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Poughkeepsie Journal from Poughkeepsie, New York • Page 9A

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A i 0 J' SUNDAY. FEBRUARY' iv tf tf lr .1957 rf n. Van Kieeck Named Assistant To Engineering Co. Executive; Local Partnership Dissolved FOUGHKEEPSIe'" SUNDAY NEW YORKEFt UM MH'iki i 7 Ralph E. VMKIwck, partner In the B.

D. Van Kieeck dental and surgical equipment wholesale" here; dde known jesterday his appointment ai assistant to the executive vice president of Day and Zimmerman, Philadelphia, a consulting engineering Arm. At the same time Mr. Van Kleeck made known the dissolution on Thursday of the VanKleeck; partnership and the formation of B. D.

VanKleeck, vhlc will continue the business with Dudley N. VanKleeck as president, Mrs. Margaret II. Van Kieeck, wife of the late Barnard p. VanKleeck, as treasurer, and himself as secretary.

MR. VANKLEECK'S new position, beginning tomorrow, Mill be as the executive assistant responsible for new buildings and for reports on engineering studies on U. S. and foreign gas, electric and water utilities, Mr. VanKleeck said he will continue tp make his home at 16 Adrlance avenue.

A graduate of Poughkeepsle jugn scnooi in lain. Air. van Kieeck obtained a B. S. in mechanical engineering from the Uni versity ot Pennsylvania In 1924 and did graduate work at the Wharton School 'of Finance and Commerce, and the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, both at the university, lie Is a of the American Society of Elec trlcal Engineers, a licensed pro tessionai engineer, of New York staie, a memter oi tne notary, Amrlta and Tennis clubs, Pough a member of the American Surgical Trade association and the American Dental Trade association, president ot the Dut.

chess County Association for Retarded Children, vice president and chairman of the School com mittee for the Little lied Schoolhouse, a member of the board of the Mid Hudson Workshop for the Disabled, and president ot the University club, 1955 56. HIS EARLY ENGINEERING associations were with the Sioux City Gas and Electric Company in Iowa; the National. Gas and Heating Comnanv. Nashville. Tenn the Harrisburg Gas Company, Harrlsburg, Pa the Phila delpnw Gas Works Company and the Philadelphia Electric Com pany all amllates of United Gas Improvement Company.

lie entered business with his brother, Dudley In 1946 with the B. D. VanKleeck firm. This partnership, after buying the property at 90 Market street, restored Its exterior to point up lis I78S characteristics, and also extended Its business activities to the surgical and hospital equipment and supplies and to electric equipment. The firm, now in Its BOth year, was described by Mr VanKleeck as the oldest dental supply house In the state.

MR. AND MRS. VANKLEECK have two children, Barnard David ,1 tF IULPH E. VANKLEECK, who will begin new position tomorrow as assistant to the executive vice president of Day and Zimmerman, InC, Philadelphia engineering consultants. Claims Rhe As Deadline Passes In Ship Collision Case NEW YORK (AP) The total number of claims, In the Andrea Dorta Stock 1 holm ship collision rose Friday as the deadline passed for filing claims In the case.

Involving more, than 116 million dollars. The Italian line's DorU and 'the Swedish American line's Stdckholm collided off Nantucket, last July 23. Fifty lives were lost and the Dorla sank 'Gold' Skyscraper Planned By New York Building firm III, In student In the Wharton school of the.Unlversl,y of Pennsylvania, and Joan Ann, a pupil In the Little Red Scholhouse. Mrs VanKleeck, the former Lyal Elizabeth Hertzler of Overbrook, Pa Is a member of the board of the Women's City and County club of uhlch she was president McCardle Quits As Aide to Dulles TIIOMASVILLE, GA. AP President Elsenhower yesterday accepted the resignation of Carl W.

McCardle as assistant secre tary ot state for public affairs. McCardle wrote Elsenhower he Is resigning for "personal reasons" which he did not detail. McCardle asked that the resig nation be effective on appoint ment of a successor. At the President's vacation headquarters here White House press secretary Hagerty said he had no information regarding a successor in accepting the resignation, Elsenhower wrote McCardle he was doing so with "a sense loss, both official and personal." City Driver Denies, Passing School Bus Joseph Donato, 27. of 129 Academy street, yesterday plead 1 ed Innocent when he appeared before Justice of the Peace Dietz, Town ot Poughkeepsle, on a charge of passing a stopped school bus in South road lie was released Uj $23 bond pend appearance next Satur NEW YORK (API A New York construction firm' made known plans yesterday to build what lttcalled the nation's first gold aluminum skyscraper, The buUdlntv will have 34 stories, will rise at Lexington avenue and East 31st, Manhattan, and will be sheathed In gold adonlzed aluminum.

Sam Mln skoff and Sons, "builders said. MYRON MINSKOFF, vice president, said the building will be the first skyscraper to employ the new facing material, which will be prepared by Reynolds Metals Co. at its Louisville, Ky, plant. He said the structure will give the Impression of "gold inlaid In gold" through use ot two distinct shades of the color. The builders said the actual metal used would be regular aluminum with coloring agents added to give It the gold look.

Anoditing Is an electro lj tic process in which a hard aluminum oxide skin is formed on the metal. The Reynolds Co. said the material resists abrasion and repels dirt. Beacon Man In Good Condition Highland hospital. Beacon, last night said Robert Cherry, 23, of 41 Besklm place, Beacon, was In good condition.

Mr. Cherry was Injured seriously Jan. 28, when he fell about 50 feet from the root ot a three story apartment house In River road, about a mile north ofTTeacon, while repairing a television antenna. i Royal Pair ij 'Attends Hunt As Elizabeth Departs BOTHERFIELD, JSC (APJ i Princess Margaret and mother attended the Eridge hunt meet here yesterday, 40 miles outside London. Spectators at London airport had noted the absence of the Queen mother and Margaret when Queen Elizabeth II Hook off yesterday morning for Portugal.

Mem bers ot the Royal family usually see the Queen oft on leaving the country especially when she's going abroad for an official' state visit. Buckingham palace spokesmen were not immediately available to explain why the Queen mother and Margaret were not at the airport, FEBRUARY CLEARANCE NEVER KNOWINGLY UNDERSOLD BATHINETTES Reg $13.95 BABY BASKETS 5C.98 Rg. $7.98 HEDSTROM BABY STROLLER two Years: chairman nf thi ni. lslon for the Handicanned 2 an Ttetardcd Children for the New day York State Federation of Russell Smith, 16. of 218 Old Women's Clubs; and formerly Post road, Wapplngers Falls, also chairman of the Department for Community Affairs ot the same teaeration.

Firemen Trapped For Time in Blaze OSIIAWA, ONT. APJ Four firemen were trapped for a time and a five man rescue crew was lost temporarily in heavy smoke In a $250,000 fire which destroyed an Oshawa bowling alley yesterday. Deputy Fire Chief Ernie Sta cey said four men entered the blazing building to fight a fire and were on the second floor when the only staircase burst into flames. An alarm was put In for a second crew who donned smoke masks and rushed into the building "But they got lost In the heavy smoke and staggered up and down the alleys In a hopeless search," Stacey said charged with passing a stopped scnooi dus in bouin road, also received an adjournment until next Saturday. No plea was entered.

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