Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - April 14, 1950, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and cold again tonight tomorrow mostly air and range 37 20 River stagt THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS City The only man who doesnt think no news is good Not Only A Community Asset March 1882 16 Paget LOCK APRIL 1950 AP Service Five Cants Cooke Endorses Eisenhower or Stassen for 52 Pledges Support To Flood Control For Pennsylvania Pledging himself to seek sound solutions to the flood control problem through and to continue the cleanup of Pennsylvania begun by Governor Martin and carried on by Governor Jay Cooke spent a crowded six hours In Lock Haven last From here he went to his Larrys Creek where he and his wife expect to initiate the 1950 trout season tomorrow Endorsement of General Ei as his choice for the next Republican presidential was also given by who is seeking the Re publican nomination lor gover nor of Cooke as his second presidential Harold president of the Uni versity of Cooke served as Stassens campaign manager before the last 1ican presidential when Stassen received the ma of the popular votes in Pennsylvania In the balloting for Davies for Kunkel Concurrently with Cookes visit which was planned by Cookes local Sheriff George and centered at the Irvin the campaign headquarters of John candidate for the Republican senatorial made two interesting announce They said that Kunkels cam in Clinton County would be directed by John a former Clinton County lican who has been Inactive in politics for some and that County Chair man Bruce Kreamer had given a qualified endorsement of Kreamer had previously an his preference for Cooke as a candidate for gov having done so at a meet ing in Hershey at which Gov ernor called on county chairmen who had endorsed him for the Senate to accept Judge John Fine as his run ning mate for the Kreamer said today that he had told the Kunkel state committee that he had original ly been in favor of Duff for the but that things have happened in this county which make me feel that I am no longer under any obligation to support Governor He said he was not taking any ac tive part in the primary cam and that all candidates will have a fair break in this Reception at Irvin Davies was among those who greeted Cooke and the other members of their who included George candidate for the lican nomination for lieutenant Gil bert of and several Many Republicans from all parts of the county were in the group which gathered in the dining room for a buffet supper and Kreamer estimated that from three to five hundred people at The candidates address was broadcast by radio from Speaking of flood he said it was a very real problem that deserved study and action instead of a lot of He advocated a pay as you go pro gram to solve flood Cooke had raised the flood control question in his talk at before arriving in Lock and repeated his views on the subject His trip through the interior of Pennsylvania had shown him the of the flood threats hanging over vania he Carries Notebooks Along He said he was carrying his notebooks along on his extended trip and was making careful note of all items which would be of interest to him as governor of His aims as he Included determination to put the finances of the state on a sound to encourage new business and industry to make more to advance the agri culture of the He express ed his intention to continue the cleanup of to promote legislation for the welfare of and to pay close at tention to the outdoor recrea tional needs of the Turning to the relationship between the governorship of See Page 4 This North Central District Chorus of 221 Voices Sings Tonight Lock Haven is host this weekend to 221 boys Here is the shown at rehearsal in the and outstanding singers of their 30 high Senior High School auditorium where tonight they schools in the North Central District of the Penn wili The concert of the festival will be tomorrow at 8 sylVania Music Educators 200 Top Singers Give Concert Tonight Tonight Lock Haven residents will have a chance to hear the music that 200 district high school best in their respective present after two days of intensive re The first public concert of the North Central District Chorus will be presented at 8 In the Senior High School with John guest leading the These are the boys and girls who arrived yesterday to join Lock Havens chorus singers for the The concert will be Saturday at 8 chance to hear the music for those who miss it to 221 in Chorus Howard hostess says Lock Ha venites are urged to hear the singers to allow plenty of seating capacity tomorrow night when the parents of the visiting singers are expected in larger Eight of the expected students cancelled their registrations when the festival opened yester so the entire ensemble is composed of 221 Sixteen of them have been honored with first and second positions in their respective chorus as a result of tryouts Lock Haven Is greatly pleased that three of the eight first places went to local Top all the singers were rated in the tryouts yesterday are as follows Top Ratings First soprano Lauvon Lock Haven sec Marlyne Second soprano Ridgway Rita Jersey First alto Marjorie Bradford Florence Lock Second alto Marcia Lock Haven Joan First Elwood Lock Haven Richard South Second tenor Ronald Smethport Richard First bass John Gor Clearfield Ro land Second bass Ralph Smethport Chester Williams Four Soloists In addition to these first place solo positions were won by four of the also In They are so Carole Ridgway and Sally Blossburg Joint Neil and Ronald both of The high school chorus tors came In for high praise from Conductor Raymond who says We have a splendid chorus in Lock one of the finest I have ever directed The students came very well pre This preliminary preparation was charge of the school di who trained sing ers for the One difference in chorus as compared with band or or chestra says led to a tion in the news The singers are not placed on the stage according to their second or third They are arranged according to The