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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1941
Page
3
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WPA announces a county wide payroll reduction effective May 6 with 1 983 workers to be dropped in the Franklin district spanning Erie and thirteen other counties in northwestern Pennsylvania The Erie county total goes from 1 488 to 1 188 workers and Crawford Warren and Mercury counties also report substantial cuts to align with year end appropriations The plan requires a 20 percent reduction per county by April 9 and final action by May 6
Heisler Locomotive Works in New Castle is negotiating to sell rights to a fireless locomotive to the Porter Company of TIllnsburgh with possible plant sale under consideration. Treasurer F A Curtze said talks are progressing but no agreement is reached and the plant may be sold to a non locomotive manufacturing group.
Public hearings on amendments to Order 27 regulating milk handling in the New York Metropolitan Milk Marketing Area will be held in Albany and New York City in late May 1941. Written amendments must be filed with the hearing clerk by May 5. The hearings, jointly by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets and the U S Department of Agriculture, aim to speed up the amendment process after consultations with federal and state agriculture groups. The New York milk program has been in effect since 1938 under federal and state orders.
In DuBois Pennsylvania nineteen large new American flags are placed in the senior high school rooms. VFW Commander James P. Golley presented the flags at a student assembly and Vice Commander William Narr delivered them to homeroom representatives.
Distress or getting up nights is blamed on kidney issues and Thompson's Borsoma Tablets are advertised to flush kidneys and strengthen the bladder while aiding stomach liver and bowels. The ad urges insistence on Thompson's Borsoma Tablets as a remedy.
Harrisburg APRIL 194? Colonel Philip Mathews administrator of WPA announced a state wide observance to stimulate employment for men over 40. He urged public officials readers service men and civic groups to join WPA in promoting National Employment Week beginning May 4 and drew attention to Roosevelt's call to address older workers left out of industry amid defense expansion.
In Dunkirk on April 23 the board ordered reinstatement of high school chemistry teacher Wells Gould after suspension last year. Dr. Ernest E. Cole announced Gould will report to classes Monday morning while Lane Elton Peterson of Celoron will finish the term. No final assignment for Gould was decided. Albert H. Woelfle called the matter a closed chapter.
Word arrived Saturday evening of the sudden death of George Brett Birch of Portsmouth Virginia a former Corry resident who had not been well for a year He served in the navy and reportedly died unexpectedly He will be buried Tuesday at Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC with services at 8 30.
At the Shorewood Country Club during the annual Dunkirk Teachers Association dinner Dr. J R La Paplia warned the suspension may persist if the board fails to hide the fete. He criticized board costs for double salaries and extra legal fees tied to the appeal from the remissioner’s decisions.
April 23 marks the kickoff for a 200 unit housing project on the Bharie farm near Turles Creek townships in Titusville. Federal Works Agency official Robert Colmatt arrives to set up offices shared with David T. Rue Inc of Pittsburgh as the 120 day contract target runs from April 2, aiming for completion by September 1.
Dunkirk April 28 The situc ing fandry workers of the United States Radiator Corporation's Dunkirk plant reaffirmed their resolve to continue the strike. Lewis Campese, chairman of the foundermen's committee, said they submitted formal demands on April 8 to Manager CB Weir and had expected action from Detroit officials, but no direct reply had been received.
A Erie hearing centers on Sunday proceedings with attorney remarks on magistrates and legal limits. Edward M Murphy questions authority to preside in police court on Sundays and notes potential void judgments if a court acts on a Sunday under old Pennsylvania laws.
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