a UNION PRESS-COURIER ny EE 9 (COUNTERFEIT RED STAMPS REPORTED The Food Department of the Ra- NTY AIDES IN Cou | ioning Division of the Altoona Dis- | trict Office of Price Administra- Union Asks ‘National Labor Re- | tion has just announced that there lations Board for Recogni- |is prevalent in our district counter- | tion at Two Pits, feiting of red stamps, and cau- | —dii—— tions retailers to exercise careful | Spurring its fight for union re- | scrutiny in accepting red stamps | cognition for foremen in the Cam- | rem purchasers. bria coal region, the United Cler- | Red point counterfeit stamps are | ical, Technical and Supervisory | plainly noticeable since legitimate | | Employes has asked the National | ration books have stamps appear- © VOL 52. NO. 42. TEST LOOMS ON Labor Relations Board for bar-|ing in series down the strip—for| gaining rights at two Cambria Co. | instance 8-5-2-1, whereas counter- | ines | teit stamps have been made in a Pia : ; : h | complete strip of 1s, 2s, 5s and 8s. | Charges have bees Hiey Nig ine | When counterfeit stamps are ac- | labor board on refusal o Ansy | cepted by retailers and turned ov- | vania Coal and Coke Corporation| oy, tne local banks for deposit, | to recognize the union as an ap-|g,..e gare forwarded by the be propriate bargaining agency for |i, tno Regional Verification Cen.- | foremen and other supervisory | [ter in New York, at which tise | workers. | they are carefully viewed under This procedure is the first step | special lamps for validity. When in petitioning the NLRB for bar-|same develop to be counterfeit, re- gaining recognition. Following an | tailers’ allowable inventories are investigation the board probably | reduced in equal quantity. As a will order a hearing and If the un- | result, retailers may find their in- ion is certified an election may be | ventories so low that they are not 3 | to be spent at St. Augustine. E PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1945. AUGUSTINE TO HAVE PIGNIC SOON The congregation of St. Augus- tine’s Catholic church at St. Au-| gustine are preparing for thei) annual havest picnic, which will be held on Sunday, August 19th. Russla is now in the war against Feature of the event will be ex-|the Japanese. cellent meals, with dinner service | Coming at a time when the Nips starting at 11:00 a. m., and supper | have felt the universe has been service starting at 4:00 o'clock. [ falling upon them, truly their big Folks need no introduction to | headaches are now terrible ones the excellence of the St. Augus- | At 3 P. M. Wednesday, our time tine meals, and the affair promis- | and 10:30 P. M. Moscow- time, the es to agreeably satisfy all the pal- | | Soviets cast the die. ates of patrons. Probably the Big Three in meet- There will be various games and |ing at Potsdam several days ago amusements, and dancing will also | | hed planned this. be on the card, with good music. There is every reason to believe Plan' your day on August 19th, | linat Marshal Stalin knew of the Atomic Bomb that was to drop on Japan shortly after the conference ended. Likely, too, the time had been set, as well, for the next reaction jon the Japs to come from Russia. IN hE SERVICE For we in the United States, it | means plenty. It means thousands The Jolinstown Tribune of last | [of American lives saved. Likely it Frday evening gave an interesting | even means the end of the war in a very short time. mein, scheduled. John McAlpine, president of the | supervisory union, affiliated with the United Mine Workers of Am- erica’s District 50, stated that he is asking bargaining recognition in the charges filed with the board for foremen at the Marsteller and Ehrenfeld mines of the company. The charges filed with the board are expected to set the stage for a test case on whether the union will be granted NLRB recognition for supervisory work- ers in the mining industry. It was learned that recent con- ferences were held between the operators and union on the fore- man question but these broke down and the union is continuing its fight for recognition through the government labor channels. Coal operator groups, including representatives from the Central Pennsylvania Operators’ Associa- tion, met with McAlpine and U. M. W. President Lewis in New York | to discuss the foremen situation, | it was disclosed. Union officials stated a proposal of the operators to grant recogni- tion to all but assistant foremen was turned down and the negotia- tions broke up. McAlpine stated that clerical workers in the mining industry are