Stove blamed in $9000 fire in Erie apartment
An overheated gas stove caused a Saturday afternoon blaze at a two story frame dwelling owned by Mr. and Mrs. Horace Mims in Erie. The fire left 22 people homeless, including seven children, with damage estimated at 6000 to the building and 3000 to contents. Mrs. Mims, home with five children, fled with the others after flames appeared on an exterior wall. All occupants escaped unharmed.
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Erie
Horace Mims
Mims
Bomb proof Pentagon ready in Maryland
Report describes a buried Pentagon complex in Maryland with 600000 cubic yards moved, a 25 foot wide curved tunnel to reduce blast pressure, a tunnel roof of similar height, a main chamber about 36 feet high, and three floor levels planned for the command post deep inside the mountain, designed to withstand a direct atomic hit.
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Maryland
May Force Amish To Change School
Jamestown reports that 16 Amish children at a one room Flat Iron Road school in Leon may need to join Pine Valley Central School District to meet New York State education standards. The Metropolitan Achievement Test, administered December 17, 1962 by Pine Valley’s Carl Stamp, showed the group scoring poorly with only three students meeting standards in some areas. State Ed Department directs local action to remedy the deficit as officials seek ways for the Amish to raise educational levels.
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Jamestown
Flat Iron Road
Leon
Pine Valley Central
New York
Flat Iron
Carl W. Stamp
Pine Valley
Stamp
State Education Department
Mr. Stamp
37 Cars Derailed In Ridgway Wreck
A twin diesel unit and 37 cars derailed on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks near Ridgway, blocking two B and O lines and a parallel Pennsylvania Railroad track. No fatalities or injuries reported. Train traveled from Brockway, Pennsylvania to Salamanca, New York. Rail service rerouted. debris clearance could take hours.
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Erie Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Pennsylvania Railroad
B & O Lne
Brockway
Salamanca
N. Y
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Miss Alida S. More to be buried tomorrow
Miss Alida S. More of Wattsburg died April 27 1880 at Corry Memorial Hospital after years of ill health. Survived by brothers William and John and sister Anna at home, another sister Mrs Elizabeth Howard of Lowville, sister-in-law Mrs Jason More of Erie, and several nieces and nephews. Body at Bracken Funeral Home. Service tomorrow at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev Harold Burnham. Interment in Wattsburg Cemetery family lot.
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Alida S. More
Wattsburg
Corry Memorial Hospital
Miss More
William
John
Anna
Elizabeth Howard
Lowville
Jason More
Erie
Jason
Bracken Funeral Home
Harold Burnham
Wattsburo
Wattsburg Cemetery
Colorado's Admission as a U.S. State in 1876
Colorado joined the United States as the 38th state in 1876, marking a pivotal expansion of American governance and territory. The milestone followed debates over governance, borders, and growth, shaping state identity and federal relations.
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Colorado
United States
Uniontown fire probing prompts union job session plea
In Williamsport Pa an 80 member United Auto Workers group urged Gov. John Fine to convene the Pennsylvania Assembly to address unemployment. The delegates at the State Educational Conference passed a resolution urging the State OFO Council to push for a positive program. Speakers argued for longer and larger unemployment benefits to meet the current challenge.
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Eves Williamsport
United Auto Workers
CIO
Europe base retention at talks halting near Berlin
The article notes ongoing secret sessions between East and West on disarmament with Red China as a guest. Talks stalled over Austrian independence and occupation troops, as Molotov and Dulles clash on conditions. The conference adjourns with no durable accord, while a joking line about an Arctic musk ox closes the piece.
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Red China
Berlin
Far East
U. S
State Dulles
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Austria
Oldest Townsend writer in U S dies at Erie
P J Barber 64 died last night in Erie Pennsylvania. A unique Townsend pension club newspaper columnist, he founded over 50 clubs in New England and wrote a daily Erie Times column since 1940. In 1995 he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Senate nomination in Pennsylvania. The article notes the origin of the term highball in railroad signaling.
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U.S
Erie
Associated Freer
P. J. Barber
Townsend Pension Club
Barber
New England
Erie Times
Pennsylvania
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