Bill to guarantee open meetings across Pennsylvania
The Senate bills 224 seeks open meetings at all levels with advance 48 hour notices to newspapers and radio. It requires publication of notices for special meetings and fines for officials who violate the act. The measure declares all meetings open including school boards.
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Senate
Pennsylvania
Sigma Delta Chi
National Journalism Fraternity
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Science Moves in on Weeds and the Costs to Farmers
Five billion dollars a year is the weed bill for farmers yet only in the last decade have researchers forged a coordinated assault. The piece argues for integrated weed management combining tillage, practices, and chemicals while stressing basic research on germination growth and chemical movement in plants. It calls for cross-disciplinary scientists and immediate action as farmers demand answers.
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California
Deaths of York leading citizen and longtime editor
Fifty years ago readers in York and Lancaster Counties awoke to news of Samuel H. Spangler death at 69 after a blizzard siege to his residence. He once edited York Evening Record and sent news to President Lincoln after Gettysburg. Also noted are Prof. J. H. Purgh’s death at 71, and various 1906 07 agricultural items.
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York
Lancaster
Samuel H. Spangler
Spangler
York Evening Record
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Washington
Letter to the Editor Questions Farm Policy and Nutrition
Richard W. Mease of Schoeneck Pennsylvania critiques a February editorial arguing that money dominates policy. He urges focus on nutritious food, land and water conservation, and natural farming outside county agents, asking readers to seek facts and consider alternatives to subsidies and overproduction.
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U.S.A
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Noted in 1932 Case
Twenty five years ago on March 1 1932 the Lindbergh infant Charles Augustus Jr was kidnapped from the Hopewell New Jersey home between 730 and 10 pm. A ladder was left as the only trace and a note demanding 50000 dollars was found in the crib.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hopewell
N. J
Lindbergh
Bar of Justice recounts 58 drinkers fined decades ago
Twenty five years ago this week Kelly's roadhouse at West Chester Pike and Upland Road Haverford Township became a temporary bar of justice as fifty eight beer drinkers faced Justice of the Peace William Emerick. Emerick fined each five dollars plus costs. Fred Kelly fled before agents entered. his wife and son Paul were arrested along with eleven staff. Also in Lancaster County fire destroyed five buildings in Rothsville causing about fifty thousand dollars in damages including W. M. Zook and Sons grain warehouse and a Zook dwelling and barns. In Pleasant Grove Graham Knight's farm cow gave birth to three male calves all red and white and fully developed.
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Kelly
West Chester Pike
Upland Road
Haverford Township
Prohibition
Jusstice of the Peace
William Emerick
Emerick
Fred Kelly
Paul
Lancaster County
Rothsville
W. M. Zook and Sons
Charles Zook
Walter Binkley
Wallace Zook
Graham Knight
Pleasant Grove
Who Is This Lesson on March 3 1957
An article explores how people view Jesus from curiosity to faith, noting Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God. It contrasts prophetic authority with Christ’s unique lordship and emphasizes faith as seeing truth beyond proof.
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Jesus
Christ
John
Elijah
Jeremiah
God
One Lord
Peter
Simon Peter
Matthew
Messiah
Israel
Judas
Jesus Christ
Penne
Geek Ramarao
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BY Jack Reichard
J. H. Purgh
Greenspurg
Iowa Experiment Station
Chippeway Falls
Wisconsin
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Charles Coates
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