Erie area notes and obituaries from a late winter brief
A patchwork Erie Chronicle itemizes a range of local items including church and city meetings, a retirements notice for a television engineer, a divorce decree in Erie county court, and license withdrawals with driving privileges restored during the week ending February 22. Also reported are public school attendance and disease figures, a pancake eating championship winner, legislators and broadcaster schedules, infrastructure and highway patrol notes, company reports on AMTI earnings, and a hospital update on injured Ajax Manufacturing workers. The report closes with a Norristown-shaped mix of corporate leadership changes and a ski train visit to Westfield New Jersey.
Opposition to Penns police and highway merger grows
Harrisburg March 1 United Press reports increasing opposition to Gov Marne’s plan to merge the Pennsylvania state police and the state highway patrol. Troopers fear morale decline and loss of highway safety focus as factions warn the move diverts motor funds and delays critical law enforcement duties. Motor clubs vow to oppose with influence.
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J. Hugh McNeill
United Press
Harrisburg
George H. Marne
Pennsylvania State Police
United Presa
Wille Motor Clubs
Paleot and
Constabulary
Enthnessate
Pennsylvania
Ipatrolmen
Pennsylvania Motor Federation
Marie
Mator Fund
Lackawarnna
Miter
Auto toll hits new peak in January
Auto toll figures show a January peak with 250,000 incidents and stability in mid sized cities. A 29 percent rise occurred in smaller cities between 25,000 and 90,000. Nevada reported no traffic deaths in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Township Road Control Proposal Faces Opposition
Harrisburg May 1 Opposi tion to a highway department plan to take over 60000 miles of township roads was announced by the conference of local officials of Pennsylvania chaired by H A Thompson Drexel Hill The plan argues adequate subsidies to local supervisors while maintenance remains with them The department would face difficulties assessing road conditions for additions to the state system from an engineering and economics perspective
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United Pres
Harrisburg
Suite Highway Department
Wis
Pennsytvania
H. A.thompson
Drexel Hill
State Association of Township Supervisors
Farre
Highway Department
Lownshin
Thompson
Game Purchase At Peak In Pa
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania's restocking program shows rising and falling annual spends on game. Over six years from 1923 to 1929 the average outlay was just over 111000, peaking at 124800 in 1924-25 and dipping to 92000 in 1926-27. A total of about 1370000 was set aside for game purchases with state game farms wintering large numbers of birds for spring release.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Three Erieites Injured In Crash On Smith Street
Three Erie residents were treated and discharged from Corry Hospital after a collision between a car driven by Bertha Kasapko and a Blake Line truck on Smith Street. Victims include Aloysius Kasapko with a facial bruise and minor lacerations, a 48 year old relative with scalp injuries, and Bertha Kasapko with upper arm lacerations. The truck driver Eugene Bunnell of Walkertown escaped injury. Police report states Kasapko’s brakes were applied and the car skidded into the truck, damaging the vehicle fronts and left side. The auto occupants were treated at Mercy Hospital before discharge.
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Erie Parsons
Che Corry
Enon
Bertha Kasashill
Aloysius
Staley
Intr
Lyle
Moory Hospital
Lloyd Ruppersburger
Brielles
Smith Street
Mra
Kasapko
Hye
Blake Line, Inc
Omaha
Neb
Eugene Bunnell
Walkertown
Ind
Two Warren Residents Injured in Crash
Gerald Simpson, 23, of 211 Russell Street, is at Pinestown W A hospital with possible concussion after a crash near Justestown. Dorothy Floyd, dental assistant at Warr State Hospital North Warren, suffered scalp and ankle injuries. Simpson’s condition improved though unconscious upon arrival. Floyd’s ankle fracture is under evaluation.
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Miss Floyd
Burglars Scale Wall to Enter Meyers Loan Office
Burglars climbed a wall and roof to break into Meyers Loan Office at 131 Turnpike, escaping with $250 in loot including watches and diamonds. Building damage is estimated at $150. Detective William Donahue opened the case after management reported the break in. thieves reportedly entered via an alley wall of the adjacent Pennsylvania Leather Co and accessed a sun parlor roof at the second floor home of Mrs. Anna Lyle.
