Large Class At Geneva College Commencement
Geneva college Beaver Falls held its largest ever commencement with 159 seniors receiving bachelor degrees. Four honorary doctorates were awarded to Frank K. McDanel and four pastors. Local students include Ann Paton and Helen Kielar, with several Ellwood City graduates and degrees awarded in arts, science, business, and education. An accident authority note closes the item.
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Beaver Falls
Geneva College
Reeves Stadium
Charles M. Lee
Frank K. McDanel
American Bridge Company
Elmer L. Parks Jr
Smithfield Street
Smithfield Street Methodist Church
Pittsburgh
Frank H. Latham
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Walton
N. Y
Frank Lee Stewart
Olathe
Kansas
Cary Nelson Weisiger III
Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church
Ann Paton
New Castle
John C. Butler
Wampum
Lawrence County
Helen Kielar
Margaret Hartford
Hillsville
Ellwood City
Gordon Aiken
Max Giovannini
Robert Marshall
Ernest Pocsik
Paul Newton
Roy Shoup
George Toth
Arthur Murphy
Jack Conway
Odette M. Lambert
Airliner Crash Recalled by Today's Disaster
The Miami report recalls a previous airliner ditching in the South Atlantic with 65 aboard and 53 dead near San Juan a year earlier. A converted Army C-47 crashed into the sea during a rainstorm after departing Puerto Rico for Newark, operated by Strato.
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Miami
INS
South Atlantic
San Juan
Newark
Crowded Freight Flight Rescue After 1949 Mishap
Civil aeronautics investigators found Freight Inc greatly overcrowded in a June 7 1949 flight. Twenty seven Puerto Ricans aboard were rescued after the disaster, amid notes of historical airliner catastrophes. The piece also recalls the March 12 Cardiff Tudor airliner crash and the first cast iron Erie canal bridge at Frankfort New York built in 1840, 77 feet long.
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Cardiff
Wales
United States
Frankfort
N. Y
First Methodist Board Outdoor Meeting Planned
The June meeting of the First Methodist Church official board will be held Wednesday June 14 at Dun-Rovin the summer home of Mrs C Ed Brown in Neshanock township near the Shenango U P church Members and their wives or husbands are invited for a 4 pm gathering with supper at 6 30 pm A tureen supper is planned If rain occurs the meeting moves to Shenango U P church Committees include hostesses and food organizers with named members listed
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First Methodist Church Official Board
Dun-Rovin
C. Ed Brown
Neshannock Township
Shenango U. P
C. P. Cloak
J. R. Cooper
Leonard Cramer
H. C. Harper
John Hodge
J. K. Heess
J. T. Ray
J. C. Wachtman
John Louer
Savings bonds drive praised as symbols of independence
Buy U.S. Bonds Board Chairman of American Smelt ing and Refining Co. announces participation in the 1950 independence savings bonds drive. He says duplicates of the liberty bell symbolize independence, permanence and thrift, praising government bonds as top financial investments.
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American Smelting and Refining Company
International News Service
New York
Independence
Society of Nations
Postpone Boost In Commuters Fares
Harrisburg June 6 An initial six months suspension of a proposed 22 percent commuter fare increase by the Pennsylvania Reading and Baltimore and Ohio railroads was extended for three months by the Public Utility Commission. The extension runs from June 16 to September 16 to allow completion of an investigation. The Interstate Commerce Commission has also suspended the tariffs affecting interstate traffic.
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Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania
Reading
Baltimore & Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rival bootleg factions bomb United States airfield in 1926
In Williamson County Illinois on November 12, 1926 rival bootleg groups carried out what is considered the first airplane bombing in the United States. The event is noted alongside a separate historical fact that the first American newspaper advertisement appeared in the Boston News-Letter on May 18, 1904, and was a real estate ad.
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United States
Williamson County
Ill
Boston News-Letter
Cleveland duo held for county court on drunken driving
Thomas Gardner and Joseph Merle Gardner of East 79th Street Cleveland were jailed awaiting county court action. They faced driving while intoxicated charges after their auto struck a parked car on Quest Street. Both pleaded guilty before Alderman J. C. Kennedy.
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Thomas Gardner
East 79Th Street
Joseph Merle Gardner
Cleveland
W. G. McMullen
Quest Street
George Allshouse
Pennsylvania Avenue
J. C. Kennedy
Jewish War Veterans Rally Thursday At Cosmo Club
Jewish War Veterans will hold a rally at the Cosmo club on Thursday at 9 p m. They will plan the wrestling show event set for June 20. Henry Ginsburg serves as adjutant for the Jewish War Veterans.
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Cosmo Club
Henry Ginsburg
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Goodyear
Braatz
Croton Ave
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Ldey Va
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Washington
Louis Johnson
Congress
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Johnson
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
International
Strato
Neshannock Ave
Marvel
A & P Super Market Mill
Croton Sts
Gustav’s
Pure Food Bakery
East Washington St
Tussy
Eckerd
Fittsburgh
Brighton
Pittsburgh Color Dynamics
Quality Paint and Glass
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
N. Mill St
First Methodist Board
J. H. Elmore
Michael Bowden
Vennor Bright
J. R. Frazier
W. M. Jones
F. A. Nowling
Ralph Reed
O. J. Sheaffer
Ralph Shiner
Roy C. Williamis
Jack French
Paul Laurel
Samuel McCleary
Jr. Transportation
W. G. Ayres
J. W. Anderson
Andrew Dodds
T. J. Kelly
R. H. Shields
U.S
By Roger W. Straus
Carload
Shelvador
E. Washington ST
Crosley
Smarpsville Ave
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