In 1914, Clare Pickard of Prendergast Avenue, Jamestown, sustained serious injury Saturday evening when he leaped from his automobile in an attempt to lend assistance to a small boy whom he feared had been struck by the car. A little boy ran out in front of the automobile. Although the car stopped, the boy disappeared from view and Mr. and Mrs. Pickard, who sat in back, behind their chauffeur, thought the boy had been struck. Mr. Pickard leaped over the side of the car without waiting to open the door. His foot caught and he was thrown to the ground violently. It was discovered that the ligaments had been torn loose from the right kneecap and his left wrist was fractured. The child had been knocked down but not injured.

Hundreds of people were turned away from the First Presbyterian Church in Jamestown Sunday evening when Dr. Booker T. Washington, the principal and founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, addressed all who were able to crowd into the church or get within hearing distance. The noted colored scholar and orator surely must have been pleased with this evidence of his popularity in Jamestown. Twenty-five minutes before the time that the lecture was scheduled to begin, the spacious auditorium of the First Presbyterian Church was filled; all the chairs that were available being in use and all the standing room being taken. Many stood in the lobby during part of the lecture.

In 1939, State Police were hot on the trail of two men who were alleged to have held up and beaten Glenn L. Heridon, 42, of Spring Street, Jamestown, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company, when he drove them to a point near Stillwater on the Frewsburg Road about 11:40 the previous night. Heridon picked up the two men in Brooklyn Square in response to a call and drove them to the point where the attack took place. The men apparently intended to rob Heridon. The cab driver wrenched himself free from his attackers after they had beaten him badly. He succeeded in stopping a passing motorist who drove him to police headquarters.

Preparations for commencement exercises for the class of 1939 at Jamestown High School would get underway the following day when the seniors would hold a class meeting in the auditorium. The ” ’39ers” would gather for their final class banquet Monday evening in the high school cafeteria. Final report cards would be issued Tuesday afternoon. Names of seniors who had passed examinations had been posted in several rooms but no grades would be given out until Tuesday. The last real “get-together” of the seniors would be held Tuesday evening when they would meet for class night exercises. Commencement exercises were scheduled for Wednesday morning in the auditorium.

In 1964, two separate auto accidents within 10 minutes of each other the previous afternoon claimed the lives of three and resulted in injuries to seven. Dead from a one-car mishap on Route 17J in front of the Wagon Wheel Restaurant, about a quarter-mile from Chautauqua Institution were: Lake J. McDonald, 83, of 62 S. Hanford Ave., W.E., a passenger, who died in Jamestown General Hospital and Mrs. Pearl Williams, 76, of N. Main St., Franklinville, also a passenger, who was dead on arrival at the hospital. Mrs. L. J. McDonald, operator of the car, was listed in fair condition. Also killed following a six-car accident on Route 17, about a half-mile east of Bemus Point was Grace Wallin, 65, of 13 Cowden Place, Jamestown.

A new car and garage were destroyed and three other buildings damaged early Sunday in a fire at 28 Kingsbury St., Jamestown, causing losses estimated at more than $5,000. A 1964 automobile and a new one-car garage, completed just two weeks ago, were destroyed in the blaze believed to have been caused by a short-circuit in the vehicle’s wiring. The property was owned by Mrs. DeEtte S. Johnson, whose house was damaged. A neighbor said he was awakened shortly before 3 a.m. by the car’s horn. The neighbor, who was not identified, said he disconnected the horn’s wiring under the dashboard of the car and this wire was believed to have started a fire later in the upholstery of the front seat.

In 1989, New York lawmakers had endorsed the notion that while men and women might have been created equal, one definitely took longer in the bathroom. The state Assembly gave final approval to a “potty parity” bill that would require new buildings to have as many toilets for women as for men. “It’s been suggested that if we can’t find equity here, can we find it anyplace?” asked Assemblywoman Helen Marshall, the bill’s sponsor.

Nicholas Benton, injured fatally Monday in a 75-foot fall when a mast broke on a schooner he was working on at the Port of Rensselaer along the Hudson River was remembered in this area as the rigger of the Sea Lion. His death occurred on his 35th birthday. The Sea Lion was a replica of a 16th century merchant ship and was the property of Chautauqua Lake Historic Vessels of Mayville. Ernest E. Cowan, the ship’s designer, was a close friend of Benton and hired him to do the rigging on the Sea Lion. The Mayville resident said of Benton, “I saw him Saturday morning and Monday morning this happened. He was here for a month when they were rigging the ship and three or four times after that for adjusting the rigging and plus he did all the training for the crew.”

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In 1914, the picnic season had begun. The Jamestown Business College picnic to Midway Park was carried out according to schedule Friday evening. Although the continuous rains and lowering of the temperature as the day advanced materially affected the attendance, a little over 100 persons participated in the event. The steamer City of Cleveland was used and was prettily decorated with red and buff crepe paper. The party left the boatlanding immediately after 6 p.m. arriving at Midway Park at 8:15 p.m. All the way up the lake the steamer headed a prevailing wind and white caps were abundant but the passengers had prepared for such an occasion and with an abundance of music to lend good cheer, the journey was not in any way discomforting.

Every seat in Jamestown’s Lyric Theater was sold at both performances Friday evening and hundreds were turned away, unable to secure seats at the two benefit performances for Mortimer Snow, the well-known actor who had been sick in the hospital for several weeks. The benefit which was given under the direction of Ellsie Williams, Snow’s leading lady, was such a splendid success that by special request a matinee would be given. The performance Friday evening was without a doubt one of the best home-talent bills given in Jamestown, five out of six of the acts being composed of home talent.

In 1939, Ed Barrow, president of the New York Yankees, announced that Lou Gehrig was suffering from chronic infantile paralysis and would never play baseball again. Barrow’s statement came after Gehrig had turned over to him the formal report made by Mayo Clinic experts. Gehrig had spent several days in the clinic in order to have a thorough check made of his physical condition. The one-time great first baseman had been worried about his condition all year. After making a bad showing in the field and at bat during the early part of the season, Gehrig voluntarily benched himself on May 2 thus ending his consecutive games streak at 2,130 games. Barrow said he understood from the physicians’ report that the disease could be checked and that in any event it probably would not get worse.

Assurance that his firm would soon take over and operate the Jamestown Municipal Airport on North Main Street extension in accordance with terms of its lease arrangement with the city was given by Donald G. White, president of the White Aircraft Inc., at a meeting of the Airport committee. White told the committee that a subsidiary of the White Aircraft firm called the Benson-White Flying Service, would conduct a flying school and operate a charter plane service at the port. Frederick Larson, well known Jamestown pilot who had charge of activity at the old airport, had been engaged by the new operating firm as resident manager of the new airport. Larson would move to the new hangar as soon as the interior of the structure had been completed, probably in three weeks.

In 1989, collecting more than $1 million from former Jamestown General Hospital patients was a headache for city officials and the unpaid bills were not always the fault of the patients. Most of the problems involved the former ambulance service at JGH, according to Douglas Anderson, Jamestown’s finance director. When JGH purchased the Chautauqua County Ambulance Service, it took over that company’s accounts receivable. These bills were not computerized but were handled manually, Anderson said. For some reason, the hospital administration was never able to computerize the ambulance bill collection system. After JGH was sold in September 1988, all bills owed to the hospital were put into the city’s computer system, Anderson said.

Two New York state legislators wanted Art Linkletter to get a state license before he could talk to senior citizens about health insurance. That was because insurance was so complicated that people who appeared on advertising should know what they were talking about, the legislators said. “We’ve had people going out and buying a policy because they feel ‘Arthur Godfrey would never lie to me,'”Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Howard Lasher said. “The feeling is ‘How could a celebrity lie to us?'”

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In 1914, there were but five cities represented in the Interstate Baseball League, Olean having dropped out when its players refused to play for the reason that they had not been paid. The Jamestown team took the field but none of the Olean men showed up and Manager Lohr claimed the game by forfeit. It was claimed that the affairs of the club had been in poor shape for some time and the players took this chance to get out. It was expected that either St. Mary’s or Johnsonburg would take Olean’s place. Both were good baseball towns and the only drawback was the long jump between them and the other cities of the circuit.

George H. Coburn, for 20 years past, a well-known Jamestown citizen, for nearly 10 years manager for the Standard Oil Co. in this city and a member of a number of fraternal organizations here, died at his home on West Sixth Street at 1 in the morning. Coburn was best known in Jamestown by his title, Major, and his face would be missed on the streets where he had been well known for many years. Major Colburn suffered a broken arm in a fall recently. This and declining years sapped his strength and he had been confined to his bed since May 13. He was about 78 years of age.

In 1939, several witnesses testified in Mayville for the people in county court at the trial of Thaniel Thomas, alias Thomas Ball, 40, of Erie, Pa., on three indictments for the alleged kidnapping of his three children from St. Mary’s Home, Dunkirk, April 6. Louis Monroe, Fredonia Children’s Court clerk was the first witness to testify against Thomas, stating that Judge Ottaway signed an order April 1, removing the three children from the parents’ care and placing them in the Dunkirk Home. This action was done because Thomas and his wife, Pearl, were not capable of providing them with proper care.

A resolution proposing to lengthen the term of office of Jamestown councilmen “as well as other elective and appointive officers,” and to double the $25 monthly salary of councilmen, was laughingly received and pigeonholed at Monday night’s session of the city legislative body. Councilman Harry Stahley, who offered the resolution, said he did not expect it would secure early approval but added he was offering his proposal as “food for thought.”

In 1964, a search for pigeons’ nests for eggs and chicks led to a 12-year-old boy’s downfall, police reported. The youngster, Dwight Thompson, along with a group of other boys his age, were walking across the Pennsylvania Railroad trestle, some 40 feet above the Silver Creek creek when Thompson decided to crawl down onto a girder below to search the pigeon’s nest he sighted for chicks or eggs. While crawling, he slipped and managed to grasp the girder by his hands. He remained suspended until some of his companions ran to nearby police headquarters for help. Police rescued the boy with a rope and a long extension ladder they found near the scene. Among those attracted to the scene was the boy’s father.

