The Danville Morning News from Danville, Pennsylvania • 2

CHURCH GARbEN SPEAKER At LEWISBURG Page 2 THE MORNING NEWS, DANVILLE, PA. Friday, May 3, 1946 pi HE MORNING NEWS DANVILLE, PENNA. ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 1897 The Only Daily Paper In MontoUr County MINUTE MUSINGS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 3 "Pubilsned Every Morning, except Sunday, at The Morning News Building, 14 East Mahoning Street w. A. McCLOUGHAN, Owner and Publisher LES u.

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CARPENTER Automobile Death Toll Causes Grave Concern In nation tafaCTftl Citing an automobile accident death toll so alarming that President Truman has called a hational conference to combat it, R. B. Maxwell, secretary manager of the Pennsylvania Motor Federation and its 61 AAA automobile clubs ih the State, today urged motorists to take it easy with their automobile and pedestrians to take it easy In their walking. Mr. Maxwell Will leave next week to attend President Trumans Highway Safety Conference in Washington, D.

C. May 8-10 as a member of the- Committee on Organized Public Support. Automobiles are killing people at a startling rate, Mr. Maxwell de clared. Like President Truman, PMF-AAA clubs hope something can be done to hold the accident rate down, and will cooperate in any campaign designed ot accomplish that end.

Since the lifting of wartime re' strictions, the PMF official continued, the accident rate has been on the increase. The death toll last year was 28,500 as compared to the worst year in history, 1941, when deaths resulting from vehicle accidents amounted to 40,000. Safety experts predict that 38,000 men, women and children will be killed in automobile accidents during 1946, Mr. Maxwell pointed out. Unless definite steps are taken, the prediction of the experts will become fact.

We hope some definite plan Is worked out during the conference, Mr. Maxwell concluded, an PMF-AAA clubs throughout the State pladge their -active support of any sound, constructive program which may be developed. Boys Accept Gun Clubs Offer Mrs. Garrett Smith, of Plainfield, N. founder and pioneer worker in America, shown in the garden at her home, Three Gates.

Fellowship Class Holds Worship And Business Meeting the Church Garden movement in Mrs, Garrett Smith Pioneers Work In Church Gardening i Will Make Debut As State Speaker At Lewisburg Civic Club Meeting Scout Band Will Play Sixth Area Concert Tonight The othei dav there was a letter in The Philadelphia Inquire ill which a citizen wanted to know where to chase the kids to. He stated that popular demand appeared to make it necessary to chase the kids off the streets, and olt everything clselLwhich trode on the toes of adults, but no provision was made to have a place for them to arrive after being chased. Rov Klase and Doyle Hathaway, of the Danville Gun Clubr-decided to write the same letter box and give the people in that area a bit of advice about providing places for'youngsters to go. It all concerns the recent warning against firing niles aiid BB guns in Danville and vicinity. Because of the dan-ger and there is no nonsense about the hazards of hitting othdf people in aimless shooting boys had been whined to keep their rifles at home.

The Danville Gun lub stepped in with an offer to permit use of the club range in the Odd Fellows Building and to provide free iniitrncfy'pns fn any hov who reported with written pei-mission ftom his parents. This invitation was published only once, and this column thj other day. The result last night was something open your eyes. Thursday night was the date designated for boys to appear and the most that the gun club instructors expected at the beginning of this program, was one or two. Last night sixteen boys arrived at the club headquarters with BB guns and rifles and the written permission from their parents.

Mr. Hathaway was at a church meeting and did not arrive until later in the evening and when he reached the range, he found 11 still anxious to learn all about shooting. 1 The 11 boys, plus all other boys who want to get in on the program, will report next Thursday for the second stage of their instructions. Last night they were taught how to handle a gun safely and how to make shooting safe. Next Thursday they will be taught how to take care of their guns, to learn their mechanism and to keep them in good order.

