The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 6

Washington Mtrry-Go-Round. September 8 4 1969 Belhionte Tragedy I AW too often, the mischances of life turn an occasion for celebration into one for and sorrow. A I h. PPOTe a the happy Spending Onassfs yvioney rreeiy Jackie Maintains Kennedy Ties; plans to mark the 2QOth anniversary of Belle- Ante's Big Spring were turned into tragic sadness. Our neighbors at Bellefonte were looking forward to celebrating the 200th anniversary Of the Big Spring which gave the town its name.

Now plans for the celebration have been thrown in disarray by the tragic plane accident which took the lives of the mayor of Bellefonte and others on the committee who were flying to Harrisburg to have pictures taken which would publicize the Big Spring anniversary. The spring first appears in the legal records in 1769 when a provincial soldier got the land as payment for his services in the Indian campaigns. It was this ever-flowing bountiful spring which the French statesmen Talleyrand saw on his tour of the United States. Well established legend has it that it was his comment that led to the naming of "Bellefonte" beautiful spring. After various ownerships which supplied the borough with water, the spring finally came into possession of the borough 90 years ago in 1879.

Major William F. Reynolds, for long a leading Bellefonte citizen, gave the spring to the borough. It has been the source of the community's water ever since. It was appropriate that the borough authorities and the Jaycees should decide to celebrate the bicentennial of the spring which not only gave the town its name, but has been one of the borough's tourist attractions and claims to fame ever since. The tragic deaths of the four residents who were, like so many small town residents, working hard in the interest of their community, will be a blow to Bellefonte.

We share the sorrow of Bellefonte and Centre County as a community. We express our sympathy to our neighbors and to members of the families of those who lost their lives. The death of Mayor Sidney Willar, who was rounding out his eighth decade of life, with Bob Dunlap of the Bellefonte Skyport, and Harold Flick and Gerald Robison, men half his age who were civic and business leaders of the community, caused widespread and genuine jyrief in our own community. Our sorrow -Ajmes, not only because these men well known here, especially Mr. Dunlap, who was formerly from Beech Creek, and Mayor Willar, whose daughter is a resident of our community, but because they died on an errand of civic concern.

They were men who put forth their efforts in the public interest, gave their time to advance the welfare of the community, and took responsibility for the common good. Such men cannot be spared; for there are all too few of them. To lose them in this tragic way, as they were again demonstrating their willingness to put public matters ahead of their private concern, is a bereavement of double severity. We know, as only another community of similar character can know, how grievous a blow it is to lose so many civic minded people and to have it happen as a by-product of their public interest. We can imagine, as only another such community can, the effect of rueful sorrow that turns buoyant plans for a great civic occasion into a grieving memorial for lost leaders.

Some people keep troubles in the dark, while others make light of them. Poor handwriting also may cover up many errors in spelling. The Old Picture Album By JACK ANDERSON Copyright, 1968 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. WASHINGTON One of the few persons to penetrate the waH that the Kennedys have thrown up around Ted since his accident is his former sister-in- law. Jackie Onassis.

Soon the tragedy, the former First Lady reached Sen. Ted Kennedy by overseas telephone and expressed her deep sorrow. She couldn't have been more gracious, say intimates. She also telephoned his brother- in-law. Steve Smith, who serves business manager fcr tie clan.

to ask whether there was anything cculd do. That's the av it has been wi'h Jackie since she married Greek ghipoine maanate Aristotle She has carefully roaint.aMied her ties with the Kennedv family. Rose Kennedy, for example. the bolidav as Jackie's aboard the vgcM Afterward. Jackie sen-t fre family some books on Greek history arid invited her to oome to Greece for a Bu1 if the relat'onshio between Jackie and her former family seem? warm, intimate? sav it is and isn't.

Jackie alwavs the suffocating embrace of the clan even while she wu its illustrious in- law. She didfl't like 'he one-for- aM-and-aW-for-one spirit ttot encroached on her indeoendence. Oueen Jacaueline Now a of aloofness is manifest in her indeoemtence. For desoite the surface sweetness closeness, sav intimates Jackie takes a quiet satisfaction in having eseatied the Kennedy hold. Sometimes she the Kennedys 'he impression that she feels above and bevond them.

