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Today's Chuckle "Don't tell me we're overdrawn," the housewife exclaimed to the bank teller. "We're merely under-deposited." THE PROGRESS Readers Tip Other County Fair stories and pictures are on Pages 2,3, 8,10. Vol. 59 No. 185 Our 55th Year Clearfield, Curwensville, Philipsburg, Moshonnpn Valley, Saturday, August 7, 1965 14,290 Copiet Daily 26 PAGES TODAY Head Finale Tod WINNING STYLE David Passmore of Clearfield R.

D. 2 shows his championship style yesterday after copping the 1965 tractor driving championship at the fair. 7 (Progress Photo) Klan Hearings May Produce Witnesses By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) The House Committee on Un-American Activities apparently has found witnesses possibly dissident Klansmen willing to te.Il inside secrets about Ku Hux Klan operations. Chairman Edwin E. Willis, D- wouldn't say so, but he did announce Tuesday that public hearings, delayed by a lengthy search for "friendly witnesses," would definitely begin in October.

When Willis disclosed March SO that his committee had voted to carry out a formal investigation of the Klan, as requested by President Johnson, he expressed hope hearings could begin in "a couple of months." But when his investigators fanned out through the South, they reportedly ran into more difficulties than they had expected. Willis wants to use the same hearings technique with the Klan his committee employes in probing Communist activities confronting recalcitrant witnesses with former insiders' testimony. But, sources said, investigators had trouble locating persons willing and able to reveal details of Klan operations at a public hearing. Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 5 $362,320 Due Countians In Extra SS Benefits Extra checks totaling an estimated $362,320 will be mailed next month to some 10,200 Clearfield Coun- tians who are now receiving Social Security benefits, according to officials of the Social Security office at DuBois.

The checks, which will be mailed separately from the regular monthly benefit checks, represent payment of the seven per cent increase provided under the Social Security health care bill signed July 30 by President Johnson. The bill is retroactive to January. The $362,320 figure represents the total amount of payments due Clearfield Countians for the eight- month period. This figure comes from taking seven per cent of $647,000 (the total amount of regular checks sent Clearfield Countians in an average month), then multiplying this amount by eight (the number of months affected by the retroactive provision of the new bill). The first regular checks reflecting the increase will be mailed in early October for the month of September.

State Police Rodeo At DuBois Tonight DUBOIS The State Police Mounted Exhibition, rained out of its scheduled performance last night, will be presented tonight starting at 8 o'clock at the high school stadium on Liberty" Boulevard. Admission will be free. It will be the only performance today. Originally, two shows were scheduled yesterday with the afternoon show presented before the rains came. GIVE BLOOD BE A DONOR BLOODMOBILE The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in the EUB Parish Hall at Woodland Monday from 3 to 7 p.

m. Walk-in donors will be welcomed. No Note To Johnson From Reds Ghana President's Message Lacks Omen for Peace to the By ENDRE MARTON WASHINGTON (AP) There was no direct message from the North Vietnamese to President Johnson in a letter delivered by Foreign Minister Alex Quaison- Sackey of Ghana, diplomatic said today. The letter, from Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah, contained nothing to brighten the prospects for peace negotiations, it was understood. Qua' son-Sackey would not talk newsmen about its contents.

The message, delivered at White House Friday, had aroused considerable advance speculation because, only a day earlier, Nkrumah had received a communication from President Ho Chi Minh of North Viet -Nam, with whom he is friendly. Quaison-Sackey, who is also president of the U.N. General Assembly, met with Johnson and, the White House later indicated, received assurances the United States has no present plans to bomb Hanoi, capital of North Viet Nam. U.S. officials have repeatedly said as much.

Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Meyers said Quaison- Sackey reported Hanoi had expressed concern about a visit from Nkrumah because of possible bombings. Moyers said Johnson had told the envoy, "That concern was unnecessary because there is no U.S. military action against Hanoi "not a bomb has fallen there'." But when asked whether this meant there is no plan to bomb the city in the foreseeable future, Moyers said, "I would not read into the statement any- Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 4 Viet Cong Hit Outposts In Mekong Delta By EDWIN Q.

WHITE SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Communist guerrillas set up a steady barrage of mortar attacks early today against government outposts in a Mekong Delta region south of the capital, a U.S. military spokesman said. The Viet Cong shelled the Vietnamese positions, ranging from 100 miles to 125 miles southwest of Saigon, with 60mm and 81mm mortar rounds, an officer reported. Vietnamese casualties were reported as "light" in some of the attacks. There were no reports of casualties in others.

A Navy Al Skyraider was lost in a raid on the Dong Hoi barracks 40 milernorth of the border. A military spokesman said the plane was one of 29 from the carrier Midway that dropped 15 tons of bombs on the area. Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 4 LUCKY THE CLOWN brings some cheer to children in the Clearfield Hospital yesterday after asking special permission to put on a free show. Lucky, who is William Honey of Orlando, and a member of the Strates Shows at the county fair, has another interest in the hospital.

His wife gave birth to a boy there early this week. (Progress Photo) SINGER CARMEL QUINN takes her act into the audience as she looks for some singing partners in last night's grandstand show. Miss Quinn, an Irish lass who got her start on the Arthur Godfrey TV show, gets a response from Blair Hefkin of Clearfield in the bleachers. (Progress Photo by Jack Zipf) Critics Voice Objections To LBJ's Policies WASHINGTON (AP) Critics by the hundreas' demonstrated in Washington, California and Indiana against President Johnson's Viet Nam policies. In Washington Friday about 600 persons attended a four-hour rally in a park across from the White House to mark the beginning of what was called a four-day assembly of unrep- resented people.

