Wednesday, November 28, 2012
ODDLY ENOUGH
Postcard mailed during WWII arrives almost 70 years later
ELMIRA, N.Y.
A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.
The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., to sisters Pauline and Theresa Leisenring in Elmira.
Their brother, George Leisenring, was stationed at Rockford’s Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant, an Army post during World War II. Their parents were visiting him when they mailed the postcard home.
The postcard reads in part, “Dear Pauline and Theresa, We arrived safe, had a good trip, but we were good and tired.”
Elmira’s Star-Gazette newspaper reported that the postcard arrived in mid-November at the family’s former home, where a different family now lives.
A postal official says the postcard may have been found by someone outside the postal service and placed in the mail.
Parking holiday ends for shoppers in NE Pa. city
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.
Shoppers in northeastern Pennsylvania won’t get a parking holiday in Wilkes-Barre.
City council has ended its tradition of waiving meter fees downtown from Black Friday until after New Year’s.
According to The Citizens’ Voice, parking will cost the usual rate of 75 cents per hour this year.
Officials previously have advocated free parking during the holidays as a boost to downtown businesses.
But city spokesman Drew McLaughlin says officials realized that there’s greater turnover of spaces when meter limits are enforced.
He says that’s better for shoppers and the stores they patronize.
Police say Conn. real-estate agent stole for-sale signs
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.
A Connecticut real-estate agent has been charged with stealing a competitor’s for-sale signs from the front lawns of area homes.
Police say 54-year-old Robert Toth, of Shelton, was charged last Wednesday with third-degree larceny and first-degree criminal trespass.
Toth owns American Home Realty in Trumbull, Conn.
Police say U.S. Asset Realty owner Jihad Shaheer complained in September that his signs had been stolen from more than a half-dozen sites in Bridgeport and from the front of two homes in Stratford.
Police tell the Connecticut Post that they later determined that Toth had been taking the signs. Toth had worked for Shaheer before opening his own real-estate company.
Toth declined to comment.
Associated Press