Kiwanis Club hears music and Mexico travelogue
Indiana Kiwanis Club met with President A. B. Long in charge. A varied program featured three judges from the Do Re Me trio Cleo Ross Leah Eaton and Mrs Charles McIntosh with Mrs McIntosh singing soprano parts. Lively birthday salutes for Carlyle Fee Ralph Heiges and George Rinkenberger. Wilfred E Helwig outlined upcoming Fire Prevention Inspection events set for April 27 with Pennsylvanian underwriters support and two prior local efforts in Waynesburg and Grove City. A luncheon at the Methodist Church and tickets for Foster Park were noted. L. C. Davis presented a Mexico travelogue with moving pictures. Farmers Night was tentatively planned for next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Kiwanis Club
A. B
Shorty) Long
Rutve Guard
Cleo Ross
Leah Eaton
Charles McIntosh
Ralph Heiges
George Rinkenberger
Wilfred E. Helwig
Pennsylvania
Waynesburgh
Grove City
Methodist Church
Foster Park
Carlyle Fee
L. C. Davis
Mexico
Kiwanis
Daughters of 1812 To Close Charter
The Indian Springs Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 met at Mrs J Blair Suttons home. The chapter plans a June luncheon with state officers, closes its charter June 17, and invites applications for charter membership via registrar Miss Helen St Clair. Members will hold a Pinemoor picnic during vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Springs
United States Daughters of 1812
J. Blair Sutton
John Price
Earl Gray
Reader's Digest
American Merchant Marine
David Wertz
John Chapman
Donald Moorhead
Johnny Appleseed
Redmen
Johnny
Altho
Goodby
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Indiana Country Club
Helen St. Clair
Pinemoor
Sutton
Arthur Robinson
Dinner Honors April Birthday Trio at Sharp Home
Dinner Sunday April 16 honored Mrs Arch Nive wonger Helen Sharp and Bobby McCann whose birthdays are in April. Guests included Annie Sharp, a 73 year old aunt, Vivian McCunn ten weeks old, and Mr and Mrs Wilmer Sharp Vernon Helen Harold Larry Kenneth Sharp Arch Nieewonger Robert McQgan and son Bobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer Sharp
She- Joda
Arch Nivewonger
Helen Sharp
Bobby
McCann
Annie Sharp
Vivian McCunn
Robert McCunn
Vivian
Vernon
Helen
Harold
Larry
Kenneth Sharp
Arch Nieewonger
Robert McQgan
Frankes Return From Florida Tour
Mr and Mrs W J Frank of 904 Mapletree Indiana returned from a Florida tour where they spent the past three months touring the state and visited WW Co along the way On their journey they traveled by auto and reported pleasant weather and memorable sights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
W. J. Frank
Mapletreet
Indiana
Ww. D. Co
Brody names 4th of July committee chairs
Donald S. Brody, general chairman of the Lions sponsored Fourth of July program, announced the committee chairmen at the Indiana Lions Club meeting. The list covers ticket sales, grandstand, lights and sound, track, police, parking, food, soft drinks, signs, decorations, comptroller, publicity, program distribution, first aid, insurance, ambulance, ice cream, industrial fair, grounds, program, square dance, horse pulling, racing, building, novelties, amusements and fireworks with chairmen to name members this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald S. Brody
Indiana Lions Club
J. Murray Buterbaugh
Bob” DeGaetano
Dick” Cummins
Sawyer
Wally” Cunningham
John Naddeo
Luther Kelly
Stahura
Tocci
Granville Seyler
Herman Recupero
Paul Barnett
Lewis J. Stephens
W. L. Coffman
Paul Boyts
Daniel H. Bee
Roy Hughes
Lu” Kelly
Red Cross
Clifford Butterbaugh
Bill Steiner
O. K. Guthrie
Granny” Barclay
J. Murray
Buterbaugh
Vernon Claypoole
Bil” Smith
Charles Davis
Joseph Quinn
Leonard Brody
Lloyd Edwards
Mae''Williams
Lloyd Edwalls
Maragon Trial Ties Molasses Firm to Government Deals
Washington April 19 The perjury trial of John Maragon centers on the Allied Molasses Company of Perth Amboy New Jersey and a report that he lied about negotiating government business. Prosecutors name Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan as a possible witness though no decision to call him has been made. Vaughan testified to Senate investigators last year that he might have helped the firm with the Agriculture Department. Prosecution witnesses including Milton Polland and Harald Ross are on tap as past and present Agriculture Department officials stand by.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Maragon
White House
Agriculture Department
U. S
Charles Murray
Harry H. Vaughan
Maragon
Vaughan
Senate
Allied Molasses Company
Perth Amboy
N. J
Murray
Irvin Goldstein
Allied Molasses
Milton R. Polland
Milwaukee
Harald M. Ross
