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Patton Courier, Estamlished Oct. 1893
Union Press, Established May, 1935
THE UNION PRESS
Combined with PATTON COURIER
Published Every Thursday by Thos.
A. Owens, 723 Fifth Avenue, Pat-
ton, Pa., and Entered as second class
mail matter May 7, 1936, at the post-
office at Patton, Pa., under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mgr.
THOS. A. OWENS... Editor
Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance.
Advertising Rates on Application.
The endeavor of the Union Press-
Courier is to sincerely and honestly
represent Trade Union Workers in
efiorts to obtain econemic freedom
through organizations as advocated
by the CIO and AFL, and we solicit
the support of trade uniens. Mater-
ial for publication must be author-
ized by the organization it repre-
sents and signed by the President
«lid secretary, and bear the seal.
The Union Press-Courier gives its
advertisers the advantage of the
combined circulation of the two
largest circulated weeklies in Cam-
bria County and has a reader cov-
erage that blankets Patton and the
1 jor mining towns.
cfivzoaon
RANDOM THOUGHT
The papers, periodicals, and all the
ress will have something to say patri-
otically about Independence Day, this
week and next. For the greater part it
is usually the same in substance year-
Grand theatre was enjoying a good the pople out of work and the Repub-
business, simply because it endeavor-
ed to give its patrons something a
bit better than the others, It then,
just as now, has been conductive of
bringing thousands of out of town
folks annually to Patton. And ig
| the same manner it will continue to
do so with the most excellent en-
tertainment mechanical features of
the movie industry. We congratu-
late the Grand Theatre management
licans do not, That's a pretty serious
t hole for the Republicans to have got-
ten themselves into.” And in that
statemeni we think Mr. Flynn is cor-
rect. Such darn-fool proposals have
been made in Congress that even fair-
ly bright folks have to laugh. One of
the G. O. P. proposals is for a two
| months’ separation from the rolls in
order to give the unemployed benefi-
ciary of relief an opportunity to find a
| on past and present achievements. | job. Another is to cut those who have
May they continue to prosper.
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| And, just another little thing, that
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been on relief for a certain length of
time off relief. Such proposals betray
a state of confusion about the business
| may seem a bit like ‘tooting’ our own | of getting work. It is fairly safe to say
horn. With a convincing thought that
| Patton and its day is not at economic |
| end, the Press-Courier a few weeks
| ago told our readers of a modern high
| speed automatic job printing press that
we purchased ,and which will arrive
| that wherever there is a job in the
United States there is a man in that
job. People who work for wages do
i do not make jobs. People who go into
| business do. But the people who are on
| relief are all persons who, if they were
| this week. Of course, this particular | to work, would work for wages. Sep-
| press is beyond our present auxiliary
equipment for the production of fine
' printing, and hence, last week we pur-
| chesed hundreds of new type faces and
| equipment to bring our proposed new
job department up to the standard of
| high class city shops. In fact, every-
( thing in this Pregs-Courier job print-
ing department will be new~—type, ma-
terial, machinery and all. Our job de-
partment will be operated distinctly
apart from our present newspaper
equipment. Its investment alone like-
ly amounts to a greater sum than what
we now have to offer. Like the Grand
theatre, we, too, have our faith in the
community, We have a faith that also
convinces us we can bring in others
from the outside. We also must do it
by offering sorhething a bit better than
the most, and we believe we can ac-
complish that in the printing line the
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ly. For our part we believe that much same as the Grand theatre has done
more could be said on safety precau-
tions on the Fourth. In Pennsylvania,
the ban on fire works should have a
tendency toward a lessend casualty
list, but the automobile, and the good
roads, will bring its same old toll of
dead and injured. Even the swimming
holes of the nation contribute shares
to the total by drownings. But with
practically all that happens to sadden a
glorious day, one factor alone is out-
standing in the cause of regrets, and
that factor is carelessness. That care-
lessness may be on the part of the au-
tomobile driver, the little fellow who
explodes fireworks, or the bather. In
the case of the automobile, every safe-
ty precaution has been made.to save
life and limb, but the operator of the
car, in some instances, seems to lack
mentally, the requirements, the ma-
chine age has offered him in physi-
cal equipment. A week end drive up
to Lake Erie with a return at night,
convinces us of the fact that many
drivers do not dim their lights, but do
continue to send off blinding glares at |
all cars that they pass. Aside from the
bad manners and the law breaking
features such motorists give, the ele-
ment of danger is greater. But noth-
ing can be legislated to make over a
nit-wit’s brain, and we'll continue to
nave motor accidents.
