In Years Past

In 1913, the strike of the employees of the Chautauqua Traction Company and the Jamestown Railway Company had been officially declared off. It commenced on May 1. It was ended June 28. Action was taken Sunday afternoon. Only a small proportion of the original number of strikers were present. It was formally voted that the strike be declared off. The action of the car men was a complete surprise to the street railway officials who had received no intimation of the intended action. General Manager Maltby was apprised of the news and at once addressed himself to the task of locating President Broadhead. He had quite a hard job for Mr. Broadhead was staying up the lake and it was not easy to find him. The street railway officials made preparations for a busy day as it was expected that applications of the old employees for reinstatement would be received.

Twenty-five thousand veterans in blue and gray, the biggest army of its kind that had been gathered together in 50 years, woke this day on the field of Gettysburg to the call of reveille and the warlike rattle of pots and pans in a score of mess tents. Veterans who sat about camp fires until late at night were up long before the sun climbed over the hills of the Blue Ridge. Before the electric lights of this modern camp were turned out to make way for the sun, the veterans were singing the songs of war times and the wide streets of the tented city echoed with the “Ki Yi” of “Johnny Reb,” and the hoarser yell of his Yankee brother from the north.

In 1938, Miss Esther Pyun of Honolulu, Hawaii, student at Schauffler College, Cleveland, had been invited as guest at the Y.W.C.A. camp at Clement Park on Chautauqua Lake from July 19 to Aug. 2, according to announcement by the camp director, Miss Florine G. Miller. It had been customary for several years to have a student from a foreign country as camp guest in order that a program of international friendship might be emphasized.

Let’s be alive on the Fifth! With this slogan, Jamestown Chief of Police Edwin Nyholm appealed to all residents of Jamestown and vicinity to cooperate with the police department in an effort to make the Fourth of July a safe and sane holiday. Pointing to the National Safety Council’s report that in 1937 10,200 persons were killed in this country in July and a large proportion of those on the Fourth of July holiday – Chief Nyholm requested the aid of parents and older brothers and sisters in cautioning the younger people against the use of explosive fireworks. At the same time he called upon adults themselves to exercise caution with that worst of all instruments of death – the automobile.

In 1988, Gov. Mario Cuomo might finally follow through the next week on a 1986 promise to be a cub reporter for The Post-Journal. Editor Cristie Herbst said gubernatorial aides told her Cuomo planned to visit Jamestown on Tuesday. She said the plans called for Cuomo to cover ceremonies for a new addition at Blackstone Corp., one of the city’s major employers, as a reporter for The Post-Journal. Cuomo’s visit to Blackstone had been confirmed for 11 a.m. Tuesday in connection with plans for a major research/testing facility at the firm that was a major manufacturer of heat exchange equipment for the automotive industry.

Telephone service to about 1,500 ALLTEL New York subscribers in Jamestown’s north side and along Fluvanna Avenue toward Greenhurst was restored by about 7 a.m. this day after being interrupted by a digging operation the previous afternoon. Equipment excavating for a new water service line to a home at Lakeview and Newton avenues in the city struck two of three telephone cables buried between 3 and 4 feet underground in the area. The service interruption was the first major one of the season in the area for ALLTEL.

In Years Past

In 1913, a two-passenger Maxwell roadster, the property of Ed Johnson of the Warren National Bank, was stolen from his garage at his south side home on Wayne Street in Warren Thursday night. Neighbors heard the car when it was run out of the garage during the night but not believing anything wrong, no alarm was raised until the morning when Mr. Johnson himself discovered the lock of the garage broken and the car missing. The car, valued at $1,250, was painted a battleship gray, trimmed with a white stripe. It was equipped with non-skid tires and had directly behind the seat a twenty gallon oval gasoline tank. The police of all neighboring towns had been notified by wire and telephone of the robbery and every effort would be made to recover the car.

This would be the biggest day in the history of SS. Peter and Paul’s Roman Catholic Church. The church edifice at Cherry and West Sixth streets in Jamestown was to be consecrated by Right Rev. Charles H. Colton of Buffalo, bishop of the diocese of Buffalo. This ceremony was indication that every penny of the indebtedness on the building had been paid and the occasion was not only an important one on account of the visit of the bishop, but it was also a time of great rejoicing on the part of Rev. Father Richard Coyle and the people of the parish, who had labored long and faithfully in order to bring about this result.

In 1938, the second largest class in history would graduate from Jamestown High School at commencement exercises in the school auditorium Wednesday morning. The class roll, as announced late this day, revealed a membership of 387 students. The girls outnumbered the boys in about the usual proportion, 212 to 175. The class of 1936 held the record as the largest group having had a membership of 419 students.

Anticipating an attendance of 150 persons, members of the Jamestown Furniture Salesmen’s Association were completing arrangements for their all-day outing scheduled for the following day at the Greek Club grounds in Celoron. The outing was to be followed by a two-day informal opening of spaces in the Furniture building for the accommodation of dealers who might be in the city and might wish to refresh their impressions of Jamestown’s Spring Furniture Market. A program of lunch, sports, dinner, music and a Dealer-Salesmen softball game, had been arranged by the committee.

In 1963, a 68-year-old woman was killed and her daughter injured in a two car crash near Varysburg in Wyoming County. Killed was Mrs. Rosalie M. Torsell, of E. 5th St., Jamestown. She died after being admitted to the Wyoming County Community Hospital in Warsaw. Admitted to the same hospital was her daughter, Mrs. Audrey Snyder, 45, also of Fifth Street. She was driver of the car. She suffered bruises and lacerations. Miss Melinda Gay, 23, of Buffalo, driver of the other car, was issued a summons, charging her with failing to halt for a stop sign. She was not hurt. The accident happened at the intersection of Routes 20-A and 77.

Marking its 10th anniversary year by unveiling a new weed harvester, the Chautauqua Lake Association would launch a campaign to raise $35,000 for lake improvement. Under the direction of W. George Weaver of Chautauqua, a vice president of the lake group, a team of nearly 200 workers would seek to raise more money than in any previous year. Of the amount sought, Mr. Weaver said, $15,000 would be earmarked to pay off the balance due on the harvester, which cost $21,500.

In 1988, the Lakewood Village Board voted 4-0 against a proposal to close West Lake Street from Vista Way to Packard Way to vehicles from June 1 to Sept. 30. “When the people have spoken up, we do what they want. If the people don’t tell us what they want we can’t properly represent them,” Lakewood Mayor Anthony C. Caprino said to the more than 50 area residents who attended the meeting to discuss the proposal. None of the 50-plus people attending the public hearing favored the plan.

Mayor Steven B. Carlson said he was working on a contingency plan to keep Jamestown alive should recent events fail to bear fruit. The WCA agreement to purchase the assets of Jamestown General Hospital had been approved by the City Council, but that agreement could still fall through. If that happened, and if proposed home rule legislation at the state level was also defeated, it would leave the city “absolutely dead,” according to Mayor Steven B. Carlson.

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In 1913, the death list of the disaster at the Husted Mills on Tuesday in South Buffalo now stood at 14. Arthur Endres, a mill hand died at the Emergency Hospital the previous afternoon. He was 24 years old. There were still 12 men unaccounted for, according to the police count, and the authorities believed at least nine of them were buried in the ruins. While many of the 36 victims still in the hospitals showed a marked improvement when their wounds were dressed, there were a score or more whom surgeons feared would die. Twenty-five men visited the Emergency Hospital to volunteer skin for those who might have to be skin grafted. The surgeons said it would not be necessary to do much skin grafting.

John McIntire, who resided on the state road near Pond’s Corners at Farmington, died very suddenly Wednesday about 4 p.m. He was 66 years of age. Two of his boys were at work in the field. He went out near where they were to pick a few strawberries. He saw a sudden shower coming up and tried to hurry. The boys saw him fall and took him into their wagon and drove home, less than one-half mile away but when they reached home he was dead. McIntire left a wife, who was ill, and nine sons, William, Frank, Leroy, Clemment, James, Ernest, Glenn, Carl and Victor, three of whom lived near home. McIntire was a highly respected citizen and had spent his whole life in Farmington, his native town, and Sugar Grove.

In 1938, millinery stylists fresh from the Paris fashion show predicted the next feminine vogue would be small doll’s hats. The hats, they said, would perch on top of the head, with ribbons in back, tying under the hair. Colors would be wine, red, russet and moss green. The stylists said the hats were modeled from those worn in portraits of Madame Du Barry.

What trucks would be bought and from whom they would be purchased was still an unsettled problem with members of the highway committee of the Jamestown City Council. Although nearly two weeks had passed since bids submitted by six local dealers were opened, and the matter had been discussed at previous meetings, the committee again deferred action on the purchase of two dump trucks to be used on WPA projects. It was expected that some recommendation would be forthcoming at last Monday’s regular meeting of the council but none was submitted. However, it was stated, the committee would hold another meeting at which it was expected that a final decision would be made.

In 1963, hot, muggy weather prevailed throughout the area, increasing a threat of water restrictions in Jamestown, as June, in all likelihood, would go into the record books as the driest month in 49 years. That would be June’s dubious record unless some substantial rain fell in the next few days. The weather bureau was not too hopeful. Water usage from the well system supplying patrons of Jamestown’s Board of Public Utilities continued high and the previous day reached 7,800,000 gallons.

A letter of commendation from the White House had come to one of Jamestown’s teachers retiring this school year. Mrs. Oneta LaDuke of E. Fifth St., Jamestown, for 35 years teacher of special classes in Jamestown Public Schools for the educable retarded children, was happily surprised when the communication came to her from Ralph A. Dungan, special assistant to the President. It read in part: “The president has learned of your forthcoming retirement after having completed more than 30 years of dedicated service as a teacher of mentally retarded children and he wants to join with your many friends and colleagues in extending sincere congratulations.”

In 1988, a deeply divided Jamestown City Council had approved an asset purchase agreement from WCA Hospital to buy out Jamestown General Hospital. WCA had offered to pay $5 million cash up front and to let the city retain all accounts receivable, which could amount to about $2.5 million in additional money. The vote was six to five in favor of the resolution. Three other resolutions designed to save JGH were defeated.

An American flag hanging at a home in Chautauqua was a patriotic reminder that our country cherished the right to explore the arts, politics and religion. With the opening of Chautauqua Institution’s 1988 summer season, the picturesque streets with their Victorian architecture, lush greenery and cheery flowers would soon be filled with people strolling on their way to concerts and lectures. Many of them would feel as if they were taking a step back into the fascinating days of yesteryear. They would also become caught up in the excitement of seeing how they and millions of other Americans were shaping our nation’s future.

In Years Past

In 1913, a thunder storm in Titusville, Pa., was unusually severe. At about 8 o’clock Wednesday morning, lightning entered the home of the Misses Kelly of Perry Street Hill. The thunderbolt came in through the living room door where the ladies and Mr. Newton, their brother-in-law, of Jamestown, were sitting. All were slightly stunned but otherwise none was injured or felt the effects of the experience. The party had been standing in the open door viewing the storm a moment before the lightning entered. Had they not left the doorway, they might have been struck and killed or badly hurt. Their escape seemed to have been quite miraculous.

Governor Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri, perhaps the most prominent man in the Republican party, the one man who could command a hearing at any time in the past year’s Republican national convention, would be the attraction which should fill the big Chautauqua amphitheater to the sidewalk when he arrived at Chautauqua to make an address on July 19. This date was Saturday and he would speak in the afternoon, being the closing speaker of the week devoted to the discussion of Socialism.

In 1938, the annual picnic of the First Lutheran Sunday School and congregation was held Saturday at Midway Park attended by about 500 persons, about 250 of them making the trip by steamboat. A basket picnic was held and swimming and roller skating enjoyed in the afternoon when the sport program was canceled because of rain. Sigfried Larson, Superintendent, presided at the service and Alf Wattman of Falconer led in devotionals. There was hymn singing accompanied by Trumpeters Merle and Margaret Carlson.

Half-crazed by pain created when his body was seared by a salve with which he had daubed himself as protection against the chill in Lake Chautauqua’s waters, Mike Russo, 23-year-old Warren athlete was compelled Sunday to abandon his attempt to swim the length of the lake from the Mayville dock to Celoron Park. Jamestown General Hospital reported the swimmer resting more comfortably this day. Russo slipped into the water early Sunday morning and was making good progress until his pain became almost unbearable. He had reached a point off Chautauqua Assembly when he headed for shore. The salve was recommended by a friend and had properties which, when contacted by water, produced blistering. When the youth left the water the pain became more intense and he thrice rushed back into the lake before he was restrained by his handlers.

In 1963, the possibility that water restrictions might be imposed much earlier than a year ago was held out by Jamestown Mayor William D. Whitehead. The mayor said that “unless some indication is received that a major weather change is due shortly, and I don’t mean a flash rain or minor precipitation, we might better seriously consider a ban on certain water uses much earlier this year.” In 1962, water restrictions went into effect July 14 and were rescinded Oct. 5. That interim was the longest period limitations on water use had ever been imposed in the city.

