Lewis Calls for UMW Inclusion in Labor Unity Effort
John L. Lewis urged AFL CIO to include United Mine Workers in the pending unity conference. He warned that excluding his union would hinder national labor success. The week-end saw progress as rival groups moved toward cooperation on non political projects and joint committees formed with Histadrut and railroad unions.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
AFL
CIO
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Joseph D. Keenan
Political Action Committee
PAC
United Mine Workers Journal
Talking Mute Puzzles Police Of Springfield
Springfield police grapple with a case of a 21 year old Plattsburgh man who collapsed claiming diabetes as a deaf mute. Doctors found no diabetes and police questioned the claim as the man signed and provided evidence of needles. The case remains unresolved as officers await his voice.
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Springfield
INS
Plattsburgh
Milford Church of God Lot To Be Sold At Auction
Public auction set for Saturday afternoon June 24 1950 offering one acre and 100 perches on Route 53 two miles north of Centerville six miles south of Somerset. Trustees reserve right to reject bids highest bidder wins. Terms disclosed sale day. Rev J L Hull pastor.
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Milford Church of God
Route 53
Centerville
Somerset
Troop 131 Again Wins Top Award at Campooree
The eleventh consecutive presidential camping award went to Somerset Troop 131 at the Boy Scout Campooree in Roaring Run open Friday to Sunday. About 79 troops and 763 Scouts from Robert E. Peary Council covering Somerset and Cambria counties joined 864 people in camp, with 40 Troop 131 boys and leaders including Scout Master Donald Younkin and assistants James Tasker Orlo Witt and Richard DeWitt.
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Somerset Troop 131
Roaring Run
Robert E. Peary Council
Johnstown
Somerset
Cambria
Donald Younkin
James Tasker
Orlo Witt
Richard DeWitt
Harry Zarefoss
Barrie Gibbs
Ernest Coleman
Kenneth Walker
Terry
James Countryman
Ernest Gelpi
James Halverson
Robert Hershey
Douglas Trent
David Maurer
Edwin Witt
William Critchfield
Bertrand Logsdon
Charles Nearhouse
Adrian Kuhs
Clark Schrock
Gerald Rhoades
Harold Male
Frederick Morocco
Robert Blank
Ronald Enfield
Edward Baldwin
Ronald E. Brant
Ray Emert
Edward Garlitz
William Garlitz
Samuel Mathias
Donald Mussleman
Richard Picket
William Smith
Roger F. Brant
Ray Wilhelm
Ronald Derencin
Mickey McGuire
Certificates For Firemen Achieving Certificates For Firemen Achieving One hudred volunteers
One hundred volunteer firemen in Somerset Bedford county earned certificates of achievement after completing most sessions of a four day firemen school at the water works grounds. The program featured an aerial ladder truck demonstration and oil fire drills using fog spray. Volunteers from Somerset Berlin Boswell Holsapple Meyersdale Windber Central City Boaversville and Lindsay Putman received certificates for completing three of four sessions. Fire Chief R C Miller called the event a success despite lower turnout than hoped.
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Hudred
Somerset-Bedford County Firemen’s
Theodore Nicholson
Somerset
Water Works
Herring Motor Company of
R. C
Jack Schrock
James E. Shanks
Blake A. Bothel, Jr
Virgil J. Moyer
Owen E. Schrock
Berlin
Robert S. Smith
Ross E. Pritts
Rollin E. Brant
Ray Landis
James E. Hartman
James R. Flick
Eugene W. Pugh
Elmer Miller
Donald Saylor
Frank W. Pritts
Richard Wilco
Lewis
Lewis Moranduzzo
J. W. Lohr
Meyersdale
William Irwin
Woodrow E. LaRue
Stephen Gimble
Bernard Wagner
Ernest Austin
Lawrence Ringler
Mark Stewart
James Spence
Windber
John L. Joseph
Paul Keller
James P. Murray
Raymond Myers
William Galbreath
Central City
Sam Muro
Walter Bayconick
Boaversville
Henry Okler
Paul Halpit
Robert Hostetler
Frank Champanella
Lindsay Putman
Grange Seeks Full Truth Of Red Activity
Somerset Pomona Grange demands full truth on un American activities at a Saturday meeting at Wills grange. The day covered health, rural services, and a proposed gasoline tax refund for highway use, with speakers from Hillcrest and York counties and plans for a county basket picnic and a seventh degree banquet.
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Somerset Pomona Grange
Pomona
Wills Grange
Alice B. Ogline Worthy
Musgrave
Wilbur Romesburg
Mabel Meyers
Benjamin Reigel
York County
Reigel
Waldo E. Buechley
Jack Gardner
Rockwood
Hillcrest Grange
Formosa Defense Pressure a Key in Far East Outlook
General MacArthur plans to urge Defense Secretary Johnson that Formosa can be saved with rapid American aid to the Chinese Nationalists and Southeast Asia. briefing officials say the base network from the Aleutians to the Philippines remains critical to U.S. security and any peace treaty must serve national defense interests.
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Russell Brines Torio
MacArthur
Defense
Johnson
Formosa
Southeast Asia
Omar Bradley
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
America
Johnson and Bradley
Japan
Far East
Greece
United States
Americas
Aleutians
Okinawa
Philippines
Joint Chiefs
Far Eastern
Frosty Sunday Morning Noted With No Apparent Damage
Roof Garden residents woke to a slight frost on Sunday with temperatures near 33 at night and 73 by Sunday afternoon. The piece recalls a historic June 1859 frost when crops were ruined and the town sowed buckwheat to avert disaster, later known as the buckwheat year.
