May 2010 #115

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Miners stand at the entrance to the mine at Adrian. The 1911 mine explosion at Adrian killed nine men.

(Photograph courtesy of the Punxsutawney Historical and Genealogial Society.)

By PRIDE for Hometown magazine e offer our condolences to the families of the miners in West Virginia who are suffering tragic losses due to a horrific mine disaster. We remember times when families in the Punxsutawney Area suffered similar tragedies.

Many Punxsutawney area men lost their lives in the coal mines. Every accidental loss of life is in its own way a disaster. Each loss leaves behind family and friends struggling to cope with the unexpected and sudden loss. In the early days of mining, the most common loss of life was due to roof and rock falls. The second most common loss was due to accidents in the mines.

The most tragic accidents are explosions, because of the suddenness and the number of people who lose their lives. The effect of an explosion reverberates through a community as wives, children and extended families are suddenly forced to cope with loss of a loved one and the loss of economic support. Miners generally worked in pairs; their partner was often a relative, brother, father,

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The Eleanora Shaft mine was considered to be one of the most modern and best ventilated mines in this section. It had been inspected by the fire boss, and declared safe only a few minutes before the explosion.

This explosion was caused by a blow out shot. Minerals in the hole drilled into the rock where the shot was placed resisted the power of the dynamite and blew the shot out of the tamping hole. The shot ignited the coal dust in the mine, causing the explosion.

The force of the explosion was so strong it literally blew the blood and, in some instances, the eyes out of the miners. The miners killed in this explosion were: Adam Kirkwood, 37; George Kirkwood, 35; Joseph Ludna, 40; John Gamiryo, 34; Alexander Chamulski, 29; Alexander Kormionski, 42; Arnham Kormiomski, 35; Frank Beloholovik, age not given; Charles Budginas, 27; Frank Leckas, 26; Martin Warsgoncki, 29; August Warsgoncki, 26, and John Hopkins, 16. The injured man was Harry T. Mohney, 37. He suffered severe burns, a broken arm, and cuts about his head.

He was taken to Adrian Hospital. Four widows and 14 children were left in the community; three widows and an uncounted number of children were left in the old country.

Almost five years passed before the next mine explosion. This one was at Slope #2 Ernest Mine of the Jefferson and Clearfield

uncle, or cousin. When several members of a family are taken at the same time, it severely impacts the emotional and economic status of the Punxsutawney Area Mine Explosions family, sometimes for gen(Five Or More Persons Killed) erations.

1894-2000 Most mine Year Mine Company Dead explosions occur when gas 1896 Berwin Berwin White Coal Co. 13 or coal dust is 1905 Eleanora Rochester & Pittsburgh ignited.

In Shaft Coal Co. 13 1896, the first 1910 Ernest #2 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal Co. 11 deadly explo1911 Cascade Cascade Coal & Coke Co. 21 sion in this area 1911 Adrian Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. 9 took place at 1916 Ernest #2 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal Co. 27 the Berwind 1926 Clymer Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co. 44 Mine of the Berwind White 1937 Kramer Northwestern Mining & Exchange Co. 9 Coal ComSource: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dept/deputate/minres/bmr/ pany, located annualreport/2000/table 22.htm. near DuBois.

Thirteen men Coal Company. This explosion occurred at lost their lives in this explosion. The next 9 a.m. on Saturday, February 5, 1910, and deadly explosion was at the Eleanora Shaft. killed eleven miners: Paul Slinsgky, 29; This explosion killed 13 men and injured - Continued on next page one.

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Spencer, 26. The report on this explosion concluded that there was gas in heading number three of the mine, which was drawn into the section near headings eight and nine where the miners were working, Either an open lamp or a spark ignited the gas and caused the explosion. The hardware store in Sykesville was used as a temporary morgue, where the bodies were prepared for burial

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This group of miners left six spouses and uncounted family members.

The year 1911 was the most tragic year in southern Jefferson County. Two mines, Cascade and Adrian, experienced explosions which killed a total of 30 miners.

The Cascade Mine, located at Sykesville, explosion took place at about 8:20 p.m. on Saturday evening, July 15, 1911. Twentyone men were killed in the eighth and ninth headings of the Cascade Coal & Coke Company’s mine. The tragedy of this disaster was so great that it was noted by the New York Times in their “Noteworthy Events in the World’s Progress in 1911” under their category of crimes, casualties and fatalities on December 31. The men who lost their lives in this accident were: Concetta Cichello, 18; Dominic Cichello, 19; Grover Conrad, 23; Nick Gasper, 21; Rock Gasper, 42; Sorello Gillis, 18; L.Grassi, 18; George Hook, 22; John Hook, 28; Mike Hovokico, 24; Andy Krajnak, 25; Raphiello Marianne, 24; John Masisak, 29; John Mizio, 35; Frank Patiavich , 38; Andy Pavlich, 45; Nick Pavlich, 18; Pleuo Sandi, 30; George Sheesley, 33; Mike Sloff, 23, and William

before being taken to their homes and families. The Pavlich family lost a father and a son; the Hook’s aging parents lost two sons, and in houses throughout the community were heart-broken mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, brothers and children.

