- The Shamokin Area merchants contributed over $4,000 to the jobs for men program bringing the total to over $168,000.
- The Kulpmont Lions pledged to help out with the Geisinger Medical Center Fund according to Roy T. Prosser, fund chairman.
- In Shamokin, association President Harry Strine said Shamokin High School Alumni would have a reunion in May.
- An outfit named L.C. Balls Tours out of Milton was hyping trips to Mardi Gras in New Orleans by private pullman cars.
- The Army Navy store in Shamokin was selling T-shirts for 59 cents. They weren't equipped to print anything on them.
- Boscul was a big name in coffee.
- You could get a suit for $12 at Shusterman's on North Market Street.
- Cameron Mitchell, an actor from New York, made a big hit in a picture called "Homecoming."
- You could hear Official Detective on WISL at 8:30.
- At the Ritz Club in Kulpmont, a guy named Bill was doing Vaughn Monroe impressions.
