Odd and
CURIOUS
in the
NEWS
MAMAN
HEAPS OF TROUBLE
Ninety-five degree heat caused
Jack Skowlund of Peshtigo, Wis.,
to stop for a rest last Thursday.
He sat down on a stump con-
taining a bees’ nest and got
stung. He took off his shirt te
apply a mud plaster to the stung
area and his shirt blew into a
barbed fence. His shirt was torn
and when Skowlund recovered
it, he suffered a severe hand
laceration. He started to jump
into his truck, but missed the
running board and sprained an
ankle. When he got to the doe-
tor's office Skowlund learned he
had fallen into a patch of pol-
son Ivy.
NO FREE P. ASSES
Manager William V. Ward of
the Illinois State Fair has called
upon the Bible to help him dis-
courage those “give me a pass”
pests. To each seeker of free
tickets, Ward courteously hands
one of his business cards, on the
reverse of which are printed
these Bibical quotations: “Thou
shalt not pass.—Numbers 20:18.
“Suffer not a man to pass”—
Judges 3:28. “Though they roar,
yet they cannot pass”—Jeremiah
5:22. “So he paid the fare there-
of and went"—Jonah 1,3. State
Fair officials recently decided to
abolish passes to this year's fair,
August 9 to 17,
LOST HIS W IFE
An absent - minded [Illinois
tourist drove thirty miles re-
cently before he noticed his wife
was missing from the car. State
Trooper, B. E. Willams said
the frantic woman called him
after her husband drove away
while she was in the rest room
of a service station at Winches-
ter, W. Va. The officer and
woman set in pursuit and found
the middle-aged husband on the
roadside pondering what to do.
He said he failed to see his wife
leave the car and thought she
had been thrown out on a curve,
BABY HAS GROWN
A post card bearing the mes-
sage, “You should see the baby”
was mailed from Kansas City
December 20, 1915, to David H.
Rineard of Harrisburg. The card
was delayed, traveled all over
the United States for 26 years,
and arrived in Harrisburg last
week. Rineard showed the card
to the “baby.” six-foot J. Nelson
Williams, now residing in Har-
rishurg.
‘HAPPY TRIP’
"After 38 years of married life,
John and Louise Arbogast, of
Los Angeles, took their first va-
cation trip together. They drove
to Kings Canyon National Park
in Central California. Shortly
thereafter, their children were
notified that the Hawleys had
plunged to death over a 1000-ft.
cliff. In Mrs. Hawley's diary
was her final notation, “We've
had such a happy trip.”
STRANGE HITCH HIKER
A. E. Roys, of Port Allegheny,
had a rather unusual motoring
experience the other day en-
route to Wellshoro after visiting
near Linden. A white rat caught
in the fan belt of his engine,
putting the cooling system out
of commission. A motor police-
man passing in a cruiser, no-
ticed the radiator steaming and
called the driver's attention te
it.
Important Announcement.
The Treasury Department an-
nounces that Guy T. Helvering,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
has granted an extension of time
for the filing of 1941 captial stock
tax returns and paying the tax by
all corporations to September 29,
1941.
fore September 20, 1941 will not be
subject to either delinquency pen-
alty or interest, the Commissioner
says.
——————
Hay on Trailer Burns
Between two and three tons of
hay, loaded on a trailer-truck owned
by Harry Magee, was destroyed when
the material mysteriously blazed up
in Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg fire-
men were able to save wird Huek.
| wih
{| Motor Police are searching for a
| car which was seen speeding with
{| out lights
| explosion occurred In
| home of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Walk in
| Five Others Made Mi
{ from |liness,
| reported to be
! are: Carol 3,
| Jane.te, 7,
i been insect
Any return received on or be- |
| berrioon.,
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A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week.
