rhage. A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ‘ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 2 UNION Union Press, Established May, 19356 AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST «rs Z C0 Patton Courier, Established GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA URIER —, mn ZN | Sa Oct., 1893 VOL. 51. NO. 4. G9 PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR NORTHERN COUNTY RESIDENTS ASKED TO WOUNDED IN ITALY Mr. and Mrs, Raymond F. Simmers BE BLOOD DONORS of Patton R. D., have been informed by the War Department that their Walter Noonan of Patton Will Be | scn, Pvt, Raymond L. Simmers, 19, Head of Clearfield Red Cross Branch in Campaign. was slightly wounded in action Oc- tober 13th, in Italy. He joined the army in November Announcement of the appointment | of 1942 and traned as a paratrooper of blood donor campaign chairmen | at Fort Benning, Ga. However, he la- was made last Thursday night at & meeting of Clearfield Branch, Cam- bria County Chapter, American Red Oroas, at headquarters in Patton, Harry Nehrig, branch head, named leaders after the members at the ses- sion were informed of detailed plans for operating a blood bank in Johns- town December 13th to Jaunary 15th under the auspices of the Red Cross. Walter E. Noonan of Patton was selected as chairman and George | day next Thursday, and in order to | ter transferred to the Infantry and was sent overseas last June. He par- ticipated in the Sicilian campaign, and then went to Italy with the Al- lied forces. The Simmers family for- merly resided in Seward. PAPER NEXT TUESDAY Because of the Thanksgiving Holi- Clark, of Hastings, vice chairman of | facilitate our mail delivery and to the registration committee. Rev. Fa- | afford advertisers coverage before ther Vincent Schlemmer of Hastings, | the holiday, the Union Press-Courier was appointed to head the speakers’ | will be published on Tuesday after- bureau. A schedule of registration noon next week. days May we ask all correspondents and will be set up for the communities | 2dvertisers to have their copy in our in the area served by the Clearfield | office no later than next Tuesday “Appointment of Dr. Bowers came Branch and in Patton Chairman Noo- | Morning. nan has anniunced that registrations will be accepted at the local Red h ! Cross headquarters every afternoon LIEUTENA T EMORY | from 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock, and in the evenings from 7:30 to 8:30. Registrations started in the area! on Monday of this week and will con- | : ; | burg. presumabl FURLOUGH AT HOME so: of the Red Cross and compli-| pypiovees will receive increases | DRIVE FOR BOND | assumption that normal output could tinue all week. Robert 8. Clark, general chairman | : of the blood donor drive, and R. 8.| (pe of Patton's outstanding soldiers McClelland, executive director of the nh.s returned home on furlough. He | County Red Cross Chapter, both of | iy DIETRICK SPENDING | | i is Lieutenant Emory Detrck of the | Johnstown, were speakers at the mee- | United Stutes Army Air Forcesa | ting’ | pilot who has seen the required num- | Mr. Clark explained the procedure per of inissions over enemy territory of organization in the interest of se- j, the Middle-East and Arrican anu curing acceptable persons to contri- afediterannean theatres. bute to the blood Mr, McClelland’'s talk dealt also with the coming to Johnstown of the Red Cross caravan but he commend- ed the branch for its “outstanding enthusiasm and work in all Red Cross! activities.” bank. Annonucement was made that Mrs. | mn and Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. M. I.