Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - September 8, 1950, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Partly tonight with a scattered showers likely on little in temper range River stage THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Not Only A Community Asset Diamond Jubilee When tht last installment to pnM an the engagement March 14 Pages LOCK SEPTEMBER AP Allies Straighten Get Ready For New Attack After Halting Drive Taegu Drive Stopped as Foes Supplies Run Out troops hacked out slight gains at oppo site ends of the Ko rean war front Friday against dangerously rebuilding Red sol Little fighting took place on the whole 120mile battle Americans surmised this meant a North Korean buildup during the lull for a new offensive A 8lh Army spokesman said the Red drive by men on main Allied base on the central had petered probably from lack of sup plies and sufficient manpower for the Seven Miles From Taegu The Reds had pushed to with in seven miles of Taegu before the First Cavalry Division and South Koreans broke the their General Tokyo headquarters summary early Saturday confirmed this general picture of the It said In the northern sector enemy pres sure continued but had dimin ished while the defense front re mained Near the it noted that Allied forces continued to hold and advanced against alight enemy General h e a d quarters warned of a possible new offensive either in the north or The buildup seemed greatest on the southern coastal ap to Pusan chief Allied base in In Masan 27 airline miles west of Allied authorise ordered removal of all civilians not needed in the war The order was issued when a Communist buildup west of the city was noted and forces were warned 100 Red agents in filtrated the city to stir up trou About of the normal population were moved out in the first Heaviest fighting of the 24 hour period up to Friday noon was in the But the Red attacks on the cen tral and along the easl coast were halted as rain fel upon the A 8th Army spokesman the Communist ef fort to drive American and South Korean troops into the sea had petered He also told AP correspondent We believe they are running out of supplies men and other things necessary to press an Keep Allies Guessing The Communists kept the Al lies guessing as to where their next drive would The whole front could flame into roaring battle again cost the North Koreans These were piled on the they had lost In the southwest alone in a week of has been no estimate of their losses from Taegu to the east but have been very heavy The MacArthur spokesman the Reds are building up again In the north and Bad weather Fri day kept Allied warplanes from hitting the Communist concen trations of men and Reformed Allied lines In the critical southwest o Pohang port generally held firm against a series of One section bent under Red attack southwest of eigh miles west of tured But other Allies pushed forward to straighten defensive First troopers at tacked key heights seven miles north of Taegu anc held their lines elsewhere at the mark of the Comma the 50 miles of moun tain front from Taegu to the east coast the Red line was manned by between anc It was there that the 8th Army spokesman said the Reds were believed to be running ou of men and materiel The Communists themselves seemed to bear his words They sent a desperate truck col umn of men and Into the raking fire of night Marauders which struck In the eerie light of Thursday Air Force spokesmen said they had no estimate of the damage Inflicted but the col See KOREA Page it Truman Displays Marine Corps Medal President wearing the broad grin he carried throughout his visit to the Marine Corps League convention in displays the distinguished guest medal he was given for his personal visit to apologize for calling the Marine Corps a police force and comparing its public relations activities to Stalins propaganda At left is Clay Nixon of national commander of the AP 30 Passed First Draft Tests Induction Calls To Go Out 15 Thirty Clinton County men who passed their physical examinations under Se Service at last will receive notices toward tht end of next telling them when to report for induc tion into the The local Draft Board office said today that the notices will be sent on or about the 15th before that time no announce ment will be made of the iden tity of the 30 men who will be chosen from those who passed the Initial physicals given the group of 49 Clinton County men to be examined under the new draft The Draft Board office said that about 75 per cent of those examined were certified as physically acceptable for induc Each of these In fact all who were have now received certificates of accepta bility from the Draft They were sent out Those who passed the duction physical received certi saying they are accept able for induction those who did not pass also received cer stating they are not acceptable for No returns had been received today by the local draft board on the status of the second con tingent of selectees Lycoming Radio Permit al Communications Commission decisions today included Ly coming Broadcasting Wil granted permit for new station to operate day time only on 1050 with power of one Invite Knights To Cavalcade Local Corps to Vote On Lewisburg Bid Lock Havens VFW national open championship drum and bugle the Black has been invited to compete In the Cavalcade of 16 at Eobert drum major of the said today that the corps will vote tonight on the He said that two members of the Milton American Legion Drum which is sponsoring the Lewis burg were in Lock Haven to secure the services of the Knights as an exhibitor if not as a Myers added that the reason for the Knights hesitation is that six members will not be available on that date because of their employment commit Robert his and David Dick will have returned to col lege Some of the nations best drum headed by the Norman Prince outfit from Mas national VFW closed class and the famed Reilly Raiders from Philadel will take The com petition will take place In the Bucknell The Black Knights are sched uled for two performances this Following a tion at the Clinton County Fire mens Association program at they will drill at hall time