Police appealed for parental supervision to help curb damaging vandalism and promote the safer riding of bicycles. To implement the bicycle program, police find people riding without lights, and will require the bike owners to report to police headquarters within 24 hours with a light on the bicycle. Names and addresses of the violators will
In purchasing her cigarettes, Sister Sue no longer has to bother with alibis, not here in Williamsport. Stage fright that used to caused her to say, “they’re for my brother,” have given way to, “give me a pack of fags old dear,” and if that doesn’t work, she can use a little stronger language. Clerks
The caretaker of the tower clock at the Courthouse forgot to wind it last Thursday, subsequently it stopped late Saturday evening or early Sunday morning. Motorists and pedestrians in the vicinity of the Court House over the weekend, and particularly sales personnel of downtown stores looked twice, and then again as they hurried to their
When James E. Neumann escaped from the Lycoming County Prison Thursday night he took the wrong train out of town. The train carried him to Lewisburg, where he had attempted to escape from the penitentiary in 1945 and where he was capture at 10:30 this morning. Neumann, a 27-year-old man, scaled the wall at the
Appeals to impose restrictions upon strikers at the R&G Knitting Mills, Third and Park streets were being made to Mayor Charles D. Wolfe, by the Williamsport Civic Club and a delegation of parents of Clay School pupils. The complaints, spokesman said, grow out of the conduct of persons along the picket line that has moved
First-day registration in the St. Boniface Parochial School System, which includes St. Mary’s High School showed a total of 608 pupils and students. The total is somewhat less than last year. Sixty-nine first graders contributed to the total, in which an interesting component is a 35 student Senior Class, an unusually large amount for the
