Pennsylvania Legislature Concludes Shortest Regular Session
The 1962 Pennsylvania General Assembly adjourned at 4 30 p m after a 20 day session the shortest on record The Senate approved a 70 million bond issue for parks reservoirs and conservation and a 20 million appropriation for Penn State University The session ends with many legislators retiring or set to be replaced and a possible special session on reapportionment.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania General Assembly
House
Senate
Penn State Bath House
Pennsylvania State University
Lawrence
Congress
Pennsylvania
Red Cross Launches 1962 Campaign in Somerset County
The Somerset county Red Cross launches its 1962 month long fund drive chaired by Oscar Sutliffe and Robert Halverson aiming for 13175. Proceeds split 53 percent to national disaster relief and 47 percent retained locally for 6200. Blood drives and home service notes, plus fire relief from 1961-62.
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Maude Currie
American Red Cross
Somerset County
Oscar Sutliffe
Robert H. Halverson
National Red Cross
Somersette Draft Board
Red Cross
Somerset
Alvah Saylor
Freeman Tipton
Meyersdale
Easter Seal Goal Set in Somerset Drive
Somerset Society for Crippled Children and Adults meets at Gladhurst school to plan an $8,000 Easter Seal drive. Miss Irene Latuch outlines plans, Don Bailey and Wayne Pile chair Coffee Day, and committees name Parade, publicity, and events with camp, rummage sale, and lily parade slated. Campaign runs March 15 to Easter Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Society For Crippled Children
Gladehurst
Merle Heiple
Don Reffner
Windber
Philip Schaff
Rockwood
Irene Latuch
Miss Latuch
Don Bailey
Wayne Pile
Robert Shannon
Samuel Black
Confluence
Carl Knecht
Salisbury
Sara R. Getty
James Klein
Edwin Lillias
Salisbury Centennial Events Listed
Centennial events mark Salisbury boroughs 100th birthday with a packed schedule. Highlights include centennial queen Sandra Lea Robinson chosen January 18, a February 25 opening service, Maple tours March 4 to April 15, a May 4 band concert, May 18 Queen's Ball and Alumni Banquet, May 20 parish anniversary and baccalaureate, June 3 to 9 Salisbury Circles the Globe Week, and a July 4 Homecoming with Salisburys worldwide represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Sandra Lea Robinson
Salisbury-Elk Lick
Salisbury Lions Club
Ronald Hill
Hill
SEJHS
St. Michael's Catholic Parrish
West Salisbury
North Carolina
Conecticut
Maryland
New York
Southern Rhodesia
England
South Australia
Justice of Peace P. G. Marenna Relocates Office
Justice of Peace P. G. Marenna announces a move from north of the Somerset Trust drive in bank to the Kooser building on North Center avenue opposite the county courthouse. The new office is in the Kooser building above Woodrow's Key and Type writer repair shop, across from the Somerset Red Cross, in the civic and business center.
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P. G. Marenna
Somerset Trust Company
North Center Avenue
Somerset Daily American
Kooser
Somerset County Court House
Marenna
Somerset Post Office
Woodrow’s Key and Typewriter
Somerset Chapter
American Red Cross
Somerset
Somerset County Spends Over 5 Million Yearly on Education
Somerset county records show public education expenditure totaling 10,289,727 for the two-year period from June 1, 1959 to June 1, 1961. Major item is state subsidies to districts totaling 7,856,370 along with reimbursements for transportation building rentals teacher programs and various education programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County
Somerset American Harrisburg
State Department of Public Instruction
Advancing Cold Eases Fears In Flood Belt
Arctic air shattered records across the Midwest before easing. Frigid readings hit Fraser Colorado 49 below zero and Williston North Dakota 44 below, with hundreds of cars stalled around Denver. The weather shift reduces flood runoff, easing widespread flood fears.
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Midwest
Mercury
Fraser
Colo
Williston
N.D
Weather Bureau
Bismarck
Huron
S.C
Denver
Weights and Measures Week Proclaimed in Somerset
Somerset county commissioners declare March 17 as Weights and Measures Week with emphasis on the national state and local enforcement chain. The observance recalls the 163rd anniversary of federal weights and measures law and notes the roles of Genevieve Blatt secretary of internal affairs and William R Williams Sealer of Weights and Measures for Somerset County.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania
Department of Internal Affairs
Secretary of Internal Affairs
Genevieve Blatt
Pennsylvania Bureau of Standard Weights and Measures
William R. Williams
Court House
Williams
Somerset Girls to Attend Seventh Model United Nations Meet
Betsy Stuart and Nancy Thomas of Somerset Area Senior High School will represent Poland at the Seventh Model United Nations Assembly in Harrisburg. About 360 girls from across Pennsylvania participate in this YMCA program with training begun in 1961.
