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NEWS,
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VOLUME 61.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19,
1942,
NUMEER 8.
TIRE PRICES ZOOM
Since rubber rationing has
gone into effect, the price of tires
has really skyrocketed in Colum-
bus, Ohio, If an ad in the Col-
umbus Dispatch is te be taken
literally, they are selling for $120
each. The ad reads: “Five new
tires, $600, 1939 Studebaker
Commander free.” A classified
ad in Wheeling, W. Va., news-
paper offered this swap: “Will
trade four brand new, first line
tires for a six-room house with
a large lot.”
GLASS FOR DIAMOND
A well-dressed young man, af-
ter examining a number of en-
gagement rings in a Baltimore
Jewelry store, left to bring back
“the girl" before making his
final selection. Police are now
looking for the young man be-
cause after he departed, the jew-
eler found a nice-looking “ten
cent store” diamond in the tray
where a $125 engagement ring
should have been.
COFFEE POT TEETH
A 45-year-old U. 8. sallor on
shore patrol duty in Boston, has
claimed the world's most unusual
set of teeth. Mike Labonic fash.
joned his upper and lower plates
from a discarded aluminum cof-
fee pot. He sald his regular
plates broke so often, “I decided
to make some that could take a
beating.”
HOW ABOUT THIS?
Brought into court after a
minor collision, learned
that George Johnson, 82, of Port
Jeris, N. Y., had been driving an
automobile for 31 years without
ever having gotten a driver's li-
cense. In all that time he had
never been called upon to show
his license.
GOOD WATCH
While removing concrete forms
from the Bunker Hill mine, Wal-
ter Skeen of Kellogg, lowa found
a watch imbedded in one of the
forms. The wateh which bore
the engraved repair insigna of
a jeweler in business here 20
years ago was bright and clean
and ran perfectly when wound.
DOG PATRIOT
Doxy, the German daschund,
belonging to Mr. and Mrs. R. G.
Hunt, of Griffin, Ga., has put up
with enough to make any dog
mad, with people calling him
“Hitler” and making other un-
kind remarks. Fe now wears
defense stamps on his collar,
DREAM MISCARRIES
R. D. Byrd of Albequerque,
dreamed that he was kicking a
Japanese soldier. Instead of hit-
ting the soldier, his foot hit the
bedpost. Consequently, Byrd is
walking with a decided limp.
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STATE COLLEGE WOMAN
INJURED IN COLLISION
Mrs, Eve Rhoades, of East College
avenue, State College, suffered lacer-
alions and contusions of the scalp,
and bruises of the body last Thurs
day morning. in a motor accident at
State College, She wag admitted to
the Centre County Hospital for
treatment.
Mrs. Rhogdes was injured when
gedans driver by A. L. Bowersox and
Nelson R. Bickel, both of State Col-
lege, collided at the intersection of
North Atherton street and Park ave-
nie about {1 a. m. Mr Bowersox
suffered face and chest bruises
which required medical attention.
Demagé to the cars was estimated
at about $150 each.
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Burned by Explosion
While preparing & dinner jn hone
or of her husband's 72nd birthday
annivérsary Mrs. Danjel Eckerd, of
Berwick, narrowly escaped serious
injuries when gas in the oven of the
gas range exploded. Her hair on the
left side was burned off, eyebrows
and lashes were burned off and her
cheeks and forehead were burned
Bhe was recovering from grip with
which she had been ill for a week
and suffered from shock in addition
to the burns.
ET PR ee ee Sr i
Battleship
“war era.”
“And ships will pour from our
yards in ever increasing quantities;
ships which bring us supremacy at Means in the $80,000000 Alabama,
sea; ships which will bring us vic- he said, have so decreased her struc-
ba n | tural weight as to add considerably
tory,” the secretary said.
The Philipsburg
Pennsylvania Motor Police, in oper-
ation for over 20 years, will be aban-
doned February 28 and the six mem-
bers of A a ao
I Fendi ana We Serie Te
in Pennsylvania, it we reported yes-
Japs Capture Singapore as
Mighty Brit
Surrenders to Yellow Foe
Hail Conquest as Plac-
Triumphant Nipponese
|
ish Fortress |
|
|
|
ing All Eastern Empire Within Grasp of
Tokyo's Adva
The mighty British bastion of Sin-
| Victim Treated at Philipsburg
ing from a back injurys
, car, crushing the left side of the car.
