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While enlisted in the Navy, Kearney and Mary Neal say, "I do" aboard the USS Direct in Charleston, S.C. on May 22, 1980

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Kearney Neal with the U.S. Navy.

Service to Their Country ‘The Family Business’ By Jennifer Wolfe line when the announcement came that WWI sides of the family, there existed a long hisof Hometown magazine was over. On my mom’s side, her dad, Burke tory of military service. Kearney Neal had an Smyth, served in WWI and both her brothers ancestor who was a Division Colonel with the radition. The word brings many things served in WWII. I have two brothers and a Union Army in the Civil War; while Mary to mind, but nearly all of them are possister who made Chief rank in the Navy.” Neal’s maternal ancestor fought in the Battle itive thoughts. Traditions can run the Kearney added that in addition to his Civil of King’s Mountain on October 7, 1780, durgamut from tiny, seemingly insignifiWar forefather, “My dad cant yet memorable acserved in the Army and my tions, to deeds so colossal uncle was killed in the Kothat it is virtually imposrean War.” sible to turn your back on After marriage, the Neal’s them. completed their time in the Every family has its traNavy and began a family. ditions. For one PunxThrough the years, they were sutawney area family, blessed with six children, one of the traditions is four of whom would eventumilitary service. When ally join “the family busiKearney and Mary Neal ness.” met back in the 70s on a Although Mary Neal was blind date, they had no drawn to the idea of travel idea of the role tradition when, “the Navy promoted would play in their future. the idea of seeing lots of They found that they places,” her children found had much in common, themselves drawn to serve as not the least of which was much for the travel as for the the same employer, the Neal Wolfe, US Army National Guard Re- Cassidy Neal fueling a plane in Ft. Carson, deep-rooted sense of tradiUnited States Navy. In Leah CO, prior to deployment to Afghanistan. cruiter (retired). tion. fact, it was aboard the Leah Neal Wolfe, who served as a Personnel ing the Revolutionary War. United States Navy Agile-class Minesweeper Specialist and later U.S. Army National The history doesn’t stop there. Mary Neal renamed the USS Direct, docked in Charleston, Guard Recruiter, expressed that family history counts, “My families have served in various S.C., that the pair tied the knot on May 22, played into her decision to enlist. “I would say wars. My dad served in WWII, my paternal 1980. family tradition and duty to country were the great-grandfather served in WWI. My paterIt was no surprise to either family that the nal grandfather was standing in the enlistment spouses were both in the service. On both - Continued on page 4

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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. • Punxsutawney will host its Halloween Parade on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Costumed children can gather at 5:30 p.m. at Groundhog Auto Parts on the corner of Gilpin & Union Sts. The parade will step off at 6 p.m. and proceed to Barclay Square where the costumes will be judged and participants will receive a treat from the Punxsutawney Fire Department. Trick-ortreating will follow in the borough until 9 p.m. • Cloe United Methodist Church Baazar will be held on Saturday, November 3 with the craft sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. • Pine Street Senior Center is hosting a Veterans Day Program from 11:30 to noon on Wednesday November 7. The Jefferson County Honor Guard will be presenting a 21-gun salute, folding of the flag, along with he playing of Taps. Lunch will be served at noon. Contact the Pine Street Social Center at 814-938-8376 in advance for reservations. The cost of lunch will be a donation of $1.50. This event is free to all Veterans. • Veteran's Day Program Friday, November 9. Flagraising ceremony 7:30 a.m. outside of Punxsutawney Area High School Auditorium. “Meet and Greet” program 9 a.m. at the auditorium. Lunch for all veterans at the Middle School at noon. Middle School Program at 1 p.m. All area veterans encouraged to attend. Public welcome. For more information please contact Ray Depp at 938-8583. • The 2nd Annual Tunes for Tots & Auction will be held November 17 at the Punxsutawney Eagles. The event will feature 5 local bands from 6 p.m. to ? and a silent auction from 6-10 p.m. Admission is $10 plus an unwrapped toy donation would be appreciated at the door. Benefits local children at Christmas. Advance tickets available. Contact Christi 814-939-3732, Bruce 814-249-3300 or The Eagles 814938-9976. Admit 21 and over. • The Nutcracker will be presented by VanDyke & Company and the Mahoning Valley Ballet at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23 and at 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 24 in the Punxsutawney Area High School. Tickets are available by pre-order using a form available at the Chamber of Commerce office or by calling 814-938-8434. Deadline to order tickets is Nov. 8. • Nutcracker Weekend will be held downtown on Friday, Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 24. Christmas Open Houses, including Mistletoe Madness, will be held in participating stores, and a variety of other activities will take place throughout the downtown. Coordinated by PRIDE merchants. • Home for the Holidays Parade & Circle of Trees Light Up Night will be held Saturday, November 24 beginning at 6 p.m. with the magical nighttime parade this year sponsored by F.O. Eagles #1231 of Punxsutawney. Immediately following the parade, the Walston Club will present a

spectacular fireworks show, followed by the “After Parade Party” on the first floor of the Eagles: Children can visit with Santa and the parade winners will be announced. Then, to round up your night, visit Rotary Club’s Circle of Trees in Barclay Square and watch as the community Christmas tree is lit up for the holidays. • Punxsutawney.com is maintained by the Chamber of Commerce for the community. Any area business or organization is invited to become a member of the Chamber of Commerce for as little as $75 for the year. For more information, visit Punxsutawney.com/chamber or call 938-7700. To submit an event for the calendar, visit Punxsutawney.com/calendar and fill out the form. • • •

