City Council Warm? Skating Night Draws 300 Plus crowd
Clouds and mild air set a busy evening as local residents gathered at Bear Creek rink just after school let out. Vincent Bendix reported 1940 quarter shipments more than double 1939 as Bendix Aviation stock appealed to local investors. A missing First Ward child was found by a group of youths near the city park. Brookville authorities planned to return Charles LeRoy Porter for desertion charges. A state commission promised a 1941 relief report within a week, led by Rep. John E. Van Allsburg. A intoxicated Wotan caused a sidewalk scene in the city park, and a Plymouth sedan with PA plates 04-R-97 was stolen from Clarence Hines. Authorities urged better parking near driveways to ease blockages. Three more measles cases added to health rolls. Leo Perkins heads to Newport Navy training after Panam High School basketball. Navy recruiting open to men 17 to 31. Roads largely clear after icy stretch. defense classes at Haffen Vocational School progress well under Ralph Dewey, with instructors Freebourne and Alexander.
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Leo DeWayne Perkins
Arid
Alec Perkins
Bear Lake
Buffalo
Navy
Jamestown
U.S. Naval Training Station
Newport
Perkins
Panama High School
School needs of future outlined by Superintendent Dewey
Superintendent of Schools Ralph Dewey told the Board of Education of several future needs and new offerings. He cited homemaking, art, music, guidance, physical education, and remedial reading, plus equipment, grounds landscaping, and an accumulating building repair fund. He then described recent instructional offerings including consumer education, home problems for girls, half time shop training for sixth graders, high school guidance, math review, instrumental music for those with instruments, new first grade report cards, and expanded adult and vocational education programs.
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Board of Education
Sind
Juisior
Farmers Seek Beaver Control as Colonnades Flood Farmlands
Niobe January 10 residents near Pyjama five miles south report booming beaver colonies harming forests and flooding pastures and cellars. They claim beavers back streams with dams, deplete timber, and that state law prevents shooting them. A drive to amend game laws to allow farmers to protect crops and property is anticipated.
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Niobe
Suis
Pynama
Ins Arances
225 Enrolled in Emporium Evening School Courses
More than 225 workers from the Hygra de Sylvania radio tube plant attended the opening night of Emporium high school extension courses. Vocational classes in commercial and industrial subjects run three nights weekly, coordinated by C. W. Hudson. Sponsored by Pennsylvania State College the plant and the Emporium Board of Education. Students pay only for text books and supplies.
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Hygra de Sylvania Corporation
Emporium High School
C.W. Hudson
Emporiums
Pennsylvania State College
Sadig
Lube
Emporium Board of Reveation
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Brookville
Charles LeRoy Porter
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Elwood J. ‘Turner
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Nort East
Erie County
van Allsburg
State Assembly
Felice
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Hatley Drake
Pennsylvania
Clarence Hines
Focal Plants
Pullve
Lucille Lines
Lloyd Lines
West Washington Street
Rose Marie Davis
Hurth Street
Hafeh Vocational School
Ralph
John Freebourne
Orville Alexader
the Manufacturing Co
Erle
Alexander
Albert Anderson
Haymond Manufeaturing Company
Sup’t Dewey
Oil City
Mike W. Hknerr
Williamsport
OI City High School
Honéri
Io High
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Carl Lyons
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James Lewis
Paul Stroup
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LUX
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Spring Lake
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Good Housekeeping
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India
Morrell's Pride
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Palmolive
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Mithman
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Dial
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