A Buffalo truck driver escaped with only a fractured left wrist despite being pinned under part of a 1,800 pound bundle of steel which slid from a truck. George Carameta, 30, was in “good” condition at Jamestown General Hospital where he was taken at 1:45 the previous afternoon. He was preparing to unload bundles of steel at All Metal Mfg. Co. on W. 7th Street in Jamestown when the galvanized sheets slid from the side of the truck. Firemen and volunteers worked for almost an hour to free the man, whose right foot was caught between the steel and the edge of the truck bed. The steel was removed sheet by sheet.

In 1988, Mary Mansfield accepted congratulations from Evelyn Hyde after she was given the Frank Hyde Memorial Scholarship during commencement exercises the previous afternoon at Pine Valley Central School. Miss Mansfield, who would attend Hilbert College in the fall, received a $1,000 scholarship and a plaque in memory of the late former Post-Journal sports editor.

Confederate and Union cavalrymen engaged in a saber duel during a weekend re-enactment of a Civil War engagement at the Battle of Gettysburg. More than 8,000 uniformed men concluded a commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the battle by staging the final charge of the war’s bloodiest confrontation.

In Years Past

In 1913, 13 bodies recovered, 63 injured in the hospitals, of whom probably 35 would die and 18 men missing was the revised toll of the explosion and fire that swept the Husted Milling company’ plant in South Buffalo June 24. It was certain that those 18 missing men lost their lives in the disaster but it would be days before the bodies could be recovered. The past night the big plant was a smoldering mass of wreckage with tons of heavy concrete, sheet iron and other debris piled high in the air. Heavy derricks would be necessary to lift the wreckage and it may be several days before the bodies of the missing victims could be reached. Four men died in hospitals the past evening and 15 others could not live more than a few hours. Many of those who recovered would be blinded by the terrific blast.

The two-story frame structure at Institute Street and Victoria Avenue in Jamestown, which was serving as a house of worship for the parish of St. James’ Roman Catholic Church was to be replaced this year by an imposing church edifice of brick, stone and cement, more room being required for the work of the church on account of the remarkable growth of the parish under the able leadership of the Rev. Father James Cara. The building would be a notable addition to the churches of this city, being of attractive design and with a tower 150 feet in height.

In 1938, the departure of the main Jamestown delegation for Philadelphia to attend the Delaware Valley celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in America, would be marked by an informal celebration at the Erie train station consisting of selections by the Jamestown Concert Band, under the direction of Mauritz Swanson, and the United male chorus, made up of members of the Jamestown Harmony and Aeolian chorus, under the direction of Richard Enlund, director of the Harmony chorus. The special train would be leaving at 8 p.m. The party would consist of about 250 members of uniformed fraternal drill teams, male chorus members and the band and it was expected that many more were going along.

Official forecasts of thunderstorms and cooler weather for both eastern and western New York gave promise of relief from a week-long early season heat wave that indirectly cost 12 lives in Upstate New York. Scattered local thundershowers in various sections aided parched pastures and reduced the danger of forest fires. Latest victim of the sweltering weather was Robert H. Lasch, 40, Rensselaer County highway department employee, who died in a Troy hospital of heat prostration. Lasch was overcome while working on a highway project.

In 1963, acceptance of responsibilities was essential to the achievement of success in life. This was the theme stressed by Dr. George A. Sisson, Syracuse surgeon, in his commencement address the previous night to graduating seniors of Jamestown High School and a capacity audience of relatives and friends in Merton P. Corwin Auditorium. Dr. Sisson, who graduated from Jamestown High School in 1938, had a distinguished career as a surgeon and director of medical research specializing in ailments of the head and throat. In his talk, he said the primary responsibility confronting high school graduates required that they assess themselves realistically and prepare for lives of useful service.

Two Dunkirk youths were charged with malicious mischief the past evening after they threw a “dummy” into the path of a passing motorist. The motorist, Mathew Golowski, startled by the “dummy” which he at first mistook for a person, narrowly avoided an accident. Upon investigation, Mr. Golowski heard some snickering nearby and apprehended the two youths aged 15 and 16. The pair was taken to police headquarters and later released to the custody of their parents.

In Years Past

In 1913, from 25-30 lives would be the toll of the explosion which late the previous afternoon wrecked the mill and elevator of the Husted Milling Company at South Buffalo. Five dead had thus far been recovered and there were 62 injured in the various hospitals scattered throughout the city. Doctors estimated that at least 25 of these would die. There were some employees not yet accounted for and their bodies might be found in the ruins when the search started. The explosion was believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in the big pit where corn was stored. There was no warning. With a roar that could be heard and felt for a mile the entire north side of the big plant was blown out. A second later, flames burst from all parts.

Everything was in readiness for the opening of the season at the Chautauqua assembly the following day and plans were completed for the program which included an attractive list of lecturers, speakers of all kinds, preachers, music and other entertainments. The institution was making special efforts this year to renew the interest of the communities immediately surrounding Chautauqua in their programs. For years before Chautauqua became so large and so nationwide in its scope, the local people went to Chautauqua in large numbers. The effort was to secure this condition again by means of getting lecturers and entertainments which would attract the local people.

In 1938, plans were discussed for the teachers’ course in highway safety and driving to be given in connection with the summer schools at Chautauqua this year. Edwin F. Cudlipp, Jr., member of the faculty at Jamestown High School and one of the pioneers in the work of training pupils to drive through the medium of classes, would be in charge of the instruction at Chautauqua. A new sedan with dual controls would be used during the course of instruction.

The Public Works administration informed Regional PWA Director Colonel M.E. Gilmore that President Roosevelt had approved an outright PWA grant of $78,750 to the Union Free School District No. 1 of the Town of Busti, Village of Lakewood, for the construction and equipment of a school addition to Lakewood High School, the total estimated cost of which was $175,000. The project comprised the construction and equipment of an addition to the present school building and the grading and landscaping of grounds. The addition would include two locker rooms, a storeroom and athletic room in the basement; an auditorium, gymnasium, thirteen classrooms, office, storerooms and toilet rooms on the upper floors.

In 1963, “The Many Moods of Ferrante and Teicher” one of the country’s top duo-piano teams, would be presented Saturday evening, June 29, in Chautauqua Amphitheater as a pre-season attraction, and would usher in the Institution’s 90th season. Concerts in the 7,000 seat amphitheater the first week included Roland Hayes, tenor, who at 75 years of age was still a teacher and performing artist; The Four Freshmen, popular television and recording stars; Pennsylvania’s Singing Boys, one of the nation’s unique boy choirs and Mischa Mischakoff, violinist and concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras.

A familiar political figure would return to the primary arena in September with the announcement by Samuel T. Bowers that he would be a Republican candidate for supervisor at large in Jamestown. Mr. Bowers retired as coroner in 1961 after a service of 21 years. He had served as Republican city chairman and had been a Republican committeeman for many years. “Sam” was one of the county’s best known residents. As a county coroner he followed in the footsteps of his father, the late Dr. Abraham H. Bowers and his brother, Henry A. Bowers.

In 1988, “This is the most important decision and the most important resolution that we’ll ever act on, and we’re expected to act on it Monday,” said Third Ward Councilman Vivian Taylor. Jamestown City Council members might decide the fate of financially ailing Jamestown General Hospital by approving one of three proposals to bail the facility and the city out of debt. JGH had not turned a profit in two decades and it was in debt more than $3 million, according to Mayor Steven B. Carlson. Perhaps this was one of the most controversial decisions a Jamestown City Council ever had to make and Taylor said he was worried. “We haven’t had time to really study the proposals. Everything has been thrust on us so fast. We’re supposed to act on something that will affect the lives of the next generation.”

Jamestown native Daniel Johnson, 29, recently returned from Provideniya, U.S.S.R., across the Bering Strait from Alaska. Johnson, who was a communications teacher at the University of Alaska, was home on summer vacation and planned to return to Nome, Alaska, in September. He was part of a group that flew over to help reunite two groups of Yupik Eskimos – one in Siberia and one in Alaska – who had been separated by 90 miles of Bering Sea since the Soviet Union closed its borders 40 years ago. Eighty-two people made the historic trip.

In Years Past

In 1913, Peterson & Wood, proprietors of the Mozart Theater in Jamestown, who recently bought the old Ormes property on the west side of Main Street, between Third and Fourth streets, as the site for a new building, were negotiating with the Mt. Tabor Building Association for the purchase of the adjoining property at the southwest corner of Main and Fourth streets, although the deal had not yet been closed up. If Peterson & Wood succeeded in acquiring this property, they would have one of the finest sites for a theater which it was possible to secure in Jamestown.

Fred F. Gardiner was drowned in Lake Keuka, north of Bath, N.Y., and as yet efforts to recover his body had proved futile. Gardiner was operating an aeroplane. In making a turn he was seen to incline the machine at too acute an angle, with the result that the machine turned turtle and was precipitated a distance of 100 feet into the water. A flying boat that was in operation upon the lake hurried to where the aeroplane floated as a futile search was made for Gardiner’s body. Gardiner was a resident of Portland, Maine. For some weeks he had been at Lake Keuka engaged in aeronautic pursuits. He was about 25 years of age.

In 1938, the village of Bemus Point would enforce this year an ordinance relative to the shooting of fireworks which had been for some time on the village book of local laws. Fireworks could be used all day Saturday, July 1, and during the evening of that day and again during the day and evening of Monday, July 4. Otherwise, all fireworks and noisemaking explosives were forbidden.

A Supreme Court jury in Little Valley was hearing a claim made by George L. Weaver that Samuel Cramer of Franklinville sold him forty cows at $65 a head in July and that by the middle of the past winter 23 of them had lost their calves. He claimed Cramer knew the cattle were infected with Bang’s Disease. Ignatz Saha testified that Cramer had shortly before taken 40 dairy cows from him presumably the same ones, after 15 of them had lost their calves. Cramer denied knowledge of any infection.

In 1963, a fire the previous morning at D. H. Grandin Milling Co. was started by an arsonist, Jamestown Police and Fire Department officials said as they continued an extensive investigation. Discovered at 7:28 a.m., the fire had burned a hole about three feet in diameter in the first floor of the Allen Street plant’s “L” section before automatic water sprinklers quenched the flames. Fire Chief Virgil Eggleston notified police when a kerosene-fueled street flare was discovered on some wiring a few inches below the floor of the building.

Fire officials blamed a faulty furnace switch for a blaze, which damaged the St. Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox church building in Jamestown shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday. The loss had not been estimated. No one was injured. Assistant Fire Chief Ted Hubbard reported the gas heated furnace was turned on earlier in the day because a meeting was scheduled for that night. The switch, Chief Hubbard’s report said, failed to shut off. Flames flared into the air ducts in the ground floor of the two story frame building, broke out on the interior and exterior walls and spread into the ceiling and attic.

In 1988, New York’s top fiscal officer, Comptroller Edward Regan, said the state’s projected budget deficit might be more than the $900 million predicted by Gov. Mario Cuomo. But Regan said that it was “impossible” right now to determine exactly how much higher the projected deficit might go, although he said he was fairly sure the increase wouldn’t be very great. The size of the shortfall – in fact, whether one even existed – had been the focal point of the latest fiscal debate between Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol.

Cassadaga village officials were hearing the complaints about vandalism and beach trespassing that cropped up each year when the weather turned warm. Cassadaga police officer William Barthold told the Cassadaga Village Board he had caught a number of people using the beach which did not open until July 3. Barthold said trespassing continued throughout the summer during hours when the beach was closed. He advised the village to post carefully worded “No Trespassing” signs to avoid liability. Barthold said that some people gained access to the beach by boat. Because of the instances of trespassing by boat, he suggested some signs be situated facing the water.

In Years Past

In 1913, a party of Jamestown men, consisting of L. L. Hanchett, Rev. Dr. Horace G. Ogden, H. E. V. Porter, L. D. Powers, Ray F. Pickard and E. H. Briggs, spent a few days at Gettysburg, Pa. the previous week for the purpose of continuing the study of the battle taken up several months ago. They had an experience of an intensely interesting description, pleasant weather throughout the trip enabling them to visit all of the points of interest on the field. An additional feature was an inspection of the great camp established for the accommodation of the old soldiers at the 59th anniversary reunion in July. The also attended the dedication of the bronze equestrian statue of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, who commanded the Sixth corps at the time of the battle.

The whirlpool rapids of Niagara took two more lives Sunday when Donald Bosco, aged 9 and Herbert Moore, aged 11, were so unfortunate as to drift within grasp of those awful waves in a boat in which they had been playing near shore a half mile or so above the gorge. Elliott Thompson, 12, was also in the boat, but as he realized that to stick to the boat meant death in the rapids, he bade his little friends who could not swim, goodbye and leaped out in the water to make a successful effort to reach shore. The drifting to death of the two boys was witnessed by thousands on the river banks and bridges who were enjoying a summer outing. They saw the small boat creep slowly out from shore on the New York side and as it rolled about on the water realized the two little lads in it were drifting to eternity.

