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Paddy Fix Dies; Operated

Niagara Excursion Boats

DIMES CHAIRMEN: Mayor Joyce, seated, honorary chairman of the North Tonawanda New March of Dimes, last night welcomed .several newly appointed campaign chair­men at his City Hall office. They include, from left: Charles R. Fleischman, assistant community director in charge of special

events; Stephen A. Scarfone, professional group chairman; James T. Mileham, chair­man of bowling activities, and Richard J. Carney, publicity chairman. The mayor urged North Tonawandans to support the New March of Dimes for the • betterment of society through, medical research.

Holy Name at OLC '

To Install Officers New officers of the Holy Name]

Society of Our Lady of .Czestocho-' wa Church, North Tonawanda, | will be installed Sunday morning | in the'school hall, after the group | receives Holy Communion si the 9:3© a.m. Mass.

Guest speakers will be the Rev. Vincent L. Cyman, p a s t e a...nd Thomas Ryan, chief security offi­cer for Niagara • Mohawk Power Corp. Breakfast will to© served. -

-^FATALLY STRICKEN Mrs. Genevieve L Koch, 69, of)

37 Main St., Tonawanda, was pro-1 nouaced dead from m apparent," heart attack at 4:36 p.m. yester­day. The first aid squad of ike fire department was summoned and gave her oxygen before a phy­sician, who pronounced her dead, arrived on the scene.

Obituaries -GARDNER — Cora 91 Gardner

of 12:1 E. Hazeltine Ave.,'Ken-more, died Wc 1961). She •• inson Gardner:

inesday (Jan. I, he wife of L. Rob-mother of Frank I of Jacksonville, 1

J. Robert »Ruth> ta. N.Y.. and the M. Murdock. She

vived by eight grand-'riends niay call from 7 to 9 at the Bury Fu-

3070 Delaware

HEADS GOP GROUP: R e p. William E. Miller of the 40th District yesterday was re­elected chairman of the Na­tional Republican Congres­sional Campaign Committee. The Tiagara County resident, who has .represented this dis­trict in Congress for to years, became chairman of the com­mittee a year- ago. At 'the meeting yesterday in Wash­ington which re-elected him^ he was praised for directing the recapture "of 21 House

eve In, (gee 37 Main St.. unexpectedly

1961"' at her jlong resident and was the

R. and Lee D. Fla., and Mrs. Ellis of Masser sister of Emma is also m children. Fr 2 to. 5 and; 7 neral Home Ave.,, where ft.. be conducted a] clay. Friends invitee of sympathy may h Kenraor© ' Presbytc Memorial Fund..

KOCH — Gencv Bait i Koch, 69, of Tonawanda, died Thursday 'Jan. 5, 'home.' She was a- lif of the Tonawamdas widow of Augustus R. Koch, who died in Jul;.. .: Ml Mrs. Koch was a member of St. Francis of As-sisi Church and the Altar Society of the church. Survivors include two daughter*. Miss Helen G,. Koch of Tonawanda and Mrs. Jack 'Genevievei Still of the Town of

• Tonawanda; a son, Robert C. Koch' of North Tonawanda; four sisters,,Mrs. Bertha'B. Bush and. Mrs. Anna Murphy, both of Buf­falo, and Miss Grace Batt and Mrs; Josephine' Hugoboom of North Tonawanda; two brothers, Frank Baft of Orlando. Fla., .and Walter Batt of Syracuse. N.Y., and five grandchildren. Friends. may call at the Creasey Funeral Home, 93 Adam St... Tonawanda, where .prayers will be said at 9 a.m. .Monday, followed by a Re­quiem Mass in St. Francis of As-sisi Church at 9:30 a.m.; The Rev. Wilbur Yaegcr will officiate. Burial in Bit. Olivet Cemetery.

seats for Republicans in November election.

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Kenmore Youth Faces Charges In Tonawanda

Adult Classes in Tonawanda Resume Monday

It's back to school again for Ton­awanda adults next Monday when adult classes will be resumed on their former schedule after a three - week holiday layoff.

