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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1950
Page
6
Paragraf reports youths firing rifles in a county area at 4 30 PM with no city arrests as shots were outside city limits. Several other items include a car theft suspect Robert A Stokes held in Grand Valley, farm labor draft council in Pa, and a Navy enlistment for Donald Armitage.
Production workers at General Electric Electronics Park in Syracuse will vote on striking August 18 as part of a CIO plan to push a nationwide contract settlement. Local 320 CIO IUOE president John Brady announced the date saying 41 GE plants may vote. Union and GE negotiators have been in talks in New York City while a competing union also meets GE officials.
About 400 workers at the Continental Can Company plant in Canonsburg walked out in a strike over a grievance filed 18 months ago. The CTO United Steelworkers said the claim remains unsettled and a meeting between company and union representatives was scheduled for today.
North Korean forces crossed the Naktong as U.S. and allied troops battled in the area near Chinju. Marines and the Fifth Regimental Combat Team reinforced the southern thrust, with the 11th Regiment rescued from a flank attack as American forces reported intensified offensive actions. Naval power expanded with five American ships bombarding Tanchon, 125 miles north of the 38th parallel, marking a deeper reach into enemy territory.
The Marine Corps plans to mobilize 50,000 volunteer reserves between August 15 and October 31 to bolster active strength toward 200,000 with potential for further expansion. House members urge a minimum active force of 300,000 and a January request for a $600 million increase. Several ground reserve units have been activated. some air reserve units followed.
Weeks ago and additional units are 5 be called up. There were other military developments. The Coast Guard said this is trying to re enlist former guardsmen and reservists between ages 17 and 45 in the volunteer reserves. These cannot be called to service.
Coast Guard stated a case of active duty underway without consent. General J Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, provided a progress report to a House military subcommittee on the Army tank program, but the subcommittee chairman Rep Philbin declined to comment on Collins statements.
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