In 1938, faced with the necessity of securing $3,241, to insure continuation of the Boy Scout movement in Chautauqua Lake Area Council, voluntary workers in the emergency financial campaign reported a total of $175 this day boosting the campaign total to $759. Dr. William L. Cook, council president announced that the final report would be made the following Monday evening at a dinner of workers. According to Dr. Cook, if additional contributions were not received during the present campaign, scouting in the area would be carried on until funds were exhausted when the movement would be definitely abandoned.

Germany took the news hard this day that Joe Louis’ fists had blasted Max Schmeling’s comeback in a little more than two minutes. Thousands of heavy-lidded Germans went to bed after 3 a.m. after sitting up to hear a ringside radio broadcast of the heavyweight championship fight that left them thunderstruck and unbelieving. Those who did not sit up scarcely believed what they saw in the newspapers. “Wasn’t it frightful and in two minutes,” the telephone operator asked, putting through a call to London.

In 1988, the second floor of Jamestown General Hospital was closed due to a lack of nurses. This action was discussed at the previous day’s hospital board meeting. The second floor was the smallest medical area of the hospital. It contained 19 beds. The closing would not affect services and admissions. The closing came at a time when the hospital, which was in deep financial straits, might be sold to WCA Hospital if the City Council decided so at its meeting next Monday.

More than 50 residents urged the local Committee for the Preservation of Route 394 to go to court seeking an injunction to stop the state Department of Transportation from turning the two-lane road into a five-lane highway. The DOT’s plan called for five lanes from the Jamestown city line to just past Mall Boulevard in Lakewood, with two travel lanes in each direction and a center turning lane. The committee responded that it would go to court if it needed to but the community would have to help cover the expenses. Citizens pledged fundraisers and volunteer support in hopes of raising a legal fund to fight the DOT.

In Years Past

In 1913, on Saturday, July 12, the employees of the New York Telephone Company throughout western New York would gather at Erie Beach, one of Buffalo’s most popular summer resorts, for the first general “Get Together” day. Although under ordinary circumstances there would be a half holiday, it being Saturday, it had been decided that the whole day would be granted as a holiday and it was estimated that from two to three thousand of the company’s people would be on hand.

The annual flower mission meeting of the Women’s Christian Association was held at the home of Mrs. Perry W. Goodwin, Lake View Avenue, Jamestown, Friday afternoon and was well attended despite the rain. Mrs. C. E. Treat, the president, was in charge of the meeting. The meeting opened with a song service from the Temperance Songster, a new song book recently secured by the union. Mrs. John Harris read the crusade song and Mrs. Milton Bailey offered prayer. Mrs. Treat gave a touching memorial to Mrs. Mariette Todd, an old member of the union whose funeral was held on Saturday afternoon.

In 1938, Superintendent of Jamestown schools George A. Persell, who was retiring the following week, and Mrs. Persell, were honored at a dinner given by the board of education at the high school cafeteria. Also present were former board members who served during Mr. Persell’s long term of office, other school officials and their wives. Henry F. Love, president of the board at the time Mr. Persell was named superintendent, made brief remarks and presented him with a humorous gift.

Companion damage suits against the West Ridge Transportation Company in which Frank G. Carlson and his wife Nellie, their son, Earle W. Carlson and his wife, Eva, were the plaintiffs as the result of a motor bus wheel crashing into their Ashville Bay home the past spring, were being tried before Justice Alonzo G. Hingley, Buffalo and a jury in supreme court this day. All four plaintiffs, represented by H. Stanley Turnquist, Jamestown, were suing for personal injuries and Frank and Nellie Carlson were seeking to recover for property damage. The plaintiffs testified they were playing bridge in their home when a wheel which came off the bus rolled down a hill into their dwelling. The case was being heard with only 11 jurors, one being excused this morning because of the illness of his wife.

In 1963, a major expansion of Eckerd Drug Store operations in Jamestown was announced by Robert M. Richmond, manager of the firm’s store at 11 W. Third Street, Jamestown. Mr. Richmond said officials of the company, which had its headquarters in Erie, Pa., had completed arrangements to open a new self-service store at the Foote Avenue Plaza. At the same time, they announced renewal of a long term lease for their Third Street store. Eckerd officials said their confidence in the downtown business section of Jamestown had remained undiminished since the store was first opened in March 1950. The Eckerd drug chain was established in Erie in 1898.

Two area civic leaders would be honored in the annual flare lighting ceremony set for July 4th night. The traditional event, which saw Chautauqua Lake’s shoreline ringed with red flares, would this year be dedicated to Earle O. Hultquist, Jamestown industrial leader; and Leroy B. Hale, former mayor of Bemus Point. Mr. Hultquist, who died earlier in the year, was one of the prime movers in establishing the flare lighting ceremony about 30 years ago. Mr. Hale, aged 97, had served for 20 years as vice president of the Chautauqua Lake Regions, Inc. sponsors of the event.

In 1988, a bill requiring a waiting period for would-be buyers of handguns was under discussion by a judiciary committee but it already had the support of President Ronald Reagan, the Associated Press said. U.S. Rep. Amory Houghton, Jr., R-Corning, agreed in principle with Reagan’s recent statements on the handgun bill, but he didn’t see a need for a nationwide standardization of such waiting periods. “Houghton feels there is no need to make it a federal law, because local governments are already addressing the issue properly,” according to Brian Fitzpatrick, Houghton’s communications director.

Work was in progress on the $1 million renovation of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Cherry Street, Jamestown. Projects outside included pointing the structure, releading the stained glass and painting the trim. Among changes inside were the installation of an elevator and an access for the handicapped.

In Years Past

In 1913, an electric storm accompanied by a wind which blew a gale did enormous damage in the vicinity of Corning the previous afternoon. Hundreds of shade trees were blown down, the electric light and power service of the city was cut off and the telephone service paralyzed. The wind’s power was such that it tore up huge trees by the roots and toppled them over against houses or into the streets. The house of Mrs. Lucy E. Wood of Pine Street was buried under a giant elm which tore up a concrete walk and curb as it fell and carried with it branches from another tree. More than 200 trees in the city were blown down. Hail, which accompanied the storm, broke scores of windows in the city and permitted the rain to pour into business places and houses.

A human interest story was told in police court when Samuel Comeratus of Harrison Street in Jamestown was brought in under arrest charged with violating the compulsory education law. He was charged with having sent his children, all of school age, to North Collins to work picking strawberries when the law said he should have had them in school. Upon investigation it was found that the man was working for $35 a month and supporting a sick wife and seven children. The eldest child was still two months from the age of 16. Comeratus was shown to be sober and the family to have existed without help from any source upon this scanty wage. He had the chance to get a few days’ employment for the children and he took it.

In 1938, death rode the highway again Monday evening and brought a sudden end to three well-known Jamestown young people. A fourth, miraculously escaped with only minor injuries in one of the most shocking tragedies to occur in this area in some time. The lives of two young women and a youth were instantly snuffed out when an auto in which they were returning from a Lake Erie outing turned over on the graveled Brocton-Hartfield Road about one mile northeast of Hartfield. Dead were Bert Henry Ruland, Jr., 20, Miss Margaret Louise Kleist, 20, and Miss Virginia Ruth Eberman, 18. The fourth member of the party was R. Arthur DeMeyers, 25, who was brought to Jamestown General Hospital with brush burns and a cut below the right eye. The accident came as a tragic climax to a picnic which the young people had enjoyed during the afternoon at a private beach near Brocton.

While walking along the state highway near his home on North Main Street Extention on his way to a nearby creek for a swim, Warren Smith, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray B. Smith, R.F.D. 1, Jamestown, was struck and critically injured by the hit and run driver of a Plymouth coupe at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The accident occurred in front of the home of Anton Dahlgren, into which he was carried in an unconscious condition before being removed to General Hospital in the Henderson & Lincoln ambulance. Witnesses to the accident took after the hit-skip motorist but did not catch the vehicle.

In 1963, fluoridation of the Jamestown water supply became a reality the previous day when equipment was placed in full operation after final checks and adjustments were made. The action capped a unanimous City Council move Feb. 26, 1962, when fluoridation was approved as a dental health measure after a city-wide campaign on its behalf.

Summer was due to make its official arrival at 11:04 o’clock this night but people shouldn’t break out the suntan lotion just yet. In fact, it might be a good idea to keep that topcoat handy. The Weather Bureau said temperatures were expected to slump to the chilly 40s, repeating the past night’s lows which saw the mercury hitting unseasonable depths of 45 in Falconer and 44 at the other end of Chautauqua County in Mayville.

In 1988, several proposals to keep Jamestown General Hospital a separate acute care facility were presented to Jamestown City Council. WCA Hospital’s buyout proposal was also discussed. JGH had been running in the red for two decades and might be forced to close its doors if a solution to its financial problems was not found soon. The hospital’s current debt was more than $3 million and that debt grew larger with each passing month.

Chautauqua County Legislature’s Public Works Committee had backed a proposal that would permit Chautauqua Airlines to build a hangar addition at the county airport north of Jamestown to accommodate larger aircraft. The addition would include a 20 by 100 foot extension to the county-owned commuter hangar and would be financed by the airlines at no cost to the county. The addition would allow the airlines to house and maintain a new 34-passenger aircraft to be delivered in August.

In Years Past

In 1913, the little Chautauqua Lake railroad was still tied up, although the management hoped to have engineers and conductors to operate the trains very soon. Examinations, it was stated, were being held at Mayville this day but the result was not as yet announced. The steamers were taking care of the railroad traffic along the lake as well as possible. The steamer Pittsburgh had been put in commission ready for operation.

Gurth Reidout, 26 years old, a telegrapher at Erie tower at Wildwood crossing near Salamanca was cut in two by a coal train running from Bradford to Buffalo when he attempted to board a car as it passed the tower. Leon Bean, a young man employed on the B. R. & P spent the night with the telegrapher. He said that before he went to sleep on a bunk in the tower, Reidout remarked that he intended to get on the coal train when it reached the tower to secure some large lumps of coal with which to build a fire. Mr. Reidout had been a member of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, having joined but recently.

In 1938, Commissioner Brian Mead, marshal and staff, had completed plans for the Boy Scout parade in Jamestown on this evening. About 500 Scouts, representing 44 troops and leaders would be in the procession which would demonstrate what was being done for boys of the Chautauqua Lake Area Council and was being held in connection with the financial campaign of the council to raise $4,000 necessary to insure continuation of Scouting in this area. Floats, special demonstrations and stunts would be features of the parade.

Acting upon the theory that, if the city of Jamestown was to build a new bridge across the Chadakoin River, those who must pay for it should have a voice in where the span was to be located, Councilman John W. Hartley would introduce a resolution at this night’s meeting of the city council calling for a taxpayers’ referendum. Mr. Hartley pointed out that a referendum would not commit anybody to anything. It simply would give the taxpayers an opportunity of expressing their preference as to location, and the decision registered at the referendum would act as a guide to the city council in finally determining a site.

In 1963, the Cuban Revolutionary Council said it had sent commando forces ashore at several places in Cuba and the invaders were being “welcomed by farmers” on the Communist-ruled island. In Washington, a spokesman said the State Department had no information on the reported invasion but was asking its Miami office to investigate. Early reports gave no information on the number of invaders but other sources said 500 men had landed. There was no word, either, on where the landings took place or the place from which the invasion was mounted.

Construction work on the new $365,000 addition to Jamestown General Hospital was progressing on schedule according to a report received by the Hospital Board from Joseph Valone, building committee chairman. Mr. Valone said erection of walls for the first story had been completed and partitions and room divisions installed. Work on the structure started in February and was expected to be finished by the end of the year.

In 1988, area grocery shoppers might find themselves paying a little more for certain foods in the near future, if not already, as a result of the drought in various parts of the nation. Thomas W. Sexton, vice president/division manager with the S. M. Flickinger Co., said of the situation, “It looks like it already has begun. Most grocers work off of last year’s product list and set the prices on the replacement product. It’s started already and it looks like its going to go up quite a bit.”

The Chautauqua Belle backed out of the slip at McCrea Point Municipal Dock in Jamestown the past Saturday. The old-fashioned paddle wheeler visited the city on Father’s Day weekend to offer rides for the first time in three years. Area residents enjoyed an early morning nature cruise, a breakfast cruise and a picnic cruise aboard the historic vessel.

In Years Past

In 1913, there was no change in the situation on the J.C. & L.E. Railroad which was tied up by a strike of the employees. There was little prospect of any this day. None of the employees had returned to work. No competent men had yet been established in their places. No steam trains were running. The management was doing its best to take care of the lake traffic. The little steamer Chadakoin had been put in commission and would operate along the lake, stopping at every dock where the water was deep enough. This would afford residents on the east shore of the lake an opportunity to travel to and from Jamestown.

One could hardly realize what a wonderful piece of structural engineering the building of the new reservoir in Jamestown on the top of English Hill was until he or she had visited the place in person, talked with the engineer in charge and under his guidance had been shown over, through and around the massive tank of concrete and steel which was to regulate the water supply in the city as soon as it was completed. The building of this reservoir was of interest to all taxpayers of the city as well as others who were not taxpayers. When the huge tank was finished its capacity would be 5,000,000 gallons of water. An idea of just how much water that was could be gained from the statement that if anything happened at the pumping station so that it had to stop running, there would be enough water in the reservoir to run the city at least two days, in which time any amount of repairing could be done at the pump station.

