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THE UNION PRESS-COURIER
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Worthwhile Contributions
There always scems to be something or other that demands our
help in a financial way. No sooner is one drive for funds for some
good and worthy cause completed, ,than another is upon us. Some-
time we find that we may be in the midst of two or even more
fund raising campaigns at the same time. But for the good of our
community, our county, state and nation, the things that are worth
while, always deserve support.
During the several days of last week the Johnstown Dem-
ocrat published a series of articles picturing the conditions pre-
vailing at our Cambria County Home and Hospital. Patients and
inmates in this institution are those whom misfortune has to
a great degree thrown upon the public support, and all folks
who pay taxes are contributors to the upkeep of this over-
crowded institution.
Fortunately, only a very small percentage of the people become
county charges. The greater majority can not themselves, or through
the assistance of relatives, support their own illness or surgical
problems. This opportunity is facilitated for them by the many thou-
sands of hospitals over the country, and quite naturally, the closer
a hospital is situated on one's home or work, the greater the ad-
vantage and convenience to all concerned—the patient, the doctor and
the patient's relatives and friends.
Northern Cambria County has been blessed for many years
with a hospital that has afforded geographical convenience, has
taken care of the hospitalization needs of our community and
has, by its very proximity within our midst, without question,
been instrumental in the saving of many a life in emergency
cases. Beecause of its location it has furnished the family phy-
sician or surgeon mdequate facilities to alleviate the sufferings
of those patients whose physical condition and medical history
he intimately knows and understands. Because of the hospital
your doctor has been able to give you the best that medical and
surgical science has to offer. Without the hospital in Spangler in
many instances your home physician—your family doctor—would
be compelled to abandon your particular case perhaps at a time
when he has solved the method of a successful cure.
In most every community in the north of Cambria County there
are those who are prone to criticize the Spangler Hospital. They tell
you this and that is wrong, and some may even openly declare that
the Hospital will get no support from them. Likewise, in every com-
munity in Northern Cambria County there are others who will tell
you just the opposite—who have all of praise for the institution, who
fully realize what it has meant, or may mean, to them, or to their
loved ones. Being brutally frank, may we suggest to those who see
fit to ‘kmock”, that it is always possible that they, too, without warn-
ing, may have desperate need for the Spangler Hospital—and they
will not be turned away.
The Hospital has served the community for many years. As
these years have rolled along its initial necessary equipment has
always been augmented with every device that modern medicine
and surgery practice has created. Now one major disadvantage
looms ahead that will cause the institution to slip. That is the
inadequate space afforded in a hospital built years ago to meet
the demands made upon it by a population that has increased
Secisively + ont of proportion to its facilities. This lack of space
curtails the addition of needed equipment, and even more ser-
iously, it o materially short on bed space. It all presents a prob-
lem that the folks of Northern Cambria County must meet and
solve.
Most all of our readers know about the drive for funds that is
now under way for the enlargement of the Hospital. Most all of you
know of the generous contributions that have already been paid or
pledged by corporations, business firms, and more particulary by the
hundreds of members of the United Mine Workers of America in this
area, most all of whom have individually pledged good, substantial
sums, to be deducted from their pay checks. But as fine as all of
shese gestures are, end as gratifying as the sums thus to raised ap-
pear to be, it will not be sufficient. Each and every wage earner
aside from the miners should also consider it a duty and a privilege |Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wagner
Mark 55th Anniversary
to subscribe to the Hospital Building Fund. It matters little whether
you like the present management or not, whether you have liked
past managements or not, or whether you will be pleased with fu-
ture management—the vital matter is, we all need the Hospital.
The are many different kinds of charity financial drives, and
all of them serve their particular purpose and are deserving.
However, in this particular instance, this adds up to something
that vitally affects all of us. At some time or other most every-
one reading these lines has had reason to be thankful that we
have had a hospital here in the north of the county—either for
himself or some member of his family. Thousands have been hur-
ried to the Miners’ Hospital at Spangler in emergencies—acci-
dent victims, acute surgical cases—only God knows how many of
these who are living today might have gone into the Valley of
Death, if it had been necessary that they should have taken to
Johnstown, Altoona or Clearfield. The element of time lost in
making such trips in many instances would have proved fatal.
