and Curious “ NEWS MAAR AAW Expects Trouble Mifflinburg firemen, at a meeting Monday night, agreed to have theh pumper present when Francis Dief- fenderfer, Pleasant Grove farmer made ready to thresh his wheat crop. Mr. Dieffenderfer was grant. éd this unique protection when he appeared at the and stated that he had discovered his young son playing with matches in barn and was that the young ster had dropped a number of them in the wheat, A serious ma) be started, he is sent through chine . -_- . “te . Session sure blaze the threshing Strange Bedfellow Awakened In the middle night, Mrs Edward Edgar, Waynesburg, found a big blacksnake cotled around her, with {t only a few inches from Terrified, she leape knocked the grabbed her the bed and ran downstairs until her husband returned work on a night shift in a Edgar, searching cautiously the room, found the snake up inside a pillow slip Late for Work Three Negroes began whitewash at a local in t Louisville, Ky who ordered brought th of ol head face bed floor from her from make to } small daughter 10 stay from mine aroun colle plant a knew Investigation tion from one of ¢ a former off advance for His delay fact seven One In 1,000 A Briton’s or injured by 1.000, Lloyds in decided in offer fans. The one shilling month (appromixately Dear Old Dad At 74, Charles H. Grubb berland, Md., is passing ou again for the second time months. His wile, 38 ha birth to a second daughter first was born in May, 1939 . Quite a Job Eastern New Wexico College out a YY Lo aimuni til “What doing vou lel plied kids he said ne had Years in prison that cnance of ge a Nazi Ix for ev $200) nn 41 have y ENMC?" “Having question ince a lormes co-ed | OUR CREED We believe in the horizontal plication of penaltie all juve- nile crimes and misdemeanors, no matter what the age of the perpe- trator. Lon tley was about the arneriest boy i he ed his tal for a n grew up Lo be our most citizen. Lon says transformation to application of the his meanness. His fs lay him horizontally across and wallop him good sa ———— ANNIVERSARY Birthday of Phoebe Carey September 4th marks the birth- ady of Phoebe Carey (1824-1871) Both she and her sister Alice were poets of charm. Her best known work is “One Sweetly Solemn Thought.” Written in 1852 and never intended to be used as a hymn, it has been adapted to such use, and has become a favorite seven counties rey ther One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er: am nearer my home today, Than ever I've been before I said, when the wheat | ma- | ing $50,000000 air defense program committee in | port termed it “a i Driver Killed at GiCar Re- SECOND SECTION VOLUME 69 . —————————— —————————. Yr ——— Che Cr 4 The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. nive Democrat BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940, Airdrome To | While the state considers a sweep- No. 1 aviation state industrial | Philipsburg Chamber | officials busy planning a | cation program for the Black Moshan will take time Of war, { Commerce dedi centers In | | | aimed at making Pennsylvania the 0 wre nuge The airport at i Satur- | | dedicl jaay, © The led one the state completed Ontrad administration place cons of the finest and large just recently WPA. The state for the construction of building been by let | the « t the recent- lly and it is hoped that a hangar and 4 ' Nad facilities will be talled Both boundary and range have installed but no the the service ins Oon | light been hannon location tate. Wa legislative reviewed which recently ryt 1 {1 tate’'s aeronautica A8Ch~ ‘Tipton Race Track of Pilot Hits Rail in Final Event on labor Day I.ebanon remained in |] during the spills and Was ex by pit crew who, rushed isoene. He died enroute to the Met - Hospital, Altoona Rothrock of Bila juest Would not be em Kelchner $ ody LEECH ir coun- one chner oloved Was thr watchman ne is an engine } : - ¥ Pennsylvania Railroad at Leb anon - ——————— Bandit's Career Ended By Bullet Western Penitentiary Parolee Said to Have Made (Confession stern peni- tentiary ald to have confessed kidnaping-robbing attendant at about 1 days ago Memorial Hospital abdomen bullet an 18-year-old to the of a service station Grazierville Monday at Johnstown, of wound inflicted would-be victim Selvage, who brandisl ver that he stole from lice A. 1. Campbell of whom he attacked in July armed by Andrew Mezzaros Nanty-Glo and wounded after the wandit and his blonde sister-in-law (Continued on page six) en died an by revol- of Po- mer City was dis- a f JOE, THE BARBER Good guess Professor . 