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IE I Legion Units Sponsor Rally For Security American Legion Auxiliary Unit 27 and American Legion Post 27 at the request of Mrs. Lee W. Hut ton, National Auxiliary President, will hold a community mass meet ing Sunday at 2 m. in the Forum. The purpose of these meetings is to arouse the American public to the need for immediate action on the military training plan en dorsed by the Legion and also on other measures essential to an adequate program for National Se curity.

Speakers will be Congressman John C. Kunkel and Past National Commander Paul H. Griffith, with Mrs. John S. Weisenford, presid ing.

The American Legion "Band, Post 27. will play and the invoca tion will beiven by the Rev. Dr. Philip David Bookstaber, Past Chaplain, J. W.

V. Introductory remarks be given by the Rev. Eugene S. Keller, Past Department Chaplain American Legion, and presentations by Commander Robert Ogil vie and David R. Perry, Secretary to the Governor.

The benediction will be by the Rev. Lawrence F. Schott, Diocesan Military Deputy. Committees in charge include, National Defense, Miss Josephine Dorwart, chairman; Mrs. W.

Earl Long, Mrs. Mary Lloyd, Mrs. C. Russel Welsh, Miss Susan Kur zenknabe; Legislative, Mrs. John Hill, chairman; Mrs.

William S. Bretz, Mrs. G. Donald Boyd, Mrs. Merrill K.

Zimmerman, Norris town, assistant secretary and treasurer. Directors: Kenzie S. Bagshaw, Hollidaysburg; Samuel U. Williams, Middletown; Frank Alverton; Frank Gorham, wysox, and Joseph O. Canby, Langhorne.

Pennsylvania Guernsey Breeders': Samuel Price, St. Johns, president; Loyal B. Spang, Butler, vice president, and J. Thomas Carman, Glen Rock, secretary. Directors: Alvin C.

Sutliff, Benton; Otis Dodson, Harrisburg; J. Thomas Carman, Glen Rock, and A. M. Kennel, Honey Brook. Orange is the color most, likely to attract attention, color experts say.

i m. s. 'r1; i ai5tfW.W,fe.i iim.min mi i i i "OH, DADDY, WHAT'S THAT?" So says little Woodrow Arnold, Myerstown, not quite three years old, as he peers from his father's shoulders over the heads of the crowd around him at. a Farm Show exhibit. "GOING, GOING, The first cry of the auctioneer at the Farm Show was for this Chester White grand champion sow.

Galling for bids, left, is "Col." Guy L. Petit, Bloomfield, Iowa. His clerk is Raymond W. Lloyd, Quakertown, Chester White club secretary; in the ring stands Chester White fieldman, Levi Jackson, Rochester, Ind. and whiphard Herman Horst, Hummelstown, near the quotations board.

ffARMSBUEG SECOND SECTION III, i I Ensminger. MAYOR PRESENTS SERVICE AWARD The annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award for outstanding community service and character, was presented to John Sherman Branyan, left, by Mayor Claude R. Robins. Branyan, president of the JCC and the first member of the organization to receive this honor, was also presented the "Key Man" award for service within the organization. Cited for his work as general Kiwanis; E.

Clyde Mearkle, Lions; chairman of the local Friendship Train Committee, Branyan was Lawrence E. Guarin, Mrs. James the youngest man in the country Lightner. to hold such a post. His leader Ushers will be the Junior Aux iliary Unit 27 and William Penn High School girls.

Potato Growers Elect Officers Six farm groups elected officers at meetings in the Farm Show Building yesterday. They included: Pennsylvania Co operative Fo tato Growers' Association, Lester Lohr, Boswell; M. Percy White night, Bloomsburg, and Hugh C. McPherson. Bridgeton, board directors.

The Young Growers' Organiza tion, association Auxiliary elected directors: Robert Harwood, Water ford; Robert Lohr, Boswell; Le land Nixon, State College; Percy Knorr, Catawissa; Eugene Zehner, Nescopeck, and Richard Sarginger, Coudersport. Pennsylvania Holstein: Timothy H. Graham, Macungie, president; Earl O. Moore, Greencastle, vice president; William M. Rider, Ship pensburg, secretary, and Paul G.

Longenecker, Strasburg, treasurer; directors, Frank McKinney, Elizabeth; C. S. Erb, Middletown, and V. A. Houston, Lemont.