The Ford Tri-Motor, most famous of transports during aviation’s pioneer days, would be making one of its last public appearances at the Jamestown Municipal Airport on Monday, June 29. Affectionately called the “Tin Goose,” the legendary craft would arrive at the North Main Street port at 1 p.m. where it would be on public display until early evening. It was being brought here by American Airlines in cooperation with The Post-Journal. Byron Rogers, American Airlines district sales manager in Buffalo said at least two flights were planned for city officials and travel representatives.

In 1989, the state education commissioner canceled a statewide chemistry achievement test on this morning after the New York Post published 56 answers from a stolen answer sheet on its front page. But Jamestown High School gave the test to its Regents chemistry students. Before the 12:30 p.m. exam, students were told they would receive local credit – but not Regents credit – for the year if their final averages were 65 percent or better. Some JHS students walked into the exam carrying copies of the New York Post. Others said they had seen a copy of the exam answer sheet.

There appeared to be little concern or even awareness that a Corry, Pa., company – Foamex Products Inc. – was 48th on the Natural Resources Defense Council’s list of 110 industries cited by it as the nation’s largest emitters of individual carcinogenic air pollutants in 1987. A company spokesman told The Post-Journal that he had not seen the list. Public officials in Corry said they were not aware of any emissions problems at the plant.

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In 1914, the annual memorial exercises for the pupils and teachers of the Jamestown public schools who had died during the past year were held Wednesday afternoon at the Lake View Cemetery. The service was attended by a large number of teachers and pupils of the public schools, who gathered together for a short time to pay their respects and tribute to their former friends and associates. The exercises were held on the plot of ground purchased by the schools for the purpose of holding these annual exercises which were very short and simple. Miss Carrie E. Aiken, the necrologist, read the list of pupils and teachers who had passed away since the last memorial service.

About 12:30 Wednesday morning someone whose identity was unknown to the owners, attempted to ruin the oil well on the lamb farm near Oil City, owned by George Campbell, Charles Wilbert and W. Baker, by blowing off the casing head with dynamite. The shot was a heavy one and apparently the intention of the vandals had been accomplished as the rods and tubing were all in the hole. The pumping jack was torn to pieces. The explosion was heard by a number of residents of that neighborhood but the cause was not known until daylight on Wednesday. It would take several days’ work to remove the stuff from the hole.

In 1939, people were being cautious in Celoron and sleeping at night with their homes sealed tight. Screens were nailed to framework in some houses and no openings were left such as would permit the entry of an anthropoid. Three members of the new colony of denizens on Monkey Island had escaped from Celoron Park and were rummaging through the trees of the park and otherwise disporting themselves to the distraction of staid residents and park guests. Much of the uneasiness was experienced among older residents of Celoron. So far the fugitive monkeys hadn’t tried housebreaking but their keeper wasn’t extending any assurances.

Explosion of a gasoline pump inside a garage at 19 Harrison St., Jamestown, occupied by the Fro-Joy Ice Cream Company, brought firemen to that place in a hurry this morning. It was feared at first that the burning gasoline would start a dangerous blaze but the flames were extinguished in quick order by firemen using a fog nozzle on an ordinary water line. This type of nozzle threw a heavy spray or “fog” that cut off the oxygen, choking the blaze.

In 1964, winter sports would take a “giant slalom forward” in the winter of 1964-65 with the opening of a second ski resort in Chautauqua County located at the western extremity of New York state. Cost of the project was listed at $250,000. Located in the Clymer-French Creek area near the Pennsylvania-New York border, the new resort would serve ski enthusiasts throughout Western New York and Pennsylvania plus all of Ohio and parts of Indiana and Michigan. Under construction by Western Chautauqua Recreation Inc., the new resort would be named “Peek ‘n Peak.”

A special appeal had gone out to Gov. Rockefeller asking for his aid in combating pollution in Chautauqua County. The announcement came against a background of worsening conditions along the Lake Erie shoreline in northern Chautauqua County, where Dr. Lyle D. Franzen, NYS Health Officer, recommended the closing of several public beaches. Bathing beaches on Chautauqua Lake had been pronounced safe for swimming so far but between 10 and 15 percent of other lake areas had been listed as polluted.

In 1989, rains were taking a toll throughout the area. Fields were so wet farmers were not able to finish their planting and get their hay crops in. Local agriculture experts noted that the past year at about this time, a summer-long drought was just beginning. This year, farmers were asking questions abut how late field corn could be planted with the expectation of having some kind of a crop.

National advocates believed New York’s move to restrict smoking in public buildings and the workplace statewide would help them win over the rest of the nation. “Everyone basically looks to New York as a trend-setting state,” said Angela Mickel of the Tobacco Free America project, a Washington D.C.-based organization funded by the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association. “What happens in New York is definitely going to help the movement across the country.”

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In 1914, an interruption for about a half-hour in Jamestown street car service and considerably longer in commercial power and lighting service was caused by an unusual and unprecedented accident at the Boatlanding power house of the Jamestown Street Railway Company. The trouble was caused by a big copper bar which carried part of the current from the power house to the various distribution cables jarring loose from the brackets which held it to the wall and falling across other similar bars, jarring them loose and cross circuiting currents, burning out cables and other connections. That the damage was repaired so street car service was resumed promptly was the most remarkable part of the entire accident.

So far as could be ascertained, little damage was done by the frost in Chautauqua County on Tuesday night but reports from Cattaraugus County indicated that the lowlands suffered considerably. Up Bucktooth Run, tender vegetables were damaged, tomatoes, beans, etc. in the gardens but the hardier crops apparently did not suffer appreciably. At Great Valley the frost was sufficiently severe to freeze potatoes. Up Quaker Run, most crops suffered. At Little Valley, fog prevented damage by frost but in the surrounding countryside, the damage was heavy. In the Pigeon Valley section, the cold was so severe that the ground was frozen hard. Corn was not sufficiently far advanced to have been injured.

In 1939, plans were complete for the Hunters’ Special trap shoot to be held at the Jamestown Skeet and Trap Club, Hunt Road on Sunday. Fifty targets would be thrown for each shooter not to exceed 50 yards, within a 45-degree angle to the right and left. Five gunners would take the shooting position at one time, each one shooting five targets at each shooting position. Rigid restrictions were keeping experienced shooters away. They would not be allowed to compete in the event but could shoot over the practice traps. It was not necessary for the shooters to be members of the club. As a special feature during the afternoon, there would be staged a crow calling contest for residents of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. The winner would receive a prize.

Steven Monte, 21, of Hudson Street, Buffalo, was sentenced to serve from one and one-half to three years in Attica State Prison by Chautauqua County Judge Lee L. Ottaway on Friday afternoon at Mayville after a jury convicted him of burglary, grand larceny and criminally receiving stolen property. The people accused him of being an accomplice in the theft of several hundred dollars’ worth of tobacco from the Lake City Sales Company, Fredonia the past Dec. 27.

In 1964, Jamestown banks were suffering from a shortage of money and retail business already had felt the pinch despite the fact that vaults were well-filled. The “money” in question was in the form of hard cash; pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars which started a disappearing act about a year ago. A general shortage of coins, especially nickels and dimes, was getting more and more serious here and was bound to affect the local economy according to local bankers polled by The Post-Journal. Most bankers questioned were in agreement as to the cause of a growing shortage of coins. They blamed Congress for failure to provide funds for expansion of mints and coin production. Jamestown, like most cities in the nation, bankers said, required more coins because of the booming business in vending machines, a general upturn in retail sales and hoarding by coin collectors and others.

The number of patients in Jamestown General Hospital reached an all-time record of 196 a week previously on June 11, Superintendent Mark W. Lyons revealed at a meeting of the Hospital Board. Lyons said the admission records showed no unusual condition to account for the peak patient census other than that there were a large number of persons requiring hospital care. With the number exceeding the institution’s capacity, he said it had been necessary to accommodate the overflow temporarily on cots placed in the corridors. A total of 839 patients, including 58 newborn infants, accounted for 4,858 patient-days of care provided by the hospital during the month. In addition, treatment was given to 483 patients, classified as ambulatory.

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• In 1914, while all Dunkirk mourned, joint funeral services were held the previous afternoon for Fred G. Bird, George A. Bird and Otto A. Walter, victims of the collision between an automobile and Lake Shore train the past Saturday morning. It was estimated the attendance was fully 4,000. Dunkirk and Irondequoit lodges, F. and A.M. were in charge of the service at Forest Hill cemetery in Fredonia where burial took place. The three caskets were lowered into the graves at the same time and the long line of Masons paid their last respects to the dead.

• A man giving the name of Edward Wilson hired a horse and buggy of Frank Sternberg of the Jamestown barn. He told the liveryman he was going to drive to Busti. Later in the day, word was received from Ellington that a man was in that town abusing a horse. It was Mr. Sternberg’s horse. Deputy Sheriff E.A. Gossett went to Ellington in his automobile and arrested Wilson and brought him to Jamestown. Justice Maharon issued a warrant charging him with grand larceny.

• In 1939, by passing a law ensuring that marrying should not expose women to loss of employment, the Swedish Parliament had endowed them with another legal benefit, designed to safeguard equality of status. Swedish women were already eligible for all public offices and in principle for the highest posts in the state. They could become solicitors, ministers, judges, in fact there was no legal bar to their entry into any profession or service except the army and the church. The new law concerning the employment of married women implied that, as from July 1, women could not be dismissed from employment by reason of their becoming engaged or married or having children.

• L.M. Barton, Washington, acting assistant director of procurement, post office department, had informed Clyde Jones, Jamestown realtor, that a construction engineer had been detailed to make a topographical survey of the proposed site for the new post office and federal building. Mr. Jones represented owners of property which the government planned to purchase at East Third Street, Prendergast Avenue and East Second Street.

• In 1964, Chautauqua County’s pollution problems – specifically failure to enforce anti-pollution laws – might go directly to Gov. Rockefeller. Richard O. Evans, chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, had been urged to take just such a step following a fruitless meeting with representatives of the NYS Health Dept., in Albany. The move underscored a growing urgency to defeat pollution which threatened Chautauqua Lake and communities along Lake Erie.