1 nd am I glaa get the cut morning, he's gone when some folks of I composure, me ual expressions of ice and hale st time? , , Why people show up to such poor vantage when it comes to politics? . . This kind of thing has helped to give it a bad name Would it be possible to carry on a political campaign without appeals to tem- per and prejudice and suspicion? . . Some people seem to confuse meanness with forcefulness Rather hear a person swear There may be some biological ex- planation; but all I know is thal for some people it just falls out. . T've heard my father talk about the out dirty | but it goes to have to listen to the fil-will and Cut it like is it that chair with all against perpet can a ead ad- | political debates of hig day Have we lost the ability sense the real issues to such a degree that we have to be moved by fears and hates? It appears to me tha! it affords a good basis for dictator- ship They seem to proceed oh the assumption that we will dis- count whatever they say Bure they're able, or good men woulkin’t have nominated them. . . No more difference than between any wc good men. . . Now shut your eyes When a fellow uses foul means it looks ns though he had no hope of winning by fair play. .Yes jus! the same when he falsifies An- other treatment or so and it should be licked. . . No matier which way we vote we'll have to swallow a lof of things our candidate says and ignore a lot said sbout him, . . | That's right, Professor. Thank you i... Next, to Assessment May Be Permanent The groundwork for a proposed new system of real estate assess. ments, taking them out of the hands of elected assessors and pulling them on a continuous basis, is be- ing laid by Pennsylvania county commissioners. Two major features of the pro- posal, as outlined by John O'Neill, of Washington county, are: 1. Replacement of the present tri. | ennial assessment with a continu. ing, permanent assessment of prop-. erty, subject to appeal at any time. 2. Abolition of the present system whereby all assessments are made by elected assessors, and substitu. tion of a permanent assessment ‘bu- reauy in each county, under the county commissioners. The plan was considered yester- day at a meeting of commissioners | from eastern counties, in Harris. burg. A similar meeting of Western Pennsylvania commissioners was held last week at Pittsburgh, “The sentiment at each meeting was that the present assessment Neill, a member of the legislative committee of the commissioners’ i (Continued on page six) to protect its | for Mr of system is unsatisfactory,” said O’-! State’s Black Moshannon Be Dedicated Kent Kane, chairman of the flying into the local haven in the pol der: the rit It wa n od lefens 1¢ { piane to » could be pro- imnort a important ntinental high- iroads committee, In recommen £50.000 000 he defense Mm importance aerial tressed the ; the airpor! islature in the committer pres. ' the Philipsburg Chamber of Commerce Planning he Appropriate Dedication Program For Big Airport Just Completed wil- | About that Time | year (WHY Sarvs) |e NEWS, FEATURES NUMBER 36. Government To Provide Lunches for 4000 Centre County School Children Wider Variety of Food and More of It, is Plan |. of Surplus Marketing Administration; Meats May be Added to Menu The Federal Covernment plans provide free school lunches {or 4000 Centre County school children during the 1940-41 year, The Centre Democral advised from Washingtlon this week This is double the number Centre County youngsters year, In the peak month of April 1940, free lunches were serveq an average dally number of 1962 children in 12 Cemre Cou 2 schools to about was of fed las nLy Throughout the country, plus Marketing Administration plans to feed a total of 6.000, - 000 children in 50.000 schools. Last | year it fed 3.000000 children in 35,- Here's What Draft Bill Will Do | whic! Must all wwh #0 Ww All Here are may soine Questions f " asking about the eflec: ription bil i Whose mMitary numbers are] ome camp? ! the oon and men with dependents d mental defi- Xoept exX0e] the draft by the senate? 