The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 2

1 THE NEWS-HERALD. FRANKLIN AND OTtf CTTY. PA. tAGE TWO. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947., She was one of the organizers of the Zoller Prayer Group here.

Mrs. Gillies was a woman of tnanv artmirahl traifc fripnrllv sT- Lace Cloths Hf WTiPther for vour Whether for your TO PREVENT POLIO, STATFIS AlERTEn! GAf.iE HSH IN mwrn rn RIVER KILLED MRS. GILLIES KILLED AS CAR STRIKES TREE own CTr use. or trivincr for the isr-xs i rZVS3CTtrr 1UT BY TRAIN, FRANKLIN MAN DIES liJ OIL CITY Roland E. Wood, PRR Fireman and World War II Veteran, Victim of Accident.

i I 5 rzi Struck by a Pennsylvania pas-ientered in the Municipal Hos-senger train as he walked on thejPltal. Pittsburgh, a seven-year-old tracks on the south side of Oil City and 22-year-old man. Two at 3 p. m. Wednesday, Roland E.

cases have been reported in the Wood, 28, of 716 Tenth street, Tranklin died in the Oil CltV Hns pital at 12:30 a. m. today. Mr. wood, employed as a lire- man by the P.

R. was en route to the vard office to receive his Day when the locomotive of the Pitts burgh-Oil City passenger train struck him. It was reported that he was walking on the wooden ties out side the steel rails in the samejby he Allegheny County Medical I BY POLLUTION Thousands of Dead Fish Swept Out of Allegheny in 40-Mile Stretch Below Parker. BUTLER One of the worst water pollution cases in the his tory of Western Pennsylvania has swept the Allegheny River from Parker to the upper border of Allegheny County, killing thou sands of game fish during the past week, according to Armstrong County Fish Warden Clarence Shearer, of Freeport. Literally thousands of dead fish, giant muskellunge beauties, large and small mouth bass, pike, suckers, rock bass and even the hard-est-to-kill snapping turtles have been swept out of the Allegheny along the 40-odd miles of river valley.

"I made no effort to count the dead fish," Shearer said today. "It would be an impossibility for one man to do. were thousands upon thousands of them, most dead but a few still able to wiggle. I believe it can be conservatively stated that there isn't a fish worth catching today in that whole sweep of water. Warden Shearer stated that the Sanitary Water Board had sent a corps of investigators into the area and that he and Warden Charles Wentzel, of Clarion County, had spent several days on the investigation.

"We have it pretty well worked cut," he said, "but any statement on responsibility will have to come from the water board offices in Harrisburg or the district office at Meadville. Shearer said that indignant fishermen and sportsmen's clubs had sent him many reports and photos, of the dead fish, some of them showing huge piles of dead fish raked up along the river banks. "This is the worst case of this kind that we have had since 1941 when a good many fish were killed cn a similar occasion," the warden explained "That stretch of river SERVEL GAS REFRIGERATORS Silent as the Sunrise Most economical to operate. No moving parts. Holds over a bushel of frozen foods.

Moist or dry cold as desired. HARTER BROTHERS 2UUth St. ana cneenui, sue was ever otuvc to help those in distress. Mrs. Gillies was born at Rock land, the only child of William and Clara Baer Domer.

She spent herj early me in Kocwana ana graduated from the Oil City High School and Welsh's Business Col lege in Oil City. In 1917 she went to Greenville and resided there the remainder' of her life except for four years in Franklin. She was married to William Gillies, of Franklin, on Aug. 5, 1941. Mr.

Gillies died in February, 1945. Mrs. Gillies was a stenographer- clerk in the Bessemer Railroad: office in Greenville from 1918 to 1941. During her residence in Green- ville she was an active member i of Calvary Evangelical U. B.I Church.

She was a member of the! church choir, an assistant teacher! of a Sunday School class and for number of years was leader of the Young People's Missionary Circle. She had charge of a girl's har monica band that gave concerts in various churches. She was a mem ber of the W. C. T.

