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EVERYBODY
EVERY PAYDAY
VOLUME 62. NUMBER 13.
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943.
SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR
Army Mechanized Unit to
Visit Titan Plant, April 6
Completely Equipped Armored Force will | Four Men Leave to
Show Workers How Products
bor are Used in Field;
Equipment Fmpht asized in
of Their La- |
>mmunications |
ynonstration
Titan tal
will wy an
Employes
Company. Bellefonte,
opportunity to “meet the Army” on
Tuesday. April 8, when a specially-
equinped mechanized cavalry unit,
new touring nearly forty industrial
plants in Fenns comes to
Brlicfonte. The tou lanned
demonstrate » maker of
tronic devices e¢ of the
he produces in the military
Announcement of the tow
ule was terday
Office of War Info:
delphia
The touring detachment draw:
from the 76th Cavalry Reconnails-
sence Troop, stationed at Ft. Meade
Md.. and will be commanded by 2nd
Lieut. Lioyd J. Rainey. Included In
the caravan will be an armored
scout car with full equipment
arms and communication a
towing a 37-millimeter anti-ai:
gun. and a second jeep with a come
ol the
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i
ve
to
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WO iE ew
thas 3 fel
ie u artic
ervice
rel by the
Phila-
aseg ve
mation in
is
of
C1 aft
plete field tele UN. set in its trail- |
+ ¥
el
equipped with
rifle
follow:
sance
One phibian jeeps,
2g automatic
automatics,
#nd reconnals- |
' radio,
of the ney
Ir
and Garand
A command
car, with “walkie-talkie’
will lead the caravan, Luggage and |
additional equipment will be carried
modern military motorcycle will also Undine
weor
and other lethal equipment,
fal
War
itine
den
reason
the
jeep the
tions
a one-half ton cargo truck and a
in the train
Crews of the various
helmets carry
will
sidearms
and
actual
steel]
50 |
as possible will simulate
conditions
‘All but one
are
of var
of
the plants on the
yroducing electronic
ious kinds For that
emphasis has been laid on
cimmunications equipment of |
vehicles. Two-way communica-|
will be maintained at all Umes
Continued on Page Four)
rary
ices
Announces Tor Treasurer
| Be fore h
je
| Etters,
| Bchools,
the
BE
“Bam” Pootiman
foile garageman,
sportsman, this
first Democrat to
didacy nty
clgred his intention of
County Troasurership
Although a newcoiner
he is well known in Centre
through nearly 30 -veals® activits
the garage business and through
ing and active participation
sportsmen’s affairs
8. H. Poorman is a
1. and Maria B. Poorman
born at Scotia, Patton
November 7, 1806. A few years later
the family moved to Penn's Valley
where “Sam” received his elemen-
tary education in the pil schools
FUTURE PILOTS
BEEIN STUDI
Contingent t of “About 500
Men Arrive in State
College, Monday
Belle .
and,
the
(abower,
merchant,
week became
announce his cane
office. when he de-
ecking
for cou
in poiit
county
in
his
on of Siduey
and vas
towns
Some 500 future air force flyers ar- | | of the Yeager home, climbed un al his startling resemblance to Abra-
rived at State College by rail Mon-
day night to begin a five months’
course of instruction. Academic sub-
jects, military, and ‘physical training
vill be given at Penn State and each
student will receive one month of
flight training at the Bellefonte Air-
port.
eight planes for use in training the
group.
Members of the grdup,
known as the Air Forces College
Training Detachment, range from
18 to 27 vears in age with the aver-
age being about 21.
