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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1949
Page
7
In Philadelphia June 27, about 15,000 Pennsylvania Railroad workers likely stay idle as coal mines halt output. The PRR will not recall furloughed workers amid mining uncertainty, while Reading Co plans no layoffs yet and Baltimore & Ohio cuts 1,000 clerical staff indefinitely.
Pittsburgh faces a paralyzing strike as AFL union leaders plan last minute talks with Lumber Institute of Allegheny County and Master Builders Association. About 300 drivers plus 400 Ready Mixed Concrete drivers could halt construction citywide. Local 249 seeks 35 cents per hour raise. Ready Mixed has been striking ten days and 800 bricklayers began strike June 1 for 50 cents. Three major Pittsburgh projects have been halted.
The Paris paper Espoir de Nice reports a Saint-Marc couple near Brest were awakened when police forcefully burst in with tommy guns. Apologies followed after the light was put out and they discovered a burglar alarm had been accidentally triggered, linked to the local station.
Zanevia Gryskevich, a Protestant, will represent the northern West Virginia panhandle in the Miss West Virginia contest August 6. She won the tri county panhandle title at Moundsville Saturday, replacing Mary Jane Gallagher who withdrew after a priest warned of excommunication.
Community items from Harlansburg note moves to New Castle and visits in Butler Pittsburgh and New Wilmington. Families attend weddings church events and mission meetings. A Bible school demonstration is planned at the Presbyterian church with 60 enrollments already.
A guide advises that parents may announce a daughter’s marriage and offers a sample wording. For an engagement, the recommended step is to call on the fiancée and her parents soon after the engagement is announced, with the son coordinating timing and a possible gift for the bride.
The Detroit Tigers brought a young pitcher from the Three-Eye league to a Yankees series. He warmed in the bullpen while munching on a ham sandwich, then was signalled to enter the game. The rookie paused to set his sandwich before pitching.
A nervous youth asks for the crusty lawyer Ben Kirsch’s daughter in marriage. The lawyer rejects the match, declaring the man unfit, while a teammate jokes about pitching to Babe Ruth and Gehrig. The scene features comic tension and boastful lines as a courtroom backdrop looms.
Seven West Liberty State students in an art department course under instructor Ruth West create their own jewelry. The program blends amateur originality with professional refinement. In other news Dr. Herbert T. Kelly of Philadelphia is named chairman of the Pennsylvania Nutrition Council after the death of Dr. Clara M. Shryock last October.
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