Chest X Rays Set Next Week in County Schools
The Erie County Health and Tuberculosis Association announced a free chest X ray survey from April 30 to May 4 for high school students, athletes, faculty, and staff. Two units will visit Erie city and county high schools, plus Gannon and Mercyhurst colleges, in a weeklong campaign funded by Christmas Seal funds. A separate mass survey of adults 18 and over is planned for late May, with countywide follow ups in 1952.
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Erie Bounty “Health and Tuberculosis Association
B.S. Anderson
Pride
Anderson
Erie City
Gannon ‘Nd Mercymast
Exte
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Tuberculosis Association
Anderson Qaid
Paperweight accident during MacArthur parade claims life
Mario Riccabono, 47, of Astoria, collapses near the Woolworth Building as a paperweight from ticker tape celebration strikes him during the welcome home parade for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He dies from a fractured skull at Beekman Downtown Hospital. Police treat the case as accidental and investigate.
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Association Press
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Mario Riccabono
Astoria
Queens
Woolworth
Broadway
Park
Beekman
Mary Simmons
North Arlington
Judge Rules Mistrial in Free Work Probe
Pittsburgh April 25 Visiting Judge Warren K Hess declared a mistrial in City Controller Edward R Troy's ree work probe after three jurors said a mysterious telephone call influenced them Frey and his attorney Little denied involvement Little claimed sabotage Frey faced trial on charges of fraudulent conversion and misdemeanor in office pleading innocent
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Pittsburgh
Edward R. Troy
Frey
Little
Warren K. Hess
Berks County
New artificial hand developed by West Hazleton miner
Angelo Blasi, a West Hazleton coal miner, unveiled a pneumatic artificial hand with aluminum internals and knuckle joints, claiming 90 percent of human function and grip to hold ten pounds. He also patents two other inventions from his basement workshop, a burglar alarm safe and an electric nail file, due for market release.
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Associated Press
Hazleton
West Hazleton
Angelo Blasi
Ernst
Binsis
Miner-In- Ventor
Music group backs youth contest in Erie 1951
The Erie Music Teachers Association with the Erie Philharmonic Society plans the fourth annual contest for piano voice and orchestral instruments. Piano entrants study Grieg concerto first movement with cadenza, operatic arias for Yale singers, and string wind players select a concerto movement. Winners perform with the Erie Philharmonic under Fritz Malter next year. Entrants must be under 20 for piano and orchestral, voice aged 18 to 20, students of local teachers. Entrance fee is $3. Judges include artist teachers and Mr Mahler. auditions set for November. Write to Erie Philharmonic Society 320 G Daniel Baldwin Building Erie, envelope marked Music Contest.
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Erie Music Teachers’ Association
Erie Philharmonic Society
Grieg
Yale
Erle Phil
Harmonic Orchestra
Frits Maliter
Brie Ily
Erie County
Mahler
Willl
Arly
Lo Erie Philharmonic Society
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Barach’s Home Furniture Co
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Boar
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