Western Pennsylvania CCC Plans 2500 Exits and Jobs
The Western Pennsylvania CCC headquarters at Indiana prepared an intensive employment campaign for 2500 men to be discharged from camps on September 30 1987. The plan includes registering men with National Reemployment Offices forwarding records to employers forming employment committees in 40 camps and radio talks on training for civilian work. Lt Col LB Weeks notes CCC recruits’ strong fitness discipline and varied skills including truck driving cooks clerks and typists with camp meetings to teach job application steps and emphasize neatness manners and speech.
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Western
Pennsylvania
CCC
Indiana
Remue
LB. Weeks
Sampaign
Ladies Night for Clubby Lions and Show Night
The Lions Club sponsors four consecutive Tuesday evenings starting September 21 in the high school auditorium. Proceeds will be minimal and tickets priced for accessibility. A committee meeting follows at Douglass Studio 6:45 p.m. with directors at 6:00 p.m. The Lions Club Bloomer Girls will also perform once more for the audience.
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Lions Club
Indiana
Douglass Studio
Lions Club Bloomer Girls
New Chemical Is Pro Coffee Anti Whiskey
Rochester news notes a new chemical derived from fat and soap used to treat clothing, promising it will resist staining from spilled breakfast coffee. The piece mentions a return game by Bloomers against Birndale with details about a September 17 matchup and prior events at Burndate and Lion Kent’s camp.
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Pro Coffee
Anti Whiskey
Rochester
N. Y
Trown
Birndale
Bloomer Girls
Burndate
Lion Kent
Trevorton High School strike over principal dispute
Students walked out to protest the reappointment of Frank Noetling as supervising principal. The walkout drew about 200 pupils at Trevorton Junior and Senior High, with some supporting John Carter who briefly held Noetling’s post during a court challenge. The incident follows neighboring Bloomsburg High’s legal fight over a similar appointment.
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Trevorton
Frank Noetling
Noetling
Bloomsbury High School
A. P. Gilmore
Bloomsburg
John Carter
Carter
Public Park Plan Faces Millage Hurdle at Council Meeting
County officials clash over bonded debt. A park proposal envisions a permanent recreational center inside a half mile track with a pool baseball football and tennis facilities and year round grounds use. No action taken as council seeks public opinion while other items include paving projects street curbing and W P A funding for South Sixth Street improvements. Fines and drunkenness collections are reported for August.
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John B. Flenniken
The
Fair Association
Simpson
Traci
Beounty
East Washington Street
Third
Fifth Streets
Burgess
Martin
South Sixth Street
Borough
CCC Youths Camp Closures Across Pennsylvania
Camp closures include Kane Mt Union Petersburg Centermere Hillsgrove Kathaus Em Hall Kato Watrous Edgeporium Montoursville Hartleton Chaneyville Home Indiana County Johnstown Beaver Carlisle Barracks Camp Tobyhanna. nearly 60 camps remain in state. Western commanders arrange for end of month reemployment registration. headquarters forwards personnel records. Each camp forms an employment committee to promote training and job applications, urging neatness and proper manners. MASONTOWN The Fairmont Express reports George Buckalg' killed and Bissull fracture in Misterling incident.
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Kane
Mt. Union
Petersburg
Centermere
Hillsgrove
Kathaus
Em Hall
Kato
Watrous
Edgeporium
Montoursville
Hartleton
Chaneyville
Home
Indiana County
Johnstown
Beaver
Carlisle Barracks
Camp Tobyhanna
Pennsylvania
Du Pont chemists unveil fabric repellent coating
An American Chemical Society exhibit features a new water repellent chemical that resists washing and dry cleaning. Du Pont chemists say the coating works on cotton, wool, silk, and rayon, soaking into fabrics rather than beading off like water on straight whiskey.
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Américan Chemical Society
du Pont
Italo Russian Rift Grows in Mediterranean Conflicts
The 3000 ton British tanker Harpa was torpedoed near north Africa but escaped. Off Rhodes in the Aegean Sea the Pegasus of Socony Vacuum Oil was halted by a submarine flying the Insurgent flag. Near Algiers, the Spanish insurgent Canarias and seven government warships fought as Paris presses accuse Italy of piracy.
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Harpa
North Africa
Rhodes
Aegean Sea
Pegasus
Socany-Vacuum Oil Company
Algiers
Canarias
Paris
Italy
Mediterranean
Tragic Sungkiang wreck tallies hundreds dead
Shanghai dispatch reports a massive air bomb blast at Sungkiang station 80 miles from Shanghai. Five rail cars carrying refugees were blown from the track. up to 300 Chinese noncombatants killed and about 400 injured. The blast shattered two second class coaches and a third class car, scattering bodies and wreckage across the yards as Red Cross nurses aided survivors.
