Expert Set To End Wild Gas Blaze Near Renovo Pa
Texas expert Paul Adair arrived to direct a new attempt to extinguish a gas well fire burning since Monday near Renovo Pennsylvania. He planned to place a 50 quart nitroglycerin charge to create a vacuum and shut off the gas release valve. Earlier charges failed to halt the blaze which is burning an estimated 68 million cubic feet daily.
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Texas
Here
Paul Adair
Houston
Tex
Sandra
Sylvania
Lock Haven
Williamsport
Ledity Prospecting Company
Adair
Blair
Alair
Scientist Arrested on Spy Charge in California
FBI announces the arrest of Dr. Lindey Weinbaum, 62, a California Institute of Technology scientist formerly with its jet propulsion lab, on perjury and government fraud charges. The complaint alleges he lied about Communist Party membership before the Industrial Review Board on Sept. 23, 1940.
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Pasadena
Calif
FBI
Lindey Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Jet-Propulsion Laboratory
Richard B Hood
Los Angeles
Weinbaum
U. S
Howard V. Calverly
Sidney Weinbaum
Industrial Review Board
Communist Party
Sydny [Empson
Cherry ‘Tree
Indiana
William G. Buchanan
Indiana Municipal Bank
Indiana Motorcycle Auxiliary Police
Clymer Fire Company
Marion Center Fire Company
Marion Center
Burgess Warren P. Kline
Hastings High School
Thewsburg Fire Company
Patton Fire Company
Franklin Fire Company
Marion Center Firermen
Krings Fire Company
John F. O'Mara
Raymond Simpson
Paul Schrader
Holmes Safety Assn Honors CBC At Meet
Three mines of Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp were honored by the Indiana Council of the Joseph A Holmes Safety Association for outstanding safety. Mines cited include Clymer 4 Mile Clymer Commodore Mine and Dutch Run Mine, with CBC earning a council Group 2 banner. Yatesboro Mine and Commodore Mine praised for long safety records. talks on May accidents given by Northover and Bloor. Next meeting Sept 21, with a time change to the third Friday.
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Indiana Council
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association
Harry E. Sanford
Incharge
Johnstown
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Holmes
National
Holmes Organization
Clymer
Commodore
Dutch Run
Alverda
W OD Northover
A. K. Bloor
QBC
Counsil
Population Down In 3-County Area
Preliminary census reports show the population of the three county district fell by 8 339 in the past decade. There are 366 061 people in Indiana, Cambria, and Armstrong Counties compared with 374 400 in 1940. The district census office in Johnstown will close today as six of eight employees are released. Regis A. Hoover and an administrative assistant will depart this afternoon.
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Indiana
Cambria
Armstrong
Johnstown
Regis A. Hoover
Anna Louise Heine
Second Suspect Taken In Spy Ring Activity
Syracuse chemist Alfred Dean Slack, 44, linked to the Klaus Fuchs case, admitted supplying a secret explosive and production data to Harry Gold. Gold and Semen M. reportedly transmitted samples to the Soviet trade circle. Slack, a wartime Kingsport and Oak Ridge worker, held on 100000 dollar bail in Utica, awaiting transfer to Knoxville.
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Syracuse
N. Y
FBI
Klaus ‘Fuchs
Soviet Russia
Alfred Dean Slack
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Gold
Milk Men to Meet on June 20 at High School Auditorium
Representatives of the Allied Milk Producers Cooperative, including dairy farmers from Indiana, Westmoreland, Cambria, Somerset, and Fayette Counties, will attend a special meeting on Tuesday evening June 20 at the high school auditorium. The gathering aims to form a committee to represent farmers before the Milk Control Board after a three hour meeting in Harrisburg with board members. Public relations director James Betts announced the event.
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Allied Milk Producers Cooperative
Indiana
Westmoreland
Cambria
Somerset
Fayette Counties
Milk Control Board
Allied Cooperative
Harrisburg
James Betts
New Florence RD 2
William McMillen
Indiana County
KMEN
Taxi Driver Charged After Wayne Avenue Collision
Harold E. Little 1049 School Street faces two motor vehicle violations after colliding with a parked car on Wayne Avenue Indiana at 12 10 am. Damage to the Orr taxi estimated at 1000 while John Carcella of Homer City owns the other vehicle.
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Wayne Avenue
Indiana
Harold E. Little
School Street
Orr
Little
Srant Street
Willowalley
John Carcella
Homer City
Swimming Class I To Start Monday
Indian Springs pool will launch swimming classes starting Monday with beginner and intermediate sessions on Monday Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 2 pm. Junior and senior life saving classes run Tuesday and Thursday 1 to 2 pm. Adult beginner class signups with William Gorman Tuesday at 6 30 pm. Pool closed Saturdays for cleaning and no general swimming until after 2 pm on class days. Evening hours extend to about 9 pm except Saturdays.
