a
The Call to
The Colors
Is a Call For Dollars!
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he Cenire Democrat
let Your Answer
To Bombs Be BONDS!
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942,
SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR.
VOLUME 61. NUMBER 9.
KILLED
Truck, Train Meet
On Dix Run Crossing
Victim, Harry Cohen, 46,
Lock Haven, Dies on |
Way to Hospital |
WRECKAGE DRAGGED
NEARLY HALF MILE
Locomotive Damaged By
Impact; Train Wheels |
Flattened By Skid
Harry Cohen, 46, Lock Haven junk
dealer, was instantly killed about 1
o'clock Tuesday afternoon when his
truck was struck by the eastbound
Lehigh Express on a private grade
crossing about one mile west of Un-
fonville,
The truck, struck broadside by the
locomotive, was dragged nearly one-
half mile along the roadbed before
the train was brought to a halt
Cohen died while being brought on
the trein to the Centre County Hos-
pital here.
The Léck Haven man’s machine,
a Chevrolet truck bearing a T regis-
tration, was reduced to junk. Scarce-
ly a plece of the vehicle escaped
damage.
The locomotive, reported to have
been traveling at between 45 and 50
miles an hour at the time of the
impact, was badly damaged about
the front. The pliot (cow-catcher)
was jammed back against the pony
wheels. The left real cylinder cock
was broken off and the injector
which supplies ofl into the cylinder
was broken. All steam pipes between
the engine and tank were broken
off by the impact and the steam line
furnishing heat to the coaches was
broken between the baggage car and
coaches.
In addition, when the emergency
boukes-*ere sot on the train, virtual-
ly all wheels skidded on the rack
y arly Robe 1s reported
that the wheels of all cars will have
to be replaced.
Deputy Coroner Frank L. Baird,
of Milesburg, acting In the absence
of Corgner Charles 8heckler, also of
Milesburg, said that Cohen suffered
(Continued on Poge Four)
55 More Ready
For Army Duty
Local Board No. 2, Belle-|
fonte, Lists Names of
Additional Selectees
A total of 55 Centre county men
in the area served by Local Draft
Board No. 2, Bellefonte, have passed
all requirements for service in the
U. 8. Army, board officials announ-
ced yesterday.
Names and addresses of the latest
list of men who are now subject
to call are:
Beezer G. O'Neill, Philipsburg;
Robert C. Gill, Bellefonte; Joe J.
Cingle, Clarenes; Joe Onder, Clar-
ence; John F. Wright, Bellefonte, R. |
D.; Albert V. Osman, Bellefonte;
John R, Hassinger, Belleforde, R. D.;
James A. Roundsley, Bellefonte;
Stanley Philiposki, Osceola Mills;
Clair W. Beightol, Howard, R. D.;
Mike Praskewych. Bellefonte, and
(Continged on Pape Five)
i
PORT MATILDA MAN 1S
UNDER BAIL FOR COURT
Frank Rolles, of Port Matilda, ar- |
rested about 2:55 a, m. Sunday in
14 County Students
On Honor List
Included in the “honors list" for
the first semester in the Schoo] of
| Education at Penn State College are |
14 Centre county students. Jean
Babcock and Catharine E. Coleman,
both of State College, made perfect
(3) averages while carrying 15 or
more credits
Twelve other county students are
{among the 104 who all made 25 or
i more out of a possible 3 during the
Caum, |
semester, They are: Jean
sophomore in home economics, and
Harry Menold, special student in in.
dustrial education, both of Belle-
fonte; Ruth Lane, Lemant, senjor in
education; Hazel Shull, Millheim
senfor in education; Ilse Springer,
Philipsburg, senior in home econom-
ICS.
