President Roosevelt to get unique invitation for 50th Anniversary Johnstown Flood. Washington, , June 30. Senator Joseph Guffey, (D. Pa.) today received from the Johnstown, Pa. quintuplets a unique invitation which he was asked to present to President Roosevelt requesting his attendance at the 50th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The girls represented the sponsors of a golden jubilee of the flood which will open National Flood Control Week, May 31, 1939. In the photograph, left to right: Enid Koontz, representing Flood; Anna C. Taylor, as Do Nothing; Sen. Guffey, Eleanor Oliver


President Roosevelt to get unique invitation for 50th Anniversary Johnstown Flood. Washington, , June 30. Senator Joseph Guffey, (D. Pa.) today received from the Johnstown, Pa. quintuplets a unique invitation which he was asked to present to President Roosevelt requesting his attendance at the 50th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The girls represented the sponsors of a golden jubilee of the flood which will open National Flood Control Week, May 31, 1939. In the photograph, left to right: Enid Koontz, representing Flood; Anna C. Taylor, as Do Nothing; Sen. Guffey, Eleanor Oliver, as Growth; Betty A Kenner, as Fellowship; Gloria Geis, as Mercy, 6/30/38


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