#143 September 2012

Lifelong Punxsutawney Resident Devotes Teaching Career of Over Forty Years to PASD Students

‘It’s always been about the kids, and the team’

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hen John Smith graduated from Punxsutawney High School in 1967, he didn’t realize that within a few short years, he would be back in the same school district serving as a teacher.

As a student, Mr. Smith devoted much of his time to athletics. “If it was a sport, I wanted to play it,” stated Smith.

During his youth, he participated in everything, including baseball, track and field, swimming and gymnastics. While in junior high, he played football, but by the time he got to high school, he was focused on track and field, in which he lettered.

“In those days they didn’t have as many options for sports as they do now,” Smith remarked. He had some powerful influences leading him in that direction, including Punx’y teacher/coach Jack LaMarca (if that name sounds familiar, check out the sign over the entrance to the PAHS stadium).

Kamren Brubaker, Savannah Wolfe and John Smith pause from their workouts Two junior high instructors, Dick Shirey for a photo with Punx’y Phil. and Angelo Giosia, who were both collegiate state champions in cross-country you want to teach phys. ed., you must learn January 1971, he was blessed with the opthrough Slippery Rock University, also had the rules of each sport, from archery to fencportunity to learn from coaches he had great influence over Smith. ing. I also worked as a lifeguard the year played for as a student athlete, like Smith considered many colMoraine State Park opened in LaMarca, who was his high school track leges and universities before 1970. I had everything, includand field coach. In later years, Jim Mcsettling on Slippery Rock, not ing student teaching, completed Quown, an assistant coach to LaMarca, just because of the men he in 3.5 years so that I could get a “was the kind of coach who raised the bar knew who had attended there, jump on my intended career. ” for the rest of us, not just in track, but in all but also because, even as a Smith decided upon the teachsports. He pushed me to be more dedicated, young man, Smith knew that ing profession because he grew and to work harder,” Smith reminisced health and the human body fasup in a large family and “alabout his early years in coaching. cinated him. While originally ways knew I wanted to be After joining PASD, Smith helped to orleaning towards pre-med, he around people.” ganize an annual gymnastics show at the quickly changed his major to The passion for exercise has junior high, ran in many western Pennsylphysical education, a nod to the been a lifelong pursuit. He has vania races, and, of course, there were the existence of Slippery Rock’s focused his energies on the private swimming lessons every summer. unparalleled PE program. In PASD track and field team, but When he started coaching, he came fact, at the time (and even John Smith, PASD teacher over the years, he has educated equipped with the attitude that any person, today), Slippery Rock turned young people in many ways. given the drive, can succeed. John Smith is of more than 41 years. out some of the best coaches in One local family in particular a local treasure. Even though PE is his job, western Pennsylvania. has benefitted from his passion for sports. he truly believes that it is important to cherHis love for both track and field and cross “Through the years, I have given swimish all aspects of life, and works hard to be country continued to grow while attending ming lessons to the majority of the Roberts a positive part of the community.

Slippery Rock. family at their family pool,” Smith noted, Ever active in serving Punxsutawney, in “As a student enrolled in the PE program, while adding that the lessons he learns from the early 1970’s Smith helped to coordinate I had to learn and coach and experience all his students are just as valuable as those he the “1,000 Mile Marathon,” which was held the different sports. I dabbled in karate, sochas passed along. on the Harmon Field track. The marathon cer, ice-skating and many others. When After assuming his first coaching duties in - Continued on page 4

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John Smith Continued from page 2 was a relay that started Friday after school and continued the entire weekend.

Throughout the night, a fire was maintained to light the way. This was done in part to raise money for the all-weather track at PAHS. The other motive for the marathon was to demonstrate the school’s and community’s support for the track and field team. The event was a huge success.

These days, almost all of his after-school hours are devoted to coaching in the PASD: cross country during the fall sports season, indoor track and field in the winter months, and outdoor track and field throughout the spring season. Through his coaching career, he has had the joy of seeing individual state champions and state medalists in both track and field and cross-country, as well as a team that took states and placed second in nationals in the 4 x 800 meter indoor track and field event. There have been many such successes through the years, “too many to list each by name or year, after 42 seasons of coaching!” shared Smith.

When asked what his biggest obstacle to success has been, he simply stated, “I don’t look at those things as hurdles. There is always someone better or worse off than me.

I just keep looking forward, and meet each obstacle as it occurs. I just keep looking forward.”

His attitude paid off in the early 80s, when a serious car accident threatened his ability to even walk again. Thanks to great physical therapy, personal dedication, and the wonderful food of his better half of nearly 29 years, Jacqueline, Smith added, “I eat better than most people, and healthy eating is key. I bounced back, better than ever.”

Where many would have given up, John Smith found the strength to “meet whatever it is, and just deal with it.”

Many people have shared Smith’s positive inspiration in their lives. Fellow PASD PE instructor, Amy Smith (no relation) remem-

bers John Smith. Although they are not coworkers (John Smith is a PAMS PE instructor, while Amy Smith teaches grades 8 through 12 girls PE at PAHS), “I had him as a teacher, but what I remember most about him is still true. He has always been passionate about coaching. As a teacher, and as a coach, it is easy to see that he enjoys his job and loves to coach. You can see his passion in working with the kids.”

Another former student, Kamren Brubaker, who is entering eighth grade at PAHS this fall, stated, “You can tell that he loves what he does because he knew, like, everything. He knew all the rules to all the sports we played. Plus, he was a really nice person.”

Savannah Wolfe, who will also enter eighth grade at PAHS this school year, stated, “He put up with all the screaming girls, and that’s a very hard job to do. He made gym class really fun!”

Even in his (limited) free time, you will find him exercising.

“A distance run or distance swim is my favorite way to relax.”

With Smith, though, it always comes back to the kids. I asked him for some of his favorite memories as a teacher or a coach, and surprisingly, it isn’t just the championships that stand out for him.

“The bottom line is, it’s always been about the kids, and the team. For years we’ve had top-ranking teams and individuals, because ultimately, the best kids are in your own backyard!”

When asked what he wants most to share with his students, he stated simply, “Your health is your wealth.”

Thanks to his 41.5 years of teaching — with no plan for retirement in sight — generations of Punx’y students and families have been blessed by that wealth.

This August, when the doors open and students return to the hallways of PAMS, John Smith will again be in his element, doing what he loves most – sharing his love of exercise with another group of fortunate kids.

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As everyone says, change is good, and the Groundhog Club believes in just that. This is the first year that the picnic will be a co-ed event rather than the usual male only guest list.

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On the left is Eureka No. 1, with the tipple and mine buildings adjacent to the railroad tracks. In the center is the opening for Eureka No. 5, at the base of Number 5 Hill at Clayville. To the right, across the bridge, is Eureka No. 6. Photographer is believed to be D.A. Lowe. (Photo courtesy of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society.)

1893 Bridge Collapse, Flooding Create Hardships in Punxsutawney Area

By PRIDE for Hmetown magazine he week of January 15, 1893 there was excitement in Punxsutawney.

W.M. Moore, the pit boss for the Berwind-White Company’s West Eureka mine No. 1 at Horatio, was preparing a seven-and-one-half foot long and fourteen-inch square pillar of coal for shipment to Chicago. It was destined to become part of the Pennsylvania display at the World’s Fair. In order to assure it arrived in one piece, he had it encased in boards bound together with iron bolts.

That same week, a young man, Joseph Davis, had his foot broken near his ankle and several toes smashed by a fall of slate at the same mine. Davis had just returned to work after recovering from a broken arm, an injury he had also sustained while working in the mine. Davis’ troubles were minor in comparison to what was about to happen in the Punxsutawney area.

About 10:30 a.m., Monday, January 30, the 90-foot-long iron bridge, which spanned the Mahoning Creek and valley from Berwind-White Coal Mining Company’s Eureka No. 6 mine to the tipple at Eureka No. 1 mine about a mile below Clayville, collapsed. Although the reason for the collapse was not known, it was thought that the extremely cold weather

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The bridge was used to haul coal from Eureka No. 6 across the creek to where it was weighed, cleaned and processed into coke. As a result of the bridge collapse, one hundred miners employed at Eureka No. 6 were suddenly out of work. Unemployment in the middle of winter was deadly for miners. They could not rely on their gardens to supplement their food needs. They knew they were facing a long period of unemployment because it would take months to rebuild the bridge.

