Auto collision and service updates span a busy city day
A car driven by Patsey Notte rear ended Alfred Alk ens on North Center street due to brake trouble. Knox Glass Bottle Company elects Victor T. Norton as chairman of the board and executive committee. Norton is Ridgway native and North Western University graduate. Common pleas court grants 20 support orders in Erie with various weekly payments. Harold Chase and Ernest Platt receive adjustments. George L. Besson Transfer Co reports severe winter roads slowing a Boston to Cory trip, noting icy conditions on U S Route 20 and a large flock of geese injured after sliding on ice. A missing 6 year old epileptic boy is found after a search. Bell Telephone reveals direct dialing service from Pittsburgh downtown to 54 western central offices to extend to New Castle and Latrobe next May. Mrs John R Bensink reports brakes failure leading to a hit on a parking meter West Main Street. The broken meter is taken to police.
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Patsey Notte
East Main Street
Alfred Alkens
Grove Street
North Center Street
Alken
Victor T. Norton
Knox Glass Bottle Company of Knox
Mr. Norton
Ridgway
North~ ‘Western University
Harold Besson
George L. Besson
Besson
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
H. K. Gregory
Distrit
Atlantic
Court
Express
Grant
New Castle
Latrobe
John R. Bensink
West Main Street
Titusville Man to Get $9 160 a Year Post
George Hummer of Titusville will be appointed Pennsylvania director of the Farmers Home Administration. The post pays 9160 a year and Hummer is slated to take office January 11. No Senate confirmation required. He was recommended by county and state GOP leaders including Robert Kent M Harvey Taylor and Miles Horst.
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Washington
George Hummer
Titusville
Pennsylvania
Farmers Home Administration
Duff
Heir to 15 Million Estate Named in California Death
Mrs. Mollie Netcher Bragno, 28, of Chicago, becomes sole heir to a 15 million dollar department store on the death of her uncle Townsend Netcher, 61, in Palm Springs. She and her grandmother Mollie Netcher Newbury’s shares were to be divided, with Bragno to receive Netcher’s portion on his death.
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Mollie Netcher Bragno
Chicago
Townsend Netcher
Palm Springs
Calif
Bragno
Netcher
Mollie Netcher Newbury
Townsend Neteher
Infant Steven Allen Eston Rites Held at Clymer
Steven Allen Eston infant son of Mr and Mrs John Eaton Findley Lake died shortly after birth at Corry Memorial Hospital Private prayer services conducted at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer Rev Benjamin Hoffman officiated Burial in Pleasant Valley Cemetery Sherman Survivors include four brothers John Dale James and Thomas and grandparents Edmund Wright of Phoenix AZ and Fred Eaton of Phoenix AZ
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Clymer
Steven A. Eaton
Steven Allen Eston
John Eaton
Findley Lake
Corry Memorial Hospital
John
Dale
James
Thomas
Edmund Wright
Phoenix
Ariz
Fred Eaton
Spitzer
Benjamin Hoffman
Pleasant Valley Cemetery
Sherman
Hearing Slated for Braddock School Board Head
Rudolph Agresti Braddock School Board president faces a hearing after charges that he violated the State School Code by approving his daughter Dolores Matsey’s appointment as an elementary teacher last March. Patrick Hammill Braddock director and North Braddock Scott High School teacher filed the charge. Bond set at $1000 after his Saturday arrest. A Braddock School board faction claims only five of seven directors supported the appointment and three fourths approval was required for a relative. Manufacturers estimate about 14 million cameras in the United States are equipped for photo flash.
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Amuomcut Pittsburgh
Rudolph Agresti
Braddock
Agresti
Patrick J. Hammill
Scott High School
North Braddock
Hammill
Dolores Matsey
Mateey
I Emlenton Pilot Killed In Crash
The U S Air Force released the names of three pilots killed in a night collision over Tokyo Bay. 2nd Lt Kenneth E Hester from Em menton Pennsylvania 2nd Lt Willam C Rewards Beaucop TH and Capt Mulan Mosny Little Falls New York were aboard an F86 Sabre and a 733 trainer from Yokota Air Base. Bodies of two pilots were recovered as search continued for the third.
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Emlenton
Associated Press
Tokyo
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Tokyo Bay
Kenneth E. Hester
Jana
Floyd B. Hester
Emmenton
Willam C. Rawards
D. Edwards
Beaucop
Mulan Mosny
John Mosny
Little Falls
N.Y
Hester
Edwards
Mosny
35Th
Yokota Air Base
Choir founder dies in Pittsburgh at 77
Dr. Ernest Lunt founder of the Mendelssohn Choir and a longtime Pittsburgh resident died last night in a city hospital at age 77. He established the choir in 1908 and led it for decades, shaping the local choral scene.
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Pittsburgh
Ernest Lunt
Mendelssohn Choir
Closing Week of Prayer Service Draws 320 Attendees
About 320 people from Corry area churches attended the closing service at First Presbyterian Church. Rev J Leon Maneval spoke on The Future God Claims, with Rev Paul F Bauer hosting. Music featured the Presbyterian choir and solos by Mrs H P Mishler as readings were offered by Rev Russell R Merriman.
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Spyaven
Corry
First Presbyterian Church
J. Leon Maneval
Wayne Valley
Ice
Paul F. Bauer
Elimier R. Ortner
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Assembly
Russell R. Merriman
Church of the Nazarene
Presbyterian Church Choir
H. P. Mishler
Mrs. Mishler
Prayer Observance Closes Series With Fine Climax
The annual series of prayer meetings reached a notable finale as many attendees felt a fitting close. The Ministerial Association thanked every church pastor vocalist organist and choir for their roles in conducting the series.
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Ministerial Association
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Erie
Harold R. Chase
Ernest Platt
Spartansburg
Underwater Beauty
Gloria Bell
Ormond Beach
Fila
Silver Springs
Fla
Gloria
Stetson University
Horton J. Davis & Son
N. Center St
United States
Dodd
the National Bank OF Corry
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Briggs
Stratton, Clinton
Continental Motors
Cady & Collier
SEOUL
Philco
First Ave
Orrys
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