IE Thursday, September 30, 1043 PATTON NEWS BRIEFS Pfc. Robert Overberger, student at the University of Pittsburgh Dental School, is spending a week's furlough | between semesiers with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Overberger. Sgt. Ben Hugill, of the bainbridge | Air Base, Bainbridge, Ga., returned to | his station on Weanesday after a 15- | wife, | | ome day furlough spent with his Mrs. Violet Hugill. Tec. Cpl. Vince Balon of Fort Bliss, | station on | Wednesday after spending a twelve | : i | town; Francis and Ordell Yeckley of | Texas, returned to his day furlough with his wife, Mrs Frances Balon, and parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Frank Balon. Four young women from Patton have been enrolled in the U, S. Cadet Nurse Corps and are receiving their | preliminary training at Indiana State | Teachers’ College, Indiana. The cadet | nurses, all graduates of Patton High | School include Bertha Mae Thomas, | Bertha Wilkinson, Martha Dell and Margaret Hitch. Miss Patty Greene, who had been | employed in Westfield, New Jersey, | for the past several months, return- | ed to her home here last week. | The Hastings Rationing Board will | be closed all day Thursday, Septem- | ber 30th, to move to the Lowmaster Building on Main Street, the same | building where the postoffice is lo- | cated. { The Patton Lodge of the Sons of | Italy has pledged a quota of $5,000 | to the War Bona campaign. | The War Bond parade and rally on| Thursday evening last in Patton was | a well attended and enthusiastic af-| | fair. The parade was participated in| by the school children and the var-| ious organizations. The program fol- | lowing the parade was presided over | by Postmaster George A. Lehman. | Talks were given by Miss Iva B. Sel- | lers, of Johnstown, chairman of the | county women’s division; Albert Ww. | Walters of Johnstown, county chair- | man of the War Finance Committee; | P. E. Sperry of Harrisburg, state of-| ficer of the Third War Loan Drive, | and the Rev. Father Florian Berg- | man, O. 8S. B., pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, Patton. A card and bingo party will be sponsored by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of | the Veterans of Foreign Wars on! Tuesday evening, October 5th, at 8 o'clock. Lunch will be served. Admis- sion is 25 cents. | Miss Bertha Mae Thomas has en- listed in the U S. Army Nurse Ca-| det Corps at the Indiana School of | Nursing. She is a graduate of the Jo- | cal high school and a daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Thomas. Misses Martha Dell Campbell and | | AE TREE, —~MARCH'S } SUGGEST WHEN IN ALTOONA A VISIT TO OUR STORE Will convince you of one of the largest and best selectel stocks of Men's anl Boys’ Clothes to be found in Cen- tral Pennsylvania of the ‘““‘Bettr Kind,”’ and always reasonably priced. S.MARCH'S SONS 1224 11th AVENUE ALTOONA | | [ | | | | { mond Dietrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. | | and neighbors, who were kind to us| [| {vice at 7:30 P. M. ’ , | Sychar.” | and court records is being complet- Seeks Separation Bertha Mae Wilkinson, graduates of the Patton igh School, have joined the U. 8. Cadets. They were visiting | their parents over the week end. Banns of matrimony were publish- ed on Sunday in St. Mary's Catholic | Church between Miss Hilda Becker, | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles | Becker of St. Boniface, and Pfc. Ray- | Stephen Dietrick of this place. Pfc. | Dietrick is stationed in Virginia. | A family reunion was held on Sun- | day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jer- | Yeckley. Those present were: | Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Yeckley and daughter, of Altoona; Mr. and Mrs. | Merle Yeckley and children, Johns- | Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Isidore | Yeckley and children of Loretto; Mr. | and Mrs. Robert Yeckley and child- ren of Hastings; Mrs. Louise Van- | est of Loretto; Miss Lou Salman of | Cleveland, Ohio; Jerome and Elwood Ytckley and Pvt. Dennis Yeckley of | Kentucky. The latter has been spen- ding a furlough with his parents. Ensign Cyril Fritz of Corpus Christi, Texas, visited among friends | and relatives here over the week end. | Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bender of East Carroll Township, and family, will move their household goods on Fri- Birmingham, Ala., is suing for sepe day of this week to Cltveland, Ohio, | aration from her husband, Ruther where they expect to make their fu- | ford Hatch, grandson of the late cure home. