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Smethport Mckean County Democrat (Newspaper) - February 23, 1933, Smethport, Pennsylvania Mckean county Democrat volume 58 Russell r. Lindsley Smethport pa., thursday february 23, 1933 terms zoo per year. No. 8 Iid Hile Ira refinery new cracking Plant will be ready in april it is understood that a Busy construction program is to continue at the huge refinery of the Quaker state company at Farmers Valley near i Smethport where a Large new crack j my unit addition to the Plant is rapidly nearing completion. The program it is said will double 1 the size of the present big Plant and eventual completion will make the a Valley refinery one of the largest of the Quaker state group. Work of enlarging and improving t the refinery was started immediately after it was purchased from the Mckean county refinery co. By the Quaker state company and has been in Progress almost steadily for three i years past. Work on the cracking Plant unit was started last fall and has been in i Busy Progress All Winter. It is expected that the new cracking Plant will be ready for operations in j april and will employ a Force of 12 or More men Pittsburgh feb. 17�?vincent Eldred Highland county club Golf professional is nursing a broken toe today with a Niblick by his Side just in Case he happens to see the mouse Quot that dome it Quot the joust with the Little mouse in which Eldred came out the loser happened in his Bradentown fla., Home. His vicious kick missed the Little prowler his foot hit the Wall thus Tho broken toe. Or. Eldred was formerly pro at the Bartlett country club in Olean and played frequently at the Smethport country clubs course. He conducted a class in golfing Here at one time. New emergency Relief annual Harvest of Maple sap starts in nearby Woods the annual Harvest of Maple sap to be boiled Down. Into delicious syrup and by further evaporation. To Maple sugar has already started on a Small scale in the Mckean county sugar Groves. Sap has run satisfactorily several Days recently. L. B. Gallup who has a Large Maple Grove and Complete modern equipment at his farm near Colegrove reported that he had prepared Over Twenty Gallons of syrup when the cold wave hit this week if weather is favourable the next few weeks will see the sugar Bushes humming with activity. Infantino will build Brick Block Chas. Infantino opened his shoe repair shop in temporary quarters in the of Reilly building on monday and has been doing a thriving Burness or Infantino will be located there until next summer when his badly damaged business place across the Street will be rebuilt. Or. Infantino who originally intended to repair his Frame building utilizing the old wooden front which was not entirely destroyed by the fire has now decided to erect a Brand new 2-Story Brick building. The new Structure will be somewhat smaller than the old one but will be a real ornament to the business Section. The decision to rebuild with Brick was made after or. Infantino received quotations on various types of construction and decided that it would not him to attempt to save the old wooden part. Choral society meeting a very interesting meeting of the a Omen a choral society was held in he m e. Church Parlours monday a evening with nine members present. At the next meeting which will be Leld monday evening feb. 27, at 8 00 n the High school building the a Ive work of the society will begin. A cordial invitation in extended to ill those interested in this musical Rork. Lieut. Schoonmaker army flyer Home from Texas Lieut. G. B. Schoonmaker former Smethport boy and local High school football Star who qualified for his pilots commission at the u. S. Army s flying school at Kelly Field Texas with High Marks last year spent the past week with his parents. Or. And mrs Paul Schoonmaker of East main Street. Lieut. Schoonmaker who has a teen stationed at fort Crockett Texa has made a splendid record As an my aviator will go on the Reserve officers list of the u. S. Army air carps. He is a graduate pharmacy of and has accepted a position with the Lilly drug co. In new York. He left for that City tuesday. _ the new Mckean county office of the county emergency Relief Board 1 in the second floor of the Monheimer building main Street Smethport. Opened on tuesday. No funds Are provided by the state for furnishing office quarters and the Relief boart of which county commissioner w. H. Halpenny is chairman must depend entirely upon voluntary contributions from Public spirited citizens. It is the policy of the state to require that All funds go directly to Relief of the unemployed which number nearly 2000 families in this county. The Relief Board acknowledges with i thanks the following donations for the new office Carrie Armstrong estate desk and Cabinet Sam Fry table and chairs s. L. Fry Rug miss Mabel Day. Typewriter and desk St. I Elizabeth a Church 2 desks Holmes a Gilfillan desk the Royal typewriter co. Of Jamestown will provide another typewriter. Articles needed include the loan of an adding machine linoleum for the floor donations of filing cabinets electric wiring and fixtures Etc. The Walls Are also badly in need of new paper and if someone will give the paper the Relief Board would provide sufficient labor from its lists to hang it. The state is Basing present estimates of Relief work on the supposition that it will be required for two More years at least. It should be remembered that the office in Smethport is Headquarters for the entire county not a strictly local proposition although Smethport people will undoubtedly be glad to give everything possible to its equipment and maintenance. Branch offices Are being established in Kane Bradford and other county towns. County treasurer Bouton to be operated on today county treasurer e. E. Bouton of Smethport will