Woman Guard Takes Her Bed To Post Hole

Woman Guard Takes Her Bed To Post Hole By Associated Press. CAMDEN, N. J., Thursday, Sept. 20.—Too many callers kept Mrs. Elsie Barnabie, young looking mother of six, from sleeping as she lay on a cot over the pole hole before her home last night in her one-woman war against the Public Service Gas & Electric Company. It was Mrs. Barnabie's third night out. She began sitting over the hole at 2 p. m. Monday to keep the electric company men from putting a new pole in until they gave her $500 and firewood. She yielded yesterday morning, after thirty-seven hours, to her husband, whose legs, dangling in the pole hole, likewise were enough to prevent the insertion of the pole. Now they're taking turns. The neighbors and visitors crowd around at all hours of the day. They bring food and blankets, and build fires. The Barnabies say their lights were turned off while one of their children was ill. The company denies this, saying its records show service was cut off during the sumemr while the occupants were away. Across the street the Di Renzo family is divided in its sympathies. Denny, the father, likes the idea of blocking the company men and their big truck, but he finds his son, Joseph, a paralytic for nine years, cannot eat because of the excitement nearby. Joseph, 23 years old, has consumed milk only for the past two days.