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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1937
Page
8
Columbus February report card notes highlight a busy period with class projects, club planning, and student antics. Students discuss a proposed interschool competition, social events, exams ending, new hairstyles, and various campus happenings. A mix of humor, gossip, and academic progress showcases student life and activities.
A U. S. consignment of pedigree cattle purchased in America has arrived at Novorossiysk. The stock is described as a benefit to collective and state farms.
In a brief notice, Mrs. G. Poy earned a bicycle permit number 2880 issued by the local audl srtating office. The permit was saved under the name Perry, with details limited in the fragmented OCR.
Harrisburg reports Gov Burle backs a flood control bill with 5 million dollar appropriation to empower the water and power resources board to fund and manage flood control projects. The companion measure seeks eminent domain authority and site purchases for dams and reservoirs funded by a 6 million dollar appropriation.
A German youth from Chicago, Helmuth Stainef, 25, was released by federal agents after inquiries by the Department of Justice and FBI in Pittsburgh. He bore a likeness to a sketch of the kidnapper of Charles Mattwoh of Tacoma, but investigators could not establish his involvement.
A five second earthquake centered near McKeesport was recorded by the University of Pittsburgh seismograph. Seismologist Homer Rutherford stated the tremor occurred around 5:55 p.m. and depth measures were taken, with location confirmed through multiple telephone calls to the Bureau of Seismology.
The proposal outlines specific legislative appropriation for each project and authority to acquire property easements and water rights. Preliminary borings are planned in the Olio basin and Ag 200n, with state funds covering purchases and the federal share to follow. Tentative Allegheny watershed dam sites include Stoney Creek near Johnstown and dams on the Allegheny River at Warren Travesta Red Bank Mahoning French Crooked Loyalhanna and Gonemisveh River above Pittsburgh.
The Kinzua oil field portion near Bradford Pa reports delayed drilling due to a fishing job, with the Northern well near the FG drilling company’s discovery well showing progress past 4,600 feet and expected production potential. Bradford oil field, first discovered in 1871, has produced about 359 million barrels and is estimated to hold around 300 million recoverable barrels, with vast activity spanning McKean County Pa and adjacent New York.
Jamestown mill at 49 Taylor Street was destroyed by a blaze last night. High winds spread sparks and damaged a nearby tire shop. Four firemen were injured as two malicious false alarms complicated efforts. Main building and contents valued at about 100 000 dollars.
Erie Feb 2 Two defendants pled guilty before Judge Willian J Hirt in Erie county court. Harry Whitney 30 of Willoughby Ohio received six to 12 months in the Allegheny county jail after being linked to marked money allegedly stolen from a Herrmanns filling station. Joseph R Bingham 118 Lake Road drew sixty days in Erie county prison for a drunken driving charge in connection with an October 6th incident. The judge stressed a minimum sixty day sentence for all drivers, with fines up to 7200 noted in some cases.
Velma Taylor Bailey wife of Myron Bailey of 1628 West Pleasant street died at home around 2 AM after a few days illness from pneumonia aged 31 born June 9. Survived by husband daughter Theresa Ann three, parents Mr and Mrs James G Taylor two sisters Mrs Charles Guadagno and Mrs John Kestyal, brother James Taylor, grandmother Mrs Jane Cornell. Body at Taylor home 1358 West Pleasant street pending funeral Friday at 9:30 in St Thomas Church with interment in St Thomas cemetery.
In Berkeley California the University of California has launched an unusual up-to-date course aimed at apartment managers and owners. The program covers practical housing management issues and is designed to equip landlords with current industry knowledge.
The Corry playroom program beginning May 1, 1987 will stress language through daily activities. Teachers will provide opportunities for clarity of thought through oral expression, vocabulary growth, correct speech habits, pronunciation, and pleasing voice, while encouraging informal conversation, organized group presentations, storytelling, dramatization, picture interpretation, and dictation of letters and reports.
An old advertisement urges relief from nocturnal distress by using Thompson's Barosma Compound Tablets. It markets the tablets as cleansing the kidneys strengthening the bladder acting as a tonic for stomach liver and bowels. The copy emphasizes a 50 cent price and urges demand from agents.
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