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The Blizzard from Oil City, Pennsylvania • Page 2

Publication:
The Blizzardi
Location:
Oil City, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:
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2
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Blizzard Oil City, Pa. Wednesday, October 5,1955 Greek Premier Is Dead at 71 7 YM Directors Will Be Elected Election of seven directors the YMCA will be held of Premier Alexander Pa- By DIMITRI TRAVLOS ATHENS, Greece Greece faced the possibility of a.serious of-political crisis today after the Excavation Begins Today On Convalescent Home to Built on Grandview Road Excavation work began this, One pump will furnish 180-degree Public Donee Co. 17 and 18. At the meeting of the nominat- ing committee, comprised of R. L.

Lockwood. chairman, Ross Crist, Roland Buniiiig, Allen Magilowitz, John McCreary and Steve Oliver, the following were nominated: J. E. E. J.

Collier, 0. P. pagos, the national hero. Field Marshal Papagos, 71-year- old victor over the" Italians in World War II and the Communists in 1949, died last night of heart exhaustion following a lung hem- orrhage. The marshal had been confined to his home since January with gastric troubles resulting from Keeney, Edward Messer, WiUiamjworld War II imprisonment in a A.

Morck, H. B. Suhr and Glenn Nazi camp. Tarr, whose terms as directors! expire this year. New nominees are Charles Keim, Lee Meddock and Dale Kennedy.

The balloting for the three-year term offices will be from 9 a. m. until 9 p. m. in the YMCA lobby.

of the Premier's con- servative Rally party planned to meet after his funeral mcrning'on the 4Q-bed Grandview Convalescent Home which is being built on part of the land of the former state sanitarium. The one-story, brick home is be- ing built by Dr, S. Gabresi, well known local physician. It is expected to be substantially com- pleted by May 1956. The general contract for the work has been awarded to L.

0. Bouquin Company of Oil City. Eckert Plumbing was awarded the heating and plumbing con tract and Lalonde Electric was water for washing hospital items while the second pump will famish The cry, "Swing your partners," will resound in the "North. Side business section tonight as the sec Friday in an effort to reweld party unity and settle on a suc- LAST DAY "SUMMERTIME" and "PRIZE OF GOLD" 11 A MM! STARTS TOMORROW cessor. The party, a coalition of various political groups, had come near to dissolution in the months since the Premier's illness robbed it of jmuch of his unifying influence.

jOnly yesterday Papagos had nom- jinated Foreign Minister Stephan Stephanopoulos to be provisional premier during his illness but this automatically ceased with the Pre- mier's death. Because a general election would mean the end of the party, politi- cal observers expected its diverse elements to subordinate their in dividual ambitions in an effort to agree on a new premier. given the electrical contract. The excavation work is being done by Louis Kraft Excavating Contrac- tor. annual Venango County Har- the vest Festival opens with a public street dance.

Holmes Crosby, local architect who drew up the plans for the building, said it will run perpen- dicular to Grandview Road. The home will be built on part of th grounds recently purchased by Dr. Gabreski from his brother, Attorney Max Gabreski. It will have two wings--one for men and the other for women.pa- tients. Each wing will have sepa- rate facilities and screened porch- es.

14(Xdegree water for use by patients. Facing a southerly direction, The event will be staged on the home will have ample packing space for visitors. Mr. Crosby said in no place in the building will" there be more than one step necessary to move "above grade" location. The average width of the home will be 32 feet.

In the basement under part of the home will be a modern laun- dry. A large kitchen will be located near the center of the two wings provide hot trays for patients. APACHES iLAZE A TRAIL OF Bethel Group To Hold Dinner The Methodist Church Methodist Youth Fellowship will sponsor a chicken dinner Thurs- day in the church basement. At noon, the young people serve employes of the Oil Well Supply Company and in the eve- ning the public is invited. A report of tickets sold must be made today with either Mrs.

W. Coughlan or Rona Jean Mohn- kern. Tickets will be sold at the door for both servings. The institution, which will be known as the Grandview Convale- scent Home, will have a large re- ceptipn hall, consultation room or parlor for visitors and a doctor's room for 'study and for visiting medical men. The home will feature all the latest facilities for such an insti- tution.