The addition to the Hospital is urgent. Any North Cambria phy-
sician or surgeon will tell you that. There may be some folks who
féel they have a justifiable gripe at the hospital. But, you'll hear the
gripes in every community where there is a hospital, or several hos-
pitals. Perhaps the Spangler Hospital has been criticized with some
justification by some folks. There isn't any hospital in all the land
that doesn't get some criticism. However, that doesn’t excuse anyone
from helping the cause. Every general hospital on the face of this
earth is a blessing to humanity. Do your part in contributing to the
campaign for funds to our own hospital. Help make it a bigger, bet-
ter, more modern institution and you may well be doing something
that may yet be the means of saving heartaches for yourself and
your loved ones—if you are numbered among those who criticise.
Observations From the Sidelines
The Cambria County Commissioners last Thursday set the mill-
age rate for county taxes at eight mills, the same as last year. This
was not the recommendation of the County Controller, who had sug-
gested ten mills. The Controller's recommendation was one of sound
business. The continuation of the eight mill rate will compel the
Commissioners to refund about half the bond issues due for payment
this year—or about $225,000. Perhaps the major reason the Com-
lation, which, in turn, produce
indiscriminately. There are no
paid for their copies. We write
tossed in his doorway. You get
want it or not. It cheapens the
UNION PRESS COURIER
forgets there are lots of privmners in the county jail who are
glad to plant some beans or pitch some hay. It is strange how
$0 many people can suggest how the other fellow should do his
job. If public officeholders were to be subject to even the least
bit of annoyance by this gentry, they wouldn't be good public
At no time in the history of weekly newspapers has there been
50 much prepared propaganda in the editors’ mail-boxes as at pre-
ent. Year in, and year out, this hopeful attempt of trying to get,
something for nothing has been increasing. Prepared newspaper copy
covers a range of a recipe with a hidden bit of advertising for some
ingredient, to brazen and outright articles with a communistic fla-
vor, or maybe the advocation of birth control. Few newspapers pub-
list the stuff. We wonder why the advocates of something for noth-
When you read this newspaper we feel that you are reading
icy is first, to give our patrons a
good community newspaper each and every week, and by so do-
ing create a demand for advertising in our columns. Each is de-
pendent on the other. A good newspaper means a desired circu-
s desired advertising results. By
producing a newspaper you like, we likewise insist that you
pay for it. Our circulation is a paid proposition. There are no
booster editions. There are no weeks when we toss papers about
towns where we have the paper
boy donate papers to some folks, after others have bought and
this simply because a paper with
good substantial circulation in its field need never resort to giv-
ing papers away. A couple of weeks ago a Patton man brought
three copies of a neighbor town newspaper into our office, all
the free newspaper whether you
newspaper business.
Distribution of 500 safety pos-
ters to schools throughout Cam-
bria County was started last
week by the Johnstown Motor
Club.
Cyrus W. Davis, president of
the motor club, said in order to
make children realize the need
for extreme caution and alertness
in traffic during periods of bad
weather, and the effects of wea-
ther on all types of transporta-
tion, the posters and lessons are
being provided by the motor club.
The work is part of the club's
civic safety education program.
Low umbrellas which obstruct
pedestrians’ vision and dirty, mis-
ty or iced-up windshields, which
prevent cars and person, are po-
tential traffic accident breeders,
declared Mr. Davis.
300 Safety Posters In Cambria Co.
Urge Care During Rainy Weather
“Accident summaries for the
ration reveal that in about one
out of every. five accidents the
driver’s vision was obscured,” Mr.
Davis pointed out. He said that
very often rain, snow and sleet
lon car windshields result in ac-
[cidents that clear windshields
would have prevented.
Teachers throughout the coun-
try are cooperating with the local
motor club and the AAA by dis-
playing the posters and using the
safety lessons in their class-
rooms.
The colorful poster this month
was one of the first-place win-
ners in the 1948 traffic safety
poster contest. It was drawn by
Ray Zanscik of Audubon Junior
High School in Cleveland.