In 1938, double senatorial elections in New York, brought in prospect for the first time by the death of Royal S. Copeland, turned this pivotal state into a great, waiting arena for the test of Roosevelt sentiment in the coming fall election. Conservative Democratic Senator Copeland, who would have held his seat at all odds until 1940, died suddenly two nights ago in Washington and thus was created an extraordinary situation under which not one but two men must be sent to the senate from New York. The term of his strongly New Deal colleague, Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of the labor relations act, was ending. Thus, two seats would be open for a free-for-all fight among Democrats, Republicans and other factions, including the newly formed American Labor Party which made an impressive showing in the past year’s state elections.

Guy Leslie Mills, member of an old Jamestown family, who served as special deputy county clerk at Mayville for 31 years, died the previous morning at the family residence, 83 Elm Street, Mayville, aged 62 years. Mr. Mills who had been in failing health due to a heart ailment for the past two years, had been confined to his home in a critical condition for the past 10 days. Mr. Mills had been news correspondent for The Journal at the county seat for 43 years, ever since he entered the court house staff at the age of 19. He was born at Panama, Feb. 5, 1876, the son of Samuel and Cynthia Sanford Mills. At the age of eight years, he moved with his family to Jamestown where he was educated in the public schools.

In 1963, a critical space shortage might be in the offing for Jamestown High School, faced in the coming September with the influx of more than 700 sophomores, swelling its population to a record high of about 1,875 students. The increase was nearly 13 per cent greater than the current 1962-63 population. For the first time since it was built in 1935, JHS found itself with a shortage of classroom space resulting in the adoption of a system calling for the use of “floating” teachers. At least seven “floating” teachers would have to meet with their classes in whatever space was available at the time.

A two-year dream of Jamestown Shriners, to which was hitched plenty of hard work and financial effort, would become a reality Sunday afternoon when the newly created lake and recreation area on the Salisbury Road was formally dedicated with a special program. Cooperating with state engineers, the Jamestown Shrine Club took a patch of woodlot across the road from the Den Adlesman’s Club, about 1 1/2 miles from Jamestown, through which ran a small stream, and created a beautiful lake and park area.

In Years Past

In 1913, the people of Jamestown were due to hear a good deal about pedestrianism for the next day or two. Three men were walking from New York to Minneapolis, all over the same route, which included Jamestown as a stopping place for the night. One of these men was a national celebrity, Edward Payson Weston. The second of the two, John Ennis, in his day was also a famous pedestrian and a rival of Weston. The third was a new man. He was some distance behind but said he would beat both the veterans on the home stretch of their long tramp.

There was no change in the existing situation of the strike of the employees of the Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie Railroad. The little railroad was still tied up or practically so and no one could say when operations would be resumed. Superintendent B.H. Smith said the company was exerting every effort to secure competent men to operate the trains. “We have had the services of men whom we did not deem competent offered to us but we have refused,” said Mr. Smith. “We wish to have as competent employees as those who quit the service.” The gasoline car was put in commission and made a run up the road as far as Point Chautauqua Monday night. It was planned to make a similar run on this evening.

In 1938, Babe Ruth would return to baseball as coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, General manager Larry S. MacPhail announced this day. In a brief statement which he declined to amplify, MacPhail said Ruth had agreed to terms after a conference the previous night attended by Ruth, MacPhail, Burleigh Grimes, manager of the Dodgers and Leo Durocher, shortstop and captain of the club. Ruth would be in uniform for the following day’s double-header with the Chicago Cubs. The Babe, greatest home run hitter in the history of baseball, was playing golf and could not be reached immediately for comment.

Senator Royal S. Copeland, 69-year-old New York Democrat and physician-legislator, died the previous night – a victim of the overwork and congressional strain against which he often had cautioned his colleagues. Death came at 7:45 p.m. at his apartment in Washington after a sudden general circulatory collapse. His physician, Dr. Harry Kaufman, said the Senator had “driven himself too hard” during the session of Congress which ended two nights ago. Copeland had stayed on the Senate floor until almost the last, fighting a dozen major legislative battles under the heavy pressure of a pre-adjournment rush.

In 1963, opposition to the fluoridation of Jamestown’s water supply sparked a demonstration staged by foes of the program at a session of City Council. Threats of political reprisals in the November election if councilmen failed to reverse their previous action authorizing Fluoridation were sounded by two spokesmen for the anti-fluoridationists – Myron Baker, Falconer chiropractor, and George Simpson, Chairman of the Citizens Committee which had sponsored a petition for a referendum on the issue. Council President Jess J. Present called a halt to the discussion after two speakers in favor of fluoridation were made the targets of loud boos and catcalls.

Miss Freda Ivett of South Dayton had a hobby that paid off in more ways than one. Her hobby was leathercraft. She made many attractive leather items for herself and friends. Recently the Craftsman, a national magazine devoted to hand crafts, announced that it had accepted an illustrated article, submitted by Miss Ivett, for publication and for cash, too. The article had to do with shoe-carrying bags for winter use, the kind the office girls carried their dress shoes in when they had to wear heavy snow boots. We always thought it was their lunch. Miss Ivett’s article told how to make one yourself and included patterns for cutting out the leather.

In 1988, New York was one of the last states which had residents vote on school budgets. For many school districts it was quite a problem. But oddly enough, at least some superintendents who had been hit hard by the public’s opinion, stood behind the public’s right to that voice. “I think the fundamental principle of public education is local control,” said Kenneth Wasmund, first-year superintendent at Ripley Central School where the following year’s budget had been shot down twice. “The people vote for the board members and they vote for their budgets,” he said. And that was OK with him. It was also OK with Clymer Superintendent Robert Reagle. “I think it’s a real pain to work around … but yes, I have to agree with it … I think it keeps everybody honest.”

People’s mouths might drop open upon seeing the color combinations in the restored Fenton Museum parlor, Candy Larson, director of the museum, said. They would be astonished because they would be looking at the room with what she called a “1980 eye” instead of one that was trained in the Victorian period. Tastes in colors had changed in the past 100 years, Mrs. Larson explained. The ceiling was painted in 16 colors; various shades of pink, dusty rose, burgundy, brick red, blue-green, lavender and olive green. These weren’t combinations seen in modern interiors. The room was being recreated to look as nearly as possible the way it did when Gov. Fenton and his family lived in the house, with emphasis on the period from 1863 to 1885.

In Years Past

In 1913, not a wheel was turning on the Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie Railroad this day. The employees, 16 in number, struck the previous afternoon and there was no one to operate the trains. How long this condition would last no one could say. Superintendent B. H. Smith said men would be employed as soon as possible to take the places of the men who quit work. The new men would not be strike breakers or vagrants but competent men qualified to fill the respective places to which they were assigned. As to when these new men would be secured, that was another story.

Olean City Attorney M. B. Jewell was the previous night removed from office at a meeting of the common council. Vote on removal was carried 13 to 2. Grounds for this action were based on neglect of duty, failure to attend meetings and indefinite absences from the city. This action ended a long a bitter fight between the attorney and Mayor Peter C. Foley. Mr. Jewell, who was a Democrat, was an appointee of the mayor and had held office since January, 1912. He had also served as city attorney under Mayor Foley at a previous administration.

In 1938, announcement by the Celoron and West Ellicott school authorities that the fifth and sixth grades would be taken out of the Glidden Avenue school and moved to the old grade school building in Celoron village brought vigorous protests from parents in the Glidden Avenue district. The announcement of the proposal to eliminate those two grades from the school serving the thickly settled area just west of Jamestown was made in letters to parents sent out by John B. Pilette, principal of the district schools. For the past several years the third and fourth grades had shared one room and the fifth and sixth grades another room in the four room Glidden Avenue school. Mr. Pilette charged that the children in the lesser grades were in danger of acquiring an inferiority complex by association with children of a higher grade.

In celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf V of Sweden, a delightful program was given by the Swedish club of Lincoln Junior High School in the school auditorium. One feature was a play, entirely in Swedish, written by Miss Siri Obman of the school faculty, who was in charge of the club. The opening scene of the play was in two Swedish homes on the morning of the king’s birthday, with two families gathered at the breakfast table and talking excitedly of the events of the day. Many in the club wore Swedish costumes and made a striking picture as they appeared in songs and dances.

In 1963, Bemus Point Central School District’s long fight for a new junior-senior high school appeared to be at an end, following voters’ approval Saturday night of a $2,965,000 bond issue for school construction. The vote was 942 yes and 803 no, 12 void and one blank. School officials indicated they expected detailed plans and specifications for the new junior-senior high school building would be completed by the first of next year, and that the new school would be ready for occupancy in September 1965.

A colorful parade would again be a feature of the Chautauqua Lake Summer Festival to be presented by the Lakewood Area Jaycees on June 28, 29 and 30 in the village. Anthony Barone, parade chairman, expected 40 marching units to assemble at old Packard field on Bentley Avenue for the 2 p.m. feature Saturday, June 29. Two of the featured units participating would be a group of majorettes called “Canada’s Hi Steppers” from St. Catherines, Ontario. Also, the Meadville Glamourettes, a girl’s twirling group of at least 20 members would be in the parade.

In 1988, the Private Industry Council was working to place more than 600 youths in summer jobs and even at that, might not be able to fill all of the positions available. PIC Executive Director Jane Cleaver reported at the agency’s meeting at the Sword & Shield Restaurant that there was a very good response to its work program for 16-21-year-olds and to a Jamestown area activity for those aged 14 and 15. Ms. Cleaver reported the turnout for intake sessions at the PIC’s Jamestown office for the programs was overwhelming.

Jamestown Community College had the best two-year registered nursing program in the state. The results of a national registered nursing exam put JCC at the head of the list of 56 associate degree programs in New York. “This is the first time we’ve ever been number one,” the programs’ chairwoman, Judith Cordia, said. “We have scored very well prior to this…but number one is what you remember.”

In Years Past

In 1913, George Fluker, the 25 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fluker of South Dayton, was accidentally killed Sunday afternoon while shooting crows on his father’s farm a few miles north of the village. Young Fluker had been out watching the cornfield most of the afternoon and was seen and spoken to by his father late in the afternoon as the father was going to the woods after the cows. When the father returned, Fluker’s dead body was found beside a fence with a gunshot wound in the head. It was supposed that in crawling through the fence the trigger of the gun caught, discharging the weapon as he was pulling it through the fence toward him. The family was prominent and well known.

A runaway accident resulting in a double fatality happened at North Warren late Saturday night. The dead were Albert Johnson, a Lanning Hill farmer, aged about 50, and Allen Falconer, the 13 year old son of Archie Falconer of Warren. The two had been in Warren with a load of lumber and were on their way home, apparently, when the accident happened. The two bodies were found on the Jackson Run macadam road about midnight by a W. Richards of Warren, who was driving towards home in his automobile. The team was found early the following morning near Chandlers Valley, five miles away. The two had been riding in a light lumber wagon.

In 1938, twenty-eight students received diplomas for work during the past term in the auto-driving class of the Jamestown high school, at exercises in the school Wednesday afternoon. The students receiving the diplomas were those who had successfully completed their road tests. Others had taken the tests but had not been notified of the outcome. Retiring Superintendent of Schools George A. Persell, made the presentation to the students being introduced by Edwin F. Cudlipp, instructor, who attributed the educator’s progressiveness to the fact that Jamestown was one of the first cities in the country to have a safe-diving class as a part of the regular curriculum. Mr. Persell cautioned the students to observe the rules of the road, to consider and regard the rights of others and to always remember that “the radiator in the automobile is the only place for alcohol.”

With twinkling eyes, good-natured Civil War veterans of New York state individually shook their heads “no” over a proposal of the state department of the Sons of Union Veterans to relieve them of their duties. “It’ll take more than a resolution for any other group to take our job,” explained courtly M. V. Stone of Jamestown, national chaplain of the Grand Army of the Republic, who was reappointed state chaplain the previous day. “You see, we are created under a congressional act and only men who have served in the Union army and have been honorably discharged may belong and perform our duties.” The Sons of Veterans passed a resolution to relieve the G.A.R. of certain duties and sent it to other affiliated organizations for action. The duties referred to were the care of graves of Civil War veterans and details of arranging the annual encampment.

In 1988, handsome and seaworthy, the sight of the Sea Lion, the replica of a 16th century merchant ship, was undoubtedly inspiring future passengers to dream of taking a step back onto one of the most colorful pages of history. The ship was moored at her dock in Mayville, ready to make those dreams come true.

