PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1443
PRINTER'S NO. 2012
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1215
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY TOBASH, APRIL 17, 2017
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 14, 2017
AN ACT
Designating the bridge on State Route 125 before Ridge Road in
Pitman, Schuylkill County, as the Abner Yoder Memorial
Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Abner Yoder Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Abner Yoder graduated from Hegins High School in
1936, was active in his local church and played on the
Pitman's Farmers baseball team.
(2) On July 18, 1941, he joined the United States Army
Air Corps and rose to the level of Technical Sergeant by
August of 1943.
(3) During his time in the Air Corps, he traveled to
Australia, where he met his fiancée and joined a combat crew
which flew missions on a B-52.
(4) On February 17, 1944, the plane he was on with his
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