U. and Orpheus Club at Greenville. Surviving are an aunt, Mrs. Charles Stroup, Franklin; an uncle, Rev. P.

W. Baer, of Johnstown, and a number of cousins here. Funeral services will be held at Greenville at 1:30 p. m. Saturday.

PENNA. ANTI-LYNCHIXG LAW IS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR HARRISBURG UP Gov. James H. Duff approved today a re-enactment of Pennsylvania's anti-lynching law. The measure retains the present act which provides that all members of lynch mobs be tried for murder and that police officers lax in preventing such crimes be fined $5,000 or imprisoned for five years, or both.

The only change in the new law increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the amount of money which would be paid to the dependents of lynch victims by counties in which such crimes occur. Japanese industries are set to start exporting familiar products, ranging from electric light bulbs to toys to the United States. CAB A HOME RADIOS REPAIRFD David E. Witherup Open Daily 9 a. m.

p. m. Taesdar, Thario'ar, Saturday 'till Sit 13th St. Phone 111. DANIELS MOVING STORAGE Phone 1000 Have MAKKET FKESH foods the Year Around With THE NEW MAYTAG HOME FREEZER SEE IT TODAY! FINK'S APPLIANCE STORE 412-414 13th St.

Phone 257 1 i. i i t. i Fine Feathers Parisiennes, who out-do each other at the Grand Prix, France's biggest race, now back in all its prewar splendor, saw this resplendent elegance in toques at this year's running an off-the-face model of gray-shaded feathers, worn with a gray dotted black satin tailored suit. (NEA-Acme staff photographer Rene Henry.i DUFF SIGNS BILL TO REDUCE EMPLOYERS' COMPENSATION LEVY HARRISBURG UP Employ ers in Pennsylvania looked forward today to additional savings ranging from 527,000,000 to 000,000 a year after Gov. James H.

Duff signed a bill reducing their minimum unemployment Under the law, authored by Sen. Lloyd H. Wood, Norristown, employer unemployment compensation payments would fluctuue from 2.7 per cent, down to .5 per depending on the job turnover. A stabilization factor, designed to keep a healthy reserve in the jobless benefit fund, would auto matically boost contributions whenever the fund balance falls to 9.1 per cent, of the aggregate employer payrolls. The measure takes precedence over one signed earlier by Dutf which set the lowest employer contribution at 1 per cent, and made permanent the merit rating provisions of the unemployment compensation law under which employers are rewarded with reduced assessments for low layoff records.

A section in Wood's bill establishes a second "safety factor" by returning the rate of employer payments to the old formula 1 to 2.7 per cent. if the fund balance falls to 8.3 per cent, of the employer payrolls. It was estimated that emp.oyi ts would save an estimated S80.0C0,-000 by placing the merit rating plan on a permanent basis. The merit system is not disturbed by the new law. VISIT PHIPPS FOR YOUR Automotive, Hardware Household Needs LOOK TO PHIPPS TO BE FIRST WITH THE BEST! DEAN PHIPPS STORES 1256 Liberty St.

Phone 9371 was just getting in good shape 'compensation contributions to one-again and the fishing was good for (half of 1 per cent, for stabilizing a long way when this had to hap- payrolls. ti -tL. it. 3 perieci guw Quaker Lace Table I cloths are beynd com" 10.95 13.95 21.50 Columbia Manor Lace Table Cloths 72x92 5.95 Wilbarry LACE CLOTH 63x80 5.00 BRADLEY'S Phone 179 5.95 to 16.95 If Some Cases Reported as Sea son for Paralysis Nears; Meningitis Case in County. Cases of infantile paralysis are beiig reported throughout the state and health authorities are on the alert.

Two cases have been area, bctiuj i1 A conference attended by repre sentatives of all chapters of the atinal Foundation for Infantile neiu nar- risburg and all chapters of the Foundation have been alerted in anticipation of possible outbreaks. A polio seminar was held in Pittsburgh for doctors on Tuesday Society and the county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis which included lectures and a demonstration of respirators, oscillating and rocker beds and other special equipment installed at Municipal Hospital with funds raised in Pittsburgh in the "march of dimes" campaigns. The Foundation has issued six precautionary measures to follow in the hope of holding down the disease rate 1 Call your doctor at once if your child develops headaches, nausea, or a cold, upset stomach, muscle soreness or stiffness or un- explained fever. 2 Avoid crowds and don't take children to theatres or beaches or on trains, buses or boats. 3 Don't get overtired.

