In 1914, after an investigation at Sherman into the circumstances surrounding the death there of Andrew Radiak of Dunkirk, whose body was found on the Pennsylvania track, Coroner E.B. Osgood of Brocton and Undersheriff Gerry Colgrove of Mayville came to the conclusion that Radiak came to his death by being run over by a freight train. There were circumstances about the case which at first caused Osgood to suspect foul play. Nothing developed during the questioning of witnesses that in any way bore out the suspicion of foul play. The authorities were satisfied that Radiak lay down on the track in a drunken stupor and went to sleep with his neck resting on a rail. He was about 18 years old and had come to this country 11 months ago.

Mrs. Louis Gronberg, a passenger on a street car which was hit by a freight train at the grade crossing at Fairmount Avenue and West Eighth Street in Jamestown, was seriously injured as the result of the accident. Gronberg had started for the rear exit. Just as she got into the vestibule, the train struck the car, and she was knocked down, her right leg being caught between the step and a telephone pole. In an effort to save her leg, the attending doctors, Dr. William Bemus and Dr. John Nelson, had drawn the bones together with silver wires. Reports from WCA Hospital stated that she had a very good day.

In 1939, relocation of the No. 3 Fire station on Fenton Place in Jamestown, to a site nearer to the center of the fire district was requested by Fire Chief John Philblad before the public safety committee of city council. The request came on the heels of Wednesday’s accident at Forest Avenue and Fenton Place in which two pieces of fire apparatus collided with a parked car. The committee voted to consider the suggestion which the majority of the members thought would be a good move. Philblad said that traffic had increased to such a degree on Forest Avenue and South Main Street that apparatus from the Brooklyn Square station found it difficult to leave Fenton Place on an alarm.

The Johnson Funeral Home, a new Jamestown undertaking establishment at the corner of Sixth and Pine streets, the former Charles W. Herrick residence, was ready for opening after complete remodeling and renovating and would be open to the pubic for inspections all day Saturday and Sunday, with a dedication service Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Axel Z. Johnson, who for many years had made her home at 29 Spruce Street, was the owner.

In 1964, the Ranger 7 spacecraft rocketed toward the moon this day with the mission of taking several thousand closeup photographs of areas where American astronauts might land in 1969. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration counted on Ranger 7 to end six years of disappointment during which the United States had failed on 12 straight moon shots. The failures had seriously hampered gathering information to support the Apollo man-to-the-moon project, which aimed at a manned lunar landing late in the decade.

The word was out to the dogs of Lakewood that loiterers at village parks and beaches would be picked up by the police. One casual visit to see what was going on would put a dog in the clink. If a dog crossed the grass, on his way to the store, he probably would not be reported. Most people could tell the difference between a dog who knew where he was going and one who was just out to nose around and make a nuisance of himself. This clarification of the village’s animal ordinance was made the past night at the Board of Trustees meeting. The trustees said that any dog hanging around the parks and beaches was to be seized whether it was his first time or not.

In 1989, after a second rain washout and the loss of a second utility pole on the Mervel “Bud” Anderson farm at Clarks Corners, the inventiveness that had made this country famous was demonstrated when Niagara Mohawk linemen installed a crossarm and replaced the heavy duty electric lines on a tall and sturdy willow tree. The tree was being used in an emergency situation until the new line, under construction and away from Mud Creek, was finished. The top of the tree had been trimmed to install the crossarm and replace the wires. Farmers had their electricity and curious visitors who traveled a quarter-mile east on Mud Creek Road on Route 62 could, for a while longer, look on the inventiveness.

A case of rabies involving a bat found on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution had been confirmed by the county’s health department, according to Commissioner Dr. Robert Berke. The bat at Chautauqua had come in contact with a cat at the Institution. The bat did not bite anyone. It was taken by the cat’s owner to a veterinarian who sent it to a Health Department laboratory for examination, which determined that it was rabid. The cat involved was immunized against rabies so was protected against contacting the disease. Berke cautioned that bats always were considered a source of rabies and people should not attempt to pick them up even if they appeared sluggish. He said this sluggishness might be the result of rabies.

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In 1914, what caused the quarrel in the woods which resulted in the shooting of Charles Haight, Saturday forenoon, would probably never be known but it led to the instant death of Haight, caused by a rifle shot, the rifle being in the hands and fired by Emerson White, who was under arrest at Jamestown police headquarters, held on an open charge. The story was one of the most unusual the Jamestown police department had to deal with in a long time. There was every reason to believe that White, who gave himself up saying he shot Haight, was telling the truth. But whether he was or not was purely conjecture and the facts in the case were still open to investigation.

The discovery of the body of Anthony Radiak, an Italian laborer lying by the Pennsylvania tracks half a mile south of the camp where the laborers were housed near the village of Sherman, led to suspicions that the man might have been murdered and District Attorney William Stearns, Undersheriff Gerry Colegrove and Coroner E.B. Osgood had commenced an investigation. The investigation had been conducted under some difficulties as none of the laborers could talk English.

In 1939, just as the parade featuring Wednesday’s closing program of the 40th annual convention of the New York State Volunteer Firemen’s Association started away in Fredonia late in the afternoon, a heavy rainstorm broke. The downpour for a time was so violent that the 2,500 or more colorfully uniformed men and women paraders and the estimated 12,000 spectators were temporarily driven to take advantage of whatever shelter conveniently presented itself. As it was, most of them were drenched but happy for the break in the drought.

Lives of several persons were endangered when two pieces of fire apparatus and a privately owned automobile, collided near Forest Avenue and Fenton Place in Jamestown about 9:30 the previous evening. A false alarm was pulled at Box 67, Newland Avenue and Colfax Street. Authorities believe boys turned in the alarm as a prank. On Monday night at the same hour, someone tampered with Box 613 at the Charles Street school, resulting in another false alarm.

In 1964, area Democrats whooped it up Saturday at their annual Chautauqua County picnic, predicting a banner year for the party. About 2,000 Democrats, old and young, converged on Midway Park to hear party leaders plan strategy for the fall election and rap the Rockefeller administration. George D. Hutchinson, Dunkirk councilman, and school teacher, Democratic candidate for the assembly seat held by A. Bruce Manley of Fredonia, charged that the state had regressed because Gov. Rockefeller “has been away from home so often.”

A “cold wave” hit Jamestown overnight but it was just a fleeting bit of relief from the marathon heat wave that was going into its 14th day – with the same old forecast – hot and humid weather. An official reading at Jamestown’s City Hall water station said the mercury sank to a low of 55 degrees overnight. That was a drop of 29 degrees from a high of 84 on Sunday as thousands took to the highways, bound for area parks, picnic areas and lakes to beat the heat.

In 1989, the Southwestern Central School High School Auditorium should reopen by Sept. 29, school board members were told. The auditorium was closed the past school year because asbestos had to be removed. The district’s board of education accepted a $117,000 bid from Anderson International of Jamestown to remove the asbestos. The company had said it would complete work by Sept. 29 and possibly by the time the new school year began, Paul Hedin, an architect with Habiterra Associates, told board members.

More than 100 private camps would be removed from the Allegheny National Forest within the next seven years. U.S. Forest Service officials said regulations put into effect in 1966 allowed the Forest Service to decide whether camps on private land within the ANF’s 550,000 acre boundary should be allowed to remain or be removed in order to return the land to a more forest-like state, said Ernie Roselle, a Forest Service leader in Warren.

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• In 1914, Mayor John P. Mitchell of New York City, who delivered an address in the Chautauqua amphitheater the previous afternoon on The City and the State Constitution, reached Westfield at 8:45 yesterday morning accompanied by his wife and City Chamberlain, Henry Bruere. They were met at Westfield by an automobile party composed of Director and Mrs. Arthur E. Bestor, Judge and Mrs. W.L. Ranson, Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Gallup and County Judge A. B. Ottaway of Westfield. The party rode around the lake as far as Bemus Point and thence to Chautauqua. A luncheon was tendered Mayor Mitchel by the Chautauqua Institution in the Colonnade Tea room. At the same hour, Mrs. Bestor entertained a company of ladies at the Bestor house in honor of Mrs. Mitchel.

• Jamestown firemen had a stubborn fire to contend with in the frame block at East Second and Institute streets the previous morning. Prompt response to the general alarm and well directed work on the part of the fire department prevented what might easily have been a very disastrous conflagration. As it was, the damage by fire was practically confined to the attic, where it seemed to have started in some old clothing. Water damaged the apartments of Mrs. C.H. Curtis and Ira Breth on the second floor and flooded the plumbing establishment of the Joregenson Plumbing Company in a serious manner. The alarm was turned in by several different people. Mrs. Curtis was awakened and going into the hall found it ablaze. She turned in a still alarm immediately. About the same time, a party of exempt firemen were passing and attracted to the fire. They also turned in an alarm.

• In 1939, three children of about the same age were admitted to Jamestown General Hospital the previous day with injuries sustained in an assortment of accidents. William Hyde, 8, of Lake View Avenue, received head lacerations in a fall from a swing at a city playground. He was treated and dismissed. John Arthur Nelson, 7, of Washington Street, suffered a laceration to his right hand when it was caught in a washing machine wringer. He was dismissed after treatment. Shirley Hitchcock, 7, of Lakewood, fractured her right arm in a fall from a tree.

• Announcement of a new industry for the Greater Jamestown area, starting the manufacture of chemicals, plastic materials and products for the electrical trade in the former Odsonia Worsted Mills of Falconer, was made by the industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce. According to those interested in the project, the concern would probably be known as the Chemetals Corporation. The stock issue had been subscribed in full by a group of Jamestown and Chicago men and it was expected that about 20 men would constitute the production staff when operations in the former suburban textile plant, idle for the past decade, would get under way Sept. 1.

• In 1989, neighborhood residents in Jamestown, concerned about the vacant Euclid Avenue School building were forming a committee to take their case to the next City Council meeting. About 30 residents met on the steps of the building Monday evening to discuss their options and plan a course of action. Jamestown attorney James Westman conducted the meeting at the request of residents, who called him with questions and concerns. One possibility was the vacant building could be renovated, Westman, a former city councilman, told his audience. “Realistically, I don’t think it’s going to be developed. I think it’s either going to stand here or it’s going to go away,” Westman said.

• Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Warren county residents were riding out the heat in the breeze of their fans and air conditioners, if sales of those items were any indication. Some area hardware stores had run out of these items but others had “hundreds” of the heat-relievers left. Brian Nelson, owner of Falconer Hardware in Falconer, said sales were brisk at his shop. “It’s super,” Nelson said. “We have a couple of hundred left.” During the first weeks of August the past year, Nelson said, he sold a record number of fans. “We sold 475 fans in those two weeks,” he said. This year, he was ready with a large stock of fans but all 10 air conditioners sold quickly. Asked how his customers were handling the heat, Nelson said, “They love it. Don’t you?”

In Years Past

In 1914, seven persons stood upon a burning launch until the flames drove two of them into Lake Erie the past night, 5 miles off shore between the U.S. Life Saving station and Waldameer. The two who jumped made slow progress over the oily water glowing crimson in the glare of the flames behind them. The others crowded close to the one spot upon the little launch which was not in flames. Hope of rescue had left them all when a launch hove into sight. Daring danger they pushed the nose of their little boat close to where the terrified passengers of the burning launch were standing. Women first, they were lifted into the launch. They threw a line to the man and woman who were struggling bravely in the water, hauling them aboard.

If all prosecutions for violation of the excise law were conducted with the vigor that had characterized the prosecution of the Celoron hotel men, it was fair to say the state excise department was an institution to be feared by those engaged in illegal liquor selling. The agents of the department without any preliminary tips, swooped down on the Celoron hotel men on one of their busiest days at one of their busiest hours and thereby secured possession of a larger quantity of liquor than would have been the case on an ordinary day. The machinery of the law, once started, proceeded with comparatively little delay.

In 1939, local and county police were seeking some trace of two men reported by Floyd Card of Ashville to have attempted to rob him of his automobile late the previous night. Card said he picked up a man at Cheney’s Point who was standing beside the road. About 1 mile further down the road, the stranger pointed out another pedestrian whom he said was his brother. Card stopped and also picked up this man. When they were about opposite Niets Crest, the men demanded the car. One man pulled out a large jackknife and began slashing at Card. Card said he knocked out one of the men and fought till the other ran away. Card then dumped out the unconscious man and drove for help.

Workmen installing new electric wiring in the Sherman Swanson restaurant at East Randolph found a 75-year-old letter from a Civil War soldier. The letter had lodged in the ceiling between the first and second floors and came to light when a ceiling board was pried out. The letter was written by Sergeant H.C. Woodworth of Company E, Ninth New York cavalry in camp near Culpepper, Virginia, March 31, 1864. In part he wrote: “We caught 14 Johnnies while we were out. The most of them were deserters from Lee’s army …. If you was here I would let you have some whiskey out of three canteens for we have got just that much on hand. Hube and myself keep a little on hand for sickness and we are sick the most of the time.”

