Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, May 18, 1944, Image 1

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    9 Where the Fuel Goes
A HEAVY BOMBER
cruising al a speed of 250
m.p.h. may use 200 gal.
lons of gasoline an hour,
dhe Cent
inomo
taf
An Army Trans.
port burns 33000
gallons of fuel oll
a day
WHERE THE FUEL
GOES
VOLUME 63. NUMBER 20.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY
18, 1944,
SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR,
Woodward Area
avagds by Storm
Wind, Rain, Hail Comu 5 to Cause Heavy
Damage to Crops and rroperty; Window
>anes Broken by Hail
to that water was as high as the run
the ning boards of cars
The entire area from nea;
to Wolfs Chapel was affected by
storm. Rain of cloudburst
thun- was accompanied by hall
quantities that it could be
into baskets
Wheat and rye fields
washed, gardens were washed and
Coburn several trees were uprooted
Hall, driven by high winds, broke
a number of window panes in the
Coburn area and at Paul Winkle-
blech’s farm near Fledler, windows
were broken and a portion of
barn roof was ripped off by
wind
Damage to garden and farm crops
in the entire section is sald to be
so severe that the yield in many
places will be less { the
than half ol
amount normally harvested
Considerable damage resulted
property, gardens, and crops in
southeastern section Centre
county early Wednesday eve
ning when a half -houy storm
brought severe lightning and
der. torrents of rain mixed
hail, and high winds
The storm was
the memory
that section according to reports
Beginning at 7:45 p. m., the storm
was so severe that Pine Creek which
passed through Woodward, rose four
feet in height in less than an hour
and the stream became a raging
torrent. A small creek at Fiedler left
its banks and flooded Route 45 so
Coburn
the
of
last
ity
in ich
Jroveled
inten
with
badly
at
the most severe In were
of old inhabitants ol
the
the
COLLEGE STUDENT
KES OWN
Believed
 — -
COUNTY QUOTA SET FOR
FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE
Centre County's quota for the th
War Loan Drive, June 12 to July 8
is $2.238.000 it was announced yes-
terday by Claude G. Alkens, of State
College, chairman of the County War
Finance Committee
This quota is $295 000 greater than
assignment in the Fourth Loan
when this cuonty’s share was
Mr. Alkens pointed out
Worried Ove
Health, Possible Induc-
tion Into Service
Two days before he heduled
take the pre-induction
examination at Altoona Robert D
Mathieu 24. of Collegeville, a grad- ————
uate fellow in chemical éngineering
at Penn State, ended his life
The man's lifeless body was foun
by his roommate, Howard B. In
at 6:10 Monday morning, lying
11 MEEPTED NTO
Was § the
Drive
$1.943 000
physical
sonked ether on his face. He
been dead approximately four hour
it was estimated
Irvin played golf Sunday wi
friends who reported that he seemed
in good spirits. bw Siajle Coliege
Police Chief John R. Juba said that
Jetters found near the body, written
Sunday night man
was suffering fr { ill I'he rost Brooks-Doll
om A fear of tiefont
n } 1 an Aion fMlieionts
health, although several physicians American Legion. B 4 2
creased by 11 new members Monday
ad t him his fears were ground-
4 opt 1 od night when the second class of in-
less
The letters also were said to con-|itiates In recent weeks was accept-
tain references to the futility of war ®d into membership
and of his aversion to it Charles A Eckenroth post com-
Certre Counly Coroner Charles mander. was in charge of the cere.
Sheckler of Milesburg, certified that) mony and Samuel D. Rhinesmith
Irvin had died by his own hand The district and bl-county commander
body was removed to the Koch fu-|sdministered the oath
neral home in State College and the Member Inss are i
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mathieu He aR
of Collegeville, were notified : :
the remains were taken College- laud
ville for interment
Miss McClure Retires;
To Wed, June 8th
Katharine MeClure of
West Bishop Bellefonte, an
operator in the Bellelionte office of
the Bell Telephone Company
tires on pension today after
than 32 years with the company
Miss McClure was honored at a
party and shower, Monday evening
May 15. given by the local telephone
operators and former operators. Miss
McClure, who has lived in Belle-
fonte all her lle, a member of
the Telephone Ploneers of America
organization of veteran telephone
employes She will be married to
Harry Buckley an engineer the
Canadian General Company
June 8 in Toronto, Canada
plan to | 700 Wate
Peterboro
th
}
)rganization Contributes
to Swimming Pool and
Other Projects
indicated the
er of Prewt
was
M the
R
D
Thompson.”