• A milestone in the long history of Marlin-Rockwell Corp. was passed the previous day. The sale of assets of Marlin-Rockwell Corp. (MRC) to Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. (TRW) of Cleveland, Ohio, was completed. The separate corporate existence of Marlin-Rockwell would cease and TRW would hereafter operate the business as the Marlin-Rockwell Co., division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. Marlin-Rockwell was a consolidation of three of the oldest ball bearing companies in the country. The Gurney Ball Bearing Co., founded by Frederick W. Gurney, a Jamestown inventor, industrialist and designer of machinery, was one of the three companies.

• In 1989, Bass anglers could expect another good season while muskellunge anglers would have fewer fish to contend with, according to a state wildlife official. This prediction came from Joe Evans, conservation biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation in Olean. This was the opening day of bass and muskellunge fishing season in New York state. Thousands of anglers would battle rain, weeds and crowded waters in hopes of landing a trophy game fish.

• A full-page advertisement in this day’s Post-Journal had been placed by Chautauqua County Department of Social Services in its continuing effort to collect court-ordered child support payments. Commissioner Charles A. Ferraro said, Essentially, it is the list of individuals who have failed to meet court-ordered child support payments and who also have failed to satisfy a further court-ordered judgment against them to respond to the original court order.” The department had planned to publish a list in December in The Post-Journal and Dunkirk Evening OBSERVER. However, publication was delayed until legal questions were resolved.

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In 1914, Ernest Frahm, who was indicted with Mrs. Cynthia Buffum for the murder of her husband, Willis Buffum, was the previous day freed of that charge when the Judge consented to the dismissal of the indictment. Frahm had been out on bail several weeks. Ernest Frahm saw Mrs. Buffum for the last time when she came to his cell in the jail at Little Valley on the morning she was started on her trip to Auburn under sentence of death. The big farm hand was barely courteous. “Well, Ernie, I won’t forget you,” she said as she clasped hands with him through the gratings and started down the corridor with Sheriff Dempsey. There was no evidence of any kind against Frahm except Mrs. Buffum’s confession.

Sam Saxe, a Jamestown visitor at the Eagle’s state convention in session in Olean, was injured and narrowly escaped being involved in a fatality Monday afternoon while driving his big Hudson touring car from Olean to Rock City. Saxe attempted to shift gears while on a steep grade and stalled his engine. The passengers in the car got out and in trying to start the car, Saxe backed it up on a steep embankment, tipping it bottom side up. He was caught under the car but only one ankle was seriously injured although he sustained a number of other bruises. The car pinned him to the ground but was lifted off my main strength.

In 1939, Herman M. Thompson, 45, of Palmer Street, Jamestown, suffered possible fractures of both legs the previous afternoon when he was pinned under a heavy steel girder while at work on the third floor level of the new Central school at Panama. He was taken to Jamestown General Hospital. The extent of the victim’s injuries was still undetermined at edition time. His condition was not considered serious. The girder involved in the unusual accident was 60 feet long and would be used to support the roof of the auditorium of the new structure. It fell over both of Thompson’s legs, above the knees. Thompson was employed by Daniel Elander, Inc. of Jamestown.

Chautauqua Lake’s newest and incidentally, its largest amusement building, the roller skating rink at Celoron Park, to be known as “Skateland” would open on this evening. Housed in a completely new building, which encompassed the most modern appointments, Skateland was the largest roller skating rink west of the Hudson River in New York state and also one of the largest in the United States, according to authorities. More than 1,500 persons could skate on the rink at one time. The flooring was described by the management as the best available for roller skating. In fact, it was as good as could be installed in the most satisfactory ballroom for dancing.

In 1964, two reported tornadoes, strong northwest winds and temperatures ranging down to the freezing zone turned the calendar back on this mid-June day in New York State. The twisters, both comparatively minor, damaged at least eight buildings southwest of Newfield, between Ithaca and Elmira. The cold front moved in from Canada overnight, traveling from the northwest to the southeast and setting record or near-record lows for the date in some areas. Wind gusts generally ranged from 35 to 40 miles an hour.

A high voltage power line falling across the Allan Peterson home on Jackson Run Road near Chandlers Valley, sent 12,000 volts of electricity charging through the home’s wiring system and resulted in a freak fire which completely gutted the building. Firemen said every electrical outlet in the house was spouting smoke and fire and it was necessary for them to wait seven to 10 minutes for workmen from Pennsylvania Electric Co. to shut off power before water could be turned on the blaze. What caused the high voltage line to fall was not determined although a storm was brewing at the time.

In 1989, owners of the Putt-Putt golf course that stood in the Zayre Plaza said the state Department of Transportation was ignoring its own property policies in the Route 394 reconstruction project. Mr. and Mrs. Edward DeVine said DOT cost them at least another season of business and they might never recover. Permission to remain open until the construction actually started near their area, as other businesses were doing, was denied them, DeVine said. As part of the reconstruction of Route 394, the Putt-Putt golf course was removed but the DeVines said the state never notified them the course was to shut down until it was too late to find another location for the business. “The ‘take it or sue us’ attitude does not become a democratic society or inspire much confidence by its citizens. We were perhaps naive in that we fully expected the state would do the right thing,” he said.

The Chautauqua County Home would remain under county auspices if R. Theodore Smith was elected as county executive, the Democratic candidate announced. Smith made the announcement at a press conference at the Home’s entrance. “Ted Smith is and always has been a supporter of the County Home and Infirmary,” the JCC dean said. About the financial woes of the facility that jeopardized its operation, Smith said, “The County Home faces financial problems but that does not mean it should be closed or sold,” referring to proposals by County Executive John A. Glenzer.

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In 1914, while on the way to Sweden to visit her mother and grandmother, Mrs. Gunhild Danielson, wife of Arthur Danielson of 102 Wescott St., Jamestown, died on shipboard according to a dispatch received by Mr. Danielson on Friday. She had been in the best of health when she left here but was taken ill on the ship with pneumonia which caused her death. She was buried at sea Friday. Her age was 26 years. She had left Jamestown on June 4 accompanied by her daughter, Ruby. Besides her daughter with her, Mrs. Danielson was survived by three other children, her sister and her grandmother and mother in Sweden and her husband.

The annual exercises in celebration of Flag Day by the members of the Jamestown Lodge of Elks were held Sunday evening in the lodge rooms. The hall was decorated with American flags and the exercises were attended by a large number of members. During the exercises, Sam Dawson, as organist, played an excellent musical program including “The Star Spangled Banner,” “Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean,” “Old Kentucky Home,” “Dixie” and “Maryland, My Maryland.” The history of the American flag was given by H.E. Selivin. The officers of the lodge carried out the ritualistic service, building a floral bell emblematic of liberty.

In 1939, the White Aircraft Company Inc., which contracted with the city of Jamestown on April 1 to lease the Municipal Airport on North Main Street Extension for operation of an aircraft manufacturing plant as well as for operation of the airport, was being pressed by city officials to take some action under terms of the lease. It was expected that the White Company would start operating at the port without delay. In the lease contract signed by President Donald White, the company engaged itself to have its manufacturing enterprise underway within three months of the signing of the contract. City officials were fearful that nothing would come of the negotiations as the White Company had not taken the first step to take over actual management of the field.

Nancy Ann Parlock, who would have been 1 year old had she lived until June 23, died on this morning about 11 o’clock on the porch of her parent’s home at Rowley Place in Jamestown. Coroner Samuel T. Bowers was investigating the cause of death. The child was in a kiddy car on the porch, when her grandmother, in a neighboring house, noticed that she was turning blue. She immediately investigated and the child was taken to a doctor and later to the Jamestown General Hospital. Surviving were the parents, Joseph and Mary Parlock and a brother, Robert Vincent Parlock.

In 1964, two state policemen were shot and wounded and two others captured and handcuffed to a tree for a brief period Sunday by three men who were stopped on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for a routine radar speed check. The three, all from Milwaukee, were arrested by police several hours later, after a massive manhunt with bloodhounds and helicopters. Some 100 men participated in the hunt. The three, Gerald Sarson, 17, Howard Langnes, 24, and James Szulczewski, 21, were charged with assault with intent to kill, pointing a deadly weapon and aggravated assault and battery against a police officer. The wounded troopers were Edward Herbst, 35, of Reamstown, Pa., and Fred W. Bendl, 22, of Nazareth, Pa.

Police had a “circus” Sunday when they booked six carnival people including three female dancers and a sword swallower. The un-entertaining show opened Sunday with the arrest of four young women and two men on vagrancy charges. The jam-packed station and jail were described by officers as a “three-ring circus.” None of the carnival group could furnish “adequate identification or give a good account of themselves,” police said. Four were sleeping in a car and two were in a nearby restaurant on West Third Street. They were enroute to perform at Busti Gala Days.

In 1989, Bernhard F. Lind, 93, died the previous morning in Heritage Village, Gerry, where he had been a patient since Sept. 8, 1988. He was born Aug. 7, 1895, in Jamestown. In 1941, he founded the Lind Funeral Home on South Main Street. When he was 62 years of age, he constructed the new funeral home at 805 W. Third St., where he was corporation president and licensed manager.

Employees of Chautauqua County Health Department were to check the lake shore near Phillips Mills east of Bemus Point about every other day for more medical syringes and needles. About 70 of the devices had been reported found there since the weekend. Steven B. Johnson, the county Health Department’s director of environmental health services, said this was the first time such medical waste had been found in the lake. “It concerns me a lot that it’s being found in Chautauqua Lake,” he said.

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In 1914, The Journal Printing Company of Jamestown some months previously purchased a new newspaper press which was on the way from the factory. The work of making place for and installation of this machine would be commenced on June 15. The old press and equipment had to be removed and foundation built before the new press could be installed. In the meantime, The Journal would be issued regularly but for any delays, the consideration of its readers would be appreciated. With the new press installed a better looking paper and earlier delivery in the homes of the city would be assured. The press was what was known as a Goss Straightline twenty-four page, three-deck press, which had the capacity of 15,000 papers per hour of any size in multiples of two pages up to 24 pages.

A peculiar automobile accident happened at the boatlanding in Jamestown Friday evening when the large yellow automobile delivery wagon belonging to the Lake City Laundry, coasted swiftly down Fairmount Avenue and crashed like a cannonball through the side of the Starkweather building. James Nocero, the driver, had stopped the wagon near the meat market on Fairmount Avenue. Nocero stated that he had set the brakes and turned the front wheels in towards the curb. Nevertheless, the car started down Fairmount and, gaining speed as it went down the hill, crashed through the side of the Starkweather block near the window of the barber shop on the south side of the building.