Four months later the Punxsutawney area was again visited by a mine explosion.

William Haddick, the fire boss at Adrian Mine, made his inspection as usual on the morning of November 4, 1911 and declared the mine safe for work. The explosion was believed to have been caused when a fall of coal created a high level of dust, which was ignited by sparks from an electrical wire broken in the rock fall. Anthony Goodlick, Lorenzo Fornio, Mike Zuby and Angelo Fornio went into the mine shortly after and found “after damp” which indicated there had been an explosion. They rushed to the troubled section to provide aid where they found the first victim, who was taken to the main slope and placed in a car, taken to the surface, and resuscitated. The men returned to the heading and found three others. Zuby and Goodlick tried to pull the prostrate men

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Cascade Mine, Sykesville, PA, where 21 men lost their lives in a mine explosion in 1911. (Photograph courtesy of the Punxsutawney Historical and Genealogial Society.)

with the others who had died in the mine.

The miners who lost their lives in this explosion were Salvaore Bonsantine, 39; Alfonzo Boloana, 40; Peter Terrezzi, 26; Lewis Sacco, 49; Marro Scarpino, 34; Lelor Scarato, 21; Mike DeAchns (Dehennis), 28, and Paul Sosnowoski, 32. These men left seven widows and twenty-three orphans, the eldest of the children being seven years of age at that time.

On February 11, 1916 disaster visited again. Twenty-seven men were killed and five found alive in Ernest #2. This was the second explosion in this mine operated by the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal Company, caused when a pocket of gas was opened without warning and was ignited, causing a series of coal dust explosions. The dead were: J.W. Balls, Carl Stranquist, George Bunton, John Connelly, Alex Broskin, Fred Barcella, Don Rosina, August Mageon, Joe Soldera, James Bardeno, Ignaz Pistak, Frank Bonfhoski, Paul Taggart, James Herman, Ignaz Balcercuski, Stanley Balcercuski, George Gurrena, Antonio Pauli, John Asick, Rossa was not given. This disaster took the lives of a mine foreman and an assistant fire boss, a track boss, a cutter and 23 loaders. It left behind thirteen widows, forty eight orphans, countless numbers of relatives, and a grief stricken community.

The worst mine explosion in the area was at Clymer #1, operated by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company. The explosion resulted when an accumulation of gas in the heading known as “eight right” was ignited on August 26, 1926. There were no open flame lights in the mine and the cause of ignition was not identified. Two separate and distinct shocks rocked through the mine. All of the men working in the header were killed. The Punxsutawney Spirit on August 30, 1926 reported that the explosion killed 44 men.

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The last mine explosion to take place in the Punxsutawney area was at the Kramer Mine of the Northwest Mining and Exchange Company on Saturday, March 28, 1937.

The explosion, which sent nine men to their death, was determined to have been caused by gas in the mine. The mine had been closed for Good Friday, to enable miners to participate in church services. The men killed, all section foremen, and all taking advantage of the closing of the mine to perform inspections were: Andrew O’Connor, 51; William Lewis, 59; William McCracken, 42; William Laird, 43; Steve Yasenchak, 29; John McHenry, 49; Francis Dixon, 43; Thomas Heberling, 46, and George Hill, 30. The Kramer Mine was known to be gaseous, and it was the responsibility of the men who lost their lives to keep the mine in a safe condition for operation. Indications were that they entered the mine too soon after starting the ventilation fans and that a spark from their equipment may have ignited the gas causing the explosion. These men left behind families including children and grandchildren.

Who remembers these tragic mine disasters? Who will honor the lives of these men who helped generate fuel for the nation and who participated in the greatest economic boom the Punxsutawney Area has ever known? These are but some of the workers in the coal and related industry who deserve to be honored in the Punxsutawney Area Coal Memorial and Welcome Center, where their memory and sacrifice will be visible for generations to come. To purchase a memorial tile write to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767 or visit: punxsycoal.org for more information.

(Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization which brings together residents, business people, community leaders and civic organizations, to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop a Coal Memorial and Welcome Center for the Punxsutawney Area. Comments on this article may be directed to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767) •••

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he irate sister who smashed a crystal vase in her attorney’s parking lot, rather than hand it over to her sister after Mom died. The squabbling siblings who spent three years and $15,000 battling over a few hundred dollars’ worth of JC Penney and Kmart knickknacks. The brother who shot his deceased sister’s beloved dog in order to collect his inheritance.

Talk with enough estate-planning attorneys and you hear the distressing, sorry sagas resulting from no — or poor — estate planning.

“Family, money and death are a combustible combination,” said Toronto-based attorney Les Kotzer, who co-authored a new book — “Where There’s an Inheritance ...” — a compilation of 80 real-life vignettes taken from his law practice and radio-show callers.

Some of the tales are horrifying. Many are heartbreaking.

