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THt DAILY NEWS, Huntingdon, Mdurtt Union and Soxton, 2, 1978 PAGE 'People, Places, Things" NEWS FROM YESTERYEAR Soldier Boys Can Realty Eat 80 Years Ago Vesuvius continues her fall opening of craters. mosquitoes are holding their conclave right now. Campaign buttons are being distributed by political Lowndes, of Maryland, was a Huntingdon Visitor. understand the real meaning of a good appetite, watch any one of the returned soldier boys at a good H. Isenberg, private in Co.

is confined to his home in the West End, the result of malaria; also, Ernest Newell. Frank Smith, a private in Co. is confined to his home being a victim of malarial fever. J. L.

Westbrook Is Improving the roadway near his ice house along the hill opposite town, widening it and preparing a better means of loading wagons. One of the largest bass caught this season by anyone from this place was hooked by Mr. Clyde Port near Mount Union, it weighing almost four pounds. 50 Years Ago Philadelphia The first indictment in Philadelphia's drive against gunmen, alcohol kings, and police graft came when the Grand'Jury found true bills against Police Captain William C. Knoell and two district detectives John Sells and Herbert Layre.

They will be placed on trial on a total of 104 counts. To the Juniata College faculty staff have been added nine persons in order to fill vacancies and to enlarge certain departments. Miriam Fackler, English; Miss Meade Seawell, literary interpretation; Miss Martha Pilger, German; Miss Dora A. States, education; Miss Lenora Cowher, music; Miss Lillian Buckingham, home economics; Miss Susanna Haag, home economics; Mrs. R.

C. Siersema, mathematics; H. S. Alshouse, Latin. 25 Years Ago The Rev.

Richard H. Winters, newly -elected pastor of the Abbey Church in Huntingdon, will be present Oct. 4 when the congregation observes "World Wide Communion Sunday." Paris A new wave of Communist led strikes hit railroads and communications throughout France, and the Reds threatened a nationwide walkout when the National Assembly recovenes. County Treasurer Ralph J. Cramer said he expected to be sold out of doe licenses by this evening, Half of the county's quota of 2,625 tags were issued on the opening day of the sale of the licenses for the an- tlerless deer on December 14 -15.

10 Years Ago Washington The Senate has spoken. Now what say President Johnson, Earl Warren, Mike Mansfield and, of course, Abe Fortas? For Mansfield, the Democratic leader, several senators had the suggestion -r make no further attempt at Senate consideration of Fortas to be Warren's replacement at Chief Justice. Col. John Eisenhower, son of former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, will be the guest speaker at the Republican fund-raising rally to be held October 23.

Birmingham, England A Birmingham housewife who had been taking fertility drugs because she had no children gave birth to sextuplets today by Caesarian Section on her 30th birthday. Words, Wit Wisdom By WILLIAM end MARY MORRIS Dear Morrises: In a column not long ago, you explained the origin of "clean as a whistle." You said that centuries ago whistles were whittled out of wood, usually a reed of some sort. To produce a clear, true sound, the whistle had to be absoultely clean and that's how clean as a whistle came to mean spotlessly pure, absolutely without fault. May I suggest that the phrase may be nautical in origin? The howling and shrieking of the rigging of an old sailing ship when in a gale truly beggers description. The noise prevented the positive transmission of orders by voice to the crew.

The bosun and his mates were responsible for controlling the crew working the ship, and to do this, they used the shrill bosun's pipes or whistles to pass orders. So, even in the worst conditions, the orders would get through clear or clean as a whistle. To this day the navy uses bosun's pipes to call attention to orders being passed through the intercom systems that are used aboard ships Jones, That's an interesting theory, and if it explains "clear as a whistle" rather than "clean as a whistle" no matter. Also, while Her Majesty's Navy probably does still precede P.A. announcements with a toot of the bosun's whistle, we doubt if the practice is followed in the U.

