ry n Gi CY . o me - UNION PRESS.COURIER. Thursday, February 17, 1944, ni—— PAGE FOUR { with but minor damage, b, rompt | a work that constantl ws in vol- ’ HA MA Patton Courier, Estab., Oct. 1893. and energetic action. B yy ? ume, and constantly He farther YOULL L Ps ua RE ERG Union Press, Estab. May 1935 || PI and farther over the face of the yn, HERE IN PATTON, FIRE CHIEF |globe—a shining light in a world of UNION PRESS-COURIER | James Blake announces that a fire | dreariness for our own boys. io roe ine fith school will be held after the regular ih bin to April 1st, will extend for seven meetings of the company. This is im- | ANNOUNCING THAT PLANS ARE | © on 00% 0 the last one of six A. Owens, 723 Fifth Avenue, Pat. | Purtant. It calls for the presence of | being made for the 1944 Red Cross |p "i, 4iviqual buyers will still be ton, Pa. and entered as second || all active firemen. War Campaign Fund, Robert J. Glock |,;.i109 ey a firth of a gallon, the class mail matter May 7, 1936, at "AH40 Cambria County campaign chairman, Liquor Control Board announces. the postoffice at Patton, Pa., under || THERE'S NO USE KIDDING OUR- [issued an appeal for full co-opera-|™gi.¢e store customers will again the Act of March 3, 1879. selves: The 1noral and political ef- tion in the drive. The national goal have to present in person War Ra- ns fect of an Allied defeat in the Net. | 13 $20,000,000 and Cambria County's | "gis to be stamped and pun- A sla) .\ (STOR oll \ Dl le Hid Feb. 19, 1944 It's Sure “Tops in Flavor’ HEAT-FLO ROASTED Each bean uniformly roasted, surface to center, developing its natural Published every Thursday by Thos FF. P. Cammarata ... Business Mgr. share has been set at $246,000. “Ev- ery citizen of Cambria county has a common share in Red Cross and each has a common share to see that Red Cross is given the greatest financial support,” Glock declared. *okrkE “OUR SUPPORT OF THE AMER- ican Red Cross is an investment in victory. The humanitarian work of Thes. A. Owens ........ Editor Thos. Owens, Jr., Associate Editor (In Overseas Military Service) Subscription, $2 a Year in Advance | Advertising Rates on Application The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely represent Union Workers in their efforts to || obtain economic freedom, particu- larly as advocated by the United Mine Workers of America. We so- leit the support of All Unions. Material for publication must be authorized by the organization it L represents, signed by the Presi- dent and Secretary. and bear the seal of the Local. The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of the combined circulation of the two largest circulated weeklies in Cam- bria County and has a reader cov- erage that blankets Patton and the major mining towns. | | FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS THE north of Cambria county has been SO. tuno bridgehead in Italy would be tremendous. It would be all out of proportion to the military signifi- cance of the reversal. The eyes of Russia, Balkans, China and occupied countries are on us in Italy. So are the eyes of the Nazis and their sa- tellites. Russia never enthused over our North African campaign. She called it a sideshow. She warmed up a little after Sicily and the collapse of Mussolini. But she still demanded a second front in Western Europe, and since the virtual stalemate in Italy, Russia has sneered, “I told you se ok ok THE GERMAN PEOPLE WHO ARE beginning to weaken at the con- stant air hammering, would be buck- ed up. They would feel that they still have a chance to win, if things go wrong in Italy. Yugoslavs and’ Greeks would conclude that libera- | tion was as far off as ever. Bulgaria, | be looking for the nearest exit, | would give it second thought. China, Ply for a FHiary vallor within the 20 | be | already told she must wait until the | day period which occurs NOL MOTE | "of any United States dessert | war in Europe is over before getting | than 50 days before the election and = = °° “0 © “To aperitif. ched by a state store clerk, while Pennsylvanians who bought no whis- key since rationing began Nov. 15, will fill out and sign identification slips. The board also set allotments for officers and enlisted personnel, 21 and over, at a pint for the first four weeks, another pint for the remain- : : 3 ing three weeks, or a single four- Red Cross is vital and must be con-| . tinued. Serving on the steering com- hiths of a quart for the entire per- mitte for the 1944 War Fund are E. 3. Dougn, John M. Caslen Serge will continue on the basis of 60 per George Fiig, Jr, P. H. Harris: R. G.