Among the features will be radios for each room, a nurses call system, public speaking sys- tem at, each bedside to enable the patient to contact a nurse and tel what wanted before she leaves her station for the patient's room "XThere will be 12 private wards with semi-private baths; eigh semi-private wards; and two four bed wards which can be convert ed into semi-private wards. The home will be heated with gas. Two pumps will circulate i water throughout. the structure. TB Directors Meet Tonight Otto Kuscher, director health education of the Pennsylvan ia Tuberculosis and Health Soci ety, will discuss "Health Educa tion and Program Development 1 Elm Street metered parking lot.

In the event of rain, the dance will be held in the Knightt of Columbus auditorium. There be no admission Music will be -provided Smoky Wagner and his Cactus Kids from 8 until 11 p. m. The musicians will be located upon a trailer, decorated in the harvest themfe, at the rear of the parking area. Square dance competition will be featured and.cash awards will be presented the two top teams.

The dancers may register tonight at the dance area. No parking of automobiles will be permitted after 5 p. m. in order that the area may be cleared for dancing. This year's event, promoted by the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Oil City Chamber of Com- merce, will consist of special win- dow displays by rural organiza- special farm booths erected with the members of the board of ln the business area, colorful dec- AH Tirtc FRif CHAROE IASY TfRMS directors of the Venango County Tuberculosis Society at their meet- ing today.

The session will begin at 6:30 p. m'. in the YWCA. Mr. Kuscher holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Edu- cation degree from Springfield College, Springfield, and a Master of Public.

Health degree from the University of Minnesota. orations for participating stores and business places, a gala parade Friday evening and coronation ceremonies and a coronation ball Saturday evening. In addition, a number of mer- chants and businessmen have un derwritten the purchase of a 24 inch television set which will be awarded a shopper Saturday night. Visitors to each of the participating CASH for FALL! to He will speak from many years of experience in health education, having been a director of health education for the YMCA's in New Jersey, and' Michigan before assuming his present position in November, 1950. He is also chairman of the Inter- Agency Planning Committee for Community-School Health Educa- tion Workshops in Pennsylvania.

As such he has an important part in planning and promoting the summer Health Education Work- shop program in Pennsylvania col- leges. stores are privileged to enter the contest. No sale is necessary to insert a ticket. f-DAV -r YOU CNOOIff Need cash for seasonal house repairs fuel supply? See Thrift Plan right away. Pay all bi cath, npay in low monthly No Ted taps, Apply today---git caafa tomorrow.

THRIFT PLAN LOANS THRIFT PLAN FINANCE CORPOBATION (LOAM eynt ftoo MAM BYJ T.I.CCONSUMIlt DISCOUNT COMPANY Loani Made to Residents of Nearby Towns 233 SENECA 2nd FLOOR Over Park Shot Stort OIL CITY, PA. PHONE 7-1223 THRIFT PLAN LOANS U. S. Army Deserter Gets 33-Year Term GOP AND DEMOS CLOSER ON BUDGET (Continued from Page One) barrier should be installed as a safety measure on the Pennsyl- vania Turnpike. Both chambers also will 'have before them a conference from a House-Senate committee which ironed out differences onf fair employment practices legisla- tion.

The report lists, age together with race, creed, color or national origin as factors which may not be BERLIN (jJ-rPvt. Tommy sed in job discrimination. Woods, 24, of Rogersvflle, was sentenced to 33 years in prison for to Communist East -Germany. A U. S.

Army court-martial de- liberated "25 minutes on Woods' guilty plea before passing sen- tence. Woods disappeared from Car Hits Coal Truck; Woman, 81, Is Killed PITTSBURGH crashed into the rear An- of truck on Route 22 in nearby Mon- 1S; roeville. yesterday, police said, West Berlin unit March 1, 1954, a sf-year'-old woman-and and spent 16 months in East Ger- many. Shortly after his disappear- the official East' German ance, news agency ADN said he had asked for political asylum. He was critically injuring her husband.

The victims were Mrs. Hattie Alton and her husband, Robert, 79, of suburban Wilkinsburg. Al- ton's car struck a truck operated returned to TJ. S. territory last by Ralph Monroe of Apollo He July by Russian authorities.

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