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Shanghai
James A. Mills
Sungkiang Station
Sungkiang
Hankow
Red Cross
China
Japanese Engineers Scale Pagshan Walls in China Front
Dramatic account reports eight Japanese engineers climbing Pagshan’s 40 foot walls under heavy fire aided by ladders and bombs strapped to their backs. The assault precedes a fresh Chinese drive along the Yangtze and Whangpoo front as Japanese reinforcements flood in and the front line lines waver.
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Pagshan
Shanghai
Yangtze
Whangpoo
Woosung
Yangtze Et Linho
Japan
China
Taishan
Canton
Hongkong
United States
Seventh Day Adventist
Yangtzepoo
University of Shanghai
88 Teams for First Aid Meet at Ebensburg Fairgrounds
As of Sept 1, 88 first aid teams have registered with the Pennsylvania Department of Mines to compete in the statewide meet at the Ebensburg Fairgrounds on Saturday Sept 7 at 10 30 a m EST It will be the second largest first aid meet in U S history with substantial cash prizes and engraved cups The event is Pennsylvania Bituminous Safety Day with heavy participation from miners and companies and speakers including Philip Murray David Lawrence and Michael Harteady expected to attend to promote accident prevention education.
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Secreacy of Mines
PF. Nairn
Ebensburg Fairgrounds
United States
Bluefield
W. VI
National Coal Association
Ebensburg Fair Association
Brest
Clymer
Barr
NuMine
Commodore
Kent
United Mine Workers of America
Board Opens Steel Query in Hearing on Bethlehem Units
Witnesses answered no. Chief counsel H A Moore urged dismissal of complaints against Bethlehem Steel Corporation the holding company while Bethlehem Steel Company the operating unit faced the hearing. Frank Bloom the examiner issued a decision noting the board had not ruled on the corporation and said blanket charges would be consolidated with separate decisions to follow.
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Washington
Siate Department
China
Shanghai
Far East
Charis _ter
Roosevelt
Hamilton Fish
R-Ny
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Colorado Springs
Cola
H. A. Moore
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlhem Steel Company
Frnar
Frank Bloom
360 Voters Removed in Alleged Registration Fraud
About 360 voters in two city wards were struck from registration lists after an Allegheny County Elections Bureau probe into fraudulent and improper registrations. Thirty names were marked as dead and the rest as movers from the community.
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McKersfort
Allegheny County Bureau of Eiections
Betty Grable Determined To Wed Jackie Coogan
Betty Grable vows marriage to Jackie Coogan in Hollywood, declaring she wants it to be life with him. The blonde bombshell speaks of a lasting union and her future career prospects amid public interest.
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Betty Grable
Hollywood
Sept
Dynamite Boy
Missouri
Cateer
Mes
Jackie Coogan
Ife
Tittle Singers
Wage Chiseling Brings Probe in Harrisburg
Harrisburg reports alleged wage reductions for women due to shorter hours prompt Secretary Bashore to warn that minimum wage laws may be expanded. He calls for enforcement, notes possible 200 dollar daily fines or 60 day jail penalties, and says local boards may set standards on petition.
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Harrisburg
Secretary of Labor and Industry
Ralph M. Bashore
Bashore
Department of Labor and Industry
Senate to Probe Value of Relief
Labor department officials said Secretary Perkins had not indicated when she might submit names of a possible successor to McGrady. He will become labor relations adviser for RCA in New York City. McGrady had been with the Labor Department since 1933 and helped settle dozens of strikes.
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Labor Department
Secrretary Perkins
Ces
McGrady
Sour
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Perkins
Radio Corporation of America
New York City
Steel Strike Mediation Board
C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Pittsburgh Markets Report Sept. 8 Produce and Livestock
Markets show fair demand with steady to higher prices for several produce items. Apples and potatoes move in ranges by grade and region, while hogs cattle calves and sheep show steady to weak shifts, with feeders and lambs noted in the mid-teens to upper teens per cwt.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
New York
New Jersey
Long Island
Pitteburgh
Fog and Weather Impede Mattern in Missing Soviet Aviators
Pittsburgh report says Jing Mile Mattern, the world traveler, blamed fog and bad weather for failing to locate six missing Soviet trans polar aviators. He added Levynelsky and crew were likely downed in similar conditions. Mattern, last leg from Alaska, visited his ailing wife whose illness was not disclosed by doctors.
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Pittsburgh
Jing Mle Mattern
Ayer
Levynelsky
Mattern
Cleveland
Alaska
Mallern
Bettty's Hollywood Engagement Ties To Coogan Dee
Betty is hailed by Paras Mourit as the season’s top new film prospect and plans marriage to Coogan Dee, aged 21. He rose as a child actor in "The Kid" with a non-dollar fortune. They have been engaged for two years, a record for Hollywood. He jokes about a long boat ride after the wedding, saying money isn’t needed.