A smaller number staged a sit-in at a White House gate. Scores of police were on guard against outbreaks. In Emeryville, about 300 pickets tried unsuccessfully to block a 22-car train hauling troops to the Oakland, Army terminal. Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 4 Bids To Be Asked For Sewer Work At Philipsburg Hospital HARRISRURG (AP) Bids will be received Aug.

25 by the General State Authority for four projects. Bids were called for rehabilitation of the electrical system at Lock Haven College, with $300,000 set aside for the work. A second project is the construction of a sewer line at Philipsburg State General Hospital. The GSA has allocated $50,000 for construction. The bid date for reconstruction of utilities at Fairview State Hospital was delayed two weeks from Aug.

11. The project has $1,477,00 allocation. The final operation is to be a redrilling of an existing well at Reeds Gap State Park. The GSA has set aside $368,000 for the project. CLOUDY Scattered thundershowers this evening.

Low 6472. Variable cloudiness, warm and humid Sunday. Sunrise 8:20 Clearfield River Level Friday 7 p. m. 5.00 fee.t (falling).

Today 7 a. m. 5.00 feet (stationary). Clearfield Weather Friday low 60; High 93. Overnight low 60.

Mid State Airport Friday low 57; High 88. Overnight low 55. Clearfielcf-DuBois Area Ranks light In Unemployment HARRISBUBG The Clearfield-DuBois labor market ranks eighth in the state on unemployment. That shows up "lira Statewide tabulation by th Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry of the 45 labor markets hi the commonwealth. The survey covering the entire state is made only every two months, and there's a six-week lag on compilation of the data.

The report shows that as of mid-June the Clearfield-DuBois area had unemployment of 5.7 per cent or 2,000 people out of a civilian labor force of 35,100. But, in April the figure was 6.8 per cent and in June 1964 was 7.7 per cent. Worst unemployment in the state, 8.1 per cent, showed up in the midstate Perry County area of Marysville Newport, near Harrisburg. The best jobs-joblessness picture once again showed up in diversified Lancaster County with its farming and industry Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 6 Groundbreaking Set For Section Of Shortway at DuBois DUBOIS Plans have been made to conduct groundbreaking ceremonies in conjunction with the start of construction on Section 24 of the Keystone Shortway.

Section 24 begins in the Clear Run area and ends four-fifths of a mile east of Route 255 near the John Olson property. It is the shortway section to be built in this area. The ground breaking will Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 6 Audience Gets Into Act With Carmel Quinn Most of the featured performers that come to the Clearfield County Fair's grandstand revue arrive just before show time, do their acts, and leave immediately. Unless you seek out a performer backstage for an autograph, you seldom see one up close.

Such was not the case last night when this year's grandstand show presented Carmel Quinn, the Ireland-born song- stress who has enjoyed considerable -popularity in America, especially on television. She was no on stage five minutes last night until she took a microphone in hand and headed across the track for the bleachers. The capacity bleacher crowd and grandstand audience then watched as she traveled up and down hi front of the seats, talking with the Shows At Grandstand Featured Chitwood Drivers, Welk Performers Top Lost Day The 1965 Clearfield County Fair ends tonight with two grandstand shows, the final showing of the James E. Strates Shows and the awarding of valuable prizes including a 1965 car. The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show was getting set up on the track this morning ready for two performances this afternoon.

The first will start at 2 p. m. and the second at 4 p. in. Tonight's two grandstand shows one at 8 o'clock and the other at 10 will star three popular Lawrence Welk Show performers, Violinist Aladdin, Dancer and Marimba Artist Jack Imel and Singer Joe Feeney.

Last night some 5,000 persons acclaimed the pretty Irish singer of television fame, Carmel Quinn. Mass Quinn literally brought down the house with her lovely voice and sparkling wit in her performance during the two grandstand shows. Known as a singer who likes to establish an intimate contact with her audience, Miss Quinn delighted her listeners when she moved across the tracks into the bleachers and invited the audience to join in singing familiar songs. Her one night personal appearance was part of two-hour show which includes seven specialty acts and numbers by a 12-girl chorus line. The grandstand show was preceded by the heavyweight division of the annual horse pulling contast.

The lightweight teams competed in the after- Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 7 Inside The Progress Hospital News 2 Hello World 2 Business Week 2 News Briefs 2 Columns 4 Church News 5, 7 Classified Ads 6, 7 Hints From Heloise 7 Sports 8 Comics 9 For Mental Health A community mental health center, not a mental retardation facility as was reported Thursday, is being sought for Clearfield in a state plan submitted to the federal government. Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 3 five from Area fnjvrecf in Series Of Road Mishaps Five area residents were injured in a series of three highway accidents reported in the district yesterday. In one of the mishaps, two young men were treated at the Clearfield Hospital and released after the motorcycle they were riding 1ft Mill Road and struck a concrete wall.

They were Stanley Dale, 19, of 118 Cemetery Road, Clearfield, the driver, and William H. Conrad, 22, Mineral Springs, a passenger. The accident happened at 4:05 p. m. Earlier in the day, Charles F.

McCloskey, 30, of Clarence escaped injury when the truck Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 3 Police Probe Second Theft at Philipsburg PHILIPSBURG Borough police are investigating their second burglary hi three days. Chief of Police Victor Fleck reported tnat the Dairy Store, North Front Street, was broken into sometime early this morning through a transom over the back door. The loss has not yet been ascertained. The burglary was reported at 6:15 a m.

when the store was opened. On Wednesday, the Pennsyl- Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 READY TO ROLL C. Ogden, Clearfield's Soap Box Derby champion, gets his first driver's eye view of the Derby Downs track at Akron, Ohfo, Thursday. A record field of 252 boys took a trial run on the track Thursday afternoon in preparation for today's All-American event..