Odd and Curious News j Ap The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION ¢ Uenlre Democrat ——— VOLUME B58. BELLEFONTE. PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1949 * ’ ‘Pennies from Heaven “We've been saving our pennies for this,” beamed James W. Ken- nedy and Martha R. Grugan as they counted 250 pennies before a surprised clerk Monday morning at the marriage license bureau at the Court House in Williamsport. The amount, $2.50, was exactly right for an application for a license, so the clerk recovered sufficiently to help them in filling out the form. The application lists the bride-groom- to-be's residence as Harrisburg and Miss Grugan's as Williamsport Lumps Unpalatable Two year old John Fowler, of Williamsport, swallowed a fishing line sinker last week but objected to lumps in the ice cream they gave him at a hospital. The lumps were cotton wads to envelop the pointed sinker in his stomach. The sinker has been recovered, and now John gets lump-less ice cream Daddy’s Helper Allen Gundlach, of Beech Creek had just put 15 gallons in his gas tank and couldn't figure out why his car wouldn't start. A mechanic made repairs, but still no go. Then Gunlach remembered his four- year old son, Dick, liked to play with the garden hose Cross-examination disclosed Dick had pumped three gallons of water into the tank tie In a Fog The “absent minded professor” is no myth at Blacksburg, Va., They tell this one on a Virginia Tech fac- ulty member. He drove his auto- mobile to a nearby town, forgot he had it, and came home on the train Realizing he would have to go back for his ear, he returned to the rall- road station—and bought a round- trip ticket Busy Bees Beekeeper A. F. Shields of M® Sterling, Ky. placed crates con- taining 75 pounds of honey in his garage, intending to return late in the day after swarming bees had departed and truck the honey away But when he went back to the gar- age the honey was gone he bees had carried every drop back to the hives Reaping Pleasure Ear] Smith of Brule, Neb, did quite some tinkering with his com- bine to place it in first class condi- tion for harvesting his wheat crop When he moved into the field he found the crop already harvested-- an itinerant combine operator had worked Smith's field by mistake. Dog Birthday Party In order tw celebrate the third birthday of her water spaniel Chico, Kathryn Ann Nolan, of Evansville, Ind, invited all the dogs in the neighborhood to her home After playing games, the dogs were served jce cream cones, hot de and bones. A good time w all gS had by as Ca s——— Dream Becomes True Shortly after her daughter told her that she had dreamed that her 17-year-old brother had drowned police informed Mrs. Sylvester A Kmitta, of South Bend. Ind. that her son, Ernest Kmitta, had been found at the bottom of a lake where he had gone swimming with friends Wholesale Surgery Going to a hospital for treat- ment after being hit on the nose by a soft ball, Mary Ann Jones, 15- year-old catcher of a Tilden, Neb, girls’ softball team. not only had her nose fixed up, but 2iso had her tonsils, adenoids and appendix re- moved ’ Cat's Revenge A cat Lewis Estes, of Philadelphia, was taking to the pound with her two kittens to be executed must have sensed her destination. She jumped into Estes’ face, causing him to lose control of his automobile and crashed into a pole. Estes ana his brother were injured. Cat and kittens escaped. Back Home Again A Tyrone boy who ran away a month ago to turn farm hand is bick home again. The boy, Frank Ieraca, said he had been employed on the Harry Smith farm in Erie since he left the borough. The run- away's father, a highway crossing watchman, said his son returned at 1 o'clock Baturday afternoon Pretty Kitty Hunting her pet cat in the dark- ness, Mrs. Cora O'Neill, of York. saw a fuzzy form in the grass and called, “Pussy, pretty pussy” pleading ignored, Mrs. O'Neill ran and grabbed it by the tail—but not for long. It was a skunk —— Her | ONE KILLED, OTHERS