A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNIN Union Press, Established May, 1936 SA AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA URIER Patton Courier, Established VOL. 51. NO. 28. PATTON, FRNLIANL THURSDAY, MAY 4 1949. Oct., 1893 SUBSCRIPTION $2. 00 PER YEAR WASTE PAPER LOADING SUNDAY the NEXT WINTER'S COAL IS BEING WEIGHED NOW Draft Scales will Determine the| Shortage Likely Below the Requirements. In con junction tr with all | scout troops are busily engaged the collection of waste paper for the | savage drive. All the communities in the county rn have been doing fine in this respect, Your coal next winter is being we- | ighed in the draft scales now. The armed forces say they will take 45,000 coal miners in 1944. Some coal experts had figured only half that number would be drated. When they think of 45,000 leaving | the pits they gloom over the pros-| pects of coming close to estimated | coal requirements this year. The armed services and the Solid Fuels Administration have been go- ing over the manpower figures. The manpower pinch is being felt already. Some mines have dropped | from three shifts a day to two. This year the estimated require ments are 686 million tons. Coal men—figuring that perhaps | only 22,500 miners would be drafted, | or half the 45,000 mentioned above think they will be able to produce | 655 million tons The average miner produces 1,400] olitown, tens of coal a year. Then, 1,400 tons rank of captain in the Army Nurse multiplied by the 22,500 expected to| Corps at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, it’ be grasiod, Jices 31: DO0.000 oan. cool announced during the past week. | at would erefore be 31,500,000] Capt. Stich, a graduate of the tons unmined. Subtract that from | Me 2 Hospital 5. duets School or the 686-million-ton reguirements and | } urs Johnstown, in the class the expected production of approxi-|1y31, was engaged in private and in- mately 655 million tons is arrived at.|stitutional nursing before accepting But suppose the armed forces carry | the position of supervisor of the ma- out what they say and draft 45,000 ternity ward nursery in Mercy Hos- men. That would be 73 million tons! pital. ¥ y unmined and bring production down | She held the latter position for a from the required 68¢ million tons to period of two years prior to entering | 613 for 1944. | the nursing corps of the army in That, of course ;would not be the | March of 1941. actual figure. It would be higher, as | the draft is progressive and not all | position in Garfield Memorial 45,000 miners would have heen taken | pital, Washington, D, C., and at the until the year’s end, thus giving the | Cresson Sanatorium. mines is ih benefit of their output and| Three brothers of the army nurse a e total hp for the year. | be above 613 fore to boost a big collection this week. Waste paper from the local com- munity will be loaded next Sunday, | May 7th. Officials in charge say i that only through the cooperation of everyone will the Patton drive be a success. Do your part. Get all those old NOW and turn them over to the boy sciuts. You'll | duty. be performing a patriotic er EY it CARROLLTOWN NURSE GIVEN CAPTAINCY Leora E. Stich, daughter of Mollie Stich Thomas of Carr- has been promoted to the Lt. Mrs. | harle 5 Boy] 1 | Scout Troops in the county the Toga! | and Patton stili has its opportunity | newspapers and magazines together | of | CLEAN-UP WL) IN PATTON BOROUGH STARTS WONDAY | Success or Failure of Board of Health's Movement Rests With Citizens, The Patton Board of Health has | set next week—May 8 to l4th—as | the annual spring clean-up period in| Fatton Borough, and urgently asks | the cooperation of all residents of the borough to make the same a suc- cess. Clean-up your premes, and clean- Clean-up your premises and slean- up your buildings as well. Particular- ly now, hazards, and all disease breeding possbilities. A clean town is always a good town. Do your part to make it that way. Following the usual elistom, resi- dents are requested to gather all rub- cish and’ refuse together the first part of the week and place it in the alleys. The latter part of the week the borough will furnish trucks to kaul it away. Use common sense in = what you consider refuse, For instance, stones and ashes or cinders, are not regard- ed as being within the province of | the community to dispese of, but are necessary requirements of the prop- erty holder to have taken care of. And be sure to place your rubbish ir. strong containers. Thin cardboard boxes, are not sitabe. Anything that may collapse will not be taken by the trucks. Let's make the spring clean-up ev- ent in Patton the same successful affair it’s always. ‘been. Everyone ms do his or her part to accomplish | that purpose | Capt. Stich