PAGE TWO UNION PRESS-COURIER Thursday, January 17, 1948 Largest General Weekly Newspaper Circulation in the Area, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER Patton Courier, Estab, 1893. Union Press, Estab, 1935. Published every Thursday by Thos, A. Owens Press-Courier Building, 452 Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa., and entered as second class mail matter May 7, 1936, at the postofrice at Patton, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRANK P. CAMMARATA. THOS. A. OWENS » THOS. A. OWENS, JR. Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. . The endeavor of the Union Press-Courier is to sincerely Fepre sent Organized Labor in their efforts to obtain economic freedom We solicit the unport of all Unions. Material for publication must be authorized by the organization it represents, bear signatures of the President and Secretary of the Local, together with the Local eal. 3 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. R= EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT “COMMUNISM,” YELLS SENA- tor Taft at the Truman legisla- tive program. Which gets neither him nor the Republicans anywhere. ...Business Manager rormann FRG ILOF . Associate Editor THE SINCERITY OF A NEWS- paper which professes to be a friend of labor can sometimes be gauged for shallowness when it is tempted by a few paltry dollars, Yet therd have been advetisements running in some papers that claim to be labor’s friends, that reek with a vitrolic hatred of “unions.” You haven't seen any of that advertis- ing in this newspaper. We simply didn’t insert it. If you have seen it in others, you can judge for your own sweet-self whether sin- cerity is gauged only by the Al- mighty Dollar. Maybe there are a lot of people who disagree fundamentally with Mr. Truman's program and his po- litical philosophy, but despite all this, Senator Taft's charge of Com- munism leaves us cold. In fact, most everything that Senator Taft has been charging lately, leaves many Republicans cold, too. Hkh ok SOMEHOW, SAYS THE PITTS- burgh Press, Republicans just won't learn. They show a perver- XK A little figuring & sity of performance, a penchant for doing the wrong thing that borders upon genius. Some of the National Republican leaders, those of the Taft category, can snatch defeat out of the very jaws of vic- tory. It was just that ability which caused GOP National headquarters to advertise the Taft speech as a “Republican viewpoint.” Senator Taft, in the opinion of the Pitts- burgh Press, has been left far be- hind by public opinion. Hd is hope- lessly back of the times. The peo- ple just won't warm up to him. Every time the Republicans use him as a spokesman they help the Democrats. The Democrats should be thankful for Taft. ok oe ok ok ok PRESIDENT TRUMAN IS AF- ter Congress, but its hard to in- dict Congress as such. Congress acts pretty’ much on the same pro- cedure as does the Pennsylvania State Legislature, and there are so many different persons in both bodies. There are 531 members of the National House and Senate and so many subterfuges available in Congress’ complicated mechan- ism, in its parliamentary proced- ures and committee system, that it is difficult for the citizen to find out where the blame is and fix the responsibility. President Truman recognized that in his message to the people about the blocking of his program. ok ok ok WHETHER YOU LIKE TRUMAN and his program, neverless, he performed a public service by poin- ting out some of the devices used by those who have held up that program, and he spoke by know- ledge gained by experience in Con- gress. He explained how bills are referred to committees in routine course and are then bottled up there, sometimes by only a few people, so that the House and Sen- ate members representing the peo- ple never get a chance to vote on them. The same thing happens in our Pennsylvania Legislature at every regular session of the body, as the writer has ample reason to attest from personal experience. Thus democratic procedure is null- ified. Fok ok OFTEN A BARE MAJOK1» » OF a committee—a handful of men SOMETIMES IT IS A BIT OF A puzzle to us how little a lot of the folks at home attempt to as- certain how labor is constantly be- ing given a run-around in some of the legislation it wants. How they are completely fooled by by the intricate syestem that prevails in Washington and Harrisburg. Labor leaders, of course, are wise to all the tricks, but the rank and file are not. When the Republican par- ty holds the administration, and a majority in both Houses in Penn- sylvania, they