After having been on hunger strike for four days in the Union County jail, Nevin Catherman finally secured bail for his release last week. He was charged with obtaining potatoes for his potato chip plant in Sunbury from farmers in the locality of Lewisburg under false pretenses. He was re-arrested Saturday night on two more
Highway projects underway in Lycoming County at a total cost of $3 million were toured Wednesday by directors of the Lycoming County Automobile Club as guests of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. The tour, 93 miles long, concerned the eastern and northcentral portions of the county. A major stop was an on-foot visit to new
Announcement today that Junction Street, South Williamsport, being improved with brick, is to be opened to traffic in a week to 10 days caused Burgess Charles W. Noll to make tentative arrangements for a big demonstration to celebrate the completion of this highway and the new Market Street pavement. The Market Street pavement was completed
Williamsport area car dealers featuring General Motors vehicles are beginning to feel the damaging effects of the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors. Five dealers participating in a survey said their supply of 1971 automobiles would probably be sold out next month and that no additional models would be shipped in for at least
Sunday School Baseball League members, officials, and friends joined in a combined dinner and testimonial Wednesday evening at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church parish house to honor the championship team of that church and to also give recognition to John H. Bower, league organizer and supervisor since 1922. There were 65 present at the dinner and
Williamsport’s complete new directory, containing four new features, is off the press this week. It is a volume of 1,072 pages — 162 pages thicker than the 1936 edition — covering Williamsport, South Williamsport, DuBoistown, Montoursville and the surrounding rural routes and is published by the R.L. Polk Company, as Boyd’s Williamsport City Directory. The
