cima m——— i. 4 “Que PAGE EIGHT FIREMEN'S CONVENTION WILL BE AT BEAVERDALE FIRST WEEK IN AUGUST Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company's Invitation Accepted at Spangler Beaverdale has been selected as the Township Volunteer Fire Company to entertain the firemen during the first week in August, 1943, was ac- cepted at a meeting of the county del- egation last Thursday night in Spang. ler. Activities at next year’s convention are expected to be curtailed consider- ably due to war-time restrictions, but the Summerhill Township group has promised to arrange a varied program | of activities for the five-day event. Plans for changing the present code | | system for summoning volunteer fire | companies to fires were discussed at getne of the 1943 convention of the |the meeting. The ways and means UNION PRESS-COURIER IRON MADE IN STATE FOR THE REVOLUTION Pennsylvania's high ranking in the production of iron and steel for the] war effort can be traced back 200 | years to the charcoal iron furnace at| Cornwall, Pa., according to the state department of commerce, Operation at Cornwall began in the vear 1742. While it was extracting the ore wealth out of the hills, Penn- sylvania passed through its years as Volunteer Firemen's Association of Cambria County and Vicinity. The invitation or the Summerhill Re Classified Ads RATES for 25 words or less 1 Time, 25¢; 2 Times, 40c; 3 Times 50¢ — Payable in Advance — SOMETHING YOU HAVE THAT IS OF NO FURTHER USE TO YOU IS] WORTH MONEY TO SOMEBODY! Get CASH Through A Classified Ad! ®— WANTED MIDDLE-AGED HOUSEKEEPER is wanted. Write Adoph Delarra, Eb- ensburg R. D. 1, Pa. 01 ®@— FOR RENT FOR RENT—6 room house with bath, ini 3 uire at | . : br 3 rooms newly fied, Toa O1 | men’s Association, spoke briefly re-|C. Buckingham, presented the fur- 505 Palmer avenue, ” | garding the activities of that organ- nace to the Commonwealth of Penn- | sylvania. It is under the administra- FOR RENT—Two unfurnished rooms | or two furnished sleeping rooms | Heat and bath included. Inquire at | 800 Beech avenue, Patton. o1 FOR RENT—6 room house. Also 4- room apartment; both with all mo- dern conveniences. Wired for elec- tric stove. Piano and wicker furni- ture for sale. Lynn Rhody, 219 E. Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa. tf. Heat & bath. Inquire at 815 Beech Ave., Patton. 4 UNFURNISHED ROOMS for rent. | | @— FOR SALE Oil Stove with built in oven for|chairmen of various committees re- sale. For details call at 514 Beech | Ave., Patton, after 3:30 p. m,, or | call Patton 3691. 14.LOT AT REAR OF LANG Avenue | in Patton for sale. Inquire of| Nicholas Anstead. 015 1 COAL RANGE & 1 OIL RANGE for sale. Inquire of Mrs. Andrew Lukash, 517 Russell Ave. Patton, | Pa. D8 | TOMATOES AND CAULIFLOWER | for sale. Call Patton 2574. Mrs. A. J. Yahner, Patton and Hastings | Road. 08 TABLE-TOP KEROSENE RANGE, | baby crib and a two-piece reed set for sale. Inquire Mrs. Bert Long. | 209 Linwood Ave., Patton. S24 1%-TON DODGE TRUCK for sale. 6 tires, signal lights. Inquire C. P. Welty, Patton 0o1 FOR SALE -— Three cornered cup- board, a book case and writing desk combined, baby buggy, baby walker, sideboard, 2 cook stoves, 1 heating stove, baby swing, Kraut Cutter, floor matting, toilet set. 1938 Oldsmobile 2-door Sedan, A-1 condition, cheap for cash. Inquire Mrs. Adolph Hofer, 415 Palmer Avenue, Patton, Pa. 08 FARM FOR SALE or House for rent. ' Inquire Harry J. Hoover, Patton. Pa., Phone 3841. 03. PURE BRED RHODE ISLAND Reds & White Leghorns for sale. Also yearling hens. Reason for selling; have sold my farm. Dennis Bender, Carrolltown, Phone 4176 08 @— MISCELLANEOUS TYPEWRITER AND ADDINS® MA- chine service available thru us at recognized prices. Our eight-year guaranteed service reputation re- mains good. Eagle Printing Co., Official Remington-Rand Agency, Phone 118, Barnesboro. tf! _— inte tie fr Yery Keen Buyers $2500 Folks who are newly-rich money away ... please pass us by. We are pre- pared only for those who know the value of money and spend it wisely Customers, who compare, are our best customers and biggest boosters. We take pride in the fact that those “who purchase here know what they're buying | LOUIS LUXENBERG | “The Store for Safe A Complete Line of F Est. 1903 mm | committee was authorized to map out a British coloney, became a leader in | a new code system and submit it for | the struggle for independence and de- I consideration at the next meeting. veloped its agricultural and industry. | The present system has proved unsuc- | At Cornwall, iron