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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1945
Page
4
The May 11 Child Health Day note from the Medical Society of Pennsylvania celebrates two decades of progress in child health. It cites a 45 percent drop in elementary school age deaths, diphtheria and scarlet fever declines, and major reductions in tuberculosis pneumonia appendicitis rheumatic fever and accidents.
The article notes increased highway travel over the past ten years has led to poorer driving habits. It blames drivers for crowding the center of the road and forcing others to yield. It urges motorists to check habits recognize guilty ones and correct behavior.
Jamestown officials consider a $10 000 bid for annual can and rubbish collection and disposal. The highway committee will recommend to the city council after reviewing six bids from three bidders. Ralph H. Bove submitted a low bid for downtown and residential district pickups with weekly downtown service and six day intervals in residential areas.
April 26 rain aids foresters battling fires across the region. Meager grass and brush fed by tinder have fueled wildfires, with over 100 acres reported scorched. Fire crews, aided by workers and local schoolboys, fought multiple blazes, keeping most under control.
The Erie Elks Club, located at 1002 Peach Street, aims to buy a city owned building as a new club home. A preliminary survey identified the Second National Bank at Ninth and Peach as the only suitable site meeting location constraints between Fifth and 32nd Streets, and between Hold and Myrtle.
Public notice reports Parks and Public Property Di Jor Gale Rose announcing a sale plan. The highest bid so far is $100,000 for the barned building now housing a store. Binance Director Joseph Martin states the council will advertise for sale of the property.
A dispatch from Stockholm reports German shoppers losing confidence in the Reichsmark as inflation worsens. Experts compare it to postwar chaos, noting prices soared after 1919 and the currency collapsed toward zero, with Dawes Committee urged to stabilize rather than wage slogans.
A historical note recalls Lenin and Trotsky driven controls over industry and a card system under militant communism, Keynes’s 1921 Russia visit, and the ruble’s collapse by 1991. It also mentions new Soviet monetary units and a WWI casualty, Pvt. Donald V. Iten, at Meadville.
Five veterans of the air war at Corry Plant are profiled. Capt Bert Twarmley, pilot of a B 17, flew 95 missions over Europe including Romania and Ploesti and earned the Air Medal with two clusters, the DFC, and the European Theater ribbon with three battle stars. Sgt Sal Ventimiglia, 21, flight engineer, served 42 combat missions in the B 24 Liberator, earning the Air Medal with four clusters and a Presidential citation. Sgt William Vogel, 29, nose gunner on a B 24, flew 35 missions over France, Belgium, Holland and Germany earning the Air Medal with three clusters and the European Theater ribbon with three stars. Sgt Bob Hills, 21, B 17 gunner, participated in D‑Day aerial actions, with the Air Medal five clusters, the European Theater ribbon with three battle stars, and a Presidential citation. The article notes their service from Italy, England, and support theaters, totaling extensive combat hours.
General services in memory of the late Charles Fish were held Tuesday afternoon from Levine Funeral Home in Cambridge Springs. Those attending from out of town included many relatives and friends listed from Corry and surrounding towns. Interment was made in Waterford Cemetery.
Mrs. Cleo Carr 65 widow of Stanley Carr died Wednesday morning at 2:30 at the Fallquistn Home Jamestown New York She had been ill for several months Friends may call at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer until Friday afternoon services to be held at the United Brethren Church Bear Lake at 3:30 Rev Cecil E Ross officiating Interment Bear Lake Cemetery
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County agricultural extension agent Paul Crossman says Erie county winter wheat crop is blighted turning grain yellow. He notes many farmer calls in recent days. no effective remedy known and full extent of mildew damage cannot yet be estimated.
Mrs Anne Wolford widow of the late Robert Wolford died Wednesday afternoon at her home 515 Hust Main street Corry after a brief illness. Born in Ireland she came to this county as a child and lived in Detroit and Buffalo before moving to Corry with her family. She taught school and was a former reader and a longtime member of the Christian Scientist Church. Survived by daughters Della Vazhey Philadelphia Margaret Erie and Anne at home nine grandchildren a sister and two brothers. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 pm at Bracker Keating Primeval Home with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Erie officials moved to impose and extend a state dog quarantine for 100 days after a resident reported being bitten by a stray in the Second and Sassafras area. John T. Honbari of West Fourth Street described two dogs chasing him, with injuries treated at Hamut Hospital. The measure mirrors a statewide policy discussed in Pittsburgh.
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