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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1950
Page
4
The piece notes President Truman urging higher taxes to boost government revenue and cites a New York Times observation by Godfrey N. Nelson. It discusses Noah Mason’s bill taxing Cooperatives and government enterprises, arguing taxpayer subsidies and losses to private utilities harm states and municipalities.
Three days of rain and sleet left streets icy as a belated cold snap spreads through the city. A home sale update notes Elmer McElroy’s remodeled house at 616 North Center Street sold to Walter McElroy. Margaret Berry and Frank Herberg wed in Cleveland on January 6. Nurse Josephine Hughes suffered a wrist fracture after a slip on icy West Congress street. Company A basketball lost 32-28 at Titusville with Chase top on 10 points.
A retro quiz offers ten questions with scoring categories from Genius to Poor. It prompts memory checks and monthly averages, then directs readers to the Classified Page for answers. It lists items about Taipei, q d, FDR administration, R Douglas Stuart, proxy marriages, Babes in Toyland composers, Lewis W. Douglas, Gulf Coast states, Bogota, and a female deer.
Floyd C. Jones, newly elected district attorney of Armstrong county, who resigned the same day he was sworn in, is indicted on manslaughter and drunken driving charges by an Elk county grand jury. The case stems from a November 29 auto crash near St Marys that killed 25 year old Mrs Mabel Krug Newell. A prior hearing on the charges was postponed to April after testimony by physicians for Jones.
Jamestown will become a two railroad city on January 23 as the Jamestown Westfield and Northwestern Railroad is officially abandoned. The Erie and New York Central have agreed to reciprocal switching, routing incoming and outgoing freight via Falconer and Dunkirk onto the Central main line, making Jamestown's freight movement effectively part of two rail networks.
Jones, who became district attorney last Tuesday, resigned shortly after. He was recently admitted to Torrance State Hospital. Whitney Reservoir on the Bravos river in Texas will flood more than 60 old Indian habitation sites.
Judge Burton R. Laub urged adding at least one county common pleas judge in Erie as the January term opened with a 200000 population and a heavy docket. He noted Dauphin County has four judges while Erie remains at three. Progress today was slowed by the absence of President Judge Elmer Evans due to illness.
Miss Ruth Weyand a white government lawyer remains silent amid a $60 000 alienation of affections suit filed by Mrs Olive J Perry against Weyand alleging adultery with Leslie S Perry between July 1947 and last April A child named Perry Weyand is cited in the complaint Perry who is linked to the NAACP declined comment saying his wife obtained a divorce in the Virgin Islands last August
Mrs. Perry testified that Miss Weyand, described as a single person of great wealth, spent four years scheming to alienate her husband’s affections. She claimed Weyand gave him an automobile and other gifts and willed him her entire estate. Perry married July 1985 and lived with him until April 24, 1949, when she charged.
Treasury notes the Position of the Treasury as of January 6 with net receipts of 134,957,312.50 dollars and expenditures of 95,910,561.97 dollars. Cash balance stands at 4,100,899,620,417 dollars and total debt is 258,095,810,468.06 dollars.
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