A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 2 UNINN Union Press, Established May, 1935. AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPAER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893. YOL. 52. NO. 17. RED GROSS QUOTAS ANNOUNGED FOR Meeting attended by representa-| tives of all county branches, County quota $242,400. Quotas for the various branches comprising Cambria County Chapter of the American Red Cross, were an- nounced Sunday afternoon at a meet- ing of workers enrolled to carry out the campaign to raise $242,400 for the Red Cross 1945 War Fund. The meeting, held at the court- house at Ebensburg, was attended by representatives of all the county branches. Ralph S. Robb of Johns-| town, vice chairman of the War Fund arive, announced the following quo- tas: Allegheny Ridge—$17,635; J. R. Mayers, Portage, War Fund chair- man; Mrs. Ralph Moore, Cresson, branch chairman; area includes parts of Allegheny, Gallitzin, Washington and Portage Townships; Jamestown Portage, Benscreek, Sonman, Puri- tan, Cassandra, Lilly, Cresson, Sank- ertown, Gallitzin, Tunnelhill, Ams- bury and Loretto. Beaver Valley - $10,285; John CAMBRIA CHAPTER: EEE) PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945, SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR | RED CROSS MOBILE DONOR | UNIT NOW IN JOHNSTOWN ARN STATUS ON FAIRGROUNDS TOLE | The Red Cross Mobile Blood Don- | | or Unit is now located in Johns- | | town, An action of ejectment was filed Those who desire to donate blood last week by the County of Cambria muy register in the Red Cross Room, | against the First National Bank, and 405 Magee Avenue, any afternoon be- | the American National Bank, both of {tween 2 and 4:30. Ebensburg, in, an effort to have the | Donors must re ister in person. Court determine whether or not the Those who i a trans Sheriff Sale of the Ebensburg Fair | porting donors by donating the use Grounds voided the county's lease on | of their cars or have extra room in | the property. their car when making a trip to | Johnstown, should call the Red Cross room, Patton 3011, or notify Walter { Noonan, local bleod donor campaign | chairman. ra Yl emai SAY REGULATION OF { The purpose of the action, which was filed at the office of Prothono- tary John L. Hite, is to open the way for the Cambria County American Le- | gion to purchase the fair grounds if | the lease has been volded, according i Commissioner John Thomas, Jr. Some years ago the county singed a 20-year lease for the fair grounds. When Charles M. Schwab died, his ~ STRIP MINING CERTAIN | and it was sold to the two Ebensburg | rn | Banks at Sheriff Sale. The creditors | Legislation to regulate bituminous claim that the sale automotically vo- |and antragite strip-mining appeared |ided the county lease. {more certain of General Assembly| The Legion, it is understood, has | approval ofter a bi-partisan confer- | been considering for some time the | ence with Gov. Edward Martin. | possibility of obtaining the fair plant | Martin said that strip-mining was : for use as a youth recreational center. | discussed with Republican and Dem- | It includes 42 buildings and approx- | ocratic Legislature leaders and that | imately 75 acres of land. | “we all felt we could have an agree- | z | ment on this proposal.” Signalling the gathering momentum | RURAL MAIL CARRIERS creditors foreclosed on the property | LEWIS SUPPORTS RED CROSS DRIVE The following statement has been authorized by John L. Lewis, Presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of of America, for the American Red Cross: It is a distinct privilege for me to | give my wholehearted indorsement | and support to the 1945 War Fun drive of the American Red Cross. I think that every able American citi- | zen should respond generously to this { worthy cause, in acknowledgement of | its magnificent service on our Na- | tion's far-flung battle-fronts through- | out these past critical war years, and in recognition of the added need for funds at this time to carry on its ev- er extending aid to returning veter- | ans and their dependents. I cannot too strongly urge the full- jost cooperation possible on the part of every