undergo an operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore md., this morning. Or. Bouton who has suffered from a spinal trouble a for a number of years and has been confined to his bed for a Long time was accompanied to Baltimore Early monday morning by his wife. His father Hon. J. W Bouton president judge of Mckean county left for Baltimore monday night. It is hoped that the expert surgical attention or. Bouton will receive at Johns Hopkins will greatly relieve his condition kidnappers of Crosby Man to be tried St. Marys Pouge chief to be tried Fob extortion when the february term of Mckean county criminal court convenes in Smethport next monday with judge j. W. Bouton presiding and with 48 cases on the docket most important trial will be that of Dusen Versic James sweeten Tony Orazio Paul Bahar and Spiro Yovanoff charged with kidnapping. Versic sweeten. Orazio Babac and Yovanoff five desperate criminals who Hail from Pittsburgh kidnapped Nedelco. A macedonian at his Home at Crosby one night last summer. Posing As Federal immigration officers they accused Nedelco of illegally entering the United states. They forced the Well known Crosby Man to get into their automobile telling him he was under arrest and started for Pittsburgh where they informed him he would be held for deportation unless he paid them a Large sum of Money. In the meantime friends of Nedelco who knew that he was a Legal immigrant and now a naturalized citizen became suspicious and notified county authorities in Smethport. An alarm was sent out and state police stopped the car at Kane arresting the five kidnappers All of whom Are said to have Black police records and liberated Nedelco. Spiro Yovanoff is at Liberty under $5000 bail but la a patient in the West Penn Hospital Pittsburgh we Here he continued on last Page column 2 Acker will reopen new restaurant next week Lawrence Acker who lost his restaurant in the Imperial Block in the big lire is making every Effort to open his new place in the former Geary building now owned by Burgess Daniel Bacon by next monday when the february term of Mckean county criminal court convenes Here. Or. Acker has purchased a splendid assortment of new equipment making a special trip to Pittsburgh for that purpose his new restaurant will be one of the most attractive in this Section. Old timers look in now with a reminiscent glint in their eyes for or. Acker has partitioned the Large room by using the old Back bar from the defunct grand Central hotel. The Hack bar covers the entire Width of the room. Makes forceful plea for lower county salaries no More forceful protest against the arbitrary attitude of Mckean county officials in their continued ignoring of the necessity for salary reductions and the abolishment of Needles jobs to relieve the sorely distressed citizenry of the county could be presented than that contained in a letter written to the Bradford Bra last week by a lady who signs her missive Quot a the letter follows i am a stenographer and probably a fair representative of the average employed woman and will probably be heard in a patronizing Way by the average Man Reader. But i would like to know Why the officials of Markean county who Are in office Only by election of the taxpaying voters do not More closely gauge the pulse of Public sentiment and feeling by voluntarily reducing the wage scale to a Point More in line with today a standards. A i have been required to take a Cut in salary far greater than any that has been suggested for county officers and employees and my family problems Are serious ones. My father who is a tradesman has been unable to obtain work for Many months and then Only for Short periods my sister and i who have regular employment find ourselves with much reduced wages and prospects that Are not too encouraging and it will be a bitter Pill to Swallow when we have to meet our yearly tax Hill which will go to maintain an Over augmented Force of Peak wage county officers frankly i do not understand Quot if the Mckean county tax payers league is established for the purpose of combating such High handed administration i for one am going to Side with them and do All i can to help the movement in my own Small a stenographer. Oil producers ask useless jobs and High salaries be reduced big Smethport Anticline Well for Cunningham May mean drilling work in Fields close to town the first test Well of the Smethport Anticline of the deep Gas Belt being drilled by John Cunningham Well known resident of nearby Rexford and head of the Cunningham a corporation which has developed big Wells in the Tioga county and new York state Fields is now nearing completion near Oswayo. The Well has just touched Sand and gives every indication of being a hug producer. While the Cunningham Well is located in Potter county the Structure it taps leads directly to and under Smethport and a big Well unquestionably Means hectic deep Well drilling operations right in Smethport door Yard. Lawrenceville in Tioga county and Smethport in Mckean Are the Only towns of any size in the Tioga pot Ter Mckean area which Are located directly on the deep Gas Sand structures. In the meantime drilling nation have started on the de of the Tioga natural Gas a the other Side of Norwich Hill. I a the Smet i port Emporium High by in Cameron county this development if successful May result in deep test Wells being sunk this Side of the Divide up potato Creek Valley from Smethport where several big companies hav leased much land. A Shinglehouse dispatch of monday continued on last Page column 2 red Cross officers and directors Are chosen officers for the ensuing year were elected at a meeting of directors of Smethport chapter american red Cross held on monday the new officers Are chairman mrs. Clara b Drake. Vice chairman mrs. Helen e Van Dyke Secretary mrs Edna