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Poland
Nancy Thomas
Betsy Stuart
Somerset Area
Model United Nations Assembly
Harrisburg
John E. Reiley
Somerset
Bessie Long
Pennsylvania
Model United Nations
State Young Men’s Christian Association of Pennsylvania
Rail panel urges sweeping overhaul of rail labor rules
A White House commission told President Kennedy that railroads must cut thousands of workers deemed unnecessary and shift them to new jobs, while unions warned of up to 80,000 potential losses. The plan backs abolishing most firemen on diesel locomotives and extends layoff pay and retraining, with a 70 year retirement age and broader crew changes. The industry welcomed the study. unions planned strike votes as bargaining begins.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Simon H. Rifkind
U.S
New York
Russell A. Smith
University of Michigan Law School
John T. Dunlop
Harvard Economics Department
Charles W. Myers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francis J. Robertson
Milk Control Unit Concludes Hearings in Pittsburgh
The State Milk Control Commission wrapped hearings in Pittsburgh with potential for a price rise request and a possible court appeal. The Twin Pack proposal would set the discount price for two half pints at 96 cents, affecting margins for paper containers versus glass jugs. Atty. Gen. Stahl signaled possible city and state appeals if the plan isn’t approved, and reconsideration of last year’s quantity discount was also discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
State Milk Control Commission
Commission
William D. Sutton
Greater
Country Belle Cooperative Dairy
Stahl
Rev Heffley Called to United Church Charge
The Rev Kenneth Heffley accepts a call to lead the Beam Charge of the United Church of Christ, serving four congregations including St Pauls Boswell Trinity Jennerstown Beam Gray and St Peters Edge. Heffley's education spans Westmont High School Indiana State College Cataba College Yale Divinity and a 1957 Bachelor of Sacred Theology.
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Kenneth Heffley
United Church of Christ
St. Paul’s
Boswell
Trinity
Jennerstown
Beam
Gray
St. Peter’s Edge
Mr. Heffley
Johnstown
Westmont Upper Yoder High School
Indiana State College
Indiana
North Carolina
Cataba College
Yale University Divinity School
New Haven
Conn
Farnam Neighbor House
New
Mailman Hopes for Ride From Congressman on Journey
Cumberland Md AP A Ohio mailman walking to Washington said a congressman from Ohio may give him a ride on the final leg of the trip Ed Kline 31 of Cuyahoga Falls said he spoke with his wife by phone Tuesday night and understood Rep William H Ayers R Ohio plans to meet him in Frederick Md and drive him the rest of the way Kline had covered about 40 miles Wednesday after stopping Tuesday in Berlin Pa near Somerset with about 95 miles left to go.
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Cumberland
Ohio
Washington
Ed Kiine
Cuyahoga Falls
William H., Ayers
Frederick
Kline
Berlin
Somerset
Glenn Foresees Time Of Space Automobiles
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr predicts future space travel with high powered space autos capable of changing direction and hopping between orbits. He notes current capsules like Friendship 7 cannot alter path and envisions vastly more powerful craft for steering through space. He outlined this during Senate and House Space Committee briefings alongside Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. Grissom, and spoke of a New York ticker tape parade to follow.
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Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
Earth
Glenn
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
Senate Space Committee
House Space Committee
New York City
Glenn to be honored in New York ticker tape parade
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and crew arrive at LaGuardia at 11 15 a m EST and ride to Bowling Green for a 12 05 p m ticker tape parade up Broadway to City Hall. The event will be televised live from noon EST through luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Stilley
NEW York
John H. Glenn Jr
Lindberg
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Gotham
Col. Glenn
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Weather Bureau
LaGuardia Field
Lower Manhattan
Bowling Green
City Hall
Manhattan
Waldorf-Astoria
Formal Opening Of Shafer's Pharmacy In Somerset
George R. Shafer announces the formal opening of Shafer's Pharmacy at 116 North Center Avenue Somerset formerly Picking's Drug Store with a grand opening sale March 1 2 3. He is a University of Pittsburgh pharmacy graduate and former Sun Drug employee who managed the Somerset store for five and a half years. He resides at 403 Dott Avenue with his wife and two children and is active in Kiwanis Boy Scouts and St Pauls Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Shafer
Shafer
Picking’s Drug
North Center Avenue
Somerset
University of Pittsburgh
Sun Drug Company
Monroeville
Dott Avenue
Kiwanis Club
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church
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Penna
Justice of Peace
Greensburg
General Assembly
Security Council
Model U.N
Benjamin Schmoker
Committee On Friendly Relations
Schmoker
Youth Council
Norma Eppley
South West
State Ymca
E. Brice McEldowney
John D. Wolf
District Ymca
Lee Rev. Heffley
Rev
Raymond J. Crowley
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
N. Y
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