A 7-year-old Ellington girl was dead and her mother in serious condition following a drowning accident in Clear Creek on Cowens Corners Road in the town of Conewango. Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department deputies identified the girl as Lynett Daniels. They said she was swimming in the creek near the railroad trestle about 6 p.m. the previous evening with her family. The water was about eight feet deep in that location, police said. Her mother, Roberta Daniels, 36, of Mill Street, Ellington, saw her daughter struggling in the water and tried to rescue her by entering the creek but was unable to get to her. Police said bystanders who were not identified rescued them from the water. Conewango Fire Department ambulance crews administered medical aid to the girl and took her to WCA Hospital in Jamestown. She was pronounced dead on arrival by Chautauqua County Coroner P. Michael Neilson. Mrs. Daniels was also taken to the hospital where she was listed in serious condition. Her two other children, a boy age 3, and a girl, age 9, were not injured. The Ellington Fire Department also assisted at the scene.

In Years Past

In 1913, actual work at grade crossing elimination of the Erie Railroad in downtown Jamestown would commence the following Monday morning. Contractors John Mahoney and John Swanson, who had the contract for the elimination work, had been busy all the spring making preparations. They had purchased large quantities of special machinery to be used at various stages of the work. It would be good news to residents of Jamestown to know that operations had reached the point where work would actually commence.

The alarming increase in the criminal use of the automobile demanded the serious attention of local police authorities, in the opinion of Secretary of State May, who declared that present conditions “are liable to breed a train of consequences that will ultimately prove calamitous. The people of the state are face to face with a very serious problem,” said Mr. May in a statement. Secretary May advocated the establishment of a New York state automobile inspector’s bureau to cooperate with local authorities in enforcing the motor vehicle laws. The legislature appropriated $120,000 for the establishment of such a bureau but it was vetoed by Governor Sulzer.

In 1938, consideration of plans for proposed north-south bridges to span the Chadakoin River valley in the heart of Jamestown, occupied the attention of members of City Council at their special session at City Hall Monday evening when consulting engineers conferred with members of that body, explaining in detail their surveys regarding the Washington Street and Prendergast Avenue sites. Figures submitted by Harrington & Cortleyou, Washington, D.C. and A. Burton Cohen, New York city, showed that the cost of the Prendergast Avenue structure would be approximately double that of the Washington Street project.

Increased popularity of lighter alcoholic beverages was reflected by State Tax Commissioner Mark Graves’ announcement of a 13 percent rise during May in sales of still wine and a 6 percent boost in beer consumption. Basing the figures on the taxes collected, the commissioner said 94,862 gallons more of wines were dispensed than in May a year previously, while beer and fermented malt beverage sales gained by 130,756 gallons.

In 1963, the new Christian education wing of the Westfield First Presbyterian Church, which had been under construction for the past year, would be dedicated Sunday afternoon. The dedication would be followed by a tour of the building and refreshments would be served by women of the church. The new wing replaced the back part of the church, constructed after the fire in 1878 destroyed another brick church which had been built only four years before. First Presbyterian Church of Westfield founded in 1808, was the oldest church in Chautauqua County.

A 24-year-old Jamestown woman was injured and her 27-year-old husband escaped injury when both lost control of their motorcycles after the woman’s machine fatally injured a dog at 1:30 p.m. Thursday on Route 39, Jackson Run Road, 8 1/2 miles north of Warren. Police identified the woman as Mrs. Betty L. Parker of Willard St., who was in Warren General Hospital for observation. As the motorcycles were traveling south a dog rushed into the road from a nearby house and ran alongside the machine driven by Mr. Parker. Suddenly, the dog turned and started to run alongside Mrs. Parker’s motorcycle. The motorcycle struck and killed the dog. As Mr. Parker turned his head to see how his wife was making out with the dog, he also lost control of his machine.

In 1988, Mayor Steven B. Carlson said that he had reached an agreement with representatives of WCA Hospital for an asset purchase of Jamestown General Hospital but once again representatives of JGH voiced opposition to the proposed buyout. JGH was in deep financial trouble and had been since 1967. It currently had debts totaling more than $3 million. Carlson said that of the seven prospective organizations or buyers he had contacted, three had responded. Formation of a coalition to Save Jamestown General hospital was announced by Kathleen Moore and Jetta Morgenstern. “The employees of JGH have made a commitment to save the hospital to assure quality health care in our community,” Mrs. Moore said.

The Fredonia Village Board voted unanimously to support the Citizens Against Illegal Fireworks in restricting the use of explosives in the area. The board’s action followed a brief address by several members of the citizen’s group. This year, the organization would be supported by area businesses and officials including Brooks Memorial Hospital, the Fredonia Chamber of Commerce, Dunkirk Mayor Madelyn Kubera and the Dunkirk Police Department.

In Years Past

In 1913, three hundred sleeping passengers on the fast Lackawanna flier, the Buffalo Limited, escaped possible death or injury the previous night near Stroudsburg, Pa., through the quick action of W.J. O’Malley, a freight brakeman. A steel coal car had jumped the track and with not a minute to spare, O’Malley flagged the passenger train in time. So close was the margin that, although the engineer slackened speed, the limited struck the coal car head-on, telescoping it, and hurled its other freight cars from the tracks causing about $15,000 damage.

This day was the last day of school for Jamestown High School and in the morning the first hour was devoted to a musical program. The students sang a number of selections from the singing book and several popular selections as well. They also rehearsed the school song, Memories of JHS, for the class day exercises. One of the pleasing features of the program was the presentation of a ring to Miss Dorothy C. Dickson. Miss Dickson who for the past year had served as the pianist of the school, was a member of the graduating class and the students took advantage of the opportunity to express their appreciation of her services.

In 1938, the mystery surrounding the failure of communications from the Central Labor Council and the Building Trades Council, protesting the use of ready-mixed concrete on local paving jobs, to reach the Jamestown City Council when the proposed concrete deal was under discussion had been cleared up. Paul A. Clark, president of the City Council admitted that the letter had been “withdrawn” from the matters for consideration at the Council meeting. Just how the letter was “withdrawn” or whether the “withdrawal” was authorized by anyone other than himself, the Council president did not explain.

Search for Bernard E. Klock, 60, of Lakeview Avenue, Lakewood, missing from his home since the past Thursday night, ended at 11:30 this morning when his body was found floating in shallow water close to shore near the Chautauqua Lake Marine Works dock in Lakewood. Mr. Klock was reported to have been in poor health and had been out of work. The watch found on his body had stopped at 11 o’clock and his glasses were still on. Coroner Bowers believed that Mr. Klock met his death by drowning late Thursday night shortly after he was seen on the streets of the village.

In 1963, Jamestown General Hospital Auxiliary was set to present a $19,000 check to the hospital as part of a $25,000 pledge to furnish a new wing of the main building. Mrs. J. Norman Johnson, president of the auxiliary said pledge funds would be used to purchase equipment for 14 hospital room units on the third and fourth floors, including 38 beds. Pediatric equipment for the second floor also would be provided.

Two motorists were injured and two homes were damaged after two cars collided during a rain storm at 6:10 p.m. the previous day at Tenth and Washington streets. The drivers were Stan E. Johnson, 79, of Fairmount Avenue, W.E., traveling east on Tenth Street and Peter J. Lamantia Jr., 37, of Bassett Street, Jamestown. He was going south on Washington Street. Both were taken to Jamestown General Hospital by the Jamestown Ambulance Service. The impact forced Johnson’s car across Washington Street and sent it crashing into the homes of Clara Wimermark at 1002 Washington St. and L. J. Malata at 1004 Washington St.

In 1988, U.S. Rep. Amory Houghton Jr., R-Corning favored the death penalty for drug dealers who killed police officers, Houghton’s Communications Director Brian Fitzpatrick told The Post-Journal. The issue came up because of a recent bill introduced by Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-New York, which would permit the death penalty for drug dealers who killed police. Houghton said he believed the new bill would have a “certain deterrent value and it can’t hurt,” according to Fitzpatrick.

More than five years after a spectacular gas well fire in the Town of Dayton, lawsuits were finally being settled for people claiming injuries resulting from the fire. Following a week long jury trial in state Supreme Court, Jeffrey Weber, 27, of Beyer, Pa., a bulldozer operator who was burned in the fire on Sept. 19, 1982, accepted a settlement. Weber was hospitalized three months with severe burns and could only work on a limited basis. He was awarded a $600,000 settlement.

In Years Past

In 1913, suggestions and promises of cooperation for a statewide campaign “to save the babies,” were made at today’s infant welfare conference held at the suggestion of the New York state health department. Health officers and others interested, from various parts of the state, were present. The conference was the first on this subject conducted by the health department and was one of the preliminary steps in a movement for reduction in infant mortality in the state. The care of infants during the summer months, the training of mothers, ways and means of purifying milk and infant welfare methods observed in various cities were among the subjects discussed.

A Dunkirk girl was in trouble in Buffalo. She was charged with having two husbands. Rose Smith, aged 23, was the girl in question. The Dunkirk girl told a strange story. Among the discoveries made was that of her marriage in Dunkirk after courtship of but one day. At the age of 14 the girl married John Odobrowski, also of Dunkirk. They lived together two years. In that time, Rose left her husband eight different times. On the death of her baby, Rose went to Gowanda and went to work in a canning factory. This did not satisfy Rose, so five years ago the Dunkirk girl went to Buffalo and joined the Barnum and Bailey’s circus, traveling around for two years as a bareback horse rider. In Boston with the circus, she received a letter saying her husband was dead. On this information she married a Buffalo man in 1911. A few weeks ago she learned that her first husband was not dead.

In 1938, Walter Shearer of Conewango Valley, a young man employed by Vern Hitchcock on his farm in Gerry, was injured Friday in a runaway. Shearer had been working with a team in the fields and on returning to the farmhouse for dinner drove up to the gate and dismounted from the wagon to put the horses in the barn. Frightened at something, the horses started to run. Neighbors working nearby heard the commotion and ran to the Hitchcock farm. They found the horses fastened around the telephone pole in front of the Hitchcock house and Shearer still holding the reins, lying on the ground. After removing Mr. Shearer, who had been run over by the wagon wheels, the frightened horses were released but they again started to run and were not caught until stopped by Walter Barmore at his farm about a mile from the accident. Mr. Shearer suffered from severe bruises but no broken bones.

Lieutenant John Saunders who, as a member of the Jamestown police department for more than a quarter of a century, had been solving mysteries for other people, woke up in his home at 35 Fairfield Avenue and found that he had a mystery of his own on his hands. Saunders discovered that sometime during the night someone had broken into the house gaining entrance through a storm shed in the rear. Making a check, the officer discovered that the thief had made off with – of all things – a patent can opener. After removing the can opener from the wall, the thief had carefully filled the screw holes with putty. Why anyone should want to steal a can opener or why they would want to cover up the crime through the medium of putty, even Mr. Saunders had not idea.

In 1963, Medgar W. Evers, one of the South’s prominent Negro leaders, was mortally wounded in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss., early this day. Evers, 37, Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died about 50 minutes later in University Medical Center. Evers had been directing a massive civil disobedience campaign against racial discrimination in the Mississippi capital. Police launched a widespread search for his assassin. “This is most unfortunate,” said Jackson Chief of Detectives W. B. Pierce, who asked the FBI to assist in the investigation. In New York, Roy T. Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, said the death of Evers “demonstrates anew the blind and murderous hatred which obsesses too many Mississippians. In their ignorance they believe that by killing a brave, dedicated and resourceful leader of the civil rights struggle they can kill the movement for human rights. They cannot.”

At about 4 p.m. the following Wednesday a car carrying an out-of-state family along Route 17 in Jamestown would be stopped by police and the driver would be given a citation. Instead of the usual type summons, however, it would be an invitation to the auto’s occupants to be overnight guests of Route 17 Association in observance of its “Hospitality Day.” The invitation would entitle the travelers to an overnight stay as guests of the Hotel Jamestown, dinner and breakfast at the hotel, a car wash, filled gas tank and oil added, if necessary, a corsage and box of candy, entertainment and other merchandise to make their stay in Jamestown memorable.

In Years Past

In 1913, believing the weapon to be empty John C. Borhardt, aged 21 years, a resident of Titusville, Pa., placed the muzzle of a revolver to his left temple the previous afternoon and a bullet crashed into his head. He died two hours later. The young man and several companions left Titusville in the morning on a fishing trip and he took the revolver with him. He fired it several times while in the woods and later on snapped the trigger and there being no discharge, he thought he had exhausted all the cartridges. In a spirit of bravado he placed the muzzle to his temple and pulled the trigger. There had been one loaded cartridge left in the revolver.

Milton Bush of Kennedy, one of the second string catchers of the Jamestown High School baseball team, had his nose broken in practice on the school campus the previous afternoon and the possibilities were that he would be out for the season. He was catching for the pitchers in their warming up practice when a fast ball got through his glove and landed square on the bridge of his nose. Although he was only a second string catcher, he was used in last Saturday’s game with Warren High School and caught a great game. Of Jamestown’s three hits in that contest, he secured two.

In 1938, over-exertion caused by weeding his garden, proved fatal to William F. Atkins, 90 Falconer St., Frewsburg, who dropped dead at 8:30 in the morning at the age of 80 years. He had been a victim of heart trouble for the past three years, according to Coroner Samuel T. Bowers, who rendered a verdict of death due to natural causes. Mr. Atkins left nine children. He was born in the Town of Carroll, Oct. 15, 1867, and had resided in Chautauqua and Warren counties his entire life.

