Fire destroys basket plant in Jamestown area
April 25 a two story Phillips Basket Company plant and a small building on Hamlet's Main Street burned with hose lines reaching to Conewango Creek. Firemen from South Dayton Cherry Creek and Gowanda fought the blaze nearly two hours. Losses not yet estimated. The basket shop employed up to 20 women. adjacent structures including a general store and Odd Fellows Hall were damaged.
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Jamestown
Phillips Basket Company
Odd Fellows Hall
South Dayton
Cherry Creek
Gowanda
Conewango Creek
Lawrence Shattuck
Ruttenbur and Hemphill
W. N. Bogue
Gas Company to Erect New Corry Warehouse Garage
Work is underway to clear the site for a Pennsylvania Gas Company warehouse in Corry. Contractor Arlo Williams has begun removing the old frame structure at East Smith Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. A 30 by 90 foot concrete block building will replace it, to be finished within 90 days per local manager L. L. Noble.
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Pennsylvania Gas Company
Corry
Arlo Willams
East Smith Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
L. L. Noble
Medical Missionary to Speak Here Thursday
Miss Fecker a veteran missionary to China for 30 years speaks at Evangelical United Brethren churches in the Corry district. She has lectured in Wayne Valley and North East and will finish with four talks Sunday including Findley Lake and Edwards Chapel. A special mission offering for China will be taken at the Corry service at 7:45 p.m.
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Mss
Reener
China
Churches of Evangelical United Brethren
Corry
Miss Fecker
Wayne Valley
Union City
Bear Latte
Findley Lake
North East
North Clymer
Edwards Chapel
Mark's Corners
Clymer
Tungten
Kwelchow
America
Extradition Fight Ahead in 35 Year Case
In Pittsburgh on Monday judge Owen M Burns will hear arguments in the extradition case of Leon Johnson a 35 year old Black man sought by Cobb County Georgia to finish a life sentence for a 1942 murder. Johnson escaped from a Georgia prison in 1943 and fled to Pennsylvania where he was recaptured in 1946. Georgia has pursued extradition for five years with Johnson challenging it in federal and state courts.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Owen M. Burns
Georgia
Leon Johnson
Sarah Bianell Thompson
Cobb County
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Red Cross 70th Anniversary Plans Named Co-Chairmen
Corry Chapter selects Mrs Mildred Alfred and C M Howard as co chairmen for the 70th anniversary observance. Tentative plans include a dinner May 1 or 22. Lou Hanne to attend aquatic safety school. March social welfare cases totaled 39. Treasurer Harley Johnson reports March receipts of 4 955 88 and disbursements of 308 90 leaving a March 31 balance of 4 566 98 available for general program.
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Red Cross
Corry
American Redl Cross
Mildred Alfred
C. M. Howard
Lou Hanne
Harley Johnson
Bani
Palmeri pleads guilty to parole violation in Mayville
In Mayville Aptusv George J. Palmeri 19 of Falconer pleaded guilty to parole violation and a three year suspended sentence was invoked by Judge Hugh V N Bodine. He had been youthful offender in 1950 after a grocery theft in Jamestown and the parole breach arose from a petit larceny on April 5 and 6. Palmeri faces classification at Elmira Reception Center.
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Mayville
Aptusv
George J. Palmeri
Falconer
Hugh V.N. Bodine
Jamestown
Palmeri
Elmira
Arthur Raymond Phillips
R. D
Dunkirk
Monroe County Penitentiary
105 Communities In State To Go On DST
Harrisburg April 5 Associated Press Daylight Saving Time starts in Pennsylvania at 2 a m next Sunday. More than 105 communities will turn their clocks ahead one hour though the state law of 1883 prevents official adoption. State employees and legislators adjust by reporting work earlier to align with DST. The changeover brings common DST questions and glitches. A note mentions a person who raises frogs for market as a yanaculturist.
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Harrisbing
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Emergency Defense Sum Approved by House Panel
Washington April 25 The House appropriations committee endorsed a 6.488 billion emergency defense budget and prepared to weigh a potential 370 billion military request. The package targets wartime Korea needs with most spending in May and June, atop 48 billion already voted for the fiscal year ending June 30. The regular military budget starting July 1 could reach around 70 billion, well above President’s January estimate.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Korea
Congress
Appropriations Committee
McLean Named AP Head After Board Meeting
Robert McLean, president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, was re elected president of the Associated Press by the AP board. He has held the AP presidency since 1938 and was re elected at yesterday’s meeting in New York.
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McLean
New York
Robert McLean
The
Associated Press
Philadelphia Bulletin
Dairymen to Receive 4 12 for April Milk in New York Milkshed
April district price set at 4 12 per hundredweight for farmers delivering to pool plants in the six state New York milkshed. Butterfat differential planned at 05 cents per tenth of a pound around 95 percent. Forecast based on 681 million pounds month output and 50 100 producers. Reports due May 10 with payments by May 25. Meanwhile Senate clerk William J Ridge seriously ill at Blossburg hospital.
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New York
C. J. Blanford
Blanford
Senate
Blossburg
William J. Ridge
Pernsylvania Senate
Blossburg State Hospital
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Odin Beautyrange
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