Norwood Names James C Wilkes to Borough Council
James C Wilkes of 4185 Winana Ave was sworn in as Norwood borough councilman to fill the unexpired term of William Manholland who resigned and is moving away. Wilkes is a Republican construction foreman with two children and previously served on the council. The council voted to pay hospitalization and health insurance premiums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
James C. Wilkes
Winana Ave
William Manholland
Manholland
Wilkes
Murder Slaying Probed After grisly Jersey Pine Barrens death
New Jersey and Delaware County detectives investigated the brutal slaying of a 24 year old woman found dead in pine barrens near Manahawkin. Authorities described a beating then smothering with needles, a chin cut possibly from a ring, and blood on the chest indicating an upright position. They questioned many locals including Hedgerow actors and a former University of Delaware classmate. investigators pursued clues at the Hedgerow House and a gravel pit. The case prompted expanded inquiries as teams from New Jersey and Pennsylvania pursued leads.
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Kennedy
Miss Jones
Kennnedy
New Jersey
Delaware County Wednesdy
Jacques H. Fox
Cattnty
Maurice L
Bill) Maitland
Gunnar Jorgenson
Pinelands
Manahawkin
University of Delaware
Auestion
Burroughs Corp
Paoli
Miss. Jones
Westover Woods
Norristown
Hedgerow
Barnegat Light
Rose Schulman
Fledgerow School
Theatrr
Lighting Below Standards Prompts Board Action
A Darby Colteyn joint school board heard that Colwyn Elementary School classrooms averaged 18 candles while state minimum is 39. They will request a survey from Philadelphia Electric Co. The board accepted six teacher resignations and elected several staff, including Mary S. Lawrence as home economics teacher. They hired seven temporary professionals and elected Elizabeth Cummings as clerk. Auditors were tasked to manage joint books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Hughes
Barbara Coombe
Paul R. Earl
Mary S. Lawrence
Jean Petrovich
Sandra Nagle
Edward J. Vogel Jr
Janice Taylor
John C. Boyd
Louis
Sigmun
Lorraine V. Radelaft
Elizabeth Cummings
Glenolden School Board approves light project and summer help
The Glenolden School Board voted to pay the borough for lighting repairs at the Mac Dade Boulevard school and to employ Terry Diedffenbach, a recent Interboro graduate, to assist custodial staff in elementary schools during July and August at 1.50 per hour. The 1962-63 budget was adopted June 28 after the Interboro School Board meeting.
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Glenolden
Borough Council
Mac Dade Boulevard
Terry Diedffenbach
Interboro
Ue Interhora
Sun Oil Camp Dates Set for Summer Program
Sun Oil Co. announces four two week sessions for its Summer Day Camp from July 2 to August 24 with no activities on July 4 or August 13. Eligible are Sun Oil employees' children aged 6 to 14. Last year more than 2,000 campers enrolled with arts crafts and sports. Bus transportation provided. Periods stagger by residence including Wilmington areas July 12-23 and others through August 24.
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Feltonville
Sun Oil I Co
Sun Oil
Wilmington
Sproul — Estates
Brookhaven
iTrainer
Upland
Marcus Hook
Village Green
Booths Corner
Linwood
Boothwyn
Chester
Chester Pike
MacDade Boulevard
West Chester
Chadds Ford
Concordville
Gradyville
Lennnn
Lima
Media
Nether Providence
Newtown Square
Springfield
Swarthmore
Yeadon
Boy Hopes for Use of Repaired Arm After Train Collision
A teen riding a train near a bridge was injured when struck and dragged. Doctors describe a rare series of operations to reattach the arm, including vein artery repair and nerve reconnection. The patient remains hopeful but outcome unknown, with ongoing at home therapy and periodic hospital checkups.
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Everett
John J. Knowles
Sperd Ily
Robert Shaw
Ant Colony Stores Liquid Food In Dry Season
A slender honey ant colony survives the cold dry period by storing liquid food within expandable hollows of selected plants. The behavior highlights adaptive food storage in harsh seasonal conditions.
New Avenues Open In Estes Inquiry
Billie Sol Estes testimony widens the probe into the death of Agriculture Department official Henry H. Marshall. Dist. Bryan Russ plans subpoenas for several more witnesses before the Robertson County grand jury, which is weighing murder or suicide in Marshall's June 3, 1961 shooting at Estes ranch.