Bellefonte aboard a special
tylvania Railroad passenger
consisting of nine coaches. The train |
continued from here to State Col-
lege over the Helléforité ‘Central
lines,
Penn-
HN
Pr
rode
$
spring of
(
aug
Zettle
had one daughter,
reg
Anna Johnson
the
n
wis 18 years of age he wa
h by the late D. O
Superintendent of
two years taught
in Benner town-
ertified to teac
County
and
school
for
Rock
ip
At that time automobik
oming into popular use and the new
of transportation fascinated
young school teacher. As a
ult he gave up teaching and in
1917 invested his savings in
business in Pleasant
's were just
re-
the
he automobile
ap
The
ma
following he was united
wrriage Ethel Zetile
hter of Charles and Carrie Eve;
who died In June 1831. The
Jean, who is mar-
On of Mrs
street,
Year
with
to William Johnson,
of Valentine
Bellefonte
”~
4
vi)
In 1920 he
entinuing in th
Bellefonte,
garage business,
Move
and in 1927 moved to his present lo-
ication off Southx Walter street.
On Angust 10, 1838 “Sam” married
{ Mrs. Priscilla. Young. widow of the |
late Dr. Robert Young.
of Snow
Shoe; and daughter of Stewart and |
Myrtle Williams, of Monument. Mrs.
Young
Barbara.
member of the
had one daughter,
Mr
Poorman 1s a
Evangelical church. is one of the or-
Ch
air rafd warden for
ment
Treasurer of Centre county,
conduct
an honest
and 1 will personally
after the affairs of the taxpayers
members of the Bellefonte
Commerce, and is chief
Bellefonte
hi candidac:
following state-
office of
1 wil
the affairs of that office in
and businesslike manner
see and look
4s
al
amber of
announcing
issued the
“If elected to the
a
In
‘Sam™
they come before the County Treas-
A SII Ll
{left
urer.”
‘Susan Yeager Injured
In Fall From Stairs
Plunging 15 feet from a porch to
concrete sidewalk, Tuesday eve-!
ning. Susan Yeager, aged 2'% years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack H.
Yeager, of North Spring street,
Bellefonte, suffered a severe bruise
of the forehead and a fracture of the
wrist
The little girl. who had been play-
ing about on the sidewalk at the side!
stairway leading to a porch on the
i second floor, and upon reaching the
‘home advised that
top lost her balance and fell through
the banister. Despite her severe in-
juries she remained conscious.
A physician summoned to
she be kept in
i bed for several days until the sever-
To date the airport has: received |
{was re
which is}
ity of the head injury has been de-|
her condition |
termined. Yesterday
ported to be satisfactory
Philipsburg Youth
They came to
train |
i
i
The students are ‘being ‘housed in |
fraternities and other quarters pro- |
Confesses Robberies
A Philipsburg R. D. youth has con-
{essed to six robberies, according to
Chief of Police N, R. Lamoreaux, |
who is holding him pending action
by county authorities.
As the youth's age was not given!
{and there Is possibility that he may |
vided for them and -their activities {be a juvenile case, his name is not
are under almost constant army sup-
ervision. During . their. course they
will have weekends to
:
i
being published at this time.
According to Chief Lamoreaux.
themselves, ithe youth confessed having robbed |
but for ‘the remainder of the time | geliogg’s store, the Bowling Alley, |
‘in the Army.”
Ean
Clarence Girl Joins
4 Brothers in Servic
Enrolling in the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps at Harrisburg on
her 21st birthday, Josephine Drap-
cho, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emro
they will be ’
|
{Percy Pierson’s garage,
i
i
iHenny's Pool Room, Hopkins Pool,
and Booth |
and Shoritz Bottling Co.
Although he stated that he was)
€ rot Involved in the recent Pennzoil |
{gas station robbery, police stated
that he disclosed who the offenders
| were,
Drapcho, Clarence, joined her four]
older brothers in service with the
Army and made the Drapcho fam-
ilw's contribution to the war effort a
100 per cent affair,
Two of
are Heutenants in the Army and the
other two are non-commissioned of-
ficers. All unanimously approved of
her enrollment in the WAAC, Mr.
and Mrs. Drapcho also proudly urged
their only daughter to join and Miss
(Continued on poge Two)
Miss Drapcho's brothers!
juntil the present semester is com-!
FRATERNITIES VACATED
FOR ARMY TRAINEES
Twenty-three of the 45 social fra-
ternities at the Pennsylvania State!
