Random Items o—- To date we have failed to men- tion having received a copy of the 1938 Pennsylvania Rallroad calen- dar, through the courtesy of G. E Hillegass, Bellefonte agent of the company, We have always been a great admirer of Grif Tellers realistic paintings for the P. R. R calendar but for real enthusiasm we wish Mr, Teller could have not- ed the effect his painting produced on & two-vear old boy. The young- ster was shown the calendar wile he was about to go to sleep, bul upon seeing the picture, he jumped up in his crib, shouted “There's a choo~choo!” demanded that he be allowed to take it to bed, and was only pacified when the calendar wag taken from the room and it was explained that the “choo-choo” had “gone to sleep.” Later it returned to the room, where it Is a constant source of wide-eyed won- der was on the subjec ht mention ths Last week It While we're calendars we mig pays to advertise noted in department old standby calendar, the by the Bellefonie Trust had not made sual in this office, « girding our co the bank to morning, Mrs assistant treasure: ficer at the tic action unnece the office and un Dall now in this that one 1881 Comps ~Tuesday of the 30th snniversars ing of the iron work cording to Harry Williams Street, who is putting the touches to a complet the now The fire occurred 1808, and completely the 1g ore which had accumula the fire had doned ava the been ~The average life is from 3 to 8 years, supervising principal of fonte public schools, infor med school board members at a meet Monday night High sch do not last as | because they are and are Large book: 5 4s a 3 as long as smaller ones. In high school arithmetic, algebra and language books have p 1 ; while history and geography books tant well. Inv the grades. readers are short-lived had a and ool taken h rule, do the shoy --80 {ar we've tively mild w mometer has hit only one occasion have been only m of you who pile will hoid all, we hasten gardiess of what endars and almanacs February h month we hav inter the the nin ont 4 to pon weather MOTORIST PAYS 15 EVERY sos MP ——— — TAX HOUR HE DRIVES In addition paid in gasoline in tax bill of the American includes $130.000000 in Fes cise taxes $375.000.000 | tor vehicle registration $750.000.000 in automobile personal property, city and county taxes, ac- cording to Balrd H. Markham, di- rector of the American Petroleum Institute, RCA Bullding, Rockefel- ler Center Putting it another way. the aver- age motorist pays about $120 in antomotive taxes when he travels eight hours on the highways which means he gays the tax cols lector 15¢ for every hour his ear |: moving on the road —— - The efficient business this time of the year, is secretary to |} Resolutions” £670.000 000 1937 the motorist leral ex- state moe ¢ sees BI Lhe taxes man asking p the “New Year io AS | 7.000 Copies Go Into the Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County NEWS FEATURES VOLUME 57 15, 1938 START PURGE OF REPUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDERS Asks Information Gov. Earle County Leaders For On State Jobholders Cov. Georg information rolled from LOSS AS YULE TREE CATCHES ON FIRE £1.6060 MAN WHO DROVE OF PRES. ro AID GARFIELD DIES hot filky-six yearn sho killed 33 £ Was 830, sell on Wee Wey CUPID HAD RECORD YEAR AMONG CENTRE COUNTIANS -— Son Ex Convict Dog Found 1000 Miles From A puabie d at wal to a farm vard at Leeland Home ered I... al- most 1000 mile Way rom home being ret w o Wa CG. D 16-Year-Old Boy Joined To 13-Year-Old Girl In Siamese Twin Operation A 16-year-old boy allowed science to make him a Stamese twin Satur- day to enable a 13-year-old gir! become a normal human being An 18-inch tube of flesh literally made John Melvin Honner and Clara Howard one individual, ‘Thi strange operation, linking the two Negro children, # sucosasful, will enabje surgeons to graft new skin on the body of the little girl to replace flesh seared by a fire In North Caro- lina more thao a year ago. Dr. R. E Morgan, surgeon who performed the operation at Emer- gency Hospital, Washington, D. © sald the childien were “doing well.” He hoped the operation would be successful and that Clara would or from it 5 normal human be- ng. A year ago, the girl was seared by a fire. Her flesh was 50 burned that doctors said she couldn't recover, She did recover, however, but the flames left her body a mass of scar tissue, so extensive that her rigiu arm was joined to her body. Surgeons were able to replace a portion of the seared skin in graft. ing Sperations, But the major transfer of skin necessary to restore | her to normalcy required despearte ————— measures--linking her th skin. donor willing to 31 £ © be Kk d to her. to permit his blood tream 0 join witl enable a 4 ounces Young Bonner last November ave been in preparing for the operation. Sur eons slit his side In an 18-inch cut roil the flesh in a tube and allowed the tub® wo hang loosely from his body, connected to his bloodstream only at its exiremitioa / Under only a local anesthetic. the iwo children watched as surgeons compicted the operation, One end of John's flesh tube was severed frem his body An incision was made in the little girl's elbow. The flesh tube was Inserted and their blood-streams intermingled