PAGE TWO UNION PRESS.COURIER Thursday, February 7, 1946 under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRANK P. CAMMARATA.. WENS . THOS. A. O prnaries sete THOS. A. OWENS, JR. ... Seal. Largest General Weekly Newspaper Circulation in the Area, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER Patton Courier, Estab. 1803. 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, 1838. at the postofrice at Patton, Pa., 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 efforts to obtain economic fre : We solicit the support 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 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. Pe ...Business Manager pn EG TOE . Associate Editor EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT ONE DAY LAST WEEK, THE Johnstown newpapers carried a report of causes of fires in that city during last year. Most glaring of the causes of fires was the fact that children playing with matches started forty-eight blazes. The common match is a potential haz- ard. They should never be kept where small children have access to them. ok sk ok ok IT IS REALLY TRAGIC HOW many familes that are so care- ful in other respects overlook the match hazard. Yet a match in the hands of a child one step above infancy can cause that child's life, can cause huge property damage, and can cause misery and sorrow to all concerned. se ok ok ok ok FROM NOW UNTIL AFTER the spring primaries at least, politics will again take prominent place in the interest of the people. Saturday of this week, February 9th, nominating petitions can start circulation for the various offices, and they'll shortly be pushed in front of you for a signature. There may be a lot of them, too. sokeskokok BOTH DEMOCRATS AND RE- publicans are striving to keep their primary as harmonious as possible. They may have some suc- cess. The next few weeks will tell. DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT BANKING You don’t have to be a deposi- tor of our bank to obtain the znefit of our judgment and experience. If you have a financial prob- ler, feel free to discuss it with us. We'll be glad to serve you in any way we can, at any time we can. Just come in. First National Bank Carrolltown, Pa. Primary scars can sometimes be- come so deep, that they affect a party mortally at the general elec- tion. Many things are said and done in the heat of a political cam- paign that won't heal in the mat- er of the few months that inter- vene before the general election comes along. sok ok kok MEN AND WOMEN BEING DIS- charged from the armed forces are urged by the War and Navy Departments to continue their Na- tional Service Life Insurance in civilian life. Two principal reasons are given for continuing the in- surance, First, the rates are low, and second, the policies are broad and without “escape clauses’ lim- iting their coverage. sk oe oe ok ok NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE IN- surance contains no restrictions on the occupation of the insured or on his mode of travel. It pays off for death in the most hazard- ous of occupations. The insurance is especially valuable to those who are physically injured or whose health is impaired since they may be unable to obtain commercial life insurance. sek keok ok IF THOSE LEAVING SERVICE do not wish to keep the whole amount of the insurance in effect in civilian life, they may have it reduced, The reduced amount con- tinued in effect must be a multi- ple of $500 and must not be less than $1,000. For example, it may be $1,500, $2,000, $2,500, etc. When a reduction in the amount of in- surance is desired, application should be made by letter address- ed to the Veterans’ Administration, Washington 25, D. C., signed by the insured, and stating the exact amount of insurance to be contin- ued in force. FURTHER TAX REDUCTIONS from a federal standpoint this year, seem to be out of the ques- tion. The chances for proposals to cut individual income tax rates and excises before 1947 were nev- er very good in spite of Republican pressure for such cuts. The Presi- dent's opposition, flatly stated in his message to Congress, make the odds aginst early action even more lopsided. The House Ways and Means Committee nevertheless will go through with its study of the tax structure preparatory to a general revision eventually. Just when its overall bill will be com- pleted cannot yet be predicted. Lengthy hearings and violent dis- agreements within the committee probably will keep the pot boiling until after the Congressional elec- tions next fall. ok ok ok ok ok UPWARD REVISION OF SOCIAL security taxes is a less remote prospect. The committee's staff of experts is working on a report re- commending that the present 1 per cent payroll tax be increased im- mediately and that the escalator provisons of the present law under wheh the tax is supposed to in- crease gradually from 1 to 3 per cent, be abandoned. Congress has refused several times to let the tax go up the first step from 1 to 2 per cent. se se desk ALTHOUGH CONGRESS DOES not seem to favor it, the Army probably will renew its request for a continuation of the draft law be- yond May 15 as a result of a new manpower survey now under way. This survey will cover the Army’s entire manpower needs after June TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS are not our only worry Telephone instruments are coming through fine. . . at the rate of about 3,000,000 a year for the Bell System as a whole. We may even be able to offer exten- sions later in the year, because