Pennsylvania Leads Nation In Plant Expansion (Prepared for the Centre Democrat State Planning Board, De- partment of Commerce.) A report of the Defense tion Administration lists vania as first among the the nation in expansion facturing facilities for defense Between Oc 30, 1950 an 6, 1951, the record of plants granted accelerated tax amortization for the construction of new industrial facil. {ties to carry out defense contract shows a national tal of $4,100,- 000,000, According to Federal rece the greatest pansion for occuring in tic states, expansion occur in to Apr. 6 in the areaare as follows Pennsylvania: $756,460,000 York 279 487.000 New $117.310,000; Texas, the econd state in the nat $569 873.000 Ohio, third: $376.336,000, Com ticut: $324,233 000, C 793,000 Per l to Apr of the national three times as great § nt states on the Pacific Cos The State planning Board Pennsylvania Department merce points these fi industrial expansion manufacture confirm trend shown by Manufactures 1947, ded the fact the by Pennsylvania firms f of manuf n ities was greater other state by the Produc- Pennsyl Ap d to rd concentration defense m the three 1 and two-thirds in that area Pennsylvania is slate middie New Jersey ion ec. tots i of out jure the Censi which expenditur r expansior | | | THE MOST WIDELY READ NEWSPAPER IN CENTRE COUNTY he Cenfre Democraf SECOND SECTION | / A VISITOR IN OVER 8,000 HOMES EACH WEEK The Copy Hook... By BILL MONSELL NEWS FEATURES \ CONDIMENT COMMENTS: | VOLUME BELLEFONTE, PA. THU YE VRE Ir P { RSDAY 1951 NUMBER 4 * Renovo Mountain Television - Experiment Achieves Success » Opens Tax Office Clifford A. Johnston le Galle Man Wounded Lt. Robert Keller Hurt in Korea War Robert Keller S.ate act In | stated he which right arm returned t Lt. Keller the 65th Infantry have bee: day in c a plato heavy nk The son of Mr Mr Keller, of Newark, N.J.. former State College and Bellefont Keller was graduated from the College High School in from Penn State served mn Alr months ) when he wy Char Following Penn State ber of the he went he wa three weeks in Pebruary left for the he wa evered Tok yi who © ne Wi 1 at Sportsmen And Nature Combine To Aid Game Moth Na bered but she ha lifers know cruel to her chil ous winters Along Pem: dreds ome dead spring recent over most ous terrain, there wa lest these magr might succumb to evere cold for thousand been f malities mainuls ime 11 Bl victim victim f deer year irkey tate ficient short weather Game man expre lief that forest wildlife ly deer and wild unexpected; well of supplemental feeding tunate | nature They nut crop last bountiful in creatures went cellent condition, carrying layer of fat on which to d lean periods when food wou (Continued on Page Bix) ger point ths ! fall wa many years into winter History (lass To Go On Location te Gr By Air Penn Sta Will Ge ip Harris Letters Continued— Venice, Switzerland, Death Mrs. Livingston is the recipient of the next communication dated Peb 17th, 1872, in which he speaks of hearing from James Harris, the hardware merchant of Bellefonte and asks her to allow him to read this letter. His thoughts have more and more of a religious tendency in each succeeding letter, and he rejoices that they have had a real Protestant service on the Sunday before at the Consulate itself which was conducted by a Rev, Mr McNaughton, a professor of the Theological Seminary of Belfast Ireland, of truly Scotch-Presbyter. fan tendencies, with a congregation | Whistler, of some twenty persons He speaks in an off-hand way of having entertained Gen. Willlam T | enjoyable, Audenreid, | his particalar Sherman, his aide Col and Lieut. Prederick Grant, a son of the President at luncheon a few days since. That Mrs. Harris had apologized to the General for what she termed a plain luncheon, since she knew he had just been enter- | tion { distinguished | tained i elegant the but that her's was had wit} a spiendid and dinner” at t} (onsul-General Sherman the most enjoyable eaten since leaving The Doctor does 1 ting about the many important people who are entertained from time to time at) the Con and it can only bel learned from Mr. Mervine's collec of the Harris family records | he also dined at one time the | poet, Robert Brown. ing, and at another the well-knowt American artist, James A. MeN during his stay at that ¢ residence of at Fle that repast they America rence tA va ner 