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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1943
Page
4
Blood banks are most successful on the field of battle. Tissue banks are planned to save soldiers by preserving tendons nerves cartilage bones and other body material for repair of losses. Skin banks will aid in grafting large burn areas and protected bones may be used to close explosive wounds.
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania beekeepers produced a record 6,256,000 pounds of honey in 1943 with 18,000 colonies, an increase of nearly 2.5 million pounds from 1942. Average per colony was about 100 pounds, honey stocks at 526,000 pounds, and wax output rose to 138,000 pounds. Prices averaged roughly 41 cents per pound, while bees also yielded 158,000,000 dozen eggs last month and 10 cents more per 100 pounds of laying mash than in 1922. Diplomatic offices worldwide remained at 225 despite Axis closeouts.
Dec 23 Mrs Oddessie Plate will resign as head of the county owned property department on January 3. Coroner Warren W Wood announced staff deputies and Treasurer-elect Fred Taylor announced reappointment of the present treasurer's staff. Plate, former recorder of feeds, led the department six years and did not plan to seek re appointment. Wood announced deputy appointments including W Allen Firman Ericholm Marks Charles Keating R H Glenn L Wemple Lester Evans Seeley F Campman Burt Kiehl Wood noted two undertakers in some towns receive two year terms and another two years will go to the remaining undertaker. Taylor retains Miss Elin Davis as chief deputy with Frances Cox Betty Peterson Rose Vollbrecht Carrie Russell and Helen Buell named to other posts.
New York December 23 allied officials regard Germanys rocket secret weapon as no bluff says Allan A Michie of Readers Digest arriving yesterday Michie said allied officials in London have been gathering information from refugees and agents for five months on the secret weapon They have enough information to know that it is a 40 ton rocket type project that can reach from the French coast into England
The funeral for Mrs. Elnor Griswold was held at the Methodist church in Columbus with Rev. F Ampreath officiating. Interment followed at West Lawn Cemetery. The Corry City Chapter Order of the Eastern Star attended and an escort formed. Out-of-town mourners included Mrs Gerald Damon and party from Columbus and others from Utica, Warren, Meadville, and Waterford.
Salvation Army distributed food checks yesterday to 125 Jamestown area families replacing traditional Christmas baskets. Recipients, from three to ten members, will receive $30 to $86 in relief purchases per orders listed, aiding local households in need.
A discussion questions when war crimes by Nazi commanders justify civilian resistance. It argues that life is sacred and self defense permits killing, even if it violates rules, especially against those beyond civilization. Civilians defending homes may fight back, even amid coercion.
The Erie Pennsylvania family keeps their Christmas tree up from last year as sons Bill and Bub are away serving in the military. The tree remains lit with dust on the tinsel balls while Bill, 24, is in India and Bub, 18, is in California. The parents say they will leave it until they can reunite with their sons.
In a discussion on succession and disability, the article compares British and American practices after Churchill’s pneumonia and President Wilson’s paralysis. It questions who may determine disability, notes cabinet dynamics, and recalls Lansing’s clashes with President Wilson while considering constitutional succession and the practical challenges ahead.
A reader is asked to answer seven quiz questions listed on the Classified Page. Topics include meat fat waste incentives, a nursery rhyme fear, Sengra river front, Christmas timing, Jose de San Martin, a WWI division volunteer, mythological cupbearer to the gods, berry classifications, a play with the same name as a famous statue of a woman, and the link between Darrel Willard and steel railroad system in shipbuilding.
Twenty years ago readers faced rising prices and unequal income gains. The piece notes 45 billion dollars in extra money circulating yet unevenly spent, with many families as well off as before inflation, while others suffer higher costs. It argues for saving and investments, especially home buying, as wise uses of surplus funds.
Postmaster EB Guney credited the Civilian Defense Drivers Corps for volunteering cars and drivers to deliver Christmas parcels when automobile shortages threatened mail delivery. CDDC workers operated in the parcel post annex achieving remarkable speed and efficiency.
Adjutant Morrison reports Salvation Army fund drives lag behind nearby communities. Center Street kettles and the mail subscription appeal both underperform, prompting a call for prompt contributions from all who wish to cooperate.
St Pauls Lutheran Church invites all to a Friday evening service at 11 30 featuring scripture readings carols and choir numbers led by Mrs dolm Preng solo There is Room on My Heart. The service ends with lighting candles and Silent Night sung by candle light.
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