Dorothy Beam, senior in home eco-
nomics, Edith Dengler, sophomore
in home economics, Rachel McMas-
ter. senfor in music education; Rus-
sell Rusk, senior in industrial edu-
cation: John Strunk, sophomore in
industrial education: Edith Wright,
senfor in education: Ruth Zang,
special student in education, all of
State College
To Appear Here
To Give Concert in Bellefonte
Methodist Church Sun-
day, March 1
GATTY SELLARS
One of Canada's best Known mu-
sie critics writes In the
at the Methodist church in Belle-
fonte, Sunday, March I, at 3:30 p
m., as follows:
“It would be difficult to over-rate
the quality and the effect of the
performance given on The King of
Instruments lagt night by Gatty Sel-
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Car Reduced to J unk
In Accident Here
One car was destroyed and an-
other damaged to: the extent of
about $100 in a crash on East Bishop
street, Bellefonte, about 4 o'clock
last Thursday afternoon,
A sedan operated by Francis Mc-
Kinley, of North Thomas street,
Bellefonte, was traveling east on
| Bishop street when it struck a tree
near the Ralph Dale residence and
then plowed into the Dale sedan,
Ontario
Press, of Gaity Sellars, who appears
| meme po
Youths Fin
Frozen Body
of Elderly Man
William Mills, 65, Sandy
Ridge, Found Dead
Near Highway
CORONER SHECKLER
INVESTIGATES CASE
Estimate Body Was in
Field Several Hours;
Funeral Wednesday
Two youngsters discovered the
frozen body of William Mills, 65.
year-old Sandy Ridge resident, in a
field at Sandy Ridge Sunday after-
| noon.
The youngsters, Linny Bair, 10,
and Eddie Racgard, 13, were crossing
a field near the Osceola Mills-S8andy
Ridge highway when they discovered
the body. They notified Blair Peters
who called motor police
Motor police said they estimated
the body had been lying In the field
for three or four hours Centre
County Corener Charles Sheckler of
Milesburg, Investigated tie death
and reported there would be no li-
quest
Mr. Hill was bom Deg¢einbe;
1877 in Huntingdon. He wa
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mills
survived by hig wife, Alice, and fow
children, Charles of Blandburg, Mrs
Harry Botteicher of Johnstown, Mrs
Vinton Reggleman, of Akron, Ohio,
and Mrs. Arthur Stevens Sandy
Ridge. Andrew Mills, of Bolivar, and
Mrs. John Todd. who is living in
[lincis, are surviving brother and
sister
Funeral services were held Wed-
esday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the home of Mrs. Btevens at Sandy
"wy
d
A SOL
Ridge. Durlal was made in the "hil. |
psburg cemetery.
Physical Fitness
Leaders to Meet
Conference to be Held at State
College, Saturday
Morning
Dr. Lloyd M. Jones, Jirector of
physical fitness of the fourteen
counties composing the Central
Pennsylvania District has called a
meeting of all of the county and as-
sistant county directors of physical
fitness to be held on the Pennsyl-
vania State College campus in Room |
2, White Hall, on Saturday, Febru. |
ary 28 at 10 a. m
At this conference the leaders of
the physical fithess program in the
Central Pennsylvania District will
have an opportunity to get ac-
quainted with each other and to
bring the materials And plans of the
national and stale offices into coor-.
dination with the pquuty programs
The State Director of physical fit-
i ness, J. Wynn Fredericks of Harris-
burg, is expected to be present at
this meeting, Pennsylvania - State
| College Is acting as host to the men
and women attending this confer-
ence at the college swimming and
| fencing meets In the afternoon and!
the boxing and basketball events in
the evening.
The physical fithess program In
the Central Pennsylvania District is
| progressing steadily; all counties are
now reporting additional athletic
activities and increased adult inter-
est and participation In exercises,
walking and other methods of get-
ting in better physical shape,
He iv!
