UNION PRESS COURIER they prove too unpopular, they become flagrant with disregard. Frohibition proved that'waly, and brought crime, chaos and dis- PAGE TWO — ——— Thursday, July 3, 1947 Of course the careless driver is| that way the year around. But on | holidays he has much more oppor- | tunity to bring trouble to himself | and all who meet up with him 80| pegpect for law. Maybe the big much easier, Crowded conditions | majorities the Repubicans piled on the highways can be looked for | up at the polls last fall wasn’t this week end, and the total cas-! any “mandate” at all for drastic ualties can’t be added until nexi labor restrictions. If it wasn't Sunday night—and you can well| = ay be certain that the most of the an | the Stent reactice Will come in dependence Day period lives that e local eleciions o 5 Yo ’ will be lost, will come from auto- and the more smashing reaction mobile mishaps. | will land in 1948. ‘ ® dk | % ok % Wording of comment in this col. umn last week gave readers the impression that all strip mining operators were paying below the [union scale of prices, and indicated [that all workers were unorganized, . |and probably were giving no va- I apa Bo} cation pay to workers. Thete are reason why no amount of attept- Some, perhaps many, of the stp ed safety education helps much, | Mine operators, who do Pay pe Other guests at the Hurley home But this newspaper joins with all | om" scale of bi: arf Maw | on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Wal- the others in begging you to be |1ave likewise paid their WOTrKers| ier Jenkins and daughter, Jean, of nix | the vacation stipends. There is N0 | phenshurg. that blankets Patton and the major mining towns in Northern Cambria nty. Ee a iin | desire on our part to place any of | wfigg Joanne Hovan is taking a f } [them in a bad light. The McCom- | cymmer teachers’ course at Indi- The nation rejoices in its holi-| ties and the newspapers had lots Yarist, am plsn waking to He |bie Coal interests, Spangler, are| ga, State Teachers’ College. days. and from the patriotic view-| of incentive to warn of the dan- R ia jamong. the Companies Wio Sin | Nineteen local delegates of the pont the one we have with us on| ger connected with their use. The Northern Cambria Radio| 10, have done this, an ere a [Fie Sompany Ausiliary Wore am- Frioay of this week outshines all | Restrictive laws in Pennsylvania | Broadcast, rounded out its first a i— . [teri ROSS =n eriains Ct 8 oar others in our nation. Independence have pretty well abolshed that | series of three months’ duration on | ization. in ta last a Day has always been thus since the | Goer at least as far as the | Thursday last, and this week be-| Carrolitown | evening. Simpsons Stadio pupils of day ot its signing on July 4, 1776. {1dr gins a new series, from Station Phone Carrolltown 2682 or 4491 | Patton, rovided entertainment As a day of civic festivity it out-| Children art concernea. But there | yyjgw Altoona—650 on your dial. | | i RO OTTQUIIGNL, ranks the rest—and as a day of | mow always looms a greater de- |The program has proved popular, | Alfred Strittmatter of this|poro wae a Thorsdav: visitor tragedy, too, it can outrank all of | structive holiday hazard, and it | and the Union Press-Courier, in| place, St. Vincents’ College Stu-|the home of Mr any Mrs. U the others. With the Fourth com-| is carelessness. Mainly the pres- | promoting it, feels deeply gratified | gent, recently was at St. Marys, | giolz . yw: 13, ing on the day it does this year,| ent casualties can be placed lon | at the interest taken both by the | pa. where he attended the First| Francis Locsr employed ini) it affords a long week end of va-| the automibile as the No. 1 kill- | sponsors, and by the public who! gglemn Mass of Father Maynard | pittshureh. s OY ie yee a] cations, travel and festivity for | er—but it really isn’t the auto- | have greeted it so enthusiastically. | Brennan, O. S. B., his former pre- | put Ssh, countless thousands. mobile that is at fault, it’s the All in all, it must be remembered | fect, 1 Mrs. Parl Bowman i5 a patient] Bo man behind the wheel—and he | that in this first series and in its) Mrs. Harold Bearer and her | at the Clearfield Hospital Pre can tiuse So ynuch trouble and | programs, we yore Dloneerings and; ouse guests, Mr. and Mrs. Clem- | she underwent an operation during | so much suffering and misery, |that many things that experience |. + yoit700 and family of Hous-|the past week 1 just because he’s careless. has taught during these first | fon, Texas, motored to Mt. Pleas-| Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Stolz, and | Weeks, Dll tend for WHR ve be-| cht. Pa., recently, where they vis-| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zadai and son, | lieve will be a more enjoyb'e PrP ited Mrs. Hartzog's brother and |Bob, will leave Saturday for Nor- | gram in the weeks and months t0| gi tor in Jaw, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. folk, Va., where they will spend a cone: | Ivory. They also visited Mrs. Bear- | week's vacation with Mr. and Mrs. | ¢ ler's and Mr. Hartzog’s brother, Ronald Zadai and Mr. and Mrs. | | Leo, who is a patient in Columbia | William Zadai. | Hospital, Wilkinsburg. | Mrs. F. J. Hoffman and Mrs. El- | B. A. Bender, Dick Bradley, Bob | 1a Sharbaugh are at State College Campbell and Frank Buck were in | this week, attending a Readers’ | . . Pittsburgh last Thursday attend- | Lecture Course. start off for vacationland. Drive ling a Frigidaire meeting. | “Mrs P ; , High | : Nick Coller of Freeport, Pa.| school Pa Toes Ina in today and let us check your | was a visitor in town Sunday. Mrs. | Rjc ; Richmond, Calif., where she has | car from bumper “t0~ bumper. Coller is spending some time at charge of a cafeteria, was a visit- | We'll tune-up the motor, adjust (the Maucher home. or at the home of Mr. and Mrs. | Eob Burley had the misfortune | Bernard Flynn during the week. | the brakes, change the oil, in fact, do everything so import- | to fracture his leg while playing { Mrs. Childs is enroute to Columbia | | baseball recently at the Carroll- | University, New York City, for| , “ ”" ant to your car's “health” and your happiness and safety. town fairgrounds. He is a son of (a summer course, and will return | | Mr. and Mrs. Julian Burley of io California in the fall. | the NORTH CAMBRIA PROGRAM over WISW (DST). The sponsors include MAIN home of Mr. and Mrs. Lambert A. Weakland. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harvey and | Stanley Augustine were callers in | Cleveland, Ohio, over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Eckenrode | Jr., and Mrs. Mary Eckenrode and | daughter, Dolly, were week end | visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert | | Eckenrode at Amsterdam, Ohio. | Miss Peggy Weber, who had | | been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. B. | A. Bender, returned to her home | in Pittsburgh Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Bostlett of | | Turtle Creek, visited with Mr. and | | Mrs. Ralph Bostlett here over the | | week end, also attending a double | | wedding of the Misses Luther at | Colver on Saturday. { Dan Hurley and daughter, Pat- sy, of Akron, Ohio, were guests of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hurley, over Sunday. 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 and Frank P. Cammarata, Press-Courier Building, 452 Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa, and entered as sec- ond class mail matter May 7, 1936, at the postoffice at Patton, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRANK P. CAMMARATA..... THOS. A. OWENS... THOS. A. OWENS JR... Br Dr ay NATIONAL €DITORIAL “SPEEDY” YES, WE HAVE WRECKER SERVICE AS A MATTER OF FACT MAIN STREET GARAGE HAVE THE FAST AND SAFEST AND BY THE WAY, SPEEDY~ I THINK I'LL HAVE MY , BRAKES ADJUSTED LIKE YOU : SUGGESTED LAST AY GOOD. THEN I'VE GOT = A JOB FOR YOU, SPEEDY WHAT OM, “WHERE AM 17” ..Business Manager immerse TR GI LOT et a ASSociate Editor ’ Probably most every newspa- | per in the nation will be carrying messages to be careful this week just as we are giving a like ad- monition. The trouble with the most of us is that the warnings in Advance. Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application, The endeavor of the Union Press-Courler is to sincerely represent Organi- zed Labor in all efforts to obtain economic freedom. Material for publica- tion must be signed by the writer as an evidence of good faith. The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of combined circulations of two largely-circulated weeklies and has a reader coverage Some years ago, when fire- works were sold freely and with- out any restriction, the authori- WHEN EVERYTHING RUNS SMOOTHLY! In the new series of broadcasts A cranky, troublesome car can ruin a perfect vacation. the Press-Courier will adopt mu- sical numbers entirely from the nation’s favorite radio and re- cording artists, by the transcrip- | tion method. These weekly pro- | grams, from 12:30 to 1:00 o'- clock every Thursday; will be highlighted by the popular recor- aings of the day, without forget- ting the favorites of yesteryear. Musical selections