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BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 12. 1951
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area of America within |
its boundaries, Pennsylvania ranks |
third among the states in main
track rail mileage It is officially
credited with 9.747 miles by the In- |
terstate Commerce Commission and |
with 11,281 miles, including branch-
es, by the Pennsylvania Department
of Internal Affal Not only does
Pennsylvania have a very complete
coverage of its territory by rail-
roads, but the State Planning Board
of the pennsylvania Department ol
Commerce points out, it is also the
greatest user of railroad transpor-
tation among all the state
From the very beginning of it
industrial histor Keystone
State has shipped and received
more carload freight than any other Due to th wumber of Young men
state in n During r who have been
third quarter of 1950, the reports nxious te list in the U. S. Army
the Interstate Commerce Commis. had to
sion shows industries of
our Commonwealth
802
seventh
carried
and received
was one-eighth
for the whole n
nearly six times
as the State
times as mu
New England. It
and one-half tin
as New York
times as much
States
In
which is tl
total of
celved
that
million
bined
three
states by
The v¢
for by
AMONg m
the total
‘Announce Special
Volunteer Squad
Day Here April 18
the
our
they
alone, the local U
Force Recruiting Station
unced a new policy fo
April
this m ay. A
! Squad Day
| designated for April 18, when
» youths who desire to volun-
as much freight |... the Regular Army.
of New York and 11 ‘ camp with
h s all of the states in|, snl? Yih shi
received nearly
sitated because
that the
shipped 52.27
freight one-
carload
of revenue
of all the
by the Americ
44.889 335
f
of
tons
freight
1 iiroads
tons, which
uch freight
It originated
J nm
3 eer has
all
tion
asion
nity
th
of any 42 met
i tation
8 Army Re
i detall
nlete
ple
Honor 5 Grads Explain Air Force
: Enlistment Procedure
Will Be Cited For IG Uerene. masks
Their Achievements Force enlistment :
Fiv
fession
fields
this week
to be ¢
tinguished achi
President
aid the fit
a special program to be held on the Men
campus May 2. They were nomin
ted by the Poard of T
cause thei: i
sional achievements and
services best
ted
ted 4
urrently
enl
irther
BC
nored at ! tment
dependents
personal |i
at Bellefon
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piace
Doh
street and
Mr E H
neither
About | Market
Patriot”
Hagerstown
been received
Evidently the Doctor
expected confining life of a big city
He asks' June 7, 1831 he writes from
to In a Continued on Five
! often
from Phil-
Potter
Irvin
Harris a
have ever
to
would not return but
adelphia with Mr. Jame
would walt James
Ironumaster AO wa
arris few da
that referred
put
the |
to
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the band-box
Page
Participate in Blanchard Recital
Be
Miss White Miss Catlett
Miss Ruth E. White of Blanchard, director of Music Departments
at Milligan College, Milligan, Tenn. will direct the concert by the Col-
lege Choir in the Blanchard Church of Christ at 7:30 p. m. tonight,
Plano solos will be by Miss Catlett, The program will feature choral
singing Including a male quartet
Miss White is a graduate of the Julliard School of Music in New
York and while a student appeared as vocalist on a number of radio
ams
The Milligan group will present a concert in the First Baptist church
at Philipsburg Friday night,
r { high
special |
been |
all |
may |
their
Command-
National Amvet Commander
Is Speaker Af Philipsburg
Amvets to Launch
| Security Crusade
The former paratrooper who lost
both hands on D-Day in World War
IT and now heads the
Veterans of World War
commander
received In
during the Harold
celebration held in his
the Amvets post
Russell
Philipsburg junior-senior
school assembly and empha-
that it is through the youth
of today that this country will con-
I1, as
national wa enthus-
iastically
April 4
Day
wr by
Commander
combined
Russel]
addressed a
ized
He said that Communism is a dom-
| inating force In the world today
which must be broken for the de-
mocratic American way of life
To end, declared
again willing
country if need be
student body rose
as the national commander
tarred in motion
Years of Our Live
dd. School officials
time in
i that the
greet
te
this he
are
for their
entire
the picture
Was In-
said that
the his-
tudent
peaker
llowed hi
low a reception
“burg Amvet
Spoke at
banquet
ing
y
ander
Day same
Vet.
