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...Lewisburg, Pa...
Edwin Drake launched the petroleum age in 1859, when he drilled 69½ ft. into the ground along Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
Lawrence A. Barros Shippensburg, Pa...
...Allentown, Pa., five teen-agers have been charged with forgery in a scheme involving hundreds of counterfeit $1 and $5 bills that were printed in their high school shops. The extralegal, extra-credit work began when a junior at William Allen High School fashioned his aunt a novel Christmas gift: a "money tree," fluttering with $5 bills the boy had run off on the school's press. The boy's uncle promptly destroyed the present. But some of the artful student's classmates swiped hundreds of the spurious notes...
Hamilton, the Haverford, Pa., wonder who took up skating as therapy after suffering a near fatal digestive disorder as a child, was in third place going into the free-skating competition, the climax of his duel with Santee. But he trailed Santee by just .4 (out of a possible 6) and was clearly within striking range. (In second was France's Jean-Christopher Simond, who later skated poorly and finished fifth...