Fall Weather, Traffic Changes, and Odd News From Erie
A late September round of local items reports typical fall weather and tax deadlines in Erie. A Concord street theft leaves a leather coat missing from Ora Cook’s car on Glinton street while a marriage license is issued to Joseph Malek and Ethel Stears in Erie. News covers VFW visits, a radio fake incident tied to Michigan prison escapees, traffic changes over Glade bridge near Warren, and Yom Kippur being observed. Also noted are a Meadvill e NRA demonstration plan, a 17 year old girl’s rooftop escapade on the Erie Flier, political shifts in Erie’s wards, weather outlooks for early October, and a postponed NRA parade in Ashtabula. Further items include a Fortes bid to block Sunday sports, an injunction against Sunday ballots, stock fluctuations in New York, and looming winter forecasts from Waynesburg with frost warnings and northwest winds around St Michael’s Day.
Episcopal leaders to be heard in Erie conference
In Erie, Bishop John C. Ward of the Erie diocese will host an early clergy conference at St Pauls Cathedral on Tuesday October 8. Two nationally known figures Bishop Thomas J. Darst of the East Carolinas and Rev Arthur M. Sherman D D will present programs on a new church deal. Clergy participants include Rev F W Haworth and others with Cyrus F Mackey as the only lay speaker. Afterward the visitors will stay for regional lay conferences and a mass meeting at St Pauls Cathedral on October 8.
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Erie
Erie Episcopal
St Paul's Cathedral
John C. Ward
Erle
Thomas 3. Darst
East Carolinas
Church Commission On Evangelism
Arthur M. Shernan
Zoone College
Central China University
Woochang
Darst
Episcopal Church
Sherman
Relious Education
Missionary Department
F. W. Haworth
Trinity Church
Philip C. Pearson
New Castle
F .B. Atkinson
Sharon
Aaron Bennett
St. Marys
Martin Ainger
D. di
Franklin
Cyrus F. Mackey
Francis B. Blodgett
St. Paul's Cathedral
Prominent Erie Citizen Dies in Stroke at Home
Erie observed the death of John H. Bekken tamp Tl of 82H, a leading funeral director and Mason, who succumbed at 12 40 p m Friday after a two week illness from a stroke. He led an active life and was regarded as a foremost figure in Erie society and local funeral services.
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Erie
John H. Bekkentamp
Ath Street
K. Berkenkamp
Bishop Gannon Will Attend National Conference in New York
Erie diocese head Mark Gannon will lead a large delegation of men and women to the National Conference of Catholic Charities in New York from October 1 to 4. The meeting will mark the centenary of the Society of St Vincent de Paul and is expected to draw more than 5,000 delegates and visitors from the United States Canada and the West Indies.
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Erie
Sept. S
Sroop Sonn
Mark Gannon
Arge
National Conference of Catholic Charities
New York
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
United States
Canada
West Indies
Falconer Youth Dies After Roadside Hit By Auto
Jammtown September 30 Richard Sherman Swanstrom 27 of Levant was killed instantly at 8 20 pm when struck by Floyd N Braley 23 of Falconer while walking with Merle Hallquist 17 toward Falconer on Levant Patconer Road The car driver said he could not see them until the vehicle was close Coroner Lincoln will hold an inquest Braley remained in custody with his parents after the scene investigation
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Jammntown
Richard Sherman Swanstrom
Richard Swanstrom
Levant
Falconer High School
Falconer
Floyd N. Braley
North Dow Street
Jamestown
Merle Hallquist
Swanstrom
Levant Patconer Road
Braley
Swatstrom
Hellquist
Wesson Paplow
Lincoln
Paplow
Hallquist
Slayer of Aged Couple on Farm Thought Insane
County officials doubt if Tom Smith will be tried for the Biegert killings. A sanity commission may rule on his claim of insanity, with its timing tied to a return of the ill district attorney. Prosecutors also weigh the fate of Lynn Sloan, linked to another case, as the probe nears its end. In Columbia, Mo, Dr. P H Chase, a Presbyterian minister, is noted as a skilled amateur magician.