“A lot of time they will spend more on lawyers than the value of items they’re fighting over,” said Kotzer, who said he wrote the book to warn families about the perils of family feuds. “Once you send a lawyer’s letter to your brother, the relationship will never be the same.”

Those who witness the ugly aftermath say many of the situations could have been avoided with a properly executed will or trust.

“Generally, parents are the glue that holds a family together and by the time estateplanning blunders become apparent, the glue is gone and the family can fall apart,” said Trudy Nearn, a longtime Sacramento, Calif., estate-planning attorney.

The recession has apparently kept even more Americans from completing any basic estate-planning documents — a will, trust or financial/medical powers of attorney, according to a December survey by Lawyers.com. Only 51 percent of adults reported they had such estate-planning documents, compared with 64 percent in 2007.

Most cited their need to focus on paying bills and other “essential” money priorities, the survey said.

Amid all the distressing tales, there are some lessons to be learned: Too many families get torn apart by whogets-what disputes: who gets Mom’s china, who keeps Dad’s signed Joe Montana football, who gets the lawn furniture.

It’s often stuff that’s not even particularly valuable, says Sacramento estate-planning attorney Michelle Goff. She had clients who argued for years over their mother’s personal effects. It finally got resolved around a lawyer’s conference table where the disputed items, many with their JC Penney’s and Kmart price tags still attached, were spread out. Taking turns, each sibling got two minutes to pick two items, until the

table was emptied. But that was only after three years and $15,000 in legal fees.

Kotzer recalls a sister who was incensed that a crystal vase she’d given her mother

was to be divvied up in the estate, rather than handed to her outright. Her angry solution: smash it to smithereens in the parking lot “so nobody will get it.”

A better solution: Ask your kids if there are things they’d like after you’re gone.

Type up a list designating who gets important items, like wedding rings, silver, family mementoes.

“If parents make the list, the trustee is obligated to follow (it). It removes the emotional battle,” Goff said.

Sacramento estate-planning attorney Mark S. Drobny said he’s had families whose list has only three items on it; others run 30 pages long, “down to the socks in the drawer.”

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galow at 206 Dinsmore Avenue.”

Around Punx’y are several of these modest living quarters. In contrast to the prominent mansions on our streets, or the simple dwellings of laborers, the one-and-a-half

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he brighter and warmer days of spring encourage many people to begin their house cleaning chores, whether indoors or those things out and around the house, yard, and garden. The writer, however, has used some of these early days of spring to do another “house cleaning” of history. They are those little stories relating to local history that have been gathered in a pattern of research, and then are set aside, waiting to be woven into feature stories for Hometown magazine. These little stories deserve to be shared. So, offered again are a couple of smaller history sketches that will soon be filed away.

Five years ago the writer had offered a series of Hometown articles that introduced to readers the “architectural heritage” of our neighborhoods and downtown. Introduced were the many prominent styles of houses in the Punx’y area landscape left to us, relating to the settlement of the area and Punx’y’s growth during the industrial boom of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Left behind was a discussion of the “bungalow” house from another era and dotting some In the early 20th century, modest dwellings called “bungalows” of the streets and avenues of were built in many neighborhoods of Punxsutawney. As one-anda-half story living quarters, they were in contrast to larger “manour neighborhoods. sions” in other neighborhoods. Seen above are bungalows on A hint that the bungalow was Dinsmore Avenue. (Photos by S. Thomas Curry) popular was one announcement in the local newspaper for a dwelling on an story bungalow in many variations can easEast End street. The house had been conily be identified. structed by H. L. Robinson in 1912 and As a style for homes in the early 20th centhen sold a year later to H. F. Sprankle, a tury, it was adapted from architecture found local undertaker. The story was headlined in English-ruled Bengali, India. Using “PURCHASES NEW BUNGALOW” and mostly natural materials, a bungalow had a described the house as an “attractive bun- Continued on page 8

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Modest in appearance, the term “bungalow” eventually replaced the word “cottage” for the small living quarters.

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A unique downtown building — with “Second Empire” style architectural features — was built in the late 19th century. It is often overlooked in the landscape of larger buildings in the town. (Color photo by S. Thomas Curry, black and white photo from Spirit Special Industrial Edition, 1900)

House plan kits to build the small houses were offered through catalogs, especially Sears/Roebuck Co. and Montgomery Wards, and the entire home was shipped by train to the buyer. Local carpenters could build them on site as a wood frame or, if financially able, as a brick or stone house.

During the bungalow craze, the People’s Planing Mill in Punx’y was advertising in 1917, “Bungalow homes are becoming

Originally built in 1893 for tailor E. S. Swartz, father of the late “E. S. “Ted” Swartz, the building featured a Mansard style steep roof capped with wrought-iron ornamentation. Later, in the mid20th century, the site was where The Smart Shop was located. (Spirit Special Industrial Edition, 1900)

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is one that can often be overlooked by those folk unaware of period styles.

The structure was built in 1893 following a brief announcement in the weekly Punxsutawney Spirit: “Ed. Swartz will erect a nice business house beside Gilbloom’s shoe store, and a large number of buildings will be erected in other parts of the town.”

