A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA pt = UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935 YOL 49. NO. 8. BY FARMERS ELECT ‘STORES OPEN DURING E J. FARABAUGH EVENINGS TILL XMAS COUNTY LEADER a: store i marmsors ues we eer | county, as well, are now open in the Lecetton R. D. Man Is Named As evenings until Christmas, to facili- Chairman of the Cambria Co. | tate shopping requirements. | Agricultural Committee | With gas rationing in effect, north rere | county stores report a large volume E. J. Faragaugh, of Loretto R. D.,| of business, and we might suggest was reelected chairman of the Cam- | that our readers review the adver- bria County Agricultural Conserva-|tisements of the merchants in our Ebensburg headquarters. | time restrictions. If you can't find it} Bearer, Hastings, R. D., vice chair- | still ample selections, but the earli-| first alternate; and P. C. Strittmat- | ter, Patton. R. D,, second alternate. | L { ity committees in endeavoring to in- Chairman Farabaugh said the coun- | ; needs for maintaining peak produc- | ; Work Week in Industry The committee will assist farmers| Washington. — Fuel Coordinator | so that they can obtain parts for re-| also will aid farmers in securing gas- | ! { 1 operators for six day operations | Cambria County Farm Agent H. C.| : | The two groups, after a series of | gram for increasing the output of all} they were unabie to agree to a con-| | troversy whether the increase from tion Committee at the annual reor-| columns. Prices are reasonable, and ganization last Thursday night in the | choice is good, considering the war- Other members elected to the com- | convenient to shop during the day—| mittee for the coming year are C. J.| then do it in the evening. There are | man; W. H. Fyock, Johnstown R. D. | er you shop the better. | 2; T. H. Lauer, Ebensburg R. D. 1; sme SY cine The county committee will cooper- ate with eleven independent commun- | HELP IN SOLVING OF | | crease the production of food stuffs, | so vitally needed for the war effort, | ty committee will keep in constant | : ; | contact with all farmers to learn their | Soft Coal Negotiators Can t Agree | on the Terms for a Six Day tion of vegetables and other food- | stuffs. | alii in obtaining certificates of necessity | Harold L. Ickes is expected to inter- | | vene in the deadlocked negotiations | pairing farm machinery. The grou | between the United Mine Workers of | 2 D {America and the Appalachian soft] oline and tires for equipment. ; coa | in bituminous mines. McWilliams will work closely with | the committee in promoting a pro- | consultations, advised Ickes Saturday foodstuffs next summer and fall, The | tract embodying the six day work | cammittee will aid farmers in obtain- | week, principally because of a con- | ing additional fertilizer and seed for) | increased spring planting. | the present five day week should be { | | { | { Committees also will endeavor to | mandatory. secure sufficient farm labor next | The union insisted that the extra | spring so that farmers will be able to | day asked by the government as a i plant additional crops. It was revealed | production increase measure should that if additional labor is not supplied | be a voluntary contribution by min- | the farmers will be unable to nfeet | ers, Operators are willing to pay time requests: for: increased production. and a half for the sixth day of oper- ey ations, but said the U. M. W. proposal | that the added time be contributed MORE DRIVERS BUT | voluntarily “left them no voice or | control over the sixth day operations | of the management's property.” \ FEWER CARS RUN! Ickes requested an extension of | working hours beyond the present 35- Harrisburg Pennsylvania has { hour limit per week on September 29, more Yicensod drivers bat fewer au- contending the increase was necessary [to meet the nation’s 1943 soft coal tomobiles in operation now than hi year ago, the Motor Vehicles Bureau | requirements of 500,000,000 tons. reports. Robert I. Shreffler, bureau admin- | THREE LEGION POSTS istrator, said operators’ permits in-| HONOR MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL DRAFT BOARD | creased 2.5 per cent while gasoline | and tire rationing has caused a 5.9 | por cent decline in automobile Tegte- | Matt Gibby, western vice comman- T : {der of the American Legion, lauded A total of 2,939,877 drivers held | the excellent work being accomplish- permits Dec. 1 this year compared 10 |ed by the selective service boards