Ground broken for Union City modern phone facility
Union City moves toward Direct Distance Dialing as ground breaks for a brick and glass exchange building costing about 60000 dollars. S W Phillips of General's Erie division announces plumbing heating and electrical contractors. The project total nears 400000 dollars with 225000 for dial equipment and 100000 for allied work. New ANC seven digit numbers replace old ones on July 1963 conversion date.
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Union City
General TelePhone
S. W. Phillips
General
Erie
Martin Estock
Scobell, Inc
Harman Electric
South Main Street
Phillips
ANC
Grape Pickers May Succumb To Machine
Westfield report on a new mechanical Concord grape picker built by Chisholm Ryder Co of Niagara Falls New York. S Sandfield area growers test the device funded by the New York State Concord Grape Research Fund on 45 acres in the grape belt.
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Westfield
Chisholm- Ryder Co
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Concord
S. E B. Keech
National Grape Co-operative Association Inc
New York State
Concord Grape Research Fund
Chautauqua County
Brocton
Fredonia
Dunkirk
Sheridan
Silver Creek
New York
Optical decision filter aims to guide robots and detect threats
A Western Electronics Show demonstration unveiled an optical decision filter that identifies 200,000 3D shapes with 400 retina cells and 400 brain units. Built by Sam S. Viglione of Douglas Aircraft, the suitcase-sized prototype could guide vacuum cleaners and moonrover-like Jeeps, while future versions may read fingerprints, locate storm centers from satellites, or distinguish warheads from decoys using signal patterns.
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Los Angeles
Tne
Sam S. Viglione
Douglas Aircraft
Astropower Electronics Laboratory
Viglione
Blue Face Yellow Hands Red Ears Mystery Medical Case
AP reports John O Toole a 32 year old Imperial Chemical Industries worker from Huddersfield turned blue yellow and red ears after exposure to yellow chemical. Doctors attribute blue face and yellow hands to cyanosis and chemical exposure but cannot explain red ears. He recovered after hospital injections.
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Huddersfield
England
John O’toole
O'Toole
Imperial Chemical Industries
Father Runs Over Daughter in Driveway Tragedy
In Uniontown Pennsylvania a car driven by Henry DeBerry 26 fatally injured Pamela DeBerry 14 months in the Evans Matlox driveway. State police said the infant wandered behind the vehicle as the father began backing out prompting the deadly accident.
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Uniontown
Pamela DeBerry
Evans Matlox
Henry DeBerry
Russia Builds Fortress Around Cuba Amid Cold War Tensions
AP reporting from Washington says fifteen Communist ships head to Cuba, joining sixteen vessels docked last month with 3,000 to 5,000 bloc technicians and large supplies including weapons. President Kennedy says U.S. has information of intensified Russian aid and possible Cuban buildup, but offers no figures and notes no clear invasion plan. Officials differ on Moscow’s intent, citing possible technical aid, economic revival, or covert expansion of communism in Latin America.
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Wasninuton
Cuba
Cuban
Kennedy
U.S
Caribbean
Aio
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Pure Reading Enjoyment on Tap Daily in Corry Journal
A brief note highlights daily enjoyment from reading the Corry Journal. Readers are invited to enjoy a steady stream of engaging content, with emphasis on local stories, features, and community life in Corry.
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The
Corry Journal
Youth Confesses to $2,550 Theft From Abbate's Grocery
A 16 year old, Paul McMahon, confessed to stealing $2,550 from Abbate's Grocery on February 19. He also faces auto theft charges. Detectives Seis, McCurdy, and Snider secured the signed confession at county jail. The suspect says the money was spent. He will be tried in juvenile court. calendar delays push the case onward.
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McMahon
Abbate’s
McCurdy
Snider
Edward Schak
Calpt
Carl Kalinowski
Yank Flier Freed For Reunion
Pope, once sentenced to death on April 29, 1960, was granted clemency and released after failed appeals. The State Department said his release would be kept secret to allow a quiet reunion with his family. Mrs. Pope described a six week reunion with her husband and two sons, Stephen and Lawrence, at a private hideaway before possibly returning to Homestead Florida. Pope had flown for the French in the Indochina war during the Dien Bien Phu siege and faced ongoing political pressure.
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Pope
State Department
United States
Old Municipal Building Fire Sparks Community Photo Series
The Journal today begins an interesting series of old-time photos. It features the city’s early Municipal Building and Knights of Pythias Hall, post office, and a fire set by an arsonist who later went to prison. Some buildings shown are predecessors of today’s structures.
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Knights of Pythias Hall
The
Journal Today
De Gaulle Dodges Bullets in Paris Ambush
President Charles de Gaulle escaped unhurt as gunmen fired about 150 bullets at his motorcade near Paris. A passing motorist from Civil Air Transport of Nationalist China was wounded in the hand. Police blamed the Secret Army Organization for the ambush while security officials vowed bulletproof measures for future trips.
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Iui Frese
de Gaulle
Civil Air Transport
China
U.S
Claire L. Chenault
Tuteror
Roger Frey
Glass
Col
Alain de Boissieu
Colombey-Les- Deux-Eglises
Secret Army
Algeria
Georges Bidault
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
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Buddy
Mall Loan Act
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Orai Sirns
IY Beneficial Consumer Discount CO
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Yank Flier
Gordon Dover Club
B.D
Oxford
Mitoga
P&p
Empress Mandarin
Pillsbury Flour
RED Wing
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Herb
Bob Frick
Reddy Kilowatt
East Tenth Street
Erie, PA
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