Lycoming County’s $27,000 campaign for the support of the United Service Organizations will be launched here this evening with an 8 o’clock dinner meeting of the volunteer workers and an 8 o’clock public mass meeting in the Williamsport High School. Kenneth Smith, of the National USO headquarters will be guest speaker at both assemblies. Providing
The lives of several hundred employees on the night force of the plant were endangered when an unknown man attempted to dynamite the Oliver Street plant of the Lycoming Manufacturing Co. last night about 10:30 o’clock. Haste or lack of knowledge in the handling of explosives saved both the building and the lives of the
Commander John S. Leinbach has issued the following general order to Reno Post No. 64, G.A.R. In accordance with the annual custom, this post has been assigned the duty and no more a sacred duty can be performed than the beautiful ceremony of strewing flowers and planting the national colors upon the mounds beneath which
The Williamsport Pool Fund Drive to raise $200,000 for swimming facilities in the city will get underway June 1, according to Edward L Smead, chairman of the fund drive committee. In making the announcement, Mr. Smead said, “It is now up to the people of the city to determine if the city will have swimming
Williamsport Sun May 8, 1945 Entirely lacking in the fanfare and excitement which greeted Armistice Day in 1918, tempered by the realization that America will have a war with Japan to win, and made solemn by the knowledge that hostilities to this date have claimed hundreds of the city’s finest young men, Williamsport today, marked
The reception for the Liberty Bell last evening was a complete success, unmarred by any occurrences that detracted from the pleasure of the occasion. The train arrived at the Park Hotel station at 6:15 o’clock and remained just 15 minutes. In this time all present had ample opportunity of gazing upon one of the nation’s
