Polio reports, Elks picnic, and local notices
Health officials report polio cases in the state with 273 total through Friday and 16 for the recent period, while noting no polio among 5,000 vaccinated children. Local events include the Elks summer picnic at Sekerak’s Grove and the Polish Club gathering at Royek’s Grove, plus police tackle several incidents and a Defense Department physician and dentist call for December.
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Penmsylvania
State Health Department
James
D. Purvis
Department
Health Conservation Bureau
Purvis
Pennsylvania
Elks Lodge
Sekerak’s Grove
East Columbus Avenue
Royek’s Grove
Air Force recruiter to visit Corry Post Office on Tuesdays
Yesterday's high reached 85 and the low stayed around 68 as Corry enjoys warm weather. M/Sgt. Carl R Hoff, Air Force recruiter for the area, says he will be at the Corry Post Office on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Contact him there if you are 17 to 35 and interested in enlisting.
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Defense Department
Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Carl R. Hoff
Corry
Eastward extension of Turnpike in use in Philadelphia area
The 16 mile eastward extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened linking King of Prussia with Route 611 near Willow Grove north of Philadelphia. Plans call for a further 6 mile extension to Edgely by October and a 1956 Delaware River bridge to connect the two turnpikes, reporting a 60 mph temporary speed limit. Also notes birthplace of Benjamin B Hutchiss inventor of the machine gun in Watertown Connecticut.
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Associtea Ress
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Turnpike
New Jersey Turnpike
King of Prussia
Willow Grove
Delaware River
Ohio
New Jersey
Thomas J. Evans
Turnpike Commission
Top Dairy Cattle In Area Listed
Hammond herd topped the area dairy test by Leonard Swanson for the Erie County Dairy Herd Improvement Association with a high cow producing 74.1 pounds of butterfat in 1,846 pounds of milk. The top herds were Allen Gates Stanley Baker N J Gates Howard Hammond and Ronald Webb with varying butterfat and milk yields.
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Hammond
Leonard Swanson
Erie County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Gates Farm
Five youths escape from Morganza School near Canonsburg
State Police and volunteers hunted today for five boys aged 16 and 17 who fled the Pennsylvania Training School at Morganza late yesterday afternoon. A posse of about 40 searched suburban Mt. Lebanon as four youths were spotted along Route 19 and the chase led to a car forced to the curb. Police Chief John Klancher of Upper St. Clair Township said the youths jumped from the car and scattered.
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Pr Associated
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania ‘Training School
Morganza
Canonsburg
Mt. Lebanon
Route 19
John Klancher
Upper St. Clair Township
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Ernest J. Wright
Rodney Fargo
North Center Street
Wright
Fargo
Center Street
Lawrence Nichols
Fifth Avenue
Church Street
Cinity
West Smith Street
Ray Weber
Civil Defense
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
West Washington Street
VFW
West Park Place
James MacInnes
East Congress Street
Wayne Brandt
Jennie Chase
West South Street
Townville Area
Raymond
van Slyke
Conneaut Lake Area
Carry
West Church
Union Streets
Harry Brown
Spartansburg
Stanford Hose
Junker
Brown
Boston
Roxbury
Mass
Erie
Schwarzzman
North East
Daniel Montgomery
Charles Jones
J. Davis & Son
North Center St
AG Corry
Hamilton
Teah, Inc
Corryites
Benjamin B. Hutchiss
Watertown
Conn
Loblaws
Edgebrook
Hamburg
Powell
Factory Fresh
Chevrolet
Thomas Motors OF Corry, Inc
Clinton St
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