also held a supervisory | Hos- | Ju Captain are serving with the armed tion—C! rthan a year in in a rT “last year when coal was none toolic theatre; B. J., with the Navy, and | plentiful. | Richard, with the oy Meanwhile the War Manpower | Commission’ is making a nation-wide | drive to get retired miners and min- OPA FREES wo ers who have shifted to war plants | to gc back to the mines. LEGISLATURE TAKES UP | THE SOLDIER VOTE BILL Pennsylvania's Gen- is moving swiftly to session a red tape commonwealth al- harrisburg eral Assembly enact in a brief, one-week soldier-vote plan without that will cest the most $1,000,000. | , : ! Getting down to business immedia- | Woshingion All ment exoent tely after convening at noon on Mon- Tteoks and roasts of bes! Decome ra day and hearing Governor Martin's tion free at midnight W ednesday but | message, the House gave the first that does'nt mean all the points that] reading to a group of bills which formerly went into hamburger and the Governor described as a “simple, | FOTh and lamb can be diverted to] direct and easily-understood plan” |Pigger and jucier sirloins. for an estimated 500,000 to 800,000| There'll be only half as many red men and women in the armed forces | Points as before. : oi to vote at the November election. The Office of Price Administra- Ey constitutional rule, a bill must|t'c? figures the average consumer be read three separate days in each| an have more of the house before a vote on passage. Lea- | be rationed—steak and beef roast, ders planned passage in the House on butter, margarine, cheese and evap- Wednesday and in the Senate pos- orated milk. And of course he can | sibly on Friday. | have all the hamburger, pork and | Principal provisions of the meas- | other nonrationed meat he can find | ures sponsored in the House by the and pay for. : Ca two party leaders, Rep. Franklin H. The actual effect on each indivi-| Lichtenwalter, Republican and Rep. cual will vary widely accordng to Reuben E. Cohen, Democrat, are: what he has been bought with red 1—Eliminating a requirement in the P¢lits in the past. | state election code for registraton| Tor instance, a person who has | of voters in the armed forces. | used most of his red points for steak | 2--Extending for about 105 days the | and butter will be cut in those items. | time required to send out and re-|If he has been eating a 10-point steak | ceive military ballots. The present|and a three-point quarter pound of laws provides absentee ballots must | butter every two weeks heretofore, | be applied for not more than 50 days |he has had 17 of his biweekly allot- pefore an election and returned with-| ment of 30 red points left for other in 1C days after an election. | items, including the meats taken off 3—Z4utomatic mailing of ballots | rationing at midnight yesterday. | without request to all known vo- Vith the red point allowance slash- | ters in the armed or auxiliary ser- ed to 15 every two weeks beginning | vices and permitting those at home next Sunday, he will have only two |, on furlough to vote. points every twec weeks for cheese, | 4— Authorizing the Governor to pro-| evaporated milk and margarine un- | claim a military ballot day about|less he cuts steak and butter con- August 1 when election boards wilt sumption. | sit in the commonweath’s 8197 vo-| On the other hand, if the consu- | ting precincts to receive the names| mer has been letting the high-point | and addresses of voters in the armed items alone, using margarine, var- | forces. | iety meats, and pork, he can have a 5—Authorizing the 1,500,000 mem- good deal more of the better cuts of bers of the state’s civilian defense beef under the new schedule than he setup to make a house-to-house can-| has been eating. vass for names and addresses for mi-| So far as the still-rationed, red| Itary ballots. | point foods are concerned, OPA fig-!| 6—-Appropriating $750,000 to the ures the average break at something | secretary of the commonwealth for | like seven percent in the consumer's expenses of administering the sodier- fovor. It says 57 percent of the vo-| vote law and $200,000 for expenses |lume meat, fats, and cheese formerly | of the special session — a total if | sold on red points now are being | $950,000.00. | made point-free, That leaves the con- Sete Vet ee | sumer with 50 percent of the Bo INSTALL LAUNDRY, [ number of points with which to buy A new laundry has been installed | |43 percent of the amount of ration- | in the Barnesboro plant of the Phil- | ed items. lips Jones Corporation. New machin-| The reducton in number of avail- ery has also been received at the abe red points will be accomplished plant, and is being installed. by validating 30 per person every Starting Today ‘Red Points Required for Only Beef Steaks and Roasts | | | ship; Alvin Ferguson, Gallitzin; na Hindmarsh, Hastings; Pius Krug, | | Mongaluzzio, Barneshoro; | Cartney, items still to|N | Ebensburg; | for the ensuing year. past president of the Auxiliary! | president, Mrs, Margaret Blair; on the grand jury and 145 petit furs (ors were drawn from the jury wheel {at Ebensburg last Thursday in Eb- | ensburg. Jurors from the north of | the county drawn, are: Grand Jury. Martha Bercau, Ashville; James G. | Chambers, Patton; Morgan Hoover, Ebensburg; J. J. Leonard, Barnesho- | ro; Helen McCormick, Spangler; Ca- therine Rodgers, Hastings. Petit Jury. Sheldon Brown, Allegheny Town- ship; Roy Beers, Barnesboro; Rose Bishop, Cambria Township; Clark, Barnesboro; Emma Eastman Cambria Town- Ed- ship, [unster Township; Charles Lentz, | Cresson; Michael Lacey, Carrolltown; Nerman Marshall, Patton; A. John A. Malloy, Cambria Township; John Mc- Reade Township; Gussie McCloskey, Gallitzin; M. A. McNul- ty, Clearfield Township; R. George 1icholson, Barnesboro, Othello Pen- (man, Cambria Township; George M. Proud, Spangler; Sibert, Hastings; to: Philip Shuss, Patton; Nick mon, Reade Township; Ethel Minnie R. Whited, Bar- neshoro; Regina Winslow, Patton, V. F. W, AUXILIARY SELECT NEW OFFICERS No. Josephine The John White Post, F. W. Auxiliary,, installed their new officers to serve Miss Mirina 779, V. Blair, was the installing officer. Newly el- ected officers are as follows: Presi- | dent, Mrs. Sarah Adams; Senior vice Ju- nioyr vice president, Mrs. Marie Bone; Secretary, Mrs. Ann Haluska; Tre- asurer, Mrs. Margaret Long; Chap-| lain, Mrs. Mrs. Mary Hodge, Conductress, Helen Jewel, of Bakerton; | Guard, Mrs. Eleanor Hitch; Trustee for 18 months, Mrs. Ruth Dietrick. A number of new members balloted upon. After the installation ceromonies a nice lunch was served. SOLDIER WOUNDED The War Department on Wednes- day notified Mrs. Bertha Keith, Bar- nesboro, that her son, Pvt. Elmer M. | wounded in action somewhere in the Mediterranean battle area. —Five white races are represented | in Nova Scotia: English, Scottish, | | French-Canadian, Irish and Havorer- | ian. four weeks instead of 30 every two | wecks as in the past. The three | stamps becoming valid next Sunday, May 7, for 10 points each must last until Sunday, June 4. be sure to eliminate all fire | Lottie | E. E. Campbell, ! Hastings; D. A. Dixon, Reade Town- E. | Kmg, Burnside; Maurice Seymour, Loret- Si- | Smith, | recently elected and | were | | EAGLES PLAN FOR MOTHERS’ DAY for the past COUNTY FIREMEN PLOT CONVENTION PLANS FOR PATTON roi ce One Day Annual War Time Meet- Sunday, er 14th, will again spon- ing To Be Entertained Here the Patton community Mothers’ on Ninth of August. program, with fitting ceremon- | As has be en ¢ ustomary f SOL Day ies. | Plans for the one day war time The exercises will begin at 2:30 P. | | convention of the Volunteer Fire- M. Flowers will be bf to the ‘men’s Association of Cambria Coun-| Mothers, The general public is cor- ty and Vicinity to be held on Wed- | cially invited. Details will be given in nesday, August 9th, in Patton, were next week's paper. cutlined at a meeting of the organi- At the regular meeting of the lo- zation last Thursday night in the cal Eagles next Monday night, the Cunlo Fire Hall. annual election of officers will take Firemen will continue the plan in-| place, and all members are urged to augurated at the outbreak of the)attend. { war—-to hold convention activities to| {a minimum. Because of the shortage TAX AIH 5 ‘of gasoline and tires the regu pa | rade, which was a pre-war cor tion highlight, will not be held Get out your “ehee chook. Your bre- | the end of hostilities. Only business of the utmost atber following the payment of in- tax in March and withholding } ilar antl pertance, including the elec officers, will take place during one day convention. The firemen also discussed plans |tax by the fifteenth of last month is | for a joint meeting of the organiza- over. | { tion" with the Somerset County Vol- A new deadline fell concurrently! unteer Firemen’s Association, Thurs-| with the end of April—that is if you | day evening, May 25th, in South|are an employer, a cabaret owner or Fori fire hall. Dinner will be served | otherwise a retailer of liquors, wines | bo tween six and seven p. m. and the|and beers; in the transportation bus- | joint meeting of the neighborhood or- | iness or a dealer in furs, cosmetics, | ganizations will commence at 8 p. m. | jewelry, etc. | Donald Frye, South Fork, county Employers president, announced that a total of tax and social security deducted 1,383 members of 27 of the 33 com- | from pay envelopes of employees the ceme must pay withholding of | | years of vice and four with years’ service each have been award- ed certificates, it was