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The administration seeks postal rate increases to be considered by the House Post Office Committee on Thursday. Senate plans no action until the House passes a rate bill. Increases target letter and parcel post rates. projected revenue gains cited, with the goal to reduce the department’s deficit though political timing favors 1955.
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House
Summerfield
Congress
House Committee
Eisenhower
State of the Union
Interstate Commerce Commission
Civil Aeronautics Board
Executive Branch
Post Office Department
Quiz of 10 questions on history and civics
Ten questions test knowledge on religion government geography and literature. Topics include reform movements Pennsylvania capital Bermuda agriculture California motto Magnuson ancient cities Dionne quintuplets Congress expulsion Zane Grey and US states starting with B.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Bermuda
California
Paul B.magnuson
Miletuss
Sparta
Rhodes
Tonia
Corinth
Lesbos
House of Congress
Zane Grey
United States
City officials purge civil service board. new members named
Mayor Miller and allies dismissed the existing civil service board amid protests from the minority in City Council. A new board was named to include J. W. Irwin Milon L. Brown and Frank Cole. Clyde Damon remains hospitalized after a shotgun accidental discharge. recovery expected without complications. Mid year graduation exercises at Edinboro State Teachers College will honor Jane Mulhelm and Charlotte McKelvey. Gerald Neylon sustains a severe cut from a fall on ice. George Christensen suffers a head gash from a fall and is released from Corry Hospital.
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Vicil Service
Miller
J. W. Irwin
Milon L. Brown
Frank Cole
Corty Hospital
Clyde Damon
Spartansburg
Edinboro State Teachers College
Jane Mulhelm
Charlotte McKelvey
Spring Creek
George Christensen
East Main Street
Corry Hospital
Inter
Burglar's plea denied in Erie club break-in case
Freder ick Fomich faced a denied guilty plea in county court after he claimed he did not break into the Russian American Club in Erie. He admitted hiding in the club after it closed but insisted he was inside to commit a bet. Judge Elmer L. Evans ordered the case to be reviewed by the district attorney.
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Club Erie
Frederick Fomich
Erie
Fomich
Tih
Elmer L. Evans
Carl Cunnngham
Harborcreeks
Harborcreek
School Board Retains Fourth Ward Playground
The board kept the Fourth Ward playground and addressed tax notices for delinquent club memberships. Solicitor Frank McKnight was named assessor to inform Moose and Italian-American clubs their 1952 taxes are overdue. The meeting also reviewed a free bus request for three children on Corry-Spartansburg road amid sidewalkless hazards.
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Monumeg
Uneel Base Road
Frank McKnight
Moose
E. M. Schrecengost
Sne
Corry-Spartansburg Road
Columbus Avenue
Former City Resident Dies at Duke Center
The death of Mrs. Guthrie Schaub Hotton was reported in Duke Center Pa where she had lived with her daughter Mrs I Zetler since leaving the city years ago Survivors include her daughter a son Carl six grandchildren two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews including Mrs A A Merker and Arthur Schaub Her husband preceded her in death Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning with burial in Portville New York Cemetery.
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Wright Street
Arthur Schaub
South Center Street
Jin Portville
Cemetery
School board moves old furniture to proper rooms
At the start of the term directors decided not to buy new furniture for eight to ten elementary rooms but to move usable items from elsewhere to the suitable classrooms. In Bedford, Mrs Dora Robinson, 45, died in a house fire in Hopewell. cause undetermined.
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Bedford
Dora Robinson
Hopewell
Thomas Gaffen
Two-Headed Baby Returns Home From Hospital
PilunssurG Indiana dash story reports Cecil Hartley and wife bring home their two headed baby boy after five weeks in Riley Hospital Indianapolis. The infant, normal below the waist, has four arms and two legs as sisters Connie Sue Shirley Ann and Mary Lou marvel at the arrival. In Hartley household a coal stove provides heat for the four rooms.
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Pilunssurg
Ind
Cecil Hartley
Riley Hospital
Indianapolis
Connie Sue
Shirley Ann
Mary Lou
Sre Denzil Hartley
Hartley
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