THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. ——— —— Fire Showed Yalue crowded into a bullding intended for 400, the only exits were wooden (Continued from page one) {stalrways, barely wide enough to Se =~ accommodate a single file! drills are wretchedly inadequate; : ; ! some are actually dangerous. In a| ‘A proud Ohio principal once ghow- shocking number of cases, constrict ed me the tubular-chute escapes in ed exits make quick evacuation of Nis modern school. The chutes had the bullding impossible with any doors at the bottom (never approvs kind of drill. Even when exits and ed by the Underwriters) and these » xits a ma a ke ¢ 20 are usually so poorly planned that |" 05s A = Ee fabro they would collapse under the panic confessed that he had lost the keys ‘ the vear before! A surprise drill p s of § al fire, conditions of a real fi there—not to mention a fire—would Accompanied by the local fire have been rank slaughter chief, I once visited a New England | we. tatalon of folly is endless. In public school to witness a drill 10). naa ware school 1 saw 37 student whith it had become famous. The |, here remain on the top floor school principal was cordiality it~! on a drill. contending indig self; he would be happy to call a 00 that they weren't under the drill if we could wait until he finish- | cont jurisdiction! In a Penn ed an urgent matter. After handing |... biol school I saw another his secretary a hastily scribbled note, | 4.0 i which the pupils in the prin he completed his business, then in- | oon" domestic science room and vited us to pull any alarm box in Lhe | po hanical training department school. The drill we saw was mar-| cod from participating be- velously efficient. But when, on the | ...c. “it would interfere with thelr way home, the chief asked my opin- | wo + A quite general pra ion of it, IT handed him a crumpled ', leave crippled bovs and girls si note I'd snagged from the secretary's yi. (» their seats during fire-drill waste basket. Tt read: “Tell ny . ers to announce fire drill minutes." LF. nad a vexin ! 1d The chief returned to the school principal. From the top immediately Entering unnoticed. nobody ha ny nception he pulled the nearest alarm. In & gravity of the split second pandemonium reigned The wild-eyed principal came racing down the hall. Children piled out of class-rooms like rats from a 1 ing ship. Teachers screamed instructions whic nly added t« bedlam. The school famed wide a aki perfect drill was in tumult bes wv wiih my ou this time everyone ht | lly |. Fran was a fire! In North Dakota I saw three-story school with on each floor: a common stair wags the sole exit. On the third floor ~-an old attic partitioned with bea er board-—was the kindergart this so-called drill, the teacher: missed the first floor before calling pupils from the second. Alter second-floor children were out kindergarten tots were summ from Lhe top stor) t the fact tha: ri 1€ top floor the deadliest of a blaze these tiny cl have been burned t« cris In another school, the fir nwood, O01 brought pupils from the rushing downstairs with their and coats, while those from lower floor raced upstairs! The cloak-room was on th floor, and the principal ; plained that “the children must their wraps.” 1t seems that his son had once caught cold going out bare-headed. In a Michigan school principal not to because the fire escapes that the children had to backwards. In a real would have dropped to like scorched flies lost my veteran glance at an escap h a perpendicular iron ladder outside wall. The children about {ire stand on the window sill and swing a grasp of the three feet to reach ft. When they shame those j got 12 feet from the ground they fire escape door e wi fiver ever MODERN WOMEN NEED NOT SUFFER non 'l! y At trends, perros BAD. CADIS . Chi-ches-tera Dnmond Brand Pi reliable 20d vo QUICK RELIEF sll druggista for over £0 yar “THE