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THE UNION PRESS-COURIER
Patton Courier, Estab. 1893, Union Press, Estab. 1935.
Published every Thursds vy by “Thos. A. Owens, Press-Courier
Building, 452 Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa., and entered as second
class mail matter May 7, 1636, at the postofrice at Patton, Pa.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879,
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. Editor
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sent Orsanized Labor in their efforts to obtain economic freedom
We solicit the support of all Unions. Material for publication must
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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. 2
EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT |
The people of the Central Penn-|then, the government was willing
sylvania section this week
are thankful, just as the average | owners. Of course, if the
miner, too, is thankful. During the owners desire to take
past few weeks there has been a management of their operations
lot of hectic action in Washington | they
and over the Nation. The railrgad terms as those given the miners |
strike brought things to a climax, by the government. If they refuse |
and hasty and disastrous legisla- | these, then the government can do |
nothing more than retain control. |
tion was brought to the fore. |
Things are cooling down some |
now, and some of the folks at
home are of the opinion that while
Congress advises a “cooling-off” |
period in labor strife, they are,
pretty much in need of a ‘cooling-
While the miners didn't, per-
haps, make all the gains in
wages and working conditions
that they would have liked, they
nevertheless did make material
gains, particularly in the found-
off” period themselves.
What the general public has |
not taken into consideration, it
seems, is that John L. Lewis and |
his United Mine Workers do not
ation of a welfare fund. In this
demand, John L. Lewis was pos-
itively right. While the picture
in Pennsylvania is not as bad as
elsewhere, the conditions that
exist in some of the bituminous
again | to make greater concessions to the |
see the miners back in the pits, and mine worker than were the mine |
mine |
back the |
will have to meet the same |
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that + were stifled merely because |
far on this job!” =
The Boy Scout movement is on |
the upswing in Cambria County, |
and it should be thus. There's a lot |
of things that membership in a |
Boy Scout troop does for a boy,
and all those things tend to make |
him a better boy and a better citi-
the north county area held a
camporee near Patton, and the pro- |
gram carried out was interesting. |
The boys had to rough it a bit, but
| that’s all part of the Scout pro- |
gram. A Boy Scout isn't a sissy.
He's a regular American boy, and
as he advances in Scoutcraft he
becomes consistently prouder of
his ac Inevements.
There are a lot of adults who
put in a .lot of time and hard
work, too, without remuneration, |
to help the boys in the Scout
movement, Heading this list is
the Scoutmaster. We have them
in every community where there
are Boy Scouts, We have had
them in Patton for a long time.
Too few people give them the
credit they deserve, but mostly
through their own love of the
work they are doing, and the
help they are giving the com-
munity’s boys, they carry on. |
Our hats are off to them.
NICKTOWN NEWS
By ROSEMARIE HUBER |
The Nicktown Ball Team held a |
round and square dance at St. |
Nicholas’ Hall Saturday night, |
Joseph Kollings of Latrobe was
a visitor here over the week end
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kirsch are the |
proud parents of a baby girl, born |
| Cleveland,
at the
Church here Sunday evening, May
26, with Miss Mary Dargay acting
as May Queen.
Her attendants were the Misses
Berniece Hurtack, Mary Ann Far-
kas, Delores Ramsey
manus, Mary Ann Kormanus, Mar-
BAKERTON BRIEFS |
By AGNES POLITES
Mrs. Agnes “Jones “of Baltimore
is visiting relatives and friends in
| town. |
Miss “Jo” Columbus has return-
ed from a vacation trip to Bridge-
port, Conn.
Miss Helen Konitsky has return-
ed from New York City, where she
spent three weeks vacationing
among relatives and friends.
Miss Irene Polites and Mr.
Sherwood and son, Norman, re-
cently motored to Akron and
O, On their return trip
they were accompanied by Mrs.
Sherwood, who had been a patient
Cleveland Clinic.
Relent guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. William Lamont in-
Tom
| cluded Miss Nadine Zugfa, Lancas-
ter, and Miss Mary Katherine Dos- |
tel of Conemaugh.
