PAGE SIX KANE PROPOSES SUPER-HIGHWAYS FOR COAL FIELDS Harrisburg Representative E. Kent Kane, Republican, McKean, who wants the state to survey possible rou- tes for super-highways from coal fields to lake and ocean ports, said last week it might give coal-carrying railroads “something to think about.” “I'm tired of this business of the railroads running to the Interstate Commerce Commission every time Fennsylvania tries to get lower freight rates for coal,” declared Kane, chair- man of the House Committee on Mines and Mining. “It seems to me it would be better for them to carry coal at a cheaper rate than have their rails and cars rust away for lack of shipments. “If we started to build tnese roads we'd show that we can get our coal out cheaper by truck, without the railroads.” Kane proposed a $55,000 appropria- tionto the Highways Department for surveys of three routes: Pottsville to the Deleware River south of Philadel- phia, and Hazleton to New York har- bor, both supplying outlets from the anthracite fields; and Washington, Pa., to Lake Erie, opening up the bitu- minous region. Kane is hitting at transportation costs from another angle, with bills to appropriate $200,000 to finance fights by the attorney general against high freight rates for coal. ‘MASHER’ ROUTED Alameda, Cal. — The latest stream- lined masher technique for picking up girls is—or, rather, was—a loud speak- er installed by two 18-year-old youths in their automobile and which greeted all passing girls with a blaring of “Hey, toots! Want a ride?” The police chan- ged the tense of the verb from “is” to “was.” FIT FOR A QUEEN Jennie Kopecka of Passaic, N. J; holds up the wool, finest from the 34 wool-growing states, which has gone into the dress to be presented to Queen Elizabeth of England by the wool growers of the United States. Presentation will be made during the royal visit to the U. S. 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THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA ® ® |635 ABANDONED SOFT COAL MINES SEALED | { he { Washington The federal govern- ment has spent $2,813,538 in Pennsy- lvania as part of a mine-sealing pro- gram to prevent the tainting of streams with sulfuric acid waste throughout the nation’s coal fields. In Pennsylvania 635 mines have been , scaled, 50, 975 openings closed and 6,737 mines surveyed, the Works Pro- gress Administration reported. Outstanding accomplishments have been in the Ohio River Valley, which drains coal fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. There, said administrator F. C. Har- | rington, a 25 per cent reduction in mine pollution has resulted from the mine-sealing campaign. | Even greater reductions in pollu- { tion—but on a smaller scale — have - ben brought about, Harrington said, | in other coal field districts and in some individual streams mine waste ! content of the waters has been cut as much as 90 percent. The purification of rivers and! streams , the WPA reported, followed i the sealing of 115,000 openings to 4,123 | abandoned mines at a cost of $6,367,096 since 1935. Health Service Cooperates Officials of the Public Health Ser- vice, cooperating with the WPA in the mine-sealing activities, emphasized the importance of the airtight closing of abandoned mines, from a health and sanitation standpoint. It estimated 2,000,000 tons of free sulphuric acid drain annually into the Ohio River and said that waste is detrimental to health of residents along the streams and their livestock. The national resources committee has agreed. It rcommended an expenditure of $12,000,000 to complete the sealing program in a report submitted to Con- | gress by President Roosevelt. Explaining the formation of acid “Streams fed by’ acid drainage be- come reddish brown in appearance and unfit for drinking or stock watering. Fish life is exterminated and even green vegetation along the banks aries out. As it reaches the larger rivers, dams, waterfront structures and boats are heavily damaged by corro- sion. Expensive measures have to be taken to purify the water for public drinking purposes and to make it suit- able for industrial uses in boilers and turbines. Estimates of the extent of this damage, including costs of purifi- cation, are placed at more than $10,- 000,000 per year. : “Oxygen is necessary in the chem- ical reaction which produces sulphuric acid in coal mines. Water alone will not do it. Hence, if air is excluded from the mine, the acid will not form. This is the principle on which mine- scaling is based. Surveyed for Openings “Abandoned imines are first sur- veyed to determine the number and location of all portals, air shafts, cave- ins and other openings through which | air might enter. There frequently are t as many as 100 to a single mine. Each of these must be closed. At the prin- cipal entry to the mine a brattice, or masonry wall, is built, completely sealing the opening on all sides with the exception of a smali aperature at the bottom. A water trap is then con- , quarter of structed around this aperature which resembles an open box about three feet square with the top edge a foot | or two above the level of the aper- ture. This permits the accumulated water to flow out of the mine but prevents air from flowing in. In time, the air sealed within the mine exhausts its oxygen and as no appreciable quan- lities of new air can enter, acid pro- | duction ceases. “Ordinarily from six months to a year are required before a change from acid to alkaline is noted in the waters issuing from a sealed mine.” The WPA’S compilation of sealings completed, planned, expenditures and estimated acid waste by states inclu- ded: Pennsylvania: Expenditures $2,813,- 538: estimated drainage 1,059,409 tons; 635 mines and 50,975 openings sealed; 6,737 mines surveyed. 