at the Lock more High football Enters Nurse Training Miss Molly daugh ter of and Herman 248 Water entered the Harrisburg Polyclinic Hos pital on Tuesday for nurse She is a 1950 graduate of the Lock Haven High Dewey Swings Hard at Truman in State Campaign AP A political slugfest shaped up to day in New York state with Thomas Dewey promising to battle for reelection on every street corner and Democrats shouting Wall Street candi date at Deweys fight against Fair Deal Congressman Walter Lynch apparently will contrast with his unity campaign for president in Voters will give their decision at the polls They also will choose then between Joe OOP candi date for the and Senator Herbert Democratic nominet for re Dewey came out swinging last charging the Democratic national administration with continued mismanagement of our Three times in his acceptance speech at the State Convention in Saratoga Springs he promised to meet his ents on every street He declared that we will no longer put up with in competence and usual in Dewey charged that American troops had been sent to Korea out out gunned and some only partly and he blamed this on incompetence in the national accepting the Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination at his partys state convention in attacked Deweys record in Large corporations and bankers got what they wanted under Deweys but the rest of the people Lynch The Democratic standard bearer Indicated he would try to make Dewey to state Issues la the Red Cross Sends Blood to Korea War Demands Whole Blood From Chapters The war In Korea Is reaching into the towns and cities of the nation for whole blood to serve the wounded on the battlefront according to word received by Fred chairman of the Eastern Clinton County Red Cross chapter This need for blood has come to the attention of the chapter In recent with discus sions of Lock Havens support Ing a project to bring a blood mobile here from WilkesBarre for volunteer The matter has occupied the attention of chapter directors at two recent but no action was taken last week at the September Harold vice president and area manager of the Red Cross reported to McEntire on the national Pints for Korea Within the last 30 days sig understandings have been reached between the Am erican National Red Cross and the Department of Defense con the procurement of blood for the armed he Red Cross chapters are being alerted to the necessity of In creasing blood collections to provide blood for use In the Far Arrangements are now being completed to make an shipment of pints of fresh blood to Japan for use in Korea This blood will be shipped by air from each of 34 centers throughout the United States to San where military transportation will be provided for the flight to Japan and Is the regional center for the loca This is the of a series o shipments that will be estab on a regular and Ing basis as long as there Is Supply Adequate Now At this the area man ager it would appear that sufficient blood will be forth coming through dally collec tions In those chapters partici pating In the national blood pro The need for Immediate and rapid expansion is not Indi at this should the Interna tional situation addi tional chapters would have to be alerted and steps taken to bring about participa tion in the national blood pro gram to provide blood In suffi cient quantities to meet the needs of both military and local Hanley Has Skin Graft Operation John son of and Hugh 741 Bald Eagle underwent a skin grafting operation at the Lock Haven Hospital this for burns which he in an early August The accident took place Aug ust 4 at the corner of Hanna and Walnut at when a motor bike Hanley and a com were skidded and struck a The bike caught causins severe burns on in some places of third degree He was admitted to the hospital following the and was discharged August He is a patient there now the skin Firemen Have Fun Demonstrating Rescue Procedure It wasall in fun last but it could be a serious business if this canvas like rescue chute of the Avis firemen were called into service for a real Displaying their equipment at the annual Clinton County Association con vention in the Avis firefighters saved this escapee from the Gay who was trapped in the third floor of tht flaming Castanea fire The rescue chute is attached to a and helpers hold it at the to form an escape Photo by Truman to Dine With CIO Leaders AP Labor union political leaders are hav ing a private huddle tonight with President Truman at a downtown Presidential Secretary Charles Ross described the occasion as a round table dinner meeting with about 50 leaders of the Labors League for Politi cal Education and the CIOs Political Action Strategy in the congressional campaign Is be the major topic two labor political are gen supporting Democratic Ross said tht meet ing will bt 128 Miners in Scotland Trap NEW SCOTLAND teams worked at top speed today to open an es cape tunnel for 128 miners trapped 700 feet down and threatened with drowning in a river of There are reasonable hopes for the trapped a mine workers union official said in The miners were entombed last night when a surface area the size of a foot ball field sank Into the work ings of the Cas tle 30 miles south of The sodden earth mass cut off their path to the Rescuers tried all night and through the morning to clear dangerous gas fumes from an adjoining mine tunnel so they could cut through a 30foot wall of coal separating them from their imprisoned The entombed men were In telephone communication with the pit We are in good one of them None was reported Injured and telephone reports from the men this morning indicated they were getting enough GOP Drawing Up AP Penn sylvania Republican leaders put the finishing touches to a state platform which they hope will carry the party to victory in the November 7 general The platform will be presented to the GOP state committee here tomorrow for formal The partys platform commit headed by Fred of Montgomery has been working for months in an effort to hammer out a strong Although the platform has been a tightly kept secret so major planks are reported to be built around the subjects of corruption and the Korean In Philadelphia