Mrs. John Brunner of
Quentin Rowland of Patton was
| a business caller in town last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stolitza of
| Indiana visited relatives here last |
| Sunday. [
Joseph Kline of McClure,
who served overseas in the same
y, Justine Kor- |
Altoona |
| spent some time with her mother,
| Mrs. Anna Tucker,
Pa, |
they didn’t want to put themselves | [
in any unpatriotic position during |
the war years 3
BRIEFLY COMMENTING
Thoughts T hat May or May Not
Interest You Discussed from
When it comes down to the
fine point, who was directly re-
Tuesday, May 21, in the Miners’
| Hospital, Spangler.
| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and
| family of Tyrone were recent week
end visitors at the home of Mr. and
| Mrs. Martin Smith.
medical outfit as Paul
called at the igiter
PAULINE (SPON SKY) URDA
IS HONORED AT SHOWER
Lamont, |
home recently. |
zen. Over the week end troops of | garet Walro and Anna Visokaj, | \
| and the First Communion Class. |
Thursday, June 6, 1946
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Friends and relatives gathered |
at Sterling Hall recently to honor |
Mrs. Pauline Urda, the former |
Pauline Sponsky, who became the
bride of Stephen Urda last Satur- |
day, with a miscellaneous shower.
Mrs. Urda received many useful |
and beautiful gifts, Among those |
work without a contract —at |
least not in peacetime, When |
that contract expired a couple of |
months ago they automatically |
ceased working. That isn’t what
one could honestly call a strike.
In most all the radio and mews | Labor generally realized that it
comment, the fault was placed |was on the spot with the cessation
sponsible for the great achieve-
ments made in war production
that the Nation met for not
only its own needs but also for
those of our allies? It was the
remarkable and even miraculous
achievement of labor. The coal
miners, particularly, showed that
Miss Mildred Natcher and Miss
Clare Lanzendorfor of Pittsburgh
| were week end visitors here re-
May was a busy month indeed | cently.
for most of us—particularly the | Mrs.
closing days of the month, Grad- | and Mrs. Leo Lochard of Ebens-
uation activities and Memorial Day |purg and Paul McDevitt of St.
programs predominated. However, | Benedict were visitors recently at
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mining states, where no state
legislation assists the miner or
other worker, is nothing short of
deplorable.
Week to Week
Agnes Feighner and Mr.
on the miner—the operator sel- |of hostilities, and that every mea-
dom was mentioned, The general | sure at e command of capital
public, in some sections, seemed | and labor's enemies would be taken
to take the same stand. The [to hold it at present levels or to
miner was to blame. Yet the coal |cause it to recede. All the labor
operator was the main cog. | strife that has become prevalent
% 3k 3% 3 | throughout the Nation didn't just |
When the Mine Workers signed happen because labor took the in- |
a contract with the government | dependent attitude of ‘the public |
last week, after the government | be damned.” Increased living costs,
had taken over the mines, those more particularly, meant that in- |
terms were drawn up by the UU. S.|creased ‘take home pay,” too, had
Government and the United Mine to be
Workers—not the operators and many
the mine worliers. Apparently, {had during the past s sev vera) yea
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faces on walls, woodwork, doors.
$4.50 gal. $1.50 of,
forthcoming. There were |
gripes that labor Jonesy |
| armed forces,
they were behind Uncle Sam to
the limit, and the coal kept
pouring out of the bowels of the
earth to meet the great demand
imposed upon them. Coal was
the basic need for war. It was
required for steel and for most
everything—the United Mine
Workers of America met this
demiznd—and more.
And the United Mine Workers of
America. did all this with greatly
| depleted ranks. Thousands upon
| thousands of its younger and most
productive workers were in the
and even the older
miners, some long retired, returned
to the pits to meet the call for coal
made by their country. In those
days of need, John L. Lewis and
the miners, in the spirit of patriot-
| ism, did at times work without a
contract, even though that was not
| traditional policy, but was done
| because of the war. There is no
| war now. The miners themselves
| displayed in this section that they
| wanted a contract if they were to |
|
| miners have
| should know that they
| not made all the gains in working |
en- |
| titled. But
work. They wouldn't return to the
pits even when a “truce” was de-
| clared by their leaders.
True, there have been some
wildcat strikes, and maybe there
will continue to be some—even
with a contract, But such strikes
are the exception and not the
rule. Regardless of how ener-
getically some newspapers and
some folks blast John L. Lewis
for most every trouble that
comeq along in the coal industry,
once he signs a contract he keeps
it, The United Mine Workers of
America are outstanding in labor
circles for their adherence to
what they have agreed to do.
