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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1949
Page
1
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President Truman faces a slow reception for a national health insurance plan to cover medical and hospital care, with critics predicting the idea will survive in a broader program. The administration plans to send a bill to Congress Monday, funding via payroll taxes and employer contributions, aiming to cost between 4.5 and 6 billion dollars annually.
A beer truck crashed off a wet highway four miles east of Corry on a Spring Creek road, spilling its cargo and causing 400 dollars in damage. The driver Joe Telak Jr and his brother Paul sustained minor injuries and were treated at the scene and hospital. Major General Claire Chennault, with wife and infant, left Canton yesterday for the United States by way of Hong Kong to board a Philippine Airlines flight.
Corry residents and nationwide travelers switch to Daylight Saving Time for five months starting tomorrow at 2 a.m. The Pennsylvania and Erie rail lines publish new arrivals and departures with times aligned to DST. Post office hours shift forward, one hour later train arrivals affect mail delivery, and radio shows adjust broadcast times to the new clock.
Residents are set to move clocks forward one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, starting Daylight Saving Time for the season. City Council approved the shift several weeks ago, aiming to extend evening daylight while meeting community needs.
Two cars collided on a highway near Lake Pleasant at 9 15 am crowding the middle of the road. Both drivers Mivhust Benita Jy Erie R 0 6 and Richard Soper were not severely injured but the cars plunged into the lake with front ends underwater. Damage to both cars was over 300 dollars. The accident occurred in front of the Allied Trades Club and authorities cited park aid and pedestrians along the road as factors. The owners and circumstances were under police review. In Washington the United Mine Workers bought the Chandlery Building at 1427 1 street NW for 550 000 becoming owners of four downtown office buildings.
Babson Park Mass April 23 Government building of millions of homes by local labor is not the solution. He argues factory built houses offer the real fix, criticizing local labor limits and costly codes that hinder prefabricated homes with installed wiring and plumbing. He notes cellars are obsolete and could save money, with continued discussion on page four.
Delinquent school tax collection efforts produced six judgments from 34 cases heard before Aldermen Bullers and Cobbett over two days. Of 28 who appeared, $8,711 in cash settled overdisamounts and about $800 more was arranged for others unable to pay immediately. Officials noted larger delinquencies dominated the first batch and pledged immediate action against smaller debts, with executions for those not settling. Total delinquent amounts exceed $53,000, about $26,000 unpaid for three years.
Washington April 33 Adoption of a twenty hour week without wage cuts would raise underground coal miners pay to about 445 an hour under the Bituminous Coal Institute says John L. Lewis seeks a six hour day and eighty hour week for the United Mine Workers. The institute notes miners now receive pay for full time but actually work 32 4 hours and face long travel and lunch times. It warns the change would burden industries with idle costly plants and impede progress. A separate Providence report details three year old Carol Ann Russell's narrow escape after falling 14 feet from a rooftop between two buildings and being rescued by firemen. she suffered only minor injuries.
The Cory Chamber of Commerce directors endorsed a plan to fully investigate the school district’s proposed three mil levy. The vote followed a merchants’ earlier stop and approved publishing a small city directory for Falconer. They authorized a sales booth and ticket giveaway for July 4 at Newell Park and discussed a Cory sign at Park TeBcent intersection and a Business District sign at Smith and North Gefer streets.
The Clymer Central School board awards contracts totaling 214185 for a ten room wing to be ready by February. L H Ludwig Co is the general contractor with 175151, B B Electrical Co 10257, Sans Corp 9499, Sandburg Sprinkler 19331. The project adds ten classrooms and a four unit cafeteria as the first central school expansion in western New York. Bonds of 236009 to finance the work, with most covered by state aid.
Two drunkenness and disorderly conduct cases were heard by Police Magistrate Zobbett after complaints from a West Pleasant Street resident. William Franklin was fined 3 12 and costs after a collapse near her home. Edward Spencer, found collapsed on a lawn at 185 North Center Street, was not arraigned as officers failed to locate him. No identification cards were found. he offered no information. In Riverside, Calif, sheriff’s deputies arrested Auries E. Gurnler secretary to the murdered employer John E. Owen, former National Apartment House Owners Association head, who died last night at his home en route to a hospital.
Washington reports the Federal Reserve Board will relax installment purchase terms for radios, TVs, furniture and cars from 21 to 24 months effective April 7. Down payments drop to about 15 percent, with exemptions for goods under $50. The move aims to ease inflationary pressure and may affect congressional opposition to extending control powers beyond the war.
A historical notice describes the Findley Lake garbage route, collection schedules for May through September, and efforts by the sanitation committee to improve waste removal. It notes plans to manage debris, curb pollution, and pursue water rights and lake level controls, with corporate involvement and membership meetings forthcoming.
Federal Bureau of Investigation says 19 year old James E. Bernett will be moved from Memphis to Baltimore to face charges for two Baltimore holdups and a bank robbery. Pittsburgh man Bennett and accomplices from Pittsburgh and Tennessee are named in the extradition process with several others to be moved from Nashville to follow.
The annual clean up days will be staged next Tuesday and Wednesday. Streets Director Cin invited the public and Streets Department crews to canvass all sections of the city to collect winter garbage. City employees will cover the Second and Third wards on Tuesday and the First and Fourth wards on Wednesday.
The United States and Britain join with France to propose broader self government for western Germany amid Bonn stalemate. Ambassador Minty urges a compromise to satisfy Social Democrats, with talk of a four power conference and possible parallel eastern state arrangements. A Bonn reaction appears favorable as leaders weigh the shift toward a for a constitutional draft for the new state.
Seymour Topping reports from Nanking as Nationalist forces abandon the capital, blowing up the railway station and retreating southward. Reds reportedly mass across the river, with large numbers moving toward Nanking and its port, while crowds gather and negotiations for surrender or takeover begin.
The Examiner reports cruisers Marchester and St Pall azz sailing from Los Angeles in April bound for Pacttin stations with Marines aboard. The ships head toward China carrying an interim force amid tensions.
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