PAGE EIGHT
Thursday, August 27th, 1942,
UNION PRESS.COURIER
elimination of the Class B-1's. The | re
| majority of the boards in the county, |
as elsewhere, are nearing exhaustion |
of the pool of 1-A registrants. With |
the exception of Board 5, South Fork,
| boards expect to exhaust this group]
completely in October and November,
Board 1 at Cresson is, doubtful if it
can fill any quotas after next month |
without dipping into the pool of 3-A|
BOARDS TO RECLASSIFY
ALL MEN IN ‘B’ CLASSES
Work to Start September 1; Men
Will Be Placed Either in
1-A or 4-F Class
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Yeti 3 : 3 en. S oards already are be-|
National selective service head-|™Men. Some boards already
; | ginning to call up registrants from
uarters has @ ‘ed that minor |8iNNINE lo :
Yutrters Jat oul will ex- I'the last registration as boys reach the |
empt men from military service. | age of 20, the age when they become |
Local boards have been ordered io | €ligible to serve in the Army under
reclassify all men now in Class 1B. | existing Jaws. we
Class 1-B is abolished, effective im- | : i
mediately, and future draft ul 'WAVES' RECRUITING
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4-F, the latter classification being for |
those entirely unsuited for Army.
All present Class 1-B registrants
Who are not “totally disqualified” are |
to be reclassicied in Class 1-A and the |
Army will decide, after their indue- |
tion, on their indivdual assignment to
full or limited military service.
Reclassification of Class 1-B regis- ————
trants is scheduled to begin Septem | Recruiting of women for the en-
ber 1 and is expected to be completed | listed ranks of the “WAVES” will ba- |
in about four months. Only one-|gin on September 11 when the first |
fourth of the Class 1-B men in each | application blanks are mailed out, the|
local board will be reclassified each |Navy has announced.
month. Women who wish to enlist in the
“Reclassification procedure,” the women’s naval reserve organization
headquarters at Washington said, “re- may write in to the Office of Naval
quires that local boards place regis-| Procurmement, Keystone Hotel Build-
trants not believed totally disqualified | ing, 3rd Ave. and Wood St., Pitts-
for military service pending examina- | burgh, Pa. |
tien at Army induction stations. The The office, which ordinarily handles
men who are obviously physically |only the commissioning of officers,
disqualified will be given Class 4-F will serve as a recruiting station for
classification, as will those who are [enlisted “WAVES.” The same princi-
rejected by the Army. | ples used with “WAVES” officers is
“Future calls for selectees will be | to be followed. Only written requests
for Class 1-A men only. Men having | for application forms will be consid-
minor, but not disqualifying defects, |ered. After the applications are filled
will be forwarded to Army induction | out, likely applicants will be inter-
stations along with those having no| viewed and given aptitude and physi- |
known defects. cal tests. Those who pass will become
“The inducted men will be assigned | “WAVES.” |
by Army to general or limited mili-| Here are the principai requirements |
trants will be placed either in 1-A or |
Women Desiring to Join Navy
Should Make Application
After September 20
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A Paramount
Picture starring EDDIE HE] with June Preisser
Betty Rhodes - Phillip Terry - Freida Inescort
Nils Asther - William Henry - Johnnie Johnston
Screen Play by Eve Greene - Additional Dialogue by Robert Biees
N Based on a Story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Millhauser
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A 20th Century-Fox Picture
Friday and Saturday
en
WAR STAMPS AND BONDS BUILD SHIPS AND BOMBERS
BUY THEM HERE
BLATT BROTHERS
GRAND
THEATRE PATTON
Tuesday, Bargain Night
{rs THE MAID'S Night out! _~ 8
And the things that happen...
when pantry and parlor meet
« + ore seondalovsly funny!
MARTHA
with
MARSHA RICHARD po
HUNT: CARLSON 57
MARJORIE VIRGINIA 5% EA
MAIN - WEIDLER
SPRING BYINGTON + ALLYN JOSLYN
FRANCES DRAKE + BARRY NELSON
Original Story and Screen Play by Isobel Lennart and
Lee Gold * Directed by JULES DASSIN * Produced by
IRVING STARR —
ALSO — COMEDY AND CARTOON
Wednesday and Thursday
taary service according to physical | for enlisted “WAVES”:
qualifications.” | Age—Over 20 and under 36; Edu- |
In instructing local boards to re-|cation—High school diploma or its|
classify 1-B's draft officials empha- | equivalent in the form of business]
sized that full consideration must be | school education plus experience. Mar-
given to. fixed policies governing de- | ital status—Single or married women
ferments for dependency, family re- | eligible, latter provided they have no
lationship and occupation. | children under 18. “WAVES” cannot
Limited service registrants were | marry during training; Physical con-
not considered by their local boards | dition—Minimum height, 5-5; mini-
as having any basis for dependency | mum weight, 95 1bs.; eyes, 12-20 cor-
Or occupational classification at the |rectable to 20-20 or normal with set
time they were originally classified | of glasses; teeth, minimum of 18 in-
but in some instances their status cluding foyr molars and eight incis- |
may have changed. | ors; Minimum skill—Sufficient apti- |
It was also announced that con-|tude and ability with typewriter to |
Scientious objectors, who heretofore | qualify for ratings in clerical and in |
had been classified in Class 1-B-O, if | communication work. Shorthand will|
fit for limited service in non-combat- | qualify for still higher ratings.
