The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County, ~ he Cenfre Democraf A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each WeeR, ~ I Qdd and | Curious | News | | YOLUME 58, BELLEFONTE NATIVE'S LIFELESS BODY FOUND | ALONG R. R. TRACKS ‘Remains of Jack Solt Discovered Back of Key- stone Armature Works at Altoona; Thought To Have Fallen Through Window The lifeless body of John (Jack) {against a window of the armature | Solt, a native of Bellefonte, who re- | works, breaking out the pane, Po- {sided at 613 East street, Altoona, | lice who investigated the case re- was found shortly before 10 o'clock | ported having found a bottle of al- Random | Items NEWS, FEATURES SECOND SECTION BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1989. — \ NUMBER 27. contributes inter K LOCOMO | IVE § URNS HOW'S THE ATHLETICS? A friend this ‘ VY T T ! esting note “Williagn Tressler, Oo ER A JUNIA A: FIVE Bellefonte's 91-year grand old man ’ has adopted as hig dally greeting w friends on ihe St Well how's RAILROAD MEN INJURED meeting a y« Woe, Me E. M. Allen, of Pittsburgh, very picture of despair and in- Ry on Thursday. He was held up by three men early that morn- ing, forced to teach one of them to drive his car, robbed of $84 vacation money, banged on the head with his own shoes, and then ejected from his car, barefooted, and forced to walk 10 blocks to a police sta- tion. He was indignant about the whole thing, and very unhappy-— because he's got no vacation money. The only ray of consolation was the fact that police found his car a few blocks away from the scene of his “great annoyance.” The Oldtimer PI DS ME CF THE TIME n BELOW THE BEND IN THE L SIR | HAD FOUOHT HR” was rewnt today?’ Recenliy on mngster who had just moved from Howard to Bellefonte, er gave his favorite greet- youngster, a baseball fan he New York Yan- " wey RIVE A DICKENS OF A HOURS. FINALLY | GOT STUNNED HIM WITH ROCK Him HOME | COULDNY LIF WITCH UP THE HORSE N WW Ky ores ‘Occurs as Truck of Tender Jumps Track, Pull- 3 ing Two Cars With It-Altoona, Newport 22d "ends and Three Huntingdon Employes Hurt crazily up a railroad | Altoona yard from Middle divi | track lke a monstrous jitterbug | It was crossing over from No. 2 10 | Saturday afternoon, a Pennsylva- | No. 1 {rack when in some manner | nia railroad westbound freight lo- not yet determined by Tre The knowing had won fame yes aad) ril ind piled | place iE $ JOT | Dancing A NOBLE SOUL: the investi Much Hospitalized Six-year-old Betty Northrup, of Towanda, is home from a hospital put she had her fingers crossed. She went to a hospital last Decem- ber for a tonsilectomy, went back soon after with with whooping cough, then came down with pneu- monia. She recovered, but after be- ing in school a month, contracted pneumonia a second time and had to go back to the hospital again. Then—on the last Wednesday night lying near the main line tracks of the Penn- sylvania | Keystone Armature Works, in that city Solt was bruised about Rallroad In back the of the face jand his wrist had been lacerated { Coroner Rothrock of Blair county ‘reported that all indications point- ed to alcoholism as being a contri- butory factor in Soit's death An examination of the scene by leave—she was stricken with scarlet | vealed fever, and had to stay another month, Must Live Together D MM. McCreary and Harry Walker, Cherry Tree neighbors who fought in a dispute over the boun- dary lines of their properiies, were that Soit day she hoped tb | the coroner and Altoona police re- ( evidently fell i Tyrone Family ‘Automobile Crash Car With Six Passengers Strikes Culvert Near Al- cohol lying near the body. It is said that there were no signs of a strug- gle around the spot Solt’s body was discoyered * Deceased was born In Bellefonte, November 18, 1908, making his age about 30 years and 7 months. He was a.son of John 8S. and Sarah A (Daley) Solt. Surviving are his wife, Mrs, Mary (Cobler) Bolt; three children, Barbara Ann, Richard and Theodore, at home; his parents; one brother and a sister, Ernest of Pontiac, Mich. and Jane, of Altoo- na ——— WINDBER SAILOR, FORMER GRID STAR, LOST AT SEA William Cook, a former