Odd and Curious News A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. SECOND SECTION @he Cenfre Democrat VOLUME 58. NEWS, FEATURES BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1939. Two-Headed Baby The birth of a two-headed baby t0 4 fénant farm couple near Kingsport, Tenn. October 17 was disclosed by Dr. J. 8. Statzer of Bristol. Dr, Statzér said he re-| moved the second or abnormal | head from the baby, a boy weigh- ing nine pounds, a few days after birth and that it had possibilities of growing into a normal child. Dr. | Statger, who said he had delivered approximately 3500 babies in 35 years 4s a practicing physician, | sald the abnormal head extended from the base of the normal head. | “It had the outline of a head with | eves, nose, mouth and hair but no ears,” the physician declared. He said he could not recall a similar casé in medical history and that he had studies the case at length | before performing the surgery Demoted Hero Stanton Cheesman, 17, of Clay- ton, N J. became a hero last Sal urday night when he dashed into the burning home of his girl friend, Bernice Gorman, 17, while she and her parents were away and saved Bernice's five younger brothers and sisters. Friends thumped him ol the back, Bernice's father congrat- ulated him and Bernice looked on him with renewed favor. Cheese- man rode the crest of a popularity wave. Buf Wednesday, the youth bégan an indefinite term in Annan- dale Reformatory. Police sald he confessed setting the fire, walling until jt made headway and theh effecting the rescues o as to win bls girl friend's love Preferred Jail Altoona police were faced with an unusual problem last week when a prisoner refused to leave the jail after having her fine paid by friends. Mrs, Maly Floris wives | ed as proprielor of a tippling : and Held under a fine of $50.80, 10id | police “They brought me (i herd and I'm going fo stay.” When her pleaded with her, she | wold them “You had no Business paying the fine take the money | back. Pm going fo stdy.” How-| ever, after much argument be- | tween fhe daughters and police, | Mrs. Plorina agredd to leave i Unsuccessful John J. Cofinors, of Boston, uh-| successful candidate for counefl- | mdn; Hsted today With the city | cierk the following election expen-| 865: One rizor Blade, five cents; three cigars, five cents; five lolly~) pops, five cents; one beer, five cents; | ofié yeast cake, ghree cents; one stamp, one cent; He polled 40 votes, $F} -. > Finds Bigger Job Arthur Kemp engaged a workman the other day to re-roof his home at Altoona and askéd the man to re- | port for the job Friday. The roofer arrived just in timé to find firemen battling a fire on the roof, ignited by sparks from a chimney, Expensive Tooth Dominick Luts, of Pittsburgh Is flashing a diamond in an odd place these days. The gem glitters from | one of Lutz's front teeth. A den- | tist set the diamond in the tooth on g dare from Lafts. Dog Shoots Hunter A hunter was shot in the foot by his own dog at Jamestown R. I.| While hunting rabbits, Carl Wester set down his shotgun while he call- ed to the dog which had run ahead. | The dog ran back and accidentally stépped on the trigger Billiard Shot Hunter Charles Liekel, of Le- highton, bagged a squirrel in a tree and a rabbit on the ground-—with ofi¢ shot. As the squirrel fell Liek- e} said, it hit the rabbit, breaking the Bimny's neck. A hobby is a good thing unless your Make a DUEIndss of it. OLD AGE PENSION SCHEMES LOSE IN OHIO, CALIFORNIA Pension plans combining Increaf« ed grants to the agéd with umof- thodox methods of the mon | ey were rejected 1ase iy by tofsheavy majorities in California and Ohio. Ohio ballots snowed under the pension pfopdsal advocated by Her- bert 8. Bigelow, Cincinnati clergy- man, (0 assdre income of $50 a month to those past 60. The plan, which called for a state income tax fhe had than 3 to 1. Many and Varied Services Now ered by Centre County Hospital Winifred B, Shalleross) i ( Oy ne lle pen di ies as at Geissinger. The time ls in fhe most of | witnesses reported, Fireman Found | Bech Creek, jatraw. He was a kiln fireman at the iplant, and Sunday afternoon had FATHER JAILED FOR REFUSING TO SEND CHILDREN TO SCHOOL i Philipsburg R. D. Man Claims Bus Driver Is| = Not Physically Equipped to Drive The School Bus Contending that his would not go to school as long as the present driver continues to drive the school bus, Spencer J. Gray, of Philipsburg, R. D., was committed to the Bellefonte jail for ten days In lieu of a ten dollar fine