| Jesse
ADLER
Logks at
the NEWS
NEXT STRIKE to hit
lines will be a strike of N. ¥Y. C. bar-
bers, They'll probably stay in prac-
tice clipping coupons
A REPORT from Albany, N.Y, re- |
ports that “the sap Is running up-
State" referring of couise, to maple,
not political syrup
NOWADAYS a guy whose wife
feeds him horse meat has a right
to say she's “nagging” him
WASHINGTON just announced
the appointment of W. H. Wolf as
Chief in the Bureau of Internal Rev. |
not enof the Woll's at the
have to make it official
enue. It's
goor-—they
yet!
THE NEWARK (NJ) police did
not know what address to use when
3 men were arrested for running a
crap game in a taxicab, What I'd
like to know is where they found a
taxicab.
HEAR the Japs won't bomb Wash- |
ington. Scems they don't want to!
disturb all the confusion there
ADD DESCRIPTIONS: The dif-
ference betwen an ordinary suit and
a lawsuit, is that the
cleaned and pressed while the latier
gets pressed and later cleaned.
WHEN does a bachelor walk a
beby? Answer: When he's trying to
sober her up!
THE honeymoon is over when—
wifey complains about being on her
FEET all day!
THE O. P. A. director in South
Bend, Ind. wants folks to get mar-|
ried without shoes or rice. Savs ra-|
tioned articles should not be thrown
—even atta bride and groom.
A DEFENSE
Plainfield N. J.
rst femallman
ing on the job 4 hours, I know just
how she felt—we get dull mail our-
selves sometimes.
TODAY'S Favorite
worker's wife in
became the city's
Gag:
Cerisored? What do you mean?
“Having several important parts cut
out.”
THOUGHT for Today—Let's lick)
‘em both—War Stamps and Our En-
emies!
ODD AND
CURIOUS
COAL TO BURN
When the engineer of a Big
Four Train stopped for coal at
Lilly, IL, he got it, and how!
The coal filled the tender. It
spilled over into the engine cab.
It kept right on pouring out
from the coal ‘elevator chute.
The engineer and fireman -
ped out. Still the coal
fourth. Finally it cov.
ered the whole engine. It took
“a crew of section hands from
Bloomington and Danvers an
hour and 40 minutes 16 shovel
away enough coal for train
to proceed. Far inte the night
they were still shoveling along
the right of way. Red faced
raliroaders said something ob-
viously had gone haywire with
the coal chute cutoff aparatus.
LATE WINDFALL
While arrangements were being
made to bury John L. Suskie, 61,
in a paupers’ grave at Portage,
it was discovered that his son,
Private John J. Suskie, had been
killed in the battle of Bataan
and that the father was the ben-
eficiary of a $10,000 government
life insurance policy. The elder
Suskie was found in a semi-con-
scious condition In his home a
month ago, suffering from ex-
posure. He was removed to the
Cambria county home where he
died. He had lived alone since
the death of his wife.
A PRETTY FIX
A grocer in North Loup, Neb,
is in a pretty fix. A fire at his
store destroyed all the labels on
his canned goods, His customers
won't buy any because they want
JUNGLE RAISIN BREAD
Here's a new receipe for raisin
the head-
former gets|
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he quit after be-|
Jack's |
been to the hospital to be censored. |
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SECOND
SECTION
The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County ~~ A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week |
dhe Cenire Democrat
NEWS,
FEATURES
VOLUME 62,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943,
NUMBER 13,
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Centre County
Are Discussed In Article
Barrens
By Altoona Historian
‘Relates Interestin
g Incident of Old Chimney
Spring, About Which Many Legends Clus-
ter; Tells of Remarkable Woman
By HENRY W, SHOEMAKER
in the Altoona Tribune
During a recent,
most enjoyable | er in that sand than
drew Carnegie did at Scotia. The
{underbrush grows faster and thick
any part of
visit from Dr. W. Frank Beck of | GOV Martin's fine commonwealth I
Altoona, the noted historian
agreeable gentleman sald: “I truly
(rejoice that the bulk of the Centre
County Pine Barrens has been taken
over by Major W. Gard Conklin, as
‘a game refuge for the State Game
Department. Young Conklin is a chip
off the old block, his lamented father
knew how to acquire state lands for
| prices which today startle one, Gif-
{ord Pinchot often sald he never saw
his lke, and now the son has se-
cured two-thirds of the wildest part
lof the Barrens, from the estate of
{late Colonel T. D. Boal, at a price
one-tenth of what the Colonel] had
once contracted to sell to the Penn- |
sylvania National Guard as a mili-
tary reservation. 1 hope the Major
will secure the rest of this delectable
larea from the other owners
Pine Barrens of Centre county are
unlike any other region in the state.