2588 NATIVE WHITES IN PRISONS OF STATE Harrisburg — Studies of nationali- ties and descent of prisoners in De-) partment of Welfare penal and cor- rectional institutions reveal that of the 6860 inmates, 2588 were white native- born Americans. Negroes constituted 25 percent, or 1686 men and women in the four peni- tentiaries and the three State insti- tutions for youths and women. Leading the list of convicts whose parents are foreign-born were 302 men and 2 women of Italian descent. Next were 270 of Polish descent; 113 of Irish parents, 96 of Austrian extraction and 78 whose parents were born in Ger- many, There were also one native-born Japanese, a Chinese and a Turk. Welsh, Danish and Dutch parents each had only one son in prison, while Rumanian parents contributed 2 men to the institutions. : There were 211 native-born women in the prisons, and 17 others whose na- | tivity was not stated. Of all the pri- | soners, there were 450 men and 10 | women born in foreign cogntries of | whom 131 were born in Italy, 46 in Poland, 37 in Austria 321i si L 5 a, n Russia 13 in Germany, = a Slasvic race prisoners totaled 600, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. MILK PRODUCTION AT RECORD LEVEL | Harrisburg Milk production in Pennsylvania continued at record high levels during March, according to the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service of the Pennsylvania Department of Ag- | riculture. Production per cow in Penn- sylvania herds on March 1, 1939, was highest March 1 record in yars and averager 3 percent higher than on the same date a year ago. Milk production for the State in 1538 was 4 percent above the year (1933-1937) average. The first 1939 up to now that it is approximately 4 percent ahead of last year's level of milk production. For the United States as a whole, the | the tendency for milk cow numbers to | increase in general, but more striking ! than the increase in the number oi milk cows is the increase in the num- ber heifers added to milking herds in 1939. The number of yearling heifers (being kept for milk cows) on January 1, was 5 percent larger than a year carlier, and the third largest on rec- ord. The number of heifer calves being saved for milk cows was 5 per cent larger than a year earlier, and ap- proximately the same as the peak in numbers reported for January 1, 1933 | and 1934. The number of yearling hei- fers and heifer calves is high in re- lation to the number of cows, and de- cidedly larger than needed for ordin- ary requirements. WILL SHOW PICTURES Pictures of fifsi - aid meets held in Spangler, Indiana and Ebensburg dur- ing the past year wil be shown next Tuesday evening in the Carrolltown Legion Hall. nine | five- | indicates | HISTORICAL COMMISSION STUDIES ITS SERVICE | ciently to return to their homes and | Harrisburg The Pennsylvania Historical Commission has appointed a committee to develop an historical pol- icy and program that will yield the greatest benefits to the historical in- terests of the State and historical or- iganzations of other states. Members of this Committee include Dr. Lester K. Ade, Superintendent of Public Instruction; A. Boyd Hamilton, Editor and Historian; Dr. Roy F. Nich- ols, president, Pennsylvania Historical Association; Bruce A. Hunt, member ot the Commission and president of the Federation of Historical Societies, and Sylvester K. Stevens, Historian of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, who is chairman. ‘SPRING SHIPMENT OF TREE SEEDLINGS BEGINS Harrisburg — Shipment of forest tree seedlings from the Department of Forests and Waters’ State Nurseries for reforestation purposes in Penn- sylvania was begun this week. Approximately 15,000,000 seedlings and transplants will be shipped this spring; an increase of nearly a million ana a half trees over the same period in 1938. WORRY CAN DO STRANGE THINGS TO A PERSON There were 9,640 Pennsylvanians ad- mitted to nervous and mental hospi- tals last year. The average daily census in such institutions in the state is 42,091. A large number of these patients activities, | What causes so many individuals to | give up the competitive fight in the | world and close off their mental acti- vities. Worry. Worry can do strange things to man. Worry is a form of fear. There is fear of sickness and death. Some fear economic failure. Others fear social inadequacy. Worry is prompted by an imagina- tion running away on the wrong track. Safety lies | | Thursday, April 20, 1929. i will recover their mentai status suffi-' cause of fear. Or in the philosophic acceptance of life. Courage comes from learning to tri- umph over obstacles that confront and perplex us. A mind obsessed Is a tragic thing. Looking at the record we find there are nearly twice as many patients in the 44 mental hospitals in Pennsylva- nia than there are in the 227 general hospitals in the state. People need mental hygiene as well as physical hygiene. Worry is an arch enemy of man- in the removal of the kind. rs ssi ts pcan J. EDW. STEVENS FUNERAL DIRECTOR KNOWN BY SERVICE PHONE SERVICE, Day 31-M., Night 31-J. REUEL SOMERVILLE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Uffice in Goud Blde.. Patton the Week of | waste, its damage, and its elimination, the WPA said: “Sulphuirc acid-of a high degree of concentration forms in coal mines through the action of air and water on the mineral pyrites present in all coal veins. As seepage water accumulates in a mine and flows or is pumped to the outside, it carries this acid with it in solution. The Board of Health of Patton, Pa., Pa has designated MAY 8th to 13th as clean up week in the BOROUGH of PATTON All residents are notified to gather together all tin cans, rubbish and other forms of debris and place in suit- able containers within easy reach of truckers who will haul same from your premises. Ashes will not be hauled. Clean up health of your neighbors. and protect your health and the Inspection of properties will be made by the Board of Health beginning May 15, 1939. Any unsanitary con- dition will not be tolerated. By order of: BOARD OF HEALTH Patton, Pa, E. W. Winslow, Secy. ——— RRR A wn z orn a mk a a hd [a Eel] ev io] ire the th: Wi COI ox C( Di las Un de: No the vil Ma per chi Da, ces bli con hac phe jus phe anc
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