Mr. Swartz had come to Punxsutawney in 1886 from Bellefonte in Center County. He formed a partnership with A. B. Miller as a tailor. His first building with Miller was at the corner of Mahoning and Gilpin Streets where the J. C. Penney store once was.

There he began the business of “measuring, cutting trimming, and tailoring” (all by hand, of course) suits and overcoats for the gentlemen of that era. Swartz conducted the business on his own after Miller died two years later.

E. S. Swartz, Sr. would soon hire nearly a dozen tailors to help with the work to satisfy the clothing styles of “the most select dressers in this part of the country” (Spirit Special Industrial Edition, May, 1900).

Within five years, the first building was too small and inadequate for the volume of business he had. His new building would house his family living quarters on the second floor and his tailoring shop on the ground floor.

Among the increasing number of new business buildings in the downtown, Swartz’s choice was a unique architectural style in the landscape for the late 19th century. Identified as the Second Empire Style of architecture, it was unique for its roof.

The roof was characterized by steep sides with dormer windows. Centering the roof was a “tower” capped by the rich ornamentation of wrought iron as a finishing touch. The steep, angled roof was named - Continued on page 10

Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor The People and Their Government

By Pew Research Center Publications y almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days. A new Pew Research Center survey finds a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government — a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials.

Rather than an activist government to deal with the nation’s top problems, the public now wants government reformed and growing numbers want its power curtailed.

With the exception of greater regulation of major financial institutions, there is less of an appetite for government solutions to the nation’s problems — including more government control over the economy — than there was when Barack Obama first took office.

The public’s hostility toward government seems likely to be an important election issue favoring the Republicans this fall.

However, the Democrats can take some solace in the fact that neither party can be confident that they have the advantage among such a disillusioned electorate. Favorable ratings for both major parties, as well as for Congress, have reached record lows while opposition to congressional incumbents, already approaching an all-time high, continues to climb.

The Tea Party movement, which has a small but fervent anti-government constituency, could be a wild card in this election. On one hand, its sympathizers are highly energized and inclined to vote Republican this fall. On the other, many Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the Tea Party represents their point of view better than does the GOP. Just 22% say they can trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time, among the lowest measures in half a century. About the same percentage (19%) says they are “basically content” with the federal government, which is largely unchanged from 2006 and 2007, but lower than a decade ago.

Opinions about elected officials are particularly poor. In a follow-up survey in early April, just 25% expressed a favorable opinion of Congress, which was virtually unchanged from March (26%), prior to passage of the health care reform bill. This is the lowest favorable rating for Congress in a quarter century of Pew Research Center surveys. Over the last year, favorable opinions of Congress have declined by half — from 50% to 25%.

While job ratings for the Obama administration are mostly negative, they are much more positive than the ratings for Congress; 40% say the administration does an excellent or good job while just 17% say the same about Congress.

As was the case in the 1997 study of attitudes about government, more people say the bigger problem with government is that it runs its programs inefficiently (50%) than

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Perhaps related to this trend, the survey also finds a rise in the percentage saying the federal government has a negative effect on their day-to-day lives. In October 1997, 50% said the federal government had a pos-

itive effect on their daily lives, compared with 31% who said its impact was negative.

Currently, 38% see the federal government’s personal impact as positive while slightly more (43%) see it as negative.

Along with the frustrated majority, which has remained fairly steady over the years, the survey also identifies a small but growing segment of the public that holds intense anti-government views. The proportion saying that they are angry with the federal government has doubled since 2000 and matches the high reached in October 2006 (20%).

Over this period, a larger minority of the public also has come to view the federal government as a major threat to their personal lives .

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Continued from page 5 say parents often select their oldest adult child, but that’s not always the person best equipped emotionally or organizationally to handle the task. And it can create resentment among other siblings. Similarly, naming all your children as co-executors can result in deadlocks.

Every family is unique and parents should consider their choice thoughtfully. Sometimes an outsider — a trusted family friend or a private fiduciary (an individual licensed in a county to act as an executor or estate trustee) — is preferable.

Beware of unintended consequences.

Drobny had a client who set aside $75,000 in her will for friends, family and charities, with the remainder going to her only child.

But when she died, the value of her assets had plummeted so significantly that once the $75,000 was disbursed her daughter received almost nothing.

In another case, Kotzer recalls a client who had dutifully taken care of her mother for years, while her sibling was largely absent. The mother wanted to leave nothing to the absentee daughter, but was persuaded to give a token 5 percent. The arrangement backfired. The devoted daughter, who was executor of her mother’s estate, became shackled financially for years to her resentful sister, who disputed every financial decision. In that case, Kotzer said, the mother’s wishes would have been better served by specifying a small, set amount for the distant daughter.

To ensure there’s something left for everyone you care about, be specific about your bequest; i.e. the charity will receive “the lesser of $75,000 or 20 percent of the estate.”