I ought to know as I was born and
i brought up among them, though one
has to go over eighteen hundred feet
to find water, that's what old An-
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Barn Burned On
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Students and Employes Res-
cue 140 Head of Cows
and Calves
Damage estimated at $50,000 re-
| sulted last Thursday when fire de-
stroyed the round bam of the Her-
| shey agricultural experimental sta-
| tion, a show place for thousands of
| visitors annually
at Hershey, and
damaged an adjoining building.
Bzra Hershey, treasurer the
esti
mated the damage after inspecting
of
i the ruins, and added that combus-
tion probably caused the blaze
Agricultural students of the Her- |
shey industrial school discovered the
| fire about 8 8. m. Hershey officials
{mid the students and emp -
cued all the livestock. estimated at
1140 head of pure pred cows and
| calves. The flames also damaged the
upper structure of a three-story
apartment house, formerly used as
a creamery
The barn was built in 1912 by the
Hershey estale as an agricultural
experimental station.
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3 Hurt In Crash
On Orviston Road
Return Home After Receiving
Treatment in Lock Haven
Hospital
Three persons were Injured late
Friday afternoon when a car driven
bv Robert Moore, Orviston, crashed
into the abutment of a bridge and
then skidded over an embankment
about a mile north of Beech Creek,
on the Orviston road. The car was
almost demolished.
Moore suffered a laceration of the
scalp which required seven stitches;
Miss Verna Walker, of Orviston, re- |
the left fore-|
ceived lacerations of
arm. and Moore's four year old son
received a bruise on the forehead.
{ They all received treatment at the
{Lock Haven Hospital
(turned home.
Moore told the State Motor Police
that a car crowded him off the
| highway.
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Bucknell to Do Training
Bucknell is one of six colleges in
{which Pratt and Whitney aircraft
{ fellowships have been established by
{the United Aircraft Corporation, to
train women as engineering aides.
| Each woman accepting a fellowship
jmust give the corporation a one-
year option on her service,
County Relief Report
State Treasurer G. Harold Wagner
reported that direct relief payments
made to needy residents of Centre
county during the week ended today
totaled $587.70. Last week payments
totaled $583.90.
CE lr avin er
BILL JONES IS DEAD
{Editor's Note: Roe Fulkerson,
Hollywood writer, Is the author of
this article which hag received na-
tionwide comment, "It was called to
our Sttention by Mrs. Alice L. Miller
Xn ar Bd Ws
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Ra BL means
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t-ifor your pleasure car.
.| because of the outrageous treatment
of them. He got two before a third
one sent a burst of bullets into his
back that almost cut him in half,
but he rammed the fourth plane and
went down with it locked in the
flaming embrace of death.
