Warden Demands Tighter Security at Prison Work Detail
Erie County prison warden Bruce A. Reeder urged stricter guards and searches for inmates who work at the County Hospital farm. He cited incidents including a prisoner with money and another with apples, and warned of potential dangers if supervision remains lax. He pushed for experienced guards and pre-return searches into prison vehicles.
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Erie
Erie County
Bruce A. Reeder
Reeder
Arthur O. Brueckman
Louis J. Raymek
Raymek
Brueckman
Debating Expansion and Special Education Needs
School officials discuss accommodating high achieving students with 120 IQs and addressing the special education program at Wright School. They note 44 ninth graders 39 tenth graders and 11 in the eleventh grade with high IQs and call for surveys on a potential German course and a second year Spanish offering. The high school addition is driven by space and stricter pupil teacher ratios, with the current level over 37 students per teacher. Plans include fiscal considerations to overcome obstacles.
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Shupe
State Department of Public Instruction
Wright School
Shupp
Lawsuit Over Softball Field Injury Emerges
Attorney Edward G. Petrillo represents John Brigham of 224 Mead Avenue in a suit claiming a broken ankle from a pothole at the high school softball field during a City Softball League game last June. The district’s liability is contested. Rossbacher Insurance Service would defend if needed.
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E. Anderson
Jointure
Edward G. Petrillo
Erie
John Brigham
Mead Avenue
Petrillo
Brigham
Frank McKnight
Rossbacher Insurance Service
Anderson
Rossbacher
McKnight
LBJ Weighs Lower Defense Budget Target
President Johnson plans to submit a defense budget likely under 100 billion dollars. White House aides say a target is not decided yet while McNamara and Rusk discuss the matter and a Cabinet meeting is anticipated at the ranch Wednesday.
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Vautiey
Johnson
Congress
White House
John S. Kennnedy
McNamara
Rusk
Corry Board Considers Wage Tax Delinquent Collections
The Corry Board heard City income tax receiver Elwin Fuller propose using property tax collection tactics on delinquent wage taxes. Fuller cited two to three cases at risk of forced collection and noted personal property sales as a possible remedy. The board agreed a short sale could be the only solution, with delinquents paying costs, sparing schools from cost burdens.
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Corry
J. Earle Bliley
Elwin Fuller
Fuller
Lighting bids tabulated for east hill school area
Bids for lighting the east of the hill school area ranged from two thousand five hundred to nearly five thousand dollars. Erie firm Church and Murdock submitted the low bid at two thousand nine hundred. Mercury vapor lights will be mounted on poles with armlets to project light over the ground for easy maintenance using special equipment for repairs.
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Hill School
Church
Murdock
Erie
Muredock
Cenfer Aiteel
Murdock Td
Mink toe piece for a Detroit dentist heals on cast
Detroit dentist Dr. Morton B. Lesser sports a lutetia mink toe cover after a squash injury. The toe piece, crafted by his former brother-in-law Sam Offen, sits atop a cast with a tied mink strap. In Washington, the Library of Congress cleans its grand dome for the first time in 67 years since 1897.
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Detroit
Morton B. Lesser
Sam .Offen
Washington
Library of Congress
Santa Visits Lewes by Sea on Holiday Ferrying Adventure
In Lewes Delaware a sea faring Santa will arrive November 28 aboard a fire engine on the Cape May Nut Lewes ferry. He will hand out gifts to children at the Village Green, marking the start of the Christmas season.
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Lewés
Del
Santa + Claus
Dancer
Prancer
Lewes
Delaware
Santa
Cape May
Freight fiasco ends with $970 charge claims
Sydney AP reports Reginald Spivey unable to pay $640 freight, must face $970 bill. Air India cites policy. Perth manager Gere Talatiy says waiving freight unavailable. Spivey, a javelin thrower, traveled to London then to Adelaide, endured hardships, and sought installments or assistance.
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Sydney
Australia
Reginald Spivey
Air India
Gere Talatiy
Perth
Iin
Spits
Talath
Sam
International Air Tansport
Patrol Boys Grow Up Plan for Stationed Guards
The city and school district consider using patrol boys and later adult guards along routes in Bast, East Frederick, East Pleasant, King streets, and nearby avenues to supervise students. Costs are projected at about $1500 per year per leasing body with staff from January. Educating parents and children to the plan would begin immediately.
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Bast
Wright
East Frederick
East Pleasant
King Streets
Qaid
East Bend
Congress
East South Street
Concord
Ring
East Streets
Kelly
Sui
Summerville
Hold Rites For Ruthelaine Pugh
Ruthelaine Pugh is honored in funeral rites at the Salvation Army Citadel with a procession of relatives and friends from New York and Pennsylvania. Attendees include Col. and Mrs. Pill Seilwe Capt and Mrs Stanley Diner and many named mourners from Pitt and surrounding towns. A public presentation of the service plan will be announced at an early date.
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TNE
Maile Elsine Viple
Ul Lf
Thomas Pugh
Salention Army
Paul Seiler
Pittsburgh
Dar
Harold Perham
Hite Perham
Ahes
N.Y
Walter Pugh
Siewert Pugh
Daniel Pugh
Lawrence Pith
Hame
Pili
Seilwe
Stanley Diner
Rebiehdler
Ind
Pred Fackson
Dine
Huber Metilies
Meadfac
Donald Baker
Kane
Raymond Simpson
Willian Baillie
Herbert Riquer
Warehan
Jarraig. Mitchell
Timothy Thomas
Clyde Gill
Rosa Waites
Annie Adama
Elly Mason
Grace Thomas
Audrey Garrison
Mamie Johns
Homewourt
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