parks along the Quirk ‘BIG TROUT INN UNDERGOES |
The McKinley machine, owned by | EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
was
ic ommitice to Recommend Removal
of Half of Town's Parking Meters
|
| When Bellefonte Council meets
Monday night, the Fire and Police
| Committee is expected to make cer-
tain definite recommendations for
readjusting parking meters to elim-
{inate some of the complaints which
| have been filed against them in re-
teent weeks, it was reported yester-
day by Harold D. Cowher, chairman
of the committee
The recommendations, tentative-
ly agreed upon Friday night at a
joint meeting of the Fire and Police
| Committee with a special committee
from the Retail Division of the
Chamber of Commerce, are expected
to be definitely decided upon at an-
other meeting of the two commit-
tees in the Chamber of Cominerce
Criminal Court
Session Ends
Juries Find 2 Defendants
Guilty; Costs Imposed in
Not Guilty Verdict
F es on the February crime-
inal court docket were cleared by
jury trials Monday and Tuesday of
this week. Verdicts of guilty were
returned in two of the cases; a ver-
dict of pol guilty in one, and in the
fourth the verdict was not gulity
but the jury piasced the costs on the
defendant, The sesclon was one of
the shortest in some years
Richard W. Grant, of State Cal-
lege, was found gullty by a jury of
drunken driving and the usual seg -
tence of the costs, a fine of $100 and
&n days in the county jall was im.
posed
Jacob D. Brickley, Jr.. of Blanch.
ard, was found guilty of a charge
of f. and bh. and the usual sentence
was imposed 1p guarantees support
of the child.
Ernest Similer. of Philipsburg, was
[acquitted of a charge of
{the beverage licehse law
lcosts were piaced on the county,
i Raymond and David Lewis of
Philipsburg. were found not guilty of
assault and battery, but the jury
ur ca
placed the costs of prosecution upon |
{the two defendants,
The trial of Lynn Glover, of
Washington, D. C., charged with vi.
olation of the distillery bonded
warehouse certificate act, scheduled
to have been held this week was
continued until the May term. Glov-
er last week was extradited from
Washington, D. C.. and i now in the
Centre county jall
Menold Heads Model
Aircraft Project
Harry C. Menold, manual train.
ing Instructor at the Bellefonte High
School, has been named Model Air-
craft Project supervisor in the Belle.
fonte aren. and has been notified
and the,
ofMces tomorrow night,
Tentative recommendations are as
follows, Mr. Cowher sald
1. Removal of meters from every
third stall throughout the metered
Zones
2. Use 0 many two-hour meters
as possible, instead of one-hour ma-
chines
3. Limit the tolal nunbe
ters In active use to about
about one-half the numb
operation
4. Removal of several of the
meters from In front of U
office and installation of two
machines in front of the Btate Lig-
i uor store on North Spring street.
f
+ IS
Gf ne.
125, ot
now in
penn
y
ie post-
Net $1846 for
Paralysis Fund
‘State College District Led
. County With Contribu-
tions of $494.24
A total of 8186447 to be
the national war against Infantile
parslysis was cleared in Centre
county during the annual campaign
late in January according to in
complete retwins received by Mrs
Balser Weber, of Howard, county
chalrman of the fund
All proceeds from Bellefonis and
Philipsburg have not been received
to date, Mrs. Weber explained
a final total is not available at
time
The State Colleeg district
in the jargest contributior
county, M.s. Weber's report sh
There, the commitiee headed by W
H. Seckinger, cleared $494 24. Second
high was Philipsburg, headed by
Frederic Hoffer, with a total of
{8313 01. Hefonte is third with a
total of $265.23. The local chairmen,
calm Wetzier Mrs. Wallace
GH, listed receipts Be follows:
Comtinwed on Pape Your)
Altoona Girl To
used in
w0O
his
{
turned
the
WOW
it
ian
|
Janet Blair was a singer with Hal
Kemp's orchestra and, what is more,
she wag declared by radio critics to
be the prettiest vocalist in the musi-
cal world
Janet, one of the most promising
young actresses under contract to
Columbia Pictures, makes her mo-
] ion picture debut as one of the
{three stars In “Three Girls About
{ Town,” hectic new comedy at the
| Btate Theatre, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday of next week, The other two
are Joan Blondell and Binnie Barn-
es.