Officials of the Plasterers and Cement Finishers’ local, the Building Trades Council and Central Labor Council were wondering what became of a letter, or letters, which were sent to the city council a week ago protesting the use of ready-mixed concrete on paving projects. The union discussed the proposed use of ready-mixed concrete at its meeting May 24 and directed a communication to the Jamestown City Council to use its own equipment and its own forces on paving projects in order to provide more employment.

In 1963, Jamestown’s newest parking lot at West Third and Washington streets had been leased by the operators of the Main Street Parking Ramp and might be the future site of a motel or store parking ramp. National Garages would operate the lot pending the possible future sale or lease of the property for other purposes. The old Post Office building which occupied the site was razed by Atlas Wrecking Co. of Rochester. The lot had been blacktopped but additional work was needed before it could be opened.

Miss Sharon Nutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nutt, North Erie Street, Mayville, had received an American Field Service “Americans Abroad” scholarship and would spend the summer in Belgium. Miss Nutt would celebrate her 17th birthday June 21, at the close of her junior year. On June 26, she would board the ship, “Seven Seas,” in New York City for Rotterdam. She would spend two months in Eckilo, Belgium with her Belgian family, Mr. and Mrs. Albien Van Overberghe and daughters Danny, 16, and Annie, 12. Mr. Van Overberghe was the operator of a women’s clothing factory in the rear of his home which employed 32 persons.

In 1988, the New Sweden ’88 Festival got off to a rousing start at Friday’s opening ceremonies at College Stadium on the campus of Jamestown Community College. “We’re here today to celebrate a long tradition of Swedish contributions to American life,” said Lt. Gov. Stan Lundine, whose father and maternal grandfather immigrated to Jamestown from the province of Smaland in Sweden. “We’re also celebrating a tradition that brought immigrants to the United States from around the world, searching for opportunity and freedom and eager to contribute to the growth of their new homeland.”

Scientists flying over the southern Pacific Ocean directly observed the atmosphere of Pluto for the first time NASA had announced. While scientists previously had strong indirect evidence for the existence of an atmosphere on the solar system’s ninth planet, the astronomers who viewed Pluto from a telescope aboard NASA’s Kuiper Airborne Observatory got the first direct look at it. The observations showed that Pluto was surrounded by what appeared to be a substantial atmosphere.

In Years Past

In 1913, Coyle Boyd, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boyd of Monroe Street, Jamestown, was run down by an automobile belonging to A. N. McDonald of Sugar Grove, Pa., at Sixth and Monroe streets, Monday afternoon. The lad’s left leg was broken above the knee and he received a number of cuts and bruises about the head and face. He was taken to the Jones General Hospital where the fracture was reduced and the other injuries attended to. The lad was playing with other children near the street corner and started to run across the street. A lumber pile hid the view of the automobile and also prevented the driver from seeing the boy.

Frank W. Stevens, a distinguished citizen of Jamestown, who but recently retired from six years’ service as chairman of the upstate public service commission, was honored in a splendid manner by his fellow citizens and neighbors in Institute Hall Monday evening. There were several hundred men and women of the city present and the exercises were of an interesting nature, the program in the hall being followed by an informal reception in the gymnasium of the high school, where all were given an opportunity to personally greet Mr. Stevens. The program was preceded by pleasing music furnished by Bratt’s orchestra, which also played during the reception.

In 1938, Lakewood village police joined in the search for Bernard E. Klock of LakeView Avenue, who was reported missing from home for two days. Mr. Klock, who was between 50 and 60 years of age, secretary of Lakewood Lodge of Odd Fellows and prominent in its activities, was last seen on the downtown streets of the village about 10 o’clock Thursday evening. His absence from home was discovered about 3 in the morning when his wife, Mrs. Linda Klock, went to his room, finding the bed turned down and pajamas laid out as though he had planned to retire. Mrs. Klock had gone to a meeting of the hose company auxiliary at the village hall. When she left the house, her husband was listening to the radio.

A man sitting in the New York offices of the Associated Press operated a Linotype machine in Charlotte, N.C. the previous night. All he did was punch the keys of a typewriter and feed his copy into a metal transmitting device. The result was type set in column width, in the office of the Charlotte Observer, 611 miles away. The device, called Semagraph, was the invention of Buford L. Green, veteran of 26 years service in the Observer composing room. He perfected the Semagraph after 12 years of work.

In 1963, a bolt of lightning which struck main gas lines in the Hunt Road at about 3 a.m. caused flames to leap into the sky at a distance of about 100 feet. The combination of escaping gas and lightning shook area homes and roused slumbering residents as far away as Falconer. The roofs of two cinder block buildings, owned by the Pennsylvania Gas Co., and housing gas pipes and control valves, were burned when hit by the lightning. The 15 by 20 foot buildings were located in Idlewood Drive, a short distance from Frederick Blvd. The intense heat and tremendous roar of escaping gas kept firemen at a distance. Fireman Henry Till described the flames as being so white it was impossible to look at them. Water could not be used until 6 a.m. when a gas valve in Sugargrove, Pa., was turned off.

Driving their motorcycles into a public Laundromat and using it as a public dressing room might have been funny to two Bradford, Pa., motorcyclists Saturday night. However, to Harold Nelson, operator of the Modern Laundromat on Route 17J, humor was lacking. Police reported the pair drove their motorcycles through the open door, parked the machines, and proceeded to change their traveling clothes into more suitable clothes to make social calls. The two were charged with disorderly conduct. Each defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $20. The court suspended a 15-day jail sentence. Because they were unable to pay their fines they were committed to 20 days in Chautauqua County jail or until each paid his fine.

In 1988, though he doubted if he would get the chance this year, Gov. Mario Cuomo said he would sign a bill into law outlawing Styrofoam packaging in New York state if it got to his desk. Cuomo’s unusual announcement came at a news conference at a suburban Albany McDonald’s restaurant where McDonald’s Corp. executives said the fast food giant would experiment with ways to cut the amount of its Styrofoam food packaging that reached garbage dumps in New York state. McDonald’s Senior Vice President Shelby Yastrow said dozens of the chain’s restaurants in New York would ship used Styrofoam food containers to a recycling plant where the materials would be converted into insulation board for residential and commercial structures.

Limited crop damage might have resulted to field and garden crops and flowers overnight as invading cold air brought frost to scattered areas of Western New York. The official low temperature of 27 degrees was recorded in Franklinville in Cattaraugus County where Dale Dewing, Cooperative Extension field crops agent, said that although he did not see any frost there was potential for cold weather damage to crops.

In Years Past

In 1913, dissolution of the so-called Eastman Kodak trust was asked in a civil anti-trust suit filed in Buffalo by order of Attorney General McReynolds. The federal government sought the dissolution, by receivership if necessary, of the Eastman Kodak Company of New York, who were charged with monopolizing trade in photographic supplies, in violation of the Sherman law. The government aimed to obtain a division of the assets and business of the two companies, the other being Eastman Kodak of New Jersey, controlling 72 percent of the business in the United States, into such parts as would effectually destroy the alleged monopoly and restore full and free competition.

Through the efforts of the Hornell police it was learned from the Meadville, Pa. authorities that Helen Curry, the 14 year old high school girl who mysteriously disappeared from her home in Hornell the past Thursday, was in Meadville, having arrived on Friday. The girl’s father left shortly after midnight for Meadville and had little trouble in locating his daughter, who at first declined to accompany him home, as she was determined to work in a factory in the Pennsylvania city. A telephone message received the previous afternoon from the father stated that he would arrive in Hornell accompanied by his daughter this night. Who furnished the girl with money with which to pay her fare to Meadville was not known. Miss Curry had but 75 cents at the time of her disappearance.

In 1938, a short circuit in an automobile motor called out all of the fire apparatus in Jamestown, including the No. 1 company’s big aerial truck, at 12:16 o’clock this day. The automobile, which was owned by Warner Dahlbeck, 212 Forest Avenue, and which was being driven by his son, Richard, was being filled with gasoline at Foote Avenue and Harrison Street when the short circuit was noticed. Instead of telephoning in an alarm, Dahlbeck pulled Box 53. Inasmuch as the box was located in a commercial and factory district, all companies responded.

The Boy Scouts of Chandlers Valley and Sugar Grove met in Miller’s woods with Scoutmaster Otto Carlson assisted by Rev. Mr. Brainard and Dr. Smith in charge. The local scouts, both boys and girls, had been placing labels on the trees under supervision of Mrs. A. A. Grant and Mrs. R. S. Cumming. These trees comprised the first nursery in Pennsylvania and they were set out in 1860 by Frank Miller, father of H. Y. Miller, the present owner of the land. A recent visitor from the state of Washington stated he believed these woods contained the finest group of varied specimens of trees in the United States. Sixty five trees had been labeled. Mr. Miller granted the privilege of visiting the woods to those interested, asking only that care was taken not to damage these rare trees.

In 1988, graduation time was approaching and many area schools were having alcohol-free graduation parties to help stop drinking and driving. Law officials said parents who served alcohol to minors at their graduation parties could be sent to jail and held liable in case of an accident. Mrs. Jacqualyn Catlin, chairwoman of the Southwestern Central School after-graduation party committee, said, “We are trying to add a safety feature this year. The kids will change their clothes right after graduation and then load the buses enroute to the party site.” The party site was a secret to the students, so she did not want to say where.

Chautauqua County Executive John A. Glenzer expected a recommendation as to who would be employed to bring the Unigard building in Jamestown into code compliance. A scaled down financing program in connection with the purchase and renovation of the structure for conversion to a county office building had been approved by the County Legislature. Glenzer related that as soon as the county owned it, it was proposed to move Department of Social Services employees into the building and as soon as possible to move other county employees onto its third floor.

In Years Past

In 1913, John W. Unsworth, for several years the faithful and efficient secretary of Chautauqua lodge Sons of St. George, had left for England to spend the summer. He was honored in an unusual manner at the regular meeting of the lodge on Friday evening. On behalf of the lodge, Rev. Walter A. Taylor presented him with an elegant umbrella and a leather wallet and Joseph Whitaker presented him with a box of cigars, all three of the gifts being in appreciation of the capable manner in which Mr. Unsworth had performed his duties as secretary.

If the parents of any of the Boy Scouts in camp in Allen Park, Jamestown, Friday night, worried about their boys during the storm which swept over the city, it was all unnecessary, for the boys had a splendid time and the storm did not reach them in their tents. Furthermore, they were in charge of men who were competent to handle boys in large numbers and with military discipline enforced from the time that the boys reported at the park, there was no cause for worry on the part of the parents. The boys turned in early and for an hour or two the tents resounded with singing, after which everybody went to sleep in order to get a good rest.

In 1938, fishing in Lake Erie had become so poor that the boats in the Dunkirk fishing fleets did not even leave port this day. Fishermen said sturgeon were becoming extinct in the fishing grounds and catches of blue pike had been too small to pay for crews and fuel. On July 1, however, fishermen would set their nets again, hoping for better luck with the pike

Mayor Emeritus Samuel A. Carlson of Jamestown, who was a life member of the advisory conference committee of the New York State Conference of Mayors, introduced a resolution before the conference in Elmira calling for the abolition of county government, a unicameral legislature and other legislative and constitutional reforms looking toward a more simplified and less expensive form of government.

In 1963, the Buffalo area faced another unemployment crisis with the announcement that the Wickwire Spencer Steel plant on River Road, plagued by recent losses from cheaper foreign competitors, would shut down after 56 years of operation. The plant would close within 90 days. Company officials said there were no bidders at present for the sprawling Town of Tonawanda property along the Niagara River. Wickwire employed about 1,400 persons. Under the company’s pension plan some 80 employees might be eligible for pensions. Joseph P. Molony, New York State director of the United Steel Workers said prospects of finding jobs for the workers was bleak because “this is a depressed labor area.”

Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s interest in water skiing was a strong factor in bringing even more popularity to the sport. Water skiing had grown steadily each year during the past decade and about 6,000,000 Americans skied in 1962. The increase for 1963 would be even larger than in the past. Water skiing was more “fashionable” than ever leading more people to try the sport. More celebrities had been pictured skiing in newspapers, magazines and newsreels. Those included Mrs. Kennedy and daughter Caroline, Princess Margaret and a number of the astronauts.

In 1988, environmental activists were skeptical that a long awaited treatment of low-level radioactive wastes at a former nuclear fuel plant in Cattaraugus County would prove an effective way to deal with the problem. “There is really no feasible way of dealing with it,” said Carol Mongerson, a member of the Coalition On West Valley Nuclear Waste. “Once solidified we’re still faced with storage problems.” Dean Hoffman, spokesman for West Valley Nuclear Services, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Co. said the company activated systems what would be used to treat some 600,000 gallons of liquid nuclear waste stored underground at the plant in West Valley, a rural hamlet about 40 miles south of Buffalo.