This happened about the time you
were bellyaching and feeling abused
The |
Hershey Estate
and then re-|
and | have ever visited. The deer are en-
| trenched in those dense thickets and
you cannot drive them out. The deer
of the Barrens are of much larger
size than those outside, darker col-
ored, and carry heavier racks. That
is due to drinking the fron-impreg-
nated waters of the Barrens, Some
one said there are no streams in the
Barrens, That is not wholly correct
though none of the streams which
flow around the edges of the Barrens
rise there. They all head in the Bald
Eagle Mountains, but circle the Bar-
rens, making it habitable for deer
lend other wild life. The trout are
aiso dark colored for the same rea-
son, but not as dark as those in
ISinking Creek which rises among
the decaying vegetation and rotten
sphagnum moss in the nearby Bear
| Meadows, and flows for a distance
underground, those are the blackest
trout I know; the streams of the
| Barrens are amber-colored, the wat-
ers of Sinking Creek black where it
emerges from ts subterranean
course. The most notable wild flow
ler of the Barrens, the arbutus, or
| mayflower, will soon be’ appearing
in all its glory. These are the pink-
lest, fullest, and largest arbutus flow-
ers in all Pennsylvania, the iron in
the sandy soll, and intense dryness
seems to enhance thelr redness
It is true there are a few good
i springs in the Barrens, especially the
{Old Chimney Spring, but they are
outside of the true Pine Barrens,
{Continued on Page Siz)
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Load Limits On
County Highways
‘Gross Load Restrictions Made
Necessary By Frost Heaves
in Roads
Gross load limit restrictions have
{ been placed on highways in Centre individual cases and keep such rec
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county by the Department of High-
{ways to" “William M
{ Townsend, assistant superintendent
{of highways in Centre county
| The restrictions are now in effect
and are being enforced by the Btate
Motor Police. It was said that the
restrictions will be removed as soon
(as the conditions of the roads war-
(rant it. The present condition of the
ironds is due to the general spring
break-up and is caused primarily by
frost heaves,
Restrictions were placed
{following routes:
i Traffic route 1M, Cherry Run to
iMoshannon, 6 tons; route 879, Mo-
shannon to Karthaus, 8 tons; Legis
ative route 14003, Snow Shoe to
{Cherry Run, 6 tons; traffic route 53,
i8now Shoe to Clearfield county line,
6 tons; traffic route 322. Philipsburg
ito Port Matilda, 10 tons; traffic
route 150 504, Philipsburg to Union-
ville (Rattlesnake Pike), 6 tons;
traffic route 150, Howard to Jackson-
{ville road, 8 tons: traffic routes 545
iand 45, State College to Pine Grove
| Mills, § tons; Legislative route 14018,
{Eoulaing to Old Fort, 6 tons
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Butchers, Large
Slaughterers Get
Permits From FDA |
i All farm livestock slaughtered and
{all livestock dealers and agents in
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phin and Philadelphia counties as
in all other counties, will obtain their
operating permits from the office of
the County War Board of their
county, according to a recent revi-
sion of instructions, James E. Walk-
er, chairman of the Pennsylvania
UBDA State War Board, announced
this week, In line with the rationing
of meat and the government's ef-
forts to stamp out the meat black
market, under Food Distribution Or-
ders No. 28 and 27 issued by Becre-
tary of Agriculture Wickard, all who
(kill livestock for sale and all lve-
(stock dealers must have permits by
April 1, 1943.
Local slaughterers and butchers
located in these gix counties, how-
ever, will obtain their permits from
the officials of the Food Distribution
Administration. Loeal slaughterers
include all persons who In 1941
‘slaughtered livestock with ‘a total
live weight in excess of 300,000
pounds. Butchers include all persons
other than farm slaughterers who in
1941 slaughtered livestock with a to-
tal liveweight of not more than
300,000 pounds.
Farmer Breaks Back in Fall
Injury suffered In a fall in the
barn at his farm east of Milton last
Tuesday, by Clifford Everitt, Milton,
R. D. 2. has been diagnosed as a
given you by the tire rationing board
which would not allow you recaps
BILL JONES IS DEAD
the bands blared and the flags flut-
tered, he signed up for the Navy.
That put him on a torpedo boat, He
learned to wear his hat on the cor-
ner of his head and to roll when he
(Continued on page Siz)
{examination,
Bill Jones is dead. He was a soda |
jerker in a small town, but when
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fracture of the back. Mr. Everitt is
a patient at the Evangelical Hos-
pital where he
a dazed condition, It is believed that
he fell from overhead
of the barn, but he does not
exactly what happened.
