State Police Say: Parents frequently, ignore traffic safety learn at school, when mothers take a child tersection against a stop, involuntarily rules children fathers and across an in- red light, ’ June: Mothers and fathers wearing that haggard expression these preparing for the nervous, days are merely occasion of feting the June bride. VOLUME 70, NUMBER BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951 12 PAGES THIS ISSUE Bellefonte High School | ommencement Scheduled | Session Set McGarey to Speak at Exercise Friday Night Bellefonte uate its large al comme auditorium at Dr. Donald professor of on the topic R" Kenneth Supe rinte dent, and F'. Sollenberger enior high school pri: } 1 ofter brief remarks. Dev i i by the Rev. Will Hor ace * H tral pres will the gris «t ncement on Page Six) HOBBY FAIR AT ENTRY DEADLINE Event Be Held in High School Gymnasium, June 8, 9 to hobby Belle nasium be i Page Four ; Seeks Nomination Andrew (. Dubbs : iTew Cr statement County C nominated with the the citizer efficient tion List 172 Members For Senior Class This Year BOYS Bellefonte-—Lewis E BIBLE SCHOOLS T0 OPEN JUNE 4 Council of Churches Plan For lecord Attendance in Fiftieth Year TY I's The school + Retail Division To Meet Fridey reguia te Cha Crash Pa Cars in ated b liefonte RD Hefonte Plumbing And Electrical Trades Keep Pace at Hospital addition t con Workmen on the new the Cenire County hospital tinue to push their effort the shell of the building other trades make progress floors already constructed G. W. White timated exterior finished by the end Earlier estimates had under roof by July 4 Additional workmen ted to be assigned of partitions on first Tuesday. This work week with laying up walls for the rooms Plumbing and electrical work ap- pears more and more complex as the work continues, To the layman electrical conduits took some form Inst week when boxes for the actual receptacles were extended to the space where rooms will eventually to fi in superintendent brickwork will of this the construction floor rooms, began last building tile Lo i [ be : nish | while | ] those | i with he i | cludes be | week | building | | cemented were expec. | Cha ted Plumbers have piral network of radiant heating t trance wing These will be covered another layer of concrete Other work on the exterior the setting in place of win dow sash and sills. A small crew engaged In setting the sills, These | of Indiana limestone are] in place. The steel Sash have been set in place In the first floor, at ground level, and about half has been placed on the second floor last week. These are set in place after the sill are located At present the only modes of transportation to ‘upper levels are Indders for personnel and the ele. vator for bullding supplies. The three sets of stairs are now being Jabricated and will be placed when they arrive. Elevator work will start when the roof is done, completed their pipes to supply the main en 0 slab in- | Is | Alumni Dance Scheduled For Friday Night following com- Bellefonte high Association, spon- week | thorne 6,000 FARMERS VIEW GRASSLAND IS Counties Represented at Field Dav Held at Penn State harge Leland nr Ainty Bellelot 1 or Page Bin) $140 Collected For Hospital handscoping [ $1404 Nags tation, San at Haupt, Al- Widmanr & Teah's Mrs. Dan and townspeople Without this been a alizer burg A ec whe them have ICCPNS Narge f the sale W. Lesie Tho larence Ben Mmes. 1a William George Sunday ay rge Young Joel Stover Ben i Ray Clevenstine Mensch, Erne Benner Elizabeth Gehret mas, chair. hi her Smitl Ni ghthart 0. A Coe lor, Geo Milesburg Youths Sign For Pro Ball I'wo Milesburg youths were Saturday to baseball with St. Louis Browns Russell Letterman, 18, son of Mrs Letterman, and Merrill of Mr. and Mrs, Ben- were instructed to re- port June 2 or 9 to Pine Glen, Ark | From there they will be sent to | either Arizona or California teams. | Both will graduate this year from the Bellefonte High School after | competing In Sports at the school | Supreme Cou: rt ‘Upholds Decision In action last week the Btate Supreme Court upheld the decision reached in the Centre County court in the civil suit of Rockey estate ve, Susquehanna Paving Materials Company In a suit here for a settlement in a fatal accident during construc tion of a bullding at State College the Centre County court ruled no negligence. The appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, sign- play | farm | ed to pre fess) ibs © contracts onal the villia Breon 20 jamin Breon, son general | | eo of | control | over several | mated at PLAN MEETING 0 SELECT GAN Centre County ospital FOR PROTESTING | PROPOSED DAM, IN COUNTY S00N Names at Howard High School at 8 p. m. Today to