The buildup of weeds in lower Chautauqua Lake was causing a problem for boaters and could damage their craft in the opinion of people knowledgeable about the matter. The yard foreman at holiday Harbor, Celoron, said of the situation, “As far as weeds are concerned, man, are they coming on strong. It’s getting to be a mess.” He reported that weeds wind up on boat propellers, causing the craft to vibrate. “Then you almost have to jump in the water to clean them off,” the foreman explained.

In Years Past

In 1913, Prince Albert Frederick George, second son of King George of England, accompanied by 60 cadets of his majesty’s ship Cumberland, arrived in Niagara Falls this day. The prince and his party made the trip by boat to Lewiston and came by trolley along the American side of the gorge. The prince, who was 17 years old, traveled “incognito,” and his companions refused to point him out. “This is my first trip to the continent and the first time I have stood under the Stars and Stripes on American soil,” said the prince, when finally identified by a group of newspapermen. “We are having an excellent trip and enjoying ourselves immensely.”

Mary Tallchief, a Pagan Indian was buried at the Cattaraugus reservation on Sunday. She could recall more about early local history than any other woman in this part of the country, as she was 115 years old when she died the past Friday. She was born in the spring of 1798. for many years she had lived alone in a neat little home on the reservation near Gowanda, called Pine Woods. Those who knew her said she had lived entirely in the past. She knew little of the modern inventions but could tell about matters of historical interest. She knew of Buffalo when it was merely a village, of the battle on the lakes in 1812 and she had even declared that she could remember seeing the English troops as they marched into Buffalo to burn the town a century ago.

In 1938, an old landmark was destroyed at a loss of about $5,000 in a spectacular blaze which on Saturday night wiped out the old freight station of the former J. C. & L. E. railroad along the right of way in the rear of Steele Street near the Jamestown municipal light plant. The building was leased by the City Junk Company and was used as a storage shed for paper and waste. The contents were owned by Morris and Aaron Heideman, who said that no insurance was carried. The cause of the fire was not definitely determined but it was believed to have resulted from spontaneous combustion. The flames shot high into the sky and attracted a large crowd of spectators.

Walter White of Cassadaga was arrested Friday afternoon by Troopers Chandler and Rosenow of the Westfield barracks. White had shot and injured a cow belonging to Frank Snyder, also of Cassadaga, which was trespassing in White’s meadow. He was charged with cruelty to animals and taken before Judge A. J. Black of Arkwright, found guilty, fined $10 and given a 60 day suspended jail sentence. White was also instructed by Judge Black to obtain the services of a veterinary doctor for the injured animal.

In 1963, National Worsted Mills of Falconer announced a $1.2 million modification and expansion program which would enter full production the following week. The transition involved $1 million worth of new machinery for the production of worsted “top” processed and skeined wool for manufacturers. Although the present labor force averaged between 375 and 400 employees, future expansion could mean the addition of more workers, plant officials said. The mill would use about 12 million pounds of raw wool a year.

At Youngsville, Pa., two persons were in critical condition and four others seriously burned from a gas explosion and oil fire at a drilling site on the Blakeslee property. At 10:30 a.m., an electrical arc from contact of an extension outlet and plug ignited gases escaping from a newly-fractured well, burning the clothing and skin of Wyllis Fitzgerald, Walter E. Blakeslee, son of the property owner, and Mrs. Martha Blakeslee along with Mr. and Mrs. Marion Howles. Curiosity prompted the injured to place the electrical extension for light at the tank to examine flow of oil into a storage tank. The explosion spouted 20 feet above the 120-barrel storage tank and then mushroomed straight up into the air.

In 1988, local officials agreed that the New York state vehicle law requiring children under 4 years old to ride in safety seats was a hard one to enforce. In Celoron the past week a 22-month-old girl was killed when the pickup she was riding in was struck by a car and flipped over, throwing her from the vehicle. “It’s an extremely difficult law to enforce,” Assemblywoman Patricia K. McGee, R-C Franklinville, said. “The law says that the driver is responsible to see that anyone under 18 years old in the front seat must be buckled up and anyone under 4 years in either the front or back seat must be in a child-resistant seat.”

A two-day search had begun on this morning by the New York State Police in southern Chautauqua County and northwestern Pennsylvania for Jamestown resident Kathy Wilson, 33, who had been missing since May 18. State Police continued to assist the Jamestown Police Department and would search the vicinity of where her purse was found, near Akeley, Pa. According to Lt. Michael McMannis, “The search will be aided by seven search dogs, brought from throughout Western New York and Central New York, specially trained in searching for missing persons.

In Years Past

In 1913, Frank E. McLean, editor of the Union City Times, and one of the best known men in Erie County, Pa., was instantly killed at 12:30 o’clock in the morning in an automobile accident at the corner of Main and High St. in Union City, when the machine in which he and several friends were riding was struck by a west-bound freight train on the P. & E. railroad. As the auto party turned the corner of Main and High St. and came upon the railroad tracks, a glaring light appeared and before the machine could be given power enough to dart across the tracks, the heavy engine hit the car, hurling the occupants in all directions. The others were injured and removed to their homes. Mr. McLean had been well known in Jamestown.

The senior class of 1913, which was to be graduated from Jamestown High School this month, would be the largest class ever graduated from that institution. It would also have the distinction of being the first class to be graduated from the high school with a membership of over 100. The membership of the class was 110 – 37 boys and 73 girls. This was a number of about 40 more than were graduated in the class of 1912. The class yell was: Boom-a-rack, boom-a-rack, bis boom bah, rippity, rappity, rah, rah, rah. Clickity, clackity, cling clang clong. Here we come, here we come right along. The mightiest class that ever was seen, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

In 1938, the previous day the name of Robert H. Jackson, United States solicitor general, who still maintained his residence as Jamestown, was again being prominently mentioned for high judicial office, this time for a justice of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Congress had authorized the appointment of an additional justice and it was thought likely that it would go to the western New York man. The position carried an annual salary of $12,500.

A hero of the Jamestown Speedway was killed in a race at the Hammond, Indiana speedway. Leonard “Buzz” Mendenhall struggled desperately at the steering wheel but it was a losing battle. His car catapulted through the air, overturning three times. The veteran dirt track driver died on his way to the hospital from the effects of a fractured skull and punctured lungs. Last Oct. 10, driving a consistently brilliant race, Mendenhall, who held pole position and the lead from start to finish, won the 90-mile event in 69 minutes at the Jamestown Automobile speedway on the Stockton Road.

In 1963, the first pouring of concrete for the $2 million Washington Street Bridge in Jamestown was scheduled this day as engineers set an early target date of Nov. 1 for completion of the project. Pouring of 3,000 tons of concrete for the roadway of the 950-foot span across the Chadakoin River was starting at the north end of the bridge at West Second St. The Nov. 1 completion date was expected to be met if normal weather conditions prevailed during the summer. At the present time the project was about two months ahead of the original target date of Dec. 30.

A garbage truck parked on the steep incline of Sprague Street in Jamestown at 5 a.m. rolled away from the curb and backward down the hill across Steele St. and struck a building occupied by Peterson Neon Sign Co. The truck, owned by Curro Construction, Co., was operated by William Nieder of Sinclairville with Roosevelt McCray of Jamestown as helper. They told police the truck rolled down the hill while they were making garbage collections at Sprague St. homes. The corner of the building was caved in.

In 1988, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department recently won the New York State Deputies Association Pistol Match in Buffalo. First place went to Sgt. William A. Tornstrom and Deputy John Miller. Second place went to Sgt. Richard Saletta and Deputy Stephen Paprocki. Tornstrom was the overall winner and received a New York State Deputies 1988 High Shooter trophy and an engraved Smith and Wesson handgun while Miller won second place overall.

No less than 225 migrant farm workers were expected to be in northern Chautauqua County this season to help grow and harvest various crops. The estimate was made by Thomas Hopson, rural employment manpower representative with the Dunkirk office of the Job Service Division of the state Department of Labor. He said the number was exclusive of about 80 such people to be employed in processing green and yellow beans at the cannery of Comstock Foods in South Dayton, just across the line in Cattaraugus County, where they would live in adjacent housing and remain until about Sept. 25.

In Years Past

In 1913, a limousine operated by Mrs. August Peterson of Fairmount Avenue, Jamestown, collided with the iron watering trough at the northeast corner of West Eighth and Washington streets late the previous afternoon and Dr. E. T. Johnston of Washington Street, who was on his way home and was riding in the car, was quite badly injured, sustaining a severe scalp wound and being taken to the Jones General Hospital. The limousine was descending the steep hill on Washington Street, between Sixth and Eighth streets, when some part of the mechanism failed to work properly and the machine collided with the watering trough at the foot of the hill. The front of the car was badly smashed and it was fortunate that neither occupant was killed. Mrs. Peterson was only slightly injured.

The convention of furniture manufacturers came to a very successful close in Jamestown late the previous afternoon, some of the delegates leaving the same evening for their homes. Among those who left early were the members of the delegation from Grand Rapids who took the D. A. V. & P. train for Dunkirk waiting over there for a Lake Shore fast train and taking dinner at the Hotel Gratiot where a special banquet was served in their honor. The others who remained here were guests at the Hotel Samuels or at the Norden Club where the Swedish members of the association were given a special entertainment. A number of ladies here with their husbands were guests of Mrs. C. L. Eckman and a banquet was served for them in the club dining room.

In 1938, still another investigation loomed at Jamestown City Hall in consequence of the circumstances surrounding the proposed purchase of ready-mixed concrete for a Tiffany Avenue paving job to supplant the city’s long established custom of mixing its own concrete for paving projects. That things might “bust wide open” to use the words of one of those in the know, at Monday night’s meeting of the City Council, was indicated during a roundup of the facts surrounding the case. It was learned that Councilman Harry Stahley, a member of the highway committee who had opposed the purchase of ready-mixed concrete, planned to bring the case out onto the floor of the council for an airing, following a wide-open split in the highway committee over the case.

Jamestown had gone on daylight savings time at 2 o’clock this morning, to operate on that time until Sunday, Sept. 4. Other Chautauqua county communities which would follow the example of this city were Falconer, Lakewood, Chautauqua, Bemus Point, Mayville and Westfield, with Frewsburg operating under both times, the stores and some of the factories adopting daylight savings time. The Celoron Village Board had taken no action in the matter as yet, but the village would, it was expected, follow Jamestown as usual. The second and third largest communities in the county, Dunkirk and Fredonia, would remain on standard time. Westfield would not adopt fast time until the first Sunday in July. The Chautauqua County Alcoholic Beverage Control board announced that holders of beer and liquor licenses would conform to the time prevailing in their respective communities.

In 1963, Rep. Charles E. Goodell, R-Jamestown, N.Y., was proposing that Congress authorize a trial of a special training school for disadvantaged young men between the ages of 16 and 22. He would restrict participation to those young men who had been out of school and unemployed or under-employed for six months or more. He also would restrict participation to young men who required a change of environment in order to continue training and education. Mr. Goodell was offering his proposal during the closed door consideration of the vocational education legislation by the House Education and Labor Committee of which he was a member. He was recommending that Congress authorize spending $500,000 the first year for planning and preliminary details, with $4 million to be available for the second year.

More than 200 turned out the previous evening for a reception in the Lakewood Village Hall, honoring Mayor Roland C. Rapp. The reception was sponsored by the Busti-Lakewood Democratic Women’s Club, headed by Mrs. George L. Ritzer, who presided at the tea table. Spring flowers and a silver candelabra with white tapers, decorated the table. Organ music was provided by Mrs. Arthur Briggs. Speaker was Robert Pascuillo, English instructor at Jamestown Community College. Entertainment was provided by an octet from the Sweet Adelines, Inc., Jamestown Chapter.

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In 1913, Michael Goalinski, the Buffalo boy who killed Patrolman George M. Claus on Nov. 19 last, died in the electric chair at Auburn this morning. The prison officers declared he was the coolest murderer ever held in the prison. Without bravado and with a prayer on his lips he walked resignedly to the chair, a slender, blue-eyed blonde youth. “Tell mother not to cry when they bring me home. Tell all to be brave. I am sorry I shot Mr. Claus and know I should pay the penalty. I am happy,” he declared to his sister as she bade him farewell the previous evening. He left a touching letter to his mother. It was written in excellent English, with a firm hand, and made arrangements for his own funeral.

The last meeting of the American Club of the Lakewood High School concluded its year’s work, May 28. Their custom in the past had been to enjoy the last meeting in some manner, social and entertaining in nature and this year a banquet was held in Firemen’s Hall. About 70 of the academic students took their places. Each of the four classes had secretly prepared one course of the meal so the menu as a whole was a surprise. It was a very delicious repast, well prepared and neatly served. Each table was decorated for one class and all deserved much credit for the good taste and cleverness shown in the results.

In 1938, authorities were investigating the finding of the body of a new-born baby girl in the Chadakoin River. An autopsy showed that the baby had been drowned and police said the case constituted murder. The body was discovered by two Jamestown boys, Lester Shaffer, 16 of Morris Avenue and Dominick Mula, 16 of Allen Street. The boys were pitching stones into the stream near the plant of the Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company when they made their discovery. The youths rushed to the Buffalo Street fire station and notified firemen who, in turn, notified police.