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Franklin
Tex
Billie Sol Estes
Agricultture Department
Dist
Alty
Bryan Russ
Russ
Robertson County
Henry H. Marshall
Agricultural
Q Stabilizaion and Conservation Committee
Estes
Texas Atty
Will Wilson
Wilson
Marshall
Here
Agriculture Department
Astes
Marshal
Justice of the Peace
J. A. Jachimenuk
Houston
Min‘shall
John M.barron
Grand Jury
Boy Tend 3 Robins in Dennis Raruti’s Backyard
SPRING FIELD Dennis Raruti tends three orphan robins abandoned in his yard at 4 Granite Terrace. The boy, claimed as a mother figure, feeds them with mash and warm water formula learning from his father and sister how to care for them. The robins return home for dinner each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Raruti
Wes
Sage
Dennis
Granite Terrace
Robin
St. Welvin's
Weather data and city forecasts from local station bulletin
The report lists today and 24 hour temperatures, tides, sunrise and sunset times, and a regional and national weather summary. It notes highs around 61 to 79 in various areas, with precipitation traces, and shows conditions across cities including Albany, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami, New York, Seattle, and more.
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Wight
Itrace
Jose
Chester Side
Water Terminal Pier
City High Lower
Albany
Atlanta
Roisa
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
iCleveland
Denver
Detroit
Fairbanks
Port Worth
Helena
Juneau
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisvile
Memphis
Pittsburgh
Portland
Ore
Rapid City
Richmond
St. Louis
Districting Will Wait for Legislative Reapportionment
The Commonwealth Court will defer control of legislative districts to the State Legislature in the 1963 session. If lawmakers do not act, the court will compel reapportionment. On Wednesday the court rejected two pleas for immediate action, including one by Raymond R. Start of Upper Darby. Delaware County politicians argue for two additional state representatives and one more senator due to population growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth Court
Raymond R. Start
Upper Darby
Hanney
Senate
House
Delaware County
Elderly Man Beaten With Umbrella at Dock Street
Chester police report an unprovoked attack on an elderly man at 3rd and Dock around 11 p.m. Wednesday. Andrey Alexander, 79, of Princeton Avenue, said two assailants struck him on the head with an umbrella but he sustained no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Andrey Alexander
Princeton Ave
3Rd
Dock
Alexander
Estes Case Confiliet Probed by House Investigators
House investigators press Commercial Solvents president Maynard C Wheeler on Estes links and a reported 4 million Swiss bank move while Estes faces fraud charges and debt to the firm. Wheeler denies meetings about Brazil or a Swiss account, calling Cain's testimony false and defamatory. Funeral notices follow the unrelated obituary listing for Patterson funeral home in Media.
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Washington
House
Commercial iSolvents
Maynard C. “Wheeler
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Switzerland
Wheeler
Texas
Frank Cain
Pecos
Tex
Agri@uture
Cain
Pacifie Finance Corp
Los Angeles
Texas Court of Inquiry
Dallas
Commercial Solvents
Brazil
Bank of Switzerland
Europe
Billie
Siiss
Patterson
Baltimore Ave
Monroe St
Deaths and funerals span Chester and Havertown areas
Obituaries report JOKN d Hughes 66 of Chester died in Chester Hospital with services at Mary E Carr Funeral Home and Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord. Agnes Burke 34 a Chester native and former waitress died in Atlantic City Hospital with mass at Church of the Holy Saviour. George V Morey retired Navy foreman died in Philadelphia Naval Hospital. Ray Mingle Shoemaker 78 former Habbersett worker died at home in Media. Bishop Edwin J Randall 92 former suffragan bishop of Chicago died in Evanston Illinois. The Rev Seph Waddington Graves founder of the Dangenham Gift and Temple Tel Or in Havertown died in London.
