Members of the local Ground Observation Corps will go on 24-hour duty long with aircraft spotters in this and 26 other states, it was announced by Fred H. Musheno, supervisor of the local post. The 24-hour schedule, known as Operation Skywatch, was announced recently by officials in Washington as means to increase the air defense
Entirely lacking in the fanfare and excitement which greeted Armistice Day 1918, tempered with the realization that America still has a war with Japan to win and made solemn with the knowledge that hostilities have claimed the lives of hundreds of the city’s finest young men, Williamsport today marked V-E Day. More solemn than spirited,
Open house for the public will be observed all week at the new headquarters of the radio station WRAK located on the third floor of the Sun-Gazette building adjoining on the east of the Sun-Gazette printing plant at West Fourth and Hepburn streets. Officials at the radio station wish to stress that the public is
Three applicants for the position of dog catcher which, Mayor Herber T. Ames said last evening, is open to a competent man, visited the mayor this morning seeking the job. The mayor refused to say if any of the applicants he interviewed, or any of the men who phoned him concerning the position would be
The industrial committee of the Community Trade Association is reviewing area locations of 15,000 acres or more with a view of suggesting one of them as a site for the new Air Force Academy. The announcement by the CTA follows an earlier announcement from Washington D.C. from Congressman Alvin R. Bush who has been asked
Employees of the Williamsport central business office of the Bell Telephone Company who served during the flood emergency of March 17-18, 1936, were cited with a Vail Medal in recognition of their heroism and devotion to duty during that occasion. Announcement of the award, which is the company’s highest badge of honor for conspicuous public