S. Navy. Seems to us that naval routine these days calls for a stern "NOW HEAR THIS." repeated three times and followed by the announcement. Thoughts for Today (from Winston Churchill): "Short words are best and the old words, when short, are best of all," and "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." And we're reminded of Mark Twain on the subject of word choice: "The difference between, the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Copyright, 1978, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Another observer who visited the field on Saturday said he found footprints that led into a marshy area and disappeared in tall weeds.

He said the prints were 14 inches long and 2 inches deep. "They definitely were not made by a farm animal," he said. Thompson is the latest of about a dozen in the two counties to report such sightings since July when a large, foul-smelling ape-like creature first was reported in CHtpsen, County Sheriff Marvin Andersen said his office has been receiving a number of reports some which turned out to be false alarms and some which they weren't too sure about. sure has them scared," he said it is still around here when we get this corn QUtt it's not going to have as much cover to hide in." Big Creature Sighted In Soybean Lot HARDY, Iowa Mark Thompson claims he saw a creature resembling a large hairy ape much like the legendary "Bigfoot" in his soybean patch the other day. Kossuth and Humboldt County officials say there have been a number of such sightings in the area in the past two months.

Thompson said he was sitting in a pickup truck late last week when he saw something that appeared to be 7 feet tall and covered with brownish-black hair in the soybean field. He said the creature moved away when lie honked his horn and flashed the pickup's lights. First Annual Democratic Rally Sunday Octobtr 8 2 P.M, Short Business Meeting At 4 P.M. lint (fifjl Speaking of Your Health Lester Forced Vomiting: No Way to Lose Weight I have a 20 year old son who voluntarily throws up his food after eating so he can maintain a satisfactory weight level. He seems to think that this isn't doing him any harm since he's been doing it for two years.

I don't know where to go for help. He won't listen to me. Doesn't he need the help of a doctor or a psychiatrist? Isn't there a serious danger to his health? Mrs. O.C., Ore. You have pinpointed exactly 'your son's need.

He most certainly does need a doctor who, working in conjunction with a psychiatrist will alter this terrible behavior problem. The condition, you describe is one of the variations of anorexia nervosa. It occurs frequently in late adolescene and early adulthood. Many of these young people have such an abhorrence of obesity that they will resort to even this severely neurotic pattern of behavior. Many who eat compulsively and excessively, a conditon known as, will 'follow by inducing Vomiting.

Even though your son seems to control his weight, vitamin deficiencies and anemia are not uncommon effects of such neurotic drives. You must induce your son to be treated by a doctor who will direct the control of his weight, at the same time maintaining good health. Unless the underlying Duquesne 100 Years Old Centennial Of School Marked PITTSBURGH (UPI) Pennsylvania's oldest Catholic university Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost entered its second 100 years Sunday with quite a bit more fanfare than marked its opening Oct. 1, 1878. That year Duquesne was founded as Pittsburgh Catholic College above a bakery and tailor shop in an ethnic ghetto near the city's downtown.

Holy Ghost priests banished from Germany by Bismarck founded Duquesne and established the American Province of the Congregation Of the Holy Ghost. In 1911 Duquesne became the first Catholic institution of higher learning in Pennsylvania to achieve university That same year it took its new name from the Marquis de Duquesne, who first brought Catholic observances to Pittsburgh and under whose direction Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt) was built at the Point, The Centennial celebration officially opened Sunday, Founders Day, with, a special concelebrated Mass in Epiphany Church, but i spectacular fireworks display from river barges Saturday night splashed Duquesne's name in lights over Point State Park. Upcoming Centennial events range from major academic symposiums to an old-fashioned community fair. The presidents of Brandeis, Duke and Notre' Dame will discuss the future of private education from the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic perspectives in a. Centennial lecture series, Notre Dame President Rev.

Theodore Hesburgh will open the series Tuesday, followed by Dr. Terry Sanford, president of Duke University, on Wednesday. Dr. Marver Bernstein of Brandeis will present the final lecture Oct. 13.