announced by Charles E. Zerby, district forester. The 20-year group includes George M. Gates, Flinton, R. D.; Victor R. Kline, Hastings; Bert H. Bell, Ma- Francis H. Diehl, Portage; M. Smith, Puritan; Ernest Allen Boyer, East Blaine Byers, Westover, R. Mor- | J. T, J. S€ panies ‘in the organization now are during the first three months of this serving in the armed forces. He said | year, if you didn’t pay it by the that the depleted ranks of some end of April—there are stiff penal- the gompanies have been bolstered to | ties. some extent by the admission of | youths of 16 to 18 years. A..F. Baker, Hastings, secretory WILL HIRE RLS apnounced that 27 companies hav purchased a total of $74,000 wort] IN LIQUOR STORE : r bonds. Six companies have | bmitted reports on their War 1 ges; the secretary said. | A policy of replacing state store | the Kounty, outside the | clerks with women was announced on | hursday last by the Pennsylvania Liquor Congrol Board: . aj Pp g that women hired to perty loss resulted from a disastrous | succeed men called to the armed for- | | fie early last month in Barnesboro | ces had “worked out very well” on when two houses were destroyed, en-|an experimental basis, the hoard na- tailing damage estimated at $13,000. med 8 more female clerks during the! —V— | past week and said it will increase the number of these “war-duration” FIRE WARDENS GET appointees gradually. ! > board explained that the labor SERVIGE AWARDS Sa S had forced abandonment of its ten year old practice of employ-| ra5 ing only men n its retail outlets. | Twelve wardens of the Gallitzin It is understood that there are in Forest District, who have had twenty | the neighborhood of 30 women now ten c¢mployed in liquor stores all over the slate and in the Greater Johnstown area thus far nine girls have moved in as replacements of male clerks in service. the ADVOCATES YEAR OF MILITARY TRAINING :. year of military training af- war for all men and women | 17 and 20 was advocated i haffey; Perry Freedom: D.: Robert Clark, Ansonville; | gan Westover, LaJose, R. D.; Isenberg, McGees Mills, and L. | Hile, Kermoor. between ; Ten vear service certificates have [the other day by Lt. Col. Guy G. been presented to Alban Gill, St.[Mills, acting head of the department Lawrence: Alfred Havener, Windber, of military science and tactics at the IR. D.; Joseph B. Work, McGees Mills | Pennsylvania State College, as the and Charles R. Michaels, Westover. only way to insure peace. XT “We can’t have peace merely by| | being peaceful,” he said. “Peace must | MANY PROPERTIES SOLD be maintained by force—that is, the AT TREASURER’S SALES capacity to maintain force when ne- cessary. Only a strong man can keep to| crder in his own home, and only a at | strong nation can avert wars.” in| He asserted that American institu- Ebensburg Court House on Friday of | tions will be perpetuated only so long last week. These properties will be|as citizens are not merely willing, | held for two years and the original but are trained and maintained in a| { owner has the opportunity to redeem) constant state of readiness for the nis property within that period by|naticn’s defense. This spirit of readi- paying the sale price plus 15 per | ness, he said, should start with the l cent. There were 2,599 properties elementary school children and be- listed for the treasurer's sales but all| come an intergral part of our edu- except 490 had been redeemed by |cutional system. Friday, which was the date of the| Mills advocated military and vo- sale. cational training for persons both in and out of college on the grounds | that such program wold instill E discipline “habitual correct behav- |ior’’-—in the nation's youth, and pro- | vide training in skills which could be applied to the solution of military problems. One ter the Forty-eight propertics were sold individuals and 442 to the county the county treasurer's sales held . ee NF COUNTY CONSIDERS JUVENILE HOME SIT a Cambria County Commissioners on | Monday passed a resolution, subject | tc the approval of the court, to buy | | the property located on the corner | of Center and Lloyd Sts., Ebensburg. | It is owned by the Frank Hartman | | estate and is better known as the | reer | Johnson property. It was occupied | Earrisburg—Local draft boards in | | until recently by the Betsy Brown | Pennsylvania coal mining areas on Tea Room. Mcnday started releasng coal miners | The commissioners are considering | under 22 for processing and possible | tha property as a possible site for a| induc tion into the armed forces in detention home, It is also beng con-|line with a directive issued by state | sidered for offices. i selective service on April 12. | The property is located directly The same directive announced that | | across from the courthouse and it} «representatives of the Solid Fuels | | fronts 130 feet on Center St. with a | Administration have been authorized | depth of 124 feet on Lloyd St. The |to indorse Form 42A Special for re- | price of the property is $8,000.00. | gistrants aged 22 through 25 provi- | Vor ded such registrants have had three STOP Schniickelgruber and Tojo !