Jamestown High pays tribute to 21 war dead
Jamestown High School and the town honored 21 former students who died serving their country since Pearl Harbor. In the school auditorium, students and military veterans stood at attention alongside seven current youths in the Army Navy and Marine uniforms. Herbert K. Anderson a radioman third class who survived four hours afloat after the Bristol sank during the Italy attack and Sgt Angelo Morganti a veteran of the Aleutian fighting were among the attendees.
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Jamestown
Tjamestown
Lenve
Pearl Harbor
Amy
Navy
Marines
Herbert K. Anderson
Mediterranean
U.S
Bristol
Italy
Sgt
Angelo Morganti
Blaze at Manion Steel Booth Sparks Roof Fire in Oil City
Fire started in a booth at Manion Steel Barrel Works on the Rouseville road about 10:55 last night. The blaze climbed an exhaust stack and melted it, then spread to the roof but was checked with only damage to the stack, booth, and nearby roof sections. No. 1 station firefighters used the new fog nozzle to control the fire.
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Manion Steel Barrel Works
Rouseville Road
No. 1
Cousins Contest Will At Olean In Probate Action
Eleven cousins contest the will of Ernest B. Tate owner of Central Cleaners in North Union as they claim he was of unsound mind and pressured to sign while in St Pranels hospital. Attorney F Ruel Chant outlines the orphaned youth’s rise from Italian orphanage to businessman and alleges undue influence by Raymond Forsch and Domenic Denapoli during hospital confinement.
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Little Valley
Ernest B. Tate
Olean
Tallor
St. Pranels' Hospital
Tess
Tn Supreme Court
George A. Larkin
F. Ruel Chant
Randolph
Raymond D. Forsch
Domenic Denapoli
Belne
Mr. Chant
Drunken driver in ditch near Titusville jail
A Union City man driving on McKinney road south of Titusville lost control and wrecked his car in a ditch. Passersby alerted state police from Franklin and Titusville ambulance crew transported the inebriate to Franklin jail as he sobers up, while residents wonder what happened.
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Titusville
Pram Yin
McKinney Road
Union City
Frank Mn
Notice to Spartansburg Electric Consumers
Electrics by consumers in the Spartansburg district are to pay their bills for November service to Mrs Iga King Bowen H D Carpenter advats.
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Spartansburg
Iga King Bowen
H. D. Carpenter
Occupational tax for county may come back in 1960
Erie residents could face a revived county occupation tax in 1960 as county assessor John Pokorski notes Pennsylvania’s new assessment law may require it. The tax was abolished a year earlier after a survey found it mainly hit real estate owners, and officials debated how to enforce nonproperty payments.
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Erie
Dec
John Pokorski
Pokorski
Pennsylvania
Rem County
Jacob Hela
Franklin Youth Die in Rio de Janeiro Navy Crash
Donald Waller former Franklin resident and U S Navy aviation radio man died in a Rio de Janeiro crash on November 19 as a Navy transport aircraft went down in dense fog. His parents Mr and Mrs Carl Pulter of Port Arthur Texas are visiting in Peniklit. News of the death reached Franklin two weeks ago.
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Franklin
Rio DE Janeiro
Dec
Donald
Waller
U.S. Navy
Brazil
Ik Parente
Jamie B. Dons
U.S. N
U. S. Navy
Neu Rio
Pulter
Mtr
Mraclall P. Pulter
Port Arthur
Tex
Peniklit
Erie Schools Probe Clears One Teacher in Beating Case
Erie Superintendent C Herman Grose said a probe into alleged student beating at East High will finish soon. He noted evidence targets one teacher and found no severe beating, though many students reportedly received unwarranted paddlings from one Weicher. A historical line about Lady Jane Grey follows.
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East High School
C. Herman Grose
Erie
Grose
Mr. Grose
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Jamestown High
Oil City
Manion Barrel Works
Jane Grey
Engand
AG O
Hetty Fair
Krafts
Welch’s
Kellogg’s
Corn Flakes
Florida
DUFFS
Juicy
SHE
Coca-Cola Company
Erie Coca-Cola Bottling Company
24Th and
State Street
Coca Cola
Gay D’orsays
Cortland
Montgomery Ward Ward
Eper
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