DIAMOND © Fire Marshals For the Minute that ‘ . vacam Seems Like a Year! nd to prevent shouting { , "pi et el y longer, the git- investigation and On most of your telephone calls there may not be much need for pit SOL ond speed. Why, then, have telephone people made the service so fast? ut before any drills are held, the un of rapid, efficient are explained to the students Becanae there may come a Lime when an emergency will strike. Then n what fooiball coaches call “skull a minute will seem like eternity. practice.” The location of the prim- wi : : ry and secondary exits for each To be on the safe side, we aim to group is made clear: the treacher- handle every call as if it were marked ous behavior of fire | “URGENT!™ Seconds may be vital, | 0 shorl. the pupils are tau a fire drill really is, and why must or must not do certain things service every ume. A feature of the Texas system Is the “obstructed IH” which gives the chliqaren praclice in emer 4 4 finest telephone plant, a highly-trained | i Minn Pr orto this aril a y roo personnel and never-ending research, red ball is secretly placed on some Millions have been spent to improve stairway or fire-escape, indicating that this particular exit is cu . Located s0 the students don't to save a second here and there, Some until the last moment. HLS so we ry to give you split-second To do this requires the world’s telephone equipment and methods— it day you may find that second priceless! always as a surprise ut as ; ‘ sult of their previous “skull prac- r ng distance eall tonigh tion th , : . + Try a ‘long dis 3 oa 5% | tice” they retreat in orderly manner after 7 or any time Sunday, when to a secondary exit rates are lowest. See for yourself how When the building is evacuated, th y re & gt 4 + - fast your call goes through! The Bell bile second step ls to keep the chil Telesh c {Pp dren moving to a safe distance where elephone Lompany of Pennsylvania. they will neither endanger them- selves from falling debris nor swarm There's one “best way’ to bake and cool a fake for good volume and perfect crust. Do you know it? LOOK IN THESE BAGS FOR NEW IMPROVED CAKE METHOD-PLUS A FLOUR THAT MAKES SIMPLE CAKES INTO PRIZE-WINNERS! In simple foods bread, biscuits, pies, plain - ~, Cakes the goodness comes from the flour. It yr; costs only 14¢ more per recipe to use Pillsbury's ‘ ° Best Flour thao to use the cheapest flour. {\ 1 Bellefonte School Thad to drop the rest of the way! In| {yet another school, 1400 pupils were | out into the equally dangerous trafMe of busy streets. Teachers quickly call the roll, since it Is vital to ac- i ] count for every occupant immedi- ately. The danger of not doing so was demonstrated at a South Caro line fire where seven pupils, safely owtside, ran back for thelr wraps and were cremated. A happier ex- ample was the conflagration at Well esley College where the roll call showed eight girls missing In time to rescue them Have you ever given serious thought to the kind of fire-drill held in the school your children attend? This doesn't mean just asking the principal about it, for he may not know what a good drill 1s. All I'm trying to sell is a decent fire-drill twice a month, It costs nothing and i$ the best device vel invented for getting children out a "quick burner” in time You've been lucky if your school ha never had a ie But don™ giretch your fire luck too far. I have gen iL change too often, when chil- ren, undrilled, and paralysed with fear, have been burned to death ragedies rend a community th wild and useless remorse The wise course Is solve that the chool children of you mmunity prepared Lo meet Lhe fire emer- that sooner or later nes ry school - fie fi esesnam— . Recollections of A War Governor (Continued rom page one) near the close of his 71 Death of Governor Curtin Elaborate Funeral Ceremony Be extra couche rowd hers pliblic meeting Body Taken to Cowrt House i noon