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Tom Smith
Albert
Johanna Biegert
Smith
Burton R. Laub
Martiner E. Graham
Biegert
Lynn Sloan
Sloan
Otter
Laub
Columbia, Mo
P. H. Chase
Louisiana
Central
Missouri
Erie Seeks Loan for Park Project Amid Public Works Push
Harrisburg Sept 30 The total requests for federal public works loans in Pennsylvania rose by 4 362 094 to 58 674 998 The state public work advisory board will review and recommend to federal authorities among new applications the Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission 1 110 000 for Erie dredging and Jackson Township Mercer County 2 478 for road construction
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Public Work Advisory Board
Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission
Erie
Jackson Township
Mercer County
Prehistoric Skull Found on Moureau River Site
A prehistoric skull about ten inches in width and nearly four feet long was found near Lemmon South Dakota by Harper Edwards Asia on the Moureau River. Geologists are examining the area for additional fossils.
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Lemmon, S. D
Harper Edwards
Asia
Moureau River
White slave ring probed in Erie investigation expands
Erie authorities report a white slave ring reaching from New York Ohio and Canada with women brought into Erie then sent to other cities. Federal investigators have visited recently and a expelled informant alleges an Erie woman previously imprisoned for running a disorderly house imported two girls in white slave trade. The case remains under silent investigation.
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Erie
New York
Ohio
Canada
Dominion
Erle
Indian Linked to New York Slaying Probe
SRIE Sept 80 Efforts mount to tie Lynn Sloan an American Indian suspected of conspiracy in a fatal 1980 Schoharie New York case to the murder of George Luther a Girard County farmer for a share of an $8000 life policy. Sloan is in Erie County jail awaiting charges as authorities seek a photograph and further links amid reports of white slave traffic and bondage rings.
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SRIE
Lynn Sloan
Schoharie
N. Y
Albany
Sloan
Erie County
George Luther
Richard Dundon
H. W. Schmandine
Sheriff Schmandine
New Officers Installed for Greenville Legion Auxiliary
Mrs Sally Homer directed and Miss Josephine Dorwonk assisted as new officers of Lieut Elmer C Carrier Pont American Legion Auxiliary were installed at a Wright Street home meeting. Officers include President Mrs Lloyd Stowe First Vice President Mrs Frank Gravino Second Vice President Mrs Frank Harvey Secretary Mrs John Neylon Treasurer Mrs V E Orn Chaplain Mrs Carl Taylor Historian Mrs Eugene Miller and Sergeant at Arms Mrs Frank Schrader. Cards and refreshments followed.
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Sally Homer
Josephine Dorwonk
The
American Legion Auxiary
Greenville
Elmer C. Carrier Pont
American Legion Auxiliary
Lloyd Stowe
Wright Street
Frank Gravino
Frank Harvey
John Neylon
V. E. Orn
Carl Taylor
Eugene Miller
Frank Schrader
Bruere New York Banker to Lead Government Credit Ops
Washington dispatch reports Henry Bruere president of Bowery Savings Bank New York has been chosen by the administration to coordinate the government credit operations Treasury officials said today Bruere will oversee credit programs and coordinate related activities during the economic measures implemented by the administration.
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Ora Cook
Concord Street
Glinton Street
Joseph M. Malek
Corry
Ethel B. Stears
Columbus
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Indiana
Michigan City
Radio Commission
Youngeville
Glade Bridge
Warren
Northast
Pinchot
Edinboro
Meadville
NRA
Endicott
Betty Litchico
East Maine
Frank J. Gaczkowski
Paul Watson
Second Ward
Watson
James Maloney
Spring Street
Yan's
West South Street
William van Vleet
Iowa
New York Stock Exchange
U. S. Weather Bureau Today
Ashtabula
Waynesburg
Green Bounty
St. Michael's Day
Gannon
Falconer Youth
E. E. Guignon
Royal Crown Razor Blades
Barbers
Doane
West Main St
Thas
N.Y
Sue
Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion
Life Insurance
Theo P. Williams
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