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sense of duty and responsibility. I absolutely love the people that I have met over the years. You can’t replace them. You learn to love them like they are your own family. You can’t compare it with anything else. We all have that one person we count on for everything and say, ‘We love them like a brother.’ My military family takes [that expression] to the next level; our lives are in each other’s hands.” Cassidy Neal currently has orders to deploy to Afghanistan in December, and is anticipated to remain overseas for approximately nine months. The most recent Neal to join the ranks is Kurt Neal. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the same reasons quoted by his family members that drew him to the service, “When I first enlisted, the reason was for the tuition assistance. After engaging in training and learning about our nation’s military history, I [recog-

two [factors] that played a huge part in my enlisting. The sacrifices made by military men, women and their families, not only today but throughout history, astound me. I wanted to do my part as well.” Wolfe continued, “When I enlisted I went “straight through”. I left home for Basic Training (BCT) in November 2001, went straight into AIT a couple of days after completing Basic Training (BCT). I then graduated from my job training (AIT) on April 14, 2002 and was able to return home. I decided to go straight through because I had graduated from high school and personally thought it would be easiest to get all of my training done at once.” As a member of the National Guard, Wolfe initially maintained a civilian job while completing the required service hours of the National Guard. As time passed, her lineage could not be denied. Wolfe went on to leave the civilian side of the workforce and become a fulltime recruiter in our area. However, the possibility of deployment exists in the National Guard as much as in any branch; she was called into active duty in 2005 as part of the disaster relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina. After several years in the Army One family's attempt to find humor in the devastation caused by National Guard, Wolfe completed hurricane Katrina (Photo taken by Leah Wolfe during deployment her time in service, and currently to Louisiana while serving with Army National Guard in 2005.) works as an employee for the nized] the importance of protecting our counCommonwealth of PA. try; [I] feel that every citizen should be For Cassidy Neal, an active member of the obligated to serve our great nation, and gain U.S. Army, “Most of it was based on family the same respect that I have.” tradition. I watched my older brother and sisWhen Kurt enlisted not too long ago, he and ter join and they both seemed to enjoy it. Also older brother Clark engaged in some good-naboth of my parents were in the Navy for some tured little jabs as to what he scored on his P.T. time. After his Navy tour, [my dad] later en(physical training) test, but it’s all in the spirit listed in the PA Army National Guard.” of fun. As Leah Neal Wolfe remarked, “I Neal enlisted in the Army when she was a wouldn’t say we compete at all. We support junior in high school, through a process called each other more than anything.” split option. Enlistees must be at least 17 years For the younger siblings in the Neal family, of age and a junior in high school to exercise big brother Clark was a powerful motivator. this option. States Cassidy, “Clark likes to push us. He’s “I went to basic training about five days after the captain and wants us to do our best and to school had ended for the summer;” said Neal. accomplish as much as we can while we are “I graduated basic training and came home for in the military.” my senior year. When I graduated high Currently a Captain in the United States school, I went to my Advance Individual Army, Clark’s military service has been Training (AIT).” marked with some moments of honor, inCassidy explained, “I wanted to do somecluding the opportunity to serve in Iraq under thing that was different. I wanted to be able to former U.S. Army General David Howell Pemeet new people and do things that many traeus, who went on to become the Director of people never get the opportunity to do. I’ve learned a lot about integrity, trust, loyalty, a - Continued on page 20

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you can use election year as teaching opportunity for kids By Hannah Boen Scripps Howard News Service ess than two weeks away from a presidential election, a plethora of political messages are bombarding Americans — and not just those old enough to vote. Children of all ages often are faced with the sights and sounds of an election year, and experts say parents can use experience as a teaching opportunity. Paul Fabrizio is a professor of political science and vice president for academic affairs at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. As an educator, he witnesses college students’ political knowledge firsthand. As a parent, he sees the teaching moments available during an election year. “It’s impossible to avoid seeing political things,” Fabrizio said. “TV commercials, radio commercials, Internet ads, as well as just all the stuff on the streets, signs in people’s yards.” Although it’s difficult for parents to control what type of political messages children see, they do have some control over the way these messages are used, he said. Parents can use these messages as an opportunity to teach kids about the political process. Fabrizio suggested taking advantage of opportunities on the local level first. Many parents either don’t talk about politics at all or only share comments about politicians being corrupt, he said. “I would argue that, in fact, most politicians, especially at the local level,” he said, “are basic, good people who care about their communities.” Discussing local politics first offers many benefits, he said. It is the simplest way for kids to see that politicians at heart are “real people dealing with real issues.” Politics can be confusing for young children, so Fabrizio recommended starting with the basics. Even some political phrases can perplex a young child. “When we talk about politics, we talk about elections, about people running for

office,” Fabrizio said. “I think kids, when they first start out, they envision Obama and Romney physically running down the street for office.” However, seeing candidates going door to door or watching them participate in a public forum offers great opportunities for parents to show their children what “running” for an office really looks like. Exposing children to these things on a local level gives them a better idea of how national elections are conducted. Because children are naturally curious, Fabrizio said, it should be easy to develop an interest in politics during an election year. Don’t, however, expect too much from children regarding political education. Fabrizio said he sees college students who still have not developed much of an interest in how the voting process works. “College kids have a multitude of interests,” he said. “Politics is seldom one of those interests. And so they have difficulty seeing its relevance to their immediate lives.” That’s reflected in voting numbers. Although voting rates for young people have been on the rise in recent presidential elections, citizens between 18 and 24 years old still maintain the lowest voting rate among all age groups. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the 2008 election, Americans between 18 and 24 had a 49 percent voting rate, while rates got progressively higher with age. Those 65 and older had the highest voting rate, 70 percent. The interest is something that inevitably develops later in life for most people, Fabrizio said, as their life is more affected by decisions made by politicians. “It really comes down to how does the government affect you, and do you have the time and energy to really pay attention to politics,” he said. “For the most part, kids coming to college, kids starting off, you don’t have the time or the energy to devote to politics.” - Continued on page 12

