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i r-' va Haven, August 21, IVor The Lock Haven Express PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY' Leek Haven Express Printing Co 9-11 W. Main Horen. Po. i 1 tfrank D. O'Reilly Publisher IQ81-19SI Frank t).

O'Reilly, Jr. President and Publisher Rebecca F. Gross Editor and Vice President 'f Sarah O'R. Loru Secretary-Treasurer ONE BRIGHT SPOT The Associated Prcsi ii entitled exclusively to the use tor republication of all Hit local news printed in this i.ewspaper at well 01 i all AP dispatches. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Single copy, 7 centi.

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1 Mo. 117.40 $8.70 $4.35 $1 45 $18,60 $9.30 $4.65 $1.55 $19.80 $9.90 $4.95 $1.65 Entered ol the Lock Haven, Post Office os Second Class Mail Matter "1 would have the historian be fearless and incorruptible, in- depc.ndmt, a lover uf frankness and truth, indulging neither hate nor an impartial judge, benevolent towards both sides but giving neither more than Us due, bowing to no authority nor considering what this -man or that wilt think, but stating facts as they occurred" From Lucian the Greek, 2nd century, A. Established March 1. 1882 Our 80th Year Whereby arc given-unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these yc might, be partakers of the divine nature. 11 Peter 1:4 The Importance of Jelling the Public Few civic organizations and few municipal and local governmental organizations realize their responsibility, their duty and their opportunity to keep the public accurately informed of their activity.

There must be a hundred municipal units in Clinton County, when the school boards are in the total. There are certainly two or three hundred civic, fraternal and special organizations, ranging from veterans' groups to farmers' grange and extension associations. There is a similar large total of organizational activity, both municipal and civic, in the neighboring counties. Newspapers like our others of our size in similar communities, have an increasingly difficult job to report on the activities ol' all these groups. In our own case, we attend meetings of city council here and the Lock- Haven school board, and try to have a representative at meetings of the larger boroughs and school districts.

If we cannot have a representative there, we try to get in touch with the proper officials to 'find out what was done. It is a physical impossibility, for us to send a reporter to every meeting of fire company, township board supervisors, service club, and civic, social fraternal and veterans organization in our readership area, not to mention all the competitive sports -events. We wish we could, but we -would have to have a staff the size of the New York in order to do that. As readers of the big metropolitan newspapers however, the big cRv newspapers do not attempt to give the amount of news we publish about the activi- lies of community organizations. We are glad to publish this news, however, and appreciate the cooperation of the elected officials and the organization officers who cooperate with us to make it possible to cover all this activity with a staff of eight or nine people.

Indeed, we believe there is a real responsibility on the part of officials elected by the voters, and officers elected by the members of their organizations, to see to it. that news of their activities 'is made available for publication in the community. Every municipality and responsible civic organization should name an officer whose special duty it should be to see that the news of its transactions gets to the public through the reputable news channels. This is not ''publicity seeking;" it is making a responsible report to the community. Such a policy would prevent the kind of thing which crops up often enough to cause han! feelings and embarrassment, when members of an organization begin asking each other "where did the money go?" or "when did they vote to do this?" For their own protection, and civic organizations should see to it that regular reports are made, covering their decisions, discussions, problems and performance, especially their handling of funds.

In our opinion, a financial report should be submitted for publication as soon as possible after every venture, and on a monthly basis by municipal organizations. If there is nothing to hide, such reports do not embarrass anyone; and they have the good effect of letting the public know what its support or tax payments have been. The virus was probably invented by a doctor who couldn'x spell pneumonia. A problem always has two sides until it begins to concern you personally. Worry is the interest you pay on trouble before it falls due.

Tractor Accidents Are Unnecessary The season for tractor tragedies is reports from various parts of the state last week warn that children are the most likely victims. Thorp is iv.i pood rea- son why there repeated with just as there is no n-; automobile traffic why the hould be so or why there have been many accidents v. ith horses he- fore the motor age. Most of the tragic accidents j. how recorded, and most M' ihose ported in UK- yellowed iik-- of the printed in tin of the horse-drawn harrow, ni uvator and harvester, thn and the were not caused by fciors, automobiles, liorses or ve- hides.

They been caused by Itoth before the cominy of ii-the gasoline engine, and since. Tractor accidents are predict- each summer. This year there been half a dozen fatal or Dearly-fatal accidents in the state, in thy past week, f.Every one of them the result Si Qf someone's flouting of'good-safety practice, i Washington Merry-Go-Round New Orders from State Depf. fo NATO, Changing'Berlin Strategy Cause Contusion By JACK ANDERSON Copyright, by the Bell Syndicate, toe. (EDITOR'S NOTE While Drew Pearson Is on routr In Russia lo cover the current crisis, his associate.

