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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1953
Page
2
Jamestown will start a 1 a call subsidy for the ambulance service on March 1. City Council authorized Corporation Counsel McKinley Phillips to sign a one year contract with the service. Nearby towns are expected to follow Jamestown’s lead in approving similar subsidies.
A short notice covers Powell's used cars. Police report a theft at Weaver Garage involving a cash register with over six dollars, a desk drawer, keys, and sales slips. Other items include a seance notice, sewer bill predictions, an Elks Club dance, and various local notices.
Admission notes list Leonard and Ronald Jukes among patients at Corry Hospital. Various local residents mentioned by address face discharges, Dr. Glavence Moore and Mrs. Dema Ficcandi noted among those listed. A drunken driving arrest concerns Evie Norman A Ralph, held for arraignment. Classes in typewriting begin at the Senior High School with eight week sessions and limited openings. A rent control bill in the State Senate could enable Erie to set up emergency boards after federal controls end April 1. Connie’s pizza promotion for tomorrow after 5 PM. NLRB reports Erie manufacturing plant Odin Stoye voting 72 against and 37 for Machinists. parole violation request for George J. Libbey tied to check forgeries known to Boston authorities.
Roberta C. Wright, a comely 27 year old widow, pleaded guilty to involvement in a Meadville burglary by her date spouse. Judge Herbert A. Mook ordered restitution to Mr and Mrs Jack Bowman, payment of costs, and an undetermined term in the Pennsylvania State Home for Women at Muncy, with sentences running concurrently to others. Also noted are local notices on a Meadvill e event and a highway collision injuring Second Lieutenant William Jack.
Senator Bridges urged a full investigation into a Voice of America request for nearly four million dollars to equip a ship for beaming broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain. He questioned the project's technical wisdom and said he opposes funding unless the Voice demonstrates feasibility. Senator McCarthy's investigations subcommittee may take up the matter as part of a waste and operations probe.
Associated Press reports a Harrisburg measure would raise bonds for justices of the peace and aldermen from 500 to 2000 as a minimum and from 3000 to 15000 as a maximum with a local common pleas court assigning amounts within that range. A second bill would let township supervisors widen and straighten state highways with highway secretary consent, and a third grants townships extra powers over streets sewers and adjoining properties.
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