Governor Urges Action on Youth Problem Across Pennsylvania
In June about 70 000 graduates from public and private high schools and academies joined college grads and 12 000 more from higher education. The governor calls for national state and community focus to create educational recreational and work programs for 18 to 21 year olds out of school and out of work.
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Pennsylvania
United States
Federal Office of Education
Washington
Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction
Aracine
Plans for Stream Work in Pennsylvania CCC Second Enrollment
Emergency conservation workers in Pennsylvania plan 380 miles of stream improvements and 788 fish dams on state forests and game lands during the CCC second enrollment, ending April 1935. Projects require over 17 000 man-days for stream work and 9 000 man-days for dam construction.
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Pennsylvania
Lewis E. Staley
Department of Forests and Waters
Staley
School costs drop in Pennsylvania in 1933 report
Public education expenditures in Pennsylvania fell from 1932 to 1933 by about 23 million dollars. Dr. James N. Rule, Superintendent of Public Instruction, notes a roughly 16 dollar per pupil drop in average daily attendance. Capital outlay fell by about 9 million, with total costs excluding tuition dropping from about 204 million to 181 million dollars, a net decrease over ten percent.
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Pennsylvania
James N. Rule
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Offers A New Idea On Origin Of Pretzel
Secretary Philip Dewey notes many inquiries on pretzel origins as research suggests German roots with names like prayer cake and bertzeln. A Clayton correspondent claimed the knot shaped pastry symbolized Christ’s hands in crucifixion and Holy Week eating customs.
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Pennsylvania
Philip Dewey
Department
Germany
Clayton
Missouri
Bertzeln
Christ
Penn State Trustees Adopt New Budget and Reelect Seven
Seven trustees of the Pennsylvania State College with expiring terms were re elected for three years. Re elected by county delegates are E S Bayard Pittsburgh John C Cosgrove Johnstown Robert R Lewis Coudersport and Edwin W Nick Erie. Alumni re elected J Toner Harris Harrisburg.
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Pennsylvania State College
E. S. Bayard
Pittsburgh
John C. Cosgrove
Johnstown
Robert R. Lewis
Coudersport
Edwin W. Nick
Erie
J. Toner Harris
Harrisburg
Coldren Clart to Meet at Lititz Springs Park Reunion
The twenty first annual Coldren Family reunion will be held at Lititz Springs Park Lititz on Saturday July 21 with a 2 p m program including a business session historical addresses and a Get Acquainted Hour. Attendees should bring information on ancestors for a complete family record and there will be music. Officers are President Stephen C Leininger Mohnton and Secretary Willington E Coldren Shillington.
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Coldren
Lititz Springs Park
Lititz
Stephen C. Leininger
Mohnton
Willington E. Coldren
Shill
Revolutionary War era dress donated to state museum display
A prize winning Millersburg Hallowe en costume from Lucinda Bowman’s collection is now on display in the state museum for three months. The four item outfit includes a colonial bonnet black silk dressing apron black lace fichu a brown cape and a brown basket. It has stayed in the Bowman family since colonial days with Major Sumner S. Bowman of Millersburg presenting the piece as executor of Margaret Ann Bowman’s estate.
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Millersburg
State Museum, Papartment of Public Instruction
Lucinda Bowman
Strasburg
Lancaster County
Bowman
Margaret Ann Bowman
Sumner S. Bowman
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