College have been vacated to make |
way for a new crop of Army train.
ces expected to arrive early in April. |
Fraternity members offered their!
houses when College officials made |
it known that an acute shortage of
living accommodations would exist |
"pleted carly in May.
applicants for admission into the
begin basic
ied to the
i Ben Hartman Herr
Centre County Boy
Gets Service Star
For Cited Bravery
DEFENSE
KERY GAR
Six Sylvania Employes Es-| |
cape Serious Injury
in Crash
HAD STOPPED TO
PICK UP FRIEND
Truck Driver Tells Police
He Must Have Dozed
at Whee!
m Howard vicin-
serious Injury
fay morning
they were
at the hd pin
was str from
rear by truck-tra ne outfit
accident hoppened at 6:15 8 m
about two miles east of Howard on
Rou le 220
The car, a sedan
Louise M. Lyons
Enter Army V. O. C.
Four Bellefonte men, all of them
Army's Volunteer Officers’ Candidate
{ School, departed Monday morning
for Altoona to undergo examination
From there they went to the recep-
ton center at New Cumberland to
training.
The men are
mi rig 1
Thrift
Glen nn,
fices,;
Donald Klinger
of the Centre County
Corporation offices: Gus
employe of the Claster of.
Edward Kern, steward at the
fire house, and Ralph
mughenbaugh, an employe of
Titan Metal Company
Kiinger is scheduled to enter
signal corps: Glenn has been ass
infantry; Kern is to enter
medical corps, and Daughen-
baugh will receive training with ti
Army ordnang
1
i,
the
Six glils Ir and
ity narrowly
or
the escaped
ester
wich
1s
arly
We CAr
to work
in Mill Hall
ign- deaths ¢
1)
waen
en route
in
the
LIEUT
d
DAVID L. BAIRD
2 nlant
the
Me
By
Bilver
1943
Har
tt
a re i
March
Mill
the
ent in
18
ard F
United
LIST 77 MEN FOR
APRIL ARMY GA
BR =
58 Seldcions and 19 Volun-
teers to Go to Altoona
on April 10
1
Cen
nanding
roe
H Bit
eit
eons
Fr
ri
States
Pu ]
Phillpsburs
infantry
for
ps
ated hy
. Of How ard, who
was accompa by Martha Plet-
her, Eleanor Mapes Genevien
Yearick and Charlotte Tice. The
were traveling east on the highway
eid stopped to pick a dellow
worker, Edna Kl Schenck’s
hill
In stopping
pulled partly
the highway,
by State Motor
Gap sub-station
ortfit, driven by
of Altoona
same direction and
of the car. Guyer
nied by Merrill
IHdaysburg
Police said
ared he must have de
before the
’
JWARL OPC
'
neg Hheutenag
- nited Stat £1
" n in a
1043 t Gi wale Anal
Lieutenant Baird led }
in a succe
position
ns
ful attack on ap enemy
capturing large stores
upplies. He then established
fensive block to prev an
vithdrawal from positions on
& combined attack was being
OF Marines an
up
near
np
ne,
the a de-
enemy
which
made
infantry regi-
driver of the car
off the ight
’
side of ent
according to a report
Police from Pleasant
The truck-tratler
George M. Guyer, | ment
cling in This
rammed into the ership displayed
sas accom- | in establishing
Berkheimer KCTO%
ww
9
Local Draft "Board No Belle
Jonte, has released a tentative list of
names of 77 men who will go to Al-
toona on Saturday, April 10 for ex-
amination and Induction the
armed foroes
Included in the list 18 men
who have volunteered and are being
sent along with those picked by the
Board f
The
Steve Joseph Rodavich
David lewis love
Leroy William Grubb
et
exceptional bravery and
by Lie
thie
wi tras the |
rd
1 11a
nio IENan
av strone
a dans
the only avenue
fC
af Pes
are of of egress
4
3
H atinged on page Three)
tin [3 s—— -
ick
yoreed
ng
nver de.