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. She SE RE AL MRS. CLARE MAPES HATCH, native of Pvt. Austin Craver and wife of Ft.| charges him with being “abusive”, Belvoir, Va., visited the latter's par-| Mrs. Hatch is asking $100 a week ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin,| ‘~~~ ~rvalimony. (International) recently. | A special jury panel for a term of | | J civil court to open in Ebensburg on GOVERNOR ASKS October 25th, has been drawn. Selec- | ted for service from this section are: | STATE WORKERS John J. Bender, Ruth V. Brown, Ja- | mes G. Chambers, Louis Haluska. v Frances, one of the 2-year-old twin T0 GIVE BLOOD daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. | lin Cammarata, of North Fifth Avenue 3 is a patient at the Childrens Hospital | hy Covert maset db in Pittsburgh, where she 38 un ergo monwealth employees throughout the ing surgical treatment. The child is; : . mn state to donate blood to their local a daughter of the business manager | Red Cross banks “to bring the war the Union Press-Courier, and her con- {io a Socosei] and early OE ae onr aluon is serious. i H * Spring Chickens for sale, either | “Thanks to modern science, tens live or dressed, at Pandola’s Poultry! of thousands of lives can be saved if Farm. we, far from horror of battle, con- Soke | tribute a wee bit of the blood we can Card of Thanks. | spare without harm to ourselves,” We wish to thank all our friends !|Gov. Martin said. State Departments with the most during our recent bereavement, the | volunteer blood donors are the Li- illness and death of our husband and quor Control Board, 334; Unemploy- father, Walter Zakowsky; also for the | ment Compensation, 305; State Po- floral offerings and the use of auto- | j;0e 295; Revenue, 244; and High- mobles at the funeral.—Mrs. Mary | ways, 195. Zakvshy ond child i State Labor and Industry Secretary Trinity Methodist Church. | William H. Chestnut claims Pennsyl- Friday, October 1st—The Women’s | Vania War Plants are the nation’s Society of Christian Service meets at safest. : ; 8:00 o'clock. | He said their accident record is Saturday, October 2nd—The annu- | lower than the plants in any other al booth festival will be held in Ty-|state despite a heavy increase in the rone at the Methodist Home for the | manhours worked. Aged. Lunch will be served at 1:00 P.| Mr. Chestnut told the National M. The program will begin at 2 P. M. Committee for Conservation of Man- Prizes will be awarded for the larg- power in war ihustris that employ- est contribution and for the greatest | ges increased mileage represented by the visiting | hours by 360 million in 1942, but the groups The contributions will be on| gecident frequency rate went up on- display in the booths provided. ly .48 per cent and the accident se- Sunday, October 3—9:45 A. M,| verity rate only .02 per cent over the “The Church at Study.” This is An-| previous year. nual Rally Day in the Church School. | Vv It is hoped that every one make it al a . ’ big day—big in interest and accom-| British ‘Preserve’ Towns lishment. . P0130 A. M.—“The Church at Wor-| In Photographic Record ship.” This is World Wide Commun- | LONDON.—By the end of last ion Sunday when all Christendom | year photographs had been taken of enters into the sanctuary of Our all the important buildings in three- Lord with a prayer for the men and| Quarters of the British towns and women in uniform. It is the day, too,| Cities likely to attract ‘‘Baedeker” when all can contribute to the com-! raids, it was disclosed in the annual fort of those in service by making a| report of the Pilgrim Trust. | special contribution to the Fellowship | When the work of “recording Brit- | of Suffering and Service. ain” is finished this summer the | trustees believe that a reasonably Evening Worship. | comprehensive pictorial record will Octobtr 6th—Junior| be available. Mid-Week Ser-| A supplementary project of micro- “The Woman of | photographing Chancery, Exchequer 6:30 P. M.