Bellwood Bulletin 1938-01-27

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VOL. XLIX
BELLWOOD, PA*j
LOCAL IBB COLUMN
Short Items That WUl Inter-
ast Our R-saulars
BH1EF SUMbWIT BF THE WEEK
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Ban Oar SaUaribei. Bator
—Aavertlse in the Bulletin.
—WANTED TO RENT A type-
writer In good working order. Inquire at 603 South 1st street.
-—Many home owners in the borough are contemplating maldg needed repairs to their properties when
spring   time arrives.
—A friend in the corner asks:
"What has become of the Bellwood
aad Antis Township Republican
club?"
—The Loyalty Class of "the M.
E. church school will meet at the
home of Mrs. A D. Mitchell Friday evening at 7:80
—Mrs. I. S. Lindemuth, Miss
Jessie Anderson snd Mrs. F. B.
Forrest attended the Republican tea,
held at the Penn-Alto hotel in Altoona yesterday afternoon.
—Next Tuesday will be Ground
Hog Day, aad according* to tradition
the little varmint will settle the
weather conditions for tiie next ensuing atx weeks.
—Miss Dorothy Jamison, commercial instructor in the Taratum
high school, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. M.
Jamison on North Second street.
. •—Jesse Barley, son of Elmer
Barley, of Antis township, who has
been on the sick list for a month,
is not doing bo well as his friends
had hoped. He is still confined tt
. his home .
—-i-The    Blair   County   Townsend
ntion which waa to have been
ilia* ii*i**"B—-.9a**"! 'Siasli'n  if   iSstga—a
burg court house, has beea postponed until Februsry 3 at the same
place at 7:30 p.m.
—Wednesday morning witnessed
a decided drop in the temperature
when real winter prevailed. It waa
the tail aad of the blisxard that
struck Michigan and other western
states a day previous.
—The missionary Societies ef
the Methodist church will observe
the International Fellowship Tea la
the church, Tuesday, February S,
from 2 to 4 o'clock p.m. All the
ladies of the church are ivited to
attend.
—Congresman Don Gingery an.
nonnces that a preliminary mental
examination will he given by the U.
S. Civil service Commission at 9 a.m
February 5, at the post office in
Tyrone, for the - designation of a
candidate at West Point. A first
sad second alternate will also be
selected.
—Recently the Bulletin made an
appeal to its subscribers to pay their
subscriptions and arrearages. The
response to our appeal- haa been
quite gratifying, many having called
and others remitted by mail, aad for
■k tbeir kindness we herewith return
' our thanks, We have our expenses
to meet, and under existing conditions every dollar received means
a lot. Again we thank our kind
subscribers  for  their  promptness.
—One day this week a large
covey of quail wended its way to
a garden of a home on East Boyles
street, where the birds remained
contented aad happy for a few
hours. They flitted about on the
trees and ground fearful of nothing.
Those in the home watched tbeir
antics far a long time. Finally
they drifted back into the woods
which is not far away. During the
fell months residents ia that part
ef the borough frequently heard tha
birds call to their mates.
—Miss Alice Barley, ef Bellwood
R. D. 1, waa one ef the lucky girls
af Blalr County, 4-H Club who
haa completed her third year is
4-H Club week, aad through her
instructress, Miss Aliene Courtney,
had her exhibit, an afternoon dress
which she made, at the Pennsylvania State Farm show ia Harrisburg
■ last week, ia which ahe took second
place. Miss Alice gives her instru-
'ctresa, Mas Courtney, a lot of the
credit for the help ahe haa been
to her, and trusts she caa atill
continue ea- with her work. Maay
frianda are extending congratulat-
•bbbS to Was Barley.
CURB SPEED OF BUSES
High-powered buses, "blasting"
their -aay through traffic waa
nerve-shattering horns are assailed
by the Keystone Automobile Club
aa a menace to highway safety.
"Express train speed ef big buses
ahould be curbed as a matter of public policy," said J. Maxwell Smith,
General Manager of tha Club.
"Highways never were intended for
■ juggernauts thundering along at
speeds up to or evea exceeding 70
miles per hour. The menace to
passengers and other highway users
is too great to tolerate the  practice."
Investigations conducted by the
Club patrolmen from time to time
have disclosed flagrant violations
on the part of bus drivers.
"We are net disposed to place*
the blame on the drivers,'' said the
Club manager. "They are obliged
to maintain schedules, and while
'on paper* the time allotment provides for an average speed within
the allowable raaxium, the 'times
est*- for scheduled stops and unavoidable delays an not taken into account. The result is that drivers 'make ap' oa the open stretches
time lost in  the congested areas.