8he was born and raised in Al-
toons, Pennsylvania, and is Irish
Her real name Is Martha Florence
| Lafferty, daughter of Fred B. and
| {Continued on Pepe Biz)
that Bellefonte is expected to pro-|
duce 100 model airplanes of a na-
tional quota of 500,000, and a Penn-
sylvania quota of 50,000.
The planes, built of wood to exact
‘scale, are to be used In training pil- |
ots and alr raid wardens. More than
50 types of plane in use by the Unit-
ed Nations as well as by the Axis
powers are to be made for govern-
ment use.
Mr. Menold has named Lynn
| Krape, of North Allegheny street,
{as his assistant, and all boys and
men interested are urged to volun-
teer for the work. The initia] meet-
ing of the local group will be held In
the manual trafhing rooms of the
high school, North Spring street,
this Thursday afternoon.
Models are used in training pilots
{and rald wardens to tell the type
i and model of various planes at sight,
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‘Home Nursing Classes
Complete Courses
Two classes In home nursing, un-
' der the supervision of the Bellefonte
Chapter of the American Red Cross,
completed their course of study of
{thirty hours each, Tuesday after-
(noon and evening. The afternoon
class, under the direction of Mrs,
' Jean Harris, and the evening class,
|
|
i
|
taught by Miss Thressa Fye, will ber. Martin M. Matthews, who died |
hold their closing day exercises in
several weeks.
Friday evening of this week two
new Classes will get under way: one [quad who are making the trip to institution.
Scofia Pit
!
Refuge Nearby
County's Deserted Town
May be Revived by Re-
sumption of Work
STATE BUYS 4,000
ACRES IN BARRENS
such |
‘Ore Would be Trucked to
Spruce Creek, Shipped
to Huntingdon
The Barrens, vast ares of scrub
timberland and including the now
deserted village of Bootia, may be
due for an unprecedented “boom
fcoording two Ahnouncements
this week
It is reported that 8 naJdonally-
known foundry is negotiating with
the Col. Theodore Davis Boal estate
owner of The Barrens, for rights to
| remove fron ore from the Scotia
Ww
area
The second development came
Monday when the Stale Game Com.
miselon ratified the purchase of ap-
proximately 4.000 acres of The Bar.
rens from the Boal estate for ex-
perimental use 4 game
fuge
If either or both of the projects
develop as anticipated, The Barrens
may regain some of the prestige they
had when the Bootia area was an
important ore producing come
munity f
According to the tentative plans
for reopening the Scotia mines the
ore would be trucked to Spruce
Creek and from there reshipped by
allroad to a Huntingdon county
furnace to be made into pig iron
The number of men required for
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and Ww re-
aon
240 Present at
Annual Banquet
Make Screen Debut roy Adams, Pleasant Gap
Magician, Entertains at
| Father-Son Gathering
A total of 240 fathers and sons
jam-packed the Y. M. C. A. gym-
nasium last Thursday night for the
annual father and son banquet spon-
sored by the “Y." The attendance
was the largest in history of the an-
nual dinner, with the exception of
last year when foremen who were
present as guests of local industries
swelled the total to hecord heights,
Highlight of the entertainment
program was a sleight-of-hand per-
formance by Roy Adams, of Pleasant
Gap. Other features included a
demonstration by about 20 members
the “Y” Pioneer Club which meets
every Saturday morning for Bible
| (Continued on page fve—Second Section)
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Military Funeral for
Local YFW Membe
r
{| A number of officers, a firing squad
and a bugler from Jackson-Criss-
| man-Saylor Post, Veterans of For-
eign Wars, Bellefonte, departed for
| Baltimore, Md., last night to hold
| military rites for a departed mem.
