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
At long last patience has been rewarded in the case of Don Manno, Williamsport’s all-around Italian athlete. After knocking about in the minors and the semi-pro ranks for half a dozen years, Manno is on the threshold of the biggest moment of his career. He reports to the Boston Bees at the close of the
More than 300 –people were present at the Community House last evening with a splendid program of addresses and music, celebrating the ratification of the suffrage amendment was celebrated. Mayor Archibald Hoagland presided and following a community “sing” led by Miss Ruth Wendle, he introduced one of the chief speakers of the evening, Judge Harvey
Whatever the National Recovery Act may do in the way of bettering business, it has had one visible effect on the city streets that habitues have not been long in noticing. Heretofore the official closing hour in downtown Williamsport has been 6 o’clock. Under the hour agreement which went into effect a couple of weeks
