Weekend News Briefs From Various Local Scenes
A burst of small incidents and updates fills the page. A car collision near Union City caused gasoline spills after a spring failed, while a Salvation Army speaker, Commissioner Alexander Dimon, is billed for a housing rally on March 24. Local weather offers a warm spell with showers, and gardeners seize the early spring window. State fish and wildlife notes report sucker fishing possible year round, with streams rising after rains. Traffic and power disruptions are easing after storm effects, and stock market activity shows gains and drops across the week.
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Alexander Dimon
Teader
Salvation ‘Army
Suny
Membre
State Highway Dept Shifts Road Aid To Townships
The Hartburg area learns the state highway department will immediately place Parkinson act funds totaling about 4.4 million dollars in the hands of second class township supervisors.aimed to cut local levies as Governor Barle directs funding to be used to reduce road taxes while maintaining supervisory control over expenditures. Immediate action is urged since March 26 is the last date to set levies for road purposes.
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Hartburg
Highway Department
Gesisgand
Warren van Dyke
van Dyke
Arle
Jaca
General Assembly
Nilu
Blake B. Shugarts
Fish robberies at Chautauqua lake reported
Sheriff investigators probe fish thefts at Chautauqua Lake where 22 men each lost 15 trip hooks and lines were destroyed. Tracks of two men and a sled traced toward Celoron. two bull heads and tackle also stolen. Reports note a melted ice hole at Bemus Point and overall mushy surface despite thick ice.
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Chautauqua Lake
Sheriff's Department
Ball Park
Bemus Point
Quarantine Sign Winds Up Fugitive Pennington
A quarantine sign at 330 Janeway Street helped William Pennington escape police on Thursday after liquor agents raided his home and found illegal moonshine. Officers, unsure if he faced a hearing over a chickenpox alert, left. Pennington fled. Police issued a fugitive warrant and expect his arrest soon. Four other raids by the same officers yielded four arrests.
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Janeway Street
William Pennington
Sute Uquor
Pennington
Huge flood control plan seeks 14 million for reservoirs
The proposal outlines multiple dams and reservoirs along the Conemaugh Loyalhanna Tionesta and other creeks to back up water to towns like Saltsburg Latrobe and Greenville Pa. Costs range from 2.0 to 14.1 million with land purchases included. The Tri State Authority aims to obtain federal funds for flood control benefiting border states along the Ohio river and lower Mississippi.
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Conemaugh River
Salinburg
Janet
Loyalhanna Creek
Saltsburg
Latrobe
Sharpsville
Greenville
Lane
Kellettville
Malloning Creek
Hamiton
Redbank Creek
Mayport
Brookville
Crooked Creek
Tunnellsville
Girty
French Creek
Cambridge Springs
Tri-State Authority
Flood Commission of
Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Mississippi
Payment dispute over RWD program workers at schools
A reader letter from Mr. Whiter dated March 23 1985 questions coverage in the Evening Journal and contends workers on the RWD program were promised pay but are continuing work without new compensation. The note asserts workers believed pay had already been received and asks the School Board to clarify whether to publish the claim.
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Carry Evening Journal
Whiter
Phil
Mien
Oil City Doctor In Serious Condition After Quarrel
Dr. James A. Welty, Oil City physician, is in serious condition with brain concussion and facial injuries after a confrontation in front of his State Street office. Robert Gibbs, 204 Test Second Street, is held in the Oil City jail on burglary and receiving stolen goods parole violations as the investigation continues into the assault that occurred Thursday night.
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Oil City
Mar
James A. Welty
Bend Injury
Robert Gibbs
Test Second Street
Oi! City
State Jalreo
Welty
Welly
Gibbs
Senate Tables Silver Proposal On Relief Bill
Senate leaders pressed for the $4880,000 work relief bill and killed Sen. Thomas silver amendment by a 40 to 33 vote. Elmer Thomas quickly offered a new amendment, a restatement of the original, and spoke on silver while Majority Leader Robinson faced repeat motions to table each new amendment under unlimited debate.
