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NEWS,
FEATURES
1942, }
MEER 28.
BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 9,
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RECORD ‘BREAKING’
A 16-year-old high school grad
uate of Clarion, has just set a
new record, for this country, at
least. Helen Anderson has just
suffered her fifteenth broken
bone, her right arm, fractured in
a friendly scuffle with her kid
brother, Helen, who Is slim,
blonde and beautiful, has a rare
allment; no marrow in her bones.
Included in the list of her breaks
is her nose, every bone in both
arms and hands, both legs, one
of the latter being a compound
fracture, and every rib. "While
her bones break easily, they do
not hurt much, and heal in about
three weeks, regardless of the
severity of the break.
DOWN THE HATCH!
I'wo Naval officers Friday were
disgusted with rationing, espe«
fally that of coffee. Entering a
Pittsburgh restaurant for dinner,
they asked the waitress for a seq
ond cup of coffee but were refus
ed because “it is against regula
tions.” “But we stayed in the
restaurant until it closed to see
what happened to that left over.”
the officers said. “Right down
the drain it went while sat
there with our tongues hanging
out.”
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GIVES RUBBER FLOOR
Milton S. Hershey, founder of
the great Hershey Chocolate
plant, Saturday, ordered the rub
ber flooring of his kitchen ripped
up and given to the salvage cam
paign as his personal contribu
tion. The aged millionaire, now
approaching his eighty fifth
birthday, hit upon the idea of
turning over the rubber flooring
after a search for scrap rubber
that he could give personally
BOMB PROOF
Maybe it sounds a bit odd, but
if bombs ever fall Philadel
phia, the 1261 prisoners in the
Eastern Penitentiary will be by
far the most fortunate. For
“Cherry Hill,” by which euphony
the prison is known, is a minia-
ture Malta. Not a sihfgle stick
of wood was used in granite and
concrete structure which covers
14 acres, according to the War
den.
MAN RIDES HOBBY
Threats of gasoline rationing
don't scare W. H. Deitchman of
Kansas City. He drove 800 miles
last week without using a drop.
He collects antigue automobiles,
and his latest find-—complete
with four good used tires—was a
1922 Stanley Steamer. “Walter
is plentiful and she gets 50 miles
to the gallon of kerosene,” he ex-
plained.
KEPT ON LAYING
Nine days after the German
Luftwaffe bombed the famed
English cathedral town of Can-
terbury, some workers clearing
debris found a hen hidden in a
cavity under a pile of masonry.
During that time it had laid six
eggs, all of which were intact.
The hen was little the worse for
wear and guickly recovered after
geeting food and walter,
SNOWBALL BATTLE
Believe it or not, they
throwing snowballs in Lancaster
county en the Fourth of July—
yes indeed. The snowballs were
used in a battle between two
troops of Boy Scouts as part of
Lititz's Community Independ.-
ence Day celebration on Satur-
day. Six bushels of snow was
stored in a local plant for the o
caslon,
NEEDED GAS
A woman asked the rationing
board at Chicopeen, Mass, for
extra gasoline for her “special
limousine.” She said she needed
it to make a living. She got it,
The woman was Mrs, Dorothy
Bilackhall a carnival performer,
She weighs 600 pounds,
were
VICTORY MOUSERS
Each kitten in a litter of five
born to a cat owned by Mrs,
James Carmichael, of Athens,
Ohio, had a white “VV” on its
forehead,
Lightning Sets Fire To
East Nittany
Resulting In $10,000 Loss
Pigs, Three Horses, Three Calves, Farm Crops,
and Implements Burned In One of Most
Destructive Farm Fires in Years
The severe electrical storm which
swept over lower Nittany Valley late
Friday night is thought to be re-
sponsible for the fire which early
Saturday morning destroyed the
farm crop tock and imple
