Back in ... 1961

Published: January 4, 2010

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- There was a celebration at Shamokin State Hospital, which was entering its golden anniversary of 50 years of service.

- W. Fred Kohler, chairman of the Northumberland County commissioners, announced that all county personnel would be retained through 1961 on year contracts.

- The Bell Telephone Co. announced it would invest $348,000 in the Shamokin district for service improvements.

- Eugene Mirarchi, a Kulpmont attorney who was the Democratic chairman of Northumberland County, said county Democrats would join with their counterparts in Dauphin County to set up a special inauguration train to go to Washington to see John F. Kennedy take over as president of the United States. Mirarchi said the cost of the trip would be $10 a person, both ways.

- The Lincoln School PTA, under the direction of the chairperson, Mrs. George Moser, held a panel discussion in which it was stated that parents were obliged to teach their children respect, religion and restraint.

- United Press took a survey and found that the average teachers' salary in the United States in 1961 was $5,215 a year. That compared to $660 a year in Japan and $1,400 in England.

- Shamokin Mayor Lester Weller presided at ceremonies in which Thomas Walsh was installed as chief of the Liberty Fire Company.

- At the Victoria in Shamokin, Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum were starring in "The Sundowners."

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