mine worker, as well as all other segments of our loyal popula- tion, in insuring the success of the | work of the American Red Cross in 1945, so vital to the success of our | nation’s war effort, and to the well- | | being of our boys and girls in service overseas, who are sacrificing so much i for all of us at home. | itl | | | ‘SON'S DEATH PROMPTS d| | PATTON MAN INJURED IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT Omer Wharton, 44, a brakeman for he Pennsylvania Rairoad, was in a semiconscious condition early Wed- nesday in Altoona Hospital suffering from injuries suffered in an acciden | in the Altoona railroad yards. Mr. Wharton was admitted to the | | | hospital early Tuesday morning after | Court House | having been found lying unconscious | along the tracks in the yards. It was | feared that he suffered a fracture of | the skull but X-rays disclosed there | was no fracture. Mr. Wharton is| being treated for concussion of the| brain and abrasions of the forehead. | WOULD LIBERALIZE COMPENSATION ACT Liberalization of the state work- | | men’s compensation law appeared as] | probabl= last week following introduc- | | tion in the Senate of bills recommen- | | ding increased benefit payments. | Two identical measures— -one spon- sored by A. H. Letzler (R-Clearfield) | and the other co-sponsored by Dem- ! | ocratic Senators John H. Dent. John | | J. Haluska, and Wallace S. Gourley— | | were introduced in the upper cham- | | ber and sent to the Workmen’s Com- | | pensation Committee for study. i Sloan, Summerhill, War Fund chair- of control legislation, a bituminous | man: 'c O. Dimond, Jr., South Fork, | Strip-mining bill reached the floor of bYatch chairman: area includes|the Senate from the Mines and Min- | . . t and Adams | ing committee shortly after the bi- | 4 : i na, an Summer. | Partisan meeting adjourned and was | Rural mail carriers in Cambria Co. : {last week issued an appeal for a 3 re i-/on the calendar for working action | s bea i DO cy mote, ot ofl tnis present. Week. | break, not the kind to which they chael, Si , , , Th %t coal 1 5 | have grown accustomed—an axle, in nalinda and Beaverdale. € Soft coal proposal was C0-/, in" fan belt, ete. Blacklick — $8,250; | Es , | Sponsored by Minority Leader John | 4 ; > Roy F nH Dent, Westmoreland, and Mines | Speaking for the men whose daily Nanty Glo, War Fund chairman; Mrs. J. L. Porias, Nanty Glo, branch | Committee Chairman J. Fred Thomas, rounds necessitate their travel in all A 2 (R-Mercer). Martin said Dent and | Kinds of weather over all kinds of chairman; area includes Blacklick | Thomas were named at the bi-parti- | '02ds, Elmer J. Hughes of Ebensburg, Township and part of Jackson Town- | san conference as a committee to | 58id: ship; Nanty Glo, Cardiff, Mundy’s frame a strip-mining bill which could| ‘Because this winter rural cariers Corner, : Twin Rocks, -Vintondale, /j, approved by both parties. | face difficulties greater than ever be- Chickaree and Belsano. The soft coal bill, designed primar- | fore, we are making a plea to patrons ! Clearfield—$8,870; Joseph Leon-|y ard Marks, Falllentimber, War, Fund | w¢ as a land conservation measure, | !¢ help ease the burden.” uld provide for state supervision| Mr. Hughes, president of the Cam- and branch chairman: area includes] gyer reforestation and leveling Dean, Clearfield, Elder, White, Chest | pitted lands. ASK FOR A BREAK of | bbria County Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, cited some of the unusu- “Cars are the big problem. In many cases the old buggy just won't take it any more. Car parts are a close second. Then—ever try to find a me- chanic in a hurry these days? The carrier has no priority on repair ser- Fallentimber, lentown, ton, Beaver Valley, Glasco, Blandburg, St Lawrence, Chest Springs, St. Augus- tine, Eckenrode Mills, Patton and | Hastings. Mountain — $11,335; Mahlon J. | Baumgardner, Ebensburg, War Fund | Mrs. Martha Byrnes fell chairman; Howard H. Hoke, Ebens-| while serving with the Army on the, last mile over snow or mud-clogged burg, branch chairman; area in-|western front. “cow lanes” to some isolated mail cludes Cambria Township and parts Mrs. Byrnes was