SECOND
SECTION
he Centre Democrat
NEWS,
FEATURES
VOLUME 60.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY
1941,
NU MBE R 3
Police Continue Search
For Car Believed To Have
Played Part |
n Dynamiting
Seck Clue to Guilty Parties Who Threw Dyna- |
mite Bombs on Streets of Osceola
Mills and Chester Hill
The hysterious tossing of “dyna-
mite bombs on the streets of Osce- |
ola Mills ang Chester Hill (Philips- |
| burg area) Tuesday night last week, |
{ eontinues to
| the clijzens
| who have no assurance that the acts
terrify the minds of
of the two boroughs,
will not be repeated and perhaps
more deadly «Tect. State
through both towns on
the night of the occurrence, which
| it is believed will lead to a solution
i of the crime
Tuesday night at 11:55 o'clock an
front of tho
| Food Poison Is
Fatal To Child
and
Rushed to Philipsburg
Hospital
Taken ill Sunday, James Chand-
{ ler, aged four years, of Emporium, |
| died Wednesday at the home of his
| grandfather,
William English, a
miner of Frenchville, R. D
Five other children also suffered
which is thought to
have been caused by some unknown
food poisoning. They were rushed
to the Philipsburg hospital and are
recovering. They
and Judith 19 months,
the Chandler boy, and
three younger children,
Anita, 4 and Donald
sisters of
English's
Lee, 3
The three Chandler children wer?
vacationing at their grandparents’
home. Mrs. English, grief-stricken
over the tragedy, told Dr. E 8, Er-
hard, acting coroner of Clearfield
county that the cause might have
i spray on garden beans
which the family ae
‘Minister Posts
Bond For Trial,
Rev. Llovd B. Shear, of Hugh-
esville, Was Arraigned
Friday
The Rev. Lioyd B. 8chear, 34 pas-
tor of the Hughesville Methodist
Church, who has refused to return
his Selective Service Act queslion-
aire to County Draft Board No, 1.
Montoursville, was arraigned be-
fore U 8. Commissioner William N
C. Marsh, Lewisburg Friday after-
noon and held for United States
Court after entering a plea of not
guilty.
The Rev. Mr. Schear, arrested at
his home in Hughesville by two FBI. |
agents nn a warrant issued from th2 |
office of Frederick V. Folimer, U. S|
district attorney, Middle District
| Milton, posted a bond of $1000 for
his appearance
in U 8. Court at
Scranton Oct. 20
Mr. Shear, in communications
addressed to various government of -
ficials, including the U. 8. attorney
general, has writien he {5 5 ‘draft
cbjector for conscientious reasons.”
————— A Sat nt
Found Dead in Bed
James 8. Hoyt, of Kylertown, was
found dead in bed Friday at Wil-
lHamsport, where he had been work-
ing for the jast three weeks. He
had been in apparently good health
and his sudden death was attributed
to a heart attack. The body was
brought home to Kylertown where
his wife, Margaret (Haas) Hoyt,
and a son and daughter live. Pu-
neral services were held Sunday af- |
dk |
"WOMAN, 42, IN ‘NO EAT’ STRIKE |
Mrs
Minn. yesterday began her 22nd
day of a hunger strike with the
declaration:
“I'll never eat another morsal|
until I'm cleared of these false
charges.”
charges of alleged complicity in
setting a fire which destroyed their
chicken hatchery, The Stale
charges the hatchery was burned to |
Eleanor Jaffray, of Glencoe, teollect $18 500 insurance
| sald,
The Jaff-
ray’s hired man, Clyde Weaver,
pleaded guilty to charges of arson, |
and implicated his employers, de-
claring that Mrs. Jeffrey induced
him to set the fire on the promise |
{of a lifetime job.
Mrs. Jaffray and her son Rob- |
ert, 23, were arrested July 9 on!
Mrs, Jaffray says she has lost 50 |
pounds from her original weight of
250. “My conscience ls clear,” she
“1 had nothing to do with the
fire and in time they'll find that
out.”
“Motor Cop Kills ISnoke with Arrow
While on an outing in Horse Val-
ley Sunday, with a group of friends,
William Banzhaf, of the Chambers
burg State Motor Police substation,
proved himself a crack shot with
the bow and arrow. His attention
directed to a forty-inch rattlesnake |
by children of the party, Banzhaf,
using one of the two hunting arrows
he had with him, pinned the snake |
to the ground with a well-aimed
(shot that broke its back. As the |
snake lashed at the shaft of the ar- |
row, Banzhaf put the second arrow
through its head at fifteen feet.
fat ———
ET ee
Soe es— |
Makes 14-Mile Trek on C rutches
Qualifying for his merit badges is [the point.