Jackie's former sister-in-law used to refer to her teasinely as "the Queen," because of her peso'! manner her awareness of ifihe effect she creates. Today, she is still Oueen." who lives as rcvallv, as dazz'iwiv and entertains as extravagantly as any Swce her marriage last October, has been on a glorious soendine swee. She walks into aniv store of her chooslne. herself to wh'afever she wants and strolls off. trailed bv burdered down with bundles.

She pays no cash, signs no bills. Her face is her credit card. Store owners. tihe famous lady, realize that ArMotle will make pood. She buys $1.000 and $2.000 gowns bv the dozei.

Her collection of furs is fabulous. Her jewelry, by one estimate, is worth a cool $5 million. 9hp ha? also traveled the world over, livina for short oer- lods in various villas and aoart- ments in Athens. Paris, Buenos Aires. Montevideo, Monte Carlo.

New York and her favorite island retreat of Sfcoroios. The villa on Skordos was fur- ni hed bv Onassi's's former love, ooera star Maria Callas. at a reported cost, of $500.000. Jackie decided to throw all Maria's exoensive furniture out and is flying in her own se'ec- tions from as far away as New York City. When jets across the ocean, she alwavs buys four tickets because doesn't like to have peonle sitting near her.

Even though her husband owns Olympic Airways, she prefers Pan American. She also likes to cruise on the Christina, a veritable sea cattle, which is ususally overflowing with the Beautiful People. Jackie's Spending Since Jackie is no longer eligible for Secret Service protection. Onassis has hired Pinkerton guards at a cost of $1.200 a week to follow her wherever she goes. How much has it cost Onassis to be married to the widow of the late President Kennedy and number one catch in the world? News sleuth Fred Sparks, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has carefully traced their spending since the marniage.

He calculates that the marriage, thus far, has cost Ari an astounding $20 million. During their courtship, he sent Jackie a of flowers every other week from May urti! October. With each bouquet came a gold or diamond bracelet trinkets that cost him an estimated $130,000 before he landed the world's most exclusive lady. For a wedding gift, he gave her a 40-karat diamond worth close to $1 million. Insiders say the Onassises are quite happy." Jackie managed to spend only about $125,000 on herself during her marriage to the late President Kennedy.

She positively delights now in beimg able to buy anything she wants, including the stores. And Ari doesn't seem to mind her fabulous spending. Only the children, apparently, preferred life with (he Kennedys, and sometimes seem to resent their new stepfather. Jackie is aware of her children'; feelings, but depends on Papa's pocketbooks to assuage the pa'n. Note: Incidentally, intimates insist that Jackie not pregnant, despite recent pictures of her in a dress thai had a maternity look.

Nixon on the Spot North Korea put President Nixon on the spot by demanding a written apology before the downed helicopter crewmen will be returned. During the 1968 election campaign. Nixon denounced then- President Johnson for issuing a similar apology in order to get the 81 Pueblo crewmen back. Nixon promised that he would never permit the United States to get into such an embarrassing position again. Now the President must either eat his words or leave three Americans to suffer in a North Korean prison.

WE'RE NEARLY AFRAID TO LOOK It Seems Like Yesterday. Grand Ball Scheduled for Opening of New Hospital Items the back files of The Expreu 70 Years Ago 7899 LUMBER was arriving by the carload at the Clinton Furniture Company; it was expected the making of furniture would begin October 1. The following officers were elected at a meeting of the company: Jacob Scott, president; David Salmon, vice president, A.B. Salmon, secretary and treasurer. W.E.

Trognitz was to be the foreman of the factory. to extensive improvements in progress at the plant it was 9 o'clock before the street light circuit was turned on. It would be late in coming on for several nights as the available power would be used for commercial lighting until after time for closing the stores. 60 Years Ago 7909 CLARENCE LONG, a well known butcher and huckster, was in attendance at the Lock Haven city market when a fire destroyed his bam at Rebersburg. Centre County and practically all the buildings on his farm including the cattle and hog pens, butcher shop and some smaller structures.