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pointment of Della 1. Meckly as
All Out for Victory
(PLEASE SEND TH FOLLOWING = OUR ORDER
NIMBER- 94 § ~OVE PICKET OF (MROT
SEED, OF PACKET OF (IMXE SEED, OWE
PACKET OF ORION SEED, TWO Packers
Ov SWEET CORN, OWE PRCKET OF PEAY
ONE PACKET GREEN BEANS ONE IACRET
4 J PACKE
ELD,
pre LETS SEE WHAT BISE 15 THERE,
om, Potatoes /
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Bellefonte Man
Wins Recognition
Article on Parole Work Ap-
pears in Prominent Fed-
eral Journal
John W. Joyee of the Baum apart- |
ments, Bellefonte, supervisor of Dis-
trict No. 5 the Department of
Justice Parole Supervision, with
headquarters on West High street
Bellefonte, has been accorded ns-
tional recognition for an article on
an Important phase of parole work
of
ONE BMKET OF (APRAGE
Beans Ts OF TOMATO SEEP
Furlough Home
Sgt. Melvin R. Zeigler Dies in
Auto Crash at Al-
toona
Seigeant Melvin R. Zeigler, 28 son
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar B. Zeigler, of
Altoona, was Killed instantly early
Faturday morning whey his auto-
moblle wrecked on route 220, just
south of the Lakemont Park trolley
{station
| He suffered a compound fracture
Four Young People Hurt
When Car Crashes Into
Tree on Mill Hall Street
Driver Admitted Falling Asleep at Wheel As
Car Traveled Toward Lock Haven; Victims
Injuries Treated at Hospital
Two Lock Haven young couples]especially in Mr. Seller
were Injured early Sunday morning (be long and tedious
when thelr car crashed into an oak! The injured were
tree on Main street, Mill Hall, | home of Kermit Cross a Min
William 8. Sellers, 31, of 143%; E.{ Hall physician gave first ald before
Water street, Lock Haven, most ser- | they were removed to the ho pital
lously hurt, told the police he fell]
asleep as the car traveled toward]
that city. The automobile wa
molished in the crash
Mr. Sellers is very uncomfortable |
at the Lock Haven Hospital, where
he Is being treated for a fracture of |
the left arm and left Jeg, crushed is
chest and abdomen, lacerations of
the scalp and contusions of the nose.
Also at the hospital are Mrs. Sell-
ers, 33. who is suffering from a frac- lals by Governor Martin
ture of the left leg, lacerations of | qeadiine is midn
i ine is in
the right ear, and abrasions of the
face and scalp; James Kline, 28, of |
East Bald Eagle street, pelvis and
possible internal injuries and ruts
ed left foot; Mrs, Kline, 21, possible§
interna] injuries, severe lacerations |
of the lower lip and injury to the
right Ain , d tiaries.
While hospital attendants declin- The state
ed to say the condition of any vic- | dicated the return
tim is critical, they report that re- | +7om motorist
covery from their extensive injuries, (Digh as th
ast year. The returns
estimated st approximately
Passenger car
Negro Murderer i810 this year under a
Dies for Crime je present legislature
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Auto License
Deadline Is Given
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Pennsylvania motor vehicle owners
{sion for leense registration
The new
ight
Martin sald a &l
als and equipment
manufacture tag:
this year in leu of 1
pilates necessitated
The tags are made ir
of
revenixn
¢ Cor tod
were
800,000
a flat
ted y
licenses cost
law ena
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BOMBER MECHANIC
30-Day Extension
have been granted a 30-day exten-|
renew...