Hastings Pit Employs
Total of 80 Miners
A detailed safety report made
public on Monday of this week
by the Bureau of Mines describes
some generally satisfactory saf-
ety conditions and recent impro-
vements at the Lanark Coal Co.'s
300-ton-a-day Lanark No. 1 mine,
a mile south of Hastings. A few
additional safeguards were pro-
posed for the mine, which em-
ployed 30 men when it was ex-
amined in January by Inspector
Arthur C. Jones and A. W. How-
ell Jr. 2
Between inspections, the stor-
age of explosives and detonators
was improved, the clearance sp-
ace along one haulageway was
properly maintained, derails were
provided along some haulageways,
the trolley wire was guarded at
man-trip stations and elsewhere,
locomotives were equipped with
fuse protection, and additional
signs to escapeway were posted..
Prompt completion of some
beneficial changes in progress
U. S. Inspector Notes Improvement
In Conditions At Lanark No. 1 Mine |=>us jot saturasy morning
These included the providing of
air-lock coors at required places,
additional sectionalizing switches
in trolley and feeder wires, and
universal wearing of protective
hats and footwear by men expos;
ed to falling objects.
For greater protection to the
workmen, the inspectors advised
the setting of temporary roof
supports in several working plac-
es and the removal or proper
timbering of inadequate support-
ed loose roof. To reduce ignition
dangers, the use of permissible
electric cap lamps for portable
illumination and prohibition of
smoking ir the mine were recom-
mended.
Additional safety proposals cal-
led for the firing of each bore-
hole immediately after charging
on shift, air-ventilation facilities
for the No. 1 ventilating fan and
repair of the No. 2 fan signal
device, use of additional incom-
bustible stoppings, making of pre-
shift mine examinations, elimina-
tion of some power-wire contact
dangers, insulators .and approved
attachment of electric light wires,
and wearing of goggles by men
was suggested ‘by the inspector.
Spangler
. HILDA DEMI
A dinner was held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wagner of
this place, on Sunday, Mar. 6, in
honor of their 55th wedding an-
niversary. Mrs. Wagner was the
former Louella Siebring of East
Ridge, Pa.
They are the parents of eight
children, four who are living, and
have 12 grandchildren and 12
great-grandchildren. The children
who are living are as follows:
Mrs. Joyce DeHaven of Detroit,
Mich.; Mrs. Ruth Gregory of St.
Boniface; Mrs. Marcelleth Miller
of Spangler and Leo, at home.
Also, at this dinner was the
celebration of the 5th wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wag-
ner's grandson, Clarence Wagner
and his wife, the former Louella
Paul of Renova.
Those who attended the dinner
were: Mr. and Mrs. William Tor-
ak and children of Johnstown;
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Yarnell
and children of Alverda; Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Wagner and chill-
ren of Renova; Mr. and Mrs. Ger-
ald Boothman and children of
Alverda; Mrs. Marcelleth Miller
and son, and Mrs. Leo Wagner
and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Greene
of Spangler; Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Gregory and children of St. Boni-
face and Mr. Kenneth Wykoff of
Renova. Mrs. Joyce DeHaven
of Detroit was unable to attend.
Pfc. Gregory Kirsch, stationed
at Andrews Field, Washington, I.
C., is visiting with friends and |
relatives in town this week. |
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Castonis
of this place, were week end vis- |
missioners, like their predecessors, are resorting to refinancing rests
with the fact that taxation seems to be striking the taxpayers from
avery conceivable angle. Anyway, this year, you won't be paying any
additional county taxes.
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We wonder sometimes if the daily newspapers — meaning
most all of them—are not bending backwards in showing their
colors are representative of a free press, in publishing some of
the malarchy that contributors write them. Nine times out of
ten the contributor writes on people, public officials, and pop-
icies he or she knows nothing about. Some housewife will tell how
to run the government, or some chap whose proclivities lean to
the G. O. P, will find fault with the cost of the inauguration
stands at the Truman ceremonial, while at the same time this
cost was created by a Republican Congress who expeted a chap
named Dewey would be sworn in as chief executive. Most am-
using was a recent letter in a Johnstown newspaper written by a
Johnstown housewife, criticizing the County Commissioners for
thinking about buying some additional farm land, and alleging
that it would mean more folks on the payroll. The good lady
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itors at the home of the lady's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willer of
Huntingdon.