"Our patrolmen have checked bus
speeds up to 70 miles per hour. In
fset, one bus pulled away from the
pursuing ear at tbat epeed, the patrolman deeming it unwise to go beyond that  limit
"Maay motorists have complained
to ua about the speeding bus men.
ance. They are particularly indignant over tte practice of big has
operators 'blasting* their way through traffic with nerve-shattering
horn blasts. * Da-ngerchis cutting-in
is another practice bitterly objected to by motorists."
GRANGE-SPELLING BEE
Tbe lecturer of Logan Valley
Grange announces an eld. fashioned spelling bee. to be held .during
*Jto   "eetafea aBBir at the -next r**aV
•sastll      JSiBa-.i  fl'TIl I'lll     lUl 9pad?.'ait
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Friday evening Janiaary 28th. May
we have a good attendance and
enjoy an interesting evening together. Will the patrons alao keep
la mind the Jubillee of • fun on
Saturday evening.
—Delightful winter weather prevailed last Sunday and hundreds of
automobilists were out on the highways.
—It has been announed that
there was a decrease is the operating income of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company in December.
—The car repair shops at Pitcairn , ntorrnhJly emipflfafying 1,600
men, have been shot down totnpor-
ily. Payrolls have been slowly cut
over a period of weeks because of
declining business.
—Checks for the jobelss in
Pennsylvania will go out next Saturday to the recipient, and about
664,887 will participate. The department of assistance spent the
largest sum in four months to feed
the largest number of relief recipients on welfare rolls during
this winter. Expenses for the 'week
of January 8 to January 15 totaled
$1,669,982.70 for direct relief. It
is a sad commentary is this land
where there is full and plenty for
each aad everyone.
—The Foreign Missionary; society of the Methodist church met at
the home of Mrs. Jerry Mohg on
South Second street oa Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Huldah Love alao was
a hostess. Mrs. William H. Moore
instructively narrated the lesson,
subject, "The Arabia aad the Moh-
anunedian." Eight members snd
two visitors were present. , The
ladies decided to hold the mite box
exercises in the church the lest
Tuesdsy in March. Mrs. T. M. Stone
will entertain the February meeting
St the parsonage. The hostesses
served ice cream, cake coffee and
candy.
—The third of the series of educational programs being conducted
by tae various subordinate granges
of Blair county will be held Thursday evening, February 3, ia the
Sinking Valey Orange hal 1 at
Skelp. The program will be pre.
sented by Bald Eagle Grange while
the chairs will be filled fay the officers of the Clover Creek Grange
of Williamsburg. The theme for
the aeries is "Tha Developement of
America," aad the subject of the
program on February S wUl be
"Life aad Habits ia Colonial
Times." Th* meeting will start at
1 e'eleek.
EARLY CONCRETE
fVlaay Bailt Twanty-FreV
StiU in Good Ce^tBBS^
Pennsylvania's'first cencB
on    the   State   highways
built    as   an    experiment
Department of Highways— 1
ing a quarter of   a cenmry*a
ice to travelers.	
This half-mile stretch in Fi
Couaty   known   aa the Chalk
Elliottsville   road,   is still   in
condition for the light traffic ts%
ries.   It  is 14   feet  wide, 7
thick,   and uniform across the f
As  far as is known,   no reinfo
was used.
But one of the   most famous
Pennsylvania's    old  concrete
is the  section of  U. S. 22  betwg"
Easton   and   Bethlehem.    Built
1916-16,   this highway   is   belei'
to be the   first concrete road
in   tha   State     under   the   fo
State-aid    policy;    the   State
local   authorities   sharing   the
of  construction and maintenance.
Originally    three    and    a . tht
miles   long with   a   16-foot
the   highway  today  has beea.
ened   to 20 feet.    The origiBaflL**
face stfll prevails evea- though*!
road   has   been     subjected   to jl
heaviest   type of  traffic; especial]
during the  World War, when heaf
ily-laden   munitions   trucks  rumbli
over it   with   war materials   fr
Bethlehem,    Allentown,   and . ej
inland   cities   to    the   Army,
along the sea coast. w	
Today it is estimated that mo|
than 7000 vehicles flow ova*
section daily, many of them /toai
duty trucks carrying' raw matej*
equipment, and finished products,^
and from the various ing
centers of the  sui-rounding*j"0||_'|rj
In Chester County on State.
