Far warmer weather and board meeting notes
Monthly meeting of the Board of Education tonight featuring remarks by city controller Phinteiplia and a statewide hook up on the Pumpocratic state bucket issue. Traffic concerns include new parking limits in front of the post office and a warning from the state liquor control board about liquor service at stands on bars. Police investigated a wagon dispute at Dow Hill. Ten Corry youths head to Erie for Civilian Conservation Corps exams. Cartoons mention Rex film The Barretts of Wimpole Street rerun.
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Tanita
Gace
School Board to Act on Other Relief Jobs
Curry School District eyes a new vocational school as the major project under the Works Division plan. The board approved the vocational school proposal and will hear property committee recommendations on other feasible unemployment relief projects. Total district costs for the broader program are projected near 23 000 dollars, with savings on construction.
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School Board
Dehalley
Curry
Rete Works Division
Ford of Education
FWD
Oil City RWD Work Drafted For Fall Project Start
Oil City October 8. Notice of approval of several proposed RWD prospects was received late Friday by the county relief office here and work on most jobs will begin Monday October 15. The fall and winter works program for Venango County will start with about 50 men on the Franklin sewer job. Approved projects include laying of new water mains on Pumpkin Road Oil City at 15000 dollars lowering of 1500 feet of Rouseville water lines installation of 0 feet of new line on Main Street Relining of reservoir at Gouity Home repairs at the home and reclamation of 25 acres of land for pasture Registration of veterans graves throughout the county copying of records at the court house topographic survey of Franklin.
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Oil City
Venango County
Franklin
Main Street
Gouity Home
Franiklin
Young Woman In Auto Accident In Oil City
Miss Martue L. Palo, 21, of Clavion, was slightly injured when her 3 Willys Knight sedan slid off a wet pavement onto a muddy berm on the Fryburg Oil City highway near Hampton Station Saturday after ten in the morning. She was treated at Oil City hospital and released.
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Oil City, Ort
Martue L. Palo
Clavion
Fryburg
Oil City
Hampton Station
Oil City Hospital
Tne
Rural Carriers Meet at North East in Bre County
Postmaster Harry Aver and Mr and Mrs Glen Gates attended the Bre County Rural Letter Carriers Association gathering at North East Saturday evening. Over a hundred members and their wives were present. Postmaster Andy Knapp of North East presided as chairman. Talks by Postmasters Herbert Schlaudecker of Erie and Auer of Corry, plus Inspector E J Gallagher, addressed carrier interests and service well being. A dinner preceded the business meeting in the Baptist church.
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Harry Aver
Glen Gates
Elmer Shuss
Wesley Ober
Bre County Rural Letter Carriers Association
North East
Andy 5. Knapp
Herbert Schlaudecker
Erie
Auer
Corry
E. J. Gallagher
Baptist Churea
Fatally Hurt in Erie Fall at Liberty Street Home
John Schriefer a 66 year old resident of 2126 Liberty Street died after a 20 foot fall from a tree in front of his house Friday. He died Saturday afternoon at St. Vincent's Hospital from a fractured pelvis and internal injuries. Burial services are set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday from the residence and 9:00 a.m. at St. Michael's Church with interment at Trinity Cemetery.
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Erie
Eri
John Schriefer
Liberty Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Schriefer
Sem
Tate
George
Catherine Geiss Schriefer
St. Michael’s Church
Trinity Cemetery
Schwab Plea Fails. Banker Sentenced to Prison
Charlee W. Schwab steel magnate pleaded for clemency for Bilis Shelly, Blair County banker and former president of the First National Bank of Williamsport, who pleaded guilty to embezzling about $86,000. Judge Robert M. Gibson sentenced Shelly to two years in federal prison after Schwab’s plea.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Charlee W. Schwab
Bilis
Shelly
Blair County
First National Bank of
Williamsburg
Robert M. Gibson
Schwab
Mr. Shelly
Stew Man
Gibson
Push New Clue In Speer Slaying
United Press reports a ballistics expert joined the three week probe into the shotgun killing of Rev. Duett Speer headmaster at Mount Hermon School. State Police studied a shell-cap and buckshot. investigators pursued a lead on the murder weapon while officers denied confirmation of the results.
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United Press
Northfield
Mass
Duett Speer
Mount Hermon Preparatory School
Charles
J. van Amburgh
John F. Stokes
Joseph Pervari
Former Kane teacher freed in two deaths
Wallace J. Ward, 41, of Bellefonte, was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in the July 24 deaths of Gertrude Phillips and her brother Robert near Lake Winola. Ward testified intoxication came from a nervous condition and prior head injury. Court costs were assessed. verdict delayed as jury deliberated past 10 p.m. Ward once taught at Kane.
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Tunkhannock
Wallace
J. Ward
Bellefonte
Gertrude Phillips
Robert
Lake Winola
Ward
Miss Phillips
Henry
Terry
Kane
Death claims aged resident Leroy Patterson at 86
Leroy Patterson aged 86 died this morning in Erie. His body was brought to his niece Mrs Elbert Mixer of 22 West South Street. He had lived with Mixer for nine years in Corry and is survived by three other nieces and two nephews. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Leroy Patterson
Erie
Elbert Mixer
West South Street
Mr. Patterson
Alva Patterson
Concord Township
Patterson
Corry
Mixer
Louis Kireh
Bertha McCray
Henry Drake
Clyde
Earl Brown
Killed Under Train in West Rim in Chickasha Okla
Walter Cherry Wisniewski age 23 known on the east side was killed by a train Thursday in Chickasha Oklahoma. Parents Mr and Mrs Prank Wisniewski of 212 Wallace Street report the death. John J Brzezinski to handle funeral arrangements. He left his home for Mexico last Tuesday to work with an uncle. He leaves three brothers Edward Ones ter and Bernard Wisniewski.
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RIM
Walter “Cherry
Wisniewski
East Side
Chickasha
Okla
Prank Wisniewski
Wallace Street
John J Brzezinski
Mexico
Edward, Onester
Bernard Wisniewsk
Sound Warning After Swindle Plot Is Bared
Oil City post office warns of the Spanish swindle where letters promise large fortunes from released papers in Spain Mexico or South America. Recipients are told to travel with funds and are robbed of their money upon arrival. Local businessmen have received similar solicitations. Mr and Mrs Fred Healy visited Sinclairville New York.
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Clerry
Oil City
United States
Mexico
South America
Tria
Spain
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