Katanga Reinforcements Augment Elisabethville Defenses
Katanga troops moved in from the north to bolster Elisabethville as U.N. Globemasters ferried Swedish soldiers to reinforce U.N. lines. Gen Norbert Moke promised offensive action despite U.N. air superiority while both sides prepared for a possible confrontation.
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U.N
Katanga
Elisabethville
the Congo
U.S. Globemasters
Leopoldville
Norbert Moke
U.N. Congo
Eichmann Found Guilty on All 15 Counts in Israel Trial
Israeli judges labeled Adolf Eichmann a liar and rejected all defense pleas as they convict him on each of fifteen counts. The former Gestapo colonel awaits death by hanging, with final remarks scheduled before sentencing. the court’s verdict denounces him as a man who aided the destruction of six million Jews.
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Garven
Eichmann
Gestapo
Nazi Germany
Eeichmann
Europe
Shipley blasts use of radar detectors in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg AP Traffic Safety Commissioner O D Shipley denounced radar detectors as a speeders aid while noting the driver re examination program disqualified 7 925 motorists in 18 months. He said detectors will die a natural death and cited a New Jersey speeding case to support his view.
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Harrisburg
O. D. Shipley
Pennsylvania
Shipley
Governor's Traffic Safety Council
George Pinkerton
State Police Traffic Control Division
Pinkerton
New Jersey
Commonwealth
14 Mayors to Be Inaugurated Next Month
Fourteen mayors across Somerset county will be inaugurated next month. Some winners elected by write in votes require county certification before official status. Confirmed mayors include Alvin Benson, Eugene Berlin, W Pugh Boswell, Park L Racey, Nicholas M Bruno, Thomas A Courtney, Corbin Lohr, Charles G Clark, George Robert Goodwin, Emerson Henry, Phillip M Schaff, Paul J Morrow, William G Earnhardt, Alexander B Moore, Matthew J Klena Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County
Benson
Alvin Marshall
Berlin
Eugene W. Pugh
Boswell
Park L. Racey
Central City
Nicholas M. Bruno
Confluence
Thomas A. Courtney
Garrett
Corbin Lohr
Hooversville
Charles G. Clark
Meyersdale
George
Board Approves Directors In Service Training Program
Shade Central City Union school board approves an eight week in service course for school directors and the board secretary. A survey will gauge interest before final plans. The district opposes the reorganiza tion law and bids will be opened January 9 for a 1958 model or newer pickup or Jeep truck with snow plow option. Angelo Muro is authorized to attend the national elementary principal's convention in Detroit in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shade
Central City Union School Board
Angelo Muro
Detroit
Mich
Fike to Lead Somerset County Bar Association in 1962
The Somerset County Bar Association met at the Court House on Tuesday to elect officers for the coming year. Paul E. C. Fike was chosen president succeeding Judge Thomas F. Lansberry. Other officers include vice president Thomas F. Lansberry and secretary treasurer Robert W. Critchfield. Two new executive committee members were elected for three year terms, Wilbert H. Beachy Jr. and Nathaniel A. Barbera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County Bar Association
Court House
Thomas F. Lansberry
Paul E. C. Fike
Mercersburg Academy
Princeton
Dickinson Law School
Carlisle
Cascio and Fike
Robert W. Critchfield
Association
Wilbert H. Beachy, Jr
Nathaniel A. Barbera
Robert [. Boose
Henry G. Gress
Alexander Ogle
Union Policies Clash with Those
Delegates at the AFL CIO convention in Bal Harbour Florida adopted policies clashing with Kennedy administration aims. They backed higher wage goals and longer hours reductions, urging immediate $1.25 minimum wage then $1.50 by next step, and call for more federal spending to curb unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Walker
Bal Harbour
Fla
Afl-Cio
Kennedy
Aflcio
America
Congress
Organized Labor
Central City Sledding Streets Designated by Borough Council
Borough council designated Manges avenue in old Central and Second avenue in the new Central for sled riding from 5 to 8 p.m. Night parking bans on Central Sunshine avenues and Main Lambert streets 1 to 6 a.m. were announced to aid snow removal. Police will enforce speeding and stop sign laws on Sunshine avenue and other borough streets amid a crackdown on hot rodding. Mayor Bruno urged clear sidewalks and reported 227.50 in November fines, costs, and rentals. A 1962 wage tax of .5 percent and a $5 per capita tax were reenacted. A reorganizational meeting precedes the Jan 9 regular session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City Borough
Manges Avenue
Old Central
Second Avenue
New Central
Bureau of Corrections
Central
Sunshine Avenues
Main
Lambert Streets
Andrew Schanko
Sunshine Avenue
Nicholas Bruno
Russia Demands Arrest of General Heusinger
Hooversville area suffered a brief power outage Tuesday around 5 p.m. caused by a snapped line pole. Residents reported the outage at 5 10 p.m. and power was restored about 30 minutes later.