tryouts which assign positions for the serve a second They determine eligibility of the singers from this district for the allstate A selection committee later picks the all state Festival Booklet Judges for tryouts were Rus sell Miss Eleanor Kneiss and Victor Wil Claster was ac A handsome festival booklet records the complete personnel of the festival group with biographical Information about the and the vania Music Educators Associa tion which is responsible for the meeting in this Lock Haven and its tions are also with pictures and information about the High the Teachers the municipal the Lock Haven Hospital ing and the Flaming Foliage Festival of the Bucktail Trail Park Lock Haven High Schools Singing Christmas Tree is pic tured as it appeared on the High School stage last ACE Will Hear Ross Librarian The early history of childrens books will be discussed by Miss Isabel Ross before the Association of Child hood Education Monday Effle president of the anticipates about 55 teacher members to attend the dinner meeting at 6 in the Fallon Miss Welch will compare the childrens books of the early 1800s with those of with particular emphasis on the illus The speaker will bring samples of the librarys collection of early books along with some of the recent additions to the book Two of the samples of recent outstanding work in childhood literature which Miss Welch is planning to exhibit to the group received The Song of The Swallows by Leo Politi re the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book of The Door In the Wall by Marguerite DeAngeli won the Newberry Medal for the most distinguished childrens story of Truman Grants Pardon To Bostons Curley dent Truman has granted a par don to former Mayor James M of convicted of mall In Truman com muted six to 18 months releasing him from the federal prison at Curley had served five The pardon serves to restore all civil rights to a for mer Democratic Congress mem bee as well as mayor of With the singers are John di rector of music at Lafayette the con and Howard Lock Haven High School director of who is festival Photo by Director John Raymond confers on the music for tonights concert by the District at the Lock Haven Hiph with Florence director of the Lock Haven High School and Prin cipal Reagan Hoch Shot in Body But Victim Only Fainted A shot rang out in the a body state police were but there was no corpus or It all boiled down to a case of drunk and disorderly conduct in which a shotgun and men brawling over a woman figured As a result of this melee in Hyner last David Castanea William 508 Maple and James Tun Columbia are In the County They pleaded guilty to the charges in a morn ing before Alderman Mark In lieu of the fine and costs imposed on each they were recommit ted to jail where they had spent the At 10 last night the po lice at the local barracks re a call to come to the home of Israel Derr in Hyner where a man had been On their arrival at oclock officers found the trio and a 20yearold girl In a somewhat befuddled There was a hole blown in the floor of Dorrs but no wounded After much questioning the police finally reconstructed the Mother Killed After Son Joins Them AP Twenty years ago Frank Allega left Italy to seek his fortune in the United Three years later his came here to Join Their remained in For two decades the planned a And yester day it came to a policeman arrived in Pittsburgh and met his He climbed into their car and they started for The car was wrecked and mother and father were The son was un Dean at Dickinson AP Asa former presi dent of the Pennsylvania Asso of Junior is the new registrar of Dickinson Col lege Top CIO Leader To Visit City in Rivalry Engine Derailed In Local Yard Locomotives No Major Damage A Renovo wreck crew was busy this morning lifting a MIA PRR freight engine back on the tracks just east of the signal tower In the lower Lock Haven Railroad officials said the en gine sideswiped with another MIA at Traffic was not Both engines were running No one was PRR officials at the scene said one of the engineers ap mistook a The accident involved cast and west bound They met at a diverging The eastbound engine was shoved completely off the A crane lifted it clear of the ground while workmen placed new rails under the The westbound engine was driven by George Sun and the eastbound by officials The wreckage was ex to be cleared by 11 A short distance of track was torn up in the story concerning the trio who said they had gone to Renovo yesterday afternoon in search of When they had made all their contacts with no they picked up the woman and headed for the Derr The unexpected host is an uncle of Eventually an argument arose between Nyce and Tunstill over the lady In an effort to quiet the brawling Deri shot a double barreled shotgun into the The shock was too much for police whose nerves were also told the police he put in the call for the law when he simultaneously heard a gun fired and saw a body slump to the When the officers Nyce had revived and the trio were continuing to do some in effectual fisticuff maneuvers outside of the Police said i none of the men sustained i marked I The police brought the into Sheriff George establishment at 1 where they were booked for drunk and disorderly Derr and the girl were not Pupil Transfer Blocked Pending Further Study George Corson Is expected to issue a preliminary injunction to block at least temporarily plans of the Whitpain Township School Board to transfer its high school pupils to Ambler High Counsel for the board agreed to issuance of the injunction at a conference with counsel for Alan Emlen of Blue Bell who sought the acting as a filed a in equity to prevent township school authorities from carrying out their consolidation Pupils at the Whitpain Town ship School returned to classes They had picketed the school Tuesday in protest against the consolidation and resignation of Bertolet their Bossier persuad ed the children to GOP to Fight Tariff Cuts Administration for Lower Duties AP Stale Department plans for further tariff cuts brought sharp pro tests from two