| | Dietrick received a telephone call] from their son, at Langley Feld, Va.,! saying he was now in the States anu | | that he would arrive home this week | on a twenty day furlough. He arriv- | ed home Tuesday night. { Mrs, John| Fmory was ope’of the first Patton | James are entitled to receive produc- | YOWlg men in the service. Enlisting tion pins for contributing gratis more | Quite “a While before the draft iaw than 350 hours’ Cross cause. work to the Red | Wat’ established, he worked his i i from the enlisted personnel into offi- | More than 100 persons in Hastings | cers’ school, and became a pilot with | arc taking a Red Cross first aid] course. Ve QUARTERS OF § OFFICES IN CHANGE :: Proposal that quarters of various ocunty departments be shifted in the Ebensburg court house will probably | | n by the commissioners. For some time the] need of obtaining larger quarters for | be considered soo some of the departments has been ap-| parent, on lie commision of second lieutenant in | { the Air Force. Somewhat more than | |a year ago, he left for overseas, and' | was assigned to the Middle East] {| Ccmmana. He saw plenty of air ac- | "tion during the period when Rommel | | was chased across Airica and when | Germans were finally ejected | from that continent. Following this, | he submitted to an operation which | | kept him in a base hospital at Cairo | | fer a couple ot months, when he was | again placed on active flying duty. | county Ete took part in the air raias on Sicuy | and later Italy. Most of the time he| | has been piloting a War Hawk (P-40) | | plane, and has been actively engaged | | in strafing and dive bombing. Under the proposed setup Cambria | { County Ration Board No. 2 and the] Cambria County Agricultural Lt. Dietrick has been exceptionally | Con. | fortunante throughout all this action, | | servation Association, both of which and it goes without saying that the| 5 108 f friends 5 ag i 2 -t are quartered in the basement of the host of rriends he has in Patton, who | courthouse, will have to seek outside quarters. i have constantly been interested in his| | activities, are glad to see him back | the | Feport to Atlantic City, following his | basement, where he would have gre- | leave, for further assignment. atly enlarged space. The office of the| ! the. 2 ty Mu Controller would then be moved to|iS Pvt. Francis Dietrick, brother of | Building, Johnstown, on the County Treasurer's office, while | x the quarters of the clerk of courts| Florida. ! would be removed to the controller's | office, The space vacated by the clerk | A of courts would be gven to the pro-| UMWA ASKS FOUR thonotary, John Hite, who for some | time has been greatly in need of en-| larged quarters. Under the setup the Cambria Coun- | ty Historical Society, now located n| the third floor of would be removed to a room n the, resignation of Chairman William H.| basement and the present quarters of | Davis and his three associate public the Society would be given for use of Mrs. Lola Bennett, chief pro- | {itorial in the union's official publica-! 1, bation officer. Heads of the departments affec- ted have complained for some time of | crowded quarters and in some instan- (mands a labor board personnel in| High School on November 24 and 26, | ces have stated that their work was | whom honest workingmen can place | ( i impeded by lack of space. BAKERTON YOUTH NOW | LISTED GERMAN PRISONER real service to their fellowmen—if t Lt. Joseph M. Columbus, 22, listed | the prosecution of the war as as missing in action since Oct. 14th, |wculd have the public believe, then is a prisoner of war of the German {the way of action for them is clear. government, the war department no-| ! ! tified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mi-|in a body—and do it quickly.” [t chael Columbus, of Bakerton. V- . cfficer failed to return from a bomb- the ing raid over Germany. Graduating from Carrolltown High | School in 1940 he joined the Army Air Forces on April 11, 1942, and re-| during the low ebb of meat produc- ceived his wings as a bombardier in| tion next spring under a rationing December, 1942. He served as an in-| plan. recently announced by OPA. structor at Walla Walla, Wash., be-| Meat wholesalers will be loaned points been pastor of the Pentecostal Taber- fore his assignment to overseas duty.|to fill their storage freezers with nacle at Alverda, has been transfer- | structor at Clarion. Algo visiting at the Dietrick home | Emory, and his wife, of Fort Drew, Slant oye ll oF | The United Mine Workers of Am-| courthouse, | erica called on Monday night for the | | the | members of the War Labor Board. The demand is contained in an ed- | | tion, the UMW Journal. 