Local auto license forms, legal notices in brief
Local residents began receiving Bureau of Motor Vehicles license forms in Harrisburg. Fax forms usable after March 15 and 1950 plates illegal after March 31. A divorce complaint filed. A $1.50 farming tax refunds fee discussed as a barrier. Connecticut? (name unclear) Craker charged for failure of PA farmers to apply for refunds. State commission reports only 1 in 50 farmers claimed refunds from 1949 law. 7,617 recipients averaged 84.5 acres.
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Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Harrisburg
George Craker
Elk Street
Pennsylvania
Helen R. Craker
Joint State Government Commission
Roger
Local draft board clerk replaced after fall injury
Miss Marty Morrison, clerk in the local draft board office, is temporarily replaced by John Haughwouth of Wilkes-Barre. Morrison was injured last week in a fall down the steps between the first and second floor of the post office building housing the draft office, with leg complications keeping her away.
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Marty Morrison
Draft Board
John Haughwouth
Wilkes-Barre
School Building Plan Moves in Pennsylvania General Assembly
The Pennsylvania General Assembly considers a financing plan allowing school districts to use municipal authority to fund construction. Sponsored by Rep. McMillen and Rep. Madican, the measure would establish long range borrowing with municipality, district, and state sharing costs. It aims at helping poorer districts with a down payment and up to 20-year financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrusur
Pennisylvanis
General Assembly
William R. McMillen
Indiana
Albert B. Madican
Bradford
McMillen
Seven German war criminals to be executed at Landsberg
Frankfurt reports U S Army bans press coverage of the executions at Landsberg prison. Relatives may visit today before pre dawn hangings. Army spokesman cites orders from U.S. High Commissioner McCloy and Gen Handy with no comment on timing or clemency appeals. Also notes rail wage hour talks in Washington with progress reported by the National Mediation Board.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Landsberg
U.S. Army
Sale
Army
U. S
John J. McCloy
Thomas T. Handy
Europe
Republicans divided on foreign policy in early 1950s debate
In Wheeling West Virginia Senator Kilgore demanded proof behind accusations as Governor Dewey urged a Monroe Doctrine like global defense against Soviet aggression. Taft Hoover and Saltonstall clashed over aid to Western Europe while Wherry and Truman faced opposition over congressional power. In Pennsylvania a 22 year old man, Frank Gallo, was sentenced to three and a half to ten years for a shooting spree at a Masontown theatre last October after a gun battle with police.
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Pennsylvania
Senate
Ser
Montgomery F. Crowe
Monroe
Crowe
United States
Commonwealth
Darby
Wheeling
W. Va
Kilgore
D-Wva
Wisconsin
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
GOP
New York City
Western Europe
Taft
Ohio
Herbert Hoover
Dewey
Greece
Turkey
Oripat Vukoslvi
Egypt
China
Free World
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Truman
Stronds
Europe
North Atlantic Defense Force
Wheny
Nebraska
Pontiac
Mich
Congress
Wherry
Uniontown
Pittsburgh
Masontown
Western Penitentiary
Frank Gallo
Pennsylvanians face possible summer session on reapportionment
Harrisburg reports the 1951 Pennsylvania legislature may extend into summer as Sen. G Graybill Diehm notes final U S census figures may be delayed for months. Lawmakers plan to draft a reapportionment bill using tentative data and could adjourn to await full census results. If not passed, 1952 would elect all congressmen at large. The National Geographic Society is referenced as founded in 1888.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
G. Graybill Diehm
Lancaster
Senate
Diehm
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State Bureau of Highway Safety
Tionesta Dam
David Lane
Paradise
Edward B. Tarkin
Henry Hicks
Marion Street
Harold Bromley
Harold R. Bromley
West Main Street
Corry Hospital
Fort le Boe Memorial
Waterford
Ren. Stanley L. Blair
R-Eriei
State Museum and Historical Commission
Amos Judson
Fort
West Virginia
Cassius Fish
West Bend Street
Mercury
Sierra Cy St
Florida
Washington
National Mediation Board
Tolley
Clearfield Cheese
Crisco
Orchard Park Pears
Edgebrook
The
Irepublicans
Foster E
Davis & Son
North Center Street
Pharmacy
Saar OF Man
Thomas Motors of
Corry, Inc
National Geographic Society
Powell
Valentine
Guignon's
Sunbeam Toasters
MSDN
ELUM
Sims Desea Eral
Firestone Standard
Barney’s Firestone
Osu
Chiis
Yani
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