Anderson, is covering the Washington front.) 32 different plans for dealing with the Berlin crisis, the NATO high command is still sirujigling to comprehend the latest which was delivered in the middle ci their deliberations by an obscure Lieutenant. Colonel from the Pentagon. The NATO leaders were already ckep in the details of a military Meanwhile, the NATO generals don't know what they're supposed to do in case of a Berlin show- clown. Politics and Oil Oil lobbyist Elmer Patman, the middleman in the attempted bribe of Sen. Francis Case five years ago, is trying to mix politics and oil again on Capitol Hill.

Patman used to pass out political contri'butions for Superior Oil Company until he made the error in judgment of sending an Congressional Echo Wright, in hi-s announcement, put it this way: "The House Small Business Committee will make a thorough investigation of the present foreign crude oil import program to determine whether it is weakening the domestic oil industry and fostering monopoly control." Said Elmer: "You wili observe that there arc refiners with import quotas that never heard of a barrel of oil until they got a master plan, worked out by our ary to Case with a $2,500 offer quote with some UckeU lnat hey Tn.i Ml i fi.f nf r.r ii-Knn It 1 1 In addition to the farmers and farm boys who lost their lives, there at least one man lost an arm. Such tragedies of the harvest season are not entirelv the penalty of the machine ape on the farm. Carelessness causes those accidents, as carelessness, used to cause accidents with horses. There is not so much difference, really, between the causes of the tragedy that occurred 40 years ago when a farm boy fell off a horse-drawn load of hay on the upturned tines of a pitchfork, and the tragedy that a boy is run by a tractor on the side of a steep hill. Failure 10 take proper precautions has caused most accidents in every period of history.

One of the most causes of tractor accidents is tipping, which can happen when there is a sudden bounce as tiic vehicle is driven over uneven ground. Young operators, both boys and girls, who have not been taught that a little excess speed can make this type of accident much more serious than it would be at a slower pace, are very likely to be killed as a result of reckless speed and sheer high spirits. Joint Chiefs of Staff, when Lt. Col. D.

C. Armstrong showed up in Paris with now orders. He announced that 'the Joint Chiefs' plan, brought over only a few days earlier by Maj. Gen. David Gray, had been scrapped.

A nesv strategy had 'been prepared, Armstrong said, by his civilian boss: Assistant. Defense Secretory Paul Nilze, a man of piercing eyes and dynamic sway. The Nitzo blueprint for saving Berlin, of cour.sr., is top Ii can be said only that he favors using military force to break through a blockade, if the Reds one. On this point, his plan differs from thac advanced by the Joint Chiefs only in the details. Nitze is more optimistic about calling the Soviet bluff, more obscure about military moves.

Armstrong, a short but suave officer, arrived in Paris on August 1, carrying the Nitze panacea in a padlocked briefcase. The British and French learned of his pur- jw.sc even ahead of Americans who hud jus! nutlLncd the Joint projwsals to the NATO t'cuncil Cabled Order Ignored Dismayed, they cabled the S'a'e Department for higher instruction on what to do about Armstrong's appearance on the scene. Back came a cable, dated August 3. directing Armstrong not 10 present any new strategy to the NATO coiiiK-il. Whether he didn't sec the cable time or simply disregarded it isn't clear.

But he went ahead with his mission and laid proposals before tne council as the latest U.S. policy. The French, after due consideration, complained tha.l they couldn't understand the new mili- instructions which were phrased in va.yue civilian terms. The postponed passing uiilsment upon the plan until it had been appraised by their own military chiefs NOTES ON THE NEWS- for his vote on natural gas legislation. The South Dakota Senator turned dt down with such loud indignation that it precipitated a full-dress senate investigation.

The affair cost Patman a S2.500 fine, plus a one-year suspended sentence, for failing to register as a lobbyist. Apparently unrepentant, he is now using his cousin, Texas Congressman Wright Pabman, to bring pressure on the Interior Department to award Superior Oil an import quota. The Congressman, who Tias die benevolent look of a country pastor, has often battled for the public interest. But his latest crusade was timed and phrased more to benefit Cousin Elmer. Scarcely 13 days after Elmer attacked the import program for discriminating against Superior Oil, the Congressman ordered his House Small Business Comritittes to investigate oil imports.

