Local notes span death, crime, and council talks
Obituary notes mark the death of Mrs. Kenneth R. Benson and service details in Meadville. A prowler report near 663 Wayne Street elicited police checks with no arrest. Local aviation talks advance with Yost Engineering on airstrip upgrades and land issues in Corry. An Erie tavern owner faced involuntary manslaughter plea after a fatal dispute. Salvation Army leaders will lead Sunday worship at the Corry Citadel. Rex Apps outlines fire safety program plans while Devo tions are held. A 15 year old sustains a facial laceration from a snowball, not admitted. Marriage license filed for Campisano and Sinare. property transfer recorded for Stockton to Atwood. Funeral service for Harry W Caldwell announced. attorney W. Everett Benson dies in Erie. Millcreek discusses a one mill tax bump to fund a new elementary school and notes weather outlook with warmer weekend ahead and cooler midweek expectations.
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Paul J. Seiler
Western Pennsylvania
Salvation Army
Citadel
John Eden
Corry Corps
Rex Apps
Corry Fire Department
Helen Tripp
Cne
Beatrice
Isolated gunplay incident in Korea stuns UN and North Korea
The UN Command labeled a Communist ambush in the DMZ that killed Captain Hong Chung wi and wounded Spec. 5 Harold Aldrich an isolated incident. The patrol of eight unarmed Americans and South Korean soldiers was on a zonal task near the Pukhan River when attacked. Aldrich survived, Hong was recovered, and Lt. Col. Alphus R. Clark led the group back to safety. The incident prompted planned talks with North Korean officials at Panmunjom to protest the attack.
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Seoul
Korea
Demilitarized Zone
North
South Korea
U.N
Panmunjom
Hong Chung-wi
Harold Aldrich
Montrose
Colo
Pukhan River
Hong
Aldrich
Alphus R. Clark
Leavenworth
Kan
Fire forces Noel Coward from East Side apartment
A fire in Noel Coward's living room on New York's East Side forced the British writer to retreat from his apartment. The blaze destroyed a table and bookcase and filled the units with smoke as Coward crawled to the corridor and worried about rewriting the top half of his latest short story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bire
Noel Coward
New York
Coward
Community notices from Spartansburg PTA and clubs
Spartanburg PTA members convened in the high school gym despite bad weather with new playground committee appointees and a $50 contribution for the outdoor tennis court. Numerous local groups met for events including Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, church services, and a Thanksgiving planning session at the Youth Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartansburg
Sparta
PTA
Gehua
Herbert Most
Margaret Morris
Mra
It Young
Roland Rogers
Thomas Eastman
Roland Pathany
Cecil Sherred
New Baby
Michael Anthony
Erie
Sherred
Vanie Hamiltons
Sparta Fireman
Cub Scout Committee
Mary Dooher
Helge Wilborg
Titusville
Lowell Weidner
Titusville Hospital
Convict Alleges State Trooper Pressured Plea in 1954
Franklin Siggins testified that in 1954 he pleaded guilty to burglary forgery and a bad check after a state trooper told him a guilty plea would yield about one year in jail while a not guilty plea could bring 10 to 20 years. He received nine 6 to 12 year terms instead, to run concurrently, a factor raised during a habeas corpus hearing before Judge William E. Breene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ranklin
Riehard Yj
Siggins
OU City
Kenneth E. McCoy
State Correctional Institution At
Pittsburgh
William E. Breene
Steel Leader Charles Hook Dies at 83 in Baltimore
Charles R. Hook longtime Armco Steel Corp president and board chairman and former NAM head died of cancer in Baltimore at 83. The Middletown Ohio native guided Armco through six decades of growth from obscurity to prominence among small steel producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Ohio
Charles R. Hook
Armco Steel Corp
National Association of Manufacturers
Hook
Armeco
Baltimore
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Florida
Kenneth R. Benson
Furs Tmerly
Corry
Meadville
Aero Supply
Joan Gorney
Wayne Street
Miss Gorney
Alice
Louise Golurik
R. D
Girard
Yost Engineering Co
DuBois
Willie Phillips
Joseph Harris
Phillips
Harris
Kenneth
Kenneth Hunt Sr
Ridge Street
Corry Memorial Hospital
Erie County
Frank F. Campisano
Karen M. Sinare
John D. Stockton
Doris A. Atwood
Duane Street
Cor
Eile County
Wood Funeral Home
Harry W. Caldwell
Nis
Margaret Weed
W. Everett Benson
Hamot
Paul C. Benson
Old Erie High School
University of Michigan
Michigan Law School
Wayne University
Detroit
Millcreek
William Simonsen
Erie Building Authority
ARE
North Center Street
Mariner Eentral Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sparta Grange
Grange
Jake Eldred
Union City
Memorial Hospital
Paul Capela
New Parents
Paula Jane
Union M Memorial Hospital
Kenneth Eastman
R. V. Shreve
Spartanabirg
Hussell Mitchell
Hamot Hospital
John Lunsford
First Baptist Church
Lunsfords
Helen
David
Washington
Faith Baptist Church
Victory Guild
Vincent Montoro
Charles Kolaja
Dorothy Nichols
Janet
Crawford
Doris Blakeslee
Madeline Wefferys
Townville
Carolyn Obert
We Dent
I Sewier
Helen Sedilen
Bessie Obert
Eileen Rogers
Kathy Northrop
Lehman’s
Lehman’s Tire Service
West Main Street
13Th Street
Franklin
Ken Nuhfer
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