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STEEL CITY PRESS 4 . 1 Bac s VOLUME 1, NUMBER 5 LACKAWANNA, N. Y., VVEDNESDAY, ‘FEB-RUAR 2 1947 u(3m' -D15 12 PAGES USW-CIO ASKS PAY DAY CHANGE FITZPATRICK URGES POLICE Blll PASS IOOO GOAL FOR LOCAL VI-'W POST IN NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE; BODA SAYS IIL-' WILL NOT RUN AGAIN STEEL PAYDAY TOO LATE FOR THURS.BUYlNG H IACKAWANNANS MADE MOBILE X-RAY CAPTMNS Eleven more Lzxckzuvannn resi- dents have accepted the X-ray Sponsoring Commhitt-:-e's invita- tion to serve as sectional cap~ tains for promotion of the spring community X-ray pro- gram. _CoL John B. Weber Post 898, Veterans of Foreign Wars, is join- ing full strength in a national VFW mcmbc~z'ship drive to and Mar. 17, s'nys Commnnder Julius Boda. The date has been set to coincide with National Commander-in-Chief Louis E. Starr's 50th birthday anni- versary. Condon-Wilson Plan Hus 25-Your Retirement With Pension Chamber of Commerce Joins Union Ohieciions To New Fri. Bethlehem System Six United Steel Worker.»-—CIO locals, 2601-5 and 3144, and Luckn- wanna Chamber of Commn-zce have ‘ asked Bethlehem Steel Co. to go back to its former two-day, Tlllll.‘:.- Fri. pay period. Steel workers are inconvenienced in cashing plIyCl1t‘(.‘l{a under the new one-(lny. Fri. payoff system, nccor«.l- ing to Union Spokesman John VV. McCnnn, and local merchant.» are having 1| telling business slump, :1 Chamber of (‘ommercu survey re- vealed. They are: Joseph Kane, Michael Gjurich, Mrs. Harold Dillon, Mrs. Catherine Manning. Mrs. Thomas McNanmra, Mrs. Putrick McGee, Mrs. Joseph Mc- Laughlin, Mrs. Patrick Karri- gnn, Mrs. James Clubb, and Mrs. Ricliard Hm-rigg. The first meeting of the sec- tional captains’ committee will be held at the Community Health Center 7:30 p. m. Wed. Each captain is asked to submit names of possible volunteer cun- vnssers in his section for con- sideration at the meeting. The local post has set a 1000 membership goal for that date. The post expects to give Starr 400 new members as a birthday present. VFW members thruout the nation who are helping their posts average two new or rejoin members a day during the program will sign post honor rolls. The recruiters will receive from the Commander- in-Chief (9. red, white. and blue lapel button of the Cross of Malta carrying the caption, “Two-n-‘Day Club.” Mar. 20 has been picked for election of new Imekzuvannn Post officers. Commander Boda, who recently made public he would not be a candidate for re-election, ex- plnined that pressing business com- mitments will tnke up too much of his time for him to continue to do the Commander's job the way he wants. l’.\~.~.age of the Condon-Wilson 26-Your Retirement Bill for Police‘ him in the State Retirement Sys- z.~m at this session of the Legisla- tum has been urged by Lieut J.nues Fitzpntxiek of Luckawauma K‘-He Dept. and Pres. Cluu-lesx J. ('l'nl) Riley of Eric Club, Inc. \\ present and long-sustained 1. uiminnlion against some 2000 pdnuenien in the municipalities of Uh‘ State should be corrected at this 5\‘sSl0n of the Legislature by the pmage of this measure,\ Riley Slllll. RED CROSS DRIVE OPENS MARCH lst, Ex-PW Says ’GIVE!’ MARCH OF DIMES HELPS GET 8000 NURSE RECRUITS “I feel I have ‘accomplished something while Post Commander. We have. built our membership from 200 to 600 in my time, and with our new membership drive, the Post should go on growing,\ Bodu said. Steel em-ployes and their families no longer shop Thux's., normally heaviest buying day, and Fri. volume of business has not increas- ed sufficiently to make up the loss. Bethlehem Accounting Dept. con- tends it cannot step up its payroll system to meet workers’ requests. McCann, who met with Co. officials. offers enlargement of the Dept’s. staff as a solution. The bill presented again this year provides the right for a policeman to retire after 25 years of service if he so selects, or feel: his effic- icncy reduced, so a younger man may take his place, Riley said. F1fty~one Lackawanna policemen am effected by the measure. Steel City officers must now serve 35 years before eligible for pension. The State Retirement System, re- quli-ing the City to repay 25 per cm of pension expenditures, has bwn in effect here since 1922. “No man should be on the force after 70, as policemen are in the (T.L_v of Buffalo today,\ Licut. Fitz- p.