morant
aid
"a
Het § ras! al he
ist
front m
off the rig
s as follows
¢
ot of 0
EE
Both
de of
overtur:
Miss Ties
wired of the g
i
¢ De car in
Bellefonte ;
Bellefonte
Bellefonte
Bellefonte
Bellefonte Theatres
Post-mark
seriously in. of a ten-minute
tied to be shown at th
Bellefonte, Avril
the State Theatre An
i was announced yeslerday
The fim, produced by Paramount
| Pictures in cooperation with the Na- |
{tional Association of Manufactorem, |
i 0 ory of wu ietler Irom Hottie
freeeived by a young American avin
tor “somewhere out there
vi of LH
drama. and the hor
vehicles ran
§
tf he frst a feld
Of road Hilo a Ne
’
no
¥
Ww most
oun, escaped with ¢
Milford Ellsworth Fetzer t
Bellefonte RD 3
Moshannon
'
(Contizaed os pope Tuo) wlre
CA ——— ——
DEDICATION T0
I BE HELD TONIGHT
Near-C apacity Cc rowds at
Dedication Week Activ
ities at New School
Dedication week activities
Bellefonte High School will
tonight with formal dedication cere-
Wilbur Bovd Quick
Earl Wilkam Brown Bellefonte
William Earl Blake Philipsburg
{ Richard Raymond Ammerman
Philipsburg
Jumes Daniel Hodges. Philipsburg |
George H. Spangler. Blanchard!
Blair Kenneth Davis Bellefonte
Datrell M. Eichom.. Anacostia
Samuel B. Mabus, Jr Bellefonte
(Continsed on Page Four)
War Stamp Booth
At Murphy Store
Sale of War “Stamps will be given
uew impetus in Bellefonte and vicin-
ity during April when the G. C Homes in charge of R G. Bike
Murphy Company will set up a spec- chairman of hool building
ial booth in the store the sale committee
of War Stamps Activities in
The booth. to be manned by local tien began Sunday night
volunteers, will be open every Satur-! have held : every nigh oa
day during April, and will be spon-| " Ey te ot cap) e
sored by the women's division of the with néar-cabacily crowds al each Bellefonte
. ARS . program. A religious service was held + af terion
County War Savings Staff. Sundas a patriotic program Mon . 2144 21000
In the morning hours the booth aay:’ iy ohysical education Program mnduros $1.120
will be In charge of committees Trosdng d std i students’ ProgIain The business |
UESGAaY., ¥ 3 a ol 4 LE: 8M
working under the direction of Mrz. oo 0 0 4 "lof the late John Junious who died
Elizabeth Marshall, president of the Music tonight will be furnistied bY last December 4. has been operated
VFW Auxiliary, ‘and Mrs. Harrison the high school orchestra. snd] Pee his death by the First Nation-
ial Bank and the other trustees
1G. Kline, chairman of the War Ac- "
peakers will include Earl K. Stock, |
tivities Committee of the American supervising principal of schools: Dr In pd under the will
lid
Legion. In the afternoon and eve. Clarence E. Ackley, deputy super. |
ning. Girl Scouts under Miss Mary 0s of the Department of | fied
Baum as supervisor will be in charge Publi Pity . + | vents
vblic Instruction: Dr. HuBert C.}/
An additional aitraction Sa’urcay| p. ,... chief of the school buildings |Junious, spent winters in Flor-
night will be the personal appear- |... "=. 1 H Frank Hare, second- | 1a, and during Hi times he was
ance of Abraham Lincoln Hite, Penn | _ 0 0 ot cor lurable to look after the lunch room
State College employe Who is using =o. oq 00 of the evening will be {himself, Mr. © ommnduros was in
given by Dr. Pred P. Corson, presi- |%ole charge of the establishment
dent of Dickingon College Carlisle, | After Mr. Junious’ death, Mr. Com-
ang the formal dedication ceremony | {mndurcs was retained by the trus-
as ‘will be conducted by Horace J. Hart. tees to manage the business
ranft, president of the school Board ———p—
West Penn Names The program will begin at 7450. | Pine Grove Man
New Div, Manager| Rev. J. B. Musser
Goes to Rockwood
Rev. James B. Musser, pastor of
the Second Evangelical and Reform-
ed church at Scranton for the past
two years, and for nine years before
that pastor of the Hublersburg Wounded March 4 in action in the
Evangelical church, has accepted a | Tunisian campaign is among recip.
