Weather and civic notes from Corry era news brief
Flurries and a 7 20 pm warden meeting announced at Sentinel High. A special council meeting was set for this evening. A dry goods association poll favored a federal sales tax as a pass‑on charge replacing excise taxes. A Corry student, Donna Bertram, made the Dean’s list at Edinboro State Teachers College. Local minor car collision reported with damages but no injuries. Multiple marriage license filings, political race hints, and tax notes round out the Erie area briefs with court actions and weekly relief payments listed.
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Najlorial Dry Goods Association
Donna Bertram
Corry
Edinboro State Teachers College
Wemester
East Main Street
Dunkirk School Board to Name New Superintendent
Dunkirk schools face change as Superintendent Jerome J. Wheeler is denied reappointment in a closed board session. The board invites applications while Wheeler’s contract runs to July 1 with a salary scale from 4800 to 5800. The vote against Wheeler was 6 to 3.
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Dunkirk
Jerome J. Wheeler
Board of Education
Wheeler
Indist Vial High School
Wells M. Gould
Gould
State Commissioner of Education
Dunkirk Board of Education
Gas fumes fatal to Erie resident
Clyde Theuret, 66, died Wednesday after being overcome by gas fumes in his Erie home. Police reported the death. Responding to the alarm, the pullmotor squad of engine house No. 8 labored over Theuret’s body. Theuret had recently lost his job and lived with his wife and daughter.
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Erie
Clyde ‘Theuret
Theuret
Civilian Defense County Meeting Set in Erie County
Joseph J. Desmond of Corry chairs a county Civilian Defense Council meeting for sub division chairmen. The gathering at 2 p.m. March 3 in the county commissioners room will feature Chief Air Raid Warden Captain Harry F. Douglas and Dr. C Herman Grose. Borough and township chairmen are invited.
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Civilian Defense
Erie
Joseph J. Désmond
Corry
Civilian Defense Council
Erie County
Defense Councils
Ren
Coat House
Harry F. Douglas
C. Herman Grose
City
Defense Council
Demond
Man ends life after father's death in Platea
Joseph A. Koradi Jr., 27, of Platea, shot himself at home days after his father died. He died at St. Vincent's Hospital 12:25 PM eight hours after the shooting. A 22 year old brother found him unconscious. a revolver with one discharged cartridge was nearby. He worked at Erie Forgings and Steel.
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Bath, Pep
Joseph A. Koradi, Jr
Platea
St. Vincent's Hospital
Erie Forgs and Steel
C. K. Wemple
Cranesville
Prank
Walker Funeral Home
Girard
Civil Patrol at Jamestown to See Service
Jamestown Civil Air Patrol planes to patrol the east coast as the first local defense unit to enter active war defense service. Group 217 commander John H. Wight visits New York with Lt Commander Beckwith Havens to arrange planes pilots and observers for departure. Captain Billy Beaver and Ralph Collis coordinate local plans for personnel and aircraft.
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Jamestown
Civil Air Patrol
United States
Nore
John H. Wight
New York City
Beckwith Havens
Billy Beaver
Ralph ¥. Collis
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Sentor High Auditorium
Oily Council
Myrna J. Schramling
Columbus
Cohen Coals
Airiven
Robert Sheldon
Higin
North Center Street
Congress Street
Erle
National Bank
Bert Williams
West Park Place
Leslie Cummings
Hast
Lone Stay Gas Corporation
SEC
Northern Natural Gas Company
Council Bluffs Company
Charles Criker
Phist Avenue
Bracken~ Keubing
Carlton Cracker
Denver
Harold ©. Holmes
Waterford
Joyce M. Smith
Union City
Harry ©. Stowe
Bernice L. Pish
Harrisburg
Samuel 5. Lewis
Lewis
J. J. Desmond
General Motors Corporation
Berle M
Carlberg
Joseph
East Tenth Street
Paul ‘MM
Shreve
Union Township
Beulah Shreve
Unionity
LaRue Taylor
Sadie Taylor
Spring Creek
Brokenstray Creek
Corry Hospital
Lauie Asta Ho
Canada
Father
Man
Joseph A. Koradi
Cub
Vicki VapoRub
VapoRub
Wonderfus
Vicks
VacoRus
Kellogg's
Pks
Tran
Loblaw
Apple Grove
Taylor's
Eatwell
cuaTis
Bow York
Larsen
Wilson
Easton
Office of Price Administration
Horror
Swift's
Brookfield
Yemime
Neptune
Mustarp
Swift
Circle 5
Campbell's
High Park Coffee
del Monte
Incc
Philadelphia
Fara Pkg
Florida
California
Ivory
Fresh
Jim
Clorox
Home Makers
U. S
Pennsylvania Electric CO
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