The Weather Cloudy with a little rain or drizzle followed by colder and now flurries late tonight and Friday. Low tonight 25 to 30. THE NE Ivening Thought No folly is more costly than the folly of Intolerant idealism. Winston Churchill. Leased Wire Service of The United Press.
Exclusive NEA and Central Press Pictures and Features. 72ND YEAR NO. 20.11" FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1950. FIVE CENTS WS ERALB i sift mm toct milks mmm 1 (W I I U.S. Rebuffs unxsy Groundhog Mine Operators Fails fo See Shadow; Early Spring Assured CANOE RIDGE WEATHER lin the 50-year history of the club WORKS, Punxsutawney UP that the groundhog failed to see Dr.
F. A. Lorenzo, president of his shadow," Lorenzo reported the Punxsutawney Groundhog after thumbing through the or- ganization's records, Club, announced officially today i that "it will be an early spring." Lorenzo, who led the' annual pilgrimage to the groundhog's home on Gobbler's Knob near here, said the weather prophet made his appearance on the dot of 10 a. m. "Heavy clouds and fog prevent ed him from seeing his shadow," Lorenzo reported.
Consequently we are going to have an early warm spring." Lorenzo, who has led the groundhog faithful for 25 years, said he was cancelling his scheduled trip to Florida at the end of this month. "Why should I spend money on a trip to Florida when it is going to be warm and sunny right here at home, he asked. "It was only the second time MISSOURI FLOATS AGAIN Flanked by tugboats and other craft, the battleship Missouri rides free in Hampton Roads, after the largest salvage operation in Navy history shook her loose from a mudbank which had held her prisoner for two weeks. Concerted effort of a fleei of tugs rocked the "Big Mo" free of the mud's suction grip during a flood tide. Snow, Floods And Ice Cause Distress CHICAGO UP Fact or fancy, just about everyone in the country hoped that the ground hog wouldn't sight his shadow today.
Snow, ice, floods, and- landslides caused havoc and suffering in widespread areas on this candlemas and many Americans weren't taking chances on whether the ground Lineman Burned Last June Dies Carol to Take Stand in Mercy Slaying Trial BRIDGEPORT, Conn. UP A psychiatrist testified today that when Carol Paight, 21, killed her father to save him from a slow, painful death from cancer, she Soviet Move to Try Hirohito Rejects Proposal as 'Unthinkable Move Seen as Propaganda nr a OTTTvrrTnxT tttj tvaoxiiiivjxui ui United States officials today curtly rejected as "unthinkable" a Soviet move to prosecute Emperor Hirohito of Japan as a war criminal. American authorities said sia raised the issue only for ganda, and this country will have bo part of it. Russia suggested in a lengthy note to the United States that an international tribunal try Hirohito and four or five other Japanese for allegedly planning germ warfare. No More 'Class A' Trials.
U. S. officials saw the move as an attempt by Russia to welsh on a long-standing agreement to cur tain such trials in Japan. All of the countries that fought Japan, including Russia, agreed last Feb. 24 that no more "Class.
war crimes trials would be held. Congressmen and other govern ment officials here joined in denouncing the move. Chairman John Kee, W. of the House Foreign Affairs Committee snorted: "They've got their nerve." There was speculation that Rus sia sought to win the sympathy of the newly-conquered Chinese, who still hate Hirohito for his attacks on Manchuria before World War II. By raising the issue now, it was said, Russia also might be hoping to divert attention from western oharges that it has failed to account for 379,929 Japanese soldiers that fell into Soviet hands when Japan surrendered.
Will Antagonize Japs. also might be intended as a rallying point for Japanese Communists. But officials here believed it would antagonize most Japanese who revere their emperor. When Japan first offered to surrender, the one condition was that the Allies keep Hirohito on the throne. The Allies side-stepped a direct answer on that one, but adopted the policy of leaving Hirohito to take orders from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur and relay them to the Japanese people. The Japanese have always obeyed. The arrangement has enabled the United States to occupy Japan with a minimum force and with a minimum of civilian resistance. AFL Teamsters Lift Boycott on Schools PITTSBURGH UP Supplies flowed to Pittsburgh schools today after the AFL Teamsters Local 249 suddenly rescinded an embargo on food, drug and freight deliveries. The union spokesman who made the announcement last night gave no reason for the reversal.