Elmer's testimony and Wright's announcement sounded curiously alike. "Domestic producers are not being aided by the 'oil import i program. The program as administered is monopolistic," charged Elmer at an Interior Department hearing; How's Your I. could trade for something else." Echoed Wright: "Refiners in all parts of the United States are given foreign oil quotas and ration tickets to buy this cheap foreign oil. Most of them hare never used foreign oil and can't use it." Said Elmer: "When these people got quota tickets and they could sell them for $1 or $1.25 a barrel, they traded their tickets for cash and not for crude, and let's quit kidding one another about it." Echoed Wright: "It appears thai cash markets for these ration tickets are in operation and inland refiners are selling their quotas to costal refiners at prices ranging from $1 to $1.25 a barrel." Said Elmer: "Here is our great University of Texias with 134 freshmen entering petroleum engineering in (he fall of 1957 and 14 three months ago." Echoed Wright: "It is a sign of the future that only 14 college freshmen enrolled in petroleum engineering this spring at the University of Texas As late as the fall of 1957, the University was giving training to 134 freshmen in petroleum engineering." Congressman Patman admitted ro this column that he had discussed oil imports with his cousin but denied that he ordered an investigation to help Superior Oil get an import quota.

Here and There City Cat Likes Country Ways, Exciting Days By HAL BOYLE SPARTA, N. J. (AP) What does a city cat do when she goes to the country? Well, for one thing, she gives you the time of your life just watching her have the time of her life. Apartment Prisoner For three years Lady Dottie has been a real cool big city cat, as aloof and sophisticated as the pampered ladies who dwell on Park Avenue. She has led almost as sheltered an existence as thev.

For three years she has looked out at life from the windows of our eighth-floor Manhattan apartment, gravely watching the rains pelt against the panes, the snowflakes swirl outside like tiny white ghosts, the soaring gulls crying faintly afar, the rusty freighters of the world plow up and down the East River. For three years Lady Dottie has been more or less an apartment house prisoner, but a cheerful one. New Universe Then we took her for a week's vacation to a 150-year-old farmhouse here in the friendly New Jersey countryside, and it was if she had been born a second time in another universe. Everything was strange and new to Lady Dottie. At first she was lonesome and afraid in a world she never made.

Everything startled her. She stepped out on the under the wide-armed century old maple trees as gingerly as if she were walking on heated glass. Each time a car roared by on the highway, screened by a green fence of sweet cedars, she flattened and her ears twitched. A horse bearing a little girl in a big-brimmed cowboy hat came galloping down a side road. Lady Dottie had never seen a horse before in her life.

She flattened, her ears went down and she began to back crawl like a crab. An apple plopped to the ground from a tree behind her. She leaped three feet into the air. then streaked for home like Willie Mays on a base steal. Ate Too Much Grass' Then she became aware of the grass.

Cats love an occasions! taste of green things. That first day Lady Dottie nibbled so much was too nervous to eat her became sick at the stomach twice. But each day she has become more venturesome and self-confident. Her veneer of sophistication has vanished. She spends the long summer hours chasing chipmunks and prowling the woodpiles and barns looking for field mice.

She has developed an inordinate appetite for milk. "She must be catching and eating those mice," said my wife. "How do you know?" I asked. "Cats always drink more milk when they make a menu' of a mouse," replied Frances, who comes from a small town in Missouri. "Everybody knows that." Well, I didn't know it, and I'm still not sure it's so.

Wives are always making a big sweeping statement like that, and then try to convince their husbands it's gospel truth. Blue Jays Are Enemies Three bluejays in a sideyard cedar tree are Lady Dottie's chief enemies. Every time they see her black and white body slipping sinuously near, they alert every other wild thing in the area by screaming at her. Lady Dottie doesn't like being given "the bird" by a trio of hick jays. She would swarm right up It Seems Like Yesterday John Probst and Family Set Huckleberry Record Items from the back flies of The Express 70 Years G.

H. GROVE. Williamsport, was awarded the contract for lighting the streets of Sunbury. His bid was 549 a light. There were 40 lights of 2,000 candlepower in the town Messrs.

J. Schuyler, Run in Pine Creek Township While Melvin Drum, Franklin Township, was working in a sand pit he discovered an Indian's grave. With the skeleton were found several arrow heads'and five peculiar stone implements, such as were never before seen in ments were probably what was known to collectors as ceremonial stones, which were not rare hi Clinton and Lycoming counties. proprietor of the Pallon that vicinity. The stonfe imple- House, John F.

Brown, Clinton County Prothonotary, and R. Bradford County, purchased the Mountain Lake property in Bradford County to erect a large hotel with all modern conveniences Ths barn on the farm of P. B. Cryder. near Eagleville, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

The flames spread to a Lobacco shed about 130 feet long and destroyed it. Two men and horsas were in the barn but were not seriously injured. 60 VeorsTgo 1901 JAMES PUGH. Kimbell S. Miller, William I.

Harvey, John C. Clark and Frank Trump, were preparing for application for a charter to the governor for a corporation to be called The Oak Grove Electric Company, to supply light power and heat by electricity to the public in the district of Oak Grove and vicinity, from Pine Creek to Chatham's Your I. Q. Answers Below are the answers to the quiz questions printed on this page. 1.

