In 1914, Manager Lohr’s Jamestown squad of ballplayers, who were scheduled to clash with ball tossers from Niagara University on Saturday in the first of a series of spring practice games, put in a busy day on the Celoron lot and from all appearances they were all in good shape to give the fans a taste of real baseball. The way they pegged around the bases warmed the hearts of Lohr and the few enthusiasts who were on hand. Although the diamond was still a little heavy, they dug the bases out of the mud in great shape and whipped the ball around the circuit with plenty of speed.

Dr. John J. Mahoney of Jamestown, state sanitary inspector of the district, arrived in Dunkirk to take cognizance of the typhoid fever situation there. Dr. Mahoney had a conference with Mayor Sullivan, Dr. George E. Ellis, city health officer and Howard Longhouse, city milk and dairy inspector. The various phases of the typhoid situation were gone over from the time of the outbreak in March for the purpose of determining, if possible, to a certainty, what the epidemic could be attributed to. Was it the water supply or the milk or was the typhoid fever due to some other causes? These were the matters for which Dr. Mahoney would attempt to find answers.

In 1939, the most alarming blaze the city of Jamestown had seen in years broke out with startling suddenness at the plant of the Jamestown Macadam Company at the boatlanding at 3:35 p.m. Saturday, when an empty railroad tank car, which had contained highly inflammable coal tar, burst into flames. When firemen arrived on the scene, clouds of dense black smoke bellowed from the tank car and flames leaped high and wide from the car to lick at a full car of tar situated directly alongside the burning car on the same spur of track. The flames threatened buildings of the Jamestown Macadam Company as well as other structures in the area. A general alarm was sent out and the entire fire department was called to the fire. The use of fog nozzles quickly quenched the conflagration.

Efforts to locate the bodies of John C. and Glenn A. Bargar, brothers who were drowned in Chautauqua Lake a week previously while fishing near Grass Island, were redoubled this day after a weekend of grappling near Celoron which brought to light a piece of cloth said to be the same as that in the suit John Bargar was wearing at the time of his disappearance. The piece of cloth was recovered Saturday afternoon and was identified by John Bargar’s wife. Searchers dragged the area from which the cloth was recovered with great intensity but discovered nothing else of interest. The S.M. Flickinger Company had offered a reward for the finding of the two bodies.

In 1964, a $60,000 general alarm fire fanned by a high west wind, damaged three stores in a building the previous day on Lake Shore Drive East in Dunkirk. Several firemen were injured. The fire broke out in Bert Roan’s contracting company store. Roan discovered the blaze near the top of an open stairway situated in the rear of his place at 11:50 a.m. Flames, smoke and water caused the greatest damage to Roan’s place. He estimated that the fire ruined wood cabinets valued at thousands of dollars. Smoke damaged the Tedrous Sea Food Market and the Hudson Liquor store. Volunteer firemen reported injured suffered minor cuts, according to police.

Jamestown General Hospital would hold an open house Sunday, May 17, for public inspection of its newly completed east wing, in conjunction with National Hospital Week, May 10-17. The hospital’s Women’s Auxiliary would sponsor the tour and refreshments would be served in the hospital’s cafeteria. The new wing had four floors, which included the new laboratory on the first floor; pediatrics section, second floor; medical patients, third floor; and surgical section, fourth floor. Mayor Fred H. Dunn and City Council members had been invited to view the new wing.

In 1989, power and road crews throughout the area were catching up this day after a busy weekend caused by a record May snowfall. At 7.9 inches, it was the heaviest snowfall ever for May 7. Everyone expected a moist freshness to pervade the air in spring, but this was ridiculous. Daffodils and tulips that had been cheery signs of spring bowed their heads in deference to the boisterous return of Old Man Winter. Some people admired the beauty of the “winter-weighed” boughs, but now that skis had been put away, most people on a spring walk would prefer to see greening canopies and flowers that could hold their heads high.