grouped into different units from the supervisors and have been granted separate charters. The | two groups are governed by sep- arate by-laws, he specified. The union is awaiting a decision from the National Labor Relations Board on a. petition for recogni- clerks in ‘the accounting : t of Industrial Collieries sat Johnstown. A hearing was con- “ducted several months ago in that city on the union’s application for bargaining rights. McAlpine announced that he for- warded a request last week to the War Labor Board for granting of grievance machinery for the fore- men. The WLB granted grievance | machinery and limited seniority | rights to three foremen’s groups, while emphasizing it was not com- pelfing the companies involved to recognize the unions or bargain collectively. COLVER YOUTH IS EXONERATED BY CORONER'S JURY Bruno Marconi, 19, of Colver, was exonerated of any criminal negligence in connection with the death of Miss Verne Medreski, 19, of Strongstown R. D. 1, by a cor- oner's jury last Thursday night in the Ebensburg courthouse. Miss Medreski was injured on July 25th when she leaped from a car operated by Marconi. The ac- cident occurred of the Ebensburg- Carrolltown road near the Ebens- burg fair grounds. The girl died on July 27 in a Johnstown hospital, the result of a basal frature of the skull. Testifying in his own behalf, Marconi declared that he and the girl were driving slowly along the road when the girl suddenly de- clared, “I'm going to jump out.” “I thought she was kidding and Said ‘go ahead,” Marconi told the jury. He said that a moment later he heard the door slam and the girl disappeared in the darkness. * Marconi testified that he turned the car around and found the girl lying along the road. He removed her to the office of an Ebensburg physician who ordered her rushed to the hospital. Evelyn Little of Twin Rocks, told the jury that she and Mar- coni, Miss Medreski and Peter Tanda, Colver, owner of the car, were in a tap room in Ebensburg, when the Medreski girl asked to go for a ride with Marconi. They left the tap room only 15 minutes before the accident, she declared. Peter Tanda informed jurors he had a date with the Medreski girl and that she told him she would get another girl for his friend, Marconi. However, When Tanda and Marconi arrived at the Medre- ski home only Verne was there. They left and went to a hotel in Twin Rocks where Tanda said he met Miss Little and asked her to accompany them to Ebensburg. He. said that the Medreski girl seemed angry when he asked the Little girl to accompany them. However Tanda testified that when he re- turned to the table in the Twin Rocks hotel, Miss Medreski had her arm around Marconi’s shoul- der. I remarked, “You two seem to be getting along all right,” and left the place with Miss Little. | able to continue Jn business. | that a single bomb carries the com- ‘tory—6,632 tons dropped by 820 DOOM OF JAPAN “BY ATOMIC BOMBS SOON A REALTY New Weapon mn More Powerful Than Twenty Thousand Tons of TNT, The most terrifying engine of destruction ever devised by man— an atomic bomb carrying the ex- plosive force of more than 20,000 tons of TNT-—was turned loose against Japan Sunday as American | airmen opened a ‘surrender or | else” assault against the enemy homeland. President Truman re- | vealed the biggest and best kept | military secret of the war—the | release of atomic energy and said that the awesome weapon was the | nation’s answer to Japanese re- jection of the Potsdam surrender | ultimatum. In what amounted to a new ul- timatum, the President warned: “If they do not now accept our | terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on earth. So mighty is this super-bomb bined destructive power of 2,000 super-fortresses, loaded to a ca- pacity of ten tons of bombs each. Its force is more than three times greater than the effect of the greatest aerial attack in his- Super-Fortresses on Japan Aug. 2. Germany was devastated by air power and yet the greatest single attack saw only some 1,200 B-17’s taking part. The atomic bomb car- ries enough destruction to equal the bomb load of 3,300 heavy bombers used against the Reich. If 500 average sized freight cars each loaded with TNT ,were drop- ped on Japan, the effect would not be as great as the havoc wrought | by a single atomic bomb. Until now the biggest bomb in | history was the British earthquake bomb weighing 11 tons and capa- ble of gouging out a crater 120 ft. deep in diameter and 35 feet deep. On that basis—all things being | equal-—the new bomb conceivably | might blast open a valley on the] earth's surface 48 miles wide and | 14 miles deep. The first of the bombs was ex- | ploded last month in an experiment | on a New Mexican desert. The | first to drop on Japan went down | on Hiroshima, highly important] | | Japanese army base on the home island of Honshu. The damage will probably stagger the imagination. It should prove of tremendous aid in shortening the war with Ja- pan. It is a terrible weapon to think | of. In view of what can happen to | all mankind in some conflict of the | future! It can likewise change mankind's mode of living to great advantage if used in the Pg manner. (IBLER REUNION AT ST. LAWRENGE FETE The annual St. Lawrence picnic, as noted in last week’s paper, will be held in the picnic grove in St. Lawrence next Sunday, August 12, and committees in charge are planning for a large crowd. Chick- en noodle and beef dinner and sup- per will be served, dinner to start at 11 a. m., and supper at 4:30 p. m. A fine program of amusements, with dancing afternoon and even- ing, will feature, and refreshments will be serve don the grounds. Another big event for St. Law- rence on Sunday will be the annu- al Kibler reunion. A high mass for the living and deceased members of the Kiblen clan will be sung in the St. Lawrence church Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Plan your day for St. Lawrence on Sunday. You will not be disap- pointed. SPORTSMEN TO MEET. Plans for the establishment of a fish hatchery in th sidistrict was furthered during the regular mee- ting of the Cambria County Sportsmens’ Association held on Wednesday evening of this week in the Ebensburg Courthouse. Secretary M. J. Farabaugh of Carrolltown announced that mem- bers of the Hastings Sportsmen’s Club recently contributed $50 to the fish hatchery fund. Many oth- er organizations had previously made contributions to the fund. | was discussed in detail account of Cambria county physi- | cians serving in the armed forces | with a detailed sketch of each, and the following concerning doctors from this section were noted: “In the Pacific Theater of War | for the past year, Capt. Richard C. Murray, of Patton, is now on duty with the Army Medical Corps on an island in the Philip- pines. The young physician was commissioned upon graduating from Jefferson Medical College in 1942, and was called for active service upon completion of his se- nior intereship at Methodist Hos- pital, Philadelphia. Capt. David H. Coffey of Pat- ton, is taking a special course at present at the adjutant general's school at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. | Prior to his assignment to the school he had been engaged camps in the States. The physi- cian has been a member of the | Army medical corps for the past two and a half years. A former practicing Hastings | physician—Capt. George E. Dvor- chak—is serving as a medical of- ficer with the Army in the Philip- pines. He has been helping care for Yank casualties in the Pacific for the past two years. Dr. Dvor- chak, a son of John Dvorchak, Sr., of Patton, was commissioned and called for active duty in March of 1941.” MANY POSTMASTERS ATTEND MEETING Joseph J. Lawrence, of Washing- ton, D. C,, third assistant postmas- ter general, explained new postal laws and regulations to nearly 100 postmasters from the 26th Con- | gressional district at a meeting on Thursday night in the courthouse at Ebensburg. The new classification bill per- taining to salaries of postal work- ers passed recently by Congress, by the group. A. M. Schettig of Ebens- burg, postmaster director of the district, presided. Talks were giv- en by Ramsey S. Black, Pennsyl- vania state treasurer and former third assistant postmaster gener- al; Stephen A. Bodkin, Pittsburgh postmaster; Or. J. W. Manon, pre- sident, and Charles W. Puskar, secretary of the Pennsylvania | Chapter of the National Associa- | tion of Posiinestare THREE JAILBREAKERS ARE CAPTURED Three youths who broke out of the Cambria county jail recently | after overpowering the turnkey, were captured on Wednesday of last week by Chief of Police Jake Irwin. Returned to their cells were Wm. Irwin, 19, Brookville; Oliver C. Best, 16, of Clearfield, and William D. Cartwright, Woodland. “They were captured in a stolen automo- bile. The trio had been jailed in con- nection with a series of gasoline station hold-ups. According to in- | formation obtained from Clearfield the three youths attacked Turn- key Bert Kyler, when he opened a door to place a trusty in the ex- ercise yard. Kyler, who was