extensions don’t need new lines to the central office nor central office equipment. They are hooked up to lines and equipment already in place. IT’S THE OTHER EQUIPMENT THAT HOLDS THINGS UP. Intricate and delicate central office equipment has to be built and tested and installed and re-tested before new telephones can be added. Right now, for example, only 198 out of 448 Bell central offices in Pennsyl- vania are able to meet new service demands without additional central office equipment. But even with all the telephone in- struments we can possibly use, and even with all the central office equip- ment we need, there still remains the tremendous job of building what we call the “outside plant.” This is the vast network of cables and wires that connects every tele- phone everywhere with its central office—and with all other telephones. This is the ditches and the poles and the digging and splicing and laying and stringing and testing. And now it’s under way. Our $150,- 000,000 expansion program is going to do for Pennsylvania—for you— what the Bell System’s two-billion- dollar expansion program is going to do for America as a whole. It's going to give you the finest telephone serv- ice you can imagine... as much and as often as you need it. Laboratories. Here are THE THREE OBJECTIVES of our $150, EXPANSION PROGRAM Te To end all waiting lists for telephone service. 2. To provide the people of this State —city people and farmers— 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. 000,000* THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA 30, but in the meantime it must have sufficient men to meet its obligations both at home and ov- erseas. The secretary of war says that the draft law will have to be extended if the army could not meet its manpower needs through enlistments. hol oe eo THAT REMINDS US: IS THERE any set period of time that our chaps of 18 years now being in- ducted into the armed forces are required to serve, Or, are they “in” for an indefinite ‘period? The time has come when some term of enlistment should be given. After all, we are not at war, and it is only right and proper that induc- tees know definitely when they are finished. 5 ok ok ok oe THE STATE HIGHWAY DE- partment, so we read in the newspapers, plans to do a lot of much-need road repair work just as soon as the weather permits. And, most everyone will agree, a lot of such work is vitally neces- sary. Right here in the North of Cambria county alone, most every road needs attention. Some of the more frequently traveled roads are in pretty bad shape. Of course, war conditions made their upkeep practically impossible. But about the only way some of them can now be made satisfactorily service- able is to cover them with maca- dam. se ok ok ok sk THE TREATMENT THAT WAS given the brick highway between Patton and Carrolltown some years ago, has held up well. Last winter when snow removal became such a tremendous problem, bulldozers were leased from strip mine oper- ations, and they left their scars on the pavement. But with a little attention this can be repaired. THERE IS SOME QUESTION, at least on the part of some residents in certain sections, if the state couldn’t have done more than zero on some highways even though there was a war. The road from Nicktown to Spangler, for Instance, is a horror. So are some others. BRIEFLY COMMENTING Thoughts That May or May Not Interest You Discussed from Week to Week. ONE OF THE GREATEST OF complaints that the average man who wants to be more or less well- dressed has these days is the fact he finds it well-nigh impossible to buy himself any white shirts. In fact, not even one white shirt, of the kind he likes. Surveys by mag- | azines show that the typical shirt stock was priced from $3.95 to $10, mostly for the higher-priced sports type rayon blends, with no plain whites at any price. Even woolen shirts at $10 are advertised in New York to be worn instead of the conventional white. sok ok ok FROM WHAT COMES FROM some of the employes in the Bar- nesboro Shirt factory, they are at work making the much desired white shirts there at the present time. That don’t mean they are go- ing on the market, however. In fact there are all kinds of allega- tions that white shirts are being stored away until some future time —Drew Pearson says that pretty emphatically in his radio broad- casts. $l ok ok sk MOST MEN LIKE TO WEAR white shirts at least some of the time. Veterans have been dreaming of that luxury for a long time. Now that so many of them, are back, they find themselves victims of a policy war between the Office of Price Administration and the man- ufacturers. The issue is the Max- imum Average price regulation, which forces a manufacturer to produce a certain proportion of low priced merchandise. As a result, many manufacturers have concen- trated on goods at highest and low- est prices, leaving out the middle brackets, including the much want- ed white shirts. They claim there is no profit to made ‘in white shirts under existing ceilings. Con- sequently we have been buying shirts we don’t particularly want— and paying too much for them. fe sk ok oe ke SO, THE LADIES AND THE NY- lon hosiery scarcity may be a joke to many men, but the much distressed lady has a come-back if she wants it, by inquiring of the male about his fancy shirt. Some of these day OPA will let the It's TRUE what they say about Dixi-Col Er EES A beverage containing the finest ingredients. A distinc- tively different and delicious Cola drink, Hastings Bottling Works Hastings, Pa. “Smart al” An Exclusive Doris Dodson Creation Distinction strikes a high note. . . in this simple, uncluttered pattern with winged sleeves and pretty curves. Rayon jersey with taffeta Baile Beaocte belt. 9 to 12. Barnesboro, Do oTooeoleoloote ole oT ole ote ole oTeo% ole ote cleo Toole o ls ote ote o te cle etootoeteotoote ots ote oteotoctocte ecto cto ctocte ote ote fe co fe ofoetecloctectecte tecte Be te este Bo 8. 