Corry Erie area notes on closures and war updates
A morning report notes Corry will close to most visitors for an indefinite period for health safety. Street Department teams prep for thaw while Lt. Col. Harmon returns home on terminal leave after service in Europe. Police report two more car thefts in Erie and a Derby wreck caused by a derailed locomotive. The 1945 Christmas Seal drive continues with about half of 40 000 letters returned. Marriage licenses issued to Alton Thompson and Helen Sterling. Vie Warner and Evelyn Davis. The Pennsylvania education symposium debates compulsory military training as a national defense solution. Bell Telephone lines plan a 150 million dollar expansion to serve 118 000 more residents. A collision at King and East Pleasant injures no one. Two troopships reach New York with notable personnel aboard. Advance tickets for a Cleveland aircraft show go on sale amid wartime display of air force equipment and captured enemy craft.
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Cleveland Public Auditorium
Jannuary
Loth
Wright Field
Army Air Forces
Army Air Forces Aid Society
Aab
New body lines mark Kaiser Frazer car at Willow Run
Detroit December 27 Kaiser Frazer announces a new mid priced model built in the former bomber plant at Willow Run. The car features integrated front to rear fenders and a long wheelbase with a 100 horsepower engine. The rear seat sits forward of the rear axle to fit four riders and visibility is improved. Pricing not announced.
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Detroit
Frazer
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Willow Run
Hirakib
Pickett Lines Planned by Telephony Workers Union
The Employes Association linked to the Independent National Federation of Telephone Workers said picket lines would circle New York and New Jersey Bell operating companies on January 3. The action aims to pressure support for wage demands as Western Electric equipment is used. In Detroit GM readiness for Washington hearings on wage talks was noted while UAW and GM halted talks on an 80 percent wage rise. Nationwide, 219,000 additional workers were idle across industries due to disputes.
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Employes Association
National Federation of Telephone Workers
New York
New Jersey
Mayer
Bell System
Western Electric
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Washington
Tomorow
OTO United Auto Workers
National budget can be balanced in 1948 says Rep Cannon
Rep Cannon of Missouri argues the national budget can be balanced in 1948 and the nation can begin paying off some debt if no new tax measures are enacted and appropriations are restrained. Separately, microphotographic libraries totaling several thousand volumes have been shipped to China under the U S cultural program.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
China
U. S. Department of State
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Corry Eerie
Earoh Tasin
Howard Dingfelder
Walter Dingfelden
B.D. 1
Yeen
Pittsburgh
Edison Harmon
Wus
N . Gillette
Europe
Erie
Plymouth
Donald Reslink
Finn
Petinsy
Clarendon
Olean
St. Marys
Erle
Alton
Thompson
Corry
Helen T. Sterjing
Jamestown
J. Kennett Winter
Erie County Health and ‘Feberculosis Association
Joniy
Ramsey S Black
Office of Price Administration
Pennsylvania
Altoona
Lah J. Dempsey
Rexford Dempsey
San Diego
Calif
Pennsylvania Schoulmen
Pennnsyllvania State Education Association
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Philip
Staples
Staples Watch
Edmund, Burr
David Bensink
King and
East Pleasant Streets
Cortykes
Cpt
Hugh O'Hare
James, Rhodes
Fender
Kaiser“ Frazer
Ork Fram
Hurar
Phillips Ewelry
Fashion Park
Michael Stern
Jessup & Turner
Nasts Men's Store
Jamestown, N. Y
IBM
Electromatic
International Business Machines Corporation
World Headquarters
N.Y
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