Odd and Curious News A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, SECOND SECTION he Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE oa boty 1988, NUMBER 25 } { Random “Items \ - . A Girl's Right If a girl 8 lucky enough to get an engagement ring on her finger, Judre Thomas Green ruled it's hers for keeps whether she marries the contributor or not He explained this theory to Bernard Berg, 29 who had filed a $400 damage sult agalust Mrs. Udelle Saunders, 23 to whom he gave the ring in March 1937, when she was still Miss Udelle Rickles. Later she married another man. “When a lover gives his sweet- heart a present the court said “he's taking his own chances thal everything will turn out all right Let's see the ring.” I used it as collateral for a $125 loan” said the girl Had Losing Habit Miss Anna Gedman lost a diamond ring several days ago in at Philadelphia, She it and asked a friend’s ed a lawyer and the back, but—He put It It dropped off his desk wastebasket. Now, after tr waste paper 0 a ware finding the right bale, they found th envelope with the ring in it Teeth Returned The New Bedford Sshng dragger Venture II docked at the fish pier a' Boston last week and C aptain Fred Surrette vouched for Sunday, wh dragging fo fish 50 miles off Cape Cod William Mayo, 50, sneezed and his $30 set of false teeth overboard Tuesday, while crew was clean ing fish taken in a net, the were found in a 10-pound cod a restaurant couldn't find help. He ask- lawyer envelope got It iy n Ml an ue fos! the teeth . . Dies in Bride's Arms Nineteen-year-cld Evelyn Schoen- feld bore the grief of a widow, com- pletely upset by the death of Har- old Landy in her arms Rabbi was intoning words that made them man and York. Saturday. The ¢ Marrying girl of 1 overtaxed Harold's heart ¢ his death 200 weddin awaited climax of the He Was Drunk Policeman George Lend man sleeping as a wi thy “Ale cele whats the sleeper finally convince ter Drunk. a plumber Battles Professor Onoe a year for the past ten years, the student marble champion a Battle Ground Acedamy, Tennessee plays a game of marbles with Prof Geo. 1. Briggs, he Adinas er, with ti stake a holiday ! » BOY once in all the te years. however have they received the coveted nholl- day for Prof. Briggs has won every time. Parted 50 Years; Wed Parted Dy a misun nadin 2 tv years ago, William W ao nel 76. and Mrs. Price Cos: { St. Louis, Illinoks met las’ for the first time in 47 years engagement, broken in hs Ls renewed and they children dersta Marcel Their eighties, was married with children of both the ceremony partie Kept Her Tags M:s. John Yaw, of near Towanda wonders whether she does not a record as to her collection of dog license tags. She has in her pos- session tags for 18 consecutive years from 1917 to 1934, inclusive She does not now have a dog, but during the 18 year period had three differ- ent dogs hold Makes Boy Hold Fire london Police were required to guard the home of Stanley Parrack 3-year-old Royal Air Porce air- crafiaman, who was fined in magis- trate’s court for forcing his 7-year- old son to hold hot coals in his hands as a punishment. A crowd of 1500 persons gathered about his home threatening to lynch Parrack Unlucky Boy Richard 2 Aa | 20 months old of Los Angeles had already paid five visits to a hospital. First he swalewed a marble, then he ate ant paste, followed it by eating his mother’s cold cream, falling off a fence on his head, and cutting his hand badly on a glass he broke. Dog Travels Far Footsore, lean and weary, Snow- ball, a spitz dog which had strayed away while its master visited In Odessa, crawled into the yard of ita home at Houston, Texas. The dog's fooipads were worn pink by the 600- mile journey from Odessa to Hous- ton. Falls 800 Feet; Lives While climbing with companions up the 9.740-foot peak of Mount Stuart, Wash, Curtis Gilbert, Yak- ima business man, Jost his footing and fell 800 feet down the mountain side. He survived the fall but was seriously hurt, Catches Shark; Dies Declaring, “I've got a big one” Guy Anderson, 45, of San Diego, Calif., began reeling in his fishing line. Before he could gaff his catch, however, he fell dead of a heart at- tack. Companions brought in a 150-pound shark. WHITE RIBBON CONVENE BAND WILL IN