On this date

The Carbon County Commissioners today accepted the recommendation of William Marsden, Nesquehoning, custodian of the tower clock on the Court House, directing that the giant time piece which was installed in 1894 to be temporarily stopped as a safety measure. Inspections, which the commissioners made by climbing to the tower, indicate the mechanism is dangerous because of heavy weights, the cables of which are reportedly defective. The clock will be stopped until the aged mechanism can be replaced with an electrification system.