The university Administration Building will be officially recognized as an historic landmark in a joint ceremony with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Thursday. The red brick building, known as "Old Main," was dedicated on May 3, lass. Built by the founding Holy Ghost Fathers and 'Brothers, the structure tor many 'The Pennsylvania Story OUR KEYSTONE STATE By Mason Denison emotional disturbances are ferreted out and treated by a psychiatrist, t'he problem usually continues. It is obvious that the longer this bizarre behavior continues the more difficult it will be to finally control it. The most painful condlton of my life happened when I had a peritonsillar abscess.

It had to be drained and I suffered for almost a month. I'm 22. Shouldn't I have my tonsils taken out so that I won't have this attack again? I dread the possiblity. Miss K.A.R., Conn. Dear Miss I know exactly how painful a peritonsillar abscess can be.

All of us in the practice of medicine have seen patients suffer severely with this swelling and abscess formation around the tonsil. The tonsil lies in a pocket or "fossa," Around the tonsil is a capsule. When a germ infection extends from the tonsil irtto the peritonsillar swelling and difficulty in swallowing accompany it. One such attack is considered a prime reason for the removal of the diseased tonsils. Once the tonsils are removed, there is never again the possibility of another attack.

You may still, of course, get infections in that area, but the serious complication you have suffered through cannot again occur. Pell-Mell Lawmaking HARRISBURG It's been pell mell time once again on Pennsylvania's legislative front and perhaps in this legislative re election year a point voters might do well to consider. For example, since lawmakers returned in mid September following their two and a half month summer recess they have been fighting vigorously to clear the decks (in a manner of speaking) to make way for the election recess into which they are now heading. For the past three weeks it has been pell -mell on the legislative front, ram through bills in last minute haste, heavy calendars, roll calls by the carload and rhetoric by the mouthful. During the past week on one day alone the Senator calendar ran 30 pages embracing some 90 bills, to illustrate the pell mell facet.

Good heavens, where have lawmakers been all year? Well, as of the end of September the calendar shows the elapsing of 273 days of '1978 and as of the end of September the legislative tally shows the Senate in session 51 days during that 273 day period and the House of Representatives 47 days. Unquestionably Pennsylvania's (full time, remember) legislative braves have been overworked. Of course, they have other duties to perform than just being here in Harrisburg to legislate; errands to run for constituents, license plates to pick up, but in the end isn't their prime chore in legislative life one of being here to legislate? As far as legislating goes, the record is equally, impressive. Some 40 weeks have passed since the beginning of 1978 and the 1978 legislative session and within that space of time lawmakers so far have compiled the breathtaking record of accruing exactly 18 weeks in which they voted on legislation. The point in all this: small wonder Pennsylvania is forced to endure the idiotic pell mell sessions that each year bless the Keystone State.

The batch of bills inevitably thrown up for action in the dying days of a session is a ridiculous last minute jam that could be avoided, and in the city. Singing star and composer Bobby Vinton, a native of nearby, Canonsburg and a 1956 graduate of Duquesne, will return to campus for the first time in more than 20 years on Oct.9, Vinton will be awarded an honorary doctor of music degree, during a special academic convocation, and will meet with Music School students during an informal question and answer session, The Centennial will officially conclude on New Year's Eve with a gala scholarship benefit. The evening's festivities will begin with annual Hein? Hall, performance oC the Tamtwiteans, followed by champagne dinner mm St the campys. from any sensible standpoint should be avoided. Running through more than 100 roll calls in a voting week as the 1 crush builds is utterly senseless but aside from that factor the old adage holds true: haste makes waste.

