Word: norristown
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Sydney P. Clark, Jr., R.D. No. 4, Norristown, Penn., and a graduate of the Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn...
Last week in Norristown, Pa., Headmaster George W. Balles, 33, of Warminster Military Academy, was charged with rape, adultery, assault & battery, and contributing to the delinquency of minors. A cop had caught him one night in a parked car with an eleven-year-old girl, whom he is accused of raping. The girl was one of some 30 or 40 children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles...
Warminster Military Academy was founded last fall when the Balleses bought a farmhouse near Norristown. Parents were stupid or careless enough to entrust their offspring to this institution. Tuition: $1,100 a year plus some $5 a week for laundry plus $74 for a uniform...
Divorced. Commander George Howard Earle 3rd, 54, wealthy Philadelphia Main Liner, onetime New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria; by Huberta Potter Earle, 48, handsome, Kentucky-born socialite; after 29 years of marriage (four sons); in Norristown...
Safety. In Norristown, Pa., Fire Chief Miles Riley decided to keep his old-fashioned safety nets when a fireman, demonstrating the superiority of a new and improved chute, broke his elbow. In Jacksonville, the Citizens Safety Committee adjourned its meeting when a committee member rose from his chair and was knocked flat by an opening door...