PRR Clerk Is |
| be placed in effect, quotas must have
| (Luke) Hostetler, a son, Donald, of spent in the Beech Creek vicinity, | Pathologist from State College, will workman made his way
{gapore fell to triumphant Japanese
| forces Sunday.
{in Malaya announced the resistence
lof Singapore's defenders ended in
| unconditional surrender at 7 p. m.
{ (6 a. m. Centre county time), thus
| climaxing a smashing ten-week drive
{down the Malay Peninsular.
Army headquarters |
Dispatches say that the British
Imperials resisted fiercely through-
out the last hours of their back-to- |
the-sea struggle, fighting from the
| strongly defended nests in the su-
| burbs while flames which appeared
| to have merged into a solid block of
| fire swept Singapore.
At the same time, three converg-
| ing columns of Japanese troops had |
{ virtually encircled the city and cut
{ the defenders’ lines into pleces, sie- |
| zed the reservoirs upon which they
| had depended for water supply, cap-
tured three of their four airdromes,
stormed the fortified island of Bla-
kang Mati south of the harbor and |
silenced the big coastal defense guns
In Car Crash
Sanitarium For Back
Injury
C. D. Collins, 58. Brisbin minister, |
was injured Sunday momming near
Point Lookout when a traller-truck
operated by William Walter Daugh- |
erty, 19, of Woodland, crashed into
his car
Motor police said Collins who was |
discharged just two weeks ago from
the Philipsburg hospital where he
had been a patient, was treated at
McGirk's sanitarium and then ad-
mitted to the hospital. He is suffer-
Police said the accident happened
| on a curve on the Centre county side |
t of Philipsburg when the trailer end |
| of the truck swerved over the ocen-
ter lane and crashed into the Collins |
Daugherty escaped injuries,
SE ei
Killed by Auto|
Alioona Man Vietim of Acci-|
dent on Sixty-Fifth
Birthday
i
David W. Hostetler, of Juniata, al
clerk in the P. R. R. shops, was|
struck and fatally injured last!
Thursday night as he was walking |
from the Twelfth street foot bridge |
across the intersection to the south-|
west corner. He was believed to bel
enroute to a meeting
The victim. who celebrated his 65th
birthday that day, died at 10:45 o'-|
clock at the Altoona Hospital, from |
a fractured skull and crushed chest |
The automobile that struck him| ly celebrated thelg fiftieth wedding
was operated by Theodore Folcarel-
li, 18, of Altoona, who estimated his
speed at the time as around 30 or
35 miles an hour.
f
ncing Armies
which had thrown a protective bom-
bardment over the city.
Thus fell into Japanese hands the
island forlress and naval base which
had been held by the British for
123 years and which long had been
believed by them to be impregnable,
largely because of the 400 miles of
Malayan jungle to the north which
the Japanese, however, had pene-
trated
Great Blow To Allies
The fall of Singapore ranks with
the fall of France in the decisive
events of the war and puts the
united nations in the southwest Pa-
cific face-to-face with a situation |
almost as grim and disheartening as |
that which faced Britain after Dun |
kirk
Japan now guards the door to the
Indian Ocean. The flag of the Ris- |
(ing Sun flies threateningly before
the ramparts
East Indies
Britain had held this bastion of
empire for 123 years. Now the near-
est British see base comparable to
of the Netherlands
(Singapore is 6,000 miles away at
Minister Hurt |
Malta, itself under incessant attack
by German and Italian bombers
It will, of course, be months per-
haps years, before Japan could make
of Singapore the stronghold of em-
pire which the British had always
| considered it—if Japan holds Singa-
pore
But that does not minimize the
| welght of its loss to the cause of the
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Not Room Enough for Both of Us
ear 7
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On Monday, ‘February’ 2,
1042, a
land dispute of many years standing
was finally settled in the Common
Pleas
Court of Centre county by the
entry of judgment tn favor of the
Commonwealth
Harrisburg, trustee
A. Beaver Estate
Hess, of Beech
the heirs
ceased
1
The dispute Involve
Trust
iC
and Ceorge
Creek,
of David McCloskey, de
d
pioneer days
bering industry
ominent citizen ol
C
Company, of
the James
F
BEARINGS
i
and t
100 acres of
Np. a part
r warrant
+ v 1
of the lum-
David McCloskey
urtin town-
neg
went upon the lands in ques-
tion for the purpose of assisting in
removing the timber therefrom. Mc-
Clogkey reared a large family and
for the past century there has been
a McCloskey connected with the
and in question in one way or the
When coal lateresis were de-
veloped there, it was contended by
the MecCloske
auired titk in question
long continued possession
y it was con
nd«d that McCloskey was
a tenant of Governor Beaver
A sult in efectment to oust
McClo Keys ns above stat.