INJURED, WHEN BUS SIDESWIPES CULVERT Accident Occurs Near Duncansville, In Blair County, While Greyhound Bus Was En Route To New York BULLETIN Edwin P. Fallgreen, Pittsburgh, died at the Hospital, Altoona, Monday morning of injuries received in the Greyhound bus accident near Duncansville last Thurs- day. He was the second victim of the crash. The condition of the other injured persons is re- garded as good. 32, of Mercy A Pittsburgh man was killed 14 other passengers of a Greyhound bus were injured before 95 o'clock last Thursday i the railroad underpas south of Duncansville, Blair county when the vehicle skidded and side- swiped the ne abutment of culvert The Gravhound bus enroute Ww Pittsburgh with 37 passengers wa being detoured through Bedford and Duncansville due to the Alex- andria bridge being closed alter the accident in which died as the span collapsed Robert Robinson, and the st Lhe wiree driver of Showman Badly Bitten By Dog Attacked at Hughesville, Vie- tim is Seriously Injured About Face mauled Love Wood's week Seriously ditten and great Dane Floyd is traveling the mal show last Hughesville compelled to seek treatment Muncy Valley Hosp Love suffered about the and will the hospital bed was reported to comfortably The dog 8 not but is & pet that has been travel- ing with the company. It has been especially of children, dog with located firemen face, head and bx probably be conlined f or be some Li a part of the show fond allow. ing the smmiler ones 0 ride on its) back According to reports, Love is the cook for the entered the pen Tuesday morning when he was attacked Reports that the dog got away and was running at large gre erroneous who show and owner si mediately pen ———— Three Men Hurt Near Tylersville Car Skids When to Pass Another Vehicle McCaleb, of Kobe, of ane the The cars Tylersville and Glenn Loganton, were about to pase another near Tylersville, when car of the former skidded and struck Klobe's car. McCaleb suffer- ed a cut through his Klobe suffered a knee injury Yar- rison, of Carroll, riding with Klobe on the forehead which required several stitches to close, a4 cut near one eye and a sealp cut, which also re- quired several stitches Kiobe was a WPA supervisor on road work, and he was taking Yar- rison to work with him in his car when the accident happened. Mec- Caleb and Kilobe were able to con- tinue to their work, but Yarrison was taken to his home after his injuries had been given treatment ¢ held of Sheldon Hp Charle who wa received a cut Injured Rescuing Horses Guy Miller, of Lewisburg, R. D. 3, was injured while rescuing four horses from a fire which destroyed the barn of his farm near Kelly Point, The loss of $6000 is partly covered by insurance. When Miller discovered the fire shortly before 10 p. m. he rushed to the struc- ture to release the horses. One of them knocked him down and trampled him, but the man seized a trailing balter and was dragged from the burning barn by the bolt- | ing horse. m— i A A———TF Four Youths Held For Court | Charged with a series of scrap | bus, said the accident occurred Aas he was about 50 feet from the south side of the culvert and was about {to put the bus into second gear when a car started by him. In order to avoid hitting the car, he applied the brakes and the bus skidded on the mud and water that had wash- ed down the read. As soon as he saw that brakes were not go- he attempted to get the The front abutments r speed of the skidding swung mind the abutment, The the bus was not damaged to but the rear end tained the m ed and the The the syyed yt end ar at extent tor, wa window engine was come The dead man is Ray O. Kelly of Pittsburgh He ired pel ang Pauline Ind. Ind LE Woodward, Howard Woodward a Weiss, 73, Detroit; Robert Robinson, 30, river of the bw West Pittsburgh: Florence Ken- nedy Edwin P. PFaligreen, 32 Pittsburgh, condition listed as se- rious; Clayton Stoner, Springfield, Ohlo.: Bdgar Williams, 41, Ci anburg, Ohio; Richard Harg Z ville, Ohio; Betty Hargrave, 6 Zanesville, Ohio; Isobel