Community and sports items from January 25 1932
The piece reports a Veterans of Foreign Wars recruitment drive led by Lieut Archie W Thompson Post and a Kiwanis Rotary and Women’s group sponsored benefit series for the Community Ghost fund. It also notes Kane Tyde pendents defeating Company A 45 25 at the State Armory, a church burglary at First Baptist Church, and Barron M Franz accepting a library job at Penn State as he graduates January 29.
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Archie ‘W. ‘Thompson Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Nest
Corry Relief Fund
Barron M. Franz
State College
Brary
Penn State
Frans
Leo Franz
East
Bond Street
Joseph Konopka Dies After Several Weeks in Erie Hospital
Joseph Konopka of Corry died last evening at Erie Hospital shortly before 6 p.m. He was born in Poland on February 2 1890 and came to America before World War I. He served in the Polish Volunteer Unit during World War II and was repatriated to the United States in 1990. He worked in coal mines in Thrapp and later in Corry at various plants, most recently St Rogers Structural Steel. Friends may call at Bracken Scouting Funeral Home and attend a prayer service at St Thomas Church tomorrow at 8 p.m. Interment will be in the church crypt followed by a Yeaulem mass.
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Joseph Konopka
Corry
Europe
Gergicu
Waraw
Poland
United States
Konopka
Thrapp
Perior
St Rogers Structural Steel
Bracken Scouting
St. Thomas’ Church
Air Force Seeks Civilian Workers in Far East
An appeal from the Air Force employment office at Olmstead Air Force Base Middletown Pa invites American workers aged 21 to 30 to interview for overseas civilian positions. Openings span recreation and music entertainment, directors hostesses personnel clerks engineers draftsmen library assistants instructors and more with government funded travel housing meals and limited dependent facilities.
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Far East
Olmstead Air Force Base
Middletown
Air Raves
Comy
Air Force
Award Granted in Ridgway Court For 4333 Dollars
The January term of Elk County Court closed with a verdict for Torain Knight of Johnsonburg amounting to 4333 dollars and 15 cents. In a separate action against Samuel Showers Jr. and Sambo Showers Sr. of Clarion the suit arose from a Route 219 collision near Johnsonburg on February 28 1950. The defense claimed negligence and the plaintiff’s truck reportedly was on the correct side.
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Ridgway
Lk County Court
Torain Knight
Johnsonburg
Knight
Gamuel Showers
Sambo Showers
Clarion
Segliwense
Australia Hit By Heat Wave
Sydney endured a searing heat wave with the city’s temperature rising to 105.1 in the afternoon, shattering a ten year high as many residents collapsed. Bush fires ravaged the state, destroying at least 14 homes while heat baked beaches and caused dangerous conditions across New South Wales.
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Sydney
Australia
Har
New South Wales
Trida
Austratia
Clonjourry
Kane urged as Senate candidate at Harrisburg meeting
Pittsburgh January 35 and a half Democratic state policy committee may consider John J Kane veteran Allegheny county commissioner and U S senate candidate for Pennsylvania The suggestion came yesterday from Louis P Bilotta national president of the Order of Italian Americans Kane had no comment saying the idea was raised without his knowledge
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Pittsburgh
Hurrisburg
John J. Kane
Allegheny County
U. S
Pennsylvania
Kane
Polly
Louis” "P. Bilotta
Order of Italian Long and Daughters of America
Truman Eyes $5 to $6 Billion for Atomic Energy Drive
President Truman plans asking Congress for a $5 to $6 billion expansion of atomic energy development, with most spending after 1962 5. The move accompanies UN debate on Soviet proposals for international control and disarmament talks, amid disputes over ownership veto inspections and destruction of A bombs. The January 21 budget sets $1.776 billion for fiscal 1983, signaling broader weapon production prospects and possible restraint on conventional arms.
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Truman
Congress
UN General Assembly
Bovist
Vishinsky
Acheson
General Assembly
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
U.S
Security Council
Senate
Answers for a Brain Teaser Quiz from Classified Page
The item lists ten trivia prompts and scoring phrases claiming genius or superior levels. It invites readers to turn to the Classified Page for answers, covering topics from Virginia Jews to Noah’s ark wool, light speed, Milquetoast, general ranks, vaccination versus anesthesia, Old Ironsides, presidential births west of the Mississippi, and a slang baseball term boose egg.
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Virginia Jay
Milquetoast
United States
Mississippi River
McMahon Calls For Vast Atomic Program Expansion
In a statement attributed to Chairmen McMahon of the joint congressional atomic energy committee, he argues that every dollar invested in atomic defense could yield five dollars saved in conventional defense. He predicts major implications next year as the program grows.
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McMahon
Dcorin
Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Meeting to Study Bangs Disease Problems
Harrisburg reports the Bang's disease eradication program will be the focus of a series of statewide meetings over the next two months. J Lewis Williams of Uniontown chairs the state Brucellosis committee, with sessions in Reading January 29, Williamsport January 30, Wilkes-Barre January 31, Greensburg February 5, Oil City February 6, and Cavil e February 7, culminating in a March 1914 statewide gathering.
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Aoquemeon
Harrisburg
Bang
Cable
J. Lewis
Williams
Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Reading
Wiliamsport
Wilkes-Barre
Greensburg
Oil City
Cavile
Debrusry
Agricultural Extension Service
Pennsylvania State College
Bureau of Animal Industry
State Agriculture Department
Omar C. Martin, 83, Spartansburg dies at hospital
Omar C. Martin, 83, of Spartansburg R D 3 died last night at St Vincents Hospital in Erie after a 20 day illness. He is survived by a son Ralph Martin at home four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Friends may call at Torrey and Hays Funeral Home in Spartansburg any time. Services will be held there at 2:90 p m Sunday with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Omar A. Martin
Spartansburg
R. D
St. Vincant’s Hospital
Erie
Martin
Ralph Martin
Torrey and Hays
Rose Hill Cemetery
Seek Youths In Shooting Of Girl In Bradford
Bradford authorities seek several boys likely involved in a Thursday shooting of 11 year old Barbara Lee Johnston near her home. She lies in Bradford Hospital in fair condition with a bullet wound to the left hip awaiting X rays as investigators note the rifle was accidentally discharged during play near the Johnston residence.
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Bradford
State Pace
Barbara Lee Johnston
Robert L. Johnston
Bradford Hospital
Johnston
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State Armory
Fternoon
First Baptist Church
Second Avenue
Nitta
Posit Insurance
Citizens National Bank OF Corry
Sying
Tadsy
Warner Taco Ser
Omar C. Martin
Exide Batteries
Goodrich
Tubes Emblem Oil Co. N.genter
Armitage, Sr
Washington
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