=. KEEP FAITH Th US = Xi by buying verona Sk WAR BONDS Enssssann he Cenfre Democraf WAR BONDS | MEAN MORE THAN A Mog GOOD INVESTMENT) ——,, VOLUME 63. NUMBER 411. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 1944, SUBSCRIPTION-—$1.60 PER YEAR 11 County Men In ar Casu ly List %, 's Mills Man, v ' . “5 6 Lose Lives, 5 Wounded: Po Father of Three, Previousl; e 2ported As Missing, Died Fighting in France The county t i the aurin } IX he wounded Pp Pacifi pl. Reuben ia erious) Septembe "re 3’. Robert Miller Sout} flighting Adams, | Belle- fmoer H } on Continued on Page Four) Plc. Joseph Woleslagle—Wounded ACCEPTS SCOUT Extend Parcel Post Hours B» deadiiz for mailin Curistmas the armed fof Sunday, October 15. the window at the Beliefonte Post Office will remain open, Saturday. October | 4. for this purpose only, gntil 5 p.! in. instead of the usu] closing Ome, 1 pom. E B Bower atting post! master, gunounced yesterday a —— ause n parceis memboer Ol falls on parcel post Field Executive; Will Live in Phoenix Ralston “Red” Derr, of Pleasant Gap. former Bellefonte school teach- and more recently Red Cro e Aleutian Islands, | posi Stuffed Owl Being Used To Scare Pigeons - - 1 field director in ¢ pcceted a field executive Io pects t 2 MaKe enix, Arizona t next noot mo f On # tie Hiz = large ft l. J guy HH n down in 8. and daughter, Pegg} fa ter I" in Phoenix a ston irtérs Dave i wWinoow 10, will S001 Hs Hitl- aged { m : an been e (Continued on page Miu) Girl Injured In Fall from Arbor fight agar C the thi aries build way Commi owns Of owl all sumi pother the might Keen Lh ing on the uliding and below. I'm willing It all right thing doesn t We awful spot. He'l all summer thers garden the bird 0 eat! WAR FUND DRIVE BOARD ADOPTS LAUNCHED HERE: SCHOOL CALENDAR den Centre go treatment for & { the knee suffer- from a rom rox Exchange W sidewalks to anyLhing Only Keeler to amit ’ thin 1 +3) little girl cased the were ound and he recover. NE wiich nave titches nsiceregd Solicitation For $27.174 in Bellefonte Area Now Under Way Active soli*iiation of contribu tions for the annual Bellefonte Com. munity War Pung drive began Tues. day after a meeting of approxi mately 100 commitiee chairmen and solicitors at the high school cafe teria here Monday night The goal of (He local campaign Is $27.174. of which amount $8800 will go to the national War Fund treas- ary, while the remainder will be re- giving recess beginning with Wed- tained in Bellefonte to support the | nesday, November 23, and continu- town’s various charitable institu-|ing until the following Monday: «| tions for the coming year Christmas vacation beginning wit) Rabbi Victor Eppstein, of State| Wednesday, December 20 and con- College, principal speaker at Mon- | tinuing until Tuesday, January 2 's meeting, spoke of the work of | The first semester will end on the 22 national charitable organiza- | January 25. March 20 will be the tions whicy participate in the War | last day of school before the Easter Fund. Rabbi Eppstein spoke with recess, and April 3 will be the first the conviction born of experience day after the recess. There will be on the actual battlefronts, having no Memorial Day recess and June been with the Marines In the in-|5 will be commencement day as well vasion of Tarfwa and having served | os the last day of school elsewhere in the South Pacific, | Tax Collector Brown reported (at The speaker Jeclared tie meh on |of a tax duplicate totaling $72.29 the fronts ars one hundred per cent | he has collected and turned over (Continued on Page Thies) (Continued on page Four) Ends 2 December 20, bw. January The Bellefonte school board regular meeting Monday night adopted a school calendar for the lyear, received a check of $50.000 from tax collector George M. Brown at a The school calendar ealls for teachers’ institute October 12 and 13 (today and