21 i 30 Inciu- ween and required Wo do specified bY register De must communitie a day to nal ime. scion hey in ignated i all their who register be called? Gelermine Le byes 1 {Cari t " AERFR ERIS Continuum on page 000 schools, plans for {eeding 5.000, 000 students having been abandoned when, during the first hall of the year the SMA was able to purchase and distribute only a small numbed of the commodities it nwended in the had ide program, 1940 ssh And dried + in abundance and olher Lo ineiy i be available almost officials sald, and mil pork, and perhaps or other meats will be added Centre Coun PACT Monday Fed rroup decided aream has shore Joh @ Motorist, Their ex~ related as follows in the Patriot climbed officials, what eral vaunted road” in perience ig Harrisburg We at Irwin 1:25 o'clock ” 3 n Hh abtoad 1 the We termin § and twenty car rollec ermin- average close tern T i ‘wo hour later th lesex, the eastern away. The distance Was hour min Midd 28 aa 2 38, 1586 ve ute init speed fi to five miles an includes seven time each of the orkmen are giving ishing touches f@in An average ft Was to exceed this mate | IUrse t1 n actual travel. The Local Business Is On Upgrade I All Indices of Bellefonte In- dustries Show Increase Over 1939 Figures The Chamber of Commerce monthly survey of business in Belle fonite reveals that payrolls in July this vear totaled $4542172 more than for the corresponding period in 1938. All other indices of local business show a corresponding in. crease, the survey indicates, Pavrolls in July 1940 were $185. T1528, while in July 1939 the total wag $14035356. There were 270 {more men employed by the ten in- Dotterer’s Stock Beauty Contest championships for stallions, mares | dustries covered In the survey this {year than last, the employe totals ibeing: July 1940, 1632, and July, 1939, 1362 Inbound and outbound carload- ings are up this year. Last month there were 330 inbound cars and bound, 746. The Central Pennsylvania Gas Company figures on gas consump- tion show 1324900 cubic feet last month as compared with 1.306.500 cubic feet in July 1938. Similarly ed by the West Penn Power Com- pany is substantially greater, were consumed as compared with 23940 807 kilowatt hours in June, 1639, Industries participating in the monthly survey are: Titan Metal Manufacturing Co, ©. Y. Wagner & Co. Federal Match Company, Sutton Engineering Co. City Bak- Lime & Stone Co, Chemical Lime 1 Co., Bellefonte Central Railroad, iand the Pennsylvania Railroad, i § y : : : ] Well Down 3.457 Feet, i The Allegheny Gas Company i: { down 3457 feet om the Dan K | Campbell well on the Stonyfork | road, near Wellsboro. This well {close to the Wheeler well, drilled | several yedrs ago by the Lycoming | Natural Gas Corp, where there was { a small showing of gas, is being | watched with great interest, | —Bargains in the Classifieds. ery, White Rock Quarries, American | 1016 outbound cars. The inbound to-' tals for July 19390 was 2687, and out- | electric power consumption report! Ini Grange float which won the first June 1040, 28,772,930 kilowatt hours | prize. : : i TURNPIKE AT 90 3 are ppecd there slow-ups clocked nin- a distance needle an hour over - trees and i - Opes mding roar from the binnkel dropped down to speed Hmit it felt as ro noredibie it with walar Ui a finally Put tunes Shs extremely 8% Pali Wu a x mum veritable the turng has beent built for a high rate of travel Rr wheel Curves Are Banked Wien Curves are banked, or sloped, and | minute ridges have been empodied » concrete surface, The grooves ad remembered sing oad we Ordinary Lway fifty vif ip ET 10 ¥ es 3 # ue ; Eh h ie IN oa INNETR barely noticeable when driving, help san 3 i nave Hn, Hag keep the vehicle from skidding. The flown off car also be brought to & sudden t with barely a slip ¥ whee] can Op in ran iriving New York with urlde to told me that while a priue 0 motorcade Mon- Pavaen tire at eighty- orment, - " . fa hd ad " Engineers point s road batch sand mixed togeth present tummpike composition result of compounds, mix- combinations and many other ate details Whether such a high speed as we managed yesterday will be a part of the new road when traffic be- ging to move over fits surface, re- mains to be seen. Ng official word u of before coming halt. Perhaps the construction the new turn. pike had something to do with that Engineering