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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1948
Page
6
Meadville enforces a new ten percent amusement tax for most entertainments with charity events exempted. A Crayford county case and assault charge are scheduled. Jamestown press union dispute continues with mediation rejection. Fire heavily damages a Stow home linked to oil equipment, while candlemas rites proceed in Catholic churches with multiple throat blessing times.
Funeral services for Mrs Lula A Williams were conducted Saturday in North East with Rev Ivan M Shreve of the Baptist Church presiding and Rev Gilbert L Boyd of the First Presbyterian Church assisting. Grandsons Mynford Charles Theodore John Richard Lawrence and Donald Williams plus David Duke served as bearers. Interment followed at Pine Grove Cemetery mausoleum. Relatives traveled from Dunedin Oil City Erie Cuya hoga Falls Spattensburg Union City Riceville Pleasantville Wattsburg Conneaut and other nearby towns for the services.
Claude M. Gray president of the Baltimore Transit Company was found dead in his apartment kitchen with two bullet wounds to the chest. Police said one gas jet was open and unlit and a high powered .22 rifle lay on the table. The death is under investigation as self-inflicted.
The Democratic state committee met in Harrisburg to decide on the 16 delegates at large and alternate delegates for the national convention and whether Truman should appear on the April 27 primary ballot. The session also considered candidates for auditor general and state treasurer, with an informal conference planned to outline the program. Mrs Lizzie B Rogers died at 12:30 PM at her daughter's home, after years of illness, survived by her daughter Mrs Gertrude Allens and two sons, with services scheduled Wednesday at Bracken Keating Funeral Home.
An elderly Meadville man told a taxi driver to cruise around all day and let him pay fares. The driver accepted calls on his two way radio and received a large tip at day’s end after the passenger explained his doctor said he has little time left, so he is spending his money as he pleases.
An explosion and fire at the Quaker State Refining Co plant in Smethport destroyed the polymerization compressor house and idle the facility indefinitely. Assistant manager Noble Hill said the Saturday blaze caused thousands of dollars in damage amid disruption of the cracking operation that breaks gasoline into components.
George A Wallace former manager of the Carver House in Warren died at Warren General Hospital after sustaining serious injuries in a December automobile accident near Venituretown. He led the Carver House for 15 years and was a Woodbridge Ontario native survived by four sisters and two brothers. The body to Gibson Funeral Home and prayer service planned. body to Woodbridge for services and interment at Crestlawn? Cemetery.
In Muncie Indiana on February 2 coroner Eugene Eissman reported carbon monoxide from an ash clogged coke stove caused the deaths of former minor league manager Jasper H Poote 73 and Mike Kelley a retired watch repairman who lived with him. Bodies found Saturday showed poisoning. investigators noted the stove likely left ashes in place and the pair may have not noticed smoke or gas due to pervasive smell from muscle-limbering oil.
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