Bronze. 2. Five sections. 3. True (Over east and west 4.

Chairs, 5. Original designer. 6. 131. 7.

True. 8. Cast iron. 9. Yes.

(Aug. 24, 1814). 10. Both. Clinton County Skies Sunset today 8.01 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow 6.26 a.m. The Moon sets 2.18 a.m. tomorrow and rides low. Full Moon Friday night Prominent Stars Vega and Deneb, high overhead 10.46 p.m. Well south of them is Altair and below Altair are the planets, Jupiter and Saturn.

the tree after them except for one thing. We clipped her claws in advance, so she wouldn't harm any feathered thing. But she has proved her valor in a better way. Twice dogs have wandered into the yard. Lady Dottie's back never arched in panic.

Her yellow eyes widened and glared like two angry egg yolks, and she crouched ready to attack. Each time it was the dog who turned and left. Can She Readjust? No night wanderer, Lady Dottie comes indoors willingly at bedtime. Only bums sleep outdoors, she sleeps at the feet of my wife, purring so loudly it sounds like distant thunder. This happy week of enchanted freedom will soon be over for Lady Dottie.

Will she ever be as content again in a big-city apartment? When she gazes out the windows with her great inscrutable eyes, what will she really see the cozy comfort there, or the life of liberty she has known in the country here? 50 Years Ago DR. JAMES L. Lubrecht, 72 E. Church purchased the Jones property, owned by a rl "Mason, son of George W. Mason, the druggist.

The property is at corner of Church and Vesper opposite the First Baptist Church. John F. Harvey, Renovo. sold his hotel "The Harvue" to E. B.

Rankin of North Bend, former proprietor of the American House in Renovo John B. Probst, Woodward Township butcher, established a record as vendor of huckleberries in this city during the season, having, with the assistance of his family, picked and sold 6,100 quarts. 7936 A COPY of The Clinton Republican published in 1871, formerly published by The Lock Haven Express, was found in the cornerstone of an abandoned Evangelical Church at Tylersville by F. D. Miller, who purchased the structure about a year before and wrecked it, using the material to build a house The newly organized Community Association of Salladasburg, headed by Charles W.

Feil, had their first community night, which was expected to become a monthly feature Plans were being discussed for a new bridge across the Bald Eagle Creek at Casla- nea, to cost approximately $75,000 June Chapman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G-eorgc T. Chapman. E.

Church and Cora Danis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey F. Danis. Mill Hall, left for Lewistown to dance in the Festival of Nations.

7957 MISS PAULINE V. GRADEN, junior supervisor of the Clinton County Department of Public Assistance for 15 years, resigned Mrs. H. Hughes, who helped organize the Laurel Garden Club in Lock Haven, was asked to be one of the for a fall Flower Show in Williamsport Miss Lela Schoonover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Delos Schoonover. Hammerslcy Fork, won a diamond ring at the medicine show in South Renovo. 5 Years 1956 M. C. GALBRAITH was honored by fellow workers at a surprisa party in the Moose Club banquet room in honor of his approaching retirement from the New York Pennsylvania where was employed for 51 years.

Six members of Pleasant Valley Grange received 25-year membership certificates at a meeting of Pomona Grange The recipients were Fred J. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole, Mrs. W.

H. Summerson, Benjamin Arnold and Richard Wensel. Clinton County firemen, the Flemington Black Ravens and the Lock Haven VFW Black Knights won honors and Lock Haven was named host to the 1958 Central District Volunteer Association convention, at the association's 64th annual convention held at Altoona. "The griicrdl borrou-cd a spue i. suit tor the haij 1.

Of what is the Statue of Freedom surmounting the capitol dome made? 2. Is the 19': foot Statue of Freedom a solid casting or is it in sections? 3. Some of the capitol flags are flown 24 hours a day. being taken down only when worn out; true or false' 4. Is the Hall of Representatives equipped with desks or chairs the members use during House' sessions? 5.

What is the relationship between Dr. William Thornton and the capitol? 6 Would you say that the capitol grounds total about 131, 175 or 205 acres? 7. The Supreme Court was originally in the capitol building; true or false? ts the present dome covered with copper, steel or cast iron? n. Was Die capitol burned by the British in the War of 1812? 10. Arr the exterior walls of tho capitol of sandstone or marble? More About Today's Picture from the Past The people in this picture of a group of leading citizens on a country stroll include the late Mr.

and Ross Barrows. Dr. and Mrs. F. B.

P. Ball and Mrs. Charles Corss. The Old Picture Album IN RHODODENDRON SEASON, on Sunday Afternoon Walk on Country Road.