4 Avoid chilling and don't swim in polluted water. 5 Keep clean, wash hands be fore eating, keep flies and other insects from food and keep gar bage covered. 6 Consult your family doctor before removal of tonsils or ade noids in summer months. Our county has thus far had a rather light incidence of this dread disease but it is no respecter of places or persons and has the habit of striking in the most unexpected places and just as likely in a home of the rich as one in the slums. One year a severe epidemic will occur in one locality and the next year in another far removed from the former one.

At any place in the country, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will go into action when any epidemics occur and if local chapters are unable to fully deal with the situations, the national headquarters respond upon call. The incidence of the various communicable diseases in this locality have been the highest during the past six months of any period for several years and the epidemics are still raging, Joseph Riesenman, state sanitarian said. "We now have a case of a most serious and greatly feared infec tion, cerebrospinal meningitis, of cerebrospinal Mr. Riesenman declared. Cerebrospinal fever shows a distinct seasonal prevalence for the colder months of the fall and winter and, in this respect, it re sembles other infections spread by the secretions of the mouth and nose, as pneumonia, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, etc.

This is in sharp contrast to the seasonal pre valence of infantile paralysis which is much more prevalent in the summer time. The disease is called a disease of children and soldiers. The soldiers who suffer most are those living in barracks, garrisons, towns and camps, rather than those on the march or in the field. Crowding, which favors contact infection, and fatigue, which predisposes to this disease, explain the special liability under these Fish Willie Wells was coming home from Seward's Creek the other evening with a string of trout, when a stern looking lady (visitor at the Boxwood Inn) stops him, and tells him a man his size could be better occupied than catching fish. Willie tells her off real good-naturedly by saying: "Perhaps you're right, but if these fish had kept their mouths shut, they wouldn't be here." (At that, says Willie, laughing out loud, she looked just as if a fish had bit her 1 Blabbing mouths never cause Copyright, Custom Order Venetian Blinds Smarten up your windows Plus complete control of light and ventilation.

Tt 11a m'wo Tsfimnfirtn Bring size -Anderson's Everything to finish the Home direction in which the train was traveling. Nearby railroaders shouted to that the train was approaching, but apparently he did not hear the men nor realize that the train was on the same track along which he was walking. On Way to Receive Pay Check. Not on duty at the time, Wood, accompanied by his wife, drove to Oil City to collect his pay. He left the car and was making his way to the pay station when the accident occurred.

The engineer of the train, P. E. Creaden, of Pittsburgh, sounded the whistle to warn Wood and also attempted to stop the train, but was unable to do so in the short distance. Dhe locomotive knocked Wood Into the ditch at the side of the tracks. At the hospital it was reported he sustained a severe concussion, possible fracture of the skull, body bruises, brush burns of the left cheek and both legs.

He never regained consciousness. In addition to Engineer Creaden the train crew was composed of J. Trotter, Oil City, fireman, and T. H. Donley, Pittsburgh, conductor.

Served in World War. Roland Edward Wood was born in Sugarcreek Township on Aug. 8, 1918, the son of George M. and Mary E. Griggs Wood.

He resided in Franklin and vicinity most of his life. He was a veteran of World War II, having had more than five years of foreign service, most of it in the Canal Zone and in the European Theatre. He was a member of the Rocky Grove Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Jesse Greer Post Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are his wife, the former Phyllis Moore, one daughter, Connie Jean, aged one year, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George M. Wood, of Franklin, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Evelyn M. Allen, Marilyn, Robert, George, Charles and Richard Wood, of Franklin, and Raymond Wood, of Oil City. Friends will be received at the Buchanan Funeral Home where funeral sendees will be conducted at 1:30 p.

m. Saturday by Rev. Cyrus Moorhead, pastor of the Rocky Grove Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery. ROCKY GROVE The Three -Square Club will meet at the home of Mrs.