After several more week-day instruction periods, they will be permitted to try out their marksmanship on the range. The moral in this story is that much of the wandering activities of boys and girls can be laid to the lack of a -proper place to wander. It is instinctive and traditional for every boy to learn how tQ-shoot and eventually go hunting JikJiis father and grandfather before him. By opening their range and their instruction to boys of this area. The Danville Gun Club has done a fine thing toward easing the pressure against youth, who after being chased, find that they have no place to go without again being chased.

Mrs. William H. Evans Dies At Shavertown Mrs. William H. Evans, aged 70 years, died at her home -at Shaver-town, in Luzerne County, Wednesday night at 10 oclock.

As a result of her death, her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Evans of Poplar Street, Danville, have been called to Shavertown. Surviving are her husband, William H. Eveans.

four sons, Daniel Evans, of Danville; William H. Evans, of Sandusky, Ohio; Sheldon Evans, of Shavertown, and Donald Evans, of Dallas, and one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth McAvoy, of Shavertown. Thomas Mitchell Dies lit Canton, Ohio Thomas Mitchell, aged 64, died at his home in Canton, Ohio, yesterday. Born in Danville, he moved to Canton 25 years ago.

is survived by his wife, Edith, one son, one daughter, and two sisters Mrs. B. J. Smith, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Ben Shepard, of Danville.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family. Interment in Danville will be under direction of Thad S. Vincent. Funeral Of Mrs. D.S.

Hartline Saturday Funeral services lor Mrs. D. S. Hartline, aged 82, well-known and highly respected Bloomsburg woman, who died Wednesday night at 11 o'clock, will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock from the Dyke Funeral Home. The Rev.

Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the Bloomsburg Lutheran Church will officiate and interment will be in the Old Rose-lawn Cemetery. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Mrs. Hartlines husband, for over forty years head of the biology department at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, preceded her in death two years ago.

She was bom at Lancaster and following her graduation from the West Chester State Normal School, came to Bloomsburg where she was a teacher in the local college in the English department. She is the last of her family! Mrs. Hartline was an active member of the St. Matthews Lutheran Church and among her other activities were memberships in the Ivy-Club and D.AR. She is survived by one son, Dr.

Keefer Hartline, of Philadelphia, and three grandchildren. Society Meets In Lutheran Church For Spring Rally The Annual Spring Rally of the PederatiOli' 6f the Women's Missionary Societies of Danville will be held tonight in Trinity Lutheran Church at 6 o'clock. A covered dish dinner will preceed the meeting. The attendants are asked to bring their eating utensils. The guest speaker will be Ongkar Narayan.

a native of British Guiana, and a member of the church in Guiana. Mr. Narayan is studying at Susequehanna University in Selins-grove. preparing to become a medical missionary to his people. The speaker will be introduced by the Rev.

Bernard W. Krapf pastor of the host church Mrs Mostvn Davis. President of the Federation, will conduct the meeting. Mrs. Tracy Straub will sing.

Mrs. Ernest Andrew's will lead in prayer, and Miss Betty Baylor will be the pianist. Mrs. Davis urges all members of the Missionary Societies df the churches, and their friends, to tend this meeting. Serious Forest Fire In Mountains North Of revorton TREVORTON, Mav 2 The most serious forest fire in thumber-land county this oscurred Tuesday afternoon in the mountains orth of Trevorton.

The fire which destroyed about 100 acres of virgin timber, was discovered by Ernest Klock, observer at the Trevorton firs tower. The fire spread across a road and began burning up Little Mountain By the time fire fighters arrived, the fire was out of cohtrol. A high wind carried flames a cress the state highway between Trevorton and Augustaville, and many Trevorton residents, realizing the seriousness of the fire, volunteered to help forest crews combat the blaze. S. Noetling and John Carter.