the R. Fiske Shearer farm
tern end of the valley, ten
Edward Fleisher
I'he lo the barn
barn
ment
at the ea
anted by
pig pen
everal
imple
ximately to
ated
three 101 { calve
1a numerous
appr
sharer ha
His |
red
farm
ment
10.000
he will
erty Is cove
Mr Flei
wwakened by
indi
rebuild the prop
ner
Amputate Legs
of Aged Woman
Victim Found Alone in Shanty
With Gangrenous
Infection
from Dn
he had examined
18Y: ri QO
: ‘
warned
n Renovo
1 in Machias
Jeech Creek
to West
vy
;
Lingen{elt and
New York State
Interment was made in the Hayes-
Fearon
cemetery, on Tuesday
-
Active Octogenarian
Despite the fact tha
he 80th birthday anni
March, Mrs. Della Ely
burg. last week accompanied a party
of berry Shade Mountain
limbed over we uneven terrain in
earch of fruit returned with
ickleberries which
he passed
Yersary in
pickers to
ti
and
four
ne
quarts of h
had gathered
-
New Guernsey Record
A new record
age of the
age
exceeding the aver-
breed for her
and 8 just been com-
by a five-year-old cow, Mas-
terful June of Hilltide 455508, of
State College, tested and owned by
The Pennsylvania State College and
announced by The American Guern-
ey Cattle Club is 112018 pounds of
milk and 5876 pounds of butter fat
ciass AA
Guernsey
class 1}
lot
pieted
mn
-
Publicity hounds rarely do any-
thing except advertise themselves
and the only reason they do this
is because they hunt free publicity
Unconcern in U.S. Amazes Officers
Back from the fighting zones in
the Western Pacific Army and Navy
officers last week expressed amaze
ment at the complacency of the
folks at home would be quot-
ed, but one sald
“We are alarmed at the attitude
of the people we have seen on the
way home. This is a bloody war and
the people at home don't seem to
know it. The newspapers talk about
None
peace, what are we going to do with |
peace, how are we going to control
it. Hell, we haven't begun to win the
war yet, and we are talking about
how we will set down peace terms!
We've got to get down in the
mud and fight like hell, and believe
me we've got to do it pretty soon
This peace stuff is a pain in the
neck to all of us who have been out
here. You ought to forget it”
‘Apple Tree’ Too Much for Band
The Army Reception Center Band
of forty pieces was going to town on
“Don’t 8it Under the Apple Tree
with Anyone Else But Me,” midway
through its concert Friday night in
front of the Citizens Hose Company,
New Cumberland
Suddenly there was the crash of
timbers as the improvised platform,
four feet above the street, gave way.
Hundreds of spectators seemed
of the “Apple Tree”
who continued to play as the plat-
form sank. As the boards splintered,
the band members were thrown from
their chairs and their instruments
rolled from their hands
There was only one casualty. A
band member cut his lip on his horn,
but the injury was not serious
The concert was over with the fall
a.
Tire Thief Was Obliging
When Dr. Charles W. Straub of
Middleburg, went to a garage to have
his tires changed to save wear, he |
found that a perfectly new tire had |
been removed from the trunk of his
—_—_—
car, and a nearly wornout tire left
in its place. Obligingly, the robber
hati placed the old tire on the wheel,
with an old innertube inflated, all
ready for use.
the barn wa
of Middle-!
more surprised than the musicians |
Escaped Rockview Prisoner
i A ae: Makes Friends With Wild
5 lriaagh Lr 0 Fowl During Long Hideout
bi it “ Fugitive Claims He Was Able to “Tame Wild
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Turkey Hen and Her Eleven Poults;”
Smoked 800 Cigarettes in 17 Days
forgetting four cartons
areties that he cached with
Decoration Day he |
wood that
farm and clan red up the
Eagle
National Treasure Hunt for Salvage
Valley Barn
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burgh Post Gazette staf! writer, and
appearing recent is Lhat
newspaper.)