-vuck said. “After 25 years of Lnvhful service, a man of 60 is en- tr.'v(l to security,\ he added. Adoption by 39 municipalities lr the State of local legislation (Punting their policemen the right to u-tire after 26 years of service is further evidence of public sup- port, Riley declared. About 2000 policemen in the Suite System are without this re- tnmcnt privilege, Riley said. The pusc-nt State Retirement places (Continued on Page 12) Chairman Robert Avery of Lackuwunna District Red Cross has released :1 letter from a Steel City Vet, former prisoner-of-wnr in Germany, in the hope it will stimulate greater public support of the American Red Cross annual fund drive, which begins Mar. 1. The letter, from Roy P. Yetter Jxx, 2.10 Kirby Ave., says: \I'm very grateful for the bene- fits the Red Cross extended me while I was a prisoner-of-war in Stalng-Luft in Germany during World War 2. In time of war, as well as in time of peace, the Red Cross has been an inspiration to me for its relief work. I think it is every Ame:-ican’s duty to support the Red Cross to his utmost ability.\ Lackawannans are effected by an announcements by the National Organization for Public Health Nursing that 8,000 additional pub- lic health nurses are needed im- medintely thruout the nation, and that March of Dimes funds are aiding tnhe organization's efforts to recruit the required number. “Not just pressing business will keep me from running again for office in the Post, but the belief that any organization's officers should change yearly, also,” he added. “I've noticed a big slack in our Thurs. business,” John Morgan, head of Morgan Electric Corp., 216 Ridge Rd., told 11 STEEL CITY PRESS reporter. “It's about 25 per cent off. Our Fri. business has in- creased slightly, but not enough to make up our Thurs. 1035,\ he said. The Post has planned 11 mam- moth birthday party of its own for Mar. 1. All members who have hm! birthday !|llniVt'I‘SllI‘i(‘S since Nov. 1946 will be guests of honor. All members and their guests are cur- dially invitod to attend, the Com- mander said. Ruth 'l~{oulton, general director of the nursing organization, made the disclosure in a report to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which supports numer- ous projects in the public health nursing field with periodic March of Dimes grants. Miss Houlton said March of Dimes grants since 1989 had made it “possible to help public health nurses in all sections of the country prevent unnecessary crippling con- ditions and give scientific core to patients with infantile paralysis and other orthopedic disabilities.\ She added: “Grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have also made it pos- sible to give direct assistance to local communities during infantile paralysis epidemics, to prepare edu- cational material for public health nurses and the public, and to help organize public health nursing ser- vices for care of the sick wherever they are needed.\ None of this work. she said, would have been possible had not the March of Dimes funds from the National Foundation been avail- able since the nursing group had no funds to do this work. She re- vealed that Foundation scholar- ships had provided 52 public health nurses with advanced education. “My Thurs. business has dropped one-third. Fri. business hasn't in- creased much,\ Thaddeus Casio- wicz, proprietor of the Corner Tavern, 83 Ingham Ave.. snid. \We have lost 35 per cent of our Thurs. business since the change~ over.\ said George R. Baldwin, Secty. of Baldwin Furniture Co., 659 Ridge Rd. “Fri. business has remained the same. Our Sat. busi- ncss has picked up 20 per cent. or not nearly enough to make up for Fri’s. loss,\ he added. John J. Kilcoyne and Nicholas (Continued on Page 8) CARS MUST STOP FOR SCHOOL BUSES SllP’T. DECLARES Chairman of this year's drive in Lackawanna is Edward Morgan, 205 Ingham Ave. Showing the large scope of Red Cross war work, Mrs. William Shea, a Red Cross spokesman, has made public a report covering J nly 1942« Nov. 1944. Lackawanna women gave 82,000 hours to Red Cross war work in that.pc-riod. To give Lackawannnns some idea of what the Red Cross does for the community, Mrs. Pei-c‘y Gullineau has revealed that Red Cross‘ con- tacts with local families numbered 1133, and cases on file 620 in 1945. A part of those services included helping dcpomlents get service al- lotments, arranging for dependency discharges, giving modical care, ar- ranging onicrgoncy furloughs for sc-.rvicomc-.n, transmitting‘ foreign nu-ssugos, and welfare work. Superintendent