Swathed In bandages and adhesive tape, the children will be confined to bed until early next week. Then they will be allowed to leave their beds. but still will be joined by the tube of flesh, Perhaps in a few weeks, If (he operation Is successful in graft of 2 } volunteered the 8ince children Hospital two Emergency and John's flesh joins that of the | liste girl, Dr. Moran will cut him loose and complete the graft of the | | 34 ounces of skin over the seared | sections of Clara's body. UMBER Canal Boats at Lock Haven Fifty Years Ago WR ie $4 : PON etl GG ty wily i AR - Nagy NAGA — a ts EPRI J ak aL Ja Te ho. WES IM . Aneoin” Retires Thieves “Railroad” ft of a Steal rallroad | Te Shamokin. The tracks railroad at Edge- which for many years of diversion for many older persons eared a total of 200 steel rails having been re- ported alire nd some yards o moved MP ———— Town Bankrupt the site of the Quoddy tidal Maine. is ment ac ned mmissioner rmanent named aban. power dam bankrupt, ita ivities havin "Wm porary act unt, a hag box over © a who will COMIMIRTIONeT of the West Branch canal og are pulling the 200 Miles a Week Was Spe ed in The Davs of Canal Boat Er: AGED RECLUSE FOUND DEAD Former Centre Coun. MMe Body is Shanty Man in W hich He Discovered NEW PASTOR AT PLEASANT GAP thodist Trans- Rev. dale doddtorf to Mor- and in Lived Munson LGURNGA VLE notiled that shich had been delivered had been lified from the box, It died vosday cating that the aday or early man Weds Members of the family include six W. W. Russell. ine and Loda Gingrich, J. 8. 8 and J. R. Oingrich and four grnd- children, Mm nlidren Eh atin Big business is lot of money i AITANRe & WAY make a lot of ready to money rt A ———— Read the Classifieds the government will for blg business ™ mali Vath Monday Pea Gap, { A Le and Munson, F West Patrview Gap Ant Hoes Ber i LB : nrd i ant a ———— Rook Hils Windshield Rauch, of Renovo, suffered on the face which required everal stitches to close, when the windshield his esr was broken iarge rock which was dis from the hillside as he was wd ving on the Pucktall Trail, near he Cut. The rock struck the thield as it rebounded alter the radiator Paul Z F of spend a b t lodied w nishing touches to two erall, bit from Penna, P ty Commission, the most “modern” type of PINCHOT WANTS T0 BE GOVERNOR Who Campaigns Again Seeks Office POLICE OFFICES ON 24-HOUR BASIS MOTOR NOW headguartx daytime nge Privats who had been Measant Gap sub © headquar 10-518 Prive ite C. J » Wi transferred wek from the William Finkbeiner and alternale week shift In the 1h yon officers will by week, at the Bellefonte oflice pninaeif— Accused of Speeding Joseph Hurwils { Philipsburg 3. resier for speeding in Wood. ward Township, Lycoming County. last Wednesday, by the Lock Haven Detadl Stale Motor Puolic first made in that area sinoe Governor Earle's shnouncement tha! an arrest for speeding will mean a three months suspension of an operator's license - it nl Ss Prophets of & cold winter are be ginning to show an I-<told-you.so snide other night al of the Arresi DALE BANEY IS VICTIM OF BURNS Hospit ii Blaze Dies at Lock Haven Four Weeks Aft Destrovs His fer ome * Prominent AMoonan Dies frock Rams Tyrome House wk wit battering rag PROBE DEATH AT REFORMATORY 7-Year-Old Dies After Negro Inmate in Cell Two Days “Gassing” Episode ' Sia mate of ad dre ear- tha 1 School h {ier being deny n Dr. Fu was. hur i instit utd Daniel La Maur of Phils phis. had i of attack and that admini of gas had neothi to do with passing Assistant Superintendent 8 M Wasthabaugh declared L a Maurr had becothe unruly and violent in his cel and that after all other means of quieting him were exhausted, he or dred the administration of (ear gas Later he sald. La Maur recovered and again became violent necessl- tating a sccond dose of gas The prisoner died early on the morning December IT 1937 Whashabaugh reported to the welfare department that on December 24. La Maurer bteame violens and had bro ken a water pipe In his cell, food Convtinued on page three) nee a heart 3 ration his The ng md Ee ‘KEEPING ue WITH THE JONESES’ — Food - With h Complications I'm STARVED! MYSELF) MIGHTY Tine SCALEY WE CAN HARDLY aa SMELLING FOOD, ) GRUB NC Tw WOLD “NOBODY J CAN TELL 4 - Ps Mil Fy Gnll DIFFERENT. By POP MOMAND Topics \ and Commen t BOome week sg nie E xpre . i " 8 sinoere malicious somelning ese would knowing Mr. Roosevelt Wax PUTSOn associate alipe of Federal Unemploy- that payment of bonus in 1886 helped the present recession recovery of balance creat) inflation- gy. They still call #t If Mr. Eccies is of being right he compiele diag- ( Senate Somme her's an hk owing out of skip pure theory 10 impure by the surest way to always have we like is to always like what have, Destiny is what happens, Always whal we pian. Accord- to some ecoonomists who pre (Continued on page three) a — Gov. Earle’s Son Surrenders License For Speeding and pr ceed fact admitting that what we not ing Selling an example for speeders, Hubert Earle, son of Coverpor Earie. on Friday surrendered his auto license 10 his father because he was arrested for going 60 miles an hour in New Jersey. The governor sald his son paid | Tbe
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