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Francis A. Broderick
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tri County
S. d. St
Colswyn
Josephine
Francis P
Philadelphia
Malachy
William Broderick
Ann. Diamond
Cavanagh
Funeral Home
Woodland
Ave
St. Clem
Holy Cross Cemetery
Ellen
A. Lavin
Thomas J. Lavin
Chester
Del
Francis
Edward Bingnear
Russell Baker
Madeline “Davies
Edgewood
John E. Carr
Providence ‘Ave
St. Robert’s Church
Immaculate Heart Cemetery
Gertrude Spencer White
Herbert White
Prospect Park
Washington
N. J
Eta Ee
Washington, N. J
Walter
Drexel ‘Hill
Wilbert
Mosteller
Harry Strang
Media
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton ‘Corp
Herbert Sweeney
Rutledge Ave
Folsom
jServices
Friday
Arlington Cemetery
Lena
Frank
Drexel Hill
Lillian McGowan
Essington
Elmer Meyers
Norwood
Virginia Sinclair
Madison
Tenn
Frances Kersetter
North Wales
James FP
Knoetgen Funeral Home
Kedron Ave
Morton
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Charles
McGlade
Taylor Hospital
Clarendon Drive
Darby
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Brotherhood of Trainmen
Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Jokn
Hughes
2Nd St
Emmett- Mullin
Raymond
Mildred Krauss
Claymont
del Uneral
Mary E. Carr
3Rd St
Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord
Funeral
Agnes Burke
Atlantic City Hospital
98Th St
New York City
Miss Burke
Immaculate Heart School
Howard B
Anna Burke
Catherine Reynolds
Margaret Watson
Mary EF. Carr
W. 3Rd St
Church of the Holy Saviour
Linwood
George V. Morey
U. S. Naval Base
Naval Hospital
Shirley Court
Upper Darby
Morey
Navy
L Emma
Tuth
Oncay
David, G. Frankenfield & Sons Funerals
N. 42Nd St
Ray Mingle
Habbersett Brothers Inc
North
Providence Road
Tle
Dna F
Ray D
Village Green
Rolland
Indiana
Earle
Delaware
Florence Johnson
Thornton
Josephy’ Fatton
Newtown Square
Evanston
Edwin J. Randall
Chicago
Morris Greenberg
Cay
Strathmere Road
Havertown
London
Mount Sharon
Servie
Seph Waddington
Temple Tel Or
Dangenham
Bagpipers
University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture
American Institute of Architects
Pennsylvania Society of Architects
Congregation Temple Tel Or
Solomon
Rose Greenberg
Accident Victim Is Improved In Chester Hospital
A 7 year old Joothwyn boy struck near Tuesday night and admitted to Chester Hospital with head injuries is improving. The incident occurred near Chichester and Galbraith Avenues. The report notes a neighbor’s memory of events and mentions a driver named David J Powers.
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Chester
Joothwyn
Ronald Borregeine
Rancall Ave
Chichester
Galbraith Aves
Pakistan
Republic
AG Commonwealth
David J. Powers
Holtman Road
Ridley Park
Veteran Teacher Will Retire From Wetherill School
Elizabeth Coeburn of 4725 Edgmont Ave Brookhaven announces retirement after six years teaching first grade at Wetherill School since its 1981 opening. She received a faculty dinner and a Clark radio gift.
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Chester Elizabeth Coeburn
Edgmont Ave
Brookhaven
Miss Coelurn
They. Wetherill School
Oscar A Jose Sr dies at 84 noted developer breeder
Oscar A Jose Sr a real estate developer and horse breeder from Indianapolis died on Wednesday at age 84. He built properties across central Indiana and bred several racehorses. He is remembered by family and local business peers for his community involvement and philanthropy.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Oscar A. Jose Sr
Upland School Board Budget Delayed by Quorum Shortfall
The Upland School Board could not approve the 1962-64 budget as only two of five members attended the session, President Robert D. Smith and George Herko present. The meeting was postponed to Monday at p.m. in the Main Street School due to the quorum absence.
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Upland
Upland School Board
Robert D. Smith
George Herko
Main Street
Mt Oof Town
Coed Honored at Dickinson College Graduation
Gwendolyn Core Coronway, daughter of Mr and Mrs A Todd Coronway of Glenolden, graduates magna cum laude with special honors in English from Dickinson College in Carlisle.
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Carlisle
Gwendolyn Core Onway
A. Todd Coronway
Llanwellyn Ave
Glenolden
Dickinson College
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Thomas Macarline
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George Lang
Mackinapates Sewer Authority
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Kar) Kramer
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Ant
Explorer Scout Post 407
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Tive Darby
Tunildin
Gholster
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Atlantic States
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Edward Vercellotti
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