Nearly 400 students had enrolled at the Normal school in this city for the fall term and probably 50 more would enter this well known school within the next two weeks. opening of the hospital was set for Seotember 15. The building will be opened for inspec- Mon of the oublic from 10 a.m. to 5 D.m. after which the patients from the present hospital Quarters in the Mayer home would be removed to the new.

comfortable and commodious rooms awaiting them. The day would be a proud one and promised to be Lock Haven's own holiday in celebration of her eenerosity and public spirit. The bis. event would close with a grand ball in the armory. Here and There Haute Coleur de Rigeurin Haute Couture By JOY STDLLEY For HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) A rose by any other name not only smells as sells a good deal more sweetly.

And this apparently is true for every color in the rainbow. In the high fashion ads a copywriter would blush like a rose to describe a garment as such. Instead it is more elegantly labeled petal, American Beauty or passion pink. Giving a color its crayon-box name simply won't do in the world of haute couture and the hauler the couture the fancier the nomenclature. White, black and red are okay for the dresses hanging on the bargain base, ment racks, but in the boutiques they've got to be a more sophisticated snow, jet or flame.

Who would ever pick a green or yellow frock when the sams thing is available in such de. lectable shades as frosted mint or lemon ice? Especially for the primary colors, calling a spade a spade is strictly forbidden. Yellow goes under such pseudonyms as buttercup, daffodil, banana and canary. Red is more appealing as scarlet or vermillion. Blue admits to what it is basically but glamorizes itself by cozying up with adjectives to become ice blue, true blue, French blue, powder blue, robin egg blue or out-yonder blue.

Do you like jewels? Your next dress can be platinum, emerald, aquamarine, sapphire, coral, jade, garnet, ruby, amethyst or turquoise, and the style peddlers are creating new gem tones every day. But the mouth-watering hues are by far the most popular with those who are doing then- share of positive thinking. You could make a full meal out of the dress shades advertised in just one issue of your daily paper. You might start with olive, melon or canteloupe. Then there's oyster, shrimp, avocado, pistachio, cranberry, vanilla, cream, tangerine, chocolate, plum, persimmon, honey, taffy, peach and walnut.

And to top it all off, how about cognac, coffee and tobacco? Hal Boyle is on vacation BELLEFONTE BIG SPRING The bicentennial of the Big Spring at Bellefonte, shown here as it appeared half a century ago, was the event which four civic leaders of the Bellefonte Area were working on, when they took off on tragic flight to Harrisburg last week. The celebration of the spring, a historical landmark of this area ttt well ai a source of water supply for Bellefonte, was set for later this month. The mayor of Bellefonte, venerable Sidney G. Willar, with Robert Dunlap of Bellefonte, and Harold R. Flick, Julian, and Gerald Robison of the Pennsylvania State University, were the victims of an aircrasb en route to Harrisburg for conferences with state officials on the celebration plans.

7070 RESIDENTS on and near West Main and Thrid hav. ing obtained the permission of the owner. J.B. Furst, to use the vacant lot at the southwest corner of those intersecting streets, were planning to make this former armory site a a'av- ground for the children of that section of town. There were as many students in the Freshman class at the Lock Haven H'gh School as there were in the entire school ten years final chock-un indicated that the total enrollment in the High School was 411 25 Years Ago 7944 TWELVE STUDENT.

NURSES registered at the Teachers College, the second class of nurses in the newly re-established Lock Haven Hospital Training School for Nurses Forty-one families, members of whom came in contact with the first infantile paralysis victim at school, were placed under observation quarantine for 14 days. 70 Years Aao 7959 CLINTON COUNTY Firemen's Association cUmaied the Labor Day weekend festivities with its convention parade and a dance at the municipal parking lot, The Pumping Contest was won by Castanea. They emerged victorious with a tim of 151.2 even though one of their members fell into the river during the contest. Borough Council accepted with regret the resignation of Lester H. (Nip) Moore as police officer.

5 Years Ago 7964 THE LOCK'HAVEN BOARD OF EDUCATION decided to purchase three properties for construction of the new Lincoln school. W. Speth and Samuel J. Casilio were hosts at a kick-off meeting of their Advance Gifts division of the Lock Haven Area United Fund campaign. level was falling rapidly in every reservoir in the area.