-I'ur'rvisors of Zerbe Township schools, dispatched a crew of 20 high school students to assist wardens and fire fighters. Trevorton Fire Company and Fire Chief John Longo reported to the secne when flames threatened a number of houses near the mountain top. BLOOMSBURG, May 2 The Bay Scout Memorial Band, consisting of 40 scouts from communites in Montour and Columbia County, will present the sixth concert of the series in the Bloomsburg High School auditorium this evening at 7:45 oclock under, the leadership of R. R. Llewellyn, of Berwick, E.

J. McCormick, of Bloomburg and Bruce Rhawn, of Danville. Special features of the concert include solos by outstanding Scouts L) the musical organization, special lcIos by Richard Abernathy, 13-year cld soprano of Bloomsburg, and novelty selections that have an appeal to the young and old folks, alike. The souvenir program, which is given to all individuals attending, 1 mont contains the names of the forty-five Scouts who were killed in action during World War II. The ccAieart, which was presented in the' Danville High School auditorium, the past Tuesday night, was enjoyed by 400 local citizens, the largest crowd attending any of the concerts to date.

mail worked business of industries Tuesday plant The were from Today is Friday. Again, the day has roUed along to get that weekend spirit working! It is the day that you must think about getting already for that- weekend. And, oh', what a weekend! with this weather, it wUl be ideal for Sunday School and Church followed by a nice dinner and a glorious walk through the woods and country hillside. Of course, there may be some who do not care to walk, so we advise the next best thing take a drive to your favorite spot in the country. BIBLE VERSE While I live will I praise Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being.

Psalm 146:2. POEM FOR TODAY When Spring Is In licr Prime I like the winds of March; They sweep the earth anew, And April rains, that bring That green of riches hue. But the month of May! When spring is in her prime, All Nature wakes: the fields And hills jmd wood are mine. Sweet medleys fill the air From bobolink and wren, The larks and orioles join With robins song again. The lilac bursts its buds, The apple blossoms, too.

Pear trees, like stately brides, Throw White bouquets at you. Ah, lovely month of May! When spring is in her prime. All Nature sings aloud In tunes of waltzinz time. Hilda Clark Fairchild Valley Township School League To Present Program A meeting of the Valiev Township home and school league wiir be held this evening at 8 o'clock. The play An Old Fashioned Mother will be presented bv the following group from Straubs: Deborah Underhill, a mother in Israel, Mrs.

Kase; Widder Bill Pin-dle. leader of the choir, Alice Gir-ton: Miss Louizy Loving Custard, gossip, Mrs. Mary Yorks: Isabel Simpscott, the Village Belle, Josephine Girton; Gloriana Perkins, as good as gold, Frances Chrum; Sukey Pindle, the widder'e mite, Barbara Reinacker; John Underhill, the Prodigal son, Herbert Thomas; Charley Underhill, the Elder Brother, Earl Smith; Brother Jonah Irrackenbush, a Whited Sepulchre, Alvin Cocke: Jeremiah Gosling, a Merry Heart, Donald Reiaacker; Enoch Rhone, an Outcast and an-derer, Harold Everett; Irrintus Todd, the County Sheriff, Charles Yorks. Pianist Betty Baylor. Choir Eleanor and Miriam Von Blohn, Nancy Cooke.

Donald and Shirley Reinacker, Paul Volkman and Stuart Von Blohn. Prompter Mary Moser. Court Approves -Sale Of Limestone Twp, Voting Booth The Weekly session of Montour County court was held yesterday morning at 10:30 oclock with Judge C. W. Kreisher and Associate Juds-es J.

William Getty and Fred R. Jenkins on the bench. The court approved the selling of the voting booth in Limestone Township by the County Commissioners. No date has been set for the sale. A divorce was granted to Ethel L.

Landau from Martin L. Landau. A divorce was granted to Alice Rebecca Hess from Harold Donald Hess. Mrs. Blanche V.

Gaskins, of Pottsville, was appointed substitute guardian for her brother, Charles A. Riffel. She was instructed to furnish bond for $1000. An order was Issued to the effect that Earl M. Grove, of Cogan Station, Lycoming County, and Miss I Betty Louise Dietz, of Danville, R.J D.

