An All-Time
High In Penna.
Construction
(Prepared for the
erat by the State Planning Board
Department of Commerce.)
According to the Dodge Report
up to and including April «
year, residential building cor
in Pennsylvania have
i Ul
{8 1
1951 of $143.076.000
total of $128
four months of
as compared with a
394.000 for
1950, a
previous
dwelling
monwealt
dential building «
year 1950 was $466
Parallel to
constructi
growth n
in the Con
reached a total of
1950. Non-re
includes factories
structures the first
1951 have als
any previous yea:
the 3 vt hy
he fir mont!
year which
record in the
of
had exceeded al
e of
construct n the ¢{
his
13
Ha
idential builk
ore
four
y exceeded the tot
the S
our
all
stream
phase of
completed
18 million «
the Schuyik
vania hig
what }
contribution
preparedne
gency
The State
Penns i
merce point
high
Per y
exceeds
our nation, is 1!
as in all New E
siderably greats
total for roac
the four
Michig
states
Doubts That Fair
Trade Ruling Will
Hit Pennsylvania
fF 4
moi
Le
y E. Ri
Association
provides
tween
not to ret } speci
The druggist group
mental having
laws set up in 1935
ficers, meanwhile,
laws to
Court action will 2
Ricka
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as res
like the
their nationally
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determine
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Countian Graduates
At Juniata College
The role art nd letter
was
Centre Demo-
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Great Grandfather Wins
Boy In
James A. Cowl 78
Clearfield County
The lacks
water bathroom facilitie
and
Despite
Cowher won a
Supreme Court recently in a bitter
ly legal battle fon
custody his six-year-old
grandson, Andrew R. Graham
The State’ highest 1
brushing aside the doctrine that
there is no substitute for a mother
love, ruled in effect that the elderly
great-grandfather is more fit to care
for the boy than Andrews own
mother, who Is divorced
It wasn't a clear-cut
court split 5 to 2 in its decision
with two Philadelphia justices, John
C. Bell Jr. and Allen M. Stearns
writing a heated 15-page dissenting
opinion
However
house light
modern
feminine touch
appa
viets
v Cte
the altogethe
these t handicap
ry in the State
contested
of
great.
tribunal
The
victory
the majority ruling
questioned the mother's fitness
the grounds that she has only
per cent normal vision: used im-
proper language, and had adopted
a harsh attitude toward the child
The developments that led to the |
unusual ruling were these
In 1944 Andrew's parents, David
R. and Anna May CGraha® were
married, and Andrew was born the |
same year. In 1948 the parents were
divorced In Cleveland, Ohio. Under
the Ohio Mvorce decree, the great
grandfather was given custody of
the child, but the mother later had
this order changed so that Andrew
was to live with her, her sister and
the sister's blind husband in Ari
zona.
Cowher refused to give up the
child. The mother brought suit in
the Clearfield County Court, but
Judge P. Cortez Bell sided with
on |
10
"or
Suit Against Mother
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Midshipman Hoy
In Fleet Training
One of the
Naval Academy at Annaj
who will participate
immer training cruise for
candidates this year Midshipman
Franklin W. Hoy, USNA m of Mr
and Mrs. Pranklin W. Hov of Belle
fonte, who will train aboard ship
in an eight-week tour of Eure
and Cuban ports, beginning June 2
He will serve aboard one of
ships, which comprise a
including the battleship
souri and Wisconsin. These cruises
providing varied on-the-job Navy
experience, include two summers a-
board seagoing vessels and one per
lod of aviation and amphibious in-
doctrination
nembers of the
officer
pear
USS Mis-
:
Scientist Visits
I William F. Raymond, noted Eng
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IN CENTRE COUNTY
A VISITOR IN OVER 8,000 HOMES EACH WEEK
che
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BELLEFONTE, PA, THI
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ganization Sef
Railr ad Relocati nN
Is Problem at Session
Agreement In
Taxi Deaths
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Husband Gets $3050
In DuBois Suit
50 High School
Boys Will Go To
Stone Valley
ne va 1%
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vania Federa-
tamen Club wee
further
ree
for the
Yana
the
of
of educa-
extension
boys
and the
of
view
acquire knowledge
that continuou
vears of de-
way to teac!
me
the early
the only
Fur commented
with
there naturally ra
of a knowledge of
Furst continued,
| pointed to life in the outdoors as »
the teaching of cone
Crvatior
acquisition the
outdoor
mean
industrial and economic life
modern
|
squadron |
Summer Sessions To Start
The Summer Session program at
Penn State will open on Tuesday
June 12, with
{Bession and a tix week program
| Other sessions include the main
| session starting July 2. another six
week session, starting July 23, and
(a final post-session of two weeks
| beginning August 13
| lish scientist, of Stratford-on-Avon, |
| England, is spending two weeks at
| Penn State reviewing work in grass.
| land improvement and animal nu.
| tritlon. He is in charge of chem-
| istry and animal nutiition at the
| Grassland Research Station oper
ated by the British Ministry of Ag-
| riculture,
Plan Discussion
“Civilization in 2000 A. D.” will be
the subject for a panel discussion
that will open the Alumni Institute
at the Pennsylvania State College
on June 22. The Institute will be
fone of the highlights of the two.
day annual class reunion programs.
| 322
| Wednesday
the |
| ets
and he |
| H. Kennedy, State College, R. D. |
to ease the general strain of |
the two-week Inter. |
Keeping Things in Balance?
