Approve Plans For New Schools In Wilmington Area
The Wilmington Area Joint School Board approved preliminary plans for a new junior senior high school in New Wilmington and an elementary school in New Bedford. Architect WG Eckles presented drawings with building and grounds committee approval. final sanction awaits PIBB 40 form from Harrisburg.
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New Castle
Joint Area School
Harrisburg
Eckles
Walt Whitman
Department of Public Instruction
Department of Labor and Industry
Whitman
New Wilmington High School
Last Man Group Holds 54th Annual Dinner
Hartford report notes the Last Man Brotherhood’s 54th annual dinner with 26 of 33 original members deceased. Only three of seven survivors attended while toast was made to the departed. An aged Madeira bottle sat before the candlelit table, the club started in 1901 and the last survivor retains the bottle.
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Hartford
Americ an Women Born in 1890 Lived to 65th Birthday
About seven of ten American women born in 1890 reached their 65th anniversary.
Rural Pastor of the Year honors for William Metz
William Metz of Cedar Street has been named Erie Conference rural pastor of the year and approved supply for Sherrett and Watersville Methodist churches. The Meadville ceremony recognized his work at Sherrett with praise from the conference commission on town and country work. Metz is a candidate for a broader church development award to be presented at Penn State University. Meanwhile in New York a police officer, Patrolman Bernard Gavin, 25, was savagely beaten by teen-aged rioters on the west side after attempting to break up a gang. He was hospitalized with multiple injuries after the assailants snatched his night stick and gun.
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Grove City
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New York
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Auxiliary Police Gather for Court Civil Defense Drill
Lawrence County auxiliary police with issued uniforms will meet at Cascade Park in the upper parking lot at 1 30 p m Wednesday for a civil defense test alert. They will be assigned to 10 major routes into the city and stationed to control traffic during the 10 minute drill. Chief John D Ring urged punctuality and said success depends on their performance.
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Civil Defense Auxiliary Police
Cascade Park
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Russians Hold 16 Britons Detained Abroad
Foreign Undersecretary Lord John Hope said the Foreign Office has records showing 11 British subjects detained in Russia plus one woman the Soviets claim as Russian, totaling 16 Britons held, with Poland and Romania each holding two.
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Russia
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Foreign Office
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Romania
Missing OSC book found in Maine collection
A book missing 32 years from Oregon State College library reappeared in Maine as part of a donation to the University of Maine. Librarians returned the volume after noting the OSC stamp. The overdue fine would have accrued at two cents daily to about $168. The work is Essais Sur la Vegetation, published in France in 1809.
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Corvallis, Ore
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University
Maine
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