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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1946
Page
3
The Erie area scrolls through a winter forecast with snow and rising temperatures. Court deeds, divorces, poisoning death, a missing dog found, a family quarrel, bank estate transfers, and local court actions fill a dense page alongside regional political notices, university strikes, and Carver Day remarks with skating on Mead Park during holidays.
Councilman Frea Barnes hospital bound after a lengthy illness and poor night. William J Franklin treated at Corry Hospital for injuries from a fall on icy South First Street near West Main. Barometers indicate an approaching storm as heavy snow, winds and freezing rain spread across the Midwest to the East.
Investigators push arson theory on the $150000 Dunkirk High School auditorium blaze last Tuesday morning while a second flare in a girls locker room was quickly put out. Fire Chief Stanley Zebracki noted the locker fire did not cause the auditorium fire but both may have been set by the same person. Authorities also reported an earlier arrest for passing bad checks tied to a separate incident. Meanwhile FCC approves Western Union rate hikes totaling 20 percent since last June, plus higher rates for money orders and interstate services.
The Pennsylvania Employment Service office in Corry reports 13 workers placed in the past week. Of these, four were veterans, six were women, and three were non veterans. No handicapped persons were placed during the period.
Rome dispatches report Bari, a south eastern port of 200000, entering a second day of general strike over food shortages. One university student died and 25 wounded, including six police, as crowds clashed with police with firearms used defensively. Leftist parties back the workers while centrist and rightist papers condemn mob rule.
Mrs Goncena Perry died this morning after 10:30 o'clock at Corry Hospital where she had been a patient overnight. Survived by husband Joseph Perry, daughters Mary Ferry Rose Perry Rose? No, ensure exact names: Miss Mary Ferry, Mrs William Wellington, Mrs Angelo Frisina, Miss Rose Perry, Miss Josephine Perry, Mrs Charles Rizzo of Erie, two sons Frank and Pasqualle Perry, several relatives. Body sent to Bracken Keating Funeral Home. funeral arrangements to be announced in Monday's Journal Menivillé. Also note: John D Carnes, 23, Linesville, charged with manslaughter in traffic death of Mrs Mary E McKiphens of Summit township, bound over to February term by Alderman Dominick Lemme. Carnes released under $1,500 bond.
Erie December 28 The county assessor John Pokorski announced increases in the 1947 tax valuations for seven State street industrial properties. The General Electric Company saw the largest jump adding 2.5 million to reach 6,985,200. Other rising valuations included Hammermill Paper and Perry Coke plant of Inter-Lake Tron Corp alongside properties owned by G Daniel Baldwin estate Albert Singer George Winter and Joseph Gold at 20th and State Streets.
Producers in the six state New York milkshed will receive 541 per hundredweight for December milk delivered to 432 pool plants. G J Blenford, New York area administrator, predicted the December figure which compares with 5.80 in November and 3.64 in December 1945. The 531 per hundredweight is the blend price. actual figure is usually announced after month end. The December blend price is expected to be set on January 15.
A third hit by the Shipper sniper targets Washington streetcar riders. In three days Diana Strarskey loses a bun, Miss Jean Thomson 19 has a portion of her pageboy cut away, and Miss Janice Ram 18 loses several inches of auburn hair during the attacks on cars.
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