”
Grange Fair Forms a Large
Part of Centre Hall Life
l-Potter
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Black Hawk
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wiv i Army Confrad
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George Boal
enorme 3 -
Company to Make
Observation Planes
pa
ar anit inCione
VARLIoD and reconnas
.
Thi
3rd Well Is
In Af Leidy
Company to Pay
$100 Dividend
ting Cx ex
r $100 dividend
NYRN
from one of the
DAY Ar
fire fighting
en
vided a A
sure fire fighting pumpet
there by a Michigan man-
r. The pumper, with a tank
ad of water good 15 minutes
pecial spray nozzle
at wells are a serious threat
and if a fast and safe
putting them out car
of the big hazard
field will be eliminated. The
pumper, made by the John Bean
Division of Lansing, produces B00
pounds of pressure and acts on the
smother principle
test
ited
test {
i for
had a
Fire
to driller
method of
be obtained
of the
one
‘Three Cors Involved In
Memorial Day Crash
Tree were involved in an
accident which happened on Route
north of State College, Iast
cars
The cars were operated by Fran-
McDonald, Scranton; Dr, LL. W
Nieman, State College, and Henry
Mr. Kennedy received a laceration
of his lip and was treated by &
State College physician
The accident occurred when a
car operated by an unknown driver
stopped to tud into a roadside es-
tablishment. Police sald that the
McDonald ear and the car driven
by Dr. Nieman stopped and that
the Kennedy car hit the Nieman
car
Damages to the Kennedy car was
$200, damage to the second car,
owned by Morris Mamolen of Mill.
heim, was $500, and loss to the Me-
Donald car was about $50
Fighting Words
Fight of any ten girls don't have
the right physical specifieations,
says a corset publication. Those are
fighting words to eight of any ten
Boys Alexandria (Minn) Echo,
Bible Fellowship
Elects Officers
The Count Bit
ship met in its annu
meeting last Friday night
W. Spotts residence, near
at which ti
Centre
ne the follows
were elected for the or
Rev. 1
istant cha
F. 8
irman ang
State
nald
Chairman heet?
Bellefonte: as
secretary, J. W. Spott
| lege RD. treasurer, R
State College RD. asst
and missionary secretary, Miss
lam Sheetz, Bellefonte; pianist, Mrs
Robert Ginsberg State College
board members. J. W. 8potts, Clar-
ence DeArmitt Harold Rissinger
State College: Ralph Stitt
Gap, Clarence Young Bellefonte
RD Ronald Hann and
Trostle, State College
At their. regular service Sunda)
night it was decided that the Bible
Fellowship would join the Indepen-
dent Pundamental Churches of Am-
erica, which is an undenominationa
national association. The Pellowshiy
| will continue its regular services a!
Woodman Hall, State College, ever’
| Bunday at 7:45 p. m. Rev. Sheetz Is
the pastor
:
Han
treasurer
Wins Decoration
| William P. Rorabaugh, of Mount.
ville, and ROTC cadet at Penn
State, was justly proud to have Lt
Col. Roger A. Barnes, head of the
ROTC unit at pucknell University,
decorate him with a medal as an
Outstanding Engineer Cadet, Sev-
eral months ago, Colonel Barnes
and Lt. Col. J. Rusesll Rorabaugh,
a brother of the cadet, bullt a
bridge across the Taedong River In
Pyongyang, Korea, where each
commanded engineer combat bat.
talions,
Col- |
Mir. |
Pleasant |
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FPC Decision Makes
; R ive Diploma
It Intra-State Carrier To Receive Diplo
Cadet Lloyd D. Hall
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KNOW YOUR HEIRLOOMS
By TOM ORMSBEE
American Rockingham Pitchers
f
a wn
HEXAGONAL ROCKINGHAM PITCHER
Made about 1840, it has the typical dark brown glare and mottied
pattern with all over leafage design in relief. An angular baluster
handle is In keeping with its shape. Has light brown glaze inside and
bears the impressed mark on bottom of “American Potlery Co, Jer
sey City.”
tockingham
the Amer.
the
Rockingham
to State
begat
about
aded Daniel
and potter
eave Stal.
ford re and his empiovers. John
nd William Ridgeway for “better
advancernent America. His pitch.
er designs were many and varied since
these hollow pieces were not turned
A the potler's wheel but shaped in
olds
Since six, eight and even twelve.
side pieces of china were in fashion
at the time, the Rockingham pitch.
ers were often of that shape
| Handles could be angular and bal-
| uster<-shape like that on the pitcher
| Hlustrated, scroll-shape or in the
[form qof a dog. now Known Aas
houndhandie
Being mold-shaped, the decora-
tion of the body was a raised de-
sign of © flowers, a landscape or
hunting scene or an allover leafage
pattern. A buff-colored clay was
used for, this ware Consequently
the color In the pitcher interior
is either buff or cream with the ex.
terior the rich brown glase charac
teristic of this weave
The products of American Pot
tery Company were chiefly pitchers
which ranged in size from a little
over a pint to two and a half
| quarts. Oreatback stayed on with
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ck. a designer
siderable ability «