I Logue, Julian
Gingher, Milesburg: (
Baumgardnes Pleasant
Paul Roberts, Bellefonte, Paul
Belle! R D.: Paul
Beietonte:. Car] F Cr
nneth W. Chandler, Bel
pe. Milesburg, a
Milesburg
members Ross
B. Bower and John
ass with the init
Al Lhe business
named Legion
the board of control «
and the Post
operating
Later
to
Cap
Cir
San
nem
nte
e
Bulle
Love
»
Miss Mary
8)
lation servi
W. R Kis
representa
Ebon
ted
street
easior
ee.
more | S€il Wa
tive of the
Hughes swimming pool
{buted $125 toward
and maintaining the pool durin
coming summer
The Post also voted
Bellefonte Honor Roll
Mr Carl J
(Continued om page Nix)
nm
contr
$325 to the
fund and 825
etary of
nnson "Cc
for Volunteers Over 26
May Withdraw
the Navy
June 1 was received today by Loeal
Draft Board No. 2 of Bellefonte
The contingent will leave Belleionte
by bus at 10:50 a. m. that day
In filling the call it is likely that
both men under 28 and those in the
other age brackets will be taken
However, draft board officials said
only those in the older brackets who
volunteer will be placed in the call
The men in the higher age groups
who have already voluntered to re-
ceive preference of service can re
call their voluntary applications i
they are engaged in essential Indus
tries. Men In any age group who
wish to volunteer may do so, It was
explained
The board will also send a group
of 31 men to Altoona June 14 for
pre-induction physicals. Those who
pass will be placed In the board's
pool
VEW Post Sponsors
Memorial Services
on
They
at street
Ontario
CHILD INJURED IN
FALL FROM CAR
4 Year-Old College Boy
Escaped With Severe
Cuts and Bruises
A four-year-old State College boy
was painfully Injured Sunday night
when he fell from the rear door of
his parents’ sedan as It was travel.
ing up the Pine Grove Mills moun.
tain enroute to State College from
Huntingdon
The boy, Fay Harker, Jr. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fay Harker, of 218
South Burrowes street, was admitted
to the Centre County Hospital, suf-
fering from severe cuts on the head
and brush burns on face and body
His condition is improving, it is re.
ported
The accident occurred while the
ve
A call Ton
12 men to enter
Memorial services sponsored by
Jackson -Crissman-Saylor Post, Vet
erans of Poreign Wars, Bellefonte,
will be held In St. John's Lutheran
Harker family was returning home church here at 7:30 o'clock Sunday
after a Mother's Day visit with Mr evening. May 2, officials of the post
Harker's mother, Mrs. Orace HAr- announced yesterday
ker of Huntingdon. Because of re Members of the VPW and the
eapped tires which Mr. Harker fear American Legion and the Auxiliar-
| «fee the Electric Supply Company
struck the maca- Rellefonte, window display showing
surface of the road with his 5.W paints, varnishes and waxes;
head and rolled several times also free offer to loan style guide. *
«You're Invited to County Sab.
A ————
MAN
Y BURNED
OALSBURG
Mrs. Emma Young, 77, Is
Brought to Centre
County Hospital
CANDLE IGNITES
SLEEVE OF DRESS
Ait
BA
Accident Happens When
Victim Goes to Cellar
For Can of Fruit
Mrs. Emma Young, 77. of Boal
burg, was painfully burned about the
face, head, shoulders, and right arm
early Tuesday morning in
dent at her home
The aged woman is now patient
at the Centre County Hospital where
attendants her
being satisfactory
Mr Young who
Boalsburg. Is said
the cellar early Tuesday morning to
get a can of frult In searching
through the fruit cupboard she wa
using a tallow candle and as she
reached into the cupboard with hes
right hand the sleeve passed over
the open flame and caught fire
Her clothing was a mass of
flames Mrs. Young the
ground floor where
to her assistance
The woman was brought to the
hospital by Mrs. Peter
Knepp of Millbrook, and was admit-
rd to the in
morning
Six-Year-Old Girl
Injured In Accident
Aan Accel
n
report condition a
lives alone at
to have gone to
ME. AND MRS
S001
'
Fan
neighbor went
her daughter
institution about 1i
Tuesday
Carol Ann Spicer. §. daughter
Mr and Mrs Walter Spleer
South Spring street, Beliefonte, =
Wedded Fifty Years
JOHN «
By
J
SIATION
WINGATE
Tractor-Trailer Outfit
Overturns, Smashing
Pumps, Canopy
DRIVER AND AIDES
RAMS Resident Scores
ame Dust Evil
Mrs. Frederick F. Hallowell Alleges Dust Is
Causing Heavy Property Damage: Coun-
cil Has 5 Applicants for Health Officer
ESCAPE UNINJURED ,
Damage Comparatively
Light; Building Often
Hit by Vehicles
than $1.000
CRATER
of Aaronsburg, will observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary
Saturday, Mas
20th, 1944
¢
Continged fen
a Fope
treated at the Centre County Hos-
Sunday moming
received when
ick by An Edwards
{ High street
ne af
A
pital on for
ries she was
bus at Spring
10.45
when was watching
back out a parking ple
see Lhe bus Sart mow
ne
ident occurred about
the child
a Car iH
and did not
ing after having stopped at the
tersention. X-rays ab the hospital
disclosed Hat fo bonds had been
proken, aithougl! the girl had
ceived a badly bruised and skinned
ankle and severe brush bums After
treatment she was allowed on return
re.
