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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1955
Page
22
Early trading in New York showed strength across motors oils metals and steels lifting the industrial average to a new high. Pennsylvania Railroad moved with a small gain as rails broadly rose and the average neared its best level in a quarter century.
A noon price list shows numerous stocks, investment funds, and a planetary aside. The list includes Allied Chemical American Can Co Bethlehem Steel General Motors General Electric Mack Trucks Inc Lucent names appear with varied percentages. The passage ends with a trivia note: Pluto is three billion seventy million miles from Earth and Gretna Green was a Scotch village famed for elopements.
Washington officials faced delays as talks on a secret international agreement over air routes, including Lufthansa rights from Germany to New York and other U S destinations, were postponed for possible changes amid protests from U S airlines. Industry sources say the deal favored West Germany, sparking accusations that diplomats went overboard to please West Germany while Russia showed interest.
A 1955 King Features puzzle asks how many words can be formed across or down using 16 given letters, with each word counted once and no plurals. Scoring assigns fractional points for shorter words and higher points for longer ones, with a per-line max of five and a total target of up to fifty points.
Legal notices detail sheriff sales of multiple parcels in Shenango and New Castle townships including parcels with 1 to 3 acres, 2 story dwellings, garages and slate roofs. Also listed are June 1955 divorce actions against Clemente Razo Ernestine Blackwell and Mary Elizabeth Falland with court and sheriff notice.
Lost items include a side track rack near Thursday Street with a $reward, a box of tools between Ma honing town and Moravia with a $15 reward, and beaglehounds near Mt Jackson Bessemera with a contact number. Also several Spencer ads offer garments and personal services, and local merchants promote snacks and quitting smoking products in a clustered classifieds page.
Classified want ads list price steps: 30 dollars 1.20 4.00 6.00 21.00 for five lines about 25 words. Additional rates on request. Minimum ad is three lines. Add 25 cents if a News Box Number is used. Contract rate available.
Male Help Wanted. Two salesmen aged 25 to 55 with cars needed for permanent part time or full time work. Largest and oldest company offers territories with benefits and daily earnings. Details at 511 Greer Building 9 am to noon or call OL 4 8511 for appointment. Also Truck Driver position for over the road work on a percentage basis.
The Hoover Commission urged the federal government to shrink its vast realty empire and run it more efficiently, saving about 185 million dollars annually. It said up to 1.225 billion could be returned to the Treasury by disposing of surplus plants and properties, with 400,000 properties totaling 2.475 billion square feet.
Miss Mary Luella Jones of Vanport dies in a Pittsburgh hospital at 3 25 a m after a lingering illness. She was 64. Surviving are Mrs Hartford of Union township Wade D Jones of Youngstown and Maicne Miami. Funeral at Hazen Wilson Beaver Wednesday at 1 p m with interment in Georgetown cemetery Beaver County.
Classified notices list opportunities from Household Finance Corp and Mercury Match Co with jobs for dairy experience salesmen and field agents. Posts include travel to Atlantic City and Miami, weekly earnings and draw accounts, Pinkerton protection noted, and in person interviews at New Castle and Boston locations.
Building material deals include 8 inch junior beams 6.5 and 52c per ft from H Wolfe Iron & Metal Co 215 Gardner OL 8-7737 8-7738. Plumbing items tubs hosts water heaters lavatories from Baron Hardware 314 E Washington St 1221 Moravia OL 2-5541 OL 4-1341. Free parking and delivery offered by McGowan Builders & Supply Co Slippery Rock 4680. Anderson window units from Citizens Lumber OL 2-6639. Paints from Gordon's Army Store 119 W Washington St 1.75 per gallon. New brick siding 1000 sq ft with nails $50 Dial OL 4-0319.
East Germany’s Supreme Court sentenced Wilhelm Lehman 43 and Hans och 40 to death after a multi day trial for spying. Five co defendants received long terms at hard labor. The cases describe Western Imperialist espionage allegations in Berlin.
Local 544 CIO United Auto Workers halted the Fisher Body Plant of General Motors in West Mifflin today over geographic wage differentials. About 3000 workers on three shifts are affected as the union seeks a general wage increase to align with GM plants elsewhere and to modify the grievance procedure. A GM spokesman said bargaining talks broke off at 2 a.m.
At a May 25 1955 meeting The Slippery Rock Township School District reenacted the per capita tax and 5.00 per capita under act 481 as amended. Millage set at 25 mills or 2.50 per 100 dollars. The secretary Hunt signs in Portersville Pennsylvania.
Public sale of real estate auctioned by Sheriff Frank L. Coen on July 5 1955 at 9:00 A M at the New Castle Court House Pennsylvania with ten percent cash required and resale July 7 1955 at noon for any unpaid bids. Properties include 10 acre Plain Grove Township lot owned by Emmett C. Neff and Lucille Neff. a two parcel lot in Pulaski Township New Bedford. and related descriptions with details on boundaries and improvements. Attorneys Matthews and Matheny listed.
The Agricultural Marketing Service said farmers will receive about 43 cents of every consumer dollar in 1955, with marketing agencies taking about 17 cents for services. This keeps farm and processing shares near 1954 levels.
In Minneapolis a car parked by a meter showed a window sign reading This car obeys speed laws Do you The meter flag was up indicating a traffic violation and drew attention to the speed enforcement display.
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