of 2,867,297 the corresponding date last | pennsylvania in an address on Thurs- year. Automobile registration de- |day night at a dinner in the Barnes- creased from 1,989,210 December 1, |poro American Legion Home in honor 1941, to 1,872,647 the corresponding of members of Cambria County Selec- day this year. {tive Service Board No, 2, with head- Shreffler does not expect as many | quarters at Ebensburg. driving permits to be issued during | The Legion official also told how 1943. Approximately 130,000 renew-|the American Legion is cooperating ais for the coming year were received | with draft boards in carrying out or- by the bureau this week, seven days | ders issued by the government. A after mailing began. | musical program was rendered dur- —— — | ing the evening. The Carrolltown, FORMER HASTINGS MAN Spangler and Barneshoro Posts of the IS APPOINTED A JUDGE | Sristiean Legion sponsored the ban i Members af the board are Judge Attorney Blair F. Gunther, 39, of | George W. Griffith, Judge, Ebens- Pittsburgh, a native of Hastings, on |purg; Thomas Evans, Colver, and Monday was appointed by Governor | Frank Morley, Barnesboro. Board James to succeed his father-in-law, | clerks, doctors and Attorney Neice A. Judge Frank A. Piekarski, as an Al-| Malloy, the board appeals officer, al- legheny court judge. | so were honor guests. Judge Piekarski resigned because | —— ries re - of ill health. The Cambria County na- | FARMERS TO GET «“‘V”’ tive will fill the unexpired term end- PRODUCTION AWARDS ing the first Monday of January 1944. hla Attoreny Gunther was born in Has- Harrisburg.—“V” certificates will tings, a son of the late John Gunther ine awarded Pennsylvania farmers and of Mrs. Amelia Gunther of Erie.| with outstanding food production rec- His father died 20 years ago. AS a|grds. youth Attorney Gunther attended the | The Agricultural Adjustment Ag- public schools in Hastings and Span- | ency said the presentations will be gler. The family moved from north- {made at a Harrisburg ceremony lat- ern Cambria county about twenty | op this month for growers who have years ago. | “maintained or increased production The newly appointed judge attend- of foods essential to victory, conserv- ed Kanty Preparatory School in Erie, ; ed their soil and wholeheartedly co- and was graduated from the law sch- | operated with their neighbors in a un- ool of Duquesne University in 1927, | ited effort to meet the national goals starting law practice the following | of food for freedom. year. | County AAA committeemen will oe 2 PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 The SPIRIT oF A SANTA CLAUS oil # —e 7 ——— pa will be many shadows clouding our Christmas Day this year: but— Chnstmas is important! It comes at the close of the old year binding up the wounds of bitterness, making fast the moorings of friendship. renewing the promise of peace and good will, invoking the magic of memories. Christmas is the children’s feast: has the Master not said that what we do unto the least of His little ones we do also unto Him? It is twenty centuries since there was no room for Him in the inn and many children have neither a bed nor place of safety these nights. For these. we give our efforts, our bundles, and our prayers, In America, the children must not lose their faith in Santa Claus. The best explanation regarding Santa Claus and the Christmas Spirit I have ever been offered or able to figure out for myselt, is the one that was given to me by my mother on that fateful day when I accidentally caught a delivery boy entering the house bearing an illconcealed rocking horse. Santa Claus iypifies the Christmas Spisit: the mothers and fathers. those be- whiskered gentlemen in the stores (who puzzle lots of boys and girls by being sc numerous), the delivery boys, and all of us who support and participate in the campaign of spreading cheer, we are the life blood and sustaining power of the Christmas Spirit. The children of today must have their toys this Christmas: and we must be extra-careful that no child has occasion to lose his faith in Santa Claus. There are plenty of sleds and drums, dolls and painted carts and Christmas trees to go around: but it is up to Santa's helpers to see that every child in the land is remembered. And we grown-ups must have our Chi¥stmas, too. For when we outgrew our toys we set this day aside to reunite our families and strengthen the bonds of friendship. Are met in thee tonight.” | KATHLEEN CROWELL A MILLION YANKS ENLISTS IN WAVES