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from
of cig
demolished when it
rived. Firemen pre
building:
A herd of
fire, |
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tected the nearby in
1 A
1000
’
in a ue ol into Lhe
Rock view
Bald
COWS the
turned out to pa
night
that the barn wa
Kb) during the storm
ich swept over Sugar Valley, Bald
I Mackeyville
Hurt as Ditch Closes
I'hree Jer
milk
been
escaped
about an escaped
different
wving
ture after being milked Friday
It Is the theory valley
“Any
can ef ]
the highway
Dets
tory about an escaped
farm Rock -
Joseph Bel-
mek, doing 5 w 1 years for burg-
with
eleven
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wick Water Company
the
the hie
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were injured when } Lhe hen or, ris
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Selmek fed | ies
own
Jo anni ut I Iness Is Fatal
: To C. E. Krape
Neraps German Gun
f the first World W i BY hay : A e o Toi i” : oy a yi : m gency v 4 or t ) ; i Selim 1 Tag at 3 Has West Branch Bank Teller Was
bronze h of t ty at f ! Native of Salona, Clin-
He smoked 8(
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ton County
before accor
' Board ha
War Product
Buy
OF WOODWARI
Defense Bonds now!
: the trig-
Winchester
and he
the same
ip
hi 13-mode]
the gun snapped,
quickly worked the lever
negative results recurred. Mean.
while the bear was coming closer
and he was of course frantically
and throwing the
OSS NURSE
RED CR
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) Centre
The next
dogs still
they were
i Ci iM county line
at bear tracker concerned a bear morning he heard his
eh cane out of Hibernntion #11 Fong bot this “time
asset Tui
AIG ELLE
Al a meet Ac-
| tvities Commitiece of the Bellefonte
Chapler of the American, Red Cross
held last TY if ter Et
i £3 Wiirsirg
1g We INUrsing
Bassinger's
s on wolves, panthers ai
Oming buck
working the lever
ett y
DUrEn
1 which
claimed the Iw
and
day
ws 1 $1000
wy he Opped 1
is surprise he
ta hi
ming over the
west
Narrows Blily was
down on the
rel
wm
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n Pape Fight)
wid
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cant started UL stock
in a matie;
Sawmill Worker A or pai
Struck by Saw =:
ing
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Dr
Lawrence Butler of Howard, core ¢
Suffers Painful Abdom- last
inal Wound Cartrment
0 grade
Miss Ri
August 3rd
ing looked af
ler, who cap
Youth Killed In
Cycle-Auto Crash
Companion Suffers Minor In-
juries in Accident at
Yellow Creek
New CW
B. Thomj
Commitee
Rimmey
Prize Awarding
Ends Osceola 4th
Harrisburg Lady Awarded
$300; Centre Hall Man
Gets $100
Former Tyrone
Missionary Free
George
activities
Miss
T™
au
Chairman
conferred with
Miss Louise Reilly, Released
dv Japs, Now Enroute
Home
week
t-up by
y should be
i children
is on vacation until
are De
Jane Kel-
reached by dialing
2024, from 9 to 9:30 a. m. and 1:00
to 2:00 p. m., or calling at head-
pulled the revolving blade too far quarters, Petrikin Hall after hours
and it struck him on the abdomen, leaving message at 2169 or 2508
cutting through his clothing and in- __-
flicting a wound several inches long
The man was taken to the offices
This is a
thie
State
sneficial
Schrock W. Hann, 20. of near
Roaring Spring. died at the Everett
hospital Sunday morning from in-
jurie when motorcycle
he was driving accompanied by Clair
18, of Roaring Spring,
R. D. crashed sideawiping into an
automobile at Yellow Creek, about
eight miles outside of Everett, July
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Lawrence Butler, of Howard, suf-
fered painful injuries about the ab-
domen last week while was at
work at the Clair Lyons sawmill at
Howard
Butler, operating & cut-off saw,
Reilly former well
woman and
Years an
in China, ha
Japanese after
Japanese at
several months
Miss Louise
known Tyrone
HAR served
missionary
the
the
The awarding of the $500 grand
prizes on Saturday evening conclud-
ed the most cesful Osceola Mills
Firemen's celebration ever held, ac-
cording to commillee member, Bur-
geass John Redding
The first prize of $300 was awarded
Marion M. Lucas, of Harrisburg
The ticket was sold by Billy Heath
Second prize money of $100 went to
Charles McClenahan, of Centre Hall
The winning ticket was sold by Tom |©f 8 Howard physician where the history but they have, occasionally
Sankey. Third prize winner, $100, | injury was given proper attention. |gestroyeq civilian morale
was awarded to Bob Rickets, Osceola | Last week's accident was the third a
Mills The ticket by E (time that Butler has suffered ab-| w,. have never undersiod the
Osewalt : dominal lacerations In the same |yomperament of those who want to
The large morning parade was! Hannes Fortunately none of them lead when nobody asks them to com-
more successful than at first was an. | Proved serious | mand
ticipated by the program planners. |
Three drum corps from State College, |
Lewistown and Tyrone participated, |
as did bands from Osceola, Houtzdale
and Janesville, The State College
drum corps, 1941 national champs,
took the first prize award in the
drum corps entry. Lewistown placed | Fort Dix. Sherman, a native of |
second | Western Pennsylvania, had another
- The high diving free act and other son in the army, stationed in Flor- |
Damage to the car was estimated! Considering the money spent on shows on the midway were termed | ida. He leaves his wife and seven |
at $250. while the motorcycle was education, we might, some day, €X- the best ever to appear at any Fourth | other children.