The registration office in the Junior High School'will be open Wedesday evenings .during Janu­ary and February from 7:30 to 9 p.m. to facilitate enrollment.

New sections will be formed for present; classes if interest war­rants. Among these classes are typewriting — beginners; short­hand — beginners; naturaliza­tion; sewing — beginners; group

! piano' lessons, and bookkeeping. ; Added enrollments will be taken | directly by teachers in' German. !

; piano, naturalization and bobk-i keeping.

A number of new subjects are 'contemplated,,.and will be insti­tuted if 16 or more persons show I interest in any one. Music appre- :

I ci a Li on,' water color painting and [report writing are among the con- j t em pla t ed s u b j ec t s.

Several' classes which did not reach their quotas, last fall are open to enrollment 'now. With as ' few as 8 or ' 10 more persons. courses, in basic electricity, slide1

rule usage and ceramics will be [ announced.

Paddy Fix is dead. "'Capt. Clarence Fix. 67. "one of

the last excursion' boat. captains' [that operated on the Niagara Riv­er, died yesterday at his'' home in Hollywood, Fla.

He was part of the color of a fay-. gone era. That was the prohibition [period when pilots' ol river boats had to, keep their eyes peeled for federal agents as well as the Niagara's shoals and shal­lows. *

As an excursion boat'skipper, "Paddy" -knew the hazards well. When i e was 10 he began; to learn

| about the Niagara aboard' his. fa-ther's.and his uncle's boats, the

t Edgewater and the Seabreeze, [ that took thousands of .river ex-[ cursioners on 5V% - mile cruises around Grand island.

His father, Frank Fix. and his uncle, Charles Fix, operated the

j excursion boats. They also-oper­ated a dozen ferries that took pas­

sengers to Grand Island and Ft. i Erie from... two.' locations.. One • landing. was at the foot m Wheel­e r Street in Tonawanda, The cth-ier was in the Town of Tora'a-aav da near the present Huntley SCtt

; tion in River Road.

Legislation, creating Hi i soul i Grand Island Brieve contained \ provision, that ended the :err\ business which. Paddy oaa'a.,.,.,. Thereafter, P a d d y and his nephew. Charles Fix Jr., opera ed the Bedell House -.fellifta <m the-.spot now occupied If tl belle Marine Basin in | s .

I Road, Grand Island.

...Capt. Fix. retired three years ago and left Grand Island for bis

•home in. Florida. He had beco'Ste a speedboat; and (facing enthusiast. His runabout' 'aM ischial'* was a top contender in early days of Ni-

jngara River racing'. These days jcame on, heels of the decline of [liver boat excursion.] na.

When excursioning was at' its :peak, the Fix dock at the foot of 'Amherst Street; in. Buffalo was Ijammed with excursion passen-|gers on Saturday and Sunday •ai-fternoons. The coining of prehi'hi-' tion. saw a terrific rise in tfefj PjjJ excursion business.

Stops at the Bedell House were especially popular wif'h excurskm-ers • who* were kept alert for prohibition agents. The boat a Dj was convenient for excursion* \

,hy day and for others who came by uight from nearby •'wet" Cana- i da with popular refreshments of the' period.

I Paddy was a member of the Grand Island Boating Association. the Buffalo Launch Club, the Buffalo - Tonawanda Power Boat Associatiofluand the Grand Island Rod & Gun Club.

He is survived by his .wife, the former Maude Johnson; a daugh­ter, Mrs. Gladys Staffen, and a granddaughter. The Rev. Eldon Snyder will officiate at services at 2 p.m. Monday at the E. Grace Funeral Home, 335 Ontario St., Buffalo. Burial will be in White­haven Cemetery. Grand Island.

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• 50 per cent of the member­ship have recruited new m e m-b « , advanced a rank, earned „;:e personal fitness merit badge amd participated in either the Gfet-out-the-Vote project or a consec­ration project.