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POPULAR:
Earl Cartwright East
street, contends the most popular
man in Bellefonte today Is the mall
man. Guess he's what with
ialf the town hoping the Jostman
aings them word from hus
wnds and friends
LOT oes
COMPLAINT:
wr
We
f ’
oi Buhop
right,
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t the armed
cant get overly
over omipiaint
8 § on
4]
( sii
thrown
of Bellefonte by
Just Decals
;
ming
{paper and er
idewalks and law;
pedestrian
the war §
{ most of
§
own
A
careless but a
uppermost | he
no reasor
MOOK
Lime
15 Is
should
heap, Next
about
package
other paper on the sldews
ber someone will have
SHAVING:
Becas
to drop
chewing gum v
RH
Ai
ac
Ag
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the
vent ba
forced
hope,
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Deck
to id -1
method of
everlasting
tude and neatness
hat man will §
i agony of sh
merely to k
iN. And let's
.
cont
shaving
th
razor
tribe Wo «
{ fort
4 wy
we
EXPERIENCE:
We wissed the anuual
fire at Axemann last week. For 3
cole Spring, we've gone witl
shnent to Axemann U
the battle of man aga
tthe elements being
dried weeds
to the east of the
men
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The article entitled “The Social of the skull and fracture of the Jest!
Service Exchange and Probation” is{:houlder when his car overturned
given a prominent position in theland skidded along the trolley tracks
March edition of Federalifor a distance of 90 feet. He was
Probation, a quarterly journal of [dead when the ambulance arrived to
correctional philosophy and practice remove him to the hospital
published by the administrative of-!
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33-Year-Old Philadelphia Man RECEIVES PROMOTION "
Pays Penalty For Kill :
ing Storekeeper
1
Pvt. William rambles
Pp
erator Bomber) mechanics }
was promoted this week to the g
{of private first class. He is :
John Childers, 33-year-old Phila-
delphia Negro, died ip the electric
this one That's the reason we
Lehigh, Erie, Allegheny, Berks, Dau-
fice of the United States Courts in
cooperation with the Bureau of Pris-
ons of the Department of Justice at
Washington, D. C
A Social Service Exchange Is
comparatively unknown agency in
this area. It is a set-up whereby s0-
cinl service agencies such as the
Children’s Aid Society. the Depart-
ment of Public Assistance, the
Cross, Welfare societies, and other
similar groups, pool thelr records on
ords on file at a central point for
fuse ‘on a Moments nélce Such '§
set-up, In short, is a clearing house
for all records obtained by all social
service agencies
In his article, Mr
how such records often are of ines-
timable value to the eourts in the in|
telligent disposal of criminal cases
Por example, a youth appearing in
court for the first time hag no pre-
vious criminal records to serve as af
defendant's past life.
guide to the
Al the same time, however, the files
of Social Service agencies might con-
tain most enlightening records about
the defendant's background, family
life, and other factors which might
have led Yo the
crime
Mr. Joyoe, in the conclusion of his
“The Bocial Service|
article writes:
Exchange renders a service which
cannot be duplicated elsewhere by
any other agency or organization,
and is one of the most useful tools
available to the probation officer
The Social Service Exchange is es
sential to effective probation work.”
al
Red |
Joyce explains
commission of the,
The young man arrived home on
| Wednesday for a 15-day furlough
iwith his parents, his first leave of
| absence since entering the alr force
{in April, 1942
i He was enroute to the city at the
{time of the accident. Details of the
jcrash indicated that Zeigler had
passed another car near the South
Lakemont trolley station and in re-
Bail
[vay had struck the eight-inch curb
in such a manner to cause the auto-
noblle to jump the curd, damaging
. Arvont wheel and steering ap~
paratus. The
and skidded for some distance, with
the driver caught in the car
Melvin Rudisill Zeigler was born
August 2. 1913, in Altoona, a son of
{Otear B. and Anna (Rudisilly Zeig-
Lier. He was graduated from Altoona
i High School, class of 1832, and was
employed by the Montgomery Ward
store in Altoona until January 1942
He wad then employed at the Mid.