But all are
are working. We are all glad the
made gains. We
as yet have
are
Lewis
conditions to which
once John
they
L.
| signs a contract we also know that
| he will keep it in good faith, and |
| that he,
in like manner, expects
the government, or the
owners, as the case may be, to also
keep up their end of the deal in the
same e good faith.
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glad the mines again
all |
mine |
| despite the peace we have been |
looking for, in niany of the addres- | |
ses at these two occasions the
[ thr eat of another war was voiced.
| Perhaps it was just a theme of |
| subject matter for many of the
| speakers, but there were others
who sincerely believed another war
in the not-too-distant future is a
possibility.
Surely the nation which seems
to threaten a permant peace
doesn’t want war any more than
its allies in the late conflict.
Surely the people of Russia are
not much different than the peo-
ple of the United States and
Great Britain when it comes to
the matter of bloodshed and dev-
astation. Surely there can be
some manner of understanding
eventually worked out that will
keep peace throughout the world
for a long, long time.
solemn pledges to make firm the |
peace were built up mostly on the |
conception that the United States
itself must not become weak mili-
tarily. Just now we are not setting |
a very good example. If one wants
to talk tough one has to have
something more than words to
back up the talk. Military speakers |
[on Decoration Day especially lam-
| ented the situation in which Con-
gress has placed the Nation in|
respect to continuation of building |
|up continually new blood in the
armed forces. Lately the U. S. Sen-
|ate has been giving some indica-
[tion that perhaps they will con- |
| tinue the draft of the teen agers |
for another year.
The stop-gap of the draft law
extension solved nothing. Con-
gress must sooner or later, too,
adopt some permanent measure
to insure the might of the
Nation. Universal military train-
ing may be the answer. Con-
| seription can never the a per-
| manent part of our set up. It
| just isn’t so written on the books
| of a free nation such as ours.
| oT
Maybe Army enlistments can be
made attractive if Congress meets
[the issue intelligently. The official |
| Army “gripe board,” headed by
|g Jimmy Doolittle, last week
made some recommendations that
could very well change the picture
in respect to voluntary service. An
privileges and, the officer would be
cut down from his pinnacle of |
autocracy., Of course, more pay,
too, would be necessary.
The recommendations of the
Doolittle committee are revolu-
tionary and sweeping insofar as
it concerns past Army tradition,
and probably will be opposed by
some quarters. However, all of
| the recommendations tend to
make the GIs the social equal of
the officer, and also provide for
the weeding out of incompetent
officers. It would require all offi-
cers, except technicians, to serve
at least a year in the enlisted
ranks. Off duty, the officer and
enlisted man would be social
equals.
sie of 3 ook
Somehow or other, in all the con-
troversy over drafts, over induce-
ments for enlistment, behind uni-
versal military training we feel
that there still is some lack of full
cooperation somewhere or other in
bringing out an enlistment pro-
gram that would be attractive. In
the light of past experiences the
ex-GI himself perhaps is the great-
est handicap to new enlistees. He |
tells what he has experienced, par-
ticularly in respect to officer-en-
listed man comparison, and the
picture is not a pretty one. If the
Doolittle recommendations were
adopted, and the pay boosted, the
| Army could really be attractive as
[a career for a lot of men.
oko sk ok
Patton’s Recreation Park was
opened for the season Thursday
of last week, and while the
weather wasn’t sufficiently |
warm too make the swimming
too attractive, quite a crowd was
in attendance. It will prove a
mecca for both young and old
again this summer. Patton can
be proud of its park. There is
evidence, too, that a lot of our
neighboring communities are
pleased with our achievement
also, since they have been pat-
T it h ly all along.
enlisted man would get a lot more |
the Urban Kline home here.
[BRIDAL SHOWER HELD FOR
MRS. MARGARET COONEY
A surprise bridal shower was
held in honor of Mrs. Margaret
Cooney, the former Margaret Sois-
son who became the bride of Joe |
| Cooney of Carrolltown last Satur- |
| day, at the C. B. Soisson home re-
| cently by Mrs. Fred Ludwig. A |
| lunch was served and Mrs. Cooney
| received many beautiful and prac- |
tical gifts.