Scoutmaster Everette C l a r k and Ass -;ant Scoutmaster Her­bert Derrick presented the Boy Scout 50th Anniversary Achieve­ment Award to Thomas Clark.

ip Piotrowski. Michael Son-

A. F . Wild! , left, T a k e s '! • anard J. Leatza u and Reginald

Rev. Carl Marx

To Be Pastor

At Friedens

How Others Are Faring

Gave] From R. L. Planner . H. Vollick Witness I i ay.

Arnold F. W.ildt Becomes Master Of Lodge 247

' Arnold F. Wild!

Phil . nen. Donald Sadlocka. Douglas Keil. Thomas Meyers, D a n i e l Myers, Dennis Stefanski. and Jo­seph Wegrzyn..

Personal fitness merit b a d g e awards were presented by Stan­ley Westcoit, advancement chair­man, and Ernest Sonnen, coinmit-I a em an. to each of the boys named al ave. and to Harry Wilken and Edwin Wilken.

On Jan. 13 the troop will go to Camp Toad Hollow for a weekend -ay . Plans for a record hop Jan. 20 in the Drake School gymnasi­um were also completed. •

Fried ens Un'i I e d Church of Chris;. Schenck and Yandervcort, Streets, jSjorth Tonawanda, has a new pastor, the Rev. Carl Marx of Richmond. \

Mr. Marx will begin his duties Jan. 22, succeeding the Rev. Carl

JE. Berges who left the church in November for a pastorate in Roch­ester. The Rev. Carl Zimmer­man, chaplain superintendent of

I the Dunkirk Conference Grounds, has been serving as interim pas­tor.

.Mr. and Mrs. Marx and their two daughters «ill occupy the par­sonage at !74 Schenck St.

class in dr M" t ' be organized late f ] i>

at a. ion month.

).m. Satur- David G. Shuff. 21. of 73 Dan-Expressions bury Lane, Kenmore, pleaded in-nade to the nocent today in Tonawanda City an Church Court to three charges stemming

1-6f from his arrest last night in the Millian Buick Co. ear lot at 363 Delaware St.

He was released in $300 bail and given an adjournment by <#ity Judge Ruth D. Vogel until Jan. 31. He is charged with unlawful in­trusion, petty larceny and posses­sion of burglary tools.

Tonawanda police arrested h"m ht when thev received

the quota is rollments for t accepted. Adult register for a which will start, July,

ed and no ne

will but en-

iis class will ; be may, however,

•follow-up class, n Mav and run to

Cooke Asserts Crotty Ignores Erie Taxpayer

in H. Co ke. Ei

a call that someone was s e e n jacking up a car in the lot.

Police Lt. Herman G arrow and Patrolman Albert Heithecker said they nabbed the Shuff youth after a short chase between the parked cars. They said they * surprised him in the act of jacking up a car. They' also said they found a tire he had removed from the jacked up car inside the trunk of his own car ***** •»** •**•*«*! nearby.

which, was parke

State Sen. J< County Republican c,n.airm.a% to day accused Peter J. Crotty, the Democratic county chairman, of "deliberately trying • to disrupt county government at the expense of the taxpayer."

Sen. Cooke rejected Mr. Cra.t-ty's .suggestion that the two party leaders meet, as Mr, Crotty put it, to work'out political differences so the orderly process of govern* ment would not be interrupted.

Mr. Crottv's suggestion came as a result of the deadlock that devel­oped" when 27 Republicans'and 27 Democrats were elected, to t h e Board of Supervisors. It was re-

ALBANY 'l."PI>-in principal cities this morning:

Albany. Boston Buffalo ' .' 1 aea-0 . Cleveland Des .Moines Detroit Galveston Kansas City

geies Miami ' -. New Orleans New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh .. Rochester . Syracuse

..ington

last n :. r ol - Temperature da Ledge 247. F&AM. Thursday and Ralna I., Piaaacr.

a trustee. high low Reginald H. ''

27' 12 master ol the 30 27 stalling offic r He 33 22 bv Leonard J. Li 40 • 33 shal. who is also a pa 39 3! Ceremonies took place

•; • . 42 28 son.'c Temple, 190 Mi 39 • 30 Tonavwa 56 .13 A Eai up of Ei 52 3! agara C""o u n i y pat 72 4a formed tha staff which 70 61 Arthur E Eku 54 47 George E. Hamblet, j 35 32 clen; Clarence 1 . Sroit 34 21 er: Harold E, 41 34 Barclay F. 28 21 emeritus. 23 17 Also, Clifford S: West 40 23 lain: Geor.ee J. (.

