Ice skating enthusiasts will have the use of four outdoor rinks in the city this year — according to James C. Dittmar, Williamsport Recreation Commission director. The new skating areas will be located at the Bethune-Douglass Center and J. Roy Flanagan Playground where outdoor play areas were established this summer. Last year, skating areas were
Captain Louis Edward Woods, United States Marine Corps pilot, and Corporal William Bradley, passenger, arrived in Williamsport this afternoon at 12:25 o’clock, in Marine plane 6903 and landed safely at Faxon. Captain Woods flew a modern DeHavilland type plane with a steel fuselage. The flyers left the Anacostia side of Bolling Field at Washington at
The biggest task that confronts the election board of Lycoming County does not materialize on next Tuesday’s Presidential election day but comes after November 22 when county commissioners must organize as a board and count the GI ballot. At noon today the Registration Bureau was in receipt of about 2,100 servicemen’s ballots, each of which
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