dietovn air depot until April 13,
{1042 when he entered the army alr
force
He was stationed at Craig Field,
Felma, Ala. as an alr corps mechan-
t. Barly this month be had com-
pleted a course of training at Gulf-
port. Miss. returning to Craig Field
Surviving are his parents, two bro-
thers and one sister, Ralph, of the
nevy. stationed at Navy Pier, Chi-
cago, Tl. Harold, of Altoona, and
Emily, at home
COLLEGE HAS SERVICE
FOR CHORAL GROUPS fired a shot gun, killing Shirley C.|
The author of the article, however, |
{does not advocate the establishment
of such an exchange in this district
1lat this time The district, comprise
{ling the
| IMcKean. Potter, Tioga, Elk, Camer-
following eleven counties,
‘on, Clinton, Lycoming, Clearfield,
Centre, Union and Blair counties, is
too large. and the “trading areas”
iare too unrelated to make such a
system practical at this time, he de-
clared.
| The Western State Penitentiary at
i Pittsburgh turng over its records of
{inmates to the Pittsburgh Social Ser-
[vice Exchange, and also to the coun-
{ty from which the individual in-
mates are sent. The Eastern Peni-
{tentiary at Philadelphia does like-
wise,
{ But in the smaller rural counties
an effective Social Service Exchange
lis an organization which in all prob-
ability is a thing of the future,
Mr. Joyce came to Bellefonte sev.
eral months ago to take the place
{made vacant by the sudden death of
{Harvey E. Huff, of Pleasant Gap, last
{ fall.
a.
There are no rules that apply to
every human being and no human
being that obeys all the rules
| Church choirs and other choral
groups will be assisted by the exten-
isionn services of the Pennsylvania
Btate College in the selection of mu-
isle for the Easter season ang other
special occasions
| A library service has been estab
{lished which will make available to
{responsible organizations throughs
jout the state a pacicet of carefully
{selected musical numbers.
Through the co-operation of mu-
{sic publishers with the College, var~
{ious musical selections may be ine
|spected before they are purchased by
{high schools, churches, community
[lee clubs, and other organizations.
Chicks Perish in Fire
Three hundred baby chicks per-
lished and a two-story barn was de-
stroyed by fire at Treverton, North-
umberiand county, caused by an
overheated brooder. The loss is esti-
mated at $1,200.
. Blossbury Postmaster
The appointment of J. Raymond
Stratton as postmaster ai Bloss-
burg has- been confirmed by the U.
'8. Senate,
Planning Your
Nothing else that a gardener can
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postmaster at West Milton.
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gaining the right side of the high- |
chair at Rockview early Monday
morning, the supreme penaity for
the slaying last March of Joseph
Dowshen, 52-year-old Philadelphia
storekeeper
Childers, who lost a plea for com-
mutation of sentence in February,
walked to the electric chair in the
Rockview penitentiary frightened,
but without needing support of the
guards who stopd by his side.
He was strapped in the chair at
12:30 a. m. and four minutes later
| was pronounced dead.
that Childers, an hour before he was
executed, told prison guards to “pet
me ready” He added that the ocon-
demned man was quiet all day, and |
his last!
ate nothing but fruit for
meal
Dowshen
was shot twice in the
abdomen when he resisted in a bold- |
up attempt. Leon Dowshen. a son, |
testified at the tria) that he captured |
delicatessen; store |
{Childers in the
after being awakened by gunfire
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Youth Gets Jail
Term In Shooting
| Blair County Judge Finds No
Malice in Death of 13-
Year-Old Girl
| John Jacob Steiner, 13, of Loop
| Btation, near Hollidaysburg, who
McNally, also 13, &t the Steiner
home March 1. was sentenced at
{court at Hollidaysburg Monday by
{Judge George G. Patterson to serve
len indeterminate term in the boys’
industrial school at Oakdale, Alle-
gheny county.