imposed for violating the compulsory school law His commitment to jail came at a hearing before Justice of the Peace E. R. Hancock in Philipsburg Thursday when Gray pleaded guilty to keeping his school. Unable was brought placed in jail Gray's basis for refusal to send his children, aged 9, 8, and 7, to school was that the bus driver was children out of! to pay the fine he to Bellefonte and Two Women Hurt At R. R. Crossing Car in Which Victims Were Riding is Struck By Locomotive Two elderly women, Mrs. Sallie Probst, 60, and Mrs. Jacob Blesh, 70, were painfully injured last Thursday evening at 5:45 o'clock whén the sedan in which théy were riding was struck by & Nght west bound engined at thé Henderson stréét rafirosd crossing in Lock Fa- ven. Both are résidents of Staud- town. The formér suffered shotk and an Mmjury to hér breast bone, while Mrs. Blesh reétéived lacérations of the right forearm, outs of the forse. | head and a possiblé fracture of the | breast bore. Mrs, Clarérice Probst of Lock Havén, drivér of (he ocr and daugh- fer-in<law of Mrs. Sallie Prbost, és- coped with brulses about thé face and shock, The three weré remov- ed to the Private Hospital if gn am. | bulance. Mrs Oldrénde Probst wis. sble to return to her hoe after | treatméns., i According to reports the Probst | oar was being driven west on the drive t6 the P. R. R. station and turned forth fo cross the tracks Thé automobile Had almost clear- | ed the westbound tracks when the engine, traveling at approximately 15 miles per hour, struck it, hurling if against the concrete standard on, ®hieh flasher lights are installed The lights were flashing at the time, csc MP —————— Dead in Box Car, Investigation Revealed Beech | Creek Man Died of Heart Attack Clair Kuhn Rupert, 54, was found idead at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon ! iin a box car at the plant of the General Refractories Company at lying on a bale of | complained of not feeling well A companion, Loren Scatlin, had fired his Kiln for him when he failed fo appear at 2 o'clock Discovery of the body was made | by H. E. Raup, principal of the Beech Oreek school, who glanced In | the cars as he was taking a walk. Clinton Courity Coroner . WJ (Cotitiniudd on page einity i i i i § i i Phe California returns buried the | audience wis in the “wll” story. Concluding his account | tinued, and then, { twinkle in his eve, grew reminiscent children not physically equipped to drive the bus, Gray was apprehended Thursday when a warrdnt was issued by the Rush township school board for continued failure of Cray to send his children, Florence, 9. Edward, 8, and Betty, 7, to school. The Gray children had been missing school for some time, it developed at the hearing. The school! board charged Florence hud missed 12 days of hool, Edward, 12, and Betty, 10 day After hearing his sentence levied on him Gray stated that his child- ren still would not go to school as long as the present driver continues to drive the school bus | At a previous hearing held Nov was given time recon- sider his actions. He was told that upon payment of fines accruing for that time and If he returned his 1 to school no further action taken. However Cray failed to make his appearance at the scheduled time and as § result was arrested on «, Caray to iii Gels Gun Lost 13 Years Thirteen years ago, while Walter Martin, of Texas, was in Denver, Colo., participating in the Great Western Handieap, a valuable gun wag stolen from him. Martin has just received word from Denver po- Hee that the gun had been found in a pawnshop and was being return- ed to him. | NUMBER 46. Random [tems The O i J oy 8 oa | | | | | Idtimer A RABBIT BH, WELLWEL THAT Takes ME BACK HE TIME WHEN | WAS YOUR AGE RIGHT HERE WHERE WERE STANDING, DEER AND FOX USED TO ROVE ALL AROUND MERE SHUCKS, My BROTHER AND | NEVER (AME HOME WITHOUT DRAGGING A GREAT BIG DOE BEHIND QS FIREMEN GUESS WRONG Confronted with two alarms sounded simultaneously, Osceola volunteer firemen on Sunday guess- od wrong. Result: one house burn- ed to the ground Firemen were aircady battling fire at the Sam Penny home when the siren again sounded. Not know- | Ing the condition of the latest fire and since the pumper was already in use at the Penny fire, the ladder truck was sant to the scene of the latest fire, But the firemen sent the wrong truck. The Penny fire wig asl) put out while the Harry MoGonigal home at Dungan-White annex where the ladder truck wis Ee BMS Was chu h destroys The McGonigals, at time, found a rulned they