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Glenn Knarr

Published: March 10, 2010

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• The Shamokin Area Junior American Red Cross
launched its drive to continue through March 20. Elizabeth
Marcinek was the chairwoman.
• James McPhee, vice president of the Shamokin Area
Industrial Corp., commenting on a lull in the Jobs for
Men program, said, “There was an astonishing lack of
interest by small industries and stores in trying to reach
the $300,000 goal.”
• The Sunbury School Board was set to vote on a new
high school to replace old Main. The cost was a 1940s’
mind-boggling million-and-a-half dollars.
• The ashes of Major Gen. Uzal C. Ent were strewn
from an airplane over the borough of Northumberland.
Ent, a native of the borough, was the leader of the famed
raid on the Ploesti oil fields of Romania during World
War II. He died from injuries suffered in a plane crash.
He was 48.
• Coal companies in the area were not happy about Act
481, under which municipalities and school districts
could tax coal mined within the boundaries of their
jurisdiction. The coal companies said, “Don’t kill the
goose that’s laying the golden eggs.” Coal Township had
tried to implement the act the year before, but rescinded
it when protests grew.
• If roast Muscovy duck was your fancy, you could
get it at Shaffer’s on North Second Street in Shamokin.
• At Liberty Records, the top tune of the week was
“What’ll I Do?” It was an Irving Berlin standard by
Frankie Laine.