OVER 7,000 COPIES Printed and Distributed Each Week, Covers Thoroughly Every Town and Village In Centre County. aghe Centre Democrat MORE CLASSIFIED ADS Per Issue Than All Other Centre County Newspapers Combined. A Quick and Economical Selling Medium, VOLUME 59. NUMBER 27. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1940, SUBSCRIPTION—$150 PER YEAR COUNTY TOWNS PREPARE FOR 4TH Many Celebrations Fireworks Display inl Bellefonte; Full Pro- gram at Hecla Park ALPHAS HOLD FETE AT STATE COLLEGE Mammoth Parades Are Planned in Philips- burg, Altoona countians will in finding plenty and excliement Fourth, a survey revealed A full day of activities at Hecla Park will swell the coffers of the Bellefonte Chapter Red Cross war relief fund, for the management has agreed to turn over 12% per cent of the day's gross receipts to the fund A mammoth sponsored by the ber of the Bellefonte, at Centre trouble sions have no diver- July of on fireworks display, Bellefonte Cham- Commerce, will be held at Community Athletic Field 8:30 o'clock Thursda night, July 4. The display will be preceded by an hour's concert by the American Legion and Auxiliary Junior Band, of Bellefonte. During the concert members of a young peoples’ volunteer committee will take up a collection far the Red Cross fund Elsewhere throughout the and in neighboring counties will be much to attract Zens. 8 county local citi- Activities at College The annual July Fourth celebra- tion of the Alpha Fire Company State College, will be held on South Allen street, where a midway is be- ing prepared. Hummel! Fishburn will have charge of an amateur hour contest which will begin at 11 2 m. on the Fourth The Lemont band will give a con- cert on the midway at 2 p. m., after which the pet show, outstanding event for youngsters, will get un- derway. A league game between Bellefonte and State College teams will begin at 3 p. m the new community field, State College Prizes totaling $175 will be award- in a parade which will mo 6 m. through the busines of Slate College and a darkness descends, R. Y and a crew aides will a colorful fireworks display, visible from the midway Philipsburg Program Philipsburg firemen are holding their annual celebration this week, with the climax scheduled for the Fourth At 6:30 o'clock this night a fire fighting staged at the Moshannon Bank (Continued on page five) So ——— nn ns Seck Man Who Fled Rockview Harry Castor Makes Escape, While Driving Prison Farm Spraying Outfit on ed ve al Area as Sigworth Dp Oon of touch aff easily Wednesday drill will be Harry Castor, serving from 7 to 15 years at Rockview penitentairy on a robbery charge in Washington county, escaped from the local pris- on at noon, Friday, and up until yesterday had not been apprehend- ed. Castor, a coal miner by occupa- tion, was employed at the prison as driver of a specially-built spraying truck. He was engaged in spraying potatoes on one of the prison farms about 12 o'clock noon, when he left the truck and walked away. His escape was discovered about 12:15 and the far-flung organization for the apprehension of fugitives was put in motion Castor’s minimum sentence would have expired on January 8, 1945. Prison officials sald that they re- ceived a report that a man believ- eq to have been Castor stopped a a filling station between State Col- lege and Skytop, Saturday night for a meal. Although officers sur- rounded the area, no trace of the man could be located, Castor is 24 years old, is 5 feet 5% inches tall and weighs 152 pounds He has blonde hair, blue eyes and is of medium fair complexion. Spring Mills To Celebrate Fourth Because rain marred the festival which was to have been held last weekend in Spring Mills by the Gregg Township Civie Club, the or- | ganization has completed plans to! hold the event on Thursday even | ing. July 4, it was announged yes-| terday. Entertainment will include