—Youth Fellowship. 730 P, M. Wednesday, League at 3:30 P M. [ed on raidless nights by members —Pennsylvania has joined the fed-| of the public record office on volun- tie ay | eral maternity aid program for wives | tary air raid protection duty. Copies |the state are assured free medical | in Washington. “Party lines, like all telephone wires, are busier than ever these days. If you folks will ken calls brief and be thoughtful of your neighbors, you'll all get better service on your party lines.” THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA care during the pre-natal period and | a year after birth. | Britain Is Removing > | Its Invasion Defenses | Teen-Age Queen | LONDON.—Great Britain is re- 3 | moving many of her emergency de- . ” | fenses, such as anti-tank ditches, | barbed-wire barriers and road ob- | structions, which were hastily { thrown up when invasion seemed | imminent in 1940. Lord Croft, undersecretary for i war, told the house of lords that Sir | Bernard Paget, commander-in-chief of the home forces, had directed all | commands to remove all obstrue- tions which could be dispensed with “in view of the altered military situ- ation.” The Solemn Novena in honor of the Little Flower which opened at the Carmelite Monastery at Loretto, on September 25th, will close on Sun- day, October 3rd, the Feast of the Little Flower. There will be a solemn High Mass at 7 a. m. Closing services {of the Novena with Solemn Benedic- tion and the Papal blessing at 4 p. m. and also at 8 P. M. At both these services there will be the ceremony lof the Blessing of the Roses in hon- jor of St. Therese. These roses will be | distributed to the faithful. The Car- | melite nuns will greatly appreciate | any donations of roses to be used ei- | ther for the Decorations or for the blessin. They should be at the Mon- astery on Saturday, Oct. 2. The Sis- ters thank all their good friends and fag | CLOSE OF SOLEMN NOVENA | | | MEET Miss Teen-Age of 1943 She is fifteen-year-old Gwen Currier and is shown being crowned by | benefactors. The Novena has been Walter Thornton, head of a model conducted by the Franciscan Fathers agency. She was chosen after a of Loretto. three-month search in which 10,000 v. Don’t forget to mail that Christmas parcel overseas NOW! girls between the ages of 13 and 19 were interviewed. (International) y 100,000 and marn-| UNION PRESS.COURIER. PAGE FIVE oodles Belle Bel 8. 8.8 88s » rT Rarer 14 Light Tanks | Whip 30 Nazis | Yanks Beat Heavily Armored | German Machines Plus |’ Infantry Division. ] U. S. REPLACEMENT DEPOT, |+ ENGLAND.—How 14 light American | * tanks manned by intrepid young Americans whipped 30 Nazi tanks, plus a Nazi infantry division, plenty of anti-aircraft guns and a sky full of Stukas, was the story told in Lon- don by one of the Americans who fought in the battle. He was Sergt. John Havelka, 24, of 202 Main street, Bethalto, Ill., a member of a famed armored unit which reached the British isles in May, 1942, and fought its way to glory in Tunisia less than six months later. | The tanks of the Nazi force, Ser- geant Havelka said, were 18 Mark-3 light models and 12 Mark-4 medi- | ums. They were part of one of the : Afrika Korps crack armored units. | After landing successfully at Oran | 3 on November 8, the American unit |* pushed into Tunisia and finally into |. the showdown battle of “Stuka Val- | ley,” so-called because of the tre- | J mendous number of the dive-bomb- | + ing German planes in operation |. there. ‘ The battle raged for several days, | Sergeant Havelka said, during which 4 E TET TTTPTTT™Y RRR PRT VRID time it was so ‘“‘mixed up” it was hard to tell friend from foe. While his company was engaging the superior force of enemy armor, two other companies of his regiment shattered all opposition and pushed ahead to an enemy airdrome. There the Germans attacked the Ameri- can tanks with pistol and rifle fire and met exactly the same fate met- ed out to Poles, Frenchmen and oth- DR. L. Evenings by App Phone 197.) GREATER SELECTION 3 of Syles Soles dedi ddd ld 8 88 8 a ree Tr rTTTTeTYTY v PETTITT TTTree KARP Office Located in Karps’ Jewelry Store ETT PTT Ie Pe IT Ire rvrerrrerrerdeddide BARNESBORO ointment Only. er victims