Bradford and Penns Electric Utilities Merge Announcement
Bradford Electric Company filed with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to merge its properties with Pennsylvania Electric Company. Both firms are subsidiaries of the Associated System approved by a federal court. Pennsylvania Electric serves western Pennsylvania including Johnstown Meadville Erie and Warren. Associated Electric will exchange $904,000 principal in NY, PA and NJ Utilities for Pennsylvania Electric stock.
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Bradford
Bradford Electric Company
Toga
J. 2. Wolfe
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Pennsylvania
Reorganized
Associated System
Johnstown
Meadville
Erle and Warren
Associated Electric Company
Pennsylvania Electric
New York
New Jersey
New York, Pennsylvania
Auto chase ends with officer firing at suspect in Erie
Policeman James Hayes fired through the car after an attempted run down at 3 am near 14th and Division. Driver Samuel McCamman 45 of Girard and two occupants James Leach 20 and Charles Thompson, both listed as Negro, were arrested and held for investigation.
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Erte
Hureday
James Hayes
Samuel Meamman
Girard
James Leach
Charles Thompson
Hayes Edo
McCamman
Grand Jury Probes County Affairs in County Court
Erie witnesses testifying as grand jury investigates county offices and payroll. Reports say audit may cover all departments including the tuberculosis hospital. secrecy surrounds proceedings as jurors request records and consult Judge Miles B. Kitts.
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Erie
Seni
Court House
Rama
Austin J. O'Brien
Utll
Erie County
Tabercitasts Hospital
Fred Lamberton
Blair
Miles B. Kitts
Burton R. Laub
Erie City Hall Annex May Face Razing
Erie City Hall Annex nicknamed the white elephant may be razed after a section of false ceiling collapsed in the northern auditorium area early Thursday. No injuries occurred as the space was empty at the time. City building inspector Dante P Dundon cited structural concerns and potential demolition as the remedy.
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Erie City Hall
Erie
Eriey City Hall
Dante P—Dundon
Alinex
Kane Plant to Convert 60 Percent to Army Work
Kane Shirt Company plant of the Phillips-Jones Corporation will convert 60 percent of U S production to Army work. In three weeks, remodeling of the second floor will begin with no layoffs. The plant employs 80 workers and will join four other Phillips-Jones factories on war orders.
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Kane. Fa
Kane Shirt Company
Phillips-Jones Corporation
United States Army
Charles Schofield
Kane
Phillips-Jones
Barnesboro
Minersville
Coaldale
Potteville
Home-grown Vow Urges Parm Families Aid War Effort
Agricultural leaders urge Parm families to increase home-grown food and feed production as a vital contribution to the United States war effort.
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United States
Three Men Hurt as Car Skids West of Kane
A Friday morning crash on Route 6 near Kane injures Edwin Bliss Vincent Merle and Kenneth Plunkett all Sheffield men. The car operated by Bliss skidded in a rain storm struck a culvert rolled and demolished police report says all were thrown from the vehicle. Carl Slocum of Ludlow rushed the injured to Community Hospital. One man initially thought intoxicated was later found to be in shock with head injuries.
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Kane
Sheffield
Edwin Bliss
Vincent Merle
Kenneth | Plunkett
Berm
Bliss
Carl Slocum
Ludlow
Recluse Found Dead in Shack on Kushequa Road
The body of Edward Shope, 41, was found Thursday in a shack off the Kushequa road near Mt. Jewett. Harry Canaan, of Kuskequa, reported last saw the recluse alive two weeks earlier as he visited the forest path leading to the shack.
Call College Seniors To Meet Teacher Shortage
Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction explores using senior college students in industrial arts physical education and health as student teachers to relieve public school teacher shortages. Programs would be supervised by local superintendents and college authorities with approval sought from teacher education presidents.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Penn— Isylvania
Department of Public Instruction
Henry Elynower
Blonower
Ud Lo Fils
Klonower
Plane missing after crash near Presque Isle shore
Virgil Swain the Port Erie instructor reported at noon that no wreckage could be found northeast of the Coast Guard station at Presque Isle Park where a plane was said to have gone down over Lake Erie. He saw no victims or debris while circling a wide area.
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Erie
Virgil Swain
Port Erie
Swain
CAA
Start Manufacture of Plywood Planes in Jamestown
Fleets of plywood airplanes and gliders, many pictured in Jamestown, are expected to aid America's war effort as a rapid expansion of airplane construction unfolds. Keith Rider of American Aviation Corp says the planes roll out of the Jamestown Municipal Airport hangar around 1948, marking strong economic prospects for local wood working and plywood plants.
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Jamestown
America
Keith Rider
Paccalive Vic
Americar Aviation Corporation
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Earl
Penn
Public Utility Commission
Associated Gas
Fraterens Sirenae
Grand Jury
T. B. Hospital
Shirt
Frank M. Loveland
P. C. Miller
Russell Beckwith
Clayton Turner
Lawrence Thomas
C. S. Wallace
A. Zalzneck & Sons
Eearn
Zalzneck’s
Tuca
Ea ‘Maak Barrags
Conservation Division
WAR Production Board
Tleadarficam
Industritl
Group of
Feading Industrial
Mont
Cope
Montgomeny
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