Fallon, attending Camp |
| Sunday,
| Spring, who made
| their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. |
Os sceola Mills and five minutes later |
a similar bomb was thrown at a |
Chester Hill home |
The front door and nine windows
were blown from the Osceola house |
and the porch damaged. The ex-
plosion left a hole about g foot deep
in front of the home of the Spanigh-
American war veteran. The Walk
house is Jocated on Lingle street
the old road leading into Osceola
from Philipsburg
Burgess John Redding, who heard
the blast, sald that the explosion
could be heard all over town, H+
sald that he could tell it was a dy-
namite blast but that the location
could not be traced for some time
Burgess Redding and Chief of Po-
lice Wiliam Delansky both stated
that the bymb had been tossed from
a car and landed in front of the
Walk home where it exploded. Bur-
gess Redding sald neither Mr, or
Mrs. Walk are in good health
Excitement ran high in Chester
Hill borough Wednesday morning
after the discovery of an unexplod-
ed dynamite bomb between the
homes of DeLaune 8. Peightal and
Harry Fravel
Two feet of fuse had been attach-
ed tn a cap and two sticks of dyna-
mite. The bomb was allegedly hurl-
ed from a speeding car at the Peigh-
tal home. State police officers stat
Continued on Page Seven
Home Cooking!
CANADA WELCOMES VISITORS
The
first
redits
sigrier of a pledge
for
the
Mr:
dent's mother, has arrived in Can-
ada, making her the first the
several thousand Americans who are
cooperating with the committee in
its efforts to bolster Canada’s Unit-
ed Stales dollar credits by stimu-
lating travel to that country
Mr:
Canada Committers,
James Roosevelt, the Presi
of
Roosevelt is at her home In
Campobello, New Brunswick
The committee, of which
8 Kleeman president of the
onial Trust Company, New
Arthr
Col-
York
for is
| Meteorite Which Narrowly
‘Escaped Hitting Camper At
‘Moshannon, Now In Museum
Projectile is Only Second Meteorite In Penn-
sylvania History to Have Been Found
Immediately After Landing
A meteorite which fell
Black Maoshannon Park
ting Robert Reed, Jr.
phia, is being exhibited
delphia by scientists
of Natural Sciences
The
ounce
the
Vall'a
immed)
July 10 In
nearly hit
Philadel
in Phila-
of
one-pound two-and-one-half
projectile from space is only
second meteorite in Pennsyl-
history to have been found
ately after colliding with the
earth, records of the Academy show
It fell to earth with a tremen-
dous whirring nolse and landed di-
rectly at the rear the tent in
which Reed was camping with Mrs
Reed and thelr son, Robert, Jr
standing in front of the
meteorite’s jong jour-
space came 0 an end
at 6:30 a. m., July 10, amid a show-
er of twigs which it clipped
trees above the tent
Mrs. Reed
while their son
But when the
vis struck earth just four
from his bunk with such
it shook the tent the
| jumped from his bed
Reed immediately
piece of gray silicate
which had arrived In
tacular and unexpecled
and wn returning
took Samuel G
{ mineral
of
Reed was
tent the
ney through
Az
chalrman, Is receiving pledges
from all parts of the United States
These that the signer “will
try” t Canada this summer
replenish her United States
credits, which have been depleted
by armament in the
United States struggle
against the Axis
-
had
still
Inside the tent
awakened
sleeping
state
0 visit
to help astral
itor {eet
that
quickly
force
boy
purchases
for the
dug the
iron
EDEC-
fashion
ladeliphia
Gordon
up
and
such
Who can remember the davs when
the law of supply and demand was
ed Quuate prices?
Supp Oe
p——
twirl
rl walch
—————— up to Phi
Some their thumbs it to
chains
men
twl
RAS
and others ciate curator o the
SO—-THATS THE LAW
The Human Interest Side
of Legal Oddities
By Elliott H, Marrus
"
Law Makers—Throughout th
history of the world, there have
been 16 men who as law makers and
law interpreters have had the great-
est influence over the rules which
have governed the conduct of civil-
ized man Perhaps the first of
these lived 3200 years before Christ
His name was Menes, a King of an-
cient Egypt who gave that land its
first set of laws. Hahmurabi, ihe
King of Babylonia, in 2100 B. C
promulgated a series of laws and
regulations many of which have
been adopted by our legal system
This. the oldest collection of laws
still in existence, had as its prime
purpose, the protection of the weak
and poor. Moses who lived aboul
1500 years before Christ, created
Mosaic Code containing 613 statutes
most of which are applicable today
Moses is also credited with the ten
commandments which are accepted
by people of all religions. The laws
Ta
[#41
of
Moats
morality
of stressed the necessity
and also that all men re-
s of thelr wealth and positior
before law. (To be
gardies
were eq! ind
con
Why?