A. S. Hays, 521 Grant Street, on Friday evening. The mink, whose fur is highly prized by fastidious women, not only looks like an English polecat (skunk), but smells like one, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. WE ARE BUYING We will pay top Prices for your clean, late model Usd Car.

ACT NOW! See Earl Rush D. G. CRAIG, Inc. 118 Grant St. Phone 36 Tour Franklin Ford Dealer USED CARS A Well-Known Former Franklin Woman Victim of Accident in Conneautville.

Mrs TTna D. Gillies. 65. of 17 Lancaster Avenue, Greenville, ixhn lpft Franklin less than two years ago following the death of her husband. William OlllieS.

was killed shortly before 3 p. m. Wednesday when a car in which she was a passenger left the high way in the borough oi conneautville and crashed into a tree. Three other persons in the auto mobile were badly injured. They are: Mrs.

R. M. Thompson, 68, of 25 Lebanon Avenue, Greenville, chest iniuries. multiple bruises and shock. Charles Zacher, 26, of Pius burgh, a student at Thiel College who roomed at the Thompson home, driver of the car, both legs broken.

Michael Hinkson, aged three years, grandson of Mrs. Thomp son, fracture of right leg, possible skull fracture, multiple lacer ations and puncture wounds of face and left wrist. Reports Car Going Slowly. Mrs. Fred Aho, of Conneautville, who was following the Thompson car, told State Police that the death car suddenly swerved to the opposite side of the highway and crashed into the tree.

Mrs. Aho said it appeared to her that the steering gear of the car broke. She reported the car traveling at a moderate rate of speed. The automobile, a 1941 Dodge sedan, was demolished. The accident occurred just inside the limits of Conneautville on Route 18.

It was also reported that Zacher intended to apply the brake, but stepped on the throttle instead. The impact against the tree drove the motor back under the center of the front floor board. Mrs. Gillies died while being removed to the hospital. All of the injured were removed to the Greenville Hospital in am-! bulances.

The hospital reported today that while the injured were1 suffering much pain and shock! their general conditions were re-! garded as good. Dr. H. H. Walker, deputy coro-l ner of Crawford County, reported! that Mrs.

Gillies died of a crushed chest and a broken leg. The Gillies family resided for several years at 1234 Otter Street. Mrs. Gillies was employed for a number of years in the accounting department of the Printz Co. Years ago she was employed in the editorial department of the Venango Daily Herald and was! highly regarded for her ability! as a writer, reporting many church and religious group events for The News-Herald.

She was a member of the First Evangelical United Brethren! Church and worked tirelessly in: that church during her residence 1 in Franklin. She was also active in the Willard W. C. T. U.

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"The commission' undoubtedly will restock the stricken area as soon as the water clears and sam pies show that the pollution has been washed away. Bass, pike pickerel and probably muskies will be put back and we will begin the long grind again to bring fishing back for that district. But it will take time although some native fish from upstream will probably move in when the shiners and other small food become available." Shearer said that while the state fishing laws provide for penalties for polluters, that all of that phase of the work has been handed to the Sanitary Water board men, who have been acting under the law sponsored by Governor Duff when he was attorney-general. It provides heavy fines for pollution with part of the money set aside for re-stocking of fish killed by pollution. Samples of the polluted water have been taken by the state men and are at present being analyzed.

The outcome of the analysis will be announced later, it was said. conditions. Seasoned troops suffer less from the disease. Overexertion, depressing mental and bodily surroundings, catarrhal inflammations, the misery and squalor of tenement life, and the sad conditions of some mining and laboring camps have long been recognized as predisposing factors. Infection frequently follows swimming or bathing in polluted streams as has been true in cases in this area, the sanitarian stated.

AifrtUtmm I sit Bites Woman! anything but trouble. Nobody who knew the facta would ever criticize Willie's right to go fishing on his one day off any more than they'd deny his right to come home to a mellow glass of beer. From where I Bit, the slower we are to criticize and the quicker we are to recognize another's tastes, the better well get along together whether those tastes apply to beer or fishing. 1947, United Statu Brewers Foundation 1 1 ARMSTRONG-COLLIER, INC. AT 0il Greatest Store.

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