arrived at the fire the home was saved alarm answered by 2 firemen Sunday, fire broke the George Osewalt home ly put out, No causes r any of the three fires - Tolerance oan be abused and Wn n happens that those who yell t lor toleranc practice it or i at Lhe ome when Nothin Tr g in the third TALLY given § RRR — fast-talking, easy-thinking, the person who pul n advice, o Af sod dye JVICUAS | TRAP SEASON OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA: TO | | i CLOSE ON JANUARY 31 Skunks Can Be Taken Legally at Night With Dogs and Hand Lights In Effort fo Re- duce Objectionable Animals The general trapping season that | annually nets a million dollars’ worth of pelts in Pennsylvania | opened last Friday morning The genérdl season on mink oposum and skunk contifives until Jan. 31. The season on muskrats which may be taken by traps only, will open Ded. 1, and continue until Jan. 131 An open season on otters also was declared by the Game Commission from Dec. 1 to Jan, 31, in Monroe Pike, Busquehanna and Wayne Counties. The season limit wag set at three Beavers counties 3a may be trapped In 21 from Jan. 15 (0 Jan, 31 with a season limit of three Pennsylvania is suffering from 4 “present surplus skunk population,’ Came Commission reported Announcing opening of the gean- eral trapping season, the comimis- sion advised that skunks “Can now be taken legally at night with dogs | and band lights” in an effort to re- duce the number of the odoriferous mammals “Perinsylvania’s the f itl if-hefrery con- | situte a great nafurdl resource and the commission is delermined ww protect that resource as well as the individuals who derive a portion of their living from it." a game oom- mission spokesman said “The commission has been mak- ing a special effort 10 see that fur buyers pay trappers fair and rea- sonable prices, and a number of MORE OLD HUNTING Last week's narrative concernéd the hunting adventures of Tom 8 Delong, of Curtin, a8 related to the editor of this newspaper some forty years ago. It ended with the story of Mr. Delong killing two bucks whose antlers had become locked while engaged in deadly com- bat. Although a strictly truthful man, Mr. Delong occasionally od a Ifttle humor into his otherwise thrilling tales, éspecially when his mood for a of how he managed to get his two horn-locked bucks to camp he pro- ceeded to further entertain his lis- toners: Knowing that deer prodoce a new rack each season and that the oid ones are seldom found in the woods by hunters, ft ix a question of what becomes of them, Mr. Delong con- with a visible Unusual ‘Discovery’ He told how the following season he went hunting in the same region | infect | Ftc ————————————— ATS in which he had Eflled his (wv fighting deer. Curlogity Induced him to travel several miles out of his way to visit the spot where he had had his remarkable experience He had little in getiing there, but the late season had caused trouble the vegetation to grow to consider h able height. Nevertheless, Imagine his astonishment on reaching identical spot, at finding 190 fe fAawWns, one grown on cach side of the old heads He quickly dispatched them cutting them off where they grew taking care not to injure the orig- mal heads. Por several sucoteding seasons Mr. Delong kept this a pound secret, but made his ans trip to his hunting ground and ai- ways secured (7) his crop of fawns He added that profesional) duties had prevenied him from goin the woods that year but he was much concerned as 10 how his deer plant was operating Remarkable Incident Dropping back into a more serious vein Mr. Delong explained how he by HO ys # g & a remiarkatie shot killed a deer, and nto camp, i Was made he right ft Lhe ¢ lobe of the animal's ear When asked 0 : had sec i the deer id be had fired while the ani- mal wis seralehing its ear with its bhind hoof ¥ If was his lust Bullet he had left T sion of the ball blind- the eve. deadetied the hearing crippled the hd fost. The animal Marted Wo fm 1 the Injuries beifg all on the right side caused it to weaken and describe a circle Ona A 4} when b ir al 1 ind hoof & A 4 ae by ad The concw od wv frightened As nearér and fearer until exhsusted it dropped near his feet, where he dispatched it with his knife A Remarkable Gun In all of Mr. Delong’s hunting (trips up 0 the time these stories {were related, he carried the samhe gun. I was a fine pled of work. manship., a family relie, loom which his ADVENTURES SPR—— a | brought to this country and used In ball had only pene- | He had only fired ance, | {this