1819 begir
better
pole cat
Alcoholometer — Connecticut po-
lice have 3 new instrument {or tests,
ing the degree of drunkenness of
drives. It a Rartable chemical
laboratory which
breaiies a few
machine registers
{ intoxication. 8
ably will be home
to use when their hu shands om
rolling home In the wee hv of
the morning, swearing “1 rt
touched a drop.”
On Good Bebavior-Rich
Whitney, former president
he
ule of
for th
ik Of
nia stat
} act
A Penns
the skis
rot tect n
P
foe
the precise degree
there proov-
models for wi
O
rer eet
| paroled
1]
ard,
of the]
be I Chile recently vetoed a law which
would have outlawed the Commun.
the groun
fundamental
Another new
the showing of
cast reflec-
will
al ale
prison
New York Block Exchange
Sing Sing
August 11th. The mil-
Honaire had been 3 enced on April
11 1838 v5 5 to ys years for steal
$314 000 from two customers
brokerage house Whitney has
job as manager of a try estat
near Boston. The parole board, in
gran.ng the parole because of good
behavior, said, We believe thal
Richard Whitney is a good paroles
risk and his release 3 not incom-
patible with the welfare of society.’
As a parolee, Whitney may not
strong drink firearms
He may not auto-
mobile or leave th witho
permission. At the same lime
Department of Justice reports tl
Moe LI. Annenberg, the Ph adel; hia
publisher, who was sentenced
term of three years for income
evasion, has been denied parole
from on
erstwhile
4
forbids
pictanet which
1 the idiologies and methods
ing nations. Among the
“banned i “Pastor Hall”
Death Penally--In the Unit
States today, criminals sentenced to
death usually die by means of
either the electric chair, the gallows
the gas chamber. In Europe
A tells that death sen-
tence was not quite merciful
The wheel was used originally in
France and Germany. The victim
was stretched out on a wheel, Then
executioner with an bar
broke each arm and leg. Finally a
blow with the bar across the chest
brought mercilu] death. Afterwards
coun
Ee
or
£58
or Poss
{rive an
State
DAEVOTY the
own
sO
se
the iron
OD 4
tax
Pan American The President of | (Continued on Pape Seven
4 Die Returning
From Reunion
Car in Which Members of
Family Were Riding Hit
by Train
A family reunion near Lancaster
attended by five members
from Blair county, ended in trag-
edy when four Lancaster county
' members were Killed in a train-au-
tomobile collision
Victims of the collision of their
car and a Pennsylvania railroad
electric train near Florin, 15 miles
west of Lancaster, were Paul K
Nissley, 27. and his wife, Mary, 27,
and their two children, Prancis Fd-
ward, 4, and Joan Elaine, 8 months
all of Lancaster, R. D. 3 |
The Nisley family get-together!
was attended by the victim's var-
ents, the Rev. and Mrs. Davis Niss- |
ley, of Rodman, near Roaring]
the trip with |
and Mrs, Paul Grabil,
Grabil's sister, Frances,
‘The Nistleys were returning from |
the Musser family reunion, held at|
the Elias Musser farm about one |
mile from the scene of the acci-|
dent, police said. They were on the |
north side of the crossing when the |
train, traveling from Philadelphia |
to Williamsport, struck the car. The |
train was traveling in a seventy-five |
nile per hour zone
State Motor Police of the Lancas- |
ter substation sald identification |
Altoona, and |
{was not established for more than
i three hours until Nissley's father, !
i David Nissley,
Roaring Springs, |
could be reached. The family was
heading home at the time of the
accident and had about eight miles
to go.