File Petitions od - Howard tled to meet School Thur mai pre are sch High oany area residents the Howard at 8 p. nn. % plans for the proposed that has been re mended for Bla Hearings will be Point, Va Tonight's meeting | see petitions and other protest embled for presentation hearing George 8. Deni- retained the residents, will in in bullding map a for- day) to test on flood ontrol dam ome- nchard conducted Monday expected to forms of at Gravelly [1 at the OA Howard he ; | ing last week! chartered busse ate automobiles to Gravelly Point, D. C. Beveral car- planned to at meeting counts ght Eagle from ae at a meet several il As priv to the citizens washington protestor protest Clearfield Tuesday Bald upstream take near I on the; Keating dam at Clearfield | The Creek | i Blan- ries of five pro- | eng as a ontrol for commun- the Susquehanna River that the Argue i woul cause | i i dam on chard is one of a se posed by U. 8. Army of flood neers d area. Spec- | have dam would {f 370 acres ana : Would t xtend SNOW SHOE HS CHANGE DRILLING SITES Geologists’ Sur- More Results of vevs to Be Plotted; Land leased len days and were their findings are mmeadiatels on Hate rmations plotted SITE OF CHILDREN'S FAIR Annual Event to Be Held on Armor Street This Afternoon 10 GRADUATE 20 : Commencement Scheduled School Auditorium at p.m. June 1 ‘il in will be exerc: graduates ses of the audi. | June 1 hool in 8 pm. Friday pageant, "From This Day Porward will be presented with the high | school band, under direction of Jo- | seph Behr, scheduled to play } Other activities include the senior ance which the public CHArge member yorough ch ploma ng class mem ber Marian Barger Betty Conway. Joy Margaret Hall, Patricia Harn- | Marvin Hoover. Bla Ko biarchik Kochik Donald Lewis, John illough, Virginia Puhalia Retorick Ja Russell, Ev Mer Swartz, Barba Yecina Jose Marine C diploma in T™ rs he Je I ictoriar nnot refMer Baumgare ne Fye Mor Ha Fye che Isabel McC Barbara Ji Jame ely Shre Womer and ey SeTrViIing be awarded absentia mor students McCullough Marian were nam- Pine Glen, | Barger. Mo- | alutatorian and Evelyn Bnow Shoe hisgnriay officers are: Patricia Harnish, | Margaret Hall, vice pres. Blanche Koblarchik Virginia Puhalla, treasurer Mary Jane Neely ‘ia esident dent secre- | tary Mi or is Ci Ream of | Driver Uninjured «no| In Auto Crash John Stetler. 21. of Snow Shoe was injured when a sedan he ving rolled over on Benner Pike | just south of Bellefonte, Sunda) morn He was admitted to the Centre County Hospital for a laceratio of the left knee and multiple brujs. the body. He was dischrgec Monday Police toward ing a Wa | n ing was going | round - out of said the car Bellefonte and was { curve when It went | It is reported that it rolled | times and landed in (5 field. The driver was alone | The damage to the car was esti. | $1,200 I | former the | at © Aid aceo t traffic. Admission will include free spterisinment including every hour, it was announceég Stan- | § Thomas J. Spriteer of postal Naval tive E li employ Reserve MIVYICE nn La of Thomas J. Spritzer eet. Bellefonte member of the been recalled the Navy, and Nav Mr. Spritzer Kemper-Lee are the parents of | Sharon, age 2 Du ring Wor a8 served with Acific theater of April 1942 to September He is a Past local VFW post MArrieg Swartz one daugh id War 11. Mr the Navy operations 1045 of Sprit in the from Commander the Paradise, In Editorial, Is Described As Misnomer Fishermen in general and anglers and Fisherman's Paradise In par- ticular had their booted legs pulled in a half-column long editorial in the recent issue of the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin Under the caption, “Is It a Peat to Outwit a Fish”, the writer calls a fish “almost the stupidest subject of the animal kingdom”, and tom- pares tiem, not too favorably, with fishermen He reports that In the State about 750,000 licenses are outstand- ing and continues: “On May 18, the opening day of Fisherman's Paradise, In Centre County, about 740000 of these 750.000 licensees were lined up a- long the banks of Spring Creek, near Bellefonte, elbow to elbow, fishing for trout (This is not an official count, but an observer's es- timate), Spring Creek is a stocked stream The State puts trout in the water faster than the fishermen fisherwomen, for the special stream Is set apart for the gentler sex can take them out. The rules of the | game at Spring Creek are that the | angler may not use a barbed hook he can use only artificial lures, and when he has killed one fish he | must quit for the day “Under these conditions the ave erage wisitor to the Centre County Paradise can outwit a lot of little fish--which he must put back in| the water after