1 “American labor wants and de-| PATTON SOLDIER IS TT | | Thomas A. Owens, of Carrolltown, | ciearfield Supply Co. Indiana: Su-| Ul ! meeting of the branch will be held in ccllection of iron and The office of County Treasurer Roy | Bome again safe and sound. He will | dairy feed adjustment are announced | B. Griffith would be moved to and 26th. | T0 RESIGN WiB in East Carroll township on Novem- | Davis R, 25. i | ber 24th and 26th from 6 p. m. on. | Commissioner—McCloskey D, 38; in East Carroll township on Novem- | R, 20. ber 24 and 26, from 6:00 p. m. on. | Chest Township in the afternoon 850) 0 { evening of Nevember 20 and 22. Davis R, 22. DR. BOWERS HEADS BLOOD DONOR UNIT ~~ SUSQUEHANNA AREA Barnesboro Red Cross Headquar- | ters Will Participate in the | Drive for Plasma. | CLERKS GET WAGE BE FETED TUESDAY BOOST IN DECISION The Patton High School Football | team will be tendered a testimonial : : i banquet at the Commercial Hotel on Regioual WLB Gives Hike to the Tuesday evening next, November 23, Workers in Thirty-five of the |at 6:30 o'clock, sponsored by the the Local Company Units, Walter McCoy Post, Amercian Le- ————— Bin, and local citizens. Dr. B. F. Bowers, practicing physi-| Wage boosts ranging from $2 to| Guest speaker at the affair will be cian of St. Benedict and Barnesboro, | $10 a month have been granted ap- | Bill Higgins, head coach of the Penn was named general chairman of the! proximately 325 employees in thirty- | State Football squad. blood donor service committee of the! five industrial stores in Cambria, In-| There are approximately 30 stu- Susquehanna branch, American Red |diana and Westmoreland counties, it | dents on the local football squad, and Cross Chapter, at a meeting of the 'has been announced by the regiona: [they have been coached by Frank branch, Monday night, in Barnesboro. | War Labor Board. | Schwab. Assisting him in the registration will General Merchandise Stores of the | be the vice chairmen in the various Industrial Stores Group, which in- communities who will announce dates | cludes ten industrial concerns in the | and places for registering in their tree gounties, ii read by the home areas. pay increase whic e announ- ; i Mrs. Blair McAnulty, Susquehan-|ced is in line with the 15 per cent, Te oped i og TA na chairman, who made the appoint- cost of living formula. [oF fathers was broken on ori. y ment, announced at the same time Also granted were adjustments In| ren a SoHEtG TiouSs Somtmittss Soy the selection of other branch leaders. | monthly salaries on the sub-standard | += = © compromise embodying ri Chosen were Miss Jean Daugherty, basis. The War Labor Board ordered | principle that no father anywhere in | publicity; Miles E. Ranck, speakers’ all increases retroactive to July 1st the nation should be called while a | bureau; Miss Helen Gordon, Water! of the current year. | non-father is available, This was the serely, aad Mise Catherine Scollon,| Companies included in the group | main point of a measure passed by ome service. Vici T0 HOLD UP FATHERS Heisley Store Co., Nanty-Glo; Revloc | : | Supply Company. Revioc; oo veo Senate which earlier had appro | Store Company, ver; Cen ra- | ding Corporation, St. Benedict; the | deferment of non-fathers. | Cambria Mercantile Co., Cresson, the Mahoning Supply Co., Indiana; the {as Susquehanna branch voted to co- | operate fully in the blood bank drive | sponsored by the county Red Cross, | in Johnstown Dec. 13 to Jan. 15. representative in the State Legisla- | opior Mercantile Co., Greensburg; | INDUSTRIAL STORES FOOTBALL TEAM TO IGRES TELLS GOAL OPERATORS THEY MUST GET A PACT Mines Will Not Be Returned Until Wage Contract Is Agreed Upon, He Warns. Coal Administrator Harold L. Ick- es Monday emphasized that the gov- ernment operated coal mines will not be restored to private control untit the operators have signed a wage ag- reement with the United Mine Work- ers of America. “If the operators were to negotiate a contract with the mine workers and the repitition of the work stoppage was thus rendered improbable, it would seem clear that the government could immediately turn back the coal mines,” he said at a conference with 29 bituminous and anthracite opera- tors. He said that he would not again subject the nation to a possible fifth general coal strike by prematurely returning the properties. The first arc the Hughes Store Co, Cresson; | "pico Oct. 26 but