Paragraf report spans fires divorces and crimes in Jamestown area
A gutted Four Square Gospel Church at Ripley left the minister family homeless amid south winds and $6,000 plus damage. Rev Eugene Baucom and family saved only their clothes. The day also saw a Jamestown man die at a dinner, a divorce grant in Erie County, traffic fines, and civil notices. A $5,000 pool fund shortfall for Singing Hills Girl Scout camp and a Grandview Tavern fire at Clermont with multiple injuries were reported alongside college scholarships at Thiel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fite
Ripley
Eugene
Gene
Baucom
Janice
Terri
Severn
Grandview
Clermont
Kane
Frank Spachthols
Anthony Grandinett
Claude Slade
Catherine Spachtholz
Stowe Sues School Districts Over Wages
Miss Mary Stowe of Union City sues Amity Township and Wattburg Area School Districts for 3800 dollars claiming unjust dismissal after a September 1955 teaching hire. Her attorney says she should be paid for the contracted school year. Also reports of local injuries, a court audit, high weekend accident toll in Pennsylvania, and a national farm expenditure survey starting in Erie County with John Killer overseeing interviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jamestown Wiel
Chautauqua
Cattaraugus
Norman W. Janowsky
Jamestown Public
New York State
Jamestown High School
Mary Stowe
Union City
Amity Township
Wattburg Area
Miss Stowe
Angie Ruffner
Frederick Ruffner
Worth Street
Corry Memorial Hospital
Kathleen Kennedy
John Kennedy
Wayne ‘Street
Erie County
Pennsylvania
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of the Census
John Killer
Girard
Three Are Killed In Auto Smashups
Coroner Dr. Sherman Watson identified the victims as John Stino and Frank Stino two Moore Milk Company employees from Meadville and two grandchildren brothers and a sister of R D Pittsfield all involved in a Route 19 collision near Meadville. The crash wrecked a blinker stand and the car traveled about 175 yards before stopping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Orbanick
Navy
John
Frank Stino
Maury Awinokowski
R. D
Pittsfield
St. Luke's
Tevine
Buria
St. Joseph's
Warren
Crawford County
Sherman Watson
Lake Erie
Pfe
Daniel O'Shurale
Meadville
Moore Milk Company
Newspapers Hit Circulation High
Circulation of weekday newspapers in the United States and Canada reached a new peak for six months ending September 20, 1956, averaging 59,869,801 copies daily. The 1955 figure shows gains over 1945 by more than 8 million, over 1950 by more than 214 million, and over 1954 by more than 1 million per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Wind Rips Down Signs In Carry One Area Storm
Miss Blanche Estes treated at Stem Memorial Hospital Union City after carbon monoxide incident in a car stranded by high water in the Arbuckle region. Firefighters battled a chimney fire on Corry Spring Creek road as winds drove sparks toward a hay barn. Damaged structures include a 20 by 40 foot chicken coop at the Davis farm Spartansburg and a roof with shingles torn off. Tel evision aerials toppled as limbs fell and windows broke in Corry. In Jamestown two large plate glass windows in the Furniture Exposition were blown in by the wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Estes
Stem Memorial Hospital
Union City
Arbuckle
Roy Benton
Corry Spring Creek
Corry
Spring Creek
Davis Farm
Spartansburg
Jamestown
Cost Of Writing Letter Soaring
A UCLA survey by Dr. Edwin Keithley finds writing a business letter costs Los Angeles firms 1 to 1.25 dollars. The study covers dictation, stenographic work, overhead, mailing, stationery, filing, and related charges, noting many managers underestimate this expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Edwin Keithley
Business Education
UCLA
Former Store Mead Dies
R. Roy Williams, 73, longtime board member and retired president of the S. 8, Kresge Co., died Saturday in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Store Mead
Detroit
R. Roy Williams
Kresge Co
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Clio Berkhous
Mott Street
St Berkhous
Hammonton
Bracken
A and P
Arthur J. Dunderdale
Ira Lou Spring Post
McCulla
Dunderdale
Perscopal
Legion Post
James ‘Bird Mary O'Brien Dunderdale
M. Flickinger Company
Flick
Inger
Buffalo
Anna E. Dailey
Daniel H. Dalley
Jamestown General Hospital
Lloyd G. Bronvel
Bemus Point
Mayville
Hubort
Elmer Widlund
Broncel
A. E. Harry Johnson
Celoron
Erna
Nelson
Booth Center Street
John A. Nelson
East Bond Street
Eiig County
Florence Ro Tipton
Roy E. Mather
Earl T. Cherry
Rumell M. Clark
Cameron ‘T. Hoenes
Ernest W. Wright
Charles William Harden
Richard A. Fyfe
Columbus Avenue
Mary B. Matson
Wright Street
William A. Peiffer
Walter A. McCray
Fourth Ward
Frank 8. Bliss
Richard Andrew Mason
Howard R Johnson
Florence B. Holton
Francis Layden
Second Avenue
Elmer Evans
Erie
Arthur J. Phillips
Suger Grove
North Center Street
Melvin B. Cobbett
Girl Scout
Singing Hills
Cornplanter Council of Girl Scouts
of City
Clarion
Titusville
Thiel College
Greenville
Thiel
Elmview Jersey Dairy
Flve Rexall Drugs
N. Center
Reddy
Corry, Pa
Erie County Orphans Court
Orphans Court
Allentown
Leo al Co
South Center
E. E. Guignon
Plumbing
North Center St
Dodd
Bank OF Corry
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Big. Olor
Ohio
Hawkes Sota
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