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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1951
Page
6
The Veterans Administration in Washington says former servicemen in Corry and Erie County will soon receive a second GT insurance dividend. About eight million veterans nationwide will get checks totaling $858 million, following a first year payout of $2.4 billion to sixteen million vets.
Lorraine McCray age 19 months daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry McCray of 22524 West Washington street received care at Comy Hospital at 445 PM yesterday for a forehead laceration. Attendants said she tripped and fell against a table while playing at home.
In Cleveland on April 4 Walter Reuther was poised to start his fourth term as head of the CIO United Auto Workers. The convention planned to re-elect Reuther and top officers Emil Mazey Richard Gosser and John Livingston with a later vote for 19 regional directors. An opposition slate existed but captured only about 10 percent of votes on most issues.
State move to form a crime commission to investigate vice gambling and racketeering advances. Rep Edwin Tompkins says a bill would establish a five member body named by the governor from prominent private citizens with broad investigative powers modeled after New York’s crime investigating committee.
Former Fayette county tax assessor Frank J. Hradesky asks to be released from jail while his motion for a new trial is pending. He was convicted last month by a Fayette County jury of attempted bribery attempted extortion conspiracy and misconduct in office over offering to withhold a Brownsville advertiser’s name from the assessment rolls for 2400. The state superior court ordered the district attorney and county warden Cochran to show cause by April 9 why Hradesky should not be released under a pond writ. Hradesky contends bail denial violated his constitutional rights.
It claims to relieve itching eczema psoriasis infections and athlete’s foot with a white grease free antiseptic formula developed for soldiers and now available at local druggists Widmann Teah Seas Drugs and Lindbley’s Drug Store Corry. Money refunded if not satisfied.
Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen was elected president of a newly formed crime clinic spanning northwest Ohio and western Pennsylvania at its first meeting. Ralph P. Stenn and other officers were named in the roster.
A fragment notes the chief of Erie Railroad police in Youngstown with a vice president and a managing director, plus Lt. Charley A. Wimmerstedt of the Youngstown police, as assistant secretary treasurer. It mentions a clinic planning monthly meetings on the first Tuesday and references official legal files of Excellency alongside Massachusetts governor and U. S. president.
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