ed
by thelr
thereof. On the
there as
the
resulted
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Gubernatorial
Campaign
Foreshadows Three-Way
Fight For Both Parties
Senator Davis’ Hat In Ring for Republican
Nomination; Dr. Luther A. Harr, Democrat, |
Backed by State Chairman Meyers
Benator James J. Davis, veteran! Court:
Republican campaigner, became the
first major candidate for the gover-
nor's chair to make a formal entry
into the May 19 primary race |
The white-halred Davis, in Pitts
burg with friends and advisers, said
“mv nominating petitions will be
circulated beginning Pebrusry 28"
“they will not be with-
nd added
awn
5 three y fight in the Republi-
nr vy thus was regarded as
Bources close to the state
}, O. P. organization, said there was
some background” for reports that
Mujor General Edward Martin wa:
the first choice for the nomination
providing the War Department
would release him from military ser-
vice
A “new guard” group, openly chal-
lenging the present party leadership
has named William H. Harmen, or-
ganizer of the Wilkie Clubs of Penn-
sylvanisa in the 1040 presidentisl
campaign, as its candidate. Harman
did not immediately accept, and a
definite statement from him was ex-
pected before February 28,
Many other prominent Republic.
including several of Governor
James’ cabinet have been mentioned
prominently as the organization's
standard bearer. They include Wil-
liam 8. Livengood, secretary of inter-
nel affairs, who may also be a can-
didate for reelection; Attorney Gen-
eral Claude T. Reno, both for gover-
nor and justice of the State Supreme
a
‘Wheat
Pennsylvania wheat growe:s
gether with wheat farmers throug!
out the nation, will again, this year,
vote on wheat marketing quotas fo:
the second successive year Accord-
t
{ing to Informalion received by the
Centre County Agricultural Conser-
vation Committee, Becretary of Ag-
ricjture Claud R. Wickard has set
Seturday, May 2. 1042. as the date
for the wheat referendum
Quotas were procisimed
Toaz crop last’ July when If
apparent 1942-43 wheat supplies
would far exceed the marketing
quota Jevel set by law. However, to
the
on
EWEne
the approval of two-thirds of the
wheat farmers voting in a National
referendum, Farmers throughout the
nation voted approval of quotas on
the 1941 crop by an 81 per cent ma-
Jority. In Pennsylvania, a majority
Growers to Yote on
However,
}
,
3¥ reason of
ral wheat loans made avall-
to farmers as
{ of t}
quotas, farmers
th
he wheat
everywher:
os
result of the
mariell
lave re-
celved such a favorable market price
for their
felt the
vania and
where the
favorable,
1941
wheat
in
last
will give
rye
EIOWwe
a
crop of
8 i
few Other
years vole
¢
wheat, it is
1 Pennsyi-
sta les,
wns not
serious consider.
ation this yesr to ail the facts sor.’ Moment-approved
abie and. as a sult. Pennsylvania
rrmaers who had rated In
wheat ot OETEMm were
{01 0
Lame
{i COOH
not
'
| » @% re
y sell harvest
but wer
crop at
to place the
whaoat secure al
from the Commodity Credit Cor
ation « ibe basis of $1.15 per bush-
el for No. 2 Red Winter Wheat. Asn
a result 462.928 bushels of wheat
were stored on farms and in Gov-
Wa rehouscs in
avie
SLOage ana
rounding tiie entire marketing quota | Pennsylvania for a tolal loan value
situation
Quotas Helped Prices
the
if
Under
ment Act,
tas ar
wheat loans
able to growers by
Credit Corporation.
