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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1939
Page
2
Reports from Harrisburg indicate minimal rust impact on oats and wheat amid dry hot mid season weather. Since 1935 about 10 million barberry bushes have been destroyed under the federal state project, reducing rust-friendly areas and easing past grain losses in northeastern counties and eastern Erie, Crawford, and Warren.
The Harrisburg bureau reports the state Authority plans to borrow 6 million dollars within a month to equip buildings in a 60 million dollar institutional improvement program. Funds will come from State Employees and School Employers retirement funds that financed most construction. The Authority Act amendment last year gave the agency power to issue bonds for equipment purchases under Gov. Arthur H. James.
The United States announced plans to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty with Argentina after more than four years of discussions. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles called the move one of the administration’s most important accomplishments in international relations.
Local notices report Mrs. Walter Dugan as a surgical patient at Corry hospital with good today. Several officials and residents from Corry area underwent tonsil operations at Corry hospital. Garrulous items include gambling indictment in Warren County, a dog alerting a burglary in Olean, and various civic notes across Crawford and Potter counties. Also listed are upcoming events, road plans, and local employment changes.
Tiusville’s street department plans a clean-up of uncut grass and weeds along streets and on vacant lots. The ordinance mandates mowing vacant lots at least twice per season, with fines for violations. Leonard Leterski age 4 and Henry Leterski age 5, sons of Mr and Mrs Alvin Leterski of Dunkirk, were injured last evening when a car driven by their father collided, the younger boy with a broken jaw and the older shaken by the crash.
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