popu- lar entertainers from the radio stations at Willlamsport and Sun- bury, and music will be furnished! by the Junior and Senior Band of Spring Mills. ments and entertalnment avaiable on dhe grounds, 500 Cas truck to haul the damaged ca All kinds of refresh-; will be! Listed For Holiday Undines, Legion Band Win Four Prizes nt Bellet fonte captured a total of the Fireman's da Thursday night Two promine ization prizes at held rone The organ- four parade 108 ularly fact that eatest ex- equipment years. A and many marching the of marc AWArds are nificant because the parade was hibition of fire-fighting seen Tyrone in many total of 37 fire companies drum co: bai and uniis appeared i line The Undine Fir ¢ Company three prizes, as follows: first best appearing pumper; first best appearing nj ond for the honors for the } he Brooks-Dall Post American Le- and Auxiliary Junior Band prize for the largest com- went to Hope Fire Company Philipsburg. Philipsburg v award for the 1 dru im corps par of the as best band Lhe ton sstt—— A ca———— Truck Spills Load of Kraul 'S of C aed Food Scattered on Road as Big Machine Overturns undred case: kraut were Nittany Highway, near Fishing ek school house 3 miles east of Bellefonte at 2 clock Friday afternoon when large 10-wheel truck skidded on | Five 1 Aer of Silver ¥loss scattered over the Va the Cre shout 9 0 | rain-soaked road and overturned The Lruck Smith, of Ballimare by Lester C. Randall and was enre Belle - the time. On rounding a f a hill 41114 YW hed by Creorge Md. wa of Bal- Ww driven timore fonie at carve at nite to the top © the truck apparently went af control back and high -crowned spilling i's road hered overturned load of kraut over the The damage at more One-way past the accident scene of workmen piled up undamaged CASES kraut and she hun- dreds of damaged cans off the road A wrecking truck from Bellefonte was unable to right the six-ton ma- chine until a score or more of by- standers volunteered aid the wrecking crew in the truck to its wheels It £200 traffic maintained until a WAL Crew of veiled 0 lifting five small nneda required trips by a goods to Bellefonte. - Class Hears Talks on Duties of Parents Miss Mary Struble, of Zion ed her spacious home on Friday evening to entertain the Ladies’ Bible class of the Zion Union Sun- day school, of which Miss Struble is an active member he newly-elected president, Mrs Lyman White, selected as the even- ing's topic “Parents Are People, Too.” and all members gave a read- ing relative to the topic. Mrs. Ward Krape had chosen a passage from Ephesians as a Bible reference to associate with her comments on the topic. Mrs. Krape declared that the level of a community is no higher than its homes, and that homes are no higher than the co-operative training and rearing of children by the parents Mrs. Krape reminded the group that the husband is the head of the house, even as Christ is the head of (Continued on page eight) open- OIL. LABORATORY AT PENN STATE ENLARGED The petroleum refining laboratory of the Pennsylvania State College, which has made Pennsylvania oil the best known chemically in the nation, has been enlarged by ap- proximately 1.000 square feet of new floor space. The added space ment. Now rounding out its tenth year of continuous research, the Penn State laboratory has won a nation- ul reputation Tor its methods of routine analysis, and many of its procedures have been adopted by laboratories in other regions, A staff of more than 30 members is kept | busy in the laboratory. { Dr. M. R. Penske, professor of chemical engineering in charge of industrial research, recently gave a ten-year report of Penn State's pe- troleum discoveries before the an- nual meeting of the Penn Grade Crude Oll Association, which spon- sors much of the Penn State pro-| ion was needed to accommodate a grow- | ing amount of heavy testing equip- Leaves Penn