Deliveries were cut off yesterday after Local 249 President Thomas L. fa*gan Said hauling would not start until the dispute between the Pittsburgh school board and the AFL building trades council was settled. The school board dismissed 79 AFL trades workers who refused to take a wage cut several weeks ago. On Monday, school board attorneys obtained a preliminary injunction against the building trades council and 22 affiliated unions from picketing or interfering with the operation of public schools. fa*gan said yesterday that the injunction did not apply to his local since it was not named specifically in the court order.
However, local 249 is a member of the building trades council. GAMES PARTY Rocky Grove Fire House 8:15 Single, double, triple, w-t Sherman Reports 60 to 70 Soviet Submarines in Western Pacific Navy Chief Discloses U. S. Will Strengthen Fleet In Same Area TOKYO UP Russia has 60 or 70 submarines operating in the western Pacific, Adm. Forrest P.
Sherman, U. S. chief of naval operations, said today. Sherman made the announcement shortly after he disclosed that the United States plans to build up its naval strength in the area. "Russia has 270 to 280 submarines, and about one-fourth of them are in the Pacific, we be lieve," Sherman told a Navy press conference.
Asked to comment on reports that the Russians were shipping parts overland and assembling the subs at Vladivostok, Sherman replied, "it is possible." Earlier, at a press conference held by all four members of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, Sherman said the history of two world wars shows the submarine threat is "very real." Divert Ships From Atlantic. At this conference, Sherman said the United States planned to increase the number of carriers in the western Pacific to two and to divert a "half dozen" destroyers from the Atlantic. At present, the Carrier Boxer is the only carrier in the area.
It is lying at anchor off Yokosuka, the giant Japanese naval base. Also attending the press conference were the other chiefs of staff, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman-Gen. J.
Lawton Collins, Army; and Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force. Formosa Has Some Value. Bradley said Formosa has "some strategic value, especially if held by someone hostile to us." He Gen.
Douglas MacAr-thur's headquarters had given him an "excellent presentation" of American military problems in the far east. He said he know of no plan to increase military forces in Japan. Vandenberg said American air strength in the far east had dropped in units, if not in number of planes, compared to the days immediately after the Pacific war. Before the press conference, the chiefs of staff reviewed a parade of 14,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen of the far east command. Bearcat fighter planes from the Boxer roared 6verhead in the mightest display of the military occupation.
Radio, TV Directors Settle (or $15 Hike NEW YORK UP Radio and television directors who threatened to go on strike against four major networks for pay increases ranging from $70 to $170 a week settled today for a $15 a week pay boost. The 350 members of the AFL radio and television directors guild accepted the salary offer after 17 hours of non-stop negotiations but kept their walkout threat handy until several additional minor issues are settled. The walkout, scheduled for last midnight, threatened all "live" radio and television shows originating at the local stations of the National Broadcasting the Columbia Broadcasting System, I the American Broadcasting and the Mutual Broadcasting System. The union had demanded that the $130 basic pay scale of television directors be increased to $300 a week and the $130 basic pay of radio directors to $200 a week. Orders Six Military Hospitals Closed WASHINGTON UP Defense Secretary Louis Johnson has ordered six military hospitals closed down and activities at 10 others curtailed as part of his economy program.
In announcing the order yesterday, Johnson estimated that the move would save about annually. The cutback will reduce the number of hospital beds by 8,000 and will permit reassignment of 400 doctors. Scheduled to be closed during the next Ave months are four Army and two Navy hospitals. They are: Army Murphy General Hospital, Waltham, Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenix ville, Oliver General Hospital, Augusta, and Percy; Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. Navy Mare Island, naval hospital and Long Beach, General Hospital.
Falls Dead in Grave ELBERTON. Ga. UP Early Wilkinson, negro gravedigger, got "too hot" and sat down on the edge of a grave yesterday. Then he tumbled in, dead of a heart Accept 70-Day Truce Proposal Lewis Accuses Mine Owners of Attempt to Invoke Labor Law By LAURENCE GONDER WASHINGTON UP XT 11 iNonnern ana western son coal operators broke off contract talks with John Lewis today, but accepted President Truman's proposal for a 70-day mining truce beginning Monday. v- unless Lewis also accepts.
If he doesn't, Mr. Truman apparently will be forced to seek a Taft-Hart ley 80-day injunction. Lewis has until 5 p. EST. Saturday to reply to Mr.