4, may be issued a marriage license without the usual waiting period, as the groom is a soldier on leave. Cub. Pack. Ho. 2 Qualifies For Bob Cat Requirements regular meeting of Cub Pack 2 of the St.

Josephs Church met yesterday at the home of the new den mother, Mrs. Joseph Dailey, All of the pack members passed the test for the Bob Cat Refreshments were served to Thomas Denr.en, the den chief Eugene When Mrs. Garrett Smith, of Three Gates, 653 Ravine Road, Plainfield, N. comes here next week as guest speaker for the May 8 meeting of the Lewisburg Civic Club, to discuss Useful Church Gardens, she makes her debut as a speaker on this subject in the State of Pennsylvania. Mrs.

Smith has pioneered and led the way for this venture in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere for the past decade. She conus here well-versed not only this particular hobby but in general gardening, tree commission work and other educational subjects as well. Mrs. Smiths plan, in brief, calls for a useful church garden that is an outdoor sanctuary and parish house combined, where in summertime religiuos service can be held on Sunday and other church activities during the week. This garden enthusiast does not consider this merely as a beautification project.

While she admits such a garden has real beauty, cf course, its main purpose is that of usefulness and that is its prime significance. Mrs. Smith will tell ner audience next Wednesday at the Lewisburg BaptistritSfurch -at 2:30 o'clock how to plan effective and useful church gardens. She will tell of the various ways in which the gardens have been financed. In every way, her talk will be down to earth, so to speak, and she will be able to give concrete examples cf procedure, etc.

It is her purpose to inspire garden lovers everywhere to look to the future with gardens that arc' a pride and joy whether-they be those gar- -dens which are now being enjoyed rtt home or elsewhere, or new plot 3 in the making. The speaker, in looking at waste land or P'ts strewn with rubbish, I etc. sees, not the actual picture be- fore her but a beautiful garden 1 the result of careful, loving planning 1 for the future. I Mrs. Smith is a scuiptor 01 note.

Combining her art with that of the love of gardening she designed and executes the official medal of award for the Garden Club of New Jersey and also the official seal. She also designed and executed the gold lhc-dal of award of the American Rock Garden Society, and the bronze medal cf the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Harry E. McCormick, who will preside at the meeting next Wcdnscday, states that registration already are coming in for the Church Floral Displays which are to be a feautre of the afternoon's program.

Church floral groups in this and surroundings counties have been invited tc enter this judges will be Mrs. Donald Lecrh and Mrs. Frederick Sigel. of McEwcnsville. Ribbon awards will be given.

Civic club members, their frimds, ministers and their wives and all interested and enthusiastic garden lovers throughout this area ary given a most cordial invitation to attend the meeting next Wednesday, WASHINGTON LETTER l- Asks For Change In Mail Train To Conform With DST An appeal to the D. L. W. Railroad to advance the schedule of Its early morning mail train to-eonform to Daylight Saving Time is expected from Valley communites, in order to restore the routine with which mail was handled during the period of Time, as well as the preceding four years of Daylight Saving. The reason is that most business mail comes on an East Bound train arriving1 in this sectlo.i early in the morning.

By the time the reaches the postoffice and is it is quite late in the morning. inconveniencing many of the places. Shamokin Kiwanis Continues Tour Of Regional Plants SHAMOKIN May 2 Shnmokln Kiwanians continued their program visitation to the regions major with a conducted tour evening through the Kulp-steam electric generating of the P. P. L.

Co. inspection tcur was under the dlrection'-of H. Morrell, plant superirrtendant, and his operating During the tour the club men shown all portions of the plant the point where finely powdered Anthracite is dumped into automatic conveyors, fed to endless link-belt grate boilers, converted into steam, transferred to huge condensers and under pressure of 200 pounds per square inch, forced against the blades of a battery of turbines each of which directly energizes an alternating current generator. The rated capacity of the plant, the men learned is 12.000 kilowatts of electrical energy at 11,000 volts. This energy, plant spokesmen said, is distributed locally and, by means of interconnecting power lines, to any desired section of the companys 28 county service area, and if need be, to the lines of other distributors in adjacent states.