Mildred H. Testrake, 83, of Ripley, died May 6 in Westfield Health Care Center. Testrake was the mother of TWA pilot Capt. John Testrake, whose jetliner was hijacked to Beirut, Lebanon, in June 1985. Her son was the pilot of the Athens to Rome TWA Flight 847 which was hijacked by Lebanese Moslem Shiites. Testrake and 38 others who were held hostage over the next 17 days and survived. One American passenger was shot to death by his captors. Throughout the hijacking ordeal, Mrs. Testrake, then 80 years old, gave several interviews in the backyard of her home in Ripley.

In Years Past

In 1914, Cynthia Buffum had written to friends that her attorneys would have a surprise to spring in her plea this summer for a new trial before the court of appeals. The woman had frequent conferences with members of her family in the death house at Auburn and her letters were full of confidence in the new turn of events. It was generally assumed that the surprise to be sprung lay in searching medical and genealogical history on Willis Buffum, the convicted woman’s late husband. She had been found guilty of administering arsenic to him in his medicine and in his food. A bomb had been dropped into the prosecution during the trial that Willis Buffum had for years threatened his life, his wife’s and his childrens’. On that, the defense sought to raise doubt whether the man had not committed suicide.

Two Jamestown boys had good reason to thank luck and a woman’s acute hearing that they were still alive. The affair occurred on the lake a week ago Sunday but had just begun to be told in Jamestown. It was another of those canoe accidents which were coming to be altogether too numerous to be joked abut on the lake. The young men were Roy Brier and Roger Bailey. The two had been up the lake to get a canoe which they wished to bring to Jamestown. The day was raw, the wind quite high and the water, as they found, very cold. The progress down the lake went all right until opposite Beechwood when the canoe capsized, throwing them into the cold water. The two hung onto the boat with what strength the cold water left them. After an hour a woman thought she heard cries for help. Two men rowed out to their aid.

In 1939, 10 members of the nine schoolboy patrols of Jamestown and Lakewood, chosen for their outstanding achievements, would leave the Jamestown Automobile headquarters on Cherry Street the following Thursday to attend the eighth annual National Schoolboy Patrol parade and conference in Washington, D.C. The local board of education, through Clinton V. Bush, superintendent of schools, had excused the local boys from classes to attend the conference. The boys would participate in a street parade Saturday morning from the capitol to the White House, together with nearly 12,000 boys from all over the country.

Representative Daniel A. Reed, Dunkirk Republican, voted for the bill of Representative Hobbs (D-Ala.) to place deportable aliens in concentration camps. The bill was passed in the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 288 to 61. The measure allowed the secretary of labor to create special places of detention for aliens who had been ordered deported and whose own countries would not re-admit them. Several classes of aliens were affected: Those who were ordered deported under the acts against anarchism and the opium traffic; those who had been sentenced for crimes involving “moral turpitude,” those who had dealt in white slave traffic however remotely and whether or not they had been tried and convicted for it. As opponents of the bill pointed out, men and women could be kept in the camps for crimes committed and punished years previously if their own governments would not take them back.

In 1964, Western New York was a “fertile area” for participation in the economic potential of the nuclear age. This was the view expressed by James C. Evans, Buffalo, general manager of the Western New York Nuclear Research Center, at a meeting of the Jamestown Industrial Development commission at the Town Club. Evans cited the recognized position of the University of Rochester as a leader in nuclear research, together with the new $28 million nuclear wastes reclamation facility under construction at Ashford, in Cattaraugus County and the research center in Buffalo as comprising a “science triangle” which put the western section of the state in a position to share in the benefits of the nuclear “revolution.”

Air travelers to and from the Jamestown area would be introduced to several new Allegheny Airlines services starting May 15, the airline announced. Nelson B. Fry, Jr., executive vice president, said the new schedule would feature air conditioned, pressurized 52-seat Convair service on two New York-Philadelphia-Jamestown-Cleveland flights. This marked the introduction of the airline’s larger equipment here. There would also be a one-stop flight to New York’s Newark terminal from Jamestown. A new flight to Cleveland, making connections there to Chicago and other key points would operate at 9:19 a.m. from Jamestown. Improved connections at Newark to and from Allegheny flights serving Boston, Hartford and Providence would also be featured.