lay, 57 Winter Hill, Mass: Edward Kele- men. 25 Youngstown, Ohio; Mr | Nellie Killeen, 65, Massillon, Ghio facilities at Mere) were Lae badly ad never had an time, he said NEWS, FEATURES NUMBER 31. Altoona Shopman Is Fatally Injured Fall From Roof of House Causes Death of Man One Hour Later Serfously the roof Twelfth : morning, Charle of Altoona 1 BOSSES TOSSED INTO WET CONCRETE WHEN CREWS COMPLETE JOB Laborers Unloose Their Enthusiasm As Last Pour Is Made On New Philipsburg- Clearfield Highway Link 4 rr have May Consolidate 1.L0.O.F. Lodges fo Aet om Merger of State College Unit With Belle. fonte Group PENN STATE STUDENT FORMER FINED ¢ OLD-TIME HECLA PARK THRONGS of revive the memories Oid-limers wi! the days to RY i enough to recall Hecla Park was young. thi into i reverie lhat more the reaches back forty years or Our reflections jo be to horse | what and bugs’ or per to the the Central Radlroad ivania was the chie! method ! Nittany Valley 1. what was most important then, joy that to Hecla fme oid of through vehicle of carried the Park Attempting __ and Clinton vicnics were knew no comparison It was a happy, cheertul ous crowd that attended picnics in those days Perhaps the busiest men in seven ties were the conductors and trainmen who were busy taking care of the happy throng each of whom had “shelled out” a quarter for a ticket to the “the park” For the ocomiuctor the old Central Railroad {4 was no day of recreation. He worked the punch harder than ususl, was Rept (n a mental strain lest the careless indi- boister- the of » Get Aboard for a Trip Down Memory Lane to Hecla #0 We Park Forty Years Ago. Don't Allow Your Hat to Blow Out of the Window. } Arriveg wore it approached the cars were n to be packed in 2 manner thal iid put to shame a box of sar- ex. For not peope standing coaches, Du. the steps, platforms, even venturesome fellows would elimd on top of the cars, until every aval able inch of space was occupied only were pe 9 the outing “see the dear li we would her™ Papa ne afirmativ ents Lhe tt) 5. have no ng head in & Appear the Gay was DOL On The Jong string hes soon made the the park. Everybody and joined the throng already the ground. Everywhere was activ- and the bux of excilement Orandma i with them, also a vis- ng cousin questionable years m ihe cdiy, and they all contri baby's aggravation bY chucking it under the chin and say- ing it looks just like papa In the meantime grandma might be seen having a fit because little (Continued on Page Eight) nodded 80 vr were all sors of people in CORI trains called them their duck and the liked fo They | Bi $1 Crowds on aariey those picnic as they on with { t halls canes inevitable cigaretie They Fambie al any kind of game would utter cute sayings small glances at the girls, tear from ne end of the train to the other, and were noticeably close to some [adr musiin-ciad, ruddy cheek - ed maiden who would snille and feel confident she was the recipient of DOVE Lone Gave ite ’ straw iy of shoo 0 often 100.815 RECEIVE BENEFIT CHECKS IN STATE LAST WEEK 3 § 100 815 benefit checks, amounting to $1.152266, were distributed 0 | qualified idle workers in the week ending July 21 by the Pennsylva- nia Unemployment Compensation Division, it was reported today by Secretary of Labor and Industry Lewis OG. Hines, i “Disbursements dropped slightly from the previous week's level, and {original claims filed during the period, numbering 11,799, showed a sharp decrease” Secretary Hines pointed out. “The average check for the week was $1143, continuing the recent upward trend.” The grand total of benefit pay- ments since February 1038, was | $107,600327, included in 9.666847 | cheeks, as of July 28, The average | cheek to date was $11.14 {| A breakdown of payments and metal thefts from the New York|Claims filed, by offices, for the week Central yards at Avis over a period | ending July 31, shows that from the | of five months, four Avis young Bellefonte office 212 benefit checks | | men pleaded guilty at held a hearing | Amounting to $2,17685 were dis- | 8 tributed to qualified idle workers. | Papa’s a Daddy in Lock Haven Priday Touy of near Waynesboro, has | have been held for court. Herman | been a papa all his life but is 8 | | Maneval and Jack Stewart were’ father for the first time. TONY, | re.committed to the Clinton county | whose last name is Papa, just be-! Jail, in default of $500 bail each. came the father of a five-pound | wiien was furnished by the other girl. | two defendants, Ralph Myers and | England’s Human Bi ) | Hugn Jackson, Reporting how Britain's citizens | will donate fifty thousand gallons of | oman Has Lex Amputated their Ifie-fluld to be stored for use | Mrs. Catherine Roffe, of Mill the instant an enemy strikes. One } Hall, who suffered compound frac- of many exceptionally interesting | tures of the left leg in a fall from articles in the August 13th. issue of | # cherry free more than a month The American Weekly, distributed | 880, underwent an operation for with the Baltimore Sunday Ameri~ | the amputation of the leg below can, On sale at all newsstands, | the knee at the Lock Haven Hos- — | pital last week, Her condition is ‘A change in scenery is sometimes | improving, hospital authorities re- better medicine than physic, port. All} alarm Friday evening when it made {a record two-mile run to the home Thirty-five original claims filed during the period were added w 301 continued claims, Fire Fighters Get First Alarm The new volunteer fire depart. ment of Beech Creek had itg first of Grover Masden after the house had been struck by lightning dur ing an electric storm. The house | had been struck by a cold bolt | which tore a big hole in the roof and all but ripped off one side of | the building, but did not catch on | fire. The sounding of the fire sirens in Beech Craek caused a lot of excitement for a time, i |] PROJECT GRANTED FOR RE-INDEXING ORDINANCES The borough of Bellefonte, Cen- tre county. was awarded $726 to in- stall an index of the borough of Bellefonte ordinances, as follows A non-federal priject to Install an alphabetical subject Index 0 borough of Bellefonte ordinances for the period from August 1903 to January 18390. Work includes tran- scribing, indexing, arranging, filing. Completed work will maintained by the sponsor. This project will operate in the borough of Bellefonte, Centre county. In ad- dition to projects specifically ap- proved. The sponsor: Bellefonte Borough Council” The re-indexing of Bellefonte borough ordinances was originally assigned by Council te George Car- peneto, but shortly after his ap- pointment, Mr. Carpeneto was made ar be regular employe of the Borough CLINTON COUNTY HUNTERS Authority and the re-indexing pro- | dropped temporarily ! A total of $2837 was paid to | Clinton county hunters and trap- pers during the year from June 1, Sideswipe on Bridge Sunday evening at 8:25 o'clock on the Jacksonville road about] three miles west of Cedar Springs, | the cars of Dale Seife, of Lock Ha- coming east, and Velma E.| of Bellelonte, driving west, | ideswiped on a one-way bridge. | ing of noxious animale it waz an- nounced by the State Game Com- | mission i The bounties collected by resi- dents of Clinton county were for; Damage to Seife's car wad $45 and the destruction of 671 gray foxes, | Miss Tubbs cir, $15. Privale 287 weasels and 6 great horned Rovenbloom investigated, lowle - No bounties were paid in Clinton Eats At Same Place 38 Years | county for goshawks, but Centre When Charles PF. Outh, 64, fail-| county sportsmen collected the! ed to appear for his meals at a Eli bounty on two’ of those predatory Reno, Okla. restaurant where he birds, as well as on .16 horned owls, | had eaten daily for 38 years, the | 384 gray foxes and 630 weasels, for proprietor sent a messenger to hisia total of $1885. Lycoming county's | home. Guth was found to have kill- share of the bounties ed himself with a pistol ven, Tubbs, to | Robert {official executioner, GET NEARLY $300 BOUNTY understudies | declined to | job, 