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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1948
Page
6
Forecast notes cold unsettled weather from Saturday through Wednesday with snow and mixed precipitations and temperatures around six degrees below. later warming expected and brief showers. Reports cover courthouse cases including property exchanges, annulment settlement, desertion charges, assaults, a jail break, coalitions on military enlistments, fires, road conditions, highway maintenance, and train service adjustments amid fuel shortages.
A government plan to purchase 50 million bushels of wheat was announced by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, stated to create a false prosperity aura for the presidential race. Taft commented on the timing, noting the move followed two days of price falls as corn and wheat hit contract limits. The market briefly rose after the disclosure, but closed with further declines.
The February term of criminal court in Erie opens Monday at 10 p.m. with 31 cases on the schedule. Lead case is Commonwealth vs Carmine Turco on charges of felonious assault and burglary stemming from a May 6 1947 incident involving his wife June Conway and mother in law Clara B Conway. Turco fled to Brooklyn after the alleged assault and returned.
Mrs Wesley Beckwith 49 died at Corry Hospital after a morning illness. Former Eva Shreve of Union City she taught in Union City schools and was a second grade teacher at South Main Street School. Survived by husband and parents and four sisters. Body to Bracken Keating Funeral Home. arrangements pending. Quintuplets gain first niece as Dionnes welcome a girl weighing seven pounds in St Josephs Hospital North Bay.
A 10 year old boy admitted starting a fire at Public School 7 in Dunkirk, aiming to fulfill a dream. Irene Bergstrom noticed smoke during lunch hour and investigation found wastepaper jammed into a ventilator duct. Flames were contained by inactive fans. minor damage occurred. Police, fire, and school officials led a three-way inquiry, resulting in the boy's Friday afternoon arrest.
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