Pays Dearly for Deer
Possession of venison out of sea-
‘son cost William Edwin Yearick of |
Cedar Springs $112.30. He was ar-
rested when part of a deer was dis- |
! covered at his home by Game pro- |
| tector Miles L. Reeder who found
[a ten point buck’s head in the vi- §
| cinity. Yearick was given a hearing |
| before Alderman T. Mark Brungard
‘at Lock Haven.
Quarryman’s pm Fractured, i
Earl Burd, employed at the stones |
| quarry of the Bellefonte Lime Co. |
at Salona, had his jaw fractured |
a serious business for Leonard Pal- Lavigne, made the 14-mile trek on = ‘Thursday, of last week. He was
jon, Danville, boy scout and his 14-!erutches, due to an injury.
mile hike,
Priday, necessary to ad-|over, he went over the route alone |
vancement in scouting is proof of land unassisted. i
1]
barring down stones when a stone |
struck his bar and then the right
side of his face, injuring his jaw.
| that
CCC Boy Drowns
In Centre County
Member of Maryland Camp
Falls From Diving Board
at Poe Valley
Henry Rabb, a 17-year-old negro
boy from Washington, D C., and
a member of a CCC Camp from
Marviand was at the Poe Valley
CCC Camp Saturday to play in the
Corps Area baseball championship
game
Baturday evening he walked down
by the dam with one of the other
boys. Neither could swim Rabb
walked out on the spring board and
was bouncing up and down when
he lost his balance and toppled off
| into the deep water
His companion first though! he
was fooling, but when he realized
Rabb could not swim, he ran
for help
Help arrived too
Rabb’s life
late to save
Grenoble Clan
day in July 1942
{dent ;
i sonburg, secretary.
Coroner Charles Sheckler of Miles |
i burg investigated the accident.
————
Pollution Kills Trout
Hundreds of trout were killed re-
{cently in Clinton County when
Cedar Run was polluted below Par-
vin. Game Protegtor Miles 1.
Reeder and Thomas Snyder sent
samples of the water and dead fish
ito E Ross Baller, fish culturist at
the Bellefonte Hatchery, for anayl- |
| Eis,
attendance was Mrs. Luther Gren-
| ost,
Piper Employee
Drowns Sunday
Rauchtown Youth,
Life Swimming in
Pine Creek
In 9th Reunion
Luther Grenoble Named Pres.
ident of Gathering at
Woodward Cave
The ninth annual Grenoble family
reunion held at Woodward Cave was
attended by 75 members of the
Grenoble Freundschaft, decendants
of Philip and Hannah Grenoble,
both deceased
The meeting was called to order
by the president, H. L. Grenoble, of
Madisonburg. The secretary read
the minutes of the last reunion. It
was decided to hold the next reun-
jon at Woolrich Park, the last Sun-
Lost
-
25,
Sunday. the summer's hottest day
brought the first drowning fatality
of the season from Clinton county
when Kenneth Marks, 25 of Rauch-
town, a Piper Alreraft employee,
drowned, and William Welshans,
15, also of Rauchtown, narrowly es-
caped from drowning Sunday even-
ing in Pine Creek, one-half mile
west of Route 220
Dr. W. J. Shoemaker, Clinton Co
coroner, gave accidental drowning
as the cause of death. There will
be no inquest.
Marks, William and Merrill Wel-
ghans, 17, left their homes in Rauch-
town, about 8:30 o'clock to go swim-
ming. None of the boys was able
[to swim much. Merrill stayed on
| the bank, while the other two jump-
ed in the water at a point where the
[stream is 14 feet deep.
oble, Jersey Shore, and the young-| They found themselves in difi-
Anna louise Grenoble. The culty, and Merrill called for help.
greatest distance traveled, Mr. and Grant Matter of Jersey Shore, as-
Mrs. Luther Grenoble, Jersey Shore, | sisted by others who arrived shortly,
traveled the greatest distance and pulled the boys out. Dr. John
Mr. and Mrs. Hasten Long, Wood-
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year, Luther Gren-
oble, Jersey Shore, president, Curtis
Grenoble, State College, vice-presi- |
C. 1. Grenoble, Madisonburg,
treasurer, Mrs. Elmer Duck, Madi-
It was noted that the oldest in
ward, the shortest distance. Prizes Shore succeeded in reviving Wel-
!
were awarded to all four parties. ishans, but their efforts with Marks
A memorial service was held in were not sucoessful
honor of John Grenoble, Spring! Marks was the son of Mr. and Mrs
Not only small fish but some as | Mls, and Harvey Orenoble, State Charles Marks, Loganton R. D. He
darge as 4% pounds in weight and College. Births in the clan during was married about three years ago
| 23 inches long were killed, as we'll | the year were a daughter to Mr. and to Jeanette Reading, daughter of |
as turtles,
Classified _ Ads bring results
|
|
Mrs. Guy Zinck, Salladysburg.