1938 to May 31, 1939, for the kill- | | for #1 Work Boy Struck By Car In Altoona William Woodring, 8, Howard Street, Suffers Leg Frac- tures, Other Injuries Seven Slayers To Get New Hearings Pardon Board Denies That Action is Occasioned by Elliott's lliness : i Board staving heir execulions September The grou three Phila- delphia negroes Charles Golden, Walter Tankard and Ira Redmon who were scheduled to die at Rockview, Sunday after midnight The pardon bo Heved State prison « ing a substiiute In G. Elliott, includes the event that nnEyivanis's iow seriously New York, should ili at his home in {be unable to conduct the electrocu- Lions While it is said one of the éxecu- tioner's assistants could be used, at Sing Sing prison be considered for the The board stated that hearings were granted lawyers had additional information the re- {to present, and not because of Ex- | ecutioner Elliott's illness Every town needs an unselfish community leader, willing to work the common welfare II there is such a leader in Bellefofite he deserves support of all good citi Pens fokes, 5 goshawks and 604 weasels In the state the total bounty payments amounted to $60,260.50, paid during for 1.086 owls, 9.432 gray foxes, 52 | the year was $1084, for 11 owls, 400 goshawks and 40.867 weasels, because the | Random [tems em SEEMS H 'e ; 10 Who Ear ma of Unemployment ' er purposes of a Lhe GIVIRWO! that | ww of July 1 DAY ta die workers have Deen 388002 The balance remainin the fund i» STAIR EALTHY ENOUGH: ho've crying that provoably by the divi- Compensa « we report news release e wl acm ey re Wve een Lhe ¢ inistralion ceived arity wipls in $1 Lhe fund 807 822. and Ww qu THINGS TO TALK ABOUT £ ng HOES YOU hear gling sleadll Lhe above SUD ier PAYS TO ADVERTISE Hughie Turtier believes ‘ advertise at pir Recovering from a very an 3 Year 10 De InORe pis mote th oc SE el ore nay: ever KEEFR BEES BURY: Centre Former r A sioner D HEADACHE: ore often receive Not Jong ago 2 is office and asked ; to publiszn children’s res that we w article In type, he asked ¢ last name of one child be The editor naturally ask- regson. and was somewhat flabbergasted when the man repli- “Tha isnt the ohild's real My wife left me snd lived another man jong before the The name EDITOR'S J paper edit gat Jt cpt alr sed ed name was Ss changed SOUR NOTE: Dorn wasnt linotype operator his olumn last be) aa eT % #4 L put an “s” on the Mr selling forth that Mr H of Williamsport, had joined ut Club." Also rice for the week nem ioe News 4-H Poods and ib met a tthe home of Barto, July 28, with eight members nit The girls pre- pared mest Bwiss steak, five- minute cabbage, Swiss chard, green wane, biked potatoes nd tomatoes, The girls are planning to have a mother-daugh- ter dinner on August 22. The next clud meeting will be held st the home of Geraldine Harpster iH Club I Gateshurs Health C Wis vivian U los! string escalloped «3 ‘0d Favarites from a Floridian Kitchen” An exceptionally informative ar- ticle by a resident of Florida who fells how to preéfiare some uniUsual dishies. Be sure {0 read the HoOuge- wife's Food Almanack in the Au- gust 13th issue of The Ameétican Weekly, disiribuled with the Balti- more Sunday American. Om sale all newsstands. { 81 No wonger “Vanishing Race” According fo Dr. James G. Town- serid, Indian Service medical direc- tor of New Mexico, the Indian pop- ulation now numbers 342.487 and is gaining at a faster rate than the white population--8 per thousand as compared with 58 per thousand fin the white population | British Want 1. 8S. Fire Hose The British Covernment has or- dered 675000 feet of fire hose from the Hewitt Rubber Company, of Buffalo, which is believed to be the largest single contract for fire hose fin the history of the American rib. | ber industry What busines we could have in Beliofonte if everybody made it a ride to trade at home! ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — The Finger of Suspicion By POP MOMAND
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