Here
upport
for the
ar
enafe Blocks
| Bonus Bill
Refuses to Extend
Application Date
The State Senate
toe 4
.
1, 1952
state bonu
Senate Republican Jjeader John
Walker the additional time
require manning t
bureau a year long
1951. deadline
Senate
M said
vould
bonu
1 h .
the 1
tate
than
posed
nference mmitiee
ise-Senate differences «
named by
Bellefonte PSEA
Meets, Votes Funds
The n this
! meeting
Bellefonte bbranch of
of the
the PSEA
month in the high
president
wi eid thi
cafeteria with
Dubbs presiding
meeting was t
Martin wiu
Chester
nn State
irnea
Lenore
cake
meets
Beaver halrman of
nating committee an-
candidates for office. The
be held next
The igrestion that $200
to the YMCA from the
It play “Life With
Was approved
jon will month
» given
recent f{ac-
Mother re.
ceipts
Plans on the possibility of hold-
the annual May banquet at
Hate-to-Leave-It were dis-
with further arrangements
to be announced at a later date
ing
camp
cussed
Arrest Two Youths
On Burglary Charges
Robert B. Gilmore, 18, Millheim,
IR. D. and Eugene H. Bowersox, 18
{ Smullton, were committed to the
{ Centre county jall Wednesday on a
burglary charge and were released
on ball Friday
State Police of the Rockview sub.
station sald they were arrested for
burglarizing a cabin in Miles town.
ship owned by Elmer Bothast of
Flemington
The youths walved hearings be.
| tore Squire William H. Brown of
| Bellefonte
stolen from a Plymouth in Millheim
on Feb. 22 was recovered
They sald also that cabins In the
Livonia area have been burglarized
2nd Antique Show
Set At Hollidaysburg
The second annual Antiques Show
and Sale, sponsored by the Rotary
Club of Hollidaysburg will be held
In the YMIYWCA building, Penn
Street, Hollidaysburg, on Tuesday
Apr. 17 through Thursday, Apr. 19,
from | to 10:30 pm. dally
All merchandise will be for sale
by the 15 antique dealers from the
various parts of the State. Crise
well’s Antiques, of Btate College,
will be among those showing
Meals will be served dally by
the Ladies of the "Y",
American |
their |
Philipsburg | |
hon- |
tinue to grow and be great tomorrow
Police sald that a wheel and tire
Face to Face With Bad Luck
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Prince Farrington Gets 3
Years in Federal Prison
Because friend
prominent busi
Federal court
Farringtlo
Rx
He
a half
Distric
halted
could
bearir
x
...- Color Variety
.-.. Urged In Spo
ake| Pros and Ce
Ct
2atenh
m LH
Farringt
of
eg
ms
y
the best
taste Farr
County Motor
Club Votes New
Overload Fine
Director of
Motor Clul
ng the
loaded tr
Present
Dan
Crk
Thomas Beave:
Grove, Bellefonte: J
Philipsburg. W. P
Hall. George J. B
P.J Tschan, A W
Joseph Intorre, Mary
Martha Bell State College
Ninety new members
ported for the month
were
Clems«
nrre
Bellefonte Coaches
Present Awards
1 :
Varsity letters and athletic
presented
Bellefonte High
sembly program
Varsity basketball
presented by coach
Tim Walte Tom
Shaughnessy, Don Rote
Frank Clemson, Jay Ro
Robert Shultz, Glenn Wha
and Gene Gentzel. manage:
Varsity wrestling letters were pre
sented by coach Glenn Smith
| Tom Bear, Don Hyde, Ken Moyer
{Dave Adams, Tom Musser, Larry
Fornicola. Bob Bottor!, Jerry Eves
| Bill Fisher, Gene Watson, Ru
| Letterman, Denny Anderson and
Stanley Burkholder, manager
Junior varsity basketball emblen
were presented by Coach Fred Bell
to: Ron Behers, John Ishler. Bob
| Yeager, Harold Coakley, Nick Lin
| genfelter, Dean Butler and Ralph
| Waite
Junior high school basketball a
wards were presented by coach Earl
{Burris to: Terry Preeman, Phil
Leitzell, Robert Kepler, Bob Hood
Bob MacMillan, Jack Miller, Mur.