BELLEFONTE Women's Christian Temperance Union To Hold Three Sessions Here Next Week in Evangelical Church » fifty-third he Wome! 1's annual convention Christian | be held in the Evan- i ‘Be lefonte, on Thurs- 30th. There will be morning, alternoon 0 which public ited Temper- arranged MORNING Sor SESSION, 9:30 g Leader Mrs ALLL Pianist, Edith Jone 9:30 Service Devotions Cony Lewi Song [848 4 Our Pledge 10:00 Address of Mr ponse Song Welcome Dist A. Houses Officer ion [ Commitiees Musser Gettig M H of County 1 Convent R 10:30 Roll Call Minutes of Appointme: Admits Dynamite Plot Was Hoax Osceola Mills Resident Placed Under Bail For field Court (lear- Pleading ice charge Mill guilty Willis who a $500 bail bond for his it Clearfield counts naming in the hopes gthen voree proceedings agninst his made known to the police after had owed vp nume only to sire: WR thev foll rous tips given them to find # Fading to no deiinits Ne $5400 bond w= Owseeola wiing shed by an i — ———— President Will Visit Gettysburg fo Anniversary to Appear at Dedicate ‘Eternal Light’ Peace Memorial President Roosevelt the imposing $60,000 light peace memorial at 6:30 p. m. (EST) ing tead of at 3 p.m. July 3 as origin- ally planned ag the feature ceremony the 75th anniversary of the Battle Gettysburg. Paul executive secretary of the state committee in charge of the event June 20-July 6, said this week Mr. Roosevelt zgreed to the change as a “more appropriate time” to dedicate the magnificent monu- ment to peace “The thousands of persons ex- pected to hear the President dedi- cate the memorial” Ray said, “will be treated to a more Impressive spectacle in the evening With the sun setting over the battlefield countryside as the perpet- ual flame is It, visitors are certain to see a far more colorful dedica- tion.” The President's dedication of the memorial will start an everiasting flame burning in a bronze urn as a tribute to the goldiers who fell on the | most famous battlefield of the Civil War Approximately 3500 survivors of the Blue and Gray armies will join hands as the flame atop the memori- al is lighted. It will be visible for 20 miley across Southeastern Penn- | sylvania. Engineers estimate it will cost $1.000 3 month to keep the flame casting “forever” a flickering light | over the hallowed battlefield. The flame will be fed by na pabiarat gag piped from western Pennsylva- nla fields. will dedicate “eternal he ¢ “i f oi ROY, ] Body Found at DuBois i A problem of murder, suicide or | accident confronted authorities of | Clearifeld county on Sunday morn- | ing when the badly battered and | broken body of Clifford Sybert, | aged 39, of Reynoldsville, was found | {lying upon a bank at the side of | South Main street extension, Du- | Bois, 400 feet beyond FEI Dorado! Inn. Police were inclined to be- | lieve that Sybert had been the vie- | tim of a hit and run driver. It is given wo very few people | Regional Conference Testimonials (One minute Membership ‘ Richards zabeth Beach Peace Nell Please bring box ved Ww of Om AFTERNOON SESSION, 2200 Hou Juni choice Choir ia May Page 6) niunued on Former Resident Philipsburg Killed Thrown From Rowhoat and When Craft is Struck by Freighter Drowned ident wns former re Hawk rage Combs, 32 peburg and thers who Ohio: Mrs ntondate Mr yard: John Combs Robert of Point i } Oro are Plont, Geneva Mahu vi Osewallt. Se Brisbi: Look Mrs. Roy Joseph Earl of Fils Blair County Youth Shoots Self With Gun ht, 18 a patier Altoons. suff of the side heart, self- after 4 o'clock Fri- home report Police officers, Al- orbid for some lack of employ- have been suicide for a week his home after work- garden, he toid MNT mo- Vivian Albright, that he 8 going to shoot himself A short ime later he went into his room, ocked and sat on a chair He told {ficers he placed the butt of a 22-calibre rifle on the floor, pressed the muzzle near to where he believed his heart and pulled the trigger After the ghooting he walked to the door, opened it and shouted to members of the family that he had shot himself. He was taken to Mer. cy hospital by ambulance. Albright resides between Duncansville and Newry, just south of the underpass near the Altoona airport ’ of Dun- R nt at Mer. hospital ville jeft the Act the obtained y State Mots nas been ane 