Miss Nettie Bealer to Attend National Nursing Convention
Miss Nettie E Bealer director of nurses at Indiana Memorial Hospital sails April 24 for San Francisco to join the Sixteenth Biennial Convention of national nursing bodies as a Pennsylvania House of Delegates member. About 100000 delegates from 50 states territories and countries expected May 7 to 12. She will tour National Parks Hoover Dam Las Vegas Mexico and Canadian Rockies before returning in six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie E. Bealer
Indiana Memorial Hosspital
San Francisco
Cal
House of Delegates
Pennsylvania
American Nurses Association
National League of Nursing Education
National Organization For Public Health Nurses
Association of Collegiate, School of Nursing
Siate
America
Susan Seaton Celebrates Sixth Birthday At Home
Susan Seaton daughter of Mrs Frances Seaton of West Church Street celebrated her sixth birthday with an afternoon party at her home on Saturday April 15. She invited school friends and neighborhood youngsters. among the guests was her great aunt Mrs WH KlingenSmith of Greensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Seaton
Frances Seaton
West Church Street
Susan
WH. Klingensmith
Greensburg
Clara J. Little
Johnstown
Lulu D. Albert
David and
Jane Harmon Kinter
Rayne Township
Indiana County
Denver
Col
Presbyterian Church of
Englewood
Sell Street
Meade Buchanan
Indiana
Ben Walker
Robinson’s
N. 7Th St
R. A. Nelson
Greenwood Cemetery
Democratic Women Tea Planned by Federated Club
The Federated Club Democratic Women schedule a Saturday tea on April 2 at 93 Wayne Avenue. All members and friends are invited to attend with guests expected. The program features refreshments and door prizes and will begin at two o clock sharp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated Club
Wayne Avenue
Miss Ruth Neal Plans Summer Tour in Europe
Miss Ruth Neal of 936 Church Street Indiana will join a Temple University musical Study Tour to Europe this summer. The program, led by Dr. Felix Guenther, visits Salzburg Lucerne and Edinburgh with major orchestras in Vienna London and Paris. Students may earn academic credits through Temple Fordham Marquette Indiana University and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Neal
Europe
Church Street
Indiana
Temple University
Philadelphia
New York City
Neal
Salzburg
Luceren
Edinburg
Vienna
London
Paris
Felix Guenther
International Study Tour Alliance
Temple
Fordham
Marquette
Pennsylvania
The
New School For Social Research
West Philadelphia pair buys Locust Street property
Bay Stavres property attorney and Mrs W Thomas Malcolm of West Philadelphia street have purchased the John Stavres property on Locust street and plan to move in before the month’s start. Since the Civil War only five U S presidents have been Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Stavres
W. Thomas Malcolm
West Philadelphia
John Stavres
Locust Street
United States
Postal funding fight shapes up in Congress
The House faces a postal funds vote as the Post Office seeks 2.21 billion for the new fiscal year. Critics like Cannon press for curbs and cuts, arguing the bill is already too large, while taber calls for substantial trimming and faster actions on service reductions. The committee proposes savings by reducing some residential deliveries, with fears of backlash from mail users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donaldson
Congress
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
House
Rep. Taber
New York
Post Office Department
Grant Father Faces Paternity Battle and Debts
The article outlines Grant’s paternity admission in 1947 and a court order of $10 weekly child support. It notes his wife and girlfriend, Batty Suomela, both stand by him. Investigators report debts totaling $8,000 to $9,000 with Suomela providing small loans. Suomela, an American Airlines stewardess, says she loves him and he asked to marry after a divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oeen
New York
Grant
Gaya
Batty Suomela
Miss Suomela
American Airlines
Western Division
Los Angeles International
San Diego
Buomela
Granthora
Joba
Investigatora
Sims
Bell Hopes To Be Synod Moderator From Bloomsburg
Jesse S. Bell of Willemeport has been endorsed by the Presbytery and the Northumberland County Presbyterian Synod as candidate for moderator of the Pennsylvania Synod. If elected at the State Synod meeting at Wilson College June 19, Bell would become the first layman to hold the post in many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomsburg
Jesse S. Bell
Willemeport
Northumberland County Presbyterian Synod
Pennsylvania Synod
Wilson College
Bell
Vet with Plastic Face Returns Home After 40 Operations