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Agricultural
at marketing quo-
disapproved
may not be made avall-
4
he
However
Adjusts
nationally
Commodits
with
the adoption of quotas for the 1841
Ce
Beech Creek, Married For
Half Century
Mr. and Mrs. George Peter quiet
anniversary Wednesday, Feb. 11, at
their home on Maple avenue Beech
Creek borough, They were married |
(Feb. 11, 1892, by the late Rev. M. 8. | Monday afternoon, February 23. The Juries to Mr. Johnson and his son,
lebrate Their Potato Growers
50th Anniversary
To Meet Here
Mr. and Mrs, George Peter, of State College Extension Plant Owner and Son Injured in At- Occupants of Two Cars Taken
Pathologist to Conduct
Discussion
The Centre County Potato Grow-
ers association, according to Presi-
dent Charles Campbell, of Penna.
Furnace, are planning to hold their 2! Cowan, Thursday afternoon, re.
annual meeting in Bellefonte next Suiting in $35000 damages and in-
of $520.000
The advantage in price that ac-
d to Pennsylvania vheast grow-
ers r the 1941 crop, it is pointed
s demonstrated by a compari
gon of prices for the 41 crop and
prices for the 1832 wheat crop. Dur-
ing these two years, =D
proximately the same tolal supply
Crue
ark ¢
each of
of the wheat growers voted against crop, wheat Joans were made avall-' of wheat was In existence. In 19832,
the!
_ from 98 cents as of July
Statewide farm price
by fa:mers for wheal was
57 cents per bushel, For the 194]
crop, the average statewide farm
price is $1.08 per bushel. These fanm
wices for 1841 crop have ranged
15, 1941
$1.15 as of January 15 1842 Thi
ustained favorable price over the
31 crop semon period, it is further
pointed out, has meant that Penn-
sylvania’s 1941 wheat crop of 16.867 -
000 bushels of Wheat Is had an in-
creased value to Pennsylvania vheat
growers of $8278530 more than
would have been the case had the
average statewide price of 57 cents
for the 1832 crop prevailed during
the past season,
In addition to a favorable market
price and wheat loans, wheal farm-
rs who cooperated in the program
plso received wheat allotment and
(Continued on Pope Three)
the avercge
eceived
vo
Flour Mill Burns Four Injured
Near Lewisburg
tempting to Escape
From Building
Fire aided by a slight wind, swept
through the J. D. Johnson flour mill,
located six miles west of Lewisburg,
Hostetler, a clerk in the railroad's | Blair at the Jatter’s home on Water | meeting will be held in the Post- F. Eugene
Fourth street planing mill, was born Street. which was in the Charles office building, Bellefonte, starting
February 11. 1877, in Reedsville. Sur-
viving are his widow, Mrs, Emma |
| Juniata; two daughters, Mrs, Eunice
Louise Hamilton, Chester, and Miss Beech Creek township some years ieties of potatoes. There are new He was trealed for serious buns of
' Lois Marte Hostetler, at home,
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Alabama ‘Launched
Secretary of the Navy Prank Knox | to be launched under the defense
hailed the launching of the 35.000- building program, and the last of
ton battleship Alabama at Ports- a class of four which includes the |
mouth, Monday-—nine months ahead Massachusetts, the Indiana, and the |
of schedule-as the end of the “de- | Bouth Dakota, has improvements |
fense area” and the beginning of a over her sister ships some of which
The Alabama, the sixth battleship | ammunition,
To Abandon Police Sub-station
substation of the
| pected to cover all Clearfield county
highway accidents while the Pleas-
! Centre county accidents.
$2500 Galeton Fire
Fire of undetermined origin ree
cently damaged the residence of Mrs,
Jones property. ]
Their entire married life has heen |
having retired from their
at 1:30 p. m.
