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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1949
Page
2
In Warren the health office announces an historic Christmas with no communicable diseases, aided by warm weather though the record is described as unusually favorable. The item notes age of record and local context.
City and Vicinity reports on used cars at Powell's and a string of local items. Readers learn of Tommy Neathery’s hospital stay after a football injury, plus holiday trees, wreaths, and flowers from House of Flowers. Oil City hosts 78 residents in a Christmas home decoration contest with 17 prizes totaling 500 dollars. Warren reports a gas theft incident and a police-logged 490.93 in meter takings. Ridgway notes a flying squirrel incident and a Christmas gift guide at McIntyre's. Falconer firemen battle a storehouse blaze behind Alvert Becker’s home. Punxsutawney features a hiccup cure via horseback riding and Bea’s Restaurant Christmas dinners. Kane Post Office foresees record Christmas mail volume. Titusville celebrates a cash award at Appreciation Day. Major industrial plans near Jamestown hint at 1,080 jobs at the Poirier-McLane plant in Falconer after January 1. The Wareep Cross seeks Orville Baker, formerly of that community, for Fire Department work, while the Hospital dance decorating group prepares for an event. Port Erie pilots narrowly avert a midair incident near landing. McIntyre’s promotes home improvements with furniture offers.
At The Hospital Is unable to summon a physician in case of emergency call 3-801. Corry Hospital admits Mrs Homer Bulard of 303 Essex. Mrs Reese McDonald of 320 South Center St. Willard D B Hunt of 972 East Main St. Claude Matteson of R D 3. Richard Higby of R D 1. Warren Mrs Lora Patterson of 133 Second Ave. Discharged Arthur Campbell of Clymer. Philip Gardner of the European Hotel. Mrs Duane McIntyre and daughter of R D 1 Spring Creek.
A jumble of notes describes a drunken driving arrest for Lars McKelvey after a head on crash on East Main in Toungsville and various local items including holiday store hours, an oil company sale to Ashland KY Oil and Refining Co, highway project plans on Route 6 between Youngsville and Warren, and Christmas observances.
Falconer Navy serviceman Al Gregory, 20, returned home on Christmas leave delayed eight months after a motorcycle crash left him in a plaster cast for months. He arrived on crutches, just three days out of the cast and still recovering. Robert F. McCracken, 80, longtime News-Herald foreman and WWI veteran active in the American Legion, died suddenly in Franklin Hospital at 9:35 p.m.
Traffic fatalities dominated violent deaths as the nation entered a Christmas holiday. Of 60 violent deaths since Friday evening, 50 were from motor mishaps. A Texas family of five perished in a gasoline-torch blaze, a truck driver died in a gasoline-tank collision, and a child burned in a playhouse fire linked to a candle. Oil City Legionnaires report Salvation Army collections outpaced last year’s $517, with Thomas Nelson announcing the tally.
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