Republican sena tors that the effect would be to swell the number of Jobless in this At the same some Demo crats commenting on a 40na tion trade conference to be held at Septem ber urged caution in agree ing to new cuts in import du Send Delegation Aboard The State Department an that an American delegation would be sent to the conference to negotiate with 17 nations for a lowering of tariff rates on all As part of its campaign to help other countries earn more the department said it will seek to reduce American import duties on about it ems in return for lowered rates on Officials said that the admin from President Tru man on will press vigor the They called it necessary as an alter native to the pouring out of billions for foreign aid in the cold Wool on List The American items down for possible tariff cuts In clude such controversial ones as ray on and dairy Ameri can business men in these fields have objected strongly to open Ing up their markets to more foreign Senator of the Republican floor said It will cause more unem ployment and more industries to fold It simply means American standards of living will fair to world Bid to Carry Mail WILLIAMSPORT Nineteen 16 of them from have applied to carry the mall on a roundtrip each day be tween Williamsport and Harris The truck to serve the intermediate will re place the two trains which the PRR is dropping effective May AP Three of the Pennsylvania Railroads four main line tracks were blocked by the derailment of an eastbound freight train four miles west of this Mifflin County community Conductor Maurice and flagman were bruised and shaken up in the Youth Captured After Gun Spree AP A youth who left a note in his ho tel room saying Im going to kill was captured in a running gun battle last night after seri wounding three Detectives said the the man told him he was Arthur Git of The wounded were identified Guillermo of a Braniff International Airways He suffered a serious chest Miss Vera Lee of She had an abdominal Kenneth Leon Chest Detective Moon Mul lins exchanged shots with Both The gunman tried to fire but his gun jammed and Mullins closed In and held 4 Row Homes at Clair Burn AP Whipped by a brisk fire raced through a row of frame houses in this Schuylkill County com munity of destroy ing four homes and damaging two Burgess Michael Brady esti mated damage to the homes and furnishings at One woman was burned slightly as she rescued her two About 20 persons were made Firemen from Clair and the nearby communities of Port Car bon and East Mines were ham by low water pressure In fighting the At times they could operate only a single hose They worked in a temperature of 25 on ground covered with Witmyer ReElected New School Named Paul Witmyer has been reelected su of the Williams port The board has named the new junior high school in Newberry the Theodore Roosevelt Junior High The present Roose velt school will become an ele mentary school and will be re Leaflet Exchange At Plant Entrance Marks Campaign One of the big wheels of the possibly Phil Murray him the president of the Con gress of Industrial Organiza will be in Lock Haven in the near future to address the Organization Committee which is being formed here by the In Union of Radio and Machine a CIO The according to Ernest IUE is being formed to develop mem among the employes of the Mill Hall plant of the Sylva nia Electric Products corpora Vida did not say when the proposed meeting would be but declared that he could count on the presence here of James secre of the CIO Bry ant private secretary to or Michael field director of District who is a brother of Tom a leader in the rival UE Battle of Leaflets The proposed part of a campaign of rivalry be tween the CIO union for electri cal industry workers and the United and Machine Workers of which maintained its union in the Mill Hall Sylvania plant af ter its expulsion from the CIO at the October convention in Cleveland last The battle of the leaflets con merrily at the Mill Hall Sylvania Both sides ara issuing pamphlets and mimeo graphed sheets making charges and counter charges against two unions and their local lead An exchange of leaflets circu lated yesterday and today re ferred to contract provisions at the Marys Stackpole Carbon UE Local 636 charged the Marys contract based seniority on ability as well as length of service with the fol lowed departmental instead of forbade the marriage of women and deprived married women of seniority and other contract In the the union defined Intermittent workers as married The answering leaflet issued by with the initials for states that the contract provisions mentioned were negotiated by the original UE and not by the and that new contract are now under negotiation at Marys plant between IUE CIO and the Stackpole manage The IUE leaflet also charges that the UE negotiated a contract with Westinghouse Electric Corporation Transform er Division to fire all married Six members of CIO and IUE unions at were at the en trances of the Mill Hall Sylvania plant this at the start of the day to hand out leaflets outlining the claims of the Vida estimated that they gave about 500 pieces of literature to work ers going into the also claimed that he has received many telephoned re quests for membership applica tion cards from employes of the Sylvania and that a good many signed cards have been returned to him and his Seek NLRB Election The aim of the as outlined by is to obtain a membership of 30 per cent of the employes of the Mill Hall in order to petition for an NLRB election to determine the future legal bargaining agent for the under fed eral If 30 per cent of the employes sign up with the CIO an election can be obtained and the employes can vote by secret ballot to decide whether they want to be represented by the UE or the To get a the would have to poll more than SO per cent of the ballots cast in the elec an NLRB election is being sought at the plant at Emporium in a dispute somewhat similar to the tug of war which is going on the original petition for the election wai made by an AFL Inter Sea SYLVANIA