ant units, or in Class 4-E-LS, if fit | Pay in ranks of “WAVES” will be |
for limited service in civilian work | identical with Navy Pay, which range |
camps, now will be classified in Class | from $50 for apprentice or unrated |
1-A-O if fit for non-combatona mili- | seamen to $138 a month for chief |
tary service, or in Class 4-E, fit for | petty officers. All enlisted pay is in |
induction into work camps. | addition to keep. “WAVES” also will
th.% | receive a total of $200 worth of uni-
1400 Affected in Cambria County forms or cash to purchase them.
Approximately 1,400 men in Cam- A total of 10,000 are to be enlisted |
bria County will be affected by the over the nation. |
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Sunday and Monday
MATINEE SUNDAY AT 2:30
bone THRILL
Deep in a tropic paradise,
Dorothy Lamour finds a
mew jungle mate, hand-
some Richard Denning!
lil
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oh 4 ¢ oo back to SCHOOL!
back to WORK!
back to TOWN!
: Prd is LL EP A ;
DOROTHY LAMAUR - Richard Denning
Jack Haley ~Patricia ‘Morison CIC
RAE TTS UH FT CT darks da
EAL aL 4
ADDED ATTRACTIONS — ‘MEN OF THE SKIES’ in Tech-
nicolor, and ‘DONALD DUCK GETS DRAFTED.’
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ROLAND BILLIE PEE
YOUNG - BURKE: JENKINS
Directed by ALEXANDER HALL
Produced by EDWARD KAUFMAN
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
See Mel set her
world on fire...
with a kiss!
| Screen play by P. J. WOLFSON « From a story by Gina Kaus and Andrew P. Solt
ALSO — “FUTURE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS’
MINIVER
Is Coming To Our House!
KNIGHTS OF GOLUMBUS
TO HOLD INSTALLATION
The formal installation of officers |
of Prince Gallitzin General Assembly th
will take place at St. Francis College |
Sunday afternoon, August 30, at 2 o'-
clock. that it be stopped.
The entire ceremony will be under | Harrisburg refused to stop it, and
the direction of Sir Patrick M. J. quoted in defense two men without
Minahan, marshall of the 2nd Penn- | professional training or practical ex-
sylvania District, and who will act in | perience in forestry. One of them set
the capacity of pilot on Sunday. | up war needs In excuse. That excuse
The installing official will be Dr. |is worthless.
John Joseph Gorrell, K.H.S., Master |
of the Fourth Degree, 2nd Pennsyl-
vania District. Dr. Gorrell is from |
Pittsburgh and will have his divan of |
officers, Sir Edward W. Huttinger, |
| GIFFORD PINCHOT DECRIES
| SLAUGHTERING OF FORESTS
| Gifford Pinchot, former governor of
| Pennsylvania, sends us the following
communication:
In a letter to Harrisburg I said
at I had recently seen portions of
the State Forests of Pennsylvania
| butchered by lumbermen, and urged
in Pennsylvania, we should give it,
of course. But the war does not need
it.
eh De: | The Chief Forester of the United
Jr., district secretary; Sir. John M. | states Forest Service says this: “I
Holleran, district bursar; and Sir ; ; int
? : ? | am convinced that in winning the war
Henry J. Wehner, aide. All of these], hol : :.
district officials are from Pittsburgh |; '* ICL Unnecessary, Sad in 400
and will be entertained by the local | 9 pos p co
: 5 A : { dustrial policy, to destroy or depre-
Sir Knights with a dinner after the ciate the future*productivity of our
ceremonial.
| forests. We can cut all the timber
Sir Albert L. O'Connor, Jr., Loretto,
{ we need to meet all conceivable war
will be installed for his first term as
faithful navigator. He is also Grand
Knight of Ebensburg Council. Other
officers to be installed are Charles L.