State DR. E. L. NIXON Dr. Nixon Resigns Penn State Post Will Devote Time to Improv- ing Farm Marketing Practices Nixon for Years a of Pennsy the member ivania n his duties as Ag- 1 Counsel for Chain Store mncement, of I was made John » Council Nixon Or execu FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL PLANNED AT CENTRE HALI Centre Hall the Centre Hal t will be Urgay Park Cen re Dale Clan Holds Annual Reunion ! Present at Family Gather- ing at Grange Park, Centre Hall The fo irth anr ian? WARS wid at ITAnge Catherine Park, ad © Dele Centre Hall The officers elected ing year are: president, J vice president, J. K. Dale; secretary, Hilda Corman; treas- Jared Eminhizer, and histor- ian. Jean Dale Those in attendance were as fol- lows: J H M. Ssver and daugh- ter Sara, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Houtz and children, Mrs. Roy Wirtz, Mr and Mrs. Grant Coble, Dorothy Coble. Charles Coble, Suzy and An- thony Broskley, Rev. and Mrs. Hom- mer E. Gauntt and children, Ruth ressler and daughter Helen, Mr and Mrs. John White, Mr, and Mrs Eugene White, Dale and Elwood (Continued on page eight) —-——— UCK IN LAR POTTERS MILLS Damage estimated at nearly $50 resulted in an accident on route 322, 1 mile west of Potters Mills at 2:10 o'clock Monday afternoon when a truck driven by Robert C. Shirk, of Millmont, BR. D. 2. and a sedan op- erated by Mary J. Charters, Altoona, met at an intersection According to reports, both ma- chines were traveling in the same direction with the truck in the lead When the truck turned left into a side road. the Charters car attempt- ed to pass. No one was injured, and damage to the truck was placed at $15. and to the car $35 An information was sworn before Justice of the Peace K. W. Carson, at Potters Mills, charging Miss Char- ters with improper passing, it is re- ported ¢ com- A Dale; record. Ig urer, uret CAR AN. CRASH — Senior Recovering Homer Senior aged 27. of Yarnell, | who was seriously injured on June 15 when his ear was struck gf the | brickyard crossing in Milesburg by | A passenger tras, 8 reported to be | recovering County hospital wiiere he has been undergoing trestment since the ac- cident Senior suffered a fractured verte bra in the peck in addition to other injuries. Reports are to the effect that he will be compelled to wear a cast for some time after he is able to Jeave the hospital, slowly at the Centre| Lightning Gets Credit for Landing Largest Trout In Season of 1940 Pictured killed In © The lengt above entre this inches pounds county 29 10 fish ured in meas wd weigh uth h a wd I'he trou’ 1 holding the the fish, He a Dey pioto catch " Ley when neon h was cheated of it in life IL lived mammoth ngler dreams It grew in and the calcli- that rew trout Kind ever omecay placed ol 80 iarge received anglers and angiereiies Wednesda iarkencd. A of Srnoon torm broke p fash lightning over nd Our Hero died a 80 did several smaller pond death the 8a adise, and s« sudden in Dewey trout Wael veral of his of the fish loaded it taxidermy es. renson “uperinier ne CArCas: They t0a nde NAS and mount ‘Pari wall of Airmail Pickup Uncertain Here Decision to Be Announced Later By Civil Aeronau- tics Authority stuffed turned to the of Civ) ATE WeIgTOng whether ti Aprore; f oped act ovide alr Rep CAA was a Americ al the will be reached state iL 1 or officially robably be before the middle of July Robert J. Bartoe, CAA examiner in a report filed May 21 recom- mended that CAA had ue a certificate of venience and necessity authorizing the transportation of mail by air when such transportation would re- quire the use of patented pick-up and delivery equipment He also recommended that the ithority find that the public con- venience and necessity do not re- quire the transportation of persons and property only over the pro- posed routes no power to public con- fs ew Miss Farrar Is Honored at