SERVING OVERSEAS Miss Kathleen Crowell, daughter’ Washington —President Roosevelt, of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crowell of | disclosing that American forces over- Patton, who recently enlisted in the | seas will number more than one mil- Navy's Auxiliary Branch of the|lion by the end of this month, told WAVES, left last Sunday from Pitts-| Congress the other day that the “AX- burgh, for Cedar Falls, Iowa, where | is powers have temporarily at least, she will receive her basic training at|lost the initiative.” the Iowa State Teachers’ College. Ac- companying her to Pittsburgh were |, jetter submitting a report to Con- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crowell, and|gress on Lend-Lease operations for sons, Gerald and Charles, Jr. While | the three months’ ended last Friday. there they visited Mr. Crowell’s sis-| In asserting that the Axis had lost the Patton High School, Class of ’39, | must do all we can to keep them and while a student was very active | from regaining it.” in sports. She is also a graduate of | qne report showed that lend-lease Washington, D. C. for the quarter immediately preced- ing the Japanese attack on Pearl PRESIDENT TO TALK “5 { The report described the Allied ON CHRISTMAS EVE force which occupied French - North [Arica as “the greatest overseas ex- | peditionary force in history.” President Roosevelt will broadcast! ope president did not, however, go holiday greetings to the Nation on|jnt, details about foreign operations Christmas Eve, the White House has| which will push the total of American announced. | forces in other lands beyond 1,000,000 The President and Mrs. Roosevelt ! by the first of the year. will preside over the annual national | —— community Christmas tree ceremony SOFT COAL OUTPUT UP, on the south grounds of the White | House December 24th, and Mr. Roose- ANTHRACITE IS DOWN velt will broadcast his Christmas| ye —_— : greetings fron there. | Washington.—Solid Fuels Admin- Last Christmas Eve, Prime Minis- istrator Harold L. Ickes reported on ter Winston Churchill foined the ‘Saturday that production of bitumin- President in ceremonies o the south | ous coal increased, while anthracite i : . | decreased during the week ending on portico of the White House. | December 5th. The No. 1 Christmas tree of the | Soft coal production was estimated AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA “Yet in thy dark streets shineth 3% ; ° The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years The President's statement was in| ter and brother, who reside in Swiss-| the initiative for the time being at vale. Miss Crowell is a graduate of |jeast, Mr. Roosevelt said that “we| the Cambria-Rowe Business College, | sssistance to the nation’s Allies to-| of Johnstown, and since her gradua-|tajjed $2,367,000,000 for the period— | tion there about a year ago, had been |, increase of more than one-third | employed in the Navy Department at! over the previous quarter and more | {than four times the lend-lease total] He is a nephew of Fred Gunther, weil known Hastings merchant. Ne TWIN ROCKS MINER 18 FROZEN TO DEATH The blustery snowstorm and near- zero weather over the week end brought the district's first death of the current winter from exposure. The badly frozen body of Mike Krun, 55, of Twin Rocks, was found about 10 o'clock on Monday morning lying alon the spur of the Cambria & Indiana Railroad which leads from Twin Rocks to Cardiff Mine. A Twin Rocks lad discovered the body, and notified help. But the man had been dead for some time. nominate farmers for the award. aarti Vf metres CASSANDRA MAN IS MADE A MAJOR James Donald Sheridan of Cassan- dra, son of Mrs. Mary A. Sheridan, has been promoted to the rank of Ma- jor at Camp Wheeler, Ga., it was an- nounced Saturday. Major Sheridan, former chief clerk to Lieut.-Col. Louis J. Lampke, when he was stationed in Johnstown, is adjutant of the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Camp Wheeler, —The Press-Courier office is mod- ernly equipped to produce modern printing. nation, a stately spruce tree, will not : i ri ’ : ; at 11,200,000 tons, compared with a be eleeijoally ligited Dengue the Of | revised estimate of 10,745,000 tons that all outside lighting be dispensed Lor IS Holiday week with this holiday season. Io . 