informed that her | box is not available. Aging tires, sub- of Muster, Allegheny and East Car-| son, Pfe. Alvin H. (Tippy), has beer | jected to daily poundings on bumpier- roli Townships; Ebensburg, Revloc missing in France since Jan. 12. He | than-ever roads, were listed as anoth- ‘and Colyer. was serving with an infantry unit|€? headache. Susquehanna — $12,635; Susque- when he was lost. i hanna, Barr and West Carroll Town-| Pfc. Byrnes, a former outstanding | ships and part of Eeast Carroll Town- | Barneshoro athlete, is married to the | ship; Barnesboro, Spangler, Carroll-| former Viola Lann, who is now | town, St. Benedict, Garman, Baker- teaching ‘school in Susquehanna Twp. | SONS CASUALTIES Two Barnesboro brothers, sons orf | Vice. He waits his turn.” casualties| He said that extra gas to drive that carrier often dismounts from his ve- hicle to wade through drifts to snow= banked boxes, just as a favor to pa- trons, according to Mr. Hughes. Two specific suggestions were ad-~ confronted: fang Although not required to do so, the | { In brief the bills provide for incre-| |asing the total disability maximum | | payments from $18 to $22 and mini- | Harrisburg—Senator John J. Hal- | mum payments from $9 to $12 week- | uska (D.-Cambria) introduced a bill |ly; eliminate the present $7,500 max- | tonight requiring a thorough physical | imum alowance for total disability | | examination of a patient before an | and provide instead for 500 weeks of | operation and stated the measure compensation, and increase the num- | was prompted by the death last July | ber of compensible weeks and pay- | of his eight-year-old son, Tommy Ha- | ments for partial disability. [ luska. : Mh Tessie’ have ii backing of | : : | the Congress o ndustrial Organi- | la Halusia tod the Jenate his S01 | zations, the American Federation of | had a birthmark on the back of hiS |] ahor and the United Mine Workers | {neck and that a physician Suvised fof America, and are aimed toward it could be removed with a minor op- | bringing Pennsylvania's compensa- | eration. | tion law in line with those of other “My son,” Haluska said in a husky states, Dent said. voice, “was taken to the operating | tu maine hed no vic || EGION T0 FETE HIGH muse msec ve.| SCHOOL GRID OUTFIT to make myself be- died for a cause. There | ng on the statute books re- Sponsored by Walter McCoy Post, | quiring that a history should be | No. 614, American Legion, of this | taken before that person is taken in-| Place, the Patton High School Foot- | to an eperating room. All good phys- ball ‘Squad will be tendered a testi- | icians do this, but it is not required.” monial banquet on Thursday evening | Haluska said his bill was ‘for hu- of this week. Guests of the local Le- manity” and would prohibit opera- | Bion will also include members of the tions before a thorough physical ex- Spangler High School Football Team amination is made of the heart, blooq 2"d the Spangler American Legion. vessels, lungs and urine and before a! Other guests at the affair will be complete history is made, except in the members of the Patton Borough cases of emergency operations. | School Board, the Borough Council, 4 A and the Patton High School Faculty. The bill would give a penalty of | Charles A. Snyder will act as toast- | $1000 fine or two years imprison- pagter at the banquet tonight. The | ment or both for violation. invocation will be given by the Rev. | Ralph E. Krouse; songs will be ren- dered by the Patton High School HALUSKA'S SENATE BILL | ied AGRICULTURAL UNIT OF COUNTY HoLDS ~~ CONVENTION MEET | Thirtieth Annual Gathering Last | Thursday in the Ebensburg Reelection of Edward Jones, pro- minent Wilmore farmer, as president of the Cambria County Agricultural Extension Association for his sixth consecutive term, and the selection of an almost entirely new executive | committee highlighted the 30th an- {nual meeting of the organization on | Thursday | court house. last in the Ebensburg Wilfred Kline of Cresson was nam- ed vice president to succeed C. J. Bearer of Hastings. Frieda O'Hara, Ebensburg, was reelected secretary and S. I. Miller, Carrolltown, was retained as treasurer. Eight new members, most