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Thursday, October 22, 1942.
PATTON BRIEFS
Misses Iva, Betty and Sonja Swish-
er and Philip Gers of Lewistown spent
Sunday at the Norman Swisher home.
Miss Lillian Marvin of Altoona was |
a week end visitor at the home of her |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Marvin of |
Herriman Ave.
The P. O. of A. will hold a cinch
party next Monday night, Oct. 26, in
the I. O. O. F. Hall. Admission is 25c.
Lunch will be served and prizes given.
Mrs. Gust DeGand and daughters
of Tampa, Fla., are spending several
days with the former’s mother, Mrs.
Thomas Powel.
Lady's Purse—Found a month ago
on the highway. Andy Simon, Patton
R.D. 1.
Althugh only 18 years of age, Glua-
dio D. Schelfe, of Marsteller is enlist-
ed as an Army Aviation cadet.
Misses Edith and Dorothy Morgan
who are employed at the Cresson San-
atorium, were visitors Tuesday at the |
home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Morgan.
Louis Pontrella is home for a few
days on a furlough. He is stationed
at Fort Benning, Ga.
Recent callers at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Snyder Yerger were Mr. and
Mrs. Earl McKillop of Hastings.
Mrs. Snyder Yerger has been con- |
fined to her home for the past week
with a painful leg wound.
Word has been received here that |
Lester Fisher has arrived safely at a |
foreign destination.
Miss Marie Marvin has gone to the
ity of Akron, where she has secured
'mployment.
Sgt. Robert Grs of Drane Field,
Fla., has returned to his post after a |
several days’ furlough. He was ac- |
companied by his wife, Louise Gers,
who had spent some time with her |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Swish-
er of Patton.
Mrs. William Lann and son Billie of
Hastings have returned home after a
two week visit with Mrs. Lann’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Berish of
Mellon Ave. announce the birth of a
son in Spangler Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dreher of Pitts-
burgh spent Sunday with Mrs. Dre-
her's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. |L.
Cochran of Lang AVe.
Pfc. Charles McCoy, son of Mrs.
Mary McCoy of Chest Springs, has
arrived safely at an overseas destin-
ation, according to word received by
his mother.
V. J. Eckenrode of E¢kenrode Mills
who has been seriously ill for sever-
al weeks, was taken to the St. Francis
hospital in Pittsburgh last week.
Pfc. John Kelly of Governors Island,
N. Y., spent the week end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Flo Kelly of |
Chest Springs.
Pvt. “Chick” Farabaugh of Camp
Lee, Va., spent the week end at his
home here.
Corp. Robert Schenk, stationed in
Georgia, spent a furlough here with
his father, Hugh Schenk.
Bob Forsythe is in New York City
on a business trip.
Pfc. Lawrence Nealon, stationed at
Carlisle, Pa., spent the week end with
his parents at Chest Springs.
Kenneth Rhody has returned home
after spending a few days in New
York City.
Pvt. Ralph Cordell, an M.P. with
the Army Air Force at Lowry Field,
Denver, Colo., is spending a 10-day
furlough here with his parents.
Pvt. John T. Santucci, stationed at
Camp Wheeler, Ga., has returned af
ter spending a 10-day furlough here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Santucci.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Strittmatter of
Detroit announce the birth of a son.
Mrs. Strittmatter was formerly Miss
Edith Thomas of Patton R. D.
Fred Rosian Jr. of the U. S. Mar-
ines, stationed at Parris Island, S. C.,
is spending a 10-day furlough with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Rosian.
A card party, sponsored by the
Sodality of the St. Augustine Catholic
Church, will be held in the Parish Hall
at St. Augustine next Sunday after-
noon at 2:30 Cinch and pinochle will
be played. Prizes and lunch.
Mrs. Irene Hunt of Roaring Spring
is spending the week with her dau-
ghter, Mrs. Harry Stauffer.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Amer-
ican Legion will hold a 10c¢ Bingo
| party in Community Hall on Monday,
October 26, at 8:15 p. m.
Election of officers will feature an
| October meeting of the Garden Study
Club of Patton Tuesday evening of
next week at 8 p. m. in Patton Drug
Co. Bldg., followed by a “Jamboree”
in charge of Mrs. Frank Schwab and
Mrs. Richard Shannon.
Miss Marie Mangold, of Crabtree,
Pa., was the guest of her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Man-
gold, here, last week.
| George Robert Senita, son of Mr,
and Mcs. Andrew Senita, of 519 South
Third Street, has been placed on the
honor roll of Franklin and Marshall
College for his scholastic record of
| last year, according to a recent an-
nouncement by Dean Richard Bom-
berger.
Pfc. Benjamin F. Hugill, of Bain-
bridge, Ga., is spending a ten day
furlough with his wife, Mrs. Violet
| Hughill, of Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Hug-
ill was the former Miss Violet Terr-
| ezza.
Mrs. Domenic Iannelli has left for
| Detroit, to visit her son, John, who
| is seriously ill in St. Joseph Hospital
in that city. He had been employed
in Detroit for the past two months.
