Winters Bring Banquets and Meetings in the Area
One of those old-fashioned winters sets in as St Johns Day banquet at Masonic Temple and a Hotel Corry party loom. A Board of Education meeting will review bids for the proposed vocational school. Union City Christmas dance invites with Gregg Ott orchestra. Weather and heating issues plague City Building and basement boiler. Transit delays persist from the storm. County officials seek to remove the County Controller over a tuberculosis hospital issue. An Erie road accident and winter travel difficulties accompany a political note on old age pension plans in the Republican program.
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Harvey M. Wil Mw
Erie County Health and Tuberculosis Association
Erie
Willis
Driving Near Gas Trucks Warned By Revenue Secretary
Harrisburg reports a safety alert after several rear end collisions with gasoline tank trucks that stopped for railroad tracks. Harry B. Katodner cautions drivers to keep a safe distance, notes a $10 fine or five days imprisonment for tailgating, and recalls prior rules for buses, taxicabs, and trucks carrying explosives and flammable liquids.
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Harisburg
Harry B. Katodner
Secretary of Revenue
Iicles
Flood Control WPA Projects Expand Across Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports a statewide flood control program under the WPA, with 35 projects costing over 2 million dollars and employing thousands. York and Wilkes-Barre lead notable allocations to straighten and deepen Codorus Creek and the Susquehanna river, plus several county projects in Erie Warren Butler total modest sums to address waterways and dykes.
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Washington, D. C
Jones
Pennsylvania
WEA
York
Wilkes- Barre
Codorus Creek
Susquehanna River
WPA
Wilkes-Barre
Civil Works Administration
Codoruss Creek
CWA
LWID
LWD
Erie County
Woolen Mill Bridge
Wayne Township
Erie
Warren County
Columbus Township
Warren
Butler County
Cisiery
114000 Men At Work On WPA Road Program
Harrisburg reports more than 74,000 men were at work last week on two WPA road improvement programs under the Department of Highways. Projects include grading drainage widening curves and intersections sight line improvements slope cutting and roadside planting. Accident notices in Jefferson City Missouri recount seven autos colliding within minutes in downtown area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Department of Highways
Council to Close Year With Monday Session
Connell calls council meeting Monday to finalize year end business. Two ordinances, including 612 on appropriation, will be adopted after a 20 day table delay and the city tax collector’s share will be set. Incoming administration with Councilman Weaver to be inaugurated Monday.
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Connell
Wesnlon Murty
Counell
Coungimam-crest
Myed
Dantary
Air Corps Promoted to Major General Westover Heads Branch
President Roosevelt elevates Brig. Gen Oscar Westover to full command of the Air Corps with the rank of major general, succeeding Maj. Gen Benjamin Foulois who has applied for retirement. Eight high ranking officers receive promotions in the reshuffle.
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U. S. Army
Roosevelt
Oscar Westover
Air Corps
Westover
Benjamin D. Foulois
Emergency flares urged for road equipment after sunset
HarriseuFa reports the Department of Highways extends its safety campaign requiring vehicles with two tons or more capacity to carry three emergency flares visible for 500 feet for eight hours. If disabled, flares must be placed 200 feet ahead and behind, with a third flare beside the vehicle. Exempts lighter racks but urges extra precaution for all two ton plus trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Highways
Te Department
Storm Leaves Corry Under 2 Foot Snow
A powerful storm blankets Corry with near five foot snow on the level and four foot drifts in townsides. Street crews plow while autos stall and residents endure continued whiteout as temperatures rise from eight below zero.
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Corry
Reading Railroad to elect successor to late president
Reading Railroad Company announces board of directors will meet late today to elect a successor to the late Charles H. Hwing, president, who died a month ago.
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Reading
Philadelphia
Reading Railroad Company
Charles H. Hwing
Presient
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St. John's Day
Masonic Temple
Board of Education
Golden Rules Club
Parish Hall
Ralph M. Bashore
Labor and Industry
Wooslot
James ¥. Bogardus
Department of Forests and Waters
Western Pennsylvania
Bureau of Business Research of the University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union City
City Hall
Gregg Ott
First Ward
Frank T. Babbitt
Charles M. Hawks
Massachusetts
Townsend Plan
U. S
Williams
Borah
Townsend
Harry B. Kalodner
Penn’a
Edward N. Jones
Jefferson City
Council
Gotry
Edward Harrington
Inter Asternet
Gates
New England
Coats
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center Street
Will Goons
Wards
Supreme
Wards Silvania Prints
Silvania
Pinnacle
Montgomery Ward
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