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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1974
Page
6
Corry Area High School sophomore Barbara Cline won a recently sponsored poster contest by the Corry Jay. The event highlighted student creativity and community involvement in local activities.
A Philadelphia lawyer for Common Cause labels the pending campaign finance reform bill weak with many loopholes and urges creation of an independent enforcement commission. He questions spending limits and warns the legislature may stall until after the next election. Pennsylvania voters groups back stronger measures ahead of the May primary.
The Public Utility Commission filed protests with the Interstate Commerce Commission against Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad plan to abandon 14 miles of its Meadville Branch in Crawford County and Penn Central request to discontinue 3 miles of Millville Branch in Columbia County. The PUC said abandonment would hurt shippers in the area.
Punxsutawney Phil is set to emerge from Gobbler’s Knob on Saturday as Sam Light, founder and club president, braves a bite from the famed groundhog. Skeptics doubt six more weeks of winter while Light claims Phil’s magic and notes the long tradition tied to Candlemas.
The column recounts visits from relatives including Joseph Benson from Los Angeles and long-ago memories of the 1920s. It highlights Violet Hicks’s extensive salt and pepper shaker collection with pieces from Germany Japan Canada and Cuba plus a look back at old stores and prices and reports Exxon’s coal to synthetic fuel plans announcing gasification and liquefaction pilots in Baytown Texas.
Two men were burned in an explosion at Penn Rubber and Supply Co in Oil City. Anthony Garbacz, foreman, and contractor Joseph Augustine suffered first and second degree burns over up to 60 percent of their bodies. Both were hospitalized with Garbacz listed as satisfactory and Augustine in good condition. Firefighters responded at 1:53 p.m., finding minimal flames as they tied into deicing equipment on the roof. alcohol was being used in charging the equipment. No structural damage occurred.
Pittsburgh based PPG Industries posted 104.4 million in earnings for the prior year, a company record tied to record glass sales and an 11.3 million gain from selling Columbia Cement and insulation assets. Revenue reached 1.5 billion, up eight percent, with a 6.2 percent return on sales and a 12 percent gain excluding asset sale income.
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