Many parents build incentives into their trusts for their children’s inheritance: reaching a certain age in adulthood, completing college, mandatory drug/alcohol testing in cases of substance abuse. Those can be worthwhile goals that keep young — or even adult — children from squandering their parents’ bequest.

But some take it too far, says Drobny. He had clients whose will stipulated that the first son to provide them a grandchild would get $1 million. The sons, both in their 50s, soon sired children. “Neither son had any business becoming a parent at such a late age, let alone ever,” noted the attorney, who said he tried talking the parents out of it, but they were adamant. The sons subsequently left the mothers of their offspring.

In another case, a local elderly woman had set aside part of her estate to care for her beloved pet dog until its death, when the remainder would go to her brother, a retired policeman in Ohio. The brother subsequently contacted Drobny’s office to discuss his sister’s money and property.

When the attorney explained that there was no estate to settle while the dog was alive, the brother declared the unthinkable: “He said he’d taken the dog out in the country and shot it.”

In their book “Trial & Heirs,” Danielle and Andrew Mayoras, Michigan-based husband-and-wife estate attorneys, chronicle the lessons learned from notorious estate battles of Hollywood celebrities, rock stars, athletes and political figures. Like the years of costly lawsuits stemming from rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix’s death in 1970 at 26, without a will. With his father and half-siblings locked in disputes over his

multimillion-dollar legacy, it took 34 years, many court proceedings and several million in legal fees to sort it out.

All of it could have been avoided, say the authors, if Hendrix had left a simple will.

Poor estate planning can drain families emotionally and financially. A little prevention — good planning, thoughtful choices and a clear discussion among family members — can sidestep an ugly aftermath.

As the Mayorases put it in their book: “The only good legal battle is the one that never happens.”

(Contact Claudia Buck at cbuck@sacbee.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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Continued from page 8 the Mansard Roof for a French architect Francois Mansart, and became popular during its time because it turned unusable attic space into a livable area.

The earlier “Swartz Building” now shows its age, years of use and reuse for over a hundred years. The flamboyant Second Empire style offered to Punxsutawney by Mr. Swartz has lost its luster by the removal of its “crown” of wrought iron and other architectural details.

After twenty years in his second building, Swartz purchased the John A. Weber business building on the corner of North Findley Street and West Mahoning Street. For years, with his men’s clothing business there, and succeeded by his son E. S. “Ted” Swartz, that building was Punxsutawney’s “Swartz Building.” It is now the building occupied by Fairlady and Company.

The unique building erected by the elder Swartz is better known to many readers as the location of The Smart Shop, where generations of the Pete family had been in business from 1912 to 1999 with their women’s clothing shop, children’s shop and bridal shop.

Originally founded by Abraham Pete, an immigrant from Lithuania, the business was named The Smart Shop in 1931 following a remodeling. A contest with a prize of $10 sought a new name for the store.

Three women had submitted the same name and the prize was divided among Mrs. W. G. Barclay, Mrs. H. G. Cessna and Miss Theresa Gigliotti.

One can look at a building for a number of reasons, for its use as a business site or a residence, and for its architectural heritage.

Punxsutawney has a number of interesting buildings, a rich heritage from the past.

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Try these interesting happenings in the Punxsutawney Area this month. n Eat Pizza—Raise Money: Help raise money for the Punxsutawney Area Community Center by eating pizza. Fox’s Pizza Den has made an offer to donate $1 to the Center for the first 1,000 pizzas sold during the week of April 25 through May 1, 2010. When you purchase a Medium, XL or a Big Daddy Pizza, the Center wins.

There is a double dare in this offer – if Fox’s sells 2,000 pizzas this week, they will donate $4,000 to the community center. So here’s your chance to eat pizza twice in one week and double the money for the Center.

Check it out at: FoxsPizzaPunxsy.com. n Fight Illegal Drugs: Don’t sit by and complain about the problem. Join the Mayor’s Drug Task Force on May 6th at 7 p.m. and help the work to illuminate illegal drugs in the Punxsutawney Area. Be proactive! The meetings are held in council chambers at the Mahoning East Civic Complex. Snake will be pleased to have you on his team. Contact the Mayor’s office at 814-938-2710. n Make Pasta: Saturday, May 8th, from 10 a.m. to noon, children ages 8 through 12 will have an opportunity to learn about the Italian Heritage of the Punxsutawney Area.

This is the fourth in a series of Heritage Workshops for Children, sponsored by the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society, and will be held at the Lattimer House, 400 West Mahoning Street. Children will be introduced to Italian culture, try their hand at pasta making and play games from Italy. The fee for this workshop is $5 for non-member families, $4 for member families, with discounts for additional children in a family. To register, call 814-938-2555. n Pull Tractors: The 9th Annual Past to Present Machinery Association Show will be held at the Ag & Youth Fairground in Sykesville on May 28, 29, & 30, 2010. The show will feature a display of farm implements, an auction of farm and shop related items, and pulls for tractors of all types: antique, garden, and even a pedal pull for youngsters. Tractors, implements, cars, trucks, and other equipment of any vintage are welcome at this show. Contact Show Chairman Dave Daugherty at 814-4272858 or docsezih@verizon.net, or Tim McGarvey, PPMA President, at 814-938-4804 for more information.