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Russia
General Heusinger
Hooversville
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Listie
GOP Purchases 14 Pounds of State Secrets in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg AP report Republicans bought 14 pounds of state secrets for 296 dollars. Budget Secretary Baldwin handed over thousands of pages of coded personnel data, including 61 905 salaried state employees. 19 000 per diem workers not listed. The coded files were prepared for GOP county chairs for verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
GOP
David R. Baldwin
George S. Bloom
Baldwin
Martin H. Blackbill
Republican State Committee
Highways Department
Blackbill
Auditor General's Department
Charles C. Smith
Capitol
Bloom
Dauphin County
Lawrence Okays Payment Toward Fayette Project
Gov. Lawrence approved the first 50 000 of a 342 440 state contribution to a Fayette County industrial park project in North Union Township. The total cost is about 2 739 520 dollars for a 660 acre area with substandard houses and small businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Lawrence
North Union
Fayette County
Final Planning School Class Slated Is Tonight
The final session of the Somerset county officials training course will be held Wednesday evening December 13. John M. Crane Planning Director Fayette county will conduct this meeting. The planning school began November 38 and covered U S planning history legal basis for planning applied to boroughs townships and counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County
John M. Crane
Fayette County
Willl
United States
Commonwealth
Four Men Burned in Mine Explosion at Grant Town
Four men were burned Tuesday in a mine explosion at the Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates mine in Grant Town. The blast and smoke occurred as the day shift began. All other miners escaped. hospitalized were Mike Mazure, Joseph Kolvach, Robert Grimm, and Alex Mitchell of Grant Town.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Big Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Grant Town
Fairmont General Hospital
Mike Mazure
Joseph Kolvach
Robert Grimm
Alex Mitchell
Ministers Agree To Feel Out Talks On Berlin
The Western Big Four foreign ministers agreed to probe Soviet willingness for East West talks on Berlin. No final accord was announced, only that they had agreed on reports to NATO allies. France resisted immediate talks with Moscow, while the US Britain and West Germany pressed for early contact.
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Paris
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
NATO
Soviet Union
Moscow
Atlantic Council
Berlin Firemen Re-Elect Walker For 15th Term
Ernest Walker was re-elected as Berlin fire chief for his 15th term at the annual Berlin Volunteer Firemen election held December 11. Officers elected included William Dively as president Ralph Lyons as vice president Clyde Miller as secretary and Wayne Carr as second assistant fire chief.
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Berlin
Ernest Walker
William Dively
Ralph Lyons
Clyde Miller
Bob Fogle
Wayne Carr
Fred Adams
John Long
Warren Pugh
Roy Cropp
Nevin Croner
Thomas Dive
School Directors Convention Set for January 16
County Superintendent Williams announced the County Directors convention will be held Tuesday January 16 at 9 30 a m. The all day session features Nevin Shaul on Act 516 school reorganization. John Hertz discusses recent school legislation. Delegates Luther Miller and Mrs Evelyn Selasko report on Harrisburg attendance. Anne Eisler covers lunch programs. Joseph Cascio outlines directors responsibilities.
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Williams
Nevin Shaul
State Chamber of Commerce
John Hertz
Harrisburg
Penna. State School Directors’ Association
Luther Miller
Addison
Evelyn Selasko
Salisbury
Anne Eisler
DPI
Joseph Cascio
Russia seeks arrest and extradition of Heusinger for war crimes
Moscow demanded the United States arrest Gen Adolf Heusinger former West German chancellor Adenauer's military adviser and NATO PMOC head and hand him to Moscow for trial as a World War I criminal NATO and West German officials dismissed the charges as propaganda while Washington called them crude and ludicrous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Russia
United States
Adolf Heusinger
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Permanent
NATO
Paris
Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
West Germany
Berlin
Heusinger
Konrad Adenauer
Hitler
Foreign Ministry
NATO Permanent Military Committee
Wolfe Seeks Child Care Director Post
The Somerset County Child Care Advisory Committee recommended William Wolfe for the position of director of Somerset county child care services. Wolfe, 57, a Dartmouth graduate and current public assistance field worker, would need state approval after regional review in Pittsburgh.
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Somerset County
Isabel Kline
Warren Hay
Lewis Baumgardner
William Wolfe
Confluence
Wolfe
Dartmouth College
Somerset and
Allegheny Departments of
Public Assistance
Somerset
The
Children and Youth
Pittsburgh
State Office of Department of Welfare
Division of Children and Youth
C. Wilson Anderson
Ruth Harting
Allegheny Co
Allegheny County Department of Public Assistance
Barbara Morgan
Child Care Service Office
Solosko
Marion Staub
Meyersdale
L. S. Williams
George S. Cook
Somerset House Public Auction Planned for December 28
A public sale of the Somerset House hotel real estate and personal property is set for December 28 at the corner of West Main Street and South Edgewood Avenue. Auctioneer Jack N. Schrock will oversee two land parcels with improvements and hotel goods as estate settlement follows Ella Z. Baer’s 1945 Will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset House
West Main Street
South Edgewood Avenue
Jack N. Schrock
Ella Z. Baer
Miss Baer
Grace Baer Cook
Frank Keefer
Elmer I. Lint
Lint
Cook
Elizaeth Carol Cook
Six Newspapers and Station To Be Honored By FFA at Show
In Harrisburg six Pennsylvania newspapers and a TV station will receive citations Jan 10 for outstanding FFA cooperation at the 1962 state farm show. The Derrick, Tribune, Forest Press, Farm ing, Montrose Independent, Selinsgrove Times Tribune, and WFBG TV earned recognitions along with 11 other organizations.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Future Farmers of America
FFA
State Farm Show
Oil City Derrick
Meadville Tribune
Forest Press
Tionesta
Lancaster Farming
Montrose Independent
Selinsgrove Times Tribune
Derrick
Venango County
the Tribune
Crawford County
Wfbg-Tv
Altoona
Butler Farm Show, Inc
West End Fair Association
Monroe County
Somerset County Holstein Breeders Association
Lycoming County Conservation District
Crawford County Trust Co
Meadville
Charles H. Long
Sweet Valley
Luzerne County
Urban Renewal Grant Approved for Johnstown Project
Gov. Lawrence approved a 47569 grant for urban renewal in Johnstown. The funds cover half the state contribution to clear seven acres north west of the central business district, enabling a 760949 project to boost the local economy and create jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Lawrence
Central City
Somerset Boro Ordinance 827 Classified Page Notice
New official notices published this week include Somerset Borough Ordinance 827 with classified page details. The notice outlines the ordinance and related classifications for public viewing.
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Somerset Boro
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