{daughter to Mr.
(Continued on Pope Five)
a Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Reading, Rauch- |
(Continued on Pape Seven)
Fe
of the Academy |
from |
{ Knights
Knight and Dr. P. A. Bay, of Jersey |
Academy,
authentic
who Identified
meteorite and
mended its purchase for
emy collection
Gordon sald
{saw It fall was
earth during
teorites are
ing the first
through the
sald
Contrary to popular bel
{ explained, resistance of the atmos
phere slows up the fall of meteor-
ites and causes them to cool before
striking the earth, rather than heat.
ing them up
For instance, the only
found immediately after
this State-—which plur
gt Chicora, Butler county, on June
Cc
it as an
the
Acad -
the reason no one
that jit reached the
daylight hours Me-
incandescent only dur-
part of their journey
earth's atmosphere, he
Pi
lef, Gordon
meteorite
falling
iginng in
ged
to earth
on Page Three)
wo
Banker Clark Dies
At Lock Haven
Death Ends Long Career of
Prominent Lock Haven
Citizen
C. Clark
Haven banker
night, July 23
ven Hospi
ness. He was a native and Ii 2
resident of the city and had been
Sanpeied with the lack Haven
Tn Company for 48 vears during
many which was vice
president. He had been a director
of the bank since his
Survivors include his wife, Annie
three daughters Misses Mary Eliza-
beth, and Eleanor, and Mrs. H E
Fredericks, all of Haven; two
sisters, Mary E Clark, Lock Haver
and Mrs. Annie Lacey, Willlams-
port: and a brother, William, Ei-
mira N. Y
He was a member of the Immacu~
late Conception Church, of the
of Columbus the Rotary
Club and the Elks. The funeral
service was held
| day, ai the Immaculate Conceplion
church
nlinued
John Lock
Wednesday
the Lock Ha-
short ili-
prominent
aied
1941, at
tal, following a
felo
YOeAars of hie
retirement
Lock
CL EARFIEL n MAN HEL D
FOR ALLEGED ATTACK
Earl Brock 24, of Curwensville
R. D, is being held on charges
assault and battery with attempt
rape following an alleged attack on
two girls who are student nurses
al the Clearfield Memorial hospital
According to the girls’ story a car,
with turned off brushed by
them Sunday night at Clearfield
knocking over one girl. The driver
is said to have rushed out of his
car and to have grabbed
who was knocked down. S8he fought
with him and managed to get away
Police claimed that Brock, while
| attempting to escape through the
Clearfield Driving pe in where
had seen the girls, smashed
one of the park gates, damaging
car and gate
The two girls are said i» have
identified bolh the car and the man
S——n——
TRESSLER ORPHANS' HOME
BAND TO GIVE CONCERT HERE
The famous Tressler Orphans’
Home Band how on its 27th annual
tour wili render one of their unique
musical programs Tuesday, August
5, at Tusseysink, which is halfway
between Boalsburg and Potters
Mills, on Route 322, at 8 p m
(EST)
The band concert is under the
auspices of the Tusseyville Reform-
ed and Lutheran church. The boys
are the guests of the congregation
nf
LEH
0
lights
be La
“a
into
the
and are being entertained in their’
homes while here
The Tressler Orphans’
Band, sometimes called the Loys-
ville Orphans’ Home Band, is with-
out doubt one of the oldest of its
type organizations in the country
While this is only its 27th annual
tour, the Home had a band back
in the 1880's, and in the history of |
the Home there is evidence of a well
organized band that took
the school activities
The Pennsylvania state board of
censors banned two Russian films
“The Red Army” and “The Soviet |
| Frontier on the Danube” describ- |
ing them as “very subtle propa-
|versive groups.