The collapse occurred as a train of loaded mine cars was crossing the span.

In addition to the metal portion, a 30-foot wooden span which housed the weight office also collapsed to the valley floor, taking with it several men. Weigh-master John Smiles had his knee cap broken and was badly bruised in the fall. One miner, who was rescued from beneath the debris, was badly injured. Another escaped the 30-foot fall with minor injuries. A man and a boy, who were standing under the bridge at the time of the crash, narrowly escaped being buried alive. Part of the structure fell on the coke ovens and damaged them. Considering the extent of the damage and the time of the collapse, it

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1893 Bridge Collapse Continued from page 6 was a wonder that no one was killed.

Twisted iron girders and timbers were piled so high on the Pennsylvania & Northwestern Railroad track that trains could not get through until late that evening.

The bridge had originally cost about $20,000 to build. It was estimated that the cost to repair the collapsed portion would be about $5,000.

The Berwind-White Company had barely cleared the debris from the bridge collapse when nature delivered another punch to the area in the form of a winter rain and thaw on Monday, February 6.

Mahoning Creek was flooded. An im-

mense ice gorge above Punxsutawney began to move about midnight and all the low-lying lands in Punxsutawney and below the town were flooded.

The flood water created an economic blip for the town merchants by keeping the street cars from running. The school house basement was flooded making it impossible to light the furnace. As a result, the children did not attend school.

The flood also brought out swarms of muskrats, which fled their dens along the creek, providing the boys of Punxsutawney an opportunity to use their guns. At Horatio, Eureka No. 5 mine was partially flooded and forced more miners out of work.

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imagine that the miner may have been desperate for supplies for his family.

The NEWS in its March 22, 1893 reporting said: “There are several stories afloat regarding the matter and we only mention this much to state the result of the blow was not as bad as was at first reported, but it is bad enough.” It was bad enough to land all parties in court with the judgment being that each party would pay his share of court costs.

Repairing and restoring the bridge took longer than expected. A report published in the NEWS on April 12, 1893 stated: “The work of re-constructing the bridge that spans Mahoning creek at West Eureka mine No. 6, below Clayville is being rapidly pushed forward. Our readers will remember that this bridge which is the property of the Berwind-White Coal mining company, collapsed the latter part of January last entailing a loss to the company of about twenty thousand dollars and throwing many men out of employment. The bridge is being put up in a more substantial manner, and in three or four weeks it is possible for operations to begin again at No. 6, which has been idle ever since the accident.”

As winter moved to spring and spring moved toward summer, there was restlessness among the miners of Eureka No. 6 mine. Several cases of malicious mischief were reported. The fan wheel at West Eureka No. 6 was broken in some way on Friday, May 26. In another incident the night fireman at Eureka No. 5 was snatched, overpowered by his assailants, blindfolded and tied to the brake of a railroad car. About a half hour later William Watkins, who was in charge of the pumps in the mines, noticed that the steam was going down and thinking something was wrong, went outside to check and found the night fireman.

It was Monday, June 19, ten weeks later when Eureka No. 6 mine was able to restart. It had been five months of idle time and hardship for the miners since the collapse of the bridge. The economy of the Punxsutawney area was beginning to recover.

In Chicago the World’s Fair had opened on May 1 and would run through October 30, 1893. The pillar of bituminous from Berwind-White Company’s Eureka No. 1 mine at Horatio was on display as part of an obelisk, known as the Coal Needle which was Pennsylvania’s contribution to the Mines and Mining Building. The Coal Needle was 60 feet high with a base made from anthracite coal and the upper part from bituminous.

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By the staff of Hometown magazine and the Chamber of Commerce rom the Chamber of Commerce, Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, and Hometown magazine, here is a list of events and happenings coming up in our area.

• Eddie James — 7 p.m. Friday, August 31, Barclay Square.

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Dance, drama and rap. Bring your lawn chairs, everyone invited.

• Apple Pie Day — 11a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, September 8. “Apple Pie Day in Punxsutawney” will feature an “Apple Pie Baking Contest” with prizes given. Vendors welcome. To reserve a space contact Matt at Miller Brothers 938-0850. The public is invited to

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come downtown and enjoy the festivities sponsored by the Punxsutawney Merchants and coordinated by PRIDE (Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing) • Groundhog Day Planning Community Meeting — 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 12 at Gobblers Knob. For

organizations, businesses, and residents to prepare for Groundhog Day 2013, which falls on Saturday and promises to bring a very large crowd of visitors. Groundhog Club Director Katie Donald will pass out - Continued on next page

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Donation to the Punx’y Weather Center — Frank Buzydlowski (left), Director of State Government Relations with Verizon, PA, State Representative 66th district Sam Smith (second from left), and Carl Erhart (right), Area VP of Verizon present a check from Verizon to Jim Cassidy, chair of the Punx’y Weather Center as part of the 2012 PA Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program. (Photo by Mary Jean Johnston)

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Continued from previous page information at the meeting about the celebration days and times, events currently being planned, and events she’d like help with. Residents are encouraged to attend to get involved as volunteers or to offer overnight accommodation in their homes.

Businesses are encouraged to attend to discuss suggested business hours for the weekend celebration. Organizations are encouraged to attend to learn about opportunities to help with events or hold your own events. For more information, contact Katie at 814-938-7700 x3.

• Kids Discovery — 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, September 15. “Kids Discovery”will be at the Lattimer House of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society. Attendees will explore the building boom which took place from 1890 through 1920, explore the types of architecture, use of glass to decorate the buildings, and the people who built houses and other buildings during the Boom Era. To register, call 938-2555 Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

• 50 Years of IUP-Punxsutawney — 5:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, September 22. “50 Years of IUP-Punxsutawney” will be the topic of an address by Terry Appolonia, Dean of the IUP Campus, at the Annual Banquet of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society, Saturday, September 22. The public is welcome.

Reservations may be made by calling 9382555 Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

• Walk for Suicide Prevention and Awareness — Sunday, September 16: The 3rd Annual Walk for Suicide Prevention and Awareness at the DuBois City Park.

The Clearfield Jefferson Suicide prevention Team is dedicated to reduce the occurrence of suicide within our two county area. For more information about our Walk please go to our website, www.cjsuicideprevention.org.

• The Well — 6 to 10 p.m., Friday, September 28. “The Well,” featuring live music, at the First United Methodist Church, 301 West Mahoning Street. “The Well” is a gathering place for folks to enjoy live music. No cover charge. A coffee bar and food will be available. Call 814-938-

7500 for more information.

• “Daddy’s Girl” — Oct. 6, 7, 11, 12, & 13: Mark your calendar for the Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild showing of “Daddy’s Girl,” a comedy in two acts by Gary Ray Stapp. Produced by special arrangement with Heuer Publishing LLC of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 6, 11, 12, and 13, and a 2 p.m. Matinee Oct. 7 at the Punxsutawney Middle School Auditorium.

• “Chuckles and Chocolate” — Saturday, Oct. 13: The 2012 Punxsutawney Christian Women’s Conference, “Chuckles & Chocolate: LOL with Sue Duffield,” will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Punxsutawney First Church of God. A speaker and singer, Sue shares her faith, fun, and inspirational words to women’s groups across the country with her humor, music, and God-inspired messages. Local singers Linda Clark, Kelly Rupp, and Lisa Triponey, all members of the gospel singing group 2 B True, will provide worship music. Register by sending a check for $25 per person made payable to “PCS Fundraiser” to Conference Director, Punxsutawney Christian School, 216 N. Jefferson St., Punxsutawney, PA 15767. Include your name, address, phone, and email. For more information, visit http://punxsycwc.blogspot.com, email michelehuey@hughes.net, or phone 814845-7683. Registrations are being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Since lunch will be provided, please register by Sept. 30. Proceeds from the conference benefit the Punxsutawney Christian School.

