Twenty Years Ago Taken From Journal Files June 27 1982
A vintage column recalls a fatal 1982 car crash near Columbus injuring Harold Miles 43 and a second fatality at Corry Hospital. The Roosevelt Highway opened between Hare Creek and Sciotia Street. Local highlights include Hawkins Kepper flower shop and Sonny Staples pitching for Nameless Nine in Erie. A skeleton found in the Ants ter Hotel prompts a county inquiry led by District Attorney Mortimer Graham. Political notes recount postwar Senate and governorship shifts affecting Truman era gains and 1948 crossovers, plus 1962 Senate defense plans for Republicans and Democrats.
How's Your I Q A 1995 quiz from Classified Page
A quirky 10 question memory challenge asks about a 1995 Broadway play with Leslie Howard, a duteman island raiding figure, silverware lacking lustre, Admiral abbreviation, Empire State Building site hotel, loblolly pastry or pine resin meal, Gilbert and Sullivan collaborators for Pinafore, Rownd against Charles I, Aphrodite’s domain, and a true false pipe water question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Howard
Humphrey Bogart
Dutehoan
Mahhalten Island
Empire State Building
New York City
Charles I of
England
Aphrodite
Three Yugoslav Slaves Hijack Plane to Escape to Freedom
Three young Yugoslav mechanics hijacked a Folgno Yugoslav airliner on a Zagreb to Pola route and forced passengers to surrender control. They claimed asylum and said they wished to reach the United States. The hijackers, Vilim In Keit 93 Bondan Zigic 25 Josip Tirik 23, seized the aircraft yesterday and steered it during a domestic flight while guarding the crew and radio operator to block transmissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folgno
Bondan Zigic
Josip Tirik
Zagreb
Pola
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Tnikrit
Gambler’s cash seized in county forfeiture order
A final court order by Judge Burton R. Lalib transferred about 1204 dollars to the county general fund. The total reflects gambling proceeds seized by police vice squads during raids over two years. Individual forfeitures ranged from 40 cents to 158 dollars, with further totals pending from later raids and defendants facing jail terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Burton R. Lalib
Laub
Anthony
Tony) Griend
Joseph
Ko) Kelly
Widows urged to file SS benefits claims
Bernard A Payabsugh district Social Security office manager advised widows to file official applications for their own and their children’s Social Security benefits. Funeral directors file notices are not official claims. office hours in Corry start July 1 and 15 at 1 4 pm at the post office. Public invited to seek help with claims and other social security business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Security Administration
Bernard A. Payabsugh
District Social Security Office
Social Returity Administration
Astelet Offine
Corry
Beauty Queen Named Mexico City International Lions Winner
A Coal Wile, Pa girl is crowned the new beauty queen at the International Lions event in Mexico City. She earns the title amid a field of contestants representing Lions clubs from several nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Coalwile
The
International Lions
Eisenhower Coattails Boost GOP in 1948 and 1944 Lessons
A Roosevelt era discussion cites Republican coattail effects, noting Eisenhower momentum could lift GOP candidates nationwide. Polls show Eisenhower popular with free voters, Taft more so with county chairmen, while historical echoes from Hoover 1928 and Truman 1948 illustrate party gains and Senate seat flips alongside governance races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weeks
Republican National Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Republican Congress
Taft
Chicago
Hoover
Truman
Missouri
Senate
New Mexico
Maryland
Montana
Noinal Martin
Sheep Killer Hunted Near Pittsburgh After Sheep Slayings
Armed bands search woods around Elzabeth for a predator believed to be a member of the cat family. Twenty sheep killed in three weeks, thirteen at a single farm, all victims clawed but not eaten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Elzabeth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harold & Miles
B.C
Spring Creek
Roosevelt Highway
Columbus
Miles
Columbus Avenue
Hare Creek
Sciotia Street
Mott Street
Sonny” Staples
Hurtng Phenom
Tette Collen Auto Parts
Mwolls
Mortimer
Graham
Tonal Police
Antster
West Main Shert
Utah
Washingto
Delaware
Idaho
Ticots
Iowa
Kentucky
Minnesota
Oklahoma
West
Wirsinka
Wyoming
Tennessee
Colorado
Michigan
Gow Willams
Hins
Sen
Ferguson
HUACK
S. S
Harry Truman
Fnr
Congress
Kinney Plumbing CO
Columbia
Capri
Veliet
Mada
Dore
Dorothy Perkins
Amoother
Ford
Powell Motor CO
North Center St
Enoch B. Cornish JR
Bear Lake
Soslly’ Ode
Barney’s Firestone
South Center Street
Macketioe
Blom
Queen VaLley Tomato
Bisquick
Hunt
Dole
Horsey
Lakeshore
Ritter
Glen Valley Peas
Larsen
Molly Madison
Leon
California
Prench's
Frostee Coupon Pach Wheaties
E. Main St
Iia
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!