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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1955
Page
8
Erie County official says state appropriations could help meet the roughly 124000 annual maintenance bill for juveniles in institutions. The welfare department report recommends joint county and state funding to stabilize budgets and support rehabilitation efforts.
Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 p.m. at Bracken Funeral Home for Mrs. Mary Moffitt 44 of R D J Corry who died at home on Tuesday. Rev Harold Burnham of Wattsburg officiated with many friends from Corry and Concord Township in attendance. Burial followed in the McCray Cemetery lot in Concord Township. Attendants from outside Corry included Mr and Mrs Harold Moalfitt Erie Mr and Mrs Leon Morton Mr and Mrs Harry Burrows Chauncey Powers and Mr and Mrs John Pratt Union City.
The editorial age lists quiz answers covering topics from salaries to groceries. It mentions No salary at all, more grocery stores, Towa, Bell Telephone system, Butter and Armed Services, and Sherry, prompting reader discussion about the quiz’s source and accuracy.
Wall Street opened lower as steels led losses with motors utilities and chemicals down. Railroads aircrafts oils and radio-television equities showed mixed results while some names like American Can AT&T Bethlehem Steel and General Motors traded on modest gains or losses amid selective trading and a steady tape. Wholesale egg prices were steady to firm with receipts of 23,504 and varied by grade and size for top quality and medium eggs.
At the Hotel Corry the Corry Management Club held a 6 40 dinner meeting with 85 members present. William Brooks opened the program while Page Louderback presided. E F Pain introduced the speakers including Mrs Norman Turbell on the federation’s scope and Ines Harper and Dr T B Kelsey detailing Kiwanis and Rotary works.
John W. Pegg vice president of Shell Development Co died yesterday in New York. Pegg, 45, joined Shell Oil Co in 1997 and previously served as an attorney and manager of the St. Louis marketing area.
The article traces Penn State grading from 1959 when a ten point scale had Intolerable to today’s 3 to minus-two system. It notes a shift from formal labels to campus slang with terms like bar one and bar two, where minus-one and minus-two indicate failing grades and honor points are needed for graduation.
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