• Musicians for Mahoning Hills Social Center — Attention musicians of all ages and skill levels. Beginners, intermediate and advanced musicians are urged to come out for a morning of music, fun and laughs.

The Mahoning Hills Social Center, located at 19298 Route 119 Highway North, near Punxsutawney, welcomes you to their Open Acoustic Jam Session, usually held on one or two Mondays of the month from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon. This is open to the public and is for fun and relaxation, and to get those toes a tappin’. Come on out and have a good time with us! For more information, and to see when the next Jam Session being held, call the center at (724) 286-3099.

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In August 1908, the Eldred Window Glass Company relocated its business to Punxsutawney. Seen in the 1909 black and white photo (left), it began operation in October 1908 as the Punxsutawney Window Glass Company with a complex of eight buildings in the Elk Run Valley. A circa 1910 post card (right) reveals the buildings as painted red with white trim on the windows, easily recognized on the site in Elk Run. (Photo and post card images courtesy of Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society.)

Glass Industry in the Elk Run Valley A story of Punx’y as a Progressive Town

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine n the early 1900s, Punxsutawney faced an opportunity that challenged its citizens. The residents were called to make a decision that would decide whether “Punx’y is a twentieth century town” or a “dead town.”

Because of the area’s natural advantages of abundant gas, coal, lime, water, and sand rock, as well as railroad sidings and land, industries showed an interest in locating in

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Around 1905, special committees of the Chamber of Commerce had begun the investigation of almost 60 industries, with the purpose to invite them to locate to Punx’y.

From that effort, the committee selected three to recommend to Punxsutawney citizens.

The committee sought industries it felt would suit Punxsutawney without a burden to its citizens and its resources. More importantly, the industries would increase the

annual payroll of the area, the population, and the value of property. Above all, the prestige of the town and more opportunities for its future were the goals.

By the summer of 1908, community leaders were called to meetings to secure their financial support to meet the requests of the industries, which included sites for the new firms and the expenses to bring them. Stock certificates, subscribed in various amounts, would be offered for those who would invest in the promising venture.

The editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit offered the challenge: support or not to support the effort that had been made by the committee. Its statement was clear.

“One course means a boom, the other means local lethargy; One way spells success, the other failure; one way means advance all along the line in prices and opportunities, the other means shrinkage in property values.” Or in a simpler comparison it meant “a live progressive town, or a - Continued on next page

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dead town.” (June 10, 1908 Punxsutawney Spirit) Diligently seeking the subscriptions through teams and captains sent around the town for nearly a week, a final meeting was held in the opera house, the new Jefferson Theatre. The challenge was met with success.The raising of $10,000 was announced with cheers. Two glass factories and a steelhoop mill would be guaranteed.

The Eldred Window Glass Plant would be the first among them, beginning its construction in June 1908 on land in Elk Run. Ground was broken for the Clark Steel Hoop Mill on July 30 in the same area. The Wightman Glass Company had planned to begin operation in September, but the untimely death of its owner, S. R. Wightman, postponed the relocation of the industry from West Virginia for several years.

Convincing the Eldred Glass plant and the Clark Steel Hoop Co. to relocate to Punxsutawney was a psychological victory in Punxsutawney history.

Regarding the glass plant, other towns were after it. Clarion and Brookville were among them. In the pursuit, representatives of the local chamber of commerce had been to Eldred, in McKean County many times.

And officers of the company had been to Punxsutawney repeatedly.

It had been in operation at Eldred for seven years. For many days during the glass plant had been idle on account of a lack of gas. Because Punxsutawney had an abundance of gas, and had plenty of coal if gas played out, they chose this area.

Part of the deal to relocate the glass company was for the community to buy the sites in the Elk Run area, build the railroad switches, provide water and pay the freight on 30 carloads of material and stock that were in the Eldred plant. The success of the subscription campaign assured that.

When the Eldred company moved to Punxsutawney, built its new plant and began operation, the state of the national economy was an opportune time for Punxsutawney. A shortage of window glass had increased the price of window glass 30 percent, and another advance of 10 percent was expected. The increase in the selling price of window glass also meant higher wages for glassworkers.

In August 1908, the offices of the Eldred Glass Company were moved to Punxsutawney into temporary quarters until a modern office building would be built. That building would be the first among eight buildings built along the rail siding of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad.

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and on July 20 the lumber was delivered for construction of the buildings. To be erected in 90 days would be the tank house (with a 30-pot tank where the raw materials of sand, lime, sulphate of soda would be melted into molten glass). Also, the flattening building (with the three flattening ovens), the cutting room, boxing building, blacksmith shop, boiler rooms, mixing room and warehouse (where 70,000 boxes of glass would be stored).

Although the buildings were constructed of new materials, most of the equipment was shipped by railroad to Punx’y. Plate glass was made by glassblowers, who blew glass into long cylinders approximately fifteen inches in diameter. These cylinders were than split open lengthwise and flattened to form sheets, which could then be cut into window glass panes.

When the office was moved from Eldred and construction was begun, the name of the company was changed to the Punxsutawney Window Glass Company.

The company would employ 140 men. Of these would be “30 blowers, 30 gatherers, nine flatteners, 11 cutters, and 30 snappers.” Other workers were box makers, packers, and warehouse employees who handled freight.

Many of the glassworkers and glass blowers moved to Punxsutawney from Eldred.

About 60 families would relocate, in rental properties or permanent dwellings to be constructed. There would be an additional 30 families to be housed for employees in the Clark Steel Hoop Company, also under construction in Elk Run. A survey of available housing would find about 30 houses on the market for sale and for rent. Contractors, realtors and businessmen came alive for this building boom.

Listings of available rental properties would appear in the local newspaper. Also, available building sites for construction of new houses were advertised.

The Elk Run addition had the advantage for relocation of the many men and families. An advertisement that claimed “Bargain Prices” included “11 lots in Elk Run. Two Blocks from Glass Plant. Price $600; Four building lots in Elk Run. Price $600; Six room house and three acres of land in Elk Run Addition. Price $1500.; 7 room house, corner lot in Elk Run. Good well water. For sale, price $1,700.”

The hustle and bustle to provide new houses would result in dwellings on Elk Run Avenue, Marion Avenue, Belmont Avenue and Scotland Avenue. Also, Graffius Avenue and Clark Terrace. Extensive repairs and remodeling would be done to older buildings. Rooms in local hotels would provide some temporary housing.

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sutawney residents. Prominently would be the Wargny, Wery and Wazelle families in management positions. And among others, the Bastin, Guignet, Cochran and another Brennan family as glassworkers.

There was also the Buisett family. As would the others, Joseph Buisett and family came to Punxsutawney in 1908. Born in France, as was his wife, he was known then as a “big ring” glass blower. Unique among the children were three five-year old triplets. Attending the Punx’y schools they graduated together from Punxsutawney High School in 1922 with nationwide attention, and were believed to be “the first in the United States, and possibly in the world,” as triplet sisters in the same class.

In the fall of 1922, Louise, Laura and Lillian Buisset would begin teaching in Jefferson County at schools near Punxsutawney with the distinction of teaching school together in the same county.

After breaking ground on June 20, the Eldred glass plant began operation on October 1, 1908. Among the nearly 140 workers, were 65 skilled mechanics and glass blowers, 65 laborers, and eight boys between ages 16 and 21.

With orders coming from all sections of the country, and as far away as Panama, manufacturing of single and double thick glass began with an expectation to expand to making “triple glass suitable for passenger car windows and dry glass for photographers’ supplies.” It was reported that producing glass for photographers was something new in the business, as no similar factory in the U. S. was doing it.

In its production years there were would be labor issues, idleness for repairs, dangers of fire, and upgrades to keep it competitive in the glass marketplace. One of the improvements was the installation of 24 electric fans “so situated as to force a current of cool air upon the men who work at the big tank and the blowers.” Rated as one of the best glass factories, there were, at times,

overtures from communities in other states for the business to relocate.

