PAGE FOUR. UNION PRESS-COURIER Thursday, December 28th, 1939. Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893 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 Union Press, Established May, 1935 | conditions. We would much rather and if and when Harisburg sends out word a little more money can be spent, and the taxpaying motor- ist is given relief from the thought { | + praise the county highway division, | too glad to give credit where credit is due. ° and his orchestra will furnish the er officers elected include: Leo Dona- music. | hue, vice president; reelected; Char- * | les Crowell, secretary, reelected; The- As for us, and our newspaper— | adore Ott, treasurer, newly elected; | | so long, until next year. | James Blake, fire chief, reelected; William Leary, foreman, newly elect- PATTON FIRE COMPANY ed; Wesley Wilson, assistant fore- Years’ night, next Monday. Ross Smith | Tuesday night in the Fire Hall Oth- | are John Hudak, David Heist an | J. Mulligan. These officers will serve for the year of 1940. LAFAYETTE, AE | wrestling team of the college this year, is a member of the heavyweight year. The team, which is coached by ———————— | Clif Gallagher, has won three matches LOCAL YOUTH HAS LETTER during December. They defeated Col- umbia University, with a score of 16 WRESTLING [to 14 on Dec. 16; The Massachusetts | Institute of Technology, in Boston, 28 John Thomas, a junior at Lafayette | to 8; and Tufts College, at Medford, Te | | | of breaking his neck, we'll be only | ELECTS 1940 OFFICERS . i in. “RS | man, reelected; H. J. Mulligan, €nBIN- | College, Easton, Pa. is spending the [19 to 13. Thomas is the only member y ._| eer, reelected. E. J. Burkey, trustee. ! holidays with his mother Mrs, Emma of team who has won three matches of March 3, 1879. {a New Year's ai Yom Uncle] ~-Augus: Quevy Was reslecied presi newly elected for three years; Drill Thomas of Patton R. D. Thomas, who by a fall. Other important matches in- | Sam. Congress wrapped up the pres- dent of the Patton Volunteer Fire master, Fred Nagle, newly elected. received his letter in the heavyweight clude Syracuse, Lehigh and Temple F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mg. || ot |55t summer when it amended the| company at their regular meeting on| Members of the auditing committee : : nih THOS. A. OWENS... Editor | social security act and labelled it™“Do ! Bg wrestling class of the college Jost, University. il Jz " No secret aod Subscription $2 easly In Advan, || Not Oper UIE aousiy To 10 seo Advertising Rates on Application. I sorts who felt that it was addressed to them—those around the age of 65— { now have a pretty good idea of what | they are going to get. Other and larg- efforts to obtain economic freedom || er groups, however, are generally un- through organizations as advocated | aware that the package contains bv the CIO and AFL, and we solicit || something of immediate value to the support of trade unions. Mater- || them. These groups include merchants, ial for publication must be author- || y unger workers in business and in- ized by the organization it repre- dustry, employers, the unemployed, | sents and signed by the Presiacn and sons and daughters of elderly anu secretary, and bear the seal. | workers. The amended social security | act should help merchants, and oth- | ers with goods and services to sell | when it starts to release in 1940 some | of the money that has been collected | during the past three years in pay- erage that blankets Patton and the || 1; taxes Under the original act the | major mining towns. !| benefit payments were not scheduled i, | to start until 1942. The checks will G7 ccurse, at this season of the |range from $10 to nearly vos. ba oh : i fici ; many wi vear, printers and editors, as well [ficiais go oot lov > De trey will as other folks, like to let up & BX | jo "op Gifferent times during the on the constand grind of the year, | year, | and, if this issue of the Press-Cour- | . | ier is not up to the usual standard, A warning that prohibition might it’s because we've been all taking | return unless the state gets help in’ in the holiday spirit with a little | making the liquor traffic less con-| less work. Naturally, we wish you | spicuous, less spectacular and less of ene and all a Happy and Prosperous | a social problem has been sounded by New Year. | J. Harkey Reiter, director of public | ® | relations for the Liquor Control | Hurrah for dear old “economy.” My | Board. “If selling liquor by the drink | how the James’ administration and | is merchandised, ballyhooed or ad-| particularly the department of high- | vertised in every conceivable manoer | ways must dote on the word! A few | without restraint, licensees will be weeks ago, I. Lamont Hughes, secre- | forced out of business as they were | tary of