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Sample News Group and President of the Latrobe Publishing Co., which includes the Mainline Newspapers, The Latrobe Bulletin, and the Shippensburg Newshe Pennsylvania Newspaper AssociChronicle and Valley Times Star, ation has selected William C. “Bill” Newville, Pa., and co-publisher of HomeAnderson, lifelong newspaperman town magazine in Punxsutawney, which and co-publisher of Hometown he and partner Mary Roberts of PunxPunxsutawney magazine, as the 2012 resutawney started in November 1999. cipient of its Benjamin Franklin Award Anderson began his newspaper career in for Excellence. 1973 after graduating from Penn State The award acknowledges and recognizes University. He served as publisher of the Anderson’s “significant contributions to Punxsutawney Spirit from 1977 through Pennsylvania newspapers and the news1999, working sucpaper industry” — cessfully for multicontributions that ple corporations. span four decades in During his nearjournalism and inthree decades in clude an overarching Punx’y, he was a commitment to the community booster communities served and headed several by his publications. fundraising projects. Bill Anderson’s colHe was actively inleagues describe him volved in many as the quintessential civic organizations, newspaperman. including PunxGeorge “Scoop” Samsutawney Phil’s topple III, owner and hat-wearing Inner president of Sample Circle. News Group, wrote After serving as that Anderson’s tenacpublisher of Sample ity and creativity led News Group’s Bedto great success, both ford Gazette in in managing others’ 2000, Anderson newspapers and buildconsolidated the ing his own. “Bill did neighboring Camit the old-fashioned bria County mounway: Writing news William C. “Bill” Anderson taintop weeklies of and selling ads. CreatMainline Newspapers in 2001. He overing a team, and pushing them hard to be sees the publication of six newspapers: the best they could be.” the (Portage) Dispatch, the (Cresson) Kelly Luvison, publisher of the Morning Mainliner, the (Nanty Glo) Journal, the Times, says Anderson embodies the traits (Ebensburg) Mountaineer-Herald, the that make community newspapers flour(Northern Cambria/Patton) Starish – creativity, charisma, shoe-leather Courier—all papers with deep historical salesmanship and a tireless commitment roots in their communities—and the to local content that matters. Mainline Extra, which Anderson began “More importantly,” writes Luvison, “he publishing five years ago. His staff and has gone above and beyond over four newspapers have won approximately twodecades of writing, selling and publishing dozen awards from the Pennsylvania to share his successes with any colleague Newspaper Association. who wanted help or needed to grow.” The Pennsylvania Newspaper AssociaJohn Satterwhite, publisher of The Bradtion established the Benjamin Franklin ford Era, wrote that Anderson is the epitAward for Excellence in 1998 to recogome of the “total newspaperman,” with a nize “outstanding service or accomplishunique ability to write, sell advertising, ment to their newspaper; to the newspaper manage and publish newspapers. Perhaps industry in general; to their local commumore important to Bill is his uncanny nity; or to PNA, that reflects positively on ability to inspire his colleagues and the the newspaper industry in Pennsylvania.” next generation of newspaper professionAccording to the PNA website, nominees als. for the award may include newspaper Anderson, though appreciative of the owners and employees, legislators, comaward, deflected attention to his staff and munity leaders, business leaders and unito the communities that read his periodiversity or college administrators. cals. “I am honored to be a recipient of Anderson, along with fellow Benjamin the Ben Franklin award,” he said, “but it Franklin Award winner Sara Ganim — is an award that reflects the efforts of our who broke the story that former Penn staff members and the businesses and State coach Jerry Sandusky was being incommunities which support us. You only vestigated for child abuse — and the staff need to pick up a copy of any of our pubof Harrisburg’s Patriot-News, will be honlications to see the effort put forth in servored at the Annual Dinner at the Annual ing our towns. They are all quality Convention of the Pennsylvania Newspaproducts from start to finish.” per Association in November. Anderson is currently Vice Chairman of ••• By Jim Lauffer and PNA for Hometown magazine

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something better for the community. Unlimited advancement for business, industry, social and civic life was ahead. Put to memory would be gas street lighting that had been introduced in the mid 1880s. That early step into modern times began in the summer of 1886 when a gentleman had noticed a bubbling of water in the middle of Mahoning Creek below Clayville (Punxsutawneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west end). Having observed it several times he thought it merely air being forced to the surface. One day he was washing his buggy in the creek. His curiosity led him to light a match and hold it near the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action. The gas ignited with a burst of water into the air. After many attempts of lighting, with similar results, word of his discovery passed swiftly through town. (July 14, 1886, Punxsutawney News) Within six months a gas company was organized and gas lines were laid. The borough council acted in January 1887 to approve the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request to furnish gas to the residents for stoves and heaters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;for a fee,â&#x20AC;? and to the town free for its

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Fox’s Pizza Raises over $45,000 for Punx’y Firefighters By Bill Anderson of Hometown magazine o a remarkable entrepreneur, striving for success is not only innate, it’s a responsibility, one that he shares with his community. Celebrating its eleventh year of raising funds for firefighters, local and area residents, firemen, and volunteers teamed up to make this year’s Fox’s Pizza and Prevention day a record-setting day, raising over $45,000 for the local fire departments on Saturday, October 6.