Ruel Burkhart left Tuesday for Ak-
| ron, Ohio, where he will be commis-
sioned an Inspector of Emergency
| Materials for the U. S. Navy Depart-
ment at the Goodyear Aircraft Plant
Pvt. Delmont Pardee, of Fort Ord,
California, spent a furlough here last
| week with relatives and friends.
Misses Agnes Tinnick and Mary
Karanik of Elkton, Md., spent a few
days at their homes here recently.
Patton's young men in the armed
| forces are doing their part well. The
| number of commissioned officers in
both branches of the service from the
local community hits an average far
above most towns of like size. And
they gain promotions, too. tecently,
Ensign Richard Buck, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond D. Buck, of Mellon
lavenue, now on sea duty, was promo-
ted to Naval Lieutenant, Junior
Grade. Word has just been received,
also, that Second Lieutenant, Air
Forces, Emery A. Dietrick, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Dietrick, also of
Mellon avenue, stationed at Grenier
Field, Manchester, Vermont, has been
promoted to First Lieutenant.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beckwith spent
the week end in Patton.
Luther Gallagher, 88 year old Pat-
ton resident, was admitted to the Mi-
ners’ hospital on Monday evening,
suffering from a possible fracture of
the left leg. Hospital attaches said
| they were informed the aged man
was injured in a fall at his home. His
ondition is listed as fairly good.
Residents of Patton are encouraged
to send in local news items Jor this
column.
PATTON HONOR STUDENTS
Students of Patton High School
| who have “A” reports for the first
six week period of the school term in-
} clude:
Seniors: Verna Sheehan, Robert
Williams, Leona Karlheim, Helen Ov-
erberger, Augusta LeGrand, and Mel-
vin Fregly.
Juniors: Charles Winslow, Julia
Busha, Mary Ryan, and Eugene Boyle.
Sophomores: Rose Bearer, Robert
Kimble, Camilla Kuhnley, Grace
Leary, Alphonse Noel, and Florence
warner
Freshmen: Helen Dubyak, James
Dluzansky, Gertrude Lechene, There-
sa Maykovich, Grace Flatic, Peggy
Pettorini, and Cecelia Skrodinsky.
LADIES’ AIR-RAID WARDEN
ASSOCIATION FORMED HERE
A Ladies’ Air-Raid Warden Associ-
ation has been formed here to take
care of daylight air-raid drills. Mrs.
L. C. Smale has been made the chief
warden.
Patton has been laid out in six sec-
tors, and the wardens for the differ-
ent sectors include: Mrs. John J. Hal-
uska, Mrs. Ralph Litzinger, Mrs. Wm.
Saly, Mrs. Seymore Ratowsky, Mrs.
Louis Iannello and Mrs. Lacey.
The next meeting of the organiza-
| tion which is working under the direc-
tion of Chief Air-Raid Warden Geo.
A. Lehman, will be held Monday, the
2nd of November, at 7 p. m. in the
Patton Defense Council Rooms in the
Good Bldg.
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Navy Building
Shows Big Rise
House Committee Reports
Increase of 360 Per
Cent in Year.
WASHINGTON.—Naval ship con-
struction has increased 360 per cent
over a year ago and an air arm
has been developed ‘‘which will pro-
vide the strongest offensive force in
naval history,”” according to a re-
port of the house naval committee.
In a progress summation of the
navy's construction program, the
committee said that American in-
dustry was sending vessels down
the ways sooner than expected and
that its ingenuity was turning out
“improved models of all types’ of
planes.
The report declared that the Mid-
way Island and Coral Sea engage-
ments ‘‘demonstrated that aviation
constitutes the determining factor
in such conflicts.”
It also said that the navy, “with
full realization of the efficiency of
multi-engine land planes for patrols
in certain areas,” was using them
for anti-submarine warfare ‘with
outstanding success,” and added
that the first of those squadrons
“accounted for not less than five
Axis submarines.”
The report said that 3,230 naval
ships, in the classifications of com-
batant and auxiliary ships and pa-
trol and mine craft, were building
as of June 30, 1942, as compared
with 697 a year ago. In a break-
down of the scheduled program for
ship completion during the fiscal
year of 1941, the committee said
that 60 combatant vessels were ac-
tually completed as compared with
48 expected.
Ten auxiliaries were completed
as compared with nine predicted,
and 143° patrol craft as compared
with 133. Only construction of mine
and district craft fell short of the
goal, with 280 completed as com-
pared with a schedule of 394.
So sharp has been the speed-up
in ship construction, that the time
for completing a battleship had
been cut from the pre-emergency
average of 42 months to 36 months;
aircraft carriers from 45 months to
17.3 months; heavy cruisers from
36.4 to 22.7; light cruisers, 38.8 to
22.3; destroyers, 27.2 to 11.6, and
submarines, 21.2 to 11.5.
The report presented also a table
giving the number of aircraft of all
types added to the service in five
years. In 1938 there were 729: in
1939, 270; 1940, 328; 1941, 2,067,
and in 1942, 4,895.
Curb ‘Excessive Profits.’
The committee also reported that
95 per cent of war contractors were
not profiting unduly, but recom-
mended congressional action to stop
the other 5 per cent from ‘enrich-
ing themselves at public expense.”