will be super- vised by the Smathers Music Store at Ebensburg. Highlights of North County News, as pre- pared by the Press-Courier, al- so will be continued. First in Northern Cambria with the New! Lite Action REVERSIBLE Girdle ® ONE SIDE RUBBER ® ONE SIDE FABRIC Here it is—the revolutionary new girdle that’s as comfortable as your skin, yet holds you firm as a corset of whalebone. Wear the Lite Action Girdle on the rubber side or the cool rayon side with the same slimming effect. No matter how you turn or twist or slide, this girdle will not Make sure that your car is in A-1 condition before you | Bradley Junction. At a recent meeting of the| * kk i Mrs. Bess Jones of Wilkinsburg, | Board of Directors of the First | Xe uite some ad-|is visiting at the home of Mr. and | National Bank of Carrolltown, | y Yo have gone lo gui e | Mrs. Fred B. Buck for a few days. | Miss Kathleen Eck and William | vance preparation to make the new | . y . i radio series one that you will| Leo, Cyril and Betty Kanik mo- |M. Strittmatter were elected as| thoroughly enjoy, and we want you | tored to Portsmouth, Va., on Sat- assistant cashiers. | fo continue to tune in at 650 on|urday, and upon returning were | Nr and Mrs. Ray Humphrey, | your dial each Thursday at 12:30. accompanied by their sister, Mrs. | two children of Altoona, were at | Business establishments who spon- | Cathaway and two children, who | the home of the lady’s mother, Mrs. | sor the programs are regular ad-|Wili vacaton at the Kanik home. | Ann Myers, over the week end. | vertisers in the Union Pres-Cour-| Mrs. Agnes Luther and daught- | Misses Mary Kelly and Jane | jer, and all thank you for your ers Sally and Nancy, and Harry gijrkpatrick are new employees at | past interest, and welcome you to| Ertter, motored to LeRoy, N. ¥. |the First National Bank here. | join in on Northern Cambria’s | last week, where they visited the Mrs. Rosetta Donahue, Mrs. newer radio party | Misses Coletta and Marceline Lu- {Mary Hipps and Miss Fannie | % 4 [ther and My Mary hi TUATDS, the | Rosetta Donahue and Miss Fannie | s ‘miners aren't working |. pane Mrs at Carr of -ilis- ‘Wetzel attended the recoption of} es ing n ns [Laren were Sunday visitors at the Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schettig, on | cation which their contract calls | -— — | their golden wedding anniversary | for, but which they had not ex- | | at Cresson, Sunday. “OTs ig 3 da Miss Jean Feighner of Johns- creised during the vital war | | : site | | town, was the guest of her par- years because of the necessity | | ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Feighner, ; A ee AL of continued production. As of | Sunday. ’ * | president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Legion Aula vies attended the t, when the vacation | | & . % ; ’ _|of the Sons of Italy. meeting and luncheon of the Cam- the Drosen t week there | © mmr, | Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shar-| “yi "Robert Reffner of Tren- | bria County Council, American Le- period winds up next weel baugh at Miners’ Hospital, Spang- | : ; : 2 t ’ ton, N. J., is spending two weeks gion Auxiliary, at Dunlo, Thurs- seems to be but only a remote | él. |ler, last Thursday—a son. i ; st willbe WE 38 88) | 2 ia with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | day last: Mrs. Adam Strollo, Mrs. chance that any contract will - Members of the Ladies Paul DeBella am Be 0 negotiated with the operators, MAKE f=». | Club entertained their husbands at| “Samuel Lemon of New Bruns-| Martin Fry, Mrs, Jessie D dia and miner's don’t work without 1 G |a dinner at the Columbus Hotel in| wick N. J. is spending a week | and Mrs. John Whalen | Robert J. Stephenson, 11-year- a contract—and the Taft-Hart- | YOUR OLD | Bakerton on Thursday night. | with his mother, Mrs. Sadie La-| pa : 4 ; | old Barnesboro boy, was treated ley law can’t do much about | | Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Volk and | Mark. | Mrs. Donald Elliott and children | 5t the Miners’ Hospital last \ | RADIO BE [3 and Mrs. Reno Fraceschini|p And re: Bomeacepaiirl { Ray Brown last week end. | above his left eye. The boy was | (650) Every THURSDAY from STREET GARAGE, Carrolltown. TUNE IN 12:30 to 1:00 P. M. ~¢~Main Street CARROLLTOWN PHONES PRE] roll or ride up. The rubber side is made of KURON—a magical new elastic fabric developed by U. S. Rubber Co.