to her home
BOWLING ALLEY
T0 OPEN FRIDAY
a
posto fos it the Robb building
casing cousidcTabic gamage
—— ———————— A —
EPISCOPAL RECTOR
rmed
mbearable and
"
Bpecifically
Mrs. Hallowel]
lor paint of her hom
Hastings
jeg hieny treet
Coven
rth Al
Nt bet
ime dust
paint 2
Ancs wey r
Hi peated
ming
ne
(
DRGES IN INDIA
Evan Blanchard, Captain
in Air Group in Wilds of
Burma Jungles
aly
and for
ory ive
ng
theatre «
rerwived
HERE RESIGNS
Rev. F. P. Davis
(‘all to Trinity Church,
Williamsport
100OF Center Provides 5
Modern, Full-Sized
Alleys
new and
lows Club Bowiing
former Claster Hardware a
West High street will
take al 7 ociock tomorrow
Friday) night officials of the OOF
announced yesterday
The bulid has been «
remodeled redecorated
MR
of Rebershurg., today
ANNIVETSAry
the
mie
Cents
tore room on
place
MT mpietely
and
Yiace in U
for is
ile of
bow |
new e recreational
Five moder;
eguiation size
and the alley
iminatied day or n
lighting
Comfortable bleachers
provided for spectators and all
cilities for the comfort and «
lence of patrons have been (installed
the community
INE ali of
been installed
adequately 1
by
Rn
fluorescent
have been
fn
onven
before
Is Si
AND MRS. CALVING
are observing their 65th
at their home
WEAVER
wedding
weahin H
Williamsport
ement
the
{ wo YEA
Was
Hig!
College at
Drew Theological Seminary
has Waker graduate work
“oatesville, he
w CO
naon
KTaG
8
Carlisie
wtesvilie {rom
and
Aus
Soft drinks, candy, and ice cream
will be on sale at the new center
Opening of the alleys will give Clarence Youth Is
Bellefonte bowlers for the first time .
Wounded In Action
the opportunity of using full sise
Pvt. Marth
alleys
Wn ——
nt My
BHS Student Wins hon of Mt. nd vhs. Rascho
Essay Scholarship action while fighting in the jJungies
. of
ew Culnea on April 22
Miss Prances Snoke, a senior at '™8 10 a War Department
the Bellefonte High School, was de- "™0#IVed by his parents last week
clared winner of the senatorial Pvi. Rackovan, a brother of Mr
scholarship to Penn State, given Edward Hampton, of North Thomas
through the Bi-County Council of street, Beliefogle, and Mrs. Albert
American Legion, it was announced W. Smith, of West Linn street
this week by Samuel D. Rhinesmith Bellefonte, has been overseas more
of Bellefonte, bi-county commander. than seven months. The Clarence
Others whose essays entitled them soldier was believed to be serving
to the scholarship were Barbara G. With an engineering unit at the
Brown, Osceola Mills High School; time he reoeived his wound, about
and Shirley Jaffe, Philipsburg High which no detalls have as yet been
School. Miss Jaffe will accept the disclosed by the government
scholarship which is made possible Pvt Rackovan was called for ser-
through Senator A. H. Letsler of viee on April 25, 1943, and after cus-
Houtedale omary examinations at the New
The subject of the essay was “For Cumberland reception center he was
This We Pight™ 5 was done sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo,
by J Fred Harvey of Hlipsburg, where he was assigned to an #n-
chairman of the Legions Bi-County gineering battalion
Americanism committee, and Robert) Aper spending ' three months in
E. Galbraith, professor of the Eng- raining he was sent to San Pran-
pow A Scmpeaitian department at the cisco, Calif, from where he shipped
VETrnens uinea Oc
Pour other high school students, tober 1. Sew gh De
| Delete Rowies, Curwenaville, Mar. | attended the Clarence grade
schools and was a member of the
. BL. Michael's church baseball team
Coniport, also: competed In the o8n- that community. Before entering
service he was employed In a war
[plant at Detroit, Mich.
