Twenty Years Ago Highlights And Local Incidents
Twenty years ago on April 21 1932 readers learned of a Erie driver William Conkey of Firch Baking Co dying of a heart attack after calling Will J Wilcox Grocery Store on East Main Street. Other notes mention a youth shot near Elgin, Kiwanis club vote on daylight saving time, health officer inspections of food establishments, a Korn Smas opening led by Harvey Grescut, Frant Fitch injuring a hand, and Missouri Valley water projects discussed with Truman urging liberal congress members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will J. Wilcox
East Main Street
William Conkey
Erie
Firch Baking Company
Corry
A and P
Ford
North Center Street
Harvey Grescut
Two Art Talks Set for Edinboro Conference
At Edinboro State Teachers College Northwestern Pennsylvania Art Conference will feature a painting demonstration by Carl Gaertner and a lecture and metal enameling demo by Kenneth Francis Bates of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Bates will speak Saturday at 8 30 in the college auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern
Pennsylvania
Edinboro
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland
Toledo
Norton
Terre Haune
Dallas
Davenport
Macbeth Gallery
Cleveland Institute of Art
Canton Art Institute
Dayton Art Institute
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Fatalities Drop On Pa Turnpike Report Shows Decline
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission reports a drop in fatalities and accidents in 1951 as traffic volume rose on the turnpike. Using 100 million vehicle miles as a base the 1951 fatality rate fell to 8.5 from 12.4 in 1950 and the fatal accident rate to 6.1 from 8.8. Total fatalities reached 66 over 774,215,981 miles driven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannonung
Aprii
The
Pennsylvania "Turnpike Commission
ORME
Ely
National Safety Council
Trnpike
Truman plans to shift flood control to Interior Department
President Truman weighs stripping Army engineers of flood control duties and centralizing control in the Interior Department. Congress could nullify within 60 days, while the Missouri Valley Authority proposal and Pick-Sloan plan loom large in the debate. Flood damages and crop losses from 1951 floods fuel calls for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Sloan
Reclamation Bureau
Army
Congress
Truman
Missouri Valley
Missouri
Army Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Upper Mississippi
Interior Department
United States
Missouri River
U.S
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Department of Agviculture
Illinois
Oklahoma
Missouri Valley Authority
TVA
Sen. Murray
D-Mont
MVA
F. D. Roosevelt
Trumart
Missouri Basin Survey Commission
Sen. Hennings
Reclamation Bureau of the Interior Department
Gen. Pick
How's Your I Q A Puzzle From the Classified Page
A mixed quiz prompts readers to score themselves from 1 to 10 with labels Genius to Poor, then directs to the Classified Page for answers. Questions touch on Defense branches, literary figures, geography, and corrections, with stray text about memory and horticulture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. Q
Finletter
Department of Defense
George Berhard Shaw
Sidney
Webby
Wells
Fievetuck
Field
A.C
Henry VII
Lapland
United States
Florida
Ariadne
Theseus
Gopher
Congress
Medic Says Having Babies Safer Now
An Arizona doctor, Dr Preston Brown of Phoenix, claims childbirth is eight times safer for American women than twenty years prior. He cites that the national maternal death rate now runs under 1 per 1000 live births, down from 8 per 1000 in 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Arizona
Preston’. Brown
Phoenix
Also Mentioned on This Page
Héra
Lloyd Norris
Elgin
Kiwanis Chibs
Hotel Garry
Ruppersturger
Department of Health
Frant
Byron Fitch
West Columbus Avenue
Edin
Pa. Turnpike
Walvet Paper Cleaner
Qae UN
Boscul Coffee
Main St
Atte
Delmar Oleo
Babo Cleanser
Foster E. Davis & Son
Coco
RCA
Davis Radio
Corey
Pas
Black Flag
Wizard Wick
Beautyrest
Fry Aoa Eee
Bork
Wirtt
Cois
Guaranthid
Simmons
Meerdink’s
Maiden' Foun
Katherine’s
Aport
Al's Clothes Shop
North Center ST
Corry, PA
Chevrolet
Thomas Motors
of Corry, Inc
Tommy Homer
Tomy
Tommy
Vistional Bank of Corry
Allen Homer
the National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Safety Deposit
BOXER
GOV
Sil
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