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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1941
Page
8
In the first week of January Pennsylvania saw a reversal of gains in general assistance rolls with transfers to the aid to dependent children program. About 308 cases were moved from general help while 4 985 cases closed and 4 079 opened.
Oakland’s sixth annual $5,000 Open golf tournament ends with a three man tie for the lead. J Dutch Harrison Ben Hogan and Leonard Dodson share 276 after 72 holes and face an afternoon 1 hole playoff to decide the first prize of 1200, second 750, and 850 consolation at Clut January 12.
Charles Swanson, a Bowman Lumber Mills worker in Kane, suffered multiple fractures to his left leg when a large log rolled onto him while crew loaded logs onto a truck northwest of Kane. Fellow workers extricated him and took him to Community Hospital. condition reported as good.
Harrisburg January 13 four to five thousand members of Pennsylvania Chapters of the Future Farmers of America will take part in programs during the first three days of the 1941 State Farm Show January 20 to 25. A banquet will honor about 400 outstanding members and 60 state project winners will receive medals. Over 1,000 boys entered the contests with home farm project records in poultry, truck, dairy, and swine. Local delegates from 35 divisions will attend the banquet and Keystone Farmer candidates will be among those eligible for the top award. The FFA program opens Monday afternoon with meetings in The Forum of the education building and runs through Wednesday morning.
Ad claims digestible foods decay form sour storidelr or blasting. Urges readers to try Adleruca and buy it today at local drug stores. Includes indecipherable references and a call to action.
McKeesport inventor John B Sweeney assistant chief engineer shows a snow removing truck that melts the final half inch of snow with a 2000 degree flame and sweeps water away. He tested at the county airport and says the unit could keep runways open during heavy snowfall at a cost of about 3.80 per hour with two operators.
Harrisburg January 13 John R. Williams head of the state bureau of parks outlines key techniques for home grounds beautification. Emphasizes removing undesirable plants while selecting species for doorway foundation background boundary and specimen plantings. Recommends prostrate juniper dwarf mountain pine blue spruce arbor vitae white spruce Douglas fir for low screens and prostrate forms. For background plantings suggests tulip tree red oak American elm and sugar maple with weeping willow and white birch for special spots. Highlights lawn areas between house and boundary for driven walks and striking individual trees such as redbud dogwood mountain ash weeping willow weeping birch pin oak fern leaf beech Japanese maple American cork maple and native maples and birches.
Zene Dunne and Cary Grant stood firm against their parts in The Aw ful Truth while claiming it was their best work. Ralph Bellamy opposed his role but refused to yield. Claudette Colbert resisted previews of It Happened One Night, yet the film earned her an Academy Award.
Elmer Craig Pearce a 29 year old resident of Sassafras Street killed himself with a 12 gauge shotgun at 2 80 a m Saturday in Erie Dr W Storble coroner reported Pearce had worked at Perry Furnace Co for three weeks and suffered fear and head injuries from an auto crash years earlier His mother Mrs Marjorie Pearce awoke to a gunshot in the basement and found him dead with the weapon nearby.
Kane Foundry will see defense related work more than double as an Ohio firm orders castings. Local representatives traveled to Cincinnati to secure patterns and finalize negotiations with plans to start next week. The project supports wartime materiel production for manufacturing defense materials.
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