Mrs. Mildred Zaliznock enter-
tained her cinch club last Wed-
nesday evening at her home. A
lunch was served and the prizes
were awarded to Mrs. Katie
Macek, Mrs. Rachel McGaughey,
and Mrs. Mary Wylie.
Mrs. Fritz Morley entertained
a number of local folks at a party
held in her home on Monday ev-
ening of this week.
Mrs. Charles Dumm has re-
turned home after being a pat-
ient in the Mercy Hospital in
Altoona, for the past several
weeks.
Spangler Alumni
Seeking Members
At a meeting of the executive
council of the Spangler High
School Alumni Assn. on Sunday,
plans were made for launching a
membership drive. At present, the
alumni of Spangler High totals
about 1,600, and it is the aim of
the council to be able to list at
least 1,000 of these as active
members. Each individual gradu-
ate will be contacted by letter or
phone and formally invited to
join the organization. Membership
has been extended to all gradu-
ates of St. Patrick's High School
as well as those of Spangler High
School. Membership cards will be
distributed to those paying $1 per
year dues. These cards will be
issued beginning at the next meet-
meeting of the association, to be
held Mar. 20, or will be sent.
The council also decided to pub-
list a news letter of the accom-
plishments of the group. A meet-
ing for this purpose was held on
Tuesday evening.
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By JANET C. KUHN
Jacob Reffner Buried
At Pleasant Hill Cemetery
were conducted by Rev, A.
erican Legion.
erans’ Hospital.
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in
ening of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Troxell
visited with the lady's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bland in Tip-
ton, recently.
Mr. C. J. Troxell has been ill
at his home here for the past
few days.
Helen Weaver, spent the week
end at her home in Johnstown.
The Caroline Troxell Rebekah
Lodge held its regular meeting on
Friday evening of last week.
Peggy Troxell of Altoona sp-
ent the week end here at her
home.
Mrs. May Kuhn of Johnstown
was a recent visitor in Glasgow.
Catherine Henderson of Dun-
cannon gpent the week end at her
home, here.
Mrs. Buelah McCellan and son,
John, of Blandburg were recent
visitors in Glasgow.
Bob Troxell of Altoona visited
here at the home of his father,
Mr. C. J. Troxell.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cree and
sons, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Barnett spent Sunday with Rev.
and Mrs. A. L. Barnett.
Clifton McCartney of Philips-
burg visited with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John McCartney last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Troxell and
son, Roger, spent Thursday even-
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Kuhn.
Gerald Miller of Hollentown
was a recent visitor in Glasgow.
Lois Reager or Coalport was a
Sunday visitor at the John Mec-
Cartney home.
Calvin Stine was a visitor in
daughter, Patty, were recent vis-
itors in Altoona.
Solemn Novena
To Open At Carmel
On Friday, Mar. 11, at the
Loretto Carmel, Wm. Penn High-
way, Loretto, Pa., the annual,
solemn novena in preparation for
the Feast of St. Joseph will open
in the public Chapel and close on
the feast day, Mar. 19. Services
each day at 4:00 o'clock p. m.
In conjunction with this novena
the regular monthly novena in
honor of St. Therese of Lisieux
(The Little Flower) will take
place. All who desire to share in
the graces attached to this nov-
ena please mail petitions to the
Carmelite Monastery, Loretto, Pa.
Special intentions will be in-
cluded for the sick and all seek-
ing, through prayer, a solution of
their spiritual and temporal pro-
blems. The Discalced Carmlite
Nuns will also remember the nov-
ena intentions in all their lenten
devotions.
Sunday afternoons, throughout
the year, devotions in honor of
St. Therese are held in the pub-
lic Chapel of the Carmel at 4 o'-
clock.
A 14 per cent increase in the
number of turkeys to be grown
in Pennsylvania and a 25 per
cent greater number for the en-
tire country are indicated by re-
cent intention surveys, reports W.
F. Johnstone, extension agricul-
tural economist of the Pennsyl-
vania State College. This is a re-
Barnett and burial was made in
the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The
military rites at the grave were
conducted by the Blandburg Am-
Mr. Reffner had recently re-
turned from the Aspinwall Vet-
The Youth Center held its re-
gular meeting on Tuesday even-
g.
