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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 7, 1928.
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PENN STATE TURNS AWAY
2000 PROSPECTIVE FRESHMEN.
Due to a Want of Facilities for Edu-
cating Them More Students than
Ever Have Been Denied Ad-
mission to State— For-
tunate Centre
Countians.
The quota for the Freshman class at
the Pennsylvania State College is
virtually filled, according to William
S. Hoffman, registrar of the college,
who is this week sending notices to
the remaining few High school stu-
dents who have not been informed of
their successful application. Of the
quota of 1170 set by the board of
trustees as the size of the incoming
class, 1169 have sent notice of their
acceptance and will be here for
“Freshmen Week” beginning Sep-
tember 13.
With some 3000 applying for ad-
mission, the college has had to refuse
a greater number than ever before
in spite of the fact that the quota was
increased slightly over that of for-
mer years, Mr. Hoffman states. Ap-
proximately 100 new students were
admitted each fall in past years, but
the quota was raised by some 170 for
this year. The increase was made to
take in a few more of the many ap-
plicants, particularly women students.
About 15 per cent. of the incoming
class will be made up of women stu-
dents.
“We have had to refuse admit-
tance to many qualified High school
graduates in the past,” Mr. Hoffman
states, “but never in such great num-
bers as this year. It is impossible
to take care of a larger Freshman
class with the present facilities of the
college, and until we have more class-
room space we must continue to turn
away hundreds of students who want
to enter Penn State. Many of those
refused are excellent students who
would make a success in college;
those accepted for this year’s class
form an unusually promising group
scholastically.”
Nearly 90 per cent. of those to be
taken in this fall ranked in the first
three-fifths in High school, according
to the registrar’s records. More than
a third ranked in the first-fifth.
Of the 1169 who have signified
their intention of entering the college,
about 400 will be enrolled in the
school of engineering. This is the
largest number to enter any one of
the six undergraduate schools. The
school of liberal arts is next in with
259 new students.
CENTRE COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS
WHO WILL ENTER STATE.
Aaronsburg—Bond L. Bible.
Bellefonte—Dorothy M. Bloom, Peter
Gray Meek, Louis A. Nichols, Virginia M.
Spangler and Helen E. Stover.
Centre Hall—Margaret E. Luse, George
E. Luse and Helen HE. Neff.
Lemont—Clifford E. Horner and James
4. Thompson.
Moshannon—Robert T. Quick.
Philipsburg—Wilbur E. Brown,
R. L. Duck, Dudley D. Warner.
Pine Grove Mills—Helen M. Kepler.
Rebersburg—Kermit I. Meyer, William
"T. Tyson.
Snow Shoe—Milton W. Etters.
Tusseyville—Joseph I. Ramer.
Wingate—James H. Malone.
State College—William Leroy Bottorf,
Harlan G. Dennis, Velma Mae Egolf, Eliz-
abeth Everett, Marjorie W. Fisher, Russell
K. Fishburn, Stevenson W. Fletcher, Rose-
mary Forbes, Stephen A. Forbes, John
V. Foster, Hugo K. Frear, Howard R.
Gravatt, William 8. Green, Mary L. Haller,
Leroy A. Heberling, William P. Henszey,
William S. Hodgkiss, Leon A. Hurwitz,
Harry A. Ishler, John R. Kessinger,
Esther A. Krumrine, John R. Loneberger,
Helen ' L. Marquardt, Margaret A. Maule,
‘George R. McFarland, Marie E. McMahon,
Kathleen M. Meek, Ronald HB. Meyer,
Margaret M. Miller, Sylvia M. Mullin,
Christ D. Musser, Dorothy I. Newell, Rus-
sell BE. Reed, Lucian B. Shaw, Emeline M.
Smith, John H. Snyder, Kathryn M.
Strouse, R. D., Charles S. Stoner, Harold
C. Stoddart, Margaret E. Tschan, Geral-
dine E. Wagner, Reginald D. Wood, and
Horace D. Wrigley.
James
Patronage of Camps for Tourists
Shows Decline in Season.
A survey just completed by the en-
gineering bureau of the State Health
Department shows a decided dropping
off in the patronage at the tourist
camps throughout the Commonwealth.
Howard F. Bronson, department
engineer, who supervised the inspec-
tion, said that the regulations adopted
by the department’s advisory board for
the protection of tourists in camp
have in most instances been well ob-
served. These rules are aimed to in-
sure safe water and approved sani-
tary facilities. :
The farm and village lodging
houses, according to Bronson, appar-
ently have been the cause in notice-
ably diminshing the number of travel-
ers formerly using tourist camps, es-
pecially during wet weather. The
lodging houses are being investigated
by the department’s bureau of restau-
rant hygine.
Name Inspectors For School Pupils.
Acording to reports on file in the
state health department’s bureau of
child health, the school medical in-
spectors for the second and third class
districts are being appointed rapidly
by the local school boards. There are
219 third class districts, with a popu-
lation ranging from 5,000 to 30,000
and twenty second class districts
which comprise cities from 30,000 to
500,000 population.