Triumph No matier what critics of the new road might say, there ix Ltile doubt the $70.000000 piece of work engineering It is 0 a he of § ire nitric Wx that is a tribule to . geared Wo 11s ent-day enginee safety factor is innels Aone 5 ” Ld price of In Cul, on turnpike, engineers Lleraily Lice AWAY a mountain, The cut & 108 feet deep from Wp lo road sur- face and ie tearly one-quarter of mile long Stretching 420 feet from edge W edge, imately 1.150000 cub yards of dirt rem mae way for the Ten-foot benches” or shelves, have been hacked out of the sides of the cut take care of possibie rock and slides Greatest Grade 2 P. C. are about fifty mies curves with 110 miles of straigh driving on the turnpike. The sharp- on the turnpike a radius of 1000 feet Ws with ordinary highway 300 feet greatest grade is 3 {Continued on page six) the Ridge Lhe 3 western pag { hail appr were ve fo highway io dirt There { t Na HAAR Contrast Curves est curve of he per Winner Killed Win Many Prizes Lamar Livestock Farmer “Miss Pittsburgh.” Former Awarded 30 Ribbons For Port Matilda Girl, Dies Best Exhibits From Injuries B. C. Dotterer horses and hogs oe swept the Centre County Grange ... Encampment and Pair competition | ge. last week, collecting 30 ribbons, in- cluding three for grand champion- chosen “Miss Pittsburgh” in an ntic City pageant in 1828, and her inte Nomis old daughter, wer i - ships, and $176 In prize money. | dent pronid i Ele phot ” Mr. Dotterer. one of Central|Bouth Dakota, according to infor- Pennsylvania's best livestock farm- mation received by ers, had 17 Percheron horses and Matilda, colts as well as four Hampshire! p.o ¢.. : ts in connection with the hogs. His prize stock took the Brand | ¢rapety were received. Mrs Grimm {Was on a motoring trip near Can- and hogs, {yon, 8. D., where she lived, when Of the other 27 ribbons, 12 were she lost control of her car which for first place among the horses plunged over the sifle of the high- and colts, nine for second and one | way into a deep ravine. It was sev. | for third, and four for first place [eral days before the wreck and dead in swine competition and one for bodies were found. second The horses won $153; swine re Grimm was a daughter of . {Mr. and Mrs. Orvis Wi 1 In addition to the three grand 3 yilmms ang championships, Mr. Dotlerer prized the showing of his three harnessed teams which took the first three of four awards virtually sweeping the clase, His four horse team took part in the parade drawing the Logan {years ago. She was a graduate of [the Lock Haven Teachers’ College and taught school at Port Matilda several years, Twice married, her first husband wax Jesse Gray, who was killed in an automobile soci | {dent in Bald Eagle valley a few {years ago. She is survived by her (Continued on page six) | {was born at Port Matilda about 35! Blair County Man Killed In Mine ‘Barton C. Bland, 26, Crushed to Death Under Fall of Rock Mrs, Royce Grimm, who, as Miss| Caught under a fall of rock in | 8 helma Williams, of Port Matilda, his father's mine near Blandsburg | | 26-year-old Barton C Bland, of Tyrone, a former Bellwood resi dent, was instantly killed last Wed- | nesday aflernoon. | ing a car at the time of the rock relatives al Port | fal] and was crushed under a large | | rock His father Luke B. Bland {of Bellwood, owner of ihe mine | working near the opening of the | shaft, found his son under the rocks ia few minutes after the cave-in | The injured man died from a brok- {en neck and internal injuries, | He was a son of Luke B. and Cora | (Turley) Bland of Bellwood. He | was married March 7, 1836 at Cum- berland, Md, to Louise Cupper [He wag a member of the Tyrone Methddist church and of the choi and young people's organization ol the church. Jobs often mean little or nothing to those who have them; they mean everything to those needing them BE EE au a a War has casualties among experts as well as the generals, the SCHOO: | | The young miner had been joad- | ural because of help and counties ack cannot be of local funds In some 5 not effectiv govermmer inciugec WOCR Oull- De { » OR! naiviaual so Decaune for 10! Pilot Escapes in Crash Jerry Kansas when =a Wichita, Kans bank into Mountain The plane, slightly mishap, was one of enroute from Lock Haven Collier, 25, of Winfield received n juries “ar plane of a cloud