tomorrow): a Thanks. {including yesterday. twill continne to A) requests for bei | ots ey ty ballots vember 22 rrapevine Knee Christmas Recess Begins] ioe: see And transacted other matters In an} Capt. and Mrs. William Cox. of | unusually brief session ! : day | front of the Catholic cemetery, near FIVE GARDNER BROTHERS; FOUR ON 5) ah Gap, Vietim of Heart Attack HAD BEEN GUARD FOR PAST 19 YEARS Dead While ileing Placed in Am- bulance lA Al AS Pronounced Prl. Earl Garane: Pvt, Orvis Gardner Pv. Goosrge Gardner (Contingra on page Fowr) - Registration Closes; Tabulate Results POST IN ARIZONA ’ ite H LAN A total of 3666 ballots had Deen : Amphibia mailed out fron the office up to and Battalion a wa and the office the Boul Pacific Private Dewey Oatdne, Baier ed UW TEENIE TH Amat 198 Tie wk his busle training 4! Fort Ens and from There was sent to the ai embarkation at Fort Md. He went and in with an November 2 will x Comnleted until Neo- eo#ived to § AD Mende Feb raft Bat rat i must N iE «Al wa ma be. November 7. Ba ae or that date Cant Set. Dale Gardner fk aa Can > John G. Love Named Hospital President | HOSPITAL ENS RECORD YEAR 00 Operations, 511 Births and 2114 Patients Set New Peaks i HEART ATTACK FATAL 10 3600 Mahlon Musser. 12. le mont, Dies on Hike to Overnight Camp ie me Ho ti 0 ie Ane re t No | ter Mus- ted All Oe nial | y H Walke NANIMOUs fram Dist yn J} turda number po "Y oA we. Bellefonte attorney president of the Centre annual orga board board ' * e-ele County mzation Tuesday 3 i] 11 the Boy ne Lemont | ing thei jerry Cirove were Carryawm Markie place Nittany, 0 the ntain where the established walking along the with Bruce John and dropped over administered nar. aiid called Ie who war about Mospital at the meeting of the night NN» Itmaster No mn w include and Harrk DAstricy bore " nd No ’ nigh Halfmoon i Ip A number of precedents were es- tablished at the Institution during the just ended. it was revealed John Immestiately in a report submitted by Mrs. Nellie tificial respiration Ceary, superintendent of the hos« Scouimaster Crowe pital. Operating with fewer phy« (e sicians than usual and with fewer nurses and other aides because of wartime conditions, the howital| 796 Service Votes iContinged ow * ree) r rick Sa iy Returned To Date East High street, Bellefonte, and) } Approximately 00 persons guli- his cousin, Betty Smith 11. daugh-’ “hha ; ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Smith, William Ring Buys i fied themselves to vote through Former Magan Garage iii, satudnr at the County of Willlamsport, were injured Sun- Reghttration Board offices In the afternoon when they: were Struck by a car While playing In William Ring, of West High street, | Court House. Saturday was the (se home of their great-grandpar- Bellefonte, this week purchased deadline for registering for the ents, Mr. and Mrs, Christy Smith, from the First National Bank (oe presidential slection November 9 off East Bishop street | former Hagan property consisting of 1 Additional hundreds of voters regis. The Cox boy was atimitled to the (a garage on North Thomas street, tered at State College where travels Centre County Hospital for treats and two double houses on Railroad ing registrars were on special duty, ment of leg Injuries. He wag dis- | street, east of the garage bullding.! Officials are now engaged in tab. charged from the Institution on | While Mr, Ring's plang for the ulating the figures in preparation Tuesday afternoon. His cousin es- | immediate future are not definite he for election While nd totals were caped with bruises of the legs and expects to re-open the garage for available yesterday, officials reported was taken to her parent¥ home in|genoral automobile repairing and that up to September 25, 1280 new img eng WH car os Gu ler, ll hopes to replace the building street, Bellefonte, was driving a modern two-story