Mr. O. D. Burke, Extension Plant
farin in | attend the meeting and discuss var-
Mr. Johnson was trapped in the
building afer discovering the flames
and was saved when an unidentified
into the
structure and led him to safety
{ago to their present residence, Mr. | developments in potato varieties that the head, arms and hands by a Mif«
Peter was born at Rock Cabin Nov, | will be important this year to Cen- flinbu g physician, who also treated
where |
{ 24, 1861, the son of the late Casper | tre county growers.
land Phoebe Eckard Peter, According to Mr. Campbell, it s
| they lived during the boom times | hoped that potato growers will plan been a motor belt which became
the son for less serious injuriss,
Cause of the fire was said to have
. J a {in the Tangascootac region incident | to attend this meeting as the asso- jammed in the machine and burst
Edoa Purhen, School street, to the |, ., “ylling “eperations of John [ciation would like at this time to into flames. Their spread was rapid.
extent of $2500, Mrs. Purhen was |
not residing in the house this wine
ter.
have already joined the fleet, secre
tary Knox revealed,
The use of welding and other
to her capacity for guns, armor and
ees
Under the new Pennsylvania mo-
tor police set-up for the bicounty
area, the Clearfield station is ex-
ant Gap station will investigate all
$100 Gift Fro
A $100 check from & ghost town, drive made in Norwich 24 years ago,
practically dead more than 20 years when that place was a bustling com-
we oh of the munity of 1500 persons with
Cameron county % chapter | churches, streets, lights and a
et Emporium last week. The check road depot. Today it is
land with less than 30 people,
was received by
of a Red
®on
was the remainder
Ghost Town
schools,
rail
wild
They are members of the Church of
Christ, Blanchard.
. | cncdurage men in college to study.
Reaville.
{makes plans for securing certified
Later the family moved into Bald | Seed for spring delivery.
Eagle Valley on the north side and |
engaged In farming. Casper Peter |
fled Germany at the age of about |
sixteen to escape the compulsory |
military service of several years. |
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Cut By Lawn Mower
Ernest Snyder, of Selinsgrove, suf-
fered a laceration on his left hand | pisent loss was covered by insur-
| while working at g lawn mower while
Mrs. Peter was born March 28, | snow was falling in the area. Sny-
1870. Her maiden name was Theda | der was engaged in repairing a mow-
Masden, a daughter of the late Alex- | er at his home when the second fin-
ander and Albina Masden,
farmers
ley.
also | ger on his left hand became caught
well established in this val- | in the blades. He suffered the joss |
iof the tip of the finger
and was
Their seven children are all living €iven treatment at the office of a
and are: Annie, Howard R. D.; Al-
va C, Beech Creek. R. D. ont the
homestead farm of his parents; My-
ra, Howard, R. D., where she teach-,
mond J. Stevens,
physician,
.
Two in County Get Premiums
, Auditor General P. Clair Ross on
es school; Mrs. Tacle O'Donnell, of | Monday approved payment of $18.
State College; Laura, wife of Ray-| 116 in premium awards to winning
Arlington, Va.:| exhibitors of livestock In the 1942
Erma. wife of Chester H, McGhee, | Pennsylvania Farm Show. Sheep
ahd George M.,
Beech Creek borough. |
Mr. Peter is one of the oldest
members of the Blanchard lodge No.
427. 1. O. O, F, and he and Mrs.
Peter are charter members of the
Beech Creek Grange, in which both
have been active over a long period
of years, "in various offices.
They were entertained at dinner
by Mr. and Mrs, George M. Peter
the evening of their anniversary,
Mathematics, physics, chemistry,
basic engineering subjects,
which the Navy
For Victory: Buy Bonds,
follows: (Shropshire
)
both residing in | awards to Centre countians were as
E. H. Dale,
| Btate College, $26; (fat sheep) Wil- |
liam Hess, Boalsburg, $2.
A. Sl HO A
Included in the losses were a new
| Diesel engine, purchased two weeks!
lago, and listed at $5000, one car-
{load of flour, t.70 carloads of secd
land a large stock of other mill pro-
ducts. Mr. Johnson said ail but the
| ance,
| The mill was formerly known as
ithe SBidler Mill. Mr. Johnson pur.
chased it several years ago. Before
that he operated the Mazeppa busi-
iness, now run by his son.