1 sf + of the ted to the door the © Playground Now Open The supervised playground at the Bellefonte High school commons, North Spring street, is now open daily from 8 to 12 a. m.. under the direction of Miss Georgette Purnell and L. C. Heineman, secretary of the Bellefonte YMCA. All children eight years old and under are eli- gible to participate in playground activities Harry Taylor, of the American Lime and Stone Company, has fur- nished sandboxes and sand for the youngsters, while other forms of entertainment are provided by the Bellefonte Ministerial Association and the Y. M. C. A. joint sponsors of the playground. Some people are too dumb to fol- low the dates on a calendar fering from: was | Waiting for the~6g RELLG £5 Rush Mystery of Finding Man Murdered in Lycoming C ounty Remains Unsolved nds the ate Saturday fron A Friday dock BR womat there sax 8 OR Said Eagle Inn ance of the the Ri of the ents rocky mow road alone wh Hesults of the (Continued of Says ‘Many Lawyers Trained Only To Be Errand Boys For Big Business’ Philadelphia attending of Bok Nn 200 women hool of ight at State Col lege was something iscking America’s system “A great man y rain od 4 of big Phil ladeivoh family a Fore lawyers have been eCOme errand Ooys sald the wife of the orphans’ cour tla nly Pe once jooked upor for leaders govern can hardly say that HOR men ment but true “A & Pogni 29090 ve lawyer: and ofre 10 redix lucrative prac- smaller salaries ions.” many XXX wives not neome by leaving tices and aocoepling and government posit Turning to the medial Mrs. Bok said: “We have a state in which very rich and the very poor ge medical attention while good a0 profession the ex- cellent the Urge Changes in Game Seasons Antlered bucks would be protected and an extra hall week of small game hunting permitted next Win- ter under recommendations of the Pennsylvania Pederation of 8ports- men's Club presented to the State Came Commission for consideration at its July 13-14 meeting. Hunting seasons and bag limits for 1938 will be fixed during the ses- sions, Commission Secretary Seth Gordon said, with the federation proposals as a model. The federation executive board, proposed protection of antiered bucks and an open season on all other deer from Nov. 28 to Dec. 3, In. clusive, with each Individual hunter allowed one kill. Hunting parties of six or more individuals would be allowed to kill six does or antleriess bucks during the season. OPPOSES SPECIAL LICENSE The board asked that no special (Continued on Page 6) rot ee man with aver adequate age IN- medica a good of i deal AL many do not even political bathe suggested the {Wo years could be ordinary grammar by eliminating tac iungs ol tra iri 1a We WEAanIng ications of Plans Developing For Grange Fair Plans for the 85th annual Grange Encampment and Pair, opening Sat- urday. August 27th, are already well under way. In addition to the new hog and sheep barn now being erect. ed, 2 bullding for the exhibit of Claster and Company will be built, and minor repairs and improve- ments are 10 be made on other bulldings. For the camp fifteen new | | Oak column, 100. tents have been purchased Throughout the county feature of the Fair week program These Grange dramatic groups have made notable progress, both in the quality of the plays produced and in their presentation of them. An- other enormously popular program number of the past two years has been the Amateur Hour, staged at the conclusion of the Grange plays (Continued on page six) Grange | groups are now busy selecting and | casting the plays which have be- | come an eagerly-looked-forward-to | OLD-AGE PENSION AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE WORK EXPLAINE Statement by Arthur W. Howe, Jr., Contains Information Regarding Responsibility of Relatives Toward Dependents Old- Age 1034 could month initiation of Pennsylvania amount whi been $30 per Binee the Assistance in the maximum be nllowed has per person This maximum is in has been changed ange is contemplated The which ha under sider the Board of nsbst and Boclal curity official in Washington force today ana no It ci not been Nie point slion by ite BmNce {1 i ¢ ie hod ol sgrd ’ uestion of concerned rants met Persons 4 needs of an aged person uving wi reiative shoud be calcuialed