call to the Trinity Evangelical and ents of the Air Medal given by Col
Reformed church at Rockwood and |John H. Hayden.
will be installed as pastor there on! The Pine Grove Mills man, son of
| Bunday, April 4. | Mr. and Mrs. Grover Corl, Is a crew
The Rev. Mr. Musser is to be a member of a four-motored bomber
: “Hoa 3
. MB WW
tle vidnons the comedy
losophy of
me In
back
loving
fas
mely phi
31 Bmith |
news
reoila €,
ICRINAar if
his all
home, as writ
Postmark
n
termed by)
ten by
rr
thsoraandsy ©
} dia th
iis iad
been
have seen
tie af the { ad
) { the fin
War moran
h it as
LAR i
¢
conclude
a
(
Harry Conmmdurss
Buys Texas Lunch
fi .
vie %
for
with |
night and
connection
Yaar
tiny
00 I Foo
Plaza
day Com-
’
for
the estate
new owner has been identi-
with the iness for many
When late vwner, Mr
bis
the
am
thie
kam Lincoln to stimulate the sale
of War Stamps throughout the
county.
The appointment of J. E. Fife as
‘manager of the Keystone Division,
{ West Penn Power Company, effective
[April 1. was announced last night
| by Vice President P. H. Powerg at a
imeeting of the district managers
and department heads of the divi-
ion held in Ridgway. Mr. Fife, who
will now be in full charge of the
company’s activities in the Keystone
Division, succeeds V. E. Rockefeller
{ who is transferred to the Pittsburgh |
{office as assistant to the secretary. |
Mr. Fife hag been with the come
pany since June 1919, starting as an |
Sgt. Hubert Corl, of Pine Grove|
a bomber crew in North Africa, it]
was announced
headquarters of the Eighth Air}
Force. Sgt. Corl, who was slightly!
i pr Ass gh
« {Cl
of | &
Postmark U. .S. A. "” at.
With all
Gets Army Honor
{guest of honor at a farewell recep- He arrived in England last October. |
DRIVER FOUND
NEGLIGENT IN
FATAL CRAS
Many Witnesses Heard at
Inquest in Milesburg
Tragedy
DAUGHTER SHOUTED
BELATED WARNING
Trainmen Testify They
Believed Truck Was Go-
ing to Stop
AC t
death
anda
HONEST 5 Jury investigating
of Mrs. John McClusick
son, James, aged 5.
Moshannon, as the res
crossing accident
March 16, Tuesday night
verdict that the two ha
result of “negligence
part of the driver’
The driver of the machin
was struck by a troop train on
Kohlbecker crossing was Mr:
wick’s father, Charles
1-year-old Mosh
he
217,
both of
Trace
on
rendered a
d met death
her
ult of a
’
at Milesburg
as the on the
cH
thie
Mec-
J
coal truck-
annon
Cuenot,
the
Bppearing atl the inquest
Court House with his right
bound as the result of
fracture, testified he
train until his dauth-
“Oh, Dad there's
arm tightly
shoulder
jdidn’t see the
ter shouted a
taint”
Cuenot, who
since 1924 with
has been driving
a record of only one
iminor mishap before the fatal crash,
{
‘
the window and
on top of
looked out ol
oe engine
said he
saw aimost
them
He
truck
*
i
punned the
mist wd clearin
one foot
motor and the
g the tracks by
tou d
A jong list witoesses Was
hy Centre County Coroner
ne s
of
called
Charles
(Continued on Proe Thres)
PNEUMONIA FATAL
10 SERVICE MAN
Grandson of Li Late Sheriff.
