This Was Newtown: 1962

From the Newtown Enterprise, March 1962

Council Rock School Board approves teachers' salaries

Council Rock School Board, at its meeting Wednesday night in the school library, approved a teachers' salary proposal which will take effect for the next school term.

The new salary guide, presented by the Salary Committee, revises the starting salary from $4,200 to $4,400 for a teacher with a bachelor's degree, with a maximum of $7,200 over a period of ten years.

The guide also provides increments for advanced degrees and credits. Starting salary for those persons with a master's degree is $4,800, and a maximum of $7,900 with a total of eleven increments.

A master's degree, plus an approved thirty additional credits, is set at $5,200 to start, with a maximum of $8,600 over a period of 12 years.

In addition to the regular increments, the board approved an adjustment increment varying in amount according to the experience and education of a teacher. The total for 63 classroom teachers is approximately $30,000.

Rally Dennis, chairman of the Salary Committee, also reported on the progress of the Merit Study Committee. He indicated that the adoption of this forward-looking guide was indeed a tribute to the excellent quality of the staff of Council Rock. He paid tribute to the school board for the realistic way in which it had approached the problem.

Because of the expanding new mathematics program at Council Rock, the board approved a request of the math department to award a special $500 scholarship to James Shertzer to attend the University of Illinois for the purpose of studying the new mathematics. He will join the staff at the high school in this program during the coming year.

Math teachers Fred Stewart and Joseph Hintenlang have been awarded National Foundation Scholarships to attend the workshop on new mathematics at the University of Illinois this summer.

Newtown nurse sailing to South America

A young Newtown nurse is setting off on a venture which is bound to disprove the old sailing superstition that a woman on shipboard is an evil omen.

And, what's more, she won't be just a plain old passenger--she'll be registered with the U.S. Merchant Marine and carrying the identification of an "ordinary seaman."

"Getting seaman's papers has been the biggest surprise so far, except, of course, being accepted for the voyage," said Miss Mary Louise Foltz, a pert redhead with an engaging smile.

The voyage she mentions is the second mission of the S.S. HOPE ("Health Opportunities for People Everywhere"), a privately sponsored program to share this nation's medical knowledge and skills with newly developing countries. The HOPE, manned by the People-to-People Health Foundation, will sail March 15 for the port of Trujillo, Peru, and anchor there about April 1.

Miss Foltz will be welcomed aboard with 34 other American nurses, who have been selected from 1,000 applicants. The nurses will be assigned to the new medical school at the famed University of Liberty in Trujillo, which will train physicians for all of northern Peru.

She said she'll be working "as a teaching nurse, giving on-the-spot instruction to Peruvian nurses while treating Peruvian patients in the ship's hospital. I'll probably be connected with the surgery and medicine field."

A native of Langhorne, Miss Foltz received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She spent a year as a nurse at the Southmead General Hospital in Bristol, England. Since her return last August, she's been engaged in private-duty nursing in Levittown. She is a member of the Lower Bucks County Registered Nurses Association.

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Fire damages youth center  

Fire at the Neshaminy Valley Youth Center, on North State Street, Thursday night destroyed a corner of the kitchen on the ground floor and caused considerable smoke damage throughout the building.

No one was in the building at the time. The fire was believed to have been caused by a burning cigarette discarded in a wastebasket.

The fire was discovered by Richard Jones, assistant to the executive director, shortly after 11:30 p.m. He went to the Center to straighten up after a ceramics class which ended at 10:30, in preparation for a meeting to be held there Friday morning.

Four pieces of fire equipment and 47 volunteers from the Newtown Fire Co. brought the blaze under control. John Merrick, vice president of the company, estimated damage at $1,000.

On Saturday, the fire company extinguished four grass fires within a three-hour period, Chief William S. Ettenger reported. Thirty-seven men with three pieces of equipment responded to each alarm.

The first was at 11:15 a.m. at the home of John Sokol, Buck Road; the second at 11:20 a.m. at the Ida Longshore property, Washington Crossing Road; the third at 1:40 p.m. at the home of Thomas Morris, Eagle Road; and the fourth at 2:14 p.m. at the home of R.J. Brumbaugh, Coach Road, Langhorne R.D.

Newtown pharmacy moves to new location  

One of Newtown's oldest drug stores, located in the Arcade Building on South State Street for nearly a half century, moved last weekend to new, enlarged quarters at the corner of State Street and Centre Avenue.

The Rexall Pharmacy, owned since 1958 by Richard C. Hoover, is an old landmark to Newtownians and area residents. Its former owner, Alexander J. Strathie, conducted a business there for more than 40 years.

Hoover, who recently acquired the former John D. Johnson property, has completely modernized the store interior and will be equipped to better serve the public. His enlarged quarters will enable him to carry numerous hospital and invalid supplies in addition to the wide variety of drugs and cosmetics. Modern prescription facilities have also been added.

A registered pharmacist, Hoover is president of the Bucks County Pharmaceutical Association. A native of Lehighton [Carbon County], he was graduated from Lehighton High School and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Newtown, treasurer of the Neshaminy Valley Youth Center and a member of the Newtown Presbyterian Church.

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Newtown Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. LaRue returned Wednesday to their home on Wrights Road after a two-month motor and plane trip to Florida, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and St. Croix in the Virgin Islands.

Miss Ann Cliff, of North Chancellor Street, just spent a week at Northampton, Mass., where she was a delegate to the Almunae Council of Smith College, her alma mater.

William Duerr was honored with a family party on his 96th birthday Thursday at his home on East Centre Avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Keating, Jr. will move Saturday from North State Street to the Harry M. Bloom apartment, East Washington Avenue.

William Satterthwaite, who suffered a heart attack at his home on the Newtown-Langhorne Road last Wednesday, is undergoing treatment at Mercer Hospital, Trenton, N.J.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mammel, of Baltimore, Md., were weekend guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Mammel, of Buck Road.

Dr. John Mertz, minister of the Newtown Presbyterian Church; and Robert S. Reed, layman, on Tuesday attended a meeting of the Philadelphia Presbytery in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.

Mrs. H. Griffin Miller, of the Newtown Friends Boarding Home, was honored on her 87th bithday at a dinner given Saturday at Conti's Restaurant, Doylestown, by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Stapler of Mirror Lake Farm, and another daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Stabler of Stamford, Conn.

Miss Jane Dillman, of East Penn Street, and her sister, Mrs. Samuel B. Althouse, of Swarthmore, have returned to their homes after a seven-day cruise to Nassau, the Bahamas.

Dr. Betty Strathie, of South Chancellor Street, who suffered a broken leg while skating last Thursday, is a surgical patient at Lower Bucks County Hospital.