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THE UNION PRESS-COURIER
Patton Courier, Entab. 1898 Union Press, Estab. 1986
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The endeavor of
An Lavor In all
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Time Off to Vote
There's never been a time within the recollect
that such great stress has been placed on the
and voting as his beg evidenced this year. It's been a theme and
program of all aypes of organizations, civic groups public officials,
and even the politicians. However this thought hasn't been on how
« Jou are to vote, but rather seeks to impress upon each and everyone
* of us the imporiance of voting. There's every reason to believe that
it will be reflectdd to a great degree an election day.
In this connection, thére's another thought that recently has
: is the thesis that voters, the
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sll major mining towns
Thoughts At Random
With the coloring of the leaves, it won't be too long now before
the Christmas ssason is upon us. Christmas, like Easter, both have
8 religious significance that is seems each year becomes more
_tommercialized and the true meaning forgotten. Easter, with its
po snd parades amd fashion revues in the larger cities, certainly
any connection with the Risen Saviour. Christmas has not
‘free of over-explotation and neglect of its religious aspects,
| the public ‘will do well to remember that each ome of us has
own obligation to see that the spirit and dignity of religious
holidays is presirved
candidates for re-election
delegation, Dennis 1. Westrick, was elected county treasurer
year and wan't a candidate. The Demdcratie voters at the
primary last spring seledted E.
J. (Engiebert) Farnbaugh of
Loretto R. DD. as the third nominee on the ticket. Mr. Farabaugh
is one of Cambria County's outstanding ajriculturists, has been
an active Democrat, and has always bees to the forefront in
farming orgunizations and circles. No betler choice for a well
balanced ticket could have been
Mr. Farabaugh.
made thim in the solection of
Voters must not overlook the importance of the state candidates
and the members of both branches of the Legislature in this coming
election
Don’t let the national issues blot out the home issues. For
goodness sake don't elect representatives that will vote for a fiat
income tax to not only hamper your pockethook, but ale cause you lowing the same line as then
inconvenience and embarrassment
cratic candidates who are pledged to oppose any such movement in| suntions.
You may have 3 jot of reasons to regret it, if [least a
the 1853 session
you don't
here at home Elect the Demo
You'll be electing a president of the United States on Nov.
4, but you also will vole on a
Auditor Gesweral, and a State
Supreme Court Judge, a State
Treasgrer—all important. And
you'll be clocting your State Kenntor and three members of the
General Assvmbly. Give these men and what they mens to your
Gally mode of living, careful thought.
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ORE ABOUT GOP
BROKEN PROMISES
FROM THE CAMBRIA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTER
John RR. Torgustsa Chairman
In this. the fAfth in a series of |
articles devoted to the Republi-
can Party's broken promises -pro-
mises made to the people of
Pennsylvania an effort will be
made to clear the decks of those
offendings. There are sins of]
COMMISSION as well as OMIS- |
KION that deserve the attention
of the voter
Of course we can not cover all
of the broken promises In this
series we are tonsidering only the
major offendings in the broken |
promise line
Those who review the record
with us should bear in mind the!
fact we are not listing extrava-
ant statements made by indivi
ual campaigners in the broken
promise schedule. It might be a
trifie unfair to hold the REPUB |
{ICAN PARTY in Pennsyivania
responsible for what some one’
Republican campaigner of the!
eager-beaver type might have
sad. i
But the Republican Party can
be and SHOULD be held respon |
sible for what it said it would do |
when it wrote its 1950 platform |
That was the platform Gov. Fine!
accepted —- the platform publi
can candidates for the GENERAL |
ASSEMBLY accepted when they
were asking the people to elect |
them. i
One of the platform promises
GOP campaigners stressed during |
the: 1950 campaign read as fol- |
“We advornte
more
the day.”
Republican candidates wen! up
and down the state talking shout!
2 State Constitution they said
dated back lo horse-and-buggy |
days. They said the framework of |
our state povermment could not |
be modernized until the Comstitu- |
tion was rewritten. They also said |
a revised Constitution would pro- |
What éid Gov. Fine and his Je- |
islative hemchmen do about re-
fine with the needs of
{sponsored wits providing for one
ried to get these hills out
Convention,
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of committee but the bills were
smothered snd the order to smo. |
ther them came from the “front!
ierats than there are in
districts are
Milk Commission juggles prices.
easing them up and up and up
Why No Reapportionment ?
There was another very impor
tant premise the Republicans
made one closely related to the
maintenance of a form of govern
ment in Pennsyivanin that is ac
tually representative and demo
¢ratic. In ita
Republican Party said
“We will reapportion (he
state's legislative and congres
sional districts.”
Such was the promise. What
about the performance T
Congressional districts were re
apportioned bocause if no such
sction had been taken it would
have Dealt necessary to elect all
of Pennsylvania's cofigressmen at
large. Bat te
were NOT reapportioned!
There are’ PARTISAN Ang.
ments for and against legislative
reapportionment For example,
there are now 20 members of the
State Senate who are Democrats
and 30 who re Republicans. There
are MORE PEOPLE the 20
districts represented by Demo
the 30
districts represented by Repudli-
cana
Some partissn-minded Republi-
can might be inclined to argue
that the figures cited are good
reason wity there shouldn't be any
reapportionment of Senate Dis
i tricts
with 75.000 to 100.00
Thus a GOP senalir
resent only 75.000 is
fil as a GOP senal
in some of ou
torial distrists than
some of our congressional
trict
nthers with populations In excess
{of 250,000.