|or more years of coal mining exper- 'ience.” a DRAFT BOARDS RELEASE COAL MINERS UNDER 22 | | i by Buying Bonds! !dained to the priesthood by i conimence at 9:45 a. , are | Loretto. The pastor of { Church, Rev, | ther | teona, THREE CAMBRIA CO. MEN T0 BE ORDAINED T0 THE PRIESTHOOD Spangler, Barnesboro and Ebens- burg Youths to Have First Masses at Home. Three Cambria Countians are am- ong the twelve young men to be or- Bishop Richard T. Guilfoyle at solemn cer- emonies on Saturday of this week in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacra- ment in Altoona. The exercises will m. Included in the ordination class three priests for the Diocese of Altocna; three for the Diocese of Kansas City, Md.; one for the Dio- cese of Pittsburgh, and five for the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance. Eight of the class are now completing their studies in St. Francis Seminary, Loretto. All of the three Cambrians will sing their first solemn mass the day following their ordination in church- of the county. Cambrians to be ordained are: Rev. Robert B. Byrne. Rev. Robert Bernard Byrne, son of Michael J. and Gertrude Nagle) Byrne of St. Patrick's Parish, Span- gler, is a brother of the Rev. Walter Byrne, Infant of Prague Chapel, Al- toona. One of a family of seven, he attended St. Patrick's School, Span- gier, Spangler High School, and St. Francis College and Seminary, Lo- retto. Father Walter Byrne will be his sponsor at the ordination. St. Patrick's Church will be the | scene of the first solemn mass Sun- day, May 7. Rev. Joseph C. Kreiter, | pastor, will be assistant priest; Fa- | ther Walter Byrne, deacon; Rev, Leo | A. Boyle, sub-deacon, and Rev. IL J. { Denny, rector of the Cathedral, Al- | toona, and former pastor at Spang- | ter, will preach. Rev. Paschal Mino, T. O. R. Rev. Paschal Michael Peter T. Ou: Rs; owas borin: Metiska; valriors Fe dei nna 7 ———L Lo CO es i ren | John Peter and Helen (Podany) Mi- | no, the latter deceased, He attended | St. John the Baptist's School, Bar- nesboro; Barnesboro High School, | St. Francis Prep, Catholic University and St. Francis College and Seminary St. John’s Joseph A. Banik, will be his sponsor. The first solemn mass will be sung Sunday, May 7, in St. John the Bap- tist’s Church, Barnesboro, with Fa- Banik as assistant priest; Rev. Bernard A. Siecko, T. O. R., deacon; Rev. Walter Courtney, T. O. R.; sub- deacon and Rev. Alphonsus Sobota, O. R,, preacher. Rev. Marianus Lieb, Rev, Marianus Donald Lieb was born in Colver, one of 13 children of Loomis and Virginia Soisson) Lieb. He attended St. Francis Xavier's School at Cresson; Cresson High School; St. Peanas Seminary, Loretto, and the tholic U sity. Rev. James Cle- ary, T. O. R.,, will be his sponsor. A brother, Rev Aquinas Lieb, T. O. R., is now with the Franciscan Mis- sion band in India. Father Marianus will sing his first solemn mass in Holy Name Catholic Church, Ebens- burg, Sunday, May at 10:30. Rev. | Charles Gallagher, pastor, will be as- sistant priest; ather James Cleary, deacon, and Frater German Lieb, O. S. B., sub-deacon. Rev. Francis King, T. O. R., Loretto, wil preach the ser- nion Another R2v. Anthony brother St. Augustine of the family rT. 0. R. ordination class is of Al- in the Joseph O'Toole, of the pastor of the church, and the thira y to enter the Priesthood; Vv CAPT. MCCANN THINKS DRIVERS ON TURNPIKE BECOME ‘‘MESMERIZED A number of accidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are attributed by former Pattonite, Capt. J. G. McCann of the state police in charge of the super-highway, to the fact that the automobile is not as modern as the highway. Addressing the point conference of the Western Pennsylvania Safety Council and the American Society of Safety Engineers at Pittsburgh, Mec- Cann explained that the present day car cannot stand the high speeds possible on the highway over a long | distance. Another is the tendency of come mesmerized” a long distance in and are unable to eme rgencies y arise, Vv a accident factor, he said, motorists “to be- when they drive a single direction react normally if | ENROLLS IN WAVES. Doris Lovette, aged 20, a daughter |of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Lovette, of | Spangler, has enrolled in the yeoman training school on the campus of | Iowa State Teachers Colle ge, at Ce- dar Falls, Iowa, naval officials have l announced,
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