—gives the strength and support of cloth, plus the stretch of rubber. Kuron won't run, It’s immune to sharp fingernails. Easy to wash, Lodge. Mr. Onorato is secretary: The following ladies of the Bat and Mrs. Antho Fenello were | of the lodge and Mrs. Onorato is|nesboro and Spangler American gn Is thopy Ralph Luteo and Robert Keville. The Firemen's Auxiliary will hoid their regular meeting on Ju- ly 11, instead of July 4. quick to dry. $4.95 FANNIE C. WETZEL Carrolltown, Pa. Trested for Cut Above Eye Cinch what we read in the newspapers that Congressman Hartley would like to do something. If one has no agreement with another man | to work for him, it surely can’t { be called a strike. | that—although it would seem by children, Mey Anne Volk and| My. | of Ebensburg were guests of Mrs. | Thursday night for a deep cut | Miss Myrtle Volk, were visitors of | and Mr. and Mrs. Domenic Rocco os ! 2 SING Mrs. E. C. Koontz in Pittsburgh | are visiting relatives at Gary, 20 | _ Dr. Dinsmore and family of Na- | injured when he was thrown vio- LiKE NEW last Thursday. diana, : {val Base Hospital, Betheseda, |lently to the sidewalk when a Mr. and Mrs. Rem Miller of Nan- | Miss Marjorie Kirsch, R. N | Washingion, D. Cy a visiting Dr. | scooter he was riding struck a ~ riaito ng relatives: oO AYRES 4 IoC, Tw iY, I Dinsmore’s parents, Py °S. lrg e yal visited local relatives On {has returned to Philadelphia at |v. A eS laps r. and Mrs. | rock and upset. aturday. . . .,_ | which city she is employed in the | ‘\Wednesdav dinner sues . Jerome Buck, of New York City, |General Hospital, after spending | Wednesday dinner guests of Mr. was a guest of his mother, Mrs. 3 two weeks vacation with her | | Annie Buck, for several days. | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Volk and | Kirsch. | Send news you know to us! BLATT BROTHERS Last week Hartley blamed John | L. Lewis, mine workers’ president, ON, PA. PATT FRIDAY, SATURDAY, JULY 4.5 SONNY TUFTS RUTH WARRICK “Swell Guy” +.» ALSO... ROBERT LOWERY HELEN GILBERT “Death Valley” . . . IN EXCITING TECHNICOLOR . . . ALSO . .. “MERRY MELODY” CARTOON --- MATINEE JULY 4th --- AT 2:30 P. M. SUNDAY, MONDAY, JULY 6-7 MAUREEN O'HARA CORNELL WILDE ‘THE HOMESTRETCH’ —IN EXCITING TECHNICOLOR— ALSO . . . WOODY WOODPECKER, FLICKER & NEWS Continuous Show on Sunday at 2:30 TUESDAY, JULY 8 GALA STAGE & SCREEN SHOW! -ON THE SCREEN — LESLIE BROOKS JIMMY LLOY “It’s Great to Be Young” -—— ON THE STAGE — SIMPSON’S “REVUE OF 1947” —-Dancing Acrobatics ---Novelties REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES D, in WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JULY 9-10 ANN SOTHERN BARRY NELSON, in “Undercover Maisie” ALSO . . . NEWS & WALT DISNEY CARTOON Sm Tune in the North Cambria Program Over WJSW (650) THIS THURSDAY & Every Thursday from 12:30 to 1 P.M. Sponsored by Grand Theatre & Other N. Cambria Concerns for the wild-cat strikes that bob- | bed up over the country’s mining | | fields, and that despite the fact | that these strikes were called vol- | | untarily by the men themselves in | protest of legislation Hartley him- | self, with Senator Taft, sponsored. | If Congressman Hartley knew a bit | inore about the men who work in | the mines, and had some other | {thcught in his mind than the| | things that benefit only the | National Association of Maunfac- | | turers, he would soon learn that | | the strikes of last week in our | | area would have happened, wheth- | | er John L. Lewis had attempted | Ito stop them or not. | | %* ok % | The Republicans in the Cong- ress of the United States, aided and abetted by the reactionary Southern Democrats, have made their bed. Whether it proves to be a comfortable resting place or not only time will tell. When Iaws are unpopuler public reac- tion soon manifests itself. 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Quebec City and St Anne's Shrine will be points | visited. | Mr. and Mrs. George Conner and two sons, of Buffalo, N. Y., guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith over the week end. William Switzler, employed by the Cadallic Division of General | Mctors ot Detroit, Mich., is spend- | ing a week’s vacation at the home of his father, Walter Switzler. