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Victor Curfman of Altoona, formerly of Roaring Spring, submitted this photo of the Harris-Boyer Bakery drivers and delivery vehicles from Roaring Spring in 1940. The gentleman on the far right second row is Charles A. Stump Jr. Stump was the district manager for the retail division of the bakery based out of Johnstown. They were known for Bunny Bread and their distinctive "Johnstown Gobs." The term "gob" was trademarked by the bakery in 1927, when the bakery closed in 1980 the gob recipe was transferred to Dutch Maid Bakery. Stump and his wife Anna moved to Roaring Spring upon his appointment as district manager, where they also operated Stump's Store which was a popular place for students on their way to and from the Roaring Spring schools. The photo is from the Elmer Burket collection which is being preserved at the Blair County Genealogical Society Library in Hollidaysburg. Also shown is a vintage image of the gob wrapper which are still produced today in Johnstown.
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Local news on this date
March 21, 1951
Helen Lojan and her daughter Helen, 10, Altoona, were reunited with their husband and father Antoni after 10 years. While living in Poland, Antoni was pressed into the Russian Army until 1942, then he joined the Polish Army, fighting in Iran, North Africa and Italy, then to England, then to America on the SS Queen Elizabeth, then to Altoona.
March 21, 1976
Jeffrey Daugherty, 20, of Michigan and his girlfriend were arrested March 12 after a robbery in Virginia for two murders this month in Blair County. Victims were Elizabeth Shank and George Karnes. (Daugherty was later executed in Florida for a murder there.)
March 21, 2001
A bomb threat at the Blair County Courthouse prompted the Commissioners to tighten security but Commissioner John J. Ebersole said that "you can't make it a Fort Knox or anything close to it."
March 21, 2016
UPMC Altoona trauma experts were to start to administer plasma to traumatic injury patients while they were being transported by helicopter to the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Presbyterian to improve their chances of survival.
March 22, 1951
The Pennsylvania Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations had a program where rabbis in different cities exchanged places for the month of March. Rabbi Nathan Kaber of Altoona went to Johnstown while Johnstown Rabbi H. Green Perelmuter came to Altoona.
U.S. Congressman James E. VanZandt of Altoona called for Gen. Douglas MacArthur to come to Washington, D.C., to give Congress a full accounting of his conduct of the Korean War, especially his move into North Korea.
March 22, 1976
The Altoona Area Singles Club installed Paul Post as president and Genevieve Watson as vice president at a first anniversary meeting at the UVA Club and the Right Arm, an outgrowth group of the singles club, installed Jeffrey Watson as chairman and Susan Groskin as co-chairwoman.
The Youth Temperance Council, Carl Barr president, held a morning meeting at Jaggard Memorial United Methodist Church while the evening meeting was held by men from the Huntingdon Correctional Institution and Blair County Prison.
March 22, 2001
Charles Powell, the former owner of Right Turn, a former drug and alcohol rehab facility in Altoona, sued the city over a crime report that said the facility caused drug use in Altoona to increase due to bringing clients here from big cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia, who then stayed here to deal drugs.
Gregory Brandt, a 1985 graduate of Altoona Area High School currently living in New York and understudying for the Broadway play "Les Miserables," was in Altoona to perform with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, singing songs from "Les Miserables" in the auditorium at Roosevelt Junior High School, which he had attended.
March 22, 2016
Blair County President Judge Jolene G. Kopriva, whose term ended at the end of 2017, announced a July 1, 2016, retirement at the annual State of the Court Assembly, moving Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle to President Judge. Judge Kopriva had served for 30 years.
Penn State Altoona teachers held an "Engineering in Elementary School" teaching event for first graders at Altoona Central Catholic School, Sherry Buck principal and Mary Porta teacher. The ACCS teachers had also undergone instructions from the Altoona campus teachers.
National, world news on this date
March 21
In 1873, the Spanish National Assembly abolished slavery in Puerto Rico, then a Spanish colony; enslaved people were required to work for three more years for their former owners.
In 1963, the United States closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary; over 1,500 inmates had been jailed at the island prison off the coast of San Francisco, California, over its three decades of use.
In 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama -- this time under the escort of U.S. Army and National Guard troops assigned by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
March 22
In 1894, ice hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played, in which the Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Ottawa Hockey Club, 3-1.
In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation; it remains the largest capacity hydropower station in the United States.
In 1963, The Beatles' debut album, "Please Please Me," was released in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone record label.
In 1972, in the Eisenstadt v. Baird decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unmarried people had the same right to possess and use contraception as did married people.
In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.
Local news compiled by Tim Doyle. National, world news from The Associated Press.