This interconnection of lines, company officials pointed out, insures all users a constant flow of electric energy at all times even though one or more power plants might be temporarily inoperative. Superintendent Morrel told the visitors the Kulpmont plant, one- of the smaller of the 17 steam electric generating plants now operated by the P. P. fc uses an average of 450 tons of Anthracite every day and gives employment to 65 men. Mary Louise Duff To Marry Former Danville Resident Mr.

and Mrs. Alan Dallas Duff cf Newtonville, announce the engagement of their daughter. Mary Louise, to the Rev. Franklin A. Bower son of the Rev.

and Mrs. Herbert Bower, of Madison, Conn. Miss Duff has recently returned frem France, whore she was stationed as a Red Cross Clubmobiic worker. Mr. Bowor, a graduate of Bucknell University and Andover Newton Theological School, has returned to his ministry at the First Congregational Church of Madison following a neriod of service as a chaplain in the United States Maritime Service.

The Rev. Franklin A. Bower is well known in Danville, as his father was pastor of the First Baptist Church for several years. The Rev. Herbert K.

Bower is now retired. Two' Summer Courses At Susquehanna U. SELINSGROVE, May (UP) Two summer terms of six months each will be conducted at Susoue- hanna University to accommodate the veterans now enrolled irt the college nhd also for civilian students wishing to aeseerate their program. Registration fur the first term will be held on Tuesday, June 18. First term will, end July 27.

The secoud term will run from registration day on Julv 29 until September The regular meeting of the Fellowship Class of St. Johns Reformed Sunday School was held last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis with Myron Fenster-macher, presiding. A worship service and business meeting was conducted by group.

Refreshments were served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. William Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel De-wald, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Delate, Mrs. William Savidge, Mrs. John Ridgeway, Russell Kooser, Betty Bryer, Helen Litterer, Mae Williams, Russell Bryer, Harold Kapp, Elias Williams, Myron Fenstermacher. William L. Kindt, Mrs.

Anna Kindt and Mrs. Blanche Switzer. At the conclusion of the refreshment period the group honored Mr. and Mrs. Herman Delsite, who were recently married, with an old-fashioned belling.

Dismisses Plea To End Injunction On Dravo Picketing PITTSBURGH, May 2 (UP) Federal Judge R. M. Gibson has dismissed a petition by CIO shipbuilders to withdraw a preliminary injunction against mass picketing at tlie Neville Island plant of Dravo Corporation. Judge Gibson said he had no pother to restrain or review proceedings in a state court. The injunction had been issued by Common Pleas Judge Thomas M.

Meanwhile opposing sides remain deadlocked in the strike that began March I8th when 1,5000 production worker walked out to enforce a dc mand for an 18 increase. Stores Start Hew Shamokin Area Saturday Closing SHAMOKIN, May 2 Effective this week, the new summer schedule of store hours adopted by the merchants' division of Shamokin Chamber of Commerce, will become effective, continuing through the next four months. Under the Schedule Shamokin stores will remain open each Friday evening until 9:00, closing Saturday evening at 5:30. Several other regional merchant groups have adopted the same schedule. The change is welcome bv both merchants and clerks, in that it gives all.

a lohger weekend. Persons owning summer cottages will be able to depart to occupy them with the closing cf the stores early Saturday evening, whereas in the past, most of the cottage owners waited until Sunday morning before leaving. The new schedule, under the present program, continues through August. Expecting unusually heavy traffic Friday night when all Shamokin stores will remain open until 9:09 according to a new summer working schedule, Chief Burgess Thomas F. La tidy- today instructed borough police to change their usual Satur- day night schedule of duty to Friday night.

