheon meeting, the Hatboro Rotary Club was given an eyewitness account of the war crimes trials of the High Nazis at Nuremberg.

John W. Gunsser, Bucks County court stenographer, was appointed by the United States Government to aid in recording the Nuremberg trials and served throughout the hearings of Goering, Hess and company.

He brought with him diagrams of the court room and pictures taken during the trials. He told of the intricate system of interpreters used and of the methods of translating the testimony into English, French, Russian and German.

As interesting sidelights, the speaker gave personal impressions of the Nazi defendants, including Goering's bombastic and Hess' feigned loss of memory. He also gave a description of the Nazis' summer Reichs Chancellory at Berchtesgaden.

Friends meet in Horsham -

Friends from various meetings in the area attended the Abington Quarterly Meeting held Saturday at the Horsham Friends meeting-house. The clerks were Marguerite W. Duckworth, of Horsham, and Thomas Knight, of Wyncote.

In the morning session, a member from each of the constituent meetings told what was being done in response to this query: "What are you doing as individuals and as a meeting for the government of your community, state and nation and for freedom of education?'

While every one of the meetings had members working in many different capacities, they served as individuals and not as a meeting. However, each meeting was reported helping the work of the American Friends Service Committee.

Horace Mather Lippincott, a member of the Joint Committee of the Abington, Bucks and Burlington Quarterly Meetings, read a paper about some of the work since that committee was first appointed. Alfred W. Wright, of Norristown, expressed confidence in the work of the members of that committee.

Horsham Friends prepared a delicious lunch for more than a hundred persons.

In the afternoon session, Kurt Reagan of Plainfield, N.J., who had visited German Friends during the summer, told of their appreciation of what had been done for them and how eager they are to have visitors or letters from Friends elsewhere.

"Our Responsibility to the Wider Community" was the topic of James Reed of Gwynedd, who is the foreign secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. As he told of the work of that committee, both in Europe and in many places in the Americas, including Mexico, he showed that one aim is to point people towards thoughts about God.

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Hatboro and Horsham Happenings -

Mrs. Kearns' sixth-grade class at Loller School in Hatboro made calendars for 1950 with "Happy New Year" printed on them. They also made booklets of New Year's resolutions.

Miss Mary Jane Hagerty, of Horsham, is home from Millersville State Teachers College for Christmas vacation.

Hatboro Burgess [Mayor] Warren M. Cornell is in the hospital for observation and treatment of a chest ailment.

Mrs. Elizabeth Scarborough, of Horsham, has gone to St. Petersburg, Florida, to stay until May.

Lt. Charles Louden, his wife and daughter, came from New York to spend his Christmas furlough at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Louden, of Loller road, Hatboro.

E. Burton Satterthwaite of Jenkintown, a member of Horsham Friends Meeting, was sent by his doctor to Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia for treatment for a heart condition and pneumonia.

Clarabelle Gardner will direct "The Great Big Doorstep," the comedy to be presented by the on January 12 and 13 in the Hatboro High School auditorium.

Miss Nancy Miller, of Horsham, is home from George School for the holidays.

William Jetter of Academy road, Hatboro, is in Abington Hospital, where he underwent an operation.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Comly, of Horsham, visited her sisters and other relatives in Grahamsville, N.Y. over the Christmas weekend.

Mrs. J. Howard Twining, of Hatboro, spent Friday at the Friends Home in Norristown as the guest of Mrs. Howard Williams.

Theodore J. Dick, seaman apprentice, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dick of Norristown road, Horsham, arrived last week at Norfolk, Va. after a two-and-a-half-month cruise in the Mediterranean as a crew member aboard the light cruiser USS Worcester.