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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.
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sent Organized Labor in their efforts to obtain economic freedom
We solicit the unport of all Unions. Material for publication must
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the President and Secretary of the Local, together with the Local
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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.
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SOMEHOW, SAYS THE PITTS-
burgh Press, Republicans just
won't learn. They show a perver-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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session of the General Assembly,
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NATURALLY, REPUBLICANS
controlled all that. It was far
beter to cause it to die without
papers—we don’t think much ab-
out it.
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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.”
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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.
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| 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.
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—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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Friday, Saturday, Jan. 18-19
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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
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Sun., Mon., Tues., Jan. 20-21-22
Matinee Sunday at 2:30
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Book of the Month . . .
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JACK HOLT * WARD BOND * A JOHN FORD PRODUCTION
Based on the Book by William L. White + Screen Play by FRANK WEAD,
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Directed by JOHN FORD, Captain U. 5S. N. R.
Also “NEWS OF THE DAY”
PLEASE NOTE: This Show will Begin
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Wed., Thurs., Jan. 23-24
Man and
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STRANGERS
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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
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Added Short Subjects
tension agronomist of the Penn-
sylvania State College.