the ody was taker : the Cou he Grand A: who acted a and member National GCuard people viewed lock the body was 1 residence where Funeral Procession uneral procession 0CK in Lhe ii of thi Brigade Band of Pittsburgh; Sheridan Troop of Tyrone. Battery B. Companies A. B. C and CG of the Fifth Regi- ment. and A. B.D, OG, and H, of the Twelfth Regiment 2nd. As special escort of honor the Grand Army of the Republic, Col. Amos Mullen in charge 3rd. The clergymen in carriages 4th. Honorary pall bearers in the following order Governor Patti- son and Judge Dean; Senator Scott and Senator Wallace, Gen. Brooke and Gen. Taylor; Col. McClure and Col. Mann; Judge Biddle and Col McMichael; Judge Furst and E. C. Humes; General Hastings and Thomas Collins 5th. The body with the carriers on each side of the hearse, followed by the male members of the family on foot 6th. Representatives of the fol- lowing groups: Pennsylvania Re- serve Association, Captain John Taylor in charge; Military Order of the Royal Legion: Union League of Philadelphia; Bald Eagie Valley Railroad officials 7th. General officers of the Na- tional Guard, the Governor's staff and the staffs of the brigadier gen- erals and other officers according to rank. 8th. Representatives of the Centre County Veleran Association, John Hamilton in charge. th. The several bar associations of Centre and adjoining counties, Col. J. 1. Spangler in charge 10th. Battalion of Btate College cadets, The pageant, over a mile in length, marched to the Union ceme- tery where interment was made. The concluding services were cone ducted by Gregg Post, G. A R., of | Bellefonte. At the conclusion three | volleys were fired by the National Guard, with a volley from the bat- tery in an adjacent field Practically everybody wanls to up- hold the Constitution when it takes care of them or their interests but | what the Constitution needs is some- ibody to support it all the time. J Centre County Search for Trio of Hospital Notes (Continued from Page 1) Tuesday of Last Week volv. THEY Admitted: Miss Laura Louise Cane feet 8 Inches fer, Bellefonte, R. 1D; J. Paul Jones, 150 respect Bellefonte, Discharged: Mi ROS 1x falr, hale Marie Morgan, Stale College; Mrs. (although it Philip Bickett and Infant son, Belle- pave brown fonte; Mrs. John H. Ferguson and Ray ha infant son State College MIS. land » A Charles W. Comly and Infant son Floyd ha Jullan, R. D. 1; Mrs. Willlam ©. chin about Gross and infang daughter, Belle He also ha fonle; Mr John KR. Anderson, and inside of 1 infant daughter, Bellefont Birth: | {x believed A son wag born to Mr, and Mi: J Yranklin Shearer, Centre Hall Wednesday of Last Week Admitted: Mi Henri Bellefonte Nn harged Jane Weaver, Howard, R. D Thursday of Last Week Admitted I Fred H Matilda ischarge Ira O'Leary, Hefonte Mi ert J. Houser and infant Bellefonte and Infant Mri Char daughter Rbert R A Nn was born to Mr. a Wayne D. Boob, Oak Hall daughter n to M Randall 8 R.D. 1 Friday " Famous Tunnel In Use 85 Years Ago Saturday: (Continued from page one) Ad a - REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Letters to the Editor (Contin Mild Winter Thus Far P ¢ Ve $e { rie LEGAL NOTICES ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Matte { the Estate of Mary ’ ! wage Townsh Seceased { 3 4 ELE (ey make howe havi yt ciny ¥ AUMAN a 2 pa. ia SOLD EXECUTORS XOTICH se M of 1 laura wilie Bog- decoased atl Wf Estate gTalied Yu 5 EAE. cle bled) requested Wo make having claims 4 fn present 1 ane duly proven, with- Miller, of State College i ut delay to MRS ALLIE BRUGGER ag Ser : we Dy EN G. RUMBERCGER in State College: 81 ana § th eet, Tyrone, Exoou- ce A. Field ot ux. John W. to W. Harrison Walker, Atiorney el ux. of Blate Collegt Faiate xB in Slate College: $1 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE John G. Love, Trustee, ¢ Tilliag in hie Matter of the Estate of Mah CC. Peinr of h Creek. try lon