Yarnell Dies in Naval
Hospital
attack of nneumonia suffered
he was training with the U
Newport. R. 1 proved
atal to Harold Yarnell, 20, grandson
u
# at
f
C
0
f Mingoville. Yarnell died Thurs-
March 25. 1943, in a Newport,
Naval Hospital after an illness
ss than a week
Decrased,
members
Ca)
2
of le
of the Nittany Country
Club where as a Youth he served as
a caddy during the summer months,
was a son of the late Ward F. Yar-
nell and Mrs. Ella Yarnell, the lat-
ter of Chester
Following graduation from high
school. he scoepted a position at the
Sun Shiphuilding Yards in Chester
and was empioved there in Novem-
ber 1942. when he enlisted in the
Navy. His death apparently was
quite sudden, for only five days be-
fore he had Written to relatives in
Mingoville and told them about
some of his training experiences, He
was then in good health
Surviving are his mother, a former
resident of Renovo, and a brother
and three sisters: Lloyd, Clara, and
Della. all at home, and Mrs. George
Trossier, of Woodlyn, near Chester
He was unmarried.
Funeral services were held Tues-
day afternoon at Chester, with in-
terment in that city
Is Ordained at
Rev. Francis Paul Davis, assistant |
| Mills, was decorated for service with | rector of 8. John's Episcopal church | & signals went into operation
was ordained to the deaconate at a |
this week by the service in St. Paul's church, Lock na! was
{Haven at 11 a. m. last Thursday
‘morning. F. Graham Luckenbill of}
the Lock Haven church was ordain-
ed to the priesthood at the same
service.
RL. Rev. Hunter Wyatt-Brown, |
DD. Litt. D., bishop of the Diocese
of Harrisburg, performed the ordi. |
ation and Dr. Herbert Koepp- Baker |
{tion to be held Priday night in the | nce nacre
social rooms of the Scranton church. |
In Scranton he “ook an active inter |
{est in church, community and civic |
{affairs. While he was in charge of
{the Hublersburg charge he became
electrician in the substation depart-
ment. He is a graduate of Penn State |
i College, class of 1018, with the de-
| gree of electrical engineer.
V. E. Rockefeller has been Division |
Manager of the Keystone Division, oa OW u to
| since January 16, 1033. He is a grade; vel kno ne metiper of the ror)
jvate of the University of Kansas, | 1 giwanis Club
{class of 1910.
BELLEFONTE!
Utopia fi hand for Bellefonte!
A number of leading citizens of
| Belietonte and surrounding towns
| yesterday amazed the editors of this
| newspaper by calling at this office
fin a body and presenting reams of
Bellefonte Men On
pledges, whiohi, {f carried out, will
{result in a vast change in the social,
Tax Repeal Board
| Hardman P. Harris, Burgess of business and civic activities of this
Henry A. Brockerhoff and 8.) Bellefonte, yesterday issued a warn- little city.
| Claude Herr of Bellefonte, have been | ing to dog owners, cautioning them| We haven't heen able to learn who |
‘made members of the Centre county not to allow their dogs to run at started the drive for pledges, but it’
committee for the repal of personal large, particularly during the gar- is certain that some group or organ-
|property tax laws, William Lilley,| den season. | ization is exerting a vast influence |
(Jr, schairman of the state-wide! Mr. Harris sald that garden dam- on the personal lives of many citi-|
Mayor Warns 4 Against
V Garden Damage
|
|
|
group, announced yesterday.
The committee Is comprised of
members from every county in the
state and declares that, since the
(existing tax was passed as a tem-
porary revenue-raising measure and
the emergency no longer exists, it
[should be repealed.
{age by persons or by dogs will not
be condoned and that violations will
result in prosecutions and fines.
Dogs, the Burgess added, must be
kept at home, or must be kept on a
leash, Dogs running at large in the
borough have no legal rights under
the law
gens.
The editors of this newspaper wete |
left so breathless by the avalanche.
of pledges they heven't been able to
5 the situation calmly and
from all angles to predict just what
changes may result. 80 for the time
being we'll list a few of the pledges
i
UTOPIA IS AT HAND FOR |
- WELL, ALMOST
jand allow readers to draw their own
conclusions.