Chief of police William Miller ad-vied the chief burgess he will assign five other patrolmen to duty Friday evening between 7:00 and 9:00. This period is expected to be the height of the shopping hour, and patrolmen will be avai'able to direct traffic 8nd assist shoppers in any way possible. YMCA Schedule Friday. May 3rd High School Gvm, 3:30 to 4:30. Pool, 4:30 to' 5" Sailors Gym, 5:45 to Fool, 6:45 to 7:15 Business Men Gvm, 1 to 2.

Pool 2 to 2:30 and 7 to Siring Shift Gym, 2 to. 3. Pool, 3 to 3:30, Instruction to Beginners: Ages 11, 12. 13 Pool, 3:30 to 4:30 of Junior Baseballc League at 8 P.M. Red Cross Life Saving Course 7 to 8:30 P.

M. the ent hourly wage TON. D. C. (NEA) TVA Diieckp' ftliiE.

Lilierd chairmanned the special committee on preliminary plans Ifor internal iorsal control of atomic energy, lost his family's regular supplier of eggs early in the war. The man joined the trek of tens of thousands living near Knoxville, who went to work in the big Oak! Ridge atomic bomb plants. But after a time the man turned up at the Lilienthal back door. He said he was going back in the egg business. Lilienthal asked him why he was giving up such a good-praying job for the uncertainties of egg-selling, Oh, the egg man explained, I just got disgusted.

All those big buildings, all that machinery, all those people working so hard, all the trouble theyre going to to make whatever it is theyre making out there! It looked to me like it Would be a lot cheaper if the government just Went out end bought it. The latest story is hung on two government girls, overheard talking on a crowded Washington street-car. Said one: "I like Truman because hes so modest." Replied the other: "Well, he certainly hits, a lot to be modest about. TAEMOCRATIC Governor John J. Dempsey of New Mexico li expected to announce his candidacy fob the U.

S. Senate ir, the Coming elections. If the governor runs, he will oppose Senator Dennis Chavez, the incumbent, for the Democratic nomination, and the winner of this race will apparently have to fight it out in November. agaifist Pat Hurley, the ex-ambassador to China. Rear Admiral A.

S. Merrill, commandant of the Eighth Naval Dis trict New Orleans, came to Washington to get straightened out after President Truman had criticized him, under another name, for diving a 'newspaper interview in opposition to uhification of the Army n-ul He took considerable ribbing from Juj friends for havihg stepped into a fast presidential bean-bail. TjIORELLO LAGUARDIA has been spending most of his time on getting more wheat since he became director of the United Nations "Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. But pretty soon, lie says, hes going to have to start worrying about fats and oils and fertilizer j- 1 LaGuardias first press conference was held in his nflice. He said all he had been fed sinfce coming, to Washington was gibberish.

Asked what he thought about Henry jie'iiriweri collect canned goods for relief shipments, LaGuardia put an plupkcst face and answered, I dont think about it Major And Minor Prefer Rooming At College Campus ATLANTA. May 20 (UP The major and the minor arc a little spread out in age for roommates but they like it. At Emory-at-Oxford. a Georgia academy and Junior college, 28 year old Major Charles Chestnut is rooming with 14 year old Harold Erwin, Jr. The major, a veteran of Pacific combat from Columbus, Georgia, is a- freshman in the junior college.

Harold, an Atlanta boy, is a student in the academy. The arrangement was to be temporary. But when college officials tried to move Harold the other day, both lie and the major objected. Upholstering Art Explained At Home Making Meeting The West Heirtyck Womens Home Making Grcup met last cven-ir at the home of Mrs. Benjamin F.

Kinney, with Miss Rebecca Way, county home economics extension agent, in charge cf a chair upholstering project. During the evening the members of the group -practiced a play which they will give at the Spring Meltin' cf Heme Makers, which will be held in the DeLong Memorial School, in Washingtonville, Wednesday, May 15th be; inning at 10:30 oclock. Refreshments were served by the hostess, Mrs. B. F.