only slightly damaged | pect more results in the thinking (Continued Bottom next column) ie : |
id iv [4] agus | :
and living of graduate am | Changes Plea |
Maynard Swisher, 30, Bloomsburg, |
{charged with abandoning his 2-year. |
Western Union Telegraph {old daughter, Patricia, in River]
Service To Army Men Overseas Lg Harrisburg, June 19, withdrew |
young and her duties
for five as £1 he r Miss
received the copal 1
released by
eing seized by
Hangkow, China
ago, and is now en route home
Miss Reilly daughter of
Reilly, former resident and
now Cleveland, Ohio, has had
many thrilling experiences in China
since Japanese invaded that
country. Despite many difficulties
during the early days of the Sino.
Jap war Mis Reilly remained on
duty at Episcopal mission at
Hangkow
Miss Reilly is not expected to
reach New York until about Sep-
been
Showalter
to
John —
Street comer strategists have nev.
of er won a campaign in all the world's
It was reported that the motor.
cycle, driven by Hann, who was rid-
ing tandem with Showalter was
proceeding on the wrong side of the
road as it came around the sharp
curve near the scene of the acci-
dent Ellsworth R O'Neill, whose car
was struck sald the motorcycle
swerved to avoid hitting him and
at the same time he swerved and as
a result the motorcycle struck the tember 1 on account of the lack of
car, tearing the whole right side of | transportation
the auto off i a
Hann died of a fracture of the A positive religion directs the
neck and a fractured skull 8ho- | lives of believers: a negative relig-
walter was discharged from the hos- | ion tells them what they cannot do
pital after having his injuries dress. and go to Heaven.
ed { »
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the
) Te
was sold
the
--
Dies as Son Leaves
George H. Sherman, 73, of Mill- |
ville, was seized with a heart attack |
land died Tuesday while his son, |
| William ©. 26, was preparing to |
leave for induction in the army at
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Injuries Fatal to Driver J——
Lawrence M. Lechner, Jr. 19, of |
St. Marys, driver of an automobile Open
which crashed into two trees, died in!
