The ordinance containing seven rules the maintenance, operation and use of the newly acquired Williamsport Community Ambulance, was introduced in City Council this morning by Councilman Frank W. Henninger. The bill was passed on the first reading following some discussion over the transportation of persons having communicable diseases. It was finally decided to let rule
An official level of 22 inches of new snow fell on the Williamsport area this weekend and another several inches are expected. Official weather service records indicate the snowstorm is the worst since a record 23 inches fell in a 24-hour period in January 1964. Heavy snow warnings are still in effect for the Lycoming
“Who’s going to cut my hair in 25 years?” That is the question that might be asked by men in Williamsport and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. The ranks of Pennsylvania’s licensed barbers are being thinned to the point that it is causing concern. “Very few young fellows take up barbering these days. I don’ think there
Much is being said these says, and more is inferred about “Williamsport waking up” and “getting busy,” “pulling together,” with the use of like figures of speech that imply a scarecrow condition of things which neither facts nor fancy justify. It is such preachments as these in the half sepulchral tones in which they are
Forty-four young colored men of Williamsport representing approximately five percent of the Negro population of this city, are enrolled in the armed forces of the United States of America. An honor roll recently at the Bethune-Douglass Center on Walnut Street, and to which additional are being made as each new draft call summons additional selectees,
Life is beginning to return to normal for some residents of the 1800 block of Sweeley Avenue, while for others it may never be the same again. A full-scale insurance survey of the damage caused by the natural gas explosion that took two lives in the neighborhood is scheduled to begin Monday. Insurance agents and