lone warden at the jail, was un- able to pursue the youths called state police. It is believed the youths waded a river and pro- | cured the car in which they were nabbed. meee ie ie Gets Purple Heart. John M. Palka, Elmora, has re- ceved the Purple Heart Awarded his son, Jchn E. Palka, firemen’s mate first class, who was wound- ed Feb. 26, at Iwo Jima. Another son, Tech. Sgt. Lewis, Jr, also holds the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Three other brothers are in service—Sgt. Anthony H., with the Air Force in India; Pfc. Ches- ter with the Marines on Okinawa, and Fred, boatswain’s mate with the Navy in California. Another brother, Ben, has been discharged from service with 114 points. 1S GRADUATE IS GENERAL'S AIDE ST. FRAN Marine Captain James Limegro- ver of Wilkinsburg, a graduate of St. Francis College, Loretto, has been named aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. John Marston, commandoing general at Camp Lejeune, N. C. In the service since March, 1942 the Marine officer is a veteran of 25 months of overseas duty. He was valedictorian of the 1942 class at the Loretto colege and was pro- minent in many school organiza- tionss and activities. in | | general hospital work at various the | and | the Asiatic mainland should not be necessary. It is a well known fact | that the Russians have had an ar- my of half a million along the Manchurian border for years, and since the end of the European war SENATOR HALUSKA CRITICIZES MARTIN Harrisburg.—Senator John J. Haluska, Cambria County, wants to know why Governor Edward Martin is so much concerned ab- out “Tax Reform” when he speaks at county fairs and so forgetful about the matter when he talks to the Legislature. The Cambria County Senator is also wondering why the Governor didn’t present journed and then presenting it be- fore county fair audiences. In a statement issued through the Democratic State Committee, Sen- ator Haluska says: “Governor Martin, speaking re- cently at the |Selinsgrove Fair, said the Commonwealth's tax structure should be reconstructed. Our tax laws, he insisted, should be reformed. That sort of talk has been current at Harrisburg for years. “The Democrats under Governor Earle impasedi some gy Gunes 22 Aas emergency measures, didn’t say their new taxes were part of a reform program. Gover- nor James didn’t do anything ab- out taxes—except copy the Dem- ocrats. Governor Martin could have been excused for not having a ‘tax reform’ program when the Legislature met in 1943, but if he had ‘tax reform’ in mind, he could have had a program ready when didn’t have one then, but appar- enacted at fair grounds. He may he speaks at a fair, but he did have a majority when he spoke to | the General Assembly. “If the Governor has an or portant ten point program in mind that he rather overlooked while | the legislature was in session, and he’s serious about it, why doesn't he call the Legislators back into session and put his ten point pro- gram across? If some of his Re- | publican friends ran out on him if he had a good program. ty fars only seems to be the Gov- ernor’s present notion. GIRLS ON STRIKE AT BARNESBORO hourly wage scale, | employees have staged a of the Phillip-Jones Corp., facturers of men’s shirts. Workers, who left their jobs on | | Friday, and have since refused to return to their machines, have ask- | Landing of American troops on | | conflict as to whether or not the Russians would enter the Asiatic | ON REGENT TALKS his recently announced ten-point | program to the legislature instead | of waiting until the legislature ad- | the Legislature met this year. He | RUSSIA ENTERS WAR AGAINST JAPANESE | | | | antly he has one now. The Gover- | | nor should know that laws are not | not have a majority present when | | | the Democrats would help him— | Apri} 10th while battling the Ger- Demanding 5 high a higher minimum | ve more than 300 | tings, work | School. stoppage in the Barnesboro plant |ces in March, manu- | with an engineer outfit in Fort | | | | | none but the Soviets themselves know how that army has been aug- mented. But it stands to reason | that powerful armes and equip- | ment have been deployed there for | the past three months in anticipa- | tion of what happened Wednesday. It means that we all have a sure glimpse of the end of all hostili- ties. All this news was flashed over the radio just as the Press-Courier was closing its forms on Wednes- day afternoon. Radio news broad- casters said that Marshal Stalin had indicated that Japan had ap- proached them previously