UNSELFISH ACT: Bob Murphy of Smethport, who works with a dog
rescue group in Pittsburgh, passes along a thanks to someone who
rescued one of his rescued dogs!
Let’s start at the beginning. Bob’s work involves West Highland
White Terriers. “I had just gotten two westies earlier on Tuesday.
Later that evening one of my rescued westies escaped and we
searched until 10 p.m. looking for the dog,” he writes.
“A few minutes later I received a phone call from the previous
owner from Slippery Rock. It seems that a worker from the federal
prison found the westie, called the owner, and then dropped him off
at ‘The Hub’ in Smethport.”
“I retrieved the westie around 11 p.m. that evening and was told
that the rescuer’s name was unknown. I prayed that he would be
unharmed and my prayers were answered. I want to thank that good
Samaritan for picking up the lost westie. ‘Rascal,’ the westie, has
now gone to his new home in Olean, N.Y., and is living happily.
Thank you again for your unselfish act.”
BIG DROP: Larry Skiver of Lafayette, one of the men who
remembers swimming at the Ten Foot beach, had another interesting
story to tell.
When he was young, he was near a store at the corner of Elm and
where River Street used to meet (before the flood control project
was built). A steel grated bridge spanned the stream.
A concrete truck went out onto the bridge and it collapsed
sending the big vehicle directly into the water below. They had to
use two big cranes to lift the truck out of the stream, Larry
remembers.
Larry was pretty sure it was a Bisett’s truck. The driver, who
miraculously was unhurt, was pretty frightened not just because of
the big drop but because he was afraid he’d lose his job.
Apparently, he’d been told not to use that path but instead take
High Street.
We’re assuming this was late 1940s or early 1950s. Can anyone
else remember this story?
GAS PAIN: A reader who visited Bradford the weekend of Sept. 11
returned to Reading and filled up for $2.36 a gallon. Here? It was
$2.63 at the time and has since fallen to $2.59.