football player with the Windber high school team, is reported by the government as having been lost overboard and EY MTN PREDICTS GREATEST DROUTH Those you who stick around until 1966 are going to experience one of the greatest droughts in 17 ’ of ASR0~ bottom of all three cycles and 1 produce a drouth compara- y the only other major occur- of its kind in written history, | comotive injured five of its crew, none seriously, and tore up approx- imately T00 feet of track before | coming to rest on its left side near RV tower just below Red bridge In Juniata Its tender and first two cars also were derailed after the rear truck of the tender is believed to have jumped a “frog” at the interlocking switches In the yard. The injured: William A. Nowark, 55, Newport engineman, first degree burns on left side of the face, first and sec- ond degree burns of the lefl leg and arm. Admitted to Altoona hospital for observation and discharged Joseph Weber, 52, Alloona, fire- man, puncture wound of the right foot, ankle burns and g laceration of the right side of the head. Treat ed at Altoona hospital dispensary gation ick of tive lender derailed and tore down No. 1 track The locomotive 2 track, careening from gide i until the weight train overturned | bridge Interlocking became twisted rails were ber The tender p with It, knocking of the tefider and of the first car, an Car the rear conuinued on NO nf 0: ul iced red (Continued on page eight) Man Was Thrown From Barroom Bartender Admits Ejecting Nave Nace remar er CY yrs vey Prosperity Reading newspaper VE GWAY ree Lhe ole olin ~ Jif JAN i0r see 3 We would centuries American ciation Advancement of Science The drought prediction was made by Halbert P. Gillette, geologist and meteorology researcher, at the re cent convention of scientists held at Palo Alto, Calif, Gillette has found evidence In the rocks that there was a 1701-year | rainfall cycle, having sub-cycles of 567 and 180 years He sald the year 1966 would be ays the for the drowned from the steamer Comet, { last Tuesday night. Cook, who was employed as a seaman, second class, was being transferred from the Newport, R. I, training station to duty at Portsmouth, N. H, Naval sentenced last week by Judge Creps of Cambria county to live together in the county jail for the next Six months. The Judge specified that the men should be put in the bull pen together, should sleep in the same cell, and eat together. He also ordered McCreary to wash the jail windows and Walker to polish the other side, “face to face” C. €C. Houser, 50, Huntingdon front brakeman, possible fracture of the right shoulder. Admitted Ww Altoona hospital where his condi- tion is reported good George H. Lightner, 40, Hunting- don, brakeman sprained left ankle received dispensary treatment H. Miller, 60, Huniingdon, con- ductor bruises of the left shoulder The wreck occurred about 2 o'ciock Saturday afternoon when the 83-car train entered the East —— year 266 A. D. “about when the Roman Empire began to crum- and when wars in China were rif M ¥ OF DARE Avis Man Who Later Died in Hospital toona Speedway The entire family of W. Clarence “Yock” Snyder, of Tyrone, was in- jured, two painfully, when the au- | tomobile in which they were travel- Hospital a ing toward Altoona last Thursday | 1D NAVY was advised Cook dis- afternoon skidded and was de- appeared when the ship was about { molished as it crashed into a bridge 15 miles off shore. The official ad- culvert at the entrance to the Al- | Vices sald apparently his death was toona Speedway. {an accident. The injured were: Mrs, Margaret Snyder, 39, admitted to Altoona Hospital with face lacerations and possible fracture of the right hip; her son John, 6, a patient in the (same hospital with fracture of the Ve 8Way vellhood Hiletle's prediction was based on udy of wvarves--layers of sedi- t deposited In seas or lakes by nnual runoff of streams, Some varve computations went t to B.C. and can be followed for { years." 