PAGE TWO 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, ess-Courier Building, 542 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. Thomas A Owens, Editor FRANK P. CAMMARATA....... Business Manager || THOS. A. OWENS JR... .. Managing Editor || Subseripllon Seo YY NATIONAL €DITORIAL _ | Individual Copy, 5¢ 048 5 ASLIA LIN | Advertising Rates Furnished . Upon Application [ ‘The endeavor of the Union Press-Courier is to sincerely represent Org- anized Labor in all efforts to obtain economic freedom. Material for pub- lication 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 that blankets Patton and the major mining towns in Northern Cambria County. We There may be some of our readers who agree with some of the things we write about in this column weekly, and there may be some who disagree. Anyhow, matter written here is only the editor's] opinion, and we are just a single individual. In the recent election | there were a lot of folks who took opinions of editors and columnists | too much to heart and now are pretty well disillusioned. Some Matters In Retrospect | | Be that as it may. Early next month we will have rounded out 29 years on this newspaper. While our comment may have been mediocre at times, nevertheless we are proud of the fact that we have always maintained an editorial column, large or small, and that what has appeared in it was written by the meaning by that syndicated matfer written by some self-styled -— _UNIIN PRESS COURIER - WHAT DOES SHE THINK SHES DOING? State Legislature ] . |Faces Numerous ~ |Problems In 1949 ‘Tax-Anything’ Law Sure-Fire Argument ’ blems-—many of them financial sylvania’s Legislature. Gov. Duff has termed it the most import- | tory. A An area of agreement has been t reached on one hot issue—work- k ers’ benefits. And a state building Authority, to put off immediate financing of the commonwealth’s huge consturction program, could be re-established without to much opposition. But a host of other pressing questions will go before the Gen- eral Assembly, convening in Janu ary, without a solution in sight They include a possible increase in school teachers’ salaries; con- tinuation of the tax imposed in 1947 on soft drinks; labor legis- lation, a possible increase of the state’s gasoline tax; home rule for third class cities; creation of a fair employment practices commission; removal of restric- © tions on the sale of oleomargar- - Arce ~- cal tax law. | editor. We never have believed in publishing “canned” editorials, | | expert and worded to suit the local theme, From time to time we have engaged in wordy battles with other Miners’ Hospital editors throughout the county, but our bark, and theirs as well, was | SF { ° y mostly without a bite. Politics generally engendered such tiffs, and P } i R d 2 : at heart, we of the weekly newspaper profession all wanted to see a ien S ecor | golites, Hastings; David Lloyd, | The Democrats would require the | one another prosper. Perhaps we have been at odds with some | newspaper at one election, and later found that paper a colleague admitted and discharged Republicans control both hous- " Hastings; Merle [© but the 117-91 lineup in the Bun, Gagery, Huwings) 3 Tit. House indicates that chamber will Ich, Bakerton; Mrs. Nettie Merri-| Pe the battleground for many of {man, Patton R. D.; Mrs. Bertha |the session’s arguments. It re-| 3athurst, Mahaffey; Anthony Ur-| quires 105 votes to pass a bill. | ~ i ta Ae ¢ patients | Westover R. D.; Joseph Luzier, |help of only 14 Republicans to] Noliying is the st of patients Hillsdale; Mrs. Della Esgro, Bar-|vote down the majority there. | There will be plenty of pro- {before the 1949 session of Penn- Thursday, December 16, 1948 Potato Queento | Bakerton | MARSTELLER * ® Visit Count Jan 3 Clifford Skirsky, who is sta- home of Harold Lute of Barnes- . tioned at Bremerton, Wash, with and Mrs, Joe Vargo and Ss i boro over the week end. . {the U, Navy, is spending a Mr Will Be Honored At Hirty day Jegve Here a ghe yame oT Ken, visited at the home of {of his parenis, Mr. a Bh “Mr. and Mrs. George Templeton Luncheon In Johnstown | {fm Birents: Je Sd The City of Johnstown is the | Mr. and Mrs. George Lokey of | Mr. and Mrs. John Capp of