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| The other t we spent some [sonal appearance before the peo.
some clip
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it was no surprise
i
re-vennd the editorial
, the slicitions. the
irs of the so-called “Gallups’ |
. Why, dear reader, the
newspapers of this year are fol-
| “out” the day after election,
{case Mr. Eietnhower misses the
| boat. Four years ago
| man that there “just amply
| wasn't anything to it.” A Repub
(ean S0th Congress already had
a ted a nice healthy lump
of motey for the mauguration
ceremony the following January
ifor Mr. Dewey), Harry Truman
Talk
ahout
"iron Cur
the “daily ne per our
that firomts an intelli
gent public today ix Just along
the same lines es of the big-
gest rs in California re-
cently Ph jgnored the fact
that the Present of the United
States was in the state For many
weeks the editorial comment in
{ some dailies in oar own state be-
came so ngly partisan that
it's uini vay many folks
of independent trend didn't
even bother to rend their articles
Noticeably, in some of them
there has beem some siow-up and
other editorial mibjects are being
your
covered besides the good qualities |
1950 platform the '
Republican candidates, and
be cussedness of the Democrats
an’t any Henry Wallace
this ¥, neither are there
® Dixie-Crats really organized
Even Te
Dixieland states. isn't regarded by
ss being In the Fisen-
column. Hight here in our
own sections, for instance, thare
great ado among our
vitimens over pr or Be
venson. Democruls generally are
for Stevenson; Republicans, in 2a
like manner, ave for Eisenhower
In our own humble opinion
hower
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party
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n't any
there really was more stir-up four |
years than in presently to be
noted. newspapers have
greatest enemy they could pos
sibly have in television. The
actual seeing and hearing of a
candidate overthrows ali the
printed propaganda. le see
iand hear a candidate and form
thelr own opinions. It lent
what he vison, as what the
{average folks presume to feel
“what is the best for me.
Four years ago. television was
not a great factor in the cam
paign. But Mr. Truman's per
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iy newspapers
d saved from four years
| gitey rests the picture of whether
But they are just a bit more
are making at,
t atiempt to have an
mo
they were |
i %0 sure of the defeat of Mr. Tru
the Press of our Commenwenith
[ establishments where bingo is we!
hing o
xas, most doubtful of the
the
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much what a candidate says or
mew taxation
| wemlth and would Hike very mach |
be impose upon the public an In;
rome Tak
source, wi could create thousands
of additional ode for the citiaens
such jegisiation if we ame sent bria County at |
ul
at sorne many hundreds of
whistle - stops worked wonders. |
Flammering at an sdministralion
that has # man i to work
with a full dimmer pail fant going
to be too productive in influencing |
Rim to take a chance on ik
change He may nol Hike avery.
thing that his administration is a
doing. But right back in Ms own
or not he wants & change hat
night not be so good for Rin
personally
Very likely this thought four
Lavery nalore that
in the next few weeks
“As | See It”
During the past several weelte (back to Harrisburg next January
Second olf position on the
has been playing up the action of | bingo station: We find after a
the State Police wherein the thorough investigation. thet mil
(Hubs of Erie Chester and vari- lions of our citizens find this
gris other Counties have de
raided and many hundreds
slot machines seimsd Governor |
Fine takes credit for this action t
dat, for some unknown reason County Fair to see the ©
the Governor has not seem fit to! people who engage in this type
pave his own County of Luserne of entertainment To be further
pinced in the same category as convincing, ook into the sctivit-
the Counties which were visited | ies of same of our fraternal and
hy: the State Police {civic clube slong with our many
We are pow informed that
By...
STATE SENATOR
JOWIN J. HMALUSKA
ing played are next in Hane for rowdyiem? Have we found pro
an investiga i fossionsi
tion and poms.
tle raids Slot
tnachines and
have
heen an See
{or many years
in Penneyivan. §
in along with
nari mutuel 8
horse racine 3
und, while it &
{fakes a great
thenl of courage
for any public
(fficial to dis
(done Ris view
ints on hess
subjects, it is our intention, here
ed now, fo make our postion
lear for the benefit of those whe
many wonder Bowes we feel abot
this matter
First, pari mutue] horse racing
im our opinion, should be Jogaliz-
wd in Pennsylvania. Millions of
dollars are being carried across
Btate Hones into West Virginia
Marviand and New Jersey by bur
Pennsylvanians Horse racing is
a Iarge industry ami while it ap-
pears fo be & sa UO wager on 8
on our Commonweidth, it sestns
we are absolved from this sim if
we cross the State lines. While
our Governor insists that we need |
in our Common-:
We have not! In our apision
(game of binge = one of
{ lennest Eports iw Ameries; it ;
| necopted by most of the people
nw eapecially those whe are on
the elderly site of life We believe |
in this entértainment: we lke
this entertainment. and :
we state that if given the op!
portumity, we shall voles to legal
me bingo :
Then, last But not jemst we
ave to the mbieet which ap-
pears to be 3 hot fssee and that
in the parmitiing of shot machin |
o% to be placed in the club roosns
throughout the Commonwealth. |
While it i» true that there are
isolated cases Where some men |
would drop their entire pay into
owe of these machines, it is also, |
trae that 8 peroent of our peo.
ple wht play these machines
play them purely for the enters!
tainment, having the feeling with |
in themselves that the contribu!
‘ton they make i» going for al
good catise i
We definitely state without
any fear of comtridiction. that the
fraternal and civic clubs of Came
bria County have given hundreds
of thousands of dolinrs 1
proceeds of these
the bethirment of
§ $
Se SAM fH PH
Sen. Halusios
we wonder why be t
does not have ths vourage of his D
ponvictions asd ask for Jegisla- !
tion legalizing pari mutuel howe
racing in Pennsylvania? In adil |
tion to the millions of dollars of m
taxes which we derive from fis : :
(last But mot least, 5 any mum
(ber of churches, of all demoming-|
of our Commonwealth. Therefore, tions in Cambria County :
we go on record as supporting It is fortunate in Came
9% percent |
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