Weather Mild and Local Events Highlight Rural PA News
February brings warmer weather and early birds while Crawford County residents learn of free chest X rays for those over 15 in a March to April health survey funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Crawford County Tuberculosis and Health Society. A tractor accident near Cooperstown injures Billy George junior. recovery may spare amputation.
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Crawford County
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Local children injures and scout week displays in town
Girard Ruff six suffered a right leg fracture after a boy jumped on his leg and was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital, later released. Patricia Miller four underwent X rays for a shoulder injury from a bicycle fall. no fracture found and she returned home. Boy Scout Week displays appear in local windows with Troop 1 and Troop 18% presenting crafts and camp scenes. Spar tansburg Hotel sold to Paul Allen of Tionesta. A 30 by 30 foot incinerator is being installed to burn mill sawdust at Thompson Maple Products East Washington street. Trinity College chapel in Hartford features wood carvings by J Gregory Wiggins a former classics schoolmaster.
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Girard Ruff
Patricia Miller
Jack Miller
North Center Street
Thompson Maple Products
Washington Street
Trinity College
Hartford
Conn
J. Gregory Wiggins
Bottlers Propose Tax Fight Over News Paper and Soda Levy
Port president of the Bottlers Association warned that a 1 cent per item tax on newspapers and a revived one cent soft drink tax would devastate circulation by 20 to 26 percent. He urged opposition in letters to Theodore A. Serritt of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, noting the industry’s fragile 100 year history.
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Bottlers Association
Alixon Tewspapers
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Bayer -Northumbermoil Land
Confair
Theodore A. Serritt
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Associaation
Tax on soft drinks and newspapers sparks turmoil claim
Associated Press reports Harrisburg observers say a one cent tax on soft drinks and newspapers would cause complete turmoil under fuel tax pressures. Z. H. Confair of Williamsport weighed in on the issue during the Keystone Bottles Association discussion.
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Associated Press Harrisburg
Keystone Bottles Association
Z. H. Confair
Williams
AFL READY TO OPEN NEW ATTACK ON THE LABOR ACT
The AFL plans closed hearings in the House under Rep. McConnell and in the Senate to pressure Congress. The strategy is aimed at increasing bargaining power, with demands including potential changes to Taft Hartley rules allowing closed shop contracts where workers must join a union to be hired.
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AFL
Howe
Senate
House
Rep
McConnell
R-Pa
Congress
Hartley Act Targets Secondary Boycotts and Union Access
The act outlaws secondary boycotts used to support affiliated unions in strikes. It also removes the requirement for union officers to swear they are not Communists before unions may use National Labor Relations Board facilities.
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National Labor Relations Board
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