Dinner Bellefonte Woman Cited as ‘Most Valuable Sales Person in Thrift Organization’ H. R. Hickox of the Thrift In- vestment Corporation gave a testi- monial dinner $0 a few of his friends and some stock-holders in the din- ing-room of the Penn Belle Hotel last Thursday night, to Miss Helen I. Farrar, who has so successfully placed stock for the Centre County Thrift, Philipsburg Thrift, Williams- port Thrift and the Thrift Invest. ment Corporation. Mr. Hickox an- nounced there was no stock sale in any of the first three mentioned companies—that all were on a divi- | dend paying basis from 6 per cent to 10 per cent He gave a brief history of | Morris Plan banks, which pioneered industrial banking in the United States. He explained that Arthur Morris gave all credit of the found- ing of the Morris Plan banks to his mother who insisted that he follow this line of business instead of fol- | { lowing his father's advice who want- ed him to become a merchant or a banker Fifteen years ago, Mr. Hickox ex- plained, Thrift Investment Corpor- { ation founded the which there are now 43 successful | units. He pointed out that the wholly owned companies have sahwn their operation to be more profit | able and the outstanding loan bal-' a | Ance has grown more rapidly under | | their management than when di’ | (Continued on page six) is the largest trout administration Beason. | vt the | first industrial’ bank in Western Pennsylvania, of Under | reading when Crrand ps Died Jui 49 Name Malfern School Officer Succeeds Charles Cook as Treasurer; Stock Given Purchasing Power whic? posed buikding pro- invoived and trying contended boc keep talieg in the pre gram will be an process, board members The vole was 3 to 1 favor of Mr. Mattern, Mr. Hartranii casting dissenty ballot A mark ribute to Mr Cook. The {treas- (Continued on page three) ———— List Contributors To Fireworks Fund The following organizations and individuals have contributed to the Chamber of Commerce fund for the | Fourth July fireworks display here Thursday nignt. July 4. at 4:30 w'clock Dr. J. M. Brockerhofl. White Rock Quarries, Colonel Pred Reynolds I. OO F. No. 152, American Lime Stone Co. uiton Engineermng Co, Bellefonte Trust Company, Logan Fire Company, V. F W.,, Max Herr, First National Bank, Eig: Club, Penn Belle Hotel, Loyal Order of Moose, C. C. Brown, Bellefonte Central RB. R. Employes, EM. Cart. wright, Gienn Zong. J. A. Rounsiey, C.C beth Barnhart; West Penn Power Co. Commercial Department Employes, Court House Employes, Bond C. White, Virginia Miller. Geraldine Bilger. Fred Hal { fer, John 1. Wetzler, Musser Get ang £374 in “or " JIE Oi a A% of { tig, Edward R. Miller, Lewis R. Len- hart, Russel Beeger, Verna Chara hers, R R. Hartsock H M. Hoste man, Lemer Woodring. Swirl LE. Smith Walter Armstron?, Glen Rogers, Helen Geer. Arthur Sloop. Judge Ivan Walker, Mary L. Hartic, Harry Keeler, Chas F. Hiop's, : C. Mensch; Post Office Employes, M. Smith, | F. Smith, A. J. Baylor, H. Meese, | J. M. Hartswick, T. BR. Cowen, Post | George R. Meek, W. C.| Toner, C. W. Corman, | master Rowe. R L J. M. Waite. R. 8. Rider, P. J. Al. ters. F. Schlegel, J. Harry Oarbrick, | | Carl Deitrich, W. W. Gherrity, Sam-! uel Barmhart, Federal Match Com-| pany, John McCoy. Manufacturing Company, Heineman, and Fred Witmer, i + +d Bryan, GG. E. McClellan, Eliza- | F | Sentence Man Former Co. Official For Theft of Injured In Collision ~ Steam Engine Elwood Wolfe, of Spring Mills, Admits Larceny of 6-Ton Machine TELLS COURT HE WAS IN NEED OF MONEY Service Station Owner Fined for Maintaining 5-Cent Slot Machine ¥ to the larceny of steam engine, Elwood Walle 24 8p ring Mills junk dealer setitenced by Judge Ivan Walker Monday momming to pay the of prosecution, make restitu- tion af the value of the engine, and to undergo probation te h . a 6-1 aged WLS nere Cont a for a period ‘ Le H silement made Pri. 