In 1964, the driver of a tractor-trailer unit rode the vehicle down a 20-foot embankment and escaped with only knee bruises. He was identified as Donald M. Dennis, 38, of Seaford, Delaware. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. on Route 17, 1 miles east of Kennedy, just past the turnoff of Route 62 to Ellington in the town of Poland. Dennis was rounding a slight curve in the highway when he apparently lost control on wet pavement, according to Trooper Engblom. Chuck’s Auto Body of Jamestown used three wreckers to remove the truck from the scene. A spokesman at the auto body shop said he believed the 1963 model diesel unit and 40-foot trailer to be a total loss.

The water level in Jamestown’s Cassadaga Valley wells had dropped an even three feet in the past week, Merle Smedberg, superintendent of public utilities, reported. With daily temperatures for the past week averaging 5 or 6 degrees above the corresponding period of 1963, there had been an increase of approximately 300,000 gallons in daily water consumption, he indicated. He cautioned that the situation was one in which voluntary cooperation of consumers in avoiding wasteful uses was increasingly important.

In 1989, plans for a proposed $5 million to $6 million shopping plaza on the north side of Route 394 in the village of Lakewood were announced by Mayor Anthony Caprino. The project was to be developed by the Widewaters Group of Syracuse, in cooperation with Quality Markets. Caprino said Quality Markets was to be the major tenant, occupying 42,000 square feet of floor space. He said another 15 to 20 smaller stores and shops were expected to locate in the development. The supermarket chain would vacate its location in the Chautauqua Mall. Caprino said he had been assured by mall officials that there were several prospective occupants for the space to become available there.

Time Inc. had taken control of Warner Communications and had begun forming the world’s largest media and entertainment concern after a court refused a final bid by Paramount Communications Inc. to block the merger. “The name of the game is going to be growth, both in the U.S. and abroad,” said Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr., president of the new Time Warner Inc.. “The basic operating premise is that we are going to build the company and grow the cash flow.”

In Years Past

In 1914, plans having been prepared, considered and adopted – the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of Jamestown had contracted with the Warren Construction Company for the erection of a practically new building on the site of the bank’s location, at 215 Main St. The work on the structure was commenced on this morning and would be pushed to completion as speedily as consistent with the requirements of good workmanship. Arrangements had been made for the temporary removal of the bank, to the two corner rooms of the Barrett building at the northwest corner of Cherry and West Second streets.

John Wasielewski, alias John Curley, was locked up in Dunkirk, charged with having broken into the D.A.V.& P. depot at Lily Dale and stolen property valued at more than $700. The burglary occurred several weeks ago. A trunk belonging to Dr. George B. Warren of Chicago, treasurer of the Lily Dale Assembly Association and containing expensive wearing apparel, was broken open and its contents taken away. A traveling bag, belonging to Mrs. Turner of Lily Dale and containing jewelry and clothing to the value of about $100 was also taken. The day after the burglary a Dunkirk woman known to be friendly to Wasielewski, was brought to police headquarters to explain where she obtained certain articles of expensive clothing she was wearing. It was alleged she admitted that Wasielewski gave her the garments which were identified as part of that stolen from the Warren trunk.

In 1939, Japan would never conquer China, in the opinion of Frank W. Cheney, formerly of Jamestown, who was here for a few days on his vacation from teaching duties in the American school at Shanghai. And Cheney ought to know a lot about real conditions in China, as he had been teaching in that school in the international settlement in that teeming Chinese city which was said to have a population between 3 million and 4 million. “The Japanese,” said Cheney, “are rather bewildered at the turn of events. They have found that the farther they penetrate China, the more difficulty they experience in holding what they have got and keeping the line of communications to the seaboard open.”

Safe crackers invaded the office of the West Ridge Transportation Company at West Fourth and Cherry streets in Jamestown during the night, smashed their way into the company’s vault and escaped with cash in an amount which had not been definitely established at edition time. It was the second time the same office had been visited by burglars in less than three months.

In 1964, extremely hot, humid weather had brought out hundreds of children at Lakeside Park in Mayville over the past week. Total recreation registration numbered over 500 children. The favorite pastime tended to be the swimming classes where local lifeguards and swim instructors were kept busy supervising the throngs of swimmers. It was not uncommon to have over 400 people in the water at one time. Elsewhere on the playground, boys and girls had been busying themselves playing softball, kickball, dodgeball, group games and arts and crafts.

A parade under the lights – Jamestown’s new lighting system – would highlight the day the city had set aside to officially mark the downtown improvement. The entire community was invited to take part in the celebration set for Friday, Sept. 11. Under the new mercury-vapor lights, the parade units would leave from Brooklyn Square at 8:30 p.m., enter the arterial at Forest Avenue and proceed across Washington Street Bridge to Third Street. The parade would then move east to the Second and Third Street intersection and return on Second Street to the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Station. It would include marching units, musical units and floats.

In 1989, although they wouldn’t be shaking hands or getting together much, most residents of the village of Brocton would be glad to see their new neighbors. The Lakeview Correctional Facility, a new medium-security state prison built to help handle the overflow of criminals entering the prison system, was scheduled to open Aug. 7. In addition to its 750 felons, the prison was bringing the first major new construction in the community in 20 years and some of the highest-paying jobs in Chautauqua County.

The director of the Chautauqua County Emergency Management Office was not told of a state-sponsored study claiming that the county could take an additional 266,000 people in the event of a nuclear attack. Wanda Gustafson, emergency management director, blasted state officials for not informing her of the study and described the report as “ridiculous.” “They expect us to do all the work and take all the heat, yet we weren’t informed,” Gustafson said of the study. Cattaraugus County Emergency Management Director James Johnston said he also was not told of the study.

In Years Past

In 1914, a joint meeting of the Pennsylvania State Independent Telephone Association and the New York State Independent Telephone Association, would be held in Jamestown Friday and Saturday at Eagle Temple. The occasion was the quarterly meeting of the Pennsylvania Association and it would be a meeting of unusual importance and interest because of the presence of the New York state independent telephone men and also of the presence of prominent telephone men from all over the United States. The members of the associations hoped to secure the services of a telephone engineer and traffic expert for the purpose of improving the efficiency of the long distance lines. This was not a matter of great interest to newspaper readers except in so far as results were concerned. The details of how a connection was made between Jamestown and Buffalo concerned the telephone men but not the patron so long as the connection was quickly made and a good service provided.

• “That isn’t Stow, George, that’s a couple of trees,” remarked Clem Jones to George Stuart before daylight this morning as, tired and dusty, they trudged along a lonely road several miles out in the country between Stow and Panama. George Kohlbacher and several others were close behind Clem and Stuart and all were looking for Stow or at least a sign of the trolley track which would lead them to Jamestown.They had not been walking around the lake but felt they had been around it twice. Back a mile or so at the side of the road stood an automobile which absolutely refused to proceed farther. All hands involved were obliged to stand a good deal of joshing this day over their experience. Stuart insisted that he would never volunteer as a guide again.

In 1939, trolley fans from six states and officials of railroad associations would honor the last two passenger-carrying inter-urban electric lines in New York state Sunday, when a group of about 150 persons from Buffalo, Rochester and Cleveland would make a tour of inspection over the Jamestown,Westfield & Northwestern Railroad company lines. The ceremonies would pay tribute to the only surviving lines of the many which flourished a few years ago. The National Historic Association and the Electric Railroaders’ Association would be represented on the trip with members from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New England participating. Two special cars would meet the visiting delegation at Westfield on arrival by New York Central train. After stops at Mayville and Bemus Point, where substations would be inspected, the party would visit Midway Park and arrive in Jamestown at 1:30 p.m. to look over the railroad properties before departing at 5 p.m.

• “Jamestown looks like Europe.” That was what two boys from Denmark said about it. The Danish boys, Erling Morsbol, 16, and Asger Falkenberg, 18, who were guests of John Sterns of Jamestown, arrived here July 12 and would visit this section until July 25, when they would go to another part of the country. Tours of this kind were originated in 1928 when Dr. Sven V. Knudsen of Boston, invited several boys to America from Denmark. They stayed in the home of American families while in this country. The boys declared Europeans were not as fearful of an immediate world war as Americans appeared to be. Asked what surprised them the most they replied, “This country being so much like Europe.” On their ride from New York to Jamestown, they noticed how like it was to Europe and when they arrived in Jamestown, the likeness was much more striking.

In 1964, the previous day’s showers did little to offer relief from the current sticky-hot weather and probably less to help the city of Jamestown’s water supply. City officials were keeping their fingers crossed in hope for more rain and public cooperation in water usage. The weatherman, however, called for continued hot weather with a few scattered showers through this day and tomorrow. The water level at the city’s supply wells was more than 3 feet higher than the previous year at this time – but water consumption during the past three or four days had increased.

A $1 million to $2 million recreational project would be constructed on Chautauqua Lake by the Recreation and Development Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, it was announced. Everything was definite but the site, said company official Robert Keller. The company’s stipulations, however, stated that the multi-purpose project would be on the lake and near Jamestown. The project would be a combination of a club setup, rental units and units for purchase. The club, which would include an indoor-outdoor swimming pool, eating facilities, steam room, tennis courts and a marina, would be operated on a membership basis, Keller said.

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• In 1914, Col. F.P. Cobham who had charge of the Conewango drainage with headquarters in Jamestown some years ago, and who had developed numerous inventions, was covered at some length in the Sunday magazine of the Cleveland Leader as the inventor of an F-ray which would make war impossible in the future as it would go through mountains, water and steel and explode all the powder of an arsenal or a battleship. The article was illustrated with pictures of war ships blown up, armies routed and general disaster caused merely by a man pressing a button miles away. There was also a very good picture of Col. Cobham and a picture of his invention.

• The playgrounds of Jamestown were unusually well patronized during this summer. The new slides purchased for several of the playgrounds had proved very popular with the little children. There were various games provided: baseball, tennis, basketball and a variety of more quiet games and reading and story telling for the little folks. The shower baths were very attractive after vigorous exercise and were in great demand wherever they were provided.

• In 1939, Jamestown City Council met at a hastily summoned special session and defeated a proposal to spend $750 for repairs to the Arcade building at 20-24 North Main St. City Treasurer Elmer Sellstrom presented the proposal, stating that the repairs were a practical necessity if the city was desirous of securing reasonable rentals from the building. He said he understood that Corporation Counsel Rollin Fancher would probably rule the plan illegal but expressed the opinion that council should take action in any event. President Paul Clark tried to force hasty approval of the proposal but was blocked by Mr. Fancher’s rule that the expenditure would be illegal as long as the city did not have title to the property.

• About 50 members and visitors of the Kiantone Ladies’ Aid Society attended a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Green of Busti. A tureen dinner was enjoyed at noon. Mrs. Bessie Dennison presided at the business meeting and led devotionals. It was decided to hold an ice cream social on July 28 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Hagberg. Cake, pie, ice cream and sundaes would be served.

• In 1964, Jamestowners in the vicinity of Third and Lafayette streets from 9 to 10 the past night probably felt like the coolest people in town. The temperature was still in the 70s when they witnessed a preview of the new Christmas decorations that would adorn the city’s new light standards in the coming Yuletide season. Many favorable comments were heard from passers-by as they observed the six different types of decorations hanging from the new light standards. Meanwhile, Christmas decorations or not, the steaming heat and humidity was going to continue.

• Disaster in the form of fire struck for the second time in little more than nine months through destruction of a barn and its contents owned by Ripley Supervisor Andy Meeder and his son, Frank, near Route 76. A work crew had stored about 9,500 bales of hay in the barn. It was nearly filled to capacity when the fire broke out. The wooden building with metal roof was destroyed along with its contents of hay. Frank Meeder said the blaze might have been started by a short circuit in a conveyor belt’s two horsepower motor or possibly by a lightning bolt. A construction crew was working on rebuilding the main dairy barn, destroyed by fire Oct. 18.

• In 1989, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute could break ground for a proposed Curtis Street headquarters as early as the following spring, according to the institute’s president. About two years after ground breaking, the institute could begin to move into the new building in phases, as it was completed, Jeffrey B. Froke, institute president, said.

• Timo – a 2-year-old German Shepherd – was one of the newest members of the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department. A native of Germany, Timo lived with James A. Carlson, a Sheriff’s deputy, and would go with Carlson when he was on duty. Before Timo joined the department, he and Carlson went to a two-month training school in Onondaga County. There, Timo was in intense training for 10 to 12 hours a day and received state certification.