assertion, t grew weaker | 1 the tircie became smaller and came | i | | community an heir. | great-grandiather | the Revolutionary War with good effett It had been handed down from generation to geheérstion af a great treasure and man? exciting Inci- dents and remarkable adventures | were fssochuted with it. The gun, 10 | nis mind, was almost human, and be | fairly worshipped it. As proof of one incident alone 1 will suffice Once on 8 hunt, he snapped atl a | large bedr, but the cap only ex- ploded. He took It from his shoulder to replace 4 new cap, and the bear started to run While lying in his arm, the gun of {18 own actord, without aim or assistance, fired itself and the ball went fair Into the center of the Bers skull, Killing it on the spol. The reputation of the gun was well known throughout Curtin and | Liberty townships. 80 accurale was its work that old marksmen in that would withdraw from a shooting maich as soon as Mr, De- Long and his gun got into action A STEP FORWARD (By H. C. EGAN) (Editor's Note—However one may | look upon the necessity for thé re- | cently established publle library in! Bellefonte, the educstional possibil- | {ities of such a public institution can | scarcely be denied after reading the following article. Mr, Eagan, the author, a native of Centre county, fs well qualified to speak of the! value afforded by a library of this kind, and points out the best meth. | {ods for achieving the desired knowl- ‘edge found in books. We recommend | Mr. Eagan's letter to every reader of tricts for high school tuition when this newspaper.) County Schools To Get Payments | State Auditor Approves $2. 712.82 for High School Tuition Auditor General Warren R. Rob- | erts last week approved payments aggregating $20858090 to achool districts in 556 countieg of the Male to reimburse those districts for high school tuition. Centre County will receive $2712.82. The payments are to be made un- der the provisions of Section 17T11-A of the School Code, which requires the state to reinburse school dis- they are required $0 pay tuition in | another district, By H. C. Egan | Centre county added another! Payments are 10 be made in ac- cordance with the old schedule. The igreat asset to its score a few days 1907 legislature amended the sec- {ago when it opened its new county | Hon of the code fixifig the basis of “ham dnd eggs” pension proffam |jibrary. It made available s college PSYments, which was to have gone by a tremendoty margin, but thére was planned. would havé paid the past 50 up to $30 a week, and wotild have been financed by a system of | staté seript, Pension leadérs declared they | would start & récall movement against Gov. Culbert L. OOH, who eggers” last year, were three-fotrths a¢ many deliver cated to the feet that the average the near future when the little an- | patient receives the most éfficient care from Both doctor and nurse if tesvoom in front of the delivery room will be fitted up for the pa- he 1s on the same premises With the | tients in labor, pulmoto¥, Xray chine, or WY apparatus that at a critieal moment. ! Last year 1410 persons were ad- | mitted to the Centre County Hospi tal. Classed as a 53-bed institution, | Private patients pay from $4.50 to ¢ éome in handy $850 4 day. for which they g6t room, three meals a day served in bed, and | attenition Aursing , Hotel fredtment at boarding house rites. Ward pa- tients are expected to pay $3 to $4 an average of 48 beds was filled dally. THe éxpéndes of those who are | each day. More and more women are i indigent are met inadequately by the preferring to have their bables in State appropriation. These ward pa- the hospital, In 1938 there were 271 births, as against 219 in the Lewistown, and hospital in [tients reéédive medical and nursing bed attention there 1 to thosé given the ( on Page 7) found between book covers If we know how to extract it. Correct ! reading will do that for you. What! profit may we expect from reading books? What is there in books that makes us grow, that makes us of more value to ourselves, and to those whom we want to impress... our employers, our friends, those upon whom we depend for our suc- cess and for our own happiness? We all know that from books we got a store of facts and idéas that are valuable to us. In addition, reading correctly will give us the following values and qualities which are completely essential to making ourselves: Judgment: information: memory: better gpeech; metital stimulation; ®, | education for every individual in| iP%o effect