In 1939, rainfall of .43 inches drenched farmlands, brought beneficial results and relief from the recent drought, the worst in the area in years, according to C. Kenneth Bullock, Chautauqua County agricultural agent. Hay and pasture, berries and tomato crops were especially in need of moisture, according to Bullock, who explained that recent spasmodic precipitation had averted a crop crises here. However, growth had been somewhat below normal because of aridity. While hay crops were somewhat blighted, farmers expected crops now stunted to develop. Grapes, damaged by Monday’s high wind, were benefited by the rain.

The Ellicott town attorney would undertake the work of forcing removal of signs and structures illegally erected in the town in violation of the town’s building ordinance within a few days, it was announced. The action was authorized at the last meeting of the town board and Ernest D. Leet was named attorney for the town for the purpose. The town building inspector, Dr. F.W. Nisson, would furnish Leet with the list of structures illegally existing, largely signs erected without first securing permits. The town’s building ordinance provided for a fine of $50 or imprisonment for 30 days or both for violations of the ordinance. Continuance of violations on successive days were regarded under the ordinance as repetitions of offenses. The application of F. H. and Inez E. Pickett for a permit to erect a store building at Babcock Street and the Lakewood road was rejected.

In 1989, David G. Dawson, Chautauqua County industrial development director, said he was considerably less optimistic this day about the future of Fairbank Farms than he was only a few days ago. A week ago, Dawson said, he felt certain things were coming together to permit the rebuilding of the burned-out slaughterhouse and meat packing plant at Blockville. Fairbank Farms was destroyed by a March 8 fire that caused an estimated $15 million loss and cost most of the 270 employees their jobs. “I was convinced last week that we had a deal put together,” Dawson said. “I thought this was the week we’d make the announcement.” In the meantime, however, the financing package fell apart, Dawson said.

Work had begun on reconstruction that would turn Persell Elementary School in Jamestown into a middle school. Construction equipment swung into operation the day after the city Board of Education, by a 6-1 vote, approved spending $2.6 million to rebuild the school. The project was a part of the district reorganization plan that the board supported but that Persell and Lincoln School teachers and leaders of the Jamestown Teachers Association opposed.

In Years Past

In 1914, three men were killed, two injured in another grade crossing accident at the notorious Forsyth or Ripley crossing of the main road and the Lake Shore Railroad on this morning. The accident happened when an automobile, racing to get through the crossing, was hit fairly amidships by an eastbound train on the Lake Shore Railroad. The dead were Fred G. Bird, 51, of Dunkirk, foreman of the boiler shop of the Brooks plant of the American Locomotive Company; George B. Bird, his son, 30 years and Otto E. Walters also of Dunkirk, former Police Commissioner. The bodies of Fred Bird and Walters were carried on the pilot of the engine nearly a half mile before the train was stopped.

A Randolph automobilist, either a most reckless driver, or else, filled full of Jamestown firewater, was being sought by various persons in Jamestown and along the state road between the city and Kennedy, for a number of accidents in the course of said man’s thrilling journey from Falconer to Kennedy. Not far from Levant, the reckless driver ran his machine into a carriage occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Huckleberry. The carriage was damaged and the occupants, both elderly, thrown out and injured. He then sideswiped another auto abut two miles east of Levant. He raced up behind another car, pulled out to pass, pulled back too quickly and ran into the front corner of the other car. He then sideswiped a buggy, throwing its occupants to the pavement. The auto did not stop but raced on towards Randolph.

In 1939, attorneys for the Jamestown Macadam Company, low bidder for the contract to supply the city with hot asphalt paving material, were busy preparing a supreme court action against the city of Jamestown following the announcement that Mayor Harry C. Erickson had signed a contract with the Driscoll Brothers Co. of Buffalo. Mayor Erickson and R.E. Driscoll, one of the partners in the Buffalo firm, signed the contract at a meeting of the highway committee of City Council. The Jamestown Macadam Company asked 50 cents per ton less for the material to be used than the city proposed to pay to the Buffalo firm. The lawsuit would undoubtedly come to an early trial, actions of this nature involving local governments having a preferred status.

Dr. Norman Stewart, former Warren, Pa., dentist, who pleaded guilty to the murders of his first wife and namesake son, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Frank P. Patterson in Pittsburgh. The sentence was imposed for the killing of Stewart’s four-year-old son. Sentence was suspended on the charge of the murder of Mrs. Stewart. Patterson said he had decided to send Stewart to the electric chair but that the report of a psychiatrist had caused him to reduce the punishment. He commented, “I am not sure I shouldn’t impose the highest penalty, even now.

In 1964, continued fluoridation of Jamestown’s water supplies was assured when City Council, in special session, crushed an attempt to force the Board of Public Utilities to stop adding fluorides to the water under a decisive 11 to 1 vote. On a roll call which followed an hour-long verbal skirmish between fluoridation and anti-fluoridation protagonists, a resolution directing the BPU to discontinue fluoridating the water until the issue could be decided by referendum, was supported only by its author, Councilman-at-Large LeVerne Webeck.

Adoption by towns and villages of uniform sanitary regulations whose implementation would aid in preventing pollution throughout the county, was urged by Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors the previous afternoon following about an hour’s discussion. The discussion, participated in by citizens and supervisors, centered on Chautauqua Lake and Lake Erie pollution problems.

In 1989, the Chautauqua County Attorney’s Office had initiated a four-pronged plan to crack down on illegal dumping. The anti-littering plan featured a toll-free number for people with information or tips on illegal dumping, a $100 reward to callers with tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of dumpers, revamped court procedures to speed up the prosecution of litterers and beefed up surveillance of sites used as dumps. “It’s just frustrating to see people violating our environment with no social consciousness. We’re putting together a unified approach to tackle this problem,” County Attorney Andrew W. Goodell told The Post-Journal.

An investigation to determine the source of medical syringes and needles found Sunday on the shore of Chautauqua Lake east of Bemus Point was expected to be turned over to police. Chautauqua County Health Commissioner Dr. Robert Berke, said that an investigation by his department had failed to indicate the origin of the medical waste. Berke said about 50 syringes and needles were collected by area residents and turned over to police.

In Years Past

In 1914, the new waiting rooms at the Hotel Humphrey for the patrons of the Jamestown Street Railway and Warren and Jamestown lines were opened for public use Wednesday evening. Workmen had been busy preparing these rooms for some time, and they had to hurry to have them ready to open before the commercial travelers’ convention began. It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that these rooms – there were two – for appearance and convenience and comfort were far superior to the average street railway waiting rooms. Indeed, it was doubtful if there was a street railway station in the state of New York which was as well equipped and as attractive in appearance. Toilet rooms had been provided for women and no detail overlooked that was required for convenience of patrons.

In a first class, A number 1 exhibition of the national pastime, Jamestown evened up for the beating received at the hands of the Bradford club by taking a game by a 4-1 score. With Molyneaux on the mound, working in a big league style, and with his teammates giving him air tight support behind him, Bradford never had a chance to win. So well did “Molly” have the situation in hand that only two of the visitors saw third base and one of these brought across their only tally.

In 1939, Representative Daniel A. Reed, Dunkirk Republican and member of the House Ways and Means Committee, took time out from the debate on the social security bill to give his impressions of their Britannic majesties, King George and Queen Elizabeth, whom he, with other members of congress, had met in the rotunda of the capitol. “I found them very charming and gracious,” was Representative Reed’s comment. “The queen has winning ways and a wholesome natural beauty,” he added. The congressman was particularly impressed by the fact that Her Majesty used no makeup on her typically English complexion.

The Jamestown Concert band, Mauritz Swanson, director, which had the honor of participating in the exercises at Philadelphia a year ago, marking the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in America, had again been accorded a distinction as they were chosen to play at the Swedish building in the New York World’s Fair grounds on Swedish Day, Sunday, June 25. The invitation was extended through the Swedish commission to the World’s Fair, the day to be marked by a typically Swedish program of music, folk dancing and other features.

In 1964, swimming at Wright Park and in most of the Point Gratiot Park area in Dunkirk probably would continue to be banned again this summer because of pollution. Dr. Joseph V. Karnes, city health officer, said “the bacteriological count is higher than the state permits for bathing – and if subsequent test remain unimproved, swimming will be curtailed again this year.” Meanwhile, members of the Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors were meeting in Mayville to consider a standard countywide sanitary and health code which would cover pollution cases.

An eight-week intensive investigation ended the previous day with the apprehension of two Ellery Township teenage boys in connection with breaking car windshields at Macy’s Car Lot, Route 17 at Town Line Road. Trooper Peter F. Darling said the youths, after questioning, admitted that they had hurled stones and broken the windshields while standing along the highway waiting for a school bus. The officer said 10 windshields were broken and each was valued from $20 to $50 by the car lot owner. The officer also completed an investigation involving another Ellery teenager who was apprehended following a complaint filed by a Bemus Point teacher who said the youth had called him uncomplimentary names.

In 1989, the Moral Majority was being dismantled after a decade of leading religious conservatives out of the political wilderness but analysts said the effects of its lobbying efforts would endure.”There are those saying we are witnessing the end of the religious right,” said the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, director of the Center on Religion and society in New York.”I do not think this is the beginning of the end. To paraphrase Churchill, ‘This is the end of the beginning.'” The lobbying group, which raised $69 million and helped elect three Republican administrations since its founding in June 1979, had accomplished its mission of politicizing religious conservatives, television evangelist Jerry Falwell told a meeting of the Religion Newswriters Association.

The weed problem in Chautauqua Lake was the worst in the memory of some veteran lake observers. And weed control was considered almost impossible under present conditions. “We’ve had a couple of motors burn out because of the weeds – they plug the water intake,” Sandy Galati, president of Ashville Bay Marina and Holiday Harbor, said. The task of trying to deal with the bumper crop of weeds fell to the Chautauqua Lake Association, which had its six harvesters in operation according to President Douglas E. Conroe. “I’ve been almost every place on the lake and it’s (weed growth) very well advanced. Way ahead of the normal growing schedule,” Conroe said.

