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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
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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
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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
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