A fire in December 1917 nearly destroyed the complex of buildings. An “almost new” plant was reopened after a lapse of ten months, with larger buildings and other improvements. The furnace was almost twice the size of the old one, increased from 600 tons of glass to 1,000 tons. In late October 1918, 200 men were employed. The market was good and the men were working eight-hour shifts, night and day.

The Punxsutawney Window Glass Company would begin its final years as the Elk Run Window Glass Company, owned by the employees and local stockholders. It was a time of unsettled conditions for the glass market, which was caused by imports of Belgian glass. There was another huge, devastating fire to the plant in 1922.

Improved methods of manufacturing glass had emerged. Soon it was announced that “the industry expired through the competition of window glass made by machines.”

In January 1924, the Elk Run Glass Company was listed in a Sheriff’s sale, two local banks buying it to protect their loans.

In May 1925, the glass and box-making stock of the company was purchased by a warehouse syndicate. In another Sheriff’s sale in 1925, the Punxsutawney National Bank bought the real estate of the glass company.

The former Eldred Window Glass Company in Elk Run would vanish from the Punxsutawney landscape in 1927 when the buildings were dismantled by a Jeannette salvage company to be used in the construction of a power plant. The last part of the physical property to be removed was the 135-foot smoke stack. Comprised of 60,000 bricks it was dynamited to the ground in October 1934. A large crowd of people witnessed its collapse.

After ten years, in 1944, on the 12-acre site of the Eldred Glass Plant (or Elk Run Glass Plant) there would be constructed a new, modern plant of steel and concrete.

Punxsutawney would be introduced to the Speer Carbon Company, and another story to be written.

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By Melissa Salsgiver of Hometown magazine aybe i’m not the best person to write about “healthy” breakfasts before school. I always ate something for breakfast, even if I just made it look like I ate something healthy.

A few flakes of cereal in a bowl, with a splash of milk thrown in was the perfect healthy breakfast alibi. I would actually eat cookies or something less desireable, but I did eat, which is the important part.

It’s still my opinion that something for breakfast is better than nothing. Chocolate cake for breakfast, perhaps like Bill Cosby proposed? Chocolate cake is still better than nothing.

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Bring first three ingredients to a boil and cook for about a minute. Stir in the peanut butter until it melts.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir the pudding mix, oats and extract. Stir in butterscotch chips last.

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By Allie Shields for Hometown magazine ack in 1962, Ringgold Fire Company’s promise was to protect life and property in their community, and they continue to do just that to this day. There were so many dedicated countless hours to make this dream a reality that it was time that everyone should be recognized.

In honor of their 50th Anniversary, the recent celebration started with a dinner at the fire hall, with the guest list including past and present members, and with several surrounding fire departments. The names of the members, who are no longer here ,were read off and a moment of silence was held in their honor. Special recognition was made to four of the founding members, who are still part of the community. Those four members include: Bernard Stanford, Harry Caylor, William “Bill” Snyder, and Keith Snyder. Stanford was also presented with a plaque for his 50 years of serving as either Fire Chief or an Assistant Chief.

The original charter members of the Ringgold Fire Department include: Wayne C. Himes, Laird Powell, Keith Snyder, Al McKee, Don Gillung, William Snyder, Duane Caylor, Harry Caylor and Bernard Stanford.

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Six men were awarded with special gold hats and polo shirts for being active the entire 50 years. Those six men include: Bernard Standord, Harry Caylor, William “Bill” Snyder, Lee “Harley” Reed, Emery “Spud” Caylor and Elvin “Scrap” Snyder.

A certificate of appreciation was presented to the wives, mothers and girlfriends who support the fundraisers that the Fire Company conducts. The women bring food and beverages to the emergency scenes.

These are the people who will always be there to sit at home and worry every time their significant other goes out to fight a fire, and, more importantly, continue to support their firefighter’s efforts.

In continuation of its celebration, the Ringgold Fire Department held its traditional Firemen’s Three Day Weekend on August 24, 25 and 26, including a movie, chicken BBQ, a corn hole tournament, fire truck pull, hotdog roast, fireworks, raffles, and activities for children.

Everyone in the Ringgold Fire Company would like to thank their community for their continued support through their first 50 years and hope they will continue to support the fire company for the next 50 years as they continue to keep and fulfill the promise made by those men in 1962.

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Aging Services to Conduct Seasonal Flu Clinics

ging Services, Inc. & VNA will be conducting Seasonal Flu Clinics on the following dates, times and locations.

September 17: Two Lick Valley Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, 450 Franklin Street, Clymer; September 18: Saltsburg Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, 212 Point Street, Saltsburg; September 19: Indiana Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, 1001 Oak Street, Indiana; September 20: Homer City Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, Catholic Church on Yellow Creek St., Homer City; September 21: Chestnut Hills Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, 26 Heybert Drive, Blairsville; September 24: Chestnut Hills Social Center, 5 to 7 p.m.. 26 Heybert Drive, Blairsville; September 25: Armagh Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, Armagh Fire Hall, Armagh; September 26: Aultman Social Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, Aultman Fire Hall, Aultman; September 28: Mahoning Hills Social

Center, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, 19298 Rt. 119 Highway North, Punxsutawney; October 1: Indiana Social Center, 5 to 7 p.m., 1001 Oak Street, Indiana.

VNA will bill Medicare Part B, most Medicare HMO’s: Security Blue, UPMC for Life, Aetna Medicare, Gateway Medicare Assured, and UMWA “The Retirement Funds.” Please bring your Medicare insurance cards with you to the clinic.

The cost for private pay is $20.00 due to the generous support of the Indiana County United Way. VNA will give flu immunizations to age 9 and older. For children under 9, please contact your primary care physician.

Women who are pregnant should consult their doctor before getting a flu shot.

For questions call (724) 463-6340. VNA Flu Clinic dates are subject to change due to delivery or manufacturing delays.

Please stay tuned to local publications and radio for flu vaccine updates for this season.

For more information, contact Aging Service, Inc. (724) 349-4500 or 1-800442-8016.

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By Bill Maxwell Colorado columbine, wild blue flax, balTampa Bay Times samroot and many others in the meadost people have at least one place ows. And I recognize many of the birds: that allows them to feel their very pine grosbeak, red-tailed hawk, Ameribest, a place that awakens their can dipper, golden eagle, sage grouse senses and connects them to and magpies. whatever they accept as being divine or Large animals do not appear until I spiritual. reach Mammoth Hot Springs, where a That place for me is a national park. herd of elk feed along the road. These A few days ago, I visited Yellowstone majestic creatures, although wild, have National Park, established in 1872 as the learned that they are protected by park world's first national park. Although I personnel and that we visitors are more have come here awed than many times, threatening. each visit is a In Lamar Vallife-renewing ley, nicknamed experience. the "American The 2.2 milSerengeti," lion-acre park, hundreds of much of it on bison roam top of volcanic freely -- as they plateaus, has should. crystalline If you are palakes, watertient and stop falls and steamAt dusk, a herd of elk settles down in the back yard of a often, you will ing geysers. As ranger's residence in the Historic Fort Yellowstone district. be as richly resoon as I drive (SHNS photo) warded as I through the was. In addiRoosevelt Arch, I turn off my concern tion to bison and elk, I, along with about the day-to-day madness of social dozens of other visitors from around the and cultural issues and election politics. world, was honored by the appearance of Once through the arch, I am pulled into a black bear and her two cubs eating a world of vastness. Jagged peaks rise berries in a valley. Like others, I phoabove the clouds. Pine, cottonwood, jutographed the bears and studied them niper, chokecherry and aspen paint the through my binoculars. We caused a trafdistant slopes with variegated greenery. fic jam and a ranger shooed us on.

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he sun is rising just a little later these days, and going down just a few minutes earlier, as we find ourselves yet again at the beginning of school and autumn. The air feels a little cooler in the mornings although by midday we're back to high humidity with a chance of rain.

The classroom and the trek back into it have changed in what seems a small slice of time. What was once a September ritual now begins in August. The items on back-to-school shopping lists would baffle earlier generations more accustomed to pencils and paper instead of coveted and expensive electronics.

