Fires Level Shop and Barn In Titusville
A blaze gutted Walter Beeles’s workshop in Pleasantville early yesterday, with losses estimated at 1800 for the building and 700 to 800 for contents. Fire crews from Pleasantville, Centerville, and Spartansburg fought the flames. a later barn and garage on the Ray Mond Hicks farm in Rome Township burned to the ground. Minor damage to nearby structures followed, and the Hicks barn fire is linked to a string of undetermined origin fires in the Titusville area over eight days.
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Walter Beeles
Pleasantville
Beeles
Raymond
Hicks
Rome Township
Centerville
Spartansburg
Carry To Pick City Engineer Hearing Set In Erie
The council plans to cooperate with townships while a hearing on the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads application to drop one night shift at a First Avenue crossing is set for May 5 at the courthouse in Erie. Since 1952 the crossing watchman tower has been manned 24 hours. The railroads cite fewer early morning trains and seek to eliminate one shift.
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Public Utility Commission
Erie
Pennsylvania
First Avenue
Best of Friends Boxer Near Death After Brain Injury
In New York AP report, Charlie Mohr, Wisconsin senior, collapsed after a 165 pound NCAA bout with San Jose State junior Stu Bartell. Mohr underwent a three hour operation to stop brain bleeding and remains unconscious at University of Wisconsin Hospital. Bartell recalls they were friends and had exchanged boxing talk before the match.
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New York
Stu Bartell
San Jose State College
Brooklyn
Charlie Mohr
Bartell
Mohr
Wisconsin
Mott
University of Wisconsin Hospital
The Servant of the Lord meditation sermon
Lenten meditation on Jesus as the Servant of the Lord centered on Isaiah and Matthew. It emphasizes Christ’s mission to serve, offering his life for many and urging believers to imitate his humility and compassionate outreach to others in a selfish world.
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Jesus
Lord God
Art Metal Head Says Firm To See 1960 Rise
Jamestown Art Metal reports to shareholders an encouraging note on negotiations and plans to rebuild on a sound financial base after a loss of over a million dollars last year. Five-year earnings total 5,148,000 through 1958. 1959 net loss 1,570,000 with 1,117,000 in dividends. Retained earnings at year end 1959 stood at 2,461,000, 23.6 percent of net income, insufficient for higher working capital, building and equipment needs, and new acquisitions. First 1960 quarterly dividend will be omitted. renewal depends on first half 1960 operations.
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Jamestown
Art Metal
Falconer Stones
Jones
Erie Police Seek Youths In $300 Home Robbery
Erie detectives investigate a 60s era home robbery at the House residence where two youths entered when the wife was alone. They rifled a small change purse taking about $3 from the purse and fled. The assailants were described as about twenty years old and of average build.
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Erie
Erie Bondsmah Dun
Tnien
Herman Nowak
Robert Pletivak
Polley
Anly
Petition drive against highway plan gathers 5700 signatures
Erie citizens groups submit about 5700 signatures to the state Department of Highways protesting proposed north south highway sites. Attorney Barney Bernard for Hillside Boulevards and Triangle Heights says petitions acknowledged by Secretary Martin. Signers include city and county residents. Engineering studies for the Route 97 parallel location were due to finish at month start.
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Erie
State Department of Highways
Barney Bernard
Hillside
Triangle Heights
Par’ Martin
Hal Boyle's Americana humor bits from New York AP
A collage of Hal Boyle style quips about psychiatrists and patients. The jokes poke at therapy costs, misperceptions of doctors, privacy, delusions, marriage, and family tensions, reflecting midcentury American attitudes toward mental health.
Fragmented Thoughts and a Molten Fire At Ohio Warehouse
The text mixes a humorous self analysis about weight and neurosis with a confession about a husband’s hobby and a fire loss statement. A fire at Matheson Co. stored chemicals in Cincinnati caused about $1,500,000 in damages. Kenneth Hogg, the Norwich sales manager, estimated losses above that figure as chemicals ignited, likely from combustible substances.
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Cincinnati
Matheson Co
Norwich
Kenneth Hogg
Ta” Doflorete
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