0 boa ulate that city The winter he has been mild writes, love “to all who have a drop of the or the Dunlops” there must be many whom he has never hopes “to meet heard, (Continued on Page Bix) | Company ! | : young ones of but he ka" them all on the slides of pictures taken during his Johnstown Station Received Clearly evision very Sunday v clear sign weather made il--even un- condition ip from the n Corp firm working Pottsville & nearby about 3:30 p about 2.000 wa from antenna ot the und ouna ner picture wa ) and appe ared on ed ] group and excit " mall lightning n the distance young sin There was no wavering ex Despite ound Dic - WAS per- "Snow the the ger annel tunedin Johns- were made remained was identified a 1 further test experiments will be to bring the perma- to Renovo a brought cable 1080 will be v coaxial Susquehanna attempted Renovo make on been satis- 10 ' 0 ~ Gas Operations Hit Ferney Area Contract Given For Dril ing There executed the ich extends aming County rth of if negotiating the 1 Clyde Williams, Cou- Ntractor was made by Winner { Winner & Gas Land Develop- the | plus | vealed, but » ta the proceed 1950 Re- ¢ “Shop- A Potter County in he brought in th Well” fe Renovo Gas at Cross Pork offered to Mr reach anti- ww the pment Co re bonus he wars the on the first to Ferne 14 miles 600 feet at at fee! Ferney anticline is ength and rises from Susquehanna to 2,000 feet hawk, and 1743 feet descendir to 600 Creek the M nger ne 1 4 for the be Nego- seek oo 80 mtracting acres will Lock Haven invested in from area people Hamsport velopment Pvt. William Auman Sent To Georgia Pvt. William B. Auman, 371 Rey- nolds Avenue, Bellefonte, son of Mr and Mrs. Herbert B. Auman Jr, iso of Bellefonte, has been assigned to the 288th Signal Camp Gordon, Ga training after completion of at the 20563d Reception Fort Meade, Md He will receive six weeks training | in basic military subjects necessary for all soldiers, including qualifica« tion firing with the carbine or M-1 rifle The remainder of his basic train. ing will be In advanced individual subjects and the basic fundamen- tals of his arm or service ‘Reserve Officers To ‘Hear Geography Prof. Dr. E. Willard Miller, professor | and chief of the division of geo- | graphy al Penn State, will address the Centre county chapter, Reserve Officers Association, at the Allen. basic processing Center at and | crest Tea Room in State College at and he sends | 6 p. m. Thursday. Dr. Miller, who will be Intro blood of the Harrises | duced by Lt. Col. A. W. Asman, pres. since he imaginds | ident of the chapter, will speak on “Environmental in Alas He will illustrate his talk with recent visits to Alaska. afternoon | Greater Ren- | with | Lock | Radio Relay | for | Children and May Belong Together “TV Aerials Aftrad Lightning clamations The Centre Reporter Forms wii i om e Part of Centre Hall Story |... pws wes we, foi b rec he Centre Reporter as well a other businesse week Centre " ' treated \ n the H Hall a pt : Centre Hall-Pe¢ tres Problems of Dem Ristory report The Centre Reporter Ludwig Kurtz estab) press in Aaronsburg began publicati er called “Der Bericht The Reporter y n Gern nea ng where 8 newspal meaning pubii of the more the German he hed Homemakers’ Demonstration Week Planned onal Home Apr. 28 - Ma) elebrated every ! ted States Hawall, Port Alaska and some parts | America. The theme nationally Todays Home Builds Tomor World In Pennsylvania the theme one step clone Der where empha Tow which fol} & Hou giot je naibility | Yon ut h the Whit Washir In relgbr \ mon Week Duy for all women w held st Loga:r 16. The Penr the cent A drama gt firegied bY plan phon pane! ton Mi ance Extens) the panel 2 report House Con ference the day showing During nm display, have been done by Exten in Centre County thi d from the cl the splay th will be S¥ow in which wear and dis in form of wom the garme the piay Continued or —p Five Countians Are On Dean’s List Countians tu were among the of Agriculture cholarship during Page F Five Centre at Penn State in the School | for eutstanding tthe fall semester Dr. Lyman E. Jackson, dear { the school, stated that Evelyn Grace Black, 147 E. Park Avenue, Sta | College, a junior in medical nology, was one of the eight dents to complete the semester win {a perfect 3.00 average Others clied were Robert | Hamill, Bellefonte, senior in bac- teriology, 252. Ward Milford