On a year-long study of 39,405 na-
val contracts, with a total value of
$4,599,087,085, the committee report-
ed that the profits averaged 8.1 per
cent of cost.
But, while describing that per-
centage as ‘‘reasonable’ in view of
“the large scale naval procurement
program,’ simultaneously the com-
mittee informed the house that prof-
its on individual contracts ranged
as high as 1,768 per cent.
‘“The committee is of the opinion
that 95 per cent of war contractors
are doing an honest and effective
job and receiving only fair and rea-
sonable profits,” it summarized.
“The other 5 per cent of war con-
tractors appear to be taking ad-
vantage of the war situation and to
be receiving excessive profits.”
New Army-Navy Flag for
War Production Records
WASHINGTON. — A joint army-
navy flag, it was announced, here-
after will be awarded to war fac-
tories with outstanding production
records.
In the past, the armed services
have recognized such plants sep-
arately.
The joint award will be a swallow-
tailed flag with a white capital “E”
in a yellow wreath of oak and laurel
leaves on a vertically divided blue
and red background. “Army” will
be on the red background and
“Navy” on the blue.
Japs Believed Desperate
For Food and Materials
CHUNGKING —A military spokes-
man said that ti:e Japanese are car-
rying on ‘a ‘‘desperate campaign’
to obtain foodstuifs and the materi-
als of war. They are hastening the
harvesting of wheat in the north
and in every village of Occupied
China have begun a campaign to
collect scrap iron. In this connec-
tion, the spokesman said, they have
salvaged some 40 ships sunk by the
British at Hong Kong and are re-
pairing them.
Boy’s Note to F.D.R.
Wins Brother Furlough
MONTROSE, COLO.—Pvt. John J.
Pritchett visited his ailing mother
on a l5-day furlough because his
11-year-old brother penciled a note
to President Roosevelt that ‘she
wants to see him.”
“My mother is sick,” wrote Don-
ald Gene Pritchett, ‘“‘and would like
very much to see my brother before
he is sent overseas. She doesn’t say
much, but I know she wants to see
him
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Butcher, Baker and
Clerk in Air Force
Young Men From All Walks
SHEPPARD FIELD, TEXAS.—The
butcher, the baker, the candlestick
maker—they’re all in the air forces
now—as airplane mechanics and
machinists, radio operators and re-
pairmen, parachute riggers, weath-
er observers and forecasters, ad-
ministrative and supply clerks, aeri-
al photographers and armorers—
and in scores of other ‘‘specialist’
jobs.
This mass-transformation of hun-
dreds of thousands of salesmen, col-
lege students, retail clerks and of-
fice workers into skilled technicians
is one of the miracles now being
performed by Uncle Sam's air wing.
Here at Sheppard Field, in addi-
tion to the air forces technical
schools for training airplane me-
chanics, there is also located one
of the several of the air forces re-
placement training centers from
which numerous raw recruits are
sent to this and to other technical
schools throughout the country.
The task of choosing exactly the
right place in the complex structure
of the air forces for every one of
the legions of raw recruits passing
through Sheppard Field, falls to the |
classification division headed by
Maj. Harold C. Poyer.
The process of classification and |
selection begins with the ‘‘general
classification test’’ (commonly re-
ferred to as the “G.C.T.””) which
is a standard army mental alert-
ness test given to every recruit with- |
in a day or two of induction. Be- |
cause the aim of this type of test is
to determine mental capacity rather
than the amount of formal educa-
tion, questions that make up the test
are such as depend as little as
possible on schooling and as much
as possible on clear thinking.
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who sacrifice for it. Buy bonds.
FUTURE FARMERS INITIATE
HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMEN
Fifteen freshmen agricultural stu-
| dents of Patton High were made
| somewhat acquainted with the F.F.A.
| when they were given the Green Hand
| Degree by the members of the Chest
Chapter of the Future Farmers of
America last Thursday night in the
high school.
Receiving the degrees were: Pat
Adams, Russell Adams, Francis
{ Bloom, James Carl, Donald Cossitor,
| Bernard Cretin, Richard Drass, Chas.
| Jolly, Ralph Karlheim, Robert Krise,
Wilfred Lechene, Jules Legros, Ralph
| Rodgers, Aubert Riley and Pat Shee-
{ han.
Plans for the year’s program were
discussed and will be put into final
[form at the next monthly meeting.
Pres. Howard Strittmatter appointed
| Robert Williams as chapter secretary
to fill the vacancy left by Ed Nuss,
| who recently left Patton to make his
| residence in New York.
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Argentina's first modern air-
plane constructed by a private com-
| pany was made entirely of wood ex-
| cept the engine and recently made a
| successful flight.
MINER FATALLY HURT
AT REVLOC OPERATION
Trapped under a fall of rock in the
Monroe Coal Co. mine at Revloc, El-
mer Cunliffe, 33-year-old Cherry Tree
miner, was injured fatally on Tues-
day morning. The man’s death oc-
curred shortly after noon in the Mem-
orial hospital at Johntown. He was
born at Ramey, Clearfield county.
and is survived by his parents, his
widow, a brother and four sisters.
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