was produced for | cessful inasmuch as almost anyone cannon, railroad, implements and the | can make the emergency calls. Under | countless other uses. The first 12- | the proposed new system only those! pounder cannon made at the furnace knowing the code numbers of letters will be able to summon volunteer fire companies for assistance. The new system will eliminate a great number of false alarms and is to be applied to all three zones in the county. { Fire Chief John A. Moran of the | City of Johnstown invited all mem- | | bers of the county association to par- | ticipate in the civilian dtfense fire- fighting demonstration to be held at i the Point Stadium on October 5. Application of the Cover Hill Vol- |unteer Fire Company for admission | |to the county association was read | and placed on file until the next meet- | | ing. Wesley Lohr, past president of] the Somerset County Volunteer Fire- | ization. Donald Frye, fire chief of South was sent by wagon for duty in the Revolutionary War. Forty-one other cannon were cast at Cornwall for the | same war. Shot and shell were also made there. Peter Grubb and his family con- trolled the furnace for some time but later it passed into the hands of R. Coleman, an important iron-master in early Pennsylvania history. He was an officer in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Convention that formed the State Constitution of the year 1790. He was also a member of the Legislature. He raised and com- manded a troop during the Whiskey Insurrection. The property went to his descendants and in 1932 Cole- man’s great-granddaughter, Mrs. M. tion of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. | CURE FUNDS THIS WEEK| HOME CANNING URGED In a final meeting of the Friends of | WHITE ENAMELED PERFECTION | gt Francis last Sunday evening the $6250 BARNESBOR Fork, was appointed second alternate | {to the state convention to be ‘held during the first week in October at Allentown. The next meeting will he held on | Thursday, Oceober 22, in Ferndale { Fire Hal. — es | FRIENDS OF ST. FRANCIS IN FINAL DRIVE TO SE- According to the Commission, it is estimated that until 1907 more than 20,000,000 tons of ore were taken from the Cornwall banks. The mine | is under operation today and consti- tutes one of the more valuable ore properties in the United States con- | tributing to the armed forces of the | Nation now as it did for Washing- iton’'s Army. v- . BY DEFENSE COUNCIL The state defense council is urging quested that the solicitation of funds Pennsylvania's consumers to conser- be continued until the time of the|Ve local supplies of vegetables and prospective purchase of part of the fruits to avert a shortage next win- Schwab estate for presentation to St. | ter. a ; Francis College. | The council's consumer interest and The amount originally set has not victory garden advisory committees been raised yet but several of the | Urse local defense council consumer chairmen said that with an intensive | 8T0UPS to promote home canning and rive of one more week additionai Stier food conservation measures, and , add: fonds gould be secured, + | “Supplies of commercially process- United Mine Workers Local at El- | ed garden products, fruits and vege- mora forwarded $278.50. South Fork i po¢ transported by rail or motor reported a total of $535, Portage adl| {ck from distant regions out of the ded $175 to its collection and report local season of production and distri- ed that the Koppers Mine in Sonman | bution, will soon be inadequate to would take additional contributions piaintain the needed, or usual civilian during the week. consumption. Lilly reported a total of $1,043.| gpecial emphasis was placed on the| Practically all contributions from the | . nservation of tomatoes, cabbage, | town were of $5 or less, the report apples and “fall fruits in general” be- | showed. Johnstown reported a total of | .5,;5e supplies, which will be avail-| more than $9,400. Hastings added jple and abundant in fall markets, | $200 to its collection and reported a’ ,,ay not be adequate later. total of $5355, with more anticipated “Prices of all victory food specials! from St. Boniface. are relatively low and purchases dur- Cresson’s addition of $321 brought ing local seasons will tend to prevent its total to $3,797. Total in Carroll- undue rises. in price later,” the com- | town was $913. The report from mittees said. | Spangler stated that its total should Information on approved home reach over $750. Somerset reported an methods of preserving and storing