rejected by | Period of government control was terminated before any contract was COIVr | ved a bill to tighten regulations for | Signed and it led to the fourth ma- jor walkout. The Connally-Smith Anti-Strike law stipulates that government seized | industries must be returned to pri- | vate operation within 60 days after normal production efficiency is re- | ture, was speaker at Monday night's | and Hannastown Supply Co., Greens- | SPONSORING LOCAL sured, Retention of control by Ickes session. He spoke on the general g { i y mented the Susquehanna Branch | ,.oording to the following scale: nembers in particular for their en- | deavors and accomplishments, Mrs. George Nicholson, From $45 to $66 per month, $10 in- in the crease per month; and so on Mrs. A. T. Sundry, Western Direc- would be based on the 'nct be obtained under private opera- tors without a contract. Ickes stressed that he was never chairman | various wage brackets up to present | .. of the American Legion Auxiiary , in favor of nationalization of the pits of volunteer services, reported that | galaries of $115 or more a month, | oo in attendance at the meeting of | and added that “when I joyfully put 73 workers contributed 1,000 hours of | where the raise will be but $2. labor last month. | = 7 Sli Mrs. John Whalen, chairman of the SCRAP DRIVE TO CONTINUE. home nursing, disclosed that four| The “Victory Scrap Bank” Drive, cers to serve for the ensuing year. Of mgst interest to the ladies of | the Patton Unit on Tuesday evening | them back in your laps I hope they of this week, and installed the offi- will stay put.” The sooner a private | agreement mines are returned to private owner- is negotiated and the home nursing classes have been for-|gcheduled to end November 15th, has | 4p. Auxiliary at this time, is a War ship “the Sooner you will make hap- med-—two in Nicktown, one in Span- | heen continued indefinitely. As long | Bond Drive now in progress. gler high school, and an adult class as the war lasts there will be a Con-| sp, jacobs, of this place, has been | in Spangler. : It was steel Mrs. | Pier men of yourselves and me.” He promised full assistance to the | tinning need for iron and steel SCrapP | pamed chairman of the War Activi- operators in their efforts to win Dra announced that the next|to keep the mills well supplied. The | ties Committee, and she in conjunc-' Price adjustments to compensate for SCrabP| tion with the unit president, Mrs, | higher production. costs resulting headquarters in Barnesboro Decem-|from al sources must be a continuing | 4. Haluska, sre the co- ordinating | from the terms of the present gov- | ! 8 ivy ! i 1a Apeatho oe. i ke ORETEIONGL ——— ii tm - 3 et a Bh HP eo. GIVEN The American LOGATION ‘DEMOCRATS WIN | Department of Pennsylvania, are ac- . = | 3 | tively engaged in a campaign that FOR MILK FEED FUNDS MOST SOLDIER VOTES iin smart | will terminate on December 16th, to ! : rp 4 sell War Bonds sufficient to purchase Cambria County milk producers | A majority of Cambria County ser- 67 Army Ambulance Planes known who wish to receive payments under | vicemen and women who voted in the | ,¢ the C-3's. and which would be nam the Dairy Feed 2 So-i read GBS » Legion Auxiliary, | Payment Program | election of Nov. 2, cast their ballots| .4 tor each of the sixty-seven coun- should save evidence of milk and but- | for the Democratic party, a count of | {jcc of the state. The fact that cach terfat sales for presentation in apply- | the military ballots conducted by the . iy. planes costs $110,000 means ing for such payments, according to| computation board last Friday after- ¥. J County AAA Committee. The rate of | revealed. payment for Pennsylvania dairy pro-| on the county wide ticket they ducers will be 40 cents per hundred- | gave majorities to the Democratic! weight for whole milk deliveries and | c,;didates with one exception. This! 5 cents per pound for butterfat sold | exception was Cyrus W. Davis, Re-| in cream and butter. The butterfat| ,;hjican candidate for county eom-|taer either Mis. Jacobs or Mrs. ia-11 test or the utilization of the milk | phicsioner. 