Potato City in 1949. | Spangler announce the birth of | Ambridge visited at the George The state potato queen, Miss|a daughter at the Colver Hos-|Varana home recently. Mildred Gibble of tome. pital Mrs Lokey is the former | Albert Krupa, Mary Krupa and will pay a visit there on Monday, | Miss Joanne Stefanik, daughter |Mrs. Andy Homady Jr. were call- Jan, 3. The community is preparing of Mr. John Stefanik Sr. of town. | Mrs. Agnes Jones is visiting ers in Johnstown Saturday. Mrs. Charles Peel, who under- went an operation for appendici- ant in recent Commonwealth his- {for an elegant welcome for the her sister at Rutherford, N. J.| | young lady, who was named po-| Mrs. Jones made the trip to New | i.) “spangler, is doing nicely. tato queen by a committee of [Jersey from Pittsburgh by air-|® gy 0 CS E00q of Williamsport judges including Mayor Walter plane and was accompanied bY |w.q"a recent visitor here at the E. Rose in Coudersport last Aug-|her brother, Mr. Raymond Cook | home of his mother, Mrs. Katie ust. | of Detroit. Good. Mayor Rose and other city of-| Mr. Michael Romnosky Jr., of | Mike Hudak of Starford visited ficials will greet Miss Gibble at|Yorkville, Ohio spent the week recently at the home of Mr. and City Hall the morning of Jan. 3.|end here at the home of his fa-|Mrs. Joseph Hudak. Merchants are preparing for a |ther. — 1 p. m. luncheon at the Ft. Stan-| Misses Evelyn Strong and Ca- Chest Springs wix Hotel for Miss Gibble. Tan" therine Hovan were visitors in A home economics meeting was tis recently at the Miners’ Hos- ing the afternoon the queen will Indiana on Wednesday afternoon. visit a number of stores. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Golgosky held at the home of Mrs. Ella The Retail Division of the Ch-|{and Miss Pauline Yarko were Little on Dec. 1. Thirteen ladies amber of Commerce is assisting business callers in Altoona on [were present. Pattern cutting was in the plans. Monday evening. demonstrated, with apron pat- The whole project is to pro- BR. terns being featured. mote the distribution of Penn- oe A meeting was held Dec. 15 at sylvania potatoes. The Pennsyl- | New Principal Named At the home of Mrs. ovis Sutton, vania Cooperative Potato Grow- 2 at which time Christmas gifts ers Assn. promotes the event. | Cherry Tree High School were exchanged and Christmas Miles Horst, state secretary of | Bernard Ganley of Indiana, Sat [toys were made. agriculture, has been invited $0/ I14AY, was named principal of ine; any changes in the 1947 lo-|attend the events in Johnstown. | —The first hospital in America| Cherry Tree High School, Indiana County. Announcement was made following a meeting of the school board. —The ‘‘Stourbridge Lion,” first steam locomotive to run success- fully in America, was put into | operation in 1829 at Honesdale. [yas founded in Philadelphia. | in the next. It hasn’t been the editorial column that has caused us the most grief. Any newspaper editor, especially the weekly man, gets into trouble every now and then, and goodness knows, he usually doesn’t invite such troubles. Unintentionally leaving some item or more or less importance out of the paper is one way of inviting the displeasure of people. At other times, publishing some item may bring discord upon the editor. To the greatest degree possible it has always been our province to soft pedal on news items that might hurt the feelings of some miscreant’s family. Naturally, the weekly newspaper editor should be wise and never create enemies. His cash register, for one reason, would suffer. Away back in 1908 we started in the newspaper business as a “printer's devil,” and aside from some time spent in Army in World War I we have never been away from the printer's ink. Of all the outstanding boners that we've ever experienced, we believe that one which occurred in our first year of training outdid all the rest. An item telling of the rather rugged exploits of a bar room brawl was mixed up with the death of a prominent citizen, and the result was excruciatingly deplorable. Perhaps one of the most publicized errors our editorial column has ever put forth was a story we wrote some years ago criticizing the “evils of reckless automobile drivers.” While