the addition of $750 to its fund. Altoona !friuts and vegetables is available | has not yet reported its total collec- through local victory garden and con-| tion but it is believed it will reach sumer committees. In Patton, con-| $4,000. tact Mrs. Chas. Snyder. In expressing appreciation for the er work pe he ration Sulli- HUNTERS URGED TO GET | ALL SCRAP FROM CAMPS van said: “It is impossible to say how much we appreciate the fine work en | of you gentlemen. We have an undy-| In an announcement todag Game ing debt of gratitude to all of you. officials urged hunters throughout The only way we can repay yom isthe state to collect all scrap such as through our prayers. This I can as-| rubber, tin, iron and steel and other sure for the community will be done.” | materials that they find in the field Father Sullivan stated that Pitts- | OF about their hunting camps. burgh and Philadelphia have not vet | Hunters should be all too familiar reported in full. But he expressed the | with the tremendous possibilities of opinion that substantial amounts will | Such 2 Sooperatiye. Sard me project be f i Y ities | and i ey participate in it whole- ° orthcoming from bath cities, heartedly, crowded though their auto 2 “ B Sap? ip , | may be this fall, they will be able to Read “Press-Courjer” Classifieds! | salvage an aggregate collection of the = munch-needed scrap that will run in- | tc thousands of pounds, officials say. Officials point out that if each of the hunters brought back only one pound of scrap of one kind or another w | the aggregate collection, based on ap-| proximately 600,000 men in the field, would amount to over 300 tons for Pennsylvania alone. Vv es AN INVADER AT WORK! If ten thousand men, women and children in the United States were to be killed by enemy bombs, the en- tire nation would rise in fury to strike the invader down! Ten thous- and people in the United States are killed every year—by fires in homes and facteries and public buildings. Be prepared for the invader, Fire! Make your home and the place where you work safe from fire! FIRE IS SABOTAGE. Every fire is sabotage today! Buil- ding materials that go into repairing | buildings damaged by fire can’t go | into planes and tanks and ships. Break your match in two. Crush ev- | ery spark in your cigarette before | you throw it away. i ——— Ne aii | PENNSYLVANIA MINING AU- | thorities differ on the need for a six | day week in the coal fields to meet | war time requirements. They agree, | however, that the supply will be suf- | ficient this winter if distribution is adequate to give domestic consumers { an equal share of available fuel. The | Western Pennsylvania soft coal mines { already are operating on a six day em | week by staggering hours of diggers = | so that they are on the job only 35 : | hours as provided by their working | agreement, and want to throw their Diamond Buying’ amous-Make Watches wee Ri0es Washington, D. C. LITTLE BUSINESS CRUSABER Donald Nelson's ‘‘get tough’ pol- icy gets increasingly unfortunate reverberations. Part of this is be- cause Donald, nice as he is, and well liked as he is, just doesn’t seem to have a knack for feeling the pub- lic pulse. For instance, he should have known that the most popular man in Washington, as far as little busi- ness is concerned, is Guy Holcomb, head of the justice department's small business bureau. Yet Nelson reached into the justice department and demanded that the attorney general fire Holcomb. The reaction against Nelson has been bad. Nelson had no jurisdiction over the justice department, and it is unusual for one executive to reach into the affairs of an outside office. However, Holcomb has been con- sistently critical of WPB’s failure to award war contracts to little busi- ness; his cracks got on Nelson's nerves, and he demanded that the attorney general fire him. So to keep peace in the official family, Hol- comb was ‘‘permitted to resign.” Actually, Holcomb was a hustling young business man from Atlanta, Ga., who knew nothing about red tape, spurned bureaucracy and went around saying exactly what he thought of people who seemed to be lying down on the job. Result: He made a lot of enemies, but he got an awful lot done for little busi- ness. For instance, he discovered that only three companies in the entire United States got all the contracts for putting boilers in merchant ships. * * * ALASKAN ATTACKS The senate military affairs com- mittee got some encouraging news when it met behind closed doors to hear the report of a subcommittee which has returned