Stov er, Millheim, senior, agricultural education, 252; Winslow Channing Nicholas, junior, agricultural and | biological chemistry, 286; Gordon Victor Rowland, senior, horticulture 2.96, bolly of State College Eggs-By-The-Pound Is Poultry Show Feature “Eggs “bY the pound” and “tur. keys .golrik to pieces” are among educational features for the annual is tech stu- dents of Penn State on Saturday May 12, on the campus. This year's rabow will-again be educational, with competitive events listed, Roger + Brat, of Watrous (Tioga coun- tw), chairman, announced A caponizing demonstration and (se of a small incubator to ilu- strate day by day development of chick embryos are also planned Alding on the arrangements com- mittee are! Morris Brown Jr, of Douglassville 2; Oarland E Gingrich, of Pleasant Gap; Hugh Lasley, of Oxford, and Charles Zel- iner, of Bethlehem RD Hugh Pountry Show to be stages by stu- | Blast, 3 Altoona Homes Struck E: Cold Bolts Cause I'he § Much Damage PMTA Speaker Sensis. Addresses Gap Rotary Club DESIGNS BROMIDES BASEBALL LTis “we td aX L BN FREE TOPICS Leidy To Pay 7th Dividend; Amount $100 PROBLEMS ’ PARKING Beech Creek Soldier Killed Col Eni Oil City Rules Bingo Game OK Called Recreational Pastime By Officials Raymond Heat sted at Age 17 Busi and Pre (her Past at al arn Centre Fourth In Buck Kill Commission Reports 1 YEA | > Pro Oleo Forces Lose Round 1 y 1000 Slain in 1950 Mrs. James A. Beaver Major Arthur Askey Likeness Presented Completes Course AFB Col rae Maxwell war announced by fugier. Maxwell comn Aske erve n E d War 11s t AFR KNOW at ar YOUR HEIRLOOMS By TOM ORMSBEE “Made Especially for The Pennsylvania Dutch tableware of Staff 4 rat ir mpete succee rdshire not nly had universal ait nd yet ‘ appeal but its makers were experi gh for the slimmest marketers of it. Afier more than purse If their goal was world-wide half a century constant experi- | distribution, they came close 1 menting they an earthenware | achieving it. Between 1775 and 1825 { fine enough In ure, shaping and | they American mar The colorful trade thelr South A Americar Like the a laler Amer date, Curr “en of had text printmakers r & Ives, they Re what would the public. A prime example be four in the Gaudy they made for racial group i from the captured the Wad A wool Dien se 0 hes had emigrat Counties Palantine during the last { the 1Tth Century and settled in five counties west of Philadelphia Their religious tenets forbade per: sonal adornment their strong love of color found escape in vivid decoration of household furnishings Most of these were produced by | members of the group since they tied little to do with outsiders. As | for the blue and white Staffordshire : | dishes that so pleased the rest of Boiling tar from the | § Md red 8s Sw? 8) [the country, they wanted nothing | traller, igniting the trailer tires i 1 %0 drab. So on the same fine earth. [iwo of the rear tires on the truck | enware, the potters executed a ro. and one end of the building. Alpha | bust design with freehand decora- | fAremen caught the flames before tion in cobalt blue, apple green, | they spread across the roof of the rust, red and lemon yellow. The I building. A borough employe, Theo: blue was an underglaze color, the dore Eminhizer, received slight burns others overglaze. on the hands The descendents of these Penne —— one weakness and during the BI twenty«five or thirty years of its The Pederal Bureau of Investi- making, . quantities of the gation is making a thorough check faudy ware were shi to the on every person who works in the five counties, Berks, Dauphin, Lan. Office of Defense Mobilization, at easter, Lehigh and Montgomery. the request of Director Charles E. The design Was not original with Wilson. (Continued on Page Bix) Tar-Heating Trailer ‘Spreads Flames sO Damage amounting to more than $200 sulted ad main- i re | tenance trafler for heating tar | whet n 1 caught on fire, damaging a borough truck and one part of the borpugh | ished on N. Sparks Street in State |C ollege Friday morning overflowed % a RAE SY TE BE ii... Ri + ok ni on—.. THREE GAUDY DUTCH DINNER PLATES Made in Staffordshire by Riley and his competitors, the Oriental or- jgin of the design is apparent. According to present day names the patternd are, top row, carnation, lower left, sunflower, and lower right, “ho name.” a
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