75 Years Ago

Herald of April 29, 1948

A large barn fire at the George B. Wineland farm was discovered by Don Slep, manager of the Blair County Airport, as he was circling over the airport with a student pilot. He landed the plane on the end of the runway, and while James Brady of Altoona ran across the field to the barn, Slep taxied the plane to the administration building and called in the alarm. Firemen used a collapsible canvas tank for the first time, with Ritchey’s Dairy trucks and New Enterprise Stone and Lime concrete mixers hauling water to the tank.

Dr. Calvert N. Ellis, president of Juniata college in Huntingdon, was appointed to make a two month survey of the European relief projects of the Church of the Brethren over the summer. He and his wife were scheduled to leave on July 3 on the S.S. Mauretania.

Judge George G. Patterson has returned to Blair County from Atlantic City where he had been recuperating after being overcome by carbon monoxide gas in his home on January 6.