Snapp Appointment To Highway Post Awaited In Brien County
Victor A. Snapp of Wesleyville is poised to be named assistant superintendent of highway maintenance in western Brien County to replace Avhive Schwindt. County Superintendent J. B. Sherman said the formal announcement had not yet been made, with a decision expected soon. Snapp is a former highway inspector and longtime department employee.
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Snapp
Victor A. Snapp
Wesleyyilie
Niga
Wily
Brie
Avihne Sehwindt
Wie Erle
J. B Sherman
Stewart Jackson
Stapp
Sherman
Tist
Advent
Deven Remblicans
Corry
J. J. Casey
Tre
Wiehway Specter
Department
Sxob
Plan Airmail Pickup Demonstration Sunday
Public demonstrations of the automatic airmail pickup and delivery will be conducted at Corry Warren and Oil City airports on Sunday March 26. All-American Aviation plans daily service to 30 cities across Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio and Delaware starting in May. Demonstrations show actual pickup and delivery with officials present and aircraft prepared for the new line.
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All-American Aviation, Inc
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Delaware
Corry
Warren
Oil City
Wilmington
Del
Pittsburgh
Vie
Oi City
Ol City
Richard C. duPont
Lytle 8. Roams
Irwin
James Ray
Stinson Aircraft Co
Norman Seintoul
Victor Visulaties
New Bills Seek Tax Payment Bonds and Insurance Panel Review
Harrisburg lawmakers debate measures to suspend operator permits for unpaid taxes and bar state local tax penalties. Other proposals authorize audits of car insurance laws, exempt certain farm cooperative groups from a 4 mill tax, allocate 500000 for needy families, and distribute milk to children. Forecast calls for a fall in temperatures with a night of rising temps and Thursday fair.
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Harrisburg
G. R
Cooperative Agricultural Nanoe
Glen Wely
J. Swanehanna
Lyons
Mercer
Perry Monies
Crawford
Ar Teneo
Allegheny
Meadville Shoe Store Fire Causes $10,000 Loss
Meadville Pa March 22 Fire department officials investigated a blaze that caused about 10000 dollars damage to the Lechner Shoe Store in the Savoy Hotel building. Firemen confined the flames to one room and prevented total destruction as stock suffered most.
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Meadville
United Press
Lechner
Italy and France Move Toward Mediterranean Talks
Paris reports Premier Daladier seeks peaceful settlement of Italian demands in the Mediterranean. A three point plan is prepared as Italy shows willingness to negotiate amid African colonial disputes. French ambassador Francois Poncet and Lagardelle are involved in relaying messages to Paris.
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Mediterranean
Daladier
United Press
Paris
Mar
Eouard Daladier
Rome
Trench
Foreign Office
Andre Francois-Pincet
Italy
Foreigny
Hubert de Lagardle
Benity Mussolini
Francois Poncet
Lagardelle
Rowe
Garden lovers invited to Moore Seed Store Spring event
Garden lovers of the city and vicinity are invited to the Moore Seed Store Spring evening at 111 First Avenue on Saturday March 25. Exhibits talks and fertilizer and plant care guidance will be provided by John Stebbins Armour's and J W Roberts Agrio with Mrs Leon Moore James town on lawn and garden plants and moss. John Curtiss Pratt Food Co will discuss feeding and care of livestock. The public and Corty Garden Club invited. guest contest winner to be announced at 8 p m.
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Moore Seed Store
First Avenue
Moore
John Stebbins
Armour's
J. W. Roberts
Agrio
Leon Moore
James
John Curtiss
Pratt Food Company
Corty Garden Club
Unemployment benefits top $100000 in state total
The Pennsylvania Division of Unemployment Compensation and the State Employment Service report unemployment benefit disbursements surpassing one million dollars in recent weeks. For the week ending March 3 the total distribution neared 100 871, with numerous city totals listed, including Meadville and Warren. Executive director Arnese Kelly notes claims for the second beneficiary year contributed to the rise.
