PRR Launches Huge Program Aims to Modernize Trains
Associated Press reports President Martin W. Clement outlined a $216.7 million program by the Pennsylvania Railroad to overhaul postwar service. Plans include 566 new Diesel locomotives 395 all-room sleepers 273 passenger cars and 4400 freight cars with updated features such as touch-activated doors fluorescent lighting more leg room and private compartments. Deliveries are expected by spring ahead of a future luxury liner style fleet.
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Associated Press
Philadelphes
Luxung Tinet
Pennsylvania Railroad
Martin
W. Clement
Clement
PRR
Jamestown Child Injured on Scooter Collision
Four year old James Dowdall of Jamestown was struck by a car while crossing at Kingsbury street and Prendergast avenue on his scooter. He sustained possible fractures in both legs and other injuries and was taken to Jamestown General Hospital by the Jamestown Ambulance Service. The driver was named William McCallum of Jamestown.
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Jamestown
James Dowdall
Kingsbury Street
Prendergast Avenue
Jamestown General Hospital
William McCallum
Service Held for Mrs. Geraldine Hulett
Fumeral services were held at Wattsburg Methodist Church at 2 pm Wednesday with Rev. Harold Burdham and Rev. Milton Thomas officiating. Burial was in Wattsburg Cemetery. Numerous relatives and many others from Corry Wattsburg and nearby areas attended including numerous Hulett Lindsey and Koford family members and friends from Erie Jamestown Cleveland and Columbus.
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Geraldine Hulett
Gerilding Hulett
Watts~ Bits Methodist Church
Harold Burdham
Milton Thomas
William Hecker
Veo Lindsey
George Williams
Donald Maroney
John Brown, Jr
Richard ‘Triscuit
Wattsburg
Franklin Yanger
Washington, N. J
Minnie Koford
Jamestown
Frank Schultz
Bradford
Lena Hulett
Smellsport
Francis Smith
Francis Smith, Jr
Pearl Smith
la Salle, Til
Gladys Cavano
Paul Cavano
Cleveland
Edward Morrison
Roy Morrison
Busti
N. Y
Clifton Koford
Clarence Thayer
Dale
Osborne
Arch Hawley
Erie
John Thompson
Paul ‘Priscull
Harley Marsh
Columbus
Corry
Sno Hulett
Dawson Hulett
Amos Williams
Don Williams
Merrill McCray
Harry Fairchild
Dawson Koford
Rudolph Gibbons
Watchmaker Joins Stahl Jewelry Company Staff
Edward Gardlitt of Aliquippa joins Stahl Jewelry Company as watchmaker after an 18 month course at Western Pennsylvania Horological Institute. He is a World War I veteran who served in the Western Pacific theater and was present at the Tokyo Bay surrender.
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Stahl Jewelry Company
Edward Gardlitt
Aliquippa
Gardlit
Corry
Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania Horological Institute
Western Pacific
Tokyo Bay
Local Social Roundup from Cutting Vicinity
Mr and Mrs Max Bemis hosted a steel demonstration supper with eight couples attending. Many neighbors visited and relatives shared events. trips to Buffalo and Jamestown were noted along with family updates and community gatherings across North East Findley Lake and surrounding towns.
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Cutting
Max Bemis
Atala
Jess Steel
Donald Willey
Wil- Tey
North East
Earl "Thompson
Arthur Wallace
Dayton
Bonne Cooper
Findley Lake
Robert Foster
Blownie Marsh
Harold Bemis
Find
Charles Pettengil
Robert Spoon
Ripley
Duane Bemis
Jessie Firth
Agnes Orcutt
Local social notes from Findley Lake community events
The column lists visits and gatherings around Findley Lake including soldiers returning from California August 18, furlough pending arrival, calls between neighbors such as Dunnawota Johnson Harris Camper White Locke and Estes, Bible study sessions led by Rev Milton Thomas and Prederol Bowes, and a Cutting town hall wiener roast planned for August 97 with Clyde Oburt Wright as chaplains. Social visits span Titusville Spartansburg Bolk Findley Lake and surrounding families with dinners and parties noted.
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California
Ores
Samuel Dunnawota
Ludwick
Johnson
Fred Harris
Union City
Clyde Courtwright
Milton Thomas
Prederlol Bowes
Lewis Locke
Spartansburg
Esther Locke
Bolk
Jester Camper
Gilo Buflé
North
Harold Bémis
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Garold Johnson
Robert Collins
Bruce
Clarion
Samuel Dunnewold
William ‘Neckers
Necker
Clifford Aikens
Buffalo
Aikens
Richard Wing
Ludwick Johnson
Carlyle Bemis
Ruth Ellen
Minnie Bemis
BF. Forker
Jey Lake
Frank Hapgood
M. J. Wallace
Theodore Vanderhoff
Allen Redding
Richard Skuse
Pindley Lake
William Gabriel
Roy Crosscutt
Farm Bureau
Norman Neills
Fred Wallace
Myron Wallace
Arthur
Leland) Swarm
Minnesota
Minnspar
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S. Center St
Powell
Center
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Chautauqua Region
HOTEL
Jamestown, N. Y
Harry Popney
Titusville
Lester Camper
Herbert White
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Carl Moreh
Mra
Clifton Cooper
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John Newhouse
Garl Marsh
Stanley Brush
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