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In 1914, Jay Gould, son of W.W. Gould of Grand Valley, Pa., but living in Jamestown with his uncle, James Quinlan of the police force, had a narrow escape from death under a Newland Avenue street car near the corner of Park Street about 8:30 in the morning. Young Gould was on the car going east on this street, standing on the rear platform. The car was backing up to let a man off at the Park Street corner when the trolley flew off and the rope wound around Gould’s body so that when the trolley pole struck a guy wire, it jerked Gould out of the car and swung him around directly on the tracks. He saved himself from going under the wheels by grabbing hold of the fender. He was injured around the head, one knee and his hand was cut and sprained.

Following the hearing on the West Fourth Street paving opposition, the Jamestown Common Council held an almost interminable meeting Monday evening in the council chambers, the monotony of which was unbroken by either important business or any differences of opinion between the men. The session lasted until nearly 11 p.m. and the only matters of special interest discussed and acted on were a new resolution relative to the payment of the paving of street intersections on unopened streets and the purchase of a new fire engine.

In 1939, Driscoll Brothers Company of Buffalo, which had the contract for furnishing hot-mix asphalt paving material for Jamestown’s current street resurfacing program, ran into another annoyance when Donovan Maxwell of Jamestown started suit before Justice of the Peace Francis Moynihan to collect $200 in back wages from the firm. It was Maxwell who was reinstated in his job as crane operator at Driscoll Brothers mixing plant on Tiffany Avenue after council had reminded the company of its promise to hire local labor as much as possible. Maxwell had been laid off a week ago due to a labor dispute. On the morning he was placed back to work, the crane he was operating tipped over. Maxwell was fired as a result of the mishap.

Trial of the lawsuit in which Mayor Harry C. Erickson, Council President Paul A. Clark and 14 other city officials were accused of “collusive and fraudulent” acts in entering a contract to purchase hot-mix asphalt paving material from Driscoll Brother Company, would be sought at the earliest possible date, Corporation Counsel Rollin Fancher said. Fancher said that he was busy preparing an answer to the complaint filed against the 16 officials and the partners in the Buffalo firm. The answer would probably be ready early the following week.

In 1964, the Packard estate on West Terrace Avenue in Lakewood, an area showplace, had been purchased by a Philadelphia, Pa., advertising executive for his new home. The mansion was once the home of Mrs. J. Ward Packard, widow of the pioneer automobile manufacturer. The home had been vacant since her death in 1960. Barnes retired as of July 1 from his position as account executive with N.W. Ayer and Son, Inc., of Philadelphia, one of the oldest and largest advertising firms in the country. Barnes would move into the house July 22, with his wife, Mary Ellis and two children, Charlotte, 4, and Nicholas Jr. 2.

Jamestown City officials took what could be the first of several steps to help alleviate downtown traffic congestion. Acting on a recommendation by Police Chief John Paladino and Capt. Roy Peterson, members of City Council’s Public Safety Committee agreed to alter the flow of traffic on Third Street between Prendergast Avenue and Lafayette Street. Two lanes of traffic would go east and one west on Third Street. Peterson explained the move was a trial step necessitated by the ever-worsening traffic conditions in the downtown area. Officials didn’t discount the possibility of a bottleneck being created by the one-lane traffic. It was suggested motorists take an alternate route through the city to further help the traffic problems.

In 1989, Kennedy residents were clearing their yards of rocks, tree limbs and stumps in the wake of flash flooding that temporarily turned roads into stream beds the previous afternoon. A sudden downpour at about 1 p.m. yesterday swelled two creeks flowing through this community. During the 20 minutes of driving rain, knee-deep water raged down streets running parallel to the creeks, witnesses said. Heavy rainfall throughout the area overtaxed storm sewers and culverts, causing minor flooding in several communities but Kennedy was the hardest hit.

An 83-year-old widowed grandmother from Rochester walked away from the crash of the United Airlines DC-10 jetliner in Sioux City, Iowa, with singed eyebrows and a scraped nose. She recalled the frantic moments after the crash and her walk for “three or four blocks” through the Iowa cornfields. “I don’t ever want to see Iowa corn again,” said Fern Noyes of East Rochester. Noyes, sitting in Row 10, said she ended up stuck under her own seat. “I was hollering, ‘Please help me.’ I think being under the seat is what saved my life,” she said.

In Years Past

In 1914, William T. Creasy, master of the state grange of Pennsylvania, spoke at the Chautauqua Amphitheater on The High Cost of Living from the Farmer’s Standpoint. Creasy had been a farmer all his life and had been engaged in farming on his own for the past 40 years. He began his remarks by stating, “The higher cost of living is due to various causes. It is looked at generally from the angle that hits the pocket book of the consumer. To the city consumer the high cost of living is an ever present fact, a painful fact and it is quite a common thing to blame the farmer. This makes the farmer mad clean through, for he is getting mighty little of the increased price the consumer pays.”

Carl Fox of Falconer Street, Jamestown, was very painfully injured about noon this day when the horses he was driving ran away. The horses became frightened at the corner of Sixth and Lafayette streets and ran down Lafayette Street. The young man was delivering laundry for the industrial Wet Wash Laundry of Falconer. He was thrown from the seat and fell under the wagon. His left arm was broken at the wrist. His right arm was also injured. Fox was resting comfortably at WCA Hospital.

In 1939, Edward F. Ritz, 60, of Dunkirk, a chiropractor, fell from the north side of the breakwall at Dunkirk about 1 mile from shore late the previous afternoon and drowned while his wife looked on, helpless to aid him. It was a half-hour before information of the tragic happening was brought ashore by several boys who were on the breakwall at the time. Mrs. Ritz was brought ashore and taken to the family home by Fire Chief James Miller. The rescue squad recovered the body. After an inhalator had been used for nearly two hours in an effort at resuscitation, life was finally pronounced extinct. Mrs. Ritz, on the verge of collapse from shock and grief, said her husband had been trolling near the east end of the breakwall on the sharply sloping concrete facing the open lake when he slipped and pitched into the water.

A spectacular fire, the glow of which was seen for miles around, destroyed a large barn shortly before 11 o’clock the previous evening on the farm of Gunnard Lundmark, well-known Swede Hill farmer, just 2 miles west of Russell, Pa. The glow was seen from as far away as the lake road west of Jamestown and the blaze attracted about 1,000 cars from all sections of the surrounding country. Lundmark had just completed storing approximately 70 tons of hay in the barn the evening before the fire. Three calves and one horse were taken from the barn safely. The other animals were in the pasture.

In 1964, a matter of inches was the difference between escaping unscathed and possible death for a Frewsburg motorist over the weekend. State police said if the beer bottle that was thrown through the windshield of Milton Smith’s car from an auto traveling in the opposite direction had hit him, he probably would have been killed. Fortunately, Smith was alone in his auto on Route 62, near Fentonville, when the bottle ripped through the windshield, continued through the vehicle smashing through the rear window. “It sounded like a rifle shot,” Smith said. Smith estimated that both cars were traveling about 50 mph as they approached each other at about midnight Friday.

Roland Rathman, 10, and his sister, Della, 14, of Cherry Creek, decided to take an 18-mile stroll Sunday to visit friends in Perrysburg. The result – 125 volunteers were called out to search for the youngsters, who had neglected to tell anybody and thus were reported missing. State police and sheriff’s deputies called on volunteer firemen from Cherry Creek, Dayton, Forestville and Perrysburg. About 35 civil defense radio cars joined in the search. The youngsters, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rathman, were found safe and sound but tired at their destination in Perrysburg.

In 1989, National Guardsmen scoured a cornfield in Sioux City, Iowa, for survivors or victims of a United DC-10 jet that crashed during an emergency landing, killing at least 74 people. At least 176 of the 293 people aboard survived. Many survivors walked away from the wreckage after the plane hit the Sioux Gateway Airport runway and cartwheeled in a ball of fire into the cornfield. The 15-year-old jumbo jet experienced “complete hydraulic failure” before the crash, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, Fred Farrar said. Parts of the plane were found 50 miles away.

A “rare and unusual” funnel cloud ripped out the middle sections of five docks just off Bemus Creek Road the previous afternoon. The powerful wind struck after 4 p.m. but did little damage, according to eyewitnesses. Dick Sparling, owner of Shore Acres Boat Yard in Shore Acres, said he saw the funnel cloud. “It was on Bemus Creek Road, not in Shore Acres, as reported on radio,” Sparling said. “It was kind of small and moved pretty slow, relatively speaking. It moved off to the northeast.”

In Years Past

• In 1914, Owen Schoonover, 34 years old, a teamster living in Olean, was at the Higgins Memorial Hospital as the result of sitting down on a bottle of carbolic acid. The man’s leg was so badly burned that he became delirious and it was necessary to call in the police to restrain him. The physicians who were attending him said that he had a good chance for recovery. Schoonover had bought the acid to treat some cuts on his hands. He had placed the bottle in his hip pocket and forgetting that it was there, sat down. The bottle broke and the liquid saturated his clothing and ran down his leg.

• The new Chautauqua Golf Club course was formally opened the previous day to the delight of a big bunch of golf enthusiasts who had been awaiting with impatience the day they could get on the links. The new course, laid out by Seymour Dunn, the Lake Placid club expert, was said to be one of the finest in the country. The course was on the beautifully located plot of 80 acres across the state road from the Chautauqua Institution grounds. Starting at this road, the ground sloped gradually upward to the piece of woods which crowned the hill top and was so located that one of the most beautiful views of the lake to be found anywhere could be had from almost every foot of the course. “This piece of land was designed by nature,” said Seymour Dunn, as he watched the first match, “for a nine-hole golf course, I do not know of a finer location in the world.”

• In 1939, “ridiculous, false and untrue” were the words used by Jamestown Mayor Harry C. Erickson in describing his reaction to charges that he and 15 other city officials were guilty of “collusive and fraudulent” acts in entering a contract with the Driscoll Brothers Company of Buffalo for supplying the city with hot-mix asphalt paving material. Mayor Erickson, like a number of other officials who were defendants in the action, appeared to treat the situation without too great a concern but it was obvious that most of the officials were more than a little worried by the turn of events.

• The Driscoll Brothers, who contracted recently to furnish the city of Jamestown with all the hot-mix asphalt needed for street resurfacing this year, had reason to suspect that some evil genius had followed their trail to Jamestown from Buffalo. The past weekend they encountered labor trouble when Local No. 17 of the Engineers’ union demanded that Donovan Maxwell, non-union crane operator, be removed from the job. That trouble was overcome when City Council directed Driscoll Brothers to return Maxwell to the job and assured the company of council’s support if further objections came from organized labor. On this morning, Maxwell was back on the job and operations were proceeding merrily when the crane toppled over like a stricken animal. Maxwell escaped with only a minor injury but operations on the project had to be suspended for the day.

• In 1989, saying that man had “not been good to God’s gifts,” Gov. Mario Cuomo signed legislation strengthening the state’s commitment to protecting the Great Lakes. The new law, which Cuomo acknowledged was long overdue, controlled withdrawals and diversions of water from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. “I don’t know why it took us so long. The Indians understood and are still trying to teach us how important it is to preserve the environment … Just now we are coming to realize we have a moral obligation to preserve those gifts,” Cuomo said.

• Twenty years had passed since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. At the time it was considered the nation’s greatest accomplishment. President Richard Nixon called it the greatest feat since creation. Did it still seem as incredible to people? What did local people remember about the lunar landing? Many Jamestown area residents told The Post-Journal they remembered watching Armstrong on television and were awed at what they saw. To those who remembered the moon landing it still had luster. “I was awe struck,” Rep. Amo Houghton, R-Corning, said.

In Years Past

In 1914, two men in a Ford automobile at 2 a.m. in the morning drove up in front of the E.E. Guignon Hardware Store on North Center Street in Corry, in the main business center of the city, jumped out of the machine, heaved a brick through the plate glass window, cleaned all the goods out of the window and made a quick getaway. The police were still looking for the burglars. The haul included revolvers and flashlights. It looked as if the two were searching for tools to pull off some bigger job.

Martin Dennison was seriously injured near Ashville by falling from a barn on the C.O. Scofield place on Stone Ledge the previous afternoon. He was working with A.D. Lloyd and Clayton Lloyd roofing the barn, but strangely enough no one saw the accident. It was thought he might have been blown off the roof as a small hurricane was raging at the time. He was soon discovered in an unconscious condition and efforts were made to revive him which were only partially successful.

In 1939, hundreds of dollars damage to buildings, trees and crops was the result of the severe electrical, rain and wind storm which visited the French Creek section Thursday evening in addition to the $1,500 fire which destroyed the barn on the Earl Storer farm. The large basement dairy barns on the T.J. Neckers and Charles Green farms were each about half-unroofed and the steel roofs remaining on the buildings were so badly damaged that they would have to be removed and repaired. Anna Vander Schaaf’s barn lost about a quarter of its roof also. Silos on the farm of J.A. Beach and on the farm owned by Clifford White were in the path of the wind and were blown down.

