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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1938
Page
3
Mixed local items note memorial services, council and school board meetings, and a week ending November 25. Reports cover gas output gains, deer hunting tensions, almanac release, obituaries, a Gone With the Wind casting claim, a death by accidental fall, a 14th birthday, a charity card party, a Firestone anniversary broadcast, and weekly unemployment payments totaling millions in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania maintained tourist business in 1938 amid national declines. A Ritzman survey based on state reports notes travel and souvenir sales held near 1937 levels. The commission seeks a $100 million travel boost for 1939 planning a nationwide magazine campaign and $50,000 for World’s Fair promotion plus 240,000 folders from the 1987 appropriation.
Harrisburg Dec 3 Work will start on 20 miles of the All-Weather highway section from Carlisle to Irwin by January 1, one third of the planned 162 mile route. The project is financed by an RFC loan of 35 million dollars and a 26.1 million dollar PWA grant, with tolls to repay bonds.
A brief note explains a carrier pigeon with blocked ears cannot fly. The quirky observation treats a pigeon’s hearing as essential to flight, implying a humorous or mistaken link between ear condition and ability to soar.
An old advertisement touts Thompson’s Barosma Compound Tablets as a remedy for backache and bladder issues. It claims kidneys filter poison, promises to clean accumulated toxins and safeguard health, urging readers to accept no substitutes and buy at drug stores.
United Press reports in Bainbridge Ohio that Robert, 29, the son of Rev. Russell H. Bready, a 40 year Methodist minister and strict prohibtionist, confessed to shooting his father in the head after years of conflict over ethics and morality. He said, This is the end of a perfect life, and claimed to have no good in his story.
Dec 3 reports say detectives resolved a basement fire at the Streamline market 415 State Street was started by a 21 year old youth kept inside after a delivery. He claimed he lit a small blaze to keep warm while waiting. The man, George Enet of Conneaut Ohio, was questioned and released.
Phillipsburg December 3 plan to redistribute 201 rabbits by the National Youth Administration shops. Workers make humane snares at Pennsylvania Game Commission expense to restock areas with dwindling rabbit numbers while curbing shipments of rabbits from the West at one dollar per rabbit.
Seven thousand dogs in Tulare County are scheduled for rabies vaccination under a new ordinance. The program aims to immunize dogs statewide and improve public health by standardizing pet vaccination across the region.
At closing, Est reportedly left the Wasnment, leaving Bast asleep in a cold basement. East spent 14 hours in the cold basement after lighting papers to stay warm while searching for an exit. The store opened Thursday morning and East freed himself once the doors opened.
The Agricultural Extension Association will hold its annual meeting on December 20 at Parse Predhytasifl Chiron in Erie. Morning session starts at 11 with reports on county projects and demonstrations followed by a noon dinner at The Watts. Mr Watts, longtime Penn State College lecturer, will discuss the harvest with an Northwestern and Pacific coast agriculture talk by PS Crossman. Reservations due by December 18 at the Agricultural Extension Office Court House. Further program details will follow.
Mrs. Mary Quirk, 61, of 160 17th Street, plunged from a second story window at 4:30 p.m. after misjudging a chair. She sustained multiple fractures and internal injuries, was taken to Hamot hospital, where she remained conscious this morning and began recovery.
Among first 28 cities, Sao Paulo Brazil stands as a major South American industrial hub and one of 21 global cities with populations exceeding 1 million.
Police say a 19 year old Harborcreek girl Marjorie Pierce led a forgery ring, writing worthless checks totaling 22 dollars for a juvenile offender. She faces preliminary charges and possible further indictments as investigators reveal linked cases with other youths and multiple checks cashed at local stores.
The Interstate Commerce Commission received a petition from the Public Utility Commission requesting modification of its order that raised intrastate anthracite freight gates. The PUC seeks exemption for unprepared coal moving from mines to breakers and questions the proposed pay per ton increase. Commissioner Richard Beamshe forwarded the petition to Washington, arguing the proposed rate hike would threaten an annual loss of about $200,000 for the anthracite industry already under strain.
Henry Danan, a year old firmed, was sentenced to life imprisonment 24 hours after he shot his title. Danan pleaded guilty in a swift Gautnesville case involving Mr Zivk M3 Hee.
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