5 OL upoid, 63 is, signed a confession after grill- ing police officers that he had throw: the barroom at age, Saturday ; early last Wednesday mor the lock Haven Hospital Jing consciousness Paluszgak and night bartender the by admitting Human Pilot A pheasant hen and her brood of 10 changed the course of a giant airliner Friday at Pittsburgh. Just as the Pennsylvania airlines trans- port came down for a landing on i —Classified ads are thrifty. mioh (Continued on page eight) al vn county airport, the pheasant with her young ones trailing out 20 feet behind started across the runway. Capt. W. J. McDonough, 50 feet above the field, noticed them and swerved his big ship to one side to avoid striking them. The ship landed and the pheasants un- perturbed by the roar of powerful motors, strutted on across the field Strike For Silk Undies Demanding silk underwear and snacks at bedtime in their ceils, 229 convicts at the Kansas state peni- tentiary refused to mine coal and remained at the bottom of a 750- foot mine shaft, holding 12 guards and the mine superinfendent, Rob- ert Murray, captive. “They surren- dered four hours later when 20 prison guards, armed with machine guns and tear gas and under in- structions to use both, headed for the pit. Boy, 6, a Financier Striding into the Branch County Bavings Bank at Coldwater, Mich, James Frederick Keller, 8, offered O. W. Holmes, a note for a penny loan. The banker accepted the note and when the borrower re- turned in a few days to repay the joan, he got back hig note and an additional penny as a reward for being so business-llke. Pulpit Philately The Rev. Lincoln Caswell, of Stepney, Conn. seeking to fill gaps in his congregation caused by sum- mer vacations, turned to his hobby for help. He announced to parish- foners of the Methodist church he would distribute 1000 stamps from his collection among all who bring friends to church during July. Ei hh fkph Medical Care Too Late The proceeds of a baseball game, which amounted to $175, and an- other $100 donated by Hartington, Neb. merchants, were to have been given to Charlie H Lind, 70, No. 1 baseball fan to be used by him for needed medical attention. Lind, however, died of heart disease a few hours alter the game. Grandma Hits Homer During a soft ball game at a church picnic, at Bristol, Conn, Mrs, Martha Steele, 73-year-old grandma, stepped to the plate, swulig at.a low, inside curve and slammed the ball for a 150-foot home run. Her only regrel was that the bases were empty at the time. fe Prank Costly “Bored” with study exams. two coeds at the University New Sheriff Appointed Governor James on ¥Priday ap- pointed Robert P. Smith, of Lock Haven, as sheriff of Clinton coun- tor final | right arm and face injuries members juries were: treated for slight William Snyder, Other in- William Snyder, Jr.: Jane Snyder, 15, and Francis Snyder, 13 The accident is sald to have oc- curred when the car in which the Tyrone family was riding ran off the highway on a curve at Speedday entrance, skidded the 40; | on | WHEN TRA (From the pen of the late Solomon Peck, of Nittany, Centre County) “In the fall of 1845 my father and my grandfather walked Irom Harrisburg to Wolil's Store, Centre | county, to make a visit to Melchoer Poorman and family, a stép-uncle | some Joore gravel and hit the | of my father’s. | bridge abutment. (the car was driven into the front | od 5 small The motor of | {Seal by the force of the impact County Receives License Refund Over $10,000 Returned By State to the Various Centre county (from the Stale as Districts receives $10850 its share of li- | ‘cense fees refunding. Amounts re- {turned to the boroughs and town- | ships In the county are: Bellefonte, $2500; Miliheim, $375: | Milesburg, $200; Philipsburg, $2500: | | Port Matilda, State College, township, $800; 1 $150; Harris township, $100; How- | $200; $150; Snow $550; Gregg Shoe, Boggs | township, ard township, $200; Miles township, 18100; Potter township, $525; Rush township, $1300; Snow Shoe town- ship, $5600; Bpring township, $100; Walker township, $600. | AUTOS ON SILENT “STRIKE” | LESSEN FINLAND DEATH TOLL In the towns and cities of Fin- | traffic has been on a silent | strike for the past 10 years, accord- | ing to the Pinnish Bureau at Rockefeller Center. Tomobiles are land, Information | Au- | allowed to make noises above a whisper