Local News Highlights Include Car Crash Report and Night Incidents
Police report a Packard smashed in a city collision near North Center Street with injuries to a garage owner. a West Pleasant Street break in damaged screens and a fish bowl. youths identified by a mother after intrusions. Also noted: Red Cross First Aid training trip for the Browns, a small jewelry find near West Smith and Essex, and a transfer of Jack Lindquist to Utah’s Overseas Replacement Center.
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Ted Dey
Park Lillie
West Pleasant Street
South Carolina
West Smith and
Essex Streets
Fone
Route 6
Pyt
Jack Lindquist
Mildred Lindquist
R. D
Sioux City
Army Air Forces
Kearns
Utah
Jamestown Will Cases Opened After Triple Tragedy
Jamestown surrogates court heard matters affecting Kenneth H. Matthews and Arvid H. Colson estates after two fatal incidents in the city. Judge Bodine set July 14 for a session to hear objections to Bertha Hamilton's will in Ripley. The Matthews will hints at a collision with a fatal May 25 explosion at KIS Lite Shop on West Fourth Street that killed Kenneth J. Everett and injured Mrs. Matthews. the Hamilton will leaves minor bequests and a Ripley home for animals, with total estate valued at 600000 to 750000.
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Jamestown
Lugh V. W. Bodine
Kenneth H. Matthews
Arvid H. Colson
Bodine
Bertha 1
Hamilton
Ripley
Matthews
KIS Lite
West Fourth Street
Kenneth J. Everett
Falconer
Mrs. Matthews
Funeral services held for Arthur Thompson
Funeral services for the late Arthur Thompson were conducted Friday at 3 p.m. from Bracken-Keating Funeral Home with Rev. C. F. Hildebrand of St. Pauls Lutheran Church officiating. Pallbearers included Clarence Thompson Andrew J. Thompson Harold Marlowe and William Gumbleton. Burial followed in Pine Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Thompson
Bracken-Keating
C. F. Hildebrand
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Clarence Thompson
Andrew J. Thompson
Harold Marlowe
William Gumbleton
Pine Grove Cemetery
Answers to I Q Quiz Corrected for Editorial Page
Answers to the editorials quiz are: John Roy Carlson. The rain continues. Switzerland. No difference. Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming. Author. Rock of Ages. Balloon. Theologian. The Ring and the Book.
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John Roy Carlson
Switzerland
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
FBI Officer to Address Aero Ground Crew Meet
Special Agent R. K. Moore of the PRI will speaks at the Aero Ground Crew eleventh meeting next Wednesday evening at the Corry Country Club. A feature film The FET Front will be shown, with Moore and aides present. The annual election of officers for Aero plant foremen and department executives is also planned, with transportation arranged from Hotel Corny by 6 p.m.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Aero Ground Crew Organization
Corry Country Club
R. K. Moore
PRI
Moore
Aero Plant
Ad Department
Country Club
Corny
State Fish Executive to Visit Kane Area
Charles French is expected to visit the Kane area to confer with Allegheny National Forest officials on stream stocking. Local Kane Fish and Game Club pushed for replenishing streams but near streams saw almost no stocking this Spring and Last Fall, though other regional streams were stocked. about 700 legal sized trout were sent to the South Branch of the Kinguaplus and fingerlings to streams outside the Allegheny National Forest.
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Kane
Une
Connan- Joner
Charles French
Allegheny National Forest
Lteub
Kane Fish and Game Club
Corry Scouts Attend Waterford Jamboree and Camp
Fifteen Corry Boy Scouts traveled by auto to Union City and hiked to Waterford for a large jamboree and encampment. More than four hundred Scouts from Washington Trails Council are enrolled for the Saturday and Sunday event. A huge campfire will mark the encampment followed by a special historical pageant on the Port LeBoeuf region. They plan to break camp and return home Sunday evening.
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Union City
Waterford
Washington Trails Council
Port LeBoeuf
Erie to Probe Poor Housing Conditions in City
Erie agencies plan a city wide survey on filthy housing and will demand action from Dr. James R. Smith health director within two weeks. If the health board refuses, the issue goes to the city council to seek a strengthening ordinance. In Somerset, Irene Kent Colosimo, 27, Johnstown, is charged with murder in the December death of George Kern.
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Erie
James R. Smith
State Department of Public Assistance
Erie County Institution District
P. Barton Kauffman
Kauffman
Board of Health
Board
Somerset
John Chrnn
Irene Kent Colosimo
Johnstown
George Kern
Search for missing Ruth Hinson widens to nationwide effort
Jamestown June 17 police launched a nationwide hunt for Ruth Hazel Hinson sixteen who vanished May 4. Daughter of Mr and Mrs David Hanson she is described as five feet three inches tall 135 pounds blonde hair blue eyes with two chickenpox scars. Last seen wearing a red coat dark city hat dark blue shoes a white blouse and a flowered skirt carrying a dark blue purse. A brother in Buffalo received a May 7 telegram from a sister saying she was in Chicago and well. Police sent fliers to Chicago and other jurisdictions.
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Jamestown
Ruth Hazel Hinson
Miz
David Hanson
Hanson
Buitslo
Slater
Chicago
Temestown
Piet Fies
Soukery
Packard predicts postwar auto market 1946 delay
Pittsburgh June 17 Production of automobiles will resume in 1946 at prices 26 to 40 percent higher than for similar models in 1949. George T. Christopher, president and GM of Packard Motor Car Co, told Tri-State Packard dealers that production could start four months after government approval. A strictly postwar design would need at least 18 months.
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Pittsburgh
George T. Christopher
Packard Motor Car Co
Packard
Christopher
Signel
Ashville Flier From Burma Returns Home to Recover
Ashville veteran Captain Arélile Newton Jr arrives home after five months fighting ley wings and ducking Jap fighters on the Burma air routes. He contracted a serious illness thought to be polio but doctors suspect a different Oriental disease. He expects four to six months before he can resume flying transport planes over the Himalayas and the Burma Road.
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Ashville
China
Arélile Newton, Jr
Biness
India
Gettig
Himalayas
Aeris
Burma
Archie
Armyospital
States
Tim
Tam
Ward
Erie Alderman Nabs Youth Stealing Car
First Ward Alderman Thomas McCarty caught a 16 year old boy attempting to steal his auto in front of his office. Charles McCloskey of Clarion Pennsylvania is held on a larceny charge. Betty Lee saw the youth drive away, McCarty watched his car ram a car ahead, then seized him and turned him over to police.
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Thomas Me
Arty
Charles McCloskey
Clarion
William Heisler
McCarty
Betty Lee
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Red Cross
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N. C
Mr. Brown
AAP
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James D. Watson
Corry
Capt. Watson
Panama Canal Zone
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West Church Street
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Fred H. Sexmer
Syracuse
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Knoxville
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Harmlen
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Te Court House
Bie Priday
Myrtle Aleum
John Nelson
Ieord, Township
Big Ripley
I. Q. Quiz
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the National Bank OF Corry
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UCRY
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Arch Newton
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Tig
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Auer Agency
Congress Street
V. D. Babcock
Brier McElroy
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C.F Hynes
Gibson Street
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Eddie Smoraski
FR. D. 2
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Peart
Litz
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J. D. Barnhart
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Boy Spot
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Stze
Elmer McElroy
Washington St
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Woolworths
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Triangle Shoe Store
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Paul French
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