to act as a mediator for peace terms. However, the ‘unconditional sur- render” ultimatum is all that they could find in the Allied camp, and the Japs can't get it into their heads that they can’t get some- thing better. Opinions have been both pro and con since the end of the European | (CALLS ON ARMY [ by the return of miners from oth- war. They have more at stake in that war theatre than either Brit-’| ain or the United States. They couldn't afford to stay out of it! REDEPLOYMENT AND NLL DISCHARGES OF THE NORTH CAMBRIANS Among the Pennsylvania soldiers who have arived at Indiantown Gap and Fort Dix during the past week for redeployment and dis- charge from the north of Cambria County, are the following: For Redeployment. John J. Dillon, Hastings. Charles Cymbor, Patton. Blaine K. Polk, Blandburg. Walter L. Garman, Bland- T-3 T-4 T-5 Pie, burg. Sgt. Harold W. Metzer, Bland- fc. Andrew Pribish, Heilwood. . Andrew H. Gray, Spangler. fc. Ernest T. Cantelope, Span- Willam Abrams, Spangelr. 5 Garv.y C. Weakland, Ash- ville R. D. Cpl. John Labun, Barnesboro. Pvt. Charles L. Hamilton, Pat- ton. Discharged. John Zrioka, Barnesboro. John Gornish, Elmora. Sgt. Pte, “JOHN L. LEWIS ON EUROPEAN JOB? Newspapers over the week end carried an Associated Press story | Ebensburg, are as follows: from Moscow, stating that the name of John L. Lewis, head of | the United Mine Workers of Am- | erica, is being mentioned in re- sponsible foreign diplomatic cir- | cles in Moscow in connection with | an important job in Europe. { No details were available. | Lewis, at his home in Alexan- dria, Va., declined to comment on | [> report. { ap | HASTINGS SOLDIER IS LISTED AS KILLED 27 | of | on Pfc. Edward R. Stoneberg, years old, of Hastings, father a young daughter, was killed mans on the Western front. The ‘However, ‘tax reform’ at coun- | yyastings soldier was serving with | the 15th Engineer battalion of the First Army when he made the su- | preme sacrifice. The soldier is married to former Florence Swenson, who s now residing in Montclair, N. J. His daughter s Koren Lynn Stone- "Pr Pfc. Stoneberg, a son of Mr. and | Adolph Stoneberg of Has- | attended Hastings High He entered the armed for- 1941, and trained the | Belvoir, Va. The soldier was as- | signed to overseas duty in Dec, 1943, and was located in Northern | Ireland until the invasion of Nor- | | ed the management for a guaran- | mandy. hour work week. It was pointed out that the em- increases authorized by the Labor Board. The girls, however, have requested that the manage- ment appeal to the Regional War | establish a minimum hourly wage | scale. The girls claim that they are paid for piece work and that there is a wide difference in the earning capacities of the various workers. A special meeting for all work- | ers has been scheduled for Thurs- day afternoon in the Barnesboro Miners hall. Union and company | officials hope that the controver- | sy will be settled during the meet- ing and the girls will return to their jobs Friday. ——N ITALIAN CLUBS WILL HOLD PICNIC SOON The Italo-American Clubs of Patton and Barnesboro and the Sons of Italy Club of Colver will hold a Basket Picnic at the Patton Park on Sunday, August 26th. A program of entertainment and mu- sic is being planned. All members and their friends are invited to attend. Further details will be announced in next week’s issue. tee of 65 cents per hour for a 40- | ployes, mostly girls, and women, | | tings; have been granted all of the wage | Mrs. Helen War |N. J.; Mrs. Alma Lecorchick, Bar- | | | | Besides his widow, daughter and partents, the soldier leaves these brothers and sisters: Willam, Has- Norman, with the Navy; | Notes, Wanamassa, | nesboro, and Mrs. Ruth Woodley, Hastings. iy Labor Board for authorization to | | DYSART BOYS SPEND FURLOUGHS AT HOME| Robert E. Crossman, 19, instruc- | tor at Dam Neck, Va., spent the | week end with his parents, Mr. and {Mrs. E. P. Crossman of Dysart. | He was recently promoted to the | rank of Gunner's Mate 3-c. Rob- | | ert entered service on April 9th, | 1944, and received his boot train- | ing at Bainbridge, Md. He was then | sent overseas and spent seven | months in the Mediterranean hie ater of war. He returned to States earlier in the year te spent a thirty day furlough with his parents. Since that tme he has been stationed in Virginia. Other Dysart boys home on leave | are T-Cpl. Eddie Vingelish, and T- | Cpl. Robert Vineglish, sons of Mr. | and Mrs. John Vineglish, John | Hale, petty officer, 3-c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hale, Pvt. Lewis Naylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har- old Naylor, and Seaman 2-c¢ Frank | S. Gregg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gregg. | Springs. | Yeager, | mas. She was born Aug. 6, 1878 al | eral gr eat- ~grandehildren; j Price | program can be ended in three T0 RELEASE MINERS state secretary of mines, pointed to an 11 per cent reduction in antracite pro- duction and called upon Army of- ficials to release miners from the armed forces. ‘The only way to combat an ac- ute shortage is by the release of men from the army, by halting ad- ditional induction of miners and Richard Maize, 8 er industries,” Maize declared. The impending fuel shortage prompted Maize to urge home- owners to have faulty heating sys- tems repaired now in order that maximum efficiency may be ob- tained this winter. Careful use of electricity and hot water, he added will save coal. mime WY eects NORTH CAMBRIANS DRAWN ON JURIES Northern Cambria county resi- dents drawn for jury service for the September term of court at Grand Jury. John Chirdon, Coupon. Edna Davis, Barnesboro. Naomi Fees, Carrolltown. Alphonse Kelly, Hastings. Sara Westover, Barnesboro. Petit Jury. Margaret Altimus, Nicktown. Thomas A. Bradley, Allegheny Township. Margaret E. Bearer, Hastings. Mike Buck, Carrolltown. Eileen Brawley, Ashville. Angela Chernisky, Spangler. Amy Commons, Hastings. Lillian Douglas, Chest Springs. Mae Daugherty, Loretto. Michael Farabaugh, Carrolltown. Gilbert Farabaugh, East Carroll Township. Pauline Frontino, Hastings. Alma Gould, Spangler. Margaret Hott, Ashville. E. Paul Hoover, East Carroll Township. Georgia Lidwell, Ashville. William Maher, Hastings. James Regan, Bakerton. Gladys Stewart, Spangler. Louis Tronzo, Spangler. Michael Timko, Colver. Mary Wright, Ashville. Traverse Jury. Mary Bennett, Barnesboro. Alma M. Burgoon, Hastings. Samuel Butterbaugh, Amsbry. Josephine Deringer, Patton. Angelo Dotto, Flinton. Elizabeth Fadale, Barnesboro. Mildred Gooderham, Patton. Carrie Glass, Fallentimber. Anne Hasenstab, Patton. Etta Karlheim, Chest Springs. Albert Koval, Hastings. Sue E. Kirsch, Hastings. Fren Lenz, Loretto. Harry Litzinger, Barnesboro. Earl Myers, Susquehanna Twp. Bess McCartney, Blandburg. Edward McDonald, Spangler. Mary McCarthy, Spangler. Adalaide Nastase, Barnesboro. Sara Robinson, Barnesboro. Della Severin, Carrolltown. Gerald Springer, Carrolltown. Odessa Taylor, Barnesbofo. Harry O. Wharton. .Chest YEAGERS WED FIFTY: ONE YEARS MONDAY | Mr. and Mrs. Ptter Yeager, prominent Elder Township resi-| dents, Tuesday observed their fif- | ty-first wedding anniversary qui- | etly in their home. They are par- | ents of 20 children, 17 of whom | d | are living. | Tuseday also marked the 67th] | birthday anniversary of Mrs. | the former Cecelia Tho- | daughter of the late Michael and | Margaret (Gates) Thomas, and | became the bride of Peter Yeag-| er, son of George and Elizabeth | (Haas) Yeager, August 7th, 1894. | Mr. Yeager witll be 74 on Decem- | | ber 19th. Mr. Yeager is engaged in the] | coal mining business and Mrs. Yea- | | ger does her own housework. Both | are actve in church work. Two of the couple’s sons are | | serving in the armed forces. There are many grandchildren and Sov NO EARLY END TO SHOE RATIONING | Federal officials said during the | week that shoe rationing which | was started in February, 1943, may end next January 1, or short- ly thereafter. Officials of both the War Pro- duction Board and the Office of Administration, however, denied that the shoe rationing months. Referring to reports quoting the National Shoe Retailers Assn. as saying rationing may be lifted in | that time, the OPA. replied: “They are all wet on that.” The prediction that shoe ra- tioning will be suspended early next year is based, it was learned, | on the expectation that production | will reach a monthly rate of ap- proximately 28,000,000 pairs of ci- vilian ration-type shoes shortly af- ter the end of 1945. — ————e | COURTHOOSE EMPLOYES GIVEN SALARY BOOSTS Wage boosts for two Cambria County Courthouse employes were approved last week at a meeting of the Salary Board of Cambria Co., in Ebensburg. Miss Anna Sipe and Mrs. Erma Evans, employes in the offices of the county commissioners: were granted salary increases from $5 per day to a monthly wage of $137.50. | discharge SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER TR NAME NEW PASTOR FOR BARNESBORO Rev. Father John P., McEntire, rector of Our Lady of Mercy Ca- tholic Church, Prospect, has been appointed