of them young farmers or their wives, were elected to the executive board. The only incumbent reelected is Mrs. Ga- len Metzgar, Johnstown R. D.. New members are Paul Strittmatter, Pat- ton; Irvin Brown, Beaverdale; Geo. wards, Ebensburg, R. D.; Mrs. Flor- Settlemyer, Wilmore; Griffith Ed- ence Lane, Adams Township;; Mrs. Margaret Jones, Colver; Charlotte Da- vis, Ebensburg, and E. Paul Hoover, Patton. A 20-1b. per person decrease in meat allotments during the coming year was predicted by Dr. Kenneth Hood, agricultural economist at the Pennsylvania State College, during a principal address of the day. In his address Dr. Hood revealed that there is a 25 per cent reduction in the output of pork in the state and the beef, lamb andveal produc- tion also has fallen off slightly dur- | ing the last few months. During the meeting, which was at- tended by several hundred farmers, | a resolution was adopted urging the State Selective Service officials to refrain from ordering the induction of additional farmers and form hands. Dr. Hood disclosed that poultry will become scarce during the sum- mer months. H. C. McWilliams, county farm ag- ent, announced that all dairy and beef cattle in the county will be tested this gpring for tuberculosis. He said agents from the State Bureau of | Animal Industry will make the tests. It is the first time in the last six vears that all cattle will be tested. | Agents made the tests last in 1939 and at that time the disease rate was | so low in the county it was not deem- ed necessary to make the tests every | three years as is the custom through- out the state. One of the most interested associa- tion members at the meeting was Jo- seph O. Thomas of Johnstown. He was the first president of the associ- ton, Nicktown, Marsteller and Em- eigh. ‘ The total quota for the branches in the county in $69,010, leaving $173,390 of the Cambria County quota of $242,400 to be raised in the Creater Johnstown district. Solicitation for the Red Cross War Fund will start in the county area February 26, with the majority of workers in Greater Johnstown sched- uled to start March 6. The Campaign closes March 12. L.OCAL MAN'S OUTFIT HAS BIG ASSIGNMENT With the Fifth Army, Italy—Cpl. Charles F. Farabaugh of Beech Ave. is a member of the 39th Engineer Combat Regiment, the unit currently holding open Route 65, main supply route to the Fifth Army front in Italy. Besides building bridges and re- pairing roads, the 39th has three am- phibious operations to its credit and Day at Gela, Sicily, with Batthlion again went ashore spearhead units that established the beachhead in Italy at Salerno. entire engineer regiment was em- ployed as infantry on the Anzio beachhead, where it was landed Jan- uary 24, 1944, two days after D Day, and held the right flank, along the Mussolini Canal, until Special Service forces. 125 bridges, 77 bypasses, 123 cul- verts, 24 major roadblocks, seven airstrips and a floating footbridge. It required less than a day for | them to reopen Highway 65, connect- ing Florence and Bologna, where the traffic artery was washed out in five localities. The 39th was set ashore in Janu- ary, 1943 at Oran, Northern Algeria, and assigned tasks in French Mor- occo and Northern Algeria. Colonel Thomas E. Green, Austin, Texas, commands the regiment. i | thorized to appear before the several | relieved bY | courts of this county and submit | copy of this memorial for enterin The 39th has, in Italy alone built | upon the records of said courts.’ | BAKERTON SOLDIER Cpl. Paul Byrnes was injured while | vanced for rural residents willing to {serving with the Army in France. | give the mailman a break: : { He entered the Army in Aug. 042,11... Buy $1 worth of stamps today. | and served in all the major war | Have them on hand always. The car- [fronts in Europe. The soldier first! riers do not like the taste any better | was in North Africa, then went to Si- | than patrons. He has so many more |cily and on into Italy. He was trans-| to lick, just think of the time you | fered to the western front in France | can save him. | several months ago. Cpl. Paul was 2—Keep the snow shoveled away [working for the Byrnes Coal Co. |from