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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1952
Page
4
Detroit Chamber of Commerce and Pittsburgh Weightman Bidg listed in a local notices column. The text notes mortgage and bond bids and advertising terms for Evening Journal editions, with AP rights and postal details. Public notices include rates and deadlines for display ads.
Meadville April 7 The black panther was at large today, evading capture as a 250 man search line scoured western Crawford county on Saturday and a 60 man posse looked again yesterday. Reports from residents placed the cat near homes, with drives through woods. deer carcasses were spotted four miles from GAG, one fresh kill and another appearing dead for some time.
William Toomey of Erie paid a $100 fine in Newstead N Y for failing to register under New York’s weight distance tax. Deadline was April 1 for registration as major truckers already pay the tax. Trucks must carry a license and pay from 6 to 14 mills per ton mile, with yearly fees around five dollars for license costs. Various states push new vehicle taxes and gross receipts charges amid evolving salt production notes in Michigan.
The article reviews wartime and postwar wage actions in the steel industry, noting Taft Hartley limits, a 10 day no strike injunction, and a 1949 strike preceding Korea. It recounts a package seeking 200 per hour with pension and insurance increases, the eventual $100 monthly pensions, and staged price and wage increases through 1950 including an $5 per ton price rise and 18 to 18.5 cent hourly wage bumps.
Funeral services for Mrs Florence Marsh a former Corry resident will be held at Bracken Keating Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 30 p m Rev E R Harris will officiate with interment in Beaverdam Cemetery Rev Wilmer Heffer assisting She died early Sunday morning after years of illness at the home of her daughter Mrs Archie Smith 118 Ashdale Avenue Syracuse She had lived in this region most of her life and with husband operated a Cherry Bill farm She was a member of the Women's Relief Corps and Corry Grange No 55 Surviving daughters Mrs Smith Mrs Robert Sherman Mrs Milan Gates son Carl Marsh 11 grandchildren seven great grandchildren and two brothers Anne Mosher Franklin and Lee Mosher Union City
A reader quiz asks ten questions about government neutrality whalebone eyelids and more with a note to turn to Classified Page for answers. Also Johnstown reports Alice Kinney celebrates her 90th birthday and offers longevity wisdom, noting lifelong blindness and partial paralysis.
A historical overview of major steel industry strikes and government responses, tracing 1901 1919 1937 1943 1946 and 1939 wage actions, and noting attempts to seize plants under the Taft Hartley framework. It discusses presidential power, Clark’s 1949 opinion, Senate actions by Lucas, Truman state of the union remarks, and a 1947 Supreme Court ruling on anti coal strike injunctions.
In a 5 to 2 vote the Corry Board of Education rejected a proposal to dismiss married teachers whose husbands are employed. Mayor Starr cites potential municipal feeding house plans as Erie visit details. Teachers offer to refund one month of salary to aid the 1932 33 term. Traveling of the Sciata stretch concludes with about 20 workers on site.
City Council must decide if the lowest bid can be rejected for contract awards under revised Third Class City code. City Solicitor Gerald Weber cites Wilson vs New Castle to say discretion rests with municipal authority, not face value of the bid. Separate item: reports of a panther-like cat seen near Coon's Corners and Black's Corners with a posse patrolling the area.
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