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WPC team members Pat Miller and Ryan LaRose are joined by American Team member Casey Cole for the performances on South findley Street in downtown Punxsutawney. More information can be obtained at: www.WorldPizzaChampions.com or by calling 814-591-1489.

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Concert Association Begins Campaign for New Season

atre company called Handsome Little Devils. The company was started in the year

By S. Thomas Curry 2000 by two brothers who took their street of Hometown magazine performance acts and creatively developed mong several Punxsutawney artsthem into a full stage vaudeville show they related organizations, the Punxcall “Squirm Burpee Circus.” The show insutawney Concert Association volves numerous stage props, costumes, continues the tradition of offering and skills in a high-energy routine that has local residents a wide range of enriching been described as “family fun.” This stage and music experiences. unique performance will The association began its subalso be shared with stuscription campaign for the dents at the Punxsutawney 2010-2011 season following Area High School through its very successful recent cona special outreach arrangecert featuring the tribute to the ment with the four-memmusic of Neil Diamond with ber performing team.

Bobby Bruce as “Nearly The second concert in the Neil,” accompanied by the series, on November 16, Solitary Band. will feature a husband“Looking back over many and-wife team of Eugenia years, it was recognized that Molinar on flute and tastes and preferences for enDenis Azabagic on guitar. tertainment have changed, and Named “Cavatina Duo,” the definition of ‘concert’ has they offer a repertoire of Cavatino Duo been redefined by the entermusic native to their tainment interests of the PunxSpanish and Bosnian hersutawney area,” commented Bessie Depp, itage. The numerous selections, including subscription chairperson for the Punxoriginal works, span sutawney Concert Association. classical, baroque, “For many years the support by suband contemporary scribers at various levels has allowed the periods from their association to book a wider variety of perhomelands. formances, even in The final conthe midst of a cert of the seachanging economy son, in March and some increas2011, will be a ing costs,” added special one S. Thomas Curry, with the appresident of the orpearance of a John Davidson ganization, which popular singer began in the of Broadway 1930s. and TV, John Davidson, who is reThe 2010-2011 membered by many for his television season will offer appearances as host of shows such as three concert perThe New Hollywood Squares, That’s Handsome Little Devils formances through Incredible, his own The John Davidthe fall and winter months. son Show, and many prime-time specials.

The season will begin on Tuesday SepAfter a few years with his own theatre in tember 21, 2010 with the arrival of a the- Continued on page 23

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1911. While construction had been completed and machinery was installed, the silk company had to wait for the locally owned electric company to complete its big project.

With help from friends in the business community, prominent young attorney Jacob L. Fisher, at age 26, organized the Jefferson Electric Light, Heat and Power Company in 1889. Conceiving the idea of electricity for Punxsutawney, Fisher is recognized as making Punxsutawney one of the first electrically-lighted towns in the state.

After 20 years at its original “power house” on North Findley Street, (opposite the former A&P store and now Tru Value Hardware) the company was expanding and moving to their new and modern $75,000 “power plant” near the Mahoning Valley Milling Company, then considered on the outskirts of town where the Nordstrom Brick Works was located on Gaskill

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pervision of an “electrical expert” from General Electric in Schenectady, New York. The transfer of power from the old power plant near the railroad tracks on North Findley Street to the new one near Gaskill Avenue was delayed until G. E. could send its chief consulting engineer to Punxsutawney to give approval.

News stories about the big project in late 1910 never identified the “electrical wizard” from General Electric. On Thursday, January 6, 1911, with the immense red brick building having been completed since late December, a story in the local newspaper headlined the wait with “START NEW POWER PLANT WHEN CO. EXPERT ARRIVES” and informed the interested public “the arrival of an expert from the plant from which the machinery, etc. was purchased is being awaited.”

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plasia, he was a mathematical and electrical genius with peers of the caliber of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. This immigrant electrical wizard was in and out Continued from previous page of Punxsutawney with only a slight menPunxsutawney on Wednesday from Lynn, tion.

Massachusetts, and it was expected he After Steinmetz’s visit in 1911 and the would arrive on Thursday. The brief news switching of the “juice” from the new story added, “The plant will be started power plant was made, the activity at the under the supervision of the company exnewly built silk mill would begin as the pert for the reason that should anything go second site to use the wrong the liability will new power, with the be with the company, Spirit Publishing Comwhereas if the plant pany in its new Spirit were started without his Building on North being present the local Findley Street the first. company would have Punxsutawney, too, no redress.” would introduce new It took until Novemarc lights throughout ber 1957 for Punxthe town, with “their rasutawney residents to diance over an area of learn it was the famous about three times as inventor Charles P. great as that of the old.”

Steinmetz who had (Spirit, January 9, 1911) made the visit in 1911.

For the people a century Steinmetz had invented ago, the town at night the turbine that had would be almost as been installed in the bright as the light of new “power house” of day. the local Jefferson As a result of the new Electric Light, Heat power plant built off and Power Company.