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However, through the National
Conservation Bureau, accident pre-
vention division of the Association
of Casualty and Surety Executives,
leading stock casualty insurance
companies have swung strongly in
support of the national movement to
curp the bad reputation of Iindepend-
ence Day and the whole month of
July as accident breeders. This bu-
reau has joined with thirty other
national safety organizations which
have pledged individually and col-
lectively to give full and active sup-
port to the National Safety Council’s
campaign this year. A similar drive
was conducted last year and as a re-
sult the July toll of motor vehicle
fatalities dropped 20 per cent and
other accidental deaths approximate-
ly 14 per cent, compared with the
record of the previous July. Overly
exuberant Fourth of July celebrants,
the trek of millions te beaches and
swimming holes, and the lure of the
breezy roads, all conspire to make
July a month of tragic accidents.
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We notice in the news columns that
under the guidance of Edna Hind-
march and Rev. Thomas McQuillen,
augumented by the cooperation of the
local school board, a community play-
ground will again be in operation at
the Second Ward School Grounds this
summer. Parents, as well as children,
will welcome this news.
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Not everything that helps a com-
munity necessarily must be a “big”
thing”. Its the sum total of all the
smaller things that eventualy count.
It’s all well and good for a body of
representative citizens to promote
anythidg of a general community
benefit, and should be encouraged,
but the individual businessman who
improves his business place in any
community, is helping build that
community. In this connection we
cannot overlook the fact that the
Blatt Brothers have made extensive
imporvements in their sound any pro-
jection equipment, and that the lo-
cal theatre is outstanding in this
section of the state. When Patton
was at its lowest economic ebb, the
along entertainment lines.
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Rumors are to the effect that there
is a far reaching movement under
way to tie the Congress of Industrial
Organizations and the Townsend old-
age pension group together into one
enormous pressure organization that
would fight for “progressive” social
and labor legislation as well as for
higher old age benefits. The movement
is said to be initiated by the CIO and
comes in response to ‘grass roots” re-
quests from rank and file members of
both organizations It is an outgrowth
of the fact that there has already been
considerable co-operation between the
two groups in scattered instances. And
sation is taking place on the matter in
Washington where CIO representatives
are sounding out senators who are al-
igned with Townsendites. It is said an
unofficial CIO observer is taking in
the Townsend convention in Indiana-
polis. The first public move was made
the middle of June when the CIO ex-
ecutive board formally resolved to un-
dertake a national campaign “in co-
groups,” for a flat $60-a-month pen-
as noted in our columns last week.
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Supplementary allowances for
wives would raise this to a $90-a-
month maximum—with the provis-
ion, however, that the amount of
private income possessed by a pen-
sioner should be deducted from his
benefits. Adopting this resolution
primarily expressed the CIO's dis-
satisfaction with the New Deal's so-
cial security program. The principle |
the CIO is now committeed to is that |
old age benefits should not go mere-
ly to selected groups which have |
contributed via pay roll taxes, to the
benefit fund, but should go to all of |
the old people as a matter of right. |
Further, it explicitly disavows the |
idea that the system should pay for |
itself. The executive board indorsed |!
the pay roll tax simply as a revenue |
gift taxes to raise whatever addition-
al money might be needed. It esti-
mates, by the way, that adoption of
its plan would increase the annual
old age benefit cost by about 600
million dollars over the social secur-
ity act’s total.
Rumors have been going the rounds |
among the Republicans in Cambria |
County that the local leaders are in
the “doghouse” with the James admin- |
istration and that's why the jobs have |
not been coming thru as anticipated.