The medical inspectors at the be-
gining of the school term will exam-
ine all pupils for physical defects
and recommend treatment by their
own phyisicans. They will also be re-
sponsible for the enforcement of the
sanitation laws affecting school
buildings. The work is supervised by
the bureau of child health.
FORESTS COMPRISE ALMOST
ONE-HALF STATE ACREAGE.
Pensylvania, originally covered
with practically unbroken forests, to-
day has 13,000,000 acres, or 46 per
cent. of her area in forest land, latest
compilations show. One-tenth of
this great domain is in the State
Forests. Other forms of government
forest ownership in Pennsylvania em-
brace Game Commission lands, Na-
tional Forest areas and municipal
areas which, present and projected,
embrace more than 1,000,000 acres.
Game refuges owned by the State,
aside from those included within the
State Forests, comprise 105,645 acres,
and including lands contracted for,
exceed 180,000 acres. There are also
leased by the Game Commission from
private forest owners approximately
22,000 acres for game refuges and
23,000 acres for auxiliary game ref-
uges, making the total of publicly
controlled game land more than 225,-
000 acres, in addition to the game ref-
uges within the State Forests.
Next to the State itself, the largest
single owner of forest land in Penn-
sylvania is the Federal Government,
with its holdings in the Allegheny and
Tobyhanna National Forests. The
Tobyhanna National Forest comprises
less than 25,000 acres, but the Al-
legheny National Forest, in which
214,506 acres have already been ac-
quired and 280,722 acres approved
for purchase, may eventually contain
three-quarters of a million acres. The
739,277-acre purchase unit of this
National Forest is located in McKean,
Warren, Forest and Elk counties.
Municipalities, officials said, are be-
ginning to realize the benefits of
municipally owned forest land, and in
Pennsylvania own a limited number
of forests. Much of the land includ-
ed within city and municipal parks,
such as Fairmount Park, Philadel-
phia, and Schenley Park, Pittsburgh,
is covered with trees. Park land of
various types owned by cities and
boroughs of the Commonwealth, with-
in and beyond the municipal limits,
amounts to from 25,000 to 50,000
acres. The city of Harrisburg leads
cities of the third class, with more
than 1000 acres, and Bradford ranks
first among the boroughs of the State,
with 7200 acres of forest land. The
borough of Coudersport, Potter coun-
ty, is the only municipality that has
established a forest under the munic-
ipal forest fact.
Private interests in the State con-
trol a half-million acres or more, de-
voted to recreational purposes. These
include hunting and fishing clubs, pri-
vate estates and resorts, private wood
lands with public recreation facilities,
Boy and Girl Scout camps and other
outdoor organizations. Hunting and
fishing clubs, which are buying many
acres, are credited with owning sev-
eral hundred thousand acres. In the
Delaware forest district alone this
group owns a greater area than the
65,000-acre Delaware Forest. The
Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing
Club is said to own 20,000 acres; the
Porters Lake Hunting and Fishing
Club, Pike County Development Com-
pany and Hunters’ Range Club own
several thousand acres each.
Farmers are the largest single
group of forest owners. To them be-
long 4,000,000 acres, almost one-third
of the forest land in the State. About
two and one-half million acres com-
prise the “farm woodlots” upon the
farms proper ,and an additional 1,-
500,000 acres of mountain land is
owned by the farmers. Similarly lo-
cated is about two and one-half mil-
lion acres held in “absentee owner-
ship” by private individuals, who re-
side in towns and cities.
The largest class of industrial own-
ers is represented by coal operators
of the anthracite and bituminous coal
fields, who, it is variously estimated,
have one and one-half to two million
acres. Much of this land was acquir-
ed in connection with surface coal-
rights and includes many abandoned
farms. A considerable quantity of
mine timber is cut from it. The
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company handles 150,000 acres
expressly for continuous timber pro-
duction.
Although the big days of lumber-
ing in the State are past, lumbermen
and lumbering estates still retain
probably 750,000 acres of forest land.
Much of this is cut over and in second
growth forest, but it includes the
heaviest stands of original timber
that remain. The largest single own-
er is the Central Pennsylvania Lum-
ber Company, with several hundred
thousand acres, while the heaviest
stands belong to the Wheeler and
Dusenbury Lumber Company, which
hold somewhat less than 50,000 acres.
Among large owners of forest land
are the heirs of John DuBois, great-
est lumberman of his day, and the
Babcock lumber interests, of the
western part of the State.
Water companies, pulp companies
and railroads each own about 100,000
acres of forest land.
Pennsylvania Counties That Led in
1927.
Adams produced the most apples.
Berks produced the most oats, and
led in the production of rye.
Bradford raised the most buck-
wheat and produced the most honey.
Bucks produced the most pears.
Chester secured the highest yield of
oats per acre.
Delaware produced the most hay
per acre.
Franklin produced the most peach-
es.
Greene led in the number of sheep
and ameunt of wool produced.
Lancaster led in 1927 in total pro-
duction of corn, wheat, tobacco and
hay; in acre yield of corn; in num-
ber of milk cows and total produced;
in number of chickens on farms and
eggs produced and in number of
horses.
