Union Plumbers Strike Over New One Year Contract
Local 500 members quit four area construction projects amid a contract dispute with oral contractors. About 50 percent of area contractors refuse to sign a new one year pact, old contract expired May 31. Tidioute and Sheffield School work halted. Scandia Elementary affected. Negotiating committee to meet tonight to seek resolution. pickets planned on any Local 580 jurisdiction jobs.
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Warren
Mike McKarski
Tidioute
Sheffield
Scandia
McKarski
Mécharski
Family Of 6 Escapes As Train Crushes Auto
ERIE An kre family of six escaped a tragedy last night by abandoning their auto minutes before it was hit by a train at a crossing just off Route 5, 19 miles west of Erie. Thomas Fuhrman, his wife Eleanor, and their four children were in the auto when it became stuck in soft ballast between the tracks. Frais Fuhrman attempted to flag the approaching train, but the flagman and engineer said they could not stop the collision. The car was car
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Erie
New York
Central Tech
Thomas Fuhrman
Eleanor
Frais Fuhrman
Ronald Lococo
Girard Substation
State seeks removal of Barnes Foundation trustees
The Commonwealth asks Montgomery County Orphans Court to remove four of the five Barnes Foundation trustees for recklessness in art care while pursuing a permanent injunction against a proposed $2 gallery admission fee. Laura Barnes is not named for removal. The tax exempt gallery faces long running state criticism over access and management of a $100 million collection.
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Norristown
Commonwealth
Barnes Foundation
Montgomery County
Laura L. Barnes
Albert C. Barnes
Sailor Charged in Rape of 12 Year Old Girl
In Franklin Armstrong County a 27 year old sailor, Gary Edward Dotterer of Parker, faces criminal action after a grand jury true bill. He allegedly abducted a 12 year old girl on May 1 while returning from a playground, taking her to a wooded area for assault. Dotterer, on US Navy leave, is married with two children. Parker Police Chief Wayne Fair prosecutes.
Community notices from Spartansburg and area events
Spartansburg hosts Friendly Neighbor Club dinner at Mrs Helen Scouten home for nine members six children and one guest Esther Jackman as July picnic planned at Mrs Bessie Obert s due to Paul W Blakeslee s death funeral service at H Richard Hays Funeral Home interment at Roseall Cemetery Vacation Bible School runs June through 22 nightly 7 to 915 with crafts Bible work and attendance prize Graduating class reunion planned at Bernice Brenner s home this evening outdoor hamburger roast Gordons Brown and fiance Carolyn Breig of Philadelphia visited with his parents and other relatives Francis Feldhausen of Akron visiting Clyde Kinney family and relatives Father and son Methodist banquet scheduled July at 730 with Rev Bernard Howe speaker Reservations due tonight Rev Jerry McGarvey missionary from Africa to speak at Christian Missionary Alliance Church tomorrow slides and youth service at 7 PM Congratulations to Jim Lee on degree at 4th annual commencement at Goshen College plans for graduate studies at West Virginia University given. various local residents mentioned including the Bowes family former Spartansburg residents.
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Spartansburg
Friendly Neighbor Club
Helen Scouten
Esther Jackman
Bessie Obert
Paul W. Blakeslee
Rose “All
Christian and Missionary Alliance” Church
al Bernice Brenner
Hamburg
Gordon Brown
Carolyn Breig
Philadelphia
Gordon
Harry Brown
Paul Baker
And
James Baker and Son
Francis Feldehousen
Akron
Clyde Kinney
Methodist Church
Bernard Howe
Grace “Methodist Church
Meadvill
Ry Berkey
DeVry
Larry Haight
Clarendon Methodist Church
Malcolm Bowes
Unrsity of
Buffalo
Bowes
Jerry McGarvey
Africa
Peakie
Christian Missionary Alliance
Jim Lee
Oil City Man Recovering From Gunshot Wound
Oil City man rirker 25 is listed in fairly good condition at Oil City Hospital with a gunshot wound to the left shoulder. State Police at the Franklin substation believe the flesh wound was caused in a personal safety incident. Parker was shot yesterday along Route 62 near a trailer home after a woman resident heard a gunshot and investigated.
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Curry — Thomas
Rirker
Oil_city
Oil City
Franklin
Parker
Route 62
Woman hurt in 2 car bus crash near Driftwood
Mrs Edith Johnson, 29, of Bemus Point, is listed in fair condition at WCA Hospital after a collision involving a Bemus Point school bus driven by Richard Ward, 46, and another vehicle. Deputies say the Johnson car struck the rear of Henry Woods’ car, sending Woods’ vehicle into the bus.
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Mayville
Edith Johnson
Bemus Point
WCA
Driftwood
Frank Mizwa
James
Newberry
Pennsylvania Cost of Living Up in Early 1962
State Department figures show Pennsylvania cost of living rose about one half of one percent in the first four months of 1962. Aides said the state was roughly two tenths of one percent below the national change, with food housing and medical care contributing to the rise. The April 1961 index stood at 104.5 percent, while the national index climbed 3 percent in the year ending last April.
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Priddy
Pennsylvania
Department
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Monshen—College
Goshen
Jim
Srpduale Zt Sg
High Sehi
FS. Rapier
Bylér
Sparta
West Virginia University
Vacation Bible School
Junior High Bible School
First Presbyterian Church
South Center and
West Pleasant Streets
Corry
Ared
Bennett
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