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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1943
Page
6
Winter weather disrupts plans as Corry High school A Cappella Choir Christmas concert remains set for Wednesday at the auditorium. News notes include service members abroad, local bomb and chimney warnings, promotions, and unemployment benefits while reflecting wartime concerns in Corry and nearby towns.
Fire Chief George Christoph says the twin downtown blazes at Isaac Baker and Fisher Bros. stores were not incendiary. The body of pipeman George M. Scully was found 13 hours after the Baker store fire, with two other firefighters injured. Coroner Warren Wood planned an inquest.
Frank P. Miller president of McCrosky Tool Corp Meadville and director at Allegheny College died suddenly at his Meadville home at 2 p.m. Saturday He also served on the First National Bank board YMCA board and Old Stone Church board of trustees chair.
A five car collision nine miles south of Meadville on Route 98 left Mrs. Jessie Sanderlin dead and two others critically injured. Veronica Mary Hresko, 20, and Susan Chisinar, 27, were hospitalized with severe injuries after their cars collided on a crest of a hill during a quarrel over a card game. Police later filed murder charges against Marval Simpson, 33, for shooting Carlos Rayford during an argument over a $16 bet, Rayford dying two hours after the incident.
More than twenty travelers en route to Jamestown from Westfield spent the night at New York Central Station due to a severe snowstorm. The storm knocked out electric service after wires were damaged and caused a wreck near Bemus Point injuring three crew members. A woman, Mrs Anna Peterson, lay critically ill in Jamestown General Hospital and was awaiting news from Maywood California while a work car crash disrupted rail service between Westfield and Jamestown.
An old notice warns against scratching itching skin to avoid infection. It promotes San-Cura Soap and San-Cura Ointment with prices and usage notes. Also a trespassing warning for Spring Creek township from W. L. Henry and L. H. Stuard with address 4113.
Eric Pineman Gletus Hess, who was killed in the Baker and Sons fire at Tilt and State Streets, had nine pins to his credit for contributing nine pints of blood to the American Red Cross mobile unit. Pfeilsticker of 9 Central Avenue sustained injuries requiring hospitalization when his Plymouth sedan crashed into a southbound freight engine at the North Seneca street crossing during heavy snow and poor visibility on route to Alter Barrel Works.
Oil City hospital orders drastic influenza controls as nurses and staff fall ill. Alma Troxell, superintendent, announces immediate action to stop new non emergency admissions and limit visits to spouses and immediate family. Twelve nurses isolated. no cases considered serious.
Charles E. Chisholm a 27 year old painter from Wheatland Mercer county was shot in the head while with two friends in a George Monday farm woods four miles from Here Chisholm died instantly. A bullet from a deep rifle fired from several hundred feet away ended his life in the forest county hunting death count rises this year in northwestern Pennsylvania. A man named Simpson was seen loading the gun and fired two shells into the ground before the fatal third shell.
Coroner's jury finds the Merrit Thapmwi Scott Co. of Cleveland negligent in the death of Emil Taskinen 51 at a peninsula breakwater project in Erie on November 24. Taskinen was crushed when a heavy steel boom fell from a derrick and pinned him to a rock as a cable snapped. Witnesses testified a warning was shouted. jury verdict centers on company negligence.
Westbound train No 58 of the Pentsy was delayed for two hours or more this morning by an engine failure which tied up the train in the gravity of Elin. Many Corry passengers en route to Tie were aboard the rain.
A damaged OCR fragment describes an event with few readable names or places, mentioning October and a crossing incident. The text lacks coherent details, making it difficult to identify actions, participants, or outcomes beyond a generic report of a local occurrence.
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