Causes Sought For Pennsylvania Fish Kills Highlighted
State officials moved to determine why three fish kills hit Pennsylvania over a weekend. In Lackawanna County 40 000 minnows and 5 000 suckers died in the Lackawanna River near Simpson, with a four mile stretch reportedly killed. Trout Creek near Bethlehem suffered another kill tied to plating waste from Allentown GE, due to a line break. A western Pennsylvania kill along the Allegheny from Freeport to Cheswick was blamed on acid mine drainage from heavy rains washing strip mines. Losses were estimated in dollars and cents pending analysis.
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Pennsylvania
Lackawanna River
Simpson
Carbondale
Lackawanne County
Clair Fleeger
Walter Kohler
State Sanitary Water Board
Harrisburg
Fleeger
Susquehanna
Trout Creek
Bethlehem
Northampton
Lehigh Counties
Allegheny River
Freeport
Cheswick
Kohler
General Electric
Allentown
G. E
Health Department
Kiskiminetas
Allegheny
Smiorda
Clay Purifying Powers Against Radioactive Elements
The article explains clay acts like a sponge for radioactive materials such as strontium and cesium-137. An ounce of clay can remove most strontium from a gallon of water, while cesium-137 is removed even more efficiently under certain conditions. Tests identified soil types ranking by their strontium removal ability: Conasauga shale, Fithian illite, New Mexico kaolinite, Wyoming bentonite, North Carolina vermiculite, and Utah halloysite.
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Gres Aevne
New Mexico
Wyoming
North Carolina
Utah
Noted pacifist dies near Philadelphia
G. Burton Parshall, 58, a noted pacifist and former Progressive party candidate, died yesterday at his Chester Springs home. Memorial services will be held at Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
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Chester Springs
Friends Meeting House
Philadelphia
G. Burton Parshall
Parshall
State Senate
Progressive Party
Escaped killer Montgomery recaptured after 11 years
In Butler County Pennsylvania 19 year old Donald Montgomery, an arson murder convict, escaped from jail after scaling an exercise yard wall. An 11 year old boy named Jimmy McKain found him, fed him three apples, and alerted police leading to Montgomery’s capture with no resistance. He faces a jail-break hearing as authorities pursue related charges in the Ritter case.
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Donald Montgomery
Buller
Brackenridge
Buller County
Fife
Pauline Ritter
Cahol
Montgomery
Butler, Pa
Paulie Ruttter
Cabot
Butler County
Butler
Jimmy McKain
McKainney
Jimmy
Pittsburgh
Charles Ganss Jr
Ritter
Ganss
Raymond
State Mapping Flood Controls For Warren
Warren Forests and Waters Department backed a five step plan for Indian Hollow Ruin Warren flood protection. Maurice K. Goddard said the preliminary report goes to Warren Borough for approval and outlines debris basin construction riprapped channel seven feet wide five feet deep inlet conduit and outlet works and channels. Della Wolf died from burns suffered in a Perry County hotel explosion that killed her husband Wilbur at the Blue Mountain Hotel in Sterretis Gap.
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Warren
Forests and Waters Department
Indian Hollow
Maurice K. Goddard
Forests and Waters
Department
Mail Swamps Herbert Hoover After Operation
Former President Herbert Hoover's post operative mail volume at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center has surged to thousands of letters daily. His seven staff are working overtime and extra secretaries were hired to acknowledge messages as Hoover, 88, recovers from the August 28 operation removing a malignant tumor. Doctors anticipate at least another week in hospital.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center
Hoover
Two Teens Probed For Water Fountain Detergent Prank
Two 16 year old Cranberry Township girls faced Judge William E. Breene in Franklin juvenile court after authorities cited them for placing a bottle of detergent into a local water fountain. They signed a statement admitting responsibility and received probation plus a $250 restitution order.
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Cranberry Township
William E. Breene
Franklin
Oil City
Eisenhower Tells Kennedy How Europe Stands
President Kennedy, fresh from Newport, returns to Washington to hear from former President Eisenhower about Europe. They plan lunch at the White House to discuss U.S. relations with Europe, including Berlin tensions and NATO’s future, amid Eisenhower’s recent NATO tour with Mrs. Eisenhower and two grandchildren.
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Eisenhower
Kennedy
Europe
Yachington
Newport
R I
Washington
White Hous
U. S
Berlin
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Eisenhowser
Cooler Front Pushes Eastward
A cool front pushing slowly eastward across the nation’s midsection triggered widespread showers and thunderstorms from Texas to Michigan. Sunny skies prevailed in the West with warmer readings in mountain areas. Early today low temperatures ranged from the 40s to the 80s along the Gulf Coast, southern Texas, and desert Southwest.
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Associated Press
Texas
Michigan
Midwest
Southeast
Pacific Northwest
Gulf Coast
Desert
Southwest
Popcorn Stand Remembered at Center and Main Streets
The piece recalls Johnny Clough's popcorn stand at Center and Main streets where he died after checking parcels for 10 cents. In the rear, Downey drug store and the Corry Pharmacy occupy the site today, with Gallagher the tailor's rooms upstairs.
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Johnny Clough
Center
Main Streets
Downey Drug Store
Corry Pharmacy
Gallagher
Barroom harms and hidden harms in a small town
A letter to the editor rails at alcohol’s effects citing a mother leaving three children in a car while she barsides for an hour, a blue eyed girl asking for her father, and a father drunk after graduation. The piece laments auto deaths and quotes Judge Coleridge on drink’s crimes, likening the barroom to a bank that takes money time character and independence.
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Erin
Van
Coleridge
Candidate McCain Appeals to Erie PTA in 1000 Vote Rally
Stephen McCain, Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, spoke to about 1,000 PTA members in Erie two weeks ago. He urged the audience to consider what his party has done for the people and challenged them on contributions to society, asking what they have done for progress and civilization.
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Erie
Stephen McCain
Democrs
St Marys Man Reenacts Wife Slaying in Public
Ernest Hanes 49 re enacted his confessed murder of wife Loretta at the Joe Gros restaurant to investigators. Hanes is to be arraigned on a first degree murder charge in Ridgway as St Marys police report the couple had separated after a history of violent quarrels. Loretta Hanes survived by a son and daughter. her mother Mrs Feddell Blair of Ridgway.
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ST. Marys
Ernest Hanes
Elk County
Norbert Powell
Hanes
Loretta
Joe Gros
Powell
Justice of the Peace Parry, Law
Ridgway
Jodny Hanes
St-Mi
St. Marysborough
Rideway
Twee
Joseph Groll
Groll
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Corry
Aerve
Root Furniture
South First Avenue
Bennett’s
Orna
du Pont
Bennett
House of Fashion
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