Truman's proposal that "normal production" a five-day week be resumed Monday for 70 days while a special presidential board studies the dispute and makes recommendations. Lewis gave no hint of his next move. But he angrily accused the mine owners of "wrecking" the contract talks in the hope that "the government may now move in through the courts and the Taft-Hartley slave statute to do the job the operators themselves cannot do reduce the mine work ers to a condition of servility." The operators walked out on Lewis less than an hour after Mr. Truman told a news conference he will invoke the Taft-Hartley law in the coal situation when an emergency develops. He still didn't say that there is an emergency now.
Meant Five-Day Week. Mr. Truman also explained that when he asked the disputants Tuesday to resume "normal" pro-- day week rather than a three-day week. Lewis ordered the miners on a three-day week last December after previous negotiations collapsed. Since then, more than 100.000 miners have gone on strike, refusing even to work a three-day week without a contract.
A federal court here has under advisem*nt a government request for an order to send the miners back to work on a five-day week. That request is based on charges that certain of Lewis' contract demands are illegal. Each Side Blames Other. Each side blamed the other for today's breakdown in the new negotiations which began yesterday. Lewis accused the operators of trying to force the union to agree in advance to certain conditions and stipulations.
He called this a move by "financial interests to try to crush the United Mine Workers." He said his union "regrets failure of the conference and will continue to struggle to improve the living standards of their membership and to fight for some modicum of recognition of the rights of miners." George H. Love, spokesman for the northern and western operators, said the owners broke off negotiations because the union "still clings to its desire to control production and to decree how many days mines may work regardlejs of market demands." He said the owners wanted Lewis to drop his demand for a contract clause which would permit miners to work only when "willing and able." Proposes Aid Offer in Rettfrn For A-Controls WASHINGTON UP Sen. Brien McMahon. proposed today that the United States offer a $50,000,000,000 global Marshall Plan in return for "true" world control of atomic and other weapons. The chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee made his proposal in a Senate speech.
"If the proposal were actually' accepted, we would have conclud- jed the cheapest monetary bargain, in our history," McMahon said. would have probably saved mankind from destruction by fire." provide financial incentive to encourage merging of school districts. 2. That the legislature appropriate more money to assist in erection of school buildings. 3.
That a commission be appointed to study existing public school building standards' and recommend to the state council needed revision of standards in the light of modern trends. 4. That the federal government assist in erection of school buildings. 5. That the tenure act be amended to include as a cause for termination of a teacher's contract "the-willful and continuous disobey-ance of the reasonable direction of the supervisors of the school." 6.
That the limit of the school per capita tax be increased to $10. 7. That reimbursem*nt be provided for extra curricular activities. Lorenzo also denounced the "Quarryville pretenders," a rival organization of groundhog weather prophets in the eastern portion of Pennsylvania. "Dressing up in silk hats and night shirts and appearing before a groundhog burrow like that would startle any self-respecting weather prophet back into his hole immediately.
It's no wonder that the Quarryville predictions are wrong so often. The leader of the Punxsutawney faithful sneered when advised that the Quarryville Club was using radar. "That proves it. They probably realize by now that their groundhog is nothing but a muskrat and they're trying to cover up," he said. hog legend were true.
1 hey wanted winter to end A sheet of heavy ice extended from Missouris bootheel across Arkansas and southern Oklahoma into north central Texas. Almost 100 communities were isolated and thousands of persons needed aid, Flood waters caused three deaths in West Virginia, drove 700 from their Kentucky homes, and sent the Ohio River surging toward a new winter crest at Cincinnati. The Big Sandy, Kentucky, Licking, Green, Pon, and Tradewater rivers were all running out of their banks in Kentucky. Rains continued in the flood area today, and at Petros, where a mile-square area of coal mine slag and dirt slipped down a ridge. The avalanche smashed two mine shafts and blocked a highway and railroad track.
Prisoners worked through the night to keep the mass of earth "vom blocking a creek that would 5 'od their nearby camp if dammed. A barricade of crossties and logs prevented the slide from crashing into the camp power plant. Aid Sent Snowbound Area. In the Dakotas, eight "weasel" tractors were creeping over giant snow drifts, dragging sledloads of food and fuel to isolated farms and towns. The weasels, flown in by the Army, also brought out sick persons.