4 a id ; a. : | luska. It is urged that all War Bond I 4 act the payment for whole | : 1 > : IL not arsed 2 hry | Of the 89 military ballots returned | purchasers do this. It will help "top | © ! te | to the commissioners, acting as the | one more drive” to Patton's credit. Application for payment on Octo-} county board of elections, 15 were ber milk deliveries should be made to | “ 3 VIE bY ‘eC R ber m i 8 0 | marked with ink and therefore could to transported the battle-front the county AAA cimmittee between. pe counted. Two others were in- altics iste to ariay bass hos | November 1 and 30. Locations throu- | ualties post-haste to army base hos- ghout the county, convenient for the producer, to make application for the of course, voluminous task. All the War Bonds that are pur- this period, can be credited to this arive, providing the purchasers con- . vested war bond money than that. Following are the official results| | below: = ! ™ TT hers are WOKE: around long range planning. The Very chased in the Patton section during R , g vincial of the Franciscan Fathers of Loretto, explains the study by stat- ; PI . ou | gram, that is, These Ambulance Plenes are usedlg., "two, ang successively more of Cas-|(}e necessary additions. We contem- Nite ¢ a , f the splendid rali 2g we affidavits accom | ..: : plate a development of the splenc | valid because the affidavits accon- | hitgls and surely you wouldn't want a properties at Loretto, over a period | Dany:ng them had not been complet-| re worthy cause for your well in-| of years, which will not overlook the | unaeniable fact that by the time all ernment contract under which : the mi-~ poe gE ne i PLAN PLACINGS OF NEW BUILDINGS AT ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE Preliminary plot plans for the pla- cing of the new buildings to be erec- : that the state Legion la- t.q at Saint Francis College, Farabaugh, Chairman of ihe noon at the Ebensburg court house. gio. have pledged themselves to a!gpnow that the thinking of the autho- Loretto, ‘ities at the institution is centering verend Benedict Determann, Pro- ng: “Our object is to determine how hest to use our present facilities in onnection with new structures dur- | ing each period of the rebuilding pro- when we have one, The Legion Auxiliary will hold a or gur new plant is operating much of ’ " iat |of the military ballot count: {Bingo party in the Community hall | shat little remains after our great Mr. W. H. Syock, at the Tri-Coun- | Superior court judge—Bok D, 42; next Monday evening, and the gen-'fire of a year ago will have become ty Milk Marketing Office, 324 Swank | Reno, R, 15: Palmer, Pro, 2. 4 November | pjstrict Attorney—O’'Connor D, 39; | 24th and 26th, from 6 p. m. on. Maver R, 29. Mr. C. J. Bearer at his home in| p, : Y—— Fs Prothonotary—Conway D, 38; Hite | COUNTY LEGION i Susquehanna township in the after-|g 32 | noon and evening of November 24th | “Register of Wills—Hartnett D, 55; | Varner R, 10. Recorder of Deeds—PowellD, 45; Mr. P. C. Strittmatter at his home | Discussion of a program of winter | i y j activities featured a meeting of the Mr. Ivo J. Kirkpatrick at his home | Hollern D, 32; Davis R, 40; Thomas, | cambria County American Legion | Committee on Tuesday night in the Mr. Earl Karlheim at his home in | Griffith R, 22. County Controller Activities of the various Legion posts in the county were outlined in a talk by District Commander Edwin’, | Westrick D, 46; | R. H. Farabaugh at the Allegheny | Clerk of Courts—Culliton D, 36; | ~ » ~ ti 6 T -f ’ . 3 ownship Election House on Novem- (Joy R, 31 Cresson, county chairman, was in|j County treasurer—Baumer D, 40; ppensburg Legi Home |v | enSpurs gion : stitution as the new Saint Francis is to be has an obligation to play a vi. tal part in the welfare of the com- eral public is cordially invited. chbsolete. Our plans are to so develop em St. Francis as to make it one of the finest and most completely equipped ustitutions in the state, and it will be so done that this entire region will i J 1 PLANNING EVENTS worthy of civic pride, 1 confidently expect such growth of the institution —coming of necessity from its very excellence, as will indeed growth of this little town of Loret- to. We can do great things here: we ook upon it as a fitting monument force a will do great things here. Such an in- uunity in which its constituency is Green of Portage. S. T. Cawley, of fund. The new Saint Francis is go- | Town le u i >. 