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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1946
Page
3
Inest reports Mend took office with Penni as its deputy. Green line indicates transition in local government duties and staffing changes amid ongoing administrative shifts.
Mrs Mary Ellen Hall of 195 East Irving Street will celebrate her 90th birthday tomorrow with friends and well wishers joining in extending congratulations. The Journal notes postal service suspensions for Labor Day with only PO boxes receiving mail. Reports on a Warren, Ohio murder case, the Celoron Park Company rebuilding a steamboat dock, highway and road work in Warren County, and a Rockmere property fire causing over $15000 damage are included along with local incidents, deer collisions, Ford production shifts, a jail lodging, pollen counts, Navy recruitment at Corry, bird fencing disputes, and Labor Day office suspensions for the U S Employment Office of Corry.
Mrs Mary Cornelia Steele daughter of the late Cornelius Sullivan and widow of A F Steele died in Warren Ohio. Survived by two sons Harald C and Wilbur J Steele and three daughters Mrs William H Boyle Denver Mrs Wendell M Frankie Warren and Miss Cornelia Jean. Services and burial to be held in Warren tomorrow morning.
A missing four person aircraft from Newark to New Orleans landed safely at Lancaster Municipal Airport for an overnight stop. Atlantic and Pacific Airlines VP Burgess said the plane carried four aboard. State police and civil aeronautics officials were alerted after the aircraft vanished late yesterday en route to Harrisburg.
A large transport truck and a car collided in Durham on August 30. The truck overturned andcaught fire, trapping driver Johnnie R. Johnson, 90, inside. Onlookers urged others to retreat as flames engulfed the cab and oil filled the scene. Johnson reportedly told bystanders it would be easier for one man to die.
In Washington the Associated Press reports that men must endure two more years without adequate suits. A Civilian Production Administration official says 15 million men will still seek suits by December 31, 1946, and only by 1948 will suits be plentiful. Shirts will be scarce for a year and shorts for women for 12 months.
Treasury position as of August 28 lists receipts 875,038,243.47 dollars, expenditures 127,997,614.97 dollars, and a balance of 10,989,218,208.37 dollars. Total debt stands at 267,795,142,137.18, an increase of 18,181,508.91 from the prior day.
Tokyo reports that American troops may stay in Japan indefinitely to anchor a world line against the Soviet Union and communism as the occupation nears its first anniversary. The piece notes rising Soviet propaganda and influence within Japan, and Japan's status shifting from occupied nation to an international pawn of growing importance.
Paris leaders warn that peace talks may collapse as new French constitutional ideas threaten executive strength. Bar Le Duc remarks stress a clash of Russia and the United States, implying France must wield a stronger, well empowered hand to keep the nation united amid looming danger.
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