8.9. 5. 0. 0 5 0 0.5 0.5 8 5.0.0.9 0.0.5.5.9.5.8.5.8.8.55.8.8 Navy, or Brown and White Stripe SHONBERG’S DRESS SHOP Pa. DP PDD DD DP PP PPPPPPrrr erred shirt manufacturers charge the prices they feel they must have— and white shirts will be plenty. There is every reason to believe lots of them are ready for sale to retail stores as soon as that hap- pens. sek ok kok WHEN THE FIRST WORLD war finished, and folks had some money saved, along came the stock | salesman and made suckers out of |a lot of us, and divorced savings | from big and little alike. Our good | government has sought to see that | this won't happen this time—that | there won't be a lot of phony oil | stock and other fakes, foisted up- | on the people, who prove so gulli- | ble in an effort to get rick quick. sesh ok BUT THE RACKET IS ON. THIS time it has its origin in Canada with the folks down here in the States picked as the suckers. It's up in Ontario that the brokers now are managing to lure one million dollars, a week across the border in illegal sale of gold mining stock and the drain continues in this time of easy money and wide-spread profits. Protests against the mass sale of wildcat stock aren't limited to this side of the border. Cana- dian magazines have branded it the “greatest mass swindle in Can- adian history.” They have written repeatedly of ‘“hoodlums of the fi- nancial underworld.” sok ok ok ok SOME OF THE “STOCKETEERS” are native Candadian talent, they say up there, and others are charged with being refugees from the U. S.—confidence men and swindlers, who have fled from in- dictments. You may wonder why we are showing such an interest in something so far away. Reason is that experience has taught that you can live in Patton, or on a farm out in one of the neary town- ships—or anywhere where Uncle Sam delivers mail, and be enticed by the swindlers. Keep the money you've saved. When some fellow of- fers you big dividends, he’s not to be trusted. Fok se off DURING THE PAST TWO MON- ths poor mail service has been added to the myriad woes of un- happy servicemen far from home. Men have failed to get letters for weeks on end. That makes life aw- fully grim. The Army postal ser- vice says that overseas mail is now running about three millions pieces a week as against twelve million pieces on V-E Day. But the army now has to put up with many in- experienced mail handlers. Anoth- er trouble is the speed in which rapidly moving G. I's change their APO numbers. Some have had as many as three changes in two weeks. About the pest morale builder a soldier can have is mail from home. Postal authorities say the situation won't improve for some time. se okok ok ok A BRIGHT SrOT THAT 1S IN the offing for overseas service- men and their families comes with the announcement that after April 1st, families of such men, if they are to based for some length of time in occupation zones, may go overseas also. That may make the army life more attractive for a lot of former servicemen, and may act as an incentive toward reenlist- ment. It may seem attractive to a lot of young wives, also, but if they have to remain in one spot likely wear off. But it is a much better arrangement than not leav- ing them join their husbands. sok ok ok LAST SATURDAY WAS THE day in which the groundhog is presumed to rule the balance of the weather for the winter, It is the day which made Punxsutaw- ney famous. Whether the ground- hog sees his shadow or not, likely means little in what manner of weather is ahead. But some folks like to believe in the “groundhog” story. And no harm comes from their belief—nor any material change in the weather. eS Ho ITS GETTING TO BE THE time of year in which winter is on the way out. The law of aver- ages of all past winters shows it. From now on, despite the winter weather that may come by spurts, we're looking on toward spring. It hasn't been such a bad winter at all, you have to admit. SEASONED CEMENT BLOCKS Get your blocks before the rush! We're taking orders for later delivery. Orders filled in the order they are received. Mike Buck Lumber Co. Phone 2591 CARROLLTOWN | for a long while, the glamor will] ASK for MERTENS Quality Bread, Cakes, Rolls, Buns. . Fresh Daily At Your Grocer’s From Northern Cambria’s Finest Equipped ‘Bakery MERTENS BAKERY Patton, Penna. A 20h Century-Fox Picture SN BLATT BROTHERS GRAND THEATRE PATTON Friday, Saturday, Feb. 8-9 ROY ROGERS =4 TRIGGER THE SMARTEST BORSE IN THE MOVIES Featuring GEORGE "#aéy" HAYES and DALE EVANS with ESTELITA RODRIGUEZ and BOB NOLAN and THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS A REPUBLIC PICTURE Sunday, Monday, Feb. 10-11 Matinee Sunday at 2:30 wilh DENNIS MOORE LUANA WALTERS ROBERT FRAZER lf Nm 554 LET Se [1] Sr LL LR ST CTE Showing With wilh JOY REESE WARREN BURR KAY MORLEY MICHAEL OWEN ROD ROGERS EDWIN BRIAN AarpusGe | LIQUID ITT GOLD PREPARATIONS TABLETS NOSE DROPS What Happens To Love During Three Years’ Separation ROBERT ‘VACATION DEBORAH KERR NM: SALVE | plo again/ Produced and Directed by ALEXANDER KORDA Caution: Use Only As Directed! EE ——_,
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