the story was written in the best of faith, you can imagine our chagrin when it appeared in type as “wreckless” driving. The late Walter Thompson was editor of the Ebensburg Mountaineer- Herald at the time and he took us for a good-natured “ride,” and the line hit one of the national magazines. ; There have been other typographical errors that have caused the editor to be “kidded” quite a bit. One we particularly remember was on the occasion of a fire in a local church, and our own dear newspaper flashed the news on a first page headline that “The Church Had Beer On Fire”—the word “beer” having an ‘“r” instead of an “n.” This is one that our good friend Jack Simpson still reminds us about from time to time. Then, too, our advertising columns have from time to time placed us on the well-known spot. Mostly it has been legal advertising that has been most troublesome. Back some years ago, and even to a lesser degree today, there has been a habit for husbands to publish notices telling the public that they would not be responsible for debts incurred by their estranged wives. On a couple of occasions we have been threatened with bodily harm by some male relatives of the wives, and once we had to get out of our shop to eliminate a big fellow slapping wus. We have had readers fail to understand that a newspaper must accept legal advertising, and once, when we published a Sheriff Sales list an irate subscriber dropped in the office and told us that there was no reason why we should tell of his financial difficulties. We have had many cases where folks wanted us to publish libelous stories about some neighbor, but didn’t want any publicity them- selves; we have had all kinds of suggestions from all types of people to publish this and that, and criticise the town council, or the school board, or some local official, but have found none of these who wanted to sign their names to written articles of criticism. It has always seemed strange to us of how hot and bothered some folks can be about their neighbors and expect the editor to be the goat. Twenty-nine years of being a country newspaper editor brings a lot of experiences, indeed. Another constant battle of the local newspaperman is to stave off the many folks who want advertising for nothing, and that particular attempt is just as virile today as it has been all through the years. There are some folks who simply can’t see that advertising is the source of revenue that keeps the wheels of our machinery moving. This is just as great a nuisance on a national scale as it is from the local standpoint. Daily our mail brings us all kinds of printed matter, with all the innocent appearance of “news matter,” but which cleverly is nothing more than advertising. In fact there are some days that we could well toss a great portion of our mail into the wastepaper basket at the post office, and save the time and trouble of carry- ing it back to our business office. In retrospect our business experience has been no different than that of other country editors. We have been engaged in most every- thing from giving advice to being a sort of recognized authority on matters pro and con. Some years back, there were groups who got into arguments over the town (we suspicion perhaps sometimes they were imbibing in liquid refreshments) who made a habit of calling us on the phone to settle some argument or other. Maybe it was some historical date, or the name of some official, or what year Patton had its best ball team, and without research of any kind on our part, we gave them some inaccurate answer and it usually was accepted as final. In late years we haven't been getting such calls. We have had pleasures and embarrassments, tough assign- ments and gratifying recognition. In fact we have had so many different kinds of reaction that memory fails in all but out- of situations, and we believe the most embarrassing of these was once, at an early hour on press morning, when we learned of the death of a man in an accident, rushed off to his home to get details for his obituary, and arrived there before his family had learned of the tragedy. We have been called upon help our friends in the execution of various legal instruments, even have witnessed some wills, and have been a sort of permanent person for “references” by folks seeking jobs, or perchance credit. 