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...Area Redevelopment Administration has invested more than $2,500,000 in helping to solve the unemployment problem in Hazleton. Over $150,000 of this amount was a grant, the balance loans. Said Dr. Dessen, "ARA hits Hazleton like a breath of spring." All praise to the hardworking, intelligent community leaders who have helped Hazleton back to economic stability. But let's not forget that their work could not have been accomplished without considerable aid from the state of Pennsylvania and the Federal Government. Which is as it should be. WILLIAM L. BATT JR. Administrator...
...Edgar Dessen, now 47, a physician, had been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally...
Goal of the first CAN DO drive was $500,000-a part to be acquired by selling 15-year 3% debenture bonds, the rest from donations. Dessen's group put on heavy pressure, had every single contributor listed daily in the Hazleton Standard-Speaker, and classified the lists so that all lawyers or all employees of one factory were together-making for easy (and occasionally embarrassing) comparisons. To keep the pressure up, Dessen went on the radio every noon to read the names and amounts contributed. Within three weeks CAN DO was well over its quota, with...
...lead shifted constantly and neither team gained more than a four-point margin at any time. The visitors jumped away to an early lead through the sparkling individual work of Captain Carmack and Dessen. The Crimson quickly made up the deficit, however, in a spirit which revealed the most versatile offense shown this year. Rauh and Smith tossed in exceptionally pretty goals. Pennsylvania rallied in turn and led 18 to 17 at half time...
Score, Pennsylvania 26, Harvard 24. Goals from the floor, Rauh 4, Smith 3, Samborski 2, Dessen 3, Lindsay 2, Carmack 2, Knaess. Goals from Fouls, Gordon 3, Rudofsky 2, Rauh, Leopold 5, Knaess 2, Morris, Dessen, Carmack Referee, Towers. Umpire, Sullivan. Time, 20-minute halves. Harvard Pennsylvania Smith, r.f. l.g., Carmack Gordon, Merriam, l.f. r.g., Leopold Rauh, c. c., Block, Lindsay, Knaess Samborski, r.g. l.f., Dessen Rudofsky, Black, l.g. r.f., Knaess, Morris