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THRl WAV CONDITIONS SC B o r . Now York Cily

\ i nig S ate line to the Ptnn-yi- junior i 'including the senior ma-ier <. I

r.d and Berkshire sec- W. Sanderson, tions1—The road is and dry.

generally clear ceremonj v Also Frank" n A.

Dr. Irving. S V

GOP Club Plans ££*«£ Dinner t( , c e f e or— •»• <*"

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Sen. J. H.Cooke NT Youth Boaid

CONCERT PLANNERS: Completing plans for the 31si annuai. Ton a w a ad as Past 264 are these '-band <»: I concert committee. Harry Waechtc-r. as a

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coneeri of the an Legion Band

ibi rs of the from loft, are rid Robert Neil,

assistant director. Standing, from left, are John Giuseppetti. Ronald Gikaari. Robert Brmkman and Elwood Searles. The concert is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. Jan. 25 m Tona­wanda High School.

ted when th< u per visor,; i a lie ize th

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Sen. Cooke, in, his. answer, ens., lenged Mr. Crotty'to "live up to the decorum of his office and put aside personal and political ambi-

avo nf serving the pub

ALWAYS INSTRUCT YOUR FUNERAL DIRECTOR TO ORDER FROM

Gelose Arr in Flowers 178 MAIN ST. NX 25?00

Road Angels to Clear Snow From Hydrants At their weekly meeting, t h e

Road Angels Auto Club made-plans Wednesday night to clear away snow from all City of Tona­wanda fire hydrants tomorrow and Sunday.

It also was announced that an nor concern of the citizens of Erie annual award ' given by the Na-' County." tiona! Hot Rod Association went"! . to one of the group's members, Tom Radkiewitz of 45 Wheeler St., Tonawanda. Tom has the honor of being the member with the high­est number of points for the quar­terly automobile safety checks.

lions in lie."

He'Charged that Mr. Crotty is "interested in the politics of Erie County and not the government

Announcing the Re-Establishing of the

PAWENSKI Funeral Home To Its Former Location

652 Oliver St.

(Corner 5th> N. Tonawanda

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NX 2-4917 Listed in Directory

Ei*. PV WIN SKI LlC. _ M i i u . e r and Owner

Marine Midland Income Up 6.6% Net operating income for 1960 j

of $19,608,557, which was 6.6 per cent greater than the previous year, was reported' today by Ma-

; rine Midland Corp. The Buffalo Rank Holding Cor-

) poration posted a, 1959 income 'of a$i8,393,628 after 'preferred 'divi­dends of $155,785.

Last year's net income b r o k e [ down to $1.87 per common share oh 10,459,071 shares outstanding Dec. 31, 1960. The 1959 income represented $1.88 per share 0n 9.641.436 shares outstanding Dec. 31, 1959.

Eleven Marine Midland 'banks serve 102 New York State com­munities with 178 banking offices. The Marine Trust 'Company of Western New York, largest of the Marine .Midland banks, serves the Tonawandas through its First Trus t, St ate T'I ustr Payn e . Yven ue and Sheridan Plaza offices.

Sen. John H, Cooke. .Erie a-. Republican chairman, will

red at a testimonial din-a: 7 p.m. Jan. 15 in the Town

for the dinner were an-! today by the Uncle Republican Club , of Frit1

County. "We are deeply indebted to our

ay leader for the terr-ifie job a in the last 18 months."