Still, there is a certain sameness about the annual rebirth of a school year. In many ways, we've all been through the same experience, even if 10 or 20 or even 30 years or more apart. The basics — the ABCs, if you will — don't really change that much.

For high school freshmen, it is a whole new world, one in which they may find themselves transformed from eighthgrade superstar to unknown (and unappreciated) underclassman.

Seniors are working not just on their success this year but their preparations for the next four years — or more — to follow.

Kindergarten students may find they don't miss Mommy as much as they thought they would (or as much as Mommy admits only to herself how much she misses them) and first-graders might decide they miss Mommy more than they could have imagined, but only until recess.

One teacher will be no-nonsense and quick to set the stage for the next several months: her room, her rules. Yet no one is better at conveying the excitement of history or the magic in putting words together as pearls on a perfect silken or silver strand.

First-year teachers may be a little nervous, but who could blame them? They are beginning a career that will give them more headaches than the corporate world, as much stress as a lawyer, as much re-

sponsibility for the well being of others as a doctor yet not nearly the salary of any of those professions.

Why do they do it? Why do teachers keep coming back year after year?

The good ones will say it's that gleam of understanding on the face of a child you thought would sleep through English. It's when the shy boy shouts out, “Now I get it!” and, before he has time to be embarrassed, grins because calculus is starting to make sense.

It might be the way most teachers feel at the end of the day, both exhausted and exhilarated, not just because it's hard standing all day, but it's even harder helping to hold up the fragile egos and self-images of children who think they are grown but are, even the teenagers, just children.

Everybody has one: that teacher who made learning fun, who kept the class enthralled, who was even sometimes a stand-in parent or a much-needed friend, who took you aside when you cried, heard your secrets and never laughed at your book report unless you meant for it to be funny.

Most of us remember his or her name and, no matter how old we get, we'll have a recollection of the first time we basked in a teacher's approval for a job well done.

An aside to teachers: There should be a certain satisfaction in knowing that each day as you go to work, you are helping create the next generation of leaders, of people who will perhaps use something they learned in your class to cure a disease or make decisions for a nation or raise the children that somebody else didn't want.

This may be a tough year for some teachers and students. The journey can be exciting or can end in a feeling of failure.

There will be the students no amount of dedication can help the teacher reach.

And there will be the occasional teacher who is the last to understand that his or her passion is gone. But most will make it through the days because they hope that, sometime during the year, both will see a glimmer of what is possible.

And that will give both students and teachers the courage to keep trying.

(Contact Bonnie Williams of the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail at Williamsbc@IndependentMail.com.)

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By Sarah Welch and Alicia Rockmore getbuttonedup.com rganizational inertia is that “stuck” feeling most people get when they think about an organizational task they have yet to do, like cleaning out a messy closet or getting ahead of hectic schedules. Until you start, the mere thought of the energy and time required to deal with a task is paralyzing. So you procrastinate.

Happily, breaking through to get momentum working in your favor is actually easier than you might think. All you need is five minutes — you can get much more crossed off your list in five minutes than you might think.

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1. Make a dent on your closet Start by getting rid of dry-cleaner bags and setting orphan hangers aside to recycle with your dry cleaner. Getting rid of those will make a significant visual impact.

If you don’t believe that you can make a dent in five minutes, watch this YouTube video of Sarah making over a very messy closet and pay particular attention at the :55 mark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH3X4DfA MJc&feature=share&list=UUHjMpg_Xq Q4r-NAVGFEG69Q) 2. Fold Lingering Laundry If you’ve got a basket waiting, or a bunch of items in the dryer, tackle them. Just be sure to set your timer for five minutes —

somehow folding this way unleashes your inner “beat the clock” competitor.

3. Pay Bills Online Most banks offer very streamlined online bill-payment systems, which make crossing a payment off your list as easy as one or two points and clicks.

4. Make a Meal Plan Make a menu plan for the next two or three days. Use Buttoned Up’s free printable menu-planning sheet to organize your ideas in one place. The free download is located at www.GetButtonedUp.com/tools.

5. Say Thanks Dash off a thank-you note, address it and put it in your “to post” pile. If you have stamps handy, put a stamp on it and put it out by your mailbox so the postman will pick it up on his next visit.

6. De-Junk a Drawer Tackle a junk drawer. If you haven’t touched an item in it within 12 months, don’t let it paralyze you. Simply get rid of it or recycle it.

7. Get Your Priorities Straight Write down your top priorities for the day or week ahead and schedule them. A great way to get in the five-minute habit of doing this is to sit down with a structured notepad each morning before you open your computer to check emails.

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Yellowstone

Size up your closet and get rid of the excess

By Lavinia Rodrifuez Tampa Bay Times ome people love nothing more than to shop for and wear new clothes.

But for on-and-off dieters, clothes can be a real source of misery.

Their closets may be packed with wardrobes to suit their every size as they travel up and down the scale. Yet on any given day, few items may be wearable, much less appealing.

For these folks, clothing is a burden right up there with the continual struggle to lose weight.

I've talked with women whose wideranging wardrobes have taken over almost all the closets in their house. A casual observer might assume these women have a lot of clothes because they enjoy them.

Not so.

Instead, frequently buying and storing clothes shows how out of control they feel, often experiencing anxiety, shame and frustration at their weight fluctuations.

Frequent and significant weight shifts are a common result of "get thin quick" approaches to weight loss. Each diet may cause temporary weight loss, but soon it's time for a different set of clothes. This perpetual up-and-down cycle is costly in terms of money, closet space and mental and physical health.

Smart dieters accept reality and change their lives one step at a time, through increased activity and nutritious eating as a lifestyle, not a temporary fix.

By definition, a healthful lifestyle change takes time. While you're undertaking that process, what's the best way to approach clothing and different-sized wardrobes?

• Get rid of clothes that are too big.

Keeping them gives you the message that

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you could easily get back to that size, weakening your confidence in changing.

• Get rid of clothes that are too small, especially if you could wear them only during a fleeting and unrealistically rigid dieting period. Such items only clutter your closet and cause anxiety. Deep inside, we know it's ridiculous to expect that we can get to that size and stay there. But keep the clothes that are just a bit tight right now and that you really like. You'll need them as you continue your long-term fitness changes.

• Get rid of clothes that fit but are unflattering. A key part of your lifestyle makeover is to feel good every day.

There's no room in your closet for clothes that give negative messages. Don't wear anything that does not reflect happy, fun and comfortable feelings.

• When you shop for new clothes, allow enough time in the fitting room to carefully decide how the clothes feel and look on you. Nothing should pinch. Tight clothes make you constantly focus on your body and its discomfort. What good is that?

As you try on each item, put the "no" clothes on one side of the fitting room and the "yes" or "maybe" clothes on the other.

Then retry the "yes" and "maybe" clothes, selecting only the items most flattering to your body. Trust your first impressions. Or if that's hard for you, bring along a friend who can be both truthful and tactful.

(Lavinia Rodriguez is a psychologist and weight-management expert in Tampa, Fla. She is the author of "Mind Over Fat Matters: Psychological Barriers to Weight Management." For more stories, visit scrippsnews.com.)

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Continued from page 18 humbled whenever I see them in the wild. As a nation, we should forever guarantee the species' safe and healthy survival in its natural habitats.

I was not disappointed when I did not see gray wolves, reintroduced to the park in 1995. They are some of the smartest animals in Yellowstone, totally in tune with the dynamics of survival. They avoid human contact. We, therefore, must learn about their ways, how they observe and react to our presence.

Like the approximately 4 million other people who visit Yellowstone annually, I am struck by the enduring damage of the 1988 fires that affected 793,880 acres.

As is nature's way, the flora of the park, its trees, flowers, shrubbery and grasses, are renewing.

And there is the other source of severe damage. The 15-year bark beetle epidemic has turned 40 million acres of the nation's forests, which includes Yellowstone, into red-and-gray dead zones, creating fire hazards of their own with thousands of acres of fuel, much of it fallen and rotting. The long dry spell adds to the potential for further damage.

