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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1938
Page
8
The Golden Rule Club leads a survey of members and local service clubs to gauge support for moving clocks ahead one hour in summer. Rotary Kiwanis and other groups will be polled as advocates push for fast time from late May to early September despite a lukewarm referendum.
A Buffalo Bituminous Products Company plant at North Corry begins erecting facilities to produce road surfacing material for Route 6 east to Pittsfield and west to Range’s Corners. Heavy equipment arrives. work proceeds as Baldwin Construction rebuilds Route 6 west to Range’s Corners and an Erie firm resurfaces west from Bigin Beaverdam road toward Union City.
American-born princess of Persia, formerly Doris Mercer of Alabama, reunites with homeland on a short visit. She was once wife of chain store magnate Sebastian S. Kresge.
The Erie County Council of Parents-Teachers Associations will meet Wednesday April 27 at Lawrence Park school auditorium. The nominating committee report will be given and officers for the next year will be elected. All local presidents must submit a written report to the county president. Each local president will give a one minute oral report while county chairmen present the annual report.
Aveniue J. Perry RN secretary will represent District No. 7 Pennsylvania State Nurses Association at the 37th convention of the American Nurses Association in Kansas City Missouri the week of April 24 Pennsylvania Day observed Tuesday April 20 Miss Perry plans to depart for Kansas City on Saturday Pennsylvania notes that Pennsylvania is the only state with major battles in three wars.
Two Corry youths were sentenced to twenty days in Erie county jail for illegal train riding after hearings before Alderman G H Gordon. Edward Darndatl and Merritt Cone received 15 dollar fines. others faced 13 dollar fines and 20 day jail terms if defaulted. Detective Sergeant W P Merritt cited dangers and urged crackdowns as more youths faced hearings related to rides on freight and passenger trains between Corry Union City and Warren.
Eleven new candidates will receive the first degree at ceremonies Sunday in the Corry Council Club rooms in the Barlow block. The Oil City Council team will confer the degree locally. The second degree is planned for May 1 at Oil City, with the third on May 15. The event caps a district drive to gain candidates.
The seventeenth annual Hospital Association of Pennsylvania convention will run April 27 28 29 in Pittsburgh drawing nearly 1000 hospital executives and technicians. Three groups the Hospital Association Pennsylvania State Dietetic Association and the Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists join for the event with separate and joint sessions.
Harrisburg April 20 United Press reports demands on a 2 million dollar emergency fund for financially distressed school districts far exceed the allocation. Officials say disbursements to date total 1,129,158 or about one fourth of the needed aid for 204 districts across 40 of 67 counties.
Prank Shank of West Washington street was arrested on a charge of assault and battery after a family disturbance in which he allegedly threatened family members with a gun. He will be arraigned before Alderman G. H. Gordon for a hearing this afternoon.
Horace Brynolfson the Corry tenor, studying in New York, delighted Rex theatre audiences with six numbers. Accompanied by Les Tiffany, he opened with Believe Me, followed by Una Martira ingrima, When Irish Myes Are Smilin, O Sole Mio, Maytime’s Will You Remember, and La donna e mobile from Rigoletto. Critics praised his voice and range. He will appear in Warren Thursday evening.
United Press reports at an American Chemical Society session that synthetic diamonds may devalue natural stones and appear in cheap costume jewelry. Kansas college instructor Lewellyn D. Lloyd said two Lab-made diamonds tested at the Bureau of Standards in Washington were declared pure, transparent, first quality diamonds created from molten iron and arabic carbon in an ice brine solution.
Reverend Swanson of the First Lutheran Church in Jamestown will speak at the Men’s Bible Class meeting next Sunday afternoon at the Salvation Army Hall. He is regarded as one of the area’s leading pastors and a large crowd is expected for his visit.
Erie reports another attempt will be made next week to free Zack Calabrese, convicted for alleged participation in a taping and robbery case. Attorney Edward Petrillo says a curt action will be filed, opposed by the district attorney, who still investigates. Calabrese has been in county prison for several months after Mimi Dixon testified, with a jury originally sentencing him to six to 12 years at the Western Penitentiary.
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