In Years Past

In 1914, there was a little history connected with the quatrain: “Jamestown, Jamestown. When they do it, they do it brown. We’d sell our clothes to get the price, to travel back to Jamestown.” It was of special interest to the session of the Grand Council of the State of New York, United Commercial Travelers of America, which opened in the Eagles auditorium on this morning for a three-day convention in this city. The quatrain was written when the convention of Commercial Travelers was held in Jamestown 10 years previously. It was so good that it kept in the minds of a few and when, the past year, the delegates from Chautauqua council presented the invitation of Jamestown for the convention in 1914, the words were repeated. In a second, the convention had taken it up and in another minute the convention was stampeded for Jamestown, voting down all other invitations.

The death of Alice Tew Fenton, wife of Martin L. Fenton, which occurred at the family home on Prendergast Avenue in Jamestown the previous evening, came as a great shock to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances although it had been known that she had returned from the south recently in a critical condition. She was taken seriously ill at Hendersonville, N.C. Her age was 73 years. Fenton was a native of Jamestown and was the daughter of the late William H. Tew. Practically her entire life was passed in the city of her birth with the exception of a few years in her early married life which were spent at Frewsburg. She was educated in the old Jamestown Academy and in a women’s college at Clinton, N.Y. Her entire life was devoted to the best intellectual interests of the city and her home.

In 1939, the first of a series of stock car obstacle races would be held at Satan’s Bowl of Death on the Frank Shaw farm, Shermans Bay-Sugar Grove road, Sunday at 2 p.m. The Rip Van Winkle jalopy events would be contested over a hazardous course, including a steep bank, ditch, through water and across a rocky creek bed. It was planned to conduct nine elimination heats with a feature race as the final event on the program. One hundred points would be awarded for first place, 50 for second and 25 for third, drivers carrying their ratings into each succeeding race. The one with the highest total would win the season’s championship. Cars would not be mechanically perfect, adding to the natural racing hazards.

Hannah E. Johnson Nelson, 47, of Fluvanna Avenue, wife of Carl R. Nelson, former city councilman, was fatally burned when it was claimed, cleaning solvent which she was using in her home exploded late Friday afternoon. Nelson died at Jamestown General Hospital after sustaining third-degree burns about her face, head and body. Fire officials said Nelson was believed to have been cleaning some clothing in a tub located in the laundry at the rear of the basement. They reported there was no open fire in the basement and that apparently friction from rubbing the clothes caused the blast. During the course of the investigation, Coroner Bowers said he wasn’t certain whether or not the fluid Nelson was reported to have used was a cleaning fluid.

In 1964, two scuba divers discovered the body of a school teacher who had drowned in Canadohta Lake, near Corry, Pa. on June 9. James W. Hollenberger and his brother, Robert, both of Pittsburgh, came to the lake on their own to see if they could help find the body of David F. Leffler, 24, a teacher at Canon McMillan High School, Canonsburg, Pa. They discovered the body in 40 to 60 feet of water about 200 yards off shore. Witnesses said Mrs. Leffler was swimming near a boat while her husband and son remained in it. As she got back in the boat, her husband and son fell into the water. Mrs. Leffler jumped into the water, pulled her son into the boat and threw a life preserver to her husband, but he failed to reach it and slipped beneath the surface.

Owners of unauthorized weapons might surrender them this month without penalty, Chautauqua County Sheriff Charles C. McCloskey Jr., said. He pointed out that June was official amnesty period for receipt of such weapons. The unauthorized items could be disposed of by simply addressing a post card to him or the nearest law enforcement agency. It should describe the weapon briefly and state time and date at which it might be picked up by a patrol driver, the sheriff said. He emphasized that such weapons in the home, regardless of how innocent the intent, were the source of unnecessary accidents and crimes. Persons turning over unauthorized weapons to law agencies would not be subject to prosecution for unlawful possession unless the weapon had been used in commission of a crime.

In Years Past

• In 1914, while playing in the Chadakoin River near the Warner’s Dam, Anthony DePula, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carmen DePula of Harrison Street, was drowned the previous forenoon. Young Anthony, in company with five or six other boys, including his brother Sam, about eight years old, had been playing near the water. Anthony went in for a swim. He was not a very good swimmer and soon his companions heard him shout for help. Philip Lombardo, a youth about Anthony’s age, threw off his clothes and started swimming on a log towards the drowning boy. The victim floated down the water a little ways and soon sank. When the body was located it was placed on shore and efforts were made to revive him but without success. The boy was dead and the sluggish river had claimed another victim.

• A hobo, giving his name as Paul Wever, made a raid on the Pappas peanut stand at the Erie crossing of Main Street in Jamestown Tuesday night and made off with a number of bags of peanuts. He was arrested and arraigned on the charge of petit larceny and sentenced to 63 days in the Erie County penitentiary.

• In 1939, six Jamestown property owners residing on the north side of Crescent Street, behind the scene of the blaze which destroyed the Surplus & Salvage Company building on East Second Street on Tuesday, had filed claims with City Clerk Neil C. Olsen for damages caused by water used by firemen in fighting the fire. Louis Gino, 117 Crescent St., claimed that the flood of water washed out his garden and filled his cellar. Angelo, James and Andrew Arkeilpane, 113 Crescent St., claimed the kitchen of their home flooded when the stream of a high pressure hose ripped shingles from the house top sending a flood of water into the rear of the structure and that debris was scattered all over the property.

• Reports in Paris from usually well-informed sources in Berlin said that Reichsfuehrer Hitler was shaping a plan for international action to wipe out the causes for World War fears. In Berlin, however, sources close to the Furher said the report in French diplomatic circles came “as a surprise to us” and declared that as far as they knew, he had no such plan in mind. In Prague, meanwhile, Nazis in Bohemia-Moravia threatened new “restrictive measures” to break Czech resistance to Nazi domination.

• In 1964, the Jamestown Manufacturers Association called upon the City Council to echo President Lyndon B Johnson’s call, “Come, let us reason together,” and develop a positive program that would show prospective new industry that the community was dedicated to further improving harmony in industrial relations. In an unprecedented meeting in the Hotel Jamestown, the association, comprised of the executives of most manufacturing firms in the area, invited Mayor Fred H. Dunn and the council to enlist labor and management in the development of a local labor relations code of ethics that would preserve “the inherent right of an employer to make his product and the inviolable right of employees to conduct legal strikes when they and their union felt that working conditions were intolerable.”

• The pupil population of Jamestown public schools was due to hit a peak of 8,788 children in the coming September after which it would be subject to a small but steady annual decline over the next 10 years. This was revealed in a detailed forecast of registration trends, the work of Dr. Allan Jacques, attendance officer of the local school system. In an 18-page report, Dr. Jacques presented data estimating the number of children in each grade at each of the city’s schools for every year annually through the 1974-75 school year.

• In 1989, an Ohio woman was treated and released from WCA Hospital and Dennis Novak, 37, of Cleveland, driver of the van in which she was riding, was charged with running a stop sign and unlicensed operation after his van slammed into a tractor-trailer rig on the previous afternoon at the intersection of Stillwater Road and Route 60 in Kiantone. Firefighters from Kiantone and Kennedy were called to clean up 200 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the tractor-trailer’s fuel tank.

• The previous day’s rains brought scattered local flooding throughout the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus-Warren County area. The worst damage appeared to have occurred in Conewango Valley, according to reports. A small stream running along Route 62 overflowed its banks and flooded the road and some basements, Conewango Valley Fire Chief Stephen Rexford told The Post-Journal. About 15 firefighters were on the scene for nearly three hours, pumping water off the road.

In Years Past

In 1914, Coroner George DeForest of Warren County opened the formal inquest into the death of Leo Ganey at Russell, the hearing being scheduled to open at 2 p.m. The session was being held in the village hall and it was filled to the doors with a curious crowd of spectators, many women. Coroner DeForest was presiding but the examination was being largely conducted by District Attorney Frank J. Lyon. Charles Week’s interests were being looked after in chief by Hon. A.C. Wade of Jamestown who was present in person and Attorney Emmet H. Ross who was a law partner of Weeks’ brother, former Mayor James L. Weeks of Jamestown.

While happy in his play, little John Emerson Myers, age 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude C. Myers of Chicago Avenue, was instantly killed by the kick of a horse near his home this forenoon. It was one of those sudden and unfortunate accidents which so often bring unexpected and overwhelming sorrow. The little boy was playing with his velocipede on the sidewalk of Chicago Avenue not far from his home and was coasting down a little grade toward Fairmount Avenue. At the same time, Alfred Johnson, a driver for George Boardman, turned from the street with a load of dirt. As the horses reached the sidewalk, Johnson turned his horses and tried to avoid running over the boy. The velocipede ran into the horses’ heels and one of the team kicked viciously resulting in practically instant death for the little boy.

In 1939, final arrangements for the public Scout circus and Indian rodeo at the Jamestown High School stadium Saturday night by the Chautauqua Lake Area council, Boy Scouts of America, were completed at a commissioners’ meeting. Scouts and Scouters from every troop in the Chautauqua Lake area would participate. The Boy Scouts of America would revert back to the pioneer days in a scene of Indian pageantry and ceremony as a closing feature of the circus. The wild war whoops of pale faces in authentic Indian costumes would be heard from between 70 and 80 Scouts from troops throughout the council.

Mrs. Carl R. Nelson, wife of the former councilman and prominent citizen of Jamestown was severely burned about 3:30 p.m. this day when benzene she was using to clean clothing exploded. She was rushed to the Jamestown General Hospital in the police ambulance. The explosion tore most of Mrs. Nelson’s clothing from her and she was badly burned about the face and head. The explosion was so severe that a heavy cinder block partition was completely shattered in the basement where the explosion occurred. Two doors were torn from their hinges.

In 1964, the county’s current concern over water pollution, particularly in Lake Chautauqua, would be further amplified Friday when two bus loads of area residents were expected to converge on the Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors meeting in Mayville. Roger C. Anderson, a Chautauqua Lake Association director, was chairman of the event. The idea to provide free round trip transportation to the meeting, where, according to Anderson, people would have an opportunity to put their support behind any action supervisors recommended for combating water pollution, was conceived at a recent meeting of the association’s Board of Directors.

