Mead Offers Mead Park Land For Postwar Swimming Pool
Corry Rotary Club members voted to back Glenn C Mead’s proposal to donate Mead Park land west of the site for a modern swimming pool. In a letter dated April 9 1945 Mead offers the adjoining property with pines a brook and springs and frontage on West Columbus Avenue noting city funds must be raised and a construction plan developed. The plan could become a war memorial per the American Commission For Living War Memorials.
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Corry
Mead
Pennsylvania
Glenn F. Middleton
Glenn
Mead Park
Columbus Avenue
P. S
American Commission For Living War Memorials
Amnesia Blamed In Scragg Case As Missing Dentist Remains Sought
State Police at Lawrence Parke and North East authorities say missing dentist Dr F S Scragg, last seen March 23, is alive. Amnesia theory dominates, with investigators discounting death by accident or suicide. Two witnesses positively identified him in a Westfield residence, while authorities trace his eastward travel from North East that night.
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Scragg
Wny
Lawrence Parke
North East
F. S. Scragg
Whey
Ines
Guy Guugestion
Thos
Che Main
Jentity
Serage Jota
Westfield Intehat
Meadville High slated for student strike over coach change
Meadvill e Pa April 12 A mass meeting of Meadville High School students followed two demonstrations by 300 to 400 pupils protesting the announced replacement of basketball coach Harry Dennison by Prestom Ditty. The student body warned the superintendent to resume classes or face suspension as they urged directors to attend today’s meetings and consider a community support plan including a swimming facility.
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Way Assuriaea
Meadville
Meadville High School
Staletic
Prestom Ditty
Harry Dennison
Bromley Case Tops Trial List in Erie
Approximately 10 cases head the docket for the grand jury in Erie on April 12 led by the murder charge against Frank Bromley Jr. The district attorney seeks an indictment, with postponement and venue changes likely. Bromley is accused of killing Naval Petty Officer Todd Wilkinson on Good Friday in 1949.
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Erie
Frank Bromley, Jr
Whitch
Burton R. Lalham- Houbeed
Bromley
Thougt Peti- Hong
Ted
Jesse Juillante
Paul Stephany
Hely
Todd Wilkinson
Romplube
South Penn Gas Strike Near Kane Field
South Penn Oil Company struck a second large gas well in the Guffey field near Kane. The well produced about two million cubic feet per day after drilling on Warrant 3084, extending the productive pool roughly 1500 feet south. Awaiting company plans on disposition of the gas.
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Hane
South Penn Ol Company
Weels
Kane Gunation
Guffey
Kane Aucbion-Bradford
South Penn Company
Bombers Hit Jap Train in Philippine Theater
MANTA, April 1. Fifth Air Force Liberators range over the Philippine theater destroying a Japanese troop train with direct hits. General Douglas MacArthur announced US air strikes against Hong Kong docks and rail targets. U S 14th Corps reports progress in South Luzon as Japanese resistance weakens around Tayabas.
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Manta
Tido
China
Douglas “Mac
Tayabas
Spain breaks with Japan over Manila consulate massacre
Spain announces severance of diplomatic ties with Japan after a cabinet meeting chaired by Generalissimo Franco. The communique cites February 12 attacks on the Manila Spanish consulate, killings of consular staff and civilians, arson, and extensive destruction of property, with 950 victims reported among those bayonetted.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Spain
Japan
Philippines
Francisco Franco
Manila
PUBLIC SALE NEAR WATTSBURG FOR SICKNESS AND DRAFT
Owing to sickness and army draft, Charles and Stewart Megullough announce a Tuesday April 17 public sale at 1 PM, two miles south of Wattsburg. Fifty-plus dairy cattle, hogs, hens, farming harness, machinery, tools, furniture, and household items to be sold for cash. Auctioneer Arthur Bosten, Spartansburg.
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Buell's Corners
Centerville
Buell's Corners Blacktop
Spartansburg
National Cash Register
Winchester
Trek
Ford
Frank Oltz
Ralph Martin
Arthur Scouten
Wattsburg
Beaverdam
Hinman
Charles and
Stewart Megullough
Arthur Beausten
Stefan T
Stock and egg market notes from New York and Buffalo April
The April stock market shows spots of strength especially for peace-rated issues with profits restraining advances. Bulls and bears eye postwar prosperity, while a long list of industrials and utilities edge higher on brief gains and expectations.
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New York
Mair
Medum
Associated Freay
Prosperi
Atlantic Refining
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Airplane
Science
Chrysler
Curtiss-Wright
General Electric
General Motors
Kennecott
Montgomery Ward Nations Biscuit National Dairy
Northern Pacific Paramount Penna Ror Penney Socony Vacuum Stend and Oil
Cali
Standard Fl
Studebaker
Texas
Westinghouse Electric
Youngstown
S&t
Service Alteners 1 Raved About Hawaii Return
A garbled item notes Don Tack and White, a gridder, with references to Philadelphia and a fridge. The readable text hints at praise for a Hawai i return and a successful gram project, but details are unclear.
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Hawai Is
Don
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Glenn C. Mead
Rotary Club
County Commissioners’ Booth Room
Court House
Turaday
Erie and Corry
County Board of Elections
Ralph A. Benedict
Thomas W. Flatley Dell Darling T. HL
Schaper County
G.U.M
South Penn
Kane
T.S. Kelsey
O.D. Optometrist
Center Bt
Leed
Charles W. Amy
Worth Street
Ralph Davis
Washington Street
Carl Chiri
Cunio
First Avenue
A. J. Aikens Motor Sales
Avenue
Stoe
Aula
Johnun Ata
Bea
Riverside
Cambridge Springs
Western Union
W. M. Anderson
W. Pleasant Street
W. R. Aikens
Don Stewart
Concord St
Auer Agency
Thiessen
Blakeslee Brothers
R. A. Sperry
Spring Creek
Hell
Rawleigh
Rawlelei’s
Dept
Chester
Penna
Akitehen
Cambridge
Care Journal
Sta
L. B. Ball
Union City
Sun
P.O
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West
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Alia
Three Cove
Ethel Murbeck
Clymer
N.Y
Loose Boy
Frank Cooper
Carter Hill
A Corry
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W. L. Armitage
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East Frederick Street
Earl Wickwire
Columbus
Abla
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Arden
Vigoro, Doane's
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Gary Bennett
West Smith
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Souttt Center
Fiske
Young Ville
West Washington Street
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Plessant
Y Tournal
Frank Hulett
Cutting
N. Y
Alist
American Union SS
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Pantigt
Ina King
Bowen
Eley
Ridge Church
L. Sill
J. H. Wright
Maetz
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Southside
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Gorry
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the Beaver
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