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H. 0. Thompson
Washington
Senate
Thomas Silver
Joseph T. Robinson
Thomas
Elmer Thomas
D.olcla
Robinson
Spare Leg At Home Laurens
Jay Tutt told on the ice and broke his leg but he was up within an hour, cheerful as a canary, because it was a woolen leg and Jay had a spare at home.
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Laurens
Jay Tutt
Jay
Fox Farm Fire Destroys Pen Killing Three Foxes
A fire at Harry Lyong's fox farm on West Columbia Avenue, Union City, around 4 pm Friday destroyed a 24280 foot pen housing silver grey foxes. Three animals died, two pens nearby were burned. total loss estimated near $800 with partial insurance. A straw pile burn fifty to sixty feet from the pen started the blaze. The structure and pen were consumed in moments, with the three foxes trapped and perished. The farm houses about sixty five foxes in total.
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Mames
Fox Farm
West
Columbia Avenue
Harry Lyong
Union City
Struc
Lanse
Strang
Union City Man
Veterans Pay Patman Bill Receives Public Support
The Palman measure passed by Life House with Veterans of Foreign Wars backing, touted as saving taxpayers from a roughly 84 billion dollar burden. The piece notes broad support among major veterans groups per the Congressional Record, while detailing local anecdotes from Corry and community figures, including a planned spring join of the Vets and a note on a cart tournament set for April 20. Also brief local crime note about a mysterious deceiver and a wild sow giving birth to 17 piglets follows the main item.
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Life House
Veterans of
Leo Hall
Leo
Ralph Boyle
Loyd Black
Dee Bennett
Doc Amy
Newell
Paul Lines
Systeat
Art Lanston
Mellon Confident Us Recovery On 80th Birthday
Mellon expresses confidence in the nation's recovery as he nears his 80th birthday. He plans to celebrate in New York with daughter Mrs. Ailsa Mellen Bruce and husband David K. Bruce. The former secretary of the treasury did not comment on a federal hearing seeking $5,000,000 more taxes and a $930,000 refund.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Melon
Mello
New York
Ailsa’ Mellen Bruce
David K. KE. Bruce
Secretary of the Treasury
VF W Auxiliary Hosts Fish Dinner
The VF W Auxiliary hosted about seventy five guests at a fish dinner in their home with Mrs A W Rauscher chairing the kitchen and Mrs Stella Reynolds directing the dining room. An April 5 service is announced for another supper. The report also notes William W Cook, a farmer, died near New Bern and was buried in a coffin he built from cypress wood that had sat on his porch for three years.
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Lawies
VF. W
A. W. Rauscher
Stella Reynolds
Farmer
New Bern
N. C
William W. Cook
Jurors Drawn for May Term of County Court
Jurors for the May term of the county court were drawn by commissioners Henry Stinerkle and Horace Bell. About 85 to 70 cases will be disposed of this term. Notable cases include Harold Marlish of Toledo held for murder in an attempted holdup near Girard. Local grand and traverse jurors from the area are listed, with few local residents among the grand jurors.
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Grand and Traverse
Brie County
Erie
Henry Stinerkle
Horace Bell
Burton R. Laub
Burnsque
Harold Marlish
Toledo
Katherine Connell
Union City
Harvey Lily
Elgin
Traverse
Floyd H. Bisbee
Mill Village
Guy Gregory
Harold Jewell
BR D. 4
Overy
County tax cards to be mailed around May at new rate
County tax cards for 1935 will be mailed about May 1 at the courthouse officials announced. For the first time since 1990 the tax rate will be eight mills, down from nine in recent years and seven before 1930. Taxes due immediately on receipt. five percent rebate for payments before July 15. Also notes March snow in Sacramento, a rare March snowfall in 86 years.
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Rib
Mareh
Whe County
Court House
Sacramento
Cal
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