M B Itz,'president of the ."> and chairman for the

Chairmen named for the din-ihclude Sal Orlando, chair-, and Charles Whitman. Wil-

Ci Nerenberg and Mrs. Mela-• e Strauss, co - chairmen, ticket : ummittee; Frank White and Hen-

alt, co-chairmen, pub-..." ,\a George F. Dannebrock and

iuire, co-chairmen, re-

. Albert C. Ki!i:an will be master a.ics at the dinner. Ar-

rangi ... ints have not been com* d for a principal speaker at

- aliair.

Gets Recorder North Tonawand \

memb< rs last ; tape rec , I h i! iuv the Juvenile Aid < board purpo

Purchase of the re<jues venile Aid offi 1 i his case work rei

Albert Kraeger. Jr.

mem -• r3 •• U They include 1 P. Bi day, Sirs J on B Ronald L. 1 a. KJ quested the ma>

RSE.* Kria . >. o . contimK 1 ' to which lii . Board • session in a a completed, he sai 1 Tonawanda Boai d i 1

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Tonawanda Woman i. c . . Merman (jierke. to. Escapes Injury A Tonawanda woman escaped injury tcday when her car shot off

a road and knocked down a ilbox in Williamsville.

She is Pose Magee, 38, ©I 4H

Succumbs in :lorida Herman A. Gierk^

y of-North 'X I crdav in Cleai

was a :r-' Road. Amherst police ™o r e , t luii l _ l

. her car apparently failed to C ; t i ^ '>elore h make m right turn onto Reist to Florida al

a. and wound up on the lawn ,5r ,'' of Charles W. Cox. 275 Reist St. Wll5'; c h a r l ;

Cigarets, Cigars Taken in Burglary Burglars last night entered Ma-

ziarz' jas station at 618 Delaware St., Tonawanda, by breaking a window, police reported today.

Louis Maziarz. the owner, said a cartons of cigareti and a box

rs were taken. The window a located on the west side of the building, measures 15 by 20 inch­es, police said.

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Five grandchildren and two great­grandchildren" also survive. >

Arrangements for a 1 serv-fcces in North Tona .; I are be­ing made.

MCM ol Florida, and a E I Gierke, atri dau Foley, both oi North

Former WNY Man Returns From Cuba

HOLY NAME INSTALLS: The Holy Name 'Society of .St, Joseph's Parish,'North Tona­wanda, Wednesday night ins failed officers for the new year at the group's monthly meet­ing in St, Joseph's;School hall. Seated, .from the left, are The Rev, Duane Fimbel, as-' sistant pastor of the church, and 'Alexander

Zayatz, society president. Standing, from the left, are Anthony Di Gennaro. tree sun Chester Wawrzynek, vice president, Robert Winter, secretary. Officers not in the picture arc Raymond D'uga-. financial secretary, and Leonard Mruk. John Fronc zak and Adolph Osadnik, trustees.

Randazzo Condition Termed Satisfactory IVter T. Randazzo. 42. c.xec i-

, live direcJor ol d Com­munity Fuwlo: the ronawan

'was reported in satisfactory con­dition today at Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, where he un-. derweiH surgery ye I

A former Western New York A hospital spokesman . ud Mr. resident was among 42 employes; Randazzo. who lives au of the State Department who re'-! Ave.. Kenimar, is e; i to be turned to the U.S. this week from released in about a the American Embassy in Hava-- 1— na, Cuba PLEADS 'NO CONTEST'

The State Department in Wash- A North Tonawanda tavern own-ington disclosed that Harvey Well- er was one ol five wl o ; leaded man, formerly ol Perry, N.Y., ;"no cantos;" wVah. before

B a member of the staff sent the Stale Liquor Author, home alter the break in diplomat* cases involving sale oi liquor to ic relations. minors. He i< Albert F. Vampo-

WelJman is- the son of: Mrs. tic. 77 Wheatfield St. Tl:e cases Charlotte Wellman of Warsaw, were referred to the SLA for a

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