Local notes on flood repair bids and civic events
The Journal of Titusville reports state commitment to repairing Ol Creek dike damage from January flood with engineers from Forests and Waters visiting Titusville. Erie City Engineer releases bid list totaling 481 714 for a new digestor and sewage plant work, far above earlier estimates. The page also covers a raft of local notices, dinners, and council matters including bus fare hearings, smorgasbord tickets, cinders for street repairs, and a juvenile burglary case in North East Township.
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City
Journal
Titusville
Ol Creek
Church Run
Pine Creek
H. McConnell
Department of Forests and Waters
C. C. Hampton
Forests and Waders
Erie
Rovest Bleutier
Ritz
At The Hospital Report and Local Notices
At the hospital, several admissions and discharges are listed including Mya Agnes Dempsey age 1, Dewey Geer, and Duane Foster, with addresses in Spartansburg Centerville Panama and more. Discharges include Earl Wickwire Jr and Christine Marie Linsk, with minor’s mother Mrs. Thomas Linsk, plus Doane Foster and others. Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary No 264 meets tomorrow at 8 pm in Garden Room for nomination and election. Eric Gus Pulakos notes a potential plan to use Union Station for a city hall amid a feasibility study for a new municipal building. A rummage sale and apron bazaar occur Friday and Saturday at 28 North Center Street, Dodd’s Store. A $2,000 settlement was awarded to Robert Allen Erte for injuries to daughter Sheryl, 4, from a car accident last fall. Arthur Watson Jr is the defendant.
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Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars Auxiliary No. 264
Elks
Ray Yohe
Itl
Eric
Gus Pulakos
Parking Authority
Union Station
Pulakos
Sue
Hal
Dodd's
North Center Street
Robert Allen
Erte
Sheryl
Arthur Watson Jr
African Rioting Toll Reaches 40
The Nyasaland government reported 40 African dead in its crackdown on nationalist rioting and sabotage across the protectorate. A Friday incident at a tribal chief’s headquarters in Santhe region left one more militant dead as security patrols pressed arrests, with no official detention tally released.
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Syndaland
Nyasaland
Santhe
Witnesses Testify In Commie Probe In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh hearing opens with 12 witnesses including Hamp L. Golden and Reuben J. Hardin. Golden claimed to have worked undercover for the FBI and said the Communist Party now operates underground through front groups. Hardin testified about undercover activity from 1951 to 1954 and Pittsburgh’s strategic importance for control of iron and coal.
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Hamp L. Golden
Pittsburgh
FBI
Communist Party
Reuben J. Hardin
Large
Commandist Party
Golden
H. J. Heinz Co
U.S
Tate
Hardin
United States
Alexander Bruber
Braddock
Richard Arens
Blaber
Steve Nelson
Western Pennsylvania Communist Party
Golders
T Hardin
Three Portage Men Indicted in York Clubber Beating
Blair County grand jury indicted Frederick W. Gorba Jr James R Gorba and Andrew G Ligda all of Portage for the fatal beating of York entertainer James L Law last November. Law was found on a road near Altoona and died after hospitalization.
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Altoona
Cumbria County
York
Blair County
Frederick W. Gorba Jr
Hils
James R
Andrew G. Ligda
Portage
James L. Law
Law
Tales
Gunsmoke creator John Meston linked to Matt Dillon
TV highlights profile of John Meston and actor James Arness known as Matt Dillon. Meston explains Dillon resembles him and that he had no role in casting. The piece notes Meston’s background from Dartmouth to Harvard, his WWII service, and his work on radio Gunsmoke.
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New York
Matt Dillon
John Meston
Mrs. Meston
Meston
Bette Ford
Mexico
Mrs. Mestot
Joan
Dillon
Moston
John
James Arness
Marshal Dillon
Arness
Brooklyn
Colorado
Dartmouth
France
Harvard
Mrs H Martin Ex Corryite Dies in Long Beach
Mrs H Martin a former Corry resident died at her Long Beach California home on Monday. Born in July 1876 in Concord Township she lived here until her marriage to Homer Martin. She is survived by a daughter Mrs Lowell Hill Rolling Hills California two sons Niels Brooklyn and Phil Long Beach one granddaughter and three grandsons and a sister Mrs Jinton Warner Mead Avenue. Funeral service will be held in Long Beach.
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Homer
Isis
Sean Corry
Long Beach
Calif
Martin
Fall McCray
Philetus
Elva McCray
Concord Township
Daugher
Lowell Hill
Rollingills
Callf
Niels
Brooklyn
Phil
Jinton Warner
Mead Avenue
Double funeral held for Rice and Houle victims
Double funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 8 30 at the Spitzer Funeral Home in Sylmer for William L. Rice Jr and Mrs Joyce Houle who died when their car plunged into French Creek last weekend. Rev Leo Hanson officiated. Burial was in Cutting Cemetery. Bearers included John Birkner Milton Rice Walter Chamberlin Robert Edwards Joe Urbanow ised yannies Spencer Garltan Teed Sr Carlton Teed Jr Kenneth Houle Arthur Fosberg and Gordon Rater. Friends and relatives attended from Santa Monica Ver ne North East Fal coner Ripley and Westfield.
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Spitzer
Slymer
William L. Rice Jr
Joyce Houle
French Creek
Leo Hanson
Edwards Chapel
Garltan‘Teed Sr
Carlton Teed Jr
Kenneth Houle
Arthur Fosberg
Gordon Rater
Santa Monica
Verne
Calif
North East
Falconer
Ripley
Westfield
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Jamestown
Paul Samuelson
Jamestown Junior Chamber of Commerce
Adville
Headvillery Commission
Meadville
Joseph Walczak
Erie Industries
General Electric
Bucyrus-Erie
Continental Rubber
Walczak
Hospital
Sears
North East Township
Maurice Chaitkins
George Dottler
Edward R. Morewood
The
Robert Breytler
Fairmont Park‘way
Buffalo Road
George Levin
Chestnut Hills
Charles Schwartz
List
Washington
Levin
Schwartz
Woods
Harry Schwarts
Ginnie
Joseph P. Willson
Richard H. Hime
Tommy R. Oak
Arthur Gehrleity
Francis
Council
Weber
Haid
Public Utility Commission
Corry
Bracken’s Mortuary
Ray P. Yohe
Harrisburg
Robert E. Brown
Mayville
Robert Deck
Monroe County
Chautauqua
Rollin A. Fancher
Deck
Hoover Electric Waxer
C.C.C
Huntmore
Carry Memorial
Agnes Dempsey
David Morris
Spartansburg
Dewey Geer
Centerville
Kim
Waller McCray
Booth Center Street
Minnie Cool
Spurlandburg
Barton
Puirview
Duane
Richard Foster
Panama
Earl Wickwire Jr
Fairview
Thomas Linsk
Christine Marie
Marion Street
James
John Downey
Johnson Street
Elmer Comber
Third Avenue
Doane Foster
Custer Beer
Ioneay
Commie
House
Up-American Activities Committee
Balawhy
S.r
General Telephone
America
H. Martin
Cornel Wilde
San Francisco
Kendall
Washington Streets
Leedsi
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