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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1950
Page
6
A fire last night nearly destroyed the GGG Metal Stamping Corporation building in Starbrick. Firemen and workers fought the blaze from 7 p.m. to after 10 p.m., starting in shavings with losses estimated at 15,000 dollars.
Percy G. Sturtevant, longtime northwestern division manager of the Pennsylvania Electric Co in Erie, will retire January 1 after 39 years with the company. D W Jardine Penelec president announced the retirement and noted Sturtevant previously served as director vice president and assistant secretary of the Erie County Electric Co before its merger. He had led operations in the Erie Meadville and Cory districts since September 1 1843.
Two crewmen died aboard the tanker SS Sinclair HO after two explosions and a fire near Miami. The blasts occurred in a small upper deck pump room at 6 08 pm and 6 23 pm, filling the room with live steam. Cecile E DeMoss 38 of Houston and Ernests Strickland 42 of Jacksonville were identified as the deceased. Both were married.
Erie officials report the county prothonotary office processed a land office volume in 1950 surpassing 1949. Prothonotary Lawrence A. Taylor said the rise required increasing staff from nine to ten. The tally includes about 2,080 lawsuits with 350 divorces, 1,480 judgments with 25 writs of execution, 200 fictitious name registrations, 925 real estate lien stipulations, and 600 other filings.
The Erie county office processed thousands of legal filings including about 4,800 chattel mortgage filings and 3,000 satisfactions, roughly 1,000 conditional sales contracts, and around 10,000 tax liens and satisfactions. About 65,000 procedural papers were filed by courts, lawyers, and citizens. office income to the county was negligible. Recent U.S. flood losses average over 110 million dollars annually.
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