| Swans: [| hie subpoena r~ State Police Say: The misguided confidence that prompts a driver to handle an auto- mobile alter drinking is a factor in thousanas of traffic deaths each year. DON'T DRIVE AFTER DRINKING. of Airport Authority tiould wilefonte wan an experts I'iwey seem to be landing almost everywhere wt @he Centre Democral 1951 14 PAGES THIS ISSUE BELLEFONTE, P THURSDAY, APRIL 5, Whiterock To Reopen Its (CONSOLIDATION Suany Near otonville CONTRACT TO BE DISCUSSED HERE Representatives of Seven Dis- In Area Meet 70. NUMBER 11 Airport Authority Hears Dr.l.eonard Transportation Specialist Cites Need For Air Travel Facilities and Points Out Require- rw 19 MEN 10 BE Convicted Slayers INDUCTED HERE Get Second Stay NEXT THURSDAY o.com ives wai Group to Leave From YMCA As April Draft Con- tingent Executions of Philadelphia Men octooiiy Darcy to Appear in Scranton Court This tricts 10 Moning 4 on Writ Issued Tuesday Night, me doubt thi mace mel Hat Should rey ple I fused r xecution at Rockview execut Mee 101 5 PLEAD GUILTY AT COURT SESSION of wa appeal Students Fined For Use Slugs in Automatic Telephones MAN DIES OF BULLET WOUND of Suicide Was Des- Was to Enter Hospital John J. McoCamles Victim pondent ; Payroll Figures In Local Area Up From Last Year I was $808 880 $200.70. Compar the felony occurred in Marion town- | | 1950, an increase § : ea TT an lof $178208 or 41 per cent is noted ship March 10 | There were 205 more persons Lewis Reese, 25, of Sandy Ridge.’ ploved thIX vear—an increase charged with f and b. received a per cem: sentence of paym of $25, lving-in week f Year order ¢ rvou ndition reces r ve pAITANEEMEN Is were bein mas “0 | &f il} have hin admittee sy veterans | “TWO GARAGES TO en - hospital M: to Dan Grove H. Poorman Present Occupy Location tinued on Page Eight) Is Candidate Fire Damages Centre Hall Reformed Church 83-YEAR-OLD MAN IS FIRE VICTIM Tragedy Caused Bs When Vietim Fell Asleep Cigar Complete Plans For K. of &., CDA Bazaar W. Williams Dtoject. were smoked adi. New who Bead alobs Sh Retles : have bee mplete Mark V w mn 127 E. Hig wig dos pith 28 \ resu f injury ve A | for t) nt bazaar beir he : Street Hefont ! it man. hig ng f hon turday eve . t K { nd t { Announce } ! : nha AVE DOL ¢ NL 4 i" y ighbor : ‘ llefont " : Republi rer Mr mani 1892, ! and Annis : : i irg deceased k4 1 ’ ty fre +} - y definit wa itth Milesh ug! found, it had beer King and reading fell asleep ald the fire pr it 6:45 pm. They the house to reach He received a con chool ship and spent ty ye t the Iphas Bellefonte Academy the From 1944 ! ved The clerk in the Centre County Com- | addit Cont afternoon fire was Mr Hoy chair, smu | | apparently + Hall from alled in the State College and Mills Fire Comp large ime of made Neighbor onal gas mask Ary. | started abo (Continued on Page Bix) | break body Alpha to the house | chats rome intry fireme: EK in ar Spring any Bellefont ded each merchant evening and will be held the new St. John be built vol bably had to to smoke AWAT nterta the neces inments ceeds will be Parochial School Bellefonte thi nued on Page Eight) into the for io firemen estimated damage summer only $150. An easy | a window blind and dama ged at curtains woodwork were John Calvin Hoy was born Aug 1867, In Lemont, the son of Ben. | (Continued on Page Three | Three Cars Collide On Sharp Curve BHS Driver Training Pupils Practice All Safety Rules The gray erated by Undine Firemen ‘Answer Alarm Undine firemen of Bellefonte re. iponded to an alarm at the Mike | Teaman home at Egypt Hollow at 10 am. Tuesday Firemen reported the fire had been confined to partition by efforts of Three cars collided on the sharp {members of the household. They curve on W. Linn Street, Belle | were forced to remove a partition fonte, at 8:15 am. Thursday, block - [ to extinguish the flames, Water from ing traffic an hour. No one was In- | a booster tank was used Jured A car operated by Lowell T Howard Backs Civil Defense Program Krape, Beliefonte RD 2. driving west on Linn Street skidded and Howard Borough Council announ. ced that It would do everything struck a car driven in the opposite direction by George L. Andrews Jr, possible to back the civil defense program in the borough at a meet. [10 driving practice. Here become acquainted the car's Instruments as forth in the ve. dual control sedan op- | struction on Bellefonte: High School | the students and Keckler Chevrolet, Inc. as al with all driver training car Is a common | well as rules set sight on Bellefonte streets and, in| hicle code the interests of highway safety]! Actual driving comes some of the principles of the course | 50-minute school period is divided are enlightening between two students. A minimum John Weber, the instructor, has a | °F five hours actual driving is nee- essary before the student takes his rule for every operation. For in test before state police stance, the first operation of the ‘ Early In the course, driving I» student driver is to adjust the seat : : ! © o and rear view mirror for his per. onfined mainly to a course laid out sonal height. In a car that has only on E. Lamb street, near Wilson one driver. this practice is not fol Here the road Is level and compara lowed: in the driver training car, tively free of traffic. With progress of the students, some driving the adjustments are important for . both comfort and safety done on downtown streets next. Each of Lock Haven, A car operated by Mrs. Philip Some 66 students enrolled In the | Andrews