Yellowstone's physical environment is one of the most spectacular in the world, and I am always spellbound by it. But I also am a people watcher, and Yellowstone attracts a special breed of domestic and international visitors.

One of my most vivid memories of this trip came as I ate lunch at the Lava Creek picnic area. A mother and her three young children skipped rocks across the rushing water. She then let them wade.

One kid swam, in his underwear, across the rocky tributary and back. His mother and siblings clapped and cheered when he crawled onto the bank. I put my hand in the water. It was icy cold.

For me, this family's experience epitomizes the value of Yellowstone, a place where one can become renewed, where a return to innocence can be as simple as watching a kid in his underwear swim across Lava Creek.

(Bill Maxwell is a columnist for the Tampa Bay Times.

Email bmaxwell(at)tampabay.com.)

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15 chores

Continued from page 24 8. Toss Inkless Pens There’s nothing more annoying then hunting for a pen only to find that every one in your drawer has long since run out of ink. Test all the pens in your bag or on your desk. If you find a pen that has no ink, toss it.

9. Reduce Your Mail Pile Toss/recycle your junk mail. All in, it takes probably two minutes to cycle through a stack while standing over the recycle bin.

10. Give Your Car a Pit-Stop Clean Pull into a gas station. Take all of the trash out of your car and toss.

11. Make Your Own Cleaning Solution Sarah recently was on TV to show busy people how to whip up a batch of homemade cleaning solutions in less than five minutes. She whipped up three concoctions in four minutes with ease. You can, too. Get free printable recipes and stickers here: www.GetButtonedUp.com/tools.

12. Prepare for Your Next Errand Run Map your errands on a note pad before running them so that you get this week’s done more efficiently and spend less while you’re at it because you have a list.

13. Reduce Your Future Junk Mail Get on the do-not-mail list via www.updater.com.

14. Schedule a Donation Pickup Log on to www.scheduleapickup.com to schedule a pick up of items you want to donate, from clothes to furniture.

15. Breathe. Just Breathe Practice 3-3-6 breathing. Breathe in through your nose for three seconds, hold for three seconds and exhale for six seconds. Deep breathing has been shown to alleviate stress, energize your body, and regulate emotions — all things that will make you more productive.

(The writers are co-founders of Buttoned Up, a company dedicated to helping stressed women get organized. Send ideas and questions to yourlife(at)getbuttonedup.com. For more columns, go to scrippsnews.com.)

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By Bryan Brasher Scripps Howard News Service

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hen launching his boat into the shrunken Mississippi River these days, Larry Muse is always careful to make sure he doesn't back his trailer into a hole or run over a rock that would puncture a tire.

With the river sitting at an incredibly low summer stage, boat ramps along the river have been a dicey proposition for months.

But with catfish in the 30- to 80-pound range in a feeding frenzy, anglers like Muse have been more than willing to take their chances.

"The catfishing on the Mississippi might be as good as it's ever been right now," said Muse, a Corinth, Miss., resident and longtime tournament catfish angler. "The river usually has what I like to call a top current and a bottom current, and they make for some tough fishing when they're both working against you.

But it's a different story out there right now."

So what's different?

Most avid catfish anglers -- the ones who target fish as large as 110 pounds -fish out of boats that are 25 feet long with sonar units similar to the ones that were used to locate the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The lower water level and slower currents on the Mississippi have allowed them to anchor their boats in places that would have normally been too swift.

They've also allowed anglers to drift slowly through areas where they normally would zoom right on through.

The results have been eye-popping.

"Just about everyone is catching fish in the 30-pound range right now," said Memphis, Tenn., catfish angler Matt Bingham. "A few 40s and 50s have been caught, along with one over 70 pounds."

That one fish over 70 pounds actually weighed 78 pounds -- and it was caught

by Muse.

"All of us Corinth boys grew up fishing the Tennessee River, and we know it like the backs of our hands," Muse said.

"Right now, the Mississippi is as easy to fish as the Tennessee -- and there are some big, old fish in the Mississippi."

What's next?

Anglers like Muse and Bingham will join Eads fishing legend Bill Dance, famed Bartlett fishing guide James Patterson and nationally renowned catfish angler Jeff Dodd of Trenton, Tenn., for the Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest catfishing tournament.

Most fishermen expect the fishing to get even better between now and then -and that could mean some amazing fish brought to the scales.

"I believe the river is scheduled to rise a little bit here in the next few days," Muse said. "That'll be great because all of the catfish that have been moving down river with the falling water levels will stop and stay a while. It could make for an incredible tournament weigh-in."

Two- and three-man teams will be allowed to weigh in their five biggest cat-

fish during the tournament -- and event organizer Ken Freeman believes it could take a gigantic number to win.

"I know a guy who went out fishing over the weekend with four pieces of frozen skipjack herring for bait," Freeman said. "He had four pieces of bait to his name, and he caught over 200 pounds of catfish."

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Longtime tournament angler Larry Muse (left) hauls in a 30-plus pound catfish with the help of cousin Steve Muse, while fishing on the receding waters of the Mississippi River. (SHNS photo by Mark Weber / The Commercial Appeal)

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Style, selection, name brands at Obsessive Apparel ‘Whatever look you are going for, we have it’

(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

August 5, 1873 — There was a rafting flood in the Mahoning Friday. A considerable number of rafts were sent out on the rise. A good many of our raftsmen walked home from the mouth of the Mahoning Sunday. (Mahoning Valley Spirit) August 5, 1891 — At a meeting of the blacksmiths of Punxsutawney and Clayville held on Wednesday, July 29, the following scale of prices was adopted, to take effect August 15, 1891: For horseshoeing, machine shoes to No. 5, 35 cents; machine shoes to No. 6 and 7, 40 cents; steel shoes, $ 2.00 to $ 3.00 per horse; Resetting, 60 cents to 75 cents per horse; Mining tools, picks; steeled, 40 cents; breast auger, $ 2.50; beveled-edge auger, $ 3.00; auger pod, common, $ 1.50; beveled-edge, $ 2.00.

(Punxsutawney News) August 13, 1868 — DAILY MAIL. — Is there no way by which Punxsutawney can have a daily mail between here and Indiana? If our citizens would take the matter in hand, it appears to us that there would not be much difficulty in getting one. As it is, we are always behind as regards news, having but three mails per week from Indiana and Brookville, and those arriving on the same days, leaving the balance of the week without any communication with the outside world. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) August 18, 1897 — Some of the prominent business men of this town frequently engage in the wholesome and pleasant occupation of pitching quoits.

It is a good, old-fashioned game, in which muscle and skill are both required, together with a steady nerve and a keen eye. The games are watched by numerous spectators, and the champion pitcher is no small man in the community To make a “ringer” elicits as much applause and admiration as a home run in a baseball game, and a “hobber” is considered equal to a three bagger.

(Punxsutawney Spirit) August 22, 1900 — An afternight ride on the trolley cars to Anita, four miles above Punxsutawney, is pleasant during the hot weather. The scent of wild flowers, the freshening breezes that come from the green foliage, and the long lines of blazing coke ovens, make a combination of very agreeable sensations. (Punxsutawney Spirit) •••

By PRIDE for Hometown magazine ack-to-school time is one of the busiest in the clothing industry. Obsessive Apparel, located at 527 East Mahoning Street, offers brand new, brand-name clothing at discount prices.

Their clothing will satisfy the tastes of the traditional, as well as the trendy dresser.

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include American Eagle, Aeropostale, Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, Fox, Hurley, D.C., Monster, Metal Mulisha, Miss Me, Rock & Roll Cow Girl and Silver Jeans.

Brittany Wolfe, the owner and operator of Obsessive Apparel, knows just what is needed by tweens and teens as they get ready to head back to school. And she has plenty of choices for the twenty-plus, who

chandise are among Wolfe’s skills, which draw customers from DuBois, Reynoldsville and Brookville, in addition to those in the Punxsutawney area.

“Whatever look you are going for, we have it,” said Wolfe, “and we get new shipments weekly.”

