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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1962
Page
4
Editorial argues a shortage of practical hands men with technical skills threatens industry. Chrysler-Plymouth Detroit launches a nationwide two boy two man schoolboy auto mechanic problem solving contest with 9000 dollar scholarships and school prizes to spur skilled trades and boost the craft of auto maintenance.
In April 1939 270 years ago news notes urge Great Britain’s grand front in Europe while Russia is urged to settle the war in 1942. City residents answer the victory garden call and produce food locally. Police seek suspects in a First Ward pistol practice incident. Measles cases include Embert Earle George Johnson Bruce Price and Eugene Blynt. Betty Jane Dahlstrand and Dorothy Jones visit Philadelphia for ex servicemen through Knights of Columbus. American Legion meeting details courses for veterans. Corry investors faced losses in Parenti stock. Mrs Anna Mary Clark war bride from Luxembourg dies at 24 in Columbus Township. survived by husband Albert Clark.
Around 40 years ago on April 24 a Chamber of Commerce gathering drew about 70 of the 200 members present. President James W. Campbell presided as Moses B. Hussell gave a talk, with local sources noting the event and public notices.
Corry Journal notes a published item from the post in Gary Pa and mentions event center plans and local teams. Entries reflect ordinary community notices with scattered fragments. The text lacks clear actions or outcomes but highlights continued local reporting from Corry and nearby areas.
George Sokolsky reflects on Leonard Bernstein as a musical educator and innovator. He praises Bernstein’s young assistants and the rise of a new generation, then shifts to how the South attracts industry, reshaping population, jobs, and culture, while noting lingering challenges of climate and pests near Paradise.
A compact note asks if a son or daughter is away from home and suggests they would enjoy something, implying a family activity or gift.
Marlow surveys aging world leaders and the impact of their potential successors. Khrushchev, Macmillan, de Gaulle, Nehru, Mao, Chiang Kai-shek, Tito, Franco face inevitable transitions that could reshape Cold War dynamics and domestic politics.
State Highway Department official told Titusville Chamber of Commerce by letter that the hazardous Route 27 curve at East Titusville is now safe for drivers who obey the law. The official added that future hazard-removal funding may consider further improvements. Harold Gahagan, district engineer, noted the curve was widened and elevated to be safely negotiated at 50 mph on the 3 mile speed limit segment.
Robert H. Clancy, a former Michigan congressman who opposed prohibition in the 1920s, died yesterday of cancer in Detroit. He was elected as a Democrat in 1922 but left the party in 1924 after the Democratic National Convention refused to denounce the Ku Klux Klan, and later served three Republican terms beginning in 1926.
Free spending by consumers lifts sentiment across business, retail, and manufacturing. Strong incomes, higher dividends, and better weather push outlays for clothing, homes, recreation, and travel, with factory output and total goods/services output reaching new highs in early 1962. The upturn steadies recession fears as annual rate hits 549 billion dollars in Q1, up 6.8 billion from late 1961.
Pittsburgh area steel firm Armco faces a suit by 1,219 former Etna workers over moving operations to its Ambridge plant. Attorneys claim the transfer violated labor contracts and misled workers about job preservation. The suit seeks at least 40 million in damages. Armco counters that job allocations were agreed with a union commission before closing the Etna plant.
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