Persons in the be considered a ronpeet 10 resource household sgingic un and need litions were hoped of family rat} budgeting submited Security Board This plan have permit Federal of aged persons saving to the funds from Washi for wi than der a pian individual the Social ton er tA would ted participa- More Cases consequent BOI ae LB Waly Lock Haven Man Held Up, Robbed Lone Bandit With Revolver Makes Getaway With Vietim's Cash grocer wis robbed And opened his His getaw ry betweer streets towards have several clues working unioctked his ; n entered with gun and s handkerchief g the lower part of hi said This ix a stick-up s The money? Mr. Miller werd 5s face where explained that he had and mags money of the Luke's Ref ormed bag on a ledge which caught He asked what was Miller explained The robber Mr. Miller the police the man run not knowing no great part 81 in a counter whe ie robbe; in the bag and Mr it was church money grabbed the bag and ran notified § Eve immediately Several withesses saw jown the alley but what was going on attention to him He wns described as being about five feet, seven inches tall, wearing dark clothes and a dark slouch hat The missing $15 belonged tO the penevolent fund of the church, for Mr. Miller is treasurer. wn ald which ROYAL OAK PARTY SPENT 15¢. IN STATE PRIMARY While it cost Judge Arthur H James nearly half a million dollar to get the Republican nomination for Qovernor, the Royal Oak Party spent only fifteen cents in the pri- mary, Bernard Davidowitz, head of the party in the State, declared The fifteen centa his party spent, in- cidentally, was Tor glickers, he said The Earlle-Jones-Mundy-Logue ticket, which won the Democratic nominations, also received the Royal Oak nominations, as a result of sticker campaigns conducted bY | Davidowitz and his followers In | Philadelphia and Pittedbargh. On the November ballot, the names Of | the successful Democratic nominees | will appear not only under the Dem- ocratic column, but under the Royal Angry because their paychecks had not arrived as expected, two em. ploves of one of the Federal Minis ters in Australia, pit in a telephone call to a Canberra Treasury official and told him what they thought about the whole matter in no un- certain terms. However, to their dismay, they discovered that they had been given the wrong number and had berated the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, — A grants of cal ma Maximom $ 9 fw 300 on Monthly Aid to Dependent Children are: LE at mite $4 eid * Aen dent «} i 17 ued on page six) Bears Pay Friendly Day Visit to Avis Bruin Locked U p After He + Calmly Traversed One of Town's Main Streets | game Pro- slale game al eRe surround ing The animal into custody with little Weighing about 1W pounds it is believed to be one of the 1T-months-oid wards of the gare farm at Lovalsock., A Be vilteed was taken difficulty weeks resi. Couders- very so- CTR. around joed 1 who appa ently for human Smpanion- y Bunday a week ago when Roy went home to Woolrich wilh st Green and family, be repori- ed that at the bottom of Plum Run at Rader's field, there was a partly grown up biack bear and it wasn't one bit afraid Albert was faking back some egus and he fod one 0 the bear. Passing cars stopped and ded thelr lunch with the bear ss" Thousands Visit At Phoebe Home Members of Reformed Con- gregation Note Need of Further Expansion With the elimination of fixed ad- mission fees for guests, the plan- ning to place the Home In Tine with up-to-date hosplials, in the near future due 0 the rapid change in social conditions, and the increased number of invalids, pleading for ad- mission. the Board of Trustees of the Phoebe Home Dr. David A. Mil- jer, President of the Board welcomes thousands of eager visitors to the 33rd Annual Visitation and Dona- tion Day services held in Allentown, last Thursday Treasurer Frank M. Cressman re- ported improvemenis made oosting $50.651 63, total receipis since new year of $19.883.56, a bequest from the ‘estate of Bli Punk of Parkasie of £15000 and that the endowment fund is now $178,600.52. It appears 10 be the will of the benefactors that provisions be made to take care of the Church's help- (Continued on page six) Like a Good Short Story? Read "Dr. Barkers Agony” a thrilling