Oil City and Erie News Briefs Highlight Local Events
City items report post office staff gifts to a retiring clerk, and fifteen enlistments with six sent to Camp Luna. Obituaries note Ida Gates's sudden death from a heart attack at 54 after a quilting session. In Meadville, George Buthkey faces larceny trial, while Brady Irwin is found guilty of driving with a suspended license. Oil City curtails post office truck pickups due to wartime tire shortages.
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Olean
Post Office
William McCue
East Green Street
Charles
Ing
Br. McCue
John Eniser
Clerka-Carriers Association & Purse
Frantlin
Erie
Oil City
Ida Elma Gates
Fred Gates
Rockland Township
Root
Foht Showers
Benedette
Eli County
Showers
Olean High School
Paul's Men's Wear
Meadvillé
George W. Buthkey
Uniontown
Esther Bortner
Meadville
Brady M. Irwin
State convicts get war orders in first WPB contract
Harrisburg reports the War Production Board allocated Pennsylvania prison industries its first contract, ordering 70,200 blue chambray work shirts for the navy at 43550 dollars and promising more jobs to convert prison facilities to capacity operation. F Herbert Cooper, chief of the prison industries, welcomed the agreement after talks with WPB officials in Washington.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
War Production Board
Navy
F. Herbert Cooper
Conmon Vesl
WPB
Washington
Pittsburgh Woman Saves $800 Payroll in Scuffle
Mary A. Reisinger of Pittsburgh defended a payroll package from an armed robber. She kicked the bag under a parked car to save the payroll worth $800 but the thief grabbed her purse a diamond ring and several pairs of new stockings. She lamented losing the stockings more than the money.
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Pittsburgh
Mary A. Reisinger
Funeral Services for Mrs Ida May Olds
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida May Olds were held at 2:30 p m yesterday at the West Congress street home with Rev. Wilmer Helfer and Rev. George Morgan of Erie officiating. The service featured songs I Am Satisfied and Face to Face performed by Rev and Mrs Helfer and Mrs Morgan. Burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery with attendees including Glen Gauflen D B Phillips Trvin Grane Horton Devis Archie Goldfinch and Sam Irvine. out of town mourners came from Findley Lake Erie Hanover Ohio Bradtford and Columbus among others.
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Ida May Olds
West
Congress Street
Wilmer Heffer
George Morgan
Erie
Horton Devis
Archie Goldfinch
Sam Irvine
Pine Grove
Cemedry
Julig Boorman
Findley Lake
Prank Place
Edward
Bestrige Wellejus
Henry Lauer
Hanovarter
Ohio
Harriet Smith
Bradtford
Bessie Grofort
James Krown
Alice Went
Columbus
Administration Loses Battle With Farm Bloc In Congress
In Washington on September 4, administration leaders urged a farm bloc compromise on higher parity prices and broader Roosevelt controls. House passage of a bill with farm labor costs added to parity prompted trader talks with bloc members to avert Senate action. An unofficial Senate poll showed 40 of 96 in favor, 22 opposed, with 10 undecided. administration options include pushing for wage-linked parity or veto threats, even halting legislation to rely on wartime powers.
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Associated Pressington
Congression Farm Bloc
Regislaion
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Joseph ¥. Guffey
D-Pa
James J. Davis
R-Pa
Thomas
D-Okla
White House
Congress
Mrs Wesley Kinch Rites Held at Daughter’s Home
Funeral services for Mrs Wesley Kinch were conducted at her daughter Mrs Stanley Nichols’s Frarin Street residence. The Rev Wilmer Heffer and Rev George Morgan officiated with local aides arranging a burial at Pine Grove Cemetery. Out of town attendees included relatives from Meadville Warren Elmira Venus and Tionesta among others.
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Wesley Kinch
Iemory
Stanley Nichols
Frarin Street
Wilmer Heffer
Christian Missionary Alliance Church
George Morgan
Tiie
Roy Mather Gang
George Faulkner
Andrew Jones
William Rhodes
Irwin Crane
Pine Grove
Sid
Seulah Rhodes
Dancy Rhodes
Meadville
Frank
Vere Frank
Prante Meeley
Seneca
W. H. Conie
William Coole
Gene
Warren
Harvey Goole
Elmira
Frank Eaton
M. K. Eaton
Galeton
Glen Kinch
Venus
Orie Kinch
Tionesta
Raymond Coole
City Council Hearing on Assessments Faces Protests
City officials debated the revised assessment plan amid hundreds of complaints and protests from property owners. Council members withheld formal action pending Court of Appeals results, while noting progress and potential fixes to address glaring errors.
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Court of Appeals
Kinley
Michels
Cet Nesessor
Court of Apseals
Hig
Dor D. Williams
Sesion
Court of and Tomorro
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