Among those present were:
Misses Eileen Kirsch, Grace |
Lieb, Mary Lieb, Louise Krumen- |
|acker, Rosemarie Huber, Julia |
| Lieb, Mary Lou Soisson. Mary G. |
Kline, Sue Soisson, Lucille Kirsch,
Mary Lou Parish, Peggy Cconey,
| Jane Cooney, and Mesdames John
i Nealen Jr., Herman Lieb, Bob
Kline, Fred Ludwig, Merle Parrish,
| Stanton Duman and Edward Aug-
ustine.
In all the tall nit Thursday, |
[MAY C ROWNING HEL D
| AT ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH
A May Crowning was held Sun- |
| day afternoon, May 26, in the St.
Nicholas Church here by members |
| of the Sodality of the Blessed Vir-
| gin Mary.
| Miss Mary Grace Kine was
chosen as May Queen, and was at-
| tired in white, as were Judy Gom-
| ish, crown bearer, and Jean Fresh
and Mary Lou Soisson, attendants.
Corine Weiland and Annette
| Kirsch were flower girls; Mary
Lou Parrish, Delrose Ager, Donna
Pfister, Winifred Lieb, Julia Lieb
{and Virginia Kline all wore blue
| gowns, and the remainder of the
sodality girls wore white.
A procession, during which sev-
| eral hymns were sung, took place
| from the school to the church. The
| crowning was followed by Bene-
| diction.
| JOSEPHINE L ANZENDORF OR
| BRIDE OF LOUIS DUMAN
Miss Josephine Lanzendorfor, a
| daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clem
| Lanzendorfor, and Louis Duman,
| of Nicktown were united in mar-
| riage by Rev. Father Bertrand Mc- |
| Fadyen, pastor of St. Nicholas
Church, at ceremonies performed
preceding a nuptial high mass on
Monday, May 27, at 9 a. m.
The attendants were Miss Luella |
Lanzendorfor, sister of the bride,
|and Raymond Duman, brother of |
[ the groom. [
The bride was attired in a white
{satin and chiffon gown and wore
a tiara with a finger-tip veil. Her
| sister wore a blue net and crepe
dress with a matching finger-tip
veil. Both carried bouquets of fern |
and spring £1 flowers.
GOLVER OTTINGS
By MARGARET YANOSKY
- |
Storekeeper 3rd Class Frank
Dilick has been discharged from
the Navy after serving for two
years. The sailor saw action in, the
South Pacific.
Word has been received here of |
the birth of a baby boy, John Jr.,
to Mr. and Mrs* Lohn Lucas. The |
child was born in St. Luke's Hos-
pital, Cleveland. Mrs. Lucas is the
former Miss Mary Katona.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dilick, |
Frank Dilick and Mrs. Joseph |
Certo and daughter, Johanna, were
recent guests at the homes of Mr. |
and Mrs. Joseph Mondock and Mr. :
George Mondock, all of Jefferson |
City, N. ¥, i
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Yanosky |
| and son, Jerry, of Elyria, O., and |
| Mr. Jacob Yanosky and Miss Mar- |
garet Yanosky of this place were |
recent week end visitors at the|
Thomas R. Yanosky home in}
Washington, D. C. |
Mrs, John Messersmith and]
| granddaughter, Jackie, of Coonec-
| ticut recenely spent a few days
| at the John C. Luther home here. |
MAY CROWNING CEREMONY. |
HELD AT CATHOLIC CHURCH |
| fanik, John R.
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present were:
Mesdames Alphonse
Cymbor, Joseph Cymbor,
Ager, Gust Busunis, Jude Noel,
Regis Davenport, William Gol-
gosky, Valentine Panek, Paul Ste-
Sponsky, Bernard
Sponsky and Sylvester Sponsky.
Misses Alma Regan, Jennie Ste-
fanik, Bernetta Bonfili, Camilla
Murphy, Colletta and Vivian
| Panek, Betty Vallery, Eileen Fara-
| baugh, Dorothy Wentz, Edith and |
Evelyn Strong Mary Hovan, Clare
Agnes Polites, Rose Col-
| umbus, Rita Regan, Magdalene and
Alice Panczak, Gene and “Jo” Gal-
czynski, Katherine Maimone.
Misses Ethel Christoff, Dorothy
Gallagher, Pauline Yarko and
Magdaline and Lydia Sponsky, all
of Bakerton; Mary D. Martucci,
Hastings, and Ann Zdynak, Bar-
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to be held next Fall, (International) |
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