of St. Edward's Catho- lic Church, at Barnesboro, accord- ing to an announcement by Most Rev. Bishop Richard T. Guilfoyle. He wil succeed Rev, Father Mil- chael Brett, who has been given the pastorate of St. Mary's Cath- olic church in Hollidaysburg. Go- ing to the Prospect church as rec- tor wil be Rev. Father Raymond C. Cupples, who has been serving as administrator of the Hollidays- burg church. Father McEntire was born in Ireland and was ordained to the priesthood in America .He served as assistant pastor at Gallitzin, and then as pastor at Sacred Heart Church, Bakerton, before his assignment at Prospect. Fath- er Brett has been rector at Bar- neshboro for the past 14 years. He previously served at Bellwood and | at St. John Gaulhortyt Johnstown, PLAN FOR MINERS EXTRA FOOD GETS STARTED IN AREA OPA Requires Management and Labor Representation on Certifying Units, Administrative machinery thru which the OPA will allocate extra red points and sugar rations to coal miners engaged in heavy work requiring continuous muscular ex- ertion is being set up throughout the area. Detailed regulations to | govern these extra allowances set up a plan and all operators in the mines of this territory have been sent mimeographed instructions which cover their part in the plan. The regulations make clear that employment by a mining company does not designate the individual as a “miner” the OPA uses the word for the purposes of special grants. The regulations also make clear that in no instance will the OPA and the War Price and Rationing Boards deal directly with individ- ual applicants for the extra ra- tions which have been decided up- on, In explaining the intent of the plan, the official communication from OPA headquarters uses these words: “Labor representatives and the public generally must be made to’ understand that issuance of these rations constitutes an effort to provid逓food for rainers who have been determined by compe- tent nutritional authorities to re- quire extra food because of the na- ture of their occupation.” Operators of coal mines or re- presentatives of the mine manage- ment, will be required to make the blanket applications. The maxi- mum allowance of supplemental | rations is set at 50 red points and one pound of sugar per person per | month. It was pointed out that most outside workers at the mines | are excluded from the extra ra- [tions rrr Wm ARMY WILL RETAIN SAME POINT SCORE The Army announced last Thurs- ay the present point score for dis- | charge will be left at 85 while ab- out 800,000 men with that score are being released. Later the score will be revised to provide for the discharge of an- other 700,000 men by June 1st, 1946, the date by which the army | had announced a total of 1,500,000 men would be discharged under the | point credit system. In announcing this, Secretary of War Stimson said he could not say no wwhen the new score would be given. The War Department pre- viously had stated it expected to announce the new critical score, with points slighter lower than the present figure, some time in July. Stimson said at the time of re- | vision of points to provide for the of the 700,000 man | group, a new computation of indi- | vidual scores would be made to | give soldiers credit for Service af- ter May 12, 1945. This was the date to which credit points ran | under the original interim score of 85. This new computation, Stimson said, will allow some men who would not have had enough points by the computation of last May to earn their discharge by their service between then and the time of the new computation. This, he told a news conference, “will obviously give the advantage of battle credit and overseas cre- dit to troops in the Pacific.’ BISHOP PARDUE TO BE AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH Bishop Pardue, head of the Pittsburgh Diocese of the Episco- pal Church, will come to the Trin- ity Episcopal Church, in Patton, next Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’- clock. This will be the Bishop's annual visit to the Patton congre- gation. re NY Gallitzin to Buy Truck. Tentative plans for the purchase of a new fire truck were discuss- ed at a meeting of the Gallitzin Volunteer Fire Company on Tues- day night. An invitation will be extended to representatives of fire truck manufacturers to attend the next meeting which will be held Sept. 4. COUNTY FIREMEN HAVE SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION TIME First Tournament Day in Three Years Is Observed Also at Nanty-Glo, Last Wednesday and Thursday were annual