"nnsylvania Aberdeen Angus: Smedley, Newtown president; E. S. Burch, Kill, secretary; W. L. Hen State College, director; M.

V.I Hitt, Landenburg, vice president and Allan Schmoll, Towanda, di rector. Pennsylvania Beekeepers: Presi dent, W. G. Singer, Norristown vice president, Merle Fisher, Granville; secretary treasurer, the Rev. H.

M. Snavely, Woodbury. Pennsylvania Dairymen's: Wil bur Barkdoll, Mont Alto, presi dent; Lee Poorbaugh, York R. D. 3, vice president; Charles E.

Cowan Lancaster, secretary and treasurer; ship filled nine boxcars, of food here and sent $700 for additional supplies. He also arranged for that train to meet the Freedom Train here last November. The award was given Branyan for his activities as chairman of the Traffic Safety Committee; chairman of Boy Scout Troop Committee No. 30 since 1942; an organizer, director and president of the advisory board of the South Harrisburg Mixed Youth Club; membership in a local choir; and president of a local housing civic organization. Representatives of local service clubs who Selected Branyan for the award were Miss Janett Howell, Harrisburg Business and Professional Women; O.

B. Lank, HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1948 George C. Meckel, Rotary; and William Lipsitt, Optomist Club. Branyan, who lives at 1221 South Thirteenth street, is service manager of the Harrisburg office of Dun and Bradstreet. A graduate of John Harris High School in 1934, he is married and the father of four daughters.

In charge of the dinner meeting last night were G. Teller Ratcliff, who read Branyan's qualifications for the "Key Man" awafd, and Rexford M. Glaspey, toastmaster. Speakers were the Rev. George F.

Harkins, 1946 award winner, and L. Henderson Dudman. Treasury Statement Washington, Jan. 16, (IP) The position of the Treasury, Jan 14 Receipts, $136,241,385.08. Expenditures, $64,547,987.03.

Balance, $2,729,422,169.89. Ensminger. TELEGRAPH GIVES FARM TROPHY R. H. Hickman, left, district manager 'of Gibbs Peoples Service Stores, Incorporated, presented the Harrisburg Telegraph prize cup to V.

A. Martin, assistant State supervisor of Agricultural Education, at the Farm Show, on behalf of the Factoryville Future Farmers of America unit, who won the coveted award in the Window Display Contest. Mr. representing the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce merchants committee and the Pennsylvania Chain Store Council, made the presentation for the window "FAA uses electricity for egg production" at the Kinney Shoe Store, 319 Market The Chain Store Council also gave the winner a gift certificate, Mr. Hickman said.

"ADD A CUP OF FLOUR" The' Dillsburg High School home economics department girls showed Show visitors how to make the perfect meal from the stage of the large auditorium. Telling the audience what it takes to use the "quickest route to a man's heart" are Charlotte Rife, left; Nellie Warehimes, June Myers, and Miriam Colson, all members of the classes in home economics at ihe Cumberland county school. TELEGRAPH Jury Requests Medical Tests For Drivers Facilities for qualified medical examinations to determine intoxi cation in cases of drunken driving were recommended Thursday by the Dauphin County Grand Jury as the panel completed four days' work in the January Criminal Court session. The report was submitted to Presiding Judge J. Paul Rupp by Harry A.

DeWire, foreman of the Grand Jury. The recommendation was prompted, according to reports, by the fact that few persons charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquors receive medical examinations. It was also reported that the action was prompted by the numerous acquittals of defendants charged with drunken driving and Grand Jury action ignoring such charges. No specific method for determining the degree of intoxi cation was suggested by the panel. The grand jurors visited the Dauphin County Prison during the week and "found it very clean and sanitary all respects.

They praised prison personnel for their efficient management of the insti tion and the county on the Courthouse and the management of that building. District Attorney Carl B. Shelley's staff was lauded for its courtesy to the jurors. The Grand Jury took action on 161 indictments, returning 148 true bills and ignoring 13. Auto Fees Hit High in State Pennsylvania motorists' poured a new all time high of $42,648,746 into the coffers of the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles in 1947.

This figure represents the income from vehicle registrations and operators' licenses during the year. The revenues from this source inj 1946 amounted to $38, 421,308. Licensing of motor buses, motorcycles, tractors and trailers brought the total of all vehicle registrations to 2,511,627 in 1947, a gain of 215,694 over the previous year. The bureau said it licensed 1, 953,654 pleasure cars and 388,945 commercial vehicles in the regis tration year up to December 31. Motor vehicle operators also gained last year with a total of 3,213,729 against 3,084,655 In 1946 but the number who received learners permits dropped off 8.7 from the previous year.

