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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
3
Snow returns as Christmas preparations bustle. Reorganization of the Board of Education planned for Monday evening while a Christmas store opens Tuesday. A Pennsylvania squall control board call seeks 25 enforcement officers and 15 licensing investigators for a two weeks training in Harrisburg on December 14.
Formal dedication of the new United Brethren in Christ church will be held Sunday at 2:30 PM with Bishop A R Clippinger of Dayton presiding. The day includes morning worship at 10:30, a dedicatory ceremony, and an evening service at 7:20. A week of special services with local ministerial association participation is planned.
Dee Manuel Vieira of New Bedford named as defendant in a $10,000 damage suit by Mrs Mary Mederles, mother of Florence Dowd killed when Vieira’s car hit a truck on Route 6 near Warren. Dowd and Vieira were en route to be married. Vieira faces negligence charges per attorney S. Rossiter. Witnesses indicate Vieira had a wife and a divorce plans. investigation followed a Roystone hill tragedy.
Mrs. B. H. Baird, 61, wife of Judge Eugene H Baird of the Elk-Cameron-Clinton district, died at Ridgway Pa. Funeral services are planned for Sunday. She is survived by her husband, a son and two daughters.
Carl Guenther, a Corry hunter, shot a 160 pound S-point buck near Heart's Consent within five minutes after entering the queons. It marks his final straight year of killing a buck with a single pul let, and he began hunting in 1934 with his first hunt.
The Corry Woman's Relief Corps elected officers for the year at a meeting in the Masonic Hall yesterday afternoon. Officers named include Rose Westley president and Luella Deyoe senior vice president, Alma Gardner junior vice president, Faye Wynn treasurer, C A Mountain secretary, Mary Morrison chaplain, M Roof guard, Abbie Chapman patriotic instructor, Bonnie Darrow conductor. appointments to follow at January's first meeting. Mrs. Deyoe retires as president but becomes publicity chairman.
South town merchants announce a formal opening on Tuesday December 6 with shop areas on Main from First to Maple, on First Avenue and West South Street. Stores promote Christmas offerings and invite shoppers to browse today’s Journal for special deals and gift ideas.
The Public Service Commission announced rate reductions totaling 102 755 dollars annually for two Erie electric companies. Tariffs will cut bills for 19 000 Erie County customers and 18 200 customers in multiple townships. New rate structure called the directive rate plan goes into effect January 1 1987.
Dr Fransin E Townsend, indicted in Washington for contempt of the House over refusing to testify about his old age pension group, said he would accept a jail sentence rather than pay a fine if convicted. He was prepared to go to Washington to answer the contempt charge when notified by the attorney general.
A Harborcreek resident was struck and killed by a Westhound passenger train near the Hartarcreel area while inspecting coal along the New York Central tracks. The 68 year old man left home to check spilled coal and was fatally hit as the train approached. Police and investigators examined the scene, noting the body lay on the tracks with the train stopping shortly after impact.
Midwest labor commissioners from Iowa Kansas Nebraska Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Ohio and Indiana meet in Chicago to urge re enactment of a constitutional NRA as the only way to restore Blue Eagle gains for workers. They say it would end child labor shorten hours promote decent conditions and avoid piecemeal state laws. They acknowledge some parts of the old NRA were criticized but urge a fresh, nationwide effort.
J D Whitney of Aspinwall has been named deputy superintendent of online instruction in Arkansas. The appointment announced by Dr Lester XK Ade head of the department states Whitney, formerly director of vocational education at the University of Pittsburgh, succeeds Dr Samuel Paitsold who resigns to become president of Indiana State Teachers College. Continental Oil Co raises crude oil price by 17 per barrel effective January 4.
Mrs Anna M Weatherell, 38, and her husband intended to board a Charleroi Line streetcar but she was struck and killed today in Pittsburgh. Authorities investigated the accident and identified Weatherell as the deceased.
Legal briefs and arguments reveal ongoing theater around a death penalty appeal. Chief Attorney Mortimer J. Gry and defense counsel argue that the conviction will be upheld or overturned by the Supreme Court as the March 1 deadline nears.
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