west on Bishop street al the time [ture He will of the mishap vaging depot Belles ¥ Benner ir. d townships. Dis State College College Ferguson and Patton town am prise nd Sprin Ik i fonts eeds Ray ( Mar Gap, as presigent trict McDowell, of Howard w president Jenne Bellefonte, waa re-elect and P.M. Dubbs. of Belle re-elected treasurer cul ie ¢ M equipment 1 t the near the end of Mit of the nu amp was lo be Mahlon was i about yO Lal ¥ Nr. 1 Plea ’ WwW K As H od bor top Caum, of ecretary fonte Boy and Girl Struck By Automobile wn he edd Year 5 siimurd on page Three) - William Cox. aged ‘4's years, son with Ge county. Of that number 848 garage strue- continue Gis auto sal. near Jocialist, auto glass work, and in the future registrations had been received inl 370 Democrats, 58 | the VETERAN OF ( [ALY HERE Miss Edith Hopple Be- comes Bride of S-Sgt. | A homemade b ollege Student Is Injured In Blast Homemade ‘Bomb’ Explodes Prematurely; Victim Suffers Burns About and Hands: Condition Satisfactory Face Robert Dinges ed prema ris AIRMAN HOME AFTER En 51 BOMBING MISSIONS David Granam 1} 201 of Ceremony Performed on He an ek agent were Monday Night in Meth. [the construction odist Church Here pony Attends Meeting At White House v rv! » Hq performed ignt by became Robert 8} rd © Mrs Ra stent Lo wil 1 nt reLurne home § | mpleting 1 gunner bomber cal Couple Wedded 51 Years af Le sboard based Named Rector of Episcopal Church + (Continued om Page Three G5TH BIRTHDAY. = MARKED BY AGP June 15 Adherence to Econom) Franc ’ i= re. . i t a call to Wilhians- | Pledge Cited by ‘Veter. D 5 : . . . ' an of Four Wars Rev. Vernon A. Weaver about 45, of Manistee, Mich ha been named rector John's (Episcopal church Bellefonte, and is rexpected Lo. arrive here abe this mouth to begin his duties The Rev. Mr. Weaver was elected { 10 the post by members of the Vestry after a brief interview in Bellefonte He has not conducted ans l he new aged of Bi ntre Hall Airman Home; 50 Missions NCS rect w * Rey ist 5 Deer Ie if Weaver Eighty-five pace-sett Xi if Ie Plone distribution hed § 1859 Harti fret red dr TIAN tak LD Huntingdor doors of his New York Cit Are RECOVERS FROM 56ers oo BULET WOUND EEE 252 Fee Cote Mrs. John CC. Jodon, 36, Is Patient at County Hospital - familiar I% ire. John C Milesburg i ering steadily f tre Hospital fron H-inflict. ' wh Wednesday a Ww! Jodo ve 0 Jodo ty Ir price contr ne tramw in helping Varios «on Conti rk na fired about 5 pn ne mother of four boys nave been According to AV the State Police at Rock ation, she fired a bullet a 22-CRlite througiy the warrisd neath Ww AS AIR FORCE SAW VESUVIUS i" K | 3 fal aren Me officer reported that her eld ext Nn, John, aged 13. heard mother scream and carried her downstairs before running to the home of a neighbor Mrs. Margaret Pardoe, for ald. Mrs, Jodon Is said to Omave written letters to her hus | band and to Mrs. Pardoe regarding! her action but declaring that she! could go on no longer Yesterday hospital attaches re ported Mrs Jodon apparently was! out of Immediate danger, ang visit. ars were being admitted to her room | for the first time since he became In patient Nis ‘Democratic Ticket To Visit Bellefonte | Siate and candidates on the Democratie are expecied to [appear at a mally to be held In front {of the Coury , Bellefonte at 2 pm. Frday, Ostober 13 Among those expected to appear [will be Franels J. Myers, candidate for U. 8 +r gp Charles Alvin Jones, for J of the Bupreme Court, Bernard J. Clark, candidate Here's what Mt. Vesuvius in Italy Jooked like to the crews of U. 8. Air foroe bombers, fighters, and trans. {port planes during its recent erup- not have the opportunity to see Ve- suvius from the alr, he was stationed in Naples during the volcanos erup- tion, and desoribed it as “the pret. attend the session. *
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