Chess Teams Tie In 11 Board Match The 11 board chess match be tween the Red Rose Club, Lancas ter, and the Harrisburg club team, in Boyd Memorial Building, 234 South street, last night, ended in a 4 4V2 tie with two games to be decided by Central Pennsylvania League officials. Winners for the local team included H. B. Brillinger, Robert Hamaker, Charles W. Row and Robert C.

McQuate, while Karl Roth drew his match. Losses by Harrisburg were recorded by John D. French, Earl V. Compton, Herman McGonhel and Maj. Danforth P.

Miller, The two games adjourned for league judge rulings were those of Ira C. Isenberg, and William Crowell, on the top two boards matched against Milton Paul and Donald McDivitt, Lancaster. Bennett Appointed David J. Bennett, 2160 Berry hill street, named outstanding NBC affiliate announcer for 1947, has been appointed manager of Station WKBO, it was announced last night at a dinner in the Penn Harris Hotel for the station's staff. Bennett, a veteran of four year's Army service, has been with WKBO since 1937.

He was named program director in 1940. Bennett will assume his new duties im mediately. The firm announced that plans call for extensive remodeling of the hardware store and the razing of the old Wyeth Building at the northwest corner of Market ar. Court streets, to form a large shaped structure facing both on Market street and on the Square. Total cost of the project has been estimated at $150,000.

The work of tearing down the Wyeth Building is in charge of William Delson, of Harrisburg, demolition contractor working un der the general contractor, R. S. Noonan, of York. The Wyeth Building will be replaced by a modern two story structure, extending 47 feet along Market street, and 79 feet along Court street, the first floor of which will be occupied by the ladies' and children's shoe depart ment. The second floor of this building is expected to be leased for merchandising.

Work of remodeling the Market Square front of the building, which will house the men shoe department, is not expected to begin until late winter or spring, when the Harrisburg Hardware Company moves into its new building now being constructed at Second and Pine streets. National Guard Display Attracts Show Visitors The National Guard exhibit for the 28th Division, set up as one of the window displays in the lobby of the Farm Show Builing, was attracting considerable at tention from Farm Show visitors this week. This display, consisting of firearms and light artillery together with training pictures and posters, was arranged by Lt. Col. Daniel Rogers, local AAA battalion commander, at the instance of Brig.

Gen. Frank A. Weber, Adjutant General of Pennsylvania. Uptown Man Struck Struck by a car today in Sixth street, near Verbeke, Nathan Kir son, 69, 1621 North Sixth street, was treated at Harrisburg Hospital for bruises of the head. Joseph A.

Thomas, 30, 509 Emerald street, driver of the car, took Kir son to the hospital. It is believed the planet Jupiter is covered with a layer of ice about 16,000 miles thick. PAGE 13 iillif fir HiiH MggfllM NEW STORE IN MARKET SQUARE Drawings for the new building front soon to replace the Harrisburg Hardware building at 5 North Market Square in the remodeling operations undertaken by the A. S. Beck, New York Shoe Company, were made public today by Shot well and Eden, Harrisburg.

architects. Cumulative Auto Accident Report in City Reported to Total To This 9.30 A.M. Jan. 1 Date Yesterday 1948 in Motor Accidt 4 Riders Injr'd 0 Riders Kill'd 0 Pedst Injr'd 1 Pedst Kille'd 0 The table is to Date 1947 28 45 1 10 0 0 7 6 1 1 based on data from the Police Department and is tabulated by the Motor Club of Harrisburg. Strickler Appointed Lt.

Gov. Daniel B. Strickler has been appointed legislative chairman of the Pennsylvania Department of AMVETS, according to Joseph M. German, Pittsburgh, State commander. The eight man legislative committee is to include Col.

John Mcl. Smith, Harrisburg. Louie Ensminger. "I'M THE CHAMP" The grand champion bull of the entire Farm Show is "Ferndale ReVor Hengerveld" of the Lime Rock Farms, Lebanon, here shown with handler John Moughan. Only a yearling, it was a Farm Show oddity that such a young animal should carry off top honors in a class usually dominated by much older hands, but the judges felt differently.

