Martin Plans On Retirement From Long GOP Career
Martin plans retirement after a storied six decades of service to the Republican party. He rose from private in the Philippine insurrection to two‑star general and key roles in the National Guard, World War I and II service, party leadership, and as a U S Senator. The Pennsylvania State Grange backs a weight distance tax on trucks for the 1955 legislature, per a joint state government sub committee.
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Congress
Grange backs weight-distance tax amid levy debates
The article notes New York and Ohio taxing truckers while New Jersey weighs a similar levy. Grange master Beatty urges weight-distance taxes, claiming no truck weight increases in recent sessions, as Philadelphia Democrats face intraparty turmoil around Mayor Clark and District Attorney Dilworth.
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Ohio
New Jersey
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Master Beatty
Philadelphia
Joseph S. Clark Jr
William J. — Jr
Anabie
Green
Clark
Richardson Dilworth
J M Symes Pioneering Railroad Executive Passes
Born July 8 1895 in Glen Osborne Pennsylvania J M Symes began as a railroad clerk in Pittsburgh and rose to high posts including chief clerk to the general manager in Chicago superintendent of passenger transportation chief of freight transportation and vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad He served as vice president from 1952 and was a former president of the line.
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Harrisburg Bus Strike News Prompts Hopeful Talks
Harrisburg buses remain idle as two separate talks fail to end a 10 week strike. Harrisburg Railway Co negotiators report a better idea of drivers demands while unions say hope persists. City council and parking lot operators discuss remedies with 700 new spaces proposed if the city does not compete.
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Harrisburg Railways Co
Oeto
Husband Acquitted In Death Of Wife
Jacob Remick aged 58 was acquitted of assault and battery in the death of his wife Rose who died after a quarrel at home and an autopsy showed a heart attack rather than homicide Judge Louis E Levinthal presided and the defense cited a struggle for a telephone during the incident.
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Jacob Remick
Rose
Louis E. Levinthal
Quarter Sessions
Remick
Gallagher 25th wedding anniversary celebrated at home
Presbyterian and Methodist church notes list services in Pulaski. A Saturday open house celebrated Ernest and Mrs Gallagher’s 25th wedding anniversary at their North street home with a mock wedding, music by Sandy Grell, song by Gaylord Cameron, and attendance by relatives and friends. They were married June 19, 1929 in Ripley New York and have three children and three grandchildren.
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Sandy Grell
Gaylord Cameron
Albert Osborn
Roy C. Bilger
Adam Grell
Albert Fox
Ripley
New York
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Caroline) Winters
Ane E. W. Gallagher, Jr
Alexandria
David
Dayton
Ohio
Boy C. Bilger
Robert Mitcheltree
Evelyn
W S C S Members Meet at Methodist Church Social
W S C S of the Methodist church met in the church social room on Thursday evening. President Mrs. Adam Grell led routine business and vice president Mrs. Gaylord Cameron conducted the devotional. Mrs. Ruby Arble spoke on travels in Europe and Mrs. Cameron received gifts and a past presidents pin. A lunch followed.
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Roy C. Bilger
Robert Clayton
Adam Grell
Gaylord Cameron
Ruby Arble
Mahoningtown
Pulaski
Italy
France
Switzerland
Europe
Patti Lee Cameron Celebrates First Birthday at Wilson Home
Patti Lee Cameron daughter of Mr and Mrs Mickey Cameron Mercer street was honored at a family dinner on Sunday by grandparents Mr and Mrs Henry Wilson of New Wilmington The occasion marked her 1st birthday and she received many gifts at the Wilson home.
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Driver Training School Opens in Bedford Under Motorship
Harrisburg IWS reports a new drivers training school to be opened Monday in Bedford. It is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association and operated by the Bedford School District with vocational funds appropriated by the legislature.
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Legisature
Harrisburg Reports Driver Privilege Withdrawals During Week
The State Highway Safety Bureau announced 1,583 drivers had operating privileges withdrawn for the week ended June 11 with 126 licenses revoked affecting 1,205 drivers.
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State Highway Safety Bureau
Woman 86 Dies After Being Struck Near Home
In Ashland Pennsylvania Mrs Lulu Thompson 86 from Fort Springs was fatally struck by a car as she crossed the road in front of her residence. The driver Michael Sheppo Jr 42 of Frackville was released pending investigation into the accident. Drive Slow Children Move Fast.
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Lulu Thompson
Fort Springs
Michael Sheppo Jr
Frackville
Jerking Water Ajerkwater Town Legend Rediscovered
A historian cites Montrose New York in 1870 as the place where a first device enabled the process labeled jerking water. The town later gained attention as a jerk-water town, a term now used for small places with local quirks. In a separate vignette a Wall Street trader’s wife pushes her husband to explain the bulls and bears to their teen son.
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New York
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Irving
Burglars Loot Keystone State Building in Philadelphia
Two men overpowered a watchman in a central Philadelphia office building and fled with an undetermined amount of cash from the safe of the Philadelphia Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union after binding Frank Bernhardt to a chair. Bernhardt freed himself hours later and notified police. First wagon train over the Rockies was led by Marcus Whitman in 1836.
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Keystone State Building
Frank Bernhardt
Philadelphia Printing Pressmen
Bernhardt
Rocky Mountains
Marcus Whitman
Texas Hurricane Takes One Life
The first hurricane of the season named Alice swept the gulf coast at the Texas Mexico border killing Salvador Villareal, a Matamores cafe owner, with at least one other injured. Brownsville and the lower Rio Grande valley endured heavy rains and winds but no property damage was reported as the storm moved into northern Mexico.
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Rio Grande Valley
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