Gaskill and Altman avThat news was anenues, another event in nounced in November Punxsutawney history 1957 in the popular coloccurred. The electric umn “Spirit Rappings,” A contempory of Albert Einstein (left), fa- company reconstructed mous electrical “wizard” Charles P. Steinan offering by editor P. metz (right) of General Electric, inventor of and strengthened the L. Smith of The Spirit turbine generators, visited Punxsutawney in old Nordstrom dam for about local news.

January 1911 to inspect the installation of his it to provide water in the Frederick Fisher, the generators in the new power plant of the lo- boilers of its building, son of J. L. Fisher, or- cally owned electric company. something that was not ganizer of the electric company, had shared possible at its former site on North Findley a tribute to Steinmetz by stating he “practiStreet. cally remade the electrical world.” And he The dam waters would back up and obfollowed with these words that define an struct access to houses on the southern important event in Punxsutawney’s history: end. The residents there were using a foot“... a turbine invented by Steinmetz was inwalk to reach their homes. The problem stalled in the new plant. The turbine, which was expressed to borough council. Citieliminated the belt-driven screeching genzen F. L. Fisher, and head of the electric erators of that time, was perhaps the first to company, acted to solve the dilemma. He be installed in any generating plant.” agreed to donate the necessary ground, reCharles P. Steinmetz, born in Germany in quested that the borough grade the land, April 1865, was named Karl August Rudolf and agreed to provide a culvert for the Steinmetz. He came to the United States in water flow. The result was the opening of 1889, and began working for General Eleca permanent street to be named Zeitler Avtric in 1893. History writes that without enue.

Charles Steinmetz’s development of theoSometimes, too, there is a story within a ries of alternating current, the expansion of story, within a story-a new electric power the electric power industry in the U. S. in plant, a visit to Punxsutawney by a celethe early 20th century would have been imbrated U. S. electrical engineer, and a new possible. borough street. Local history continues to Afflicted from birth with a hereditary be interesting. physical deformity called hunchback, and ••• short in stature with dwarfism and hip dys-

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Punx’y Athlete Undergoes Rehabilitation at DRMC

By DRMC for Hometown magazine n the first game of her college career, Megan Sherwin, the freshmen strongside hitter for the Penn State-DuBois Lady Lions volleyball team, came down hard following an attempted block.

Despite the brace to protect her right knee, Sherwin completely tore her anterior cruciate ligament, ending her season.

Sherwin, a Punxsutawney resident, had played many sports and began her passion for volleyball in the seventh grade. That is why, when she heard a “pop” during a summertime sand court game months before, it did not slow her down.

In fact, the first doctor to examine her did not seem to be concerned, she said. He sent her for a single session with a physical therapist and told her that the therapist would let her know what to do next. When neither the therapist nor the doctor followed up, she just kept playing. Unbeknownst to her, she was likely playing with a partially torn ACL. She had played through painful injuries before – a dislocated ankle during track and field, stove fingers and other sprains during volleyball. This time, as soon as she hit the gym floor, she knew she would be in for surgery and months of rehabilitation.

A friend suggested that she see an athletic trainer in DuBois. The trainer recommended Dr. Gautam Yagnik, a new orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine at DuBois Regional Medical Center.

“He made me feel like it was the right place to be,” Sherwin said. “He took a lot of time with me and all the staff members were very caring.”

Yagnik said it is common for women to have ACL problems. In fact, several studies have shown that ACL tears are four-to-ten times more likely to occur in women than in men. “Whether it’s because of a woman’s anatomy, training habits or the mechanics of how they run, jump and land, women seem to have more issues with their

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Yagnik said that how seriously a person takes his or her rehabilitation determines how quickly they will recover. In Sherwin’s case, she can expect to be back on the court in time for next season. She started her therapy and went back to waiting tables just a few weeks after her surgery. Her rehab progressed quickly and she was running on the treadmill in just six weeks.

Sherwin will be transferring to Penn College of Technology to pursue a major in radiography.

Her long-term goal is to become an ultrasound technologist and help people like the healthcare providers who helped her after her injury. Her short-term goal is to get back on the court and help her new team win volleyball games. She is not worried about future injuries. She said her rehab has given her the knowledge to keep her leg muscles strong.

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Jobs 101: What Students of All Ages Need to know

By Marty Armstrong of Hometown magazine arlier this month, the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology at IUP held its 32nd annual “Business Day” for students and faculty. Great care has always been taken to get a high-profile business leader as a keynote speaker for the luncheon and

As we approach the end of the traditional school year, some time spent thinking about the major areas in which students need to be prepared for the next stage of their lives, whether it is jobs or additional education, might be productive.

Let’s start with technical training. In accounting, there is a concept called “internal control” which has as two of its main goals the safeguarding of assets and ensuring reliable and accurate recordkeeping.

One way to be sure the records might turn out to be unreliable and inaccurate is to hire personnel who just do not have the technical competency to do the job.