m. Anderson. Treasurer Albert Johnson mrs w a Ostrander was named As a member of the Board of directors. Other members of the Board of directors Are mrs e. W. Workley mrs. C. B Corwin. Mrs. Raymond j Day Ralph w Herzog and a m Anderson. Ask salary Board to reconsider recent action the elimination of All non essential offices a reconsideration by the county commissioners of their recent refusal to lower their own salaries and those of their employees and the need for school officials to reduce quota my the salaries of superintendents principals teachers and All other employees. Was urged unanimously by the directors of the Bradford District Pennsylvania Oil producers association at their regular monthly meeting held last week the motion unanimously approved by the directors present reads motion it is the sense of this organization that the county commissioners be urged to reconsider their recent refusal voluntarily to reduce salaries of end ploys of the county who Are paid by Public funds and that All non essential offices be eliminated also that it is the opinion of this organization that those officials who have the schools in charge be urged to revise downward equitably the salaries of superintendents principals teachers and All other employees. _ this recommendation is made in Bradford feb. 22 with the Nat line with the policy of the association Lon 1 wave of increased activity in efforts to have taxes throughout of a a gang lawbreakers reaching into my the county held at the lowest possible Kean county sheriff Fred t. Lud rate particularly at the present time 1 has Law Ensor Bradford Council asks Gas rate reduction at a meeting of the Bradford City Council monday night a Resolution was it amt cd asking both the United natural Gas company and the manufacturers Gas company a to make Quot an amicable reduction in the rates for Gas consumed for Domestic and commercial purposes within the City of Bradford beginning with the next Reading of citing the decreased Cost of practically every necessity Council Felt that the Cost of Gas a Basic fuel Quot remains at wartime High Levels Quot and is creating a hardship on Many beside Quot being an a to combat crime me Cyrus e. Barrett ill Cyrus e. Barrett former prominent Smethport Man who for several years past has been located in Huntington w. Va., is now staying with his granddaughter mrs. P. W. Stockett in Scranton pair. Barrett s Many Smethport friends will regret to learn that he has been in extremely poor health this Winter. Or Barrett is 81 years of age. Smethport included in line up of new Tri county baseball league Potter is. Mariotti in Brookville suit attorney e. G. Potter of Smethport is in Brookville this week where he has an important Case in Jefferson county court. The prominent local attorney is counsel for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea co. In defending a big damage suit against the company by a Jefferson county Man. The suit resulted from a collision Between a motor truck of the a. A p. Company and an automobile driven by the plaintiff and asks damages for injuries suffered by the latter. The defendant company contends that responsibility for the Accident rests with the plaintiff who is being represented by attorney Chas mar Giotti of Punxsutawney. When the tax Burden has grown exceedingly heavy As the result of conditions throughout the nation. The association definitely decided to establish a Fellowship at Pennsylvania state College in order to conduct research experiments in securing a greater ultimate recovery of crude Oil from the Bradford Field Cement agencies of the county into a closely cooperating unit. Last night sheriff Ludwick and chief Deputy Merle Dickinson met with mayor t. P Thompson jr., and police chief Reynold florentine Here in an Effort to swing the forces of this City into the unit and obtain an even closer cooperation of City police Ostrander to erect a temporary dru6 store workmen started tuesday to build a temporary Structure to House or. W. A. Ostrander a Corner drug store destroyed by the main Street fire a month ago foundations of the a a a swept r. C. Gleason building next to or. Ostrander s double Corner lot Are being used for the temporary drug store and soda Fountain. The Structure is being erected by special permission of the Borough Council it being contrary to local ordinances to build new wooden place in the main Street fire zone it will be used pending completion of a new modern Block both Corner by or. Ostrander. Tentative plan for the Corner drug store rising Phoenix like from the ruins Cal for a handsome two Atory Brick building to be completed next summer. In the meantime the modest temporary place will be open for Busine probably in a very few Days Tim and will carry on under direction of Alfred studvient capably assisted by miss Ells Parsons. It will be the Corner drug store Quot although located on the third lot from the Corner. The temporary Frame building will Bloom like a Rose in the desert of fire ruins. Much of the debris has been removed from the Corner to m asset s store Allie Armstrong Anderson Dies in Denver. Colorado local Friend have re saved word of the death of mrs. Alite Armstrong Anderson of Denver Colorado formerly of Smethport which occurred in that City recently. Mrs. Anderson was a younger als with county and state authorities Ter Alvin b. Armstrong Smethport is included in the line up j a proposed new Amateur baseball ague to be composed of cities in 1 unties of this Section of Pennsylva the new league to to be called the 1-county baseball league but As a Atter of geographical accuracy Lich probably does no to apply to Basc-j1�?the three county Loop will a f ally include four counties. They e Erie Warren Mckean and Elk. Towns to be included Are Corry and Ford Smethport St marys Dugway Johnsonburg Kane and