Marion Hayes of Birmingham, a 49 year old man, left Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital after 40 operations in 17 years for cancer. Doctors removed most of his face and technicians built a life like new face applied with adhesive. Hayes said he is going home to show off his new face and plans to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Marion Hayes
Birmingham
Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital
Hayes
Lawson
Tumor Service
Williams Calls to Abolish Internal Affairs Department
Harrisburg April 19 Judge Charles Scott Williams urged abolition of the State Department of Internal Affairs calling it obsolete and useless. He also proposed transferring its useful functions, including data compilation for local governments, to the auditor general or budget office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Charles Scott Williams
State Department of Internal Affairs
Williamsport
James H. Duff
State Commerce Department
Department of Internal Affairs
Pennsylvania
Willams
Auditor General
Budget Office
Homestead To Race Titan In Pittsburgh May 20
Steamboat Homestead will race the Titan in Pittsburgh during 1950 Welcome Week Revival of Steamboat races on District Rivers Saturday May 20. The Homestead owned by Carnegie-Dlinois Steel Corporation won last year. The Titan owned by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation will replace the William Larimer Jones beaten in 1949 by the Homestead. The race covers a three and three tenths mile course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Steamboat Homestead
Titan
Homestead
Carnegie-Dlinois Steel Corporation
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Willliam Larimer Jones
McCarthy Backing Sought Amid Amerasia Probe Tangles
The article covers indictments and fines against three, with one case dropped. Lattimore denies links to Amerasia documents and McCarthy’s top Russian agent claim. Service and Taft deny Communist ties. Hearings proceed as Louis Budeng, ex Communist and Fordham professor, testifies on Lattimore. Taft defends McCarthy stance and criticizes Subcommittee procedure and State Department actions amid alleged secret paper deliveries to a Communist-connected magazine office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Service
Lattimore
Amerasia
McCarthy
Louis Budeng
Fordham University
Ohio
Tatt
Subcommittee
State Department
Amerasiareake
O Nes
Wee Traine
Thetate
Fatt
Eames
Taft
New Pastor for Church of Christ Named
Alfred H Palmer of Alachua Florida is introduced as the new minister for the Church of Christ meeting at Third and Philadelphia in Indiana. He previously worked for the government in Washington DC and served in the Navy in both European and Southwest Pacific theaters during the war. He studied at David Lipscomb College and George Peabody College, and has led the Mead's Chapel Church of Christ near Nashville. His wife Nancy and children Harry Elien and Dwight are welcomed. Horton Davis and family have moved to Fort Worth to work with the local Church of Christ. All invited to attend services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred H Palmer
Alachua
Morida
Church of Christ
Third and
Philadelphia Streets
Indiana
Mr. Palmer
Washington, D. C
Chee
David Lipscomb College
Nashville
Fort Worth
Texas
Risky Brain Surgery Fails Leads to Fugitive Former Marine
Charles Hinkley a 25 year old former marine who underwent a pre frontal lobotomy in Coral Gables Florida last October is back in jail as a fugitive from four states. He was arrested in South Deerfield Massachusetts after a spree of bad checks tied to his escape from Winter General Hospital Topeka Kansas. Topeka seeks him for return and New York City and Florida have pending charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Hinkley
Kansas Veterans Administration
Hinkley
South Deerfield
Mass
Winter General Hospital
Topeka
Kansas
New York City
Florida
Coral Gables
Irwin Perlmutter
Unidentified couple found dead in car near Bedford
An unidentified man and woman in their late thirties were found dead yesterday in a car parked on a country lane southwest of Bedford. Deputy Coroner Louis Gelsel said they likely died two to three weeks earlier from carbon monoxide poisoning in an apparent suicide pact. A rubber hose from the exhaust to a rear window, with the hose opening blocked by rags, was found. both victims had no identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Here
Louis Gelsel
Gelsel
Mock War Program Set Communications Link for Reserve