To provide Jamestown small fry with some opportunity for water recreation in the coming summer, City Council’s Parks Committee approved installation of shower sprinklers around the edge of the Allen Park wading pool. Roger C. Burgeson, director of public works, was instructed to install the sprinklers as soon as possible so they would be ready for use during the hot weather months.

In 1989, the Fredonia family caught in the midst of the violence in China was interviewed by Dan Rather in a Beijing airport. Shirley Schagrin was identified by several members of the Fredonia community on a CBS newscast, according to Karen West, director of college affairs at the State College at Fredonia. The names of Morton and Shirley Schagrin were on the list of Unites States citizens who arrived in Japan, a State Department task force member told The Post-Journal. Schagrin, a philosophy professor at Fredonia State, had been in China for a year as part of the Fullbright grant program.

A resolution to establish a hotel and motel occupancy tax in Chautauqua County was approved at a meeting of the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Finance Committee despite the anti-tax sentiments of several of the audience members. The 5-1 vote, with Legislator Alfred F. Jones, R-Chautauqua, voting no, cleared the proposal of its last hurdle before going to the County Legislature for a vote.

In Years Past

In 1914, the Hetfield block, an old wooden structure at the foot of Cross Street, Jamestown, owned by E.V. Hetfield and occupied by over 40 persons, was visited by the board of health this day. A thorough inspection of the premises was made and at its conclusion the board held a special meeting at City Hall and issued an order citing Hetfield to appear before the board at its next meeting, June 19, to show cause why the ordinances of the board of health, in so far as they related to the building, should not be enforced. This, in effect, was condemnation of the building for it was in a very bad condition and was practically beyond proper repair.

Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican National Committee and president of the New York Juvenile Association, said he believed much of the so-called badness in boys was primarily due to decayed teeth and their consequent inability to property masticate their food. He based his conclusions on observations of boys sent as delinquents to the Children’s Village at Dobbs Ferry where an average of 550 youngsters were getting a chance to become decent and self-respecting citizens. He declared that 91 percent of the boys suffered from bad teeth and that after two years of care with a dentist, together with practice in the art of using a tooth brush, the boys were turned out 90 percent good instead of 90 percent bad.

In 1939, the comparative lull in the European situation in the past few days, said S. Miles Bouton, addressing the Jamestown Kiwanis Club at its noon lunch meeting, had again encouraged optimists who refused to look at facts in the face. But although Hitler had been slowed up by the growing odds against him, he had not abandoned and would not abandon his plan to secure Danzig. Dr. Goebbels, minister of propaganda, told the official Nazi party three weeks ago that “the leader has set the day and hour for bringing Danzig home.”

All members of the various local building trades unions were employed at present, it was reported at the meeting of the Building and Construction Trades council Wednesday evening at the Central Labor Hall in Jamestown. It was reported that there had been a general upturn in the construction field during the past three months and that the unions were looking for a further upturn after July 1. While a large number of the men were employed on PWA projects, it was announced that many were also working on factory and mercantile projects. It was said that there was some employment on private dwellings. It was reported that it was difficult to secure enough union workers in the skilled building trades.

In 1964, a 50-year-old farmhand and his dog, a retriever type, perished in a homemade house trailer in an early Sunday morning fire of undetermined origin in the town of Portland. The victim had been identified by his employer as Paul Houghtalen, original address unknown. Lee Manzella, Fuller road, discovered the fire. When volunteer firemen arrived, the dwelling was engulfed in flames. Employed by Howard Green, a Route 20 farmer, Houghtalen was described by Mrs. Green as a good worker and a “person who never talked about himself.” The house trailer was rebuilt from a portable roadside fruit stand on a low haywagon. It was heated by oil but the oil stove was not in operation, police said.

All of Chautauqua Lake was apparently not polluted after all, reported state and county officials. A joint release which answered a question asked by The Post-Journal the past week, listed the places safe for swimming purposes and the areas “above the pollution threshold.” Results of water samples taken from creek beds, drainage basins and adjacent waters during the sampling survey period since April 6, were summarized in the report. Originally, the results of these samplings were not to be made public, according to a program outlined by Wallace H. Fenton, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors Flood Control and Sanitation Committee.

In 1989, tree stumps dotted the landscape along Route 394 near Burger King and McDonald’s, as state Department of Transportation workers cut and cleared trees and brush to create a right of way for the widening of the highway. DOT workers were still in the process of clearing branches in preparation for felling more trees.

The town of Ellicott and city of Jamestown remained at an impasse on water bills for Sewer District 4 in the Buffalo and Willard streets area. Ellicott had not paid the bill, Frances Morgan, town supervisor, said. Morgan said she would pay the bill as soon as an accurate billing method was determined. “The issues are at a standstill. I won’t pay the bills until they are resolved. We both lose,” Morgan told the Town Board at Wednesday evening’s meeting.

In Years Past

In 1914, the big garden party given by the pupils and teachers of the East Second Street Grammar School in Jamestown for the benefit of the Hundred Acre lot was conducted on the grammar school and high school lawns the previous afternoon and bid fair to be one of the biggest affairs of its kind ever given in the city. The attendance was very large as about 7,000 tickets had been sold. The lawns presented a gala appearance, having been beautifully decorated by an army of workers under the direction of Jack Bartlett. Strung across the lawns were hundreds of American flags and the grammar school building had been draped in blue and white streamers, the colors of the school. At various points, huge Japanese umbrellas were placed, under which were tables and chairs. The high school orchestra furnished music throughout the afternoon.

Officer Louis W. Droege, of the Dunkirk police force, was the victim of a freak shooting accident at the Park Avenue hotel. Droege had been sent to the hotel on a business matter by Police Chief P.W. Quandt. He was sitting in a chair in the office when his automatic revolver dropped from his hip pocket. The hammer struck the floor, exploding the cartridge. The bullet struck a billy club in his left hip pocket, was deflected and passed through the muscles of his left upper arm, just missing the bone. But for the billy, the bullet would have entered his body. A doctor was called and the wound dressed after which Droege finished the business he was one and then reported back to police headquarters.

In 1939, insisting he was headed for Mars, Cheston L. Eshelman, 22-year-old student flier from Carlisle, Pa., returned to dry land only to be arrested for larceny of the airplane which sank when he was fished from the Atlantic, 175 miles from shore, the previous day. “My only destination was Mars – the planet Mars,” Eshelman told reporters aboard the police boat which took him from the trawler Villanova in the Boston harbor. “I had no intention of flying to Europe.” “What were you going to do there?” he was asked. “You’ve got me there. I wouldn’t know what to do on Mars,” Eshelman replied. Police said Eshelman had only 55 cents in cash on his person and that his food supply consisted of two chocolate bars and a few sandwiches.

Clare A. Pickard, president of the Civic Music Association received word that Marian Anderson, the celebrated Negro contralto, would keep her concert engagement at Jamestown the following Monday evening, June 12, the final artist in the season’s repertoire. Anderson’s concert had been twice deferred by sudden illness but officials had definite assurance that she would be in the city on Monday next to sing in the high school auditorium. It was expected that the same program which had been announced twice previously would be presented. After Anderson’s second cancellation, the Metropolitan soprano, Grace Moore, was engaged but she too was suddenly stricken ill. The patience of the 1,600 Civic Music members in so graciously accepting the conflicting bulletins which were issued, would be rewarded by Anderson’s own appearance. Anderson would sing at the White House Thursday for King George and Queen Elizabeth of England.

In 1989, the SkyDome in Toronto wasn’t just a new stadium, it was the future of baseball. Like it or not, the SkyDome was the prototype for future stadiums – a baseball resort. When the Toronto Blue Jays arrived for Monday’s inaugural game against Milwaukee, the $100 million retractable roof was being rolled back just as the sun slipped through the clouds. If it rained, the roof would be closed. If it started raining during a game, the roof would take about 20 minutes to be put into place. Most of the Blue Jays and Brewers spent the time before the game inspecting the outer limits of the SkyDome. It was a first look for Toronto manager Cito Gaston. “What a place,” Gaston said. “I’m glad that I waited until today just to come into see this place. That’s the way I planned it. I wanted to walk in and see it all at once.”

-A State University at Fredonia professor and part of his family might be on the way home from Beijing this day. Relatives received word that philosophy professor Morton L. Schagrin and his family were on their way home but no confirmation that they had left could be obtained. The U.S. Embassy ordered the mandatory evacuation of dependents of diplomatic personnel from Beijing and many other countries took similar steps. The Bush administration said the situation was so chaotic in the world’s most populous country that it could not tell who was in charge and that it appeared likely China’s top leaders had left the city.

In Years Past

• In 1914, Cora Johnson, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of 214 Chandler St., had a narrow escape from drowning at noon this day when she fell in the mill race of the Jamestown Lounge Company, near the corner of Winsor and Harrison streets. It was only the quick and heroic work of Sam Keefe, who was passing near the place at the time, that saved her life. He heard her scream and ran and jumped into the water, bringing her to shore safely. The little girl had been playing near the bank of the race and in some manner had fallen in. The water in the race was about 10 feet deep and was far more dangerous than the Chadakoin River itself.

• The home of Henry W. Odell, 519 Washington St., was burglarized recently by some unknown person and a sum of money and valuable jewelry was taken. Mr. and Mrs. Odell left the house about 2:30 in the afternoon and the burglary occurred some time between that hour and the hour of their return about 4:45. No indications that anyone forced an entrance to the house were discovered and the conclusion followed that someone had a key and unlocked the door.

• In 1939, damage estimated at approximately $35,000 resulted early this day when a sensational blaze swept the old Monarch Furniture Company plant at 708 E. Second St., just east of Winsor Street in Jamestown. The fire completely destroyed the stock and equipment of the Surplus & Salvage corporation, as well as the structure itself. When firemen first arrived, the flames were still confined rather well to the center of the main building, although a few licks of fire were shooting out windows on the east side of the structure. All apparatus in the city was placed in use as well as most of the department’s serviceable equipment. The aerial truck proved its usefulness by shooting a stream of water from the top of its 85-foot ladder into the heart of the flames. Success of the firemen in keeping the blaze from spreading to nearby structures was outstanding. A grocery store, meat market and drug store immediately west of the burning building were not even slightly damaged by the flames.