can easily kill all legislation they want. At the same time individual members can keep their labor records fairly clean by telling the folks at home they nev- er had a chance to vote on such legislation. sok ok ok ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING examples of fooling the people, to our mind, happened last year in the State House of Representa- tives when the Fair Employment Practices Bill was being aired. A great lot of publicity was given the measure, and it had its cul- mination in a public hearing that overtaxed all seating and standing space in both the house and the gallery. Witneses of all kinds were heard, most all of them in favor of the bill. Things looked rosy to the uninitiated. However, the bill never came out of committee. It likely never was intended that it should come out. So there was no F. E. P. C. bill passed in the 1945 he! session of the General Assembly, ok kok ok NATURALLY, REPUBLICANS controlled all that. It was far beter to cause it to die without papers—we don’t think much ab- out it. sk ok ook IT SEEMS TO US ON OBSERVA- tion that the repair garages in SPANGLER HOSPITAL fanfare, than to put a lot of their own party members on the spot. Yet, most every Republican mem- ber of the House of Representative in Pennsylvania could go back home and say, “I was for the bill, but I never had an opportunity to vote on it.” sk ok fe ok ok THE COMMITTEE SYSTEM AND secrecy makes it easy, for a con- gressman or legislator to evade re- sponsibility to his constituents. In he indicts congress for lack of ac- | he indicts Congress for lact of ac- | tion, it is possible _for the individ- Northern Cambria County have been busier than usual lately re- pairing damages to dented and maimed cars. There haven't been any really serious accidents, but there has been a lot of bumping |cars together, and bumping cars into poles and other obstructions. Maybe most of these accidents oc- curred when the car was,moving {at only a moderate spped. But ‘somewhere in the picture careless- [ness must have played a promi- | nent part. | sok kook | FOR MORE THAN A YEAR WE | ual Congressman to slip out from| have been inserting a little cau- | under unless he is singled out by| tion notice in our paper written name. A little light would help |by the Pensylvania State Police. MAY SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY MORTGAGES are not all alike. One may cost a good deal more than another. So why not do a little figuring? Come in and let us outline a mortgage plan that we feel will best meet your needs. Then compare our figures with your present plan, or any other. If you plan to buy a home, or refinance a present mortgage, get our figures first. First National Bank At Patton NOOOOOVVVOVVVVVVOVVVVOVOVOVOT. 7 IVOOVOVVOVVVVVVOVVVVVVVVVVCOVVVVVVVC DOOVVVVVVVOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVOC : : | —can prevent a vote by the whole {and lots and lots of light would Congress, or Legislature, as the case may be, on these maesures of asks that these various committees at least give representatives of the people a chance to vote “yes” or “no” on these vital issues—and that they give them that chance soon. It is a very proper request. He cited two glaring instances. One is the bill to create a perma- nent Fair Employment Practices Commission, to keep down discrim- ination in jobs on account of race, creed of color. Though approved by a regular legislative committee, this measure has been pocketed by the House Rules Committee since last February, nearly a year by a handful of Southern Democrats so that members if the House have had no opportunity to vote on it. The other is the bill to increase unemployment compensation ben- efits for those thrown out of work during reconversion. Recommended by the President last May, a mod- ified bill finally was passed by the Senate in September. The House Ways and Means Committee had bills since last May on this sub- 1Jject. Nearly Everybody, it WANTS TELEPHONE seems SERVICE But once we g telephone ins Demand for telephone service is tremendous . far greater than we'd have guessed it could be five months after the end of the war. splice cables, It comes from a typical cross section wires, and ti of the public: From men and women who have come to regard the tele- phone as an essential part of Ameri- can life. . . . From families who came to Pennsylvania to work in war in- dustries and, liking the State, decided to stay. . .. From farmers for whom the telephone will be more than ever an essential factor of modern farm- ing. . . . From returning veterans ice than they WAY. et our hands on enough truments and central office equipment, and once we can build our outside plant, lay and erect poles and string e everything together into the living organism that is the telephone system . . . once we do all this, we say, Pennsylvanians will have as much telephone service as they want and finer telephone serv- ever dreamed of. We repeat—WE’RE ON OUR who couldn’t think of living without telephones, especially after their ex- perience with modern communica- tion in all theatres of war. . . . THE THR It’s all very exciting. It's a sign of the times . of Pennsylvania's continuing prosperity. 