n
ang
Rackova N
John Racko
kK
Mrs
won
Was
accord
message
i -
| The family of James Cralg who
very | "
bath School Asso. convention in the
y the Court for I had enjoyed to the
Philadelphia Divinity School
in the affairs of the Dio-
Harriaburg the Rev. Mp
is chairman of diocesan
commission ar
dean of the annual youth
be held In J t Cent:
Onk Heights, near Milton. The
ference Is an sducational meeting of
representatives of all the Sunday
schools and young peoples’ organi-
gations in the diocese
(Continard on pape Sip)
ve
eure
Hughes Resigns Post
As County Auditor
Davis the
ouwth and wi sOTVE
raomier
ence YU ine nl
5 "
RIVES
ormer hean
Academy
as a Centre
week resigned
that and Judge Ivan
Walker named J Thomas Mitchell
Bellefonte attorney and historian, as
Nis suCCeRanT
Mr. Hughes' resignation
effective Saturday and Mr
appointment went into effect
aay
The
became
Of)»
the Beliefonts
was elected
a uctiton Inst
post
ttn Ml c———
‘Elks Plan Flag Day
Ceremony, June 14
became
Mitchell's
Mon.
The annual Flag Day ceremonies
conducted by the Beliefonte Elks
Lodge will b¢ held June 14 In the
Beliefonte High School suditorium
instead of on the Court House steps
as has been the custom In past
years
All organisations of Bellefonte and
vicinity are Invited to take part in
May 15. 1084. parade which will be held preced-
To the voters of Centre county, ing the ceremonies The program
who supported me at the election in will include an address by a well
resignation, Mr. Hughes said
mandatory because the aud
iting duties were severely undermine.
ng his health
In submitting his resignation, Mr
Hughes released the following state.
ment for publication |
“Belicionte, Pa
November last. in my candidacy for known speaker and a history 8f the
i
Auditor, 1 desire to express my pro- flag by John O. Love, of Bellefonte,
found gratitude. I shall never forget with Elks lodge officers assisting
the generous and complimentary | ———— a —
vole you gave me. However, the
strain oh my nerves, due to the ux Gets 60 Days Jail
hours of close confinement in the
auditors’ room five days In the week | On Check Charges
and three hours on Saturdays, ne-| ————
semitatod my resignation last Sat.! H. 8 Klinefelter, of Bellefonte,
urday. May 13, to avoid a threatened appeared al «a tal session of
nervous breakdown. | believe that court here Monday and
my unexpected action will infire to
the benefit of all concerned i
“Tt was with extreme reluctance
that I tendered my resignation to
(Continued on page Sig)
| State College
slides and motion pictures will be
[used In the demonstration
Accepts ....
Finds Exhausted
Pigeon at Wingate
“ni
from ,
Sumime
LOOK
SABBATH SCHON
T0 CONVENE HER
Full
Day of Activities
Scheduled at Methodist
Church May 25
ut)
L annual
the Centre County
Association wii] be
he Methodist
The day will hegin with
at ham
The Rev. H.C Stenge!
tor of the host church, will preside
al the morning session which will
(begin at 9.30, and lead the devotions
and bring a word of welcome to the
officers and delegates of the county
A demonstration of the use of vis.
unl and auditory alds In the church
[school will be presented at 10 o'clock
‘By the Rev. Milton RR. Vogel, pastor
of Bt Johns Evangelical church
Records, stereoptical
spring sonvention of
Sabbath School
May
Bellet
registra
weld
chure
Jr. pas
The morning address will be de.
lvered at 10:20 by the Rev Lee J
Cable, state director of Leadership
and Week Day Religious Education
SOCAL SECLRIY
AGENT TO BE HERE
Centre Countians
to
Invited
Discuss Problems
Next Wednesday
SIN WTHUS,
. Married Sixty-Five Years I ig gs
-
ih
| In This Cawner,
Council — In This
27 Hives of Bees
.
MWe M nat * "as
fConMunet
PR pape Min)
CAPT. COX MEETS
BROTHER OVERSEAS
Former Local Guardsman
Gives Soldier's Views
on Invasion
Cat ee
National
with
in.
{ train.
tails who
{ Wiilia Cox
Bellefonte with the ora)
Cunard unit ani wh has
MAaniaatifih ever
ding 185 present
ing nn Engiand, recently met his
younger brother, Pvt James IL. Cox
in England acoording 0 a tier re.
ceived recently by the men's pare
ents, Mr. ang Mrs. Frank Cox, of
Jamiaca, 1. 1 formerly of Belle
fonte
The Arents arrived In Bellefonts
Tuesday for a several days’ visit
with relatives
Atcording to Caplain Oox
chief! worry shout the coming in-
vasion that the folks back home
will be worrying ahout him. Heras
what he writes regarding the in.
beer
that ¢
on
period
his