Strike Closes Ridgway Plant After 68 Workers Walkout
Ridgway Padune five reports Molded Materials shut down yesterday following a walkout after the company failed to meet union demands. Lawrence Ryan of Brooklyn, representing the United Radio and Machine Workers Union, led a four hour conference with workers as a picket line formed at the plant entrance. Operations ceased, and the company said no further action would be taken pending the union's next move.
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Ridgway
Padune
Ono
United Radio and Machine Workers Union
GIO
Alley
Lawrence Ryan
Brooklyn
Lightning strikes cannon in Franklin City Park
In a rainstorm Thursday near 2 pm a ball of lightning struck a Civil War cannon in City Park, jumped to the Park Hotel and blew service fuses. Smoke cloud followed the flash as firefighters rushed to the scene. No major damage or injuries were reported. The storms occurred during a heat wave with temperatures reaching 85 degrees.
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Pranklin
City Park
Liberty Street
Park
Corry Father Seeks Custody Of Child Donna Mae
Virgil Ross of Corry filed a petition in county court asking for custody of his 8 year old daughter Donna Mae who lives with her mother Mildred Ross. He charges Mildred cannot properly provide for the child. A court hearing on the petition will be held later.
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Corry
Virgil Ross
Donna Mae
Mildred Ross
Jorry
Reunion Highlights 1942 Corry High Alumni Event
About 300 alumni and guests attended the Corry High School Alumni Association’s sixty eighth annual reunion. Mrs. Bess Heath Olmstead spoke on General Dawson Olmstead’s war work and read her poem Four Freedoms. Officers for 1942 43 were elected, including Adele Mel Cray as president and D Leach as treasurer. Static noting of mourned secretary Frank T. Babbitt and veteran officer D Leach.
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Bess Heathh Olmstead
Dawson Olmstead
U. S. Sigial Corps
Corry High School Alnams Association
Corry High
Frank T. Babbit
Babbitt
Aotter
D. E. Leoeh
Lynn Campbell
Joseph Piccavage
Adele Mel Cray
Carl Nelson
Norma Grice Hut
Frank Whiteley
Mildred Denton
D. Leach
Olin W. Bracken
Lucille Love Young
Virgil G. Critic
Bud Tanner
Angel of Mercy
Ti Baccio
Jean Kossite
Martha Hulberg
Gen. Olmstead
Corry
Close race for Clymer honors in senior class
After a near record scholastic contest Betty Luce was named valedictorian and Merle Wright salutatorian at Clymer Central School. Luce topped with 91.7 percent average to Wright’s 91.6 percent. Luce, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Lane of French Creek, led student council and was editor of the 1912 Spotlight yearbook. Wright, son of Mr and Mrs Sibley Wright, participated in basketball baseball and football and held senior play duties. The event drew many alumni and local residents to a reunion dance featuring Gail Brown orchestra.
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Betty Lice
Clymer Central School
Merle Weigh
Lier
Harold Lane
French Creek
Durie
Tice
Marigold Rays
Wright
Moro Gold Rays
Titusville
M's
Mary Eloise Geiger
Carrie Farnham Hammond
Gail Brown
Erle
Orval Jonson
Bethlehem
A. E. Yeager
Glenn Klinger
Frank Geiger
Eric
Aliee Garris
Ripley
Bub
Wilkinsburg
Olive Peterson Stone
Wesleyville
Frederick Burtholme
Union City
Ludge
Allison Wade
Witten
Karl Knoll
Jean Quinlisk
Germantown
S. Charles Warner
Waterford
M. B. Ellison
Connenut Take
Rodney Knowlton
Bradford
Helen
Boy Finds Rattler While Fishing Near Baldford
Twelve year old Richard Senior fishing south of Baldford paused as a rattler approached the water. He dropped his pole to scramble away and then killed the snake with rocks after dragging it to shore. The four foot seven inch rattler had nine buttons.
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Baldford
Richard Senior
Ram Mins
Sie Aniles
Siayeed
Young Senior
Erie Youth Killed in Action in Sea Battle
Walter Francis Krupinski, 20, of Erie, a Navy Seaman Second Class, was killed in action aboard an aircraft carrier. His death was confirmed by telegram to his father, with further details not disclosed. The message notes the Navy deeply regrets the loss and identifies the hometown and service branch.
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Erie
U. S. Naval
Walter Francis Krupinski
Fast Arhy Street
U.S. Navy
Walter Krupinski
Tormer Bast High
Tavk
Ue Servier
Navy Department
Sea Iman
Navy
Boland widow runs for unexpired term after May 1 death
Mrs Veronica Barrett Boland announces her candidacy for the unexpired term of her late husband Representative Patrick J Boland Democratic whip who died May 1. She carries the endorsement of Democratic leaders as the term ends in January 1943.
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Boland
Scranton
Veronica Barrett Boland
Patrick J. Boland
Weep My Hat Club Formed at Dunkirk
At Dunkirk a Hat Club has been formed by patrons of Port Tim entertaining the farmed service of the nation. Each departing member deposits his hat at the inn, to hang on a line until the owner returns to reclaim his discharge from service. About a dozen hats hang in order of enlistment.
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Dunkirk
Port Tm
Tia
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Cora Crippen
Marg Pier Porter
William P. Murray
Niagara Fall
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National Biscuit Company
Old Wen A
Pamela Ae
Tan Gomponie
Woodbury’s Soap Ha
Castile
Kolynos
Eer
Pinkhams
Ake
Clymer
Boy
Rattler
Titusville Herald
Curlins
Nord
MY Hat Club
Poung
J. C. Rosenthal
State Street
Nisley
Pennzoil
PennZoil Motor
Pennzoil Company
Pennzoil CO
Dept. B
Oil City
Union City, PA
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Pennzoil Sludo
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