1. To end An. right now our $150,200,000 expansion program is under way to provide people with the kind of telephone service they like . . . and the kind we like to provide. State — city Public health agencies, expanding police and fire departments, doctors, many returning veterans, and others to whom you'd give priorities, naturally have first call. Laboratories. Here are $150,000,000* EXPANSION PROGRAM telephone service. 2. To provide the people of this with finer and finer telephone service. 3. To make available the many new developments in communication, pioneered by the Bell Telephone * Part of the Bell System’s two billion dollar Expansion Program. EE OBJECTIVES of our all waiting lists for people and farmers— THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA majority policy. President Truman | help better. BRIEFLY COMMENTING Thoughts That May or May Not Interest You Discussed from Week to Week. | We have been inserting it on the | front page in the hope that it | maximum of our readers. Prob- | ably it is read by most, but just las quickly forgotten. Every one of | these little stories is a “sermon” [on being careful. It covers motor {vehicles only. But the stories are | written on experience—by men who are making a lifetime work of making driving safer. sek koko WE SOMETIMES ARE OF THE thought that maybe there still remain some people who do not take into consideration the decid- ed advantages that a hospital in our section affords us. When the need of a hospital arises, we are more prone to realize the blessing. The Miners’ Hospital, Spangler, has gloriously reflected a brilliant service over more than a quarter of a century, and if it were not Jo- cated in our own proximity, you can easily visualize the inconven- ience we'd have with the nearest hospital in Altoona, Johnstown, or Clearfield. skh ok oko THINGS DO BOB UP RATHER suddenly when hospitalization is required for ourselves or some one near to us. Maybe it’s an emer- gency case—one that requires ex- tremely prompt action. Perhaps it is a matter of life and death—and even the nearness of the hospital has saved many a life. Most every Northern Cambria doctor will tell you of the great help the hospital is to him—and indirectly to all his patients, whether they are hospi- tal cases or not. The very fact that your local doctor can take care of his patients in a drive of a few minutes to Spangler. means that he has more time for his office practice. Goodness, knows, during the war years, that was essential. 4 kk kok LATELY WE HAVEN'T HEARD much about the drive for funds for new additions to the hospital, but we presume that it has not been abandoned. Sooner or later, #* substantial contribution within your circumstances toward these many needed improvements, and you should make your contribution cheerfully, and with the overall thought of what a hospital's fa- cilities in your community has to are sound in health today, can be easily different tomorrow. oko ok ok WE CHEAT OURSELVES FAR more than anyone cheats us— and we are talking about all of us. We are rough on ourselves because we are careless. We are appalled at a mine disaster which costs the lives of two dozen men. We won- der how it could have been avoid- ed. Yet, every day, by careless- ness, we deprive ourselves of life and prosperity. Our carelessness often leads to a catastrophe for somebody else—but usually it is ourselves. And—aside from a few such sermons as this one which appears occasionally in the news- you'll be called upon to make some | offer. The fact that you and yours | THE PITTSBURGH MOTOR Club says there are six main classes of dangerous auto drivers. The club says the drinking driver takes chances without realizing it, the “competitive” driver makes ev- ery highway a speedway, the “weaving” driver skips in and out of traffic, the “indecisive” driver gets flustered, the “talkative” dri- ver doesn’t watch his driving, and the “preoccupied” driver is think- ing