Larges Gqsrs Weekly Newapaper Chrcsntion in he Are THE UNION PRESS.COURIER Patton Courier, Estab. 1903 Union Press, Estab, 1935 vp P. ARATA. TE Fen i——— a i mime Rretin tion He ———— Hh in . lh oar BA Be Ll Snel? } fi Saw AT FREE i ae A LEE 3 a - p . 4 4 mt 5. h gE ciel Be wp. Fu ¥ [02 a Pel g 4 4 &- : . : Cambria’s Unincorporated Places g We think of the sub-divisions of Cambria County as comprising i the Oty of Johnstown and number each of boroughs and townships. and while we ave boroughs of varying degree of population ranging iil the way from Nanty-Glo, our biggest single borough unit, down fo Chest Spritigs. Mlle smallest in population. figures, seldom do we Fealize that the toWmihips, too. are a mighty bulwark toward our gounty population of 108,000 souls. i» cdo REN oo nad TH sv 5 Wo In our lownships as well as to the townships in most every _éounty of our state there are villages that sometimes outclass many of $43 unincorporated pinces in Peaswylvania with a population 1800 or miwe pe The largest number of amimcorporated : Fagette County.iwhere there were 19. EI sr Nop TA i AEH, NIP pr a Hs wae SATA) PIE A Soaring traffic volumes, too, have multiplied pressure all along the sufety front Last year witnessed the sharp increase in highway fatalities—from 35.000 in 1950 to #7,500—and we face the grim possibility that 1952 will witness the greatest number of traffic deaths in the Nation's history. Safety organizations have fried thelr best, so, Rave the courts, to stamp out the reckless drivers. But maybe the New Jersey statute will do more in that state than all of the safety education. Hit the offender not alone In his pocketbook, but incarcerate him in the county Jalil for a spell, and he'll probably come out a much safer driver. Publisher Branches Out We take notice of the purchase of the Portage Dispatch and the Gallitzin-Crenson Mainliner by Herman Sedioff of the Naniy-Gilo Journal. who assumed control of the two additional publications last community weekly newspaper and his branching out inte the publication of three of them, of course will entail a larger organization and. we imagine quite a busy time for our friend Herman John Ward for the past several years has been publisher of the twe additions] papers taken over by Mr. Sedioff and his associates. Mr. Ward will return to the dally field in the South- west. Despite the fact that the obituaries of so many of the country weeklies have been chronicled in the past decade, most of the papers that have survived have had to branch out into bigger scopes and have been prosperous. Costly ecquipment and adequate departmental now-a-days just as important in the administration weekly newpapers as it is with our bigger brothers the dailies The plant of the Union Press-Courier, for instance. is something that nit 80 MANY Years ago wotild have been envisioned only in our wildest dreafns. So aiuo has it been with a lot of our neighboring weekly publications. Mr Siedioff. we feel will produce good lom- munity newspapers in Portage and Cresson-Callitzin, just as he has already been doing for many years in Nanty-Glo: Best wishes orgam sation 8 of successful ANE Ba didi ad de] PURELY POLITICAL .. BY TOM OWENS, SR. A I |S AAA AAAS AS SAAS AAS SSSA ISSA SASL SESSA ft was Back in 1938 that this! writer first stuck his enlomgated | A neck into the itical ring, and it touring. He was for the Democratic nomins- | private train with shower tion for a meat in the State Leg- | parber shop and a whole car egu- islature Looking back to thet ipped with duplicalors fo run campaign, Which was a lost ven | speeches for reporters ture By 8 rather RAFTOW margin | But Smith's train was not air of votes, We believe 1 Was the conditioned So strenuous was Mr most rugged of any of them. In Smith's schedule that a dozen re the intervening years we have porters had to take time out bebn in six other political cam- | from Mr. Smith's swings from paigns. three for the legislature | sheer exhausion all successful: one for Congress | Back in these same years disastrous. and two sucessful | wasn't campaigns for county commis | restfuiness of candidates who mower. We covered a lot of the sought an office in Cambria Cambria County territory in that! County. There weren't any good time. and also some