Employers may be willing to help new hires fit into the system, but not to begin from square one.

So we all get that having technical training is a good thing and that’s why many students enroll in college, to get that technical degree IUP students, faculty, and guests-Business Day 2010 in engineering, nursing or accounting to use as a springboard to employment. What many award presentation ceremony. Prior to the people don’t get is that students moving luncheon, students and faculty usually from one level to another can only succeed break into groups for individual seminars related to their major fields of study (accounting, finance, inf o r m a t i o n technology, etc.) conducted by guest speakers. Business Days have always been interesting and helpful. Last year, the emphasis shifted to the skills necessary to become employed. High on that Brushing up skills at the Eberly College of Business and IT, IUP list both this year and if the technical skills from the earlier level last has been networking, and I think we all are mastered well enough to move to the are aware of this tool to find possible job next. openings, assuming one is already techni- Continued on page 23 cally qualified.

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April 10, 1924 — Thrown from his horse last Friday afternoon, L. E. McGarvey, who operates a grocery store in the old Veil property, was seriously injured, sustaining a broken pelvis. The accident occurred on Main Street at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue. The colt, which Mr. McGarvey was trying to break into a saddle horse, became unmanageable near the street car track. It threw McGarvey into a somersault, and the weight of the horse landed on him.

(Big Run Tribune) April 13, 1871 — April, generally, is a month composed of showers and sunshine rapidly chasing each other, and offers a chill as communicated by the east winds. Proverbial wisdom takes, on the whole, a kindly view of this flower-producing month. It asserts: “April Showers Make May flowers.” The rain is welcomed. “When April blows his horn, it’s good for both hay and corn.” Now is there any harm in wind?

(Punxsutawney Plaindealer) April 17, 1889 — Rapheilo Granoto, a gentleman from sunny Italy, has established a macaroni factory in Clayville.

What is the use in importing this substantial article from Naples, when you can get the genuine thing right here? He will be found always at his place of business in Clayville borough on the Rosanna Carletto property on the Brookville road. (Punxsutawney Spirit) April 20, 1892 — Very few towns the size of Punxsutawney can boast of a public square; yet Punxsutawney has one and it grows in beauty every year. We cannot see much utility in it just yet except a crop of the best hay that ever came off any man’s field once a year; but when Punxsutawney becomes a town of teeming thousands, people who sweat and toil in the hat of a hot summer’s day, then will the generations to come after us see the wise forethought of their forefathers who planted the trees and cared for the park and gave them a breathing space.

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Jobs 101 Continued from page 20

I am finding with many of my undeclared business major advisees at IUP that there is woeful unpreparedness in mathematics.

Everybody needs to know that all business majors at IUP must take a series of math-related courses starting with calculus for business. Those with math placement scores not good enough to allow them to take this course right away are faced with one or two preparatory math courses which must be taken first: intermediate and college algebra. Many find these courses daunting and elect to drop one or both the first time, thus extending the time needed to begin the required math sequence which must be completed to achieve “junior standing” in the College of Business. It absorbs time better spent on other coursework, frequently with the consequence of extra semesters needed to graduate.

It’s not just the algebra and calculus, though. In my classes, many students simply have no idea how to work with decimals or fractions or even estimates, something they need to know before they come to class. They also rely on calculators for the easiest of computations and fail to notice a decimal or other input error leading to a substantially impossible answer. One has to wonder if other recent high school graduates have similar problems with numbers and how they can fit into workforce requirements. Whatever we as adults can do to upgrade what our young people expect of themselves in these technical skills, we need to do. “Getting by” will never be enough.

Moving on to the “soft” skills, as our Business Day presenters call them, they’ve been finding that communication skills are lacking and have a number of suggestions on how this problem can be addressed.

Young people who spend a great deal of their time seeing, calling, and texting each other can benefit from continued and directed multi-generational personal interactions. One idea which cropped up is the “not-for-profit” internship. Most people look at internships as the paid way to learn and get on the short list for future hiring.

They can be, and if such internships are available, one should try to get them. But folks of all ages benefit from networking, and a great way to network begins in high school when a student finds a way to share his or her skills with a group which has no financial means to acquire them professionally.

Computers and the internet are good examples. Many young folks know more than many older folks in this area. Is this tactful enough? Finding an organization in need of some IT help and volunteering time over a period of years strengthens a student’s ability to work well with others, to relate to people of many ages, to perform long-range planning and tasks, and to develop self-esteem. The pay might not be in dollars and cents but those folks running non-profit groups know a lot of other folks and can write good references when paying jobs materialize. The work experience itself can be a resume builder.

Regarding networking, one thing employers know to do is to look up job applicants on the popular social networking sites. Students need to know that anything a potential employer should not see should never appear on these sites. Years ago, we knew not to say anything on the telephone we didn’t want overheard. Now, we need to apply that caution to the internet. Employers don’t want to see tattoos or body piercings, silly pictures or risqué poses. It’s one sure way to not get that interview.

Marty Armstrong, Accounting Department Eberly College of Business and Informaion Technology, IUP •••

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