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Conny Aioe
Ue Journal
Teddy
Corrylle
Piluay
Uirouga
Omione
Clurton
Brie
Niki
Meadville
Ol Gley
Warren
Bradford
DuBois
Stayys
Fong
Pennsylvania Division of
Cosmnsauiénsis
Arnese Kelly
Lurest Insurance Agency
Sith
Corry Area Man Receives Benefit Payments Totals
As of March 14 the grind stat it benefit payments to qualified workers reached 11 667 for the week ending February 24 and 142 IAG the week. a rate check of 11 12 was issued. The original claims Medalgo was timed to rise to a total of 7 330 709 cheekas.
Bill to Boost State Aid Before Senate Debate
Pennsylvania lawmakers in Harrisburg consider bills to relieve a severe school finance crisis. The measures aim to increase state contributions toward public school teacher salaries, affecting Corry Public Schools and taxpayers.
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Senate
Board of Education
Corry
Pennsylvania
House
Harrisburg
Ten Per Cent Cut Proposed for Corry Teachers
Teachers in Corry Public Schools may face a ten percent salary reduction next year as reform efforts under the Wilson Act progress. Districts in financial distress reportedly appealed to back the measure which would allow salary outs justment and other concessions to ease this year's budget pressures.
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Corry
James
Edmonds Pushes $2.4 Million School Payroll Subsidy Bill
Senator Franklin Spencer Edmonds of Montgomery, a former house member, introduces a $2.4 million bill to raise state aid for local school payrolls from 25 to 40 percent in Philadelphia and from 35 to 40 percent elsewhere. A concurrent House resolution by Rep. Paul L. Wagner from Schuylkill seeks a joint legislative investigation to aid distressed districts amid coal-company tax shortfalls.
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Franklin Spencer Edmonds
Montgomery
Paul L. Wagner
Schuylkill County
Edmonds
Rotary Club Hears Talk on Cascara
Welcher, of Mike, Parke-Davis Drug Company, guest speaker at the Hotel Corry Rotary Club meeting. He recounted the firm's origin and hard years, then detailed cascara discovery and processing, noting a new form separating the bitter from the product. The talk engaged all thirty-one attendees.
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Welcher
Mike
Parke-Davis
Comany
Rotary Club
Hotel Corry
Faidlér
Monty
House Weighs Flat Two Per Cent Income Tax
Harrisburg March 22 The House Ways and Means Committee reported favorably Rep Herbert G Gates two per cent net income tax with a 2000 exemption. The bill would raise about 26000000 yearly and support repealing the 5 mil capital stock tax and reducing local real estate taxes for schools. The income tax was sent with eight other bills to reenact emergency relief taxes to raise 183000000 next biennium as the House reconvened.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Herbert G. Gates
Armstrong
House Way and Means Committee
Gates
Economy plan draws attack in Washington
Washington dispatch notes government economy is under fire amid tax reform debates. It says the White House hesitates on spending cuts while Congress seeks relief through defense, public works, and tax measures. Observers foresee a tax pill to curb nuisance excises and spur broader tax revision amid pressure from Roosevelt and lawmakers.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Consider New Plane Factory in Bellefield Area
Representatives of a new airplane company explored establishing a production plant in Bellefield Pa to build an inexpensive light plane. Funk Brothers Aircraft, led by J Hunting and Howard and Joe Funk, weighed an Akron office proposal and a 12 acre site with a $51000 cash offer to secure a 20 plane contract. The new model would weigh about 1 350 pounds per unit and deliver the first three by May.
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Slearfield
Alon
J. Hunting
Funk Brothers Airplane Company
Howard
Joe Funk
Akron
James Approves Anti-Probe Laws in Harrisburg
Harrisburg reports Governor Arthur James has signed four bills repealing the 1938 anti grand jury invas igalian laws. The action follows the legislature's unified stance on probe restrictions.
