Republicans Outnumber Democrats in County Borough Primaries
A seven borough survey shows Republicans far outnumber Democrats in council and school board races. In Clymer seven Republicans seek three council nominations while one Democrat is assured of nomination. Creekside is all Democratic with no GOP filings for council or school board. Plumville has no Democratic petitions for these contests. Other boroughs list multiple GOP candidates for council and school board, with varied Democrat participation.
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ED Toronto
Indiana County
Clymer
Creekside
Plumville
Fred B. Pickel, Sr
1St Ward
Alice L. Hoover
Rodo Violi
Max C. Harwick
Lloyd
Happy) Barger
Marion Putt
Ben F. Wiliams
John W. Woychie
James Daniels
Ralph Kindler
GOP
Blairsville
Albert V. Eisaman
Knox M. Kerr
Paul D. Heasley
Edward Henigin
Paul L. George
Thomas H. McClure
C. R. Heasley
Homer City
Edward F. Potts
Dan Pegnetter
James Rocco
F. D
Hail GU
Clark
Hugh A. Jackson
Clyde K. Moore
William Tost
Chester McLaughlin
Paul Ansley
Clark Lakehart
Robert F. Moretti
Walter I. Raymond A. Edward R. Dixson
A. R. Richards
Mary A. Solinski
Bert B. Fairman
Nelda Buggy
Lester E. Cook
Arthur D. Roberts
J. Alfred Scollon
Phillip L. Bailey
Kenneth Oaks
Henry H. Daviser
O. G. Stull
G. W. Aughvenbaugh
Rotary Hears Memorial Talk on World Peace Urgency
Rev. Reingold Weber of Grove Chapel delivered a Memorial Day message to Rotary last evening. He urged peaceful settlement of world problems in light of divine wisdom and paid tribute to the nation’s leader. President Joe Mazza supervised, with Jess Lubold in charge of the program.
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Reingold Weber
Grove Chapel Church
Rotary
Joe Mazza
Jess Lubold
Breaks Wrists of Rochester Mills Youth in Fall
Harry Pearce Jr. 12 of Rochester Mills RD 2 suffered fractures in both wrists after a fall from a swing at his home Saturday. He received treatment at Adrian Hospital Punxsutawney.
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Rochester Mills
Harry Pearce, Jr
Adrian Hospital
Punxsutawney
Crippled Children Camp Dates Set Here
The Indiana County Society for Crippled Children and Adults schedules a resident camp for crippled children from June 16 to 28 at the Lions Health Camp near Indiana. Director Robert Dockendorf of Harrisburg, nurse Mrs. J Richard Cummins, and senior counselors Agnes Fedorkopf Helen Davis Jeanne Griggs oversee staff and activities for ages 8 to 16, with 30 to 40 children to attend. The program is funded by Easter Seals sales and marks the county group’s first such camp in Pennsylvania.
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Lions Health
Indiana
Indiana County Society For Crippled Children
John E. Davis
Robert Dockendorf
Harrisburg
Indiana County Society
Dockendorf
Pennsylvania Society For Cripple Children
Green Top
Maryland
Laurel Mountain State Park
Somerset
J. Richard Cummins
Crippled Children's Camp
Cummins
Agnes Fedorkopf
Barnesboro
Helen Davis
Penn Two
Pittsburgh
Jeanne Griggs
Johnstown
Indiana County
Miss Davis
Miss Griggs
Pennsylvania Society For Crippled Children
Griggs
Fedorko
Francis Keracher
Greensburg
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Indiana County Society For
Dorothy Warner
Sgt Kridler Transferred to Chanute Air Base Illinois
Mr and Mrs Ralph Kridler of Morris street Clymer learn their son Sgt Robert L Kridler has been transferred from Lackland Air Base Texas to Chanute Air Base Illinois. He is Maintenance NCO at Chanute where cadets undergo aptitude tests before enrollment in pilot navigator bombardier or gunnery observer training. The sergeant recently spent a furlough at home and is assigned to one of the country s four screening bases for Air Cadets.
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Clymer
Ralph , Kridler
Morris Street
Robert L. Kridler
Lackland Air Base
Texas
Chanute
Illinois
Set
Kridler
Workshop Planned At College
A list of participants and coordinators for a college workshop is detailed with multiple school officials from Somerset County Armstrong County Cambria County and Indiana State Teachers College. Key figures include Guy Eberhart Richard Moffett Harold Bush John Pfeiffer Robert Plummer James Sandy Samuel W. Jacobs John Sahli John Davis Lambert Joseph and others.
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Samuel W. Jacobs
Greensburg High School
John Sahli
Keith Laboratory
Indiana State Teachers College
John Davis
Lambert Joseph
Indiana High School
Tot Strangled By Plaything
Funeral services were held last Thursday for Ralph DeCamp Jr., month-old grandson of Mr and Mrs S B Byers of Indiana. The child was found strangled to death in his crib after a spool loop around his neck, apparently caused by a toy thread spool.