those households in need by the Kengersky Agency. “This year’s response to Pizza and Prevention was overwhelming. The citizens of Punxsutawney really kept us hopping

all day long and truly showed that they support and appreciate their volunteers,” said Anthony. “We are very happy that this has turned out to be a huge community event and that we can be a part in it.” As one firefighter’s wife, Anne MarieLithgow Depp, stated, the support given to the firefighters and community is appreciated. She thanked Anthony for his generous contributions. Depp continued, “As family of a fireman, the support Fox’s gives to them means the world to us. Thanks for your commitment to the safety of them and for our community. With the support from you and all the wonderful people of the community in the event, our firemen can be a little safer and do there jobs better.” •••

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hat started out as a dream last year for Bruce Walker of Punxsutawney has now become reality with the help of many great people. Walker’s goal was to help local children at Christmas time. Bruce’s belief that “No child should wake up without presents on Christmas” was taken to heart by his friends who helped him host the first annual Tunes for Tots and Auction on December 3, 2011 at the Walston Club in Punxsutawney. The event raised $3,459. The committee partnered with the Salvation Army’s Treasures for Children program, allowing the two groups to help three local families, and also a family with nine children in Mahaffey, who lost everything in a fire in early December. On October 13, the Tunes for Tots and Auction committee held a “Kick Off Event” at the Punxsutawney Moose featuring the opening act of Bruce Walker from Backseat Romeo and local wellknown band Head On. The funds raised at this event. $366, have already surpassed last year’s total . The second annual Tunes for Tots and Auction will be held on Saturday, November 17 at the Punxsutawney Eagles. The event begins at 6 p.m. and will feature local musicians: Six String Redemption, Backseat Romeo, Joe Pascuzzo Lounge Lizards, B n’ B Acoustic and Riding Shotgun. All the musicians affiliated with Tunes for Tots events donate their time and talent to help raise money for the less fortunate children in our area at Christmastime. This year the committee raised the bar high, setting its goal at $6,000. They are requesting your assistance in making the annual event a huge success. A silent auction will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and you need not be present to win. Auction items are being collected now through Friday, November 9, along with food, toys and monetary donations to help support this great cause. The event is open to the public, but you must be 21 years of age and over. The price of admission is $10 per person and includes sharing in the season of giving with good friends, good entertainment and good food. Advance tickets are now available and when purchased must be presented for entry to the event. Toy donations will be accepted and greatly appreciated at the door. If you are unable to attend the event, toy donations can be dropped off at the following locations: Punx’y Moose, Punx’y Eagles, Walston Club, Walker Auto Parts, and Johnston Furniture. Please support the campaign to help those less fortunate during this holiday season. By donating, you’ll be making a contribution that will help make life a little merrier around the holidays for individuals in need right here in our community. For more information on the event or to purchase tickets, please contact Christi

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Members gather at the end of last year’s Tunes for Tots auction: Bruce Walker, Shelly Fait, Kristi Fait, Joe henninger, Christi payson, Janeen Love, Denny Fetterman and Steve Duffalo. (submitted photo)

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Light posts in the parking lot at Graystone Court (the former Mary A. Wilson School) are examples of newer post-style lights to be seen throughout town.

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Continued from page 10 your city?” “Do they sparkle with white light?” The nickname “White Way” was supposedly for the bright lights associated with Broadway in New York City, with lampposts and theater marquees lining the streets. With Indiana and Clearfield already adopting the concept for street lighting, Punx’y did not want to be behind the times. In September 1926, the contract for the new downtown streetlights was announced. Lampposts would be 13 feet, six inches in height, with frosted white, acornshaped globes on top. Weather permitting, they were to be installed and in operation before the Christmas shopping season. There would be 59 of the decorative street lights along the major downtown streets to create Punxsutawney’s White Way. The plan called for light standards to be placed at 100-foot intervals on both sides of Mahoning Street, beginning at the bridge over Mahoning Creek on East Mahoning Street and continuing west to Church Street. Findley Street would be lighted with new lights from Mahoning Street to the railroad tracks of the B. R. & P. Railway. In some instances, placing the light standards along Findley and Mahoning Streets faced a problem. There were some businesses with old, unsightly porches overhanging the walkways that would interfere with the location of the posts. Materials such as cement, sand, gravel and tools were purchased locally. Beginning on November 15, and through all kinds of bad weather that hit the area, the Penn Public Service Company employed 35 local men to do the job in 35 working days. The project improved the lighting of

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the downtown to such brightness that it was declared “the business section was developed from one of the poorest to one of the best lighted in this section of the state.” (December 7, 1926, Punxsutawney Spirit) With store windows in dazzling Christmas colors and holiday goods, and Christmas shoppers beginning to crowd the streets, the blazing new illumination of the downtown was the finishing touch to begin a new spirit and experience in Punxsutawney shopping. The effect that was created when all the globes were lit on the new, uniformly placed standards along the downtown streets was proclaimed as “extremely pretty.” As improvements continue in Punxsutawney in the 21st century, and new forms of lighting are added to our environment, it can be said anew that Punxsutawney is an extremely pretty (and pleasant) town to enjoy. •••

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Continued from page 6 However, Fabrizio said he doesn’t believe it’s necessary to ensure that kids are educated about voting before they reach voting age because so much of it is understood with experience. “It’s something you learn as you go deeper into it,” he said. “I thought I had a good understanding of voting before I voted. I really didn’t. That’s OK; like everything else, we learn more, have more experience and get better.” With two kids in high school, Fabrizio said he has seen the interest his children have in politics grow over the years. He said he sparked that interest by taking them with him when he voted. “My kids seemed to really enjoy that,” he said. “It started a conversation about ‘Why this person over that person? What does this office do?’ “ He said he has been passionate about teaching his own children about the voting process for two reasons. On a philosophical level, he said, he believes voting is one of the responsibilities of being an American. “At a simple, human level, I like voting,” he said. “I think it’s cool to have a say, even if it is a small say, of who our leaders are. I wanted to share that feeling of excitement with my kids.” (Contact Hannah Boen of The Abilene Reporter-News in Texas at boehn@reporternews.com) •••

invention of Traffic Light occurred 100 years ago By David Montero Salt Lake Tribune f you’re stuck at a red light, blame Lester Wire. Got the green light? He gets credit there, too. The 100th anniversary of the invention of the traffic light by Wire, a Salt Lake City policeman, was marked Thursday by the unveiling of a replica of the signal light Wire devised because he was troubled by the congestion and danger traffic was posing at a Main Street intersection.