In Years Past

• In 1914, the freight steamer City of Rome, Buffalo to Toledo, was burned to the water’s edge off Ripley early this day. The crew escaped in boats. The fire was discovered between decks shortly after midnight by Mate John McNamara of Cleveland and all hands were summoned to fight the flames which gained rapid headway and were soon beyond control. After two hours’ struggle, Captain William Dunn gave the orders to beach the vessel. Thomas Cunningham of Milwaukee, the chief engineer, stuck to his post until the ship grounded on the soft sands of Ripley beach. The vessel was a total loss.

• Eight young boys, who were arrested some time ago in connection with the theft of various articles from businesses in Jamestown, were again under arrest, charged with the stealing of many dollars worth of merchandise from various stores in the business section. A considerable part of the stolen property had been recovered and included baseball gloves from Clark’s Drug Store, the Jamestown Hardware Company and Londahl and Johnson’s store opposite the City Hall. Gauntlet cuffs had been taken from Lod’s harness shop on West Third Street and flash lights from both Jacobson’s and Mason’s news rooms, as well as other articles. Their cases would be disposed of later.

• In 1939, Gratton Swan Reynolds, 60, of Crossman Street, Jamestown, was found dead on the floor of a garage near his home about 7 a.m. when his wife went to the garage to call him to breakfast. According to accounts, her husband got up at daybreak and went to the garage to work on his car. He had been doing this for the past week or more. When he did not appear at the house for breakfast, Mrs. Reynolds went to the garage. She found her husband slumped over on the floor alongside the car, which was running. Fearing that her husband had been overcome, Mrs. Reynolds ran from the garage, screaming. A neighbor heard Mrs. Reynold’s screams and helped her pull her husband out of the garage. Dr. D.W. Buckmaster estimated that the man had been dead for about an hour when found.

• “They’re off!” Those words meant the chance of a lifetime to the dozen or so 3-year-old horses down at Louisville, KY., this day but to the 210 racing pigeons which were shipped on the 100-mile old bird race Friday evening, the words meant even more. They meant that somewhere, 100 miles away, lay their home and mates and the problem at hand was to get there as quickly as possible. Jamestown Pigeon Club members shipped 210 racing pigeons to Warren, Ohio, Friday night to be liberated this day at the club’s 100-mile race.

• In 1964, three Southwestern Central School students were apprehended Tuesday night by Officer Nels Carlson, following an investigation by Officer Leslie McCall, of several broken windows in the school bus garage and a rear window in one of the school buses. Damage estimated at about $100 was apparently caused by stones thrown by the two girls, ages 13 and 14 and one boy, aged 16. Anthony Caprino stated that all information about the case had been turned over to school authorities for action.

• Police and fire officials said a jet plane broke the sound barrier at the same time an oil lease explosion, followed by fire, occurred at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday in Glade Township, destroying a 75-year-old two story frame building and its contents. No one was injured. While the noise was heard in a 20-mile radius, as far north as Jamestown, rattling windows and shaking buildings, none of the windows or dishes were broken and no buildings were damaged. Firemen reported it was one of the hottest fires they had experienced in many years.

• In 1989, bringing art to the people was the idea behind an exhibit featuring the works of artists from across the United States which opened Friday night in downtown Jamestown. “We’re trying to bring exhibitions of art out to the local level,” said Jeffrey Crist, director of the Chautauqua Art Association. “Many people won’t or can’t take the time to travel to an art gallery.” The show was being presented through the joint efforts of the Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, The Downtown Jamestown Development Corp. and Argersinger’s Department store. The exhibit was located in a gallery on the second floor of Argersinger’s.

• An evening of Swedish entertainment would be presented May 12 in the Scharmann Theatre at Jamestown Community College. Local talent would join some of Sweden’s finest entertainers in a concert titled “Sounds of Sweden.” The Jamestown Viking Male Chorus, under the direction of Judy Johnson, would open the program. In addition to performing the national anthems of the United States and Sweden, the chorus would sing several Swedish and American favorites. The widely acclaimed duo of Paulsson and Huff would perform a variety of selections.