This the Johntown Tribune denies, and |
claims there's nothing to it. They claim |
Cambria Republicans will get their just |
share of patronage, but that they must !
wait a bit longer. Several specific rea-
sons are stated for the delay. But the
jobs are coming boys—but not nearly
in the number that all job seekers
would like them. There just “ain’t”
nearly that many jobs.
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Says the Nanty-Glo Journal: “One
candidate in announcing himself in
the race for a county office states
that he worked in the office nine
months and feels himself qualified to
take full charge asking his party to
give him the nomination on that
claim. Is it that easy? The fellow is
from Patton, of course.” Our con-
tention is identical with that of the
Nanty-Glo Journal. But perhaps
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‘A MAN TO :
s REMEMBER’
“DON'T MISS IT,” SAY THE
CRITICS. IT'S A GRAND STORY
ABOUT A SMALL TOWN DOC-
TOR WHO IGNORES WEALTH
AND FAME TO BENEFIT MAN-
GRAND =e JULY 4
else is promoting this fel-
low’s candidacy for reasons of his
own candidacy. Rumor says so.
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John T. Flynn, syndicate writer,
in the Pittsburgh Press, says: “The
WPA and the relief problem are, of
course, primarily economic and social
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gl g |
right now a good deal of quiet conver- |
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problems. There does not seem to be
much doubt that the Democrats have
handled them rather badly as an ec-
doubt that the Republicans have han-
dled them even worse as a political
problem. The millions on relief and
the millions who sympathize deeply
with them have, rightly or wrongly,
god a rather deep conviction that,
ver may be said of the method
problems. But they are also political |
omic problem .But there is even less | the church cemetery.
arating a thousand or a hundred thou-
sand of them from the pay roll of re-
lief and WPA would not create any
job for them to fill. In fact it would
reduce the number of jobs, since that
much purchasing power would cease
to flow into the system.
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And the Republican leaders, or
at least some of them, have done the
party great harm and have created a
sort of notion that somehow the un-
employed deserve to be out of work.
It is a situation, which combined
with patronage troubles, have alredy
brought forth in Cambria county an
optimistic hope among Democrats to
fil the court house with officials this
fall. This optimism may be ill-ad-
vised, but it does exist.
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DEATH NOTICE
MRS. JOSEPH LODGE.
Mrs. Sarah Ann (Garland) Lodge,
widow of the late Joseph Lodge, ex-
pired at her home on Lang avenue,
Patton, at 6:30 on Wednesday morning
a complication of diseases. She was in
her 75th year.
The deceased, a World War Mother,
was born in England, and came with
her parents to this country when a
small child. For the past forty years
she had been a resident of the Patton
community.
Her husband died three years ago.
daughtrs—Rose,
wife, of Duncan Wilkie of Colver, and
Edith, wife of Walter Blickendorfer of
Belsano. Three sons preceded her in
death: Joseph Lodge, Jr., killed in ac-
tion with the American Expeditionary
Forces in France in 1318; John, who
died as the result of being bitten by a
dog, and Robert Lodge.
Mrs. Lodge was a member of the
Trinity Episcopal Church of Patton.’
At the time of going to press funeral
operation with old age and progressive | arrangements had not been completed, Canton, Ohio.
but in all probability will be held on |
sion for everyone 60 years old or over, | Friday afternoon with services in the
Episcopal church. Burial will be made ;
in Fairview cemetery. I
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JFRANK COUTURIAUX.
Frank Couturiaux, aged 82 years,
died at his home in East Carroll town-
ship, near Patton, at 5 o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon. He was born July 27,
1857, in Belgium, and came to this
country in 1899. He had been employed
in the mines in the Patton district un-
til his retirement about 15 years ago.
His wife” died about nine years ago.
ie leaves the following children: Mrs.
Frank Urbain, with whom he made his
home in Patton; Frank Couturiaux, Jr.,
Stonington, Ill; Louis Couturiaux, Pat-
ton, and Mrs. Emma Bailey, Patton. |
He also leaves a brother, Louis Cou-
turiaux, of East Carroll township and
a sister, Miss Leona Couturiaux, resid-
bord
| ing in France. Nine grandchildren and
measure, and suggested estate and | 14 great-grandchildren also survive. He
was a member of the First Presbyter-
ian church of Patton, where funeral
services will be conducted at 2 o'clock
on Friday afternoon by Rev. J. H.
