I'AGE TWO Building, 452 class mail matter May 7, 1936, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THOS. A. OWENS FRANK P, CAMMARATA..... Largest General Weekly Newspaper Circulation in the Area, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER Patton Courier, Estab, 1898. Union Press, Estab. 1935. Published every Thursday by Thos. A. Owens, Press-Courier Magee Avenue, Patto n, Pa., and entered as second at the postofrice at Patton, Pa., we BUSINESS Manager THOS. A. OWENS, JR. be authorized by t Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. : The endeavor of the Union Press-Courier is to sincerely repre- sent Organized Labor in their éfforts to obtain economic freedom. We solicit the gunport of all Unions. Material for publication must e organization it represents, bear signatures of the President and Secretary of the Local, together with the Local wits or ne ASS0cCIALE Editor eal. The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of the combined circulations of two largely circulated weeklies and has a reader coverage that blankets Patton and the major mining towns in Northern Cambria County. Ee will see a lot of fence-building ac- oo ook ok IN THE HOME, TOO, THE NEW Year will likely bring a lot of things we've been wanting and needing. There have been a lot of housewives operating broken-down washing machines, and are hopeful of getting new ones. Decrepit ra- dios will likely be replaced with new models that will be revolu- we now have. Tires will become | won't have to be constantly in fear | of blow-outs; refrigerators will b ion the market again; and toasters, EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL our readers and friends May it bring you proseprity, peace and contentment throughout. May it be the first year of a peace for our nation that will endure throughout the lifetime of all of us now living. May it be a year of health, care- fulness and achievement. soak ok oe ok IN MENTIONING THE WORD “Carefulness,” we particularly call attention to the fact that the late war didn’t claim the most lives of citizens of the United States in the year just closing. It was carelessness that was our chief enemy. We find it in mount- ing number of fatalities in most every line of activity, and our worst enemy of all seems to be the automobile. Even the cars we've been forced to keep operating for the past several years have been much better from a safety stand- pont that the human beings who drove them. Most of the accidents were caused by the man or woman at the steering wheel-—not by any mechanical defects in the motor vehicle. ok eof ok WE ENTER INTO A NEW YEAR with optomism. Most everybody looks forward to a better life than we've been having. But there are omnous signs on the horizon, too. One needs only to look at the daily newspaper tc sense that. Apparent- ly there's a showdown coming be- tween capital and labor. Labor is showing its hand because they re- alize they can’t be caught napping. They want no repetition of what followed the first World War. And, above all, they want security. oe ok ok WHETHER WE'LL HAVE ANY difficulty in the bituminous coal mining fields when the present scale expires on Mar. 31, at this time, cannot be conjured. One thing is certain, the miner is not going to recede on any gains he has made. He has good reason to insist on good living and work- ing conditions. He's been through the mill. He knows he has always had to fight for his due. sok ok ok ok POLITICS WILL HAVE A TOP place in the coming year. All the Congressmen, and one-third of the Senate, will be up for election. And naturally, they will endavor to in- terpret the will of their constitu- ents. Power politics at Washington likely won't influence them this year nearly as much as the votes of the people back home. They've already started building fences for a primary that comes this spring. se fe 3k 3k HERE IN CAMBRIA COUNTY, too, politics soon will be start- ing to be in evidence. A Congress- man and five members of the state Legislature will be chosen. In the state there will be a new Governor chosen, as well as a United States LL LTE GLE GE TENGE GL FETE GGL TLS Jooneandall HAPPY NEW YEAR sufficiently available so that we | ironers, and any number of labor- | been accustomed to. | a se oe lt ok INTERNATIONALLY, MOST OF | us are looking askance at the picture. In spite of the fact that the war is supposed to be over, there is stiil a lot of fighting going on here and there, although Am- erican troops are not involved. However, we are having some mighty tough diplomatic problems, and praying that out of it all will fightng for. Peace and Justice. *ok ok lately drafted. While enlistments have been above the figures anti- the draft keeps merrily going fore they reach the age of 18. kok ok oe in this respect. With an election in the offing, they are going to re- tionary when compared with what | 18: : : : y P | sentiment on the matter when con- | Cambria County it “lives” in its versing with Northern Cambria own home. A little more than a people. Most