the St. Marys Hospital from a frac- |
tured skull and brain injury. Two
companions were slightly injured. as'
Lechner's car failed to negotiate a! Local people began sending the
curve, left the highway, knocked over new “EFM” (Expeditionary Force
| the two trees and came to stop in a Messages) to members of the United
| yard States Armed Forces stationed in
{many foreign countries, it was an-
Injured On Farm {nounced by L. A. S8hew, superinten-
When a team of horses drawing a dent of the Western Union Tele
| wagon bolted as William Hummel, of |§Taph Company,
Sunbury, was about to descend to| Special “EFM” blanks, listing the
| the ground, several ribs on the right 103 fixed-text phrases provided for
(side of his chest were broken, and the service, have been received at
{ he suffered possible Internal injuries. the local Western Union office where
{ The accident happened at his farm the outbound service was started re-
i along the road leading from Middle. cently. Members of the armed forces
| burg to New Berlin. labroad began sending “EFM” mes-
: sages to their homes on May 20,
New Ways to Economize |when inbound service was inaugur-
In the Kitchen lated
Helpful suggestions to increase! _ this information. The Telegraph
household efficiency and hold down| In the “EFM” cablegram, a con-| Company will use the army postof-
expenses during these war days. Read tribution by the communications in- | fice numbers in selecting the proper
[the advice of Mrs. Christine Pred- dustry Zo the nation’s morale, the code addresses, but will not know
Lerick, noted home economist, in the sender may incorporate in one mes-| what countries the code words indi-
{July 19th issue of The American Sage, costing sixty cents, as many cate, The Telegraph Company will
| Weekly, the big magazine distributed [8s three of the fixed-text phrases | transmit the messages to the coun-
{with the Baltimore Sunday Ameri- These phrases relate to correspon-| try of destination, where the Army
ican. On sale at all newsstands. | dence, greetings, health, pramotion, | Posioffice will make delivery,
a guilty plea in Dauphin county |
fcourt Monday, and the case was
money, congratulations and other continued to September, It is not | v
subjects | known whether a plea will be offer- |
Like President Roosevelt's use of led later or whether the case will i
the fictitious land of Shangri-La toto trial,
conceal the base from which Amer-|
ican planes bombed Japan, the War |
Department has provided all] West!
ern Union offices with charts identi.
fying foreign countries only as ar-
bitrary code words, Relatives and
friends sending these messages will
not know in what countries the
cablegrams are to be delivered,
Outbound “EFM” messages will be
addressed to the troops by rank,
name, identifying serial number and
army postoffice number, Families of
members of the armed forces have
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The drive for scrap rubber may be!
over but you can help meet the)
needs of the Army by turning In|
scrap rubber today. {
As an advertising medium we sug-
gest The Centre Democrat for
cheapest coverage of this trading
area. i
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Nothing amages us so much as to
discover somebody who apparently
thinks that we know something.
EE ee.
of July celebration in that commun.
ity.
Excellent weather with the excep-
tion of the dinner time rain on the
Fourth, brought out the largest total
crowd ever estimated at the nineteen
year old annual celebration.
This is the third of a series of
Random
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Items
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RECRUIT
f
inl
department |
proud of the newest member of the
I've Quit Smoking Club,” for he's
been a heavy smoker {or many years
you know--up tw 2 and one-half
pack He 1s E. E. Widdowson
local director who tells
he'd reached the point where
ne had more than one cigarettes
going atl a time. Eddie swore off on
July 1, and we wish him the best
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Big John Miller llefonte High
} I~ GeEVeiloped
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were heard
that
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CONTRIBUTION
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Another
ir
GC raclo in
onabie mit yO E any
pet peeves you'd like to get off your
chest, let's hear about them. Maybe
if enough of us get together we could
| Write our
thing. (On sector
u'd betier write him
WHO HAS ONE?
In Bellefor
which is ©
seven days a
in the Centre C
rning service
lunteer watchers wh
> week
er a
i nell
1#
_r
EY
Ther
oe
metimes there are no
4 or 5 hour
and a radi
ah ifte
idl
would b
or which
he is willing to lend, we know of no
place where It would be more wel-
come. District Attorney Musser W
Gettig, who is in charge of the con-
trol station, will tO receive
any offers
WARM HALL:
You know the long hallway in the
new High School building, extending
the entire length of the school lot
on the Linn street side? Well Karl
Kusse, secretary of the Bellefonte
Chamber of Commerce, who lives on
West Linn street, and who walks to
and from work to save tires and gas-
ioline, already is figuring that come
cold weather, he will be able to walk
one whole block of the way to work
in comfort. He'll use the Jong hall-
way in the school, which has ocon-
{ venient entrances at each end Some
fun, eh?
DIRECTIONS:
Did you ever notice how difficult
(Continued on Page Kight)
be glad
em
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