after last July 1. The t00, sponsors said a further fight ithe county by practically bringing | Tecent legisiature, however, in the The proposition [the college into the home free, All| Seneral postponer bill,” approved unémployed | the education in the world can be! 13st June 26, suspended the new Senile until the school year 1940- | sch Under the old schedule the maxi- | | mum paid by the state to a school’ 20 district for the tuition of any Righ/ school pupll may not exceed $20 a year, : > People under a cloud sometimes | forget that the sun is stil shining. | Fire Damages Nine Passengers and Driver Escape Injury When Fire Breaks Out | Nine passengers in the Pittsburg- Scranton bound bus of the Orey- hound lines, escaped Injury and burns Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock, when fire Broke out in the veliicle, traveling east of route 45 about one and a hall miles west of | Lewisburg, The operator of the bus told members of the William Cameron Engine Company, at Lewisburg, and slate motor police who investigated, that the blaze was caused either by Greyhound Bus | West Decatur Residents Come | serve records relating to the burial | of soldiers, marines, and members | of the enlisted corps who served in Car Crashes Tree to Grief on Moun- tain Road parry | MOF, | grave marking project Three Hurt When | fur-buyers have been denied re- newal of permits because it was found they were paying country boys only part of what their pelts were worth “At he all raw furs to licensed buyers gylvania one of whom oar his per- ion to prospective time being in Pen practically sOld direct v - + 4 presen are each miy for presental sellers The traps with the Ld WTS, commission warned that all must be “properly lagged name and address of the and visited at least once iT the commission within ten days after closing of (he season. It recommended to trappers that “simple and eflective methods of (Continued on page eight) a Youthful Hunter Is Killed By Gun 18-Year-Old Clearfield County Resident Victim of Sad Accident An accidental discharge from his shotgun ripp6d off part of Russell sor's head and caused the 18- year-old Clearfield county youth's death after he had stopped work al a Boggs Township coal mine last Wednesday afternoon to take a few hours off for 4 hunting spree The body wis fund in & shed on the Lumadue homestead near West Decatur when tne owner of the mine where Wisor worked De- came worried over fe youth's jong abserice and Organized a searching By followifiz Wisor's tracks in He ‘griow the gedrehing party, head- éd by Alfred Woods, owner of the mine where the boy worked found tHe Body siumped in the shed his shot gun 1ying nearby The fhoigun accidentally dis- charged, blowing off pari of the youth's head when the shot travel ed through his chin Sherman Wi- father of the first Clearfield county hunting fatality for this year, stated the safety on the gun young Wisor was using was of a type which could have been dis- charged if the gun were dropped Clearfield County Coroner E E Erhard investigated the death and said the death was aocidental His parents, six brothers and five sisters swrvive the West Decatur youth. - WPA Approves Grave Marking Project A $5220 allotment for a federal in Centre Countly has reoeived presidential approval it was announced in Wash- inglon las; week. The project, advocated by veter- ans’ organizations, is sponsored by | the Centre County Commissioners. It is designed to compile and pre. | the military, naval, or other Three West Decatur residents were injured Sunday night on the! [Port Matlidi-Philipsburg motintain | road four miles from Philipsburg, | when thelr car struck a culvert and | then rammed into a tree Injured were: W. R. Woods, driver | {of the car, who received a fractured | | breast bofe, torn Np and lscerated | (chin; Mrs. Martin Wood, lacderated forehead and face, fractured nose, | deep lacerations of the lefl Jeg and | a short circuit In the wiring or al backfire of the motor. The flames | did not reach the interior of the bus which was stopped off the high- Way as soon as (he smoke was dis- covered, A telephone call fo Sunbury, dis- trict terminal, brought an emergen- on their journey within a short time, d towed the disabled vehicle 0 . Sunbury. The fire alarm was sounded at 4 o'clock, and chemicals were used in| extinguishing the flames. ~The most news for §1 50. severe chest injuries; Martin Wood, | chest injuries i Motor police said Woods, traveling | towards Philipsburg, wrecked when | (he attempted 0 pass