Thornhauer. Burial will be in Fair-
view cemetery.
ALEX STRITTMATTER. i
Alex Strittmatter, aged 72 years, one |
of the best known farmers in Cambria
county, died last Thursday morning at
his home in East Carroll township, at
Bradley Junction, after a brief illness. |
Mr. Strittmatter was a son of Au-
gustine and Margaret (Zern) Stritt-!
matter and was born in East Carroll
township on March 10, 1867. He opera-
ted a farm in East Carroll township
for many years. He was a charter
member of the Combria County Po- |
mona Grange and one of the organiza- |
tion’s most active members. He held
practically all major offices in the!
Grange and also a number of state of- |
fices.
Mr. Strittmatter also was active in
the organization of the Grange Fire In-
surance Company. He was a Demo- |
crat in politics and a number of years |
ago was a candidate for the legislature |
from the second Cambria legislative
district. He had served more than 30
years as a member of the school board
in his township. |
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary
Frances (Zeak) Strittmatter and these
children: Philip, Ellen, Ursula, Demet- |
rius, Julia, John and Hilda Strittmat- |
ter, all at home. He was a brother of |
Sylvester and Simon Strittmatter both
ot Hastings; Boniface Strittmatter, Eb-
ensburg; Frank Strittmatter, Blairs-
ville, and Mrs. James Scanlan, Ebens-
burg.
The deceased was an active member
of St. Benedict's Church, Carrolltown.
Funeral services were held there Mon-
day morning, and interment was in
RICHARD SCOLLON.
Richard Scollon, 42, Barnesboro wor- !
ld war veteran, died Saturday aod
ing at the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital at
Aspinwall, where he had been a pa-
tient since March 9th. He was a mem-
the Democrats feel sorry for / ber of Barnesboro Post No. 508 and
THE UNION PRESS-COURIER.
following an illness of three months of |
| the official tally, but deputy treasurer
| disclosure that “not the slightest frac-
was well known among Legionairres |
Thursday, June 29, 1939.
in Cambria county.
Surviving Mr. Scollon are his wi-
dow, Mrs. Mary (Waddell) Scollon,
five children, Ruth, Carrie, Helen,
Wanda, and Edwin, all at home, and’
these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Ruth
Johnson, Charleroi; Mrs. Elizabeth
Wolf's Great
Bloom, Johnstown; Mrs. Effie Deyar-
min, Cherry Tree, Margaret Scollon,
Glen Campbell; William Scollon, De-
troit, and Alfred Scollon, Trafford.
Funeral services were conducted on
Wednesday afternoon in the Barnes-
$60,000.00
boro Presbyterian church by the Rev.
J. E. Jackson, pastor. Interment was
| made in the North Barnesboro ceme-
| tery. Full military honors were accor-
ded by the Barnesboro American Le-
gion Post and the county district col-
| or guard.
Sale Offer!
HARRY COGAN, JR.
Funeral services for Harry Cogan,
Jr., nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Cogan of Loretto R. D., who was
fatally injured last Friday afternoon
when he was struck by a tree his fa-
ther felled, were held on Monday at
| 2 p. m, with services in the *Amsbry
{ Methodist church, and interment in
| the church cemetery.
| The lad suffered a fracture of the
skull. He died at 5:30 a. m. Saturday
|in the Altoona hospital. The boy was
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playing in the tall grass near the tree
which his father was sawing and was
told to go to the house. The father
| said he did not know his son was in
| the vicinity until the tree had been
felled and he heard the boy's outcry.
{ The child was born on July 29, 1820,
ion Loretto, R. D., a son of Harry and
| Iris (Towle) Cogan. Surviving are his
| parents and these brothers and sisters:
; Verrill Cogan, Bradley Junction; Geo. igh p o£
| Cogan, stationed with the U. S. Air a —
| Corps at Langley Field; Leroy Cogan, now!
| Loretto; Mrs. Elizabeth Harris and 32-Pe. “WATER LILY" DINNER SET
Mrs. Mary Eckenrode, both of Loretto, Er Tteir
1 DOWN
50c A WEEK!