In these pell mell rushes legislative goof ups inevitably result, plus it is obvious that any great deliberations of the legislative ddy must fall by the wayside to make way for haste. Many a debater who might normally wish to question an issue up for pell mell vote, in exasperation over the speed crush might well say: aw, nuts; what's the use with all the yells to move the calendar. Of course, legislative leaders piously insist everyone has their chance to have their say, notwithstanding the crush, but psychologically that just isn't the way it works out. In all this though the inescapable fact is that there is no (sensible) reason why 273 days should be compressed into a mere 50 legislative days or why 40 weeks should be compressed into 18 legislative voting weeks. This is not to say lawmakers should have been in session all 273 days or all 40 weeks, even though they like to classify themselves as full time legislative beavers, but it is to say that the workload should be spread out more evenly and sensibly over the period of time.

Voting on legislation is a deadly serious business affecting the lives of every Pennsylvanian one way or another and deserves far more than last minute pell mell consideration. In other words, spread out the legislative days, the legislative weeks and the legislative voting weeks over the year in a more expansive pattern rather than the pell mell system at present. Fifty legislative days a year! Kennedy Praises President MANCHESTER, N.H. (UPI) Sen. Edward Kennedy says he came to the nation's first presidential primary state to praise Carter.

If it weren't for the president's Camp David success, Kennedy might have buried him. Nearly 1,000 cheering, stomping delegates, many wearing "Ted in '80" buttons, gave Kennedy a boistrous welcome at the Democratic state convention Saturday making it clear he had the edge over Carter, at least in the popularity polls. "I suppose you're wondering why I'm here," Kennedy siMd in a broad, exaggerated tone, chuckling fc "Actually I was (scheduled to appear in Manchester, tow who was iving the car got it wrong and we ended up here in Manchester, N.H, and I HOUSE FOR SALE By Owners. Immediate Occupancy MMk it if iM rim tnfctrft patent jprwtfty. TTP- VW Beam's Chess Game Is A Little Rusty CHECKMATE: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin tackled presidential adviser Zbigniew Brzestinski over a chess board at Camp David, winning one game and losing two, Which wasn't bad for a man so out of practice.

Says Begin, now back in Tel Aviv, "My previous game was on Sept. 20, 1940, Then the Russian police broke into my house'and took me away." He adds he called to his wife as he was dragged out that he conceded the game because his opponent was in a better board position. Of his twin losses to Brzezinski, he says, "I didn't like it, but I told myself it's better for him to beat me at chess instead of diplomacy." LOSING A HEADACHE: Johnny Cash is out of a Nashville, hospital minus the sinus trouble that plagued him throughout his last tour. Cash entered the hospital last week with a severe head cold and chronic sinus infection. Doctors found and removed a sinus cyst in surgery Friday.

Cash's next scheduled appearance comes Oct. 9 when he serves as master of ceremonies at the nationally televised Country Music Association Awards. ANOTHER SALUTE: A brand new set of laurels is being added to the annual deluge of Oscars, Emmies and other congratulatory tokens. The new plaudits will be presented by the Kennedy Center in Washington to performing artists who have made "significant contributions to American culture." Center Chairman Roger Stevens says the awards as yet unnamed will be handed out 3 td stars already chosen. Pioneer recipients: Singer Marian Anderson, dancer Fred Astalre, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Richard Rodgers and conductor Arthur Rubehstein.

DOOR PRIZE: Minneapolis millionaire Percy Ross is famous for the bashes he periodically throws, and the one he staged during the weekend in Dearborn, lived up to the reputation. More than 1,500 of his guests sifted through 500 pennies in a search for four coins bearing Ross's initials. The four finalists then competed in guessing the number of coins in a jar. Lucille Kengas of Calumet hit the jackpot winning an $18,000 copper colored Cadillac. Previous Ross giveaways have included a $180,000 toy-buying binge for children in Minneapolis hospitals and a $16,500 frolic in which he tossed silver to children along a parade route.