in Indiana | roads, ne automobiles T™he Calls and Armstrong counties. We've | gidate naturally. had to endenvor to “cover” the county, so he had encountered many strange situs. tions but none of it reshy Was | to do it by railroad and horse and too rugged—nothing st all like | puppy state and national candidates have | A candidate usually left his home on a Monday morning dure campaigning this | ing the height of Ris campaign be less rug and more ond probably returned on Satur than in the past. Can- | gay night. He remained in the Bryan | qrea where he happened to be i nightfall came, and journey. coaches hired for a song. They jy paid for how- | gidn't have to interview women in ever : heat and cinders | those days, however, for they had in their whiskers. Now the party go vote. Naturally, being a stran- standard bearers travel in sire in certain communities he conditioned, dl engined stream usually found a tavern the best | place to “Break in” That alone cost Rim some money In fact. The writer, as a small : hoy became impressed lo ame | degree thai a politician and bar room were common denominators Yet many of these candidates were really temperate men they just didn't have any other place i to It was Alfred E Smith who put modern touch into : There were times in our early Ljife that a inrge percentage of the mabe voters seem to anticipate a drink of liquor from some soures as & “reward” for casting thir ballot. Maybe that's one resson Why, in rome communities, the thought still bas some pre- viience. oo | frgat, erhesle EL il ANDERSON il 5s Hl ghe 12 5 15s Fi $58 PRESS. covktEn Friday. Mr. Sedioff well knows the essentials of producing a pros | H gressive Eo ne AON BEA SAIAIS F.3D es LT eH A EE ma eee 3rr RN O yo SH e “As i See ¢” oy *- . STATE SENATOR JOHN J. MALUSEA Now that the people of our! Country have had an unity to pull themselves © er and be able fo turn on thelr television sets and look on and listem fo programs free from politics, we thot ft it would be wise 10! riefly Jobk into the picture and try to deter mine As to what we can | Banta pertain lives forever because, to our mind chear and ; brings happiness to the homes of all the people during the Christmas n- ison; he spreads Joy i cheer throughout count good by] this sacred day, and if the i ocratic Party can play the robes of Santa Claus and utilize the re main 384 duys to do likewise, we have no reason [o shoot Santa Claus On the other hand if Elsen- hower should get the nod. we are [very fearful out in : column that there was bad bicod be tween General g.0 Faluska Douglas Mac- Arthur and General Eisenhower; we pointed out that they could pot see eve lo «ye on domestic policies and were very far apart on International affairs. As our readers know, both of these men played a very active part at the Republican Convention; MacArth- ar was the keynoter while Eisen- nower came out with the plum. Both of these men belong to the Republican “faithful,” but, both are so far apart in their views that nothing of an atomic bomb could bring them together 80. what are the resulta? Just as we predicted: MacArthur has no use for Eisenhower-—he has joined the Remington Rand Co. and has stated very definitely that he will spend the balance of his life in construction rather than destruction. He will not campai for Ike: he wants no part his candidacy, which def- political | had an eleven-car | and i off | {while they have rea iti too easy on Une physical | od on ebsewhere the next day. He¥ nitely shows that MacArthur has { Hitle faith in Tioe's leadership [Will Try te Keep It Secret Ff course, the daily papers will try to keep it a secret and say iHitle or nothing about this matter because we all know our) daily press. throughoul Lhe Ra tion. is mostly Republican. And wi the har vest under the Democratic Ad ministrations of the past Ihey will continue biting the hand thal is feeding them py ave doing their utmost to build up Eisen- hower's candidacy knowing full well that there is no COMPpanson whatsoever between the candida. cles of Eisenhower and Stevenson Elsenhower is a military man and has mastered his military profession while Stevenson ia a student of State Government: has served in capacities of Governor, Ambassador. advisor, professor and has knowlege