Two thousand students from Williamsport and vicinity are expected to participate on Tuesday evening, October 31, in the second annual Halloween celebration sponsored in this city by the Williamsport Lodge of Elks. Officials of the lodge and members of the various committees planning this event met last evening in the Elks Club. They said 800
Altogether all too many people believe it takes a Little League World Series game to get the City of Williamsport known around the world. The truth is that this city’s name, as written, “shipped from Williamsport U.S.A.,” reaches every country on the globe, affecting the lives of people everywhere—thanks to at least 11 Williamsport area
Sirens will begin “warbling” at 1:50 p.m. tomorrow from six city locations to signal the beginning of the first air raid under the present Civil Defense administration in Lycoming County. The test which will last until 1:57 p.m. comes as a highlight of “Pennsylvania Week.” Glenn L. Sherman, head of the communications service in the
Montoursville — The reporter had a hard day. Starting at 7:30 a.m. he visited three different West Branch towns, traveled more than 60 miles by automobile and interviewed more than 20 persons. And interviewing folks interested in this year’s World Series is no easy task. Last evening four important assignments remained to be covered. One
History — after a period of 75 years — dramatically repeated itself Thursday night at the “open house” of the Park Home, formerly the Park Hotel. Several hundred visitors inspecting the beautifully remodeled and redecorated henceforth to be operated as a home for elderly men and women, the electric lighting failed–just as gas illumination failed
Comparatively quiet since the end of the Korean Conflict, local draft boards are steadily increasing the tempo of their activities as the war in Vietnam accelerates. Williamsport and Lycoming boards are typical. October draft calls for city and county have designated 31 men for induction into the armed forces. Another 87 will be called for