{suddenly at his home In Pleasant
| Gap on Monday,
Officers and members of the firing
'BHS Student Makes
| Defense Contribution
Richard Fetzer, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fetzer, of the I. O. O
F. apartments, West High street, a
Bellefonte High School freshman,
last week demonstrated his willing-
| ness to make a personal contribution
to national defense,
For many months Petzer, employ-
ed In the Lawrence Pavone barber
shop on the Diamond, had been
saving the metal tubes in which a
hair preparation is packaged. As
{an advertising medium the manu-
facturer offered to give a radio to any
person returning 500 of the tubes
Fetzer had accumulated nearly
enough tubes for a free radio, but
last week after considering the na-
tion's need for metals for war pur-
poses, he put aside his personal
hopes, carried the box of empty tubes
to the Widmann & Teah drug store
one of the official collecting agencies
in Bellefonte, and dumped them in
the large container to be made into
the implements of war.
!
School Directors
In Annual Meeting
Three directors, a delegate and an
auditor were €lected at the 55th an-
nual meeting of the Centre County
School Directors’ Association at
court Friday
Ralph C. Blaney, of Bellefonis
and R. D. Shoemaker, of State Col-
lege, were elected directors for =f
year terms; R. 8. Hagan, of
Hall, was elected for year
term: O. H. Bathgate, of Lemont
was named delegate to state
convention, and Horace J. Hart
ranft, of Bellefonte, was elected aud-
itor for one year,
the
house here
the
| sociation’s 200 members present
{Addresses ami a question box ses-
elon feafired the meeting
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Pleasant Gap Firemen
Extinguish Car Blaze
The Pleasant Gap fire company
was calind Into action about 8 o'-
clock Monday morning when a car
owned by Harvey Decker, of Pleas.
ant Gap, burst into flames. Damage
wis estimated at $50
Decker was working along the
highway and had parked his car
near the Independent Ol Company
station north of Pleasant Gap, when
the fire was discovered under the
hood. Chemicals were used in ex-
tinguishing the flames. It is believed
the fire started in the electrical
equipment about the motor
41 Tires, 34 Tubes
For County in March
The Centre County tire quota for
March includes 41 tires and 34 tubes
for passenger cars, and 136 tires. 54
retreads and 427 tubes for trucks,
according to an announcement by
State Rationing Administrator T.
Elmer Transeau, of Harrisburg.
Pederal authorities have alloited
56.390 tires, tubes and truck retreads
to eligible Pennsylvania motor ve-
hicle owners for March.
70 in County Home
Officials of the Centre County
| Home, Bellefonte, yesterday reported
that there are now 70 guests at that
Only on one previous
in Bellefonte, taught by Miss Mary | honor thelr comrade are: Command. occasion have there been as many as
| Slagel, and one al Zion, conducted °F William Garis, Senior Vice Com- 70 patients in the home, they report-
by Miss Catharine Ventre. All other | Mander Ray Allen, W. W. Hampton, ed
classes in Bellefonte and surround. | James J. Leitsell John Garis, Roy
ing towns are progressing nicely.
{ Hazel, Charles Breon, and Elmer]
| Richner, and Bugler Jones, of Miles. |
{burg. Services are scheduled to be!
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Song Social at Pleasant View
A song social will be held at the
A roll call showed 108 of the As- |
AS EXPRESS HITS TRUCK
sTo Police Arrest Man
Reopen, Game In Hit-Run Fatality
{ s————
| Dean Baughman, 32, Ren-
ovo, Held in Accident
West of Mill Hall
FORMER EMPLOYE OF
BELLEFONTE STORE
Chemist's Test Tube Pro-
vides Clue Leading
to Arrest
Charged with being Lhe driver
of a hit-run car which last December
1 struck and instantly killed Carl
Shearer, 14, son of Mr and Mrs
Ernest Shearer, of Mill Hall R. D.,
Dean Baughman, 32, of Renovo, 10-
day is being held in the Clinton
County jail under $1500 ball
Baughman, at one time employed
as a clerk in the former A & P stor
on the Diamond in Bellefonte, was
arrested largely on the strength
svidence provided by a chemists
test tube
When young Shearer was
as he walked along
with three companions, one of them
his her, west of Mill Hall the
impact jarred off one of the car's
headlight rims and lenses
Set. T. G, Moriarity and Corporal
Neil J. Gallagher, Lock Haven sub-
station motor police, both formerly
stationed in Bellefonte and Pleasant
Gap, picked up the lens and rim as
possible clues
The articles were submitted a
laboratory analysis, and ¢ chemist
reported traces of blue paint on the
rim. The lens, he sald, was covered
with an accumulation of soot. as
though the car stood for long per-
ods In an area where there was
much smoke.