8. R : fd Mc Pe Rockview, the steam engine owned by the Pennsylvania De- ariment of Property and Supplies nd was stolen on February 20 from Slover's miles in itor Lhe Stats Lor Quarry. five east of Cobur: IVES - picked the inte! on page WOMEN OF MOOSE HOLD INST ALLATION CEREMONIES ye on he (fg) Exercises fens Women ited] A w Moose alist eling of Er | 133 ¢ Nellie Regent 5. Ru the Grad af ti Mrs Benlor Hull aces Wen ve Regent's ale plea 13 gave st Graduate weaver $ anc eg Weaver hn PE the next incres membership named a delegate to convention ational Hassinger held July Bese meeting will be —— ce ——] ——————— Prominent State College Man Dies Iliness Fatal to C. B. Steel; Was Active in Veterans’ and Civic Affairs Charlies Benschof! Steel aged 52 assistant professor of highway en- gineering at the Pennsylvania Stale College and prominent State Ooi- lege civic worker, died at 1 o'clock Sasurday morning. June 20, 1840 in the Williamsport Hospital of a com - plication of diseases. He had been ailing for several years Mr. Ste¢l was a charter member of the State College American Le- gion, Nittany Post No. 245, ang 2 former past commander of the or- ganization. He was a delegate 10 one of the national conventions ang always took an aclive part in the Legion activities He wag a member of the plan- ning board for the State College Legion park and had charge of the (Continued on page four) Milesburg Man Is injured In Crash Carl Jodun, of Milesburg, an em- ploye of the Lock Haven Silk Mill suffered a laceration of the right side of the head and brush burns of the knees and chin shortly be fore 1 o'clock last Wednesday noon when his light roadster, which he was backing onto the road in Mil Hall, was struck by another car! traveling west. Jodun, who said he was alone in| the car at the time, to the Look Haven Hospital for! treatment and later discharged. He | had gone to Mill Hall to get a fel- | low silk mill worker when the crash occurred, the impact throwing him | against the windshield, Constable Injured Constable David a Probst, of | k Haken, while at work recently hriije at hig Summer | Pine Creek, Jost his) attempting to break | threw out his hand | down on a board with | which went entirely | palm. toxin to prevent tetan- | later it was Ly iE) the wound, it, dent BALSER WEBER Injured in Head-on Crash - Borough Wome and Goods to Be Sold Bale of th Bellefonte Borough originally sburday wR mony this the personal will be Home not scheduled postponed Bat of week, July HrOTe ry Man we be u el ———— “ Health Officer 23 May be Chosen r Council ( ‘onsiders Succes- sor to Dr. Nissley; Dis- cuss Traffic Problems UBSIOTIE UPON wough Heal 8 M Nissiey current the Officer resigned problems Beliefonte Council iar session at Monday night selection a Jey was brought mcilman H. A. declared that who is serving as a permanent ap- u 0 replace and upon u traffic weupied We allention of during most of the Logan Hc ater SUCOPSSOT 1 Dr the floor bs ackerhoft a regi nse of Niss Co who since Dr. Nistley health officer until pointment is ma £, is now a vesi- of St College, there is no to keep some Bellefonte resi- from the post Various other Ceuncilmen gested that present ployes could fill the position, or that a board of health, consisting of’ Council members and laymen, could be appointed fo do the work with- oul salary. As a result the matier (Continued on page six) The m of Bry dent ate reason sug- | borough em- AGRONOMISTS 70 MEET AT STATE COLLEGE Members of the Northeastern Sec- tion of the American Society of Ag- ronomy will meet at the Pennsyl- vania State College, July 11 ang 12 The program will include inspec tion of the expriments of the Re- gional Laboratory for Pasture Re- search and of the department of agronomy at the College | below | Balser Ww cher. of Howard, Suffers Fractured Arm, Other Injuries } CARS IN CRASH: TOTAL DAMAGE $700 Weber Sedan Hurled