Local notices and hospital updates from mid-century papers
Obituary notes: Miles Robert Ross, 18, dies of cancer at Spencer Hospital after long illness. born Oct 11, 1939 in Latrobe. VFW Ladies League to meet. Titusville police charge two men with reckless driving after drag races. Local ads note deliveries, dining, services, and events. Meadville and Warren items include hospital wing dedication and sanitary authority payment. Bradford and Erie briefs cover school enrollments, a safe-cracking case solved, and community notices.
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Miles Robert
Miles D. Ross
Spencer Hospital
Warren
E. P. McManaman
Erie Catholic
Scott
Cherry Hardware
Franklin Joint Schools
John A. Haubert
Women’s City Association
Bradford
Floyd C. Frets
Phillips Gift Shop
Erie
Philadelphia
Upper Berlin
Grandma Moses Celebrates 98th Birthday Quietly
In Eagle Ridge New York AP Grandma Moses aged 98 feeble with arthritis spent her birthday away from public view. Daughter Anna Mary Robertson Moses known as Grandma Moses gained world renown for rural Vermont border area scenes where she has lived all her life.
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Eagle Ridge
N. x
Grandma Moses
Lieve ‘Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Grandma
Vermont
Leader Becomes Father Again in Harrisburg Hospital
RISBURG AP Governor George M Leader cancelled several campaign appearances to greet his fourth child a nine pound son named David Charles born in Harrisburg Hospital. The birth occurred as Leader runs for the U S Senate while his wife Mrs Leader, 39, recovers. David Charles is the first child born to a Pennsylvania governor in office in many years. The governor is 40 and his other children are George Michael Jr 13 Fred 9 and Jarie Ellen 4.
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Leader
Risburg AP
George M. Leader
U. S. Senate
Harrisburg
Indiantown Gap
David Charles
David
Pennsylvania
George Michael Jr
Fred
Jarie Ellen
Driver killed in Route 30 triple crash in Irwin
A flaming three car collision on Route 30 near Irwin Westmoreland County killed Joseph Messineo Jr 22 of East Pittsburgh. Carol Churtk 18 of North Braddock escaped. James Resichensky 27 of Worldotl hospitalized with a head injury. A. Krwek 28 of McKeesport and family unhurt. Passerby smothered flames.
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Irwin, Pa
Westmoreland County
Joseph Messineo Jr
East Pittsburgh
Driv
Messineo
Wnte
Carol Churtk
North Braddock
Westmoreland Hospital
James Resichesky
Werldol
Westingreland Hospital
Inseph A. Krtwek
McKeesport
Area Couple Hurt In Crash Near Beaverdam
A Beaverdam area crash injured two people, Howard Cox and Miss Carol McCray, when a wet uphill road on a blacktop caused a collision about a mile east of Beaverdam. Cox suffered chin lacerations and chest contusions, while McCray sustained knee and leg lacerations. State police reported no missing persons and had limited information on the incident.
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Beaverdam
Corry
Howard Cox
Te Dia Curry
Carol McCray
Cox
Miss McCray
McCray
Ania Wis
Arsonist Flees State Hospital From Torrance Ward
State Police said convict arsonist Robert Conkling 20 from Staten Island N C escaped Torrance State Hospital Friday night. He had been under observation since June 30 and was to begin a prison term for setting a fire that destroyed Giles Hall at St Francia College Loratto Pa.
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Blairsville
Torrance State Hospital
Robert. Conkling
Staten Island
N. C
Conkling
Giles Hall
St. Francia College
Loratto
Burning Schooner Sunk After Coast Guard Action
A 270 ton three masted schooner Ana Maria caught fire 200 miles southeast of Cape Race and later sank after rescue of its 40 crew by fishermen. The Coast Guard cutter Spencer shelled and sank the burning vessel as an Atlantic menace, though initial reports of rescues were later corrected.
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Coast Guard
Cape Race
Nild
New Blockade of Berlin Seen
Deputy Premier Heinrich Rau signaled East Germany may seal off West Berlin with a new blockade. He accused Bonn of hampering inter German trade and warned that continued West German limits on exports could collapse supplies to West Berlin via highway river barge and rail.
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West Germany
West Berlin
East Germany
Good Deed Fatal in Pennsylvanian Electrocution
In Somerset Pennsylvania Joe Spangler, 30, of Stoystown, was electrocuted Saturday while helping a neighbor change a water well pipe. A pine he was holding touched a high tension wire, causing the fatal accident.
