Corry Area News Highlights From Local Meetings And Plans
Community notices cover a variety of events in Corry including a Rice and Warren Covaties Masters conference at 10:30 AM, a Kiwanis Spring Regional with 250 attendees, and a Western Pennsylvania Boy Scouts reception for Erie scouts returning from Antarctica. Also noted are plans for northern firemen’s convention, Chautauqua society merger in Pittsburgh, and local civic discussions on utility rates and radio station developments.
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Rice
Warren Covaties
The
Grange
Corry
Cohetinue
Pensylvania
Grove City
Herbert H. Moore
Ti Bois
Kiwanis International
Boy Scouts
Pennsylvania
Erie
Siple
Olin Stancliff
Richard E. Byrd
Polk Hospital Seeks Over Two Million for Improvements
OS City April 10 Polk State School seeks 2,009,500 for improvements under the state rehabilitation program. The state department of welfare outlined a 41,171,627 expenditure funded by Pennsylvania’s share of the national PWA fund. Plans include a new building for women to stabilize the overcrowded Polk facility with a lengthy waiting list.
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OS City
Polk
State Department of Welfare
Department
Pennsylvania
PWA
Polk State School
Polk Institution
Takes Position at Root Store
Announcement that G. B. Kysar has joined Root's Furniture Store sales staff. He began Monday morning and is known in local furniture circles from his prior work at Montgomery Ward and Company. He will sell appliances, furniture and rugs.
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Trony Oy A. L. Root
G. B. Kysar
Root
Kysar
Lots Store
Montgomery Ward and Company
Brother of Corry Woman Dies in Fall
Two men died in separate falls in Corry and Erie area. K Christensen, 1120 Brown’s contractor and pullder, fell in his basement and died at Hamot Hospital after a skull fracture. Carl Beck, 35, of 2118 Cherry Street, fell 10 feet from a scaffold at a Ninth and State construction site, dying at noon three hours later. Beck’s wife Elizabeth and four brothers and three sisters survive. Coroner DeW G Shibble will continue investigations into both deaths.
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Hamot
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Sivly-Tom
Brown’ Diventic
Carl Beck
Cherry Street
Carpenter
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Themhiy
Kiristensen
Stumvink
Huraut Hospital
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Berk
Upton Lang
Beck
WA Wid
Elizabeth Alatrup Beck
Ropert Neal Beck
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Sells L. Beck
Christ
Ole, Dimes
Harold Berle
Marie Wiken
Wesleyville
Margaret Hatley
Brie
Magda Ettson
Corry
Edwards, Hanley Ad Sons Reneral
de W. G. Shibble
Fiat Pencil Investigations
Brie to Seek Bus Fare Cut in City Council Action
April 4 in Brie a city council meeting discussed reducing bus fares as six tickets for 4 quarters were set in an amended Erie Coach line ordinance for East Sixth and East Twenty-sixth streets. The council deferred final approval to the Public Service Commission, planning to push the case to that body. A separate note reports Joseph Bedugnis, 23, sentenced to six months, seeking hard labor to replace the term soft confinement.
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Brie
Erie Coach Company
City Council
Public Service Commission
Boston
Joseph Bedugnis
House of Correction
Germany's air chief marries stage star in Berlin ceremony
Berlin reports Gen Hermans Goerig, head of Germany's new army air force, wed Fraulein Emmi Sonemann a blonde stage actress. Hitler attended both civil and religious rites as thousands cheered in front of City Hall. The civil ceremony began at 10 am EST, followed by a cathedral service officiated by Archbishop Ludwig Mussler.
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Berlin
Hermans Goerig
Germany
Army Air Force
Mirrie
Fraulein
Emmi S¢nemmnm
State Theatre
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Heichsbishop
Ludwig’ Mussler
Brookville Considers Park Fund From Federal Grant
Brookville contemplates a federal grant near 225000 to support a five day fund for remodeling and constructing a Brookville recreation area for all residents. The plan outlines a proposal led by Ralph Bashore and a committee including Tun S. McMurray Averily J. McMurray Dr. Walter Dick Gladstone Carmatt and Raymond K. Brown.
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Walter Dick
Gladstone Carmatt
Raymond K. Brown
Two Beheaded for Murder of Nazi Hero
Berlin report states Lilli Epstein and Hans Zeigler were beheaded at Ploemensee prison in the courtyard for complicity in the murder of Horst Weasel, a Nazi hero. Adolf Hitler allegedly refused clemency. the executions followed a January 14, 1950, murder tied to Nazi crimes.
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Silli Epstein
Hans Zeigler
Plan for Northern Firemen's Convention Banquet
Meadville April 19 Plans for the annual convention will be discussed at a banquet meeting of the Northern Firemen's Association at Conneaut Lake Park on April 18. Officials, delegates and members from several counties will attend. The convention is set for August 14 with Chief J. E. Joyce of Sharpsville as association president.
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Pennsylvania
Corneaut Lake
Fred Carman
Menville
Meadville
Northern Firemen's Association
Conneaut Lake Park
Lory
Hewert
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Vegetable Garden Meeting Set For April Eighteenth
The county hosts a vegetable garden meeting on April 18 to discuss adaptable varieties and practices for home gardens. Pennsylvania State College extension notes cover variety selection and cultural methods, with sessions in Union City and Conky Warner McCray farm locations on the same date.
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Warner McCray Farm
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Fred C. Hoenes
Prank Menke
Spark
Italisy‘American Association
Clab Rooms
Chautauqua
Pittsburgh
Greater Pittsburgh Chautauqua Society
Geo. E. Vincent
Chautauqua Institute
Arthur FE. Boston
Perry B. Wurst
Buffalo
Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Trust Co
Wes In
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Pennsylvania Railway Company
Emporium Junction
Rochester
Olean
Jamestown
Brown Rado Service and Laboratory of
WOCL
Laat City
Wellsville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Roy Harris
H. R. “Harris
Kiwanis Club
Mendville City
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Council
Ailver
New York Stock Exchange
Pare and Harbor Commission of
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State
Renate
Polk Hospital
Montgomery Ward
Gen. Goering
Emmi Sonnemann
United Press
Brookville
Crawford
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Mercer, Warren, Erie
Forest Sovaties
J. E. Joyce
Sharp Ville
Association
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