all agree, however, year ago we purchased the prop- e there should be some kind of mili- [erty we now occupy on Magee | tary training. Ave, ILL. THERE BE A SPECIAL | With our needs. Every detail was saving household appliances. Most | W Session of the Pennsylvania (carefully planned. A larger news- ‘all of them will be great improve- | ments on the pre-war models we've | State Legislature? r provided Governor Martin can see /moved our equipment | some advantage from a political | missing an issue of the paper. standpoint for such a session. The fact that the Democrats jumped | THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED, the gun on him in demanding the legislature convene to iron out the |and with only our business mana- post-war problems, naturally, was | ger, the editor and our office girl received cooly. But he may yet|on the job, combined with part- find it politically expedient to call | time help of an outside linotype a session. Time will tell. and all of us are earnestly hoping | IN THE PAST FEW YEARS WE | the editor to be in the General have been looking forward to come what we thought we were |each New Year with only one big objective in mind . . . that of the | WITH THE ADJOURNMENT OF successful conclusion of the war. i, ; ; . | This year we don’t have the big | ultimate goal of our change in lo- PRACTICALLY, ALL OF THE objective any mire, but we've sud- | cation came to a head with the wartime servicemen will be at| gj... giscovered there are so many | first issue of a standard 8-page, 8- home by the middle of the NeW | i. things There's going to be column weekly newspaper, the pro- Year, and our troops will be made | co u0h waves here and there. [duct you have been reading since up of Regular Army and of men |p + won pe big enough to sur- |that time. Youll agree it has been mount them. cipated by the War Department, | pgp FIELD OF SPORTS, |of late we've installed equipment ; i travel and entertainment we'll | for the expeditious handling of ad- along, but is not meeting the Army |. without restriction, and a lot of | ditional pages on such weeks as expectations because so many of | ot un enthusiasm will be let on |advertising lineage may warrant the young fellows are enlsting be- | {po j50ge, Probably there'll be in- |it. tense interest in the next baseball World's Series, and more interest | WITH THE RETURN OF THE ANOTHER CONJECTURE WILL | in league games. Locally, baseball rest on what the Congress will | and football will be on the up- | from the service the latter part of do about the present draft law | grade. Travel will likely be popu- 1945, the Union Press-Courier has when it expires late in the spring. | Jar, Will it again be extended? Prob- | Tourists,” will put in an appear- | ceived by the owners more than a ably it won't. Congressmen will be | ance. Maybe 1946 will prove to be on a spot with the folks at home | 3 pretty good year for us all. UNION PRESS-COURIER Senator. The next several weeks! AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO | will deny that war brings misery military training? Will the 18- (only. May the developments of tivity. On the surface things may | year-olds be required to put in a 1946, with the blessings of the be quiet, But don’t be fooled, the |year of service, or will it be cut Creator, be such that permanent politically-minded will be at work. [down to four months, with perhaps and lasting, and a just, peace re- some additional requirements after | sult. that? In all liklihood, the way the picture now looks, Congress isn't FROM THE STANDPOINT OF in a mood to vote for a year of military training unless they find | year about to close has been a the folks at home want it. Some | memorable one, In fact, the great- so-called polls and a lot of news- est strides we have ever made were papers claim, the people are in ad- | accomplished during the year. For | vance of Congress in their think- [the first time in the 52 years of ing, and do want the year of train- this newspaper's service to the ok ok oe ok ok the staff of this newspaper, the Personally, we find divided people of Patton and Northern Early in the year we re- oe ok ok of modeled the building to comply There wili we, | Paper press was installed, and we without 5 ok oe ok ok too, with a dire shortage of labor operator. And the legislature was ok 3k KOK in session at the time, requiring Assembly at Harrisburg. +k ok ke ok the Legislature early in May, the a vast improvement over the 6- s*okokokk column page previously issued. As og ok ok ok absent members of our staff The old signs, “Rooms for hopes to expand to the plane con- year ago. Constantly we have in view a better newspaper, and with imine the gradual reconversion of our nation to a peace-time basis, we'll spect their home folks’ desires. The military training law. PS TR TR TS TL TL TLE TL present draft law has no connec- BRIEFLY COMMENTING things just don’t happen in a hurry tion with any proposed post-war | —they must be earned. We've been Thoughts That May or May Not been meeting with