They laughed when he predicted but Edward Cale, a farmer residing on the West Lake Road, about a mile from Chautauqua, saw his predictions become reality. As excavation of several mounds was started at Prendergast Point, a new lakefront section being constructed across from Mr. Cale’s farm, the farmer, who was born on the farm where he now resided, casually mentioned to the engineers that in leveling off the mounds they might find the remains of slaves kept by the Prendergast family a century or more ago. Several skulls and numerous bones, in whole or part, were then retrieved from their graves.

In 1963, the new Sacred Heart Church to be built on Fairmount Avenue, near Fairdale Avenue in Lakewood, would have a seating capacity of more than 500 persons. The new church would replace the present Lakewood and West Ellicott churches. Its architectural design would be simple, officials said with practicality and economy in mind. Sacred Heart was established on May 26, 1912, with Rev. Thomas H. Harrigan as the first pastor.

A Westfield youth, Jimmy Bongiorno, left this day for Las Vegas where he would begin a four-week engagement with Vaughn Monroe’s orchestra. Jimmy, an accomplished accordionist, would also serve as Mr. Monroe’s personal accompanist during the band’s engagement at the Tropicana. Jimmy, who started his musical training at an early age, received his training from Carl Messina of Jamestown and later transferred to Mr. Messina’s son, Russ Messina in Buffalo. In addition to continuing lessons, Jimmy was teaching accordion one day a week in New York City. He was also an accomplished pianist and organist.

In 1988, Gov. Mario Cuomo said that he wanted to keep his “Decade of the Child” projects safe but that he wanted a hiring freeze of sorts and cuts in other spending to close an estimated $900 million state budget gap. Cuomo provided no details, however, and said he would release a full list of his recommendations to the Legislature and the public on Monday. Cuomo’s fiscal aides discovered the shortfall the previous month, just a few weeks after the 1988-89 budget was adopted and since then they’ve been scrambling to find ways to reduce state spending.

Almost 10,000 residents of Terry Anderson’s hometown in upstate New York had signed a greeting card for the Middle East hostage. “If he gets this, and I pray he does, it will warm Terry’s heart,” Anderson’s sister, Peggy Say, said. Organizers from local radio station WBTA in Batavia began the greeting card effort at stores, schools and churches earlier in the year after Anderson marked the third anniversary in captivity by Moslem extremists. The card would be sent to Beirut, Lebanon, where Anderson was thought to be held, organizers said.

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In 1913, among the important matters to be presented to the grand jury in Mayville was that of the charge of Assemblyman Sullivan of Dunkirk that Police Chief F. W. Quandt of that city offered him a bribe to introduce a bill in the legislature for a salary increases for the members of the Dunkirk police force. It was understood that the matter would be presented next Thursday in the nature of a John Doe proceeding. This same charge was investigated several months ago by the Dunkirk police commissioners. The finding of that body was that there was no evidence to substantiate the accusation.

William Erwin, a stationary engineer in charge of the engines at the Tanners Shoe Stock Company on the West End of Olean, was almost instantly killed when his coat sleeve became entangled in the shafting and he was thrown against the ceiling. Erwin was in the act of oiling the shaft and was, it was said, working near a large pulley, over which a belt was running. He, in some unknown manner, got his left coat sleeve entangled in the pulley between the belt and like a streak of lightning was hurled with terrible force to the ceiling.

In 1938, at the time of the recent 40th anniversary of the departure of the Fenton Guards from Jamestown for Camp Black, Long Island, during the Spanish-American War of 1898, a group of veterans of the company got together and checked up on the living and dead of the old company. At that time it was reported that Dr. Clarence R. Wilcox was among the dead but he wrote The Journal from Jacksonville, Florida, denying the report, stating: “This is to inform you that I am still in the land of the living with no immediate plans for kicking off.” Dr. Wilcox, a graduate of Jamestown High School and a member of the famous JHS football teams of the late nineties, had, for many years, been engaged in the practice of medicine at Jacksonville.

A formal charge of first degree robbery was filed against a six-foot Texan who threatened to blow up a crowded bank in downtown Buffalo unless he was given $10,000. Representatives of the FBI began questioning the prisoner, booked as Beno de Elbe, 32, of Tyler, Texas. Chief of Detectives John J. Whalen said the man was seized in the lobby of the Liberty Bank of Buffalo after he demanded the money at the cashier’s window. Whalen said Elbe had two sticks of dynamite and a bottle of unidentified fluid Elbe claimed was nitroglycerin, in his pockets.

In 1963, Hall R. Clothier, 66, supervisor of the Town of Hanover since Jan. 1, 1940 and chairman of the Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors for 15 years, died unexpectedly at 8 a.m. the previous day at his home on Bennett State Road, Silver Creek. Mr. Clothier retired as chairman of the board the past Jan. 1. His record of leadership and devotion to good government were seldom equaled. Mr. Clothier had worked untiringly during the recent flood at Sunset Bay, assisting and securing help for residents. He was born Nov. 13, 1896, on the farm on Bennett State Road, where he resided all his life.

The community of Lakewood had taken another step forward with the beginning of 24-hour police protection. Although the program had been in operation on weekends during the past four months, it would be a seven-day operation from now on with the hiring of two new men, Lee Kellogg and Nels Hedin. The four full-time officers would be Anthony C. Caprino, police chief; Mr. Kellogg, Michael LaGrega and Nels Carlson. Part-time officers were Leslie McCall and Mr. Hedin.

In 1988, like a fish out of water, the Chautauqua Lake Association’s weed harvesting program, originally set to begin on or near June 1, was still not in the swim. “It hasn’t started yet. We’re waiting for the county and Fredonia State University, who were performing the lake management study, to designate which areas of the lake were going to be set up as test areas,” CLA President Douglas M. Anderson told The Post-Journal. Anderson said he offered to go with the Fredonia team and help mark the designated areas but said he had not received a response to his offer.

Assemblyman William L. Parment, D-North Harmony, would seek a fourth two-year term as the representative in Albany from the 150th Assembly District made up of part of Chautauqua County. He made the announcement at Ulla’s Restaurant in the Commons Mall in downtown Jamestown to the media and a small group of supporters. The Republicans had not yet indicated who they might designate as a challenger to the incumbent Democrat.

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In 1913, the opening night at Conneaut Lake in Pennsylvania was marred the previous evening by an accident on the scenic railway there. A party of young people were in one of the cars of the railway and were being taken up the long incline when a derailment of the car threw it off the track. The speed of the car was sufficient to throw its occupants from their seats and break the collarbone of Blanch Williams of Mercer, Pa. Leonard Jones, Ray Scott and a young Italian, all of Meadville, were badly shaken up.

Practically every branch of the musical trades in the United States would be represented in the great convention which would meet in Cleveland this day. The National Association of Piano Merchants of America, the National Piano Manufacturers Association, the National Association of Piano Travelers and Salesmen and the Piano and Organ Supplies Trades Association were holding their conventions simultaneously in the Ohio metropolis in order that a closer cooperation might be secured between them, looking toward the mutual advantage of all. In addition, representatives of the American Guild of Piano Tuners would hold its convention in Cleveland in August.

In 1938, when Ernest Raeon, 358 Fluvanna Ave., returned from Cleveland he would not find much left of his house. Fire, which broke out shortly after midnight practically destroyed the frame dwelling, at a loss estimated a $2,000. A note left on Raeon’s barber shop, located in a small building near the dwelling, informed the firemen that Raeon had gone to Cleveland and that he would be back at 7 p.m. Local authorities said that as far as they were able to learn, Raeon had not returned and probably was blissfully ignorant that his house had burned during his absence. Cause of the fire was not known.

On this day, the fifth birthday of blue-eyed, red-haired Marjory West, who disappeared mysteriously on a Mother’s Day picnic 25 days previously, brought a tragic “last plea” from her mother. “Won’t you return Marjory to me today, her birthday,” begged Shirley West, in a broadcast to “the person who picked her up. I’m giving you a chance to return her with safety to yourself. I cannot sleep or eat until my little girl is returned. If you prefer to wait until dark then drop her off on any street in Bradford but first give her a note with her name and address on it Explain carefully what she is to do, for she is such a little girl. If this appeal isn’t answered the police will follow all clues until they trace you. Her father and I never will rest until Marjory is found.”

In 1988, U.S. Rep. Amory Houghton, R-Corning and Rep. William F. Clinger, R-Warren, recently voted for the conference version of a bill that would limit the use of lie detectors by private employers. The measure was approved and would go to the Senate. “The polygraph is unreliable, and unrestricted use of the polygraph is an infringement of personal freedom,” Brian Fitzpatrick, Houghton’s executive assistant, told The Post-Journal. “The polygraph is highly unreliable and should not be used as the sole basis for employment,” Clinger’s press secretary David Fuscus said.

The Visiting Nurse Association of Chautauqua County was seeking a means of remaining financially solvent while being phased out, according to spokesmen for it and the county. County Executive John A. Glenzer said of the situation:?”They’re going to phase themselves out. As they lose patients, they’ll continue to lose staff and within 90 days someone else will take over the operation.” The nearly 80-year-old nursing association had a long history of financial uncertainty while maintaining a high level of service. As of about March 1 of this year, the agency had eight nurses serving all of Chautauqua County.

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In 1913, there would be placed on sale at several of the newsstands in Jamestown a splendid photograph of the Maine Memorial presented to Camp Samuel L. Porter, No. 45, U.S.W.V., which was unveiled on Decoration Day in Lake View Cemetery. The photograph was copyrighted by T. Henry Black, who secured a negative of the bullet on its stone pedestal through the courtesy of Mr. Fairbanks, the designer. The photo would be treasured as a valuable souvenir. Copies could also be ordered at Mr. Black’s studio at 12 E. Third St. in the city and would be on exhibition in his showcase.

The Myob Athletic Club baseball team of the City league had a great day at Cherry Creek Friday, taking both ends of a doubleheader from the village team by safe margins. The Jamestown lads simply played a superior article of ball and had both games well in hand all the way, taking the first 6 to 3 and the second by an 8 to 1 score. In the morning, Simon Carlson was on the mound for the Myobs and he had the Cherry Creek bunch at his mercy most of the time, letting them down with five hits. Kent, a former Jamestown Athletic Club twirler, was on the mound for Cherry Creek and lasted but five innings. In the afternoon game, Capt. Red Peterson did the twirling for the Myobs and the Cherry Creek aggregation never had a look in. Peterson pitched superb ball and two measly hits were all the village players could manage.

In 1938, the board of public welfare, meeting at the mayor’s office in Jamestown, authorized Welfare Commissioner Walter S. Christopherson to obtain the opinion of the board members toward birth control and, with one or more members of the board, to attend a meeting of the Good Government Club when birth control would be the topic of discussion.

“It is my firm belief that we have the very best class of youth today of any age,” declared the Rev. C.C. Ross, pastor of the Ashville Methodist Episcopal Church in a Memorial Day address which featured Ashville’s services honoring the memory of the soldier dead. Speaking at exercises held at the Maple Grove cemetery following a street parade, the Rev. Mr. Ross used as his theme, Our Heritage from Our Fathers. He outlined present day citizenship and duties which American citizens owed their country, reminding those in attendance of patriotisms of the past, present and future.

In 1963, Chautauqua Lake Association officials pointed to the official launching of its weed harvester as a significant weapon in its annual battle against lake weeds. The $22,500 custom-built machine would be named the “Chautauqua Clipper” and be officially launched in ceremonies scheduled for the following day at 3 p.m. at the Bell Tower at Chautauqua Institution. A special public program had been arranged which would include music by the Chautauqua Central School Band.

Dunkirk Mayor Joseph J. Steger had announced he would call a meeting of clergymen, school officials, faculty and parents in an effort to determine ways of curbing acts of vandalism in the city. A police report listing approximately 12 vandalism complaints since the previous Thursday prompted Mayor Steger’s increased concern. Most cases involved damage to automobiles, bent radio antennas, slashed seats and tires and broken mirrors. Caretakers at Point Gratiot Park also reported vandalism to buildings there.

In 1988, property owners in northern Chautauqua County townships with considerable acreage in grapes could expect higher tax bills next time around as a result of changes in agricultural assessments. Supervisors and assessors in the towns involved had expressed concern about the situation but admitted there was little that could be done about it except spread the tax load over the remaining base. The town of Westfield was the hardest hit from an exemptions standpoint.

A man was provoked into jumping from an 80-foot cliff into the Genesee River by onlookers on a nearby bridge who chanted “chicken, chicken,” according to the man’s friend who was with him on the cliff at Letchworth State Park. “I went up the cliff and looked down and said no way. This is crazy. It’s too high.” said Mack Thompson, 34. “Then we started with, ‘Well, if I go, will you go?’ and we started to talk and he decided to go first.” Peter Fly, 25, made the foot-first leap, came up twice and then disappeared, park police said. His body, clad in jeans and tennis shoes, was recovered by state police divers in about 30 feet of water, just southeast of the point from which he jumped.

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