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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1952
Page
4
Advertising rates for the Corry Evening Journal are listed with a 9 a.m. display deadline before the previous publication date. Information includes mail and carrier subscription prices and regional offices in New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Describing the crisis at Corry Hospital directors cut salaries by 25 percent to meet income. Mayor England asks motorists to help keep children safe, with lantern-bearing patrols at busy intersections. Health notes report whooping cough and scarlet fever in several wards. A December 14 public tax meeting is planned at the Municipal Building. Red Cross subscriptions reach 40549 dollars turned over to the local treasurer. Weather adds hazard with light snow and several falls. A Manila fire in buluan city causes 750,000 dollars in damage and 2900 homeless. arson inquiry underway.
Erie school district prepares a seven million budget for 1958 funded mainly by an eight mill real estate tax. A school board special committee will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in the Public Library to cut about 298 thousand from the present 7.118 million total. A job study committee will also meet to finalize pay raises expected to add about 71 thousand to the budget. Final adoption is planned for next Monday with nightly meetings possible.
The Associated Press reports Pacific coast areas faced a anticipated fresh blast while no new storm clouds appeared inland. Mild December conditions lingered in the East with unseasonably warm overnight temperatures north to south. Washington and Minnesota saw light showers in spots as a late weekend storm blamed for 14 deaths across California and Oregon. roads were blocked by fallen trees and snow drifts.
The board considered adopting either the State plan or the Corry plan on sick leave for teachers and authorized rewriting a related agreement for the next Joint Committee session. Louis H liana was approved to attend a Football coaches clinic in Atlantic City March 9 5 with expenses paid. James Farper was approved to attend a Pennsylvania State Education Association session in Harrisburg during Christmas vacation. A request for attendance at the Pennsylvania Council of Local Administrators of Vocational Education in Harrisburg December 10 with expenses paid was denied. Routine business included class sizes and 1952 grade distribution.
A partial fragment notes distribution of pupils by districts and a review of Gary High School cafeteria accounts. Mrs Helen Jones was named to a position. The text is incomplete and lacks full context or dates.
The court ruled a vague statute violated press freedom. Soft-cover books threaten a publishing revolution as 95 million paper bound novels were published in 1951 versus 100 million trade books. By 1952 mysteries rose to 16 percent while other genres show varied shares. A pocket poetry anthology neared two million copies, Homer’s Odyssey sold nearly four million, and Wendell Willkie’s One World spurred simultaneous soft and hard cover editions by Bolantine Books and a major firm.
The sinking fund committee of the Corty board reported that audits of the past year's accounts have been completed with resulting approval of the accounts.
The Gathings House committee lists hundreds of pocket books and magazines disapproved by the National Organization of Decent Literature, as Gov. Dewey vetoes NY bills for vague obscenity rules and the Supreme Court previously struck down a penal code section banning such material.
A fragmented quiz asks ten questions to grade memory and knowledge with scoring labels from Genius to Poor. It mentions checking Classified Page for answers and includes puzzled items about Corona cigar taxes federal service department and historic figures, with partial questions on explorers and rubber companies.
The State Public Utility Commission will suspend business tomorrow in memory of Harold A. Scrage, chairman of Scranton. Funeral services are planned at his Dunmore home near Scranton tomorrow morning with burial at Scranton Cemetery.
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