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Somerset
Joe Spangler
Stoystown
Pennsylvania Leader Slams Eisenhower Veto On Redevelopment Bill
Governor and lawmakers highlight loss of 49 million dollars in long term loans and grants for Pennsylvania to fund roads, sewage, and water facilities. President Eisenhower pockets pockets veto drew bipartisan criticism while urging new Congress to act on similar aid. Democratic Senator Flood calls veto destructive to economic recovery and security.
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Harmishurgap
Esenhower
Pennsylvania
Douglas Page
Congress
Eisenhower
Daniel J. Flood
D-Pa
Edward Martin
RePa
Washington
Joseph
Clark
Europe
Nadler Ties In Two Matches On CBS Quiz Show
Nadler, top money winner in TV quiz history with $252,000, scores two ties on CBS The 000 Challenge. He resumes next week against Sir Kenelm Guinness of London in a British kings and queens round after a $16,000 tie. Feltham, Huntington Station, N Y, also halts Nadler at $8,000 on baseball questions. match to resume next week.
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Nadler
CBS
Kenelm Guinness
London
John Feltham
Huntington Station
N. Y
Feltham
St. Louis
Hospital Report Details Admissions And Discharges
At the Corry Hospital an admissions list includes Floyd L. Smith Bene Lake Wilton J. Deuink and Clymer residents while discharges note Margaret Ann Frisina aged four and several local residents. Also listed are names and addresses of patients and families alongside a telephone emergency note. Clarence H. Tennant Somerset district manager for General Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania dies in Erie after a long illness at 49.
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Floyd L. Smith
Bene Lake
Wilton J. Deuink
Clymer
Margaret Ann
Joseph M. Frisina
Snyder Circle
Telephone Exec
Somerset
Erie
Clarence H. Tennent
General Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania
Tennent
Community Hospital
Tension Grows On Integration
Local readers witness rising tension as Thursday Supreme Court arguments influence district judges Walter Hoffman and Albert Bryan on Norfolk and Arlington cases. Rep. Brooks Hays urged SCOTUS to alter the 1954 desegregation ruling, while Governor Orval Faubus accused both the Court and the Eisenhower administration of inaction.
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Ginta
Supreme Court
Walter Hoffman
Albert Bryan
Norfolk and
Arlington
High Court
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Little Rock
South
Supreme Cort
Arkansas
Orval B. Faubus
Eisenhower
Area Man Killed When Toy Plane Hits Power Line
Clyde Swanson a 23 year old from Pine Grove Township Warren County was electrocuted when the control wire of his model aircraft touched a 7 200 volt power line during a farm flight Swanson and two companions James Keller and Laverne Darling witnessed the incident Coroner Ei Lowrey ruled accidental death by electrocution
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Waption — Rpyer
Clyde Swanson
Pine Grove Township
Warren Couity
Swanson
James Keller
Laverne Darling
Ei Lowrey
A&P Workers Set to Strike in Pittsburgh District
A strike will affect 3400 union members across 123 A and P stores in Western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio and West Virginia, scheduled to begin at midnight Wednesday after Local 590 members voted Sunday to strike to press for a new contract. The union rejected a three year offer with wage increases of 10 cents first year, eight cents second and third years.
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A&p
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
A & P Food
590
Food
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Jerry
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Earl Hasbrouck
Liberty
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Weststell
Portland
Arthur F Welshon
Westfield Memorial Hospital
Welshon
Samuel
Madonna
Eme
Moses
Tappan Electric Range
Westinghouse
Roberts
State Hospital
Wwew
Venice
Berlin
Morrisburg
Tal
Ethel Weller
Corry Hospital
Aeland C. Fuller
Shady Agenue
Oliver Whitney
Zyemimt H. Kosnik
Erle
Lillian M. Galbreath
Columbu
Howard Johnson
Ashville
Clarence L. Munsee
Union City
Everett LeRoy Nichols
Spartansburg
Paul Chaffee
Wattsboro
Charles Blehyngki
North Center Street
Jacob Stevens
Centerville
Len Hoylen
East Pleasant Street
Joe Cmiel
Eagle Abide
Harley Hall
R. D
David Coon
Richard ©. Ross
West ‘Ving ‘Street
Charles
George Hagger
Mott Street
Don ‘Taylor
Debora Bernice
East Sheet
Gaylord Northrop
Debra Guy
Corry. Savings Clean Gun
Mev Center
Allstate
Baca
N. Center St
Ehone
Corry Drive
MoPar
Clarence Wallace
Plymouth
Corry, PA
Ralph Kinney Donald Damon
Kodak
First Avenue
Charles Huberts
M. B. Raymond
Rossbacher Insurance Service
First Avenue, Corry
Root Furniture
Lawrence Sulton
Mrs. S Joseph Gronostay
Goodyear Tractor Tires
Remington Mall Chain Saws
CROWN
Johnson Brothers
William Crane
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