gloating over them «and depart with one good darn fool trout in his creel But when you consider the handicap of the discomforts of this hurly-burly kind of fishing and the fact that] neither remoteness from the scene not ‘the expense of travel nor the (Continued op Page Six) mov Lie tL i and | *1Sale of Building Fund Resigns Post Miss Fleanor M Titan Advised Its Production Ls To Be Rated { ; will be 75 of the aver age monthly { tor the first quarter of otification hmann agministy nal Produ cen 1953 The 1 4 - ‘ ator of Verdicts Listed For Civil Court illheim borough wa it in three cases at the Tues. of vii Court the de- here CGertr trespass cave vs Dolores rman, Miss Dal damages $13 n $50. This cas mobile Hision of 81 Against in the from an Dodson In the lor Jr Charles ted ' of 000 dam Donald case. which Auto accident ALCS Tas res Wat lor ule WAS ct A vera reache Plaintify ted Veri guardian of Richard Tay- ve. 8. V Foresman an walk The latter was di- 10 pay $25 The decision was favor of Foresman Damages of $1.200 | paid to Dean Wagner, guardian of | Patricia Wagner, as the result of an automobile accident. The de- | fendant was Harold Griffith Jr reg in Four Petitions For | ‘Local Option Filed | Four local option petitions on | sale of liquor have been filed with {the County Commissioners to be | decided at the July 24 Primary . Harris township now permits the | sate of malt beverages while Port | Matilda borough Huston and | Worth townships are dry | Positions on the Primary ballot | were drawn by candidates at the | court house Tuesday morning The commissioners reminded all countians that voting lists for the Primary will close Saturday, June 2. The commissioner's office will remain open until 9 pn. on that date. shipments came from Man Bonds Explained at Meeting ment County ann Joard ie of $200.00 price on Page Six TWO FUGITIVES PLEAD GUILTY Rockview Pair Sentenced Thursday: Taken to Pittshurgh 1 Rockview May IB an caught They were taken to tern State Penitentiary burgh Fridaj Chester 8 enced a pec five the al Gay: Wes- were ialer Knapp, 41 additional to H ar VERY Hermit Of Beech Creek Is AWOL From Germany A silent, tousied-hair hermi ! has brought uneasine: Creek area residents. or was tracked to his oper the wooded mar of Martin's Grove weeks Beech turday ome Sa miie west five officers Lock Haven state took George PP. Fran McKeesport into Ne WAS ver § police custody Army ttsbureh a weird tale that many, About month ago Beech people gave reports of a mysterious stranger who appeared occasionally their borough to buy supplies At one time he tried cash 8¢ ted In ended Ce n Creek it “i io a $1.000 war bond at the Beech Creek | Was | Bank. When he was taken Saturday, police found Continued on Page Bix) into cus- toads h — Pitts | Fh that $830 | New Superintendent New Superintendent . Mrs. Edna Mare Eckert Ha e Members " Fras To Local Retail Division OWRD joa offic sald There is every reasor believe the drive be a decided spokesman asserted ials BUCOERs B Two Injured In Automobile Crash Harris Farm Is Sold At Sale Saturday a - His | on Saturday cupies the £10,150 H J Stover large crowd attended was liberal | oc. ad Joining bid a i A bidding were ordered Pour Concrete Floor For New Parochial School Here | Concrete for the floor of the new floor of the convent. A ramp will St was expected to be poured this! week. Workmen have completed he footers and retaining walls concrete slab will be poured PH on the earth Expected to be completed for the fall term, the wing now under con struction will house four class rooms, principal's office and lava. tories The auditorium will occupy the site which now houses the Paro chial School. The razing of this bullding will not be undertaken until the new classroom bullding is well underway. This is expected to take about two months. One feature of the new building will have the classroom wing on the same level as the church building and the near level of the second i John's Parochial sdhool here | lead from the school building to the second floor of the convent Incorporated in the structure are ramps, no stairs, in keeping with recommended plans for schools and other public buildings. Main en. trance to the classroom wing will be on the Bishop Street side. Pupils will use a ramp to ascent the five foot elevation to the main floor. Design of the classroom section has no basement but footers and retaining walls laid in parallel will provide crawl space for heating and other conduits Plans for the buliding have been in the process for some time and ground breaking, originally sched. uled for May 1, took place April 23 The work is now several weeks aheid of schedule,
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