Buckhorn last week damaged In a feet a Binir county — CCC Camp Boys Enlist In Army Large Contingent Volunteer From Camp Near Philipsburg umber enlist- t 30 discharge: t enlistment the camp October 1 to repls Mill Hall Family Escape Unhurt Involved in Accident While | en Vacation Trip in New York State Mr. and Mrs. J. Eimer Ever and family of Mill Hall, found their va- cation plans considerably upset when their car was involved in an accident Priday night at Salaman- ca, N. Y., where they } slopped with friends occupants of th Wl ad the car of acciden was but car was bad] aged. The two Eyer boys Albert snd Donald, had gone to a moving picture show at Salamanca and Mr Eyer, accompanied by Miss Connors, daughter of the household where the Eyers were guests. and Miss Patricia Wheeler, a friend of i Vivian, had driven from East Sala- manca to bring the boys home. The | accident happened on the homeward [trip when the Eyer car and another lsutomobile driven by Larry Dana, lof Derrick City, Pa. crashed on a reet Neither driver and none of the four children in the Eyer car was {badly hurt {| The Evers, with their daughter { Madeline, as well as the two boys and Mrs. Zenie Marks, a relative, had left home a short time before on their vacation trip to New York State, Wie ¢ t ¥ | a ss MP ————— School Improvement A score of men are being em- ployed at the Lamar Township Consolidated School, under g WPA project calling for $12951 to be ex- which $3115 is furnished by the school board and $9836 in federa' funds. The Lamar Township Con- solidated School ig located near Sa- lona, Tuna Loses Man, A tuna went fishing at Gloucester Mass, recently, towing a fisherman thirty miles but the man got away he cut the line. — The churc®, as an organization operating in & modern world, re- Vivian {, pended in grounds improvement, of | Random [tems | HEADLINE | The most | headline reac new any a Cay Captures H Revoit his uwehllevyg bn Cohen on a tri New Yak st week Por 25 cen'a he we emblazoned on what Jenne be a ie of New Yo eneouraging we Ie Walter Cober Ciel’ Arm Fid-wide "mt paper Ve 2 tun OO" Wa had other de £ ae [, to |’ {UNE GUN JAIL: | | Cent r x be Sh 4 } | a8 COUNLY 1} re county enforcement 13- calibre office; rev the Lakes ents a break ned and trifle at T? away Al the Um bast NOTICE: To Big Edward You ve le at the been ’ place for Where Yr hese any three edit TOO MANY: accidents 194( August rv rst vs Uniy from was doubid whiter were the {doomed lo disappaintment. There wont be any passes. The court room | Ao will be open until the seals are filled, and then the doors will Ibe closed Tt will be a case of the carly bird getting the State will be on duty « jamming Into the seat about 400 persons ] worm keep peop room, which — A So — VOCATIONAL AG. COURSES GAINING IN POPULARITY wunty high realizing the agriculture tion of such a valley he {ou dam East Penns Heim, La Vear dam- | i. has Course ZieTsow vacancy at Philipsburg The vocational agriculture cour. at Spring Mills taught by John Decker, and Boalsburg, taught by E. Dale, have been existente for from 15 to 20 years. The courses at Bellefonte taught by Guy Cor- man: Hublersburg. taught by Bob Corman, and Philipsburg now taught by Mr. Zierzow. have been in progress for about three Years Clearfield High added a similar course about three years ago under Mr. Tucker's supervision. The class- es are taught by Bd. K. McMinn Father Preferred Charge { In an account of the attempted | jailbreak of Thomas K. Hosterman, | former Coburn school teacher in {our issue of August 15, it was stat- {ed that Hosterman had been jailed jon an assault and baitery charge {preferred by his wife. The charge was preferred by Mr. Hosterman's father. it being reported that action | was taken more with a view to de- | termine the man’s mental condition [than because of the seriousness of pn alleged assaul i Enjoyed Ball Game | Mr and Mrs. John Flack, son Nelson, Mr. Jerry Flack and son William, of Philipabfirg, were among {the ball enthusiasts who enjoyed | the ball game at Pittsburgh between {Pittsburgh and Chicago, Friday, | August 9, returning home the next wes dvs Lhe] quires money to do effective work. [on ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Eddie Had SN — Ld Provocation Anyhow By POP MOMAND
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