'842, aear  Wesjt Cheater, mt%
60ftft *|nirAhP^fjg^
It c-fp.
con-idai
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farm' and truck 'trame. _____
Here are a few other eld concrete roada in Pennsylvania still
giving good service: Mt. Penn
Borough, Berks County, U. 8. 422,
1916; Womelsdorf Borough, Berks
County, U. S. 422, 1916; Rogers-
ville, ' Greene County, State Route
18, 1916; Vestaburg, Washington
County, State Route 88, 1918; and
U.S. Route 19 at Morganza, Washington County,   built in 1919.
WILL DIRECT APPEAL
Rev. W. E. Lundberg, of Sipes-
ville Penna. today was selected by
The Board of American Missions of
the United Lutheran Church in America to direct the financial activities in Central Pennsylvania fee
the Anniversary Appeal celebrating
the twentieth birthday of the national organization.
As finance director, he will have
charge of one phase of a movement,
the principal aim of which is to
strengthen materially the existing
membership of Lutheran Churches
throught the United States and
Canada. Additional objectives of
the Anniversary Appeal are to
inaugurate a concentrated program
of personal evengelism to reach
the unchurched and to secure
funds to adequately carry eat an
ambitious church extension schedule.
I
i¥, JANUARY 27,  1938
NO. 45
IWR OR TRIAL
S«it of Mrs.  Bandar Baing
 ■ ip   Cajsmty   Court
|{jnoro.ugh. ef Bellwood la de-
in a suit for   damages in-
by   Mrs. Florence   E. Ben- •
Idbw   of   Oscar Bender,   who
ffcis life   when   working on  a
by  a   slide   of  earth..   The
.•eras    placed oa   trial at  civil
1st   Holidaysburg   Wednesday
ton,   before   Judge   Jesse C.
assisting    Judge    Patterson,
W. H.   Cree   add   Frank  J.
as council  for  tbe  plaintiff
Richard   H.    Gilbert,    appear-
for the defendant.    >^|;«5
opening   the   trial, Attorney
stated   the   fatal accident oc-
May   26, 1936, about 10 a.
IftWhen   Mr. Bender waa working
the   bottom  of   the deep  ditch,
(ing    timbers   to   suppofrt   the
i earth. A mechanical ditch digger
working ahead   of the men and
the    earth    up   creating   a
rdojps   condition   and the acci-
llt   was the result   of   ths   sewer
fit being properly protected.
Mra.    Bender   testified   that  her
sband,   aged    46,   was   formerly
ployed   as   a signalman   by   the
gylvania      Railroad    company,
later    worked aa   a    carpenter
took employment  on  the WPA
in the construction of- the Bell-
sewer. She said that he was ia
health   at   the    time   of  the
ec ident.
[VDyke Stiner, the fint witness,
ed he was working in the
th at the time of the accident
'Bender waa at the bottom of
le sewer about 25 feet, placing
timbers when the -Witness saw
• slide coming and shouted to
ier, who started to run, bat
caught, by the sUde. He helped
t'gei him out which   required ab-
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BUYING A BOOM
Buy at home and your home and
town will boom!
Now -fast the 1933 game of looking for prosperity's corner has given way to the 1938 pastime of watching for the up-turn in business,
it ia well to rember that business
recovery, like charity, begins at
home.
Despite industrial troubles, lsb-
or conflict and international clouds
on the horizon, Dunn and Brad-
street's January survey of retail
trade in this state reveals that the
public has again begun to buy.
This climb is all the more encouraging because it began in tbe post
Christmas period, a period usually
marked by a seasonal decline. These
dollars just sneaking out of hiding are potential units in community
purchasing power, bricks to build
cur local  property.
More and more, people are learning to spend their dollars at home.
Once there was some excuse for
shoppers going out of town to
make their purchases. Today you
can buy everything here at home
under service, price and selection
conditions unsurpassed in any other
place.
Purchasing power is your weapon
is the fight against business recession. Where you enter the battle determines where your .force
will be felt by the enemy. If conditions here in your home community are important to you, then
join battle to win the war right
here at home. With dollars as
bullets, send old man recession
flying out of town on a flood of
buying, buying that will build a
boom.
To speed progress—to make your
dollars do more work for yourself
and your neighbors — BUY AT
HOMSf
PERSONAL PAJU6
•al
MUST PROVE FITNESS
Secretary  of  Revenue  J.   Griffith
People Who Visit Her*
Those Who Go A-ewy.