Utah Department of Transportation Executive Director John Njord said the invention changed motor vehicle history. “We can imagine what life would be like without signals at all,” Njord said. “It’s not a pretty picture to imagine.” But Njord acknowledged that, while they believe Wire’s traffic signal in 1912 was the first, he didn’t get the patent for

creating the technology. That patent instead went to James Hoge, who saw his traffic-light invention installed in Cleveland in 1914. A cruder version featuring two semaphore arms directing traffic to stop is believed to have debuted in London in 1868 Lisa Miller, UDOT spokeswoman, said it’s believed Wire got drafted and served in World War I and was unable to see the patent process through. Wire first propped up his machine on a 1912 street shared by cars, bikes, horses and pedestrians all traveling at different speeds and in different directions. “People laughed when they first saw

it,” Miller said. “They thought it was confusing.” Njord said Wire’s influence is seen everywhere today and he thinks he’d be amazed at what his invention had spawned “From a converted birdhouse on Main Street in Salt Lake City, the traffic signal can now be found throughout the world,” he said. “Even in the most remote locations.” (Contact reporter David Montero at dmontero@sltrib.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.) •••

Wire’s invention looked like a large birdhouse with lights dipped in green and red paint and placed into circular holes on each side. It was manually operated, with a police officer standing next to the signal mounted on a 10-foot pole. During peak times, the policeman’s job was to flick a switch to change it from red to green.

‘Here we go, SteelerS’ football conteSt winner It is excruciating to watch as they put the result of a game on the foot of the kicker. Lorraine Kaczynski of Punx’y saw it coming, though, picking the Steelers to win and coming closest to the total number of points scored in the 16-14 victory over the Eagles in Hometown magazine’s football contest. She will redeem her “Here we go, Steelers” $25 winning prize at Pizza Town. Play to win. Clip, complete, and return the Steelers coupon appearing in Hometown magazine. And, as always, “Here we go, Steelers.” ••• printed 10-12

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The first trains over the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad to Sagamore, in 1905, carried hyde-Murphy Company materials for construction of the 90-company houses at Sagamore. The town would grow to 500 houses by the 1920’s. Photo courtesy of Joanne Polito who lived at Sagamore as a child.

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The Story of McCreight, Goodyear, Berwind By PRIDE The second man, Frank H. Goodyear, for Hometown magazine grew up in Holland, Erie County, New York, worked in a tannery, attended East t was a time of progressive governAurora Academy, and taught school before ment carrying out its role to protect becoming a bookkeeper for Robert the interests of the people. The SherLooney. Looney ran a feed and grain busiman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 had been ness, sawmill, and general store in Alden, implemented. President Theodore RooNew York, and owned timberlands in sevelt was earning his nickname, the “trust Pennsylvania. Frank married his boss’s buster.” Law suits were being initiated by daughter, Josephine, in 1871, and moved the government against cartels, trusts and to Buffalo where he set up a coal and lummonopolies which limited competition and ber business. In 1884, he interfered with free purchased more timber trade. land in Potter County. At Congress was debating Austin, Pennsylvania he the proposed Elkins Act, built a saw mill and made which would strengthen the town his Pennsylvania the Interstate Commerce headquarters. He used Act by making it a crime temporary railroads, called for railroads to grant tramways, to carry logs to freight rates other than his mills instead of floatthose which were pubing them down the lished. It was an act the streams. As the business railroad companies supexpanded, he expanded the ported and lobbied for, railroads serving his because they were tired sawmills into an interstate of being caught up in the road. This enabled him to practice of rebating. Relink his saw mills and coal bating was when rail mines in western Pennsyllines granted off-thevania with the Buffalo & book discounts to preferred customers, M. I. McCreight, DuBois Banker, who Susquehanna Iron Combrokered a deal between Frank usually trusts, cartels or Goodyear and J. Berwind which made pany, in New York, which monopolies, whic de- it possible for the opening of mines from he and his brother, Charles, manded special treat- DuBois to Sagamore along the line of had formed in 1902. They the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad. named the interstate road ment. If it was not photo from the Commemorative Biogreceived, they threat- raphical Record of Central pennsylva- the Buffalo and Susqueened to take their busi- nia Counties of Centre, Clearfield, hanna Railroad. The road began at Keating Summit ness elsewhere. It was Jefferson and Clarion Counties. and extended into Galeton, also a time when unions where it branched off to Wellsville, Addiwere gaining strength and labor was makson, and Ansonia. It was the Wellsville ing its demands known, and winning. branch that was extended to Buffalo, New The political climate made it possible for York. By the standards of the day, Frank three men, who would not normally have H. Goodyear was a small operator. met, to consumate a deal which would The third man, E.J. Berwind, was presistimulate the economy of the area from dent of the Berwind White Company. He DuBois to Sagamore for almost fifty years. was born in Philadelphia, the son of GerThe first man, Major Isreal McCreight, man immigrants. He attended the U.S. was born into a family of early settlers in Naval Academy at Annapolis, and served Winslow Township, Jefferson County. He in the Navy from 1865 to 1875. He, with was the linchpin in the effort to secure railhis brother, Charles, and Judge Allison road right of ways and coal. McCreight, White founded Berwind, White & Comwho had grown up on a farm, attended pany, which was incorporated as BerwindEastman Business College in White in 1886. Berwind was considered to Poughkipsee, New York. He had worked be the world’s largest individual owner of with Native Americans in the West prior to coal mining properties. He refused to barreturning home and opening the first bank gain with his employees, making his mines in DuBois. At the time he was one of the among the last open shops in the coal youngest bankers in the Commonwealth. fields. By the standards of the day, E.J. By the standards of the day, Major Isreal McCreight was a very small, rural banker. - Continued on page 16

