Harry Smith Heads School Board New Directors Take Office
Harry B. Smith named president as the Board of Education organized with newly elected directors John B. Patterson and Dr. Calvin F. Bennett sworn in. Former board members held a final meeting, Superintendent Dewey reported progress and finances, and the board adopted meeting regulations while planning next steps including a solicitor election and a potential auditorium rental refund for charity events.
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Harey B. Smith
Board of Education
John B. Patterson
Calvin F. Bennett
Wal
Love
Dewey
Harry B. Smith
Patterson and
Bennett
Patterson
Smith
Amy
Paul Quinlisk
VF. W
Gerry
The
Post
School Treasury Balance Report Postponed to December
Harrison A Curtis shows the school treasury balance after November and December 1, with receipts of 112,520.27 and total balance of 51,390.10 including General Fund 1,990.16 Savings Fund 50,000.00 and Sinking Fund 4,900.10. Treasurer Curtis notes unpaid voucher AMR 8.70 and names J B Patterson and Dr Bennett as new Board members.
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Harrison A, Curtis
Charles H. Geiger
Kane on Trial in Virginia for Slaying Wife
In Hampton Virginia a jury was seated to try Dr Elisha Kent Kane University of Tennessee professor on a murder charge for drowning his wife Jenny Graham Kane during a swimming incident. The state seeks the death penalty and plans to present clam fishermen witnesses along with three Kane family members and Coroner Vanderslive.
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United Press
Hampton
Elizabeth City
Elisha Kent Kane
University of Tennessee
Jenny Graham Kane
Carmel
Injured trainman shows improvement after fall at Union City
Glenn Spencer of 209 West Wayne Street, injured when he fell from a freight car in the Erie Railroad yards at Union City Saturday afternoon, is reported to have spent a good night. He suffered a torn scalp and a concussion but has shown further improvement today. Spencer was a member of the No. 87 way freight train crew.
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Glenn Spencer
West
Wayne Street
Erie
Union City
Spencer
Way
City Council defers tax levy action to December meeting
City Council postponed formal action on the 1982 tax levy and budget to the second December meeting. Mayor Frank Z. England read a draft of appropriations showing no change in the 12.5 mill tax assessment and a budget within $600 of last year. He said readings for the levy and appropriations would occur December 21 with a special session the following week for final passage.
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Frank Z. England
England
Atteniion
Lie
Mayor
F. E. Westey
Former Corry Man Fined At Celoron
Dec 5 George McAvon of Busti, injured in a Lakewood road crash with an Austin coupe carrying five passengers, remained critical at Jamestown General. James M. Reese of Titusville received a suspended sentence for driving a overloaded vehicle. Eugene Heath of North Girard Pa pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined $50.
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Tamestown
George, McAvon
Busti
Lakewood Road
Weathilicott
Jamestown General Hospital
James M. Reese
Titusville
McAvon
Justice of the Peace
Charles Melvin
Celoron
Eugene Heath
North Girard
Austinater
Merlyn
Pennsylvania House Passes Talbot Direct Relief Bill
The Pennsylvania House approved a $10,000,000 Talbot direct relief appropriation bill amid broader relief and highway funding measures. The vote was 171 to 18 as administration opponents argued against constitutional issues and treasury adequacy. The bill would distribute funds via the state treasury to counties based on unemployment numbers.
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United Press
Hatrisburg
House of the
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Witkin
Philadelphia
Biyjmberg
Highways Committee
Highway Department
Appropriations
House
Department of Public Instruction
Talbot
Rop
Evans
Cambria
Delaware
Sarig
Berks
Sterling
Tyner
Reel
Af Dawuhin
State Grange Convention Opens at Dubois
About 1200 delegates from around the state attend the annual Pennsylvania State Grange meeting in Dubois. State Master E B Dorsett of Mansfield will deliver the master’s address and appoint standing committees. Mayor J Pollum welcomes delegates. Governor Gifford Pinchot will give an address tomorrow afternoon. Memorial services planned for morning. Conference to close Thursday after officer elections.
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Boa
Columbus
Pennsylvania State Grange
DuBale
E.B. Dorsett
Mansfield
Annail
J. Pollum
DuBois
Hill
Meneters
Grange
Giffard Pischiot
al Dleliver
Two Miners Die in Slate Slump at Footdale Mine
In Uniontown Pennsylvania today two men were killed when a slate fall trapped them at the Footdale mine of the H C Prick Coal Company. The victims were Kied Parnell, 45, father of nine, and Jacob Bly, 55, husband and father of four, of Lambert, Pa.
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Uniontown
Footdale
H.C. Prick Coal
Hoover Adopts Hoover Program Brief to Congress
Washington reports President Hoover’s annual message to Congress outlines tax relief over two years, emergency reconstruction corporation to extend industry credit, prompt release of deposits in closed banks, extra federal advances, home loan banks, railroad consolidation, anti trust reform, and broader regulation of electric power and public works. It calls for moving Shipping Board duties to Commerce, immigration law tightening, and veteran aid expansion.
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Recont Struction Corporation
Wits Tn
Agriculture
Finance
Jane Bral
Tari Reyle -Pwrttht
Herbert Hoover
Shipping Board
Congress
National Reconstruction Finance Corporation
30 Day Reprieve Granted To Russell McWilliams
Russell McWilliams, a 17 year old boy who killed a streetcar motorman, won a reprieve from the electric chair as his mother Maggie McWilliams and he plan his funeral. Governor Emmerson granted a one day stay of execution late yesterday, after tense moments in which the mother and son embraced and thanked supporters. A prior gas rate hearing before the Public Service Commission in Erie, involving Corry, Erie, Warren, and the Pennsylvania Gas Company, continues to hinge on the latest testimony and may be among the last held by the commission. A separate note states the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad directors omitted the regular dividend.
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Russell McWilliams
United Press
Joliet
Russell McWillants
Rockford
Moforman
Louis L. Emmonson
E. M. Stubpelfield
Russell
Maggie McWilliams
Emmerson
Meling
Public Service Commission
Erie
Corry
Warren
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Public Service
Shelby
Commission
Blaine Kincaid
Sammel L. Gilson
Eric Counsel
Publish Service Commission
New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Lenz Forgetful Bid Wins With Jacoby In Bridge Match
Lenz misbids in the third hand of the first rubber but, aided by Oswald Jacoby, still leads the famed match against Ely Culbertson and Jo Culbertson. The error drops their score from a potential win. final standings show 4,085 to 2,310 after three rubbers amid a media frenzy and crowd outside the room.
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H. Allen Smith
United Press
WRW
York
Sitmey
Lenz
Roy Riegels
Oswald Jacoby
Leno
Ely ‘Cullbertson
Jo Culbertson
Lena
Sidney
Tim Worry
Lenz Ny
Jacoby
Jgo
Hoover Proposes Tax Rise and Public Works Push
President Hoover outlines a two year tax increase plan to July 1 1934 and a large public works program. He urges confidence, credit expansion, and massive rehabilitation of business aided by railroads, while opposing direct dole and general tariff revision. The message signals a broad reconstruction effort amid Depression and political friction.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
Washington
Dec
Hoover Loday Abe
Congress
Alamost
Hoover
United States
Capitol
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Toba
Kane
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B. A
Grangers
Aterse
Kincaid
Lin Christmes
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