highways, sent out in plate | in 1919,” he said. “If this did happen, | form, a recapitulation of the money he { speakeasies would return and while | has saved, and a number of Republican | speakeasies tried to avoid public at-| newspapers in the county published it. | tention, they are in fact most con- | We demurred, stating that we'd have | spicuous because of their connection | to see first whether or not “economy” | with gangsters, public corruption, of | would deter the proper cindering of murder and general lawlessness,” the the road between Patton and Carroll-| aavises hotelmen to let the “whoop- town and other highways —never at|ee” go elsewhers—even on New Year's | poi SN A ma Nw some 91 eve, and to cooperate in regulating | county surely have had a ro! Whiskey rai 2 tat liguor Tog: dose of the Yeo Th Dersons | tion may be ‘achieved without emo- | th onomy. ey did if tion or hysteria. He cited the fact that | ey do much driving. Of all the fool, | about $4,000,000 is spent in Pennsylva- | dense blunders that the highway de-| nis each. year to advertise 1i y partment can make, the climax has] i Se squors. been capped, in the sparse cindering | of north county highways over the | Christmas holiday. If economy has | been practiced in ashes in the inter-| est of politics, then the Democrats | have been the beneficiaries. Some of | our good Republican friends have ha. | their cars wrecked. Others have been | driving on pins and needles, and the| 4 . : word “economy” brings only curses | At the time of closing our forms, when it means lack of ashes on the at noon Wednesday, a heavy snowfall | highways. That the general public in is blanketing the north county area. | the north of the county has not been Too bad it didn't arrive for Christ- up in arms in a general complaint Mas, but before the winter is over we before this, we can’t understand, But Will likely see plenty of snow. that the highway division in Cambria id county is getting “hell” generally, we A broad program of safety educa- well know. Come on, boys, the most| tion, to be carried out through reg- of us don't give a continenfal darn| ular class room instruction in the about economy when it comes to »| Public schools, is being drafted by condition that makes for the break-| several state departments. It will be ing of cars and necks from a “br of help, of course, but the individ- er-boy” administration ual who takes such courses must ° also practice what he learns. Too After all, personaly we do really often, accidents are results of pure hate to talk politics and find fault recklessness and carelessness, and with public officials at this season | not because one knows no better. | of the year, but we de have to drive . | over the highways in our seétion, And remember, the Patton Order of and we like to have safe driving | Eagles will hold a dance on New | mail matter May 7, 1936, at the post~ There are a lot of persons in the office at Patton, Pa., under the Act || north of Cambria county who will get GRAND - THEATRE PATTON The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely and honestly represent Trade Union Workers in Midnight Show Dec. 31 DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT COMEDY! 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- CLC y AZ Friday and Saturday Directed by ALEXANDER HALL Associate Producer EVERETT RISKIN Monday One Day Only AS HE LIVES TO KILL... AND KILLS TO LIVE! It’s the Most X-citing Perpl-X-ing .traordi- wie MAUREEN O'HARA - LESLIE BANKS - EMLYN WILLIAMS - ROBERT NEWTON From the Novel by Daphoe da Maurier + Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK Produced by ERICH POMMER + A Pommer- Laughton “Mayflower ™ Production nary Picture 4 of the Year! § Next Moncay a: noon there will | be a lot of late New Years’ dinners. RT (CIEL | WAYNE AY ROSEMARY LANE HUMPHREY BOGART [pI MORGAN «1D TES : a Matinee Monday at 2:30 Tuesday, Bargain Night Added Attractior The candidates and their friends will be at Ebensburg, and the oath of office will be administered to the court house officials, most of whom are Democrats. ’ LL ond THE i EH Cowboy; Troubadoy ee Jit! ST Be Prepared ® in Dec., 1940 Join Our Christmas Savings Club! You won't have any difficulty buying the gofts you need next year if you join the First National Bank at Patton’s Christmas Savings Club now! You'll find that by saving just a small amount each week you’ll have a surprisingly large amount to spend next year. Come in today and find out how you can benefit from this plan. No obligation. SEE HOW EASY IT IS! Just Save 25c¢ a week ......nooo........ Receive $ 12.50 Just Save 50c a week ici. Receive $ 25.00 Just Save 7b¢ a week ............. Receive $§ 37.50 Just Save $1 a week Receive $ 50.00 Just Save $2 a week .. .... 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