• New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Carroll E. Mealey, estimated “thousands of persons” were operating automobiles on terminated driving licenses and asked police to ‘take such action as is necessary.” He reported 966 or 68 percent of the 1,420 licenses which expired during March had not been renewed. Most operator licenses, Mealey said, were for the three-year period ending the following year but many expired one or three years from the date of issuance so that some terminated each month. Approximately 23,000 chauffeur licenses expired May 31.

• In 1964, police from three departments took over the job of cowboys this morning and were busy rounding up 26 cows let loose when a cattle truck rolled over into a ditch on the Route 5 cutoff, just outside the Silver Creek village line. Silver Creek police said they received the first call at 5:15 a.m. and by 10 a.m. had succeeded in corralling eight of the animals. Details of the accident had not been learned. Silver Creek officers were being assisted by State Police from the Fredonia barracks and Sheriff’s Department personnel.

• Todd D. Gustafson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Gustafson, of R. D. 4, Shadyside Road, was injured in a crash of a twin-engine training plane that claimed the lives of two at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mr. Gustafson, an instructor pilot, was not believed to have sustained serious injuries. Authorities said the plane was on a routine training flight.

• In 1989, torch-bearer Bobby Confer of Jamestown, accompanied by Special Olympics coaches and area law enforcement officers, set off from Jamestown City Hall, heading for Falconer and then up Route 60 through Cassadaga to Fredonia and on to Silver Creek. The run the previous day was part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics, which began in Long Island. The final destination of the torch was Rochester and the RIT Stadium, where the New York State Special Olympics would begin on June 8.

• Ayatollah Khomeini was buried alongside followers who died in the Islamic revolution that carried him to power. Thousands of Revolutionary Guards and civilians pushed and shoved around the graveside, kicking up clouds of dust as Khomeini’s body was taken from a metal casket and lowered to the grave. Burial of the 86-year-old fundamentalist patriarch was delayed when frenzied mourners blocked the funeral procession and some of the vast crowd grabbed the corpse from the open coffin. Khomeini’s body fell to the ground and the people ripped his white burial shroud to pieces for mementos of the revered Iranian revolutionary leader.

In Years Past

In 1914, the ladies of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church held a social in the church parlors Thursday afternoon for the benefit of the fund for the erection of an old folk’s home on the site given to the church by the Rev. Father Richard Coyle. There was not a very large crowd present but considering the bad weather, the ladies did very nicely. The parlors were attractively decorated with American flags and bouquets of red roses adorned the tables. In the afternoon, vocal solos were given by Mrs. Martin Pierce and Mrs. Edward Hazeltine and refreshments were served.

The examination of the 120 babies entered in the Better Babies contest being conducted in the YWCA building would be concluded late on this afternoon. The contest had proved to be a decided success and physicians who had been assisting in the work predicted that it would become an annual event. Even the doctors had admitted that there was a “surprising number of attractive babies” in Jamestown since this campaign was inaugurated.

In 1939, Carl Pintagro, Jamestown, was the winner of the 20-lap, 10-mile feature motorcycle race before a crowd estimated at 3,000 persons at the meet sponsored by the Jamestown Motorcycle Club and the American Legion Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps on the Frank Shaw farm track at Sherman’s Bay, Sugar Grove Road. He was presented with the tourist trophy for the victory over winners of four previous events. There were only a few spills, all of a minor nature, none of the riders being injured. The half-mile track was in good condition for the series of events in which Jamestown, Dunkirk, Buffalo and Canadian riders participated. Music was furnished by the veterans’ musicians.

The 20th case of smallpox reported since the epidemic at Ripley was declared, was reported Saturday afternoon. The victim was a Ripley man and according to Dr. Paul S. Person, was the head of a family in which three children were ill with the disease. No new cases had been reported from Ripley this day up to press time. Dr. Robert L. Vought of Jamestown, announced that the 176 young people who were exposed to one of the Ripley victims when they took an examination at Fredonia on May 13, had been released from quarantine. He also announced that 113 persons who were exposed at Brocton during the Junior prom of Brocton High School had been released.

In 1964, heavy frost was reported in lowland areas of Chautauqua County overnight but the fruit belt section apparently escaped unscathed. The Experimental Station, East Main Street, Fredonia, had an overnight low of 37 degrees and at a late hour of the morning had received no report of frost damage in the fruit belt. Light frost was felt in the hilly sections of Arkwright and Cherry Creek and a 32-degree reading was recorded on Route 83, the Laona-Hamlet Road. These section, however, were well removed from the fruit operation.

The trailer of a tractor-trailer unit was demolished and another vehicle was damaged when the trailer was struck by a train about 1:45 a.m. on Route 219, one mile north of Great Valley. Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department reported a tractor-trailer unit owned by Associated Coal of Buffalo and operated by William Green, 29, of Hamburg, was traveling north. The driver failed to see the 137-car B&O freight train approaching the grade crossing and attempted to beat the engine in spite of the flashing signal. The engine struck the trailer about midway and tossed it sideways into the front end of a 1957 car owned and operated by Charles Jimbrone, 25, of Salamanca. Jimbrone suffered only a minor injury and was to see his own doctor. Green was taken to Salamanca Hospital for observation.

In 1989, Cassadaga Valley Central School was celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. In 1939, 31 school districts merged to form a new school district. The names of those smaller districts were engraved in the foyer of the three-story brick school building on Route 60 just outside of Sinclairville. By the mid-1930s, the state Education Department was encouraging small, rural districts to merge into centralized schools but many people vehemently opposed the idea. To them, centralization meant the tearing down of the old order of their communities. All their lives, they had their own schools and they resented anyone who wanted to disrupt tradition. The aged buildings had served the districts well and the education had been sufficient but the buildings were inept and the education inadequate for the time. And so the country schools passed from the scene.

The bids were in on the reconstruction of Jamestown’s Persell School and they were way above the past year’s estimates, according to reports. Renovations to turn the one-time elementary school into a middle school for grades 5 through 8 would cost almost $2.6 million, according to Dodge Reports. That was 2 times what the Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education last year estimated Persell renovations would cost.

In Years Past

In 1914, the Rev. Clara Watson of Jamestown went to Fentonville this day and officiated at the funeral of shooting victim Leo Ganey, which was held at the home of Ganey’s sister, Katherine Rhodes. Watson spoke words of comfort and of cheer to the surviving relatives, emphasizing the point that death was but the transition from this life to a higher, broader plane of existence. It was a most appropriate, eloquent and effective discourse. The services were private, only immediate relatives being present. Floral pieces were sent by the Fentonville Cemetery Society and the Frewsburg Daughters of Rebekah Lodge. There were also floral offerings from neighbors and friends. The internment was in Fentonville Cemetery.

• Mrs. James Ballard, a woman living near the Gurney Ball Bearing plant on Scott Street in Jamestown, was arrested upon complaint of Manager Gurney, who complained that she annoyed girls going to and from work in the plant. After an investigation, Ballard, who was a woman of good character, was discharged. It appeared that she had a husband ill with tuberculosis and five small children. She alleged that she had been seriously annoyed, called names, ridiculed and otherwise offended by the girls in the Gurney plant and that she was so incensed at some of them that she threatened them, the girls retaliating by ridicule and calling her names. Gurney was informed that his employees would be given the necessary protection but that the woman must not be annoyed any further. It was alleged that she threw stones at five girls but no evidence was secured that this was true.

In 1939, the need for a new dishwasher and dishwashing equipment at Jamestown General Hospital was discussed by members of the Health and Hospital Board at a special meeting called for that purpose two nights previously. Dorothy Dotterweich, superintendent, was finally authorized to advertise for bids for the needed equipment. It was estimated that the new dishwasher could cost approximately $1,000. Present facilities were inadequate to handle the needs satisfactorily, it was stated.

The graduating class members of Jamestown High School were the guests of the junior class at a colorful and gay reception in the school gymnasium Friday evening. The decorations for the evening transferred the gymnasium, the scene of many an athletic contest, into a colorful ballroom with streamers and baskets of cherry blossoms and spring flowers decorating the basketball baskets. As the seniors were the guests, Senior President John S. Tordoff led the grand march. Tordoff spoke briefly, thanking the class of 1940 and extending the goodwill of the seniors to the lowerclassmen. Robert Turner was master of ceremonies for the program.

In 1964, Rep. Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) branded the Democratic recipe for curing poverty as one of the “worst written pieces of legislation ever to come before the House Education and Labor Committee.” Speaking before the House, Goodell said Republicans did not question the overall goal of eliminating poverty in the U.S., but did sharply criticize the methods favored by the Democrats. The Jamestown lawmaker was one in a group of minority members of the House committee to attack the measure from the floor.

State and county officials this morning met in secret session presumably on its policy of keeping secret Chautauqua Lake water samplings taken at tributary areas. Dr. Lyle D. Franzen, New York state district health officer, said any information stemming from the session in the Hotel Jamestown, would not be released through his office. “The press will be notified through regular channels,” he said. There was no explanation of what was meant by “regular channels.” The closed-door huddle was believed to stem from a move by county officials to keep the results of water samples from streams feeding into the lake, from the public. Wallace Fenton, chairman of the County Board of Supervisors Flood Control and Sanitation Committee, had previously announced that stream samplings, of which many were reported high, would not be released to the public.

In Years Past

• In 1914, matters were still at a standstill in the Weeks-Ganey case this day with even less doing than the previous day. It looked as if both sides of the prosecution represented by District Attorney Lyon in Warren and the defense represented by Arthur C. Wade of Jamestown, were playing for time. The funeral of Leo Ganey, the victim of the tragedy, was scheduled to be held from the home of his sister at Fentonville on this afternoon but this too had been postponed. This was due to the inability to get a notice promptly to Ganey’s sister living in Baltimore.

• The manner of living in the larger cities of the United States was such that perfect health was almost impossible. The human machine would not run true and strong day after day with its vitality continually being sapped up by constant nervous strain, irregular hours and hastily eaten food. The wear and tear and rush of city life were largely responsible for the immense amount of dull, lifeless, half sick people of the present generation. Debility or a “run down” condition as it was called, was everywhere.

• In 1939, Chautauqua County had no new cases of smallpox according to Dr. Paul S. Person, Ripley health official. At Erie, Pa., however, Dr. P.A. Keeney, state health official, announced that a new case of smallpox had been found in the suburbs, traceable to the Ripley outbreak. The patient was Miss Betty Jane Strang, who visited relatives in Ripley two weeks previously. Miss Strang worked in a downtown store in Erie and might have contacted a large number of persons.