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Land Deal Continued from page 14 Berwind was a mega-millionaire and one of the powerful men in the country. The story of how these three men came together was published in the Pittsburg Gazette Times and republished in the Punxsutawney Spirit on August 3, 1909. The article titled: Jefferson Co. Has Produced and Educated Top Notch Bankers by the Score, used M.I. McCreight’s experience in bring Mr. Goodyear and Mr. Berwind together to highlight the role of the banker in making business deals. The article stated: “McCreight has been one of the leading bankers of his section. He has handled many of the big deals that have been made by the Buffalo and Susquehanna people in Clearfield and Jefferson counties, and the fact that he was a country banker probably lent considerable help to the Goodyears in getting their start in the rich coal fields of the country around DuBois. When the Berwind-White folks were getting tired of their investment in the mines at DuBois, the Goodyears intimated to McCreight that they would like the property if it could be had at the right figure, but they did not believe Berwind would sell it to them as cheap as he might to someone else. So Goodyear made McCreight a proposition, fixing the price they would pay, and McCreight went down to New York, with his hair cut DuBois style, and worked his way into the inner room, where Berwind was heaping up wealth at the rate of several heaps a minute. Berwind gave the man from Wayback a glance, and asked him what he wanted. McCreight survived the glance and said he wanted to buy the mine at DuBois. Berwind bored him through without another look and let it be known that if he would be around there in 10 days or so with a specific sum he could have the property, and the sum was not a very big one, either. Then Berwind intimated that the session was closed. McCreight went back, and the Goodyears were pleased. But just about that time some other interests began to get uneasy, for while it was understood that Berwind wanted to get away from DuBois, the other fellows figured it was a case of wait, and Berwind would drop the property for the sake of getting free from it. The other fellows suspected something to

be doing, and went to New York, too. McCreight had been looking up titles and papers and those things that pertain to such matters but which are not especially interesting, and he did not hurry to New York until the time was nearly up. Then he gave the hailing sign again to the great man who guarded the door at Berwind’s office. He was admitted without rummaging his clothes much. Berwind looked at him again. “You said you wanted that DuBois property, I believe,” queried Berwind. “Yes sir,” replied McCreight. “I have an offer of $10,000 (sic) more than you said you would give, but your time isn’t up yet, and you shall have the first chance at it for three hours longer if you want it. “Sure I want it,” said McCreight, and I brought a certified check for $50,000 to bind matters while you are getting the papers ready.” Berwind is a handy man with his adjectives. He tore off a few to express his surprise that the young chap from DuBois had come with the money, but he was game. Three or four hours more would have meant some three or four thousand an hour to Berwind. But he did the fair thing. That $10,000 is a small amount compared with what the transaction meant to the Goodyears, for it opened the road for the expenditure of millions for them, and it apparently did no harm to McCreight and his bank, for he has handled a good many big affairs since then, and has money in every pocket today.” M.I. McCreight wrote, in his History of DuBois about this deal: “One day the president of a railroad came to my desk to talk about extending his lines 100 miles into our region for coal. He looked over a small map I drew for him showing a route and several large areas of coal along the line in case he decided to build it. When he asked if it could be done, I said, “Yes, if you can pay the bills.” Then he asked, “Can you do it if I pay the bills?” And I said: “Yes!” Rising from his chair opposite my desk, he held out his hand and said, ‘Let’s do it!’ Many other instances of the same sort could be cited, but the above illustrates the manner in which big business was handled in the old days. I began at once to buy all of the properties shown on the map. Some fifteen millions were involved. There was no written contract of any kind. Without a word in writing. one - Continued on page 24

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By Mark Brunswick Minneapolis Star Tribune is remains have never been found, but David Hrdlicka, an Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war when his jet was shot down over Laos in 1965, was officially declared dead in 1977. His name has been chiseled on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The U.S. government says there is no credible evidence any Americans POWs from the Vietnam War are still held. But Hrdlicka's wife, Carol, holds on to evidence that, at least until 1990, Hrdlicka may have been alive and held captive. Jerry Streeter, a retired insurance executive and a former classmate of David Hrdlicka, also is obsessed with the search. He's filled his apartment in Edina, Minn., with documents and faded satellite photos that possibly connect the dots: a mysterious image of the letters "USA" seen on a satellite photo in a clearing of the

through the ranks to captain. He left for Vietnam on April 7, 1965. Forty-one days later, his F-105 fighter was hit by ground fire over Laos. His parachute was seen opening and he was seen being led away by natives in a small valley in the Sam Neua area. A picture of a healthy American later positively identified as Hrdlicka was taken with a likely Laotian militia

member. Carol said during the first year, she waited for a call about his recovery. The second year, she began to have doubts. In 1973, Vietnam returned its American prisoners with no word about her husband. In 1977, he was declared dead, her government benefits were reduced and she began to move on. She remarried in 1979. In 1990, she was accidentally sent a report suggesting a live sighting of David in a Laotian prison camp. That began a mission of filing Freedom of Information Act requests and being stonewalled. She had her marriage annulled and began her fight. In archived State Department and Pentagon dispatches, lawsuits filed against the CIA by other families seeking answers, - Continued on page 25