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Indian Springs
William Gorman
Beverage Dealers Picnic Opens Indiana County Event
The first annual picnic of the Indiana County Retail Liquor Dealers Association will be held Sunday afternoon at Dogwood Park two miles west of town on Route 422. Signs will guide attendees. About $5,000 in prizes will be awarded. A one-year-old Diamondville girl Jeanne Bracken was admitted to Indiana Hospital for leg injuries after being struck by an auto near Stafford. The picnic starts at 1 p.m. and tickets will be sold at the grounds. The girl’s father William Bracken said they were in a parked car talking to people when another vehicle struck the parked car.
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Indiana County Retail Liquor Dealers Association
Dogwood Park
Route
Diamondville
Jeanne Bracken
Blatt
Indiana Hospital
Indiana
Stafford
William Bracken
Indiana Legion elects C Gilbert Walfenden Jr county commander
C Gilbert Walfenden Jr, present post commander of the Indiana American Legion, was elected county commander for 1950-61 at Blairsville. He will be installed this fall after the State convention. New officers include Ward Dilts senior vice commander, S Allen Worcester junior vice commander, and Samuel C Haer finance officer.
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C. Gilbert Walfenden, Jr
Indiana American Legion
Indiana
American Legion
Blairsville
State Legion
Kenneth Davin
Homer City
Ward Dilts
Saltsburg
S. Allen Worcester
Samuel C. Haer
Clymer
Livestock Group Builds Quarters On Route 19
Indiana Livestock Auction Inc constructs a new building between Indiana and Homer City on Route 19 to host sales drawing buyers from local packing houses. Officers include Harry Wilmoth as president and C M Long as treasurer with a roster of directors from Lock Haven and surrounding towns.
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Indiana
Homer City
Harry Wilmoth
Marion Center
Harry Quinn
Reynoldsville
Lewis Long
Hamer City
C. M. Long
Howard
W. §. Jung
Pen
York Is Successful Bidder For New Plant
Indiana was eliminated as a site for the National Radiator Company expansion. York was favored for proximity to eastern markets and seaports for foreign trade. Indiana Chamber's Industrial Expansion Committee was told Indiana ran a close second and will discuss the situation in July at Johns town.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lions’ Health
Tne
T.awie Meftill
Indiana Chamber
B. T. Hain
National Radiator Company
Johnstown
York
Hain
Indiana Chamber of Commerce Industrial Expansion Commuities
Johnsjtown
Job Placements Up Unemployment Decline In Indiana County
Indiana County shows brighter employment figures with rising placements since January. Unemployment checks fall gradually from 1186 recipients the week of March 4 to 772 the week of June 8. New compensation applications declined from 135 to 44 weekly, amid a general downward trend.
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Craig Swauger
Indiana County
Carl E. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Lewis
Everett Is Elected SS HeagAgain
Everett is reelected president of the Indiana County Sabbath School Association at the annual First United Presbyterian Church convention. Hazel Zimmerman is secretary, Mary Fleming treasurer, succeeding Charles McMillen. Four of five district presidents chosen. no president for District Five.
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V. W. Everett
Indiana
Indiana County Sabbath School Association
First United Presbyterian Church
Hazel Zimmerman
Indiiana
Mary Fleming
Creekside
Charles McMillen
Sarah Thompson
Marion Center KD
Robert L. Emerick
Rochester Mills
H. O. Widdowson
Penn Run
Helen Repine
Blairaville
M. C. Stewart
Homer City
Lynn Kelly
Blairsville
Dwight Barkley
Clarksburg
Young People's Department
John Ackerson
Children's Work Department
Ella Black
Everett Is
Five Die In Rural Virginia House Fire
Staunton dispatch reports a rural home fire near Staunton in Augusta County that killed five members of the Weaver family. Victims include James Weaver 33 and Charles Weaver 41, their father William 84, and Charles six children Tommy 11 Kathleen 18 Louise 17. Firefighters struggled to control a blaze at the two story frame house as a kerosene stove sparked the deadly fire.
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Staunton
Charles Weaver
Virginia
James Weaver
Fisherville
Charles
William Weaver
Tommy
Kathleen
Louise
Anapar Cominty
Etfli St
A. D. Bosserman
Weaver
Young Republican Club Dance at Rustic Lodge Tonight
The Young Republican Club plans a dance at Rustic Lodge with outdoor dancing weather permitting and indoor dancing if necessary. Tickets on sale at the door. Music by the Melo Tones and both round and square dancing offered.
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Young Republican Club
Rustic Lodge
Truman opens gates to 136000 more DPs
Washington June 16 President Truman signed inflation opening America s doors to 136 000 additional displaced persons revising the 1948 law expiring June 30 and extending the program a year. The measure raises eligibility to 341 000 and adds 5 000 war orphans 54 744 German ancestry cases and up to 15 000 prior entrants on temporary visas. It ends charges of anti Catholic and anti Jewish discrimination and adjusts farm and Baltic state quotas.
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Truman
America
United States
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Congress
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Germany
Aliastria Oy
Italy
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