car struck it from the rear. | ing Monday night. President Jo- Members of the junior class may | course this year, On completion Police Chief Charles H. DeWitt | seph Allison presided. A civil de- enroll in the course but need the the school who have completed the considerably In the front; the An-!gchool Tuesday at 8 pm. T. El They begin the school year with 16 | course in earlier years. This is the drews ear In front and rear, and wood Sones, County coordinator, pO-minute periods of classroom in. Emel, of Milesburg, following the they will join the 205 students of [sald the Krape ear was damaged | fonse meeting was held at the High written permission of their parents fourth year of its operation. the Emel car in the front, wad the speaker, RETURN BALLOTS IN EQUALIZATION Hundred’ Votes Cast For Assessment Committees ‘Several Are (0. ASSESSORS MOVE IN APRIL’ ELECT OFFICERS Tax Collectors Invited to Join Permanent Organi- zation e Mar Vi | Leitzell Speaks - To Boroughs’ . Representatives Ce met nd borough ome of Centre the third wiruction Bellefonte Council rsday night heard ntendent of Highways Leitzell explain Many lems highway nstruction and mal: an Other instructor: were Lee E. Corter, m resentative of Public Institute and David Cowell assistant for the Institu Government The class for n § imbet nding weeks n a toe perioa CHhAN County 8 Aaron D »r per pr of ter or the session inicipal rep- Service research at the i Centre county | ough officials, sponsored by the Public Service Institute, meets here | every Thursday night with Mr. Cor- | ber presiding In his informal talk. Mr. Leitsell te of Loeal | | Was bor- | ning | Ebon ¢ Lo nsider deta ’ Warner Plans ‘Inventory’ Of Stone Holdings JEFFERSON DAY ‘ ments of an All-Weather Terminal. eee COUNCIL T0 HIRE BORO ENGINEER Street Authorized to Recommend New Committee Personnel MAN KILLED BY CAR NEAR HOME Albert W. Bolduc. 12 Struck Near State Is College DINNER AT GAP. Richardson Dilworth Is Main Speaker; Savs Penn State Due For Thin Diet i Pleasant 250 Democrat Clearfield Blair ded Ca and gram wants Continued on Page Three) Pat Hartswick Is Honored At Dinner Pat. Hartswick, who retired Feb | as assistant postmaster at Bellefonte after 37 vears In the postal service honored at a dinner at the Nittany Country Club Tuesday eve- He was presented with a traveling i bag by the group and received from Bower, postmaster, a scroll signed by his former co-workers at sketched standard highway depart | the Bellefonte office ment practices In maintaining (Continned on Page Eight) W. F. Kessinger Buys Spring Street Property W. PF Kessinger, Bellefonte auto | parts dealer, has purchased the | | property at the corner of Spring and Bishop streets, at one time owned by the Bellefonte Academy Mr. Kessinger sald his plans for the property are not definite but he will eventually move his business to that location The purchase includes a two-story stone house and the lot which has 63 feet frontage on 8. Spring street. Harry Tanney was the seller, Tax stamps indicated a purchase price of $13,000, | were Mr Samuel Barnhart was toastmaster and the dinner committee members | power and James Kane Twenty-four postal employes were | present including two other retirees Morton Smith and Perry Alters Concert Is Planned Here Monday Night Michael Rhoads, baritone, is scheduled to appear at the Belle fonte High School auditorium at 8 p. m. Monday as the final presen tation of the Bellefonte Community Concert Association's current pro- gram. Mr. Rhoads’ appearance is postponed from Feb. § Association officials have announ- ced the annual membership came paign will open April 16, | Smith yd int ag Baltim whic Mas 4] the He re A week the about ed by the f rm Retail Division Meeting Set Friday The 3 51 Belle nite Chan Retail 3 ’ ~r MOOSE RUN TOT DROWNS IN WELL Was Play | ost ing Around Well. Balance and Fell Harry R Bellefonte's Swans Are in Trouble; Now Bellefonte are in trouble Again Only they are not officially Belle. fonte's swans, Burgess Hugh M Quigley sald yesterday Nevin R Council president, and chairman of Councils Town committee, all SWans Grove Improvement | claimed ownership i AL any rate, as of yesterday ternoon, the swans were camped on Milesburg's old brick pond, now the property of Luther McCartney of ML Eagle The brick pond was converted into a frog pond about five years ago by Mr. McCartney who planned to sell the frongs on the market as frog legs. However, It seems that the swans consider the frogs as much a deli as humans do and were busy depleting the sthek at the farm The frog stock at the pond repre. | Cartnes Dan | dis- | | Twain's celebrated Jumping Frog af | Eating Frogs izeable investment to Me- mofMicially estimated at the Jumbo frogs Missoury sents a $140. He purchase and imported them al a cost of 310 each. Chservers say native frogs do not begin to ap- proach the jumbo frogs In size and they are rivaled only by Mark from Mr MceCartney unsuccessfully stoned the swans Tuesday night and ast night planned to take his motor boat to the scene. If the swans were caught, he indicated he would release them to Bald Eagle Bellefonte's swan history is one of sadness. The first pair migrated once to a pond near Mill Hall and required the efforts of lasso throw. ers to recapture them. At least one has been shot and another met its demise while flying on High street. The present swans were brought here from the Lock Haven paper mill,
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