Plan Pushes Public Vote On Six-District Merger
A Spartansburg area effort seeks a public vote to merge six Crawford County districts. Proposed by Spartansboro Sparta Merged District directors, the plan envisions a six room Centerville elementary school and a Riceville Corner high school, with petitions moving toward the Crawford County Board of School Directors or the State Council of Education. The measure targets Sparta Township Spartansburg Borough Bloomfield Township Athens Township Centerville Borough and the northwest Rome Township section.
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Spartansburg
Crawford County
Riceville Corners
Centerville
Spartansboro- Sparta
Crawford
Sparta Township
Bloomfield Township
Atheny Township
Rome Township
Richard L. Witmer
Marion Alshort
Dwight King
Crawford County School Board
Council of Education
Athens
Centerville Borough
Townville
Rome
Titusville
State Council of Education and Fine
Board of School Directors
Pennsylvania
Athens Township
Riceville Corner
Govt curbs on coffee trade move to Senate
Washington government regulation of coffee trading and speculation moved forward today as the agriculture committee endorsed by a unanimous vote a bill directing the Commodity Exchange Authority to monitor futures trading. The aim is to prevent further skyrocket price increases above a dollar per pound and the legislation goes to the Senate with approval indicated.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Aiken
R-Vi
Commodity Exchange Authority
Queen Elizabeth II welcomed in Australia by crowd and leaders
In Sydney the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived amid cheering from an estimated one million subjects. Governor General Slim, NSW Governor Northcott, Prime Minister Menzies and NSW Premier Cahill greeted them as the first reigning British monarch to visit Australia. The Queen expressed happiness and anticipation for her tour. Mae McCauley, 78, died of a heart attack in Punxsutawney after leaving a dinner honoring her son Louis R. McCauley as town man of the year.
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Sydney
Australia
Britain
Elizabeth
Commonwealth of Australia
Duke of Edinburgh
New Zealand
Harbor
William Slim
New South Wales
John Northcott
Robert G. Menzies
John J. Cahill
Mae McCauley
Louis R. McCauley
Slayer On FBI List Describes Cleveland Killings and Robbery
An FBI list names Apee Hamp Chapman as a top fugitive charged with a 1949 Philadelphia payroll robbery and the fatal shooting of his wife and another woman at a Cleveland party. Witnesses say he returned with a gun after a dispute, wounding two bystanders. Chapman has a long criminal record dating to 1929.
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FBI
Associated Press
Washington
Cleveland
Apee Hamp Chapman
South Carolina
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania State Industrial School
Ahab Chapman
Jamestown Capt. Howard D. Mosher Die in Japan Air Crash
Army Captain Howard D. Mosher of Jamestown, recalled for the Korean War, is reported killed in a C46 Commando crash near Hokkaido, Japan. The aircraft carried 35 American servicemen and an Army civilian employee. five crew members survived none. Mosher had served in Jamestown since April 1961 after assignments in New York City and Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Japan
Jamestown
Army
Howard D. Mosher
Army Organized Reserve
Air Force
Associated Press
Louise Tannuc
Albany
Hokkaido Island
Lahd
Tokyo
Mosher
New York City
Ft. Benning
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Riceville
Kent
Maine
Heliodore Cyr
Ledges
New Brunswick
Peoples Benevolent ‘Hospital
Marshall Sherwood Painters & Decorators
Wetherills
Tuffy
Kendall
Center
Washington Sts
J. Keystone
VanCise
Grano
Corry Murphy
Aluminum
Rayon
Mats
Buster Brown
ACK
Center St
Corry
Chapman
Colliers Radio & TV Service
North Center
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