Hatch Conference Sees Alt Jean Stufor As Leader
Fragmentary report indicates discussions on leadership where Hatch Conference contemplates Alt Jean Stufor as president. Details are unclear but the name and event are evident in the readable text.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
3
Fragmentary report indicates discussions on leadership where Hatch Conference contemplates Alt Jean Stufor as president. Details are unclear but the name and event are evident in the readable text.
Erie Aug 8 Tax reductions on city school district and county properties may follow if 4000 vacant lots bought at the June 1938 treasurer sale are sold and restored to the tax rolls. City Finance Director Paul F. Watson says milage could drop. matter now before the Erie county court for opinion after a recent hearing. Real estate board and city officers favor authorized salesmen handling sales. county officials prefer sale via the county property division headed by Mrs Odessie Pinte.
State Secretary of Labor and Industry Lewis G Hines says 20000 unemployed found work in Pennsylvania during the past seven months and defense orders may create 200000 more jobs. He notes a normal upturn in business and a statewide training program to fill skilled positions in steel mills coal mines aircraft plants shipyards and labs as prosperity expands. The state has about 2900000 private wage earners covered by unemployment compensation and 180000 more than a year ago.
Former North East water department superintendent Youngs died at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday after contacting 2,300 volts while drilling holes for telephone poles on Youngs road. His brother Ralph Youngs aided him as a third man helped Ralph free him. The victim, married to Marie Youngs with a daughter Hivel, was pronounced dead at Dr E D Shelley’s office after removal from high voltage.
Harrisburg August 8 Meredith Meyers state Democratic chairman forecast statewide Republican help for Roosevelt. He cited GOP signatories for Roosevelt nationwide and in Pennsylvania, noting 1936 margins and laborers' wage gains under Democrats versus Republicans, with plan for a Republican organization to counter Willie voters you can’t sway Roosevelt supporters.
The Reverend W. C. Reeves of Huntington is injured after his automobile Skidded on a sharp curve left the highway and struck a tree near Beech Grove on Route 219 five miles south of Ridgway. He suffered a spinal injury scalp lacerations severe elbow contusions a fractured rib and shock. He was en route home from New York City and was alone in the car.
Law enforcement officers from six western Pennsylvania counties after meeting with FBI agents urged citizens to report suspected sabotage, espionage, and subversive activities. FBI HQ said meetings would be held across the state to share ideas on national defense investigations as federal communications inspectors arrive to check unlicensed radio broadcasting stations.
Aug. 8 report from Troy, Pennsylvania, states a small airplane crashed on a hilltop, killing Alfred Longo, 35, and Harold Borgeson, 16, both residents of Troy. Neighbor Glenn Hewitt reported hearing the engine miss before the craft dove into the ground.
The 1939 soybean crop in Manchukuo is estimated at 150,000,000 bushels. In 1930s production amounted to 170,000,000 bushels.
About 300 Erle fishermen resumed work Wednesday after a weeklong “rest” later called a strike. They met with International Longshoremen’s Union official HA O’Brien in Buffalo to reaffirm the 1940 season contract providing fishermen a share of selling prices. In Waynesburg, Pa., mail carrier Andrew Frye, 26, was killed when his truck overturned after a collision with a car.
The English dish umble pie used the stag’s heart liver and entrails from deer. It fed lower household members, giving rise to the saying to eat humble pie as a social humility metaphor.
A historical note asserts bread in Palestine, while not ordinary food, is a special divine gift. It states bread was never sold but given or exchanged, reflecting religious or cultural practice around 844. The fragment emphasizes sacred status over commerce in breadsharing.
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