The I.0.O.F. members held their
regular meeting on Thursday ev-
Funeral services were held last
Sunday afternoon at the Rosebud
E.U.B. Church for Jacob Reffner
World War I veteran. Services
ST. BENEDICT
Mrs, Tillie Lang has returned
to her home here after a brief
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
James Lang and daughter, Cathie
in Elmira, N. Y.
The ladies club held its meet-
ing this week at the home of Mrs.
Verlo Berringer. Mrs. George
Jackson and Mrs. Orville McKee
won the prizes, A delicious lunch
was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hornick and
family of Johnstown spent Sun-
day at the home of Mrs. F. B.
Saylor.
Jean Eleanore Symons from
Johnstown spent Sunday at the
home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Symons.
Harry Loman and James Fin-
adly of Spangler spent some time
in town this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caldwell
of Spangler spent Saturday ev-
ening at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. James Stratton.
Bud Smith of Barnesboro sp-
ent Sunday afternoon at the home
of Dominic Bonnano.
Misses Marie Bonnano, Blanche
Gomolka and Veronica Miller sp-
ent Tuesday evening in Barnes-
boro.
The Class meeting was held at
the home of Patty Berringer this
week. The following were in at-
tendance: Lois White, Shirley |
Hunter, Phyllis Ahlstrom, Jeanie |
Stoltz, Esther Anderson, Adele
Ahlstrom, Barbara Wiser, Cherie
Stickler, Vivian Symons and Ann
Symons the teacher of the class.
A delicious lunch was served and
all reported a good time,
The V.F.W. held their regular
meeting last Sunday.
The St. Benedict Ladies’ Club
held their meeting this week at
all reported
time.
Area Gets Liquor
License Refunds
G. Harold Wagner, state audi-
tor general, has approved pay-
ments to Cambria Co. districts
from the Liquor License Fund of
the State Liquor Control Board as
authorized by law. Districts in
this area and the sums they will
in having a good |
receive are as follows:
Ashville Boro ..
Barnesboro Boro
Carrolltown Boro ...
Chest Springs Boro ..
Gallitzin Boro ... 2,000.00
Hastings Boro 1,550.00
Loretto Boro 200.00
Patton Boro .. 1,550.00
Spangler Boro .. 2,350.00
Tunnelhill Boro 500.00
Allegheny Twp. 150.00
Barr Twp. .. 800.00
Cambria Twp. . 1,850.00
Clearfield Twp. 150.00
Dean Twp. .. 700.00
East Carroll Twp 250.00
Elder 200.00
Gallitzin Twp. 1,300.00
Reade Twp. .... 750.00
Susquehanna ‘Twp. . 1,200.00
West Carroll Twp. ..... 1,000.00
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JOAN LESLIE, in
versal of the 1948 record.
SERGEANT YORK
Plus: Jot Garfield,
Ann Sherdian, Pat O'Brien
Castle On the Hudson
Thursday, March 10, 1949
distributive education program.
Barnesboro High School is one
of the first schools in which the
program has been initiated.
G. C. Murphy Co.
Aiding Education
The G. C. Murphy Co. has set
up a program to help the schools
in towns and cities where they
have school programs involving
distributive education, or selling.
This is a new program, put into
effect this year by the Murphy
concern, with offices in McKees-
port and New York. The concern’s
program is set up to not only
supply cash registers but also to
aid schools in any way they can
in the training of classes. The
company states this is in line
with its program of aiding in the
building of better communities.
The company hopes the pro-
gram will be helpful to schools
and that it can be put into effect
in towns where the school has a
Sisters At Cresson Topic
Of New Book Publication
Some of the history of the Sis-
ters of Mercy, especially in re-
gard to the founding of the relig-
ious group in Loretto, is con-
tained in a new book titled, “So
Surely Anchored.”
The book, written by Katherine
Burton, is available at the book
store at the Mt. Aloysius Junior
College in Cresson. Sister Camille
Marie, R.S.M., of the college said
many requests are being made
for copies of the book which deals
with the origin and growth of the
Sisters of Mercy.
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are the ones that swim upstream.
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A delicious lunch was served and)
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how to keep your equipment operating to
your satisfaction. We take this responsibility
seriously and are doing everything we can
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