Large-Scale Disaster Could Tax CD Equipment
The Greene County Civil Defense program relies on extensively stocked equipment yet lacks widespread fallout shelters. Rescue trucks, hospital units, ambulances, canteen trucks, and 15 monitor stations exist, with WANB emergency broadcasts critical though reception uneven. Community fire chiefs and CD directors must harmonize communications, while public apathy hampers shelter development and stockpiling plans.
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Greene County
Greene
Mapletown Students Shine in District Speech Contest
Three Mapletown Junior-Senior High School students won in the District 4 Pennsylvania High School Speech League. Diana Centrich won persuasive speaking with Reflections, Moneen Chessle took informative speaking with The Dance of India, and Sharon Seaberg earned prose with The Bombardment. George Ganoey placed in poetry with Wounded by Robert Service.
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Marie Ellenberger
Bobtown
Mapletown
Diana Centrich
Moneen Chessle
Amy Lowell
Sharon Seaberg
George Ganoey
Robert Service
Mapletown High School
Aleta Anderson
Anita Griddin
Jeanette Lepolis
Robert Levo
Catherine Pekar
Diana Prete
Sharon Prete
Gloria Tinkey
Randall Vodney
Barbara Bock
Lydia Brewer
John Burich
Valerie Dmochowsky
Ernest Gresko
Dennis Johnson
Ronald Kuis
Paul Lough
Edward Mateleska
Linda Minor
Ronald Muhar
David Tanner
Frederick Titus
Rita Varga
Michael White
Charles Williamson
Holly Barr
Brenda Basiorka
Rita Bircher
Pamela DeVault
Maria Downey
Anna May Fisher
Mary Frances Miller
Shawn Rafferty
Carol Skoda
Dennis Tanner
John Wegman
Vera Andrews
Valinda Joy Barb
Dottie Brown
Christine Burich
Christina Burless
Shirley Carr
Vicki Everly
Robert Galanko
Dean Ganoey
Mary Haney
Keith Johnson
Diana Ross
Anita Levo
Richard Lewis
Deborah McIntire
Myra McElroy
Earl Mackey
Rodney Miller
Soldiers Meeting Is Chance in Okinawa Reunion
Three Mason town servicemen met by accident in Okinawa while en route to different stations. Sgt Joseph John headed to Vietnam after a U S stay, Lance Corporal James Cytulik serving on Okinawa hoping to return to the States in April, and Sgt George E Nelson on his way home from Vietnam. The brief visit proved a delightful interruption.
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Masontown
Okinawa
Joseph John
Vietnam
United States
Lance Cpl
James Cytulik
States
George E. Nelson
Youth Center Nears Completion for Girls in Greene County
MT MORRIS The Youth Development Center for Girls should be completed by March 1 per the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare. Staff and residents occupy three new buildings two residential centers and the dietary building. The school and a third residential building near finish. remodeling of the original Greene County Children's Home to an administrative center underway on a 150 acre site off Route 188 between Waynesburg and Jeffer. Mrs Gloria Gugliotta administrator notes the number of girls housed at the center.
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Ruth F. Hickman
MT. Morris
Pennsylvania Department of Welfare
Greene County Children’s Home
Gloria Gugliotta
David H. Watson
Mt. Morris Methodist Church
Dean Hughes
Washington Street Methodist Church
Waynesburg
Light at dangerous intersection eyed by Carmichaels area
Carmichaels area officials push for traffic lights at the Route 21 and 88 junction after rising bus crossings and frequent fender-bender incidents. The Carmichaels Cumberland Township and Monongahela Township road boards weigh resolutions to request a light and share costs, with other local groups backing action.
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Thelma Callaghan
Carmichaels
Carmichaels Area
Transportation Committee
Cumberland Township
Monongahela Township
Morgan
Road Board
Carmichaels- Cumberland Township Volunteer Fire Company
Fatalities Reported at Site Before New Highway Built
The article notes multiple deaths occurred at the site prior to the construction of a new highway. It implies repeated incidents damaged the area and raised safety concerns during development.
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Callaghan
Sunday Dominion Post
State Highway Barn
Fairgounds
Nemacolin Fire Hall
Waynesburg Fire Hall
Nemacolin
Carmichaels and
Waynesburg Fire
Cen
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Waynesburg Borough
Greene Hills
Franklin Township
WANB
Federal
Gov
Route 188
Jefferson
Catholic Daughters of America
John Morgan
School Board
State
Uniontown
Highway Department
Office For Children and Youth of the Welfare Department
Thomas E. Bennett
Robert H. Bennett
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Association of
Greene County Antique Dealers
W. H. B. Lewis
Harry F. Bailey
Elks Club
Tristate
G. S. Lewis
Man
Employes
Carnegie Natural Gas Company
Albert’s
Floyd H. Haines
Evans Wade
Carnegie
Harold Renner
William Haines
Union Farm Club
Monongalia County
Morgantown Road
Haines
Iva Wilkinan
Fred Snyder
Mary Murphy
Grace Poling
Grace Feather
Gertrude Holbert
Boy Scouts
Mrs. Dulaney
Alfreda Dulaney
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Evelyn Dulaney
Mary Ellen Crumline
Virginia Tucker
Martha Maxon
Valentine
Ramblers Club
Mary Anne Dean
Mt. Morris Ramblers
Dean
Em Street
Allstate
Arvin Elec
Morgantown Hardware
High ST
South Side Lumber
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