Pennsylvania 1939 Legislature Ends Amid Bitter Wrangling
Harrisburg June 1 The 1939 session broken by party clashes closes with the Republican admin facing defeats on coal and liquor bills. Fireworks law passes outlawing sale or use except at public displays. Over 21 weeks the assembly enacted a 167 million general appropriation, relief reorganizations, work rules, alien registration, and a new state commerce department while expanding hospital funding and parole board powers.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Arthur H. James
General Assembly
James
Senate
van Alisburg
Snyder
Goltz
Department of Labor and Industry
Dauphin County Grand Jury
Earle
Treasury Department
Department of State
Board of Finance and Revenue
State Board of Pardons
Department of Commerce
Edenburg Memorial Day Program Draws Large Crowd
A large crowd gathered at the Edenburg bandstand for Memorial Day. The program featured a Gettysburg Address by Randall Park, an address by Rev. Will Vaughn, and services to the unknown dead by Edna Jean Asselton and Jane Anangst. The cemetery service was led by Watt Post with accompaniment from Bessemer High School. Memorial Day gatherings included picnics at various homes as families visited relatives in Niles Ohio, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and New Castle.
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Edenburg Bandstand
Randall Park
Will Vaughn
Edna Jean Asselton
Jane Anangst
Watt Post
Bessemer High School
Hodd Hofmeister
Niles
Ohio
Blaine McCullough
Laura Coates
David Pitts
Youngstown
Merlin Felger
Russell Hofmeister
Pittsburgh
Frank Hofmeister
Fred Coates
New Castle
Joseph Park
Enon Valley Seniors to Receive Diplomas in Service
Enon Valley joint high school will award 14 diplomas Friday at eight in the Enon Valley Presbyterian church. Dr. Ernest K. Patton of Geneva College will speak, with Charles W. Marshall announcing the program and presenting diplomas. The graduates include Della Gibney Helen Knowlson Mary Young and others.
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Ernest K. Patton
Geneva College
Enon Valley Joint High School
Enon Valley Presbyterian Church
Charles W. Marshall
Andrew J. Koonce
Della Gibney
Helen Knowlson
Ernest Patton
John Syling
Rev. Koonce
Mike Divjak
Jean Hogue
Betty Huston
Josephine DiCarlo
Ruth Jenkins
Muriel Russel
Mary Young
William Huston
Edward Inboden
Ernest Lambright
Keith Lambright
Chester Stewart
Dave Cramer Named Senior Counselor at Camp
Camp Fred L. Rentz of the YMCA announces 17-year-old Dave Cramer will serve again this summer as senior counselor. Director Henry T. MacNicholas disclosed the July 5 opening. Cramer, son of Leonard E. and Mrs. Cramer, is a First M. E. church member and recent state and national chorus honors recipient. He will assist in chapels, vesper services, and manage cabin boys, while showcasing cornet talents at campfires.
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David Cramer
Fred L. Rentz
Henry T. MacNicholas
Cramer
Leonard E. Cramer
County Line Street
First M. E. Church
Cabin Boys
Local minister leads rites for accident victim
Rev. R. B. Withers of New Castle and Branchton Methodist church conducts funeral for Burdett O. Stein 23 of Branchton who was decapitated Tuesday when struck by a mine train of the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad, dying four hours after his son's birth.
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R. B. Withers
New Castle
Branchton
Hoot Gibson Stars in Russell Bros Circus at New Castle
Hoot Gibson, famed cowboy star of 375 films, headlines Russell Bros Circus in New Castle on Monday June 5 with his horse Rowdy. Two performances at 2 and 8 p m feature riding roping and shooting, plus a wild-animal menagerie and horse show inspection inching the front doors open earlier for guests.
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New Castle
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Ore
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Russell Bros
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Madame Bedini
Irene Ledgett
He-Man
Idol
Celebrating His 85th Birthday Wesley Cartwright
Wesley Cartwright of 112 West Washington street quietly marks his eighty fifth birthday today. Born in Sharpsburg, he moved here about sixty six years ago and worked as a puddler in mills before becoming a machinist and boiler maker. He spent twenty two years with the Pennsylvania Railroad and ten with the P L E R R, remembers the bridge on West Washington street, and is a member of the First Baptist church. His children are Alfred, Frank, and Mrs Cora Phipps. health listed as fair as friends extend congratulations and birthday cards.
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Wesley Cartwright
West
Washington Street
Mr. Cartwright
Sharpsburg
Kimberly
Rice and Berger Mills
Billy” Williams
Eina Street
Harry Blews
Ryan Avenue
Parkers Landing
Pennsylvania Railroad
West Washington Street
Cartwright
First Baptist Church
Alfred Cartwright
County Line Street
Frank
Court Street
Cora Phipps
Delaware Avenue
Melody Boys at Mission Tonight in Clifton Flats
The Melody Boys will sing and play request numbers at 7 30 o clock in the Clifton Flats Mission as part of a prayer meeting and Bible study tonight.
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Melody Boys
Clifton Flats
Wampum High to Diploma Class of 1929 at Church
Wampum high school's class of 1929 will receive diplomas at tonight's commencement in the Wampum Presbyterian church at 8 o'clock EST. Bale D. Brunner, supervisor of George Junior Republic at Grove City, will deliver the address.
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Wampum High School
Wampum Presbyterian Church
Bale D. Brunner
George Junior Republic
Grove City
Painful Burns Quickly Relieved by Antiseptic Ointment
Mrs. Bessie Elia of Hawthorne New Jersey praises San-Cura Ointment for soothing painful burns and aiding healing. The antiseptic ointment relieves pain, prevents infection, treats minor sores, cuts, and rashes and is sold at Eckerd's and all drug stores for 35 and 60 cents.
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Pasaic Ave
Hawthorne
N. J
Eckerd’s
All Drug
Greta Garbo Starts First Picture In Last Two Years
Greta Garbo begins filming her first movie in two years in a plain suit in Paris, playing a Russian in Ninetieth century comedy about crown jewels. The shoot features Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart and Alex Granich as accomplices, with Hedy Lamarr noted elsewhere in production history. Leaders discuss Harbored aggression by Austria and Albania as the piece ends.
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Greta Garbo
Milton Harker
Sig Rumann
Felix Bressart
Alex Granich
M-G-M
Garbo
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