The ice in north central Texas was reported worse than the big storms that struck a year ago and in 1945 in the same area. Fifty-five Texas towns were cut off by telephone and almost as many in southern Oklahoma. Power failures were reported at Gainesville, Bonham, Honey Grove, McKinney and Denton, Tex. About 1,500 square miles of Texas alone was covered by ice that piled three inches thick on wires. Bongham, declared a state of emergency as 300 families pleaded for help in replenishing food and fuel supplies.
Public health officials were ordered to Celeste, to combat the threat of an epidemic. The town's water system was knocked out 48 hours ago by the ice. All telephone service was out to 14 Arkansas towns with 175 long distance circuits broken across the state. Three inches of ice lay on the ground at Harrison, Ark. Trees and power poles snapped at Jones-boro.
Auto Shares Lead Market to New High NEW YORK UP Automobile shares led the industrial list to a new high since 1946 in moderate trading during the morning dealings today. General Motors ran up a full point to a new high at 74. That company has stepped up operations and plans overtime and a six day week, according to the trade jour nal Automotive News. Studebafcer rose to 273A up and Chrysler reached 65 Vi up despite its strike. New interest developed for television issues where Emerson Radio made a new high at 26 Vi up 2V2 points.
Montgomery Ward featured the mail orders with a rise of 1 to 58. Allied Chemical spurted 2 to 209 in the chemical department which otherwise was a narrow mover. U. S. May Take Counter Measures in Berlin WASHINGTON UP The United States is considering "counter measures" to meet "ittitt hinrirartp" of western Berlin, a State Department spokes man said today.
"We do not believe that we can sit idly by when Soviet authorities violate international agreements," department press spokesman Michael J. McDermott told a news conference. "We believe we must actively consider counter measures." Efforts to Save Life Of L. S. McDermott Fail Lynn S.
McDermott, 52, of Oil City, Penelec employe, who has been a patient for the past nine months in the Franklin Hospital following serious burns he receiv- ed on June 16 while working at the company sub-station near Franklin, died at 9:30 a. m. today in the hospital. At the time of the accident, Mr. McDermott, who was a lineman for the company, was working at the tower of the station at the former Eclipse Works site.
It appeared a short circuit was caused and he was caught in a arc. The deceased was not shocked by elec-iricity, but flames ignited his clothing and more than three-fourths of his body was seared. Another employe, Thomas Doyle, of Franklin, who was working with him at the time, jumped from the transformer to the ground. Doyle suffered abrasions to the face and a broken wrist. Mr.
McDermott resided in the First National Bank Building, Oil City. The Pennsylvania Electric it was reported, spent more than $11,000 in efforts to save the life of the employe. He was born Jan. 24, 1897, at Marienville. a son of the late Matthew J.
and Rachel Ellen Shirley McDermott. He entered the employ of the Penelec Co. April 24. 1926, as a utility construction and maintenance man. He was married to Mildred Irene Cornell in 1923 at New Ken -sington.
A veteran of World War he served with Company 112th Infantry, 28th Division. He was a member of the V. F. W. Post, Isaac Walton League and Marienville Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, of Oil City; a daughter, Mrs. Stanley Dudzic and granddaughter. Nancy Lynn Dudzic, of Honolulu, T. H. Also surviving are two brothers.
Coy of Grafton, W. and Warren of Haegerstown, Md. The body has been removed to the Sreffee Funeral Home, Oil City, where services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday.
Rev. H. L. Knappenberger, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Franklin, will officiate. Members of the V.
F. Post will be in charge of the graveside service in the Marienville Cemetery. Order Bargaining Vote WASHINGTON UP The National Labor. Relations Board today ordered elections held within 30 days among 27,500 employes of five General Motors Corp. divisions to determine whether they want to be represented by the International Union of Electrical Workers (CIO) or the United Electrical Workers which was booted out of the CIO- Fatal Beating Es Described Witnesses Tell of Corsica Man's Slaying BROOKVILLE UP Two prosecution witnesses in the murder trial of lumber operator Lawrence R.
Buzard, 59, Corsica, testified today that they saw the defendant strike the slain man during an argument. Buzard is accused of kicking Waldo C. Ditty, 52, Corsica, to death in an argument over a $31 debt. Harry Hindman and Tom Arm-agost- said they watched Buzard hit Ditty and then carry him moaning to a nearby porch. Ditty died before his arrival at Brookville Hospital one-half hour later.