In Years Past

In 1914, in the severe electrical storm which passed over Sinclairville late Monday afternoon, a bolt of lightning killed Ernest Green, a carpenter working in the new barn on the Borden Condensery property. Green was working with three other men, Ralph Carpenter, Frank Johnson and Ralph Emley. All were knocked down and Johnson was unconscious for a time. Carpenter was knocked over backwards against a partition but soon recovered. Green remained unconscious and Dr. H. S. Edmunds was called but after two hours’ fruitless work, Green was pronounced dead. A team of horses standing in the barn were not injured and no part of the barn was set on fire. Mr. Green was 36 years old.

Two men of the crew on an incoming Lake Shore freight train at Erie were thrown from the top of a box car by a maniac. Neither was seriously injured, although the train was making 35 miles an hour. The man who attacked the train crew was believed to have escaped from the Polk Institute for the feeble minded near Franklin, Pa., three days previously. Sitting in the caboose, the brakeman, R. W. Thompson, saw his fellow workers fighting on top of the swaying car ahead. He believed they had found a ‘hobo’ until he saw their bodies hurled over the sloping roof of the car to the ground. He did not think their plight was serious enough to require aid. The train was stopped and the crew picked up. The lunatic was later put in a strait jacket by police.

In 1939, Lou Gehrig added another to his long list of records by being the costliest bench warmer of all time, at $34,000 a year. Gehrig might set still another mark. While Gehrig talked optimistically of getting back in there when the weather warmed up, his teammates doubted that he ever would return to the New York Yankees batting order. From the outset of spring training there were unmistakable signs that Gehrig had fallen apart like the one-horse shay. Those closest to the Iron Man suspected organic trouble. He failed to take a deep tan in the south and he had an emaciated appearance, particularly around the neck and shoulders. It was reported that he suffered from a gall bladder ailment.

The Falconer Fire Department responded to their second alarm of the day the previous afternoon when flames destroyed the veneer storage barn of the Knight Veneer Mill, just north of the village. The contents of the barn were valued at $750 and the building itself was valued at about $250. The fire was believed to have been caused by a spark from a chimney and the flames had gained great headway before the firemen arrived. They saved adjacent buildings and remained on the scene from shortly after 2 o’clock until 4 o’clock.

In 1964, one resident of Lakewood flew away from home and eluded police for nine days. When they finally spotted him, he was in a tree and couldn’t be caught. Later, they trapped him with food. The previous afternoon a flamboyant green and yellow parakeet was seen hobnobbing with the sparrows in trees near police headquarters. Law enforcement officers knew this was their bird but how to catch him was the problem. Kelly Leach, pet parakeet of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leach, of Chautauqua Ave., had been roaming the highways and byways for nine days. The bird’s owners took the cage to an area near police headquarters. A seed tray was put inside the cage and Kelly followed the food inside and was trapped.

An oil well explosion on this morning in glade Township, just outside Warren Borough, rattled windows throughout the entire area and was heard as far away as Jamestown. No one was injured in the explosion that occurred following a fire at the well, located off Fifth Avenue Extension and about three blocks from Warren Area High School. A fireman at the Warren Fire Hall said the whole building shook and every window in the structure rattled. It took foremen several minutes to ascertain what and where the explosion was.

In 1989, a tax increase would reduce the federal budget deficit only if it was part of an agreement between the president and Congress to cut spending as well, according to former President Jimmy Carter. Otherwise, a tax increase would not reduce the deficit because the president and Congress would use the extra money to pay for extra things, Carter told The Post-Journal the previous evening. Carter was at the University of Buffalo as part of the university’s continuing lecture series entitled “Power and the Presidency.”

This day was Barrier Awareness Day in Jamestown. Mayor Steven B. Carlson proclaimed the day to call attention to the problems disabled citizens had to cope with every day in Jamestown. Helen Kern, a resident of the Independent Living Center in the city, said that throughout the day “we’ll have people in wheelchairs at different bus stops holding up signs which say ‘how about a lift.'” Miss Kern said she and some of her fellow disabled citizens would be asking people to sign petitions in support of wheelchair lifts on city buses.

