Erie News Ledger Highlights From A Broad Range Of Local Affairs
A wide Erie area update covers a boxing event where Just A eon Blakeslee won a $225 prize. four youths aged fourteen to seventeen detained over car thefts including a Nash sedan owned by Assemblyman Delbert Dalrymple. Federal Judge Vincent Leipell approves a $2.5 million Associated Gas and Electric System settlement. U.S. revenue totals and security transfers follow. Marriage license filings appear for locals in Edinboro and Corry. Agricultural reports show record crop yields with smaller harvested area. Funeral details for Marion Sutton held and burial planned in Sugar Grove. 9.1 million driver license applications mailed. renewals due February 1. Coal weight regulation enforcement to tighten after year end. Federal milk marketing order revisions eyed. local producers connected to Derrymen's League may be affected. National daylight saving time debate resurfaces as war measure. Christmas school program is postponed to Tuesday. Health posters from a local contest go on display at Carroll Beauty Salon. Rev. Richard Miller addresses Otterbein Brotherhood in the United Brethren Church. News also confirms George Rogers, son of Mr and Mrs O R Rogers, safe in Maui while attached to a U G Het ship.
Virgin timber areas at risk if Clarion dam built near Cook’s
Kane December report warns the Clarion river dam near Cooksbury would wipe out Cook’s Forest, one of the east’s finest hemlock stands, leaving only Tionesta and Heart’s Content natural areas. The State Department of Forests and Waters opposes the project.
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Kane
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Cooksbury
State Department of Forests and’ Waters
Clarion
Cook's Forest
Ludlow
Heart's Content
Sheffield
Cooksiung Bridge
Mill Creek
Clarington
Man Held After Auto Crash In Cleveland
Erie December 19. fiwarti un Makina of Cleveland was arrested Wednesday evening on aggravated assault and battery with a motor vehicle related to an auto accident on December 4. Held for hearing by Alderman William Heisler in default of $500 bond. Charges filed by Lloyd Long. Victim Mrs Rose Lone remains in St Vincent hospital with severe injuries from the Bestsarge Route 19 crash.
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Erie
Thompson's Borsoma Tablets and Golden Lox Tablets Ad
An old advertisement promotes Thompson's Borsoma Tablets claiming quick relief for mysterious aches due to clogged kidneys and urging use for headaches backaches and kidney cleansing. It also promotes Golden Lox Tablets for constipation with a brief call to buy at drug stores.
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Thompson
Rail traffic to peak as holiday season nears
Railroad officials report Erie and Pennsylvania systems increasing service to handle rising mail express and passenger loads. Through freight sections split into two trains, with mail and express often running ahead of passenger cars by about half an hour. Passenger traffic rises as university students return home. city nerves contend with mounting holiday volumes.
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Erie
Erie Firemen Seek Higher Pay Raise After City Council Decision
Dec 18 Erie firemen express dissatisfaction with a city council decision to grant a $310 monthly raise, short of their requested 20 percent increase. A large contingent from the local International Association of Fire Fighters met to protest, with a committee planned to present their stance to council.
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Erie
Imternational Association of Fire Fighters
Vity Pomethy
Two Youths Held After Auto Thefts On City Edge
State motor police detained two youths in connection with the theft of two automobiles on the eastern outskirts of the city. The investigation continues this afternoon as officers pursue leads and document the cases for charges.
War Department Chooses Chambersburg Site for Ammunition Depot
War Department selects Chambersburg Pennsylvania as the new ammunition depot site to be used for Army ordnance operations. About 200 to 900 workers are expected to be employed as the facility becomes operational, replacing an earlier Charlestown West Virginia choice after local protests and surveys around the Chambersburg area.
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War Department
Phils Jody
Conoral Aes
Chambersburg
Ordnance Ammumition
Opal Disling
Baubersbirt
Chirlustown
W. Va
Chamberebure
Charlestown
Administration Backs 20 Year Draft Compromise
The administration signals support for a twenty year draft plan to extend compulsory military service. Senate and House work toward a unified age bracket 20 through 44 for eligibility, replacing a 25 to 35 range. Leaders urge compromise to speed enactment and align enrollment with active service provisions.
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Washington
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Moys
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House
Preytony House
Liey
Three Held for Erie Burglary
Three youths are jailed in Erie after a burglary at Hurley's Barhog on East 2nd Street. The suspects Alex Solo, 19. Samy Treteoth Wy, 18. and Roger Meaniswer, 18, admitted breaking in and taking around 47.40 in cash and tools. They, along with accomplices Detren Ivey, Ed Roylert, Hank Lathe ringer, and Patrols James pilsnd and Andrew Kraus, planned the break-in with keys and a revolver in the establishment. The incident ends with the victim George J. Christoph dying later on October 2.
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Hurley
Stepen
Alex Solo
Gesman Streeh
Samy Treteoth
Roger Meaniswer
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Eon Blakeslee
R.D
Reg Theatre
Erief
Nash
Delbert Dalrymple
Vincent Leipell
New York
Thursay
Trustees of
Associated Gas A Eléctric System
Howard G. Hopson
Charles W. 1
Edinboro
Martin J. Robb
Corry
Neil B. ‘Thomson
Rhose A. McGrew
U.S. Agriculture Department
Marion Sutton
Clymer
Davison
Sugar Grove
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Corry and
William S. Livengood, Jr
Internal Affairs
Deasers
Livengood
New York Metropolitan
I. J. Dladakis
Mille Producers of
Coury
Weith
Derrymen’s League
Garry
Downey
Calif
Brewster
Maine
The
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Erie County Heattiy and Tuberculosis Association
Carroll Beauty Saloon
North Center Street
Ympus
Richard Miller
Liberia
Africa
Relda
Otterbein Brotherhood
United Brethren In Chirist
George Rogers
Cony Boy
O.R. Rogers
Mawail
U. G. Het
Ivirgin
Howe
Statien
Willwss
Nail
Council
Thomas Motor Co
Mat Aha Ld Rover
Rosemay Tablecraft
Collge
Giris
BAYON
Lace
Chenille
Lanston
South Center St
WAR Dept
Paul's Men's Wear
Brandon
Myan
Bunny Slippers
Cannon
Worth Center Street
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