Erie Mayor Surveys Downtown Traffic Congestion
December 30 Erie Mayor Barber conducted a personal survey of downtown traffic. He found heavy congestion and limited parking during the noon and afternoon hours as officers were reassigned to schools. Police Chief George Fhrigteph and Acting Traffic Captain Sam McDonald discussed the issue and possible remedies with the mayor.
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Erie
Barber
Barer
George Fhrigteph
Sam McDonald
Bar~ier
Baier
Biate Street
Fewer Employes In Pennsylvania Highway Dept
The Pennsylvania Highway Department reduced salaried staff by 475 from the prior year saving $161,833 in annual payroll. Hourly workers dropped to 24 646. December hourly payroll was $7 187 less than 1938. Salaried staff December 1 totaled 2414 with annual payroll $341 950, versus 2069 salaried employees and $473 784 in 1938.
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Harnessuis
Wee
Highway Department
Lamont Hughes
Franklin court revokes orders on Mrs Hills costs
A Philadelphia case reports Judge Bee A. McCracken revoking prior court orders directing Mrs. Mary Hills to pay prosecution costs in several cases. Attachments against her are suspended pending decision on her petition to be relieved from costs as no hearing has yet been held.
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Jexcuse
Franklin
Det
Mary Hills
Philadelphia
Bee A. McCracken
Brett
Ellis
Christmas Film To Be Shown In Salvation Army Hall
A Christmas film titled I Am the Way will be shown Thursday at 7 50 p m in the Salvation Army hall 21 East Washington Street Admission is free The event is the first of a 13 film monthly series depicting the Life of Christ and will run through the year
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Salvation Army Hall
East Washington Street
Christ
Palestine
Jesus
I Am the Way
Slaver Starts Parole Fight in Erie Hearing
Alois Schigler, serving 10 to 20 years for second degree murder of James Massing at a Wesleyville gasoline station in 190, seeks parole before the State Pardon Board in Harrisburg. Erie Assistant DA Burton R. Laub will represent the county, not opposing but ensuring information is available. Richard Heintz, also convicted in the Massing case, has already paroled. The February term of criminal court, with Judge Samuel E. Shull presiding, heard the case. Otto Herbst, then district attorney, and Edward B. Petrillo represented the defendants. Girls Eager to Fly. Simmons College students vote 11 to 1 in favor of an aviation course.
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Erie, der
Alois Schigler
Western Penitentiary
James Massing
Wesleyville
State Pardon Board
Harrisburg
Burton R. Laub
Erie Soijing
Laub
Attorney General of
Pennsylvania
District Attorney's
Pardon Board
Richard Heintz
Massing
Samuel E. Shull
Pike
Monroe
Otto Herbst
Erie County
Edward B. Petrillo
Young hunter waives hearing in Clintonville shooting
Akann D. Bins 20, of Clintonville waived his hearing when arraigned before Justice D. Blumathone. He confessed firing two shots at an object he believed a burk and fatally wounded 15 year old William Himes of Clintonville, a member of his hunting party who died at Kane Summit hospital.
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Akann
Gee D. Bins
Clintonville
William Himes
Kane Summit Hospital
Justice of the Peace
D. D. Blum Athones
Lair
Himes
Edward Metz Opens New Barber Shop on South Street
Edward Metz plans to reopen in Van Vleet George building on West South Street after illness. Me Mei has taken over the lease for the front store room of the garage building and is equipping the shop. Metz hopes to hold a formal opening early next week.
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Edward Metz
van Vleel Goorge
Wes South Street
Mei
Union City
War relics stolen from Swansea cannon cause mystery
Police probe the theft of two Civil War cannons weighing about a ton from Swansea Massachusetts. The weapons were trucked 15 miles into Cranston Rhode Island and placed on display at the public Abrasy site marked as a King Philip’s War landmark.
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Swansea
Mass
Cranston
R. 1
Plan drilling of wildcat well in McKean area
Oil field notes report a wildcat project in McKean county with 30 000 acres leased for deep Wells in the Oriskany sand at about 4400 feet. Foner Dy Hill of Kane plans two wells with equipment moving and aims to start soon. The Hiawatha Oil and Gas Company a Benedum and trees unit drives the effort near Sugar Run Road and Kinzua Corydon roads.
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ICANE
Music Mountain
McKean County
Oriskany
Hiawatha Oil and Gas Company
Benedum and ‘Trees Company
Pittsburgh
Sugar Run Road
Kinzua-Corydon Roads
New York State
Mallory and
E. A. Willams and
North Dakota State Flower Gets Praised as Prairie Rose
The article phrases North Dakota as the Flick end the wild prairie rose state flower, highlighting the plant as a symbol of the region and its natural beauty.
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North
Stricken Erie Bus Driver Dies After Heart Attack
Perry D. Barber, 70, bus driver for Ene Couch Company, suffered a heart attack behind the wheel at 9:10 p m Tuesday and died. The bus crashed into a front porch on East 1st and East 2nd streets, narrowly missing residents Mrs Anna Paasth and Mrs Kentrick. Michael Lynch, another driver, was uninjured as the vehicle halted after striking two homes.
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Perry D. Barber
Ene Couch Company
Eastend
Michael Lynch
Anna Paasth
East 2Nd Street
Kentrick
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Bear Lake
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Mabel Schreckengost
Spartansburg
Allene E. Corbin
W. Pleasant St
Gilbert Ton
Clymer, N. Y
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Beaverdam
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Spring Creek
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Nannuisburg
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Commonwealth
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General Assembly
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Slaver
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Boston
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