VAt yesterday's session, George W. Riggs, a Corsica merchant, told the Jefferson County criminal court jury of six men and six women that Buzard and Ditty began to argue shortly after they left his store. Riggs said the men tussled and that Ditty broke away with Buzard in pursuit. He said the lumber operator caught up to Ditty and struck him down. Buzard straddled Ditty's back and knocked him unconscious, the witness said.
Riggs told Jefferson County criminal court that Buzard kicked the unconscious man in the head. Cross-examination by Defense Attorney Charles J. Margiotti failed to shake Riggs' story. However, the witness admitted it was possible that Ditty advanced upon Buzard although he did not see such a movement. George L.
Clinger, said he shaved both Ditty and Buzard in his Corsica barber shop the night of the slaying. He said he shaved Ditty about 8 p. m. and that he appeared normal. However, when Buzard came in an hour later his knuckles were marked and were painted with iodine, the barber said.
Dr. W. Craig Henderson, the Brookville Hospital surgeon who pronounced the victim dead, also testified along with Mrs. Florence Reitz, a nurse, and Don Morrison, commercial photographer, who identified pictures of the scene. Strike at Kendall Refinery Postponed BRADFORD UP Federal and state mediators will continue efforts to bring on an agreement between the Kendall Refining Co.
and the CIO Oil Workers International Union here today. Production at the company's two Bradford plants continued yesterday after the union called off a scheduled walkout minutes before a mid-night deadline. union spokesman said the men will continue to work as long as negotiations for a new contract covering wages and sick benefits are' in progress. Federal Mediator Grover Stain-back and state Mediator. James Add reported late yesterday that no agreement was in sight.
H. B. Smith, refinery superintendent, and Virgil Poling, president of OWIU Local 567, and International Union Representative Robert T. Aylor, were conducting the bargaining sessions. Truman Prods Rayburn For Vote on FEPC WASHINGTON UP President Truman said today that he has been prodding Speaker Sam Ray-burn for weeks for a House vote on FEPC.
Rayburn, who does not like the fair employment practices bill, refused to comment. The President was asked at his news conference if he planned any special "boost for i LPU, wmcn is the keystone of his civil rights program. He replied that he has been urging action on Rayburn every Monday at the regular weekly white House legislative Two-Cent Milk Price Cut Slated Tentative Order Sets Price Slash Feb. 15 HARRISBURG UP The State Milk Control Commission today disclosed that tentative orders would be issued reducing the retail rjrice of milk in the Pittsburgh on1 TTrio marlrotitlff Hictrirts hv I two cents a quart. (Venango County is in the Pittsburgh marketing district).
The orders, if adopted finally by the commission, will become ef fective Feb. 15. They reduce the retail price of milk in both area to 19 cents a quart. The commission will hold conferences in the tentative price orders for both districts Feb. 6 The tentative orders deviated sharply from the previous practice of dropping or raising the price farmers receive for milk 40 cents a hundredweight for every cent change in the retail price.
Farmers Price Slashed. Under the proposed orders the farmers' price in the Pittsburgh area would be cut from $5.63 to $4.78 a hundredweight for class 1 milk of four per cent, butterfat content. The slash in farmers' prices in the Erie Marketing district would be even more drastic. The farmer price in the Erie area would be cut from the present $5.60 to $4.53 a hundredweight for Class 1 milk of 3.5 per cent, butterfat content. Commissioner John said there is a plentiful supply of milk in the western part of the state because that area has been flooded with milk from Ohio.
Snyder said the Ohio milk coming into the area formerly had gone to manufacturers. Commission officials also disclosed that, under the tentative orders, the price of cream in the two areas will be reduced three cents per half pint or 12 cents a quart. Dutch Plane Crashes AMSTERDAM, Netherlands UP A Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) mail-freight plane crashed in flames early today in the North Sea. Company officials said it was certain that all seven crew members aboard were killed. immediately notify the United Nations of our intent and purpose to suspend all of our activities in respect to mass destruction the first moment the use of these weapons can be dependably outlawed." Among committee members who backed up Vandenberg's sugges tion were: Sens.
Richard B. Russell, John W. Bricker, 0 Eugene D. Millikin, and Reps. Carl T.