of something else. All of them are careless. Few are vicious, al- though many of them are stupid. But they are a peril to themselv- es and everybody else. There is nothing wrong with most of these drivers that a little sensible cau- tion wouldn't cure. Perhaps most of the “bunged-up” cars in the re- pair shops are traceable to some one of these drivers. se sf ok ook BUT alone. There are so many other ways of being careless. Patton and the North of Cambria County has been exceptionally fortunate in the fire prevention education con- stantly being put before the peo- | ple. Here in Patton Fire Chief Jim | Blake keeps us constantly at that (thought. If we haven’t mentioned anything for a time about fire , hazards, Jim calls on us with some | suggestions. We presume most, all volunteer fire heads in the small communities do that. st sje ok ok THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL lists the main causes of fires: Defective or overheated chimneys, careless smokers, defective electri- cal equipment, defective or over- heated furnaces and stoves, light- ning and sparks. All of them, ex- cept lightning can be traced to carelessness. Even some of the lightning cases could be the result of failure to erect lightning rods. He ske k kok EVERY YEAR WE KILL THOU- sands and thousands of people and destroy many millions of dol- lars worth of property just by be- ing careless. And we worry about the atomic bomb! Do you think we'll ever wise up? Managed milking, one of the ma- jor factors in good dairy herd man- agement, helps prevent, and con- trol mastitis, as shown by research and confirmed by a number of ex- tension demonstrations, reports I. E. Parkin, extension dairy speci- alist of the Pennsylvania State College. WLI Westrick Phone 2101. 2 CARS WE PAY HIGHEST PRICES - © Motor Co. CARROLLTOWN, PA. CABINET CO. ARE NOW EAGLE PRINTING CO., 0 The REMINGTON - RAND CO., and the VICTOR SATE AND FILING CABINETS, SAFES, DESKS, CHAIRS While we do not have the floor samples as yet, we do have the advertising matter and the order blanks. May we sign you up? Official Remington-Rand Portable Typewriter and Adding Machine Agency. Also Other Commercial Machines. ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR ffice Supplies, Barneshoro CARELESSNESS IS NOT | monopolized by the auto driver | | Spangler, daughter, Jan. 7. |fire losses during the past several | { years, and to some extent this can | be traced to a ‘receptiveness’ on | PATIENTS’ RECORD Following is a list of patients admitted and discharged from the Miners’ Hospital from Jan. 7, to Jan. 14, 1946: Medical Patients Admitted: Mrs. Theresa Miller, Ashville; Paul Toth, Barnesboro; Thomas Nelson, Hastings; Mrs. Sarah Len- tz, Spangler; James Abrams, Span- gler; Paul Scalese, Barnesboro, James Patterson, Cherry Tree; Jochn Rayba, Barnesboro; Madge Scott, Westover, R. D.; Jacob Zieminski, Barnesboro. Surgical Patients Admitted: WORLD WAR II DRAFT COST TLE STATE PLENTY State Selective Service head- quarters reported during the week that the cost of inducting draftees during World War II was §$13,- 636,641, Expenses were five times great- er than those incurred during the first World War, according to a spokesman, Between Sept. 15, 1940, and Sept. 30, 1945, he reported 844,909 drafted Pennsylvanians were sent to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard by the State's 422 local boards. Neither enlistment or federaliza- tion of the Pennsylvania National Guard figured in the total, the spokesman emphasized. MARRIAGE LICENSES James L. Davis and Mary Helen Adams, both of Patton, Frederick H. Sharbaugh and Mary Eileen Lantzy, both of Carr- olltown. Harold Ray Bolvin, Emeigh, and Mary Edna Hollen, Burnside. Charles F. Maus, Sidman, Ethlreda Yeckley, Patton. Earl J. Springer, Carrolltown, and Loretto Bender, Patton. Charles B. Yahner and Anna Mary Hoover, both of Patton. James L. Davis and Helen M. Adams, both of Patton R. D. Stanley J. Wojcik, Barnesboro, and Mary A . Stok, Hastings. Harry P. Bradley, Hastings, and Theresa M. Roberts, Spangler. and BLATT BROTHERS GRAND THEATRE PATTON Friday, Saturday, Jan. 18-19 HARD-NITTING ACTION! ++. 