58: Lee R a : : ng to be admirably fitted for taking { Bog 2 2 ri from ? BI ok | 1100 McDermott D, 58; Lee I '| charge of the meeting, during which | its place as a leading force and ful. | 16 a Q e rer. ¢ a 73 . . " . tq rere sul i e hv | fi i i 1 . i i | eorge Se myer, a € wilmore County Surveyor—Pfeister D, 40; | rcutine reports were submitted by | filling this mission. The responsibili- V ’ ' | committee chairmen. j ties of post war days loom up large cenfidence,” the editorial reads. | “If Mr. Davis and his associate | | public members want to perform a |they are as patriotically devoted to |, they The | re TO STORE MEAT FOR SPRING. |t will be available to the housewife |c meat output. s from 7:00 p. m. on. i 3 | ducer simply has to present evidence | of his sales in the form of the cus- necessary, in some other form accep- milk deliveries, the County Commit- | and Twin Rocks Road, which is 3.122 modity Credit Corporation, in favor | gale to Twin Rocks where it joins | A wider variety of rationed meats |of the producer. This draft can be | Route 54. Fetterman R, 20. { COUNTY IVES STATE | meetings have been held in the Eb-|t ensburg Legion ome because of war-|t To apply for payment, the milk pro- omary sales slips, receipts, stubs ob- ained from the milk producer, or if Cambria County Commissioners |wij)) meet at the various Legion posts [t a Pea : At ton | : eyuired. After receiving the applica. | roads over to the state: 3 : or 2 | Legi Home. ion with satisfactory evidence of the | E« On Home The road known as the Vintondale | aN a ee will write a draft on the Com-|mjles in length and runs from Vinton-| STEP UP TRUCK PRODUCTION. A four fold increase in its 1944 civ- |2 {ilian truck production program has|r The road between Beaverdale and |been announced by the War Produc-|S Lovett, which is 2.17 miles long, and |tion Board. So important is this pro- ashed at any bank. 7 During the last year the monthly | on the horizon. THREE OF ITS ROADS time travel restrictions. However, be- | problem now is to get ready— | ginning next month, the committee |ially. When we know the best path We do not look at hem as an ominous shadow but ra- her as a great challenge. Our first mater- 0 choose we shall let the people Frank P, Hollern and John Thomas, | throu > (3 ro » next! Know what it is—they will do: ¢ 2 © : » fie) { ghout the county and the next] y ey will do ihe table to the county committee. Evi- | jr Jast Thursday passed the neces- | meeting, Tuesday evening, December | Fest 2 f fe S i | ’ i 3 , : ; “There is but one answer-—resign Jonoe of fesd purchases Will not be | sary resolutions to turn these county |21g( will be held in the Carrolltown | | MISS RUTH MORLEY GETS NURSE'S DEGREE Miss Ruth Morley, daughter of Mr. nu Mrs. Frank Morley of Barnesbo- 0, has been notified that she has uccessfully passed her state exam- inations and is now recognized as a PASTOR TRANSFERRED. | the Benscreek Pike in Upper Yoder | gram that it has been given priority | registered nurse. | Rev. E. A. Lowmaster, who has|Township which is 834 feet long ana | ratings equal to aircraft and high oc- | tane gas, Provisions are also made | t joins routes 851 and 219, ition last week. the commonwealth. ! production of approximately 700,000. o Miss Morley was. graduated from he Memorial Hospital Nursing Sch- P Under a law enacted during the for production of replacement parts| ool i Septe > this ves She Two brothers are in the service—Cpl. veal, lamb, mutton, and the lower of , red to Greensburg where he will ser-| last session of the state legislature | for civilian use. In pr of the ol re ocbtambey OEiis yeas She Louis Columbus in the Pacific area, | the beef grades, between now and the | ve as pastor of the First Pentecostal | the county roads will become state |fold increase, the new goal of 123,492 | E and Henry Columbus, a flying in-|middle of January, the peak period of | Church. He departed for his new po- highways and will be maintained by | trucks is still far short of the pre-war | Commande | was graduated from the Barneshoro {igh School in 1939. Her father is r of the Barnesboro Post { the American Legion:
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