MDVEMEHTS OF OiH
C—*to Wb* Are FbbbbIbIbbjBf masttm
Weed Ho*l«    Par* aae! MaaMBBi
Tho** Who Visit Ta and FBb
Erie   and   Paul    Himes,   Fraaatoj
Stinbacer, Thomas, Moser, ef1 Aatas
township, spent a day last week at
the farm   show, which was   held la
Harrisburg.
Mra.   William   A Dysart   of   tae
hiU   section   of   the   borough, waa
week   end   guest of   her son-in-law ■
and daughter, Mr.   and Mrs. W. *u
Moore   Crescent    Hills,    Pittebu-fB**.
Rev. J. M. Kirkpatrick, of CSBBB*]
HSU, where he is pastor of the PreO
byterian   congregation,  spent  Taaa
day with  his sister,   Mrs. J. D Stitt
on Orchard street, who ia
ing from nine weeks of ilia
'■   Mr.  Paul Jackovina, ef Phil*d*t- J
phia, pupil of Mrs. J. D. Stitt, took
dinner in the Stitt home on Orchard
street Tuesday.    Mr. Jackovina has
has been a salesman   tor the Chae.
Enue Johnson printing ink comany
through this section, but wUl leave I
shortly for tba state   of Indiana te
a better position.
Mr. Howard E. Jeffries, of Pitta-
burgh, spent Monday and Tuesday
with his sisters, Miss Lillian Jeffries
and Mrs: Jennie McCracken oa
Boyles street. Mr. Jeffries, for
many years, was treasurer ef the
Carnegie Steel companey and to
now living retired, having beea
placed- on the honor roll after almost fifty yeara of service with the
company.
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RICHARD C. FOWLER
I   Richard.. C Fowler   son   of   Mr.
PHI .Vender. The caaf^was oa frfal
at adjournment  for the day.
SSfc!.-!^^
—Representative Richard Simpson, of Huntington, has announced his itention of seeking the Republican nomination for re-election as
Congressman from the 18th district, popularly known as the Shoe,
string district. At the May election
in 1987, Simpson carried every
county, ef which, there are eight la
the district. He is deservipgly pop-
alar with the voters in that section
and it is a foregone conclusion thst
he will be nominated 'an elected to
succeed himself.
—At   least    tewnty-five    persons
from Bellwood attended the meeting
held in the Penn-Alto hotel in Altoona,    last    Saturday,    which   wee
sponsored by the   local veterans of
of   aU    service    organizations,    including the   American Legion, Veterans of the World War aad Spanish
American    Veterans.     They   heard
Judge Rosen,  the  Philadelphia jur-
rist,  deliver a soul-stirring address
which   was   patriotic  to   the   core.
Thoss who attended went away highdl
ly elated with the  meeting and bBbV,
remarks   made  by   the   Philada)_k
lam:.
THE  ROAD TO THE  CEMETERY
When the final and official figures are tabulated, it will probably
be found that the automobile death
toll in 1987 reached a new all-time
record, exceeding the slaughter of
1980 with its 37,000 victims.
There is no reason for being
suprised at the continued increase.
Each year cars are made faster and
more powierfull—amd a dangerous
percentage of them become the
property of drivers who couldn't be
trusted to operate a bicycle safely.
Roadways and surfaces are Improved, thus offering a new temptation to excessive speed. And the
number of accidents in which John
Barleycorn is a factor tends to rise
steadily.
This dosen't mean that the automobile accident toll cannot be reduced. It can be—but it is going
to take action, not words. Tho
individual responsibility of each
motorist when he slides behind the
wheel of a projectile weighing a ton
or two and capable of doing eighty
miles an hour, must be driven home.
Law enforcement must be strengthened. The "fixer" of traffic violations must be eliminated. It must
be realised that driving a .car on
the public highway is a privilege,
not a right to be abused—and license laws must be more strigent.
There are several hundred thousand graves in thia country that
constitute mute testimony to our
past laxity in controlling tiie automobile. Unless public demand forces a change, you may fill one of tbe
thousands of new graves that, figuratively speaking, will be dug by
motorists in the years to  come.
" | to physicians, hospitals, clinics
safety councils, motor clubs, garages and public-spirited citize ns to
report all * cases of mentally or
physically impaired automobile drivers.
Boardman announced his determination to drive dangerous and incompetent drivers off the highways
just as completely as mechanically
unfit' motor vehicles have been
ruled off the roads in the past.