[C00t Of their former normal purchas- Kirschmann, Eugene Maurice, Rob-|% the board added, while whiskey ert McEldowney and R. B. Porter. is still the only rationed merchan- Fit dise at state stores. m STALL + Rums, all United States table or Na LG AR a7 dary wines and all foreign wines, ex- letting the soldiers vote. Our own |S¢Pt sparkling wines, may be bought Congressman by his roll call “No” on |! 80¥ Suantiey, while Sonsimers ul federal ballot propositions, hasn't 50 ry oy Same fee ons 20 > helped matters much. Pemnnsylvania|b'e Of brandy or cry gin or rut ta- vored gin or sloe gin or cordials or od. Allotment of whiskey to licensees «= || Rumania and Hungary, reported to | voters, under our state laws, in the |) quers or rock and rye or cocktails. military and naval forces must ap-| In addition a person may buy a ttle of any available sparkling increased help, would feel that help [not less than 30 days before the el- — Ty was far off. ok dk NO USE BEING AN OSTRICH AB- | bcfore the election “to the address The military ef- | furnished by the elector in his appli- out this either: fects of a defeat at Nettuno would | cation.” | scattered in hundreds of places ar- | ound the world, many of them bound | also be out of proportion to the num- | ber of troops involved. Some of the | best military brains still say that | to change aldpasses beiwes 2 the Balkans are the weakest bastion | time they apply an e time ballots ; | of Hitler's fortress, and stragetically | are mailed, it manifestly is impossi- closed by Army Service Forces. £ i e | ble ti vide more than a fraction DiSY 35 the koV 10 Bs Balkans Bad | of OT ballots, even if they |n€y ,of Ashville, the soldier enlisted Italy been quickly overrun by the ection. Election officials must then | ; 8 : mail these ballots at least 15 days ASHVILLE SOLDIER NOW | IS IN THE HOSPITAL With Pennsylvania voters| Sgt. Paul K. McKinney, 29, has been evacuated from the Asiatic war theatre and now is a patient at the the | Valley Forge General Hospital, at | Phoenixville, Pa., it has been dis- A son of Mrs. Germaine McKin- e | in the air corps on December 9, 1941, rich coffes flavor to the fullest. Try coffee flavor at its best. &SC0 New Richer Blend COFFEE Ib bag 2" 47¢ SAVE COUPONS on Bags for Valuable Premiums Tops in Flavor Low in Price MILK one Farmdale 10 .. 85¢ perean ESCO 10.:x: 87¢ Save Coupons on ASCO Milk for Valuable Premiums. One Small Can ASCO Milk 3, lech. ® Speedie Whip bo 15¢ ASCO Tomato Soup “Sir tan 8c Alaska Pink Salmon “ix: tan 226 Glenwood Apple Butter 2m 356 Drop 0’ Lemon Lemon Juice “or. 12 Betty Crocker Vegetable Soup Mix ... 9¢ Gold SealOats “2 19¢ “i bur oe Allies, Yugoslavia and Greece would | were thoroughly acquainted with th exceptionally fortunate in having but | have become untenable for the Axis, law. tists very few costly fires. The south of | Turkey would have taken her cue, Cambria has not been so lucky. A |PBulgaria and Rumania would have eostly fire occurred Sunday night in been pushovers and Hungary would | | have dropped out. That would have | D “juck” that has been prevalent in |left Germany exposed to the coup de a! € : | grace. But if Nettuno becomes a lit- | constitutional than the right to vote. South Fork. Perhaps a lot of the the north county is due mainly to the alertness of the several volun- | tle Dunkirk (and we don’t think it | teer fire companies and to their co- | will) Rome probably will not be tak- a! en for some time and the Nazi's Bal- | by which the armed forces may ex- ordination of effectiveness when conflagration occurs. +k THE CAMBRIA COUNTY VOLUN- kan flank will be protected. FEREE been the instrumental factor in the close - i i . o co-operation