William Peterson, farmer of Woodchuck Hill, not far from Frewsburg, was robbed of $100 by gypsies. He had been haying and was walking behind his team on his way home. A sedan drove up, the man driver, a gypsy, stopped and, with two gypsy women, got out of the car and came over to talk to Peterson who pulled over to the side of the road. They inquired where they could get some chickens and after Peterson answered their questions they jumped back in the car and drove away. Then Peterson remembered he had quite a bit of money in his pocketbook. He found it in his pants pocket. It was empty and he discovered he had been robbed.

In 1964, a search for a plane carrying a honeymoon couple reported down in Lake Erie near Silver Creek was called off the previous afternoon. The U.S. Coast Guard, responding to a report by residents along the lake shore between Silver Creek and Farnham that the wreckage of a plane had been spotted, conducted an extensive search of the entire area. No evidence to confirm the report was found. The search was sparked when it was revealed that a plane was six days overdue at Westfield, Mass. Coast Guard officials said the plane, believed to be piloted by Steward Simons, 38, of New York, could possibly have crashed in the vicinity of where witnesses reported the wreckage. Delores Geoffrey, 22, Simon’s bride, was a passenger in the plane.

From beneath the water to beneath the land was the transition slated for weeds currently being harvested by the Chautauqua Lake Association. The weeds were being trucked from pickup points around Chautauqua Lake to the dairy farm of Shiloh at Sherman where time and nature would decompose them into nitrogen-rich compost which would be worked into the soil as organic fertilizer. This was the second year Shiloh members had been involved in the laborious task of disposing of the lake’s abundant weed crop. Last year, one dump truck was used to transport the harvest to a pasture on the 220-acre farm.

In 1989, members of Cummins Engine Co.’s founding family paid $72 million for Hanson PLC’s holdings in the company, ending speculation the British conglomerate might try to take over the diesel-engine maker, officials said. The family members then exchanged the shares with Cummins for $67 million in notes, the officials said. Cummins was founded in 1919 by Will Irwin, the great uncle of J. Irwin Miller, a Cummins director and former chief executive officer. Hanson Industries, the American arm of Hanson, maintained all along that its purchase of Cummins stock was for investment purposes only.

Being reduced to a pile of rubble was the Triangle Restaurant, a sight familiar to motorists who frequently traveled either Route 394 or 474 in the Lakewood area, since it was located in the point formed by the intersection of the two highways. By later this day, most of the demolition debris was expected to be gone and the restaurant would be only a memory.

In Years Past

• In 1914, reports of inspection of the lockups at Silver Creek and Portland had been made to the state commission of prisons. The report regarding the Portland lockup said that the one in Brocton had been discontinued but one was needed there during the grape season. The one in Portland was in a rented building and should only be considered a temporary arrangement. The town should provide a modern lockup on plans to be approved by the state commission of prisons. The recommendations in regard to the Silver Creek lockup were that it should be provided with water, including toilet and drinking facilities and supervision should be provided when any person was confined in the building.

• One of the most successful picnics of the year was held when the Retail Dry Goods Merchants of Jamestown gave the inaugural picnic to their employees. The Merchants closed their places of business at noon in order to give their clerks a half-day holiday and all left on the City of New York for Midway Park. The day was perfect for a picnic with the exception of at one time it looked as though a storm was to break but the clouds soon passed over. On the steamer trip to the grounds, a program of music was given by the Eagle Military band. Fully 600 employers, employees and their friends attended the picnic.

• In 1939, the mayor and 15 other Jamestown city officials were accused of “collusive and fraudulent” acts in a Supreme court action started by the Jamestown Macadam Co. Inc. in connection with the city’s contract to purchase hot-mix asphalt paving material from the Driscoll Brothers Company of Buffalo. Service of summonses on the various defendants was commenced early in the afternoon. Mayor Erickson was the first of the officials to be served. The Driscoll Brothers firm started delivering hot-mix “Stanolithic” asphalt to the city a week ago. Thus far, the material had been used only on Willard Street.

• Firemen from Falconer and vicinity displayed their best in the colorful parade Saturday evening, closing the firemen’s carnival in the Jamestown suburb, and also serving as the climax to the observance of Chautauqua County Volunteer Firemen’s Gala Days. Baton twirlers received particular attention during the reviewing. Chief of Police Wesson M. Paplow was chairman of the parade led by Jack Hoxie, Western movie star.

• In 1964, members of the Lakewood Methodist Church removed the cornerstone from the current structure, which was laid Nov. 22, 1914, and hoped to place the face of the stone and possibly some of the contents in the cornerstone of the new church building, under construction at Shadyside and Summit avenues. The cornerstone contained copies of the Nov. 21, 1914, editions of the Jamestown Morning Post and the Jamestown Evening Journal, the Erie Conference Journal for 1914, “Discipline of the Methodist Church in 1912,” and 17 handwritten pages of information about church officers and history.

• A fire of undetermined origin destroyed a car and damaged a garage and kitchen at the home of Ralph Davis on Canterbury Drive, W.E., shortly after 1 a.m. The loss had not been estimated. No one was injured. The brick home was erected several years previously. Davis, an official of the Sanitary Wiping Cloth Co., discovered the fire. He notified the Jamestown Fire Department, which notified the Fire Control Center at Mayville and called Celoron Fire Department since the property was in the Celoron Fire District. The fire started in the car in the garage and the flames spread to the adjacent kitchen and started up a partition to the attic.

• In 1989, sending Chautauqua Central School students in grades 7-12 to another district continued to be a controversial topic in Chautauqua. A petition calling for a vote on three questions was presented to Board of Education President Evan Miner at the past week’s annual reorganization meeting. The petition called for votes on renovating the junior-senior high school, building a new junior-senior high school or sending students to other districts. But almost 160 people said they wanted the board to step on the brake. Residents signed a letter asking the board to table the petition and explore its alternatives thoroughly.

• When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the news took five days to reach London. When President Reagan was shot in 1981, word reached London in five minutes. “Television is erasing our national borders,” said David R. Gergen. “Everything can now be seen, heard and digested in real time.” Gergen, editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report, gave the final morning lecture during Chautauqua Institution’s week on Communications: TV, Its Impact on Worldwide Thought.

In Years Past

In 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Hale of 9 Sherman St., Jamestown, tendered an informal reception the previous afternoon at their home in honor of the former’s father, W.F. Hale of Allen Street, celebrating his 87th birthday. About 40 relatives and friends paid their respects and were served by the hostess with a refreshing punch. The dining room of the home was prettily decorated in red and there was everywhere a profusion of red geraniums. A large birthday cake, almost obscured by candles, centered the table at which were seated the honor guest and fourteen relatives and intimate friends, each of whom was over 75 years of age. Sharing honors with him was his wife who would observe her 81st birthday the following Monday.

The discovery that a sewer in Olean was partially filled with crude vaseline was giving plumbers and the street department of that city something to puzzle over. Recently the sewer became clogged and an oily dark colored mixture flowed into the cellar of the Anibus residence. The line was opened and found to be full of grease of the consistency of vaseline but of a dirty black color. The odor was almost as strong as gasoline, visibly affecting the plumbers seeking to repair the sewer. It was believed that the stuff was waste from the Vacuum Oil Company’s refinery at North Olean but there seemed to be no way to account for its presence in the Olean sewer.

In 1939, the contract for the ornamental sculpture on the new Chautauqua County Jail, nearing completion at Mayville, had been awarded to Jean Mackay of Buffalo. The estimated cost of this work was $1,000 but Mackay was the low bidder and the contract was awarded for $835. The sculpture would consist of four different items, the largest of which was a panel about five-by-nine feet occupying the central position directly above the main entrance. This panel was done in what was known as bas-relief. The idea of the whole panel symbolized the function of the building behind it. A jail should be a highly efficient building and one to command respect but it should hardly be made to look inviting which explained the somber theme of the design of the big panel. The main theme of this panel was remorse.

A crowd of 10,000 jammed the Chautauqua amphitheater to hear the king of jazz, Paul Whiteman and his famous orchestra play a concert engagement. Every seat was taken and spectators crowded the huge auditorium to make one of the largest audiences in the institution’s history. From 5 p.m. until the time sthe concert started, people flocked through the gates in a steady procession. From 6 p.m. on, the line never broke. At one time, as far as the eye could see along the highway toward Jamestown, there was a solid lineup of cars waiting to deposit eager jazz fans at the entrance gate. Chautauquans themselves turned out en masse for the spectacle. The plaza had never been more deserted since the past winter.

In 1964, the word “if” had only two letters but it was a big word for some 5,000 area children this day. If it rained, the “Kid’s Fun Day” program at Lakewood would be canceled and a rain date would be announced later. Rain had been forecast by the weatherman. It was no secret that for the past two or three weeks around 4 or 5 p.m., rain clouds had visited the area. The “Kid’s Fun Day” would be in progress from 2-10 p.m. in the rear of Jenkins Dairy. Police Chief Anthony C. Caprino of the Lakewood Police Department and Capt. Morrie Anderson of the police reserves, had made arrangements to welcome more than 5,000 children, who would be admitted free of charge to see the circus aerialists, dogs, ponies and elephants perform.

A $250,000 remodeling program of the Bank of Jamestown was expected to begin immediately, President Howard N. Donovan announced. Contracts had been awarded for the construction of a substantial new addition at 206 N. Main Street, adjacent to the present building. The new four-story structure would provide an additional 6,000 square feet of work space to the present facilities. The building at 206 N. Main Street, formerly occupied by Lipman Clothing Store and purchased by the Bank of Jamestown two years ago, would be razed and the new structure erected.

In Years Past

• In 1914, taking the stand that he was between the devil and the deep sea but refusing to say which was the deep sea, Contractor F.P. Shunk of Meadville, pleaded his inability to continue moving the old hose house standing in the street on North Main within 48 hours, as directed by the Meadville council. The telephone company had been holding him up, he stated, by refusing to raise their cables at that point sufficient to unable the building to pass under them. There had been considerable complaint on the part of many citizens that the position of the building directly between the curbs, effectively blocked all traffic on the street.

• Humane Officer Hiram Brown went before Alderman M.R. Henderson and made information against 16 men who were caught in the raid which he and Sheriff Homan and two deputies made Sunday night on a cockfighting ring near Titusville. The names in the information were those which were noted immediately after the arrest and were probably all fictitious. A hearing was set for Tuesday afternoon but Mr. Brown and the sheriff did not expect any of the defendants to be present. Probably the only reason any of the men would show up would be to get their roosters. The charge in each case was cruelty to animals. The most important question confronting the Sheriff was what he should do with the 18 roosters he confiscated.

• In 1939, the severe storm of Thursday evening forced the Convention Shows, playing at Falconer all week under the auspices of the Falconer Fire Department, to close for the evening and the high wind, which accompanied the storm, blew down the long bleacher tent at the Jack Hoxie Show. No spectators were in the tent at the time as most of them had left the ground when the storm first started. The tent, which was about 70 feet long and open along the arena side, gave the wind a good sweeping under the canvas. All free acts were postponed due to the storm.

• The second of a series of jalopy racing programs would be staged at the Jamestown Motor Speedway, Stockton Road, Sunday, when some of the topnotch drivers of New York and Pennsylvania would be in the lists competing for honors. A 10-race card had been arranged by management. In addition to the stock car obstacle races inside the oval, there would be a 10-mile dirt track race for automobiles. Novelty and surprise features were also scheduled. A relay race for horses and a similar race for jalopies were down on the bill.

• In 1964, the best of two motor racing worlds would clash head on at Watkins Glen on Sunday afternoon in a 50-mile Grand National stock car race. Many-times sports car national champion Walt Hansgen of Bedminster, N.J. would battle the nation’s leading stock car driver, Richard Petty of Randleman, N.C., for the $1,400 first place prize money and 500 national points. Hansgen would drive a 1964 Ford, while Petty would drive the same 1964 blue Plymouth that took him to victory in the famed Daytona 500 earlier in the year. Hansgen was driving for the Briggs Swift Cunningham, Jr., racing team. He was the only driver ever to win the Watkins Glen Sports Car Grand Prix of America four times. Petty was the leading contender for the NASCAR stock car championship.

• What was the status of the proposed Chadakoin River Park in Jamestown? That question was raised by Fred J. Cusimano, acting chairman at a meeting of the Jamestown Planning Commission. “Where do we stand on the acquisition of land and how many, if any, options have we picked up,” he asked. Russell Tryon, Jamestown’s planning consultant, said the project was in the hands of the city’s legal department. “If the project is stalled,” he said, “Corporation Counsel Samuel Edson has run into difficulties in acquiring certain parcels of land.” Commission member William Wharton said he had received numerous inquiries concerning the status of the park and said the public should be informed “the project is being worked on.”

