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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1949
Page
6
A misty spring day opened with 73 degrees in Paragraf Rees and a cooler 54 later. Local committees name Jeron Blakeslee to choose a site for a summer gift renue at Spartanshire Legion Hall. Firemen battle flames on Ridge street as rain dampens alarms and a commission approves Pennsylvania weight law penalties.
Goal deniers in Jamestown announce a one dollar per ton reduction across all coin grades to spur spring orders and deliveries. Rev Father Freeman of Sacred Heart Church at Lakewood credits with noting a four year old boy was burned while a bonfire incident. he aided by beating out flames but sustained a burned right hand. Jamestown Board of Education approves a 2,119,626 dollar budget and a tax reduction about three per thousand. new rate becomes 17.24 dollars per thousand. Three principals resign and retire. Falconer street school name change recommended to Lillian Dickson in honor of its first principal L. B. Ball. West Les Union office manager displays several live rabbits in his window.
Pittsburgh April 13 Sponsors of the Ohio River Lake Erie Canal lost Army support and sought a new leader. Walter B. Lorence resigned as executive vice president of the OVIA effective around June. Col Falkner said the Army engineers prefer private or rail solutions over a canal.
Harrisburg April 1 The Senate spurred action to pay on a new bill authorizing an Erie to western extension four lane toll road. The Senate highways committee approved the measure after it was introduced by Sen. C Arthur Blass. A prior financing dispute delayed the western extension toward the Ohio border. The bill directs the governor and highways secretary to select the route from Erie to the western extension of the Pittsburgh Harrisburg line.
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