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Miller of Punxsutawney were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith. Banns of marriage publications were made in St. Benedict's Chur- ch on Sunday between Roger Ces- chini, of this place, and Anne Yah- ner of Patton, third publicition; | Arthur Burley, Altoona, and Rita | Regan, Bakerton, second publica- tion, and Richard G. Connell and | Patricia A. Cunningham, first pub- lication. St. Benedict's church tower clock | is now in process of being electri- fied and for the first time in nearly half a century Carrolltown is on an indefinite period without the public timepiece. Wihin a month it is hoped to have the new clock in operation. The members of the B. V. M. So- dality will hold a picnic at Lake- mont Park next Sunday. Spangler | By MRS. ANTHONY FENELLO Phone: Barnesboro 83-R A basket picnic will be held | on the Fourth of July at Spang- ler Recreation Park, opposite the P. R. R. Station. It will be spon- sored by the Spangler Recreation Park Committee, Spangler Fire | Company, American Legion, Lynn | Wetherson Post, World War II Veterans, and the Polish Ameri- can Legion. Free sandwiches ahd ice cream will be given to all the | children and prizes will be aw- arded for games and contests. A | similar program of last year's] picnic will be held from 9 a. m. | to 6 p. m. The public is invited | to participate in the affair. Pack a basket and come to the Recre- ation Park on Friday. A good | time is assured. Mr. and Mrs. motored to Cleveland, Ohio, over the week end. Mrs. Ben Malicky underwent a major operation at the Spangler Hospital last Saturday. Her many friends wish her a speedy recov- ery. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ororato of Spangler are spending this week at the Sons of Italy convention at John McCarthy | New Castle, Pa. They were sent | as delegates of the Barnesboro were | | the | drawing, he will receive ig i { | of | der, arm and leg. He was hit near | er, Karen, | gusta, Kansas, where they will vis- Mr. and Mrs. George 3uchanan | of Waynesburg, Pa., were Sunday | guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams. | Mr. and Gallitzin were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirsch. Misses Betty Baker and Mary | | Jane Paone were Johnstown shop- pers one day last week. | The following members of the | | Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Spang-| {ler Fire Company attended the | meeting held at Hastings on June | 26: Mrs. Walsh, Mrs. Logue, Mrs. | { Fenello, Mrs. Warring, Mrs. Kel- | ly, Mrs. Macek, Mrs. Leslie, Mrs. | { Abrams, Mrs. Dunchak, Mrs. Con- | |stant, Mrs. Temple, Mrs. Anne] | Whalen, Mrs. William Dumm, | | Mrs. John Whalen, Mrs. Simon] | Lantzy, and Mrs. Daugherty. Mrs. | | William Dumm won the nylon | hoisery chanced off. The baseball game between | |New Kensington and Spangler, | scheduled to be played on July 3, | has been postponed until July 4,| at 2:30 p. m., because of not hav-| ing transformers. The car, for Mrs. Elmer Flick of Sunday guests of | which chances have been sold by| | the Spangler Fire Company. and | will | If the the American Legion group, be chanced off at this game. winner is present at ies for the car, such as radio, de- froster, heater, etc., so it may be worth your while to attend the game. Miss Margaret Pallone, R. N,, Dearborn Veterans Hospital and Wayne University, Detroit, is | spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. Angeline Pallone, Mr. and Mrs. Hoare of Youngs- town, Ohio, visited at the home of | Mr. and Mrs. George Dawson last | week. | Martin Fry was struck by a hit- | and-run driver last Saturday when | he was returning home and sus- tained bruises of the head, shoul- | the railroad track on 9th street. Mrs. Agnes McCarthy has re- | turned home after spending three | weeks with Mrs. Margaret o-| Rourke, of Cleveland, Ohio. { Mr. and Mrs. George Dawson | | were Altoona callers last week. Jacob Krug spent Wednesday at | | the Philip Yeckley home in Pat- ton R. D. Mr. Martin Kirsch and daught- left Monday for Au- it Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Fowler. Mrs. Kirsh expects to spend three weeks in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Webb visited the McAllister family in Pitts- burgh recently. Eddie Johnson of Norfolk, Va, spent a few days here last week. He was accompanied to Virginia by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, who will spend a few weeks with her son-in-law and da- ughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Lon- | @ ergan. HALF-WA MARK During the first six months of 1947, we added 7,520 rural telephones in Penn- sylvania. A good record... but we're planning one still better for the second six months. We'll keep up the pace until we can make rural telephone service available for anyone who wants it, at any time. ing Institution will be Fourth. ® The Founding Fathers, signed the Declaration of Independence, and the countless citizens of this nation who have since followed their lead, again observe an- other anniversary of the birth of this great- est country in the world’s history. Our Bank- First National Bank Carrolltown, Penna. closed all day on July ’