hat exists. Ve | for the American Red Cross. In many t i i Ah Toon tne fire Companies. All 07 the! ways this humanitarian organization fittings and hose connections of the! s A . : ani | has aided and helped him, in both big different companies have been made | : : i int !and little things, whether or not, he uniform, so that the best efficiency | i i can be utilized at conflagrations | has been a casualty. During the drive ! for Red Cross funds last year, there dk kkk hdd {was some criticism about the Re ALL OF THE VOLUNTEER FIRE- | Cross, engendered, no doubt, on some men’s organizations in the north of | experiences of the first World War. the county, as well as elsewhere ov- bh er the land, have lost many of their LUT IN THE COMFORT OF SOL- members, and usually the most ac- | diers and sailors on the front lines, tive ones, to the armed forces. That | behind the lines, and in the training places an added burden on the older | camps, the American Red Cross in men who remain at home. That they THIS present war, is far above criti- have arisen to the demands placed | cism. That goes without saying. Now upon them is shown in. the great the time is at hand when they again number of fires that are extinguished need funds to carry on their work— 4. AND WHAT DO OUR REPUBLI- can congressmen and anti-poll tax emocrats yell? It's unconstitution- Surely there is othing more Let's make the constitution work by providing a simple uniform method ercise their constitutional franchise. Let’s make it as easy as possible for "DO YOU HAVE A BOY OVERSEAS? | them to vote, not as hard as possi- Mi ’ fog It you have, and he has been there | ble. esr JL omens Association. nas | any length of time at all, he certain- wo ly has written you letters of praise | NOVENA FOR THOSE N IN ARMED FORCES A Novena in honor of the Little Flower will be held at the Carmelite Monastery, Loretto, Feb. 22 to Mar. 1, inclusive, for all those in the ser- vice of the country. Special intentions will also be made for a speedy ter- mination of the war and for a just peace. All other intentions recom- mended will be included. Send the names of those in the service that they may be remembered in this No- vena and in the prayers of the Car- melite nuns during the holy season of | Lent. Address to the Carmelite Mon- astery, Loretto, Pa. | Mrs. Victoria Plant. Mrs. Victoria (Yeskovich) Plant, | aged 73 years, died last Friday wore / | jend subsequently served for twenty |nicnths in India and China as an ar- mament man. Prior to joining the fighting for- ces the soldier attended St. Thom- as’ Parochial School, Ashville, and later worked as a miner. A brother, Vernon D., is on duty with the Ar- my Medical Corps. mindnalani hied DRAFT AGE WON'T BE RAISED SAYS WAR HEAD Robert P. Patterson, acting secre- tary of war, denied the other day a report that the army will raise the upper age limit for draftees from 38 to 45. “So far as I know, that’s not true” he said in response to a question at a news conference, “You recall that when the age lim- it was reducted from 45 to 38 in the fall of 1942, it was done as a result of army and navy experience that men in the higher age group were les; effective. “There are ,of course, a good many men in the service above 38 and a lot of them are perfectly fit, but to take them by and large is quite a | FALLENTIMBER COUPLE different” matter. Se Ne COULD ORGANIZE ARMY Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rickard of | ning at her home in Emeigh after |an extended illness. Born on April 3. 1870, in Europe she was the wid- ow of Peter Plant, who died in 1932. Something To Shout About! ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE A PICTURE COMES ALONG | THAT IS TOPS IN ENTERTAINMENT. A picture that will warm your heart, make you laugh or cry—a picture that we know you and everyome else will enjoy, and remember for a { SUCH A PICTURE IS ‘' LOST ANGEL’, STARRING LITTLE MARGARET O'BRIEN, This Theatre is glad to present this Grand Picture and give it our personal endorsement as one of the best productions of This Present Year. : GRAND THEATRE. —The Management. P. S.