• In 1989, the village of Celoron was considering using highway department crews to clean up weeds littering the shoreline of Chautauqua Lake in the village, officials said. “If we have to do shoreline cleanup, we’ll do that and we’ll make sure it’s composted properly,” Mayor Ronald Johnson said. The clean-up plan had been discussed with the Celoron Highway Department and Johnson said he was also investigating the possibility of cutting away a portion of the bank in the Ellicott Shores area. Johnson said this would result in faster water flow which would carry away stagnant masses of weeds.

• With a budget cut of almost $2,000, Jamestown playground Supervisor Tom Karapantso had to cut time from Jamestown’s summer playground program. “If we keep the staff salaries the same as last year and cut the program two days, we’ll stay within the budget,” Karapantso said, noting he was also cutting his own work time. The program began July 5 and would end Aug. 18, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions at the 12 city playground sites.

In Years Past

In 1914, among the legal papers in the cases before Surrogate Harley Crosby in Jamestown city hall was one of more than passing interest. It was the last will and testament of John Meehan of this city who died the past January. The interesting thing about the paper was its frail condition owing to having passed through the Gokey fire of 1910. It was in the fireproof safe of Alonzo Picard’s law office and was therefore not destroyed. The intense heat to which the safe was subjected, however, affected the paper. It was yellow and brittle and had broken apart along the folds but was still perfectly legible. It was being carefully kept in tissue paper.

Brigs Feather, a shoe manufacturer of Saltaire, England, who had been the guest of his sisters, Mrs. Samuel Nutter and Mrs. Petyt, for the past nine weeks here had been booked by the Merz Agency to sail for Liverpool on the Cedric, July 25. Feather was very much pleased with his visit in Jamestown. Speaking of his trip to a representative of The Journal, he said he liked the city so well that he might come here to reside. “There is one thing I would like to say through the columns of the Journal,” said he, “and that is to thank the many friends in Jamestown for their hospitality.”

In 1939, suggestions designed to help the American people toward a better life were made by Dr. Harry A. Overstreet in the fourth of his lecture series on Ourselves 1939 at Chautauqua. “Nice people must stop being snooty about politics,” he said. “We must no longer think of politics as being the last resort of scoundrels but as an activity toward which the best minds of our country should be directed. Nothing much can happen in this country as long as the intelligentsia stay out of politics.” He stated that the tendency of most Americans was to stand around the fringes of the sidewalk and complain about what the politicians were doing. Overstreet said, “What we need is less booing and more doing.”

A torrential downpour accompanied the most severe electrical storm of the summer season Thursday night when lightning struck a barn on the farm of Leslie Barton, near Ashville. Despite the efforts of Ashville and Lakewood firemen, the structure burned to the ground. The residence was saved as were farm equipment and some head of livestock although some did perish in the flames. As Barton was leading two horses from the burning barn, one of the frightened animals kicked him in the side. He was taken to WCA Hospital for treatment. His injuries were not of a serious nature.

In 1964, the “Army Worm Epidemic” was spreading in Chautauqua County. Glen Cline, Chautauqua County agricultural agent, warned farmers to be on the alert for the worms and said he had received about 15 calls reporting worms in oat fields. Most calls, he said, came from farmers located in the vicinity of Sherman, Clymer, Stedman and Panama. The agricultural agent said attempts to hire a plane, equipped with a spraying device, had, to date, failed. Cline said the worms didn’t eat the oats but stripped the leaves necessary for nutrients, from the plants.

Prospects for the operation of the municipal beach at Burtis Bay appeared doomed after Jamestown City Council declined to take immediate action on a resolution to appropriate $6,000 for the purpose. Effect of this action was expected to result in such a delay as to make it unlikely that the measure could be approved in time to recruit personnel and complete preparations for opening the beach so it could be in use during the remainder of the summer.

In 1989, the death early this day of Robert C. Hoag, 53, treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, was being felt as a great loss to all who knew him, according to responses from across the state. Salamanca Mayor John F. Gould directed that all flags in the city be flown at half mast. “Bob’s death is a real blow to the Seneca Nation and all people of our area,” said Gould. “He’s been a real force helping to achieve many things. I’m so sorry he had to die at such a young age with such a wonderful future before him.” Seneca Nation President Dennis Lay ordered all tribal operations closed down on this morning.

Grabbing handfuls of weeds from Lake Chautauqua’s silty bottom was part of the day’s work for a group of New York state biologists studying the lake’s weed composition. Two six-person research teams from the State College at Fredonia were putting on their wetsuits and snorkels over the next few weeks as they gathered July’s growth from 30 sites around the lake. Their data would be used to develop a lake management plan and an environmental impact statement required by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

In Years Past

In 1914, the little bridge near the Moose clubhouse at Celoron was the scene of a serious automobile accident about midnight Saturday and the three occupants of the machine, two men and a woman, escaped death most miraculously. A touring car bearing a Pennsylvania license came down the road, it was said, at a good rate of speed. It struck the iron railing of the bridge and then skidded into a telegraph pole with such force that the car was turned turtle. The names of the occupants of the car were not learned. One of the men sustained a broken collarbone, the other had a fractured finger. The woman escaped injury.

The four chief drinking places at Celoron were raided Saturday afternoon by a posse of employees of the state department of excise and liquor to the amount of over 10,000 bottles taken into custody by the state men. What bid fair to be a test case as to whether the liquor which was being sold at Celoron violated the state excise law or not would be the result. The raid was well-planned. Eight men participated and the four places were taken in charge at almost the same moment, two men to each place.

In 1939, pavement markings under a uniform method formed a part of the New York state highway officials planning to complete the marking of all highways in the state system this summer. The markings, however, would serve little purpose if the motorists did not understand them. The system of marking was based on three different lines. The first was the single broken line. It was used to show motorist the lanes in which they should travel. The second was a single solid line. This line should not be crossed except under unusual circumstances. The third was the double line which might consist of one solid and one broken line or two solid lines. If the solid line was on the driver’s side, it was a prohibition against crossing the line.

A mother and daughter went shopping the other day in downtown Jamestown and had their “pitcher took” by The Journal’s candid cameraman. If Mrs. Harry C. Johnson and daughter, Dorothy Jean would call at The Journal office they would receive, without charge, a 7-by-9-inch sepia-toned enlargement of the picture as would every person whose picture appeared in The Journal in this daily series. People should keep their weather eye and a grade A smile peeled for the candid cameraman who was roaming the business district in quest of informal photos.

In 1964, the heaviest rainfall of the year gave welcome relief over the weekend to the area’s parched farmlands and was expected to boost Jamestown’s water supply. During the 48-hour period, ending at 8 a.m. this morning, 3.42 inches of rain fell in Jamestown and throughout the county. More rain was forecast. The widespread rain, Merle Smedberg, superintendent of the Board of Public Utilities, said, was bound to help the city’s water supply at the Cassadaga Valley Pumping Station.

While New York state appeared to be content to transform Route 17 into a four-lane, limited-access highway on a piecemeal basis, Pennsylvania was rapidly pushing construction of the Keystone Shortway, which would further isolate Western New York. This warning came from William Taylor, a Route 17 Association director. Mr. Taylor said he pointed out the threat when Route 17 officials met with Gov. Rockefeller in March, to push for completion of the Southern Tier Expressway from Binghamton to Lake Erie. Mr. Taylor said when the Pennsylvania shortway was completed it would be the shortest way to New York City from the west. This would not only bypass Route 17, but it would also take a considerable amount of travel off the New York State Thruway.

In 1989, plans for $1 million in rehabilitation projects at the Chautauqua County Home would proceed now that the home’s board of directors had received a pledge from county government that the facility would not be closed or sold. In addition, operations would be revamped in line with the deficit-reducing trend at the home, Charles Ferraro, county Department of Social Services director, told The Post-Journal. The status of the home and its future were discussed at a meeting involving Ferraro, the Chautauqua County Legislature’s ad hoc committee on the home and the home’s board of directors. In a letter from County Executive John A. Glenzer, the board of directors received Glenzer’s pledge that the home would remain under county auspices. “I have, in fact, withdrawn my recommendation that it be sold,” Glenzer wrote.

The famous San Diego Chicken made another visit to Jamestown’s College Stadium for Tuesday night’s NY-P League game between the Jamestown Expos and the Batavia Clippers. Young fans got a close-up look and a hug from the famous fowl while he was performing on top of the Expos’ dugout.

In Years Past

In 1914, a runaway in Jamestown that held all spectators breathless occurred the previous morning when a horse hitched to one of the heavy Uneeda Biscuit wagons dashed down Chandler Street toward Winsor and abruptly precipitated itself against the stone wall of the Winsor Street overhead bridge of the Erie Railroad. The driver, Hilding Lofgren, of Thayer Street, stated that as the wagon was being driven along in front of Greendahl’s Grocery store on Chandler Street, one of the front wheels came off and he was thrown to the pavement sustaining minor injuries. The startled horse then raced down the steep Chandler Street hill and had gained sufficient momentum that it was unable to stop. After the wagon had been removed from the prostrate horse, it was discovered that beyond a few scratches, the animal had escaped injury.

Justice R.T. Cowing of Lakewood discharged Clifton Pickard and Carl Stein, the two Jamestown young men who, with James Rugg, were arrested some days ago upon the complaint of Fred Zelta of Beechwood, charged with disorderly conduct and a number of other offenses, without even requiring the young men to appear before him. The case against Pickard and Stein was identical with that brought against Rugg, who was acquitted when tried. Attorney Robert H. Jackson, who appeared for the three young men, stated that the young men admitted in court that they were noisy on the occasion which led to the trouble but that they denied absolutely the conduct charged would constitute criminal conduct. Justice Cowing also failed to find in the evidence anything which would convict the young men of a violation of the law.

In 1939, a pleasure-seeking couple who dangled for five hours on a board seat 125 feet above ground at the New York World’s Fair parachute jump were rescued at dawn after two daring mechanics cut the jammed guide wire which held them captive. The aerial prisoners were Mr. and Mrs. J. Cornelius Rathborne, socially prominent couple of Old Westbury, Long Island. Rathborne was captain of the U.S. junior championship polo team and his wife was a Baltimore society belle before their marriage. Their parachute, one of 11 in operation, stuck at 10:25 p.m. the previous night. The parachute jump was one of the most popular amusement features at the World’s Fair.

In every town there was some big-hearted man who remembered the youngsters who had no dads to buy them ice cream cones and see that they get their share of rides on the Celoron Park merry-go-round. In Jamestown there materialized such a man in the person of John Campbell, general manager of Celoron Park, who entertained the youngsters from the Children’s Home at Randolph. Whoops of glee reached over the hills from the moment the big Randolph truck, followed by a fleet of automobiles, left the home until the triumphant arrival at that Utopia of childhood, Celoron Park. “For he’s a jolly good fellow,” was sung lustily by the small guests each time they caught a glimpse of Mr. Campbell. The Randolph youngsters’ eyes danced with sheer joy as they scampered from one exhilarating ride to another.

In 1989, Laurence Olivier, the foremost actor of his generation and leader of the giants of the English-speaking theater, died the previous day. He was 82. He died “peacefully in his sleep,” surrounded by friends and relatives, said his agent, Laurence Evans. The cause of death was not given. Knighted, ennobled and revered by the film and theater world, he was Lord Olivier when he died, one of the very few Britons to be given a seat in the House of Lords for his acting prowess.

The Rolling Stones were returning to the road after an eight-year layoff but the self-proclaimed world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band said they were not coming back to make a quick buck. “That’s The Who!” guitarist Ron Wood explained in joining bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts to announce a 29-city North American tour in support of their new album, “Steel Wheels.” The tour would open Sept. 1 in Buffalo’s Rich Stadium.

In Years Past

In 1914, Chautauqua County Day was being observed for the first time as a special event in the Chautauqua assembly program and the special exercises of forenoon and afternoon had been attended by the largest audiences of the season thus far. For the evening the first of the season’s dramatic entertainment’s given by the Chautauqua players would be staged in the amphitheater, the play being “The Passing of the Third Floor Back.” At the morning program in the auditorium, Director Bestor spoke briefly expressing the desire of the Chautauqua Institution for a closer relationship with the communities within close reach of Chautauqua. The hope was that an annual Chautauqua Day would bring this about.

The Interior Metal Manufacturing Company, one of Jamestown’s growing industries, had found it necessary to add extensive improvements to its plant on River Street, to take care of its increasing business. At the meeting of the directors, together with some of the larger stockholders, it was unanimously decided to build and equip a three-story addition equal to one-half the capacity of the present factory. This company was fast becoming one of the important industries of Jamestown.

