Night driving linked to higher fatal accident rate
A study by the Street and Lighting Bureau reports that after dark the chance of a traffic accident being fatal is 40.1 percent higher than in daylight. Of 261,304 accidents in 14 states, 8,339 were fatal, with 4,880 after dark. Night volume ran about one quarter of daytime traffic.
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Cleveland
INS
Office of Informational Services
Maine
Massachusetts
Lighting Bureau
Ellwood Middie Receives Navy Varsity Athletic Award
Midshipman John P. Cartwright of Ellwood City was honored at Tecumseh Court Annapolis on June 2 1947 for his role on the Naval Academy varsity crew. The crew finished second in the ten crew Eastern Championship Regatta at Princeton on May 17 and defeated Columbia MIT Pennsylvania Princeton and Rutgers during the season.
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Tecumseh Court
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
John P. Cartwright
Line Avenue
Ellwood City
Navy
Naval Academy
Princeton
N. J
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Rutgers
Discharged Navy Electrician's Mate Charles Lepley
Charles F. Lepley 19, electrician's mate third class USN, son of Mr and Mrs F C Lepley 709 North Cedar New Castle, discharged from treatment at Naval Hospital Brooklyn NY. He entered service Jan 5 1946 at Pittsburgh and trained at Great Lakes.
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Navy Hospital
Charles F. Lepley
USN
F. C. Lepley
North Cedar Street
New Castle
Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Plain Grove Women’s Missionary Society Meeting Report
The Presbyterian church group met all day at Mrs. Mary Burns home with a tureen lunch. Quilting and quilt pitches were held and an afternoon program featured reader Mrs Bertha Rodgers and devotional leader. Participants included Mrs. Burns Mrs. Jessie Cory Mrs. Annabelle Cochran Mrs. Betty Rodgers and Mrs. Bertha Rodgers.
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Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Mary Burns
Bertha Rodgers
Jessie Cory
Annabelle Cochran
Betty Rodgers
Memorial Service Held At School House On Friday
Memorial service conducted at the school house with Homer Glenn in charge. Instrumental music by Bobby McCommons. Remarks by James Cornelius and Dr. M. G. Munn gave the Memorial Day address. Rev. Fred Cochran offered the benediction. Next year’s committee includes Clyde Adams Jake Uber and Walter Rodgers.
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Homer Glenn
Bobby McCommons
Eddie Magee
James Cornelius
M. G. Munn
America
Benedicton
Fred Cochran
Clyde Adams
Jake Uber
Walter Rodgers
Partridges of Ellwood City Named in Family Notice
Mr and Mrs Jack Partridge from Ellwood City are listed with children Johnnie and Judy in a brief family notice announcing their presence and location.
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Jack Partridge
Johnnie and
Judy
Ellwood City
Community Social News and Society Visits
Reading Circle plans Better Community Night with Rev and Mrs Cochran on Friday. Plaingrove High School seniors depart for a educational trip to New York. Visits from multiple local residents to Wallace and Book households are noted with social entertainment and a lunch. Mississippi’s Biloxi cited as early colony site. tooth banks proposed with live teeth replacements explored in medical studies. cat transplants already reported.
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Donald Patterson
Fred Cochran
Plaingrove
New York
Given Shaw
Frank Barczyk
Clyde Bowen
Clarence Humphrey
Charlotte
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Ellwood Middie
Navy Award
Plain Grove
Missionary Meeting
Gerson’s
U. S. Treasury Dept
Kenneth Robinson
Margie
Near Mercer
Herbert Wallace
Nora Pearce
Slippery Rock
Leslie Book
Willis Means
New Wilmington
H. P. Wallace
Mary Dight
Biloxi
Mississippi
Gerson
Valicc
Bulova
Jewels
Elgin
Remington Foursome
Gruen
Varsity
RS Bros
Carmen
From , A
Baby’s
Rogers Bros
Holmes & Edwards
Weenston
Lady's Diamond
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