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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
7
County Superintendent J Floyd Slaydaugh announced the fifty-ninth annual Adams County School Directors Association convention program. The Littlestown high school hosts events from 9 AM with a band performance, devotions, a talk by Cameron Ralston, nominations, a banquet, and a play by Littlestown students.
A sheriff sale will expose two adjacent tracts in Berwick Township along the Hanover to Abbottstown state highway in Adams County. Tract 1 covers 7 perches and Tract 2 about 80 perches, both described in a 1846 deed from Lydia Stambaugh to Claude S. Wagner. The property, seized as the estate of Claude S. Wagner, will be offered November 17, 1949, at 10 am at the Gettysburg Court House. Ten percent cash due at sale. balance and deed costs due five days before the return day.
John J. Yealy of Hanover files with the county clerk of courts to terminate the $15 a week support order. He notes his divorce was finalized November 19 and his daughter has since married.
A son was born Wednesday at Warner Hospital to Mr and Mrs Robert Shrader of New Oxford.
A sheriff sale in Gettysburg of the Delecto Dairy stock and fixtures followed a judgment against Michael J. Kuran Jr and his brother John F. Kuran. Penn Dairies, Inc. held the lease and claimed back rent, attorney fees, and labor claims. Auctioneers and bidders included Dorsey J Schultz and James Arendt.
Dr Harrison Harbach visiting Gettysburg with his relatives aided Henry Albright a Jacobs Brothers clerk who choked on a wish bone fragment during dinner. Harbach rushed next door and extracted the two inch bone preventing a fatal outcome.
Gettysburg saw rainfall below half its normal 2.84 inches with a 30 day average temperature near 44.5 degrees. The month featured 12 freezing days and a peak 73 degree high on Armistice Day, while lows dropped to 21 degrees on November 23.
The 1949 Syracuse University football roster includes two Adamees, two Urbans, and two Fiaecens who are not related. Jim and John Foley, both junior backs, are brothers.
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