The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-10-12
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Harrisburg

AOHlptllrdllOH hoo bS'h
tho widow of an employe Of the Car
negie Steel Company, killed by light
ming while at work in one OF the plants
of the company in the Pittsburgh dis
trict in an opinion filed by Chairman
Mackey.
In the opinion II is stated When the
law OF particular State awards COM
pensation only to the employe when
the injury arises out Of the employ
ment, then 1t has become important In
case OF death or injury by lightning
TO determine as fact whether or not
the workman at that particular time
only assumed the ordinary hazard OF
the general community or whether the
nature OF his employment placed him
In position where he was unusually
imperiled"
There is an admission that the man
was at work when struck and as death
by lightning constitutes an accident,
the widow is awarded compensation,
including an allowance for minor
child and burial expenses.
The Compensation Board is declared
to have no authority to make an order
for payment by an employer OF one
third OF amount OF compensation al
lowed for loss of an eye, because,
owing to an injury an oculist estimates
that the normal vision Of an eye OF an
employee has been diminished one
third, according to an opinion by
Chairman Mackey.
The decision was an appeal by the
Pittsburgh a. Lake Erie Railroad In
the compensation claim Of Louis j.
Beck, one OF It's car shop employees,
whose eye was injured by dirt dropping
from the floor OF car under repair.
The man was able to resume work in
twenty days, but It was admitted that
his vision had been impaired one-third.
I'VE do not find in the Act any power
to graduate an award between provis'
ions OF the Act" says the opinion. III,
in this particular case, the lowered
vision has not reduced the earning
power OF the claimant, then there can
be no compensation based upon any
other consideration than actual loss.
Concerning the suggested award the
chairman says, "The board has no
power to make such an order, nor even
suggest such a disposition OF the case.
II, however, the defendant desires to
make such a contribution to the claim
ant there is nothing in the law to pre-
vent II from doing So"
Penna. Paper Supply Sure For Year.
Pennsylvania is one of the few
States in the Union which is in favor
able position in regard to its paper
contracts, and It will not have TO worry
for over a year TO come. It's contracts
were made a couple Of years ago, and
paper which is now selling In the mar
ket at $S, Is being bought by the State
for little over half that sum. This
favorable condition, which has brought
about condition, whereby paper peo-
pie are trying not TO sell to the Com
monwealth instead of trying to have 1t
increase its orders, is the result Of a
contract placed two years ago by A
Nevin Pomeroy, the State Superintend.
ent of Public Printing and Binding.
The officials have been endeavoring
to hold down the amount Of printing
required by the State government, and
when some chiefs, whose printing was
not contemplated when the appropria-
ton was made, started to make In
quiries, they found that Pennsylvania
was in a favorable condition as re-
CARDS paper, but in bad shape for a
printing fund. All that was allowed
for the State printing last year was
s40O 900. and out of this had to come
all of the child labor, workmen's com
pensation and State insurance fund
printing, none of which had been pro-
vided for when the estimates were
made. Orders have been given that all
printing must be held down as much
as possible and there will be less this
year than for long time.
Experts Begin Pine Rust Fight.
Five of the field men of the Bureau
OF Zoology of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture have started
making a systematic survey OF the
State to ascertain in what districts the
white pine blister rust is prevalent
and to take immediate steps to arrest
its spread.
Already there are six places in the
State where the blister rust has been
found on white pines and both the
Federal Government and Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture are making
every effort to stamp II out.
The fve field men assigned to the
work have recently returned from the
Federal Laboratory at Providence,
r. l., where they studied the habits Of
the blister rust and methods to be
used for its determination.
The men assigned to the work and
their districts are:
H. L. Backus-Blair, Cambria, Cen.
ire. Clearheld, Huntingdon. Somerset,
Bedford and Fulton counties.
Ira C. Cherington - Lackawanna,
Luzerne. Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike,
Wyoming and Columbia counties.
F. L. Holdridge--Bradford, Lvcom-
ing, Sullivan. Tioga. Potter, Mexican,
Elk. Cameron and Clinton counties.