3 The Reocovels farmdly wit have ita], 2) acts production Was figured own Christmas tree in the East Room | 30 1103000 tong, compusd with 1. of the White House, but it will be| ons for > previous week: much smaller than heretofore. Its ar Tie . Z only trimmings will consist of imita- | REAL PINCH IN 1944. tion snow, white streamers and white | Flies - A real pinch on canned food for lights. ———V a | civilians is not due ay 1944; that : : | year youll get about 33 pounds a Bakerton Girl Bride. canned food each, compared with 46 Miss Catherine Fedishyn, formerly | pounds in pre-war period. Army will of Bakerton, became the bride of |get all the canned blueberries, cann- Tech, Sgt. Salvatore Eddie Grace of |ed figs and canned carrots. Ozone Park, L. I., at a wedding cere-/ And: the government is quietly at mony performed on Sunday, Dec. 6, work on Ration book No. 3. RIER Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR USEFEWLIGHTSIN |FIREMEN WILL MAKE ~~ OUTSIDE DISPLAYS | In line with the request of the War EQUIPMENT SURVEY | Production Board to save power, the OVER THE COUNTY | gests a minimum of outside Xmas Cambria Group to Ask Rationing | lighting decorations this year. Board for Five Gallons of Gas | To offset this, we hope that use of to Attend Meetings. | greens and other such types of dec-| — | orations will be greater than ever. Inventories of all available equip | We wish to thank all those who|ment of every fire company which | have cooperated in past years in con-inglds membership in the Volunteer {nection with our Christmas lighting, | pjremen’s Association of Cambria | and let us hope that next year we can | county and Vicinity will be made and | use our Christmas lights again. turned over to the Cambria County | Patton Chamber of Commerce. ! council of Defense. Decision to check on all available 1 fl equipment in the county was made at ‘MINE WORK IS N {a meeting of the association last y : | Thursday night in the Cresson Fire WOMAN S JOB SAY |has been transferred from the Naval | dent, was in charge of the meeting. 10AL Charles Kreutzberger, fire chief of UNION S LEADERS the Defense Council, will be given a list of every fire iruck, pumper, em- . ‘ ergency squad car and every foot of {Couple of Coal Companies Hired i Te in the county in the ev= Some Females But They Soon [ent of an emergency. With the com Released Them, { plete knowledge of where every piece — | of equipment is located, defense of» me en ficials will be able to hold to a min- The United Mine Workers have |imum calls made during emergencies. {hung out an emphatic “men only” | The firemen adopted a resolution te signa, so far as working in or around |ask the Cambria County Rationing coal operations are concerned. {Board that five gallons of gasoline be Millions of women have entered given to each member company for manufacturing industries, and the {attending monthly meetings. The percentage of women is steadily | gasoline will be divided among don- growing as compared to men in the {ors of automabiles and as many fire= war industries, but the United Mine men as possible will be transported te | Workers Journal made it positive | the meetings. | there will be nothing like that in or| Firemen also adopted a new code jaround coal mines. |system for summoning assistance in t Two recent instances of employ-|the event of emergencies. The three ment of women around coal mines zone system was eliminated so that | were called ‘grandstand publicity” | emergency calls can be held to a min-~ i plays. One was in western Canada, | imum. Only a designated number of |and the other in Algoma, West Vir- | firemen in each.company will be au- | ginia, where William Berry, general thorized to call other companies for manager of the Algoma Coal Com- help and these men will have to di- pany, was said by the miners’ paper |vulge a secret number or letter be- | to. have hired five women as tippfe|fore the company will respond to the {workers on the alleged pretense of alarm. 3 | solving a manpower shortage. i President Davis pointed out that The Algoma manager, the paper under the new gystem that only com- | declared, “dreamed up the manpower | panies that are actually needed will | shortage, because investigation has |be called. The firemen, in emergen- {revealed that on.the very day the | cies, will call the company which is (live women wers hired, eight men able to provide the most suitable eq- |were refused jobs at the Algoma uipment. For instance, when a heavy | mine.” { pumper is needed, a company With { In both cases the women were dis- | that type of equipment will be sum: i charged and replaced by men as soon | moned or when additional hose is trae Ve eetreremmmn 