[PRCo] The rest of the month of March 1947

Tue May 27 08:55:30 EDT 2014

You I expected.

On May 27, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I read it.  The papers contain other things of interest beyond trolleys.
> 
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> Schneider
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> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: [PRCo] The rest of the month of March 1947
> 
> I would be curious to know who reads this stuff.   Might be easier to just
> send it to a few people who care.
> 
> Railroads are now saying they are now against smoke control if the county
> instead of the city runs it.   Sounds like "we don't mind as long as we can
> make smoke."   Page 2 in this issue is all about the smoke control
> wrangling.   I think you understand this . we all favor smoke control as
> long as it cost nothing and we lose no jobs and nobody has to do anything.
> We believe in magic.  
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19470323&printsec=fro
> ntpage&hl=en
> 
> Nice advertisement on page 28 of the March 23, 1947 edition . the
> Philadelphia Company was telling how great they were.   If the SEC was going
> to tell the newspapers they were evil, they were going to lobby for public
> opinion in their favor.   If someone can capture this and screen print it .
> I would be obliged.   
> 
> For those who have no recollection of the automobile market after World War
> II, it was very much a seller's market from 1946 through 1948.   The buyer
> was simply lucky to be able to buy a car.   Because my mother was watching a
> new baby, my father took me a lot of places to five mom a break . grocery
> store, hardware store, barber shop, even the Chevrolet dealer in Oakmont.
> My old man was tight . he refused to go along with the antics the dealers
> were playing . he would not pay extra to get moved to the top of the waiting
> list.  Dad waited until the 1949 model year and then took a marked down '48
> left over.   My father-in-law was in a different position . one local dealer
> in Lancaster put doctors coming home from the military at the top of the
> list and therefore he got a brand new 1946 car right away.   But this tells
> what tricks the dealers were doing to sell cars (and make long term
> enemies).  
> 
> But notice what some of the optional extras that we would consider mandatory
> today:   oil filters, windshield washers, heaters.   Can you imagine how
> long an engine lasted without an oil filter?   
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eHYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3888%
> 2C2779621
> 
> Pittsburgh's four major railroads all agree to smoke control.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=enYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4602%
> 2C3342720
> 
> John Moran, obit., was Asst to President of Pressed Steel Car Company
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=enYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1565%
> 2C3513119
> 
> I have already checked with Ed Lybarger on this . I wanted to know if it was
> really built.   His response was, "I dunno.  Doesn't sound at all familiar,
> though."  And he spent his entire life on that side of Pittsburgh.   So we
> have a big promise of a coal gasification plant to solve the smoke problems
> and it was, to the best of our knowledge, smoke in itself.   The next day
> there was a story that it was vital to our defense . front page news.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=enYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4602%
> 2C3342720
> 
> Edmund Stone of Duquesne Light retired.   Probably of interest to a very
> limited number like Ed.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2552%
> 2C3751106
> 
> US Steel had best year in history in 1946 . made 88 million net on 1.496
> billion in sales . a fantastic return of 2.2%!!
> Be curious to know what that return was on investment.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1947%
> 2C3777962
> 
> Click on this link . it isn't the article but the political cartoon to it's
> right that is so damn fascinating.    Not sure whether you put an elephant
> or a jackass at the bottom of Fibber Magee's closet but regardless, it would
> be just as funny today.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1947%
> 2C3777962
> 
> Two stories this page and only one will produce a link.  The first is the
> residual cost to the taxpayers of the 1946 Duquesne Light Co. strike.   The
> second, at the bottom of the page, is the opening of the Arlington loop for
> PCC cars complete with poor photo.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3780%
> 2C4479068
> 
> Trucker unaware that his rig hits streetcar; gets nailed for hit-and-run.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2949%
> 2C4668102
> 
> On March 25th, 1947, one of the worst mine disasters hit the newspaper but
> not where you might expect it.  I later found it in a list of important
> national events in 1947.   One hundred eleven were killed.   Where?
> Centralia, Illinois.   I remember that from Dave Morgan and Phil Hastings
> goiing there in 1955 for the Steam in Indian Summer series in Trains
> magazine . the Burlington had knock off 2-10-4s there identical to those the
> Bessemer and Lake Erie used until about 1952.   
> 
> But this mine disaster had the potential for taking the governor of Illinois
> with it.   Seems one of the dead had asked the governor to investigate
> unsafe conditions in that mine in 1946 and it appears that nothing was done.
> Four days after the explosion that killed 111 miners, the word impeachment
> was being tossed around.   (Wonder who paid to keep the governor out of the
> mine?)   Then we find there had been a mine safety inspection a week before
> the explosion that found many of the same problems found in the previous
> inspection.  My the end of the month, John L. Lewis had called all the
> nation's miners out in sympathy.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5511%
> 2C3693874 
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1767%
> 2C4571792
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6577%
> 2C5044480  
> 
> Weight limit on Rankin Bridge . limit is about 2 1/2 times the weight of a
> PCC.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1872%
> 2C4675576
> 
> [Editorial comment by typist:  Whitaker is the borough at the south end of
> the bridge .. south of Rankin, east of Homestead and west of Kennywood Park.
> It's peak population was after World War II when it reached 2217 people ---
> the 2012 census estimate was 1271.   The mayor never got his wish for clover
> leaf.]    
> 
> The battle for a feeder bus line in Spring Hill continues.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4396%
> 2C4694285
> 
> McKeesport capitulates to the Best and Only . agrees to raise speed limit
> for trains after rigid adherence caused horrid blockades in the city.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1517%
> 2C4751265
> 
> Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern ran it's last trains on Saturday March 29,
> 1947.
> 
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gHYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4036%
> 2C5694475
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