4 standing events. In our reporter trips we have been in all kinds $ 3 Through the years, too, particularly through the depression, we have accepted merchandise, farm produce, even a substantial pay- ment on a motor vehicle, in lieu of a much more needed cash pay- ment. We've probably been cussed and discussed at times. We've been praised and upraided. We've hurt folks feelings, too, no doubt, but we never really wanted to do that. We've given many favors of | some magnitude for which we received no thanks. We've been en- couraged by others for something we've written, or for some stand we've taken. The country newspaper editor has a lifetime of ups and downs. But the most of us remain in our billowy profession—and nesboro; Clarence Hutton, LaJose; | The Senate lineup is 35-15 giving | William Kline, Barnesboro R. D.,|the GOP a nine vote margin tc | Miners’ Hospital, Spangler, from Dec. £.to Dec. 13, 1923: and Albert Petrunyak, Patton. | pass bills and one vote more than | | MEDICAL ADMITTED Hastings: MATERNITY | the necessary two-thirds to con- | Dr Hamnsh Pans, Tastings! Mr. and" Mrs. Thomas Hoover, | firm appointments. | Petty Mr Vir ay Soy Spangler, son, Dec. The administration has come | gler: Joseph Ba So Rorion: Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart, cut for an increase in benefits Nis SoeDn Boring, Nicktown. | Marion Center R. D. 1, daughter, |of unemployment and yo en Ballv: Warne > Mrs. Ethel | D¢C: 8 { compensation and occupational | Selly Wamnel £0 on Mis Pinel | Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Michaels, | Ek but the amount has yet | Kazmierczak Bakerton | Strongstown, son, Dec. 8. |to be determined. The present | UF pigs I | Mr. and Mrs. James Corson, |rate is a maximum of $20 week- SURGICAL ADMITTED | tings | Mahaffey, son, Dec. 9. [1y Mrs. Ruth egory, astings; {| Mr, and Mrs. John Zarnesky,| anv : iscussing the | Eugene Arotin, Barnesboro R. D. | Barneshoro, daughter, Dec. 9. soy. ui, Bp Seen Sy me 2; Clarence Hutton, LaJose R. D. | Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dillon, Neale ed Blides $8 Ca 3 Mis. Alice Ped), Shorey Tree; | Carrolltown, son, Dec. 9. [t and feels that current rev- | Florence Dietrick, Patton; Leo | Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lloyd, | t2%eS on 5 chat irre eve Cusick, Utahville; Mrs. Della Es- | Hastings, daughter, Dec. 11. y enue S ou not pay Ch ul gro, Barnesboro; Mrs. Mabel Ben- | Mr. and Mrs. Daryle Westover, | bill of the SOMVNWOR A a "| Inett, Mentcle; Simon Smith, Pat- Cherry Tree R. D. 2, daughter, |ing program. At least $60, = ton; Joseph Luzier, Hillsdale; | pec. 11. | 00 more will be needed in the| | Theresa Nothnagle, Patton; Rev. Father Regis McCoy, St. Law-|Barnesboro, son, Dec. 11. rence; Paul Jones, Barnesboro;| Mr. and Mrs. Michael Albanese, {Paul Schwab, Patton; Michael | Barnesboro, son, Dec. 11. | Phillip, Barnesboro R. D.; Larue |” Mr and Mrs. Peter Ondecko, | | Saylor, St. Benedict; Margaret Emeigh, son, Dec. 11. i [Moriarity, Barnesboro; Edna Wey- = Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shimko, | mer, Carrolltown, and Mrs. Rose Lovejoy, daughter, Dec. 12. tescinto, Barnesboro. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kielbow- MEDICAL DISCHARGED ick, Patton, daughter, Dec. 13. Rent mn | The victim—Harry Bechel, 33, David Davidson, St. Benedict; Frederick Smith, Nicktown; Char- y i les Yeager, Hastings R. D.; Betty CARROLLTOWN Fiat Th D. I ToRaried in Jean Patterson, Cherry Tree; : ; | fair condition a e emoria Mrs. Kathleen Gittings, Ebens- Mrs. Micha2l Ryan of St. Louis | Hospital, Johnstown. He is an | burg; Mrs. Mary Ernest, Baker- = ton; Mrs. Dessie Shultz, Commo- . ny / dore R. D. 1; Mrs. Nettie shil-Dell for an indefinite period. ling, Barnesboro, and Scott, She will be joined by her hus- Cherry Tree. band, an officer in the U. S. Air SURGICAL DISCHARGL Force, this coming week. Romeo Sabella, Barnesboro; An- See thony Poliskey, Bakerton; Mrs. —Try a Classified next week. | { $82,000,000 appropriated in 1047.1 Cambria Twp. 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