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Bris
Mar
Meyers Loan Office
Turnpike
William Donahue
Pennsylvania Leather Co
Turple
Anna Lyle
Dairy Congress Dates Set for Waterloo in September
Waterloo's annual dairy congress, a major Midwest livestock event, will be held from September 27 to October 3. Secretary E. S. Patel announced the dates for the exhibition.
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Waterloo
Middle West
Hell
E. S. Patel
Salvation Army class hears talk on crime
At the Salvation Army hall yesterday afternoon a class attended by 88 men heard John A. Blackmore of Erie, Pa., speak on crime and reduction. Music by a vocal quartet and a trio accompanied the program, and attendees joined in conclusion with prayers and expressions of support for Blackmore’s message. A separate note credits a $1 flood relief gift from Bowerton shale plant workers to the community mascot “Boy.”
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Salvation Army Hall
Dewey
GT. Bergman
Don Gressner
Leon J.linsley
Blackenore
Butchers Picket Markets At Punxsutawney Shops
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania on March 1 members of the United Meat Cutters and Butchers union picketed three slaughter shops. They carried signs opposing nonunion processing and aimed to pressure stores to source from the unionized Punxsutawney Beef and Provision Company. The union plans to protect workers and steer meat sales away from nonunion packers in twelve western counties. Pickets were seen in Rossiter Clymer and Turbot Township areas.
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Ey United Prose
Punxsutawiney
Aniuliganmated
Phinelore Wnfalr
Lancy Slee
Ineal
Uinion
Praud
Puoxsutmwoney Beef and Provision Company
Pennsylvania
Rossiter
Clymer
Tudlana
Slee
Kane Borough WPA Street Repair Advances in Kane
Kane, in northwestern Pennsylvania, secures final approval for WPA street paving projects totaling about 42 000. The plan anticipates quarrying stone and starting street construction between April 1 and 15, weather permitting, with WPA crews to be expanded as machinery is deployed.
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Kane
Pennsylvaiiaa
Carey
Kane Borough
Washington
WEA
Gore Don W. Falke
Polie
West Kare
WPA
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Golden Rule Club
Presbyteria
Alning Rom
City Connell
John Hi Smith
Renows
Ilvision
Erie
Fiswits
Marina I Mullen
Anne
Richard ‘Mullen
Gerry
Wilk
Erie County Court
Saurday
William M. Fitt
Gertrude Vanderhouf
Corry
Melvin Vanderhouf
Gesertion
Atate Highway Patrol and Safety Museau
Emanuel Celler
New York
Nis
WABC
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Charles J. ‘Margiotti
Ralph’ S. Dewey
Arvid Kivist
Winter, Wis
J. P.pope
Idaho
WJZ
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Orrin “M. Hillbing
North Center Street
Powell Motor Company
Corry Hospital
Arvid Ostrum
Charles Crowe
Ajax Manufacturing Company
Howard J. Sheen
Jone Ghnt
William G. Skelly
Skelly Oil Company
Pacific Western Oil Corporation
Gay
Skelly Oil
Cleveland
Buffalo
Weshfield
N. J
Clarence McCallum
Buizalbeth
Chautauqua County
James MipCallum
Yes
New Jersey
PENN
Motor Clubs
Erieites
Corry, Penna
Moo del Dairy Co
Warren
David Abramson
Marhiseuirg
Uniktal
Henri
Peratert
Willy
Yarkowe Lely
Joval wbilLy
Mary Consover
Saul Peso
Sywlent
John A. Blackmore
Ernest Brockman
Center St
Gricer
Arti Cit
Cnet
Guig Tipels Y
Drugeht
Bettelcom
Bon Ty, Inc
DuBois, Pa
Henderson
F. C. Chapin & Sons
Mies
Anna Shields
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