In Years Past

In 1914, four men were hurt, two of them seriously, when a big six-cylinder car in which they were out looking for farms for sale, skidded over a high embankment. The accident occurred about 2 miles south of Sherman on the North Clymer road. The injured were George McKerrow of Pewankee, Wisconsin, George Hewes, A.J. McGinnies and John Cornell, all of Mayville. The last three named were members of the Mayville Realty Company and they had been to Sherman to get Mr. McKerrow, who was here looking for a farm for his son, to look at some property at Clymer. The car was a Mitchell 6 and did not have chains on the rear wheels. It skidded and turned turtle over a high embankment.

Everett Sundeen, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sundeen of Hedges Avenue, Jamestown, was taken suddenly ill at the family home about 11 Sunday evening and died shortly after 2 in the afternoon. Dr. C.E. Goodell, the attending physician stated that there was every indication that this was a death from strychnine poisoning. It was possible that pills, like those found in the northern section of the city, had been found by the child and that he had secreted one which he may have eaten after he went to bed. The little boy was put to bed about 10 o’clock and his illness followed almost immediately after.

In 1939, an 18-year-old Jamestown High School junior was locked up at police headquarters on charges of first-degree grand larceny and third-degree burglary as a result of an alleged confession to the theft of $945 in currency, change and negotiable checks from the safe of the Lang’s Baking Company on Washington Street, early on the morning of May 2, 1938. Two 17-year-old youths were also locked up on charges of receiving stolen property, as a result of alleged confessions that they stole part of the Lang’s safe burglary loot from the other boy’s hiding place after he had told them of his part in the theft. A fourth youth was still at large.

Lee Powell, original star of the talking screen epic, “The Lone Ranger,” would thunder into the arena of the Barnett Brothers’ circus when the big show comes to Jamestown for afternoon and evening performances on Wednesday, May 10. Surrounded by his own big company of rangers, cowboys and cowgirls, scores of spirited horses and a group of real American Indians, Powell would appear in person at every performance of the circus as the feature attraction of 1939.

In 1964, Charles Joseph Anzalone, 21, father of two small boys, lost his life at 7 p.m. when he was hurled from a hydro speedboat he was operating, into Chautauqua Lake outlet opposite the Art Metal Inc. parking lot, Jones-Gifford Avenue, according to several witnesses. His body was recovered at 10:45 p.m. by Firemen Neil Hedlund, Leslie Whitcomb, Paul Spitz and Richard Rosentrater, who used grappling hooks from row boats. The depth of the water was estimated at 15 feet and the current was very swift. Stanley Smith, owner of the homemade boat, said Anzalone could not swim and as far as he knew, he was not wearing a life preserver.

Ronald Charles Elliott, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Elliott, Old Route 60, Laona, drowned in Canadaway Creek within five hundred yards of his home. His body was recovered at 11 p.m. by his brother, James Elliott, 21, in four feet of water, according to Investigator T.D. Fiegl and Trooper G.C. Domedion, Fredonia State Police patrol. Apparently the boy drowned about 9 p.m. while playing alone. The youngster had been missing from his home since 7:30 p.m. The boy’s bicycle was found near a large tree at the top of a 20-foot cliff about 40 feet upstream. A rope attached to a large tree branch was used to swing over the creek and State Police theorized that Ronald either lost his grip while swinging over the water or lost footing on the cliff’s edge.

In 1989, although a 15 percent welfare increase would cost the state $34 million, the local share of the bill would be less than anticipated, said social service directors from Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. Gov. Mario Cuomo signed the increase into law Tuesday. It amounted to a $26 a month raise in benefits for the state’s poor. The actual increase in state welfare dollars was $38 a month, but that was offset by corresponding decreases in federal food stamps.

Three people lost their lives the previous night when the horse-drawn Amish buggy they were riding in along Route 957 in Farmington Township was hit by a pickup truck. The dead were identified as Abe Byler Jr., 37; his son, Daniel, 7, and Eli A. Byler, 31. The three died as a result of injuries they suffered when the buggy driven by Abe Byler was struck by a pickup truck operated by Ricky Jones of Conewango Township, according to State Police at Warren. Abe and Daniel Byler were pronounced dead on the scene. Eli Byler was transported to WCA Hospital in Jamestown where he died at 8:52 a.m. this day. The investigation was continuing.