Armed with these meagre clues,
(Continged on Pape Two)
eo
of
Ji
struck
the highway
$
brot
0
Appoint Agents
For Explosives
Bond White and E. R.
Hancock Authorized to
Issue Licenses
The Department of the Interior
has named two Centre countians as
licensing agents for explosives jt
was announced yesterdays
Centre County Prothonotary Bond
C. White has been appointed for the
southern part of the county, while
Squire E. BR. Hancock of Philips
burg. has been named to serve in
the northern part of the county
The agents have the power to is-
sue vendors’, purchasers’ ang fore-
men’s licenses under the terms of an
act passed last December
Every owner or operator of a mine,
quarry, or other industry using ex-
plosives is required to have a pur-
chasers license when purchasing ex-
plosives for use in his business. He
will require a vendor's license when
explosives are bought for resale
away from the mine operating
business.
Each employe charged with cus-
tody or distribution of explosives
must have a foreman’s license, and
[no unlicensed employe will be per-
mitted to issue or distribute explos-
ives. Workergwho receive explosives
from the foreman Mr use in the
plant will not require a license
Buffalo Run Man
Kicked by Horse
Steve Boldin, aged 27. of Buffalo
Run Valley, suffered a laceration on
or
THan Payroll Phone is |Smoke Causes Slight neu at 5:30 delock this mosnine. | Pleasant View Union Chapel on Fri-
H | thews, rotor y evening, 278 7: Every-
arge increase in Damage at Penn Belle | a} an 3, Mafia War Pm body invited to attend and take an’
According to an article in the lat. | | | three years in Co. C. 5th Regulars, active part. Come and sing your |
est issue Of the Titan News, publi- | ¢ U. 8. Marine Corps, from May 1927 | favorite song.
Cowher, of Bellefonte, Monday. ed a small laceration of the lip. to February 1930 tha
' Com 5 t time |
the public within the next week or cation of the Titan Metal pany, n For Victory: Buy Bonds i
He was released under $500 bail| Chief of Police Harry Dukeman of
ha it was reported yesterday. {vice in Nicaragua. He was a mem- |
for court. ' Bellefonte, investigated the crash. | An I nO LL : rt
= pe a A new wing was built on the nor- ! otel gbout 4: o' Mock Monday iber of Jackson-Crissman-Saylor = Hi a a = ; or Fe a
| th and the | J | afternoon, | | :
For Sale: 2 Brand New Auto Tires! |inr"ius Wms sa in iin i Stay rss] Bh he compost saver of 020 107 ¥ rien “How About the Free Meals, Hunting,
greatly enlarged. All new equip- |, d _ Benera were un-
(Don’t Blame Us For What Happens) ment, including Attractive booths, sence ror the eed oi $422 | able to locate any fire. The suxitiary| Low Temperatures | Fishing?’ Asks Meter Complainant
lunch counter and cooking facili- previous . | dining room and lobby of the bulld- M Cc leb 4 |
| ties have been installed. ing were smoke-filled when firemen MOF G@ ration ere You Bellefonte citizens who have tramped over farmers’ crops while
didn’t know whether they could ac- | The establishment has secured the | hunting, fishing and training dogs, and who have occasionally enjoyed a
Port Matilda, by Corp. W. R. Lam- FP, C. McKinley, reduced to |
mie, of the Philipsburg State Motor | junk, police sald. The driver and a! The Big Trout Inn, South Water
Police, pleaded guilty to a charge of | passenger, Annabelle Miller, of Bush street Bellefonte, owned by T. N.
drunken driving when arraigned be- | Addition, Bellefonte, had their eye- McAlarney, has extensive |
fore Justice of the Peace Harold D.' glasses broken and McKinley suffer- remodeling and redecorating during
{ the winter and is to be re-opened to
the left side of the head Sunday
afternodi, when he was Kicked by a
horse.
