[PRCo] Reading - Pgh. Press - March 1 thru 9.

[Fred Schneider]

The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Terminal fire .. look in March 22, 1946.   The fire happened over night Mar. 21-22.

Philadelphia Company wins delay

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3000%2C15764

No page forward to page two, same edition.  Bottom of column one.   Look at that picture at the bottom of the first column of
the clothing department in Albert J. Mannsmann's department store in East Liberty.   Hard to believe a neighborhood department store when we don't even have them downtown in our cities any longer.

The next link is two columns over to the right … same page.  I put this in for Ed Lybarger.   AFL and CIO are battling over who should represent the employees at Champion Stores, the company store for Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.   So when "I owe my soul to the company store" and it is shut down and I have no money, do I starve?   Or do I stick my shot gun in someone's face to get money to eat?  

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3639%2C25910

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2188%2C938893

It is hard to believe how primitive aviation was back then.   This is also for Ed but the rest of you might get a kick out of "Moon Township Airport Due to Get Funds."   

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C83272

Personnel action at Pittsburgh Railways

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C8327

We won't give up harassing the power company

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1579%2C291182

The Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railway was sold in March for 1.5 million dollars.   Doesn't say so here but the last trains ran about 27 days later.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3055%2C650711

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2557%2C905732

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1940%2C2206355

Pittsburgh Railways unhappy that Montour Bus Company wants to serve Spring Hill

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2136%2C940320

This link is about eight hurt on a Greensburg-Blairsville bus when an oil truck slid into it on the Lincoln Highway west of Latrobe.   But the story to it's right is a real winner too.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5161%2C1032106

Baldwin Locomotive Company shut down temporarily because they could not get steel.   There were peripheral stories that I did not send about coal strikes and a lack of gas that also affected steel mills.   The second link comes a few days later when the United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis lost in the Supreme Court for breaching a contract with the government.    The entire page of the paper in the third link gives some idea about what was going on in the coal fields in 1947.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1546%2C1062045

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5426%2C1466133

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1945%2C2013973

This guy must have loved his work.   H. L. Mitchell of West Penn achieves 45 years in harness.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C1062595

Philadelphia Company's hearing is recessed

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5770%2C1287583

Same old - same old.   I love this.   They had clean coal back in 1947 except that they were unable to find it.   Coal industry accused of attempting to sabotage Pittsburgh's smoke control program.   I find the whole thing rather amusing.  This is the only item I have posted so far but the papers have been filled with it.   One of the better items prior to this was an editorial cartoon showing Harrisburg aiming a canon at Pittsburgh's attempts to clean up the city because the coal companies were buying the legislators.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6205%2C1324122  

Sounds like this chap employed the law firm of Dewey, Cheetum and Howe to sue Pittsburgh Railways.   
     
     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2250%2C1494659

Fantastic article about all the rules McKeesport inflicted on the B&O.   I can only wonder when the ICC or the FRA told the city to go pound sand.   I know of similar cases where cities were told that they had no control over railroads.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4302%2C2502871