In 1939, the children of Falconer, Jamestown and vicinity were guests of Jack Hoxie and his leading lady, Dixie Starr, at the Convention Shows, playing all week in Falconer. At the matinee performance the grounds were thronged with youngsters who enjoyed the various rides and concessions. During the rodeo performance of Hoxie, moving pictures of the western star, his leading lady and the children were taken by Hoxie’s cameraman. These pictures would probably be shown on the screen in the show ground Thursday evening. Cold weather held down the attendance at the opening of the shows on Monday evening but according to the committees, crowds were expected for the remainder of the week. One of the features of the show was the high dive by Phoenix, who dove from a 125-foot ladder into a net.

Because publicity attendant to his liking for cigars, cigarettes and pipes had caused so much bother, Bobby Nordquist, who would be three in September, swore off smoking this day. Bobby’s mother, Mrs. Clyde N. Nordquist, said candy, henceforward, would replace tobacco on the young man’s list of necessities. She said he had been smoking for six months without apparent harm.

In 1964, a loaded tractor-trailer truck missed a sharp curve on Route 62 about 5 miles south of Frewsburg this morning and landed on its side, dumping tons of coal over the highway. Both occupants of the truck, Jack Crawford, 29, operator of the truck and his wife, Margaret, 27, of Hamburg, N.Y., were injured in the mishap. According to police, Crawford freed himself from the shattered cab and with the help of a passerby, was able to remove Mrs. Crawford from the cab. Traffic was hampered but one lane was kept moving by using the shoulder of the highway. Robert Payne, Town of Carroll police officer, assisted State Police in keeping traffic moving.

In an effort to forestall a repetition of the previous summer’s lake fly scourge, the Chautauqua Lake Association offered the use of a heavy duty fogger to the five townships bordering the lake. James D. Bayliss, pest control chairman, informed each of the five supervisors the machine was ready for immediate service. The offer was made on condition the fogger be operated by the town highway departments and that the towns provide the chemicals.

In 1989, the parent company of Jamestown’s Blackstone Corp. announced that it was offering the locally based firm for sale. If a buyer was found, it would mark the third time in about 4 years that the automotive heat exchange company had changed hands. The firm was owned by Mark IV Industries of West Amherst, near Buffalo, which acquired Blackstone the past October as part of its purchase of the parent company – Armtek Corp. of New Haven, Conn. Armtek acquired Blackstone in March of 1985. For many years before that it had been operated under local ownership by the Lenna family.

Mel Blanc, “The Man of A Thousand Voices” including the legions of Looney Tunes stars such as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Elmer Fudd and that mischievously silly wabbit Bugs Bunny, had died. He was 81. The originator of such lines as Bugs’ “Eh, what’s up, Doc?,” Sylvester the Cat’s “Thufferin’ thuccotash!” and Porky’s “Th-th-that’s all, folks,” died from complications of heart disease and other ailments. By his own count, Blanc estimated he had mastered at least 900 different accents and dialects during a career spanning more than 50 years.

In Years Past

In 1914, Anna Eckerd, the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Eckerd, escaped serious injury when she was struck by an automobile. Little Anna had been sent to mail a post card and had just gone out of her father’s store on East Second Street, Jamestown, in company with another little girl when she was struck by the automobile driven by a Mr. Young of Cherry Creek. The car did not run over the child but she was thrown a considerable distance. Eyewitnesses to the accident stated that Mr. Young was driving at a good speed when he hit the girl. He stopped his car and picked her up and took her to the office of Dr. J.M. Brooks where her injuries were attended.

Probably the first action of its kind to be brought before any magistrate in this section of the state had just been disposed of by Salamanca City Judge Whipple. Through it, Mary Geago, aged 18 years, had been committed to the Erie County Hospital at Buffalo on account of being a tuberculosis sufferer. Action was brought under the provisions of section 326A of chapter 559 of the statutes of 1913, taking effect in May of that year. The chapter was an amendment to the general public health laws of the state. The section applied to persons suffering from contagious, infectious or communicable diseases.

In 1939, the Falconer Fire Department carnival week opened this night with the presentation of the Convention Shows, featuring Jack Hoxie, former movie star, with his own movie company taking pictures daily in and around Falconer. The week would culminate with a big gala day Saturday when thousands of volunteer firemen of Chautauqua County would gather at Falconer for a big parade and other activities. The members of the fire department would be inspected Wednesday evening by the Falconer Village Board at the community building. The department quarters and apparatus would also be inspected.

The American Bar Association convention opened this day in San Francisco with delegates studying an assertion by U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson that lawyers must arrange a cut-rate service for wage earners or risk government control of their profession. “Our bar,” Jackson declared, “cannot claim to be discharging its full duty to society by rendering service that is out of reach of an increasing proportion of our people.”

In 1964, swirling flurries of snow were deposited on a small area in the vicinity of Sugar Grove, Pa. the previous afternoon during a freakish electrical storm which skirted the New York-Pennsylvania line and pelted the Kiantone-Frewsburg region with hail and rain. The unseasonable visitation of “white stuff” was enough to provide a brief powdery cover of highways and windshields before it melted and disappeared. No serious damage to crops in the area, due to the storm, had been reported.

Wesley N. Magnuson, 49, of Prospect Street, Jamestown, well-known southside resident and active in bowling leagues, died the previous evening. He was stricken while roller skating with his family at Midway Park. He was foreman of maintenance at the Marlin Rockwell Co., for the past 30 years. A prominent athlete both during his school days and at the YMCA, he also participated in community athletic teams and bowled with the Trans American Bowling Team of the Manufacturers’ Bowling League at Ten Pin Lanes. He and his wife were the first husband-and-wife team to be given life memberships in the Milton J. Fletcher PTA where he took an active interest in the PTA and chorus. A devoted family man and a genial favorite among many, Mr. Magnuson enjoyed a wide circle of friends.

In 1989, haying and corn growing were going well in the area now that the daily rains had stopped and more favorable growing and harvesting weather had been introduced to the area. Farmers were frustrated early in the haying season by extensive rains that also made it impossible to fit and plant many corn fields. A few got at least part of their corn in the ground before the sustained wet weather.

After three hearing postponements, the fate of a 130-foot-long wall along Route 20 was still in legal limbo. The wall – a source of conflict between the state Department of Transportation and its owners, Howard and Laura Green – remained unaltered despite DOT proposals that would eliminate or cut it to half its size, Howard Green told The Post-Journal. A court decision on the wall had been postponed four times since March 10 by Judge Joseph F. Mattina who had advised the Greens and DOT to try to reach an out-of-court settlement. “I’d like to get this thing cleared up,” said Mr. Green, adding that he had already spent “several thousand dollars” in legal fees.

In Years Past

In 1914, a very successful lawn social was given Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Lowe on Lowe Avenue at Sherman’s Bay by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Lakewood M.E. Church for the benefit of the burned church. The lawn was prettily decorated for the occasion with Japanese lanterns, electric lights and flags. During the evening, ice cream and cake were served at tables placed upon the lawn underneath the evergreen trees. A fish pond was run during the evening and homemade candy was sold at a stand by the Epworth league of the church. During the evening, the South Side Orchestra of Jamestown, stationed on the verandah of the home, played pleasing music.

• On Saturday of this week there would be an outing of the employees of the Republic Rubber Company of Youngstown, Ohio, on Chautauqua Lake and at Celoron Park. The party would arrive in Jamestown on a special excursion made up of two trains of 14 coaches each. It was expected that 1,500 people would come on the excursion. The excursions would draw up at the boatlanding where two special boats had been chartered for the trip around the lake. Upon the return, the boats would stop at Celoron Park, where they would spend the remainder of the day. The party would return to Youngstown about 7 or 8 o’clock in the evening.

In 1939, Dr. George E. Vincent, honorary president of Chautauqua Institution, asked for a continuation of the struggle for the better society. He spoke before a large audience in the Amphitheater. “We should remember,” he said, “that spirit that manifests itself among the dreamers of dreams, and that we should go on dreaming, making for better unity and the uplifting of mankind. The ancient slogan for this is: ‘Without vision, the people perish,'” Dr. Vincent recalled the ancient days of Plato and the lifetime of Sir Thomas More as outstanding periods when a better society was the aim. In each instance, the speaker pointed out that a just society was based upon economic justice, the capacity to carry out commands and desire and passion – all in harmony with each other.

Nine boys from Jamestown High School left the county Thursday morning for Syracuse where they would attend sessions of the Boys State at the state fairgrounds under the sponsorship of the American Legion of New York state. They would have the aid and counsel of state officials in organizing and conducting their own “state” government. All the boys were sent by the American Legion posts in their home towns.

In 1964, Chautauqua Institution officials launched an ambitious Centennial Fund Campaign the previous night which raised over $464,000 toward the 10-year goal of $2.8 million. Donations received during the next 10-year period, culminating in 1974, Chautauqua’s 100th year, would be used to improve and expand the physical assets of the Institution. The proposed plan for development of the 350-acre assembly ground included a new entrance and reception center, pedestrian walkways, improvements and enlargement of the amphitheater, new studios and practice areas for the arts, crafts, music and theater program, the renovation or replacement of old, outdated buildings, and additions to student and faculty housing.

Mayor Fred H. Dunn said he would renew a campaign for construction of a new Jamestown City Hall to replace the present 70-year-old building which he once labeled “a dilapidated old dump.” He would ask the city Planning Commission “to take immediate leadership toward formulating plans for a new city hall.” The mayor said he would seek the advice of representatives from business firms, retail merchants and industrial plants. “Jamestown is on the threshold of a population and industrial expansion – and we must face up to certain serious needs – including a new city hall, which has been too long overlooked or postponed,” Mayor Dunn said.

In Years Past

• In 1914, “I want to go again,” was the comment of Mrs. Edward Connelly, the first local woman to make a flight with A J. Engle, who was operating the hydroplane at Celoron in this season. The flight, which took place Tuesday evening, consisted of a trip to Driftwood and return at a height of from 600-700 feet. In describing the sensations experienced while traveling with rapidity through the air while separated by several hundreds of feet of distance from firm ground, she said, “Although there was a wind blowing, the machine traveled smoothly and evenly and it was much the same sensation that would be experienced sitting back leisurely in a luxurious chair in one’s own home. It was perfectly lovely and I want to go again.”

• Angelo Guito, a boy about four years, was struck by shot from a gun fired by Dogcatcher E. Booth of Mayville, late Friday afternoon. Booth had been appointed the official dog catcher for this part of Chautauqua County, under quarantine for rabies. Thursday he visited Westfield and as he was walking down East Pearl Street he saw young Guito leading a bulldog by a rope. The dog wore no muzzle. Booth raised his gun and fired and one shot either flew wide of the mark or else glanced off a bone in the dog’s head and struck the boy just beneath the eye. Severe criticism was being made for allowing Booth to shoot dogs in the street. He should take them to some out of the way spot to be shot.

• In 1939, Frederick P. Hall, president of The Journal Printing Company, publisher of The Jamestown Evening Journal and the Journal Press, Inc., and for a long period of years a leading figure in the life of the community, died at the Nassau County hospital at Mineola, Long Island, Friday night at the age of 79 years. Death was due to a fracture of one hip, sustained in a fall while attending the annual meeting of the New York Associated Dailies at the Lido Country Club at Long Beach, on June 26. He had just been honored with a life membership in the organization, which he assisted in forming 40 years ago, and stepped back to take his seat at his chair which fell from the dais. At first he made excellent progress toward recovery but on Thursday his condition took a sudden change for the worse and the end came the previous night.

• The Children’s Health Camp at Cassadaga was the scene of much activity on Friday when the children began to arrive for a six-week stay. Everything was in readiness for them and within a short time after their arrival, the youngsters were busy getting settled in and enjoying themselves on the playground. Sixty-five children came from Jamestown and this day children from other parts of the county were admitted. The American Legion provided the transportation for the children from Jamestown who were driven there in cars.

• In 1964, a conference of Indian missionaries had wired President Johnson, asking him to fulfill the late President Kennedy’s pledge of help for the Seneca Indians. The Senecas had to leave their reservation in southwestern New York state by Oct. 1 to make way for the U.S. Army’s Kinzua Dam project. More than 350 Indian missionaries of 15 Protestant denominations, meeting in triennial conference at Estes Park, Colo., joined in the message to Washington. House and Senate conferees had met several times, without success, in efforts to work out a compromise in their bills, to compensate the Indians.

• Substantial improvement in the performance of Jamestown High School students on State Regents examinations was reported to the Board of Education by Dr. Harold O’Neal, superintendent of schools. Preliminary analysis of test results had revealed that the percentages of local students who passed Regents exams administered in January and June were higher than the previous year in 12 subject areas. Major gains were registered in the third year German test, passed by 100 percent of the students this year as against 75 percent the past year.

