Corry Community News Briefs Include Festival Plans and Local Crashes
Twenty years ago a Talon reports Corry Day celebrations planned by the Corry Credit Exchange with Castle's Dancing Review headlining. A peach theft at Aleci Brothers is under police inquiry while a fire on L. B. Carr farm causes extensive damage. A collision near Union City injures the Gifford and Putnam party. Golf qualifying sees Prank Butters post 89 at the Corry Country Club. The Plittners suffer injuries in a Stutz Baker accident between Mayville and Westfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prank Butlers
Corry Country Club
Butters
Erie Judge Cuts York and Poster Co Tax Assessment
Judge Elmer L Evans in Erie cut 17395 from York and Poster Chair Co Union City assessments overturning part of two appeals. He kept a 21085 hike on 1947 valuation and reduced 27835 from 1948 value returning the firm to 1381045 as of 1997 level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Elmer L Evans
York and Poster Chair Co
Union City
Mead Park Pitt reunion and local visits noted in Columbus News Letter
Aug 4 Columbus News Letter reports a Pitt reunion at Mead Park with Bindley Donald Mrs Figg Utegg and family. Also mentions visits by Mrs Lauretia Hammond of Brie to Merle Van Cise and others, a birthday celebration for Alfred Anderson, and various social visits among local residents in Jamestown Erie Fairhaven Youngsville Spartansburg and Westfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Bindley
Donald
Figg
Utegg
Robert Pitt
Pitt
Mead Park
Lauretia Hammond
Brie
Merle van Cise
Charles Kennedy
T. ©. Anderson
Jamestown
Mr. Anderson
Alfred Anderson
Clayton Baccus
Postmortem on Public Housing and Taft-Ellender-Wagner
The article criticizes the Republican House leadership for blocking the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill. It notes Truman’s approval, the Senate passage, and the House rule that prevented amendments. It explains the final Senate substitution omitting public housing and slum clearance and the House’s forced acceptance under suspension of rules. Oregon’s Coos Bay leads in timber exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
House
House of Representaives
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Senate
Tower House
House Rules Committee
Banking and Currency Committee
Washington
Oregon
Coos Bay
Services Thursday for Mrs Edna York
Funeral services for Mrs Edna York were held Thursday at Bracken Keating Funeral Home with Rev C A McKintarfer officiating. Bearers included Charles Dibble Wesley Gray William Walker Arch I Hurlburt Earl Pierce and Henry Quereveld. Interment at West Lawn Cemetery Columbus with many relatives from nearby towns attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amernogn
Edna York
Bracken-Keating
C. A. McKintarfer
Charles Dibble
Wesley Gray
William Walker
Archi Hurlburt
Earl Pierce
Henry Querreveld
West Lawn
Columbus
Charles Jackman
Dan Bennett
Girard
William Jackman
Ghautauqua
Amos Bemis
Town Line
Bruce Waterman
Horace Baedie
Westfield
Tvan Heslink
Bert Lictus
Ployd Arnink
Duane Lines
Clymer
Wayne Townships
Memory Quiz Scars: Ten Questions and Scoring Guide
A playful memory test lists ten questions on history, geography, and literature. It notes scoring tiers from Genius to Poor and directs readers to the Classified Page for correct answers, asking readers to track monthly averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Pershing
New York University
Arthur Prudden Goleman
Lidice
Germany
Tie Williams
Trenton
N. J
Counterfeit $10 Bills Reported Across Eastern States
Erie area alert issued by Treasury Secret Service agent John L. Kettl about a series of counterfeit ten dollar notes circulating, likely from Chicago. Bills mimic genuine money with red thread lines and James Hamilton hair flaws, back shows missing steps to the Treasury Building.
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Erie
Shees
John L. Kettl
Treasury Department
Secret Service
Pittsburgh
Chicago
My. Kebtl
Hamilton
Treasury
Kettl
Third Set of Triplets Born at Jamestown
John McCarthy and his wife Dorothy of Jamestown welcomed triplets at Jamestown General Hospital. The mother was admitted at 4 10 am and delivered a son and two daughters between 8 11 and 6 24 am. The birth marks a historic triple birth for the city's hospitals with all three surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jameosan
John McCarthy
Falconer
Norquist Products, Inc
Jamestown General Hospital
Dorothy Cornell McCarthy
Martin Visits Indiantown Gap With Army Buddies
Senator Edward Martin, retired brigadier general and former 28th Division commander, tours Indiantown Gap with old comrades during a four day visit. He observes summer maneuvers and lauds Brig. Gen. Weber for improvements to the camp facilities as thousands prepare for a governor’s day review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Martin
Indiantown Gap
Aili
Ben
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania National Guard
Leamp
Frank A. Weber
Weber
James
Weekend Visits From Lyons Zapidorie and Friends
Mr and Mrs David Lyons spent the weekend at Ningers Belleviatt Ing relatives. Mr and Mrs John Zapidorie vacationed in Bosinghury Bete Biren and Washington D. Lauer Beverly Donald d Jr of Taluntown visited Mr and Mrs Robert Pitt and Mr and Mrs Roy Vogt of Gerry over the weekend. Archie Wetmore md.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lyons
Ningers Belleviatt
Ing
John Zapidorie
Bosinghury
Bete Biren
Washington, D
Donald Lauer
Beverly Donald, d Jr
Taluntown
Robert Pitt
Roy Vogt
Gerry
Archie Wetmore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aa Talon
Journal File
Corry Creddt Exchange
Castle
Dancing Revie
Aleci Brothers
North Center Street
L. B. Carr
Bear Lake
Essex
Floyd Gifford
Titusville
Jessie Putnam
Theobald Plitiner
West Main Street
Stude~ Baker
Larry Sandstrom
Mayville
Plittner
Mr. Plittner
Cecil Miller
Shirley
Georg Bending
Arthur Page
Russell Moore
Fairhaven
Albert Sandburg
Charles Sandberg
Youngsville
Earl Messinger
Kenneth’ Mortis
Spartansbure
Lydii
Al’s
Clothes
North Center St
URG
News & Sport
Franklin St
Corry, Pa
East South
the National Bank OF Corry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kroehler
Credit Equity
Franz
Focal Pentecostal Church
Rev. Yost
Pentecostal Church Sunday
Herman E. Yost
Mt. Ephraim
New Jersey
Bethel Pentecostal Church
First Pentecostal Church
West Pleasant Street
Yost
Nas
NASA
Geneine Ford
Powell Motor CO
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