He underwent treatment at the
Centre County Hospital dispensary
and was permitted to return home
Smoke pouring from the fire door
—
Sketching the tremendous growth
of the company in the past ten ,..iv.a
Pity the plight of a Pleasant Gap years the article adds that the pay~|
woman who has two brand new tires
for sale and who is daily turning
down glittering offers for them—
not because she doesn’t want to sell
them, but because she wants to be
certain, first, that she wouldn't be
violating the letter or spirit of the
tire rationing laws by selling,
The womar, whose name we
because she already has :
ers than she knows what
inal wrappings, and
circumstances, the woman no
er has any use for fhem.
The sad tale came to light this
week when she called this news
paper to insert an adv nt to
sell the tires. The editors held a)
decided
hurried conference, they
cept the ad. Bo we got in touch with | Jjcense formerly owned by David K. |
John Sommerville, chairman of the
local tire rationing board.
The request sent Mr. Soramerville
{0 the files. After a time he emerged
with an opinion that the woman
could sell the tires, but only to a
| distributor or dealer. She would be
entitled to full price for the tires,
| Mr. Sommerville believed.
Meanwhile word got around that
the woman had two new tires in her
possession and didn't know what to
do with them. Immediately she was
swamped with offers.
The last word we had from her
was a telephone conversation yes
terday something like this:
“Please, can't 1 sell those tires?
I've had three offers in the last ten
minutes, One of them is for $20
each. I don't know what to do!”
Frankly, we don’t either,
Hughes,
The Big Trout Inn, located oppo-
{site the falls, long has been a fav.
{orite rendegvous , for anglers and
i hunters,
To Begin Work On
Welfare Campaign
Preparatory to opening the 1042
Community, Welfare campaign in
Bellefonte, Gir] Scouts will call upon
all merchants and professional men
of Bellefonte on Saturday, February
28, to obtain lists of employes.
The co-operation of business peo.
ple in furnishing the lists will be
appreciated, Welfare officials said.
For Victory: Buy Bonds,
roll in 1931 was only $168,484.03.
The financial growth of the indus-
try has been accompanied by a cor-
resvonding growth in equipment and
manpower, In December 1040 there
were 547 hourly . At the end
of 1941 the total had increased to
697 hourly workers.
Titan Workers Give
$57 to Bomber Fund
The Philadelphia Buy-a-Bomber
Fund which reached the $85.000
mark Monday, includes a contribu-
tion of $5775 from the office em-
ployes of the Titan Metal Manufac-
turing Company of Bellefonte, ac-
cording to a report published in the
Mcnday issue of The Philadelphia
>
Paul Emerick, manager of the ho-
tel, expressed the belief that all
smoke had come directly from the
furnace.
msi sss ma —
PORT MATILDA HAS
16 EMERGENCY POLICE
Sixteen members of the Port Ma-
County Recorder in Bellefonte,
The new officers are:
. A
baugh, Forest 8. Bish, Harrison M.
Crain, Aaron Q. Willams, Leroy R.
Willams, Rudolph ©. Williams,
Homer W. Putt, Bamuel E. Nearhoof,
Fred R. Woods.
| through Bellefonte streets early Sat.
! urday 3 caused a curtailment
of the cel planned in honor
of a group of who departed
on the 9 o'clock train for army
camps. :
Because of temperatures the
Band and the
about our parking meters:
| Dear Sir:
Well since there had been much
sald concerning the meters, 1
| thought 1 would do my bit by help- |
{ing out. Someone suggested to hood
(8 few of them and I think it a very
clever idea if they can find hoods
Sirong near-gero winds whipping free meal at a farm house—listen what one good farm woman has to say