In Years Past

In 1914, the old-time logging bee when the men of a neighborhood assembled to haul the logs into piles and burn them had its counterpart this day down on the Hundred Acre lot in Jamestown where 200-300 from city schools and others interested were busily engaged in cutting, hauling, piling and burning the underbrush and rubbish. Logging bees were now only a memory. When the country was new, the settlers devoted their efforts to clearing the land. Timber that now would be worth untold sums, was piled and burned. There would never be any more bees in this section because there were no more logs and if there were, they would be too valuable to dispose of in that manner.

This day had been set up as National Suffrage Day and all over the United States suffragists were holding celebrations. The Women’s Politician Union celebrated by holding a statewide convention in New York and would end up by a huge mass meeting in Carnegie Hall at which Harriet Stanton Blatch would preside and Mayor John Purroy Mitchell and Dr. Katherine B. Davis would be among the speakers. Edith Ainge, chairman of the local branch of the W.P.U., had gone to New York to attend the convention and she would be among those seated on the platform at the mass meeting on this evening.

In 1939, police and volunteer firemen of Lakewood and Celoron were awaiting the abatement of high wind and waves the previous afternoon before starting grappling operations in quest of the bodies of John C. Bargar, 32, of Cook Avenue and Glenn Arthur Bargar, 24, of Sharon, Pa., who were believed to have drowned early Saturday night while fishing from a canoe in the vicinity of Grass Island. Virtually the last doubt that the two brothers had drowned was removed when a canoe found at Celoron was positively identified as the one in which the two brothers started out on a fishing excursion Saturday afternoon. Heavily clothed as protection against the cold wind they were probably unable to do much to help themselves once they were plunged into the cold water.

The two youths who were arrested in West Virginia recently in possession of a car owned by Supervisor Coyle A. Boyd of Jamestown, would be returned to this city within a few days to face burglary and grand larceny charges. Chief Edwin Nyholm received a telegram saying that the defendants would be freed of charges and turned over to Jamestown officers if $145 was paid to the Fairmont, W. Va. police department for expenses incurred in apprehending and keeping the two youths. Nyholm announced that two officers from the Jamestown department would drive to Fairmont the following day and collect the youths. The money would be paid by relatives of the boys who were anxious to have them returned here to face charges rather than have them tried in West Virginia.

In 1964, about 30 firemen from Frewsburg and Falconer Fire Departments were called to Flakeboard Corp., Falconer Street, Frewsburg, this morning when the plant’s own fire brigade of a dozen men was unable to quell a sawdust fire. Morley Lindquist, plant superintendent, said the fire broke out about 10 a.m. in a dust hopper in the wood preparation area of the plant. He said damage to equipment was slight but that an extensive cleanup operation would be necessary because of water damage.

A Southwestern Central eighth-grade student, Harriet Power, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Power, Baker Street Extension, Jamestown, had won the Chautauqua County Spelling Bee for the second consecutive year. Power was also the county champ in 1963. Following her county victory the previous year, she went on to place fourth in the Western New York finals.

In 1989, U.S. workers were lagging behind their Japanese and West German counterparts mainly because of poor on-the-job training, not a weakening of the work ethic, an MIT report concluded. The great success of training and retraining programs run by Japanese and German corporations suggested that the workplace, not the schoolhouse, was the best place to prepare workers to keep up with changing technologies, concluded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, “Made in America.” “Young Americans receive most of their job skills in institutions of formal learning, and what they pick up on the job is usually of a limited nature, gathered from watching a colleague,” the report said.

WCA Hospital was one of 220 hospitals statewide that wanted to delay implementing state Health Department rules that would require them to hire additional trained personnel. The state would pay a percentage of the extra costs of complying with the rules. The New York State Hospital Association had filed suits in state Supreme Court and in U.S. District Court, according to an Associated Press report. According to Daniel Sisto, president of the hospital association, the regulations would be “generally beneficial but they’re not essential given the health care crisis in New York.”

