With the 1943 baseball season just days from being over, the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League and the New York Yankees in the American League had locked up berths in the World Series. The Cincinnati Reds were second, the Brooklyn Dodgers third. Pittsburgh Pirates fourth, and Chicago Cubs fifth in the senior circuit. In the American League, the Washington Senators were second, Cleveland Indians third and Chicago White Sox fourth.
\nAmerican Flying Fortresses blasted the German industrial city of Frankfurt in the wake of a devastating British Royal Air Force night assault on Kassel, 90 miles to the northeast.
\nDeadly American P-47 Thunderbolts escorted the four-engined raiders to their targets.
\nReports indicated heavy damage was inflicted on Kassel, a city of 217,000 population. It was the fifth raid hurled against Germany in seven nights.
\nKassel was one of the German towns flooded when RAF Lancasters breached the Eden River dam 35 miles to the southwest in May 1943.
\nAt home, the Roosevelt administration dispatched its ace trouble shooter, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson to Congress in an attempt to quell the worst tax revolt in the legislative branch since depression days more than a decade before.
\nVinson prepared to face the hostile House Ways and Means Committee, which was considering the revenue question, and the leader of the revolt in 75-year old chairman Representative Robert Doughton (a Democrat from North Carolina).
\nIt had become known that Senator George (Democrat, Georgia), chairman of the Tax-writing Senate Finance Committee was privately opposed to the program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his supporters.
\n\u201cI feel,\u201d said Doughton in a formal statement, \u201cthat the program is more ambitious and calls for more tax, in aggregate, that the tax-payers can reasonably bear at this time, in view of the already heavy tax liability.\u201d
\n\u201cIn expressing publicly, what many members were saying privately,\u201d Doughton added speaking to Randolph Paul, the treasury\u2019s general consul, \u201cYou must forget that we have to live with the folks back home. You don\u2019t.\u201d
\nHolders of \u201cA\u201d coupons in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia, were given more gasoline, while motorists with the \u201cB\u201d and \u201cC\u201d coupons in the area from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains, had their rations cut.
\nThe OPA increased weekly rations for \u201cA\u201d book motorists from one and a half to two gallons by shortening the validity period of coupons. A half gallon was cut from the value of \u201cB\u201d and \u201cC\u201d coupons in the eastern arena and a full gallon in all, other states east of the Rockies to make the value uniform at two gallons per coupon,
\n\u201cA\u201d rations for midwest and southwest motorists remain at three gallons a week, but the OPA specified that one gallon must be used for occupational driving.
\n\u201cThe effect was to allow two gallons a week for unrestricted driving for motorists from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast,\u201d the OPA said.
\nRoy Patton, operating as the Patton Meat Company, just west of Tyrone, was given a hearing before the district OPA board, in Altoona, on the charge of selling meat above OPA ceiling prices and not grading meats.
\nThe Patton Meat Company slaughterer s and retail meat dealers were cited as having sold meat to several persons and charging higher than established OPA ceiling prices.
\nPatton, as operator of the company, was suspended from OCT. 11-18 from in any way handling meats, fish, fats and cheese. Mr. Patton stated that the 90-day suspension as given in other county newspapers was entirely incorrect.
\n\u201cChatterbox,\u201d with Joe E. Brown and Judy Canova; \u201cWild Bill Elliott\u201d starring Wild Bill Elliott; Mr. Lucky,\u201d starring Cary Grant and Loraine Day, and \u201cBuckskin Frontier,\u201d with Richard Dix, were showing at the El Patio Theater during the week, while \u201cDesert Victory,\u201d the fabulous truth about Rommel\u2019s rout from Africa and \u201cWhat\u2019s Buzzin\u2019, Cousin,\u201d with Ann Miller, Eddie \u201cRochester \u201c Anderson and John Hubbard and \u201cDixie,\u201d with Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Marjorie Reynolds, Billy de Wolfe and Lynne Overman, were among the movies at the Wilson Theater next door.
\nThe Tyrone Golden Eagles wasted little time in drubbing a high regarded Clearfield football 33-0 on Oct. 22, 1943. After dropping their second one-point loss of the season to Philipsburg squad a week before, Tyrone (6-2) had everything going-kicking, passing, running, tackling and of course-touchdowns.
\nCoach Max Cook\u2019s Cookies as they were dubbed in the Tyrone Daily Herald struck three times in the second quarter, putting on a big show. After putting a TD on the board in the opening quarter, the initial second-quarter tally score came after a Fred Bressler to James Miller netted 45 yards and Vince Hagg, playing his final game for the Orange and Black before going into the Armed Forces, scored the TD on a line plunge later. The next touchdown was set up by a Clearfield fumble with the Orangemen going right down the field to score with Chester Mingle carrying the ball across the goal line. The third score came as a result of a pass to Harris Yaudes.
\nIn the first quarter, a Bressler pass to Miller was good for 45 yards to the C-4. Clay Lamborn sliced the distance in half with a two-yard plunge and then Bressler covered the final two yards for the touchdown.
\nIn the second quarter, following Bressler and Miller hooked up, Lamborn lateraled to Bressler for nine yards and Hagg took the next snap for a two-yard TD on the opening play of the second quarter. Bressler passed to Wendell Wrye for the extra point.
\nWilliam Crain recovered a Clearfield fumble on the Bisons-32. Hagg picked up eight yards around right end, then Mingle picked up the first down to the 21. Mingle circled end again for 16 yards and two plays later scored the three-yard touchdown. Bressler passed to Miller for the PAT.
\nStarting from the Tyrone-41, Hagg ran a reverse from Lamborn for eight yards. Mingle went through left tackle for 20 yards to the C-32. Bressler circled right end for 11 yards and a first down, then passed to Yaudes for the 21-yard TD a play later. Bressler took a lateral from Lamborn for the extra point and a 27-0 halftime lead.
\nThe only score in the second half came midway through the third quarter. Bressler returned a Clearfield punt seven yards to the Bisons-38. Lamborn and Bressler each took a turn to move the sticks for a first down at the C-28. On third-and -five, Bressler dashed to the Clearfield-15 for a new set of downs. Lamborn picked up eight yards on two carries, before Bressler was stopped at the line of scrimmage. On fourth-down-and-two, Bressler hit off right tackle for the seven-yard TD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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