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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1950
Page
6
Harold Goodwill of 627 Sec orid Avenue told police a car backed from a parking space and struck her parked auto in front of the city Public Library. The other driver fled. Goodwill provided license number 17-00-7.
Frank J. Lathrop known as Skip died suddenly at his home 62 East Pleasant Street shortly before 2 PM Monday. He was born June 6, 1887 in Sherman and lived in Ripley before moving to Corry in 1912. Survived by wife Eva, two daughters Marie Landers Erie and Marjorie Lathrop at home, son Wilbur Lathrop, three grandsons, and nine brothers. Funeral at Bracken eerie, Thursday 2 PM, Rev Harry Bowman officiating. Interment Pine Grove Cemetery.
Approximately 50 members attended the vestry meeting at Emmanuel Episcopal Church after a tureen dinner Irish night. A $3144 bequest from the late Miss Sarah Powell will pay the rectory mortgage and a cross will be engraved in her memory. Re-elected to the vestry were Carl Smith George Orcutt Jerome Davis and E W Feldt. Wallace Young named senior warden with Harold Gilbert George Orcutt and Carl Smith elected junior warden treasurer and secretary. The annual budget for the coming year is $7233.
In Pittsburgh on January 10 a neighbor, Garl J. Kinkel, 39, rescued three children from a third floor fire after breaking down their apartment door. He carried Bruce 4, Karen 2, and Warren Jr 11 months to safety while their father, a night-time streetcar operator, slept. The father woke after the rescue. he had a slight facial burn. Fire cause is unknown. A closing sentence notes 1949 Christmas tree light sales setting a record.
In Media Pennsylvania on January 10 a jury of two mothers acquitted Nicholas D Amore 26 and his brother John 22 of the fatal shotgun killing of their father Benjamin D Amore. The verdict followed two hours of deliberation as spectators applauded.
Twenty workmen drowned when a crowded bus swerved off a bridge into a canal near Melhouse Alsace. Twenty nine passengers escaped. Officials report details from the French news agency.
The Davis Coal Company of Dayton sues Louis Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union for 20000 damages under Ohio Valentine Anti-Trust Act. The suit filed in Franklin County Common Pleas seeks double damages for alleged restricted coal output, with no injunction requested.
Mrs. Sarah A. Watson marked her 103rd birthday today. She quips she does not advise living to that age and notes declining eyesight and hearing have slowed her pace in the past year.
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