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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1949
Page
4
A reader prompts 10 questions covering history geography science and language with scoring hints. The page instructs to turn to Classified Page for correct answers and includes fragments about atomic bombs and war implications.
A August twenty second nineteen twenty note recalls Mrs W L Trill injured in a taxi collision at Mot and Franklin streets, suffering shock and head and hand wounds. It also notes Hotel Corry season success and manager Walker hosting eighty guests. Other items mention a local car theft near capture and gas siphoning suspicions at U S Radiator Corp. plant.
Four boys aged six to ten wreck the Margaret Hamilton residence in Troy township near Moss Grove Union Chapel seven miles west of Titusville. They smash windows furniture mirrors and more causing estimated damage of 500 to 1000 dollars. Detectives followed the liniment odor on the youths revealing their involvement with two other boys from another family. The shaken homeowner Mrs Hamilton fainted but recovered and believes the parents will cover repairs.
Kasai Eugene Sailer a8 Kane, an inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Warren, fell while under a bridge pier during finishing work on a new PRR bridge. He was removed to War ren General Hospital with back and arm injuries. Public debt rises past 255 billion as government overspends, reaching 255,246,000,000 on August 18.
The Atomic Energy Commission releases its sixth report to Congress noting new and more effective bombs produced on an industrial basis. It compares Hiroshima Nagasaki and Eninwetok devices, estimating explosive powers up to 40 000 tons of TNT and warning about strategic impact and civilian casualties.
Arthur Logan announced Saturday night he will quit as county Democratic chairman after the May primary. He will devote his full time to the post of school board secretary, to which he was appointed by the school board majority in May, after a party leaders meeting deemed his dual roles incompatible.
Democratic Mayor David L. Lawrence in Pittsburgh pushes re election as a referendum on leadership. He caps a four year term and launches his campaign at the Young Democrats picnic saying only two men challenged his Pittsburgh program.
In a Democratic city race Councilman Joseph McArdle seeks re election with Edward J Leonard opposing Lawrence for the mayoral nomination. Ryan a Republican hopeful fights for the nomination as the city weighs Civic Light Opera in Highland Park. Residents sue to halt the project arguing it lowers property values and disputes public funding.
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