QUOTE OF THE DAY. Author William S. Burroughs, asked by the New York tabloid Extra! to describe the greatest risk he ever took: "Being born." GLIMPSES: Debbie Freeze, 20, of Morrisville, N.C., is the new Miss World- America and will represent the United States in the Miss World pageant in London Shyam Yodh, who abandonee! a career as a neurosurgepn for one as a professional satirist, will celebrate his 41st birthday Oct. 17 at New York's Nirvana restaurant, with a guest list containing more doctors than musicians Christopher Reeve, returned from London after completing his starring role in the Warner Bros, production of "Superman," will attend the Dec. 10 Charity World Premiere at Kennedy Center in thought I'd drop by the convention and say hello." Kennedy's stemwinding keynote address was interrupted time and again with raucdus standing ovations.

For his part, Kennedy joked about the 1980 New Hampshire primary, and at one point made a sentimental reference to his brother, the late John F. Kennedy, that brought the crowd to its "In the campaign of 1960, my brother Jack came back to Manchester the night before election day to be here in the state that gave him his first victory in the presidential primary that year," he said. Kennedy carefully praised Carter throughout the speech. "President Carter deserves credit for his leadership, and especially for his achievement at Camp David that has brought peace closer for Israel and all the nations of the Middle East," Kennedy said. When that line brought only a moderate ovation, Kennedy, Sen.

Thomas Mclntyre, D- N.H., and state House Democratic Leader Chris Spirou encouraged the crowd to their feet, leading the applause. But while Kennedy probably won the popular vote, Spirou, State Democratic chairman Joanne Symons and other party leaders made it clear to the two score national reporters following Kennedy that Carter was their candidate in 1980. All agreed the Camp David accords on Middle East peace had done much to boost the president's popularity in the state where he won his first primary victory in 1976. "I said before Camp David that Sen. Kennedy had -a definite advantage over President Carter-," Lucille Kelley, a Democratic candidate for the governor's counsel.

"Now he still has the advantage, but it is a close call'." She said she intends to "support President Carter down the line in 1980." "I suppose you could say my, trip here was provocative," Kennedy said in an interview on the way back to Washington, "But I look at it as building the party. the kind of thing I do all the time. "I'll be doing the same thing two years from now," he said. Then realizing he was talking about the 1980 presidential year, he quickly added: "and in four years fawn now and six Flaherty Speaks Out On Surplus SCRANTON, Pa. (UPI) Democratic gubernatorial candidate Pete Flaherty says a $76 million surplus in the state lottery fund should be used solely to benefit senior citizen programs.

He said it should be used for transportation programs, tax and rent rebates and utility rebates that will benefit the state's elderly. "Programs such as these will require the legitimate use of the lottery surplus. I will not support any moves in the legislature to use that surplus for any other purpose," he said. In outlining a series of proposals for senior citizens here Saturday, Flaherty pledged to seek support of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation in changing the formula for distribution of federal funds for senior citizen programs. "The present system is unfair to states with a large senior citizen population," Flaherty said.

He said instead of being based on total state population, the system should be changed to a formula basing the level of aid on the percentage of senior citizens a state has compared with the rest of the nation. Flaherty said that as governor he would retain the senior citizen transportation assistance program. He expressed support for pending legislation to expand eligibility and increase for senior citizens under the property tax and rebate programs. And he called for approval of an incentive and support program to enable families to keep older members in their homes. "More than a month ago I proposed that the state legislature pass a law.

exempting senior citizens from personal income tax oh the sale of their last home when they're moving into an apartment," Flaherty said. "I feel President Ca'rter will be both a candidate and a nominee and be and I have every intention of supporting him," Kennedy said. dp wwy 643-5359 Calviiy laptfet Cburqh fiwt Reform (Cont'd from Page stituents, posh offices, luxury cars, and non-legislative telephone calls. stronger guidelines on the "per, diem" so that lawmakers do not collect the fee for Christmas, Thanksgiving and other days wheo they, are not in on official A worthwhile auditing procedure so the legislators and, the public know how they COMMUNITY ITAUiANK.