when they first opposed LOS es Hitler's armored legions with simi- lar weapons. “It was a massacre,” the Mid- west sergeant declared. Once their machine guns and can- non had disposed of the defending German force at the airfield, the tough tankers turned their weapons on the planes dispersed about the Miss Edythe M. Buck, of Johns-| town, daughter of Mrs. Henry Buck, | formerly of East Carroll township, | and Daniel Snyder of Johnstown, re-! cently were married in the monastery of St. Benedict’s church at Carroll- town. | —The baby should never have his nose, mouth or hands wiped with the used handkerchief of another per. son; doing so offers an opportunity for passing infection. Keep a hands kerchief or have proper tissue for the baby’s use. field and destroyed 70 of the bomb- ers and an uncounted number of fighters. “After that,” said Sergeant Hav- elka, ‘“‘there jwere no more 12-plane bombing raids every 15 minutes.” The raid én the enemy airfield had not come soon enough, however, to prevent the sergeant from being wounded by} one of the dive bomb- ers. He was hit in both legs and the right sh ulder. “Jerry is{ clever,” serted, ‘“‘an ping if he made op _u A CANVAS ‘CA Havelka as- wwill catch you nap- . In every raid he |_mad t least one-plane Al- ways hung back and attacked after the rest hadfpassed. The idea was to catch us caming out of our shell holes, and the first few times it worked, what with the smoke and dust and general excitement.” All Men in Air Service Will Get Combat Duty PATTERSON FIELD, DAYTON, OHIO.—Maj. Gen. Walter H. Frank, commanding general of the air serv- ice command, announced that every soldier in the air service command not now in the field has been or- dered to combat duty. The order will. release approxi- mately 8,000 additional troops to the fighting fronts, Frank said. The or- der is effective at all air service command installations. The duties of the men transferred to combat duty will be taken over by limited service personnel and WACs, Frank said. o WHEN MINNIE, the favorite cat at Twin Brothers Puzzle -than a little surprised when a mo- nursing five little ones, Official U. RAF Squadron Leaders TERNITY’ WARD the Charleston, S. C., Navy Yard Marine Barracks, was about to give birth to her brood, she retired to an unzippered canvas bag under one of the Leathernecks’ bunks. A Marine, hearing an odd noise, pulled forth the bag and found Minnie S. Navy photo. (International) LONDON.—Twin brothers who are sergeant pilots in the same Royal Air force squadron have defied identification attempts. The adjutant tried to tell which was which by having one wear a metal and the other a cloth insigne on his shoulder, and then forgot which was wearing the metal emblem, reports here state. The puzzle has continued for six months. The twins, Douglas Charles Borland and Noel Vincent Borland, enlisted the same day, so even their service records are iden- tical. = Honest Motorist Seeks Owner of Damaged Car HAGERSTOWN, MD.—It happens once in a while—but not often—so State Trooper J. J. Coady was more ® Prompt Action — “While You Wait” Service If Possible. @® Private Service—Your Loan Is torist came in to report he had hit Strictly Between You And Us. a parked car and damaged a fen- der. The motorist said he had tried to get in touch with the owner and failed and asked Coady to see if he could find him. The motorist want- ed to pay for the damage. Horse-Drawn Hearse Is Asked by Aged Woman READING, PA.—To carry out the terms of her will, the body of Mrs. Mary L. Eck, aged 72, of Newmans- town, Lebanon county, will be car- ried to its last resting place in a horse-drawn hearse. An ardent sportswoman in her younger days, Mrs. Eck, who died in her Newmanstown home, speci- fied the terms of her funeral and added a request that her body be placed in an oak casket. V. PLAN, Telephone 467 THAT WILL INTEREST YOU IF YOU NEED MONEY! S S. a ® A NNER 7 eer HA LOANS UP TO $300—CONVENIENT REPAYMENT TERMS Hours: 9 to 5:00 Daily, Except Wednesday Afternoon BARNESBORO BUDGET Buy War Bonds and Stamps!. —Do your part 1 the Bond Drive! EA A 222) 22; Zz %, Niwa N ® Loans Made To Both Men" And Women. ® Co-Signers Or Endorsers Sel- dom Required. INC. BARNESBORO
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