only in ex- ceptional emergencies. Statistics show that immediately upon the {adoption of this silent system, there was anh appreciable jessening in the number of traffic accidents. ‘The | Finns claim that it is safer for | drivers to rely upon the wide open i eye instead of the ear. oe where day. ty, succeeding Jacob B. Bryerton, resigned. Brisbin Bride Kills Self, | Mrs. Verona Romano, 21, of Bris- | bin, a bride of three months, kill- | ed herself Thursday night in the home of her parents. Mrs, Joe | Lujack, the mother, discovered the body upon returning from a movie. Mrs. Romano was shot in the head. Youngstown Sheet His body was to Morrisdale terment was made Tube ' burg, i river i Liverpool, preceding the wagon ten ! days 3 } {to the Department of Forests and “At this time my father purchas- | north of Woll's | Store, and In the spring of 1846 he { and his family moved to this place { On the first day of April we start- ed from three miles east of Harris- with a covered wagon and three horses hilched to it, with all our belongings packed in the wagon “My mother with six children was driven in to Cramer's Ferry, opposile When my mother made known to Mr. Creamer, the ferry- man, that she and her children would like to cross the river, he sald the water was very high and the wind blowing very hard, and unless the wind would fall he would not | undertake to cross. “At sunset it got quite calm and we started in a row boat with Mr, Creamer and his two twin sons The boys took the oars and be had a long pole in hand acting as pilot On the opposite cide we rode out over two fields before they could land. The reason we had to ferry the river was on account of the high water that spring having taken all the wagon bridges away crossing the river, “In ten days when father ang the team came across the river we join- ed them. My mother and the small a carriage up the! The Hardships of Ea rly-Day Transportation The following interesting history of early days in Cen- tre county was written by Solomon Peck, a well known mer- chant of Nittany, who passed away a number of years ago. It was taken from records on file in this office, contributed | by Mr. Peck during his lifetime. Tr CRIS a fe | children got in the wagon 1 walks ed) and we started “We came by way of Mifiinburg and the Brush Valley Narrows “On the third day of our journey at three o'clock in the allernoon we were al Heberiing's tavern, ai the east end of the Narrows, when my father said to the leamsier we would stop for the night “Mr. Grove the teamaster, object- ed to this interruption in the jour- ney, arguing i the day was yel quite jong. Bul father sald we (had a fourteen mile barrows 10 drive through without a habitation, ing at that time the old road was still in use, crossing the mountain “Father's wish was overruled and we started into the Narrows. Go- ing up the big mountain we met & two-horse team loaded with shing- ies, and the road was one rack wide. In order for the teams | pass, the men built a wall to the lower side of the track and cut Jong { poles and pried the shingle wagon {out on the wall and then drove our | wagon past | At 10 o'clock that night we ar- i rived at Spruce Run, in the middie lof the Narroas, with the horses {fagged out by crossing the big | mountain ahaa ia a - Ftmere we horses to the wagon tongue and fed them—we had feed and soihe provisions along. My mother gol ait of the wagon and made some coffes over the fire and we ate OMe supper. Then all got in the wagon and slept until morning when we started on our way and landed al our destination about one o'clock in the afternoon “In the year 1845 Anthony Wolf built a stone grist mill on his land at Wolf's Store. He owned ai thal time three good farms, all in one body, well improved, a grist mill, saw mill, plaster mill and a store He was one of the great rich men “John “Weaver, Sr adjoining lands with Anthony Wolf, owned three large farms in one body and a rge distillery. He also was one of the great rich men of the piace The farms being well improved, yielded large crops of wheal oals, rye corn “To thresh the crops by horse power machines and fo get 0 market, took a whole