Our best-selling items are jeans, jeans, jeans and t-shirts,” said Wasicki.

Brittany Wolfe, left, owner and Searra Wasicki, assistant at ObMonster and Metal Mulisha hoodies and tees can be found at sessive Apparel, are available to help customers with their Obsessive Apparel. clothing needs.

Hollister hoodies and jeans come in a variety of colors and styles to meet every taste in fashion.

The “Guy’s Zone” at Obsessive Apparel offers plain and trendy shirts, shoes and jeans.

If ‘bling’ is your thing then Obsessive Apparel is the place to shop for jeans, tops, and accessories including shades and belts.

are seeking trendy clothing without having to drive to the city.

“I think we may have the largest selection of young men’s apparel in the area,” said Wolfe.

Wolfe, who opened her first store in Punxsutawney four years ago, learned the trade from her parents, who operate the “Warehouse” in Berlin, Somerset County. She first considered opening a business in Punxsutawney after participating as a Whether you are looking for, bright colored hoodies, classic vendor at the Groundhog Festijeans, or a fully coordinated outfit from top to toe, Obsessive Apval. The store moved to 527 East parel has what you need.

Mahoning Street about two-anda-half years ago, where she is ably assisted Bling, too, can be found on tops, jeans,

by Searra Wasicki. belts, purses, and footwear. Of course the A keen eye for choosing trendy fashions same items are also available without the and creating eye-catching displays of merbling. Popular brands carried in the store

“Guys really like our styles and selections.”

Obsessive Apparel is open Thursday, Friday, Mix and match outfits can be acand Saturday cessorized with stylish belts, from 10 a.m. hats, purses, shades, scarves, to 6 p.m., etc. at Obsessive Apparel. with extended hours for back-to-school and holiday shopping.

“See us on facebook for updates on our latest arrivals, the newest items in stock, what’s on sale, and for our extended hours.

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The back roads out there are a bit narrow, like most forest roads that follow ridges and canyons, but they've been paved for years.

Google Maps instead advised a Jeep trail that it said was 14.6 miles and would take 56 minutes. The adjoining map showed that it climbed up a ridge and down to Miguel Meadow, deep in wilderness, then traversed over a short ridge above Hetch Hetchy, then plummeted in switchbacks to the tunnel on the north side of O'Shaughnessy Dam. That's right, you're supposed to drive through the hiker's tunnel.

After all, it's been closed for only 74 years.

This story provided a few grins for our group. Others led astray have not been so lucky. Who could forget the heart-wrenching story of the death of San Francisco's James Kim? On a trip in 2006, the family, which included his wife and two small children, took an impassable road in a snowbound Oregon forest in an attempt to drive from Interstate 5 to the coast and got stuck. With no outdoor education, the family plunged into a series of errors.

He died of hypothermia trying to get help; his wife and children survived.

The idea of depending on electronics as a safety net can leave you in a free fall. I always vet everything with detailed maps and love looking at maps and books. In time, you can learn to read the land, and in turn, how to find water, the best routes and the best locations for campsites with scarcely looking at a map.

On one recent trip, we left from the Onion Valley Trailhead, located out of Independence in the eastern Sierra, and hiked over Kearsage Pass and Glen Pass to reach Rae Lakes. About 150 yards above gorgeous Charlotte Lake, a guy stopped and asked for help. He showed me his electronic GPS map display, which showed the trail we were on, the lake and another trail (that didn't exist) that was supposed to go to the lake.

"I can't find the trail to the lake," he said. "Here it is on my GPS. But I can't find it. What do I do?"

I pointed at the lake, practically right in front of us. "Walk to it."

(Contact Tom Stienstra at tstienstra(at)sfchronicle.com.)

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Airplane collector Greg Herrick is selling a 1954 Taylor Aerocar for $1.25 million. (SHNS photo by Bruce Bisping / Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Sky’s the limit for 1954 flying car Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune hen “The Jetsons” introduced us to flying cars, we all assumed that we’d have one by the time the 21st century rolled around.

You still can have one, but you’ll need $1.25 million. And, while you’re at it, you’re also going to need both a driver’s license and a pilot’s license, as well as both car and airplane insurance.

Oh, and you’ll need to learn a trick in order to land it.

Airplane collector Greg Herrick has put his 1954 Taylor Aerocar up for sale. It’s one of only five that are still operational, and three of them are in museums. Only this one and one other are in private hands.

(That one also is for sale, with an asking price of $2.2 million.)

Herrick bought the Aerocar in the 1990s when he was collecting planes that represented major turning points in technology or society.

“This is part of a different era,” he said.

“The vehicle — I call it that because I’m not sure if it’s a car or a plane — represents a time when society believed that anything was possible. ‘You want a flying car? Hey, we can make that happen.’”

He’s selling the Aerocar because he wants to refocus his collection on planes from the 1920s and ‘30s. Money from the sale is earmarked for the restoration of a 1929 amphibious biplane.

The Aerocar, the creation of aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor, never went into production. All of the existing versions were prototypes. Herrick owns the second one Taylor made.

Although Taylor claimed that the car-toplane conversion could be done in as little as five minutes “by a woman in a fur coat with high heels on,” Herrick figures that it takes closer to an hour, even in sensible

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shoes. He also questions marketing claims that the plane can take off at 55 miles per hour and reach a cruising speed of 110 mph.

“It takes off at 80, it cruises at 80 and it lands at 80,” he said. “You pretty much do everything at 80.”

The steering wheel used for the car becomes the stick used for the plane, creating a tricky transition during landing. A pilot landing in a crosswind typically lowers the wing that faces the wind, Herrick explained. That’s accomplished on the Aerocar by turning the steering wheel toward the wind.

“Except that also turns the front wheels that direction,” he said. “You have to land on the back wheels and then yank the steering wheel straight before the front wheels hit the ground or you’re going to make a sharp turn right into the weeds.”

Despite those challenges, Herrick’s Aerocar has logged a surprising number of flight hours.

“It’s got 781 hours on it, which is a lot for amateur pilots,” he said. It also has 15,254 miles on the car odometer. Because it has an airplane engine that requires aviation gas, the drivers likely didn’t stray far from airports.

Herrick put his initial sale announcement on websites aimed at car collectors.

“I think a car collector is more likely to buy it,” he said. “These days, plane collectors are more into warbirds (historic military aircraft). I don’t know; maybe a plane collector will want it. But car collectors are more interested in unusual stuff, and this certainly is unusual.”

Whoever buys it, they have plenty of options in terms of getting it home. “It’s in drive-away and fly-away condition,” he said.

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Tiny town commemorates nuclear bomb disaster that wasn’t Raleigh News and Observer n 1961, a distressed B-52 bomber burst apart in midair and crashed in a rural field, killing three airmen, scattering flaming wreckage and dropping a pair of nuclear bombs onto a sleepy farm town.

One of those bombs landed in a tree, slowed by its parachute. The other, weighing several tons, struck the ground and tunneled into the earth. For weeks, the military sought the weapon’s remains, digging a 40foot hole that spanned three acres. They found some, but not all of the bomb, before they abandoned the search.

Five decades later, the crash that killed three airmen persists in Eureka’s lore — a tobacco-field version of the Loch Ness monster. Old-timers recall it with a shudder. Veterans regard it with bowed heads and prayer. The young dismiss the story with a doubting smirk.

But now the state has placed its stamp on the crash of ‘61, placing a historic marker on a Main Street corner, greeting visitors

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easement around the site to prevent digging, and water is still tested for contamination, which hasn’t been found.

Debate about the bomb’s risk persists, and in its supporting essay on the marker, the state Office of Archives and History offers this final word: “The consensus is that the weapons were capable of exploding and delivering a nuclear blast sufficient to level homes in a five-mile radius and cause third-degree burns and set houses afire within nine miles.”

The whole episode seems freakish, something from “Dr. Strangelove.”

But when 100 people arrived for the ceremony, most of them white-haired, many of them wearing military medals, it became clear that this marker is meant to commemorate a terrible night that might have been far worse if not for men with guts.