Against Shed on Farm Near Mill Hall one of them a for- mer Centre County official. were sent 10 the Lock Haven Hospital early Friday afternoon with pain- ful Injuries suffered in a three-car eccident on Route 64, a mile and t hall! west of Mill Mall at the Three persons Bpotts-Hanne farm The accident occurred when 3 car operated by John M. Miler Howard, R. D., attempted 10 pass a truck driven by Harold Hendricks of Blanchard both wesi-bound and collided with anoither car going eas, operated by Edward WW. Galls- gher, pf How'd, in which th owner, Balser Weber, of Howard former Centre County commis sioner, was 8 passenger According 10 a report by State Motor Police, Miller's car skidded into the truck io passing before colliding head-on with the Weber 10bile The Smack threw the & tobaccr Se in rid of $25 he buliding Damages estimat- ted atl $500 were listed for the Mil- ler vehicle, while it was estimated $200 would be required to repair th Weber caw. Only fight damage estimated at $1, was done to the Mr Weber wag the most severe injured He received a fracture of he eft arm and nose, lacerations the efi eye and at the | contusions of the face and Brush | burns of the body. Mrs. Beatrice Desenberger. 50 Bellefonte avenue, a passenger in the Miller cur, had lacerations of the {ace and body and brush burn: Miss Blanche Young of Beer Creek, another passenger in the Milier automobile, suffered a frac- tured wight amn ang brush and sbraisons of the chest, face and Aulom Weber shed wo 1109 re m injured were by T MM daughter Miss Jean Blanchard who passed soon after the crash Cars operated by Jasper BierDy of Salona, anf PF. 1. Winner, Sr. of Lock Haven were damaged at 7 o'clock Saturday momrmning. when thel oollided at the intersection of Main and Grove Streets. Lock Ha- ven. Bilerly was driving east on Main while Winner was traveling south on Grove. Damages wer? $25 to the Bierly car and $5 to the Winner machine. There were 00 injuries taken Kunes Kunes the stene to the and of aii Hand Bumed By Matches Wiliam Reed, aged 38. of Altoona, was treated in the Alloons Hospital the other evening for burns of the left hand suffered when & paper book of matches caught fire as he Jit 8 cigaret. Mr. Reed Is for- merly of Philipsburg, the son of Mrs. Margaret Reed. He is griting along nicely. STORES OPEN WEDNESDAY Because of the July Fourth holi- day, all stores in Bellefonte, inciud- ing food stores, will remain open this Wednesday afternoon and un tii 8 p.m. All stores will be closed Thurs. day, July 4 Chamber of Commerce officials report Trucker Solis Shoulder For Ham; Short Weights on Meat, Potatoes You may think you're geifing a bargain when some trucker from a distance sells you fruits meats or But chances are you're not. A Bellefonte man, the Rev. C. C Shuey, of East Bishop Street, who | Tearned that he'd been “taken for a | | ride” by a trucker last week took | pot results. It happened that Mrs Shuey inst Thursday afterncon purchased = haif bushel of Jersey potatoes from an out-of <the-pounty trucker, pay- | ing T cents. She also purchased | what was soid to be & “country | cured ham.” at 25 osnts a pound. | The ham, the trucker said, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, but he gave | to her for $2. When Mrs. Shuey and her daugh ter checked over their Durchases | after the trucker had left, the | found that instead of 30 pounds | polatoes they had received | pounds. The ham, they declared, | ‘wasn't ham but shoulder, which | sells * practically anywhere for | around 14 cents a pound. Fhe ham” giin’t weigh 8 poungs, 13 ounces. It tipped the scales al around ¥ pounds. And it wasn't a country cured ham. EB apparently Outside of that were satisfactory, the Shueys 10- bod removed | matters into his own hands anf port. | shoulder, demanded and got the $2 ashe had paid for fi.
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