Progress, The (Newspaper) - February 16, 1961, Clearfield, Pennsylvania Top local AP Wirephotos In Tho Progress Daily THE PROGRESS The Weather windy with light snow be- ginning late changing to flurries Friday afternoon and ing Little change in Low 25-36. Volume 55 Number 39 Moshannon Thursday February 1961 24 PAGES TODAY More U. S. Funds Pumped Into Economy Kennedy Tells of New Warns Soviets Against Intervention in Conao wr me Snow May 8uf Today s a Melting One More snow may fall early morrow for a brief period as a new weather pattern takes shape and temporarily brings an end to mild spell that the area has been enjoying the few days Actually some of rain fell asl The Federal Aviation Agency station at Black non State Airport reported snow a 20-mmute period starting at p. m. Other places in the ey area reported the precipitation as It is expected that skies will Become increasingly cloudy late with snow early n the Yesterday's high of 41 degrees was recorded at 4 p. m. The cury dropped slowly until it hit HEART WISHING WELL gefs -a contribution from Mrs. James Duncan of Hyde as she holds Clearfield County's Heart Child of seven months old David David is ing from a rare heart condition and is receiving aid Heart He is scheduled to be taken to Children's Hospital at Pittsburgh for trip in his young The Duncans have one other aged Wishing erected by Reed is located on the Courthouse Sykesville Man Found Guilty As Court Ends Robert M. Masisak of the second and last defendant to be tried during the February term of Clearfield County Criminal was found guilty yesterday of failure to stop at the scene of an The 25-year-old Masisak was the driver of a car which collided last April at a DuBois intersection with another automobile driven by Lamar Crosswaite of No one was injured in the collision and total damage to the two cles was estimated at only about The case was turned over to the jury at a. m. and the verdict of guilty was returned at 2 p. m. Masisak will be sentenced at the March session of Plea The represented by Attorney William C. Chase had claimed he did not know car struck another vehicle until the following day when he learned the Continued on Page Column 1 Traffic Toll Clearfield County and the shannon Valley records compiled by The Progress from State and Borough Police reports since Jan. 1 Feb. 15 78 27 in- 0 A 46 2 Area residents outside the area in accidents this 0. A year ago 5. Tag Days Planned At Curwensville For Heart Fund CURWENSVILLE Mrs. Jacob general chairman for the Curwensville Heart Fund announced today that special tag days will be conducted this day afternoon and and Saturday morning and Feb. for the benefit of the Heart Intermediate Girl Scouts from Troops 7 and under the direction of Mrs. Richard will be stationed throughout business district of asking for contributions from the general public for the Heart Fund to help fight heart In the Heart Fund ing Well will be located on State street in front of Earlier this Boy Scouts of Scoutmaster Lex Curry's Troop placed heart-shaped coin ers in all business These containers will be ed by the Boy Scouts at the end of the Heart Fund Retail Division At Philipsburg Lists Events Earl R. Teacher at Morris Dies at School R. a teacher in the Morris Center of the West Branch Area died of a heart attack at a. m. today in a hall at the Mr. a resident of 308 Sheffield has been a teacher in the Mortis Schools for many A complete obituary and funeral arrangements will be published Continued on Page Column 4 PHILIPSBURG The Division of the Philipsburg Cham ber of Commerce today a schedule of store hours for the first half of- the year and an a promotion nex The special event will be held next Tuesday and day and will be known as the Washington's Birthday Stores taking part in the wide promotion will have specials on sale the benefit of The schedule of hours shows that stores will remain open Friday from 9 a. m. to 9 Merger Vote Approved For West Branch Approval for placing a merger of the Branch Schools the hands of the voters next May was given by the County Board of School Directors at their monthly meeting Tuesday At the held in the office of the county superintendent of the directors also proved the new territory assigned to Vocational Agriculture Advisor William J. Tucker and the ment of bills totaling Concerning the proposed school the along with the Pennsylvania Department of Pub lie has approved the question being placed on the bal lot the May Primary Election in four of the five districts com- prising the West Branch Area Schools Graham anc Morris Townships in C 1 e a County and West Keating sHip m Clinton For finan cial the Continued on Page Column 6 Continued on Page Column 2 Kylertown To Have First Bloodmobile Visit March 21 KYLERTOWN Kylertown will welcome the Red Cross bile for the first time March when the Cooper ship will sponsor a visit of the mobile The working out of the Moshannon Red Croffis will be at the Kylertown Com- munity Center from to p. m. that The quota for the visit is 85 Mrs. Walter Jones president of the is in charge of ar- rangements with all the members assisting her in the recruitment of Guard Unit Plans Program Saturday At Courthouse An American dates jack to the calling of the Minute Men in the days George Wash military leadership wil observed at Clearfield day