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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1932
Page
6
Lancaster city and county will run outdoor recreation this summer for youth. Kepler Lodge YWCA camp opens June 27 to August 8 for girls ages eight to ten in early June, Camp Chiquetan Boy Scout camp starts July 9 for five to six weeks, both run by Welfare Agencies.
A driverless radio controlled car will circle Hoover Field Airport during Greater National Capital Day. At 11 00 a m the car will run from another auto and at 4 15 p m a young aviatrix will take off and guide the car from 1000 feet above ground. J J Lynch operates the device as a new scientific display approved by John S Wynne airport manager. The phantom car replaces the alligator wrestling act.
Notaries public in the Commonwealth must post new bonds exceeding $50. This follows the liquidation of the Southern Surety Company of New York, affecting bond requirements for notaries statewide.
The Bareville Fire Company announces its annual festival to be held Saturday evening July 16 in Rufus Groff field at Bareville’s eastern end. Music will be by the Boys Band of New Holland. The event was announced at the monthly meeting led by President John G. Landis.
The Pennsylvania Employes Retire ment Fund reports over 10 million dollars invested and a cash balance of 295 thousand sixty dollars. The figures reflect the fund's asset allocation and liquidity position.
The first actual census of homes wired for electricity in the United States shows 20,049,450 homes wired as of August 31, 1930. New York leads with 2,999,784 homes wired, followed by Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, and Ohio. About two thirds of U S homes are wired according to the Commerce Department and Census Bureau data.
Mr and Mrs Walter W Stephens of Leola hosted a birthday party Friday for their son Richards sixth birthday. The Plank twins Robert and Richard celebrated their fifth birthday with games and prizes won by Evelyn Dunlap Billie Hartranft Marjorie Witman and Benjamin Dunlap. Refreshments followed.
In Weatherford Texas Rev Paul Clifton pastor of the Fundamentalist Baptist church delivers sermons in overalls to help working men feel at home in worship.
A two foot high carved cross crafted by Daniel Stuilis in Brockton Massachusetts uses 1 000 separate wood pieces without twine pegs or nails. The work highlights meticulous joinery and artistic technique in a single decorative religious piece.
Loyal Gleaners class of Leola M E church decided to set up refreshment stands instead of a strawberry social on June 11 at three locations Bareville Jacob Dunwoody tin shop Leola homes of Ethel Harnish and Mrs Robert Beyer Leacock. Upcoming meetings announced and member travels noted.
The Lancaster Y M C A Educational Department announces a six week preparatory Summer School beginning July 5 at 9:00 am. Sessions run mornings and evenings five days a week, open to city and county students. no laboratory work required. Instructors are Prof Ralph H Patterson and Prof Augustus Loeb.
In Greenwich Village stories, John Golden recalls a one man barber shop built from scratch with a volunteer barber, second hand chair and bottles, all placed in a room off his office. A Warsaw born barber assistant proclaims the pole line and the piece ends with Village natives like Jimmy Walker and Gene Tunney noted among locals.
Waterloo resident C H Van Wickle asserts ownership of Silon B the world’s largest horse. Silon B, twelve years old, stands 21 hands high with a nine foot ear-to-ground span, white and well formed. The horse weighs 2900 pounds and measured around the girth at 8 feet 10 inches. Foaled in Lamay France and said to be still growing.
The old water mill at Phalanx five miles west of Warren Ohio continues grinding flour despite many depressions. Built in 1815 by Eli Barnum, a Connecticut settler and P T Barnum relative, it narrowly survived a shift to steam or electricity. Now run by F A and A G Road, the firm once owned by two cousins is long gone, with property passing to three owners.
Washington reports a sweeping Justice Department program to create an exhaustive national fingerprint and crime data library. About 1.75 million fingerprints are on file with 3,500,000 name cards. 4,000 agencies cooperate. 37 of every 100 searches reveal prior records with 48 hour feedback to local authorities. Beginning July 1 government job applicants will be fingerprinted.
Akron Ohio reports the giant airship U S S Macon, sister to the Akron, under rapid construction. The duralumin skeleton exceeds 350 feet with sixth frame raised. Crews add fins and movable control surfaces while longitudinal keels are installed. Construction mirrors Akron with midship to stern approach.
Willie Lee Johnson a World War II veteran and railway brake man appeared in Federal court in New Orleans seeking full disability compensation under the War Risk Insurance Act claiming wartime drill caused unbearable corns on the bottoms of his feet and left him unable to return to his trade since discharge.
Two Lancaster County students received second honors at Penn State. Donald M. Goss of Peach Bottom and George W. Walter of Christiana were named to the upper fifteen percent of graduates from four year college programs. First honors went to those in the upper twentieth.
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