"The semi-annual motor vehicle
inspection campaigns have done a
great job of ridding the highways
of unsafe automobiles but even a
vehicle which is mechanically perfect is no safer than the driver at
the  wheel,"  Boardman  declared.
" Of course it is important to
have cars with good brakes, lights,
horns and steering gears but none
of these will avail unless directed
by competent minds, eyes, ears,
arms and legs.
"Applications for learner's permits and operator's licenses now
require the applicant to reveal his
menta'l or physical incapacities.
Failure to do sb is punishable by
a fine of $200 and license suspension for two years.
—Mrs. J. Daniel Stitt, who has-
been confined to her home on Orchard street for the past nine weeks,
was able to accompany her husband
to Altoona oa Sunday, where a few
hours were spent with Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Ross, former Bellwood folks,
and found them well end happy.
—Prices on most all of the necessaries of Ufa are on the decline
yet the most unfortunate part of
the situation is that the laboring
man geas not have the money in his
pocket with which to purchase.
c —Since the good work of the
BeUweed police officer the latter
part of December, when the culprits
were rounded up and placed in durance vile, aet many hen roosts have
beea invaded la the borough within recent weeks.
ATTENDS LARGE FUNERAL
Mrs. Ethel Hirsch, Mr. R. M.
Strunk and C. J. Moore attended
the funeral of Merle Crownover, of
McAlevey's Fort, on Monday. Mr.
Crownover was a . cousin of the
Strunk family of this borough and
was a beloved and weU respected
man and was known throught Stone,
Shaver'sCreek and Hartslog valleys.
He operated a motor freight Une
between McAlevey's Fort, Petersburg, Alexandria and Huntington
This funeral was the largest in
Stone valley in many years, there
being approximately 600 friends
aad relatives attending.
THE RICH  FOOL
Jesus Christ did not condemn
riches, but he did call rich men to
account who did not use their wealth to help the needy. One erf these
rich men he pronounced a fool.
Even today riches and their by-products are. choking Christ to death
in the hearts and homes of multitudes of Americans. "They that will
bo rich fall into a temptation and
a share." All rich men are aot fools
bnt many of them are godless. Next
Sunday night at the Logan Valley
Baptist church Rev. H. G. Dooley
will discuss the new Testament rich
man whom Jesus pnonounced
"Thou Fool,**
and   grandson  Of  t.   T.   Grg*^
rone, died suddenly at  the   Fowk
home   ia   Pitcairn    Saturday  morning   at  12:80   o'clock   following   a
brief illness.    Richard  Fowler was
a son ctf   Clyde   and Nellie  (Gray) I
Fowler and was bora in Tyrone   oa
July  16,  1920.    He is survibed   by
the parents, one brother, James and
a sister,   Inez   both at heme.     He
was an attendant ctf   the Methodist
Episcopal   church  and  was a sophomore in the   Pitcairn High school, j
At one time the   father resided   in
our borough.    Burial was  made ia
Tyrone.
OPPOSING  LIMIT  TO  TRAINS I
There is growing opposition
throughout tbe country to the ao-,
called train limit bill, which passed
the senate at the last aession of
congress and is now in the hands of
the house committee on interstate
and- fofeign commerce.
Under the terms of the bill, railroads will be forbidden to haul
fi eight trains of more than 70 cars
in length; this applying to empties,
as. well as to loaded cars. The Ns-
tic rial Grange and other organise-1
tions that are fighting the biU de-
easts its enactment could set fail
to result a very serious increase
tn freight rates.
Since transportation is tile largest
single service charge that farmers
have to meet, the biU fe growing
'.more unpopular daily throughout
the rural districts of America.
SPORTSMEN FEED GAME
The local Sportsmen's Association|
is launching   their   winter   feediag
program and already   a   number of
members have made expeditions in-
to the   mountains   with   grain   and
feed.     A   considerable    amount   of
feed   is   available    at    Cornmesser*s1
Hardware and members   are urged
to    cooperate    in   distributing   this'
feed.    In the event   of any  heavy
snow, it is  planned to hold ree^la**!
organised   feeding   expeditions.
The plans for the game refuge oa
Brush Mountain have already been
sent to Harrisburg end indications
point tq their early approval.
The membership campaign ia cob*.
ing along fine and high hopes are.
held far attaining the goal of 608.
AU members are urged to isiioWJ
their cards as quickly as pcoritsHfti
and aid in   securing1 new  met
—Receipt books -far sale at
Bulletin office, tea eeate aaaa.
—Treaaea* Bo-tteae fee* sale at
BuUetia office, tea