Prisoners Want Coaxing as Work Returns Delay
In Erie County a bribe scandal over improper courthouse visits has prisoners avoiding return to work. Prothonotary William Liljenberg, seeking labor for a painter among the inmates, split with Sheriff John L. Coates over suspicions of rule violations. The board backs the trusty system, but no workers have come back, while in 1953 New York auto owners paid over 55 million dollars in registration fees.
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Luctant
Erie
William Liljenberg
Ag Trustees
Liljenberg
John L. Coates
Coates
New York State
Two ships collide in Delaware Bay injuring crew
A Navy destroyer escort and freighter collided about 15 miles northwest of Cape May. The Mormacspruce sailed under its own power with superficial damage, while the William T. Powell sustained a 10-foot gash and damaged propeller shaft. Two men were injured and treated at Burdette Tomlin Hospital. The Powell held 204 men, mostly reservists, on a Caribbean training cruise. The ships remained locked together for hours. cause was undetermined.
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Cape May
N. J
Delaware Bay
William T. Powell
Powell
Philadelphia
Efficor
William B. Jackson
4Th Naval District
Ronald A. Parker
Bridgeport
PRR announces improvements and rate cut for less-than carload freight
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Railroad outlines seven day movement of freight and six day service at main terminals plus free pickup and delivery in radio dispatched trucks. It will cut rates on less than carload shipments of 5000 pounds or more and form a traffic advisory committee of industrialists to study problems for shippers at major system points.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fred Carpi
Carpi
PRR
Nurse dies after Erie hit run crash in city
Erie nurse Rome Hartley 50 died at St. Vincent's Hospital eight hours after a hit-run crash at 17th and Peach streets. Sister Lillian Hartley 56, supervisor at Erie Veterans Hospital, remains near death. Mother L. Maude Hartley 78 injured. Ronald Gorzynski 23 of Erie charged with hit-run and involuntary manslaughter. The crash happened at 10:30 p.m. yesterday as the Hartleys were001
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Penny
Erie
Rio Amantatad
Rome Hartley
St. Vincent's Hospital
17Th
Peach Streets
Lillian Mabel Hartley
Erie Veterans Hospital
L. Maude Hartley
Hamet Hospital
Ronald Gorzynski
Hartleys
Man Arrested After Barroom Barter on Peach Street
A man involved in an incident on Peach Street was later arrested in a barroom at 18th and Parade after witnesses helped police identify him. Officers had been alerted to the scene by witnesses who provided the suspect’s description.
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Peach Street
Austin
Gorzynski
Keppel Retires From National Bank After 23 Years
Walter J Keppel longtime teller at the National Bank of Corry retires after 23 years of service. He plans to make his permanent home in Torpedo, with no successor named yet for his position at the North Center street banking house.
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Seppet
National Bank of Corry
North Center Street
Keppel
Torpedo
Boy Fatally Shot in Pittsburgh Suburb
Andrew Fritz, 12, of nearby Shaler Township, died at St Francis Hospital from a gunshot wound to the abdomen after police brought him to the facility. Authorities released no immediate comment on the incident.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Fritz
Shaler Township
St. Francis Hospital
Twin Strikes Idle 500 at Jamestown Plants
More than 500 workers at two Jamestown plants walked out at midnight after failed wage hike talks. Dahlstrom Metallic Door employees stopped work at strike deadline. Lundell Eckberg workers did not report for morning shift. Union officials argued for a 25 cent an hour raise and other contract improvements.
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Jamestown Jamestown
Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company
Lundell Eckberg
United Electrical Workers Local 307
Dahlstrom
Paul N. Anderson
Lundell-Fekberg
Churchill Party Gains In Election
London reports Conservative gains in County Council elections amid Labour claims of low turnout. Lord Woolton described results as encouraging and a rightward movement signals potential general election before October 1956. Counts show light voting across 20 counties with strike impacts blamed for newspaper circulation drop.
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London
Churchill
Conservative
Labor Party
Lord Woolton
Conservative Party
Atronal
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DR. Dewey Whitwell
Orla Bradford
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Tunnell’s
Otterburn
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Durham University
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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