• Another of the numerous deer now frequently seen in the woods and fields near Jamestown was instantly killed Friday when it collided just outside the city line on Foote Avenue Extension with a car driven by Frank J. Russo of Hazzard Street. Russo’s car was badly damaged. Game Warden Al Reed of Fredonia, took charge of the carcass after investigating the crash. Such accidents had occurred with alarming frequency during recent months.

• In 1964, the Civil Aeronautics Board had ordered Mohawk Airlines to continue service to Jamestown and Olean. The Board accepted the recommendation of Examiner Barron Fredricks, announced March 4. The CAB did, however, defer action on the examiner’s recommendation the Mohawk be required to provide at least one round-trip daily between Olean and New York City as a prerequisite to scheduling flights that flew over Olean. Continued service to Jamestown and Olean had been question by the Board Feb., 1, 1963, when it ordered a “use-it-or-lose-it” investigation also applying to certain other Mohawk Airlines cities.

• Plans for a block-long development containing a retail grocery store and a drive-in bank, with a total valuation of approximately $100,000, were revealed at a special meeting of the Lakewood Village Board of Trustees the past evening. Dayton S. Wilkins of the First National Bank of Jamestown presented plans for a drive-in bank at the southeast corner of Chautauqua Avenue and Third Street. The next two southerly lots would be parking space. The fourth lot would contain a Quality Market.

• In 1989, six months ago, Quality Markets Inc. and area Super Duper stores decided not to use plastic bags for groceries, citing disposal problems at the Ellery Landfill. Other major grocery stores gave their customers a choice between paper or plastic bags at the checkout counter. The number of shoppers who preferred plastic was about equal to the number who preferred paper, area grocery store managers said. Most shoppers who preferred paper bags were concerned about the impact of plastic on the environment, according to a spot check by The Post-Journal.

• Falconer Mayor Albert F. Mattison announced that he would be the Republican candidate for Chautauqua County clerk. The announcement came hard on the heels of Mattison’s decision not to enter a primary to select the GOP nominee for county executive. County Attorney Andrew W. Goodell of Bemus Point was the choice of the county’s Republican Committee for the county executive nomination.

In Years Past

In 1914, Arthur Cash, the young Ivory baseball player who was injured in the game at Frewsburg on Memorial Day, and operated on as a result at WCA Hospital, died about 5 p.m. the previous afternoon in spite of the operation which it was hoped would save his life. The death of young Cash was a particularly sad one. He was just past 21 years old, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. B J. Cash of Ivory, well known residents of the town of Carroll and a young man of unusual promise. The accident which resulted in his death occurred in the beginning of a ball game to have been played between a newly organized nine representing Ivory and a team representing Frewsburg Boy Scouts. When Cash came to bat in the second inning, a ball struck him in the head, knocking him down.

There was little change in the status of the Weeks-Ganey case. Weeks was being held still in the Warren County jail while his friends and attorneys were preparing every known weapon for his defense. The reason for the delay was twofold. First was the fact that District Attorney Frank Lyon of Warren was immersed in business with the grand jury in session and a term of criminal court just begun, second was because of the serious character of the case, which made the movements of both sides cautious and well considered. Weeks, in an interview with the Warren Mirror said: “This is my birthday. Think of it. I am 43 years old today. Isn’t it a fine place to celebrate a birthday? Forty-three years of hard work and worry, all gone.”

In 1939, greetings were extended to new citizens of the United States at a New Citizens’ Day observance held Thursday evening at the Jamestown High School with Rev. E. Roy Myers of the First M. E. Church, speaking on Who Discovered America? Mayor Harry C. Erickson and Supervisor Anthony R. Saeli welcomed the naturalized Americans. Prior to the program, a concert was given on the front lawn by the American Legion Fife and Drum corps.

The World’s Fair Folk dancers from Sweden were to pay a visit to Jamestown on June 21, appearing in the high school auditorium that evening after a sightseeing trip, smorgasbord and reception held in the afternoon under the auspices of a group of local Swedish fraternal and singing societies. Assisted by four old-time music players and a quartet of student singers from the University of Uppsala, they would first make a tour of the Middle West, returning east for World’s Fair rehearsals and wind up with a tour of the New England states, returning to their native Sweden on July 1. The group was composed of selected members from two of the oldest dance societies in Sweden, the Philochoros of Uppsala University and the Friends of Swedish Folk Dancing in Stockholm.

In 1964, was all of Chautauqua Lake polluted? The answers were to remain a deep, dark secret, according to a policy outlined by Wallace Fenton, chairman of the County Board of Supervisors Flood Control and Sanitation Committee. Since April 6, the New York State District Department of Health had been taking water samples from beach areas as well as from points where streams, which many felt were laden with human waste, entered Chautauqua Lake. Samplings of the beach areas were available to the press. However, Supervisor Fenton said, “we decided not to make a general public release of the information on streams because of the fear that high samplings at some points would lead people to think the entire lake was polluted.”

The president of the New York Synod of the Lutheran Church in America which numbered almost 149,000, confirmed members in 380 congregations called on a convention audience of about 1,000 persons the previous night to get behind the Civil Rights Bill and do all they could to halt the “idle chatter” in Washington. “We have had 13 weeks of ‘idle chatter,'” said the Rev. Dr. Alfred L. Beck of Scarsdale, “sooner or later we must make known it must stop.” He spoke at the opening of the Synod’s third annual convention in the First Lutheran Church of Jamestown. About 500 ministers and 270 lay delegates and many visitors were in the large congregation.

In 1989, a dedicated highway fund might be a good idea but drivers’ fees and gasoline taxes shouldn’t be the only source to pay for it, according to area legislators. Telling New Yorkers the state could pay for maintaining roads and bridges with such taxes and fees was a mistake, Assemblyman William L. Parment told The Post-Journal. Some of the money for a dedicated highway fund should come from general revenue, according to Sen. Jess J. Present. They were responding to an Associated Press report that a key state legislator said he envisioned a gasoline tax increase of up to a dime as part of a long-term plan to pay for New York’s roads and bridges.

With Chautauqua Lake a half-foot below flood stage, Warner Dam’s capacity to drain excess water was diminished because of construction of the Sixth Street Bridge in Jamestown according to officials. Concrete debris and construction equipment in the Chadakoin River had reduced water flow by as much as 20 percent, David Gustafson, Board of Public Utilities power plant supervisor, said.

In Years Past

In 1914, Charles E. Weeks, a member of an old Jamestown family, and extensive cigar and tobacco dealer, went to his farm home in Warren County and shot a farm employee, George Ganey, with a .44-caliber revolver. Death was instantaneous. After the shooting, Weeks went to the home of Oscar Beustrom, a neighbor, and telephoned to his brother, James L. Weeks of Jamestown and to the sheriff of Warren County. To his brother, he told what he had done. To the sheriff, he gave information that he had shot and killed a man and that he wished to give himself up. The motive of the shooting was the old, old story, one that had been told many times before. It was the story of broken marriage vows, the discovery by the husband and the excitement of the moment, then the killing of the man who had invaded his home.

Three pretty girls and three clever boys billed as The Six Tango Fhiends, would present as one of the features at the Lyric Theater in Jamestown, all the popular dances, including the tango. The tango was not commonly believed of South American origin. It was an old gypsy dance which came to Argentina by the way of Spain, where in all probability it became invested with certain features of the old Moorish dances. The Argentines adopted the dance, eliminating some of its reckless gypsy traits and added to it a certain languid indolence peculiar to their temperament.

In 1939, a rapt audience was gazing upon four unwrapped young women in a nudity contest at the New York World’s Fair the past night when up strode the sheriff and six deputies who ordered the beauties to don some clothes and charged two of them with “indecent and lewd exposure.” The other two got off with a lecture because careful scrutiny disclosed they were wearing bras and skin-tight cobwebby nether garments. In the whole quartet, however, there wasn’t enough clothing to wad a 12-gauge shotgun. A number of photographers and reporters were on hand for the arrest, which was timed to theatrical perfection.

Details of a recent backyard quarrel over a disputed clothesline were unfolded in city court as Judge Allen E. Bargar tried Eva Peterson, 32 and Sadie Thompson, 30, who resided on West Eighth Street in Jamestown, on charges of third-degree assault. He found both guilty and deferred sentence on the pair. According to testimony of the principals, each of whom accused the other of attacking her, one of the women hung her week’s wash over the clothesline of the other. Clothes poles and hammers figured in the melee in which both women claimed to have received bruises.

In 1964, George Jessel, one of the all-time greats of show business, would be the guest of honor at a dinner for Israel Bonds at the Hotel Jamestown on Thursday evening, June 11, it was announced by Seymour Minsker, general chairman of the event. Minsker said: “We are indeed delighted that so great a personality as George Jessel is visiting Jamestown, especially since he will be coming here one day after he returns from a visit to Israel. We look forward to welcoming Mr. Jessel with a capacity turnout.”

A recommendation that the Jamestown City Planning Commission consider the transfer of 23 parcels of tax sale property with frontage on Baker Street as an addition to Bergman Park was approved by City Council. The property, which adjoined the park to the northeast, was formerly the site of a post-war housing project occupied by temporary homes converted from one-story military barracks.

In 1989, Niagara Mohawk work crews completed repairs early in the day to restore power to about 2,800 Chautauqua County customers left without electricity as the result of a thunderstorm that hit the area shortly after midnight. Lakewood District Manager Ronald E. Soehnlein said a large tree took down a 34,500-volt transmission line in open country between Panama and Clymer, knocking out substations in Panama, Clymer, French Creek and Findley Lake. Soehnlein said this morning, “We don’t have any more out that I know of right now. Now it’s time for breakfast.”

Despite a five-year investigation, officials at the state Department of Environmental Conservation could not determine the cause of natural gas leaks that forced the evacuation of a Levant family from its home and contaminated the water of neighboring houses. John Luensman, Chautauqua County Department of Planning and Development director, received the 86-page report the previous day. Luensman said he was dissatisfied with the study and said it might take legal action to get results from the DEC. According to the report, he said, the DEC doesn’t know whether an earthquake or well drilling caused the leaks.

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