Carroll, Johnstown, faithful captain;
Eugene F. Stevons, faithful admiral;
P. O. Holtz, faithful pilot: James E.|
Curley, faithful comptroller; Andrew |
A. Dolinsky, faithful scribe; Bruce |
Sciotto, faithful instide sentinel; Hon. |
A. A. Nelson, faithful outside sentin-
el, and Father John P. Manning, of
Somerset, faithful Friar.
At this same meeting the annual | have been
renewal of pledges will be exemplified | crimination
by visiting officials and all the Sir Trees too young for cutting, trees
Knight of Prince Galiltzin General | needed for seed, or to maintain the
Assembly and visiting Sir Knights | forest cover, help control floods, pre-
are cordially invited and urged to be | vent erosion, or otherwise necessary,
present. | have been cut regardless.
It’s Fall again—and this fall, it's a Scotsburr Tweed
or a Heathercrome Saxony if you want a suit thet is
colorfully different— full of pep, life and vigor, and
Rochester-tailored to stay that way.
$32.50
Tailored in Rochester by MICHAELS -STERN
way that the productivity of the for-
est will be increased rather than im-
paired.”
The productivity of our state for-
ests is being impaired. Within the
last two years the most destructive
cutting of them ever perpetrated has
been and is still going on.
This cutting, which Harrisburg de-
| fends, is not limited to trees selected
and marked, as good forestry requir-
Other makes, $24:50 up
Sharbaugh & Lieb
Barnesboro, Pa.
sold and cut, without dis-
a
If the war needed every last tree
i requirements and still cut in such a|
| es, but all trees above certain sizes |
The second Harrisburg witness | gitions have inte
| without professional training or prac. | ing to some extent but on an overall
tical experience alleged that this is | basis indications are that conditions
good forestry. I say it is not forestry | are favorable to the vegetable grow-
{at all but forest butchery. For the er.”
| safety and welfare of Pennsylvania, “On the over-all basis,” declared the
|it ought to be stopped. Will you help | secretary, ‘Pennsylvania farmers
| stop it? | have succeeded up to the present
{ | time through ingenuity, still harder
| | work and greatly lengthened working
| STATE FARMERS COME | days.”
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| THROUGH DESPITE ODDS | pp
Sealed bids will be received by the
| Beech Grove Grange for the sale of
potest year of war production with fly-
ing colors.
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| Beech Grove Grange Hall.
Building to be removed from prop-
Despite the labor shortage and ad- |
| verse weather conditions, he’s “done |
erty within 60 days from day of sale.
All bids to be plainly marked “Bids
his part well so far,” Secretary John | for Hall.” The Grange reserves the
H. Light of the State Agricultural Tight to reject any or all bids.
Department, declares. All bids to be in the hands of the
“He came through because he and | Secreary OOF hots emt, 10th.
{his faniily did a lot of work. The far- | Fiuik ginscrsiany,
mers are making every effort to pro- | ation, Pa,
duce to capacity to meet war needs. | A . T_T
“Up to the are time there is | LEGAL NOTICE.
no report that crops have been lost| In the Court of Common Pleas of
as a result of labor shortages. The |Cambria County, Pennsylvania, No.
weather, however, has in some areas! 105, June Term, 1942, C. P. D.
been too much of a handicap to ov-| RE; Petition of Richard Dinsmore
j ercome with a result that indications | Gill for Change of Name.
| are there wil be some loss in the| Notice is hereby given that on Au-
wheat crop.” | gust 24, 1942, the petition of Richard
Light said the wheat crop is repor- | Dinsmore Gill was filed in the above
ted disappointing due to a great ex-| named Court, praying for a decree to
tent to Hessian Fly infestations. The| change his name to Richard Wilson
hay crop was unusually heavy but|Dinsmore, The Court has fixed Mon-
rains are hindering the harvesting |day, November 2, 1942, at 10:00 o'-
and proper housing of the second cut- clock A. M,, in the Court of Common
ting. Pleas of Cambria County, at Ebens-
The potato crop presents an un-| burg, Pa., as the time and place for
known factor because of widespread | the hearing of said petition, when and
infestation of blight caused by wet | where all persons interested may ap-
weather. Rains knocked out regular) pear and show cause, if any they
spraying schedules and washed off | have, why the prayer of said petition
what spray was applied. | should not be granted.
“Labor shortages are being exper- | EVANS & EVANS,
ienced in the harvesting of vegeta- Attorneys for Petitioner,
bles,” Light reported. “Weather con-| S17 Ebensburg, Pa,
referd with harvest-
GIFFORD PINCHOT.
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| Ingenuity and. hard work brought |
| the Pennsylvania farmer through his