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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1954
Page
3
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The Citizens League Opposing Fluoridation in Oil City plans an injunction to halt the city’s sodium fluoride addition to the water supply. League leaders say a local attorney has offered help, with Newton White and Amsler to consult him. 35 opponents heard Dr Estella E Strotman argue against fluoridation while Oil City Hospital staff urged prompt fluoridation for dental health.
Emergency crews worked until early today to repair a damaged telephone cable in downtown Pittsburgh. The severed line carried 1200 pairs of wires and was cut yesterday during tests for a new State Office Building at the Gateway Center.
Erie officials freed John H. Rictor on drunken driving charges after Alderman Michael Kinecki ruled an intoximeter test insufficient. Rictor, arrested June 13 after his car struck Paul Lackovic amid a storm at 8th and Raspberry, faced testimony questioning the test’s conclusiveness. Lackovic remains hospitalized at Hamot.
Erie County superintendent Maurice Kolpien says about 200 Greene Township pupils will start around September 20 as the new eight room Greene Township elementary school opens, delaying fall classes which normally begin September 7. Seven one room schools will close and three others will be auctioned August 14, with buyers often converting the buildings into homes.
George Siedle of Lancaster has been nominated by President Eisenhower for the post of assistant postmaster general. A Republican, he is general traffic manager of Armstrong Cork Co. at Lancaster, and would succeed John C. Allen who resigned the $15,000 a year job on August 1.
The funeral was held at 2:80 yesterday afternoon at the Davison Funeral Home with Rev. H. Ray Harris officiating. Interment followed at Pine Grove Cemetery. Out of town relatives attending included Alfred Lasko and family, Mrs. Joseph Ei cher, Mrs. Violet Stewart and Ruth and David Stewart, Richard and Junior Beardsley, Harold Lewis, Eric, Cpl. Troy McElroy, and Camp Carlson, Denver. Also present were William McElroy, Cleveland, George Hunter and Alfred Schafetter, Pittsburgh, Ossie Holmstrom, Falconer, Morris Lasko and son Jimmy, August Lasko, Connellville, John Lasko, Edinboro, Grant Hunt, Centerville, and many from Spring Creek areas.
A lengthy list recounts visits and gatherings across Franklin Falconer and Aliquippa. Families including Cox White Wright Gustafson Stahlman Cochran and Sweet among others shared events at homes in Ravelin Hill Findley Lake Pittsburgh and Whitesville. The notices mention entertainments calls on relatives and a funeral service attended by Amos White.
A long list of neighbors and 4 H members visited relatives or hosted gatherings in the Clymer and surrounding areas. Highlights include the Clymer Bashful Hillbillies 4 H Club hosting a softball game and wiener roast for 21 members, and the Foster Ostrander Memorial Campship awarded to a Chautauqua County boy and girl. Gerald LaCross won the camp award. trips included Allegany State Park and Niagara Falls excursions. The notes also mention home visits, well drilling, and a move to Erwin Tennessee by the Stahlman family.
The bells tolled in Hiroshima as 8 15 a m recalled the first atomic bombing nine years ago. Mayor Shinzo Hamai led thousands at a memorial service, praying there would be no more war and no more humans atomized, noting his own proximity to the blast.
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