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Betty
Paras Mourit
Coogan Dee
Hollywood
Coogan
Flags and unity at Confederate Veterans reunion
G A R leaders debated flags for the event with C H Ruhe of Pittsburgh insisting only one flag should fly and no Confederate banner. Col Richard McWhorter of Coffeyville urged a joint march under one Day while Gina Flood noted planning limits. Braves of soldiers from both sides were recurred, and Ruhe defended allegiance to the constitution and flag postwar.
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C. H. William Ruhe
Pittsburgh
Richard McWhorter
Coffeyville
Kansas
Ruhe
Catherine Flood
Major U.S. Industrial and Corporate Names Listed in Market Note
A dense roster of companies appears in a historical market snapshot including Am Can Am Coml Amco Amoco Alcoa American Tel and Tel American Sugar Refining Anaconda Appleton Baldwin Loco Brigg s Monigom Nash Kelv Nat Dairy Nat Distillers North American Packard Penn Read Phillips Petroleum Radio Corp Reading Repub Steel Reynolds Texaco Sears Moebuck Socony Vacuum Southern Pacific Stand Oil Stand Oil Indu Stand Oil NJ Texaco Timken United Aircraft United Corp US Steel West Union Woolworth and related entities in a broad stock market reference.
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Air Reduc al
Alco Am
Anaconda Aten
Baldwin Loco Balt
Ohio
Beth Steel
Briggs
Burr Add Mach
Calumet
Hee Canad Pacific
Ches and
Chrysler
Coca-Cola
South
Cons Edison
Consol
Oi Corn Products
Crane Co
del Lack and
West Douglas Aircraft
du Pont
Del
Eastman Kodak
Ei Auto Lite
Elec
Gen Foods
Gen, Motors Gen
Gillette
Hach-Walker
Hershey
Choc
Hudson Motor
Int Harvester
Int
Tel
Kennecolt
Kresge Lehigh Val Coa
Leh
Val RR
Loews
Mack Trucks
Monigom Wal Nash-Kelv
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Fi
Nat Distillers
Nat
North Ameria
Packard Motor, Penn RR
Phila Read C T Phillips Pet Pub
Sye NJ
Pure Oil Radio Corp
Reading Co
Repub Steel Reynolds
Tob
Sears
Moebuck
Socony- Vacuum
Southern Pacific Southern Ry
Cal Stand Oil
Indu Stand Oil NJ
Texas Corp
Timken Roll
Transamerica
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas
Inip US
Indus Alto US Rubber US Smelt
R and M US Steel
Vanadium Corp
West Union
Tel West el
Mtg
Woolworth
Eet Ve
Coral Boy First Football Victim in Indiana County
Paul Peacie a 16 year old of Coral was reportedly the first football casualty of the 1987 Indiana County season. He suffered a shoulder fracture in a game last night and was taken to hospital.
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Paul Peacie
Coral
Indiana County
Peacic
Stapleton Rites Friday for Thomas J Stapleton
Thomas J Stapleton 60 died unexpectedly from a heart attack at 448 G Mr Day near Ernest. Funeral at the Church of the Assumption Ernest at 9 am Friday with burial at Wilmore. Surviving include children Margaret Aloysius John Leroy Stapleton and Mary Stapleton Travers. Cathérine Stapleton is deceased. He formerly lived in Shrenfeld and worked for Rochester Pittburgh Coal Company.
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Thomas J. Stapleton
Thomas J. Staple 60
Michael
Margaret (Carroll) Stapleton
Shrenfeld
Ernest
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company
Cathérine (Madigan) Stapléton
Margaret Stapleton
Aloysius
John
Laeroy Stapleton
Mary Stapléton Travers
Pittsburgh
Edmund Kiernan Gallagher
Somerset
Tuelsday
Gallagher
I. Hess Wagner
Trinity Lutheran Church
Thomas Gallagher
Ernest Mack
New Florence
Ida B. Sipe
Jenners Crossroads
James Cover
Lillie Gallagher
Black Lick Man In Auto Crash Near Kittanning
Kenneth Newherter of Black Lick was injured when his sedan overturned on Route 66 about nine miles north of Kittanning. He reportedly tried to brake too quickly while passing a car. Patrolman M A Bene ner of the Pennsylvania Motor Police reported damages around $150 to the car.
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Kenneth Newherter
Black Lick
Armstrong County Hospital
Kitanning
Minge
Kittanning
Newherter
M. A. Benener
Pennsylvania Motor Police
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Stapleton
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Punxsulawney
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Albuquerque
Martha M. Bowen
Merle Curry
Marion Avenue
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Lotisville
Youngstown
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Braddock
Merle L. Curry
Leroy Halbert
Rev. Kennedy
Circle Hill Cemetery
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Ward Rupert
Sagamore
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