ray Davidson, Bob Heverly, Fred
Murray and Ron Millward
were students
School at mr
Friday
letlers
Jim Har
Shaughne
after:
to
Jack
| Ishler
man Game Feeding Ends
Season's Work
About tw
! or it Clint
operation
kK Moshan
Aero-
| A Nat
Harrisburg
n everal
nal
Was on
small, pris
made
vesterday
com
Narehood of Pine Glen
ident, sald U. 8 Navy ships
led LL participate were
weather their |
|
rangements were
10 retum
afterno ! ik Pp more
Ceorge
club pre
ched
Rrounded by ba
Akron, Ohio, base
Russell Lucas of Philipsburg, sec |
retary of the feeding club, said this
would be the final operation for the
season. With the opening of fishing
season Sunday, it would be unsafe
{ to drop the feed In any area, he ex-
Gypsum Workers |
Cited In Magazine Vi
The current Issue of National |
Gypsum News, the company mag+] The weather Is getting warmer
azine, cites a half dozen workers |so let us discuss garbage. Disposal
who have retired after a combined | is often complicated. The process
total of 108 years of service at the | of incineration is sometimes very
Bellefonte plant. The magazine re- | expensive. The reduction process is
ports they are now taking it easy | good, saving fats and food values
by wirtue of the National Oypsum | Oarbage is often fed to hogs. Thus
Retirement Plan trichinosis is spread by a hog-borne
Pictured are Martin Kresovich, | tinp parasite. causing pain, fever,
Arthur Eckley, Clayton Rider, Miles | stiffness. Enough cooking kills the
Houser, Elmer Justice and Joe | parasite The Medical Society of
Capparelle, the State of Pennsylvania.
When It Gets Warmer
Will Include Dam
on Bald Eagle
The (
WeeK
Bellefonte Rent
vi Control In Effect
+« «Until June 30th
’
0
First Concrete Move
f
Auto Club Urges
Care Of Vehicles
In Spring Months
Entrants In Poster
Contest To Be Cited
Battle to End
I'he Copy
Hooks,
By BILL MONSELL
HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS
¢ os 5 f V i Like
SCHOO!
STUDIES
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS
Air Mail Scene
Is On Display
ly Centre
..
~Mr
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Use of ‘BB’
Guns in Penna. Near Climax
Injures Leg
¢ Burger
Mr Da
ir Lath
a
trent
KNOW YOUR HEIRLOOMS
TOM ORMSBEE
By
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American Empire Furniture in Original Interior
»
OLD MERCHANT'S HOUSE, NEW YORK
A fine example of the Oreek Revival in an urban setting, this inter.
for shows a portion of the parlor with a view through the Doric-col-
umned doorway into the dining room. The mahogany sofa, chairs,
table and sideboard are American Empire, The design of the carpet
shows the early Victorian influence
restore an old
this cols
(ireek COIUMDS ACTOS
smaller ones are part
Nn ihe main rooms on
rr. We plan to furnish
gradually. a plece a
Kind of furniture will
house?”
the thou.
the United States
to 1850 in what I»
alled Greek Revival Architec
ture Many such houses are still
standing and in use as family dwell-
ings from Maine to Georgia and as
far west as the Mississippl Valley
The early ones were furnished In
| Jate Sheraton and American Empire
| styles. Later ones, bullt after 183%
1840 were liberally seeded with
| Early Victorian furniture. Conse
| quently, one will not go far wrong
[if good pieces from the three per
| jods are chosen. Not only are they
{in keeping with the house but give
[the effect of a well established
home
One of the best examples of a
Greek Revival house that retains its
original furniture is Old Merchant's
House, the most unusual and least
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