Red Cross Plea Urges Summer Blood Donations Nationwide
The American Red Cross urges travelers to donate blood before vacations as summer accidents rise. Dr. Evan C. Stone Jr says donations dip in summer yet demand grows from highway crashes, with about 9 000 US fatalities expected in July August. Donors may give every two months up to five times yearly.
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American Red Cross
Evan C. Stone, Jr
Red Cross Blood Program
Eastern Area
Stone
United States
Red Cross
Dr. Stone
Letter to editor thanks voters on new school board
Marion Schneider writes from the merged district thanking voters for support and pledging to serve with wisdom. She notes challenges ahead for the school board and asks for community prayers and cooperation. Rebecca Van Chue Nicol signs the letter, mentioning a stamp request and posters from the Post Office.
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Duane
Marion Schneider
Post Office
Rebecca van Chue Nicol
Letter to Editor on stamp honoring officer and boy
A reader in Trumansburg praises a proposed stamp depicting a police officer and a boy to promote good child law relations. The writer likens it to a memorial for Sergeant Preston and urges action before a decision is made.
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Mr. Snekeker
T.V
Trumansburg
Preston
Bees Swarm Fire Hydrant Draw Ithaca Crowd
A crowd on a busy Ithaca street watched bees settle on a fire hydrant outside a bank. An apiarist gathered the 5 to 7 thousand insects into a box, teaching by example as shoppers and children learned about beekeeping and the queen’s role. The piece draws a comparison to Vietnam conflict, noting human complexity vs bee simplicity.
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Ithaca
Vietnam
Truman Newspiece Notes Old Timers and Modern Tides
The item surveys late 19th and early 20th century local life in Trumansburg with mentions of fishing and Sunday bans, growing auto use, and Decoration Day crew races on Cayuga Lake. It records rail and open door era changes, civic drives, and a 1905 peace note on Japan and Russia, plus local fundraising for Camp Barton and Explorer Post 3 history.
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Trumansburg
Gertrude Carman
Harvard
Cornell
Cayuga Lake
Ithaca
M. White
Baror Komura
Japan
Russia
Sakhalin
Manchuria
Valois woman held in death
Shirley B Champion of Townline Road is jailed in Waterloo on a murder charge for the .28 rifle killing of her 34 year old husband Harold L Champion. He died of a chest hemorrhage after an early morning argument.
Memorial service for Charles E. L. Steele
Memorial service held for Charles E. L. Steele at St Stephens Episcopal Ro fictated on May 27 after a short illness. Burial followed in Ole Cemetery Geneva. Steele, a retired insurance salesman, was born in Geneva and lifelong resident. Survivors include sister M Lewis J. Hart and brother Aubry C. Steele. Coryell Funeral Home of Ovid arranged.
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Springs Hospital
St. Stephens Episcopal Church
Ole
Geneva
Steele
Charles Agustus
Gertrude Hawkes Steele
M Lewis J. Hart
Bethlemen
Aubry C. Steele
Coryell Funeral Hom
Ovid
George D White 68 of Trumansburg Dies After Illness
George D White 68 of Trumansburg R D died May 29 1968 at Tompkins C Hospital after a short illness. He is survived by his wife two sons two daughters seven grandchildren two great grandchildren two brothers and four sisters. Services were at Ness Funeral Home at 2 p m Saturday with burial in Valois Cemetery. TRUMANSBURG George D White obituary lists survivors and funeral details.
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Trumansburg
S Matthews
Sharon Springs
Hanna Reese
Ness Funeral
Burral
Valois
Trumanszurg
George
Court reporter John H. Hotson dies after long illness
John H. Hotson a court reporter born in the Prince of Ontario died after a long illness at a local hospital He lived in Queens County New York Romulus and Varick towns He retired about 26 years ago Survivors include two sons Clarence of Romulus RFC and Leslie of Lorento Maine a daughter Mrs Andre Diacondoff of St Paul Minnesota Memorial services were held at West Fayette Presbyterian Church at 2 p m Wednesday in Ovid
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Macdougall
John H
Andre Diacondoff
St. Paul, Minn
West Fayette Presbyterian Church
Coryell Funeral Hom
Ovid
Antionette Van Sickle dies in Geneva
Mrs Antionette D Van Sickle 77 of Shel drake died May 28 1968 at home in Geneva after a long illness She was widow of Henry Van Sickle and daughter of Rev Edwin Dickinson and Emma Carte Dickinson Survived by brother Edwin Dickinson of New York City and nephew How Carter Dickinson of Southalland Falls Massachusetts Funeral services were held May 31 at Hurlbut Funeral Home in Ilam Burial in Liview Cemetery Interlaken New York State has been the largest maple producer in the United States in three of the last five years.
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Ovid
Josephine Wilson Chang
Memorial Hospital
New York City
Chang
Nellie Josephine Wilson
Henry W
Jessie McCoy Wilson
Ovid High School
Genesee Hospital
Rochester
China
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Forest Hills
L.is
Columbia University
Farmingdale Community College
Farmingdale
L.I
New York Academy of Sciences
Pi Lambda Theta Sorority
Forest Hills Presbyterian Church
David C.S. Chang
Clifton
Ida Burdell
Hagerstown
Joseph W. Wilson
Akron
David H. Wilson
Interlaken
Coryell Funeral Home
Johan Mulder
Union Cemetery
American Cancer Fund
James Wilson
Edward Eugene Wilson
David Wilson, Jr
Douglass Clark
Michael Burdell
Richard Wilson
Sheldrake
Antione Dickinson van Sickle
Geneva
Henry van Sikle
Edwin Dickinson
Emma Carte Dickinson
van Sickle
How Carter Dickinson
Southalland Falls
Mass
Hurlbut Funer
Il Am
Lview
New York State
United States
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Lodi
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Watkins Glen
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John D. Covert
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Herman Yaw
Kenneth Sweet
Paul Brown
Frank Markell
Ronald Garrison
Franklin Covert
John Straway
Wayne Gable
Josephine Chang
Charles E. L. Steele
George D. White
John H. Hotson
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