Loses Four Fingers
:
|
ia patient at the Mary M. Packer
Hoepital, Sunbury, where amputa-
ition of four fingers was necessary.
{The boy, an orphan, caught the fin.
gers in a soy bean chopping machine |
on a farm where he is employed,
i while he was preparing food for cat.
tle.
a ——— i ———
| For Victory: Buy Bonds,
In Auto Crash
to Hospital After Acci-
dent on Route 220
Four persons were severely injured
in an t Sunday evening
on Rbute two east of Lock
Haven, In an sccident attributed to
the slippery condition of the high-
WAY.
Removed 10 the Lock Haven hos-
pital were:
Harry B. Miller. 48 of Lock Haven, |
extensive lacerations of the upper
and lower lips, chin and both legs
below the knees and shock; Mrs
Miller, 48, extensive lacerations of
the forehead face, séhlp and the left
leg below the knee and a fractured
right thigh; Miss Erdean Buddie, 22,
of Altoona, contusions of the fore-
head and shock: and Paul Ross, 21,
of Altoona, lacerations on the right
—
Lieutenant Governor Samuel
8. lewis and Bupreme Court Justice
George W. Maxey
Meyers Buports Harr
Democratic state chairman Mere-
dith Meyers threw his personal sup-
port behind Dr. Luther A, Harr, for-
mer Philadelphia city treasurer
the Democratic party's gubery
nomination
Democratic
Senator Joseph
David 1. lawrence
(Cc
for
wtorial
laa dears
ease;
national
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nfinged on Page Three)
a a
Townships Share
In Motor Fund
Centre County Districts Will
Receive $11,160 About
March 1
Centre county will receive
160.24 around March 1 from the mo-
tor fund Requisitions have been
prepared by the Department of
Highways I thi a) nt which
will be the i
ment during 1
tion made last ye w the Gene
Assembly which gave $8.500.000
the second class townships for
vears 1942 and 1043
Amounts going to the various sec-
ond class townships in the county
ure
Benner
$1l.-
r ¢
rut
nr
appropr
$623 79;
3urnside $101.22; College
Curlin $484 81 Ferguson
Gregg $776.76. Haines $416.64
moon $174.18; Harris $263 64
ard $464.33; Huston $268.35
$630.85. Marion 94.16; Miles
Patton $288.95; Penn $346.03; Potter
$1000.30; Rush $44044; Bnow Bhoe
$378.88; Spring $522.57, Taylor $426 -
06; Union $450.02; Walker $324.84
and Worth $503.74
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3 $705 63
$477 85
$583.77
How -
How-
Pert x
berty
RRS
14
had
$174.19
Hurt In Bunaway
Henry H. Broscious, prominent
young Sunbury business man, was
badly injured when dragged by two
runaway horses hitched to a sleigh
‘ef the Broscious farm near Kratzer
ville, Snyder county. Clinging to the
reins as the team sped down a dirt
road he fell with them when they
stumbled, and was crushed beneath
them on an embankment as they
rolled over him. A runner of the
sleigh gashed his head as slid
rover him down the bank of a creek.
His face in contact with jagged ice
of the embankment was a mass of
blood, and from several deep gashes
in his head blood streamed. A steel
calk in a shoe of one of the horses
cut a six-inch gash in his foot he
weight of the horse falling on him
broke five ribs
a——— —
Two Hurt, Cars Damaged
Three machines were damaged to
the extent of approximately $575,
and Benjamin FP. Yeigh of Danville,
operator of one of the cars suffered
a dislocated shoulder and bruises of
the face and head in a collision on
the icy Elysburg highway near Rush
Township. Miss Grace Cavanaugh,
Shamokin, a passenger in another
of the cars involved in the crash,
suffered minor cuts about the head
and face.