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Mercury
Cumberland Md
Dulles Finds Quiet Along 38th Parallel
Dulles toured the 38th parallel north of Seoul amid a quiet border. Earlier, northern guerrillas wounded a southern guard nearby. He planned a policy statement to the new southern assembly, promising continued American aid if Korea cooperates.
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Seoul
Korea
John Foster Dulles
U. S
38Th Parallel
Dulles
Southern Assembly
Cop's pants look like bloomers in Jacksonville
Jacksonville police face a fashion problem as new peg top pants droop while officers ride motorcycles making them resemble bloomers. Chief Sherman Cannon promises action and St. Tailor's Rep George Houranney will seek a fix.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Sherman Cannon
St. Tailor’s
George Houranney
Witness in Free Work Case Death by Own Action
In Pittsburgh on June 18 Robert Laun city clerk dies by self inflicted gunshot as he was to testify in a city free work probe. Laun’s widow Volunteered to testify in his place after his death, amid questions of use of city materials and hours worked at Tunnel street shop. The probe resumes tomorrow with testimony from officials and inquiries into city labor practices.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Laun
Anne X. Alpern
Laun
Department of Lands and Buildings
Miss Alpern
Salvator Dilelsi
Gross
Homer K. Greene
Tunnel Street
Charles Margiotti
DiTelsi
Woman seeks annulment in unusual same sex marriage
Golden Colorado June 18 Ins District Judge Olmvier E. Smith handles a curious case as Hermine Mary Dorchak 32 of Denver seeks to annul her marriage to Billy Joe Morrison whom she believed to be a man. Testimony showed Morrison was a woman and the action aims to avert future property dispute.
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Golden
Colo
INS
Olmvier E. Smith
Hermine Mary Dorchak
Denver
Billy Joe Morrison
Hermine
Czech Defense Minister Defends Peaceful Air Force Policy
In Prague on June 18 Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka praised Czech military bonds with Russia and urged Western warmongers to rethink. He spoke at the Czech air force graduation in Hradec Kralovo saying the Czech army trains without aggression unlike some Western forces.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Alexei Cepicka
Russia
Hradec Kralovo
Air Force Men Sickened by Food at Burton Wood Camp
Twenty U S air force personnel were in the camp hospital at Burton Wood base under observation for food poisoning following a meal at the base last night. Of 86 stricken, the others were discharged after treatment. An air force spokesman said the illness was a badly upset stomach and most would be released soon.
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Warrington
Eng
U. S. Air Force
Burtonwood Air Base
Air Force
Tomorow
Flying boats deliver Hawaii Marines for mainland training
The navy ferried 216 people on two flying boats from Honolulu to San Diego and Alameda for Marine Corps training. Caroline Mars carried 125 reservists and 91 aboard Hawaii Mars with 15 crew each. Average age 19, many firsts, under Maj. Gen. Erskine, Camp Pendleton, two weeks of intensive training before return home. In a separate note, Somerset county Republicans reelect officers and reaffirm loyalty and cooperation after the May 16 primary.
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David P. Smith
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Hawaii
Marine Corps
San Diego Bay
Navy Mars
Keehi Lagoon
Naval Air Station
Hawaii Mars
Alameda
Graves B. Erskine
Camp Pendleton Marine Barracks
Here
Somerset County Republican Committee
Somerset County Court House
Republican Party
S. Cober Brancher
Somerset
Luln Smith
Washington Milk Strike Settled After Five Day Week Agreement
Washington dairy strike ends with nine major dairies and 1 650 delivery workers approving a five day week with no pay cut. Plants operate seven days a week and every other day home delivery resumes. relief deliveries to special diets continue. Union and companies disputed wage figures but plan back to normal operations by midweek.
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Washington
AFL
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Quick Ruin Preparations for Western German Roads
Frankfurt dispatch reports that key roads and bridges in western Germany are being prepared for rapid destruction in case of a Russian attack. A German magazine and a French source describe drilled holes covered with concrete caps ready for explosive charges to block the Rhine route and hinder river traffic. Officials offered no confirmation, while a Koblenz French source said allied command ordered such measures across western Germany.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Lorelei
Rhine
Koblenz
Flamm Buys Evans Bull George Flamm
Berlin buyer George Flamm purchases a registered Brown Swiss bull from Dan E. and Eleanor Evans of Stoystown. The steer's name is Dave's Royal George No. 99279, reported by Fred S. Idtse, secretary of the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders association in Beloit Wisconsin.
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George Flamm
Berlin
Dan E
Eleanor Evans
Stoystown
Fred S. Idtse
Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association
Beloit
Wis
Dave
Weather forecast for West Virginia and nearby states
The forecast calls for rather cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers in West Virginia on Monday and warmer weather in the north. Tuesday should bring partly cloudy skies with cooler conditions in the south and moderate temperatures in the north. Western Pennsylvania will see showers and cool conditions Monday, followed by mostly cloudy and cool Tuesday. Eastern Pennsylvania expects scattered showers Monday and partly cloudy skies Tuesday with moderate temperatures. Maryland will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers Monday and Tuesday partly cloudy with little temperature change and decreasing humidity.
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West Virginia
North Portion
South
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Temperature reading for 24 hour period and forecast
The report covers the 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Friday to 5 30 p m Saturday noting maximum and minimum temperatures and a precipitation forecast. It references a prior year temperature comparison with a maximum and minimum value.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
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