• In 1989, the sounds of Doc Severinsen’s trumpet filled the air at Chautauqua’s amphitheater on a muggy Friday evening. The appearance by Severinsen and his band, Facets, wound up the second week of the institution’s 115th season.

• Without words, they assumed their familiar positions, spontaneously in front of WKBW-TV’s shiny silver studio near Lake Erie in Buffalo; Rick Azar to the left, Irv Weinstein in the middle and Tom Jolls to his right. “Just the way it’s always been,” remarked Azar wistfully before a photographer snapped one of the final remembrances of a 24-year relationship that earned the trio a place in television history. The retirement of sportscaster Azar on June 30 ended what possibly was America’s longest-running anchor team in the business. Capital Cities Broadcasting, which owned the station in 1965 when the three were first teamed, couldn’t have had a clue that the combination of the debonair Azar, the brash Weinstein and the unassuming Jolls would become so firmly entrenched in the consciousness of Western New York viewers.

In Years Past

In 1914, Anna A. Farnham of East Sixth Street, was injured this forenoon when she was struck by a Ford automobile driven by Albert Carlson of Buffalo. Carlson was driving west on East Third Street when he saw Farnham step off the curb in front of Anderson’s Meat Market. He stopped his car and Farnham stopped. Thinking she saw him, he started again, running into her. Farnham was knocked to the pavement and received a scalp wound and several bruises. Luckily, however, the car did not pass over her. She was about 70 years of age. She was taken to her home where her injuries were attended by Dr. B.F. Illston.

While the safe and sane Fourth of July celebrated in Jamestown resulted in few accidents, the neighboring town of Corry reported two, one of them serious. Walter, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Landers, touched a match to a firecracker in a flower pot and the delay in getting results caused him to discard warnings and inspect the piece. Just then it exploded. The explosion set fire to his clothing and burned his face so badly that he was temporarily blinded. His father extinguished the fire and it was hoped that he would recover his sight. Davis, the four-year-old son of J.H. Clough of Corry, was struck in the face by a firecracker and painfully but not seriously burned.

In 1939, characterizing Hitler as one of the greatest bluffers of all ages, Julien Bryan, world traveler, predicted the past night at Chautauqua that there would be no war in Europe this year or next. His talk illustrated by films he had taken in Germany, was given in the amphitheater. Bryan, whose documentary films had a wide showing in this country, stated that he did not see how it was possible for Hitler to carry on a war and that the Munich pact, the recent Czecho-Slovakian coup, and most of his other diplomatic moves since he rose to power, had been based on sheer bluff. “Hitler does not have all of his people squarely behind him,” the speaker said, “nor does he have the gasoline and oil necessary to keep his army in motion.”

Frederick C. Larson, who had operated a flying school at the North Main Street Airport in Jamestown for the last several years, had purchased a new Taylor Cub training ship and planned to continue giving flying instructions at the field, he announced. Larson flew his new ship into Jamestown the previous day from Erie, Pa. It had previously been flown to Erie from Lock Haven, Pa., where the Taylor Cub was manufactured. The new ship was the same type as being used by the Federal government in its new program for training for U.S. Army reserve fliers.

In 1964, a two-hour session of Jamestown City Council’s Highway Committee turned into a verbal slugfest with Roger Burgeson, director of public works, defending himself against attacks by several Councilman critics. They blasted Burgeson’s recent action in authorizing use of DPW equipment, including a $23,000 paving machine, and personnel, by the village of Lakewood on a rental basis. Jamestown equipment had been observed, with work crews, paving Winch Road in Lakewood. Burgeson said the work in Lakewood was in line with long-established practices permitting rental of such apparatus between local agencies of government.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation apparently had reversed its decision and would build its $100,000 office and storage building in Lakewood after all. Site for the project was on Route 17-J opposite Chautauqua Avenue, according to reports. This was the same location which a previous Village Board refused to rezone for commercial use, touching off a political fight. In the subsequent village election in March, the five-member Village Board gained a three-to-two Democratic majority for the first time in may years. The past Monday night they approved the rezoning of the Fairmount Avenue site, with five others, for commercial use.

In 1989, a team from the Buffalo office of the FBI and other federal investigators were expected to return to a former nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to focus on an inquiry on handling of non-radioactive chemical wastes. Paul Moskal of the Buffalo FBI office told The Post-Journal, “We’re looking at hazardous wastes in general, including storage, handling and transportation in what is expected to be an on-going investigation.”

United Refining Co. of Warren, owner of a Kwik Fill service station in Frewsburg, was to begin work to remove two leaking underground storage tanks whose fumes resulted in the evacuation of six families from three buildings the past week. The company would also pay for temporarily housing the families. A Health Department spokesman said Kwik Fill agreed to remove the two leaking underground tanks and investigate the best method of venting fumes from the surrounding soil and the affected buildings.

In Years Past

In 1914, the only case in court in Mayville on this morning was that of Charles Faso of Portland who was charged with selling liquor contrary to the license law in existence in Portland. The law gave the right to sell liquor over the bar but not in bottles to be carried away. Faso was charged with selling liquor to Harold Smith of Watts Flats, a boy 18 or 19 years of age, who was working in the grapes. He bought a pint of whiskey and a pint of gin from Faso and he and some other boys became intoxicated.

The firemen of Jamestown were called out two different times on July 4. In both cases the fires were small affairs. The first call was during the forenoon. The fire teams went to the Barrett building, where there was a fire in a waste basket in the offices of the Prudential Insurance Company. It was probable that someone threw a lighted cigar or cigarette into the waste basket. There was no loss except for the waste basket. The second call was to Brooklyn Square about noon. An awning had caught fire, presumably from someone in a floor above throwing a lighted cigar out of a window.

In 1939, characterizing Hitler as one of the greatest bluffers of all ages, Julien Bryan, world traveler, predicted the past night at Chautauqua, that there would be no war in Europe this year or next. His talk illustrated by films he had taken in Germany, was given in the amphitheater. Bryan, whose documentary films had a wide showing in this country, stated that he did not see how it was possible for Hitler to carry on a war and that the Munich pact, the recent Czecho-Slovakian coup, and most of his other diplomatic moves since he rose to power, had been based on sheer bluff. “Hitler does not have all of his people squarely behind him,” the speaker said, “nor does he have the gasoline and oil necessary to keep his army in motion.”

Frederick C. Larson, who had operated a flying school at the North Main Street Airport in Jamestown for the last several years, had purchased a new Taylor Cub training ship and planned to continue giving flying instructions at the field, he announced. Larson flew his new ship into Jamestown the previous day from Erie, Pa. It had previously been flown to Erie from Lock Haven, Pa., where the Taylor Cub was manufactured. The new ship was the same type as being used by the federal government in its new program for training for U.S. Army Reserve fliers.

In 1964, Busti town officials had declared war on motorists using the township highway as speed tracks and had ordered police to crack down on speeders. In the weekend campaign, five motorists were hauled before the townships peace justices. All five motorists pleaded guilty and were fined.

Roger Buritt, 33, of Bradford, Pa., suffered severe burns and lacerations on his left hand when a firecracker exploded late Saturday, July 4. It was reported Buritt was in a boat on Chautauqua Lake when the firecracker was lit and it was accidentally dropped in the bottom of the boat. Buritt, it was claimed, picked it up to hurl it into the water before it could explode in the boat. Instead, it exploded in his hand. He was treated at Jamestown General Hospital.

In 1989, after a 13-year fight, New York had switched. Gov. Mario Cuomo signed into law sweeping restrictions on smoking in public places. The action gave the nation’s second largest state one of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country. The new law would take effect in early January. “Let this be our holiday gift to all those … who pledged to quit smoking as a New Year’s resolution,” said state Senate Health Committee Chairman Michael Tully, a Nassau County Republican who helped engineer the bill’s passage.

The state Appellate Court’s Fourth Division had denied an injunction to stop construction along Route 394 until a petition for a second injunction, to alter design of the road, was heard. The Committee for the Preservation of Route 394 appealed a county Supreme Court decision that also denied an injunction to change the proposed five-lane highway to four lanes. “This means they can continue chopping down trees until September of October at the earliest,” said attorney Gardiner Barone. The neighborhood would become “typical highway landscape,” Barone said. “They’ll change the character of the neighborhood.”

In Years Past

In 1914, about 40 or 50 residents of Beechwood attended a meeting Wednesday evening at the home of John J. Frank for the purpose of making Beechwood a more satisfactory place in which to reside. There was considerable interest in this meeting. The original meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the streets of Beechwood. Ziba Squier, who laid out most of the streets of Beechwood, was not present, however, and nothing definite could be done about the matter. The streets of Beechwood, it was stated, were in a very deplorable condition. The village of Beechwood was in the village limits of Lakewood and so the Lakewood officials were asked to make the necessary repairs. Arnold Hopkins had been assigned to police duty at Beechwood and would patrol the streets to suppress disorder.

Was there ever a herald like the man who announced the approach of the circus? Was there ever a more grandiloquent utterance than his? Was there ever a herald who was heard more willingly or who held his audience more surely? He came out of the winter with a superb confidence. He moved briskly, he talked boldly, he proclaimed the wonders of his tents in convincing superlatives. Everybody responded with a determination to attend. There was a pleasant anticipation for all. As baseball was the national sport, the circus was the national amusement. The herald of the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, which would exhibit in Jamestown the following Thursday, announced that the performance this year would present new and startling acts. Promises were made that the street pageant would prove a free carnival of entertaining merriment.

In 1939, a large holiday throng the previous day observed Independence Day at Chautauqua in a program that was complete with music and fireworks and without benefit of oratory. The Jamestown High School band and the Jubilee Singers of Buffalo were the principal attractions during the day and early evening, while a colorful fireworks display at the lakefront concluded the celebration at night. Threats of rain abbreviated the afternoon concert of the band to a slight extent. The Jubilee Singers provided the morning fare with special arrangements of Stephen Foster selections and well known Negro spirituals. Modern rhythms dominated in the closing numbers with, It Ain’t Necessarily So, The Lonesome Road and Shadrack.

The husky figure climbed slowly up the old wooden stairs back of the Yankees dugout, shoulders bent, right leg limping and throat torn by sobs. This was Lou Gehrig living the most dramatic moment of his life. Back of him, 61,808 fans piled on Yankee stadium’s tiered sides, cheering till the rafters shook and out on the field a big, round-faced flat-nosed fellow stood as tears rolled down his cheeks. He was Babe Ruth, the one and only, who had just voiced for everyone who knew three strikes were out, their feeling about Lou. On the field, Lou stood, surrounded by gifts from the club and his teammates. He said a few words into the loud speaker. Several times his voice broke and a sob escaped as he announced, “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

In 1989, police agencies across New York opposed a State Police laboratory charge imposed after local budgets were adopted and Assemblywoman Patricia McGee, R,C-Franklinville, hoped something could be done about it. A little-publicized shift in this year’s budget for the State Police laboratories passed $942,000 in operating costs, or roughly a third of their budgets, on to the 47 counties using their facilities for evaluation of evidence in local criminal investigations. This was the first time such a charge had been imposed. The services previously were available without charge.

A wounded Afghan freedom fighter treated for war injuries at WCA Hospital had returned to Afghanistan. Shah Sawar, 18, came to WCA as part of the national Afghan medical program and was treated without charge. He received treatment in Pakistan but needed reconstructive surgery not available there. In fighting against Soviet forces, Shah Sawar received six bullet wounds – five in a thigh and one in a calf – and sustained a broken leg. He also lost an arm when a rocket exploded near him. Sawar was originally from a small town near Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. At age 8, he began training to fight the Soviets. He had been in combat since he was 10 years old. “It’s our holy war. The jihad will continue until we get the Islamic government in Afghanistan,” he said.

In Years Past

In 1914, work was progressing fairly well on the grade crossing elimination project in Jamestown. Mahoney and Swanson, the contractors who were doing the work, had completed 400 feet of the huge retaining wall which began at West Second Street and ran east. The sheathing for the next 200-foot section was in place and the engineers were surveying for the final lines before the forms could be put in. This section was built directly in the Chadakoin River. The sheathing was driven in near the shore of the river and the section inside the sheathing was excavated. They were nearly ready to place the forms. The contractors expected to receive permission from the Erie Railroad Company to start work east of Main Street in a few days.

The first accident of the season at Chautauqua occurred Wednesday afternoon when Jesse Green of Tampa, Fla., fell from the third story window of the Carey cottage, where he was employed, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death a few minutes later. Green had come from Winter Haven, Fla. some weeks ago with Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Beal, who had employed him there and brought him north with them to work at Chautauqua. His home was at Tampa, where he was said to have a wife and one child about a year old. He was about 35 years old. He was fixing screens in an upper window but it was not known how the accident happened.

