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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1944
Page
6
Abbreviated bulletin notes from Hipaiutth and southside stands report a looming Bacon Allied Invasion as early workers and churchgoers react. Police announce possible contagion cases and quarantine measures while car fires, missing youths, and local arrests surface in Erie area dispatches.
Jamestown Aug 15 A county clerk's office employee will not receive a 15 percent pay rise for April 1 to July 1 1943. State comptroller Leslie A Price advised the county treasurer that government units cannot retroactively increase compensation for work already performed. About 20 employees would gain roughly $1 000 in total from the retroactive raise, but the board's attempt to revise the resolution to span July 1 1993 was rejected.
In Cuba Cuban Aug 19 Cunford Herman Burlingame nine years old drowned while swimming in Olean Creek with his brother Rogers twelve and Francis Shaddock. Clifford dove from a raft and vanished. Rogers dived three times to save him but failed. Wiremen recovered the body after nearly an hour.
The district plans to open schools on Wednesday Sept 6 and reports work on Concord and Senior High nearing completion. Supt Dewey notes an insurance policy tied to building towers and appraisals, census of ages five to eighteen, and consideration of postwar advisory services from an architect with no formal action taken.
Between one a m and midnight Saturday, burglars robbed Mr. and Mrs. John Robbins of a lady's gold wrist watch and $15 in small change from their Erie home. A second burglary attempt at William Atkinson's gasoline station on East Lake Road failed after thieves broke a window but took no loot.
Answers listed include Josephus Daniels Istanbul Livorno Herbert R. O Conor and Sir BH Rider Haggard. The quiz also mentions 7 Second Lieutenant 6 Richmond 62 The Mediterranean and the Black Ben 10 Card game.
Sparta High School will accept elderberries from 7 to 9 p.m. daily except Sundays to supply jams and jellies for the Army and Navy. A 50 cent per bushel price is paid for red blue or black berries. Memorial services for Cal Russell G. Davis were held at the Methodist Church. Cpl. Ross Ostrander and Evelyn Smith wed in Sherman New York. Various local social notices follow.
Aull presides as Allegheny County judge McCarty reopens the case against Robert Lee charged with assaulting Mrs. Tilda in her bedroom last May. A Washington bio chemist and government examiner will testify on Lee's clothing evidence matching bed clothes found at the victim's home. The victim, a divorcee, awoke to a knife threat as Lee allegedly entered via a window and fled after police arrived, finding him asleep in his car nearby.
Ene Ala Jan 15 two men are held on larceny warrants for stealing a trunk valued at 130 plus cash and clothing from Erma Toran Williams at 11 p.m. Saturday. Suspects Millard Wright 84 Goodwater and Samuel Johnson 29 Eric face charges after Williams reported the theft and neighbors saw them leave with the trunk.
Infantile paralysis caused deaths in Erie County as three Girard district residents were struck. Dr James R Smith reported investigation by George Fleming and a full report due Thursday. Families isolated, hospital care ongoing, second local death linked to the disease.
Lt. Milton J. Thompson son of the police chief reported missing on a bombing mission over Germany on July 19. A letter dated August 2 from an air base in Italy said he and the bomber’s pilot had been accounted for and everything was under control. The aircraft reportedly made a forced landing in a neutral country and the crew were interned.
Erie health director Dr James Smith reports 13 houses closed this year as unfit for occupancy. Five of 12 condemned homes were on a list of 25 from Barton Kouffman, seeking an investigation into unsanitary city housing. Eight more closures followed health department probes prompted by complaints. Some owners moved out and began repairs to meet sanitary standards.
Edmund Powers of Warren will be arraigned before Justice of the Peace VanOrsdale at Russell on charges of reckless driving and failure to stop entering a through highway. The State Police say the two way crash occurred about 10 p m Sunday in Pine Grove Township when Powers entered the highway from a dirt road and collided with a 1936 Terraplane driven by Raymond Grey. Passenger Mel Florence Ewing of Salamanca New York suffered a head cut and Grey’s wife sustained bruises. both drivers were unhurt.
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