convention days for the Volunteer Firemen's Assn. of Cambria Co. and Vicinity, and the Ladies’ Auxiliary bodies at Nan-, ty-Glo, and likewise marked the , first time in three years that a second day was added to the fes- tivities and a parade was held. Thomas Woodring, Nanty-Glo fire chief, was elected president of the association for the coming year, succeeding Robert Whalen of Spangler. Clymer was selected as the convention site for next | year by a 107-88 margin over Gal- | litzin., Following a heated controversy among the delegates of the thirty- three companies represented, a proposal which would have barred county assistance to Johnstown, died on the floor. County firemen had charged lack of cooperation from the city during a recent drowning near South Fork. Also named to office during the men’s sessicn were William Leary of Patton, first vice president; Robert J. Kenney, of Cresson, sec- ond vice president; A. F. Baker, Hastings, secretary, for his 22nd consecutive term; Theodore Ott, Patton, treasurer. Mrs. Evelyn Gaston of Clymer in the sense in which | was elected president of the La- | dies Auxiliary; Mrs. Helen Vas- | binder of Clymtr, first vice pres- | ident; Mrs. Mabel Bowser, Clymer, | second vice president; Mrs. John | Whalen, Spangler, secretary, for: {her 14th consecutive term. Direc- tors named were Mrs. Maude Far- abaugh, Carrolltown; Mrs. Justi- na Mock, Dale, and Mrs. Margaret Linn, Portage. During the convention three new auxiliaries were accepted into the membership, namely Jackson Twp. Cover Hill and West Taylor. It was also announced that during the year Daisytown Fire Co.'s auxiliary was admitted into mem- bership of the county organiza- tion. Installation of auxiliary officers will be held at the October meet- ing in Beaverdale. Auditors nam- ed for the year are _ Mrs. Agnes Duza, Mrs. Charlotte” Clark and Mrs. Margaret Linn. Nineteen fire companies coms- peted for the $275 in prizes on Thursday in the pazade. Son Soneman’ gh Volunteer . ire Lo. gan} the lion's s ey. The firemen wgn on place for the best appearing apparatus and for the most men in uniform in Iine of march. Vintondale won sec- ond for the best appearing appar- atus and Scalp Level was given first prize for the best appearing pumper.. Windber won first for | the best appearing apparatus oth- ler than pumper. Coalport won the | prize for coming the longest dis- | tance. The Black Lick Valley Band was judged the best band in the | parade. The Darktown Brigade | Award went to to Bhenghurg. FARM OFFICE LISTS SERVICES AVAILABLE | Three services are now available | to eligible family- type farmers | including veterans in Cambria and Indiana counties through the Farm Security Administration of- fice in the Courthouse annex in Ebensburg. According to FSA supervisor George E. Ardery, these services are as follows: Operating loans—These loans are made for almost all farm and home needs which will help fam- ilies increase production; improve soil, building and home conditions. Loans are repayable in one to five years at five per cent interest. At present over 100 farmers in Cam- bria and Indiana counties are finding these loans helpful. Group loans—These are eommu- nity service loans made to two or more farmers to buy heavy ma- chinery, pure bred sires, etc. These loans are usually repayable from three ot five years at 5 per cent interest. Farm ownership loans—These loans are made under the terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937, which provides 100 per cent loans to enable tenants, sharecroppers, and farm laborers to buy farms of their own. Loans are repayabe over a period of 40 years at 3 per cent interest. Sim- ilar loans are also made to small landowners to buy additional land for making a family-type farm unit. Another phase of farm security administration is technical guid- ance. FSA is not merely a lending agency. Educational assistance is tied in with money lending by de- veloping farm and home plans with each family each year. In so doing, each family receives sug- gestions from the supervisor on improved farm and home practices which will yield to greater yields in crops, more profit from live- stock, improved soil and buildings production of the yar around fam- ily food supply, better health thru sanitation, safe water and proper diet. —NF Gets Cambria Post, Robert T. Ingram, Johnstown, was appointed to the Cambria Co. Assistance Board last week by Gov. Edward Martin, to replace V. W. Adams, Johnstown, whose term expried.
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