4 | { { —|as UMWA representatives learned of |needed a company which normally he situation, it was reported, “but | carries a large amount of hose will [not before the gullible Department of | receive the call. {the Interior had received the news The president also announced that {and had issued a release which caus-|the 1943 county convention probably ed press services to pick up the Al-| will be held the first week in August Sunday noon brought us a surprise goma story and put out considerable in Beaverdale. | publicity for the mine management.” | The firemen adopted the following In notifying the Algoma manage- | Schedule of meetings for the coming ment it must immediately stop the| Year: January, :Ebensburg; Febru- | practice of hiring women, George J. |2r¥s Coalport; March, Southmont; | Ditler, president of District 29 in sou- | April, Carrolltown; May, Beaverdale; | thern West Virginia, said, “It is re- | June, Vintondale; July, none; August, grettable that coal operators will at- | county convention in Beaverdale; tempt to reduce the social standard September, Ideal Fire Co. Benscreek; of wives and daughters of our mem- | October, Clymer; ‘November, one, | bership to a level with those prac- and December, Riverside. | tices in the dark ages—that of slav- —~ — ling in the production of coal which! | was abolished in England in the 18th! SHERIFFS EEK RIGHT Century.” ! “Employment of women in and ar- | TO SUCCEED SELVES { ound mines,” said the Journal, “is not | practical. Every miner knows this, | ST and so does every operator. Coal min- | A drive is to be made in the com~ ing is ot a woman's job and that is | ing session of the legislature to have all there is to it. For that reason the | passed a constitutional amendment UMWA contracts specifically cover [to permit a sheriff to succeed himself men, not women.” {in office. He is barred by the consti- The union was expected to have no | tution from being a .candidate for a | difficulty in controlling the situation second term. SEY, because not only is its membership| The legislative !Gommittee of the | restricted to “workmen” under its | Pennsylvania Sheriff's ‘Association | constitution but it operates under an {will meet in Harrisburg’ on Thursday |almost complete “union shop” in the | of this week to plan the campaign in far flung industry. | the Legislature. : : Ne x A constitutional amendment, to be . | adopted in Pennsylvania, - must be BARNESBORO MAN | passed in two sessions:pf the legisla- | ture and then ratified by the voters. ! Under that schedule it would be IS NOW A MAJOR possivie for an amendment to be ad- | a Bio in time to permit Sheriffs : whose terms will expire in January, John Binder or Barnesporo, whol 1946 andi ‘ er [was called to the service about EL 3 be cendilstes Yor reseloction | months ago and who was given the eet ty rank of captain, has been promoted | ATE TA to the a. major, it, Ee! SURPRISE TEST AIR RAID | Saturday. Major Binder is a gradu- | SOUNDED LAST SUNDAY | ate of West Point. He is a son of Mr. | Tn and Mrs. E. M. Binder, and is the se-| : {nior member of the Binder Bros. daylight air-raid, and it was declared | Hardware Company. At the present | PY, defense officials to be the best {time he is serving on the West | Yet in this section of the state. | Coast. He formerly was located at! ,1he twenty-minute drill, between | camp Robins, Georgia. 12 noon and 12:20 p. m, which cau- ——— {ght the entire district by complete | | surprise, found many persons attend- (A AND D EMLOY=S TO ing church services and still manv | DDED STIPENDS | others on Ssh way home from the : ~ | services. The weather was cold | New York.—Additional compensa- | blustry, and wardens and police ra | tion totalling $1,400,000 will be dis- | ered at their posts. {tributed to employes of the Great At- eee BN iii lantic and Pacific Tea Company be- Mrs. Augusta O’Donn f j Mrs. S ell of ang= fore Christmas, it has been annonuc- | ler was elected secretary of Ene ed by John A. Hartford, president. joria County Department of Publia All A & P employes throughout the | Assistance at a meeting of the county | country with six months or more of | DPA last week. Mrs, O'Donnell : a service will participate in the cash| member of the county staff for some distribution, : : time, was acting as temporary secre« The company’s employes were vot-| tary since the resignation of Mrs, ed similar compensation last year. [Mary M. Hayes of Westmont : |
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