County approves plan to seek urban planning funds
Warren County Commissioners unanimously support the Planning Commission in pursuing a master plan via the Urban Planning Assistance Grants known as the 701 Program. The effort aims to craft a county wide plan before the Kinzua Dam project completes in 1966, with cost share set at 50 50 between county and federal funds and a three year effort beginning in 1961.
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Warren County Board of Commissioners
Warren County Planning Commission
Warren County
Bureau of Community Development
William King
Kinzua
State of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Department of Commerce
Warren T. Zitzmann
Planning Commission
Development Bureau
King
Voting on IBEW affiliation at Solar Electric Warren plant
On August 9 a non union employee at the Solar Electric plant in Warren will vote by secret ballot on joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO. The vote follows a union request after last June’s vote against IBEW representation and an objection has been filed with the court.
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Solar
Warren
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio
Interlectric Company
IBEW
Sheffield lad to have feature published
Tom Curtin, a Sheffield high graduate now working as a part-time photographer for the Observer, will have a photo feature appear in the Pennsylvanian. A spokesman said Struthers Wells Corp has bought the Smith Moon firm in Kansas and the local plant will not change staff. An accident near Russell at Route 62 Kiantone road intersection involved Robert Hayes and Edward Schillinger with damage totaling $950.
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Sheffield Lad
Tom Curtin
Struthers Wells Corp
Warren
Smith Moon
Kansas
Struthers
Kiantone Road
Russell
Robert J. Hayes
St. Clair St
Edward F. Schillinger
R. D
Titusville
Hayes
Stanley B. Kell
Kinzua
GMC
Schillinger
Boy Rescued After 14 Foot Fall From Creek Island
Rescuers carry 13 year old Eugene Madden from a Conewango Creek island after he slipped 14 feet while climbing a rope to the Fifth Street bridge. He was shaken but unhurt, according to medical examiners. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Madden of Warren.
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Eugene Madden
Conewango Creek
Joseph Madden
Warren
Fifth St
Three Tidioute men vie for rural carrier post
Three veterans Bruce Ziegler Harry Wiels and Richard Downey ranked top three on an April 23 civil service exam for a rural mail carrier from the Tidioute district. They await a Gavin office recommendation within thirty days before the Civil Service announces the appointment of one.
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Tidioute
Leon H. Gavin
Bruce Ziegler
Harry Wiels
Richard Downey
Gavin
Civil Service Organization
Railway nostalgia features in Sheffield area magazine
A Pennsylvania Game News piece presents a young writer and photographs recalling the old narrow gauge railroads once serving the Sheffield area, highlighting local transport history and scenic remnants.
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Nsylvania Game News
Sheffield
Sheffield Man Killed. Sixth County Traffic Fatality of 1960
Joseph E. O Leary age 49 of 500 Center street Sheffield died in a 7:20 am Monday crash on Route 6 east of Sheffield when his sister’s 1959 Chevy struck a slow moving asphalt truck. O Leary, a Roy Stone Pump Station machinist, was pronounced dead at the scene from a skull fracture. His sister Eloise 44 of 222 Church Street Sheffield sustained injuries. the truck driver Jack Campbell 43 of Turtle Creek Pennsylvania was not harmed. The incident left O Leary’s vehicle valued at about $1800 damaged. Obituary appears elsewhere.
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Joseph E. O'Leary
Center St
Sheffield
Roystone Hill
O’leary
Roystone
Eloise
Church St
J. C. Mull
O'Leary
Jack Campbell
Turtle Creek
Pennsylvania
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Muffler Clinic
Bert Alexander
Tagg Industries
Hatboro
Penna
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
Alexander
Interstate Commerce Commission
Carl Elmquist
Western Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association
Warren State Hospital
State College
Stonecrest
John Lyons
Scandia Club
Nancy Curtis
Chuck Lindell
County Dairy Club
Philip M. Benjamin
Allegheny College
Europe
Erie
Wesley Woods Camp
Grand Valley
Lowell Livezey
Lander
L. E. Johnson
Thomas McKetn of
Corry
International Correspondence Schools
Scranton
Istruthers
County
Frewsburg
Penney’s
Ched
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