morning as the community's unit of the Pennsylvania uard takes part in Muster Members of Company 228th Transportation will gath er on the Clearfield County Court louse plaza at o'clock where ceremony will open with a flag Burgess Donald M. Roseberry will then call roll of the citizen soldiers following the custom of 1775 when it was the responsi bility of the town's mayor or bur District Eliminations Open Next Change Is Made in Selection Of Contestants for Spelling Bee Finale An important change in the selection of con- for the area championship finals in The Progress Spelling Bee was announced today by George A. editor of The Progress and Spelling Bee Instead of the customary two finalists in the area championship seven jointures with enrollments of more than 400 in the and eighth grades will be permitted three representatives each this Mr. Scott Six districts or schools with enrollments of fewer than 400 pupils will to send their two top spellers into the the beginning of I he Spelling Bee six years Mr. Scott had 17 dis- which gave us 34 finalists by taking two from each This because of school district mergers and the withdrawal of the Morris and Cooper Township we have only 13 districts and by awarding the larger jointures an additional finalist we will have proximately the same number in our ship Bee as in previous matlo this change after consulting with and securing the approval of the smaller school districts whose agreed that the districts with the larger enrollment should have more in the championship Bee since this is now possible because of the fewer number of districts Districts which will send three representatives into the area championship scheduled for are Bald Eagle field Curwensville DuBois Moshannon Valley v Area and Purchase Line Two finalists will represent Harmony Huston Karthaus St. Catherine School of DuBois and St. Joseph School of District eliminations will start next day when spellers of St. Catherine and St. Joseph Schools participate in a joint bee at Eleven other district finals will be held during March to qualify 33 finalists for the area In addition to prizes of and to the ner and runner-up of each district The Progress will award a Savings Bond to the area champion crowned April a ings Bond to the runner-up and to the third place The top three spellers and their teachers will also have their expenses paid by The Progress to the Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee at Pittsburgh in Continued on Page Column 6 Plans Announced For Annual Lincoln Dinner Of Republican Women The annual Lincoln Dinner sponsored by the Clearfield Coun ty Council of Republican Women is being planned for Saturday March Mrs. Anne Thacik o Council president announced Mrs. Richard Lantz and Mrs Chelten both of Clearfield have been appointed in charge of the As in th men and women voter from Clearfield and counties will be invited to Mrs. Thacik said that this annual dinner was planned fo as near as possible the birthday o founder of the Republica over the year bad weather conditions in this tion of the slate during have reduced the sh As a result the 196 dinner has been moved to a Marc Bold Bandit Nabs From Bank Pa. bold band grabbed today in a at the First National Bank nearby The holdup occurred 20 minute after the bank opened for busines at 8 a. m. a lh bandit ordered six female em ployes to lie on the He the turned to the John Pi and made him open th WASHINGTON President hitting back at those who contend there is no is pumping more federal money into the economy to combat very serious problem of The President sized up the problem in those terms at hfs conference Wednesday night while thrusting at Republican criticism of his efforts to spur business and reduce He also prodded the Con- gress moving slowly so far to act speedily on his legislative program he to get American economy on its Kennedy dealt at some with this and notice on the Soviet Union to desist rom any ion in the internal affairs of And the again with Soviet Union clearly in that any attempt to stroy the United Nations in the Congo crisis a blow aimed directly at the independence and security of every large and i He pledged the United States will continue to support the ed presence in the Con- and said a U. N. pull-out as demanded by the Soviet add up to Kennedy said further this try considers the government up under Kasavubu as president the only legal entitled to speak for the Congo as a Both the viet Union and the United Arab Republic have recognized the regime headed by Antoine a supporter of deposed Congo Premier Patrice whose assassination touched off the new As for the domestic Kennedy said the country is concerned about the very serious problem of There he more than 5.5 million Americans who want work and can't find a Alluding to the dent said he hopes there will be action on his legislative program as soon as He reviewed steps he already has taken on his own to relieve hardship and en- OATIS courage and N. Y. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the support of then listed additional measures he BALCONY FIGHT AT U. N. DEBATE Guards battle with demonstrators in balcony at United Motions Security Council in wild disorder that brought recess in Congo debate until chamber could be At left guard holds demonstrator from Guard at right moves behind another demonstrator leaning on by Associated Press photographer John i Most of Security Council Backs Him Stands of African Nations Awaited by Dag Meetings Jo Win Support for IfK Program Planned By NORMAN AP Labor Reporter MIAMI Fla. political organization today set a nationwide series of labor union conferences to rally support behind the Kennedy ad- The are to start March 7-8 at for states in this area and range through a total of 17 sessions to a final one June 3-4 at Sioux S D. Called by the AFL-CIO tee on Political or COPE as it is the are designed to bring roots support in Congress for program and to seek im- measures in state AFL-CIO dent here for winter labor union urged unions day to get behind the plans posed by President Kennedy to re- Rocket Launched By U. S. Jo Study Upper Atmosphere BULLETIN WASHINGTON The majority of the U. N. Security Council today for his defiance of Soviet demands for his Several Africander Asian countries were slated to take a stand for or against the embattled in the continuation of the council's Congo debate Their position was likely to be crucial since Hammarskjold said he would resign only if that was the wish of the a term generally plicable to the Asian and African i j U.N. guards took precautions to prevent a repetition of the ous Negro demonstrations during Wednesday's council in which 41 persons were A speaker at a rally Wednesday night m Harlem exhorted the crowd to be at the U.N. again day and the cops won't us to We'll show these tapo police who we x Six of the 11 council members backed up Hammarskjold when he told Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. rin he would not They were the United Nationalist Chile and Since any resolution needs en votes ior their stand doomed a Soviet resolution to the council call for dismissal as in and organizer the killing of Patrice de- posed premier of the introduced the resolution following up a ment by his government that it would no longer recognize or deal Continued on Page Column 2 Continued on Page Column 3 United States put up a 12-foot loon type space vehicle today but 314 hours later officials could not say whether it had gone into orbit around the WASHINGTON The United States today launched a huge man's ed to loft a balloon satellite into high orbit in a new study of the planet's atmosphere still a zler in man's efforts to conquer It also was a showdown test of the Scout launching rocket on which the United States is placing high hopes to help meet Russia's admitted lead in the space If orbit is today's ture will mark the first time an earth satellite has sprung from a lad just ordered apart from which require al These include instructions to quicken distribution of billion in tax refunds which are coming m an effort to get this money into the spending Kennedy also announced that million being made able this month for the federal highway construction He noted that faster outlay of these funds will have to be implemented by state and local and disclosed he had dispatched to all state governors urging a the President the government is changing its lations to make more small ness firms eligible for defense Continued on Page Column 4 Identification Of Jet Crash Victims Started at Brussels Belgium American and Belgian officials day began the tragic task of ing to identify 73 burned and shattered victims Wednesday's plane Among the rows of ered corpses were the 18 bers of the U.S. team headed for the world figure skating and 32 other were killed as the Sabena Belgian Airlines Boeing 707 jet winging in from New York dived into the back yard of a small farm three miles from Brussels The bodies lay under blue kets in an improved Chapel of Rest in the main the old Brussels airport The task of identifying the bodies fell to the U.S. In many only a scrap of charred clothing or a twisted wedding ring could serve as Whether the bodies will be shipped back to the United States or not depends on the wishes of The consulate expects it will be several days before Continued on Page Column 3 BEFORE FATAL FLIGHT Mrs. Vinson of nine times the U. S. figure skating is flanked by and before they boarded Sabena jet airliner at New York for flight to The members of the U. S. figure ing and their mother were among the 73 persons killed in the flaming crash of the plane near Continued on Page Column 5 Daily Lenten Meditations Read I Corinthians What have you that you did not If then you received why do yon boast as If it were not a Corinthians Toscanini was Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic He gave his musicians such a new insight into the music when the rehearsal they rose and applauded Toscanini tried to arrest their waving his arms crying to them to When there was a lull in the Toscanini's broken voice could be heard exclaiming and there were tears in his eyes as he isn't men It's Beethoven is thing The great souls of this world are the The rest of even the best of have our little pride and our Sometimes when I catch myself in the act I think of the Pharisee and the Modesty becomes for we have much to be modest nothing to be up PRAYER Be patient with our as we come humbly into Thy Dwell Li our helping us to be like Thy Son in and In His name we make our For The Day No garment is more becoming to a child of God than the cloak of Cyril M. Jackson SPA PERI
