Local Erie County News Briefs and Accidents
Richard Betts of 409 West Pleasant Street was seriously injured in a UK accident. At Arnot Onder Hospital Elmira New York a surgical brain operation was performed on a patient, with plans for three days of observation then rapid shift to immediate surgery. A Waterford Township Public Hearing on dangerous railroad crossing conditions is set for July at the Erie County Courthouse. The Waterford School Board seeks automatic flashing light signals one mile east of Waterford. A Corry youth was treated for lip laceration after a bicycle accident. Firefighters contained a car fire at West Smith and Worth streets causing $100 damage. Gannon College Development Fund received a $10,000 anonymous gift plus $12,100 in other gifts. Carl Nielsen of 408 East Smith is in satisfactory condition at Hamot. Mackey Beers, 19, of Franklin, survived a fall from a bridge railing after motorcycle crash. Crystal Cole, 6, treated for a left foot laceration after stepping on a sharp object. Funeral services for Herbert Rathbun held at Bracken Funeral Home. Roberts Furniture announced two cash drawings for its 10th anniversary. State Police probe break-in at Sunset Drive-In Theatre in Waterford. Pennsylvania Gas Company and union obtain an injunction barring pickets at exits. Erie County Commissioners set pay for elected assessors at $14 per eight-hour day. A one-year-old in Corry Memorial Hospital treated for second-degree burns from hot water spill at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Betts
West Pleasant Street
Comite
Mortuus
Arnot Onder Hospital
Elmira
Riniira
Ross Meas
Corry
Detainees to Be Released Under South Africa State of Emergency
Pretoria Justice Minister Princels Erasmus announced that about 1,200 of the 1,600 political detainees held under emergency regulations will be freed within the next two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
South Africa
Princels Erasmus
Kenny Fund Cash Diverted Probe Started
Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale released a report charging the Sister Kenny Foundation with diverting funds intended for polio victims to private profits. The board was reshuffled as B C Gamble, named to head the new board, pledged to keep the foundation going while Mondale threatened court action to recover misused money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnsapulas
Minnar
Palla
Kenny
Stile Atty
Walter Mondale
B.C. Gamble
Minneapolis
Mondale
Fadell
Chicago
Foundation
Kane
Ncluded
Fred Fadell
Births Report From Corry Memorial Hospital
A daughter was born yesterday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Newman of Spartansburg at Corry Memorial Hospital. A daughter was born last evening to Mr. and Mrs. John Wiggers Jr. of North Clymer at Corry Memorial Hospital. A daughter was born early this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Roberts of 928 Spring Street at Corry Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Newman
Spartansburg
Corry Memorial Hospital
John Wiggers Jr
North Clymer
Earl Roberts
Spring Street
Griell Jr Named Senate Secretary in Harrisburg
Mark Gruell Jr of Harrisburg has been appointed Senate secretary for the remainder of the 1960 season. Gruell, formerly assistant secretary, was promoted to the $1000-a-year post to succeed Edward Watson, who died last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
STAT
Harrisburg
Mark Griell Jr
Senate
Gruell
Edward Watson
Warren Man Dies In Plunge From Scaffold
Kenneth Turner 92 of Pleasant Township died after falling about 100 feet from scaffolding at Niagara Falls N Y while repairing a damaged scaffold around an elevated water storage tank. He and his wife had moved to Warren from Lexington Kentucky a year ago. He worked for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Corp the former Hammond Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Pittsburgh - Des Moines Steel Corp
Niagara Falls
Kenneth Turner
Pleasant Township
Turner
Lexington
Hammond Iron Works
New Finch Trial Draws Few Spectators
LOS ANGELES AP Carole n Tregoff 23 trim and tanned and Dr R Bernard Finch 42 pale and little paunchy watch the jury selection for their murder trial in a small eighth floor courtroom. Sixteen spectators attended the second trial while hundreds had packed the new courthouse for the first trial which ended in a hung jury on March 12. Twenty two potential jurors were questioned Monday. ten dismissed for preconceived views on capital punishment. Finch's attorney passed three for cause and Miss Tregoff wore powder blue as she returned to court under bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Carolen Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Barbara Jean