from an inspec- tion tour of our Alaskan fortifica- tions. For military reasons, the greater part of the report cannot be re- vealed. However, this much can be told: The subcommittee, composed of Senators Happy Chandler of Ken- tucky, Mon Wallgren of Washington and Rufus Holman of Oregon, was unanimous in declaring that our aerial defenses in Alaska were strong enough to repel any attempt- ed Jap invasion. The Rumor: One of the Freuhauf brothers in Detroit, who manufac- ture trailers, gave his yacht to the navy, but before doing so said he wanted to take it on a farewell COLVER RESIDENT IS HIT BY AUTOMOBILE ed at the Colver hospital for a frac- ture of the left leg, possible fracture of the right leg and abrasions and contusions about the face and head, and is in a serious condition, as the result of being struck by a car on Saturday evening near Colver. Peter Hudak, 48, Colver, driver of the car, told police that he was driving along the road during a rainstorm when Or- sini walked directly out in front of the car. eit Ye eee | Domonic Orsini, Colver, was treat- Thursday, October 1st, 1942. DEWEY'S FLAGSHIP TO GO ON NATIONAL SCRAP PILE Admiral Dewey's old flagship Oly- mpia, leader of the American squad- ron which won the battle of Manila 'Bay in 1898, will return to the wars again as scrap, it was announced re- cently. | The old war vessel, an item of his- ( torical interest in Philadelphia for the | past many years, will be converted into machinery or munitions to be used against the Axis rowers. nnn A — — Five $18.75 Bonds will pay for | CLOTHING for the average enlisted —Buy U. S. War Bonds & Stamps! | man. * As BUY WAR BONDS AT THIS THEATRE iH THEATRE CR AA AA re a A ROL TERT TI RT ALBERT BASSERMAN cruise. He had no sooner got a few hours offshore, however, when he | received a peremptory demand from ! the navy to return, after which Har- | ry Hopkins and his new bride took | | over the yacht and sailed away on | their honeymoon. The Truth: Harry Hopkins doesn’t like yachting, gets seasick easily, | spent his vacation in Connecticut. | Harry Freuhauf, interviewed by this | columnist on the telephone, said: | “My brothr did turn his yacht over to the navy, but the arrangements | were entirely amiable, and Harry Hopkins never was on it at any time or place. We have heard all sorts of rumors about this, but there is absolutely nothing to them.” * * * POLITICAL ECONOMY Hard-working Representative John H. Folger of North Carolina will go the limit for a constituent, but a recent request from a job-seeker in his district almost got him down. “I have filed an application with the Civil Service commission for a position as an economist. “I am a farmer of many years’ experience and believe I am emi- nently qualified for the job I'm after. “I have practiced economy all my life.” Remarkable progress has been made since Pearl Harbor in estab- lishing new land and sea bases in the Alaskan area. The three sena- | tors also paid high tribute to the | morale and skill of U. S. airmen, who are forced to fly in the worst kinds of weather conditions. Though refusing to predict on how soon we can start an all-out air of- fensive to drive the Japs from their footholds in the Aleutians, the sub- committee reported that one ob- stacle” which has been holding up such an offensive has now been licked. Hitherto we have been unable to send protective convoys of fighting planes with bombers raiding Jap positions in the Aleutians, because our fighters do not have the flying range for the 1,000-mile round trip from the army base at Umnak is- land, nearest outpost to the Japs. However, this problem has been solved by the installation of ‘‘belly’’ gas tanks on fighters. They carry several hundred gallons of fuel and can be dropped after they are emptied. The subcommittee also reported that interference with army and navy radio communications in the Alaskan area, caused by bad weath- er and the Aurora Borealis, was be- ing largely circumvented by com- pass flying. * = = ei — ~—Read ‘“Press-Courier” Classifieds! A MONOGRAM PICTURE AS A SALUTE TO YOUR HEROES! BLATT BROTHERS GRAND Suggested by “The Invisible Man"by h PATTON Friday and Saturday TT TS AAT RTT ARTE EE He ; aL Sls Presented by FRA fq LLOYD PRODUCTIONS, inc. Sunday and Monday MATINEE SUNDAY AT 2:30 Tyrone Power Joan Fontaine “This Above All” You Will Live and Love Every Moment of It . . . ALSO — NEWS AND ‘WABBIT CARTOON’ Tuesday, Bargain Night Mob-might rules the slums. . till the gang takes over! 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