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
Home-talent movies on TV screens, pictures of local sports, and news events flashed over the air will become a reality locally if present plans for the city’s first television broadcasting station work out. WRAK-TV with rights to ultra-high frequency Channel 36 has been getting set for the big day for more than five years and
The advance division of the women’s division of the National Recovery Act’s women’s army in Williamsport will officially start Sunday and will continue until Friday when the aim of the army will be to see a big Blue Eagle perched in the window of every home in the district. Lieutenant General Bertha M. Maxwell appealed
Most of the baseball fans of Williamsport no doubt know of Little League which has just completed its third year of hardball, but I wonder how many of them know of those responsible for the success of the league and what they are attempting to accomplish with their players. A limited number of boys between
Unemployed and needy persons who registered yesterday as family heads totaled 3,147. They registered yesterday at the city’s grade schools. Information those persons gave in their registration showed that they had 1,700 dependents. The figure 3,147 does not represent that number of wholly unemployed persons in the city as the total also includes men and
Nearly 10,000 persons attended neighborhood church services last night, the first evening of the victory holiday. Worshippers assembled to offer their thanks for peace and to honor those men and women who died in battle. The Christ Episcopal Church was filled to capacity when the Rt. Rev. Thomas Heistand of Harrisburg delivered a message of