Arren. A meeting of the league will be held in Warren next sunday at the office of the Warren times Mirror. The plan of this league is a Home and Home arrangement. Under this plan Tho team would travel at their own expense with the Home club receiving the entire Gate receipts. In this Way the Home team would be in no danger of losing Money and the amount which was received from Home games could be used for travelling expenses out of town. There is much enthusiasm concerning such an arrangement and it la probable that some definite plan will be worked out for the league at its meeting next sunday. Must have new Drivers licenses next wednesday Pennsylvania motorists will be liable to arrest and Fine if they attempt to drive on and after next wednesday. March i without possessing a 1933 License. Last years cards Are Legal Only until Midnight Fob. 28. State authorities consider that ample warning and time has been Given All motorists to enable them to secure new licenses. The state Highway patrol has been instructed to conduct a rigid Check up starting wednesday. The Fine for driving with a License which has expired is $10.00 and costs. Somewhat cheaper to buy the License for $2.00 mrs. Rogers announces mrs. Helen Rogers of Smethport has announced her candidacy for reelection to the office of clerk of the court of Quarter sessions and Oyer and Ter Miner for Mckean county subject to the coming Republican primary. New filling station Elmer Burdick is building a gasoline and Oil service station on his property on the Sronet port Emporium Road. Oil Burner in operation at county court House Lawrence g. Dana of Derrick City completed a trial installation of a Branford Oil Burner under one of the old boilers at the Mckean county court House this week the new device will he used for 30 Days after which the commissioners will decide whether or not it should be purchased the county assumes no expense for the trial installation. The device which bums cheap fuel Oil and is entirely automatic was Given a Good test when the blizzard hit this Section on tuesday. A reporter from this paper noticed a thermometer in the Large main Hall registered 74 degrees. Two tanks of 275 Gallons capacity each have been temporarily installed but if the Burner is purchased a much larger tank would be buried outside the court House. Or. Dana has placed one of the Oil burners in the Derrick City school House and members of the Smethport school boart Are watching the Experiment at the court House with great interest. No local ice crop Johnson a Erickson. Smethport in dealers report that ice has not Frozen to sufficient thickness to Cut on their Spring water Pond North of town this Winter. The ice has been five inches thick several times but must be eight and preferably ten in Chi the local iceman Are not discouraged however because they did not Harvest a crop last year until March 15. Card party St. Elizabeth s Church monday feb. 27, 8 00. Wrist watch will be Given away. Tickets 50c. Than has existed heretofore. Under the plan of sheriff Ludwick All agencies for Law enforcement will he notified in All cases of crime in this City so that in Case of Early discovery of crime All roads in the District can be blocked and escapes from the scenes of holdups robberies Etc., can be frustrated reciprocal arrangements have been effected electricity off saturday electric service was suspended in Smethport for slightly More than fifteen minutes last saturday night when a Large transformer on the Bradford electric company a transmission line burned out. The mishap also affected Eldred and port Allegany. Lineman repaired the trouble in record breaking time. And Martin l. Armstrong of Smethport. She was the last survivor of the local Pioneer family of that name. She is survived by three daughters one son and a granddaughter also a Niece mrs Aletha Armstrong Kelly of Elmira. N. Y. The deceased lady was 77 years of age. Burial was made in Topeka Kansas. Drilling five Wells in Rew five Oil Wells Are being drilled in nearby Rew City at the present Tim a almost a Boom considering the stagnant conditions prevailing in the Bradford Field with the Price of crude in the cellar. The South Penn Oil co. Is putting Down two Wells Bovaird a Hamlin Are drilling two and another is being drilled on the John Godfrey lease. School directors protest against changing state school code a special meeting of Mckean county school directors association was held at the court House Smethport thursday evening feb 16, convened for the purpose of considering the effect of the proposed school code on Mckean county schools. By an analysis presented by supt. Lillibridge it was shown that under the new code at least fifteen of the Twenty school districts of the fourth class in Mckean county would suffer a loss through a reduction in state appropriation. Following a general discussion of the More revolutionary changes incorporated in the new code the association went on record As vigorously opposing its adoption of the enactment of substitute legislation designed to effect similar changes in the Pennsylvania school system. The association was especially opposed to the provisions placing the distribution of state subsidies on a new basis and the reorganization of the local unit of administration. H. G. Berkhouse of Kane or. D. C. Hanna of port Allegany and a. W. Sandeen of Bradford township wer delegated to attend the Public hearing at Harrisburg on february 21, Tho Date set by the House education committee. Briefly reviewing existing teachers salary Laws the association disapproved any reduction of the minimum provided by the Edmonds act. Thirty five were in attendance at the meeting. The association members enjoyed a 6 00 of clock dinner at the methodist episcopal Church dining Hall

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