winter, as the grain had to be hauled to Derrs- Wwwn (now Lewisbufg) on wagons or sleds, a distance of about 35 miles. “In the winter as soon as the snow would fall and sledding be Te unhitched, turned he | four | NSPORTATION WAS SLOW good, the farmers would get ready 0 haul grain. They would send word from one to the other that on a ceriain day we start Derrs- own—ihis was dope (n order to get fs many as possible 10 go at the game time “I would drive a team for some farmer. We would start about four o'clock in the morning. The first 0p would be ai Blowers tavern at the west end of the Narrows, where we would gel warm, ele “The next stop was in the mid- die of the Narrows where the Half- Way House, a levern, was located There we all had to take 3 “warm- er,” then we would go to the next stop at the east end of the Narrows, known as Heberlings tavern. And here we all had to “warm” twice for it was the last stop to Derrstown, where the grain was unloaded. “Then we loaded up with plas- ter, salt, elo, for the trip home next day, where the usual slop Lad to be made to get “warm.” They had to carry litlle sloves in their pockels 0 get “warm” be- tween sl0ps “The number of teams would vary from fen to fifty. I was along when there were forly sleds in one {gang and we had lots of “jolly.” | “My hauling of grain was done {in 1854 to 1957 and et that time a | man could not step up 1o the iele- | phone in his own home and say, { “Hello, John Doe, what are you | paying for wheat now?” The far- mers would load up and go and | never get less than one dollar” 1 ior Ie 8. STATE FORESTS, PARKS HAVEN FOR TOURISTS Pennsylvania's State Forests and | Parks offer a haven of rest for va- and tourists according Waters. Many of Pennsylvania's Forest i Parks contain cabins which ean be rented by the week. The most out- standing of these areas are: Prom- ised Land Lake Park, Plke county; Whirl's End, Sullivan county; -Biack Moghannon State Forest Park, Cen- | tre county; 8. B. Elliott, Clearfield county; Cook Forest Park, Clarion county, and Lynn Run, Westmore- land county. These cabins can be | rented at prices ranging from 87 | to $25 per week, depending on the | size of the cabin. If you prefer to bring your own | tent, areas have been set aside for | tenting at a rate of $1.50 per week, | with smaller charges for portions CHEF ADVISES SALAD FOR IRON VITAMINS “Chef's Salad Bowl” is the most popular hot-weather dish featured by the Old New York Room in Rockefeller Center. According to Maitre dhotel Til, it is an old story with a new twist: watercress for iron, and anchovies for vitamins “Here is the way to make it,” sald ‘ salad bowl garlic and with not too finely lettuce, romaine, chicory, Add quartered ripe Thoroughly mix | this with Prench dressing and - Mh with Se egg. Top bowl with a little patty of chopped anchovies. It will be necessary when using | |these cabins to furnish your bed- | | ding, cooking utensils and dishes. | “Serve In individual salad bowls and eat with wooden forks” Government lending 1s a success the citizen who gets a loan. There are very f== things in the world worth quarreling about. | NEW HEATING SYSTEM DEVELOPED FOR HOMES No Jonger must the housewives | listen to clanking radiators or the | hissing of steam pipes, of the heat- ling system pecently perfected by Richard Neutra, prominent west | CITY PLANNERS STUDY | N.Y. SKYSCRAPER GARAGE | It took sophisticated Manhattan- | ites only one day to show their re- | action to New York City’s first com- bination office bullding-parking | coast architect, becomes universal. | In the House of Homes at Rocke- | feller Center, where the most mod- jern of home furnishings are on | permanent exhibition, the principle of this new heating system lg il- | lusirated jn a recently opened pho- | |tographic display of Neutra's work. in a west coast home Neutra re- cently designed, employs a betwork of heating pipes laid in the hollow | spaces between floor and ceiling. Pass Drivers’ Test The following from Centre coun- ty were licensed to drive at the au- tomobile test held at Lock Haven last week: Oran J. McCloskey and Neutra's heating system, applied | building, the