Durham, N. Chet Holifield, Melvin Price, 111., Paul J. Kilday, W. Sterling Cole, N. Charles H.
Elston, Carl Hinshaw, and James E. Van Zandt, Pa. Three others asked that their names be withheld. All of the members who ventured an opinion stressed that production of the hydrogen bomb should continue until there is an "iron-clad" agreement with Russia to outlaw atomic weapons. Any agreement, they said, would have to include adequate provisions for inspection to see that it was being carried out.
was suffering from an insane delusion that she had the "moral, social, and legal" right to do so. Dr. Clifford D. Moore, defense witness, was under cross-examination in the seventh day of Carol's trial on charge of second-degree murder. Carol was to testify in her own defense when the doctor's cross-examination was finished.
Dr. Moore told state's attorney Lorin W. Willis that two and a half hours after she shot her father, while under the influence of sodium amytal, a sedative and "truth drug," she told him she fired the shot because "she could not see her Daddy suffer." "That was a logical motive for the act, wasn't it?" Willis asked. "No, it was not," Dr. Moore replied.
The psychiatrist said it was illogical because she was suffering at the time from the delicion "that she had the right moral, social, legal to commit such an act." "Suppose, Doctor, that between one and two hours after you saw her that night, she said to police officer (Philip) Wolfson of Stamford, 'I know what I've done and it is against the Would that change your opinion in any respect?" "It would not," Dr. Moore replied. The doctor said she still was under the influence of sodium amytal one to two hours after he saw her. French and Soviet Relations Strained pabts TIP France warned Russia today that her recognition of the Communist rebel regime in French Indo-China could nave 'very serious results" on Franco- Soviet relations. Acting French Foreign Minister Pierre Schneiter delivered the warning to Soviet Ambassador Alexander Bogomolov.
Srhnpitpr reiterated the French protest against Russian recognition of the regime of ho uni-wiinn in Indo-China which was contained in a French note to the Soviet last Tuesday. 'The note was returned to me French foreign ministry yesterday with the brusque comment: "The Soviet Union consiaers impossible to receive a note of this sort." Truman Asks Dull To Join Democrats A RFfTNflTON UP President Truman today invited Republican Gov. James H. Duff or Pennsylvania to join the Democratic Party. Mr.
Truman's invitation to Duff followed a long question at his news conference which cited a recent statement by Duff that the Republican Party should be "an organization that is broad and not exclusive hitting and not timid not back sliding but progres- esive. Permitting direct quotation of his remarks, the President said: "I suggest that the governor of Pennsylvania ioin the Democratic Party the Democratic Party is the sort of party he HARRISBURG UP Gov. James H. Duff said today he had no comment on President Truman's invitation for him to join the Democratic Party. Big Mo Slightly Damaged NORFOLK, Va.
UP The Navy reported today that the Missouri has three fairly small tears in her massive hull but probably will-be back in service in five days. Solons Support H-Bomb Proposal by Vandenberg School Directors Study Statewide Education Tax WASHINGTON UP Fourteen members of the congressional Atomic Energy Committee said today the United States should promise to halt hydrogen bomb production whenever atomic weapons are "dependably outlawed." The other four committeemen were unavailable or declined to comment. The suggestion for such a U. S. agreement was tossed into uneasy congressional discussions about the dread H-bomb by Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, who resigned from the committee recently for reasons of health. The group's overwhelming support of the proposal, shown in a United Press poll of members, reflected the deep congressional concern over the dread potentialities of the super bomb. Vandenberg, a top GOP foreign policy spokesman, said President Truman's order to go ahead with the hydrogen bomb was "unavoidable" because "ruthless aggression" is loose in the world." But he added: "I wish the President would HARRISBURG UP Pennsylvania school directors met here today to study, and possibly to endorse, a new state-wide tax for education. The two-day convention of.
the Pennsylvania State School Directors Association was scheduled to draw representatives of 2,130 of the commonwealth's 2,530 school districts. A total of 59 resolutions were submitted to the association's resolution committee in advance of the 54th annual convention, and the committee will determine which will be submitted to the delegates. They cover real estate assessments, federal aid, formation of new districts, nursing and medical service, appropriations, state subsidies, building programs, taxation and teacher tenure. Among the recommendations were: 1. That legislation be enacted to i Mimim i mil mini hi 1.
