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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1942
Page
2
The C D of A announces a Tuesday bingo event at Horn Block with $53 nightly prize and $11 door prize. Admission is 75 cents. The Montana Oll City report notes four of sixty two selectees went to Erie for final physicals, with tests passed and induction into the U S Army proceeding.
Erie county officials report the treasury borrowed and paid off a $100,000 road bond issue issued twenty years ago with interest at a fraction over 7 percent. The final bond in that callable series will be paid off next year per Controller Harvey M Willis.
The column lists prices at Wilcox Grocery 2 for 21c and 46-07, tomato juice 23c, potatoes 45c pk, service promos, and a call for pay-in-service displays. It reports discharges from the local capital, names several residents and relatives, notes school openings and teacher vacancies, club meetings, a hospital injury roundup, and a community reunion at Mt. Pleasant School with a picnic. It also records a missing child alert in Ridgway and a driving accident near Erie.
Navy fighters are fast and deadly in dogfights, based on carrier operations in the Pacific. Each plane costs about 185,000, with production running day and night. Citizens are urged to invest at least ten percent of income in War Bonds or enroll in payroll savings to back American flyers and wartime aviation.
Corry youth Thomas D. Ressler, 19, son of Mr and Mrs Nicholas Ressler of 412 Concord Street, Corry, has been accepted for service with the Marine Corps. Enlisted as a private, he is stationed at the Marine training center at Parris Island South Carolina for basic training in modern warfare.
Registration of landlords in Corry under the new federal rent regulations increased to 947 on Saturday with ninety more enrolled at the Senior High School. Howard J. Sheen, one of the local registrars, said any who have not enrolled may do so Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Senior High School with a Rent Control Office representative available to answer questions. Local registrars will assist with enrollment in Union City for a few days this week.
A dense OCR style radio schedule lists programs and times across NBC CBS and Blue networks. It includes Madeleine Carforth This Our Exile, Speaks soprano appearances, concert mentions with Jaschs Heifetz and Don Voorhees, a contented concert, Vox Pop on CBS-8, and various bands forums tours. It notes postponed premieres from London An American In England, Lone Ranger, and Navy Recruiting Forum with J W McCormack and Jos W Martin Jr. Also lists Farm and Home programs, morning music blocks, and Saratoga Horse Race coverage.
Two people died in Erie on Sunday from separate accidents. Kenneth Richard Dudley, one year old, died after a fall from a crib on Wednesday, suffering a fractured skull and broken neck. Harbert S. Wilkins, 31, of Lawrence Park, died from injuries after a fall down stairs on July 24. Deputy Coroner Frank St. George planned an inquest.
An emergency antiseptic ointment and soap are pitched for general use in homes. The ad touts SAN-CURA Ointment for burns cuts bruises sores itching piles rashes and more with prices 36 and 60 cents and SAN-CURA Soap for tender skin suitable for babies.
Mayor High J. Ryan, Bradford, district director of the First Interceptor Command, announced an inspection of all aircraft warning stations in the district will be conducted between August 10 and 22. The district covers McKean Cameron and parts of Clearfield counties.
Erie city bond cases go to trial at 10 a m before Judge Hlmer J Ryans. Almost three quarters of a million dollars are involved in the final disposition. The cases, long debated and postponed, concern the city's defruited improvement bonds and have hung for years.
As Japanese forces tightened the siege on Corregidor May 5 6 the Quail the sole surviving naval auxiliary vessel remained on station though damaged. Two thirds of Quails crew were ordered ashore to reinforce beach defenses leaving a skeleton crew aboard to defend the ship. The barrage during the night covered Corregidor island with landslides and dust clouds while quarters aboard the Quail reported heavy shelling and a desperate defense. Lieutenant Commander Morrill and his men were ordered ashore to Fort Hughes to man the fortifications.
Lieutenant Commander Morrill led five men in a 30 foot launch along Caballo Island in Manila Bay to reach a lit cave five miles away seeking refuge from Japanese bombs and machine gun fire. A month later Morrill and 18 crew members returned to Darwin Australia after 2,000 miles of death and hazard.
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