State Raises Aid To Aged $37 A Month
The State Department of Public Welfare announced new maximum monthly grants for aged aid effective December 1. Secretary Harry Shapiro said improvements reflect actual costs of shelter heat and utilities with county variations. Increases are funded by federal money from the last Congress.
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State Department of Public Welfare
Harry Shapiro
Secretary of Public Welfare
Harrisburg
Evie County
Sui
Craford
Forest
Venango
Warren
Reds develop intercontinental rocket glider claims
AN ANZUMA Texas AP report says Soviet scientists are developing a three stage intercontinental rocket glider with range up to 12500 miles capable of reaching the heart of the United States and even Mars or Venus though unsuitable for the Moon. US efforts include Dyna Soar while von Braun questions need for such weapons. Architect William York Cocken dies in Pittsburgh at 73.
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Anzuma
Tex
Soviet Union
Everett T. Welliners
Bell Aircraft Corp
United States
Mars
Vennis
Moon
Air Force
Wernher von Brauin
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Corry Board Approves Tests, Pedagogy Upgrades, and Tax Matters
The Corry school board approved tuberculin patch testing with parent consent, authorized funds for an electric welder for the vocational agriculture department at about $130, and elected Harley Johnson as director to fill Elwin Puller’s vacancy amid tax collector duties. Exoneration requests were granted except one. YMCA tax exemption was renewed. A cafeteria policy plan was outlined and clubs agreed to pay for use of the football field for a Saturday game. A district death noted Mercy Hospital.
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Sqntimed
Page One
Sudents
Vocational Agricuture
Corry Board
Billey
East Plessant Street
Elwin Buller
Cory
Harley Johnson
Elwin Puller
Duhnsin Business Service
Puller
Johnson
YMCA
William Rodemayer
Merritt Hunt
Rotary
Beaver
Corry
Beck To Plead Stolen Funds In Tax Case
Beck's lawyers disclosed that he will defend by claiming he took Teamsters funds in a rare informal way and became wealthy through investment and repayment. The ex Teamsters leader faces income tax evasion charges totaling 240000 for 1950 to 1953 as prosecutors use net-worth evidence to show unreported wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yacoma
Wash
Beck
William Dwyer
Teamsters Union
U.S. District Court
Seattle
Dwyer
Teamsters
Senate
U.S
Jack Obenour
Obenour
Zoning Change Clears Way For Business Area
Millcreek Township supervisors approved the rezoning from agriculture to business at the Wattsburg road Throughway interchange enabling a new business district. Frank Bihler and others petitioned, with William Philips seeking a store on the West 32nd and Pittsburgh avenue corner. Previously denied after protests, two other corner lots and nearby properties along West 12th and Powell Avenue were also rezoned to business.
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Tne Pura
Wattsburg Road
Millcreek
Township Zoning Commission
Frank Bihler
William Philips
West 32Nd and
Pittsburgh Avenue
Philips
West 12Th
Powell Avenue
Busines
Spencer
Rezoning Moves at 4800 Block Spur Residential Shift
A parcel on Wattsburg Road in the 4800 block was rezoned from Class A to Class C residential. Local township officials announced plans for an apartment complex and related housing development on the site.
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King
Wattsburg
Theares
Memorial oak planted on Governors Island for French war dead
A 10 foot white oak from France's Argonne Forest was planted yesterday on Governors Island New York at the First U S Army headquarters as a memorial gift from the French Republic to American soldiers who died in World War II.
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New York
Argonne Forest
France
Governors Island
U. S. Army
French Republic
Berlin Crisis Echoes Threats Over Berlin Blockade
A clipped report discusses Khrushchev’s Berlin rhetoric, the risk of a Soviet move on East Germany, and Western insistence on defending West Berlin. It notes that a Soviet attack on East Germany would be treated as an act of war and warns that such steps could trigger a broader conflict.
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East Germany
East Berlin
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
West
Berlin
Que-posal
U.S
State Department
West Berlin
Pair Gets Jail Term
Two area men pleaded guilty to corrupting the morals of a minor and were sentenced in Allegheny County Workhouse. Healey Burgos, 23, North East, fined 50 dollars and four months imprisonment, and Figuer a Santiago, 25, fined 10 dollars and three months imprisonment. Paul Cleveland, 17, Bakermills, on three year probation. Alvin Barrett, 28, Erle, ordered to pay 250 dollars in a morals case. Three were sentenced for drilling after suspension. Joseph McNair, 23, Erie, 150 dollar fine. Charles McKelvey Jr., Erie, 100 dollar fine and two years probation. Charles Trwin, Erie, 38, 100 dollar fine and 231 months in county prison.
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Erie
Allegheny County
Healey Burgos
North East
Fig- Uera Santiago
Paul Cleveland
Bakermills
Alvin Barrett
Erle
Joseph McNair
Charles McKelvey Jr
Charles Trwin
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Reds
Pittsburgh
William York Cocken
Trict
Mercy Hospital
Barbara Luwehyn
Barney's Firestone
Presentation
PSB. (Barney) Sonuskl
TSS
ST Pitta
AOCAL
Marion Street
Betty Crocker
Woolworth's
Woolworth’s
Presto
Universal Coffee Maker
Ge‘snooz
Spain
North Center Street
G. S. Palmer
Chenille
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