The article notes a Mock War program involving Mr. Robert Crone and Mr. Ralph Moorhead of Indiana operating Crone's portable WS3PHD station to communicate with Johnstown Bedford Somerset Altoona and Pittsburgh. It highlights the new communications step for the Army Reserve program amid fears of rapid disruption to telephone buildings and radio stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oraters
Robert Crone
Ralph Moorhead
Indiana
Crone
Johnstown
Bedford
Bomerset
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Army Reserve
Long Schedule of Obituaries and Death Notices
A slate of obituaries and notices from Indiana County includes James E. Hare funeral in Mountain Home hospital Johnson City Tennessee with burial in Mountain Home Cemetery. Mary Liptak Stefford and Tabitha Jane Dodson deaths. Clara J. Little of Johnstown obituary. Francis Fairman death at Ebensburg home. infant Barbara Ann Hullenbaugh Dodick. Nofia Scarlata death in Indiana with multiple survivors. Ella B. Frye Henry obituary in Indiana County. Samuel Frank Clark death at Gerry New York area care home. Alice Gearhart Hart obituary in Plumville. and various funeral services and interments with multiple survivors and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabitha Jane Dodson
Los Angeles
Calif
George
Indiana
D. L. Winger
Robert
Jane
Speedy) Little
Grove Chapel
Ralf Dodson
Evaline
Andy Harmon
Kansas
George Dodson
Dodson
W. 8. Little
Della Gibson
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Samuel Frank Clark
Tnediana
Getty
Gerry
William and
Martha Jane Orr Clark
Deckers Point
Ligonier
Fairfield
West Wheatfield Township
Apollo Free Methodist Church
Fannie E. Brant
Homer City
Alice Fox
Blairaville
Robinson'’s
N. 7Th St
C. L. Page
Bolivar
Alice (Beam) Gearhart
David Gearhart
Plumville
Indiana Hospital
Peter and
Catherine Bishop Beam
Jefferson County
Bowser
Symphony Band Concert Preview and Tax Note
Symphony Band readies a concert featuring arrangements from Morley Bacon Blake Burleigh Kern and Denza with Lang and Laidzen. The program includes cantus firmus exercises and four part canons alongside popular songs. The piece list mixes classical works and light arrangements. Some states levy up to twenty vehicle taxes plus federal taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaens Wixed
Thomas Morley
Ernet Bacon
William Blake
H. J. Burleigh
Funiculi Punlewla
Luigi Denza
Lang
Robert Mo
Jerome Kern
Erick Laidzen
Fruit Buds May Have Been Nipped
Harrisburg reports the State Agriculture Department warns last week’s cold dry spell may damage fruit trees. Freeze damage could affect apricots peaches apples and cherries while apricots bloom in the southeastern belt amid a week of extreme cold. Winter grains remain in fair condition with wheat and barley off color and winter-kill possibly higher than average. Early potato planting nears completion in southeastern counties and asparagus appears only in the Philadelphia area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Agriculture Department
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pochran Will Aired on May 2 Hearing in Will Dispute
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania on April 19 a judge set May date for a new hearing over the will of wealthy Mrs Gertrude Southard Pochran. Her husband John Pochran challenges the document that leaves a $40000 estate to Waynesburg College and the Mining Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania. He has filed two earlier wills leaving the entire estate to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesburg
Gertrude Southard Pochran
Ross Matthews
Fayette County
John Pochran
Waynesburg College
Mining Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania
Pochron
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Wanians
Daughters of 1812
Charles Binaggiola
Holy Rosary
Kansas City
Missouri
Publicigures High
Underworld
Brody
P.O
Synod
Chelee
Williams
James E. Hare
James EB. Hare
Mountain Home Hospital
Johnson City
Tenn
Burtalwaa
Mountain Home
Link-Belt Company
Misa Pluma van Horn
W. F. Hare
Narrows
J. W. Hare
Glenwood Park
T. B. Henley
George Geordon
Birefield
BR. D. Unree
Columbus
Veterans Hospital
Mary Liptak Stefford
Bencé Funeral Home
Clymer
Francis Fairman
Sarah Hepler Fairman
Creekside
R. D
Evan R. Williams
Ebensburg
Robinson's
Center Presbyterian Church
J. K. Boston
Leatherwood Presbyterian Church
Clarion County
Barbara Ann
Rev
Flora Hullenbaugh Uydick
Indianas Memorial Hospital
Nofia Scarlata
Washington Street
Sicily
Anthony
Brooklyn
Grace Mistretta
Caight
Bell Funers
St. Bernard/k
Ella B. (Frye) Henry
Noah
Catherine (Lower) Frye
Cherrybil Township
George W. Henry
Bell Funeral
D. Earl Turner
Dumont
Maqgnavoe
Philco
Zenith
Art Lewis
Palle
Woodburn Granite Works
Troutman's
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