While our limited supply lasts, we are offering
this brand new 80-piece Dinnerware-Kitchen En-
R. D.; Margaret, William and Herbert Cops Broad and Butter Plates 4°
Cogan, all at home. pi Oren Vegeta 0k
1 Meat Platter 117
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| MICHAEL H. BARNICLE.
Funeral services for Michael] H. Bar-
nicle, 64, retired section foreman of the
19-Pc. SET STAINLESS UTENSILS
3 Strainers (Assorted | Batter Beater
Stuns) | Flow aad Sugar Scoop
P. R. R,, whose death occurred Tues- irr Cort aet fm
| day morning at his home in Carroll- 1 Messuring Spoon | lca Pick
town, will be conducted at nine o'clock fae Ee is Pong We
on Saturday morning in St. Benedict's i. Rei To
church with interment in St. Monica’s
cemetery at Chest Springs. Mr. Barn-
| icle’s death terminated an illness of 10
days of pneumonia. A native of Cam-
bria county, Mr. Barnicle was born in
Chest Springs on March 17, 1875, a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Barnicle.
He retired from the employ of the
railroad last year. Surviving are-his |
widow, Mrs. Elizabeth (McKinzie)
Barnicle, and these children: Mrs. Wil-
liam Floyd, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Cas-
per Lehmier, Carrolltown; Charles
Barnicle, Patton; Grover and Hanford
Barnicle, both of Carrolltown. He was
a brother of Mrs. George Moore of
9-Pe. “CRYSTAL-PAK" CANNISTER SET
3 Transparent Spice Containers
3 Tramparaat Pastry Containers
3 Tramiparsnt Canisters
60 PIECES COMPLETE... $3.35.
MRS. MAGDALINE VANESKY.
Mrs. Magdalene Vanesky, 82, died
at her home in Bakerton on Tuesday
following an illness of a complication
of diseases. She was the widow of Mi-
chael Vanesky, who died 11 years ago.
She was born in Germany and came to
this country in 1891. She had been a
resident of Bakerton for 42 years. The |
following children survive: Mrs. Fran-
ces Cymbor, Mrs. Joseph Ponchock,
Mrs. John Schelsky, Martin Vanesky
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Dealer's Nome and Address
Gentlemen: | am enclosing $1.00 a my dows
payment on your 60-pe. Dinnerware-Kitches En-
samble priced af $8.95. | will agree to pay you
the balance ot SOc weekly, Send me the Red CJ:
Blue OJ Ensemble.
Wolf Furniture Co.
Barnesboro, Penna.
The funeral services will be conducted
in the Sacreg Heart Catholic church
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and Joseph Vanesky, all of Bakerton. |
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on Saturday morning at nine o'clock,
and burial will be in the church cem- :
etery | that he couldn’t
: : ate | enough commonwealth currency to buy
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MRS. RUTH BARCHEN. 2 lollypor :
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Bar- “We don’t even have a petty office
chen, 65, whose death occurred Tues- | account,” the official said. “All our
day morning at her home in Ashville, | transactions are by check. We keep
will be conducted Thursday morning | the books here and the banks keep the
| cally wired windows of the treasury‘ commonwealth’s money.”
put his fingers on;
The huge treasury vault held $280.-
000,000 of securities, including bonds
| posted by 700 odd banks to secure the
commonwealth's deposits scattered ov-
er the state, but that is not available
to cover the 2,000,000 checks fiscal of-
ficers sign each month.
in St. Thomas church at Ashville with
interment in the church cemetery. She
had been ill a long time. A number of
children survive.
BERNARD McCLEMENT. i
Bernard McClement, aged 74, a na- %
tive of Indiana county, died last Fri-
day near Ebensburg, of heart trouble.
He formerly resided in Vintondale and
Nettleton. Funeral services were held
on Monday.
STATE TREASURY
VAULTY ARE “EMPTY” ps
Harrisburg.—The sate treasury op-
ened for business last Friday with a
$122,171,031.64 balance, according to
John S. Byerly is authority for the
tion of it is in currency on treasury
premises.”
Byerly stood beside the huge vault
and swore through barred and electri-
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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