Here's a pledge from Ben Crossley,
(solemnly proclaiming that from now
on he will refrain from telling
stories.
Dr. J. J. Kilpatrick's signature ap-
pears on a pledpe that forever and
a day he will refrain from any type
lor form of fishing.
Henry A. Brockerhoff pledges that |
he will no longer mention taxes or |
taxation.
“Jimmy” Hughes promises that
henceforth he will never mention
tite Bellefonte Academy unless spec.
ifically asked to do so.
Council President Bill Sieg has
signed on the dotted line to the ef-
fect that from bere in hell never,
never speak about politics,
Magr. William E. Downes, one of
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G lenot, 1
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BLACKOUT TEST COL L . ADAMS
HELD N COUNTY TO SPEAK HERE
Surprise Alert Finds Civ- Other Officials to Attend
ilian Defense Workers Civilian Defense Rally
Ready for Duty April 7
“This is Charles Freeman
ing. Yellow at 10 p. m.; blue at 10:20
p.m; red at 10:35 p. m.: blue at 1
10:45 p. m.. and white at 10:50 p. m. (will be a speaker at a countywide
Good Juck!” I Civilian Defense rally to be held
Those brief instructions Fessived the Bellefonte High School auditor-
by telephone about 9:30 p. last [tum here at 8 o'clock Wednesda:
Friday evening at the Bellefonte night, April 7
control center provided the schedule! Col. Adams will explain in detail
for Centre county's first surprise {why the effective operation of Civil.
| blackout test since the new warning [lan Defense units is credited by mil-
itary authorities for the total ab-
sig- | Pence of enemy air attacks ypon this
flashed throughout the |COUDLY $0 far during World War
{county from the control center, het Plans for the meeting, to which a
immense countywide setup of Civil- [Civilian Defense workers in
{tan Defense organizations went nto | county are Invited, are being pre.
action. For the next hour conditions | Pared by John Popson, chairman of
which could be expected to be dupli- | Civilian Defense in the Bellefonte
cated in actuality during an air Area
raid were met and proper measures Other speakers will include of -
were taken. ficers of the First Fighter Command
In Bellefonte there were a num- | [70m the Philadelphia area. Motion
{ber of “Incidents” such as bombings, |PICPUres of especial interest to Civ.
fires and accidents, all of which flian Defense workers, aircraft spot-
{ were handled promptly from ‘he ters and others engaged in defense
| control center 4 activities will be shown
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John A. Bryan Named
State May Purchase = Commander of VFW
John A. Bryan, of Milesburg, was
Lands aot Rockview
elected commander of Jackson.
The Department of Property and Crissman-Saylor Post, Veterans of
Supplies would be given permission Foreign Wars, at the annual organi.
to purchase four tracts of land near ation meeting of the post held Fri-
Rockview penitentiary under a bill day night. Bryan succeeds John N
introduced in the Legislature by Sen. Mong, of Pleasant Gap, as head of
iator A. H. Letzler (R- Clearfield) {the post.
The measure called for a $6800 Other officers named were: Robert
appropriation to buy these tracts: |T. Willard, senior vice commander,
ithe Catherine Pravel property, the Willard M. Neff, Howard, junior vice
|H. F. Smith property, the G. 8 commander; Harrison G. Kline,
Smith property and the Martin Lu- quartermaster; W. W. Hampton, ad-
ther Ishler property. All four parcels jutant; Harry C. Martin, chaplain;
are in Benner township, Oentre L. R. Glenn, judge advocate, and El-
county, adjacent to the penitentiary. mer E. Richner, surgeon.
Senator Letzler said the es| George Sunday, Phillp Shoemaker
were designed to “rectify property |and Niles E. Davis were named trus-
lines and make possible use of the tees. The officers will be installed at
Iands and buildings they contain by | | ceremonies to be held Friday eve
the prison.” (ning: April 8, at the post home.
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he
speak Col. Lymn G. Adams. State Chief
Alr Raid Warden and former
of the Pennsylvania Motor Poli
hear
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At 10 p. m. when the yellow
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