Families Occupy Larger Quarters, Realtors Report Continued demands by families for larger living quarters have prolonged the Commonwealth's housing shortage, the Pennsylvania Real Estate Association reported today in contending that only the removal of rent controls will help to alleviate this condition. Man Captured 4 Years After He Fled Jail Norristown, Jan. 16, (IP). A 45 year old house painter who walked away from the county prison farm here four years ago to lead a model life in Philadelphia was back in prison today. 'I'm glad it over.

It taken pressure off my mind," John W. Miller told State Trooper Donald Beacraft last night after Beacraft arrested Miller in the West Phila delphia home he bought three months Miller was sentenced to a year in Montgomery County Prison in 1943 for stealing jewelry in homes that, he was painting. He served a little more than three months of the term and was transferred to the prison farm five miles west of Norristown to paint a barn. The next day Miller fled, came to Philadelphia, changed his name to James E. Miller and continued working as a painter, Beacraft said.

A few months later he married a divorced woman with four chil dren and a year and a half ago they had a daughter of their own. Mother Given Estate Letters Mrs. Emma C. Smith, 4017 Jonestown road, applied for letters of administration in Dauphin County Courthouse today to settle the $12,800 mixed property estate of her son, J. Gilbert Smith, late of Lower Paxton township.

Mrs. Smith is the sole heir. An unestimated personal prop erty estate was left by Carlisle D. Hasness, late of this city, to his wife, Mrs. Nellie Jane Hasness, 218 Briggs street, who is also executor of the estate.

Children are heirs of the $1900 personal property estate of F. V. Meals, late of Steelton. Executor is a son, Emerson C. Meals, 265 North Front street, Steelton.

Man's Leg Broken Charles E. Brought" 74, 124 Lawrence street, was in satisfac tory condition today at Harris burg Hospital, where he was held for observation after he fractured his left leg in a fall yesterday afternoon. Broughter, who lost part of his left leg sev eral years ago, was found by his wife in the back yard of their home. By Hanan I 1 pgrn I "In terms of 1940 there is no housing shortage," said Henry W. Mathieu, Norristown, the Association's new president.

"Figures show that from 1940 to 1947 more housing was added than population." Mathieu pointed to a survey just completed by the Bureau of Government Research which showi that, in the average Metropolitan area, population increased 18 per cent, between 1940 and 1947, while during the same period the number of dwelling units was boosted 24 per cent. "This data disputes any assumption that a war swollen population has caused the housing shortage. Housing accommodations increased more than population," Mathieu said. "It equally disputes the idea that returned veterans caused the shortage. The returned veterans are included in the population count which is exceeded by the housing growth.

"The real answer is shown in fact that people have spread out more. Those who have housing are using more of it." Population per dwelling unit, or per household, Mathieu added, de clined from an average of 3.86 persons in 1940 to 3.60 this year. This ratio should have made a surplus of thousands of dwelling units, but the number of dwelling units occupied by one person in creased 69 per and the number used by two persons jumped 45 per cent. "The removal of rent controls will tend to alleviate this condi tion," Mathieu said, "because it will have a tendency to make per sons occupying a great amount of space pay for the room they have. Skaters Enjoy Uptown Lake Councilman Robert C.

Leitner said today the weather has provided skating on the upper end of Italian Lake and the upper end of the creek through Wildwood Park. Park Department workers last night put two tennis courts in Reservoir Park in shape for skat ing today. Leitner has requested residents living near Italian Lake not to feed the wild ducks in that vicinity. The size of the flock must be curtailed or the park will be overrun with ducks next spring. The ducks are trapped and turned over to game associations, but cannot be caught when they are fed by others since they will not follow trails of corn to the traps.

Charles Winegardner, Park Department worker, was thwarted yesterday in his attempts to trap the ducks when an unidentified woman fed the birds w.ith stale bread and they then lost interest in trails of corn leading to traps. The Suez canal was opened in 1869. RIVER BULLION" Stations Feet Tenths T3 0 S2 US MM Binghamfon 14 2.9 CorninR 16 2 Towanda 16 2.1 Wilkes Barre 22 2.1 2.0 West Branch Clearfield in 2.1 Renovo 16 1.6 Lock Haven 21 Williamsport ..20 1.8 Juniata River Map. Depot 20 3.3 Newport 22 11.2 Susquehanna Sunbury 16 1.5 1.4 Harrisburg 17 4.1 3.8 Trace. Richard Lee SNYDER imKtmiSi.

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