Among them: Earl Lancaster, the firefighter who barreled straight into the flames; Jack ReVelle, the Air Force lieutenant who led the disposal team and described the bomb as “damn close” to

exploding; and Lt. Adam Mattocks, the only member of the eight-man crew still alive. Mattocks recalled climbing out of the hatch of the burning B-52 — the only man aboard without an ejection seat.

He pulled his parachute cord and fell to the earth as burning debris rained around him.

“We didn’t worry about the bomb,” said Mattocks, 78. “We were looking at a problem that was going to explode while we were flying.”

The piece of the bomb that remains is called the secondary, and ReVelle said it weighs 50 or 60 pounds. It can’t possibly explode by itself, he said.

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About 100 people gathered in Eureka to see the historic marker unveiled. Adam Mattocks, the last survivor of the crash, is at left. (SHNS photo by Josh Shaffer / Raleigh News & Observer)

with these words: NUCLEAR MISHAP. “We thought the world was going to end,” said Virginia Hudson, 82, on hand for the marker’s unveiling. “We still don’t bother that place.”

Eureka consists of roughly 200 souls, and if you spend a day on the bench outside BJ’s Cafe, you’ll meet most of them.

There’s only one stoplight. A sign at the local gas station thanks you in advance for not taking the God’s name in vain.

But Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is 12 miles away, so the town is accustomed to jets streaming past and to curiosity about its infamous near-catastrophe.

“I’ve lived her all my life and thought it was a rumor,” said Derrick Seagle, a cook at BJ’s. “It’s a small town. People don’t have much to fuss about. But don’t tell any of the old-timers I said that.”

The plane crashed close to Faro, an eventinier farm village to the east, scorching the fields near what is known as Big Daddy’s Road.

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Is it okay to drink diet soda?

by Julie Granka Sacramento Bee cientific studies suggest you should probably lay off the sugarpacked Big Gulp.

But what about their zero-calorie counterparts?

"There is this cultural lore that has people thinking that diet soda is what's really bad for you and that the other stuff (sugarsweetened soda) isn't as bad," said Harold Goldstein of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. Worries include that artificially sweetened drinks will cause cancer or diabetes.

Though most science dissuades drinking regular soda, diet soda's comparatively ambiguous research has not completely dispelled the lore.

Here are answers, some rather nuanced, to common questions about diet soda.

Is diet soda poisonous?

No, it won't poison you.

Most diet sodas are made with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, which are several hundred times sweeter than real sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Because not much of these are needed, a diet soda can get away with negligible calories.

Artificial sweeteners "have probably been the most intensively studied food ingredient ever," said Richard Mattes, professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University. "Every panel has cleared them."

Does diet soda make me eat more?

Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the big question is whether drinking diet beverages "means you'll eat more sweet foods."

There is some evidence that suggests so.

Several years ago, Susan Swithers, professor of psychological sciences at Purdue, gave one group of rats a consistent diet of pudding with sugar, and another group pudding with artificial sweeteners.

She then fed all the rats a real-sugar snack. At the next meal, rats with the diets of artificial sweeteners ate more than those with a sugar diet.

"They were used to getting sweet-tasting stuff that didn't give them as many calories," Swithers said.

Animal research like this "helps us to understand what might happen in humans," but is not the whole story, said David Allison, nutrition professor at the

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Lab conditions may be unrealistic, and there are big size and cognitive differences between rats and people.

Will diet soda make me gain weight or get type 2 diabetes?

To determine whether these findings have long-term implications, over decades scientists have followed the diets, lifestyles and health of large groups of people.

In some of these "observational studies," statistics have shown that drinking diet soda might increase risk for weight gain, heart attacks or diabetes.

But others show no effect.

Why doesn't science seem to have the answer?

Allison explained the inconsistent results.

"When you look across studies, what you see is that it's always a different analysis."

Relationships might also be misinterpreted, he said. If a study showed a relationship between headaches and aspirin use, "it would be foolish to conclude that aspirin causes headaches."

A n a l o g o u s l y, people who drink diet soda might be heavier, but it may be because they are drinking diet soda as part of an effort to lose weight.

What does science know?

Not surprisingly, overall diet and health are important.

Lawrence de Koning, nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, studied diet soda's relationship with type 2 diabetes.

When he accounted for underlying risk factors, such as a participant having high cholesterol, "the apparent relationship between diet soda and type 2 diabetes disappeared." (It remained for regular soda.)

Should I drink diet instead of regular?

"There's more and more rock-solid evidence that sugary drinks are the leading contributor to the obesity epidemic," Goldstein said.

The average American drinks about 42 pounds of sugar every year, he said.

"That's how much my 5-year-old weighs."

"In some ways the question of diet soda is a compelling one, but it's also a bit of a distraction," he said.

So, research is ambiguous, but diet soda seems the wiser choice, especially if you monitor overall diet.

Julie Granka at jgranka@sacbee.com.

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People are like icebergs

Barton Goldsmith Scripps Howard News Service eople are like icebergs: they will only show you 10 percent of who they really are. You have to do some deep investigation to learn about the other 90, and most of us never do.

Regardless of the circumstances — to the people with whom we work, to someone we’re dating, to our teammates, and so on — we rarely show our vulnerabilities or what we are really feeling.

Being truly open can be a difficult way of life, but for some people, it is perfectly natural to wear their hearts on their sleeve.

Those who do this are rare and confident individuals. When one shares feelings rather than expressing an opinion, it shows depth.

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You need to pace yourself when it comes to getting to know other people. We are all different. You may be someone who is comfortable sharing your life story, or you may be shy about revealing family secrets.

Whichever the case, you have to be careful to filter your words and try not to give or get everything out in one sitting. The longer you take getting to know someone else, the stronger your relationship can be. Friendships that develop over time tend to be longer lasting than those that move quickly.

It is also wise to check your expectations from the other person and take a look at their expectations of you as well. If we want something from another person that he or she is unwilling to give us, it will put a strain on the relationship. Learning to respect someone else’s limits is part of maturity; if you cannot do this, your ability to form and keep relationships may be diminished.

People tend to like others who like them, unless they sense something is inappropriate. If you think that someone you are involved with is backing off, politely and kindly ask if they want to talk about it. If so, you can discuss how to improve your connection. If they don’t want to talk, however, don’t push it. Wait for the right time.

Your friend may just need a moment to think about things.

(Dr. Barton Goldsmith, a psychotherapist in Westlake Village, Calif., is the author, most recently, of “100 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence — Believe in Yourself and Others Will Too.” E-mail him at Barton@BartonGoldsmith.com) •••

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Astronomers find most massive star generator yet Dale McFeatters Scripps Howard News Service aybe we’re overstating it, but it seems that the more we learn about the universe — and we are learning a lot — it seems the less we know.

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy — 5.7 billion light-years fitting anybody’s definition of “distant” — that spits out new stars at, well, an astronomical rate.

The galaxy’s name is so long that the Associated Press didn’t use it. (OK. It’s SPTCLJ2344-4243, if you must know, but it’s not going to be on the test.) The galaxy is creating about 740 new stars a year, compared to about one a year for our own Milky Way. Astronomers are nicknaming the galaxy Phoenix — they don’t really use all those numbers and letters in everyday conversation — because, at 6 billion years old, it was thought to be dead, but it came back to life in a way that gave scientists new mysteries to puzzle over.

Phoenix, actually a part of a cluster of galaxies, was discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope, and led

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astronomers to an uncommon use of superlatives.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a release: “Stars are forming in the Phoenix cluster at the highest rate ever observed for the middle of a galaxy cluster.

“The object also is the most powerful producer of X-rays of any known cluster and among the most massive. The data also suggest the rate of hot gas cooling in the central regions of the cluster are the largest ever observed.”

Unless prevented by a black hole, stars are formed when hydrogen gas cools below zero, but for whatever reason — another mystery for the astronomers — the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy seems unusually quiet.

Shakespeare famously had Hamlet tell his close friend, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Almost daily, it seems, we find that Hamlet didn’t even know the half of it.

(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com) •••

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