another car | cy bus and the passengers continued | Another bus returned later | ipsburg. | | | i | J traveling in the same direction. Ac- | cording to motor police the Woods | All luggage was removed intact car hit the culvert and then hurtled | into the path of a tree when the | car rammed head-on. | The injured were treated at the | office of Dr. W. R. Heaton in Phll« KEEPING UP WITH THE branches of the combative forees of the United States during any war in which the nation was engaged. The work will include the in- spection of burial grounds, prepar- ing cemetery plot maps, checking { death and burial records, and pre- | paring a record showing name, ser- vice, connection, place, date and cause of death, and place and date of Burial | No interviewing of, or correspon | denice with friends or relatives of vélerans is 10 be done by WPA B -——- TOVGH GOING Ho, Hum! What to write to fill up this 15 or 20 inches of pure white space! We haven't an idea. Here is space many of you would just love Lo fill. Herd iy space on which might be writtent a Nobel prize-winning editorial ~humfn interest story, or what have you Euf we're as ceriain this won't rate a Nobel prize as we are that this space is filled, come pletely, even if we put every sub scriber Lo sleep In the proosss Bub. seribers, on the whole, are pice people. They pay thelr bills, treat you well, don't yell too much about split Infinitives and dangling pare ticiples; overlook bad spelling and punctuation, and once in & while they even have the good wih to compliment you “G. E. RB” SPEAKS A Centre Hall resident who signs himself “G. E R"” submits an n- leresting letter to this department, in which he treats rather lightly our recent report on wvaler sme lers of Centre county. "CG. E R says he's been in the well<drilling business since he was 17 years oid, 50 weTe going to tread lightly and work in the belie! that he's learned more in a Bfetime of hunting water than this department learned in an afternoon's interview with a water. smeller. He says if he could smell water In the manner in which we described the art, he'd be 3 rich man today. Citing one example of the fallibility of locating under. ground water with a peach branch, “G. E.R” goes on to add that you can find water anywhere if you are mechanic enough to keep the hole going straight down until you reach water. Ah, yes! But “0. BE. R.” wil] have to admit that the water-smell- ing story made good reading! BOOK NOTE Friends have been bothering us lately to get down to business and write the book we've been contem- plating for some years We are pleased 10 report that the volume, which would be entitled “Women Who Had Loved Me,” did advance to the point where we had an intro- duction prepared, but after compar- ing notes with a few of the old mas- ters on that subject, including Boc- cacio and 2 thumb-worn issue of an oid Police Gazelle we've decided that anyihing we might have to say would be suitable material for a guide for Young People. 80 we're changing the title to “The Stand- ard Eclectic Review on Social Eti- quetie.” LAURELS TO LOVE This week's bouquet goes fo At- torney John G. Love, of Heronte, the wif , who on Armistice Day ai the school commons proved that he has a nat. ural gift for oratory. Two minutes before the Armistice spedker was scheduled 10 appear, master of cere. monies Captain Herbert M. Beepér received a call that the speaker was detained near Amify Hall because of motor trouble. Mr, Love was drafied as a substitute, and let it be known that he delivered as smooth, well-rounded and forceful an Ar- mistice Day address as this depart- ment has heard in many a day. SCHOOL NEWS When Messrs. Brouss, Moore and Schad are sworn into offer 4s school directors next morith they will con. stitute 4 majority vole on the board, for the only hold-over metibers are Mestre, Hartranft and DeHass. Con- sequefifly, If the triumvirate holds together, they will have more or less of a free rein in conducting the school's affairs. On the eve of their ascendency into office we wish them Tuck, and hope that they keep ever before them the fact that the great- est need of the school district is a new school building. If they hew to that line they can't go far astray. workers. The county will maintain ° the records after thé completion of | the project. | While a fellow worker was gone | for a few minufes on an efrind Landis T. Tingling hafiged Himself | friefids: “Never get up you have the strength ped.”
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