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James
Unites Rest
Harrisburg
Mar
Arthur
Seek compromise on relief request
Washington May 22 House Administration leaders aimed to settle the Roosevelt relief request dispute by conceding to a smaller sum than the economy bloc’s 160 million. They reportedly sought 125 million, abandoning hopes for 150 million. Roosevelt warned of necessary action before April 1 to prevent WPA employment cuts. Subcommittee members intensified proceedings after hearings closed yesterday.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Ronsevelt
Nate
Lewis Defends CIO as Critics Charge Communist Influence
New York March 22 Joan Be wis head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and president of the United Mine Workers warned of an organizational fight against craft unions as the CIO denies communist control. He said the CIO would not bow to craft unionism and dismissed charges as baseless.
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United Press
New York
Joan Bewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Wintert
American Federation of Labor
UMW
Philip Murray
CIN
Lewis
Congress
CIO
Physical exams for marriages passaed by state senate
The state senate at Harrisburg yesterday passed two bills requiring physical examination of all prospective mothers and applicants for marriage licenses. Licenses would be refused to any applicant afflicted with communicable syphilis. The measures were sponsored by Senator C Gilbert Wolfenden and received support from both Democrats and Republicans. The first measure providing for examination of prospective mothers passed without dissent.
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State Senate
Harrisburg
Senat
C. Gilbert Wolfenden
Indista
Engine of '61 draws large throng at depot
Hundreds line Erie tracks from First avenue to Center street to glimpse the William Crooks locomotive of 1861 vintage en route to the World’s Fair. The crowd includes many schoolchildren as the famed engine, West of the Mississippi’s first locomotive, attracts attention on its historic first passenger run in 1862 from St. Paul to St. Anthony.
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William Crooks
New York
Erie Railroad
First Avenue
Center Street
Ali Uier
Priviarly
St. Paul
St. Anthony
Minneapolis
St Paul & Pacific Railroad
Great Northern Railroad
Mississippi River
Jay Maher
James J. Hill
The
Great Nerthern
Liquor Board Quiet on Scranton Woman Access Case
The Scranton liquor board indicated doubt that the 1878 statute restricting women from entering drinking places would stand a legal test under current Pennsylvania liquor control laws. Acting secretary Furry A. Statler noted modern regulations under revised 1987 mayoral acts create a new system, and only a court case could determine if the old law remains in effect.
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Scranton
Furry A. Statler
Pennsylvania
Billy Rose to wed Eleanor Holm in September
Broadway showman Billy Rose and Olympic swimming champion Eleanor Holm announced plans to marry on September 19. The couple set the date the day after Rose's divorce from comedienne Fanny Brice is finalized.
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New York
Billy Rose
Whleanor Holm
Comedienne
Fanny Brice
Rose
Hitler Takes Memel by Same Power Tactics
Nazi Germany seized Memel and moved to deepen control over Lithuania as part of a broader eastward drive. The occupation pushes Poland toward neutrality and complicates Britain Soviet ties while prompting talk of a new defensive alliance or revised league security.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Nazi Germany
Europe
Atlantic
Black Sea
Adolf Hitler
Reid
Lithuania
Baltic
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Berlin
Memet
Bohemia
Morsyia
Asue
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Poland
Kate Ope
Hitler
Three More Arrests In Gas Fraud Case
In Erie Pennsylvania three more residents were arrested in the state highway department gasoline fraud case, bringing total charged to ten for conspiracy to defraud. The latest arrestees are William Harvey, 29, Angelo Bi onici, 25, and James B. McNulty, 23, former employee. They were released on $1,000 bond each pending a hearing next Wednesday night.
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Eerie Erie
Mar
Moraine
State Highway Department
William Harvey
Angelo Bionici
James B. McNjilty
Six Month Strike at Wilkes-Barre Ends In Accord
Wilkes-Barre Pa March 22 The year long strike of the mechanical department workers in three Wilkes-Barre dailies ends after members of the American Newspaper Guild reach a contract term agreement at a New York conference.
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Wilkes-Barre
Syncucrane
Nemy Mechanical Department
Wilked-Barre
New York
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