of governmen- tal affairs way bevond the hopes of which Elsenhower would ever hope to garner in his own mind As we pointed out once before in this column we siale in It would be a calamity to ve Eisenhower elected as President | during these tithes. We do not tink the people will | ask for a and. an one of | our Southe Writers recently | pointed out in his paper. he does not think the American : will shoot Santa Claus Well, this may be a crude expression, But, if Uncle Sam i looked upon as a | Santa Claus. Jet us pray that he ling age i pl li arta ite sumed that the likes of Duff. Fine. Dewey and Lodge will ‘place this country in one of the ‘most deplorable known to mankind | hower himself admits that he is not acquainted with domastic wf- fairs and must rely on the aver une Eisen welg ment of the above ment vd. Attention, Younger Generation’ wonder whether Ihe today are happy and Pp Tous, own thelr own hopies, drive beautiful automobiles, take annual vacations and lead the life they are entitled to live would dare vole for an unknown wild dare take the change to pul a man in the White House ‘who would set the country back 20 years, at least--back to the god old days of yy and stiprvis- tion. All of this could easily hap- pen because the Jounger genera. tion has very little knowledim of the bread and soup lines The younger generation of vot. today cannot recall the Hoover Administration and often times when history is repeated people who ‘by the parents. they give i big laugh and state that “that cennot ; is young roup of villers cannot recall legislation thal ‘was proposed by our own State Cow ernment making those people who obtain relief work at public plces work at the set rate of 10¢ r hour. They cannot recall girls working in oir jocal factories for $250 per week and fAghting to get the jobs! They cannot reeall aces like Marsteller, Cuolver, ovine, Gallitzin and others, when the Coal and Iron Police riding horseback, ruled with an iron hand They do not know that bintk in those good old days of which Bisenhower speaks, that if wou were fired or lost vour job there was no $30 per week Unempioy- ment Compensation; they do sot recall that in the good old days of which Eisenhower speaks there was no Social Security fin’ the aged nor Miners’ Welfare for re tired miners. They do not recall that Unions were nol in existence and such gains as miners’ wel fare. pensions, eel workers hospitalization, pensions. Rae. ‘bile workers’ pensions werw ade | possible by Roosevelt | permitting isbor the right tv cob the selling late President up legislation lective bargaining. Bo. we may fo thew voters: Sit down with yo Tr Duel and { Mother and ask them whelder or not these conditions resily osist- od: ast them why made sible to elingnate those dark and feverish days? Then, af fying yourself that this is all pos sible agin. go to the Polis on Nov. 5 and jet your conscience be vour ie. SEN. JOHN J. HALUSKA A RE Today's pint-gized turkeys a one of the new foods that a £f if Bazi a - g WR of ACT OF 12 United States hameas (at Rr, dd {Mutnber het (Stoeet) {ON pss i oarvert, aT i Zea © La || 2A A LIL All E ES im ia | | ex | A AEE7 «HE» lal LE oT Zl | Leal ll ¥ va | ka | Yaa Ey - his a jes or cake. You want to make be close emough for error to the try her favorite dish, daddy's fa- | . § , (ted about 10 or 15 miles south of Keep the kitchen clean and un- | x : . is, the better she'll get along. the first experience In the Kitch. post office. ev a pliasant one-but jet her ROR Or ERG, ad . Pa. vorite depsert or one of you: “a g vorite dishes. | town of cluttered when your cook | NJ begins. “The less there | ss bd Even mature cooks often find con- | fusion difficult to ignore. : : for home grounds, according to A. O Be on hand if your help 5 Rasmussen sxtension A waantatl neéded, but otherwise leave the potoculturist of the Penmsylivi. child to her own work. You'll be nix State is to take if the dish doesn’t turn | annusls a snd | for exhibition. . encourage show your confidence in the youn- goter. Recall to her mind the times when your cooking wasn'l sil it should be-—-the calle was too n ir lopsided. Teach her to laugh about little mistakes and encourwe her to try again right ig Hl a1
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