In Years Past

In 1914, the public service commission took up the matter some time ago of the complaint of Jamestown Council, United Commercial Travelers of America, that the Chautauqua Traction Company did not furnish adequate toilet facilities on its cars that were operated between Jamestown and Westfield. The traction company, on its part, showed the difficulty and undesirability of maintaining toilets on the cars that operated through so much suburban property and further gave a list of stations between Jamestown and Westfield where toilet facilities were provided. They stated that cars would wait for passengers to use these facilities, if requested to do so.

The typhoid fever situation was the subject under discussion at a special meeting of the Dunkirk health board the previous afternoon. It was decided to communicate with the state department of health and request its advice and cooperation in dealing with the epidemic. It was also voted to request the water commissioners to take such steps as they deemed necessary in aiding in the fight against the typhoid outbreak. The water commissioners were asked to investigate the value and cost of the chlorine process of purifying water.

In 1939, New York’s $160 million World’s Fair, which took three years to build, was open at last. The greatest international exposition in history – two square miles of Long Island – embracing 300 gleaming buildings, 50 miles of roads and 35,000 employees – opened its gates the previous day to several hundred thousand visitors. President Roosevelt headed a kaleidoscopic program of inaugural ceremonies, coming down from Hyde Park to proclaim the fair a token of America’s spirit of friendship and peace toward all the world.

Two boys, one 13, the other 15, giving Little Washington, Pa., as their home, the older youth with a bullet wound in his right thigh, were picked up in Dunkirk on Sunday night by Patrolmen. The boys were in a car stalled on Pennsylvania Avenue. The car, a coach bearing Pennsylvania license plates, was stolen, police said, in Warren, Pa. Secreted in the car was a veritable arsenal, consisting of a .22 caliber automatic rifle revolver, two automatic pistols and a .32 caliber revolver, all new and a large quantity of ammunition. The story of the wounding of the older boy was that he accidentally shot himself with a rifle pistol while engaged in target practice. Police alleged the boy was wounded in a holdup attempt at a Leon gasoline station. The arsenal was stolen from a hardware store in Oil City, Pa.

In 1964, the theft of $4,000 worth of men’s suits the previous night capped a string of burglaries which had Jamestown detectives working round-the-clock for the past week. An estimated 67 suits were taken sometime the past night from Robert Hall Clothes, 832 Foote Ave. The theft was discovered at 9 a.m. when an employee found a side door jimmied open. Value of the suits was set at an average of $50 each by Leo E. Hummerick, manager of the store. The detective bureau sent out an immediate teletype alarm covering 13 eastern states. A similar theft was reported in Cheektowaga near Buffalo where about 100 men’s suits and sport coats were taken from The Sample Shop on Walden Avenue.

The Chautauqua Lake Association made a second appeal to boat owners to remove floating debris from the lake. Harold T. Lovejoy, president of the lake group, pointed out again that the association did not have the facilities for cleaning up shore litter and that this had to be the responsibility either of the townships or the individual property owners. “Although we have clearly stated we cannot do this job,” he said, “there still appears to be some misunderstanding about it.”

In 1989, environmentalists said a beach erosion plan for Presque Isle State Park in Erie, that would result in the largest breakwater system of its type in the world was a “major shoreline blunder.” The proposed 5-mile long breakwater system would jeopardize the area’s unique ecology and be hazardous to bathers, they told The Pittsburgh Press in an article published Sunday. It also would destroy the view and require costly maintenance, they said. “This stinks,” said Paul Wiegman, director of natural area programs for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. “There’s an ecological pulse to Presque Isle that is not being considered whatsoever.”

The federal government had budget problems because it had promised too much money to too many people, according to Rep. Amo Houghton. Houghton, R-Corning, made his remarks at a trade and business development conference at St. Bonaventure University. “We’re over promised,” he said. “The seeds of our destruction come from within. We spend seven times more on senior citizens and veterans than kids,” Houghton said, citing an example and adding that children were the county’s future and the country needed to “prioritize.”

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