mail boxes so the carier can {when he entered the armed froces. drive right up to receptacle and un- Pfc. Alvin, who played football and |load your mail without leaving his car. —_—y THREE COUNTIES SHOW [was on the track team in Barnes- boro High School in 1928, '29 ’30, en- tered the Army about 18 months ago. | | Before entering the service he served | las steward in the Barnesboro Moose | i Home. | Cambria, Somerset and Indiana | ll Counties have recorded a drop in as- | TESTIMONIAL IS PAID sessedvaluation of taxable real es- | LATE JOHN W. KEPHART | tate in a 20-year period, while Bed- { EE ford county has shown an increase, A memorial to former Chief Jus- tice John W. Kephart of the State Su- | State Department of Internal Af- | preme Court, who died Aug. 6, 1944, | fairs. | irr Philadelphia, was filed last week | The report states that the valua- | in the office of John L. Hite, protho- tion of Cambria real estate from 1922 { notary, in Ebensburg. The testimon-|to 1942 decreased 9.4 per cent. In In- es : {ial was prepared by the Cambria Co. | diana county, valuation for the same has often Sunctionsd ps infaniey. D Bar Association, and reads, in part: | period dropped 37.4 per cent, Ranger units and was soon afterward joined | Dy the rest of the regiment, The 1St| profession a creditable member, and |u | Tt | ther and brother; Ae | of love and esteem be recorded in the | minutes of the Cambria County Bas | | Association, a copy thereof be sent | tc his bereaved wife and family, and | | a member of this association be au-| while “Therefore, Be it resolved that in | Somerset county had a decline of 22 the death of John William Xephart | per cent. we have lost a valued friend, the legal | Although showing a drop in the val- ation during the past ten years, his loved ones a devoted husband, fa- Bedford County's assessed valuation that this expression | for the 20 year period recorded a | general increase of 70.4 per cent. ELMORA GIRL PLACED ON THE DEAN'S LIST | Miss Doris Elizabeth Fitch, a a | freshman at Mary Washington Coll- E | ege of the University of Virginia, and | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G .J. Fitch {of Elmora, was honored recently when her name was placed of the WOUNDED ON LEYTE Dean's List for having attained high —————— | scholastic standing during the fall Pfc. Norbert E. Murphy, 22, son of | quarter of the curent college year. Eligibility for the honor requires that a student achieve an everage { Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Murphy, of Ba- kerton, was wounded December 23rd, while fighting the Japanese on Leyte, Philippine Islands. He participated in the battle for Guam before going to the Philippines with the U. S. Army | Miss Fitch, a graduate of Carroll- Infantry. A former employee of the |town High School, is making history Sterling Coal Company, he was in-| her field of major study at the Col- ducted Nov, 21, 1942, lege. grade on her record rated less than “satisfactory.” | according to a report released by the j of “superior” in her courses with no | RELAXATION OF STRICT FAST AND ABSTINENCE LAWS 1S ANNOUNCED olic Diocese Announces the Lenten Regulations. As the fourth Lenten Season since the {United States entered the present global conflict started on Wednesday of this week the clergy and laity of the Catholic Diocese of Altoona were informed in Catholic churches last Sunday that they will be dispensed from the ordinary law of fasting and abstinence. His Excellency, the Most Rev. Bishop Guilfoyle has granted a general dispensation by virtue of a special indult conceded by the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, because of the exingencies of war time living. two days are not included in the dis- pensation from fasting, i. e.,, Ash Wednesd ayand Good Friday. The Lenten ember days are included, but not those of other seasons. The law of abstinence continues to bind on all the Fridays of the year, including those in Lent. In making the concession the Bish- ( voluntary acts of penance and ‘mortification to make up for the re- ally recommended is attendance at the Lenten devotions in the churches and the prayerful petitioning of God for. peace. ~ Bishop Guilfoyle also reminds the faithful of his oft-repeated exhorta- tion for the daily practice of reading from the New Testament and the re- Station of the Rosary in church or in: the home. Far ue —y— "PFC. STEFKO WOUNDED Spangler relatives were informed that Pfc. John Stefko was wounded while serving with the Army on Ley- ete Island in the Philippines. THe wounded soldier is a nephew of Pfc. Paronish. Girls, and addresses will be made by | ation when it was formed 30 years Ernest Tronzo, Spangler high school | 280 and the 91-year old retired farm- | since that time. | Reports also were given by J. A. | Farabaugh, Loretto Harrison Jones, football coach of Patton High School. Attention is called to the fact that | a | Pfc. John Renvvitz of Patton has 3 : { been reported missing in Luxembourg | have been making a left turn into SE coach, and Frank Schwab, |€T has not missed an annual meeting | STATE NETS HUGE SUM FROM LIQUOR MONOPOLY | The Pennsylvania State Liquor Mo- | | nopoly made $21,281,400 in net pro-| | fits in selling 13,480,699 gallons of | | spirits and wines in 1944, | The Liquor Control Board said that | volume sales last year were the low- | | est since 1936 and compared with the | 115,614,723 gallons sold in 1943, and 20,303,030 in 1942, the peak year. | Dollar sales in 1944 totaled $165,- | 662,874—greatest in five years- and | | included the 10 per cent state em-| |ergency tax yielding $11,787,626, and | | federal taxes on distilled spirits of | approximately $70,000,000. | ee Vee | | PFC. RENEVITZ REPORTED MISSING IN LUXEMBOURG | | | "| since Dec. 17, according to word re. | Woodland Park when the: [ceived by his wife, the fomer Agnes | driven by William H. Ling of Vinton- { Blake of Patton. { The soldier was serving with an ar- {mored infantry unit when | lost. He entered the Army Oct. 22,| was in the Ling car and was bruised l1 op enjoins the. faithful to undertake [,. ¢ overseas last September. he was | 942, while working in Cleveland., and The | soldier is the father of a two-week | laxation of the Lenten rules. Especi- | 1d son, David Charles. Pvt, Stiles Wounded. Mrs. Betty J. Stiles of Ebensburg | has been informed that her husband, | | Pvt. Wilmer Stiles, was wounded on | [Jan. 4th, in Belgium. The soldieren- | | tered the service April 11, 1944, and | gon overseas on Oct. 1. He attended Ebensburg-Cambria | | High School and was working for the Super-0il Co. in Johnstown when he entered the service. —To lower meat prices in Mexico City, Mexico ordered the shipment of 10,000 head of cattle to the city, and if this does not accommodate the purpose 10,000 more will be ordered ’ shipped. Ebensburg, R. D. Robert Hunt, Jack- son Township; Paul Hoover, Patton R. D.; E. J. Farabaugh, Loretto; W. H. Fyock, Johnstown R. D.; Gordon Gill, Ashville R. D.; Raymond Westrick, Patton R. D.; E. J. Hughes, Ebens- burg; Dennis Bender, Carrolltown R. D.; Paul Benshoff, Johnstown R. D.; Mrs..Galen Metzgar, Johnstown, R. D. and Mrs. Florence Lane, South Fork, R.D. a NPL TWO ARE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Ebensburg—Charles Ugijlessa of Vintondale and Hilda E. Larimer of Ebensburg were slightly injured in an auto accident on Route 22, wrest of here Tuesday night about 10 o'clock. A car driven by Lester E. Edwards of 513 Sample St., Ebensburg, is said to another car dale struck it. Hilda Larimer was a passenger in the Edwards car and suffered body bruises. Mr. Ugjlessa on the head. Damage to the care was estimated at about $160. — TWO ARE JAILED IN STORE ROBBERY Officers last week lodged Frank Lubert, 22, and Peter Payne, 21, both of Cymbria, Susquehanna Township, in the Cambria County jail on a charge of burglary in connection with a robbery Jan. 30 in the Frank Hor- nick Store in Susquehanna township. The youths were jailed when un- able to post bond after a hearing be- fore Justice of the Peace D. A, West- over of Barnesboro. Two juvenile companions, also accused of partici- pating in the robbery were turned ov- er to juvenile authorities. The four were charged with stealing $22.50 in | groceries and $1 in eash from the es- tablishment.
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