—Film Daily's Poll voted Margaret O’'Brien’s ‘‘Best of the Year.’ . Friday, Saturday, February 18-19 M-G-M's 97 BRIGHT NEW COMEDY ROMANCE! ST ANGEL 9 MARGARET + O'BRIEN wri JAMES CRAIG MARSHA HUNT PHILIP MERIVALE HENRY O'NEILL DONALD MEEK BLATT BROTHERS GRAND THEATRE PATTON, PA. A -M 5.50 d ! o | the Precious Blood by Rev. Father | The | long time. ly Surviving are three children—Jo- | seph, New Castle; Mrs. J. H. Nun- | ley, Miami Beach, Fla.; and John of | | Emeigh, There are nineteen grand-| | children. Funeral services were conducted | on Monday morning in the Chruch of | Joseph Tomko, and interment was | made in St. Stanislaus’ Cemetery at Earnesboro. — eee | NOTICE. | Commissioners of Cambria | County have agreed to sell at Pri | | ‘ate Sale the hereinafter described | property for the sum of $145.00, to James Hertzog and Susan Hertzog, his wife, under the Act of Assembly of the Commonweath, approved the 29th day of July, 1941, P. L. 600. The Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County has fixed February 23, 1944, at ten o'clock A. M., in the Court House, Ebensburg, Pennsylva- nia, for a hearing on the petition io: confirmation of said sale. The prop- erty to be sold was assessed in the name of James Hertzog, as 1 House and 1 Lot, in Dean Township, and was sold to the County on June 27, 1938. The total amount of taxes, muni- cipal claims, penalties, interest and costs due is $528.48. By Board of County Commissioners. H. F. DORR, Clerk ———— — NOTICE. The Commissioners of Cambria County have agreed to sell at Pri- vate Sale the hereinafter described property for the sum of $55.00, to Emily Anderson, under the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth, ap- proved the 29th day of July, 1941, P. L. 600. The Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County has fixed February 23, 1944, at ten o'clock A. M,, in the Court House, Ebensburg, Pennsylva- : nia, for a hearing on the Petition for confirmation of said Sale. The prop- erty to be sold was assessed in the name of August Arveson Est, as 1 House and 1 Lot, in East Carroll Township, and was sold to the coun- ty on June 27, 1938. The total amount of taxes, muni- cipal claims, penalties, interest and costs due is $184.79. By Board of County Commissioners, H. F. DORR, Clerk. | Fallentimber are having difficulty | these days keeping track of their! | grandchildren because 22 of them larc with Uncle Sam’s Armed forces and two others have been given hon- orable discharges. Rickard is 91 and his wife 72. Eleven of the grandchildren are overseas. A granddaughter, Lieut. Sarah McCreadle, is a nurse station- ed at Madera, Pa. Three of the Rickards’ daughters, Mrs. Carrie Noel, Mrs. Robie Ross, and Mrs. Minnie Noel, each has five [sons in the service. | HARRY HOPKINS’ SON Is KILLED IN ACTION Stephen Hopkins, the 18 year old sc, of Harry Hopkins, presidential aide, was killed the first night off fighting on the Marshall Islands. He ran into a crossfire between U. S. Marines and Japanese snipers. Hopkins, a husky youth, had turn- ed down a chance to get a commis- sion at officers’ training school, pre- ferring to get a crack at combat fighting as a private. He enlisted last June after graduating from Hill Sch- oll. Pottstown, Pa. He was a light machine gunner and had been in the Marines for seven months. REV. BARTLEY McATEER GIVEN ARMY CAPTAINCY Rev. Father Bartley C. McAteer, former pastor of St. Augustine's Ca- tholic church at St. Augustine, has been advanced to the rank of Cap- tain in the Army Chaplain Corps. He has been on duty in the South Pa- cific for the past several months. He entered military service on May 9th, 1942. — CARD OF THANKS. We wish in this manner to thank all those who assisted us in any way during our recent bereavement, the illness and death of our father, Mi- chael Kober; for the floral offerings and use of cars at the funeral. — The Children. ara li nl Intensive training in life-saving en- abled American merchant of the SS Monterey to rescue 1,675 survivors of a torpedoed troop transport in the Mediterrenean, according to the War Shipping administration. 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