handled nearly all the being held at the Clinton jall, the latter as a material wit- negs and possible accomplice. A hearing will be granted the men on Friday, July 7, according to reports In his statement fessed he had thrown Lupold bod oul of the barroom, bul the ¢ of the circumstances were withheld by the police Members of county Paluszak con- the Lupold family assert that the father had lent house about 7 o'clock levening O Buy some the Robb store him again until covered about 7 morning on Saturday groceries ad at They did not see his fi the fost A 8 : found by a brother, John Lupoid. of (Continued on Page Eight) Father, Daughter Hurt in Accident Belle Vernon Car Collides With Truck on Sky- top Road A father and daughter were Jured about 4:45 o'clock Fridas ternoon when their car and truck were involved in an accident 3% yards south of Skytop on Route The injured were Jesse T. Leath- fers and Mrs. Virginia Case. of Belle Vernon. Mr. Leathers suffered ocon- fusions of the chest. an injured knee and bruises of the forehead His daughter received lacerations of the forehead, bruises of the left shoulder and suffered from shock ine of LC | a The two were occupants of a car! | traveling toward Btate College when | {the truck, driven by Max Gunter, struck the other machine. Gunter | was injured about the chest and | forehead Leathers and his daugh- {ter received treatment at State Coi- [lege while Gunter's | taken care of at Philipsburg | Damage to the car was placed at {$150, and to the truck, which over- . turned, $100. Pennsylvania Motor | Police from the Pleasant Gap sub- | station investigated the accident. Injured in Fall From Tree While picking cherries one after- {noon last week, the limb on which ihe was standing broke and Fred fell with his fest ground but his right arm across a ithe , injuries were ” a n page one WONDER IF SHE HUNTS, TOO? has just angling, was one day week ¢ was called away for about § her line dangling in the water with the pole on the ground. When she return- ed, she was somewhat surprised 10 find the pole out in the uiddie Of the poi Making remasks about people who throw fishing ; the waler gle £01 8 died out 10 the rescue More ih surprised was the angleretie when 2 that C found hooked 11s 1 une ¢ A Belielionle whc taken the § up the i fy woman of fish in a pond last whe 18 eft She BW which bad the pole out into the pool WHAT? ANOTHER CRISIS? Is everyone on edge about new crisis Burope? Are thoroughly Do you vour fingernails and look will horror at the front pages of news- If s0 Europe's murder merchants will probably feel the ripe to take over contro] of Poland. Personally we're plenty tired of crises and the aw ¢ nan Europe is a whole » tired i them: than we news of rises disturbs us § read some- thing else. Let play ostrich to the llls of Burope, for as Jong as races, nationalities and varied am- bitions are piled together in such confusion in the comparatively small territory which comprises purope, there will be trouble, and nothing the United States can do is | going to help things one ota the you bite Le a Jittery? papers? time is part of getiing We imagine Ye are et 1 us NO GOOD FOR MOTORISTS As a general thing railway lo- comotives are not equipped with speedometers, Most enginemen are excellent judges of the speed of i thelr trains, however. Their sys- tem is to find out how far to the side of the moving train they must look before objects on the ground are distinguishable. For example, &t 20 miles an hour, objects four or | five feet {rom the track may be | discerned. At 60 miles an hour, | the engineman finds he may have to | look 25 or 30 feet to the gide of the | track before features the swiflly moving landscape can be “stopped” by the eve. Through experience, rallroaderg have the distances ac- | curately in mind and can teil at a | glance how many miles an hour their train is traveling FOUL ON WELLSBORO: This department hereby calls » | foul on the Chamber of Commerce of Wellsboro. In a new folder of | the Pennsylvania “Grand Canyon” | and the “Canyon Country” issued | by the Wellsboro C. of C., appears
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