In sentencing the boy, Judge Pat-
|terson remarked that “apparently
there was no malice in this case”
The boy, arrested on direction of
Attorney Chester B. Wray,
in the juvenile detention
in Altoona
after the shooting. The gun
utes
lad was handling,
Now
ord Nits Just Mean received at the
District Office at Renovo
that the law with to sabo-
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machine overturned Warden Btanley P. Ashe declared |
since the fatal]
McNally girl died within a few |
ct of Sabotage
{and supply store can supply it.
didn’ the fire thi;
Tr:
Beller keep an eve on the
that collects any stray water in the
“higasoline line of your automobile
© | Since gasoline now isn’t what it us
‘to be, the collector of stray n
t go year
William L. Spangler, 8r., of Blanch
Kessler Field, a unit «
{nical Thrwining Comms
{Army Air Poroes
mechanics to maint
the huge Liberators |
operation all over
BE
Claster Saw Mill
“A
gadget
{
fals fills up much faster than us-
ual One man of our acquaintance
{upon experiencing difficulty with the
{gasoline flow in his car investigated
T land found nearly two gallons of
otally Burned
rusty water in the bottom of the
gasoline tank. The gasoline didn’t
‘have a chante to get through
Mill Operated at Draketown, ARMONY :
Clinton ( ounty, Destroy- It might be of interest to member:
ed by Fire of the Bchool Board and school of-
ficials to know that some of their
The firm of M. L. Claster & Sons, S¢Verest critics Saying mace
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{operators of the lumber yard and 'Dings about
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the new school and
pining mill in Bellefonte, Jost their 2bout the dedication activities which
large saw mill at Draketown, Clin. |Pegan Sunday night and which con-
ton county, by fire early Saturday ude with the formal dedication to-
morning. * ‘night, The critics seem particularly
The Flemington Fire Company Pleased with the absence of osten-
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and the Mill Hall Fire Company [ation or “gingerbread” in the build
| took part in the unsuccessful attempt ‘78 and dedication program
{ to save the Claster mill. The flames RESTAURANTS:
ib ' start d hiree- on
hour ENE ended Hn the destruction |, Deletonte has
; TA 1 WE Cesucon prominent restaurants the past
of the mill, but lumber plies and a, nth The Boston Candy Kitcher
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home which Were threatened were... the Milford Cox Tesiaurant Gre
Saved by the hard working volun now matters of history. Restaurant:
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The firemen had to lay 1.800 feet are having thelr tr oubles with 8
{ —— © HV itioning op one hand, and with se-
of hose to obtain two streams to netent help on the other
fight the. big bl curing competent help on ihe other
- BREAD: :
PROMOTED IN CHEMICAL | We don’t know how you feel about
| WARFARE COMPANY it, but we're sorry the OPA has per-
i se— {mitted bakeries to resume slicing
| Joseph W. Myers, son of Mrs. Vera bread. We still think the unslioed
L. Myers, Spring Mills, has been varjety has more body and taste:
{promoted from Private First Class to better. (Bet housewifes will like
{ Technical 5th Orade at Barksdale this)
iField. La, where he is 5 toxic gas!
| bandier in a Chemical Warfare com- FORGOTTEN:
| pany. i Bome members of the Beliefontx
] Corporal Myers was inducted into High School Alumni Association are
{the armed services on July 11, 1942, irked because the association was
|and has been stationed at Barksdale | completely forgotten in the dedica-
{Field for six months. He was pre- tion exercises for the new school
| viously at Camp Croit, 8. C. (buliding. On the face of it the as-
‘sociation is entitled to some recogni-
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[FARM QUESTION BOX
ED W. MITCHELL
» Farm Adviser
General Electric Station WGY
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Q-—How can I protect tomato|straw mixed with it helps to over.
plants from blight? lecme that fault
A Tomato blight is the same or-!| Q How should I spray my peach
ganiyn that causes potato blight, | trees?
and heretofore the remedy has been’ A The trees should get a 1-10-15
the same as for potatoes, a 3-3-30 ime sulphur dormant spray ever;
| Bordeaux three or four times a Sea- coring to control deaf curl, and sul
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| son. Now the use of red copper oxide phue and lead spray or dust when
dust is recommended if your seed ghucks fall and every two weeks all
| season to check curculio and brown
rot.
Q What can I put on my straw-
berries to help this year's crop?
Q Would it pay to keep a pig this
year if fed with garden waste?