Real estate transfer tops small town notes in daily update
The Paragraf saw a home at 210 East Main Street transfer from the Charles Sessle estate to Mr and Mrs Charles Bowman completed through Cobbett Real Estate Agency. Local pupils held picnics at Conneaut Lake Mead Park and the Concord School. John Lyons, 74, of Pleasantville died of a heart attack while helping build a garage for Rev E B Jacobs. Carlisie Builders Supply begins a Ready Mix Cement plant in Union City with in transit trucks. State University Bureau of Business Research notes a slight April decline in Pennsylvania industry. State Highways spends a record 138.57 million in the year, with 29.01 million over three years. Alumni group invited to a rehearsal at the high school for Thursday event. Police investigated a stolen battery at the Oscar Langer farm near Lottsville. Corry High School girls photos displayed at Stahl’s Jewelry. 2-piece silver gift offered to each girl. Four injuries reported from weekend accidents. several hospital stays for hip fractures and other injuries. Extended forecast for several western states predicts near normal temperatures with showers and 1/3 to 2/3 inch rain. A Meadville driver and family escaped injury after tire blowout and crash near Deerhead Inn. Two women hospitalized with fractured hips, one in Elgin nursing home and one from Corry area. Emporium Water Co delays a proposed rate rise for two months. Mrs Henry Shirr of Erie dies. funeral plans pending. Fire at a car tied to Aero Supply plant extinguished. minor wiring loss.
Congress Shown Red Document
Congress reveals a memorandum allegedly sent to Moscow by Chinese Communists predicting world revolution by 1973. Senate leader Knowland adds the document to the Congressional Record without source disclosure, claiming it outlines Mao Tse tung's program for revolution and calls for the United States to be isolated by all possible means.
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Congress
Washington
Moscow
Senate
Knowland R-Gallf
Mao Tsetung
Knowland
United States
Miners vote on back-to-work plan at Lehigh Coal
Miners in Lansford Coaldale Tamaqua and Nesquehoning vote on Lehigh Navigation Coal Co back-to-work plan tied to longer hours. UMW locals with over 5000 members call meetings to decide. If accepted, operations resume tomorrow with about 3500 men returning. more than 4500 were idle since May 3.
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Lansford
Panther Valley
Lehigh Navigation Coal Co
United Mine Workers
UMW
Coaldale
Tamaqua
Nesquiehoning
General
Lehigh
Area Man Questions West Virginia Murder Victim Match
Elmer Thompson of Eau Gallie Florida said a 1950 West Virginia murder victim description does not fit his missing daughter Dorothy Thompson. He learned of the WV police search from an AP call and will notify authorities, after previously publishing a description in a Washington labor paper.
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Associated Press
Erie
Elmer Thompson
West Virginia
Thompson
Eau Guise
Fla
Son
West Springfield
Thompsen
Dorothy
Washington, D. C
Thompsen Missing Woman Found Near Berkeley Springs
A woman named Dorothy Thompsen, missing since September 1949, was found near Berkeley Springs West Virginia in May 1950. The Thompsen family believes she is dead. she was 45 at disappearance. Thompsen traveled to Pennsylvania two weeks earlier to visit her son Gilbert.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Miss Thompsen
Thompsen
Dorothy
Pennsylvania
Gilbert
McCarthy Refuses To Turn Over Files In Senate Probe
Senator McCarthy rejects sharing subcommittee files with Democrats claiming security classifications on some documents. He cited the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department as responsible for stamped classifications, and said confidential informant names would not be disclosed.
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McCarthy
Ingency
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Subcommittee
Oil Workers Union considers merger of 26 CIO AFL and independent groups
Cleveland reports the CTO Oil Workers Union opens a three day meeting to vote on a proposed merger uniting 26 CIO AFL and independent unions into a single oil and chemical workers international union. Knight says potential membership could reach one million. opposition cited from petroleum firms. Delegates exceed 130,000 CIO Oil Workers attending the session. Following the meeting, ongoing talks will determine next steps.
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Cleveland
Cto Oil Workers Union
CIO
AFL
Oil and Chemical Workers International Union
O. A. Knight
CTO Oil Workers
Oil, Chemical and Allied Industries
Infant Jon Dodson to be buried tomorrow
Infant Jon Francis Dodson dies at home from bronchial pneumonia at eight thirty last evening. He is survived by his parents Royden E Dodson Deborah Jean and Martha Ellen and brother Royden Douglas and maternal grandparents William Blakely. Rev Paul Bauer to officiate at Bracken Funeral Home service and Lowville Cemetery burial.
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Wilde Nei
Tor Jon Francis Dodson
Royden E. Dodson
First Avenue
Deborah Jean
Martha Ellen
Royden Douglas
William Blakely
Paul
Bauer
Bracken Funeral Home
Lowville Cemetery
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East Main Street
Charles Sessle
Charles Bowman
Cobbett, Real Estate Agency
Conneaut Lake
Concord ‘School
Mead Park
John
Carlisce Builders Supply
Union City
Ready-Mix Concrete Company
Pennsylvania State University Bureau of Business Research
State Highways Department
Highways Department
EB. L. Schmidt
Oscar Langer
Lottsville
Wacer
Corry High School
Stahl
South Center Street
George Ames
West
Washington Street
Oliver Earle
Erle
Karen Sue Decker
Mildred Decker
Spartansburg
Norman Gates
Carl Gates
R. D
Corry
New York
Ohio
Meadville
Deerhead Inn
Corry Memorial Hospital
Addie Brooks
Brooks Nursing Home
Elgin
George Besson
Marion Street
Emporium Water Co
Emporium
Cameron County
Public Utility Commission
Henry Shirr
W. E. Loveland
King Street
G. A. Deichman
Mott Street
Aero Supply Plant
Leland Johnston
Stanford
Sterling
Grice Jewelers
Cady & Collier Phone AG
Cherry Hardware
West Main Street
Jon Dodson
REX Theatre
Guy Madison
Joan Weldon
James Whitmore
Technicolor
Johnson Bros
International Harvester
Dubois
Koch's
Schlitz
Chris Christensen
Neil Gates
Photo Products
Ross Bailey
Henry Wheeler
D. W. Clark
First Ave
Koehler
Miller’s High
Ballantine
Clarence Wallace
Corry, Pa
Chrysler
Wallace Garage
Joseph DeLeulis
Donald Dickinson
Rossbacher
Corey, Pa
Dan Lindberg
Robert Clough
Borstorff & Fitch DeSoto - Plymouth
Try
Columbus
DODGE
Desoto
Stack Shilah
Fiymesth
Arthur Knapp
Paul Orn
FORD
Owl
Tat
Powell Motor Company
N. Joe St. Corry, Pa
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