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Ralph DeCamp, Jr
S. B. Byers
Indiana
Kane
Flo
James Harvey Ferrier
Astoria Street
San Fernando
Morrison
Punxsu- Calif
Tawney
Veterans Administration Hospital
Los Angeles
Raspa Decamp, JR
Center Township
Indiana County
Daniel A
Loretta
B. Gilbert Ferrier
Byers
California
Ralph N. DeCamp
Billa English Ferrier
Marie
Howard Oldham
Arcata
Calif
Jean
Calvin Brooke
van Nuys
Claude Fer
Commodore
Gilbert
Ferrier
Johnstown
Chester
R. D
Geneva
Newark
N. J. Alam
Laura Frederick
DeCamp
Homer City
Arnold Henry Bowser
Smicksburg
Cortland
Ohio
West Mahoning Township
Henry
Katherine Marshall Bowser
Bowser
Old Mahoning Baptist Church
Plumville
Mecca Grange
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Bowser
Adah
Herbert W. Bowser
Dale Bowser
Cortland, C
Jean Whitesell
Boyertown
John M. Lovett
Ernest Rombaugh
Old Mahoning Cemetery
McKean
Elmer Beatty
Ellen Marie
James F. DeCamp
Myr
B. Byers
UP Convention In Oregon 1952 General Assembly set
DES MOINES May 29 The United Presbyterian Church will hold its 1952 General Assembly in Oregon for the first time in 57 years Delegates chose Portland or Albany as the site and rejected Westminster College New Wilmington Penn The 1952 city to be picked at July Columbia Synod meeting Oregon delegates argue the move counters isolation A committee will study central headquarters and Congress is urged to fund a 1956 Federal religious census Also notes 1917 invention of the first fully automatic electric range by Automatic Stove Cleveland SF
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Des Moines
United Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Oregon
Portland
Albany
Ore
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Penna
iColumbia Synod
Synod
Assembly
Congress
John Bruce Wins 500 Pin for Second Year in Row
John Bruce a McGill Motors Inc salesman and Ford dealer received a diamond 800 pin from James A Bowman Ford Motor Co field manager. He is the first salesman in Zone 3 Pittsburgh District among 32 dealerships to win the 500 pin two years running for selling new and used cars and trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bruce
McGill Motors Inc
Ford
James A. Bowman
Ford Motor Co
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Lions Meet At Health Camp Monday
Indiana Lions Club members gathered at the Health Camp Ha venue for an evening session with no formal program. Nominees for next year's officers were announced, 31 members received perfect attendance pins, and plans were shared to aid about fifty underprivileged children for a five week summer program. Rod ney Dean reported on a recent Lions Club convention in the Poconos as members prepared Memorial Park for services the next day.
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Indiana Lions Club
Rodney Dean
Paul Woodring
Lions Club
Poconoe
Memorial Park
Edwards
Granville Seyler
Lloyd I. Edwards
William A. Smith
Percival N. Park
William C. Gray
J. Murray Butterbaugh
Paul R. Barnett
Lion Tanner
Russell J. Keirn
Tail Twister
Lewis H. Shaffer
Hyman J. Levinson
Luther M. Kelly
Ripley
Indiana Lional Club
John Erickson
Floyd Rankin
McCreary Wire and Rubber Company
Day Nichol
Lloyd Edwards
J. Richard Cummins
Kenneth M. Heath
Morris Williams
W- L. Coffman
Clifford Buterbaugh
Stanley Brodsky
Joseph Hamilton
J. Monrope Mabon
Joseph Quinn
Vernon Claypoole
Charles Lewis
George Greiner, Jr
Harold Buchheit
Philip McConnell Jr
C. E. Walls
Charles L. Shaffer
Russell Keirn
Hi ‘A. Stahlman
Paul Nealer
J. Mur Tray Buterbaugh
Thomas Barber
Lewis Shaffer
Herman Recupera
Raymond Stalnecker
C. Rossteed
Memorial Day Service at Pine Church in Rossiter
The Pine Church at Canoe Township will hold a Memorial Day service at 2 p m tomorrow with Vane Lowmaster commander of the Sager Baun American Legion Post Rossiter delivering the main address. The program will feature special music and singing. River Basin The Mississippi river drains five twelfths of the U S
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Rossiter
Pine
Canoe Township
Vane Lowmaster
Sager-Baun-American Legion
Memorial Day flagging 3700 Indiana County graves
John H. Frampton and Ronald Buterbaugh led a county effort decorating about 3,700 veterans graves with Memorial Day flags. They surveyed out-county cemeteries and planned wreaths for each conflict from Revolutionary War to World War I. A pencil sharpener rigged with an electric motor sped flag-stick sharpening as they worked through Oakland and Greenwood cemeteries.