Water system officials were urging everyone to save water as much 'as possible. What's all this talk about the difficulty of obtaining student loans? We imagine most every college president has a few students he'd be glad to lend you. Anybody who accepts a loan of students these days may find he's borrowing trouble. Higher education is becoming almost as high as today's interest rates. It requires a mastery of the New Math to understand 'em.

You can tell collegians are anxious to set the world on fire. Starting with the president's office. Every American boy has a chance to become President the United States. But he also runs the risk of being chosen as the president of a university. Shore Lines By Joseph Cox Among the canal mules were some remarkable characters, at least in Pike County.

Or they had' remarkable characters. One was a big black mule known as Old Satan. "Old Satan had seen service with Sherman in the Civil War and had put in many years on the Delaware Hudson Canal," says Robert J. Wheeler. "A farmer had obtained him in a trade on a hog one dark night.

The farmer found Old Satan the blackest, ugliest, most ornery and least desirable mule in Pike County. Old Satan fought off work and when put into the barn kicked everything to pieces. He would chase the dogs and scare the women and children. "The farmer in desperation was about to shoot Old Satan when one day a remarkable thing happened. The mule was in the yard kicking things around as usual when suddenly he discovered a half-barrel of soft soap the women had made and hidden under a few boards near the kitchen.

Old Satan knocked the boards off and drank the soft soap to the last drop." You will not be surprised to learn that Pike County Tall Tales is the name of Robert J. Wheeler's article in Pennsylvania Songs and Legends. It goes on: "The soap worked a miracle in Old Satan. He now became mild, good-natured and quite agreeable to work. He played with the children.

The farmer rode him to town and the women hooked him to the buckboard and drove to church on Sundays. Old Satan was soft-soaped for life. "The tough old mule became a great boon in a country where soap was scarce. One Sunday morning one of the hired hands could not shave because he lacked soap. Then he remembered that after each rain Old Satan broke out in a thick lather.

The mule lathered so easy that the boys used to say, 'The soft soap is coming out of "So this hired hand took a cup of warm water, poured it over Satan, worked up a quick lather and shaved with it. Then on Mondays the women stood old Satan over a washtub, poured water over him, and did their hashing in the soapy water." What did they use for bluing? Some oxen are blue. "Well, when the farmer was asked by the Collingswood Lumber Company to sell Old Satan, he agreed to sell at a good price. And so this remarkable canal mule put in several more years walking the treadmill of the Paupac River boat, towing rafts of lumber downstream to the Wilsonville mill." All of this started when the company began to cut timber on the Paupac River Valley between Wayne and Pike Counties. "The rivermen found that the main stream was lost when the river rose to a stage of six or more feet.

Instead of floating toward the big sawmill at Wilsonville, Wayne County, the logs drifted all over the forest, wherever vagrant streams carried them. Even when rafts were spiked together the stream could not be followed when the oxbow country was reached. "Finally the company rigged up a flat-bottomed boat with a paddle-wheel at the stern propelled by a horse walking a treadmill. The boat made its way upstream and came back towing a lot of logs. The towboat worked all right at flood stage.

But when the water receded and the river returned to its natural course, too much time was lost in going around the oxbow loops through which the river wound its way down the valley. "The worst place on the river was in front of the Schuman farm, where the loops were so close they resembled a bunch of shoestrings folded together. So a canal was dug across the loops to force the river to flow on a straight course." Now our hero appears upon the scene. "Then it was found that a horse could not do the hard work on the treadmill. Mules were substituted, but they, too, failed to bear the strain.

At length it was suggested that only a canal mule, inured to a long- sustained strain, could fill the bill. After a long search, one was located on a farm near the notch." It was Old Satan. The rest is history. "When at last Old Satan became too old to work, the company sold him to a barber over at Sohola Falls. With the mule as a source, the barber never had to order any more shaving soap.

Old Satan set the style for the shaving brush tails that mules wear today." ft Or "They that watt upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." Isaiah 40:31 Ratio's They'll Do It Every Time Daffvnifions Congress: The only thing thai can harm international understanding more than diplomatic conferences. Burglar Alarm: What to give a man who has everything. DOBS THE ICE CREAM WAGON STOP?.