tale of adventure, in the July 3rd issue of The American Weekly. the big magazine distribute. ed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On gale at all news stands. | KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ eB ealey Knows All the Fish Answers By POP MOMAND Hm? vou LISTEN, BOWSEY, HAVEN'T GOT WEN 1'GO Fisiing' ALINE IN OUTESMART ‘BM. RIGHT NOW THEY'S A FISH SNOODIN' AROUND TWAT OLD STUMP OFF TWIS Bar ~~ IT CAN SENSE HiM DOWN THERE! wig AND THAR VER Fim" SEE TALL YA GOTTA \a THINK? With #0 WHAT DO al] talk of “Amencanism’ ing on this Department wanis wo go on record as bedng in favor of We're for it 100 per cent-—but what 5 It? Prank Hague, boss-Mayor Jersey City, says its one thing, W Hearst another YOU Ls would w War velerans have a difler~ ent ides of the term; Caplial has is definition, and Labor a oon ceplion nos by greatent stretch of the Imagination do any of them For this reason when we hear someones bDraying about hi Americanism re 8 bil skeptical t his iden of the term 0 OL his own personal alms and ambitions INL some ZYOUpD regresening a majority of U. 8B. cllizens gives & concrete definition of just whal Americanism” stands for, most of will continue believing there's sense 0 the Wrm as World War cheer World | £4 Work Bay Dai and the BET we' beet ie ; 8 sade built {Or 50 Just mach was lo We ‘ Heep ie ose IU Demos of the Peace John Bellefonte, fully handwriting was been, and on himself. He had resident of Nigtany business matter and several inter the man cane 1 the ‘Squire's office, threw the the official's desk ang oom - plained that he couldnt read 0 "“Darned of 1 could read the thing mysel! Bouire Keichline old friends jaler. The late Justic Keichiine vaiiang wh t Hg have LOY wa about a jays oid wu written Valley etter on ) CRV.OE gence, rove hone ound the trai i" VOCE Whe later parked against Menold residence, ft hae from OE veyar ine the a toe near ving N8- Plat! pe 0 asted agains the Menold ntall arge collection of is which he keep ihe manus of the Bellefonte Hig of be && the bead. He not Cuvee iscted ems for VEeArs ast ba there are of arrow stone ham- knives of varions kindGs other stone objects in his cases best tems, he reports stolen and misisid he expects mount the object of uni- Nn sie Harry : wr of a n artifec reromn gepartment Yehool which mer heads anc Some of the have doen Sometime w AES The “Ni U-Turn” sign near the Weiser service station, corner of Alleghwny and Howard Streets has slipped down fis pole and i= resting on the ground, much like the trous- ers of a youngster. whose wenders Wer Al intersection of Lamb and Water Sireets the “Sp sign a hidden by a high growth of grass SUS; have bn President Roosevell has at last at- tained a position few living persons reach. He was depicled as a char- acter In a popular comic strip sever. al days last week It's none of our business, but the Bellefonte married man who parks with another man's wife on a road near town should be a little more discreet armed, within the past week, thal cals sometimes are use- ful. A solentist, wishing to use a jong piece of 6-inch pipe in an ex- penmeni, decided the best way 10 clear the interior of the pipe of cob- webs was 10 put a cat in one end of the pipe and close the end The scheme worked, and when the oat came out the other end it brought the cobwebs with it. A plumber, try- ing © find & reported leak in the sewage system of a seven-story ten- ement house, gpent a frultiess day trying to find the leak before he hid upon a plan. Purchasing & dimes worth of oll of catnip, he poured it in the sewer system at the top of the building. Then, carrying a cat, he walked through every room Presently, in a room on the third floor, the cal became agitated, jump- ed out of his arms and began claw- ing the wall. The wall was opened and there was the Jeak. We've DOMESTIC SCENE This screp of conversation between a man and his wife in the postoffice Saturday morning, was unwitlingly overheard: the wile: ‘of Bellefonte, former Dagity to Sheriff Keeler, and James E Decker, 1 i He | this world to have all that they want | Some women judge men by the but everyone can have ideals and J S00Pe and sincerity of their fintiery. | dreams. i [4s 7,
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