Lehigh produced the most potatoes.
Montgomery had the highest yield
of potatoes per acre.
Philadelphia county produced the
most wheat per acre.
Potter secured the highest yield of
rye per acre.
York had the most swine.—Penn-
sylvania Department of Agriculture.
ROADSIDE PETTING PARTIES
DOOMED BY LAW OF 1871.
Application of a “Parking Rule” es-
tablished in 1871 by a court decision
rendered in the Montgomery county
courts of Pennsylvania, is bcing con-
sidered by the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Highways. Although this
opinion was given in the days of
horses and carriage, rather than
“horseless carriages” it is believed
the latter comes within its scope.
The opinion follows:
“The public possesses, in a public
highway, the right to transit and of
transit only. The use, by every citi-
zen of public way, must be a use ap-
propriate to the purposes for which
they are intended, that is of transit;
with such stoppages as business ne-
cessity, accident, or the ordinary exi-
gencies of travel, either in vehicles or
on foot, may require.
“I will illustrate: If one of you, for
the purposes of a social visit, place
your carriage before a door where it
remained in the way while you enjoy-
ed your social intercourse within, this
not being such a stoppage as is re-
quired by the necessities of business.
accident or the exigencies of travel,
such occupation of the highway by
the carriage would be an obstruction
of it, that is, would constitute a nui-
sance. If, however, you drove to a
store and left your wagon in the
highway before it, for the time neg-
essary to unload the freight you haul-
ed for the store, or to load the pur-
chases you had there made, such oc-
cupation of the public highway grow-
ing out of the business necessities of
the occasion, and continued only so
long as was reasonably necessary
would be lawful.
It is upon this general princi-
ple that the infamous habit of cor-
ner lounging, when not prohibited by
special local legislation is illegal.
The loungers who occupy the public
highway are, while lounging, not us-
ing it for the purpose of passage, and
are therefore obstructions of the pub-
lic right of way—that is, nuisances.
These are the general principles of
the law.”
After quoting the foregoing from
the charge of the trial judge to the
jury, the Supreme Court comment-
ed ag follows:
“The general charge of the learned
judge was so lucid in its presenta-
tion of the law and facts to the jury
in the case that it needs no discus-
sion—and we affirm this case upon
the charge, with a single qualification
of a matter introduced by way of illus-
tration, viz, that the carriage of a vis-
itor to the house of a friend left
standing on the street is a nuisance.
It may become, but is not a nuisance.
It may become, but is not a nuisance
persee, and this we presume is what
the learned judge meant, but ais
language might be misconstrued.”
153,678 Acres of Forest are Added
to State Holding.
State Forest land purchased for the
current year now total 153,687 acres,
acording to a statement isued to-day
by the Pensylvania Department of
Forests and Waters. :
The largest purchase was made in
Potter county amounting to 50,482
acres, comprising 10 tracts. Pur-
chases in Clinton county amounted
to 382,019 acres, comprising four
tracts; Centre county, 13,735 acres;
Elk county, 14,307 acres; Somerset
county 5,391; Cameron county, 4,871
acres; Clearfield county, 4,018 acres;
Tioga county, 3,595 acres; Jefferson
county, 3,294 acres; Perry county, 2,-
143 acres; Fulton county, 2,352 acres;
Bedford county, 2,829 acres; Snyder
county, 2,832 acres; Lycoming county,
1,306 acres; Cumberland county, 373
acres; Franklin county, 1,081 acres;
Cambria county, 15 acres; Union
county, 202 acres.
The boundary survey of these pur-
chases is going forward at a rapid
rate, and surveys of purchases in
Clearfield, Jefferson, Franklin, Cum-
berland, Snyder, Centre, Clinton,
Tioga, Elk and Union counties have
been completed. Twenty thousand
acres have already been surveyed in
the Potter county purchase, and 16,000
acres in the Clinton county purchase.
Tourists Bring Maine $125,000,000
This Year, State Department Says.
Aside from permanent capital in-
vestments Maine's probable receipts
from this year’s recreational business
will amount to $125,000,000. This fig-
ure was set by Clarence C. Stetson,
Chairman of the Maine Department
Commission, and the Pine Tree State
member of the New England council.
Mr. Stetson pointed out that the
incomes from recreational sources in
Maine for 1927 showed an increase of
10 per cent, over 1926. In the latter
year the recreation industry account-
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KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
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all courts. Office, room 18 Crider’s
Exchange. 51-1y
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Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at
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High street.
J M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
Offices—No. 5, Bast
57-44
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
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prompt attention. Offices on second floor
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con-
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S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
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county, Pa. Office at his residence.
D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
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Wayne's 24% Dairy Feed 2.80 per H.
Wagner's 30% Dairy Feed 2.70 per H.
Wagner's 22% Dairy Feed 2.50 per H.
Wagner's Pig Meal - 2.90 per H.
Cotton Seed Meal, 43%, 3.50 per H.
Qil Meal, 34% - - - 3.00 per H.
Gluten feed, 23% - - 2.50 per H.
Alfalfa - - - = 2.25 per H.
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