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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1937
Page
3
Annual Junior-Senior banquet at Hotel Corry and a Junior High dance tonight set the tone as locals anticipate a Hollywood dispatch on Gone With the Wind star talks. Other city items include bridge construction progress, license renewals, and court news.
Clymer American Legion post No 874 will stage its annual minstrel show at Central School Auditorium next Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 1 and 6 at 8 o'clock. Néckers directs the performers with Gilbert as master of ceremonies and Clarence Spitner as drums. A large cast includes many local names, with Troop 10 Boy Scouts assisting as ushers and a full school orchestra and chorus providing the musical numbers and acts.
United Press reports that Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation division hurried to finish compiling lists of contributing employers by the midnight payroll deadline. Failure to report could incur a one percent excise penalty. Labor and Industry Secretary Ralph W. Ashore noted the state’s early move to certify contributions.
Invitations issued for a Union City High School gymnasium dancing party on Tuesday evening April 6 under the Young Republicans club. Walt James’s S-piece orchestra from Oil City with a female singer will provide music. Also noted are payments to the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau on lists compiled to date.
Harrisburg April 1 The Department of Welfare announces a 29 million winditing program under the General State Authority Act aimed at rapid business recovery. Contracts will favor Pennsylvania firms supplying materials for projects including a maximum security prison an industrial school for boys a psychiatric hospital in Pittsburgh and a medical social hospital. Millions will flow to diverse businesses from cement to hospital instruments as plans are drawn and approved for construction and renovation with projects starting soon.
Preliminary hearing held for Ay b Bast mill 53 Wattsburg charged with involuntary manslaughter after a March 10 crash on Route 7 near Harling City. Witnesses described Ward as a passerby. Judge set April 12 for trial. State welfare overhaul discussed by Governor Farley and Secretary Pennington, promising improved mental health care facilities.
Australia expects gold production in the past year to exceed 50 million dollars, nearing the 1871 to 1870 peak era when total output over 1811 years reached 328,953,820. The report links Canberra mining activity to historical high levels.
Police arrested Ave nue Couny cen and five other men in a Ridgway raid for unlawful liquor possession and illegal quantities of mislisted spirits. Prosperity Rosety Benjamin Marzulli Gabriel Ludwig Anthony Hoffman face charges after appearing before Justice J C Minish. Joe Dinardo jailed on narcotics possession. All held for the April court term.
In a speech to the Institute of Actuaries F C Honey president of the National Confederation of Employers Organization warned that Britain will have seven million fewer people in 1971 than today.
The Corry High School announces a comprehensive record of all graduates for the year 1937. The annual feature will list graduates with residency, and other details, to be published in the Corrian 1937 edition for alumni outreach.
More than 1,000 persons attended the funeral for Rep. Benjamin Kurtz Focht Republican of Pennsylvania who served in 19 congresses. A four-member Pennsylvania delegation including J Rijland Kinzer Robert F. Rich Don Gingery and Harry K. Halies attended the services in Lewisburg following his death Saturday night in Washington.
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