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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1943
Page
2
A mixed Erie region page reports Charles G. Hubbard surgery update and returns, local shop ads, and school schedule tweaks. It covers manhunt and bailable cases, wartime drafts, juvenile offenses, farm labor calls, and community notices from Jamestown to Oil City.
Meadeville area notes report new fall purses at The Mabel Shoppe and fall sweaters. A cow valued at 176 dollars was killed on Route 20050 near Conneautville when struck by a car driven by Charles K. Sanford of Albion. the cow belonged to Frank M. Wield of Conneautville. Leon Woodworth of Cochranton sustained injuries after falling from a horse on his farm and was hospitalized in Meadville in satisfactory condition. Liquor licenses for Knights of St John Building Association Erie and Keystone Tavern Harborcreek were suspended for 30 and 45 days respectively. Direct relief payments to Erie county residents totaled 1919 dollars for the week ending Wednesday, up seven dollars from the prior week. A reported gasoline ration leak in Altoona district led to a crackdown on thefts of ration books and coupons. VFW Drum and Bugle Corps members are to meet at 7 PM and return uniforms and equipment.
The body of Third Officer Lieutenant Barbara Young, WAC, killed in a plane crash near Shreveport, Louisiana, will be escorted to Greensburg by WAC Second Officer Mary Kilty. She will be taken to her parents’ home in Ruffsdale, with funeral services at Ruffsdale followed by military rites at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in Tarrs. Third Officer E Morgan Winant and eight WACs from the Pittsburgh recruiting station will form the guard of honor.
Erie on August 12 reports shrinking gasoline supplies with filling stations unsure of next deliveries. Some stations capped tanks at 50 to 100 gallons, while others could not predict restocks. Reich's price listings appeared in the scene as procedures faltered.
In Harrisburg on August 12 Richard J. Beamish ex Public Utility Commissioner will receive 160.00 monthly as a state pension after his term ended March 31. Thomas C. Frame ex chief engineer in highways will draw 324.00 monthly and H. R. Moffitt ex highway maintenance engineer 230.00 monthly. Pensions based on service length and retirement fund contributions.
Private James L. Kelly of Company A Gist on MRTC, a former canvasser for an Atlanta store, is quartered in the tent area on Barkeley Heights Texas after arriving at Camp Barkeley.
The American Newspaper Publishers Association warned that a failure to mobilize maximum efforts could trigger a calamity in the pulp and paper industry across the United States and Canada and injure the war effort. The bulletin, issued as a House subcommittee held hearings on newsprint shortages, stresses essential industry output for government needs.
Robert Catholic American is reported held in a yesterday court conve mens?
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