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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1942
Page
2
A dense collage of 1930s era notices across Warren and nearby towns. War production drives and local civic updates blend with traffic light installs in DuBois, highway repairs across counties, and calls for rubber conservation. Individual items include appointments, resignations, school director actions, and routine community notices with names, places, and dates.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on April 16 Mrs Richard Hull fought to keep four year old Charlotte awake after the child accidentally swallowed narcotic tablets. Nurses and physicians feared sleep would endanger her, so the mother entertained her with toys and kept conversation going for hours. By 2 30 a m the girl had recovered enough to sleep with her condition listed as fair.
Dairymen in the area will share in a March milk pool totaling 14.186 million dollars as 48 states set the uniform price at 2.432 per hundredweight. Corry and Vicinity producers receive 82.24 percent for 3.6 milk delivered to the local plant. The March pool marks an all-time high in the regional market, with the price down 13 cents from February but up 48 cents from March 1941. The metropolitan milk marketing area administrator, N. J. Gistakis, noted the pool’s record and the impact of the federal state marketing orders.
Teen fishers flocked to streams as the 104 month trout season opened. Some anglers reported catches of ten but most were happy with two or three. Early overcast conditions boosted bites before sun and breeze diminished activity. Garden hackle was the favored bait on South Branch Creek near Lovell, drawing crowds along the road and bridge well into the night.
Accociated Press report notes California Senator Downey introduces a bill allowing the President to seize privately owned cars and create a large stockpile of autos parts tires and supplies funded by 5 billion dollars to tackle a predicted severe transportation shortage within a year. Also mentions Goodyear testing tires without rubber and a European weatherfish reference to an approaching storm.
The War Department released a list of partial Far East casualties naming two Pennsylvanians. Henry A. Charnesky of Greensburg and Second Lieutenant Richard Wellington Geaxe of Trucksville Luzerne County are listed as killed or dying of wounds in the Netherlands East Indies and northern Australia. The notice excludes any soldiers killed in the Philippines.
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