Finch
Grant B. Cooper
Absentee Vote Spurs North Dakota Senate Election
In North Dakota a heavy absentee vote marked the start of the special senatorial election seeing Gov. John B. Davis face Rep. Quentin N. Burdick. Democrats seek Senate investigation into anonymous leaflets as national attention centers on farmer sentiment and agricultural policy. Also notes the death of C. Clarence Smith, 66, former Sterling Steel Foundry president and Braddock director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fargo
N.D
North Dak Cota
North Dakota
Senate
William Langer
John B. Davis
Quentin N. Burdick
US. Senate
Burdick
Ezra Taft Benson
Steel Exec
Pittsburgh
C. Clarence Smith
Sterling Steel Foundry
Braddock
First National Bank of
Tarentum
Four Governors Consider Open Convention To Slow Kennedy
A loose group of four Democratic governors from New Jersey California Kansas and another state discussed merging to keep the party’s nominating process open at the upcoming Los Angeles convention. They stressed they are not opposing Kennedy but want the convention to deliberate and allow others to run, arguing it would be foolish to fix a convention around a single candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier National Park
Mont
John F Kennedy
Los Angeles
Kennedy
edieRory
Goys
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
California
Heraclel C. Loveless
Town
George Docking
Kansas
Meyner
Loveless
Clymer Seniors urged to be leaders at graduation
Clymer Central High School honored thirty one graduates with diplomas as Dr. Gerald R. Pirth urged students to choose leadership. Norman Hogenboom presided, Jack Kindler delivered a globe fund presentation to Principal Hubert W. Brown. David Houpt gave the valedictory and Eleanor Wenzel was salutatorian. Wenzel won Eastern Star awards for business and for outstanding girl from Olive Lodge 515 CES. Agricultural awards were earned by Duane Dunnewold Roger Parsdink and Norman Brightman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Houpt
Eleanor Wenzel
Miss Wenzel
Olive Lodge
Ces
Duane Dunnewold
Roger Parsdink
Norman Brightman
End of 48 Day Walkout at Ohtinger Furniture Co
Teamsters Local 249 approved a wage agreement and returned to work yesterday, with Local 636 General Warehousemen's Union also approving. Warehouse workers had struck in Pittsburgh McKeesport Bradford Greensburg after the May contract expiration, and Teamsters joined the action later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohtinger Furniture Co
Teamsters Local 249
General Warehousemen’s Union
Pittsburgh
McKeesport
Braddock
Greensburg
Teamsters
Also Mentioned on This Page
Public Ability Commission
Waterford Township
Ene County
Waterford
Taree
Diudfiier
Danid Naylon
Tolia
Trommral
Pulice
Ata
Ion
Concord Servo
West Smith and
Worth Streets
Wirt Enls
Jerome Davis
Paul Obsuszt
Eve
State Department of Revenue
Erie County
Gannon College Development Fund
Erie
Philip Coch Fan
Comanager
Cochran
J. M. Magnan Sr
Erie Brewing Co
Paul V. Minnaugh
Erie Coca Cola Bottling Co
Carl Nielsen
East Smith Street
Hamot Hospital
Mackey Beers
Frantlin
Allegheny River
Beers
PRR
Crystal Cole
Leon Cole
Ohio Street
Gerry Memorial Hospital
Herbert E. Rathbun
Bracken Funeral Home
Pine Grove Cemetery
Corry Barracks
Sunset Drive-in
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Today
Elmer Evans
Gas Company
Ih Corry
Greco Palmer
Kathleen Crowley
Brett Halsey
Patterson-Johansson
M. Agnes Lynch
Charles ‘Thompson
Betty Pratt
Clarence Merring
Jean Depew
Journal
Household
N.D. Spurs
Rex Fuller
Secona Avenue
Union City
Union City Memorial Hospital
Fuller
Aero Supply Mfg
Glenn Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Albert, Hill
Easy Pickin
Glendale
Calif
Robert E. Gardner
Gardner
Hammond
Eagle Street
Dial
Dems
Clymer
Fogle Lumber CO
Franklin
Corry, Pa
Mesarge
TIE
Citizens National Bank OF Corry
Pennsylvania
Aks, Tnsh Probligat
Ile
United States
Federal Reserve
Tncluder Bank
Ren
I. C. H. Bracken
C.H. Bracken
R. H. Rossbacher E, W. Feldt
Walter L. Peake Directors
of Erle
Donna L, McCaslin
Notary Public
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Orio
Clevelai
Ind
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