38 your favorite cartoon hero rides to his greatest screen adventure! SHE'LL TUG AT YOUR HEART! That lovable old sweetheart... fightin’, feudin’ and fumin’ in the screen's new heart-warming hit! Thomas A. Owens, Jr., Carroll- town; Mrs. Delca Peel, Marstel- | ler; James Prasko, Hastings, R. | D.; Mrs. Ada Brown, Barnesboro; | would be noticed and read by a | Imelda Kline, Nicktown; Mrs. Dor- othy Miller, Nanty-Glo; Theresa | | Niebaurer, Hastings; John J. Cor- | ley, Carrolltown; Mrs. Catherine | Withers, Barnesboro; Frank Will- | iams, Patton; Mrs. Antonette Mal- | ick, Marsteller; Eleanor Anna, Ha- stings; Mrs. Eleanor Markle, La- | Jose; Mrs. Ruby Lawhead, Burn- side; Ned Westrick, Carrolltown; | Mrs. Evelyn Collinash, Barnesbo- | ro. | Medical Patients Discharged: | Mrs. Tillie Solley, Barnesboro; | Mrs. Theresa Miller, Ashville; Ed- ward Rickard, Patton; Michael Kutruff, Flinton, R. D.; Mrs. Reva Deyarmin, Cherry Tree; Alvin Krumenacker, Carrolltown R. D.; | Paul Toth, Barnesboro; Paul Sca- lese, Barnesboro; Ronald Lubert, Hastings; Edna Kline, Patton, Mrs. Margaret Blair, Patton; Mi- chael Gresh, Spangler; Mrs. Em- ma Harvey, St. Benedict. Surgical Patients Discharged: John Tyger, Glen Campbell, R. D.; Rev. James Wardrop, Barnes- boro; Mrs. Leona Zumovich, Pat- ton; Richard Woods, Marsteller; Mrs. Delca Peel, Marsteller; El- eanor Anna, Hastings; James Pra- sko, Hastings R. D.; Mrs. Cather- ine Stefula, Barneshoro; Michael Dominick, Glen Campbell R. D. Miternity: Mr. and Mrs. George Lewarchick Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Gallagher, | Hastings, daughter, Jan. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ceschini, Patton, daughter, Jan. 11. NICKTOWN NOTES BY ROSE MARIE HUBER Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ragley and family were visitors in Indiana on Friday. Mr. Joseph Pollings of Latrobe was a visitor here over the week ena. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ragley and family, Mr. Jake Kritzzer and Mrs. Evelyn Ager, were visiting a sick relative, Mrs. Margaret Locker, in Altoona on Sunday. Mrs. Andrew Soisson returned home on Saturday after spending several weeks among relatives in New Kensington. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weakland and family were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kir- sch on Sunday. Mrs. Raymond Lieb left on Fri- day to visit her daughter, Mrs. William Kunuff in Detroit, Mich. The Holy Name Society of St. Michael's Church held a meeting and social "hour in St. Nicholas’ hall on Sunday. Mrs. Anna Marie Pfeister and Miss Louise Niebauer were visit- ors among relatives in St. Law- rence over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lambour of Pottstown, were visitors at the home of Mrs. Fred Lambour Sun- day. Miss Marjorie Soisson was a vis- itor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garb MacAlarney in Cresson for several days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tobin and family of Cresson, were visitors at the home of Mrs. Fred Lambour on Sunday. Mrs. Marion Kesik and daught- er, Nancy, and Mrs. Agnes Lieb, returned home Sunday after spen- ding several weeks among rela- tives in Conemaugh. Pfc. Marinus Nealen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nealen, received an honorable discharge from the Ar- my last week at Indiantown Gap. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lieb and family of Carrolltown were visit- ors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amandus Kirsch on Sunday. Hybrid Corn Results. Results of more than 100 ex- tension hybrid corn demonstra- tions conducted through the state in 1945, are now available in the county agents’s offices where far- mers may make use of the data in deciding what varieties are best suited to their own local condi- tions, reports J. B. R. Dickey, ex- t WILD BILL ELLIOTT as RED RYDER fed BOBBY BLAKE ALICE FLEMING and PEGGY STEWART % A REPUBLIC PICTURE &. | Also News and Cartoon Sun., Mon., Tues., Jan. 20-21-22 Matinee Sunday at 2:30 © M-G-M’s roar-| ing drama of the rugged ro- mantic PT men! Sensational best-seller . . . Book of the Month . . . Robert MONTGOMERY on WAYNE with Donna REED JACK HOLT * WARD BOND * A JOHN FORD PRODUCTION Based on the Book by William L. White + Screen Play by FRANK WEAD, Comdr. U.S.N. (Ret.) + Associate Producer Cliff Reid Directed by JOHN FORD, Captain U. 5S. N. R. Also “NEWS OF THE DAY” PLEASE NOTE: This Show will Begin at 6:45 P. M., Each Night. MGM PICTURE Wed., Thurs., Jan. 23-24 Man and Wife by Day... STRANGERS by Night! UNIVERSAL presents Sis Love of Ours MERLE OBERON « CIAUDE RAINS - CHARLES KORVIN wih CARL ESHOND SUE ENGLAND JESS BARKER i RALPH MORGAN FRITZ LEIBER HARRY DAVENPORT Screenplay by Bruce Manning, John Klorer and Leonard Lee. Based upon the play entitled “Come Prima Meglio De Prima" by Luigi Pirandello. Produced by HOWARD BENEDICT Added Short Subjects tension agronomist of the Penn- sylvania State College.
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