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Random
[tems
rj
FOUND DEPARTMENT:
Our Benator, Al Letzier, lant lost
after all. He came out from where-
lever he's been last week Lo announce
that he Is a candidate for re-elec-
tion. Centre counly's governmental
representative are a rather mixed
On one hand we have Congre
man Jimmy VanZandt and Assen
biyman Kenneth O Halnes wh
never miss an occasion {or public.
fly. On the other hand we have Mr
Letzler whose light is practically al-
vs hidden under a bushel
lo
;
| TEACHERS’ PAY:
| When k 0 this
teachers are poorly paid
tances. They have to
ands of dollars on an ication
prepare chemselvey for jobs which
often dont pay any more than a job
requiring only 2 pick, shovel
strong back. The:
high st: life
They must
community
and shou
Tif to
you stop 1 wx of It
in many
spend thou-
y
ai
eq Lo
anda a
have a rather
maintain
hoo] and
dress wel
cial wor.
How
clone
20nN in to
be active in ¢
affairs, must
i be free of fina
, y thelr work
some ol lhe pooOrer-paid
keep the but
perly
Sell
her
placated in the face of
NCTeaMCs In
tribute to their knack of
management.
WHISKERS :
Last Thursday a somehow
iar figure wearing a full and com-
plete get of beard and mustache en-
tered this office, tossed down a nickel
and asked for a paper. We passed
the time of day with him, and final-
to bear
ny io ! uiked is
“I'm John Bpeesce” came a
ice from the beard. Our old friend
n Bpeece, and
John explained tha
ps his face warm, war
o rie ¢
CES Oi
ore
pro
leachers can bak-
er, ele prof-
rt “te -
ent O58 a
financial
uving « if
fami].
" Hn
We uncer.
v wir
Han A
we cd.ant
quinsy
a beard on
d be a happy
25 he opened
i a bitter Pebruary win
WARNING:
To toothpick chewers
of those kind
hewing
resd
sou
on a toothpic
Tam
' he Was sent
County Hospital where
revealed iver of tooth
Centre
8 3H
pick in an intestine He was recup-
erating from the operation when an
absoess developed on one hip. When
absoess opened and drained a
ro'ion of toothpick about three-
fourths of an inch long was removed
from the wound Physicians believe
that sll the excess wood has been
removed f his system ang that
hell be all right from now on.
BOOM:
Republican leaders are reported
be urging the return
MacArthur {rom the
be groomed for the
1943. Nero also fiddied
burned. If Republ 1 leaders are
too dull to realize that the only im-
portant thing to be done today is to
win the war, they're not fit to pick
Presidential candidates What great
catastrophe must happen before
some of us waken to the realization
we're smack in the middie of the
biggest war the world has ever
known?
GRAND IDEA:
We like the system adopted by
two Cambria county school districts
whereby pupils of the public school
receive one hour of religious in-
struction each week on school time
in churches or Bunday schools of
their own choosing, and we appre-
ciate the Rev. Father Palfy’s inter.
est in calling it to our attention. We
hope all of you turn to another page
| of this issue and read what has been
{done in Cambria county
(Continued on Pope Three)
~ryera tiny
peta 4]
Lhe
while Rome
| Yor Victory: Buy Bonds
THE GUMPS
BY &US EDSON
Look, Forks! rEquesTS
FROM MY THOUSANDS
EMPLOYEES
temple area, fractured pelvis, frac-
tured ribs and shock.
Accordl
the au driven by Mr. Miller
was proceeding east, while the other
oar was going west. When the Al-
toona machine was returning to its
place in the westbound line of traf-
| fic, after passing another vehicle it
skidded sideways across the highway
into the eastbound lane directly in
the path of the Miller vehicle, which |
| struck the left side of the Altoona |
| car.
Damages are estimated at $400 to
the Altoons automobile and $500 to
| Clifford Noll, 15, of Beaverton, is| the other vehicle.
Defense Courses
Registrations for a new engineer-
ing defense training program will be
held Monday and Tuesday evening
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, president Harvey A. An-
druss annoufieed, | .
For Vietory: Buy Bonds.
i a as tee
PETER PUBLIC—A Noble Idea, But! !
information available
ASKING ME TO
TAKE PART OF THEIR.
SALARIES TO BUY SAVINGS
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