the success we Interest You Discussed from keep on expanding concretely. Big trying to do that . . . and have have hoped for. We look forward | to 1946 confidently and optimisti- Week to Week. cally. oko ok ok CHRISTMAS OF 1945 IS OVER, and this week we are publishing | County in 1946? Frankly, we don’t as usual the hardest issue of all to |know. However, improvements of get out—the paper between Christ- | every kind have been retarded dur- mas and New Year's. It was once |ing the war years, and particularly our policy not to publish during |in construction work and in build- this week, but in late years we've |ing there will be a great boom. In felt our subscribers are entitled |fact, most everything of a progres- to 52 issues a year. We hope your |Sive local nature has been with- Christmas was a merry one. We |held for the war effort. Naturally, are sure it was. We of the Union | the break must start in 1946. Per- Press-Courier office find it hard to [manent industries are vitally need- get down to work this week, and | ed, especially in our smaller towns if we are a bit below par—excuse |Such as we have here in Northern us. A NEW YEAR IS AT HAND. |that goal—Patton particularly. What it will bring us is a matter of conjecture. Conditions in our (OBTAINING WORK WASN'T A WHAT WILL BE IN STORE FOR Patton and Northern Cambria Cambria County. Movements are Eko k underway in some places towards 4 oe oe sje ok prepare for it. Likely, if materials can be obtained, the state will put on its biggest road repair and con- struction job in history. The high- way department has been forced to hoard a huge sum for this purpose and Northern Cambria should get its share of that work, oe ok ok ok CHRISTMAS IS PAST. A NEW Year is in the offing, We all look forward to it with some anticipa- tion, but with some reservations in the anticipations—but withal, for a Happier New Year than we have known for the past four | years. We look forward to a peace —a permanent peace—that some- how or other seems a bit elusive. There’s still lots of suffering on | the face of the earth. America, of | all nations engaged in war, will be | able to recuperate first. Farm Account Books Ready Farm account books for 1946 are now available at the office of the county farm agent. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE In the Estate of John Gresko, Late of Clearfield Township, Cam- bria County, Pennsylvania, de- ceased: Notice is hereby given that Let- ters of Administration, c.t.a., in the Estate of the above named dece- dent have been granted to the un- dersigned. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or demands against the same will make them known without delay to GEORGE GRESKO, Adminis- trator, R. D. 1, Box 44, Patton, Pennsylvania. C. RANDOLPH MYERS, Attorney at Law, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. 1-31 ‘SYMBOL OF STRENGTH IS THE OAK, WHICH EXTENDS ITS LIMBS HORIZONTALLY IN DEFIANCE OF GRAVITY. MAY SUCH STRENGTH AND STURDINESS BE YOURS IN 1946 AND IN THE YEARS TO COME—STRENGTH TO | | | | nation are not all rosy. Labor and EW YEAR'S bells are ringing—ring- ing out the old, ring- capital seem heading for a show- [part of 1945 . . . but with so, many down. It is all a part of reconver- | Servicemen and war workers re- sion from war, we presume. But, |turning, it will be our major prob- fear not, this great nation of ours |lem in 1946, and government . . . will reconvert to peace-time living. | local, state and national . . . must problem from, 1941 to the latter It's TRUE what they say about A beverage containing the finest ingredients. A distinc- tively different and delicious Cola drink, Hastings Bottling Works Hastings, Pa. We'll do that more quickly than any other nation on earth. Cer- tainly England and Russia won't be able to beat us to it . .. and the ing in the new. We lookforward hopefully, Thursday, December 27, 1945 TT A as -_ W E’VE SEEN a great many changes in our day... changes in styles, changes in cus- toms, and changes in transporta- tion. But one thing has remained unchanged during all these years— our determination to lead the way at all times in value-giving. We enter 1946 fully pledged to stand by our time-honored custom. Happy New Year, friends! C. A. Sharbaugh Store Carrolltown, Pa. RI SE I ITT TE TE TE AT The SII SIS FoR PEPE IE IE IT, of TPP TETET ETS TE VEC OSPR SAD PED SBD SPD PPS OBOE SSS RE RBRENN RR BURR RET RILTER LI RR, NEW YEAR'S IS MORE THAN A DAY! It is the spirit of men and women who throw off the impediments of yesterday and determine to make a better start for today. As we enter the year 1946 we raise a toast to our many good friends, with the hope that each succeeding day may bring you nearer to coveted goals PTS br NT rr with you, to the future, smaller nations lately engulfed in war, will have suffering through all of the New Year. esi ok IN RETROSPECT, 1945, NOW that it is over, has been a year that will go down in history, and one that has brought happiness to millions. 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