At W. C. Morrow and Sons, 207 East 10th Street, you could buy toy tractors, plows, pickup trucks or hydraulic dump trucks to stock up early for Christmas, 1964. Or you could give a portrait from Fortay Studio, 1263 PA Avenue-A Fortay portrait, The Christmas gift. If you leaned to the practical side of gift-giving, Bob’s Electric, 1104 PA Avenue, featured SpeedQueen washers with double walls and bowl-shaped tubs for $119.95. Gardner’s Candy, 30 West 10th Street, had a different treat on sale every weekend, including marshmallows, caromellows and coconut mallows for just 44 cents a pound. If you really wanted to give a big gift, but wanted to stay on the sensible side, Black Brothers Ramblers, 10th Street and Logan Avenue offered the chance to “See the Sensible Spectacular at your Rambler dealer,” -three new different sizes, three new different wheel bases, seven new spectacular engines.
The Soviet Union’s new leadership opened the door to talks with the Communist Chinese. The firing of former Russian leader Nakita Krushchev made the talks possible, the Chinese having openly called for his dismissal as a condition for better relations. Diplomats saw little hope his successors, Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin could easily solve the differences between the two Communist giants.
Peking seemed to be in no hurry to come to terms and the recent Chinese nuclear explosion had reinforced China’s prestige and may have hardened their position.
The work stoppage of GM plants by the huge United Automobile Workers union ended following a 31-day strike. Full production was still not back to normal however, blocked until a final settlement had been reached with local issues still withstanding and some 25 plants were still closed.
UAW vice-president Leonard Woodcock called an end to the national strike after 95 of the 97 locals voted by overwhelming majority to endorse the agreement with GM and end the strike.
Just before the general election, a UPI survey had President Lyndon Johnson was leading in 36 states with 433 electoral votes to just 71 electoral votes for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
Not even that large prediction was accurate however. When the votes had all been counted, LBJ had won by an even larger majority, getting the electoral votes from a whopping 44 states. Goldwater was able to take just his own state of Arizona and five more, all in the deep south, which had traditionally been solid Democratic country. The Democrats, in addition, upped their majority in the House of Representatives by 38 seats and remained in control of the U. S. Senate with a 66-34 advantage as well.
Hugh Scott was re-elected to the U. S. Senate from PA, the only Republican state-wide candidate to avoid getting caught by the Democrat/Johnson landslide.
In Tyrone borough, the Johnson/Humphrey Democratic ticket won by 1468-1439 margin over the Goldwater/Miller Republican ticket. Snyder Township gave the win to Johnson/Humphrey 484-410.
Blair County voted Johnson 25,164-Goldwater 23,693. Nearby Bellwood borough voted Goldwater/Miller 502-Johnson/Humphrey 380 and Antis Township also went for the Republican Goldwater/Miller ticket 702-663.
President Johnson set three major goals for the next four years-1. Maintain world peace with a foreign policy based on conviction that war can be avoided through patience, firmness and steady vigilance. 2. Domestic policies aimed at realizing what Johnson called “the Great Society,” in which poverty and racial injustice would be eliminated, children would receive an adequate education and old people would be assured of medical care. 3. Finally, LBJ would be concerned with winning a place in history, not as a “wheeler dealer,” politician, but as a great and strong president in the tradition of Franklin B. Roosevelt.
Cotton Davidson, quarterback of the American Football League Oakland Raiders, tossed five TD passes in a 40-7 romp over the Denver Broncos, hitting 22 of 34 passes for 411 yards. Mike Mercer of Oakland broke the record he had previously shared with George Blanda of the Houston Oilers for consecutive PAT kicks. Mercer stretched his record to 65.
Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Edie Adams were starring at the Wilson and El Patio Theaters in “The Best Man.” Later in the week, Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway and the entire crew from the weekly television series was appearing on the wide screen in “McHale’s Navy.”
Notre Dame replaced Ohio State as the No. One major college football team in the UPI coaches poll. The Fighting Irish (6-0) began the 1964 season in seventh place and had moved up in the poll at least one place each week. This was the first time, Notre Dame had been ranked at the top since Sept. 1954.
It wasn’t a loss for Tyrone (8-1-1) in their season finale against Hollidaysburg, but it wasn’t a win either. The Golden Eagles and Golden Tigers (6-3-1) fought to a 13-13 deadlock at Gray Memorial Field before another crowd of 6,000.
All four touchdowns came on or following breaks.
Hollidaysburg drove from their own 38 to the Tyrone-1 early in the second quarter where the Eagle defense came up with a rugged goal line stand to stop the potential scoring threat. Dave Langenbacher and Tom Templeton made first contact on an attempted quarterback sneak by the Hollidaysburg quarterback.
Tyrone went a quick three and out and had to punt. The Tigers marched right down to the Eagle-20, where again the Tyrone defense took the ball away without any further scoring.
Following an exchange of punts, Tony Singer got a couple of first-down yards. Terry Turnbaugh went back to pass for the Eagles, was hit and on the way down started the forward arm motion for an attempted pass. Officials ruled it a fumble and the Golden Tigers returned it 40 yards for the first score of the game.
The second half began with a bang that turned out to be only a whimper. Chuck Hickes fielded the kickoff at the Tyrone-12 and raced straight up the middle through a gaping hole for an apparent 88-yard touchdown. Clipping was detected at the Hollidaysburg four-yard line and the ball brought back to the H-19. Hollidaysburg pushed Tyrone back to the 34 where Turnbaugh punted to the Tigers-8.
Hollidaysburg moved the ball out to their own 34, when Jim Nau recovered a fumble for the Eagles. From the 25, Bill Gearhart picked up two yards, then 11 more on the second try. Bob McNeal appeared trapped, but got out and rambled for 10 yards to the H-2. Turnbaugh then had his number called for a sneak on two successive plays, getting the one-yard TD.
Hollidaysburg blocked a Turnbaugh punt on a low snap from center and the Tigers recovered the pigskin in the endzone for their second TD.
Tyrone drove to the Hollidaysburg-15 before being driven back. The Tigers were able to go nowhere and Tyrone blocked their punt. Charlie Soellner picked up the loose ball at the H-10 and ran it in for the TD. Max Schnellbaugh passed to Bill Gearhart for the PAT that tied the game at 13-all.
Chuck Hickes recovered a fumble on the next series and Tyrone drove to the Hollidaysburg-2 before being thwarted again. The big play in the series was a razzle-dazzle halfback pass with Turnbaugh handing off to Tony Singer, who in turn handed off to Gearhart, who fired a perfect strike to Schnellbaugh, who had slipped past his Tiger defender down field. Schnellbaugh grabbed the pass around the 20 and carried it to the H-10.