In 1939, keeping constant vigil over the lower end of Chautauqua Lake and ready to service its entire boundaries, was the new life-saving ship acquired by the Lakewood Fire Department in an effort to check the serious death toll by drowning which had been on the increase in the past few years. The 19-foot craft, seaworthy in every respect, lay anchored to the docks of the Chautauqua Marine Works at Lakewood. It was equipped with every conceivable bit of apparatus, including an inhalator, life preservers capable of keeping afloat for about 48 hours, life rings, searchlights for night work, fire extinguishers, grappling hooks, necessary rope, blankets, etc. It was driven by a four-cylinder marine motor. Lakewood firemen cited that there were 13 water accidents the past year, including nine drownings, all in the lower end of the lake.

The Falconer Fire Department, competing with hundreds of other firemen in two parades the past week, came home with two prizes for appearance. The first was Friday evening at Salamanca when they were awarded a large gold trophy for first place and the second being at Frewsburg Saturday afternoon when they were awarded second prize of $10 in the parade in that village. Both parades were held in celebration of the Old Home Weeks of the respective towns. First place in Frewsburg was awarded to the Lakewood Fire Department.

In 1964, Esther Peterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Peterson, Dutch Hollow Road, had been selected to represent the Ellery Center Fire Department and Auxiliary at the fire queen contest during Gala Days at Chautauqua County’s Firemen’s Fraternity grounds in Stockton. Peterson had completed her junior year at Bemus Point Central School. She was a member of the school band, chorus and ensemble, a member of the F.H.A., the A.F.S. committee and Tri-Hi-Y. She planned to train for teaching elementary grades following her graduation from high school.

The white-capped Swedish singers who had taken over Jamestown for a few days called this the ideal convention city. “It is not so large that we are swallowed up in the crowds,” said a spokesman for the group. “Here we can be together like one big happy family.” He referred to the convention of Eastern Division, American Union of Swedish Singers, which had brought 200 singers and their wives to Jamestown from New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The highlight of the three-day program was a concert at 8:30 the previous evening in the Chautauqua Amphitheater by the massed choir of 200 voices.

In Years Past

In 1914, Mrs. Clark White was seriously hurt two days previously in an automobile accident about 1 mile from Collins Center. She was taken to her home in that village where physicians found that one leg and two ribs were broken. She might also be internally hurt. It was believed, however, that she would recover. In the car with White were her husband and his father, Ward White. There was some trouble with the engine on a steep hill and the car began to go backwards. All three of the occupants were thrown out and the heavy machine ran over Mrs. White. The others were not so seriously hurt.

The Bell Telephone Company had dropped the project of charging a five and 10-cent toll for service between Dunkirk and Fredonia. The Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company, the long distance company for Dunkirk and Fredonia Home companies, also had withdrawn its schedule for similar toll charges. This meant for the time being at least, the telephone service on both systems between Dunkirk and Fredonia would continue as in the past with no additional charge for inter-city service.

In 1939, Independence Day would be observed with various community programs at communities and resorts of the Chautauqua region, according to Harry Burgeson, chairman of the Chautauqua Region Inc., holiday program committee. Bemus Point, Celoron Park, Chautauqua, Lakewood, Point Chautauqua and Midway Park had arranged programs which included baseball games, band concerts, fireworks, golf, bathing, boating and aquatic sports. There would be a parade of boats at Bemus Point at 2 p.m. followed at 3 p.m. by a program of rowboat races. Sirens at lake points would be sounded at 10 p.m. the signal for the lighting of the flares around the lakeshore.

Commencing Wednesday morning, weather permitting, the Jamestown Evening Journal candid cameraman would be active in the business section of downtown Jamestown, snapping pictures just as people appeared on the street, so people should not forget to keep smiling. The Journal cameraman would wear an identifying yachting cap with the Journal name on the front so there would be no mistaking him. The picture snapper would not wait for anyone to pose so it would be well to smile whenever he was seen. He would hand his subjects a card which would enable them to receive three prints of the photo.

In 1964, Gov. Rockefeller’s ban on outdoor fires and smoking in the woods in 11 drought-plagued New York counties in the Eastern part of the state, would go into effect at 6 p.m. this day, the start of the July 4 holiday weekend. Scattered thundershowers across most of the state overnight and rapidly cooling weather brought partial relief from the hot spell but not enough to break the prolonged drought. It was the “highly inflammable condition” of the woods, Rockefeller said, that prompted him to use for the first time his new power to prohibit outdoor burning and tobacco smoking.

The heaviest demand in many years for flares for the July 4 annual flare spectacle on Chautauqua Lake, which was on this year dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy, was reported by A.B. Bottini, president of Chautauqua Lake Region Inc., sponsors of the event. Lighting of the flares at 10 p.m. would be signaled by radio station WJTN-AM, and within a few seconds the shoreline around Chautauqua Lake would become a ring of red fire burning for almost 30 minutes.

In 1989, Fairbank Farms near Blockville was on its way to becoming a modern day phoenix. Like the mythical bird, it was beginning to rise from the ashes of a March fire to become a viable business again, according to Vice President/Controller Michael A. Coon. Coon announced that, after weeks of uncertainty, plans called for construction of a 100,000 square-foot packing plant, a distribution warehouse and corporate office. The facilities would replace those destroyed in a March 8 fire that caused an estimated $15 million loss.

An addition to accommodate the new $5.2 million wind tunnel at Jamestown’s Blackstone Corp. was well under way. The Swedish crew that built the tunnel shell had gone home. An Erie company, the Doyle Co., was general contractor on the addition. The tunnel was expected to be ready for test use by early in 1990.

In Years Past

In 1914, two persons were instantly killed and two others badly hurt, one probably fatally, when an Erie train struck an automobile at the Lawtons Station crossing the previous afternoon. Mrs. William Parker, 35, of Cattaraugus, and her 2-year-old daughter, Adelaide, were dead. Postmaster Rush Palmer of Versailles was terribly hurt and was rushed to a Buffalo hospital where his death was hourly expected. Parker’s 8-year-old son, Wilbur, was thrown through the cab window of the engine and was caught by Engineer Jess Ingraham. He had a broken arm but would recover. Palmer, who owned a general store at Versailles, had several crates of fresh eggs in the machine. The front of the train engine was completely covered with them after the accident.

County Judge Arthur B. Ottaway suspended sentence in the case of Attorney Clifford Newell of Sherman, convicted by a jury at Mayville of grand larceny, second degree. The suspension of sentence relieved Newell of the fear of imprisonment but a certificate of his conviction would be forwarded to the clerk of the appellate division and as soon as it was filed with the court he would be disbarred and unable to practice his profession. The disbarment of the attorney was regarded as sufficient punishment for the crime of which he was convicted. As a matter of fact, the crime was not a serious one from a financial standpoint as only $45 was involved and all but $12 had been repaid at the time the indictment was found.

In 1939, the Sportsmen’s Club, one of Jamestown’s exclusive lakeside clubs over 30 years, was burned to the ground Wednesday when lightning struck one of the fine old trees near the club, early in the evening. The clubhouse had been the scene of many outstanding events including an annual clambake during its 32 summers. The club was originally organized as a fishing club in 1907. Henry K. Smith, James Tilotson Jr. and Floyd Sharp were the only charter members who had retained their membership through the intervening years. The membership limit was 75 and the club was able to maintain its exclusion to an amazing degree. Its choice picnic and dining facilities were available only to affairs sponsored by active members.

The body of a man identified by the license of his car as William Johnson, 72, of Clinton Street, Westfield, was taken from the New York Central railroad tracks about 3 o’clock Friday afternoon. He had been instantly killed when his light truck was struck by a fast freight train at the Gale Street crossing. Johnson, driving south on Gale Street, was seen by the fireman and engineer of the train a half-mile from the crossing, evidently stalled on the tracks. The train, traveling about 60 mph carried the vehicle about 300 feet down the tracks and completely demolished the truck.

In 1964, an 86-year-old Mayville woman foiled a possible extortion attempt by an unknown intruder early Tuesday afternoon at her home. Mayville Police Chief Harold Land declined to identify the octogenarian, but said the experience left her in a nervous condition. It was reported that a man came to her house on a pretext of wanting a glass of water. He failed to drink any of it but began questioning her about money she might have on the premises. The woman told him that most of their finances were conducted by check and the intruder than changed his discussion topic and offered to demonstrate for her how he could dislocate a person’s neck without evidence of foul play. The woman said her brother was in the next room, stepped back and screamed. She was alone at the time but her action had the desired effect as the man fled the scene.

The long congressional fight over civil rights legislation would come to an end this day as the House voted on the far-reaching measure already passed by the Senate. Overwhelming approval was a foregone conclusion, the House having passed last February, 290 to 130, a bill that was revised in only minor ways by the Senate during its historic three-month debate. Without waiting until July 4, as some sources had indicated, President Johnson was expected to sign the bill into law speedily in hopes it could start easing racial tensions. Many of its Southern critics, however, predicted it would only inflame the situation.

In Years Past

• In 1914, the child welfare exhibit which would be shown in Jamestown under the auspices of the Visiting Nurses’ Association, local health authorities and the state department of health, was opened on this afternoon and would be run every day for three days. It would be in charge of a demonstrator and a trained infant welfare nurse. The nurse would give frequent demonstrations of the preparation of food and the right way to handle a baby in bathing and dressing. She would also show how to arrange the baby’s bed so that it might get the greatest possible amount of air without being exposed to the attacks of flies and mosquitoes.

• The village of Lakewood was the scene of one of the most interesting and liveliest meetings of the Village Board that had been held for some time. The reason for a large attendance was that the citizens of Beechwood were determined to have police protection. The town limits of Lakewood included Beechwood so it was necessary for the citizens of Beechwood to take their troubles to the Lakewood Board. Beechwood people had been annoyed by camping parties that were more noisy than was considered necessary and they finally decided to go to the village board and see if they could not have more police protection during July and August.

• In 1939, about 7:30 in the morning, a cabin cruiser came skimming across Chautauqua Lake, full steam ahead. The lake was crowded with fishermen enjoying the first day of the season. All of them, luckily, realized that the boat had no intentions of turning, and gave it the right of way. The boat was unmanned, coming straight across the lake and smashing the forepart of a speedboat, owned by John Lown and shooting over his dock, continuing on its course to the Fred Bottomley dock. The boat came to a stop on shore between the two docks, being little the worse for its wild trip. The boat’s owner, Joseph Sgero, 30, of Jamestown, had been spilled out of the boat into the wind-swept waters of the lake near Beechwood. He was rescued by Ward Schmitt of Lakewood.

• The New York state encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars would have legislators declare “unlawful” the holding of a public meeting by any “un-American organization, group or society.” That resolution, which also would outlaw display of any flag or banner such as those of the “German-American bund or Communist organizations,” was adopted at the convention at Syracuse. The Military Order of Cooties, fun-making group, elected James McGinnis, of Rochester, as grand commander and the V.F.W. auxiliary chose Ethel M. Plume of Mt. Vernon as state president.

• In 1964, three members of an Ontario family were in serious condition in Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, with injuries received when their car was struck by a flaming tractor-trailer on Route 5, a quarter-mile east of Pecor Street in Portland. They were identified as George Conn, 51, his wife, Edith, 48, and their 12-year-old daughter, Charlene. Police said the accident occurred as the tractor-trailer unit was proceeding east on Route 5. The driver, L. Finley Horn, 27, of Edinboro, Pa., told officers the inside of his cab suddenly burst into flames. He leaped from the vehicle, which went out of control and crossed the highway to where it struck the extreme right side of the Conn car – a small, American-made sports car.

• Jamestown’s canine residents might be fit-to-be-tied soon unless they started showing better manners during their daily romps. It was their candid cavorting over neighboring property that was causing a howl of protest heard daily at City Hall. Plagued by complaints from angry residents, officials were tentatively considering an amendment to confine dogs to their home ground 24 hours a day. For some reason no one had yet explained, there were certain characters in the canine world who would prefer to use a neighbor’s lawn as a permanent comfort station.

• In 1989, Chautauqua Institution was a national historic landmark. That announcement was made in Washington by United States Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan and Rep. Amo Houghton, R-Corning, and in Chautauqua by Institution President Daniel L. Bratton. That made the day an exciting day for the Institution, Bratton told a morning lecture audience. Lujan said he made the designation to recognize Chautauqua’s importance in U.S. history and its preservation over the years. Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874.

• Doctors who unethically prescribed anabolic steroids and young body-building athletes who took the drugs would be subject to strict penalties, under legislation agreed to by New York state lawmakers. Steroids, the muscle-building drug that brought the potential side effects of cancer, sterility, liver and heart disease, would become a controlled substance like cocaine and amphetamines under the law. Doctors caught dispensing the drug for other than therapeutic reasons could lose their licenses and be sentenced to 5-15 years in prison.

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