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Indiana County
John H. Frampton
County Veterans Affairs
Ronald Buterbaugh
Indiana
Memorial Park
Frampton
Bulerbaugh
Chestnut Street
Miles
Oakland Cemetery
Greenwood
Anti-Reds Lose Hold At Polls In Italy Provincial Elections
Rome May 28. An anticommunist coalition broke the extreme left wing hold on Italy's Red North. Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Atlantic Pact Front won a heavy majority of provincial council seats, ousting Communists from five provincial capitals they had held since 1945. Anti-Communist forces likely to control 22 city councils. Communists hold two with three undecided. Venice and Genoa port cities fell to De Gasperi-led blocs. several province capitals previously Communist now under new administrations.
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Rome
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Atlantic Pact Front
Reds
de Gasperi
Ministry of Interior
Christian Democratic
Venice
Genoa
Commodore Church Hosts Free Film Tonight
A free film entitled That Kid Buck will be shown at Commodore Methodist Church tonight at eight o'clock. The public of the community is invited to attend.
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Kid Buck
Commodore Methodist Church
Rioting injures about sixty outside Capetown Parliament
In Capetown on May 29 about 60 people were injured as 50,000 demonstrators protested a bill to place colored voters on separate rails. Police clashed with marchers after torches were thrown and leaders were barred from Parliament. The protest was led by a veterans committee opposing the legislation deemed unconstitutional.
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Capetown
South Africa
War Veterans’ Committee
Norfolk
Joseph H. Mann
Daniel F. Malan
Burns
Mann
Robert Simpson
Simpson
Iran oil protests touch Tehran as Tudeh rallies loom
In Tehran crowds rally against American and British influence amid Iran Nationalist tensions over oil concessions. The Tudeh party, outlawed since 1945, plans demonstrations in Abadan Isfahan and Tabriz to demand free operation and end the concession. Government officials in London and Washington seek mediated talks to resolve the dispute.
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N. RB. Seddon
Iran
U. S
Henry F. Grady
Francis Shepherd
F. Mohammed Mossadegh
Tte
Grady
London
Herbert Morrison
Britain
Tehran
Tudeh Party
Persian Gulf
Abadan
Isfahan
Tabriz
Azerbaijan
Russia
Society To
Tuden
Reds Slow Allies In Advance Inje Tells of Destruction
Reds pour sporadic fire from surrounding hills into Inje where mud huts lie leveled and dead Chinese and horses are scattered across streets. The air is filled with the smell of dead flesh as bodies line the lanes in a grim scene.
Obituary notices from Indiana County and surrounding area
Obituaries list multiple local deaths and services from Indiana County and nearby towns. Entries include James Harvey Ferrier of San Fernando California with ties to Kane and Indiana. Arnold Henry Bowser of Cortland Ohio, formerly Smicksburg. Elsie Bishop of Rossiter. Ellif y Ake Boucher of Indiana. Rose M. Spicher of Indiana, with service details, family survivors, and funeral arrangements.
Fanny Brice City around aging performer's decline
Hollywood reports Fanny Brice 59, famed as Baby Snooks, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Thursday. She has worsened, doctors say death could come within hours while she remains in a coma at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
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Hollywood
Fanny Brice
Comediene
Miss Brice
Radio
Cedars of LeBanon
General Vandenberg Told to Quit as Policy Critic
General Vandenberg testified before Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations on MacArthur’s dismissal and policy disputes. He said he concurred with relieving MacArthur as Joint Chiefs of Staff member. He faced questions about resigning or being recalled for criticizing U.N. policy and noted a tentative JCS study on Korean strategy.
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Vandenberg
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
MacArthur
Far Eastern
Joint Chiefs For Staff
Hickenlooper
U. N
United Nations
Yalu
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. J. Lawton Collins
Army
Tokyo
Takes More Than Might For Peace
Memorial Day address by Dr. Ray Falls at Kiwanis centers on peace needing power beyond military strength. He recalls World War I France tours, Armistice sites, and warns against relying on goodwill alone. Blairsville visitors greeted. board meeting set. race program notes praised. Associated Press report on Rex Layne KO at Detroit show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Falls
Kiwanis
Kiwanian
John Sahli
Blairsville Kiwanis Club
France
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau-Woods
Forest of Compeigne
Foch
Indiana
Blairsonville
Bill (Dairy) Stevens
Blair Anssley
Harry Rankin
Shorty Long
Logan Houck
Wally Nordby
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Demos
Gazette
Navy
Ronald Kinter
Robert Bartke
Indiana Evening Gazette
Kinter
Washington, D. C
Bartko
Ron
Bob
Sipos
Sgt. Kridler
Chanute AF Base
Cleveland
Ina
Pine Church
Mississippi River
Bob” DeGaetano
Paul Barnett
Charley” Davis
Elsie Bishop
John and
Mary Strump Kirkpatrick
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Ellif Y
Ake) Boucher
Philadelphia Street
Hillsdale
Indigha
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Robinson's
N. 7Th St
George Valentine
Edward F. Boucher
Iva Henry Sanford
Charles M. Ake
Camden, N. J
Rose M
Rowley) Spicher
Brady Fair
Brady
Fair
Rowley Cemetery
William P. Spicher
Ross P
Leyton T
Coraopolis
Associated Press
Milwaukee
Rex Layne
Lewistown
Utah
Odell Riley
Detroit
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