Local News Roundup Highlights Education Meeting and City Happenings
Early morning showers precede a Board of Education meeting this evening. Auto sales in June reach 322,670 units, a 3 percent rise from May. 189,402 a year ago. A lone arrest for panhandling marks the police blotter. Two youths released in a theft case. others remain held in Warren County. Local barber Charley Sessle displays roses and yucca blooms in his shop avenue garden. A divorce filing in Erie cites desertion. county officials visit readings in route to state convention. The Arcade restaurant former operator Phil Jeffries is promoted to day manager at Port Allegheny. Motorists learn of license action and violations. Elks picnic draws many attendees. Pennsylvania plates to be sold at half price later in year. Muskellunge fishing remains fair in local lakes. Vehicle inspection remains three weeks away. stickers due by August 8. Four Ward youths face mischief charges for street fights. several bulbs broken. Jess Lookenhouse, 35, sustains a severe laceration from mowing accident. he is to be discharged later.
Erie killer Ferry denied clemency in last appeal
Paul Ferry of Erie remains ignorant of the State Pardon Board decision after its refusal to review his clemency plea. Warden Matt Moss ordered guards to withhold information and inmates warned not to speak with Ferry as officials plan to move him to the death house. authorities await Governor James's action and the exact execution date.
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Erie
Paul Perry
Jas
State Pardon Board
Matt Moss
Anto
Ferry
Perry
Pardon Board
Mess
bin Wan
Hess
Carl Bayppler
Officiig
Rock
Ordeys Ae
Gov. James
Trial continuances in state graft case in Harrisburg
Trial of James P. Kirk Victor Skok and H H Temple was formally continued today until August. The Pittsburgh insurance men and former chief state highway engineer face charges of seeking to monopolize bonding of state road contractors in Western Pennsylvania. The date had been set about a month ahead with the drawing of a special jury panel by order of the Supreme Court.
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Harrisburg
James P. Kirk
Victor Skok
Pittsburgh
H. H. Temple
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Breatheasy claim science breakthrough in asthma relief
An ad from Rouseville Pa promotes a product named Breatheasy claiming a new scientific discovery for asthma or hay fever. It offers a guaranteed satisfaction or money back test and promises a free trial with contact details for OU City.
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Rouseville
OU City
Heat Claims Pittsfield Farmer in Field
Warren July 10 Believed to have been overcome by extreme heat causing loss of balance while landing on hay in a Brokenstraw township field east of Pittsfield Wasser Hackman 62 well known farmer fell headfirst to the groundSaturday morning instant death He started loading hay about an hour earlier assisted by Frank Sudul and Ray Brown Mrs Hackman was in the field Also present Coroner Ed Lowrey said no witness to the accident A Youngsville physician declared death probably instantaneous An examination at Hull funeral home in Youngsville found a fractured vertebrae brain hemorrhage Water showed no other injuries Hackman left his home about a quarter mile away intending to Weld and his helpers were puzzled by the sudden collapse with heat again threatened
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Ed Lowrey
Youngsville
Hull
Hackman
Death claims Walter Lewis passes in Watertown N C
Walter Lewis longtime Corry native dies in Watertown North Carolina where he had lived the last several years He survived by his wife Anna Lewis a son Alden Lewis and several nieces and nephews The body will be brought to Corry for interment in Pine Grove cemetery Services are set for Tuesday in Watertown with committal at Pine Grove on Wednesday at 3 40 PM
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Walter Lewis
Corry
Watertown
N. C
Mr. Lewis
Mary Whittlesey
Bligabeth Aughey
Alden Lewis
Lewis
Lawrence Park
Erie
Anna Lewis
Pine Grove
Union City Holds Off Waterford in Final Inning Rally
Waterford threatened in the ninth, but Union City preserved a 4-2 victory in the county independent loop. Johnson blanked Waterford until the ninth, when the locals gathered eight hits for their two runs.
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Union City
Waterford
Johnson
Two Persons Hurt In Wesleyville Traffic Crashes
July 10 Orville G Crundill of 4516 Rose Avenue Wesleyville lies unconscious at St Vincents with a fractured skull after his motorcycle struck a culvert east of Wesleyville shortly before noon Saturday. Stanley Dakubowski, 40 of Hess Avenue, sustained possible skull fractures and facial bruises after being struck by a car. he is listed as only fair by hospital staff.
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Orville G. Crundill
Rose Avenue
Wesleyville
Sil
St. Vincents Hospital
Stanley Dakubowski
Hess Avenue
Director of C. I. O. in West to Be Deported
San Francisco July 14 United Press reports Harry Bridges Pacific coast director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations must show cause today why he should not be deported as an undesirable alien.
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West
United Press
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast
Congress of Industrial Orgentaations
Liquor Blamed for Tragedy in Wisconsin Farm Family
Sparta Wisconsin July 10 Author Wey attributes a deadly farm house murder suicide to liquor and jealousy. Henry Stark 36 attacked employer Robert Williams 51 in the bedroom of Williams twin daughters Bernice and Kunive 19 after a night at taverns then shot Williams killed himself and injured Williams wife and daughter Stark had worked 13 years on the Williams farm and was separated from his wife.
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United Press
Sparta
Wis
Wey
Henry Stark
Robert Williams
Stark
Williams
Bernice
Kunive
Sturk
Fin
23 Have Narrow Escape in Bus Crash Aw United Bruce
Harrisburg July 10 Twenty three persons escaped death or serious injury in the Naming wreck of an eastbound Greyhound bus that collided with a trailer truck on the Williams Penn highway about 35 miles north of the capital. State motor police said the bus was forced off the road to avoid a head on collision after attempting to pass a small truck which increased its speed. The small truck did not stop.
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Jerome McParland
Bear Lake
Warren County
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Jerome McFarland
Charley Sessle
Charley
Mabel M. Murphy
Concord Township
Arthur C. Murphy
Off City
Elton H. Blair
Scott Way
Reading
Phil Jeffries
Port Allegheny
Traction
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Port Allegany
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East Columbus Avenue
Erie County
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Tolay
Arthur Palmquist
General Assembly
Charles M. Dougherty
Pittsburgh Post- Gazette
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Pittsburgh Motor Club
New York State
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Chautauqua Lakes
Third Ward
West Washington Street
Jess Lookenhouse
Clymer
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Corpus Christi
Tex
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Dorothy & Dreyer
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Aw United
Bruce
Mes Burchiel
Mrs
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