recome- |
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the girl’
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{ MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM:
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This corner is singularly devoid of
| ideas this week. It Is the week of
| the summer doldrums. We feel
| much like the parking meter posts
which line Bellefonte'’s curbs. They
| stand there, but are absolutely use-
| less because they have no heads
| But maybe its just as well, for after
{they get heads they'll be roundly
cursed by some folks who won't like
{to pay for the time they park their
{cars in town 3y the same token,
if we had any ideas this week we'd
probably be cursed for “taking a
crack” al someone
The summer season is well under
way The town's firemen, bands
{and marching units are attending
parades and similar public functions
throughout the state, and are com-
ing home loaded with prizes and
i honors Politics are beginning to
warm up, and while we don't look
for any red hot interest in this fall's
| elections, there will be a few names
called and the electorate, generally,
will derive a mild form pleasu
trek to the polls
of re
annua;
KiNG COAL:
Fishermen, hu
by
the
nters and other na-
all means sl id take
hard ooal regions, if
been Every.
nothing
Oid
she
ture lovers
no
never
“
they've
trip
there
where Lhe eye
but waste an
Mother Earth
looks at what
coal, Nas
section
falls there is
devastation
must blush when
man, in his quest for
done to the appearance of
which hundred
of
a
several
been
The
rid writ)
norma 4
a
VEArs ¢ 4
ago must
great natural beauty
are unbelievably
nave one
streams
their
through
asses for
The
almont bad as the
are h
we refuse
As srealns
rvwhere there
wm of mir an
been pi
exposing coal seam
Here and
for exis-
1h which has
process of
stripping
tree or two
the
operations
fights
mountains of waste
here a
tence on
DAMAGE:
Coll
et vse triree of
ruaciure LH
breaker:
other types
hand. Gi
~
fries
can
on every ant power shov-
els which
expose ooal
booms from
where man's
caved in,
ground
the
beds, rear their
the landscape And
old coal mines have
ighways on top of the
3 and uneven;
plumb, large
stone and brick
rip top soll to
steel
the h
are
yulldings sag
Cracks appear
BOOTLEGGERS
Evervwhere
“hoot ines
down
three
+
of
are the
1i441
iittie
so-called
leg” holes going
into the eart
th where two or
men, with an ancient
le rigged up ic
from
auto-
wa 4 hod
mobi hoist the 01
led
buckets of coal the mine, eke
out a sketchy and highly dangerous
living. At one point where
are a number of such mines
bulance remains on duty all Saar
the day. When someone is inj
he is rushed to the nearest hospit
And a few days pass that the am-
bulance is not needed
Bootleg mines can
the highways in back yards in
front yards, on hills, in valleys
everywhere The men who work
them don’t timber the mines to pre-
vent cave-ins and many them
are caught in falls of coal In the
{hard coal regions, “bootlegging” is
accepled as a mode of life. There
is none of the onus which was at.
tached to the bootlegging of whiskey
during prohibition days. Men who
work in offices spend their weekends
earning extra money by operating
bootleg mines
PROBLEM:
The hard coal regions long have
been a serious economic problem to
the State, for the mining of coal is
the chief form of livelihood for mil-
{ ions of people in thal area. When
i the big colleries are unable to em-
pioy miners, men go to "bootlegging™
to earn a living. The coal they mine
is owned by the big oolleries in most
cases, but people have to live
SHEET NEEDED:
This corner knows nothing about
mining; doesnt pretend to know
anything about the involved econ-
iomics of the struggle between big
coal companies and the bootleggers,
‘but we do know one thing. When
anything has been attacked as vice
iously, ruthlessly, and completely as
the earth in the hard ooal regions,
they ought to cover the battered
Sta with a sheet, for decency's
eo
the
there
be seen along
of
Man Ends Life by Hanging
Seventy-four year old Dominic
Ventura, Altoona, hung himself
Monday noon from a tree on his
and Mrs. Albert town, with whom they lived. Mr. ganda” which would encourage sub- property at 2720 Eighth avenue, as
ithe result of an illness
“KEEPING up WITH THE JONESES' —
What If Clarice Is Wrong?
ALOYSIUS, DEAR,
WOULD You MiND
A BIT oF
ExeQCIsE --
BiG Rus "
By POP MOMAND