Kinney, to Mrs. Carl Shultz, Mrs. Reginald Shvltz, Mrs. Walter Shultz, Mrs. Leroy Mrs.

Kimber Billheim. Mrs. Roy Koscr, Mrs. Howard Gething, Helen Dcittcreick, RUth Mrs. Jchn Wintersteen, Miss Rebecca Way, Miss Nancy Leo Smith.

Miss Nonna Shrilenbcrgcr and Mrs. B. F. Kiliney. Red Cross Officials Frederick La he.

regional director NAVY PLANE GROUNDLOOPED WILLIAMSPORT, May 2 A surplus torpedo bomber being ferried from Tulsa. to LaGuardia Field, New York City, landed at the Doran, Thomas Pchowic, John Dal- Williamsport airport and nosed over, ton, Thomas Murphy, John Ditzler, after blowing a tire. which promises to be most unusual and outstanding. Mrs, Paul Stolz, club president, vil open the meeting and introduce Rev. Perry Smith who will speak brieHy of the Community House.

-Preceding the meeting executive boJkd members will have lunch with Mrs. Garrett Smith at the Lewisburg Inn. Following the meeting a social hour and tea will be held. Fire Burns Over 75 Acres Of Fields NESCOPECK, May 2 Fire which started along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, below Nescopeck and opposite Berwick, about one oclock Wedhesday afternoon burned over about seventy-five acres. of fields and woodland before it was put under control (tv.o and a half hours later.

The blaze at a narrow path to the top. cf a slope and then spread out Throe quarters of the land bu rned over was abandoned grassland and the smoke from the blaze went into the sky in heavy clouds. The woodland burned was second cron hard' woods. Harry Lutz, Mifflinville was in charge of the men battling the blaze. A ciew cf Pennsylvania Railroad employes assisted In fighting the flames.

Piloted by Richard H. Steves, the is owned by Air Trading Corporation, New York City, the concern having purchased it from the Navy as surplus equipment. Steves requested lights at filed while living over the section, but was advised against landing) there by the CAA communirat'on Alexandria. 2 1UP1 Rri station at the airport. However, he Cro? 5 officials have announced that Extend Duties Of Regional Director Pay Fines Of $10 For Running Boats On Susquehanna Sncidman Brothers, of Almedia, paid a fine of $10 for operating two motor boats on the Susquehanna river without 1948 license plates.

William Prentis of Danville, paid a fine of $10 on the same charge. State fiSh warden Charles Litwhilcr Was the prosecutor. RETURNED FROM FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. A.

C. Amesbury of Church Strreet, have returned home after spending some time in Florida. KSen'gRepullican Club to Hear C.H. Duckies Speaker The lion. Charles M.

Buckles will be' l.lic speaker at the regular meeting of the Mens Republican Club at the club rooms this evening at 6 o'clock. of much experiences in state affairs, Mr. Buckles is also an outstantiiik speaker. All members a Urged to attend. jMTROVING HOME William Doran improving the appearance of his home on Mill Street with new tan brick shingles.

Carl Deitz, Edward Dailey, and Edward Coleman. Ik Of C. Plans Dinner May 16th Among the coming, events at the ICnlghts of Columbus Home on Mill Street is a dinner which will be served to members on May 16th. All numbers planning to attend are to make their reservations with Joseph Kramer, Secretary, in care told the operator in charge he was familiar enough with the make it in to the same duties, in Virgtnta. Ma- On landing, the right tire blew lyland, and tiro District of Coluin-out, swerving tire torpedo bomber bia.

off tire runway and over onto its Laise, in his new tri-state post, nose. Damage to the aircraft in- succeeds to tiro job held by V. A. of -the Knights of Columbus, Dan-eluded the right wing, right tire and Phillips, now-transferred to Michi-vlile, wheel and propeller. I gan.

He is a native Washingtonian. I to, for Pcmisylvnnia, has been hanicd (TRY A NEWS CLASSIFIED AD) (TRY fi NEW S' CLASSIFIED ao,.