B. Beck, ate of Halfmoon Towne In ’ Hin. Centre County Pa. deccasod persons indebied there Pay demands against the same, will pre- 4 hom (Continued from page one) AH R BECK, Administrators, Port two years. a Pp. m. Sunday at the home of Liberty AWD. x 4 thers of administration on said Two Native Centre : ie a to make jmmediate hy without delay for settle. Matilde, BR. F. D W. Harrison Walk - Funeral services were held a 1 NOTICE. sie I ng been granted to the un - » . wns, and those having claims or County Youths Die —— ment to IZABETH B. SMITH, ISAl- resided in Flemington for the pas er. WOTneY x10 5 Rotice is hereby given thal there has Voi fmribia A his been appraised and set aside 10 Olle parents, Mr. and Mrs William $Hoover Widow of Alfred Hoover. Stover, of Lyonstown, by the Rey, lof Spring Township, deceased F. B. Henry, Methodist minister tate to the amount of 8120000 under Me isa % a ; + sotion 12 and its gub-sections of the from ‘easant Gap. Interment was Fiduciaries Act of 1917 made in the Myers cemetery REAL HSTATE The Moore boy was born at Nit. Real cotate situate in the fany, going ix hh Cre i+ Pleasant Cap, Spring Township, Cen 4 ro iy 8 10 Beech ( H ek with his tre County, Pennsylvania, described as parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Moors, follows about four years ago when they io. BEGINNING at a stone; Shence cated on the Fearon farm, east of slong land of Amos Gill south 44 de- that community. In addition to hig [grees cart 43.4 perches, 10 a stone 4 +4 4 . sonce along the public road south parents, he is survived by five bro- {gai gegrees west 10 perches 10 a post thers and three sisters: Malcolm, ghence along land now or formerly of Wilbur, Clair, Earl, Clyde, Virginia, Samuel Brooks North 44 degrees West Re 4 perches, more of joss, 10 a stone; Sis and Sara. all at home. [Eee by land of William Coidron Funeral services were conducted narth 46 degrees east 10 perches to a at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Holiness piace of inning. CONTAINING 2 church, Beech Creek, by the Rey, Bors and 114 perches more or less r ; A CEPTING AND RESERVING Ralph Davies. Burial was made in nd the following described jolts the Schenck cemetery near Howard. | 1. Beginning at an iron pin on the ionst side of the State Highway lead - : ofonte Cerne Si) Car Slightly Damaged log fram een ony A alk. Two cars were slightly damaged of 88 feet. 6 inches to southeast cor- in a sideswiping accident on Route {Der of concrete bridge: thence Borth- 780 near Tylersville last Wednesday {enst alenf A private white Dios tree. evening. Private C. C. Rises of the wy westerly 213 feet to iron pin Motor Police said the car of William and the place of beginning. Being " retofore sold to Daniel H, Weber, Flemingtan, was dams od he pre rd end oud to Da Village of about $15, and the car of George! wl 2. BEGINNING AT a stone in the | Long, Howard R, D. 3, abow $5, Gurnpike, DOW Mail Clerk Slayers 3 Noi" ruin 5 dexress 46 nines |Cisimined and pumed and ied for ro REGISTERS NOTICES Chg roe b t A 14 {rsilowing sooo have been LO west bund thenoe by 1h can yJound L ries of D ALDITOM NOTH i i i February. 23, 1939, —— - of the estate of James H. Patton, WIOVEIL. The first and final Lod AL. Duck, (now deceased ) Mes CC Duck, sdmr., ete, of ibhois Decker Btover, & and fAnsd ein, and of ets of wabhurg Bor - first and 1) Wrangler, B. Bpangier, Ae ngs rl fom] t Cun pe Walk ORPHANS Bi TY Se & KELVINATORS PHILCO RADIOS MELROY'S FILEASANT GAP, PA C. Y. WAGNER & COMPANY WAGNER'S Quality Flour A Hard Wheat Pal View WAGNER'S Our Best Flour 8-586 Blend WALNER'S Very Best Flour Winter Wheat eed Scratch k Fes d —————————— Cream Calf Meal, Eshelman’s Dog Feed of high protein ng with vour ABC and VOSS Dealers in All Kinds WASHERS BENDIX HOME LAUNDRY ELECTRIC ETOVES of Grains BELLEFONTE, PA. with l. E.S. 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