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(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.) October 10, 1894 — People who intend to disinter buried friends and place the remains in the new cemetery should attend to it at once while the beautiful golden autumn lasts. Soon the blustering cold and wet weather of late fall and early winter will be upon us and now, while we have nice weather, is the time to attend to the work mentioned. The Circle Hill cemetery has been undergoing vast improvements this summer and was also enlarged, and a number of people have already moved the remains of friends from old burial places to the new cemetery. (Punxsutawney News)

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enjoy,” stated LeCompte. “A recent holiday trend is to decorate the home with holiday items to compliment and in some cases to replace the tree,” said Memoree LeCompte. Pictures, which reflect the season, are the number one choice of the holiday decorator. Trailhead Gallery’s selections range from those highlighting the religious significance of the season, to nostalgic winter scenes. Among the most popular items for holiday decorating are pictures of Santa Claus by

October 15, 1868 — The Keystone Club, of this borough, and the Daisy Nippers, of Clayville, junior clubs, played a match game of base ball on October 7. The following is the score: Keystone 38, Daisy Nippers 22. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) October 19, 1906 — On the 6th of next month the people of Big Run will be given an opportunity to express themselves on the school question. If you are in favor of giving the coming generations the best possible advantages of schooling you will vote for the school bonds. There are many people who refuse to move to a town for no other reason than that the schools are not up-to-date. We do not want it said of our town that the schools are old and fozzolized (sic). (Big Run Tribune) October 20, 1897 — The number of squirrels slaughtered last week by peaceable citizens of Punxsutawney was something appalling. Everybody who ever hunted before was out, and a good many tyros went out to learn. Nearly all of them shot from half a dozen to fifteen squirrels each. It was awful. If squirrels could comprehend events and remember dates, they would long look back to Friday, October 15, with horror. Black Friday, they would call it - the day of the massacre. (Punxsutawney Spirit) October 29, 1890 — Last Thursday night the Punxsutawney band serenaded Will Altman and his newly wedded wife until it was out of wind, and then went away without having induced them to come out. And then the calithumpians came also and tooted their horns and rang their bells and sawed on their horse fiddle until they were worn out with fatigue. Then they went away. That was all. (Punxsutawney Spirit) •••

Art is always in stock at Trailhead Gallery. Beautiful flowers are always in vogue. The large picture of flowers on the wall has been framed in one of the new porcelain frames. An elegant frame can make the simplest item a beautiful work of art.

artists Susan Comish and Tom Browning. Trailhead Gallery will also give a gift to each customer who purchases an item during MistleBeautiful colors and toe Madness. textures in porcelain “We like to are some of the show our apprenewest framing materials available at ciation for our Trailhead Gallery on loyal cusWest Mahoning St. in Choosing a Shadow Box Frame for Baby’s Shoe protects tomers,” said the keepsake long after baby has outgrown it. punxsutawney. LeCompte, “and what better time than during the holiman will welcome customers to the Gallery. day season.” Customers are invited to have their picture Trailhead Gallery has the largest stock of taken with them from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ready-framed art in the Punxsutawney area. picture may be of families, children, or pets. The art ranges from commercially available Trailhead Gallery will mat the pictures for a artists work to individual items from local donation, which will go to support the work artists. LeCompte has personally selected of the Guild. Family members and friends each piece of art. will enjoy them as mementos of the holiday. Custom framing, the main service at Trail“This is one way we at Trailhead Gallery head Gallery, has new options. New framgive back to our community by helping to ing includes a nice selection of porcelain raise funds for the Guild, which does a great frames. The porcelain framing material job in presenting live performances for all to

comes in a variety of colors and provides a professional finishing touch to large items of art. Metal and metallic looking frames with embossed designs are also popular when used to dress up a simple, but meaningful statement. They also work well to compliment artwork. The Gallery has recently framed a variety of interesting and challenging items. “We are always up for a challenge when customers have special three-dimensional items they want attractively displayed. Shadow box frames are great for encasing three-dimensional keepsakes. The Gallery uses shadow box frames to contain a wide variety of sentimental items including baby shoes and seashells. Shadow boxes are also great for precious antiques such as grandmother’s baptismal dress, or the winning team shirt. Using a shadow box makes it easy to display the item while at the same time protecting it from the elements. “Many of our customers create artwork and needlework as gifts.” said LeCompte, “We help them with the final touch, selecting matting and framing, to show their work to its best advantage. We encourage customers who need custom framing to stop by and see what we can do for them.” •••

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even in Russian and Vietnamese newspaper accounts, she has found things she says don't add up. She has been told David probably died in 1968. But she found an article in the Russian newspaper Pravda documenting a 1969 interview with him. In 1988, satellite imagery showed the letters "USA" in a rice paddy near Sam Neua, where Hrdlicka was shot down. In July 1992, Carol filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information related to any rescue attempts. She also sought information on a rescue attempt called "Duck Soup." The Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing In Action said there were no records of a rescue attempt for her husband. It also said there was a secret government operation called "Duck Soup" in 1949, but it remained classified. A few years later, a researcher at the Lyndon Johnson library found State Department dispatches from the U.S. embassy in Saigon from June and July 1965 debating the value of a planned operation called "Duck Soup." In their 2007 book "An Enormous Crime," former U.S. Rep. Bill Hendon of North Carolina and attorney Elizabeth Stewart used public and previously classified documents to argue that the U.S. government knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs after withdrawing from Vietnam. "Once they started lying about the rescue attempts, I started asking myself, 'What's going on?'" Carol said. "The more I asked, the less they wanted to give. That's what keeps me going." Before 1990, U.S. access was restricted in most Southeast Asia locations where American prisoners were allegedly seen. But since 1991, a process called Live Sighting Investigation allows for short-notice inspections by U.S. officials. To date, none of the 119 investigations — 97 in Vietnam, 12 in Laos, and 10 in Cambodia — has generated any credible evidence of American POWs being held in Southeast Asia after 1975, said Air Force Maj. Carie Parker, a spokeswoman for the Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office. Jerry Streeter and Carol Hrdlicka are unconvinced. David was 34 when Carol last saw him and would be 81. Said Carol: "If he was dead, I'm sure I would have had a body by now." (Contact Mark Brunswick at mbrunswick@startribune.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.) ••• www.punxsutawneymagazine.com