City Republican leaders have called for inclusion of a plank for creation of a state water au to bring Quaker city drinking supply from a Pocono Flemington Council Considers Vacancy Council President Lee Quigg attending county ses Chief Burgess Charles MacGregor presided for last nights council Councilmen Martin Pierce Kenneth Caum and Har old Whiting were One vacancy still exists in council and two nominations were Alton Hunter and James as prospective candidates to fill No action was The per capita tax ord nance will be ready for presenta tion and discussion at the nexi council solicitor Saylor McGhee reports Pennsylvanians Killed Pennsylvanians were reported seven wounded and missing in action in Korean cas list number 88 released by the Defense Department All were listed as serving In the Two pre reported were returned to None was from this Parents Give Up Teacher Protest HAVEN Thirty children attended classes at the schoolhouse at North Manheim Township to day after parents kept them home yesterday because of ob jections to the The school was scheduled to open yesterday but only three students showed The school includes the first six led by Orville Wal complained to County Su Arthur Hen that they felt the teach Mary of New was replied that Miss Hamershy had taught In the district 26 years and three years at the Eilers He told the school board he rated her teaching satisfactory and saw no reason for The board then ordered the school to open today and said it would prosecute parents of children not attending under the school to Take Up Russia Demand for Red China LAKE AP The United Nations Security Council will discuss Monday Russias de mand that a Communist Chinese representative be invited to sit in during debate on Red Chinese accusations against the United The charges are that the Is guilty of aggression against Formosa and that planes bombed Russian delegate Jacob Malik won the councils consent yesterday to consider suchan That was just after he took a beating on his effort to get the council to condemn barbaric Air Force bomb ing In The council voted to take up the question of Red Chinese participation in that debate at its next The United States abstained In line with policy of letting other members decide the question of repre sentation at Lake The vote in favor of the Rus sian proposal followed a 91 de feat of a Soviet resolution de nouncing United States air ac tion in Korea as a violation of the rules of Yugoslavia Council consideration of Maliks proposal to invite Red China for the mosa debate docs not directly affect the Peiping governments chances of supplanting the Chinese Nationalist representa tives in the but it creates a situation filled with Interna tional and domestic political dynamite for the American ad A vote against the pro posal might be Interpreted as an attempt to muzzle the Peiping accusers a vote for It might be viewed as a softening in Americas opposition to the Chinese Even if Maliks motion does not informed opinion here Is almost equally divided as to whether or not It sideration of it will have delayed an American resolution propos ing the creation of an Indian Swedish commission to Investi gate the Chinese Communist charge of American bombings in The haa Insisted that such a commission must start work at once before the trail Avis Firemen Show How Chute Helps in Rescue Big Parade Tonight Features Convention Firemen save my rang out tht cry last night ai the Castanea fire hall burned and nightclothes clad men and women were saved In the open ing demonstration of the second annual Clinton County Fire mens Association convention in It was the Avis firemen to rescue In this lively which showed other county fire men how the Avis Companys flexible rescue chute can used to evacuate a burning As flames burst from the simulated burning fire and men and women staged their dramatic portrayal ol those trapped in the the chute attached to a third story window and held at the bottom by battling firemen served as the escapeway for those in the Most of those who watched the Avis firemen and their put on this demonstration seeing a rescue chute in opera tion for the first Tonights Parade Tonights special events in county celebration promise to be as colorful as the big fire last if not of a like Tonight is Georga Hamberger and Harold cochairmen of parade events estimated today that 15 units will be in the of possibly three or four of tht musical Prizes totaling will bt will form en Keller at 7 and will move up Keller to Brown down past the and thence to tht This U a correction In tht starting point announced from Castanea but Yost said firemen will bt sta on every street corner la the town to direct traf and there will be no for those or at tending to the starting or the The judges stand and a publie address system will be located at the Edward Schadt will judge tht best band and best drum bugle Captain Ralph Pringle will judge the best marching and the most men in line of Wright of will judge the best appearing appar and the oldest apparatus in Knights to Drill The championship Black Knights will give a tion and drill on the Immediately following the This and the festival will feature the It was a little too cold last evening to attract a big crowd for the but the pressure of a number sup porters was noted and The festival will continue tonight and No entries have been received for the Old Fiddlers Contest planned for tomorrow If none come music will be provided Instead of the the Castanea firemen Business County mens Association conducted the business the routine September session being combined with the con Assemblyman Moore and Detective William Ryan were guest The meet ing was opened with a prayer by the Eldon Matlock of Good Will Hose Lee county association Charles former Lock Haven fire chief and Paul presi dent of the Central District Association also Earner made his commit tee appointments for the Instructing the members in their To the law com he Morton Bryerton and John all of Lock Haven John North Bend Thomas Avis George and Cleo Mill No Bid for Convention To the executive committee Walter Mill Hall Ray mond Flemington Mat thew Renovo Avis Cheater Log an ton Richard Lamar mm