Leo A. Joyce of Lackawanna Schools has issued a warning to motorists-—“St:1te law demands that ail motor vehicles come to a dead stop when they are passing a school bus which is dis- charging children. No matter in which direction the autoist is pro- ceeding, the law states that he must stop, and not merely siow down,\ he said. AMERICAN ESSAY CONTEST OPEN TO COUNTY SCHOOLS NEW CHILD CARE CENTER OPENS IN ALBRIGHT COURT Erie County public, private, and pvuchiul elementary and high SM‘---nls are invited to take part in In» 18th Annual American Essay ( «rest now being conducted by the T’ . County American Legion. lwrmn Auxiliary, and the Buffalo 1’-\-‘lung News. C0mp1ninl.‘s from bus drivers. pn~ rents, and teucliors nbout violations have reached the Supm-intemlent‘s office. Several very-mun‘ accidents have been l‘epnrt('.d. Joyce has launched :1 campaign to call drivers’ uttention to the law. He feels the possibly tragic results of neglect must be impressed upon them. Police Chief Cluxrlos D. Curtin deelnx-ed the law (Article Six, Sect- ion 81 of N. ‘Y. State Vehicle and Trnffic Laws), Wilicil he quoted as follows, will be strictly enforced: An Aibright Court‘ child care center, supervised by Mrs. Eliza- bvl-h Robson, has been established. The center. open to cliilclrmi outside the Court, will cure for two-to-sew on your-aids six (iqys 11 week, Mon. thru Snt., 8:30 a. m. - 5:30 p. in. Medical care is provided by Dr. Max Lnndsbergor, who gives a monthly heuilh checkup. Stnff instructors nre \Miss Nancy Grunt. Mrs. Alum Rnyfurd, and Miss Ursuln Gottshaik (assistant). II. observance of the 100th an- i\.vcL‘:Im‘y of the birth of Thomas A Edison, the topic for this year's Mmpotition will be: “Thomas A. I-She.-on. American.\ Red Cross Lnckuwnnmt branch has put out :1 call for valuntccrs to knit nfguns for votomns hospitals. Yum will be furnished. BUS PASSENGER SHELTERS COMING I-Imuy winners in each division vull receive a trip to Washington, D. (3., (luring Easter vacation. Six l‘”_\'— and six girls will enjoy :1 de- iwv sightseeing trip for writing U-v best essays. On arriving in the !-‘(Inn's capitol, they will make tlu-ir licndquarters in Hotel Stat- lv 1'. THREE MCKAWANNA MEN DON COATS OF NAVY BLUE A Lnckawnnna Commoxf Council order instructing Commissioner of Public Works Bernm-d A. McDon- nell to provide bus pnssenger shel- ters at Madison and Hamburg Tpi((‘., and at Ridge Rd. north of Center, is this week's good-news item. The structllres will be built by Dept. of Public Works wo1'ke.x's. Bus pzlssen-gers, lulled into a deep 1‘z'e¢:zc by more than chipper Feb. xvc-atlm-, can now unhutton those ‘three extra sweaters and sit out their long waits in relative comfort. 0;3ep_blIgt qhelter. clomf, ‘Richard! “A vehicle overlukinp: or meeting an omnibus being: used solely for trzulsportution of children, to or from school, which has stopped for the purpose of receiving‘ or dis- cimrgimz ]1&1=.<rl1g’t‘.1‘s, shnli come to n comp]:-to stop. then proceed with caution, pI'0vid(-ti such omnibus enr- rics {we sign‘ d«~-ignnting it as a school bu»: 4.-mh lvttor of such sign to be at inner four inches in height; one of which signs to be placed on front and one on the rear of such omnibus.” Chief Machinist Male E. F. Drake, 46 \Vi1ksbm'1‘e Ave., of the Naval Recruiting Office in Buffalo ropm-ted the eiilistinem of three I;uckzuvnnnu boys. They an-: Mat- thew J. Wozniak, 17, 80 Wzu-saw Avo.: Joseph J. Zzrjas. 17, 22 Pros- pect St., and Ricluwd Libwin, 17 of .166 (‘vnivr St. All tin’:-0 men were sworn in and sent to Buinbridge, Md., Feb. 12, 1947. They hope to study jet pro- pulsion while in the service and perhaps make the Navy their cu- reer. Mrs. Robson said in an interview the center tries to duplicate home atmosphere. “Our policy is never to scold the cliildren for any wrongdo- ing. because young children are sensitive nnd can be easily offend- ed. We follow a procedure of talk- ing to the children in re way that they will understand,\ she added. Parents wanting to enter their children in the center should call at its Albright Court office. Weekly rates for this service run dol- lars for one child, five dollars for two children, six dollars (or three. \ I - \ I I - v - - n ; It I-.'.~.~mys must reach the Ameri- cmism Editor, Buffalo Evenmg 3‘-vws, Buffalo 6, N. Y., by 5 p. m. Fm, March 14. If mailed, en- \50-I must be postmarked before nudnight of that date. 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