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f all the treasures I’ve found, with or without a metal detector, my cannon ball is my favorite and it’s the most story-worthy of all. While on a walk behind my house with my dog Gretchen, on an old railroad bed, I found what couldn’t be a cannon ball, or could it? I lugged it home, which wasn’t an easy task as it weighed almost 10 pounds. With a 50pound dog tugging at my arm and trying to sniff the world along the way, it was a difficult task. After many people in town acknowledged that they also thought my find was a cannon ball, I showed it to Civil War reenactor Terry Rickard, who also agreed and supplied more information about it. Rickard explained it

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starred Hollywood icons Paul Newman as Cassidy and Robert Redford as Sundance. Betenson is Cassidy’s great-grandnephew. His great-grandmother was Lula Parker Betenson, who was Cassidy’s younger sister — and an adviser on the 1969 film. (Cassidy, who used many aliases, was born Robert LeRoy Parker in Utah in 1866). The inside of the gun’s grip contains yet another Cassidy legend — a series of numbers that supposedly are the combination to a Cassidy bank-vault stash in Denver. Betenson isn’t sure about that, and Jewels Eubanks, John’s son and fellow auctioneer, doubts that someone as shrewd as Cassidy would have ever left money in a bank. “There’s so much myth and folklore surrounding his life,” Betenson noted. For one thing, Betenson said, the two names given to Cassidy and his cronies — the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and the Wild Bunch — were entirely media creations. They didn’t use them. Cassidy, he added, spent little time in Hole in the Wall (an actual geologic formation in Wyoming); his favorite hideout was Robbers Roost in southeastern Utah. Here’s another one from Betenson about Cassidy that might raise some eyebrows: “As far as we know, he never did kill anyone.” Furthermore, Cassidy and Sundance (born Harry Longabaugh) didn’t go to South

America to continue their robbing ways; they went to become ranchers. They did this in Argentina from 1901 to 1905, Betenson said. But a 1905 bank robbery, some 700 miles from their ranch, was blamed on them. Betenson doesn’t believe they did it, although he admits it has earmarks of their jobs and that Cassidy and Sundance likely knew the two men who did it. Regardless, it forced them on the lam to Chile. They eventually wound up in Bolivia. “I think if the Pinkertons had left him alone, he’d have lived out his life in peace,” Betenson said. The Pinkertons were the detectives hired to pursue Cassidy and Sundance. In the film, they’re part of the relentless posse that Newman and Redford keep looking back at in bewilderment and saying, “Who are those guys?” The movie ends with Cassidy and Sundance dying in the shootout with the Bolivian militia. But many people, including Lula Betenson, think Cassidy made it back to the United States. She claimed he lived a quiet life of anonymity until he died in 1937 in the Pacific Northwest. “There’s still a lot of questions,” Betenson acknowledged. “The mystery of what happened to him still fascinates a lot of people.” (Contact Brett Johnson of the Ventura County Star in California at BJohnson@vcstar.com.) •••

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By Delthia Ricks Newsday itting for extended periods daily can lead to chronic kidney disease, according to medical investigators who examined how the cumulative effects of remaining seated can carry longterm risks. The new research by a team of British investigators arrived at that conclusion by asking more than 6,000 participants to perform some simple math: add up the amount of time each spent sitting on an average weekday. Reporting in the October issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, investigators were able to divide people into three groups: those at highest risk who sat 8 or more hours a day; people at moderate risk who stayed seated at least 3.2 to 7.8, and those at low risk who sat 0 to 3 hours. Tom Manley, director of scientific activities for the National Kidney Foundation, said the research provided more than a statistical link between sitting and chronic kidney disease. Researchers, Manley said, measured the organ’s ability to filter wastes and tested urine for high levels of a telltale protein — albumin — an indicator of poor kidney function. Those who sat for longer periods had higher albumin levels. “The surprise in this study is that sitting is directly related to kidney disease,” said Manley, a registered nurse. “A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Now we see that it (sitting) has broader health risks.

“But what this also tells us is that this is a modifiable risk factor. There’s something you can do about it — get out of that chair,” Manley said. As twin organs in the rear of the abdominal cavity, the kidneys have multiple physiological functions, including regulating blood pressure, filtering wastes, and producing hormones and urine. Dr. Steven Fishbane, vice president for Network Dialysis Services at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, noted the study’s results should be taken with a dose of caution. “We should never conclude from this that people should give up their office jobs,” Fishbane said. “If you have a job where you are sitting seven hours a day, you have to take your health into your own hands. You have to make certain that you’re getting up and moving around. “If companies care about their employees’ health, they should make certain that employees are getting up a couple of times a day, spending it walking, stretching, moving around.” Noted in the research were people who spent most of their day standing, which Manley emphasized correlated with a lower rate of chronic kidney disease. “Just being upright is a good thing for kidney health,” Manley said. (Contact Delthia Ricks: delthia.ricks@newsday.com) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.) •••

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