Rail workers plan nationwide walkout next month
Associated Press reports that a planned nationwide strike by railway firemen and enginemen is set for next month to protest the rejection of a union demand for an extra fireman on Diesel engines. David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, says the action will press for safety measures despite an emergency board ruling. The board found Diesels offer greater safety and that the extra man is unnecessary. The union plans a Chicago meeting October 7 to decide on a strike against all class one railroads.
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Associated Press
Washington
Union
Robertson
Chicago
Wattsburg hosts first Northwestern Pennsylvania Livestock Show
Lake High School student Miss Gileser named queen after 22 contestants from Erie Crawford Warren and Forest counties compete at Wattsburg Fair Grounds. Judges Hershel Chase and Robert Martin rate the event high with 160 hogs and 91 steers shown. Norman Patterson wins grand championship with a Hereford steer. Daniel Burgett’s Hereford earns reserve. Ellen King exhibits the champion steer under Future Farmers of America supervision.
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Run Wroeser
Thy
Norman Patterson
Diamond
Crawford County
Daniel Burgett
Sugar Grove
Ellen King
More Donora Damage Suits Prepared in Donora Disaster
Attorney Vincent Casey says about 10 new damage suits will be filed next week in Federal district court arising from the deadly fog incident in Donora last October. Some suits seek death claims while others cover injuries. The American Steel and Wire Company is named as a defendant in several cases. A suit filed today seeks 970000 for Velma Griger and her son Ronald over the death of Joseph Griger Jr on November 3, alleging heart failure aggravated by the smog.
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Pittsburgh
Vincent Casey
Donora
Federal District Court
Casey
American Steel and Wire Company
Velma Griger
Ronald
Joseph Griger, Jr
Epsilon Phi Chapter Hosts Tureen Dinner Event
Nine members of Epsilon Phi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority held a tureen dinner at the Findley Lake summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs. A M Litg. Mrs. Ruland Harvey presided at a brief meeting and the group presented gifts to past president Mrs. H E Curtis and Mrs. William Hoylen.
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Epsilon Phi Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Clinton Pratt
Fund
A.M. Litg
Findley Lake
Ruland Harvey
H. E. Curtis
William Hoylen
Wil Merk
Joan Patterson
East
Frederick Street
Dorothy Mitchell Birthday Honor at Bear Lake Party
A birthday celebration honored Miss Dorothy Mitchell of Bear Lake at the home of Mr and Mrs Delbert Croscutt on Tuesday evening. Lawrence Croscuth hosted as guests enjoyed games socializing and a birthday cake ice cream and coffee while Miss Mitchell received several gifts.
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Dorothy Mitchell
Bear Lake
Delbert Croscutt
Lawrence Croscuth
Miss Mitchell
Hearing Set On Railroad Abandonment From Jamestown
A hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission on the abandonment of the LW and NW railroad freight line from Jamestown to Westfield is scheduled for October 8. The hearing follows protests from the Jamestown Chamber of Commerce and Jamestown Manufacturers Association. The line, losing freight due to high costs, has seen passenger service end in 1947 and freight only since. Principal owner Salzbert Company of New York City, via Broadhead Holding Corporation since 1941.
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Heaing
Jamestown
Interstate Commerce Commission
LW. & NW
Westfield
Washington, D
Chamber of Commerce
Jamestown Manufacturers Association
Lie Railroad
Hie-1.c
tasi_Spring
Manufacturers Association
Loc
Dairymen's League to Hold 14th Annual Meeting in Syracuse
Syracuse hosts the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association for its 14th annual session since 1925 with about 2400 members and families expected. Allan B. Kling of the American Farm Bureau Federation will address the closing session. The four day event features Miss Margaret Bourke-White and ends with eight new directors and officers for the 1949-50 fiscal year. Charles Dickens visited the United States in 1842.
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Syracuse
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association
Leon A. Chapin
North Bangor
League
Allan B. Kling
American Farm Bureau Federation
Washington
Dairymen's League
Hline
Association
Margaret Bourke-White
Ctober
Chapin
Teamme
Goodrich To Lay Off 500 Workers In Widespread Cut
Akron Ohio Goodrich Co. announces 500 layoffs due to business loss since a strike began. About 16 290 employees nationwide will face cuts as wage disputes with the CIO United Rubber Workers continue. Union seeks a 25 cent hourly raise and $100 monthly benefits.
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Akron
Goodrich Co
Asa
He Concer
Goodrich
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Caliline
Cio-United Rubber
Iil Upton
Court considers pleas over custody of infant Timothy
In Pittsburgh Sept 28 the state supreme court weighed pleas from a childless Ol City couple and an unwed Ohio mother seeking possession of a one year old baby boy named Timothy. The Venango orphan's court ruling had given the child to Olga Suskd of Maxury Ohio, who later sought to reclaim him from Mr. and Mrs. Dullis Milner of Ol City for custody.
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Pittsburgh
State Supreme Court
Ohio
Venango County
Orphan's Court
Timothy
Olgy Suskd
Maxury
Coercion Alleged in Girl’s Adoption Papers Case
Counsel for the girl charged duress and coercion after she faced name-calling by her brothers and threats of expulsion from the family unless she surrendered the baby. Judge Maxey called the acts coercive, noting they aimed to pressure her into giving up the infant. Meanwhile in Prague the government seized the U S Information Service Daily Bulletin accusing it of containing a New York Times editorial insinuating German scientists aided Russia in atomic bomb research.
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Jishice
George W. Maxey
Prague
U. S. Information Service
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Nere
Rusia
Czschs
New Yorke ‘Times
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