Police probe two truck shooting incidents in Ridgway area
State police in Ridgway investigate two shootings targeting trucks. One hit a Lafferty Trucking Co. vehicle driven by Franklin Mertz, and a second rig owned by City Transfer Co. of St Marys operated by Henry Friedl. A separate burglary arrest, tax price rise bid, and local notices follow.
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Ridgway
Lafferty Trucking Co
Altoona
Franklin C. Mertz
City Transfer Co
St. Marys
Henry C. Friedl
Funeral notices and local board actions in Corry region
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Bella K. Coyle at Bracken Funeral Home with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Grace E. Whaley was buried in West Spring Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Maude King Egolf, 88, of Indianapolis, died yesterday and was an aunt to Mrs. Bella Coyle. Kane Area School Board rejected a district wide vocational high school plan in a 6 to 0 vote. Venango Human Services Center discussed a shuttle service for employees and clients, while VAC questioned funding for a Snoopy van transport program.
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B. K. Coyle
Bella K. Coyle
Bracken Funeral
H. Kenyon Leishman
First Presbyterian Church
Pine Grove Cemetery
Robert Wank
Rene Counasse
John Mooney
William Donaldson
Melvin Cobbett
Jerome Davis
Corry
G. E. Whaley
Grace E. Whaley
Bracken
Joseph Bodie
West Spring Creek
Donald Whaley
Kenneth Whaley
Robert and
Merle Williams
Howard Johnson
William Mitchell Sr
Dorothy Whaley
Walter Whaley
Warren
Otto Teasdale
Meadville
Hazel Ayers
Erie
Blen Morrison
Tidioute
West Spring Creek-Corry
Maude King Egolf
Indianapolis
Ind
Egolf
Florence Hood
Lillian Powers
Bella Coyle
Kane Area School
Kane
Port Allegany
St. Marys
Smethport
Johnsonburg
Ridgway
Cameron County
Venango Human Services Center
Franklin
Roy Briggs
Ed Wallster
Venango Action Corporation
VAC
Wattster
Briggs
Death Toll Rises In Multiple Area Accidents
A series of weekend fatalities across Pennsylvania leave Ronald Curry 48 of North East and Joseph J. Woeckner 77 of Erie dead after a three car crash in Harborcreek. Woeckner died at the scene as a freight train struck a crossing incident near Ridgway. Robert Lee Gausman 20 of St. Marys died after losing control of a snowmobile in the Allegheny National Forest. A 16-year-old boy Mark A. Goreczny of Rouseville died in a wood and cardboard shack fire in Cornplanter Township. Thomas L. Rodgers 17, Franklin, was shot and killed in an apparent accident at a residence in Franklin. autopsy pending. John Shellenbarger 17 of Dayton, NY, killed when crushed under a tractor in Cattaraugus County. brother Thomas survives after treatment for shock.
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Ronald Curry
North East
Joseph J. Woeckner
Curry
Harborcresk
William Heath
Erie
Heath
St. Vincent Hospital
Woeckner
Richard Wagner
Penn Central
Voeckner
Ridgway
Elk County
Allegheny National Forest
Robert Lee Gausman
St. Mary's
Kane Community Hospital
Gausman
Cornplanter Township
Mark A. Goreczny
Rouseville
Goreczny
Dayton
Cattaraugus County
Harry Law
Thomas Shellenbarger
Tri-County
Gowanda
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Department
John
Thomas
Corry Native and Wife Commissioned for Foreign Missionary Work
Rev and Mrs Roger Fenton of R D 1 Titusville were publicly set apart for foreign missionary service at First Baptist Church. Appointed to Columbia with A B W E they will depart December 27 for San Jose Costa Rica to study Spanish then move to the Amazon River area of Colombia evangelizing and establishing local New Testament Baptist churches. Rev Fenton, born in Corry, is the son of Mrs Anna Fenton of 152 Mott Street.
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Roger Fenton
R.D.1
Titusville
First Baptist Church
Columbia
South America
A.B.W.E
Association of Baptists For World Evangelism
Fentons
San Jose
Costa Rica
Institute of
Deborah
Rebekah
Amazon River
S.A
Fenton
Corry
Anna Fenton
Mott
Bangladesh
Munich
Minich
International Red Cross
Chittagong
Bible
Association of Baptists For’ World Evangelism, Inc
Deaths G P Rogers 58 Mayville attorney dies in North Carolina
George P. Rogers 58 a Mayville attorney and longtime Republican civic figure died at 5 a.m. Friday in Carteret Hospital Morehead City N C where he spent the winter He served as second assistant district attorney in 1956 and as first public defender for Chautauqua County in 1965 His wife Mary L Warren five children and his mother survive Private funeral services are planned with Freay Funeral Home in charge Memorials may be made to Mayville waterfront development or a charity
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G. P. Rogers
George P. Rogers
Mayville
Carteret Hospital
Morehead City
N.C
Rogers
New York State
Chautauqua County
Town of
Mayville Central
Chautauqua County Bar Assas
Mary L. Warren
Key West
Fla
Peter W. Rogers
Cambridge
Mass
Anne Rogers
Center Harbor
N.H
Michael Rogers
Erie
Ellen Rogers
Boston
Susan Rogers
Fortuna
Calif
Freay
Nursing Home Bond Bill Faces Senate Vote in Pa
The Pennsylvania Senate may vote on a bill to finance repairs for substandard nursing homes via a 100 million bond issue, despite questions of constitutionality. Critics cite fire safety failures after a deadly blaze. a two track fight includes a separate loan plan through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority. The House convened in a token session as tax relief talks continue between parties.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Henry Messinger
Lehigh
Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority
Banking Committee
House
Shapp
Boyle ties to Yablonski murder case in coal union study
The article details an assassination plot linked to UMW leadership amid Pennsylvania coal country politics. It cites an alleged plan against Yablonski to stop him from testifying in a federal probe of union finances, with figures from District 19 implicated in funneling union money. A 1969 meeting is described where Boyle privately spoke with officials including William Tornblazer and Albert Pass.
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Pennsylvania
Yablonski
Boyle
UMW
Arnold Miller
Shifko
William Tornblazer
Middlesboro
District 19
Turnblazer
Albert Pass
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Cyclops Corp
Internal Revenue Service
Cyclops
IRS
Walter John McKelka
Cambridge Springs
Jack Holt
al Fox
Market Street
Columbus
Ervin d. Stanford
Cochranton
Mary Jane Dennis
Stanford
Grover Heffernan Jr
Georgie Y. Stanford
Pranklin
Jamesway
Reno
Weston
Sparta Citizens Committee
Spartansburg
Salvation Army
Key '73
Pleasantville
Shirley J. Mack
Elmview Jersey Farm
Paul Post
Bear Lake
Robert Jewell
Santa
Corry Y.M.C.A
North Center Street
Nta
R.D
Joyce Fenton
Becky
Debbie
Roger
Preston
Lancashire
England
Barry Levitt
Barry
Jack Baldwin
Levitt
Fanny
Candies
Fanny Farm
N. Canter St
Corry, PA
Grice Jewelers
American Gem Society
O Chang
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